Show GATEWAY OF THE PACIFIC If It be westward that the star of empire em-pire taken Its way Uncle Sam owns the I upper and perhaps the best and France I I tho lower and less useful gateway into this new world At Ilawnll Is the I natural midway between the warm and I genial Paclllc coast and the hot and luxuriant S lux-uriant districts of the tropics wherein most of the Paclllc islands lie At Tahiti Ta-hiti Is the radial place below the equator equa-tor a little less removed from the center I cen-ter of heat and farther from the origin of travel than Hawaii Both abound In beautiful scenery In temperature alluring al-luring oquabl JnjllrQ and hoblt half I Indolent half Industrious in products both tropical and semitropical Both form an admirable preparation for the things beyond The soldier boys who stopped in Honolulu on their way to Manila had their first taste of bananas and pineapples as they come directly from the field They wished that they mlgii1 stay In the soft and luscious air forever that is to way those did who did not remain long enough to be down with the fever or to he sent home In the hearseship For there are fevers in HawaII as in almost all of the islands of the Pacific On the other hand travelers who have passed the exquisite locks of Tahiti Ta-hiti harbor have lingered In the rhapsody rhap-sody until little of tho English language lan-guage was left to them with which to extol the virtues of Samoa and New ZealandTHE THE OTHER GATEWAY If civilization Is to work backward from the East to the West as the Chinese Chi-nese and the Russians seem inclined to force It to do Holland and Britain dl ride with the United States in owning the gateway Dutch Sumatra closes the portals to the passengers from In dla British and Dutch Borneo and the American Philippines close It to the I passengers from China and Slam And In these territories there Is even amore a-more apt and conclusive Introduction to what lies beyond than there IB In I Hawaii or Tahiti In Sumatra and in Java are footsteps of the ancient civilization civili-zation which entered the Pacific Islands centuries before European navigators went In quest of spices and jewels In J j the same Islands are the crude savages who have never yielded to the advance of tho clvllizcr and In tho extreme northern point of Sumatra arc the Achlnose who are still the pirates they have always been preying upon the shipping and wealth of the more cultured nations across the Malacca straits In Borneoalthough driven back far Into the interior now are the headhunting Dyaks the most typical of the many headhunters of the Pacific Pa-cific In Sarawak on the eastern coast of Borneo are the comparatively Independent Inde-pendent natives that have been held In control for more than twothirds of a century by the lone and extraordinary Britisher the Rajah Brooke and his nephew These arc types of numerous rugged fellows who have Immured themselves In marine wildernesses and practiced such cunning and strength as might belong to their nomadic and curious curi-ous natures Ainsloes Magazine |