Show from tuesdays daily july 20 HOME AGAIN alie formerly aadil kow yesterdays news has the following interesting article which we thinks trill please mot of our readers president A of utah stake and bis son heed who have been spending a little over two months in the sandwich arrived in this city on their return yesterday morning at 1140 they remained here over night and took the morning train for provo both are looking well and appear to have been considerably benefited by the trip they made good use of their time while away seeing and learning all they could in the islands and return a goodly store of matter for interesting and instructive con they speak encouragingly of the work of the gospel in those parts and of the manifest improve meui in the condition of the native saints since their conversion truth their superiority over their fellow natives outside the church is a matter of comment oven among strangers the race hows ever is rapidly dwindling away when captain cook visited the islands the inhabitants numbered about now they egure somewhere in the neighborhood of this frightful decimation ci is due to the introduction of the vices of modern civil bation by the whites who now compose quite a portion of the population the chinese are very numerous and bid fair to eventually carry the country their mercantile es are bome of them magnificent and extensive they and the whites are the energetic portions of the community the native islanders being their hewers of wood and drawers of water the men do nearly all alio work alie women very little besida gathering fruit and doing family washing most of the time they are idle riding horseback or rolling around on the lawna at the roadside the climate ia pleasant honolulu the port being about the warmest place situated on the side of an island the country is one where a livelihood is to be easily gained farming is extensively carried on the principal exports are rice sugar and tropical fruits the whole country is one vast lawn enjoying a delightful ty from dust and is naturally fertile and productive every island has its volcano either extinct or occasionally in operation and in fact the most of the soil is pulverized pulverised sed lava an extinct crater on the island of calm is used as a fortress by the native forces on hawaii a volcano is still burning and at night lights up the neighboring city thus creating a splendid and to some terrifying phenomenon not more than two or three years ago an eruption occurred there during which a whole sido of tho mountain measuring one mile square was lifted up and laid over the city and its inhabitants alie lava from this volcano haa ben known to run a distance of 40 miles to the sea shore but with all drawbacks tho island is still occupied and farming is carried on thero to a great extent |