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THE FRIEND.
HONOLULU, H. 1., FEBRUARY, 1901.
Vol. 59]
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WILLIAM R. CASTLE,
JOHNSON,
SMITH & CO., Ltd.
I Stoves, Ranges,
IMPORTERS OF
Merchant Street, Cartwright Block
TRUST MONEY CAREFULLY INVESTED
Wholesale and Retail
M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.
DENTAL ROOMS ON FORT ST.,
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Honolulu, H. I.
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AND
Honolulu
Orrir.m Houks:
Ra.m. to 4 p.m.
Fort St., Honolulu.
T.
B. CLAPHAM,
Veterinary Surgeon
and
Dentist.
PUNAHOU
PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
HENRY WATERHOUSE & CO.
SHIPPING AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
(Samuel Pingrec French, A.
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Sugar Factors, Stock Brokers and
Dealers in Investment Securities
Members of Honolulu Stock Exchange
Particular attention given to the
Purchase and .Sale ot
College Preparatory work,
together with special
U.
F. EHLERS & CO.,
DRY GOODS IMPORTERS.
Fort St., Honolulu
All the Latest Novelties in Fancy Goods
received by Every Steamer
Y.
A. SCHAEFER & CO.,
Importers and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
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Office: King Street Stables; Tol. 1083; calls
day or night promptly answered; specialties,
SUGAR AND COMMERCIAL STOCKS
obstetrics, and lameness.
Agents for the British-American Steamship Co. i
and The Union Assurance Co., of London
HACKFELD & CO.,
Island Agents for Office, Bank
and School Furniture
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Telephoue 313
Queen St.. Honolulu
Cor. Queen & Fort Sts.,
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For Catalogues Address
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Business Manager.
Oahu College,
Honolulu, H. T.
PHOTOGRAPHER.
Home Portraits, Views and Plantation
work a specialty. Kodak development
MONUMENTS,
and printing.
At Woman's Exchange
TABLETS, HEADSTONES,
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Sugar Stocks and Real Estate.
Office: Corner King and Bethel Streets,'
Georgian and Italian Marbles,
Scotch and American Granites,
Hawaiian Blue Stone.
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Mosaic Tiling, Plumbers' Slabs,
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Coping for Lawns and Cemeteries.
Honolulu, H. I.
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We
direct from the Quarries,
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at AMERICAN PRICES.
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Estimates given on work free of charge.
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Importers aud Manufacturers of
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FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY. AlfredHartman
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616 Fort Street, above Hotel.
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& CO.,
George
BANKERS.
Commission Merchants
Dealers in Hay, Grain and Flour.
Andrews, Proprietor.
Importer Wholesale an t
Retail Dealer In
California and Domestic Fruits and
Produce.
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.
Tel. 484.
Nil 1 iii Xiii!
Transact a general Banking and Exchange Line kept in Stork at the
business. Loans made on approved security
Bills discounted. Commercial oredi* 'granted. CALIFORNIA HARNESS SHOP.
Deposits received on current accoun 'subject
Telephone 778
639 X ng 8t
Honolulu
to check.
Interest paid on specia " Term
Deposits" a* the rate of 3% per annum for three
for six mouths, and 4% for twelve john nott,
months,
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Conner Queen A Nuuanu Streets,
Honoluxu.
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months.
Regular Savings Bank Department main- TIN, COPPER AND SHEET IRON
WORKER, PLUMBER, GAS
tained in Bank Building on Merchant St., and
Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire
FITTER, ETC.
and Murine business on most favorable terms, Stoves and Ranges of all kinds, number's Stock and Ma
lerial. House Furntthintj Goods, Chandeliers, Lamps, tte.
in Friend Building on Bethel St.
P. O. Box 452.
,ALTER & WAITY,
"Cheapest
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in
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eep always on hand
a full line of Staple
and Fancy Groceries
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Bet. Fort and Alakea St., Honolulu.
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Orpheum Block
Westcott Carriage Co.
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FURNITURE STORE,
Manager.
UNDERTAKING
Honolulu.
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CHAIRS RENTED FOR
Millinery, Dressmaking,
Hair Dressing and Manicuring,
Imported Suits and Novelties.
Telephone: Office, 846.
Hotel St,
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P. O. Box 827.
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Everything in the Harness
Telephone No. 121.
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Established in 1858.
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Specially Low Prices
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HONOLULU, H. 1., FEBRUARY, 1901.
Vol. 59.]
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la published the drat day of each
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was made illustrious by the and Love shall secure that result. Nothth In Honolulu, H. I. Subscription rate reign
per
Tear In Advance,
Dollars
wonderful
development of Literature, ing else can do it.
immunlcatlons and letters connected with
literary department of the paper, Books Science, Art. Commerce and skilled proExchanges.
and Magazines, for Review and
Stanford
California Contrasted.
should be addressed "Rev. 8. E. Bishop, Hono- duction, and especially by the immense
Buslness* letters should be addressed "T. O. progress of 'Reform in both public and
Through certain disorganizing inThrum, Honolulu. H. I."
social life. The long Victorian age has
Entered at the Post Oflice at Honolulu as second class
been incomparably the brightest and most fluences, Stanford University has recentmatter.
ly lost six of its most eminent professors.
noble in alb English history.
and
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Victoria—Auwe—e-e!
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Successful Work of Francis Murphy
Future American Population
Stanford and California Contrasted
Old Memories of Kallua
Salem Witch Hangings
Hawaiian Witchcraft
Papa Ita the Fire Walker
Is Prohibition a Failure?
Some of Murphy's Talk
Miss Eliza Talcott
Opium is Free
What Honolulu Needs
Dr. E. 8. Chapman
Railway Terminus and Wharves
Steam freighting Line
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Army TransportLine
Ro«rl Above Diamond Head
Rapid Transit Progress
Wireless Telegraphy
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Victoria—Auwe—e—e!
We are fain to lift up voice of loving
and tender lamentation for her who has
gone, a venerated Mother to all who
were born to speak the English tongue,
and hold kindred to the great English
people. For more than two generations
the blameless and illustrious sovereign of
the British Kingdoms, she has at last
passed from earthly sight in the full ripeness of old age, with all her surviving
relatives and descendants around her
couch. We mourn with them as their
kin, together with the whole of the English Peoples. King means a-Kin, the
one who holds the primacy in kinship.
Kings and Queens are the fathers and
mothers of their people as having a constructive primogeniture in blood kinship.
Victoria was the recognized Mother of
the English nation. And not only they,
but all of English kinship and speech,
have claim upon that woman as Mother,
and are called upon to mourn for her.
We note that Victoria had lived longer
than any other British sovereign, and had
.reigned longer than any other, longer we
believe than any other European monarch. She had been more and more
honored and beloved as her years increased. She was illustrious in tbe increasing national renown, in the ever growing
extent of her dominions, and in the constant multiplication and prosperity of her
subjects, among whom England's "farflung battle-line" preserved order. Her
And all this was in a great degree At the same time, we learn that the Calimade possible by the fact that there pre- fornia State University has just secured
sided upon the Throne a woman of dig- six new professors, all men of eminence
nified purity and benevolent prudence. from Eastern Universities. And yet the
We of America also glory in her pure prosperous school with its enormous
name, in her gentle and honorable sway, body of students is sadly pinched for
in her exemplary home and sodal life, money to pay salaries, while its stormas of one whom we too are proud to tossed rival has the Stanford millions to
acknowledge as our kin. We too lament, draw upon. But it takes more than dollars to make a University.
alas, our Mother Victoria!
Miss Jessie Ackerman, the veteran
Successful Work of Francis Murphy. round
the world missionary of the W. C.
U.,
has been for the past few weeks,
Honolulu has been so favored as for T.
two weeks to enjoy the labors of
veteran Apostle of the Blue Ribbon.
more than two weeks Mr. Murphy
the
For
addressed very large audiences once a day
and oftener. He spoke for nine evenings
in Central Union Church. Several hundred persons signed the pledge. He is a
magnetic and most persuasive speaker..
His speech overflows with humor and
sympathy. He has made several talks in
the Y. M. C. A. Hall, as well as in Kawaiahao Church. He has talked in Waikiki Church to the soldiers of Camp McKinley, and to the convicts in the penitentiary. On all these occasions great delight has been manifested at his words.
Mr. Murphy took leave of us on the 30th,
sailing on the Sonoma for Sydney. We
shall hope to hear of important results
from his work in Australia.
and is still, laboring and visiting in these
Islands.
Miss Marcutt of Australia, engaged in
the same work is also here.
The Portuguese preacher, Rev. J. Durao, has again arrived with a company of
64 Portuguese from Massachusetts, to
work on Kohala plantations. They are a
superior class of people. He has "personally conducted" them in a manner
very satisfactory to them, and will continue to minister spiritually in Kohala to
such of them as are Protestants.
Bids for the work of deepening the
of Pearl Harbor were advertised lor on January Bth by Federal Government authorities at San Francisco.
Only $100,000 have hitherto been appropriated by Congress for the purpose. It
is thought that this amount will be sufFuture American Population.
ficient for making a beginning by opening a passage through the sand of the
Director Merriam of the Census bu- bar, 1700 feet long, 200 feet wide, and to
reau points out that at the present rate a depth of 30 feet. It will ultimately
of increase the population of the United have to be enlarged to 500 feet in width,
States will at the end of the century and 33 in depth. The work has been too
reach 440.000.000. It is altogether im- long delayed.
probable, however, that the past rates of
We have taken some agreeable rides on
increase can be maintained. Those rates
steadily declined during the past century the electric cars up Pacific Heights, the
and must continue to do so. Two hun- last time reaching an altitude of about
dred and fifty million may be a reason- 650 feet. It is intended to go about 200
able expectation; and what an enormous feet higher, also to continue the track
imperial body of people that will constit- seaward to the end of the tramway above
Several more good
ute. To unite them in harmony and N'uuanu bridge.
well-being will require :i steady progress dwellings are building on the Heights.
in moral superiority and social regula- Companies of children from the city
tion. We may feel trustful that a grow- schools often ride up where they can
ing and loyai sense of God's Holiness study the geography of the Island.'
entrance
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Old Memories of Kailua.
(Continued.)
Yrey prominent in these recollections,
is an aged native lady named Kckupuohc.
She must have been about 75 years of
■M and still vigorous. She lived about
half way from our house to the church,
in premises of a superior sort, befitting
her rank. She had been a youthful wife
of the elderly King kalaniopuu, or Terreolwo as Captain Cook called him. She
was by her royal husband's side, when
Capt. Cook was trying to lead him to his
boat, and saw the great navigator slain,
kekiipuolic had a strong but rather pleasant face covered with fine wrinkles, of
lighter complexion than .most of the people. Her short, thick, white hair bristled
densely around her forehead, so as vividly
lo appear in my memory to-day.
She
had a husband of inferior rank, a large
fat man much her junior, of whom I remember chiefly his remarkable skill in expectorating, making shots with great accuracy at some yards distance through
the door. The old lady, being royal,
guarded herself from sorcery by the use
of a Spittoon.
Being ignorant of the language, 1
heard nothing directly of her story. My
father often spoke of the circumstances
of Cook's death, as he had gathered them
from many different eye-witnesses. Their
testimony all concurred in imputing it to
a momentary rage provoked by Cook's
extreme violence and injustice.
They
had universally believed him to be an incarnation of the great god Lotto, had
dedicated to him their best heiau, and had
there offered to him solemn sacrifices of
baked pigs, which he seemed to understand and accept. But they had become
much incensed by bis removing the
palisades of the sacred heiau to his ship
for firewood. A boat had consequently
been stolen from his ship and broken up.
Cook, greatly enraged, embargoed the
bay with patrol boats, and attempted to
seize the king and hold him as a hostage.
Just as he was leading the king towards
the boat, the news arrived that a high
chief had been shot while crossing the
bay. The frenzied people immediately
slew the great Discoverer, who was really
the victim of bis own madness.
Another prominent native was N'aihe,
the husband of Kapiolani, who lived at
Kaawaloa. Like Kuakini and Hopu, he
always appeared in our presence, in pants
and a jacket.
N'aihe appears in Hawaiian history aa
an orator, antl spokesman for the king
and chiefs. I never knew of him in that
capacity. He was a rather aged man uf
spare form anil ordinary height, and of
considerable quiet dignity. Kona district
was the residence of quite a number of
[February, 1901.
numbers of the natives owned little adzes
formed of a bent steel plane-iron tightly
lashed to a hard-wood handle composed
of a small branch with a piece of the
tree-stem attached to it.
With these
sharp edged adzes they would deftly dub
away and carve out almost any desired
smoothing of timber. Another common
iron implement was the o-o, or dagger.
The ancient form of o-o, then still in
common use was a long stick of hardwood with a flattened point, held paddlefashion by the squatting laborer, who
would rapidly clean the ground of weeds
and break up the soil two or three inches
deep. The iron o-o was a great improvement, being a thin oval blade-point with
a socket into which the long handle was
inserted. Even this was far behind the
hoe, with which penetrating blows could
be struck, notwithstanding Kdwin Markhain's melancholy lament. The "Man
with the Hoe" had many centuries' ad
vantage over the kanaka with the oh-oh—
but soon became extirpated.
especially the wooden one. I'.ut a HawaiMy recollection is that very few of the ian preferred to dig on bis haunches.
There was a white blacksmith named
people in those early days possessed any
other form of lamp than kukui kernels Rice located in Kailua. who must have
strung upon the stiff cocoanut midribs done a considerable business in hammerso as to form candles about 20 inches ing out o-os and bending plane-irons for
long. These were held in the hand, ami the natives. Mr. Rice was, like nearly
nut after nut successively knocked off all the non-missionary whites of those
as it became burned out. I remember days, of irregular habits, and naturally
at our night embarkations in the Gov- hostile to the missionaries, whose efforts
ernor's canoes near his house, that we tended to restrict immoralities. Poor
were lighted by torches made up of five Rice suffered in his own family. 1 reor six kukui candles wrapped together in member to have heard, without underlauhala leaves, and burning with a great standing what it meant, that Rice had ■■'.
flare and smoke. On our journey in the terrible time in the elopement of his
interior of Hawaii, we encountered stone young half-white daughter. He vainly
lamps which were merely a small hollow- searched for her on the premises of a
ed stone containing some kind of grease white trader, who as he soon after learnin which laid a wick of twisted tapa. ed, had her headed up inside of a cask
The people commonly procured fire by in his shed. Such an escapade, however,
friction of wootl, although some of them in those days carried with it no loss of
had old files, from which they elicited character to a damsel in any native comsparks by strokes from a gun-flint. It munity. Her only inconvenience would
was common to carry fire in a slow-burn- be the flogging her irate white parent
ing tapa-match, especially when they administered. We were all greatly pleaswanted to smoke. I first saw fire ob- ed to hear not long after we left Kaitained from wootl at our cam)) on Ma- lua that Mr. Rice had become converted
una Kea. A long dry stick of soft hau and an earnest Christian, under the minor linden wood was used. A small stiff istrations of Father Thurston, who had
splinter of very hard wood was held in himself, like Dr. Lyman Beecher, been a
the right hand, ami the point rubbed with blacksmith. Doubtless the anvil is as
great force and swiftness in a deep favorable to breeding missionaries as was
groove formed in the soft wood by the the saw and plane in Nazareth, or the net
friction. A brown powder soon appeared at Bcthsaida.
The natives by the way. wove admirin the end of the groove, began to smokj,
and ignited. This was deftly caught into able nets from the splendid olona fibre,
a little nest of dry fibre and gently blown which they stained dark brown with kuinto a flame, which soon grew into an kui juice. The sinkers were pebbles, the
immense camp-fire.
floats of wiliwili wood. Much fishing
Iron implements were not very abun- was accomplished with lxrth seine and
dant at that time among the people, al- hook. The ancient bone hooks had disthough the neolithic age of polished stone appeared. Steel fish-hooks were a leadcutting implements had ended soon after ing article of trade. The fishermen very
Cook had bought "fathom" hogs for a commonly preferred a peculiar form of
knife apiece made of hoop-iron. Large book which they filed out themselves
chiefs of inferior rank, who were supl>orted by the labor of their many serfs
from the produce of the rich uplands.
