The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-11

Was the wonderful yacht Hawaii,
And the crew she had was not so bad
(When the boat was high and dry)
With buttons of gold, Hi Henry bold,
/ With dignity took command,
While John Martin with a bottle of cir
Made signs to the fading land.
Since he never will drown, Mr.. A. NJ
Brown
AS boatswaiu proved first rate.
And Iaukea, at the whole towns prayer
Signed on as bosms mate.
TO the sailors joy, a cabin boy.
One Charlie Hustace. snappy.
And a carpenter, John Cathcart, Sir,
Went along to make them happy.
With worms in a box and female rocks.
Doc Wallach signed as diver
To scraDe the scum and the barnacles
from
The yacht so they could drive her.
With strangle-hot Chaplain De Bolt
Grabbed hold of Barkeep Woolley.
And he says. says he, the foam of the
sea
And the foam of the beer are bully.
Then Annie Marie, whose last names p
Found fault with Sonny Cunha
For getting caught on the rail to port,
Endangering the schooner.
With a pink vest on, Sir Charles
Weston,
Who was steward, he says to Liddy:
You're a stowaway and you'll have to
pay
Or take your trick like MILDLY.
Then there came a shout from the
stern lookout,
George Davis was on duty:
l think it crime to work overtime
When there is no sign of booty.
With decks a-wash. there was fear, by
gosh,
But prayer and Almy won,
With the help or Tosh and Macintosh
Sky-pilots every one.
Oh. a gallant crew for a cruise or two
Were the lads and their Captain Hi,
And they won the cup and filled it up
And drank to the yacht Hawaii.
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Take a trip on foot or on a Rapid
Transit car, through the Chinese and
Japanese quarter some Sunday evening.
If you have not done so in an observing
way before you will probably be sur
Drised at the business activity of the
district. There is certainly no Sun
day closing about this part of the city.
For several blocks, the small stores are
all open, till late in the evening, Just
the same as on other days. There are
rows of them together, the merchants
waiting for the chance customer Even
dry goods and clothing appear to be
on sale. The owners of these stores
live in them. They are always ready
for business and as they spend money
on lights to keep the places open sup
pose they do some trading on Sunday.
Meanwhile their white competitors
close from Saturday to Monday. On
WIN lA6hAo lhC ottllt contrast IldX
be observed. The white stores of the
business center of Honolulu close at
six. In the Asiatic quarter there is no
closing till late,-and the larger Asia
tic stores much are moving Waikiki
wards towards Fort street are keeping
open at night. | doubt very mucn
whether the Sunday business is within
the law
The death of Jim Low-and of Fred
Wundenberg within a week after-are
reminders of '95. One was taller and
the other prisoner in those troublous
days, Wundenberg was one of the
royalist sympathizers who was releas-
ed on sentence of Punishment at the
will of the government. His sentence
like the rest. did not last long, and
Wundenberg lived to come back and
meet his former warden as a business
man.
They still wax eloquent in Congress.
1t is the fashion nowadays to spread
the impression that the power of ora
tory is gone and that all the effective
work of legislation is done by business
men in committees. But the time is
a long way off when the power of an
eloquent tongue will not be felt-Bryan
changed the political history of his
country by speech. have been read
ing the Congressional Record and
came across a eulogy of the American
farmer, who really often seems to be
the great American sucker even
though he is rewarded by being told
day and night that he is the backbone
of the country. According to the Re
cord Congressman Wallace of Arkan-
sas aroused great and prolonged APP
plause by concluding a speech with the
following references to the beloved
small farmer: Every man should
own home. however humble. Lands