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CONTENTS.
Heroes Coasfasf Home
New Helpers in the Chinese Work
'Fhc ImpriMineil (i.ilici.ni s
Honolulu Y. M. l.'. A
Report of l.uualilo Home
Woman's Hoard of Mission*
Italian Contract Laborers
Prosperous Hawaii in.
Illustrated Lactwcs forFulilic Schools
Scores Romanizing Anglican.
Ii iiary Reservation on Oahu
Record of Kvents
Marine Journal
1..ttrr from Prince Henry Nanpei
Work for Natives on Kauai
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Heroes Coming Home.
A tidal wave of tremendous enthusiasm has just swept over San Francisco
and the neighboring State. The California Regiment has returned, scarred
and war-worn, from their hot battlefields
in Luzon. A surge of sympathetic
patriotism, reverence, love for their
bronzed and tattered sons and brothers
convulsed the city and state in a wonderful manner. The throb of that
mighty emotion reaches down to Ha
waii and kindles our hearts here, and
moves' us in
responding sympathy.
When we read of the whole city thronged with vast crowds from the country,
and moved to tears in receiving their
returning heroes, our own tears perforce
start from their fountains.
These soldiers are young men who at
the opening of the war eagerly volunteered to fight for the flag and honor of
their country. It was our honor and
privilege to entertain them in Honolulu
more than a year ago as they passed
on their way to Manila. They were
fine and winsome young men, going forward to face death by bullet and disease.
We bade them God-speed as the smoke
of their ships faded on rhe western horizon. After a time we heard of their
battles fought and fierce charges on the
lurking enemy. They were bold and
fierce fighters, who never turned back
or flinched from a foe. They upheld
as it should be upheld.
Now they have come home, and the
hearts of their people go out to their
hero sons and brothers in a mighty tide
of honor and affection. Our hearts go
out with theirs. It was a grand and
spontaneous outpouring of love, of patriotic sympathy. It was such an emotion as must greatly exalt the souls of
all who participated in it, and must hep
to lift then above the low and sordid
influences of political and commercial
life. It is good for us to hear of it and
to feel with our neighbors.
Oh, the many and weary days which
our young brothers have been spending
around Manila—the wearing hardships,
the long toils and perils. Then the
angry shock of battle and the brave
soul's resolute and fierce response. Now
all that is passed like a troubled dream.
They have entered the haven and the
home, and the tide of joyful and tearful
welcome has surged around them. That
day of their reception was worth all it
had cost to win it.
their country's flag
Our Lord and His inspired apostles
have revealed to his .people that in His
Kingdom and Home above there awaits
His servants' coming thither from earth
a great and blessed welcome. All who
have struggled here against the hosts of
Satan, will there be crowned with honor.
All who have toiled and endured without surrender to evil will there be exalted and blessed. All who have adhered to the standard of their King and
Savior, with no treasonable desertion,
shall there partake of the triumph.
There will be great joy in Heaven when
we toil-worn disciples of earth enter
there, if such be our happy lot. It will
not matter at all if we are poor, ignorant, ragged, ill seeming, if only we
have been on the side of our Lord. His
grace will clothe us there and His glory
will beautify us. From the East and
the West, and from all lands, a great
multitude of the faithful shall sit down
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, to
the feast of His love, and in the king-
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dom of His glory.
Let these hopes uplift our souls. Let
us rise above all these strivings for lower
gains. Let us rejoice in our high, heavenly calling, and stand patient and true
•o our Lord each day, until He shall
summon us Home.
New Helpers in the Chinese Work.
We are pleased to welcome Rev. J. E.
Russell and Rev. E. B. Turner, who
come to engage in missionary and educational work among the Chinese, and
especially in connection with the Mills
Institute. These gentlemen are graduates respectively of Amherst and Princeton, and both of the Union Theological
Seminary. They were ordained to the
ministry this past summer. It is an interesting fact that Mr. Russell was ordained in the church in Morristown, N.
V., where his great-grandfather formerly preached, where his two grandfathers
were elders, and where his father has
also served as elder.
Mr. Turner was recently offered the
General Y. M. C. A. Secretaryship in
Princeton University, but felt called
upon to decline it in view of his desire
to enter upon missionary work among
the Chinese.
These brethren come highly recommended, and enter upon their new field
of labor with zeal and enthusiasm. The
Chinese Mission and all Christian enterprise will be greatly aided by this
strong addition to our working force.
F. W. D.
Superintendent of Palama Chapel.
The Rev. John E. Erdman has just
arrived, to enter upon his duties in
charge of the work at Palama Chapel,
in connection with the Central Union
Church. Mr. Hiram Bingham resigned
from that work last spring on account
of ill health.
Mr. Erdman is a graduate of Princeton University and of McCormick Theological Seminary. His father is pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, N. J., one of the largest churchea
in the State.
Mr. Erdman, together with Messrs.
Russell and Turner, are fruits of the
great Student Volunteer movement.
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Annual Report of the Hawaiian
Association.
Evangelical
The Annual Report of our Church
and Missionary Organization for IK'- 9
is before us. The varied contents are
of the deepest interest. Much of the
matter has already appeared in Thk
Friend, on the Hawaiian Hoard page
and elsewhere. Special reports are included from Field Secretary Theodore
Richards; from Rev. T. M. Lydgate, in
charge of Native work on Kauai; from
Rev. J. M. Lewis in similar work on
Maui and Molokai.and from Rev C. W.
Hill, in charge of special work for whites
and natives in Southern Hawaii.
Rev. J. Leadingham reports the
year's work in the North Pacific Missionary Institute, with its twelve students, 9 Hawaiians, 'J Chinese, and one
Portuguese, the last having since been
ordained. Dr. Hyde, by reason of illhealth, hail withdrawn from the work,
Messrs. (). H Gulick, Rev. 11. 11. Par
ker, and Mis. Leadingham bail regularly
assisted in instruction.
Very satisfactory anil encouraging re
ports appear from the tlnee Training
Schools for Girls which an- undei the
direction of the Hawaiian Hoard, viz:
Kawaiahao, Maunaolu and Kohala
Seminaries, which are under the chaige
respectively if ihe Lady Principals, the
Misses C. W. Paulding, M. E. Alexander and M. 1). Truull. Hilo Hoys
Boarding School also reports, through
Principal Levi C. Lyman. Religious
instruction is faithfully imparted in each
of these fmn Seminari ■.
Mr. 1'". W. Dam«»n reports his great
and enlarging work among the Chinese
including his noble Mills Institute with
about one hundred boarding and day
pupils.
Rev. O. 11. Gulick reports the extensive work among the 10,00(1 Japanese
these Islands, among whom I i Japanese
preachers are employed, an increase of
two over the previous year. I<ij members have been added on profession of
faith, making B 14 on the chinch rolls.
The Honolulu pastor Okumura conducts
a Boarding school (or '13 boys now
occupying premises on Kukui street,
purchased for $I>,MI(I, donated by liberal
persons in Honolulu.
The Portuguese Mission work is also
reported by .Secretary Kmerson, and by
Rev. Messrs. Soares and Haptiste.
By many of these missions and
schools, large donations are acknowledged from Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cooke.
Fourteen pages are devoted to reports
from the various Foreign Missions in
Marquesas and Micronesia, of which
numerous statements have appeared in
reports as passing through his hands
the sum of $31,549.81, of which $30,-308.49 were disbursed to various objects.
Of the above amount, $18,526 were
given in sums ranging from $500 to
$3,500, and $7,920 in smaller donations.
The balance was chiefly income from
invested property of the Board. $12,-250 were given by four individuals,
whose united annual income must be
nearly one million, and who respond to
many other large calls on their bene
volence.
The total invested funds of the Board
are now $108,888.90, of which $50,000
have just been given by Charles M.
Cooke. The Board also hold in trust
various Mission and Church property,
whose value is estimated at $74,700.
$27,000 of this belongs to the Portu
guese Mission, $15,000 to the Japanese
Mission, and 12,000 to the N. P. M.
Institute.
The work of the Board is constantantly growing, its opportunities widening, its responsibilities becoming
weighty, and the labors ot its officials
onerous. The Lord of the harvest is
greatly blessing the work ofhis servants.
alleged "slavery." Meantime the rest
oi their people on the plantation are
laboring there, hearty and healthy and
saving money.
The imprisoned men allege that the
agent who hired them in Europe in
some way defrauded them and thus
vitiated their contracts, and justified
them in refusing to work them out. It
does not appear that they allege any
serious illtreatment or abuse from their
overseers. If they could present any
evidence of such abuse, they would
have done so, for such proof of abuse
would at once have set them entirely
free from their contracts. The Government inspectors are vigilant in preventing such abuse.
With whom then should our sympathies lie ? With these laborers, manfully resisting submission to slavery ?
Or should we side with the Planters,
who are out of pocket for their transpotation from Poland ? Whatever evil
is in our contract labor system, it certainly has improved immensely the
condition of a great body of immigrants.
The Imprisoned Galicians.
From the monthly "Association Review" we cull the following items :
Mr. Albert J. Coats is expected to arrive early in September, to act as Assistant Secretary in the gymnastic work.
Mr. W. P. Rider is conducting evan
gelistic meetings on Sunday afternoons
for young men.
Instruction is given from 7 to 9 p. m.
in arithmetic, business forms, composition, bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, mechanical and architectural
drawing, also in one modern language,
Hawaiian.
Total Y. M. C. A. membership in
North America for 1898 wa5.228,568, in
1429 Associations.
Total value of buildings and real estate was $21,118,480.
Average daily attendance at rooms
was 77,378.
478 gymnasiums were used by 57,814
different men.
24,085 students were enrolled in the
different educational classes.
There are some thirty white laborers
confined in Oahu Prison at hard labor
on the public roads. They are Poles
from Galicia. They have been in prison
for some months, choosing that hardship rather than to return to their
previous employment as laborers on the
Oahu Sugar Plantation. Much publicity
has been given to their unfortunate condition, and severe strictures upon their
case reach us from abroad. We therelore endeavor to state impartially what
are the well known facts in the case.
These men entered into written contracts with an agent of the Hawaiian
Planters to labor on the Sugar Plantations for three years at about $15 a
month, lodging, fuel, and medical at
tendance being free, in return for a free
passage from their honies to Hawaii,
which probably cost as much as $80 a
head or more. On these wages they
live far better than they were able to do
at home, and it the expiration of the
three years, are free to hire out as they
please.
In order to secure the employers who
pay for the free passages of these immigrants, and so enable them to assist
their immigration, otherwise impossible
to these very poor people, the law of
this country enables the employer lo
have the laborer imprisoned, if he refuses to work in fulfilment of his contract. These Galicians after working a
short time, determined to refuse, were
accordingly imprisoned, and have con-
Honolulu Y. M. C. A.
Report of Lunalilo Home.
This retreat for aged Hawaiians has
had, during the past twelve years, an
average of 42 inmates, but during the
past five years an average of 47. The
number of admissions has averaged 15
annually, of whom seven tenths were
males. Eighteen of the aged inmates
died during the past year. The cost of
their support the past year has averaged
$230 per caput. The management of
Mrs. Forbes has been most successful
and pleasant to the inmates. The present value of invested funds amounts to
The Friend.
The Treasurer of the Hawaiian Board tinued stoutly to refuse to return to the $223,618.95.
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Woman's Board of Missions
FOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
The annual report of these earnest
and devout women is before us, containing a most interesting series of statements respecting their various meetings
and departments of work. We glean
from it the following facts :
The membership is as follows
335
Living life members
28
Annual members
An analysis of the Treasurer's report
shows the amount raised during the
year to have been $1205.82, and the
amount disbursed for the objects of the
Society, $1009.78. Besides, there were
$150 received and $200 invested for the
permanent fund, which now amounts to
:
lng themselves in food, he issued extra
rations of meat and coffee. He has
had "no trouble of any kind with them."
Ten of the contract laborers have deposit! in Bishop & Co.'s Savings Hank
amounting to $520 in gold coin. All
stories about ill usage ofItalian contract
laborers in Hawaii are malicious inven
tions out of whole cloth.
That there has been no ill usage what
ever of contract laborers ol any race
here is too much to affirm. A vigilant
guardianship over them all is exercised
by the Government. Any clear case ol
ill treatment at once enables the labort i
to go free from his contract. The chiil
use of the contract is to enable the labo
rer to obtain an advance on his wages
in order to pay his fare hither.
Prosperous Hawaiians.
$1,800.
Among the disbursements appear the The "Hawaiian Star" incidental!}
sums of $211 for the work of Miss Mary
lower part of the Pauoa
E. Green, and $250 for that of Miss Ma- says:"The
bel Sunter among Chinese women.
A large part of the work of this Hoard
is in the creation of missionary interest
by means of their fruitful discussions
and papers read.
Hopelessness in Death.
A friend at the East writes as follows:
"The great American agnostic is dead.
Ingersoll has gone. His family, wife
and daughters sit stunned and terrible
in their grief—unwilling to let the dead
body go out of their sight and they
have no hope of any hereafter ! !
"It is pitiable, indeed, and I think a
fearful comment on Ingersoll's teach
ings, to see the dumb misery, the broken-heartedness of his own family no
hope, no God in the world, no hereafter.
It's worse than heathendom "
Blessed is our faith that looks up to
the risen Redeemer, who has promised
to take us and our beloved ones to himself. He lives, and we shall live with
him.
—
Italian Contract Laborers in Hawaii.
In view of certain statements respect
ing alleged ill usage of Italian laborers
here, it is in place to state that that the
only contract laborers from Italy in
these islands are twenty one persons
employed by Hon. S. M. Damon upon
his estate at Moanalua, in the vicinity
of Honolulu. The men receive $lfi per
month, and, in addition, a comfortable
home, wood, a small garden, and the
milk necessary for household use. They
also receive an increase of wages as
their competence for work improves.
