2 10 12 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/7196cca717cb3f38c65a86074ac32a91.pdf ac3aeda5c521fbb27b450c5974d9a548 PDF Text Text 1 �2 • A Cent Apiece Bend — THE FRIEND l2o for $1.00 inche* Famous pictures for Sunday School uses made by BROWN HILLS, The magnificent residence tract of the Oahu College. COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW Supplied with Artesian Water and Rapid Transit The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two years. Interest at 6 per cent. For information as to building requirements, etc., apply to FRIEND Is published the first week of each month in Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, 400-403 Boston Building. BISHOP Theodore: Richards, Business Manager of The Friend, P. O. Box 489. Transact a General Banking and Exchange Business. Loans made on approved security. Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check. Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, All communications of a literary character and Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire and Marine business on most favorable terms, should be addressed to in Friend Building on Bethel Street. The Managing Editor or The Friend, Honolulu, T. H. 400-402 Boston Building, and mml rrach the Board Ruumt by the Hth of Not a great many, but the v.Onth. The Board or Editors : Doremus Scudder, Managing Editor. Sereno E. Bishop, D. D. Rev. Orramel H. Gulick. Theodore Richards. Rev. Edward W. Thwing. Rev. William D. Westervelt. William L. Whitney, Esq. IE HIE SOME ElCEllill BOOKS Aye, or any day. "For Christmas"? And other things Hawaiian Bd. Roomi, Henry Waterhousc Trust Co., Entered October 97,1909. at Honolulu, Hawaii, at second class matter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. STOCKS, BONDS A LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. AND ISLAND SECURITIES Honolulu OAHU OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. W. M. Alexander, ad Hawaiian Islands. Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. Judd Building. .... BANKERS. HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE, 404 & COMPANY, Established in 1858. All business letters should be addressed and all M. O.s and checks should be made out to of Beverly Mass. to HAWAIIAN BOARD ROOMS 400 Boston Building COLLEGE THE Castle, Ist Vice-Pres't; Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. HF. COLLEGti. Ltd. WICHMAN, & CO., LTD. SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION Manufacturing Optician, (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., Presiueuc.) MERCHANTS. Jeweler and Silversmith. * and AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial ft Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass, PUNAHOU PREPARATORY SCHOOL Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation Leather Goods, Etc. Sugar Co., Co., Kihei Plantation Hawaiian (Samuel Pingree French, A. 8., Principal.) Hawaiian Island*. Honolulu Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta Offer complete tion. ... College preparatory work, together with special Commercial, Tel. Main 109 C. fl. Bell-ma, Mgr CLUB STABLES CASTLE - & COOKE, Ltd., Honolulu, H. I. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTORS. Agents for Co., Ewa Plantation The For Catalogues, address The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd., JONATHAN SHAW, The Kohala Sugar Co., SPRECKELS & CO., Business Agent, The Waimea Sugar Mill Co., BANKERS. The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd., Honolulu, H. T. Oahu College, The Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo., Draw Exchange on the principal ports of the The Standard Oil Co., ¥ M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. Geo. W. Blake Steam Pumps, world and transact a general banking business. Weston's Centrifugals, DENTAL ROOMS, ji New England Mutual Life Ins. Co., Boston, Honolulu : : : : Hawaiian Islands. Aetna Fire Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn., Alliance Assurance Co., of Londoa. Boston Building. Fort Street. Music, and Art courses. - - - ... FORT ST., ABOVE HOTEL, RIOB OF ALL KIN US GOOD HORSEH CAREFUL DRIVERS CLAUS * �HONOLULU, T. H., FEBRUARY, 1905 VOL. LXII OJigi No one in Japan ever rises to address an audience, enters a room, finds his way into a compartment of a car or into the cabin of a steamer without bowing 26, Jan. 05. to those who are there before him. Bows upon the street to acquaintances, Floating Assets — bows on meeting and parting, bows .$ 265.00 when passing any one in a narrow place, Subscription uncollected bows when going ahead of others in 1,576.00 the roads, bows everywhere are the first Investment uncollected order of politeness in the Island EmRental Due 75.00 pire. And all this is simply an expression of thoughtful consideration 200.00 Collections book rooms of others, whence the name o jigi, honorable bowing. Well were for Cash 314-89 America if we had more of the itsame. Considering the large number of Japanese among the constituency of The $ 2,430.89 Friend we will follow this pleasant custom and on the return from a three months' absence in the Mainland make Liabilities— our o jigi of hearty thanks for the kind welcome back to Hawaii nei. It is pleasant to be home again, side by side with $ 9,750.00 Bills payable busy, happy fellow workers, planning Overdraft at Bank 1,918.50 and praying and toiling for the triumph of the Kingdom. TREASURER'S STATEMENT. . .. $11,668.50 Continued Life of the Council The splendid vitality of the Twelfth $ 9,237.61 Excess of Indebtedness Triennial Council at Dcs Moines was its Indebtedness last month.... 9,799.26 most striking feature. It pulsated with life. Dead issues, speakers with mere names and nought beside, leaders with .$ 561.65 no following were nowhere in evidence. Indtebtcdness decreased Men with present day messages compelled a hearing and were not disappointed. By common consent it was the greatest meeting of American ConAnd it is going down still more, gregationalists ever held. It struck keythis debt. Promises are made to cover notes in spiritual enthusiasm, evangelispassion, educational progress, Christhe larger part of it and we are looking tic tian unity, missionary advance, conforward to next month when we hope structive thinking and social democracy. It inspired men, filled them with deterto say,—"no debt." mination to bring individuals into personal touch with Jesus Christ, laid down Communications no abstract articles of interdenominaSome contributors have evidently for- tional unity but went ahead to unite with gotten that unless communications Methodist Protestants and United reach the Managing Editor on or before Brethren, pledged itself to stand by the morning of the 24th day of the those who plead for support in aggresmonth there is no likelihood of their sive work, carried the Church to workbeing printed. Owing to this month's mgmen and compelled their attention. twenty-eight days all copy for the March The sessions closed. Months have sped. issue must reach the office not later Still the Council lives. All over the than February 23rd. Mainland pastors of great churches and . .. — 3 The Friend No. 2 of small are pushing the direct personal appeal as never before. Dr. Dawson of England, the apostle of the new evangelism, is invited to make a tour of many months throughout the leading cities of the Union. Men are being roused. Other denominations seeing how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity are asking to enter the triunity so happily forwarded in lowa's capital city. A new spirit has entered the Churches. Every week witnesses to the growth of a denominational consciousness which realizes it the mission ol the Congregational Church to serve in wider relations than ever. Not sectarian growth but larger service—service in helping to blot out sects and merge churches, service in bringing to men the consciousness of God, service in bridging the industrial chasm between class and class until classes shall cease to be. It was a privilege to be present at a gathering so potent and historical. Hawaii needs the inspiration of this Council. Its spirit is the spirit for which this Territory sighs. Yale and Harvard No better evidence of the thorough permeation of the Mainland Churches with this spirit can be found than in the missionary movement in the two oldest and largest Congregational colleges. To many the names Vale and Harvard suggest ideas of friendly rivalry in sport, to others high ideals of scholarship, to still others the rounded culture befitting educated gentlemen, but few have any notion 6f the splendid training in social service and in practical religious work open to every student in these two universities. Of late years the field exploited by the active Christian men has expanded beyond the boundaries of the Mainland states. One of the best friends Hawaii has is Dean Frank K. Sanders of Vale whose interest in this Territory is made evident not only in the persons of Revs. Mr. Hopwood and Dr. Baker but also in his readiness to influence others of his best men to come and labor here. Greater America however does not bound the field in the eyes of these ardent collegians. Recently at Cambridge the Harvard Mission was organized with the fourfold aim of familiarizing the University with �THE FRIEND 4 the work of Harvard men in the foreign field, of securing subscriptions to support graduates as missionaries, of bringing into a compact union all the students who expect to enlist in missionary service and of sending into the foreign field within five years no less than twenty Harvard men who are to be encouraged to go where the need and opportunity are greatest. Meantime Vale has invaded Hunan, the central province of China and the nursery of its noblest sons, and at Chungsha its capital is erecting a Christian University for the higher education of men drawn from all over the Empire. The work done by each of these American Universities is to be undenominational. Indeed the various missionary societies laboring in Central China expect to relegate to the new Vale in Hunan all higher educational work, reserving for themselves only the preparatory schools. In these days of frenzied finance it is well to stop and think that the young men who are to lead in the America of the future are being banded together to bring the world to Christ not only in Vale and Harvard but elsewhere throughout the educational centers of "God's Country." Frenzied Finance The sudden reaction from financial depression to elation caused by the rise in the price of the staple production of this Territory calls for serious consideration. The promise of prosperity is a good thing. Men were made to be glad when successful. And that gladness opens doors facing in two directions. (hie is upward to larger opportunity by the way of self-control. The other is downward to inevitable narrowness of life along the road of speculation. Our community is facing this alternative. It is time for leaders to set wise examples, to forego the opportunity of large speculative gains made through the forcing of securities above the point of actual permanent value, to discourage the boom movement, and in especial to lay emphasis on other than material values by generous support of institutions which stand for spiritual ideals. The tendency of such a financial season as the present is to induce persons with small means to risk their all and too often that which is not their own in the hope of large gains. The question for the Christian capitalist to consider is this: "Is it right for me to sell my stock at a price above its conservative value to young men and to others of untrained judgment knowing that they must suffer by the inevitable contraction in price which will come some day ? Am I not by so doing taking more than an equivalent for what I exchange, in other words am I not defrauding?" Of course the market may not yet have reached this condition. Judgment of financial values is also a delicate matter especially in view of such a commodity as that for which Hawaii is famous. The role of a prophet is not courted by any one and the most conservative judgment may err in over or under estimation. Granting all this, should not some of our public spirited men of business insight be ready to sound the warning when the danger point is evidently drawing near? The Nick of Time A quaint old English expression this but one full of meaning. It might be paraphrased "the wink of time." The old man with the sickle is now winking. To get the right work in before the eyelids close demands quick action. In other words if our leading Christian business men desire to turn the thoughts of the community to nobler things the moment for doing so most effectively is now. (httside of generous aid to evangelistic work no better method of accomplishing this end for Honolulu can be sought than by founding a public library. In this age when less than half a dozen towns in Massachusetts are without an institution of this nature the backwardness of this city is a reflection upon our public spirit and our Christian pretensions. Why not have one at once? The Legislature is about to meet. Suppose the owners of the private library on Hotel street should offer their plant to the Territory on condition that a Board of Trustees be constituted to manage its affairs consisting, say of nine members, four of whom to hold office for life and to be self-propagating shall be chosen by the donors, four to serve for stated terms shall be appointed by the Governor who himself shall be the ninth member c.v-oflicio and on the further condition that the Territory appropriate at least a minimum sum annually for its support. Will the Territory decline this offer? Could not some of our leading commercial men render a declination practically impossible by financial gifts which should insure to the city a library worthy of its size, its h'gh degree of intelligence and its conglomerate population? It is even conceivable that Mr. Carnegie would gladly aid a movement of this character. Very wisely his gifts are always conditioned on a goodly measure of government support. No public library should be established without this kind of constant popular backing. Local Option Senator Dickey's bill which is printed on another page merits the serious consideration of every one in the community. The first thing that commends it is its fairness to all parties. Temperance people often allow their view of the evils of strong drink to obscure their sense of justice. The liquor seller has his rights as well as any other member of the body politic. Society has fostered his creation or evolution. Society is responsible for him and therefore must treat him fairly. His business while legally pursued must not be taken from him without giving him both a chance to be heard in his defence and time to adjust his affairs or without appeal to the opinion. supreme authority—public Senator Dickey's bill recognizes this truth. It treats the liquor dealer fairly. It puts the whole question of the sale of intoxicants where it belongs upon the intelligence and conscience of the people. It says to the liquor dealer and to the advocate of no license "Prove jour case. The people are the jury. If you convince them you have them behind you to enforce the only sovereign dictate among men, that of public opinion." And the proposed bill does this without cost to either side. At every election the question must come up as a matter of course and be decided by the will of the majority. Again its feasibility recommends it strongly. It is simple, calls for no machinery, proposes no radicalism, offers no inducements to litigation and is proving its practicability in many parts of the United States. A third consideration in its favor is its address to the intelligence. The proposition is a challenge to both sides in the liquor controversy to train the mind of the electorate. Such a bill is a mighty aid to the cause of public education. We need this kind of thing in Hawaii more than in any section of the country except Porto Rico and the Philippines, because of the greatness of the task before us in training Hawaiians and Asiatics in the intelligent use of the ballot. The more frequently such referendums not only on this question but upon other matters of public policy may be had, the better for the future of these Islands. Every two years the forces of license and of restraint will line up to convince young and old and the result must be progress. Still further this bill proposes a stated appeal to conscience. Most political questions are matters of policy and address the prudential faculty. The liquor question enters the realm of conscience and thus trains the higher powers of the human soul. We need such �5 THE FRIEND appeals more and more frequently in a republic. We are forever splitting on issues dubbed democratic and republican. Here is a question which moves in the realm of the higher manhood. By all means let us have this biennial opportunity to speak to the conscience of the voter and thus train his loftier faculties. Finally the issue is with the moral will. The hardest thing a man has to do is to learn to say no, no to the lower nature, no to mere complacency, no to evils that threaten manhood, the family, the nation, human society itself. Senator Dickey's bill proposes at regular intervals an appeal to this power to say "ho" in every voter. The friend prays the Legislature to grant this privilege to the citizenship of our Territory.. The County Scheme It is clear that county government is not desired by the intelligence and moral worth of the Territory.' Upon its face it smacks of jobbery. Its purpose seems to be to create offices, useless offices. Its only outcome promises to be the waste of the people's money. Why should not the whole project be condemned kindly, wisely but firmly by all true patriots? There is, however, a healthy demand underlying the movement in its favor. The people desire to participate more directly in their own government. Why not grant this demand? It can be done in two ways, first by the creation of town government after the New England pattern and second by the use of the referendum upon questions in which our electorate can be educated. With regard to the referendum it may be said that resort to this expedient should at first be had with caution. Senator Dickey's local option bill opens the way to its wise use. Gradually it may be employed more widely as our voters grow in intelligent use of the ballot. The town meeting, however, might be established at once. Certain simple local matters might at the outset be relegated to the towns and the ideal of public service as an honor and privilege might be fostered by the general policy of official positions without pay. Difficulties doubtless would beset the inauguration of such a measure but it is certainly not impossible. Is it not worth trial ? Civic Federation A movement which may mean much for the future of this Territory was inaugurated last Thursday in the Chamber of Commerce when a company of business and professional men gathered to consider the question of a federation whose object should be "to aid in se- curing good government through the religious interest. If this be followed election and the appointment of honest up for years it is not too much to hope and able officers, the establishment and for a movement like those mighty stirenforcement of law and the improve- rings which accompanied the birth of the ment of civic and soc; al conditions." Hawaiian nation into Christianity during ()rganization was effected with the the second quarter of the last century. adoption of a constitution and the elec- The earnest prayers of all Christians are tion of a Board of nine Trustees com- besought for Dr. Baker, Mrs. Baker and posed of two merchants, two lawyers, their fellow workers in Kona. two educators, one editor, one political leader and one minister. As has been SNAP SHOTS ON A MAINLAND TOUR. fully demonstrated elsewhere the possibilities for good in such a movement are (hit of memory's portfolio we will of the widest nature and depend entirely upon the unselfish devotion to civic choose a few of the random views. Here ideals, the untiring work and the wis- conies the first—a composite photo from dom of those who are the chief ser- Salt Lake City. Call it if you will "what vants of the organization. There is no present day Mormons think of polycall for flourish of trumpets in an en- gamy." A pleasant young elder who deavor of this lend. The work done had spent 5 years as a missionary in must largely be of the patient delving New Zealand and had taken in Hawaii sort with appeal to the public whenever 011 the roatl showed our party of pilthe demand exists therefor. It is essen- grims over the Tabernacle and then tially an educational movement and its halted fur questions on the steps just motto is "Watch." It is a great thing opposite the tomblike Temple into for any community in a free country to whose mysteries Congress has been have a company of citizens willing to probing. "How about polygamy." we "We believe in it as strongly give time and patient thought to the asked. manner in which the public is being as ever," was the reply. "Of course we served by those who have been chosen do not pract'ee it now because the lawto do its work, ready to direct the gaze forbids it. But it is