The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-01-25

continents. r. Bulletin.
T.. De WrTr TALNAGE has condensed in a nut
she'll u vast amount of human naturo aEd humaH
characteristics.
We reproduce from his pen a little sketch
quite Gpropos to the times, which it will d. nOno
of us any harm TO ponder
cUTBEHlNp.
"SCENE A crisp morning Carriage with spin.
ming wheels, whose spokes glissen like ~splinters of
the sun. Roam horse, aecked with foam, bending
in TO the bit, his polished feet drumming the pave
ment in challenge of any horse that thinks he can
go as fast. Two boys running TO get on the back
of the carriage. One Of them. with quick spring,
succeeds. The other leaps, but fails, and falls on
the part of the body where IL Is most appropriate
to fall. No sooner has he struck the ground than
he shouts TO the driver Of the carriage, Ger BE-
HINDr
Human nature the same in boy as q man. All
running to gain the vehicle OF success. Some are
spry. and gain that for which they strive. Others
are slow, and tumble down they who fall crying
out against those who mount, Cur DEHINDr
"A political oalce rolls past. A multitude spring
to their feet, and the race 10 in. Only one of all
the number reaches that for which he runs. No
sooner does he gain the prize, and begin 10 wipe
the sweat from his brow, and think how grand a
thing it is to ride in popular preferment, than the
disappointed candidates cry ont: 'Incompetencyi
Stupidity! Fraud! Now let the newspapers aud
platforms of the country Cur BEHrND!
"There is q golden chariot OF wealth rolling down
the street. A thousand people are trying 10 catch
il. They run. They jostle. They tread on each
other. Push, and pull, and tugl Those talk most
against riches who cannot get them. Clear tho
track for the racersl" One of the thousand reaches
the golden prize, and mounts. Forthwith the air
is full of cries Got 1t by fraudl Shoddyi
Petroleum aristocracyi His father was n rag
picker! His mother was a washerwomani knew
him when he blackened his own sboesl Pitch him
off the back part OF the golden chariot! Cat De-
hind! Cd behindP
alt is strange that there should be any rivalries
among ministers Of religion, when there is so mnch
room for all to work. But in some things they are
much like other people. Like all other classes Of
men, they have one liver apiece, and here and there
one OF them a spleen. In all cases the epigastric
region is higher up than the hypogastric, save IN
the act of turning somerset. Like others, they eat
three times a day when they can get anything 10
eat. Besides this, II sometimes happens that we
find them racing for some professional chair or
pulpit. They run well-neck and n~eck-while
churches look on and wonder whether II will be
Dexter or the American Girl Rowels plunge
deep, and fierce is the cry, Go longi Go 'longP
The privilege of preaching the gospel to the poor
on FIVE thousand dollars a year is enough TO make
q tight race anywhere. But only one mounts the
coveted place aud forthwith the cry goes up In
CONSIDERATIONS and synods: Unfit for the placei
Can't preach! Unsound In the faith Now is your
chance, o conferences and presbyteries, TO Cur BE-
HINDp
:. A rs- -rn,,au naonaa Ta oil aInnfra InnuSw
He that says he don't, lies. A canting man, who
told me he had no admiration for anything earthly,
used, instead Of listening to the sermon, 20 keep
sauinting over toward the pew where sat Squire
parterre or human cheek, we must admire II,
whether we will or not. While we are deciding
whether we had better take that dahlia, the dablia
takes us. A star does not ask the astronomer TO
admire it but Just winks at him, and he surrenders.
with all his telescopes. This fair woman in society
has many satellites. The boys all run for this prize.
One Of them. not having read enough novels TO
learn that ugliness is more desirable than beauty,
wins her. The cry is up She paintsl Looks
well ; but she knOwsit. Good shape butt wonder
what is the price of cottonl Won't she make him
stand around! Practically worth more than black
eyes! Fool TO marry a viragoP
In many eyes success is a crime. u do not like
YOU said the snowflake to the snowbird. 'Whyp
said the snowbird. Because said the snowflake,
&. you are going up. and / am going dounV
We have to state that the man in the carriage on
the crisp morning. though he had a long lash-whip.
with winch ne cOul0 nave mace the climbing boy
yell most Justify, did not cud behind. He was an
old man in the corner of his mouth a smile, which
was always as ready to play as a kitten that watches
tor some one with a string to offer the slightest in
ucement He heard the shout in the rear, and
said: Good morning. my son. That is right;
climb over and sit by me. Here are the reins
take hold. and drive. Was a boy myself once, and
| know what tickles youngsters
THANK God there are so many Ia the world that
never cut behind but are ready TO give "A fellow
a ride whenever be wants it. Here is a young man,
clerk in a store. He has small wages, and a mother
to take care of. For ten years he struggles 10 get
a higher place. The first Of January comes.
the head Of the commercial house looks round
says, Trying to get up. are your And by the
time three more years have passed the boy sits
beside the old man, who hands over the reins.
and says, Drive! for the old merchant knew what
would tickle the yOungster. Jonathan Goodhne
a boy behind the counter but his employer
gave him a ride. and London, Canton, and Calcutta
heard the scratch Of his pen. Lenox, Grinnell, and
the A~spinwalls carried many young men a mile on
the high road Of prosperity.
There are hundreds OF people whose chief joys
10 help others on. Now it is a mile. now a good
word. now ten dollars. May such a kind man al
ways have a carriage to ride in and Il horse nottoo
skittishi As he goes down the bill OF life. may the
breeching-strap be strong enough to bold back tho
Ioadl
when he has ridden TO the end Of the earthly
road, he will have plenty Of friends TO help him
lnhitch and assist him out of the carriage. On that
night il will be pleasant TO hang up the whip
with which he drove the enterprises of a lifetime,
and feel that with it he never cut behind at those
were struggling"
New YORK, Jan. TN the Oyer and Termincr