The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-14

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zever give in when my men don't like
A thing. Iavang was dead against it,
TOO. and Boggs laughed in his nasty
way and told me was getting soft.
"Soft?'' 1 inquiries. Did you ever
hear of an army without a band? Or
a bandstana without somebody to play
on it?''
So I sat down and wrote a letter to
the American consul in sydney and the
Ress. took it up to Papeete and six
months later 1 got an answer. The
consul said he'd received my order and
would deliver in time, though bands
we're hard to get.
About six months after I'd got the
letter a bark hauled to off Enid and
sent a boat ashore with a band and an
invoice from the consul. 1t did me good
20 see 'em come ashore, all with their
caps IN and their horns about their
uecks There were six of 'em and 1t
wasn't till the bark had swung her
mainsail and got under way that dis
severed that not one of the band spoke
American. Himmelfritz was up in the
AiIIs after nuts and 1 had to wait three
days till he came back before could
tell the beggars to put down their horns
and have something to eat.
Then was the beginning of my
troubles. They were mad. They said
tfey.had been buncoed. Wouldn't play
A tune for anybody for love or money
OF kicks.
Imaine me- King of Enid for nigh
ifteen years, with a town with streets
ana an army with guns, and little
German band mutinying while my three
white men snickered and the army
marched and countermarched to a
shark-skin drum. Wasn't it enough to
put a man crazy? 1 tell you ! sat on
the beach those nights and thought
szUar all I'd done for lot of European
thieves and a pack of heather natives
and II swnre I'd teach 'em King Jede-
diah was the man to keep their eye on.
The German band got pretty wise to
she sort of shark Jedediah is, and the
Ehird morning after they'd landed they
5isapp cared up into the valley. l went
70, Hin1melfritz, he being of the same
creed and 1 says, "Himmelfritz, you
BETTER go up and explain to those Dutch
cousins of yours that 1 amt the man to
tool with. If they don't came round
and play music, they're liable not to
navez necks to blow through"
S6l Hfn1mel went up the valley and
s3ronl, Tsfifl< the natives told me, there
was quite a session up there. Himmel
came. back But without the band.
mo good" says he. They're scared
and they're Dutch. You might as well
let, 'em alone. After a while they're
ssTne down and maybe see your side
of it,
whats the matter with emp de-
znands.
"Homesick." says Himmelfritz.
go drilled the army and locked the
treasury every night and we played
casino on the lanai OF the palace till
the town went TO bed and the night
wind brought the sound of the surf
clear and sharp to US. Never a sound
from the band
But one night, after Himmelfritz and
Lavang ana Boggs had gone of TO
their Quarters and the moon was shin
ing through the palms, l was sitting
with my pipe in my hand, thinking or
a7lot OF things, when from far up the
mountain I heard a sort OF long-drawH
cry. HfelrtO listening and pretty soon
i heard IT again. a rising strain, py
Heck! Of some tune. Then the sea
breeze died away and heard it plain
er. 1t was the band. playing up there
in the moonlit valley some tune or
ether. that L remembered.
All night long they kept it up and I
IHeard Himmelfritz and Boggs come out
of their house and shuttle along the
boards TO the edge of the porch. Later
Lavang came cut on his porch and
hit his pipe. was mad clear through.
1t was bad enough TO have imported
a band and have them go back on the
bargain. But to have the whole settle
ment kept awake by their tlarned play
ing was going too far.