The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-06-27
THRIFTY KOHALA.
THE PLANTERS SMILE AND
WATCH THEIR CROPS.
Scoring scribe-LocaI News Items
La Grippe Nearly Over.

Planting is in full blast, and grind
ing is still going on in some of the
mills. There are pleasant little
dasbes of rain from time to time,
just the thing for planting time.
They last long enough to wet you
through, and cease abruptly just as
you reach shelter. The ground looks
moist and mellow, and if there are
not good crops next year, it will be
because the seed is at fault. Planters
are beginning to wear plug hat and
a smile once more. They are begin
ming to think we have turned the
corner of hard times, and the six
mule teams are bearing gsily along
the highway of progress the golden
chariot of Ceres or whoever else
poses as the goddess of cane.
Annexation or its equivalent seems
now such an assured fact, that we
have pretty well settled down to a
quiet and laborious life once more,
and have given up looking for gov
eminent jobs, though we still feel
that Kohala is not represented in the
Office sharing as it should be. But
once in while a smart Aleck from
New York or some other of our east
ern suburbs varies the monotony a
little with his antics. Newspaper
correspondents and others make out
that they are. stepping around on
their toes feeling the public pulse,
when in reality they are seeing how
big they can swell among less am
bilious amphibians. Lately we have
had a young fellow with us said to
be a newspaper spy from the east,
with lei around his hat and tea
spoonful of brains under it. He tried
hard among the ants to get up
little breeze of personal Importance,
but he could not raise the wind.
What such tenderfeet want to bring
with them is not big aloha in their
mouth, but q little luau in their
pocket. The last seen of him he was
on the beach sticking his finger in
the ocean, and wondering where the
holes went to when he removed it.
1t must be somewhat discouraging to
political aspirants and would-be
newspaper thrunderers to find out
how the busy sea of life fills up the
little holes they fondly think they
must have made.
The Kohala seminary held it's clos
ing exercises on Thursday the Sth
inst. There was a sale of fancy
articles and cookery held in the
afternoon, at which the demand SO
far exceeded the supply that they
have orders ahead for I don't know
how long. The crowd of visitors
flooded the buildings and spread
over the grounds. The seminary
school room needs an additional
wing, and it will probably be built at
once. The present staff of teachers
with the exception of the principal
leave US this summer for more con-
genial labors elsewhere, and they
carry with them the warm aloha of |
school and people, who deeply regret |
at losing such efficient services.
Some of our ambitious young ten
mis- devotees made trip into Hama
kua on the 10th, to show those Sc
Guided folks how we play the noble
game out here in the very centre of |
civilization.
Miss Julia Bond leaves by this
Kinau for visit to friends in the
East.
Mr.. e. Gliding also leaves for quite
an extended trip, during which he
will take in the Worlds Fair and
make visit to his home in the East,
before going to New Orleans where
It is understood he takes the post of
instructor in sugar boiling at the
Experimental Station there
Mr.. Baunan also left by the
schooner j. g. North, for an extend
ID trip east including visit to Chi
,ago.
A little later there are more of us
going to the Worlds Fair. And the
Provisional government may just as
veil prepare itself to stand alone for
! while.
Very high trades are blowing.
Our epidemic of la grippe has
lept the doctors busy lately. But it
s pretty we'll over now.
Kohala, June Is. 1893.