https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/acac974cbf9b01facd2036f30447c414.pdf 76de8f25e1770d1a844af1e1b81f08af PDF Text Text THEFRIEND CONTENTS Par —— Srpnmbrr lIOXOLILI. SEPTEMBER 2, 1878 9.1 Stto Merits, M. 27, - 8. 1818. Paor ■ Queen Emma Slid llev. 0. Kinsley I» Letter fmm Key. K. T. Doaue otf-T2 Rambles In the Old World—No. 'JO '2 Death or llev. K. Clark T2 Heathof Re.v.l). Dole 72 DlKtreKKlnK Drowning Aei'ldent 73 Letter Irom Key. L. Lyona, of Walniea, Hawaii "'2 Marine Journal Hallway of Lewla'a PaciniMr. Maps illustrative Pro-1I 7< Ject ,™ Y. M. C. A THE FRIEND. SKIT KM UK It 2. 1878. Rev. Dr. Somerville, the Scottish evangelist, is a passenger on the Australia, en route to England, but will meet nil inclined to listen to a short address nt linlf-past seven thin evening, in Fort street Church. Queen Emma and Rev. C. Kingsley. In reading the memoir of the late Rev. C. Kingsley, author of Hypatia," '' Westward " Ho," and other popular books, we have met with a very pleasant allusion to Queen Emma. It appears that when in England, in 1564, she was his guest at Eversley Rectory, where he was for so many years the Rector. Letter from Rev. E. T. Doane.—This former missionary in Micronesia and Japan, so well known upon the Islands, has been compelled to return to the United States through family affliction, and is now preaching at Bonne Terre, San Francisco, co. Missouri. He thus writes, under date of April 22d : For the past three days my thoughts " have wandered more than usual to Honolulu. This evening the Friend came along and right into my study. And * just one word before I close. The Lord has given me work to do for Him in this mining town, lain here witb both my children. They tue well. The field is important. It is a growing place, yet to be one ofthe most Hiiportaa>t in S. E. Missouri if the lead holds out, and there seems to be no end to it. The • * mine is exceedingly valuable ; fortunes have been taken from it, and will be taken. The miners are kind-hearted, and I manage to make friends with most. We have just organized a small church, and are soon to put up a small building. I have just opened a school for the miners' daughters, to develop, I hope, in time into something higher. I love the people, and am willing to do what I can for them. My work reminds me of Ponape. We sat down at that place for a real siege and took it. So must this place be taken." How vividly we recall the Key. Mr. Doane's arrival here, more than twenty years ago, on his voyage to Micronesia. He was then buoyant and hopeful, and we rejoice to learn that the buoyancy and hopefulneess of the youthful missionary is still manifest, after passing through as chequered and varied an experience as seldom falls to the lot of any missionary. He acquired and preached in the dialect of the Marsha.y Islanders, and then in that ofthe Ponapians. Subsequently he labored with ardor and success in Japan, and now hopefully is laboring among the miners of Missouri. Among those miners' sons may there arise a Luther ! Strange talent is developed from ampng the youth of Missouri. If we mistake not, only a few years ago, Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) and Stanley, the African explorer, were both abiding among ihe people of Missouri. M. Waddington.—Among the photographs of the members of the Berlin Congress, M. Waddington, the French Delegate, is spoken of as having a remarkably " English face." Why should he not? His father was an Englishman, and his mother an American— a Miss King, of Boston. Oahu College.—By notice it appears that Oahu College term opens on the 4th inst. All the teachers except one lady teacher have arrived, and are at the institution, and by the incoming California steamer the other teacher is expected. 69 {(BID Suits, flat 35. RLD—No. 0 TRAIMHBNLESWO2 THE FOURTH OF JULY IN BERLIN. The summer has indeed come, having had already a number of days of decidedly warm weather. The celebration of the Fourth of July was one of the pleasantest affairs I have attended in Europe. The number of Americans is not large in Berlin, and there is nothing at all like the American life of Paris, Geneva or Rome; but the few American people are extremely pleasant and very social at such a time as this. Dr. Thompson delivered an address on Bryant, who has recently died in America in such a ripe and golden old age. The Hall was decorated with much taste, and back of the speaker's desk was n fine portrait of the late Mr. Bryant. Mr. Bayard Taylor presided, making a few exceedingly pleasant and happy remarks in opening and introducing Dr. Thompson, who was the orator of day. The oration was exceedingly fine, the subject' being Bryant, and all the quotations of poetry introduced were from the writings of this poet. Dr. Thompson is a most versatile and gifted man, seeming at home on almost every subject. His delivery is excellent, and it is to be regretted that he does not enjoy more perfect health, so as to permit his engaging more constantly in public work. [The Rev. Dr. Thompson was formerly settled over the Broadway Tabernacle in New York city. I told him, much to his amusement, that in Miss Greene's school at Makawao, Maui, there was a native girl named Broadway Tabernacle, as she was supported by his church] The hall was well filled." Before supper there was an informd social gathering, with vocal and instrumental music. The tables for the sapper looked beautifully, being set off with tropical plants and fruit. The toasts, in French, German, and English, I thought were excellent—rather above the usual order of toasts on such occasions. There were many distinguished guests, but I have not time to enumerate them, as I wish to tell you how much I am enjoying the stay of Dr. Justin Emerson and his charming young bride here. -They hare been in Paris for several months, have been on the Khine, and are now on their way to Switzerland,-where they spend some weeks, and hope next winter to settle down to further medical studies in Vienna. They have been most kindly re- �70 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, 1878. ceived here. Professor Virchow, one of the most eminent authorities in the world in medicine, has shown them special attention. Mrs. Emerson is highly educated and cultivated, and is very charming, and is not in the least unpleasantly " woman's rights," as you would think she might be from her fM. D." lam very much pleased to have met a lady in her profession, for she has strengthened the belief I have always entertained in the propriety and possibility of female physicians. We spent the last day of their stay here at Potsdam, amid its palaces and parks, having a most delightful TBE BERLIN CONGRESS AND PEACE. On Saturday last, in the Palace of the Chancellor of the German Empire, with all due and befitting ceremony and formality, were signed the documents which will hereafter hold such an important place in European political annals, under the designation of the " Treaty of Berlin." After long and wearisome months of anxious waiting and suspense, that which has been so earnestly desired by all sincere lovers and advocates of peace and order has in reality and earnestness taken place, and the European Congress is no longer a matter of conjecture and fancy, but an accomplished fact of history—one destined in all probability to be of immense influence on all coming time. Long before this reaches your columns, the telegraph will have announced to you the result . of the deliberations of the most eminent of living European statesmen during the past month, and you will have rejoiced with us here at the more settled and