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MY IMI’HKSSIONS OF BEAUTIFUL
HAWAII.
(Continued from page 709.)
It is pleasing to find not only in
this instance, but in numerous oth
ers, a growing recognition of the new
spirit of progress abroad in the
South, and I am glad to bear witness
to it in every possible way. At home
I am criticised sometimes for speak
ing too plainly about the evils we
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need to correct, the defects we need
to remedy, but when out of the South
I remember only her great virtues
and the splendid progress she is
making. I wonder if all those who
have criticised my plain speaking can
say as much. Too often the dema
gogue who flatters to your face for
the sake of popularity will also slan
der at your back for the sake of pop
ularity.
Beautiful Honolulu.
Before the impression fades (it can
never be wholly forgotten) I must
put on paper some impressions of the
delights of Hawaii’s climate, scenery,
and vegetation. If I have never
found anywhere else such unpleasing
combination of races and seldom
such an annoying variety of language
(the street signs are in English. Jap
anese and Chinese and the Prohibi
tion and anti-Prohibition bill-board
posters are in English and the pe
culiarly melodious Hawaiian), it is
also true that nowhere else have I
« _ .1 . i
luuiiu ou uitu a variety or vege
tation—each here true to its own
type. The sugar cane is now riot
ously rank in growth, completely
CQvering the ground; the palm-like
and head-high taro, its roots used
for food like potatoes, grows in wet
places; rice fields vary the scene;
the top-knots of vegetation on the
tall cocoa-nut trees are bordered on
the underside with green fruit; the
stately and beautiful royal palms
help give the city an enchanting ap
pearance, as if one had suddenly
awoke into a dreamland come true;
on the sidewalks the flaming red
flowers of the hibiscus tree and the
yellow blossoms of the golden-show
er tree mingle with the dark green of
their leaves; as high as your head
grows the cactus known in the South
as the prickly pear; while from the
rear of the old Palace, with its oil
portraits of dark-skinned kings and
queens, I got my first view of the
famous banyan tree which I had not
expected to see before reaching In
dia.
Picture all this gorgeous variety
of tropical coloring and plant growth
—and ten times more that I cannot
describe; but with it all no noon
like heat but an ever-blowing breeze
cooled by seas more beautiful than
I thought this world possessed;
brighter in tints though in general
color-effect not unlike the rich blend
ing of hues in a peacock’s feather.
What dispensation of Providence en
ables the sea off Honolulu to attain
such brilliance of sheen I do not un
derstand; there is a suggestion of the
rapt beauty of the emerald and sap
phire of the Far City as seen by the
inspired writer.
“Ail _i ^ «...
— h.iu vuii.iniuns or Men.
I hen with this background finish
ed, put in the people, as varied as
the flowers, trees and shrubs around
them: old Japanese women shuffling
along in native Japanese costume
their hair combed straight back from
their brownish-yellow faces, their
skirts so tight that they must take a
half-step at a time in their loose
fitting sandals; younger Japanese wo
men in the same sort of costume and
with babies contentedly looking out
rom that sack-like arrangement of
dress in which they are placed on
their mothers’ backs; Hawaiian wo
men wearing the conventional Moth
er Hubbard usually three times as
•trge as the Japs (for the Hawaiian
woman is as much larger than the
white as the white is larger than the
•lap); Chinese men with their pig
ails and woman-like dress; brown
ish-bronzed Hawaiian men, large of
"'d and handsome i,i features,
half-breeds of Innumerable types, |
and white men and women hurrying
in modern automobiles—for an ex- j
Southerner, a Georgian, who was the '
first man I met after landing, told
me that Honolulu boasts more mil
lionaries “per capita’’—in proportion
to population—than any other city in
the United States. (Notice that 1
say “in the United States,” for I was
promptly reminded that Hawaii is
also “United States” when I was be
trayed into speaking as if it were
not.) These Honolulu millionaires
made their money in sugar, and the
profits in it may be guessed from the
fact that there are 600 automobiles
in a city of 7,000 whites; as well as
from the fact that lands which
friends of mine have known sold for
$1 per acre now rent as high as $25
per acre.
Torrens System in Force.
But my letter has already grown
too long and I can only barely men
tion several other things that I
should like to elaborate if space per
mitted. For example, I found the
Torrens system of registering land
titles in force in the islands, although
our highly civilized States in the
mainland still get along with an an
tiquated and wasteful system which
is an enormous loss and handicap in
American real estate deals, prevents
the farmer from realizing on and
using his capital, and holds back
progress in a hundred ways, while
THE TRI-STATE FAIR.
