The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

producing COW peas, soy beans. Jack beans, alfalfa, pigeon pea, lupines, beans, peas, sulla. etc."
 Sugar Is the great crop. constituting about 96 per cent of the agricultural output. On the way down from San Francisco, I read Mr. Caspar Whitney s Hawaiian America" published ten years ago. At the time, and under the stimulus of the free admission of the raw sugar into the United States, about 50, 900 tons per annum were put upon the market. With the assurance of an expert, MT. Whitney predicted that the limit had been fully reached, But in 1910 522,000 tons were produced and within year or so the figures are likely to reach 6o00o0 tons. This immense in crease is due to a variety of causes: :: First, and largely, to the thorough work of the experiment station in Honolulu
 where at an expense of s7000 a year, the whole subject of the growth and manufacture of sugar Is studied in a profoundly scientific way, and, secondly. to the use of irrigation which has made immense tracts of alnd available for planting that were before of no practical value. Almost inconceivable sums of money have been expended in reservoirs tunnels, fumes for the gathering and distribution of water. It need scarcely be said that the whole business Is In the hands of groups of capitalists. The small famer has not the ghost of a show
 On the island of Oahu there are only seven plantations; and on Hawaii, only 25. A similar process Is going on In the Philippines. which now makes S0O,000 tons of sugar per year. It is not my purpose to comment on these economical facts, but simply to mention them
 More and more aggregated capital rules the world. One thing Is too certain to Lad o% trod Tndfutf11a1 prise could never have developed these great possibilities.
 Twenty thousand pounds of rice are grown on the low and marshy rim of the island. The Chinese have monop- oly at this point. None of the product Is sent abroad. Indeed. 10000 tons are imported. A few years ago there was a rage for coffee. The berry grown in the Roma district is said to be equal to the best Java or Mocha But low prices have made the business improbable, and many of the orchards are going to waste. The growing of pineapples on a large scale is new venture. Last year 900 cases were canned and exported, and 10000 tons sold on the local mar kets. All sorts of tropical fruits ba- eiyas, and other such things come to perfection, and are plentiful and com paratively cheap. A grade of sea island cotton with a very long fiber, and bring ing as much as 35 cents per pound. Is being extensively planted-extensively that is for such country. On the high CT levels, a good deal of corn Is raised; ; and in the sections not suitable for the ploy are many cattle and sheep. On the Parker ranch 3o,00o head, chiefly Here lords, Holsteins, and Shorthorns. But I fear that this array Of statistics Will grow tiresome.
 On the morning of July 25, six days from San Francisco, we ran past the long island of Molokai, known the world over as the leper island and the scene of the laborers of Father Damien, the de-
 voted young Belgian priest. who gave there an exhibition of true and high courage equal to any that was ever displayed on the field of battle. Over 800 poor creatures are isolated on those lonely stones. Whatever can be done by the government to make their hard existence endurable is done. But how terrible 1t is even at the best. On one end of the island Is government lep- rosarium at which earnest efforts are making to discover some method of dealing effectively with the dread dis ease which for ages upon ages has been such curse to humanity. Let us hope that science. which is always ben efioent. may achieve in this field as elsewhere great gains for the race.
 Two hours after passing Molokai, we had run by the great Tufa cones of
 Koku Head and Diamond Point. and were at anchor in the harbor of Hono- lulu, the proud and beautiful little me- tropolis of the rnidsea. t. Seen from the deck of the ship, 1t is of enchanting beauty, as 1t stretches. Suburbs and all, five or six miles up and down the beach, and reaches back to the mountain spurs. The whole town seems to be embowered in trees, and closer inspection shows this to be correct, trees of every sort, mostly tropical varieties. but with some brought from the temperate zone. Once on shore, the business streets look com monplace enough. much like those of an ordinary American town of the same stxs; but tp the residence diStTicts, and