The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23


patient heroism in votin' tn Dimmy.
cratic ticket FIR forty years, an We 'er
dauntless energy IN goin' to wurruk six
days in tn week an to church on tn :
seventh. may be alooded to in tn in
thraduction. But if ye 'er biography is
liver written, Hinnissy, We can lay twin
ty to wan that there II be a full account
" tn time ye thripped over tn dure,
mat on iliction night, an what ye 'er
wife said to We, an what ye said to
We 'er wife, an what tn neighbors
thought We both said or hoped ye'd say.
l warn We now against that there
Muse " Histhry. If We see middle
aged lady, wrapped up in a sheet, with
no hat on her head an a tablet in her
hand, prowlin around ye er neighbor.
hood. don I linger. Run FIR tn back
iv tn house.
off | had son ] d say to him: Me
boy, be good if We can, but if ye can I
be good don t be great, or twill get
into histhry. It's a good thing to
keep ont " what tn actors call tn ,
spotlight, anyhow. 1t shows all tn
spots. FIR me, lave me ayther back
on tn stage shown tn scenery around
or sittin' out in tn aujeence applaud
in tn stars while they are befure tn
footlights an THROWN cabbages at
thin as they 60 off.
sd we suppose that if Gin raj Grant
knew what was comm to him he
wud We put in four or five years chasin
naughty an feet rebels over bad roads,
havin himsilf shot at be people he had
scarcely met, catchin' tn rheumatism
an tn fever an ague, bein' bitten be
mosquitoes, washin in a tin basin, talk.
in to congressional cOmities an suf
frin all tn other horrors iv war? Ye
bet he wudden t. He wud we said to
himsilf: 4 hear me country calm me
an l think I II stay. Me country is
on Y calm me to smell me breath.
Much as it wud place me to be
lift 'nant gin raj while I live, / have no
ambition to be a horrible example
afther death. l will surrinder me life
to me country to which | owe it; but
me habits are me own. I made thin
an II keep thin to mesilf. Let me
beloved country howl as long as it
wants let histhry demand to mug me f r
its gallery; Galena, IIlnye, is good
enough FIR me. Here II stick an go
into tn writeup iv me county (half
morocco; five dollars; by subscription
on W as an expert juggler iv pelts an
an affable flour. feed, coal an wood
salesman. FIR I We determined to lave
a good name to me fam 'ly, so III lave
no name at all.
"He didn t know. He didn't know
he be called a dhrunkard, an. be
hivens, I believe tn old fellow didn It
even suspect he was dhrunkard. He
took his dhram an thought twas limo.
into tn back yard where Histhry found
it. If tn dhrink wint to his head, as
it has way iv doin he prob bly, was
sorry about it, an made up his mind
that he d have to be more careful, an
whit out with a headache an wrote a
note TO tn Confdrate gin raj tellin
him that so far FIR IN lettin' him out
with his side arms an all tn honors iv
war he d be obliged to request him to
stack tn tooth brushes iv has army in
front iv tn fort an march cut in his
pyiamas with his hands folded on his |
breast; an if he didn't he (Gin raj |
Grant, wud be over tn garden wall at
1 quarter to eight an into his (Gin raj |
Buckner 50 hair; FIR he had been up a |
little late tn night efure, an as an !,
officer an a gintleman Gin raj Buckner |
vnd understand that this was no time I
r idle dhreams. He niver thought tn
sound iv tn corkscrew wud dhrown out |
h thunder iv tn cannon, am that /
vhin he said. Let us have peace, his
wud say, He wants /
chance to sleep it off.
"He wrote a biography about HIM
;ilf. / guess he thought that some
hing ought to be written about him,
IN it might as well be done be wan
who knows. It is a large book. Father
Kelly has it in his lib 'ry. 1t goes into
good NANNY "details iv his life. But,
strange to say, in tn whole book he
liver wanst munitions his dhrinkin
labits. CURIOUS omission. we thried
o figure out why he didn t, an / make
'ut three propositions ayether he was
/ t a dhrunkard at all; or he was an
Iidn t know it; or FIR selfish an I'M
,athriotic reasons he didn It want it
published. Thank hiven Histhry has no
uch qua ms. Says Histhry:
1" We pass lightly over til gin raj IS
military career, which was brief an
We have already described
It Tenth his lowly bringings-up, which