https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/88e2314cc48f05ea8c4c3d42722cd8e6.pdf 684d3782fafdb8f1b100afbff30994f4 PDF Text Text FRIEND THE gft juries, Ms 25, __ HONOLULU, OCTOBER 2, 1816. BoJO. I CONTESTS Far Octsker 2. 1816. F.dllOll.tS Japanese Student, in Oregon Japsn Letter Letter from Pltcslrn's Island Miss Birds Traveler Cambodia A Missionary Romance Editor's Tsble Centaunlal Notes M.rlne Journal The Late Mr James Robin-son YMC A THE FRIEND. P.oa !} g :' jg J* ~JJ aa !? ... J? " OCTOBER 8. 1816. Live.—This was the garden party in honor we stood reading and As of the Treaty. over the idea pondering " by commerce we live," one of the King's ministers whispered in our ear, —" I suppose you would add to that, not by bread alone." Yes; that is just what we would have added, for the lawgiver Moses and the Lord Jesus Christ both endorsed the sentiment, that it is not only upon bread that men live, " but upon every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Deut., 8:3. Matthew, 4:4, " Man has both a spiritual and a physical nature." Bread will support his physical, but spiritual food is requisite for his spiritual nature. Many starve their spiritual nature while feeding their physical, hence the importance of quickening and sustaining schools and churches, and enlightening the minds of the people with Bible truths. By Commerce we motto at the King's Effects of Reciprocity.—Reports of the sale of sugar plantations, ranches and city lots, indicate that the effects of the Treaty are felt in the rise of real estate and quickening of trade. Never was a small community treated v. ith more generosity than the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands have been, by the Congress of the United States. The good influence of the Treaty will not alone be confined to the islands, but California, Oregon and Washington Territory will be favorably affected. The greater our island products of sugar, rice and other commodities, so much larger will be the amount of American products brought hither. Our planters will at first be more largely benefitted than any other class, but they cannot be made rich withoutthe community at large receiving a quickening impulse. Cambodia.—In another column will be found a notice of ruins discovered in Cambodia. A book on " The History of Architecture " has recently been published in London, in which the author, Mr. Fergusson, asserts "the discovery of the ruined 81 {<01u Series, 001.33. Japanese Students in Oregon. From the Pacific of August 17th we clip the following : At the late commencement exercises of Pacific University, at Forest Grove, Oregon, the graduates numbered six. Three of them were Japanese. These attracted considerable attention. One of them finished the regular course, and the other two graduated in the scientific department. They have been here six years, and two of them were for a time among the number who were supported by the Japanese Government; but when that government called its young men home from America, withdrawing all support, they remained at their own expense. These came from noble families, one having been an army officer, wiih 20 servants in bis house. When they came here they went into families as servants, and remained so a part of the time, partly to be more economical in the expense of obtaining an English education, and partly to more thoroughly learn American manners and customs. When tbey first came, some of the people looked down on them, and at times treated them rudely; but they stood on their dignity, and have gained tbe respect of all classes. They have shown themselves to be scholars and thinkers, or, as one of the other scholars said before commencement, " they are going to make us American boys ashamed of ourselves." Their orations showed that they were thinking about Japan and their future work there. One of them has become a cities of Cambodia to be as startling as the exhumations of Layard and Botta in Assyria." Some of these ruins most strikingly resemble the ruins of Yucatan in Central America. These statements are found in Christian, and so firm a one that itis believed he will maintain his Christian character in the New York Book Buyer for May. Japan, whatever may be his position. Im; mediately after the commencement they At the Reformed Episcopal Council, went east to attend the Centennial, and also 17, Dean Cridge, of British Colum- to spend a few years in studying the science July Primary School.—Parents are frequently bia, was consecrated Bishop of the Pacific of government. for a school. good primary applying to us We think Miss Ureary, successor to Mrs. Coast. Reciprocity Treaty went into operation Owen, is teaching such a school at the We would acknowledge the receipt of on the 9th of September, by the proclamaschool-room near the first bridge, Nuuanu packages of papers, for gratuitous distributions of President Grant and His Majesty valley. tion, from Mrs. C. H. Judd, Mrs. W. F. King Kalakaua. Rev. C. B. Andrews.—We rejoice to Allen, and Mr. James N. Thain. A second edition of Miss Bird's book learn from letters received, thatthe health of reon the Hawaiian Islands has been published The Centennial.—According to late this gentleman is improved and a prospect of is London. Some alterations are made, and daily visitors rapidly in of recovery. He is under the medical ad- ports the number to the English mission omit50, 25 to and the reference vice and care of Dr. Clymer, of New York increasing, and varying from is smaller in sjze. 70,000. The volume even to 60 and ted. running up city. �IHK FKIKMi. 82 Japan Letter. July lICTOBEK, I 8 and even among the professed followers of the meek arid lowly, but holy and blessed Kobe, Japan, Ist, 1876. Jesus. Dear Fribnd—l recently spent a few days at Kiyoto, the old metropolis of Japan, and stronghold of Budhism, and will tell you a little of what I saw, especially the gates. The gate is often spoken of in the Bible as a matter of importance, both public and private. They are often, even at the entrance to private dwellings, quite expensive ; at the temples and palaces, still more so, and doubtless at the walled cities of the east, extremely so ; being erected to shut out enemies. In Isaiah, 45:2, and Psalm 107:16, we read of Gates of brass and iron.' Such gates could not be burned by enemies, when they * Turned the battle to the gate,'— ' Isaiah, 29:6. Perhaps a brief description of those which I saw may aid a little in understanding what is said in the Bible concerning gates. They generally had but two posts, which were from 12 inches to 24 inches in diameter, and they were united by a beam or bar, and either on the posts or on the ends of this bar, and at right angles to it, two other beams projecting each way according to the siae of the roofs, and on the ends of these two others parallel with the bar; thus making a square or an oblong foundation for the roof. It is covered with tiles, but first with thin shingles, then a slight coat of mortar, which seems to hold the tiles in their place, and when finished, resembles the roof of a house; and occasionally there is a considerable amount of carved work on it. Some of the larger ones had four posts, one at each corner; and under the roof of which, I suppose, 50 or 60 persons could be well seated. That may have been similar to that at which Boaz sat down to negotiate for Ruth, so also the king's gate in which Mordecai sat and would not bow to proud Haman. I suppose the gate of Gaza, which Samson took, doors and all, having broken or pulled up the posts and carried it all up to the hill top at Hebron—either had no roof, or it was higher from the bar than those which I saw, far otherwise it would have interfered with his head. But. without the roof, and with the bar on his shoulder, he could move as freely as a Hawaiian with his load on his shoulder. Solomon says,' He that exalth his gate, seeketh destruction.' On this a good writer says,' That men of rank in the Oriental World sought distinction by building their gate high, appears in the epithet given to the monarch of Turkey, • the Sublime Port' in plain English, the high gate.' Would that this self-exalting spirit were confined to.the east. It creeps out sadly everywhere, Although Kiyoto is not properly open to Christianity, yet that has got a foothold, and will, I trust, keep it. Through Mr. Neesima, a pious Japanese, of whom you may have heard, the government has