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The Pilippine Problem
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Affai »at I'onape
GrowtS of lentral Union Church
Obituary
Mrs. Sarah Andrews
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I bunion
Edward Atkinson Misled
Dedication of Catholic Church
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A Sad Tragedy
A New Cemetery—Where?
Railway Open to Kahuku
Professor C. H. Hitchcock 1..1..1)
Invitation lo the Lord's Supper
More About Ihe I heater
A Great Wroni; and Shame
More About Julien I). Hayne
Kaimuki Residence Tract
Increase Government Income
Record of Kvents
Marine Journal
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The Philippine Problem.
The United States are imperatively
confronted with the question, What is
to be done with the Philippines? There
are some great perplexities and difficul-
Life and Light of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If they can receive His Light and Power, they will be transformed into a
Christian people, pervaded by elevated
and righteous aspirations. They would
be a changed race, with a new capacity
for maintaining worthy government, and
high civilization.
This effectual remedy for civil and
social degradation it is now made the
especial province of the American
churches to apply to the Philippine Islanders. And the Hawaiian churches,
by greater proximity, are called to no
small share in that work. It will be a
work long, toilsome, arduous, but most
fruitful. It will be a labor of many
generations before well established results are attained, yet one in which
much fruit can soon be gathered.
We believe that American Christians
will see the imperative duty of this
task, and will address themselves to it
with determination. We look for strong
bands of consecrated men and women
soon to go as missionaries to the various tribes in those Islands, and show
them the right way of the Lord. In the
presence of such bodies of disinterested
and devoted spiritual laborers, there
will be to the civil administrators from
America, both a wholesome check upon
misconduct, and an inspiring incentive
to disinterested and humane exertion
for the good of the people under their
care.
In India, Christian missionaries once
hated and repelled by the officials of the
Last India Company,have so vindicated
and proved their worth, that now the
Government of India counts their services as of the highest value in promot
ing the intelligent and orderly co-operation of the native people. So in the
Philippines an American Civil Administration needs to be accompanied by the
uplifting spiiitual power of Kvangelical
Christian missionaries. In such help
lies the best hope of American success
in this new task.
ties in the problem, such as one can
hardly see any clear solution of. Apparently our country has put itself under obligation to provide adequately
good Government for the people of that
group. That is likely to be a difficult,
probably a costly undertaking. The
character of the people is such as absolutely to forbid the thought of annexing
them as citizens of the United States,
even if their remoteness permitted it.
The two alternatives seem to be, to establish them under some form of selfgovernment, under the protective control of the United States, or else to
govern them directly by Imperial power,
as Lngland does India. Loth of these
methods involve grave difficulties and
perhaps fatal objections. We do not
see through them.
There is one, and only one adtquate
remedy that, if effectually applied, would
remove all difficulties.
That is, to
thoroughly evangelize the people of the
Philippines. They are ignorant, dc
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graded, superstitious, largely pagan,
aAf itrs onape.
and incapable of social combination foi
Our news from Ponape is meager. It
wise and righteous government. What
to be definite that the native.
appears
they need is to be born again into the |
Number 2
have overcome and massacred the
Spanish garrison and the priests, and
that Henry Nanpei has been made king.
The massacre is most regrettable, but it
was only what was to have been expected, after the long-continued oppressions and outrages of the Spaniards.
The Ponapeans are greatly favored by
Providence in having among them a
leader and ruler of such ability, intelligence and moral worth as Nanpei. His
personal influence among the people is
very great. It is sure to be exerted to
the utmost in maintaining Christian
civilization and repressing heathen excesses. There seems now to be no father danger that Spain will seek to recover her authority in the Caroline
islands. That would require the maintenance of garrisons of several thousand
soldiers, of a cruiser and two gunboats,
and of a naval station, all involving
heavy expense and no income in return.
The piesent probability is that Spain
will sell the Carolines to Germany.
That power would not seriously interfere
with our prosperous American missions
there of nearly fifty years' standing.
TheMorning Star, leaving here for the
Caroline Islands about April Ist, will in
due time restore our interrupted intercourse. Meantime, our beloved missionaries have endured much isolation,
together with wearing anxiety, on account of the war, which so closely concerned them.
Growth of Central Union Church.
Various annual reports of the work of
this church have been read at recent
meetings. The membership had increased during 1898, from 543 to 574.
The report of the Church Treasurer,
which relates to the Benevolent work
of the church, showed receipts $5,213-.69, and disbursements $5,002.3 J. These
receipts are from the collections at
moining and evening worship, amounting at present at about $100 each
bath.
The report of the Treasurer of the
received, and
$7,358.00 expended. These are the expenses of maintaining public worship,
including pastor's salary $4,500. The
estimate of such expenses for 1899, is
trustees shows $8,381.74
$8,303.
The average attendance at Sunday
School has been 358.
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THE FRIEND.
[February,
1899.
Mrs. Sarah Andrews Thurston.
The funeral was held at the residence of the earnest acceptance of Christianity
of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander, in the by a majority of the chiefs as well as
old Andrews homestead. It was deeply common people. Human sacrifices and
Mrs. Thurston had been for a month felt to be a privilege to escort the be- infanticide had ceased. Sorcery was
prostrated by paralysis. She passed loved form on its last journey to its practiced only in secrecy, although still
away in the early morning of the 15th resting place by her husband's side, in the cause of great mortality. Life was
the old burial lot of the Andrews family reasonably secure, as it was not when
ult. The funeral was attended by a in
Nuuanu cemetery.
the missionaries came in 1820. But the
large gathering of deeply-attached
Thus a very noble and gracious soul people owned no lands. They were
friends. The pall-bearers were Messrs. has passed on to the unseen beyond, serfs, occupying their little patches at
O. H. Gulick, S. E. Bishop, A. F. Judd, leaving us enriched by her long abode the will of very arbitrary chiefs, who
us, though greatly sorrowing to exacted much labor from them. Even
W. D. Alexander, W. N. Armstrong, among
part with one of such cheering and the chiefs held their estates subject to
W. W. Hall, C. M. Cooke and W. 0. winning presence. She has gone for- the will of the king.
Smith.
ward with a very clear and holy hope
It was over twenty-five years after the
The deceased was the third child of for the life ot eternity, having long and landing of the missionaries that their
lovingly trusted in Him who is the Life influence led the king and chiefs to award
the eminent missionary, Lorrin An- and
the Way.
drews, who arrived here in 1828. She Mrs. Thurston leaves three surviving lands in fee simple to the common
was born Oct. 19, 1832, at the Lahaina- brothers and one sister Robert, Samu- people. Each cultivator received title to
the small patches occupied by him in the
luna High School, which had been el and William Andrews, and Mrs. Mary middle of the large tract
awarded to his
opened by her father the year before. Ellen Nott.
chief. These patches, now owned by
Her childhood was passed at that site
the peasantry, constituted about oneof splendid outlook in company with the
twentieth part of the choice cultivable
Edward
Atkinson Misled.
Clarks and other missionary families.
land. The rest, including vast tracts of
Some fifteen years later, Mr. Andrews
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser inferior country, belonged to the chiefs,
removed to Honolulu to become Assothe following notice with suitable or to the Government.
quotes
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. The
"Happy, contented," in those early
Andrews children received their educa- refutation :
the people were not. My childdays,
tion at Punahou, none of the older ones
"At the New England dinner, given hood impression ot them
was of their
leaving the islands. An early attach- in Springfield, Mass., on Dec 21st, Mr.
being very miserable, often half-starved,
ment in childhood led to the marriage Edward Atkinson, an eminent New Engof Sarah, Oct. 23, 1853, to Asa Goodale lander, a writer of great force, a leader and lacking the barest necessaries as
Thurston, then an active public man in industrial progress, and the steadfast well as decencies of life. A majority of
and Speaker of the Hawaiian House of friend of humanity, made the following them were lean and squalid of aspect, in
marked contrast with the stately chiefs
Representatives. Mr. Thurston soon remarks regarding these islands :
and their sleek attendants. There was
met with severe financial reverses. In
"'I will not deal with the so-called
his strenuous efforts to recover himself moral reason—the missionary enterprise. no open discontent; they had never
he contracted aneurism, of which he I have the greatest honor and esteem known anything better than the squalid
died Dec. 17, 1859, leaving his widow for the missionaries. I have not, how- life of serfs.
Mr. Atkinson speaks of them as now
and their three children in straitened ever, a great regard for the missionary
"infected with disease,' doubtless meancircumstances. For many years Mrs. enterprises in the Sandwich Islands.
Thurston's life was one of much toil We found there a large number of hap- ing leprosy. When I recall the numand privation. In 1868 she and her py, contented people. They enjoyed bers of people with hideous sores, who
brother opened the Government board- their lands and lives. There is now left used to throng my father's dispensary
such treatment as he could apply,
ing and industrial school for boys only a decaying remnant, who are in for
at Makawao, Maui. Many now active fected with disease from which they can and especially the horrible disfigurement
men carried thence a grateful remem- never get clear. They own a small of faces constantly encountered in the
streets of Kailua, I wish Mi. Atkinson
brance of her motherly care. In 1874 a share of their land, and more than one- could
know the happy contrast now pregreat grief came to her in the sudden third of that land is in the hands of the
death of her bright and capable elder sons and daughters of those missiona- sented by the comparatively wholesome
son, Robert, when on the threshold of ries. Piety and profit have gone hand aspect of Hawaiian faces, since modern
medical treatment has suppressed the
active life. It was not until several in hand.' "
earlier
virulence of disease.
No dethat
years later
the pressure of poverty
Calumnies similar to the foregoing facement of leprosy is ever as loathsome
began to relax by the aid.of the growing
strength of her younger son, the now were voiced a few years ago by Mr. and hideous as were the ofien met faces
distinguished statesman, Lorrin A. Thomas Shearman, in Plymouth church. which had been eaten away by the premalady of those early days.
Thurston.
Together with much grosser slanders, vailing
all respects, in dress, in housing,
In
all
her many years of adver- they have their origin among the baser
Through
in abundance of food, in education, in
sity, Mrs. Thurston's bright, cheerful class of white men in the Pacific. When liberal
wages, the present condition' of
spirit and unabated courage made her
the
natives
is a Paradise as compared
men
of
repute
them
honorain
repeat
presence and home always attractive.
Her later years have been spent at the ble assemblies, it may be time to take with their debased misery as I knew
them sixty years ago.
home of her son and of her daughter on some notice of their falsity.
"More than one-third of their land,"
Maui, Mrs. Helen G. Alexander, each of Mr. Atkinson is reported as saying of
whom have a son and a daughter who the Hawaiians, "We found there a large Mr. Atkinson charges, "is in the hands
the sons and daughters of those mishave lost a wise and tender grandparent. number of happy and contented people. of
These later years have been greatly They enjoy their lands and lives." The sionaries." These descendants of missionaries residing here, constitute about
cheered and brightened. Mrs. Thurston present writer, born at Kona,
five per cent of the 8000 whites among
repeatedly accompanied her son to has a distinct memory of socialHawaii,
condi- whom
one half of the lands in
Washington on his important missions, tions here from 1831 to 1840. The con- Hawaii probably
have become distributed. They
having left that capital with him and dition of the natives had at that time bemay own ten per cent of
half, or onehis family last July,
come much ameliorated in consequence twentieth of the whple that
land, instead
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"more than-one-third," as Mr. Atkinson
charges. Nearly all of that, however,
was formerly the land of chiefs who left
no immediate heirs, or else was government land, bought in open market.
Some of the sons of missionaries are
wealthy. They have become so honorably, by enterprise and industry. They
are most affectionately inclined towards
the natives, and benevolent contributors
to their well-being in a remarkable
degree. The Christian people of Hawaii
are notable, beyond those of any olher
country,for their munificent beneficence,
in which the descendants of missionaries
take the lead, as they ought.
The decay and continued decrease of
the Hawaiian natives is a distressing
fact. It began with the first visits of
foreigners. Christianity failed to arrest
it, although it materially checked the
decrease, which still continues. A thorough adoption into domestic life of the
ethics of Christian civilization would
remedy the evil; but of this there is little
hope. It would have been a delightful
success of missionary labor, had the
people been redeemed from wasting
away. Had they been like Tonga, isolated from contact with corrupting for
eigners, that result would probably have
been attained. As it is, the chief lasting
result of missionary labor in Hawaii has
been the permanent establishment of a
strong and active Christian civilization,
having power to mould and shape all the
diverse races immigrating hither, and to
make this a Christian country of the
highest order. Hawaii is, through mis
sionary effort, a powerful stronghold of
Christian light and influence in this mid
Pacific.
Dedication of Catholic Church.
On the 15th took place the dedication
of a Roman Catholic Church recently
completed at Kealahou, Kula on Maui.
Nearly 800 were said to be present.
The Bishop confirmed 100 children.
The population of Kula is largely Portuguese, industrious farmers. We believe that there are no Catholic priests
here who speak Portuguese. It seems
doubtful whether those Kula people can
receive much religious instruction, even
of the Catholic sort. Of course their
children are taught English in a Gov
ernment school.
A Sad Tragedy.