peaceful state of national affairs which seems now to be promised to those countries over which the war cloud has so long hovered. It would be idle indeed, at this early day, to speculate in reference to the positive effects which the recently-signed treaty will have upon European affairs, and one might be in danger of being considered too sanguine should he count upon a millennial state of peace and repose to follow immediately upon the conclusion of the Congress. Still one cannot but feel tbat lasting good will flow from this great historic meeting. Now that it is over, and the illustrious personages who have figured so prominently in this striking Peace Tableau have departed to their respective countries, and the event is already a rounded and completed subject for description and criticism, it may not be uninteresting to learn something of the Congress in relation to Berlin. By the time this can reach the Islands, you will be as familiar, and perhaps more so, than your correspondent with its manifold political meaning and significance. During the month of its sessions, Berlin seemed to be as it were a part of it. The two—the Congress and capital—were •o interwoven tbat, as I have already said, I shall confine myself to this aspect in my account. Varied and striking as had been tbe appearance of the city before, it grew doubly, so on the opening of the regular meetings. Before the doors and gateways of Hotels and Embassies, where the different members,of the Congress resided, guards ware placed, and nightand day paced back aod forth before tbeir black and white sentry boxes. The Hotels were crowded with distinguished guests; couriers and messengers and secretaries were constantly coming and going; the wires were continually in use. Scores and scores of journalists, representing the press of all the leading nations of Europe, poured in upon the city. Delegations, each commissioned with some especial request to the Congress, appeared— delegations in behalf of Peace, Anti-slavery men, a Jewish representation in behalf of tbeir countrymen in the East, etc. Armenian ecclesiastics, red 44 fezzed" Turks, Greeks, Bulgarians, all helped to give life and varied character to this most interesting gathering. The hotel lists were in themselves an interesting and instructive geographical and ethnographical study. The Congress held its sittings in the palace of Prince Bismarck—a solid but especially imposing edifice. On the days of the meeting of the members of the Congress a curious throng gathered on the Wilhelm Strasse to witness the arrival of the different members, receiving them with lifted hats. The Congress was a striking illustration of the form which Monarchical government seems to be assuming more and more in Europe. We read with interest in history of the meeting of Crowned Heads, of the conferences of Emperors ! Yet I imagine the world is learning to consider that there can be gatherings of far more importance than these. Though in the recent gathering in Berlin no Royalty had immediate share, yet, if I am not very much mistaken, it would be generally conceded that the virtual rulers of Europe were here. Nearly all the representatives who took part in the Congress—certairily every one who took an important position—were men of marked career, some of them being those whose names will hold a high and brilliant place in history. To-day their names are synonymous with all that is most adroit, brilliant and effective in diplomacy—men who have the rare laculty of swaying great masses of people, of conceiving and executing measures before which ordinary men would shrink back in disma", who share in a high degree the love and confidence of the Sovereigns whom they represent. The company which gathered day after day in the Radziwilliam Palace was perhaps in some respects the most remarkable which this century has seen assembled. The city, in a certain sense, seemed filled with their presence, and the eagerness displayed to see them whenever they appeared in public would have been a compliment to Royalty, as indeed it was to the royalty of their intellect. At their head stood Prince Bismarck, the German Chancellor, whose name has gone through the length and breadth ofthe civilized world —earnest, resolute, a man of undaunted courage and lion-like energy, a trained diplomat, admirably fitted by careful study and long exfierience to guide the counsels of so important an assemblage. He came to the Congress, weak of body and much broken in health, carrying national burdens huge enough to crush some men, and yet he has, with a rare ability and cool judgment, a patient energy, conducted tbe Congress safely to a peaceful conclusion. Immediately afterBismarck comes Lord Beaconsfield, than whom modern times have not produced a more remarkable man. In the Congress he may be said to have held the most important place. What may be the result of Lord Beaconsfield's policy it is now difficult to say; but he is now, without doubt, the lion of the hour. He stands knee-deep in laurels. Those who were prepared to sneer have joined in the applause of the moment, and the air is rife with rumors of ducal honors awaiting him on his return t« England. He seems to have carried by storm the people of Berlin. His bons mots fill the papers ;' an eager crowd greeted him enthusiastically whenever he appeared. He seems to possess a wonderful power over men, irresistible in its influence, and yet so elusive of analysis. Against your will you are forced to acknowledge that HI interests you profoundly, and you acknowledge his fascination. A more singular face—a more singularly unattrnctiveface I may say—than his, in some respects, it would be difficult to find. He seems to be the natural butt of the caricaturists, and his own photograph cannot fail at times to provoke a laugh. And yet in the piercing eyes, veiled at will, the striking and strongly-marked Jewish features, the assured expression of conscious strength, which meet you at the second glance, make you ashamed of the thoughtlessness of your iaugh. Mr. Disraeli, the novelist, the man of letters, the Bohemian, is not wholly extinct. You see him in the affectations of dress which still crop out in Lord Beaconsfield, the Premier and foremost statesman of England. The Earl of Beaconsfield has the faculty, more than any other man living, of making politics poetic. He is gifted with an Oriental imagination, but at the same time he is so happy as to be able to materialize and execute his dreams. Then, too, here was Count Andrassy, from Austria, whose elaborate toilets and brilliant uniforms and carefully adjusted and curled locks seem hardly in keeping with one's idea of a statesman of his reputation. He strikes you as a keen, decided, perhaps nervous man, with strongly-marked features, which impressed me as being far from pleasant. But this may be the result of a too hasty glance. Rarely if ever have I seen a more gentle and beamingly benevolent old face than that of Prince Gortschakoff, of Russia, the oldest Chancellor in Europe. Notwithstanding his delicate health, the brave little old man strove faithfully to fill his place in the Congress, being catried from his carriage to the Congressional hall. Schouvaloff is a man of noble face and expression. Waddington, thongh one of the foremost statesmen of France, has an unmistakeable English face and manner, contrasting strangely with the perfect Parisianism of St. Vallier, the French Ambassador at the German Court. But my time will scarcely permit of my going into further details in connection with names of other members of the Congress, with whose public life you are undoubtedly familiar—that of Lord Salisbury, Count Costi, the Turkish representatives, etc., etc. A NATIONAL AND HISTORICAL MOSAIC. The student fond of historical contrasts would scarcely have been at a loss for subjects for thought and reflection in his walks and rambles in Berlin during the last few �SEPTEMBER, 1878. 