The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-03-30

the Hawaiian Jockey Club has race
track near Honolulu, and to it, during
the racing season, the fair world and the
brown world of Hawaii go.
At all these amusements the native
band is conspicuous feature. The band
has forty members, all natives except
the leader, who is German. The band
cost the late Government $50, 600 year
to support.
The native Hawaiian lives an easy life.
His home is in funny grass house, like
some gigantic hay NOW. Its interior Is
one room, in which are few of the
primitive articles of modern house.
But there is much to admire and COM
mend in their character. The natives
are amiable, honest and generous, and
have certainly shown themselves sus-
ceptible of intellectual and moral cleva.
ton.
Physically they are OF good stature,
active and well made. The descendants
of the chiefs are usually large men and
exceed in height the average European.
All are ex perts in swimming, and are
DOOu uSuSTIl6u duQ lOtSciucI. L lculuS
is their usual mode of living.
The native women have rich olive
compexions, well-developed forms,
black, glossy hair, and large, lustrous
eyes, and many of them may be consid-
cred beautiful. They dress in gay
coIored holokus, sort OF gown, and
wear wreaths, or, as they term it, leis,
of flowers.
In his food the Hawaiian native still
clings to the native fashion which be-
longs to his primitive condition. His
menu consists of poi, boiled or baked
taro and raw fish. Poi is a sort of stew
that smells worse than the rankess linn
berger cheese, but which isn't SO bad
after all to the taste. Taro is tropical
fruit, from whica taro flour is made.
While the native male is making a few
dollars at fishing, his spouse earns
tride, too, by the lomi lonl treatment,
in which the native woman is an expert.
The term really stands for what is known
in civilization as massage, the natives
from time immemorial being experts in
its manipulation.
Although small in numbers, the
American in Hawaii ''gets there" every
time. He owns four.ffths of Hawaiian
wealth, nine tenths of her foreign com
mercs, aud carries in his ships eight
tenths OF her freight.
Still further, it must be remembered
that the Hawaiian Islands have. by their
strategic opposition, the positive control
of the commerce OF the Pacific Ocean,
which will be enormously increased
when the Nicaragua Canal shall be COM
pleted. .s-'-"~s-s--s ssass7s"- ~ r-s-r-
The United States already by treaty
holds possession of the splendid Ha-
waiian harbor OF Pearl River, which is
the best place to occupy until actual an
nexation is established.
Hawaii is we'll equipped with news
papers. There are two daily English
papers, and one daily Hawaiian paper,
called Ka Holomua, meaning the Ad-
vance. There is another daily Hawaiian
sheet, which is called Ka Leo 0 Ka
Lahui, or, The Voice of the People, and
then there are monthly Chinese, Portu-
guese, English, German and Spanish pa
pers, catering to the wonderful cosmo.
poltan population that make up the
100, 900 souls on the island.
There are eight OF these islands, which
have an area of GAO square miles, OF
about 500 square miles larger than Con-
nectcut and Rhode Island put together.
They are situated 210O miles from San
francisco, $50 miles from Auckland,
New Zealand; 44S4 miles from Australia,
3440 miles from Yokohama, Japan, and
1890 miles from China.
In general character the islands are
alike. They consist of mountains, vol
canic in natare, scanned with valleys and
gorges, with rolling plains lying between
and along the foot of the mountains.
The five principal islands are Hawaii,
from which the group Is named, Maui,
Oahu, Kauai and Moukai. Honolulu is
located at Oahu.