The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-04-28
Editor Of the Ha,caiian Gazette-Deor Sir.
SAM'L n. CASTLE.

Editor Of tie Ha,oaiidn Gazette-Dear Sir:
A few individuals, if they only set about
it, are capable of making great deal of noise.
Ihave known Two or three cats too make such
din in the night time, that one who did not
know the nature of the animal, would con-
| lecture that there were at least a thousand
of them, bowling to the full extent of each
individual capacity. So, when listening to
the rawlings of individuals, or small eoteries,
on some fayorte topic of public policy, 1
have thought that it must be the voice of
the whole community, and have felt myself
aggrieved, from mere sympathy created by
the din, as person will partake of the en-
thusiasm of an individual or a crowd, when
such individual or crowd is really in earnest.
Then, l have gone TO my cool friend, who
never gets excited, and communicated to him
my fears. He invariably meets me with a
plying smile, and requests to know where
got my information. My reply, at first, is
Everybody says sou Again he smiles, and
tells me that am mistaken; everybody does
not say so-he does not, for one,-and he
asks me again who told me- | answer him
that no one told me, personally, but l heard
so-and-so, and sO-sndso, and so-and-so, say
so, at the; and that l further heard
that the whole town is excited about it, and
l am afraid that serious difficulty may arise
out of it Ny cool friend here smiles again,
and, # possible his smile is more pitying
than before. "My dear fellow" says be,
take my advice, and don't listen TO those
people, because you will always be misled
by them. You know it is their business, as
well as their great pleasure, to be constantly |
excited themselves, and to try to excite |
Others, upon matters which really do not |
affect them, and will injure no one" "But," |
1 say, "this is really serious; the whole |
town is alive with it. Lookl there goes
see how he is shaking his |
head. I'll bet he is going to leave on the
first vessel, unable longer TO suffer the petty |
annoyances to which he is subjected by a
r." My friend, who is not only
very cool, but exceedingly patient with me,
is about to further quiet my fears, when the
earnest parsonage suddenly pauses in his
rather rapid career, wheels upon his heel,
and approaches us-for my friend is also his
rather, he bears much, fear,
with both of us. He is still shaking his
head, and oh how Notwithstanding, as if
full of something of great importance to
struggling humanity. He pantingly lays his
hand upon the shoulder of my friend, and
feelingly asks him if he has heard the news,
and proceeds Immediately with half whis-
pering and frightened calculations: ats
. sir scandalous It's dangerous, sir!
dangerous! can't stand it, sir! Shameful!
shameful I'm going to i" But"
ays my friend, "What is it, Mr.. -? II
ion't understand you. Has any one taken
my honey out Of your hive? or, perhaps,
neddled with your bees 81 sob, no.-not
hat," says he. "It's not that, sir: It's the
country, sir the country going to ruin, sir !
You may suffer it, if you like. can't, sir
10, sir I'm going to le-." Here gentle
nan walks up who is known to be in the mar
ret for large assortment of general merchan-
Use, whereupon the earnest man, who, if
lie is alive to anything, is alive to a trade, i'm
nediately leaves my friend and button-ho
be trader, and producing the order-book,
which he always carries ready to jot down
ny orders he may receive, forgets his wrongs,
nd, calculating with the same vehemence.
D the same tone, "First-rate article, sir nv
wn importation, sir selected it myself, sirl
nd very cheap, sir the cheapest and best in
own." and thus leaves the public bushes to
ttend to his own, most efficiently say to
ny friend, rather exultingly, 81 should think
GU would believe me, now, as have the
Of the earnest man to substantive
~ assertion" He replies that the views .
his acquaintance, outside Of trade are I
OF always sound, and that the less {
stem to the vaporings of those parties, the
etter it will be for my peace of mind, and
ven intimates that he has known weak
inded persons Gt isn't possible that he !
eant to class me with them), who became
ute insane and troublesome, merely from a
Eer-anxiety about other peoples affairs, :.