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Show THE WORLD. AMERICAN FOUR, UTAH. SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, VOL V. HOMES IN HAWAII. OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION OFFERED IN THE ISLANDS, rarm Crops That Can 11a Properly Grown Description of the lleaotlful Scenery Tbs Musical Kaoauka Pint Cultivation of Sugar. as has been written concerning Hawaiian scenery. It is a subject about which literature can never be exhausted. People of all nations and of all climates are still continuous in their praise of the tropical verdure and scenery that can be found in the midst of the Pacific Ocean. There has been resident in the islands for some time a Scotchman Mr. Charles H. Ewart, of Dalbeattie, Scotland, whose soul was moved by the beautiful vision which he describes in the following poetic language: "We are in an amphitheater of mountains rising to an altitude of and 4,000 feet, with a glowing raiment of leaf and blossom from base to summit, save in spots where the red earth peeps through the radiant curtain, as a foil to the flames of irrides-cen- t greens, and the lire of the blossoms that have enfolded the hills in their shining embrace. Here and there a pinnacle where no plant has found grace to grow, stands out a purple silhouette against the soft blue of a topaz-tintsky. Caves and fissures are cleft in the steeps of these mountain walls, and torn from the nearly perpendicular cliffs which surround it, alone and apart, stands a pillar of stone twenty yards wide at the base, nearly a thousand feet high, and pointing 'Godward through the blue,' like the spire of some mighty cathedral. This monolith carved and fashioned by some bygone convulsion of nature when the hills 'glared at heaven through folds of fiery hair Is swathed in a glorious garment of green and gold chequered with the rose and the azure of the btlls of the convolvuli that dangle from the cordon of vines that engird It." 5 The valley in the early morning may Much 3,-0- 00 ed tlclpates such a condition had better tution known ns Oahu College has long stay away. No man can go about offered full preparation for any college blindfolded and pick up dollars in the in America, and many of its graduates streets, but no country offers a better have entered leading colleges on adopportunity and final reward for hon- vanced standing. g But the children est, earnest and constant labor. Esdo innot coffee a of the in the true is this monopoly enjoy privpecially dustry. The pretty homes and coffee ileges of education beyond the comareas of Olaa are an evidence of this. mon school course. The Kamehameha Butter is Belling in Hilo at l a roll. schools, with their magnificent equipIt is quoted in San Francisco at 16c. ment and no less magnificent endowto 24c. a pound. There every field is ment are open to those of native Haas dry as a bone. In Hawaii every waiian blood and to no others. Manfield is perpetually green. The dairy ual training and industrial education business offers a much better opening are leading features of these schools, than any line of merchandising. And and few similar schools in America are as a to the dairy, hogs will so well equipped for work on these pay magnificently. Pork is retailing lines. The natives are very fond of music. at 25 cents a pound. The advertising columns of the local papers tell a curi- The guitar on account of the softnesi ous story of the strangely backward of its tone, is their favorite instru- IN TIGERS CLUTCHES. one thing to hunt the tiger and quite another thing to have tbe tiger hunt you. When hunting Stripes, T is English-speakin- condition of some of the smaller inFrom Australia: peaches, dustries. plums, oranges, apples, grapes, nectarines, lemons, celery, cauliflowers, potatoes, cheese, roll butter, crab apples, quinces, onions. These are imported from a country over two thousand miles distant. of The Hawaiian Iuspector-GenerSchools, Mr. Henry Schiller Townsend, speaking of the educational system of the islands, says that the population of the Hawaiian Islands is small and the school system is necessarily small. The total population exceeds one hundred thousand slightly, of which fourteen thousand were attending school at the end of last year. Ten thousand were in the public schools. Fifty-si- x per cent of all the children attending school at that time were of native Hawaiian descent, and twenty-fiv- e per cent were Portuguese. The remaining nineteen per cent represents a larger number of nationalities. The English language is practically the only language as a means of communication or Instruction in the Hawaiian schools. And here lies the difficulty of the work. Just imagine the teachers of California trying to teach the children of that state through the Arabic language. Yet English is probably as difficult for the children of Hawaii as Arabic for those of Califor- ment. The royal Hawaiian bund, a few years ago made a tour through the United States, wub composed of native Iiawaiians, all of whom were accomplished musicians. RED FANTON. which POT BOILERS EMERCINC." al Cowing In at Ilia Doors of tlia Studio. After weeks in the forest of Fontainebleau it is difficult to realize its monotonous amplitude, its endless repetition of Blmilar prospects, sayB the Saturday Review. And yet as a forest it has no surpassing beauty. One may compare it with Dartmoor Dartmoor pared of its highest tors and set thickly with young trees growing close as the moss on a boulder. It is a rolling upland with a scanty mantle of soil, through the frequent gaps in which the broken gray bowlders of the naked earth sometimes rise in fantastic heaps, sometimes line concavities a mile across, or fringe the gaping lips of long ravines. Like Dartmoor, the surface is arid, and you may tramp miles and see never a pool; and yet, on every side, you may descend from the forest by green valleys into green plains and find brooks leading miraculously from the dusty rocks to dip ' under