The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-06-06
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Cherries are in the market.
The Peril. OF T~rnvcIer. on Hin

Mr.. EDITOR II had an occasion to visit Hilo
lately, and started in quite n cheerful frame of mind
but the frame got miserably dilapidaied in the effort
for if ever n charitable man, usually mild in thought
and speech and well hammered. might be tempted
frankly TO revile a fellow being if ever a pious gen.
tleman of an age past enthusiasm. and not given to
profanity, might be brought to associate another's
name with the author Of all evil if ever q misan-
thropic and unhappy tempered person might have
reason to congratulate his own sagacity in taking a
gloomy view Of the general prospect, it must surely
be whilst struggling b~elly-deep through that I'M
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS work of the Interior Depart
ment, facetiously termed the HILo ROAD.
/ have read Macaulay's description Of the journey
from London to York in the time Of Queen Anne, and
thought it overdrawn. Not so The Hilo road would
have stuck him. Carriages passed (somehow) over
those English ways, but 1 would defy Van Amburg
with his strongest caravan and a troop team of ele-
plants to make any time ut all over this interesting
i" evidence of our prosperity" How many poor
plantation coolies lie patiently beneath the mud, earn
ing their four dollars n month ~(without rice for the
presently, waiting in mastery inactivity" for a
change of wind or the fabled shovel of the Road
Supervisor, I would be afraid to say. l don't know
precisely what may be the specific gravity of a Pake
with the wind knocked out of him, as compared with
bottomless mud, but 1 do know that European human
ity, with al. its boastei Anglo-Saxon buoyancy, finds
a great g alacrity at sinking" in it. And once in,
Victor Hugo's devil-ish could scarcely hold its vic
tim more tenaciously than will this same mud when
it gets II grip of you.
But there are other horrors to be met with on this
unparalleled public work. Here We are, transmogri-
fed so that our wives wouldn't recognize us, painting
and sorely distressed for dinner, and as We family
surmised, incapable of any intenser degree of disgust,
brought up with n round turn at the jumping of
place. Why don't the Department at once candidly
paint its dictum in large letters and set it up as a
s;gn-board at this unequivocal spot-"Al suicides to
be committed herel" Alas poor traveller AS il
the last uncountable miles thou hast not gradually
|. 'een having all thy Christian fortitude and Saxon
=, luck unhinged and shaken out of thee, until here
e length, the last little atom left, which thou hast
t IN cherishing, together with the last drop in thy
TX, in the insane hope that it might sustain thee
IL Hilo, might be whipped out of thee with a straw!
IL this is no straw, and, moreover, it is no bridge.
; IRE is where Bunyan's poor Feeble Mind
faili. He would have turned tail and run but for
+ the,possibility of it. lie thought himself out of
r the pths.'' saw the end cut off, and tainted. But
we, e other pilgrims, who were taught in our
youth how high n neighborhood cleanliness dwells.
D preferven this, probably last, tempestuous ablution,
I aud cll. though watery, boots, to becoming unrec-
ognizeeamps of dirt by the way-side. Where is the
\ bridge Here it lays, poor soul, alongside of us, and
= here IT lh lain for months and months, all on this
: side, n 1Ienio morn Of past accommodation, an an
tque Reinsurance To our brummagem circumlocu-
D ton ohicesherein the question as TO whether such
luxuries sl be continued don't seem yet to be set
tied.
And ~noNetween us and Hilo there is a great
= gulf-a roalg torrent of unknown horsepower,
gashed with cks and treacherous with w~hirlpools
r and here weust plunge and do battle or remain on
this bank anctarye. Go back, Is it'll Not If know
+ it, Sir Behi is Scylla, here is Charybdis. And
who Is that form creature on the opposite SHE sit
ting like patiei ON Il rock, only not smiling, but in
n high state Of nd, and with what appears to be q
bag Of money ohis lap, For want of that same
money who kno but mutiny may be connecting
somewhere this mute? He can't come over, he
can't get back I; Is in a solemn fix, and / only wish
that the sore wigg, he'll be sure to get before long
could be transferre physically, to the author of his
misery.
Time fails me to lfurther. The subject grows on
n body as the mud -, and l am already a geolog-
ical specimen, many ues stratifed. Mud and gull
lies and rocks and imssabIe gaps and torrents are
evidently cherished intutions, and by the time tray
eleTs 1T uSch ~ "N lncy ltne triNeiefSD Will De |
exterminIted. Then tt ilIustrious three, of whom
one of your corresponds inquiries, will sit down
contentedly to their palae and crackers, comforta-
bic cOnquerors at last.
For these three officialhe public seems to have
been made, or for two of IN at least. Your CORES
pendent 81 who wants tOuow may be told this
much. as generally undersd that No. 3 is nobody,
without discretion that : . is next TO him, with
discretion supposed and ! is he who yields the
I Departmental broom-stick, feaster and darling of
the gilded things that dwell his beam - and fur
ther than that it " don't sigy talking Our chill
dren may live to see all this snged. | think there
is a change already in the balne;er of internal IN
provemeuts. TRAVELLER
p. Sand so there is. Thstorm is over for the
present, and the waters have ated. The perils of
Hanari gulch are gone with uch real estate) To
sea, and the danger being oy' the new bridge is
here. Ii has taken them only eat months in Homo
lulu TO conceive, construct anbe delivered of a
bridge which Hilo artisans Won have required at
least a week 10 produce.