consented that a scientific school should be opened here, and that three missionaries, besides Mr. Neesima, should assist in teaching in it; and though the Bible is not allowed in the school, yet in their dwellings they teach and preach just as they please. The Sabbath which I spent there it was thought that 400 persons heard the Gospel in the houses of the missionaries,—ten of these hearers are thought to be Christians. Yours in Christ, P. J. G. Letter from Pitcairn's Island. January 24th, 1876. Rev. Mr. Damon :— The arrival of H. M. S. Peterel on the 22d of this month was greeted by us with unfeigned pleasure, as we have not seen a British man-of-war since the visit of the Cameleon in 1873. Your letter was most welcome as showing that you have not entirely forgotten your humble friends, the Pitcairn Islanders. And we on our part, are happy to feel that in you, dear sir, we have a friend. We herewith send our grateful thanks for the reading matter you sent us,—so completely shut out from the world. Your most valuable paper, the Friend, is always welcome. As to general news of the outside world, we are kept pretty well informed by the merchant vessels which occasionally pass this way. Twice since last hearing from you we have aided (all in our power) shipwrecked seamen, the first being the crew of the Cornwallis, which was wrecked on the island just a year ago, and the second the crew of the Khandeish, who were wrecked on Oeno Island, and in their boats landed amongst us on the 29th September, 1875. Their stay with us was prolonged to two months nearly, being taken away on the 19th November by the ship Emerald, going back again to San Francisco. By the way, this brings us to the subject of Captain Hutchinson's grave. He lies buried near to the landing place of our little island, close by the side of Captain Howland, who found his last resting place here and was buried on the island in the year 1866. Only a simple stone marks the grave of Captain Hutchinson, but be assured, dear sir, that your request will be attended to without fail. Your sincere friends, The Pitcairn Islanders. Thursday O. Christian, Chief Magistrate. 1 .« . Miss Bird a Traveler. Many of our readers are only acquainted with Miss Bird through the pages of a most charming book, relating to the '• Hawaiian Archipelago." In tho August number of the London Deisure Hour just received, we find an article from her facile pen entitled " The Two Atlantics," giving a narrative of her voyage to Australia in an immigrant ship, when commencing her voyage of circumnavigation around the globe. Her visit to our islands formed a part of that voyage. In this same article, she alludes to having crossed the Atlantic " eight times" and coasting along North America " from Labrador to Florida;" then after returning from her fourth trip to America, to a health-seeking cruise of six months in a "steamer trading between the Mediterranean and North American ports." After leaving Honolulu she visited California, and spent some months in the wilds of Colorado. Few ladies of the age have traveled more extensively than Miss Bird. Perhaps a certain American young lady, Miss A.of Boston who visited our islands a few months since, may erelong out-travel this distinguished English lady. Miss A. has already visited every state of the Union (except Texas) including Oregon, and has besides traveled extensively in Europe. When bidding us "good-bye" a few days ago at the Occidental Hotel in San Francisco, she was contemplating a fall trip to South America, but had definitely decided to spend the coming winter in Egypt. Both these ladies travel alone. Explorations in Cambodia. On board the City of San Francisco, during her last trip from San Francisco to Honolulu, we had as fellow passenger a French gentlemen, Mons. F. Ratte, destined for New Caledonia in the service of the French Government. He has of late been employed in exploring the comparatively unknown regions of Cochinchina. In that part of the world are immense ruins, which are now attracting the attention of scientific men and archaeologists. We were so much interested in his account of these explorations,—his knowledge being derived from personal observation while there in government employment as an explorer,—that we requested him to note down a few points' of interest. The following brief memoranda will indicate the nature of those discoveries and explorations: The ancient kingdom of Cambodia, besides the actual Cambodia, occupied a great part of the actual kingdom of Siam and French Cochinchina. In those territories covered by many insalubrious marshes are numerous ruins of ancient religious and other monuments eon- �THE FIMKMI, OCTO B E X, cealed and lost in very thick forests and jungles, inhabited by elephants, buffalos, peacocks, monkeys and tigers. The most part of these monuments were first built for the worship of Brahma, but some of them of a later age however show ornaments and characters of Budhic style. Their architecture differs in some respects from that of the Indian monuments of Bengal. Narrow galleries, now frequented by many thousands of bats, were then filled with processions of the Brahmanists or Budhists, those galleries crossing each other and conducting to a central sanctuary. Mouhot, a French naturalist sent by England a few years ago fell a victim of the dreadful '■ fever of the forests," speaks with great enthusiasm of those monuments. About ten years after Mouhot, extensive explorations were made by Commandant Doudart dc Lagree (capita me dc fregate) who first represented (1863-1866) the French Protectorate in Cambodia, and who was the regretted chief of the exploration of Mekong (1866 -1868). He became a victim, as Mouhot, of the bad climate and died at the end of the expedition in China (1868). In the year 1873 the French Government sent a scientific commission, whose chief was Mr. Louis Delaporte (lieutenant dc vaisseau), who was officer under Commandant Doudart dc Lagree in the first expedition of Mekong. The members of the commission (1573) were: Mr. Bouillet, hydrograph engineer, Dr. Harmand, marine surgeon (now explorating Cambodia and Laos), Dr. Tullien, civil surgeon, as naturalists; Mr. Ratte, engineer, as geologist; and attached to the commission, Mr. Faraut, colonial engineer who directed the works of drawing by our marine engineers, and whose collaboration was very elaborate in that department. The list of the monuments has been much increased, und now we know about ninety or nearly one hundred ancient monuments, which Mr. le Comte dc Croizier has described in a book published at the suggestion of the recent geographical congress in Paris. This is a short notice of the specimens exhibited in the Museum of Coinpiegne, near Paris, where are preserved the samples of carved stones, columns, pilasters, Budhic statues, bass-reliefs, and inscriptions that we brought to Europe. We have no time to describe those very fine architectural works; let us say only that many years will be necessary to put down and publish all the plans, drawings, inscriptions and descriptions that we have gathered in that expedition, and that archaeologists are waiting for the interesting work that Mr. Louis Delaporte is preparing with the assistance of several of his com- F. R. panions. On board the City of S. Francisco, 24th August, 1876. American Students in Germany.—Fourteen hundred young Americans are prosecuting their studies at the universities and col- leges, music schools and conservatories of Germany, and recent criticisms and reports testify to their being very apt scholars; and, moreover, these reports proceed from German authorities, extremely exacting and not over addicted to eulogizing the foreigners.