Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-17

wen, see you are HeF0 yet, eA-
claimed my "ennul buster" startling
me out OF the reverie / had fallen into
while standing at the corner OF Punch
bowl and Hotel streets, wondering
why the authorities didn't remove that
old dead stump of royal palm that
has stood in the middle of the side
walk since Tantalus used to be hole
in the ground, and / confided my
thoughts to my friend Of the Thomas
Square bench.
Remove it.! Not on your Paris
panel. Do you suppose this Territory
pays a man salary of four or five
hundred dollars month, and at the
same time he is holding, down pr.
vate job at Lord knows how much per,
to do such work as removing obstruc-
tons from the streets. He still holds
his fat Territorial job because his. sue
cessor has not been appointed yet.
He's lucky.> His time expired a long
time ago. Now, If the Governor only
had a private job he would be in the
same boat 1t is sort of public works
or works the public. Take your
choice. ~e. =
Thought that you was in such an
ALFRED hurry to get out of here. Kind
of find things little more interesting,
Ell! What do you think of the third
party any how? It's booming here.
There is only one thing that 1t lacks
and that is followers. 1t sure has
leaders enough, and it's progressive
ness is catching. Even the fish in the
harbor have got the fever and won't
bite. .',...s +.
Say, I talk right along at blue
streak, don't 1? Well, it's all right. /
have delegated myself to keep you
from getting that prosy feeling again,
and it is safe bet that you will
never want to go away from here af-
ter you get interested.
You don't happen to have another
cigar in your clothes, do you? Oh,
acquainted with this town. One thing
in favor of this place is that you can
get every thing that you want, pro-
viding that you are on. County at
torneys here go away for a number
of months, attending to private af-#
fairs. Supervisors say that they shall
not have their salary while they are
away, but they get it all the same. If
any official of the county wants an
auto he gets it after little pickering.
There is no doubt in the world that
If the foreman of the smoke at the
garbage burner wanted an auto so that
he could go round behind the inciner-I
ator to see if there was any lost mo-
z oh hn ALL hny n
trouble getting it. The Board of SUI
pervisors wants 500 a month clerk
now. They'll get him. The habit is
not quite as strong as the chewing
gum one, but it is getting there.
"I'll bet that you have not been out
to the Bishop Museum yet. You don't
want to miss seeing that, or, at least.
what is left of it. A Teller told me
that the other day couple of mod
ern ideals" in the latest attire for wo-
men visited the museum and as soon
as they entered the door all of the
inanimate human forms, such as We
nus, Mercury, LAGOON, and all the
rest of .em, jumped out of the sec
window, while Sappho faint
ed right on her perch. Still, what's
left it worth going to see.
Say, did you ever take notice of
all the foolish, meaningless things
your friends will say to you in one
day? Never did, did you? l get so
gol whizzled sick of it, especially in
the kind of weather we are having
now, that don't know what keeps me
from running amuck.
Hot weather is the stock in trade
of Hawaii; then why talk about it
when we are coming face to face with
a national calamity according to the