71 THE FRIEND, months, and especially during the past four mysteries of cookery who followed in th% weeks. It would seem as if circumstances train of this turbaned Embassy. It is to be had combined to render this capital during hoped that while they bridged the differences the past spring and passing summer a very of their religious beliefs, they were equally mosaic of novel and picturesque effects; of successful in providing that which should wildest and most unexpected surprises; of contribute" to the physical well-being of the alternating joy and alarm; marriage-merri- host and guests. There was something sugment and festivity, and muttered threats of gestive of Oriental tales in the gifts which anarchy, revolt and wide-spread disorder. they brought and laid at the feet of the EmWe have had before us the picture of a peror. I have heard among them of rare people opening their gates in hospitable and beautiful embroideries in gold, of pointwelcome to those who should, instead of ed slippers, of silken girdles, etc. And then, war, seek by wise ond careful legislation to to complete the picture, a half-score or so of bring peace and concord to great and import- horses have lately come from Morocco for ant nations, but at the same time looking the Imperial stables with their swarthy with anxious face and troubled heart at an keepers. The Shah of Persia lent for a enemy arising in their very midst. It has short time his presence to this procession of been a very golden harvest-time for reporters people from distant lands of which I am and sensationalists, and the air has been so speaking. His visit chanced to be on a clouded with rumors and reports that it has strange, wild day. 1 remember standing on been with difficulty that one could detect the the Linden," before the Emperor's Palace, " day on which the heart of the Gergenuine rays of truth in so befogged an at- on the mosphere. It has been a time when mere man people almost stood still, when word lookers on have felt sated with excitement, flew hither and thither that the grey-haired when those on whose shoulders rest the bur- old Emperor, who had faced the thunder of dens of State and authority must have often- so many battles, had fallen under the cowtimes anxiously questioned where the end of ardly shot of a would-be assassin. The it all would be, and when earnest and broad avenue was filled with thousands and thoughtful men must have felt that fine-spun tens of thousands of faces, so closely grouped theories and philosophical dreams are poor that it seemed like one great national face, barriers against the flood-tides of human on which was written tearful love and devofacts, which are swept up from the yet un- tion, wonderment and dazed surprise, and fathomed depths of the human heart. It has whose straining gaze seemed to strive to been a motley, brilliant procession which has pierce the palace walls to rest in helpful defiled before the carious and inquisitive gaze sympathy on the bleeding face and prostrate of the Berlinese, but which is scarcely to be form of its Imperial head and father. Turnwondered at in an age when steam links the ing a moment from this strange, hushed Continents and iron joins the oceans of the throng, I saw floating above the apartments world, and the air quivers with winged mes- assigned to the Shah, in the old Schloss, the sages in every tongue. The passers on the standard of Persia. It was a singular, mute street have come now to look with the gaze reminder of that civilization of the East of old friends on the group of Chinese, whose which, for all practical purposes, has been pronounced costume and Eastern faces and embalmed and entombed for ages in the curious language at first attracted such lively midst of a people who claim, and with reainterest. What a wide world of geographi- son, to stand among the foremost representacal i-nd national and historical difference tives of the most advanced Western civilizathere lies between these sons of the Flowery tion of our day. And yet, standing for the Kingdom and the officers of the German ser- moment in the shadow of a cloud which vice, in their brilliant uniforms, and the con- darkened our sky, the thought involuntarily tented, solid-looking German Burgers whom pressed itself forward, that perhaps, after all, they pass on the avenue! The Japanese there were still very unsightly tares in the are almost lost'sight of in the crowd, for wheat of this boasted Western civilization, they have little to distinguish them from which the old Persian flag, or the ruler over those about them, having slipped as readily whom it waved, could not fail to see. The into European clothes as their Empire has Shah staid with us a very short time, hurryinto European civilization and culture. The ing off to the more congenial scenes of Paris, Embassy from Morocco was especially and the last word which has come to us of marked out for the public gaze. It would the Persian Sovereign is of his visit to have been impossible to have mistaken them Vienna and the Austrian Court. He seems as they appeared at the opera, at different to have endeavored to study men and things public gatherings and in their carriages in by the way, so that it is to be devoutly the crowded thoroughfares. They seemed hoped that he will take back many ideas for almost like ghosts at a banquet, these men the benefit of his classic but needy realm. of melancholy, sad faces and eyes, seeming I should be poorly performing my duty as a half dazed in the midst of all these Teutonic chronicler if I did not mention in my enumesights and scenes, gliding hither and ration of striking figures that of General thither in winding sheets of white, and Ulysses Grant, ex-President of the United crowned with mighty t rbans, which rose States, who visited Berlin for a few days like mountains of snow above their faces, not long since, in all becoming Democratic dyed by African suns. Religions and simplicity. His reception here was most civilizations of a widely different nature appropriate, though coming as he did at a clasped hands over the menu of the Imperial time when almost every other man whom dinner given them here. And it is interest- you saw on the street was a Premier, or a ing to read in this land of Luther of the Chancellor, or an Ambassador, or some compromises which were effected between equally important individual, his presence the monarch who rules over the Imperial here created scarcely the interest that it cuisine and the muster of the Mohammedan might under other circumstances. At the American Legation General and Mrs. Grant received one evening the American residents of Berlin. The number of Americans here is, as you are already perhaps aware, very considerably less than in many European cities. The smallness of the colony is amply compensated for by the high social standing of the people who are here. AN INTERNATIONAL FETE. During the Congress there seemed to be one succession of-entertainments, commencing with that given in the White Saloon of the Schloss. to the splendid one of last Saturday given in the same place, both of which were presided over by the Crown Prince, in the manly, noble way which seems so peculiarly characteristic of him. At the English, Austrian and French Embassies were held receptions at stated times during the