The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-16
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

ing and into the skin. At any rate,
so the Molokans found it and they were
very much grieved
They went home at once and got out
their contracts with the government
and with the Makee Sugar Company
and began to study them over Then
they took their contracts to Manager
Fairchild. With tears or grief and
Indignation they told him they had
been deceived. How? Could he not
see it? Surely he could. There was
not word in the contract to let them
know that fuzz grew on the cane and
that there were centipedes i'm the cane
fields
The Nuuanu dam proposition is one
that will probably never down. No
matter how many experts pass upon it,
the croaker will be always with us.
] am not saying that Patterson is
croaker or that any of the others who
complain are in the wrong.-if l had
home that was in the line Of the pos
sible flood | should lift up my voice
also in demand for investigation, for
the wave that would come from the
breaking of the dam would carry
everything before it and wouldn't stop
till it reached Il far distance ocean
wards. But even when the experts
are through, this Banquo's ghost of a
proposition WI insist upon lntruding
time and time again. Twenty years
from now after the big reservoir has
supplied Honolulu for years with a
water supply such as the city never had
before, there will be alarmists coming
to the front with dire predictions and
warnings. Among the kinds of people
it takes to make a world are many
who cannot see a chance for big
disaster without feeling confident that
at some time or other the big disaster
will occur.
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Unless those Molokans soon get out
Of the town, there will be nobody in
Honolulu, wearing whiskers. People
associate whiskers with Russian Just
as a man of Hebrew extraction is assoc
ciated with a pawn shop. But nobody
here likes the idea of being taken for
a Molokan. Yesterday l say an elder
ly man sitting on a fence waiting for a
car "Oh look at that MOlokan. the
lazy brute" exclaimed my companion.
He was wrong. The elderly man hap
pened to be II very respectable and in
dustrious member of our community.
But unfortunately-he wore whiskers.
If the wearing Of whiskers i'm Homo
lulu, involves the additional suspicion
of being a lazy Russian. l expect to
hear soon of the BARRIERS working over
time.
The following occurred on the Ame-
RIGA Maru l am told:
"Oh you Americans boast" con-
temptuously exclaimed an English
man of being the greatest republic in
the history of the world Bah, you are
not a tenth as great as the Roman Re
public and l can prove it. The Roman
worshipped a standard, and his stan
dard was the eagle. Your object of
worship is the dollar. which is only a
tenth of the eagle"
ooh, rats" exclaimed an American
passenger 1--WE make up for it by wor-
shipping the dollar ten times as much
as the Roman used to worship his
y
up to the Englishman to sign another
chit.
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one of my friends has little boy
who is studying French. Twice a week
the little fellow goes to his lessons and
needless to say much to his disgust,
for like all boys he does not see the
necessity Of learning anything, let alone
French.
One day not long ago the little fell
low went to his teachers home and
began his lesson. on that particular
day it was simply a conversation.
Finally the teacher i'm order to illus
trate to the boy the French equivalent
for shoot" picked up a stick and said:
bang" The little boy Immediately
fell upon his face and remained very
quiet and would not rise at all the
coaxing he received from his instructor.
Finally however he turned over and
said NO, you shot me and I'm dead"
And dead he was until the end of the
hour when he would leave for home
And now every time the youngster
goes for his lessons, with the wisdom
of a six-year-old he wants to learn the
word "shoot."