The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-09
ONE DRAMATIC STAR.
06nnR iAtt'e Memory ofsclare Morris
81 Her Early Girlhood
Nurse Girl In q Calico Gown and
Gray Shawl at SIxteen-A stage
Triumph and q Home
on the Hudson

fssure II t&ka
Ihad sought the place for the purpose Of
Fstuxning Maj Gen. Robert E. Schenck to
Ahe Senate Of the United States That
failed in the first days of the session, and
from that out until the last hour Of the two
years. session had nothing to do Of bust
The State house at Columbus resembles a
brick Eurmounted by an inverted teacup. 1t
e heavy to the eye, irritating to the taste,
and the home Of vitiated air and malaria.
The men who designed, if may use that
word, the State house had designs on human
life. There was q dim fogmistical idea of
the pyramids IN their minds, and so they
located the two chambers within quarry
Of thick stone walls got at by steps that go
up and steps that go down, and dim lit
rotunda and corridors that run all over
town, as child would express it, and when
gained found each to be an unventilated
receptacle Of tobacco tainted and whisky
poisoned breath.
Ventilation and light were not the strong
holds of the foggy Drained designer of State
houses and black holes Of Calcutta. When
an honorable solon sought to catch the eye
Of the speaker he caught a glare from side
speak he took in volumes of second hand air,
enough to kill cats.
I said 1 had no business to attend to, and
certainly no pleasure in the place The
speaker kindly offered me choice of com
tnittees, and the chairmanshiP thereof. But
made response that was not there to aid
legislation, but to obstruct the same, and
he would oblige by leaving me off all the
committees. BE did so with alacrity. He
had, Is usual, more claimants than places,
ezd saw at once that was a most sensible
ksIlow. s
The trouble with this blessed free land Of
ours mainly is too much government.
had heard that remark frequently, but did
not appreciate its full meaning until found
myself solon from Logan, instructed by
my patriotic constituency to return Robert
q. Schenck TO the senate and procure the
passage of dog Law for the better preserVaS
bon of sheep.
I sustained this last proposition with
some reluctance, for my respect for human
nature q based mainly on its love for dogs,
the noblest animal given us for association
and example.
Law Is public opinion reduced to print and
strengthened by penalty by the govern
sanction of public opinion. I found my
brother solons impressed with the belief that
bubble opinion had nothing to do with it,
hnd all that was necessary was ''be it en-
acted, +" and the result is whole volumes of
laws, fetching all law In contempt made
q list Of the bills introduced-many Of
them passed, but the great majority were so
absurd that even the soIons, bent on much
voted thean down. must publish their list,
some day, in laughable illustration of our
legislation, or rather the popular superstition
as to what legislation means.
Ny brother lawmakers were generally of
the sort we make magistrates and county
commissioners OF, with number of agricul-
BURIAL casualties in the legislature, but all
very ignorant and very cunning s. s. g.
In representative governments the repre-
sentative represents, and we have cheapened
the suffrage until vicious ignorance holds
control
Having no business and much dyspepsia, /
occupied my time and power of speech in
kidicule of measures offered. In this way I
managed to become, from the start almost,
n very unpopular member. This was
amusingly illustrated one day, when shy
him in getting a bill OF his through the
House. The request was so strange that
responded: Certainly; fetch me your papers
and viii make an argument in behalf of
your measure"
s.Heavens no, Colonel" he exclaimed, in
horror, ''that Is not the way.n
b, 'eWhat is the way, thenF'
MesyVeIl, Colonel, don't get mad; but, you
from aeonly way the jackasses can get even
o5;tor rsais to vote agin you. Now, when
Ines up, if you'll make one of your
Ballots = tkacks on it and me, all the stoo-
ne held at in and vote for it. Seer
His life'ther at Columbus, popularity
tualIy cloaumhus,p during the winter
suns of hisb cold and inclement than else
fan were Ohio, but it is more depressing.
So, - streets, fringed in by low irregu-
mean houses, seen through a smoke
u from soft coal, gives winter demon
tra2sd look, as if it just had been pardoned
Thorn tine penitentiary, and hung about the
flown, too much ashamed to face the honest
weather Of the country. To escape the sight
and feel of this sort of thing we had in the
hall OF the house fringe of idle spectators.
Thess people slept, very sensibly through
11ucn OF our EfoceouI11SS, DuD nk1A1uS d0 AZ
tsrvals would give themselves exercise by
applauding until the speaker would sternly
threaten to clear the galleries, when our
spectators would subside into sleep again.
I noticed among them a little girl of
about sixteen, clad in rather light raiment
for winter wear, consisting of acalieo frock
and an old gray shawl, who came in to
seat near my desk at certain hour every
day, and always in care of two little tots,
and carrying much worn specimen of
cheap novel. She was pale, light haired,
: blue eyed creature Of slender make, not at
tractive In appearance. and should have
passed her to oblivion as an ordinary nurse
girl, 50 far as was concerned, but for an
incident one day that made me see some
thing more in her face than that of an or
binary nurse girl
Some sort of an absurd proposition was
up, involving official robbery, and was ut
tering few parliamentary insults, when 1
happened to look around and accidentally
into the face of the little girl, gazing at me.
Those were the same features. under the
poor bonnet, but the change was startling.
Il wss as if paper lantern were suddenly