The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-07-14
TOWN ; TALK

By The Man About Town.

The following tribute to the memory
of the departed police officer 2. Manu-
wal, is from the muse of John Samuel
Aea the lieutenant of the watch of
which the deceased had been a MEM
ber-during his ability to walk a beat.
Aeas admirers on the police force have
c0mplimented him highly on his literary
effusion and there has been a rush on
the part of members of the force to
hurry and die so that they will be the
next to be inundated upon the altar of
Aeas muse.
The tribute reads:
Like the babe that perish on it's
mothers BOSOM, amid the dead frost
of time,-that babe not only in its
image, but in it's influence, stin lives
and speaks in the chambers of it's
mother.
THE sun sets beyond the Western
Hills; but the trail of light which he
leaves, guides the pilgrims to his dis
tant home, being dead, yet it speaks
eloquently and in the midst of us.
Monuments and Columns erected
to poets, orators and statesmen are
monuments that will exhaust them
selves; If we build upon marbles, time
will efface, if we build upon monu-
ments it will crumble; but if we build
upon ourselves immortal minds ana
instill into them just principles, we are
then working upon tablets which-no
time will efface but will brighten and
brighten until all eternity.
HE is not dead; but transformed to
a higher and nobler purpose in the
land beyond; How noble is the AL
mightys' VIZ From the kings, prin-
ces, dukes, earls and the rich, men of
titles there is no distinction from the
poor after death; "In the grave there is
no distinction; In your friendship
clings closer than a brother.
I'm death thy friendship I hold"
g @ @ @
I have a young friend, who is more
youthful than either even his years or
his veal-like manner would Indicate
The other morning he came to work.
detected. I inquired the cause of his
detection of spirits for in the youthful,
one naturally expects to see only a
freshness and joyousness. He replied
Il have been reading Upton Sinclairs
famous work 1.-THE Jungle" and it has
depressed me beyond measure. Last
night I read the chapter describing the
killing of hogs. 1t is the most brilliant
word picture that have ever read.
tell you it made me weep.'-and then
I hurried away, leaving my hog-weep
ing friend to drown his sorrow in some
soft drink at a handy Japanese soda
water cart.
G G @ @
The Rev. G. D. Edwards temperance
arguments seem to me striking exam
pies of mixing up of the cart and the
horse. Sometimes the vehicle is pal
pably far ahead of the noble beast that
is supposed to draw it, at other times
it is perfectly evident that the beast
is in the lead and is making respect
able progress, but he suddenly becomes
lost, he jumps in, over, under and along
side the wagon and finally becomes all
jumbled up so that the whole eXpedi-
ton seems to collapse at once like the
wonderful one-hoss shay Perhaps
the cause of temperance is really serv-
ed by attempted syllogisms to prove
that everyone connected with the dis
pensing of liquor is a criminal, but as
the Scotchman would say, 1 haze me
doots. However, leaving this aside l
would like to commend the Rev Mr..
Edwards processes of logic to other
interests, as it is too valuable to be
monopolized by one party, sect or or
ganization: He who "goes to work to
secure profit without rendering service"
is a criminal; the supplying of liquor
does no one a service, ergo, everyone
who supplies liquor is engaged in
criminal work. Q. f. D. 1t is de-
lightful. The argument should be APP
piled by the breakfast food cranks to
coffee; by the no-tabac societies to the
Great Vegetable" of oliver Wendell
Holmes; by vegetarians to the sale of
meat by strict aunts to the supplying
of candy to babies; by those who think
romance injurious, to all authors and
publishers who secure profit through
impossible yarns that thrill without in
structing-if I may say, without sug-
costing offense to the editor, by those
who object to a yellow, free or indie
pendent press, to the men who so
often tell too much of what is going
on to suit some of the participants
and so on ad infnitum. Possibly some
of the victims of the syllogism,- the
impudent press man for example,
might object and declare that the buyer
must be left alone to judge of whether
he gets his moneys worth, but it will
not do to allow such suggestions to
spoil a good argument nor to take
away our unlimited chances of calling
one another criminals until that de-
lightful day when the government sup
plies buying and selling commissions,
to prevent any man from making a
criminal of a fellowman by buying
from him something of no service.
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