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'. , mil. , Vn n .- ti I\i i , 1., HO.XN li. I Hawaiian Trust and Investment Company, Ltd. , MONO! I'll. II I. ni/cil t..r ,-*i» ss awaaai at .i< una p» TRt'STEEt, GUARDIAN*, ADM IMs I KAIOKs. KXI-.i links Kl.( UVRKX 41..1 Assicvv ( �The Friend. HONOLULU. 11. 1., . FEBRUARY. NUMHER 2 1900. 1 Volume r.>S. Tiik Ki.ikm.i~ Duuliabed the lii-i .'.<> '>f loch monthbi find them and love the better part. Of fellowship from it, and the State conH. I. milis. ,11 >t 1..ii rati I"" liuivisikk Honolulu.Any receive its deleVkak in an. old D.imien, whose weaknesses and vention has refused to These facts seem to show that gates. literary wuh lha comma latter* conrwin«l think licatiumawl All worse perhaps I heard fully, I belief in the virgin birth, the physical ..i the paper, 1"..■..k-.i..1 Mngiuhie*. f« X«. iI.-ii.iiinit-a vie.* ..ml Enchangn 51i,.,i1,l 1., addraaMd "Hi v. s. K. only the more. He was a European resurrection and the substitutionary Hisinii-, Honolulu, 11. I." dirty, bigoted, untruthful, atonement of Christ is essential in the Ilusincss latter! sliml.l ba oiMrewad "I. «■ IllKUl. ptrasaiit, Honolulu, 11. I." unwise, tricky, but superb with gen- Baptist denomination. The Congrega- erosity, residual candor, and fundaKmrok mental good humor; convince him he S. K. BISHOP had done wrong (it might take hours of ai.k CONTENTS. i insult) and he would undo what he had I A Brightening Prospect t 1 Stevcn-on'a Opinion o( I 'aniie done and like his corrector better. A ll.ilui,! Orthodoxy 1-2 man, with all the grime and paltriness The l'a«a ..t' I>r Mdafterl Man Poor Without Keligi of mankind, but a saint and hero all Mr. Henry C Brown ■ Karlier I- ires to Oesimy the Plague :I The Burning ofChinatowit the more for that." ..3-4 \ I ii.-.n mill S.ii-l- Distreft* J Kaumakapili Church That Damien showed heroic quality Is in it Burned All Infected 4* Mrs. Hniiiliiiini ih.-.iil' ll.i,inbe fully admitted. But according may Kerosene \\ -ir. huuie t aaip j to vety copious testimony which we Bubonic Plague Kuentiallya filth I n-. ..-■■ Plague in Honolulu Mortality I-'. •' have received concerning him, he was 1 (Vns.is of Honolulu ■J hardly clean enough for a saint, either Surve] Ship Nero \rri\< Propsteod t [arbor Improvement* own His or morally. physically ■' Mr. li.ii.l<-\ mi Agalnaldo :'-" spiritual fraternity hete would never Record ~f Event, Shippi< New>, cli ? have thought of making a saint of him. Hawaiian Board «1 Kjtumakapiii Church Building The Plague in Kobe, Japan -_ Letter fruin Ml Durao of the new Mauna*N The corner stone l.etterfr.ini Pi Iuse II Nanpei was laid on the 13th ult. Seminary iilu In tuts •••* at Sunnyside, Makawao, with appropriate public txercises. Addresses were A Brightening Prospect. made by the donor, Hon. H. P Bald There is a general belief that the win, and by Rev. Dr. K. G. Beckwith whole frame Plague is stayed. During the past two and Key. J. Kalino. The is up. It will be story work of the first has abated. rapidly weeks the mortality an imposing edifice on a commanding This result seems very clearly to be the site. The school expect to occupy it effect of the mote rigid and vigorous before the end of June. sanitary measures so strenuously carried Baptist Orthodoxy. on by the Board of Health, and actively aided by the intelligent citizens of HoThese three test questions were renolulu. Segregation, disinfection, purcently put to Rev. W. H. Pinkham, gation by file, and the thorough twice a of Bethany Baptist Chur;h in pastor have day inspection of every dwelling, Col. Denver, There produced marvellous results. Do believe in the literal resurrecyou that prospect be the strongest seems to our city will soon he entirely delivered tion of Christ ? Do you believe in the supernatural from this "Black Death," and cease to birth of Christ ? be a dread to all around us. Do you believe in the vicarious atoneWe have the deepest cause profoundcreated and ment of Christ ? God, who has ly to thank tstablished here a civilization of such He answered that he had no clear intelligence and forcefulness, as so rapid- views on the first two questions. As to ly to stamp out this evil. the third he said: "Christ suffered for the world's sinfulness as you would were your brother to go astray. I do of Damien. Stevenson's Opinion not believe in the doctrine of substitu tion." The ministerial association to The Congngtitioualist prints the fol- which Mr. Pinkham belonged had allowing extract from the recently publish- ready requested him to withdraw from ed Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, its membership on the ground that his leper views were not in accord with its memwho had sojourned at the settlement, and ha.l studied Lather bers, but he had refused. As the Damien's character: church persisted in retaining him as "We must take folks' virtues as we pastor, the local association withdrew . .