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ONOLULU. H. T., Sept. 12. (Spe
clal CorrBponrtence of The B.-e.)
I left San Francisco August 28
on the Faclllo Mail steamer Mon
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golia, one of the two largest vn-
els ever built and completed In the United
omies. mere was a great variety of phs-
engera from different countries and with
different purposes in view. We had on board
a number of missionaries of the Presbyte- taro, rice, sugarcane and coffee are grown
rlan, Methodist, Baptist and other In abundance most beautiful and palatable,
churches, returning to their fields of work. The sugar Industry Is the largest single ln
There were also the secretary of the Brit- dustry. A single reference to one planta
Isu and Foreign Bible society and some tlon I visited will suffice to prove this state
notable business and political personages, roent:
ine whole trip was very enjoyable. The
ocean waa In an Ideal state and fully dem
onstrated lta title to the name "Pacino
ocean." We had on board a number of
things both good and bad. There waa con
siderable gambling, particularly by the
Chinese part of the crew, that wu engaged
In also by some of the passengers of first
class and steerage. We had several very
pleasant and profitable meetings on board.
On Sunday there were religious services
and twice during the week devotional meet.
Ings were hold, at all of which I was
chosen as the speaker. One evening we had
a presentation of the Hawaiian Islands.
Governor George R. Carter presided over
the meet!ng,and a Mr. Emerson presented
the early historical character of the Islands
and a Mrs . Whitney the devotional and
philanthropic after which Governor Carter
made some most Interesting statements,
which I asked him to reproduce for me,
some of which I shall give tn this communi
cation. On another evening a missionary, Rer.
Dr. Lowrey, spoke of the Boxer movement
ln China, from the beginning to the end,
giving an acoount of the sufferings which
It caused and the open door that waa
brought about for the missionaries and
their firm stand for the right. From the
first to the last of his talk It was very In
teresting, Indeed.
Honolala as City.
We arrived In Honolulu one day before
the scheduled time, and the dock was lit
erally filled with people ready to receive
their friends. Honolulu Is a very attractive
city. It contains 45.000 Inhabitants, twenty
six miles of electric car track, twenty
churches, 1,200 telephone subscribers, sven
banks. United States agricultural experi
ment station, a harbor which will admit
any ship, sixteen transpacific mail steam
ers which call on evry trip; assessed prop
erty, K9,000,000; the taxation rate is 1 per
cent; most fruits and flowers of the tropics
grow In the city, and Its average tempera
ture Is 73 degrees. Fogs, malaria, sun
stroke, hurricanes and tidal waves are un
known. Morning and evening papers are
published each day, with cable news from
all -"arts of the world. The population Is
:uo up of natives, whites. Chinese, Japa-
nese, Portuguese, etc. Fine residence and
public buildings are to be seen everywhere
In the city. The buildings are different from
those In the northern part of the states.
The outside of the buildings are very
largely porches and verandas, where the
people spend most of their time. The build-
lng. are scarcely ever closed up all the year
round.
Tree, ssf Vine. Innumerable.
I never saw ln any one locality of the
same dimensions so many trees, plants and
vines that are abundant In every part of
the city. I tried to find out the number of
these, but none of the community seems to
be able to tell them. I called upon I. E.
Hlgglns of the United Slates government
experiment station and he named over
about forty-one different kinds of fruits,
many of which have from two to twenty
five varieties, and a corresponding number
of feeding stuff for animals. Including vege
tables of many kinds. He also gave me the
names of an almost unlimited number of
shade trees, bushes and vines. It was Im
possible for me to get any adequate Idea
of the Immense number of things suggested
by Mr. Hlgglns, accordingly I went to visit
the homestead of one of the leading cltlsens
of Itonqlulii. Hon. W. R. Castle. His
grounds are 300x400 feet ln dimension and
on these he has twenty-seven different
kinds of frnt'.s and a corresponding number
of shade trees, many flowering trees, bushes
and vines. Among the fruits are oranges,
lemons, limes, figs, binanns. pineapples,
apples, guava (two varieties), mangoes
(four), alligator pear, pnptla (two), coffee,
peaches, coeoinuts, dates, candle nuts,
mnndurln. strawberry guava. Spanish
cherry, bread fruit, mulberry, grape fruit
and pamelo, etc. Among the shade trees
sere algeroba. candle nut. palms (ten varie
ties, nmong which were sago, royal, date,
il, sugar and fan rrnlms). beetle, loulu.
oneetnln. rigia. silk ok, rubber, hols.
