The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-10
TOWN TALK
By THn NAN ABoUT TOWN.

Extra! Extra! all about
How Breckons isn't out!
Wish | had some kodak views
OF people when they hear the news.
Thwing, in far off Orient
Must look like a PEPPERMINT;
Thwing-o-me-bob has gone to rest
With his muck-rate cross his breast.
And 1 kind of gently fear
There's no smile on Gov-nor Frear;
While, alas, also alack,
What will happen to Our Jack?"
| heard of a rather funny incident
which occurred on board one of the
Japanese cruisers the other day and
which | am glad to say would hardly
happen on one of ours. A young man
of this city, who has served in the
English navy, was going over one or
the Japanese vessels last week with a
lady friend of his acquaintance. They
happened to be standing by one of the
small rapid fire guns when the young
officer who was showing it to them
was called away. While he was gone
the Englishman took the breech me-
chanism out. Then the officer return
ed.
The Japanese knew just enough Eng
fish to be very angry and then tried
to put the gun together He was COM
pletely stuck and the only way thas
the parts of the gun were reassembled
was when the Englishman came to his
assistance. The lady was standing
beside the two and enjoyed the incident
very much, as 1 did when told of it.
John Martin, fire in his eye, jumped
me the other day for an item which
appeared in The Star headed "Hell for
Matinee"
Your paper says that the Hart
Theater noon lecture on Ell was hac-
tended by honly fifteen newsboys, two
bill collectors, arr a doing Japanese
and few Intelligent people," he COM
planned. ".And then, what did you go
for to do but make a hodious com
parison and say that the night before
this ere Salome woman done a dance,
and 'ow as it was Inappropriate, or
somethink to that there effect, that ell
should follow the "oochie-choochie. Its
houtrageous, and l come for to demand
an hapology."
1 am told by my editor that John
Martin was present and that the re-
porter sought to have it understood
that Martin was among the few intel
ligent" persons present However, as
far as I'm concerned, we take it back.
Now we have the Attorney General
ship open as well as vacancies in the
Circuit and Supreme Courts and with a
place to be filled in the Federal District
Court. Where are the men coming
| from?
1t is all very we'll to say that we can
furnish our own men here, but there is
one more tnlng which we should do,
that is pay them decent salaries. The
position of Federal judge pays $4,000
per year. yet Judge Ballou turns up his
nose at it. l am told, however, that
when the name of a young lawyer, OF
some ability and close to the official
family of the Robins Egg Blue Cham
Der was mentioned for the place, that
no less a legal light than Lorrin A.
Thurston stated that his being given
the position would be a reflection upon
all the older members of the bar of this
city.
When to appoint a young man re-
fleets on his elders, who are almost to
man unwilling to take the position
offered, on account of the small salary
bad state of affairs has been reached
We must do one of two things, hurt the
feelings of the genial owner of the Ad-
vertiser, which must have received a
terrific shock this afternoon when the
Breckons news became public, or pay
more to the lawyers who represent the
Territory and who are on the local
bench.
Do you remember a cute little Japa-
nese who skipped to the Orient aftel
swindling the Yokohama Specie Banh
out of $1,000? You know that Ole
Sleuth Chester, Chester Doyle, was
sent to the Far East with eXtraditior
papers to nab him, and he nabbed hin
all right, though he had to use hi
science to do it. Then they came bach
and Abe, that was the Jap's name
was the other day discharged because
the indictment AGAINST him wasnI