progress of the Congress. One grand fete was, however, given in the Zoological Garden, where Berlin was permitted en masse to see a number of the stars of the Congressional galaxy. The Zoological Garden is a marked institution of Berlin life, which lies at some little distance from the center of the city—a most charming walk or drive, rather. The Garden is very extensive, and is one of the finest of its kind, if not the finest, in Europe. Here the Berliners, old and young, parents and children, officers and civilians, love to come on summer afternoons and evenings, and under the shadow of the forest trees, slowly and with long drawn out enjoyment to drink their beer and coffee, while the band discourses sweet music. The great Fete" which was " in its honor, given here during the Congress, was a notable event. Never before had so many people flocked to the Garden. They came by -thousands and thousands. Five bands were employed for the musical programme of the afternoon and evening, which was long and varied, and towards the close embraced the national airs of the various countries represented in the Congress, or some piece in honor of them. Towards evening the crowd became nearly one solid mass, so that promenading was well-nigh impossible. The national air of Germany was received with loud and enthusiastic cheering, intended as a compliment for the Emperor. A place was reserved for the Congress, a number of the members being present. As the late summer dusk came among the trees, the Garden was lighted with hundreds of colored lamps; the beautiful little lake, which forms, with a dashing waterfall, surmounted by a statue of Neptune, one of the principal ornaments of the Garden, was superbly lighted with a blaze of red and [green fires, and the whole scene became for the time a land of enchantment. CLOSING SCENES OF THE CONGRESS. It would seem as if nature was pleased to smile propitiously on the closing scenes of the Congress. For many days before the 13th we had severe and prolonged rains and much unpleasant and cloudy weather, which does not yet seem to have fully blown away. But the afternoon on which the Treaty was signed was radiant with glorious sunshine, which seemed to flow like a golden river between the stormy cloud banks of the preceding and succeeding days. .The long and - �72 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, stately Wilhelm Strasse, near the entrance Prince Bismarck's Palace, was scattered over with a crowd of people awaiting the arrival of the representatives. The huge bulk of the " Kaiserhof," the greatest hotel of the city, rose on one*side of the Wilhelms Platz; on another the massive edifice of the Foreign Office, with its stone lions ; on n third the Palace of Prince Charles, brother of the Emperor, and in this stately enclosure the beautiful " Platz,' with its rustling trees and clustering shrubs and exquisite groupings of summer flowers on a velvety, emerald-tinted turf. Opposite might be seen the beautiful building partially erected by Borsig, the great iron manufacturer of Berlin, but which he never lived to occupy. To north and south stretched the Wilhelm Strasse, lined on either side wtth princely palaces, foreign embassies and aristocratic residences. Above the Bismarck Palace floated the German flag, against a sky of blue embossed with to snow-white clouds. Stately pol'cemen, in helmets which recalled old Roman statues, paced back and forth, keeping the public thoroughfares cleared—models of dignity and unruffled patience. As each equipage, with liveried coachman and footmen, drove up and into the court of the Palace, eager faces were stretched forth from the crowd to get a yet better view of this or that great man. One after another appeared, all resplendent in gold lace, cocked hats, and brilliant uniforms. Then followed within, words full of friendship and good-will between Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy, as spokesmen of the Congress. The mighty documents, beautifully prepared for the occasion, received the necessary signatures, and the Congress of Berlin was declared adjourned. May the clear skies and glorious sunshine which gladdened and beautified the closing day typify thebetter day ofpeace and goodwill and national faith which it is hoped has dawned on the I night of European politics. F. W. Damon. ren Strasse, Berlin, July 25th, 1878. R'mdly Death of Rev. E. W. Clark. 44 Our readers will bt4 pained to learn of tbe death Key. E. W. Clark, who died of sunstroke, at Chicago, on the 16th nlt., aired 79 years. He wars ol prostrated by the beat on tbe previous Sunday. " Air. Clark was bora at Haverhill. N. 11.. April 25, 1799 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in ]HU, and at Andover 1827 ; and arrived ut tbe Islands, March 31. 1828. He commenced his labors at Honolulu, where be remained six years. He then removed to Labainaluna and Wailuku, where he labored nine years ; and from the latter place returned to Honolulu, taking charge of the large congregation at Kawaiahan. Mr. Clark leaves two daughters, residing on these Islands, one daughter in Japan, aod two sons in San Krancisco." In addition to the above notice of Mr. Clark's death, copied from the Advertiser, we would remark that on his arrival at Honolulu, in 1828, he labored for a season among seamen, the Chaplaincy not having been established. After his return to Honolulu, in 1848, he became pastor of the First Native Church of this city, and remained in this position until 1862. He returned to the United States in 1564, but continued his work in behalf of Hawaiians, fot he was employes for several years in revising the translation of the Bible in the Hawaiian language, and superintending its printing and electrotyping by the American Bible Society. When that long and arduous work was finished, he read the " proofs " for several Hawaiian publications issued by the American Tract Society. Our long and pleasant acquaintance enables us to speak of our departed brother in terms of honest commendation. He was a true and genuine missionary, who faithfully discharged the duties of his high and holy office in a manner entitling him to hear the welcome, ' 4 Well done, good and faithful servant." 1878, then established. When the school became incorporated as Oahu College he became the President, where he remained until 1855, when he removed to Koloa, Kauai, still continuing his labors as a teacher, in which capacity he his been eminently successful. His fine taste for classical study enabled him to prepare many for Vale, Williams, and other American Colleges, where they uniformly took a high stand for scholarship. His many pupils, scattered all over the world, will learn of the death of their old teacher with unfeigned sorrow. He will be remembsred not only as a teacher, but as a preacher in Honolulu, Koloa, and other parts of the Islands. His sermons Death of the Rev. Daniel Dole. were thoughtfully and carefully prepared, Kafaa, Kauai, Aug. 28. and enforced by a pure and holy example Rev. S. C. Damon. as a minister of the Gospel. He leaves two Dear Sir,—It is my sad duty to inform sons —the writer of the foregoing letter and you of the death of my dear father, who Sanford Dole, Esq., a lawyer in Honolulu. passed away from this earth on Monday morning, the 26th inst. Distressing Drowning Accident. For about a week he had been failing in bodily strength very rapidly, but his mind "New London, Conn., July 3.