Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-07-15

takes up the perfumes Of the myriads Of
flowers and softly delights the stranger.
There Is always summer. always solemn
songs Of the strange birds, always the
wild and cultivated fruits OF the tropics,
always the mountains bathed in mist
aud mystery. and the warm, e%neryatlDg
climate, and the indolent, slow, sleepy,
quiet humdrum, unchanging life Of the
people, and when night drops her sable
curtain, always the sweet, sad strains OF
native music OF the native cottagers.
The general characteristics Of Hawaii
and lis people will apply also to the Phil
ippine islands. There are neither snakes
nor toads In Hawaii. They employ
thirteen letters in their alphabet,
including all the yowels. It is
pretty TO hear them speak their
native tongue. To hear them sing Is de
lightiul. That poetic, non existent ab.
straction, love, Is best translated in min.
strelsy. so they sing Of love and OF war,
Of the bravery Of their kings, OF the vir-
tue Of their queens. Of the lake OF Gre
(]yolcanO) ON the mountain Of KilAuea
and OF NEUROLOGICAL Pele, its guardian
ana stOker, Of their snow.enshouded
mountain peaks, some as high as a.
900 feet; Of the mysteries OF the hills
aud OF those who have sacrificed them
selves in the seething crater Of Kilauea
for the good Of their people; and Of the
olden time before the white man came in
1920, when the whole blOOds began Ia
pass away and the half-bloOds to supply
their places. In the museum at the
Kamehameha schools are seen old wood
en-, worship worn, decrepit, dilapidated
gods and gOdesses, some appear IA II a
pious Kanaka, with a taste for the artis.
tic, had taken a small log, and with a
sharp stone, battered places for eyes
nose and mouth, this Ia all the visible
carving, and they yet manufacture these
soul savers In some OF the unreclaimed
mountain districts. Even in Honolulu
they cling to their old superstitiOns,
Very few pure Kanakas are seen in a
church, withal they are a gentle, lOyable
people. The government buildings,
however, are constantly guarded. Beard,
less boys veal guns at $50 per month
and found, and try TO look severe and
war-wOrn. TO enlist, they must declare
in effect, that they never did, or can, love
anything on earth as they love President
Dole and his republic; and that they and
ex.queen Lip do not aud can moi
move in the same set" The take,
are rents and yet the government Dor
rowed and yet il was I'm the hole" You
must flash $50 TO get In and leave 81 e
got out. Ninety.dye thousand OF these
people possess little or no property. Thu
few bydiyers ways, fair and unfair, OWL
the property, run the government and Dc
the voting Following is the classified
one hundred thousand population OF all
Hawaii: Hawaiians, pure and mixed 49,,
600; Chinese 1900; japanese $4,000; POr
~tuguese, 1900; Polynesians 1000; al
other Europeans aud Americans, 1000.
II Is not all pleasure In Hawaii. TIT
mosquitoes are ever on the qui yiye fOI
the blood Of the stranger. The Old-timel
has been prospected and worked by thesI
plaques 30 much that there Is little pa,
blood In him They camp about you
bod in p~latoOns all night long, and Will
some chant their national hymn, other
are tearing down the netting. And TN
i%y-catching lizards, singing nys, cent?
pedes, scorpions, tarantulas, nous
sized cock reaches, bed bugs and tieas, al
love good beds with some n In II. Tn
Kanakas are chronic borrowers and sci
dom payers, They have been fOreclOsel
out Of their best lands. Some OF thei
kings, notably Kalakaua, have borrowed
played and drank away thousands O
acres Of the best crown nov govern
mentj land. The Hawaiians are simple
indOlent, kind, ~cOndding, in%oifensiyC
musical, t%un-loying people. They ar
splendid horseback riders and jockeys
Morally, they are non est inyentus
They are exceedingly h~Ospitable. Ea
poi and you are a brother aud mus
sleep in the wide bed with the family, /
unfortunately you are detained owe
night, They are not intellectual. tn
street costume OF the ladies consists q
a decOllette mother hubbard OF brigh
color and u straw hat and that Is all
She will grasp that gown In her RICH
hand and swing down the street in he
bare feet, and while you cannot zee 4
her demeanOr cOnyinces you there
something noble about her. Physicalll
they are fine specimens OF man an
WOmanhOOd. The female (Ka wahinI
Is very susceptible TO battery. "Alohi
He wahine Mai Kai," Directing, lad,
you are very prettyJ and dollars {
dOughnuts you are elected. They hay
never given over their old and beautifJ
custom OF decorating departing friend
At the shipping docks, with magnihceI
wreaths OF flowers, and they water thel
with their tears. The pure native IL
a dark copper color, skin almost tran
parent, having large black dreamy eye
ard straight, glossy black hair. Some
the young women are handsome Of IA,
and figure.
But those pretty poi eaters, as Il
? years advance, grow corpulent al
heavy. They can live cheaper and swi
better than any people on earth. tn,