The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-05-22
THE FLOATING EDITORS.
SEA EXPERIENCES.
RAMBlES AND L0aFIRG ON KAUAI,
ETG., ETC, ETG.

harbor of Honolulu on the Mikahala
last Tuesday evening, tloqted back
again in the same vessel at an early
hour on Sunday morning. Like
spurious coin, they got tossed back
again by the receiver to the giver.
The assumption is that they were
"booted" back. They may be un-
willing TO confess it, but the public
is at liberty TO form its own opinion.
The destination of those two
journalistic tramps when they left
here, so far as the sea journey went,
was Lihue, on the island of Kauai.
How they behaved themselves in
general on the way there, is not yet
known and probably never will be.
This one thing, however, is pretty
certain, they did not quarrel. A
popularity of the genus editor is.
that his differences with his brethren
in the same calling are always left
in his office; that is, the editor who
is brought up to the business and
understands it. With the ineXper-
fenced amateur it is sometimes diff
ferent. Two lawyers may fight like
cat and dog in Court, but on coming
out walk into J. e. Brown & Co.'s
together, and pledge eternal friend
ship in glass of plain soda, or into
Cunha's and seal their brotherly love
with q cocktail. That's just how it
is with editors who have served
full apprenticeship. SO it is safe to
assume that these two cadaverous,
jaded steeds did not kick each
other, otherwise than for the fun of
il.
One little incident in connection
with the trip down in the Mikahala,
it may be remarked, has come to
light. AS soon as the little steamer
got beyond the bar-not Cunha's
bar, but the bar at the entrance of
the harbor-the two brothers squat
ted themselves down on a coil of
rope at the stern of the vessel, and
became ominously retcent. Silence
was at length broken by the BULLE-
TIN saying, "What is TIE matter?"
how do you feel?" 80 I'm all
right" says the Gazette y II was
only thinking. How are you feel
lng?" "Perfectly lovely" says the
BULLETIN, ] was thinking, too; 1
nerer get sea-sick; don't you trouble
about me-" They again relapsed
into silence.
After q while the "Gazette -
moved away to one side of the yes.
sci, little forward, and immedi.
ately from that particular spot came
a strange heIching sound, and the
Canadian was observed to be hang
ing his head over the rail and look
ing intently into the water, presum
ably at a shark or some horrible
and horrifying sea monster.
BY this time the BULLETIN appear
ed to become quite oblivious o
everything above and on a leve
with himself and became absorbed
in contemplation of the ships rud
der. He had seen rudders before
and never discovered anything won
derful in them. But there wa
something fascinating in the Mika
hala's rudder, which kept the wan
derer's eyes fixed and his moutl
, wide open, at intervals, and dre'
from him frequent unearthly ejacu
latons.
1t was an interesting sight, thos
two editors gazing at object
: beneath in that weird, earnest, ali
stracted way. One would hav
thought that their poor wearie
brains were incapable of such cor
centrated and prolonged effort, cor
sidering how exhausted they wer
when they left Honolulu. Each on
kept to himself the result of hi
deep meditation. 1t may some da
be revealed in the editorial columns
T Who knows? OF course they weren
n sea-sickl Oh, no! they didn't g
o sick! Such distinguished person
q ages are above that kind Of degrat
ing habit
> At three O'Clock on the followin
a morning the Mikahala dropped al
t chor off Nawiliwili, and the passer
n gers for that port went ashore in IL
q steamers boats. 1t was quite
long pull of a good many minute
to the head of the little bay whel
G the wharf is.
Lights were ablaze in a buildin
q near the beach used as a gencr
a store, and many people were COZ
gregated on the wharf to meet the
) friends, to learn the news, or
d crafty their curiosity in some 9TH
e way. Two stage coaches were ais
b in waiting-one to take passenge
= to Koloa and the other to Keali
!. Where Koloa is, or how great Il
u distance there, goodness knows; Il
i editors know nothing about 1t. The