https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/7b575d379bea64edaa8d0dd37acfea68.pdf a284b7da2184b7a22c4d23e9a9a4a775 PDF Text Text F THE RIEND HONOLULU, I i:iJIM \HY I, 1878. gift Strits, M. 27, %b.U CONTKrvTS For Fs-brisiiry 1, 1878. First llawnilan Oantennlal Ramble. In ihe'Pd World-No 13 Recent Polynesian I.ilcrarurc llev James A Daly Woman's Inlluence in the l'.ciflc Naval and Marine Journal Editor. Table J .pun Correspondence V.M.C. A P.os * 9—12 12 12 12 13 H 14 18 THE FRIEND. 11-ltlc 1 vlt V 1. 1878. FIRST HAWAIIAN CENTENNIAL. 1778—January 18—1878. On the morning of the 18th of January one hundred years ngo, the ships under Captain Cook's command approached this group from the South Pacific. We find this record in the journal of the voyage: "We continued to see birds every day, and between 10° and 11° we saw several turtle. All these are looked upon as signs of the vicinity of land. However we discovered none till daybreak on the morning of the 18th, when an island made its appearance bearing northeast by east, and soon after we saw more land bearing north, entirely detached from the former." The island first seen was Niihau, and on the following day his ships anchored in the roadstead of Waimea, Kauai. The centennial anniversary of the discovery of the islands, was observed in Honolulu by a royal salute (at 12 o'clock noon) of 21 guns from the battery on Punchbowl, and by the 0. S. S. Petisacola and H. I. German Majesty's ship Elizabeth. In the afternoon Ihe marines and seamen of the latter, numbering about 300, marched out to the Kmlaokahua plains for the purpose of a grand 9 {(©li Series, 001.35. to Kulaokahua plains for practice in military tac- RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD—No. 13 11m Majesty tho King, the Queen, their tics. Royal Highnesses, the Princesses Lydia KaniaKi.iikkfki.ii, IJecember 12, 1877. kaclia and Miriam Likelike, -several high digniThis is my last date from Elberfeld. While taries of the government, foreign officials, nnd here 1 have been studying with an earnestness members of the King's staff, wero present. The the languages, which has helped to bridge over the troops, armed with muskets, went through much of the time, which was lost in Geneva. I manual of arms, marching and countermarching, find the German a tremendously difficult lanwith a degree of cipertness and precision that guage, and it requires the greatest effort if one wo never remember to have seen exceeded anywould learn it elegantly. 1 have just finished where. Then followed a " sham fight," wherein redoubt was gradually approached by an assaulting army, and after a gallant defense compelled to surrender. Tho artillery, consistinp: of two brass field-pieces, was managed with wonderful alertness. It was really a brilliant affair, and much appreciated by the crowds of spectators on foot, on horseback and in carriages." In the evening a torch-light procession, accompanied by a band of music, enlivened the city by its marching through all the principal streets. Thus has passed Hawaii's centennial, —it is for those who come after us to observe the next. In the words of Longfellow, we say, " Look not mournfully upon the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly'heart." —Since the above was in type, we have learned that the Centennial was enthusiastically remembered at Lahaina, and we are promised a publication of Mr. Gibson's Address. We have long hoped Mr. Gibson would prepare something becoming the occasion and more permanent than a short address. We know that he has been " reading up the history of Commerce and Discovery in the Pacific oyer since Cape Horn was first •• doubled," or the old Spaniard first caught a glimpse of this ocean over the Isthmus of Panama. We know of no writer who could execute a work of this nature more skillfully or elegantly than Mr. Gibson, whose facile pen glides over paper as gracefully as the smooth keel cuts the ocean's wave. a " Wrecked.—The H. N. Carlton, from review. The following paragraph, in refer- China, is reported as having drifted ashore ence to the review, we clip from the Adver- on Molokai with 400 immigrants,—all saved. About 100 have arrived in Honolulu per tiser of the 19th ult.: Hawaiian schooner Kinau. The U. S. S. has left for the scene of disaster, " Yesterday, some three hundred or more officers and men landed from H.I. German Majettv's •Pensacola assistance. to render in lying now and port, proceeded FJizaheth, ship the first part of Goethe'sFaust and other general reading. Now that three or four different literatures are opening up before me, and there are an infinite number of things which are pressing on me in the way of study, it seems as if the dayß were not long enough. Tho German literature is an enormous mine, and as 1 look down into the shaft where the candle of a growing knowledge <>f the language is beginning to light the way, I feel almost perplexed before the many ways which open before me. I send two copies of the London " Literary World." I have been much pleased with the Iresh healthy tone of the criticisms on tbo most recent English books. 1 am euro you will enjoy tho outlook it gives in current English literature. I have of late been reading some of Joseph Cook's lecturos, especially the last. VV bat a wonderful man he is. He seems to hold a sword of flame. I heard about him years ago when 1 was in college, but he had almost laded out of mind till my remembrance was quickened in hearing of his descent upon Boston, where he seems to have operated like a heaven-sent inspiration. 1 have board somo concerts lately. One. the Messiah of Handel, which was grand beyond any words which 1 have at hand to express, and they seem to have, stirred all the music-love within me. But I must hasten to give you my impressions of Cologne, which I promised you in my last. COLOGNE. (The Colonia Agrippinensis of the Romans). " There are cities and cities.'' Some of tbem make one think of those sleek, shining poplars which stretch away for miles, marking the highways in France straight as an arrow, disdaining every curving line, precise and proper as if their million leaves had issued from tho same mould. But dow and then you come across one that makes you think of a splendid old oak, half uprooted perhaps but which still throbs with an irrepressible life, twisted and quaint and hoary, from its giant roots to its verdant crest, a thing of beauty, its net-work of branches and boughs and billows of greenery, making a fitting home lor singing birds, and casting wide generous shadows in which travelers love to linger when the noon sun grows bot. There are cities like tboso houses which face me as I sit writing you, and as I live in one on the same street, I can tell you how they look within, from cellar to garret, though I have Dover been in tbem, being confident they have been turned out by tbe same �10 THK FRIEND, modern hotels and railway stations into its quaint und shadowy past, something as you step from the gorgeously ■' restored" church abovo into tho cool, untouched, tiuje-ntnined crypt below, with the feeling that you have reached something more historic and attiactive in its plainness than all the scarlet and blue and gold in the choir above. Cologne will pay you for your study. What a mistake two-thirds of our travelers make ! They see every city from Paris to Constantinople, from Naples to Copenhagen, but become cilitens of Done. Better one, which shall prove nn an abiding and continual source of pleasure, than a ; thousand seen a la Cook. People have forgotten tho beautiful meaning as well ns the nrt itself of Sauntering. That has disappeared with tho pilgrim's staff and cockle-shell, a pilgrimage to "Sainte Terre." And so it seems to me that our travels should bo ; let us seek scenes rich in mines of history and poetry and religion, which shall indeed be to us Salutes Torres and see them in such a manner that in after years they shall come to us not with memories of feverish haste and confusion but with messages of beauty " " " and inspiration. One of the beat approaches to Cologne ie by tho magnificent iron bridge which spans the Rhine at this point, and seems a fitting entrance to tbe "City of the Saints." This appellation you feel convinced the city deserves, as you count the spires snd towers and domes which face us as we stand on our high perch above the Rhine. The oity from thia point presents a very majestic appearance, skirting the river as far as your eve can reach, and kneeling at the feet of its splendid Cathedral, which seems at last in a fair way to realise that glorious vision which floated down to