(Continued from page 705.)
ed in the Memphis territory, at the
Tri-State Fair, had only one entry,
and that an unsound animal. Surely
there are hundreds of good mule
colts raised this year in the Memphis
district. Are their owners so self
satisfied that they have no desire to
win a premium of $100 in cash, and
perhaps the value of an equal amount
in learning more about the raising
of such mules? To be beaten by a
superior nnlmal is about the best
premium any breeder ran win if he
studies the qualities of the animal
that won and goes home determined
to produce a better one.
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY ROYS’ I»|(i
CLUB.
Readers of this paper will proba
bly remember that last winter we
announced that Mr. \V. II. Miller,
Superintendent of Education of Ok
tibbeha County, Miss., had organised
among the school children of the
county a boys’ and girls' pig club.
Four premiums were offered for
the pigs that had made the largest
average gain per day during their
life, and to Insure that the nena
benefiting no one save such scrub
bier lawyers as could not survive
competition with lawyers of the bet
ter sore in regular and legitimate
work,
I should like also to mention the
statue of Hawaii's greatest native
king, Kamehameha, a Roman robe
draped incongruously round him
though most of his dark body is
bare; the royal symbols still above
the windows in what is now the Gov
ernment Building, but was once the
throne room of the deposed Queen
Uliuokalanl whom Cleveland tried
to restore and who still lives in Hon
olulu at the age of 72; the churches
of all kinds, the Mormon and Con
gregational churches being especial
ly strong, though Catholics and
Buddhists (the latter mostly Jap
anese) divide between them more
than two-thirds of the church mem
bership of the islands.
And last, but by no means least. I
wish I could describe the summer
sunset which glorified earth and
hea\en as the Hawaiian landscape
was lost to sight behind our speeding
ship. I am something of a con
noisseur on sunsets, that period of
day at home usually finding me on
horseback in woods, or corn or cot
ton fields; but I found that my fel
low-passengers aboard enjoyed hard
ly less than I the rich and swiftly
changing tinting of cloud and sky
and fading landscape, gorgeous as n
nnlntlno- Aft.i ▼» _• •
I been a Ulysses I should have gone
no further in search of "the Happy
Isles”—no Achilles here perhaps, hut
certainly Proteus nnd "Triton with
his wreathed horn"—while In our
purer faith one should at beast
caught a fairer vision of Him —
“Whose dwelling Is the light of set
ting suns."
It was a fitting climax to my visit
to a city which Mark Twain pro
nounced the most seductively charm
Ing found In all his wanderings
round the globe.
Proven earle.t, moat dural.I
ranteel ■heller made. X toll burlieu
Pff hour. Working |naru Malle.
■ We, bearlngn < hill.-d. All broken
worn out or l»m imrta r. 1.1.0 . .i
Fra*. If you ran t buy the g. nu
k U«»k Irum your dealer
I w ill aiii 1 p one
Freight Pre- dJQOC
paid for only
You need the llUw k Hawk Shrl I
ler. W in lart ■ lifetime and do I
«'*"? work all the time. Ju.Unt- I
ly ■•etened to l<arrel, bo* or I
bln by t atrong ( Ark I
•or fra* Imok. Agtr. wanted ■
i *t 11. n.n..iin. Isnila I
■ lee r P ratad F.iat.l let. d I s f, ■
A\»-. M.k,» 1')%' |i Hawk (,rl Ml ■
would not seriously affect the rate
of this dally gain it was required
that the pigs must be registered,
pure-bred pigs born between Novem
ber 1. 1909, and April 1. 1910.
The premiums were awarded at
the county fair October 4. where the
competing pigs were all on exhibi
tion. The following were the prlio
winners:
liest Average fiatn.
First—Nannie Sikes. Weight of
pig. 328 pounds; age. 255 days.
Second Hugh Sikes. Weight of
Pig. 325 pounds; nge. 255 days.
Third — Sarah Ix>u Kilpatrick,
"eight of pig, 3J4 pounds; age, 256
days.
Fourth — Carlton Carpenter
"'eight of pig, 290 pounds; age. 255
days.
Itest Pigs Judged on Show-Yard
Points.
Sow Pig*. First, John Phillips
Age of pig, 312 days; weight, 293
pounds. Second, Nannie Sikes. Ago
of pig. 255 days, weight. 328 pounds
Hoar Pigs.—First, Carlton Carpen
ter. Age of pig, 255 days; weight
290 pounds. Second. I.cb1I« Kllpat
Hck. Age of pig, 310 davs: wei.ht
•>z< pounds.
I be remarkable fact* about then*
1»ikb are that the four premium win
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