The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-12

their heads are in the next cage to
transparent FISH of a delicate pink or
blue-or a family of devil fish. There
are fish of beautiful somber purple.
and fish Of white with black horizontal
stripes, looking like a company OF con-
Victs from Sing Sing. There are many
many others, those with trailing
fringes, or floating wings: those with
eyes on little pivots that turn easily
in all directions like small, coming
towers; all odd or unusual, seeming
like dream-fishes, or the phantoms of
a disordered brain, rather than prod
ucts Of nature.
Kahului is a breezy little port, with
a courthouse and a klub--good fell
lows. too!-and a mercantile marine,
and a railway, and a wreck in the
harhor. and >all of 'em belonging to
Rahului
IF you speak of the thriving planta-
tons that back the harbor, they'll be
sure TO ask you if you've noticed the
Kalo patches? KaIo may be French
for kabbages or karnations-you don't
give kontinental, either way-hut
you smile, and say, Great! wouldn't
mind having korner in Kalo some
day."
If you want to go UP mountain, of
course it must be HaleakaIa; it's only
got one K in it, by the way. but it's
get the biggest krater at the top of it
you ever saw or heard of-20 miles in
circumference. and 1000 feet deep. It's
stone dead-entirely gone out of bus
mess: but in my opinion that's an
of two-to-one on any live
crater. II you want to go up another
mountain, try Kilauea-it's only an
other K. and the avenue that leads
out to it is a magnificent boulevard
set out on either side with breadfruit
trees, mangoes and alligator pears.
Kilauea is the biggest thing in the |
live crater business in the world-a |
lake of fire 1900 feet long and 500
WIDE with a surface measure of II |
acres. You hold your breath and say
your prayers; and, when a gust of |
wind carries away the binding steam
and smoke, you look down. down 500
feet into a veritable hell-f1re lake, |
whose waves of flame rise and fall in
conclusive throes that shake the very
heart out of your body-in other
words. the thing has fits to beat the
band. and you wish you hadn't come!
But you get all over it by the next
lay. and if you want to calm your
mind and restore your nerves, you
AXE nice, quiet stroll down Kukui
place and kommune with nature.
Finally if you've done anything you
,ughtn't to. and get arrested and
aiken to the lookup, you run up
against the biggest bunch of ks in the
whole business. The name of the
Jug is neutrality-suspicious.
That got me! 1 was kompletely ker
and out. As far as
studying the Hawaiian language goes.
I'm kwitter!
oh, lovely island world! Where else
n the universe is there spot made
Up wholly of beauty and peace?
Where man-and even woman-can
ease worrying about stocks, fran
,hises, new bonnets, real estate, soci-
,ty, insurance, politics, and all the 1
est that go to make up the pande-
nonium of existence, and settle down
n the shade of a palm tree, royal,
ocoa, wine, cabbage, screw. fan or
has a choice of seven-un-
cotton his shirt-collar and smoke the
,ipe of forgetfulness.
Oh happy Hawaii! that hath no
oisonous reptiles. no noxious plants.
10 pestiferous insects!
TITS not l that can do you justice!
let my friend Charley Stoddard, with
is prose-poem-para and his
1ellifiuous periods do the job for me.
When he sits down with his pen dip
ed in honey, and his mouth full of
uava jelly, to reel off few reams
f ecstatic English in praise of his be-
wed islands, he makes the rest of us .
eel like 80 cents And when he de- +
ares that he has travelled the wide
orld over, but never, never has he
zen spot to equal this-why, what |
IN we do but say, Same here, old