The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-14

in the world. In times of election you
have seen men whoop it up for votes
how they will run about and send out
their carriages to bring man in to vote,
and give him five dollars sometimes to
jolly him along. Why don't you do that,
you fellows, when you want somebody to
come to church? Send out your car
riages, you that have them, and brrg
people to church, why not? I tell you
when you want to catch fish you go
where the fish arei When you want to
catch people, why don't you go where
the people are. They are lots easier to
catch. People want to be sympathized
with; they want to be loved; OF course
they do; why don't you just love them
That's the way to save them! Oh. the
simplicity of love! There, maybe, are
among you some noble men, Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythas and other lodges; why
don't you organize to come to church
sometime? Why don't you come pouring
in here and surprise us? What a revival
there would be if you only would, and
how we would rejoice!
"Tll tell you, / was born in Ireland IN
the year 1885, in the county Wessex, In
a little cottage overlooking the ocean.
/ can see the great rolling sea. and
catch the scent of the flowers growing in
my mothers garden, and see the great
trees waving in alteration of Him on
sand fleets have swept the ocean and left
no furrow on his brow. All, and we were
poor, but my mother catered to public
opinion, and she would sometimes enter.
tain her friends. And then. oh don't
remember, how the table was set in the
middle of the parlor floor and the cloth
was spotless, and I could look through
the keyhole and see the raisins and the
plums in the cake where poor mpther
cut it. And oh, wasn't I hungry when ]
had to get huddled out in the kitchen!
'In old Ireland they don't treat chill
dren the way they do in America when
they have company to dinner. Why
here Master Bobbin has his chair moved
up to the table and he is introduced to
everybody and gets the first helping. In
the old country the children get shooed
out in the kitchen, and there they had to
wait while the company took a long
long while to eat everything UP. / tell
you, my friends, in seriousness, don't
entertain your friends at the expense of
yQIr children. 1t seems little thing, but
it isn't; poor little fellows! It's an aw-
full thing to have to wait when one is
hungry and there's so many good things
on the table. Shouldn't blame 'em ii
they took bit beforehand when you
wasn't looking; only you find the hole in
the cake, or pie, or whatever they took
and then the poor child would get pun
lSneO. Tell yOuy my mother nurC die
teaching me manners and how to be
good. I want to talk about another: way
you entertain. It's the sideboard and
the wine cellars. We have whole lot
to say about the Saloons but don't you
think we better clean our own houses
first-clean them of the wine cellars and
the sdeboards, for they are the great
drunkard manufacturers. 1 once knew 9
man who had $4,000 wine cellar, and
he was talked about for his splendid
wines from Chicago to New York, $50, 90.
in wines, mind you.
'I asked the man how much he gave
to the ministers year, and he said $50
Why, / said, God have mercy on your
stingy SOUL One day he sat down to
dinner with his little wife. She was pref
ty; all the wives of that kind of men
are pretty, God be praised, and she seem
ed a little worried when the little boy
climbed up in his chair Somehow she
slipped in a word about the wine, and he
turned to her impatiently and said, Now
we are not going to have any more OF
that temperance talk, I hope She look
ed at him with her great big blue eyes
full of tears, and said she didn't near
to offend him, only she thought-she