Ir must be now nearly two generations ago, since one of the early American missionaries upon one of the islands of the Hawaiian group, conceived the idea that the climate and soil of his adopted home was suited to the cultivation of sugar-cane. It was long before the idea took a form of practicable value, but for the past fifteen years sugar culture on the Hawaiian Islands has been a prominent industry. Several years ago the sugar planters of these islands sent a committee to the state of Louisiana, to look into the methods in use in that ancient province, who returned brim-full of amusement at the strange and peniee sugar factories which they found in operation. As compared with the Hawaiian plantations, those of Louisiana appeared to be more than a whole generation behind the time. It is but a few years since the so-called
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