Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-02
The Society Islands.
Interesting Letter from Elder Frank Cutler Describing tho
Wonderful Coooanut Tree It's Usos

people will drag this through the waict
and encirciea school Ui FISH; then hi
opening one end. the fish are driven int
blskct.'ike net, amidst a beulam %
shouting and yelling. 10 railways remind.
me Ola political plndIm luium. re-
/ Gently saw five thousand fish caught in d
few hours in that way.
Out OF this wonderful tree they make
| their houses, hats, clothes, brooms, pens
F. ink and paper cups, plates spittoons
] baskets, carpets. mats, hnif-Oil, hsh nets,
spring beds ropes, boats, hShIinesl
nails. ornaments FOR head aud neck, per-
ume, torches. coal oil. medicines, fire.
/ wood. charcoal, dishcl0ths, strainer8
and hrestafter. Il furnishes food for
himself and family, his pigs. cats, dogs,
chickens. ducks rats. aud most gcncr'
ally a host OF neas, yields q most re-.
ircshing beverage, aud grows without
any cultivation, while IT, iuit is intro
duced into hundreds OF American foods,
and the tree, were ID to flourish in our
land, w1nld find iis way into every
household IN a hundred more different
articles.
We have bapiIsed eighteen persons
during my stay on lso, in the face Of
the boast Of the lo3cpnite that their mis-.
sionsries would turn, back all who
had previously been blpused. Our
losephtc friend took the very hrst OPP.
pOriuniiy to gct away saying that
their church had plenty Of places TO
send their missionaries where their
labon would be more appreciated.
THIS, too, when they have branch
almost as large as ours leii. Before
leaving, he said boz bad Travelled over a
good deal Of ,hc world, but never
seen as tough a place as lll0, lie has
now been here fifteen months and can
not begin to hold a common converse.
ton, let alone preach. ] have done
FIRST rate so far. A losephite missionary
who has been here twenty.siN years,
and has been constantly engaged in
preaching and interpreting Tor the last
eight years, recently came to Hao, and
alter hearing him preach, his own people
told me they could understand ME much
better They said my talk was plain as
daylight, but his REQ ,voicc) was 40 voa,
!, e., tangled or difficult.
AS with all these Islands. the people
Of lao are easier to convert thant 10 get
W hHA NANNNANN NNANA NhlNHNA NANAif
Still some good has been done and our
people abstain from drink and tobacco.
paying very strict regard to those laws
while we are here. Traders all predict
that observance will cud when We leave,
but we hope for better results, though
do not expect to see but little progress
while they remain on the Isolated, bar.
rem isles. They must come under the
stir and hustle OF civilization 10 wake
them up, and very little civilization will
ever be seen upon these scattered dots
Of rock and sand, There arc no
natural resources 10 sustain q civilized
community, Were II not for pcarl.shull
these natives would scarcely ever see
white man or hear from the outside world,
and from all reports that Is rapidly dis.
appearing. Ny ouly hope Tor the good
Of these people Is In the gathering"
Arizona and Mexico would make an
excellent place Tor them.
am well and feel to press on and do
all eau TO liit them from the mire into
which they have fallen,
FRANK CurLER.