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1. 1880.

The action of the Board of Immigration
in appointing Key. H. Bingham Special In.
spector and Protector of the recent immigrants, is a strong guarantee ol the good
faith of the Government in its honorable
professions of regard for the welfare of this
people. It is to be regretted that the actions
and representatives of some of the Labor
Agents sent to the islands Southward, have
been in conflict with the language used in
the Report at the late Session. We believe
that the Government will deal fairly and
honorably by these poor creatures. Many
of them are dying in the hospital, easily succumbing to influences which would have no
such fatal effect on people of different temperament and constitution.

With the present tide of prosperity in the
business condition and prospects of the community, there ought to be a rising and u
rousing up of public sentiment in favor of
better educational opportunities for our
yoang people, Punahou ought to receive
liberal endowments. The Government
Schools in Honolulu where English is
taught, ought to be made models to be reproduced as far as possible in otherlocalities.
Lnhainaluna semi-centennial next year
ought to be made the occasion of elevating
and enlarging it to a national college. The
day schools ought to have the best teachers
that diligent inquiry and honorable salaries
can induce to enter the service. We are
glad in this connection to chronicle the arrival of Miss Helen S. Norton, late of Rock
ford, Illinois, to take charge of Kawaiahao

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Femile Seminary. She is a welcome ad- RAMBLES IN THE OLDWORLD.-No. 46
dition to the society of Honolulu, as well as
PRABUE, THE CAPITAL OF BOHEMIA.
to the corps of teachers at the Islands.
It may chance some day in your rambles
We are glad to hear that our friend, Mr. and travels that you have come as far to the
Arundel, who has recently returned from a east as Dresden, and then may be doubtful
visit to Tahiti, that Rev, J. L. Green, for whether to take the journey down through
many years the only Protestant Missionary Bohemia, to Prague and then on to Vienna.
on that island has, by explicit orders from If such be the case, let my experience come
to your help, and let it assist you to decide
the French Government, received authority
to carry on his missionary labor without any to see these cities, certainly the former, withthis advice, if folsuch odious restriction as hitherto hampered out fail. I am sure for
after
receive only your
lowed.
shall
ever
I
his work. He has been obliged to present a
written request and received a written per- thanks. If you enter, Bohemia from Saxmission every week to hold a religious ser- ony, you will come through the beautiful
vice on Sunday. We rejoice that the pres- valley of the Elbe, and pass through a porent French Government is in favor of religi- tion of that exceedingly picturesque region
ous liberty, even though the Papal Church called Saxnn Switzerland. On either side
claims France as under the domination of rise bold .and rocky cliffs, and fine wooded
reaches of country. The rocks at times
the Roman Se#.
seem to rise almost like ancient castles, with
The damp night air and the debilitating lofty towers and turrets, thus fantastically
heat of the day, have induced a large formed by time and the elements.
ordinary traveler, at least for one
amonnt of sickness. Especially among ina clear conscience, the Custom House
with
fants has this prevailed, and with the whole formalities are in no way to be dreaded here
community we tender our sympathies to two in Europe. Now and then some troubleof the old mission families, into whose fold some official makes his importance felt, but
death has entered, Mr. Charles Cooke and this is rare. Generally it is a hurried quesMr. B. F. Dillingham, have each lost an in- tion, the form of giving your keys, a feigned
fant child. It behoovps all persons at this examination, and then it is over. I have
season to be cautious about excess or impru- learned, on the whole, rather to prize what
dence of any kind. The Board of Health might by some be considered an inconvepropose to have a city physician with a dis- nient detention. You know there may be
pensary, located in the central part of the many ways of regarding a subject, and there
city. If, in connection with this, some plan is alwuys a satisfaction in throwing the most
could be inaugurated to look after and care agreeable light on the most trivial and posfor the poor and friendless thoroughly and sibly annoying matters. If you learn to
systematically, it would be a noble charity. regard these brisk Cus'oni House officials as
What is needed is wise, patient effort to hp|p guardians of the out-posts of the new world
the people, not merely money to pauperize you would visit, sent to pronounce on your
them.
fitness or unfitness to enter the same, and
when convinced of your right of admittance,
Arrival of the Lancashire Witch—The yacht
wide open in welcome the gates of
throwing
the
Lancashire Witch arrived in port on
16th iust ,
realm, you come to view them with a
their
afler a very plesiant voyage of 18 dayt from San
than might otherwise be
Franoisoo The yacht baa on board her owner, Sir kindlier charity
The chain-bridge is lowered, the
Thomaa ileakith Bart, ol Rußord Hall, Lancaaliire, the case.
England, and two friends, Mr. Sidlier aod Mr. Mar- clanking portals swung back, snd you enter
ray, The Lancashire Witch ia lha vessel that was as honored guest for the time, with the freeaent by ber owner under ootninaod of her Captain,
dom of the city or state in your hand. And
Eafelden, from San Franotaco to Socorro Island, lo
reacue the survivors of Ihe wreaked Hawaiian Teasel what a gift! Here freely are presented to
Mnthilde, lost off the Mexican Coaat some weeka you the beauty of new lands, the grandeur
since, and Ibe generous act brought forth enoomiuint of mountains, the loveliness of meadows
from theentireeaiiern preea. The Wiich will remain and fields and gleaming rivers, the heritage
only a short time in this port, a trip among tbe
islands being contemplated, including a visit to of ages of historic, growth, the wealth of
innumerable associations, which seem to
Madame Pele— P. C. Advertiser, Oct. 28.

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1880

from the soil itself, the sight of new parts of Europe, historically speaking, a phecy. Germany will scarcely do more
peoples, the sound of new languages, the feeling which was but deepened and intens- than awaken a new hate and opposition
spring

right to wander at your own will and pleas-

ure.
And here we are "in Bohemia—that of
geography and history—and not that other
intangible and indefinable realm, which exists everywhere, and is acknowledged no
where, the Bohemia of art and letters, of
clever doing and idle dreaming, that airy
and uncertain Bohemia, known, perhaps
better to many, than the fair land of which
the grand old city of Prague is the capital.
The Bohemia which we are now entering is
one of the finest provinces in that great
Austro-Hungarian empire which occupies
so important a portion of central and southeastern Europe, and which embraces so
many and differing peoples, covering an
area of something like 250,000 square miles,
and possessing a population of nearly thirtyeight million souls. Having found so much
to interest me in this immense nntiomtl
amalgamation ruled over by the Emperor of
Austria and King of Hungary, 1 feel tempted
to add a few facts relative to the country,
thinking they might prove of interest lo
others. It borders upon many of the most
important divisions of Europe, extending
from Prussijt a id Saxony on the north to
Turkey, the Adriatic, and Italy on the South;
from Turkey and Russia on the east to
Switzerland and Italy on the west, comprising the provinces of Upper and Lower Austria, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, Salzburg, Styria,
Carinthia, Carniola, Istria, the Bukovina,
Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Galicia; then
Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, Sclavonia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Novia Bazar, and
Turkish Croatia. And in these dwell many
races, speaking various languages
Germans, Slaves, Roumanians, Hungarians or
Magyars, etc., etc. Here, one meets Roman
Catholics, members of the Greek Church,
Protestants, and Jews. The present Emperor of this heterogenius family is FrancisJoseph I, born in 1830. His son, the young
and talented Crown Prince Rudolph, was
recently betrothed to the daughter of the
King of Belgium Since 1866 Austria has
been deprived of the nominal leadership of
Germany, which Prussia has now taken.
Hungary, a great and proud and powerful
division of the Empire, bas now its own
self-government, under the Emperor of
Austria as King of Hungary. The united
Empire is one of the most important in
Europe. It possesses a great and welldrilled army. Its products are varied, und
large portions of its area are exceedingly
fertile. For centuries it has had a proud
history, and has held itsWf with haughty
and imperial pride.
The young Crown
Prince promises to be a man who will wisely
mid skillfully manage tie great country of
which, some day, he will be the head. The
various elements of which the 'Empire is
composed will render this far from easy, as
they have occasioned difficulties in the past,
but this young scion of the proud old house
of the Hapsburgs, with wise advisers, may

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succeed, notwithstanding

the

gloomy

fore-

bodings of some prophets of our day, in
cementing them in lasting union.

