https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d554575ee9062fb46e7be0d0c7611315.pdf cf2a3c287fe57daa7de6b043f4ab6d69 PDF Text Text HONOLULU. H. 1., OCTOBER, Volume 57. WILLIAM R. CASTLE. AT LAW. ATTORNEY - - 1899. 71 THE FRIEND. Number 10 MANAGER'S NOTICE. The Friend is devoted to the moral and interests of Hawaii, and is pubreligious TRUST MONEY lished on the first of every month. It will be sent post paid for one year on receipt of J. M. WHITNEY, M.D., D.D.S. $2.00 to any country in the Postal Union. Catalogues The manager o/The Friend respectfulDENTAL ROOMS ort »„., OMice in Breicer's Block. Corner Hotel Sc Fort Sts ly requests tliefriendly co-operation of subStreet. Entrance on Hotel scribers and others to whom this publication is a regular visitor, to aid in extending the list of patrons of this, H. HACKFELD & CO. "The Oldest Paper in the Pacific," by procuring and sending in at least one AND new name each. This is a small thing to do, yet in tlie aggregate it will strengthen H. 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Subscription rat* Two liu.i.aks i-kh Vkak in Aliv.wr r. haps three millions, who must in fifty All comiuuniealioiisami h*Uen connected wrllr lire literary years grow to twenty or thirty. By department ol the paper, Book*and Matfazinsts,foi I;.-view and Exchanges should be addressed "Ki-.v. S. K. 8000 A. D. almost certainly there will BiaHOP, Honolahi, 11. 1." be from 50 to l<»0 millions of people Business Inters ■hoald be ajdwined "'!'• G, Tiikim, Honolulu, 11. I." the richly productive coasts occupying Kiinok between Silka and San Diego, and hay S. K. BISHOP ing some 206 million more nf their own fmm CONTENTS. people behind ihem. Such will be the 1. P.iark lltro i in- iui AiiKii.:an Ocean Taniparanct Agitation in Honolulu enormous nation which must rule the 2 Present Result-of Missionary woi* for Hawaiian*.... *aaciml' nt* Statistics of Mi ■ionar) 1 North Pacific with imperial sway. a Dtath of l>r Corwiti This rule is already begun. Although Absurd it ifs of Mormon Ca scbtum Boy*' Brigade > the majority of merchant steamers cross Mrs. GuJicVs Institute ■» I ran vaal ing this ocean still fly the British flag, Seaman's t lul> Kn;r Harbor Without 1 1 i|m yet American influence prevails in comHawei'a Lauurci ■* • I)reyfus Free..legati merce, as it cannot do on the Atlantic. S to Washi- gton Hawaiian l>< ■> Ctiw CowniiiMon The American merchant fleet is increasScientific Cruise of Albatroat Mamon's MisMun to Italy »•* ing out of all proportion to those of Wale Famine *fi Saloon's MwMonary Work other powers, and must soon prepondRecord of Eventi Marine lolirn il ■ erate in numbers on the northern hall Horseless Aye Dnyftu Verdict J of the ocean, upon which lie the chief ImmcoM Pump national elements of commerce. British The Pacific Becoming an American traffic may continue to predominate Ocean. south of the line, fostered by the prosAustralian Colonies, who have perous It is not that Americans yet form a an future in prospect. Between imperial majority of the inhabitants bordering on us all, it is a foregone conclusion that this great ocean, although their influEnglish is destined to be the one domience already dominates the commerce nating language of the Pacific ocean. of the North Pacific. It is, however, in The influences, sentiments and institupart from the fact that the United tions which find expression through our States form the most powerful nation mother tongue are also destined to rule occupying its shoies,and partly because ocean, and to beat with resistover this of a clear prospect of our enormous inless power upon the great nations of its crease in the not distant future. western coasts. The influence of China's 350,000,000 The prevailing religion of the Engadjacent to the Pacific, counts tor far less than that of Japan's 40,000,000, lish speaking nations is Christianity in with their progressive activity. Both its purified evangelical forms. That together may yet count for less than religion, grounded upon the New TestaRussia, which empire is now assuming ment and what it reveals of the Loid great power on the western shore of Jesus Christ, has effectually shaped the our ocean. Confronting these three sentiments and institutions of this leadchief elements of commerce and naval ing and dominating race of the world. power on the western border, stands on It is this religon that has imbued our the east the young and mighty giant of race with its practical justice and truthfulness, and endowed it with those the United States. Our nation numbers perhaps eighty sturdy and virile virtues, which place it million people, who average in wealth in the van of the nations. It is one of and intelligence above any other nation the proofs of the divine reality of our on the globe. That 80 million seems religion that it has shaped and nurtured destined to become at least 250 millions our race into such strength, notwith before the end of the twentieth century. standing the imperfection of its power A disproportionate share of that growth over them. This religion, allowing for must belong to the Pacific States, all vicissitudes of unbelief, is growing - • NUMIIEK 10. HONOLULU. H. 1., OCTOBER 1899. 73 Volume * * • ' in purity of creed, md power over life It is constantly taking more possession of society, and commerce, and politics. It is the divine religion of the Redeeming Christ. Christ is the world's Redeemer. He has promised a complete victory to His kingdom over all opposing powers and influences. The progress of the victorious campaign may seem slow, but it is onward. It goes forw ird with an accelerated speed. The leading Christian nation of the world (foremost, despite all its follies ami crimes) is now taking possession of their Pacific hemisphere, and carrying Christian sentiments and institutions with imperial force and mass, forward to bear impressively upon the ancitnt and outworn religions of the Orient. With II Ihe wickedness of our ungodly and selfish wrong-doers, with all the folly and infirmity of our Christain believers, there is a great body of living Christians, who are the salt of the nation, and whose moral and spiritual light shines so brightly as to reach through all our prevailing murk and reek of sin, and illuminate the world. The Church of Christ's true disciples grows more and more to prevail over the regions of spiritual darkness. It is the advancing tide of Christian conquest that gives significance and consequence to the imperial progress in this hemisphere of the Knglish speaking people, in whose sentiments and institutions the most developed and advanced Christianity is most embodied. Our race carries with it, as the most important part of its mission, the beneficent, uplifting, illuminating religion of Christ, who came to open the blind eyes and to set the captives free. We are writing this for believers, who live in the confident and comforting assurance that the risen Redeemer lives and reigns, and is with His church to the end of the world. This is not written for the Agnostic, nor for the doubters of the truth of the Scriptures. In the light of these considerations, how important and momentous is the position of Hawaii, and of Christian labor here. It is our distinction and privilege to occupy the central point in the forefront of this great forward movement of our Knglish speaking race and of our world-rtdeeming religion. How can we too deeply feel the value of our opportunity and the responsibilty of our position? �74 Temperance Agitation in Honolulu. October, 1899. THE FRIEND. Present Results of Mission Work for Surviving sons resident in Hawaii