Occasionally a chair or a camphor trunk
might be seen in the nice thatched cottages of such natives of rank, besides the
mats, tapas, calabashes, and wooden
bowls and trays which constituted their
furniture. Cloth of any kind was scarce.
Kuakini was disposed to monopolize such
trade as came from occasional whalers
lie possessed
touching at Kaawaloa.
large quantities of foreign goods stored
up in his warehouses, while his people
went naked. 1 often heart! my father
tell of once seeing one of Kuakini's large
double canoes loaded deep with bales of
broadcloths and Chinese silks and satins
which had become damaged.by long storage. They were carried out and dumped
into the ocean. Probably they had been
purchased by the stalwart Governor with
the sandalwood which, in the twenties
was such a mine of wealth to the chiefs,
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from large needles; it was without barb,
the point being bent to one side and curved inward. The fisherman's craft was
one of great skill and Special knowledge.
Canoes of all sizes were constantly seen
on the sea, often going out to great distances on the usually smooth ocean, that
vast blue Pacific.
That Kailua storekeeper needs farther
notice. He was agent for a leading merchant at Honolulu. When my father was
building bis house, he used to give his
workmen written orders on the trader for
goods. Many orders read, "Please give
so antl so five (more or less) glasses."
These "glasses" were miserable little
shaving mirrors which distorted the features, sohl at 25 cents each. In the following year, 1832, came back from Boston tlie grave inquiry what meant this
charge against Mr. Bishop of trading
with the natives in liquor, as verified by
these written orders for "glasses." which
the Kailua trader had forwarded as evidence along with other accumulations of
equally strong testimony to missionary
hypocrisy, which a Honolulu syndicate
caused to be published in Boston]
Missionaries were far more obnoxious
in those days than "missionaries' sons"
are now, being even better people than
the latter, ami their white opponents a
rather hard set. Nearly every half-white
youth of early days in Hawaii was
brought up in an atmosphere pervaded
with the most violent vilification of missionaries, and these continual calumnies
were a frequent theme of discussion in
the missionary homes. A newspaper in
Honolulu called the "Sandwich Island
Gazette," teemed with absurd charges
and misconstructions of all kinds, which
I used to read with much juvenile indignation. It was certainly a great hardship for those poor fellows who hail comfortably "hung up their consciences at
Cape Horn," and were living in serene
satisfaction after the heathen ethical code,
to have these perverse missionaries pick
those consciences off from the Horn,
bring them along to Hawaii, wind them
up and set them running. ()ne may forgive "the boys" for displaying some resentment at being caused to feel what
sinners they were making of themselves
among the kanakas. The two elements
could not come into contact without much
noisy effervescence.
Money in those days was hardly a
medium of exchange among the natives,
most of whom were not familiar with the
appearance of coin.
What coin was in circulation was entirely Spanish, in dollars, quarters and
reals, all probably coined in Spanish
America. In my boyhood 1 never saw
a British or United States coin of any
sort. Gold was not at all in circulation.
I did see once or twice a Spanish
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doubloon.
Our purchases from the natives were paid for usually with school
Ixjoks and slates, but sometimes with a
few yards of blue or white cotton cloth,
or with fish-hooks or horn combs. Labor was hired in the same way. Up to
1839 on Oahu. the regular wage of ordinary labor was one real or $0,125 a day,
Usually paid by orders on a store. There
was great poverty, although provident
natives in good seasons generally had
plenty to eat. Hut any one who had a
gootl supply of food, would at once be
visited and lived upon by all his kindred.
Thus all thrift and saving was discouraged and unknown. The only way lo prosper was to be a chief with a good tract
of land and a body of retainers or serfs.
Nearly all except the chiefish ones were
serfs cultivating small allotments, held
subject to the will of their masters. The
masters were not commonly severe, yet
there was much cruel Oppression, anil little sense of human rights.
Recurring to the use of agricultural
implements, 1 never in early boyhood saw
a plow, a scythe, or a sickle, and I think,
not a spade or shovel. My impression is
that although the soil of Kona is exceedingly fertile, no plowing is possible on account of rocks. Most of the lava streams
which entirely covered the land were of
the a-a, or clinker variety. Holes would
he made with an ixi into these rough,
brittle stone-heaps and a slip of sweet
potato vine inserted, which would grow
luxuriantly. Much of the lava had undergone sufficient decay to form patches
of very rich soil, in which taro, sugarcane, and bananas grew luxuriantly.
There were many breadfruit trees on the
upland, although their fruit did not constitute any large part of the people's food.
We had no wheeled vehicles, not even a
wheelbarrow. During our last year at
Kailua a black pony came and was used
by the two mission families. The two
clergymen rode it in turn on their short
trips to preaching stations, and the ladies
jogged along occasionally on a side-saddle. None of the natives in those days
had horses, except tbe princely class of
chiefs, and they were generally carried
on large litters by scores of human
bearers.
()bjects much in evidence among the
natives, when visiting or at meetings as
well as in their homes were their fans,
and their fly-brushes or kahilis. The
fans were made from the ends of young
cocoanut leaves.
The broad end being
elastic, threw the air far more efficiently
than the stiff fans now commonly braided. Get an old-fashioned native fan for
comfortable use. Small fly-brushes were
used by all the people. They were about
four feet long, the upper half of the stick
having the tail feathers of fowls tied on.
The kahilis of the chiefs were larger and
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more elalwrate. The long handles were
often beautifully encased with tubes and
rings of human bone and whale-tooth,
also turtle-shell, all finely polished. A
high chief always had two or more attendants armed with such fly-brushes.
These chiefs were often unceremonious in
their visits. At some early date, before
my birth, my mother's little sitting-room
was once invaded by a bevy of ladies led
by a royal dame, all fresh from their
sea-bath, and in nature's array. They
brought their garments with them, and
proceeded to dress while they chatted and
paid the compliments of the day. Those
were the good old times.
(hir parents were simply clothed in
garments of light material, black being
mostly reserved for Sundays. 1 think
their cheaper garments were nearly all
cut and sewed by their wives, and could
not have been very stylish. They very
commonly appeared in the old-fashioned
short jacket. I never saw a frock-coat at
Kailua, only the claw-hammer. I was
a.t one time, about 1835, much impressed
with the unbecoming appearance of some
grey cotton coats of. the latter denomination which the two missionaries wore for
some time. 'The waists were very short
anil the claw hammers extremely scant.
'These coats with vests to correspond
came from an assortment of ready-made
slops sent out by the treasurer of the
American Hoard to our fiscal agent, who
worked them off on the poor missionaries. Mr. Chamberlain's own comment
upon these goods was. that "much of this
clothing tlid not appear to be adapted to
the human form." It had probably been
supplied in Boston by some thrifty contractor, and passed without due inspection.
Mrs. Bishop was an extremely active
and efficient lady. Rising at 4 a. m., accomplishing all domestic duties and
schooling her children before nine o'clock,
she went at that hour into a school adjoining our premises, and taught the native children for six solid hours, occasionally running into the house to see that
all was straight. She had a native male
teacher as assistant. Her husband's
school work was mainly superintendence
of other schools in the town and outside.
A considerable part of his time was occupied in Bible translation, in which he was
aided by Gov. Kuakini and other leading
natives, as "pundits," or experts in their
own tongue. Mrs. 15. pretty thoroughly
wore herself out by her energetic labors,
which caused our removal in 1836 to the
cooler climate of Ewa, ()ahu, with its
refreshing trade-winds. The trades never reached Kailua. Those cool breezes
banked up against Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa with the lofty upland between
them. Sometimes a trade wind of extra
force would tear over the uplands north »
�of Hualalai, and was called, a "Muniiiku," but that big mountain effectually
sheltered Kailua from such rushing gales.
We knew only the land and sea breezes,
with an occasional Kona or westerly
storm in the winter, attended by a heavy
rain.
Salem Witch Hangings.
The antipathy of irreligious and "liberal" men towards Puritanism has in later days laid hold of the Salem delusion
in 1692, in order to reproach our noble
.New England ancestors as being more
bigoted and cruel than other men. It is
well therefore to read what was set forth
about the Salem business by Dr. William
Frederick Poole thirty years ago in refutation of the errors of Bancroft and
I pham who had especially slandered
Cotton Mather. Dr. Poole wrote as follows :
Februay, 1901.
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14
"The storm of terror and death, called
the Witchcraft Delusion, which swept
over Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, left its traces on the
early life of the New England Colonies.
While it raged in Europe, thirty thousand victims perished in the British Islands, seventy-five thousand in France,
one hundred thousand in Germany, and
corresponding numbers in Italy, Spam,
Switzerland, and Sweden. Witchcraft in
New England was of a sporadic and
spasmodic type compared with its epidemic and protracted virulence in the < Mil
World; and yet the thirty-two executions
in the New England Colonies, for supposed confederation with devils, have
filled a larger space in history and in public attention than the thirty thousand
similar executions which occurred in the
mother country. English writers at this
day, when they need striking proof of the
superstitions of former times, take their
illustrations from the records of New
England witchcraft. A full and impartial account of English and Scottish
diabolism has never commended itself, as
a subject of historical investigation, to a
modem English writer. Such a record as
New England has of its later witchcraft
is a* desideratum in the historical literature of old England. The theme is one
of strange and peq>ettial interest: and as
a subject for psychological study it will
never lose its hold on the minds of men.
The recent phenomena which under the
names of magic, sorcery, necromancy, enchantment, mesmerism, fetichism, and
witchcraft are as old as history and universal as the human race. The New
England.Colonists had no views concerning witchcraft and diabolical agency
which they did not bring with them from
the Old World. The prosecutions in England were never carried on with a blinder zeal and more fatal results than dur-
ing the tirst twenty years after Governor
Winthrop and his company landed at
Boston. James Howell, who was later
'Historical Royal to Charles IT. says in
his Familiar Letters. February 3, 1(147:
in a remote district of Maui, and had
raised a Hawaiian family.
He was
known to be a thorough believer in the
supernatural powers claimed by the kahunas, otherwise medicine men or wizards.
There is ample evidence that the kahunas themselves believe in their own magic
powers, although they do not scruple to
reinforce those powers with fraud to any
extent. It seems probable that in common with persons of their craft in all
heathen countries, they have learned to
employ physical and mental laws of an
occult sort, and are thus enabled really
to produce sickness and death, as well as
'We have multitudes of witches among
us; for in Kssex and Suffolk there were
above two hundred indicted within these
two years, and above half of them were
executed.' February 2, 1647, he writes:
'Within the compass of two years, near
upon three hundred witches were arraigned, and the major part of them executed in Essex and Suffolk only. Scotland swarms with them more and more
and persons of good quality are executed to counteract the same.
These practices of sorcery are intimately connected with the worship of the
enty years after the last witch was ex- heathen deities, both the greater and the
ecuted in -New England wrote:
lesser gods. They are thus powerful
"To deny the possibility, nay, actual allies of heathen idolatry. Like all priestexistence of witchcraft ami sorcery, is at craft, they are also allied to political
once flatly to contradict the revealed tyranny, and are destructive to -lolitical
Word of (iod in various passages in both liberty. Whoever opposes the despot
the Old antl the New 'Testaments; and stands in fear of his ally the kahuna.
the thing itself is a truth to which every Kalakaua undertook to propagate this
nation in the world hath, in its turn, unholy terror in order to establish his
borne testimony, either by examples, own corrupt despotic power. For this
seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory purpose he organized sorcery in his "Halaws, which at least suppose the possibil- le .Nana" society, and made himself the
ity of commerce with evil spirits."
chief sorcerer, and caused himself to be
And yet our American School His- habitually worshipped as a god.
tories of the United States continue
A late eminent Hawaiian is believed to
blindly to follow Bancroft and Uphani in have gone to his death in consequence of
representing the pitiful Salem delusion as kahuna machinations. It was probably
daily.' "
Sir William Blackstonc more than sev-
He was an earnest and active
Christian, but that had not sufficiently
emancipated this good man from inherited and deep runted proclivities to superstition, to enable him to withstand the inantipathy to Puritanism, which stops al sistent warnings and admonitions of his
no slander.
friends and associates added to those of
the sorcerers. 'The writer has known a
prominent and honored Hawaiian pastor
Hawaiian Witchcraft.
a product of Puritan bigotry, whereas it
was only a slight sporadic outbreak of
what was at that time sending to baiter
and stake over 300,000 victims in Europe
and Britain. Isut such is the prevalent
true.
The editor of the Hawaiian Star has
an extended familiarity with the conditions of Hawaiian life; he writes as follows :
"The kahuna, in spite of all law against
his or her practice is still with us, and
is every now and again credited with a
death. The curious thing is that there
are Americans and Europeans here who
fully believe in tbe kahuna. It is an odd
type of mind, but one quite understandable. Witches are still believed in by
many people, and the same low type of
intellect believes in the kahuna. This belief or semi-belief is not by any means
confined to the uneducated. There are
reversions to low ancestral type which in
spite of all education have a very
thorough belief in both witchcraft and
kahunaistn. It is very odd, but it is very
true."
We were formerly acquainted with an
Englishman of considerable mental force
who had made his home for thirty years
and employ a sorcerer in a futile effort
to save the life of a sick relative.
Next
to social immorality, sorcery is doubtless
a chief cause of the wasting away of this
to
yield to the importunity of his family
amiable Hawaiian race, both by direct
and indirect influence. It is diametrically opposed to all rational care of health
and to sanitation.
Papa Ita the Fire-walker.
A Polynesian kahuna or sorcerer from
one of the Southern islands, has just been
giving in this city, exhibitions of his power to walk upon red-hot stones, before
crowds of spectators. 'The verified facts
are as follows A trench of six feet wide,
sixteen feet long, and four feet deep was
filled with dry cord wood over which
rocks were piletl to several feet in depth.
The wood was lighted and burned for
:
several hours, bringing the stones to a
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considerable heat. All being in readiness
and an audience assembled within a curtained enclosure, paying one dollar
apiece. Papa Ita proceeded to walk barefooted over the heated stones, hirst the
stones were punched and levelled by long
poles which took tire in the process.
Papa Ita then went around the trench,
muttering incantations to his gods, and
thrashing the stones with a bunch of tileaves, after which he walked twice or
thrice the length of the heated stones
with bare feet.
At the close of the second performance,
a soldier named Murray followed the kahuna over the stones, having only stockings over his feet, repeating the action.
It would appear that the stones were far
from being red-hot.
The city papers 'denounce the performance as a "take" and a fraud. That
this is the truth respecting it, would seem
to be confirmed by the fact that Papa
Has white managers resented Murray's
efforts to prove the fraud, and treated
him with great violence. Fifteen hundred dollars of tickets are said to have
been sold for the first performance.
This fire-walking- is circumstantially
described as a well-known performance in
the South Pacific Islands, and in several
Asiatic countries, including Japan. It is
always accompanied by idolatrous incantations. We have deemed it quite possible that the kahuna, or Tohunga, was
able with no real supernatural aid, but by
the quasi-hypnotic effect of his incantations, to generate in himself some kind of
a trance condition, allied perhaps to hypnotism. He might thereby avail himself
of some occult natural law, not understood by our present science, which would
enable him to repel and withstand the effects of heat. We present this as a mere
conjecture, in the interest of denying any
fancied supernatural intervention of the
gods or demons in whose existence and
power even the Christianized Polynesians
more or less believe.
The performances of Papa Ita, as described by the reporters, would seem to
belong to a lower and vulgar class of
mere deception. The venerable Tohunga,
however, received the venerating homage
of many enthusiastic Hawaiians, who believed him to possess "the great power
of the gods" (Acts 8, 19). He is evidently a very able missionary of the old
native Polytheism. Perhaps be is not
much more so than some of these old Hawaiian kahunas, of whom the majority
of the natives still stand more or less in
awe. Papa Ita is a powerful reinforcement to their destructive influence, which
is a leading factor in the wasting away
of the native race.
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THE FRIEND.
Some of Murphy's Talk.
Is Prohibition a Failure?
Mr. Francis Murphy so speaks of it.
His work in winning intemperate men
from their deadly habit is inestimably
noble and precious. Yet we are not
thereby compelled to adopt all his opinions in respect to other means of withstanding the evils of intemperance. Mr.
