The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-16

if Dickey thought that was a just and
proper sentence. Counsel for the de-
Tense squirmed and then said it was.
"The sentence of the court" followed
and each Chinaman went to Jail for
three months hard labor. 1t was
exceedingly funny to all except Dickey
and the bunch of Cinnamon.
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| wonder what old Jim Love thinks
of his experiences i'm the courts. They
say that years ago he was a wondrous
spender, wont to waste the fortune his
own hard toll had brought him, and
this was the cause of his being placed
under a spendthrift trust. The theory
of the law, with which l will not pre-
sumo to quarrel, appears to be that
even in the spending of his own a
man must exercise a certain discretion,
or else he will be placed under guar
dianship and extreme care wi be TAX
to harvest his fortune for pOsterity.
Such was Loves position, until he be-
gan desperate struggle to get out of
the spendthrift trust. The trial was
a long and interesting one, finally end
ing in freedom for Love. He appears
to have been free just long enough to
pay his attorneys fees-then he was
placed by those same attorneys in a
new trust which is now found to be ir-
revocable. Perhaps it is good for
Love. l do not pretend to say it is
not. But am told that he paid nearly
$4,000 to be switched from the re-
vocable spendthrift trust to the ire
vocable trust eed that now binds him.
1t must be admitted that if in a few
hours of freedom to handle his own
money he could pay $4,000 for such a
service, there is something in the claim
that he cannot look after his money
as well as he was once able to make
it.
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Captain John Ross, the white haired
Fidus Achates of Col. Sam Parker, may
not know it but he is the living persona
fication of Santa Claus in the eyes of
several small but very bright children
who live out Diamond Head way.
The Captain, who as everyone knows,
is a handsome man bearing his years
very easily, has a white moustache, i'm
pertal and bushy white eyebrows The
other evening he was making a call out
by Diamond Head when there were a
number Of youngsters present One
little girl regarded him with a fixed
glance of awe for little while and then
the discovery came upon her like a
flash.
This was Santa Claus
She confided the news to the other
small folk and the excitement though
suppressed, was intense.
Never were there such good children
as were those children during the rest
of the Captains stay and their be-
lief in Santa Claus identity, despite his
appearance in blue serge, was absolute
ly fixed when the little girl who had
made the discovery piped out Good
night, Santa Claus" as the Captain took
his departure.
Good night" said the captain in his
hearty voice "be good children and I'll
be round to see you at Christmas
time"
That absolutely clinched matters and
there will be little difficulty in keeping
certain small people good for the bal
ance of the year,
g 8 e 3
Did you ever know that I was a
ling?' asked my friend Cunha the
other day.
Il did not" I answered with perfect
truth but I had a suspicion that you
We're a prince"
well look at this,' he said, produce
ing the latest copy of the Illustrated
London News which contained a long
account Of the people Of the lonely
South Atlantic island of Tristan da
Cunha, with a number Of pictures taken
there recently by British officers.
THAT island of Tristan da Cunha
was discovered by an ancestor of mine"
he said "and l think l am just as much
king of Tristan da Cunha as Jim Bicll-
nell was king of Tanning Island. Any
way I never sold my birthright.
was robbed Of it by the British. l am
told that when the British had MAJ o.
leon pcnred uD in St. Helena, they
feared that his sympathizers might use
my island as base of operations for
his rescue so they seized it and they
have kept it ever since. 1 have some
times thought of commencing a cam
paign against the British empire to re-
cover my kingdom, and then / thought
again. Personally l have nothing a.
gainst King Edward. We have never