daughters risident in Hawaii " abroad " sons daughter! abroad " grandsons in Hawaii " granddaughters There has been some mention of this in Hawaii " grandsons abroad " subject in a morning paper, tending to " granddaughters abroad show a decline of Protestantism among Total children living Hawaiians. The last census of 1896 Hawaiians. By special request, the* Rev. Wm. Gardner, of the Disciples' Church, on the 10th ult., preached on Temperance in the Central Union Church. The sermon was judicious and impressive. We cull the following passages : "The object of an agitation of the temperance question should be to rescue the drunkard, to save the youth from the drink habit, to secure the execution of our laws, and to obtain better laws, if they are needed. Honolulu has fifteen licensed saloons. That is well, compared with many of our neighboring cities in California. One with H,OOO inhabitants, has eighty licensed saloons; no other with .'s,ooo inhabitants has forty places where liquor is sold. There are over 3,000 licensed dram shops in San 1-Yancisco. Last week I examined the license laws of Hawaii, and find them in many respects the best of any I have ever before read. Roys, girls, women, music and games are all excluded. Sunday opening is not allowed, and the license fee is $ 1,000 per annum. I am credibly informed that all the saloons but one are run in constant violation of law, and that that one, because of its known respectability, is the place where more young men from respectable families start in the road to ruin than at any other five. Though the number of saloons is small there are fifteen times too many, and their presence is a greater curse to our city than the constant presence of smallpox in a centrally located public house would be. A friend suggests that alcohol is a food and these institutions are entirely respectable and desirable, because they simply sell food. Yes, Professor Atwater, a reliable scientist, has demonstrated that alcohol is a food. Reason able temperance men will accept his conclusion that far, but it is well to consider the character of the food. Ur. H. F. Hughes of Boston, also a reliable scientist, says Professor Atwater's experiments with alcohol do not show that its food exceed its poisonous qualities; that, though a food, it is not such in a hygienic sense. Dr. Cyrus Edson of New York says it is a food, and that he uses it in his practice, but that, taken regularly in very small quantities, it will do harm, and affirms that ' if every drop were wiped off the face of the earth the world would be better off.'" We are sure that the very worthy proprietor of the " respectable " saloon alluded to, seeks to do his best as he understand it. Yet we personally know of such ruin being wrought to young is above named, by the means of the systematic cultivation of the appetite for alcohol in that same saloon, until it became resistless. Other young men undergo a like destructive process in clubs, or even at the home table. " gave relative numbers of pure Hawaiians as follows: Protestants 12,842, Roman Catholics 8,427, Mormons 4368. These figures express the religious afli liations of the native population, doubtless with some accuracy. The actual number of native members in good standing in the Evangelical churches as returned to the last meeting of the Evangelical Association, was 3519, or 27 per ct. of all persons called Protestants. These churches maintain some degree of discipline, so that none hold membership who are not of outwardly moral life. The Roman Catholics and Mormons count all as members without distinction. Thus the relative membership of those churches is not a criterion of their relative numbers. The superior intelligence and character of the Protestant native membership, received a striking demonstration in 1895 when about 90 cases of Asiatic Cholera occurred in Honolulu, nearly all of them native Hawaiians. It was the remark able fact, that not a single case of cholera occurred in the house of any member of the two Protestant churches of Kawaiahao and Kaumakapili. 'Phis exemption was vouched for at the time by the Pastors of those two churches As to the activity with which missionary labors are maintained among the various races in these Islands, it needs to be understood that the $30,000 annually expended by the Hawaiian Board over, covers only the smaller part of the actual expenditure. A very much larger sum is contributed and expended through other instrumentalities. Even the sev eral expensive Training Schools which are under the general control and direction of the Board, are not at all maintained from its treasury, but by the donations of friends outside. The numbers of boarders in those schools, and in the affiliated Kamehameha schools, are undoubtedly double the numbers in the Anglican and Roman Catholic schools combined. Total gi andchildren living 91 73 64 72 101 73 123 124 300 421 There are 338 children and grandchildren of missionaries residing here, or about one-twentieth of the combined white population, exclusive of the Latin races. Of the sons now living, we find sixteen who are in the Christian ministry, or over one in ten. We believe this to be a much larger percentage of ministers than can be found in any class of families in the United States. Eight of the sixteen are now in active Foreign Mission service, five of them in Hawaii, viz., Messrs. H. Bingham, F. W. Damon, O. P. Emerson, 0. H. Gulick and H. H. Parker—men of whom the Church is not ashamed. There are several young preachers and missionaries at work or coming forward in the third generation. It may be hoped that there will be many such. Hut that generation is not as near to the old missionaries, and hence is, perhaps, less imbued with their spirit. Yet it is a happiness to know that there are here very many devoted and loving Christian workers of both sexes, both of those connected and unconnected with Mission families. The spirit of the Fathers abides in the churches of Hawaii, with their membership from many nationalities. Death of Rev. Eli Corwin, D.D. The death of the third paster of the Fort street Church of Honolulu is thus recorded : " Dr. Corwin died in the Hospital for Incura- bles, Chicago, August 19, aged seventy-four. He was stricken with paralysis nineteen months ago, when on a lecturing tour in Kansas in the interests of Hawaii. Since that time he has been only dimly conscious of his condition. The funeral, conducted by Drs. Fifield and Roy, assisted by Rev. E. J. Alden, was on Wednesday, August 23, at the Warren Avenue Church, of which Dr. Corwin was a member, and in whose prosperity he had taken the deepest interest He was born in Orange County, N. V., in 1825, graduated at Williams with the class of 1848. and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1861. He served churches in Jamestown, N. V., Jacksonville, 111., Racine, Wis. But the pastorale of which he spoke most frequently, and which he deemed the most useful was that of the First Church, Honolulu, which he held from 1858 to 1808. He left Racine, his last pastorate, some years ago to become financial agent of the Chicago Theological Seminary. For three or four Statistics of Missionary Descendants. years pi i ,r to his last illness he had devoted himself to lecturing, literary work and preaching as opportunity ottered. He was a brilliant somewhat careful A analysis of ihe In his prime few men had greater power speaker. with an names of children and grandchildren of audience than he." Many of our older Christians gratemissionaries of the American Board in fully remember their old pastor as one these islands is found to give