Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-02-15
Climate to order.

MARK TWAIN, in letter to the New
York Tribune. says: | spent seVerai :
months in the Sandwich Islands six years
a. o. and if could have my way about IL
| would 90 back there and remain the ,
rest of nv DAYS 1t is paradise for an in
dolent man. If man is rich. he can live
expensively, and his grandeur will be re-
spected as in other parts OF the earth; IL
he is moor. he can herd with the natives
and live on next to nothing he can sun
himself all dav long under the palm trees,
and be no more troubled by his conscience
than butterfly would.
When YOU are in that blessed retreat
YOU are safe from the turmoil OF lie; you
browse your days away in long, deep
dream of peace; the past Is a forSottei
thing. the present is heaven. the future
Won leave to take care of itself. \ on are
in the center of the Pacific Ocean you
are 1000 miles from any continent: you
are millions of miles from the world; rs
far as YOU can see. on any hand, me crest
cd billOws wall the horizon, and beyond
this barrisr the wide universe is but for
eion land to YOU, and barren of interest.
Tine climate is simply delciouS-never
cold at the sea level. and never really 100
WARM, for YOU are at the halfway house
that is, 20 degrees above tiie eIua.ot
. But then YOU may order your own ciiinate
4 for this reason the eight inhabited Is
. lands are merely mountains that lit them
1 selves out of the sea-a group OF Delis, ii
: Won please. with some (but not very
: muchl ..tlare'' at their basis. You get the
= idea. Well. you take Thermometer ana
G mark on it where you want the mercury
If TO stand permanently forever with not
a moe than II degrees varaton)
winter and summer. Ii 50 degrees
n in the shade is your figure with the PRIV
D, ilere of going down or up five or SIX d"-
10 prees at long intervals). you build your
y houses down on the - ilare"-the slOplng
$. or level ground by the sea-shore-and
er YOU have the deadest, surest thing In the
re world on that temperature. And silcn i
I'd the climate of Honolulu, The capital OF
Id the kingdom. If you mark 40 degrees as
your mean temperature, you Duliu YOU
St house on any mOuntain-slde, 4oo or oV'
on feet above sea-level. If you mark Do de
@rees or co, go loo feet m@her. IL !o'
he mark for wntry weather, 90 on cliinpihs
ng and watching your mercury. If yo'
ms want snow and ice for ever and ever AM
on zero and below. build on the summit Q
nd Mauna Kea. 10000 feet up in the arr.
tie Won must have hot weather, you shout
OF build at Jahaina. where they do not han
nee the thermometer on nail because the so
ur- der might melt and the instrument g
ee broken or YOU should bald in the crate
10 of KileaGa, which would De tnc SAINT !
red going home before your time. OIL CT,
)ur not find as much climate punched togetl
the er anywhere in the world as you can
, of the Sandwich Islands. You may stan
of on the summit of Mauna kea. in II
midst of snow-5anks that were there b
the fore Captain COOS was born. maybe, al
VS. while you shiver in your fiIrs you mi;
re- cast your eye down on the sweep OF u
t mountan-side and tell exactly where IL
ou- trigid zone ends and vegetable life begin
ion a stunted and tOrmented growth OF tre'
an shades down into taller and freer sp
and cies. and that in turn into the full folias
les, and varied tints Of the temperate Zohe
sh, further down, the mere ordinary gree
rye tone of a forest washes over the edges
om a broad bar of orange trees that embrace
not the mountain like belt, and Is so dec
in and dark green that distance makes
jlia- black; and still further down, your e.
ldre rests upon the level of the sea-shor
an where the sugar-cane is scOrching in q
old, sun. and the feathery cocOa-palm glasslr
itself in the tropical waves; and VINE
cres you know the sinful natives are iOliil
that about in utter nakedness, and never kI.o
San ing or caring that you and your snow al
your chattering teeth are so close by.