Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03
Deter Newell

Id Me They Thought Otherwise" Peter Newell
steamer, and all would be weller than we'll digger
hal ha! | laughed joyously clapping them each
and severally on the back just like that.
Gould they joke' Not noticeaby: not in
fact, that it could be noticed through bnocuar
big thirteen-lnch gun They assuaged their
thirsts all that desired them to, and Law back in
their wicker chairs, and listened quite calmly my
merry quirks and outlets. But when l came to
that pivotal observation about how l thought I'd
just up to the United States. and all like that,
they all, each and several leaned forward in their
wicker chairs and told that they thought other
wise. | required of them what they meant although
l knew They related right back that my only
chance earth of again seeing me own. me
with the two thousand and odd dolarets that |
owed them individually and collectively.
"Whereupon, becoming peeved. ceased pushing
the button for them. and we dispersed with nego-
tatons not concluded. but lust about two thousand
dollars worth in abeyance.
'THEY entered suit against me the next morning got
judgments while they waited served the same
me. and were rewarded with peek my pock-
cts turned inside out, whereupon they turned the
judgments over to the Honoluluan authorities who
see to that debtors cleave unto the Hawaiian soil
until their debts are discharged unto the utermost
sou marque.
way we'll enough tap their office doors and re-
quest them to slip me. just for little while by way
OF loan the pitfing matter OF two thousand dollars.
l am not denying that. socially in Honolulu. [ was
furore and knockout. not to say a riot: but the
gay butterfly thing doesn't help you a whole lot
when it heaveS along time for you to vamp onto
the business firing line and get yourself something
Another bad thread of it that, it being the
hard times year of %, there no chance for
to make temporary two thousand win by sending
a bunch of sad, slow music letters friends in the
States, informing them of my marooned state, and
imporing them to remit if they didn't want to hear
of my pershng of a surfeit of Pearl Harbor house
boat parties In o. like 1908. every fellow in the
United States who had two-doar note carry
ing it in his shoe and going to bed with his shoes
and so wasn't idioic enough to expect that could
do any good by the correspondence method.
Which brought it all down blunt nub
personally conducted elopement by and with my
self from Honolulu if the cards could be shutfled
around to read that way.
Now, there disgrace attached to
the departure of debtor from Honolulu. He wasn't
looked upon a criminal a bad actor when
he in the throes of trying to break out of Hawaii
1t considered sort of little game and a kind
of little Joke besides When you re debtor in Homo
lulu, anxious to flee those sapphire waters for the
purpose of trying for start somewhere else, tn.
only HonOluluans who ag in you the folks
you the money to. The others wish you God
speed They can't help you: but they can and do
look while you re trying to put your plans
for getaway, and you don't lose particle of caste.
They re all rather interested to whet her you re
going to make the fyaway not, and in the n
time your status remains unchanged. It's got to be
given to the HonoluuanS: they don't Jump folks
that down if they have got debtor
roonng law.
A ND SO, following my no-go confab with the
stroll out Diamond Head way of days and nights,
trying to think out ways of tagging those lynx
eyed Judgment holders long enough to permit of my
putting the Islands of Hawaii hull down l was all