earth oenturies ago. I like to think of Cologne best at evening, at tbat uncertain time when the day stands for a moment to look back at tbe coming night, and aa if in token of friendliness throws into its shadows showers of gold. Then it is that tbe airy pinnacles and spires of her churches glow and gleam, while the dusk has come in ber streets below. It seems as if ths city for the moment typified its history,—stand, ing in its half-lights. They tell ns to look so far back tbat were it not for the lights of many discoveries, and ancient records it would be hard to find our way. The Übii came one day, little dreaming of what Uy in the unborn oenturies and crossing the Rhine made here their home. And then when Christianity was yet young and cherished only in a few loving hearts, the mother of Nero, Agrippina, founded in A. D. 50, tbe colony wbieb was at length to become tho city, whose many bells at evening and morning chime the triumph of that faith which to-day girdles tbe earth. Cons tan tine has left here tbe mark of his presence. Wave after wave of war has flowed over; bishops and archbishops have here ruled and prayed snd fought; it has nourished trade and commerce; cradled artists when art first began to portray for men heavenly visions caught .. in the intervals of rest from war and bloodshed, and risen into modern times as a busy, thriving city, bringing to us of to-day ns its choicest legacy from tho pnst the most beautilui Gothic Cathedral the world knows, and giving the present the privilege of completing it, a privilege which is not being disregarded. TIIK I .VIIIKI'KAI. " lir.K 11011K DOM Zl: Ktil.N." This lolly pilo dominates the city, and the country far boyond. In fact there seems something almost omnipresent about it. You cunnot get awny from it. Sometimes in this pnrt ol the country, miles away from Cologne, both in body and mind, you chance to look about you and there far oft' in the purple distance is the Cathedral. I have been down on the Rhine climbing rugged Drnchcnfels nnd still far, fnr away on the horizon nppciircd its faint outline against the quiet sky, liko the mint of a forming cloud. Every one comes to Cologne to see the Cathedral and says "wonderful," a miracle," a piictii " of the"Gothic in stone," tho "grainiest triumph art," but of court** this is vsWM nnil unsatisfactory. And yet no one in to blame, no one should bo censured for being unnble to put into words, that which is above words. You cannot describe color to the blind und you fail if you attempt to picture a Guthic Cathedral lo one who bus yet tins revelation of beauty to enjoy. The world has grown tired of travelers' "ruptures" and descriptions which arc ns destitute of substance us moonbeams. This groat Doui " in whose shadow we are standing has "bad anything but a Aim and peaceful history, but has grandly outridden its storms. Its foundation stone was laid some six hundred years ugo ; dissensions arose between clergy und people in the sixteenth century the work on it was abandoned; in tho eighteenth the French used it as a hay magazine, but its mission was not yet accomplished. The kings ol Prussia came to its rescue. Enormous sums of money have been expended on its completion and restoration and it is hoped that in a few years it will stand complete perhaps to tell to coming centuries of the energy of this. Wordsworth should have lived to have seen its grand completion, though it will probably be accomplished in a far difi'crent way than that of which be sings. You remember his sonnet architectural genius as ours, and that they have all tbe latest modern improvements and conveniences. (Have you ever beard of one of these "modern brown stone fronts" being hauntnt or .i» having a history ?) But there are some few cities which have in part drilled into our busy nineteenth century whirl which arc neither like the arrowy poplars or fashionable city houses, but resemble more our splendid old oak. I talked to you so long about one last winter, namely Goneva, that I am a little afraid of mentioning another for lear that you may not like me to start into its history. But they are so very different in many respects that perhaps you will lingor with me a little in the narrow streets of Cologne. You think in a moment of the cathedral and of " Johann"Maria Farina," nnd i-ny you know as much about it as if you had been there lorty times, for haven't a thousand and one people written about them ? But I tako it that the majority of travelers on the Rhine don't see tho host part of Cologne after all. One needs to live near it and see it by degrees, to vit-it it again ami again, diving down under its flaring Mirface of " I II I! X I \K . for the help of sngt-la io complete " Oh, This temple, angela governedby plan, : How gloriously purauetl liy daring man Studious thai lie might not disd.in the .e.t Who dwell. In lie.yea ! But that Inspiring heart Hath failed; anil now, ye Power.! whose gorgeou. wiog. And splendid aspect yonemblasnnlngs Hut Nlntly picture, 'twere an office meet lor you, on these unfinished shafts to try The midnight virtue, of your harmony; Thi. last design mlgrU tempi you lo repent Strains that call forth upon empyreal ground Immortal fabrics—rising io the sound 01 jießelratlnf harp, and voice, sweet." I Means not wholly angelic are being actively employed ; the bases of the two grand spires are fully completed, scaffoldings of an enormous size are filled with busy workmen, and little puffs of steam come out from among the stone carvings as splendid blocks and pillars, and capitals are being raised into their place—far, far up in the blue air, where in the years to come they will be better seen by angels above than by men below, I fancy. Ali day long the ring of the hammer and chisel is beard from the stone cutters in their blouses, who are turning out leafy capitals, columns, and all manner of ecclesiastical adornments. There is a bustle and stir about it, which it not wholly in harmony with the typical hush and repose of a dim and shadowy Cathedral, and you forget your Gothic ecstacies sometimes in your speculations as to the possibilities of a fall from the scaffolding above. Then there arc little matters to ruffle the calm surface of one's esthetic dreams. After looking forward towards a nearer view of this mysterious pile which has loomed up lor hours before you as a guiding pillar of "cloud," you come with eager expectation into the "place" whieli encircles it. But you find your clouds melting away, and with one tremendous tumble you are down on your feet. The present blazons itself, the actual hugs yon so 1878. close you forget everything else. First-Hum, second-class, third class hotels face and flaunt their names in German and French and English at the astonished tourist, in letters large enough to be discovered a mile away. Endless eau do cologne" establishments flank you with their jjlate-grasa windows. Valets do Place and guides rush to give you a smiling welcome and Iml to understand your most energotic negatives. 'Busses and cabs rattle over the stones and the train whistles in and out of the neighboring [ station. Where is the pence and bush that you me led to expect in such localities. Where are tho secluded shades where tonsured monks tell their beads and from which the evening hymn flouts up intoStlic listening air? You feel very ridiculous lor the moment and just a little moro so when you learn that the splendid cathedral before you is mounting up towards heaven on tho wings (pecuniary) of a successful lottery enterprise which the Prussian government under the circumstance* authorizes. But alter a little, all these minor annoyances fall away from you and in the presence of this wonderful temple which lifts its self and you away for the time into a better, purer atmosphere than that in which men generally livo. Architecture, as one of the fine uMS, speaks less frequently to us than umsjc or painting or sculpture, hut when it does sneak there is a depth and eloquence in its utterance which thrills one moro truly than that of any of the others. There is an infinite, indescribable "stillness," and calm about these towering walls and thousand statues, a calm which the countless advancing and receding tumultuous waves of life, of travel and traffic at its base arc powerless to break. Please don't fancy that I have grown wise in the intricate mazes of architectural art and science or that I would affect a knowlodge which I am but too painfully aware I am lar from possessing. Yet I think you will sympathize with me when I say that of laic, especially in the many visits 1 have made to this growing glory of Cologn,, there has been coming to me an almost solemn sense of what these statelypiles are capable of expressing. With us you know, in new countries utility has hoen of necessity the predominant idea, our houses and churches have been, as a general thing, well adapted to keep off the sun and rain. Those who have lived from the cradle to the grave in the presence of somo cathedral, or church which has '• petrified the spirit or genius of the centuries which produced them, which is as much an expression of devotion as the hymns and chants which float away with the incense, can scarcely understand that grttdual dawning of a new and beautiful idea or, one to v•' .11 it is as strange as it is beautiful. 