The herald., 1896-05-31

| cry. The service being performed, they
tripped away as they had come. and
my guide soon returned, bringing my
I clothes, and, hastily dressing. l started
for Mr.. Shipman's ranch, where l was
being entertained during my visit to
Puma. I felt as if an important epoch
in my life had been reached. and that
had turned back on the road of life and
was approaching by blooming paths the
springtide of existence once again. and
that old ways We're abandoned, and l
felt happy, for l fully believe that ''the
days of our youth are the days of our
glory At the ranch l found a dinner
waiting for me-simple, yet of peculiar
excellence and neatly served. Olypiis,
a shell fish-a natural pond mullet-the
finest fish in the world. and tenderloin of
beef, braized with sweet potatoes, such
as are only grown on the Sandwich
islands, bottle of California claret and
cup of cafe noir, native growth, an i'm
provement on the mocha.
When l returned to the verandah the
stars were out and young moon was
tending toward the western horizon, and
a breeze from the ocean Of a tempera-
ture of about 10 degrees, gave motion to
the feathery fronds of varied palms,
infusing just life enough to fill the i'm
agination with strange images of the
past and visions of the future. What
were those thoughts? 1t would be pro-
W
pure in mind have had kindred
thoughts, and no sound, no Ian
guage can make them vocal My
visit was extended from day to day,
without any reasonable excuse, except
that with repetitions Of the bath, youth
with all of its alluring pleasures was
once more the controlling factor of my
existence. Emotional life with it's gold
en- hopes was toying with the grim struc-
lures of reality and laughing at despond-
ency and wrinkles and traces of care;
the tokens, and symbols of age were
rapidly passing away, and the zephyrs
of new spring drowned in the voice of
duty and forgetfulness, made me the
slave to insousciance.
In few days friend came in search
of me, and realizing the urgency and
Importance of my return to Honolulu
by definite time in the near future,
and fearing that if my friend should in
dulge in the bath like myself, he would
become oblivious to duty and recreant
to business punctuality, I discouraged
him from testing the virtues of Waio-
loloa, and we made solemn compact to
leave for Eilo at 10 o'clock ain. on the
morrow.
At am. heavy clouds were crown
ing the top of Mauna Loa, and rever-
brations of loud thunder shook the
thinly crusted earth; but no deterrent
circumstances We're to delay our depart
ure. AT ~ am. punctually we VaulteQ
into our saddles. There is no means of
conveyance from Puma to Hilo by land
except the sure foot of a trusted horse.
The big drops that precede a deluge in
the tropics We're now falling as we passed
out of the yard in a brisk canter. At
first l felt repugnance at riding thirty
miles through a falling torrent, but
after my clothes We're saturated and my
boots full Of water | rather enjoyed the
long shower bath that continued with
cut intermission until we reached HilO.
In this region the rainfall is 25 feet an
nually, caused by the trade winds drift
ing against the snowy peak of Mauna
Kea, which condensed the vapors with
which the winds are always freighted.
This ended my visit to Puma on the
island of Hawaii. The bath of WaiO-
loloa endowed me with youth that de-
fers the approaches of old age, and were
it not for the dangers that beset the Or
dinary mortal in appetiZing tempta-
tions I would advise all who feel the
blight of approaching old age or its in
firmities to go forthwith to the pool OF
Waiololoa and regain their youth-with
this caution Old husbands should take
their young wfes with them, for old age
even unrejuvenated is sometimes
tricky, never to be trusted in land OF
new and strange revelation and as Lord
Bacon, nee Shakespeare, has wisely
said: 1.-THE blood of youth burns not
to that excess as gravity's revolt to
Wantonness."