The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-03


Willing away an hour or two at cost
of a few hundred francs. There were
no heavy players, and the TRADITIONAL
Russian Prince who either breaks a
bank or mortgages a principality in an
evening, was not present. I did not
see a bet as large as one hundred dol
lars, fifty dollars was unusual, and the
bets ranged generally from one dollar
to twenty dollars. We noticed one ex-
cited individual who seemed 70 lose
every time he made a bet. He evidently
went through" after a while, for as
we were promenading on the balcony,
gazing out upon the tranquil sea, and
drinking in the perfumes of the flowers,
he came out and walked hurriedly up
and down.
He is consoling himself for his lost
gold pieces by looking upon the beauties
of nature" said my companion.
Not he" replied I, '.he hates every
shrub and rock, he loathes the oderous
roses, he would like TO dry up the foun-
tain, and cut down the palm trees, and
throw the flower beds into the Medit-
erranean He is thinking of the seven,
or the nine, or the middle column, or
the red, or the black, more than of the
flowers. He is in about the same
frame of mind as a man 1 once heard
of at Saratoga, who had been up all
night fighting the tiger" He had
poured copious draughts of 'tangle
leg into disordered stomach. He had
combatted the wild beast with varying
success the Iive-long night, until the
gray dawn found him on the street
homeward bound, penniless, a little in
ebriated, morose with his losses, ang-
cred at his folly, disguised with himself
at war with society, and feeling alto
gether hostis humans generis. A
little way ahead of him a stout middle
aged gentleman, who was trying to re-
duce his corpulence by an early consti-
tutional walk, had stopped over to adj
Just a delinquent shoelash. Here was
a, small opportunity afforded to the de-
feated gambler to vent his spite against
the world, and with a swinging kick
he landed the STOPPING stranger head
over heels in the gutter.
With face filed with rage and con-
sternation, the kickee inquired of his
unknown assailant, what he intended
by this extraordinary proceeding?
What are you doing here at this
hour of the morning, crouched over the
sidewalk in such a position as that?"
roared the irritant cardist in COM
planning wrathful tone?
why, I was only tying my shoe" |
gasped the sufferer.
Yes" rejoined the assailant, as he
his journey;
Eyes. blank you, you are always ty- /
ing your shoe
~ ~ .es
My share of obligation to Christie
pher Columbus is necessarily small. but !
being of grateful turn of mind I
suppose that feel it more than others,
wherefore it is that sought his native
city to do homage to his memory, and
there ascertained that Columbus was
not born at Genoa at all, but in Colo
etto, some fifteen miles away.
We left Mentone at 9 o'clock in the
morning, ana We're soon at Ventirniglia.
smiling official asked me for my pass
BORT. Relying upon the advice of the
,ufde- book, I had neglected to provide
myself with one Then he asked me
or my card; mo cards. of course, for
hey were packed at the bottom of my
runk. Rather than have any trouble
With this minion of a king, 1 gave him
business card of a stock-broker in
Jew York which happened to be in my
pocket. It answered every purpose,
md I stepped, a free man, upon the soil
f Italy.
Dear, dirty, delightful, sunshiny, lazy,
luscious Italy. The rustic of her vine
ards, and the picturesqueness of her
Minis and the decaV of her buildings,
nd the blue of her skies, and the
alminess of her airs. and the ragged
less of her sons, and the unearthly
aliness of her middle-aged females,
nd the music of her seas, and the
aziness of her citizens, and the fero-
ious activity of her insects, are i'm