That was a terrible affair at the Ka-
mehameha School when Grace Beckley
flung herself to instant death from a
third story window. She had left the
school in ill health, and returned for
her things. She was undoubtedly in
sane. The strongest sympathy is felt
for the girl's relatives, as well as for the
teachers and pupils of the school, who
sustained so fearful a shock.
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SOUTH WIND.
The wind is in the south today,
Ah me! ah me!
I would I were a league away.
The wind is in the south today,
And mournfully doth sing his lay,
The sea, the sea.
The wind is in the south today,
Ah me! ah me!
FEBRUARY MORNING.
Rustle red leaves on the mango tree,
The world is glad and my heart i« gay.
The trades inspiring, strong and free,
Rustle red leaves on the mango tree.
Kiss the bright waves of the laughing sea,
And lift ihe hair ot the child at play.
Rustle, red leaves on the mango tree!
The world is glad and my heart is gay.
M. 1). F.
Honolulu, H. I.
A New Cemetery---Where?
This question is becoming somewhat
urgent, and is under discussion. The
Friend ventures the opinion that the
best possible site will be upon some
portion of the rising ground not over a
mile above the Railway between Puuloa
station and Moanalua. It should be
not far from the railway, to facilitate
transportation. It should be not less
than four or five miles from the center
of the town, which will doubtless grow
to a city of 100,000, extending three
miles each way. It should also be
within easy reach of irrigation, in order
It should
to be properly beautified.
also have room to an extent of 500 acres
at least. All these conditions are available on the site now suggested, and no
where else.
The noted Father Chiniquy died January 16, in Montreal, in his 90th year.
For forty years he had been a most vigorous adversary of the Roman Catholic
Church, in which he had been a priest
for 25 years, and had noted its corruptions. He once visited Honolulu. He
gave the impression of a devoted spirit,
but of the aggressive cast, in temper and
language, of such men as Father Yorke,
rather than the milder and more decorous tone educated among Protestants.
Mr. Gilman's Good Services.
It seems in place to notice again the
excellent missionary work done in behalf
of Hawaii ir) New England and New
York, by the Hon. Gorham D. Gilman
of Newton, Hawaiian Consul-General
for New England. The latest report of
such work is of an "informal talk" by
Mr. Gilman before the Eliot Club Dec.
19th, effectively illustrated by numerous
views on a screen. Thetalk, as reported,
took a wide range, filled with accurate
and graphic statements. Mr. Gilman is
an expert lecturer on this subject. He
resided here from 1841 to 1861, visiting
us again in 18. 4. No man has done so
much to impart correct knowledge of
Hawaiian affairs to the people of his
region.
Professor C. H. Hitchcock, L.L.D.
This distinguished geologist is spending part of a year's furlough in Hawaii,
having previously visited us in 1883
and 1886. He has just returned from
an absence of three months in the
Southern hemisphere, visiting Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, in the latter
Islands studying glaciers and volcanic
phenomena. He declares the New Zealand glaciers far to exceed of those of
Switzerland.
Although so greatly interested in volcanoes, for the study of which he is
here, Dr. Hitchcock's chief distinction
has been gained in the study of phenomena at the other extreme of temperature, the glaciers. He has done more
work on glacial phenomena in America
than any other person, and was the
first to locate and demonstrate the great
Terminal Moraine in Long Island,
which clue others followed out to the
westward into Dakota.
The Doctor's., largest publication is
his three volumes of Report as State
Geologist of New Hampshire, a copy of
which is in the library of our Government Survey, including a splendid Atlas. He has been for thirty years Professor of Geology in Dartmouth College,
where the immense geological collections are his work.
The site of the new building for Maunaolu Seminary recently burned at
On January Ist, the Oahu Railway Makawao, has been settled upon near
commenced its regular service to Kahu- Sunnyside in Paia, the residence of
Pastor Beckwith.
ku Mill, 71 miles from Honolulu. The
schedule time is a little over three hours.
The new Judd Building has been
Passenger trains run twice a day each cleared of exterior obstructions, and
way. This route is a most interesting forms a handsome addition to the city
one. The crossing of Waimea gulch is architecture.
The interior is still unIt is the only four-story
a fine piece of engineering. Splendid finished.
surf effects are to be observed for many building here. Another, or perhaps a
miles, on different sections of the farther five-story building, is promised on the
half of the route.
Hall corner, one block up Fort Street.
Railway Open to Kahuku.
12
Februay, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Invitation to the Lord's Supper.
A Great Wrong and Shame.
Such invitation is in these days rightly
made much broader and more open than
formerly. Some pastors go so far as to
invite every one to partake who "loves
the Lord Jesus Christ." While not
attaching extreme importance to the
subject, we should prefer to be more
explicit, as by adding to "loves," the
words "and trusts." Many graduates of
Williams greatly love Mark Hopkins.
Some of us have a very tender feeling
towards Abraham Lincoln.
But the
attitude of the soul which is due to outLord, is more than a sentiment of regard
or esteem, however tender.
There
should be the yielding to him of the will
in trustful surrender. May not so indefinite an invitation as the above become
a means of misleading some who have
merely a sentimental admiration of Jesus
of Nazareth, to believe that they are
truly Christians ? "Take my yoke and
follow me," is his command. The
soul must be the bride of Christ, united
to him as the branch to the vine. The
true love that He calls for, means all
this. He must be Lord and center of
the soul. The Lord's Supper, worthily
set forth, is a solemn and meaning ordinance.
That table is not to be lightly
approached.
An attempt is now apparently becoming successful to fasten upon the Government of the United States an act of
the deepest infamy, which it should be
the urgent effort of every patriotic
American, who has any regard for the
honor of his country, to avert.
As the case now stands, those Chinese residents who lately returned here,
after visiting their native land, with return permits issued by the Hawaiian
Government before annexation, are forbidden to enter their homes, and are ex
eluded as aliens, on the ground that
United States law now invalidates those
Hawaiian permits and renders them
void. Our last issue reported the wise
and equitable decision of the Chief Jus
tice that the Newland Act could not be
interpreted retrospectively, unless so ex
plicitly stated, and therefore the return
permits issued previous to annexation
remained valid. Now that decision has
been reversed by the other two judges.
We have been unable, in the mass of
their prolix verbiage, to understand the
grounds of so inequitable a decision.
It seems to us to savor of cold blooded
cruelty and inhumanity, as well as ot
It indicates narrow
ulter injustice.
technical construction, instead of breadth
and equity of mind.
By that decision a large number ol
worthy and honest Chinamen are dc
barred from returning to their homes
and business in Hawaii, uson the flim
siest pretext. In some cases it appears
that husbands and wives are separated.
and the women driven to desperation
and probable suicide. Such treatment
is infamous in no narrow sense or lim
ited degree. If carried out, it will fix a
dark and ineradicable stain of shame
upon the American Government and its
heartless officials. The case of ihese
deeply wronged people is now being carried before the Secretary of the Treasu
ry. We feel a strong assurance that he,
at least, will have such sense of honor,
as well as of rectitude, as to revets; the
action taken here, and confirm the val
idity of the Hawaiian permits.
More About the Theater.
Our good neighbor of the Advertiser
is grieved at the "bigotry" of The
Friend in retaining some of the oldtime prejudice of our Missionary Fathers
against the theater. Here then is
something more to afflict our neighbor's
sensibilities.
In a Methodist paper of high standing lately appears a New Year story of
a man who, in a dream, is confronted
with the ghastly shade of his last New
Year's resolutions. "You promised to
exclude impute thoughts from yourmind.
But how have you done? You have,
constantly attended the theater, and
saturated your mind with vile and salacious images, until your whole soul is
foul."
There are theaters and theaters,
p
bly there is 'I'nWpnrf between the
ilwuse ami the Oi11..HU1U1U Opcia
Joseph T. Smith.
pheum. We are not well informed as
to that. Our objection to theaters in
A distinguished Mormon magnate
general is not that a pure and elevating
drama is not possible, but that a paying has lately arrived here, in the person of
theater must almost necessarily cater to Joseph T. Smith, a member of the Utah
depraved popular tastes.
Presidency, and a son of the founder of
majority of theater-goers are perSmith. Mr. Smith
debased life and thought. Tlw Mormonism, Joseph
one
of the early Mormon missionai quite sure to be adapted to' the was
its
and
therefore
ries
here
nearly fifty years ago, when he
y of
patrons,
s an unfit resort for those who learned the Hawaiian tongue. He visbe pure in thought and elevated ited here later, about 1861, to assist in
dealing with W. M. Gibson, on Lanai.
I
In about 1885, when the polygamist
leaders in Utah were prosecuted, Jos.
T. Smith was among those who fled
from Utah. He then passed some
months very quietly among the Mormons at Laic.
Presumably, Mr. Smith's present errand is to help in deciding upon the
political attitude to be taken by the
Mormons in Hawaii under the coming
Territorial Government. They are numerous enough to form an element for
the consideration of the political bosses.
No doubt they will be capably handled
by their superiors.
More About
Julien
D. Hayne.
This uncommon villain was so conspiin Honolulu that The Friend
puts on record a few particulars developed his recent trial and conviction.
His stealings are estimated at about
$200,000. The one on which he was
convicted was the forgeiy, in 189-1, of a
mortgage for $10,500, which he sold to
Mrs. Florence Cauldwell of N. Y. City.
He had much fascination of manner,
and victimized several women, both
maidens and widows, by marrying them
for the purpose of gaining possession of
their property. He also indulged in
smaller stealings from poor as well as
wealthy victims Towards those who
mistrusted his character he manifested
much malignity.
cuous
It is rather a coincidence that just at
this time is announced the reappearance
of a somewhat similar, and if possible, a
worse wretch, the "Reverend" Bill
Hammond, who also flourished in Honolulu a few years ago under the guise
of a Baptist preacher and anti popery
emissary. Hammond now turns up in
Havana in full activity. He, too, is a
plunderer of many wives, "leading cap
tive silly women," but with a tongue
.mil voice of unlimited gall for his dis
trusters.
The editor has the satisfaction of
having detected the spurious character
of both these wretches very early after
introduction to them. Par nobile Pratrnm\
Sale of Coffee Plantation.
The coffee plantation of Mr. Zimmerman at Olaa is repoited as sold for $20,-000 to C. S. Shanklin of Chicago.
There are 200 acres, half of which is
planted. There are 26 acres of three
year old trees, in bearing. Mr. Zimmerman will proceed to develop his
other coffee lands. Both parties are
considered to have made profitable
deals.
Kaimuki Residence Tract.
A genuinely judicious enterprise has
been shown by Gear, Lansing & Co., in
opening and putting Ml the market
building lots in this eligible section.
This tract is perhaps three fourths ol I
mile square, west of the ridge between
Diamond Head and Waialae road, form
ing a slope from 100 to -TiO feet above
the sea. It is swept by the fresh breeze
from Palolo valley, anil commands a
noble view of the city, valleys and
ocean. With ri'rh soil, but utteily arid.
it is being copiously supplied with watei
forced up from artesian wells on the
town side. Five miles from the city, it
will be connected by electric cars. Already the rocks and lantatvi thickets are
being cleared from the numerous streets
running each way, and dividing the tract
into convenient blocks. The residents
Can indulge in ornamental rock piles as
large as sheds.
Many people will find this locality
exactly to suit their tastes, (juite a
number have already selected their
bonus there.
Just west of the junction of Waialae
and Palolo roads, is the famous "Hell
Rock," a Urge flat table, which ring*
clearly whin struck with a stone. The
little K.iimuki crater back of Diamond
Head, at a lecent period emitted a flood
of clinker lava coveting some two square
miles of land, and blocking the Palolo
stream, which finally tore its way through
a curious black chasm now buried in
foliage, lying between the town end of
Waialae road anil the mountain. The
soft upper clinkers have crumbled into
soil, and left the hard lower knots of
rock protruding all over the tract. u Ka
Imu Xi" means The Oven for baking
Xi root. The pit of the little crater is
suggestive of a Polynesian earth-oven.
The wall of said oven contains a quail \
of vitreous cinders, forming a splendid
road dressing, and may be in danger ol
demolition for that use. The fine W'.n
alae road is greatly indebted thereto. Sir
does the new civilization of the Pacific
invade the hontscent haunts of ihe
ancient gods.
to learn of the death of
A.
Capt. Julius Palmer, well known here
for his ardent championship of the exqueen. We behexe that notwithstanding
his many misleading statesments, it was
Mr. Palmer's general intention to be
truthful. He wrote much for leading
American papeis, especially tor the
Boston Tii\ use lift. His style was attractive and plausible. While Liliuokalani's book was dictated by herself, its
literary dress was supplied by Captain
We regret
Palmer.
13
THE FRIEND.
Vol. 57, No. 2.]
Increased Government Income.
Bishop Museum Stamp Collection.
