The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-15
Letter from Maui.
MAUI, Dec. 90, 8
A Happy New Yearl

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A Happy New Year!
Mr.. EDITOR But a few hours remain and the
great sower Time. without a moments rest, puts his
broad mark on the worlds wide page, and pursues
his unwearied labors. Time sows eternity reaps.
Hopes and joys, grief and sorrow, tears and graves,
light and darkness, truth and error, the ceaseless
wanderer scatters broadcast from land to land, from
shore to shore, but eternity gamers the harvest.
We SOW and are sown, we light the lamp but its light
only hickers for US, the diamonds we found to-day
we cast away as pebbles tomorrow, and fields sown
in peace bring forth flowers dropping blood to cleanse
the soil. Time sows, men toll. Generation follows
generation, t~rampling out every vestige of the silent
mounds of the past toiling, ever toiling, while time
is sowing onward to the better end. Happy the ma
ton to whom fate has vouchsafed the boon to toll
onward to the better end in ~quietness and in peace.
A Happy New Year to these islands slumbering so
peaceful on the bosom of the broad Pacific. No CORY
battlefields and fratricidal graves send forth their
misty phantoms to point with silent finger to the his
toric page, which records '' error corrected, liberty
watered, union cemented-with blood !" No tyrant
holds the destinies of these islands in his iron grasp,
whose smallest ailment makes nations tremble, and
whose death is the signal for avengers to spring from
their hiding places, and the mystic wand that breathes
life into the dragons teeth. On these islands there
is no sudden Weakening from darkness into liberty
and light no battle between Church and State, be-
tween the morning rays of the present with the
tenacious darkness of the past, no mutterings of a
tempest, whose shadow rises in ominous blackness on
the distant horizon. A Happy New Year to you,
islands of Hawaii, marching onward in the even
path of intelligence and civilization, widening the
area of commerce., profting by the dear bought e-
perience of other nations, content with fate. In a
country where
The Weather
is as uncertain as in this, setting at nought all
meteorological science and the experience of that
well-known individual, "the Oldest inhabitant,''
taking no heed of the moon and her changes, nor
the stars either, ignoring de6antly the most portent
signs of rain by throwing clouds of dust into our
very eyes, in a country like this, the state of the
weather is of no small interest to the general reader.
country is more dependent on the weather than
nei. The weather warm or wet, torrid or
moist, quickens or palsies the life-blood Of these ISL
ands, creates prosperity or failure, enlivens COM
meree, calls the whitened sails from far and near to
our ports, fills store and warehouse, makes our
wharves the mart of busy labor and labor's CHEEKY
voice, or spreads silence around, leaves the harbor
deserted, upon whose CLASSY surface the sun glares
fierce, with scarcely a ripple disturbing the crawfsh
are summing themselves on the sides of moulder-
ing wharf posts, while a few coasters lie lazily On
the lazy tide, their sails hanging neglected and spirit
from jb or boom, their occupation gone. The
weather on these islands is all important, but its
are sometimes marvellous. The drought DUR
although in different localities of different duration.