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THE FRIEND.
HONOLULU, H. 1., FEBRUARY, 1888.
Number
2.
7
Volume 46.
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HONOLULU, H.
L. FEBRUARY, 1888.
Number
2..
9
Volume 46.
Tkl Fkiend is published the first day of each month, at
Honolulu, H. 1. Subscription rate 'J wo I'ollaks ikk
VKAH
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Ail communications and letters connected with the
literary
department of the paper, Books and Magazines for Review and Exchanges should be addressed "Rev. S, E.
promise, one after another dragged into adds another glory to the lustre of misthis deadly whirlpool of vice, rarely to sionary labors and missionary power in
escape at all, without deep branding or the Pacific.
It more than parallels the
BtSHOI*, Honolulu, H. I."
maiming for life. What can we do yet unique event in these islands forty-five
ButilMM letters should be addressed "T. O. THRUM,
more to save some of them ?
years ago, when a noble regard for misHono'ulu. H 1.
S.
E. BISHOP,
Editor.
CONTENTS.
THE PONAPE TROUBLES.
Mich of our space this month is occupied
with the latest intelligence from
9
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9 Ponape of the happy settlement of their
io
11 troubles, and
with the views of the
12
13 Madrid journals upon the subject.
The
14
15 former good news is almost beyond oust
16
cover expectations, knowing as we do the very
cruel and sanguinary character of Spanish dealings in the past, with all opposiMEN.
TO
REACH
YOUNG
HOW
Much has been said in our papers of tion from the natives in their East Indian
late on this question, which appeals to possessions, taking in view also the exthe deepest feelings of every parent and treme insult to the Spanish authority
every Christ-like soul. Everywhere the involved in the destruction of their post
young man with his ardent passions and and the slaughter of the Governor and
leaping impulses, is pulled on every side his associates. It seems almost inby mighty temptations, and the way of credible that such great moderation
Death has more hold upon him than the should have been exercised by Spain as
way of life. In Honolulu, those tempta- to land a force of 600 soldiers, and then
depart without firing a single hostile
tions are often peculiarly degrading.
Of all the means of reaching after and shot. Spain could well afford to be
laying hold of those young men who are, thus merciful to weak and ignorant
more or less, giving way to these entice- tribes, and she will be honored both for
in adoptments, and of winning them to pure and her wisdom and her kindness
this
course.
ing
high living, we know of none so effectuNo doubt it may reasonably be felt that
al as the individual personal friendship
was strongly impelled to prudence
Spain
each
such
of good men and women. Let
moderation
by the powerful influence
and
and
one tnj to gain the lasting regard
We are well advised
the
States.
of
United
man
whose
confidence of some young
feet are straying. We must save men that Mr. Secretary Bayard has strongly
one at a time. It is the individual work asserted the claims and rights of the
American missionaries to be unmolested
that tells the most.
apYou cultivate grain or grass in masses. in their good work. It very clearly
Madrid
articles
from
the
The choice rose or orange trees you pears, however,
must dig about and prune one by one. and from Mr. Doane's own letters that
The more choice and precious the plant, he and his associates have well earned
the more individualizing must be the a very high respect from the Spanish
work. So must precious human souls authorities, and that nothing but their
receive close individual attention and high character and great personal and
spiritual influence could have secured
distinctive personal friendship.
large
are
Christendom
either the peaceable submission of the
In every city in
natives
or the forbearance of the Spanof
them
many
men,
companies of young
iards,
who
and
so have saved the weak and
culture,
and
ability,
possessing
the
rapidly entice into their own ways of terrified, but desperate natives from
was
impending.
vice the majority of the youth who general massacre which
approach manhood year after year. How There cannot be another case on re.desperately sad and bitter to see our cord where Spain forbore to wreak so
beautiful young sons, with all their strongly provoked a vengeance. This
Hew to Reach Yuuv.g Men
(
Ponape Affairs
(,'ueen of Scots
(. hurch Items
Peculiarities of Law Cases in Hawaii
Madrid Views of Ponape Affairs
A M uch Neededand Important Work in Kohala
Selections
Monthly Record <f I-vents, Marine Journal, &c
Hawaiian Board
Y. M.C. A
ReatOfU for Tempera'ice Effort-
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sionary success and the development of
Christian civilization led England to
pull down her flag by the hand of the
good Admiral Thomas, and to restore
the Hawaiian standard—an act of generosity contrary to all her previous traditions.
With our honored Brother Doane, we
would recognize the good hand of theLord
and ascribe the praise to Him, who
answers the prayers of His faithful
servants, and has not left their weak and
suffering flock to be slain, nor His
churches in Ponape to be wasted.
The tercentenary of the execution of
Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1687, has
lately been celebrated. Beautiful, evilju
fated, the most romantic figure of
the sixteenth century, she continues
still to be pitied, to be admired, and
to be detested. But it is impossible
to ignore the more significant question
at issue which overshadowed the personal antagonism of. Elizabeth and
Mary. This was, whether Mary should
become Queen of England —whether
Rome or Protestantism should prevail
in Scotland and England—whether the
Bible or the Inquisition should rule in
the two countries. When Mary's head
fell, all the coming Liberty and Light of
England and America were delivered
with a great deliverance.
CHURCH ITEMS.
Rev. E. P. Baker has resigned the
pastorate of the Hilo Foreign Church,
to take effect in June.
Kaumakapili Church is erecting a new
and powerful organ, which is nearly all
in place.
Rev. James Bicknell, for some time
retired from regular missionary labor, is
about to engage in Evangelistic touring.
Rev. J. Q. Adams, of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church of San Francisco,
is sojourning in Honolulu, seeking rest
and recuperation.
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The Central Union Church has been
actively organizing its various lines of
Christian work. The weekly collections
for these objects have been liberal.
The Central Union Church has
adopted the practice of printing and
placing in the seats a programme of all
church notices instead of having them
El
from the pulpit,
of Kela to take care of us in
respect to all things as long as we live."
Kela had subsequently conveyed the
premises to the defendant in this suit.
The plaintiff's case was that they had
not received support from the grantee.
The Court held that the terms of the
deed made their support a matter of personal confidence in their son-in-law, and
did not create a conditional estate in the
consent
premises.
Confusion, arising from the loose
cv. E. C. Oggel has accepted a call
method of Hawaiian personal names,
Australia,
Brisbane,
but has been and of holding
property, has given us
pelled to delay proceeding thither some cases which it would be difficult
the illness of the mother of Mrs. to parallel in the Reports, say of MassaOggel in Holland, Michigan. She is chusetts or New York. The case of
suffering with Bright's disease, and near Armstrong vs. Kapohaku and Pau brings
out the story of two men' known by the
her end. Mr. and Mrs. Oggel may pos- brief appellation of
Koa. In 1861, when
sibly pass through Honolulu on the Government was selling kula land to
of the third week in February. natives at one dollar per acre, one Koa
and received a patent for no
The morning congregations at the bought
acres in Kohala. The widow and sister
ntral Union Church have been un- of
the elder Koa (deceased) brought suit
xedentedly large during the past of ejectment against the younger Koa,
month. There has been a large attend- who was in possession of the land.
ance of children and youth. The neces- The evidence showed that Koa the
was a namesake, but no relative
sity for a larger house of worship is younger
of the elder, whose full name was Kabeing seriously felt. The attendance at hooholoniokuokekoa, but who was comSabbath School has risen to 375—a monly known by the brief name of Koa.
overflowing the capacity of the Both of the men had planted on the
land, both had removed to Honolulu,
sement rooms.
and in 1878 both were again living in
where the elder Koa died.
Kohala,
ES
CASES
Planting had ceased on the land, there
IN HAWAII.
being too many horses and cattle runBY JUSTICE L. MCCULLY.
ning in the neighborhood. About this
(Concluded.)
time Koa the younger built a house on
Bills in Equity for the cancellation of the land and occupied it. He had posdeeds, on the ground that aged and session of the original patent. In 1873
ignorant Hawaiians have been deceived he raised money by a mortgage on this
in executing deeds,-are numerous enough land. In 1876 he leased 100 acres for
to be considered a noticeable feature in $400 per annum, and collected the rent
for four years. But the jury in the
our reports.
In Naome and wife vs. Ah Nin, the ejectment case determined that the land
plaintiffs set forth that the husband had been paid for by and patented to
meaning to sell one piece of land, sold the elder Koa. The evidence was full
two. He was an elderly man, and hard and circumstantial on both sides.
I
of healing. It appeared that both pieces think the case must have been gained
were already leased to the defendant, by the stout and inflexible story of the
and one of them was mortgaged. The Rev. E. Bond, who was the Government
plaintiff had urged the sale and lowered agent for the sale of land in Kohala.
the price. The sum agreed to was not This verdict stood. The case in the
grossly inadequate. The two pieces of reports was to determine whether Mrs.
land had been associated in the lease, Armstrong's—the third and only suband the lease was produced to furnish a sisting mortgage—should hold good,
description of the property sold in the although proved to have been made by
deed, which was written there by a syn- a man who did not own the land. The
dicate of native lawyers, with all the mortgage was sustained on the ground
publicity and unreserve of business done that the widow and sister of Koa, having
by natives. The Court ce'd not cancel stood by and seen Koa the younger
the deed. It would not do to permit a exercise the above recited acts of posvacillation of purpose as recorded in so session and ownership, must suffer from
solemn an instrument as a deed.
the opportunity they permitted for the
Akin to the case above named are fraud. [Their easy indulgence of his
those where an infirm, aged Hawaiian fraud suggests improper relations subhas made a conveyance of his estate on sisting between these women and Koa
a supposed condition that he should be the younger, as is too common.—Ed.]
comfortably supported the remainder of This was a notable instance of the
his days by the grantee. In Kekuku vs. pitfalls in the way of a loan agent and
Keliaa, the consideration of the convey- conveyancer dealing with native .titles.
ance was recited as "on account of
Another curious case. Certain premi-
Kamer
tmber
PECULIARITI OFLAW
[February, 1888.
ses in Manoa were held by a man known
for the greater part of his life as Kikipine.
Many persons testified that his real
name was Naihe, son of Kumoa and
Lonohiwa; that, born atWaimea, Hawaii,
he came as a youth to Honolulu, and
acquired the name of Kikipine, or "Sixpins," by employment in a bowling-alley.
On the other side a party of respecta
ble witnesses testify that they knew
Kikipine from his boyhood, and afterward as the owner of the premises in
Manoa; that his father was Kukae (not
Kumoa) and his mother Puu, (not Lonohiwa;) that he was born at Waimanalo,
Oahu; that he came as a youth to
Honolulu, and got his name Kikipine
by setting up pins in a bowling-alley.
Fortunately the court was not compelled
to decide which was the owner.
The foreign reader of this volume
would learn that we are, unfortunately,
a leper country, from the opinion of the
Justices in reply to queries submitted by
the Legislature. The phraseology and
the form of the three questions indicate
the Hawaiian origin of the proponents.
The first question is: Is it a crime to be
afflicted with leprosy that these people
are confined at Kalawao and Kakaako 5
The two following questions are whether
the laws for segregation are not in
violation of the Constitution. The court
answers that these laws are enacted
under what is termed the Police Power
of the State, termed by Dwarris the law
of overruling necessity. Salus popitli
suprcnia lex. If it did not exist in this
Kingdom our population would be liable
to be swept away by any and every contagiftus disease that might come to our
shores, and no measures of quarantine
or restriction could be taken against it.
The legislative inquiries are interesting
as showing the restiveness and suffering
of the Hawaiians under the necessarily
hard provisions of the law, from which
they are the chief sufferers, and indicate
the unfitness of a purely Hawaiian
government to take care of the natives.
[We learn from the President of the
Board of Health that for every individual
leper sent by him to Molokai, he is
subject to the most heart rending appeals
in their behalf from two or more of their
relatives. A wife will beg to take hei
children and live among the lepers with
her husband. From another source we
learn that lepers have recently been
found with permits to go at large, issued
from high quarters for $5 each.—Ed.]
master and servant.
Sundry cases under this caption in the
index show the existence of a system
not permitted in any degree by the
United States, that is, importing persons
under contract to serve and labor for a
term of years. In Rickard vs. Conta,
the question was presented of construing
what was intended by a term of three
years, twenty-six working days to be
counted and paid for as a month. Within
the three years the laborer had failed to
work eichtv-nine days. The emnlover
�claimed to be entitled to eighty-nine
days of labor which he would pay for
beyond the expiration of three calendar
years. The court held that the contract
covered only the three calendar years,
and that the terms constituting twentysix days a month only fixed the rate of
wages for the days actually worked
within the three years.
Custom may have familiarized us
with the features of our contract service,
but I think that every planter will agree
that it will be a desirable state of things
when the apparent necessity for importing people under contracts, and of
"shipping" men already in the country
in order to secure a steady and sufficient
supply of labor for our industries will
have passed away. In the eyes of our
American neighbors we maintain a
system of peonage, something not unfrequently thrown out against us, and
not easily answered. [There has long
been an efficient system of inspection
and protection of contract laborers by
the government. No serious acts of
abuse or oppression can well exist. The
stories of such abuse which occasionally
appear in American papers are totally
without foundation.—Ed.]
Two cases offishing rights take us back
to primitive times. The right to fish
out to "chin deep" of a man wading, the
right of a hoaaiua, or tenant, to fish in
the waters of the great Landlord, are
involved in these cases —curious and
important controversies which there is
not time to present here.
With the mention of one anomaly of
justice arising from our statute of appeaß,
I will close this disconnected list of
peculiarities of our life and business
exhibited in the courts.
In Nakanelua vs. Kailianu, the controversy was upon the owenership of a
pig. The defendant had slaughtered him,
and claimed that it was his own white
and black hog. Two courts had found
that the hog was the plaintiff's and that
he was worth $25. But no cases are
fought more tenaciously by Hawaiians
than those involving the ownership of a
pig or a horse. The genealogy .of the
animal is shown by a crowd of witnesses
on each side, and only the court of last
resort can settle the case. In the third
trial it was found by a jury very competent to discuss the merits of a hog case,
that he belonged to the plaintiff, but
was worth only $20. Now our lawprovides that when on appeal the previous judgment is reduced as much as
one-fifth, the costs are thrown upon the
party recovering only four-fifths, the
appellant being justified by this reduction in his favor. So the plaintiff who
recovered $20 was compelled to pay the
costs of the three trials, nearly §50.
But the court could not help him.
Don't despise the dull children. Love
and pet them. A positive dummer may
be very useful in a family, and is generally more comfortable to live with than
a genius.
THE FRIEND.
MADRID VIEWS OF PONAPE
AFFAIRS.
The Rev. William H. Gulick, of San
Sebastian, Spain, has translated selections from the leading Madrid journals,
giving information and comments upon
1
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machine, as well as how to aim the
rifle!"
All the correspondents speak of Mr.
Doane in terms of warmest praise. One
writes: "Mr. Doane, the protestant pastor, was thoroughly friendly to the
Spaniards, and from the day that they
the subject of the late proceedings of the established themselves on the island his
Spanish authorities in Ponape. We are conduct could not have been more corpermitted to print the following extracts rect, deferential and worthy in all restherefrom. Some ofthese have already- pects than it was."
appeared in U. S. religious papers.
All the correspondents agree that the
The captain of the Spanish transport natives felt very deeply the outrage comManila reported to the Colonial Minis- mitted on their friend and spiritual father.
ter regarding the island of Ponape:
"They went with him to the beach, as
"The American Mission established he was carried away a prisoner, and
here for some thirty years, whose direc- bade him good-bye with sobs and tears.
tor is Mr. Doane, has brought the They committed no violence, however,
natives up to a state of civilization.
The schools, more than twenty in number, furnished in the American style,
bring together on Sundays almost the
entire population of the island, and also
on other days a very considerable pfrt
of it. The missionaries exercise great
influence over the natives."
Of the Governor who deported Mr.
Doane, it is said by one correspondent,
"While in Manila Senor Posadillo (may
God receive him to glory) gave proofs
that he was a gentleman of excellent
parts, but also that he was given to infantile manias, to ideas not in harmony
with common sense, and to certain extravagances of thought that made everybody feel that he was the last one that
should have been appointed to so difficult and delicate a mission."
The staunch Roman Catholic and
monarchical hnparcial of Madrid says
bitterly: "And this governor was accompanied by a set of Capuchin friarsmost admirable clod-hoppers of the
Aragon hills, entirely in their element
higgling over the scant produce of their
sterile fields—who, on reaching Manila,
forgot their spiritual mission, even
neglecting the opportunity that offered
to get some notions of the language of
the people to whom they were sent.
This is the way—these are the means
by which Spain inaugurates her government in the territory, the taking possession of which had shaken all Europe."
Padre LJavanera, provincial of Capuchin friars and member of the expedition, gave out in Manila that their
"mission was to deprotestantist the
Ponapeans, who were ruined (perdidos)
by the doctrines of the Protestant mis-
sionaries."
Nothing so injured the Spanish authority as the determination to do everything that the Capuchin friars demanded, "and the putting the whole
power of the government at the service
of that religious intolerance that has
ever been so harmful in its consequences
to Spain."
the venerable prisoner himself and the
other American missionary, Mr. Rand,
urging them to do nothing."
While the warship San Qucntin was
bearing Mr. Doane away to Manila,
matters on the island were rapidly going from bad to worse. Let the Spanish
correspondents of El Dia and El
influential Catholic and
Resumen,
monarchical papers of Madrid, tell the
story—nothing in it will then be set
down to Protestant malice. I (W. H.
G.) combine and condense the two narratives.
" The Governor, Sr. Posadillo, was
pushing forward work, not only on the
roads but on the Government palace,
and all by forced labor. He made the
people come from all parts of the island,
necessitating in some cases long and
fatiguing journeys. Though blows and
abuse were plenty, he gave them no
pay, nor even any food, although these
poor Indians gather their food only from
day to day, and do not have stores of
provisions from which to draw in time
of need.
" It is said that the Governor was
fond of a good table, and as cultivation
is backward and rich viands are scarce,
he laid all parts of the island under contribution for his supplies. And though
he ordered that the natives should be
paid for what they brought, the one
charged with this duty, it is said, kept
the money for himself.
It is also said that persons of the
Spanish colony, not considering sufficient the maidens that had been provided for them, did not respect either
the married women nor the young girls.
