The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-12

saturated with arnica, while one lobe
of his whiskers had been burned off,
giving him detected and lopsided ap-
pearance.
ALAS, my friend, you are indeed in
a sad plight" said bloody but ener.
getic Anarchist who had just escaped
from threatened employment, and who
sat by the roadside administering kero-
sene oil to his gun. PRAY, what has
betid you, gentle friend, that you
should look so rocky while all nature
is so gay? Who could have given you
such jolt?"
"Alack" quoth the Increment, "good
stranger, l was on my way to the busy
mart, where l had an appointment to
declare a dividend, when was set upon
by party calling himself Organized La
Dor and beaten most shamefully. have
but just escaped with my life and a
valuable diamond, which | swallowed.
/ am indeed most fortunate to find you
here. for feel quite faint from loss of
blood, and you look like one who would
not stir abroad without having about
him what is called North American
nip.
"In good sooth," said the Anarchist,
removing burdock bur from his beard
thoughtfully and then putting it back
again, 81 fear that liquor might raise
your temperature at this time and bring
on pyamia, or blood poisoning. But let
me ask you, Did you not cry out Justify
for the police when you were attacked?''
Marry, but did, insomuch that the
wood rang again with the outcry."
"And did you not renew your alarm
and cry out again and again?"
'Voila, Mon Dieu, good wight, but
did shrek encorel Plenty, heap encore
Then / did so yet again, but the park
seemed deserted even by the nursegirls,
and the police, too, were down town
holding pantata reunion, so that me
voice came back to me mere waiting
echo. "
and you got no response whatever
queried the Anarchist as he reached up
inside the sleeve of his coat for the
sleeve of an imaginary shirt.
None whatever, alasl good varlet, -
said the Increment sadly, land it was
thus that they done me up"
and was there no wayfarer to hear
your outcry?"
None, alasl"
well" said the Anarchist, arising
with some emotion and taking draft
of reddish wassail from concealed re-
ceptacle, THAT being the case, methinks
| will disturb you a moment for what
clothing you have about your person.
Clean linen is an offense against free.
dom, so / will trouble you to hand il
over to me, and l will soon take of
that glaring air Of whiteness that is sc
trying to the eye"
Whereupon he smote the Unearned
Increment by means of a pant leg filled
with geology.
A week later a police captain, while
on his way to look at $3S, 900 resi-
deuce which he was about to buy for hi
wife, it being the anniversary of hi
first year as captain, he noticed tina
some one in the park was seeking to at
tract his gaze silently by throwing on
| liNbiC tllt oil w tA'
effect that he was dead and desired at
tention.
He stepped aside to look.
Lying beneath small shrub, exposed
to the merciless sun, bruised, heater
and discolored, lay the remains Of tn,
Unearned Increment.
Moral-Wealth has in this life I
rocky road to travel, and ye who vainly
yearn for crowded and OVERLOOKING cot
fers should remember that the day viii
come when there will be grand reck
oning also with the rich and when We
shall surely have the laugh on Dives
Lazarus may have his sad and hope.
less days and disagreeable nights treat
ing his eczema, but what is short life
time of toll and sorrow compared with
eternal dog days barefooted on the hot
pavements Of the bad placer
1.-TWO Little Boys In Blue" From
tenac, write; 1--WE have a debating club
here, and recently we have taken up
the question. Resolved, That 1t is not
iustifiable to dock the tails Of horses.
What is your own opinionY"
My own opinion is that 1t is not JUS
tifiable, but more honored in the breach
than in the observance, if you will per-
NIT delicate pun caused by hot weather
and oYerwork.
1t is fashion which is feebly defend
ID by fashionable people only, My own
stud is free from docked horses and my
stables from the oyerdraw check The
overdraw check is as injurious to the
comfort and beauty of the horse as it is
10 ones equilibrium at the bank.