From the very first day of our arrival in
Bohemia snd st Prague, 1 felt as if 1 hsd
entered upon one of the most interesting

ified with each succeeding day of our stay
Here for centuries, —from days now li«hted
by faint taper gleams ofhistoric record have
been enacted some of the most important
acts in the gieut drama of European growth
and developement. Prague stands in the
clear light of our modern day, like some
mighty tablet or chronicle in stone, of olden
times, on which the records nf vanished
centuries hnve been written. On crumbling
walls, in dimly lighted ancient streets and
lanes, in huge palaces and towering dome."
and towers, one traces the mighty and
solemn characters of this story of the ages.
Prague is beuulilully situated on the
Moldau, which divides the city into two
Its inhabitants are Germans
portions.
(Austrians) sod Bohemians or Czechs, who
are of Slavonic origin. The two languages,
Bohemian and German are in use, and from
the first you are struck by the signs, and
notices and placards and newspapers in both
languages. '1 he city is like so many of the
European cities, being now much improved;
new streets are being opened and old ones
widened. The evident desire of the people
in many parts of Europe to creep out of the
old und diny portions of their ancient cities
into more sunlight and sweeter air is a most
encouraging sign and cannot be too much
praised. While, however, the traveler prefers to have his hotel in the modern part of
an old world city, he, as a genenl rule,
spends a large portion of his rambling time
in just those fascinating historic nooks, and
uncomfortable streets and dingy by-ways
where he would scarcely like to live. And
this is most true of Prague, one of the most
intensely absorbing cities, in all the
world for any one of antiquarian taste..
AN ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY.

Nothing in all this city of multitudiness
memories is more impressive and singular
than the history of the Jewish portion of its
population, Indeed, the Jews are the
most astonishing riddle of our day. You
need to live but a very short time in Europe, certainly in Germany to feel this.
You cannot crush them if you would.
Should you endeavor to do this, as certain

named and unchristian people would now
do, and have tried to do for centuries, you
would find them more than a match for you.
After ages ol
of bitpersecution
terest and most unrelenting persecution
and from assailants immensely superior in
numbers ; after attacks by fire and sword,
followed by the pitiless hate and contempt
of hostile nations which has not yet died
out ; after all this, and infinitely more besides, tbis little handful of an exiled and
homeless race, rises undaunted and victorious, and throws the gauntlet back in the
face of its opponents. Ihe are the moneykings of the earth ; they furnish many of
the cleverest writers ot our times—they are
invading all branches of literature and of
art, of politics, and have a key ready at
hand for all opposing doors and barriers.
What is the end to be f What mission has
this people from the East in the future
civilization of the West ? For one, I confess they, and their past and their future,
would be to me a Sphinx with closed lips,
were it not for the illumined page of pro-

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continuation of that policy
which so many there are just at present
A broader
endeavoring to inaugurate.
charity, and a heartier spirit of toleration,
would, I am convinced, more quickly lead
them to a belief in Him, whom we call our
Head and Leader, aud yet who was on
earth a Jew.
The Jews have been for many centuries
in Prague, and there are at the present day
about twenty thousand living there. There
is a part of the city colled the Jewish Quarter, which cannot fail to interest the majority of travelers. Here, the poorer portion of
the Jewish population live, there domain
however having been invaded in the course
of time by many Christians, still poorer. In
the very heart of the city, surrounded by
crowded and narrow streets, is an ancient
Israelilish burial ground, which is amon";
the most remarkable antiquities of Bohemia,
and even of Europe Yon would find a
guide almost necessary to lend you there, so
hidden away, is it in this singular labyrinth
of lanes and dwellings. I remember we
visited it first towards evening ; the cominp
twilight seemed singularly in harmony with
the strange old place. The streets were filled
with people of the poorer classes, of women
holding children, and chatting in groups; of
men talking after the work of the day; of
the out-door life which floods the poorer
streets of a city on a summer evening. From
this city of the living we passed to that of
the dead, from the murmur and babel of human speech, the mingled cries and laughter
of the crowd outside to the solemn hush and
stillness within, the quietness of death and
the past. 1 have visited many cemeteries,
(since, for me, they have a singular fascinabut 1 have never seen nor expect to
see anything again quite like this. At first
I scarcely could recognize it as a resting
place of the departed. About us were huge
masses of stone, forming rough and singular
mounds or ridges. It seemed like some
strange geological formation, struck out in
great hot waves in some long ago period of
the earth's wild passion of growth, and then
grown still and cold, like a frozen sea, with
after ages. Or. as if here had once stood
some sione built city, which had been thrown
doun by the shock of an earthquake, and
left shattered in ruins. But as the eye
grows wonted to its surroundings you find
that you are encircled by hundreds, by thousands ot ancient burial stones, which lie
heaped and crowded upon one another in
strange confusion, layer after layer. The
ground is sown with them, so thickly that
in some places there seems to be scarce room
for a blade of grass in the spring to unfold
its message of hope and the resurrection.
About you on every side, are long rows and
ridges of these huge ungainly stones, so old
and bowed by the centuries that they appear
to huddle together for support. You feel
that they fill the the ground beneath your
feet, down, down in long funeral strata,
raising the surface of the cemetery many feet
above its old level till you stand now far
higher than those who came here to mourn
a thousand years and more ago. And here,
where they have found room, trees,alders and
others, have grown over this stony foundsamong them, by a

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tion, and stand now as shadowy, solemn
guardians of these ancient precincts, and in
company with these, vines and creepers, and
all manner of wild undergrowth which seem
to love such spots, and gray mosses and pale,
ghostly lichens have framed this strange,
ancient picture, in a wild fantastic setting
You could scarcely wish for, or imagine a
stranger, more weird nook than this old Jewish Burial Ground. And here for many
ages the Jews of Prague have laid away
their dead and raised these stones to their
memory, which later ages come to read and
wonder nt. Tradition says that after the
destruction of Jerusalem under the Romans,
some of the wanderers and fugitives reached
this distant land, and here made their home
on the shores of the Moldau. Just when
this cemetery was first used, it is scarcely
possible now to say; but there is a grave
stone still to be seen here, the oldest of all
now known, the date upon which, in the
Hebraic reckoning answers to the year 606
of the Christian eru. Over the grave of
Sara, wife of the Aronite Joseph, nearly
thirteen centuries have passed ! How much
of history has been lived since these "strangers in a si range land " laid one of their little company away here to rest, lar from the
hills of Judea, and that loved home in the
East And here with the succeeding centuries
they brought their dead, but about a hundred
years ago they were f.rbidden to do so by
the Emperor, and since then this strangely,
interesting spot has been left as we see it today. The stones are of all kinds, from those
of the humblest members of the-fraternity
up to those marking the spot where some
ennobled Jew or distinguished Rabbi, or
scholar famous for Ins Talmudic knowledge
is laid. They are carved sometimes with
various symbols, a pitcher designates the
tribe of Levi, two hands that of Aaron, etc.
As we wandered about in the cemetery we
could hear the sinning of a number of Jewish young men and boys, who were practicing under a chorister near by. With the
gathering twilight, the shadows and memories of the place,and the music, ol the sweet,
clear voiced singers, one could scarcely fail
to be touched nnd moved.
There are several synagogues in Prague,
but the most interesting is the so-caled AltelNeuSchule. It is situated near the cemetery of which I have been speaking, and
with it is said to be some thirteen centuries old. One could easily believe this,
looking at its time-stained walls. Here in
the fourteenth century, S fearful tragedy
was enacted. In this synagogue, hundreds
of Jews were killed by the Christians—men,
women and children,—at that terrible time
when so many Jews were murdered in
different parts of Europe On the gloomy,
dusky walls, our old guide pointed out ugly
1
spots which he said were the blood
felt glad to be out of this dark, dreary building, tottering with age, black and smokestained It seemed as if the cries of the
murdered women and children rang in it still.

stains!

