The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-10

rerandah. Emerging from such comfortable envci-
opes, yasning policemen d" en fsmille viii shake
sud stretch sud proceed 20 give their nights report
At the StstiOn-hOu>e. A feW dishsVelled C~hiuauen,
eager for the early w0rm,' are opening their
saloons for coffee drinkers, capital coffee they make
too and possibly Iwo or three lunas from distant
plantations are starting on horseback 20 bc 81 their
posts at roll call. Take your coffee IL 80 Inclined by
lamp-light, and stroll on 20 the sandy beach. We
have been having warm cloudy mornings lately, sue
ceediug shOwery summer nights, and there rises n
fresh marine CIDER frogi the vegetation Of the beach
which Is very agreeable. IL Is nov skiRIack season,
aud the fishing canoes make an early start for a good
of6ng where the fish abound. You may discern
through the gloom the DARK sails Of several, rapidly
aud silently gliding seward. The only sounds
which break the silence are the beat Of tiny waves
on the beach and the growing Of innumeraDle cocks
prOclalmIng morn. Presently = cold white CLEAN
" checkeriug the eastern clouds with streSks Of
light" and within gun shot Of Cocosnui Island
warns yen thar the oriental gate Is opening, and a.
you walk slowly onward the light Is growing rapidly
though almost imperceptihly, the change Is ell 50
gradual, and marvellous transformations play IN the
riftng clouds astonishing the land and sea and sky
IS with the sports Of some great magician. KS your
eve rests on the east, 10 right in the golden portal
of the morning and seemingly q spirit Of the ses
millions of miles away, outlined against the burning
solitary sail "A painted ship upon a painted
sea" On either side is dark and heavy gloom,
darker by the perfect contrast. The picture was Of
FURNISHED gold framed in ebony. IL was an SEXUAL
scene nt 10 BoUFs ago, got ul very conSluefatciy Tor
my own sole aud special benefit. IL was a fishing
canoe and no ghost at all, though marvellously like
one
Now before "PhGbus' fiery wheels pass the
horizon, turn your face for an instant -lanGward.
The mountain breeze puts its cool hand on your brow,
and a iocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mount
ain tops several minutes ahead Of us down here.
Ii rs but repetition 10 tell the rest, how the lights are
spreading far and wide, what profusion OF color IL
thrown across the water aud all over the land, how
at one instant you realize " celestial rosy red. or in
Hudlbrasuc phrase.
"IIow like = lobster boud, the morn
From black TO red began 10 turn"
and so on through the common process. utterly I'M
known To many, of day brrak, What can be said
OF those lusty lea beds.-stroug as mountain bulls,
cossety as sick babies.-whO lie in their blankets
till breakfast time. and dress themselves without
shame in broad insolent sunshinef What 1 choose
to say of them is that they are wretched suicides Of
what should be the most charming hours Of life
and the early riser who dies at 40 has bad more life
than the Emphatic lazy OctOgenarian To whom the
mysteries of sunrise were ever 'Ebrew Greek.
There can be no more delightful sensation in
this mundane condition OF misery Gas we are plously
recommended TO consider it, than . morning walk
in the tropics will present you with, and 10 miss il
wiliiully or refuse il stupidity or deny it piggishly.
betokens the loser a na9f. whose palate might be
equally tickled with pork and beans or Strasbourg
pie!
There Is not much 10 be said of IIilo days. The
palmy &" Ben Pitmau's time long since passed
away /; " shop keeping " is very literal. A couple Of
houses do pretty much all the business and the re-
naming dozen are dummies. Law every day and
gospel twice a week is about the rule. Butchers
meat is 3 TO 4 cents q pound and bread quite rea-
sonable. HilO doesn [ indulge 10 Injuries. A ham
or SO for n holiday and cheese at long Intervals. IL
you see a customer buy a tin of oysters, rely on il
he. il either going to the volcano or premeditates a
blow out. The Government Offices close at P. N.
and an hour or 30 later will find all the materials
for a good gossip nj some favorite corner. The
evenings are Pheasant but not to compare with
Social parties are so extremely select
that | almost doubt their existence. BY 81 P. NJ. all
virtnous people are supposed to be in bed, and there
we may as well leave them.
Yours truly,