The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-01-16
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mouths full Of butter, and Who are simply
impoaaibly chuckle-headed and pious. And
hs knovs all the hymns you ever heard IN
your liz, and b sinU den m . on ~.
ant votee, 70 native words that nake s'On
J0cdanS aosmy hanks stand'' sound =.
sTotesque and sweetly foreign TO you - IL Il
we're dictionary grinding wrong end 6rss
through . sugar-mill. Nov You see how
these natives, great and small, old and
young, are saturated With relisisn-as leass
the poetry and the music of il. But q 10
The practice Of it, they vary. Some Of the
nobIef PreceP@ of Christianity they have
always Practiced naturally, and they always
will. some OF the minor precepts they =
naturally do not practice, and - naturally
they never will. The white man has taught
them TO lie, and they take to it pleasantly
and without sin-for there cannot be much
sin in thing they cannot be made to com.
prehend is sin. Adultery they look upon .
POLITICALLY wrong but practically proper.
These people are sentimenially religious
perhaps that describes il. They pray and
sing and moralize in fair weather. but
when they get into trouble, that u Cuisines"
and then thsy are tolerably apt 70 drop
poetry and call on the Great Shark God OF
their fathers 70 give them lift. Their an.
cient euperstitiOns are in their blood and
bones, and they keep cropping out now and
then in the most natural and pardonable
way.
The natives make excellent seamen, and
the whalers would rather have th than
any other raos. They are Is tr eli, BILE,
docile and willing, and withal 20 faithful,
that they rank first in the sugar planter
esteem - laborers. Do not thess facts speak
we'll for our poor, brown sunday-school
children of the far islands?
There 10 small property tax, and any
native who has an income Of $50 year can
vote.
TIE WHITES AND SUGAR.
The 5000 whites in The island handle all
the money and carry on all the nmerce
and agriculture-and ssperinten; re re.
ligion. Americans are largely 10 the - =
ity. These whites are sugar.planters, n-r-
chants, whale-ship officers and missionaries.
The missionaries are sorry the most of the
whites are there. and these latter are sorry
the missionaries don't migrate. The mott
Of the belt Of sloDing land that borders the
sea and rises toward the bases OF the noun
taius, Il rich and fertile. There are only
200, 900 acres Of the productive soil, bat Gully
think Of its capabilities In Louisiana,
zoo, 600 acres Of sugar land would only
yield 50 600 tons Of sugar per annum, and
possibly not 70 much but in the Sandwich
Islands, you can get at least 400, 700 tons out
Of it. This il a good, strong statement, but
it is true. nevertheless. Two aud a half
tons to the acre is a common yield in the
al d.. ~ kulc = L.
means unusual five tons is frequent and !
can name the man who took fifty tons OF
sugar from seven acre. Of ground, one season.
THIS cane was on the mountain side, 25CO
feet above sea level, and it took it three
years to mature. Address your inquiries to
Capt. Mckee, Island Of Maui, 8. I. Few
plantations are stuck up in the air like that,
and 90 twelve months is ample time for the
maturing Of cane down there, And would
like TO cali attention to tWo OF three exceed
ingly noteworthy facts. For instance, there
you do not hurry up and cut your cane when
it blossoms, but you just let it alone and cut
it when you choose harm will come Of
it. And Won do not have to keep an army
of hands to plant in the planting season,
grind in the grinding Season, and rush in
franticaily and cut down the crop when a
frost ,hreatens. Not at all. There ia no
hurry. You run a large plantation with bu,
a few hands. because YOU plant pretty much
when you please, and you cut your cane and
grind it when it suits your convenience.
There il no frost, and the longer the cane
stands the better it grows. Sometimes
often, in fact-part of your gang are plant.
ing q field, another part are cutting the crop
from an adjoining field, and the rest are
grinding at the mill. You oplv plant
once In three years, and YOU take
of two ration crops without replaptipg
You may keep on taking of ration crops
about a. long as you please, indeed; every
year the bulk Of the cane will Be smaller.
hut the i,ice will grow regularly. denser and
richer, and 20 you are eli right. know of
one lazy man who took of sixteen ratoon
crops without replaniing!
What fortunes those planters made during
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