The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-24
Town TALK

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do not believe that Cove rnor Carter
will come home in May. l know that
some people who are supposed to be
very well informed as to his plans and
prospects will be very much surprised
if he ever comes home,-as governor.
The best informed, both here and i'm
Washington. have the gravest misgiv-
ings as to his ever resuming his Of
fetal duties, but of course it is i'm
possible to predict with confidence in
such a matter. Possibly he will come
back by next May, but it will be UNI
fortunate if his relatives and friends
cannot persuade him to say much long
TT. If not altogether to lay down the
cares of office. A return next May
would most likely be followed by an
other breakdown incident to the next
campaign
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I have friend who prdes himself on
the fact that he reads only the best
books The modern novel gathers no
dust on his book shelves for when
ever he can get the money he buys
some standard work Balzac. Victor
Hugo. the Ideas That Have Influenced
Civiliz ton adorn the shelves of his
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me one of Stanley Weymans works
and he Immediately professed ignor-
anCe of such an author. The other
day my studious friend went to Lyons
book store and happened to see a little
book called Toothsome Tales Told in
Slang. How did such a thing as this
get into your stock" he inquired Il
thought you sold only the standard
authors" We'll" was the reply cit
got up here by mistake but take it
along and read the thing for a change"
My friend did so and the result was
that he has not touched his standard
books for the last week and has been
devouring all the stories i'm slang he
can find He says he has been missing
a treat.
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see that NY old time friend George
Anderson is dead. Died of pneumonia
too, and anyone to see him would be
surprised at that. For several years
past now, Pop" Anderson has been
overseer of thu College buildings at
stanford University. Familiar indeed
L
deceived from him anything but "A
gruff "Good morning sir" i'm reply to
a friendly or, citing.
And yet in spite of his grufness
George was a kindhearted old man and
the college man who wore through his
reserve found that no one was gent +
or more courteous.
Having to keep order as he did in
Encina Hall. the boys dormitory, he
was the victim of every trick that the
undergraduate mind could devise. on
one occasion a burro was carried up
three fights of stairs and tied to the
knob Of his door. Yes, George certain
ly had time with the boys.
Never without his cigar or chewing
tobacco he was fast becoming a land
mark at Stanford but now the Cd boy
is dead. College adjourned three days
out of respect to his memory. Many
Il college graduate felt his eyes grow
misty, I'll warrant, when his read the
news
Anderson had career in Honolulu
but | don't Fnow much about it. Per-
haps Gov. Cleghorn, Allan Herbert, or
some of the other kamaainas could
give interesting information about him.
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7 have been informed that Dent H..
Robert has been transferred from the
position of managing editor of the San
Francisco Examiner to a similar posi-
ton with the Los Angeles Examiner.
1t has been represented that the trans
fer was in the nature of a reduction Of
Robert in the executive councils of
the Hearst papers. | do not believe
such a statement. In fact if l was as
sure of a fortune as ! am that the
transfer of Robert, if it be true, is a
recognition of the mans ability,
would not waste another day working
for living.
Robert is without doubt one of the
ablest newspaper managers that has
ever been in the employ of Hearst, and
nobody even Hearst's most bitter
enemy, can deny that the newspaper
proprietor has the art of securing eff
fcient men. Robert was at the helm
of the Examiner during the savage
attack that was made upon that news
paper following the assassination of
President Mckinley The attack on
the Examiner at that time was one of
the most virulent and dangerous in the
history of any newspaper published in
A Va Dnha,t ri1ntaJ tho nanat.