a revelation from of the people at the critical moment to God and the highest truth for the marweak points in that service and unt; ring ried." A few minutes later one of the in directing the mind of the entire citi* clerks in the great Zion co-operative zenship into channels that make for civic store touched upon the same theme and purity. civ; c strength and civic beauty. valiantly championed the doctrine which The Territory now has an organization Br'gham Young enforced by teaching with this aim. The friend bids it god- and practice. Those two young men, intelligent and alert, represent modern speed. conservative Mormonism. They knew Kona's Good Fortune their Bibles well, as the votaries of most Tidings from Dr. Baker are full of crooked sects do. Their loyal adencouragement. The Central Kona herence to the worst in their system enChurch, long quiescent, is being revived forces the warning being sounded by and its services are attracting large con- many patriots aga; nst this pernicious gregations. At Holualoa in North Ko- system which aims to rival the slavena and at Hookena ; n South Kona holding oligarchy in controlling the Napreaching is maintained once a month. tion by seizing the fateful balance of Several Sunday schools have been or- power in politics. (irinnell. lowa, where the American ganized and the interest is steadily increasing. Mrs. Baker is a tower of Board held ; ts 95th annual meeting is strength. When her son is absent at one of those beautiful New England the out stations she carries on the cen- towns transported to the progressive tral service with great effectiveness. The vital West which arc proving themselves manner in which these enthusiastic mis- nuclei of all that is best in the national sionaries have been received throughout life. As long as towns of this character the district argues the presence of a real abound the country is safe whatever the yearning for spiritual things. The truth Rockefellers and their ilk conjure up ;s that many of the country parts of this against its better self. The college is Territory have for years been destitute a splendid nursery of manhood and of anything like vital aggressive reli- womanhood and boasts a number of fine gious life. The people have not been buildings. But the company of men fed and are hungry for real food. If who are putting their lives into it far we mistake not a positive prcaclrng of outclass the structures of stone and the gospel reenforced by loving personal brick. The Roard meeting moved on a work is bound to result in a widespread high plane of spiritual power. It took . �6 THE FRIEND a great forward step in modifying its joinder came "I shall not dispute the rules so as to become strictly a repre- characterization of my riend Depew, for sentative corporation. .The attendance as all the world knows he is the greatest of corporate members was large and the living authority on wind" and for five keynote was advance all along the line. Dcs Moines of course achieved a new high water mark for the denomination. It gathered a remarkable assemblage of giants. The faces of some were missed, notably the brothers Moore of Harvard, Gordon of Boston and Gunaaulus of Chicago. But there was so much real eloquence, such a plethora of good things that no one could take all in. Dr. Bradford of Montclair, pastor of the second largest church in New Jersey, struck the keynote in the present day •ton of the Congregational Churches by voicing the demand for closer organization. His successor Dr. Gladden of Columbus, known the world over for his splendid championship of social brotherhood and faithfulness to the demands of citizenship, was elected on the platform of service to the whole Church. He was chosen because his whole life has been an echo of Jesus" declaration "not to be ministered unto but to minister" and now the Churches here called Mm to the honored post of chief servant. We have no bishops in the Church, but we do have chiefs as defined by our Lord "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Dr. Gladden is even now going about the country spending himself in the onerous service to which he was elected. Another sturdy son of New England who has risen to the command of one of America's greatest Universities, President Cyrus Northrup of Minnesota stood forth as one of the leaders in the Council. Orator, wit, matchless presiding officer, and consumate organizer, President Northrup enlivened the sessions with his quick sallies, his keen repartee, his genial presence and his noble thought. His seventy years sit lightly upon his broad shoulders and his splendid voice rolls forth as gloriously as in the days of old when he taught us youngsters at Vale. It was a rare treat to be his comrade, for a full week sharing the same hotel room. Stories of his encounters with other giants of the rostrum were freely circulated by the delegates but none that showed him issuing from any conflict second best. Some years ago New York's silver tongued favorite who is rarely silent at any great eastern talking bee, Chauncey Depew, tested his metal when he introduced him to a huge metropolitan audience as "Cyrus Northrup, the cyclone from the Northwest." Quick as thought the re- I the Council back to the Christian funda- mental "I will make you fishers of men," but grandly achieved it; Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons whose appeal to :; minutes New York went mad with workingmen stirred the whole city ; and shouts of merriment at the expense of finally Dr. Weekly of the United Brethher chief after dinner orator. Speakers ren and Dr. Stephens of the Methodist have learned to let President Northrup Protestants who led the Council to the alone when compliments are flying. ; Mount of Transfiguration in their eloLyman Abbott of course, was in evi- quent pleading of the cause of Church dence, a center of interest because of his i unity. large influence in shaping the men of After inspiration, perspiration. today. Another of the stalwart phalanx 1is God's order. It was followed This our tall, athletic, forceful Dr. Stimson of tour. For two months it was oneinlong New York, (who whilom turned defeat kaleidoscope of churches and audiences. into victory by organizing out of nothing Jersey City's People's Palace formed one a great church in the very center of that of the brightest pictures. For seventeen polyglot city after being forced out of years the pastor had pled the cause of the historic Tabernacle through no fault larger life for the people, of opportunity of his own) towered high above many for recreation under manhood-making of his fellows and made one of the tell- conditions, of the wisdom of battling ing addresses of the week. against saloon and dance hall by satisA grist of younger men, Dr. Dewey fying in healthy fashion the demands of Brooklyn, the successor of the in- which these foes of clean living supply comparable Dr. Storrs, chaste in dic- ; with such foul additions. He had seen tion, clear cut in thought, Dartmouth's with joy Catholics, Lutherans and other favorite son; Dr. Jefferson of the Churchmen won to his views and adopt Broadway Tabernacle, a speaker of the the methods he had urged. At last a Edward Everett type whose oration was captain of industry in admiration of this one of those finished pieces of art which steady championship profferedthe money give the critic no flaw for his pecking to e<]Uip an institution modeled in acand who with all his other talents is cordance with the pastor's long experipossessed of the rarest ability as a direc- ence, and the Jersey City People's Palace tor of other men's activities; Dr. Hillis 1is the result. Imagine $200,000 concreted whose words and thoughts tumble into brick and stone forming a gigantic over one another so picturesquely and clubhouse where young and old may so minus all order that while trans- ■ play and dance, sing and study, witness gressing every canon he captivates by dramas or take part therein, air tired the vigor of his manhood and the charm babies on sweltering summer days, of his personality; S. Parkes Cadman of learn the sweet story of old and help Brooklyn's Central Church which he has to put it in practice and all innocently, at last advanced from the second to the j then dub it People's Palace. The 1,300 first rank in the denomination, a people gathered in the audience room Methodist and a llriton by birth, a tor- jto hear and see Hawaii's story was a rent of magnetism, big hearted, loyal sight to stay long in memory's gallery. souled, full of the spirit of love for men At Springfield after the tale of the and devotion to Christ; Dr. C. R. Brown Mid-Pacific Paradise had been told and of Oakland who needs no introduction Obookiah's life work with its dramatic to the people of Hawaii; President Gates outcome had been pictured a gentlemen once of Grinnell now of Pomona of large business interests came to the College, California, keen, incisive, bril- speaker, extended his hand in greeting liant, philosophical, who contributed the and said, "The Rev. Mr. Dwight of purest gem of constructive thinking of whom you spoke tonight who found the entire assembly; Drs. Dv Bois and Obookiah weeping on the step of Vale Proctor of Atlanta, negro leaders, one College was my grandfather." By his a son of Harvard and now perhaps the side stood Miss Birnie whose aloha for most distinguished teacher of his race, Hawaii has made many friends for the the other the most talented pastor in Islands. Incidents of this kind were the South whose magnificent utterances frequent and added spice to every repecompelled the admiration of every dele- tition of the plea for help. Long and gate and gave the eternal lie to every careful search was made for a likeness advocate of the doctrine of the colored of Obookiah. The best that could be man's essential intellectual inferiority; come by was the portrait of a young Dr. Dawson of England who not only Islander of about his time which turned came with a single end in view to bring out to be that of a girl though it an- ; '• : J �7 THE FRIEND swered well the purpose of showing a youthful Hawaiian of that generation. It was not passed off as Obookiah's, however. Memory beats the kodak in abi'ity to picture the spiritual. It would be hard to photograph enthusiasm for Hawaii, but fortunately not to recognize jr lecall it. It manifested itself in varied fashion as when President Northrup dramatically exclaimed while the Council applauded, "We are with you. We will do all you want," or young men preparing for the ministry sought out the Board's representative to offer themselves for service, or the principal of a fine Girls' Preparatory School in New Jersey, a most talented lady said, "Is there a place for me there? I am ready to go," or busy men of affairs urg-1 that some d-rcct participation in missionary service be permitted them through the support of some evangelist, or a company of Monday-tired clergymen kept the ball o! questions rolling near an hour to end up with an excited "Why didn't we know these things before?" or finally an Executive Committee of business men and cautious clericals, watchdogs of a great treasury, started an evening of catechism with the declaration "We are too busy tonight to givetime to the full consideration of I la waii, therefore no vote can be reached until next month's meeting" and before two hours had sped voted enthusiastically and without dissenting voice thousands of dollars to help carry the gospel to our polyglot population. Hawaii's and Hawaii's opportunity moves men. It does it because it should, for it is unique and the King's business here requires haste. In this propaganda the Louisiana Purchase Exposition had to take second place; therefore all that we saw of it was the outside of dingy avenues buildings, thronged with rubbish, the burnt out embers of story the closing night's glory eight hours after the end iiad come. Hence for one day's rest we sought God's exposition of His glory in the matchless gorge painted with the colors of Paradise in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Human language is a poor useless instrument for recording what we saw in that assembly hall of the spirits of the air as we wound our way down into the depths, skirted the awful edge, stood with uncovered head in the presence of the sun's departing majesty as he touched with a radiance and a strange uncanny prodigality of hue seen nowhere else on earth the sculptured peaks and yawning chasms of that sublime and aw- ful chaos. That day of wonders was the holiest things in modern American quite in keeping with the evidences of life. Think of a community spending tlie father's Hand throughout our trip. thousands of dollars upon a jail and other thousands upon an insane asylum (after an unseemly squabble for graft), WHY SHOULD HONOLULU and at the same time refusing to equip HAVE A PUBLIC LIBRARY? a Public Library. Such a community 1. Because no self-respecting com- is living ioo years in the dim past. Fosmunity of intelligent Americans able to ter a love of good literature in our support such an institution can maintain young people and there will be fewer a reputation for enlightened public criminals and insane in the coming genspirit in this Twentieth Century without eration. one. 5. Because a Public Library affouls Because Honolulu is rich for service. The more inenough opportunity 2. to support an up-to-date Public Library stitutions a community owns which dewithout feeling the burden. mand that the time of busy, educated, 3. Because the mind of this com- cultured men be given without pay to munity is altogether too much centered the public, the more civilized and Chrisupon sugar to the sad neglect of higher tianized it is. A Public Library is one things. Witness the charge publicly of these institutions. It of Course lias made by an honorable body of business its few paid workers. But gradually men that the organized sugar planters there crystalize about it a large number are deliberately standing in the way of of men and women who give freely of the Americanization of this Territory. the best they have, considering the priviWhether this be true or not it speaks lege of serving the people the highest eloquently of the local conception of the possible remuneration. Public Libraries paramount value of sugar. Sugar is un- become the center of lectures and talks questionably good food for the body, on subjects ad infinitum. The Tinsa splendid animal producer, but it is tees who serve gratuitously and apprepoor chucks for the mind, for the mak- ciate it a great honor to be invited to ing of a real man. A Public Library do so are but a very small part of the furnishes the noblest possible variety of army of ministering people. First there mental and spiritual pabulum for all the is the large company of book readers people. What does Honolulu think who help to determine whether a work most of, dollars or manhood? which knocks for admission is worthy. Honolulu is full of chilSecond there are those who prepare Because 4. dren growing up into American citizen- lists of books 011 topics of general inship in a subtropical climate where the terest. Lor example hundreds of public appeal to the lower nature is far strong- libraries in the United States have iser than in colder climes. These children sued more or less elaborate bulletins can be educated to become readers only in upon the best literature in re the Russotheir early years. A decade hence thou- Japanese war available to their readers. sands of them will have outgrown the No great popular topic emerges to view critical period for the cultivation of a without similar announcements to guide love of pure ennobling literature. The in public enlightenment. Volunteers twentieth-century Public Library edu- often help the library force to prepare cates this power to crave good reading. these. Thus as the institution grows it It was the writer's privilege to serve on trains scores of persons with more or the governing Board of one of the most less leisure to become loving servants beautiful public libraries in the Eastern of the people. States. The chief ambition of the whole 6. Because the Public Library coninstitution was to reach the children, stantly invites to wider giving. Every attract them to its shelves (a great room- community has its collectors—collectors ful of books being kept for them to of birds, of birds' eggs, of insects, of browse in and the time of one intelli- shells, of natural objects of all sorts, gent assistant given entirely to them"), al-o collectors of art treasures and speteach them how to treat books kindly, cial lines of literature. When these show them what to read, get before the collections have grown too bulky for scholars in the various public school private housing or death approaches grades literature helpful to a larger un- the question comes "Where shall I dederstanding of their work and stimulate posit these." Scores of libraries all the little ones to educate the home- over the country are becoming deposifolks into a love of the best things in tories for valuable collections of various our glorious literature. 1lkinds. This sort of giving made public To refuse to establish a Public Library stimulates its kind and even people not is to cheat our children out of some of blessed with large means find it pessi1 �8 THE FRIEND ble to accumulate something of real per-! national life, to infuse into the diverse maiient value which they take a pride in elements of our population the principle trans lering to the Public Library. Thus of progress is no easy task. We one Massachusetts library in a tow 1 want in Hawaii the best and purest one-third the size of Honolulu, owns kind of Americanism. We can have one or two art treasures which are it. For here East meets West and out unique in the entire country, boasts a of the commingling the noblest life the collection of stiffed birds illustrating ail world has ever seen is to grow, if the the varieties that frequent the neighbor- spirit of Christ supplies the vital force. hood and has a relic department of real Every institution which promises to aid historic value. in this splendid development must be 7. Because a Public Library is a welcomed. Among all that can be boon to the local press. The various named, none after the Church, the public bulletins issued from time to time by, school and the press is of greater value the ! ; brary are welcomed by intelligent than the modern Public Library. editors who are glad to have in their columns thoughtful communications THE TWO SOCIETIES THAT from the library staff, the aim of which HELP US. is to supply a public need. Thus press and library react upon one another, the In 1826 in the City of New York, the public taste is cultivated with the result American Home Missionary Society of better newspapers because the people was organized. Like the American are trained constantly to appreciate bet- Board sixteen years its senior, it was ter things. Some of us have studied this broad and national in scope, its aim bedevelopment in other communities and ing to carry Christianity throughout the can testify to its reality and its promise nation. It was not sectarian and the of higher civilization. members of a number of denominations K. Because the Public Library is in gathered under its banner to carry on the line of the best and noblest life of the noble work. Presbyterians, Reformtoday. The motto of the Twentieth Cen- ed and Congregationalists formed the tury is "not for the few but for all." larger part of its constituency as was Even theology which moves slowest has also true of the American Board. For forgotten all about "the elect." A years it went on in this simple fashion preacher today who should get back in- caring nothing for party names. But as to the atmosphere of that phrase as our the denominational consciousness grew fathers understood it would soon be stronger in the United States first one preaching like our friends of a few and then another of the supporting deweeks since in Honolulu, "the Children nominations withdrew, never in a spirit of Israel" to a handful of loiterers on of opposition, but most fraternally, until the streets. The Public Library becomes the Society was left to the support of a home for all, it gathers the best in the the Congregational churches alone. life of humanity and offers it freely to I Finally urged to do so by the promise all and it stimulates that love for all of a large gift of money the Society which Jesus came to bring to man as changed its name to correspond to its Cod's best gift. character as the home missionary arm 9. Because the Mid-Pacific Paradise of these churches by dropping the word should be kept American and Christian. American and assuming that of ConThe menace here is paganism. By this gregational. It operates directly or we mean no hackneyed expression but through auxiliaries in at least 32 states. degeneracy in moral standards and in 5 territories and in Cuba and dispenses the ideals which inspire. Men come, more than a half million dollars anhither mostly for gain. They gather nually. It has never countenanced prosfrom Asia largely and from elsewhere. elyting. It always refuses to enter a Many represent the lower level in the field where other denominations are lands from which they hail. Cut off supplying the reasonable demand for from the developing life of their own religious work. It