1 am willing to confess my ignorance, as I have found it has given rise to a pleasure which I had not " " " " " " anticipated. The Cologne Cathedral has not the wealth and richness of adornment which lioautifies that of Milan, but more ornamentation would I think detract from its dignity. It is indeed perfect, perfect enough I should think to strengthen every tired soul that posses into its presence. Truo enough in all its delicacy of finish in its perfection of sculptured capitals, though hidden almost out of sight, in that union of tenderness and strength to shame all that is craven and false. There is a little spire to which you mount up by many stairs and which you are unwilling to leave. There is before you the city ; beyond the fair shores of the RhiDe and their bordering hills; but the beauty about you claims your lougest gaze, this garden of stone, this magio forest; on the north bate and leafless as if under the reign of the winter, but budding spring-like into a thousand quaint traceries and mimic shapes as your eye follows its, further growth, till on the south it bursts into, a summer beauty of glorious leafage and bloom. Flying buttresses break the air in their splendid leap. Wierd and terrible shapes are flinging themselves in the gargoyles in a fierce, furious way from the holy spot where their troubled spirits may not rest. While on �. every side the pure and graceful Gothic arch fitting retribution for attempting the impossible, for my boldness in endeavoring to literalizu this worshipper heavenwards. The interior it is needless to say, is very exten- poem of the earth and air. sive, and has a completeness of finish whicli is A FEW WORDS ABOUT COLOGNE'S LESSER CUURCHKS. yet lacking in its exterior, I think the majority Inspiring as is the Cathedral, there is a historic of visitors are at first disappointed in its size. One expects so much. But come more than once. interest about some of the churches of Cologne Stand far down its nave and look up the stately which tbe former hardly possesses. For instance avenue of pillars to the choir, a vista terminating not very far away stands tbe Jesuits' Church, in gleaming windows. I'iose your eyes mid whose bells are cast from canons captured by the listen tv the choristers' chant, to tbe clear, ring- valiant Tilly at Magdeburg. They have indeed ing voices of tbe boys and the deep, rich respon- seen a change from the music of the battle-field ses of tho priests and notice how far away they to that of Sabbath chimes. Then threading our sound. Lean against one of the pillars and see way through market and shops we reach St. Urhow insignificant you are and how grand your sula. There is a ghastliness about its ornamentsupport and then see how they multiply about ations which seems to have a charm for countless you; here new groups break upon you and views visitors. You have heard the story of this Engopen holore you. How high the root seems over lish saint over and over again I am sure—how our head and how dim and distant those painted that she was a princess who was accompanied by angels in their golden glories ! Ones it help you her (11,000) eleven thousand virgin attendants, to know measurements? They are sorry help to and that while here in Cologne they were all me. Tho area is 7,*!'J'J square yards, there are murdered by the heathen. Now there are sevfour aisles, fifty-six pillars, the nave rises up 146 eral conflicting reports about this same lady and feet. (Don't you recognize "Baedeker?") There her numerous friends, nnd it requires a most are bouic splendid stained windows ancient and elastic imagination to picture eleven thousand modern, tfirough which the sunshine streams and virgins traveling alone around Europe. But glorifies tho most prosaic object, and statues whatever other exaggerations there may be, Micro which neverJjease their prayers from one century is no doubt that tins is a place of skulls; " " " bony place. day Ion*; a little worshipful pro- I don't care to be in a more to " cession of *rssvfors pasaps up and down its aisles, Imagine an ornamental frieze extending around there a tho church and ol these murdered rarely hearing composed without —you go whisperpoor ing in English. Here and there some woman is girls' skulls! There are hundreds and hundreds, Tho Swiss" his not thousands. brown and are, in praying. scarlet robe lights if There they " the shadows as he passes. Lighted tapers gleam ghastly and hideous. Then the Sacristan points before some shrine. 1 think 1 can never forget to a little iron lattice in the wall and you find that you are walled in by bones, enough to stock tho quiet scene. There are many Chapels about tbe choir, nine any number of museums. 1 don't moan to bo in all I think. They show you in the treasury irreverent, hut somehow when you see things of crammed full of gold and jewels, tho skulls of the this kind in such profusion you become very Magi brought by the Empress Helena to Constan- nearly as hardened as tho grave-diggers in tinople, and which have at last found a resting *' Hamlet." And yet there is an infinite pathos Engplace here !! ! Ol course you must believe this, in it all, the thought of all these fair-hairedwhich wo shall sec yet stranger things, if we stay much lish maidens giving up their lives for that was and aud their holy right, and that puro relonger in Cologne. For a moment, but it must bo only tor a moment you doubt that in these mains should become so often tbe jest of idle sockets, hidden away in their jewelled coverings, tourists. You sco 1 am going to believe the were once the eyes that looked eagerly towards legend. Scepticism in travel and in Roman that star flaming in the eastern sky, which wus Catholic countries does away with all poetry. to be their guide to " when* tho young child Hero was the saint herself and.there were more lay." Following the curve of tho choir we como skulls with velvet and beaded caps, which the to a little chapel which enshrines a picture, the good nuns had sometime worked for their marDombild," styled by Goethe as " the axis on tyred sisters. Then there was the reliquary of "which tho history of lower Rhenish art turns." St. Hippolytus, I think, who was one of the It represents the adoration of the Magi. There Christian martyrs nnd torn to pieces in some are monuments to knights nnd the Sarcophagi of dreadful way! And most wonderful of all there Bishops, and just as wo are turning into the body wero two jars used at the Wedding Feast at Cana of the Cathedral again we see " Tho Assumption* of Galileo !! Though these alabaster vases never, (of Ovorbeck) the Virgin in her glory, before 1 am nliiiid, field that wino which must have which tapers idti-u burn. But 1 have kept you been of such a sweetness as earthly grapes never almost selfishly loug; tho retrospect lias been so yield, yet they are interesting mementoes of the pleasant for me. We come out by tbo splendid days of the crusaders. In the little sacristy western entrance, whoso facade and spires arc to there was an unexpectei surprise awaiting us. bo tho crowning glory of it all. So long ago But our surprise lay not in these legendary rewore some of those stones slowly swung into their mains, but iv the discovery of that very musical places, that they have grown old and worn and word, Honolulu, in the visitors' book over which gray, mid here and there a tew winged seeds the Sacristan's caudle flared and made Remhave found a resting place and tinge their nooks brandt effects among the velvet-snooded skulls. with green. Sido by side with statues centuries We were just a day or so too late, and missed old arc rising others fresh from tbe band of the seeing some of our island-people whose names artist, the new and old, yet to blend in one sym- preceded ours by a page or two. If you see metrical whole. What a sublime lesson ol pa- Judge Harris, dear Friend, give him my kind in nee these stones seem to