The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-07-06

of the British fro I'M Lexington she
was taken by her mother aud hid in
the arch of the chimney in the cellar.
Afterwards, when the excitement
had somewhat subsided, she escaped
into the garret aud commenced throw
ing corncobs from the window at the
soldiers guns which they ha stacked
| in i.ont of the house. Several OF the
soldiers caught up their guns to IRE at
| the offender, when an officer who was
standing on the opposite side of the
street called to them to deslst, as It
was only the freak of little girl"
remember this dear old lady as
small boy, and looked upon her with
great reverence because she was a
revolutionary heroine. / shall never
forget some dried apple pie she once
| gave me 10 eat. l am sure the apples
were dried before the revolution
AIRY war; the pie was sweetened with
moiasses, and the upper and lower
crus were a. tough as a walrus hide.
J 1t was indeed revolutionary pie; at
I 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 we'll as the BoyistOns were the
holders OF "a good deal of real estate in
the town from an early date in its his
tory" Our bra uch of the family only
received $l0.25 from the Hay estate
Aunt Mercy cut my father off with a
shilling. When boy he made 4
trade with street peidler, giving q
bowl of Cruel which my aunt had sent
hi II To give an old ia.iy who was sick,
in exchange tor some patriotic poetry,
ami also for tieiug u lunch of fire.
crackers to the tai of her pet cat in
celebrating The Fourth Of July, and
for which my aunt never fOrgave him.
She left in her will the sum of ten
dollars TO one of my sisters. When
she died il was said she died OF "oid
age" but l think u post mortem
would have revealed the fact that she
died of enlargement of the heart"
Seriously she was u grand woman and
devoted patriot, and next to her u ii
she loved her country.
May we ever revere and cherish the
memories of those noble men and
women who gave so much for the
cause of freedom, that We in our day
might enjoy that liberty so dear TO
|
After the singing, by chorus led
by w. J. Warriuer, of tue song over
the River" Minister Willis intro
duced the orator Of the day, Captain
COchraue, of the U. 5. Marine Corps,
who had prepared an address for the
occasion under the impression that he
was TO tie the only orator. Finding the
programme chan ed he abandoned
his written notes and spoke eXtempO-
raneously for about thirty minutes.
The lowing gives the substance of
his remarks, which were received with
great applause:
Ma CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN wuu Il that | cInld also say fel-
loW citizens I" but see 80 many here
who are not yet Americans that perhaps
it wer- better to employ new expIes-
sion-felow denizens. (rhis refer
ence to possible anDexat on, and to
the Article so much discussed by the
late Convention met with instant recog-
nition) When your cJmnittee did me
the honor TO invite me to address you
upon this famous annive. sary, accept
ed wi h much p eAsuIe 1t was under
stood that l was to make short address
on thr d clara ion of independence, and
that the. oration-a larger con ract-was
10 be awarded to another. Later, | Was
a ked il | would change places and, as
the difference was only one OF degrees,
readily consented. l met the gentleman
who was to b. my colleague, ex-Attor-
ney General Armstrong, and we agreed
to have a inierence tnat we might not
COLI o Next learned that mr Arm
strong was going o Hilo ami That there
would be no other sp aker. You can
therefore imagine my sur rise at earn
ing st now that friend Armstrong had
LETT his oratinn hind
In ord,r to ascertain what was done
on the last Fourth OF July, | went t.
your very excellent public library and
looked over fie OF old papers. There |
saw that you had had spread-eagle
| grafton, and that Nr. p. @. Jones had
made very interesting and pleasing ad-
dress. felt thankful that MIR Jones
was not to compete this year. Now.
where do | find m self? Mr.. Arm
strong and Mr.. Jones are both in the
field, ant sotue Of my thunder is surely
stoen. Anyhow, had the usual as
sortment OF gra ldfathers, as well as MIR.
Jones, hut thev had the misfortune TO
land at Philadelphia instead Of Boston,
and though they did not hip to throw
any tea overheard they had the Declara-
tion of Independence and plenty OF
dried apple pie.
My gray head and scanty locks reveal
the fact have seen msuy Fourths Of
July, and / may add-tnanks TO the
wandering life those Of my profession
necessarily lesd-that they have been
celebrated in different foreign counties
and in many OF the states Of the Ameri-
can Union
On the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, on
the shores OF the Great Lakes and the
yet grrater Gulf of Mexico, on the Mis-
sissippi, in the West Indies, IN Central
ami South America. in Europ-. in At
rica. and on tne high seas have passed
independence Day but never before in
| POlyne~i4 Thanksgiving, christmas
and New Years yes but not the ''glor-
ious Fourth" so am especially glad to
be- with you on this delightful and mem
! orable occasion.
Yesterday | thought that there was
but one other eountrv on earth where
the Fourth ia more highly regarded or
more gan. rally celebrated than in Ha-
waii. Today l am not sure that there is
anu have Saan erraat Pa ria q hIaza huk