has faithfully labored people the tendency is towards stagna- in a spirit of comity with Christians of tion which always means moral lapse. every other name. It has done more Thus it is old-time Asia and last-genera- along the line of Christian union than tion America which is likely to eventu- any other Society of its kind in America. ate. The action and reaction of these It has instituted hundreds upon huntwo backward streams is accelerated re- dreds of churches on the union plan like trograde motion. To stem this tide, to Central Union Church of this city. keep abreast of the stir and movement The American Missionary Association ■characterizing the more vital centers of was organized in 1846 during the dark days preceding the civil war as the special friend ot the Negro. Its leading men were the anti-slavery giants of that period. All over the Northern States and in not a few places at the South it had its fearless workers and warm sympathizers. It was in close association with the famous underground railway wdiich transported so many slaves safe over the border into freedom-loving Canada. After the war this association entered the field to educate the colored man for citizenship. Hampton, Fisk, Tuskegee, Talladega, Atlanta and many other institutions in the Southland wdiose names are sacred to Americans could never have been without this Society. Gradually its scope broadened. Indians, Chinese, mountain whites, Eskimos, Porto Ricans, Japanese have all been included in its ministrations and among them all it maintains churches and schools. Its aim has been to provide industrial, intellectual, moral and religious leadership for the people of these races within the greater United States. When therefore Hawaii knocked at its doors it gladly heard. For the first year of co-operation it has voted us $6,000 to enlarge our work. This Society has always maintained its undenominational character. Among its warmest supporters, most generous benefactors and successful workers, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists and many others have been numbered. It is a splendid augury for Hawaii that a Society of such broad aims and such wide sympathies should come to its assistance. BOARD DOINGS. At its January meeting the Hawaiian Board heard the Secretary's report of the results of the visit of the delegation to the mainland and requested its publication in the daily press. It afterwards appeared in the Advertiser by courtesy of the editor. Dr. Baker of Kona sat as a corresponding member and gave a deeply interesting account of the progress of the work in West Hawaii. It is long since the Board has listened to such a delightful resume. The engagement of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Rath to work in Honolulu was ratified. They are expected March I and will probably live in Palama. The secretary was instructed to correspond with a number of men desirous of coming to this Territory to engage in Christian work. Rev. Stephen L. Desha of Hilo was offered the privilege of a two years' course of study in the mainland at Chicago. No �9 THE FRIEND word has come from him yet as to whether he will accept the offer. It is a rare chance. Messrs. K. Koinuro and M. Nagayama were requested to come to the territory for evangelistic work. These two gentlemen are studying at present in the Eastern States. Steps were taken to push evangelistic work in Kakaako and among Japanese families especially women in the field of the Makiki church. The Board decided to send Rev. Mr. Thwing to China to advance the interests of our work among the Chinese of this Territory. He will probably leave Honolulu during this month. A number of plans for increasing the efficiency of our Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese Departments were discussed and it was decided to follow them out enthusiastically. Notwithstanding the press of business engagements at the opening of the year the meeting was largely attended by Honolulu business members and great interest was manifested. D. S. ENORMOUS IRRIGATION ON OAHU FROM ARTESIAN WELLS. "Wonderful Tunneling in Hawaii" was the title of an article in the January issue of The Friend, which described a very remarkable advance just made in supplying surface water for irrigation, as accomplished by means of an immense use of tunnels underneath rug- ged mountain ridges thereby reaching copious streams which have hitherto seemed inaccessible. The writer is told that the great interest evinced in that article calls on him to supplement it by a sketch of the older and less novel but even more remarkable growth of irrigation by means of pumping from artesian wells. The former topic invited notice on account of its novelty. But the artesian system of irrigation existing chiefly on Oahu, although somewhat familiar to our readers on this Island, is not only more peculiar than the tunneling, but confers irrigation on arid lands to a far larger extent than upon any other island of the group. This will be seen by the following figures: the artesian wells on Oahu are yielding a daily supply of from 250 to 300 millions of gallons of water. The new tunnels on Maui and Kauai have added 175 millions of gallons to a previous daily supply of water considerably less. Artesian wells first began to be bored in the city of Honolulu about the year 1880, when the late Judge Lawrence McCully, at his residence in Pawaa, con-' which are pumped by an electric motor. trary to general expectation, struck The power for this is generated two water at a depth of several hundred feet, miles inland by a small stream of several which rose to a height of 42 feet above hundred feet pressure issuing from a sea level,, making a valuable flowing well tunnel penetrating the heart of Kaala irrigating a large breadth of land. A mountain. few other wells in the city soon followThere are perhaps forty wells in Hoed. The late James Campbell subse- nolulu, a few of which are pumped by quently struck water in Honouliuli at a windmills. Two pairs of large wells are depth of 700 feet, which rose to 25 feet. pumped by engines, one in Kalihi, the This led to the creation in 1886 of the' other at the base of Punchbowl on Alanow extremely prosperous Ewa Planta- pai street. These contribute to the city tion upon the great arid but very fertile water works system. Nearly all the arplain of Honouliuli, with its 5000 acres tesian wells on Oahu were bored by of luxuriant cane fields. It began with 1 John L. McCandless and brothers, who a row of six ten-inch wells about 30 feet have acquired large and well earned pro■part connected to a single pump which fits by their practical skill and business lifted the water to about 60 feet level, ability. irrigating a few hundred acres. It remains to state what is known as This was speedily followed by a suc- to the conditions determining the possicession of additional pumping stations bility of artesian wells on Oahu. The of much greater capacity, in all forcing source of the water is the copious rainwater to a maximum elevation of 200 fall upon the interior mountains. This feet, and to an aggregate amount of 90 sinks through the very porous lava million gallons daily. The later wells rocks, permeating the whole like a huge were all of 12 inch bore, and in groups sponge lying in the sea. This very of ten wells to each set of pumps. The vesicular or spongy condition of the water was forced to the upland through rock extends to the depth to which the 24 and 30 inch steel pipes. The pumps island has subsided since the earliest and the engines driving them are mas- eruptions raised it above the ocean's sive and powerful groups of machinery, surface, since below that the pressure some of which occupy deep excavations, of the sea would keep the lava compact. in order to pump from the level of the This depth is certainly more than 2500 water in the wells, a little over 20 feet feet. The coral reef at Barber's Point above the sea. extends 20,000 feet south of the present Shortly after the successful beginning base of the mountain. The mountain of Ewa Plantation, that of Kahuku at slope falls 2500 feet in a like distance. the north end of the island was organu- It may well be assumed that the coned, but with smaller pumps, on account tination of the slope beneath the coral of limited acreage, the present yield of would not be less steep. sugar being hardly one-fourth that o f After penetrating through hundreds Ewa. A few years later were created of feet of alternate strata of coral, clay, the immense "Oahu" and "Waialua' lava and boulders, the water is invariably Plantations rivalling that of Ewa, fol- found after reaching a bed of vesicular lowed by the "Honolulu" Plantation at' lava below a very thick and compact the east end of the Ewa district. !•■ stratum of clay. This clay evidently that district is now a continuous belt of forms an impervious cushion, effectually cane fields, eighteen miles in length, and separating the internal sponge of water averaging two in width, and perhaps from all above it, and from the ocean twenty pumping stations, with three im- to a considerable distance seaward. This mense sugar mills, all employing a capi- clay-stratum also lies with a considertal of $13,000,000. From these pumps able slope, so that a mile or so inland the smoke pours day and night the year it is reached several hundred feet nearer around, and vast volumes of water are the surface than it is near the sea. When driven through steel pipes to a maxi- it is pierced, the water speedily pushes mum height of 400 feet. with force to the sea level, and from 20 The total daily yield of the plantation to 40 feet higher. wells on Oahu is stated at 287 million \ A question is, why does the water gallons, from 195 wells. The pumps always rise higher than the sea level? aggregate 11,847 horse power. And all The probable answer is, that it is due these values are due to the existence of to the greater weight of the salt water the great water stratum underground, balancing the fresh at a higher point. and to the enterprise which developed If one arm of a syphon is filled with oil and the other with water, the oil being its yield. wells, lighter will stand higher. And why Waianae is a small of group In I , �THE FRIEND 10 for it and spent four weeks there Octo- j I owe no man since I came to this higher at Honolulu than at Ewa ? ably because the tamping clay stratum ber 24th to November 14th, and started I institute, nor I borrowed, nor wrote a extends farther and deeper into the for the final examination on November | begging letter, but I have paid expenses like ocean in the former than in the latter 18th, and I found that it was very, very! which is quite heavy for poor man by the place. The two arms of the syphon are hard examination, but by the grace ofi me, but by the grace of God and God I did all my best and my written help of the Hilo Boarding School, I longer. Oahu has proved to be the only island answers were finished on December Ist, learned how to work and paid my board of this group where an artesian well is and I waited for the oral examination and other expenses. And I am very practicable. On the other islands, while before the faculty from December isC glad that I have no debt on hand, and fresh water is abundant at sea level, to December 17th (because they were I am free indeed, though I have not yet I am long-continued pumping causes the sea very busy on account of Christmas), and much money in my pocket, no person except because owe I me happy, to asked all kinds of they questions invade sufficiently water to the well love, from dear friends. injure vegetation. In some localities, from different studies. I believe that you have been praying Well, am I very Dear father! glad however, shallow excavations or sumps me every day and I thank you very for report you to that did good I in pass from which much cane have been made, and I am praying for you all and and oral examinamuch is irrigated. Just why Oahu should be standing both written wrote on for Hawaii. tions. this kind very paper, I the only island to enjoy the necessary I am very tired and somewhat worn conditions for artesian wells, does not and I used nearly two hundred pages out, for but not seriously and I expect to written answers. The different appear. ()ahu is certainly favored in a wonder- studies and the dates I wrote answers spend a vacation in country. What is to be done next? Please ful degree, and especially the city of are as follows: hard about this matter and give Doctrine, Bible Nov. questions, pray 150 Honolulu, in possessing this exhaustan advice about my next step. lam to me 18th 26th. water immediately less reservoir of fresh Personal Work, 7 general questions, praying myself of course, and I will debeneath, and in easy reach, pressing to cide not many weeks hence. I owe 26th to 28th. an Nov. the surface wherever it is given out-1 Biblical the friends of Hawaii and from you Introduction, 8 from quesgeneral j until Yet no this suspected let. one so it is not right for me to decide also, Nov. to tions, 28th 29th. twenty-five years ago and the conse-1 but first I must refer to the alone, Book and Chapter Analysis (Galaquent twenty millions of invested wealth | to friends whom I owe, not because I detians), Nov. 29th were undreamed of. S. E. B. 30th. Homiletics (two sermons inclusive), sire to have a work, but because I am earnest in what promised before I left SORT OF EVANGELIST WE Nov. 30th to Dec. Ist. Islands. Bible handed the Chapter Summary (just LIKE. is my nineteenth year in my two years' work). This !in Oral examination before the faculty school life, and also fifth graduation: The subjoined letter tells its own Primary School, 1887, 5 Japan. i. — Dec. 17th. story. The Board has invited Mr. Ko- i Grammer School, 1890, 3 2. years spent; received the final on Dec. diploma I muro to come to Hawaii and has apspent; a and I was years 3. Normal School, 1894, 2 pointed him to Kona. Dr. Baker will 20th before large audience spent. when received it. lam ninevery glad years I have a royal associate in this devoted Hawaii.—4. Hilo Boarding School, enthusiastic young Japanese. We con- teenth or twentieth graduate and the friends are and Miss Sunter happy very 1901, 6 years spent. gratulate Kona upon the prospect of and Mrs. Kenzie are very because glad America.—s. The Bible Institute, being so well manned with Christian they are from Honolulu. 1904, 2 years spent. workers: want to to I I graduate above schools in 18 years, you send this diploma, Chicago, Dec. 22nd, '04. a I spent one year in the North you. to is fine skin besides gratify It sheep Oahu. Rev. O. H. Gulick, Honolulu, Institute from Sept.. Missionary Pacific 1much larger than the diploma which I My Dear father in Christ: to Sept., received from the Hilo School Boarding 1902. 1901 Please excuse me that I didn't write Therefore this is my fifth graduation to you for a long time though I have which I left in your home. It is beautinineteenth year, and I have been written. and fully been remembering you and Hawaii more myself for over nine years in a at supporting made short the close speech I than ever. Dear father, I tell you briefand I took a text from II Tim. 2:3. mv studies and lam very tired. Don't ly how I spent my busy days. At the end of September. I finished "Thou therefore endure hardness as a I you think I need a rest ? Please answer what to do next. my two years' course in the institute, good soldiers of Jesus Christ." (It was this letter and tell me Others? Mrs. So? well? Are you and I went to the World Fair in middle the only one graduate of course). love to give my Ok'umura Please ? am to j I Mr. also tell that glad you my of October. Nui. And it had been my sincere aim to spiritual life has been deepened and I all. Aloha Sincerely yours, take the final examination which is very am glad that I spent two years here in for KAMEJI KOMURO. the institute and God it. praise hard and just a few passed during past Dear father when you write to Miss years, perhaps about or less than twenA WORD FROM HILO. ty students in fifteen years. There have ! Talcott or other friends please tell this news, to rejoice good for it is worthy enrolled studbeen about five thousand 1 Friend: ents since Mr. Moody founded this in- and the people may understand what I To the Editor of The of held today pastors meeting the have been while am silence. At doing T in stitute, and only twenty passed in the discussed was Sabsubject One thing I must say to you that you in Hilo the final examination, so think it is a very Hawaii. The subin bath observance it, worked my may be glad about that T hard examination. Rev. S. Desha L. was opened by ject I money two The through test, to hard way years. Well, I desired take this he the law thought if you when asked who only. so I went to Hoover, Indiana to prepare I owe is from Prob-1 THE �THE FRIEND was now being enforced for the sake of getting rid of it, replied that he believed it was enforced from the best of motives, and with a view to the well being of the people. Yet all agreed that the present might prove a critical time in relation to our Sunday Law if Christian people remain indifferent to the course of events. It is becoming clearer every day that there exists an irrepressible conflict between opposite convictions of men with respect to the sanctity of the Sabbath day. We are laying the foundations of a new State in the Pacific. We are in danger of following the lead of California, the only state in the Union having no Sabbath law. As Christian people we should make known to legislators our desire that the Sabbath Law be preserved, otherwise we may soon find our Sabbath undefended by law. And a defenseless Sabbath, assailed by covetousness intensified by competition, will retain its place in our communities with greatest difficulty, or be as completely abolished as it was in France by the Revolution. C. W. HILL. Hilo, Hawaii, Jan. 9th 1905. SENATOR DICKEY'S LOCAL OPTIONBIL. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: Section i. At every general election held in the Territory of Hawaii after the passage of this act the question of the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be presented to the voters of each election precinct. The ballots to be used at such election for this purpose shall be of such color and size as shall be selected by the Secretary of the Territory and shall read as follows: "Shall the sale of intoxicating liquors be licensed in this precinct during the next two years?" YES NO | II And the voter shall indicate his option making a cross in the space on the right side of the ballot prepared for that purpose. The rules and regulations for voting for members of the Legislature shall apply to voting on this question as far as practicable. Section 2. If a majority at any such election in any precinct shall vote "Yes" the general laws in relation to licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors shall by 11 have force and effect in such precinct, 1 them half Chinese; but the Hawaiian but if a majority at such election shall women are not fruitful. Additional light vote "No" then it shall be unlawful for is given by the numbers of youth in the Treasurer or other authorized officer schools. In 1902, out of a total of the 17,to issue any license to sell intoxicating --519 scholars, there were 4,903 Hawailiquors within that precinct during the ians, 2,869 part-Hawaiians, or 7,772, benext ensuing two years. ing 44 per cent, of the whole, against Section 3. This act shall become a; 5,611 whites or 32 per cent., and 3,378 law from and after its approval. Asiatic children, or 19 per cent., leaving 5 per cent, of divers origins. We W. N. ARMSTRONG ON HAWAII. do not believe these percentages have changed much in two years, except in Mr. Armstrong is an older brother of a less proportion of Hawaiians. the late Gen. S. C. Armstrong of philanIn respect to Mr. Armstrong's vigorthropic fame. He is the son of a lead- ous statement of the wonderful political ing missionary, a lawyer of ability, and construction wrought through the a brilliant writer. He recently present- agency of the missionaries, when a libered at Lake Mohonk Conference a paper al constitutional government was permaon the future of Hawaii, and especially nently established in ten years from a on the work of the missionaries here. crude despotism, the present writer deHe has spent much time here in various sires to point out that this resulted from public services during the last twenty- no deliberate plan or aim of the missionfive years, and hence is well-qualified by aries, but that they were pushed on in personal knowledge to deal with his sub- that work almost involuntarily by the ject. mighty force of a new-created Christian This he has done with ability and conscience in both chiefs and people, force. He especially draws a true and generated by the unexampled national wonderful picture of the manner in Religious Revival of 1837-8. The nation which "the Mission Work uncon- had turned with deep enthusiasm and sciously discharged a singularly unique loyalty to Christ. They were thirsting and noble task which is now and will be for Righteousness. Weak, sensual, igits glory, for all time. "It planted Ameri- norant, fearful, they saw glorious light, can institutions in Hawaii, the benefits and sought to follow it. Their conscience of which the dying native