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

see they We started up that old discus
sion about Gin raj Ulyss s. Grant
whether he was a great gin raj or
not?" asked Mr.. Hennessy.
"Oh, no. said Mr.. Dooley, "that
don't Interest tn gin 'rous minded
American press an public. TIL ques-
ton is not whether Gin raj Grant was
our greatest sojer, but whether he
was our most determined an capable
booze fighter or whether he was not.
Me old frind Willum Taft is sure he
was. He says there was nawthin' so
splendid in tn career " Grant as his
lifelong struggle with tn demon Rum.
Gin raj Lee was a featherweight com
pared with tn inimy that used TO come
RRRRinto Grant s tent ivry night an
grapple with him. Willum says others
NAV applaud Gin rial Grant 5 siege "
Vicksburg an tn way he slammed Lee
befure Richmond, but as FIR him OWL
lum) his heart is on y stirred whin he
thinks iv tn gin raj las a dipsomaniac.
He has been much criticized be tn ,
Dimmycratic papers f'r his speech, but
he says he intinded it as a moral les
son to tn youth iv tn land. He want
ed to teach our young men just start
in out in life that all hope wud not
be gone if they allowed thimsiIves to
become dhrunkards. IT'S fine, en-
couragin argymint. I'm goin to have
it printed in tn shape iv pamphlet
an distribute 1t fr m me dure to tn >
Numbers iv tn Father Macchew So
ciety as they pass scornfully by on
their way to their reg lar weekly
meetin'
"I've always heerd that tn gin raj
was in tn habit iv takin' a dhrop or
two too much,'' said Mr.. Hennessy
CIV coorse We did said Mr.. DooIey
"'Twud be like We to. IT'S wan iv'
TIL two or three important facts in
histhry that wud stick in. ye'e mind.
Ye don t know whether Gin raj Grant
escaped fl m Libby Prison, crossed tn ,
Delaware River on tn ice or won tn ,
battle iv Bunkers Hill; he cudden t tell
me whether Ch.1tynooga is in Injyan-
ny or Oklyhomy, an We re not sure
whether AppomattoX is tn name " a
town or a queen iv table wathers But
some night We heerd man hangin'
onto a bar-railin say that somebody
dhrank too much, an We pricked up
We 'er ears an says, 'Who?' an ye' er
fellow ineebryate says, 'Ulusheeshess
Grant, an there an thin We become
next year We II be called on to deliver
tn memorial grafton at Grant s Tomb.
But [ warn We not to get too near tn
grave. 1t takes a long time to thurly
kill man that has faced tn rebellyous
hosts an their more rebellyous liquor
an come out alive. TIL old gin raj
NAV have wan kick left.
81 don t suppose Gin raj Grant iver
thought his habits wud get into his
thry. I don t suppose he figured that
whin they put up a tablet over him
with an account in his victhries 'twud
read:
Fort Donelson
Rum
Shiloh
Rum
Vicksburg
Rum
Richmond
Rum
s'He cudden t tell. He took his nog-
gin FIR IN time to time, Nv coorse. If he
took a dhrop or two at all We can bet
that sometimes he took a dhrop or two
too much. But / don t think that tn
gin raj, whin he come out iv tn liquor
store munchin' coffee bean an ord
herin his troops to charge tn bat
thries IN front, liver EXPECTED that a
grateful nation wud turn it's back on
tn battle an go into tn bar-room an
ask tn barkeep what he'd had to
drink He didn t know that TIL Muse
iv Histhry wud ring up ivry toddy
he took on tn cash registher with
noise that wud reverbyrate around tn
wurruld an dhrown tn crash iv can
non an tn cheers ~ victhry.
''But so it is, Hinnissy. Ye think ~
Jictb INV h Ch q
in tn pitchers, a kind iv good
lookin'. middle-aged woman, settin'
down an writin nawthin' but tn
gIorvous deeds iv mankind. But she
ism t. She s a frivolous, light-headed,
= evil spoken old hen that goes flynn
around fir IN house to house pickin up
all tn gossip she can hear an writin
it down in her little note book. An
she don t much care whether what she
hears is thrue or not. Amy kind ~ |
an old says she is good enough |
FIR histhry. Twill whisper We Ter vir-
tues an megaphone til scandals about /
We. TIL boyhood frind that knew We |
whin ye'e name was Donahue an We |
stole dog FIR m a Mormon in Salt Lake |
City is as good a witness an betther /
thin We 'er fam 'lv that knew We d niver
been west " Aurora, Illnye.
9Th divvle take tn Muse " His,
thry, says I, a gadding, backbiting, old |
dhressmaker with a knock f r ivrybody. |
She 5 spoiled all me heroes T r me, or
did ontil / got to know more about her
an believe as little in her as / do in |
tn Widow 0 'Brien an her stories
about th home life iv tn Car "
Rooshya. An she s niver so free with /
mans good name as whin she : writ
in his biography. We expiet her to get
her information fir m tn fam lv an
copy tn pitcher iv We in tn parlor,
dressed in th UNIFORM " tn Hber.
nyan Rifles. with a soord in wan hand
an tn Constitution ~ til United
States in tn other; but she prefers to
get her information fir m tn man next
dure who has a snapshot iv We in red
flannel undhershirt, Shawn We 'ersilf