—David remained bright and unaffected. He knew Trumbull, who rowed Vale, number seven that he could not live long, and spoke of oar, in the recent Yale-Harvard race on the death with composure and even cheerfulness. Thames, and Col. Charles W. Coit, treasurer We feel sad in losing so near and so of the Chelsea Savings Bank of Norwich, valued a friend and counselor, but we know were drowned in New London harbor, midthat his condition is infinitely benefited. He way between the Pequot House and Fort has. stepped from darkness into light, from Tru mbull, at five o'clock this afternoon. A ignorance and uncertainty into the full efful- little son of Colonel Coit fell overboard from a yacht, and his father and Trumbull sprang gence of the truth. May I request you, who have known him after him. The yacht hove to as soon as so long and so intimately, to prepare for the possible, and the child was taken on board papers a suitable notice of his decease. Had by his uncle, who was in the boat. Before he lived just two weeks longer he would she could round again both men sank, have completed his 70th year, having been Trumbull going to the bottom. The body of Col. Coit floated a little way below the born Sept. 9, 1808. surface of the water, and though taken out Yours truly, Geo. H. Dole. within five minutes and subjected to all Just as our paper was going to press, and known appliances in the hands -of medical while preparing our notice of the Rev. Mr. men, he could not be resuscitated. Col. Coit Clark, we received the above note announc- was commander of the Bth regiment, Coning the death of the Rev. Daniel Dole, necticut volunteers, during the war, and was another of the American missionaries to the ex-postmaster of Norwich and a well-known Hawaiian Islands. We can still write in citizen. His age was about 40. Young Trumbull was 25, and would graduate in the same straw, ' 4 Well done, good and '80 from the Vale Theological School." faithful servant." Our acquaintance with It is with profound sorrow that we arc the latter has been even more intimate than called upon to notice this sad accident. with the former, for ever since our arrival in Young Trumbull was a most promising the autumn of 1842, we have been most youth. It has been our privilege to be a familiarly associated with him, and the correspondent ol his father, the Rev. Dr. acquaintance thus formed had long since Trumbull, of Valparaiso, for more than thirty deepened into a friendship that was never years. Often has he referred, in his letters, darkened by a cloud or saddened by one to his sons. Another graduated this year at word of alienation. He was a pure-minded, Vale, while still a third son is an undergrathoughtful, scholarly, devout, Christian mis- duate in the same college. May the sursionary, whom we truly loved, and who viving sons long live to cheer and comfort enjoyed tbe esteem of all his missionary their afflicted parents. Dr. Trumbull is a associates and the respect of the public. lineal grandson of the late Governor TrumHe was born in BloOmfield, now Show- bull, of Connecticut, so highly distinguished hegan, Maine, Sept. 9, 1808; graduated at in Revolutionary times as the friend of Bowdoin College 1836, and Bangor Theo- Washington, and denominated by him •• Brological Seminary 1839, and was ordained at ther Jonathan." Bloomfield IS4O. He embarked at Boston for Honolulu Nov. 14, 1840. On his arrival We would acknowledge papers from here, in the spring of 1841, he was appoint- Mrs. Dr. Scott and Mrs. Joshua Dickson for ed Principal of Punahou School, which was gratuitous distribution. �Waimea, Hawaii, Aug. 9, 1878. Rev. S. C. Damon, Editor of the Friend. Dear Sir,—A notice in reference to myself in the last Friend leads me to take up my pen to explain matters. 1. It is a mistake made somehow or other by some that I am the best Hawaiian scholar living. I think there are those now living who are better Hawaiian scholars than I am. Though I have heard, and talked, and read, and preached, and taught, and written and studied the Hawaiian language for 46 years, yet I am by no means perfect in it. I ought to have made far more proficiency. It is an interminable language. I might make an approximation to its end should I live and study 46 years longer. It is one of the oldest living languages of the earth, as some conjecture, and may well be classed among the best, and is well deserving of the diligent study of those who are of a linguistic propensity. The thought to displace it, or to doom it to oblivion by substituting the English language, ought not for a moment to be indulged. Long live the grand old, sonorous, poetical Hawaiian language ! 2. It is a mistake that I am now engaged in enlarging and criticising Andrews' Hawaiian Dictionary. This leads me to say what I have done : 1. When I first received a copy of the Dictionary, the vast collection of Hawaiian words called forth my admiration of the and patience and perseverance of uthor. Sixteen thousand words! Hoc , hie labor est ! , On the examination of the book I was greatly disappointed. There was much that was good, and correct, and helpful and enlightening in it; but there were great deft8 ec —many blunders, wrong definitions, an unpardonable jumble of words spelt the same but differently pronounced, of different meanings according to the pronunciation and the article that should be used. There were "no marks showing how words should be pronounced or what article should be used, except occasionally. There was a jumbling up of active and neuter verbs, used the one for the other. Many words were wrongly spelt, and hence not Hawaiian words. One great defect was in the guttural words. There was no mark to show the guttural words, which arc very numerous. There were some bad words that ought not to appear in a dictionary. Well, I said to myself, it is a good dictionary under the circumstances, but not good enough to be transmitted to posterity. 1 will go to work and revise it for, my own use and for the use of others, perhaps, hereafter. So I obtained or came in possession of a Dictionary with blank leaves, and set about the f;nce revision, employing all the reliable Hawaiian help I could find within my reach or fell in my way. I commenced June, 1867, and ended September, 1870. Hence it is eight years since, the completion of the revision, since which time the revising work has ceased ; so that I am not now revising and enlarging the Dictionary. The corrections are very numerous. The erasures deface many pages. Some new words have been added. I might have added many more new words during these eight years, for they have been constantly occurring in the Hawaiian newspapers. I find some new words in every newspaper I read—i. c., new to me, and new, too, to some of the natives. Had there been any prospect that a revised Dictionary would ever be printed, I should have recorded these new words and their definitions; but !• was informed eight years ago that the stock of the first edition then on hand was large enough to supply the present and the future community down to the end of the race perhaps that a printed revised edition would injure the sale 6f the old edition. So it has rested till now. 1 don't claim that my revision is perfect. Doubtless some of my corrections need correcting. Should the time ever come or the means be provided for the printing of a corrected edition of Andrews' Hawaiian Dictionary, my criticisms may be of some use. Should I be living, I would gladly aid in revising my revision. ; Very respectfully yours, L. Lyons. E. P. Church, Esq.