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THE FRIEND.
HONOLULU.

Volume 47.

DECEMBER. 1889.

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CONTENTS.
National

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Material Progress Among Hawaiians.
/An important document has just been
published by the Minister of the Interior,
giving tabulated statements of the whole
number of registered voters for Representatives, and of those lor Nobles.
'These are also divided between the different nationalities. By these tables it
appears that there are about 1,500 voters
for Representatives, of whom one-fifth,
or about 3,000, are electors of Nobles.
possessing $iio ) income or $3,000 in unincumbered property.
The very interesting and important
fact appears, that of these 2,097 electors
of Nobles not less than 1,005, or 35.51
per cent, are of Hawaiian blood. In this
is a most gratifying assurance of the
immense progress of the Hawaiian people in wealth and earning capacity, and
in the high degree of intelligence and
character which these imply. It is true
that the proportion of capable Hawaiians is shown to be still much behind
that of the white races. But it is wonderful and most encouraging that they
are pushing up so fast towards the white
level.
By inspection of the tables we discover what is not shown in them—that
of the whole number of Hawaiian voters
11.41 per cent, vote for nobles, while of
the foreign voters 36.69 per cent, can
vote for Nobles. That is, nearly onethird as large a proportion of Hawaiians
are acquiring property as of the foreigners. This is certainly a very fair showing for the native people, when we con-

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sider the enormous advantages which fresh trades, the aeronaut dangling be-

foreigners have possessed for acquiring low his parachute. When passing King
trades and professions, as well as in street he left the balloon, descending
their home training in civilized living very slowly. Hurrying seaward with

and effort. Now that the Hawaiians
are being educated in manual training
schools, as well as so many successful
artisans among them able to instruct
others, an accelerated progress in earning capacity is to be expected.
Still further figuring develops an interesting fact in respect to Hawaiian
voters of foreign parentage, who by the
way are only 1.3 per cent, of the whole.
It is commonly understood that the dc
scendents of white men degenerate in
warm climates. It would seem that in Hawaii they improve, for the tables show
that 71.43 per cent, of them have reached
the required property qualification, compared with the above given 36.64 per
cent, of all foreign voters.
Is this fact due to the high standard
of education in our white schools and
churches ?
The Portuguese constitute 19.26 per
cent, of the voters for Representatives,
but only 4.77 per cent, of the voters for
Nobles ; only 5.09 per cent, of them
have the required property qualification.
Most of them are entirely illiterate, and
unskilled laborers. 'They will rapidly
improve in condition. 'Their children
will be educated, and may be expected to
attain good circumstances. 'The largest
ratio of Noble voters, 82.09 pe r cent., is
among the British.
The Americans
stand next at 81.86 per cent., and Germans at OS.4G.
It is evident from the above facts that
the Hawaiians possess an overwhelming
ascendency in the choice of representatives, as well as a most influential vote
for nobles, and that foreigners can maintain an effective share in the govern
ment only by wise counsel and worthy
conduct. There can be little doubt,
however, that a majority of those intelligent Hawaiians who are qualified to
vote for Nobles will usually feel the same
interest in competent government that
is felt by intelligent whites, and will
unite with the latter to secure it.
The figures given are from the registration of two years ago. There has
probably been 'no great change in the
relative ratios during that time.

Discarding Life-Preservers.
Our city experienced a painful shock
two weeks ago in seeing B daring parachute jumper suddenly swept to a watery
grave. We witnessed it, like almost all
the people of the town. The balloon
over the town with
the
swent
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the crowd, we saw him carried past the
shore and far out to sea. In a few moments more he plunged into the combing waves and disappeared at a point at
least a mile outside the reef. Two boats
were making for the spot, but near two
miles away. Everyone said he had a
life preserver, and no apprehension
seemed to be felt. 'The Sydney steamer
was coming in, and we hurried home to
close our mail. Going down with it two
hours after, a sober-looking group of
men told us the daring jumper had not
been found. And we soon learned the
fatal fact that at the last moment he had
diseariled his life-preserver as a troublesome impediment.
'There is little question that had he
worn the life-preserver, Joseph Lawrence's life would have been saved. He
would easily have survived until the
boats had reached him. It was the impetuosity, the impatience—we would be
gentle and not say the folly—of youth
that sent him unequipped, unarmed, unsustaiiK-d to a certain and sudden death.
A friend told us that he stood by and
saw him throw aside that on which his
safety depended. He felt like urgently
interfering, and almost reproached himself for not having done so. The poor
boy had no thought of drifting out to
sea. He was certain that he should
alight on land.
We cannot help thinking of a young
man we know who is impetuously discarding the restrictions of purity and
launching out on a life of pleasure. We
know another who is impatiently casting
away the impediment of strict honesty
while he is soaring up towards expected
wealth. Another youth is recklessly
despising a mother's entreaties. No
apron-strings for him. Another is evading his father's experienced counsel.
And so what a throng of hapless young
men there is all round us in this city,
rushing jubilantly—whither? Oh the
graves of ruin that are fast engulfing so
many of our choice and promising youth.
They have thrown away their life-preservers ! Can we say or do anything to
arrest their mad flight to death? "Oh,
that is all right," they will cheerily reply to you, and off they go, and by-andby you hear of a drunkard's &rave, and
a gambler's grave, ola suicide, and of a
murder, and of shattered reputations and
ruined homes, and broken hearts.
And some of them or their associates
will read this and befoul us for a
missionary and puritanical Pharisee!

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THE FRIEND.
Morning Star News.

The Morning Star came into port
most unexpectedly Monday afternoon,
November IS; about three o'clock. As
she steamed steadily onward it was evident that no damage to the vessel had
interrupted the voyage. She was not
expected to be back in Honolulu before
the first of May. 'Those who went out
to meet her, and saw the missionary
ladies, Miss Crosby and Miss Ingersoll,
sitting on the deck, wan and weak, did
not need to ask why the Star had been
sent back. The ladies were speedily
taken ashore, medical examination made,
and it was a relief to learn that while
Miss Ingersoll might find it advantageous to remain in Honolulu a little
time before going on to the States, Miss
Crosby's illness was not so serious as to
prevent her taking the steamer Australia
on the succeeding Eriday, and getting
into a more invigorating climate as soon
as possible.
Both of the missionary ladies were
suffering from nervous troubles. The
constant rainfall on both Ponape and
Kusaie, with the intense heat of the
tropic sun, is most debilitating, even to
vigorous constitutions. Miss Smith,
who came up from Kusaie, to care for
the invalids on the voyage, will return
to her woik in the girls' school, on the
return trip of the Star.
This interruption of the voyage is a
serious matter in view of the impossibility of accomplishing the missionary
work that must be done, as well as the
large expense involved. It costs about
fifty dollars a day to run the Star, and
ten months barely suffice to take the
vessel down and through the various
groups of islands and back again to
Honolulu in season to refit for the next
year's trip. The Star sails nearly 1 1,000
miles each year, and to accomplish this
distance in time, must steam about onefifth of the ten months allotted.
To get back in season, the plan for a
general meeting in the Gilbert Islands
of the various missionaries for this year
cannot be carried out. All that can be
done is probably to land supplies and
bring up orders from the Hawaiian missionaries. The Marshall group is in
charge of native catechists, and they
must be yisited and supplied this year,
however hurriedly.
Rev. Mr. Walkup was left at Nonouli,
on the Gilbert Islands group, on the outward voyage of the Star, August 21.
He had with him one of the boys from
his training school, whom he had
brought to Honolulu. His intention was
to visit what other islands he might be
able to reach before the Star should
come back from the West to pick him
up and bring him to Honolulu. Not
until the Star had left him, was it known,
that two Catholic priests were on the
island, and that last April a fracas had
occurred between some of their adherents in an altercation with the Gilbert