race will cease was dim, but mightily forceful. Their to receive, but which will stand here- chiefs and leaders earnestly sought to after as a permanent agency for uniting embody in just and wholesome laws the the Occidental and Oriental civiliza- principles of justice and good order betions." His forward outlook is express- fitting Christian people. ed farther on in the words "It is a matMr. Richards was the first to devote ter of supreme importance in the world- himself to guiding them in such legislacontact which this great nation is mak- tion. But the demand was urgent in the ing, that this Asiatic community at the native mind. And the good work went cross-roads of the Pacific will stand di- on from stage to stage with the more rectly before all Asia as a brilliant head- than cordial concurrence of the king and light of the American civilization." That chiefs, and eager support of the people. "Headlight" phrase hits the mark. It is Messrs. Judd, Armstrong, Wyllie and just what Hawaii is becoming. The Lee successively devoted themselves to present writer started the "Cross-roads" the grand and fruitful work, and the term in 1891. He is not prepared to Hawaiian people speedily emerged from concede that the future people of Ha- serfdom, a body of freemen, owning waii will be predominantly Asiatic, still their lands, electing a Lower House, and clinging to the hope of a large occu- under equal and ordered Courts of pancy of the Islands by Americans, who tice.The amiable King Kamehameha Jus111 beyond question can do field labor in embodied the profound sentiment of the this mild and delicious climate. And awakened nation in the national motto then the Census of 1900 gives the num- "Ua mau ke ea oka aina i ka pono:" ber of Hawaiian-born Caucasians as The life of the land is established by 7.283, and Portuguese 9,163, or 16,446 Righteousness. whites, as against 4,021 Chinese, and To a very considerable extent it is 4,881 Japanese, or 8,902 Asiatics. doubtless true that the tremendous reliThis is a ratio of nearly two whites gious enthusiasm of those earlier deborn here to one of Asiatic blood. And cades faded out. Later generations of since the Asiatic immigrants bring few Hawaiians knew less of it. Ancient deof their women, that ratio of whites pravities and superstitions, ineradicably seems unlikely to diminish. The part- ingrained during past ages of darkness, Hawaiians in 1900 were 7,848, many of renewed their activity. But the period �12 of gradual civilization and social enlightenment followed. Training schools for both sexes have wrought a profoundly beneficial work. Established under a reign of liberty and light, the Hawaiian people have made much progress. Less ardent, less thirsting for righteousness than sixty years ago, their consciences are more intelligent, more civilized. A Christian people they are substantially, in a general sense, and have been for nearly seventy years, as truly as our British ancestors were such four hundred years ago. And this Hawaiian Christianity has been the nursery and breeding-ground for the deep-rooted Christian civilization of Hawaii of to-day, America's "brilliant headlight" towards the Orient. S. E. B. THE FRIEND The Boys' Field has never looked The track is growing into fine condition. By the time of the Field Day (in the middle of March), there will be very little to be desired. A contract has recently been given out to level the whole field, covering the entire surface with a mixture of sand and light dirt so that the sun will not crack up the field as it did last summer. more promising. some one here. May being an off season on the coast, passage money, entertainment and a comfortable cash offer ought to attract if for vacation reasons only. Who she is to be can not be said at present. She should be preferably a soprano to fit in with chorus work, but might readily counterbalance the advantages as an unusually good contralto. It is not impossible that the Sym- The Kauluwela Clubs have become phony Society if they secure their leader much stronger of late. They have may assist with separate numbers. At any rate the public is promised some chosen for their colors blue and white, whether because such colors were vic- thing unusually good. — toriously borne by Kamehameha in the last meet one does not know. Kauluwela sings quite enthusiastically its own songs and has acquired a bran new yell. Practicing for field day goes on constantly and the plan now is to fit up the hall for indoor baseball after the "show" comes off which the boys are planning BOYS' CLUBS NOTES. to give in a Saturday or two. As this show is to be a pay affair, the boys hope There is a marked advance over last to reah'ze something which added to the year in every department of work. Mr. monthly dues will pay expenses. Turner's work is very largely responsible for that. MUSIC FESTIVAL. The new Kawaiahao Clubs are a decided success. There are several boys The Kamehameha people have taken from the Kakaako Mission in it and the the initative in the call for a Festival. athletic spirit runs high. The Seniors This comes in response to a very genwon first place in the last Field Day. eral feeling among the institutions repMr. Heminway is the leader of the resented last year that such leadership Juniors. would be most desirable. At a preliminary meeting held at the Y. M. C. A. The shop has never been more popu- early in January, Mr. Home of Kamelar. Mr. Hitchens of Kamehameha has hameha yielded to the wish of those a different class of boys five days in the present that Kamehameha assume the week for an hour and a half. If a boy general management with such outside drops out, his place is promptly filled. business assistance as he might desire This was not all accomplished at once. to call in. Mr. Stanley Livingstone will To create a demand was the hardest be acceptable in all quarters as conducproblem. For a boy left pretty well to tor. He has snap and energy,—knows himself is not always looking for steady what he wants and goes directly at it work. If he were, the use for boys' clubs and withal, has more than ordinary would be more in question. serenity and affability. He has sent for choruses already and as the telegraph will be used on the to be Every are painted. The shops mainland the music ought to be here in one who has seen them lately will be less a than month. of formerly glad of that. Mr. Smith The character of the programme Kamehameha has the matter in charge. ought to be more varied than last year. In the first place there is promised the Two nights in the week the club aid of orchestra accompaniment to some rooms above the shops are open. Mr. chorus work. Prof. Berger, of the Games, charge. is in Manuel Serpa who deserves well the title, "the most reading and the punching bag engage Honolulu," stands enin man willing who boys the attention of the many back of this enterprise. thusiastically "drop in"—by coming up stairs. A small ; Secondly, there s every prospect of library has been added. Books and games are in demand and gifts would an artist from the mainland. Overtures are being made that ought, to attract be appreciated. The Childrens' Competitive Concert the Boys' Field promises to be an improvement if possible on last year. Mrs. Tucker who got astonishing results from the four schools, severally and collectively, says that there is a greater interest this year. Kaahumanu, the present holder of the trophy designed by E. A. P. Newcomb, will have to work hard to keep it. T. R. at HENRY MUNSON LYMAN. One of the most distinguished men whom our Island community has produced was Dr. Henry M. Lyman, who died in Evanston. Illinois, Nov. 21, 1904, of age. His parents wer missionaries of the American Board t these Islands. His father Rev. D. B Lyman, was the founder, and until hi death, the principal of the Hilo Board ing School, now conducted by hi grand-son, Mr. Levi C. Lyman. Dr. Lyman was one of the earlies scholars of the Punahou school, now known as Oahu College, and was gradu at <*j years �THE FRIEND from Williams' College in 1858, being the valedictorian of the class, then studied medicine in Harvard Medical School, and in the New York College of Physicians. He married Miss Sarah Kitredge Clark of Honolulu, taking his bride to Chicago where he soon established a fine practice. Their home on Ashland Boulevard was the rendezvous of a wide circle of Hawaiian friends when passing through the great city of the West. From boyhood Henry Lyman was an insatiable reader. Like several ot tlie children of the pioneer missionaries, in the isolation of their earliest years they became, in infancy, infatuated with books, and in the first decade of life, through the medium of good reading, entered into an acquaintance with the wide realm of the thought of the ages. For such, infancy is cut short, boyhood is omitted, and manhood entered upon early. Dr. Lyman was a man of great learning, of wide reading, and of the most thorough acquaintance with the foremost thought of his profession, standing among the highest of the greatest physicians of this country and of the world. If so broadly cultured a physician can be said to have a speciality in his profession, his was Insanity and Nervous Diseases. He was the author of several medical works, among them, "The Family Physician," "Insomonia and the Disorders of Sleep." His work upon nervous diseases is considered as one of the highest authorities in this department of medicine. Among the pleasures of his later studious life was an annual visit to Washington to attend the yearly meeting of a society consisting of one hundred of the most eminent physicians of the world, of which society he was one year the president. He was a promoter and founder of a leading Medical Institution of Chicago, Rush College, of which he was for many years the Dean. He was greatly beloved and honored by the students and graduates of this Medical College, some of whom are to be found upon these Islands. He was the physician of the students of the Chicago Congregational Theological Seminary, usually serving them without charge, and was also a professor in this Seminary, giving occasional lectures on hygiene. These students were always welcome in his beautiful home. He possessed a wonderful memory, which placed at his immediate command ate 13 the treasures of a life of constant study work, and eased the burden of the manand reading; and yet with all his great agement. The kitchen and dining room have learning he was a very modest man never making any show of his great at- now enough cooking utensils and dishes, tainments. His home was the resort of there are some much needed new chairs the most cultivated people; his collec- in the dining room, and its walls and tion of books one of the largest private floor have been repainted. The roof has been repaired, the pupils' reception room libraries in the city. other to painted, the rooms of the teachers the honors that came Among him was that of filling the chair of a screened, and their floors painted. Revice-president of the University of Chi- pairs on the laundry and other outbuildings, the sanding of driveways, and cago. One feature of his character, known the acquisition of various class room to but few of his friends, was his thor- supplies, constitute the balance of the oughly systematic giving to good causes. He laid aside one-tenth of his income for charitable purposes. When the demand, or the call, came for aid to the causes which met his approval, the money already set aside, was on hand to meet the need. Would that our givers, all, were in the practice of this systematic observance of the apostolic direction. His wife who was for thirty-eight years his able help meet in all his work, left for the better land in 1900. His four daughters, two married, and two unmarried, survive their parents. (). H. G. A CHAPTER OF ADVANCE. Kawaiahao Seminary opened in September with an exceptionally prompt return of the pupils. At the end of the first month, practically all who are now registered were in attendance. The enrollment at the close of the first term is eighty-four, with an average attendance of seventy-eight. Ten or twelve new pupils are expected next term. The work proceeds this year, with one or two exceptions, along the usual lines, but with a prospect of greater efficiency through the possession of much-needed improvements and equipment. A notably capable teacher has been secured for the weaving, under whom it is expected that the work will be so improved as to open to our products the market of the local curio stores. ()nly what was absolutely necessary the comfort of the pupils and the continuance of the work, has been attempted in the way of repairs and improvements to the building and its equipment. A new building and location are so sorely needed, that it has been deemed best to make no more outlay than necessity demanded, upon the one now occupied. But such expenditure as has been madt of the additional funds raised last year, has greatly facilitated the to improvements. A feature of the work which is becoming encouraging is a tendency on the part of parents and relatives of pupils, to remember the school with an occasional gift. Some half dozen sacks of potatoes have been received this year from such sources, also other vegetables, honey and fish. The day before Christmas, a pupil who had gone home for the holidays presented herself at the school with a fine live chicken dangling from one hand, and two lobsters from the other,—her father's present to the school. In sharp contrast to these loyal parents, and an excellent foil for them, is one recently encountered, who on finding a bottle of iodine, marked "poison" by the bedside of his sick daughter, expressed his suspicions with no uncertain sound, and straightway removed the patient to regions which he considered more conducive to longevity. Happily, such ignorant distrust is rare. By its regular friends the school was most kindly remembered at Christmas time. A pig and four chickens were sent for the pupils' luau, by a Chinese tradesman, candy and nuts from the New England Bakery and Lewis & Co., boxes of apples from Mrs. S. N. Castle and Mrs. J. B. Atherton, a box of oranges from Yee Hop & Co., a fivegallon can of honey from Kauai, and buns from the Y. W. C. A. The health of the school has been remarkably good,—a blessing which we K. C. M. hope will continue. ALEXANDER HOUSE, WAILUKU, MAUI. In order to keep our friends aware of the vitality of Alexander House it may be permissible to refer to some items necessarily omitted from the December "Friend." ( )ne evening twenty-nine boys were entertained by phonographic music through the kindness of Mrs. Scott. �14 The concert given in November was a success, and largely so because of the piano and vocal music rendered by Mrs. F. C. Atherton and the Indian-club work by Mr. Atherton. Mrs. Atherton played most excellently in the farce given December i. We feel very grateful to these friends for their cheerful help in many ways. The beautiful illustrations in "Country Life in America," subscribed for by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Penhallow, are a delight to the children. Since the Christmas holidays the average attendance at the girls' classes has been 13 and in the evening 12. The Kindergarten enrollment is 70. A mother's meeting was held January 19. It is expected that the mothers will be invited once each month. Thirty-two Chinese and Japanese girls were invited to a party Saturday afternoon, January 21. At these occasions the workers feel rich in the ownership of 4 dozen each of plates, glasses and cups, (bought with the concert proceeds), and of saucers given by friends whose name we suspect is Case. The reading club and Miss Laura Wells have given several books to the library. We are glad some of them are adapted to children of which class of books we are in great need. E. A. B. THE FRIEND We have at this place one family of believers in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. A. Fernandes, Jr. These brethren have been of us a great help and encouragement. Mrs. Fernandes is very dear to us, of a sweet disposition, an untiring zeal and devotion for the cause, she has been an inspiration to us. May God bless them, and give them spiritual strength to go forward, scattering sunshine in the midst of darkness, with their consecrated lives in the name of our dear Lord. On October 16th last, we organized a Sunday School at Hamakuapoko with 32 children, 25 of these being Portuguese, and balance, native and Porto Ricans. Today we have 61 enrolled, and of these 36 are Portuguese, the others being of different nationalities. The average attendance at this school for the last three months, was 35; the highest number attending at any one time of enrolled scholars, was 56, and the lowest 14. The Sunday previous to this the attendance was 16. The small attendance on these two Sundays, was caused by outside interference. But stirred to stronger activity by this opposition, we went to work, and with our Heavenly Father's help succeeded in getting 46 to attend the following Sun- services at the Paia Chapel, leavissg at the present time about $5 in treasury. Our aim shall be, with God's help, to work and live for the salvation of souls among these people, forgetting not the example of our Saviour, who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. RECORD OF EVENTS. 3rd. —Japanese of Honolulu make elaborate celebration of the Fall of Port Arthur. Christmas of Edition THE pai'adip'e oHte pacific 1903 Eighty-four Pages of Ulustra-. tions and Articles Pertaining \ to the Hawaiian Islands. 50 Cents a Copy The subpcription price of this illustrate monthly magazine is $1.50 a year, which includes the beautiful Christmas Number day. Preaching services have been held STORY OF PROGRESS IN MAUI. every Sunday and Wednesday at this very good success, at least with place By M. G. Santos. in attendance. At the beginning we held our services at the native church, P. O. Box 789 HONOLULU, H. T. On September 9th of this year, I left but the attendance being small on acHilo for Paia my new field of labor, count of superstitious fear, we decided accompanied by my wife and child. We to hold our meetings in the open air, began work, preaching and visiting, and in the homes of those so kindly disthree weeks after settling in our new posed. I am glad to say that this plan home. has proven successful. In our work we have met with many Our Christmas exercises at the above discouragements and obstacles, having to contend with the deep rooted super- place were also a success. The children stition of the people, making our prog- took part in the program with enthusiAT KERGSTROM MUSIC ress very slow. Nevertheless, with asm. The attendance was also very COMPANY. God's help we have pushed forward, good, over a hundred being in the surmounting many of these obstacles, church, and about 30 on the outside and today we feel more encouraged for peeping through the windows. The story CASH OR INSTALLMENT the future. We have confined our work of Jesus and His love for sinners was ■so far, to Paia and Hamakuapoko, with preached to them, the attention paid beoccasional visits to Spreckelsville and ing very good. At Paia, we also had a very pretty Puunene. Insurance Department Services have been held every Sunday tree and program, the first time at this morning at the Paia Chapel with a place, we understand, which proved also HAWAIIAN TRUST fair attendance. We also have a Sunday a success in attracting many that would School at this place, with an average not come otherwise. The Glad Tidings attendance of six, the highest number of Joy was also announced to them. The hearts of the little ones at both attending at any time being eighteen. Our progress at Paia has not been that places were gladdened with small preswhich we would like it to have been, ents, nuts and candies being kindly doml Telephone Main 184 but we are laboring with hope for suc- nated by the Portuguese Sunday School \5 92S FORT STREEI cess in the near future, trusting in our at Honolulu. Lord and Master. Collections have been taken during pAr>ADSE OF THE PACIFIC VICTOR^ TALKING MACHINES .. .. HP* �15 THE FRIEND January 2d.—Mooheau Hall opened at 117 G. IRWIN & CO., Hilo. Fort Street, Honolulu 12th.—Rev. E. G. Beckwith, D.D., reChurch, Maui, SUGAR FACTORS signs Pastorate of Paia Bids rooms of mosquitoes and flies. account of failing health. on More effect odor. No smoke or unpleasant AND tried for muriye than burning powder and far more eco14th.—Eugene Arroyo, manconvicted of nomical COMMISSION AGENTS. der of Riviera, is The outfitconsists of brass lamp and chimney slaughter in the first degree. Fifteen Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co. and the Hkeet-Go. Price complete, $1. SUET-GO years. 2lst._l'riccs 'f not satisfactory. Money of Plantation shares under influence of advancing, rapidly FURNITURE STORE growing price of sugar. Long depresAll kinds of sion ending. Plantation in FURNITURE, First Rubber 25th.— WINDOW SHADES, Hawaii incorporated. Location at Naliiku, Maui. LACE CURTAINS, PORTIERES, 26th.