It is equally said that in the name of the
Governor, women were demanded even
from the families of the tribal kings, but
that they were not given up without
protest on the part of these, and of the
missionary (Mr. Rand), who explained
to the authorities that this was contrary
to the customs that had been taught the
natives.
" Matters were thus on the second of
July, when the natives did not come to
work as usual. An interpreter was sent
to inquire why. The reply was given
that it was a ' feast day' of theirs. The
"
The governor began by ordering "that
the Protestant books should be seized
whenever found in the hands of the
natives—natives who knew how to read
and write, and how to run the sewing Governor, on hearing this, allowed him-
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12
be carried away with rage, and
squad of twenty-seven soldiers,
with express orders to bring the Indians
by force if they would not come voluntarily. The message was given, and
the chiefs replied that that was one of
their most important feast days, and
that if they could be excused for that
day they would go to work on the following day as usual. The officer replied
self to
sent a
that he would not return without carrying out his orders. The chiefs of Enote
and Kiti answered: 'If the governor is
governor, we are the kings on this
island, and to-day we will not work.'
Upon this the officer ordered the troops
to fire. The Carolines replied with a
volley from their Winchester rifles, and
in a short time only one of the soldiers
remained. Some say that some of the
soldiers went over to the natives. It is
positively known that only one returned
to give the alarm to the garrison.
" The Governor immediately prepared
for the defense. He at once sent the
women, the papers of the colony, and
the treasure off to the storeship, the
Dona Maria dc Molina. One of the
women was the wife of the captain of
the ship. No attack was made on them,
though the Indians could easily have
cut them off had they chosen to do so.
The Capuchin padres also took flight in
this boat with the women. The official
place of the ship's doctor was on board,
but, knowing that wounded men needed
his help, he hastened ashore, and was
killed with others.
" The captain of the ship sent the
launch ashore manned by thirteen men,
with a cannon. But, to a man, that
forlorn hope fell before the accurate fire
of the natives, and they captured both
boat and cannon.
"On the fourth day of the conflict,
the sth of July, at 2 o'clock in the morning, Sr. Posadillo, seeing that further
resistance was useless, made the attempt
to reach the ship with his few remaining
men. The darkness favored, but the
high tide was against them. They wer«
obliged to wade in the water a considerable distance before they could reach
the boat that was waiting for them,
whereas, at low tide, they could have
run easily down to a short distance
from where the ship lay at anchor.
"The Carolinos, wide awake, saw the
manoeuvre, and attacked the Spaniards,
who were all killed. Posadillo defended
himself bravely, but fell pierced by four
balls. With his blood he atoned for the
faults that he may have committed.
"The killed are reported as: The
Governor, a naval officer, the ship's
doctor, and fifteen marines; two infantry officers, two lieutenants, three
sergeants, and forty soldiers—sixty-five
in all."
With the death of the Governor hostilities ceased. Every soul ofthe Spanish
colony was crowded upon the storeship,
and there she lay for days within a
stone's throw of the land, unmolested
by the natives.
The foreigners on
shore—English and American—communicated freely with the ship. The
sad news is given that the captain's
wife, overcome by the excitement, became a raving maniac.
Mr. Doane and his companions on
the San Quentin had no suspicion of
the tragedy until they made the harbor,
and noticed the Spanish flag was flying
The second
only on the storeship.
officer of the San Quentin was appointed
Governor ad interim. He immediately
issued a call to the islanders for their
help in the arrest of two or three suspected " beach combers," and particularly of a half-breed Portuguese who
had acted as one of the interpreters for
the Governor, and was said to be at the
bottom of much of the trouble, having
systematically deceived Sr. Posadillo
regarding orders given in his name to
file natives. He was taken to Manila.
All true lovers of justice will now
wait in much suspense the development
of events. National pride and excited
feelings will naturally call for violent
measures with those poor Carolinos,
who surely have been more sinned
against than sinning. One voice already
cries : "As regards those Indians, it is
highly necessary and politic that they
should be made to see with what swiftness Spain conquers and punishes those
who rise up against her authority."
The Liberal, one of the ablest and
largest papers, liberal but frankly Roman
Catholic, says:
"We do not understand why the government gives such unconditional support to the reverend Capuchin friars,
who are continually causing conflicts in
our colonies. It cannot be said that
they really extend the knowledge of the
love of Christ in those distant countries
unknown to the Spaniards."
"To the people of Ponape, Mr. Doane
is their priest, their bishop, their pastor,
their great saint (santon), their all.
Without him they do nothing important, nor do they resolve anything without his advice.
"Besides this, the Protestants pursue
a very different system of propaganda
from that of the Capuchins. They win
hearts by kind treatment, by true love,
open and frank persuasion, convincing
of what is useful and necessary for man
are their chief forces. They do not appeal to the lash, but to reason; they do
not persuade by force, but by sound
sense; they do not stimulate by brutal
punishments, but by good example; they
do not threaten'tortures and torments,
but they console with love and tenderness. The result is, they are loved, revered —better than revered, respected.
"On the other hand, the Capuchin
fathers, relying on official help, try to
impose themselves by force, and what
they reap is bitterness and hate. This
intolerant system was pursued by the
unfortunate Posadillo, urged to it by the
friars, and probably advised by the
"
[Februay, 1888.
Governor-General Terreros to follow the
same—and with the results that we now
lament.
Wm. H. Gulick.
"Avenda dc la Libertad,4o San Sebas
tian, Spain, November 8, 1887."
The above extracts are of much value,
not as being of especial accuracy as to
fact, nor sound in opinion, but as disclosing to us how the events are understood in Spain to have taken place, and
what views are current in Spain as to
those events. We deprecate especially
a hasty judgment as to the conduct of
the poor Capuchin friars, about whose
intentions and operations we really
know very little. Most of the true history of Ponape affairs is yet to be made
known. We do know that Sr. Posadillo
made ruinous work with the Protestant
schools and churches, and that in some
cases force was employed in converting
individuals, notably a Protestant paitoi
formerly a Spanish subject from Guam.
A MUCH NEEDED AND IMPORTANT
K
IWNORK OHALA.
readers
of
The
Friend are inThe
terested in every good word and work
relating to the coming kingdom of Christ
in these islands. They will, therefore,
be glad to learn something about a
much needed and important work among
and for the Chinese children of the
Kohala district.
There are between thirty and forty
families represented in the Kaiopihi
Church. A large proportion of them
'.ive in the vicinity of Makapala. There
are about fifty children growing up in
these Christian families. There are also
several heathen families in the district
with more or less children.
Mr. Aseu, so well known to many of
the readers of The Friend, has long
cherished the idea of starting a dayschool for the study of the Chinese language and Chinese Christian literature
among these children, and hence when
the new church building was completed
at Makapala he gladly united in the
movement to start a day school for the
Chinese in the building. A Christian
young man, who had been trained in
the Basle Mission at Hongkong, was
found well qualified and willing to teach
the school for $240 per annum, or $20
per month; his name is Shu Ten Yong.
Some of the leaders in the enterprise
thought that a lady teacher should be
employed for the girls, and that the
boys and girls should be taught separ
ately in the school. Mrs. Aseu offered
to teach the girls'department for $120
per annum, or $10 per month.
A public meeting was accordingly
called early in September last to consider and discuss this question of start
ing a school; it was well attended.
Rev. A. Ostrom, of the Kohala foreign
church, presided. The meeting was
already in possession of the knowledge
that it would cost over $360 per year to
run such a school as they desired. Mr.
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for whom he worked, to be released from
SELECTIONS.
Frank W. Damon, the efficient manager
a
certain agreement, so that he could go
of the Chinese work of the Hawaiian
of
An ounce of mother is worth a ton
South.
islands,
had
encouraged clergy.
Board in these
"What do you want to go South for,
them to hope for help in the enterprise;
If you doubt that God is beseeching Uncle Davy- ?"
which
could
they
this
was
all
on
and
you, look at the cross.
"'Cos I'se called to a church down
rely. As they talked over the matter
dar."
ask
what
you
to
are
free
to
begun
grow;
their
enthusiasm
You
perfectly
together
to a church ?"
$130 per year was soon subscribed. will, but do not choose what you will, or " Called
I be de" Yissah. I dunno wedder
Accordingly, trustees were elected to you will be sorry later.
aw dc vesture
sextant,
aw
dc
pasture,
and
collect
the
subscriptions,
secure and
There is blessed peace in looking for man; but I'se sumfin."
to manage the school. These trustees nothing but our daily task and our porare Mr. Aseu, Mr. Kong Hyouk Siong, tion of Christ's cross between this day
I cannot remember that either she or
and Rev. A. Ostrom. Mr. Ten Yong and the appointed - time when we shall my father (Judge Lyman, of Northampand Mrs. Aseu were chosen as teachers, fall asleep in Him.
ton,) ever enjoined fine manners on the
and it was resolved to open the school
at the same time the Government schools
were opened.
Accordingly, the school started on the
last with nineteen
19th of September
pupils—6 girls and 13 boys—and has
been in operation three months. Mr.
Clayton Ostrom and Sadie Ostrom, son
and daughter of the pastor of the Kohala
foreign church, generously offered to
give instruction in English every afternoon without charge, and their offer was
gladly accepted by the trustees, and
thus English has been taught without
increasing the expense.
A public examination and exhibition
was held in the Kaiopihi Church on
Christmas Eve, December 24. The
church was well filled, although the
evening was very stormy. The exercises
were almost entirely in Chinese; they
consisted of prayer and an address by
the preacher, Mr. Kong Yet Yin, and a
catachetical exercise, conducted by a
class in which one member of the class
would ask a question, and the whole
class would answer in concert, bringing
out the history of the advent and incarnation. These exercises were interspersed with singing by the school,
some of which was in English, and were
concluded with an address by the pastor
of the Kohala foreign church.
It is the object of the trustees to make
this school a Christian institution, free
to all Chinese in the district, so that
none may be excluded for lack of means.
They have, therefore, adopted the voluntary principle for securing means for the
support of the school. Christian parents
acting on this principle are found to give
liberally for such a cause, and their
heathen neighbors are not slow to imitate their example. But there are not a
sufficient number of such to make the
school self-supporting. For the quarter
just closed, the parents of the children
paid into the treasury $33, the Hawaiian
Board $30, and the Treasurer secured
from friends in Kohala the remaining
$27. If any of the readers of The
Friend wish to lend a helping hand in
this good work they can communicate
with the Treasurer of the Board of
Trustees, Rev. Alvin Ostrom, Kohala,
"It is my sincere belief," says Sir
Richard Burton, "that if the slave trade
were revived, and Africa could get rid of
powder and rum, Africa would be the
gainer."
Crantner'l pliant will, bowing under
every blast of the tyrant, but always
rising to its end, saved the better cause'
for better days, which an inflexible Knox
would have ruined.
Christ is not concluded in Luther,
for He was not concluded in Paul. But
the main body of the waters of life will
be conveyed over the world in the channel dug by the Saxon monk.
The nineteenth century belief may be
false, or it may be vague and shadowy
and indistinct; but whatever its defects
they cannot be cured by requiring either
the'laity or the ministers to submit to a
sixteenth century creed.
Rev. James Johnson, native pastor at
■Lagos, West Africa, says:"The slave
trade has been to Africa a great evil, but
these evils of the rum trade are far
worse. I would rather my countrymen
were in slavery and being worked hard
and kept away from the drink than that
the drink should be let loose upon them."
The alleged intolerance of the Massachusettes Colony has given rise to much
sincere regret, and to no small amount
of not very intelligent declamation. But
things may be proper, and even requisite in an infant settlement, midway between a family and a state, which are
needless, as well as unjust in a mature
community.
Why is it that perhaps a hundred in
all hanged for witchcraft m New England weigh heavier than a hundred
thousand burned in Germany for the
same cause in the same century ? It is
the world's testimony to the superior
Christianity of New England, against
which such barbarism was the weightier
sin.
Schleirmacher said: "Catholicism
makes the relation of the believer to
Christ depend upon his relation-to the
church. Protestantism makes the relation of the believer to the church depend
his relation to Christ." Says Dale,
upon
Hawaii, H. I.
of Birmingham: "The direct access of
the soul to God is the ultimate principle
Sorrow and the saints are not married of Protestantism."
so,
Heaven
will
together; but were it
A colored man applied to a gentleman
mike a divorce.
many young people they educated, or
even talked about them. With them it
was always the principle to work from
within outwards, and not the reverse.
They believed that if one could make a
child perfectly truthful, disinterested and
considerate towards all God's creatures,
fine manners would be the inevitable
and unconscious result.
Herbert Spencer has been counted the
Prince ofAgnostics. Yet, by John Fiske,
his greatest disciple and expositor, we
are taught solemnly to confess that
"Beyond the veil of sense is the might:
est, the most august, the most certain
of all realities. It is the power of which
man and the world are products; it is the
ultimate cause from which Humanity
has proceeded. It is a Being with whom
in the deepest sense, the human soul
owns kinship.
The infinite and eternal
Power that is manifested in every pulsa
tion of the Universe is none other than
the living God."
The strange fact has long been known
that the lines of fall and spring migration of birds between Africa and Europe
cross the Mediterranean where it is
widest. This has been explained bygeological investigations. Where these
lines of bird travel occur, there were
once chains of islands which long ago
slowly subsided and sank beneath the
sea. But where the birds crossed in
old times, there they cross to-day. The
memory of the birds of to-day is older
than the formation of Southern Europe.
Of all modern reformatory tendencies
in the methods of education none is
more significant than that which establishes a new method of classical study.
Instead of spending the best and most
impressible years of a student's life in
mere grammatical drill, in the dry and
empty process of learning all the possible forms and rules which grammarians
have elaborated for the exhibition of
their own subtlety and the pulverizing
of the brains of their pupils, some modern scholars have awakened to the
discovery that language is something
more than grammar—the learning of
which Dc Quincey calls the dry-rot of
the human mind" that thought is
something more than the raiment in
which it is clothed, and that a youth's
education consisteth not in the abundance of the rules and formulas which he
possesseth.—H. M. Goodwin.
— "
�[Februay, 1888.
THE FRIEND.
14
MONTHLY
CURRENT
19—Haw brig Hazard, Holland, for Roratonga
the Colonies; her passengers for this Jan 22—Am
S S Maiiposa. Hayward, far the Colonies
Am tern W S Howne, I'.luhm, for San Francisco
port are all placed in quarantine, and
brigantite
W (i Irwin McCulloch, for San
24—Am
mails, freight, etc., fumigated.
Krancisco
—Bark
C.
D.
Newt
Year's
ist,
brigantine
Jan.
23rd —Resignation of Marshal J. L. 25—Am cisco S G Wilder, Rug?, for San FranBryant sailed for San Francisco. —In- Kaulukou.
28—Am bktne Planter, Perrinian, fi.r San Francisco
ternational Postal Money Order Con31—Am bWne S N Castle, Hubbard, for San Francisco
—Appointment of Hons. S. B.
24th
Am tern Eva, Armstrong, for San Francisco
vention between Norway and the Dole, A. S. Hartwell and His Ex. C.
Netherlands and Hawaii opened.
W. Ashford as a Commission to rePASSENGEKS.
2nd—New Year's holiday; Reception port upon the laws relating to the JudiAKBIVALS.
at the Palace from u a.m. to p.m.— ciary.
From San Francisco, per Australia, Jan to—Mrs. A I
Fifth Semi-Annual Target Practice of 27th—Joint entertainment at the Y. Rabbit,
Mrs I W Kohertson, H X Hitchcock and family,
Mrs F Hilder, Miss A Homer, C H Atherton and wife, A
the Rifle Association at their Range.
M. C. A. Hall to and by the men of H. Waldstein
and daughter, W R Watson, wife and maid.
and
local
talent.
Mi's Mirrlees, Com J Macdonough, Miss M A Titcomb,
3rd—Constitutionality of the Act of B. M. S. Caroline
Mrs F J Cutterand family, J S Ccrn, W B Cahrane, Miss
28th
Mission Children's Society- C 1 Carter and 8 others.
November 26, 1887, reducing the number of Judges to three argued before meet at the residence of Rev. E. G. From the Colonies, per Zealand!:., Jan 14—F Hairison,
Mrs A Webster and child, and 2 sttcrage, with 37 cabin
Judges Judd, McCully and Preston and Beckwith. Attorney-General Ashford and
58 steerage in transit.
submitted.
petitions the Supreme Court for a writ From San Francisco, per W G Irwin, Jan 17—Rev J o
mandamus to compel R. H. Baker, Adams and wire, W Goodale, F M Stump, C F Overbaugh.
4th—Chief Justice Judd renders a of
From San Francisco, per Planter, Jan 19—Mrs Captain
Governor
of Maui, to deliver all property, Uabccck,
MissH HMlebranJ.
decision declaring the above Act unconhis
in
etc.,
as
Governor
to
possession
From San Francisco, per Mariposa, Jan 21— Mrs H M
stitutional, Associate Justices McCully
Whitney, A M Sutherland, I>r McGregor and wife, Mrs S
the Sheriff'of the island.
and Preston concurring.
T Alexander, R More and wife, A McGregor, J PetrorT, J
quarantine
—The
restriction
on
N S Williams, E M Morgan and family, S W Wilcox and
30th
wife, A L Bryan and wife, J H Toler, X Kopke. Mis C S
5th—Custom House tables for the passengers
per Mariposa removed, and Ripley,
A Homer, C A Peacock and family, E W Toms.
past quarter and also for the past yeaV a large party of them leave for the W C Dart,
R N Rollins and wife. Mrs A A S Pierce and
sen, G Honney, C E Blair, P Percival and wife, L Foster,
published, shows a decrease in the ex- Volcano.
Fowler, R X HaJstead. W S Morgan, W M Merriott, F
J
ports of sugar, molasses, wool and hides,
Paiton, J Conway, H Weik, P BcaMO, Chans; L-.i nr<!
31st—Departure of the King for Ha- LI) Young.
but an increase in rice, paddy, bananas
waii per W. G. Hall. —Barkentine S. N.
DEI'ARTIKR?.
and tallow.