Mr. Damon pronounces their work satisfactory. Finding that they were stint-
road is lined with small house lots which
have been*built on. They are chiefly in
the hands of well-to do Hawaiians,who
show great taste in laying out their gar
dens and in keeping brilliant beds of
flowers. The Portuguese dwellings intermingle and can readily be distinguished by their vine frames."
Well-to-do Hawaiians are in great
numbtrs. Many false statements have
been made representing the natives as
victims of the oppression of whites. Industrious and temperate natives are
highly prosperous. There are many
Hawaiians who are shiftless and many
who are of drunken habits. .Such are
Natives are
poor and necessitous.
strong and capable laborers and com
mand good wages. Many of them are
skilled mechanics and earn from $10 to
$75 a month. The natives, as a class,
have a full share, in proportion to their
industry, in the great financial prosperity
of these islands. For the acquisition of
large wealth, few of them possess the
necessary ability.
breeze habitually plays through the
broad verandahs which surround the
building. These immensely wide verandahs and their inviting chairs are a
special attraction. Within the hotel is
sumptuously furnished, with beautiful
pallors and fin nit urc, and the most
modern bath rooms and plumbing in the
sleeping looms. A number of outside
cottages make additional provision for
guests.
The hotel presents an imposing as
pect from the railway. Guests are
landed at a pretty station across the
Stream, connected by a rustic bridge.
Since the opening, on the sth, the house
has been thronged with guests, both
residents of Honolulu and tourists. It
is the first country lesort of such attractions yet established in Hawaii.
The sea h,tilling facilities are exceptionally line.
Lahaina Water Works.
As an old resident of Lahaina, the
editor is much interested to observe that
a movement has at last been made to
establish a supply of the abundant
mountain water to the lower streets by
means of piping. Those dreary and
dusty yards will be made exquisitely
beautiful when the fertile soil, enriched
by water, produces green lawns and
blight Bowers. And much sickness will
disappear when the foul wells are exchanged for the pure mountain water.
Forty three years ago the writer began
an effort to have the Government lay
pipes on Lahaina beach, for the public
good and their own financial profit. We
immediately confronted an insuperable
obstacle. The native Governor owned
a water hole from which he supplied the
casks of the whalers at ten dollars a
ship. This hole was filled partly by the
ordinary well water and partly from the
mountain stream. Public water works
would destroy the Governor's lucrative
monopoly. His influence was sufficient
to paralyze any move towards waterwoiks, and Lahaina has continued to be
Press Visit to Waialua Hotel.
the dingy place it is. It ought to be
one
of the beauty spots of the group.
An agreeable entertainment was given
by Mr. B. F. Dillingham, on the 4th
As reported in our daily journals, a
ult., to some thirty representatives ol
woman has been convicted in a
Chinese
the Honolulu press, by a railway tup to
Honolulu
lower court of bigamy, behours'
hospitaliKahuku, including two
of
been married by proxy
having
cause
lunch,
at
the
new
ty, with sumptuous
resident of Honto
Chinese
China
a
in
Waialua,
where
Col.
Haleiwa Hotel at
on
arrival
here marrying
olulu,
and
her
No
lankea
was
our
host.
genial
Curtis
found that her
she
man,
another
because
distinction
than
"suless
adjective of
already had a wife
perb" seems fit to apply to this beautiful supposed husbandKveii
if such marriage
and family here.
Its
location
is
charm
establishment.
by proxy had any validity, the existence
ing, at the mouth of the Waialua river, of ihe other family should nullify it.
on a somewhat elevated bank, overlook- Doubtless the higher court will rectify
ing the pretty bay. A fresh and grateful the injustice.
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Illustrated Lectures for Public Schools.
Death of Captain Babcock.
Professor A. S. Bickmore is in charge Captain William Habcock departed
of the department of public instruction this life early last month, at the age of
in the American Museum of Natural 83, after some years of much feebleness.
History at the New York Central Park.
He has been traveling in these islands
for the past two months, accompanied
by a photographer, and has secured
about 500 views of Hawaiian scenery
and life, from which to select for slides
to use in the great system of illustrated
lectures employed by his department.
Such lectures, illustrated by exquisitely beautiful colored views thrown on
immense screens, are delivered in the
museum hall to audiences of 29,000 persons. The splendid slides are also duplicated and distributed with the printed
lectures, to be read and exhibited in
every school district of the State, so as
to reach the whole people.
Prof. Bickmore has made an illustrative exhibition to the summer school
now in session in this city, and holds
out inducements, which have been received by the teachers with enthusiasm,
for supplying a set of slides and lectures
on the same, for use in these islands.
Mr. Bickmore has just returned to New
York.
Educational Lectures.
He was formerly, as a pilot, one of the
"tst known figures about town, and
greatly esteemed as an amiable and devout man. His figure was formerly
prominent at our church services, where
deafness placed him in a front seat.
Jessop Scores Romanizing Anglicans.
The Rev. Augustus Jessop ia a sound
"Churchman." He expresses a strong
contempt towards the Romanizing rit
ualists. He says:
"Of late we hive had more than
enough talk about the crisis in the
Church, and been working ourselves
into a kind of St. Vitus dance because a
few hundred clerical nondescripts are
threatening to bring back Paganism
into our worship, and offering to rid us
of the burden of our innermost secrets
by polluting others with the recitals of
things which we would fain hide from
our very selves."
The last clause is a severe characterization of the very unwholesome Romish
Confessional, which certain Anglican
cranks have adopted. As the beginning
of the paragraph intimates, the conspicuous antics of those eccentric persons do not justify any fear that the
free born English people are going back
into bondage to medieval priestly ty
ranny. As he rightly suggests, much
of that old ritual of the dark past of
Christendom is a mixture of the ancient
Pagan superstitions.
A series of five very able lectures upon
"The Life of the Child," have just been
delivered before our summer school for
teachers by the eminent Professor Dewey
of Chicago, and are to be fullowed by
another series on"The Development of
Thought in the Nineteenth Century." Heavy Reinforcements for Manila.
The first series have been full of matter
of deeply interesting thought for all per
The names are announced of fourteen
sons engaged in the care and education
troop-ships
which are to leave San Fran
of children in tender and growing years
cisco during the next two months, carrying thither over 15,000 men, besides
The Re-Trial of Dreyfus.
officers, who are to reinforce the AmerIt is certain that the trial of no man
was ever watched with such deep interest by such a multitude of men of all
civilized nations as to day are intently
observing the new trial of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus, at Rennes. While under the
stress of party feeling, perhaps a ma
jority of his own countrymen hold him
to have been the traitor he was charged
to be, most men in other countries be
lieve him to be the innocent victim of a
base conspiracy. We believe that jus
tice now will triumph, also that the
principles of justice in France will be
immensely reinforced, and the sentiment
[September, 1899
tion of the Transvaal, yet the Boers are
a brave and gallant race of men of kindred blood to the English race. They
have been deeply embittered against
England by the wrongs of a former generation. Probably there was never a
more determined set of men or more
able for war. The contest with them
will be a most desperate one, and victory over them will be most dearly earned.
It is barely possible that even yet they
may yield to the evident Hritish determination to subdue them. The outcome
of the presentconditions must be awaited
with deep anxiety.
The "Hoodoo" Steamer.
There was a general sense of relief
when it was learned that the "City of
Columbia" had finally foundered at sea
without causing loss of life. For nigh
a year past that steamer has been the
seat of a succession of troubles and
misfortunes, not all of which were
caused by her being old and rotten. She
ought not to have been allowed to put
to sea in such a condition that her stern
planking worked open in mild weather
the second day that her propellor shook
it. She will create no more harassment
or disgust.
The "Social Evil."
A valued citizen scores in the public
press the great publicity of this nameless
vileness in Pauahi street, regretting that
so honored a name should have such
associations. The suppression of this
gross form of immorality is doubtless
impossible, mankind being such as they
are. Public law is practically restricted
to confining and regulating it, as is done
in Honolulu, with a view to minimizing
its indecencies and physical evils. We
agree with the above writer that either
the name of the street should be changed
or the vile traffic pushed elsewhere.
More deodorizing seems to be required.
But what salvation can be found, either
in time or eternity, for those hapless,
perishing victims of human depravity ?
One's heart aches for them.
ican army in Luzon. It is evident that
the fall campaign is to be prosecuted
with energy. The policy of President
McKinley is plainly a very decided one
in reference to this war. Having engaged in it, he will fight it through with
vigor. The American public, however,
A Los Angeles company has ordered
seem very doubtful whether General Otis
from
Ostergren and Berger, of New
is capable of executing such a policy.
York, a liquid air plant, with a capacity
of 1500 gallons a day. It is for the reThe Transvaal.
frigeration of cars for the transportation
The war cloud hangs very dark and of fruit. There seems to be
a wide
menacing over the Boer Republic. field of service for liquid air in supply,
While there is much to support belief ing cool air in hot weather, both in hothat the Boers are in the wrong, and tels and homes, also on ships in the
tropics, not only to passengers but to
of righteousness greatly invigorated that it is the duty of Great Britain to en- the coal passers in the boiler rooms
among that people, as the result of this force the rights of her oppressed citi- where the temperature stands often at
trial.
zens, who are a majority of the popula- 140 degrees.
Vol. 57, No. 9.]
Spread of Bubonic Plague.
Latest advices
are
that the plague has
reached Newchwang, in North China, on
the Pacific, and on the Atlantic has broken out severely in Oporto. The vigilance of Hawaii lately arrested its journey across the Pacific to California.
Equal vigilance will doubtless prevent
its access to the Atlantic Coast. It is
nearly certain that the sanitary skill of
Europe will be adequate to prevent any
extensive diffusion of the plague in the
more enlightened sections of that conti
nent. It seems not unlikely that this
pestilence will ravage all parts of Asia
and Africa.
Military Reservation on Oahu.
It has just been given out that the U.
S. Government have determined to reserve for the use of the military forces in
the Pacific, the beautiful tract of Leile
hua, on this island. Leilehua is on the
pleasant level upland hetwei n Ewa and
Waialua. It ought to be a most s.ilu
brious residence for troops.
The enterprising farming compan) .it
Wahiawa are located in the vicinity and
should find a good market for their pro
duce with the army forces.
W. C. Gregg, a most enterprising agent
of American manufacturers of macbin"
STY. There are many scores of steam
plows at work on our various plantations,
all of which Mm from Scotland, It
appears that no steam plows have hitherto been used on the vast prairies of the
west, except plows hauled behind trac
tion engines. Hawaii thus has the
honor of ordering the first regular steam
plows manufactured in the United
States. These come from O. S. Kelley
cV Co., of Springfield, Ohio.
Photographs of Leper Settlement.
A set of admirable pictures of Kalaupapa and Kalawao have been seemed
and are on sale by photographer Williams. They are far the best cvi i taken
there. The beautiful villages are shown
with then ch,inning surroundings, also
the Baldwin and Bishop Homes. The
grand precipices are wonderfully dc
picti d, especially the giant cone between
Wail,tu and lYickunu. Williams hap
pencil upon an exceptionally line atmosphere for his wm k.
High Wages for Laborers.
Certain Japanese who have contracted
a semi-weekly
service
on that mute.
During the recent naval manoeuvers
around the Irish coasts, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy was used
between the ships. The highest success
was attained, and communications sent
from thirty to forty miles with ease and
precision from ship to ship. This gives
great encouragement to expect at no
distant day the establishment of wire
less telegraphs from one island of this
group to another.
A woman came to me one day to say
she wanted her daughter to be confirmed,
writes Rev. S. Bernays in Cornhill.
"Mr. Black." she said, "from the chapel
over the way, as been a-trying to
convert 'er, hut I pretty soon told him
what I thought 'hunt it. I ses to 'im.T'll
'aye my gal confirmed, but I won't 'aye
her converted, SO now you know.
I
don't believe in conversion"—Exchange.
"What is the meaning of the word
tantalizing?'' asked the teacher.
"Please Ma'am,spoke up little Johnny
Holcomb, "it me.ins a circus procession
passing the school house, and thepupils
not allowed to look out."—Vanity Fair.
"Pretty Polly," said the visitor, ap-
appioacning
the
cage.
"Want a
"My name," interrupted the —"
parrot,
speaking slowly and distinctly, "is Ibsen
,uul I want nothing. 'I am meditating."
"He's a queer bud," explained the
hostess. "He won't eat anything but
beans. I think my husband got him
somewhere in the East."—Chicago
I'l ibune.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Aug. Ist. -The Tramways Co. begin
reconstruction of the King St. line
from Nuuana St., eastward. Successful conceit by the Amateur Orchestra at
Progress Hall, fir the benefit of its
music fund.—Transport Tartar with
the 19th infantry aboard, some I 200 officers and men, snivel, en route for
Manila,
a
The steamer Kinau is announced as to clear Olaa sugar lands, are offering
hereafter to make three tiips to Hilo in $22.5(1 a month for Japanese lal Diets.
two weeks. It is not likely to be long A general rise in labor wages looks near
at hand. It seems a reasonable hope-
before the passenger traffic will require
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that a desirable class of white men will
thereby be attracted hither.
A very offensive nuisance of hog
farms having grown up along the Waikiki load, the Hoard of Health have
prohibited the keeping of swine within
four miles of the post office, except by
special permission of the Hoard.
Comicalities.
"Can you change a twenty dollar bill
for me?" he asked with an important air
that nettled the courteous clerk. "Yes,
Eleven ostriches have been shipped sir; we can change anything here."
you'd change my mind then, if
from Kauai to California. This closes "Wish
you're so good at it."
out the ostrich farming initiated some
"Have no small change sir."—Light
ten years ago by the late Dr. George
Trousseau. Our climate, or something
Clergyman
(to peasant): "Fine
else, has proved unfavorable to the big
weather,
George."
birds.
