The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-07-13

To the Editor of The Pacific Commercial Adcertiser
DEAR SIR -" Refulgent summer , reigns to-day
attended by the sultry hours who wipe their swelter-
ing brows with dusty pocket handkerchiefs and
endure the dazzling deluge with languid fretfulness,
whilst man and beast seek shelter from the scorching
noon in every nook of shade, and in the shimmering
atmosphere the noiseess spirits of the summer
pulsate through the visible heat and the tired winds
are sleeping. In other wOrds-'tis mortal hot The
harbor is bare of shipping, and bens Sunday, not a
fishing canoe or dragon-fy breaks the smooth mo
notony of the bay, which is one dazzling glare o.
FURNISHED heat. And yet it isn't so hot after all.
Ninety degrees, or Whereabouts. Not so hot as New
YOrk-or Boston, or Montreal-or even parts Of
Labrador to-day. Only, we sweat and of course
must growl. (Apropos of sweat, a very refined lady
of your city, highly episcopal and SO forth, once took
me roundly to task for using the word "Sweat l" in
her presence-oh J so vulgar Preparation OF
course. l defended my Saxon Intellectually, until
catching a glimpse of the " Common Prayer - in her
hand, l intoned Gas they say) by thine agony and
bloody perspiration.' And then, her husband eau
toned me to leave) Return We to the summer.
Our summers here are but milder winters anyhow,
and our winters, similarly, breezier summers and
perchance dirtier. Grass remains green, and foolish
flowers bloom. Some few trees with hereditary in
stincts of deciduosity scatter some ragged leaves and
make messes in your garden paths, whilst others In
sheer bewilderment of mild monotOny bear buds and
blossoms and fruit with promiscuous prOdigality and
Indifference and utter absence of system, and vege-
table nature is all abroad. Yet, If you plant corn
ANOU Il uDDNSC 10 ~ hOANl 1AtCA DoaNs " II hhON
il. 1t resents the waning year and refuses you the
compliment of a grateful crop. The course of sap is
downward after midsummer. Vans and sarsaparilla
(uluhihi) and ava ripen by October, and your peach
trees cry &C Halt % in the fall. If you are watching
trees for transportation, although the leaves may
not be shed, they smell a winter OF some sort and
take vacation through the shorter days; apropos Of
which, l covet to possess a million or 80 OF thrifty
young eucalyptus trees that l might set an example
to the people and their brag-for-nothing djctators. /
would like to take them by the scrutf of the neck
and lead them per force to their own enrichment,
whilst the Gazette psrades the amount of concrete
wall completed and the wondrous skill displayed in
dredging. But there is no cure for innate wrong
hesdedness and Israelitish perversity. Returns we
TO the seasons. How would q "a hours snow storm
suit you in Honolulu? The very thought is refresh
ing, and so are frozen crab apples, but these are lux
uries which eur tropic friends can only family i'm
agine over q pitcher of ice water. The delightful
contrasts of the seasons are all unknown to them,
and cocosnuts and raw fish, pineapples and poi don't
compensate for the cuckoo's note and the return of
spring How Gngeringly one likes to loaf with
nature and IN the fields forget the crowd and hum
and shock of practical living If l had Relcs to
these idle fancies wouldn't be tolerated,
but let them pass now, and pass we to warly cares
warly men, and see what the pecksnits and
oily gsmmons are about among the httle-goes and
grigs and water-hes and innOcents generally on
whom they prey and fatten.
In the halls of legislation we should find the repre-
men of our communities. There the bien-
NAL national comedy is being re-enacted with broader
of farce than ever. There are the star
actors and the supes, happy in the honest applause
Of noble %clacquers and the cOntemptuous appreciation
Of their stronger masters. There Oily Cannon de-
cants his "afiectionate - blather whilst graciously
permitting his humble friends to ''air their opinions
and there the unctious Pecksnifi, armor clad from top
10 toe in shining brass, receives the harmless tickling
pellets of repreof with g " cheering effect - partaken
by his colleagues and Illuminating him with q perfect
halo. ." Blessed says Pecksniff, /" are the rebuked
my friends, let US smile -
This great statesman of q country where the stand
lrd of craftsmanship is not immoderately high, is
to unite with his graver being the charac-
er of Joker, though his sense of the comical is
peculiar. But taking his 4" afectionate " regard and
nartyr-like submission to &c cheering effects " as en-
by 8 keen sense of the ridiculous on bis
he has for once been eminently successful, and
Will pay him the compliment of declaring him to be
he funniest man I ever knew. I hope his myrmidons,
Il beg pardon !-The MOBILES, (mark the word,
MOBILES, and look at 'em y appreciate the st" alton,
II that iIlusrious tail which follows him as the tail
the tadpole, may mistakenly wag the wrong
Fsy.
"There is nothing so strong as public opinion
Considering who pronounced that axiom and where
md how he did it, the joke is perfect. But even
lere, he couldn't forget his own tremendous Ego, so
~arefully added-" under direction"
And they couldn't quite save the army? Alas
or the champagne breakfasts in the armOTy $780,
100 q year is still S25, 900 more than need be in
Of peace. and that sum might be locked still