The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-10-16
BUMPS AND JlNKS.
They Discuss the Revolution and the
Reforms Legislature.

and Jinks again. They were sitting OF
a pile Of lumber and being recognized he
seated himself near them. and after g
few general remarks the shipmates con.
tinued their conversation, which had
been interrupted.
al say" said links, whats become
of all them fellers We used to see around
the city hall when we was here before
1t pears to me they've shipped new
crew"
why, don't you know, Jinks, they've
had revolution"
b "You don't say, Bumps, what was it
ike?"
ooh, it was something like cross be-
tween a mutiny and cyclone. 1t just
howled for a spell. The men took guns,
and there was a big meetin', and
speeches and regular squall. All that
gang me and you used to see about the
Legislature was swept off like big sea
had cum aboard, and the other fellers
TUX hold"
WE'LL 4 utGldl6f AAictA bOhhlo AOA II.
Now this afternoon / went around by
the Police Station, for the sake OF old
times, an the furst thing saw was a
tall Teller I'd never seen before, with his
jib boom printing up into the air like an
old fashioned whaler, an salmon whis-
kers a sticking out on each side like a
spinnaker-boom, an he shifted around
sort 'er Uneasy like, an then all of a
sudden he p'inted off under full sail
along the street. l hailed a cop a settin'
on box an asked him who that was,
ne said it was the old man. And as
soon as ! heard that, i cast off an fol-
lowed in his wake ter see who he was
after. just as got alongside the Post
Office l saw him put into a bookstore,
an crowded on sail to see the fun,
when | run plum into a strapping teller
with a Roman cut-water an white
trowsers who came plunging out of the
Post Office l was,brought up all stand
ing an by the time gathered Roadway
ag'in this three decker chap was ships
length ahead, but l heard him talking
awful, an I,just tackled ship an stood
down this way an was thinking about
going aboard ag'in when you hove in
sight. Is the new hands all like that ?'
Now, links, you've cruised about the
world enough ter know there's all kinds
of folks; an that you can't tell much
about purson till you've knowed him
for spell. Now, that there big Post
Office Teller, why you should see him
when he's riled up bad. Some new
savings bank law just made, or his regu
lations interfered with, or something OF
that kind, you'd think he was wus'n a
pirate. But if Won wus dead broke, he'd
shell out his last dollar to help you; an
if he heard some teller lying about you
behind your back, that feller'd wish he'd
never been born"
Well, Bumps, | haint been here so
long as you an so don't understan' it as
well; but DO you think the new crew is
better'n the old one? You see after we
came in this voyage got hold of hull
lot of old numbers of that there paper
they call the Daily Bulletin, an thought
I'd find out what had been going on.
went back about six months an read
along, but the more L read the more
got mixed jess wish you'd pint out
to me some day the critter who runs that
paper. I'd Jess like to see him once an
see what he looks like. Why, his paper
reads beautiful sometimes, then again the
tarnal thing rolls about like dismasted
old hulk after gale. Sometimes it
pears like a steel cruiser, everything
taut an trim, then agin you'd think it
was Chinese junk. got so riled up a
readin' it / jess quit, an thought I'd ask
you about it. Twas agoing speak about
it up at the City Hall but them gowns
kinder CALLED me"
q tell you, Jinks, l was here when
the revolution bust, an the new Consti-
tuition was launched, an when the new
legislature cum together two times, an
have watched the thing pretty careful,
an my opinion is that things is great
deal better'n they was. Wv course all
the folks that lives here don't think |
alike about it. There's Cartwright, that
fine-looking old gentleman down thar
near the pilots office, to hear him talk |
sometimes you'd think Gibson an them
fellers was heliotrope alongside the new |
crew they've shipped now, an that the |
hull thing was rotten. But then he's |
been out from home about 100 years an
hasn't had his thermometer rated since |
he sailed, and there's variations in his
compass-some SAYS it's affected by his
pocket.
"An' thar's Sam Allen an some others
in their idees about government they
needs to 90 into dry docks an be over
hauled-pumps jammed, riggin' all
slack, rudder post wore out, barnacles all
over 'em, an terrible bilgey. Then
there's some others whose heads is sore;
an some who is just like some fellers on
liberty-you know some when they has
liberty ashore thinks they own the hull
concern-an' some is like little brats
that lie down an kick an howl when
they can't hev their own way, an orter
be spanked. An then there's some like
them Malay pirates always ready to
sneak in an cut your throat.
GAS to the new crew, the mos of them
is good men, but some isn't angels, The
new legislature was heap sight better
than the one when me an you was here
four wears ago. Aw course there was
diffrunt kinds of men in it. That lie-yer
with the studd'n 81 mustashes you saw
at the Court is the Acknowledgement.
He figgered consideble. He's crank
craft an is apt to carry too much sail.
He didn't pear to have any almanic, nor
navigation books, except an old book on
institutional Lamentations or some
SIGH name. An there was that feller
from Hammerkuer. He was fiery young
boss, chums with the judges, an the
Chinese, but he's gone away, an we
ehould sneak kindly of the de0arted