- . ' ' - --' * ' : tionist. — To the first two questions we suppose that no Congregationalist minister could reply negatively and remain in the denomination. The facts named are central to true Christian belief. The third point of belief, we regret to say, is held by many of our ministers and some of out seminaries is a very emasculated form. The doctrine of an expiatory atoning sacrifice on Calvary is being powerfully maintained by the ablest theologians of our denomination in Kngland, and promises to become dominant again in our churches in America, as the New Testament most abundantly and explicitly teaches. As Dr. Forsyth of Cambridge, Kngland, well says: "We are only just escaping from the modern and sentimental idea of love which found no difficulty placed by the holy law of God's nature in his way of forgiveness. It is an immoral love which has no moral hesitation about mercy." The Case of Dr. McGiffert. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States last year denounced as heretical certain positions taken by Rev. A. C. McGiffert D. D., a Professor in Union Theological Seminary, and directed his Presbytery in New York City to proceed against him. The findings of the Presbytery were as follows: I. It finds that the teachings of the book entitled "A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age," by the Rev. A. C. McGiffert, are in certain points, according to the judgment of the majority of this Presbytery, erroneous and seriously out of harmony with the facts of Holy Scripture as they have heen interpreted by the Presbyterian Church. These teachings, according to their author, have already been misunderstood; but this very liability to misunderstanding is one of the elements �2 which make the Presbytery disapprove of them, as likely to lead to yet more serious error. The following examples are cited as statements especially open to such construction, viz.: (1) The apparent acceptance of the theory that the Sacrament of the Holy Communion was not instituted by Christ himself upon the occasion of the last supper as a memorial feast (Page 69, Footnote). VI) The discrediting of the view so long accepted by the Church that the Third Gospel and the Book of the Acts were written by St. Luke, the compan ion of St. Paul (pp. 237, 433), and the suggestion that they were more probably the work of some writer living in the latter part of the first century, a generation after the death of the THE FRIEND. Man Poor Without Religion. A man may get on very well, it is And no doubt he often does get on very well, in his own judgment. But whatever his own satisfaction may l>r, is it not possible that there may he something terribly lacking in his life? Something the loss of which is none the less serious be cause he himself is not aware of what he is missing? A man who has no mind may get on very well, as it seems to himself. There are imbeciles, I suppose, who get on very well. They are perfectly contented and happy. Nevertheless,we Apostle (p. 436). regard a man whose mental nature has (3) The expression of uncertainty as never been developed as a man much to to the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, he pitied. He is deficient,we say of such and the assertion that the discourses in a man. Exactly! That is just what he it attributed to our Lord, although "they is, deficient, not fully a man, inasmuch embody Christ's genuine teaching at as he is wanting in reason. Or, though least to some extent," are the composi our minds may he quick and powerful tion of the author (p. 616). in certain directions, we may be with (4) The view that "Jesus' emphasis out those gifts and faculties by which, of faith in, or acceptance of himself, is if we had been endowed with them, we throughout an emphasis, not of his might enter into many worlds uf activpersonality, but of his message ity and experience which are capable of and thus a reaffirm adding enormously to the happiness of simply ation ot filial trust in, devotion to, and those who are able to move in them service of God as the essential condition freely. of an eternal life of blessedness in Is it no misfortune to be shut out from heaven" (p. 30). those fair regions? Are we not greatly 11. This Presbytery recognizes the the losers if we have no undeistanding principle, frequently asserted by the of the things which they contain? Must Presbyterian Church, that a man is not not our life be much duller and poorer necessarily to be held responsible for than it would have been if we had been the general consequences which seem permitted to take our place and play our to others deducible from his views in part in those spacious kingdoms, and certain particulars. The distinct and those palaces of wonder and delight? definite dispproval of the aforesaid You are musical. Have you no com teachings of Dr. McGiffert by this passion for the man who has no feeling Presbytery does not preclude it fr,om for music? You are a reader. Do you accepting as sincere and reassuring his not think, then, that those to whom the public and personal avowal that he is world of literature is a world unknown, "in accordance with the faith of the are rather badly off, even though in Presbyterian Church and of Kvangelical some ways they may seem to be getting Christendom in all vital and essential on very well? You take an interest in matters;" that he reverently accepts science. What do you think of those the Holy Communion as one of the who know nothing and care nothing divinely appointed Sacraments of the about all that is taking place in that Christian Church; that he acknowledges wide domain? Is it enough, after all, the authority of the Holy Scriptures as for a man to be thinking that he is the only infallible rule of taith and