For San FtanciaCO, par W H Dimond, Jan 7—W Wilier,
Castle and tern Eva sail for San FranL Ni'son, L l.eyer. Mrs Ftistcorn and 2 children, F. Robin,
6th—Thomas G. Thrum appointed cisco.
A Maire, J Frank and N Caster.
Registrar of Conveyances.
For San Francisco, fer Ceylon, Jan 10 —A G Ellis, X
What a fearful swarm of cranks the Bahling, C Bchltng, Master F Bahling, Miss A Bahling, X
of barkentine \V. H.
Uehling, I- lidding and H Widtndorf.
7th—Departure
second century of Christianity brought For San FvanciacOj par Australia, Jan —Mrs Vander"
Dimottd for San Francisco.
17
and son, Miss E A Amis, Rev I- Back, Mrs Hyman,
8th—§50,000 fire at Hilo wipes out forth. Great religious activity and high burg
2 children and nurse, H W Hvnian, M Davis, S I) Ive>.
exaltations
are
attended
spiritual
always
Comm Macdonough, A Haas, T I.illic, M E Bailey, A X
the old Pitman store.
with evil mental fermentations in the Smith, Miss F Wmier, Mrs Marcham, H F (.lade and
10th—Arrival of Australia from San same
Luut Elliott, S Cross, MrsT S Douglass, Miss A
communities, and so huge crops family,
(vara, j H Thompson, F Gertz, M Phillips, G Debueh, P
Francisco.
and wife, Mrs T Smith, M 1' I,ope/
of cranks are generated. It was at the C'orbett, S Clementson
and family, M Loureira and wife, M Padieco and family,
1 ith—Departure of U. S. S. Mohican very period and in the same districts dc Souza and wife, Ade C sta and family, J Prchico andJ
Mrs C Renter and 5 children, A ISrown, M G
for Samoa.
where the gloriously fruitful revivals family,
Barto, F Johnson, Major Hill and family, H Week*, R S
Williams, J CM Una, M Lung, Kirn Lung, T M dc Rar.lo12th—Complimentary concert to Sir attendant on Finney's preaching pre- and
family, J Brensaaakey and (am. y, C W Obt-rhol-er, F
William Wiseman, Bart., Captain of vailed, that the misbegotten sects of dc Costa
and family, T Kruger, H Kruger, G J Freitas, \V
Wagoner,
T H Kennedy, J H Stewart, Ih. mas
H. B. M. S. Caroline, at the Hawaii- Oneida Noyes and Joseph Smith arose. Lunday, FWG Crone,
Eaton, H Twiedel, W lilont. J M Evans, I
an Hotel.
When spring and wave the green crops, Keylerand family, T Bohtn
and family, J T White and
A Wickmann
wife. J Kylamler, E Y Hook, A Rinehardt,
then hatch out the army worms. The and
—Arrival
bark
Miv
of
British
Niemann
Youiftf,
family,
and family, J Burke, J
V
L
13th
family, A V SarangO and family, E T Kenake,
from London.—Custody of the books of Devil is forever setting up some carica- Frietasaiul
M E Arien, F Eggerking, and wife, H Eggerking ami
the Government Library assigned to the ture of religion to entrap unstable souls. family, F Muller and family, | Mr.ssakichi, W F Clemens,
I. Wagner, M;ss J Palmyra, M Palmyra, G Holtler nnd
Honolulu Library Association.
wife, M W Lowell.
For the Co'onies, per Martposa, Jan m—E Here, C F
14th—Arrival of Zealand:a en route
S mmonis, W Farringsr, G Grant, >> Carr, E Dttval,
for San Francisco. —First Diffusion
PORT OF HONOLULU.
t '!ii:ieMj and 57 other* 1:1 transit.
For San Francisco, p* r W S Bowne, fan ?? —Hon Chas
plant for sugar manufacture arrives to
Wall. I, HtHebrand, Mrs Hilk brand, II Dumpfer and
Col. Z. S. Spaulding for the Makee
wife. Mr-, Braidwood and 6 children.
Sugar Co., Kealia, Kauai.
ban Francisco, per W G Irwin, \tn sa—E W Vogel,
t. \\ I'-i' r, Rh Eg, -i day* from Curt H For
Offenhefroer, X B Watson, J H Rankin, J 0 Shyrcx k.
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Australia,
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17th Departure of the Australia for
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X' San Francisco, per S N Castle, Jan 31—Mrs Saveri,.
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A Severin,
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list.—Arrival of brigantine ll'. G. Irwin
14—Haw s s Zealandia, Van Oterendurp, 17 days W Xi hson, wi c ..ml child.
from Sy n*y
from San Francisco.
bgtne W G Irwin, McCulh eh, 1■
days
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BIRTHS.
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Kong
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cases of small pox on board. After
Francisco
MARRIAGES.
20
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some correspondence with the Board
Francis. 0
COTTREI L—PETERSON—In this city, Dae.
of Health, the vessel proceeds on her
si—Am >> s Mariposa, Hayward, I % days from San
Rev.
Geo. Wallace, Wm. L. Cottrell to Henrieit;
by tli'Francisco
T., eldt-st daughter uf Mr. and Mrs. 1. B. Petersen,
voyage to San Francisco, without land;i;-Am tern Fva, Armstrong, 30 days from Eureka
—, from a whaling C Disc VIVAS-MARQUES-In this city, Dec. 31, 18S7, by the
24—Am bark Josephine,
ing cargo or passengers for this port.
jo-Am i ktne George C Perkins, Nordberg, 32 days
Hi-shop of Olba, Mr. J. M. Vivas to Maria Marque^.
Concert at the
from Port 'lownsend
19th—Complimentary
STKGEMANN— WEBER- In this city, Jan. 17, iS£3, by
the Rev. E. G. Heckwith, Victor Stegemann to
Hotel to Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Watson
DEPARTURES.
Vuloria Weber.
and Miss Mirrlees. Arrival of the Dec 31 U S S Juniata, Davis, for ChinaFianciscu
WHITE—SPRING-111 this ciiy, Jan. 17, 1888, by Rev.
1—Park C D Bryan!, Lee, for San
barkentine Planter from San Francisco. Jan s—Bktne
Ella, Hansen, for Sin Francisco
M. Sylvester, Mr. C M. White, of Kapaa, Kauai, to
Miss Esther A. Spring, of Honolulu.
7—Bktne W H Dimond, Drew, for San Fran
20th—Arrival of barkentine S. A'.
10—Bark Ojlon, Calhoun,for San Francisco
Day,
Francisco.
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for
Samoa
Mohican,
Castle from San
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for San Era* oisca
14—Am ba*k Caibanen, Perkins,
tine established against vessels arriving
Haw S S Zealandia, Van Ottrtndorp, fee San HORN At St. Andrew's Friory, Jan. 11, 1888, of henKrrhage of the lungs, Cosy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F.
Francisco
from the Coast under eighteen days.
17—Haw S S Australia, Houdletf, for San Francisco Horn, aged 16 years, 3 months.
16— Ger bark Friederich, KorfT, for San Francbco
21st—Arrival of the steamer Marithis city, Jan. 28, 1888, Wm. Turner, a
19—Am baik Forest tjueen, Winding, for San Fran- TURNER—In
posa from San Francisco en route for
osvtrve of England, aged about 60 years.
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HAWAIIAH BOARD.
I.
HONOLULU H.
This page is devoted to theinterests of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the
Board is responsible for its contents.
A. O. Forbes,
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LETTERS FROM PONAPE.
[Fran Rev. K. T. Doane, via Mania.]
Ponape, Nov. 13, 18S7.
O.
FoRBBS.
Rev. A.
Dear Brother :—I must hastily drop
you a line as to ourselves, our work, our
island, the great war force that is upon
us.
Up to my arrival from Manila,
September ist, you have all the facts.
On the Bth of September the steam
transport returned to Manila with the
sad news of the killing of the Governor
Seiior Posadillo, with some twenty other
Spaniards. The vessel sailed, all filled
with much feeling against our people,
determined to revenge the said death.
On October 31st, the said vessel returned, accompanied by two other transports, all bringing some 600 troops.
In the meantime, the temporary Governor, Don Juan dc la Concha, had issued
his proclamation and ultimatum. The
main points
The two rebellious kings, as they were called, were to
present themselves, humbly begging for
mercy; all property looted at the emeute
July ist, 2nd, 3rd, etc.; all guns then
taken, all runaway soldiers then with the
natives to be returned by a certain date.
If not, he should open fire on the island.
We worked hard day and night, going
here, there, everywhere, in sunshine and
drenching rains, trying to lead the
people to surrender up all. The chiefs
came up to time, certain property was
restored, also some dozen runaway soldiers. But he could not get all; some
common natives refused, some delayed;
the time was up, the guns were shotted
and fired. But, I am happy to say, no
one was killed, no property injured.
Thirty shells were fired ; there was then
a cessation till the arrival of the aforesaid vessels. The natives had been
warned of their coming, the large force
to be brought, the utter inutility of their
arms—they would be slaughtered without mercy. But they were unyielding
they had once been deceived; they
feared to put confidence in fhe new authorities, so they held out. But by much
prayer—all the churches were asked to
make this a subject of prayer —and by
much visiting the chiefs, and much
preaching, talking, persuading, on the
day of the expiration of the ultimatum,
November seventh, I think, we secured
the meeting of four of the kings.
That brought light; then a day of grace
was added; the fifth was led to give
in his allegiance. Another day of grace
was given; we secured three men accused of killing the Governor. Since
then some guns and all the runaway
soldiers have been secured, with some
were:
—
other things; and now peace reigns—
no war, no devastating homes, shooting
natives. The soldiers and officers, I
hear, are not a little disappointed; they
want war—we, peace. The Lord has
given us our desires; to Him be all the
praise ; we feel all the time like being a
walking Methodist, shouting Amen!
Hallelujah! Lavs Deo! I have much
to make me feel the peace is permanent.
Then the Governor has permitted all
schools to be opened—all preaching to
be carried on—all the freedom we need
in our work. Ma}' it always be so. He
is a kind man. I have time for this
short, hast}' note. I shall write by the
Yours truly,
Star.
E. T. Doane.
Captain Garland, of the Morning Star,
writes from Ponape via Manila under
date of November 18th:
"The missionaries thought it best for
the Star to come to Ponape before doing
the Marshall Island work, as perhaps
she would be needed. We reached here
to-day, seven days from Kusaie. We
find things quiet. The troubles with
the natives are settled, we hope. The
new Governor is liked by all, and our
hopes are beginning to rise. When I
was here in August it looked rather dark
for Ponape.
We had a good voyage through the
Gilbert Islands, and used up 71 days
over it. I think this is the calmest
season I have seen in Micronesia.
Everything is working well thus far,
and the missionaries are all in usual
h%alth."
Rev. T. E. Rand writes, November
18th, per U. S. S. Essex, via Yokohama:
"All is settled, and the Governor promises us religious liberty and freedom
to pursue our work everywhere in the
Carolines. We, as a mission, shall ask
for the Star to go to Yap next year."
Mr. Doane writes to Dr. Hyde that
the mission premises were employed as
neutral ground—as a place for conference between the Spanish authorities
and the natives.
Out of what workshops come there
any such moral forces to-day as come
out of these Churches of Christ among
us ? Blot these churches out of existence to-day; rrtake every pulpit dumb;
silence every prayer-meeting; lock every
sanctuary door; abolish every family
altar; and where would you generate
the forces that can stay intemperance,
lewdness, superstition, anarchy, and vermicular and political corruption.
Eighty-five years ago the Directors
of the East India Company placed on
solemn record: "The sending of Christian missionaries into our Eastern possessions is the maddest, most expensive,
most unwarranted project that was ever
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proposed by a lunatic enthusiast." A
few months since, Sir Rivers Thompson,
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, said:
missionaries
" In myjudgment,realChristian
have done more
and lasting good to
the people of India than all other agen
cies combined."
It is now clear that there is no evil
thing among us that the drink habit does
not exaggerate, and no good thing that
it does not antagonize. The saloon
which fosters the drink habit is a stand
ing menace to our civilization.
The saloon business is itself a sort of
anarchy. It does not respect laws; it
cares only for money; it breaks even
law of God or man that interferes with
its evil gains. The one right thing to
do with a rattlesnake is to kill him.
The liquor men say "Prohibition does
not prohibit." This means two things:
First, they intend to break the law as
jiuch and as often as they can. Second,
that the people, after enacting prohibitory laws, neglect to enforce them. All
this is not an argument against prohibition. It is an argument against a business that hates and defies law.
It is the transforming power of a regnant, personal, indwelling Christ which
must make the unity of the Church of
Christ. "One in Christ Jesus." We
have tried to make our Church one in
hierarchy and priesthood ; we have tried
to make it one by repressing here and
exscinding there those who disagreed
with central authorities, so becoming
ourselves the biggest schismatics or exscinders of all. It has never succeeded.
And then we have tried to hit upon a
common creed ; we have thought if we
could only get our creed small enough
and short enough, then we could all be
one in doctrine and creed; but men continue to differ. No ! The united Church
of Christ cannot be wrought by a hierarchy, nor by a creed ; it is to be wrought
by Life. When we begin to speak of
orders and creeds, we divide; but when
we come into the realm of heart-experience in Christ we are one in personal
experience—one in Christ Jesus. Paul
puts the order of unity thus: "One
Lord, one faith, one baptism."
In C. W. King's "The Gnostics and
their Remains," we find set in order the
ideas of the ancient Gnostics, "not with
a view so much to their so-called philoso-
phy as to their ancient remains. Here
we see Abraxas gods, Gnostic gorgons,
Isis and Horus, Agathodaemous, and
Abraxaster sigils, two-tailed serpents,
ass-headed typhous, grasshoppers, tortoises, and baboons, triune heads and
triangles, and all the other nonsense and
gibberish which the craziest brains have
cut on cones and disks and scaraboids,
and called them Christian art. Here is
richness and wisdom for Boston Buddhists quite out-plummeting the deepest
sinker of Madame Blavatsky's Mahatma
theosophy.
�[February, 1888.
THE FRIEND.
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T. M. C. A.
THEHONOLULU,
H.
I.
ThU page is devoted to fhe interests ot tie Hoiinlulu
Vouns Men's Christian Association, and the Hoard of
Directors are responsible for its contents.
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S. D. Fuller,
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BRIEFS.
The Y. M. C. A. boys were pleased
to have their old friend, Mr. T. H.
Davies, present to conduct their meetings for the last two months. The next
meeting will be on Thursday, February
2d, at 2:30 p. m. A full attendance is
required.
We have gathered the nucleus for an
interesting young men's Bible class.
Accessions will be cordially welcomed,
if from among the many young men not
connected with some Sunday school, Y.
M. C. A. parlor, 9:45 every Sabbath
morning. Come.
Through the kindness of Mr. T. H.
Davies, British Vice-Consul, and the
many friends who cheerfully lent their
aid, a most delightful entertainment was
given to the crew of H. B. M. S. Caroline en Friday evening, January 27th.
The hall was well filled, admission being
by ticket, to prevent a crowd. The first
part of the programme was given by
members and friends of the Association.
The second part was by the crew of the
Caroline, except the first recitation,
which was admirably rendered by the
Captain, Sir William Wiseman. The
entertainment was a grand success
closing, as usual, with a bountiful supply of ice cream and cake.
The Blue Ribbon Entertainment continues to attract a goodly gathering
every Saturday evening. While the
number of new names added to the roll
is not so large as we wish it was, yet it is
encouraging to see some who having tried
and fallen, have tried again and are now
standing manfully by this pledge. Oh!
that all who pledge to man would add
the seal of personal consecration to
Christ.
Mr. T. H. Davies, assisted by his
nephew, C. F. Jackson, have held six
very interesting services, for children, in
our hall on Sunday afternoons. Another
will be held next Sunday at 3 p. m.,
conducted by Mr. Jackson.
TOPICS.
MONTHLY MEETING.
The monthly meeting was held on
Thursday evening, January 16th, President Lowrey in the chair. The usual
reports were presented showing progress
in the work. The larger part of the
evening was spent in hearing reports
from the branch work at Queen Emma
Hall, and discussing the ways and
means for carrying forward the important lines of Christian ejfort already
started among the Hawaiians and Japanese at that place. Needed funds were
generously pledged on the spot, and
support assured so long as the present
good results could be realized. Since
that evening some liberal contributions
have been received from those not connected with our Association but who
believe in the work that is being done.
The treasurer, Mr. E. O. White, will be
glad to receive the substantial endorsement of any others.
TEMPERANCE WORK IN HAMAKUA.
11.
Dec. 6th. —President Judd came from
Waimea, and spoke in the church at
Kukuihaele in the evening to a good
audience. On the eighth of December
he was at Paauhau speaking to many
people. There was an abundance of
ferns and flowers tastefully arranged by
the natives. Thirty-two signed the
pledge. A generous Christmas gift was
collected for Miss Green. After the exercises a bountiful feast was provided at
the residence of R. A. Lyman. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman are'active workers
in the temperance cause. Mr. Lyman
has sang many times at meetings, with
Mr. Goodell. Music has been a great
feature of the temperance work.
Dec, nth.—Some twelve or more rode
out to Kapolena Church and held a Blue
Ribbon meeting. Remarks were made
in English and Hawaiian, after which
fourteen signed the pledge. The little
organ was carried over on a horse's
back and, with its aid, the singing by
the League was inspiring.
Dec. /<?///.-—A Blue Ribbon at Kukuihaele Church. Several signed, and a
Christmas gift for Miss Green was collected.
Dec. 2jth. —Found me speaking in the
native church at Paauhau, assisted by
Mr. Lyman, and by his organ in. the
musical part of the service. Here also
in the hall a greater interest is felt in church
Gospel Praise Service
every Sunday evening at 6:30. Good
singing, brief talks, everybody welcome.
The topics for the month are as follows:
February 5th —Joyful Service Required. Ps. 100; Phil. 4:4.
February 12th—Grinding in the Prison
House. Judges 17, 15:21.
February 19th—How the Christian
Race may be run Successfully. Cor. 9,
matters.
Det. fftt.—
The Blue Ribbons of this
town held a meeting, and remarks were
made by Judge Miau, William Horner,
J. K. Kaunamano, Mr. Kaaekuahiwi
and others, interspersed with music.
