Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-07-20
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FROM THE NEwSMAN'S NOTES

Burglaries are surely becoming ep-
idemic in Honolulu of late. Hardly
day passes but there are one or,
more reports made of houses entered
and goods or money stolen. You are
not in style now if you have not en-
countered your burglar, Yours truly
received visit from the light-footed
gent few nights ago, and now that
my hair has concluded to lay down
again | can recite the circumstances,
as a warming to others, so they will
know how to proceed in similar cases.
[ was awakened along in the night
by noises in my room. The street
light was shining into the room,
making it quite light. Gazing into
the far corner of the room, ! observed
man engaged in going through the
bureau drawers and ransacking the
| boxes. | sat up in bed, and was
] about to speak, when, in voice that
all burglars use, he commanded me
to be still if | valued my life. re-
NAMED silent as long as | could; then
| demanded what he was looking for
He very politely told me he was look
ling for money. | Immediately be-
came interested and got up and help
I him look.
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J there's an old saying that you
can't tell from the looks of toad
| l. Tho rico nP
John Fleming Wilson in the world
of fiction is in line, especially on ac-
count of the said John having made
such a fizzle of it here, according to
the disappointed statesman of the
morning paper.
Fleming is writing stories of the
Pacific for the Uncle Remus maya
! zine just launched by Joel Chandler
Harris. In the last issue of the Re-
mus Magazine Fleming's photograph
occupies preferred position at the top
of the column on the personal mem
ton page. This is what the people
buying his stories say of him. what
the disappointed statesman said Is
unprintable:
Somebody, probably magazine ed
itor himself, has said that the chief
personal compensation of conducting
a periodical is that one is enabled
now and then to discover a new writ
or of talent, and occasionally one OF
i genius.
3 John Fleming Wilson is not wri-
i ter hitherto unknown to the reading
4 public, for from time to time during
the past three years he has been a
contributor to the popular maya
zines of the country. But in The
Schooner Mary e. Foster: Guardian,
published in the June number of this
magazine he wrote what must be re-
garded as a genuinely big short story
one of the finest published in the last
decade. 1t was a New story, and was
handled with sympathy and strength
1t marked distinct advance in MI
Wilson's art, and he may be counted
as one of the most notable of recent
literary arrivals.
Mr.. Wilson was graduated from
Princeton CATER much difficulty, he
says with reminiscent GRIM about
six years ago, entering newspaper
work on the coast after leaving col
lege. AS reporter for the San Fran
cisco Chronicle and subsequently the
Honolulu Commercial Advertiser nc
came in contact with many OF the
incidents he utilities so wildly in his
= stories. For several years he was a
regular contributor to The Argonaut
becoming it's editor few months be-
fore the earthquake in San Francis
r co. He is at present managing edl
tor of The Pacific Monthly His work
: has taken him into Eastern Siberia
Japan, Central America, the West
Indies and coastwise on both the At
lantic and Pacific. He has seen
good deal of the sea and it's folk, the
islands and their inhabitants, anC
like a good reporter he has notet
them.
In an early issue of this magazine
will appear another of his stories
THE King of Makawao's Jester il
H. the first of series about the kings
of the South Seas. 1t is practically
an uninvaded territory, and Mr.. vii
son has seen the romance and thu
pathos of it. The story of King Joe
the austere New Highlander, rule
over Makawao, who created the petit!
pageantry of a medieval court, will
it's jester in cap and bells; who fel
4 in firece battle with pillaging marau
ders, and whose taking off the foo
- avenged, is one that will not be sool
forgotten. Charles Sarka, who's
v brilliant pen-and-ink work is know
4 to all magazine readers, has illustrat
] ed the story. He knows by virtue 0
q his travels the Pacific isles as wei
as Mr.. Wilson does.
4 !. i
! The Shade gathered his accoutre
! ments close to his side and saile
! away through space to the south
i west. "Ah! 'Tis the beautiful isle
i where the kanaka king reigns. I'll
many. many MONS since | tarried a
i the spot. Twill be well to rest fror
this weary flight for a time in tn
| tbo anna In mo