The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-28

n peachy as any place I've been
AN in lately" said the Cheerful
Liar with a far-away look in his eye
why, that town is building up 50 that
man who goes over tile pail and Genes
back in a week time has to hire pc
liceman to show him wnere lie lives
I've known men right here in Hilo to
have the same experience without leav-
ing town." said the Early Riser. Il
guess, though, that staid old Honolulu is
getting to be pretty fast town.
''Fastr' said the Cheerful Liar, Fast!
Well she don't have to put on no fin
keel to keep up with New York or Chi
cago, and I'll bet San Francisco will take
her swash when it comes to being
sporty
Did you find this out by being down
there for three days." asked the Kick
er.
Hadn't been on the beach ten minutes
before l bumped up against a lot of
knowledge that will last me for some
time. And politics are getting well mix
ed. and by the time the little judge comes
back things will more than hum. Be
tween putting up big stone buildings and
keeping out of the way of the fast street
cars the people don't have much time
down there to do business, and the town
| is changing; few years ago and a fel-
| low knew everyone. Now he don't know
anybody, and it's drafted hard to get
acquainted even with the girls, who hop
III l. COW 40
of them out at the beach on Sunday, and
honestly my heart ached for her until
/ learned that it was a fad. I wanted to
| be that girls pa and the owner of a
hickory for a few minutes"
You ought to subscribe for a fashion
magazine and read up" said the Kicker
"A man who lives at the Territorial
| morgue cannot expect to butt in on So
ciety people once in two or three years
and consider himself up to date; ne
doesn't have the right swing, and no
matter how hard he tries to oe mouern
the people will get onto him.
When 1 say that you are undoubtedly
right, l speak from experience said the
| Cheerful Liar. Il stood on the corner Of
Fort and King streets one day watching
for an opportunity to cross when kind
Unlocking man took hold of my arm and
escorted me across, with the remark
that provincial gentlemen could not be
too careful He also advised me not to
stand in the middle of the street when
L wanted to look at the roofs of the tail
buildings; l might get run over / found
out afterward that it was Marston Camp
bell of the Public Works Department
Did you go into any of the Coffee
Shops while you were DOWN." asked the
Early Riser.
mol they don't have EN-. They fix
things up and call EN- parlors' in Homo
lulu answered the Cheerful Liar. And
they are all right as far as appearances
go. l went into one and asked for coffee
and sinkers, and they brought me de-
coction of something and three bits of
something yellow enough for the angels.
baked on the coffee and called one of
the hired men and complained to him.
He stuck his hands in his pockets and
said with a naughty stare: The only
thing we can do is to try it over again.
Then he ducked out and sent q Chinese
boy to take away the postum. AS the
latter walked past the counter 1 heard
the first clerk tell him to turn it upside
down and bring the same thing back to
him. And 1 guess he did-it tasted like
the same stuff"
"He knew you We're farmer" said
the Kicker, and wanted to have some
fun at your expense
| But ne dldn I know that / sold my
hog and that I was down there to get
experience. l got enough to last me ten
years. Honolulus a warm town in more
ways than the weather; in the latter re-
speCt it's q regular three-coliar-a-d day
town if you want to keep even. l had
a talk with some of the officials down
there about roads and schoolhouses and
learned that there was no money with
which to do anything. That new school
house at Keaau was built at a cost of
$1,000 by Mr.. McStocker. expecting to be
reimbursed by a damphool legislature.
which failed to see the necessity for more
schools. Now Mr.. NcStocker is Won
dering if the members of that distin-
guished body expect him to emulate
Carnegie or Rockefeller and establish IL
braries and schools throughout the Isl
and. l found out, also, that the money
to pay for road work in Olaa during the
past six months has nearly all come
from Mr.. McStocker. who expects some
day to be repaid by the government. Evil
IDENTIFY, Mac has lot OF faith. and ii