Six signed the pledge. All then retired
to a feast prepared by the members of
the League. At the table, a hymn was
sang, "Guide and bless us," followed
24:27. Heb. 12, 1:2.
February 26th—Who are the Heroes? by prayer. The natives had tastefully
Prov. 16, 32. Rev. 7, 13:17.
trimmed the room with ferns and
flowers, while streamers of blue ribbon
depended from nearly every point.
Several mottos in red, blue and green
were on the walls. Thus pleasantly
closed the Old Year in Kukuihaele.
A Blue Ribbon and a feast was also
held at Kaala January 2, 1888.
Jan. r, ISBS.—The first Sabbath of
the year opened with a large attendance
at church, and the largest in several
years. There was tenderness of feeling
shown when all arose and sang "What
a friend we have," &c. Then, as with
bowed heads all repeated those words so
solemn when reverently spoken by a
Hawaiian, "E ko Hiakou Makua iloko 0
ka laui," we seemed nearer Heaven
than earth. The attendance at the Y.
M. C. A. was also large—the greatest
since its organization. Here the reserve of men was broken, and amid
tears and sobs promises were made of a
better life in the coming days.
The friends of Temperance were
greatly cheered in December by knowing that the Blue Ribbon had conquered
the "father of the liquor law." He has
signed the pledge and now wears the
Blue Ribbon. God grant him strength
to ketp his vow. Prayers will go up
that he may be truly faithful.
"With our Hlue Ribbon we're marching,
Singing as we onward go:
In the strength of Heaven we're trusting.
And will conquer every foe.''
The man who was arrestee! and lined
appealed, and-his case was tried again
at Waimea. There, through a combination of his friends (presumably opposed to Temperance) and influences too
mysterious to be written about here, he
was acquitted. This result has caused
a wide-spread feeling of indignation.
On January ist, for the first time in
six weeks, drunkenness was seen on the
street and noise heard at night. For all
that, times are greatly changed for the
better in this town. Men and women
are seldom seen intoxicated.
The
Japanese and Portuguese are falling
into line, and "Temperance goes marching on." We are having peaceful days,
and peaceful nights, too. The religious
interest is well sustained, and the natives
seem to enjoy the changed state of feeling among themselves.
Although Paauhau is without a
pastor, there seems to be a growing interest among the church people. R. A.
Lyman and wife are active workers, and
are, with Mr. and Mrs. Homer at Kukaiau, strong friends of the Temperance
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movement.
Other meetings are to be held in the
Thus the
work goes on, and always to the advantage of lives and property of men. We
do not want the old times back again.
The better times—the "good time coming"—is already casting its mantle of
blessing upon us. May the grace of
God ever lead on the work of Temperance to glorious victory.
Isaac Goodell.
Kukuihaele, Hawaii, Jan. 10, 1888.
district—one at Waipio.
�THE FRIEND.
REASONS FOR TEMPERANCE
EFFORTS.
(Extracts from Discourse of Rtv. E. G. Ueckwith, D.D.,
Sunday, January 8, i838.)
First: Because the evil which it seeks
to hinder is so gigantic. Men show
what stuff they are made of by the
causes which they espouse. Little souls
occupy themselves with little things,
and stay small for want of room to grow
in. In China they grow forest-trees in
flower-pots ; cedars and oaks and elms,
complete in form, and venerable with
age, but dwarfed to the compass of a
painted potter's vase. There are men
who grow just like that. They get their
lives rooted into such little things, and
through all their years keep pruning
themselves down to this flower-pot narrowness.
Now a man has no right to do that,
with such chances for growth as God
has given us, and such need for growth
as God has put upon us. It is a guilty
perversion of gifts if we do not aim at
the completest possession of manhood,
as God gives us a chance of manhood.
It is a wicked waste of energies if we do
not bless the world with the best work
we can do in it. And so it is the great
interests into which we ought to let our
lives grow.
Now this work of Temperance Reform
is such an interest. It is vast; it is
exigent. There is no other that transcends it, either in the imminence of the
peril it seeks to avert, or in the bitterness of the woe it wants to assuage, or
in the guilt of the sin it hopes to hinder,
or in the reach of the ruin it is trying
to stay.
It is humane work; it is sacred work
to be done for Christ and humanity.
There is no nobler cause to work in
under the whole circuit of the sun—none
that will bring us into a closer sympathy
with men, or into a truer fellowship with
God. And I counsel you, my people—
every one of you—to have some good
share in it, and to have it now.
This virtue of temperance will not be
in disrepute always. It will be seen to
be very beautiful by-and-by. The want
of it will be seen to be a vice to be
abhorred. That gigantic wrong will have
the intelligence and the moral sense, and
the consuming scorn of the people
against it by-and-by. But I pray you
do not wait to be swept in by this
rising tide of public sentiment. Come
in now, for now it needs you, as it will
not need you then. Come in as men
quick to discern duty, and loyal to the
right when it costs something to be
loyal.
BOOK NOTICES.
while we strive about the ways and
means. So let there be no strife. It
"Tributes
of Hawaiiau Verse. Sedoes not matter so much about the
cond
Series.
Published by Thomas G.
way if only it will save men.
Thrum,
Honolulu,
1887." A graceful
I think often of the sailor passenger
William Hoys, at the wreck of the little collection of seventeen pieces, by
steamer Atlantic among the Nova Scotia eleven different writers, and with local*
rocks, how he lay down upon the rock, coloring.
Hawaii's broad mountain
whose top he had gained by the hardest domes and far blue seas ought to be instruggle, and seized his fellow-voyagers spiring. Here is a scarlet fancy of
as the wild waves flung them up, some Stoddard's:
by their upraised arms, some by their
Sun in the west, he
" Sorrowful
garments, some by their streaming hair,
Is bleeding to death in the wave,
and when his chilled and tired hands
Staining and tinting with crimson
would no longer hold them, threw himself further over the slippery edge and
caught them with his teeth, and drew
them up "that perilous way to the safety
above." More than a hundred men he
so drew out of the wild waters, not
according to any very proper and perfected plan of rescuing shipwrecked men.
It was not a time to stand very stoutly
upon the proprieties. It was a time to
lay hold of men and lift them out in any
way they could.
And with two hundred thousand men
dying of the drink every year, let us not
wait till we are quite sure that we have
got just the most perfect appliances.
Let us get hold of them somehow, all of
us. They are sinking too fast and too
fatally. Any way that will save men.
Still further, it is the country's wealth
we are trying to save. The cost of this
curse of the drink is a sum too vast to be
comprehended. There is no other such
gigantic waste of wealth. We mourn
over our languishing industries, and
wonder why the wheels of our toil and
traffic must so long turn so slow. It is
for the want of these millions upon
millions of annually wasted wealth to
set them agoing.
There is no other
cause that has half so much to do with
it. How can our industries speed on
swiftly when weighed down with such a
vast and wasteful burden of vice and
crime. That monster steamship the
Great Eastern has been getting to be a
very slow sailer of late. With all the
power of her ponderous engines, they
have scarcely been able to drive her
with any decent speed. And why ?
Because she is burdened and befouled
with barnacles. Six inches thick they
found them, all over her huge hulk
below the water-line. Three hundred
tons of them she has had to drag with
her through the waters.
Now that is what ails society. It is
barnacled with vice and crime so foul
and so heavy that our utmost moral force
can scarcely drive it forward. We must
have the barnacles off, or we shall go
slowing down into a more fatal stagnation. And it is your money and mine
that is being wasted. It is your burdens
and mine that are being made heavier.
It is your industry and mine that is
being deranged and hindered. Poorer
every one of us is for this wicked waste.
Then let us all get hold and help fling
And let us not stand too stoutly upon
It is our
the order of our coming.
brother-men who need saving. Two
hundred thousand go scourged to the
grave every year by the demon of drink, off the burdens.
The corals that fashion his grave."
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Hawaiian • Dictionary,
for
use
of Hawaiian-English
prepared
the
" All English
Schools, by H. R. Hitchcock. Bancroft
& Co., San Francisco, 1887." This
book has been wanted for a long time.
Mr. Hitchcock has done his work faith-
fully and well. The Board of Education, at whose expense it is published,
are also to be praised. Sixteen thousand
English words receive brief, compact
definitions in Hawaiian. More than
three thousand English
synonyms
further aid the Hawaiian pupil. There
are several valuable tables. A full
chronological table of Hawaiian history
is appended.
Not only to Hawaiian
learners of English, but especially to
those learning to speak and write Hawaiian, will this Dictionary be indis
pensable. The volume is small and
neat, the ideal of a handy manual. The
typography is excellent. We are assured
by competent authority that the errata
are very few. The demand for this desirable book must be very large, both
from Hawaiians and whites. We congratulate Mr. Hitchcock on his excellent
New Year's present to Hawaii.
Vestiges of the Molten Globe. Part
11. The Earth's Surface Features and
Volcanic Phenomena. By Wm. Lowthian Green. Gazette Publishing Company, Honolulu, 1887; pp. X., 337."
Mr. Green's long-promised book merits
an enthusiastic welcome. As stated in
our August issue, the Theory of his
Part I. has found a wide adoption in
Europe. A leading feature of Part 11.,
which will be of the deepest interest to
residents of this group, is the thorough
and effective discussion of Hawaiian
volcanoes, about which no one can hereafter claim to be well-informed who has
not studied this book, as well as the
forthcoming one of Professor Dana.
Mr." Green's Theory of the Cause of the
Distribution of Volcanoes on the lines
pointed out by Guyot is a profound and
impressive one, and, we hope, will make
its way as successfully as his theory
of "Tetrahedral Collapse" has done.
Many portions of this book are truly
fascinating. We propose in our March
issue to attempt some analysis of its
contents, for which we lack space in the
present number.
"
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(M.
T D. LANES
C. A. BUILDING,
Corner of Hotel and Alakea Sts.,
MARBLE WORKS,
HONOLULU.
D. FULLER, General
T
No.
Secretary.
130 Fort
Street, near Ho.el,
Manufacturer of
Head
Monuments,
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Tombs,
Stones,
Tablets, Marble Mantles, Marble work cf every
Open every day from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m., and
DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER AT THE
supplied with the Leading Periodicals
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lowest possible rates.
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days at 10 a. m.
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on Sunday evenings at 6:45.
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iy
Saturday Evening at 7:30, Rev. H. H.
Gowan, President.
MONTHLY BUSINESS MEET-
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FOH
Brejvte and Ranges of all
Lamps, Etc.
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•
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DAIRY & STOCK
COMPANY,
MILK, CREAM, BUTTER,
AND LIVE STOCK.
janB7yr
TINKER,
Family and Shipping Butcher,
CITY MARKET, Nuuar.u Street.
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Compa:iie>.
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HONOIXLIJ STEAM PLANING
MILL,
feb-SS
ESPLANADE, HONOLULU, H. L
Manufacturerof all kinds of Mouldings, Brackets,Window
Frames, Blinds, Sashes, Doors, and allkinds of Woodwork
Finish. Turning, Scroll and Hand Sawing. All kinds of*
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jan?7yr
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CO.,
No 74 King Street,
IMPORTERS ft MANUKACTUKERS OK
POPULAR MILLINERY
HOUSE.
104 Fort .Street, Hcnclulu, H. I.
N. S. SACHS,
Proprietor,
Direct Importer of
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Ladies' anJ Gent's Fun.ishins; Coot's.
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and
UPHOLSTERY.
pHAS.
n
CONTRACTOR AND lUII.DER,
129 Fort Street, Honolulu,
TJOPP &
•
feb87
HAMMER,
jan37yr.
Done in the most workmanlike m nocr.
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Highest awardand Diploma for handmade Shoes at the
Hawaii Exhibition, ISS4. Horses taken to and from the
shop whe.i des'.red.
janS7yr
J. W. M, DONALD. Proprietor.
Loth
H. L
Honolulu, 11. I.
opposite Pantheon .St..
JOSEPH
Street, Honolulu,
Subscripti ms received for any Paper or Magazine pul
lished. Special orders received for any Books published.
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Orders from the other Islands promptly attmued to.
Horse-Shoeing in all its Branches,
T A. GONSALVES,
V
25 Merchant
News Dealer.
SADDLERY <y HARNESS.
Hell Telephone, lsl.
Telephone
THOS. G. THRUM,
Publisher, Honolulu.
and
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kind* of
SHOEING SHOP,
F ri-St..
AlHißKss:
Stationer
Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
piTY
to
Chairs to Rent.
*
kinds Plufkbtrs* Stock and
Metalt, House Furnishing Gocds, Chandeliers.
1888.
This regular and favorite publication
is now in its fourteenth year, and has
proved itself a reliable hand-book of
reference on matters Hawaiian; conveying
a better knowledge of the commercial,
agricultural, political and social progress
of the islands than any publication extant.
Orders from abroad or from the other
i-lands attended to with promptness.
Price—to Postal Union Countries 60
cts. each, which can bcremiitea oy Money
Order. Price to any part of these islands
50 cents each.
Hack numbers to 1875 can ke nai'i ex "
ci-pting for the years 1879, '882 and 1883.
Successor
.!. M. Oat, Jr.. ft Co.
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET IRON
HAWAIIAN ALMANAC & ANNUAL
*■■»-
SOPER,
H,
1
FURNITURE
Worker. Plumber, Gas Fitter, etc,
INGS
The Third Thursday of each month, at 7:30 p.
NOTT,
J
E. WILLIAMS,
Importer, Manufacturer, Upholsterer and
Dealer in all kinds of Furniture.
Furniture Warerooms in New Fire-proof
Building.
Nos. 111 Fort Street and 66 Hotel Streets.
Agency Detroit Safe (,'O. Feather, Hair, Hay and Eureka
Mattresses and Pillows, and Spring Mattresses on hand and
made to order. Pianos and Sewing Machines always on
hand and for sale or rent. Best Violin and Guitar String*
and all kinds of Musical Instruments for sale as cheap a*
the cheapest.
janB7yr.
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(M. N. Sanders, Proprietor.)
SANDERS'
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Ready to Deliver Freightand Baggage of Every Description
With Promptness and Despatch.
Both Telephones, No. So.
Office, 81 King Street.
Residence nS Nuuanu Street.
juB7yr.
HONOLULU IRON WORKS
CO.,
MANUFACTURER* OK
MACERATION TWO-ROLL MILLS,
With Patent Automatic Feed.
Double and 1 ripple Effects, Vacuum Pans and Cleaning
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all descriptions, etc.
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THE FRIEND.
HONOLULU, H. 1.,
Volume
46.
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to Post Office.
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janB7)'r
Entrance. Hotel Street.
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TTTM.
MANAGER'S NOTICE.
ATTORNEYS AT
Merchant St., next
invested.
DAVIES & CO.,
Kaahumanii Street, Honolulu.
NUMIIER
JANUARY, 1888.
G.
I.
IRWIN & CO.,
fori' stkilt, honolulu.
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scribers and others to whom this publication
\ -ills for the
is a regular monthly visitor, to aid in exComp'y.
this,
the
Steamship
the
list
patrons
tending
of
of
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able us to do more in return than has been
promised for the moderate subscription rate
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Manager
British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co._
Northern Assurance Company(Kirc anil Life.)
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Liverpool Office, No*. 41 and ,3 The Albany.
MRS.
jaiiB7>r
ROBERT LOVE,
STEAM
BAKERY,
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Corner Fort and rsitni Streets, Honolulu, H. I.
nil ICBB*
W. F. ALLEN, Audimr,
TOM MAY and I'.. O. Will IL, Directors.
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AND YOUTH'S WEAR.
Book-Binder, Etc.
COMPANY,
IM
WM. W. HALL, President anil MauaK'-r,
L. C. ABLEB, Secretary and Treasurer.
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And Publisher of the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual No 37 Merchant Street, Honolulu.
Dealer in Fine Stationery, Books, Music, Toys
and Fancy Goods.
POPULAR MILLINERY
• Honolulu.
Fort Street, near Hotel Street,
DAIRY & STOCK
DBA IKM
Hardware and General Merchandise,
KERR
Merchant Tailor
Stationer, Book-Seller, Printer,
-
HALL & SON, (Limited)
IMI ORTI RS AND
FINE GOODS FOR GENTLEMEN'S n
janB7yr
Jayna Son's Medicines.
Wilcox .t Gtbbft' Sewing Machines,
Remington Sewing .Machine Co.
j
of the year.
Manufai:lnr:i\^
WOODLAWN
MILK, CREAM,
D. M. WsMtOO'l Centrifugals,
$ a oo
inch, six months...
One year
% column, six months
One year
150°
14 00
% coininn, six months
One year
25 °°
25 00
One column, six months
One year
40 00
Advertising bills will be collected djirinsj the doejiig
quarter
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
The Union .Marine Insurance Company,
The Union Fire. Insurance Company,
The .Etna Fire Inusrance Company.
The CeoTge F. Bfatke Manufacturing Company,
1t-:s ;
i
"IT7" E. FOSTER,
llie Kohala FugM Company,
The Haiku Sugar Company,
The Paia Plantation
Grove Ranch I'lant;itioii,
I In- Papaikou Sagar Company,
The Waialua Plantation, R. HaUead,
The A. H. Smith .* Co. Plantation,
THE
BREWER
GENERAL MERCANTILE
COMMISSION AGENTS,
Queen Street, Honolulu, H. I.
HOUSE.
LIST OF OKFTCKRS
104 Fort Street, Honolulu, H. I.
N. S. SACHS,
xV CO., (I.iMini.)
Proprietor.
Direct Importer of
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS
Furnishing Goods.
Ladies' and Gent's
janB7yr
1
President and Manager
Treasurer and Secretary
P. C. Jones Jr
Joseph O. Carter
W. F. Allen
Auditor
uirecio*s:
Hon. Chas. R.
Bishop
S. C. Allen.
j«nB7yr
H. W»terho»*e.
�JJISHOP &
CO.,
BANKERS,
»
Honolulu,
Draws Exchange on
Hawaiian I land
.
THE FRIEND.
J
HOLLISTER & CO.,
T. WATERHOUSE,
Importer of
English and American
IMPORTERS,
The Bank of California, San Francisco
And their Agents in
New York,
Boston,
Paris,
Messrs. N. M. Rothschild «fc Sons, London, Frankfort-onthe-Main.
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The Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, Sydney.
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Branches in Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington
The Bank of British Columbia, Portland, Oregon.