(ieorge: "For them as ain't got to
sur."
work,
American Steam Plows.
Clergyman: "Your garden looks well."
To them as don't ha' to moil it, sur,"
The first set of steam plows ever Clergyman:
"I'm glad the wife's
made in America were landed here Aug. better."
Mth. They were ordered by the AmerGeorge: "Them as doan't ha' to live wi'
Tit Bits.
can Sugar Co. of Molokai, through Mr. her may be."
—
2nd —Entertainment in honor of Gen.
Jos.
Wheeler at the Pacific Club by
Gen. A. S. Hartwell, to which a number
of distinguished guests were invited and
a cordial reception participated in.—Reception at the Chinese Consulate in
honor of the Emperor's birthday.
3rd.-Work begun on the sewer
system for the city. In the Cooper disbarment case, of several weeks ago, the
Court renders a decision sustaining the
Atty. General. C.ipt. Wm. Babcock,
an old time resident, and for
many years
a pilot of this port, dies at his residence
at the ripe age of 83.
4th. —Sptcial press excursion to Waialua and Kahuku in honor of thecompleti n of the new hotel, Haleiwa, at
Waialua. to be formally opened lo the
public under the management of Major
C. P. laukea on the sth.
Bth—Steamships/l ustralia and China,
for San Francisco, take away a large
list of passengers, including a number
of prominent citizens.
9th.—Geo. Wade pleads guflty to the
charge of murder in the second degree
in the killing of Wm. Gillespie on the
Australia in June last.—Cruiser Boston
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70
M
arrives from Manila, homeward bound. Hawaii. —The Rapid Transit Co. se-
11th.—Fortunate early morning dis-
covery of a confined fire in Hopper's
planing mill averts a serious conflagration and heavy loss.—State ball at
the Executive building, which was bril
liantly illuminated with electric lights,
in honor of "admission day."
12th.—First anniversary of Hawaii's
admission into the Union, observed as
a holiday.—Semiannual contest of the
Hawaiian Rifle Association; F. B. Damon wins the trophy. An Italian la-
borer at Moanalua, in a drunken quarrel, shoots a fellow countryman, inflict
ing inquires which proved fatal two
days later.
13th.—Word received of the probable
foundering of the ss. City of Columbia
some seventy miles to the southward of
Kauai, all hands having left her in four
boats on the I Ith in a sinking condition.
Two boats' crew had arrived at Mana,
Kauai, and most of the men were
brought to port. Toward evening the
tug Iroquois went out to the rescue of
the others. Murdered Chinaman found
in a corn field at Kula, Maui. A Japa
nese laborer of the Honolulu Sugar Co.
suicides at Halawa, by drowning.
14th.—Fourth Annual Session of the
Summer School opens.
15th.—The Iroquois returns, with the
Captain, officers and remainder of the
ill-fated Columbia's crew. —British cable
survey steamer ligeria arrives from San
Marine Journal.
PORT OF HONOLULU AUGUST.
ARRIVALS.
At Port Ludlow, Washington,
July 12, hy the Key. J P. l.lwvd, John H. Carter, of
Seattle, to I'hea, d.iunhlcr of Mr. and Mts. Q, K. Turner, of McGregor, lowa.
THKUM-COLLCKN At Collnim Place, Wyoming,
Ohio, July IS. at the residence of the bridal a'tnt, Mr*.
K. N.Clark, l.y the Key Mr laplor, David F. Thrum,
of Honolulu, to Miss Martha S. oilmen.
(T
I
Ii
—
s.
four to six trips a month.
29th. —Prof. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth
College, delivers a lecture before the
summer school on"The Geology of
CARTER-TURNER
An sch AUcc Cook*, Pcaballow, ft*mi Port Townaand
S transport Tartar, PybUft, limn S.m Fian. is. o
Japss America Maru. Cope, from San Pranciaaa,
RIGGS- \FONd In "liailllda,
1
jury in the case of Mrs. Cowles render
DKPAKIUkF.S.
a verdict of accidental death.
1 Am sh Geo. Curtis, Sproull, for San Francis...
ss America Maru, Cope, for Yokohama.
25th. —San Francisco's famed yacht 5J[ —Jap
Hr sh Aniphitrite, Anderson, for Portland
owner,
her
new
arrives
to
Paloma
Hr ss Miowera, Hamming, for Victoria
La
ss Aorangi, Hepworth, for ihe Colonic*.
C. W. Mscfarlane, to enhance yachting 4i - Hr
Am In Hoii.jipu, Olsen, for San Fram is. <>
II S transport Newport, Saunders, for Manila
interests at these islands.—Sudden death
I' S ti.uispirt Ohio, Hoggs, lor Manila
at the Oahu plantation of John Winter, c Am 11 i: I) Bryant, Colby, for San
Francis,,*
28th. —Wilder's S. S. Co. plan to increase the Hilo trips of the Ktnau from
,
s,
—Joe
Fowler's steam
Mam, Carey, for the Colonies
si
—
plows.
■ss
ss
——
traveling agent for
llr
ss
\in -s Australia, liouulelte, from S.m I'i.iiiumh.
C S transport Newport, S.itiinlei-., Irani San Fran, isi .>
Hr ss Miowera, Hemming, from the Colonies
Haw hk Ma.ma Ala, Smith, from San I ram iico
U S transport (lino, Boggw, from San Praia isi o
Am hk Harvester. Edwards, from MatVCaatta
4 Hr ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from Victoria
6- Amat Columbia, L)obeon, from Yokohama
6 Am hrgt W. d. Irwin, Williams, from San Fram UtCO
Amsh Kinily F Whitney, Pendleton, from New York
Am l»k Skagit, Kobintoa, from Port Lttctlow
7 Am sh Fort George, Mane, firom San Pranciaco
Am hkl Irmgard, Schmidt, from Sea Francisco
B Am ss China, Seal.ury. from Yokahama
i)-Atu sh Tacoina, Pederson, from San Francisco
V S cruiser Huston, Hughes, from Yokuhoma
l'l I' S transport Indiana, Morle, from San Francisco
II Am ss City of I'ekinjj, Smith, from San Francisco
13 Amlik Empire, Knacke, from Newcastle
It Am ss Flihu Thompson, Whitney, from Seattle
Francisco.
Am sh Dashing Wave, l.ancasu-r, from Ta< oma
Am m lir Kobt. K. Hines, Hellingson, from Port Ludlow
17th.—Forty-first Anniversary of the
Hr ss Doric, Smith, from Yokohama.
Establishment of the banking house of 15 Hr ss Belgian King, Weiss, from Yokohama
H. B. M. S. Fgcria. Smyth, from San Francisco
Bishop 8c Co.
Hr s> Moana, Carey, from San Francisco
Gaelic, Finch, from San Francis-o
Br
21st. —Another Chinese habeas corpus —Ammschr
Kolwrt I.ewers, fromjKauiiakakai
case fails to have the legal bars to free 10—Am schr Aloha, DabtJ, from San Francisco
schr
Ksther Huhne, Anderson, from Fureka
17—Am
admission into the country removed.
IX JapssToyo Maru, Tomila, frotu Yokohama
Y'oii Otereniorp, from the Colonies
Alameda,
ss
Mrs. I. S. Cowles, while riding a bicy- 10—Am
Am Maw Mary X Knss, Wikendcr, from Furek
a
run
over
a
brake
driven
schr
Lucile,
Anderson, from Nanaimo
Am
by
by
cle, is
U S transport Senator, Patterson, from San Francisco
Portuguese boy and fatally injured, 22—Am
hk S N Castle, Hubbard, from San Francis. ,>
Am hk S C Allen, Johnson, from San Francisco.
death ensuing at the (Queen's Hospital
Japss Hongkong Maru, Kilmer, from San Fram isco
on 23rd.
SS Am schr Inca, Raemumcn, from Tacnatt
-Haw schr yacht La Paloma, A. Macphail, from San F
be
23rd.—Ihara, sentenced to
hung —Am liktn Plant-rr, McNeil, from v an Fram Y. q
fag ss Nippon Maru, Allen, from Yokohama
on the 28th inst., is respited to October 26—Am
schr Bangor, Aspe, from Port Townsend
9th.—Ostrich farming on this islands
Am hk Mohican, Kellcv, from San Francisi o
Amelia, Wilier, from Port Hl.ik. I. ty
bktn
terminates in their shipment to the coast M Am
Haw hk Andrew Welch, Drew, from S.in Fran. is. g
2*
Aiis
ss
Siam,
Mauna
Kaci. li, from San Francisco
Ala.
by the
.To Am ss Austiaia, Hou.lletTe, from San Fran. is. o
aged
Portuguese,
Silva,
an
sh
Charmer,
Davi.s, from Nanaimo
—Am
24th.
Am
Sealmry, from San Fram iaCO
suicides through ill health.—Coroner's HI Hr ssssChina,
Warrirnoo, Hay, from the Colonies
—
Ifl
Br ■ fl—ltr. Finch, for Yokohama
cure the property of Mrs. K. C. Damon,
Amsh Tncoma, Pcderson, for Manila
Am lirßl W(. Irwin, Williams, for San Francisco.
bounded by Beretania,Alapai and Young
Am *eh Okanogan, Ranch, for PorJ Townsend
foi San Francisco
Boston,
Sts., for the site of the power house and 17 -U Scruiser
Am ss r.lihu Thompson, Whitney, lot Seattle
residences of engineers and other em
Am tntss. bktn Morning Star, (>arlaml, for Micronesia
Haw tk Star of Italy. Wester for tht- Souml
ployees of the Company.
19 Am
Alameda, Yon Oterendorp, for San Francisco
Am
Inacmrd, Schmidt, for Ban Francisco
30th. 1,096 shares of the Hawaiian 80 (Jer bktn
l>k J C (Mack, Stem 1 for San Francisco
Sugar Co.'l stock (Makaweli) sells at I\t lap ss Toy.> Maru, I'ninita. for Yokohama
Haw hk Manna Ala, Smith, for San Francisco
$2'Jf> to San Francisco investors, mak- '.':s Am
Itktii Skagit, Robin MOQ, for Port Townsend
ing a (460,000 transaction, the larger :'A 1' S traiishort Senator, Patterson, for Manila
Jap
Hongkong Maru, Kilmer, for Yokohama
part of which wilt go to England for the '26 Japss Nippon Mam,
Allen, for San Francisco
'L~t
-Am
hk Harvester, Filwariis, for Nanaimo
transfer of nationality of ownership.
a>
Am si In Aloha. l>ahel, lor San Francisco
My the China is received $_'o(),00(>, the
Anivlir Mary X RllW, NikannYr, f«ir dray's Harboi
Am hr Rebt. R. Hind. Hellingsen, for Port Towns'd
San Francisco subscription toward the IB Am
sh Dashing Wave, Lancaatat, fur Tarunu
capital of the new bank which will open ftl Am lir Alii .- Cooke, Peiihallow, for Puget Sound.
Anis-, China, Sealuiry, for Yokoh;nn.i
on Monday next, Sept. 4th, in its speItr ss Warrirnoo, May, for Vancouver
cially prepartd quarters in the Campbell
block, Port street.
MARRIAGE.
Am schr F S Kedfielil, Jorgensen, for Pari Townsend
(mi lik 11. It.ukleld, Hirkholm, for Sinn FVanciwo
—Am ss Columbia, Dobaon, for Portland
8 Am ss Australia, lloudlette, for S.m Fiaucisco.
Am ss China. Seahurv, for San Francisco
0 Am schr Ottilia Fjord, Segelhorst, for Fureka
Mi Haw ss City of Columbia, Walker, for Hongkong
11 II S transport Indiana, Morle, for Manila
IS Am ss City of Peking, Smith, for Yokohama
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Kiggs and Miss
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August
CaffotilM H. Afong.
1, Mr. J.
M.
HUGHES LLOYH In thik.iiy, at St Andrew's Cathedral. August 2, Miss Lottiaa l.loyd, of Berkeley, Cal., to
Ban Hughes, ol Honolulu, Rev. Alex Mackintoshofficiating.
ANDREWS-PULLER In Honolulu, Augusi 16, Lieut*
Philip Andrews, U.S.N., to Miss Clara M
daughter of ''aptaiu Andrew Fuller
Fuller-
M. CI KN-COPFLANI) In HmioMu. August 19, Albert
Mcdurn to Miss lithe Copelaml, Key. H.H.Parker
officiating.
HOWLING In this city, August 23, hy
the Key. Fathei Valentine, James ||. ('oinlaii to Theresa
(JUINLAN
Oowling.
BIRTHS.
/UMWALT At Makawao, Maui, August 7, to the wife
of J. L. W. /uinwalt, a sou.
PRATT In this city,
W. PrHtt,
a son.
August 10, to the wife of Captain
J.
ISKNHUKd In San Fran. isco. August 12, to Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Isen herg, of this city, as.m.
In this city, August 24, to the wife of H. G.
Danford, a son.
DANFORI)
COOKE lnthiscity, August 2ft,
t ooke, a daughter.
to •'
1111 WM X In this city, August 28,
(>lto Inlander, a daughter.
COOKR—Ia this city, August 27,
Cooke a
KM
.
wife of C. H.
to the wife of
to the wife of J.
P.
DEATHS.
RICKARI>-At Hoiiokaa, Hawaii. July 30, Hon. Wm.
Henry Kickard, aged i3 year-., 1 month ad 10 days.
r
FF.KNANDF.S At Holualoa, North Kona, Hawaii, on
July 31, of pneumonia, Antone Fernandes, aged 36 years.
BAHCOCK In Honolulu, August 3, Captain William
Balicock, ofthis city, aged Mil years
/! MWAI.T At Makawao, Maui, Augdst 7, John Ran'
dal, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. |. L. W. Xumwalt.
DENISON In Hon lulu,
August 12. Mrs. deorge H.