Murphy speaks of Prohibition in Maine
as being a failure, because, as all admit,
it has not, after a half century of operation, made it impossible in most towns
for any one thirsty for strong drink to
obtain it. The sufficient answer to this
seems to be that the Maine law does
secure an enormous restriction in the sale
of intoxicating liquors, and an immense
diminution in their consumption. Their
sale and use are attended with great difficulties and disadvantages. These facts
sufficiently prove the law to be effective,
even though it fails extensively to suppress the evil thing. No law accomNo practicable
plishes that result.
amount of police activity can entirely
suppress gambling dens or brothels; but
we cordially recognize the salutary effect
of prohibitory laws in restricting and
minimizing those evils.
Perhaps the most important effect secured by the legal prohibition of the sale
of liquor, is the removal of open and public temptation. 'The tempting drink is
kept out of sight and hidden. It is not
glitteringly exposed to view in gorgeous
saloons. Men cannot easily invite eacn
other to drink. Careless or wayward
youth are not constantly incited to indulge in a popular evil practice. The
bulk of the temptation is removed from
those who have not yet become victims to
the compelling inward thirst. Reformation becomes easier when the temptation
is withdrawn from public view. Like advantages are secured by the legal suppression of brothels and gambling hells. The
bulk of the external and open temptation
is destroyed.
One never hears the dealers in intoxicants favoring prohibitory laws.
They
do not for the simple reason that those
laws suppress four-fifths of their trade.
They may decry prohibition as being ineffective. All the same they recognize it
as their deadly enemy.
As to Prohibition in Hawaii, or in the
City of Honolulu, Thi; Friend is in favor
of it whenever the voters are ready to
enact such a law. We feel sure that prohibition cannot be enforced here until a
majority of our citizens favor it. For this
reason we are opposed to any attempts
by Congress to enact a Prohibitory Law
for Hawaii. It must be done by ourselves, or be ineffective.
Francis Murphy spoke
to
men at Cen-
tral Union Sunday afternoon, the 20th,
and in a powerful exhortation to total ab-
stinence from liquor caused many of his
hearers to weep with him. Among the
more striking sentences uttered by Mr.
Murphy were the following:
This subject is always old and always
new.
Hardly one but has seen some near one
wrecked or drowned inthe sea of drink.
The cup of fellowship is a bottomless
pit.
Liquor darkens tbe palace as well as
the hut.
All who begin to drink are volunteers.
No one is forced to enlist in the drunkard's rank.
Christ is the gold cure for drink.
Be high-toned; be an aristocrat.
The gospel of Christ makes people
have carriages to ride in.
The liquor question is for you to settle
alone.
The poverty that goes with drink is
■ lark
as
hell.
When a man signs the pledge give him
work. It will keep him strong.
Don't live on the doubtful side of life.
When a man takes the pledge tell him
he will keep it.
Boost up the reformed man. Tell him
he's all right.
Throw out the life-line.
is a
saver.—/. C. .Advertiser.
Miss Eliza Talcott.
This able and experienced missionary
has spent several months in earnest and
vigorous work among the Japanese in
these Islands, including many weeks both
on Hawaii and on Maui. She is now
about to sail for her old field of labor in
Japan.
Miss Dudley of the Japan Mission has
also just given Honolulu friends another
glimpse of her pleasant face. Several
earnest Christian women in Hawaii are
bearing good fruit of former training by
both of these noble and capable teachers.
Opium is Free.
By a recent construction of the courts,
there is declared to be no longer any restriction upon the possession or use of
opium. Thus there is opened a most
active agency for the poisoning and destroying of the population of this Territory. Its most destructive effects will he
upon the native Hawaiians, large numbers of whom will fall victims to the
appetite for the drug. The natives have
little control over any appetite that gets
possession of them. The experience of
former years shows that they will rapidly
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[February, 1901.
THE FRIEND.
fall into an extremely excessive use of waiian, American, Orcgonian, .llaskan,
Texan, and so on. 'They are expected
the drug, ami die in a short time.
to land their sugar al New York in sixty
days from Honolulu, returning with carWhat Honolulu Needs.
goes of merchandise lor San Francisco
"Yes, sir," said a progressive citizen and this port. 'Thus are sailing ships
yesterday, "Honolulu needs a charter to around the Cape superseded by mammake it a live town. 'There is not an- moth steamers through the Straits of
other seaport in the world which hasn't Magellan.
a line of saloons and dance-houses on
Army Transport Line.
the waterfront. Look at this Quaker settlement without a single red light burning within rifle shot of the docks. 1 tell
Probably few of our readers on the
you the sooner we have a city the quicker Mainland are aware that Uncle Sam
Honolulu will get civilized."—/'. ('. Ad- maintains a fortnightly line of splendid
vertiter.
large Army 'Transports which call at HoHonolulu has tin) long been afflicted by
nolulu
on their way to Manila, touchtbe
missionaries. It
needs modernizing by a complete organ- ing monthly at Guam. In returning, they
take the northerly route via Japan. That
ization of bosses and ward-heelers.
route is stormy and rough and has caused great suffering to the returning inDr. E. S. Chapman.
valid soldiers. It is not improbable that
Ihe Rev. Dr. E. S. Chapman arrived they will in the future be ordered to
in Honolulu on the 30th ult. in the inter- take the southern route both ways.
ests of Temperance Work. He is the Though longer, there is less wear and
editoi of the Oakland Searchlight, and peril to ships and companies. 'The nusecretary of the California State Anti- merous horse and mule transports find
Saloon League. He hopes to be able to it necessary to rest their animals for a
strike a few blows at the saloon evil in week on shore at Honolulu, after the first
Honolulu. He is announced to preach in severities of the long voyage.
Central Union Church on the evening of
the 3d inst.
Road Above Diamond Head.
Speaking of the difference between Mr.
Murphy's method of temperance work
Last Monday we accidentally stumbled
and his own, Dr. Chapman says: "Mr.
uiKin a new road under construction, of
Murphy and myself are both laboring for
we had no previous inthe same object, but in different fields. whose existence
timation,
which
is full of interest.
but
He seeks to cure the snake-bite, and 1 am
Statements had appeared in the local patrying to kill the snake."
pers that a road was being constructed
Railway Terminus and Wharves.
around Diamond Head, which any one
would naturally infer to be around the
Improvements at the harbor terminus sea-base of the Head, no intimation beof the railway are steadily progressing. ing made that the road was being conGreat wharves have been established, structed around the Upper side of the
with immense corrugated iron ware- great tuff-cone, as is the fact. 'The road
houses, and crowds of large ships. One starts from a point midway of the upper
new slip of 1200 feet length and 100 of side of Kapiolani Park. It completes a
width is being excavated by a dredger half-circle around the splendid cone, terthrough the mud flat. The mud from minating on the shore at Kaalawai, which
this and other dredgings has filled the is in the bight of the western bay formed
whole of the great ponds and shoals east by the junction of tbe very remarkabL'
of the Prison. A street has been built promontory of Kupikipikio with the
and macadamized from a point on the mainland. The road is now almost enroad somewhat makai of the prison tirely graded, lacking chiefly a good balacross the flat to makai of tbe wharves. lasting with the tuff which lies close
above the road along its whole length.
'This adds another to the many interSteam Freighting Line.
esting drives in the suburbs of the city.
The Californian is the first ship arrived It affords much important study to the
to open the new Cape Horn line of steam geologist. A number of instructive exsugar freighters to New York. She is posures of rock are made along the line.
now loading with sugar at the ()ahu It affords easy access to the Kupikipikio
Railway wharf. She will soon proceed peninsula, which is the subject of much
to Hilo to complete her cargo of 8000 questioning and controversy as to its
tons. The Californian is to be speedily origin. We hope very soon to propound
followed by a succession of several very a theory which may prove conclusive uplarge new steam .freighters, named Ha- on the main points of that question.
Rapid Transit Progress.
The streets have been quite extensively torn up during the past three months
m laying the rails for the electric cars.
The buildings for the works arc nearly
completed, and machinery going in.
Manager Itallciitinc promises to have a
good extent of line in operation by April
ist. ()ur past experience of new enter-
prises in Honolulu inclines
him till
June
us to allow
We have got along
comfortably many years with the old
horseless (nuile) cars, and are not as,
impatient as most of our juniors are, to
spin along faster.
ist.
About 400 new
immigrant laborers
from Porto Rico have arrived, and have
been distributed to various plantations.
'The first arrivals are all reported as doing
well, and satisfied with their conditions.
Some 700 moii- are 'expected in a few
weeks.
Wireless Telegraphy.
It is the old story of "hope deferred,"
until hope has nearly died out in this Hawaiian community. And yet many evidences continue that the workers in
charge of this undertaking to communicate between the islands, are still laboring
to complete the arrangements.
It has
repeatedly been intimated that they were
just on the point of despatching messages. Hut no messages have been sent
or received, at least, by the business public. Possibly we may be able next month
to record something more satisfactory.
It is stated that all tlie stations have been
removed to low ground. The one recently on Kainutki hill is now on the
beach over a mile south.
Kahuku Mill Work.
Kahuku Mill, at the north point of
Oahu, produced sugar in 1900 as fol-
lows :
From Kahuku cane
Waialua cane
Laie cane
5,288 tons
236
295
'
'
5,819 tons
The Mormon 60 per cent share of the
Laic sugar was worth in the market
$13,600, which must have gone far
towards sustaining their Agricultural
M ission establishment.
Kahuku estimates 5.419 tons from its
own cane this year.
Record of Events.
Jan. ist.—New Year's illustrated edition of the .Advertiser exhausts the paper
supply therefor and proves insufficient
for the demand.—The New Year opens
with a sad story in the death of W.
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Horace Wright from poison, self administered. - Col. Soper disposes of his seat
in the Stock Exchange for $5,500.—A
Japanese sustains serious injury from an
explosion of giant powder at Pacific
Heights, from which the children of J.
It. Pratt
narrowly escape.
2nd.—First batch of negro laborers arrive from 'Tennessee, by the Zealandia,
for plantation work in these islands; 15
men and six women.— David Center, an
experienced and successful sugar plantation manager, passes away at tbeOueen's
Hospital after a three weeks' illness.
3rd. —A number of citizens meet to
consider the advisability of a Pish Protective Association. Due progress was
made and the chairman authorized to appoint a committee to submit a plan of
organization.— Unknown incendiary attempts to burn the residence of P. \\
Macfarlane. I'crctania street, near Punahou, hut is frustrated by the timely arrival of Patrolman \ ida.
4th. —Republican Lit) Charter Committee submit two reports, the majority
favoring a plan to embrace the whole island of Oahu, while the minority presented one restricted to the Kona district.
6th.—Miss A. L. Murcutt delivers an
afternoon address at the < )pcra House on
I lonolulu's Greatest Need, holding her
large audience in deepest interest.
Bth.—'The Aloha Aina and Kalaiaina
Societies amalgamate with the Indepen-
.
dents,
Langfield. a driver for the
(
is thrown from the
Ice
Company,
>ahu
seat of his wagon and meets a terrible
death beneath its wheels.
loth.—'Timely discovery of a midnight
blaze averts serious consequences in the
lodging structures, etc., near the ( )r--phcum. on Port street.—Francis Murphy,
the Blue Ribbon temperance advocate, en
route to the Colonies, is induced to stop
over for a short season's work in this
city.
13th.—Mr. Murphy begins his series
of gospel temperance meetings at the
Central Union Church, which is crowded
to hear him, in'spite of stormy weather;
at the close of the address over one hundred responded to his appeal to sign the
pledge.
16th.—The ( ity o\ Peking brings the
second lot of Porto Rican laborers, some
400. about half are women and children
—a pitiable looking lot.—Samples of
cleaned sisal fibre, from the Hawaiian
Fibre Co.'a farm, between Ewa mill and
Barber's point, placed on exhibition in
this city attracts favorable comment. —A
seven year old Chinese girl in recklessly
attempting to cross the street ahead of
hack horse is knocked down and fatally
injured, death ensuing in twelve hours.
17th.—Anniversary of the downfall of
the monarchy, a partially observed holi-
9th.—Louis
day.—A spell of unusual high tradewind, causing much commotion among
the shipping. Schooner Mokihana goes
ashore at Waianae.—Preliminary meeting of business men toward organization
of a Honolulu Merchants' Association.—
Quarterly meeting of the Associated
C harities. at which an enlarged sphere of
helpfulness, and two new society affiliations were repotted.— The temperance
meetings conducted by Erancis Murphy
are proving a great help to many.
lyth. — Papa Ita, a Tahitian, gives an
exhibition of walking on hot stones. A
heavy shower just before the performance interfered with its success both
from the kahuna's and public's standpoint.
21 st.— A man who had given his name
as Samuels is found dead in his bed at
the Sailors' Home. Upon an inquest
held subsequently the case is supposed to
be one of suicide.—Schooner I'wilight
returns again to port in distress.
23rd.—Albert Hermanson, in a fit of
despondency, hangs himself: leaving a
helpless invalid wife in sore distress.—
Mr. Murphy closes his series of temperance services al the Central Union
(.lunch, a large audience again attending
on the occasion.
24th. — Papa Ita repeats his feat ol
walking over hot stones barefoot, but the
performance ends in a row between a
soldier, the manager and certain police
officers.— Paul Egry. violinist, gives his
farewell concert at the Opera House. —
E. ('. kaufmann, a member of the band,
fearing arrest takes his life with a pistol.
25th.—Rev. Mr. Cory and his co-workers give an "at home" at the Christian
Church, which proves a social and artistic success, many of the soldiers in port
participating.—The Scots of the city
honor the memory of Burns by a full attendance at the celebration by the Scottish Thistle Club, at Waverly Hall.—
News received of the serious illness of
Queen Victoria. —Sixty-five Portuguese,
from the Eastern States, arrive per Zculandia for plantation service.
26111. —Kukunia, the watchman at Wilcox's poi factory, was attacked by some
person unknown, and horribly butchered
at an early hour this morning. When
found he was unable to speak and died
at the hospital in the afternoon without
having been able to give any clue.—Honolulu Merchants' Association perfects
organization. —Supreme Court renders a
decision declaring the license tax illegal.
27th.—Francis Murphy puts in a full
day's work in various parts of the city
by way of farewell services.
29th.—A two story dwelling near tbe
Honolulu Iron Works, Kikaako, is destroyed by fire, and an adjoining storehouse badly damaged.
30th. —Arrival of the Sonoma, 5 days
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and 20 hours from San Francisco, bringing a large list of passengers for this
port, followed a few hours later by the
Hong Kong Maru, which left ahead.
'The sad news of the dea/h of Queen Victoria, though somewhat expected, shocks
the community.
31st. —Live distributing clerks of the
Post Office struck last evening for extra
pay for overtime work. With three outgoing steamer mails today, the office has
had its hands full.—Francis Murphy
leaves on the Sonoma for the Colonies.—
Prof. VV. I). Alexander, surveyor-general
ever since the establishment of -the
bureau, resigns to take charge of the
toast and Geodetic Survey work at this
point.— Rev. and Mrs. Wm. M. Kincaid
threw open their new home, on 'Thurston
avenue, from 7:30 to 10 p. m. The reception was very general; largely attended and enjoyable throughout.
BIRTHS.
WILDER—At Paris, France, Dec. sth, WOO, to
the wife of Jus. A. Wilder, a sun.
BALDWIN—At tlamakuapoko. Maul, Jan. sth,
UOl, to the wire of H. H. Baldwin, a son.
JUDD—In Honolulu, Jan. 6th, to the wife ol
A. F. Judd, a son.
ANDERSON—Jan. 12th, to the wir,. of H.
Anderson, of Maul, a daughter.
URI'NDAC.E—In this city, on Jan. UU*, to the
wife of N. VV. Itrundage, a daughter.
SMITH —In this city, Jan. 26th, to Hie wife of
A. T. Smith, a daughter.
GUILD—In this city, Jan. 27th, to the wife of
Andrew Guild, a daughter.
HITCHCOCK—In Hilo, Hawaii, Jan. 22nd, to
the wife of E. N. Hitchcock a daughter.
