The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-19
LITTLE STORIES OF
HOME AND ABROAD

TOwnfolk never get tired of observ-
ing Jacks funny stunts while ashore.
1t may be that the monkey drill he is
compelled to undergo on board the big
white cruisers prepare him for minstrel
performances ashore. These exhibitions.
however, are given generally aboard a
eayuse or a bicycle, in either case the
rider not only looking funny, but act
ing in way that should take him on
the vaudeville stage, With elbows
swinging, trousers legs afapping, he
bOunees through the streets, not so
much the terror of pedestrians, but the
terror of the bystanders, who fear he
is going to hurt himself. Before the
fleet left for Samoa a resident of Nu-
u9nu Valley encountered a trio of blue
jackets tearing up the valley as if their
lives depended on the squirt. Hastily
throwing one of his children into a
yard and showing another into the
ditch, the resident scrambled up a bank
looking for safe place. Just then the
horsemen came abreast the group, when
one shouted, "Reverse engines!'', and
all three threw their mounts to their
launches. The leader raised his cap to
the gentleman and said apologetically:
Ye didn t think we'd run over yer.
did yea / give signal to stand bv'
down below, and we reversed o. X.
Good morning. Giddapi" And off
they went toward the Pail.
Candidate Eddie Quinn has reason to
be sore and disguised, as he told some
of his friends one morning last week
in Cunha S Alley. There was to be a
meeting of Republicans at Pearl CITY
one evening and Eddie sent some ad-
vertising dodgers down there to be dis
tributed. The G. o. p. speakers thought
that Eva would be triumphantlv Re
publican and Eddie felt considerable
pride in the thought of addressing so
many voters. But it was a case of
counting the chickens before they were
Matched. Eddie missed the train and
he had to hire an automobile. There
was a hurried dash for Pearl CITY. and
when Eddie got there, there were but
eight voters sitting in the glare of the
torches. Eddie stayed by his guns,
however, and he spoke F'But to think
of paying 81 for an automobile and
finding only eight voters to talk to.
That trip cost me little over 50 for
each voter present and there's no tell
ing whether the whole eight will vote
for me or not, p" is Eddie s wall.
Captain l.. L. La Pierre, Grand Army
veteran and grand veteran of the Ha
waiian Government, and at present
dispenser of water to the ships and
steamers that call here, has lust re-
turned from San Francisco. 1t was his
first visit to the Coast in twentv-seven
years, and he felt like a Reuben in
from the country. In fact, he was a
Rube, to use his own expression. for he
was almost run over by a brewery
wagon and water wagon. Then his
family had difficulty in keeping track
or him when he went gazing in aft
the store windows and getting first
views of the new Directoire gowns.
On arrival in port, however. he found
out what 1t is to be so long away from /
a real, big city. A gentleman boarded
the steamer out in the BAY and after !
looking oyer the passengers went ND /
to captain La Pierre and asked if that |
was not his name. La Pierre was not
TO be bunkoed and he gave some such /
unusual name as Smith or Brown. The
stranger said, 81 guess so, =" and went
away smiling.
The captain thought he had played a /
sharp trick at the start of his expe-
Renee, but he slid down a peg when !
me of his Honolulu friends came up !
With the same stranger and said: 1
Captain, I'd like to introduce You to |
your son. - The Captain gasped. 1t /
vas true, he hadn't known his own
'on.