The sun., 1908-08-09
Gala Days In Honolulu for the
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Officers and tho JackieS.
VISIT TO LILlU0KALANI
Ex-Qussn In Calico but With
Something of Royalty Still
Remaining.

Island Poet Bursts Into Verse When th'
Battleships Arrive--RestiyaI fer tn
Sailors. with Songs That VIII Lon
he Remembered-No Flower Wreath
for the Crews In Spite OF George n
Carters Pies-surf Riding At wal
kIki-Wonderful Displays OF Plan
and Sea Life - Prize Shooting
ON B oABp u. s. 8, LOUISIANA.
U. s. FATTLR FLEET,
HONOLULU. July 20.
One may talk gHbly about spell being
cast or broken. but he never realizes the
full meaning Of those figuradve expressions
until he has been to Hawaii and tTies to ge,
away. 1t lie not on record that any visitor
ever left Honolulu gladly; that's because
It simply can't be done. You can leave
any other place on earth easier-your home
excepted. Of course--than you can 60 away
from here. Something gets hold Of your
heartstrings here and ties them unbreak.
ably to the place. You can't undo the
knots; you just have to break away.
No set Of men knows this better than the
sailormen Of Uncle Sam, and that is why
1t is going to be hard Job. little before
O'Clock this evening. for the officers and
men on the sixteen battleships that are
going around the world to up anchor for
Auckland, All hands arc going because
they are ordered TO 60. 1t requires the
full strength Of the force and power Of the
Govern ment at Washington to break the
spell of Hawaii.
What is that spell2 Alasl Poets and
philosophers and statesmen and tav-
sllers OF every degree have tried to de-
fine 1t. but have failed. You can describe
to some extent how the spell affects you, and
no visitor who can use pen ever failed to
do that; but to set forth the subtlety Of the
charm Of Hawaiis spell is as difficult as to
make a qualitative analysis Of the power
of love, the still small voice of a conscience.
or, to be more concrete. the glory Of sun
beam, Every one who has ever been here
has felt 1t. 1t hits the sailorman hardest Of
all. for he knows where the beauty spots Of
the world are. Every man jack Of them
will have something OF guip In his throat
as the sailing signals are set. and perhaps as
thoroughly descriptive an expression Of
what the grip Of Hawaii means to a mans
heart came the other day from sailorman
who was awed by the ma jesty Of the Pail
and said:
Amy man who dares to commit sui
eide in these islands and come before his
God unsummoned and a murderer
ought to be roasted In q hell seventy-seven
times hotter than any hell that sailornan
ever consigned his worst enemy to. That's
all I've got to'say. The idea Of any man In
these islands ever wanting or being willing
to die!"
BEST LoAPINd PLACE IN THE WORLD.
All Of us are familiar with the stock
phrases describing Hawaii 1t is nothing
new to be told that it's the paradise Of the
Pacific. the most beautiful spot on earth,
the place where the Garden of Eden should
have been established. with all due respect
10 the Almighty in case He made an error
and put 1t somewhere else. All that's COM
monplace and has been dinged into our
ears endlessly. Every one knows that
flowers bloom more profusely here than
elsewhere; that there is no brighter sunshine.
no balmier air. no gentler breezes. no more
seductive climate. no more beautiful noun
tains, no more glorious sunsets than here
Here nature has cast aside its habil-
ments Of anger and has left them in plain
view to remind one and all not only of what
It might have been but actually has been
and now displays here its sweetest, gentest
and most attractive mood. If you don't
know II already it is time that you knew it.
now that Hawaii is simply the most delight
full loafing place in the world. II there was
ever a place where life should be one grand
sweet song, that place is Hawaii. II you are
looking for the one best place In all the
world where you may loaf and invite your
soul. that place is Hawaii.
But why tell about 1t again, you ask.
Well, in the first place the spell 80 takes
hold Of any man who has access to the
columns Of a newspaper that he can no
more resist writing about it and trying
to depict the effect Of its potency than a
properly brought up child can 20 to bed
at night without saying Now lay me-"
In the next place the presence OF the great
Atlantic feet has brought Hawaii again
into the public eye peculiarly, and the story
Of it's fascination is one Of those that never
grow old and that age cannot wither. OF
what other place can this be said:
There are no fogs. no hurricanes, no
malaria, no sandstorms. no sunstrokes no
reptiles. no wild beasts. no typhoons, no
tidal waves. no beggars. no posons, no
frosts in Hawaii
People used to be cannibals, didn't they,
you ask. Ask again and you will be told
that no aborigines ever loved better or were
more skilled In song and music than the
native Hawaiians: that no one loved flowers
more than they. Where else in all the world
do laborers dig bitches with garlands around
their neckB? Where else in all the world
do the people festoon you and themselves
as well with flowers as IL you and they were
church pillars at a wedding ceremony,
and this as you 60 about the streets and they
about their daily tasks? Where else in all
the world do you hear Aloha" word
whose meaning no dozen words In Eng
iish or any other language can express
welcome greeting from the heart, all good
wishes, farewell, every kindly impulse
with a hundred shades of meaning that any
human being can feel' Where else in all the
world can practically the entire nation sing
beautifully and where not to be able 10 ioin
in glorious harmony 10 the exception and
not the ruler And what about that sayiny