The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-05
THE sUNDIAL.

lot o. boys heah in st. Louis that hnin't
got no bettah business nights and Sun
days than to pound dollhouse dials with
rocks and things Jest to destroy them
when the othah one was toah down,
sub, I mp and kicked. Yes, did 1 told
the county authorities that If they wanted
to have any sundial left at all they'd half
to be a Waterman heah nights and Sun
days. You see, the city p'lice Is cahless
about county prop'ty, and they prob'ly
wouldn't do nothing to nobody, not IL
they even ca'h'd of the co'thouse itself.
sub, let alone just smashing q sundial or
two I got the Waterman heah after a
had light, sub, and, as you see, I've saved
one OF the dials. But me and my watch
man, we has TO watch out mighty sha'p
reckon"
This delightful janitor's name Is Griffin.
and he Is quainter even than the old diaIs
In person be resembles our Uncle Samuel
save that, instead of bsing thin and anRu-
lar, he Is round and stout and ruddy.
When 1 first saw his face was almost
surprised because his trousers were not
striped red and white and his vest was
not blue and star spangled. His office is
In big bare room in the basement. where
he sits most of the time in a thronelike
chair on raised daislike platform alter
nately chewing shaved plug and smoking
natural leaf tobacco. He must have n
right smart pull of some sort, or at least
be In what in Chicago and St. Louis is
called the push, for when during our
chat today county official entered and
pleaded for feather buster for his office
the custodian of the building consulted
certain memoranda before replying Then
ne said slowly and impressively while he
carefully shaved of enough plug for n
fresh ouid:
You've had one feathah dustah already
this month, Mistah Jones. 1 can't spain |
you no mo- till next month You must |
use the dustahs on youah boots in youah |
UmGe mist MisSsh Jones' the way you git away
The official bowed himself timidly ont
OF the presence, and the janitor explained
TO me that he had four reel good grounds"
for anxiety.
I'm worried all the time about the
way them officials, in p'ticlah the younoah
ones uses up the county supplies I'm
afraid the boysn break the remaining
alal' m In doubt lest the countv'n see fit
TO teah this grand old CO. thouse down and
put up great big steel frame modern
building, and hate to see the paintings
IN the doom go to ruination"
Ii should be explained that perhaps the
noSe interesting feature Of the courthouse
s the mural decoration Of the rotuuda.
IF you'll examine them tbeab naint-
ngs' suh' you'll observe that they were
nee very fine. They cost right smart
cap OF money, sub, when they was paint
o. IL was a German gentleman that done |
hem, sub. disricolIect his name. but
% was reg lab old mastah, though, "a
on can see fob yo'sel. Now they are all
eellng on, sub, and the ch'icest works of
~ In St Louis is a-falIing to the floor of
ne doom In dust to be trampled undah
he feet of men,"
Inc Janitor is right in what he saws
Oo1S the pictures, for they were painted
Oarl w lmas, whose paintings of Indians
aI9 Ious Deen considered really great as
OAAS VI 0rS- NJ. /. DEXTER