Island Catechist who had been previously stationed on the island. The parties
had come to blows, but the timely arrival of the priest had prevented a general
scrimmage.
Rev. J. H. Mahoe, of Koloa, who had
been sent down as a special delegate to
the Mission, of which he was formerly
a member, was left with his little son at
Apian. Rev. M. Lutera and wife had returned to that island from Butaritari in
April, and were meeting with marked
success in their work. They had bought
a new whale boat, and made a visit to
Tarawa, baptizing many converts there.
Before the Star reached Nonouti, about
the third time the steam was started, the
iron main mast which is used as the
smoke-stack, was noticed to be red hot.
The soft coal when broken to powder,
seemed to be drawn into the smokestack to the great loss of heat, as well as
peril to the ship. Thefires were promptly drawn; but the next morning the rigging of the main mast was slack. When
this had occurred twice in succession,
investigation was made, and it was found
that the iron mast was completely eaten
away at the bottom and was settling
down. On arriving at Kusaie, Capt.
Garland cut some long spars in the
woods. With these he lowered the mast
on deck, and then the engineer, with
such tools as he had, cut off five feet
and more of the mast, replaced, riveted
it anew, and made the necessary connections. It was carefully and skillfully
done, and no further trouble was experienced. Some of the boiler tubes
have been repaired here, and the Slar will
probably sail next Monday or Tuesday
to resume and complete her annual voyage for this season, coming back again,
it is planned, about the first of May.
The veteran, Rev. E. T. Doane, on
Ponape, works vigorously for a man of
seventy years; but the strain must tell
upon him, strong as he is, anxious to
spend his days even to the last in work
for his beloved people. Miss Palmer
has been unusually well.
Rev. Mr.
Eorbes landed his goods on Ponape, but
returned to Kusaie, where he had been
obliged to leave Mrs. Eorbes in Dr.
Pease's care for medical treatment.
They were planning to take up their
abode on Ponape, when the Star next
went west.

Dr. Pease and wife on Kusaie were
somewhat fatigued from the incessant
care they had taken for months, night
and day, of Miss Crosby. Miss Little,
left alone with twenty-eight girls to
look after, will gladly welcome back
Miss Smith, associated with her in care
of the school.
Rev. Mr. Snelling was planning to
leave Mrs. Snelling and Mrs. Logan
alone on Ruk, while Capt. Worth and
he in the open mission boat made a tout
through the Mortlocks. It seems too
much of a risk to venture, both for those
at sea, and those left on the island, as
we see things at this distance. Mrs.

Logan, with her girls, was occupying
the house built for Mr. and Mrs. Treiber.
The Star brought to Honolulu, the
captain and crew of the bark T. L. Sweat,
of Portland, Me., bound from Newcastle,
N. S.W., with coal for Hongkong, and
wrecked April 9, on the Susanna reef.
The ship went to pieces almost immediately,and the crew reached Polowot Island
with only the clothes they wore. Capt.
Gooding foi nd his way to Ruk. The
mission boat was sent back for the crew,
who were brought to the mission station,
and kept there till .September. Then
and they were taken in the boat to Ponape,
thence brought to Honolulu by the Star.
The Spanish soldiers who have taken
possession of Ponape, have brought only
degradation, disease and death to the
native inhabitants. The faithful preaching of the Gospel by the Protestant missionaries and their warnings against the
evils of intemperance and licentiousness,
had checked the downward course of
Ponapeans. But priest and soldier say,
"Don't believe what these Protestant
missionaries say. There is no harm in
doing what you like to do." And so
the good work of rescue and reform that
had begun is stopped, and the endeavor
seems to be to find the depths of immorality to which human beingscan sink.
Some good photographs of scenes in
Micronesia were taken by the second
mate of the Star. The negatives ought
to be secured for printing these views,
for which there will probably be quite a
demand both here and in the States.
Three Christian Marshall Islands
chiefs were present at the Calvary Presbyterian Church prayer meeting, Nov. 6.
They had came to San- Erancisco to examine the worship and work of American churches. They sang in their own
language "Wonderful Words of Life,"
and their presence at the meeting on
such an errand, awakened fresh interest
in the possibilities of Christian achievement among the Islanders of the Pacific.
Very little has been done on Ponape
in cultivation of the land. Notwithstanding the exuberant verdure, the soil
is very shallow, the enormous rainfall
washing away all depth of soil.
A Portuguese, who was induced by
false representations to take his family
from Honolulu to Jaluit, has turned up
on Ponape. He wanted to get some
land belonging to the mission, to carry
out his plan of building a saloon. So
he represented himself to be a member
of Fort Street Church. But it did not
avail. The Spanish governor has refused to recognize any title of the mission to the land which he has taken for
his headquarters. The saloon is built
near the Spanish stockade, and the officers take their meals there.
Skin diseases of various kinds are
prevalent on Ponape; but no case of
lepro was seen by Dr. Ingersoll until a
few weeks before her departure, a man the
presented himself for treatment with unmistakeable marks of that dread malady.

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Volume 47, No. 12.]
Romanist Competition in the Gilbert

Islands.
It transpires by the arrival of the
Morning Star that this process, which
was to have been sooner expected, has
begun. A serious collision had already
occurred between the Protestant and
Romanist parties. We are not informed
who was most to blame. Probably both
were in fault. The people, although
partially Christianized, retain much of
their ancient violence of disposition.
The Protestant native catechist was
much injured, and only escaped death
through the interposition of the white
Romish priest, on whose sincere humanity we do not wish to throw needless
doubt, although he must have .known
that the death of the catechist at his adherents' hands would have brought him
into trouble with the Protestant German
some
government, which exercises
authority in that group.
We wish to avoid bigotry. With all
the terrible faults of practice and errors
ot doctrine which characterize the Roman Church, we recognize with admiration and brotherly love the pure character and holy lives of many of her priests
and her laity. While we believe that
the great body of her people are in
spiritual darkness, we believe that man}'
do arrive at true spiritual and saving
union with God through Jesus Christ,
especially among Romanists in Protestant lands, where the priesthood are
compelled to come nearer to Gospel
truth, and the people imbibe such truth
from the Bible atmosphere around them.
In the face of the deadly hostility and
unsparing denunciation by the Roman
Church towards all Protestantism, we
are glad to have become able to exercise
thus much of Christian charity towards
her priesthood and laity.
We cordially recognize the missionary
heroism of her laborers among the
heathen and the undivided devotion of
so many of them to their work. While
we regard their average work as coming
far short of a true evangelization, yet, as
in these Islands, where Protestant competition drives them up to a high educational srandard, they often greatly
elevate the people out of savagery towards Christian civilization and purity
of living.
At the same time, we look with a regret which we are at no pains to conceal, at the introduction into the Gilbert

97

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Islands of an avowedly hostile and ac"
tively subversive agency of great power
and activity just at the period when the
long-delayed triumph of Christian peace
and order is being gained in nearly all
parts of that very savage group. The
Protestant agency there is not a strong
one. There are half-a-dozen Hawaiian
ministers of limited education, none of
them men of special leadership. There
is a considerable number of native catechists trained in Mr. Walkup's school
in Kusaie. One devoted and active
white man is doing perhaps his last
work in superintending and directing.
It surely ought not to be a difficult task
for a band of Romanist priests, easily
subsisting where married white men
cannot keep their wives, to crowd out
the Protestant work and take possession
of the ground. Happily, the people have
the New Testament and much ofthe Old,
and some other Protestant literature
for we reckon the Bible as the most efficient of all Protestant books. So do the
Romanists; for they never print the
Bible for the heathen, and generally burn
it when they dare to.
It has become very much the fashion
especially among the secular papers,
which love to propitiate the Catholic
voters, to exalt the missionary zeal and
heroism of the Catholic priesthood as if
superior to that of Protestants. We
wish, therefore, to call special attention
to the fact that, in Oceanica, if not in
other pagan lands, the Roman Catholics
have never been the pioneers in evangelization. They have always waited
until the Protestants have Christianized
the heathens and secured social order,
and then they come in and strive to
share the harvest, which they have not
planted, reaping where they have not
sown. 'The only exceptions to this that
we know are where Papal governments
such as the Spanish or French have
forcibly subdued the savages and so
facilitated the work of their clergy.
In this there is doubtless an economy
of force and of means. It is a cheap
way of making conquest. But, if heroism is in question, then honor the Protestant pioneers who, for three-quarters
of a century, have been breaking ground
among savage tribes in Oceanica; and
still they are penetrating fresh realms of
darkness, in New Guinea, Melanesia,
and the western Carolines. Thither,
doubtless, the Roman priest will follow
them with missal and rosary, as he does

