The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-19

ness in manner never to be effaced- - .
That is assuredly true. Who of all the
thousands who cross the great Amer
| lean continent can tell or do tell any
| thing of the scenery they have passed
through and in reality remember when
| they were out of one State and into
another or the nature of a country or
it's products? Those who crossed in
1880, however can talk by the hour of
the wonderful land.
+, On Sunday we had arranged to tramp
the historic valley of Manoa, rainy
Manoa," as it is termed, and L had re-
solved on telling him many of the leg
ends pertaining to this or that point.
1t was not to be, however. as we found
on reaching the terminus of the Rapid
Transit line that the old valley was not
going to belle her reputation for our
accommodation, and was expanding her
rainbows like a peacock its tail
We Immediately turned about and
ran out to Kaimuki and took up long.
pleasant and memorable walk along
the Waialae road, passing through Wa
;lupe Niu. Kuliouou, to the margin of
the great fish pond of Maunalua. Here
he was inclined to turn back, but l
seduced him into seeing the Chinese
camp and their manner of catching the
fine mullet which are so plentiful there.
We tramped along the sea side of the
pond noting the immense work which
was done in ancient times, under the
directions of the chiefs, for making an
|embankrnent of rock, all of which had
to be carried long distances on mems
shoulders or passed from hand to hand
in a long line extending at least two
miles to the base of the mountain,
where this building material is
plentiful
Then he was further induced to CLIMB
the hogback between Kawaihoa
Point and Koko Head Ito see the is
Hands of Molokai and Lanai" From
this hogback We looked down into
beautiful Hanauma Bay, where there
was a party enjoying themselves in a
Sunday picnic. The trade winds were
at their freshest and the sea covered
with scud and whitecaps. From there
we descended, intending to round Koko
Head. which is 1905 feet high, and get
a view of Waimanalo. Under the UNI
brageous shade of a grand algaroba
we ate lunch and while resting dis
cussed ancient and modern Hawaii
He said: Uncle Sam will make
great port of Honolulu and will grad
uallv expend an immensely of money in
Notifications and improvements. He
| will be compelled to do so to protect
his Asiatic possessions as we'll as the
mainland ports He said it was the
general impression in the United states
/ that we had made a great mistake IN
taking the Philippines, and the send
ing of our troops there to be killed and
to kill the inhabitants of those islands ;
was very unpopular, but apparently
there was no other way, in honor, for
US to proceed than the course we were
following
change in administration and that
Bryan would be elected, as many people
thought We had had enough of Roose- !
veltism. I suggested that his Missou-
rian environments caused him to think
that way. but he said he gathered his
opinions from general travel, as he had
been moving through the States gener-
ally for the past twenty years
In regard to Hawaii, he said he be-
lieved Unat the people were not capaple
of maintaining an Independent gov
eminent. Judging from the execution
of the liquor laws passed by native
legislature, he thought a very lew
years would see the entire extinction
of the Hawaiians Also, he had noted the
pseudo-economical action of the Gov
ernor in reducing the meager saiafles
of school teachers and thus driving out
all OF the best teachers, on whom the
future education of the citizens de-
nended Again he reverted to the ac-
cession of the spirit of graft which
had come into the country with the
wave of building up Hawaii on ira
ditionaI American lines
After a needed rest-by the way, ne
said his experience in tramplng was
that ten minutes devoted to lying prone
on the back had a marvellous effect III
recuperating the body-we took up our
tourney around Koko Head. We DIS
covered a wiliwili tree in one OF the
barrancas and gathered a quantity or
its beautiful scarlet seeds. The tree
is very rare and he seemed pleased to
hear of its uses by the natives. It is
the hawanan cork and was used for
surfboards and out-riggers for canoes,
as we'll as floats for seines. Having
reached the head of the immense fish
pond of Maunalua. he baked about GO
ing any farther and We began the re-
turn journey.
The well arranged corral. pen and
chute for handling cattle at the head
of the large fshpond was admired by