teach, as it conscious regards and ask him if he remembers the Sacristy that, though centuries may come and go, wreck of St. Ursula in the old city of Cologne ? and ruin threaten thorn, yet in the end they But not to be too long let me givo you one or should stand not lone and maimed and scarred two more names, and then we will ceaae our churcb-going for the present. but as parts of a perfect, harmonious whole. •St'. Gereons' I Months ago when I said "good-bye" to like immensely. It is so odd and quaint, a little Cologne I thought 1 might never see its " Dors" of everything in the way of architecture, and my again, but I have seen it many times since, and eye is not easily offended. Gereon and Gregory it gives something always now; 1 have seen it are the patron saints of Cologne. Before that when the streets were hushed and tbe early dawn tbey were captains in the Thcban legion and was breaking, and when the dusk fell like a were with others slain bore during the persecuvelvet pall over it; have stood among its monu- tion of the Christians under Diocletian. The ments and shadowy chapels when tho thunder Empress Helena founded here long ago a church, roared und tbe storm hurtled above its roof, and and tbe present edifice stands on the site of the have sat in the luminous, jeweled light with old. There are more skulls here! After a whilo which the sun warmed its twilight aisies. If I they cense to be surprising. Do you remember have wearied you with words, I shall but sec a tbonc charming books, " Letters from Palmyra " points tho 1878. 1 THfi ¥IU X M», FKBRII A It Y and "The Early Christians "1 in tbe latter, if 1 am not very much mistaken, there is a graphic account of the persecution under Diocletian. It will always seem more real to me after this tangible reminder of these good men who fell viotims to the fury of heathen Rome, in this out-poet of the empire. Out again into these winding Cologne streets, almost as htbyrinthino as those of Boston, accosting every other person we meet as to the way, we come to St. Peters to see a picture of Rubens. I forgot to look at the church in looking at the picture, but I remember the way in seemed very pretty, a cloister-like walk (with little shrines, at one of which a woman was praying), hemming in a verdant bit of turt and shrubbery. The attraction here is an altar piece, representing tho crucifixion of St. Peter. You have to pay to see it of bourse, but it is moro than worth the fee. You see, tbe original picture is not as a general thing turned toward the church. It swings on a pivot. There is a copy of it, made by_ some artist or other whp would have done well not to have put his work in such close contrast with that ot a master-hand. For a trifle they turn the real Rubens round for you. You who are so wise in church history remember the legend, how that Peter was crucified, in accordance with his humble request, head-downwards. It seems so like him, —just in harmony with his splendid impulsive self, with his eager, tumultuous, tender, loving intensely human-self, so like him who straightway left his fisher's net and followed his Lord, who boldly stepped forth upon tbe treacherous waves, who could even deny his Master and then repent in agony, and who could in the last terrible moment of an awful death seek one yet even moro debased than that of Him who was lifted up for his sius. Of course the whole strength of tho picture is centered on this great figure. There are soldiers and other figures engaged in their terrible task in fastening the body to the cross, but these have rather faded out of my memory. But I shall not soon forget that powerful, contorted figure with the eyes straining in this fearful anguish, the strong muscul.ir arms tenso as iron, the bronze skin which tho wind and rain and sun had deepened as he plied his oar on the Lake of Galilee, the crisp, grizzled hair of tho valiant old man, and tbe fearful tinging of the blood in that face so near the earth. "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?'' Lord, thou knowoet all things; thou knowest that 1 love thee." We might go to St. Andreas, to St. Cunibert, to St. Pantaleon, to Si. Maria in Capitol, the quaiut old basilica which goes back they say to tho seventh century, to St. Martin down by the river, with its font a thousand years old, but we have seen enough for one day and will see no more, but instead listen to their many bells which as if by some law of spiritual harmony make no discord as they come to us from every quarter. " JOllANN MARIA FARINA. You know it is from this fine old city on tho Rhine, that for many a year have flowed the fragrant streams of Eau de Cologne,'' known all over the world. The original Farina seems to have come a long time ago from Italy, and here started the business of making the perlutue which has borrowed the name of the Rhenish town. If there was hut some way of doing it, I should like to shower a fragrant rain of these perfumes on you, or don't you need the sweetening? They have a poor sort of joke about here, but good enough sometimes to delude tbe unwary, namely that so plentiful is this liquid that some people bathe in eau de cologne; and you oan yourself make the boast if you see fit to come here and lot on the Rhine water which.sweeps by Cologne, into your bath. There is one of the streets where you go to sec the bouse where Marie tie Medea* died, an exile in 1642; her heart is under a slab in tbe cathedral choir. Opposite they osee thought Rubens, the great Rubens, was born. By the way, have you noticed what a brilliantRubens Festival they been having in Antwerp lately? Isn't it " " Jiavu " �12 THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, wonderful what a sway these kings of the Brush proved, has appeared as published in Sydney nod Palette, hold after the lapse of centuries'.' and London. At some future time we hope There is sn inscription over Ibe door and a figure in wood of the artist, with the rolling-generous to notice this work, the first edition having hat-brim and the curling feather, and the artist's been reviewed at length in the Hawaiian face beneath with tbe short pointed beard und Spectator by the late Rev. Dr. Armstrong twitted moustache. reveller he was in (1639). A copy of this work lies before us, color ! and we feel an almost irrepressible desire to When you come be fiure you go to the "Mu- notice the attack in it Upon the late Key. seum,"- where you might spend daya. The building was given by some good citizen,—peace to his Mr. Ellis, author of "Polynesian Reashes ! There is a little of everything to sec, and searches." something to satisfy tho must fastidious taste. Room after room of ancient paintings, crucifixThe Rev. James A. Daly. ions, translations, madonnas without end, Inst Some twenty years ago when passing judgments, etc, etc, give a splendid outline of tbo history of the Cologne school of art. There down Fort street, we met a youth under a are modern paintings and old Roman remains, corner verandah who had stopped to escape beautiful paintings on glass, statues and many, many other things which I would fain tarry over a fulling shower. While standing there we but may not as tbe twilight is telling m« to said, " Why not leave the printing office and hurry. But when you come be sure you stny longest in the quaint lovely little qpurt which tho obtain nn education ? " The seed fell into a groat building surrounds. Somebody with the genial soil and grew. As a fruit,—we resoul of a poet I am sure, has scattered a thou- cently received a copy of the Enterprise sand old broken stone statues here and there, and published in Wellington, Ohio, containing bits of Gothic arches nnd carvings which have an eloquent thanksgiving sermon preached been gntbered out of the shadows ot the post, and all wanner of quaint curious objects, and then by the Rev. Mr. Daly, pastor of the Congretold the ivy to come and cover their loneliness gational Church, in the presence of a union and nakedness, and the result is the loveliest, audience of the churches ot* thnt place. Mr. Daly was graduated at the college of most restful, bewitching spot in all Cologne. Be sure and see it. California before its union with the UniverThen there is the Rath-Iluus with its beautiful sity, and subsequently studied theology at facade, and don't miss seeing the wharves where the Union Theological Seminary of New there is so much bustle and business and where After graduation he visited Europe, vessels coming up the Rhine for centuries have York. and traveled through the Holy Lund and and down tho lie some lovefarther river stopped, ly gardens with forns and palms and vines under Greece. He has been settled in Stockton, the glass that make me forget churches, pictures, Cal., Painsville, Ohio, and is now pnstor of art, and bring another vision to me. the Congregational Church in Wellington. For, ever, The sermon above referred to, closes with thememory is to roe the following words : " Sweet Of a I.ml beyond Ihe ses, Where ihe wave, .nil mountain, meet, "This good day of God is parly yet, the Iv Ibu tUlelee. summer sea.." and strenuous day's work is before us. long F. W. Damon. We are too young to boast, and too well grounded to fear. It is too early to stop lor Recent Polynesian Literature. applause, and too late to stop for opposition. 