The Azores and Madeira Islands.
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The Chartered Bank of London, Australia and China,
Hongkong, Yokohama, Japan and
MERCHANDISE.
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BANKER S,
Hawaiian Island..
Draw Exchange on the principal parts of the world, and
janB7yr.
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PACIFIC
SI IXKSSIIKS
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Samuel Num.
IMPORTERS,
HARDWARE,
House Furnishing Goods,
Silver Plated Ware,
Cutlery, Chandeliers,
LAMPS,
LANTERNS,
the best
of
JaoSyyT
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WARE, |
i ombination Spectacles, Glassware, Sewn
;. ture Frames, Vases, Brackets, etc., etc.
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Steamer
For Port! on Hamakua Coast.
by every vessel from the I'nited
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id
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ZO.,
■'.Ks
Honolulu.
AND
IiK.AI.I-.KS
IN
SS & PROVISIONS,
CIETS OF THE FRIEND.
linds of Keed, such as
One set of Thf. PtUKND in three volumes, from
inclusive. A few sets from 1852,
1852 lo 1884,
unlKiiind, can be procured on application to
Office of THKI'-KiKMi.
J U B7
PER,
J.
Ii
Goods Received by Every Steamer.
66 Hotel Street, Honolulu, H. I.
President.
S. 1!. ROSE, Secretary
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FISHEL,
Corner Fort and Hotel Streets, Honolulu,
HAY, OATS, IIKAN, BARLEY, CORN, WHEAT, Ac
Kh
Commando
IshsinS
AND
)N MERCHANTS,
Com miss on Merchants,
" MOKOLII,"
Steamer "LEHUA,"
>ffee Roasters and
HACKFEI.Dx*.: CO.,
-
Commander
Weekly Trips for Kahului and Hana.
Steamer '•'KILAUEA HOU,"
PROVISIONS,
DEALERS,
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Corner (J ueen and Foit Streets,
Steamer -I. IKELIKE;'
Weekly 'Dips for Circuit of Molokaiand
T STREET HONOLULU,
Office- 82 Fori St. Yard -cor. Kinn an I Merchant Si-.
Robkkt I.kwkks,
c. j. Lowbbv. ij, is. M. '.'ookk.
Commander
Weekly Trips for Hilo and Way Ports.
McGR l'.l'.Oß
\V xV CO.,
Lumber and Building Material.
" KINAU,"
LORF.NZEN
FEED.
Honolulu.
Dealer*, in
janB7yr
(Limited.)
ml Street, (Wa> s Block),
janB7>r
Street, Honolulu.
And
Steamer
Every Steamer.
AND
EWERS & COOKE,
TJ
vv
lUSTACE,
SPECIMENS, PLATED
Hardware
YtnLDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
LIFORNIA PRODUCE
y
&
ncipal Store & Warehouses.
Received by Every
"rom the Eastern
s and Europe.
Quality.
laapOTtat and Dealer in
Strictly
PDckiery
r of Fort and King Streets.
A L. SMITH,
LAVA
I.'ATiKRS
'ROVISIONS
nishes,
Kerosene Oil
AND AT QUEEN STREET,
atari and Dealers in
Paints, Paint Oil, 'Turpentine, Var-
STORE
Off
TYRE & BROS.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
10
A great variety of Dry Goods,
Honolulu, H. I.
Fort Street, Honolulu.
Goods,
Can be seen
19 FORT stkk.lt,
TO
and
AT THE NO.
and Aerated Waters.
HARDWARE CO.,
of
E* late arnxals.
TOILET ARTICLES;
/ILAUS SPRECKELS & CO.,
a
Valuable Assortment
AND
janB7 yr.
....
Has noxx-
Drugs, Chemicals,
Transact a General Banking Business.
Honolulu,
DEALERS IN
IMPOaTI X' AND HEAL!"R l.\
GOODS.
fancy goods,
j
millinery,
:nt's Furnishing Goods,
Hats, Caps, lioots. Shoes, etc.
st styles DRESS GOODS and MILLINERY received by every Steamer,
shionable Dress Making
Orders faithfully attended to al the
lDikg
Millinkkv House
ok
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�HONOLULU, H. 1.,
Volume 46.
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VKAK INVAKIAIU.V IN ADVANCK.
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BISHOP, Honolulu, H. I."
Busbies* letters should be addressed "T. (7. Tdkim,
Honolulu. H. 1.
sTe.
Editor.
BISHOP,
CONTENTS.
i \i, i
(ireetfncs
I lavs
React i. iii.iry Efforts
Book Notices
Rev. J. W. Smith, M.D
One Phase of Hawaiian History.
I'eculiaritie-of Law Cases in Hawaii
Clwraa to the Pastor
Monthly Record f Events, Murine Journal, Ac
Hawaiian Board
Y. M. C. A
Right Hand of Fellowship
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5
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GREETINGS.
The Friend tenders to its readers and
patrons the felicitations of the New Year.
May it be one of peace and hopeful endeavor, and growing righteousness in
our own souls and in all the land. For
ourselves, we desire to make this new
and forty-sixth volume of the Friend
one that shall be in keeping with its
honored past, while filling worthily its
province in the present time. We hope
to make it readable, inspiriting, and of
value for permanent record. And we
desire that its voice shall always answer
in clear tone to the call of duty and
right.
SANTA CLAUS.
Dear old Grand-pa Santa Claus has
just been exceedingly busy among his
very numerous little friends in Honolulu.
We do not believe anybody could do
away with his services here if they
wanted to. He came down in great
force at the Central Union Sabbath
School on the evening of the 23d, in all
his glory of full and snowy beard, with
several sleigh loads of gifts. No Bostonian doubts about his goodness and
virtues have ever troubled these parts.
With Phillips Brooks, we agree that we
"never met a man who became a liar or
a reprobate by believing in Santa Claus
when a child."
REACTIONARY EFFORTS.
A more or less determined effort has
been in progress since our last issue to
replace the direction of the government
hands of the King, from whom it
taken away by the political revolu-
Ke
JANUARY, 1888.
tion of last July. So far the reactionists
have not ventured to appeal to force,
although their native papers have virulently threatened it. It is quite well
understood that any such intentions
have already encountered very discouraging intimations. The attitude of the
Foreign Commissioners, and the presence of one British and three American ships of war are not favorable
to that kind of demonstrations, even if
there were any formidable class in the
community disposed to support the
King's pretentions. No fact has been
more patent to all classes of intelligent
men than that the King's mental and
moral condition had become such as
thoroughly to incapacitate him for exercising any sort of direction or control in
the government of the nation. We
desire to speak of this compassionately,
as we deeply feel, but no clearer evidence of a thorough mental and moral
disarrangement is needed than the well
known occurrences a year ago of the
King's soliciting and receiving a bribe
of 575,000, and then recklessly and
cheerfully repudiating his bargain while
retaining the money. And this is only
one of a large variety of acts enforcing
the same conclusion of incapacity and a
degree of irresponsibility. A civilized,
progressive, and law-abiding community
were compelled to secure for themselves
orderly and responsible government,
doing it with a moderation and kindness
towards the offending monarch which
many are now tempted to feel was unwise.
1
The Friend.
Nu.MIIKR
I.
that, however important, these measures
should have met with the strenuous
opposition of individuals. 'They may
have been in the right, and the Friend
has no issue with them. What does
seem a ground of regret is, that any of
the minority should have refused to let
the will of the majority decide these
questions, and should have invoked the
interposition ofthe will of the disordered
and incapacitated King. We can respect
fair and honest fighting; but what are
we to think of a party which will unlock
Bedlam for recruits ?
We congratulate the country, and we
honor the Legislature for their very
marked attitude of firmness and union
in condemnation of these reactionary
attempts. Their union has been more
marked, and their majorities more overwhelming as the weeks have gone on,
and the members have returned from
their recess, and faltering minds have
been fortified by intercourse with their
constituents. While it is true that
" revolutions never go backward," yet
there are often disastrous reactions in
the advancing tide. It is becoming
more and more apparent that no such
reaction is likely to prevail at this time,
but that the cause of Responsible Government is to go forward uninterruptedly. It should be, and we believe
will be, the earnest and confiding prayer
of devout souls, that God may give prosperity and success to the cause of good
government in Hawaii, and that He will
over-rule all hostile influences and attempts to the clearer disclosure of the
During the session ofthe Legislature, true character of evil elements, and to
now of nearly two months' continuance, the uniting and encouraging of all good
differences of sentiment arose on various elements in society.
questions, as was to be expected, and as
As intimated above, the undisguised
is not undesirable. The body itself is
to restor.e the King's power have
appeals
and
sencomposed of a rarely patriotic
been
to a certain class of native
confined
sible class of men, more truly reprethe
two leading ones continnewspapers,
than
has
sentative of the whole people
staunch
of Reform. It is
uing
supporters
measassembled.
their
All
before been
ures have been passed by very large evident, however, that a not inconsideramajorities. Many of these were deemed ble element among Hawaiians favor
essential to the proper working of the reaction, and we wish to name some of
government, and the others of imme- the considerations acting upon the
diate importance to the welfare of the Hawaiian mind in this matter. A leadpeople. It is not matter of complaint ing one is the jealous apprehension that
�the whites, who are the leaders in the
Reform movement, will appropriate all
the powers of government to themselves.
Another is the glamour of Royalty, and
worship of its divinity which is profoundly and inseparably entwined in Hawaiian
souls, and which even bias the thoughts
of cultivated white men and women
born and educated here. Still another
is superstitious fear of the baleful powers
of Royalty to bewitch and destroy, which
is the wretched heritage of Hawaiians
from their heathen past. All these
means of influencing the native mind
with many others have been plied to the
utmost during the past weeks. Yet we
believe that the great body of intelligent
Hawaiians feel that the Legislature is
composed mainly of men in earnest
sympathy with them and sensitive to
their rights and claims. We trust that
the outcome of all will increase and not
impair the mutual confidence of the two
races.
We are most thankful to add, as we
go to press, that the contest has happily
ended by the complete surrender of the
King to the demands ofthe Legislature.
This good result is due to the firm and
resolute course of the latter, and to their
clear apprehension of the fundamental
issue presented. The dignified and determined attitude of the Legislature and
Cabinet, persisting to success, adds a
lustre to Hawaiian history, hitherto
lacking, and which proves no deterioration of nerve and fibre on these tropic
shores. The great party of Responsible
Government comes out of the contest
stronger, more united, and greatly enlightened by the experience. We congratulate the community and the nation
upon the bright and assured prospects
for the public welfare with which, under
God's favor, we are entering upon the
New Year. May the men of Hawaii
fill the year with work worthy of their
noble opportunities.
BOOK NOTICES.
Candalaria —A heroine of the wild
West: by Mrs. T. A. Owen. London :
Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 244.
The author will be recognized as a
former highly esteemed resident of Honolulu, whose " Our Honolulu Boys"
gave much satisfaction. "Candalaria"
is a good Sunday school book, full of
Colorado scenes and sketches, and of
sweet and spiritual tone.
He Buke no ke Ola Kino, no 11a Kamalii (Child's Physiology).
This little school book is translated
[Janury, 1888.
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into Hawaiian by Prof. W. D. Alexander,
with some changes. A chapter is added
on the pernicious effects of awa, the
great narcotic of Oceanica. The whole
is published under the auspices of the
W. C. T. Union, with the especial purpose of informing Hawaiian youth about
the evil effects of intoxicants.
Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for
jBSB. The fourteenth issue of this compendium of island information comes
freighted more than ever with valuable
tables and articles for convenient reference. The compiler, Mr. T. G. Thrum,
has utilized in a concise form, the important events of the past year in his retrospect, and has brought down to date,
a chronological table of Hawaiian events
from the Annual of 1876. Dr. Hyde's
contribution on " Hawaiian Words for
Sounds," Mr. E. Bailey's article on the
"Flora and Fauna of the Hawaiian Islands," and the historic legend of " Umi,
his birth and reign," give varied research
in Hawaiian lore. The New Constitution, the Resolutions of the Mass Meeting of June 30th, with the King's reply,
are of special interest to readers here
and inquirers abroad. Besides are copious statistical tables and lists on, one
would think, all possible subjects of political, scientific, mercantile or economic
interest concerning this group. 'The
fourteen numbers of Thrum's Annual
constitute a species of Encyclopaedia
of information about the Hawaiian
Islands.
REV.
JAMES WILLIAM
SMITH,
M. D.
Hardly any man has passed from
among us for many years, who more
completely than Dr. Smith, had earned
by character, position and labors, the
name of a Missionary Father.
Dr. Smith was born at Stamford,
Connecticut, July 8, 1810. Graduating
from the New York College, he practised medicine five years until 1842,
when he sailed for these Islands with
his wife as a missionary physician under
the A. B. C. F. M., coming with the
Rowells by the well-worn route around
Cape Horn. They were early stationed
at Koloa, Kauai, which became their
life home. As the only physician upon
that island, his medical labors were
Kiduous. He was, during his years of
strength, subject to frequent and sudden
calls to rapid rides to Hanalci forty
miles in one direction, and to Waimea
twelve miles in the other. Our missionary physicians in the old days had
to be active horsemen, and to own good
horses.
Dr. Smith labored much also in
spiritual things, and after some years
was ordained to the missionary pastorate
in the Koloa field. This special office
he resigned in later years to a native
successor, but continued active in spiritual labors, extending a supervisory and
supporting influence more and more
among the native pastors of the Kauai
churches. In time Dr. Smith became
the sole survivor of the missionary
fathers on that island. By means of
many sources of influence, chief among
which was his own eminence of Christian wisdom and love, he secured a
powerful ascendency among the Hawaiian pastors, who came to accept his
direction and even control, to a degree
unequalled in any other part of the
Island mission field. One element contributing to this was the high esteem in
which Dr. Smith was held by the white
planters and ranch-owners, who had
much power among the people. F"or
the last few years, however, his failing
strength and increasing sicknesses had
greatly limited his ability to extend his
welcome aid to the weak native churches.
He wrought, however, to the last, only
two weeks before his death having conducted the two Sabbath services of the
day at Koloa.
Dr. Smith was one of refined and benignant aspect, conveying the impression of practical wisdom, gentle firmness, and sweet and dignified devoutness, a saintly and lovely man to whom
one heartily rendered the tribute of
veneration as a true Missionary leather.
He has passed from us in the ripeness
of his years and labors, leaving his
honored widow with her three sons and
four daughters, and many grandchildren,
to whom his will be a revered and sacred
memory, while the thought of the noble
stock from which they have sprung will
abide with them as a guardian benison.
The funeral services took place on
Thursday, December ist. A discourse
was preached by Rev. H. Isenberg from
Revelations 2:10: "Be thou faithful unto
death and I will give thee a crown of
life."
ONE PHASE OF HAWAIIAN HISTORY.
(Concluded.)
There was in all these years a strict
tabu upon selling or giving liquor to a
native Hawaiian. The first article of
the law of 1850, and which continued in
force till it was superseded in 1882 by
our present liquor law, read as follows:
" Whoever shall sell, give, purchase, or
procure for, and in behalf of any native
of this kingdom, or for his use, any
spirituous liquor or other intoxicating
drink or substance, shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars;
and in default of the payment of such
fine, by imprisonment at hard labor for
a term not exceeding two years." The
Minister of the Interior was allowed to
grant licenses to retail liquor, but only in
Honolulu.
Vox several years we hear of little
temperance agitation till in July, 1859,
a new society, modelled after one existing in California called the " Dashaways " was organized. The peculiarity
of their pledge was that they only promised to abstain from thinking spirits,
and that for a definite time. 'They pur-
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posed to dash a-tcay the cup, and to
sustain each other in doing so; and
seem to have at once dashed into a
needed existence after five years of the
almost unrebuked reign of intemperance
here. It doubtless helped some men to
reform. But after some two years, it
dashed out of existence as suddenly as
it came, and we hear of it no more.
F'rom that time for twenty years, until
the year 1881, there is no record of any
organized effort to promote temperance
reform in the country. Except in Honolulu, the islands were under practical
prohibition. It was very difficult for
the natives anywhere to obtain liquor,
and there was little drunkenness among
them. At the same time, except among
a limited number, there was little public
sentiment in favor of total abstinence.
The attention ofthe community had not
been aroused to the subject, and wine
was much more freely used in many
Christian families than it can ever be
again.
Meantime a great revival of temperance had taken place in the United
States. The wonderful Woman's Crusade had solidified into a national organization, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and its influence was
being felt among all classes and in all
parts of the country.
It seemed therefore, to the friends of
temperance that some more aggressive
step ought to be taken in this little
country. At the same time, in a community so small and already supporting
so many societies, it appeared unwise
to endeavor to organize any general
temperance association. At length a
somewhat anomalous scheme was devised, but one which, for the time, served
an admirable purpose and accomplished
a work which has blessed the whole
community. This was to have a large
committee of Christian men and women
interested in temperance which, while
they should not hold stated meetings,
should, at any time, convene at the call
of the chairman. In April, 1881, an
informal meeting, to consider the matter,
was held in the Lyceum, which resulted
in the organization known as the " Committee of Twenty-one."
Prom this
number various sub-committees were
appointed with power to add to their
number from others not included in the
general committee. Dr.. C. M. Hyde
was chairman ofthe committee through
its whole existence. Their object was
to conduct public temperance meetings,
solicit signatures to the pledge, obtain
statistics and other information for publication, work among the young, and
endeavor to enforce more perfectly existing laws relating to the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating drinks.
A series of interesting public meetings
was sustained for several months, supported mainly by home talent, which
were very effective in arousing public
interest. In August, 1881, Mr. M. L.
Hallenbeck came from San FYancisco,
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Honolulu. Drunken natives are
daily seen upon our streets. The records of the police courts show their
frequent arrests. This in connection
with the now recently passed opium
law, is debauching and destroying the
native as rapidly as Satan himself could
wish. liven so conservative a body as
the Planters, in their recent convention,
at the invitation of the committee, to in
hold a series of Gospel Temperance
meetings. These meetings soon developed into distinctively evangelistic services, and their blessed results are too
fresh in the minds of most of us to need
any rehearsal here. Not a few before
me look back upon them as the means
of their temporal and eternal salvation,
and the whole Christian community received an impetus which has never been
lost.