The report of the Auditor-General
shows the following increase in the receipts of the Government Treasury,
aside from loans:
J2.18S.82f) 79
Receipt* tof 1897
2,568,489 12
•• 1898
Increase
The
in the
two
$
370.<>6i
33
chief items of increase were
CiMtonM Bureau for
"
Increase
Tax llureau for
Increase
'•
1897
1S98
1897
1898
$708,405 05
890,97570
$188,482 05
(.759,70398
811.818 67
Mr. T. G. Thrum has for twentyseven years been making a collection of
postage stamps, which is said to be, in
its Hawaiian department, the most full
and complete in the world except that
in the British Museum. It has now
been purchased for the Bishop Museum
by Mr. Charles R. Bishop. Mr. Thrum
has on hand materials which will go far
towards making a second collection, but
less complete. The editor is no philatelist, but there is doubtless money in
that pursuit. Several years ago we sold
to a collector a 13-cent stamp for $50.
It is said now to be worth $1000. What
can be its element of value ?
$5'.i M- '">
The above figures indicate a mar
velous financial prosperity in Hawaii.
The public income per head of population was over $JO. At the same rate,
the united national and municipal annual income of the United States would
be $1,500,000,090. Is it as much as
that? Yet our taxation and customs
duties are much lighter than on the
Mainland.
Electric Power from Water at Hilo.
Mr. C. S. Desky is reported as stating
that he has completed arrangements for
utilizing the fall in the great Wailuku
stream at Hilo, so as to develop 10,000
horse power. It is not stated to what
use so much power can profitably be ap
plied. Hilo seems likely to have all the
electric light and traction needed. There
are many other streams with great fall
in the Hilo district. It would seem that
there ought soon to be a railway to Hamakua operated by electric power. Hilo
is a field of splendid possibilities.
Farming Association at Wahiawa.
Wahiawa is a section of the elevated
plateau between Ivwa and Waialua,
which comprises some 40,000 acres of
level country lying from 700 to 1000
feet above the sea. Between the forks
of the Kaukonahua stream lies a tract
of some 1400 acres, which has lately
been occupied by an association of practical farmers, consisting of fourteen
men with families from California.
Separate lots are assigned to each man.
Various trades and professions are represented among the members.
They purpose to raise fruits and vegetables for the California market, in part.
We believe that hay for this market
would be a paying product. These
farms are eight miles down hill to the
Railway. There seems no good reason
why that plateau should not suppoit
500 or 000 good farms. The rain sup1
ply averages good for half the year, say
50 inches.
The Oceanic, lately launched, is the
largest steamer ever built. She is 704
feet long, and of 17,000 tons. The fuThe very interesting statement is ture of mammoth steamers in the Pamade that our old stand-by, the steam- cific is not yet in sight. Wait for the
ship Australia, is immediately to be Siberian railway.
fitted with refrigerating compartments
Disquieting News from Samoa.
with capacity for 200 tons of freight.
Such provision for cold storage of meats
By way of Auckland comes word of
and fruits abounds upon steamer routes active war between the claimants to the
elsewhere. Better late than never upon kingship in Samoa, and that the capital
our Hawaiian lines of transit. A vastly Apia has been looted and burned by the
increased trade in the near future is to adherents of Mataafa.
be expected in fruits shipped hence to
This evil condition of things appears
California, and especially to Oregon and to have been the result of a disagreeWashington. With cold storage, our ment of the representatives of the three
bananas can be shipped when nearly protecting Powers, the German consul,
ripe, instead of in a green and very in- supporting Mataafa, being opposed to the
ferior condition, as now. The same is British and American rdpresentatives.
true of pineapples and of oranges,
The Moaua due here February Ist,
which are to become in due time a will doubtless bring full particulars of
leading fruit for export.
the difficulty.
Refrigerating Arrangements.
14
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Jan.
Februay, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Ist.— New Years day—the usual
time for good resolutions. —Revenue
Cutter McCulloch continues on her
21st.—Grace Kahea, a former pupil,
while visiting at the Kamehameha Girls'
School, leaped from a third story window
and met a shocking death.
23d.—Joe Sylva and cousin, Miss I.
Perry, in attempting to board the stmr.
Helene from the A ustralia, lying together
at the Oceanic dock, make a misstep
and fall into the water. Prompt help
rescues the woman, but Sylva sank and
his body was not recovered for several
hours.
•_'. Hb.— Death of
John McKeague, a
well known resident, founder of the
Heeia sugar plantation, Koolau, Oahu.
—The Scottish Thistle Club celebrates
Hums' anniversary by a banquet at the
Arlington Hotel
26th. —The Coptic, from Japan, en
route from San Francisco, arrives with
passenger accommodation so occupied
that but a portion of those booked at
this port could secure passage, though
quite a premium was paid by several.—
A San Francisco broker secures 4,SUA
shares of Onomea stock at a large ad
vance on par.
Minister and Mrs
Cooper give a delightful musicale at
their Manoa mansion, at which the Am
ateur orchestra acquitted themselves
very creditably in a varied program.
27th. —Wrecked foreign schooner reported on the windward coast of Ha
waii,with one dead body washed ashore.
No particulars obtainable.—Reception
at the German consulate in honor of
Emperor William's birthday.
2Hth.—Arrival of U. S. tugboat Iro
quois, formerly the Tearless of San Francisco.
29th. A large capture of smuggled
opium is made by a police officer, who,
searching under a warrant, found a kerosene case planted in the garden which
yielded 100 half pound tins of the drug.
30th.—Camera club of the Y. If. C.
A. organised.—Collision of vehicles on
Union Square results in severe injuries
to Dr. J. R. Shaw and a demolished
buggy.
31st.—Founder's Day at Lunalilo
Home celebrated by luau to the inmates
and invittd guests.
homeward voyage.
2d.—Monday, observed as the legal
and general holiday. Luaus and outing
parties the order of the day.—Opening
railroad excursion to Kahuku and waystations.— Noon reception and collation
to young men at the Y. If, C. A., and
concert in the evening by the Amateur
Orchestra. The attendance at both
events was large and appreciative.—The
hardware business of Castle & Cooke
transfers to the Pacific Hardware Co.
with the opening year.
4th.—Sudden death of R. D. Walbridge, of apoplexy. —The Cabinet au
thorized wharf extension of the port in
accordance with the Chamber of Commerce memorial.
6th.—The fine large new Japanese
steamship Nippon Mara, one of the
three additions of that nationality to the
Pacific Mail O. & O. line, arrives on her
maiden ttip to San Francisco, after a
smart passage.
7th. —Birthday serenade by the band,
directed by Berger's baton, to Chief Justice Judd.—One Japanese killed, another
seriously injured and two others badly
bruised through the collapse of a house
they were moving.—Auction sale of
X talawai beach lots, beyond Diamond
Head, brings high figures.
Bth.—Word received, per Claudine,
of the suicide on the 6th inst., in the
Hawaii channel, of Chas. Burke, a
recent arrival at Hilo from San Francisco.—Rev. Mr. Kincaid begins his
series of evening talks to young men
and secures a full attendance.
1Oth.—Official inspection of Oahu
railroad extension to pass upon subsidy
claim, according to law.
12th.—Annual business meeting of
Central Union Church for the presentation of reports. —Church wedding of Mr.
W. L. Howatd and Mrs. M. H. Goddard, Rev. W. M. Kincaid officiating.
1:1th sad news is received from
Kauai of the deatn of Henry Wilcox, by Marine Journal.
his own hand, through long suffering
PORT OF HONOLULU, JANUARY.
from neuralgia and insomnia.
Kith.—Collision on the Oahu Railroad
ARRIVALS.
between the incoming 7 a. m. train and
a switch engine, resulting in its serious 3—Br bk Anainba, Harder. from Liverpool.
Am schr AliceCo >ke, Penhallow, from Hon To* nsend.
damage, and injury to the engineer and
Tartar, Pybus, from Yokohama.
Br
Br bk Dominion, Barqiiiah. fro n NawCaatla.
fireman. —Death of Mrs. S. A. Thurs- 4—
—Am ss Marip< ><..,, Haywnrd, from the Colonies.
ton, after a spell of serious illness fol- a— Am sh i'acoma, t'edci -on, from San Francisco,
M Alameda yon (.u-iemlorp, foin San Francisco.
lowing a stroke of paralysis.—The S. S. 0 Am
Jp ■ Nippon Mam, Lv us, from VnlfnhaW.
Columbia is put up at auction to satisfy 7—Am bk S CCatherine.
Allen, Johnson, from San Fraiici-ro.
Matthews, from Nanaimo.
B—Am bk St
the several libels against her, at the up- 13—Am
ss Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, trom Yokohama.
Williamson, from Yokohama.
set price of $23,265, but no bids being —Br ss Lennox,
14—Am ss China, Seabury, from San FraftCuu o.
offered, the Marshal postponed the —Am bk Oregon, Parker, ir in Nawcaattt.
15—Am hkt Klikital, CutUr, fioin Port Townsend.
sale.
—Am schr Bertie Minor, Raven, from Luicka.
of
the
of
th.—Anniversary
passing
—Am bk Ceylon, Willard, from I'acoma.
1.
16
Am bk Amelia, Wilier, from Seattle.
as
observed
a
the monarchy,
holiday in is Br
ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from the Colonies.
ss Australia, Houdlettc, from San Franciaco.
official circles, but the wheels of business *2i) —Am
Haw sh Kails of Clyde, Matson, fiom San Fram iaCO,
move on uninterrupted.
'21 —Am bk Mauna Ala, Smith, from Poit Townsend.
r
—
—
—
-.s
—Am schr Mildred Kindler, from Port Townsend.
—Am l>k Martha Davis. Friis. from San Francisco.
Haw sh Star of Russia. Hatfield, trom Tacoma.
—U S S Yorktown. Sper. y, from San Francisco.
—Br >s Warrim o. Hay, from Vancjuver.
M lir ss Doric, Smith, from San Francisco.
24 -Haw ss A/tec, Trask, from Yokohama.
lii sstiaronne, Conradi, from Seattle.
2f3 Br ss Coptic* Sealby, from Yokohama.
27—Am bk Harry Morse, Fullerton, from Nanainio.
tJ Noi bk Helios, ■ his'ianscn, from Iqueqre, Chile.
L'Sli'y Iroquois, Pond, from San Francisco. (
2.5--
—
DEPARTURES.
I—U S Rev Culler McCulloch, Hooper, for San Kran.
Mariposa, H.iyward, for Sjii Ftancisco.
1 Am
'i Am ss Alameda, yon Oleiendorp, for the Colonies.
7—Jap ss Koooura Man.
for Yokohama.
J.p Nippon Mam, Kv.nis, for San Francisco.
Guam,
Bennington,
S
for
I* S
Taaltsitig,
Robertson, for Port Townsend.
Am likin
Sound.
Am l)k W'iln.i, Slatar, tor
Ital cruiser fctna. Giovello, f<ir Suva.
Am schr .-Voh.., Daliel, for San Francisco.
'■• Am liktn Archer. McAlman, for San Francisco.
12 Am t-chr K.sther Ruhue, Ander on, for San Francisco.
Am dk Mohican, Saunders, for San Francisco.
\ni -s Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for Sa-i Francisco.
14 Am u ( lima. Saabory, for Yokohama.
Ik Lennox, Williamson, for Portland.
Br
Hi I: lik W'oolhara, Barnesson, for Eureka.
Hemrorth. for Victoria.
II'l* Br hbk A-Ormiwi,
Br Itoinin on, Jones, for Royal Roads.
10 Am brg Coiisiielo, Christiansun, for San Francisco.
22 -Haw bk Diamond Head, Ward, for San Francisco.
U Bf M Wiirriinon, Hay, for the Colonies.
Gar an J C Pflunf-r, Hoever, for San Francisco.
Am lik Aldcn Besst, Cotter, for San Francisco.
24 Mr ss Doric, Smith, for Yokohama.
Am ss All tralia, Houdletle, for San Francisco.
86 Haw ss A/U'C, Trask. for San Francisco.
Am bktll Amelia, Wilier, for Port Townsend.
26—Am bktn Irmgard, Schmidt, for San Francisco.
—Am schr Spokane, Jamieson, for Port Townsend.
Haw bk R P Rithet, Calhoun, for San Francisco.
—Mr ss Coptic, Sealby, for San Francisco.
U S S Vorktowtt, Sparry. f'»r (iuam and Manila.
27 —Am bktn W H Dimond, NiUen, for San Francisco.
28 Am schr Alice Cooke, Penhallow, for San Francisco.
—Am bk Snow & (Unless, Mortonson, for Puget Sound.
Maw bk Hawaiian Isles, Kustel. for Port Angeles.
10 Br ssdarontie, Conradi, for Seattle.
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s
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BIRTHS.
CRAWLEY—At Puaabou. this city, Jan. 5th, to the wife
of J. T. Crawley, a daughter.
BKARWALD— In this city, Jan. 10th, to thewife of Jatoh
Bearwald, a daughtt r.
GKAR—In this city, Jan. Ifith, to the wife of A. V. (;e;tr,
a son.
PRITCHARD—On Jan. 10th, at Naalehu, Kau,
wife of Jmrph Pritihard, a daughter.
to the
MOTT-SMII'H— In Honolulu, Jan. 20th, to the wife of
t. A. Mutt Smith, a son.
NKKLV In this city, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of A. W.
Neely, a son.
KAKKINCiTON-In Honolulu, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of
W. R. Karrington, a daughter.
HKNDKV In Honolulu, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of E. K.