""Id'-'n shower, tvpper. bamboo, traveler
tree, hibiscus hed, etc. Some of the- al
ivr la trees are seventy-five feet high and
three fet In diameter. Thirty of the royal
alma were over fifty feet high and fifty
..ther palms. Many of these plants, trees
Mid vlprs are covered with beautiful
lowers. All of the plants on this home
stead have been grown In the Inst twenty
fmir year. This will certainly give some
li'.ea of the Immense number of tree,
Plants and vines In the whole cltyand how
sy It Is to multiply them Indefinitely.
Keantlfnl Sataral Isrroastlsta
Splendid scenery, mountain, valley and
ocean surrounds' th. entire city. High and
prominent ridgus, rugged, romantic valleys. .
the ocean shores and beautiful parks flllej
with the above named trees, plants, etc.,
renort. of the mo.t Inviting kind and surf
bathing, th. best I have aver seen, only
ttiny minutes' ride from the oenter of th.
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city, all add to the beauty and attractive
ness of the city. Churches, missions,
schools, hospitals and societies of all kinds,
sufficient to benefit very largely any popu
lation, are also here. There is also here
splendid aquarium and the largest museum
of Polynesian collections In the world.
Farming and nhlng constitute the largest
Industries. Bananas. DlneaDDles. coco&mits.
"Ewa plantation is one of the most pro
ductive plantations In the world and has
one of the Inrgest plants ln existence for
the manufacture of sugar. This plantation
Building Naval Station to Defend Panama Canal
(Copyright, 1906, by. Frank G. Carpenter )
ANT1AGO DE CUBA, Oct. 12.
(Special Correspondence of The
Bee.) The Navy department Is
proceeding slowly in fitting out
Guantanamo bay as an up-to-date
naval station. I understand the work Is
going on as fast as the appropriations will
toermit. but the demand for th nln la
such that congress will probably vote a and all modern conveniences of loading and against other nations, and he must protect This Is the main nignway. ah our snips lng fop ,t8 &epoana 0j KUano, and It of the work among the street car men and
big sum of money toward' It during the unloading will be supplied. Some of the it in case he has war with other nations, from New York to the Isthmus go post b o It Is claimed, cruelly treated Its presented the association work at the even
coming session. At present the only build- coal depots will be on the island In the If we should have International troubles Guantanamo. and all other vessels from the jr,, Tne men revolted and were ar- lng service at the Central Union church,
ings that have been constructed are a store- harbor. The water Is deep close to the Cuba would probably be occupied by the North Atlantic do likewise. We should natti ftnd trle(1 the united States court The Toung Men's Christian association
house, a mule stable and some quarters shores of these Islands and some of them United. States and a, railroad connection have Samana bay, at the other end of at Baltimore on the ground that they were has a good property and in many ways is
for officers. A landing "wharf about 150 are so small that several ships can be with. Guantanamo would be very Import-, Santo Domingo, to control the Mona pas- ,ueet to the same laws as thougn they doing an excellent work, but has been
feet long has been built upon -piles and loaded from the same Island at the same ant,- as we could then ship naval supplies an(1 we-are guarding the Yucatan na)J mutjne(i on board a merchant vessel ' handicapped by the coming and going of
preparations are being made to put ln one
of the - largest dry docks ln the world.