fringing Willowd it 1b to these nia.' History, literature, natural skirts of the forest that the be happy must even and arithmetic science painters villages cling; Barbizon, advertised by Stevenson and now abandoned to the cultured tourist; Cernay, with its great village square; Marlotte, smothered under masses of lilacs like a child laughing in hay; Moret, on the Seine, with its bridge, its mills and ruined castles and spreading river; and a dozen others. The simplest of them turn austere faces to the solemn spaciousness of the forest, but thj'r sweet gardens give access to the green comforts of the plain; an image, maybe, of the artists tn. mselves; high, unprofitable aims in the salon; potboilers emerging and red wine coming in by the studio doors. And Keri Win on his own account, upon a pounces man tbe victim has a poor chance for his life. That there are few men who can tell of such an experience is needless to say," said Capt. E. A. Arbutbnot. guest who had known him twenty years before In India had pressed him to tell the story of his tiger adventure there and the cap:ain had consented. The thing occurred in the Dabrah Doolah district in Assam, where I had gone with the idea of becoming a tea The planter. continued the captain. the tell to the of adventure, beginning story completely, was my meeting a shikari nnraed Dassa Balhua on the morning of the day when I fell in with the tiger. The word shikari, you will understand, means native hunter, a tiger hunter in particular. I was on my way that day to look over a tract of Jungly land which I thought of buying and clearing for cultivation, when on passing Dassa Bulhua's house I saw him sitting In the doorway and he was in a peck of trouble. "His old East Indian companys army musket, the gun with which he hunted, was lying across his lap, and he waB fumbling at the lock. He wanted to go out into the Jungle that day, and here was his gun hammer out of gear, so that when he pulled it back it would not catch and stay at full cock. I saw at once what was wrong with the lock, and chancing to have with me a watchmakers file, I set the thing right in five minutes. Balhua was very grateful, and I rode on, leaving him carefully loading the gun. I don't wish to get ahead of my story, but will say here that my stopping to help Balhua out of his trouble was the means of saving my own life that day. .. This meeting with the shijeart occurred about an hour after daybreak. I went on my way, and by the middle of the afternoon I had seen all I cared new-mo- tower-flanke- d, steep-pitch- ed A GLIMPSE OF H AWAIIAN SCENERY. be clear of mists, and a soft mountain breeze murmuring among the foliage, but at times it is filled with the noiseless ebbing and flowing of white vapor borne in from the sea, and out of this shimmering sea of mist the towers and mi na retea of the mountains arise clothed with mosses and ferns, and draped with garlands of eddying vines, that cover the faces of the cliffs, and droop over the edges of giddy precipices In "cataracts of bloom," till they are swallowed up in the "white mists that choke the vale, and blot the sides of the bewildered hills." Although sugar cane is indigenous in Hawaii, little attempt was made toward its cultivation until 1835, when a plantation was started at Kauai, and several sugar mills were built These mills were worked by the aid of mules and oxen, and the process was slow and laborious. What a contrast to the mills of the present day, where the cane is taken and made Into crystals of sugar. There is no royal road to wealth In Hawaii, and any one who an- - taught under great difficulties. Edu- cative instruction under these conditions is a h unsolved problem. But conditions are rapidly changing. The English language is coming into use as a means of communication among the graduates of the common schools, many of whom have no other language in common. Thus it is creeping into the homes of the people, even. When the children learn crude English from tl.elr mothers, the teacher's tasks will be much simplified. For many years there have been schools in Honolulu and Hilo especially adapted to the needs of the children of parents. Lately similar schools have been opened In a number of other locations, and still others will be opened shortly. These are not essentially different from schools of similar grade in America. A regular public high school is in process of organization in Honolulu, the greater number of the departments being already in working order. The endowed insti well-nig- English-s- peaking About tlia Mighty Deep. The surface of the sea Is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles, taking the whole surface of the globe of 197,000,-00-0 and its greatest depth supposedly equals the height of tbe highest mountain, or four miles. The Pacific ocean covers 78,000,000 square miles, tbe Atlantic 25.000,000, the Mediterranean Thrra SnlrMes Thronh m Mistake. Harry Phillips, of Indianapolis, some time ago killed himself because he mistakenly thought himself Jilted by Nettle Huffman. She then drank carbolic add and now her mother has tak en the poison, too, unaLie to bear tbs weight of her grief. First temlnn lJlMrtory, The first London directory was pi .need in 1670. It contained only sixty-fopages, with tbe names of 1,790 persons. ur H. was no use in running away, tog ho came out on me. There was one glimpse of paws, Jaws, and white breast all plunging for me, and then I was flat on my back in the path, with the tiger crouching upon me, his claws set in my left shoulder and right side. The long feelers at his nose brushed my face as he set his teeth into my shoulder in one sharp, crushing bite, apparently to make sure that I would lie still. If the tiger had been alarmed or wounded, if he had overtaken me running away, or had I struggled 1 should have been killed outright. I certainly expected nothing else, but the tiger, not repeating the bite, lifted his head as if listening. Some sound in the road may