Our country and its resources; . o the United StatesCongress by popular vote. The ju-diciary consists of a Supreme Courtand Circuit and District Courts; dis-trict magistrates are appointed bythe Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt; all other judges, includingthose of a United States DistrictCourt, are appointed by the1 Presi-dent. There were nearly 8,000 con-victions in 1915. mostly for minoroffenses. There were 170 public schools in19ir>. where 735 teachers gave in-struction to pupils, at a costof $772,000; besides this. $70,000was expended upon new are free schools, a
Our country and its resources; . o the United StatesCongress by popular vote. The ju-diciary consists of a Supreme Courtand Circuit and District Courts; dis-trict magistrates are appointed bythe Chief Justice of the SupremeCourt; all other judges, includingthose of a United States DistrictCourt, are appointed by the1 Presi-dent. There were nearly 8,000 con-victions in 1915. mostly for minoroffenses. There were 170 public schools in19ir>. where 735 teachers gave in-struction to pupils, at a costof $772,000; besides this. $70,000was expended upon new are free schools, and English is the language in general use. Inaddition, there are about fifty pri-vate schools, with an enrollment of7,7oo pupils. Industrial soh<M»ls forboth hoys and girls, a normal College of Agriculture and the Me-chanic Arts, and a enrollment records disclose the fad that of all these pupils some1 100 are Asiatics, are ofHawaiian blood. 5,700 are Portu-guese, and 1,403 American, the re-. Photos by the American Museum of Natural History Natives Catching FishObjects of Culture HAWAIIAN ISLANDS :::;i mm; COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES mainder being Germans and British. In the Old lays, the Hawaiianwas a coast dweller, having hisgrass hut under the palms, and hisgarden or small plantation on thehill slopes. A little patch of kalo,less than fifty feet square, providedhim with a years sustenance. Hewas a great fisherman, and there arein existence lines made from fineolona fiber which have seen a cen-tury of service, and are still in goodcondition. His huge sailing canoewas a familiar sight to the Me-lanesians. and the impression madeby his gigantic war canoe, carrying pean costume: his fishing line, whenhe condescends to fish, is of cheapforeign manufacture, and much ofthe fish he eats comes from the tincan: the picturesque hut of grasshas been almost wholly replaced bythe shack of rude wood, and he ison intimate terms with the slumof the town. W
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