The coral Islands or keys which He in the
harbor have been cleared of the malarious
mangrove trees which border their shores,
and great efforts have been made to wipe
out the mosquitoes. The work Is now
doing with Cuban laborers under the direc
tion of our naval officers, but good men
are hard to hire, and so far the work of
construction is slow. The Amphltrlte and
the Monongohela are stationed ln the bay,
and the naval officers and marines have
their quarters upon them. The little Vixen
is used as a supply ship, coming here to
Santiago every other day.
In Gaaatanamo Bay.
Guantanamo bay will undoubtedly be one
of our most Important naval stations. It
has the only large harbor on the south or
east coast of Cuba. It lies right here on
the windward passage, which Is the great
avenue from the Atlantic into the Carib
bean and the main door for all vessels
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northeastern end of Cuba, and about seven
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land one sees . Cap. Malsl. A little later
he sets Into the windward passage, and
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only the vessels going to Panama, but
those to Venezuela and all parts of the
West Indies by this route. It is only two
days by fast vessels from Guantanamo to
jColon, and about the same distance to La
Guayra, ln Venesuela, It la Just about
one day's steaming to the middle of the
Caribbean, or, as It Is now called, "Tha
American Mediterranean."
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The advantage of this station In pro
tecting the Caribbean will be enormous.
Should any European power attempt to
make the sea a battleground Its gunboats
will have to sail about two weeks before
they can reach lt The men will not know
when to expect an attack, and they will
be In about the same position as the Rus-
sum marines who went around tha world
to be defeated by Admiral Togo. Our ship,
can start out from Guantanamo with their
men fresh, and be -fighting within about
a day after leaving port.
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consists of 7.000 acres of cane. It Is a cor
poration of 260,000 shares, has five locomo
tives, 600 cane cars bring the cane to the
mill, where it is first weighed and unloaded
by machinery; 1,600 tons every day, from
which over 200 tons of sugar are made.
They have 2.000 people on their pay roll.
four sets of steam plows, each set plowing
about eight acres per day. They have fifty
artesian wells with a pumping capacity of
74.600,000 gallons dally. In the separators
450,000 gallons of cane Juice are daily boiled
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to syrup,
When to this would b"7r added the other
sugar plantations it would Increase the
amount enormously.
Facts About the Islands..
A few general statements about the Ha-
station in this part of the world. When
the present arrangements are completed at
least 60,000 tons of coal will be stored here,
and, In time of war, the supply will be
double that amount. Coal can be brought
cheaply from Norfolk or Newport News
and our vessels will come here for fuel.
One of the most Important things ln naval
warfare Is to be within easy reach of coal.
time.
A big supply of ammunition and other
necessities will be kept there. There will
be large machine works, and every ur-
rangement for the rapid repair of disabled
vessels. If a gunboat Is Injured In an en-
gagement In the Caribbean, It can be towed
to Guantanamo and there repaired ln the
dry dock.
Look at the Harbor,
Guantanamo bay has many advantages
over Santiago. When Cervera was bottled
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entrance to Guantanamo Is more than a
mile wide. It Is so wide that a half a,
dozen great battleships can steam out of
it at one time and send their broadsides at
the vessels of the enemy. There are high
lands on each side of the entrance and
fortiflcatlons will probably be made there
to aid In its protection. -
Passing into the harbor our vessels will
have a broad and deep waterway extending
far back Into the country. The eastern
portion, Including all the territory which
wa have, Is about ten miles long and five
mUe Thl ncIudea land t
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water and land area altogether Is about
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about ISO quarter section farm. The water,
are big enough to contain all the gunboats
we will ever have on th. Atlantic, with
ample room to spare. As to the depth, this
Is Just right. It ranges from sixty to
eighty to 100 feet, deep enough to enable
the biggest gunboats to sail ln and allow
their anchors to catch the ground. It Is
quite as bad to have water too deep In a
harbor as not deep enough. If the water
should be several hundred feet deep near
the shore, anchoring would be Impossible.
Moreover, as It Is now. If a lighter sinks In
this harbor it goes down deep enough to
not obstruct navigation, and at the same
time not so deep but that the divers can
raise It.