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HUSS AND JEROME,

" Two of the greatest harbingers of the
Reformation," lived and preached, and bore
faithful witness to the truth in Prague. In
the old University of the City, Hus» was
Professor. Bohemia is once more Catholic,
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Huss still remain. We found out their little
church and exchanged a few friendly words
with the faithful head of the little flock.
You know the story of those great and
grand martyrs who sealed their testimony in
the flumes. It is a story one can well afford
to re-read and ponder. Here, in Prague,
their old home, one seems to feel the might
of their presence still. But more yet in
Constance, where we were privileged lately
to be, and to stand with reverent thought
and uncovered head, nenr the spot where
flames bore them as in chariots of fire to
lhat glory in which they now dwell. We
saw here, too, the beautiful Rhine, at its
issuing from Lake Constance, upon whose
waters the ashes of these faithful servants of
God were cast, not to be lost in the hurrying tide, but to incite to high and holy effort
men of other ages and other lands, eveu
beyond an intervening ocean. Prague witnessed their life, and Constance their death.
Living and dying, in Bohemia or far away
toward the foot of the Alps, they were heroes,
of whom the world should be proud.
HEIGHTS."
Wander where you will in the old city of
Prague, you find the foot-prints of men
famous in history. One could linger long
here with delight. One day we spent in a
part of the city where the ancient palace,
cathedral and other important buildings
are situated. This portion of Prague is
built on a height commanding a superb
view of the remainder of the city and the
Moldau, and with its splendid medieval
edifices and ext usive fortifications, presents
Here is the
n magnificent appearance.
ancient Headschin, or capitol of Prague.
Part of this is formed by the cathedral,
begun in the fourteenth century. In one of
this are preserved the crown
the
and other insignia of Bohemia. In speaking
of these to us, the Sucristan expressed something of that unrest and dissatisfaction
which exists without doubt among the real
Bohemians, or Czechs. They want the old
glory of their kingdom revived, and to have
the Austrian Emperor crowned King of
Bohemia, as lie is King of Hungary. I
scarcely think they will gain this at present,
if ever In the Burg, or Imperial Palace,
completed by Maria Theresa, is shown the
room, from a window, of which Count Thuru
caused " two Imperial counselors, Mahuiiiz
and Slawatu, to be precipitated, which was
the immediate occasion of tli- thirty years
war." I looked out of the old window, set
with quaint, round panes of glass, down,
down, and grew dizzy with looking and
thinking of this terrible leap. Not very lar
away, further up the hill, is a Capuchin
Monastery, where two brothers showed us
the relics and treasures of the Monastery
and a bedizence chapel, a copy of the pilgrimage chapel of St. Loutto One of them
was a fine, manly looking fellow, of about
thirty, with a noble head and great blonde
beard rising above his cowl, his ignorance
and innocence would have touched you. I
presume he knew nothing of the world outside of the little country village near by
where he was born, and the Convent where,
unless some revolution comes, he will die.
Of till that lay outside of this he seemed to
yearn to know, and especially he asked us

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about tfie ocean, which he had never seen.
I remember his last question was •' Have

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Asked
you ever seen a storm at sea ?
with the eagerness of a boy of ten ! At the
Abbey of titration, the same day, we saw
one of the finest libraries, as concerns arrangement, 1 have seen in Europe. This
splendid Abbey, with its beautiful and costly
church, belongs to the wealthy Premonstrateusian Order. It is u stately structure,
and grandly plnretl on the heights above the
city. In the church are the tombs of St.
Norbert and Pappenheim, who fell at Lutzen
in 1632. One of the brothers of the Order
showed us with great courtesy and politeness the really splendid library here gathered. There, are thirty brothers in the Abbey,
and if they look at all like the smiling,
cheerful gentleman who, elegant in flowing
robes of white Cashmere, and with carefullyoiled locks, accompanied us, they must differ somewhat from the usual idea entertained of the worn and uscetic inmates of Convent cells.
From these "upper points of view." where
we now are. the picture before us is one
which must move and delight everyone permitted to come here at any time ol
the tiny, and especially at sunset. We are
surrounded by magnificent edifices, palaces,
churches, convents, fortifications, which rise
from amidst masses of foliage and shrubbery
in the valleys between them. As the eye
wanders down the slopes, it meets with
other palaces—those of Wallenstein and
other famous heroes of history—and lofty
churches ; and then comes the Moldau—if
seen at evening, flowing like some luminous,
fiery river beneath its ancient and imposing
bridges, decorated with massive and grand
groups of statuary. And then still further
on the remainder of the city is seen. In the
centre rises the old Teytikirche. once the
church of the Hussites, aud now of the
Catho ics, and which contains the tombstone
of the celebratsd Danish astronomer (Tyche
Brunei, who died in 1601 ; and near this
the Ratlihiins, in front nf which, "in 1621,
twenty-seven of the leaders of the Protestants —most of them Bohemian nobles—
were executed." Side by side with spires of
Christian churches may be noticed the
bulbous domes of the Hebrew Synagogues.
It is a wonderful, glorious view !
But I have been telling you of much that
is sad. Hut it is the story. History and the
old streets told to me here in Prague. I
wish it micht be otherwise, but neither you
nor I can change the past, much as we would
like so to do. The tragic records of persecutions, of martyrdoms, of war and pestilence, are written in bold letters, and are the
first which meet us when we look back over
the way our race has so long been walking
down t" the present. There have been sorrow and misery, terrible beyond words, in
this old city of Prague ; and the heart aches
at the thought of it, and the lip quivers in
the telling. But I love to think too of all
the joy there has been, the wealth of
family happiness in those thousands of
homes, nestling under the crags where the
citadel clings. And if so much of bitterness
and sadness has here blighted and dimmed
the beauty of life, God grant that this may
now be buried with the past, and that here the
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on Protestant and on Catholic, on Christian ancient history joined their forces here to
and on Jew.
impress the wondering visitor of a later day !
VIENNA AND THE DANUBE.
You feel the brightness, the charm, perWe shall never regret changing our plan haps also the lightness of Vienna life the
of travel, and going by day and not by night, moment you enter the streets of Vienna.
as we had first thought of doing, from Though the language is German, you perPrague to Vienna. Though we had more ceive from the first that you are among a
of the summer heat, we had at the same people of the South, with readier smiles and
time certainly more of the summer beauty. gayer moods, and warmer blood than are to
The harvest fields, which bordered our way be found at the Nor'h. The capital of Ausfor a larger part of the day, were golden tria is very beautiful, one of the handsomest
with their rich, ripened stores of grain. cities of Europe, and, after Paris, the gayest.
Never since leaving the prairies of the cen- There is very little here in the way of
tral and western States of America have I mediaeval architecture to interest one. The
seen such glorious fulness a..d abundance. church, however, of St. Stephen, dating
The fields stretched nway as far as the eye from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, is a
could follow them. There is something in- very beautiful Gothic edifice But the
spiring in such an opulent display, and leads modern buildings those which have been of
me to feel that in this part of Austria at least late erected, and those still in process of conhunger and poverty must be things almost struction, are in many instances exceedingly
unknown Of a number of points of interest imposing. There are magnificent avenues,
which marked our way, none impressed me and especially one grand boulevard encircling
more than the frowning castle commanding the city, which are unsurpassed in the world.