Itenison, aged j4 years, wife of Sti|>eriuteiident 1 Vinson
of the O. K. & L. Co.
HOMFR U Host .n. Mass August 2, in the tllst year of
bee age, Mrs. Mary Elisabeth Homer, widowof'l homes
J. Homer, leaving three daughters, Mrs. Arthur H.
Nichols, Mrs. Augustus Saint (iaudeiis, and Mrs. Oliver
P. Kmerson, and two sons, Joseph W. and Thomas J.
Homer.
SIMS
In this .Hy, August 21, Mary Minerva, only
daughter of Wm. R. and Kaiie K. Sims, aged 4 years. 4
monthsand 27 days.
COWLES In Honolulu, August 23, Irene S. Cowles, nee
darner.
WINTER At Oahu plantation, August 2f>, John Winter
of Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire, England, aged 62 years.
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Board, is responsible for its contents.
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
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Editor.
Rev. O. P. Emerson sailed on Aug.
18th,in company with Messrs. Kauhane
and Desha, to attend the International
Congregational Conference at Boston.
Messrs. Timoteo and Ezera had preceded them on the like errand in company with Senator Waterhouse, Vice
President of the Hawaiian Board. Before leaving, Mr. Emerson had heard of
the death from old age of Mrs. Emerson's mother, Mrs. Homer.
Letter From Prince Henry Nanpei.
Ponapk, Kiti, April 20, 1899.
Rev. O. P. Kmkkson :
Dear Sir—Your welcome letter, dated
Honolulu, June IKth, is received. I was
arrested on May 23d, 1H!IH. You will
be glad to know that I am now a free
agent. I thank and bless Ood for it.
And I thank and bless those brave and
noble Americans who have fought and
gained such a glorious victory over our
tyrannical persecutors. The Americans
have saved me from being exiled, and
they have saved my family and my people from being harassed and shot to
death. All our Christian people rejoice
over this Spanish American war, because it was not for fame, nor gain, nor
vengeance, nor any evil thing, but only
to obtain and secure the justice, safety
and freedom which are the birthright of
every human being. Where are the
Spanish now ? How do they feel over
this ? The Spaniards that are here now
are very humble and much crest-fallen.
They have no credit, no food. The
Governor does not know when a ship
may come to their relief, nor does he
know where she is going to come from.
I have let them have all the food I can
spare. I cannot do more.
During my ten months' imprisonment
I received no comfort, no sympathy,
from the Spanish. They are a most
ungrateful people.
Our church, which we commenced to
build about two years ago, is now near
completion. I have just very recently
had one of those Blymyer bells brought
out from San Erancisco ; it is a splendid
bell. Bell, mountings and freight
summed up just $75 in gold.
Our
church, which is a wooden structure,
with galvanized iron roofing, and dimen-
sions 60x30 feet, will, when completed,
I have got to
bear all expenses of church, bell and a
full set of maps for school use, which
means about $500 in gold. Besides
having been incarcerated a period of ten
months for daring to do these unlawful
things. It seems hard, sir, does it not ?
Now, sir, about those primers and
hymn books. We need them very
much, and some slates also. You ask
me how large an edition is wanted, and
if I wish Miss Palmer to read the proof.
With regard to size of edition, I leave
that to your superior judgment in such
matters.
About the reading of the
proofs, either Miss Palmer or Miss Eoss
would do nicely.
Now that there is no mail plying between Ponape and Manila, I scarcely
know how I am going to get this sent
along. Hoping you are quite well, as
this leaves us all at present, I beg to remain,
Your brother in Christ,
71
and spent a week there. I found it was
fishing season, and as we went about we
found the houses mostly silent and deserted. The people had all gone fishing
and we found them mostly on the broad
sand beach, where they had built for
themselves booths of bushes to protect
them from the sun, in the shade of
which they whiled away the time watching for a school of fish, or waiting for
the great net to be hauled in, when they
would join in the pulling and receive a
share of the catch. Our Lord taught
the people by the seaside. Why should
we not do the same ? So we joined one
of the groups, told them our mission
and received a hearty welcome. Room
was made for us in the shade, the bathing children were called out of the sea,
whipped into their loose and scanty
garments and tucked away beside their
mothers, with wet and sandy hair and
gleaming teeth and eyes. One element
is never wanting in a Hawaiian meeting,
Hknry Nanpki.
music.
We sang several familiar
P. S. —Quiet reigns throughout the hymns, the full rich melody in all the
parts floating out over the beautiful
island.
bay. Then came a prayer, followed by
memory verses, in which nearly every
Work for Natives on Kauai.
one responded, even down to the little
The last session of the Kauai Minis- children. Comparatively few similar
ters' School was an interesting one in meetings among white people could
have done so well. One
these verses
spite of the fact that three of the pas- was taken as the text for aofbrief but ditors were unavoidably absent. In the rect bit of exhortation, and then the
way of new work just inaugurated in this meeting closed with another hymn and
school, I may mention First, the study benediction. But we did not depart—
of Paul's Corinthian Letters, with a we sat and chatted with them, inquired
about the children, their names and
view not to detailed exegesis, but to the ages and relationships ; found
they were
underlying principles and broad ethical mostly "moopunas;" watched the
teaching and their application to the schooner in the bay hoist her anchor
problems and conditions of our own day. and unfurl her sails and slip away round
Second, a course in simple anatomy, the point, when, as though she had been
waiting there, another one came and
physiology and hygiene, with a view to took her place ; heard their comments
showing the causes of disease and the on the comparative sailing capacities of
wisdom of scientific treatment. This the two vessels and on the folly of the
will be illustrated as far as possible with Captain who endangered his vessel by
in too close—comments abundobject lessons from nature, dissection, coming
antly justified, as we heard a few days
etc. Both these courses meet with fa- later he had run his vessel ashore.
A
vor on the part of the ministers.
joyous, hearty, good natured, careless
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox very kindly en- people, we were sorry to leave them,
tertained the School and some of its and they generously pressed us to stay
friends at their beautiful home at Kilo- and get some of the prospective fish.
hana, Lihue. A profuse and appetizing
This is a type of many similar meetlunch culminated the pleasure of the ings. Of course not all on the sea
beach, but generally in the one room of
afternoon.
It is my custom to spend a part of the native home, sitting on the floor
every month in some of the parishes of with our backs to the wall, while the
the island doing pastoral work. In con- dogs come in and nose about with wonjunction with the local Hawaiian pastor der at the scene or scrap outside over a
I endeavor to visit the people in their bone. Woe to the speaker who is easily
houses and maketheir intimate acquaint- disconcerted ! And not always with as
ance. This of course enables me the large an audience, but sometimes with
better to understand their conditions, only one old woman, or a mother and
their difficulties and their needs, and to her children. But always the same
appreciate their point of view. It also hearty welcome and courteous attention.
gives me a much better knowledge ofthe I think one finds, so far as this island is
whole field and how it may be best min- concerned, anyway, the most simple,
primitive and independent people in
istered to.
This last month I went to Hanalei Haena, five or six miles beyond Hanacost about $400 in gold.
:
THE FRIEND
72
[Scptembr,
1899.
characters to better things. I am glad "What good is all this ?—this visiting,
to say they have the latter both in Han these meetings and services ? It is all
alei and Haena. The wise and devoted formal—in at one ear and out at the
teacher exerts a specially large influence other !" And there is a measure of
in Haena because the life is so simple force in the objection. There is doubtand the horizon so limited. The teach less a good deal of form sometimes,
er, his family and bis home are about without much spiritual earnestness bethe only object lessons they have of civ hind it, even as in our own services.
dilation, and the man who commends But we know that continual contact
that lesson to them by winning their with good things must also mould and
respect and affection can lead them like shape the character for good, and the
sheep, as evidently the teacher there has frequent presence in their homes and
done. I am tokl they are devoted to personal interest in their lives of the
him. They supply his wants free ; he, "haole father" may assuredly act in
shares in their every delicacy and leads some measure as a restraint or inspirathem in every public interest. And tion.
J. M. Lydgate.
wheh the close of school came and he
went to Honolulu, they came in a body
Prof. Hitchcock Returns Home.
to say good bye, and begged him to
After more than a year spent in the
come back again next year. And they
arc hoping against hope that he will, a Pacific, the eminent geologist, Chas. H.
wish m which I most heartily join !
Hitchcock. L. L. D., this week sailed
Sunday morning there was a forenoon
service at Hanalei and an afternoon one for the Atlantic Coast, to resume the
at Haena. It was a post haste ride from jabori of his chair in Dartmouth Colthe former to the latter—a post hastr lege. Dr. Hitchcock has accomplished
lunch of raw lish, limes and poi, topped a large amount of valuable scientific obaspect to me !
In some of the houses I touncl sick. off with ''haole" bread and butter, with servation, both in Hawaii and New
In one a girl of I fi or 17 in the early a lime squeezed in the aforesaid well Zealand, during the past year. He has
wear)-, Rushed, water by way of precaution, and then embodied some of the results of his obstages (if fever
with parched lips and dull eyes. Noth- down to the school house, where we servations here in an article or book for
an audience
the press, upon the Geology of Oahu.
ing was being done for her. She had found every seat taken by
I
sixty.
suppose,
perhaps, it Dr. Hitchcock gained his chief distinc(he
as
of
about
food
others
and
the same coarse
could not eat it. She tried to enter into was a novelty to most of them to have a tion by his labors upon the varied marks
our little meeting, tried to sing or say "haole" address them in their own lan- of the Ice Age in New England. In his
her verse, but broke down in the at guage, and so whatever be said would later years he is studying igneous effects
tempt. Nature is the only one who is have been interesting, or perhaps they in volcanic regions. Many friends here
will miss the society of the learned and
doing anything for her. I hope she felt they were on their good behavior
honor of their (lis genial savant.
and
must
hold
the
up
house
In
through
another
pull
may
!
were very atwe found a man who said he had been trict. At any rate they
sick two years. Sometimes he was bet tentive. As a lule it is a genuine pleas
Mis. Logan, of Ruk, has gone to the
ter, sometimes worse. He hadn't gone ure to speak to a native audience, they Atlantic Coast for treatment of the canto the doctor .mil had no medicine. aie so responsive. The Anglo-Saxon is
Once he had bought a box of pills at a impassive. He lakes in the drawbridge, cer from which she is suffering. Her
China store and had taken them all and shuts the gate and lets down the port- case is not hopeful for this life. She is
wasn't better. Nature was the only one cullis, and looks as deserted as a sum a greatly beloved worker of veteran serwho was doing anything for him and iner hotel in winter ! The native is a vice, and untiring in carrying forward
was probably working against the heavy man of an open countenance. You can the work begun in the Western Caroodds of a kahuna. At another house it re.id ill his face the impression you are lines by her husband and herself.
was the firm conviction of the hostess making on him. He is not afraid to Earnest and loving prayers will ascend
that the haole doctors were mostly smile; not unwilling to look animated ; from many hearts in her behalf.
"naaupoloa"—densely ignorant. "Why, not ashamed to shed a tear if need be.
along as
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Price, of Ruk, contwo or three years ago my daughter was You carry him wiih you right
it.
and
know
go,
you
you
and
when
consulted
that
tinue to be heard from at the East as
I
Japanese
sick,
At the close of the meeting they all exerting themselves zealously and effec
doctor he said it was the water m my
well that made her sick I—my nice clear crowded round me to shake hands—the tively to secure a new schooner to reswwet well ! Did you ever hear of such more important ones with an air of olli place the Robert W. Logan, which was
a thing ? Soon after a native doctor cial prescription, the rest more or less lost last winter.
came and said she had fever, which she timidly or sheepishly, especially some of
had, sure enough, and that Jap said it the girls, yet apparently unwilling to
forego the privilege. They wanted to
was the water !"
I probably .confirmed her conviction know when 1 was coining back again,
that "haoles" were moatlj "naaupo" by and requested me to let them know in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
siding in with the Jap doctor. But it advance that they might be ready—in
ESTKBLISHED IN ISSB'
as well as
was no use —her nice little sweet water outward appearance, I fancy,
inward titness. If they look forward to Transact a general Hanking and Exchange
well was all right !
on approved security.
There arc two gifts that I long for it, so shall I, for they are a very inter- badness. Loans made
Commercial credits granted.
discounted,
Cue
Hills
people.
esting
on
a
like
off
this.
trip
when I go
Thus far they meet in the school Deposits received on current account subject to
is the gift of healing, that J might save
them from so much pain and suffering— house granted for that purpose, but they check. I.(tiers ot credit issued on the princpaj
mostly needless pain and suffering and are trying to build a meeting house of cities ofthe world.
*'>' Agents ol the Liverpool and London and
the other is the gilt of teaching to mould .theirown, and they deserve one.
Globe Insurance Co.
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Perhaps it is because thiy arc beyond thereach ofplantations ami stores.
They have a "Hui" of their own, with a
large tract of land, own their own homes
and are comfortable in them. One Sees
there, more than elsewhere, Hawaiian
mats, and the whole floor covered with
them, with the high tier of mats across
one end of the house for bed room. In
one of these houses I asked in regard to
the family relations and whether there
was much loose living, citing it as a
great evil in Waimea. Yes, they knew
that Waimea was bad -they didn't want
to be compared with it, and assuied me
that they had only three cases of it,
giving names and particulars- When
asked why this had become so great an
evil in Hawaii, they declared that the
Government had done much to relax the
tenacity and sanctity of matrimony b>
breaking up families to send them to
Molok*i. When the Government sev
ered those whom God had joined together*, it cast grave discredit on the
whole marital relation ! It was a new
lei.
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CONTENTS.
Heroes Coasfasf Home
New Helpers in the Chinese Work
'Fhc ImpriMineil (i.ilici.ni s
Honolulu Y. M. l.'. A
Report of l.uualilo Home
Woman's Hoard of Mission*
Italian Contract Laborers
Prosperous Hawaii in.