—Rapid Transit Co. reports for TABLE COVERS, ETC. Kp4, 6,689,401 passengers carried on line, gross income being FOR BALLS AND RENTED CHAIRS miles of 23 $76,919. net income $325,557, PARTIES. ■tBB«N BBUO ct. . FA. CITY SCHAEFER & CO., Importers and COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Honolulu, T. H. 9^R!l CdRRIfIQE V.U., _ LTD. MARRIED. YOUNG BUILDING We carry the biggest line of harness in the city; vehicle* of all descriptions; rubber tires at lowest prices; full line of everything pertaining to HORSE or tAB RIAOE. T M>{ UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING. TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS. Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561. A., to Miss Emily Halstead. Telephone: Office, Main 64. ROSS-KOPKE—At Honolulu. Jan. 16. Ernest Nos. 1146-1148 Fort St., Honolulu. Ross to Miss Bernice Kopke. W.. S. N. Manager. Sydney. HEAPY-MALONEY—At : ! H. H. WILLIAMS Jan. 2, Stafford Heapy to Miss Alice McCLELLAN-HALSTEAD—At Honolulu, Jan. 3, Lieut.-Col. John McClellan, U. S. Maloney. W. AHANA & CO., LTD. MERCHANT TAILOR. Telephone Blue 2431. P. O. Box 986. B. KingStre.t, Honolulu W We Guarantee Fair Treatment DEATHS. HOPP & COMPANY, Importers and Manufacturers of FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY. CHAIRS TO RENT. Nos. I 1053-1059 Bishop St. - - Honolulu. Clark farm £6.1 LIMITED Jersey Cream -:- Dairy Produce KOOB,PINKAPPOIS, VEGETABLES W. W. NKEDHAM, H>Mt|er Sain D«pt. 7"\ HONOLULU BREWER & CO., Limited, | | g WILKINS—At Lahaina. Dec. 27. Henry Wilkins, Supt. of Water Works. TULLOCK—At Olaa. Dec. 25. killed by cav- CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. ing of bank. A. E. Tulloch, an old and respected resident. KAULUKOU—At Honolulu, Jan. 1, Mrs. ___-msmma—^mm.^———~■ Judge J. L. Kaulukou, aged 51. OTA—At Honolulu, Jan. 1. Rev. Otahiko Ota, Japanese missionary of Disciples' Church. JOHNSON—At Cincinnati. O. Jan. 5, H. D. Johnson, late cashier Oahu Sugar Co. AND HILDEBRAND—In San Francisco. Jan. 3. Mrs. Jennie Brooks Hildebrand. M. D., j aged 72. formerly in practice in Honolulu. | SMITH—At Coronado Beach, Cat. Jan. 18, j Mrs. Walter Giffard Smith, aged 42 years. : : BEAVER LUNCH ROOM. H. J. Nolte, Proprietor. * General Mercantile Commission Agents. TEMPERANCE COFFEE Queen St., Honolulu, T. H. * * AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian . J» HOUSE. Agricultural Co., Fort St., Honolulu, T. H. Onomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala & COOKE, Ltd., Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch. Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer Dealers in ft Co.'s Line of New York Packets. Agents Boston Board of Underwriters. LUMBER. BUILDING Agents Philadelphia Board of Underwriter*. LOWERS MATERIALS. LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke, WALL PAPERS, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President PAINTS, Etc. and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and Secretary; W. F. Allen, Auditor; P. C. Jones, Honolulu, T. H. C. H. Cooke, G. R. Carter, Directors. 1 Apoffinaris Apenfa Johannis Litfiia Waters The woman who values the freshness of her skin muit remember that a Might aperient, a small wine glassful of ONE of THESE FAMOUS WATERS Is one of the greatest aids to health and therefore , J^^^^^s. \ ff it ■%QLfc 11 %jKj 1 VpQ^J beauty. Lewis & Goinpamj, Ltd. Telephone 240. Grocers Telephone 240. Sole Agents for the Hawaiian Islands. �THE FRIEND 16 The BankofHawaii,Ltd. HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT. C. J. DAY & CO. PINE QROCERICS Incorporated Under the Laws of the Territory of Hawaii. OLD Kona Coffe a Specialty - - - PA 1DIP CAPITAL, sntpi.us, � MM ������+������������•�•��■�•�* ' ■ UMHYIDED t'ROKITS, Telephone 187 • «600,000.00 2wi.000.00 70,288.95 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: ii B. T. Ebkrs St €o.! Charles M. Cooke "J;IP. C.Jones z I THE � EBERHART I F. W. Macfarlaue SYSTEM" President Vice-President 2nd Vice-President Cashier Assistant Cashier 10. H. > ooke To induce regularity of attendance. F.C. Atherton Waterhouse, E. F. Bishop. E. D. Teuney, raj � Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with J. H. A Mc(landless and 0. H. Ath' rton. Islands. increasing interest. use on the In I ■ COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS DEPARTMENTS. i Send to " Strict Attention Oiven to nil Branches of *> HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS, \ Banking. "■ 4ro Boston Building. JUDD BUILDING. FOUT STREET HONOLULU � Y. O. Boi 716 i AUGUR, »«MM»*f M. D., J. �4-4-44-4-M-4-+4-MM-f-M-M HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. A 17RITE TO US Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431! ALWAYS USE Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue. for catalogues and prices on anything in Office Hours:—lo to 12 a. m.. 3to 4 and 7 the line of to Bp. m. Sundays: 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. " RECEIVED:- ;; Biark Silk Raylans Wiilkinrjr Skirts Latest Novelties in Head Belts Hand Pursee, etc. A I I ... GEORGE : California Rose... CREAMERY BETTER Guaranteed tlie Be-t and full ounces. PORTER i(> TELEPHONES 32 kil\ I | k"">~j SPORTING GOODS SHIP CHANDLERY BICYCLES and GENERAL MERCHANDISE FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY AND BEDDING. Young Bldg., cor. Hotel & Bishop Sts. Wickerware. Antique Oak Furniture, Cornice Poles, Window Shades and Wall Bracket*. HENRY nATfr CO. Ltd. 22 HARDWARE FURNITURE CO., Importers of T-1 l E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd., Honolulu. T. H. T~*i s r7am ''y Bible, x9 inches, Old and New Testa- fe> jb., ment, References, Fine New Maps in colors and a Family 7ji~ ... , - Here is a way the to get o ■/ above Bible and the FRIEN. 1 flexible: r~~ a MRMJ IM| tlftlll Send us one NEW subscriber and $3-50 and we send you post paid the Bible and a receipted bill for the subscription for one year. Send us two NEW subscribers and $5 00 and we will send Bible to any address and a receipted bill to the two subfnr nnp v«.r c-rih*™ scnbers for one year. What vv nai W Rptfpr PrPQPnt r? Deuer rreseni Address—PUBLISHER P.O. Box 489 OF the FRIEND Honolulu Sl2 EI OF" THE . Daunts confidence in God. . TYPE . . TO n QYYTT XXII PSALMS him aU ye the seed of Jacob, glorify I™^ him; and fear him, all ye the seed of £.'£.* im.«s!u. Israel. 24 For he hath not despised nor „j!to«.u. abhorred theaffliction of the afflicted; .mi hath ho hid his face from •p..«.t.«i neither ~„, h(?n he he Mmt.«.n' heard. 25 Uy vmhcskall be ot thee m the ,£•"•* great congregation: I -will pay my tows tefore + ;vaki fear him. "*""»• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1905) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1905.02 - Newspaper https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/316eda143a110d1a4d2371682896d556.pdf b59b87e379878f8929fc2bf1bcc33574 PDF Text Text �THE FRIEND 2 A Cent Apiece—l2o for $1.00 §4i6 1 2 inches Famous pictures for Sunday School uses made by BROWN THE FRIEND F3 ISHOP & COMPANY, Is published the first week of each month in Honolulu, T. H., at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms, 400-402 Boston Building. *-' COLLEGE HILLS, Theodore Richards, Business Manager of The Friend, P. O. Box 489. Not a great many, but The Board COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms: one-third cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two years. Interest at 6 per cent. Transact a General Banking and Exchange Business. Loans made on approved security. Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check. Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, All communications of a literary character and Insurance Department, doing a Life, Fire and Marine business on most favorable terms, should be addressed to in Friend Building on Bethel Street. The Managing Editor or The Friend, Honolulu, T. H. 400-402 Boston Building, The magnificent residence tract of the Oahu College. Supplied with Artesian Water and Rapid Transit HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Established in 1858. All business letters should be addressed and all M. O.s and checks should be made out to of Beverly Mass. ■ end to HAWAIIAN BOARD ROOMS 400 Boston Building WE HIE SOME EXCELLENT BOOKS Editors : of "For Christmas"? And other things Henry Waterhouse Trust Co.. Ltd. Entered October t7. Wot. at Honolulu, Hawaii, an tecon<l cla*s matter, under act of Congres* of March S, 1579, STOCKS, BONOS - .... Honolulu OAHU SPECIAL OFFER COLLEGIA. (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., Presiucut.) and PUNAHOU PREPARATORY SCHOOL (Samuel Pingree French, A. 8., Principal.) THE REGULAR PRICE OF The is Offer complete College preparatory work, Friend $1.50 per year BUT ANY Music, and For Catalogues, address JONATHAN SHAW, Oahu College, - - - Business Agent, Honolulu, H. T. T M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. DENTAL ROOMS, port Street. ... NEW Boston Building REACHING FEBRUARY THE HF. WICHMAN, &CO., NAME US IST SENDfcR LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeweler and Silversmith. Honolulu Leather Goods, Etc. Hawaiian Islands. ... CASTLE - & COOKE, Ltd., Honolulu, H. I. AND $1.00 Art courses. Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass, together with special Commercial. Hawaiian ltd. Rooms. ANO ISLAND SECUIt I T I E S ments, etc., apply to 404 Judd Building. Hawaiian Islands. Aye, or any day. Doremus Scudder, Managing Editor. Sereno E. Bishop, D. D. Rev. Orramel H. Gulick. Theodore Richards. Rev. Edward W. Thwing. Rev. William D. Westervelt. William L. Whitney, Esq. For information as to building requireTRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE, BANKERS. BEFORE ENTITLES TO YEARS SUBSCRIPTION. A . COMMISSION MERCHANTS, SUGAR FACTORS. Agents for The Ewa Plantation Co., The Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd., The Kohala Sugar Co., The Waimea Sugar Mill Co., The Apokaa Sugar Co., Ltd., i The Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Mo., The Standard Oil Co.. Geo. F. Blake Steam Pumps, Weston's Centrifugals, New England Mutual Life Ins. Co., Boston, Aetna Fire Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn., 1 Alliance Assurance Co.. of London. I �The Friend VOL. HONOLULU, T. H., JANUARY, 1905 LXJT- TREASURER'S STATEMENT. Dec. 28, '04. Floating Assets — Mibscriptions uncollected. interest uncollected .. .$ . 265.00 99 I25 We have been in receipt of many cordial greetings from our readers and we hasten to respond in kind. A Happy Christmas to you all, overflowing into the new year as it may easily do. Such was His intention when He came and He does not change. We regret that we had to divide Mrs. Whitney's excellent article on the Metlakatlah Mission. It is concluded in this issue. We are sixty-two years old, and far from being unwilling to tell our age. 60.00 Rental Due (6) We have no contemporary this side of the Mississippi as far as we know. We Collections 011 book rooms. 300.00 used to say "Rocky Mountains," but find we can travel East and still be with.'ash I79SO in the truth. We are open to congratulations, and if we may choose the form, would suggest that it come in new subscriptions. $ 1.79575 Now that we have Dr. Scudder back home, he will resume charge of this paLiabilities— per. We would like to give a resume • of his most remarkable trip but are not [Jills payable $10,750.00 sufficiently posted as yet. We hope to see more of it in our columns. This we know that he appeared in nearmuch Overdraft at bank 845.01 ly thirty of the most notable pulpits of the mainland, setting forth in his own vigorous way the needs of Hawaii. Of this also we feel sure, viz.: that the good $11,595.01 effects must be considerable. Of some we know already, and that which follows Excess of indebtedness 9,799.26 will spread over many years. It may not be too early to say that Indebtedness last month 9,585.72 Dr. Scudder has probably engaged a new man for Palama and 'ts environs. The addition to the corps of Japanese evangelists has already been mentioned Indebtedness increased $ 213.54 in these columns. Certainly this is the place for the "Long-meter Doxology." Now that large help from the main- No. i near where he lives. Now "line up," as the foot-ball people say, and we will soon see what goal you are working for. Mark this! no one expects a "touchdown" right after the "kick-off." Did we say "the only thing said against" the local option bill? The most potent, effectual thing said (in effect) was, "we don't want it." Who said it,—or better,—in whose interests was it said? Watch the attitude of the liquor man on this issue. He may not come right out on the open, but you note the people who oppose and then inquire closely as to who is back of the opposition. We venture this a sure thing in the prophetic field "The Liquor Man Does Not Want Local Option." This is one of our best reasons for wanting it. Another matter for discussion, Governor Carter, in view of the coming legislature. It is juvenile delinquency. The Reformatory School is about full, and what to do with boy offenders is a question big with portent. Fortunately the Reformatory School is in excellent hands and many of the boys are really much better off there, than at home. But is it the only thing to do, with a boy who has life enough to be mischievous, to send him to the Reformatory? Colorado says "No." Her famous Judge Lindsay gives reasons and proofs no one can gainsay. Other states have long since decided on the Probationary idea. It works wherever tried and why not here? It is safe to say that fully half the boys now committed might be kept out of the Reformatory at a saving to the Territory and again in self-respect and manhood on the part of those who thus escaped commitment. It is becoming too easy for parents to avoid responsibilities of caring for boys by having them committed. (This requires separate treatment, but is a significant element in Hawaii's problem). Note elsewhere in these columns a simple expedient in the form of a bill to be introduced by Senator Dickey who is it's author. Senator Dickey's Local Option bill makes the strongest kind of claim for land is assured we ought to see that the support. The only thing that was sa;d against it in the last legislature was condebt is persistently wiped out. Next cerning the cost of the election. Now this objection is most equitably arranged for in the bill, as the side desiring the month there will be a better showing. election pays the b: lls. You see there are two sides,-I—there1—there is no getting away Let every man give "as God hath from that fact.—one wanting: license of THE LEPER CHRISTMAS. the saloon the other not. The indifferprospered him." The box went aid was received ent peoole, if they but knew it, really rank with the former class, save that though at present writing we have not T. R. no one (liquor man included) wants one heard of the exercises which were held �THE FRIEND 4 on Christmas Eve. The buying this year was in the -hands of Miss Alice lone* ami the Board is likewise indebted Id Misses Werthmueller. Hutehins. and Cooke tor assorting tad tieing separately the gifts. Much was made of this feature so that something like evenness of value and serviceability was attained: things, too. peculiarly adapted to nun. women or children were marked as such, so that no man need to have been embarrassed with a package of dress goods, needles, threads, etc.: nor should suspenders and neck-tie have disappointed a feminine recipient. The givers were as follows: Kaumakapili S S. W A. Bowen. Lihue S. S. Marv Castle Trust. G F. Castle. Mrs. T. M. Atherton. Kate M. Atherton. A Friend. Mrs. Hopper. Fukaana S. S. Making a total of Of this sum there was spent. .. $80.50 78.05 Leaving a ba!. for next year of .$ t.55 TREASURER." per cent, of the $24,360 charged on the Board of Public Instruction books for the items above-mentioned, for the plant would have to be maintained and the help only partially reduced. One third of the sum would surely be saved *J0 and better than that the boys kept out would be saved the stigma of the Re- formatory school and their self-respect is an asset to the community as it is an invaluable heritage to their children. T. R. A UNIQUE SERVICE. Surely there is no more picturesque chapel than that of Oahu Prison. For a cathedral what could you have finer than the raped) arch and rich green of that rare old tree in the prison yard. The singing is good too, the quartette among the men being particularly harmonious. For the Christmas service here is a programme, the original of which was prettily done by hand over at the gaol: Christmas service* at Oahu .. Prison. Sun- 111. Address. Rev. W. M. Kincaid. day, December j;. 1004, at ,t p. in., under the auspices of the Honolulu Y. M. C. A. 12. "Tlie Sweet By and Ry." Mr William Kamana. Warden. O. P. Glee Club. Mr John M. Martin. Deputy. IX Closing Kemarks. Miss Florence Yarrow. Organist. Mr. John M. Martin. PROGRAMME. 1 14. "I will sing the wondrous story." Congregation. Prelude—"Watchman tell us of the night." IX Benediction. Congregation. Miss Florence Yarrow, t. Hymn—'Joy to the world." ll is the Holy Morn! Coneregation. 1Heaven's perfect answer to man's need j. Scripture Lesson. JThe Christ, the Christ is horn! languages. five In 1. Fraver. 4. Hymn—"lt Rev. W. M. Kincaid. clear." came Upon the midnight Congregation. 5. Carol—"On this Christmas morn." Oahu Prison Glee Club. Audited and found correct. H. A. A 6. Address. Rev. H. H. Parker. " Vocal Selection. Mivs Charlotte White. A MATTER OF COST. ft Recitation—"Annie's and Willies Prayer." Miss H. D. Ray Rcll. It is a vicious way we have of figuring i). Carol—"l keia ka anela." O. P. Glee Club. everything by dollars and cents. Take 10. Vncal Selection. this subject of child delinquency, for inMiss Nellie Waddington. stance: the state the biggest element of cost to by reason of bungling with our A ROUSING RECEPTION. child criminals is in manhood. —dollars and cents figure too of course. Dr. and Mrs. Doremus Scudder Guests Judge Lindsey of Colorado shows a of Honor at Harvest Supper in the saving to the state as a result of the First Church Last Evening—Postluvenile Courts for r year to be $88,827. prandial Exercises a Pleasing FeaThis was direct and might have been ture of the Event. legitimately figured out to be much greater. Every hoy committed to state Refor- in the old wav cost on an average of $227 apiece. Here in Hawaii by computation from the report of T. H. Gibson for year ending in I)er '02. each hoy committed cost $24} for food. clothing and instruction alone, -not) considering interest on plant, wear andj t«*ar, transportation, cost of trial, etc. There were then 72 boys in the school, 21 committed for fruanev. Judge Lind"sev thinks that in (>$ per cent, of cases, hoys nrght be kept out of the Reformamatory , Each table had a bouquet of chrysanthemums, which were very kindly furnished for the occasion by the Mishawiiiii Flower Company. The menu consisted of baked beans, cold nicaf, rolls. doughnuts and cheese, p; cs, cake, fruit and coffee. The postprandial exercises were of course the interesting feature of the The Harvest Supper at the Congreevening. gational Church last evening was atDr. Norton acted as toast master and tended by over 400, every ticket being Burdett, who bordnninrr quoted Robert taken several days in advance. It was an address in a prison said he was glad and most pleasing a grand gathering to see so many pnescnt. success in every way. was delighted that Dr. Scudder Preceding the supper Dr. and Mrs. hadHebrought a salubrious climate with Scudder rece-vcd in the auditorium of from those far away islands in the him the church, being assisted by Dr. March and Dr. and Mrs. Norton. Everyone Pacfie. Ho wished all to fed that they were had an opportunity of meeting and of this happy family and that members creetintr the irnests of honor, and no they extended a united joyous welcome one misled the opportunity. tory by the Probation system, but supFollowine the reception, supper was to Dr. and Mrs. Scudder. pose that in Hawaii we might keep but •erved in the vestry where covers were He then introduced Miss Trecartin. cent, the per laving—not out, note laid for and seat wan taken. every 50 400 who sang, "When Cereus Smiles," This * * * * * * �5 THE FRIEND was so heartily encored that she sang "Auld Lang Syne" all joining in the chorus. A beautiful bunch of roses was her reward for this. * * * Dr. Norton said that Dr. March alone, of all that vast assemblage, was the proper one to give Dr. Scudder the welcome he deserved. We thank God he is here with us to extend the welcome. As. Dr. March arose, the audience stood and as one person cheered him to the echo, again and again. It was a most touching tribute of love and loyalty and it was some seconds before he could control his voice sufficiently to speak the words of welcome that were in his heart. Cold type can never do justice to the hearty and cordial feeling of thanksgiving and love that he conveyed in his every tone and gesture. He said, it is for the old folks to sing the song of welcome when grown up sons return from years of faithful toil afar tiff. I would sing and play the song of welcome until every roof trembled with the refrain if I were able, but I must speak it only. Dr. Norton here paid a high tribute to the faithfulness, help and inspiration that is given by those unselfish Christian woman who are the helpmates of strong men in the Christian missionary field, and especially to the power for good that Mrs. Scudder has been in conjunction with her husband in their far off charge, and then introduced Dr. Scudder, who spoke of the pleasure it gave him to be thus warmly received by his old friends; told something of the work he is doing and closed, expressing the hope that he might be here again on the 90th anniversary of Dr. March's birth two years hence. After singing a verse of the hymn. 