The Hawaiian star., 1906-04-28
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

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, About Town.
something that he liked better on the
grounds so he told her to go ahead and
he would wait. She went into the
camera obscura and was shown the
different scenes about the country all
of which were much enjoyed until sud
denly the woman gave a little scream
and cried out "Oh! OH look there is my
husband, and he is kissing another wo-
man" And sure enough that brute of
a husband was kissing a dus<y native
of the islands. What the woman said
when she got to the man is not repeat
able and no doubt the poor fellow is
wondering yet how his wife found out
he was naughty When he learns the
truth Manager Adams of the Zoo will
have to sit up nights with shot gun
to save his beloved camera obscura
from destruction.
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The people on the mainland need
waking up and no doubt the Promotion
committee is doing it. Residents here
do not realize the extent of the ignor-
ance of people on the mainland as re-
CARDS Hawaii. People there do not even
know that it is part of the United
states. The other day d friend Of mine
received a letter from OCeansde which
is a fair sized town i'm Southern Cali
fornia from a real estate dealer The
dealer had sold some of my friends
property and enclosed the deed which
was to be signed. I quote from the
letter.
please go before some notary or
the American consul and sign the en-
closed deed"
Now my friend told me that that
man was a well educated man, that he
had held positions of trust both in
city and county offices and yet he
wrote for person in Honolulu, Island
of Hawaii" as he expresses it, to go
before the AMERICAN CONSUL and
sign a deed.
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Two Of my business friends the other
day, just after the news that San
Francisco was burning up arrived,
started to discuss the advisability of
despatching Charlie Thurston with his
men to the scene to put out the fire
before the state burned up.
yes we will send" just then the
fire whistle blew and neither man has
broached the subject since.
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I wonder if Mayor Schmitz of San
Francisco rose to his chance during
the recent destruction of San Fran
cisco. He could have given rare
old revival of Nero, sitting on the dome
of the Call building fddling while
Frisco burned.
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But to return to our own affairs
Some of those names that have been
suggested for the new Waikiki Annex
hotel are fierce, from the standpoint of
tourist Imagine a tourist trying to
pronounce Haleakalani. The CONVEX
sation would be something like this:
Say driver, take me out to that Hal
hal, Oh hang it, drive out to that no.
tel with the blamed long name"
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our Jack is a wise one. Probably
you observed that the instant he re-
prieved those Koreans he ducked away
to Kauai. He was probably like the
man who chucks the Kilkenny cats
over the clothes line Jack puts the
mercy advocates in a position to debate
but he proposes to keep out of range
during the clawing and splitting of con-
troversy that seems likely to follow.
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Edgar b. Miller who left on the Ven
tura for San Francisco to find his
brother Paul must have been born un-
der a lucky star. Five minutes before
the boat sailed a report from San Fran
cisco told of the safety of his brother.
It was too late then to change his
plans so he got his trip to San Fran
cisco without the worry which he must
have necessarily been under. But the
luckiest thing of all was that he es-
capped the last cable which came the fol-
lowing morning 1t read "Cable Paul
$1OO." Any man that wasn't lucky
would have received that and had to
pay it.
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The hanging of Frank Johnson will
not be a nice spectacle,-not that any
hanging is, but that of Johnson will
be peculiarly narrowing. 1t will seem
like taking some miserable rat in hu-
man shape, dragging it squealing to a
gallows and letting it dangle and kick
at the end of a rope. The wretched
perpetrator of the deed that shocked
the community of Waialua last Janu-
airy seems too low, senseless, dumb and
ignorant to hang. He is a degenerate
and he didn't degenerate much, for he
started pretty low down. Perhaps 1t
is right to hang a creature of this
sort, under our laws,-but Johnson Is
very near the line True, he made a
more or less intelligible speech in pro-