compara- who greatly helped them on the heavenly tively accurate results as follows • road. �Vol. 57, No. 10.] Absurdities of the Mormon Catechism The following questions and answers are taken from the standard catechism, which is carefully taught to the youth of the Mormon chnrch : Q. Are there more Gods than one ? A. Yes, many. I Cor. viii:s. This passage is to be repeated by the child. "There be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth (as there be gods many, and lords many)." But the next question shows that they are Monotheists Q. Must we worship more thin one God ? A. No, to us there is but tine God, the Father of mankind, and the Creator of the earth. The present nature of God is thus : described : Cj. What kind of a being is God? A. He is in the form of a man. Q. How doyou learn this ? A. The Scriptures declare that man was made in the image of God. Q. Is it not said th it (rod is a Spirit ? A. Yes, the Scriptures say so. Q. How, then, can God be like M in? A. Man has a spirit, though clothed with a body, and God is similarly constituted. (j. Has God a body then ? A. Yes, like unto a man's body in figure. Plurality of gods is taught in the chapter on the creation where this question is found O. What did the (rods do on the second day ? A. They created an expanse, and divided the waters. (Pearl of Great Price, page 64.) Q. Was it necessary that Adam should take of the forbidden fruit ? A. Yes, unless he had done so he would not have known good and evil here, neither could he have had mortal posteiity, and he could not have cleaved to Eve, as he had promised after her fall. (Pearl of Great Price, page 31. Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi, 11:2236.) O. Did Adam and Eve lament or rejoice because they had transgressed the commandment and become acquainted with the nature of evil and good ? A. They rejoiced and praised God. O. Is it proper for us to consider the transgression of Adam and live as a grevious calamity, and that all man kind would have been infinitely more happy if the Fall had not occurred ? A. No. But we ought to consider the Fall of our first parents as one of the great steps to eternal exaltation and happiness, and one ordered by God in His infinite wisdom, for we cannot know the excellency and beauty of that which is good unless we experience the wretchedness and deformity of that which is : 75 THE FRIEND. The Boys' Brigade. This is an organization started three months since, to unify and control boy's clubs of the city, that they may all conduce to growth in Christian manli ness." There were alre.-dy three clubs in different sections of the city, with the object of enrolling boys for their better development. The promoters of the Boys' Brigade include such educators and Christian workers as Theo. Richards, Aimstrong Smith, 11. V.. Coleirun and F. W. Da mon. Over thirty young men have pledged their services one night in a week in the work of the Brigade. There are to be regular Thursday night meet ings for instruction and exercise in various programs. Clubs will be organ izcil for Chinese and Portuguese boys. A religious committee will plan gatherings f-i religious, temperance, purity or evangelistic work; a military committee will arrange for the management of tactics, officers, drills, etc.; an athletic committee will unify athletics and gymnasium work, and arrange for competitive sports and exhibitions. There will also be an entertainment committee and an industrial committee to discuss "savings," plans, and employment for boys, and perhaps provide some indus trial training at night. About $tiOU is needed at once to put the Brigade on a good working basis. The m riiey will no doubt be contributed. All this is first class, practical Christian " Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick's Institute. An earnest appeal comes from Mrs. Gulick for the removal to the capital, Madrid, of the International Institute for Girls in Spain. It will be remembered that at the outbreak of the late war this Ameiican Institute was removed bodil> over the border from Santander to the neighboring Biarritz, in France. The time has come for its restoration to Spanish soil, and many reasons make it desirable to place it at the political center, Madrid. This school has been in operation for eighteen years. Forty of its graduates have been employed as teachers in the principal cities of Spain, and last year had 2500 children under iheir instruction. Thirteen of the girls have taken the degree of B. A. in the State Institute, and in 1M97 two of them received the degree corresponding to M. A., after studying in the University of Madrid. A m ist desirable location for the school, with excellent buildings, has been selected in Madrid. It needs about $140,000 to make the purchase. Mrs. evil. Mormonism teaches that all men are Gulick turns for aid for this object, to descended from God the Father, by the United States, and especially to Hawaii, where Mr. and Mrs. Gulick are so ordinary generation. well'known and honored. Certainly no greater blessing can be conferred upon unfortunate Spain than higher education on evangelical lines for her daughters, so long the dupes of a corrupted church. We trust that Hawaii may have the honor of contributing important aid to this enterprise. The Transvaal. The black arch of the storm has risen high over the land of the Boers during the past month, and every moment one looks for the bolts of war's lightning to fall. The Boers are a gallant and determined band. 'Ihe Orange Free State has cast its lot in alliance with them against England, and the strong Afrikander element in Cape Colony is in sympathy. A war With the Boers seems likely to tax England's energies severely. There are about ( .iOO,OOO whites together in all South Africa. There are also three million ot blauk natives occupying the country with them, whose rights and prerogatives appear to have no existence in the views of any of the parties to the controversy. English and German missionaries have done a huge amount of most devoted woik in Christianizing and civilizing those degraded tribes. Several of those missionaries and their settlements have, from time to time, fallen victims to the hostility and ferocity ot the Boers, who desired to hold the natives as unprotected slaves. Although the Boers are deeply religious people, in their great ignorance and illiteracy, the black men have been regarded by them as little superior to any other brute cattle. England's aim is to secure for all white English subjects complete political equality in the Transvaal, over which territory she claims entire sovereignty, as over the whole of South Africa. The Boers deny her sovereignty, and propose to admit the Outlanders to citizenship only after forswearing Bi itish allegiance. As a large majority of the whites are now Outlanders, who own the enor mously wealthy diamond and gold mines, it has become indispensable to them to possess a full voice in legislation for the protection of their own interests. The Boers absolutely deny them any voice, except on impossible conditions, and make Dutch the sole language of legislature, courts and schools. They are full of pride over former repulses of the British at Majuba and Laing's Nek, and promise, in the coming war, to make a resistance which will be memorable. It seems very doubtful wh ther the 5;l,00) British troops now ordered to Souih Africa will be adequate to handle ihem. Are our readers familiar with the fact that the precise antipodes of Honolulu lie near Lake Ngami, only 500 miles northwest of Johannesburg and Pretoria? �The Seamen's Club. A visit to