The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-05-23

White. The editors were cordially
invited to alight, and take in cargo
in the shape of breakfast, which
they were most happy to do, al
though they appeared anxious to
"press on" W Wasn't that u glori-
Gus meall Thanks, many thanks,
to this kndhearted couple, for their
whole-souled and unosteutatious
hospitality TO the peripatetic journ-
alists.
After refreshment came rest,
pleasant chat, and visit TO the
school house, where happy and
thoughtless boys and girls were be-
ing introduced to the rudlmcnts of
learning. In the schoolroom the
Gazette" looked pensive and
dropped tear, because, he said,
the surroundings reminded him that
he was once boy. The BULLETIN
having been once upon time q
dominic himself, thought how nice
and easy it was to be anything but
u teacher.
Near midday, the editors vacated
the halls of rudimentary learning,
and walked to the Makee Sugar
Company's mill at Kealia, where the
diffusion process of extracting sugar
from cane was being tried.
This is what they had come from
Honolulu to see, inspect, and write
about. They had started out spe-
cially on this mission because they
really knew nothing whatever about
machinery or sugar manufacture,
and could hardly distinguish stick
of cane from mango sapling, or n
diffuser from n vacuum pan; but
as our Government appointments are
generally made on that principle, it
was thought better for the publ C
and the press to rely safely on
ignorance-which is bliss-than on
wisdom-which is foolishness; at
least, so the poet says, and the press
believes in poetry greatly.
Colonel Il. S. Spaulding, the com.
pany's president, and Mr.. Sherman,
chief engineer, showed the strangers
around, and were very patient in
explaining everything.
The Gazette" learnt rapidly,
and in short time began to give
lessons to the engineer on machinery
and manufacture of sugar. When
the BULLETIN intimated that the
mission of the press on that occasion
did not embrace instruction in that
| particular line, his learned brother
replied that sugar men sometimes
came to his Office in Honolulu to
teach him how to run q newspaper,
and he felt it his duty to return the
kindness as opportunity offered.
The BULLETIN wanted to know
why those tops were kept spinning
there, poining to the centrifugal
machines. and naiveIy asked if the
undried sugar as it came out of the
vacuum pan was mud being pre-
pared for fertiizing purposes!
Inspection being over, the visitors
were conducted to the plantation
hotel, shown their rooms, and intro
duced to the dining room, where q
splendid meal awaited them.
To the two newspaper men, with
appetites sharpened by Kauai air,
the welI-stocked table was a magni-
ficent sight, and made them smile
broadly like gold digger when he
unearths a glittering nugget. A
digger's laugh at such u time is
peculiar-it seems to permeate his
whole substance; his shirt laughs in
places, his breeches are one I'M
mense guffaw, and his boots split
their sides in all directions. You
see digger sinking a hole; he
turns over boulders and breaks
down hard clay or slate; he barks
his knuckles and his shins, and
knocks his head, and not q smile
attests his enjoyment; but presently
he sees a yellow something with {
peculiar sheen, perhaps as big as {
brick, and instantly he resembles ,
Cheshire cat, and falls victim tt
profuse cacchination. Our heroes
presented similar picture wher
their eyes lit upon that table.
The Honolulu tramps had "strucl
a steak" of luck, and they remained
on these diggings three days, quaf
fling pure air, eating and drinking
wholesome solids and liquids, taking
things in general quietly, loafng
thinking life endurable after all
surveying the country, growing ia
and saucy, (only they did not sta.
long enough to grow very fat
gained two pounds though) and ell
| joying the generous hospitality o
the hospitable people of Kealia. Ii
addition to those already mentioned
they were placed under obligation
by kind invitations and kind atten
tions from Mr.. Geo. Dole, Mr.. w
Blaisdel, Mr.. SEVERN, Mr.. Tweedie
and others. In brief, the tim
passed so agreeably that it was hare
to leave and come back again t.
Honolulu.
In going to the country fQ
short stay one to whom Gil!
life is naturally distasteful require
to encounter little hardship, to re
concile him to his condition when h
returns. To get caught in storm
for instance, and be compelled t.
camp in habitation where a health,
circulation of air blows one's boot