The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-02-28
RARE AND RICH RUBBISH.
What a Talented Name Can Get
Widely Published.

Widely Published.
Under a triple heading the New
York Sun copies from the Independ.
ent Zone of the leading religious pa
pers in America) an article signed
with the name OF Joaquin Miller. 1t
is hard to believe but that someone |
has forged the famous name OF the
"Poet of the Sierras" to such a con-
geries of fiction aud rubbish as forms
| the main portion of the article. 1t
is too long for one issue OF this pa
per, but, so that the grains of fact
and CLEANS of honest poetry it con-
tains may contribute slight extenu.
alton to the oifeuse of the article as
whole, it will be given in full, part
now aud the rest again:
"And the morning and the even
ing we're the sixth day." At dawn
on the seventh day out from San
Francisco, a low, dark line lifted
from the dense blue sea to the left,
the Leper Settlement, and soon a
huge, black crater hung in the clouds
almost over our heads to the right;
and so, as the sun burst over the
mighty black wall OF torn and rag
ged and serrated lava which looms
above Honolulu to the north, we
sailed into the lovelest barber ever
saw. Naples is nothing in compare
son. The dense, deep blue OF Copra
Bay is not nearly so beautifully blue
as is this bay of Honolulu. The
broken, lazy, little clouds that hung
above the wooded town on the hill
eide were white as cotton; and this,
maybe, made the intense blue Of the
. bay still more emphatic.
As we slowly rounded ia toward
the town we sailed under a rainbow
OF such indescribable breadth and
brilliancy that hesitate to describe
it. This beautiful witness of His
/, covenant had, up to this time, and
: in all lands, seemed only a narrow
half hoop to me. But this Hawai-
, ian rainbow, or may be succession
of rainbows, was so broad that it
: reached from far out in the bay not
, only to the town, but on over the
r town and up the wooded sleeps OF
, the mountains to where the white
. clouds were torn and pierced by the
, thousand volcanic crags and peaks
on their inaccessible SUBMITS. Con-
! ceive a rainbow that takes in half
the heavens, cotton-white clouds,
, sapphire seas and sapphire skies, the
, fervid green Of banana groves, tam
. arind, mango, cocoa palms mantling
|, a town of red brick, and you have
' some idea OF at least the color Of
Honolulu as / FIRST saw the mission
, ary city.
J. The Moslem prophet refused to
& descend into Damascus, saying that
5 it is permitted man to enter heaven
T but once: and il l confess that l
D descended to the wharf, hat in hand,
! and with heart bursting with graf
/ itude, do not reproach me. The
Independent has sent me to many
faraway and many fair ports this
past quarter Of century; but all OF
them put together, it seems to me,
would not nearly match this land
ing here under the rainbow in this
New England city OF the great seas.
Such boundless good nature! No
noise, no friction, although, as the
landing OF a steamer is the one event
OF the week, the wharf was packed
with people OF every color, class, or
nation, yet not one loud or the least
|, uncivil word was heard. 1t was ex-
actly like Sunday, even like crowd
ed church service amid the Christ
mas evergreens.
Nearly everybody barefooted. The
native women we're mostly clad in
loose silk gowns OF Mother Hub
bard pattern, little sailor straw hats
| with broad and gaudy cords and
bands OF silk, but one and all bare
footed. The Custom House officers
barefooted, the police, the soldiers
also. OF course l do not mean all
the officers and leading men in any
department, the most OF whom are
white people. But as rule you car
set it down here as "the land oil
everlasting barefooted."
= Iopened my bag as l came along
! in the line Of passengers to the big
iron gate that opens out into the
city, and handed it to barefooted
official in gorgeous Uniform. His
inquiring hand unearthed flask OF
whiskey. l had pride in that
flask, for it was the gift OF friend
I. a parting gift, and, credit me for it
| had preserved it for seven days
and nights, and wished still to pre-
serve it. So leaning over to the gor
q geous uniform, l whispered with
y George Washington simplicity
"Snake medicine" The uniform
/ whispered back: He no snake il
~ all Hawaii