the hall upstairs at the foot of Nuuanu street occupied by the Seamen's Club, showed it to be prospering. Quite a number of seamen were found there, improving the various opportunities of pastime. Some were at the billiard table, others re.iding the papers and illustrated journals, while some were extracting music from the piano and stringed instruments. A few nights ago a large company of seamen filled the hall at a musical ,mt) literary entertain ment. This club is a most useful and common-sense device in the line of benevolence, worthy of the practical mind of brother Frank Co ke, who led the way in establishing it. We have also been pleased to find ■ cheerful resort for sea men and working nun on Maunakea street, wheie Nl k Br ham at his "Cottage Inn" Iceeos .1 stiictly temperance drink in the form of an excellent toamy hop beer. Entering Harbors Without Pilots. Attempts to do this in this group, have twice caused the stranding of ships during the past month. On the evening of the 12th. the Coaliiiga became fast in the sand at the entrance of Honolulu harbor. Fortunati 'y she was on the east side where wind and current both tended to prevent her working farther upas did the unfortunate O'Briei on the west side not long since. The Coaliiiga was hauled off by the tug without loss. In a more critical position was the bark Colusa on the 2WI at Kahului, where she also had attempted to enter without a pilot and went on the reef, about a milcto windward of the entrance. Fortunately the sea was smooth. She had a large quantity of water pipes and pumping machinery of vital importance to the Sprei kelsville Plantation, whose officials made extraordinary efforts to save the cargo and ship. She, too, got off with slight injury. In Christian lands we have some good "sky-pilots," such as the 'Pen Commandments, the book of Proverbs, and the Gospels. It is very safe to take thesepilots aboard, and very dangerous to attempt to make the port of Heaven without their guidance. The wrecks of unpiloted men encumber all the reefs. Mr. Rawei's Maori Recitals. I [Oetaber, 1899. THE FRIEND. 76 novel and extremely interesting ex ion, presented here last week, was c recitals relating to New Zealand • by the Rev. Wherahiko Rawei, Mr. Rawei is a very gifted native ri of that country, educated in Eng- He is a talented speaker. His lectures are illustrated by a great number of admirable stereopticon pictures of scenery, dwellings, carvings, tattooing, native life and customs, and native persons and faces. A vivid impression is given of the peculiarities of that interesting, but wasting, branch of the Polynesian race, and of their beautiful country. The lectures are interspersed with native music, chants and songs some pathetic, some most barbaric. Mr. Rawei and his educated native wife are conducting an orphanage among their people. To the support of this are devoted the proceeds of his entertaining recitals. land. - The Ermak works an immense propeller beyond her bow so as to uplift the ice in front and throw it out on each side, instead of the old way of butting against it. There is nothing like having your force wisely applied in whatever undertaking. Stupid butting at obstacles seldom opens the way. "The Searchlight." The third issue of this journal has oeen received by Tin-: Fkiknii. It is a religious monthly of about the same A Sad Affliction. size as this paper, published by the Rev. Victor Morgan, of the " Christian " Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Richards are Church. It is well edited, has a number especially dear to those interested in of excellent contributors, and is worthy our Missionary work. Those beloved of general Christian support. friends received a severe blow three weeks since in the sudden death uf their William R. Castle, Jr., of Honolulu two year old baby girl Muriel, by drowning. The little one crept through a and Harvard University, 1901, has pubnarrow hole in a fence, fell into a tank, lished in the August number of the Harand passed beyond rescue while the vard Advocate an article on Tillis, the capital of Georgia in Russia, where he family were searching for her. With all his exceeding mercy, our traveled last year. Mr Castle shows unFather does not ordinarily exempt us usual observing and describing powers. from accidental disaster. What is betRev. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Hyde are ter, he bestows on his trusting children expected to arrive here in a few days, a who cleave to Him, blessed reunion to the loved and lost in the bright morn- if the doctor's health permitted the journey. He has not gained in health while ing of the Coming Life. Two young uncles of the babe, in at the East. white, bore her to the little mission The official name of the new schoolcemetery at Kawaiahao. house in P.ilania is " The Kaiulani School," in memory of the late Princess. Illness of Chief Justice Judd. With more than 500 scholars, this buildOn account of serious prostration by ing is over crowded, like all the other public schools. illness, the Chief Justice, accompanied by Mrs. Judd, sailed on the I lth ult. for Dreyfus Set Free. the Coast, with a view of sojourning for a time at Clifton Springs, N. Y. There is some relief in knowing that It is hoped that they may soon return with recuperated health. The Hawaii the wronged and suffering man is set at an B lard, as well as the Supreme Court, liberty. It is also a satisfaction to know greatly miss in the meantime their pre- that the whole painfully watching world, siding officer. except the baser majority of Frenchmen, of his innoMr. A. J. Coates, the new assistant are now entirely convinced at his presented cence the evidence by secretary of the Y. M. C. A., arrived on re trial at Rennes. On the the whole, Sept, 13th and entered immediately offitrial, effect of his and of his speedy His work is special upon his duties. that of director of the gymnasium. He cial pardon, is to serve the ends of jusbrings a high record in athletics as well tice, notwithstanding the perverse and unprincipled verdict of his judges. That as in association work. verdict was too evidently dictated by the policy of not offending the French army Unprecedented Ice-breaking. to command any public respect. HapSt. Petersburg, Aug. W.—The ice- pily the trial was public, and the world breaking steamer Ermak has just fin- can form their own independent judgished a fortnight's trip to the northwest ment, which has been most widely and of Spitzbergen. She went through 200 unmistakably expressed in favor of the One must believe miles of ice, the estimated thickness of accused Dreyfus. which was fourteen feet, without the that the cause of righteous judgment in France will be set forward. slightest interruption. �Vol. 57, No. 10.] 