The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-08

like hot potatoes when His Eminence
pronounced the curse of Rome.
L was stage manager, and it is my
proud boast that I kept the company
together in perfect harmony with one
exception, during fourteen consecutive
weekly performances, which included
the dramas of Bulwer, Robertson, Sar-
dou and BoncicaulL. Shakespeare, we
did not attempt. We contemplated
presenting Hamlet, but the gentleman,
who was to delineate the melancholy
Dane insisted upon introducing some
original features, which he claimed
were justified by the text, such as a
flute solo by Hamlet, in the second act,
accompanied by a terpsichorean diver
tisement. When we refused to allow
him to have his way, he grew insubor-
dinate and left the company, with a
threat to shoot up the town, and to be-
gin his career by making a target of
any gentleman who should attempt the
part of Hamlet in his place. AS no.
body became a shining mark for him
we substituted East Lynne.
| had a large extension bed-chair in
my office, which at night was occupied
as a couch by our clerk. This was
carried over to be used as a bed for
! little Willie, when in the last act he
passes in his checks. The part of Will
liam was taken by five-year old girl,
who was one Of our troupe" The
stage official, who set the scene, neg
lected to shoot the bolt, which kept the
two ends OF the chair in place, and
when Mrs. Fitch, who played the Earl's
daughter, threw herself, in an agony of
grief. upon the couch Of the dying child,
! the head and foot board of the con-
! trivance shut up with click, like a
country Jack knife, and as the curtain
went down, there was visible pair of
CATERS poised toward the ceiling, while
the dying child howled, Let me out!
Let me outi"
| 1t is only fair tribute to the his
trionic pioneers of that date to relate
! that when the tangle was unravelled,
i the bedstead restored and the curtain
raised, the roar of laughter which
greeted the catastrophe was hushed to
respectful silence and the scene was
duly finished amid the tears and cheers
, of the audience.
| Let not distinguished counsel from
eastern or western cities sheer at any
OAR OF DenCn. lie llLl5dllOIi
| lucrative to lawyers-which attends
upon rich mineral discoveries, often
tempts the keenest intellects to the
frontier forum. why" said I to a
legal friend of mine, ''do you bury your
talents in this mining camp? Why do
you not go to Los Angeles, which is
growing so rapidly and so permanent
ly?" "Why?" repeated he. cit is be-
cause I might wait long time there
before I would receive, as fees, checks
Of four figures. All those Southern
California towns are filed up with a
lot Of lungless and liverless lawyers,
and if a capitalist wants a mortgage
foreclosed, he takes ten dollars and
goes down to the County Hospital and
i hires an attorney"
| 1t is not as bad as that, but there
were large fees paid to attorneys in
Arizona, in former years, and there was
as able a bench as could be found in
any eastern city. Judge Charles A.
| Tweed-dead now Of course; it seems to
me sometimes as if everybody who is
anybody, is dead-was a priest, a
| philosopher and a wag. On one occa-
sion a motion had been made before
him to discharge from attachment a
pair of va liable buggy mules, and or