The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-25

Jne governor SO COTulal because ne
loved those reporters so much, or was
he cordial because he was relieved and
in a state of beatifcation because he
would not see them again for the next
six weeks? How old is Ann?
= =
When the cablegram arrived in The
Star office yesterday telling of the
coming of the Maine and the Alabama,
my thoughts travelled some four hun
dred miles across the ocean to my Old
friend Admiral Very" Sammy as
the admiral was most disrespectfully
known to the men under him, had the
greatest possible aversion to being
what is termed in newspaper parlance
scooped." 1t happened, when the an
nouncement was made some months
ago that the battleship fleet would
come to the Pacific, that Admiral Very
was not notified of the fact till about
three weeks after 1t had been printed
mere in the cable news.
For that three weeks, whenever any
one asked him about the truth Of
the story, it was stuff and newspaper
nonsense" This matter was hardly
over when the date of sailing was ap-
prOximately announced and the same
thing happened once more. In fact
there was hardly a bit of real news
concerning the feet that the local pa
pers did not have from a week to
three weeks before it reached the
Admiral through official channels.
Every time it hurt, for he never got
used to it, but would proclaim his in"
credulous nature in the old words OF
stuff and newspaper nonsense"
till he received his private advices.
AS l say, when l read of the coming
of the two battleships before we had
expected them, wished that the Korea
had wireless on board that l might re-
peat the message to the Admiral and
see if the sparks would bring back an
eruption of stuff and newspaper nom
sense"
Ernest Smith, the student who has
been suspended from Stanford univer-
sity for editorial writings in the college
paper which the controlling element OF
the faculty didn't like, is a chip of
the old block" By that l mean he is a
son of Editor Walter G. Smith of Ho-
nolulu. l don't know where our own
editor Smith went to college or whether
he was a college editor or not, but l
am quite sure that if it had been
Stanford and he had been editor of a
college paper he wouldn't have lasted
to graduate.
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was nestled in my leather chair
with my feet on the escritoire and gaz-
ing at bust of Pallas just above my
chamber door, incidentally smoking.
There came an avalanche between
the portal props and sat squat on the
edge of the safe with a leer and gasp
ing for breath.
Who's chasing your" / asked to
know, inquiring with a questioning
look (you see like to be explicit since
the Bulletin speaks of a deadly and
fatal" disease.)
Il just came in on the crest of the
moral wave" said the other poet.
Narrow escape" said l, thinking
that moral wave would have drown
ed him. Where does a moral wave
originator"
John Martin jolted the Water Wa
gon," said he, "and there's a regular
flood. Everybodys padding and show
ing their tootsie-wootsies"
THAT accounts for the epidemic Of
grip said l.
What is the wild moral wave say
ing?" said he.
Shut up" said 1.
Exactly" said he, lit has said it.
Inside the smoke from our pipes
mingled, as did our minds 60 in re-
verie. Outside the stars were Thwing-
king and the roar of the moral wave
could be heard as it pounded on "the
reef"
And 1t came to pass that in the City
of Honolulu the people VOTED not of
the sweets of peace, nor did they over
verify take tumble unto the luscious
ness of little rest between battles
Even though lAey bore upon their
shields the scars of the bloody Wallach
War and, by the same token, upon
their helmets the deep dents of the
Board of Health harangue, they girded
up their loins and waded into the bat
tie of the Jostle of the Joinals. And
upon the escutcheon of the one was
emblazoned the legend Me for the
Evening Paper" while upon the dash
board of the other shone the illumin-
ated motto Good Morning Have you
read Me?' And the, battle waxed
strenuous and much ink was spilled
Almost as inky a battle was it as
that famous massacre where brother
rose against brother and vice versa