77 THE FRIEND. Hawaiian Delegate to Washington. doubt that it will be immensely for the advantage of those people to come here. It must also be greatly to the advantage The Government of Hawaii has sp ol an American territory to import a pointed Gen. Alfied S. Hartwell, to European instead of an Asiatic race. represent Hawaii before the coining One could wish, however, that all future session of Congress. Such a delegate immigrants might be Americans. is imperatively needed to afford information and advice, while Congress settles A Water Famine the manner of Government for the Territory of Hawaii (Jen. Hartwell is Has been more or less severe in Honoeminently qualified for that duty in lulu during most of the month of Sepevery respect. tember, owing partly to lack of rain in the mountain valleys, and partly to the Census Commissioner for Hawaii. rapid growth of the city. The Interim Mr. Alatau T. Atkinson has been ap- Department ofoui government is honesl pointed to t.ike charge of the census ol and well conducted, but a good deal in the Hawaiian Islands for 1900, and has the ruts of old custom. Tnis fact is gone to Washington to receive his in- especially apparent in Ihe management structions. Mr. Atkinson's admirable of the Water Works bureau, which is work in taking ihe census of HJDti proves distressingly slow to avail itself of the his appointment to be a most suitable inexhaustible supplies of artesian watei one. under the city. During all the live Scientific Cruise of the "Albatross." years of rapid growth in which our city population has doubled, only a singleThe U. S. steamer "Albatross" sailed pumping station has been established. August 23 from San Francisco to the Two more of equal capacity ought lo South Pacific with a party of scientists, have been added before this. What would be done to a manager of a sugar under the direction of the eminent Alexplantation who, for lack of activity in ander Agassi/. Sin- has been thorough- erecting pumping works, allowed cane ly refitted with complete apparatus foi fields to dry up as Thomas Square and exploring the animal life in the ocean other public grounds have done? But depths. Her largest dee,i sea trawl has thai concerns dividends. The citizens of Honolulu pay the same, whethei a mouth twenty feet wide by six in their taps run dry or not. height, and its net is thirty feet in length. Sufficient wire rope is taken to reach Saloons Ask for Missionary Work. the deepest spot in the ocean's bed, which is HOO miles northeast of New A few months ago an officer of the Zealand, and is live and one half mites Ohio Liquor League said in an address deep. The Albatross will steam 20,000 miles, to the men of his craft " The success of via Tahiti, the Paumotu, Friendly, Fiji, our business is dependent largely upon Ellice, Gilbert and Marshall 111 mas, the ere .tion of appetite fcr drink. Men and Hawaii, back to San Francisco. The ocean depths on this route are al who drink liquor, like others, will die; most entirely unexplored, and interest if there is no new appetite created our ing discoveries are expected. She will counters will be empty, as will our cofarrive at Honolulu some time next year, fers. Afler men have grown and their with her laboratories doubtless crowded habits are formed, they rarely ever with new and marvelous specimens of change in this regard. It will be needful, deep sea life. therefore, that missionary work be done among the boys; and I make the sugMr. Damon's Mission to Italy. gestion, gentlemen, that nickels expended in treats to the boys now will return in Hon. S. M. Damon, Minister of Fi- dollars to your tills after the appetite is nance, sailed August 3d on his way to formed. Above all things create appeItaly, at his own expense, for the pur- tite." The Pacific. pose of satisfying the Italian Govern "The Horseless Age." ment and people, as to the good treatment and favorable condition and pr >'Phis is the title of a very scientific spects of Italians in Hawaii. He de- and highly illustrated weekly journal, sires to start and establish an active now in its fourth year, published " in immigration of Northern Italian laborers to this country. Many earnest the interest of the Motor Vehicle Inwishes have been expressed for his suc- dustry." Mr. John Cassidy has kindly cess in his mission. There can be no loaned us a few numbers. The motive : poweis used are of three general kinds - inflammable fluids, compressed air and electricity. The first named appear to be at present in the lead, But we are strongly impressed by the (act clearly brought out I hat Storage Batteries have, of late, been so greatly developed that they already strongly compete With gas oline. Apparently, there is no good leason why tramcars should not easily carry storage batteries to propel them This would do away with all necessity for obstructing the streets with over head trolley wires, or for the great expense of under ground transmission of the fluid. Storage batteries weighing 750 pounds are now made that will propel a heavy carriage thirty miles without recharging. This seems to port'iid a revolution in electric railroad building, RECORD OF EVENTS. September I. Two of the Customs guards neatly capture a buoyed sack containing 122 tins of opium in the harbor channel shortly after the departure of the China. Dividends due and payable at the end of August bom one mercantile and seven sugar corporations, this city, is reported to reach the sum of $205,7511. 2nd. The thirty six (ialician laborers of the Oahu Plantation, confined in prison for some months past for nonperformance of their contracts, are released by direction of the agents. 3rd Schooner yacht Noma, Commodore Weaver, of the New York Yacht Club, arrives from Yokohama on her cruise around the world. 4th.—Death of J. H. Bruns, aged 70 years, a resident of Honolulu since about IHGO, and at tine time largely engaged in keg and barrel making by machinery. sth. I'nst American Bank of Hawaii, Hon. Cecil Brawn president, opens its doors for business in the Campbell block, Port street. -Mrs. W. G. Irwin, prior to departure for San Francisco, sends generous checks to the various national benevolent and other societies of the city. 7th.—Owing to scarcity of fresh water the street sprinklers resume the use of salt water, a practice discontinued over thirty years ago through its injury to the eyes. 9th.—The Rapid Transit Company lay two lengths of rail in each block on King street, between River and Richard streets, by way of "protecting its rights."—Races at Pearl Harbor between the senior and junior crews of the Myrtle and Healani Boat Clubs, the former winning both events. llth.—Detective Kaapa captures a gang of young robbers, with their spoils, — - �[October, 1899. THE FRIEND. 78 abstracted from one of the fish market stalls.—Accidental drowning of the two year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Richards through its falling into a water tank in the yard. 12th. -Bark Coalinga, from New York for this port, in attempting to Colusa grounds on the reef off Kahului, Maui, and is extricated from her perilous position by the steamers Maui and Kiuait, the latter going around to her aid from Kihei. 24th.—Yachts Gladys and La Palatini return, finishing their race as close as at enter the harbor at night, grounds near the start. Owing to the latter's failure the spar buoy. Aid was rendered by to round the Lahaina buoy, the Gladys the tugs Eleu and Iroquois, and during carries off the honors and a $50 cup. the forenoon of the 13th she was rescued 25th.—Two soldier's of the transport from her perilous position without any Belgian King, while swimming in the serious damage. harbor, narrowly escape drowning, 13th.—The Alameda, on entering the through cramps. Rawei, the New Zeapassage, ran afoul of two Chinese fishing land orator, delights a large audience at boats, striking one and bringing it in the Y. M. C. A. Hall by his entertain ahead of her with the fouled net. One ment on the manners and customs of man was lost in the collision. —T. W. the Maori people. Hobron's new yacht Gladys wins the 26th.—A native drayman falls from challenge cup from the Bonnie Dundee his coal cart, through a shock by a col in a race to a stake boat off Waikiki, lision and is run over, causing such thence to one off Pearl Harbor and back mangling of the body that death ensued to port. The Hawaii and Marion also before medical aid could respond to the entered the contest by way of interest, call. A native woman falls down a not competition.