The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-14
PAPA TIA
| YELLED.
Lighted Cigar Was
Too Hot For
Him.
|LUAU AT HOME OF
| THOMAS CUMMINGS
Alabama Darkies Dance Juba for
observation-disclosures of
Maui Isle.

Maui Isle.
/ WAILUKU, Maui, Feb. Six tons and
a half of wood, plenty of hot rocks and
about 200 spectators combined with Pa
pa tia himself, constituted the show on
| Saturday night. The spirits were feel
ling coltish and could not be got down to
work till about 10 o'clock in the evening,
after which it was past all time to hope
for any more stragglers TO drop into the
show.
| The proceedings which followed were
! a fac smile of his performances in Ho-
nolulu, which have been sufficiently de-
lscribed in the Honolulu papers. Very
few white people or intelligent Hawaii
ans attended the exhibition, and the re-
ceipts were about $780,
| A luau was given to Papa tia on
Tuesday evening of this week prior TO
his proposed departure for Hilo, at which
many of the traditional cerem onies Incl
ldent to the old-time fuau We're observ-
ed. One incident occurred, however,
(which was not down on the program. 1t
crate from Honolulu seated next to
Papa tia, who, according to his usual
custom, was barefooted. The Philistine,
who was smoking a cigar, surreptitious-
| ly applied the lighted end of it to the
sole of one of Papa Ita's feet in order to
| test its resistant qualities For a mo-
ment the smell of burning leather per-
yaded the air, and the next moment the
seraphic smile, which constantly plays
around Papa Ita's features suddenly
disappeared, and he sprang into the air
Hike a bucking colt, uttering yell
worthy of his warlike Tahitian ancestry.
Apologies were at once rendered and ac-
cepted, and the luau proceeded harmo-
niously
A CHARMING LUAU.
On last Saturday evening a delightful
luau was given at the residence of Mr..
Thomas Cummings of Waikapu, in hon.
or of his daughter, Miss Mollie Cum
mings, and of Mr. Charles E. King, who
are spending their school vacation at
Waikapu.
A large number of guests, both from
Waikapu and Wailuku, were in attend
ance and they received a most hospi-
table welcome. 1t was a lovely moon
light evening, and the handsomely deco
rated lanais were crowded with charmed
listeners to songs and instrumental mu-
sic.
When supper was announced the din
ing-room revealed a fairy-like scene of
lights, flowers and viands, mingled with
the aromatic flavor of sucking pig roast
ed to a turn in ii leaves.
Many toasts were said and sung, the
bachelors taking the lead and toasting
the joys of single blessedness, in which
Mr.. Lake acted as spokesman. The
married men rallied at once and drank
la rising toast to their wives, daughters
and mothers present, the News man
J. -
peculiarly elongated jaw, to speak for
the Benedicts.
More music succeeded the supper, aft
er which good-nights were said and the
guests dispersed.
! DANCED "JUBA.''
A scene typical and illustrative of the
present strike on Maui was witnessed by
a number of amused spectators at the
Waikiki railroad depot the other day. A
number of Alabama negroes had been
| sent to the depot to load cars with SUI
gar.
| A knot of Hawaiians on a strike gath
| cred to watch the negroes work. Finally
one of them proposed to the negroes
that If they would favor the Hawaiians
present with some old-fashioned down
South songs, the latter would take their
places loading the cars. The darkies
agreed to the proposition, and the Ha-
waiians threw off their coats and pitch
ed into the sugar sacks, while the dar-
kies ranged up and favored the toilers
with my Old Kentucky Home" "Su-
wannee River" and Way Down South
| in Dixie" interspersed with hoe-downs,
buck and wings, turkey trots and juba.
After enjoying the impromptu concert
sufficiently, the Hawaiians sauntered
away and the negroes leisurely resumed
the task of loading cars
CHINESE CRUELTY.
Lieutenant Mcleod of the Salvation
Army states that while on a visit to the
club house at Camp One, Spreckelsville,
this weak, he found large rat nailed
to the floor by a ten-penny nail driven
through the heshy part of it's thigh,
Inear the door of the cook house The
animal was alive and struggling to es-
cape, while half dozen Chinese stood
around. enjoying its torture. 1t had evil
IDENTIFY been there some time, as the floor
around it was covered with its blood.
The Lieutenant mercifully ended its mis-
Iery. The miscreant who inflicted the
torture is not in Jail, where he ought
to be.
WAILUKUS GILDED YOUTH
One of Wailuku's gilded youth dressed
himself deliberately one evening this
! week and drove out into the country
to call on a young lady. AS he neared
the house the foodgates of heaven open.
ed and the rain simply sluiced down He
, drove his rig to the barn and attempted
te drive inside, but the horse refused K
: enter. He ahghted in the mud and tried
t. lead the animal inside, but it was nc
go. Then he tried to lead him up te
the fence to tie him, but the animal re
fused to be led. After yelling for ter
minutes, his voice finally pierced the roar
of the tempest, and rescue arrived h
was taken inside the house and rolled
over barrel to resuscitate him. aftel
which he was hung on the clothes lin.
by the kitchen fire to dry out.
NOTES OF MAUI
The rush of travel to Wailuku is in
. creasing, Notwithstanding the storm
and the hotels are scarcely able to &C
commodate the arrivals with rooms.
The Hawaii mail has been taken II
I Maalaea Bay four times this week, an.
Is still there, the hinau failing to pu
into Maalaea Bay on her Thursda.
nights trip.
The trend of plantation labor on MAu
Us toward farm-letting of small tracts q
cane land to planters on shares, with
small monthly stipend. This will even
tually become the universal method, L
the mutual benefit both of the planters
and of the plantations
As matter of public convenience,