The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-01-16

Rainfall Condition-The Labor
&C.. .a oohro
Hawaiian Iunchcou-An Aqua
.-ra
rum oi 'eii"I>''i9 ~
Tnfov ftc nldrS Clowns and Grim
inal@ of %i@hdoih one "u7' ST
Then, =, y1,ci. Native Water-"-pn-
"
li1htiuI sport Of ~urf-lsdIn1-Hot-
rua pl~.I r,rI,r
Its Great Importance.
There Is rest i'm an ocean voyage
The rorrdi~c shores shut out the hua
or Inc busy world. the expanse Of wa
ter eo1tnoe the eve by its very vast
ness. the breaking Of the waves is Tnu-
sic to the oar. ana there is medicine
for the nerves in the salt sea brcez@@
that invite to sleep. At first, ono is
Observation-Disclosures quite sJ-by the
motion Of the vessel. but this passes
away So completely the before many
DAVIS the dfprfug Of the shin is really
oriovahln ana one finds q pleasure In
~ >sIflt,al f1 "41 H ~thirh 9''t tha deck some
tfrno@ seems 70 be- converted.
IF one has regarded the Pacific as
nm unknown o.. an sea. tie
IMPRESSION viii be removed by a
glance at fl 49, recently published by
fha United States map
.itb which every ocean traveller
ehoula equin himself. ON this man
tne pac:Gc l. covered with blue lines
indfcatira the ehortcet routes Of frav-
"a bntwno, dfTnran+ nniqt- rfth the
rmbr Of miles Thll first thing ,hat
strikes ono ie that the curved linz in
diratiug tho northern route between
san Francisco and okoham is only
+ SAG miles long while the apparonfIE
~trai1b+ limo twc the two points
i 10 miles long-th difference be
ing explained bv the curvature Of the
Garth. ~althoueh it is hard 10 believe
that in foIIolrfng the direct line .
hin wo1ld have fo r1frnb over s1cb q
mountain range Of .-afar. 50 to sneak.
aeto make il shorter tn 90 len degrees
moth The time between the United
state ana the .Jarancsa coast has re
Gently been reduced to less than i
DAYS but the rprthor- route Is NOT SO
pleasant ~ this season Of the year.
ana we sailed on the Nanchurfa (Sop-
TENDER IL. going some 20 degrees
fartbr1y* south via Honolulu. This
route 4avc,s : 545 miles and is made
in apout Is days when the Weather is
good.
SIhe Manchuria is one Of the lcEia-
<haus Of the Pacific and is owned by
Mr.. Hartman, president Of the Union
and Southern Pacific railways. The
ships crow suggests the orient. NOR
than threc-fourths being Chinese. all
Wearing the cue and clad in the ma
tional sarb. There is also q suggcs-
ton Of the orient in the joss house and
opium den Of the Chinese in the steer
age.
In crossing the one hundred and
eighticth meridian we lost a day. and
as we are going all the way around we
cannot recover it, as those can who re
cross the Pacific. We rose on Satur-
day morning, October I. and at nine
O'Clock We're notified that sunday had
begun and the remainder of the dav
was observed as the Sabbath (Octo-
Der -.
According to the chart or map re
ferrcd to above there are three centere
Of ocean traffic in the Pacific. Homo
lula, the most important OF all. the
Midway islands,, 100 miles northwest
of Honolulu, and the Samoan islands
some 1900 miles to the South. The So J
cicty islands. about the same distance
to the SOutheast of Honolulu and
Guam. some 1000 miles from tha main
land of Asia are centors Of less inn
portance.
our thin reached uono1nIn a,,1- 49,,
the 1nornin~ If tbn livtb d -" ~ - -, Di
We had hr@a r. fast an 49, - ~ ~ ~
Hawaiian islands fnha h;4nd, m ta,
cfrht ana evtnnd frn,1 49, l,+LIa.t
tn Tho ,~nat ca,a a["4 o.
lGogeaaG If Iaaof+4I, .,l ,~.n4r- r,,.
of Iatftudn or threo 1jab+ &c.,, ~ ~"
waii tho soutbarnmGsf o1n - -
miles ana a nnnnIafion or 1na,l,. -
600 HiIo lie cbtcf ri+y e+1,at|
he .et shore !. a. LIar1
CITY IF ~n5nortanon a,1d cntt .fre' 1Ir@
1000 i~nhabnant. ,rbn isIanI ~ D.h,,
upnn Which u~o,oIrI,, -" 80
fhird in e;zn bn+ ron+ain - ,.
population, almost 60 6o0 Of oI67fch
10 600 Gteeu i'm ~ ,.na, w. oa 49,"
Tho islands ara co c,aau +a
ed nv such a., araa Of n~a+nr 49,
mind ono Of a ta,, land 1rd -" -. -
are great mountains fhara ana riorr