The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-14

selt-erected temple and PROSECUTING to |
her freak faith Strange faith which
has for one of its tenets the slaughter
of the innocents' Reads like a Blue
Beard story.
Spell coffee"
"C-o-f-f-e-e."
"Correct-now you may pick coffee
berries for the rest of the day"
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La-la-la-la! La-la-la-la! La-la-la-la!
La! La! La!
The Admiral was on the roof of the
Alexander Young Hotel-in the Young
Hotel roof garden, to be correct. Beau.
tiful and grand he stood, as born to
rule the storm, or rather he was smoll-
ing his after dinner cigar and whiting
his cares away. Twas in the beauteous
Hawaiian Isles one glorious red twi-
light, the Admiral paced the roof gar.
den and dreamed of-well, he dream
ed of fight. You see he heard the La
la-la-la! of some distant bugle and he
knew the call.
"All hands on deck and clear ship
for action" he cried.
There was no response but the soft
shufhed swash of aproned Celestials
vending weirdly from one end of the
deck-I mean the roof garden-to the
other end of the aforesaid.
The Admiral grew impatient In
stinctlvely his hands went to his eyes
in binocular gesture and he swept
the raging main, including Bishop
street, a moving picture sign and a
ginger-pop emporium on the corner.
Aloft-from the staff of the hotel's
makai tower-he saw the Stars and
Stripes flying. This made him I'M
comfortable. Should have been taken
it at sunset" he muttered. Mice con-
dition of affairs-no response to or
ders-hag out after dark-sidelight not
burning-and, by Dewey, l don't be-
lieve the (wOrd omitted) ship is NOV
ing"
Stepping to a button in stanchion
I mean in lamp post-the Admiral
pressed it, calling: Orderly! ORDERLY"
A soft-shod Chinese stood before him
with a tray.
What will you have, sir?'
%, Very well.
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"a few of us got boozed Saturday
night" said a sailor of the American
ship Edward Sewall this morning
Whats man to do after five months
at sea, when he gets ashore? Some
of the boys, they're all good fellows,
I'm telling you, got copied and jagged,
but 1 takes hot sneak for the water
front and lands aboard the Astral over
at the red-light wharf.
You see l didn't look for any pleas
ant reception like aboard me own
boat, so l goes to the Astral, knowing
chap aboard of her, to get straighten-
ed out.
Say, what's your line? | seen you
coming outern the Consul's office a
while back. Reporter, Ell! Well, now,
look-a-here; guess I'm the duck you're
looking for. I'll tell you yarn if
you'll put it into your paper and keep
my title out of the pie. No, it amt
no hell-ship, nor it amt no sea-lawyeI
proposition neither. It's facts, an
hope to never see Pell street again
where l leaves a skirt what took UP
with dope-pipe Chink, nor yet the
Bowery, so help me, if I'm telling you
a shade off the straight-see!
1--WE wasn't getting much watch be-
low in the Straits of Lamar, what we
tried to get through a couple of times
before we does it, see, and 1 wasn't
any too fresh for sleep. 1t was me fol
the lookout and a rotten job, too, when
you've got to leave it every now and
again to lend hand at the bally
braces.
well, goes to sleep on me feet
see? Ever do that? Well, 1 did,
guess, or something mighty like it
though keeps a-moving from one side
to tother and dreaming I'm a-looking
ahead occasional to spot anything what
might be there, though there was moth,
ing, and all of bunch it hit me thai
there was a four-master to windwarC
and bearing down on us, though, mInC
you, there was not sign Of a light
and l couldn't say as l seen the ship
but, somehow, knew she was there.
you know how it is when you're
sure asleep; you think you're hollerinl
when you amt and just like that, II
must a-been, sings out, scary-like anC
then as l thinks, l makes a dive fol
the ladder, not wanting to be forward
|. when the smash comes. But thert
weren't no smash and the shock, as YOU
might say, Of not getting what l wa
looking for must have woke me, To-
J then l gets wise to being asleep ant
, knows there weren't no ship, see?
when 1 gets relieved 1 begins t.
= figure it out. Sure 1t was a fool dream
t but all the same I couldn't get it GU
, of my head. It's the same identica
/ kind of a packet as this here, says t,