The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29

ties to ye,' says 1. Go on says /, an
enjye tn wealth an position conferred
on We be tn CONSTRUCTION I says.
"On'y,' says, don't be too free,' says.
TIL freedom Nv tn likes iv We is a good
thing an little Nv 1t goes a long way
says. An Nv 1 iver hear Nv We bein' |
Prisidint iv tn United States 1 says,
III take me whitewashin away firm
ye'er father, we excelsior hair poached-
egg eyed projiny iv tar, I says, FIR me
Anglo-Saxon ffeelin' was sthrong in
thin days.
We'll, / used to hear av him afther
that defindin' coons in tn polls coort
an now an thin bein' mintioned among
tn scatthrin' in Raypubliean county
convintions, an thin he dhropped out iv
sight. Twas years befure L see him
again. Wan day / was walkin' up tn
levee smokin a good tin-cint seegar
'whin a coon wearin' a suit iv clothes
that looked like q stained glass window
in tn house Nv a Dutch Brewer, an
pop bottle in tn fr-ront iv his shirt
steps up to me an he says: How dye
do. Mistah Dooley?' says he. Don't we
know me-Mistah Hicks?' he says.
| 'Snowball?' says 1. Step inside this
man, on tn corner, take me FIR 'octo-
roon,' l says. What ar-re We doin'?'
says 1. How did We enjye tn Prisdin-
cey? says /. He laughed an toP me tn
story Nv his life. He wint to practisin
/ law an foun' his on'y clients was coons
an they had no assets but their vote
at tn prim'ry. Besides a warrant f'r
a moke was tn same as a 1etther iv in
Introduction to tn warden Nv tn pinitin-
chry. Tn on'y thing left FIR tn lawyer
| to do was to move FIR q new thrile an
afther he'd got two or three he thought
OF things was tn best an We do well
to lave bad enough alone He got so
SICK w chicken he cudden't live on his
| fees, an he quit TIL law an whit into
| Journalism. He r-run tn Colored Sup
phmint, but it was q failure, tn taste
/ Nv tn public lanin' more TO quadhroon
pubhcations, an no ma-an that owend
a RESTRAINT of theayter or dhrygoods
stored put in an advertisement FIR fear
tn subscribers'd see it an" come ar
round. Thin he attimpted to go into
i poliytics, an th' best he cud get was
| carryin' a bucket iv wather fl Lin
coin Club. He thried to larn-a thrade.
an found tn on'y place a naygur can
larn thrade is in prison. an he can't
wurruk at that without committin'
burglary. He started to take UP sub
scrlptions FIR sthrugglin' church an
round tn profession was overcrowded.
f1n ~, says he, twas up to me to be
a porther in saloon or go into tn on'y
business he says, in which me race
mas chanst, he says. What's that?'
says l. Craps says he. I've opened a
paiachal imporyium, he says, where.
ne says. 'twud please me very much.
he says. me OF abolitionist frind,' he
says, If ye'd dhrop in some day. he
says, an I'll roll tn sweet, white bones
tr ye, he says. IT'S tn hope iv me
people, he says. we have an even
chanst at ivry other pursoot, he says,
put tbs on'y in craps we have a shade
tn best iv It,, he says.
SO there we ar-re, Hinnissy An
what's 1t goin' to come to, saws We.
Faith. ] don't know an tn naygurs
. don't know. an be hivins, 1 think If tn
lady that wrote tn piece we used to see
at tn Halsted Sthreet Opry House
, come back TO earth. she wudden't know
l used to be all broke up about Uncle
Tom, but cud I give him a Job tindin'
bar in this here liquor store? 1 freed
IN slave. Hinnissy, but, faith, / think
twas like tur-rnin' him out iv a pan
: thry into a CELLAR
, Wen, they've got to take their
chances" said Mr.. Hennessy. Eye can't
DO anything more FIR thin than make
thin free"
"Ye can't" said Mr.. Dooley; "but
whin we tell thin they're free they
) know were on'y sthringin' thin"
u F. p. DUNNE.