—Am- • rirHH JHI/lir. Is 7<i [Krutn the Boston Journal.) A Missionary Romance. An American Marries the Daughter of an Arab Sheik. The Rev. Philip Berry, of Belchertown, Mass., will soon publish a book relating a true story of a young man's experience, which will again prove truth stranger than fiction. About twenty-five years ago a company of young men started out from Damascus for Jerusalem. They had not gone far when a band of armed horsemen surrounded them and ordered them to halt. The leader of the band said the caravan might move on unharmed if they would deliver up one of their number, a young man named Randall, who should not suffer if he would come along with them peacefully. After a brief consultation the terms were acceded to, and the last look his companions had of him was to see him mounted on a fine horse, attended by the gay horsemen of the Bedouin Sheik of the Le Arish tribe, which usunlly winter in the neighborhood of Damascus, and in the summer move south and east over the great plain, seeking pasturage and water for their flocks and herds. Where the escort were to convey Randall he had no conception, but soon he found himself at the Sheik's tent, and to his great surprise a magnificent entertainment awaited him. With amazement he exclaimed, " What does this all mean ?" Arzalia, the Sheik's daughter, had seen the young man and fallen passionately in love With him, and this was the wedding feast. The young man and Arzalia were married at once. There was no escape for Randall, for his tent was faithfully guarded by night and his person closely watched by day, lest he should ,escape; and this guard was kept over him for years. He seemed happy with his unsought bride, for Arzalia proved her love for him was more than mere fancy. Children were born to them, and their domestic life was marked by kindness, courtesy and true affection. Randall rapidly acquired the Arabic language, his wife as readily mastered the English, and they taught their children both, which they speak readily. Who was this Randall ? in the State of New York lives his father, who has never seen the face of his son. This father is now over seventy years of age, and has a history almost as romantic as that of his son, for he was raised among the Indians and has traveled over the Mississippi Valley in search of fish and game. When he was twenty-one years of age the chief advised him to go to the white man (he was voluntarily among the Indians,) saying : " You can be more of a man among the white people than among the Indians." He returned and secured a Welsh lady for his wife, and while she was on a visit to her relatives in Wales this son was born. The mother soon after dying, the boy remained with his kindred awaiting the father from this country, but the father was unable to go after his son, who remained in Wales till manhood, and was taking a trip through Syria when he was . 83 faith, and their children were nurtured in the same way. Randall's son has become Sheik of the tribe, the father-in-law having died. A dervish, a zealot of the Mohammedan faith, had for a long time been endeavoring to stir up opposition and persecution on account of this new religion. He strove to have Randall's sons thrown out of the employ of the Turkish Government, and failing in this, turned his assaults upon a daughter of this foreigner, and charged her with withcraft. She was brought before the Meglis, composed of venerable Sheiks and Effendis, to answer charges which involved her life. The charges having been presented and substantiated as best they could be by witnesses, she was called npon to answer the charges through her advocate. She, although but fourteen years of age, responded, " Most venerable fathers, I will reply in person." And then, holding a Bible in her hand from which she frequently read, made a defence worthy an Apostle, and when she finished the unanimous verdict was in her favor. But the old dervish breathed revenge and determined to take her life. This trial was in October, 1872; in June, 1873, while Keren (for such was her name) was teaching a class of little children in a grove, the dervish stealthily approached, and before any one was aware he had murdered her and fled. The fleetest horses of the tribe, with riders armed, puraured and captured him; he was tried and executed. The last letter irom Lady Arzalia Le Arish Randall gave a most touching account of the trial and tragic death of her daughter, in which is this sentence : " Pray for me that my piety may be us humble as the violet, as enduring as the glive and as fragrant as the orient." In a few months the Rev. Mr. Berry will offer the readers of this sketch its entire story from the hut of the Indian to the tents of the Bedouin. Some members of the family contemplate visiting this country soon, when they will substantiate the story to a doubting public. Editorial.—When the Rev. Mr. Berry's book appears we shall hope to see a copy, for the romance of this narrative almost equals a chapter of the Arabian Nights' Entertainment. We have read a statement in the Boston Congregationalist, that the American missionaries at Beyrout had never heard of this Mr. Randall. Eighty Chinese boys left Hartford Monday for the centennial. At New Haven they were joined by about 30 more.' They are the Chinese students at school in this country under the superintendence of the Chinese educational commission. They are accompanied by Cwnng Xi Chin, interpreter, Ln Xi Cheun, teacher, Prof. D. E. Bartlett of the American Asylum of Hartford, Prof. I. N. Carleton ofthe State Normal School, Prof. B. G. Northrop of the Connecticut educational Board, and Wm. Kellogg. They will stay in Philadelphia until Friday. The Chinese commissioners will visit the exhibition later. New Sailors' Home in San Francisco.— Young Randall was a Baptist, and through The Congress of the United States has donahis influence his wife became of the same ted the old Marine Hospital for this purpose. CAPTURED BY THE SHEIK. �84 THE THE FRIEND. a, OCTOBER 1878. Dr. Holmes' Centennial Hymn. ( Butt AT THI kItIORIL CILIItATIOB AT rSH.iDH.MII4.] Brlffet oo the banners of Illy and rose Let thelast sun of our ceniury sets! Wreath Ihe black cannoo that scowled on our fun, AU but her friendships ths nation forgsts All but her friendsand their welcome lorfels These are around hen but where an her loss ' Lo ! will le th. sun ofher osntary sets, Pe.ce withher garlands of Illy and rose ! : ' Welcome ! a ahout like tha war trumpets .well, Wakes the wild echoes thst slumber aroused Welcome ! it quivers from Liberty', belli Welcome ! tho wall, of her temple resound ! Hark ! tba fray walls of her temple resound Fads the r.r votes o'er hillside and dell; Welcome! still whisper the echoes around-, Welcome ! still trembles on Liberty's bell! ' ' Throne, ol Ihe continent. .' Isles of the sea ! Yours an the garlands ofpe.ee we rutwini-, w elcomr, once more, to the land of the free. Shadowed alike by the palm and Ihe pine; Softly tbey murmur, the p.lm and the pine, '■ Hushed 1. our strife. In the land of the free-," Over your children theirbranches entwine, Throne, of the continent. I Isle, of the sea .' EDITOR'S TABLE. " License Reform." We find several publications on our table received by late mails,setting forth the evils of intemperance and the curse of rum in India, England, and the United States. One of the documents has the title " License Reform," and is written by Alexander Balfour, Etq., of Liverpool, in the form of a letter addressed to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. It appears that Mr. Balfour has visited Norway and Sweden, where he thuds a license system in force, which he wishes to introduce into England. It is referred to as the " Gothenburg System." The following were the leading principles on which it was based, viz.: 1. To reduce the number ofpublic houses. 2. To improve their condition. 3. To provide warm food for workmen, so as to change public houses into eatinghouses. 4. To employ as managers respectable persons who should derive no profits from the sale of spirits, but only from the sale of cooked food, tea, coffee, beer, seltzer and soda waters, iv. 5. To refuse to sell spirits on credit. 0. To secure strict supervision of all public houses by inspectors of their own, in addition to the police. 