The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-23

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amount lying on the bureau, permit
me. - With these words he deity
slipped two dollars worth of loose
change into a capacious wallet which
he carried and~produced fountain pen
and lengthy agreement, which he
slipped in front of me, and, placing
the pen in my hands, compelled me,
with mesmeric gesture, to sign my
name Then he bowed, wished me good
day, and disappeared through the door.
| gave a sigh of relief, thinking that
I was rid of my gruesome visitor. But
I was disappointed. On passing his
unsuccessful rival on the way out,
my two-dollars-a man had been
unable to resist the temptation to
gloat, and his frenzied adversary
goaded to action by the taunt, rushed
by the japanese boy and burst into my
room. HAS that ghoul caught you
for one of his thieving endowment pol
ieies?'' he reared. 'sYou must not do
it. Think for a minute that if you
pay two dollars a week for twenty
years you will have given him no less
than two thousand and eighty dollars,
for which you get a ffty-dollar coffin
in return. Nay, listen to me and buy
outright one of our made-to-order,
seamless, watertight caskets,' and he
produced catalogue, the pages of
which he began to turn rapidly, dis
playing a long array of pictures of
collins of all shapes and sizes.
About this time somebody broke into
the room and, when I came to, the
japanese boy was sweeping the floor
and naively informed me that he was
sweeping up "little bits of mans.''
It was about that time that the
blacksmith began to hammer his forg-
ings. There is midget Vulcan who
sets up his forge in the back of one s
head and, with great energy increasingly
hammers on his anvil At night when
they have taken pour temperature and
given you something that is supposed
to make you sleep. he works harder
than ever; the sparks fly from the glow
ing iron on his anvil and form into
quaint pictures. The most eft-recurring
one is the golden key incident. You
heard the story in Cairo when you went
down the Mediterranean with Hawkins,
whose father owned stock in a steam
ship line so that you and he could dead,
head. 1t was one of the tales that
the old liar, who sold you Egyptian
relics made in Birmingham, used TO
prattle. The little old man with the
beard that touches the ground comes
to her with a golden key and says
that Ben Shaid is lying sick unto death
in his tent in the valley of the hot
winds. She takes the key and climbs
up over the pass of the seven armies
The sentries stop her but she shows
them the golden key and so they lei
her by. Then she comes up to the
tent and pulls back the flap. 1t is
early morning and the desert air sits
in like strong wine that has broken
through the cask and the light is the
clear light that takes sight everywhere
Then she comes over and puts the lit
tie golden key on your head and you
come out of the fever and are strong
"And the little golden key is Love
young sirs, and some day you will fee
it on your forehead and if the air is
like strong wine that breaks through
the cask and the light is the clear light
that carries sight everywhere then yor
will wake up and be strong.' But il
is only the electric light that somebody
has turned on because they heard y0l
rambling and have put hand on you
forehead to see if you had high fever
Many pictures come in the sparks
Sometimes You are in the picture your
self and sometimes you know that yol
are lying in bed watching them Their
IS no truth in any of the pictures, the,
are all fantasy of the blacksmith 7
imagination and the quaintest ones yol
cannot remember after the pictures ar
gone with the daylight, when tn
sparks still fly but do not show up Ii
the light.
When the blacksmith 5 forge fire ha,
died out and he forebore to hammer
so that I slept all night and began t
feel stronger, the doctor appeared on
morning with a meaning smile and
black leather case. / heard somethin,
going on in the bathroom. "Let u
cut him open and see,' I heard tn
doctor say. He did. He produced
cocaine syringe and injected a quantit
of that liquid which is presumed t
deaden the nerves and prevent pain. I
deadened the nerves perfectly, so ia
as know; that is, all the nerves excep
the particular one connected with til
place where he carved me. It was
indeed, most delightful time for tn
doctor who was greatly enamored 0
his job, so much so that he kept touch
ing it up with strange instruments. A
for me | chung CALAMITY to the bedpos
and yelled for mercy. Afterwards
felt ashamed of my cowardice unde
pain and mumbled a feeble apology
9 Not a word, not word - replied tn
genial carver. "Lots of 'em croak whe
L begin on them; You did remarkabl
well, remarkably WE'LL -
The balmy air that sweeps down owe
Tantalus and the warm glow of sun
SHINE that comes in through the one
windows soon began good work one
the blacksmith had gone and the cary
ing was done. The just being able +
crawl out of bed into chair for hal
an hour stage was soon over and !
was not many days before I bloome
INTO my present very hungry GONZALES
cence and, sitting out on the lanai Iool,
ing down over the slopes of green +
the summit waters of the bay bevond
things seemed very good and being Il
IN Honolulu quite worth while. Peopl
that you never dreamed wouId +binl
about You send messages and come y,
TO inquire; some send flowers. big fra
rant roses that make Won close Won
ewes and think of n Snrror- -