BALDING—At Walnaku, Hilo, Hawaii, Jan.
2:inl, to the wife of E. T. Balding, a daughter.
DEATHS.
CENTER—In this city, Jan. 2nd, at UN Queen's
Hospital, David •Center, or Maul, aged 44
years.
JUDD—In Honolulu. Jan. Nth, infant son or
Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Judd.
LANGFELD—In this city, Jan. Hth, from an
accident, Louis Langfeld, aged —,
McINTYRE—At Honolulu. Jan. 10th, George
.M<-Intyre, aired m, a native of Tahiti.
GARTENBERG—At Walklkl, Jan. 20th. of
heart disease, Mrs. A. GartenberK, daughter
of J. W. Magulre.
CARTER—In this city, Jan. 22nd, Dorothy, Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carter,
aged 1 year and 4 months.
DEXTER—At Woodland, Cal., Jan. 9th, T. J.
Dexter, aged 70 years, 2 months and 18 days;
beloved father of Mrs. C. E. Frasher, of Honolulu.
ROSENBERG—In San Francisco, Jan. 11, I_.uts
P. Rosenberg, relict of the late Fanny Rosenberg, and beloved father of Mrs. 8. W.
Lidercr, of Honolulu, a native of Hanover,
Germany, aged 72 years 11 months and 11
days.
BIRT—In this city. Jan. 13th, Mabel Iretne,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Blrt; aged
2 years, 2 months.
CLOUD—In this city, Jan. 13th, Ellzalwth
Dowry Cloud, of pneumonia, after a short Illness; a native of Philadelphia.
MARRIAGES.
O'CONNKLL-BEMROBE—At the residence of
the bride's parents, Jan. 1, 1901, Patrick James
o'Connell to Mabel M. Bemroae, Rev. G. _.
Pearson officiating.
LOWELL-M'LAIN—At the residence of Mr. W.
L. Eaton. Jan. 21st. by the Rev. G. L. Pearson, Mr. Walter D. Lowell to Miss Mlna T.
Mrl,ain, both of Spreckelsvllle, Maul.
MASON-MULLEN—In this city. Jan. 2Srd. at
the Methodist parsonage, by the Rev. G. L.
Pearson, Robt. L. Mason to Miss (Tiara L.
Mullen
TAYLOR-MOORE—In Honolulu, Jan. 30th. by
Rev. W. M. Klnca'.d J. Lawton Taylor to
Miss Louise Moore.
HAWK-MARBHICEK-At the Methodist parsonage, this city, Jan. list, by the Rev. O.
Wm. Hawk, of Alameda, CaJ.. to
L. Pearson, Marshicek,
of Milwaukee, Wis.
Miss Annie
�HAWAIIAN BOARD.
HONOLULU, H. I.
This pace la devoted to the interests of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Board, !• responsible forits contents.
Februay, 1901.
THE FRIEND.
18
•
Rev. O. P. EMERSON
--
Editor.
Statements have been made in the daily
papers to the effect that the annual meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association is to be held next June in Hilo.
It is but just to state that though the
matter has been under contemplation,
nothing has vet been decided. As there
are important matters to come up for
discussion at this meeting which will
make it rather necessary for the Association to be in easy communication with
its Board, it may DC best not to have the
meeting away from Honolulu this year.
The aged missionary veteran. Rev.
James Kekela, is wanted back in the
Marquesas. Were the way thither easy
and inexpensive be would certainly go.
He is restless at thought of dropping
work entirely and yet he seems too old
a man to do much more.
Mr. H. K. Poepoe, who, for the last
six months has done such acceptable
work in the Kautnakapili parish, and
whom many in the parish would like to
see made associate pastor with Rev. Titnoteo, has temporarily entered the work
on Maui. He is at present doing evengelistic work with Mr. Leadingham and
his theological students. His future field
of work is not yet decided. He is wanted Ixith on Maui and Oahu. He will
probably go to the field that gives him
the heartiest and promptest invitation.
of material for the superstructure. There
follows a list of things needed.
The Japanese men who are building
the Labaina Kindergarten will take the
contract for building this church (chapel)
for $<)5.00. The Gilbert Islanders will
paint and whitewash, will the Hawaiian
Board furnish the'material and the $0,5
to put up this church?
The congregation seldom goes below forty.
The church building at Kahakuloa is
in a sad condition. We have on hand
the money to pay for the labor of repair,
but there is needed new material—will
the Hawaiian Board send the material?
The past year Hon. 11. P. Baldwin has
paid for the new seminary building
I almost .fv'.ooo t. the kindergarten at
Labaina, and helped generously in repairing churches, aside from being the
Pastors' Aid Society for Maui and Molokai. Furthermore, his generous help
is needed in the erection of a Chinese
church and school in Wailuku. So I
hope tin.' Hawaiian Hoard will see its way
clear to give aid in the two cases mentioned, al Labaina and Kahakuloa.
'The work ti|>on the settlement building and grounds has occupied my time,
hut I hope soon to tour again on this
island and on Molokai.
The Evangelistic Tour of the North
Pacific Missionary Institute—
The Work at Kaneohe.
RBeyv.Leadingham.
J.
evening we helped the people with Ihe
magic lantern in a concert they had prepared for that evening to raise money
for the trip to Waialua. 'Then on Christmas morning we came hack to Honolulu.
We went the second time on January
y\. being followed by Mr. Richards on
the sth. ()n the first evening we used
the lantern again, showing pictures from
the life of Christ closing with a picture
of tbe crucifixion and one illustrating
ihe words, "Behold I stand at the door
and knock.'' A sermon was preached on
the thoughts suggested by these last two
pictures. Christy redemptive work for
us was dwell upon and the closing
thought was that he now sought admittance into OUr lives. At the close the
opportunity was given to all who were
willing to admit Christ into their lives,
signify it by rising. Aside from the
Church members who rose were eleven
to
others. 'The meeting had heen marked
throughout by a very close attention and
deep interest and those who rose evident
lv did so deliberately and with a clear
purpose in so doing. The following
evening after another sermon, another
opporlunity was given lor those who so
wished to rise and three more stood up.
This made the number of those who signified their purpose in this way to become
Christians, fourteen.
One interesting
fact was that two of this number were
Chinese and two others part Chinese.
The assurances given by most of these
persons in private conversations afterward indicated a sincere desire to do in
reality what they had professed. 'The
Sunday School and morning service on
Sunday were conducted by Mr. Richards
followed in the evening by a testimony
meeting with which this most interesting work at Kaiieohe closed, and we all
Mr. Richards being detained in Honolulu by other duties, four students and
myself went first to Kaneohe on Friday,
December -'Ist. We found that the notice had gone abroad that we would give
an exhibition of the magic lantern in the returned to Honolulu'the next morning.
Miss Malone writes: I found that the evening. Although this had not been our The church at Kaneohe has been supplied
Gilbert Islanders at Labaina were church- intention, it was thought best to do so in for the past two years by one of the stugoers. The women make hats, the men view of the expectation of the people; dents
of the Institute. Mr. Win. Haletish and so their needs are met. 'They do and so we did. using the pictures illustratand
at the unanimous desire of the
ole:
not rank well as workers on the planta- ing the life of the Prodigal Son. The
he was left behind to follow up
people,
were
next
these
evening
pictures
repeattion. 'They are however open to influence
the work by looking after those who had
and I think they will take their place as ed by request, and some others from the confessed Christ, and attending to the
an
were
shown
scenes of Christ's early life
workers. They have worshipped in
other affairs of the Church.
old building belonging to the Hawaiian in addition, the exhibition in each case
church. Through various efforts some being accompanied by the telling of the
The many old friends in Hawaii of
money was raised and $■>..; worth of ma- story and the drawing of lessons from it.
r a ,ni falterial WM bought. The plantation added On Sunday there was the regular Sunday Tod Bean will be
School
service;
but
have
lacked
followed
a
lines
written
by
preaching
lowing
by him for the Asthey
to the amount,
somewhat the leadership and the means and this was followed an hour later by a sociated Charities Century Festival, New
to utilize the material. The women gave prayer meeting, it being the custom of England Dinner Day, at San Jose. Cat.,
nineteen hats for the benefit of the the people in Kaneohe to have both the Dee. 31st, 1000.
church. Mr. E. H. Carleton in charge services on Sunday before the people reof the industrial department at I_ihaina- turn to their homes. It was now within
A RETROSPECT.
luua was put in charge, the minister, two days of Christmas and as the peoEngland Seventy Years
Rev. Lutera and several of the Gilbert ple were busy trelting the children ready Homr Life In New Ago.
Islanders giving their services. It was for a Sunday School gathering to be held
found impossible to repair the church (a al Waialua on December airth and 30th, Sunie pawl thelf three .more years iitnl leu,
small meeting house). There was only WC concluded that it was best to post>{• -mtitil. with pen and tongue.
one thing to do, to remove it. A founda- pone the rest of our work till the holi- To tell how life wns faring when
tion has been made, but there was a lack day season was over. So on Monday The Century was youngr.
'" *' '
"
�Those dlstunt years so tranquil seem,
So free from rush and strife,
Ere Electricity and Steam
Quickened the pace of life.
—
New Kngland hills had never heard
Shrieks from the Iron horse,
No Lightning yet had winged a word,
IJy the device of Morse.
No street curs passing up und down,
No bicycles were known;
Folks could "»t talk from town to town
Upon the Telephone.
No dully papers tidings brought
From all the wide world o'er.
Of battles fought and havoc wrought
Only the day before.
Our mothers from the Mux and wool
Our clothing spun and wove,
And kept their tempting cupboards full
Without the cooking-stove.
The coals were kept from going out
UpOB the health at night,
For matches had not come about
The llres anew to light.
Girls who In household ails were tuught
Anil boys who held the plow,
Head many hours with pleasure fraught
As keen as any now.
Its fields stone walled, and pastures green,
its singing brocks and rills.
The good old days we well may praise
For priceless legacies;
But who can suy "the former days
Were better days than these!"
We lived within a little world,
With its horizon near;
Our narrow sect seemed all that held
A Christian "title clear."
Now, children of one family
We round one table sIL
And In fraternal fellowship
All Christian hearts are knit.
The Pilgrim and the Puritan
Have spanned the continent;
With nobler thoughts of Ood und man
They have enlarged their tent.
Tho' sin abounds, and suffering sore,
In every land and zone.
Yet liiaie.nnd Truth abound Ihe more,
And Christ leads on His own.
Our birthright is a precious boon—
A sacred heritage,
To be Improved and built upon,
I'pon a wider stage
That what our Pilgrim Fathers won.
May bless the coining age.
The huskings mill the apple-bees
Came with the opening year;
Feasts ol'
Ingathering were
these
The harvest homo to cln el.
spelling schc ols of Winter nights;
Sleigh- rides, with Jingling li. Us;
The holidays In haying time
On huckleberry hills;
The
And I" our own home-life we found
Our best perennial joys
Vailed Willi every season's round
To happy girls and boys.
The fireside where we gathered In,
When evening chores were done,
Was witness to a lively scene
Of study, work, and fun.
The presence of some welcome guest.
Or teacher, "boarding sound,"
To talk on common themes gave zest
Alio subjects more profound.
We listened to the legends old
Of regions round about;
RlddlM were guessed anil stories told.
And hardest "sums worked out."
The apple-dish was passed of course,
And from the hogshead rows
The cider-mug was filled for guests
Who such a beverage chose.
The storm might beat and drift without,
Hut all within was bright.
Where books were read and stockings knit
Hy fire and candle-light.
In the sugar-camp,
Or hauling In the hay,
Or washing sheep, or shoveling snow,
Our work was turned to play.
Sometimes, as
The farmer drove hla oxen then,
By hand the corn was hoed;
The sickle cut the fields of grain,
By scythe the grass was mowed.
New England dear! we love It yet,
Its mountains, woods and hills,
19
THE FRIEND.
Vol. 59, No. 2.]
the unspeakable elation of victory; the
gigantic vicissitudes of triumph and deteat ; the tumult and frenzy and divine
sweat; the very scorn of humanity and
all that touches it, life and property and
happiness, the anguish of the dying, the
horror of the dead—all these sublimated
passions not merely seem to raise man for
a moment beyond his fellows, but constitute a strain which human* nerves are
And Naponot able long to endure.
leon's character was profoundly affected
by the gambling of warfare. The star of
his destiny, which bulked so largely in
his mind, was but the luck of the gambler
on a vast scale. He had indeed his full
measure of the gross and petty superstition which ordinarily accompanies the
vice. And so, even in his most desperate
straits, he cannot bring himself to close
the account and sign a peace; for he always cherishes the gambler's hope that
fortune, or the star of destiny or whatever it be called, may yet produce another
transformation, and restore all his losses
by a sudden stroke.— Lord Rosebury.
|(J AHU RAILWAY
Napoleon a Gambler.
_______H____OTk_
Supreme power, then, destroyed the
balance of his judgment and common
sense, and so brought about his fall. Hut
it was not the only cause. 'There was
another factor. He was deeply imbued
with the passion of warfare. It is difficult to realize the full strength of this
fascination, for, though all soldiers feel
the fever of the field, it is rarely given
in all the countless generations of the
world to experience it in its full strength,
as one who enjoys, as absolute ruler, the
sole direction, responsibility, and hazard
of great wars. Hut if common men love
to risk chances in the lottery or with tbe
dice, on the race-course or the stock exchange, if there they can find the sting
of excitement, war is the gambling of the
gods.
& LAND CO.
The haunting risks of disaster;
Trains Kun Betwkrn
HONOLULU, PEARL CITY, EWA
AND WAIANAE PLANTATIONS
TAKE AN OUTING SATURDAYS.
Trains will leave st 9:15 a. m., nud 1:46 p.m.
arriving in Honolulu at 3:11 r. m. tun] 5:56 P.M.
ROUND TKIP TICKETS:
Ist Clash 2nd Class
9 75
$ 50
Pearl City
100
76
Kwb Plantation
Waiunae
160
126
Importers of Live Stock
HOARDING
STABLE
LIVERY and
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MANUFACTURERS and
WAGON MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING
HLACKSMITHING and HORSE-SHOEING
DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN and FEED
HORSES, MULES, COWS, CHICKENS and VEHICLES
MODERN
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W. H. RICE,
pre«ident.
W. S. WITHERS, Manager.
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Queen St., Honolulu, H. 1.
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Fort St., lUiiolulu
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE,
CUTLERY AND
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PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
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C.
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HONOLULU
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SHIP CHANDLERY,
DRUGGISTS
HARDWARE
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in Photographic Supplies
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
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Geo. P. Blake Steam Tumps,
Weston's Centrifugals,
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MACERATION TWO-ROLL MILLS,
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Cleaning Pans, Steam and Water Pipes, Brasa
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Hetnil Departments:
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Waverley Block, Bethel Street.
Wholesale and
Telephones:
Shipping Departments:
Fort
Street.
St., 22 and <_
Bethel
Bethel St., '24 and 949
Wholesale and Shipping Depts., 949
QLAUS SPRECKELS & CO.,
BANKERS.
Draw Exchange on the principal parts of the
woi Id. and transact a general Banking
Business
Hawaiian Islands.
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HONOLULU, H. 1., JANUARY, 1901.
Vol. 59]
[January, 1901.
THE FRIEND la published the first day of each our lovely domestic life, to see what ligion dominant among the superior
month In Honolulu, H. I. Subscription rate
Two Dollars per Tear In Advance.
here, since it arriv- races. The outlook for the coming dewith Christianity has done
All communications and letters connectedBooks
the literary department of the paper,
tre seeds of grace cades seems to be for cruel and bitter
ed
80
with
years
ago
and Magazines, for Review and Exchanges,
should be addressed "Rev. B. E. Bishop, Hono- and truth, whose blossoms should unfold struggles for supremacy and control. We
lulu, H. I."
Business letters should be addressed T. O. and whose fruits should ripen as now. may hope that piety and humanity will
Thrum, Honolulu, H. I."
Entered at the Post Office at Honolulu as second class Those fruits shall go on multiplying and modify and soften.
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matter.