the Austrian town of Briinn, where the Vienna reminds one of Pans in its summer
out-of-door life, in its brightness and gaiety.
The pe.'ple seem most kind and polite, and
are charming in their manners and appearance. The great fete which had brought
hundreds and thousands of people from all
pans of the Empire into the city to witness
the skill in shooting of different rifle companies and celebrated marksmen, was at its
height while.we were there. The presence
of many stalwart peasants from the Tyrol in
their brilliant mountain costume added much
to the picturesqueness of the crowds on the
streets. The traveller fond of historic reminders and kingly memories must not fail,
while in Vienna, to visit the crypt of the
Capuchin church, which is used as an Imperial vault, and where many distinguished
home in the mountains to its home in the personages have from time to time been
sea. can never fail to delight and thrill you. placed. A more plain and unpretending
And all this delightful thrill I felt in seeing tomb for royalty could scarcely be imagined.
the blue Danube " for the first time, just You descend a long, narrow, dark stairway
before reaching Vienna. There seems a into a gloomy, damp, and almost chilly
sort of majesty in this most kingly riv«r, as place, where beneath the stone arches lie
if it were itself conscious of its long history, many huge coffins There seemed to be a
might and importance, and you feel that its singular dreariness and melancholy in the
right is not to be disputed, This great river air. Our guide, a cowled Capuchin monk,
of Central Europe rises far back among the carried a torch, which flared fitfully as he
Swabian hills, in that charming and pictur- thrust it into the densely massed shadows,
esque region,, the fairy-land of Germany, making wild and ghostly effects in the encalled the Black Forest, only twenty or thir- circling gloom. And here in this sad, and
ty miles away from the banks of the Rhine, dimly-lighted tomb you read, interwoven
which here bids the Danube good-bye, and with the tarnished blazonries and heraldic
goes forward on its long and beauteous mis- devices, some/ of the best known names of
sion till it finds its home in the restless modern history. Just before you. as you
waves of the North Sea. The Danube is enter, rises the ponderous double coffin con1,800 miles in length from its first starting taining the remains of the famous Empress
point till it empties into the Black Sea, at Maria Theresa and those of her husband.
Sulina. There is something strangely, im- Francis 1., and near by the sarcophagus of
pressive in the thought of the many lands it Joseph II , of Austria Not far away are
traverses in its long seaward journey, in the two unpretentious coffins, which you might
thought of the cities and peoples dwelling pass without noticing, should your
now upon its banks, and of the successive monkish guide fail to call your attention to
barbarisms and civilizations which have van- them. Here lie Marie Louise, Empress of
ished, leaving ihe solemn river still here. the French, wife of the great Napoieon, and
Beyond Vienna the scenery of the Danube their son, the Duke of Reichstadt, the young
grows to be most wild and beautiful, reachKing of Rome," who died near Vienna in
ing its most imposing grandeur in the De- "1832. It is impossible to stand here, so near
"
file of Kasan," some distance beyond Bel- this latter casket, without being strangely
grade. Not (far away from this point, still moved. Certainly History in these silent
legible on the towering, perpendicular cliff, homes of the deads read us the most powermay be seen the Latin inscription left here ful commentary upon earthly greatness and
by Trajan to commemorate his first Dacian ambition. The memory of this little black
campaign. It would seem as if nature and coffin laid away in the sad twilight of this

Italian Sylvio Pellico, whose pathetic and
melancholy story of his dreary captivity has
touched so many readers of " I miei, Pritrione," passed eight long, weary years. On
our way from Dresden to Prague, we saw
another "prison-house," that of Cola di
Rienzi, "the ißStof the Tribunes." who was
confined in the Castle of Kaudnitz in lIJSO.
These prisons and dungeons sadden the
fair and beautiful landscape. I rejoice that
our century is leveling them, sweeping their
gloom away, and making more room for
wheat fields, for human happiness and hope.
The more one travels the more he learns
to welcome the sight of a great and historic
river. One may grow tired of many other
things, but a stately river flowing from its

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Capuchin crypt has been with me often times
since. I thought of it in looking on the
gilded and costly cradle in which the young
prince was laid when he came to gladden
his Imperial fathers heajt
(They have
this beautiful affair here in Vienna still.)
And 1 thought of it while standing lately
under the gorgeous dome of the " Hotel dcs

Invalides," in Paris, where between his
faithful Generals, and surrounded by the
stately monument of this most imperial and
imposing tomb, the great Emperor himself
sleeps " the last, long sleep ; " and it s:emed
to throw its shadow across those splendid
palaces and triumphal arches, and all the
brilliant reminders of the father and son.
which we have just been seeing in the gay
city of Paris. In Paris lies the founder of the
line ; here in Vienna his son. In the peaceful hush of Chiselhurst, England, lie the
other father and son of the s.me family—
one dying in exile, the other in a tar distant
land, cut down by fierce and cruel Africans
Was ibere ever, in all history, a sadder
family record ? It is scarcely a pleasant
place to linger ; but before going out again
into the morning sunshine, we look for a
few moments at one more casket covered
with wreaths and palm-branches, and which
bears the name of poor Emperor Maximilian,
of Mexico One of the wreaths, we are
told, was plnced there by his widow, the
unfortunate Empress Carlotta, whose jrrief
at her husband's sad and terrible end clouded
her reason, and who now lives an uncrowned
Empress and melancholy mourning widow,
near her brother, the King of Belgium.
In the Imperial Treasury are to be seen
the crown jewels—a glittering array which
is not surpassed by the imprisoned fires"
of the green vaults of Dresden. But more
than anything belonging to the Hapsburg
Family, one or two other treasures here
carefully preserved attracted my attention.
And foremost, and principally, the " Insignia
and memorials of the Holy Roman Empire,
once preserved at Aixe-la-Chnpelle, and
afterwards at Nuremberg; the crown of
Charlemagne, the sceptre, imperial globe,
coronation robe, sword. &c." Here also you
are shown a fragment of the " true cross "
(?) said to have pierced our Savior's side.
Vienna abounds in stately palaces, the
most extensive being that containing the
Imperial apartments. Here you see various
rooms used by Maria Theresa and Joseph
11. In the magnificent and sumptuous
" Rittersaal," the Emperor and Empress
of Austria wash the feet of twelve old men
and women, on some sucred festival occasion
every year! The present Emperor lives
generally at Schonbrunn, a beautiful country
palnce near Vienna. The Empress's favorite
residence is in Buda-Pest, in Hungary. She
is said to be very popular with the Hun-

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garians.

Frank Williams Damon.
Paris, France, August 25, 1880.

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library, courses of popular and'scientific lectures and educational classes, and publishes
a monthly sheet of interesting mattet con
taining much useful material.

THE FRIEND, NOVEMBER.
Naval.—Since our issue of last month,
three men-of-wars-men have arrived, —the
Ticonderoga on the 14th, the Gannet on
the 24th, and the Alaska on the 26th ult.
Following are their lists of officers:

.

