New-York tribune., 1909-01-03
Peter Newell

steamer and all would hc weller than well digger
ha! ha, laughed loyousy. capplng them each
and sevcrally on the back, Just like that
Could they sec a Joke Not notlccably; not. III
fact 50 that il could be noticed through binocular
as big as a thirtccn-inch gun. They assuaged their
thrsts all that | desired them to, and lay back III
their wicker chairs and listened quite calmly to my
merry quirks and outlets. But when | came l"
that pivotal observation about how | thought d
lust run up the United States and all like that.
they all each and several leaned forward IN their
wicker chairs and told me that they thought %thtT
wise | required of them what they meant, although
| knew They rebated right back that my only
chance on earth Of ever again seeing me own me
native land was to come across sooner or later,
with the two Thousand and odd dollarcts that |
owed them individually and collectively
'Whereupon, becoming reeved ce3Sed pushing
th, button for them and dispersed with ncG"-
tiations not concluded but lust about tw" thousand
dollars worth in aheyancc
rHEY entered suit ag li1l,t the morning got
L judgments while they waited, served the same
on me and were rewarded with peek at my p"ck-
cts turned inside out, wherrupun they turned the
indI,ornts over t. the IIonolululn authorities who
see TO that debtors Cleave unto the iiaWalan soil
until their debts discharged unto the utermoSt
marque. . ru t;..
WAY well enough tap their office doors and re-
quest them slip me. Just Tor little Whiit 3E way
of a loan the pitflng matter Of two Thousand collars
I an, NOT DENYING that. socially IN Honolulu. was
a furore and knockout, not to say a riot, bu' Jilt
gay butterfly thing doesn't helP you Whole lot
her hpdVeS
the business firing line and get yourself something
Another bad thread of It was that; II Dtllg .re m
hard times wear of 'Q2. there was no chance lo me
10 make a temporary two thousand WIN pl Se"uiilS
. bunch of sad slow music letters 10 htliI' III 'll
States informing them OF my marooiitu St'te' '"
;,,-,,rno them to remit if they ddn want TO near
Is nv, Dfrishing of surfeit of Pearl liarbor noue
hoat Darties In o3 like 1908, every 1ello" Ill TIC
JTned States who had Il tWO-dollar note was CiilH
mo il in his shoe and going O. bed with mis- SlIes Oh
and so wasn't idiotiC enough to expect t''t O'"i
do anv good by the correspondence HltIiiT
Which brought it all down To one punt Hup
personally conducted elopement by ana Wlth my my
self from Honolulu if the cards could De ShuIl'eu
around to read that way tI -
:, Now there never was any disgrace dliiCIeu -
the denarture of a debtor from honolulu lie WASH
looked upon as a criminal, or even PAD 'Cto "lic
t rs IN the throes of irving to break out OF HaWa
T. y,ac considered as sort OF little game, ana hllu
of little Joke besides When YOU re deotoI III Il"lo
I,,l anxious to flee those sapphire waters ioI l,ie
,Ir,oce of irving for start somewhere else th'
only HonoluuanS who are ag IN you are tht LOih9
,,+; owe the money to The Others wish you lIod-
SSneed They can't help you: but they can and d"
look on while you're trying to put over your plans
for = getaway and don lose a PaIllCie OF CdSte
THEY'RE all rather interested 70 see Whtthtr your
CONG to make the tivaway not, and IN the mean
f,rne vour status remains unchanged It's got to be
given to the HonouluanS they don Jump on iolh9
that are down. eyen if they have got a debtor ma
rooning law.
A Nd so, following my no-go confap win 'Ile
n Deople | owed the two thousand to, used TO
stroll out Diamond Head way of days and nights,
irving to think out ways of tagging those lynx
eyed Judgment holders long enough to permit OF my
l.. = hull