Illustrated Lactwcs forFulilic Schools
Scores Romanizing Anglican.
Ii iiary Reservation on Oahu
Record of Kvents
Marine Journal
1..ttrr from Prince Henry Nanpei
Work for Natives on Kauai
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Heroes Coming Home.
A tidal wave of tremendous enthusiasm has just swept over San Francisco
and the neighboring State. The California Regiment has returned, scarred
and war-worn, from their hot battlefields
in Luzon. A surge of sympathetic
patriotism, reverence, love for their
bronzed and tattered sons and brothers
convulsed the city and state in a wonderful manner. The throb of that
mighty emotion reaches down to Ha
waii and kindles our hearts here, and
moves' us in
responding sympathy.
When we read of the whole city thronged with vast crowds from the country,
and moved to tears in receiving their
returning heroes, our own tears perforce
start from their fountains.
These soldiers are young men who at
the opening of the war eagerly volunteered to fight for the flag and honor of
their country. It was our honor and
privilege to entertain them in Honolulu
more than a year ago as they passed
on their way to Manila. They were
fine and winsome young men, going forward to face death by bullet and disease.
We bade them God-speed as the smoke
of their ships faded on rhe western horizon. After a time we heard of their
battles fought and fierce charges on the
lurking enemy. They were bold and
fierce fighters, who never turned back
or flinched from a foe. They upheld
as it should be upheld.
Now they have come home, and the
hearts of their people go out to their
hero sons and brothers in a mighty tide
of honor and affection. Our hearts go
out with theirs. It was a grand and
spontaneous outpouring of love, of patriotic sympathy. It was such an emotion as must greatly exalt the souls of
all who participated in it, and must hep
to lift then above the low and sordid
influences of political and commercial
life. It is good for us to hear of it and
to feel with our neighbors.
Oh, the many and weary days which
our young brothers have been spending
around Manila—the wearing hardships,
the long toils and perils. Then the
angry shock of battle and the brave
soul's resolute and fierce response. Now
all that is passed like a troubled dream.
They have entered the haven and the
home, and the tide of joyful and tearful
welcome has surged around them. That
day of their reception was worth all it
had cost to win it.
their country's flag
Our Lord and His inspired apostles
have revealed to his .people that in His
Kingdom and Home above there awaits
His servants' coming thither from earth
a great and blessed welcome. All who
have struggled here against the hosts of
Satan, will there be crowned with honor.
All who have toiled and endured without surrender to evil will there be exalted and blessed. All who have adhered to the standard of their King and
Savior, with no treasonable desertion,
shall there partake of the triumph.
There will be great joy in Heaven when
we toil-worn disciples of earth enter
there, if such be our happy lot. It will
not matter at all if we are poor, ignorant, ragged, ill seeming, if only we
have been on the side of our Lord. His
grace will clothe us there and His glory
will beautify us. From the East and
the West, and from all lands, a great
multitude of the faithful shall sit down
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, to
the feast of His love, and in the king-
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dom of His glory.
Let these hopes uplift our souls. Let
us rise above all these strivings for lower
gains. Let us rejoice in our high, heavenly calling, and stand patient and true
•o our Lord each day, until He shall
summon us Home.
New Helpers in the Chinese Work.
We are pleased to welcome Rev. J. E.
Russell and Rev. E. B. Turner, who
come to engage in missionary and educational work among the Chinese, and
especially in connection with the Mills
Institute. These gentlemen are graduates respectively of Amherst and Princeton, and both of the Union Theological
Seminary. They were ordained to the
ministry this past summer. It is an interesting fact that Mr. Russell was ordained in the church in Morristown, N.
V., where his great-grandfather formerly preached, where his two grandfathers
were elders, and where his father has
also served as elder.
Mr. Turner was recently offered the
General Y. M. C. A. Secretaryship in
Princeton University, but felt called
upon to decline it in view of his desire
to enter upon missionary work among
the Chinese.
These brethren come highly recommended, and enter upon their new field
of labor with zeal and enthusiasm. The
Chinese Mission and all Christian enterprise will be greatly aided by this
strong addition to our working force.
F. W. D.
Superintendent of Palama Chapel.
The Rev. John E. Erdman has just
arrived, to enter upon his duties in
charge of the work at Palama Chapel,
in connection with the Central Union
Church. Mr. Hiram Bingham resigned
from that work last spring on account
of ill health.
Mr. Erdman is a graduate of Princeton University and of McCormick Theological Seminary. His father is pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, N. J., one of the largest churchea
in the State.
Mr. Erdman, together with Messrs.
Russell and Turner, are fruits of the
great Student Volunteer movement.
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66
Annual Report of the Hawaiian
Association.
Evangelical
The Annual Report of our Church
and Missionary Organization for IK'- 9
is before us. The varied contents are
of the deepest interest. Much of the
matter has already appeared in Thk
Friend, on the Hawaiian Hoard page
and elsewhere. Special reports are included from Field Secretary Theodore
Richards; from Rev. T. M. Lydgate, in
charge of Native work on Kauai; from
Rev. J. M. Lewis in similar work on
Maui and Molokai.and from Rev C. W.
Hill, in charge of special work for whites
and natives in Southern Hawaii.
Rev. J. Leadingham reports the
year's work in the North Pacific Missionary Institute, with its twelve students, 9 Hawaiians, 'J Chinese, and one
Portuguese, the last having since been
ordained. Dr. Hyde, by reason of illhealth, hail withdrawn from the work,
Messrs. (). H Gulick, Rev. 11. 11. Par
ker, and Mis. Leadingham bail regularly
assisted in instruction.
Very satisfactory anil encouraging re
ports appear from the tlnee Training
Schools for Girls which an- undei the
direction of the Hawaiian Hoard, viz:
Kawaiahao, Maunaolu and Kohala
Seminaries, which are under the chaige
respectively if ihe Lady Principals, the
Misses C. W. Paulding, M. E. Alexander and M. 1). Truull. Hilo Hoys
Boarding School also reports, through
Principal Levi C. Lyman. Religious
instruction is faithfully imparted in each
of these fmn Seminari ■.
Mr. 1'". W. Dam«»n reports his great
and enlarging work among the Chinese
including his noble Mills Institute with
about one hundred boarding and day
pupils.
Rev. O. 11. Gulick reports the extensive work among the 10,00(1 Japanese
these Islands, among whom I i Japanese
preachers are employed, an increase of
two over the previous year. I<ij members have been added on profession of
faith, making B 14 on the chinch rolls.
The Honolulu pastor Okumura conducts
a Boarding school (or '13 boys now
occupying premises on Kukui street,
purchased for $I>,MI(I, donated by liberal
persons in Honolulu.
The Portuguese Mission work is also
reported by .Secretary Kmerson, and by
Rev. Messrs. Soares and Haptiste.
By many of these missions and
schools, large donations are acknowledged from Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cooke.
Fourteen pages are devoted to reports
from the various Foreign Missions in
Marquesas and Micronesia, of which
numerous statements have appeared in
reports as passing through his hands
the sum of $31,549.81, of which $30,-308.49 were disbursed to various objects.
Of the above amount, $18,526 were
given in sums ranging from $500 to
$3,500, and $7,920 in smaller donations.
The balance was chiefly income from
invested property of the Board. $12,-250 were given by four individuals,
whose united annual income must be
nearly one million, and who respond to
many other large calls on their bene
volence.
The total invested funds of the Board
are now $108,888.90, of which $50,000
have just been given by Charles M.
Cooke. The Board also hold in trust
various Mission and Church property,
whose value is estimated at $74,700.
$27,000 of this belongs to the Portu
guese Mission, $15,000 to the Japanese
Mission, and 12,000 to the N. P. M.
Institute.
The work of the Board is constantantly growing, its opportunities widening, its responsibilities becoming
weighty, and the labors ot its officials
onerous. The Lord of the harvest is
greatly blessing the work ofhis servants.
alleged "slavery." Meantime the rest
oi their people on the plantation are
laboring there, hearty and healthy and
saving money.
The imprisoned men allege that the
agent who hired them in Europe in
some way defrauded them and thus
vitiated their contracts, and justified
them in refusing to work them out. It
does not appear that they allege any
serious illtreatment or abuse from their
overseers. If they could present any
evidence of such abuse, they would
have done so, for such proof of abuse
would at once have set them entirely
free from their contracts. The Government inspectors are vigilant in preventing such abuse.
With whom then should our sympathies lie ? With these laborers, manfully resisting submission to slavery ?
Or should we side with the Planters,
who are out of pocket for their transpotation from Poland ? Whatever evil
is in our contract labor system, it certainly has improved immensely the
condition of a great body of immigrants.
The Imprisoned Galicians.
From the monthly "Association Review" we cull the following items :
Mr. Albert J. Coats is expected to arrive early in September, to act as Assistant Secretary in the gymnastic work.
Mr. W. P. Rider is conducting evan
gelistic meetings on Sunday afternoons
for young men.
Instruction is given from 7 to 9 p. m.
in arithmetic, business forms, composition, bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, mechanical and architectural
drawing, also in one modern language,
Hawaiian.
Total Y. M. C. A. membership in
North America for 1898 wa5.228,568, in
1429 Associations.
Total value of buildings and real estate was $21,118,480.
Average daily attendance at rooms
was 77,378.
478 gymnasiums were used by 57,814
different men.
24,085 students were enrolled in the
different educational classes.
There are some thirty white laborers
confined in Oahu Prison at hard labor
on the public roads. They are Poles
from Galicia. They have been in prison
for some months, choosing that hardship rather than to return to their
previous employment as laborers on the
Oahu Sugar Plantation. Much publicity
has been given to their unfortunate condition, and severe strictures upon their
case reach us from abroad. We therelore endeavor to state impartially what
are the well known facts in the case.
These men entered into written contracts with an agent of the Hawaiian
Planters to labor on the Sugar Plantations for three years at about $15 a
month, lodging, fuel, and medical at
tendance being free, in return for a free
passage from their honies to Hawaii,
which probably cost as much as $80 a
head or more. On these wages they
live far better than they were able to do
at home, and it the expiration of the
three years, are free to hire out as they
please.
In order to secure the employers who
pay for the free passages of these immigrants, and so enable them to assist
their immigration, otherwise impossible
to these very poor people, the law of
this country enables the employer lo
have the laborer imprisoned, if he refuses to work in fulfilment of his contract. These Galicians after working a
short time, determined to refuse, were
accordingly imprisoned, and have con-
Honolulu Y. M. C. A.
Report of Lunalilo Home.
This retreat for aged Hawaiians has
had, during the past twelve years, an
average of 42 inmates, but during the
past five years an average of 47. The
number of admissions has averaged 15
annually, of whom seven tenths were
males. Eighteen of the aged inmates
died during the past year. The cost of
their support the past year has averaged
$230 per caput. The management of
Mrs. Forbes has been most successful
and pleasant to the inmates. The present value of invested funds amounts to
The Friend.
The Treasurer of the Hawaiian Board tinued stoutly to refuse to return to the $223,618.95.
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Vol. 57, No. 9.]
Woman's Board of Missions
FOR THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
The annual report of these earnest
and devout women is before us, containing a most interesting series of statements respecting their various meetings
and departments of work. We glean
from it the following facts :
The membership is as follows
335
Living life members
28
Annual members
An analysis of the Treasurer's report
shows the amount raised during the
year to have been $1205.82, and the
amount disbursed for the objects of the
Society, $1009.78. Besides, there were
$150 received and $200 invested for the
permanent fund, which now amounts to
:
lng themselves in food, he issued extra
rations of meat and coffee. He has
had "no trouble of any kind with them."
Ten of the contract laborers have deposit! in Bishop & Co.'s Savings Hank
amounting to $520 in gold coin. All
stories about ill usage ofItalian contract
laborers in Hawaii are malicious inven
tions out of whole cloth.
That there has been no ill usage what
ever of contract laborers ol any race
here is too much to affirm. A vigilant
guardianship over them all is exercised
by the Government. Any clear case ol
ill treatment at once enables the labort i
to go free from his contract. The chiil
use of the contract is to enable the labo
rer to obtain an advance on his wages
in order to pay his fare hither.
Prosperous Hawaiians.
$1,800.
Among the disbursements appear the The "Hawaiian Star" incidental!}
sums of $211 for the work of Miss Mary
lower part of the Pauoa
E. Green, and $250 for that of Miss Ma- says:"The
bel Sunter among Chinese women.
A large part of the work of this Hoard
is in the creation of missionary interest
by means of their fruitful discussions
and papers read.
Hopelessness in Death.
A friend at the East writes as follows:
"The great American agnostic is dead.
Ingersoll has gone. His family, wife
and daughters sit stunned and terrible
in their grief—unwilling to let the dead
body go out of their sight and they
have no hope of any hereafter ! !
"It is pitiable, indeed, and I think a
fearful comment on Ingersoll's teach
ings, to see the dumb misery, the broken-heartedness of his own family no
hope, no God in the world, no hereafter.
It's worse than heathendom "
Blessed is our faith that looks up to
the risen Redeemer, who has promised
to take us and our beloved ones to himself. He lives, and we shall live with
him.
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Italian Contract Laborers in Hawaii.
In view of certain statements respect
ing alleged ill usage of Italian laborers
here, it is in place to state that that the
only contract laborers from Italy in
these islands are twenty one persons
employed by Hon. S. M. Damon upon
his estate at Moanalua, in the vicinity
of Honolulu. The men receive $lfi per
month, and, in addition, a comfortable
home, wood, a small garden, and the
milk necessary for household use. They
also receive an increase of wages as
their competence for work improves.
Mr. Damon pronounces their work satisfactory. Finding that they were stint-
road is lined with small house lots which
have been*built on. They are chiefly in
the hands of well-to do Hawaiians,who
show great taste in laying out their gar
dens and in keeping brilliant beds of
flowers. The Portuguese dwellings intermingle and can readily be distinguished by their vine frames."
