The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-01-13

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stage, to compete with men and
women who have been brought up
to it, and who have made success by
lifetime Of hard work, will some
day realize to their sorrow that they
have failed to beat two. forty with q
three minute horse. The young
man who has been left fortune by
a dead father, who has worked
lifetime to accumulate riches, and
who changes from beer, that was
good enough for him before, to
champagne, and plenty of it, and
who can't find places enough to
spend money without sitting up all
night, and who finds old slcdgc and
peenucklc too tame and adopts draw
poker and faro, and who forget that
his sisters are splendid company,
and gets acquainted with quick girls
and buys them diamonds as big rs
pieces Of alum, will in few years be
walking OH his uppers, and having
fur cellars pinned on to linen ulsters
for winter, and he will wake up some
morning with the almightiest head
ache Oh record and come to the con-
clusion that trying to beat two.
forty with three minute horse
is what ais him. The sum.
mcr resort hotel proprietor who
fits up an old rookcry and fills
it with guests, who are seeking
comfort. and charges them Fifth
avenue prices for Bowcry accom-
mo1ations, will look at his empty
house the next year and say the
season is backward, and when the
guests do not come with the dog
days, he will suddenly scratch his
head and say he made fool of
himself last year in trying to beat
two-forty with three minute horse.
The whole-soulcd, good fellow,
everybody's friend, gets to drinking
too hard, and as he is healthy, he
gets an idea he can best whisky, a
game that SO many have tried and
failed. He keeps it up until his
nose gets red, his eyes blcared and
his voice shaky, and he has whisky
cough, and his friends try to reason
with him and get him to let up, but
he laughs at them with his good
natured laugh, and tells them that
he has got constitution like a horse,
and that nothing can hurt him, and
he asks them to take drink. Some
day he gets the jim jams, and all
his friends say, 81 told you So" and
they sit up nights with him and drive
away snakes, and just before he
dies it suddenly occurs to him that
he has been trying to beat two-forty
with a three minute horse. A man
who is poor and wants to live on the
fat Of the land, lnarries pretty
little, rich, woman, and begins to
squandcr her money, and when she
tries to persuade him to stop it, he
gets to treating her like dog, gets
worse and strikes her, and after a
while she gets enough of it and OBJ:
tains divorce, and marries man
who loves her, and don't want her
money, and she is happy, and her
former husband beeonliss dead beat
and drunkard, and would fain beg
for the refuse that drops from the
table of his former. wife, and when
he buttons his summer coat around
him OH winters night, and walks
around IL block for a wind pudding,
and looks into the windows and sees
the light Of the fire from the CRATE
of his former wifc's sitting-room, it
occurs to him that if he had not
attempted to beat two-forty with Il
three minute horse, he could have
been in there toasting his slippers
and drinking cider, and looking into
pair of eyes that would have al
ways looked their love for him, if he
had been contcnted with three
minute gait, but which eyes will
never look upon him again except
in pity. o, there are thousands OF
people who make mistake in trying
tobeat two.forty with three minute
horse, .|Nhf- III.