The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-04

and get ten men pledged 10 vote foi
mo candidate who would not raise tht
salaries Of teachers. and I venture &c
say that she viii do il. If that woman
can win one man. as she has, she can
win one hundred, You watch her
WONDERFUL WATER.
From Pahoa back to tine main line
Of the Puma railway, and so down TO
the end of the road. is not q great dis
lance. II seemed, indeed. all TOO short
When one is enjoying ones first spe-
ciaI train one would have the ride go
a long way. The country IS the Puma
country, crude, Uniformed, but Of sur
passing richness.
At the end of the road Henry Lyman
met us with horses that had been sent
on in advance from Hflo and before
taking US to his own place at kapoho
for luncheon, rode down with US
through a dense jungle TO the wonder
full warm spring Of Waiwela wela. 1t is
/ the most marvelously beautiful place
in all these beautiful islands. There is
rot a doubt of it. The pool. at the base
of a small peak that is like what Dia-
1nond Head would be if that had sugar
cane growing TO its very summit, lies
shaded by a dense growth of ohia ana
koa and Iehua trees and guava bushes
the sun glfstening upon il through the
: leaves Of these
! The waters. not steaming but Of per-
ceptibly higher temperature than the
air. by some strange law of refraction
are shot through with dazzling CLEANS
of a blue that is like the blue depths of
/ the sky Yet the rocks in the pool are
not blue They are of rather reddish
/ cast. where they are not covered with
/ Iichen and green moss. The blue is N
! the water itself. and that water has the
strange quality. il IS said, that when
native bathes in it. ii turns him white
for the moment. I saw the Secretary
Of the Territory and small, sun
tanned boy in the pool. The Secretary
appeared chalk white under the water,
and the small boy was belted with
white on those portions of his body not
covered usually by his clothes That,
in the small boy of Hawaii, is not
much.
Afterwards. under Mr.. Lyman's
guidance. we climbed through the
growing sugar cane TO the top of the
hill, where half a dozen cocoanut trees
stand sentry within what was once the |
enclosure of the heiau of kukii. The
structure is almost gone but this old /
temple is remarkable from the fact |
that it seems TO have been constructed |
of enormous hewn stones, cut as
smoothly as modern stone mason |
might cut them.
THE GREEN LAKE
Afterwards, the small boy who had
bathed in the pool of Waiwelawela took
me to the small crater OF Kapoho and
showed me the Green Lake. 1t is a
little pond, covering perhaps fifteen
acres, of water which has precisely the
same shade OF muddy green you used
TO get in your box of water coiors
when you We're lad. You remember
the shade you used to color the trees
in the pictures III your school geogra-
ply! II is remarkable that the pool
should be there. III z wateriess coun-
try, and the tree clad slopes about the
lake make a pretty picture. therefore
the Green Lake is worth while. But
he place itself is something disappoint- ;
ing. However, the Green Lake was re-
led upon, once on a time. to furnish
water TO Puma plantation. The engine !
used to pump it still stands beside the
axe, and water TO supply the Lyman .
place is pumped from ii.
The small boy told me that the lake
vas supplied from seven never-failing !.
springs, that il had mud bottom and !.
hat it was a bully place to go swim
ming when the engineer was not
around TO throw rocks at fellow.
Luncheon at the pleasant home Of .
he Lyman's was a most agreeable :
JUNCTION. Afterwards, bidding farewell
o the family and the dogs. whom the
small boy differentiated as the Arts :
ocrat party and the Democrat |
'arty" because number of beautiful Z
ollies dwelt within the house and kept |
he others without, we rode away along j
he Puma coast toward KaIapana, Mr.. [
lyman and the small boy accompany a
lg US for considerable distance. In 2
eed the small boy. after the vagrant /
manner of his kind, wanted 10 go al. q
he way. but his unfeeling elders n
trongIy discouraged him in that.
Lava field after lava field, there is a
reat sameness in that ride along the s
una coast. The green seas break up l.
Il the rocky shores, sending their white Il
pray high in air, and at frequent in "
eryals groups of cocoanut trees mark Il
here native villages stood IN the long II
go. The whole shore line, in fact. is a
'inged with these trees-and riding o.
trough them, L can understand how II
ancouver was led into his estimate h
lat there We're 100000 sous in these pl
lands when ne saw them p;
HOUSES OF THE DEAD. v
The natives are gone now. for the -
lost part, but many traces of old hab-
atoms remain A most wonderful -
ling. seen for the first time on this
de, were the remains Of that old foot
7th of smooth stones. built for bare til
'oted men TO walk upon which is said 81
, wind in and out over the lava flows Ia
L around the island Of Hawaii s.
mailer stones are set up on either side he
mark the path, which in places is tn
osely laid and in others where the 81
va = toughest. is made Up CT great c:
'cks placed at intervals. ike stepping =,
ones across a brook II
Like al else on daWall, the construc-, II
IN az this y8.av Is Credited I