Well-to-do Hawaiians are in great
numbtrs. Many false statements have
been made representing the natives as
victims of the oppression of whites. Industrious and temperate natives are
highly prosperous. There are many
Hawaiians who are shiftless and many
who are of drunken habits. .Such are
Natives are
poor and necessitous.
strong and capable laborers and com
mand good wages. Many of them are
skilled mechanics and earn from $10 to
$75 a month. The natives, as a class,
have a full share, in proportion to their
industry, in the great financial prosperity
of these islands. For the acquisition of
large wealth, few of them possess the
necessary ability.
breeze habitually plays through the
broad verandahs which surround the
building. These immensely wide verandahs and their inviting chairs are a
special attraction. Within the hotel is
sumptuously furnished, with beautiful
pallors and fin nit urc, and the most
modern bath rooms and plumbing in the
sleeping looms. A number of outside
cottages make additional provision for
guests.
The hotel presents an imposing as
pect from the railway. Guests are
landed at a pretty station across the
Stream, connected by a rustic bridge.
Since the opening, on the sth, the house
has been thronged with guests, both
residents of Honolulu and tourists. It
is the first country lesort of such attractions yet established in Hawaii.
The sea h,tilling facilities are exceptionally line.
Lahaina Water Works.
As an old resident of Lahaina, the
editor is much interested to observe that
a movement has at last been made to
establish a supply of the abundant
mountain water to the lower streets by
means of piping. Those dreary and
dusty yards will be made exquisitely
beautiful when the fertile soil, enriched
by water, produces green lawns and
blight Bowers. And much sickness will
disappear when the foul wells are exchanged for the pure mountain water.
Forty three years ago the writer began
an effort to have the Government lay
pipes on Lahaina beach, for the public
good and their own financial profit. We
immediately confronted an insuperable
obstacle. The native Governor owned
a water hole from which he supplied the
casks of the whalers at ten dollars a
ship. This hole was filled partly by the
ordinary well water and partly from the
mountain stream. Public water works
would destroy the Governor's lucrative
monopoly. His influence was sufficient
to paralyze any move towards waterwoiks, and Lahaina has continued to be
Press Visit to Waialua Hotel.
the dingy place it is. It ought to be
one
of the beauty spots of the group.
An agreeable entertainment was given
by Mr. B. F. Dillingham, on the 4th
As reported in our daily journals, a
ult., to some thirty representatives ol
woman has been convicted in a
Chinese
the Honolulu press, by a railway tup to
Honolulu
lower court of bigamy, behours'
hospitaliKahuku, including two
of
been married by proxy
having
cause
lunch,
at
the
new
ty, with sumptuous
resident of Honto
Chinese
China
a
in
Waialua,
where
Col.
Haleiwa Hotel at
on
arrival
here marrying
olulu,
and
her
No
lankea
was
our
host.
genial
Curtis
found that her
she
man,
another
because
distinction
than
"suless
adjective of
already had a wife
perb" seems fit to apply to this beautiful supposed husbandKveii
if such marriage
and family here.
Its
location
is
charm
establishment.
by proxy had any validity, the existence
ing, at the mouth of the Waialua river, of ihe other family should nullify it.
on a somewhat elevated bank, overlook- Doubtless the higher court will rectify
ing the pretty bay. A fresh and grateful the injustice.
68
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Illustrated Lectures for Public Schools.
Death of Captain Babcock.
Professor A. S. Bickmore is in charge Captain William Habcock departed
of the department of public instruction this life early last month, at the age of
in the American Museum of Natural 83, after some years of much feebleness.
History at the New York Central Park.
He has been traveling in these islands
for the past two months, accompanied
by a photographer, and has secured
about 500 views of Hawaiian scenery
and life, from which to select for slides
to use in the great system of illustrated
lectures employed by his department.
Such lectures, illustrated by exquisitely beautiful colored views thrown on
immense screens, are delivered in the
museum hall to audiences of 29,000 persons. The splendid slides are also duplicated and distributed with the printed
lectures, to be read and exhibited in
every school district of the State, so as
to reach the whole people.
Prof. Bickmore has made an illustrative exhibition to the summer school
now in session in this city, and holds
out inducements, which have been received by the teachers with enthusiasm,
for supplying a set of slides and lectures
on the same, for use in these islands.
Mr. Bickmore has just returned to New
York.
Educational Lectures.
He was formerly, as a pilot, one of the
"tst known figures about town, and
greatly esteemed as an amiable and devout man. His figure was formerly
prominent at our church services, where
deafness placed him in a front seat.
Jessop Scores Romanizing Anglicans.
The Rev. Augustus Jessop ia a sound
"Churchman." He expresses a strong
contempt towards the Romanizing rit
ualists. He says:
"Of late we hive had more than
enough talk about the crisis in the
Church, and been working ourselves
into a kind of St. Vitus dance because a
few hundred clerical nondescripts are
threatening to bring back Paganism
into our worship, and offering to rid us
of the burden of our innermost secrets
by polluting others with the recitals of
things which we would fain hide from
our very selves."
The last clause is a severe characterization of the very unwholesome Romish
Confessional, which certain Anglican
cranks have adopted. As the beginning
of the paragraph intimates, the conspicuous antics of those eccentric persons do not justify any fear that the
free born English people are going back
into bondage to medieval priestly ty
ranny. As he rightly suggests, much
of that old ritual of the dark past of
Christendom is a mixture of the ancient
Pagan superstitions.
A series of five very able lectures upon
"The Life of the Child," have just been
delivered before our summer school for
teachers by the eminent Professor Dewey
of Chicago, and are to be fullowed by
another series on"The Development of
Thought in the Nineteenth Century." Heavy Reinforcements for Manila.
The first series have been full of matter
of deeply interesting thought for all per
The names are announced of fourteen
sons engaged in the care and education
troop-ships
which are to leave San Fran
of children in tender and growing years
cisco during the next two months, carrying thither over 15,000 men, besides
The Re-Trial of Dreyfus.
officers, who are to reinforce the AmerIt is certain that the trial of no man
was ever watched with such deep interest by such a multitude of men of all
civilized nations as to day are intently
observing the new trial of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus, at Rennes. While under the
stress of party feeling, perhaps a ma
jority of his own countrymen hold him
to have been the traitor he was charged
to be, most men in other countries be
lieve him to be the innocent victim of a
base conspiracy. We believe that jus
tice now will triumph, also that the
principles of justice in France will be
immensely reinforced, and the sentiment
[September, 1899
tion of the Transvaal, yet the Boers are
a brave and gallant race of men of kindred blood to the English race. They
have been deeply embittered against
England by the wrongs of a former generation. Probably there was never a
more determined set of men or more
able for war. The contest with them
will be a most desperate one, and victory over them will be most dearly earned.
It is barely possible that even yet they
may yield to the evident Hritish determination to subdue them. The outcome
of the presentconditions must be awaited
with deep anxiety.
The "Hoodoo" Steamer.
There was a general sense of relief
when it was learned that the "City of
Columbia" had finally foundered at sea
without causing loss of life. For nigh
a year past that steamer has been the
seat of a succession of troubles and
misfortunes, not all of which were
caused by her being old and rotten. She
ought not to have been allowed to put
to sea in such a condition that her stern
planking worked open in mild weather
the second day that her propellor shook
it. She will create no more harassment
or disgust.
The "Social Evil."
A valued citizen scores in the public
press the great publicity of this nameless
vileness in Pauahi street, regretting that
so honored a name should have such
associations. The suppression of this
gross form of immorality is doubtless
impossible, mankind being such as they
are. Public law is practically restricted
to confining and regulating it, as is done
in Honolulu, with a view to minimizing
its indecencies and physical evils. We
agree with the above writer that either
the name of the street should be changed
or the vile traffic pushed elsewhere.
More deodorizing seems to be required.
But what salvation can be found, either
in time or eternity, for those hapless,
perishing victims of human depravity ?
One's heart aches for them.
ican army in Luzon. It is evident that
the fall campaign is to be prosecuted
with energy. The policy of President
McKinley is plainly a very decided one
in reference to this war. Having engaged in it, he will fight it through with
vigor. The American public, however,
A Los Angeles company has ordered
seem very doubtful whether General Otis
from
Ostergren and Berger, of New
is capable of executing such a policy.
York, a liquid air plant, with a capacity
of 1500 gallons a day. It is for the reThe Transvaal.
frigeration of cars for the transportation
The war cloud hangs very dark and of fruit. There seems to be
a wide
menacing over the Boer Republic. field of service for liquid air in supply,
While there is much to support belief ing cool air in hot weather, both in hothat the Boers are in the wrong, and tels and homes, also on ships in the
tropics, not only to passengers but to
of righteousness greatly invigorated that it is the duty of Great Britain to en- the coal passers in the boiler rooms
among that people, as the result of this force the rights of her oppressed citi- where the temperature stands often at
trial.
zens, who are a majority of the popula- 140 degrees.
Vol. 57, No. 9.]
Spread of Bubonic Plague.
Latest advices
are
that the plague has
reached Newchwang, in North China, on
the Pacific, and on the Atlantic has broken out severely in Oporto. The vigilance of Hawaii lately arrested its journey across the Pacific to California.
Equal vigilance will doubtless prevent
its access to the Atlantic Coast. It is
nearly certain that the sanitary skill of
Europe will be adequate to prevent any
extensive diffusion of the plague in the
more enlightened sections of that conti
nent. It seems not unlikely that this
pestilence will ravage all parts of Asia
and Africa.
Military Reservation on Oahu.
It has just been given out that the U.
S. Government have determined to reserve for the use of the military forces in
the Pacific, the beautiful tract of Leile
hua, on this island. Leilehua is on the
pleasant level upland hetwei n Ewa and
Waialua. It ought to be a most s.ilu
brious residence for troops.
The enterprising farming compan) .it
Wahiawa are located in the vicinity and
should find a good market for their pro
duce with the army forces.
W. C. Gregg, a most enterprising agent
of American manufacturers of macbin"
STY. There are many scores of steam
plows at work on our various plantations,
all of which Mm from Scotland, It
appears that no steam plows have hitherto been used on the vast prairies of the
west, except plows hauled behind trac
tion engines. Hawaii thus has the
honor of ordering the first regular steam
plows manufactured in the United
States. These come from O. S. Kelley
cV Co., of Springfield, Ohio.
Photographs of Leper Settlement.
A set of admirable pictures of Kalaupapa and Kalawao have been seemed
and are on sale by photographer Williams. They are far the best cvi i taken
there. The beautiful villages are shown
with then ch,inning surroundings, also
the Baldwin and Bishop Homes. The
grand precipices are wonderfully dc
picti d, especially the giant cone between
Wail,tu and lYickunu. Williams hap
pencil upon an exceptionally line atmosphere for his wm k.
High Wages for Laborers.
Certain Japanese who have contracted
a semi-weekly
service
on that mute.
During the recent naval manoeuvers
around the Irish coasts, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy was used
between the ships. The highest success
was attained, and communications sent
from thirty to forty miles with ease and
precision from ship to ship. This gives
great encouragement to expect at no
distant day the establishment of wire
less telegraphs from one island of this
group to another.
A woman came to me one day to say
she wanted her daughter to be confirmed,
writes Rev. S. Bernays in Cornhill.
"Mr. Black." she said, "from the chapel
over the way, as been a-trying to
convert 'er, hut I pretty soon told him
what I thought 'hunt it. I ses to 'im.T'll
'aye my gal confirmed, but I won't 'aye
her converted, SO now you know.
I
don't believe in conversion"—Exchange.
"What is the meaning of the word
tantalizing?'' asked the teacher.
"Please Ma'am,spoke up little Johnny
Holcomb, "it me.ins a circus procession
passing the school house, and thepupils
not allowed to look out."—Vanity Fair.
"Pretty Polly," said the visitor, ap-
appioacning
the
cage.
"Want a
"My name," interrupted the —"
parrot,
speaking slowly and distinctly, "is Ibsen
,uul I want nothing. 'I am meditating."
"He's a queer bud," explained the
hostess. "He won't eat anything but
beans. I think my husband got him
somewhere in the East."—Chicago
I'l ibune.
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Aug. Ist. -The Tramways Co. begin
reconstruction of the King St. line
from Nuuana St., eastward. Successful conceit by the Amateur Orchestra at
Progress Hall, fir the benefit of its
music fund.—Transport Tartar with
the 19th infantry aboard, some I 200 officers and men, snivel, en route for
Manila,
a
The steamer Kinau is announced as to clear Olaa sugar lands, are offering
hereafter to make three tiips to Hilo in $22.5(1 a month for Japanese lal Diets.
two weeks. It is not likely to be long A general rise in labor wages looks near
at hand. It seems a reasonable hope-
before the passenger traffic will require
69
THE FRIEND
that a desirable class of white men will
thereby be attracted hither.
A very offensive nuisance of hog
farms having grown up along the Waikiki load, the Hoard of Health have
prohibited the keeping of swine within
four miles of the post office, except by
special permission of the Hoard.
Comicalities.
"Can you change a twenty dollar bill
for me?" he asked with an important air
that nettled the courteous clerk. "Yes,
Eleven ostriches have been shipped sir; we can change anything here."
you'd change my mind then, if
from Kauai to California. This closes "Wish
you're so good at it."
out the ostrich farming initiated some
"Have no small change sir."—Light
ten years ago by the late Dr. George
Trousseau. Our climate, or something
Clergyman
(to peasant): "Fine
else, has proved unfavorable to the big
weather,
George."
birds.
(ieorge: "For them as ain't got to
sur."
work,
American Steam Plows.
Clergyman: "Your garden looks well."
