A New Yorker who imagines, cockney-like, that civilization does not reach beyond the sound of Trinity chimes is startled out of this foolish fancy when he finds among the planters and missionaries here, as in other parts of these Islands, men and women of genuine culture maintaining all the essential forms as well as the realities of civilization; yet living so free and untrammeled a life that he who comes from the high-pressure social atmosphere of New York can not help but envy these happy mortals, who seem to have the good without the worry of civilization, and who have caught the secret of how to live simply and yet gently.
Kauai has four or five sugar-plantations, some of which are now successful, though they were not always so.

Success has been attained by a resolute expenditure of money in irrigation ditches, which have made the land yield constant and remunerative crops.

But I could see here, as elsewhere, that close and careful management--the eye of the master and the hand of the master--insured the success.
But a large part of the island is given up to cattle.

In the mountains they have gone wild, and parties are made to hunt and shoot these.

But on the plains, of course, they are owned and herded.