The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-16

as IN the instances of the gun and the
gate, the machinery of the court
"ouldn I be put in motion.
Good Old Saturday Night.
Saturday night was great occasion
N Naimea. There was an unusually
high tide caused by heavy southerly
swell and the water came pretty well
up 10 the roadway, though no damage
was done. After the political meeting
the crowd gathered to witness an ex-
hlbition of moving pictures. Something
went wrong with the works, however,
and the pictures failed to move. The
hall was then cleared and a dance
started. This was preceded by slight
misunderstanding between the pro-
prietor of the hall and the would be
dancers, the former demanding some
tritiing financial compensation which
the latter refused to pay Finally mat
ters were adjusted and the dance went
merrily on to the strains of an accora
zion. The fun was at its height when
policeman appeared on the scene and
chlvIed home several little girls who
had been shaking their feet as ably as
their grown-up partners. This auto
/, cratic proceeding put damper on the
went out. Kauai is evidently moral in
its dance-hall ideas
The OlokeIe Trail
Yesterday | tramped along the Olo-
kele ditch. fifteen miles up the trail.
The best way is to take a carriage as
far as the ditch house. distance of
ten miles from the road and a mile and
half further from Wamea, and to
proceed thence on foot. The trail
passes Francis Gay s residence and then
j winds through the sugar cane for about
four miles. Emerging from the cane
one passes through abarren country,
swept by clouds Of red and yellow dust,
and where dying vegetation pants for
water Before the ditch diverted the
| flow Of the mountain stream the coun-
try hereabouts was pleasant and green.
The mountain scenery is impressive but
parched and ungrateful. Not till
point mile or so from the ditch house
! is reached does the heart rejoice and
the eye become contep- with its sur
roundings.
The scenery at the ditch house is
pretty. but it is beyond that that the
trip becomes worth the while. On the
left is gorge with a sheer drop of
perhaps two thousand feet, at the bot
tom OF which roars a mountain stream.
Back of the far wall of the gorge are
the wonderfully tinted sides of the
canyon. There may be seen dome and
minaret, pillar and pinnacle, buttress
and cloud-spearing peak. Clad are
they In garments of red and yellow
ana gray and olive and green. the shad-
ing changing with the progress of the
sun.
In one great gully brilliant rainbow
stretches III all its perfection far below
the trail transforming the spot into a
veritable fairyland To and fro along
the face of the tremendous cliffs fly the
whitetailed tropc birds and along
dizzy lodges wild goats crop the scant
heritage.
On the right of the trail the upland
Is clad with kukui and other trees and
the bank is covered with creepers, ferns
and flowers. Here and there pohas
grow in abundance
On and on runs the trail till on turn:
ing sharp spur of rock one enters a
misty valley from which proceeds the
voice of many waterfalls Soon the
! falls are seen and many pleasant
bathing pool presents itself.
' Ever to the left is the sheer drop of
| two thousand feet and ever on the right
| the fern matted bank and the cool
kukuis from branch to branch of which