—

everywhere else, after the conquest is
made and the bodily peril is past.
With all this, we might be content if
Romanism came to lift the people into a
higher life. Unhappily, it comes to the
lately evangelized heathen to place a
yoke upon him of subjection to an Italian
priest. It comes to veil the beaming
face of Christ in a dense and murky fog
of incense to Mary and the saints, and
of homage to an almost omnipotent
priesthood. It comes as the invariable
ally of absolutism and of antagonism to
Liberal Government. It is one of the
chief retarding factors in the world's
progress towards the day of Him who
will reign in Righteousness.
And yet, like the Jewish priesthood
of Pilate's day, these men verily think
that they alone are serving God. We
can only work on, striving to imitate the
patience of Him who, for near nineteen
centuries, has borne with all obstacles
so patiently. The day of His triumph
seems to be approaching.
A dwarf can catch just as big a cold
a giant.
Some people are like a rocking-horse
full of motion, but no progress.
When a young man starts out for a
drink and passes an old drunkard on the
way, he can see just how he is likely to
look himself in a few years.
He is below himself who is not above
an injury.
Life is too short to be spent in minding other people's business.
Revenge is the pleasure of a small
and narrow mind.
Poverty soon overtakes laziness in the
race of life.
Truth is stronger than error, righteousness is stronger than evil, life is
stronger than death.
Always to indulge our appetites is to
destroy satisfaction.
He who is false to the present duty
breaks a thread in the loom and will find
the flaw when he may have forgotten the
as

cause.

Last I knew, you were deep in the
Mind Cure.
So I was. That was last week. Now
I'm in the Faith Cure. I've found out
about both. The difference is, in the
Mind Cure you don't require any faith;
in the Faith Cure you don't require any
mind. The Eaith Cure just suits me.
Chas. Dudley Warner.

—

Wherever the tree of benevolence takes
root, it sends forth branches above the
sky.
Great wealth in our journey through
life is only extra baggage, and wants a
heap of watching.

98
Letter From Gen. Marshall.
Honolulu, Novembers, 1889.
Rev. S. E. Bishop,
Editor of The Friend.
Dkar Sir:— In your kindly notice
in your November issue of our return to
Hawaii nei after an absence of thirty-one
years, you say that after my mission to
Europe in 1843 I returned to the Islands
and started the Lihue plantation. I regret to say that I cannot claim that distinction. The Lihue plantation was
started in 1849 by Henry A. Peirce,
William L. Lee and Charles R. Bishop.
Of this enterprising trio, Mr. Bishop is
now the sole survivor. I purchased an
interest in the plantation later in the
same year or early in 1850, and went to
Lihue as resident partner after the first
field of cane had been planted, where I
aided in putting up the buildings and
machinery, remaining there five years,
until the plantation, with its water and
steam power, was well established. The
plantation during this time was in charge
of H. A. Widemann. My first plantation experience was ten years before that
time, when, in 1839, in company with J.
J. Jarves, the author of Jarves' history
of the Hawaiian Islands, I took up land
at Koloa. That land is now, I believe.
a part of the Koloa plantation, which
was started by Ladd & Co. somewhere
about the year 1836, the first sugar plantation of any note at these Islands. We
were at that time verdant youths of
twenty years, in search of health, which
the plantation life in the open air soon
brought to both of us. We were also
willing to make our everlasting fortunes
at the same time, and fully expected to
do so by the cultivation of the morns
multicaulis, and the manufacture of raw
silk. In this less important enterprise
however, we failed, and I left Koloa, to
accept a business offer at Honolulu.
Jarves however, nothing daunted by the
failure of our first venture made a heroic
effort to retrieve his fortune, and soon
wrote to me, to my astonishment, that
he had planted a field of sago, from
which he was sanguine of reaping profitable returns. .But as his sago obstinately refused to germinate, he too abandoned the plantation, and came to Honolulu where he started the Polynesian,
finding in journalism a more congenial
and satisfactory field of labor.
In revisiting the scenes and surviving
friends of our early married life at these
islands, we are realizing the long cherished hopes of our later years. The
My

[December, 1889

THE FRIEND.
cordial greeting we have received from

Pearl Lochs.

acknowledged. We are amazed and
delighted beyond expression at the wonderful progress and prosperity ol which
we see the evidences on every hand.
And I am especially gratified to see that
both Koloa and Lihue, the scenes of my
own brief plantation experiences, have
had their full share in the general prosperity. May no untoward events occur
to retard Hawaiian progress.
Yours faithfully,
J. !•'. B. Marshall,

There seems now to be a definite
prospect of an early development of the
large estates which the Oahu Railway
and Land Co. have acquired around
Pearl Lochs and beyond, ensuring the
creation of a large paying traffic for the
road in addition to that already existing.
It also insures the speedy extension over
the road to the projected sugar lands ot
Honouliuli. Every added mile increases
the beauty of the route, and we hope,
the profits of the enterprising proprietor
of the road. Should, as hoped, the
American Government proceed soon to
the removal of the bar and construction
of a naval depot, Pearl Lochs will become a region of stirring activity.

both old and new friends is gratefully

Central Union Church Building.
Mr. Bordwell, an able architect from
San Francisco, has visited and conferred
with the church committees, and will
soon remit full plans and particulars for
the construction of a stone edifice in
accordance with the ground plan adopted
after long consideration. Over six hundred sittings are provided in the auditorium, with Sunday-school and other
apartments of proportionate capacity
upon the same floor. It is probable that
the stone will be colored vesicular basalt
from the Kamehameha quarries. 'This
resists lire, and is readily and finely
cut. Some $75,000 have been subscribed,
with need of much more for such a stone
building as is contemplated. It promises to be an ornament to the city. We
trust that it may be a place in which we
and those who come after us shall truly
and humbly worship God, feed upon his
word, and grow in all grace and good
works.
Oahu Railway.

Together with 3,600 other people, we
are indebted to the Oahu Railway Co.
for a delightful trip on the 16th, over its
road as far as to Aiea, nine miles. We
have since taken tickets and a ride one
mile farther, to Kalauao. 'Two or three
weeks more ought to open traffic to the
Manana station. Every mile of the advance grows more interesting. A deep
cut admits the road into Kalauao valley
(or Crowow, as an old voyager printed
it). We did the twenty miles there and
back in an hour and a half, picking up
the King and his party, band, etc., on
our return. They had been calling at
the pretty place which Mr. S. M. Damon
is creating out of the mud-flats of Mo
analua. " Kamu," as the Hawaiians call
him, is not going to show any back-yard
unsightliness to passing trains, but a
highly improved and beautified series of
fishponds and terraces.

—Rev. J. M. Caldwell, pastor of the
Oakwood Boulevard Methodist Church,
reported, to the edification of his brethren
at the Methodist ministers' meeting, the
results of his investigation of Christian
Science as a creed. To thoroughly satisfy
himself, he had attended a course of
twelve lectures given by a prominent exponent of Christian Science, as that
doctrine is held in this city, and taken
copious notes. He affirms that the name
Christian, as applied to such a belief, was
a fraud. He considered the name science
as applied to such teachings as he heard,
to be also a fraud. In the twelve lectures
attended, the speaker ignored facts, perverted logic, misstated history, coined
phrases and alleged facts. He cited a
number of cases ofdeaths and of insanity
which were due to belief in the pernicious
doctrines of Christian Science, so-called.
Chicago Interior.

—

Argue not
Againit Heaven's hand nr will, nur bate a jot
Of li.-nrt nr hope; l"il still liear up and steer
Righl miw.ml.
John Milton.
Mfrk souls there aie wlui little il.-in
Their ilaily utrife an angel** ilreare.
Ktblt.

Good consciences breed good resolutions.
A little force will 1 leak that which
was cracked 'before.
Albert (age eleven): "Pa, give me a
nickel.'' Pa (severely )," Don't you think
you are too old to lug (or a nickel ? Albert (reflecting), "'That's so; Pa, give
me a dime.''
Man does not know all, 'The unassuming porcupine can give the smartest
man

on earth many points.

