The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-01-25

taken charge of in the same manner.
The arms Were. receipted for, and upon
proof that the, person. having them was a
peaceful citizep. a permit was given
to carry them.
After long, wearisome wait, the in
spection of my own baggage camo. This
trying ordeal over, I.passed through the
street, where 1 met Kanaka coachman
WHO asked:
Fl "Wantee la carriagea"
g eyes, take me to the Arlington" T
answered, and, jumping into his one
horse. surrey, I was driven to the hotel.
through an avenue of palm, date, and
fig trees. I!seerned to have, suddenly en-
tered an immense flower garden. Al1ght-
ing L asked the driver his fare. He
answered:
1.-Two bits"
,ShilIings, quarters, and cents are never
used in Howaii. Twenty-t five cents is two
bits, fifty cents four bits, and seventy.
five cents. six bits.
No one had yet appeared to welcome
me. saw some people on the lama or
porch. and some monkeys IN a cage, but
none seemed to have any special interest
in my arrival. I stepped upon the lama
and then a lady appeared and called a
Chioaman, telling him to take me to
number sixteen. The Acknowledged
Celestial picked up my valise and gave
my overcoat stare. That overcoat was
as much a curiosity in the city as a
native Samoan in full dress would be in
New York or Chicago.
We had only gone as far as the pass
ageway between the two houses when a
Japanese gill, with hair pulled ard feet
bare, came running toward us chatterine
like monkey. She took my valise, and
John Chinaman disappeared. The lady
Jap then went out int to vast court laid
out In regular walks bordered by tall
palms, cocoanut trees, banana plants,
and every variety of bright foliage and
Towering shrub of the tropics. The air
was burdened with the sweetest of per-
fumes, and the gentle cooling of ring
doves 1oated about me. It seemed more
OF a park than hotel. On either side
we're rows of neat little cottages, sll be-
longing to the hotel, and all empowered
in the verdure of the tropics.
MY female escort, carrying my valise,
walked down the lava path, I following.
We soon passed through a gate into the
street. Turning abruptly to the left, she
entered another building, and assembled
flight ct stairs with me, carrying my
overcoat and perspiring at every pore,
brinlng up the rear. In wide corridor
above. We we're met by another Japanese
called Tito, who took my valise to room
number sixteen.
MY apartment was large and sunny.
A great window opened on the porch on
the. west, and sank INFO seat, for few
moments gazing out upon rear court.
The scene was bathed in the sunlight OF
June, altho I was told that this was as
cold weather as one might ever EXPECT
IN Honolulu. The houses in Honolulu,
by the way, are constructed without
furnaces or other heating apparatus.
There Is but one fire. place for heating no
the island which is at the volcano. house
on Hawaii.
Though Honolulu is tropical town in
every respect, l. ia impossible for one to
be ashore five minutes without realizing
that, after all, the energy and propeliing
power ip this wonderful land are not
tropical, but Anglo-Saxon. Wherever
there is directing energy or organizing
power, or enterprise, or action, there one
will find the American. Americanism
predominates in the intelligent and rul.
lng spirits of the Islands. This is shown
IN hundred ways. The very republic
was declared on the fourth of July in
order that the day might be doubly enr
deared to the hearts of the people. A.
most rs much interest is manifested here
in the affairs Of the United States az in
the States themselves. The result is of
the elections and the policy of the ad-
ministr 'tion are watched with the keen
est interest.
The American is chief of business and
politics. He is in the church, the school,
the counting room, on the railroad, and
steamer; at the dry-dock and the foun-
dry; at the lumber yard, at the mill, and
tow-boat. He is on the wharf when
you land, on the street as you pass, at
the hotel when yon register. Nothing
goes ON successfully without him. He
fills teeth, cuts hair, mends shoes, builds
houses, shoes horses, mends ooffee-pots,
sells furniture, medicines, and hardwares
and fits clothes In fact you rub up
against him everywhere, at least where
there is evidence Of combined intelligence
and progress.
Such is the American who has made
his home ia this land of sunshine,
Though he fully retains his race charac.