The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-28
He LEFT HONOLULU WITHOUT
NOTICE, CARRYING ONLY A
BOOK OF HIS POEMS.
CALLS FOR RESCUEPARTY
For RELIEF OF POLITICAL PRISON.
ERs. WHO He SAYS ARE
F'AMISHING.


hunting bear and found pretty big one
after a hard winter. He came ashore by
the Australia from Honolulu without bag
or baggage and his name does not appear
on the passenger List.
"Were you deported, Mr.. Miller?" he was
asked
mo, was not deported," he replied,
'but did not publish my intended depart
ure in the newspapers. 1 told Minister
Willis that l intended to leave on the
steamer. He was my only confdant. 1
came on board with this package which
you see in my hand, which contains a vol
ume Of my poems and few manuscripts,
together with letter to nv publishers. l
thought on the whole 1 had better leave as
L did, for if 1 had stayed a little longer they
might have put me in jail. There are too
many people in Jail there now, so when l
came on board of the steamer | left word
might return by the pilot-boat, but you
see L didn't Oh, yes; the condition of
affairs there is something terrible.
81 can stand hard work up on my ranch,
but | can't very we'll stand to see men
suffer for air and water without suffering
also. | have more gray hairs from the
past three months than from the seven
years work on my hills. But we won't
Idlk OF lDdb. w III lell you O1 lIle sea- the
great sapphire sea OF glass, the deep, deep
blue and the blue, blue deep. Six days
and seven nights to Honolulu and every
day serene and restful Sunday. Fancy
six Sundays in a string. That is what the
trip to Honolulu seems like to me-a string
of pearls to be laid up in your recollection
as The most precious of all your treasures
OF tr avels.
1.-The ocean is so unlike all others; great
big lazy, lolling goodnatured thing that
would not get angry or even get you angry
if it could help it. The waves are big blue
elephants that take the ship on their
shoulders and carry it along day after day
and night after night without ever spilling
so much as a glass OF wine. tell you, my
boy, the man who has not seen the Sand
witch Islands, in the heart of this one great
oceans warm heart, has not seen the
world; in fact, he has not been to sea at all.
And then the color! The Atlantic is gray,
wrinkled, cross and grabbed. This ocean,
a dozen leagues from land, is as serene in
its deep blue hue as day in June.
Indeed there is no blue so blue; there is
no tranquility so sublimely tranquil. No
mail, no sail, no sound The ship refuses
to creak or groan, as on the Atlantic or
Mediterranean. The great, big, lazy, blue
elephants keep right along with the load
on their shoulders till you sail under a
rainbow into Honolulu harbor, and you
hardly know you have been to sea at all
And indeed you have not; as seas go.
''You sit up late at night as you near
the islands. You want to feed your body
on the soft, warm perfume of the sea, and
feast your soul on the boundless blue
above, with its Southern Cross. And then
the world of stars and the world of blue
below, where the stars
Like swan on sweet ST. Mary's lake
Float double, swan ana shadow.
~ tell you, boy; on the night of the sixth
Sunday out, 1 saw the blue above folded
down on the blue below, and fastened
there by star-headed nails of gold.''
But the men in jail down there? You
got back all right?"
Gan right Right as II O'Clock. You
see man who would not rest and get all
right in the six Sundays ride up to San
Francisco would have to be corpse to be-
gin with. You sail right up in the eye of
the sun. One morning a little girl cried
out. oh, mamma! I know where Califor-
MIA is now. 1t is right ahead yonder, where
the sun rises. 1 can almost see California
every time the sun rises = "
"But how about Honolulu?'
"Great place great place. / am almost
tempted to pull up stakes and go down
there. If l had two lives TO live 1 should
spend one of them there, and have half a
Were l young, like yourself, l should go
right down there and make fortune.
Statistics show that it is the richest place
on the, globe, per capita. The land is rich
beyond description, and not hard to get
hold Of The coffee is the best on the
globe. All the best rice, sugar, bananas,
pineapples come from there"
But the war in Honolulu-were YOU in
that?''
sob, that's all right-no war there:
nothing but rainbows of peace and rain
bows OF promise-the biggest and the
brightest rainbows ever seen. 1t is a little
world all of itsef-everything little but the
rainbows and the big crops. They are end
less, literally endless. l have seen rain
bows in complete circle there The
clouds cling to the crags above the woody
town till torn in two; then they drift about
and spill out and make rainbows and do all
sorts of things in one end of town while the
sun is shining in the other end of town. 1t
is one continual poem and panorama of
color and change and illusion-great big
yellow trumpet flowers, big and bright as
the trumpets of a brass band; flowers of
fire hanging down as you ride by around
the island under the crags, as if rooted in
the clouds, and the brightest birds and the
noisiest l ever saw or heard.'
And everything quiet down there ex-
cept the birds?"
Everything; peace reigns in Warsaw
And now, young man, that is about all |
have to say. But would like if you would
put one bnlnS III Tie paper lot me. LII Will
save me task, and l want to go up home,
for my mother is not well, and my place is
at her side. was asked last year to speak
to the women of the Century Club of San
Francisco, and had it in my mind to do it
now. But you can say what 1 want to say
TO them.
81 want you to publish the addresses of
Calonel Ashford, Major Seward and T. w.
Walker, so that they, or any of the women
of San Francisco or anywhere, or anybody
of any place, can send them something to
read. They have almost nothing to read
except few armfuls of books and such
stuff as l could pick up from time to time
in Honolulu, and they are pent up in the
penitentiary down there among hundreds
of other poor creatures, and must have
something to break the monotony
of their misery. Their cells are
only by 8 feet. Men are two in each CELL
They are locked in at 80 P. NJ. and are kept
in this tank by twos, till $3.50 A. NJ.
Then they have for breakfast little piece
OF meat, like piece of bread and a cup of
tea; then they are let out to get air for one
hour; then they are locked up till II M.
then they have cup of tea and poi; then
an hour OF air; then locked up again till