To them as don't ha' to moil it, sur,"
The first set of steam plows ever Clergyman:
"I'm glad the wife's
made in America were landed here Aug. better."
Mth. They were ordered by the AmerGeorge: "Them as doan't ha' to live wi'
Tit Bits.
can Sugar Co. of Molokai, through Mr. her may be."
—
2nd —Entertainment in honor of Gen.
Jos.
Wheeler at the Pacific Club by
Gen. A. S. Hartwell, to which a number
of distinguished guests were invited and
a cordial reception participated in.—Reception at the Chinese Consulate in
honor of the Emperor's birthday.
3rd.-Work begun on the sewer
system for the city. In the Cooper disbarment case, of several weeks ago, the
Court renders a decision sustaining the
Atty. General. C.ipt. Wm. Babcock,
an old time resident, and for
many years
a pilot of this port, dies at his residence
at the ripe age of 83.
4th. —Sptcial press excursion to Waialua and Kahuku in honor of thecompleti n of the new hotel, Haleiwa, at
Waialua. to be formally opened lo the
public under the management of Major
C. P. laukea on the sth.
Bth—Steamships/l ustralia and China,
for San Francisco, take away a large
list of passengers, including a number
of prominent citizens.
9th.—Geo. Wade pleads guflty to the
charge of murder in the second degree
in the killing of Wm. Gillespie on the
Australia in June last.—Cruiser Boston
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70
M
arrives from Manila, homeward bound. Hawaii. —The Rapid Transit Co. se-
11th.—Fortunate early morning dis-
covery of a confined fire in Hopper's
planing mill averts a serious conflagration and heavy loss.—State ball at
the Executive building, which was bril
liantly illuminated with electric lights,
in honor of "admission day."
12th.—First anniversary of Hawaii's
admission into the Union, observed as
a holiday.—Semiannual contest of the
Hawaiian Rifle Association; F. B. Damon wins the trophy. An Italian la-
borer at Moanalua, in a drunken quarrel, shoots a fellow countryman, inflict
ing inquires which proved fatal two
days later.
13th.—Word received of the probable
foundering of the ss. City of Columbia
some seventy miles to the southward of
Kauai, all hands having left her in four
boats on the I Ith in a sinking condition.
Two boats' crew had arrived at Mana,
Kauai, and most of the men were
brought to port. Toward evening the
tug Iroquois went out to the rescue of
the others. Murdered Chinaman found
in a corn field at Kula, Maui. A Japa
nese laborer of the Honolulu Sugar Co.
suicides at Halawa, by drowning.
14th.—Fourth Annual Session of the
Summer School opens.
15th.—The Iroquois returns, with the
Captain, officers and remainder of the
ill-fated Columbia's crew. —British cable
survey steamer ligeria arrives from San
Marine Journal.
PORT OF HONOLULU AUGUST.
ARRIVALS.
At Port Ludlow, Washington,
July 12, hy the Key. J P. l.lwvd, John H. Carter, of
Seattle, to I'hea, d.iunhlcr of Mr. and Mts. Q, K. Turner, of McGregor, lowa.
THKUM-COLLCKN At Collnim Place, Wyoming,
Ohio, July IS. at the residence of the bridal a'tnt, Mr*.
K. N.Clark, l.y the Key Mr laplor, David F. Thrum,
of Honolulu, to Miss Martha S. oilmen.
(T
I
Ii
—
s.
four to six trips a month.
29th. —Prof. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth
College, delivers a lecture before the
summer school on"The Geology of
CARTER-TURNER
An sch AUcc Cook*, Pcaballow, ft*mi Port Townaand
S transport Tartar, PybUft, limn S.m Fian. is. o
Japss America Maru. Cope, from San Pranciaaa,
RIGGS- \FONd In "liailllda,
1
jury in the case of Mrs. Cowles render
DKPAKIUkF.S.
a verdict of accidental death.
1 Am sh Geo. Curtis, Sproull, for San Francis...
ss America Maru, Cope, for Yokohama.
25th. —San Francisco's famed yacht 5J[ —Jap
Hr sh Aniphitrite, Anderson, for Portland
owner,
her
new
arrives
to
Paloma
Hr ss Miowera, Hamming, for Victoria
La
ss Aorangi, Hepworth, for ihe Colonic*.
C. W. Mscfarlane, to enhance yachting 4i - Hr
Am In Hoii.jipu, Olsen, for San Fram is. <>
II S transport Newport, Saunders, for Manila
interests at these islands.—Sudden death
I' S ti.uispirt Ohio, Hoggs, lor Manila
at the Oahu plantation of John Winter, c Am 11 i: I) Bryant, Colby, for San
Francis,,*
28th. —Wilder's S. S. Co. plan to increase the Hilo trips of the Ktnau from
,
s,
—Joe
Fowler's steam
Mam, Carey, for the Colonies
si
—
plows.
■ss
ss
——
traveling agent for
llr
ss
\in -s Australia, liouulelte, from S.m I'i.iiiumh.
C S transport Newport, S.itiinlei-., Irani San Fran, isi .>
Hr ss Miowera, Hemming, from the Colonies
Haw hk Ma.ma Ala, Smith, from San I ram iico
U S transport (lino, Boggw, from San Praia isi o
Am hk Harvester. Edwards, from MatVCaatta
4 Hr ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from Victoria
6- Amat Columbia, L)obeon, from Yokohama
6 Am hrgt W. d. Irwin, Williams, from San Fram UtCO
Amsh Kinily F Whitney, Pendleton, from New York
Am l»k Skagit, Kobintoa, from Port Lttctlow
7 Am sh Fort George, Mane, firom San Pranciaco
Am hkl Irmgard, Schmidt, from Sea Francisco
B Am ss China, Seal.ury. from Yokahama
i)-Atu sh Tacoina, Pederson, from San Francisco
V S cruiser Huston, Hughes, from Yokuhoma
l'l I' S transport Indiana, Morle, from San Francisco
II Am ss City of I'ekinjj, Smith, from San Francisco
13 Amlik Empire, Knacke, from Newcastle
It Am ss Flihu Thompson, Whitney, from Seattle
Francisco.
Am sh Dashing Wave, l.ancasu-r, from Ta< oma
Am m lir Kobt. K. Hines, Hellingson, from Port Ludlow
17th.—Forty-first Anniversary of the
Hr ss Doric, Smith, from Yokohama.
Establishment of the banking house of 15 Hr ss Belgian King, Weiss, from Yokohama
H. B. M. S. Fgcria. Smyth, from San Francisco
Bishop 8c Co.
Hr s> Moana, Carey, from San Francisco
Gaelic, Finch, from San Francis-o
Br
21st. —Another Chinese habeas corpus —Ammschr
Kolwrt I.ewers, fromjKauiiakakai
case fails to have the legal bars to free 10—Am schr Aloha, DabtJ, from San Francisco
schr
Ksther Huhne, Anderson, from Fureka
17—Am
admission into the country removed.
IX JapssToyo Maru, Tomila, frotu Yokohama
Y'oii Otereniorp, from the Colonies
Alameda,
ss
Mrs. I. S. Cowles, while riding a bicy- 10—Am
Am Maw Mary X Knss, Wikendcr, from Furek
a
run
over
a
brake
driven
schr
Lucile,
Anderson, from Nanaimo
Am
by
by
cle, is
U S transport Senator, Patterson, from San Francisco
Portuguese boy and fatally injured, 22—Am
hk S N Castle, Hubbard, from San Francis. ,>
Am hk S C Allen, Johnson, from San Francisco.
death ensuing at the (Queen's Hospital
Japss Hongkong Maru, Kilmer, from San Fram isco
on 23rd.
SS Am schr Inca, Raemumcn, from Tacnatt
-Haw schr yacht La Paloma, A. Macphail, from San F
be
23rd.—Ihara, sentenced to
hung —Am liktn Plant-rr, McNeil, from v an Fram Y. q
fag ss Nippon Maru, Allen, from Yokohama
on the 28th inst., is respited to October 26—Am
schr Bangor, Aspe, from Port Townsend
9th.—Ostrich farming on this islands
Am hk Mohican, Kellcv, from San Francisi o
Amelia, Wilier, from Port Hl.ik. I. ty
bktn
terminates in their shipment to the coast M Am
Haw hk Andrew Welch, Drew, from S.in Fran. is. g
2*
Aiis
ss
Siam,
Mauna
Kaci. li, from San Francisco
Ala.
by the
.To Am ss Austiaia, Hou.lletTe, from San Fran. is. o
aged
Portuguese,
Silva,
an
sh
Charmer,
Davi.s, from Nanaimo
—Am
24th.
Am
Sealmry, from San Fram iaCO
suicides through ill health.—Coroner's HI Hr ssssChina,
Warrirnoo, Hay, from the Colonies
—
Ifl
Br ■ fl—ltr. Finch, for Yokohama
cure the property of Mrs. K. C. Damon,
Amsh Tncoma, Pcderson, for Manila
Am lirßl W(. Irwin, Williams, for San Francisco.
bounded by Beretania,Alapai and Young
Am *eh Okanogan, Ranch, for PorJ Townsend
foi San Francisco
Boston,
Sts., for the site of the power house and 17 -U Scruiser
Am ss r.lihu Thompson, Whitney, lot Seattle
residences of engineers and other em
Am tntss. bktn Morning Star, (>arlaml, for Micronesia
Haw tk Star of Italy. Wester for tht- Souml
ployees of the Company.
19 Am
Alameda, Yon Oterendorp, for San Francisco
Am
Inacmrd, Schmidt, for Ban Francisco
30th. 1,096 shares of the Hawaiian 80 (Jer bktn
l>k J C (Mack, Stem 1 for San Francisco
Sugar Co.'l stock (Makaweli) sells at I\t lap ss Toy.> Maru, I'ninita. for Yokohama
Haw hk Manna Ala, Smith, for San Francisco
$2'Jf> to San Francisco investors, mak- '.':s Am
Itktii Skagit, Robin MOQ, for Port Townsend
ing a (460,000 transaction, the larger :'A 1' S traiishort Senator, Patterson, for Manila
Jap
Hongkong Maru, Kilmer, for Yokohama
part of which wilt go to England for the '26 Japss Nippon Mam,
Allen, for San Francisco
'L~t
-Am
hk Harvester, Filwariis, for Nanaimo
transfer of nationality of ownership.
a>
Am si In Aloha. l>ahel, lor San Francisco
My the China is received $_'o(),00(>, the
Anivlir Mary X RllW, NikannYr, f«ir dray's Harboi
Am hr Rebt. R. Hind. Hellingsen, for Port Towns'd
San Francisco subscription toward the IB Am
sh Dashing Wave, Lancaatat, fur Tarunu
capital of the new bank which will open ftl Am lir Alii .- Cooke, Peiihallow, for Puget Sound.
Anis-, China, Sealuiry, for Yokoh;nn.i
on Monday next, Sept. 4th, in its speItr ss Warrirnoo, May, for Vancouver
cially prepartd quarters in the Campbell
block, Port street.
MARRIAGE.
Am schr F S Kedfielil, Jorgensen, for Pari Townsend
(mi lik 11. It.ukleld, Hirkholm, for Sinn FVanciwo
—Am ss Columbia, Dobaon, for Portland
8 Am ss Australia, lloudlette, for S.m Fiaucisco.
Am ss China. Seahurv, for San Francisco
0 Am schr Ottilia Fjord, Segelhorst, for Fureka
Mi Haw ss City of Columbia, Walker, for Hongkong
11 II S transport Indiana, Morle, for Manila
IS Am ss City of Peking, Smith, for Yokohama
U U S tug Iroauois, Pond, for Mana, Kauai
14 -Am schr Mary X Foster, Johnson, for San Francisco
In- -Hrss l)oric, Smith, for San Francis, o
—Br ss Belgian King, Weiss, for San Francisco
—
Kiggs and Miss
'
August
CaffotilM H. Afong.
1, Mr. J.
M.
HUGHES LLOYH In thik.iiy, at St Andrew's Cathedral. August 2, Miss Lottiaa l.loyd, of Berkeley, Cal., to
Ban Hughes, ol Honolulu, Rev. Alex Mackintoshofficiating.
ANDREWS-PULLER In Honolulu, Augusi 16, Lieut*
Philip Andrews, U.S.N., to Miss Clara M
daughter of ''aptaiu Andrew Fuller
Fuller-
M. CI KN-COPFLANI) In HmioMu. August 19, Albert
Mcdurn to Miss lithe Copelaml, Key. H.H.Parker
officiating.
HOWLING In this city, August 23, hy
the Key. Fathei Valentine, James ||. ('oinlaii to Theresa
(JUINLAN
Oowling.
BIRTHS.
/UMWALT At Makawao, Maui, August 7, to the wife
of J. L. W. /uinwalt, a sou.
PRATT In this city,
W. PrHtt,
a son.
August 10, to the wife of Captain
J.
ISKNHUKd In San Fran. isco. August 12, to Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Isen herg, of this city, as.m.
In this city, August 24, to the wife of H. G.
Danford, a son.
DANFORI)
COOKE lnthiscity, August 2ft,
t ooke, a daughter.
to •'
1111 WM X In this city, August 28,
(>lto Inlander, a daughter.
COOKR—Ia this city, August 27,
Cooke a
KM
.
wife of C. H.
to the wife of
to the wife of J.
P.
DEATHS.
RICKARI>-At Hoiiokaa, Hawaii. July 30, Hon. Wm.
Henry Kickard, aged i3 year-., 1 month ad 10 days.
r
FF.KNANDF.S At Holualoa, North Kona, Hawaii, on
July 31, of pneumonia, Antone Fernandes, aged 36 years.
BAHCOCK In Honolulu, August 3, Captain William
Balicock, ofthis city, aged Mil years
/! MWAI.T At Makawao, Maui, Augdst 7, John Ran'
dal, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. |. L. W. Xumwalt.