Hendry, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
FLINT-GARDINER-111 this city, January 4, ISM,
»t
the residence of Mrs. A. W. McLean, by the Rev. H.
H. Farker, H. W. Flint, of the U.S. S. Bennington,
and Nina Gardiner, of this city.
HOWARD GODDARD-Al Central Union Church.
this city, Jan. 12th, by the Rev. W. M. Kincaid, W. L.
Howard to Marga't-t H. Goddard.
HKRGSTROM—CURTIS—fa Alameda, C'al., Jan. loth.
at iheresidence of Mrs Jas. W. Hurnham, by the Rev.
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Linda M. Curtis, of Newtonville, Mass.
STUKDF.VANT-ATWATER-lathis city. Jan. l»lh
I lias. Vale Sturdevant to Ida Atwater: Rev. W. A.
Gardner officiating.
WRIGHT In this city, at the residence
JAC'OBSONof the bride's parents, E. A Jacob-on to Miss Jennie
Wrifhi.
DEATHS.
Jan. 3rd, W. J. (.Jallagher,
nlnrio, Canada, aged 3.'i years.
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HKSS in Honolulu, Jan. 9th, Kniil Hess, a nativeof
Switzerland, age 31.
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WQCOT, aged abo it 40 years.
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Mrs. Margaret Pritchard, wife of Jos. Pritchfrd
HARRISON In this city, Jan. 23rd, Mrs. Phoebe H.
Harrison, beloved wife of Caul. Harrison, aged 44 years,
a native of Waikapu, Maui.
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The following is clipped from the
Congregationalist of Jan. ftth :
Latest news from the Ladrone and
the Caroline Islands till of revolts at
Guam and at Ponape. At the formet
island the authority of Francis Portusach, selected by the Americans to up
hold American authority last summer,
when the cruiser Charleston awed the
Spanish garrison into submission, was
quickly disputed and overthrown as socn
as the cruiser departed. At Ponape
there would seem to have been an uprising of the natives against the Spanish
garrison and priests, the victory of the
former resulting in a massacre. The
new ruler is Henry Nanapei, by far the
ablest of the natives, who was educated
in the Protestant schools and is a man
of marked ability, well known to the
officials of the American Board. Spain,
if she insists upon retaining the Carolines, will probably avenge this massacre, which means disaster to Protestant interests.
The transfer of the
Carolines to Germany or the Unit-d
States would save Spain much expenditure, for which she gets no return, and
would put an end to the religious feuds
which now ravage the island of Ponape.
The following has been received from
a young Chinese woman who is a teacher
of our Board employed by Mr. Damon:
Mission School,
N. Kohala, H. I, Jan. 19, '99.
To Hawaiian Board:
With pleasure I take this fair opportunity to address a few lines about the
Kindergarten department to you in which
I am engaged here.
I feel very interested in attending
this work, for there are such bright
pupils. Thus encouraging me confidently to carry on the good work.
There are two classes promoted last
September to Miss Whiteman's room.
One class is now reading in First
Reader, and the other class probably
will begin the First Reader in Spring;
and still there are seventeen pupils
remaining in my room Some of them
are heathen children, these little people
are sent to us to learn English, and it
gives an opportunity for us in teaching
of the Savior.
The majority, however, come from
the Christian Chinese homes, which
shows the result of former Christian
instructions.
J hope sincerely that, these good
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Papeete, Tahiti,
children will be the followers of our dear
Lord Jesus Christ.
12th of December, 1898.
I shall conclude this note with my The Kkv. O. P. Fmkrson,
best regards and aloha nui to the memSecretary of the Hoard of the Habers of the Board.
waiian Evangelical Association.
I remain,
I)i
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Sir:—As your letter dated Oct.
Yours truly,
Hd
cams
to hand a few days before
Chang.
Kn Lin
the meeting of our December Missionary Conference, its contents were comThe Marquesas Mission and the ReturnKehlas.toef municated
to all our colleagues who appointed me to answer your enquiries
about our intended missionary work in
A letter has been received from Rev. the Marquesas.
James Kekela dated Papeete, Tahiti, Several years ago we felt the necesNov. -.'9th,
sity of sending a French Protestant
This second visit within the year to Missionary to those islands to fight for
the Gospel and sustain the woik comTahiti was made by him to consummate
menced there many years ago by the
an arrangement for the removal of his Hawaiian Missionary Society.
family to Honolulu. A fifty ton schoon
When the Rev. J. M. Alexander caller has been chartered for the purpose; ed here about two years ago, after havthe voyage is to begin in February, and ing spent a few weeks in the Marquesthe arrival of the Kekelas is planned for as, he appeared very anxious that we
should send some one there to take up
March.
the work. A little latter our Paris SoKekela reports that his wife has at ciety sent out to us a newly ordained
last consented to accompany him and missionary who had been trained in its
the children and grand children that are missionary institution, with a view to
to come, some fourteen persons in all. meeting the needs in the Austral and
This she does at the earnest request of I'aumotu and Matquesan islands.
her family.
Therefore, when the Revels. KauweKekela also reports his j >y at the aloha and lv kela came here about five
coming of reinforcements into the Mar- months ago, we answered their urgent
quesan field.
request! by deciding that our young
The new missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. brother missionary, who is my own son
Paul Vernier, are to settle at Atuona, Paul Louis, should go ami settle in ihe
on the island of Hiwaoa, at the station M.uquesas.
where the Rev. Hapuku is located. Mr.
In order to acquaint himself with his
Vernier was educated at Paris and is future field of labor, he was led to make
the son of Rev. Fred. Vernier, the there a preliminary visit in September
French protestant missionary at Pa and October. He was most coidially
peete. A letter from Rev. Kauwealoha welcomed in the Dominique, or Hivaoa,
of Hakehatau, Uapou (Marquesas), was by the Revels. Hapuku and Kekela who
published in Thk Friknd for Nov., offered him, either at Puamau or at
1898, in which reference is made to the Atuona, some piece of land for his esjoint effort of Revs. Kekela and Kauwe- tablishment.
aloha to secure aid from the brethren at
He was not able to call at Uapou;
Tahiti, and this seems to be the out- therefore he did not meet the Revd.
come of their efforts.
Kauwealoha; but he got from him a letThe Hawaiian Board will continue to ter in which he says he would give him
support its missionaries in the Mar- a parcel of ground, and even a house,
quesas till their working days are over; if he decided to reside at Uapou.
they are now old men and cannot last
On his return here, our missionary
much longer; but in all probability this conference, alter having heard his reBoard will not send any new missiona- port about the requirements of the work
ries to take their places. We therefore at the Marquesas, came to the conclushail with joy the prospect ot aid coming ion that he must settle at Atuona, and
to them Irom elsewhere which will as- accept the Revd. Hapuku's kind offer
sure the continuance of their work and of a good piece of land, which he may
indeed it is eminently fitting that, at perhaps consent to give in somewhat
this juncture, our work in the Marques- larger dimensions than spoken of at
as should be taken up and carried on first, in view of establishing ultimately
by French Protestants. Tne Marquesas upon it a school house besides the
has become a part of the French domi- dwelling house. As a rather great
exnion, the French language is taught in pense will be required for the settlement
the schools of the group, and there is of the new missionary at Atuona, we
a ready a French Protestant mission at have to consult our Board of Missions
Tahiti which can work in conjunction in Paris before we can give orders for
with that to be established in tne Mar- the building of the dwelling-house; but
quesas. In reply to a letter sent in we hope to get in a few months a favorOct., Rev. Mr. Vernier writes as fol- able answer. We are glad that your
lows;
present missionaries in the Marquesas
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will be maintained there still by your
society. Their long experience will be
of a great value to the new missionary.
I hope, dear sir, these few lines of information shall have met the wishes ex
pressed in you» letter.
Accept of our kindest regards.
Very sincerely yours,
FRI.!). Vl-.RNII-.R,
Missionary.
For this home coming of the Kekelas
we must prepare a true welcome. Few
Hawaiian*, if any, have brought more
honor to their people than this veteran
couple.
For more than fifty years they have
been in the work, nearly all of that time
(ItJ years) having been spent in the
Marquesas. The fame of their good
deeds has gone afar. Lincoln honored
Kekela for his brave efforts in saving
from savages the lives of a boat crew of
American sailors.
The veterans Kekela and Kauwealoha
and Hapuku have seen the taming at
their hands of a people who once were
savages. Their names are honored in
the Marquesas, and the sterling worth
of their character is known in Tahiti and
throughout the French dominion in the
southern and south-eastern Pacific.
Kauwealoha is childless, and purposes
to stay with his people to the end. Kekela has a large family of children and
grand children, and it is by the advice
of his friends that he brings a portion of
those at the Marquesas back to his na
tive land. Th y should be given every
advantage our schools can offer.
Letter From Manila.
Manila, Dec. 17, 1898.
Tiios. (i. Thrum, Ksy.
Honolulu, H. I.
Mv Dlar Sir:
Pursuant to my compact made with
you during my altogether too brief visit
to your beautiful city, I assume an
opportunity for writing to you, briefly
and I trust succinctly, of Manila and its
environments as they appear to me. I
can only tell you as the light is given
me to see, and mayhap many of my
views will not coincide with yours; vide,
our friendly and altogether interesting
discussion anent the annexation of your
delightful country.
Manila, (and I use the name generically, for Manila practically represents
all there is of the island of Luzon undei
the present status) suffers deeply from
two causes—ignorance and Catholicism,
the latter chiefest. I do not desire nor
attempt to arraign the church as a reli
"ious institution per se, but because all
people here are so thoroughly indoctrinated with the union of churchcraft
and statecraft that the wheels of the one
The
[February,
THE FRIEND.
will not turn without the aid of the otherThe people may become reconciled to
the idea of disunion, but not for main
years. The islands are a magnificent
domain, but hardly worth the burning
of the candle so far as the United States
is concerned, unless it may be, stratege
tically. 'The people of the cities have
for ages been accustomed to military
domination and the law ot might. Com
paratively, the islands are unexplored 6H
miles from the shore in any direction.
The inhabitants of the interior artnumerous, warlike, and not easily amen
able to the influences of civilization.
Wealth—mineral, vegetable and manufacturable—there is here in great abun
dance, but it will require the genius of
Yankeedom to extract it. Before it can
be extracted the peoples of the mountain
and inland valleys must be conquered
and taught submission. Before this can
be done, the U. S. Government will be
necessitated in maintaining here a much
larger army than she now has. There
are at present 20,(1(1(1 American troops
here in round numbers, a part of them
(and quite a considerable part) ineffecti\e
because of disease and climatic conditions. Aguinaldo has about .'1(1,(10(1 in
surgents outside the city just beyond oui
lines, lloilo, the second largest city in
the islands is clamoring for troops to
stop the inroads of insurgents there, but
none can be spared because they are
needed here to previ nt Aguinaldo from
becoming unduly foolish. And he is the
least toad in the puddle, because the
formidable hill tribes are always to be
reckoned with, as was the case in India
when England took possession.
Uncle Sam can assume control of the
Philippines and make it a very valuable
possession, but it will, in my opinion
require the use of an army of iOn, lion
men and the expenditure of a vast
amount of money. There must be no
Lucknow nor Black Hole of Calcutta
here.
'Then, too, not to be discursive, I be
lieve the Filipinos to be thoroughly
capable of self government not a gov
ernment for progressive white people
perhaps, but at least one infinitely better
'They are thrifty,
than Spain gave.
industrious, sober and intelligent. If
left to themselves they might build up a
friendly power here in the far Pacific
more valuable to the United States than
actual possession would be. Oiiien sahe?
Besides, they possess the added ad van
tage of knowing each other and that is
much. Pray do not understand me to
argue for Philippinic autonomy but 1
voice conditions as I seem to find them.
Perhaps, when opportunity is given me
to visit other islands and study more
closely things will seem different.
There is an abundance of business
opportunity here, but it will require somt
capital in all lines. It is a far cry from
the U. S. to Luzon. It will require
money to conic here and money to
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this reason, but little American immigration can be expected for many years.
Later, when my information is fuller,
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and appreciation of, your courtesies,
and
remain,
Very .incerely,
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The Pilippine Problem
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Affai »at I'onape
GrowtS of lentral Union Church
Obituary
Mrs. Sarah Andrews
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Edward Atkinson Misled
Dedication of Catholic Church
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A Sad Tragedy
A New Cemetery—Where?
Railway Open to Kahuku
Professor C. H. Hitchcock 1..1..1)
Invitation lo the Lord's Supper
More About Ihe I heater
A Great Wroni; and Shame
More About Julien I). Hayne
Kaimuki Residence Tract
Increase Government Income
Record of Kvents
Marine Journal
Hawaii in Board
Letter froui Manila
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The Philippine Problem.
The United States are imperatively
confronted with the question, What is
to be done with the Philippines? There
are some great perplexities and difficul-
Life and Light of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If they can receive His Light and Power, they will be transformed into a
Christian people, pervaded by elevated
and righteous aspirations. They would
be a changed race, with a new capacity
for maintaining worthy government, and
high civilization.