7. To pay to the Town's Treasurer, after payment of interest on capital, all the profits that accrued on sales of spirits. The company commenced operations in 1865, and has steadily pursued its course in accordance with the principles above stated. The results of these arrangements are obvious to all who visit Gothenburg, inasmuch as they find not only that the streets are entirely free from drunken persons, but that the behavior of the people in every part of the town is marked by the utmost propriety and decorum. We visited the whole town ¥111 t N It, OCTOBER, 1876. during the two days of our stay at Gothenburg, without seeing one drunken person. On one evening we went to see the lowest parts of it, but such places as the " slums " of some of our large English towns we could not discover, and were told that they did not exist. The houses of the working people appeared to us to be well built and well kept, and no extreme poverty was visible. We observed a striking contrast between these public houses and our own in this respect—that at Gothenburg the people were almost all taking food, showing that the purpose stoadily pursued by the company of transforming public houses into eatinghouses is being largely accomplished. The attendants were for the most part females, the managers being men. A bill of fare was hung up in each public house, from which we saw that a well-cooked dinner could be obtained for sixpence ; but the aim of the company goes much beyond this, viz., to provide food at tbe lowest price for the poorest people, and they enjoined their managers, some years ago, to keep ready a plentiful supply of vegetables cooked with pork, from which a dinner could be made for ten ore, equal to about a penny and three-eighths in English money. Under this system it appears that drunkenness hss greatly decreased. There is one feature of the system that appears to meet with much favor; it makes the public houses support the police. We think if it could also be made to support prisons und pauper asylums, it would be improved. From this pamphlet it appears that intemperance has a fearful sway in Liverpool. Mr. Balfour alludes to one feature of drunkenness in England with much sorrow: The condition of affairs amongst us is, in some of its aspects, more distressing and dangerous than even that which existed in Sweden previous to 1855, as it does not appear that women in Sweden had fallen under the power of drink. But, in England, alas! the prevalence of drunkenness amongst women is conspicuous and increasing, and wbo can look without alarm to a future generation brought up under the influence of drunken mothers and drunken sisters? I cannot, without the greatest sorrow and the most painful forebodings, allude to the fact that, fast year, 10,000 women were arrested in Liverpool -for being drunk, as against 14,000 men, and that the portion of our gaol allotted for females is crowded out. The Rise and Fall or the Slave Power in America. By Henry Wilson, vol. 2d, second edition. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1876. The first volume of this work has already been noticed in the Friend of June, 1873. The second volume appeared last year, and we learn from the newspapers that volume third is nearly ready for publication, having been prepared by the Rev. Samuel Hunt, who was private secretary of the late Vice President Wilson. On opening this volume, our first inquiry was directed to the preface to ascertain whether there was any recognition of the Rev. Mr. Hunt's services in preparing this and the former volume. We found no such notice, to our great surprise, for while it has often been stated in public prints that Mr. Hunt has been for years engaged with Mr. Wilson in the preparation of this great work, yet there is no mention of his name. Knowing as we do that Mr. Hunt has acted in a much higher capacity than a mere copyist or amanuensis, we hardly think Mr. Wilson, with all his eminent abilities, did justice to himself or his old pastor and secretary, in not recognizing in some public manner the highly important part which Mr. Hunt has taken in the literary execution of this work. Mr. Wilson never disguised the fact that his early advantages were very limited, and that he was too much occupied with public affairs to sit down to close historical research and careful writing. This volume as well as tho former one, has passed through a severe ordeal, and critics of the highest authority in Boston and elsewhere have expressed themselves delighted with the style and manner with which the work has been executed. The North American Review and many of the leading papers inA mcrica, have come out with favorable notices. Although we have read most of the contents of this volume as they appeared in the New York Independent, yet we arc reading them again with increased delight, for there is a transparency in the style and a clear analysis of the subject, which makes a work of history read like a romance. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith: Being an Examination of tbe Evidences of Infidelity ISy Rev. Robert Patterson, D.D.; reviled and enlarged. 11. X Simmons, 160 Naasau street, 1876. — This is a handsome volume of 528 page-;, which we obtained just as we left San Francisco. To our surprise we found the author to be a pastor of one of the Presbyterian churches of the city, who formerly preached in Cincinnati. This volume appears to be made up of a scries of tracts or papers which he prepared years ago to meet the phases of infidelity as they appear in the great West. Dr. Patterson writes to meet an existing state of public sentiment, and makes capital use of the materials at his command. This edition is " revised and enlarged," as he has made a visit to Europe and Palestine since the first publication of the book. It is a book we can most cordially recommend to the reading of such persons as take pleasure in fancying their " ancestors were monkeys," and that the Bible is a book without a good basis upon which to rest. The author carries the " war into Africa," and meets infidels and skeptics on their own ground.-.. �[For the Friend.] . THE Young man, before you drink that glass think of your loving parents and sisters and your happy home. Perhaps your habit is not yet formed, and they arc even ignorant of your danger and cannot warn you. Stop in time and spare them and yourself shame and disgrace. It sparkles and looks all right, but there is an adder coiled up at the bottom whose sting is death. Centennial Notes. THE EXHIBITS OF JAPAN. There arc more natives from Japan attending the Exhibition as commissioners, exhibitors and visitors than from any other country outside the United States and Europe. They meet us at every corner, and their appearance has become quite familiar. They are nearly all dressed in American costume; many of them speak English fluently, and they are almost invariably gentlemanly and polite in their manners. While exhibiting their own country in its products, they arc evidently bent on learning all they can about the rest of the world. The Japanese exhibit is large, varied and valuable, and enlarges our respect for them and their civilization. But we notice 1. That there is largely an eye to trade, rather than to the exhibition of their country in its products and its condition. Their collection is largely for sale; many choice articles arc already sold. The Japanese have been called the Yankees of the East. 2. They have no great inventions to exhibit—nothing to show that until they recently mingled with Americans and European nations, they have been making any progress. 3. Their labors and their manufactures are all intended to please the senses and cultivate the taste. There is no higher or nobler aim anywhere visible. The great idea of usefulness, ever before the mind of the British or American producer, is not in the thoughts of the Japanese. Is it not so with all heathen nations?—N. Y. Observer. Philadelphia, July 26.—The cash receipts at the Exhibition gates thus far have exceeded SSOO.OOG, but in addition to this over $40,000 has been received as royalty on beer and soda sold within the grounds, and a large sum has been received from the : FRItiM), From a general survey of all the - Ripobt or Bate W H Allbk, R B Chavb, M.stbb Left I'speate harbor Angiist tnd, at b r a, in tow of the siesm lug Scotia. Mruck freshbreese from BBS, which oooiloocl to Flint Island, where we arrived on Ihe 4ih, at OiSO r M, aad brought up at the mooring, under the west side of tbo Island. On the sth, lauded passengers snd freight: on Moudsy Ihe7lh, a heavy sea set In on the reef, which continued until tha Bib, rooderlng il Impossible to communicate with the shore. Slipped from the moorings at b r M, on the 10th with Trashbrain from tbeE, varying to E 8 E; crossed the equator oo the 14th. In long 14»o 30' W. -struck tbe N B trsdes In Ist 11° 00' N, with strong squalls and constant rain, which continued for 48 hour.