The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-25


story on one of their number who made
a hit i'm the character of the proverbial
Englishman who insists on avoiding
the point of a joke as long as possible.
DR.. Armitage is the victim. On Mon
day afternoon he delivered very
learned address on Injuries of Bones,
Muscles and Ligaments, and their
Treatment by Massage and Movement"
According to the custom of the con-
ventiOn, the address was the subject of
remarks by various doctors who had
listened to it, after which the author
commented upon the comments of the
others The paper reminded DR.. Tay-
lor of a story, of a young woman i'm
whose injured thigh piece of rabbit
bone was used to supply some de-
fiCiency or other The operation was
successful, but the physician who per-
formed it was sued for damages, be-
cause every time dog hove i'm sight
the ladys legs ran away with her,
The convention had it's quiet laugh at
the story, but that was nothing to the
laugh it had when DR., Armitage began
to comment upon it in very serious,
apparently very serious vein. Now
the uOClOIS say lldl <AIullldBG Idull 1
discovered that the story was joke.
E = E =
Chief officer Finlinson of the British
Gable Ship Restorer was an irate man
the other evening. We were down
at Brewers wharf waiting for the
launch to take us out to the ship when
! a gentlemanly appearing man ap-
| To bp of
who was in uniform, the stranger said
something that might have been this:
Recommendation ktimahrbuel trim
! yeopdzzcteh ueygsny?'
Good Lord" gasped F'inlinson
"What did he say?"
you may search me-" 1 said.
| The engaging stranger produced a
roll of papers and selecting one handed
| it to the Restorer's mate. 1t was an
| illustrated magazine and the pictures
were perfectly ineligible, but the let
! terpress-!
The BIS and the P's seemed upside
| down or wrong side front the Ms We're
round the wrong way and there were a
| whole lot of letters the like of which
the Chief had never seen before.
"Enjrzffinhha hf huujydgsxzzmji
hdnnhjgts khsubftffski?" asked the
stranger again.
what on earth are you talking
about?" demanded Finlinson.
ooh, you speak English" answered
| the stranger with a smile well, these
are Russian papers which l thought
you might like to have"
what the deuce do I want with
| Russian papers asked the chief
| Haven't you got any Icelandic papers,
or a few from Thibet? l should like to
get tomorrow mornings Teheran Times
or the Picking Gazette but cut out the
Russian for me-"
"Then are you not one of the of
ficers of the Russian cruiser Lena?"
gasped the stranger.
NO, I'm not" answered the chief,
CURLY and he blew a discordant blast
on the launch's whistle as she puffed
out into the night.
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If man should give thanks to the
person who made him famous, then
Barefoot Bill ought to have been the
chief mourner at the funeral of poor
old David KAPPA this week. 1t was
David KAPPA who first discovered the
original methods of Barefoot Bill the
skylight burglar, and landed that ma
tive criminal behind the bars on many
occasions. David was one of the ablest
native officers that these islands have
! produced and his career on the police
force when he was at his best, showed
an unusual keenness of judgment in
dealing with criminals. He was wise
enough to specialize his particular tall
ents to certain classes and he was
thorough in his acquaintance with the
! criminals of those races the Hawaiian
and Chinese.
David was a loyal Hawaiian at the
time of the attempt to overthrow the
Provisional Government in 1895. At
that time conditions looked very
"shaky" for the government. The in
dica tons We're that the little island
government might have to face the
power of the great United States, so
it was determined by the leaders of the
Provisional Government to sharply
draw the line of loyalty. A man would
have to be either a friend of the exist
ing government or he would have to be
against IL. so the enJlfe ponce force
was summoned to the police station
yard and there addressed by Marshal
Hitchcock and Deputy Deputy Marshal
A. M. Brown who explained the con-
ditions to them. Those who did not
wish to support the Provisional Gov
eminent should step out Of the line
and those who would remain loyal to
the existing government could remain
in line. number of the men step
ped out of the line. Among those who
remaided in the line was old David
KAPPA. 1t took courage in those
days to stand for the government
but David had that courage and
the instant after the men had an
nounced their disloyalty to the gov
eminent, David stepped forward and
harangued them with that eloquence
which is so characteristic of Hawaiians
He berated them for deserving their
government at such a time and term
ed them weak souled men who had
no thought of obligation, and who