—Letters and a file of the Greenville Independent have been received from the former President of Oahu College. It appears, from the information which these afford, that he occupies a highly responsible position as Superintendent of the Public Schools of the flourishing little town of Greenville, Michigan. The schools are graded, and embrace 815 pupils, taught by 13 female teachers, under Mr. Church's direction. At the close of the year, the President of the Board expressed the utmost satisfaction with the way the school had been conducted, in respect to both teaching and discipline.- Mr. Church remarks: " Teaching here is very different from teaching at the Islands. Teachers that cannot succeed are dropped without much ceremony; murmuring patrons receive but little attention; incorrigible pupils are soon disposed of—sent home. School Boards are a tower of strength behind good teachers. The discipline of these 815 pupils cost me but little concern. All our teachers receive We send out five their pay monthly. graduates that any school may be proud of. Two of them have been admitted to the State University at Ann Arbor." Perhaps in no State ofthe Union are the Primary Schools more systematically graded, with reference to the State University, than in Michigan, which has become one of the largest collegiate institutions in America, numbering some 1,200 students in all the departments. We have several students from the Islands studying there. 1878. 73 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, MARINE JOURNAL. , . SPOHNR.LTFUI ARRIVALS. July »-Schr Vivid, Sweat, 11 dajraffrom Faontng'a Island Aug 4—Gar bk Undine. Rahbe, 14 djrs Im San rraoclaco. 5—P MSB City of Sydney, Dearborn, from Sydney. 6—Haw brig Eliae, Herman, 41 daya fm Hong Konj. s—Am bktne Monitor, Kmerson.ftdysfm Fort Gambk. 7—Am brig Sea Wail, Nanaon, fm -Seattle, via Malik'. 7—Ambk DC Murray, rroat, IS ilayafmS Francisco. 11—Britishship Cily of Perth, Torrence, lit days from Liverpool. 12— Ilewnrtlmr Walmanalo, Hempstead, 14 days frm San Franclaco. 13—Am bk Victoria, Hopp, from DepartureBay. San 18—P M 8 8 Zealandia, Chevalier, 7 days from Francisco. 28—Am bstne JoaPerkins, Johnson,28 daya from Port Gamble. 27—Am S-masi achr Elnorah. Lata, 18 days from San Francisco. 28—Haw bk Mattie Macleay, Pnpe,22deys from Portl'd. £i—U.S. school-ship Jamestown, Olaas, 25 daya Irom San Franclaco 30—Am bk Bueaa Vista, Swanton, 24 from Port Gamble DEPARTURES. July 27—P MSB Wilmington, Fuller, for San Francisco. 27—Am Schr JoaephWooley, Brings, for Guano Is. Aug 6—!• M88City olSydney, Dearborn, for San Fraclsco 9—Norwegian ship Ariel, Neilaon, lor San Franclaco 11—H IMS Kreyruer, Naaelmoff, fur Japan. 13—P MSB Zealandia, Chevalier, for Sydney. 13—Am bk Arkwrighi, Sears, forPort Townaend. 18—Am brig Sea Waif. Manaon, Humboldt. for Puget Bound. 16—Am bktne Monitor, 17—Am bk D 0 Murray. Froat, for Sen Franclaco , 20—Am brhi Eliee. Perriman, lor San Francisco 24—Am bk Victoria. Hopp, for Nanalmo, B. 0. 27-Brit sh Benledl, Boyd, for Portland. 28—Ger bk Undine, Kabbe, forBan franclaco. PASSENGERS. Foe San Francisco—Per Wilmington, July 27th—H A Peiree Mra T O Thrum it child, J A O'Brien, A Oalvaaoa, Clevlor—Llchell, Mra McCully, H J ReyJ Egge'rs, J nold*,—Tuckerk wife, C F Peek, Ch Sorrenaon, J Lewie Jolce, A Vernon, H Roblnaon, Ah Chau. Coffli). k wife, 1 Fob GcanoIblandb—Per Joe Woolley July 37—W S Gonrlay, J. Qilbertaon, Jaa McOulre, aod 18 native laborera. „. „ „ For Ban Fbancibco—Per City of Sydney, Auguat 6— Hon W M Gibson, E Bailey, W Hyde and daughter, Mlaa Sane P Dalton, 8 B Dole, H Cornwall, wife, child and servant, Mra S C Lowrey and daughter, J T Arundel, G McNeil, Mlsb Parke, J T Waterhnuee and wife, P O Jonea, wife and child, B Hort, Mauking, Mra J 0 Carter and daughter, Mlaa L Wilder, H R Wooda, Wm Hazard. G F Weilß, F H Wilt. , Fbom San Fbancibco—Per Zealandia, August 18—Charlea Watson, James Aitkin, G C McLean aod son, Captain Mclntyre. Miss Mary Mclnlyre, Mrs Charlea Pernet, Infant and nurse Colonel Kitchen, wile, two childrenaod servant, Mlsa F E Rosa Makee, Rev Oleeon and wife. Mlaa I. A Brownell, J B Atberton, Adams, A McCumiakyand wire, Misa Pogoe. Mra A Mlaa Rita, Brett, L Mrs W H Bailey, Mlaa Kate Gray, Dr Spencer, Mrs Robertson, Charlea Knapp, J E Janlckl, Mrs A Bell and servant. Charlea Smith, Thomas Honan, W Gardner. Mra Neal and daughter. Frank Oaer, 1 Thomas, J U Elchoer. J Edmonds, II Schneider. J Gulllford.J Uulnlan.and niuely Chineae. Fifty-four etlulls and nine children In transitu. Foa BVDNIY—Per Zealandia, Auguat 18—Mrs A Wundenherg, Mrs Wright, H I Harden, E C Mayne, E Aurep, H P » - . ~ _, „ Ledyard,DrHlller. - , Foa HcsiauiDT—Per Monitor, Auguat 14—P B Morrison, , R A McLean ~. Foa Viotobia, B C—Per Victoria, Aug 26—Joa B Berrlll and eliter, John Bryant. Fbom Pobt GaMBLE-Per Joa Perklna, Aug SS—Lorerao. Foa t>A» Fa*aciaoo—Per bk Undine, Aug SS—B Ivon, Samuel Norria. Faoat Pobtland, O.—Per Matlie Macleay, Aug 28—D R Caldwell, Kd Bevaoa, W X Pope. __ _ MARRIED. July BATE*-BEAR*-At Ban Rafael. Cal.. on Saturday,Judge A. Bates, aon of the late 20th IH7H, Mr. MarsiullHonolulu, Sears, lo Mlaa Lizzie formerly of A B. Bates, daughter of Hon. William H. Bears, of San Franolaco. DIED. August 20th. Mrs. HoLatf K*lani. Riveb, rei'.ct of Mr. Jasaln Rivea, of here In the sulteof HI. IfaBordeaux France, wholeft The deceaaed ieMy Kan ehame 11. for England, in 182&. large family of waa a native of the Islands. Sheleaves a to mourn great-grandchild and a grandchildren children, her loas. a native of Doiron, Aug J J 8, Mr DoraoN-In thla city, France, aged about slaty yeara. ItivKH-In thla city, aniFAiuiAVAi _ Information Wanted. Mrs. D. H. Simmonds, of Alta city, Washington Tarrt. States Conaal. asking Tory U. 8. A., writes to the TJnsted John Cllngenamith. who was brother', her of information of ship on one of these Islands, lanrasd from on board a with two other men, about 18*8. �74 I I r> r li I ■ il I" • 9n I . 1 L ™I I> I. I■ , I > 4 "» . MAPS ILLUSTRATIVE OF MR. L. LEWIS' GREAT MEXICAN-PACIFIC RAILWAY PROJECT Tug Mexican Pacific Railway is founded upon I 1. The balk of the world's commerce is carried on between Europe and Asia, aud between these two and America. 2. This commerce is carried on chiefly by sailing ships, because sails are cheaper than steam. o The creation of tbe Sues Canal has not had any influence upon the route of sailing ships, tbey ."till continue to pass aruond Cape Horn and the THK FOLLOWING; FACTS Cape of Good Hope. 4. Tbe creation Ol a canal across Nicaragua (or any other part of Central America) would not bave a great efleot upon the routes of sailing ships; tbey could do better by continuing tv follow the same routes us at present. 6. The reason why sailing ships avoid the Sues Canal, and why tbey would avoid the Nicaragua Canal, it, extreme difficulty of navigating to or from them that is oaused by head winds, opposing currents, oalma and other great obstacles. 6, Tbe average lime of a sailing ship in traversing the Red Sea alone, in either direction, is forty- Our neighbor, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, astonished his readers Aug. 24th by exhibiting the above maps of a grand scheme for revolutionizing the commerce of the world. The originator of this undertaking appears to be a Mr. Lewis, residing in five diys, and ships have been kuown to drift help- having tbe winds and currents entirely snd eterlessly in the calms between Peru and Tebuantepeo nally io their favor, both in going and in coming. fifty or a hundred days, aod even two buudrod, or 18. And lying within tbe ibe regular trades and until their crews were obliged to lake lo their boats the regular curreuts, these routes have as tremendand sbandon their vesselti ous advantages in security over all others ss they 7. There exists, however a great natural snd have in facility and dispaloh. 