-, latter part ol pasaagebad moderate N B winds with One clear weather. Sighted the N B point of Hawaii on Thursday, Aug 94th, sttsai hove to off Diamond Head at •* a at oo Saturday, Aug 28th, lis) day.fromFlint I.land and!4 from Tahiti educational exhibits at the Centennial, as published in the American Book-seller, of New York, for August, we find the following relating to Hawaii The exhibit of the schools of Hawaii is interesting, not on account of its size, but as an indication of the rapid progress the islands have made in this direction. Most visitors are surprised to find the evidence of good schools here, taught by cultured natives, and supervised with a Rkpobt OP THK INii Zkalandia, Fkrbiks, Conmakcare that would do credit to Massachusetts. dk*.— Iststi Hydney Juy 29th, 3.10 r m cut uIT from buoy and We learn from the last report of the Educa- proceeded down th« harbor, at 4 r M passed Sydney Heads, noon, August 4th, arrived at Kandavu, mean tine Irom port to tional Board that there are 202 Common 6 dayi and Ift hours, Aug 9th, 8 r m, leA Kandavu with Schools, with an attendance of 6,274 pupils, K-rtew Zealand mallsaud passengers exRUHAustralia, and reached Auckland on the 13th,at noon, time from port lo port beside a number of private boarding schools, 3 daya and 'il bourn; left Auckland, Spa, Ihe same day, and calllnf at the various ports -arrived at Port Chalmers at and 17 seminaries and colleges. The public after midnight tbe 17lh,thirty-three hours In advance of contract schools are under the supervision of Mr. H. timet leftot*Port Chalmers with homeward malls and passenon the 23d, & 40 r m; 24th, t.'iO r M, left Lyttlotun; v6ih. R. Hitchcock, Inspector General, and ample gers p 4.30 m. left Wellington; 20th. 2 p M, left Napier; 28th, 3 sf. provision is made for their support. The p v, left Auckland and arrived al Kandavu Aept Ist, 8 a m, vtry thick, slowed engines, cleared sufficiently at 8 a photographs of teachers, pupils and build- uweather toeuter harbor, P M ss City of Sydney not then arrivi-d, time from Auckland 3 days and 131 hours, 2 20 p M ihe City ings are very interesting. The text books of Hytlney entered port, received her portion of malls and pasare printed in the Roman alphabet, but in scufers. and left at 6 p m, cleared Manuka paiure next morning at elevenj at daylight on the 11th sighted Oahu, entered the kanaka language, and they appear to be, theharborand mode fast the wharf at m experienced in character and scope, very much like our fresh northeasterly windstofrom Kandaru.190a ; R McDonald, Parser. own, especially in the illustrations. : , MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. Sept. 11—R Mss Zealandl., Ferries, 13 dys and 16 hrs Irom Auckland. 18— Am bk Will.rd Mndgilt, Dlrkty, 48 dsys Irom If kolt.ms, Japan. 17—Am bktnc Nellie M Blade, Atwootl, 40 d.y. from Newcastle, Sl* IS—Am bk Cystic, Perrlmaa. IS days from rJsn Vran'co 11)—Haw schr Giovanni Aplaiil, Fuller, from Arctic, wlih 14,477 lbs whalebone, 8.052 lbs ivory. •41—P M ss Oily of New York, Cavarly, 8 days from Sao Francisco. 23—Am sh Syren, Ne-well,l'Jl days from Boston. •Jo— Haw bk R C Wylie, Wolters, 130 dys Irom Bremen J"—Am brig North Star, Davis, -13 dsys from Victoria. Rkpobt or P M aa City or New York, J M Civ arm Commands;*.—Left Ban Francisco al 9.20 a M, Sept 18th, and discharged Pilot at 10.30; had flue weather during the voyagt, 16th saw a bark standing East; arrived at Honolulu Hot m Rkpobt op Haw Bk R C Wymb, Woltebb, Ma.-tkb - Left Bremen tbe 18tbol May; passed the Lbutrd on the 26th, and crossed the line In the Atlantic on the 18th of June, in 27 W, 31 days out; in the HK trades had heavy squalls and rainy weather, tn which lost fore-tup and top-gallant masts, crossed 60° r> In the Atlantic In 63° VV, ill days utttf wa» uIT Cape Horn the 21st of July, tV4 days out; from thencehail ■torma and very heavy weather (111 the 10th of Atitfuit, which <hiy passed 60° h in ihe Pacific in 83° W; from thence had very light winds from the NW, and were on account of Own adverse winds obliged lo go luetde of Juan Fernandea; tell In with HE trades Iv 24 ° rt add 85 ° VV; from thence had continually floe weather till the ship arrived id port, the 26th of Heptember, 130 days out. ° PASSENGERS. Fbom Flint. I.lino—Per VV H Allen, Aug JOth—Wm Hrelg and 1 sens, J C Wise and 3natives. Fob Han Fb.nvisco—PerS C Uuri.y. Aug *E6tli—MrsJ st Vt alker, II Mclntyre, Mrs H R Robertson anil 4 i tilMreo, Mr. Humphreys, Miss Hissiotis. Mrs Luke, H Horn, J Lewts, Cb.s DEPARTURES. Sept I—Haw bk Mattte Macleay, G Pope, lor Ponlaud, O. 2—Brit bk Cleta, Kllfour, forPortland, O. *)—Am bk AldenBesse, Noyes, for San Francisco. 1 ■-—R M ss Zealand!., ferries, fur San Francisco. 12—U S S Lackawanna, Captain Ureer, for Mexico. 16—-Ambk Menshlkoff, Smith, for San Franclaco. 21—P M a. City of New York, Csvarly, for Sydney. 28—Am bk Cvane, Perriman, for San PraocUco. MEMORANDA. RirnaT or Bk M.ttik M.CLasr, GeoPort, M.steb.— Lelt Astoria July *2Uth,and proceeded over ihe bar, nut were obliged to anchor oo account ofcslm; It'll the anchorage on the •Jllli with lirhl and variable wind, during the whole passage-, took the NE trade In S3, 40 N, arrived In port August lath, all well. Ripobt or P H Co ss City or New Voaa, J M Civ*ai.v, Cosisubobb.—Left Port Cbahners mi tlie JSth of July, at manufacturers, who pay a percentage of 15 u.3oam; waa detained 48 hours, uwlng lo the unfavorable of the bar at Otago Heads; arrived at Am.-kl.inl per cent, on all sales of articles manufac- coodlttou August Ist, and left oo tbeltd at 4 30 a a; arrived at Kandatured at the Exhibition. It is still confi- vu on the oili and left on the same d.y at 8.80 p mt crossed equator on the 11th in king 106° Ml'; had line SE trades dently believed that a dividend can be de- the to the equator, since then had NE trades to port, arrived on The 0 6 Josltk, Purser. the 16th. clared soon after the Exhibition closes. RaroaT or Bk U C Mvbb.v, A Fullkb, m.ntbb. Left nnmber of paying visitors to the Exhibition Howard street Wharf ut 11 a vi Tuesday. August Ist, In tow of tag favorite, and experienced light rJVV wind, tbe frrstday to-day was 21,914. outi next day the wind healed to NW moderate, nasi conthat way gradually working to the N and then N E Naval.—H. B. M. S. Fantome arrived tinued trades with passing rain squalls; -Saturday the 12th, the trade, been very light; Tuesday, Oam, saw Maul, bearing 8W yesterday from Victoria, Y. I. She has a hsve distance 30 miles, a bark ahead bound the same way; arrived case of varioloid on board, which has been Wednesday tbe 16th, 16 day. passsge. RaroaT or Hk Miry Ilbi.i.b Riibbbts, Oa.v, Mibtcs removed to the hospital on the reef. The Left Baa Francisco July 31.1. Klrsi three d.y. out strong breese from NNW; from thence light trades; Aug 14th.at 6 ship is in quarantine. a m, made Hawaii; from tltonce to port hsd light wind.; msde tbe signal station yesterday st 64 p m, 10 day. passage. Intorrantion Waatett. Raroar or Bk Cimok-., Robibsok. M.stib.—Left Port southerly Res|>ecilng Jimbs R Gbcbnb, last heard from oo board Gamble July »t». first three dsys nut had light The vessel condemned airs and calms, then fresh NW wind lor 1*! d.y.; took ihe wm .1 Yokohama. bark Active at s light wind., be sent to Mrs. Elisabeth C. trades In lat 31 ° long 144 t from thence to port th.t port Any inforro.tion may making the passagelo -26 days. Greene, Southampton, L I, or to F 8 Pratt, Honolulu. RaroaT or P If ss City or Hta Paiacisco. J J W.db-bli, Respecting Joseph Allay, formerly of Falmouth, Mass, and -Sailrsl Irom Han rraoctsco Aug loth, t 80a m, onre a ..llor on board the whaleshtp Henry Rowland." In- rnsm.NDi.ii and arrived at Honolulu oo the ilih at i |>. ni. Kins weather Rsy. rhsrles ba.< «8 D HI 1-wm.lir.n it.--.lrrd hv the Riv all ihe way. streel, New York, or Hk cditoi ol the Isms. - — " 85 1876. OCTOBER, sasHa. Foa Si's Fbancisco—Per Mary Belle Roberts, Aag J6thG Wessels. J no D Holt, N Roberts, Mrs E Msyo. Foa Port Gahblk—Per Camden, Aug 29th—H Blanrhal-d. Fob Pobtlaxd—Per Cammia, Aug 31st—Wm Chapman. wife and child. Foa Han I'Bisi *im:o—Per Allien Besse, Sept 6th—ll H Baker. Fbom Ksnoavv—Per Zealandia, Hept 11th—MrrSmith, Hi Adams, Jno Patleraou. Fob Bin Fb.ncibco—Per Zealandia, Hept I'jfli—Clan ■spreckles and family, Mr Mantles and wife, t 8 apeldiniMrs Jss Mskee snd daughter. T W Even-It. rj Van Cleve, W T R.