—Steamer Victoria ar- flight of stairs and meets her death. A rives from London via Madeira with coroner's inquest renders a verdict, giv about 310 Portuguese immigrants, the ing liquor as the cause. first addition of this nationality since 27th. lixecutive order from Wash1888. ington directs that all sales or disposi 14th.—Welcome reception given at tion of public lands in these islands be the Y. M. C. A. Hall to their new as discontinued. sistant secretary and athletic instructor, 28th.—Rawei, in his second illus A. J. Coats. trated recital on"The Land of the Kith.—Annual regatta day, a general Maori," delightfully entertains a full and holiday. In the barge races the Hea- appreciative house. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. lanis won over the Myrtles, but the R. Carter give a luau at the old Judd tables were turned in the junior race. homestead, "Sweet Home," in honoi The Gladys won again from the Bonnie of Mrs. Gait. The British cable survey Dundee in the first class yacht contest, ship ligeria, completing her labors, sails the Helene in the second, and Marion in for Vancouver. the third. 18th.—Death of J. C. Strow oftyphoidMarine malaria, chief engineer of the Kinau, a PORT OF HONOLULU AUGUST. resident of these islands for the past twenty years, most of which has been ARRIVALS. in the service of the Wilder S. S. Com Hal. row, from Newcastle bany.—Mr. Hubert Vos gave an exhi I—Am hk Louisiana, Am hk Allien, Griffiths, from San Praia isco. pition to friends of his collection of porHaw sh Helen luewei. Maliany, fItMU Ne«* \oil traits executed in the Orient for the 2—Am sch hr.c, Root, from Port Blakeley — — — - Hr ss Belgian King, Weiss, from San I'ram isco W.iw l>k X I' killi.t, l.endcr, foots San Francisco U S transport A/tec. Trask, from S.oi Francisco \m bid OMMti Harrington, from lijuiqUc. Am hk lolani. Mil lure, from New York 87 Am ss Australia, Hoiitllette, from San Francisco. br s* Aorangt, Phillips, from the CokmiiM. Am l>k ("i-ylun, Wilier, from San Francisco Am s( In [ Ji Lcodtt, Nils.m, from Aherdeen tt i.rr lik Tin-odor, Arfuiann, from London en route 24 2o* Prancisco s.iu cisco 2!) 'Mt Us transport Tarrant, DUon, from San tmmdmtt llr ss WairimoO, May, from Vancouver —U S transport Sherma i, (.rant, from San Francisco DKPAKTUKKS. Lewen, lluo.lman, for Port Townsend 1 II MIn*SKoln-rt Kgeria, Smyth, for Katininn's Island I. U l!i ss Minwera, Hemming, for the felonies :i Am ss Rio do Janeiro, Ward, for San Frriieisco Am schr F.sthrt liulme, Anderson, for I'ort Townsend I Am hk St Allen, Johnson, for San Francisco I• m ( ,iiinaiilicii-.liiic, htiich, for San Francisco i Am ss An-liiilia, Hutidleite, for San Francisco S—US tramp* n Siam, Kaicich, for San Francisco 7 Am hk Kinpire, Knacke, for Port Townsend Am sh Fori (»eorge, Morse, for San Francisco I Am iii Kmily F Whitney, Pendleton, for Newcastle I' S transport t'ilv of Puchla, Thomas, for Manila !» Am sh l,ni ile, Anderson, for Port Townscnd li. u Dorit Smith, for \ okohama 11 Pi s> Coptic, kinder, for San Kran iatt \m likin I'l.tiii i, Mi N. il, for "an Franct-*co I:' Am In Itanaor, Asp.-, lor Poll Townsend II Am ss Alameda, Yon (Hctvndoip, for the Colonial —Am lik S N l.i-bc, Mm hant, for San Francis, o Am hk Mohican, ICelley, for San Franciaoo ll US transport Lcetanaw .Si tees, for San Francisco i ■ Am ss Mariposa, Hayward) foe S-tn Franciico Mi Am lik Allien, Griffiths, for San Francisco Hi Lennox, Williamson, for Portland Am ss Klihu Thompson, Whitney, for Seattle bia, Dohaon, for Manila is ( s transport Col Mara, Allen, fm Yokohaann 10 |ap ~> Nip| An. schr ric, Rout, fm Port Townsend •1 Am l.km Amelia, W iller, fm Paget Sound Am ichi W X Witsemann, Bntenshon, for Port 'I own■end ti Am hktn Uncle John, Henningsen, for Eureka 28 Mi Victoria, Stores, for San Francisco 'i \m 1.l- Olhul llaxter, Sweeny, foi Hiogo :>.:. VmxchrCS Holmes, lohnson, lo Puget Sound Rr ss Krlgian King, Weiss, for Manila 26 \m lii In. a. K.isiniisscii, for Puget sound \m hk M. Un Ihrssc, Potter, for San KIMCMOO — Am si , -. -i ' s, I'm II -s \offttigi, Mi-itiinei, li.r Vancouver II MS I Cgi ti.i. Smjili for Vancouver Am lik I. uisiana, M ilcruw, for Port Angeles Haw lik Andrew Welch, Drew, for Sua Frsnciaoo An) hk Maiiha I »a\ is, McAlnia i, for San Francisco &l Hi Warrimuu, Phillips, for ihe Colonial Haw hk bins I Head, Ward, for San Francisco 2H • Journal. Hemmi l ik, frtßl V.i VCI Br SS Mioweia,hens] ii <■, Ban li. Ir Yokuhama Pr ss Carmart ss Kiode Janeiro, Ward, f Vukuhanu —Am 20th.—W. H. Marshal, editor of the —Am schr yt Norna. Weaver, from Yokoh ma II S trans Ll*J of Pu.l.la, I I |sx fruoi San I'i.iii. i» i) suspended Sunday Volcano, arrested last a7 bk Ohed Boater, Sweeney, from St a Yoik C S Holmes, Joluisoii, imm port 1iamhlr week on a charge of libel, upon trial in —Schr Smith, from San Pram in o llr ss the Police Court, is convicted and sen- ioB (jarshDork Mark 11a.ki.1.1. Wuhrmann, from Hamburg, 10f> days tenced to six months imprisonment at It- Br Coptic, Kinder, fr Yokohama hard labor. Appeal was noted and bail -USsatransport Leelanaw, Stores, from Sun li.un is. o Allien Hesse, Poller, from P-an 1' i,in is. o |g hk Am fixed at $1000. Am lik Martha Mavis, McAlllian, from San l-'i-imi-io Foohog Sway, WiU.i I New York entertains Haw bk '21st.—B. F. Dillingham Am sh Yiistiniic, Anderson, fmm Newcastle the Shakespeare Club by a special train IS--Am ss Alameda, Yon Otaren lurp, li San Francisco Haw hk Ihaiiniiiil Head, Ward, from San I ran. isco Haleirun to Waialua for a dinner at Am l>k Coalmen, Evans, from New York bk Uncle John, Henningson, from Rtireka wa," returning to the city by moonlight. —Am hi ss ions, Blaktey, from London —Flag social at the Central Union 14 Am ssVi.Klihu Thovapson, Whitney, from Seattle Wilder, Jack on, from San Francisco S successful affair. Hktn G Church, a novel and IB—Am schr Jessie Minor, Whitney, fr I in. ka Am ss Mariposa, Hayward. from the ( ulonies entertainment at St. Hr ss I annoa, Williamson, from Yokohama aid the Catholic 16U S transport < olnmhi -. Dobson, from San I'i.i iisn, of Louis College in Sinyih, fn S. ahlc ■OUndtng cruise —H. Benevolent Union meets the expectation —AmB.bk M.AnnieKjjeria. Johnson, Nelson, ii.nn San ! raocisco San !■ tain la 0 Jap ss Nip[H>n Maru from 18— of its promoters. —Am -chr Olgu, Ipsen, from San Frain MCO 19—Am schr from Winslow, Birkholm, Puget Sound —The La Paschooner-yacht 23rd. ai Am bktn W h Dimond, Nelson, from San Francisco loma and sloop Gladys set forth at 2.30 21—Am schr A J West, Ogilvie, from Gray*! Harbor —Am bk Abbey Palmer, UhllwrK, from Newcastle p.m. for a test of their sailing qualities 22—Am schr Golden tiate, Madsen, from Kurcka and back.—Bark IS—Am bk Mi Near, Peterson, from LaySaQ Island in a trip to Lahaina Antwerp Exposition. " — , — 22nd.—Benefit , to Am -.In II I) Bcndixon, Ob«n, from Seattle U S transport (leu W Klder, Parsons, from San Fran- . BIRTHS. KOKNK.K Homer, ■ \i Kiiki.i.ni. Hawaii, . km. i.. th<- wife of Alhert In Ihia iiy, Sept. iTlfc, M tlie wife of Kiciutrd I (Jilliland, ■ son. |.|. ,-. In lbi« .ns, S,|.i ITi li, ta th.-wife of Walter K. I.i. : (iII.I.II.AND SKW I 1.1. 11l thin n\. S. |.l. :!fith, M ■ s. wall. ■ tfanuthti r. iv tin- wife of Hon. H. IKr N< II \i KHauea, Kauai, Sept. lath, to the wife of In. I I. I i. n. li, .1 . DEATHS. San Itranciac*. GftJ.. Aug. 81st, Eloise T, l>elovi:d wife of K. T. Smith and daughter of Mary T. late the Mk« E ti. Hitchcock, of Hilo, H. t, and aged "'tt years, month* Ltd 00ays. SMITH l<< ,iii<l * In San Prftociaco, Sept. 3d, Elizabeth, l:iit- John (.illillan and motherof Archibald | n C. »■illiil.iu, a nativt of Scotland, aged M (.11.H1.1.AN widow ol the yaw*, lißl'Ns In this city, S.