have made him fearful of losing bis prey, for, seizing me by tbe shoulder, he swung me clear of the ground and started away through the jungle in long, swift leaps. I weighed at that time 135 pounds, and the tiger carried me along as easily as a cat would carry a squirrel. It will probably sound strange to you, although a similar experience has been related by others, when I say that from tbe moment the tiger leaped on me I felt no pain from teeth or claws. Neither did I, after once the brute had seized me, feel any keen sanse of fear, although perfectly conscious of all that was going on and of what seemed the certainty that 1 should be immediately killed. Perhaps the best expression of my condition while I was In the tiger's power would be to say that I was in a hypnotic state, for I can compare my sensation with nothing else. The tiger ran - rhaps fifty yards, then stopped, laid me down and crouched, watching me. Presently he picked me up again and started on through the jungle, this time walking, bearing me along with my legs dragging upon the ground. Coming to an open space he laid 'me down, and, backing away for a distance of two or three yards, lay crouched, watching me in- -' tently, after the manner of a cat that plays, with a mouse. From the position In which I lay 1 could look straight into his yellow eyes and could see the curling in and out of the tip of the supple tail. Then as with every 'second t expected toe tiger to leap upon me and tear me, there crashed in the jungles stlUneES the loud report of a gun, close at hand. I saw the tiger leap to his feet, whirl toward the sound, and he roared once as he reared himself almost upright on bis hind legs; then fell over on his side struggling. It was from the old firelock that 1 had set in order that morning the East Indian company musket of Dassa Balhua that the shot had come which saved my life. The shikari had found the path the tiger was accustomed to take in going from his den to the nearest water course to drink. In a thick-leavtree overlooking this path he bad built a platform, and from this he bad watched daily for a chance to shoot at the brute. Waiting here this day he saw the tiger come into view from an unexpected quarter dragging me along by the shoulder. When he saw the tiger drop me in the open space and lay himself down at a little distance away, the shikari fired at him, aiming at the head, for he knew that if not killed the first act of the brute would be to kill me. Tbe tiger, struck In the ear by the heavy bullet, died almost In bis tracks. After the shot was fired I lay still, not feeling sure that the tiger was really done for, until I saw Dassa Balhua come toward me from the tree. When I lifted my head the shikari was startled for he had thought that I was dead. But he came to me and lifted me by the shoulders so that by turning my head I could see the tiger lying stretched on his side. He can trouble you no more, sahib. said the shikari. 'The tiger Is dead. The shikari opened my Jacket and examined my wounds, and then went down to the road to intercept my servants. By the time he came back with them my wounds were gel ting painful. While one of the servants rode to the nearest bungalow for men and a litter, I lay watching the shikari skin the tiger. It was a young animal, full grown, with a glossy, beautifully marked skin, and terrible teeth and claws. With the skin and the government bounty and the hundred rupees that I gave him, Dassa Balhua had no reason to complain of his day's fortune. I was taken out of the jungle that night, and to my home the next day. I had a bad shoulder, with fever, that kept me laid up for three or four weeks snd I did not regain the full use of my But I think I right arm for years. well." off got Dont be so miserly that yon are afraid to laugh at your own expenrn. l- ed Mow ItalllM Faka the Maw. A curious instance of newspaper fak- ing was discovered in Pittsburg last Three evening papers had in month. type a full account of the scenes attending the execution of a murderer. Every detail was given, including the conduct and last remarks of the conThe demned man on the 'scaffold. were extras put through the bogus press and stacked up ready to hand out to the newsboys. One paper supplied the newsboys and kept them in a room ready for the signal. But it never came. The hanging was postponed. The prisoner never left his cell. Some of the affecting full ao counts leaked out, and they are highly interesting specimens of the afternoon fake extras. Ex. NO. ISOS. THE TIGER IIAD ME. to of the tract of land I came to view, and was ready to return to my bungalow. Of the two servants who accompanied me, I had left one with my horse a mile back where there was some shade and grass. The other, who was with me, I sent to the man in the rear directing that they bring tbe horse round by the road to a point where I would meet them. The man started off on a run, and after watching him out of sight, I took my way along a Jungle path toward the point on the road where I had appointed to meet them. The Jungle growth through which the path led was made up largely of bamboo grass taller than my head. Interspersed with the grass were clumps korlnda trees, of bushes, and here and there a taller tree. Now that I was alone the thought came to me that I should feel more comfortable if I had kept my rifle by me, for it being rather heavy to carry, I had left it with the servant, who had charge of the horse. But I was not much disturbed by anticipations of danger as I strolled along the path, taking my time, for I expected to have to wait for ray men at the roadside. The thing came suddenly, without warning. There was a strange moving of the grass and bushes a few feet away to one side of the path, the tall grass parted to left and right in the furrow that came straight toward me there was roar and the aloud, was I me. stork still had standing tiger staring at the moving grass, for there low-topp- deep-throat- ed ed -- |
