The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-03

"The Unknown literary minded per-
son who steals high class magazines
from the Public library or cuts articles
out of them reminds me of an incident
that occurred i'm a wholesale book store
where l used to work some years ago"
said a friend of mine this week. 'IThe
house was strong on religious works
and especially i'm its stock of bibles.
Somehow or other 1t began to leak out
that there was thief in the house for
bibles began to disappear There were
other books of more value intrinsically
which could have been taken but the
thief passed these up. No, they did
not suspect me, but they might have
done so if it had been anything but
bibles that were stolen. 1 never stole
a bible in my life.
watch was set but without avail
but one morning the whole store was
electrified. The thief had confessed
and he turned out to be a young fellow
in the office who was looked upon as
a particularly bright light. He taught
Sunday school and the tradition round
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shoulder blades with pumice stone
every morning to keep the wings from
sprouting.
He was all sorts Of a good boy and
the bibles he had stolen he had pre-
scented to Sunday school scholars and
to young ladies in the congregation. He
had even given a beautifully bound one
to the minister's wife! He wasn't pro-
secuted but the firm gave him a pretty
stiff dose He had to go to every per-
son to whom he had presented a Lib!e,
confess what he had done and get the
book back. Yes, he went through with
it.
at seems that he had drifted into a
church other than his own one even
ing and had suddenly got a new brand
of religion from that taught in his
church. He went up to the penitent
bench and owned up to everything.
What became of him? I'm sure
don't know but 1 daresay the lesson
cured him of stealing bibles at all
events"
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1 see that a writer in one contem-
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porary to ridicule on account of the
English the latter uses. Some of the
samples placed on exhibition and dis
sected are pretty bad, but they cant
equal the work of a man on a paper
for which l once worked, or rather, by
which I was once employed.
We had a reporter on the paper who
was a wonder. He had commenced
| his career as a stable boy, had become
a jockey, afterwards was a race-traCk
| tout and so kept falling in the socia
scale until he became a reporter. He
was a most disreputable, but wholly
| loveable, black-guard and he had the
keenest nose for news 1 ever heard of
He had an acquaintance among al
sorts OF people of whom one never hears
and the good stories he used to turr
| in We're numberless.
But he could not write, He coulC
not have written a postcard without
making a dozen errors in grammar oil
! construction and he was simply KEEP
on the sheet because of his value fol
getting the dope" He was as keer
as pig after trufhes.
His inability to write used to worry
him and sometimes he would hold back
good yarn so that he could write il
| himself and be spared the ignominy OF
| seeing someone else get credit for &
story which he had turned in.
One night he ran across a fine scoop
A certain prominent citizen had beer
shot at by his own wife and desperate
efforts were made to hush the matter
up. Our man landed the story al
right, and he wrote it himself. His
lperoration was great. IF Mr.. So-andSC
! had been an inch and half taller" he
wrote or if the deadly missive had gone
an inch and a half lower. he would
now be non est so far as this morta
| coil is concerned"
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What's the use of being governor
with only thirty-fve cents in youl
pocket?" said Secretary Atkinson once
when serving in the capacity of oul
highest executive and finding himself
going broke" just like an ordinary
mortal. I couldn't answer the question
but was able to feel a sympathy tina
comes from real fellow feeling. Jacl
| is coming back now and l wonder i
after all these travels he will have ever
the thirty-five, consid ring that he il
keeping an accurate account" of hi
expenditures.
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Willie Crawford the Chinese inter
prefer beamed when I saw him las
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