Kuokoa Home Rula, Volume VI, Number 47, 20 November 1908 — Our English Items. [ARTICLE]

Our English Items.

A probable Democratic candidatc for dclcgatc to C— g-~s has already loomed up above tlie castern hori/.on Every one is ;\t liberty to make a guess.

I£nter yc in at thc strait gate; [or vvide is the g'ate and Broml is the way that leadeth to dcstruc':ion." (Mat. 7:13. ) The Home Rulers took the !h-o,irf W ay anel wcre ied to defeat. Ha! ha! ha!

Monsieur Dent (Kaniho) representative-elect from Kohala no doubt will deliver Some line parliamentary talks for the edification of new members. Kaniho will give them some hot stuffs from a Home Rule stand point.

fhe moveable picture-man before the election day, and now a moveable representative-elect from the fourth district will show the present Territorial administration how to run the l'atfd system here on an improved method on paper.

If McCandless or Notley will lake tne trouble of going to Washington and do some fighting there among the Congressmen to give the black-eye to Knhio, and to Governor Frear the belly aehe, that would be a fine thing. Why not try the experiment?

We learned from good authority that the Bill introduced by Delegate Kuhio in Congress about four years ago for an appropriation of $250,000 for Queen Liliuokalani, was an unapproved pieee of work. W r e'll soon hear something drop at Washington.

Last Saturday night our late comrades in arms, the Laborites, had a meeting somewhere at Kapalama, to discuss the means and ways of organizing precinct clubs throughpyt the Territory. Where is all that 1,500 strong on Wahoo? None before; but, now; not now; but by and bye.

It thetwo (royal) deaths in the City ol Peking, one following another within a very small • space of time, had occurred here in Honolulu, there would be a wild confusion o£ uproars all around Honolulu. Plague! Plague! Suspicious deaths here in Honolulu have always been traced to plague.

Did you ever read Joseph Smith's translation of verse 16, Phapter 10 of the Gospel oi Matthew (King JamesI ranslation)? Well, Mr. Smith's rendering of that passage was as follows: "Be ye therefore wise scrvants (not serpents or snakes) and harmless as doves." Kill the snakes, Home Rulers, and be wise scrvants and harmless as doves!

Unless the leaders of the Home Hule Party go to work with hearty good wills and fix primary nest in every precinct throughout the land, the other egg hunters will give thsm the belly aehe every time, It is all right cnough to hypnolize the peopie with your blow-hard arguments, but that will nol last !ong. Pnp-eom is the beststuff for the chicks.

The olhei" day a white man wanted to know something abotit the name liaalilio, the bearer of whieh is W. P. Jerrett, the Sheriff-clect of the City and County of Honolulu. For the imformalion ol the inquisitive man, we would say, that Haalilio war, an alii, (ehiel) and he was one qf the ihree 'Commissioners appoinieel by King Kamehameha 111 to obtain a guarantee of the indepetidence of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

We are told that Kuhunaisin was at (a) premium during the last campaing, and on election day, it was raised to 96 Degrees above the boiling point (Fahrenheit).- The man made good business that time. Kahuna ean'i; get along with his mystic iunctions with out awa (piper methisticum) root: henee, the rush for the stuff. It is said, that those candidates who gave the Kahunu the big thumps on the tips of their noses with their little fir.gers quivering in the air, were all doomed to deteat.

We sce that all tiie Japanese papers in the Territory, perhaps with the exception ol one or iwo, strongly agitating for })igher wages to he paid by thp pUnters tq tl»e weatern jabor. We have no kiok against such agitation. That's purely a malter heLween eapiLal and labor. We ourseJves did preach some stirring arguments for higher wages for unskilled labor in county works, and we got the goose egg lor our trouble. What we wish to ask our fellow patriots is this: Suppos'n t.he planters would not heed your pleadings, v\ r hat are you going to do about it; or, if in nbout two or j;hree mpnths from date, myriads ol laborers from the eastem extremity o[ the globe flooded the labor market here in Hawaii, what steps will you talce to protect your [ellow countrymen'a interests? . We hope you will, pei'elnnoo, a'n'h* some good solid answcrs for thc aforesaid qucrii-i.

We leameel that ai a eenain plaee in uppei Kalihi, eighty-two persons ineludin K all shades and color S of eandidates in thc last election, buricd their hatchets, cxcepting their pocket-knives } and all made "'aikanes," stuffed with hulumanus." was on last Sunday afternoun. The Republican Candidates, oleeieel or non-elected, enjoyed immcnsely the luau [rom a Dcmocratie nmwr. Old Hawaiians have a chant as follows: li hea i ke kanaka e komo maloko E hanai ai a hewa e ka waha, Kia no ka uku lā, o ka leo, Invite the guest to enter, Feed him till he opens his mouth His secrets, shall be our reward. Sometimes ago we read in one of the Honolulu daily papers a well written articlefrom the facilepen of Mr. Leopold G. Blackman of Aliiolani College on, "The Pacifjc; the most explored and least known region of the Globe,"in whieh the writer referred to a u geological theory" pointing out that our beautiful satellite—the moon —was aslice pieced off by ccntrifugal (orce from the U>rrd jirma that was onee in the Pacific oeean, or in other words, that Queen Luna, was onee a part or parcel of Mother Earth. Well; old Hawaiians have traditions relating Lo Hinahanaiakamalama, who was afterwards known as. Lono-muku. These traditions, while they differ in certain minute derails, yet all agree in īhemain that Lono-muku lady who took flight from the terrestrial globe into the heavens and heeame the Queen of the night, And because her husband caught hold of one of her legs and pulled it away from her body, was she then called muku (mutilated). Because-she took her flight in the night o£ Lono, she was also called Lono; henee the name: Lonomuku.