The Hawaiian star., 1906-04-28

By The Mai
have some questions which I should
like to ask through the columns Of the
star, of Sheriff Brown, and | should
like categorical answers:
% Was a Molokan cook who failed
to stop at Kapaa arrested on suspicion
of wearing false whiskers and lodged
i'm a cell at the police station?
C2) Was he ever arraigned for trial?
If not why not?
CD Instead of being arraigned for
trial, was he taken to a Hamman bath
and sweated out until he confessed that
Kuropatltin was a Russian?
CD Was this man further tortured
by having a small stream of ice water
trickled down his back?
60 Where his whiskers, ON being
found to be genuine, cut off. and was he
then placed aboard a mail steamer af-
ter a contract had been made with the
purser to see that he never arrived
anywhere?
CO. Was DR.. Russell on the same
loss of whskers?
CO win or will not Mr.. Brown
tell us why he did all this?
When these questions are answered 1
shall have some more. But l don't
want any delay. Efforts to postpone
answering viii only be recognized as
a scheme to wait until the victims
Nhiskers grow again.
G @ G @
My friend Prof. Scott is wearing one
of the finest Panama hats i'm town,
and the story of that hat is a good
one. Some months ago, before the
price of sugar began to go down, one Of
our financial wise men in a spirit of
jubilation, was discoursing, in a chance
gathering. about the brilliant prospects
the immediate future held. Sugar,
as everyone there knew, was five cents
a pound, and the financial wise man.
and he really is a long headed finan-
cier,-was absolutely certain, from the
statistical position and other elements
and factors that go to make prices,
that five cent sugar. or practically five
cent sugar, was assured for two years
to come.
Prof. Scott, whom everyone who
knows him, knows for a student and a
scholar. but who makes no claim to
Napoleonic or any other kind of high
finance was one Of those i'm the gath
ering. He listened to the optimistic
sugar man, and then offered to bet
ginger cookie, or a barley corn or
something of that sort, that within
ha nd
cents a pound. His challenge to con-
temporary financial wisdom was greet
ed with bantering mcredulity, which
insisted that it was "A shame not to
! back such prophetic vision more heaV-
! lily than that. Prof. Scott insisted
that it was not prophetic vision but
| just ordinary deduction drawn from
observation, and that he had put forth
his opinion simply because he held it
and it had been challenged But final
| ly after much bantering, he accepted a
| bet of a hat from the man who had
| first announced two years of five cent
sugar, and prepared to let time vim
dicate him.
| Time flew, as it always does, and in
six months-just half the time Prof.
Scott had given the market-sugar was
down to three and a half cents. One
day, just about that time, as the Pro-
| fessor was passing McInerny's he was
called i'm and told that there was an
order for a hat there for him, from
| his friend, the five cent sugar man. 1t
| is clear that the Professors gentlemen
| ly instincts had not been i'm the least
sullied or injured by his allowing him
| self to be badgered into making a bet,
for he picked out a very modest piece
of headgear, and was just about start
ing on when the loser came along and
insisted that he take the best sky
piece in the house.
All of which SHOWS that the professor
is the only genuine seventh son of a
Iseventh son, born with a caul, we
have i'm Honolulu, and that if he
only had a hump, one touch Of it would
be worth all the lunches" dream
book tips, and statistical demonstra-
tions that ever happened
G @ @ G
A newspaper which fell into the er-
ror of saying that Consul De Layard
was the local representative of the Ar
gentine Republic, caused a lot of trou-
BILE for His Britannia Majesty's consul.
| Many people went to De Layard with
Argentine business. The worst feature
of it is that the troubles did not stop
when the Argentine war vessel left
here. 1t happens that she left without
paying certain bills which should have
been settled. The bills We're taken to
Consul De Layard in the supposition
that he would pay them. l don't know
whether anyone has paid them at all,
or why it was that the war vessel did
not pay them. Perhaps she spent all
her money in saluting, for she seemed
to have salutes going most of the time
am told that a police officer i'm uni
form went to the vessel to serve a sub
| irrln