The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-24
BUMPS AND JINKS.
The Pair of Noble Brothers Again on
Deck.


Deck.
AS our reporter was wandering about
a few evenings ago he came across our
old friends Bumps and Jinks who were
engaged in earnest discussion of politics.
links had but recently returned from
another voyage and had evidently been
recounting some of the things he had
heard, and Bumps, in a rather than
usual earnest strain, was explaining the
situation.
After hearty greetings were exchanged
Jinks turned to Bumps and continuing
said:
"By the way don't get my bearings
exactly, most every one whom hear
say anything about it says the Ministers
is pretty good fellers, and the Govern
ment has 'parently done things on the
square an there has been big improve
ments made and all that, an yet good |
many talks agin them an says there |
ought to be change. l don't size it up
somewhat. What's the matter?"
"Well," says Bumps, cit seems
kinder strange. But there's always
reasons for things. OF course, there is
some who is not satisfied because they
have not made as much out of it as they
expected, some heads is sore, and others
think they could run the thing good
/ deal better themselves"
"0f course there is lots of onreason-
able men to be found everywhere, but
links, it pears to me that there is some
reasons as has not bin spoken of much
which may help to count for some of
the talk yer hear"
"We'll, what is it Bumps, I'm not
here as much as you is, and don't git
tue hang of these things anyhow"
"I'll tell yer, links, besides pussonal
reasons individuals have, there's good
J many folks talks that way cause they
doesn't know enough about what's goin'
on in the Government. You see the
biziniss is kinder close cooperation con-
Germ. Formerly the old man and the
Ministers jess everlastingly owned the
hull thing and run it to suit themselves,
an that led to the fuss they had two
years ago. There has been good deal
of change in this respec' but there's
l some left. The old man don't own much
J
;, sumthing funny bout Government bizi-
Mss that changes feller's ideas. When
a feller's whoopin' it up to get hisself
: elected, or ter git some other fellers out,
he jess opens his soul ter Their dear peo-
ple,' les they calls them) and tells 'em
3 as how the Ministers and ali folks in
: Office is only their servants, and they, the
. dear people, is the owners; an the light
y of public skurting mus be turned on to
: 'em an all sech stuff. But when they
Z gets in themselves they pear to forglt a
good deal. At first they stir around and
talk o. and says things, an all hands
thinks there's going to be big inn
provement. But in little while they
pear to be impressed with the weight Of
9 their responsibilities and they shuts uI
r like clam shells an folks outside don't
know much about it than they did be-
fore. Now it pears to me that's just
g one big cause of the bile in the
4 | public stummik."
"But, Bumps" said Jinks, ST thought
) these fellers that's been running the
thing the last two years he'd been dom
O different, an besides lots of public works
had been carried on an there had beer
a great change for the better"
CHATS so, Jinks," replied Bumps
If ''but human natur' is human natur', an
O there's alluz ten 'ency in folks to fee
. how important an necessary they is
= AM there's something in natur' the
J. when big power is given to Teller afte
n little he begins ter think he's the only
e Teller that ken do the job. AM the mex
thing is ter become secret an mysteri
y Gus. The old roosters that prepared the
L shipping articles they calls the "consti
e tuition" in Ameriky understood human
n natur', an special the kind that comes
It out under the high livin' of Office, o.
s Twin of high Office, an they fixed it diff
e ferent. Among other things they had i
a voyages. At the end of the voyage the
n the owners chose, but they he'd to shi.
7. new each time. An then they had i
Il fixed so that the owners knew what wa
going on"
Is ''But I thought, Bumps, that wher
% they took the ship into dock here TIVE
= years ago and patched her up they kind
y er fixed the thing an made her over afte
u the Amerikin model"
u "Well, they did, Bumps, after fash
e ion, but the frame of the critter WASH
I, changed much. They couldn't do tina
without taking her all ter pieces. TheN
L made big changes in her rig an made
her easier to handle and sail better, bu
y the model wasn't changed much. Now
d these fellers who hev been sailing he
:e the last two years has done furst rate il
Is the main but there's fault in the system
le The thing may be making good voyage
a but somehow the burned owners dom
q know much about it."
Z 81 tell yer, Jinks, I berlieve that s
good deal of the growing you hear il
Is jess because the owners hasn't beer
le kept informed enough about whats
!; going on, for they that knows say she's
ID been handled furst class and has beer
4 making the l,est voyage she ever made
SC You see the Ministers stay right il
!; their Offices and don't go about the coun
Il try to see the owners or to see what's
l, needed or to explain nothing. How
q would it work to have the cap'n and
q officers of ship shut up in the cabin al
II the time and send all their orders anC
:, git all their information by letters7 Now
- that Teller in the Interior Office has beer
around two or three times an it's done
, lots of good to him and to the people
u There's something wrong in the, sailing
- orders, or in the management somehow
q when the chief officers has to spend al
their time shut up doing clerks work.
e "Now, in the eddication department