14. The Mexican Paoific Railway is designed to pre-eminent route between Europe and Asia, via America, aod between tbe latter and Ihe two former. connect, in a direct line across Mexico, these two 8 This loute is indicated on accompanying map, vast circuits of commerce. whioh please see and study. 16. The loading or unloading of a ship at either 9. It will be seen that the Divine Hand itself has terminus is, at tbe worst' the loss of a few hours of established for sailing ships a great natural track, lime and an expense of $100. 16. Tbis necessary drawback is not as one to one in the form of an ellipse, in each of the great oceans, hundred in comparison with tbe advantages of this and between all tbe Continental. over all others. 10. Tbis great natural track (in tbe Atlantic) route These few brief points will probably suffioe to has its eastern point on EDglauil and France, and its convince any intelligent mind that the Mexican western point upou Yucatan ami British Honduras. Pacifio Railway is destined to beoome tbe World's 11. Tbis great natural traok (in tbe Pacifio) has Highway ; the one great route of all the nations ! its eastern poiot upon Mexico, and its western upon That it will be built has been written by God upon China. the very face of nature. It is expected the road, 12. On both ooeans sailing ships have the very and tbe connecting lines of steamers, will earn fifty great advantage (to be found nowhere else) of millions per annum. " Honolulu the center of a publishing house for printing and publishing works of religious science, and also '• to reproduce in the original tongues those recent foreign publications, including voyages and travels, which are especially recommended by their interest or information to American readers." So far as we can assist Mr. Lewis in the " '' accomplishment of these grand schemes, by republishing his maps, we are ready to lend our aid. We should be only too happy to have Mr. Lewis transfer to Honolulu his library of 25,000 volumes. We feel almost ready to pledge, on the part ofcitizens or the Government, a library building where the books may be safely deposited. �SAILORS' ADVEHTI3EMENTS. Places of Worship. 187 8. 75 THE FRIEND, SEPTEMBER, HOME! Seamen's Betukl—Rev. S. C. Damon, Chaplains DRS. T. P. k 0. L. TISDALE, King street, near the Sailors' Home. Preaching OFFICE AND RESBereunia Street, between Fort Street Church at 11 A. at. Seats free. Sabbath School before the and IDENCE QueenEmma's. morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday O- One ofthe Doctors may be found In theofficeat all timsa. o'clock. evenings at 74 both night stsaWstsV HOMEOPATHISTS. Fort Street Church—Rev. W. Frear, Pastor, corner of Fort and Beretania streets. Preaching Sabbath on Sundays at 11 a. m. and 74 P. M. School at 10 A. M. Kawaiahao Church—Rev. H. H. Parker, Pastor, King street, above the Palace. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 94 a. m. and 3 P. M. Professional calls will receive prompt attention mtiSu and day. HANCHBTTE, Tuner Si JL. • manyI'lianu-Kortr yearsconnected with Repairer, Chlckering k boos.) (For ____ tT Orders left at theSailora' Home or Whitney k Robertson's bookstore. 1 . . M DAVIDSON. Atlarisey ail Law. Rohan Catholic Church—Under the charge of Office over Mr. Whitney's Book-store, formerly occupied by f Rt. Rev. Bishop Muigret, assisted by Rev. Father Judge Austin. Honolulu, H. L de-H7B Services ED. IHINSCOMBE, Hermann ; Fort street, near Beretania. O. IRWIN Si CO.. IV every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. Manager. Honlulti, January 1, 1876. Commission Mercliants, Kaumakapii.i Church—Rev. M. Kuaea, Pastor, Plantationand Insurance Agenta, Honolulu, H. I. Beretania street, near Nnuanu. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 24 P. M. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN | EWERS ft DICKSON, The Anglican Church—Bishop, the Rt. Rev. AlDealers in Lumber and Building Materials, fred Willis, D. D.; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A., Fori Street, Honolulu, H. 1. AGENTS OF Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, St. Andrew's Temporary Cathedral, Beretania street, opposite the Hotel. ■ ,•» D., rwMIK. Ri.llll.lß PORTLAND LINK OF HOFFMANN, M Packets,Nev England Mutual Llfi Insurance Company, 1 The English services on Sundays at 64 *°d »* •*■■ M and I'uiuu Marina Insurance Company, Ban Iraootsoo, and Physician Surgeon, p. School at tbe Kohala Sugar Company, Sunday Clergy The 24 aud 7J if. Streets, near the Poat Office Haiku Sugar Company. and Kaahumanu The Corner Merohant House at 10 a. m. The Hamakua Sugar Company, The Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, Si CO.. BREWER The Wheeler k Wilson Sewing Machine Company, pi Dr. Jayne k Sons Celebrated Family Medicines. tf^ CASTLE & COOKE, GENERAL MEEOHANDISE! . •■ tOTICE Commission and Shipping Merchants, TO SHIP MASTERS. DILLINGrHAM & CO., |jl WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, ADAMS. P. (Suoceaaors to H. M. Whitney), Noa. to and 87 King Street, Auction and Commission Merchant, KEEP A FINE ASSORTMENT OF FireProof Store, In Robinson's Building, Queen Street. oods Suitable for Trade. SHIP S. ■illl X M. McOREW. Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, D., Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, MASTERS VISITING THIS PORT Oan be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between during Ihe last Six Yeara can teatify rrom personal experience thai Ihe undersigned keep the best assortment of ■GOODS FOR, TRADE And Sell Cheaper than any other House in the Kingdom. . AW * FIRST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL FIIHE 1 was awarded at the Industrial Exhibition, 1876, to BRADLEY & RULOFSON! F«r the best Photographs k Crayons In San Franclaco THE NATIONAL GOLD MEDAL 1 For the Best Photographs in the United States! AND THE VIENNA MEDAL! For the Best in. the "World! OFFICE OF BRADLEY & RULOFSON'S ART GALLERY No. 430 Montgomery street, Sail JPrsVaaolaoo. areeardially Invited XT Ten coßeetleu of to an inspection ot our Im- asanas Photographs, Drawings, Celebrities, Stereoscopic Views,and laarVansam Views of the whole Pacific Coast. atresia. 4c PE I R C.E CO.. (Succeeors to O. L. Richards A Co.) Ship Chandlers and Gen ral Commission Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, HawaiianIslands. DILLINGHAM & CO. TO THE PUBLIC! Alakea and Fort Agents Piilos Salt Works, Brand's: Lances, THOB. C. THRUM, STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, 19 Merchant Strrei. --- Haas.lula. OF READING MATTsp.-Of Papers and Mag.ainea, back numbers—put up taarder PACKAGES ly for parties going sea. reduced al to rates STATIONERY fc PERIODICALS. BOOK, PUBLISHERS OP THE HAWAIIAN QLIDK Jarvas' History of the Hawaiian Islands, HawaiianPhrase Book, Hawaiian Grammar, Andrews' Hawaiian Grammar, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of the Hawaiian lalands. ALSO, OS BAUD, OTHER BOORS ON THE ISLANDS. Bosjb And Parry Daves' Pala Killer. Ka, 1. W. aOSBBTSOS H. S. WHITRST Honolulu, Oanu, H. I. - A. L. SMITH, IMPORTER & DEALER IN JEWELRY, BISHOP a CO., BANKERS, HONOLULU. DRAW THE BANK New HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. EXCHANGE ON OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, — lark, AID TBBIB AUIBTa II Baata-a, Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! VOLUMES FURNISH BOUND Friend one dollar per WEof theforWILL the present any number of years from 1852 at price $2), tine, gar Adding the cost of binding. annual (subscription to Prarla, AarltlxaH, THE ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, LOJTDON, — A»n TaTtll BBABOMBS IS 11.