Show &iiK$ r HOMES HAWAII IN ( OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION OFFERED IN THE ISLANDS f" JfAiF “ field is perpetually green The dairy business offers a much better opening than any line of merchandising And as a to the dairy hogs will Pork Is retailing pay magnificently at 25 cents a pound The advertising columns of the local papers tell a curious story of the strangely backward condition of some of the smaller industries From Australia: peaches 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 The Hawaiian Inspector-Generof Schools 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 tne 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 California natural literature History science and even arithmetic must be Edutaught under great difficulties cative instruction under these condih tions is a 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 their mothers the teacher’s For tasks will be much simplified schools in been have there many years 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 TN TTGER’S T is one thing to hunt the tiger and quite another thing to have the tiger hunt you When ‘Stripes’ hunting on his own account -- IfCrownCrops — That Can Ba Properly Description of the Beautiful Scenery — The Mualcal Kanaoka — Pint Cultivation Much as of 8iar has been written concern- 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 4000 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 lrrides-cegreens and the Are 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-tinte- d sky 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 ing 00 i nt 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 bells of the convolvuli that dangle from the cordon of vines that engird The valley In the it” early morning may be clear of mists and a soft mountain breeze murmuring among the foliage but at times it is filled with the noiser less ebbing and flowing of white vapor borne in from the sea and out of this shimmering sea of mist the towers and minaretes of the mountains arise clothed with mosses and fernB and draped with garlands of eddying vines that cover the faces of the cliffs and droop pices over the edges of giddy preci- In “cataraots of bloom” till they al well-nig- English-- speaking CLUTCHES pounces upon a man the 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 Arbuthnot After the cigars had been lighted a guest who had known him twenty years before in India had pressed him to tell the story of his tiger adventure there and the captain had consented “The thing occurred in the Dabrah Doolah district in Assam where I had gone with the idea of becoming a tea planter” continued the captain "The beginning of the adventure to tell ti e story completely was my meeting a shikari named 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 pn passing Dassa Bulhua’s house I saw him sitting in the doorway and he was in a peck of trouble “His old East Indian company’s array musket the gun with which he hunted Was lying across his lap and he was 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 sw at once what was wrong with the lock and chancing t have with me a watchmaker’s 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 shikari occurred about an hour after daybreak I went on my way and by the middle of the afternoon I had seen all I cared 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 grasB The other who was with me I sent to the man in the rear directing that they bring the 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 nln way bttca w hd r v— —— i - Wi expected nothing else but the tiger not repeating the bite lifted his head as Some sound in the road if listening f®ajr b®v® mad him fearful of losing his prey or ueizlng me by the should- er he swung me clear of the ground and started away through the jungle in long swift leaps I weighed at that time 135 poundB and the tlfeer carried me along as easily as a cat would carry a squirrel “It will probably souud strange to you although a similar experience has been related by others when I say that from the 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 Bense of fear although perfectly conscious of all that was going on and of what seemed the certainty that I should be immediately killed Perhaps the best expression of my condition while I was in the tiger’s power would be to say that 1 was in a hypnotic state for I can compare my sensation with nothing else “The tiger ran perhaps 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 Intently after the manner of a cat that p'ays with a mouse “From the position In which I lay I 0 iuld look straight into his yellow eyes a id could see the curling in and out of the tip of the supple tall Then as with evorjj second I expected the tiger to leap upon me and tear me there crashed in the jungle’s stillness the loud repo t of a gun close at hand I saw the tiger leap to his feet whirl toward the sound and he roared once arf he reared himself almost upright on his hind legs then fell over on his side struggling “It was from the old firelock that I had set In order that morning— the Ei at Indian company musket of Dassa Balhua that the shot had come which saved my life The shikari had found he