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

HILo. July 18th, 1872.
To The Editor Of the Pacific Commercial AdUertiser
DEAR SIR.-For such a slow corner of the world
as Hilo town, unexcited for months and dull dead
months together with our great event of q periodic
ally uncertain steamer and the occasional sensation
of a reported murder which never proves to be more
than IA cut finger and not always that,-with no
circulating library, no lecture room, Io theatre, no
concerts, no dancing, no dinner parties, nothing but
superintendent churches who can't agree, it may
seem a singular confession TO make, but after a while
Gas with alligator pears) the ~Inslpidity becomes a
positive relish-you get TO like il, you progress to-
wards loving it, you cannot leave il!
Whilst you find no sympathy for your individual
tastes, no interest in your pursuits, no wo-ds OF
encouragement for any pet idea, no material at all
for any c%ongenial friendship outside of an orthodox
ring whose u grace is founded in dominion, - no hint
Of q desire to partake the least of your secret hopes
or fears or ambitions Though an unaccountable
curiosity as TO your personal habits), no nearer
approach TO cordiHlity than a street nod or a dismal
hope that . ali is well at home,' and a stereotyped
: call aud see u.s." with no chance whatever Of
David ever finding Jonathan, with nothing IN Short
after years Of common place familiarity (such as
MethuSaleh's lot must have been, who lived nine
hundred odd years and bad nothing TO tell Of theml
that you would regret the losing or oare 10 remem-
Der longer than a gnat's life IN summer time, hers
IS silu some influence that fascinates you, something
that endears the locality to you with that sort of
affection which prompts the cat TO stick to a deserted
house, though all human favOrs and carcsses therein
received we're long ago forgotten.
For a misauthropic person. selfish as a hermit,
negatively virtuous and not actively a sinner, partial
from inherent and probably cultivated tastes to nature,
pure aud simple as q companion, and content with
the eveu tenor OF 4 useless life aud personal comfort
unshared, or with less egotism, with a desire TO
cherish mildly the memories Of q misty past and
e chew the cud Of sweet and litter fancy y undis-
turbed by any further hustle AMI excitement Of a
social world or any more active Experiences
good. bad or Indifferent, Hllo would suit to an atty
crafty. A suficieuCy i'll the purse and a little cotton
for the ears during aggravated epidemics of gossip
and scandal which afiict the town 10y fits and starts,
and you are secure of peace, and safe in HilO, aud
nobody the wiser
Let my lonely friend take his scrip and stat and
call his dog aud stray of. in the early morning among
the pleasant solitudes of this reilly sedatiye little
place and its eusirons, the world forgetting, by
the world forgot"
~Oh! wretched and too solitary he
Who loves not hs own Company!
Hen find the want of I many = day :"
In the very early morning nobody viii disturb
him The sluggards and mere business men who
never saw the +" line Of beauty " are still snoring in
bed As he s,rolis along the Esplsnade or shop
street fronting the sea, the first visible tokens of life
will be made known to him by the waking up Of
snudrv bundles oF hlanke g and kapa on the shop