-1k.a,., Syalary, and — Melfcaarae. And Transact a General Banklnc Bnatnaaa. King's Combination Spectaolea, Glass and lated Ware, Sewing Machines, Picture Frames, Vaaes,Brackets, etc. ate. [lyl TBBatS BTKIOTLY CASH No. TO, rort St. — apSSI/ FRIEND," (•THE JOURNAL DEVOTED TO Temperance, Seamen, Marina and General Intslllfaaaa PUBLISHED AND EDITED BT AMOVTHLV SAMUEL C. DAMON. TERMS: One Copy par annum Two Copies par annum • foreign aubecrtbera, including porta** s.OO •*••• Saw �AHsYCMochoiearutnn'gf onolulu. sister, both or all, present in the congregation to enjoy their success on the platform." "Look not upon the Wine when it is Red." We hope soon to welcome young Whitney (son of H. M. Whitney, Esq.), who has BNY.WILLIS. P. for four years been pursuing his studies at Amherst, and graduates this year, leaving tbe wive when it Look not upon la red within Ibe cup ! there, as undergraduates, Shipman, Bond Sts; not for Pleasure when she fills and Peterson in the College proper, and Her tempting beaker up ! young Wilcox in the Agricultural College. Though clear its depths, and rich its glow, Other youth from the Islands are now studyA spell of madness lurks below. Edited by a Committee of the Y. M. C. A, Tbey say 'tis pleasant on tbe lip, And merry on tbe brain : The; say it stirs tbe sluggish blood And dulls tbe tooth of pain. Ay—but witbin its glowing deeps A stinging serpent, unseen, sleeps. Its rosy lights will turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And, by its mirth, within tbe brain A sleepless worm is nursed. There's not a bubble at the brim Tbat does not carry food for bim. Then dash tbe brimming cup aside. And spill iia purple wine Tate not its madness tv thy lip— Let not its ourse be thine. 'Tis red and rich—but grief and wo Are bid those rosy depths below. : Our College Youth Abroad. It is most gratifying to receive from so many sources intelligence of the good conduct and literary suefcess of young men born on the Sandwich Islands. Respecting the oration of young Beckwith, born-in Honolulu, and graduating this year at Vale, the Springfield Republican thus discourses: say without hesitation that the " We can were much better than the average orations on such occasions. Without forgetting the merits of the others, it should be said that the best was that of Mr. Beckwith upon Spinoza.' This composition showed that 'the author had a rare and comprehensive knowledge —for an undergraduate—of the history of metaphysical speculation. His oratorical powers are of a high order. His delivery was most effective, and the method followed in constructing his oration admirable. It was one of the best orations delivered at Vale for many years, and we do not remember a DeForest since '69 that has surpassed it." Many of our readers will remember the Burbank family, formerly residing at Koloa, Kauai. From that family, it appears, two sons—R. W. and C. Burbank—have been pursuing their studies at Brown University, Providence, K. I. A correspondent of the Boston Watchman, not knowing from whence they came, thus discourses respecting their appearance upon the stage : Two brothers, Burbank, of Providence, it "is hoped had father or mother, brother or ing nt Vale, University of Michigan, Harvard, Oberlin, and several other American Colleges. If friends of these young men will send us catalogues or other memoranda, we should be gratified to publish a complete list of " Our College Youth Abroad." has finally fixed upon Harper's School and Family Primer and Harper's First, Second and Third Headers. These books may be obtained at most reasonable prices at the rooms of the Board of Education. The Rev. E. Bond, under date of August 13th, thus writes : 4 Our Chinese evangelist has gone to Maui, and thence to Hilo, to look after his fellow Chinese Christians and others, many of whom came over with him. Our foreign community needs to be aroused on the subject of Chinese evangelization. They are coming in like a flood. What will be the result, with no saving influences around them ?" ' Rev. E. Faber, CanGerman missionary, long laboring in China, thus writes, under date May 20th, IS7S, via San Francisco : " A few days since I received several letters from my former pupil Satfan [at present the colporteur employed by the Y. M. C. A. in Honolulu, of my School Famum, which gave me great pleasure, for I see that Yip Satfan is going the way I wished him to go—that is, become useful as a servant in the Kingdom of Christ. I hope his heart will be made firm by the grace of Christ. I had always hope for him. He is talented and industrious. I wish you, with all my heart, much success in your work among the Chinese near you, and hope that many will become Letter 76 Pure religion and undeftled before God, the Father,Ss this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world. from the We are glad to learn that the management of the Jamestown by Captain Glass and his officers has met the cordial approval of the California public. The school has hitherto been sustained by the San Francisco City authorities, but now the vessel has been adopted by the State, and the State Legislature has made an appropriation of 450,000 for her annual support. We hope the " Jamestown boys" will sustain the good character of the ship, acquired by her former visits to Honolulu. Such of our readers as are wont to contribute reading matter " for gratuitous distribution will now enjoy an excellent opportunity for their donations. 'If they incline to add a few choice and entertaining books for the young, really converted to the true a,nd living God. we will see that they are scattered among Besides Satfan, there are some more mem- the " Jamestown boys." bers of our Church, an your Islands. Satfan ton. —This '' will be able to point them out to you. Please give them my sincere regards, and tell them F. L. Hanes, Esq.—Many of our Honomy hope and prayer for them is to behave lulu readers will recall, in reading this well as true followers of Christ, never for- name, the bookkeeper of Captain Spencer, when in business in Honolulu. Mr. Hanks, getting our eternal destiny," dating his note " Sinclair House, 754, The Rev. E. B. Tuthill thus writes Broadway, N. V.," thus writes, under date from Wailuku, under date of August »—: of 9th July " The Friend has reached me ■' Thay superintendent of the Wailuku Plan- regularly. Enclosed you will find ass bill. tation is anxious have a school opened for As 1 have long predicted, the greenback and the Chinese, and wants me to start it. Can the gold value has at last become equalized. we get some books from the school at the There is no discount on this great and gloBethel to make a beginning. There are rious Republic' The Friend is very inteabout 30, I am told, and more coming soon. resting and always most welcome. I can One Christian Chinaman and his wife among hardly bring myself to believe that those them." letters from Germany are written by that It is gratifying to learn that Mr. Tuthill's youngster I used to see at your shady health has improved since his arrival on the home so many years ago. Nor can I Islands, and that he is sufficiently recovered help remembering you whenever the annito commence the labor of teaching. In re- versary of the burning ofthe New London gard to books for teaching the Chinese in the whaler, the Helvetia, Capt. Porter, on the English language, we would add that, after 25th January, 1846, takes place. What a nine years' experience, Mr. Dunscombp gale blew that Sunday night \" : ' � 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 - 1878.09.02 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1878.09.02