The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-04-23
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STREET TALK.

~ Ahf t. - A.
Your neighbor thinks / am helping ON the cir
culation Of the p. c. A., and he is not mistaken.
He says the mothers rushed home last Saturday
to see whether their daughters had read The p.
&, A; because the dear nlamas had been reading
the paper themselves down town, whilst shop
ping, and could not wait for their copy till they
got home. Everybody now wants the paper.
the children cry for il, although there are a few
old hunks, who try to fight shy. / dropped in
to see a pleasant man in Queen street, who always
gives me a kind word, and thought ! would try
stroke of business for your Office, so / asked him
for an ad. " You know ! like You. - he remarked
with n quiZzical expression Of his face. and n
twinkle in his eye " and like the paper YOU
write for, as the only live paper i'm the country,
but, here he raised up the outstretched thumb
of his right hand, and pressing the ball of IL
down firmly upon his desk, said, 81 am therei"
And so are a good many poor souls. They are in
a limbo Of financial seryitude, aud their daily
and nightly prayer is-Good Lord, deliver us
from Twelve per cent!
QUARANTINE.
/ cannot drop quarantine matters Just vet.
friend Of mine is wrathy aud with reason too
because he had to pay constable's fees when in
quarantine, and others were allowed 90 go in on
honor. He does not think there was any honor
or justice in such discrimination
Two equally respectable and well known
haoles were successfully quarantined IN the same
cottage. The first had to pay 81 n day for a
policeman on guard: and his successor was al
lowed to go in, and be left alone ON his honor. I
enquired of n sub-oflicial 10 explain the differ
ence. " Well, you see said he, looking around
cautiously; - No, / was "a prominent hand on
the kohala East India Coolie Memorial. and
some of our bosses are down on memorials. or
petitions of any kind. Whilst No. 2; is going TO
lay down a tramway for G. Brewer a. Co. Now
you have got about the color of It,"
SEEKING OFFICE.
AS l dropped in at lodgings on Richard-street
to see an old chum. rather run down at tba beeIa
| found him porting over the Civil Code.
Hello )! ~ said !, 90 preparing for the Hawaiian
Bar Jerusalem, no g" he exclaimed: "it's
the Hawaiian bar that's cooked my goose. at
two bits Il nip. I'm going into training for
a ministerial position. Cabinet changes will
soon be i'm order: and as in the glorious. eaole-
guarded land from which / hail, every mothers
son may hope TO be- a President: so. in these
happy isles amy haole may hope 10 be a minister;
even II he has been It shepherd-or n school
master
THE TREATY.
met a planter, in at the International; I
mean a practical planter, who had been on n Law
to windward, with his hoe in his hand. en-
quired about crops. Paintings about. PLAYED
out here: said he IN q muiiicd tone, keeping his
eyes on his platter, ms he shovelled in his beans:
I'm bound for FIJI, where lands cheap. and
niggers are plenty, and You can handle'em. as
you've n mind to. Old Claus and two or three
others, Will buy ont everything here, by and by:
and then You wont get anymore Treaty. AZ the
first go, Uncle Sam was u little soft on evanoel-
lied kaDakas, and all that sort of thing. and
was made 70 believe that there was n big lot OF
American tranps here like me: who had gone II
on the plant, and were going To take care of the
Highwyan rOost: but when all are dead broke
like myself, and all the kanakas are gone i'm ON
MOlokai, or provided with sand lots on the reef
Uncle Sam AIN Z a going TO make or renew any
treaty with inst "A San Francisco Supar Refinery
You may bet high on that. So I'm off for Fiji"