The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-10-10
BUMPS AND JINKS.
They Discuss the Revolution and the
Reform Legislature.

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was wandering along the wharves JUS
at evening, when he came upon Bump:
and links again. They were sitting or
pile of lumber and being recognized he
! seated himself near them. and after
few general remarks the shipmates con
tinued their conversation, which had
been interrupted.
I" say" said links, what's 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 a new
crew."
Why, don't you know, links, they've
had revolution"
"You don't say, Bumps, what was il
like?"
Oh, it was something like cross he
tween a mutiny and a cyclone. 1t just
howled for spell. The men took guns,
and there was a big meetin', and
speeches and regular squat. All that
gang me and you used to see about the
Legislature was swept off like a big sea
had cum aboard, and the other fellers
TUX hold"
''Well, 1 declare, that counts for it..
Now this afternoon | went around by
the Police Station, for the sake of old
times, an the furst thing l saw was
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 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. | hailed cop settin'
on box an asked him who that was,
he said it was the old man. And as
soon as [ heard that, | cast off an fol-
lowed in his wake ter see who he was
after. Just as l got alongside the Post
Office l saw him put into a bookstore,
an l crowded on sail to see the fun,
when l run plum into a strapping teller
with a Roman cut-water an white
trousers who came plunging out of the
Post Office. [ was brought up all stand
ing an by the time 1 gathered Roadway
ag'in this three decker chap was ships
length ahead, but l heard him talking
awful, an 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? q"
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-
latlOnS interfered with, or something of
that kind, you'd think he was wus'n a
pirate. But if you 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 a 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. l
went back about six months an read |
along, but the more [ 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 |
5arnal thing rolls about like dismasted |
Did hulk after a gale. Sometimes it |
pears like a steel cruiser, everything |
-aut an trim, then agin you'd think it |
was Chinese junk. [ got so riled up a |
'eadin' it jess quit, an thought I'd ask
you about it. l was agolng to speak about
t up at the City Hall but them gowns
kinder CALLED me-"
q tell you, links, I was here when
he revolution bust, an the new Consti-
luton was launched, an when the new
legislature cum together two times, an
nave watched the thing pretty careful,
IN my opinion is that things is great
ieal better'n they was. Wv course all
like about it. There's Cartwright, that
ine-looking old gentleman down thar
lear the pilots office, to hear him talk
sometimes you'd think Gibson an them
ellers was heliotrope alongside the new
rev they've shipped now, an that the
luu thing was rotten. But then he's
)een out from home about $50 years an
lasn't had his chronometer rated since
lie sailed, and there's variations in his
says it's affected by his
pocket.
can thar's Sam Allen an some others
n their idees about government they
leeds to go into dry docks an be over
jammed, riggin' all
ldCA, IuuUoT posi- wore ONC, OarnacI6S all |
,.ver 'em, an terrible bilgey. Then
here's some others whose heads is sore;
n some who is just like some fellers on
know some when they has
liberty ashore thinks they own the hull
oncern-an' some is like little brats
hat lie down an kick an howl when
hey can't hev their own way, an orter
e spanked. An then there's some like
hem Malay pirates always ready to
neak in an cut your throat.
LAS to the new crew, the mos of them
good men, but some isn't angels. The
eW legislature was heap sight better
han the one when me an you was here
our years ago. Aw course there was
ittrunt kinds of men in it. That lever
18th the studd'n 81 mustashes YOU saw
t the Court is the Acknowledgement.
lie tiggered consideble. He's crank