'The Tie That Binds," the event closed with a fervent benediction. —Woburn News. * * * PORTENTS OF THIS GREAT WAR. What looms up as in the near future of the Mongoloid Empires? What changes and evolutions does this mighty conflict portend? What new developments are incubating? What strange growths may be struggling for birth? This first decade of the new century already signalized by one of the fiercest of wars, promises to be fruitful of vast political change and growth to our Pacific neighbors. this deadly grapple of two great ions, the world looks on in wonder, le striving to be calm and keep mu-1 peace without mutual interference I conflict, which may God forefend. c great empire has been remorselessushing forward to subdue and over- in Such events drive keenly upon the atrule the Orient. Its lesser but nimbler opponent has risen in ordered swiftness tention of obtuse China the nature of and unexpected might, and for a year that vast and fundamental revolution has pressed back its huge enemy with which has been wrought in the mental tremendous and unabating force. The struggle ever waxes fiercer, more resolute, more desperate. .What is to be the outcome? To us in Hawaii, the interest deepens. Only nine days steaming separates us from the scene of activity, from the strain and tension of Japan. Most profoundly concerned is this Pacific hemisphere, in which Hawaii holds a central part. The future of the Pacific is most deeply affected by the inevitable results of the war, whatever they may be. It seems impossible that either Japan or China, or the countries adjacent should remain unchanged, whatever the outcome. Evidently this twentieth Century has opened big with great events, revolutionizing the giant masses of Asia, and changing the near future especially of that vast body of sluggish yet powerful civilization, the four hundred millions of Chinese people. For it is manifestly the future and fate of China, over which these combatants are now wrestling, whatever their fully purposed intentions may be. The event of this war is to be more decisive as to the condition of China, than of that of either of the empires at war. It is that vast, inert, slumbering, but most capable mass of mankind whose future is mainly concerned in the fierce wrestle and grapple now in progress in their own territory. Our vision is incapable of so peering into the near future, as to clearly discern either the latent possibilities or the probable results of this war, whichever way the final victory turns. But we are fully assured that all events are in the hands of the Supreme Ruler, who directs all things after the counsel of His will; and He has revealed His purpose to subline this earth into subjection to the beneficient Kingdom of His Son. And how may this war lead towards that great End? One effect upon China we may easily conjecture. That is a powerful arousing and quickening of thought among that crowded mass of people as to their position among mankind. It would seem that their torpid thought must awake to their necessity for participating like the agile Japanese in the light and thinking of the modern world. How cap their great central provinces fail to awake, when such a tremendous tramp and crash of war thunders on through the year in their northern province of Manchuria? All China must rouse itself to ask what means this fearful turmoil, and how is it created? and material condition of Japan by taking in the progressive and civilizing forces of Christendom. They must stir up the Chinese to appropriate and participate in those vast forces of science and art. To the world's wonder, Japan's ordered and determined effort to possess those forces to the utmost has lifted that smaller empire into the status of a formidable world-power, possessed of marvelous capacity, equipment, and prevision, so as to wage a war of the most resolute and steady advance, the fiercest vigor of attack, the most ordered and thorough application of force. The Chinese are a race of exceptional practical and business capacity, and they are most capable of imitating whatever is seen to be desirable. Despite their obstinate conservatism, their repugnance to change, the fearful thunders of this war must forbid their longer stopping cars and eyes to their absolute necessity for falling into the ranks of modern progress and advancing into the light like Japan. Apparently the hour for China's awakening has arrived. A day of general enlightenment of that people would seem to be close at hand. Of c jurie such a vast revolution will be attended with great commotions and local resistances. Rut the change is inevitable. If this be so, now is the time of opportunity for Christian teachers and Christian schools to win their way to acceptance among the awakening masses of that nation. All foreign teaching must become in the utmost demand throughout the vast empire. A day seems cio»e at hand for the highest opportunity for consecrated Christian effort to pour powerful Gospel light over those teeming millions. WONDERFUL TUNNELING HAWAII. IN This tunneling has been done within the last two years for the purpose of conveying water for irrigating sugar cane. It is a new system of ditching, or rather in place of ditching, in order to reach otherwise inaccessible streams of great volume. Nothing perhaps more notably illustrates the able and determined enterprise of our sugar planters than this recent and successful attack upon what seemed to be impregnable mountain fastnesses, whereby their treasures of water have been drained away and distributed over broad and rich but arid plains. �6 THE FRIEND There are probably scarcely any other The first and perhaps most remarkable of the three great tunnel systems similar water systems available in these accomplished, is known as the "Koolau islands, unless perhaps that of the Koditch" on East Maui* which more than hala mountain be ol like nature. But doubles the water supply of the great here we have 175 million gallons ot plantations on the dry western slope of daily supply added, enough to irrigate Haleakala. Those plantations had pre- 17,500 acres of cane, and produce 80,000 viously been fed by a succession of long tons of sugar per annum on land hitherand very winding ditches dug during the to unproductive. The foregoing facts and figures are past 25 years with many long and costly syphons, which drained a series of derived from an article on "Irrigation streams in north-western Koolau. But in Hawaii" in the Hawaiian Planters' beyond these was the Nahiku series of Monthly for October, 1904, by M. M. great streams, ten in number, fed by an O'Shaughnessy. Hon. Henry P. Baldwin has been the immense rainfall, which escaped to the sea in ravines of enormous depth. It leading promoter of the three great unwas absolutely impossible to reach those dertakings described. Mr. Baldwin is copious streams by ditching. But in well known also as perhaps the foremost eighteen months beginning with April, among our Hawaiian capitalists in the 1903, seven and one-half miles of tun- promotion of Gospel activities among nels were constructed through solid us. How blessed a thing it would be it rock, with only two and a half miles in new ways could be devised for more ditch and open flume. This great water- effectually burrowing into the craggy course at an elevation of 1250 feet is fastnesses of humanity to develop spiritS. E. B. thus mostly several hundred feet under- ual life! ground. There are in all thirty-eight tunnels, averaging each 1000 feet long, CLIMATIC FITNESS OF HAWAII the shortest being 300 feet. On account FOR AMERICAN CIVILIZATON. of the porosity of the lava rock, four and one-half miles of concrete six inches thick, lines the lower half of the The truth has become practically tunnels to prevent seepage. The tun- axiomatic as the result of universal exnels are eight feet wide and seven feet that a high civilization cannot perience, high. The whole cost was nearly $400,- be or maintained in hot clideveloped -000. The labor employed was Japanese, mates. high temperature is unwho worked four abreast in drilling and favorableConstant to the strenuous and sustained blasting their way in the rock depths. effort which such civilization requires. The second tunneling triumph is at The muscular and nervous systems bethe north end of West Maui, whose come relaxed by the continued heat of great stream of Honokahau has just tropics, where no winter comes to been delivered out upon the broad the up the relaxed fibre. Hence the brace slopes of the Kaanapali district ten or a torrid climes are occupied by the feebler dozen miles away. For a few miles west and uncultured races. The homes of the of the Honokahau valley the mountain diligent and civilized races are in the surface was excessively broken, making Temperate Zone, as with the Europeans, ditching impossible. But three and a the Chinese, and the Japanese. half miles of tunneling have conquered But Hawaii although in the Torrid this, with only 200 feet of 36 inch syphon Zone, is exceptional in climate, and pipes. And the water is delivered at therefore affords a desirable home for 700 feet elevation, some thirty millions the best civilized occupation and culture. of gallons daily. Cost $185,000. In our capital Honolulu, the daily temThe third tunneling triumph is at Ma- perature ranges from a common minikaweli on the west side of Kauai, known mum of 580 to a maximum; of 87 0, as the "Olokele ditch." It was preceded sometimes falling as low as 500 , but in 1800 by the "Hanapepe ditch" built hardly ever reaching 900 Our usual on the old fashioned system with only temperatures during the night on the 0 0 TOl3 feet of tunnels, but 14,618 feet of shore are 75 in summer, and 62 in flume, and ten miles of ditching. This winter. We know nothing of the disdelivered 35 million gallons daily at an tress of hot nights encountered on the elevation of 450 feet. But the new Olo- Atlantic coast, nor of the broiling days of kele ditch from the same great Hana- Chicago or New York, any more than pepe river, delivers over 60 million gal- we experience any stinging or bracing lons daily at an altitude of 1075 feet. cold in winter, unless we seek the high And this is done by means of eight miles uplands. Hence there is nothing to preof tunnels traversing otherwise inacces- vent any man on any day in the year sible country. It has cost $360,000. from working hard all day long either in Much electric power will be obtained doors or out. The truth is, and it should be genfor mill and railway uses. . erally understood, that the Hawaiian Islands do not possess a Tropical climate although south of the Tropic of Cancer. It may perhaps be called sub-tropical, although that term more properly applies to latitudes like Florida well above the Tropic, where a mild winter comes, as it does not in Hawaii. We lack the regenerating and recuperating influence of winter cold, but at the same time we know nothing whatever of torrid heat such as prevails in Havana, Manila or Calcutta throughout the greater part of the year, although in nearly the same latitude. Our climate is wholly different. The reason of that difference, which ought to be more generally recognized, is simply that we occupy a cold region of ocean water, which is the only similar section of ocean on the globe within the Tropics. The ocean surface waters on the windward or eastern side of these Islands stand at very uniform temperatures ranging from near 500 in late winter to over 70 0 in late summer. And on all small islands like ours, the temperature of the surrounding ocean necessarily determines the temperature of the air. Throughout Micronesia, lying from 2,000 to 4,000 miles west of Hawaii in the warm Equatorial current, the temperature ranges from a minimum of Bo° to a maximum of ioo°. By a unique condition, existing nowhere else in the Tropics, Hawaii gets her ocean water directly transmitted from that vast body of nearly ice-cold water which occupies the western coast of North America from Sitka to Los Angeles, and is known as the Pacific Coast Cold Current. That current tempers in a marvellous manner the otherwise extreme climates of that whole coast from Puget Sound to Southern Calir fornia, which would otherwise be scorching hot in summer and biting cold in winter. Yet in San Francisco, overcoats are needed every summer afternoon, and fires in the evening. One half of the great states of Washintgon and Oregon are redeemed by this current from the semi-desolation of those portions east of the Cascade Range, and are rendered the sweetest and fairest portions of the globe for the abode of highly-civilized man. By the same law of the earth's rotation which directs the course of the Trade winds, the overflow of that great cold current is driven south-westward to the ocean-region of Hawaii. That fact is verified by the frequent arrival here of huge trees and saw-logs from the Columbia River, which land on our eastern shores. During the slow progress hither of this great current, it accumulates much heat from the sun, but still retains a very moderate temperature, even in late summer. Thus Hawaii was anciently annexed, �THE FRIEND. climatically, to America, even as it has been recently annexed politically. It would seem as if a kind Providence had designedly prepared on the Pacific Coast a glorious home for the development of a great civilized empire, whose climate is so wonderfully tempered by that Cold Current. And still more out here in this imperial ocean, is created by the same means a fitting outpost for the same civilization, confronting the more ancient civilization of the Orient. May the great destiny of Hawaii thus indicated be worthily fulfilled in a high Christian culture with righteousness, social purity S. E. B. and public integrity. THE METLAKAHTLA MISSION, ALASKA. was based. In 1870, Mr. Duncan spent a few months in England, where he By Mary S. Whitney. (Concluded) Each evening after the labors of the day, they gathered on the shore, like a large happy family, while Mr. Duncan gave them a short scripture address, and all joined in prayer and singing. This company was soon increased to four or five hundred by others coming from Fort Simpson, and after ten months Mr. Duncan was able to report that there had not been a case of drunkenness in the colony, and only two had proved unworthy and been banished from the place. Evening family devotions were held in nearly every home, on Sabbath days labor was laid aside and hardly a soul staid away from divine service. Recognizing the fact that no individual nor com munity can be self-respecting and pros" perous who depends upon help for daily existence, Mr. Duncan at once introduced trades and industries by which his people should become selfsupporting. Being himself of a remarkably practical turn of mind, he was able to give intelligent direction to their work. He taught them improved methods of fishing, to make better boats and build better houses; to manufacture lumber and can fish; to read and write and sing, not neglecting all the while to teach the religious truths upon which all hope of improvement learned the arts of weaving, rope making, twine spinning and brush making, also the scale upon twenty-one musical instruments, which were donated to the settlement, by means of which a brass band was added to the attractions of Metlakahtla. Thus for twenty-five years, under the guidance of Mr. Duncan this lone mission station was prosperous, happy and contented. When in the height of its vigor and prosperity its progress was interrupted from an unexpected source. Though practically an independent mission, it had remained under the supervision of the English Church Missionary Society, and had received encouragement and some financial aid from this organization. Early in the eighties the secretary, Henry Venn, who had heartily approved Mr. Duncan's methods, died, and a Missionary Bishop was appointed to have the oversight of all the mission stations in British Columbia, including Metlakahtla. This bishop undertook to interfere with their simple forms of worship, insisted upon ritualistic observances and the introduction of real wine into the communion service. Mr. Duncan felt that the elaborate ritual of the Church of England was entirely unsuited to the simple habits of his people, and that their spiritual life would be weakened by its use. The introduction of spirituous liquor in any form had been absolutely prohibited in the colony from the first. 7 and he was sure that its use, even in their religious observances, would endanger their whole moral character. As the bishop insisted that the changes should be made, Mr. Duncan felt obliged to withdraw from the Church Missionary Society and organize an Independent Native church; but the Missionary Society claimed the ownership of the two most central acres of the village, upon which the mission buildings stood, and the Canadian Government supported this claim, only allowing the people to remain upon their lands "by the charity and bounty of the Queen." Mr. Duncan narrated the circumstances to an interested crowd of passengers from our steamer, including Rev. Dr. Hillis of Brooklyn, whose predecessor, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, had shown great sympathy for this Indian community in their time of trial. Said Mr. Duncan: "The people were amazed at this stand taken by the 'We Church, and the Government. don't ask the charity of the Queen,' they said. 'This is our land, and it was our fathers' before us, our homes are here, and here we have lived.' "I saw," he continued, "that the only thing to do was to again move my people to new homes. Some of them were for fight, and I knew there were plenty of the heathen Indians about who would be only too willing to join with them in a war upon the whites, and no white man's life in this part of Alaska would be safe." Mr. Duncan told how he held conferences with the leading -men of the place, and after careful consideration, they decided to leave their comfortable homes and gardens, their beautiful church, which it had taken them two years to build, their school houses and stores, and shops and mills, and seek a new home upon American soil in near-by Alaska. A band of Metlakahtlans at once set out in their canoes to explore the coast. �8 THE FRIEND and after proceeding about ioo miles northward they found a beautiful bay upon the uninhabited t shores of Annette Island in Alaska, and at once decided that this should be their future home, where under the stars and stripes, they should not be molested in their worship of God. Upon their return, Mr. Duncan proceeded at once to Washington to secure permission from the U. S. Government to settle upon the land. The case was carefully considered by President Cleveland and other officials, and enlisted the interest of many leading clergymen and others. In the end satisfactory arrangements were made and in the summer of 1887 a number of the people proceeded to Annette Island to fell trees and prepare for the colony which was to follow. In the fall about a thousand men, leaving their comfortable homes tenantless, landed upon the island and encamped in tents and temporary huts till spring. Finding then that none of the people were disheartened and wished to return, Mr. Duncan drew up a beautiful design for the streets and homes and other buildings of a new village, which he intended should be a model city in all respects. The highest land was reserved for a church, a school house and gymnasium, a large guest house, hospital, stores, shops, etc. Lots were laid out 80 by 90 feet and assigned to families; streets were also plannedand then miles of well constructed board sidewalks, eight feet wide. Of the town the former Governor of Alaska says:"A neater, more orderly, or better contented Christian community cannot be found in any State or Territory of the Union." They named the place New Metlakahtla. This was sixteen years ago. The people received nothing for the lands and houses they abandoned, and they are now not connected with Yet any missionary organization. they have by their own industry been able to build a beautiful church, entirely by their own labor, seating 800, well furnished and supplied with a pipe organ. It cost $10,286. A school house cost $4,500. A doctor's residence and home for girls cost $4,000; a guest house cost $3,000. A system of waterworks cost $10,000; a saw mill and machinery, $6,000, and a cannery, with equipment, including two small steamers, $31,000. Add to this their homes, many of which cost $1,000 each, and we may have some idea of the thrift and industry of this company of Indians, who fifty years ago were living in the lowest degradation of vice and only white person at the settlement. He has never married. He is still the pastor of the church, serving without a salary. He preaches twice every Sunday, conducts the Sunday school and the mid-week prayer meeting. He is the manager of the large cannery, which in 1902, produced 16,767 cases of canned fish, and of the saw mill, which produced 190,000 feet of lumber. He is also the