Y. 8. 8. TICONDEROGA.
Commodore, R W Shufsldl.
Commander, ti. J. Cromwell.
latent 1 K. W. Sturdy, ttxsculivt Officer.
Lieut, H. L. Tremiin. Navlgau.r.
ISatt P 1. Urate. Knl.atli Niln. C K. Vrttllnrl.
F.nsigns, W, S. llughet, Y. Fletcher, H. li. Hoilty, D.
Dani-ls.
Chief Engineer, Y. U. McKean,
P A. Engineers, Sntn'Hirutf, i. P. Mlcsley,
Surgeon. 11. H. Weill.
P A. Surgeon, R. Y. Urquhirt,
Paymaster. W. J. Tboiniuii.
Lieut , I). P. Mannix, U. S Marine i;.ir|is.
Cadet Engineers, O. W. McElroy, J. R. Wiloisr.
Pay Clerk, J. ti. Y. lloiie,
11. li. H. 8. OANNET.
Commander—E. G. Botirke
Senior Lieutenant—J. E. C. Goodrich
Second Lieutenant—H. G. Tnorold
Third Lieutenant (nivigttlng)—E. J. Fleet
Stiff Burgeou—W. J. Imiiau
Ptymister— R. Q. Chandler
Chief Engineer—Charlt. Piatt
Hub-Lieutenant—R. B. Farquhar
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Surgeon—E. H Williams
Engineer—H. 3. J. t*. Moon

Clerk—M. W. Sulivan
Ounner-F. J. M. Johnson
Carpenter—H, O. Allison.
U. 8. 8. ALASKA.
Ctptaln— George Brown, Commanding.

Lieut Comnatnder—C H Pendleton, Executive Officer,
Lieut—J E Craig. Nivlgator.
Lieutintt—H N Minney, .Joseph (I Elton,
Muter—W E Sewell.
Kiisignt—F. B. Vinton, Rldgely Hunt.
Cadet Midshipmen—J. B. Bllatle, Leigh O. Uarrette, A.
P. Menefer, tnd John A. Mtldd.
Surgeon—Thomas Hiland ; Assistant Surgeon, 8. H.
Griffith.
Paymaster—C F. Guild.
Pay Clerk—Jicob Harder.
Chief Engineer—J. W. Thompson ; Pined Assistant
Engineers. A. W. Mnrley. Henry L. Sloisoo ; Cadet Engineers, E O'C. Acker, J. W. Annau.
First Lieutenant Mtrluet—Frank Scott.
Boatawiln—J Keating.
Gunner—W E Webber.
Ctrpenter—GouldNorthup.

Htilmiker—l C Cbtvaller.

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days arrived at Honolulu at 7.30 a m on Sunday, the 24th
of October. Spoke Am sb McLaurln on theBth of October, at noon, in lat 1 65° N, !ong 112« 43' \V, bound to

Cork, from San Francisco. High ted one other vessel during paaaage, but could not make her out.

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PORT

OF HONOLULU, S. I.
ARRIVAL*.

2—P M 8 8 ZealiiHl.it. Chevalier, 7 daya, 5 hours
from ban Francisco
4—Bk Forest <Qneen. Wtudlug, 17 dya from Han F
Oct 10—8cbr Jiilin, A lxmg, Gtlley, from Arctic Ocean
H Hiw-lUn bk Hawaii, Whitney. 33 dya frm Jalult
14—V 8 Ticonderuga, Cromwell, 35 daya from Kobe,
Oct

Oct.

Japan

17—Am schr W H Meyer, Jordaii, 21 days from Han
Fraudaco.
19—Haw schr Kiluns, Cooke, 41 daya from tbe
Ochotak Bea.
19—Am schr Caasie Hayward, Le Ualllater, 19 daya
from Humboldt Bay.
20—Am bk Oeu'l Butler, Uyder, 22 daya from PoH
(}amble.
21—Ralatea achr Vivid, Cawley, 12 daya from FaniiiugH Island.
24 —H BM rt Gaunet, Bourke, 29 days from Callao.
24.—1t MtiH Australia, Cargtll, from Sydney.
Oct 2tl.—U 8 8 Alaska, Brown, 1H dn\* fm hau Francisco.
DKI'AKTI KKS.
2—Bktne Ella, Turner, furBau Fraiiciaco
Zealandia,
Chevalier, for Auckland
2—F M88
2—Bk Jennie Fltta, Biever, for Fort Townsend
Oct 9—Kchr Walebu, Reynolds, lor Johnaonand Fan*
uiugs Islands.
10—Brit bk Oberou, Harvey, for Portland, Oregon.
11—<ierbk Oeslne Bruus, Trumbach fur Hongkong.
13—Brktue, Eureka, Nordberg. lor aum Francisco.
Oct. 17—Am bk Foreat Queen, Winding,lurPuget Sound
IH—Am bktne J A Falklnburg, Hubbard, tor 8. F.
21— bchrLauoaabire Witch, Killer sen, for Hilo.
Oct 26—U 8 8 Ticonderoga, Cromwell, forBan Francisco
25—R Mrt a Australia, Cargill, fur Hun Franclaco
20—achr Cassie Hayward, L,e Ballister, ballast for
HumboldtBay
Oct

Report of the Ticonderoga.—Left Yokohamaon the
31st of May for Kobe and arrived there on the 3d of
June. Nothing special transpired during the stay, of
live daya duration at thia port, visits between tbe government officials and officers ot the vessel being the order
of the day which, to all appearances, tended to make
closer the bonda uf friendship between Japan and America. On the ruii of June leftKobe for Nagaaaakl, arrived
there on the 12thand reinalbed at that port until the
19th of August awaiting answers to tbe official correspondence. From theuce went tv Che Foo having ou
board the American Consul at Teln Tain Mr. Manguiu
andarrived at Che Foo on the 23d of August. After a
short stay at tbla port, during which the cities of Che
Foo and Teln Tsln were visited by officers of the vessel,
a return waa made to Nagaaaakl arriving on the 2d uf
Beptember, left on the 4th for Kobe arrived there on the
7th aud after taking in coals and stores for the trip
across the Pacific left on the 11th fur Honolulu and
arrived at the latter port on the 14th of October. The
total distance sailedfover during tbe trip, to the port of
Houoluluinclusive is iv the neighborhood of 35,000 miles
nearly once and a half the circumference of the earth.
During the trip, ■*■■( different porta have been visited, and
the officers of the vessel are walking encyclopedia* of
the manners and customs of the people uf tbe natlous
visitedand show by the easy and uuegotisticai manner
iv which they Impart tbe Information collated by them,
aud their gentlemanly bearing that they were well fitted
tv represent the American nation abroad. We axe indebted to variouaofficers un board for tbe extended account which we have been enabled to give uf the trip,
prominent amongst whom we would mention Commooora'a Secretary, Lieut. Mauuix, Executive Officer Hturdy
and Lieut. Niles. The Tlconderoga will leave here on
the morulng of the 25th for Han Francisco and from
thence will prubablyproceed to Norfolk or Bostou.
Report of the X M s Australia, W Cargill, Commander.
—Cleared Sydney Heads ou the 7th of October, at 4 p m,
witU moderate breeze aud fine, clear weather. Light
winds and fine, clear weather prevailed up to tbe 11th.
Sighted the Three Kinga ut 0.20 s m of-this date, and
Cape Maria Vau Pieman at H.30, and rounded North Cape
at 1.15 p in, Cavilla Island abeam at 5.40, slubted Tirl
Tiri light at 6.30 a m of the life, and received pilot ufl
Auckland at 4.5 am this date. After diachargiug aud
receiving New Zealand malls, passengers and cargu
cast off from the wharf at 4 p in, discharged pilot at 5,
Tiri Tirl light abeam at 5.56 and at 7.50, Little Barrier
bore W. 1 mile distant; met with light winds and fine
clear weather up to the 14th; exchanged signals with R
M 8 Zealandiaat 3 a m thia day, strong unsteady winds
with a rough sea prevailed up to the 19th, met with
heavy squalls and rain on this day. Sighted tbe Island
of Upolu (Navlgatur'a) at midnight of the 17th, which at
1.45 am of the 18th, bore W ti miles distant. Crossed
tbe Equator at 5 a m of the 20th, iv longitude I(>s°, 52"
W. Fresh head winds and sea prevailed from the 19th to
the 24th. received pilot off Honolulu at 10.30 p m of tbe
24th, and made faat alongside the wharf at 12.16 pm
same date.
Report of the U 8 8 Alaska, G. N. Brown, Captain, U 8
N, Commanding.—LeftCallau, Peru,on tbvlSth July and
proceeded to Chlmbote, left that port ou the 23rd of the
same month for the Marquesas Islands, and arrived on
the 13th of August. Left on the 16tb for Pango Pango,
bamoa, andarrived on the 27th. Sailed for Apia on Sept
8, arrived aame day, and on the 14th of Septagain Bailed
for Pango Pango, aud remained there until Oct 7, acting
as convoy to ship Qneenstowu of Richmond. Me, discharging coal. On Oct 7 left Pango Pango for Honolulu,
and arrived at that port on the 24th Oct. Left in port at
('alien, the U 8 8 Lackawanna. H B M 8 Thetis, URMB
Freya. Italian men-of-war, Garibaldi and Archlmlde,
French men-of-war. Chasseur, aud American gunboats
Wascbuaett and Adam.

