The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
Queer Story Of a
Sojourn in
HiIo.
AN ADVENTURE ON
ISLAND OF HAWAII
San Francisco Man Meets His
Nemesis While Touring
Here.

IF you want to get hunk, all you've
got to do is just to wait, that's ALL" dryly
Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates, as
he ate the end off fresh Reina Victoria
and produced his turquoise-encrusted
match box, says the New York Sun
Whereupon he proceeded to indulge in
Sd prolonged silence that the expectant
E>Tanks present gazed upon him ner-
Ivcusly and shifted uneasily in their
chairs.
What's that. an installment or a SAM
ple?" inquired Ex-Tank No. z. the parlia-
imentarian and kicker HAS 1t got so in
this outfit that we've got to swallow 'em
scrially? Say, is that going to be con-
tiBued in your next, Or
The Tonsorial Ex-Tank will shave one
side of Number Seven's countenance, and
ono side only, if he exudes another kick
during the session. said the Chief Ex-
Tank, rising ponderously. "At the same
time. it would seem to be up to Number
iTw enty-seven to complete his parable
Somehow or another went on Ex-
Tank No. q. irrelevantly and dreamily,
l'I could NOT. not, get 'em right that
winter. They may have been running
for Hogan, but they weren't running for
me. When Ia dig a sleeper up, and get
it right, and lose rest waiting for the day
ito go down the line on It, confidently ex-
lpecting ii 'ud be 90 to ] or better, the
lwcrd got out every time, by the under
ground or some way or another. and the
skate 'ud prance to the post with / to 3
ION chalked in front of his name, and ev-
lery piker and beanery worker in San
Francisco standing to go broke on him,
after they'd hammered the price down
, from something like even money. Nope
II couldn't get one over. Every one that
i locked over and saw worked at gray
. dawn and saltcd down as the right goods
the next time he went to the pump foi
long money had "a Hanover or a Hindoc
price tackled to him when the states went
a up. You can't keep thing quiet in FRS
: &C. anyhow It's everywhere in twenty
: minutes, and no time for new book, a
. that. There are too many srafters ou
= there for n good thing to be kept quiet
:. anc the Frisco grafters. unlike the bunci
= back this way. pull together. So that
one of 'em gets wise TO a long one that
a du. TO be uncorked, it's handed aroun'
a TO em all, and the duck that fixes tn
i. whole Job gets out in the betting TO
q his. That's the way ii was that winter
. anyhow. They began to double-reef m
y stack the first day | blew in from thi
- side, where I'd had the season of my life
40 ianG l hadn't been frittering with en- 10
p mere than two months out there befor
=. it began to look to me like n case @
AZ ltackling Chink highbinder for 10
10 on his Napa county truck ranch.
,a .'One raw morning-for the matter c
40 that every morning is raw in Frisco
VIXEN my pyramid was down to three ye
low disks two of 'em with twenty an
the other with the ten stamp, l went oyt
to the track, resolved upon garrottng II
st first trainer / met and making him te
= me the name and address of horse tn;
was going to win. The first trainer ! ms
was a little sawed-off weaZen-face thi
n used to ride 'em through the snow Q
is tho outlaws back this way. He had
string of four or five fair ones with whic
- he frequently got the bum ends of tt
purses and occasionally the main none
I / knew him pretty well. ! didn't exac
l ly neck him, but i told him I just couldn
| see the long walk back to the Atlant
| seaboard, and that if something wash
| doing pretty soon there'd be an tncrea
] os one in the prison census of San que
| tin for | meditated sticking up the Ma
or in the City Hail. or building tunn
! under the safe in the Cliff House.
l something like that He kept on chewii
| his straw, did this weazen-faced ex-joc
l ard then he said:
l Say. die ever see that camel J got
| Yes said /, the whole string Of q
| ] wouldn't give you the sws'at-band iii II
| last years straw hat for the bunch.
~ guess you amt seen this one,' sa
] he, still eating hay Hes hump-oa
with four stomachs-but it's going
happen. and l guess I'll let you IN
the sake of the old days al the Gut
| krow you won't split It,.
Then he took me around TO his ba
and showed me the thing. 1t looked II
a cross between a dromedary and Me
l lean burro. 1t was a Caiifornfa-bTed mi
that had never raced. II had gone wro
as a two-year-old before being sent
| the pump, and 1t still waiting Tor
sight of the flag as three-year-old.
| This is It,, said the weazen-face,
Il sat down on bale of hay and how
sardonically at him.
'Tomorrow's the day said my frte
l 1.-THE ex-Jock and trainer. First ra
| (which Is for maiden three-year-ol
| iTtere'll be about fifteen In, and this on
he write-your-own ticket. Put what y
| got left down straight-no place or sht
:. ITS plum preserves. and I'm giving yo'
| irea. push-up by letting you in. The ca
. | els been saved for this and he's a r;
~ | horse Get out. now, I'm busy
a. something in the little chaps t.
istr1,ck me He was dead In earnest,