getting on very well? No, it is certainly practice; that "most emphatically" he not enough. A man may think that, believes "in the Deity of Christ;" and and be caring for no single thing in that he is "in hearty sympathy with the heaven or in earth but eating and drinkgenuinely Pauline and Protestant doc ing and money making. And that is trine of salvation through faith alone." not to be getting on very well. Not for Many will think that the learned a man. These are not occupations with which anyone who wishes to come Doctor was let off rather easily after to the maturity of true manhood has denying that our Lord instituted the any right to be content. And what Supper as a memorial feast. He is may be said of music or literature or entirely free to adopt any heresy what- science may surely be said with much ever. But in doing so, he is not free to greater emphasis in regard to religion. Think of the Kingdom of God of which remain a teacher in the Presbyterian Christ spoke, and the glory and worth Church. of which to Him was so immeasureable. said, without religion. [February, 1900. Think of those who rule in it, of those majestic Powers and Presences who make it what it is. Think of the great; company of those who are its citizens.. Think of its pursuits, its interests, its. opportunities, its privileges, its rewards. And think of the lot of that man towhom all the grace and wonder of that Kingdom is as a sealed book, whose feet have never trodden the soil of that sweet country, who has never breathed its pure invigorating air, whose eyes have never seen the Kingdom of God, who is of the earth, earthy. Think of that man, and be sorry for him. Why, there is an entire department of his being which has no life in it. There are: faculties and powers within him, and! those the noblest he possesses, which have not yet begun to grow, which can scarcely be said to have been called into existence. He has not been born again. There is the natural man only, not the spiritual man. Things unseen and eternal, the glory of God, the sweetness and majesty of Him who is the Sun and Saviour of this dark world, the power of the Holy Spirit, and all the heavenly hosts, are beyond his range, are to him as though they were not. He is getting on very well! No, he is not getting on well at all, not as he should be getting on who was born in the image of God, and whom God has called to be his friend and His child. He is but a part of a man as yet. He is like " Sheep or goats That nourish a blind lite within the brain." He has not come to himseff. Arnold Thomas Mr. Henry C. Brown. This gentleman with Mrs. Brown arrived on the 17th ult. from Worcester, Mass., where he had labored for some years in connection with the Old South Church of that city. Mr. Brown has entered at once upon his duties as an Assistant fo the Pastor of the Central Union Church in Honolulu. He will have especial charge of the Sabbath School. Another Assistant to the Pastor is Miss Florence Yarrow who entered upon her new duties about two months since. With the labors of these two very able assistants, the work of the C. U. Church may be expected to go forward with highly organized activity. One of the good results of the Plague is to be the removal from the business centre of a line of unsightly and insanitary old buildings occupying the main part of the block from Bethel to Fort street. An elegant three story block will take their place. �Earlier Fires to Destroy the Plague. THE I'KIENrY brick engine house. Some sixty acres of land which had been crowded with wooden tenements containing nearly r<ooo people was left a smoking desolation. The ground was left entirely open for nearly half a mile in length from Ku kui Street to the waterfront, and Nuuanu Street to the River, saving only the brick buildings in the southeast part of the district. The intention was to burn at that time only a largs block of old wooden tenements east of Kaumakapili Church. These were deeply infected with the plague, many cases having occurred there. The fire was started at an early hour not far from the church, and for an hour was held under good control by Stream I from four engines. The wind, which had been light, then rose and veered from side to side. The eastern of the two steeples of the chinch caught fire at a height beyond the reach of the engines This was soon followed by the destiuction of the whole building. From that time on, it was impossible to arrest the spread of the flames. The conflagration rapidly extended to the River, and down to the waterfront, as well as up to Ktiktii Street. The Iron Works were saved with great difficulty by the strenuous exertions of the r>0() employees, and the imlispen sable aid of the lite engines of the tugs Iroquois and Lieu, which threw enormous streams of water upon the advanc ing flames. One of" the city engines had been burned by the heat of the flames preventing its removal. Had the Iron Works gone, the conflagration wonld have extended over to Nuuanu St. and to the center of the business section The shipping at the wharves hail been removed out into the stream away from the flying storm f burning cinders. Prior to the complete destruction of Chinatown, when the flames got beyond control, the Fire Depaitment had done much hard work in burning out limited sections and single buildings where