The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1869-04-21

Locomotion is the handspring that pro-
pells the Yankee nation. The chief end and
aim Of man in this country is to Ego it."
And We are going ton four wheels, on
three wheels, and two wheels. Some Yam
kee, more inventive than his fellows, will
yet devise plan for going it on one wheel,
and then all additional wheels will be voted
out OF fashion and out of use as superfuous.
We are Just now in the midst of the two
wheeled mania, and an individual that can
not afford TO risk his neck in the effort to
outstrip competition in the glorious pastime
of running down elderly gentlemen and into
tine expansive folds OF admiring crinolined
femininity, don't pass for much. 1t requires
hard labor, long practice, and an abundance
of patience TO become master of the art of
two-wheeled propulsion astride of wire,
but then the reward is to be considered.
Success is promotive ofscience, the arts, and
as We have Just learned, of agriculture.
At the recent meeting of the Executive
Committee of the State Agricultural Society,
the preliminary steps were taken to bring
this valuable invention 10 the favorable no.
tice Of agricultuists, by the award of pre-
miums for the best velocipede Precisely
what relation the velocipede has to the cul-
tivation of cereals, the breeding of stock, or
the promotion of horticulture or forticul-
tuTe, we are not informed, but as the wisdom
of such eminent farmers as Whittier ]. Bax-
ter, K c. Barker, and NJ. Z. Crofoot, is
above question, we presume the information
may be obtained at the ticket office on the
fair ground during the exhibition. Last
year the Society promoted its interests and
replenished its treasury by adding to its at
fractions foot-race between several Indians
and white man, in which the white man
not only came out second best, but with
but little of the breath of life left in him
He was neither "by-circle" nor "tri-circle"
enough to beat the savages, but from the ac-
ton of the Executive Committee, this year,
in providing avelocipede show, the inference
is that the farming community gained great
information to aid them in the pursuit of ag-
riculture in witnessing the race.
The Committee ought not TO have stopped
with simple premium for the best veloci-
pede They should have done something to
encourage the use Oft. 1t would have been
good thing TO have provided the different
viewing committees with them. large
number might be provided and rented out,
for the benefit of the treasury, TO visitors to
the fair, and quite an improvement might be
made in the short-horns and the various
breeds of horses, by awarding premiums for
wheel-barrow races, jumping jacks, fat ba
bies, living skeletons, and double-headed
calves.
There is no use in trying TO plod along in
the old way. Walking is getting TO be "vul-
gah, and he or she that cannot wriggle a
by-eircle is no body. Why, Henry Ward
Beecher strides one daily, and "our noble
Senator" is foregoing his cups SO as to be
able to keep his balance on one. 1t is vul-
carly stated that some fellow, somewhere
walked off on his ear" but it is certain
that such manner of locomotion can never
become fashionable until wheel or two is
added TO the accomplishment and a new
coined word, ending in " cicle," given to it,
And then the exercise is so graceful. For |
moment imagine the symmetrical form OF |
our "noble Senator" doubled to the outline |
of Grecian bend, of morning, weaving |
and paving his way to his seat in the Senate: |
or the graphic delineator of the magic beau |
ties of Crosse Isle, doing the agreeable for /
his imaginary summer yisitants at that new
ly discovered watering place, seated upon 4.
one of these rearing, plunging, fiery Flyers. |
No enterprise can succeed without it starts
on wheels, and the the less of them the more
certain of success. The new temperance
party is to be run on "by-circle "a big
wheel before, smaller one belinda Rus
ll-opede-backwards. Great is velocipede,
and We must have one.