The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-08-10
Editorial Gleanings.
Plantation life in florida.

freedmen In q very readable letter to 4 Boston
PAPER, she gives an interesting account Of planta-
ton life Tie negroes, though freedmen, are
7till firmly attached TO many Of the old ways and
works Of their former slave condition. \ mid
dle-asei shrcwd Virginia negro named Nose. l.
the foreman Of the plantation, and oversees all
the details Of the field work. The average rate
Of wages for 4 good field hand Is twelve dollars a
month. with q house and rati1ns. They are
reckoned by employers who have worked North
ern labore-s. 70 De. with good. careful overseeing.
just about a. efficient - the average run Of white
laborer- that can be hired at the North, and they
are. probably, for the climate and their surround
ingS. far better.
But while the outdoor work went on quite
satisfactorily. Mr.. Stowe was less fortunate wiki
the household servants. In many respects her
description of the traits of the women E. house
hands, reminds one foreibly of the Hawaians.
She says
House hands. in general. are the most clumsy. un-
skilled, unframed, delaying, deierring. Sinking tribe
that can be imagined. The idea Of doing anything
at the same hour and time for two consecutive days.
Of keeping any regular lines and department, of
labor, and going on systematically a. in a Northern
household, seems never Yet Ia have dawnei on their
minds, any more than the kindred idea Of washing
dishes NJ regular seasons when You have done using
lell lL-tctl - lclllnE I4Sli All SIAM III lu!lg con-
fusion till they are wanted again.
There are some Old families here who are excellent
hOusekeepers, and who have managed 10 retain under
the new regime their old house servants, and such
proceed without trouble. But the generality Of pro
fe>sei house servants are fond II congregating in
cities, ask extravagant wages for coming out on
plantations, and would be considered, as to anv Of
our Northern standards Of housekeeping, good for
very little. \ woman with ordinary strength and a
pair Of hands would much prefer cooking her own
dinner, sweeping her own Parior and making her
own bed, 10 allowing that jubilee Of dirt and confuS-
ion which results from the combined efforts Of Judy,
LLzxy, SOphy, Niry, and any half dozen others, all
Of whom seem 10 consider themselves necessary 10
help along each others operations, and think them
selves excessively abused If they are not allowed 10 do
every thing IN company.
After a long description of the trials and
deliberations endured by the Northern settler in
the south, Mrs. Stowe concludes AZ follows
50 90 matters in this easy. rollicking, sunny
climate, where the warm days - OutnumLer the cold
that the lahorer never thinks it q hardship 10 live in
"a house without glass windows, generally bein. GER
tain that no rain storm will beat ia az all four sides
OF his house at once, - that he can have an open
shutter somewhere.
IL i hardly possible to run a plantation with hands
trained under the old regime without running ina the
same old, worn, rafting grooves in which the ma
chineTy of plantation life has always moved.
y climate whose summer lasts pretty much the
year round, inelines people, spite of themselves, to
the large, icisurely, easy way OF doing things. Ma
ture here does not bring you up with the short,
decided, step-nother turns of northern ATTITUDES,
where II you do not SOW to-day it will be too late to
morrow, where frost stands sentry ON both ends of
the three months called summer, to warn you that it
l. now or never with you, and a cold winter bids YOU
look ahead and store provision and fuel for its long
months. Here, where one can 90 on sowing, reaping
and tending garden the year round, every thing in
clines one 10 take matters by the day, To comfort ones
self that there Is time enough Tomorrow for what
isn't done to-day. 80 even Northern Yankees find
the grim clutches Of care relaxing their hold: they
lHuVl Ar luenu EefI@nee- which ~ I,uua rtat- u-.uI1
lind matters Of grave Importance, and agree 10 take
life a our friend Romeo IL convinced the last trumpet
Will find them, cool and easy"
Holmes on Ministers.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. in his new novel. . The
Guardian Angel - now being published y the
Atlantic Monthly, has the following, perfectly
characteristic of Holmes
"To know whether n minister, young or still in
flower, i in safe or dangerous paths, there are two
psychOmeterS, a comparison between which will give
US infillible a return as the dry and wet bulbs Of the
ingenious Hygreieik. The first Is the black broad
cloth forming the knees of his pantaloons; the second,
the patch of CARPET before his mirror. II the first is
unworn, and the second frayel and ihreadbare, pray
for him. Ii the first Is worn and shiny, while the
second keeps its pattern and texture, get him TO pray
Tor you"
~Conssmptivs Localities.
\ late number of that valuable publication,
Journal Of Health, has an article under the
above heading, which is suggestive Of tine causes
prevention of consumption. After dilating
upon the importance to health of full and deep
respirations of the lungs, the writer says:
The air Of elevated situations being purer, is more
nutritious, gives more life and yigUr TO the system.
All know that mountain air l. Purer than that Of the
plain, and that mOuntainccrs are more healthy than
those who live on Hat lands. About one person in
six dics Of consumption in England and the United
States. In the city of Mexico, seven thousand feet
ufsgp the lgEgl pf fhs Sci lfguf n rpr-uu I m cyar -
dies of consumption. In the higher Alps II
i almost absent. IL Is II rare occurrence among the
priests ON the great 1T. Bernard, and l. scarcely ever
amongst the Inhabitants 81 the upper Alps,
and when they do become consuInptiye away from
home, and return To their native mountains before
the disease has made great progress, they are gener-
cure1. The further We 60 north, the less eleya-
il required to almost Danish consumption. In
the tropics il i rare above seven thousand feet; in the
temperate zone il il rare above four thousand feet; ia
Switzerland, between f~orty-six and forty-eight de-
yrees, north latitude, its frequency diminishes above
three thousand feet; ia the Black Forest. between
and forty-nine degrees. north latitude,
above two thousand five hundred feet; in the Hartz
and those 81 Ihurlngen and SILICA,
fifty and ~ffty-two DEGREES, north latitude, at
m elevation Of one thousand i've hundred feet, con-
sumption il almost unknown.
Brehmer assures VI, that he has never seen tuber-
;ular consumption in the Gorbersiorf at one thousand
seven hundred feet. Birds which live most in the
higher regions have the largest lungs. The great E,
inference j.. whatever promotes "A full and
iecp breathing tends 70 the arrest and cure Of con-
whether IL he 10y breathing rariiel air in I
Elevated localities, or 10 promote deep breathing by ]
artificial means; and these have been our principles I
4 treating consumption for more than twenty-five I
ears. q
If people afflicted with consumption who visit /
hcse Islands for their health, would, instead of :
lingering about Honolulu, 20 at once to the high
aDds Of Hawaii or Mani, many years of life :
night be saved. Gases can be shown. where 4
nen from California, apparently very far gone in '
,cnsumntion. have bv GOING To- live I'm such local y