The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-15
By G.. L. Cullen.


lon s rooms happened to advert to
shanghaing, following up the diversion
with an unnecessarily eloquent and
righteous homily upon the hellishness
thereof.
Only black hearted fends in human
form, this speaker set forth, would
shanghai helpless victim, not sea-
man, aboard a ship and compel him, at
the end of rope or the point of
| marlinspike, to work like a dog or a
Lascar in an environment wholly I'M
known to him. He invited us to con-
slider the frightful state of mind of a
| poor wretch who, ruthlessly grabbed
from the waterfront by the callous-
| souled erimps. awoke the next morn
ing in the foul-smelling 70 C sic The
called it foreeastle1 of ship that al
ready had left behind the last vestige
| of sight of land; awoke to find the
hobnailed boots of the bo 'sn Che call.
ed it boatswain) in his face. Just
imagine the agony of spirit, the-er-
| the
He broke off suddenly when he
heard, what the rest of us had heard
several moments previously, the
chuckles of Turk O'Fallon, who, seat
ed on three-legged stool by a win
dow, was swaying from side to side,
trying to keep the chuckles non audi
BILE.
fOh, go ahead and gurgle for your
self like a hyena!' broke out the elo-
quent one, glazing sheepishly at Turk.
81 s'pose you think that shanghaing IS
as decent and respectable as chipping
in for an ice cream sociable for the
benefit of the Old Ladies' Home.
Blame it all! I shouldn t be surprised
but what you We figured in some shang.
haing proceedings yourself, and
"That S what | have, son. softly
observed Turk, twisting about on his
stool and making an Intellectual effort
to look guilty and hangdog. 81 sure
have. There IS no evading or tagging
it, 'fe been mixed up in some shang-
haing, and no mistake.
"Well,' acclaimed the eloquent one,
CT should think you'd be ashamed to
sit there and own up to it. You are
ashamed, aren't you?'
Turk, who knows the purlieus of
Tobolsk as well as he knows the bay
indentations of Tampa, and whose body
Ito his present sorrows strangely
Uttered with tattooing devices needed
into his cuticle in his needless youth
Turk grinned with ingrained affable-
ness and suddenly turned the tables on
the accusatory one eyes, he said
reflectively, ~ was mixed up in a
shanghaing game once, sure enough
l was the shanghaied one. -
"Oho! Now will you be good?' we
all beloved, of course at the eloquent
one.
''Not only that mildly observed
J Turk; ~ got myself shangfaied. +"
Tommyrotl'' snorted the one who
so hated the thought of the shanghai
ing business.
"Not only that again. calmly GU
4 shanghaied. -
i |
] one who hated shangkaing.
2 We suppressed him by means O.
things throwable, however, and afte
some Fostering induced Turk O 'Fallo,
! to tell us why he got himself shang
. haied, and why, if he had really mean
4 that remark, he had enjoyed being
shanghaied.
= "They call Hawaii" said Turk
'ethe Land of the Always Afternoon
= I'll not battle for the Afternoon par
of it; but Hawaii once looked to m
Il like as if it sure enough was the Ian
of the Always. Meaning by that tina
| it seemed to me at that time as if
was always going to stay there.
Il Gin a way of speaking, [ was ms
rooned in Hawaii-if you can call
| being marooned when you re foolin
around with houseboat parties in Pea
Harbor, taking in lawn teas under fal
ping marques in Honolulu garden
| frivoling away the darker hours wit
midnight bathing, parties on WAIKIKI
Beach, sitting on the edge of the K
lauea crater with Peter Lee on his Vo
cano House porch, playing a leet
| poker at the Merchants Club, listel
ing to the Royal Hawaiian Band co
certs near the statute of Kamehameh
and more and other kinds of all tina
Tell me gladsonfer place to be m
rooned in, from Spitzbergen to Il
Strait of Sunda, than Honolulu,
the Island of Oahu, in the Hawaii;
group. and I II go there Tuesd;
week and see whether you re right
not.
Nevertheless. there were sor
things calling me away from Honolu
and the fact that 7 had to sit und
the fronds at night and dig and do
at some way of getting away from +
noluIu. shows tr.at I was marooned
right. I might have been lawn part
ing around Honolulu vet. and weari
gold dragon kimonos at stag enterta
- ments given by the Japanese club.
- it hadn't been for this little shangl
ing institution that sonny boy hi
/. looks upon with such unqualified d
D favor.
Iii "You see, the Hawaiian law. goi
4 away hack to the DAYS of the missi
airy rule of the Islands. has it that Y
can't leave Hawaii while You re
debt. You We got to come across