Two years later this committee united
with the Y. M. C. A. in calling Mrs.
Mary Clement Leavitt to visit Honolulu
in the interests of Temperance. In
November, ISB4, she arrived and held a
series of meetings, of which the chairman, in a farewell note, said: "We
wish to express to you our great gratification and satisfaction with the style
and results of the good work you have
done here. The whole community has
been most favorably impressed by the
calm, dignified and kindly tone in which
you have presented the unanswerable
arguments of undeniable facts in favor
of total abstinence for the individual,
and legal prohibition by the Government, as the only adequate remedy for
the evils arising from the use of alcoholic beverages."
This Union is one of the results of
her mission. Shortly after its organization the Committee of Twenty-one was,
by mutual consent, disorganized and its
archives passed over to the W. C. T. U.
as to its natural successor."
In 1882 the law—prohibitory, as
affecting Hawaiians—which had practically been in force for sixty years,
under which the Hawaiian nation had
passed from infancy to manhood, was
repealed, against the protests and petitions of thousands of our best citizens,
we might almost say of all who had the
real interests of the nation at heart.
Let it be remembered that this law was
not forced upon the natives by foreigners, nor by any foreign power, but
was first devised by the chiefs under
the regency of Kaahumanu and repeatedly re-enacted in different forms under
many subsequent administrations. And
this, too, against the continual opposition of individuals and nations whose
claims to superior civilization might well
be questioned. We cannot too much
admire the wise firmness shown by the
chiefs and people in thus persistently
standing for the right.
In its place the liquor law of 1882
was passed, allowing the Minister ofthe
Interior to grant licenses to sell liquors
to any one in Honolulu or elsewhere
having a license to sell other goods. Its
results are too well known. The importation of liquors has increased from
100,000 to 300,000 gallons annually.
Against the wishes and protests of all
the best residents, saloons have been
licensed and are in full operation in
nearly every town in the country.
Liquor stores have more than doubled
"
report:
" The licensing of the sale of opium,
and the retail liquor shops established
in several of the country districts has
proved detrimental to the planting interests as well as to the general well
being of the laboring people.
" Agents of the so-called opium company have traveled throughout the group,
visiting every plantation, village and
hamlet, carrying the deadly and de-
moralizing drug.
"Evil only has resulted
crease
liquor."
from
the in-
of establishments for selling
I hope that the very apparent conclusion is evident to all, that in this
country, as in greater ones, all attempts
to " regulate this irregularity " to legalize this law-breaker, to license the sale
of this soul-destroyer, to make respectable this traffic which Satan instituted,
and which is still his pet abomination,
is worse than useless. The only objection to the former law was that only
the natives shared in its blessings. Let
us of the fairer race also claim our share.
Let us ask for ourselves and our families
the same protection. Let us understand
and proclaim in no uncertain manner
that we of little Hawaii-nei in unison
with the true patriots of all lands, demand of our law-makers no half measures, no partnership in the iniquity for
our Government; but immediate, absolute, unconditional Prohibition !
Mary S. Whitney.
PECULIARITIES OF LAW CASES
IN HAWAII.
the
favor
of Justice L. McCully of
By
we print the followCourt
the Supreme
ing extracts from a paper read before
the Social Science Club, Nov. 28, 1887.
They especially illustrate many peculiarities in the mixed social structure of this
country.
A new volume of Hawaiian Reports
of Supreme Court decisions came out
October 22, 1887. It is the fifth of our
series. Vol. 1., a thin book of 310 pages,
contains reports of some of the judgments and decisions of the Courts of
Record for the ten years prior to 1856.
The year 1846 carries us back to the
beginning of civilized jurisprudence in
this Kingdom. Vol. 11. reports the
Supreme Court from 1857 to 1865; Vol.
111., 1866 to 1877; Vol. IV., 1878 to
1883; Vol. Y. comprises the decisions of
the court in banco from July, 1883, to
October, 1886, with an appendix containing sundry cases not in this period
and not previously published. The com-
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pilation has been made by William
Foster, Esq., Clerk of .the Supreme
Court. It bears, throughout, evidences of
the systematic and librarian habit of the
compiler. The whole style of the volume
will bear favorable comparison with the
work of Little, Brown & Co.
This paper will notice in an entirely
desultory way some of the indications
and suggestions which this book affords
of the state of society, business, and
litigation in this country.
Of the sixteen Crown cases in which
exceptions have been taken which have
brought them up from a jury or lower
court before the Supreme Court, nine
indicate, by their names, Chinese deFive are Hawaiian, one
fendants.
American, and one Norwegian, showing
a country of mixed nationalities, with a
large quota of Chinamen.
The first indexed Chinese case arises
from a lottery. It discloses an elaborate
system for concealing the operations of
the defendants. It indicates what we
know otherwise, that the Chinaman has
brought here this one of his national
vices, that there are large companies
working daily drawings or coincidences
of tickets, in which the poorest may invest and lose their wages.
The next is a case of perjury. But
who is to know what perjury is committed under the impenetrable monosyllabic
language, whose tones are so familiar to
us, whose words so unknown? We do
not in our courts undertake to question
the Chinese witness if he believes in
God, or in a future state of retribution.
We do not swear him by any mode peculiar to his own country. We take his
testimony in his own language unless
he is an old resident who speaks intelligible Hawaiian, or more rarely, linglish.
The court or jury must balance contradictions in testimony, and circumstances,
and arrive at its conclusion not always
satisfactory.
I question if practically
we suffer as grave consequences from
our presumed perjuries as we might
fear. Those consequences are for the
most part confined to the Chinese.
There may be those who are outside of
prison through perjury, probably not
many who are in prison by it.
Three cases relate to opium. The inferior courts try a multitude of opium
cases. One of these reported decisions
of the Supreme Court gave rise to the
enactment of a statute in the session of
1866 providing that Custom House ofricers may search domestic ships and
freight on the wharf suspected of con-
taining contraband or dutiable goods.
In the case of Chuck Hoon the filial
piety of this race is seen. Twenty dollars had been delivered to him to be conveyed to the donor's mother in China.
He did not deliver it to the mother, and
returning here, he refused to return it to
the sender. It was claimed that the
act of the embezzlement must have been
committed in China, but the court held
that he could likewise be tried here.
Chinese Civil business. Chinese names
appear on one or both sides of a good
proportion of the civil cases reported in
the book. In two bankrupt cases we
find rice plantations, and a foreigner
the assignee of bankrupt Chinamen.
Another feature is the number of partners. In a case now pending there are
thirteen partners. They call themselves
a company and take a company name.
These partnerships become unwieldy.
They possess many of the characteristics
of corporations, such as permitting partners to sell their interests, and accepting
the buyer into the firm. I do not intend
to make a special case against the Chinese for eminence in fraudulent bankruptcy, but it may be concluded that
they have little to learn of it from others.
Water rights cases. It appears that
this is a country where cultivation
greatly depends upon irrigation, and the
rights of water depend, for the most
part, on allotments made in ancient
times, which are now to be fitted to the
demands for the cultivation of sugar and
rice, in addition to the Hawaiian taro.
It appears that the three water commissioners of each district cannot award
damages for the wrongful diversion of
water, but they may make orders for the
future, such as the removal of dams, the
shutting off of ditches, etc.
In one of the cases, David t». Afong,
the court, for the first time in this country, has occasion to adopt the principle
of law which distinguishes the rights in
water flowing visibly above ground, and
that which courses in subterranean and
unknown channels. A. may bore a well
which shall cut off or draw off the supply
from his neighbor B.s well, and B.
But this
would be without remedy.
does not apply to the case of A. making
his well the receptacle of nuisances or
poisons contaminating the water of B.
He may take away B.s water, but he
may not spoil it.
This case of Davis v. Afong was one
of taro vs. rice, of the old Hawaiian
rights vs. Chinese industry and enterprise.
Another case, between Loo Chit Sam
et al and Wong Kirn, discloses the difficulty in deciding satisfactorily and exactly by the evidence offered. The contention in this case is whether or not the
defendant had enlarged the boundaries
of ancient taro land which would be presumed to have ancient water rights, and
taken in what of old had been kula. or
dry, unirrigated land, for all of which he
claimed water. Two of the judges visited the premises, they being within
three miles of town. After inspection
the conclusion of the Court was that it
could give no reason for sustaining a
different decision from that made by the
Commissioners. Reasons for the uncertainties of evidence were stated thus:
Previous to the cultivation of rice, which
may be said to have commenced since
the reciprocity treaty of 1876, the area
of taro culture had greatly diminished.
[January, 1888.
Taro patches were allowed to go dry,
and even be used for grazing as if kula
land. So the testimony tends to make
them kula. The great demand for rice
land brought the disused taro patches
into requisition because water right
attached to them. The enterprising
Celestial pares the kuaunas or division
banks to the thinnest, or cuts them
away altogether. He cuts into the dry
land and creates new patches. The
identifying features of the place are obliterated.
Again, not every taro patch had a
good supply of water every year. The
advancing desiccation of the country
must also be considered.
The Water Commissioners are also
Commissioners of Rights of Way. The
change from the mode of aboriginal
times to civilization sometimes appears
in these cases. F"ootpaths served the
old Hawaiian. After roads and streets
are made, there are yet house lots in the
interior of blocks and patches and building sites, only accessible by a track
along a kuauita. This comes to be insufficient, or is cut off. The tendency
is to enlarge the footpath to a hand-cart
track, then to a carriage road. In Achi
v. Poni, there was no access to a lot in
Honolulu but by boat per the river.
The Court had to carve out a way along
a stone wall and through an out-house
to give the tenant access, then to a lane
so narrow and crooked that a coffin
could not be well carried out through it.
Another kind of commission dealing
with a unique and peculiar business is
the Commissioner of Boundaries. These
cases carry us back to the time when
the surveyor had not been abroad with
his compass and chain. All the lands
of the kingdom were once held by lines
depending on tradition, and when in
1848, and thereafter, titles were given
by the King to those holding by ancient
right, nothing else was possible in the
majority of cases but to grant the land
by its name. To this day there are
tracts of land of which no survey has
been made and boundaries affirmed by
legal authority. An interesting case,
though not coming into the Supreme
Court, was that of the boundaries of the
vast land of Humuula, on Hawaii, the
area in dispute being nearly fifteen miles
Ion;;, and from one to three miles wide.
This depended on testimony as to how
far up the mountain the edge of the
forest extended at one time, everything
having since been changed by the ranging of wild cattle. It also depended on
evidence as to how far the ancient
feather bird ranged, and was caught by
the old lining bird-catchers, The principal witnesses in the case were so old
that it was. doubted if they knew anything at all.
Unsatisfactory as some of these decisions are, it is better that some decision
should be made, and as time advances
the evidence diminishes.
(To be continued.)
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As Pastor, the children and young of Him who has taught us to know and
people of this congregation and this feel the might and majesty of self-sacricommunity will ever be the objects of ficing, as well as all-forgiving love. We
My Dear Brother :—You cannot
your tenderest solicitude: while to the are an island community, small and
expect from me on this occasion, nor aged Annas and Simeons you will show isolated, but not necessarily small of
could the Council have asked of me the promised Savior, that their closing soul, limited in range of thought. You
such authoritative utterance as would eyes may
rejoice in the divine salvation. come to us as a leader of recognized inbe the delivery of a general order from
CHARGE TO THE PASTOR.
(By Rev. C. M. Hyde, D.D., Nov.
20,
1887.)
you did for the young people, tellectual ability, acuteness and accuMy special What
military head-quarters.
when you were a teacher here years ago, racy. Lift us up to higher planes of
as
when
charge is a more humble one,
may well encourage you to spare no thinking. Help us to sound with you
on a change of sentries the corporal of effort now to reach and help the young. the ocean depths of God's love and wisthe guard passes on the countersign. Those former scholars of
yours, now dom. You bring to us not the greenness
Or, using an illustration more pertinent pillars in the Church and leaders in the and bitterness of immature fruitage, but
to our island home, I am not appointed State, know that the Blessed Master the rich, ripe counsels of an enlarged
to give you such instructions for a new will never need to say to you, "Suffer acquaintance with spiritual truth, a
voyage, as a ship's captain would expect the little children to come to me." You varied experience of human life. You
from the vessel's owners. You and I
know what it is yourself to come to God came to us in the name of Christ.
meet on this platform, as two vessels as a little child; and
you will teach our Teach us to do all things "for His
would meet on yonder ocean, to exname, the house, sake," to whom be all the glory of our
love
the
children to
change chronometer reckonings, and fix and the service of our Heavenly Father. salvation; here, in hearts warm with
correctly the latitude and longitude, You have yourself known what it is to Christian love, strong in Christian faith;
while speeding on their several ways. stand at the parting of the ways in life's there, in heavenly union with our gloriIn our life's voyagings we have met pilgrimage, and to make the solemn, fied Redeemer, and eternal communion
before, both then on the same tack, irrevocable choice of the path we pro- with all His Redeemed. Amen.
but I so far behind you (for you were
pose to tread, what object in life to purSenior Valedictorian in Williams College sue. You will point and lead the way
Friend
begs to correct the asserThe
when I was a FYeshman student there),
the
men
people,
way
good
for
our
young
C.
Advertiser as being the
P.
tion
of
the
that then we could only exchange of old have trod, no whirling round of
on these islands. We
newspaper
and
soon
oldest
separsignals of recognition,
giddy gaiety, no racing track of fast
ated to take our different courses in life. living, but an ascending climb to heights claim to be entitled to the palm for
Now we meet again, far from that of
endeavor, and to breadth of views, newspaper longevity in Hawaii-nei, since
here in this tropic isle,
"farSpring-haven,"
that
will take in holiness and heaven as this paper first issued in January, 1843,
from those New England scenes, in
the summit points of noblest aspiration, while the Advertiser did not appear till
ideals
of
and
life,
which we formed our
the satisfying achievement of a life well- July, 1855. Our aspiring young conentered on our life-work. You will pardon spent. To the poor? you will give the temporary
had forgotten these facts, but
the
allusions,
touched
to
if
these personal
hand of Christian brotherhood, will now, naturally, make the "amende
warm
quick by them, as our human hearts are
has in it such recognition and up- honorable."
touched only by life, or that which is that
as no distribution of worldly wealth
lift,
lives,
as
part and parcel of our human
It is not enough to stand up before a
or social distinctions can proffer to
these memories are. For it is life thatyou
acquisi- church and make a confession of faith;
ones.
Whatever
earth's
needy
are here to work out, and work upon, in tions
of property any of us may hold, this is confessing Christ before the church;
your work as Preacher and Pastor.
show us we hold as stewards one must confess Christ before the
will
you
You are to teach from these Sacred
and you will lead us to the fullest world; and this involves antagonism to
only;
of
that
revealed
Scriptures the harmony
of ourselves, and our pos- the world.
truth which this Council is witness that consecration
sessions, for whatever use the Master
He who would follow Christ must
its
fullness
and
its
integrity.
you hold in
may call. Possessed yourself of a chas- learn to do what Christ did in the wilGod's truth is to you, as to me, somespirit, of more worth than refined
thing larger and higher than liberty of tened or burnished silver, you can com- derness; put the word of God above
gold
itpride, above approbativeness, above amopinion—something dearer than life
fort
afflicted and mourner with the bition.
self—holding us at the very nerve- samethe
comfort wherewith you have been
centres of our spiritual life. It is ChrisYet self-denial does bring coronation,
of God. You will teach us to
comforted
tian life, Christian truth, that you are
even
as self-indulgence brings death.
hearts
fullest
for
in
sympathy
our
open
here to exemplify and apply; not your all for whom Christ died, of whatever The only question is will you deny the
opinions, however well-reasoned, nor clime, of whatever nationality, Africans higher self and die, or the lower self and
your speculations however ingenious, or Asiatics, if they be not citizens of the live? He who loses his life gains it in
but the truth as it is in Jesus. They realm; and especially will you gladly the losing.
who worship in the world above sing of
Coleridge says:"The Bible is true
co-operate in any further labor for the
Jesus and His worthiness. In this world Hawaiians, to whom this is the land because it finds me." The Son of man
of time, where we dwell, you will so that gave them birth, and whose soil, reached after whatever bit of manhood
preach this heavenly theme that not dear as their fathers' grave, they can or womanhood nature had given or sin
your preaching, but your theme, will never,
rightfully, will never, willingly, had left, and on that shred of tattered
call forth the joy and admiration of every
allow
to pass out of their possession virtue or spark of hope he threw the
You
seek
the
will
abiding,
hearer.
strength of his love.
illuminating touch ofthe Holy Spirit on and control.
come to a community, in large
You
and
Behind Christ's message was his
mind,
and
heart
tongue.
your
part the descendants of missionary Person; behind his cross, which was a
Then you will so speak of Jesus and
fathers, but now enlarging more and mystery and a reality by itself, there is
His redeeming love that blinded eyes
more its circle of affinities, as commer- a mingling of the life of God with the
Lord;
will open to the glory of our
enterprise seeks in this genial clime life of men. Behind the Gospel there
cial
hands closed in willful refusal, or irnew
fields of business activity. We are was the Incarnation.
defiance,
;
shall
the
cross
clasp
reverent
with human foibles and frailties,
human,
feet now wandering in wages of sin, or so I dare not say you will never yearn
We may love the church, the truth,
groping in darkness down to death, shall for sympathy withheld, your motives society, men and their souls, but all these
turn and hasten to Jesus, the crucified, never be misconstrued,
your methods will fail us unless above them all there
to find the pardon, peace and purity He
never maligned. But we are followers is a real affection for the Savior himself.
can bestow.
only
�[Janury, 1888.
THE FRIEND.
6
MONTHLY
RECORD OF
EVENTS.
December ist—Death of Rev. J. W
Smith, M.D., Koloa, aged 77 years, and
a resident of these Islands since 1843.
2nd —Heavy rain-storm, with thunder
and lightning.
3rd—Vocal and instrumental concert
at St. Louis College for the Roman
Catholic Cathedral Organ Fund.
6th —Arrival of the bark Lilian from
Samoa, via Jaluit, bringing part of the
crews of the lost schooners General
Seigcl and Mana.
7th—The new steamer Kaala indulges
a small party with a delightful and satisfactory excursion trip.
