The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-06-24

s,lf-reliant customer IS Uncle Sam.
But, whether the United States an
nexes the little group of islands. or
continues TO exercise sort of ster
paternal care over them. the question
OF annexation has aroused general
feeling of interest. and Americans are
prone TO ask: What Is there in it for
us?"
In truth. the idea of owning de-
pendent colony rather tickles good
many people. particularly people who
travel. 1t is 50 English. so sort of pro-
prieta-v, so in harmony with the
fashion of landed estates and resi-
-dences abroad. Americans have never
had fair show at an isolated depend
cncy. 1t is true that from time to
time they have sailed away to Long
Island. Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard
and the Isle of Shoals, but the excite
ment of such excursions died away
long ago, and the onward march of
civilization has so.tamed the formerly
fierce inha bitants of these Businesses.
that trips can now be m ,de with com
paratively little peril, and with only
that modicum of pleasure that comes
with slight change of air and scene.
Honululu is 2,l00 miles from San
Francisco, slow and easy seven days
journey by steamship. If Paris is
France and London England then
Honolulu and its immediate vicinity
are the Hawaiian Islands Certainly
TO p easure-seekers, and persons after
cottages, and building lots, and those
with souls above vegeta bles and sugar
cane, there is very little in the islands
beyond cannon-shot of the capital.
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impressive and active Volcano The
views presented, and accompany ne
this tribute to Liliuokalanis place of
residence, are in the main illustrative
of Honolulu and its chief attractions.
Whoever goes TO Honolulu, no mat
ter what the season, must take his
summer clothes with him, for once
there he is in the tropics, and, consid-
ering that the primitive dress of the
natives was simple and unblushlng
nature, heavy apparel would be bur-
densome even 10 the Caucasian. Some
body has said that the island rises out
of the sea, green with a verdure that
never fades, and brown with the bronze
tints of lava flows that have been cold
for centuries" This is very pretty
way of putting it. and is absolutely
true TO fact. Aud as the traveller
draws near the shore he is charmed by
the tropical aspect of the country, by
the rising yucca palm, the giant ferns.
the mangoes, cocoa palms, tamarind
and banana trees and all the heavy,
luxuriant foliage that speaks of life
of inglorious Incidence and ease. No
man ever sailed into the harbor of
Honolulu, and saw these beautiful ev:-
dences of bountiful nature. tina. he
did not admit that he YVES glad he had
come.
Unless the tourist is on familiar
terms with Claus Spreckels or some OF
the wealthy missionaries and business
men. he goes to the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel, which is run according 10 Amer
lean principles. The main differen e
between this csravansary and New
York hotel is that the palms and the
plants and flow rs are in the yard in
stead of the corridors and Office. The
cooking is in the American style. for
the native dishes demand long and
srduous course of training. II you
don't like your room in the hotel. you
can hire one OF the cottages in the
grounds, and come over at nightfall
and sit on the verandas that run
around the house and listen TO the
music furnished by what was the Royal
Hawaiian Band, confident that you