Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-23


thing this is! What dreadful
thing this makes!"
I don't know II many Of you have
read a very interesting book by the
great author Dickens called the
"Pickwick Papers?" Pickwick was
an elderly gentleman, a fat old fel-
low, jovial chap and good sort,
and he engaged lodgings at Mrs.
Bardell cleared his rooms and at
tended to him as housekeeper;
cooked his meals and brushed his
coat, etc. Mrs. Bardell formed the
acquaintance of a lawyer,-always
a bad thing to do; you always want
to keep away from the lawyer
but she formed the acquaintance of
a lawyer whose name was Sergeant
Buzz-fuzz-and he well deserved his
name-and through the influence of
Sergeant Buzz-fuzz Mrs. Bardell be-
gan a suit to recover fifteen thou
sand pounds for breach Of promise
to marry against Mr.. Pickwick And
in this "Pickwick Papers" there is
a very, very comical account of the
trial, and particularly the opening
to the jury made by Mr.. Sergeant
Buzz-fuzz. I will read some of that,
Just little recreation; Sergeant
Buzz-fuzz opening to the jury:
THE plaintiff. gentlemen" con-
tinued Sergeant Buzz-fuzz in soft
and melancholy voice, The plaintiff,
gentlemen, is widow, gentlemen. a
widow. The late Mr.. Bardell, after
enjoying for many years the esteem
and confidence OF his sovereign, as
one of the guardians of his royal
revenue. glided almost impercepti-
bly, from the world, to seek elsewhere
for that repose and peace which a
custom-house can never afford
AT this pathetic description OF
the decease We will leave
that out.
Sometime before his death he
had stamped his likeness upon
little boy"
II is always good to talk to
jury about little child, you know
With this little boy, the only
pledge of her departed exciseman,
Mrs. Bardell shrunk from the world,
and courted the retirement and
tranquility OF Goswell street; and
here she placed in her front parlor
window a written placard bearing
this nscription-'Apartme fur
nished for a single gentleman. In
quire within Here Sergeant Buzz
fuzz paused. while surveying the
gentlemen Of the jury.
There is no date to this instru-
ment. gentlemen OF the jury, but
am instructed to say that II was put
in the plaintiffs parlor window just
this time three years. ] entreat the
attention of the jury to the wording
OF this document, Apartments fur
nished for single gentleman Mrs.
Bardells opinion OF the opposite
sex. gentlemen. was derived from a
, long contemplation Of the inestima-
BILE qualities of her lost husband She
had no fear, she had no distrust,
she had no suspicion; all was con-
idence and reliance. Mr.. Bardell,'
said the widow. Mr.. Bardell was q
man OF honor; Mr.. Bardell was
man of his word; Mr.. Bardell was
no deceiver; Mr.. Bardell was once a
single gentleman himself; to single
gentlemen look for protection, for
assistance, for comfort" etc.
, And then there are two love let
ters,-
And now, gentlemen, but one
, word more. Two letters have passed
e between these parties, letters which
D are admitted to be in the handwrit-
! ing of the defendant, and which
I speak volumes indeed. These let
, tiers, too. bespeak the character of
the man. They are not open, fer
e went. eloquent epistles, breathing
! nothing but the language OF effect
+ ionate attachment. They are covert,
4 sly, undetermined communications,
t but. fortunately, far more conclusive
4 than II couched In the most glowing
!, language and the most poetic ina
/ gery-letters that must be viewed
r with cautious and suspicious eye
: letters that were evidently intended
at the time by Pickwick to mislead
I and delude any third parties into
r whose hands they might fall. Let
| me read the first: 'Garraway's.
S twelve o'clock. Dear Mrs. B.
. Chops and tomato sauce. Yours.
v Piokwick.' lGentlemen, what does
: this mean? Chops and tomato
4 sauce. Yours. Pickwick! Chops!
Gracious heavens! and tomato
D sauce! Gentlemen, is the happiness
? of sensitive and confding female
1 to be trifled away by such shallow
= articles as these? The next has no
4 date whatever, which Is in itself