The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-27

what would you suggest?"
LET my thoughts linger for a
moment ON the sunny side of life;
of Stockholm, SO Justly called the
Northern Constantinople.' 1t
was there that | first heard the
divine Christine Nilsson. Those
were happy days for me, and there
are times when fond memory
brings her grand voice back to me,
and the recollection of her high G
crowds out the sound of the dying
at the Dannewerk-
THAT, Mr.. Jacobsen" ventured
the reporter, sis what may be
termed fexibility of temperament.
For instance: You might some
time be present when a dear friend
was being officially choked. What
a relief it would be to you,-~of
course, when the drop was sprung
to have your thoughts revert to the
days when, accompanied by him,
you gazed upon the beauties of
Nature from the Pail. Have you
ever thought of that?"
''NeverI But I shall put a higher
valuation on the gift since you
suggest it. The immortal Shakes
peare has associated melancholia
with Danes, but he was wrong; we
are a cheerful set, as rule"
"Have you always been de-
signer of SEALS" was asked.
mo, hardly. [ have sailed
through the beautiful fjords of Nor
way, where the towering snow
capped fjells are in such close
proximity that you could almost
touch them with your hand"
Without bruising your Inland
or the fiells, presume"
You are facetious," remarked
the designer. do you ever
dream?" he asked dream as |
have hour after hour and day after
day in wrapt contemplation of the
glorious tropical sunsets while ly-
ing becalmed in the doldrums
around the Cape of Good Hope,
from the Baltic to Australia. No?
Well, have, and more.
ar emem Der, / have travelled and
/ have worked. l have been the
acknowledged leader of we'll sal
aired dudes in one of the largest
life assurance offices under the
Southern Cross. l have sported
myself in the lawn of Remington
on five separate cup days. l have
been connected in a general way
with one of the largest manufac-
turing drug houses in the Colonies
and was considered by all my bus
mess associates and turf COM
panions as a royal good fellow"
"a sort of castor royalfellow, L
suppose" -. o- ro,,., FOL-
low. But I digress. l have hunt
ed the ubiquitous marsupial fo1
his hairy integument in Gippsland
and existed for seven months on
kangaroo meat, damper and
BILLY tea
81 have been runner for a ship
chandlery firm; counter jumper
for a shop in New South Wales
and overseer of Solomon Isiano
and Malay laborers on sugar plan
tations in New Zealand. As the
agent for a dealer in costly pearls
/ interviewed Lady Brassey on the
Sunbeam fortnight before he
BODY was consigned to the depths o
the Indian ocean.
'1 started a newspaper in Por
Kennedy, Thursday Island, an
sent the first Oriental and loca
press news from there to Melbourn
1000 miles distant.
"I have visited the histories
little spot, Sweers Island, In tn
Gulf of Carpentaria, where Cal
tain Cook stopped in the Invest
gator when circumnavigating til
continent of New Holland.
'sYou will notice." said Mr.. il
cobsen gasping for breath as tn
reporter seized the back of chat
"there's no moss on me; I've bee
about a bit and it doesn't have
chance to cling. l have been koy
towed to by wealthy Chinese
Canton and Macao and had NJ
heart crushed at parting with tt
truest and best friend l ever ha
leaving him in padded cell
the insane asylum in Hong kong
"Was that alp" asked the A
VERTISER man.
"An sir?" is it not enough for
person of my stature and symp
thetic nature-what would "
have me do as an entre-act?
have experienced all the horrors
a terrific typhoon in the straits
Formosa on board a Norwegl'
bark while the foremost hung ov
the bow for eleven hours thumpll
a hole in the hull"
Judging from your story, |
has not always been beer al