'In the name of our God will we set up otir From Trubner's American and Oriental banners.' Grateful, glad, brave, let us face Record for December, we glean some inter- the ampler day which David saw, albeit the esting items relating to the literature of vapors of a thousand years intervene. "Let us work bravely now; there is rePolynesia : indemnity, joy in the eternal day of The "Grammar and Dictionary of the ward, Thanksgiving beyond the horizon of Time." Samoan Dialect" is about to be published in London, of which the Rev. G. Pratt is the Photography in Honolulu —Fine specimens of photography may be seen nt Monauthor, and Rev. S. J. Whitmee, F. R. G. S., etc., the editor. "As the Comparative tana's new and large establishment.—also at greatly Grammar and Dictionary, of which this is Dickson's, which has recently been Montana's, At work is skillfully improved. intended to form a part, must necessarily form executed on porcelain and watch-faces, which a very large work not obtainable by most is a new feature in the photographic art in residents in Polynesia, and as it will, under this city. the most favorable circumstances, take many A letter has been received from Chun years to complete it, Messrs. Trubner & Co. Lung, son of Mr. Afong of this city. He are about to publish Mr. Pratt's work in a writes soliciting aid for his countrymen in separate form for immediate use by philolo- North China, who are dying of famine. gists and residents in the Samoan Islands. This young man is member of the senior It will be published in crown Bvo., under the class in Vale College, and his letter will appear in the next Advertiser. editorship of the Rev. S.J. Whitmee." — Judge Fornander's work on " The Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Race," is also announced as in press, and we may soon expect copies for, sale in Honolulu. A second edition of Dr. Lang's work on " The Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Nation," greatly enlarged and im- Rev. George Morris.—We rejoice to report that this gentleman, as a temperance lecturer and minister of the gospel, has visited all the principal islands of the group, and has most urgently set forth the claims of the temperance cause and the gospel. He has preached in the Fort Street and Bethel Churches to great acceptance. 1878. Woman's Influence in the Pacific. We have often thought of writing an article upon the good influence of woman when cruising on shipboard in the Pacific. There is no question but the wives of Protestant missionaries in Polynesia have been most potent in the spread of Christianity. We would now referto the hoppy influence of the wives of shipmaster*. When visiting ships in Honolulu hnrbor, it always aflbrus us delight to learn thaf the shipmaster is accompanied by his wife. A word of good cheer comes to us upon this point from an old and retired missionary of the London Missionary Society, now residing near Sydney, but formerly a missionary on Aitutoki, one of the Hervey group. He writes under date of Nov. 14th, 1877, ns follows : " My object in writing this is to beg you will do me the favor to inform, through your useful paper the Friend, those kind lady friends that used to call at Aitutaki with their husbands the whalksmmnsters, from your eastern ports, —Mrs. Mrs. Woodbridge, Mrs. FullDr, Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Rose, and J could fill the sheet with the names of others, for whom a warm and sincere friendship was entertained, until the close of life by my deor departed wife, Mrs. Sarah Royle of Manchester, England, working most laboriously in the cause of Christ, under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, at the Hervey group mission for nearly forty years ; during that period she never tired in her ceaseless efforts to bring souls to Christ, instructing the young, the wayward female adult.-", and sought out most tenderly those that were out of the way of virtue antl happiness." Such assurances as these from the ajed nnd venerable missionary, are golden links of Christian friendship uniting the dwellers on the Polynesian Islands with Christian friends in America and England. In noticing woman's wide-spread and hnppy influence, the sentiment of Thackeray is recalled to mind, "A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven"; also that of Luther, " There is nothing sweeter on earth than the heart of a woman where piety dwells." Thanks.—Ours are due to Captain Martin Robinson, for a bundle of books received for gratuitous distribution per Hertfordshire from Liverpool. The captain formerly visited Honolulu. —To Mrs. Dimond and Mrs. Sereno Bishop,—papers for gratuitous distribution. —To Captain Oat, who has presented the Bethel with a new flag. Another Missionary Laborer Gone.—It becomes our painful duty to chroniclo tho death of another worker in the missionary field,—ths Rev. J. 8. Green of Makawao, on the sth ult. Owing to the dolay of a promised obituary notice by a friend, we defer giving an extended notice till our next. —Report has just been received of the death of the Rev. P. J. Guliok, which occurred in Japan. Particulars not given. �THE FRIEND, FEBRUARY, Naval.—Since our laat, two veeeels of war have arrived,—ll. I. German Majesty's Ship Elizabeth from Yokohama on the 12th,and 11. B. M. 8. Daring from Tahiti on the 18th ultimo. Following are the officer* attached to tbe former Vim PORTFSI HON.LU . KapiUln Lieutenants—Graf yon Raoioro, Krelherr yon Bodrnhaunen, Dietlerlchaen Lieutenant* Eur See—Rieilel, Sltgcl, Roaendabl, Landfernie-nn, Getiriiianu I'ntiT Li''utenanii iiir Pee—Uota, WahrcndorlT Airtfatent Aral—Or Klacher II nl rr Zahlineiiier—KU-ybolte l'farrer—Kanrli Se.-kadeli—Vun Tuttkamer Kittatelner, Schroarltkopfl', toii Pustau J.n B. M. S. Daring: ■J'ommandcr—John G J Ilanmer Lieutenants—Claude 11. Mill--i, Augustan M. K. Hamilton Navigating Lieutenant—Jumei 11. Vullch. ISisfl' c*urgeon— William Redmond. !'..> in.i-.in i Vi il T. Walker. Sub-Lieutenant—Heorgu Y. Megan. Assistant l*uyniaster— Alfred N. C. King. Engineers—Thomas M. Thompson, Henry Macavoy. Gunner—John T. Newland. Carpeitter-CharWi Young. Aui-Jtant Clerk—Edwlc C. ['etch. The Statue of Captain Cook.—The Pall Mall Gazette of October 23d has the following :—" The statue of Captain Cook, which Mr. Woollier has so long been engaged upon for the government of New South Wales, will be sent to the founders in a few days, and we hear that it is not to be shown to the public in this country. The size of this statue is remarkable : it measures 13 feet 6 inches from the feet to the crown of the head, and nearly 2 feet more to the end of the uplifted arm. Thus, when placed on the1 pedestal already provided for its reception in Hyde Park, Sydney, the total height above the ground will not be less than 37 feet. The situation in Sydney is most happily chosen, and is so elevated that vessels, when they have entered the Heads of Port Jackson, will be able to see the statue in the distance as they work their way up to Sydney. * * In looking at the statue the impression of extraordinary size quickly fades, and the whole figure is thoroughly grasped at once. The attitude is easy, yet imposing. The great navigator has come on deck bareheaded, and has just made out the new continent showing dimly in the early morning sun. He is thus represented in the moment of a discovery which entitles Cook to rank immediately below Columbus in the list of discoverers. * The drapery is most carefully worked ; and the old-fashioned garb, with its laced coat, large-pocketed waistcoat, tight knee-breeches, and large-buckled shoes, seems to have lost its grotesqueness in the way it is here managed, and to be better suited than any other to the occasion, though the inevitable queue scarcely suits one's idea of a becoming finish to the neck." * Information Wanted. Respecting Jambs Mabstob, of Hampton, New Hampshire. almeul from home shout ii years, and between ally and sixty yearsof sge. Ue ha. sailed io the .hip. Muniesumu, Willi.in Thompson snd Roman. He is known lo have lieen several tunes mate or a .hip. He Is known to have sailed In ship, out ol New Hedfurd. One of the nt.sots' name under whose command he sailed was Allen. Any Infornialion will be gladly received by Rev Mr Hutler of New Bedfoid. Mra J C Hardy of H.venlilll, Mas., (box SiM) or by Ihe editor of Ihe Ksi.mi fW% 1 IMISDAMl. M. Ih. lloiuropnthl.t, * Office and Residence, Beretanla Street, between Fort Street Church aod Queen Kmnrtii's. Office hours from 6 to 0 a m, 1 to 3 p m, and 64 to 8 evenings. fi&~ Special attention given to the treatment of the htj* and E<ir» :iO—Am bk lim-n. Vl.ia, Hardies. Irom Hilo, Hawaii. 