Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-09-08

ana rain. 1t has been blowing
day and night until all of our
slips are dried to the very lowest
root, and we hope it will rain
enough to soak them down, for
ten days at least.
Boys are boys to be sure; but,
nevertheless, they have feeling in
their arms we take it, and we can
not ask them to lug water for gar
dens an eighth of mile. Plants
may die, but our boys may live
and thrive. 'Rah! 1t is vacation
now for teachers. "What do you
find to occupy your time ?" How
vexed it makes me to hear wo-
man ask such foolish question.
AS if woman who has brains
enough to instruct Others pine
months of year, would not have
wit enough to fill up the odd
three, outside of a school. house.
A woman questions who has
naught to do and does naught, but
call about and drive about 365
days of the year. Very likely the
world was made for her-it looks
like it was.
Our pet kitten "Annexation"
has now broken back-fact. How
it was brought about we do not
exactly know. But we cried like
a baby. Some one said: at is
of no use--throw it into the
gulch." Humph that is not the
way we use our poor kitten. They
even offered to bring US two
more, instead. But we said: No.
No more talk Of Annexation to us.
This will be the last.
Now, it's pouring. The coun-
try was crying for rain and this
is fine--a very pronounced
Scotch mist, thick and dense over
all the hill country. Perhaps you
can show rs better corner than
this for rain, cane and cattle. Go
ahead.
We believe we have told you
that this is North Kohsla, the
most beautiful district imaginable,
where cane would thrive on its
own hook, even; but il you want
something bit drier you'll find
it about as dry as pumice stone
on the western side, and you will
see coffee growing, and hear coffee
talk, until you will never care to
see another kernel so long as you
live, or drink another coffee cup.
It's fine country, this, and we
don't care how often we say it
we are perfectly reckless in the
matter. If you can't take our
, word, come and see. All! it's
country, and we pay not cent for
getting it "prented." We must
have been born with that tradi-
tional "silver SPOON" you know,
near our mouth.
This is a part, small in one
sense, big in another cents of
the "big island"-Hawaii. But
small as it is, we have at the port,
Mahukona, q railroad of twenty
miles, a marvel in engineering,
running through the district Of
Multi. The town Of Hilo on the
east has good anchorage ground,
like Honolulu. All other "land-
ings" are reached by boats, and
skill of natives! 1t is a very
beautiful bay at Hilo. Blythe
way, Captain Cook was killed in
that very South Kona district,
where everybody who can doctor,
lawyer, minister, teNcher] is now
cooking Lis coffee. L do
not mean by that to say,
you understand, or, have you say
that l said, cooking coffee for
Captain Cook, or cooking Cooks
coffee. How could that he when
Cook is in his coffin or ought to
be. 1 mean to convey, simply, if
L may, in few plain words, invest
ing in coffee land or trying to
reap a coffee crop-a coffee craze
on Hawaii in 1896.
Please do not misconstrue il /
strew coffee where it rightfully
belongs. Fine coffee is made by
boiling it in shallow open kettle,
and giving it a grain of not
Attic but English refnedl salt,
for settling, and relish. The
sun is nearly to setting, rainbow
over Multi and the rain pouring,
in our Makapala this 22d of July
"A. ID. lS96.-Maikai.
lS--N. BIT almost breaks my
heart to tell you that little
Annexation" is gone to sea
gone to pisces. pieces.