The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-09

eSquc, but incfTably tender when address
ing tho mite Of humanity nc has fostered.
He Is staying temporarily in n boarding
house on Livingstone place, Brooklyn.
This is his story as nc tells it:
Bink's Story.
I were cruisin around Zitka after being
discharged from the brig Annie May. She
were loaded wild u cargo of supplies for
that port Then she were goin sealin. I
want no sealin in mine SO wild me 60
some odd dollars pay cruiscd around wild
some lads, quenchin thirst, but one morn
IN woke up in an alley, and the divil "A
cent had, and right sore head. i start
cd for some place to get warm, and maybe
= drink, when i run amucls OF some lads
that had been tipplin pretty free, and
when l was passin one OF them kind of
JOyial like hit my eye clip, so in min
ute i was into pretty scrap, hghtin fast
and free, when one of them hobbies they
have up there jest rakes us all in. Seems
as though some one fractured skull of
one of the lads, and they took il into their
heads IL was me. 1 hadn't any one to de
fcnd me, nor no money, and things looked
pretty squally for this lad. One day when
the Judge asked me if had any one TO de-
fend me a smart chap rose UP and came
forward and said he'd take my case. Well,
was surprised. But he did right well,
day or 30 got away scot free.
A Dying Mans Request.
Well, 1 could not pay him, so 1 went to
work for him. He had a small tannCry
and kind of practiced law on the side. He
made me n sort of handy man, and many
n pipe we've smoked together. God rest
himl One day the pneumonia got on him,
and he was mighty sick. Well, he died.
He wasn't very strong. 1 remember very
xw-all hf1 MIC ~ 10 Inv hnrs int
gaspin and strugglin for breath, and then
of a sudden he just Strengthened up and
says he:
Blink, come here He was taikin 10
me. THE doctor won't come till in the
mornin. won't need him then. And,
Blink" says he, IF 1 tell you somcthin,
will you never tell any OneG'
''Sartin sure" says 1. And after cough
in a bit he says: We'll, before 1 come
here had a sweet wife, and, God help me,
i believed her false, and one night struck
her then took our child-the girl Timely,
you knOw-and came away. We were
then in Omaha, and came here by slow
stages. She went TO her mothers home
there and heard she had married n man
without n divorce-but / wouldn't bother
her-and that they live in Brooklyn. /
was wrong, Blink, very wrong, to mis-
Judge her, and 1 am Goin 10 die, and
want you to take the child and this pack
age. Do you see the address,
Faith, and 1 can't read says I, you
know
Then he told me the address and SAYS he:
81 want You To take the child and this
package To her and tell her 1 ask forgive
ness. VIII your" says he.
sure, says /.
There is $3.50" he says. and he were
chokin and coughin. There is that much
in the bank for you'-and, faith, il
makes me heart ache To- think of the poor
lad a-gaspin for breath, and then he lay
down sy.ddcnlike, and 1 hurried away
and got the doctor, but 'twerc no use. He
were stone dead when we got back.
Well. the next mOrnin l went To the
bOarlIin house where the lad kept Timely
hCrc-that's her name-and took her to
see her dad; but, bless yer heart, she didn't
know how twas exactly.
Well the lawyer chaps found things in
ship shape, but somehow or other couldn't
Git none OF the $40 the lad told me about
that were in the bank. They said it were
due and showed me lot OF papers; but, |
Lord love me, couldn't read They were
desarvin of il, / guess L had me saw
ms of me work, $50, 80 put the package |
the dead lad had give me with marks on |
it for remindin OF the lass mothers ad- |
dress into me shirt fer safe keepin, and |
with the Kid here all shrugged up coy we |
started for Portland. Well. when 1 got |
there, hadn't money enough TO buy "a |
clean through ticket for Tine and me, ~ /
/ gets Il good woman 10 board the kid for |
me. and down goes To the stevCdores. / /
cot in n good two months. Evenin's l |
went and had a time wild Tine. 1 give /
the uackaSc To the timCkccper for safe /
krcuin. Faith, thought IL were some
love token or other TO remind the lass
mother.
Money Gives out Again.
Wei. mt the end cf two months / took
re pay and started for ticket and
whether had me PEE kCt= picked or lost il
III niver know, but were still $50 shy or
ticket money. 80 baci. goes TO work Ari-
lrher InO:lth. ard / lad enough. Wei,
when 1 got my ticket l got into one ot
them Cheap John tici.et shops, and, Lord
love 70, Tie railroad sharks wouldn't le,
Tinrtv a7ld ride ne inrtIcr than Denvs--
Sc took my little money and got Timely
a coy place 20 stay. Then went shovel
ing Work wfs pretty scarce, and the pay !