father and friend and spiritual advisor of every man, woman and child in the colony. Mr. Duncan would be the last man in the world to dlow any one to think that by his wisdom or perseverance all this has been accomplished. It has come about through the humanizing, uplifting influence of the Spirit of God, brought to this untaught, savage people by a man full of love and consecration to God's work, and it is one of the most signal modern miracles of the gospel. About a year ago the publishers of the Ram's Horn sent Mr. Geo. T. B. Davis to Metlakahtla to write up the history of the mission, and I am indebted to his book, recently published, for much of the information here given. THE JAPANESE WORK AT HILO. By Rev. V. Yajima. The Japanese Christian Church in Hilo was established Jan. 11, 1891, by Rev. J. Okabe, the first Japanese pastor of the Church, but we do not know the details about the matter, owing to lack of records. All the members who were enrolled in the church from the beginning to Aug. 1, 1901, the time when I came here, were 337. But most of them "returned to their mother country, a few went to the coast, a few died here, and a few were ex-communicated. There were only 23 members, including two children, when I arrived here. During about three years—from Aug. 1, 1901, to the present day—34 people were baptized, and 15 were received by letter. Twenty-seven of this number went away or died during that time. The present number of members is 45. Sixteen of them belong to Olaa station, and the other 29, including 3 children, are stopping in the town and vicinity. The meeting house at Olaa station is in the camp of the Olaa Mill. The house was given to us by Mr. McStocker, the former manager of Olaa, in May of last year. From that time I have gone and still continue t» go there on the last Sunday of each month to preach. On the other Sundays all the believers there have a meeting among themselves. savagery. The last time I saw Mr. John Watt, the Mr. Duncan, at the age of "]2, is the new manager, I asked him to give us a - meeting house at Nine Miles in Olaa, because that place is the best. He said: "Mr. Hill spoke to me about that, and I am thinking about it. I believe that I can give you the house, which is now being used as a harness shop in two or three weeks." Now we are praying and expecting to get the house. Our church services are conducted on every Sunday afternoon from i 130 to 2:15. After which the Sunday-school service is held. The reason we are holding the meetings on Sunday afternoon is, that most of the members are working as cooks or garden boys, and it is more convenient for them to come to the church at that time. Every Sunday morning I visit the Japanese prisoners in the jail. In the evening we practice singing Japanese hymns for half an hour, with the teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Boscow, and the other half hour we devote to the study of the Japanese Bible. The attendance at our prayer meetings Wednesday evenings averages about ten. The teachers of the Sunday-school are Miss Severance, Miss Deyo, Mr. and Mrs. Boscow, for the young people, and Miss Porter for the children. The children are very few. I am publishing "The Mauna Kea," a monthly Japanese Christian newspaper, which was started in March of this year, This is devoted to all the Japanese Christian churches in Hawaii. Mr. Inouye and Mr. Sokabe are contributing articles to it. There arc 500 copies published every month. The Christian Endeavor Society was organized on the 10th of July and the members of the society number 35. The parsonage was erected by the Hawaiian Board, in December of last year, for the sum of $500. In July of this year, we painted the church, chairs and fence. The cost ($66) was raised among the believers. There are two night schools, one is in the Hawaiian church, near to the Waiakea Mill. The teacher is Mrs. W. H. Beers, who has been very ill and is resting now. We hope that she will regain her health very soon so as to be able to continue teaching. The other is in the church in Hilo. The teachers are Mr. and Mrs. Boscow. At present the pupils number 12. We visit the Japanese at Waiakea camps every Sunday afternoon after the close of the Sunday-school. HILO MINISTERS' MEETING. The monthly gathering of the Hilo pastors was held as usual at Mr. Shield's house, on Monday morning, November 14th. Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Union Church of Hilo, as well as the Honomu church were represented. �9 THE FRIEND. After prayer and the discussion of local items of interest, the paper of the morning was read by Rev. Yajima, who has been making a study of the religious conditions in Japan at the present time. His paper is given in part as follows: The ivork of the Christians in Japan during the war. "The Russo-Japanese war 'began on the Bth of February of this year. What are the Japanese Christians doing during this war? I will try to tell you about that briefly. (i) The Evangelical Alliance of Japan, which includes all Protestant churches in the country, requested the churches to ask God's blessings on the Japanese army a few days after the war began. (2) The Alliance decided to send Christian chaplains to the field on tfie 27th of February, and not a few have gone with the army. (3) The Bible and Christian pamphlets have been distributed among the soldiers. (4) A Missionary report says: "There has been much visiting among the homes from which niemlicrs have gone to the front." (5) "The Hospitals in which both Japanese and Russians are treated, are constantly provided with the evidence of Christ, in sympathy and care, in the way of literature and all needed assistance not provided by the government." (6) Many different topics were delivered by the Christian workers in the cities and towns. A few of them are put down here: The origin of the Russo-Japanese war and the nation's attitude ?t the time of the war. The Mission of the Empire. Thoughts on reading the proclamation of war. Japan assisted by Heaven. A Christian's view of war. The present opportunity and Christianity. War and Christians. Thoughts on the punishment of Russia. The Christian at the time of the war. The new life of the Empire. The arms of a Christian. What is the blessing of Heaven ? The yellow peril and Christianity. Our mission at the time of the war. Our war. The spirit of the time and Mission work. The war of love. A war after the war. Attentions at the time of the war. The victory and Christianity. The spiritual transformation of the Oriental people. Loyalty with Christianity. - Not against war. Christianity and the development of a nation's destiny. The problems of the day and religion. A righteous oriental war and the preparation of Japan's young men. / Loyalty and filial piety. The question of the yellow peril is dying of itself. The greatest conqueror of the world. Christianity and the morality of Japan. (7) The W. C. T. U. are visiting many of the homes of the soldiers who have gone to the war, and trying to give some help, that they want. (b) They are gathering many comfort bags from all parts of the country, and sending to the soldiers. In it are some of stockings, threads, needles, buttons, scissors, handkerchief, towels, medicines, postal cards, envelopes, stamps, tooth powders, tooth brushes, soaps, knives, candy, etc. Temperance (8) The Japanese League is advising to stop to drink sake at this special time, and to give to the government the money. The Y. M. C. A. have taken a to accommodate about 200, to the field. Tables and chairs have been prepared, many tracts, newspapers, games and an organ. Here often letters are written home for the wounded sol(9) tent, able diers. MISSIONARIES TO HAWAII. The question is sometimes asked, What missionaries, appointed by the American Board, to labor in the Hawaiian Islands, are still living and residing in the islands? Blackmail in his excellent book "The Making of Hawaii," gives the tabulated list of missionaries appointed and dates of appointment. This list shows that ten missionaries are now resident in these islands. They are as follows: Mother Parker, coming in 1833. Mother Rice, coming in 1841. Mother Castle, coming in 1843. Rev. and Mrs. O. H. Gulick, coming in 1862. Rev. and Mrs. S. E. Bishop, coming in 1862. Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Alexander, coming in 1865. Rev. W. D. Wcstervelt, coming in 1889. Rev. and Mrs. John Leadingham, appointed in 1894, and Mrs. Hyde, appointed in 1877, are now residing in the States. This would make thirteen living missionaries representing the work of the American Board in these islands. To this list it seems as if Rev. and Mrs. O. P. Emerson of Maui should be added, for Mr. Emerson came by a joint arrangement of the American Board and the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. WANTED. Games, Magazines and Papers for the Boys' Clubs. All sorts of games such as dominoes, crokinole, checkers, back-gammon, bagatelle, hoops, ninepins, etc.; in fact any game that will interest and hold the boys of the street. The Magazines and Papers should be especially full of pictures. Such things can be left at the Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. AN ACT REGULATING THE TRIAL AND PROBATION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: Section I. It shall be the each Circuit Judge and District Magistrate in the Territory to appoint not less than three Probation Officers in the tircuit or district over which he has jursidiction, who shall serve without pay and act only when juvenile delinquents are put under their charge as provided by Section 2 of this act. Section 2. All District Circuit Judges and Magistrates in the Territory are hereby empowered to release on parole any juvenile delinquents under the age of sixteen years who may be convicted of any crime of misdemeanor before them the punishment for which is not greater than imprisonment for ten years, and cause them to be placed on probation under the supervision of probation officers. The sentences under such convictions shall be suspended pending such probation. Such juvenile offenders shall be ordered to report to the probation officers at such stated times as the judge or magistrate may prescribe bringing with them a report from their teachers, employers, or other persons selected by such probation officer, showing what their behavior has been. The probation officer shall report to the judge or magistrate at such times as said judge or magistrate may prescribe and in case of failure to report any such probation officer may be discharged by such judge or magistrate and the delinquent put in charge of another. The judge or magistrate may prescribe any course under such probation as may seem to him for the best interest of the juvenile delinquent and the good of the public. He may call the juvenile delinquent before him at any time during the probation �THE FRIEND. 10 and bring the same to a close if he thinks best. Section 3. In case ofbreach of patole or persistent misbeliavio'r of any juvenile offender under the care of a probation officer it shall be the duty of such officer to return the juvenile delinquent to the judge or magistrate before whom he was convicted, and such judge or magistrate may order the original sentence to be caried out or the probation to be continued as may seem best in his discretion. Section 4. After the passage of this act it shall be the duty of all district magistrates to try all persons under sixteen at a time apart from the time of trial of older persons and may exclude the general public from such trials if they so desire. Section 5. This act shall become a law from and after its approval. ITempranc ssues EDITED BY REV. W. D. WESTERVELT. I LOCAL OPTION LAW. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the rritory of Hawaii: Section 1. Whenever thirty per cent, the qualified electors of any voting ecinct or of two or more precincts jacent to each other shall petition the jvernor of the Territory for the privilege of determining by ballot whether the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage shall be prohibited within the limits of such precinct or precincts, the Governor shall order a special election WStOrn > M *MRs-g I ="=n§S[l~'"iM l*liirt >mi*-i be held in such precinct or precincts a date not less than forty days after the presentation of such petition to him, which said petition shall be filed as a public document with the Secretary of the Territory and be preserved for reference and inspection. Such election shall be held at the usual places for holding territorial elections and conducted under the rules for holding elections for members of the territorial as far as such rules may be applicable. The register of voters used at the last previous general election shall be used. The result to at 1 I x 9 T ms Family Bible, inches, Old and New Testament, References, Fine New Maps in colors and a Family X jbl at ri I" of such election shall be entered forthwith upon the records of the Secretary of the Territory and in all trials for the violation of this act the original entry, or a copy thereof certified by said Secretary, provided that such record shows that a majority of the votes cast at such election was against the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, shall be prima facie evidence that the selling, furnishing or giving away of intoxicating liquors as a beverage or the keeping of a place where such liquors are sold, kept for sale, given away or furnished was then and there prohibited and unlawful. Section 2. The ballots at any special election held tinder the provisions of this act shall be printed with a heading and an affirmative and negative statement, to wit: "Shall the sale, furnishing or giving away of intoxicating liquors be prohibited," and in proper Spaces below the words "Yes" and "No" with a blank square at the right of each in which to give the voter an opportunity to clearly designate his choice by a cross mark similarly to the practice in ordinary elections. All the expenses incurred by the Territory in carrying on any such elec- $5.00 r v |R| p Here is a way to get the ! above Bible and the FRIEND. RI7F Send us one NEW subscriber and K3.50 and we send you post paid the Bible and a receipted bill for the subscription for one year. Send us two NEW subscribers and $5 00 and we will send Bible to any address and a receipted bill to the two sub- What Better Present? Address—PUBLISHER OF P. O. Box 489 THE FRIEND Honolulu I —. —r: Damds OF" THE TYPE , God. FSALMS XXII confidence m n him. «JJye the seed of Jacob, glorifyl "^ * him; and fear him, all ye the Beed of '£L'£.? Israel. iss.sj.ij. 24 For he hath not despised nor .jo^^, abhorred theaffictionof the afflicted; -mo. J^-halh „ •«£ «-»*,^ inthe ££ M of great I will pay '' congregation: TOWB M™ fliem that ieax hm my �11 THE FRIEND lion shall be defrayed by the parties petitioning for the same and the Governor shall require a sufficient guarantee of the payment of such expenses before issuing the call for such election. Section 3. If the majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, then from and after the date of such election except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any person, personally or by agent to sell, furnish or give away any intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage within the limits of the precinct or precincts covered by such election, and whoever thereafter in any manner, directly or indirectly sells, furnishes, or gives away or in any manner deals in any intoxicating liquors as a beverage or keeps or uses a place, structure or vehicle, either permanent or transient, for such selling, furnishing or giving away, or in which or from which intoxicating liquors are sold, given away or furnished or otherwise dealt in as aforesaid shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars, nor less than Fifty Dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than sixty days or both. Section 4. Nothing in this act shall in any manner affect the right of any legal manufacturer of intoxicating liquors to sell and furnish his product in wholesale quantities to parties residing or doing business outside the limits of the precinct or precincts where the sale, furnishing or giving away or dealing in intoxicating is prohibited. This act shall not affect the right of any person who holds a license to sell intoxicating liquors in the precinct or precincts in which the sale has been prohibited urder this act, but he may continue such sale until the expiration of such license. It shall be unlawful for the Treasurer to issue any license to sell intoxicating liquors in any precinct after the petition mentioned in section 1 of this act has been made and presented to him and before the holding of such election and any such license is unlawful and of no effect. The phrase "intoxicating liquors" as used in this act shall be construed to mean any distilled, malt, vinous or other intoxicating liquors, but nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the selling of intoxicating liquors at retail by a regular druggist for exclusively known medicinal, pharmaceutical, scientific, mechanical or sacramental purposes ; and when sold for medicinal purposes it shall be sold only in good faith upon written prescription issued, signed and dated in good faith by a reputable physician in active practice and used but once. The words "Giving away" where they occut in this act shall not apply to the giving away of intoxicating liquors by a person in his private dwelling to his immediate family and friends, provided such dwelling is not a place of public resort. Section 5. At any time after the expiration of two years from the date of any election held under the provisions of this act another election may be petitioned for under the same in the same precinct or precincts and shall be ordered as provided for in section 1, and the Governor shall not entertain any petition from any precinct in which an election has been held within two years under this act. Section 6. Any person being a qualified voter of any election precinct wherein an election shall have been held as provided in this act may contest the validity of such election before the Supreme Court within thirty days after such election. He shall furnish the court with sufficient security for all costs in the case and on failure to establish his case shall pay all costs. The decision of the Supreme Court or a majority thereof shall be final. Section 7. This law shall take effect from and after its passage. The foregoing is Senator Dickey's bill. He says of it that one might hardly call it a local option bill. There is "option" only to a degree. It amounts to prohition on the one side or the leaving of things as they are. That is, if a precinct votes for liquor, they have the Governor and the Treasurer to deal with in the matter of licenses. The advantage of the bill is clear enough, viz.: that there is a chance for any community to tabu the saloon and then hold the police responsible for permitting illegal selling. What we like about it is that it gives us a foothold for honest work against the arch-enemy. T. R. FOR SOBER REFLECTION. Who wants a drunkard for a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister, a business partner, an employe, a companion or a friend? Then why should any one want the drunken factory to be kept running? Every asylum is an argument against the grog shop, for more than half the inmates are there because of rum. Every poor house is a protest against liquor selling, for three-quarters of the paupers are the victims of the saloon. Every jail is an indictment of license, for four-fifths of the criminals are the finished products of the rum traffic. �12 THE FRIEND Three out of every four of all the dollars paid in taxes by the voter cry out against his depositing a vote to keep open the rumshop, because if this vile institution were once abolished, those three dollars need not be paid; for threequarters of all taxes are simply the contribution which the people are compelled to make to defray the running expenses of the saloon. And yet we call ourselves a free people! But some people tell us that there will be as much liquor sold under no license as under license. Then why is it that all rum-dom is up in arms against prohibition and pours out money by millions and fights tooth and nail to put it down ? The Duke of Wellington used to say that it was good generalship to do the thing that the enemy does not want to have done. As the liquor men make it plain enough that they do not want "nolicense," it will be perfectly safe for temperance people to vote for it. The fact is there is no more need of proving that "no-license" is a blessing than there is of proving that the sun shines. It is self-evident. The liquor traffic is not only vile, but atrociously wicked. It thrives only by the destruction of the virtue, the happiness, the lives, and souls of men. Both the Old Testament and the New are against it. It is the abrogation of Christianity. It is Satan's masterpiece. The upright citizen could scarcely enjoy a greater privilege than the opportunity of giving it a blow by casting his ballot against it."