31—H.w hk Lunslilu, M.rsloo, 33 days from Barr.id'. Inlet. 31—llrll bk Msdnra, Stanton, 30 d.y. Im J.rvls I.land I—Am bktne .Inn.- A Fslklnburg, llubbsrd, 26 day. from A.10r1.. 2—l' M Cily nl Hvdnry. Desrborn, 18 dvsfm Sydney •I— Haw hk It C Wylie. Brhr.il.-r, 19rly. Im San Fran. 2—Am schr IV Y March, Uoll.nl, IU dy. Im Ran Iran. 2—Am si-br Jos Woolley, Brlggs, 30 d.y. from 11.Iter's Island. k— 1'M 8 Zcslsndla, Chevalier, 7 days and 0 hours fm H.n Francisco. R—Hi ii bk M.rama, Domine, from Koloa. K.ual 10—Ambk Beaver, Godfrey, 33 day. Iruin New Castle vi. Tahiti 11—Haw wh brig W II Allen, Gilley. from cruise 11—Am 3-tn.st si-hr Win L Beebee. Ksxhen, do day. fm Ncwcstlc 12—11 I Oerm.n M 8 Ellubelh, Capt Wlckede, 84 d.y. from Yokohama, Japan 16—French bk Augnsle, rlern.rd, 47 dy. fill Hongkong 18—II MB llarlng, Com John II J llnnnier. fm Tahiti. 18—Ambk W A liolcomb,Danton, 36 day. fm Baker. Islsnd 111—Ilru bk Hertfordshire, Thompson, 163 day.from » Liverpool 21—Am bktu Eureka, W.llac.-. 33 days fm 8 FrancUco 21—P M 8 Australia. Carglll, 19daya from Sydney 23—Am bktn (Irace Roberts, Oleaon, 32 day.from Bsn Franci.cn 28—Am bkln Victor, Blevert, 60day. fm Port Townscnd 27—Am ship Portland Lloyd., Clisse, 28 day.from Baker. Island 28—Am bk C.mdcn, Robinson,34 days fm Port Gamble 31—P MBB City of Sydney, Dearborn, u day. Im BF. • 13 PASSENGERS. Fob Fanninob' laLisna-Per Reynard, Dec 88-A JKinney, Cant II English. A Wlgjln., T C Msrlln. and 28 natlvea Fbom Bvdkby—Par City of Sydney, Jan 2—ol Smith, (J II Wooltnlngton. Fbom Ou.bo Islsnds—Per Jos Woolley, Jan 2—J VV King. II Fooney, Mr Mcfllll,and 16 native.. Fbom Portland abd Abtubia—Per Jane A Falkenburg, Jan 2—14 llobs.ni. V Trlvelt. C 8 Wright. D Fester Fbom Bsb Fbabcisco—Per W F March, Jan 2—Jno C..h. roan. L Kllil.lt*, J A Wales, A H Edward, .nd wit-, J Nichols, A Cameron and wife, fl Joe., J.s Brigf, Geo B Barret. Fbom Dab Fbabcisco—Per R C Wylie, Jan 2—V E Ilubbard. and eight Chinamen. Fob Ban Fbabcmco—Per City of Sydney, J.n 2—o W F«|g, A P Everett, Mr Arundel, Mr Dsrsle, M Phillip.. D I Logan. W Marlerty, X Steven.. W Casark., J Gibbons, W tlreenhouse,Geo R.upp, Mra J G Clevlor,Miss H A Spalding. Mr Sheridan, E Gswler, wife snd child, F Morton and wife, O VV Wildmao. J A Lovelace, E J Taylor, and Chtnsman, Fbom San Fbabcisco—Per Zealandia, Jbu B—Judge Harris, Mrs Harris anil daughter, Hon 8 N to.tie. II Oornwill •nd wife, J X Lalh.ln, Mr. Canon, D M.11.011, Mrs W 0 Parke, Key J W Atherton, II W Alherlon, MlssC E Cherium, Miss Benson and ni.lii, II A Norih, Mr Knlulu, Mra Judd, J T Wsterhouse and wife, L J David. G J Brown. J M D.vldson, Cr.pt Hobron, Mis. Bowen, R'r llryilon and wife, Mrs Iteming snd daughter, Capt woilers. Miss V Seymour, Ja.Robert., W C Talbot and dsughter, Miss Pope. Ml.. Burbauk, F ll.tch, li A Pelrce, Wm Waltersand 28 In the steerage^ Fob Sin F.ancisuii— per St Paul, Jan B—Jos Brewer, G S Wright, A Campbell, J D Spreckles and wife, A Brander, F i- Pratt, Mr Blseklock, C A Fink, J P Plynn, A Btrsngood. Fob Sydney—Per /esl.mhs, J.nB—Ed Mac Donnell. Fob Jabvis Island—Per Madura, Jan 16—Mr Colson. Fob Sab Fbabcisco—Per WII Meyer, Jan 16—Mrs Smith, Mra Pelroe, J Enrlght, C Kelk, Wm 8 Dryer, frank Ranker. Fbom Sydney-Per Ausir.il., Jan 21— V Solomon, Mrs Horn*., and 26 In transitu. Fbom LlVKaroiiL Per Hertfordshire, Jan 21— J Wonhu, A Uiirus, O Smith. Foa Ban KbAM-iHi'ii—Per Australia. Jan 22—John Wilson, Mrs Hemlines and d.lighter, C ¥ Davis. Frank Heddlngtt|n. Fbom San Frani i«i:o—PrrClly of Sydney, Jan 31st—J O Glade, wife, 2 children and nurse, Mr. A F Dixon and child, J It Watson, Mr. Ilaalelrs, Mis. Pitman, C Pokrants, Miss M 0 Sliepp.nl. D X »yfe, A P Smith. Ml.. M B Smith, Mis. J Lyon, A F Gr.ham, C A I'hapln, Rev J R Br yd and wife, Miss Boyd, J M Moss, wife, child ami servant, Mlm Regensberger, R Manse and wife, R W Parr, W H Slarkey', Mrs i B Hubbard. Mrs M E Pray ton and son, Mr. A H Spencer, J Q Bpen* cer .nd wife. A ll.im it and wife, Dr J 8 Ksblemeo, Ml.. A Smith, Mr Wolf, and 19 In the steerage. — DEPARTURES. Dec. 29—Am hk Reynard, Kingman, for Fanning. Island. Jan 2—P M 8 City "I Sydney, Dearborn, for San r/rau'eo. 6—Am bktne Monitor, Eincou, for Humboldt. 6— Haw wh hrlg W II Allen, Gllley. to cruise. 6—Am bk lluena Vista, Hardies, for Ban Franciaeo. 8— P M 8 Zealandia, Chevalier, for Sydney. B—P M H 81 Paul, Er.kini-, for rtan Franclaco. 9—Am schr W F March. Dollard. for B.n Frsnci.co. ll—H.w bkLunalilo, Mnrston, for llurrard'. Inlet. 14—Hawbk H 0 Wylle, Wnlters, for Bremen U—Am schr Jns Woolley, Uriftgs, for Gunuo Istumls 18—Brit hk Madura. Btsnnn, for Jarvls 1.1.nd 18—Am brig VV II Meyer, llrown, for **an Franciaeo 22—P M 8 Australia, (Jar.lll, for San Franclaco 24—Am 3-tn..t sclir W 1. Ileelwe, r.aehen, for Bsn Fran 24—H IM 8 Kllsahelh. Cspl.ln Wlckede, lor M.ullan 29—A|A bktn Grace Koherls, Oleaon, for Hilo 30—Am bk J W Se.ver, Godfrey, for Tahiti MEMORANDA. Important to W long, and crosasd 111. equator Dec 211b Id long 11»»3«' W, beng 131 days sat, carrying Ihe trades lo S-> N lat 183 °W long; also nsdgood NE irado wiod. from B°N Ist 126°W long to 20 °N 161 °W. From Ihe latter position until we reached <J»hu had nothing but light variable wind, aud elms, snd arrived In Honolulu Jan 19th, 1878. ARRIVALS. Dec (>mcer #Korvetien Kapltain—Slubenmurh Officers of H. MARINE JOURNAL. : Captain ron Wlckede 1878. Mariners.—The following Information ot great importance to master* of vessels traversing the South Pacific, we find in the Sydney Arijun of a late date: Captain Brown, mister of tbe b»rk Oriental of this port, statea that on his last voyHge to Maiden Island, while passing ** MARRIED. Emirsok—Elliot—At StLuke's Church, Kalama too City, Michigan, December 2ttih. Or J E Esirron, late of these Ulanils, to Wii.mkmkna 11 Ki.liot, daughu*r uf Dr L K Chapman of that city. Fibsandfi—Davis —In Makawan, Msul. December 81st, by Rev J 8 Green. Mr Abraham P Ferranokz of Huoolulu, to .Miss Mhiitvi E Davis of Makawao. Hainan—Maouirk.—In this city. Jan 6th. at theresidence of thebrlde'a lather, by Rev fslher Hermann. Capt Robert ItHioos, of Dan Francisco, to Miss Kvornu, eldest dau|bter of Mr. James W Mefulre, of Honolulu Tinsian— Tkt Jj«in In this city, January 31st. by Rev 8 C Datnun, Joseph TiNaiAN, of Honolulu, lo Lai Tavr Sia\ wh© cams a* passenger from China per Augusts. She was educated by the llasle mlsslonariea of Hongkong, and has been Id a mlasionschool seven years. — through the Kermadee Uroup, he found that Curtis Island waa laid down 40 miles too far to the westward according to 1bis ray's chart. Its correct position, by good observation, Is In lat 11°23' 8 and long 173c 33' W. Again, while .siting Ihe sun at noon on June 20, Captain Brown came upon an island not laid down In I Mirny's chart, and on parsing to the westDIED. ward to examine it. he s*w tbe American (lug flying. It McDermott—In Walluku.Maui, De* 80th, 1877, Patrick proved to be Nassau Isle, which is laid down 36 miles loo far dearly the beloved Inhint bod of P McDermoit. MchKRMOTT, west on lmray's chart of 1874. I in correct position, by good °33* S and long loft °23' W. It there- axed 7 months and 6 days, o* Ban Francisco papers phase oh.t-rvt.tion. Is io lat 11 copy. fore behove* ..iiy one nuvigatlng in the vicinity to keep a vigi(.bur—lo Makawao, Maul, Jan 6th, Rev J Ifliui, aged lant - —— look-out. or Rk Hertfordshire, R Thompson, Martrr. —Called from Liver|>oo| Aug 16th. Experienced very heavy winds on flrat leaving England, and ten days after her departure sprung the bowsprit. Had very light and VHriahle NE trade winds, and crossed the equator Sept 24lh in 24°20*W long, being 40 daysout. and s|*oke the hark Balgounle from The SE trade Glasgow towards Valparaiso, 64 days out winds were strong for two days, hut afterwards remained very and Oct when off the ltio dela Plata, 13th, light variable. experienced heavy weather uccompHnied with much thunder 29th when lat 62 and lightning, and on the in 44 ° H long 82 ° 10* W, waa cloae to a terrific whirlwind which waa traveling hurling the water up and about at au unaccountable rate and In every direction. Nov 7th ilghtrd Cape M Vincent, and next day paused through the Mi aits of U Make with a light NE wind, and found a strong current setting towards Statcu l*Hml. Nov 10thpassed Cape Horn, H7 daya out. On Ihe 11th in lat 67° 1* S long 70° 60' W, passed reveral Urge Icebergs, and on the 13th experienced a eale commencing at NE. increasingand veering to N, thence NW with the barometer at 29 20. Nov 14thIn one and a half hour* the barometer fell from 20 13 to 2*. 