S. E. BISHOP
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Christmas ol 1900
Maunaolu Seminary Opened
Old Memories ol Kailua
Letter from Rev. A H Smith, D.D
Diamond Jubilee of Kawaiahao Church
Be Conciliatory to Conlucianism
Tolerance Towards Heathenism
Death of James A Hopper
A JapaneseLady Editor
Death ol David Lima Naone
"Yellow" Philanthropy
Record ol Events
Births
•
Marriages
Deaths
Hawaiian Board
ripening yet more profusely and deliciously, and the nations shall pluck thereEditor. of and eat, to their healing. Westward
has the rich harvest of Christ's gifts extended, more than half around the globe.
1 Soon
shall that harvest cover all the
1
2
earth.
The Babe of Bethlehem became
3
4 the Lord of Heaven, "The Head once
4
5
with
5 crowned with thorns, is crowned
5
now."
His
shall
kingdom
good
in
glory
5
5
5 time prevail in all the earth. All man8
6 kind shall come to dwell in peace, light
8
rule.
7 and gladness under Jesus'
The Meeting at Hana
The Evangelistic Tour ol the North Pacific Missionary Institute—The Work at Hauula
Mormon Jubilee
Central Union Church Parsonage
Our Exemption from Storm
Meat Importation
7
7
8
9
9
9
Christmas of 1900.
Nineteen centuries ago dawned the
bright Morning Star of the Eternal
Father's light and grace upon our dark
world of sin and suffering. The babe
was born in Bethlehem of the Virgin
Mother, begotten of the Holy Ghost,
Jesus, who should "save his people from
their sins." He lived and wrought his
marvels of power and mercy. He
taught and loved, and died on the cross,
God's sacrifice for sin. His disciples
went forth and preached his Gospel, and
planted and watered the infant churches
Struggling, harried, trampled and broken, yet with undying vitality and vigor,
the People of Christ lived on and multiplied through the long centuries. Today Christianity is the dominant religion
of civilized humanity, and the one
supreme element in society, although
still confronting and warring against
colossal and organized evils, deeply rooted in the baser proclivities of mankind.
We in favored Hawaii, have but to look
around upon our fair and fruitful civilization, our social peace and prosperity, and
Portents of the New Century.
As 1901 begins, we lift up our eyes
and peer into the dim mist of the coming
years, searching for what they have in
store for the nations. We know not and
cannot know. The nineteenth century
opened amid the most portentous horrors
of revolutions and wars. Yet men saw
"the night of war depart, and the star of
peace return." Our own twentieth century also strangely opens with protracted
and severe military struggles of both
branches of the leading white race in
their remote possessions, and still more
portentously, with a dark and cruel wartempest in China. Men had begun to
hope that a reign of peace and good-will
might be near at hand. It now looks as
if calm and sunshine were far away, and
a long period of tempest might intervene.
It will not be strange if white civilization
should have to gird itself for a long struggle with the ignorant and treacherous
races of men.
The saddest thing is that the nations
which are Christian, or nominally so, are
themselves still cherishing ancient ways
of darkness which unfit them to impart
light and righteousness to heathen people. Wickednesses of lust, drunkenness,
cruelty, greed, are formidable and rampant. They bring reproach upon the re-
One thing seems certain, that the coming years will make a demand of utmost
magnitude upon all of Christ's followers
for devoted and heroic activity in His
service. As the struggles go on, they
must be in the front, standing in His
name, proclaiming righteousness, truth,
and repentance. May we of Hawaii, and
our descendants, who enjoy this grand
Christian inheritance, be found faithful to
our Lord. Many American and European men and women, many faithful
Chinese Christians, have lately met cruel
deaths and torture for their Lord's sake.
May we and ours in the advancing twentieth century be not less heroic and stedfast. Let the record of the coming century be bright and grand with the free
giving of life and strength and all for the
"testimony of
Jesus."
Maunaolu Seminary Opened.
The new building of the Maunaolu
Seminary at Sunnyside, Paia. Maui, was
formally opened with appropriate exercises on November 24th. One hundred
and fifty guests at a time sat down to a
bountiful luau at the tables in the dining
room. Hon. H. P. Baldwin, the munificent donor of the building, acted as
chairman. Addresses were made by
Judge Kalua, by Rev. Kekela of Marquesas fame, by Rev. O. P. Emerson and
Rev. S. Kapu. Rev. E. G. Beckwith was
compelled by illness to leave the hall.
Father Bailey sent a splendid bunch of
white roses. He had conducted the
erection of the former building which
was recently burned, and had for sixty
years been a chief leader in the work of
education for Hawaiian girls.
The new building is a large structure
of two stories and nasement, with a wing
on each side extending both in front and
rear. One hundred and two girls are
now boarding in the school. Miss M. E.
Alexander is the experienced and beloved principal.
Nearly $1100 were realized at a concert for the benefit of the lepers. Each
leper received one silver dollar on Christmas day, and tOys were provided for the
children.
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Old Memories of Kailua.
(Continued.)
Our nearest missionary neighbors outside of the town of Kailua, were the Ruggleses, who lived at Kaawaloa, twelve
miles south. Their dwelling was at Kuapehu, two miles up the mountain, a most
verdant and attractive spot. It later became the residence of Rev. John D
Paris. Kaawaloa proper was a village on
the north side of Kealakekua bay. I was
born there at the house of Mr. and Mrs
Ely, only a few rods from the rock where
Captain Cook was slain, and where his
monument now stands. We often visited Kaawaloa, probably twice a year, going by water in a double canoe, generally starting two or three hours before daylight, so as to carry the land breeze a
good part of the way. There were a
number of paddlers in each of the two
canoes, who would make the long craft
fly swiftly through the sea. The steersman in the stern would give the signal by
a slap of his paddle against the canoe,
pud all the rowers would shift their paddles in unison from one side to the other
We children generally laid upon the
raised platform with the mother, thou eh
sometimes in the bottom of a canoe. We
were apt to be seasick, and then to sleep,
sometimes awaking to see the waves
dashing on a coast of black lava cliffs
We would run up the little bay, and step
ashore upon Cook's rock, whence it was
only a few rods to the nice premises of
the good Princess Kapiolani. These
were prettily thatched cottages on a platform of white masonry which was studded with black pebbles. Kapiolani's
quarters were neatly furnished within.
She was generally there to receive us
with the most cordial hospitality. Immediately behind the house was a precipise perhaps 200 feet high. This seems
to have been caused by a former breaking off of the coast line for many miles.
Great lava flows had subsequently poured over the precipice to the north and
south, so as to enclose the bay. leaving
half a mile of the precipice at the head
of the bay untouched.
The next thing was to surmount the
formidable pali. There were plenty of
natives to carry up the lady and children
in the lack of animals* From the summit, two miles of slope brought us to the
delightful home of the Ruetrleses. wrier*:
we were a train loving! v welcomed. Mrs
R. was a tall sweet-faced woman, of
kindliest character. Mr. R. was a pleasant man of small stature, who was
absent from home tourine amnne the
natives, his health requirine such activity. There was a luxuriant frarden. with
luscious grapes and figs, and coffee trees
in fruit. There were also orange trees
and in the vicinity, many old ohia trees
with the ripe apples bestudding their. Ed our locality to that degree. We burngnarled trunks. The mission dwelling ed a good deal of wood, mostly the yelwas a large thatched house, with several low ahakea, or "false sandal wood,"
glass windows. A matter of special de- which emitted a pleasant odor. Our
light was the company of two very agree- altitude was nearly 2700 feet. Several
able children of our own ages, named rounded green hills lay to the north of
Huldah and Samuel, of whom we were us, which must have been tuff-cones, the
relics of former explosive eruptions. We
always very fond.
The Ruggles family returned to Amer- made another visit to Waimea in 1836,
ica about 1834, and we saw no more of shortly before removing to Oahu. The
them. Mr. R. had done good service fti Rev. Lorenzo Lyons was then occupying
a teacher and preacher for fourteen years. the station having been there over three
Their places were taken by Mr. and Mrs. years. The infant Curtis was running
Cochran Forbes, four of whose grand- about the house. This was a building
children now reside in Honolulu. Mr of thatch, but witn a foreign style of
Forbes was a forceful and zealous mis- frame, with four rooms.
On the route, at Kawaiahae, we had
sionary. There are memories of pleasant
visits with them also, both at Kuapehu again enjoyed the hospitality of the aged
and at Kailua. On one occasion a fast- Mr. Young, who was very bald. I reday is remembered, such as we observed member several fine looking young
at Kailua four times a year by omitting women, his daughters. A coffin was susthe noon-meal. The Forbes were more pended under the ridge of the house. Tt
rigid, and no breakfast was served. Dis- was the old chief's habit, whenever he
covering this, Mrs. Bishop made for the went to Honolulu, to provide himself
safe, and seizing some cold chicken and with a new coffin, in order to be so far
taro. enabled her hungry family to break in readiness for the chance which was
their fast. She was always to be relied approaching. T trust that he was otheron in the commissariat.
wise not unprepared. A still conspicuWe once extended our visiting to the ous object at Kawaihae was the great
inland elevated station of Waimea, in the Heiau of Puukohala, built by Kamehabeginning of 1832, Mr. Bishop being meha in 179t and consecrated to his
delegated to initiate Rev. Dwieht Raid- war-god by the sacrifice therein of the
win, M.D., in his new field. We travel- corpse of his rival Keoua. John Young
ed to Kawaihae by canoe, meeting the had been captured in 1790. Vancouver
Baldwins at the house of Mr. John first came two years later, forty years beYoung, the aged lieutenant of Kameha- fore mv first sight of those arid hills, and
meha. The ladies and children were car- the mighty Matinakea behind them.
This second visit was made en route
ried up the hill for ten miles by natives
in maneles. T particularly recollect the to Hilo and the volcano, via the mounfeeble appearance of Mrs. Baldwin with tain road to Laupahoehoe. The lady and
her voting babe as her bearers passed us children were provided with maneles or
on the road. Tn due time we reached the litters, borne by natives, who were paid
Waimea plateau at that time covered in trade and food. We had pone a few
with dense scrub forest for some miles miles, when by an accident, the writer's
west of the mission station. We found arm sustained compound fracture, which
two good-sized cottages, of which each caused a return to Mr. Lyons' house, and
family took possession. There must further burden of four weeks upon their
have been some hardship from lack of extremely cordial hospitality. There
crockery and furniture. We had an old were hardly any children's books, but I
iron stove which helped keep us warm in devoured a considerable part of Rollin's
the cold rainy mountain winter. There Ancient History while the bone was knitwas also a large fire occasionally lighted ting, and formed a strong attachment to
in the center of the main room, whence both Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, who were
the smoke must have escaped through most amiable as well as devoted and cathe roof. I think we children quite en- pable missionaries. Mrs. Lyons died at
joyed the novel experiences. The Bald- Honolulu in the summer of 1837, amid
wins being new-comers, must have found the profound grief of the assembled misit very hard. On one occasion the two sionaries.
missionaries were absent for several days
Starting again, we camped for the
on a visit to the people of Kohala. That night on a splendid slope of Mauna Kea.
must have been a dreary time for the amid lovely koa glades, and groups of
young wife.
wild cattle. A lone open hut was conFor the Bishops, the coolness brought structed for our large. party, in front of
recuperation and health after the heats of which an immense fire was built for
Kailua. On one morning we were told warmth. Fresh beef had been procured
that "frost" had been seen on the grass from the Paniolos. and abundant steaks
iust beforp sunrise. With snow mantling were broiled on the coals. It was a deMauna Kea nearly to its base on the lightful experience. From LaupahoeWaimea plain as it sometimes did, a hoe. then a populous villape, we prostrong southerly breeze might have chill- ceeded by water in a double canoe, in
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which we were caught in a slight squall Letter from Rev. A. H. Smith, D.D. but perhaps there has not within the cenmidway under the high palis, and the
tury been a more open and shameless
sail carried away, to the terror of the
exposition of the sub-cutaneous lawlessiiiiia,
.\ov.
iientsin,
>.
lyni, lyoo.
lady passenger and the children. At
ness of Christian Nations (under the
Ueai
ur.
—.uiicu
nas
jjisnop:
iiappciibeautiful Hilo, we were entertained for
outer forms of Law) than has been wita week by Mr. and Mrs. Coan, the Ly- eu in litis uistiactcu empire since mm J. nessed since the Eight Nations planted
mans contributing thereto.
Another wrote you auouc nine luoiiius ago, anu their banners on the walls of Peking,
week was spent in going to Kilauea the attention 01 tne woiui lias Deen turn- which they proceed to loot in the name of
where we passed two nights in a rain- ed in tins uireetion as never oeiore. une humanity, which had been shocked at
storm in a leaky shanty, which our na- ol our oldest anu most vaiueu worKtus violations of international law
in the
tives had imperfectly patched up. Before lias just returned iroin a uiriougli in tne siege of the legations. Instead of that
light on the third day, we were awaked, Lnited States, and he writes trom I'eking "harmony" so much vaunted, there has
and from the brink of the descent, watch- that lor a time he was so dazeu by the been an
evident effort to make private
ed the brilliant fires below. At daylight, new conditions tliat it was very dimcuit capital out of the anomalous conditions,
himself
the
to
to
them.
Une
ol
adjust
we descended to the "black ledge," on
on the part of more than one power, unwhich we went out half a mile, and look- telegrams which we succeeded in sending til there is serious danger that the whole
home
the
the
during
siege,
contained
ed down into an immense elongated
business of setting China right will end
chasm where seemed to be great activity. words:
"All property destroyed." in the fiasco
of demonstrating to the
what
those
lew
syllables mean, the universe the incurable
The features of the volcano I at once rec- Think
imbecility of any
ognized as those familiar in Ellis' picture scores of Mission stations laboriously group of Christian "Powers"—especialcarried
on
and
for years in faith
made twelve years earlier. Those features begun,
if there chance to be eight of them.
had mostly become obliterated at my prayer, and in a moment they are tram- ly Here
in Tientsin there is a panorama
wild
boars, or plunnext visit in 1857. The crater had then pled under foot by
of
Nations
which is a perpetual sugAll
much filled up, and the fires had been dered by savages and then burned to
at the Colum"mid-way"
of
the
gestion
transferred over a mile south to Hale- ashes, the inmates either driven away like bian Exposition, the same polyglot of
noxious
animals,
or
hunted
to
death
like
maumau.
We were off for Hilo before noon criminals unfit to live. We can by no races and peoples, the same unhampered
the same frank exhibiMost of the road between Kilauea and means enumerate all the stations of intercourse, andworst
in each and in all,
tion
of
what
is
Olaa had been handsomely corduroyed which some one of these things has been
over the pahoehoe with the trunks of tree true, but they abound in the provinces for the edification of the Chinese, who
ferns, which made progress rapid down of Chihli, Honan, Shensi, Shansi, Shan- organized the Boxers because they were
and vainly hoped to get
hill. The then large population caused tung and Manchuria in all which vast tired of the Westone
can sympathize with
rid
of
it.
Now
much travel between Hilo and Kau. We territory clear up to the Amur river there
of this Emthem,
the
occidentalizing
if
no
reason
to
homeward,
faces
Hais
that
Chrissuppose
any
set our
taking the
were
an
to
be
extension
of what has
pire
makua coast and Waipio Valley on our tian building, either Roman Catholic or
route. The strongest impression on the Protestant remains standing. Besides already been done. This is one side of
juvenile mind was that of the ocean view- this the reflex waves have extended the shield. On the other hand, China has
ed from the lofty pali, and the mighty through mid-China, to the extreme west- a great abundance of able men from afar,
walls of the great valley with its immense ern boundary, so that for the first time who wish well to the Empire and to all
since the Empire was occupied as. a mis- who inhabit it, and who know much betwaterfall.
Some mention should be interesting sion field, China may be said to have ter than any Chinese, or than all the milof memories of visits at Kailua from almost no missionaries left in the interior. lions of the Chinese race combined what
various missionaries. Such visits were They are massed in Peking and Tientsin, it is imperatively necessary that China
always delightful to us. Yet the ladies Chefoo and Shanghai, and in the latter should have if she is to continue to exist.
and sometimes the children were apt to port in great numbers, especially those Unfortunately not many of these men
be landed from their schooners in sad of the Inland Mission, which a year ago have any opportunity to make their inplight, after the hardships of the voyage. had 814 missionaries in the field. Now fluence felt, though the press of the world
I remember two fair young women being it is said that half of them have gone is no doubt open to them as it never was
brought in in fainting condition in the home, or to Australia, pending the open- before. Modern diplomacy has some excellent qualities, but it has not mastered
litters which tney had occupied on the ing of the doors at present closed.
