The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-04

called - adventure - He perspired
after tragedy, with his notebook ready
Ike gun, to pot the game, and finally
Becoming the object of his own fire, SO
TO speak, bagged himself His amaze,
nent was ludicrous when he discovered
ais plight, perceived himself suddenly
snatehed out of his orchestra seat and
thrust upon the stage. So it goes. We
pay 10 see the circus and then find
ourselves in a hot battle with a can
vasman.
HIS name was John Selden Winthrop.
He was twenty-six years old, five feet
ten inches tall. fair haired, bue-eyed,
cold in manner, sparing of speech nat.
ty, burdened with a college degree and
sense OF his own philosophy. I be-
heve he had some money, too, though
that doesn T matter He laid emphasis
on his philosophy: that observation of
lfe-adN entuTe-was the foundation of
wisdom. That is one of the ways he
put it.
HdluIS. Sdlu W IHtulop,
els changeless in its essence. In New
England we have polished the original
type so beautifully that we sometimes
miss the real form of it. We are
slightly artificial We are getting away
from first principles. l have been given
to understand that down here in the
South Seas one can observe primitive
man-see behind the scenes, as Mr..
Cook says. 1t is very Interestingly
As ammunition, he carried about with
him a green volume of the Sunday, or
. Monday, lectures of a fellow named
Cook, Joseph Cook. He also had a
book of poetry by Emerson, and some.
body else s treatise on Experimental
Psychology Thus equipped, he came
to Honolulu and lay in wait of Raw
Humanity.
For six months he frequented the no.
tells, made decorous trips to the Pail,
interviewed the doctors at the leper
station. walked digniiedly up Hotel
street, watched the mixed races at play
and battle at Iwi1ei, poked his thin,
aristocratic nose past the jalousies OF
Palama. and regarded his notebook with
an expectant air, much as If he hoped
at any moment to see its fair pages
writ over with Real Life. At times he
came up the steps to The Advertiser
office and discoursed on the Sense of
Life. which. l take it. is some college
phrase for the three passions-woman,
work, and wisdom.
81 shall enjoy seeing a genuine ad-
venture, he would conclude. 81 have
several experiments TO make. | have
been told that men will act contrary to
their inherited convictions under the
stress OF extraordinary situations. For
example, men used to kill their rivals
in love. 4 man would fight to win his
wife | contend that love is a far diff
ferent matter. and that a man would
as soon think of committing murder to
win wife as he would of killing IN
order to gain his soul s salvation. By
observation down here of the influence
of primitive passion, l hope to gain a
good foundation for a treatise on the
fact that our civilization depends for
its degree entirely on the value which
it sets on the life of the individual. !
shall witness at first hand some of the
effects of an unartifcial environment
on men of varying stages of mental and
moral cultivation
N'If you wish to see murder and sud
den death, you may have to run some
risk ! told him.
he Informed me. Il shan t mix in with
any Of your quarrels. Consider me
merely a scientific observer.
OF course. he gradually filed his note
book A white man in Palama chased
= an
oil can which he tried to empty over
her flowing holoku, swearing horribly
because no one offered him a match
vherewith to kindle the holocaust. A
Porto Rican. sullenlv chewing his nails,
vas picked up by the police for knitting
a man who had jostled him in the
street. A Korean was pulled out Of the
green cane and thrust snarling over the
body OF a luna (oHerseerJ, who stared
into the faultless sky over the wired
hilt of machete, because of some no
ZION Tin the minds of the authorities
that the dead might awaken and iden-
tifv his killer. 1t all went down in
John Selden Winthrop's book, in his
rather ford script. with the day of the
month and the hour marked on the
margin. It didn't satisfy him. He
pulled Emerson on me. Ike 4 pistol ana
demanded the gods, not the half gods.
In those days. as the Bible says. a
schooner came swinging up from the
deep South with an old man and a
Young woman seated on the after rail,
hauled into Honolulu, and slipped up to
a berth of Fort street. 1t was Michael
Tuubridge and his daughter Flora, come
up from Godfrey Island with a tale
about Pierre Jourion and the footing
of their little, square treasure box of
pearls. 1t appeared that Pierre had
also seized Godfrey and was holding it
on the plea that it was French territory.
Michael stormed the citadel Of the
prime minister, and found little hope
ST aid Capital looked askance at his
request for ten thousand dollars where
with TO buy arms and ammunition to
siay the looter and his crew Michael
got indignant, rolled his sleeves back
over his witherpd arms, and swore by
the angry gods that he would return
single handed and kill ,JOurion. and
send the remains 10 the cannibal islands
IS kumshaw. Flora sat on the lanai
of the Royal Hawaiian and listened TO
he band. She was fine. large, hazel
eyed girl, with a queer fashion Of sud
denly turning her head as if to surprise
You while YOU stood behind her