Bin Rifle Raise,
There are ample means at Guantanamo
for praotlce work on the part of the men.
On one side of the harbor there la a great
dry swamp which nature has fitted for a
rifle range. On. hundred men can practlc.
long range shooting there at the same time
without danger of Injury to any one. The
swamp Is surrounded by hills. I understand
that considerable r-acticins has already
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walls n Islands. They have a population of
IJj.roO oO.dOO natives. 12.700 whites,
Chinese, iW.OOO Japanese si.il ja3 nesroos.
The islnnds are very Interesting In what
ever way you may ronsMer them: almost
In the center of the Farlfle ocean, with
stesniers of the largest eaparlt pusinir
tu nnd from the orient. North America snJ
Kurope. i
The following are some exirm-ts from the
statement given me by Governor Carter:
'Probably In no other place In the world
are tlrrre such contrasts of nature, such
wide variations In close proximity as In
the Hawaiian Islands. Nature hus concen
trate?! there her wonders nnd her beauties.
Our scenery Is full of mountains nnd val
leys, wltli pcalf that extend Into llio simw;
high cliffs, surrounded by the sea. with too
niHgnlilcent coloring of the tropic, with a
sea which I rhap a little bluer than
that of the 'Blue grotto of Naples; inside
the white wreath of breakers shallow
water, a beautiful green.
"The trees of cur foresis vary, In color
from the light yellow green of the ku':ttil
to the d.irk rich green of the ko.i. and
nestled on the cliffs this foliage Is ex
tremely striking.
"One can wnde In the warm water and
soft sand of the beach at Hllo, perhaps
under the waving plumes of the cocoanut
palms, and see the snow l;i the distance,
on the top of M.v.ina Kes. Without travel
ins any great distance we can show yotl
nature's method of making soil, from the
raw malerlnl lava rocks thrown out by
the volcanoesto the rich disintegrated,
loam of our lowlands. You can see striking
effects of erosion In the furrows of our
hillsides.' On one side, to the windward,
where the rain falls, are heavy growths
of tropical forests; on the other side,
deserts bare and brown through lack of
rain. I rode In one day on the Island of
Maul through a locality which has over
400 Inches of rain' a year. The morning
before I arrived up to 10 o'clock eleven
Inches of rain had fallen It Is measured
there In feet, not In Inches and I had left '
a section of the. island where there Is only
a few Inches of rain throughout the whole
year.
Nature's Interesting Processes.
"I could take you to the ridge of a moun
tain and In places within a stone's throw
of each others Bhow, you where evolution
lg ln progress and very marked differences
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appear land-shells In one ravine with a
right-hand twist and shells ln another with
a left-hand twist. I am' told that when
our land-shells were shown to Darwin he
made the remark that If nature was carry- '
lng on such processes ln Hawaii the birds
of the Islands ought tq be exceedingly In
been done there. .
It Is not Improbable that Guantanamo will
eventually be connected by railroad with
Santiago. The distance between the two
points is about fifty miles, and such a road
would give (be naval station access to the
Cuban railway system. As Uncle Sam Is
now situated Cuba Is one of his dependen-
clas. Ha will alwavs have to defend It
from Florida to Havana, and, ln short,
bring-, this naval station within about
twelve hours by sea of our shores.
1 At present there are but few settlements
in the neighborhood of the harbor. The
port for the sugar plantations is at La
Calmanera, which Is on the bay much far-
ther inland, a railroad going from the port
to the town of Guantanamo and thence on
for six miles beyond. I understand that tho
land Is very good ln the Interior, and espe
cially so ln the valleys over the mountains.
There are ,ln the lowlands some large plan
tations of sugar owned by Americans, and
coffee grows well on the hills. The country
. esneclally healthy, and It was at one
time a sort of Newport ror the rlcn sugar
and coffee men of the eastern end of the
Island. One of the planters had an avenue
running from his residence to the seashore.
