The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-12
OUIDA AND DlSRAELT.
The High Priestess and High Priest
of Flunkydom.
Bonn PIatt's Chapter GA Grotesaus
Gig WOrship-HOVV We Insult
our Ancestors Where
20 Hunt Saobs.

waters Of the channel to agree upon some
thing so that might cross to France with
out suffering more torture than the law al
lows vas given 90 Ennch delaT &C Calais
as wall as Dover, for had co1ae to realize
that there WIS more GeasiciznesS Ia a given
space On that channel than on aDy other
water knawn to humanity.
The boats are small 81 size, but possessed
Of capacity to torture far ahead Of Eng
lands huge lsviathans, whose thunder shakes
the earth, or words to that effect. chan
mel steamer has six distinct motions, any
one OF which Is enough TO have silenced the
ancient mariner. There Is q forward and
back motion, then from back to forward.
then one from right to left, then. from left
to right, then one up and down motion that
is dreadful, especially the down, when the
attraction of gravitation seems to leave one
with the most awful sensation Of following
the floor into utter nothinguess. There are
some very reliable people who insist on
another motion that IS combination of all
the others. I never reached that, being
quite insensible before that impossible con-
dition ia reached
That proposed tunnel greatly interested
me, although I never expect to cross the
channel again A memory of the past and
regard for humanity, gave me motive for
che interest, and was Disguised with those
epauletted stupidities that found in the
proposed tunnel danger to England. That
. dark, narrow hole. one piece of artillery
could easily defend and an ounce of dyna-
mite destroy, could, by any possibility be
made danger of, is as absurd as to assert
that in the channels sea-sickness lies Eng
lands safety.
However, was not waiting to have the
tunnel constructed, but for time when tide
and current and winds should all agree, that
might sail over without dying outright
The Dover hotel in which found myself
was a common enough looking affair, but
possessed of comforts, and read novels, and
gazed idly around me at the badly dressed
women and worse dressed men, in and out
Of uniforms, when my attention was at
sracted by woman some forty years OF
age, who was gorgeously attired, and
seemed in her manner to feel that she was
somebody, and anxious to impress others
with thSt fact. She was tall, well set up,
with England's limestone formation IA the
way Of bones, we'll covered with adipose,
rather coarse in tissue, garnished with light
blue eyes, and an abundance of yellow hair.
There was something vulgar in this
Woman's appearance VIXEN quiet, and it be-
came oppressive when she moved, and that
was nearly all the time. She seemed to
court observation and at the same time de-
sPise it
cannot put in words precisely the very
unpleasant impression this loudly dressed
woman caused the locker on, but Ter dress
aud manner we're the essence OF bad taste
and vulgarity. She attracted one, how
ever, and was not surprised when friend
told NE that this bumptious. person was
acne other than Ouida, the we'll known
novelist.
I regretted the information came as this
strange creature passed from my view for
ever, as could have Hghtened the bore of
my waiting, by studying pen driver whose
writings are certainly remarkable, and
whose influence in my own land is phenome-
nal
OuidA Is the high priestess Of F1unky-
dom, and the great mass of those sho minis
ters to are free born Americans whose social
and physical structures are based on a be-
lief In equality and honor to honest toll.
The late Disraeli, "me Lord Beaconsfleld, y
was the high priest. And the power of
this sort of church may be appreciated
when we remember that he was poor Jew,
who sold his brilliant talents to the moneyed
AristOeracy OF England.
There "a no part of the world, in which
thEs gig-worship, as Carlyle calls it, is Sc
grostesQue and contemplate az with US
Descendants of laborers, we are a nation Of
shop-keepers, with no more claim 70 gig-lift
that comes Of being well born, as they cal
It, than we have to common sense. There :
something pitiful and mean III our sji,sexI
efforts to appear other than what vsg are. 70
The ambition is nsiss 80. z.sSid the effort in
sIsSsVeg an Insult to our ancestors.
Since the great French revolution the aris
tocracy have been driven out of their nativ
lands, but they never willingly emigrat'
They have too pleasant time at home.
few younger sons, convicted of crime, weT
sent with other convicts, to Virginia, tina
was for time penal colony. With thi
nxesption the great mass that conquered
continent, and set up the great republic
we're Iaborers, and we should be proud {
= the fact f 5fEf4
Yves not, am grieved to say. Lama
tine told NE thas were he hunting snobs an
dunky worshippers of the vilest sort, /
would go among the American colony ;
Paris. He thought, and so asserted, tn;
they were exceptions TO the great mass I
zobIe descendants of heroic sires. He WI
! mistaken; they fairly represented our PEI
pie in that respect. There is not a man {
woman among US who is not eager to bum
his or her empty skull upon tho floor
presence Of @ lord.
was one Of a crowd invited by Mr.
Dahlgren, of Washington, to meet an En-
nsh prince--T have forgotten which one
and it nade me sick to see the hungrv-eyt
wornea look at the young man, as il the
wished 10 eat him, while senator's aud mer
hers Of the cabinet addressed the poor bC
with bated breath.
The violence we do titles comes of this i
aate snobbery. No man is content Wi
plain Mr., and the crop of colonies, judge
governors is second only TO agriculture Pr
ducts, that We are assured underlie our pre-
perity, as a people. OF course, under tt
state Of fact, Ouida, who deals only wi
elegant and titled people, is a great favorit
The high priestess is not without powe
Her descriptive faculty is great, and s.
possesses certain dramatic instincts tbs