Identifier: beneathhawaiianp00good (find matches)
Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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fortune gathering thefruit. It grows in scattered patches, is not all of aquality fit for jelly, and is very perishable. It wouldcost something to start a paying business; and establish-ing a business reputation is slow work. Depending 122 BENEATH HAWAIIAN PALMS AND STARS upon wild fruit to carry on a paying business would behighly impracticable. Whoever went into guava jelly making would haveto get land, set it out in trees, and cultivate his crop. Vegetables can be successfully grown here. Themost tender varieties grow the year round. Many ofthem could be profitably exported as well as used for sup-plying our large and increasing shipping. Vegetablesgrown here in November, December and January couldbe shipped away when the markets are bare north of us. Asparagus can be grown here the year through, andis as simple to plant and care for as sugar cane or sweetcorn. A box containing 50 pounds was sent to SanFrancisco in time for New Years and sold to the PalaceRestaurant for $1 a pound.
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LOADING CATTLE CHAPTER XI. THE MISSIONARIES. We sow the seed and wp may reap, The harvest flower;But God alone can watch and keep,Lo! when our eyelids droop in sleep,He sends the shower! —E. S. G. in Youths Companion. THE attention of benevolent persons in New Eng-land was drawn to Hawaii in 1809, when someHawaiian lads employed as seamen, landed onthe Puritan shore. One especially, calledObookiah, who was educated and cared for by a Chris-tian man in New Haven. As a result, The Foreign Mission School wasestablished in 1817 at Cornwall, for the purpose of edu-cating boys from heathen countries, and among its earlyattendants wers five Hawaiian young men. Their manlyappearance, open countenances, pleasing manners, andeagerness to learn from the people they were among,naturally created enthusiasm in their favor, and fromthis local missionary enterprise, grew the spirit that in-duced many New Englanders to give up their lives forthe race to which these chance petitioners belonged.They h

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