This effectual remedy for civil and
social degradation it is now made the
especial province of the American
churches to apply to the Philippine Islanders. And the Hawaiian churches,
by greater proximity, are called to no
small share in that work. It will be a
work long, toilsome, arduous, but most
fruitful. It will be a labor of many
generations before well established results are attained, yet one in which
much fruit can soon be gathered.
We believe that American Christians
will see the imperative duty of this
task, and will address themselves to it
with determination. We look for strong
bands of consecrated men and women
soon to go as missionaries to the various tribes in those Islands, and show
them the right way of the Lord. In the
presence of such bodies of disinterested
and devoted spiritual laborers, there
will be to the civil administrators from
America, both a wholesome check upon
misconduct, and an inspiring incentive
to disinterested and humane exertion
for the good of the people under their
care.
In India, Christian missionaries once
hated and repelled by the officials of the
Last India Company,have so vindicated
and proved their worth, that now the
Government of India counts their services as of the highest value in promot
ing the intelligent and orderly co-operation of the native people. So in the
Philippines an American Civil Administration needs to be accompanied by the
uplifting spiiitual power of Kvangelical
Christian missionaries. In such help
lies the best hope of American success
in this new task.
ties in the problem, such as one can
hardly see any clear solution of. Apparently our country has put itself under obligation to provide adequately
good Government for the people of that
group. That is likely to be a difficult,
probably a costly undertaking. The
character of the people is such as absolutely to forbid the thought of annexing
them as citizens of the United States,
even if their remoteness permitted it.
The two alternatives seem to be, to establish them under some form of selfgovernment, under the protective control of the United States, or else to
govern them directly by Imperial power,
as Lngland does India. Loth of these
methods involve grave difficulties and
perhaps fatal objections. We do not
see through them.
There is one, and only one adtquate
remedy that, if effectually applied, would
remove all difficulties.
That is, to
thoroughly evangelize the people of the
Philippines. They are ignorant, dc
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graded, superstitious, largely pagan,
aAf itrs onape.
and incapable of social combination foi
Our news from Ponape is meager. It
wise and righteous government. What
to be definite that the native.
appears
they need is to be born again into the |
Number 2
have overcome and massacred the
Spanish garrison and the priests, and
that Henry Nanpei has been made king.
The massacre is most regrettable, but it
was only what was to have been expected, after the long-continued oppressions and outrages of the Spaniards.
The Ponapeans are greatly favored by
Providence in having among them a
leader and ruler of such ability, intelligence and moral worth as Nanpei. His
personal influence among the people is
very great. It is sure to be exerted to
the utmost in maintaining Christian
civilization and repressing heathen excesses. There seems now to be no father danger that Spain will seek to recover her authority in the Caroline
islands. That would require the maintenance of garrisons of several thousand
soldiers, of a cruiser and two gunboats,
and of a naval station, all involving
heavy expense and no income in return.
The piesent probability is that Spain
will sell the Carolines to Germany.
That power would not seriously interfere
with our prosperous American missions
there of nearly fifty years' standing.
TheMorning Star, leaving here for the
Caroline Islands about April Ist, will in
due time restore our interrupted intercourse. Meantime, our beloved missionaries have endured much isolation,
together with wearing anxiety, on account of the war, which so closely concerned them.
Growth of Central Union Church.
Various annual reports of the work of
this church have been read at recent
meetings. The membership had increased during 1898, from 543 to 574.
The report of the Church Treasurer,
which relates to the Benevolent work
of the church, showed receipts $5,213-.69, and disbursements $5,002.3 J. These
receipts are from the collections at
moining and evening worship, amounting at present at about $100 each
bath.
The report of the Treasurer of the
received, and
$7,358.00 expended. These are the expenses of maintaining public worship,
including pastor's salary $4,500. The
estimate of such expenses for 1899, is
trustees shows $8,381.74
$8,303.
The average attendance at Sunday
School has been 358.
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THE FRIEND.
[February,
1899.
Mrs. Sarah Andrews Thurston.
The funeral was held at the residence of the earnest acceptance of Christianity
of her daughter, Mrs. Alexander, in the by a majority of the chiefs as well as
old Andrews homestead. It was deeply common people. Human sacrifices and
Mrs. Thurston had been for a month felt to be a privilege to escort the be- infanticide had ceased. Sorcery was
prostrated by paralysis. She passed loved form on its last journey to its practiced only in secrecy, although still
away in the early morning of the 15th resting place by her husband's side, in the cause of great mortality. Life was
the old burial lot of the Andrews family reasonably secure, as it was not when
ult. The funeral was attended by a in
Nuuanu cemetery.
the missionaries came in 1820. But the
large gathering of deeply-attached
Thus a very noble and gracious soul people owned no lands. They were
friends. The pall-bearers were Messrs. has passed on to the unseen beyond, serfs, occupying their little patches at
O. H. Gulick, S. E. Bishop, A. F. Judd, leaving us enriched by her long abode the will of very arbitrary chiefs, who
us, though greatly sorrowing to exacted much labor from them. Even
W. D. Alexander, W. N. Armstrong, among
part with one of such cheering and the chiefs held their estates subject to
W. W. Hall, C. M. Cooke and W. 0. winning presence. She has gone for- the will of the king.
Smith.
ward with a very clear and holy hope
It was over twenty-five years after the
The deceased was the third child of for the life ot eternity, having long and landing of the missionaries that their
lovingly trusted in Him who is the Life influence led the king and chiefs to award
the eminent missionary, Lorrin An- and
the Way.
drews, who arrived here in 1828. She Mrs. Thurston leaves three surviving lands in fee simple to the common
was born Oct. 19, 1832, at the Lahaina- brothers and one sister Robert, Samu- people. Each cultivator received title to
the small patches occupied by him in the
luna High School, which had been el and William Andrews, and Mrs. Mary middle of the large tract
awarded to his
opened by her father the year before. Ellen Nott.
chief. These patches, now owned by
Her childhood was passed at that site
the peasantry, constituted about oneof splendid outlook in company with the
twentieth part of the choice cultivable
Edward
Atkinson Misled.
Clarks and other missionary families.
land. The rest, including vast tracts of
Some fifteen years later, Mr. Andrews
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser inferior country, belonged to the chiefs,
removed to Honolulu to become Assothe following notice with suitable or to the Government.
quotes
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. The
"Happy, contented," in those early
Andrews children received their educa- refutation :
the people were not. My childdays,
tion at Punahou, none of the older ones
"At the New England dinner, given hood impression ot them
was of their
leaving the islands. An early attach- in Springfield, Mass., on Dec 21st, Mr.
being very miserable, often half-starved,
ment in childhood led to the marriage Edward Atkinson, an eminent New Engof Sarah, Oct. 23, 1853, to Asa Goodale lander, a writer of great force, a leader and lacking the barest necessaries as
Thurston, then an active public man in industrial progress, and the steadfast well as decencies of life. A majority of
and Speaker of the Hawaiian House of friend of humanity, made the following them were lean and squalid of aspect, in
marked contrast with the stately chiefs
Representatives. Mr. Thurston soon remarks regarding these islands :
and their sleek attendants. There was
met with severe financial reverses. In
"'I will not deal with the so-called
his strenuous efforts to recover himself moral reason—the missionary enterprise. no open discontent; they had never
he contracted aneurism, of which he I have the greatest honor and esteem known anything better than the squalid
died Dec. 17, 1859, leaving his widow for the missionaries. I have not, how- life of serfs.
Mr. Atkinson speaks of them as now
and their three children in straitened ever, a great regard for the missionary
"infected with disease,' doubtless meancircumstances. For many years Mrs. enterprises in the Sandwich Islands.
Thurston's life was one of much toil We found there a large number of hap- ing leprosy. When I recall the numand privation. In 1868 she and her py, contented people. They enjoyed bers of people with hideous sores, who
brother opened the Government board- their lands and lives. There is now left used to throng my father's dispensary
such treatment as he could apply,
ing and industrial school for boys only a decaying remnant, who are in for
at Makawao, Maui. Many now active fected with disease from which they can and especially the horrible disfigurement
men carried thence a grateful remem- never get clear. They own a small of faces constantly encountered in the
streets of Kailua, I wish Mi. Atkinson
brance of her motherly care. In 1874 a share of their land, and more than one- could
know the happy contrast now pregreat grief came to her in the sudden third of that land is in the hands of the
death of her bright and capable elder sons and daughters of those missiona- sented by the comparatively wholesome
son, Robert, when on the threshold of ries. Piety and profit have gone hand aspect of Hawaiian faces, since modern
medical treatment has suppressed the
active life. It was not until several in hand.' "
earlier
virulence of disease.
No dethat
years later
the pressure of poverty
Calumnies similar to the foregoing facement of leprosy is ever as loathsome
began to relax by the aid.of the growing
strength of her younger son, the now were voiced a few years ago by Mr. and hideous as were the ofien met faces
distinguished statesman, Lorrin A. Thomas Shearman, in Plymouth church. which had been eaten away by the premalady of those early days.
Thurston.
Together with much grosser slanders, vailing
all respects, in dress, in housing,
In
all
her many years of adver- they have their origin among the baser
Through
in abundance of food, in education, in
sity, Mrs. Thurston's bright, cheerful class of white men in the Pacific. When liberal
wages, the present condition' of
spirit and unabated courage made her
the
natives
is a Paradise as compared
men
of
repute
them
honorain
repeat
presence and home always attractive.
Her later years have been spent at the ble assemblies, it may be time to take with their debased misery as I knew
them sixty years ago.
home of her son and of her daughter on some notice of their falsity.
"More than one-third of their land,"
Maui, Mrs. Helen G. Alexander, each of Mr. Atkinson is reported as saying of
whom have a son and a daughter who the Hawaiians, "We found there a large Mr. Atkinson charges, "is in the hands
the sons and daughters of those mishave lost a wise and tender grandparent. number of happy and contented people. of
These later years have been greatly They enjoy their lands and lives." The sionaries." These descendants of missionaries residing here, constitute about
cheered and brightened. Mrs. Thurston present writer, born at Kona,
five per cent of the 8000 whites among
repeatedly accompanied her son to has a distinct memory of socialHawaii,
condi- whom
one half of the lands in
Washington on his important missions, tions here from 1831 to 1840. The con- Hawaii probably
have become distributed. They
having left that capital with him and dition of the natives had at that time bemay own ten per cent of
half, or onehis family last July,
come much ameliorated in consequence twentieth of the whple that
land, instead
Obituary.
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Vol. 57, No. 2.]
"more than-one-third," as Mr. Atkinson
charges. Nearly all of that, however,
was formerly the land of chiefs who left
no immediate heirs, or else was government land, bought in open market.
Some of the sons of missionaries are
wealthy. They have become so honorably, by enterprise and industry. They
are most affectionately inclined towards
the natives, and benevolent contributors
to their well-being in a remarkable
degree. The Christian people of Hawaii
are notable, beyond those of any olher
country,for their munificent beneficence,
in which the descendants of missionaries
take the lead, as they ought.
The decay and continued decrease of
the Hawaiian natives is a distressing
fact. It began with the first visits of
foreigners. Christianity failed to arrest
it, although it materially checked the
decrease, which still continues. A thorough adoption into domestic life of the
ethics of Christian civilization would
remedy the evil; but of this there is little
hope. It would have been a delightful
success of missionary labor, had the
people been redeemed from wasting
away. Had they been like Tonga, isolated from contact with corrupting for
eigners, that result would probably have
been attained. As it is, the chief lasting
result of missionary labor in Hawaii has
been the permanent establishment of a
strong and active Christian civilization,
having power to mould and shape all the
diverse races immigrating hither, and to
make this a Christian country of the
highest order. Hawaii is, through mis
sionary effort, a powerful stronghold of
Christian light and influence in this mid
Pacific.
Dedication of Catholic Church.
On the 15th took place the dedication
of a Roman Catholic Church recently
completed at Kealahou, Kula on Maui.
Nearly 800 were said to be present.
The Bishop confirmed 100 children.
The population of Kula is largely Portuguese, industrious farmers. We believe that there are no Catholic priests
here who speak Portuguese. It seems
doubtful whether those Kula people can
receive much religious instruction, even
of the Catholic sort. Of course their
children are taught English in a Gov
ernment school.
A Sad Tragedy.
That was a terrible affair at the Ka-
mehameha School when Grace Beckley
flung herself to instant death from a
third story window. She had left the
school in ill health, and returned for
her things. She was undoubtedly in
sane. The strongest sympathy is felt
for the girl's relatives, as well as for the
teachers and pupils of the school, who
sustained so fearful a shock.
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THE FRIEND.
Triolets.
SOUTH WIND.
The wind is in the south today,
Ah me! ah me!
I would I were a league away.
The wind is in the south today,
And mournfully doth sing his lay,
The sea, the sea.
The wind is in the south today,
Ah me! ah me!
FEBRUARY MORNING.
Rustle red leaves on the mango tree,
The world is glad and my heart i« gay.
The trades inspiring, strong and free,
Rustle red leaves on the mango tree.
Kiss the bright waves of the laughing sea,
And lift ihe hair ot the child at play.
Rustle, red leaves on the mango tree!
The world is glad and my heart is gay.
M. 1). F.
Honolulu, H. I.
