The age-herald., 1899-04-09

Hawaii, March 25.-The cry of "Go West, young man." uttered by Horace Greeley twenty-five years ago, and echoed by Henry Ward Beecher for years after, has been taken up again.
 Westward across the continent, the young man of today is going. But he does not stop at the Pacific ocean, From the California port he takes a steamer for Ha- waii and, two weeks later, if the steamer is slow one, as most of them are, he arg rives in the port of Honolulu.
 Every steamer brings fresh settlers to the Sandwich Islands. The settlers bring with them overland wagons, neatly packed in great bundles which bear a strange re- semblance to household goods, and as soon as they land they set to work putting the wagons or carryalls together.
 The wagons are almost exactly like those used in going to the Pacific slope in 49. They are four-wheelers with a big canvas top. The canvas is covered with a preDa- ration of varnish and wax which makes it waterproof. It is tightly stretched over a framework of stout wire. This top serves for protection from rain on rainy days and in hot weather. There is no snow here so the wagon does not need its coal fur mace, or its pail of hot coal such as they carried in 49 to keep from freezing.
 HIS Wa6OH lOP lS uSSu lOI q HOuStt anu in the new settlements of Hawaii, it is the only house seen until the settler has had time to select his locality.
 Although Hawaii is the only one of the Sandwich Islands we hear about, it is not the best for new settlers. The Island of Oahu has a more fertile soil; and Mani is sander and better adapted to quick crops such as water melons, and egg plant, and other vegetables which will bear a two weeks transportation.
 Mookai is adapted to indigo and rice. It has half clay loam and its crops are enormous.
 You read stories about the minerals that are found in the Sandwich Islands, and it is actually true that agates, rare enough for jewellers use, are found in every part of the island And there Is gold and silver; and you hear startling stories of diamonds in Nihau.
 But the United States settler comes here as a farmer, just as he has been settling on the government lands in the territories for thirty years. He need not buy his land un- less he has money, and with money he can get land that has been worked recently and is in a good state of preparation. If he de- sires farm, and will prove that he is go- ing to work it by the extent of his outfit, he can get anything up to twenty acres through the American consul here who ar ranges this matter for the industrious farmer without delay.
 from tne time ne takeS poSSessloh or HIS new home he is cut off from all the ele ments of civilization. The telegraph does not reach him and he has no way of buy ing machinery of any kind. There are i'm plements for sale in Honolulu, but these are dear and not of the best variety. the American farmer who contemplates settling here had best bring his farming tools along. He needs a dozen hoes and rakes to every one blow, for the weeds are worse than Jersey weeds, which hold the record along with Jersey mosquitoes.
 The farmer who has toiled in Minnesota on wheat; and hood cotton in Georgia and dug potatoes in Pennsylvania, will have a "snap" in the Sandwich Islands. Things grow so fast here that lazy farmer can