This is the first time since the crusades the art of reconciling irreconcilable and
deck of the vessel. These were Mrs. Dr
Chapin, and Mrs. Ephrain Spaulding. —which took place so long ago that selfish interests, and until it has done so
The Spauldings made us a long visit, dur- most of us have but an imperfect recol- it is hard to see how the Chinese puzzle
ing which I formed an intense childish lection of the details—that the whole is to be settled. But there is a large and
attachment to Mr. S., who was a sweet Christian world has been moved to co- perhaps an increasing number who beand devout man. An earlier visit is re- operate in one common cause; and for lieve that in His hands are all the Corcalled, made by the Bingham family the sake of the cause, of the Christian ners of the Earth, of which China is unabout 1833. Most of their time was world, and also of, the non-Christian doubtedly a large one, and that God does
spent on the upland above us. Mrs. B. world, it is to be hoped it will be the not mean after halving kept this most anwas much of an invalid. Father Bing- last. If it is ever possible to tell the cient of Empires with its incomputable
ham was a somewhat stately, courteous secret history of the combined move- millions of people all these millenniums,
gentleman, for whom I had much liking, ments of this year, with all the ad cap- to have China divided and become an
and a little fear. The Baldwins repeated- tandttm vulgus pretensions, and the futile Asiatic Poland. Indeed there are signs
ly visited us from Waimea. Dr. B. we and disappointing execution of high that the hopelessness of such a solution
all liked. He was personally active, even promises, it will be a great disillusion to has forced itself upon even the most ambreaking into a run, something rarely the enthusiastic friends of humanity who bitious diplomats of Europe, who have
seen in grown men in Kailua. My child- had hoped that millennial auroras were more than they can do with the regions
ish impressions of all these friends was being woven a few months ago at the already under their rule or within their
wholly favorable, accompanied by the Hague. In former years Asia has seen "sphere." It is too early to tabulate
utmost reverence for their spirituality and a great deal of the "seamy side" of the the losses, even of missionary life, for
devoutness.
much vaunted Civilization of the West. even as I write a circular dispatch comes
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around to all the Consulates and Missions saying that word has come from
some German at T'ai Yuan Fu that several Swedes and British-subjects (missionaries) supposed to have been killed
have been found, and are to be brought
to the coast. They will have an even
more thrilling story to tell than the many
which have been already widely told by
(he refugees of the China Inland Mission, several of whom are now in Tientsin. It may have come to your notice
that the American Board headquarters
in Pang Chuang, Shantung, (from which
for thirteen years I have sent you occasional letters), enjoys the unique distinction of being (aside from treaty ports defended Tientsin and Newchwang) the
only Protestant mission property intact
in all China, from the Yellow to the
Amur rivers! The Boxers had a plan
to make it a Boxer headquarters, and
some of their leaders were friendly to us,
and made a private bargain with our native pastor and some members, in consideration of a feast and the present of a
horse, to spare our place. Later they disagreed among themselves, and with the
capture of Peking the tide turned. It is
still guarded by soldiers, but we think the
danger has probably passed.
Of many of the members we know that
they were swept away by the mandatery
Edicts from the Throne, followed by local proclamations not less so, and many
went through the form of recantation to
save their lives and their property. Multitudes of them have been pillaged, some
four different times, and some are wanderers on the face of the earth with the
cold winter upon them, and their only
Shepherds hundreds of miles distant
We shall try to help them a little, but it
is difficult to get the facts, and the wisdom of the two native pastors and helpers
is taxed to the utmost to know what to
do and how to do it in the unexampled
circumstances. Many readers of The
Friend have been interested in this field
for many years. Will they not all pray
for guidance for the missionaries and the
native Chinese leaders, and for deliverance for the flock into greener pastures
and beside stiller waters in the near
future? We are watching your progress
under the new regime with the greatest
interest.
Very sincerely yours.
Arthi'r H. Smith.
Diamond Jubilee of Kawaiahao
Church.
Upon the first Sabbath of last month.
December 2d, was fitly celebrated the
75th anniversary of the organization of
the first Church of Christ among the natives of the Hawaiian Islands. The
greatest caution had been exercised in
admitting converts to baptism and
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church privileges. But on December
sth, 1825, after six months of probation,
eight of the leading chiefs who had given
clear evidence ol Christian character,
were baptized, and organized into a
Church of Christ. Their names were
Kaahumanu, the Cjueen Regent, Kalanimoku, the prime minister, Namahana,
sister to the Regent, Laanui, Kapule,
Kealiiahonui, Kaiu, and Kalaaiula. Such
was the origin of Kawaiahao Church,
a leading event in the history of Hawaiian Christianity.
The anniversary was observed by special exercises in the Kawaiahao edifice,
both in the morning and the evening,
These were in botn the native and English languages, under the able direction
of the Rev. W. D. Westervelt. Addresses were made by Rev. Henry W.
Parker, who has been the pastor of the
Church for thirty-seven and a half years,
by Hon. E. K. Lilikalani, who spoke in
English, giving a brief resume of the
history of the Church, by Rev. John C.
Hay giving "Aloha from the Denominations," by Hon. W. R. Castle, giving
"aloha from the Descendants of the Missionaries," and by Rev. E. S. Timoteo
giving "aloha from the Hawaiian
Churches," and the recounting of the
origin of the sister Church of Kaumakapili in Honolulu. A letter of felicitation was also read by Rev. O. H. Gulick,
as Committee of the Central Union
Church, the church home of a large
number of the children and grandchildren of the Missionaries.
Among those occupying the platform
were the Rev .Dr. H. Bingham and Mrs.
L. B. Coan, a son and daughter of the
first pastor of the Church, Mrs. Ann E.
(Clark) GuHck, daughter of the second
pastor, and Mrs. Ellen (Armstrong)
Weaver, daughter of the third pastor.
There was also the venerable Mrs. Angeline Castle, who has for 58 years lovingly
co-operated in the work of the Church.
Mrs. Persis Taylor was there, the daughter of Father Thurston, the pioneer colleague of Father Bingham. Mrs. Taylor has several adult grandchildren. On
the platform were also the Revs. O. H.
Gulick, O. P. Emerson and S. E. Bishop,
who pronounced the benediction at the
close of the evening service.
Music was a prominent feature»in the
exercises, including anthems sung by
Kawaiahao and Kamehameha pupils.
The world-admired voice of Mrs. Annis
Montague Turner contributed rich melody. Her youth was passed under the
shadow of Kawaiahao Church, which
she loves. Of all those present, probably
the only individuals who could remember the features of Kaahumanu, or the
great native congregations of the early
thirties, were Mrs. Taylor and Dr. Bishop. Dr. Bingham, now in his 70th
year, must remember something of the
January,1901.
times in the immense old thatched
church, which preceded the present edifice completed in 1840, of which the writer saw the corner stone before and after
it was laid.
In its massive solidity, the Kawaiahao
edifice well symbolizes the solid vigor of
the Christian life here established in a
by-gone generation. In the renewed
beauty of its interior, it exhibits the loving and conserving care of those now
concerned for Hawaiian Christianity. In
its dwindled congregations, it suggests
the sad diminution of the native race,
In the crowding business life invading
its neighborhood, are indicated the stress
and bustle of foreign and commercial activities, which tend to obliterate the past.
Be Conciliatory to Confucianism.
Said Rev. E. P. Thwing, addressing
the Honolulu Ministers Union:
I think we can agree with the suggestion of a recent writer, to hold to the
"true Catholicity that tells the heathen
that all the good, the truth, all that is
worthy and pure in his system will be included in, and conserved by Christianity
Christianity puts away Judaism, and yet
the spirit in which our Divine Master introduced it was, T came not to destroy,
but to fulfill.' A writer in 'China's Millions' the other day tells us that he had
much ado to prevail upon a convert to,
give up Confucius.' I should think so,
indeed; but why must Confucius be
'given up'? The Jew did not give up
Moses when he became a Christian.
Jesus is a Savior, the only Savior. This
is a blessed truth. Confucius never
made the slightest pretension to be such,
but is he therefore not a Sage?
"Take the idea that the hearts of these
people are as a garden. You feel he is
not growing the true life-giving tree. So
you run into his garden, and, with small
explanation and no apology, you trample
his plants under foot, pull them up with
rash haste, call them all weeds and rubbish, pronounce the fruit to be all poison,
and shout lustily for the axe to hew down
his trees. He is sure to get into a rage,
to pronounce you a ruthless destroyer
bent only on reducing his garden to a
waste, and, without waiting to see what
you have to offer, will expel you ignominiously from the ground. Go more
quietly to work. Be in less haste to uproot ,more anxious to plant and cultivate. Take your own good seed and sow
it quietly. Set hardy plants by his. They
will look strange and foreign for a time
and even when he brings them to the
table their taste may be alien at first.
But have patience; toil in the gentleness
of love. Your 'lily of the valley' has a
silent charm of lowly beauty, which will
steal into his heart; your 'Rose of Sharon'—he has seen no flower that has one-
�thousandth part its entrancing loveliness;
and when the 'Tree of Life' bears fruit in
his orchard, that will be fruit such as
his lips were never blessed with."
With a Christian spirit of conciliation,
not compromise, we will seek to win
them to a full surrender to Christ as
King of Kings, and Savior of the World.
With His spirit to lead and guide them
they will see how far superior is the wisdom of God to the philosophy of men.
Tolerance Towards Heathenism.
A local daily fears The Friend tends
towards undue severity, as appears from
the following:
"Rudyard Kipling's new serial 'Kirn,'
in the current number of McClure's, begins with this sentiment:
Oh ye who tread the narrow Wav
By Tophet flare to Judgment Day
Be gentle when the heathen pray
To Buddha and Kamakura.
We commend this sentiment to the
Friend when dealing with the Heathen
party."
In dealing with sincere but erroneous
beliefs, one should be gentle and tolerant,
but not so with the destructive and
poisonous practices inseparately connected with heathenism, such as the lewtl
dances, and the practices of sorcery, both
of which were actively fostered by Kalakaua and his Hale Naua, in his systematic building up of his Heathen Party.
These are the vile things which have
contributed more than all others to the
wasting away of the Hawaiian people.
Gentle tolerance of these hideous deviltries is deadly hostility to this suffering
and dying Hawaiian race.
Death of James A. Hopper.
One of Honolulu's oldest and most
esteemed citizens has just passed away
in his 70th year; having resided here over
forty years. By his skill and enterprise
in several branches of industry he accumulated a large fortune, and has always
been both respected and personally beloved. Mr. Hopper had long been a trustee in the Central Union Church. He
had been absent at the Coast for several
months, dying in San Francisco on Dec*
11, from a stroke of paralysis a few days
previous, his wife and eldest daughter being with him. The funeral was held in
Honolulu on the 23d ult.
"The righteous hath hope in his
death."
A Japanese Lady Editor.
The only Japanese daily paper in Honolulu, is also the only Japanese newspaper anywhere conducted by a woman.
The Hawaii Shinpo has for three years
and a half been very successfully managed by Mrs. Masa Takahashi. She is thir-
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ty-five years of age. She keeps all the on
accounts, and conducts the finances. Mr
Takahashi contributes to the
columns^
Thrum's Hawaiian Annual, 1901.
This issue of the uhequalled Annual
is of superior quality, befitting the new
century. The 47 pages of old and newstatistics of the Territory, with 16 pages
of register and directory, are of greatest
value. One hundred and thirty-five
pages are occupied by twenty miscellaneous original articles by various contributors, all of which are of great interest, many of them rarely so. We may
name especially "Hawaii's Forest Foes,"
by Prof. Koebele; "Geology of Oahu,"
"Honolulu in Primitive Days," "Hawaiian Fish Stories and Superstitions,"
"Lowrie Irrigating Canal," "Farming in
Hawaii," and "The Meaning of Some
Hawaiian 'Place-names'." Such a gathering of twenty choice contributions, as
well as the statistical and other arranged
information is the result of the rare ability and experience of Editor Thrum. A
list of the titles of 126 principal articles
that have appeared in 26 successive issues, indicate what a library of choice
and exact information about Hawaii this
series of Annuals contains.
M. s. steamer tuu ac junaro
having uecn engageu to
labor on tne rionecr .sugar naiuaiion ai
the i'.
lor noiioiuiu,
Before reaching the snip, howweie assaueu Oy sucn leplescntations as to tne hornble siavc.y
i.ahuiua.
ever, tney
they were doomed to in Hawaii, that /o
oi tneni relused to embark, and only 50
came down on the steamer. The latter
are now comtortably installed in good
quarters in the balmy climate of Lahaina, where they immediately entered upon permanent employment, with houses,
fuel and medical attendance free, and the
men receive wages of $20 a month in
gold, for ten hours' labor a day.
The remaining 78 deluded wretches, ill
clad and totally destitute, in a wintry
climate, when labor is in little demand,
became at once dependent on publiccharity and the poor house. Their
wretched fate is wholly due to the violent
misleading of the San Francisco Examiner, which sent out its agents a
thousand miles down the railroad, and
followed the poor people clear to the
steamer, urgently warning them that they
were to be sold as slaves to Chinamen in
Hawaii. In the meantime the Examiner
flamed with "yellow" scareheads denouncing the wickedness of the "missionaries' sons" here who were dragging
these poor Porto Ricans into slavery. No
doubt a large number of the people of
Death of David Lima Naone.
California were persuaded that the £.rThe above named excellent and hon- -ainincr was a noble champion of the opored Hawaiian gentleman passed away pressed.
As a matter of fact, no missionary's
somewhat suddenly on 28th ult. His
presence has been a familiar and hon- descendant is connected with the Pioneer
ored one in political, and especially in Plantation, which is conducted by most
religious circles, and the news of his reputable Germans. When last heard
death brought to us a deep feeling of from, the Examiner's people were noisily
grief. Lima, as we were accustomed to asking whether the planter's agents were
call him, was the most prominent among not going to come to the relief of the sufthe many sons of the late excellent fering Porto Ricans, whom themselves
Deacon Naone, long a leading official of had misled into misery. There is no
Kawaiahao Church. He has for many doubt that the employment and wages
years been the very active and efficient paid here are a great boon to the Porto
Assistant Superintendent of the large Rican laborers, who can earn no such
Sunday School. He was a carpenter by- pay at home, and who get their passage
trade. For several years he has conduct- hither free. It is quite doubtful, howed large contracts for painting houses. ever, whether they will prove capable
Mr. Naone was elected to the Legisla- workers. Our best laborers are the Porture of 1894, and became the Speaker of tuguese, numbers of whom are now bethe Lower House. He was one of the ing recruited in New England for our
three members of the late Registration plantations. They are glad to come, beBoard. He was a cluef leader in Y. P ing guided by the favorable reports of
S. Christian Endeavor work, and a dele- their friends who preceded them. Their
gate to the National Endeavor Conven- wages are larger than those promised to
tion in San Francisco three years ago. the Porto Ricans.
As an ex-Speaker, Mr, Naone was
buried with military honors. Few men
Record of Events.
of his age have done more honor to the
Hawaiian race.
Dec. ist.—Hawaii's Delegate-elect, R
W. Wilcox and Secretary, leave by the
"Yellow" Philanthropy.
Rio Janeiro for Washington.—St. Andrew's church fair, at the cathedral
A company of 134 natives of Porto grounds, proves an entertaining, and
Rico, men, women and children, arrived financial success.—Reception of the
at or near San Francisco over two weeks Young Men's and Young Women's
ago, with the expectation of embarking Christian Associations at Progress Hall
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passes off with much satisfaction both as
to numbers and sociability.
2nd.—Kawaiahao Church fittingly
celebrates the seventy-fifth year of its organization by special historical and musical services, and is largely attended by
an interested audience of natives and foreigners.
3rd.—The Protective League of Honolulu organizes for work with W. A.
