Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-11-02
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FROM THE rSE\VSnlAN'S NOTES


er in the morning paper regarding our
poor, over.worked police, and to any
one who knows how much the police
are really run down in body and mind
from their strenuous duties 1t would
seem that the squib in the morning
paper had got into the wrong column.
It should have been In the column
beaded Laughs and Smiles
The following happened under my
observation few days ago: There
IS n certain block on the Eva side of
Nuuanu street and just below Bere.
tania wherein are located a number
Ct Japanese fruitvstores. Unmindrul
of the law regarding the throwing OF
nanana peels on sidewalks as they
are of any of the other laws of the
land, the sidewalks along this block
referred to, are, as general thing
covered with banana pCCls and many
have taken tumble in that particular
locality from this very cause.
The other day | was on my way
home. when Just in front of me, in
this block | shave named. man
slipped and fell with a pretty good
jolt, and all on account of "A banana
peel, and at the same time great 4
big lout of a policeman stood on the
corner opposite the Ishii drug store
and nearly laughed himself sick at
the sight of the man falling He
seemed to think It was one of the best
Jokes of the season. Perhaps he was
so tired from over-work that he could
not re an investigation, or perhaps
| he did not know enough to. They are
50 over.worked that one would think
that they would be all chafed from
running down thieves and robbers.
| Another case. which did not come UNI
der ny observation. but is reported
nevertheless, that another Of these
Gver.worked police officers stood by
and watched a lot of sailors from the
| Aibatross destroy the billboard in
! front of the Y. NJ. c. A. building last
Monday and made no attempt to in.
| jerfere They might have destroyed
the building had not some of the as.
ISOLATION members come to the
rescue, and in that case the police Of
! fCer would have been killed by the
| falling wall, as he was probably too
tired, from chasing law-brcakers and
burglars, to get out from under.
| The way in which the English IAN
guage il abused by those of other ma
;iOnallties and races in this Terri
tory often creates considerable
amusement. In this connection a
good story is told in which w. II.
Castle played good joke on one of
the EmersOns.
1t happened that at dinner given
here in town one of the Emerson bro
Tiers had gotten on TO their common
pet theme, namely that of the mean
ing and derivation of Hawaiian
words. He discoursed at length, and
while the matter was interesting to
Hawaiian scholars, among whom the
Emcrsons take high rank, it was
not much appreciated by several mali
hinis, who were present, and some OF
them showed signs of being bored, 1t
was at this point that Castle came to
their rescue.
Mr.. Emerson, the derivation and
meaning of one Hawaiian word is
puzzling me considerably" he re-
rarkcd. II heard IL the other day,
lrnd cannot make it out at all. The
word is 'kokohele. Now what do you
make of that"
II was plain that the word was a
new one on Emerson. Still, he tack
led 1t bravely.
Now, let me see, he unused. " 'Ko-
lko,' of course, is blood. Hele' is to
walk--to go-to be in movement
liz suggests motion | should suggest
THAT the words combined as they are,
would indicate the movement of
blood, the rushing or spouting forth
of blood"
But still Castle seemed unconvinc-
ed.
81 cant say that that seems to fit
ct all" he said. 81 heard the word
on the car the other day. The man
who was using it was "A Hawaiian,
and he was trying to say Go to
hell.
This ended the conversation on Ha-
waiian etymOlogy very abruptly, and
the guests sat down to dinner.
| II
often wonder just how much the
internal arrangements-or disar-
rangemcnts--of "A judge have to do
with the size and Earring effect of the
COLT handed out to a convicted pris-
Cncv. Judges of course, are human,
md are as liable to be unconsciously
Influenced by poor digestion, by
hunger, by the desire for drink, or
II curtain lecture administered by the
wife carly in the morning or late the
night before, as anybody else. If the
judge is in good humor, II every
thing has gone well-breakfast good,
wife in q pleasant frame of mind, ba-
bcs didn't cry all night and the neigh
boris infant prodigy didn't practise
three-fnger exercises at In the
moning-the time is liable to be pro-
pitious for a convicted prisoner to
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