God, the great Father of all, has given
of his children such a property
in the things of this world but that he
has also given his needy biother a right
in the surplusage of his goods, so that it
cannot justly be denied him when his
pressing wants call for it. folio Locke.
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Volume 47, No. 12.]
Wilcox Acquitted.
Robert W. Wilcox, the leader of the
insurrection of July 30th, was acquitted
by a jury of Hawaiians, after two pro
tracted trials, the first of which was
broken off by the mis'onduct of a juryman. His guilt was absolutely proved
by the testimony, including his own,
nearly the same evidence as that upon
which Albert Loomens had previously
been promptly convicted of treason by a
white jury. We do not think that the
native jury intended to commit an act of
injustice, although from the point of
view of the white man, and of a large
body of intelligent natives, they were
greatly in error. Three of themselves
were for conviction.
Aleading element which seems to have
turned the minds of the jury, was the
quite well established fact, that the King
was himself in complicity with Wilcox,
who was acting really for the King to
destroy the present system of government by the Legislature and its appointees, and to restore the King's formerly
nearly absolute power. Like the old
Jacobites, to the minds of most Hawaiians, whatever is done by the King and
for the King, is legitimate, and cannot
be treasonable.
Added to this, was a wide-spread sentiment, which had been diligently worked
up, that the present government was one
usurped by the foreigners, in subversion
of the rights of the natives. A race question was made to enter into the merits of
the case. Altogether it became in the
minds of a majority of the jury a political
question, and farther, a national and patriotic one, in which an obligation to side
with Hawaiians seemed paramount to
their duty of judging according to the
law and the evidence.
It can hardly be doubted, if the Revo
lution of June 30, 1887, had come to
issue of battle, and had failed, and its
leaders had been tried for treason by a
white jury, that they would have been
similarly acquitted, in the face of all law
and evidence, and this amid general applause. It is true, that in the view of
most white men. that Revolution was
justified and necessitated by the baseness and corruption of the old regime;
and it became established law by the
general acquiescence and concurrence of
the nation. But on the other hand, as
said above, a majority of the natives adhere to their hereditary and instinctive

THE FRIEND.
loyalty to the King, through thick and
thin, right or wrong, and a native jury
votes straight on that side.
Although most of us would have preferred a conviction, and would like to
have had some penalty inflicted for the
evil act of attempting to restore a wasteful and degraded government, still there
is probably no very great regret, considering that it hail become so much a
political question, and that the moral
approbation of so large a portion of the
people could not be enlisted on the side
of justice, but was against it. Possibly
it is better as it is. There will probably
be less of anger and bitterness in the
coming electoral contest, than if further
punishment had been add d to the defeat
and distress already experienced by the
insurgents. An appeal is soon to be
made to the ballot.

Pali Road.

99
of important further use. In such a
book as this, in addition to the close restriction as to space, there are some
strict limitations imposed in deference
to differing religious and political beliefs
which would not control a historian
writing independently. Notwithstanding these limitations, we judge that a
very readable book is forthcoming as
well as one adding materially to our accessible knowledge of Hawaiian History.
After Shipwreck.—By J. A. Owen,
author of Candalaria, etc. London.
pp. 214, 12mo.
This little book, just arrived, is written
by Mrs. Owen, formerly well known in
Honolulu, and sister of Mrs. J. T. Waterhouse, Jr. It consists of nine separate
stories, which appear to have been all
drawn from the writer's personal experiences in many parts of the world. The
scenes are laid in Portugal, Panama,
Rocky Mountains, New Zealand, California, Honolulu, Germany and England,
beginning with a very realistic and vivid
story of the writer's experience of a terrible wreck by collision off the coast of
Portugal. The scene of "Tom Powers"
is laid in Honolulu. His wife becomes
a leper. Mrs. Owen fully endorses the
statements of the July Friend about
Father Damien's work.
The writer's style is such as to make
the book a very entertaining, as it is an
instructive and wholesome one.
It
ought to have a good sale in Honolulu.
It is very much above the ordinary level
of the better class of Sunday-school
books, yet is just the book for a Sundayschool library. The very best books
are, like this, written out of one's own

The new carriage road down Nuuanu
Pali has actually been commenced, and
quite a start made in blasting into the
hard cliff below the summit of the present road. It is intended to cross the
existing road at a point about halfway to
the first angle, continuing above it at an
easy grade, and following clear around
the curves of the steep mountain. The
present appropriation being only $1 0,()J0,
we learn that after joining, the present
road operations will be moved to the foot
ofthe pali, working upwards, so as to have
no unfinished work liable to fall down experiences.
upon the present road.
If you ever expect to get rich, you
must
make money when times are hard.
Lahaina Mountain Road.
Never dig your clams at high water.
After our hundreds of unpleasant
Half a loaf is better than no vacation
scrambles over the five miles of rough at all.
mountain track of Ukumehame, between
Don't hit a man when he is down; he
Lahaina and Wailuku, it is pleasant to may get up.
heat that a carriage road is actually in
Everybody in this world wants watchbut none more than ourselves.
ing,
of
construction
the
shore
process
along
The
little sticks make a pretty blaze,
palis. It has been talked of these forty
but the backlog does the solid work.
years, and once in a while an appropriIt takes heaps of whitewash to stop
ation would be made by the Legislature the knot hole in the fence.
for the purpose. As the present seems
The farmer that isn't acquainted with
to be a period when difficult roads are sunrise needs no
big barns.
actually constructed, as well as talked
It
is
to
be
a fool. One can be a
easy
of, we really hope soon to enjoy an easy
it.
fool
and
not
know
drive around the scene of our former
You cannot always tell the amount of
toils and struggles.
gas in a poem by its meter.
Prof. Alexander's School History
It is our misfortune that we mistake
of Hawaii. —This work is appioaching
shadow for the night. If a man
God's
completion. While very concise, it emstand between you and the sun, his
bodies the results of minute and careful
shadow falls upon you. So God someresearch by its accomplished author, times comes and stands between us and
Hon. W. D. Alexander. In this work, worldly successes, and his shadow falls
he has accumulated large quantities of upon us, and we wrongly think that it
material which, we hope, may become is aiehL—Talmagt.

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[December, 1889.

THE FRIEND.