-i-s, i* G Wilder, Mrs i E lllsrmp snd ilsugbter, Mra Kllburn and child, Mrs Delehanti, Mrs W II Parker.child and nurse, Mr. Richard, child and nurse, F W Demon, Mrs Greene snd child. H llnebenrr. H Schmidt and 4 Ohaanii. Panw Ban Pbanci-aco—l'er I'yane JSepl ltlh—Mr lishn. Fbom Ban FBancisoo—Per City of*Ncw York. Sept 21stMrs 8 M Rodgers, Mrs T B Hawaii, Dr O f I'ammhi. and wife, J B Atberton, MrsJ M Cooke, Miss Aft-enow. J V Wilcox. J I Dowsett Jr,Hon C R Bishop and wife, t V Fletcher. W G Culler, Geo O Oomslock, Mrs Blfcxcraiid 2 children Mrs J Owen, G V Banlett, II H Williams. R Greive, Mrs M J McGowsn and 3 children. Mr McGowau, J F Brown, Dr La thmp, 8 llardeutieand 4 io steerage. Foa gvDMET—Per City of New York, sept Jl.t-F A Andersen. Fan.. Bbbmbn-Per R C Wylle, Sept *JUil,-P H e.un, » DIED. Doarrt.—rn lbs Arctic Ocean, between Dlomede Islands and East Cape, June 24th, Cbobse F Dobity, master of the Hawaiian schr Glovsnin Aplant, aged 3» years, ft native of Sedgwick, Me. — (iiLLiBMAHN In this city Sept 6U1, Mr Richabb (in i.ibmann, a nalivr of Hamburg. Germany, lie returned la the last steamer from San Francisco, but had previously resided about fourrears on these Islands. Rawson —In this city, Sept loth, suddenly, of aneartstn, Mr Samuel K Rawson, aged 64 years, a native of Hartford. Conn. Be had resided here since 1846, and leaves a widow and two children. Hall.—At Kslnaliu, North Rons, Hawaii, Sept 18th, at Ibe residence of her lather. His am, youngest daughter of Mr Chas Halt, aged 16 years and 10 months. A oasis.—la this city, Sept 18th. John Alhanbis. only sou of Oapt John A and rohuuui Adams, aged is jwats, 11 niouilie aud 10 days. �86 THE ¥ 111 1: The Late Mr. James Robinson. • The death of Mr. Robinson, severs another link connecting the present with the past. The departed never mingled in political affairs, but quietly passed along the even tenor of his ways, and hence his name is seldom mentioned in our island history, yet for more than a half century he has been at the bead of an establishment which accumulated large property, as appears from his will recently published. As many of our seafaring readers were personally acquainted with him, and not a few have had dealings with him in the way of ship-carpentry and other business, we think they will be interested in the following facts and the contents of his will, which incidentally brings out many interesting facts. Mr. Robinson was born in Poorfleet, London, November 8, 1798. After making a voyage to the East Indies as a carpenter's mate, he shipped in 1819 as carpenter on board the English whaleship Pearl. On her passage around Cape Horn, this ship spoke the Thaeldeus, bound to the Sandwich Islands with the pioneer American missionaries. How little the carpenter of the Pearl imagined that he was destined to spend his life on -these islands, and never again visit England or the mainland. The Pearl visited Honolulu for supplies in 1820 and 1821, and on the 26th of April, 1822, was wrecked on " Pearl and Hermes'' Reef, lying near Midway tnd Ocean Islands, situated about 650 miles to the northwest of the Sandwich Islands. At the time of the wreck, the Pearl was cruising in company with the English whaleship Hermes. The Pearl was first wrecked, and the Hermes ran down to look after her consort, when 10, she met a similar fate. After much labor a small vessel of thirty tons, called the Deliverance, was built under the superintendence of Mr. Robinson, which was safely navigated to Honolulu, (sin landing Mr. Robinson and a ship-mate, Robert Lawrence, cooper, found employment in repairing schooners owned by the king and chiefs. They were allowed to occupy the " Point," but many years passed before they obtained a secure title to the land. Years rolled on, and the firm of James Robinson & Co. (including Robert Lawrence and Mr. Holt) became wealthy, and carried on a business that employed a large number of ship-carpenters and caulkers. More whaleships were repaired at their establishment than at any other in the Pacific. The firm was always noted for their strict attention to business and prompt payment of all liabilities. Mr. Robinson survived both his partners, and during the last years of his life has quietly attended to his private business, and while not unthoughtful of the M), OCTOBER, 1876. future, has been making his arrangements to pass over his large estate into the hands of his ten children. We copy the outlines of his will from the Hawaiian Gazette of Sept. 13th, as it came up before the Court of Probate. Mr. Robinson died at his residence in Nuuanu valley August Bth. Having known the deceased for over thirty years and often met him in the intercourse of life, it is with pleasure we can bear our testimony to his integrity and gentle bearing. As appears from the above dates, his life has run parallel with the entire history of the American mission on these islands. Of late years it has been most gratifying to witness an exhibition of the old "patriarchal" type, in his intercourse with his numerous family relations, of children, grandchildren and others. Certain items in his will indicate that he remembered several of those known as laborers in his shipyard. "In the matter of the proof of the will of James Robinson, deceased. Before Mr. Justice Judd by request of Justice Harris at chambers. Petitiou ot Mark Robinson, C. P. Ward and Samuel C. Allen for probate of the will. The court after hearing the evidence in tbe matter admitted the will to probate and ordered letters testamentary to be issued io the petitioners without bond according to the terms of the will. Tbe testator died at bis residence in Nuuanu valley on the Bth of August last, leaving a -widow and ten children, two of whom, James J. Robinson of Kauai and Charlotte, now Mrs. Hasslocher of San Francisco, are by a former wife. The deceased leaves real and personal property amounting to $479,000, and distributed it by bis will « personal, the testator leaves to be divided between his eight children, by his second wife, ior their respective lives, and afterwards to tbeir heirs, and appoint* Curtis P. Ward. Samuel C. Allen and Mark Robinson executors and trustees and of the estate and guardians of his minor children, without bonds. On the hearing, the widow accepted the provisions made for her in the will in lieu of dower." Mr. Floyd of San Francisco, (formerly commander of the Idaho), the president of the board of trustees of the Lick donation, has been consulting Leverrier in Paris as to the construction and furnishing of the proposed Lick observatory, and the grounds of the Paris observatory have been thrown open for his use in making experiments with large apparatus. A refracting telescope with a lens one metre in diameter will doubtless be made in Europe at some of the celebrated factories. An Indiana rum-seller prosecuted Mrs. M. A. Johnson for calling his rum-shop in the temperance paper she edits, a " murder- mill." Unfortunately for him the facts she presented to the jury convinced them that she had reason to stigmatize it withthe title that so offended him. His saloon is not the only saloon that might be called by the same name.— lllustrated Christian Weekly. . TO THE PUBLIC! FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL tbe Industrial 1876, IMIK awarded whs Exhibition, at to BRADLEY & RULOPSON! For the best Photographs 4. Crayons In San tram l-.ro THF. NATIONAL GOLD IHKDAL! For the Best Photographs In the I niteil States! — AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! follows: For the Best in the World! " To Ijis widow for lile, or as long as she remains unmarried, the bouse and premises in OFFICE OF Nuuanu valley, and all the household furniture and several otber lands, including a n'sh pond BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S ART GALLERY No. 420 Montgomery itreet, and $1200 a year payable quarterly. These provisions to be accepted in lieu of dower. After San Franoltsoo. the death of the widow tbe above real property is to go to Mark Robinson and John N. Robina r You are cordially in?.ted to an inspection oi our imson his sons for life and after the death of each, mense collectionof one half lo bis heirs. To his son James J. Rob- Photographs, Drawings, Celtbrttlrs, Sttreoseople as inson tbe testator leaves tbe income of $5000 for life and after bis death the $5000 to go to bis heirs, also the premises at llanalei, Kauai, on like terms. To Charlotte Hasslocher be gives tbe income of $12,000 to be paid quarterly tor her life, and afterwards the $12,000 to her children who may survive her, also to Mrs. Hasslocher the sum of $1000 and to each of her children $1000. The testator also leaves $1000 to each of his other children. The property at Pakaka, Honolulu, the stone building on King and Nuuanu streets, and the land at Hoaeae, Ewa, and all lands in Ewa, are leit to bis sons Mark and John N. Robinson for life and after tbe decease of each one half to the heirs of each. Also all tbe cattle, horses and sheep and all personal property at Ewa, to the above two sons, lo tbe children of his daughter, Mrs. Ward, $1000 each. To tbe trustees of the Queen's Hospital, $250. To the trustees of the English Episcopal Church, $100. To the trustees of the Bethel Church. $100. To Maria Tate $1000, to Benja- Views, ar-d Landacape Views of thewhole Pacific Coast. