Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-16
in HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
SOMETHING ABOUT THEM AND
THEIR PEOPLE
A Delightful CIimatc-Trces Are Al
ways Green-HabIts Of the Natives
In the Family Circle.

II the United States Is going to enter
upon career OF foreign acquisition IL
could find no fairer domain than the
little group in the middle OF the PACING.
| Think of a climate the outside variations
of which cover not over thirty degrees
| from sixty degrees TO ninety degrees on
rare occasions. Here trees arc always
green. taking on a new life while still
throwing of the old. There is no sere
and yellow leaf-no dying year there.
Watch the guava trees, and while on one
side the fruit is mellowing into yellow
| ripeness on the other side will be green
| fruit interspersed with white blossoms. In
all Honolulu there is but one brick chin
ney and that was butt by newly arrived
New England missionaries before they
had learned to tear out Of their minds
their bleak winter.
In the lowlands and the fertile valleys
there is an infinite variety OF products
TINT would be profitably cultivated were
there a market assured to them. Rice
was included with sugar in the list OF
products accorded free entry to the
United States. AS a consequence the
nearby reed grown shores have been par.
titioned off into trim rice beds, with inter
vening banks by the thrifty Cinnamon,
and their tender, vivid green is the
brightest feature in the lovely landscape
seen from the heights of the neighborina
mountain.
On the mountain sides brilliant scar
let berry on q small dark green, sinai
leaycd bush will attract an observan
eve. Break open the berry and i'm
bedded in each half will be found |
white seed with line running length
wise through the flat exposed surface
In this unfamiliar guise it will not taxi
you long to recognize coffee, which
indigenous to this soil. Some export
have been made of this product and 1t i
found in the Honolulu groceries unde
the title of Kona coffee. Connoisseur
have pronounced its flavor and arom
equal to the Mocha. 1t could doubles
be cultivated to advantage. Successful
experiments have also been made IN tn
cultivation of the olive. Lines grow Il
great profusion and to fine size. Effort
have been made to raise lemons in tn
islands.
1t is curiously asserted that after fey
crops of lemons the tree runs into
lime and yields only lines after that
As the lime is the preferable fruit thi
. cannot be called an unfortunate tendency
Pineapples abound and the tamarin'
can be had by those VINO like it. Man
goes are especially plentiful and good
MANY other tropical fruits have been sue
cessfully grown here, though not o
a large scale. There are plenty of Dobl
groves of cocoanut trees along the sc;
shore. one Of the finest being at waikiki
4 the beach near Honolulu. A quartz
, will induce diminutive kamalii (boy)
! walk up the slender stem and twist 0
] the nuts beneath the tuft of gracef'
palm leaves at the top. Garden vege
!. ables of fine quality are to be had
q Honolulu all the year around, thanks
the thrifty foresight and labor of Il
\ Chinese gardeners. These can be see
. daily with broad pagoda-like bask
4 hats on their heads, a tough, elastic site
like a long bow across their shoulde
= win great bucket of wat
! hanging from each end, passing betwet
v the rows of vegetables and plentifully b
2 sprinkling them. They carry these vege
: ables around from house to house in fl
! baskets. which are substituted for 4
shrinking baskets at the end of 4
N yoke stick.
i OF the people of these islands it Ct
" be truly said that they are the most an
k able, careless, irresponsible people in t
r world. The nearest approach to wo
% of any of them is in their employment
10 COWBOYS on the stock ranches. TIL
are wonderfully expert horsemen and al
become adept in the use of the lasso.
native man, or native woman for til
matter, is never so happy as when on
= spirited horse, going at hand gallo
!, decked out with tlowery leis and streamt
- O.. bright colored cloth, in screami
! conversation with whole troop of co
=, panions. They ride their horses
= death, they kill their babies with neglt
% and improper food, and yet it cannot
4 said that there is a grain of console
no cruelty in their nature.
n The household sits on mats around
~ calabach and all dip their fingers in t
~ common supply, bringing them out WI
,o an upward and outward twist, follow
q by downward and inward twist and
A. the desired haven of the mouth. In ia
= ily circle there is not unlikely to be an
n, crone who puts in almost all her walk
~ hours In monotonous chant, which
he carried on steadily through all the clat
= of small talk by the others. These {
on women are possessed of prodigious inf
e nation and have been industriou
he drilled and trained through early life
nh these chants, which arc a recitation OF
6e traditions of her people. These
he women, in fact, constitute the archi
nd and take the place that scrolls and boz
10, volumes fill with more civilized peoI