the Plague has appeared. In two successive fires all buildings were destroyed from Chaplain street on Nuuanu to the brick McLain building, and back to the premises occupied by the Mills Institute of Mr. F. W. Damon, which was in a highly critical position. Nearly the whole of a block was dc strnyed lying between King and Merchant, Alakea and Richards streets. Buildings were also burned on lower Nuuanu, above and below Marin street, also on Kekaulike near the Water front, A row of houses was burned on Kukui lane, back of the old Commercial Saloon. Detached buildings were burned on upper and lower Lihha streets. During the week ending on the 20th, there were extensive fires in Chinatown on successive days. The first was the block of two acres south of Kaumakapili Church. Another was the similar block west of the church. The third w.is half of a similar block next below the first one, the remaining half being occupied by good brick buildings on Hotel street. Such buildings were exempted from fire, as being capable of disinfected with removal of the floors. In all of these canflagrations, the Fire Department was admirably handled, and kept the flames under complete control by means of copious streams of water skilfully applied. All the occupants of the premises burned had previously been rem ived to extensive quarantine buildings newly erected on A Great and Sore Distress. the sea shore towards Kalihi. The goods removed were stored in various warehouses for fumigation. A large By the unexpected conflagration of quantity filled the great basement of nearly 4,A00 persons were Chinatown, Kaumakapili Church, where they were driven hastily into the street from their all destroyed by the conflagration of the 20th. Some 2,600 people, chiefly burning dwellings. It was a distressful Asiatics, were being held in quarantine and panic stricken mass of humanity. up to that date, all of whom had been This feature of the great disaster far removed from the infected districts. exceeded every other. It was perhaps the most distressing and dangerous con The Burning of Chinatown. dition with which the citizens of Honolulu have ever had to cope. These January 20th was a day of terror. What was intended for a very limited lire people must he controlled, calmed and got out of the control of the firemen, and comforted. They must he placed in swept away the whole of the district safety. They must especially be pre known as Chinatown. Koine 4500 peo vented from scattering, to disseminate pie were suddenly driven into the streets through the city the germs of plague by the flames, losing all their wordly from their unsanitary and infected possessions, and crazed with grief and abodes. They must continue to be terror. The noble Kaumakapili church quarantined, as they had been for weeks was destroyed. The costly Honolulu before, having been guarded from leav Iron Works were saved with great diffi ing the district. They must immediately culty. Two brick blocks on the southern be provided with improvised quarters as border of the district were burned, also a comfortable as circumstances would , 3 Vol. 58, No. i] permit. They must be fed, and in many cases, clothed. To a great extent, these crowds were in a state of panic, as well as of anger at the whites who, as they believed, had deliberately burned them out. In their fright they had saved little of their belongings from the flames which so rapidly swept down upon them. Among them were many violent men who urged their fellows to attack the armed guards who were controlling their movements. The situation was most critical and dangerous, as well as moving to sympathy and compassion. Wives were often separated from husbands and children from parents, and wailing in distress. Large ly they were poverty-stiicken and squalid in appearance, chiefly Asiatics. Most happily there were no losses ot life, and scarcely an injury to person. The citizens of Honolulu rose at once fitly to the situation with rapid and efficient organization. Several hundred citizens were at once armed with improvised clubs such as pick-handles, to assist the military and police. Korming in lines along the streets, the frightened crowds were driven between the brandished clubs, but without a blow ■truck, to the large Kawaiahao church yard, a distance of three fifths of a mile. The weaker women and children were carried on drays. The men were loaded down with their effects. The women and children filled the great church, crowded in every part. The men filled the yard, where was fortunately a copious supply of water. Pood was supplied as rapidly as possible. During the afternoon and evening, large bodies of Japanese were drafted off to quarters at the Drill shed; Hawaiians were taken to the late (jueen Dowager's premises, and several hundred others to Kakaako and South street detention camps. The number at the church was thus reduced to about 2,500. These were made as comfortable as practicable for the night, there being the usual dry Honolulu weather. All of the bright Sunday the work of relief went on. The women of Honolulu organized to prepare clothing for the destitute women and children for whom the sewing-machines buzzed all day throughout the city, instead of Church or Sunday school. Great barracks were constructed at the Drill shed to accommodate 1200 people. Fresh forces of carpenters were put on at the Kalihi (Quarantine camp to supply accommodation for ftOOO people. 