The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-20

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Possibly iilc island which i, best
Known to he Civilized wprI! through
romance an history Is Molokai, wiirh
contains the lclrr settlement of about
i,2OO sufferers from he dread disease.
Df this island and its faicI ,lwclcrs
Robert l.ouS Stevenson has much to
say in h~ book In the South Seas. :
And Mar vain, too, in Following
tho Euuator, writes Of the lcpcrs
and pays Il graceful tribute to Father
Damien, who laid down his life for
them BESIDES the lcpcrs Molokai
has population Of about 2.3o7 mostly
native.
I.alal has large number Of Ger
mans in its 1882 residents, most If
whom are engaged in the cultivation
OF sugar.
Maui, where Claus Sprechlcs, the
California sugar king, haas his cEtcn-
sivc plantations, contains about ,126
souls.
,nEAI. socIALlsT!c c"NNrNlrN.
OF socioiorical interest is he island
uf i'iihau, which. although hnvin" i
population Of only 100 rcrson>. has
some of the features Of an ideal
socialistic community. This island
is claimed by an iingliShman, who
asserts that he received it from one Ct
the former Kings Of the islands. Here
the people live principally Il PASTORAL
life and raise many sheep and wild
hogs Chickens roam wild on the
island, and when desired for food Or
market they arc shot.
iiawaii has population of .'si, 80.
The government of the islands and
the conduct Of affairs are practically
in the hands of some $500 Americans.
By the last census there were among
the whole 100, ,020 of the population Of
the islands 3,0S6 of American birth.
There were $3.50 British, ,l32 Ger
mans and about 400 others from
Northern Europe. Besides these
there are $4,000 Portuguese and few
hundred French, who only need cdu
cation to take a useful part in the
affairs Of the land Of their adoption.
The Asiatic population includes 24,-
i07 Japanese and about -, GIG
Chinese. The strictly native popula
,ion numbers 30,504. This is very
slight increase over the few proceeding
years, although there is general be-
lief that the natives are decreasing.
Capt. Cook in IT'S, estimated their
plumbers at 400, 900.
NATIVES or GENTLE DISPOSITION.
The late Judge Fernandez, in his
history Of the Polyncsian races,
traces the Ilawaiiaas' origin to an
-Aryan beginning somewhere in Asia
or Arabia. Their spirit Of kindness,
of sympathy and desire to please first
attracted the attention of the mission
aries. The islanders were ready to
learn, and today the proportion Of
illiteratc persons among lInwaiians is
probably smaller than in any other
country. Fifty years ago the native
language was nsrd almost exclusively
in the schools, but for the last ten
ye1rs it has gradually been done away
with. To-day there are II, 900 native
children attending English schools.
The Government maintains three
select or high schools, two of which
are in Honolulu and one in Hilo, the