. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. tage to Hawaii. Ithas proved a sort of commercial forcing process, the ben-efits of which have largely accrued to the United States,while the evils have been wholly borne by Hawaii. It isto the overcoming and rectification of these evils that thethoughtful men of that country are now directing them-selves. There is a keen appreciation of the social prob-l
. Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation. tage to Hawaii. Ithas proved a sort of commercial forcing process, the ben-efits of which have largely accrued to the United States,while the evils have been wholly borne by Hawaii. It isto the overcoming and rectification of these evils that thethoughtful men of that country are now directing them-selves. There is a keen appreciation of the social prob-lems that have grown up with mushroom rapidity, andquite as laudable a purpose, and one as likely of accom-plishment, within reasonable limits, as is called out in thisgreat country by similar problems. COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. The census of 1890shov/s that the exports of Hawaii are now, and have beenfor some years past, larger in proportion of its populationthan those of any other country in the world, Australiastanding next on the list. In the last ten years we have,with an average population of not more than eighty thou-sand, exported produce worth, in round numbers, ninety-nine millions of dollars, or an average of nearly one hundred. NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS. Probably there is no tetter place in the world tosee the night-blooming cereus in all its glorious beauty than Honolulu. At tin- sea-son of its blossoming thousands of flowers open in a single uight. Tin flowers oftenmeasure twelve inches in diameter, averaging much larger than tho usual hot-housespecimens. CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS. 135 and twenty-five dollars per annum for every man, womanand child in this country/ It is not their productiveness,however, but their location that gives to the HawaiianIslands their unique commercial importance. Situated asthey are, in mid-ocean, in the direct channels of the greatand growing commerce between the western coast ofAmerica and New Zealand, Australia, the Indies, China andJap
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