The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-07-16
He Had IL Badly.

81 am thankful / do not live In
round room,'' said the man with the
dreamy eyes, as he slowly slipped
from a wicked looking glass at his
eide.
Il he man with the wart on his esr
and the man withS the triple chin
looked up expectant'y. "Tell US
about it," they said.
The man with the dreamy eyes
sighed. 1T is a long, sad story"
he said. he slipped again from the
wicked looking glass. Then he add
ed:-"I have a very nice room, stu.
ated, as the poet would say, in
yonder street that fronts the SUM-
1t ia a big, square, pleasant room,
and is kept ia ex ,ellnnt condition by
the wom~u who rups the house
There il inst one drawback"
What is it7" asked the others.
The goblin globe," returned tie
dreamy.eyed one. "The goblin globe
is all right in it's way, | suppose, but
decent bachelors room is no place
for it to do its stunt, and I'm going
to make vigorous comp amt il l
|-ind it doing business in my quarters
when get home
"Wben got in the other night :
or maybe the other morning would
be the correct expresson-I turned
on the gas and prepared for bed
Now, you know how scrupulou.ly
neat | am. Well, you may judge Of
my annoyance, then, when tell you
that as my eyes travelled over The
room they encountered speck in
the carpet. 1t was no big .'er than
the knot on length of coarse sew
ing thread, but it annoyed me, and
| stopped to brush it away. To my
adjustment the sppct wouldn't
bulge, and thought hen it must
be tiny spot in the carpet. 'Ob,
we'll" [ thought its small matter,
aud I'll let it pa's.' hat reached
to turn off the gas and jump into
bed when l happ, ned ,gain to
glance at the carpet.
"Ths speck was as big as a mar
BILE. thought at frs, this was some
| optical delusion brought on by over.
work, but this wa, not the nase l
made very thorough termination
Of the speck and convinced myself
| OF its reality. 1t was round and
black, and 30 heavy | couldn't lift it.
| determined to pos. pon- bed for q
bit while | studied this remarkab Q
effect. As looked, tbs thug actually
grew before my eyes. 1t soon became
| the sizs OF Baseball | drew my
easy chair to the p int on the carpet
occupied by the queer growth, and
settled myself comfortably to watch
progress.
Larger and larger grew the bal.
From the szs OF baseball it reach
ed the proportions OF a Georgia
watermelon, all the time retaining
it's perfection OF contour. Grad ally,
and without my having noticed the
change, / found that my easy chair
was about two feet nearer the wall
than it had been when | sat down.
| The growth Of the bail had forced
it away from the centre OF the room
"Wheu the globe reached the siz /,
Of United States mail sack
thought it was about time to call a
halt. Ithrew my whole weight on
the thing, but couldn't move it an
inch. Ga the contrary, it continued
to grow, only with repeated rapid
ity. started to call for help, but
then the righteousness of the situa-
ton struck me, and l refrained
What did grown man need OF out
side help 10 throw ball out OF his
rooms 1 laughed merrily. Then |
assaulted the ball again. 1t was as
tall as the piano by this time, and
was forcing all the furniture out Of
the way.
"The easy chair was mined
against one side wal. The couch
had bsen squashed up into a soft
| hear, ~, hooLaasa h.I haan n attain