path the tiger was accustomed to take In going from his den to the nearest water course to drink In a tree overlooking this path he had built a platform and from this he had watched dally 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 tpnr the tiger drop me in the open space rnd lay himself down at a little distance away the shikari fired at him aiming at the head for he knew that If net killed the first act of the brute would be to kill me The tiger struck In the ear by the heavy bullet died almost in his tracks “Afte- - 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 1 lifted my head the shikari was startled for he had thought that I was dead But he came to me and lifted me bj the shoulders so that by turning my head I could see the tiger lying stretched on his side “ ‘He can trouble you no more sah-- thick-leave- d ib’ said the shikari ‘The tiger la 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 getting painful While one of the servants rode to the nearest bungalow for men and a litter I lay watching the shikari skiD the tiger It was a young animal full grown with a glossy beautifully marked skin and terrible teeta and claws With the skin and the government bounty and the hundred rupees that I pave him Dassa Balhua had no reason to complain of his day’s fortune THE TIGER HAD ME I waa taken out of the jungle that bamboo grass taller than my head Innight and to my home the next day I with fever that with were the grass terspersed clumps had a bad Bhoulder of bushes korinda trees kept me laid up for thrpe or foui weeks and here and there a taller tree Mow and I did not regain the full use of my But I think I that I was alone the thought came to right arm for years off well” me that J should feel more comfortable got had kept my rifle by being rather heavy to carry If I me for it I had left it with the servant who had charge are swallowed up in the “white mists in working order The endowed insti- of the horse But I was not much disthat choke the vale and blot the sides tution known as Oahu College has long turbed by anticipations of danger as I offered full preparation for any college of the bewildered hills” in America and many of its graduates strolled along the path taking my time in cane is indigenous Although sugar to have to wait for my I tohave entered leading colleges on ad- for expected Hawaii little attempt was made men at the roadside ward its cultivation until 1835 when vanced standing “The thing came suddenly without But the English-speakin- g children a plantation was started at Kauai and There was a strange moving These do not enjoy a monopoly of the priv- warning several sugar mills were built of the grass and bushes a few feet away mills were worked by the aid of mules ileges of education beyond the com- to one side of the path the tall grass The Kamehameha and oxen and the process was slow mon school course parted to left and right in the furrow and laborious What a contrast to the schools with their magnificent equipthat came straight toward me there was roar— and the mills of the present day where the ment and no less magnificent endow- aloud cane is taken and made into crystals of ment are open to those of native Ha- tiger had me I was stapding stock still There is no royal road to waiian blood and to no others Man- staring at the moving grass for there' sugar anual training and industrial education was no use in running a Way for he wealth in Hawaii and any one who better are leading features of these schools came out on me There was one had a condition ticipates such few similar schools in America are about and No can go man and white glimpse of paws Jaws etay away blindfolded and pick up dollars in the so well equipped for work on these breast all plunging for me and then I was flat on my back In the path with streets but no country offers a better lines for honThe natives are very fond of music the tiger crouching upon me his claws opportunity and final reward The guitar on account of the softness set in my left shoulder and right Bide est earnest and constant labor Esco®ee n its tone is their favorite instruthe of true The long feelers at his nose brushed M8 is pecially coffee and ment The Hawaiian homes band uy Tace as he set his teeth Into my The pretty royal dustry of this a few which are evidence an ago made a tour shoulder In one sharp crushing bite Olaa years of areas I Butter is selling in Hilo at $1 a roll through the United States was com- apparently to make sure that would 16c lie at still of in San Hawaiians native Francisro all of posed It is quoted “If the tiger had been alarmed or to 24c a pound There every field is whom were a ccmpl'shed musicians If he had overtaken me run- wounded rZD FANTON as dry as a bone In Iliwaii every deep-throat- ed Where One of lie Drew the Line our visitors from the rwt j'P'V riF ’ ’V’ ft V- KEPT AT IT WHILE ASLEEF trugtled- -I should tilled outright I certainly low-topp- A GLIMPSE OF HAWAIIAN SCENERY VHvcianaa-f--- coun- try during Merchants’ week became hungry and going Into a restaurant ordered dinner says a Boston paper Being asked by one of the waiters what he would have he replied: “Oh bring waiter me a good dinner” The he was consulted with the result that