—The Search Light. WIDE WORLD NOTES. A CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN GUAM. The missionaries of the American Board have been doing good work in Guam, and as a result Rev. F. M. Price has organized a Congregational church, with 31 members. Thirty other applicants for membership were organized into a Christian Endeavor Society as probationers. Schools have been opened, and young men from these schools go on evangelizing tours through the villages on the island, whose area is about 300 square miles. The missionary work in Guam includes day and boarding schools for boys and girls, equipped for practical training in industrial arts. The present population of Guam is about 10,000. The people are sturdier but less spirited than their Filipino kinsmen, and their island may yet become a center of light for the Pacific.—The Missionary Review. GOSPEL COOKING SCHOOL. Here is a bit of missionary life from Tsuchiura, Japan: "Imagine me," says the missionary, "sitting on the floor, with a little table three feet square and a foot high, and a little charcoal fire with an oven on it, on one side. I was giving a cooking lesson to six Japanese ladies." The lesson was on stuffing and baking mackerel and on making sponge cake. After the lesson in cooking came a Bible lesson. What was the missionary's reward. Three of the women of the cooking class have already become Christians!—American Messenger. A GENEROUS CHINAMAN. Captain Graham, of Roswell, N. M., sends the following interesting item: "We were having a special soldiers' meeting last Monday night, to see what the soldiers would promise towards the purchase of a lot for a building. We spied a friendly Chinaman looking through a hole in the tent. One of the soldiers went to him, and he said, 'Puttee me down for $10.' "—War Cry. WOMEN IN MISSIONS. The Bishop of Worcester has struck a true note in asserting the great importance of women's work in the mission field. After commenting upon the striking change in public opinion in regard to this development, he said at a recent meeting: "It is now generally perceived that there can be nothing of more transcendent importance than the development of women's work. The whole possibility of the Christian religion taking hold of such a country as India depends on getting at the hearts of the women, and that depends upon women workers. The progress of religion depends on what is going on in the hearts and minds of the women, and nowhere more so than in India; and the advance of Christianity there will be very slow until a rear attack is made upon that in which the whole social system of the country is imbedded—the zenana." London Christian. * * * — A lady writing from Uganda says: "One can tell the Christian women almost at once in visiting a place by their looks. They are much quieter in their manners, less quarrelsome, and have a superior look about them."—Bureau of Missions. JAPAN-KOREA EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. "A conference of the directors of the Japanese primary schools in Korea was �THE FRIEND The Friend some 60 years ago published some pictures of Honolulu as it then was. Some of our readers remember them. Look at these buildings presented herewith, good reader of former days, and indulge in genuine surprise. Surely progress is not surprising only if, as with Rip Van Winkle, it happened while we slept. No, as Carlyle intimates a miracle is a miracle whether it took one or a thousand years,—whether it flashed on us but once or whether it occurs every morning like the rising of the sun. Hence, Honolulu's buildings are a marvel in our eyes as they would be to eyes long closed in sleep. Missionary fathers, how much of a share did ye have,—do ye still have, in these structures? recently held at Chemulpo, at which it was resolved that an association, to be called the Nikkan Kyoiku-kai (JapaneseKorean Educational Association), should be instituted, with a view to teach the Japanese language to the Koreans and the Korean language to the Japanese in Korea. The conference has also asked the Imperial Educational Association of this country to co-operate in the plan. In the event of the proposed association being established it will have its head office at Tokyo and branch offices at Seoul and Fusan."—Japanese Commercial Weekly. CHINESE ORGANIZE. "An organization of Chinese born in this country has been formed in San Francisco which has one of its objects the aiding of the election to office of such men as have a kind feeling for the Chinese. The Chinese begin to see the ways in which they can lead men to regard their interests."—The Pacific. THE COST OF WAR. 13 of the older boys and girls have been interested in getting something for theirs also. Perhaps the meaning of the Great Christmas Gift and the spirit of generosity has grown a little in the hearts of a few. Friday, Dec. 16 was a joyous day. In the forenoon sixty parents and friends came to see the kindergarten children in their morning circle, and to receive their gifts hanging on the prettily decorated tree. Each child trudged home with a big orange and a cornucopia of candy. In the evening two hundred and forty people crowded the reading and club room to see the tableaux presented by the children. They were then taken to the kindergarten and seated in three rows about the tree. Candy was given to every one, and popcorn and oranges to those who had been most regular in attendance during the fall. Three new books and two toys were the presents for the Alexander House, Christmas exercises were held at the Chinese church Thursday evening, Dec. 14, and the Chinese boys and girls were made happy by the annual visit of Santa Clans. A good time is planned for the Chirese boys and girls of Paia next week. The London Daily News says:"The world looks on and applauds, forgetful of the fact that a battleship costs $5,000,000 that $5,000,000 make 10,000,000 yen, that 10,000,000 yen make 1,000,000,000 sen, and that a Japanese male adult operative earns in a year about 8,000 sen, or $48. The wages for a whole year of 125,000 A REMINISCENCE. Hon. G. D. male adult operatives are sunk in a single Gilman of Boston writes, recalling his Japanese battleship."—Japanese Com- early experience of Honolulu in 1841: "The old Hawaiian Sabbath as it was, mercial Weekly. is a most pleasant memory. The stillness, the brightness, the bells calling to CONTRIBUTIONS FROM HAWAII worship, the orderly, quiet crowds old Up to May 20, the Japanese and for- and young, the cheery greetings, the eigners in Hawaii had made the follow- varied costumes giving bright bits of ing contributions to Japan in connection color along the road ; the services at Kawaiahao, first in the old thatched church with the war: Yen. witH the sides all eaten off by horses 94,891.63 and donkeys.—Limaikaika's (ArmVar fund i,4°9-9 2 strong) sermon, and Lowell Smith's in lilitary Relief Funds 200.00 the afternoon, all have left a memory faval Relief Funds 3,661.49 that is yet dearly cherished. But, alas, ed Cross Society 7,715.47 there are none about me with whom I lunjin Engo-kai okoku Funjin-kai 70.30 can share these tender thoughts. He ady Volunteer Nurses' hoomanao ica/e no i ka noho malihini wale 1,294.60 i kahi c." Association 109,243.41 Total "I fully agree with you in regard to —Japanese Commercial Weekly. those native Christians at Lahaina in the 50's. True and earnest up to the light they had, coming out of the gross darkALEXANDER HOUSE, WAILUKU. ness they did. Old Kimokeo was one of the marked Christians of those days The past weeks have been as sign- and of influence for good. If I remember aright, one could oftener hear the boards along the road to Christmas. The little ones of the kindergarten voice of prayer from a native house-in have busied their fingers making cornu- those days than Dr. K. told you he S .E, 8. copias and gifts for their parents, Many heard jt in the Ewt," �THE FRIEND 14 MINISTERIAL UNION OF HONOLULU. The first regular meeting in December, was held on the sth at 10 a. m. in the Central Union Church parlor. After prayer the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Then followed notes from the field, by different members. The committee on the Sunday question was continued and asked to report from time to time. Major Milsaps read the paper of the morning on the Best Use of Life. It was full of interest and inspiring thought. After some further remarks on the subject, the meeting adjourned with prayer. The Union met again on Monday morning Dec. 19th. Dr. Bishop made the opening prayer. The minutes were read and accepted. Then followed a discussion on books recently read by the members. A committee of the pastors of the English speaking churches, was apointed, to arrange for the Week of Prayer. Rev. W. D. Wcstervelt read an excellent paper on New Methods of Bible Study. After some discussion the meeting adjourned. Thirteen members were present. CHINESE NOTES. The Sunday School of the Fort St. Chinese church, gave a most interesting and successful Christmas entertainment on the evening of Dec. 22nd. The church was packed full of Chinese. All seemed greatly to enjoy the singing, the recitations and arrival of Santa Claus. One feature of the entertainment was a representation of the "Three Wise Men" who came in leading a camel. With candy and presents the members of the school all went home happy.i THE MORNING STAR. Through the kindness of a friend we have the following report regarding this last of the famous missionary vessels which has borne this name. A Mr. Doyle who was third engineer on the Morning Star was a through passenger from Hongkong on the China which touched here on the 24th of Dec. en route to San Francisco. He reports that the Morning Star reached Ponape in the latter days of October with all well, and was to leave soon for Kttsaie. As a third engineer was no longer needed by the Star, Mr. Doyle was fortunately able to secure a timely passage by the German steamer packet to Hongkong, whence he was speeding homeward. The American Board's schooner PIONEER PHYSICIAN DIES AT Carrie & Annie left Ponabe or Kusaie 44 EVANSTON. days ago for Honolulu, and is now fully Dr. Henry Munson Lyman died yesdue. terday at his residence, 404 Lee street, Evanston, after a long illness. He was MISSIONARIES FOR GUAM. 69 years old. Dr. Lyman was the author of books on medical By the transport Solace, which left subjects, numerous a contributor to medical and for Guam and Manila on the 27th of magazines and cyclopedias. Dec. there went out under the American After serving as assistant surgeon in Roard as missionaries for Guam, Rev. the United States hospitals in Nashtake and Mrs. Case. They will the ville, Term., during the civil war, Dr. place left vacant by Rev. and Mrs. Price who left the field say six months ago, on health account. Christmas Edition Mr. Case graduated a few months of THE since from the Hartford Theological We wish these misyouthful Seminary. sionaries godspeed. CHINESE FIELD NOTES. paradige *** pacific Hawaii.—Mr. Thwing made a suc1903 cessful trip to Hilo during November. Eighty-four Pages of IllustraFive Chinese men were received on tions and Articles Pertaining confession of faith into the Chinese to the Hawaiian Islands. church. Mr. Thwing preached at the Chinese church in the morning and at SO Cents a Copy the Japanese church in the afternoon. The subscription price of this A union service was held at the Haillustrated monthly magazine waiian church in the evening. is $1.50 a year, which includes Olaa and Waiakea were also visited. the beautiful Christmas Number Good work is being done at the little Japanese school at Waiakea. At a gathering of the Chinese during the THE week a lecture was given on Alaska and the St. Louis Fair. An interesting HONOLULU, H. T. meeting was also held of the Chinese P. O. Box 789 Christian Endeavor Society of Hilo. The night school still continues to hold quite a number of the young men, and the Chinese kinderearten reaches many of the children. The little folks are looking forward to their Christmas celebration. Maui.—Wailuku was also recently visited. A union Japanese and ChiAT BERGSTROM MUSIC nese communion service was held at Rev. How Fo the Chinese church. COMPANY. writes the following letter from Kula: I am in good health and hope you CASH OR INSTALLMENT are the same. About my school, I have 22 scholars PACIFIC pApigE OF VICTOR TALKING MACHINES .. _—, .. now. And the Christian people had 33 children and old persons. There is a man who is prepared to join our church. The "Merry Christmas" is coming now. We are expecting you to help us $3 for the children's toys and candies. I hope you are willing to help us. My wife is coming back next month. May God bless you all. Your brother, C. HOW FO. § Insurance Department HAWAIIAN TRUST Telephone Main 184 9tS FORT ISTREKI �15 THE FRIEND. Lyman settled in Chicago, where he TTT G. IRWIN & CO., engaged in the practice of medicine. Fort Street, Honolulu He was borivon the island of Hawaii, His parents were Araer 26, Nov. 1835. SUGAR FACTORS Rids rooms of mosquitoes and flies. No smoke or unpleasant odor. More effeot icans. He was graduated from WillAND ive than burning powder and far more eco- iams college in 1858, and attended the nomical Then folHarvard Medical college. COMMISSION AGENTS. The outfitconsists ofbrass lamp and chimney lowed a course at the College of Phyand the Hkeet-Go. Price complete, $1. Agents for the Oceanic Steamship Co. sicians and Surgeons at New York. Money bao lr if not satisfactory. instructor Dr. Lyman had been an lIOBRON DRUG C*. in Rush Medical college, Chicago, and on the staff of the Cook county hospi- pITY FURNITURE STORE tal. Later he was one of the attending «*« kinds of SCHAEFER & CO., physicians to the Presbyterian hospital FURNITURE, and consulting physician for the hospiImporters and WINDOW SHADES, tal for women and children and St. JoLACE CURTAINS, seph's hospital. "Insomnia and the COMMISSION MERCHANTS. PORTIERES, of is his Sleep," probably Disorders TABLE COVERS, ETC. Honolulu, T. H. best known work. CHAIRS RENTED FOR BALLS AND Four daughters, Miss Mary Lyman, PARTIES. Miss Margaret Lyman, Mrs. Horace Day of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Howard Greer of Evanston, are living. No arCdRRIdQE UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING. rangements for the funeral have yet been made.—Chicago Tribune, Nov. TOMBSTONES AND MONUMENTS. >.U.| LTD. YOUNG BUILDING Residence and Night Call: Blue 3561. 22, 1904. We carry the biggest line of harness in the Telephone: Office, Main 64. city; vehiclen of all descriptions; rubber RECORD OF EVENTS. tires at lowest prices; full line of everything Nos. 1 146- 1148 Fort St., Honolulu. to Nov. 30—First sugar of new crop arrived SKEET-GO V . FA. <^5^ — \?-\ pertaining HI AGE. HORSE or CAR- We Guarantee Fair Treatment riOPP& COMPANY, Importers and Manufacturers of '-*-FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY. CHAIRS TO RENT. Honolulu. Nos. 1053-1059Bishop St. -. I - Clark farm go J : : : Manager. from Kekaha. First refined supar ever manu- H. H. WILLIAMS factured in Hawaii exported from Honolulu Plantation. Dec. 2—Stephen Mahaulu, the acknowlAHANA & CO., LTD. edged confederate of the embezzlements of MERCHANT TAILOR. acquitted the convicted Boyd, is on technical grounds by 'udge Gear's direction. Telephone Blue 2431. P. O. Box 986. 3d—Raging sea at Kahului harbor washes King Street, Honolulu away the beach road. 13th—Hawaiian Judges confirmed at Wash- CLOTHES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. W. w ington. 15th—Execution of Moritaro, dered Engineer Glennan. who mur- 16th—$1,000,000 Hawaiian 4V4 per cent, bonds sold at small premium.—Federal Grand Jury dismiss Democratic complaint of corrupt action of inspectors of election, on the ground of want of evidence. Minority of jury say evidence wasn't sought. DEATHS. BRAUN—At Lihue, Kauai, Dec. I, Mr. Produce | Braun, an esteemed German, aged 68 years. LYMAN—At Chicago, Nov. 31, Heniy MunEGOS,PINEAPPLES, VEGETABLES son Lyman, M. D., aged 69. W. W. NEEDHAH, Manager Sales Dept. S MINER—At Makawao, Maui, Dec. 8, Mrs. HONOLULU Geo. E. Miner, aged 53 years. SWINTON—At Honolulu, Dec. 12, William Wallace Swinton, aged 23 years. BLAISDELL—At Honolulu, Dec. 17, of CELEBRATED HER NINETYapoplexy. William Blaisdell, former manNINTH BIRTHDAY. ager of Kealia Plantation. LIMITED Jersey Cream -:- Dairy "Mother" Parker's ninety - ninth birthday was appropriately celebrated yesterday. All day callers came bringing congratulations. Mrs. Parker expressed much pleasure at seeing so many of her old friends and was in excellent spirits all day. Many presents were received. From the people of the Lunalilo Home came a magnificent birthday cake, with an appropriate inscription on it. "Mother" is well and happy and expects to celebrate her centennial next December.—Advertiser. - MARRIAGES. CARTER-HARDWICK—At Lihue, Kauai, Nov. 30, Mr. Carter to Miss Hardwick. GIBB-CUSHNIE—At Honolulu, Dec. 6, John Gibb to Miss Bessie I. Cushnie. WATERMAN-EWART—At Honolulu, Dec. ■» Emil Waterman to Miss Alice Ewart. BERNDT-PFEIL—At San Francisco, Cal., Emil A. Berndt of Honolulu to Miss Lili Pfeil of Portland, Oregon. aT. SURE-MOSSMAN—At Honolulu, Dec. St, Dr. F. A. St. Sure of Kauai to Miss Mabel Mos„man. CASTYNDYK-REED—At Honolulu, Dec. 26, J. K. Castyndyk of Hilo, to Mrs, Bernice Halstead Reed. Baskets! Baskets! Baby--with soiled clothes compartment. Sewing-silk lined also with stands. Waste—in willow, • reed » rattan and straw. Shirt-waist, Mtrket, Dress, Bottle, Flower, Telessope, Dress-Suit, Linen Hampers ladies' Shopping Baskets a fine line, Pfea&e affow U6 to show them to uou. LEWIS & CO., 169 KING ST. �16 THE FRIEND HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT. C. J. DAY & CO. = . s I J TINE QROCERIES The Bank of Hawaii, Ltd. Incorporated Under the Laws of the Territory of Hawaii. OLD Kona Coffe a Specialty | PAID-UP CAPITAL, SURPLUS, • UMDIYIIIED PROFIT.*, ���������� � �������4 � � � Telephone IIT eblcrs 6) £o. • ? T. B. " ;; :; RECEIVED:A Black Silk Raglans m Walking Skirts '.'. " I \ Latest Novelties in Bead Belts Hand Purses, etc. | J jm&» For Children and Grown Ups. I Excellent I I What better gift to your child than a Testament? (ANSWEK) "fl BIBLE." f /""\ 70.258.V6 OFFICERS AND DIKECTORB: GEORGE Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431 Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue. 12 a. m., 3to 4 and Sundays: 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. Office Hours:—lo to to Bp. m. I for catalogues and prices on anything in the line of HARDWARE SPORTING GOODS SHIP CHANDLERY BICYCLES and GENERAL MERCHANDISE LEXANDER & BALDWIN, Ltd. OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Castle, ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, ad Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. SUGAR FACTORS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Commercial ft Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co., Paia Plantation Co., Kihei Plantation Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co., Kahului R. R. Co., and Kahuku Planta tion. Honolulu. T. H. I> I BEAVER LUNCH ROOM. H. J. Nolte, Proprietor. * J» TEMPERANCE COFFEE HOUSE. j> £ * EWERS & COOKE, Ltd., Dealers in General Mercantile Commission Agents. LUMBER. BUILDING Queen St., Honolulu, T H. PAPERS, Co., WALL AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian AgriculturalWaiOnomea Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., luku Sugar Co., Make* Sugar Co., Haleakala Honolulu, T. H. Ranch Co., Kapapala Ranch. Planters' Line Shipping Co., Charles Brewer � Co.'§ Line of New York Packets. Tax. Main 109 Agents Boston Board of Underwriters. Philadelphia Board of Underwriters. Agents 11 %3SRI j) California Rose... OBEAMST BDTTBB Guaranteed the Be-a and full 16 HENRY HdYfr CO. Lm 22 HOTKI, TELBPHONKB BANKERS. CLAUS SPRECKELS £2 & CO., j» Draw Exchange on the «* principal ports of the world and transact a general banking business. Honolulu C. H. Kei.lina, Mgr STABLES CLUB FORT ST., AMOVE President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President RIGS OF ALL KINDH and Manager; E. Faxon Bishop, Treasurer and Secretary; W. F. Allen. Auditor; P. C. ALWAYS USE ounces'. Fort St.. Honolulu, T. H. L Jone* A E. O. HALL & SON, Ltd., \ LIST OF OFFICERS—CharIes M. Cooke, 7 \\ TRITE TO US 1! BREWER & CO., Limited, C. H. Cooke, G. R. Carter, Directors. 200.U00.00 Banking. M. D., JUDD BUILDING. FORT STREET HOMOEPATHIC PRACTITIONER. ® I Hawaiian Boa d Book Rooms 1 Boston BulldllnQ. T"^E A Stories Missionary Romances I t«0©,000.00 President Charles M. Cooke T EBERHART~SYSTEM" C. Jonea Vioe-President P. T 2nd Vioe-President F. W. Mncfarlaue To induce regularity of attendance. 0. H. ( ooke Cashier Room for 200 names. Lasts four years with F. C. Atherton Assistant Cashier increasing interest. In use on the Islands. 1 Send to H. Waterhouse, E. F. Bishop. E. D. Tenney, J. A. MoGandless and 0. H. Atherton. HAWAIIAN BOARD BOOK ROOMS, COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS DEPAKTMENTB. 400 Boston Building. Strict Attention Given to all Branches of T- (SMjW!>e<s>*<S>e<S>«»<S)*<S>^^ f » ■ f HONOLULU P. O. Box lIS _ - . ■ : : : : Hawaiian Islands. PORTER FURNITURE CO., Importers of FURNITURE, UPHOLSTERY AND BEDDING. Young Bldg., cor. Hotel & Bishop Sts. Wickerware, Antique Oak Furniture, Comic* Poles, Window Shades and Wall Brackets, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1905) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1905.01 - Newspaper