Bowen, president; Rev. G. L. Pearson,
vice-president; D. H. Case, secretary,
and Jos. P. Cooke, treasurer.—Regular
meeting of Social Science Club discuss
wireless telegraphy and kindred electrical subjects.
sth.—The People's Ice Company and
the Hawaiian Electric Company amalgamated.—Several small parcels of city
real estate sell at public auction to satisfy a partition suit, realizing $48,000.
6th.—The government accepts and
takes over from the contractors the
down-town sewer system section of district No. I.—Pleasant evening concert at
Pauahi Hall to guests and pupils of Oahu
College.
Bth.—The dredger at work near the
Marine Railway meets a serious mishap
to its machinery through long continuous use, and two of its hands narrowly
escape injury in the crash.
10th.—A delegation of prominent
Mormons arrive per Zeakmdia to participate in the approaching fiftieth anniversary of Mormonism in these islands.—
Annual meeting of the Historical Society
at the Y. M. C. A. hall. After the election of officers the president, Dr. N. B,
Emerton, read an Historic account of the
old fort of this city.—The Republicans
decline to join hands with Independents
in framing a city charter for Honolulu,
but will form a committee of its own for
such purpose.
12th.—Mormons' semi-centennial jubiliee exercises open at the Orpheum.—
The plate-glass window of Frank Kruger, watchmaker and jeweler, corner of
Fort and Merchant streets, is smashed
by some unknown miscreant, but no loss
of goods occurred.—Dr. J. H. Raymond
is the new president of the Board of
Health.—Mysterious death of Miss Clara
Schneider, a domestic employed in the
family of P. Neumann, Esq.
15th.—The concert of Mrs. W. Hoffmann and Wray Taylor, at the Opera
House, for the benefit of the lepers'
Christmas fund, realized a handsome
sum, and the varied program gave delight to the large audience.
16th.—Frank P. Bennett, a noted Indian scout and for some time past a teamster of Camp McKinley, is found lifeless
in his room; evidently a case of suicide,
from a note found addressed to his commanding officer, dated the 13th, probably
the day of his death,—Three Chinese are
arrested for the inhuman act of turning
a sick countryman out of doors to die.
[January, 1901.
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lytli.—The Kaniehaineha schools celebrate Founder's Day by appropriate exercises, a luau, and memorial services.—
The Board of Health begin retrenchment
in expenses of its Bureau.—Policeman
Lambert makes a gallant rescue of lady
and child by stopping their runaway
horse and saving the carriage from a
smash-up.
20th.—A Japanese bicyclist collides
with a heavy dray and falling under its
wheels sustains injuries which cause
death within a short time.—The new Honolulu Meat Market Company opens for
business in the Wavcrley Block, and the
crush of patrons and visitors indicate due
appreciation of the up-to-date enterprise
—The new S. S. Sierra arrives from San
Frandsco en route to the Colonies, belated awaiting the English mail and delayed by an exceedingly stormy passage.
She brings a large list of passengers tor
Honolulu; also the remains of the late
Jas. A. Hopper, whose death occurred
two days before the steamer's departure
for this port.
21 st.—A steady stream of visitors
throughout the day inspect the new
steamship Sierra and arc pleased with its
appointments, —Christmas tree gatherings are led. off by the Central Union
Church Sunday school, so as not to conflict with home plans for the eventful
day.
23rd.—The first lot of Porto Rican laborers, 56, arrive by the Rio Janeiro for
plantation work. —Sunday open air
sacred concerts (,so called,) by the government is precedent for further intrusion
of like character at the Orpheum, to
which the management arc aiming to
charge an admission fee.
24th.—The Ashley property, on Thurston avenue, is secured tor a parsonage
for Central Union Church.—Holiday
shopping and delivery of Santa Claus'
tributes throughout the city causes unusual animation in all circles, and is only
temporarily checked by a heavy down
pour of rain at dusk.—The 2-year old
child of Wm. Boyd succumbs to fatal injuries to spine, sustained by a fall.
25th.—Merry Christmas to all. Special services in several of the churches.—
Christmas dinner to young men at the
Y. M. C. A. hall, arranged for and served by members of the sister association.
—F<x>tball contest between ()ahu College Alumni and Maile Ilima teams, result in a tie of no score.
26th—Board of Health following retrenchment policy discharges Bacteriologist Hoffmann, Dispensary Physician
Howard, Examining Physician Myers
and Veterinarians Monsarrat and Shaw ;
Board declares it will purify Chinatown.
27th —Supreme Court of Hawaii declares vested rights the law of ways over
land; also that adoption of child gives it
no rights as heir.—Japanese woman at
Iwilei nearly murdered by a countryman
sue had given ncr earnings.
2»tli—Evidence accumulates thai Japanese secret societies composed ol paralo whom
sites defeat justice in Hawaii, itueiuing
their criminal members. —David L. \aonc, a leading native, dies.
2yth—Last ot the business trusts "in
restraint of trade" bows to the Federal
law ; the tight against them begun by the
Advertiser some months ago is apparently won.—Murderer Pueo dies at the hospital of consumption, induced by his selfinflicted wounds.
30th—Funeral of David L. Naone
from Kawaiahao Church.—One ol Honolulu's coldest days; the thermometer
it Punahou was at 55 tlegrees this a. 111.;
the lowest known there is 52 degrees,
some years ago.
31st—Fire at l'alama destroys four
Chinese stores and dwellings, all new
buildings.— The Advertiser, recognizing
the value of The Friend's record ol
for lyoo publishes them in their
entirety as the "Chronology of local
events for the past year."—Advices received Of the loss, at Hilo, of the steamer Kilauea Hon.—()rgan recital and midevents
night watch services
Church.
Jan.
1st—New
at Central
Union
Year's Day.— The Ad-
vertiser outdoes all its former efforts in
an illustrated holiday issue of 32 pages.
—Editor W. Horace Wright of the Inde-
pendent is found dead at his desk from
a big dose of carbolic acid.—Annual reception and collation at the V, M. C. A.
to young men of the city.
BIRTHS.
PARIS—Io this city, Dec. lxth,
Edwin 11. Parte, ,i son.
to the wife
of
MARRIAGES.
Chloairo, 111., Nov.
C, N. I'ond, of Oberlln,
Miss Edith o. Rtdredge,
POND—ELDRBDOB—III
Mth,
by
the Rev.
Percy M. I'ond
to
both of Honolulu.
Bng.,
BTARKEY—HUTTER-ln Devonshire,
Dec. Bth, by the Rev. A. E. Robinson, Wm.
1!. Starkly, of Kaupo, Maul, to Miss Lucy J.
Kutter, of Ilminster, Somerset.
11110, Dec. Nth by the
Key. J. A. Cruian, Archibald A. Steele to
Miss Helen Willis.
THOMI'SON-COOK—At Kuwalahao Church.
this city, Dec. 12th, by the Rev. H. 11.
l'arker, Jno. 11. Thompson to Miss Lillian I'.
Cook, both of Honolulu.
CARTY—MERVY-ln this city. Dec. 21st, by the
Rev. Hamilton Lee, Franklyn Carty, of Papaaloa, Hawaii, to Miss Almee Mervy, of
Oakland, Cala.
HKiELOW—BAIN-At Punahou, this city, Dec.
Hath, by the Rev. Wm. M. Klncald, Mr. Oeo.
L. Hlgelow of this city, to Miss Helen Bain
of Wallenbeen, N. 8. W.
AI'BTIN-<;AKM>KK Al KobaU, Hawaii, Deo. 27th
by the Rev. J I" Knlinnn, awMcd b) Rev Sl'Pern
Rev (has Andcraon Aii»lin„ paxlor of the Kohala)
Union Church, Ho Mlkn Helen X (ianlncr of Cleveland
STEELE-WILLIS-In
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Ohio.
————
DEATHS.
OKHR-In HUo, Doc. 3rd, Mrs. Vlrla, wife of
H. B. Oehr, born In Northport, Wis., aged
27 years.
Hori'E×ln San Francisco, Dec. 11th, Jas.
Alexander, beloved husband of Ellen Hopper
aged 69 yearn.
Hllo, Dec. 22nd,
C
Steele, Manager Hllo Tribune, Archibald
a native of
Scotland, aged 34 years.
DOIRON—In this city, Dec. 27th, A. A. Dolron
aged 87 years, a long time resident of these
Islands.
STEELE—In
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is under this latter name we are to win
representation and participation in its affairs, the motion for a change of name
This page la-devoted to the Interests of the Ha- came quickly. Would that methods on
wallan Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Board, l« responsible for Its conthe mainland were as elastic and that
tents.
transfers over denominational lines could
easily be effected.
Editor.i as Hereafter
Rev. O. P. EMERSON
monies collected by subscription papers passed around among
The Meeting at Hana.
the different parishes of the islands of
Maui, Molokai and Lanai, are not to be
of the collectors, or in
On account of the election, which was left in the hands treasurer
the
hands
of
the
of the church
6th,
of
the meeting
the
held November
Maui and Molokai Association was post- circulating the papers; such monies are
to be put for
poned till the 14th. And again, owing by vote of the Association,into
the hands
to the severe Kona storm which swept safe keeping till wanted
for
those islof
the
Board
agent
of
the
deover the group, the meeting had to be
layed till the 19th; from that date it con- ands, who at present is Miss N. J. Malone
tinued nearly the entire week, the S, S of Wailuku.
Rev. S. Kapu, late pastor of the
Association closing as late as Friday p.
at Wailuku, and who for over a
Church
111., when the pastors and delegates from
suspension from the
western Maui and Molokai had- to em- year has been under
ministry, has been
service
of
the
active
bark on the return voyage of the steamer
The meeting was well attended and was restored to full standing.
Rev. Nu a has been doing good worka good one. There was noticeable on the
liana. It is expected that he may go
in
desire
for
of
some
and
unusual
the
part
to
the assistance of Mr. Pali, pastor at
best things. The presence of Rev. James Lahaina.
Messrs. Pali and Nawahine.
Kekela, our veteran missionary to the
veterans
the
of the Maui and Molokai
Marquesas, was felt as an inspiration.
were
Association
both absent from the
noticeable,
was
on
the
of
part
There
also
liana
at home by sickness.
meeting,
kept
some of the leaders, a tendency to talkA student was found for the theologitoo much. But that has always been a
cal school, and a motion was passed to
fault of this body.
the effect that the members of the Assoa
of
speaking
When
Rev. judge in
wish the general meeting this year
pastoral visitation, reiterated his often ciation
quoted saying, that the spring is not sup- to be at Tlilo.
posed to go to the thirsty ox. but the ox
lo the spring, he was rebuked by a quiet The Evangelistic Tour of the North
Pacific Missionary Institute—
brother from one of the inaccessible valleys of Molokai. who said, that by followThe Work at Hauula.
ing such foolish advice he had almost
wrecked his work, but now he had
By Rev. J. Leadingham.
learned better. "He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures, he lesdeth beDoubtless to many readers this moveside the still waters, is spoken of Him ment will require a word of explanation.
who seeks the hungry and the thirsty The change which has taken place in
wherever they can be found and would late years in these islands, involving, as
not let them perish for lack of bis fond, it has done, the transition from the use
loviiir care. Sun-lv the pastors of the of the Hawaiian to the English language
churches-in caring for their people can- in the schools; and the great development of business interests, thus bringing
not find a better example to follow."
The name "Presbytery of Maui and the native population into contact more
Molokai" is no more, it is a part of the than ever with the advantages as well as
history of the past, which perpetuated the temptations of outside civilization,
the names of such Pood men as Alexan- have made it imperative that the standard
der and Baldwin. Hitchcock and Forbes: of education for the native pastors should
in the future the body so lone: designated be raised to such a degree as to fit them
by this honorable and reverend name is for their positions now rendered more
to be known as the Association of Maui difficult by these facts. Accordingly it
and Molokai. The change was effected has been the policy of the school for some
without a iar or a word of complaint. No time to admit only young men of at least
change of method was required, for the a fair degree of previous education, who
methods of the Association of Maui and had some knowledge of English and
Molokai arc practically the same as those were of such an age that they could be
of the three other associations of the expected to acquire more. The object in
croup. When it was explained that the regard to the EnHish was not so much
great body to which we helonp-. which to give them the ability to preach in it as
sent us our early missionaries and which to read it easily, and thus oocn the field
has ever since helped us in our work, of EnHish literature to their use.
does not employ the word presbytery. hut
Such young men as a rule can be
prefers the word association, and that it found only among those who have been
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for sometime in the higher schools for
boys, as the Kamehameha, Lahainaluna
and Royal Schools. These young men,
however, have not as a class been in the
habit of looking to the ministry as an inviting field for their life work. The attractions in other directions are much
greater. They easily find employment,
more or less renumerative, in teaching,
or in business and mechanical pursuits.
Even if they should have cherished the
thought of entering the ministry, as some
of them have, the pressure brought to
bear by those who wish to secure or retain their services is frequently more
than they can stand, and they give up
their purpose and go into other callings.
The problem is, therefore, to keep up
the grade of the school and at the same
time secure an adequate number of properly qualified students. Resides the difficulties already mentioned, and also as a
partial cause of them, is a low spiritual
condition among the native churches and
people. The question hence arose, how
can these difficulties be overcome? It
was very clear that unless some way
could be devised, the school so far as
the natives are concerned was destined to
die a natural or unnatural death. The
writer having the chief responsibility in
the conduct of the school, naturally gave
the subject a good deal of attention. The
thought at last suddenly came to him
Why not take the young men now in attendance and go amon£ the churches and
try to arouse a new interest in spiritual
things? Tt seemed that such a movement might, though the religious interest
awakened and through the example of
young men already devoted to the work
of the ministry, be a new and powerful
motive in turning the minds and hearts
of other young men to the same calling,
and result in a great strengthening of
both the school and the churches.
The thought was mentioned to Mr.
Theodore Richards and struck him favorably. After further consideration the
matter was referred to again and Mr.
Richards agreed to join in helping to carry it out. It was then brought before
the Home Committee of the Hawaiian
Board, and by that Committee recommended to the Roard. by which it was approved. A month was then, devoted to
preparation for the tour. Special topics
tor presentation to the people were
studied. Mr. Richards drilled the men
who were to go on the trip in singing
and in the use of small tracts and Scripture texts in dealing with people individually., It was strongly felt from the beginning that if the effort was to succeed
it must be a work of God and not of the
mere human instrumentalities. A short
prayer meeting was held daily for the latter part of the time, in which prayer was
offered up that the Holy Spirit might be
the guide throughout the whole movement, and that both workers and people
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might be prepared in advance for whatever was to be done. Whatever has been
accomplished already we believe to be
due to this agency alone: It becomes
increasingly clear also that where there
is absolute dependence on this divine aid
and trust in it results will be secured.
It had been the plan to start on the
trip immediately after election, but the
excessive rains prevailing at that time
prevented us from getting away. Another question had been as to the place
of beginning. It did not seem desirable
to thrust ourselves upon a community
without the wish of the people and the
pastor, as cooperation is necessary to success. The purpose to make the tour had
been laid before the Oahu Ministerial Association, but it had not been enthusiastically received. This may have been due
to the fact that the nature and method of
the effort were not fully understood. Tt
SO happened that there was a church
building in process of erection near Hauula, on the windward side of the island
of Oahu. The pastor. Rev. S. D. Niuihiwa, had been struggling for a number
of years to bring it to completion but it
still remained in an unfinished state. As
help bail been furnished to this church
from the Pastors' Aid Fund, it was felt
that it would be proper to go to this
field without any formality anil aid in the
manual work of finishing the building,
and at the same time do as much as possible among the people. This plan was
adopted and on November 19th the students took the train for Kahuku, the end
of the line, and from there rode to Hauula, eight miles away, with a Chinaman.
Mr. Richards and myself went the next
day. We took with us blankets, mosqnito nets, books, clothing and such
things as we needed for our work or comfort. We also had a magic lantern and
slides and a. small organ. We slept in
the house of the pastor and each one took
his turn a day at a time in being cook.
