The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-06
TOWN TALK
By THE NAN ABOUT TOWN.

l was glad last week to note that Mr..
Dooley ended his discourse anent Ma
yor Fern with a remark discounting
criticism of the mayor for lack OF
learning. 1t reminded me Of a story of
President Jackson which, while I won't
say l believe it, is worth repeating, as
published in Life:
Once, before he was President,
Andrew Jackson was making
political speech in some obscure
campaign in backwoods Tonnes
see district. His address was very
well received, but somehow there
did not seem to be exactly the en-
thusiasm wanted for the occasion.
Having vainly tried to warm up"
his hearers, the General was just
going to sit down when the chair
man of the meeting plucked him by
the coat tail. For the Lords
sake, General, give em some La
tim" he hurriedly whispered in the
speakers ear. "They won't think
you know anything at all if you
quit like this. Smith, the opposi-
ton candidate, talked Latin to 'em
half the evening
Old Hickory rose to the situation.
Advancing to the edge of the plat
form he extended his arm and
Numbered out: "E pluribus unum!
Sic semper tyrannis! Habeas cor
pus!"
The audience roared with APP
plause. The credit of the orator
was saved, and the Jackson ticket
won out in that county.
q = . q
There is history connected with The
Honolulu Hotel, whose buildings are
to be torn down and rebuilt as a bunk
house for the men of the Hawaiian
Dredging Company at Pearl Harbor II
was there, when called the Eagle House
that United States Minister John l.
Stevens, who figured largely in the
troublous times preceding and attend.
ing the down fall of the monarchy, re-
ceived a big torchlight procession in
his honor on the eve of his departure
from Honolulu
That night marked some reconcilia-
tions of the period between the over
throw and annexation. Well-knowr
Hawaiians carried torches to the honor
of the chief factor in the annexation
movement One who had been a de-
votee of the patriotic fetch in Will
cox's following, asked the next day
how he had come to be in line, replied
81 thinking of the future of my
children"
This mans employer, who had ex-
perienced considerable personal fric-
ton with the departing diplomat, ven
tured to extend his hand to Mr.. Ste
vens in his room on the second floor OF
the Eagle with the remark, Il hope
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
beth Carter, Helen Wilder, Laura Ath-
erton, Ruth and Martha McChesney,
Margaret Peterson, Bessie, Catharine
and Alice Hopper, Bertha and Esther
Kopke, Mary Won Holt, Margaret and
Marion Warehouse, Juliet Atwater,
Alice Hoogs, Ramona Marks, Ruth
Daphne Damon, Bernice
Halstead, Muriel Campbell, Dorothy
Freeth, Myra Angus, Madge McCand-
less, Laura Labree, Florence Desky,
Mrs. Dougherty, Mrs. High, Mrs. Dea-
con, Misses Sarah and Elizabeth Pratt,
Emma Whiting, Marion Brown, Agnes
Gibson, R. Green, G. Lucas, A. Ly-
cett, r. Hodnett, A. Green, T. Har-
rison, Fannie Miles, Mabel Smyth,
Edith Goo, Alice All, Ruth Richards,
Dora Atwater, Fannie Foogs, Jessie
Kennedy, Helen North, Mrs. A. L. Cas-
tie, Beatrice Castle, Blair, Lucas, Mar
garet Castle, Harriet Lucas, Genevieve
Langton, Margaret Ashford, Lady
bird Turner, Little Freid, Psyche Ber-
ry, Dorothy and Louis Effinger, Kahn,
Alice Hastings, Eoin Winter, Hough,
Bertha Harris Dorothy Peterson, Flea
more Bissell, Almeda Townsend, Maud
de Brettevile, Aileen Mccarthy, Ger
trude McCorriston, Vivien auckland,
Edna Curtis, Georgina McKillop, Ethel
Hannah and Eva McCor-
riston, Mary Lucas, Name Whiting,
Josephine and Eunice Pratt, Magoon,
Chaplin, Toki McInerny, Olmsted, Mar
gerry Mcclure, Emma Goo, Helen Cir
vim, Nellie Mclean, Mollie Grace,
Frances Murphy, Rosa Herbert, Hazel
Thelma Murphy, Carol
Lowe, Helma and Rhunhilda White,
Myrtle Schuman, Sila Pratt, Alice
Brown, Cordelia Gilman, Van Mugs,
Byran, Day, Mrs, Harold Giffard, Miss
es Ermine Cross, Dora Saunders, Alice
Cooke, Irene Fisher, Vera Damon,
Alice Spalding, Muriel Hind, Letitia
Morgan, Anna Johnson, Louisa Perry,
Lucy Mcclure, Helen Goo, Lizzie Aka
ma, Julia Smyth, Hattie Ayau, Violet
Austin, Iren and Edith Gibbs, Carney
Orris Taylor, Elsie Lyd-