The road was covered with shells and lined
with lemon and orange trees. Another
planter ln thu same region Is said to have
m acrea of coffee trees some time
before the war, and to have gotten for ten
years an annual income of $40,000 from his
and fruit. Now that the United
states owns property here American colo-
nle. wm Drobably be formed to buy up the
good lands of the Immediate interior.
Guarding- the Caribbean.
It behooves the United States to hurry
up Its naval stations on the Caribbean sea.
We are acquiring bigger Interests in this
part of the world .very year. We have.
through the Monroe doctrine, taken upon
ourselves the office of an International po-
llceman. We have already put the band
cuffs on Santo Domingo and made It a debt
prisoner, as It were, and there Is no telling
when we shall have trouble with other
Islands. If the Caribbean sea is to be the
American Mediterranean, the American
government will have to protect it. It can
do a great deal by means of this naval sta
tion at Guantanamo, but it should have
equally strong stations at the other pas
sages, such as the Mona passage, between
Porto Rico and Santo Domingo, and at the
Virgin passage, between Porto Rico and
the Danish Islands. At present we have
a station at the eastern end of Porto Rico
In Culebra, a little Island which lies Just
off the northeast coast. It commands the
entrance to that passage and la said to
control It quite as well as Gibraltar con-
trols the entrance to the Mediterranean,
We should, however, own the Danish lsl-
ands on the other side of the passage. We
offered to buy St. Thomas some time ago
and Deumark refused. It Is believed that
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teresting. Tears after the British museum,
owing to this remark, took up the matter
and a study of the birds has proven the
truth of Darwin's statement. One family
of birds, which were formerly honey-suckers,
from various causes the great num
bers or the contraction of the forest areas
have been forced to change their habits
until now there are some thlrty-slx varie
ties, ranging from one with a beak almost
as long as your Index finger and soft as
card-board, to one with a beak like that
of the paroquet, having great power,
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order to crack the nuts of the bastard
sandal wood tree on which It lives. Still
another variety has had to take to eating
insects, and It now carries an upper bill
twice as long as the lower, which it uses
as a bar to pry oft the dry bark of trees
ln order to get at the insects in hiding.
its refusal was caused by Germany, who
may possibly want a coaling station there
for itself In the future
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The Panama Canal.
We need these naval stations especially
on account of the Panama canal. ine
Windward passage, between Haiti and
Cuba. Is well supptled by Guantanamo.
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and Iiahia Honda on the other side or
Havana.
Samana bay Is so close to the Mona pas
sage that it commands It. The bay is
thirty miles long and ten miles wide, with
a deep water basin ten miles long and Ave
miles wide with good holding ground. It
Is sheltered by mountain ranges on Its
north and south sides, some of the moun
tains rising to about 1,600 feet. The moun
tain rldgo on the north runs out into a
peninsula about ten miles wide. This
peninsula can be fortified against attack
by land, and thus make a coaling station
secure. The bay could easily be defended
by works at the entrance. Samana bay
would ,neiter our whole Atlantic squadron
and be of enormous value to us.
Key West , mportant not oniy on ac.
0f the Caribbean, but as a defense
to tne Gulf o( Mexico and the Mississippi
.,.. h ih. a. mov u .uiri nr TRnhi.
Hoilda. Key West lies right In the en-
trance to the Qulf of Mexico, and It also
commands the Yucatan cliannel around the
corner. As it is now we have ships going
from New Orleans through this channel
lnt0 tha Caribbean, a great deal of our
.raiie with Panama beln between Colon
and the gulf ports. The United Fruit 00m-
pany steamers run regular lines to Panama
and to their big fruit estates about ths
Chlrlqul lagoon.
Onr Island. About Panama.
Uncle Sam has Islands on both sides of
the Panama canal. He has several In
panama bay, some of which will be almost
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at the entrance to the canal when It la
completed. Others have formed the land
ing places of the steamers going north and
south. On the Island of Naos the Paclllc
Mall Steamship company for a long time
had its headquarters. Naos and Perlco,
which adjoin It, are connected by an isth
mus, and between them there is a bay
which forms a good anchorage. On th.
