The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15

the ship and birds soar lazily overhead.
The sailors lose their energy and look
longingly ahead as if to catch a glimpse
of the emerald hills beyond the verge.
Passengers saunter on the polished
decks or browse in the long chairs while
the breeze fans them into the land of
dreams. When night comes the sea
assumes richer and brighter phos-
phorescence. Lines of splendor, SPAR
kles that come and go, splashes of soft
light, curling lines of silver flame
change the black bosom of the ocean
into pulsating plain Of unutterable
glory.
Nature seems asleep. The noise Of the
engines and the turning of the screws
sound louder and louder, making the
only false note in the infinite harmony
which fills the universe.
The air grows warmer, balmier, sleep
Ter. over every soul on board there
comes a yearning for calm and repose.
You breathe deeper. as if the lungs
craved some vaporous opiate in the at
mosphere.
At last land is sighted. No lookout
screams Land no." 1t would be sac
rilege The sailor who catches the first
glimpse reports to his superior and he
in turn to the captain. The master
tells the news in low tones to a by
stander, who transmits it to the next
81 IL pdSetS from one 10 dnOtner until
all on board know the journey is we'll
nigh done. On the horizon is a patch
of color of deeper blue than sea or
sky. 1t might be a cloud on the wat
er's edge but for its intense color. AS
the ship nears it grows higher and soon
another cloud, another island springs
into visibility. There is no mstaking
the first now. The ruined cone, the
outlying broken rampant the half-rent
ClY lrxl f1n Of nj n,ia he,
and massive mountains which the ele-
ments have worn down into less jagged
but equally majestic contours.
The blue changes imperceptibly into
olive and dark emerald. Then the
smooth eXpanse breaks into lights and
shadows, the white beach CLEANS out
like a white line between land and
water. Houses and groves, roads and
fields separate themselves into recog-
nizable shapes. Dots on the wave grow
into steamers, ships, yachts and fisher
boats. Soon the steamer points land
ward, and in a half-hour the engines
are resting and the huge black hull is
fastened securely to the wharf at Hon
olulu, with an earthly paradise in front
and behind the illimitable ocean.
The vegetation is overpowering. 1t
overwhelms one with it's beauty, varie-
ty and endlessness. Days and weeks
elapse before you are able to realize
the wonderful wealth of the plant
world Nature and man have worked
together to produce the miracle.
Here is the cocoanut palm noddng
welcome to you, and alongside is date
palm whose parents grew beside the
Nile. At one point is the graceful Nor
folk Island pine, brought long age
| thousands Of miles from the South Pa.
| citic, and not far from it towers the
| royal palm, the monarch of it's race
| Screw palms and fan palms, palmettos
and Palmyras, bananas and banyans
! orange trees and lemons, olives anC
| Coffees, all are here.
From tree and house pole and wall
trellis and fence vines and creepers
hang in endless festoons. Westeria ant
Bongainville, trumpet-f1ower and Vir
ginia creeper, Japanese and German
ivy. the grape and the woodbine tie tn,
tropics and the temperate zone int
a perpetual union. Perfume overpow
erS the noStrilS
Sickening sweet tuberose, hello
trope, odorous opopanax, aromatic rose
| and carnations, dainty lemon Verbeni
| and coarse geranium, Ilangilang anC
jasmine, orange flowers and spice tree
maintain stout rivalry the yea
through. AT night nocturnal bloom
open their petals and pour out flood
of flying sweetness. Flowers every
where; perfumes everywhere.
The floral kingdom is no more varied
than Hawaiian humanity. No othe
spot is like it on earth, not even Baby
lon after the destruction of the towe
could surpass it. In rough number
one-fourth of the people are busy an
active japanese, one-fourth serious an
stolid Cinnamon, one-fourth Kanaka
one-eighth Indo-European, and one
eighth devising, scheming Americans
bluff Englshmen, genial Germans pc
lite FrenChmen, swarthy Portuguese
dignified Spaniards, olive-skinned Irish
men, blonde Scandinavians, wiry Cana
dams, yellow-hued MeXicans jostle on
another upon the thoroughfares.
dozen languages echo upon the streets
but all are swallowed up in English
In speech as in politics it is the Anglo
Saxon tail wagging the polyglot dog
If majorities ruled, Hawaii would be
Japanese land worshiping Buddha. ]