Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-08

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chant from some to thless bag among
the squatted orchestra starts the
hula, and as it proceeds the music
grows louder and more, discordant.
Each hula lasts from ten to fifteen
minutes, and then the performers
pause to refresh themselves with gin,
This beverage costs about 20 cents
a quar-, and but for the use of poi,
which coats the infiamed walls of the
drinkers st-mach with a soothing
lot on, it would prove a speedy ex-
Termination Of the hula dancers.
The manufacturing industries of
Honolulu are next to none at ALL
though the country has twenty-five
sugar cane mills. This is an agri-
cultural region exclusively. Most of
what is worn and used and much Of
what is eaten, comes fir m over the
sea, some from the east and the
remainder from the west. Canned
g obs, groceries, carr ages, hats,
hoes, furniture, CIR ckery h usehold
effects, nearly everything except COT
fee, taro, strawberries, poultry, grass
mats and sugar is imported. Even
some hay is brought from Califor-
MIA on every steamer. The chief re-
sources Of the city, beyond what it
derives from retail merchant zing,
politics and rilling of its tributary
soil, is the opulent tourist. The
h i,,o oy1A clint n n O
cheaply, but his Christian brother
| f1eeces him until he has no wool.
The inter-island traffic of the is
I lands is large and the export trade
considerable. Regular lines of steam
ers connect them with Australia and
China, as we'll as with America. The
annual exports aggregate yearly over
SIC 1000 900 and consist of indigenous
fruits, sugar, rice, coffee, cotton,
corn, wheat, tobacco, fungus, wood,
wool, hides, tallow and many kinds
of woods. The imports are chiefly
groceries, provisions, clothing, tim
| Der, machinery, and hardware. The
revenues of the government aggregate
annually 100000 900.
The volcanoes of Hawaii are a
class of themselves. They are not
only the tallest, but the biggest and
strangest in the whole world. G n
sidering that they reach from the
bottom of the Pacific ocean Q8,00C
feet deep here) to over $1,000 feet
above sea level, they really stand
$4,000 feet high from their sub
oceanic base to their peaks. The &C
tive craters on the islands number
300. Mauna Loa is $4,000 feet above
sea level. Every six or seven year:
there is an erupt on from its side:
and several times the flow of lava
has threatened the ruin Of the towr
of Hilo, thirty miles away. The
crater on Mauna Loa is three mile
in diameter and 600 feet deep. Owe
the crater hangs an illuminated yaDo
which may be seen at night owe
200 miles distant. When Mauns
Loa is in violent eruption a fountain
of molten lava spouts every minut
over $50 feet in the air, bursting int
10000 brilliantly colored balls, ik
monstrous Roman candle pyrotech
, mic.
One good effect Of the subduing an
, emollient climate is seen in tn
pauc;ty of crime. No prisoner eve
thinks of running away from jail.
. The color line divides society i
f Honolulu. The Americans are on tn
top wave. The best class Of whit
r, pe-ple are refined, polished and &C
5 complished and their hospitality
superb. In this society is larg
! admixture Of the New England re
/ Iigious element, sprung from tn
missionary families which came her
2 between 1925 and 1850. To be sur5
2 the men and women Of this genera
tion have lost about all the stern
ness and rigidity Of their puritan an
l cestors. Every one changes some
!, what in this land of sersuousness an
2 early maturity. These descendant
5 of the missionaries are very prou
: Of their lineage. They supp-rt tn