Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-09-16


Il scraggy, pot-bellied little horse
atiectionately called Monterey" in
memory Of some early Mexican cx-
perience, who would amble his unvarv-
ing way over the mountain and
through valley from weeks end to
weeks end. The majors Indian stories
were delight to the youth of the
vicinagc, of whatever nationality.
There are amazing individual in
stances OF what plexus OF threads
OF life and experience have been
shuttled through the mazes of the
wide world, to be finally gathered to a
knot in this isolated little dot in the
Pacific. A late United States minister
in looking over some old legation rec
Ords, came across the name of one
known to him rs fugitive from
justice in the United States years be-
fore, who had driftcd to this island
seclusion. A random letter from the
daughter of the fugitive, then long
dead, telling of the successive stages
westward of the haunted conscience
seeking oblivion. An Ohioan, become
a sugar planter on Maui, was appealed
to for a place to work by wandering
tatterdemalion. There was some
familiar Buckeye twang in the mans
accent, and upon questioning him,
the planter found that he had been
born in the same city and same street
rs himself and less than block from
his own birthplace. These are bonds
OF retionship and OF interest stretch
ing from many New England homes
to scores OF households all over the
Hawaiian group.
There is no characteristic of the
white Hawaiians that strikes the
foreigner more forcibly than their ex-
pansiveness and their pervasiveness
One finds them all over the world. A
Hawaiian talks of " a trip to the coast" "
which is u voyage 2,l00 miles, con-
suming q week, much as New Yorker
contemplates ferryboat ride to
Hoboken. And there are large num-
bers of residents of Honolulu who
make periodical trips to New York,
Boston and Washington, to say
nothing of the tour of Europe. The
Hawaiian observer habitually takes a
telescope view of the world at large
from his small point of observation
and perceives the large lines of things.
He is trained to look forward to q
great commercial world circling the
waters of the Western ocean and the
Hawaiian group, and particularly
Honolulu, at the "cross road of the
Pacific" taking toll from the passing
commerce of all nations. There is
very considerable wealth in the hands,
particularly of the sugar planters,
practically all of whom have Il
Honolulu house, besides the plan,a-
ton home. The great commercial
houses in Honolulu do II commission
business in supplies for the planta-
tions, and also as factors for the sale
of the sugar product. These houses.
of course, own plantations, and ship
ping in some cases, and nearly all OF
them do banking business. Not
only American, but German and
British firms are in this business on q
large scale. Since the reciprocity
treaty with the United States has
been in force, practically all the cap
ital in the islands has been diverted
into the sugar industry, and i'm
portant Improvements in culture and
production, introduced principally
through American enterprise. Next
in importance comes the rice industry,
largely in the hands of Cinnamon.
The grain of the Hawaiian rice is
particularly large and transluced, so
rs easily to distinguish it from Chinese
or Indian rice. Coffee is indigenous
to the islands, and" Kona" coffee from
Hawaiian plantations has won en-
comiums from connoisseurs. Olives
have been successfully cultivated and
the quality OF all the tropical fruits is
particularly fine, including oranges,
bananas, pineapples, guavas, mangoes,
figs, etc. The lines are of fine quality
and flavor. 1t is II curious fact that
lemon trees, after bearing lemons for
a few years, run into lines, or some
thing very like them. The ample
slopes OF the numerous hills and
mountains offer great variety of
climate and of soil, the possibilities OF
which under cultivation and irrigation
have never been adequately tested.
No mention OF the Hawaiian islands
would be complete without Tribute
to the boundless hospitality of the
islanders. The stranger is not only
welcomed to full share in all that
the host possesses, but he is followed
ever afterward through the world with
u cordial and winning interest and
sympathy. No man ever touched
their shores without forming ties that
grow out of frank welcome and
solicitous and unstinted hospitality.
EVEN the Republican papers con-
fess that many surprises made their
appearance ut the Vermont elections,