Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-18
Another Letter from Or. Edwards.

aODOlulu, II. L. July 10. IL
One be able to distract his mind
from SOCIOLOGICAL conditions |
know of 10 place where the sur
roundings are more ideal than
the Hawaiian islands. They
we're named when they were call
ed the paradise of the Pacific. !"
It is all so essentially tropic in
every aspect that one cannot re.
main here MANY days without
sinking into that general state of
lassitude which prevails among all
the inhabitants. no matter what
their race or color. The very air
is conductive to rest and quiet,
and while it is generally supposed
BY those who have never visited
them that the tropics are bot and
uncomfortable. such is not the
case. In Honolulu it is always
warm. the temperature varying
but 8 degrees during the entire
year. But this temperature il
never above "a or below rs.
There is considerable humidity in
the air which. at times. makes
conditions oppressive but the
nights are always pleasant. Pro
baby the most peculiar freak oil
the climate is the rainfall. 1t
rains nearly every day. and
, have seen it raining on the uDpor
porch of the hotel while not a
drop fell on the street below. the
moisture all being dissipated be-
fore it reached the ground
KOna coffee is becoming a staple
article in nearly all grocery stores
in the United States, but few PEG.
. pie know that the word "Kona"
means a direction. 'Kona" is
South" kona coffee is coffee
that is raised on the south coast
OF the islands. The kona wind is
the, south wind, and it is this
south wind that is considered spe-
cially beneficial to the growth of
coffee. | have learned several
things about coffee on the islands,
and one of them is we'll worth re-
membering. Coffee should not be
used until after it has been
gathered three years. and if you
can get coffee that is FIVE years
old so much the better. New
coffee has bitter taste which dis
appears as the grain grows older.
. | took a trip yesterday to the
Pail, that famous cliff over which
one of the old time kings drove
the natives when he came to con
quer. The approach to this cliff,
which rises sheer several hundred
feet, is narrow and becomes more
contracted, with rising sides more
steep as on gets nearer to the top.
There is a wonderous view of the
northern end of the island from
sthe Pail, and one can we'll imagine
the terrible scene which occurred
when thousands of the natives
were driven over the edge to the
jagged rocks far below.
. Just how savage the aborigines
OF these islands were can be I'm
derstood by visit to the Bishop
museum south of Honolulu,
where all sorts of old relics are to
he seen. Here we find bowls in
which human bodies were served
up at feasts, as WE'LL as enormous
forks used by savage royalty
when eating human flesh. This
museum isa wonderful place to
study anthropology. and one
could we'll spend several days here.
On the magnificent statue of King
Kamehameha which stands in
front of the old place, is a repre-
sentation of the wonderful feather
robe of state made of yellow fea.
theirs. The original robe is in the
museum, made of feathers so rare
that but two of them are obtained
from a single bird. One would
have to do lot of figuring to find
out how many birds lost their
lives to furnish the feathers for