18th.—The Oahu Railroad opens for
business with three daily trains, the
Nov. 2nd.—
auction sale to close road at present being completed as far
an estate, Government 6 per cent. Bonds, as Aiea.--Return <>f the Morning Star
brought $113; Paia stock, par val. SI do. with missionaries in ill-health, nnd Capt.
brought $260; Hawaiian Agricultural Gooding, officer! and crew of the bark
Co., $167.50; Ookala, $105; and Union T. L. Sweat, lost on Susanna reef April
Feed, par val. |50, brought $•>().— Bal- 9, 1888.
loon ascension and parachute jump of J.
21at.—1,050 Japanese immigrants arVan Tassell at Kapiolani Park wit- rive per steamer Yamasliiro Maru.
nessed by a large gathering of people.
22nd.—Departure of the Australia for
Concert to Felix Ollert by aid of local
San
Francisco.—Mr. C. Bolte appointed
talent at the Music Hall.
Acting Consul for Sweden and Norway.
sth.—A heavy welcome rain gives the First exhibition by the Hawaiian
growlers an excuse for their complaints Camera Club at their rooms.
againts our streets and the Road Super•Jird. Arrival of the Mariposa from
visor. Happy ducks.
San Francisco, en route for the Colonies.
6th. —Memorial services at the Roman bringing advices of the mishap by fire
Catholic church, in commemoration of to VVilder's Steamship Co.'s new boat
the death ofDom Luis, King of Portugal. Del Nortt, at the Oceanic Co.'s dock,
Francisco, just as she was loaded
Bth.—Advices from the Volcano re- San
for this port. The Mariposa brought a
lakes
and
an number of returned Honoluluans and
port much activity at the
unusual tremulous condition of things made quite a stay in port to the delight
in the neighborhood. -Gleaners' sale of her through
passengers.— Thomas
and social at Union Church parlors.
Leavitt. firemen of strainer U'nialeale.
11 12th.—More rain.—A published fell Overboard between the ship and
table of employees of the government, wharf and was drowned.
as of Aug. 31, shows that of a total of
28th.— Hawaiian Independence day
1796, 1181 are Hawaiians or Hawaiian
American Thanksgiving day; a genand
born, and 612 are foreigners.
eral holiday duly observed by both
13th.- Afternoon reception and hop nationalities. Services at the Union
on the U. S. Flagship Mohican.
Church and St. Andrew's Cathedral;
14th.—An analysis of the Great Reg- native celebration at Palama, at which
ister of the Kingdom shows that of the Gen. J. F. B. Marshall participates con
Target
2,997 voters for Nobles 1,068 were Ha- eluding with a grand luau.
Public
waiians, and 135 were Hawaiian born of practice of Honolulu Ritles.
foreign parents; there were 660 Ameri- Band concert at the Hawaiian Hotel.
cans, 550 British, 259 Germans, 1 13
Portuguese and 185 of all other nation
Marine Journal.
alities. Of the Representatives vote,
half-castes
The
natives
and
are
14,598.
9,336; Hawaiian born 189, Americans
POH
RTF ONOLULU.—NOVEMBER.
806, British 670, Germans 443, Portuguese 2,813 and all others 342. These
ARRIVALS
figures refute the charges of depriving h
brgtno Wll Irwin, McCullocl ,"l day* fruin San
Am
or
of
the
to
vote
of
right
Hawaiians
Fra .cisco.
fl Ant bk Coloma, Noves, 18 days from Portland,
crowding them to the wall.
7 Haw hk W li Godfrey. Dabel, KM day* from Puget
Sound.
15th.—Arrival of the Australia from
Am bktne S G Wilder, (■riflilhs, *2tl days from San
Francisco.
San Francisco with a large freight and IS Am bk Matilda, Howard, 4f) Hays from Burrard* Inlet.
passenger list.
Am bk Annie Johns n, F.merson, 43 day-* fi'.in New
r.tstle.
S s Attatrafla, Houdlatta, 7 daryi froM San Fran*
16th.—The King's birthday; delight- II Hawctaco,
*
holiday;
reception
General
weather.
ful
i ,yt» ft m the
II Haw R 8 Zealandia, Oterendo.p,
at the Palace from 11 a.m. till 12:15 p.m. U Am Colonic*.
Sttr,
Garland,
Miss, bktne Morning
d;iys from
M icronaaiaa.
Balloon ascension, frombaseof Punchfrom
YokoS S Yamashiro Maru, Young, 14 days
bowl, and parachute jump of J. Van 21— Jap hama.
trade
winds
from
san
Tassell; through strong
2H-Am bktne W H D.oiond, Drew, l.'-U day.
Francisco.
thereef
beyond
he
is
carried
out
blowing
days from Pan Fran
Am S S •llaripoaa. Howard,
ro.
and drops in the sea, and is drowned 20 Am cibktne
S N Castle, Hubbard, ltl day-; from S»n
FranciM <>.
or devoured by sharks. The tug Elcu
recovered the balloon, but nothing has
DEPARTURES.
been seen of the parachute or the daring
aeronaut. —Grand gratuitous excursion 2-Gerbk G N Wilcox,
for PurM Sound
for Pußrt Sound.
tern Mary Dodge,
day of the Oahu Railway Co., by Mr. 4 Am
British bk Velo< ity. Martins, for Hongkong.
Dillingham, running three special trains 6 Haw brgtne Geo H Douglas, Jacobsou,for San Fran
to Pearl River and back.—Delightful S—HawCISCO.
bk I-ady Limpson, Sodergren, for San Francisco,
bk Coloma, Noyes, for Hongkong.
concert of Prof. Sauvlet at the Music 13 Am
bk
Forest Queen. Winding, for San Francisco.
Am
Hall, with aid of our best local talent.— 18—Am
bk Annie Johnson, Emerson, for San Fian-.j-co.
Colonies,
the
Haw
S
S Zealandia, Oterendorp. for San Francisco.
Arrival of Zealandia from
20—U S S Iroquois, Bishop, for Samoi.
en route for San Francisco; Attorney- 22—' aw S S Australia,. Houdletir, for San Francisco.
S S Yamashiro Maru, Young, for Yokohama.
General Ashford takes his much needed 23—Jap
J4-Am brgtne W G Irwin, McCulloch, foi San FrancrCo.
Am S S Mariposa, Howard, for the Colonies.
change.

PASSENGERS.

Monthly Record of Events.

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From San Fraiu ,s<... pel Y. fi Irwin, Nov H X A Phillips. ( has Martin, J Inckel, I Mitchell.
Fr-.m San Francisco, per S<; Wilder, Nov 7—X. C
Nam.:nn. .* in Haniu omlie, (.' I» McCandless ami wife,
)Ii»i;i; Walkyrs, Win Kelly ami C Lnntr.
From New astlc, per Annie Johnson. Nov || Pliillii>
Kay ami Win A Kay.
Prom San Pranctsco, per Australia, Nov la | N Rollinsoii ami wife, Miss i. hoy, \.1"1, li I Me, Mis. 1. V Hop
par, W I. baOMO ami wife., X i Home', A l.ydirale, I. I»
-tencer, wifa and child, Mis I. R W. Ibridge, Carl A,neniann anc| wife, A Ii artwritdit, Jr, Mrs Geo A Ltinis,
..'.is J A Cornwall, Miss \\ icilefi hi V Mclinde, J M..r»den, tl ki.k.u.i, .\ns i'.n. ichardt and two children, Miss,
Rathbone, I. W ltareton, i< 11 Moke*. Got A Boadwell,
Saiss Alice I. larke, Mrs 1 F Lansing and two child en, Re.
\\ 11 r...riic.. Mrs F i rocker and child, (' I. Williams, J IColbniß ami wife, J Kul .■lutein. fc Bailey, Rev bather
Fernandez, Mrs lir l.merson and child, Miss H C Fierce,
|j r M X Or. in.iii, Mine M 1.. Yon Amerling, M Rcen,
HonGNWrrcos, E X Dimond and wife, H J Agnew,
Mis II Karraany and child. CarI dv Poi, X B I homm.
l-.:ac I' at i .in. ami 01 steerage.
From Micronesia, pet Morning Star, Nov IS—MleW*S
I) Smith, F I If shy, and Dl CM Ingerlol, I nptain W
Gooding, officer* and r of the crew of the wreiked Ameni .in bit I' 1. sweat.
from Yoknh m.i, per Vam.ishiro Maru, Nov 21 O C
N.ic.iy m.i .n d wile. I nut "I I'leiri, Mrs D keawe..m»hi
and two children, and 10M immigrant*.
From S n l-.tmi. o. per Marinoa*, N"V IB—Mr. J H
Alherton, Miss AlhctK.ii. I X uikett and wife C Uniinnii.
\ M, Bryde, Miss I A Mcl ryne. Henry l astle and wile.
W Uiydeii, Frank S>
IB Castle, Mis- A I union, Harry
bodge, Mis, I v., I'ait, A S llartwell, MrsM II Hard
SMIMf
wick, A Marque*. I. H Sawyer and wife, James all,
>r
and wife, l has Stratum, J I. Torbert. Chas J .v I cloAnderson and M Meant*. ..nil 116in transit for the
nics.
I'iotn San Fran. is.
per W H Uini'iid, NwtVH 0
Slel.l.ins. Sidney W «, jno Wright and mlr, and lly 1.0

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From San Fr*nci*co,
J Hurkf. (' Ml kee and II I Mills.

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pa ZaaUmdia, Nov I* f hW'slifor.l,
L Weil*, X
P H llrooksHerbert,
Jame,
wife, Allan
Podeyn, U E Wbittaker and
11...1.i, itacraga and M in transit.
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tan. i5,:,,, per Australia, Nov
I'ewk.burry and child. .Miss M.I l.owden, Miss alYouog,
and
Hatch,
child
Selig,
Iml.-y,
Mrs
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mud, Rev M C larris. Mis | Dow**tt, Sr, Mrst tosl.y,
R Miles, wile, three hildren and servant, P Neumann,
I M While. J M llrghl. J W Wahimaua. C.pt H Gooding, !< Watchmann. G Y. Harrison, W WeUMT, X May
nar.l MrsM tniiissaiil and two children, OPl'aine.lly
i;,lw.n.ls, 1,-liv Illicit. A Mann, 1> I. Mattery, J Hair,

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i;.it. he. .i and son, C S Fdison. and .'• others.
K..r Vol...llama, pal Yain.isliit.. Main. Nov B A Ken'
ncdy ami 10 Japan*** steerage.
For San Francis,.,, |ier W G Irwin, Nov 24 -F. A Phillip,, t has Martin. II V Kelley, W W Hansom, II lailey,
and W-ll I ewis.
For the I'ninnies, par Mariposa, No, 24 P Mcllryde,
II X tokes, ( h tCrorier, HinCroaer, G W Bamon. J
II t.v. a...v. P A Van I'ass.l, F Frost, Master Wright.
I has Russel, and 11(1 in transit.

