The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-03

reereation, is perfectly harmless, but the hour
was late it was rather dry amusement from the
first, and we proceeded to moisten, not the balls
or the cues, but ourselves with stimulating
drink. The short hours slid away rapidly then,
and not until daylight did We finally arrive at my
fathers gate, all in IA state of gross stupid
Ity. L need not say that my parents and dear
sisters reproaehed me only with the silence Of
grief. L soon ignored the wrong and shame OF
such conduct, and allowed myself to he drawn by
the amiable love of eonviviality into the habitual
use Of rum. Consequently 1 began TO mingle
with associates not only beneath my rank by
birth, but also below the standard of common
respectabiiity by habit. In the initiatory stage of
this horrible dissipation nv father died, and 1
succeeded 10 the title. power, and wealth OF a
Condo. From that day syeophants surrounded
me none endeavored nationally L. bring about
my reformation, and 1 drank more freely than
ever. Under the influence of liquor 1 was no
longer worthy of my august sires, but a profigate
and a spendthrift. Scarcely a year had elapsed
ere L found myself embarrassed financially.
Designing men took advantage of my condition,
and at once by f~attering my vanity and showing
a means of replenishing my depleted exchequer,
1 was induced by desperate councillors to COM
nit treason against my Sovereign. from whose
bountiful hand 1 had received, through my
father, all my honors, wealth, and sway. 1
raised a regiment. joined a pretender to the
throne, and plunged the country into an IN
holy war. AT first victory perehed upon
our banners, but my greatest enemy. drink,
clouded my brain, and in a general engagement,
through my fault, our forces were defeated, my
treachery avenged, myself made a prisoner, and
the SanGuiDaFV rahalIion cuhsfop{;aII- o,-olzl
Then came the cOnfiscation of my lands, the an
nulment OF my patent ,of n2bility, and, to COM
Plete my misery and ruin, my beloved sisters,
who, in their zeal to serve even their brothers.
unhallowed cause, had with my careless sanction
acted in the capacity of spies, were apprehended,
tried, convicted and-because they disdained to
ask for pardon-shot. would have been happy.
indeed, if such could have been my fate; but.
though sentenced to die, the sovereign I had so
w~antonly undertaken to overthrow committed
the just penalty of my crime to imprisonment
for life, and this Cuban fertilization was desig-
mated as the place of my lifelong ncarceration.'
He paused as if to catch his breath, and then
concluded:
"Oh, sir, drink<made me mad. I was not
true to myself when I INDUCED in the first
draught, and, by continuing to drink, 1 became
false to the world, my sovereign, nv neighbors
and my kin. To regain the prestige of wealth
that the use of liquor had taken from me, I
made lovely Queli, which unquestioningly re-
garded me as its protector and lord, the theatre
of war, blood and desolation."
He ceased to speak, and 1 addressed him some
consoling words, holding out the hope of par
don, but he only sobbed in reply, and I left him;
yet the lesson of his brief life has taught me to
shun and lonthe the intoxicating cup.