10, wind WNW blowing withhurricane lores for 18 hours. Nov 18th gale decreased, barometer rising to 28-80, and wind veering lo W. thenceV/rfW and eventually blew gsaelf outat HrtW with the barometer at 20 10, after 72 hours'hV>w. and observations showed that the ship had been driven about 116 miles lownrda the east want. Nov 17ih passed two vessels which seemed to have been d«niaged by the late gales. After passing 80° W long hid strong hNE and NE winds for four days, but owing to the weakness of the bowsprit was unable t<> set any If.-ad sail, which was » grest impediment to the ship's sailing. Had good Bfc trade winds from 31 ° & lat SoReport 81 years. I'kardr—In this city. January 18th, Dr H Prardb, aged 20, late of Coromandel. New Zealand, and formerly of Akarva, Bank's Peninsula, New Zealand. He whs barfed by the fraternity of theKree Masons with the usual honors. Casio—In this city, at the Queen's Hospital, January 20th. JohnCaaiu, a native of New London, Conn, and for msny yean a resident of these Islands. Aged 80 years. I. K. I. WHITMBV w. BOBBBTSOB WHITNEY & H.ROBERTSON, M. (Successors to Importers Whitney), and Dealers in Foreign Books, MTATIONKRY A. PERIODIC A L.B. PUBLISHERS OP THK HAWAIIAN BOOK, J.rvea' Hi.tnry of the HawaiianIsland., Hawaiian Phrssa Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrews' 11 ...llan tlrammnr, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of tbeHawaiian Islands. QUIDS ALSO, OB BAUD, OTHER BOOKS ON THE ISLANDS. �14 THE FRIEND, FEIIII II 1I! V EDITOR'S TABLE. A Summer in Norway, with notes on the Industries, Habits, Customs and PenuliarU ties of the People, the History and Institutions of the Country, its Climate, Topography and Productions ; also an account of the Red-deer, Rein-deer and Elk.—By John Dean Calon, L.L.D., Ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Chicago,—Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1875. — Id our last issue we irmde a passing allusion to this book. We have since given it apthorough perusnl, and find that it is a most interesting and charming book of travel. The style is clear and natural, and it docs the reader's eyes good to look upon pnges beautifully and neatly printed, and not one typographical error have we discovered from beginning to end. If our limits would allow we should gladly favor our readers with copious extracts, but there are several points we cannot omit to notice. During the summer of IS7- Judge Caton, accompanied by his wife and other ladycompanions, voyaged to Europe and instead of following the usual routes of travel, struck nway for Norway and pushed their rambles to Hammerfest, the most northern town or settlement of civilized man on our globe, lying within the Arctic circle as far north as Point Barrow within the Arctic Ocean. This is a town of about 2,000 inhabitants engaged in fishing, whaling, and the mnnufacture of cod-liver oil. In this region of " perpetual day" during the long days of summer, the weather is charming, while in winter, during the season of perpetual night," the sea is open nnd steamers are plying in and out the harbor. The mildness of the weather is of course owing to the broad sweep of the gulf stream, which flows with its deep and warm current from the Gulf of Mexico and along the American Coast and crossing the Northern 'Atlantic Ocean tempers air and sea in those regions of Europe, which would otherwise be uninhabitable for civilized man. Hammerfest is a whaling port. The business waa started by a Norwegian by the name of Sven Toyen, who has made a fortune. He is said to be the most successful at present of any one engaged in the whaling business. The enterprise is prosecuted by steamers. The whales having been caught are towed into port and there tried out, and "every part of the animal which can be utilized is saved and prepared for the marUp to the Ist of July, twenty-eight ket whales had been captured. The steamers cruise a hundred miles off shore. It is quite impossible for us to follow our author's voyaging and journeying, but he and his party were everywhere welcomed " " . pronounce the Norwegians the most polite people in the woild. He has much to say about the Lapps, and that too in a style of narration as entertaining and instructive as can well be written. His chapter upon the civil nnd political status of Norway is very instructive, showing how firmly they hnve maintained their independence under most adverse circumstances, when severed from Denmark and brought under the king of Sweden ; but we cannot linger amid historical descriptive scenes as enchanting as fairy tales and as instructive as the most sober pages of history. One historic incident we cannot omit to notice. Away back in the 17th century, when Gustavus Adolphus was king of Sweden, and Christian IV of Denmark, Col. George Sinclair of the Scottish Highlands, undertook to cross Norway with 900 of his clan to go to the asaistance of the king of Sweden. They landed on the Norwegian coast and were marching in unconscious security, when the brave Scotch were completely overwhelmed by an ambushed party of Norwegians, who had placed "nn imon an mense quantity of logs and rocks advantageous eminence, under which the brave Sinclair and his 900 followers would pass. At the critical moment down came the crushing mass, and not one escaped to tell the tnle, any more than did one'of the brave Coster's troops escape Sitting Bull and his savage followers. But as the legendary story goes, a gallant Norwegian about to lead his fair bride to the hymenial altar, was commissioned by her to rush into the deadly ufTray and rescue Lady Sinclair, but the good lady mistaking his purpose shot him dead, while she experienced a similar fate. A monument to Col. George Sinclair may be seen near Storklcustad, where he fell August 26th, Kil2. In reading this touching story, supported by authentic history and tradition, we were reminded of more*recent events on Hawaiian shores, when a gallant Norwegian (residing on Kauai in that very region of the island which first arrested the eye of Capt. Cook just one century ago), met a fair and youthful daughter of the Sinclair clan and led her to the hymenial altar, and now they dwell together in a happy home, " with olive plants growing up around their table." It is pleasant thus- to link Norwegian, Scottish and Hawaiian incidents, and the time may come when some Scott shall weave in romance scenes not only of " border warfare," but more recent events and more peaceful incidents linking lands and nations separated by half the circumference of our globe. " Japan Correspondence. Kobe, Japan, October, 1877. Z>«orr Friend:—Let me tell you of the recent spread of the gospel in this empire. We had learned from President Clark, (of whom I formerly wrote you, and whose wife is a daughter of the Rev. Wm. Richards with kindness, and he does not hesitate to who wns of the Htivviiiiun mi pjii ut L iti't- 187 8. ma) of his success with ihe first class of the agricultural college (fifteen or sixteen) at Sapora, which under government patronage, he had just organized. Through his influence, the Bible was made a text book on the subject o( morals, which the government superintendent desired should lie taught; and thereby the wholr class was convinced of the truth of Christianity, and wished to He told them he had no be baptized. authority to do that, hut by his advice they joined in a club or society, pledging themselves to abstain from strong drink, tobacco, and opium, and to unite with God's people when opportunity offered. Six months or more since President Clark left, we hear that a missionary from Hakodate has been to Sapora and baptized the whole class; they are all picked men educated by the government, and will probably fill important posts. Again we are told that far in the interior, a missionary had bam invited or permitted to preach in a Budhist temple, and that there (though obliged to speak through an interpreter) he