The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-23
FRISCO HOLIDAYS
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minably. She answered Santa Claus
politely several times in various
stores when he asked her what she
wanted for Christmas, but her pa
thence came to an end when she dis
covered him in another store i've
minutes after she left the first one,
and he again asked that same tire
some question, What shall | bring
you. little girl, for Christmas She
sobbed out i'm a desperately tired
voice, Amt | just got done tellin
yuh?"
Seeing dozen of Santa Claus's
along the streets brings to mind one
that stood on the corner of Geary
and Market streets for upwards of
ten days. He was a fat, jolly Santa
Claus relocated and long-whiskered,
and he bore aloft a sign Contribute
for a Christmas Dinner for the Poor,
and many a contribution came his
way, greeted with a merry burst of
laughter and a hearty handshake if
the giver were a child. A little tin
bank was often filled, and might still
( be filed had not an unromantic de-
tective happened along in an inquisi-
tive frame of mind Fronting the fig
ure nothing was to be seen but the
joyous exterior of Santa Claus him
self but around back, where the face
mask ended was a coarse black neck.
The latter was promptly seized and
all that went with it was removed 10
the police station for further investi-
cation.
From behind the mask appeared
the round fat face of an Alabama ne
gro, too full of fun to take the mat
ter seriously. "Ah, shore am jest as
poor as any of them Salvation Army
feeders" he explained to the sergeant,
"and ah shorely doan see why all
can't get a Christmas dinner TO my.
sell n family. Abs suttnly entitled
{ all the fixin's that goes with tn
day providin' ah can gather EN-" he
went or. Just how much he had gath.
cred by his original Christmas ideas
the police never found out. He was
willing to admit that he had already
gathered in enough to give his fam
lily a good Christmas, and such being
THE case he felt, that the day would
not be entirely bost even though h,
had to spend that particular day be
hind the bars Who, in his own heart
cannot but admit that perhaps the oc
icasiOn licensed the deed.
Strange are the ways by which
those who roam the wayside gathe
the wherewithal for the Christmas
celebrations. Not quite as appealing
but with certain touch of originate.
was the action of a quick-witted i
dividual who teIephoned to a larg,
store to send out a certain presen
at once, c. o. d., to an address in
good neighborhood, and have the bo!
bring change for 500. The address
being all right the boy was hurried!
dispatched with the parcel anc
change, and mounting the steps wal
met by an individual at the doorway
, who received both from him. A sec
ond later the boy was bowled over a.
the individual sprang down the steps
and disappeared in the darkness will
both the bundle and the change, Too
late the boy found out that the MAJ
had telephoned from a corner grocer,
) and then awaited the messenger or
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Dividends.
During the week the Hawaiian Agri
cultural Company paid a regular divid
end of 81 and a special dividend O
So, making a total, amount paid on Its
10000 outstanding shares of $4,000.