The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-08

GUAR nLJle act VI humanity has Deeu
getting things a-going is a good act
and an act of charity.
Such a rush on furniture stores as
there has been and such demand for
beds and bureaus and washstands anc
cradles and dining-tables and ice-chests
and hat-racks, has hardly ever been
eCualled. And the crockery stores have
also been raided and credit has been
established with the grocers by lots
of new couples. Then the fees to par
sons, the hack-fares to the weddings,
the luaus and feasts in celebration,
the money spent for wedding presents
and trousseaus, the new houses rented
and cooks hired! Altogether business
has been booming and that little old
act of Edmunds deserves some of the
credit.
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see that the good, patriotic white
ladies are planning to erect a tablet
up Nuuanu Valley to honor the MEM
ory of Kamehameha the Great. l
have not seen the names or any Ha-
waiians mentioned in connection with
the placing of the tablet, but we will
let that pass for we have some sugges-
tons to offer.
Personally, l am opposed to any
tablet. 1t is not sufficiently appro-
pirate to be commemorative of the
great victory of Hawaiis famous king.
What is needed is something in the
way of monument that will at once,
impress the tourist with its object and
indicate to him without any wild
search through the guide books, what
the real significance of the monument
is. Now, l want to suggest to the
amiable ladies to abandon all this talk
of tablet. Save this waste of money
for any carving and instead, go to one
of our ruling race here, and hire a
Japanese carpenter to build a Shoot
the-Chute outfit over the end Of the
Pail. 1t would be an up-to-date adapta-
ton of the method that old Kameha-
meha used in skating his enemies over
the cliffs in the eighteenth century.
Any tourist winth half an eye could
understand what the shoots stood for
and if he didn't, he could be given a
little illustration, and by the time he
hit Koolauloa, he would know pretty
well ,>the significance of that moment.
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My friend Chester Doyle mas return
ed with scars of conflict on his hands.
and an unholy appetite for ice. He
He says he was in Kau for weeks and
during most of that time he had no
Ice. Things were awful but they
might have been worse. If they had
been worse Doyle would not be nursing
badly cut thumb He got that thumb
trying to pen bottle of mineral wa
ter. Doyle is understood to be trying
to represent that he was so thirsty for
mineral water that ne broke the bot
tie. But the real dope as l get il in
private letter from Kau, is that he
was not familiar with opening mineral
water bottles, and his awkwardness re-
suited in his wounds.
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William Savidge, clerk of the last
Senate, is wearing a new Panama,
During the session of the legislature
Savidge made bet of a Panama hat
he won his bet and was paid. His old
nat was very dingy and untidy and his
w1fe-as most wives will, desired her
Willie to look swell, so she suggested
10 MIN that he don his new hat. "Oh
no. my dsa' replied Willie lyon
: women never car understand anything
IL l were to wear that new Panama bat
l would Immediately be charged with
grating and then there would be 3
big fuss. Wait until after the legis
iature adjourns and then I will wea,
it,"
And this is the reason Savidge :,
wearing a new Panama hat.
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After | relate this story, anv oIc
sailor will declare that Jack London /
, no sailor man. AS we have all heard
preachers and sky-pilots generally. ar,
are worst sort of hoOdOos for a shin
= Ihere were twenty-five of them on m,
Manchuria when she hit the Wanna
! naio reef last August. So a saiIo
man generally, fights shy of them.
Yesterday there arrived by the Ala
media from San Francisco a voun,
theological student who came to ioiI
the crew of London's boat, the Shark
What effect the presence of the new
) member will have upon Captain Rose
NIL the new navigator, is uncertain
q out the sailing master will feel prett,
squeamish while that embryo skv-nilo
4 Is aboard the Snary. Maybe. Rosehil
VIII try to maroon him with the Jams
y on Marcus Island.
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1T is said" that a local newspane
man has rendered his resignation TO
2 the third time; that it has been Gus
Z tomary for him to continue to hav
, a copy of the paper sent to his ad