A New Cemetery---Where?
This question is becoming somewhat
urgent, and is under discussion. The
Friend ventures the opinion that the
best possible site will be upon some
portion of the rising ground not over a
mile above the Railway between Puuloa
station and Moanalua. It should be
not far from the railway, to facilitate
transportation. It should be not less
than four or five miles from the center
of the town, which will doubtless grow
to a city of 100,000, extending three
miles each way. It should also be
within easy reach of irrigation, in order
It should
to be properly beautified.
also have room to an extent of 500 acres
at least. All these conditions are available on the site now suggested, and no
where else.
The noted Father Chiniquy died January 16, in Montreal, in his 90th year.
For forty years he had been a most vigorous adversary of the Roman Catholic
Church, in which he had been a priest
for 25 years, and had noted its corruptions. He once visited Honolulu. He
gave the impression of a devoted spirit,
but of the aggressive cast, in temper and
language, of such men as Father Yorke,
rather than the milder and more decorous tone educated among Protestants.
Mr. Gilman's Good Services.
It seems in place to notice again the
excellent missionary work done in behalf
of Hawaii ir) New England and New
York, by the Hon. Gorham D. Gilman
of Newton, Hawaiian Consul-General
for New England. The latest report of
such work is of an "informal talk" by
Mr. Gilman before the Eliot Club Dec.
19th, effectively illustrated by numerous
views on a screen. Thetalk, as reported,
took a wide range, filled with accurate
and graphic statements. Mr. Gilman is
an expert lecturer on this subject. He
resided here from 1841 to 1861, visiting
us again in 18. 4. No man has done so
much to impart correct knowledge of
Hawaiian affairs to the people of his
region.
Professor C. H. Hitchcock, L.L.D.
This distinguished geologist is spending part of a year's furlough in Hawaii,
having previously visited us in 1883
and 1886. He has just returned from
an absence of three months in the
Southern hemisphere, visiting Fiji, Australia and New Zealand, in the latter
Islands studying glaciers and volcanic
phenomena. He declares the New Zealand glaciers far to exceed of those of
Switzerland.
Although so greatly interested in volcanoes, for the study of which he is
here, Dr. Hitchcock's chief distinction
has been gained in the study of phenomena at the other extreme of temperature, the glaciers. He has done more
work on glacial phenomena in America
than any other person, and was the
first to locate and demonstrate the great
Terminal Moraine in Long Island,
which clue others followed out to the
westward into Dakota.
The Doctor's., largest publication is
his three volumes of Report as State
Geologist of New Hampshire, a copy of
which is in the library of our Government Survey, including a splendid Atlas. He has been for thirty years Professor of Geology in Dartmouth College,
where the immense geological collections are his work.
The site of the new building for Maunaolu Seminary recently burned at
On January Ist, the Oahu Railway Makawao, has been settled upon near
commenced its regular service to Kahu- Sunnyside in Paia, the residence of
Pastor Beckwith.
ku Mill, 71 miles from Honolulu. The
schedule time is a little over three hours.
The new Judd Building has been
Passenger trains run twice a day each cleared of exterior obstructions, and
way. This route is a most interesting forms a handsome addition to the city
one. The crossing of Waimea gulch is architecture.
The interior is still unIt is the only four-story
a fine piece of engineering. Splendid finished.
surf effects are to be observed for many building here. Another, or perhaps a
miles, on different sections of the farther five-story building, is promised on the
half of the route.
Hall corner, one block up Fort Street.
Railway Open to Kahuku.
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Februay, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Invitation to the Lord's Supper.
A Great Wrong and Shame.
Such invitation is in these days rightly
made much broader and more open than
formerly. Some pastors go so far as to
invite every one to partake who "loves
the Lord Jesus Christ." While not
attaching extreme importance to the
subject, we should prefer to be more
explicit, as by adding to "loves," the
words "and trusts." Many graduates of
Williams greatly love Mark Hopkins.
Some of us have a very tender feeling
towards Abraham Lincoln.
But the
attitude of the soul which is due to outLord, is more than a sentiment of regard
or esteem, however tender.
There
should be the yielding to him of the will
in trustful surrender. May not so indefinite an invitation as the above become
a means of misleading some who have
merely a sentimental admiration of Jesus
of Nazareth, to believe that they are
truly Christians ? "Take my yoke and
follow me," is his command. The
soul must be the bride of Christ, united
to him as the branch to the vine. The
true love that He calls for, means all
this. He must be Lord and center of
the soul. The Lord's Supper, worthily
set forth, is a solemn and meaning ordinance.
That table is not to be lightly
approached.
An attempt is now apparently becoming successful to fasten upon the Government of the United States an act of
the deepest infamy, which it should be
the urgent effort of every patriotic
American, who has any regard for the
honor of his country, to avert.
As the case now stands, those Chinese residents who lately returned here,
after visiting their native land, with return permits issued by the Hawaiian
Government before annexation, are forbidden to enter their homes, and are ex
eluded as aliens, on the ground that
United States law now invalidates those
Hawaiian permits and renders them
void. Our last issue reported the wise
and equitable decision of the Chief Jus
tice that the Newland Act could not be
interpreted retrospectively, unless so ex
plicitly stated, and therefore the return
permits issued previous to annexation
remained valid. Now that decision has
been reversed by the other two judges.
We have been unable, in the mass of
their prolix verbiage, to understand the
grounds of so inequitable a decision.
It seems to us to savor of cold blooded
cruelty and inhumanity, as well as ot
It indicates narrow
ulter injustice.
technical construction, instead of breadth
and equity of mind.
By that decision a large number ol
worthy and honest Chinamen are dc
barred from returning to their homes
and business in Hawaii, uson the flim
siest pretext. In some cases it appears
that husbands and wives are separated.
and the women driven to desperation
and probable suicide. Such treatment
is infamous in no narrow sense or lim
ited degree. If carried out, it will fix a
dark and ineradicable stain of shame
upon the American Government and its
heartless officials. The case of ihese
deeply wronged people is now being carried before the Secretary of the Treasu
ry. We feel a strong assurance that he,
at least, will have such sense of honor,
as well as of rectitude, as to revets; the
action taken here, and confirm the val
idity of the Hawaiian permits.
More About the Theater.
Our good neighbor of the Advertiser
is grieved at the "bigotry" of The
Friend in retaining some of the oldtime prejudice of our Missionary Fathers
against the theater. Here then is
something more to afflict our neighbor's
sensibilities.
In a Methodist paper of high standing lately appears a New Year story of
a man who, in a dream, is confronted
with the ghastly shade of his last New
Year's resolutions. "You promised to
exclude impute thoughts from yourmind.
But how have you done? You have,
constantly attended the theater, and
saturated your mind with vile and salacious images, until your whole soul is
foul."
There are theaters and theaters,
p
bly there is 'I'nWpnrf between the
ilwuse ami the Oi11..HU1U1U Opcia
Joseph T. Smith.
pheum. We are not well informed as
to that. Our objection to theaters in
A distinguished Mormon magnate
general is not that a pure and elevating
drama is not possible, but that a paying has lately arrived here, in the person of
theater must almost necessarily cater to Joseph T. Smith, a member of the Utah
depraved popular tastes.
Presidency, and a son of the founder of
majority of theater-goers are perSmith. Mr. Smith
debased life and thought. Tlw Mormonism, Joseph
one
of the early Mormon missionai quite sure to be adapted to' the was
its
and
therefore
ries
here
nearly fifty years ago, when he
y of
patrons,
s an unfit resort for those who learned the Hawaiian tongue. He visbe pure in thought and elevated ited here later, about 1861, to assist in
dealing with W. M. Gibson, on Lanai.
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In about 1885, when the polygamist
leaders in Utah were prosecuted, Jos.
T. Smith was among those who fled
from Utah. He then passed some
months very quietly among the Mormons at Laic.
Presumably, Mr. Smith's present errand is to help in deciding upon the
political attitude to be taken by the
Mormons in Hawaii under the coming
Territorial Government. They are numerous enough to form an element for
the consideration of the political bosses.
No doubt they will be capably handled
by their superiors.
More About
Julien
D. Hayne.
This uncommon villain was so conspiin Honolulu that The Friend
puts on record a few particulars developed his recent trial and conviction.
His stealings are estimated at about
$200,000. The one on which he was
convicted was the forgeiy, in 189-1, of a
mortgage for $10,500, which he sold to
Mrs. Florence Cauldwell of N. Y. City.
He had much fascination of manner,
and victimized several women, both
maidens and widows, by marrying them
for the purpose of gaining possession of
their property. He also indulged in
smaller stealings from poor as well as
wealthy victims Towards those who
mistrusted his character he manifested
much malignity.
cuous
It is rather a coincidence that just at
this time is announced the reappearance
of a somewhat similar, and if possible, a
worse wretch, the "Reverend" Bill
Hammond, who also flourished in Honolulu a few years ago under the guise
of a Baptist preacher and anti popery
emissary. Hammond now turns up in
Havana in full activity. He, too, is a
plunderer of many wives, "leading cap
tive silly women," but with a tongue
.mil voice of unlimited gall for his dis
trusters.
The editor has the satisfaction of
having detected the spurious character
of both these wretches very early after
introduction to them. Par nobile Pratrnm\
Sale of Coffee Plantation.
The coffee plantation of Mr. Zimmerman at Olaa is repoited as sold for $20,-000 to C. S. Shanklin of Chicago.
There are 200 acres, half of which is
planted. There are 26 acres of three
year old trees, in bearing. Mr. Zimmerman will proceed to develop his
other coffee lands. Both parties are
considered to have made profitable
deals.
Kaimuki Residence Tract.
A genuinely judicious enterprise has
been shown by Gear, Lansing & Co., in
opening and putting Ml the market
building lots in this eligible section.
This tract is perhaps three fourths ol I
mile square, west of the ridge between
Diamond Head and Waialae road, form
ing a slope from 100 to -TiO feet above
the sea. It is swept by the fresh breeze
from Palolo valley, anil commands a
noble view of the city, valleys and
ocean. With ri'rh soil, but utteily arid.
it is being copiously supplied with watei
forced up from artesian wells on the
town side. Five miles from the city, it
will be connected by electric cars. Already the rocks and lantatvi thickets are
being cleared from the numerous streets
running each way, and dividing the tract
into convenient blocks. The residents
Can indulge in ornamental rock piles as
large as sheds.
Many people will find this locality
exactly to suit their tastes, (juite a
number have already selected their
bonus there.
Just west of the junction of Waialae
and Palolo roads, is the famous "Hell
Rock," a Urge flat table, which ring*
clearly whin struck with a stone. The
little K.iimuki crater back of Diamond
Head, at a lecent period emitted a flood
of clinker lava coveting some two square
miles of land, and blocking the Palolo
stream, which finally tore its way through
a curious black chasm now buried in
foliage, lying between the town end of
Waialae road anil the mountain. The
soft upper clinkers have crumbled into
soil, and left the hard lower knots of
rock protruding all over the tract. u Ka
Imu Xi" means The Oven for baking
Xi root. The pit of the little crater is
suggestive of a Polynesian earth-oven.
The wall of said oven contains a quail \
of vitreous cinders, forming a splendid
road dressing, and may be in danger ol
demolition for that use. The fine W'.n
alae road is greatly indebted thereto. Sir
does the new civilization of the Pacific
invade the hontscent haunts of ihe
ancient gods.
to learn of the death of
A.
Capt. Julius Palmer, well known here
for his ardent championship of the exqueen. We behexe that notwithstanding
his many misleading statesments, it was
Mr. Palmer's general intention to be
truthful. He wrote much for leading
American papeis, especially tor the
Boston Tii\ use lift. His style was attractive and plausible. While Liliuokalani's book was dictated by herself, its
literary dress was supplied by Captain
We regret
Palmer.
13
THE FRIEND.
Vol. 57, No. 2.]
Increased Government Income.
Bishop Museum Stamp Collection.
The report of the Auditor-General
shows the following increase in the receipts of the Government Treasury,
aside from loans:
J2.18S.82f) 79
Receipt* tof 1897
2,568,489 12
•• 1898
Increase
The
in the
two
$
370.<>6i
33
chief items of increase were
CiMtonM Bureau for
"
Increase
Tax llureau for
Increase
'•
1897
1S98
1897
1898
$708,405 05
890,97570
$188,482 05
(.759,70398
811.818 67
Mr. T. G. Thrum has for twentyseven years been making a collection of
postage stamps, which is said to be, in
its Hawaiian department, the most full
and complete in the world except that
in the British Museum. It has now
been purchased for the Bishop Museum
by Mr. Charles R. Bishop. Mr. Thrum
has on hand materials which will go far
towards making a second collection, but
less complete. The editor is no philatelist, but there is doubtless money in
that pursuit. Several years ago we sold
to a collector a 13-cent stamp for $50.
It is said now to be worth $1000. What
can be its element of value ?
$5'.i M- '">
The above figures indicate a mar
velous financial prosperity in Hawaii.
The public income per head of population was over $JO. At the same rate,
the united national and municipal annual income of the United States would
be $1,500,000,090. Is it as much as
that? Yet our taxation and customs
duties are much lighter than on the
Mainland.