9th—The first vetoed bills returned to
the Legislature without Ministerial signature.
Nth—Japanese steamer Wakanoura
Maru arrived from Yokohama with some
1,450 immigrants.
13th The Legislature denies the
power of the King to exercise the veto
without the advice and consent of the
Cabinet. The King refers the question
to the Supreme Court.
14th—Arrival of steamer Australia
from San Francisco.
15th—Ladies fair for the benefit of
St. Andrew's Cathedral held, resulting
in success financially and otherwise.
Returns, $2,000.
16th—The Judges of the Supreme
Court " tied " on the veto question referred to them.—Company D of the
Honolulu Rifles gave a hop at the
Armory. Steamer Mariposa arrived
from the Colonies, en route for San
Francisco.
19th—The King attempts to veto the
Military, Police and Country Saloon
Bills. They are placed "upon the usual
and ordinary course to become law at
the expiration of ten days after presentation* to the King."
20th—French frigate Ditquesite arrived
from San FYanciscoand anchored off the
port. The \V. H. Dimond and Forest
same port and
Queen also arrived from
steamship Oceanic from Hongkong, en
route to San Francisco.—Steamer Australia left for San Francisco at noon
with a large passenger list again.—Legislature adjourned to the 27th.
21 st —The Hawaiian Almanac and
Annual for 1888, issued. —The Japanese
steamer returned to Yokohama, taking
216 Chinese and Japanese passengers.
23d—Mr. Godfrey Brown tendered to
His Majesty his resignation from the
Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs.—
Arrival of H. B. M. S. Caroline from
San FYancisco.
24th —Arrival of the Alameda from
San Francisco, en route for the Colonies.—Departure of the Duquesne for
Tahiti.—Fourteen-oared barge race between Vandalia's and shore boys; won
—
—
W G Irwin, McCulloch, for San Franthe latter, but owing to a
foul " Dec 6 -Am bailie
cisco.
men,
it
bark
will
claimed by the men-o-war's
Lady I.anipson, Rust, for San Francisco.
13—Br
18—Am S S Ma u.osa, Hayward, for San Francisco.
be pulled over again.
BO—Br S S Organic, Metcalf, for San Francisco.
iCxx- 8 S Au-tralia, Houdlctte, for S.n Francisco.
Christmas; special ser25th—Merry churches.
21 —Jap S S Wakanoura-Maru, for Yokohama.
22—Am hark Pacific Slope, Barnes, for Iliilish Columvices at all the
bia
24 —Fr F S Duijiiesne, Hiliare, for Tahiti.
27th—The Legislature met. Hon.
Am S S Alar., da, Morse, for the Colonies.
vice
W. R. Castle was chosen President,
Am bgtne Consuelo. Cousins, for San Krancisco.
Am bktne St I ltd*, Vrskine, for S.in l-'rancisco.
Hon. S. G. Wilder, who left for England
-Am bklne Mary Winkelnian, Blake, for San
28
Francisco.
by the Australia. The King has deH 11 M S Cono,iies!, Oxley, for Panama.
manded the resignation of the rest of
2) —Am S S San Pablo, Reed, for Japan and China.
the Cabinet. The House resolved, by
31 —Am bark C II Bryant, Lee, for San l-'ranrisio.
31— U S S [nniala, Ilavis, for China.
a vote of 31 to 5, that "the resignation of any member of the Cabinet for
PASSENGEKS.
reasons other than as provided in Article
AKKIVAI.S.
does
involve
of
the
Constitution
not
41
From Samoa and Jaluit, per Lilian, Dec 6—E M Morthe resignation of the Cabinet as a body." gan, Dr Knappe, Mr Thomas,
15 Chinese,and 40 Gilbert
Islanders.
28—Arrival of steamship San Pablo From San Francisco, per brclne Consuelo, Dec 9 J W
I Thompson, and on* other.
from San FYancisco with the Garrett Young,
From Yokohama, per S S Wakanoura, Dec 11 —R W
route
Irwin,
M Gengiro, Mrs Nakaitna. Mr. Katsuin, Mrs Yoexcursion party, en
for Japan.—
Isaac Hakuole, Jas Hakuole, Nicholas Ley, and
More rain.—Boat race between the man- shico,
steerage.
1453
From San Francisco, per S S Australia, Dec 14— TTios
o-war's men and boat-boys came off in Kirchoff,
Win Kennel), A P Peterson, Mrs S A Thurston,
spite of the weather; decision given in J P Prescott, 8 ■ Rose and family, J M Suns, E W Baand
C McLennan, Miss A McCandless, Stephen
wife,
favor of the Vandalia's. —Departure of nian
D Ives, Rev L Beck, Mrs E Dc I.a Vergue and son, W L
for
Panama.
and
wife,
W M Templetuti, S Center and wife, Rev
H. B. M. S. Conquest
Hopper
Geo Wallace, S A Monsarrat, E M Pi*rcy, A Lowenberg,
Phillips
and
29th—Appointment of S. B. Dole as _j8M eithets. son, W P Toler, J H Wood, A Haas, and
Fourth Associate Justice ofthe Supreme Krom the Coloaies, per S S iMartposa, Dec 16—S JackB B Watson, Dr J Moore, C H Taylor, H J Agnew,
Court; Col. Jona. Austin as Minister of son,
M Gille and wife, and 2 steerage.
Ross,
and
G.
Krom
San Francisco, per Alameda, Dec 24—Miss M A
Affairs,
AuditorForeign
J.
Theo Cramp, Capt Hankui, R N;Col G B B
General.— Legislature adjourned with- Chamberlain,
Hobart, R H A; Capt T H Hobron and wife, H W Hyman, Miss Saphronia Lewis, Mrs S Lederer and 2 children,
out day, subject to call of the Presi- Mansfield
Lovell, George N Macondray, Mrs Rrid and a
dent.—Christmas Concert at the Armo- children, Mrs V Ward and daughter, Col B F Wicks and
and
wife,
23 steerage.
ry by the Honolulu Arion.
From San Francisco, per San Pablo, Dec 27 -L C
Abies.
30th—Farewe.il f>arty at the Hawaiian From San Francisco, per W S Bowne, Dec 29—Miss
Hotel in honor of Captain Davis and Meahi Bruns, Miss Maii E Conner, Miss Mari V Peters.
DEPARTURES.
officers ofthe Juniata.—F"ire in cottage
For San Francisco, per brgtne Dec 6—Miss Helen Sorof C. W. Hart, on Punchbowl street.
enson. S Siebcrg and wife, E W Sherman, W Goodall, and
5 others.
Good31st—Queen Kapiolani's fifty-second Eor San Francisco, per Mariposa, Dec 17—Capt
man, E M Morgan, R .More, S W Wilcox, A D Wilson and
of
the
S.
S.
birthday.—Departure
U.
wife, Rev M J Lee, Miss F Deacon, A E Hoyt, Dr Knopp,
Miss S RydburjrfL Johnson, A Mason, M IraJuniata for China.—Mission Children's A C Allen,
H Somerstad, E Anderson, H Fellas, B l"ellas, F It
Society meet at the residence of P. C. sitr,
Stratton, Mrs Gainba, Mamie Farree, D McLean.
For San Francisco, per S S Au*-tralia, Dec 20—Mrs J R
Jones, Esq.
A
"
CURRENT by
—
PORT OF HONOLULU.
AN RIVALS.
Stanton and child, 1 P Cummins, W S Bartlett, Miss L
Fillebrown, MrsThompsoa and dauehter, T R Walker, T
F Dredge, Rev X Miyama, Mrs F Hilder and child, E
Kohke, B Levy, Mrs Capt Shepard, George Butler, Mrs S
Levey, Hon S G Wilder, Heydebrand Losa, C H Taylor
and wife, Mons and Madame Gille, Mrs forgenson ai.d 2
children, T Morris, H Tokichi, H P Skar, wife and 3 children, H Anderson, wifeand child, P Henson and wite, O
Amundson, wife and child, C Mesnickoff, E dc Punto, wife
and 9 children, E H Woodwo»-th, J dc Ponto, J Quintal,
wife and 2 children, A Gomes Brazas. J Peneira, wife and
3 children. J D Mello, wife and child, J Lopez, O Gomez,
wife and child, M dc Kreitas, wife and mother, Ml Fernandez, wile and child, R Smith and wife, X Sikijiro, A
Clegg, M G Corteiho, R J Ruleia, F Schiefer, wifeand
child, George A Dunfer, C Rideo, T Wilson, R Cole, C
Wheldon.
For British Columbia, per bark Pacific Slope, Dec 22
Henry Read, Thomas Bennett.
For San Francisco, p«r C't>nsuelo, Dec 24—B Butler,
wife and three children.
For San Francisco, per bark Mary Winkclman, Dec 28
Miss Lambert, F Yates, wife and 2 children.
3—US S Vandalia, Howisson, from a cruise.
5—H BM S Conquest, Oxley, from a cruise.
Am wh bark Ocean, Wicks, from a cruise.
Haw bark Lillian, Holland, from Samoa.
6—Am bark Pacific Slope, Barnes, from Newcastle,
N SW
7 \j S S Juniata, Davis, from Pearl Harbor.
Townsend
Am bktne St Lucie, Erskine, fm Fort from
Yokoti—Jap S S Wakanoura-Maiu, 13 days
hania.
Am bark Caibarien, Perkins, 17 days from San
Francisco.
Haw brie Hazard, Goodman, fremi Hil >.
1 ; li.iw S S Australia. Houdlette. 1m San Francisco.
1; Am S S M.irpisa, Hayward, from the Colonies.
Am hktne I'.lla, H.ilvhi, jo (lays from Humboldt.
20—Fr F S Duquesne, Rear-Admiral HUiare, 14 days
BIRTHS.
from San r rami ICQ,
Br S S Oceanic, Metcalfe, i\% da)s from YokoGREENE—Ia this city, Dec. 12th, to the wife of J. J.
h.ima.
Greene, a daughter.
Am bark Forest Queen, Winding, \\% daj s from
San Frain is. .1.
JOIINSIONI.-At Koolau, Oahu, Dec. 10th, to the wife
days
from
of
Arthur Johnstone,a son.
Dimond,
bktne
Swift,
Am
W H
13■3
San Frar.cisio.
days
from
NewFriederick,
Korff,
-er
bark
I
51
MARRIAGES.
castle, N S W.
Ij—H BM S Caroline, Wiseman, 13 days from San I.KOI>KKICK-KICKAKI>-At Honolwa, Nov. 26th, by
Francisco. •
Rev. Isaac Goodell. Mr. H. 1. Uroderick to Miss Loui-a,
24—Am S S Alameda, Morse, from San Fraih I
second daughter of W. H. Kickmd, lionokaa, Hawaii.
bark Josephine.
27—Am wh
ISo cards.
days
S
S
San
from
San
Pablo,
Reed,
28—Am
6J£
Francisco.
days
S
from
San
Bowne,
Bluhin,
I \%
I, Am tern W
DEATHS.
Francisco
SMITH-At Kuloa, Kauai, Dec. i, Rev. J. W. Smith,
aged
MeDa,
77 years.
DEPARTURES.
(.LOVER—At Honolulu, Dec. 12, Mr«. D. W. Clover, a
native
of
Tahiti,
aged 51.
Dec 1 HB M S Conquest, Oxley, forcrui.se around the
island".
COOPER—In San Francisco, December i6th, Henry CooU S S Vandalia, Howisson, for cruise around the
per, beloved hus. and of Kate W. Cooper, late of Honolulu and Hamakua, a native of Birmingham, England.
islands.
Aged 42 years, 11 months and 9 days.
6—U S S Juniata, Davis, for Pearl Harbor.
Dec
—
—
—
�Volume 46, No. i.]
THE FRIEND.
HAWAIIAN BOABB.
HONOLULU H. I.
to the interests of the Hawaiia
Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by th
Board is responsible for its contents.
This page is devoted
A. O. Forbes,
-___-
-
Editor^
TOPICS FOR THE WEEK OF
PRAYER.
Jancary 1-7, 1888.
Monday, Jan. 2—Thanksgiving to God.
Tuesday, Jan. j —Humiliationand Confession of Sin.
Wednesday, Jan. 4—Prayer forFamilies
and Schools: For the blessing of the
Holy Spirit on all efforts to lead the
young to Christ.
Thurstftiy, Jan. j Prayer for the
Church of Christ: For a higher degree of spiritual life and consecration ;
for a closer unity in all Christian
work.
Friday, Jan. 6 —Prayer for Missions
For increased efficiency in all mission
work ; for a special blessing upon our
mission work in Micronesia and the
Marquesas,, and in Hawaii-nei.
Saturday, Jan. j—Prayer for Nations:
F"or all in authority ; for wise and just
legislation ; for pure and upright administration ; for the suppression of
intemperance, and every form of vice.
—
:
The latest news from the Morning Star
is by a letter received from Rev. J. W.
Kanoa of Butaritari, the most northern
island of the Gilbert Group. The letter
was dated September 4th and reported
the Star as being then at that island on
her way southward through the group.
In the Weekly Bulletin of San Francisco for December 21st we find an account of the Gilbert Islands and their
inhabitants which occupies a little more
than two columns of that paper, and
professes to be written by some person
who has visited those islands. The article is well written, and the most of its
statements might have conveyed a tolerably accurate idea of the state of that
people twenty-five years ago. But it
seems to us that at this time any intelligent writer, and especially any professed
eye-witness of the present condition of
things at the Gilbert Islands is inexcusable for such geographical blunders, and
such glaring omissions as are found in
this statement.
In the first place, the writer speaks of
them as "now called the 'Gilbert Islands,'
formerly known as the 'Kingsmill group,'
and locally as the 'Radick Chain' of
Coral Atolls."
He further says that
"they lie between 1750 and 177" W. and
Now
20 S. and 30' N. ofthe Equator."
the Radick, or Radak, Chain of islands
has no connection whatever with the
Gilbert group. It is a part of the Marshall Island group, entirely distinct from
the Gilbert Islands and situated nearly
two hundred miles north of them. The
7
Neat churches and framed dwellings
Marshall Islands consist of about twenty
atolls, arranged in two nearly parallel may be seen on most of the islands, and
lines running southeast and northwest, trading vessels from San Francisco and
and lying between 6° and io° north Lat- Sydney and the Hawaiian Islands pass
itude, and 1660 and 1720 East Longitude up and down through the group without
from Greenwich. These two parallel apprehension of danger where thirty
lines of atolls are distinguished as the years ago it was not considered safe for
Radak and the Ralik chains of islands; for them to touch.
All this is not to say by any means
the Radak being the windward chain and
the Ralik the leeward, as the northern that there are no remains of the old
heathenism among that people, nor that
trade winds blow.
That the whole group ofthe Marshall there is not yet much room for advanceIslands is properly distinct from the Gil- ment in civilization and Christian morals.
bert Islands is shown by the fact that But we do claim that those who undertheir language and national characteris- take to convey information in regard to
tics are entirely different. As to the the islands of the Pacific should state
Geographical position of the Gilbert the facts fairly so that correct impressIslands, they are situated between 2" ions may be given and actual history
South Latitude and 30 North Latitude may not be ignored.
instead of 30', and between 1720 and 177"
East Longitude instead of 1750 to 1770 The number of Japanese now in these
West Longitude. The Morning Star, islands is estimated at about four thouson every trip out from Honolulu to Mi- and, including those lately arrived. The
cronesia, drops a day when she crosses
Agent, Mr. Taro
the 180th parallel of longitude, and picks Japanese Consular
Ando, states it as his conviction that
it up again on her return.
We look in vain throughout the two about seven-tenths of them will remain
long columns of the article under review permanently here. These people are
for any recognition of the fact that
singularly open to impressions for good,
Christian missions have been established
and successfully conducted in the Gil- and show a remarkable readiness to rebert Islands for thirty years past, except ceive the truths ofthe Gospel. We have
the very briefest admission in the closing been much interested in the visit of Rev.
sentence that " of late years they have K. Miyama, an educated Japanese
become civilized to a certain extent."
the Methodist
Either the writer was ignorant of the preacher, connected with
San Francisin
the
to
Japanese
facts, or for some reason chose to ignore Mission
a
the past history and present condition co, who has just returned thither after in
during
which,
months,
visit
of
several
of those islands.
Damon, he
In 1857, Rev. Hiram Bingham and company with Mr. F. W.islands,
meetthese
the
tour
of
has
made
under
from
the
Amercommission
wife,
and
countrymen
his
fellow
with
ican Board of Commissioners for For- ing
with
condition
himself
their
acquainting
and
Rev.
Kanoa
W.
Missions,
eign
J.
himself as
and wife, under commission from the and needs. He expressed
Hawaiian Missionary Society, landed on very agreeably surprised at the condition
he found so much
the island of Apaiang of the Gilbert of things here, whichbeen
led to expect
group and thus began the work there. better than he had
The people -at that time were ferocious, from the stories he had heard abroad.
warlike, and sunk in the lowest depths He states that all the later importations
of Japanese come from an agricultural
ofheathen barbarism.
of
the
missionaries
were
in district in southern Japan, which has
The lives
danger during the first few years, and hitherto been but little reached by the
their privations were very great. They, missionaries, and has been comparativehowever, heroically stood at their post ly free from foreign influences.
until, by slow degrees, the light of the The Hawaiian Board of Missions has
Gospel gained entrance to the dark made arrangements with Mr. Miyama to
colporhearts of the people. Other missiona- secure the services of a Japanese
and
aries were sent from time to time, and teur now in San Francisco to come
here
for
a
his
countrymen
labor
among
stations were occupied on other islands
of the group. Notwithstanding many period of six months, with the prospect
hindrances, and discouragements, the that hemay remain still longer if it should
work has gone steadily on till now a seem desirable. We are sure all Chrisvisitor to those islands will see a large tian friends will feel a practical interest
among
proportion dressed in decent clothing to in this opening for doing good
a greater or less degree, schools estab- this interesting class of people. While
lished on most of the islands, a great on this topic we desire to call the attenthe
part of the people able to read, writeand tion of any who may be interested to
AssoMen's
Christian
Young
ScripJapanese
their
the
cipher in
own language,
tures of the New Testament and a part ciation which meets at Queen Emma
there
of the Old Testament in their hands, Hall, and also to the services held
and
Mrs.
