Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-18

few months since and was at the time
a guest and speaker at one of the Ad
Club luncheon5. after a return to the
mainland gave To the Wichita tkas)
Eagle his impressions OF Hawaii. These
! the Eagle published In fun in one Of its
Sunday editions giving almost page
40 the article under the heading OF
/ "HaEaii-The Land of Aloha In
/ this article Harris said in part:
ALOHA" falls in soft. liquid ac-
Gents on the travellers ear, as he en-
/ barks from the boat on the Rainbow"
Islands. a.. , -
| The Hawaiian language has twelve
letters; syllabIes end in a vowel The
/ novels do not work on any Union
Labor Scale but work At least sixteen
hours a day all the year around. Hence.
no matter how long word is. when
you hear a native roll 1t off in his
soft voice, IT falls as soft On the cars
! as a maiden's kiss on the lips OF her
lover, or the spank" OF a grand
| mother on Ger. first grand child. Eve
old folks all understand this.)
ALOHA" is a welcome, greeting,
goodby, a farewell, a parting. You
hear it en- the boat, on The highway,
on the streets, at the beach, at the
hotel, at sunrise, noon and twilight.
II Is adopted by all residents of the
!. islands, including Chinese, Portuguese
and Nipponese. The bands play
Aloha the children sing 1t and the
1 old people hum it. 1t Is the word
Universal" inst as the gold dollar
is the universal passeort in society
on the mainland"
The hearty greeting Of the islands
(. to the stranger appears to be1natural.
not put on like the "handshake" of a
politician, running for two or four.
year 'bread-ticket' at the yearly cleo
lions, and then relapsing into the reg
T; ular ''pump-handle handshake when
! the ballots are counted.
After Mark Twain paid his eloquent
I tribute to Honolulu and after Jack
London wrote upon the islands and
the An Fong family, II is with q great
deal Of timidity (actuai or assumed
that the writer takes his pen IN hand
tor rather dictates to his stenograph-
/ er) and gives his impressions OF the
1 Pacific sea islands, annexed to the
i Omitted States, which annexation was
! equally opposed and condemned, but
Z has now been condoned by the people
Of the United States.
Individually, the writer was opposed
h to the scheme of. annexation. but
4 after he Teacbed Honolulu he was vac
4 cinated and 1t 'tookn" and he is now
4 ready, able and willing. as Artemus
Ward was during the rebellion, when
5 he said to, President Lincoln that he
4 was ready 10 sacrifice all Of the able
!, bodied felatiBnssos hts wife to put
ldOEn the rebellion, even sol am ready
Il u make the same sacrifice; before a
4 Will consent to have the Stars and
Il Stripes, which saw waving over the
H Capitol building, hauled down.
Victor Hugo once said, Copies new.
Ell succeed Therefore, | win saddle
my pony, loosen the rein, give him bis
head and let him wander, browsing
grass, while give my own prairie
II Impressions Of Honolulu. as little
child tells q story, without regard to
4 chronology of events or things, as they
happened, but Just as the memory Of
things appears on the ephoto,plate' o!
my mind.
II About s o'clock on the night be
fore we reached Honolulu some one
/ iiscerned in the distance the light
house, far away in the west, on one
Of the islands. This light, which ap
Deared like al star, was not land, but
ike faith,ssitE was the evidence OF
etiings unseen and the substance pi
the things Hoped for." Land would
ttnot have created any more interest o.
a star hat3ing low upon the waters
that proclaimed the end OF p journel
over indigo-bIne waters, smooth as ict
and as tranquil as an inland lake.
At five o'clock the next morning. ev
erybody was up, watching for the lit
1.-THE gasoline launch to- come to US and
take on the United States Inspector:
H and the passengers we're ali ranged
up In row on the deck, like Grim
mails. to be inspected for certain well
known noxious, contagious and catch
able" disease, of which the human
body is susceptible, the possessions Of
any one or more of which said diseases
made an undesirable citizen in tbs
land of Kamehameha L, the Alexande
the Great Of Hawaii -
"The Rainbow Land"
We know that the rainbow is thu
i 4 token OF the covenant that there il
never to be any more forty day ant
forty night downporr Of water, over
|whelming the earth. See Cen 9:13-6
No man, woman or child, who has eve
read about the rainbow, ever forgo
the covenant, when he. she or it be
held the rainbow and the seven orig
inal colors. By the way, the sail
number seven has good deal of al
paid to 1t in the Bible. tSevel
has good deal Of dignity to it, re
lating the holy things; for sexampl
without taking mp seven from A to 2
the; following items are mentioned
The world has made, fully completes
and dedicated in seven days; there ar
seven graces, seven divisions in tn
Lords Prayer: seven ages in the LII
of man, the just man falls seven time
Ia day (the numerous falls of the ur
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