We found that the pastor with his own
almost unaided strength had put up the
frame of the building, put on the siding,
the roof boards to which the shingles
were to be nailed, and a part of the shingles themselves. We set about at once
getting the roof finished so that we could
work inside in case of rain, and so that
we could have a place for meeting the
people. There was no government
school at the time in the place, and the
children came to the home of the pastor
and were taught by his wife, a most excellent Hawaiian woman. This gave us
a chance to meet them from the start.
When school was over Mr. Richards
taught them to sing, using some new
songs which are to appear in the new
Hawaiian hymn book that he is editing.
The children were very much interested
in this work, and it was kept up daily. one
of the students taking Mr. Richards'place
whenever he was obliged to be away.
,
,
January,1901.
THE FRIEND.
On the first Sunday a Sunday School was
held followed by a service in the church.
About fifty people were present; a sermon was preached by Mr. David Ai, one
of the students. In the evening another
meeting was held at which the magic
lantern was used. Some of the songs
which the children liar been learning
were thrown upon the screen and sung
by the audience. Resides these songs
scenes from the life of Christ were shown
each one being accompanied by suitable
explanation and application.
()n the following days several meetings were held in the afternoons. At one
of these, after an address had been made
from the words "Looking unto Jesus the
Author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is now set down
on the right hand of the throne of God,"
the opportunity was given to any who
wanted to be followers of Christ to show
it by rising. After some hesitation and
with a good <deal of deliberation some
half dozen arose. At another meeting a
day or two later a similar opportunity
was given and these same people and
some others arose. From this time a
daily meeting was held at the close of
the exercise in singing with those who
had thus expressed the desire to become
Christians, and others who cared to join
them, for a study of the fundamental
ideas of Christianity. This was really
a Bible study. Verses and passages bearing on the subject of the day were looked up under the direction of the leader
by the people themselves. In this way
they were led to see just what the Rible
had to say on such subjects as, God.
Jesus Christ, Sin, repentance, confession
of sin, faith, the new heart, and kindred
topics. The striking thing about this
exercise was the power of the simple
statements of the Scriptures to interest
those who studied them in this way. To
most of them the Mible was not a very
familiar book.
Those who attended the class were
nearly all young people. There were
about twenty in all, of whom twelve or
fourteen attended with great regularity.
There were of course different degrees
of intelligence and earnestness in the professions they made. Some gave the most
positive assurance they intended to follow Christ and lead right lives. Others
showed by their manner that they were
not so deeply affected.
An instance showing that there was a
quiet but none the less real work of the
Spirit going on was brought to light
just before we left the place. One of the
young people whoregularly attended the
daily Bible-class was a boy of sixteen,
who was one of the most promising of
all the number. He came to me and said
that some of the younger boys wanted
to become Christians. He told me that
one of them had come to him and said,
"I want to follow Jesus. Tell me how
you tlo it." I afterwards found the boy
and spoke to him on the subject, and
found that it was true. Another boy of
the same age also said the same thing.
Owing to lack of time and some peculiar difficulties existing in the community, we were not able to make the careful canvas of individuals that we had hoped and consequently did not bring the
work to as definite a conclusion as could
be wished. There is no question, however, that it was a work of genuine spiritual profit to a good number of people in
the community. Aside from what has
been mentioned, there was a growing
friendliness among the people toward us.
This was especially seen on the last Sunday we were there, after they had heard
that we were to leave on the next day.
The afternoon service of that day was
one for children, led by Mr. Richards, in
which he showed them the graphophone.
and followed this with a short sermon in
Hawaiian. Although it was a meeting
for children, the old people were there as
well. At the close of the service they
lingeied about for a considerable time,
and showed a most cordial spirit and
gave us many expressions of their good
will.
We were in Manilla four weeks. This
long stay was due to rainy weather and
delays in getting material for the workon the church. Even then we were obliged, on account of a mistake made in
the measurement of the spaces for the
windows, to come away before the church
was finished. In the meantime, however,
a better understanding of the work we
were doing had gone abroad, and we now
find that the way is opening on all sides
for further effort.
Mormon Jubilee.
A three days meeting was held in Honolulu in the middle of last month, attended by enthusiastic Mormons or
"Latter Day Saints" from all parts of the
group, in commemoration of the first
landing here of Mormon emissaries from
Salt Lake in 1850. Their leading figure
was President George Q. Cannon from
Utah with one of his wives and three
boys. Cannon was the leader of the first
Mormons in Hawaii, and claimed in a
subsequent publication, to have acquired
the Hawaiian tongue suddenly by
miraculous gift. He was always a vigorous man, and still retains much activity
I last saw him in 1861, when he was entering a whaleboat at Lahaina to go tb
Lanai with others of a delegation from
Utah, in a futile effort to recover for his
church the lands on that island of which
they claimed to have been defrauded.
I had a speaking acquaintance with
several of those early Mormon preachers
and was once horrified by one of them,
who came to my study for a bible, assert-
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THE FRIEND.
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ing that Jesus Christ had several wives
>ur interview suddenly ended. That individual bad a sinister face. Sonic of
these men gave the impression ol sincerity, but not of being spiritually minded
Their religion is a carnal one. and seems
to know nothing of dee]) reverence or
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9
Vol.
whose title adhered to it. Another old- through a gorge so as to do mischief, but
1 never on the open sea.
tinier gniie.
Ala Moana is being graded and opened
An immense excavation now occupies
a broad Straight avenue from the the length of Alexander Young's proFishmarket, through the Naval Reser- jected hotel, extending from King to
vation, past the Marine Railway, the new Hotel streets. The concrete walls of the
heavenlj aspiration although they cm Iron Works and the Sewer I'uinp, to foundation are being rapidly placed.
utter devout prayers. They do not be- connect with the ocean boulevard leading This will be the largest single building
lieve that "(rod is a Spirit." He is a man to Waikiki.
:in the city.
greatly developed, and the Fathei ol all
mankind, by literal, carnal procreation. I
The keels have just been laid of the
Meat Importations.
have had a youth lul preacher express to two largest ships in the world for the
me the most evidently honest wonder Great Northern Railway, to ply between
Recent increase of refrigerating acthat anyone could think of God in any Seattle and the Orient, mainly as cargo
Upon our steam lines is
commodation
other way.
carriers. They have 33,000 tons displace- working a great revolution in our meat
In 1850, I visited a seminary classmate ment or 30 per cent more than the mamyears the local supat his home in Palmyra, \\ V., and there moth Detitschiand. They will, however, supply, for some
of
beef
and
mutton
has been inadeply
of
met several of the old neighbors
have a need of only 14 knots an hour.
Joseph Smith, wh > had known him and Length 030 feet; beam 71, feet. Cost of quate and much of it of poor quality.
his father's family. They all testified to each $5,000,000. I lonolulu will not see Two large concerns, the Metropolitan
the low and dishonest character of that them—probably their depth is too great Market, and the Honolulu Meat Co. arc
now importing several hundreds of tons
Smith family, and that Joe was a knavish for this harbor.
of meats and poultry monthly from San
and tricky fellow, who got a living by his
Francisco and Seattle. The quality is
wits. It was near his home in Palmyra
extra, and the prices not exorbitant.
Our Exemption from Storm.
that Joseph Smith discovered the famous
metal plates which contained the Rook
of Mormon, and which an angel translatDecember in Hawaii has been a month QAIIU RAILWAY & LAND CO.
ed to him.
of
most charming weather. It has been
I'or the past thirty venrs the Mormons a surprise
to us to learn what a furious
have maintained in Hawaii a missionary tempest lias raged to the eastward durforce of perhaps twenty young and ing the middle of the month. A thunder
zealous white preachers, who live famistorm (if unprecedented violence broke
liarly with the natives and manage to over San Francisco. Five large steamers
earn their own living. They are changed
which Kit the Coast, two of them from
every three years. Several thousand of Vancouver and Seattle,
Trains Run Between
speedily encounthe native Hawaiians are enrolled under tered a gale which for three or four days
PEARL CITY, EWA
HONOLULU,
their standard. A majority of these are battered them
a severity beyond
with
AND WAIANAE PLANTATIONS
believed to be perverts from the Roman anything on record in that part of the
Catholic faith, rather than from the Pacific. Everyone ot the five ships had
Protestant. Headquarters arc at Laic their passage to Honolulu
prolonged TAKE AN OUTING SATURDAYS.
near the north end of this island, where
the disabling
from
two
to
three
days
by
is a considerable colony of Hawaiians.
of
All experienced damage Trains will leave at 9:15 a. m., and 1:45 p. at.
They live industriously and are well reg- to machinery,
or cargo by the flooding of arriving in Honolulu at 8:11 p. m. and 5:55 p.m.
baggage
ulated. Good profits are gained by their the sea. Rut our section of the Pacific
labor in cultivating sugar cane which is (
ROUND TRIP TIOKErS;
rcean is truly Pacific. Hurricanes, cyground at Kahuku mill. The great Mor- clones,
Ist Class 2nd Class
never found their Pearl
typhoons
have
City
mon church at Laic is a conspicuous edi$ 75
$ 50
way hither. Sometimes in a storm the
1 00
Plantation
75
fice. In Hawaii as in Utah, the Mor- gale will draw around a headland or Kwa
Waianae
150
125
mon leaders display good" business abilU
ity.
Importers of Live Stock
Central Union Church Parsonage.
Certain members of Central Union
Church have contributed to buy the lately finished residence of Mr. Geo. Ashley
for $17,000, and donate it to the church
as a home for the pastor. The house is
commodious, upon an elevated site, on
Thurston Avenue, on the slope of Punchbowl.
MODERN LIVERY and
BOARDING
STABLE
MANUFACTURERS and DEALERS IN HARNESS
WAGON MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING
BLACKSMITHING and HORSE-SHOEING
DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN and FEED
HORSES, MULES, COWS, CHICKENS and VEHICLES
The dilapidated old Edinburgh House
has been torn down to give place to a
warehouse for the Union Feed Co. This
was once the residence of (lov. Kekuanaoa, and then of his royal son. Lot
Kamehameha Y. It was later fitted up W.
for the use of the Duke of Edinburgh,
HONOLULU STOCK-YARDS CO.
LIMITED.
H.
RICE, Resident.
W. 8. WITHERS, Msnsgcr.
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]}ANK OF HAWAII, Ltd.,
THE
BREWER & CO., Lti,
(Incorporated under the laws
Repulilic.)
General Mercantile
COMMISSION AGENTS.
HAWAIIAN ANNUAL
Queen ft, Htiohilu, HI.
FOR 1901 !
I>l HECTORS:
tleo. R. Carter
II Wiiterlionai'
C. M. Cooke
Candless.
Exchange drawn on Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
Hank, in San Francisco and New York, and their
correspondents throughout the worlil.
Attend to General Hanking Busincs=s.
Safe Deposit Boxes rented hy month or year.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Ordinary and teim Deposits will he received
Is an Illustrative Numlter Replete with Valuable
Interest allowed In accordance with rules
Historic Information pertaiuing to Hawaii and
and conditions as printed in Pass Book?. Co Is
for Handy Keference.
of terms and conditions upon which 1> posita
will he received may he hail upon appUcat on, or
Carefully revised Statistical and Census Tables, mailed to those desiring same.
prepared
Timely
Topics,
Articles
on
Specially
relating to the Progress and Development of
IRON WORKS CO.
the Islands. Research and Current History
with.
dealt
M «NrF\i'TCHK.l:s OF
concisely
One of the Most Interesting Numbers yet MACERATION TWO-ROLL MILLS,
Published. Alike Valuable for Home and
Foreign Headers.
with Patent Automatic Fml
Nothing excels the Hawaiian Annual in the
Double and Triple Effects, Vacuum Pans and
amount and variety of Reliable Information
H—nhst Pans, Steam anil Water Pipes, Brass
pertaining to these Islands.
and Iron Fittings of all Descriptions, Etc.
W. F. Allen
PACIFIC HARDWARE CO., Ltd.
HONOLULU
Fort St., Honolulu
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE,
CUTLERY AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
PRICE 7* CENTS.
• • * •
M AILED ABIIIIa b Foil f» U KKTS
Lnlirii-aling Oils, Art Goods
lecture Fntruiiio- a Specialty
M ETROPOLITAN
a
MEAT CO.
Honolulu, H 1.
J-JOLLISTER DRUG CO.,
Wholesale and Retnil
DRUGGISTS
and
THOS. G. THRUM,
Publisher
J. waller, manager.
SHIPPING AND FAMILY BUTCHERS AND NAVY CONTRACTORS.
Purvey-™ to Ooennic Stenmnliip Co., and the
PaWsfle Mllil StrHmbhip Co.
No HI. King Street
Honolulu, H. I.
l)f«l
in Photographic Supplies
Honolulu, H. I.
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SUGAR FACTORS.
Agents for
The ICwa Plantation Co.,
| \\T. G. IRWIN & CO.,
Fort Street, Honolulu
SUGAR FACTORS
COMMISSION AGENTS.
Oceanic Steamship Co.
|]ENRY MAY
Limited.
H. 1
Honolulu,
Queen Street
Agents for the
O. HALL & SON,
CO., Ltd.
Wholesale and Hetnil
I.UPOUTEKS AND DEALERS IN
SHIP CHANDLERY,
GROCERS,
PROVISION M ERCKANTB,
TEA AND COFFEE DEALERS.
HARDWARE
Tg
Ltd.,
£ASTLE & COOKE,
Honolulu,
I.
»4(Hl,oiHl.u:l
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Chas. M. Cooke, Pruldent; J. B. Atherton. VlceI'resldent; C. H. Cooke, Cashier; F. C. Atherton, Secretary. Henry Waterhouse, Tom May,
F. W. Macfarlane, E. D. Tenney, J. A. Mc-
27TH Issue.
LIST OF OFFICERS:
C. M.Cojke
President
Geui'K» m\ Robertson
Manaier
Kwrrtiir) iiinl I reasui it
!•. Kaxon HlsliO|i
....
CAPITAL
of the Hawaiian
Itetnil Departments:
AND
General Merchandise.
..
and King -treets.
Wuverley Block, Methel Street.
Corner of Fort
Wholesale and
Shipping Lepaitments:
JREAVER
H. J. NOLTE, PnopmKTOit
LUNCH ROOM,
TEMPERANCE COFFEE HOUSE.
Fort Street, Honolulu, 11. I.
Best Quality of I ignrettes, Tobacco, Smokers'
Arliclcs. etc. always oa hand.
Telephones:
Fort St.22 and
Hetliel St.. 24 and 949
Wholesale mnl Shipping I opt- OKI
Bethel Street.
.
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£LAUS SPRECKELS & CO.,
The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd.,
BANKERS.
Tne Kohnla Sugar Go ,
The Waimea Sugar Mill Co,
Draw I'xchange on Hie principal parts of the
(I SI loom
F J. I.owkky
The Koloa Agricultural Co.,
Kohsrt Lkwfus
world, nptl Ir. nsactii general Banking
The Kultou Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo.,
Husiness
COOKE,
&
J,EWERS Deaj.kkh
The Standnr I Oil Co.,
Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu,
I«
Oeo. K. Blake Steam Pumps,
Weston's Centrifugals.
LUMBER
&
BUILDING
MATERIAL. r
The New England MntuilLite Ins Co. of Boston
Office: 32 Fort St.
pHOS. G. THRUM,
.EtnaFire Insurance ('o of Hartford, Conn.
Yard: Between Kiug, Kort and Merchant Sts. 1
Alliance Assurance Co , of London
Importing and Manufacturing
JJAWAIIAN TRUST AND
|>ORTER FURNITURE CO.,
IafPOBTBRS
OF
INVESTMENT COMPANY, Ltd. FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY
AND BEDDING.
HONOLULU,
H. I.
Organized for express purpose of acting as
TRUBTEES, GUARDIANS,
ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS, RECEIVERS
and ASSIGN i.
Corner of Hotel and Bethel Sts
Wickerware, Antique Oak Furniture. Cornice
Poles, Window Shades and Wall Brackets
Low Prices
Satisfaction Guaranteed
STATIONER. BOOKSELLER,
NEWSDEALER,
And Publisher of the "Hawaiian Almanac and
Annual."
Dealer 1c Fine
Stationery, Books,
Toys
and Fancy Goods.
FORT ST., (Wear Hotel St) HONOLULU.
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