The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-05

oi Tue British from Lexington sh'
was taken by her mother aud hid il
the arch of the chimney in the cellar
Afterwards, when the excitemen
had somewhat subsidized, she ESCAPED
into the garnet and commenced throw
ing corncobs from the window at the
soldiers guns which they hal stacked
in front of the house. Several of tn,
soldiers caught up their guns TO fire a
the offender, when an officer who wa.
standing on the opposite side of the
street called to them to desiSt, as /,
was only the freak of "A little girl"
L remember this dear old lady as 8
small boy, aud looked upon her with
great reverence because she was 9
revolutionary heroine. [ shall never
forget some dried apple pie she once
gave me to eat. / am sure the apples
were dried before tie revolution.
airy war; the pie was sweetened with
mo'asses, and the upper and lower
crus were as tough Us a walrus hide.
lt was indeed a revolutionary pie; at
all events it produced revolution in
my digestive organs. | shall never
forget that pie.
To quote again from the paper in
my hand we read: '''The Hay family
as Well as the BDystons were the
holders of good deal of real estate in
the town from an early date in its his
tory" Our bra CHI of the family Only
received $lO.25 from the Hay estate
Aunt Mercy cut my father off with q
shilling. When q boy he made a
trade with a street peddler, giving
bowl of Cruel which my aunt had sent
him to give an old lady who was sick,
In exchange for some patriotic poet Y,
anu also for tieing a lunch of fire
crackers to the tail of her pet cat in
celebrating the Fourth of July, and
Tor winch my aunt never forgave him.
She left iii her will the sum of ten
dollars to one of my sisters. When
she died it was said she died of "oid
age" but [ think post norton
would have revealed the fact that she
lied of enlargement of the heart"
seriously she was a grand woman aud
/ devoted patriot, and next to her q q
'he loved her country.
May we ever revere and cherish the
memories of those noble men and
women who gave SO much for the
'ause' of freedom, that We in our day
night enjoy that liberty so dear to |
very American heart.
After the singing, by chorus led |
" w: j. Warmer, of the song cover |
uced the orator of the day, Captain |
'ochrane, of the U. S. Marine Corps,
1ho bad prepared an address for the
ccasiOn under the impression that he
'as to he the only orator. Finding the
rOgramme chained he abandoned |
Is written notes and spoke eXtempo-
aneOusly for about thirty minutes.
he lowing gives the substance OF
is remarks, which were received with
reat applause:
Mr. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
EN- would that l could also say fell
~ citizens! !" but see so many here
no are not yet Americans that perhaps
were better to employ a. new express
denizens. (rhis refer I
zee t. possible annexat on, and 70 8
e Article so much discussed by the !;
tie Convention met with instant recog- !
tIon) When your committee did me | ;
c honor 10 invite me to address you q
BON this famous anniversary, accept !
with much pleasure. 1t was under r
: - th't was to make a short address | b
tooIi C,Ia lN~19aof r---la,andence and =
N the ID clara ion or 1n,1sfJSdT H. 60 l. Z
hat the oration-a larger contract-waS
0 be awarded to another. Later. was
sked il l would change places and, as
1
eadily consented. | met the gentleman
Tho was to be my colleague, ex-Attor-
ey General Armstrong, and We agreed
} have Conference that we might moi
olliIe, Next | learned that Mr.. Arm
trong was going TO Hilo, and that there
TOuld be no other speaker. You car
lerefore imagine my surprise at learn
lg just now that friend Armstrong had |
IT his Grafton behind. |,
In order to ascertain what was done ,
n the last Fourth of July, L went t, ,
our very excellent public library and
oked over a file OF old papers. There l =
wv that you had had a spread-eagle {
alton, and that Mr.. p. 9. Jones had '
ade very interesting and pleasing adj
'ess. felt thankful that Mr.. Jones i
as not to compete this year. Now, I
here do | find M self? Mr.. Arm
rong and MIR. Jones are both in the J
lid, ami some Of my thunder is surely I
olen. Anyhow, had the usual as i
rtment of grandfathers, as well as Mr.. 7
mes, but they had the misfortune to
nd at Philadelphia instead of Boston, 4
Id though they did not hip to throw r
~ tea overheard they had the Declara- /
IN OF Independence and plenty of I
led apple pies. d
My gray head and scanty locks reveal s
g tact have seen many Fourths of <
ly, and | may add-thanks TO the {
life those of my profession fl
ressarily lead-that they have been i.
lebrated in different foreign countries {,
d in many of the statss of the Ameri- n
n Union. a
On the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on II
3 shores of the Great Lakes and the o
t greater Gulf of Mexico, on the Mis- "
sippi, in the West Indies, in Central , Il
d South America, in Europe, in At C,
a. and on the high seas have passed 81
Day, but never before in c
lyne~ia. Thanksgiving, Christmas II
d New Yeats, yes, but not the 'glor- a
IS Fourth" so 1 am especially glad to A
with you on this delightful and mem C;
bile occasion. a.
Yesuerday l thought that there was a
one other country on earth where "
} Fourth is more highly regarded or Z
re generally celebrated than in Ha- @
ii. Today l am not snre that there is &