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PASSENGERS
From Htn Fnnelico, per Zealandll. Oct 3—Mn Bishop
tnd maid, w t' Parke and wife, Mliw-s Parke, Miss Curt
Wadt, Miss King, Mlv Welch, 1 M Gat and wire, Mils
Miry Hardy, Miss Aldrirli. Mn Maylt, Miat Mayla, S P
Cook, Geo C Beckley, J G Tucker, M Loulason, Geo ¥
Weill mil wife. Mm Hetl, 8 Magnln, wifeand child, lilts
Sills, W Sillt, W 8 Luce, wife and tervant, Mn A and
Mlat H Miller, E Widiwortb and wift, C V Houtmau,
J H Oakford, Mr Hubbard, J Caaaldy, Mr Olbbt, Chun
Lung and 06 steerage.
For Ban Francltco, per Ella, Oct J—MnMelnlckaand 2
children, L Netter.
For Sydney, per Zealandia. Urt a—II T Milei, T 0 Connor. E Meckirt, H Tunnti. E P Edwardt. F 1-ester.
From Bui Francltco, per Forest quern. Oct 4— G Ird,
s t s,liiiii,lt. O F Eiton. Griffith Jouei. J A Mortlmd.
II Beard. A W Schmidt. Mill llerthi Hlvltli. E M Dlmond,
T H Eckley, W Alexander, May Kennedy, Mr Thacher.
E JOverend, D Noouin, E O Caverno, 8 Norrlt, E Welih,
Miry Dougherty.

From StLawrence liland, per JALong, Oct 11—B DexDovell, Mm Friel, Antone Dill, v.
Wllliima.
For Hongkong, per Geilne Brous, Oct 11—8 Chtneie, a
femalti and 2 children.
For San Francltco. per Eureka, Oct 13—Mr Barton tud
wife, Mr Welch, wifeand boy, Mr Baldwin tnd wife. 8
V Wirdrobe, E F Marshall, Mn 8 P Carter, Mr Lacy, Mr

ter. M Parmenter, H T

Bpeir.

From Jalult. per Hawaii, Oct 14—H Grower. B WithIH4 South Sea Inlander!.
For Port Towntend, per Forett Queen, Oct 19—MrCavereui, C F Boyd, wife and 4 children.
From Ban Franciico, per W H Meyer, Get 17.—Mr and
Mn A D Pierce tnd daughter, Mn R W Putnam and
child, Mrt It 8 Putnam, Wan M'Cueaney, Thol Prince, E
C Winston, Anton Vogel, W Lndwlgaen, C A Brown, Thot
Wade, W H Kinney, Edward Homan. Victor (Jiierue, F D
Lee, Geo McGulre, J Ltwrence, J D Prink and 5 C'hlneae.
For Sin Frincitco. per Jane A Filklnburg. Oct In.—E
Weill Peterson, Eugene Langitlu, X Flyun, Stephen
Chamberlain, Jai M Dtwfon, Capt this Dexter.
From Fanulngt liltnd, per Schr Vivid, Oct 21.—J T
Arundel, Fnuk Sutton tnd 3 natives.
For Sau Frincitco. per Ktlikini, Oct 22—Mn Smith
Master Booth, Mr Schwartz Wift md 2 children. Mr
Keliey, Mr Mtuer, Er J O'Brien, ColNorrlt, Dr E Steven,
ton, Wm Heney.
From Sydney, per Australia,Oct2s—Mn AMrPheraou,
J Johnson, A Goodwin, 1J saloon and 36 cabin iv trsnsit.
For Han Francltco, per BM 8 8 Auitnlia, Oct 2S—F P
Wilson. P S Wilson, Mrs C Armstrong, Mrs E Weaver, P
Norton Makee, Dr A C Standard, Miat Sills, W suit, Mn
Himilton. L Mct.'ully, J Hyuian and wilt, X Collird, 8 U
Wilder tnd diughter. D X Fyfe tnd daughter, F J Lowery, Aug Ehlen, J T Arundel, J A Hopper and wire, M
Levy. 4 C Glide and wife, Robt Colcord, Mn Hamilton,
JT Arundel. R Wlthen.
For Humboldt Bay, per Caaalt Haywird, Oct 26-Mrs
en, and

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Wentworth.

From San Frinciico via Kahuiui, per J D Spreckels,
Oct 27—H C Courtney.

MARRIED.
Wills •ooii.—hi Kan Frauclaco. September iisth, at
the rtmileme of the bride's father, Uapt. George X
Wood, by Bey. A J. Wella, Mil. Ueobok F. Witu, of
Honululu, to MlwMattie A. Hood, of Ban Fnnclaco.
DIED.
-lii tliiH i-ity, on October Hrd. Elsie, in('. mid a
luilra Stratemeyer, aged
1 year tod 2 month*.
Hebbrbt—lu Uils city. Oct. I, Fa, auk K. Bekbfkt, aged
about 41 years a native of Hyduey, N. 8. W.. for many
yean a resident of the Islands. Hyduey papers please
copy.
L.bhuan.—ln this ctty, October 6th, Alice Maud. only
daughter of William Ldshman, aged 10 months and 'ii
Sthatkmi.vkk

i'aiit daughter of George

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days.