DENISON In Hon lulu,
August 12. Mrs. deorge H.
Itenison, aged j4 years, wife of Sti|>eriuteiident 1 Vinson
of the O. K. & L. Co.
HOMFR U Host .n. Mass August 2, in the tllst year of
bee age, Mrs. Mary Elisabeth Homer, widowof'l homes
J. Homer, leaving three daughters, Mrs. Arthur H.
Nichols, Mrs. Augustus Saint (iaudeiis, and Mrs. Oliver
P. Kmerson, and two sons, Joseph W. and Thomas J.
Homer.
SIMS
In this .Hy, August 21, Mary Minerva, only
daughter of Wm. R. and Kaiie K. Sims, aged 4 years. 4
monthsand 27 days.
COWLES In Honolulu, August 23, Irene S. Cowles, nee
darner.
WINTER At Oahu plantation, August 2f>, John Winter
of Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire, England, aged 62 years.
,
Vol. 57. No. 9.]
THE FRIEND.
HAWAIIAN BOABB.
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 contents.
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
-
Editor.
Rev. O. P. Emerson sailed on Aug.
18th,in company with Messrs. Kauhane
and Desha, to attend the International
Congregational Conference at Boston.
Messrs. Timoteo and Ezera had preceded them on the like errand in company with Senator Waterhouse, Vice
President of the Hawaiian Board. Before leaving, Mr. Emerson had heard of
the death from old age of Mrs. Emerson's mother, Mrs. Homer.
Letter From Prince Henry Nanpei.
Ponapk, Kiti, April 20, 1899.
Rev. O. P. Kmkkson :
Dear Sir—Your welcome letter, dated
Honolulu, June IKth, is received. I was
arrested on May 23d, 1H!IH. You will
be glad to know that I am now a free
agent. I thank and bless Ood for it.
And I thank and bless those brave and
noble Americans who have fought and
gained such a glorious victory over our
tyrannical persecutors. The Americans
have saved me from being exiled, and
they have saved my family and my people from being harassed and shot to
death. All our Christian people rejoice
over this Spanish American war, because it was not for fame, nor gain, nor
vengeance, nor any evil thing, but only
to obtain and secure the justice, safety
and freedom which are the birthright of
every human being. Where are the
Spanish now ? How do they feel over
this ? The Spaniards that are here now
are very humble and much crest-fallen.
They have no credit, no food. The
Governor does not know when a ship
may come to their relief, nor does he
know where she is going to come from.
I have let them have all the food I can
spare. I cannot do more.
During my ten months' imprisonment
I received no comfort, no sympathy,
from the Spanish. They are a most
ungrateful people.
Our church, which we commenced to
build about two years ago, is now near
completion. I have just very recently
had one of those Blymyer bells brought
out from San Erancisco ; it is a splendid
bell. Bell, mountings and freight
summed up just $75 in gold.
Our
church, which is a wooden structure,
with galvanized iron roofing, and dimen-
sions 60x30 feet, will, when completed,
I have got to
bear all expenses of church, bell and a
full set of maps for school use, which
means about $500 in gold. Besides
having been incarcerated a period of ten
months for daring to do these unlawful
things. It seems hard, sir, does it not ?
Now, sir, about those primers and
hymn books. We need them very
much, and some slates also. You ask
me how large an edition is wanted, and
if I wish Miss Palmer to read the proof.
With regard to size of edition, I leave
that to your superior judgment in such
matters.
About the reading of the
proofs, either Miss Palmer or Miss Eoss
would do nicely.
Now that there is no mail plying between Ponape and Manila, I scarcely
know how I am going to get this sent
along. Hoping you are quite well, as
this leaves us all at present, I beg to remain,
Your brother in Christ,
71
and spent a week there. I found it was
fishing season, and as we went about we
found the houses mostly silent and deserted. The people had all gone fishing
and we found them mostly on the broad
sand beach, where they had built for
themselves booths of bushes to protect
them from the sun, in the shade of
which they whiled away the time watching for a school of fish, or waiting for
the great net to be hauled in, when they
would join in the pulling and receive a
share of the catch. Our Lord taught
the people by the seaside. Why should
we not do the same ? So we joined one
of the groups, told them our mission
and received a hearty welcome. Room
was made for us in the shade, the bathing children were called out of the sea,
whipped into their loose and scanty
garments and tucked away beside their
mothers, with wet and sandy hair and
gleaming teeth and eyes. One element
is never wanting in a Hawaiian meeting,
Hknry Nanpki.
music.
We sang several familiar
P. S. —Quiet reigns throughout the hymns, the full rich melody in all the
parts floating out over the beautiful
island.
bay. Then came a prayer, followed by
memory verses, in which nearly every
Work for Natives on Kauai.
one responded, even down to the little
The last session of the Kauai Minis- children. Comparatively few similar
ters' School was an interesting one in meetings among white people could
have done so well. One
these verses
spite of the fact that three of the pas- was taken as the text for aofbrief but ditors were unavoidably absent. In the rect bit of exhortation, and then the
way of new work just inaugurated in this meeting closed with another hymn and
school, I may mention First, the study benediction. But we did not depart—
of Paul's Corinthian Letters, with a we sat and chatted with them, inquired
about the children, their names and
view not to detailed exegesis, but to the ages and relationships ; found
they were
underlying principles and broad ethical mostly "moopunas;" watched the
teaching and their application to the schooner in the bay hoist her anchor
problems and conditions of our own day. and unfurl her sails and slip away round
Second, a course in simple anatomy, the point, when, as though she had been
waiting there, another one came and
physiology and hygiene, with a view to took her place ; heard their comments
showing the causes of disease and the on the comparative sailing capacities of
wisdom of scientific treatment. This the two vessels and on the folly of the
will be illustrated as far as possible with Captain who endangered his vessel by
in too close—comments abundobject lessons from nature, dissection, coming
antly justified, as we heard a few days
etc. Both these courses meet with fa- later he had run his vessel ashore.
A
vor on the part of the ministers.
joyous, hearty, good natured, careless
Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox very kindly en- people, we were sorry to leave them,
tertained the School and some of its and they generously pressed us to stay
friends at their beautiful home at Kilo- and get some of the prospective fish.
hana, Lihue. A profuse and appetizing
This is a type of many similar meetlunch culminated the pleasure of the ings. Of course not all on the sea
beach, but generally in the one room of
afternoon.
It is my custom to spend a part of the native home, sitting on the floor
every month in some of the parishes of with our backs to the wall, while the
the island doing pastoral work. In con- dogs come in and nose about with wonjunction with the local Hawaiian pastor der at the scene or scrap outside over a
I endeavor to visit the people in their bone. Woe to the speaker who is easily
houses and maketheir intimate acquaint- disconcerted ! And not always with as
ance. This of course enables me the large an audience, but sometimes with
better to understand their conditions, only one old woman, or a mother and
their difficulties and their needs, and to her children. But always the same
appreciate their point of view. It also hearty welcome and courteous attention.
gives me a much better knowledge ofthe I think one finds, so far as this island is
whole field and how it may be best min- concerned, anyway, the most simple,
primitive and independent people in
istered to.
This last month I went to Hanalei Haena, five or six miles beyond Hanacost about $400 in gold.
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THE FRIEND
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1899.
characters to better things. I am glad "What good is all this ?—this visiting,
to say they have the latter both in Han these meetings and services ? It is all
alei and Haena. The wise and devoted formal—in at one ear and out at the
teacher exerts a specially large influence other !" And there is a measure of
in Haena because the life is so simple force in the objection. There is doubtand the horizon so limited. The teach less a good deal of form sometimes,
er, his family and bis home are about without much spiritual earnestness bethe only object lessons they have of civ hind it, even as in our own services.
dilation, and the man who commends But we know that continual contact
that lesson to them by winning their with good things must also mould and
respect and affection can lead them like shape the character for good, and the
sheep, as evidently the teacher there has frequent presence in their homes and
done. I am tokl they are devoted to personal interest in their lives of the
him. They supply his wants free ; he, "haole father" may assuredly act in
shares in their every delicacy and leads some measure as a restraint or inspirathem in every public interest. And tion.
J. M. Lydgate.
wheh the close of school came and he
went to Honolulu, they came in a body
Prof. Hitchcock Returns Home.
to say good bye, and begged him to
After more than a year spent in the
come back again next year. And they
arc hoping against hope that he will, a Pacific, the eminent geologist, Chas. H.
wish m which I most heartily join !
Hitchcock. L. L. D., this week sailed
Sunday morning there was a forenoon
service at Hanalei and an afternoon one for the Atlantic Coast, to resume the
at Haena. It was a post haste ride from jabori of his chair in Dartmouth Colthe former to the latter—a post hastr lege. Dr. Hitchcock has accomplished
lunch of raw lish, limes and poi, topped a large amount of valuable scientific obaspect to me !
In some of the houses I touncl sick. off with ''haole" bread and butter, with servation, both in Hawaii and New
In one a girl of I fi or 17 in the early a lime squeezed in the aforesaid well Zealand, during the past year. He has
wear)-, Rushed, water by way of precaution, and then embodied some of the results of his obstages (if fever
with parched lips and dull eyes. Noth- down to the school house, where we servations here in an article or book for
an audience
the press, upon the Geology of Oahu.
ing was being done for her. She had found every seat taken by
I
sixty.
suppose,
perhaps, it Dr. Hitchcock gained his chief distinc(he
as
of
about
food
others
and
the same coarse
could not eat it. She tried to enter into was a novelty to most of them to have a tion by his labors upon the varied marks
our little meeting, tried to sing or say "haole" address them in their own lan- of the Ice Age in New England. In his
her verse, but broke down in the at guage, and so whatever be said would later years he is studying igneous effects
tempt. Nature is the only one who is have been interesting, or perhaps they in volcanic regions. Many friends here
will miss the society of the learned and
doing anything for her. I hope she felt they were on their good behavior
honor of their (lis genial savant.
and
must
hold
the
up
house
In
through
another
pull
may
!
were very atwe found a man who said he had been trict. At any rate they
sick two years. Sometimes he was bet tentive. As a lule it is a genuine pleas
Mis. Logan, of Ruk, has gone to the
ter, sometimes worse. He hadn't gone ure to speak to a native audience, they Atlantic Coast for treatment of the canto the doctor .mil had no medicine. aie so responsive. The Anglo-Saxon is
Once he had bought a box of pills at a impassive. He lakes in the drawbridge, cer from which she is suffering. Her
China store and had taken them all and shuts the gate and lets down the port- case is not hopeful for this life. She is
wasn't better. Nature was the only one cullis, and looks as deserted as a sum a greatly beloved worker of veteran serwho was doing anything for him and iner hotel in winter ! The native is a vice, and untiring in carrying forward
was probably working against the heavy man of an open countenance. You can the work begun in the Western Caroodds of a kahuna. At another house it re.id ill his face the impression you are lines by her husband and herself.
was the firm conviction of the hostess making on him. He is not afraid to Earnest and loving prayers will ascend
that the haole doctors were mostly smile; not unwilling to look animated ; from many hearts in her behalf.
"naaupoloa"—densely ignorant. "Why, not ashamed to shed a tear if need be.
along as
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Price, of Ruk, contwo or three years ago my daughter was You carry him wiih you right
it.
and
know
go,
you
you
and
when
consulted
that
tinue to be heard from at the East as
I
Japanese
sick,
At the close of the meeting they all exerting themselves zealously and effec
doctor he said it was the water m my
well that made her sick I—my nice clear crowded round me to shake hands—the tively to secure a new schooner to reswwet well ! Did you ever hear of such more important ones with an air of olli place the Robert W. Logan, which was
a thing ? Soon after a native doctor cial prescription, the rest more or less lost last winter.
came and said she had fever, which she timidly or sheepishly, especially some of
had, sure enough, and that Jap said it the girls, yet apparently unwilling to
forego the privilege. They wanted to
was the water !"
I probably .confirmed her conviction know when 1 was coining back again,
that "haoles" were moatlj "naaupo" by and requested me to let them know in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
siding in with the Jap doctor. But it advance that they might be ready—in
ESTKBLISHED IN ISSB'
as well as
was no use —her nice little sweet water outward appearance, I fancy,
inward titness. If they look forward to Transact a general Hanking and Exchange
well was all right !
on approved security.
There arc two gifts that I long for it, so shall I, for they are a very inter- badness. Loans made
Commercial credits granted.
discounted,
Cue
Hills
people.
esting
on
a
like
off
this.
trip
when I go
Thus far they meet in the school Deposits received on current account subject to
is the gift of healing, that J might save
them from so much pain and suffering— house granted for that purpose, but they check. I.(tiers ot credit issued on the princpaj
mostly needless pain and suffering and are trying to build a meeting house of cities ofthe world.
*'>' Agents ol the Liverpool and London and
the other is the gilt of teaching to mould .theirown, and they deserve one.
Globe Insurance Co.
will
cynic
ask,
The
and
pessimist
minds
and
and
train
and shape
their
Perhaps it is because thiy arc beyond thereach ofplantations ami stores.
They have a "Hui" of their own, with a
large tract of land, own their own homes
and are comfortable in them. One Sees
there, more than elsewhere, Hawaiian
mats, and the whole floor covered with
them, with the high tier of mats across
one end of the house for bed room. In
one of these houses I asked in regard to
the family relations and whether there
was much loose living, citing it as a
great evil in Waimea. Yes, they knew
that Waimea was bad -they didn't want
to be compared with it, and assuied me
that they had only three cases of it,
giving names and particulars- When
asked why this had become so great an
evil in Hawaii, they declared that the
Government had done much to relax the
tenacity and sanctity of matrimony b>
breaking up families to send them to
Molok*i. When the Government sev
ered those whom God had joined together*, it cast grave discredit on the
whole marital relation ! It was a new
lei.
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HLSHOP &CO.
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