-pi. lih, J. 11. Itruns, a native of about ■"*» yaara, (iermany, aged RICHARDS In Honolulu, S.-pt llih, Muriel, the behn d dayghtei oi Mr. and Mrs. I 'lieu. Richard*, aged t yr;n v llonok.ui, Hawaii, Sept. 18th, Marie Loniae, infanl daughter of W. ami Margaret M. Brown, .tl;*.-1! (5 waakt and 4 days. BROWN At KAI.I'A In W.iiluku, Maui, Sept. 12th, Agnes Nunehiwal.mi, beloved daunlu«*r of Judge J. W. and Mrs, Kalua, aged 24 yi-.irs and t! months. II 1.1.M In this city, Oct. Ist, Claude D. Helm, a native of (ioldcmlal, Washington, aged 22 years. �Vol. 57, No. 01.] THE FRIEND HAWAIIAN BOARD. miles from the old one, and in the midst of all the population there is left in this district. All the earlier contributions to this church were due to his personal efforts, while he was forced to wrest a LnteveaU page This is devoted to the of the Hawaiian Hoard of Missions, ami the Editor, appointed by the living out of the small space around his Hoard, is responsible for its i onlenis. house. It was a pleasure for the Aid Society to secure for him enough to finish the building, which it is hoped will Rev. 0. P. Emerson, Editor. be ready to occupy in about three weeks. HONOLULU. 11. I - The Oahu Aid Society has fairly he— gun its more extensive work of church aid. The two efficient societies at Kaua 1 and Maui have been taken as models, though there is at least one departure from their methods in the operation of the Oahu Society. Aid is given on this island to building and repairing enterprises, which is not undertaken by the Maui Society, while by the Kauai Soci ety only funds are allowed for repairs on pastors'houses which are owned by the Society. To help the churches in their building enterprises, and at the same time reduce to a minimum the irrespon sible soliciting with subscription papers, constitutes a worthy object. When peo pie are approached now with papers re questing aid for this or that church, canvassers can be properly referred to the Oahu Aid Society, which will be in creasihgly in a position to render prompt and intelligent aid. This principle of concentration is nothing new, but has been brought prominently to the atten tion of the public of late in the formation of the Associated Charities of the city. The old church at Haaula,(Koolauloa) Oahu, well represents the pathos of one who has outlived his generation. It might be said to be still in a fair state of preservation, with shingles, floors, seats, and even window panes in their places. To be sure the walls, of the old fashioned adobe type, are profusely scrawled with children's handwriting, and—what is the most suggestive of defeat and abandonment—the arch-occupier lantana has well nigh barred the approaches and has even thrust its way into the easily yielding doors and broken panes. VVhy not repair ? To what end ? The pathetic part of it is that no repair will bring back the congregations of three to four hundred which might comfortably gather in the old walls. They have all died or moved away. Now there are less than fifty people, natural adherents of a Protestant evangelical congregation, but all of them living two or three miles away. The resident pastor, the Rev. Nuuhiwa, has shown himself wise to meet the emergency, and has with his own hands cleared a place out of the lantana for his house, and almost unaided built the foundation and part of the superstructure of n moHpst little church nearly three The Boys' Clubs of Honolulu have been merged into the Boys' Brigade. This new organization expects to carry on the work of as many clubs as are demanded and of which it feels confident to assume the management. Just now th re aic three clubs, comprising a membership ol about I2S boys. These may fairly be called the neglected type of street boys, most of whom have no good employment and homes of a very questionable valutc as homes. Thirty of the strong and able young men of the city have pledged a night a week for the effectual management of theseand other clubs which may be organized. They are assigned to one of six committees having in charge the work assigned to that committee in all the clubs concurrently on the same night, and according to a similar programme. Besides the military training, which appeals to the boys and furnishes a means of effective discipline, athletic work in the way of gymnasium drills, entertainments which the boys are encouraged to furnish among themselves, there is a short religious ritual formed especially for the boys, and one in which they all take part. Perhaps one of the most important functions contemplated by this organization is to provide industrial employment and instruction for the boys in the evenings. Arrangements have been so far perfected at the present that the right instructor has been arranged for and an enterprise planned which promises an education on a nearly self-supporting basis. A proper place for the opening up of the school is one of the requisites at present. Any one desiring to inquire further, or who may desire to aid the enterprise should communicate with Mr. Percy Fond, who is chairman of the Industrial Committee. The readers of The Friend will be interested to learn that steps are being taken to get the sentiment of the reputable Japanese citizens on the question of the segregation of legalized prostitution. As the national honor of the Japanese is necessarily involved in the publicity of their national shame on Fauahi street, Oriental pride is invoked to arouse the weak sense of decency displayed by our Christian civilization. 79 It is only fair to state that the Marshal is highly in favor of such a move but feels doubtful about some things, among them probably being the reasonable doubt as to whether the public cares a bean about the matter. The large element in our community which is presumably Christian are not in evidence sufficiently to make it easy to know what they do think* on these and other moral issues, so usually left to politicians. When the Japanese have expressed themselves, as they undoubtedly will, in favor of doing what is done in Tokio and other heathen cities, then there will be steps taken to secure Government cooperation. The Oahu Aid Society are able to help local churches in another way. For example, the Waialua parsonage has needed repairs. The society has offered to supply one-half of the requisite $240. However, the church finding it hard to get the entire sum of its half from the church members, who are poor, a concert company which did service this summer on Hawaii is called into requisition. This society, which consists of eight young people of the Kamehameha schools will go to Waialua and with the kind assistance of Mrs. Turner (whom the Hawaiians all know as Mele Kuke) and Col. laukeaof the Waialua Hotel, will raise the money at Waialua by means of a quid pro quo. The concert will be given October 7th. Let the hotel guests take notice of the date. Itis a noticeable and encouraging sign that the work of building and repairing of Hawaiian churches has shown unusual activity in the last year or two. It is doubtful if this be fairly attributed to any increase of wealth on the part of the membership of those churches. They may have shared to some degree in the very general prosperity, and of course it must be conceded that a good part of the funds has come from the foreign patrons. Still the will to do this thing has undoubteply sprung up in the Hawaiian mind, and the execution has been attended with considerable sacrifices. Examples ofthis can be found in