Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 213, 11 June 1891 — A TEMPORARY ESTRANGEMENT. [ARTICLE]

A TEMPORARY ESTRANGEMENT.

V,"o rej:ret that th i re \vas a to:nporai v niisunderstancling V)etween His Kxeellency H. A. \Videmann and Ka Leo. We now take pleasnre"iti confessing that we were nr>taken in Mr. Widemann and the fault of a two hasty judgenient was all our own. We feel that we have raade some slighting and even contemptuous remarks that i_ay have deeply wounded the feeling of our friends, for such we ean now eall him .again in spite of pa>t uhplt'asaiit;MesSv ai»d whieh we now c;ive all the world to wipe froni the page< of Ka Lko. But printer's inkj like the wages of sin, cai)iiot be wiped out. AH we ean do is to say that we are sorry anu' never again wiM we sling a slur or c.ast a bāse insiouation at the Venerable head of one of the best and truest of men. | Ever since Mr. Widemann bēeame a Hawaiian by marriage he has never concealed the fact that he is a true 1n 1890 he stood in|psiilst Bush- \ Wilcox crowd and 1 elected a f noble for the term six years. In ( the Legislature "h?. exc6eded the I msst sanguine expectations. He spoke with fiery eloquence on the : 'gjiiat question of turning the ras- . cals out. The pictures is still v:vid in our mind's eye of the honorable gentleman leaniug forward and banging his desk: as he hoarsly demanded of the recreant (Himniins' Cabinet why they sat tlicre doing nothing, why ctidn't they fulfill their pledges • to the I party, &c. i When our friend was appointed we felt confident that we would noj longer cherish the reform vipers i in our political bosom v to use a figure of rhetoric. Bat alas, no! sooner was he in the ministry that like his prodecessors he was petrified by the Gorgon's head of iniiuenee. We will pause here to explam to the r«ader that we .are well up in Latin and Greek and ancient mythology. Medusa was a lady with a very stnking personal appearance. It is well known ini countrv districts that horse-hairs will turn iuto worms if left in rain-wateT in the sun for a sufficient time. Medusa and her sisters 1 u.-e to go trolloping up and down a i certain eieek in .their neighborhood gathering clams and bathing in the st.ignant pools along the stream. Then the} T would lie down in the Fiinshine in a state of nature aml go to sleep. Oqe day on awaking they were surprised and annayed to fmd their scalps verv 'tcnder to the touch andeach hair somewhat enlarged. This prwess went on to their growing consternntiQn and diegust till eaeh hair was as big as a lead poneii with a wel! developed head * pair of wicked looking: eye® *iid forked tpngue and a pair of patient perfotated, poisoQ g!ands. Souic of the snakes

' outgrew thē>r fe!lows and became 1 asbigas canes and would twine Uhemselves Jovingly around their T mistress' neek. The effect on the ; whole was rather bizzare and uncannv. The yoiuig ~ladies were | very niueh distressed uniil the idea |occurred to them toopen a dime jmuseum, It tnight have heen a creat success, b\st for one thing; when the granger eame in exj>ecting to see a Caucasian lady and ! t'ne two-headed calf and suddenly confronted Medusa' with her rej markab!e head of hairj he was jparalized, a stony stare catueover. | his face, and the petrifying inflaj enee spread to his legs and he never moved again. He was turned into stone representation of the jum-jains. This rendered the show unpopu!ar. . Perseus was an amateur photographer of the instantaneous kind who delighted in making pictures of men and animals representing i them paralized in the a<?t. He heard of Medusa and his fertile brain conceived the idea of eonstruoting a nēw and improved camera, not to produce pietures. but statuary. He succeded in »cutting of the ladies head by the aid of a pair of goggles and a bug-juice to steady his nerves. He arranged it in box fitted with an i instantaneous shutter and a syringe -action, and was rea*ly for business. |Je would carefuliy pose a group efhis friends in various artistic attitudes and bid them ] gaze steadily at the button and wink if they wished. Then he would spring the infernal maehine ,on them and ruetamorphose the lot in the. twinkling of an eye into plaster of Paris. In this way he made in a short time a large eollecti@n of life like statuary. So in Hawaii talkers of the party as as they reach the ministry are and forever silenced by a glimpse of the Medusa-head of tl influence" with her tangled serpent-hair of U puli." We felt bad to see men of our own party and of our own making, as it were, serving the enemy like a hireling and sending publ?e work to the Advertiser, the moi3th-pīeee of the tl reform." We couJd not refrain from making some exclama-i tions. !

But we were inistaken, Mr. Widemann is recovering from the inf!uence of the baneful eye. He sent a "By Authority" advertisement to Ka Leo. How he had the nerve to do it, we can't imagine. Don't he know that he will get the whole 4k reform" do\vn on him. Mr. Widcmanu don't spoil all your fair young prospectß and stainless reputation by patronizing the BushWilcox cr@wd. It wiīF do about election timt;, but as a nānister it will hurt voa. Wo b(&eech yoii. uon'l ii\iri vours«-lf e.n oiir accourlt. We are satisfied now, thar you iiiean well. So iion't ruin vourself by getting the Adverti.ser crowd down on vou.