The San Francisco call., 1904-02-14

o NADlOtdllOlS, or else to haul
Town the American flag, force him
tRosehilD and his crew to go on board
lhe Japanese cruiser and carry them
as prisoners of war to Yokohama.
W nat the outcome would have been
1t is difficult TO predict. The Amerf-
os people are not very patient at best
oI S.L the incoming TO America of 'the
idt.1e s,r Drown man and of the aggres-
nent, and IL our lord high admiral of
Mareus mad given the bird skinners a
hgnt IN defense of the American flag
ne might have furnished excellent ma
t'; la Ior a Democratic nominee for
As it was, he yielded, partly to SUI
- torce and partly to the prom
isS .s VI mas Government to protect him
tnrough diplomatic Channels The
niue japanese lieutenant of marines
eIuseo 10 allow the crew of the Wha-
zen TO land. He permitted the scien-
.ists TO go ashore and gave them a
nut , 10 sleep in. The chemist set about
SSoIIectlng samples of guano, but the
ueposits Were phosphates of lime, re-
qulrlng the use of pick and drill. and
he could do little without the Aid of
Iaporers, and these We're not permitted
20 Idno- AT the end of three days the
per mission TO remain further was with
urdwn ana all were ordered to go on
BOARD the Whalen and sail away.
me ceremony of American deporta-
lon from Marcus Island was most i'm
pressiVe; Nothing like it has occurred
since the expulsion of the Acadians
IIoIn Nova Scotia. 1t needs a new
Lohg1ellow to write a new "Evangeline''
10 depict it In the foreground was the
Nratn1ul Rosehill and two of his bully
eye crew. Facing him was the little
representative of the Mikado. The
heutenant-to his eternal credit be it
sald-had on pair of pantaloons. but
IIe sixteen marines behind him were
breechless and barefooted. Behind
the marines were the resident fisber-
men, thin ty in number, clothed like
GoClva, mainly in their chastity The
lieutenant read a translation from a
japanese manuscript which he held in
his left hand, while he pointed with hi;
snlckarsee, which he held in his right
hand, TO where the American schooner
lay at anchor with a limp stars and
stripes dropping from her masthead
with the detected droop of the tail of a
downhearted dog.
1hese unworthy subjects of his
mlghtlness the Emperor of Japan"
read the lieutenant, ito pursue their
industry are distressed by your pres
ence 1t makes it therefore that you the
United States get out of here quick.
MY miserable self wonders at the good
ness OF God that permits me to occupy
the same world as your Excellency. but
1t makes all the same that your high
and honorable EXcellency shall go
quick on board Of your worthy little
ship and sail away quick"
Now, look here" said RosehiH, I'm
going partly because my own Govern
ment bids me, but principally because
your man of war will be here in a few
days and l cannot fight her, but as for
you and your gang of breech- -elouted
lubbers, and the pot bellied bird skin
ners behind them, I'd engage to come
ashore with my crew and drive the
whole damned lot of you into the sea
with Delaying pins in fifteen minutes"
And thus delivering himself the An
cient Mariner boarded the Whalen and
returned TO Honolulu empty handed
and detected.
The Marcus Island Guano Company
presented its case to the State Depart
ment in order to obtain the promise
relief through diplomatic channels
But the Secretary of State had a gil
of islands and seemed to have no inter.
est in protecting the American acoui-
sition of Marcus. 1t will be an act of
gracious clemency if he refrains from
suing Peacock on his bond given TO
the United States for $50 900. that he
would open the guano deposits on Mar
Gus within year.
To cap the climax Peacock, the hi
larious bookkeeping buccaneer. was
sued by the United States and a iudg-
ment was rendered against him for
$1,000 for having, when he registered the
declared himself to be United
States citizen before he was completely
naturalized. Peacock's citizenship was
Tor long time a good deal like Lord
Dundreary's conundrum-"one of those
things that no fellow can find OUT
He was born a blooming Britisher.
He went to Australia, then he came to
and became a denizen but not
a citizen of Hawaii
Under the Hawaiian constitution
oeniZens were accorded all the rights
OF citizens, including the right to vote,
without being called upon to abjure
allegiance to their native land
Under the act annexing Hawaii all
persons having the right of citizenship
under the republic were made citizens
Of the United States.
Just here was the dilemma Of luck
less Peacock. Unlike Edward Everett
Hale's Man Without a Country" he
was man with an assortment of coun-
tries. When King Edward was crown
ed our pirate flooded his stomach with
bitter beer. The next day he was a
dyspeptic Yankee with a nasal twang
and full supply of remorse.
And so he alternated. On Tuesday
the hotel rates at the Moana were 81
a day. On Wednesday they were six
teen bob"
On Tuesday. when the territorial
band played the "Star-spangled Ban
ner, our pirate arose from his seat
and waved his hat in honor of his $4,000
Of this great and glorious
republic and sang loudly:
Hail TO the American eagle
To the proud bird OF freedom all hail
The bird that no tongue can irveigle.
Or put salt on his beautiful tail.
But on Fridays, when asked what
he was, he usually replied
that he was a conglomerate combina-
tfon, q dod-gasted, measly Anglo-Saxon
ornithorhyncus, an English beast with
an American bill-a bill for $4,000 pre-
sented by his Uncle Samuel And then
he would softly sing to himself, to the
tune Of Little Maud:
ryo fhousand daiiars ouf tvo th.,,.-z