Mr.
forenoon.
Sunday
each
and their voices raised in hymnal meloDr. Hyde and
dy to the words and sentiments of many F. W. Damon and Rev.indefatigable
in
of the grandest and most familiar hymns Mrs. Hyde have been
in the English language, which have carrying on this work for the Japanese
in our midst.
been translated into their vernacular.
�8
[Janury, 1888.
THE FRIEND.
A.
THE T. M. €.
I.
HONOLULU, 11.
This page is devoted to the interests ot the Honolulu
Young Men* Christian Association, and the Board of
Directors are responsible fur,its contents.
S. D. Fuller,
- - -
Editor.
tience and perseverance will yet achieve
success in this important line of Christian work. Very little progress can be
made in Christian development or usefulness without a love for and a knowledge of the Word of God. This comes
only by study—real, earnest study. We
shall be glad to welcome any young man
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
who is not a member of some Sunday
School,
in the Y. M. C. A. parlor every
There is quite a boom in the building
morning at 9:45 o'clock, for an
business in the States. During the last Sunday
informal study of the Word.
been
addition
of
two years there has
an
forty-seven Association buildings, makSUNDAY EVENING TOPICS.
ing a total of 117, valued at $5,000,000.
i —"The Secret of a Happy
January
The Philadelphia Association has just
cleared their building of a $200,000 New Year." Ps. xxxvii : 3 7.
January B—"The Good Fight of
debt, and are to be congratulated upon
now owning, without encumbrance, a Faith." Tim. vi: 12; Eph. vi: 10-12.
January 15—"By-paths." Kings xii:
building valued at $500,000.
The Association at Beirut, Syria, is 26-33 ■ Jer v '6'
January 22—" Seven I Wills." Ex.
falling into line and raising funds for a
6-8.
vi:
building.
January 28 —" liveryday Religion."
The Y. M. C. A. of New York City
has 1000 names of young men enrolled Mat. vii: 12; Gal. vi: 10; Cor. x 31.
as members of their ten educational
INDIA.
classes.
efforts
are being made to
Vigorous
has
The San Francisco Y. M. C. A.
established a Branch on Mission street, have Mr. D. L. Moody visit India for
He has received
near Twentieth street. Mr. R. S. Boyns, evangelistic labor.
from India, and
several
invitations
for the past two years an assistant in
the parent Association, has been elected friends of the work in America favor the
plan. The Inter-Collegian says: "Three
General Secretary of the Branch.
millions of India's people now speak
On Thanksgiving Day the San FYanEnglish, and the balance are learning it
cisco Y. M. C. A. gave the sixth annual at
the rate of a million a year. Sixty
complimentary dinner to their members thousand
of these three millions are
who were away from home. There
men." Surely this is
young
Christian
were 122 present, representing 22 differfor the work of the Young
ent States and 16 nationalities. It was a field ripe
Men's Christian Association.
pronounced a grand success, and the
enjoyable occasion closed with a musical
BRIEFS.
and literary entertainment in the evening.
No young man need expect to enjoy
The writer has no doubt about the good the Christ-life in his heart while his aftime enjoyed, having been present at
fections are wholly or largely absorbed
one such dinner on a former Thanks- by the pleasure or business of this
world.
giving Day.
Let all the active members of the Association pray and work to make the
CHINESE Y. M. C. A.
"Week of Prayer" the beginning of a
The observance of Christmas in the genuin<' .evival.
Chinese Y. M. C. A.on Saturday evenThe Saturday evening temperance
ing, December 24th, was an event of meetings have been interrupted of late
great interest. The time-honored Christ- by a superabundance of cold water and
mas tree, brilliantly lighted and orna- the counter attractions of the holidays,
mented, was in a conspicuous place. but they will be resumed next Saturday
The hall was thoroughly crowded with evening.
juvenile and adult Chinese, and their
Every few days we see in the sad exinterested friends of other notionalities. perience
of some young man or older
The literary exercises consisted of a man, how vain is the effort to break
variety of songs and recitations in Engfrom the drinking habit and still
lish and Chinese, rendered mostly by away
with dissipated companions or
the pupils ofthe boys' and girls' schools, associate
frequent
where drink will be enplaces
in the execution of which they did them- countered.
Only in separation
selves and their teachers great credit. drink is there hope. Only in unionfrom
with
Mr. Frank Damon had general super- Christ is there safety.
vision, and made the little folks glad at
the close by a generous distribution of "Gold," says a Georgia newspaper,
"is found in thirty-six counties in this
odd-looking toys, etc.
State, silver in three, copper in thirteen,
iron in forty-three, diamonds in twentyBIBLE STUDY.
six, and whiskey in all of them; and the
efforts to secure the regular at- last gets away with all the rest." While
ance of a reasonable number of these Hawaiian Islands may not be so
young men for Bible study on Sunday prolific in their mineral resources, yet
mornings have not been as successful as the abundance and ability of whiskey
we had hoped. But we trust that pa- here holds good.
-
':
:
Kur
WHO IS BAKER?
Perhaps Baker is enough of a sailor
to have braved the sea, and taken up his
residence in Honoulu. We are inclined
to think he is a member of our Association. If so, we hope that in the followlowing pen-picture which we copy from
the Newark Monthly Messenger, he will
recognize himself and reform—making
a new start with the new year
" Baker, my dear fellow, you have
joined the Young Men's Christian Association —so they tell me."
" Yes ; went in to help along a good
thing."
Well, I'm glad to hear it, but I have
my misgivings about you; excuse me,
but it's so. I may as well be plain.
You join everything that comes along.
Baker, you're a great joiner. • Your
name is down on twenty different rollbooks as a member, and you ain't worth
a snuffed candle to any of them. Now
let me give you a bit of my opinion
about active membership in Christian
Associations. As that is, so are the
Associations. Ten men like you serving
on committees would kill the liveliest
association between any two oceans. I'd
rather have five stuffed giraffes to put in
the rooms to draw, than ten such fellows
as you. They would entice more men
in a minute than you in a month. The
fact is, Baker, you're too thin ; there is
mighty little of you; you havn't got
spunk enough to attend one regular
meeting for a month ; neither do you
intend to work—you join to get the entertainments almost free. When receptions are given, men of your stamp are
there in great numbers. Suppose you
that we can carry on our great work with
men of your build ? Will men be reached
and helped by the kind of effort you
Christians put forth ?
Never. Why,
one man with push, piety and power is
like a steam-engine to a child's rattlebox alongside of you."
"That's rather hard on me, Mr.
Secretary."
"Yes; but it is as true as this, that
you can't churn butter out of skimmed
milk. Don't get the idea, Baker, that
you are of no use at all. You are ; for
even skimmed milk, thin as it is, was
always used on the farm. To be sure it
went to fatten pigs—but that was something, you know."
"I'll get out; give me back my
:
"
money."
" Hold on now, don't boil over—this
will do you good ; you can't get wagons
out of deep ruts without some hard jerks
over big stones in front of the wheels.
Suppose you take a few facts home and
think'em over; I've got them printed
for some more fellows just like you."
FACTS.
What good am I doing the world ?
Who is better for my living ?
As a Christian young man, what is
my influence ?
Have I ever been converted ?
If I were dead, would any work feel
my loss ?— Yatman.
�THE FRIEND.
RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP. the remnant ofthe Hawaiian nation will remembering the present where you are,
be saved for earth and time, even as to anticipate the future whither you go?
(By Rev.
Baker, Nov. 20, 1887.)
E. P
Mr. Baker spoke ofhimself as a neighbor from the vicinity of Dr. Beckwith's
old home, and appointed to welcome his
return to another of his homes. He
stated the reasons why so many of those
living here were glad he had come back.
"We are glad," Mr. Baker said, "very
glad to see you. And we welcome you
first of all, to a position. If the churches
ofthe Islands are to have any Bishop at
all, you must certainly be that Bishop
(Dr. Hyde and Mr. F'orbes being apostles
rather than Bishops.) This church has
no debt upon it in dollars and cents;
but you whom the church has called,
come here heavily mortgaged, in the influence you exert, the power given you,
the sympathy you feel for others, and
others feel for you, to the whole Islands,
to help improve their Christianity and
elevate their civilization. According to
British authority, last winter's lava flow
ran down its fiery way in Honolulu.
We can smile at the mistake, but it is
no mistake that the islands ought to be
able to look to Honolulu for spiritual
warmth and fire. (Yes! it is the Central
Union Church.—Ed.)
"Paul was a debtor to all men, and it
will not be an unkind welcome I bestow
on you, when I say that you in coming
to these shores, will encounter a similar
indebtedness. Called are also you to
proclaim Christ's gospel in the utmost
Not
western verge of Christendom.
very much farther west of you is longitude 1800 the boundary between the
East and the West. From Spurgeon in
longitude i° to Beckwith in longitude
1570 represents the breadth of Christendom.
"You have come to a movement in
the direction of Christian Unity. Such
is the union of Bethel and Fort Street.
Denominational peculiarities, bad things
when they go off and set up for themselves, are good things when they coexist
in the same body. In every church
ought to be the Methodist element, or
the emotionalism of Christianity wrought
into a permanency by rules and methods;
the Baptist element, or individual conscientiousness asserting itself in small
things when they are matters of principle, as well as in large things; the Congregational element, or sanctified common sense of which no church should be
bereft; the Presbyterian element, or that
consecrated solidity and endurance which
give to Christianity its hold-on and
never-let-go power; and the Episcopal
element, or beauty consrcrated to Christ,
beauty of architecture, beauty of ritual,
and beauty of method. As things are,
you will be minister (angel if you please),
ofthe Church in Honolulu, simply.
"You have also come to a hope that
,
multitudes of the nation have been saved
over to the changing west;
" Look
Look upon the pilgrim's rest;
for Heaven and eternity. Quoted, reSee darkness lieth down with day.
ferred to and cited as an illustration of
And woos him into sleep away.
the power of the Gospel and an arguThere's a morning and a noon,
ment for missions, has long been the
And the evening cometh soon."
remarkable birth, almost in a day, of
the Hawaiian nation, out of paganism
The Christian denies himself that he
into Christianity. But if the world, es- may be found in Christ; that he may
pecially the non-religious portion of the" have the glory of the Crucified, that of a
world, should wake some morning to patient, suffering love.
learn that the much belauded birth of
Bring what light you have. It may
the Hawaiian nation was a birth into
be
but a candle or a rush. Bring it, and
ruin,
this
would
make
against
terrestrial
with
it do your best to fight back the
missions. F"or the honor of God, and
the good name of missions, should such darkness.
Young men, you are all getting ready
a catastrophe be averted. You have
come to labor for the English-speaking to make something out ofthe world: are
Gentiles, not the Hawaiian Jews, but you getting ready to be the light of it?
your work will tell on the Hawaiian Obey the uplifting voice within you.
problem. Secularism will save nobody.
Mr. George W. Cable finds that he
Naught but a spiritual Christianity will can do a third more literary work in
save the Hawaiian race, a force, the Massachusetts
than he can do in Louipower of which, on the Hawaiians, will
climate equally impair
siana.
Does
our
be largely determined by the attitude of working power ?
Honolulu summers
the English-speaking population of the
are far less hot than New Orleans, which
islands towards spiritual Christianity.
winter, but too short to tone up
come to a personal has a
" You have lastly
the system.
curved
line representing
experience. The
Brave Emm Bey, in Soudan, declines
your earthly pathway has come round
and doubled on itself. You were here to abandon the work of civilization
more than thirty years ago, and tenderly and progress " which Gordon laid upon
grateful many living here now are that him. " Shall I now give up the work
three decades ago, at yonder Punahou, because a waymay soon open to the coast?
you led them to Christ. With them are Never ? " So Stanley can only supply
you now to labor to lead others to Christ. him with ammunition, and leave him,
The ominous murmur of fierce doctrinal as he formerly did Livingston.
controversies borne hither on the wings To take up our cross daily is to deny
of the trades can indeed be heard, and ourselves at breakfast the food which
at the sound we should doubtless take has proved to disagree with our digestion;
alarm; only controversy can always be it is to go to our daily irksome task with
met by consecration, and triumphantly a cheerful spirit; it is to bear the burdens
so met. Doing the work God would of others' carelessness, ignorance, superhave us do, are we perfectly sure to stition, and so fulfill the law of Christ;
entertain the theology God would have it is to be wounded for others' transus entertain. The wall of Jerusalem gressions, and see them healed with our
was built in troublous times; still it was stripes, and this day by day, when no
built. Effectually did those sturdy one except our Lord knows what cross
masons wield the trowel in one hand at we are bearing.
the same time that they wielded the
javelin in the other. And I welcome A man of strong ruling force can do a
you to the task before you, despite the great and beneficent work among savages
fact that you may have to fight as well by subjecting them to a rude sort of
as work. Nay, speaking for Him 'who order, and making progress possible.
always causeth us to triumph,' raise I Zebehr Pasha made himself a king in
the shout of victory before victory has Soudan, reduced the warring cannibal
been achieved, as Hannibal at Cannae tribes to subjection, got them to open
did, before ever Cannae had been fought. weekly markets. Kamehameha subdued
Remind I you of the greeting to be these Islands, and established peace
accorded you by the great Captain in and order. Had the chiefs continued at
the incidental and passing greeting war with each other, the missionary
accorded you by a fellow-soldier. And work here would probably have made as
this my greeting allow me to make slow progress as it has done in Ponape,
symbolic by extending to you the right where thirty-five years brought the
people to a point of Gospel training
hand of fellowship.
by Hawaiians in one-third of
reached
land
the
sun
setting
"And in this
of
(and all our suns are setting) behind the the time. The Missionary Boards wisely
sinking to rest of which glorious lumi- command their missionaries to abstain
nary of day are the happy isles, accord- from political action; but it does seem
ing to a world-wide and well-known as if they often needed some good, muslegend, shall not- geographical position cular Christian, or even heathen, to preconvey to you the inspiration and peace cede them and give the natives a good
of God, the gorgeous sunsets of this drubbing before they are ready to sit
tropical island being a call to you in down and hear of the Prince of Peace.
"
�THE FRIEND.
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of Honolulu. The grounds upon which it stands comprise
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Hotel management. The Hoteland cottages afford ace in
modalions for 200 guests. The basement of the Hotel con-^fl
tains the finest billiard hall in the city.
No 74 Kinj; Street,
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pure water from an artesian well on the premises.
The Clerk's office is furnished with the Telephone, by which com*
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Every effort has been made, ami money lavishly expended under the present able management
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SADDLERY <y HARNESS.
MARBLE WORKS,
130 Fort
Monuments,
Street, near Hotel,
Manufacturer of
Head
Stones,
Tombs,
Tablets, Marble Mantles, Marble'work of every
Manufacturer ofall kinds of Mouldings, Brackets,Window■ DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER AT THE
Frames, Blinds, Sashes, Doors, and all kinds of Woodwork
lowest possible rates.
Finish. Turning, Scroll and Hand Sawing. All kinds of
Planing, Sawing, Morticing and Tenanting. Orders promptMonuments and Headstones Cleaned and Re-set.
ly attended to, and work Guaranteed. Orders from the
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TOHN'NOTT,
TT S. TREGLOAN,
Corner Fort and Hotel Streets,
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET IRON
Merchant Tailor,
Gentlemen's
FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, ETC.
A Eirst Class Slock
of
Worker, Plumber, Gas litter, etc.
Stoves and Ranges of all kinds. Plumbers' Stock and
Metals, House Furnishing Goods, Chandeliers,
Lamps, Etc,
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Kaahumanu St., Honolulu.
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SHOEING SHOP,
P.ell Telephone, 181.
Forl-St.. opposite Pantheon Stables.
Goods Always on
Hand
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Horse-Shoeing in all its Branches,
Done in the most'workmanlike manner.
Pacing and trotting Shoes a specialty. Rates reasonable.
Highest awardand Diploma for handmade Shoes at the
A LLEN & ROBINSON,
Hawaii Exhibition,
shop whendesired.
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No.
HAMMER,
188.4. Horses taken to and from the
J. W. McDONALD, Proprietor.
Honolulu, H. I.
Orders fruin the oilier Islands promptly attended to.
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E. WILLIAMS,
Importer, Manufacturer, Upholsterer and
Dealer in all kinds of Furniture.
Furniture Warerooms in New Fire-proof Building.
Nos. in Fort Street and 66 Hotel Streets.
Agency Detroit Safe Co. Feather, Hair, Hay and Eureka
Mattressesand Pillows, and Spring Mattres>es on hand and
made to order. Pianos and Sewing Machines always on
hand and for sale or rent. Best Violin and Cuitar Strings
and all kinds of Musical Instruments for sale as cheap as
the cheapest.
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SANDERS'
(M. N. Sawders, Proprietor.)
You xx-ill alxx-ays rind on your arrix'al
Ready to Deliver Freightand Baggage of Every Description
With Promptness and Despatch.
Office, 81 Kin? Street.
Back Telephones, No. 86.
K.-sidence 118 Nuuanu Street.
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The Only Practical English Watchmaker.
WILLIAM TURNER,
No 82 King Slreet, Honolulu.
Call and see him.
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HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO.,
Lumber, Building Materials and SHIPPING &
NAVY CONTRACTOR
Coals.
MANUFACTURERS OF
LUMBER YARD—ROBINSON'S WHARF.
Honolulu, H. I.
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TTTM. McCANDLESS,
No. 6 Queen Street, Fish Market,
Dealer in
Choice Beef, Veal, Mutton, Fish.
JOSEPH TINKER,
Family and Shipping Butcher,
CITY MARKET, Nuuanu Street.
All orders delivered with quick dispatch and at reasonable rates. Vegetables fresh every morning.
Telephone 389, both Companies.
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PLEASANT
FURNISHED ROOMS.
MACERATION TWO-ROLL MILLS,
With Patent Automatic Feed.
Double and Tripple Effects, Vacuum Pans and Cleaning
Hans, Steam and Water Pipes, Brass aad Iron Fittings of
all descriptions, etc.
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"DEAVER SALOON,
H. J. NOLTE, Proprietor,
KUKUI STREET, HONOLULU,
TEMPERANCE
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Family *nd Shipping Oiders carefully attended te. Opposite W. C Parke's residence.) A quiet, central loFort Street, Honolulu.
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