The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-02
Aloha oe, aloha oe,
i Ike onaona noho ka lipo,
A fond embrace, a hoi ae au,
Until we meet again.
Hawaiian Farewell.

II ke OuaOUd mono L ma liPO5
A fond embrace, a hoi ae au,
Until we meet again.
Hawaiian Farewell.
Never are there such departures as
from the dock at Honolulu. The great
transport lay with steam up, ready to
pull out A thousand persons were on
her decks; five thousand stood on the
wharf. Up and down the long gang
way passed native princes and prin-
eesses. sugar kings and the high officials
of the Territory. Beyond, in long lines,
kept in order by the native police, were
the carriages and motor cars of the
Honolulu aristocraey. On the wharf
the Royal Hawaiian band played "Alo-
ba Oe,' and when it finished, strlnged
orchestra of native musicians on board
the transport took up the same Sob
bling strains, the native woman singer s
voice rising bird-like above the instru-
ments and the hubbub OF departure. 1t
was silver reed, sounding its clear,
unmistakable note in the great diapa-
son of farewell.
Forward, on the lower deck, the rail
was lined six deep with khakl-cIad
young boys, whose bronzed faces told
of three years campaigning under the
sun. But the farewell was not for
them. Nor was it for the Whitehead
captain on the lofty bridge, remote as
the stars, gazing down upon the .tu-
multi and ferment of life beneath him.
Nor was the farewell for the young
officers farther aft, returning from the
Philippines, nor for the white-faced,
climate ravaged women by their sides.
just aft the gangway, On the prone
made deck, stood score of United
States Senators with their wives and
daughters-the senatorial junketing
party that for month had been dined
and wined, surfeited with statistics
and dragged up volcanic hill and down
lava dale to behold the glories and
resources of Hawaii. 1t was for the
junketing party that the transport had
called in at Honolulu, and it was to the
junketing party that Honolulu was say
ing goodbye.
The Senators were garlanded and be-
7a4cked with flowers. Senator Jeremy
Sambrooke's stout neck and portly
bosom were burdened with dozen
wreaths. Out Of this mass of bloom
and blossom projected his head and the
greater portion of his friendly sun
burned and perspiring face. He thought
the flowers an abomination, and as he
looked out over the multitude on the
wharf it was with statistical eye that
saw none of the beauty, but that peer
ed into the labor-power, the factories,
the railroads and the plantations that
lay back of the multitude and of which
the multitude was representative. He
saw resources and thought development,
and he was too busy with dreams of
material achievement and empire to
notice his daughter at his side, talking
with a young fellow in a natty sum-
mer suit andsstraw hat, whose eager
eyes SttUltQ OHiN 1bl ACl anu hNNSA
left her face. Had Senator Jeremy had
eyes for his daughter, he would have
seen that, in place of the young girl
of fifteen he had brought to Hawaii
short month before, he was now TAX
ing away with him woman.
I, Hawaii has ripening climate, and
Dorothy Sambrooke had been exposed
to it under exceptionally ripening cir
cumstances. Slender, pale, with blue
eyes trife tired from porting over the
pages of books and trying to muddle
into an understanding Of life-such she
had been the month before. But now
the eyes were warm instead of tired,
the cheeks were touched with the sun,
and the body gave the first hint and
promise of swelling lines. During that
month she had left books alone, for
she had found greater joy in reading
from the book of life. She had ridden
horses, climbed volcanoes, and learned
surf swimming. The tropics had enter
ed into her blood, and she was aglow
with the warmth and color and sun
shine. And for a month she had been
in the company of man-Stephen
Knight, athlete, surfboard rider, a
br0nZed goa OF tne sea VINO DltIeu the
crashing breakers, leaped upon their
backs and rode them in to shore.
Dorothy Sambrooke was unaware of
the change. Her consciousness was still
that of young girl. and she was sur
prise6 and troubled by Steve's conduct
in this hour of saying goodbye. She
had looked upon him as her playfellow,
and for the month he had been her
payfellow; but now he was not parting
like a playfellow. He talked excitedly
and disconnectedly, or was silent, by
fits and starts. Sometimes he did not
hear what she was saying, or if he did
failed to respond in his wonted man.
ner. She was perturbed by the way
he looked at he's She had not known
before that he had such blazing eyes
There was something in his eyes that
was terrifying. She could not face it
and her own eyes continually dropped
before it. Yet there was something
alluring about it. as well, and she con
tinually returned to catch q glimpse
of that blazing, imperious, yearning
something that she had never seen in
human eyes before. And she was her
self strangely bewildered and excited
The transports huge whistle blew {
deafening blast, and the fower-crown
ed multitude surged closer TO the side