Mr

BIRTHS.

Al Hilo. Hawaii, October ftfth* 10 tlie wife
Hi urit/, :i daughur.
ST RATEMEYER Ita Honolulu, Noven-l-er IHth, to the
MOURIIZ
of Dr. A.

a son.
wi'e of <-co.
SMITH In Honoulu, Kowambar Jflth, to the wife of
jas W. Sn ith, a daughter.
I.F.K In Honohilu. Nov m' Cr 2Sth, to the wifeof Fugene
Fee, ■ daughter.
ALVAREZ At Wai.ilna, on the *291h ult., to the wife of
|>r. 1. I", Alvarez, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
SIMS ROSE--In thU city, November 27th.

at the residence of Mr. s. B. Rose, by the Bishop of Olba, assisted by the Re\. Fatuer Leonor, Mr. William K. Sim*
and Mis- Katie F. R< se, both of Honolulu.
NICHOLS— SCHEURMAN—At St. Andrews'Cathedral,
in this city, November 18th, by the Rev. Aid. Mackintosh, John Nichols to Mi»s Anna Scheiiriiiaii.

DEATHS.
SMITH- In AUnvda, November 6th, W W Smith,
Co.,
brother ot George W Smiih of Benson, Smith
aged 21 years, 9 months and 3 day-.
BERGER —In Honolulu, November 16th, Herrmann Wilhelin, yi.ur.gest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Berger,
aged 7 year-, 7 monthsand 2ft days.
LAWKENCF—Drowned off Honolulu, November 16,
Joseph t awrence, born in Salt in, Ohio; aged about
26 years.

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HAWAIIAN BOABB.

hula. We are told that those of other The moderator was advised of his privinationalities are the leaders in these lege and duty of appealing to the house
HONOLULU H. I.
things, and the natives are the victims. for its decision of the issue. As a result
The Moabites and the Philistines have the moderator was sustained. But there
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Mission*, and the Editor, appointed by the come up into the land and bewitched was a heaviness upon him and upon the
Board is resp Mlsibla for its contents.
the sons and daughters of the Hebrews, entire assemblage for what had been
and caused them to fall. The native done, which argued well for their conRev. O. P. Emerson,
Editor. is without great stability of character, sciences. It lasted till the moment of
and is grievously oppressed by evil in- adjournment approached. Then the atThe presbytery of Maui and Molokai fluences which have reached him from mosphere was suddenly and happily
held its fall meeting with the church at abroad. All confess it. There are cen- cleared. The modeiator arose, and with
ters on this island (Maui) where the all his dignity of bearing and the sinLahaina, Rev. A. Pali pastor, ihe body forces of evil
are so strong that it may be cerity of his character, made a humble
was organized the afternoon ol Tues- said that the average native cannot main- statement of his regrel at what had hapday, the sth of November, with the tain his integrity, but must fall into sin. pened. The heart of the entire house
choice of Rev. H. Manase as Moderator. Of one such stronghold of sin a planter was touched, for it had felt pity for him.
ssid,
could wish for a deluge to Then up stood the contumacious brother
In view of the expected arrival of the sweep "Iit away,"
For the fact of such (and hj too was a man of unusual noCorresponding Secretary by steamer that centers somebody is responsible, and bility of character) and begged that he
evening, the meeting was adjourned till there is a power in the land which can might be permitted to retract his sharp
the morning of the next day, at which wipe them out, and it must do it if we words, or at least i xpluin them. He reminded the house of the common purtime the business of the session was be- are to prosper.
of the words of a friend pose dear to tin ir hearts, It they someam
reminded
I
gun, and was closed the afternoon of
who lives in a center where there are times strove fiercely with each other, it
Friday, the Bth.
important sugar interests. The remark was out of zeal for tin Master. If they
Ten of the thirteen preachers were was to this effect—that it would be use- had shown undue heat, it was because
present, and eleven of the sixteen par- less to continue work among the natives the}' were human. If there was contenishes were represented. Two candidates unless work were also begun among the tion between tnem, yet they had no conwere examined and approved for settle- whites. ''First bind the strong man"— troversy with God; and so by these
ment, G. \V. Zorobabela as pastor at that was the thought. Change the heart happy moods, which came like an inPelekunu and Wailau, Molokai, and J. of the seducer and then the rescue of spiration out of the mouth of the speaker
Akela as pastor at Kipahulu, Maui; and the seduced ma}' be accomplished. We and into the hearts of all who listened,
one was put on probation, with a view confess to a strong leaning toward this the cloud was dissipated, and light shone
to the ministry.
way of looking at the subject. Along- into the conversation which followed.
The reports from the churches were side of tile mission to the native Ha- The younger brethren were heard to say,
not without their encouragement. The waiians we must press the mission to "Surely we have been profited. We
pastors of Maui and Molokai are gen- the Japanese, the Chinese, the Portu- have seen what it is to be zealous for
erally holding their own. There are guese and the unchurched whites.
the cause, and how important it is that
those who are doing good work, while
all things be done decently and in order,
some are not as aggressive as they
It was a case of ruling, and the two and under the guidance of the Holy
should be, and are perhaps losing heaviest men of the conference were at Spirit.I
The Maui and Molokai Pastors' Aid
ground. There are four parishes which
sharp disagreement. The dispute waxed
are greatly in need of pastors. The
Society is formed with the Rev. VV. D.
Wailuku pastorate is still untaken. We hot. Others were drawn into it, and Westervelt as Treasurer, and disburseunderstand that-the call which has been voices began to be heard from different ments are to be made in January, 1890,
placed in the hands of Rev. J. P. Kuia, parts of the house asking for the floor, for the last quarter of the present year.
of Paia and Haiku, is not to be accepted. but the persistent and sturdy pastor Mr. Westervelt has wise counsellors to
aid him in this work. He is now a reswould not yield it or cease
It is our deliberate judgment that the from
ident of Wailuku, whither he has lately
sorest menace to the life of the native his sharp words. The moderator or- moved his family. He occupies the old
him to his seat in vain. He de- Bailey homestead. Last Sabbath Father
population of these islands comes of the dered
manded
a reversal of the ruling. Then Bailey occupied the pulpit of the native
lust and of the greed of the non-Christhe
moderator
accused him of contempt, church at Wailuku, and was listened to
tian and the pagan foreign element. It
with, much inof
and
disloyalty to the chair. This did by his former neighbors
is clearly plain to our eyes that what is not better the matter. The sharp words terest. Next Sabbath Mr. Westervelt is
most destructive to the peace of the na- of criticism still flew out. It was then to baptize two Chinese youth who are
tives is more than the power of their that the moderator threatened to leave members of Mrs. Simpson's school at
Wailuku, and whom she happily helped
heathen gods. They are falling before the chair if an apology were not made. into the light.
But the thought was scouted. The rethe power of gods common to other na- fractory brother declared
that no apology
tions. Their young men are made into could be made, not till the grave should
On the evening of the thirteenth November
Mr. Westervelt was arrested for
devotees ofßacchus. and their daughters cover all. It was a serious, moment.
are being led captive in the train of As- Such a storm of passion had hardly be- fast driving and fined the usual penalty.
tarte.
Said a white man to me in fore swept in upon this august presby- He was a little late, and was going over
speaking of a certain district. "I have tery. The session was soon to close, the Wailuku bridge at a slow dog-trot.
no doubt but that four thousand dollars and the brethren about to separate. It He said it was '"all right." Query:
a month are spent heie for liquor." It looked as if the good effect of the meet- was it ?
is the testimony of a planter with regard ing was to be nullified, and its influence
There are now twenty-seven vessels
to his own district, that drunkenness is possibly turned to the account of harm. engaged in missionary work in different
rife there. Tickets arc sold to feasts Under a sudden fit of sulkiness the parts of the world under the auspices of
where strong drink isthestaple. It is not moderator rose and left the chair vacant. sixteen societies; of these missionary
uncommon there to see-drunken natives Then a hush as of thoughtfulness fell vessels sixteen are running on the coasts
lying along the road. Where there is upon the house which was timely and or rivers of Africa, and six among the
drink there is gambling and the obscene full of hope. It came to its senses. islands of Oceanica.