Clifford —At her residence in Honolulu, after a
with Chrlntlau fortitude, Mrs. E. Waihu Cliffobd, wife
of O. a. Clifford, Esq., In the 63d year of her age
Deceased waa a native of Tahiti, and came to theae
Inland*, in IH4H. of which she haa been
ever alnce a reaident. Khe leaves a fond husband and daughter, and a
large circle of friends who mourn her loaa.
Coney In tbla city oil the Oct. Uth at hla
—'ifft,
from paralysis, J. H. Comet, a native ofNew York City
aged 60 years and 4 montha. Deceased held the position
of Sheriff of the Island of Hawaii for 1h years and waa
nnlveraally esteemed and respected. Heleave** a loving
wife, two aona and four daughters to mourn hia loaa.
HT Ban Francisco paper* please copy.
Wood—Suddenly on Oct. 2*l, on board the schooner
Kapiolanl whilst leaving llonolnln harbor for Ewa.
John C. Wood of this city, aged 62 years.
Hobnblowep—ln tbla city, Oct. 18th, of pneumonia,
William Hobnblowkr, a native of London, England!
aged about 67 year*. Deceaaed. who waa generally known
aa " Benny," arrived in tbla city about the year 1833, In
company with ('apt. Joseph Maugban. and shortly after
entered, as apprentice, the employ of the late JameaRob
Inaon, ship-builder, and continued to reside In this city
up to the time of hisdeath. Deceaaed waa a aon-ln-law
of the late Andrew Anld, and father of Mrs. Thomas E
Clark, of Klpahnln, Maul.
Sheldon—lnDan vers, Mass., on the 15thof September,
Mra. Nancy K. Sheldon, aged 78 years and 17 days. The
deceased waa the mother of H. L. Sheldon, Eaq., former
editorof the P. C. Advkbtiseb, and waa universally loved and respected by the community In which she fievd.
painful ill new* of Mix year* duration, which aba bore

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THK FRIEND.
EDITOR ABROAD-No. 8.
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GERMANY.

Having been detained longer than we anticipated in the German Capital on the
morning of July 9th, we hurried away at an
early hour, over the broad and level Brandenburg plains for Central Germany. We
longed once more to look out upon hills und
mountains. We were soon .fully gratified
by such a glorious prospect as the Thuringian Forest region of Germany afforded.
Green hills, harvest-covered fields, wooded
mountains, seemed to our delighted gaze
never more exquisitely and mosaically spread
out for a charming landscape view. The
bright July sky, with all its over-shadowing
clouds, only heightened the grand prospect.
Our earth may present in many parts beautiful scenery and grand view*, and it has
been our privilege to see many of them in
various lands under most favorable circumstances; but that prospect from the summit
of the elevation, upon which Wartburg
Castle stands, where Luther was imprisoned
by his friends, certainly equals anything in
the way ol landscape scenery we ever viewed.
But we are too much carried away with our
contemplation of the country to note certain
incidents of our journey.
Our first stopping place was at Wittenburg,
and a visit to the old Monastery where
Luther found the Bible, on opening which
the text caught his eye:—'The just shall
live by faith,"—and he was led to strike the
key-note of the Reformation. Of course we
visited the old convent with all its reminders of the great Reformer,—the church
on the
where he nailed his " 9r>
doors,—the church where the Communion
was celebrated, and was partaken of in both
kinds by the people, while just outsideof the
city walls the spot is pointed out where
Luther burnt ihe Pope's Bull. At present,
Wittenburg is a most quiet, sleepy, and unlively city, especially in a hot July day.
Hence, as the sun declined, wo hurried
away to the busy, stirring and lively Univer•ity-town of Halle, where eight hundred
students resort. A thriving business is in
progress, and everything and everybody
seem awake and alive,—buildings are going
up and trade is prosperous. We had hardly
time to brush off" the dust of travel, ere a
friend, Professor Frausse, whose acquaintance we had formed in Berlin, met us and
proposed s row upon the river Saale, which
appears to be a most favorite resort of the
students and inhabitants of Haile. The
evening was most favorable, and the numerous boats on the river, with their gay lanterns and lively boating songs, indicated
that while the inhabitants of Halle might
work by day, they were fond of evening

1880.

NOVEMBER,

recreation. During our row upon the river, j fitted up this world, "decorating it as a great
we passed various points of interest, includ- Dining Hall " for its inhabitants.
But to return to Luther and his grand
ing an immensely large paper manufactory j work, as we walked along the streets of the
and an old dismantled and crumbling town, city, and visited the study where he transfrom a window out of which its lord made j lated the Bible, in the old Wartburg Castle,
a fearful leap into the river and escaped his i the words of the eloquent Edward Everett
to my mind, which we heard fall from
pursuers. Somewhat wearied, we returned | came
his lips when delivering an oration before
to our lodgings at the hotel.
the Literary Societies of Amherst College,
We must not omit to note one event of j nearly fifty years ago. Speaking of Luther,
the day which we feel quite sure will be he remarked that " he moved to his great
work, not to the Dorian mood of flutes and
longer retained in our memory than many soft recorders,' but' grasped the iron trumpet
others. We refer to a visit in corripmy with of his mother-tongue, and blew a blast that
Professor Franke to the residence of the late shook the nations from Rome to the OrkProfessor Tholuck, so deservedly and fa- i neys—sovereign, citizen, and peasant started
at the sound, and he who begged his bread
vorably known to the theological students,
for a pious cantacle in the streets of Eiseclergy and Divines of America and the nach, no longer friendless, no longer solitary,
world It whs our privilege to visit his was courted by princes, &c.'?
While visiting the •' old study " in the
study, where so much hard and scholarly
and looking out upon thaf most
Wartburg,
track hud been done. His library of 14,000
view of hills and dales,
charming
panoramic
volumes stiTl remains upon the shelves as he
cultivated fields, and wooded regions, we
left it. Some of his manuscripts are could not but reflect upon the lasting fame
still upon his desk or table, where he stud- j which the mere translation of the Bible into
ied. We walked under the vine covered j the vernacular of a people would impart to
particular spot. The tourist is ever pointed
arbor where he was wont to converse with a
to the cell in the old monastery, in Bethlehis visitors and take exercise. We confess hem, where the great Jerome translated the
such places have a far greater attraction and Bible into the " Vulgate," while we always
fascination for us than battle-fields and arse- were wont to look with a sort of veneration
Key. Mr. Bingham's old study in
nals. Through the politeness of Professor upon the
with its sharp
and adobe walls,
Honolulu,
Franke we were introduced to Mrs. Tholuck, j which have now given roof
to a beautiful
place
who is, in a most delightful manner, execu- dwelling built after the modern style.
ting certain wishes and bequests of her laic ! Leaving Eisenach, we passed through
husband, respecting the education of young Gotha, Weimar, Jena, to Leipsig, another
theological students preparing (or the Chris- University city of Germany. German Uniform a marked feature in the social,
tian Ministry. She is a lady of genuine j versities
literary, and theolooioil affairs of
political,
refinement and rare excellence, whose pres- this great Empire. So far as possible, we
ence in any society would impart a charm aim to make them a subject of study, comand influence eminently becoming and dc- i paring them with institutions of a similar
sirable. We would merely add, that ouri nature in other parts of the world. While
sojourning there for a short season, it was
friend, Prolessor Fmnke, in addition to his i
our good fortune to meet at the hotel with
other labors, has recently translated and that remarkable scholar and explorer, Dr.
published a memoir, in German. i;f the late Schliemann, whose name has been so idenPresident Finney, of Oberlin College, Ohio. tified with the explorations of Troy. He is
preparing
Just before leaving Halle, we visited the residing this summer in Leipsig,
publication, this autumn, a new book on
celebrated Protestant Orphanage, founded ; for
Troy, and his explorations. In the preface,
about the close of the 17th century, through i he designs to present his opinion upon the
thepiou*effbrts of the Philanthropist Franke, | proper study of the Greek language, for he
and which has for nearly 200 years been [ thinks that students spend altogether too
the Greek, as a
sustained and rendered so eminently useful much time over
dead language, whereas he believes that a
to thousands of those left orphans. There ; young student should be taught to spe.ik
was much in Halle and its environs which it in two years, and read the language
attracted our attention, but off we hurried fluently and readily. His book will appear
to Eseinach that we might spend a quiet simultaneously in Leipsig, London, New
York, i-.arper and Brothers will be the
Sabbath amid the early home and haunts of
New York publishers. It is certainly a most
Luther. It was there that he was admitted noteworthy fact that in the latter half of the
to the Cotta family, there he officiated as a nir.eteenth century an individual is to be
choir-boy, and there, confined in the Castle I found who could carry out a system ol sucof Wartb'urg, he translated the Bible into cesslul explorations in parts of the world
German. Of course we visited all these where Grecian, Roman, and other civilizations have for centuries maintained their
places, while on the bright Sabbath morning supremacy.
we worshiped in the old church where
From Leipsig we passed to Dresden,
Luther once sang. The preacher discoursed Prague in Bohemia, Vienna in Austria,
upon the feeding of the five thousand, and in when we commenced our return westward,
the course of his remarks upon God's care spending a few days in the vicinity of Saltzfor His creatures, remarked that God had burg and Munich.