Electric Power from Water at Hilo.
Mr. C. S. Desky is reported as stating
that he has completed arrangements for
utilizing the fall in the great Wailuku
stream at Hilo, so as to develop 10,000
horse power. It is not stated to what
use so much power can profitably be ap
plied. Hilo seems likely to have all the
electric light and traction needed. There
are many other streams with great fall
in the Hilo district. It would seem that
there ought soon to be a railway to Hamakua operated by electric power. Hilo
is a field of splendid possibilities.
Farming Association at Wahiawa.
Wahiawa is a section of the elevated
plateau between Ivwa and Waialua,
which comprises some 40,000 acres of
level country lying from 700 to 1000
feet above the sea. Between the forks
of the Kaukonahua stream lies a tract
of some 1400 acres, which has lately
been occupied by an association of practical farmers, consisting of fourteen
men with families from California.
Separate lots are assigned to each man.
Various trades and professions are represented among the members.
They purpose to raise fruits and vegetables for the California market, in part.
We believe that hay for this market
would be a paying product. These
farms are eight miles down hill to the
Railway. There seems no good reason
why that plateau should not suppoit
500 or 000 good farms. The rain sup1
ply averages good for half the year, say
50 inches.
The Oceanic, lately launched, is the
largest steamer ever built. She is 704
feet long, and of 17,000 tons. The fuThe very interesting statement is ture of mammoth steamers in the Pamade that our old stand-by, the steam- cific is not yet in sight. Wait for the
ship Australia, is immediately to be Siberian railway.
fitted with refrigerating compartments
Disquieting News from Samoa.
with capacity for 200 tons of freight.
Such provision for cold storage of meats
By way of Auckland comes word of
and fruits abounds upon steamer routes active war between the claimants to the
elsewhere. Better late than never upon kingship in Samoa, and that the capital
our Hawaiian lines of transit. A vastly Apia has been looted and burned by the
increased trade in the near future is to adherents of Mataafa.
be expected in fruits shipped hence to
This evil condition of things appears
California, and especially to Oregon and to have been the result of a disagreeWashington. With cold storage, our ment of the representatives of the three
bananas can be shipped when nearly protecting Powers, the German consul,
ripe, instead of in a green and very in- supporting Mataafa, being opposed to the
ferior condition, as now. The same is British and American rdpresentatives.
true of pineapples and of oranges,
The Moaua due here February Ist,
which are to become in due time a will doubtless bring full particulars of
leading fruit for export.
the difficulty.
Refrigerating Arrangements.
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RECORD OF EVENTS.
Jan.
Februay, 1899.
THE FRIEND.
Ist.— New Years day—the usual
time for good resolutions. —Revenue
Cutter McCulloch continues on her
21st.—Grace Kahea, a former pupil,
while visiting at the Kamehameha Girls'
School, leaped from a third story window
and met a shocking death.
23d.—Joe Sylva and cousin, Miss I.
Perry, in attempting to board the stmr.
Helene from the A ustralia, lying together
at the Oceanic dock, make a misstep
and fall into the water. Prompt help
rescues the woman, but Sylva sank and
his body was not recovered for several
hours.
•_'. Hb.— Death of
John McKeague, a
well known resident, founder of the
Heeia sugar plantation, Koolau, Oahu.
—The Scottish Thistle Club celebrates
Hums' anniversary by a banquet at the
Arlington Hotel
26th. —The Coptic, from Japan, en
route from San Francisco, arrives with
passenger accommodation so occupied
that but a portion of those booked at
this port could secure passage, though
quite a premium was paid by several.—
A San Francisco broker secures 4,SUA
shares of Onomea stock at a large ad
vance on par.
Minister and Mrs
Cooper give a delightful musicale at
their Manoa mansion, at which the Am
ateur orchestra acquitted themselves
very creditably in a varied program.
27th. —Wrecked foreign schooner reported on the windward coast of Ha
waii,with one dead body washed ashore.
No particulars obtainable.—Reception
at the German consulate in honor of
Emperor William's birthday.
2Hth.—Arrival of U. S. tugboat Iro
quois, formerly the Tearless of San Francisco.
29th. A large capture of smuggled
opium is made by a police officer, who,
searching under a warrant, found a kerosene case planted in the garden which
yielded 100 half pound tins of the drug.
30th.—Camera club of the Y. If. C.
A. organised.—Collision of vehicles on
Union Square results in severe injuries
to Dr. J. R. Shaw and a demolished
buggy.
31st.—Founder's Day at Lunalilo
Home celebrated by luau to the inmates
and invittd guests.
homeward voyage.
2d.—Monday, observed as the legal
and general holiday. Luaus and outing
parties the order of the day.—Opening
railroad excursion to Kahuku and waystations.— Noon reception and collation
to young men at the Y. If, C. A., and
concert in the evening by the Amateur
Orchestra. The attendance at both
events was large and appreciative.—The
hardware business of Castle & Cooke
transfers to the Pacific Hardware Co.
with the opening year.
4th.—Sudden death of R. D. Walbridge, of apoplexy. —The Cabinet au
thorized wharf extension of the port in
accordance with the Chamber of Commerce memorial.
6th.—The fine large new Japanese
steamship Nippon Mara, one of the
three additions of that nationality to the
Pacific Mail O. & O. line, arrives on her
maiden ttip to San Francisco, after a
smart passage.
7th. —Birthday serenade by the band,
directed by Berger's baton, to Chief Justice Judd.—One Japanese killed, another
seriously injured and two others badly
bruised through the collapse of a house
they were moving.—Auction sale of
X talawai beach lots, beyond Diamond
Head, brings high figures.
Bth.—Word received, per Claudine,
of the suicide on the 6th inst., in the
Hawaii channel, of Chas. Burke, a
recent arrival at Hilo from San Francisco.—Rev. Mr. Kincaid begins his
series of evening talks to young men
and secures a full attendance.
1Oth.—Official inspection of Oahu
railroad extension to pass upon subsidy
claim, according to law.
12th.—Annual business meeting of
Central Union Church for the presentation of reports. —Church wedding of Mr.
W. L. Howatd and Mrs. M. H. Goddard, Rev. W. M. Kincaid officiating.
1:1th sad news is received from
Kauai of the deatn of Henry Wilcox, by Marine Journal.
his own hand, through long suffering
PORT OF HONOLULU, JANUARY.
from neuralgia and insomnia.
Kith.—Collision on the Oahu Railroad
ARRIVALS.
between the incoming 7 a. m. train and
a switch engine, resulting in its serious 3—Br bk Anainba, Harder. from Liverpool.
Am schr AliceCo >ke, Penhallow, from Hon To* nsend.
damage, and injury to the engineer and
Tartar, Pybus, from Yokohama.
Br
Br bk Dominion, Barqiiiah. fro n NawCaatla.
fireman. —Death of Mrs. S. A. Thurs- 4—
—Am ss Marip< ><..,, Haywnrd, from the Colonies.
ton, after a spell of serious illness fol- a— Am sh i'acoma, t'edci -on, from San Francisco,
M Alameda yon (.u-iemlorp, foin San Francisco.
lowing a stroke of paralysis.—The S. S. 0 Am
Jp ■ Nippon Mam, Lv us, from VnlfnhaW.
Columbia is put up at auction to satisfy 7—Am bk S CCatherine.
Allen, Johnson, from San Fraiici-ro.
Matthews, from Nanaimo.
B—Am bk St
the several libels against her, at the up- 13—Am
ss Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, trom Yokohama.
Williamson, from Yokohama.
set price of $23,265, but no bids being —Br ss Lennox,
14—Am ss China, Seabury, from San FraftCuu o.
offered, the Marshal postponed the —Am bk Oregon, Parker, ir in Nawcaattt.
15—Am hkt Klikital, CutUr, fioin Port Townsend.
sale.
—Am schr Bertie Minor, Raven, from Luicka.
of
the
of
th.—Anniversary
passing
—Am bk Ceylon, Willard, from I'acoma.
1.
16
Am bk Amelia, Wilier, from Seattle.
as
observed
a
the monarchy,
holiday in is Br
ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from the Colonies.
ss Australia, Houdlettc, from San Franciaco.
official circles, but the wheels of business *2i) —Am
Haw sh Kails of Clyde, Matson, fiom San Fram iaCO,
move on uninterrupted.
'21 —Am bk Mauna Ala, Smith, from Poit Townsend.
r
—
—
—
-.s
—Am schr Mildred Kindler, from Port Townsend.
—Am l>k Martha Davis. Friis. from San Francisco.
Haw sh Star of Russia. Hatfield, trom Tacoma.
—U S S Yorktown. Sper. y, from San Francisco.
—Br >s Warrim o. Hay, from Vancjuver.
M lir ss Doric, Smith, from San Francisco.
24 -Haw ss A/tec, Trask, from Yokohama.
lii sstiaronne, Conradi, from Seattle.
2f3 Br ss Coptic* Sealby, from Yokohama.
27—Am bk Harry Morse, Fullerton, from Nanainio.
tJ Noi bk Helios, ■ his'ianscn, from Iqueqre, Chile.
L'Sli'y Iroquois, Pond, from San Francisco. (
2.5--
—
DEPARTURES.
I—U S Rev Culler McCulloch, Hooper, for San Kran.
Mariposa, H.iyward, for Sjii Ftancisco.
1 Am
'i Am ss Alameda, yon Oleiendorp, for the Colonies.
7—Jap ss Koooura Man.
for Yokohama.
J.p Nippon Mam, Kv.nis, for San Francisco.
Guam,
Bennington,
S
for
I* S
Taaltsitig,
Robertson, for Port Townsend.
Am likin
Sound.
Am l)k W'iln.i, Slatar, tor
Ital cruiser fctna. Giovello, f<ir Suva.
Am schr .-Voh.., Daliel, for San Francisco.
'■• Am liktn Archer. McAlman, for San Francisco.
12 Am t-chr K.sther Ruhue, Ander on, for San Francisco.
Am dk Mohican, Saunders, for San Francisco.
\ni -s Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for Sa-i Francisco.
14 Am u ( lima. Saabory, for Yokohama.
Ik Lennox, Williamson, for Portland.
Br
Hi I: lik W'oolhara, Barnesson, for Eureka.
Hemrorth. for Victoria.
II'l* Br hbk A-Ormiwi,
Br Itoinin on, Jones, for Royal Roads.
10 Am brg Coiisiielo, Christiansun, for San Francisco.
22 -Haw bk Diamond Head, Ward, for San Francisco.
U Bf M Wiirriinon, Hay, for the Colonies.
Gar an J C Pflunf-r, Hoever, for San Francisco.
Am lik Aldcn Besst, Cotter, for San Francisco.
24 Mr ss Doric, Smith, for Yokohama.
Am ss All tralia, Houdletle, for San Francisco.
86 Haw ss A/U'C, Trask. for San Francisco.
Am bktll Amelia, Wilier, for Port Townsend.
26—Am bktn Irmgard, Schmidt, for San Francisco.
—Am schr Spokane, Jamieson, for Port Townsend.
Haw bk R P Rithet, Calhoun, for San Francisco.
—Mr ss Coptic, Sealby, for San Francisco.
U S S Vorktowtt, Sparry. f'»r (iuam and Manila.
27 —Am bktn W H Dimond, NiUen, for San Francisco.
28 Am schr Alice Cooke, Penhallow, for San Francisco.
—Am bk Snow & (Unless, Mortonson, for Puget Sound.
Maw bk Hawaiian Isles, Kustel. for Port Angeles.
10 Br ssdarontie, Conradi, for Seattle.
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—
s
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BIRTHS.
CRAWLEY—At Puaabou. this city, Jan. 5th, to the wife
of J. T. Crawley, a daughter.
BKARWALD— In this city, Jan. 10th, to thewife of Jatoh
Bearwald, a daughtt r.
GKAR—In this city, Jan. Ifith, to the wife of A. V. (;e;tr,
a son.
PRITCHARD—On Jan. 10th, at Naalehu, Kau,
wife of Jmrph Pritihard, a daughter.
to the
MOTT-SMII'H— In Honolulu, Jan. 20th, to the wife of
t. A. Mutt Smith, a son.
NKKLV In this city, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of A. W.
Neely, a son.
KAKKINCiTON-In Honolulu, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of
W. R. Karrington, a daughter.
HKNDKV In Honolulu, Jan. 22nd, to the wife of E. K.
Hendry, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
FLINT-GARDINER-111 this city, January 4, ISM,
»t
the residence of Mrs. A. W. McLean, by the Rev. H.
H. Farker, H. W. Flint, of the U.S. S. Bennington,
and Nina Gardiner, of this city.
HOWARD GODDARD-Al Central Union Church.
this city, Jan. 12th, by the Rev. W. M. Kincaid, W. L.
Howard to Marga't-t H. Goddard.
HKRGSTROM—CURTIS—fa Alameda, C'al., Jan. loth.
at iheresidence of Mrs Jas. W. Hurnham, by the Rev.
I. G. Giltson, James W. Ilergstrom, of Honolulu, 10
Linda M. Curtis, of Newtonville, Mass.