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102
THEHONOLULU,
Y. M.H. C. A.
I.

This page it devoted to the interests o* the Honoh.lu
Young Men's Christian Astxriaiion, ai.d the Board of
Directors are resDOusible for it- contents.

S. D. Fuller,

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Editor.

Sunday Evening Service.

The pastor of the church and the
deacons and the older members of the
Associations have all expressed an earnest desire to have the Christian young
men step more prominently to the front
in gospel work, especially in our prayer
meetings. But they shrink because of
inexperience, in the presence of older
and abler workers. Now the best drillground for young Christians known to
the writer is the meetings of the Y. M.
C. A. Here the young man is surrounded more exclusively by kindred spirits;
a common experience begets sympathy,
and it is much easier to give n i'ew words
of testimony or offer a brie! prayer in
the Association meeting than in the large
Church meeting. While this is a good
place to begin, it is not the place to end.
Any work that does not make a young
man more valuable and efficient in his
church work, is spurious; it is of man
and not of God. Kxperience proves that
persistent, consecrated effort in the Association work, although it be weak at
first will develop strength and efficiency
in any well balanced young man. As a
practical application of the above principle, a most cordial invitation is extended to all the Christian young men
in the city to attend our Gospel Praise
Service in the Association Hall every
Sunday evening at 6:30 o'clock. All
young men, Christians or not, strangers
or otherwise, will receive a hearty welcome. Below we give the topics for the
month:
Dec. I—How to win against great
odds. 1 Sam. 17:40-50. Z-ech. 4:6.
Dec. 8 -Soul thirst satisfied. Ps. 63:
1-8.
Dec. 15—Determined men. Daniel 3:
8-18.
Dec. 22—"Good Tidings ofGreat Joy."
Luke 2:10-20.
Dec. 29—The Sum-Total.
13,14. 1 John 3:23.

Eccl. 12:

The Week of Prayer.
The week of prayer for young men,
and Young Men's Christian Association
work throughout the Christian world,
has for several years been a season of
spiritual quickening all along the lino.
In several instances the interest awakened during that period has resulted in a
blessed revival, bringing scores of young
men into personal fellowship witth Jesus
their long neglected Saviour.
While the observance of this favorable
season by our Association has not yet
led to a like greatly desired result, still

we have received help and blessing each
year sufficient to prove that the measure
of God's bestowed grace and spirit is
only limited by our willingness to properly receive and faithfully use His offered mercies.
The noonday meetings were not quite
so largely attended this year as last, on
account of the absence of several of our
working members from the city during
that week. On Sunday the work of the
International Committee was presented
by the General Secretary, and a generous coile :tion was made for the work,
which augmented by a little personal
effort amounted to $ iO, a gain of fifteen
dollars over the contribution of any previous year. Although occupying one of
the isolated outposts in this grand conflict for God and young men, we are
still interested in the great and necessary work being done at the headquarters of the Intel national Committee.

Social.
Several fruitless attempts to select a
propitious evening for the long-plannnd
Social resulted in a final choice of Friday evening, Nov. SSd. Other attractions drew away some of our members
and friends, but we had a good attendance, and a delightfully pleasant evening
was enjoyed by all present. The Y. M.
C. A. Boys were invited, and most of
the older ones were on hand. There
was an encouraging number of young
men, some or whom had recently joined
the Aesociation, but several were comparative strangers, who greatly appreciated the opportunity to make congenial
acquaintances.
The programme was purposely short,
consisting of a piano solo, artistically
rendered by Miss Adele Widdefield, a
song by Mr. D. G. Morgan, who had to
respond to a well-merited encore, and
closing with a recitation by master Eddie Lame. The Reception Committee
did excellent service in passing refreshments, introducing strangers and making everybody feel at home, and anxious
to have the occasion duplicated as soon
as convenient; which we purpose to do,
and invite all to come again.

Y. M. C. A. Boys.
The V.M.C.A. Boys held their annual
meeting Thursday p. at., Nov. 7. in the
Association parlors. They elected Mrs.
B. F. Dillingham President, Mr. S. D.
Fuller Vice-President, Willie Whitney
Secretary, Charlie Hyde Treasurer. After transacting sornj o'her business, the
boys listened to an interesting "talk"
by Hon. J. B. Atherton, who had just
returned from an extended trip in Furope. He spoke more particularly of his
visit in Paris, giving a pleasing description of the great International lixhibi.ion, the Eiffel Tower, and other wonders of that famous city.

Items.
We have arranged a good beginning

for a series of "Familiar Talks" on interesting and popular subjects. The first
will be given by General James F. B.
Marshall on Tuesday evening, Dec. 3d,
in the Association Hall. Subject, Hawaii Fifty Years Ago. The General has

been absent from the Kingdom some
thirty years, but was a resident here for
about twenty years previous to that time.
His personal acquaintance with, and activerarticipation in,the events of that early
and important period of Hawaiian history will make the above occasion one of
interest to old and young.
The multitudinous Saturday evening
attractions have interfered with the regularity of our Blue Ribbon entertainments, but we have tried to make up in
quality what was lacking in quantity,
and think we have met with some success. Yet the magnitude of the drinkcurse demands strong, constant and
universal opposition.
There are a considerable number of
young men in the city who are recent
arrivals—strangers in a strange land.
The Secretary cannot meet them all;
will the individual members make it a
point as they may meet any of these to
extend a V.M.C.A. welcome, and invite
them to the Rooms.

Endowment Fund.
Several Assoc iatiationa in the United
Statss have recognized the great advantage of having an endowment fund.
They are working up an interest in the
matter that has already placed some of
the Associations on a firm financial basis
of their own. The principal is invested
and remains untouched, receiving such
additions from legacies and other sources
as friends of the work are pleased to
make, and when sufficiently large the
income is applied to defray current expenses. The Honolulu V.M.C.A. voted
to invest the $403.40 received from the
widening of Alakea street as the nestegg of such an endowment fund. It now
remains for the worldly endowed friends
of the Association to fill up the nest.
While the population of Portland,
Maine, has increased twenty-five per
cent,

in the past ten years, the City

Marshal's last Report shows that arrests

for drunkenness have decreased seven
per cent, during that period, while arrests
for all other causes have increased nearly seven per cent. But people will keep
howling that "Prohibition is a failure!"

Mr. William Noble, the founder of the
Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Movement in England, whose serious illness
was noticed in December Ust, lias made
considerable progress towards recovery,
and it is expected by his medical advisers
that he will be able to resume his labours
in the cause nf temperance during the
early spring of next year. London Daily
News, Oct. 24.

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cerned in their vanity and shame. In of all the islands? Why is Kauai exGiving Account.
this belief, we must hasten to set our ceptional in respect to its rivers?
Our Honolulu Y. M. C. A. meeting
lives in order; be eager to work faithfully,
So conspicuous a feature of Oahu as
of last Sunday eve was occupied with be valiant to strive bravely; be true to its coast chain of tufa cones seems
and Able

