The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-13
TOWN TALK
By THE NAN ABOUT TOWN.

By THE NAN
'"Would this man at large be menace |
to the community" is the sole ques |
ton the intelligent magistrate wants
answered by the expert in a case OF
requested committal to the asylum. He
does not care whether the subject Is a
congenital idiot, a monomaniac, an An
glomaniac, paranoeic or any other
kind of lunatic. Is the man danger
Gus? If so he should be taken care OF,
no matter how lucid he may appear
on a general examination A common
belief is that everybody has a screw
loose somewhere but a disposition of
one to do fragrant harm, to himself or
| Others is a matter of credible evidence
from observers. The subject is liable
! to be an untrustworthy witness, for
often none are keener witted, in mat
tiers apart from their specific weakness,
than a maniac. He is sometimes cap
able of flooring the expert. local
story is in point.
Dr. Emerson, the expert alienist who
examines persons brought to the po-
lice station for insanity, was probing
the mind of Porto Rican prisoner
supposed to be "bughouse' in pres
ence of the district magistrate, when
the following dialogue occurred:
Doctor-"Do you think you are
crazy?"
Prisoner know am. All the
people where l came from are crazy
Doctor-"Do you think am crazy?'
Prisoner latter reflective pause and
a fixed gaze upon his questioner)-"God
only knows
DR.. F. l.. Miner, who lately return
ed from the East after a long absence,
claims to be the first one to import
an automobile to these Islands. Yet
he was not the pioneer in the use OF
a motor vehicle, for during a tenn
porary absence his machine was in
storage. In the meantime Hon H. p.
Baldwin had an auto running on Maui
and the late ]. B. Atherton one in Ho-
nolulu. Now who shall bid for fame
betimes as the introducer of flying
machines to Hawaii?
History repeats itself. The Homo
lrlu municipal crisis is a second Trent
affair.
Some people cried when they saw the
Fifth Cavalry in the Lincoln Parade
yesterday. | do not mean that they got
up on their hind legs, tapped their
kings, wagged their tails and yelled,
but do mean that they wept. Yes,
sir, so help me gracious! | saw strong
men overcome with emotion. | &C
tually saw a lawyer weeping, weeping
great, big, scalding tears, though he
hurried into cigar store to hide them
1t is a fact, assure you. AS the Fifth
Cavalry marched down the street,
observed tears come into the eyes OF
this self same lawyer; his face was
TRANSPORTED for a moment, and he
seemed just for a fleeting second ia
be almost human.
No, this isn't hot air, either! You
know very well, yourself, though you
are ashamed to admit it, that lots and
lots of times you have felt, big man
: that you are, or crying like an unwean'
ed pup, and without any apparent rea'
son. 1t was a good feel, now, WASH
it? A sort of a feel that, while yol
were kind of ashamed of anybody
! seeing tears in your eyes, at samt
time it kinO OF reconciled you to ex
4 istence and you, just for the moment
1 had feeling that there might even b.
: such thing as a soul hanging arount
your premises. Know what | mean
hope you do, for if you don't | can
tell you.
Any way, you've felt it, or you're
liar, or worse.
Funny, isn't it, how sort of a wire
less message creeps up your spine, per
meates your being, trickles to you
finger tips, makes you clench you
70 fists and then leaks out of your eyes
10 Psychological moments, those! 1t i
a moment, when. while you are tinglin
,r for you don't know what exactly, 20
.s almost yearn for a nine-story house t
n take fire so you could rescue beau
teous damsel from the ninth story ami
10 the ringing plaudits of the multitude
it is a moment when you almost wis
somebody would try to steal your coun
,r try, so you could land ON him with tina
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