STUKDF.VANT-ATWATER-lathis city. Jan. l»lh
I lias. Vale Sturdevant to Ida Atwater: Rev. W. A.
Gardner officiating.
WRIGHT In this city, at the residence
JAC'OBSONof the bride's parents, E. A Jacob-on to Miss Jennie
Wrifhi.
DEATHS.
Jan. 3rd, W. J. (.Jallagher,
nlnrio, Canada, aged 3.'i years.
WALBR1D0C In ihis city. Jan. 4ih, Russell D. Walliridur, .t native of Troy, N. V., aged 40 years.
HKSS in Honolulu, Jan. 9th, Kniil Hess, a nativeof
Switzerland, age 31.
WILCOX—Al Hanamaulu, Kauai, Jan. 11th, Henry H.
WQCOT, aged abo it 40 years.
PRITCHAKI)—At Naalehu, Kau, Hawaii, Jan. 20th,
Mrs. Margaret Pritchard, wife of Jos. Pritchfrd
HARRISON In this city, Jan. 23rd, Mrs. Phoebe H.
Harrison, beloved wife of Caul. Harrison, aged 44 years,
a native of Waikapu, Maui.
(JAI.KACHKR-ln thiscity,
a n.tiive of Au ora,
Vol. 57, No. 2.]
THE FRIEND.
HAWAIIAN BOARD.
HONOLULU. H. I.
This page is devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the
Board, is responsible for its conients.
Rev. O. P. Emerson.
-
Editor.
The following is clipped from the
Congregationalist of Jan. ftth :
Latest news from the Ladrone and
the Caroline Islands till of revolts at
Guam and at Ponape. At the formet
island the authority of Francis Portusach, selected by the Americans to up
hold American authority last summer,
when the cruiser Charleston awed the
Spanish garrison into submission, was
quickly disputed and overthrown as socn
as the cruiser departed. At Ponape
there would seem to have been an uprising of the natives against the Spanish
garrison and priests, the victory of the
former resulting in a massacre. The
new ruler is Henry Nanapei, by far the
ablest of the natives, who was educated
in the Protestant schools and is a man
of marked ability, well known to the
officials of the American Board. Spain,
if she insists upon retaining the Carolines, will probably avenge this massacre, which means disaster to Protestant interests.
The transfer of the
Carolines to Germany or the Unit-d
States would save Spain much expenditure, for which she gets no return, and
would put an end to the religious feuds
which now ravage the island of Ponape.
The following has been received from
a young Chinese woman who is a teacher
of our Board employed by Mr. Damon:
Mission School,
N. Kohala, H. I, Jan. 19, '99.
To Hawaiian Board:
With pleasure I take this fair opportunity to address a few lines about the
Kindergarten department to you in which
I am engaged here.
I feel very interested in attending
this work, for there are such bright
pupils. Thus encouraging me confidently to carry on the good work.
There are two classes promoted last
September to Miss Whiteman's room.
One class is now reading in First
Reader, and the other class probably
will begin the First Reader in Spring;
and still there are seventeen pupils
remaining in my room Some of them
are heathen children, these little people
are sent to us to learn English, and it
gives an opportunity for us in teaching
of the Savior.
The majority, however, come from
the Christian Chinese homes, which
shows the result of former Christian
instructions.
J hope sincerely that, these good
15
Papeete, Tahiti,
children will be the followers of our dear
Lord Jesus Christ.
12th of December, 1898.
I shall conclude this note with my The Kkv. O. P. Fmkrson,
best regards and aloha nui to the memSecretary of the Hoard of the Habers of the Board.
waiian Evangelical Association.
I remain,
I)i
ar
Sir:—As your letter dated Oct.
Yours truly,
Hd
cams
to hand a few days before
Chang.
Kn Lin
the meeting of our December Missionary Conference, its contents were comThe Marquesas Mission and the ReturnKehlas.toef municated
to all our colleagues who appointed me to answer your enquiries
about our intended missionary work in
A letter has been received from Rev. the Marquesas.
James Kekela dated Papeete, Tahiti, Several years ago we felt the necesNov. -.'9th,
sity of sending a French Protestant
This second visit within the year to Missionary to those islands to fight for
the Gospel and sustain the woik comTahiti was made by him to consummate
menced there many years ago by the
an arrangement for the removal of his Hawaiian Missionary Society.
family to Honolulu. A fifty ton schoon
When the Rev. J. M. Alexander caller has been chartered for the purpose; ed here about two years ago, after havthe voyage is to begin in February, and ing spent a few weeks in the Marquesthe arrival of the Kekelas is planned for as, he appeared very anxious that we
should send some one there to take up
March.
the work. A little latter our Paris SoKekela reports that his wife has at ciety sent out to us a newly ordained
last consented to accompany him and missionary who had been trained in its
the children and grand children that are missionary institution, with a view to
to come, some fourteen persons in all. meeting the needs in the Austral and
This she does at the earnest request of I'aumotu and Matquesan islands.
her family.
Therefore, when the Revels. KauweKekela also reports his j >y at the aloha and lv kela came here about five
coming of reinforcements into the Mar- months ago, we answered their urgent
quesan field.
request! by deciding that our young
The new missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. brother missionary, who is my own son
Paul Vernier, are to settle at Atuona, Paul Louis, should go ami settle in ihe
on the island of Hiwaoa, at the station M.uquesas.
where the Rev. Hapuku is located. Mr.
In order to acquaint himself with his
Vernier was educated at Paris and is future field of labor, he was led to make
the son of Rev. Fred. Vernier, the there a preliminary visit in September
French protestant missionary at Pa and October. He was most coidially
peete. A letter from Rev. Kauwealoha welcomed in the Dominique, or Hivaoa,
of Hakehatau, Uapou (Marquesas), was by the Revels. Hapuku and Kekela who
published in Thk Friknd for Nov., offered him, either at Puamau or at
1898, in which reference is made to the Atuona, some piece of land for his esjoint effort of Revs. Kekela and Kauwe- tablishment.
aloha to secure aid from the brethren at
He was not able to call at Uapou;
Tahiti, and this seems to be the out- therefore he did not meet the Revd.
come of their efforts.
Kauwealoha; but he got from him a letThe Hawaiian Board will continue to ter in which he says he would give him
support its missionaries in the Mar- a parcel of ground, and even a house,
quesas till their working days are over; if he decided to reside at Uapou.
they are now old men and cannot last
On his return here, our missionary
much longer; but in all probability this conference, alter having heard his reBoard will not send any new missiona- port about the requirements of the work
ries to take their places. We therefore at the Marquesas, came to the conclushail with joy the prospect ot aid coming ion that he must settle at Atuona, and
to them Irom elsewhere which will as- accept the Revd. Hapuku's kind offer
sure the continuance of their work and of a good piece of land, which he may
indeed it is eminently fitting that, at perhaps consent to give in somewhat
this juncture, our work in the Marques- larger dimensions than spoken of at
as should be taken up and carried on first, in view of establishing ultimately
by French Protestants. Tne Marquesas upon it a school house besides the
has become a part of the French domi- dwelling house. As a rather great
exnion, the French language is taught in pense will be required for the settlement
the schools of the group, and there is of the new missionary at Atuona, we
a ready a French Protestant mission at have to consult our Board of Missions
Tahiti which can work in conjunction in Paris before we can give orders for
with that to be established in tne Mar- the building of the dwelling-house; but
quesas. In reply to a letter sent in we hope to get in a few months a favorOct., Rev. Mr. Vernier writes as fol- able answer. We are glad that your
lows;
present missionaries in the Marquesas
16
will be maintained there still by your
society. Their long experience will be
of a great value to the new missionary.
I hope, dear sir, these few lines of information shall have met the wishes ex
pressed in you» letter.
Accept of our kindest regards.
Very sincerely yours,
FRI.!). Vl-.RNII-.R,
Missionary.
For this home coming of the Kekelas
we must prepare a true welcome. Few
Hawaiian*, if any, have brought more
honor to their people than this veteran
couple.
For more than fifty years they have
been in the work, nearly all of that time
(ItJ years) having been spent in the
Marquesas. The fame of their good
deeds has gone afar. Lincoln honored
Kekela for his brave efforts in saving
from savages the lives of a boat crew of
American sailors.
The veterans Kekela and Kauwealoha
and Hapuku have seen the taming at
their hands of a people who once were
savages. Their names are honored in
the Marquesas, and the sterling worth
of their character is known in Tahiti and
throughout the French dominion in the
southern and south-eastern Pacific.
Kauwealoha is childless, and purposes
to stay with his people to the end. Kekela has a large family of children and
grand children, and it is by the advice
of his friends that he brings a portion of
those at the Marquesas back to his na
tive land. Th y should be given every
advantage our schools can offer.
Letter From Manila.
Manila, Dec. 17, 1898.
Tiios. (i. Thrum, Ksy.
Honolulu, H. I.
Mv Dlar Sir:
Pursuant to my compact made with
you during my altogether too brief visit
to your beautiful city, I assume an
opportunity for writing to you, briefly
and I trust succinctly, of Manila and its
environments as they appear to me. I
can only tell you as the light is given
me to see, and mayhap many of my
views will not coincide with yours; vide,
our friendly and altogether interesting
discussion anent the annexation of your
delightful country.
Manila, (and I use the name generically, for Manila practically represents
all there is of the island of Luzon undei
the present status) suffers deeply from
two causes—ignorance and Catholicism,
the latter chiefest. I do not desire nor
attempt to arraign the church as a reli
"ious institution per se, but because all
people here are so thoroughly indoctrinated with the union of churchcraft
and statecraft that the wheels of the one
The
[February,
THE FRIEND.
will not turn without the aid of the otherThe people may become reconciled to
the idea of disunion, but not for main
years. The islands are a magnificent
domain, but hardly worth the burning
of the candle so far as the United States
is concerned, unless it may be, stratege
tically. 'The people of the cities have
for ages been accustomed to military
domination and the law ot might. Com
paratively, the islands are unexplored 6H
miles from the shore in any direction.
The inhabitants of the interior artnumerous, warlike, and not easily amen
able to the influences of civilization.
Wealth—mineral, vegetable and manufacturable—there is here in great abun
dance, but it will require the genius of
Yankeedom to extract it. Before it can
be extracted the peoples of the mountain
and inland valleys must be conquered
and taught submission. Before this can
be done, the U. S. Government will be
necessitated in maintaining here a much
larger army than she now has. There
are at present 20,(1(1(1 American troops
here in round numbers, a part of them
(and quite a considerable part) ineffecti\e
because of disease and climatic conditions. Aguinaldo has about .'1(1,(10(1 in
surgents outside the city just beyond oui
lines, lloilo, the second largest city in
the islands is clamoring for troops to
stop the inroads of insurgents there, but
none can be spared because they are
needed here to previ nt Aguinaldo from
becoming unduly foolish. And he is the
least toad in the puddle, because the
formidable hill tribes are always to be
reckoned with, as was the case in India
when England took possession.
Uncle Sam can assume control of the
Philippines and make it a very valuable
possession, but it will, in my opinion
require the use of an army of iOn, lion
men and the expenditure of a vast
amount of money. There must be no
Lucknow nor Black Hole of Calcutta
here.
'Then, too, not to be discursive, I be
lieve the Filipinos to be thoroughly
capable of self government not a gov
ernment for progressive white people
perhaps, but at least one infinitely better
'They are thrifty,
than Spain gave.
industrious, sober and intelligent. If
left to themselves they might build up a
friendly power here in the far Pacific
more valuable to the United States than
actual possession would be. Oiiien sahe?
Besides, they possess the added ad van
tage of knowing each other and that is
much. Pray do not understand me to
argue for Philippinic autonomy but 1
voice conditions as I seem to find them.
Perhaps, when opportunity is given me
to visit other islands and study more
closely things will seem different.
There is an abundance of business
opportunity here, but it will require somt
capital in all lines. It is a far cry from
the U. S. to Luzon. It will require
money to conic here and money to
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1899.
remain in profitable occupation. For
this reason, but little American immigration can be expected for many years.
Later, when my information is fuller,
I will write again. In the meantime,
allow me to express my gratefulness for,
and appreciation of, your courtesies,
and
remain,
Very .incerely,
Fki-d S. Wood,
Co. 8., Ist Battalion, Washington Vols.
The First Piano in Honolulu.
'The Bulletin reports seeing a venerable piano in possession of Judge Hart,
which is supposed to have been imported by Mr. Skinner about 181(1, and to
have been the first one ever brought to
Honolulu. 'This editor has a Contribution to make on llii> topic. I remember to have been taken, not later than
1836, to br-ar a lady play upon a piano
at the house of a Mrs. Perkins, somewhere near Union Street.
1 believe
that to have been the first one brought
here. It probably came Irotn England.
An immense number of cottages are
in process of erection in varit us stieets
of Honolulu. Many superior residences
also have been recently built. The
cottage building is mainly within one
mile of the Post Office. It is reported
to be difficult to find dwellings or rooms
Much difficulty is anticipated
in rent,
in lodging parties of tourists expected
shortly. This city is growing at a rapid
rate.
The population was '.".1,(1(1(1 in
September ISilli. It must now be ap
proachmg 10,000.
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