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY! FOLLOW I Nf; MAGNIFICENT SHIPS of the Company will leave Honolulu u per Time T.ble below ; 88 CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 3400 Too. SS ZHALANDIA 3200 Tona S-SCITY OK NKW YORK MOO Tons AUSTRALIA 3300 Ton. 88 MOO Tods 88 CITY Of SYDNEY i For FIJI, Forts In New Ze» land, and Sydney, N 8 W, For San Francisco, on or about— on or about— 1 Msrch Msroh April" S March 26 Mar April -M June 1 May 'JO J one il Jane July July 10 27 min Uoroblower $100, to Alexander Smith $100, August !H 10 Aujtust 13 September 21 to Andrew Auld $100, to Thos. Callon $500. to September 10 11 October Luke Breviere $500, and Solomon Breviere $500, October 8 November IS November and George Robinson to $2000, to his nephew 0 December 14 December each of his children $300, to Daniel P. True XT For Passage, Freight and all further information, ap- $50, to Emily Thomson $1000, to Rebecca Thomson $500, to Hannah Tate $500, to Henry S. Swiuton $100. Tbe residuary estate both real I'IIF — » ply to mhlB7«- 11. II At X FKI.I) A CO.. AGKNTI. » * �OITOB ti X FRIEND, . 187 ADVBRTISgjMB-tVTTS. Places of Worship. Seamen's Bethel—Rev. B. C. Damon, Chaplain, |-|R. r. B. HUTCHINSON. King etreot, near tho Sailors' Home. Preaching Physiciaa aad Sargeaa, at II a.m. Seats free. Sabbath School before the morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday Ofllce st Drug Store, corner of Fort and Merchsnt StreeUi evenings at 74 o'clock. Residence, Nuuanu Avenue, near School Street. Fort Street Church—-Rev. W. Frear. Pastor, Tel "li Offlce Hour., to 11 A. M. oorner of Fort and Beretania street". Preaching on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 71 r-. M. Sabbath U7 O. IRWIN St CO.. School at 10 a. m ObsßßssßßsssMl Merchants, Kawaiahao Church— Rev. H. H. Parker. Pastor, I'lsntationand Insurance Agent., Honolulu, H. I. King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 9J a. m. and I p. M. Roman Catholic Church—Under the charge of | EWERS sV DICKSON, Rt. Rev. Bishop Maigret, assisted by Rev. Father Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. Services Fort Street, Honolulu, H. 1. every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 P. m. «. 87 111 I SAILORS' HOME! _^!^^|^ » . Kaumakapili Church—Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, HOFFMANN, M D., |.1 Beretania street, near Nuuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 24 P. M. Physician and Surgeon, The Anglican Church--Bißhop. the Rt. Rev. Alfred Willis, 1). D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A., Corner Merchantsnd Kashumanu Street., netr the PostOffloe $8 Ofßcers' Table, with lodging, per week, Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary o Seamen's do. do. do. BREWER fc CO.. Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. 4-1 English services on Sundays at 64 and 11 a. m., and Shower Baths on the Premises. Commission and Shipping Merchants, 24 and 74 p. M. Sunday School at the Clergy Honolulu, o»nu, 11. I. ED. DUNSCOMBE, House at 10 a. m. Manager. Hunliilii. January 1. 1878. El P. ADAMS. .■ ... THOS. G. THRUM, Auction and Commission Merchant, STATIONER, NEWS AGENT AND BOOK BINDER, MERCHANT STREET, HONOLULU. ON HAND THE Works pertaining the Hawaiian KEKPS .larvia' History of the Sandwich Islands to FOLLOWING Island, i Fire-Proof Store, in Robinson. Building, Queen Street. RESPECTFULLYINFORM YOU THAT I now employ tba best Mechanics in Ihe Una of Carriage Making, Carriage and General Blacksmithing, Dentist, Painting, Repairing, etc.. Having resumed practice, can be found st hi. room, over E On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established Slrehs A Uo.'. Drug Store, corner of Fort and Hotel at.. fact that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. R. Whit■OH v S. McGREW. M-D ~ man, is as well exeoated as any in New York City or elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, we oan manufacture as good a olass of work in HoI Can be consulted at hi. residence on Hotel .treet, between nolulu aa oan be found in any part of the world. will also state here that we fully intend to work at Alakc. and Fort .tree's. ' 0. WEST. the loweit possible rates, s ||><- MOTT SMITH, Price, ('2 60 1 60 Bennett's HistoricalSketch ol the Hawaiian Islands, 160 Club 1868 Paper., H.w.11.n H.w.il.n Almanac and Annual for 1876 and 187S. 60 ct. each The Second Interregnum, with cabinet photograph of His Majesty Kalakaua, c mt&lning .n account or all the events InPrice, $1 60 cident to his election to the Throne Hasslnger's Hawaiian Tariff and Digest of Lsws and Regulaprice $1 Al-2' tion, of theCustoms. Ac, in paper A boards, Price $6 00 Andrews' Hawaiian Dictionary, sheep WEST, apt Haw.ii.ll Phrase Book '* SO M Synopsis or Hawaiian Grammar Wagon and Carriage Builder, 150 Jsrvi.' Kians, A Rom.nee of the Sandwich Islands, It and 76 King Street, Honolulu. Charts of the Hawaiian Islands, $1.60 each, and Letter Sheet Maps or same. $1.00 per quire. XT Island order, piomptly executed at lowest rates Sets or Hawaiian Postage Sumps, with specimen Hawtiian W, PIERCE Si. CO.. A Fl.g, price $1.00. ■*--**■ Photograph View of Honolulu, 9x24 Inches, mounted or un(Succesors to C. L. Richards A Co.) * mounted, price $2.00 aud $2.60. and General Commission Mer Cltandlers Ship The above will be mailed lo any part of theworld on receipt chants, of price snd postage. Any Books published pertaining to the Islands will be procured to order. Honolulu, Oabu, Hawaiian Islands. " " "* THOS. Agents Puuloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, 0. THRUM'S Aad Perry Davis' I'aia Killer. STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, No. 19 Merchaal Street, ass D. I*. FLITNER, Honolulu. OF READING MATTER—OF Paper, and Magaslnes, back number.—put up PACKAGES reduced rates for parlies going sea. to order at to ly THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! Carriage Making and Trimming 1 HIS OLD BUSINESS IN THE CONTINUES FIRK-PUOOF ltulldlng, Ka.hum.nu Street. Chbohombtbbs rated by observationsof tbe aun and stars with a transitinstrument accurately adjusted to themeridian of Honolulu. Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing Sextant snd quadrant glasses silvered and so-Justed. Charts and nsutlcl instrument, constantly on hand and for sale. M I WOULD M. DICKSON, Photographer, 61 Fort Street, Honolulu, CHOICE ASSORT- VB ON HAND A Ot PHOTOGRAPHIC BTOCK, ALWAMENT A Large Collection of Beautiful Viewi of Hawaiian Scenery, &c, &c. CURIOSITY HUNTERS will nnd at this establishment a SPLENDID COLLECTION OF Volcanic Sprclsaeas, Corals, Shells. War Implement.. Fern., Mala. Kapas, And a Great Variety of other Hawaiian and Micronesian Curiosities. . PICTURE FRAMES A SPECIALITY I jal IST* CASTLE & COOJKE, IMPORTERS AMD DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE! AGENTSOT *lEsaia= LbK """^nIi^BBBBBBaBBaIBaBaTT- H NOTICE TO SHIP MASTERS. THE REGULAR PORTLAND LINE OF ■'.(-.set., N.w Ens-land Mutu.l Ufa Inmr.no. Company, Th« Union Marine Insurant". Company, Ban Francisco. Th. Kohsls Sugar Company, DILLINGHAM & CO., The Haiku Sugar Oomp»ov. Nob. 86 and 97 King Street, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF riMIK WILL SPARE NO PROPsbAtOR pains make this to HOTBIi ! Particular in Every XI T-s .El O Jt%. JM T Firft-Cltuw ROOMS CAN BE HAD BY TBE NIGHT OR WEEK! with or wlttasnt board. HALL AND LARGE ROOMS TO LET FOR - Vl PI7BLIC MEETIb-GS. OR SOCItTTIK. ly Goods Suitable for Trade, The Hawaiian Sngsr Mill, VV. H. Bailey, The Hamskua Sugar Company, The W.ialus Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler A Wilson Sewing Machine Company, Dr. Jayne k Son. Celebrated Family Msdlelass. tf "THE FRIEND," MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT during the laat Six Years can testlfv from personal experience that the undersigned keep the best assortment of V JOURNAL Maria* and General lutsllifsana. Temperance, AMONTHL BT GOODS FOR. TK.ADE SAMUEL O. DAMON. TERMS: SHIP And Sett Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. DILLINGHAM 4 CO. DEVOTED TO Rumen, PUBLISHED AND EDITED One Copy per annum Two Copies per annum Foreign Subscriber., iaeluding postaavr M°o »00 2.40 �YMoeunnH A'sgCochiartf onolulu. 