The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-24
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| face, and his conversation was even,
| though 1t was merry often and full of
| Jest. 1t was always to the point, and
his jokes-and he had a great many of
them-and his humorous illustrations
| were always to the point, they threw
light on the problem which was being
| discussed His sympathy, it seemed to
me, was lnexhaustlble, it was broad
| enough for all demands for the great
| est successes of his friends and for
| their greatest adversities. His com
| pany was full of good cheer, all who
| knew. him know how welcome he was
| as a guest, as a member of a party,
| or dinner party, or any festive occa
| sion. How his reminiscent mood held
hearers without fatigue. He never
was a bore. l think that was due not
| only to his magnetism, but to his SYM
| pathy. He looked at the world as a
| humanitarian. People spoke of him
| as pessimist, and if he was some
what given to pessimism it was due
to his enthusiastic devotion to the
cause of humanity. Society moved too
slow for him sometimes and gave him
that expression of pessimism. He
was impatient of the progress of hui
manity, but he was never discouraged, ;
he was never downcast or depressed,
he was always hopeful and every en-
terprise which promised anything for
the advancement of humanity always
found in him a man ready to give his
time and his efforts and his thoughts
to it.
did not know him so well as
lawyer as / did as a man and as
friend. When I was a very small
child at Punahou he was going to
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years old when he left for the United
States and I was about three or four
and / was so young at that time that
the fact that / remember him so dis /
tinctly I think is evidence of his mag
netic influence on everyone that he
came across. At that time I remem-
Der well he organized the boys of the
school. The school was made up of /
pretty small boys at the time and he |
organized them into marching compa
mics and drilled them.
This merry quality with which he |
took life | think has made some to feel |
that he took life, as Mr.. Smith says, |
not very seriously, but it was not so;
those who knew him well know that he |
did not take life in a trivial way. It |
was not levity in his disposition
which caused his merry expression, it .
was rather his challenge to fate, it
was his manner of defiance to an adj
verse destiny and of good cheer to his
friends. Sometimes it was even gay
cloak with which he hid an aching
heart, and this philosophy of his-this
merriment with which he met the
world was a very predominant feature
of his character and one which has
impressed me and done me good
through all nv acquaintance with him
That kind of philosophy is something
I believe in, that man will not allow
himself to be cast down whatever
may happen to him. He did great
deeds ana did not talk about them,
and he suffered great reverses and
made no complaint. / admire him
most intensely for these qualities.
He was public-spirited man, man
of large charity, man who was de-
voted to the interests of this country,
the land of his birth, always wanting
to come back here, wishing to lay his
bones here, having a sentimental and
romantic feeling in regard to this
country.
He came down here when politics
were exciting and uncertain and gave
large part of his time without any
engagement when he could Ill afford it,
to assisting the rulers by his advice
and his study of the questions which
were coming up SO numerously at that
time.
In his private life it is not easy for
me to speak of my relations with him;
filed, but his memory will always be
to me memory which is inspiring
and helpful to me.