Isthmus steam vessels of 2.600 tons can be
easily beached. These Islands belong to
the United Btates, and the end of the Pan
ama canal when It Is finally dredged out
will be not very far from them.
The most of us do not know tt, but the
Island of Navassa belongs to the United
States. It Is not down on the map as an
American possession, and, indeed, one finds
It one color on one map and some other
color on another, so that people do not
seem to know Just to whom It belongs. It
Is, however, the property of Uncle Sam. It
was owned by Baltimore parties some years
ago, and President Harrison, In his third
annual message, proclaimed our acqulsl-
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These birds have also changed In color,
from the one which Is now a bright ver
milion because it takes the honey from
the lehua flower, to one of a dull brown.
Just the color of the bark on the tree.
Still another Is a yellowish green, the color
of the foliage of the tree which furnishes
Its food.
"Probably few oountrtcs have so wonder
ful a variety or such beautiful ferns, vary
ing from the most delicate, dainty mosses
found In our dark, deep ravines, to our
magnificent tree ferns. I have ridden on
horseback for a mile or more, dodging the
fronds of magnificent ferns reaching from
the ground to above my head."
- Mark TTlns Rhapsody.
There is not space to give more con
tained In tho statement of Governor Car-
tion of It In the following sentence:
"Tho Island of Navassa In the West In
dies lias under the provision of title vll
of the revised statutes been recognized by
the president as appertaining to the United
States."
At that time the private ownership of the
Island was vested In the Navassa Phos-
phate company. That company was work-
on the high seas. They were sentonced to
death and President Harrison pardoned population and Its Isolation from other as-
them. He sent a naval vessel to the Island, soclatlons.
and the officers reported that the phosphate The Young Women's Christian assoola
company waa treating Its laborers like con- tlon has a good work and employ Mrs. IL
vlcts and recommended that the island be C. Brown as Its general secretary. It main
placed under government supervision. This tains good rooms and a home ln the resl
was done, as I understand; but shortly af- dence district, both of which are very ao
terward tho gun no business was given up. ceptable to the parties benefited by them,
and the Island has been vacant from that t have been atoDnlns- at the home during
time to this.
Fort on Navassa.
Our naval officers can probably tell
whether It would pay to establish a forti
fication on Navassa. I have talked with
some sea captains who think It might be
of great value and with naval officers who
say that it would cost more to protect It
than it would be worth. I have traveled
very close to the Island ln going to and
from Panama, and to my amateurish eyes
It seems the natural position for a great
fortification. It lies right in the lower end
of the Windward passage, Just half way
between Haiti and Jamaica, and a little
more than 100 miles south of Guatanamo.
Standing 'upon the Island on a clear day
one can see the blue mountains of Ttnltl.
Navassa Is two and one-half miles long
and a mile wide. It Is almost surrounded
by bold perpendicular cliffs twenty feet
high, being Inaccessible except at the land-
lng platform on the western side, where the
guano ships were loaded. In that vlclnltv
there Is good holding ground within half a
mile of the shore, where the water is about
'5r feet deep. The Island Is a natural
fort, having these walls of cliffs about 260
feet broad running around the coast ex
cept at the entrance. Disappearing guns
could be easily placed upon this ridge, and
the Btatlon within would be absolutoly safe.
The top of the island la covered with
stunted palm trees and cactus. I under
stand that it has good water. It would
make an excellent place for a wireless tele
graph station, as It is right on the track
of the vessels sailing between Panama and
New York.