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men and others, strangers, who come to folio W8:
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reside, seeking health and for other purBritain
281
The Y. M. C. A. meets the third Thurs-1 poses. A few of them from habit or princi- Great
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France
day of every month, at the Lyceum, for ple attend the church services and after a Germany, with 8,035 members, 113
business and discussion. All interested in time perhaps connect themselves with
293
libraries, 20,710 volumes
Y. M. C. A. work are cordially invited to church or other societies. But the far larger Holland
400
attend.
proportion, even if church-goers at home, Switzerland
80
List or Omenta and Stakdino Committees or the are not here invited, and easily fall into the
121
Switzerland, German speaking
Y. M C. A.
Prttlrlent. Dr. 1. M. Whitney ; Vict President, E. C. loose ways of the country, stay away, grow Sweden
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Reading Room Committee- -X Duntcouibe.
ment nnd recreation only, or fall into sin of Italy, Spain and Austria
10
Editor—Wm. R. Oaitlt, Editor of tbt Hth pige of The
various kinds, of which our state of society India
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Frienii for this quarter
Chinese Minion Committee—Rev. 8. C. Dimon, H. affords peculiar opportunities. Those whose
5
Syria
Waterhiiuae, J. B. Atbertnn, Rev. (.'. M. Hyde
Entertainment Committee—W lllism (). Smith. T. 11. homes are in the islands, who arc acquaint9
and Hawaii
Japan
Africa,
Da villi.
ins and outs of Hawaiian life, Australasia
13
Employment Committee—8. D. Dole, E. Dunlcombe, ed with the
who know the temptations spread out for the United Stntes and Canada
11 V Dllliii K liiin
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Committee to Villi the Hospital and Prison -n C.
passions, are gravely responsible for many
1..-.-S. E. Dempate, W. W. Hall, for 0 M. Hyde.
Committee of Early MeetlUK at Fort-atrett Chltrrh -I>r. of the sins of omission of our young men
The Chinese Church on FortJ. M Whitney. O. 0. Lett.
and strangers. It is indeed time that a rei, s making rapid progress and will
s
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A contemporary speaks sharply of newed life was impelled through our various soon be ready for occupmcy. It ought to
be too small for its audience before very long.
•the Honolulu Young Men's Christian Asso- societies and organizations.
ciation, and yet accords to it some life.
CT7* The last steamer mail brings the Much and good work opens up to be done
There is both truth and misrepresentation in "Year Book" of the international Committee among this large class of people.
its statements. It is truly a matter of re- of the "Young Men's Christian Associations"
There is some prospect that a lady
gret, that the meetings do not call out more for the year 1880-81. It is an exceedingly
whose
whole heart and soul is in the
of the membership; that strangers and interesting pamphlet of 125 pages, contain- Chinese work, and whose
tongue speaks
others not members are not allured by the ing annual reports of the secretaries (or vatheir difficult language, may be induced to
prospect of a pleasant evening, to come to rious departments for the world. The comShe is
these meetings. In fact they are more use- pilation is the work of the International become one of our earnest workers.
New York, but negotiations
in
at
present
ful than our critic would have us believe. Committee having its headquarters in New have been pending which, it is hoped, may be
It is not proposed to deny that in some York City. By this interesting report, a successful
in bringing her out.
respects there is a lack of life in this society. slight glance is furnished of the splendid
No apology is offered, nor excuse. It is the work doing, the world over, by this large
An advertisement still continues,
fact, and the young men of the churcites and important branch of Christian workers. "church for sale," in our papers, but so far
and those without who are not connected Although the name is "International," the no stone has been laid for the new Kaumawith other organizations for Christian work, work reported relates particularly to the kapili Church. This new building ought to
ought to connect themselves with this United States and Canada. But some sta- be an example of church architecture for
society and see to it, that it becomes a tistics are furnished of the "Central Interna- our tropical clime, something at once simliving and active force in the community. tional Committee" of the world having its ple,
and so cool, that it alone will
It is true that our association is not dead, headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
invite.
for, as our contemporary says, we are doing,
The work specially connected with the
At one time, some years ago, there
or trying to do some active work among reports set forth in this "Year Book" is excertain classes of the community. It is but ceedingly interesting and varied.
were several vigorous Sunday schools about
just to the association and of interest to the
In statistics a few figures will be interest- the suburbs of the town, at Waikiki, Manoa,
Pauoa, and elsewhere, conducted by our
public that this be known. There are com- ingmittees of the society which visit and minisFifty-eight associations own buildings val- young people. Where are these schools
ter to those in prison and in the hospital; a ued at $2,400,000; 146 own libraries worth now ? And where are the young people or
committee also furnishes public entertain- S 145,500. with 150,900 volumes; 200 sus- their successors in this good work? That
ments from time to time which we believe tain courses of lectures; 61 sustain educa- work was not unsuccessful. Many of the
compare favorably with anything of the tional classes; 2.'io keep open reading rooms, scholars at those schools are to-day engaged
kind offered in town. They are not for of which 141 report an average daily attend- in honest trades in town, and are the fathers
mere amusement, but are intended, and it is ance of 10,126; 120 have bible classes for and mothers of respectable families, living,
beiieved that they do offer real food for the young men only; 59 report such classes for in some degree at least, according to the
public mind. These are certainly depart- both sexes; 400 hold meetings in jails, hos- teaching at their little schools.
ments of work which are sustained and very pitals and elsewhere; 46 report Sunday
Oneof the most difficult of the probproperly belong to such a society. But the schools conducted by their members; 107
above is not offered.by way of boasting, we hold open air meetings.
blems in our island, social and religious life
are too well conscious of the fact that we
The International Committee has 26 sec- is the demon of feeling by the natives
are not an energetic wedge pushing irresist- retaries employed in work among railroad against foreigners. It is not to be wondered
ably which ever way pointed. We are sad- men, and work for them is doing at 72 at, that such feeling should exist, when a
ly aware tbat ss a rule the monthly meet- points. There are 96 College Y. M. C. A.'s, nation feels itself fading away before a
ings of the association are exceedingly lan- and 73 associations have furnished employ- stronger, but it must be extinguished or conguid ; that thsre is much important work ment to 8,473 needy persons. Special work trolled in individuals -f they desire any real
which is left undone by us, and is not done has been commenced among the blacks in the progress. This feeling just now threatens
by other benevolent and Christian societies Southern States, work which has long been the proceedings instituted by natives themof the place. These facts should stimulate considered necessary by the southern asso- selves to enquire into the conduct of one of
a renewal of activity. There is a very im- ciations.
the native pastors./ Iff the map be honest
A secretary devotes all of his time to work ancj true, he 1 ought sternly to frown down
portant branch which perhaps belongs to an
association of this character more than to among the large class known as commercial such feeling and insist on a rigorous con.
any other; this is work among tbe young travelers.
tinuation of thit examination that he may
men and strangers. Honolulu and the
So far as reported the number of Young come out like burnished gold from the fire,

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