the topic of "Called to Account
speak fitly and fearlessly in the work of
Is it not one of the most salvation.
potent peculiarities of the religion of
Brother, sister, what reckoning will
Christ that He taught his disciples the Lord make of your case? Try to
Jesusdoctrine
this
of their close, intimate re- make your remaining years such as will
lation to himself, so that they should, in better your aciou it, and be not content
the end, all come into his own presence barely to get into the Heavenly courts.
and be precisely and thoroughly taken If you have money, use it
judiciously, as
account of? Every one who believes on He will approve, and not to waste on
Christ- who has a part and place in his your own or your children's fancies and
kingdom— is never out of his watch and lusts.
If you have special gifts, social,
care. A day is coming, and when it artistic, literal)-, think what use of them
comes, will be felt to have been very
your Lord will seal with approval when
near, when our Lord will convoke us all
you meet him. Have you trials, temptinto his presence and make reckoning of ations, besetting sins? So bear yourself
as
hard
masus. Not in severity; not
a
in the conflict, that he will say "Well
ter. He will act in tenderest love; in done!"
most sympathetic appreciation; in most
"Children of the Heavenly King." we
tolerant allowance for all our disadvan- have a motive and a stimulus of which
tages and incapacities. He is gentle, the children of this world do not know.
kind, unspeakably loving. But it will If we would only all be
fully alive to its
be in the very nature of things that his reality, and under the pressure of its
estimate of us will be precisely accurate, quickening
power, how the church of
and his award of place and honor to
would move forward with the vicGod
each one will be with unerring precision torious force of a Pentecostal enthusiasm.
of judgment. Every one of us will "get
sized up" for exactly what he is, and Barnes' Hawaiian Geography—A. S.
what he has been doing. All the misBarnes Sc Co: New York and Chicago.
judgments and misconstructions which
28 pp.
have vexed us in the earthly career will
This
appears as a supplementary adhave been done away in the clear light
of Messiah's vision. Some will be ex- dition to Barnes' medium Geography.
alted who were ill esteemed, and some It also comes bound in a separate volabased who were counted high in the ume. This book was prepared under
the direction of the Hawaiian Board of
Lord's service.
for the use of the common
Education,
What a tremendous force all this
lends to the motives for righteous action schools. With its excellent maps it
and holy living. A Chinaman is said to forms a valuable compendium of inforhave once nobly refused a bribe to com- mation, and almost a guide book for the
mit a base action, saying, "My ances- islands. Indeed, any tourist could hardly
tors were honorable men. I expect soon do better than to supply himself with a
on the tables of
to meet them in the other life; I could copy. It should be
household,
so
that
every
every person
not bear to meet their contempt." If
one believes that "Death ends all"— may become familiar with the geograthat he will never have to stand the phy of the country in which he lives.
The maps are prepared by the Govsearching scrutiny of eternity, he will be
Survey, and are almost miernment
as
indeed a rare and choice soul, such
we seldom find, if in moments of sore nutely accurate. Paper and letter-press
strait, or maddening desire, he does not are of the first class. The nine engravswerve from the just, the pure, the holy. ings are from well-selected photographs,
But we have the "high calling of God and finely executed.
The text is evidently the work of a
in Christ Jesus." We have "a house
not built with hands, eternal in the hea- practised teacher, also of one personally
vens." Our beloved Lord and Master familiar with all parts of the group.
has "gone to prepare a place for us." Limited space has necessitated great
This is not our home. We are not here condensation of material, and the omisto lay up treasures. We are like sol- sion of much that is interesting, if not
diers on campaign. The reward, the essential.
The chief deficiency of the book seems
rest, the treasures, are in the future life.
Now is the day of service, of toil, of to be in respect to physical geography.
pressing forward, of noblest sacrifice and Why are the leeward islands so deeply
ones are
holiest consecration. Soon we shall pass indented, while the windward
in Grand Review before the King, and almost unworn? Why is Konahuanui
on Oahu most eroded on the east, .and
enter upon our eternal Home.
One of the most important practical Kaala on the west? Why is our climate
needs of every Christian is to vividly so cool? Why are there no streams in
realize that he is very soon to stand face Kula, Kahikinui, Kona, Kau and Puna ?
to face with Him "whom having not Why do artesian wells abound upon
seen, we love." In the presence of this Oahu and not upon the other islands ?
clear expectation, all the shams and Why are Lanai and Kahoolawe so dry ?
frauds of life tend to dissolve and be dis- also, the west and south-western sides
to Give It."

worthy of notice in a book to be so
largely used in Honolulu. So important
a feature of the city as Punchbowl might
have been described, and its nature briefly explained. The attention of pupils
should he called to the successive
streams of lava of which the mountains
have been built up. as disclosed by the
cutting out of the ravines.
Some mention should have been made
of the coral reefs, which form so important features of Oahu and Molokai; also
that the harbor of Honolulu is formed
by a gap in the fringing reef, due to the
Nuuaiui stream preventing the growth
of coral at that point, also that it is the
only harbor where large ships can lie at
wharves. The elevated reefs of the Oahu
lowlands might have been spoken of;
also the cemented dunes of Kahuku and
Laic, now sandstone. The causes producing the Pearl lochs might have been
briefly stated to good purpose. The bar
is scarcely " across the mouth," but
u pon the barrier reef, quite out at sea.
The three chief mountains of Hawaii
are classed together as of gentle slope.
Surely we should make at least the old
native distinction between the low,
smooth dome of Mauna Loa (Long
Mountain), the broken outline, steep
sides and warty summit of Mauna Kea,
and the hillocky contours of Hualalai.
This last, by the way, if not called an active
volcano, should at least be credited in
the text, as it is on the map, with its
splendid eruption of 1801.
There should be a brief statement of
the leading features of lava-flows, especially of the aa and the pahochoe ; alsc*
of the ducts and caves. Are not the
Haena caves parts of ducts, and not
"great bubbles"? The early fertility of
inland clinkers might be noted as suited
to sweet potatoes, coffee, oranges, etc.,
as well as to growth of forests.
It is hardly correct to say that the
Maui isthmus "is composed chiefly of
sand-hills," when perhaps there are
more acres of growing cane than of
sand.
The remarkable chasm of Kaliuwaa i»
not in Hauula, but in Kaluanui.
It should have been more definitely
stated that the lepers are housed, clothed
and fed by the Government.
Nothing in the book suggests the fine
old native grass houses. The source
and cheapness of lumber might be stated. Nothing is said of minerals, and of
the absence of metals and coal.
Kaula and Lehua should be described
as "horseshoe-shaped craters," as well
as Molokini. It should be stated that
on these three islands, as well as on
Diamond Head, and all other tufa cones,
the highest part is to the south-west, and
why it is so.
It is always easy to pick flaws. Probably if we had written the book, some

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The Bi.ooii OFjPSUSCttRIST. We are
many, and ours would not have been saved by One who brings the divine life
half as good a book-for the use of down into the world; and we are saved
schools as this one is. The hook is an when our own hearts and our own lives
excellent one. and supplies a long need- are open, and his heart and his life are
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soon come when raised models of all it, so the poured out life of Christ, filling
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principal schools. Scholars should ev- followers, Hows through the world, a
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clay the topography of their neighbor- [humanity.
hood and island. Some good work of There are in two or three European
this sort is now done in the Pott Street Roman Catholic cathedrals phials that
school.
contain what is claimed to be the sacred
blood of Christ. We are not worthy to
be Christians unless we are such phials,
A Bonfire of Bibles.
unless ourselves hold within ourselves
Again and again it is denied by Roman something of that sacred life, personality,
Catholic apologists that Bibles have character, divinity, that was in Christ
been or are burned as an evidence of himself. The legends tell us that holyRoman Catholic hostility to the circula- men have traveled over the world that
tion of the .Scriptures. Imagine what they might find the holy cup in which
was the extent of the fury which raged Christ administered that first communion
against the Bible in the vernacular, when We need not go far to find it, for right
Romanism ruled the rulers of Europe, here, by our side, are holy men and
by this outburst which is thus recorded women in whose hearts there is the life
by the Madrid correspondent of the Lon- blood of Christ, and from whom we may
don Daily Xews and quoted in the drink. Eor the true holy Grail is the
livening Post. He says that "the Lib- heart set to do Christ service, and filled
eral Government tries in vain to enforce with Christ's spirit.— Lyman Abbott.
the spirit of tolerationamong the authorMr. David McConaughy, Jr., for many
ities and subjects of his Most Catholic
an
the successful General Secretary
years
Majesty. Very recently in Biscay
agent of the Bible Society was attacked of the Philadelphia Young Men's Chrisand insulted by twenty young Catholic tian Association, has heard the Macestudents led by a Jesuit Father, who ex- donian cry from India and will leave for
cited the lads to take possession of, tear that country early in October.
up, and make a pious bonfire of the
The
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Spanish judges, after carefully investiFOB ihhii.
gating the case declined to send the ofThis regular and favorite publication
is now in its fifteenth \car, anil has
fenders before the tribunal for the assault
proved itself a reliable hand-book of
and the destruction of the property of
reference on mailers I Inwaikutj conveying
the Foreign Bible Society. The students,
a better knowledge of the commercial,
the
and not the Jesuit Father, who was
agricultural, political and social progress
iif ihe islands than any puhlii ation extant.
principal instigator of the outrage, will
Orders from nhr.i.i.l oi hum '.he oilier
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magistrate, who can only inflict a fine
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cts. each, which can be remii tea Iry Money
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convicted. Whilst this treatment is
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Hack number* to 1X75 can he had, e»
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