Navassa has never been populated. It
waa 400 years ago thst Diego Mendes, on.
of the Christopher Columbus' lieutenants,
made It known to the world. Columbus
had been wrecked on Jamaica and Mendes
made his way In a canoe for 160 miles across
the seas to Haiti and notified the Span-
lards there to send a ship to his master's
relief. Th. voyage would not have been
successful had it not been for the food
snd water which Mendes and his party
found on the Island of Navassa.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
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ter. The following Is a statement of Mark
Twain's made during one of his visits to
the Islands:
"No alien land In all thl world has any
deep, strong charm for me but that one;
no other land could so longingly and be
seechingly haunt me sleeping and waking,
through half a lifetime, as that one has
done. Other things leave me, but It abides;
other things change, but It remains the
same. For me its balmy airs are always
blowing. Its summer seas flashing ln the
sun; the pulsing of Its surf beat Is In my
ear; I can see its garlanded cralgs; Us
leaping casoades, its plumy palms drowsing
by the shore; Its remote summits floating
like Islands above the cloud rack. I can
feel the spirit of Its woodland solitude; I
can hear the plash of Its brooks; In my
nostrils still lives the breath of flowers
that perished twenty years ago."
Carroll D. Wright has stated that the
tillable land would accommodate 600,001)
people.
T. M. C. A. Work There.
On my arrival in this city I wu taken
In charge by the general secretary of the
Young Mon'a Christian association, Mr,
Henry C. Brown, and his assistants.
I
have met with the board of directors, the
chairman of committees and several of the
committees, giving them all the Information
I could to help them ln their work. I
spoke one Sunday evening at the young
men's meeting and the next Bunaay spoke
Its workers, also by the different kinds of
thks whole of my visit.
I called upon Sanford B. Dola, United
States Judge of the territory of Hawaii,
and asked him whether he was satlsflod
with what had been done in the changing
from tha former government to the an
nexation with the United States. He
stated that while the monarchy had been
a very satisfactory government, on account
of the corruption Just previous to the
change it was the only thing to do to
bring about the change that ha. been
made, and said .that th. prospects of the
Islands seemed very fair. Also that efforts
were being put forth to draw Into the ter
ritory a larger population of desirable
farmers, manufacturers and residents that
would not only demand a large Import
trade- bu mak9 Pob1 a larger export
trade wlth tha United States and other
countries.
In eve'ry wJr 1 hav" been a8'1"" with
T vllt and orr3r tnat 1 nava to ,av
the Islands on the next steamer.
ROBERT WEIDENSALL,
frtntrn11-infr FfiTTfl of Hanit
vimifc
The lower animals, as well as men. may
acquire habits that become controlling,
it would seem. In a small tank at the New
York aquarium there ar. three young al
ligators, two or three feet In length, that
won't pick up and eat food placed In the
tank for them, but that have their food
handed to them on the end of a stick.
They have acquired a habit of eating lit
that way and they won't depart from It.
When these young alligators first cam.
In, tired with travel and not hungry, they
were for their own good tempted to eat
by handing food down to them on the end
of a stick, placed close to their Jaws, handy
for them to seize. This method of feeding
was for a time continued, and now it Is tha
only way In which they can be made to
eat. They won't pick up food from tha
tank's bottom.
Whether the young 'gators hav. forgot
ten how to feed themselves which seem
scarcely likely or whether they hav. got
lazy and know their food will b. brought
to them If they wait, or whether thlr eat
ing In this manner, though an acquired one,
has now become a fixed habit and they
Just don't think of eating ln any other
way. It might be not easy to say, but that
Is the only way they will eat, and so twice
a week little chunks of beef of suitable size
are handed down to them on the end of a
pointed stick and the little alligators close
their Jaws over them and crunch them
down with a strength of Jaw that shows
what they could do In the crunching way
on bigger game.
In another glass tank there are two wood
turtles that won't eat any food put In th
tank for them unless It Is placed on tha
top of a little log that floats ln the water
of the tank and upon which the turtle,
often climb to rest.
When these turtles were first brought la
they, unaccustomed to their strange sur
roundings, declined to eat. But one day
a morsel of meat was placed between thera
as they both lay upon the log, head to
head and almost bak to beak. And pres
ently one of the turtles snapped at It, and
almost at the sum Instant the o'her. and
so they fought over It and finally divided
and ate it
The wood turtles hsd found something
to eat In the tank, and they had found It
on that log; and now they won't eat fond
placed for them anywhere alsa &ew, Xorlc
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