The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-30

en- and / fear that he is dumped" This
observation of the tailor philosopher
recalls a story about the late Judge
Campbell of san Francisco Camp
bell was a police court Judge; he did
not know much law, but he kept him
self i'm the public eye through the many
newspaper stories that were published
about him. Finally the different city
editors of the San Francisco papers de-
cided to drop Campbell and passed the
word accordingly. When the newspa-
permen told the Judge, who was then
running for office, he said: Don't drop
me boys if you do it, I'm dumped"
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The Promotion Committee is fond of
quoting Mark Twain5s prose poem"
about Hawaii. 1t might also made use
of the following, from his Innocents
Abroad: 1.-THE Vesuvius of today is a
very poor affair compared to the vol
cano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich ISL
ands." Let Alexander Young give us
this in poetry a la the cable is here,
the cable is here.
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j. f. Brown stood on the corner of
Fort street complaining of the active
newsboy. Il never saw such a town
for newsboys," he said. eve been
standing here a few moments waiting
for a car and have been struck about
four times Observation-Disclosures, sir" said
a small Portuguese) mo. why the
same boy will ask you to buy a paper
three or four times i'm five minutes.
I've had 'em shout at me- C"Star, sir)
No, No, I don't want any paper. I've
had 'em shout at me when I was go
ing by eight miles an hour i'm a buggy
They don't seem to use any judgment.
dgment.-NO.-And there's no
end to the number of them. In other
cities they seem to have some under
standing and simply yell about their
papers and let you get one if you
want Here CPlenty neews,'D Here
they shove a paper right at you and
keep on showing tho, boy, I've got
a Star.-They even tackle a man riding
quickly on a bicycle, See here, young
ster, I've told you several times l didn t
want a paper.-That's a sample Of the
way they do" Browns car was
coming and he stepped towards it.
Instantly the whole crowd of young
sters advanced upon him flashing pa
pers in the sun He moved resigned
ly through them and took a seat, and
l lost count of the number of times he
said mo" before he got to Waikiki
A new meaning is slowly coming to be
generally recognized as applying to a
small and simple word in common daily
use 1t is veal" which has a mean
ing altogether different from it's die
tiOnary definitions, just as yellow" has
come to have a new significance. I was
talking with am attorney the other day
about the lapsed term proposition and
he voiced strenuous objections to some
Star editorials on the subject. He dis
agreed very emphatically with the
views of the editor and finally, by way
apparently of showing utter contempt
he declared that they were veal and
said he was surprised to see veal in the
star
Honolulu is actually sending money
to the Coast for investment, yet there
is none i'm circulation here. 1t can be
said on the best of authority that local
men of money have been investing idle
coin i'm street railway securities of San
Francisco. There seems to be nothing
here to invest in, and yet the islands
are undeveloped except as regards THEN
producing capacity, and Honolulu
with banks teeming with gold, is eXpe-
riencing money famine. Il recently
signed a check for $4,000 in settlement
of an account" remarked eX-Represent-
ative II. A. Jaeger of Kauai, while on a
visit here the other day. TT finally
came back to me all plastered over with
endorsements. 1t had passed through
six different local firms before it was
taken to the bank and cashed or de-
posted. l don't know what's the mat
ter with Honolulu. During the past
few days l have been doing some buy
ing and find that to many large houses
money is no object at all,-they would
mt make any difference in terms wheT
1 offered spot cash for discount. Their
I went up the street to another house
and for the sake of getting hold of some
coin they sold me a lot of stuff at ex,
actly cost. They showed me the in.
voices and figured it out. They had t.
nave NllG lllOllGys w Z are all IlRnI OF
Kauai but it seems to me, after a Ions
absence from Honolulu, that the city
is in bad shape, Honolulu will solv,
the problem in the end, I suppose, blu
she is in poor condition now in a bust
ness way"
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Dialogue between a complaining Ha
waiian school teacher, come to tell he
troubles to the Secretary of the Ter
ritory, and Secretary Jack:
The Teacher-I have "a children and
The Secretary-Madam, congratu
late you.
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81 have some alleged friends who d.
correspondence for different mainlan
papers and not so very long ago one o
them who was away for a trip an
, needed a particularly good man to fl
his place asked me to look after tn
work for him" said a truthful journals
to me few evenings ago.