soup was first placed before the hungry man also celery He drank his soup and although he eyed tie vlery came suspiciously he ate that Th-a dish of spaghetti and the co intry-marevolted: “I have drunk your dishwater eaten your bunco of weeds but I’ll bo gol durned If I'm going to eat -- n your worms” A National Flower for U A novel flower has been found at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec It has a faculty of changing Its color during the day In the morning it is white when the sun Is at Its zenith It is red and at night It Is blue The red white and blue flower grows on a tree about the size of a guava tree and only at noon does It give out any perfume A Hun Trick Which an EnglnM Played oa Dll Fireman “We have some pretty long stretches of duty” said a locomotive engineer t a Philadelphia Record man the othor day “and It isn’t an uncommon thing for a man to go for forty-eighours without Bleep Of course it Isn’t the best policy for a railroad company to allow Buch a thing to happen buc sometimes it can’t be helped It would be a pretty serious thing for an engineer to go to sleep at his post You think it would be hard for a man to sleep under such circumstances eh? Well I never heard of the engineer doing it although sometimes they come pretty near to dozing but my own fireman went sound asleep during me of my runs recently The poor fellow had been kept on the jump for three days without a wink of sleep and when we started on the run in question he was simply dead tired He managed to keep awake however until we reached the outskirts of the city It was his place then to ring the bell continuously until we got Into the train He kept the bell going’ with yard regularity and I wondered at his vitalWhen I ran my engine into the ity Tound house he never moved out of his seat but still yanked the bell rope I Then I saw that he was asleep called the other ’fellows and we watched him for two or’ three hours Bleeping away and ’yet pulling dutifully at the bell When we finally woke him up his arm was sore and he was mad as a hatter” ht THE FASHIONABLE PARLOR Distressing Room with Its Delicate Tints and Curious Set Expression The delicate tints of the average expensively furnished parlor are apt to be colorless unless there Is some relief to them says the New York Post One sees so many rooms with soft pearl-gra- y Wilton carpets walls of very much the same shade hangings of silvery plush furniture largely In white and gold even the soft cushions of the palest hues in costly fabrlcB The curious set expression of such a room as if it were arranged for an exhibition parlor of upholstery is enhanced usually by the lack of any sort of center Every room to be successful needs some sort of focus— an open fireplace a reading table anything that suggests a drawing together of the room’s occupants It Is this lack of suggestion of life which makes one stroll through one of these perfectly: appointed rooms and come with a sigh of relief Into the next apartment1' Occa- -i which the family really use miswhose a entered is house sionally tress boldly banishes the parlor letting it be simply an extenBooks line its? sion of the library walls A long table with chairs drawn around it is piled with fresh magazines the latest books and a writing service All these may be as elegant as one’s purse admits but their very presence confer a charm and effect by their suggestion of use that is not found in the handsomest stretches of upholstery and woodwork so-call-ed Alphabetical Burglary Something like the following from the Boston Transcript we remember to have seen before but humor like history repeats itself: “We are thorry to thay” explained the editor of the Skedunk Weekly News ‘‘that our room wath entered lath night unknown thcoundrel who thome by thtole every ‘eth’ (s) In the establishment and Succeeded in making hith It hath been ethcape undetected of course to procure a new Supply of etheth (s’s) In time for SIS lthue and we are thuth compelled to go to preth In a thltuation motht com-pothl- ng ible and dlthtreSing but we other courthe to purthue San to make the betht Stagger we can to get along without the mithing letter and we therefore print Se Newth on time regardleth of the loS we have Sustained The motive of the mithcreant doubtleth wath revenge for thome Supposed inthult It shall never be thaid that petty thplte of any d villain hath disabled Se Newth and If thlth meet Se eye of the detethable rathcal we beg to athure him that he underestimates newsSe resources of a flrtht-clat- h can he thinketh he when cripple paper it hopelethly by breaking into the alphabet We take occasion to thay to him furthermore that before next Thurthday we Sail have three tlmeS ath many etheth ath he thole We have reaSon to thuthpect that we know the cowarlly Skunk who committed thlth act of vandalism and if he 1th ever Seen prowling about thlth ethtablith-me- nt again by day or by night nothwill give uth more Satisfaction ing than to Shoot hith hide full of can thee no thmall-thoule- holeth’’ Tba Klondike Hatter The Klondike flutter is Se newest game in cards Its object Is to find Se nugget It Is worked with three cards and la our old friend three-carmonte In disguise d |