The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-04-13
Dalraiialt Q5azttte.
EST MoDUs IN REBUs.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1881.
EST MoDus IN REBUs.
Our San Francisco Letter No. 4.
THE Busy TAILoRs.
Sac FnAvc1sco, March letb, ISL.

DAN fRANClSCOy NasSu lOAu, 1901
The Chronicle publishes the following item
of news apPertaining to the Hawaiian King
dom. 1t savors somewhat of seeking rcpu-
tation at the lannon's mouth" This news
may be new to your reading public, possibly
10 your Ministers, at all events, it is calculated
to produce glow of satisfaction and honest
patriotic JOY from the humble taxpayer up
wards.
<'The Bremen Weser-Zsit,mg gives an ac-
count of the activity Of tailors in that city
caused by an order Of King Kalakaua for 400
uniforms for his Hawaiian army. The King
is enamored of German military institutions,
and has modelled his pigmy force upon the
great army of Emperor William. He has di-
vfded the force into dragons, footguards,
fusieers and musketeers, and each soldier
wears the exact counterpart of the German
uniform, save that helmet and shoulder-strap
are ornamented with Kalakauas monogram"
1t NAV be thought that procuring these uni
forms was part of the mission of Don Celso
Caesar, as from his point of vision, uniforms
NAV be connected with the education of Ha-
waiian youths-and who could be so capable
in taste and knowledge of this intricate matter
as the man who has adventured in the four
quarters of the globe, and who by the Ha-
waiians now abroad with him, is styled
dredt man. If Don Caesar did initiate the order
which has set the Bremen tailors in paroxysm
of activity, his great mind has sought other
fields, as the following news sets forth:
Caesar Moreno, late Prime Minister to King
Kalakaua, is now in Rome buttonholing
members of Parliament to annex an island he
claims to have discovered in the Pacific Ocean.
The island in question belongs to Holland"
He is interviewing the members of Parlia-
ment Of King Hunbert, has an island on hand
to dispose of, which the editor ignorantly says
belongs to Holland. But your readers who
know somewhat of Don Celso's ways will
shrewdly suspect that Hawaii is the plum
which he has the assurance to hold up TO the
Italians. When he left Honolulu he had strong
views of his possessory rights in our King,
Government and public domain, and despite
The back flaws which befel him, possibly still
thinks he has the Hawaiian islands in his
pocket.
He has assurance enough, at all events, to
peddle an island, or our islands, but it is
consolation to believe, that if Bremen tailors
have trusted him, neither Parliaments nor
Kings will do so.
If the Island belongs in truth to Holland let
her look to Don Celso, she has had experience
Of such men before.
Selling islands was not the object of his
mission when he went abroad, but who can
measure the broad views of the Don, as he APP
parently carries islands, inter-ocean cables,
steamer lines and prestige with the rulers oi
the world in his breeches pockets. While he
is discoursing on these themes and holding mp
his plums to admiring or unbeieving rulers,
what is to become of the three Hawaiian waits
who are adrift in the European world? They
have basked, according to their own account
in the Don's greatness, "but man cannot live
upon air, and probably your Government will
soon be called upon for something more sub
stantial