The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-09

gen ennan cannot, cannot allow IT.
Madam, you mush take my seat
Pleash, madam. do not make scene
IS pleasure TO me, sure you-greates'
/, pleasure and beneath this courtly ur-
gency the flushed girl walked shame
facedly the length of the almost empty
car. and sat down in Strong's seat,
while that soul of chivalry put his
/ hand through strap and so stood till
! his ministering angel extracted him
from the train at Seventy-second
| Street.
With sigh of heartfelt relief, Rex
put his arm in the big fellows at the
foot of the steps. Freedom must now
be at hand, for Billy's home was in a
great apartment building not ten min
utes' walk away. The culprit himself
seemed to realize that his fling was
| over
"Raished Cain t'night, didn't we. OF
pal?'' he inquired, and squeezed Rex's
guiding arm with affection. iii shay
this for you, Rex-you may be soft
hearted OF slob, you may be haff-wit-
ted donkey-I'm not denyin' all that n
more. but I'll shay thish-youre the
bes' man to go on a drunk with in
in-in The'logican Seminary. I'm not
shut up, Billy remarked Rex, not
for the first time that night. I'D get
myself pulled together a bit if 1 were
you" he advised. You're going to see
your family in minute
m poor family" mourned Strong,
shaking his head. M poor family!
Thish'1l be awful blow to M family,
Rocky. They all like so much to see
me sober-always-'s their fad, Rocky.
Don't blame 'en1, Rocky, s. natural to
'em. Some peop' born that way NJ
poor family
They stood in front of the broad
driveway which swept under lofty
arches into the huge apartment house.
Strong stopped and gazed upwards
mournfulIy. Right up there he muir
INJURED, pointing skywards-''M' FAM
ly.'' The tears were streaming down
his face frankly now. .'I can't face
'em Rocky, n this condition you
We got me in,'' he said more in
sorrow than in anger. AT that
second the last inspiration of the
evening caught him. Across the street
arose the mighty pile of an enormous
uptown hotel. Strong jerked his
thumb over his shoulder. CON break
it to M family by telegraph EN- he
stated, and bitterly Rex repented of
that thoughtless mention of the Strongs
to their son and heir.
Good-naturedly as he had done ev-
erything. but relentlessly, he dragged
his victim over the way, and direct to
the Western Union Office of the hotel
-tWebster's Union he preferred to
call it. His first telegram read:
REX Fairfax got me drunk Don't
him M 70 hi f
That one was confiscated, Strong
complaining gently that his friend was
''all fads.''
The second message was this:
Dear Mamma: Billy's intoxicated.
AwfuJly Sorry. Couldn't be helped
Home SOON
That one went in spite of Fairfax's
efforts, with two cents extra to pay.
which item was the first event of the
evening to ruffie Strong's temper.
Shame, shame on rich capitalists
like Webster's Union to wiring two
cents from poor drunk chap, for liz
word like soon" he growled. and APP
pealed to the operator. couldn't you
let me off that two cents 20 he asked
winningly. You're good feIlow-good
lookin' fellow too''-which was the
truth. We'll, then, can / get 'em
cheaper f send 'em by quantity? I'll
do that-how many for dollar, hey?''
Five" said the grinning operator,
troubled by the irregularity, but taken
by this highly entertaining scheme of
telegraphing across the street. And
Rex, his arts exhausted in vain, watch
ed hopelessly while one after another
five kilograms We're sent to The Mon
tana, hundred feet away. The first
being short two of the regulation ten
words. Strong finished with a cabalis-
tic phrase: Rectangular parallelopipe-
don.'
'Thatn get even with Webster's
Union for chargin' me two cents for
soon" he chuckled. Don't v wish Y
hadn' charged me that two cents, hey?"
he demanded of the operator, laughing
joyfully and cooking his nat over one
ear. and the operator and Two or three
men who stood near could do no other
wise than laugh joyfully too. Strong
Strengthened his face into a semblance
of deep gravity. 'Thish next ones i'm
portant. he announced, and put the
end of the pencil in his mouth and
meditated, while his fascinated audi
ence watched him. He was lost in
thought for perhaps two minutes and
then scrubbed madly, and as he ended
the little bunch of men crowded frankly
to look at what he had written He
pushed it toward them with charming
unreserve, and the bewilderment with
which, it was read seemed to please
him.
Dear Papa" it ran. I'm Calymene
Blumenbachii, a trilobite, one of the
crustaceans related to the emtomos-
tracans, but looking more like a terra |
decapod, but always your affectionate |
Billy
He pushed it to the operator Split |
that in three. . he ordered. Don't want |
ruin the wires. I'm careful bout wires. |
Big fall snow wouldn' do more damage
n heavy words like that he explained |
to the listening circle. Think 1 look |
like tetradecapod?" he asked of them
as one who makes conversation. Had |
that in geology lesson when 1 was if
teen" he went on. Got lodged in i