8 Pure religion and undeflled before Ood, the Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and tvidows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Committee- of tbe T. M, C. A. I rejnark, once more, that the pulpit itself has unconsciously lent itself to the great danger of making belief more important than the life: not in terms—for, in general, the pulpit most explicitly declares that the actual condition of the heart before God is the most important thing; but there is an insidious way of advocating a thing in terms and opposing it in effect; for it is more the emphasis than the statement that determines the effect of preaching. If a man were to begin every sermon in the year by saying, " God is love," and then go on preaching " God is just," in every sermon of the year, never developing anything higher, the milder statement would perish under the emphasis and repetition which he threw into the sterner; and men would see God, as it were, in a cloud, and would look upon him as a great wheel-turner, who sat moving the vast machine of the universe, leaving those who got in the way to be crushed. Thus, partly from the exigencies of government, in times of persecution—whey a man's life depended, from various causes, on what was called the fidelity of orthodoxy—men have come to be impressed that though they ought to be right at heart, yet it is far more important that they should be right in belief; and that a little goodness with a great deal of orthodoxy is a good deal safer than a great deal of goodness with a ragged orthodoxy. It is a spurious form of the old Greek idea that knowledge is the end of existence : and that to be accurate, to think right, and to put right thinking together systematically, is the main point: that there ought to be goodness, to be sure; but that knowledge is the main thing, and that goodness is a sort of sequence of knowledge. Henry Ward Beecher. Death of Mr. Aheong.—Intelligence was received by the last arrival from China, that Samuel P. Aheong died in China among his friends on the 14th of June. The career of this Chinaman is quite noteworthy. He came to the islands among the Chinese brought by Mr. Graves, more than twenty years ago, and was hired by Mr. Torbert of Makawao, who was so much pleased with his aptness to learn that he sent him to an English school, taught we believe by a member of the Rev. Mr. Green's family. Time passed on, and he married among the Hawaiians and became a merchant at Lahaina, where he made a profession of his faith in the Christian religion ; but in 1870 removed his church-relationship to the Bethel church of Honolulu. During 1868 and 1869 he was employed as a colporteur among his countrymen by the Hawaiian Board. Speaking several dialects of China and being a man of good abilities, he became an eloquent preacher, often addressing audiences of the Chinese in Honolulu and elsewhere upon the islands. In 1810, with his wife and two children, he returned to China, where he has taught srhool, but suffered much from sickness. Our recollections of him are most pleasant. He was a most genial and agreeable man; and speaking the English language with much fluency, it was delightful to converse with him about China and the Chinese—their history, religions and customs, and his conversion to Christianity. He leaves a widow and two children in China, and one child at Makawao. S. C Mission 1). Chinese in San Francisco.—One of the San Francisco papers has been looking into the working of the missions among the Chinamen in that city. It gives these results: The Methodists maintain a church of forty Chinese members, a Sundayschool and a night school. Five teachers are employed in the night school, which is attended in part by adults. Instruction is given in the ordinary English branches of learning. The Methodists also support a refuge and home for Chinese women. The Presbyterians have a Chinese mission church of sixty members, an evening school of 110 pupils, and a home for women. The Baptists have an evening school, attended by seventy scholars, and a Sunbay congregation offifty Chinamen. There are thirteen other schools sustained by the churches of the city, which are attended more or less by the Chinese population. Among How Long Does it Take to Transmit a Message Through the Atlantic Cable ?— The N. Y. Journal of Commerce has been investigating this question, and simple as it looks at first sight, there are many singular and.interesting points in the answer. When the electricity is applied to the cable at one end, two-tenths ot a second pass before any effect is feltat the other end,and three seconds are consumed before the full force of the current is in action. The first signal is felt in four tenths of a second, but the following ones go through more rapidly. As many as seventeen words have been sent over the Atlantic cable in one minute ; fifteen cap usually be sent under pressure, and twelve words a minutes is a good working rate. Messages of twelve words have been sent all the way from New York to London in two minutes. A fact not yet explained by the scientists is that the electricity does not move as rapidly from New York to London as in the opposite direction. Crossing the Atlantic in a "Skiff."— The bold mariner from Gloucester, who is now making his way across the ocean in a dory appears to be getting on famously. A Troy gentlemen who has been on a visit to London, and who returned by the steamer Greece, reports that in mid-ocean the watch the bow reported to the Captain that he descried ahead what seemed to be part of a wreck. As it neared the ship the object was discovered to be a small skiff, and in the darkness the figure of one man was descried. The Captain immediately gave orders to stop the engines and get the ropes ready to pull the man on board. The sea was running high. The skiffcame quite near to the ship, appearing and disappearing at intervals— now on the top of an immense wave level with the deck ofthe vessel, the next minute hidden from sight in the billows. The Captain, calling to know who was in the boat, was answered in a strong German accent: "I am John Johnson, from Gloucester, Massachusetts." He told further that he was bound to Liverpool; that his skiff was named Centennial, and that he had been out fifteen days. He then asked the Captain to compare reckonings. His was longitude 46°, latitude 39c the Captain's was the same. Johnson informed the Captain that he slept by day, and before going to sleep he took in his rudder and took down all sails ; during sleep, bis craft drifted with the waves. He was awake at nights. The captain made a final appeal to him to come on board, stating that if he refused, he would probably regret it when the vessel was out of his reach. To this Johnson emphatically answered, "No, sir; good night," and throwing his sails to the wind was soon lost to sight. Johnson sits in the centre of his boat, with a lamp burning before him, exposing the dial of what seemed to be a compass. The deck afore and aft is covered with canvas, under which, beside the compass and lamp, were several barrels, containing, no doubt, provisions, water, etc. When last heard from (July 23), Johnson was less than thirty-six degrees west of London. She has since arrived all right on the British coast. American paper. at : — Till AMERICAN TRACT aOCIRT, 160 Nasssa Street, New York City, has established DKPOrJITORY AT 767 MARKET STRKKT, SAN FRANCISCO, withRev Frederick 8 Shearer as District Secretary lor tha Fseiftc Coast. This Depository is the Hsad-quarter. ol ths Coast for ALL SCNDAY SCHOOL AND RKLIHIOUS LITKSATURK, and ha. the ipsßrial assosy lor ths CALIFORNIA BIBLK SOCIETY. TUB AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL VNK>N. CONQRBGATIONAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, t-BKBBYTtRIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. HKNRY HOYT. ROBT CARTER A BRC, RANDOLPH A CO., and otb» learlinr will he aslrcleil publisher.. 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