had rend and expounded three books of the New Testament to attentive audiences, of 80 to 100. At the recent dedication of n church edifice at Snniln, fivepersons from a considerable city fifteen or twenty miles distant, were present. One of them had repeatedly walked that distance, to intend preaching at S., bringing with him his friends, and they with others of that city have requested that some ontj would come monthly nnd preai-h in their city,—and it is intended this shall be done. A request like the preceding has come to Mr. Atkinson of our mission from nnother quarter, nnd students of theology have consequently been sent thither. Quite a number of pupils in the training school spend their long vacation as colporteurs, anil preach as doors are opened. Nearly a year ago, a young native from a distant region called at Mr. Atkinson's, asked for and received some portions of the Scriptures. After some mouths lie wrote for more, and said he would pay for them, but sent no money. For a long time nothing was heard from li tin ; but recently a letter has come from him with a little money, in which he says that his father had recently died, and afterward he himself had been very ill; he was now better and would by installments pay for the books. Moreover he said they had been read by many of his neighbors, and now they wished him to preach to them ; he purposed to do so. He lives quite remote, 1 believe 100 miles from any missionary station. As there are readers in almost every part of Japan, and the Scriptures (especially of the New Testament) are beginning to be circulated, there is ground to hope that gospel light will spread with greatly increased velocity. As ever and cordially yours, P. J.GOLICK. ended, and the S.—The war is civil P. chief promoters slain in the last battle. It is said to have cost the government 838,000.-000 or more. This with previous debts will be a heavy burden. P. J. G. �. 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DAMON, TERMS: One Copy per annum Two Copies per .nnum Foreign Dabacrlneri, Includlnr. pottare $8 00 100 IM . �Pure religion and undeflled before God, the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom the world. Edited by a Committee of the Y.M.C.A. The Goblet. KMKKKON. The Whisper. I drink delights from every cup; Ana, institutions I drank up; Atbirat, I quaffed life's flowing bowls, And slipped tbe flavors of all souls. BMYARPRESCOTT. N. The birds beard ft, and straightly trilled it Through meadow and oopae with a will; Down in tbe woodland they whistled and shrilled it At if they would never be still. A sparkling cup remained for me, Tbe brimming fount of Family; This I am still drinking, Siuce, to my thinking. Good wine bends here. Flagons of cheer. Nor laps tbe soul In Lethe's bowl. Wine of immortal power Into my chalice now doth pour; Prevailing wine, Juice of tbe vine Flavored of sods, •Vintage of gods; Joyance benign This wondrous wine Ever at call;— Wine maddening none, Wine saddening none, Wine gladdening all. Makes love's oop ruddier glow Genius and grace its overflow. Tba brook listened, and oanght tbe measure, Tinkling over its bed And kept repeating at ita own aweet pleasure Sweetest words tbat ever were aaid. The winds themselves the burden oarried, Set to the tune of tbe rain And the morning stars in their courses tarried To echo the tender strain. The niusio of the spheres. Sweeter than your melodious ringing Waa his whisper in my ears. Waiting for the Snow. BT HOWARD OLTDON. Across the leafless land we go, Tbe lonely leafless land ! Whose brown breast wails the leafless snow With its concealing band I drained the drops of every cup, Times, institutions, I drank up; Still Beauty pours the enlivening wine, Fills high ber glass to me and mine; Her cup of sparkling youth, Of love first found and loyal truth I know, again I know. Her fill of life and overflow. It lies and waits its shrouding time. Whst thing is here amiss. That Spring's delight and Summer's prime Should come at last to this.' : Ay, Spring's delight and Summer's prime, And Autumn's ripened fruit. And now, at last, a dreary dime Where every bird is mute I Is this the end—tbe end of all? Must pleasure grow to pain ? Eaoh birth foretells a funeral, Each leaf must seek tbe plain ! 'Tis not the end ! 'Tie but a place. Conies after action, rest ; So age awaits lu snowy days To whiten brow and breast. — Ah, Mother Nature, ever true ! Ah, mother ever kind ! In truth, it giveth muoh to do To follow thy sweet mind And ever mast I love thee more. The more I find thee oat; And now I see tbee fold tbe poor Bear earth in white about! Ay, hide It with thy tender hands. As in an ermine dress; It rest from toil at thy commands. The French bark Auguste, which arrived on Tuesday last, 47 dsys from Hongkong, brings 888 Chinese passengers, all told. An important element in this list oonsists of forty jjnarried couples and 20 children. Ninety of these passengers bring certificates of church menTbersbip from the Basle Mission, Hongkong, where there is a charch of 1000 members. /We venture to say that these passengers will to be tbe best we have ever had from China.— P. C. A. Jan. 19fa. prove Y. M. C. A. Notes. Montreal is the home of the Y. M. C. A., movement in the United States. The association of that city held its 26th anniversary Nov. 27th. Its total membership is now 973. The New York City Mission and Tract Society held its fifty-first anniversary SunYet wears new loveliness ! day evening, December 16th, in the Brick Church. Addresses were made by the Rev. And with the self-same tooth imprest, A. F. Schauftier, of Olivet Chapel, Dr. John Upon the brow of age Thou leavest the snow white seal of rest— Hall, and Dr. Bevan. The society reaches, Suffioing heritage ! Christian Union. by personal visitation of its missionaries, 20,000 families, and instructs and cares for, The Louisville Y. M. C. A., stopped an in its Sunday School, 1500 almost destitute immoral exhibition by arresting all the per- children. Its annual expenditure is not formers. more than $50,000. — Members of the Boston Y. M. C. A., have started a meeting for tho men of the Metropolitan Horse Railroad in the Skating Rink Sunday mornings at 9 o'clock. The effort promises much good. As an inducement to the ungodly to enter upon a life of religious observance, an Edgartown (Mass.) man offers a chromo to any person in that place attending church service every Sunday morning for the next six months. The Y. M. C. A. at Dunedin, New Zealand, has increased its membership during the past two years from 160 to 300. Special . Brook, birds and winds and stars a singing 16 ChYMrisoetuann'gHAocf onolulu. attention ia given to emigrants on their arrival at Port Chalmers, and invitations extended to them to visit the Y. M. C. A. rooms. There was a recent service held on Sabbath evening at the Moody Tabernacle at Boston under the auspices of the Y. M. C. Association. After a praise meeting of half an hour led by the united Tabernacle choir under the conduct of Prof. Tourjee, Rev. L. W. Munhall, D. D., of Indiana, preached and Mr. Geo. C. Stebbins sang several of the Gospel Hymns. An audience of five thousand was present. Meridcn, Conn., is rejoicing in the completion of a building erected by the Y. M. C. A. Half the cost, $40,000, was paid by the citizens. It is four stories high, and the rental for stores, offices, etc., will bring in quite a revenue. A first-class five cent dining saloon, on the Joshua Barley plan, has been opened. The association has had for nine years a thrifty Mission School and has sustained a daily prayer meeting for nearly six years. In all Protestant countries on the Continent, confirmation at the age of fourteen or sixteen is either obligatory, or at least very general. Much attention is now being paid to the question of how the young men who have just been confirmed maybe brought under the influence of the Y. M. C. A. The Association at Geneva sends a special circular, together with a card of admission, to each "Cathchumene," just previous to the confirmation. At Lausaune, (he youngest members of the Association meet those about to. be cqnflrmet} In (b,e presence of the Minister, and give to each a personal invitation to the next meeting of the association after the confirmation. At other places the Minister himself urges the young men to attend the meetings of the association, or takes them there himself and introduces them to the members. � 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 (1878) 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 - 1878.02.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878.02.01