Kaupo, Maui, the movement of the Gilbert Islanders in Lahaina, the Church of Laupahoehoe on Hawaii, Kaluaaha on Molokai, Haaula on Oahu, not to speak of splendid efforts of the people at Kaumakapili. There are undoubtedly instances of a like kind on Kauai. Before long the only grounds for sports in Honolulu, like base ball and cricket, will have been given for other uses. To be sure, Mr. Frank Damon's untinni' efforts will have resulted in a �small park and playground for younger children on the riverfront, but there will be no place large enough for such games as have been mentioned. Public morals will have to pay the penalty of such a lack. Hoys must have some diversion, healthy or unhealthy. At present the interest uppermost in the minds of the majority of the boys nf the city is some form of gambling. Base ball is fully as interesting, but the boys of the cily have no place to play. There is some gov eminent land left in the city, and as recent authorative action on the part of the President of the United States would seem to hi ye removed the temptation on the part of our local government to sell such lands, the community now has the opportunity ol showing some wise occupancy ol the land in question, even if such were but temporary. We should have some public recreation grounds. Hawaii needs a Pastor's Aid Society. This large island can certainly raise funds for the better maintenance of the native Hawaiian work, and certainly thi moral claims upon ihe laige incomes raising from the largest aggregation of sugar estates is none the Itss on that island. A good man who will give his time and interest to such a work is the first essential. October, 1899. THE FRIEND. 80 often heretofore, the hope of that sorely distressed country rests in its godly minority, in those who have learned their morals where they have gained their religion, from the lips ol the Man of Galilee.—The Pacific. as An Immense Pump. It is stated that the largest irrigation in the world has been ordered from Frsser & Chalmers of Chicago for Oahu Plantation. It will have a capacity of raising ten million gallons every twenty-four hours to a height of 7f>f> feet, and will irrigate much over 1006 acres of cane. One finds il hard tube lieve that it can possibly pay to lift water to such an altitude at a cost doubtless of over $I 0u an a:re per cane crop. But ihe people probably know what they are doing. Waialua Flanta tion is stated to have ordered ■ pump to lift eight millions of gallons a day to At those altitudes B height of TOO feet. there aie some grand breadths ol good land between Ewa and Waialua, which no one has hitherto supposed it possi ble to irrigate, although for half the year they lcciive ram enough for ordinary crops. pump Rainfall in August. of modern scholarship he comes to feel are as nothing compared with a soul thai has caught the vision of God and his goodness. One listens and finds his soul thirsting for God, for the living God. There is a danger that many, in their desire to be correct and philosophical, become cold and formal. North field is a good rectifier in this direction. It brings God before the soul as the only satisfying portion and seeks to center the soul steadfastly upon him. A thoughtful man, who was getting great good from the conference, said to me: "This is not the place to come for the beat results of modern scholarship. It is the place to come to get cleaned out, and there is great need of it." Xvi iv day there is somthing at Northfield to criticise, but every day there are opportunities to enter into the vtry presence chamber of God. One who seeks the Spirit's guidance may see at Northfield that love is laiger and and that the life of stronger than Qod is richer and grander than all the definitions and interpretations of that life that have heen given of men. The practical tendency of the Northfield teaching also impressed me deeply. The higher life," which is really the Christ life, is presented constantly, but it is a life that is intensely practical in its outcome. So exalted are the teachings, for instance, of Mr. Meyer that many say 'is they listen: "That is beyond me." "I cannot see it." "I do not understand it." But the very moment the application ot the truth is made the veriest child can understand, and eveiy earnest soul finds himself pi.tying: "Lord, that is what I want. Help me to get hold of it." For instance, at the close of an address one morning came this application: "Now some ot you ladies will have to pay You more attention to your dress. must take Christ into consultation. You must dress to the glory of God. Some of you will have to write letters. It will be hard work, but it must be done. Go home and do it before you sit down to dinner. You have wronged a friend. Make th.it matter right. Some of you must make restitution. Some of you must break at once with that impure habit. 1 cannot go into that matter further.'' " The rainfall was light in Auguat on the leeward side of Oahu and in Kau, but heavy in Kona, Hawaii. Drought The Dreyfus Verdict. afflicted Kohala had a good supply ol rain in July and August. Honolulu has Despite lis gruesome incidents it is had a dry summer, and last month condifficult to take the Dreyfus court mar siderable scarcity of water supply. tial seriously, It combined ;he grotes tjue features of M burlesque opera with The amount of sugar annually conthe passions ola Southern lynching bee. sumed in Europe and America is about Pitiable as is the case of the twice-con seven million tons. Of this nearly one victed prisioner, it is not so pitiable as third is cousumed by the United States, that of his judges. One accustomed to and one-fifth by Great Britain. English American court procedures hardly speaking people consume over one-half knows what to say at such a travesty ol of the whole sugar product. justice as the whole trial involves. All Teacher: "How would you describe the laws of evidence have been set at Henry VIII of England?" naught. No gossip has seemed too Studtnt; " I would describe him as a puerile to serve the purpose of the professional widower."- Tit-Bits. prosecutors; no demand of the defense Teachings for Northfield too reasonable to be refused. It is who has been conreally not Dreyfus Dr. Woodbridge in the Congregationvicted, but his prosecutors, writing -^BANKEBS^ against themselves the verdict of menial alist, writes of the meetings at NorthHawaiian Islands. Honolulu, field follows : as imbecility and moral obliquity. The IN 1858ESTABLISHED Fiance, the idol of has fallen like and It is the tone spiritual tendency army, Dagon on the threshold of the Temple of the Northfield teaching that I fetl Transact a general Hanking and Exchange Justice. They who have erected honor needs emphasis. Men teach who are business. Loans made on approved security. into religion have revealed to the world Bills discounted, Commercial credits granted. only the broken fragments of their plas- in touch with God. Their religion is Deposits received on current account subject to ter image. The glory of France is slain more than grammar and philosophy; it check. Letters ol credit issued on the princpa| upon its high places. That which is life and power. One grows impatient cities of the world. should have been its defense has again with himself and his possessions while til' Agents ol the Liverpool and London and been exhibited as its deadly foe, Now, listening to these men. All the results Globe Insurance Co. BISHOP &CO. � 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 (1899) 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/. 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