The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-18
By Roaerick o. Matheson.

hlNleIa Oh haWan IN company Win
secretary of the interior, and | have
bumped along the same route with an
ex-Vice President of the United States
and real Governor of Hawaii, but to
get the real flavor of the country and
to see things as they appear from the
ground one must journey over the line
in Volcano Stables mail coach be.
hind four-in-hand, in company with
the transient travelling public. Ny for
mer trips between the Big Island me-
tropolis and this place were made in
shiny seven-seaters, which only struck
one rock out of four and which slid
along between breakdown at such a
pace that one carried away as impress
sions of the trip only vague memories
of tossing cane by the mile, long streaks
of green splotched here and there by
dashes of white when the autos careen-
ed through plantation camps. There
occurs. also, incidents of Japanese
horses trying to climb pals, with own
ers stringing together staccato oaths in
pidgin. English The real beauty and
enjoyment of sauntering sightseeing
along and through Hamakua, the rich,
is lost by auto.
Not so when you take seat on the
mail coach, which lumbers its way each
day from Waianuenue avenue to Judge
Barnard S hosiery, Main street, Lau.
pahoehoe. / have made the trip and
am here to prove It,,
A city Spirit.
Hilo has taken on for itself q new
atmosphere. ! spent nearly two days
there this week-deducting half a day
spent at Waiakea-and 1 found Hiloites
boosting of their town. 1t was pleas
ant to hear When citizens unite to tell
what good place they have sufficient
ly loudly as to drown out the voice Of
the croackers, that place is all right.
The last thing / was shown, when
swung on the mail coach, was the cor
ner where Hackfeld G. Co. was building
and the Japanese driver swung his whip
around to point out the Masonic Hall
as we clattered past. Now that Hilo
has city spirit-more important far
than new hotel, Masonic Hall or a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has potential
rival
Hawaiian Prohibition.
My companions on the stage coach
were an old Hawaiian lady and little
Hawaiian girl. The former held her
self proudly aloof on the start, but
the latter was ready to be made a
friend of through the medium of bit
of cocoanut candy. I find that candy
speaks an international tongue and
serves as an introduction about any
where. Before the coach swung out
of Hilo, however. the Hon. NJ. X. Ke-
alawaa was passenger and politics be-
gan to warm up. The veteran states
man informed me that he intended to
be the next supervisor from Puma,
which betokens i'll fer Norman Lyman,
the incumbent. As guarantee of good
faith, the Puma supervisor,to-be told
me he had just given one big luau and
was getting ready to give another one.
"How about prohibition in Puual"
l asked. "Will the Hawaiiahs vote
aye or 'aole'?'
~ think "aye,'' he answered.
Then, remembering that he was the
original woman suffragist in the Terri.
tory, he added eff wahine vote, sure
aye.
"Sure kela,' spoke up the old Ha-
waiian lady, whereupon she and Kea-
lawaa broke out into a dialogue of gut
terals and l passed the candy again to
the baby.
We picked up Jap or two along the
road, but they were very casual pas
sengers, jumping on and off without
interrupting the steady humping of the
conveyance. At Wainaku, three Fill
pinos joined the party, and they greeted
the driver like a long-lost brother. Be-
tween the Japanese-F Filipino Hawaiian
English concert i gathered that they
and the stage-coachman had arrived
on the last Mongolia, the latter from a
visit back TO Japan. On that same boat
had come the second batch of Russians,
and was surprised to learn that my
driver and his Filipino friends knew
as much about the Russian pilikia as /
did. The Filipinos all spoke fair Eng
lish, having gone to school to learn it.
They appeared bright, capable young
chaps, and as soon as they became con-
WINGED that / was not an officer of the
law We're very friendly and communion
tive. Their suspicion at first was that
] was going TO reprove them for cock
fighting.
An International Episode.
The two were on their way to Ho-
nomu, where, they said, all the Fill
pinos were going to leave and seek
work elsewhere. Pressed for a reason,
they said that one of their countrymen
had disappeared from the plantation,
and the police emo hunt, no do moth
ing
FOLLOWING up tuc NY slciy, Nao toiu
the following tale of international war,
showing that pilikia comes on the best
regulated plantations: $500
A week ago Friday, on March to
be exact, a Japanese labOrer, coming
from his bath like Venus from the sea,
strolled along the main thoroughfare
of the Hononn camp with nothing on
but his bashfulness, Inhis wapderings
he met. a Filipino lady, who expressed
a vigorous opinion of a man who could
30 far forget the conyentionalities as
TO 60 shopping in a state Of nature.
This slur against o Japanese custom,
sanctioned by the ages, drew angry
retorts from the Japanese, who very
fuenily remarked that a Jap sans cos
tune was infinitely TO be preferred 10
any Filipino, even though garbed in all
the glory OF . solomon, WheIeupon a
Filipino champion, raising his battle
cry, smote him On the jaw with a cob.
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