The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1880-01-07
Daraiiian Gazette.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY :, 1850.
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rnIrOsorurc rxppukn.-nr Q. ELLINGTON

Ii was on my way TO Saratoga, by way Of
boat. in the latter part Of the month Of Sep
iember. that l met the subject OF this sketch.
The season at the great watering place
was over. aud there were very few travellers.
After supper, toward nine o'clock in the even
inc, | took fancy 10 wander hound the lower
deck to take look 81 the machinery and
listen 10 the PLAYING OF not very tunetul
harp. Going forward, amidst maze Of mer-
chaudiSe Il every description. found myself
amouc the "SieeraSe or = deck pasSen-
gers. who. for very small fare, can take the
Journey 10 Albany. aud are allowed ~ sleep on
the boxes and bags in the forward part Of the
boat There were nearly a score Of persons,
about equally divided between German and
Irish, and they were almost all asleep. Turn
ing to come hack. my attention was arrested
hy man who was evidently one of the deck
passengers, but removed al some distance
from them He WAS seated on box near one
Of the lights and reading book He asked
me the time. and that led to quite lengthy
conversation between us, which, leaving out
nv questions and much that Is irrelevant, lei
ne epilo,nize thus;
Yes, SIR, I'm peidler-I might say, sir
= travelling peidler; for I'm ere to-day, and
NJ one knows where tomorrow. You thlnb
I'm a Jew. perhaps, because You hnd most
pedil0rs who come 10 your house 10 be Jews
Well. you are only partly right was horn
in England: my mother was q JeweSS, my
father was an Englishman; and, as you see.
have what 'umoToRs friend o mine calls,
AN 'Ebraic cas-. @ beauty. and, rs YOU ave
ears 10 ear, yoU may detect, once IN while,
but not hOiien. that my haiohes are not quite
regular. Always been peddlers Bless You,
l should 'ope not. Ny father were trades
man in the old country. he kept kind Of
notion store, where you could buy most any
thing and heveryIhing. We We're not by any
means well-to-do. It's poor country 10 rise
in, as you know, sir. You've got 10 be born
risen. We all had 10 work, my mother and
my brother iwlio 20; tired Of the ole thing
and ran hof 10 HAusiralia. and We never
heerd from him sinoel, aud ran of errands,
and carried bundles, and made myself, as the
sayin' goes, generally useful Ny father
WAS not oollese-bred mAn, but he was Il
g,eat reader. he read hanyshing and hevery-
thing all the time he could spare; and, be-
tween ne and you, sir. he were much better
fitted 10 keep Z book-ssall than notion store,
q which be didn't ave much E7tS5'., anyhow.
BE vas quiet man. wrapped hup in Is own
thoughts, though very gentle and kind and
good 10 all about i'm. He taught NE 10 read,
which ! learned 70 90 quite quick, and l would
ave been IS grea; reader rs he If l had had
the chance, but l didn't
"Wel,. my father died, and that brought
about terrible changes. Ny mother took-on
awful, fer. you see. she used to look up 10
mm-he bein' bookish man, and she having
little learnn' herSeif-and she used 10 think
al i'm SIS : sooperior creature But aside
from that he w2s very good 2nd . very Iowa
be man, She took 70 drinkin' TOO much to
drown her sOrreT, and II year she died. So,
there was, AZ twenty years Of sge. left alone,
for, strange - say, 1 sdnt hanother relative
IN the world excep. my brother, and didn't
know where he was. l came 10 this country
thinkin'. and rightly. It was the place 10 make
about 81 .O50l I went West. l opened a no
ZION store IN liIiie city, and siaid there for
fifteen yearS. I 'sd no vices 10 speak OF,
saved my money, and 81 the end of that lime
] was wCTth . matter Of 5000.
Well, sir, 1 think you'll bear me hout in
one hasSe-tion, and that Is, that the Jews, as
class, are NOT speculative race; they ma Ike
their money by and work and sayiu' what
they make. But remember Tn not full
blOoted Jew-people must take ne as the
Englishzlsa does his hzle-'slf and 'alf So,
yOu see. when / EoI 50 much money saved up,
though I'd been thrifty and saving slI the
while, ! found The American fever for Specu-
lalion growing upon me. saw people In
vts.In' in this. zE1 inyestiR' IN th2i, and dOub-
ling, and tTebling their money, and why
shouldn't L As ! always kept ny mouth
pretty close, 10 oRs knew what / was worth,
CT, indeed, thai Was worth anything, for ny
store WAS very small affair But 50 soon as
l signiEe3 desire to invest | had hoffars
from al quarters, and for ST sorts Of henter-
- l. = I
$500 into 5 mining affair which hutteriy
failed, and !, with LOT more Of poor fellows,
lost all. Then wasn't 1 discouraged, l fol-
lowed ny mothers hexample, and gave way
10 drink Tor TINE, but sd some Of nv
fathers sense, snd soou saw thai wasn't the
thing, and I stoppei-clsan short hof al
ways liked 10 travel, 50 l sold out NY store
and s0ok 10 ps3iling II the notion and cheap
dress goods line.
q went farther ont West, goin' as far as
California, thoogh didn't walk, Of course,
over the plains. have been in Dearly every
Safe n the West and South and all the Eas-
Tern States several ZINES over"
ADi Bow2" I interrupted.
= an On ny way TO the northwestern coz
n=r Of the State
: In the notion line YET ?"
"oh, 10, sir. I've something that catches
me people better
He displayed 70 ne his b4ska.. Ii was
Eils,d with that giittsEing kind OF cheap jewelry
sd By the nauE stree. vendors On Broadway,
EiE1h zTsnUe ard tie Bovery.
Yes, 81" hs continued, looking with an
s1-1iIng eye al the snowy mss, that's what
takes EN- nowadays, especially the win
Dsn- Is the profits lzrge2 Well, let ne
show yol. Tbass imitation diamond studs
o0et : cent and > half : piece; they retail foE
twenty-five csaEs. These Jet crosses are >
os1t and : half > piso=; they retail for twenty
i've csuss- Ladies and gardeners seis, dis-
u1o3-iEil2t5o1 q o01rss-braasiuias AMI
ErEsr-Ings cast al the way from 81 10 81
gTuss, and sci for fron twenty-five 10 fifty
carts each In the South, among the negroes,
l ave hottsa and hoftsn got dollar for Sc.
thai didn't cSs1 ne hover four cenis. And
fzcto-y girls down EzsE vii SONAR ave isT-
SIS thzn foo5, though soue Of 'em ara pretty
22r1 ani yCa can't fo9l 'ela vary easy.
NJ Do5s q Iife2 Oh, sir, It's quite sin
PIE Tou see hamilton i the bzne hof nzu-
Ra1, ESPECIALLY hin this ogrEtEy. Is long
- you'rs bsntlti0us yeu can't IL Apply.
THAT'S ~ 6ocsrl1s Whsl I ~zs wo-kin' and
szvin' and TRIM 70 make 50 much l wasn't
'zQpy, bo1 n0E an 1 don't bother about
tie fE-Urs- l En4keS : good livin' n pleas
All way an il s1i.s ne You're locking 81
shs boIss hare, and thinkin' i can't IL very
pleasant Vel, IT'S al n custom Lay az
q Cd hlz-kat down ere, and III be Is con-
forzzhls Is F0u Il To1r s1sle-roou tonight
Ny eth, thank Heaven, Is good OF course
Szlk great deal; szt good. sleep god
ave Il desire for fn= cloih=s- With book
and pipe | cza b eo1tsoi- l dat drink Il