The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-07-29
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
ArteEnus We ards Brother.

The fgll1wina quaint letter from g gentleman
who processes - DC the brother Of the celebrated
-Irternus Yard. says al eastern exchange, reached
az the other day by regular mail, ana we give II
because il embraces 40 much OF the special kInd
# humor for which Artemus i 50 renowned
The whole family seem % b. laboring under i
..ry bad spell which i 4 disorder that, IN
their ease. however, seems - operate as disease
upDu certain oysters, IN producing = pearl where
- might only expect putridity
SnEacARCo, March II, 1855
To IRE Edytur Of the Sunday Tunes, v Z.
I years ago. while in Iudianopeles, i%njyania, l
wrote % ir. Prentiss, off the Looseyilie JurnIIf,
regarding the whereabouts Of my brother, Arty-
mU- WaII, IF boom ! have not heard sinst Re
was = b0i,
And vs ramed the Geld, together
hnppe as A Mackerai il Cashrneer Sox. There
was four Of us brothers. all bois. Thee fOlierlng
- a pedagog off our family. Our parents. OF
which thcre was 2, consisted Of our father and
mother, namely
Hammer and Erysipelas Ward. The latter (my
latherl was given heavily u Piugg tObacker, Of
which he chewed inccssintiy, though Billed Ba-
con done rair was hs best hold He was q man
that could not 90 long between drinks the kaInl
dfi not sredomina.. IN him, and o.. Hover took
him at the age Of sicksry. and after 2 dais sikness.
The following n applicable to has case
"oEull. o kum ~;s me"-s sEe.e
Af,er the old mans deth, our mother was left
vi,h the fonr bois aforesaid. u .chIz=, namely /.
EryBipelas (nlmed after father )
AItynis (the Ling List
Rodney and myself
OlonzC (named after oIonzo Of pizzaronean &C.
Iebrity.) .
Ny eldest brother, Fry, went into the wool
Uzzeness, while Rodney went out OrriggOne ter
rItory and Mbarked in the Fur trade. Fry did
VnrrIy NJ tho Wool and buGtgd bHt Rodney Is
still in the Far Gaining money.
Artymis, ~ the tender age of eleven, was sud
denly mist from hOam. In this konnexstin 1
would remark an old stcckin belongin 10 mother,
containing fore dollars in Oliver and fifty too
cents IN Hopper. disappeared about the same
time. There was a party Of awkrabats, of double
somerset prDcIiyitys, in our naburhOod L few days
prceyis. and by many 1t was supposed Artv had
been i~nviggled
ITO Ievr his "a and happy home
sands eyes. lands teeth brushes.
The .6nid i. all a stage,
The rest i lemon aud Vanlla-"-Jack spear.
At ali evinks | have never heern of him but
once. !. e., when | wrote 70 Mr.. Prentiss, who
didn't ANGER my letter, he bein engaged in trans
latin q French letter sent TO linn by SOosan Mon
day, a noted g~oFriller. of the femail gander. OFF
her more hereafter but Reren0Us on oar Mutton,
n the French have it. / heerd that my brother,
\. Ward, had bakum ritch, lie hayin been to
Salt Lick City, among the Moremen women, The
was aIIus TO the latter, even from q child,l and
that, moreover and above, he had got a shO of
wax figgersand nevertheless was perfectly dccaycd
with money in which event would remind him
81 sslH Ivet"-webb.
And as his absents cost me many tecrs, q car
ried auI the water and chopt aul the wood for
two years after his leving us,) and a. | ain his
only surviving berother in poor suckemstances
(Ery being rich and Rodney when last heerd
from was in q big contract for furnishing phine
toothed komes for the Confederate army, with his
he'd quarters in Richmund,) therefore L do think
Arty might come and see me. He is ever well
kome to III poor and happi hOam. Owe, owe,
brother if this shOod meet your l. think kindly
Of one who loves not wisely but too well but
I'VE, owe, deer Artymis do not try to shake me.
OLoNZo WARD.
Deer brother, don't ! don't go back onto me.
Why do | wepe 4 thee" %. W