The Hawaiian star., 1906-04-14
Town ; TALK
By The Man About Town,

a bout lOWn,
appointment, and after presenting it to
the President of the Board of Health,
he stated that Mr. Brown wanted an
answer at once Plnkham sat dazed
for a few minutes, then he slowly
sweled up until Nicholas fled for fear
ne would literally bust. and l am told
it was positively unsafe to go near
pWkham for a whole day
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Those Molokans are a tOlerably Ii
gious lot, said friend from Kauai the
other day. Have you ever heard the
r al story of that centipede bite and
why it caus d all work among them to
stop? Wen, it was this way. There
is considerable physical exercise about
Molokan religious devotions, you know.
The chap that connected with the CEN
tip de suddenly let out yell that
arounsed the whole bunch. Then he
threw up his hands and began a wild
dance, yelling all the time. The rest
though it was the spirit moving him
and they joined in. That crowd of
Molokans tramped down half an acre
of cane before they found out what
was the matter. 1t was the liveliest
religious dissipation they ever had. The
man to whom the bug was giving at
tention didn't yell any lounder than
the rest or dance any harder, for it is
not often that the spirit moves a man
50 suddenly and thoroughly, and they
didn't propose to spare any efforts to
keep up the meeting. l never saw
bunch of bowling Dervishes, but it
must be like a lot of .Molokan labor rs
led in prayer by a man with a cent?
pede in his pants. Don't ever talk
about good old Methodist revivals till
you have seen how thes. people can
stir things up when they have a real
incentive or a leader who is really
moved"
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The people of Hawaii have developed
for themselves a peculiar system of
looking to their governor for everything
they want from admonition of an OBJ
streperous poundmaster to requests for
cent Rapid Transit furore furnished
am example and the AIlkea bids an
other. When there was IL proposed
change i'm the Rapid Transit schedules,
everyone went to the governor about it,
I am told that each delegation got
about the same answer, when it had
done talking and it was polite ques-
tion from Atkinson as to what they
thought he should do. Some said
they would find out, others wanted
him to order schedule. Perhaps the
frankest answer was that of the county
attorney. ITO tell the truth Governor
he said, after he had talked for an hour
on the subject of schedules. Il don't
think you have a blanked thing to do
with it,. The governor naturally
wanted to know why he had been
favored with an hours oratory about
something that was none of his bust
ness. everyone else came to you
with their side" was the answer, "and
so we decid d to do the same"
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Why is ii that we have no independ-
ent heads of departments? The Or
ganic Act seems to provide for depart
m5nt heads who shall run the business
of their bureaus, but local custom
makes them often nothing more than
clerks. | wonder if it was contem-
plated by Congress that the governor
should be the Who'll thing to the
extent that he is in Hawaii? Imagine
an attorney general or Superinten-
Of Tng
other state officer of California going
to the governor to ask what to do
about any of his department business.
The governor would quickly tell him
he had troubles of his own or sup
pose the governor tried to give orders.
The department head would suggest
that the governor attend to his own
troubles Perhaps it is different be-
cause the department heads are elect
ed by the people but l doubt if it was
the intention of Congress that our gov
ernors should run all the departments
for example that they should give or
ders about opening bids for public
works contracts, or about starting
schools, or issuing licenses or opening
lands, or-shall it be whispered in Car
ters absence Having indictments
brought?
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If the Johnson murder trial had taken
place in San Francisco it would have
filed whole pages of the daily papers
The Tortorica case, of recent fame, is
! sample of how in most large Ameri-
can cities such sensational crimes are
treated. The press of Honolulu has
treated the extraordinary case with
comparative quetness. The Korean
murder cases on the island of Ha-
| wai is another sample 1t would be
| hard to recall a case in America thai
presents a parallel for this cool deci
sion by six men to torture a fellowmar