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Show His Vivid Impressions : in the Cosmopolitan Magazine That, Eclipse t ',. " :. , ' :;h: a'1 Stevenson's ..., S--?.-" . . ''.w .. Famous C . w . ' v, ; Pictures of -4--".. -.,;;. v. .' . . i-Our Pacific . : ' '' -'"v-.rV : l-'-'.'-L', ' -.K"v' ; Island f" " , ... . ;:';v: -r . Paradise : , " - . ' " x - ' ' ' "' ' ' ' ' - .- ' 1 ! '-f -. " ' , - C V " " - ' , v - - " I . . ' - "'"- j " : . .- r , -j ' - ' . - -,f: " - i . ..t-iN"Sf.:;in'.te'si' ,! . v ,-' - " .... - ' ''J-"- !: - . "i""-. .:, - ' ' . - . 7 . ' -v " ' A '1'- V,' A p , The Hawaiian Plays the Ukulele or Dances to Its Melody with Equal Facility. f A LOHA, love," writes Jack London in his Hawaiian article, r "My Hawaiian Aloha," in the October Cosmopolitan, is ! . the common form of greeting in the enchanted isle. Perhaps it is the symbolism of this word "Aloha'' that has made popular throughout our larger cities the music, the songs and the dances of Hawaii. No cabaret which lays claim to popularity is without its Hawaiian or near Hawaiian orchestra or dancer. No (music or vlctrola cabinet is complete without its Hawaiian music v score or record. Something is lacking in the musical show which has no Hawaiian dance number for solo and chorus. "Aloha," typifying Hawaiian lore, is sung, danced and played r : by public and professional with unending zest, and if you read ' Jack London's article, a part of which is published here for the readers of this newspaper, you will not need to seek further for I , I.' the cause. I Like Stephenson and Conrad, London feels every pulse beat ' ' of the magic islands of the South Seas. He interprets them as only the true lover can interpret the glances of his heart's desire. He j makes you understand why Hawaii is the port of many missing , i men and women. By Jack London (Reprinted from the Cosmopolitan Magazine for October.) T TAWA" is the home of shanghuled r" 9 men and women, and of the de- scendants of shanghaied men and women. They never intended to be here ' at all. Very rarely, since the first whites came, lias one, with the deliberate plan of coming to remain, remained. Somehow, Some-how, the love of the Islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine ill advance tt) love a particular woman, nor can one so determine. to love Hawaii. One sees, and one loves or does not love. With Hawaii, it seems always to be love at first sight. Those for whom the Islands were made, or who were made t for the Islands, are swept off their feet in " the first moments of meeting, embrace, and are embraced. The sailor boy. Archibald Scott Cleg-born, Cleg-born, had no intention of leaving Ms ship: . but he looked upon the Pnncess I. ikelike. The Princess I. ikelike looked on him. and he remained to become the father of the Princess Kaiulanl and to dignify a place of honor through long yer.rs. He was not the first sailor boy to leave his ship, nor the last. One of (he recent ones, whom I know well, arrived several years ago on a'yacht in a yacht race from the main-. main-. land. So brief was his permitted vaca-y vaca-y tion from his bank cashiership that he had obnned to return by fast steamer. I He is still there. The outlook is that his children and his grandchildren after him will be there. Another erstwhile bank cajhier is Louis von Tempsky, the son of the last British officer killed in the Maori war. His New Zealand bank gave him a year's vacation. The one piace he wanted to see above all others was California. He departed. His ship stopped at Hawaii. It was the same oid story. The ship sailed on without him. His New Zealand bank never saw him again, and many years passed ere ever he saw California. But she had no charms for him. And to-day. bis sons and daughters about him, lie looks down on half a world and all of Maul from the rolling grass lands of the Haleakala Ranch. There were the Gays and Robinsons. Scotch pioneers over the world, in the good old days when families were large and patriarchial. they had settled in New Zealand. After a time they decided to migrate to British Columbia. Among their possession w-as a full-rigged ship, of which one of their sons was master. Like my poet-friend from California, they packed all their property on board. But in place of his garden hose and rake and hoe,- they took their plows and harrows 'Aloha" is the Greeting of These Three Little Hawaiian Maids. And, (on the Right) A Waterfall in the Kohala Mountains, Nature as the Landscape Gardener of Hawaii. and all their agricutural machinery. Also, they took their horses and their cattle and their sheep. : When they arrived in British Columbia they would be In shape to settle. immediately, break the soil, and not miss a harvest. But the ship, as was the custom in the sailing-ship days, stopped at Hawaii for water and fruit and vegetables. The Gays and Robinsons are still here, or, rather, their venerable chil-j .. dren and younger grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They took up land on Kaua and Nlihau, the ninety-seven square miles of the latter remaining intact in-tact In their possession. But, to return: Hawaii is the home of shanghaied men and women, who were induced to remain, not by a blow with a clnh over the head or a doped bottle of whisky but by love. Hawaii and the Hawaiians are a land and a people loving and lovable. By their language may ye know them, and in what other land save this one is the commonest form of greeting, greet-ing, not "Good-day," nor "How d'ye do," but "Love?" That greeting is "Aloha" love, I love you, my love to you. Good-daywhat Good-daywhat is it more than an impersonal remark about the weather? "How do you do?" it is personal in a merely casual, interrogative sort of a way. But "Aloha!" It is a positive affirmation of the warmth of one's own heart-giving. The custom of the dwellers is as it was of old time, only better, namely: to have a town house, a seaside house, and a mountain house. All three homes, by automobile, can be reached within half an hour's run of one another; yet, in difference differ-ence of climate and scenery, they are the equivalent of a house on Fifth avenue or Riverside Drive, o an Adirondack camp, and of a Florida Winter bungalow, plus a twelve months' cycle of seasons crammed into each and every day. And what is true of Hawaii is true of all the other large islands of the group. Climate and season are to be had for the picking and choosing, with countless surprising' sur-prising' variations thrown in for good ' measure. Suppose one be an invalid, seeking an invalid's climate. A night's run from Honolulu on a steamer will land him on the leeward coast of the big island of Hawaii. There, amongst the coffee on the slopes of Koua, a thousand feet above Kailua and the wrinkled sea, he will find the perfect invalid-climate. It is the land of the morning calm, the afternoon shower, and the evening tranquillity. tran-quillity. Harsh winds never blow. Nor is Hawaii niggardly toward tbe sportsman. Good hunting abounds. As I write these llpes on Puuwaawaa Ranch, from every jide arises the love-call of the quail, which are breaking up their coveys as the mating proceeds. They are California Cali-fornia quail, yet never in California have I seen quail as thick as here. Yesterday 1 saw more doves variously called turtledoves turtle-doves and mourning-doves than I ever saw before in any single day of my life. Hay before yesterday I was out with the cowboys roping wild pig in the pastures. Of birds, in addition to quail and doves, in place and season may be hunted w ild duck, wild turkey, rice-birds. Chinese and Japanese pheasants, pea-fowl, guinea-fowl, guinea-fowl, wild chicken (which is a mongrel cross of the indigenous moa and the haole chicken I. and, lot leas t, the delicious golden plover, fat and recuperated after Copyright, 1016, by the Star C'omp. its long flight from Alaska and the arctic shores. Then there are the spotted deer of Molokai. Of course there is pig-sticking, and, for real hunting, few things can outthrill the roping, after cowboy fashion, of the wild bulls of the upper ranges. Also are there to be had wild goats, wild sheep yes, and wild dogs, running in packs and dragging down calves and cows, that may even prove -perilous to the solitary hunter. Indeed, Hawaii is a loving land. Just as it welcomed the spotted deer to the near destruction of Its forests, so has it welcomed many other inimical aliens to its shores. In the United States, in greenhouses and old-fashioned gardens, grows a potted flowering shrub called 'antana; in India dwells a very noisy and quarrelsome bird known as the inynah. Both . were Introduced Into Hawaii the bird to feed upon the cutworm cut-worm of a certain moth; the flower to gladden with old associations the heart of a flower-loving missionary. But the land loved the lantana. From a small flower that grew in a pot, the lantana took to itself feet and walked out of the pot into the missionary's garden. Here it flourished and increased mightily in size and constitution. From over the garden wall came the love-call of all Hawaii, and the lantana responded to the call, climbed over the wall, and went a-roving r.nd a-loving In the wild-woods. And just as the lantana had taken to itself feet, by the seduction of Its seed it added to itself the wings of the mynah, which distributed its seed over every island in the group. From a delicate, hand-manicured, potted plant of the greenhouse, it shot up into a tough and belligerent swash-buckler a fathom tall, that marched in serried ranks over the landscape, crushing beneath.it and choking chok-ing to death all the sweet native grasses, Bhrubs and flowers. In the lower forests it became jungle. In the open it became jungle, only more so. . It was practically impenetrable to man. The cattlemen wailed and vainly fought with it. It grew faster and spread faster than they could grub it out. Like the Invading whites who dispossessed dispos-sessed the native Hawaiians of their land, so did the lantana to the native vegetation. Nay, it did worse. It threatened threat-ened to dispossess the whites of the land thev had won. And battle royal was on. ' Unable to cope directly with it, the whites called in the aid of the hosts of mercenaries. They sent out their agents to recruit armies from tbe insect world and from the world of micro-organisms. Some of these predacious enemies of the lantana ate and sucked and sapped. Others made incubators out of the stems, tunneled and undermined the flower-clusters, flower-clusters, hatched maggots in the hearts of the seeds, or coaled the leaves with, suffocating fungoid growths. Thus simultaneously simul-taneously attacked in front and rear and flank, above and below, inside and out, the all-connuering swash-buckler recoiled. To-day, the battle is almost over, and what, remains of the lantana is putting up a sickly and losing fight. 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