2ftoo were already there from Chinatown, but one thousand of those were soon set at The army commander at liberty. Waikiki send up a detachment of his force to stand guard around the Church and Drill-shed. This help was much needed. He has previously kept his men strictly from communication with the town. On Friday the 26th, the Kawaiahao �THE FRIEND. 4 Church was entirely relieved of its undesirable occupation. A thot sugh cleansing and disinfection was given to the building, and as fat- as possible, the yard was restored to good condition. The great Detention camp at Kalihi beach contained 5000 occupants, comfortably housed in strict quarantine, fed and clothed by the Government. 1,200 Japanese remained at the Drill shed barracks. Knough more are quarantin ed at other points to bring the whole number of the imprisoned population to over 7000. Most happily, there has been a material abatement of the pestilence. During the week succeding the fire the mortality from Plague was reduced to five, against 15 and 9 respectively, during the two weeks preceeding. Of these five, only one was from a deten tion camp, that at Kalihi. Kaumakapili Church. This fine church with its twin steeples has for thirteen years been the most prominent edifice in any view of the city from the westward. It was dedicated in 1888, when the late Dr. Lowelj Smith, the first pastor, deliverel an historical address. Dr. Smith's only surviving child, Mrs. B. F. Dillingham now abroad, has been closely identified with the church in zealous and affectionate labors, and will be deeply moved by the news of the disaster which has befallen the edifice. The original church was a low, spacious and homely adobe structure built in 1837 with a steep roof and wide verandahs. The new building was on the same spot. It took many years to gather, very largely from foreigners, the $45,000 expended in its completion. One its luxurious furnishings was a chime of eight bells. Another was a noble organ by Bevington and Sons of London, which cost $4,500, and was one of the best in this city. The church and congregation have been for several years ministered to by the Rev. K. S. Timoteo, who was lately a delegate to the Boston Conference. The loss of their building, though only temporary we trust, will be a serious detriment to their important church work, and they will greatly need aid and encouragement. We suppose that it will be the duty of the Government to restore the building, as they indirectiy caused its destruction. The walls and towers are standing complete, in apparently unimpaired solidity, which will greatly reduce the the cost of restoration. In testimony of the value of this and other Protestant churches in holding the native population at a higher level of character, we may recur to the fact these there were 637 Hawaiians, 321? Chinese and 101 Japanese. For their accommodation extensive barracks have been created in the vicinity of Queen and South stieets. These are divided into six sections entirely separated from each other. The whole is amply supplied with the necessary offices and conveniences for every purpose. There is a Hospital with a staff of nurses. The All Infected Goods to be Burned. Camp is under the superintendence of Mr. A. L. C. Atkinson, assisted by Mr. It was announced early on the 20th, J. L. McCombe. before the destructive fire, that all goods exposed to infection should hereafter be Bubonic Plague Essentially, a Filth Disease. burned, instead of being removed and fumigated. This course of action was recommended in a resolution signed by In all cities, the home of the Plague the large business houses of the city, is in the unsanitary districts. The and was adopted on the 19th by the germs of the pest multiply in the filth Board of Health. It is plain from merely a commercial stand point that the holes of the slums and stews; and the cost to the government of such destruc denizens of those crowded sections are tion of property cannot compare with the ones whom the lilack Death sweeps the pecuniary losses inflicted upon all off. It is lately that the well to-do inbusiness by the continued spread of the habitants of a city are stricken, although Plague. The losses of every day of thty do not wholly escape the terrible the present embargo upon our commerce disease. In the present visitation the can be measured only by tens of great majority lived in the crowded thousands of dollars. slums of Chinatown. Of the first 44 For the multiplying peril to life there deaths, 33 were residents of that disis no pecuniary estimate. trict. No Portuguese have been infected in their homes. Their humble homes are chiefly in elevated sections, Mrs. Boardman dies of Plague. and are kept clean. The contrary are The agitation resulting from the pres- the conditions of the Chinese and, to a less degree, of the Japanese. ence of the Plague was much intensified It is the duty of the public authorities by the death on the 16th inst. of Mrs. to see that every habitation of the city Boardman, living in one of the best res- is kept in sound sanitary condition, no idence sections. She had been employed filth accumulating. A severe and very in Jordan's large dry-goods store in costly lesson is now being taught. charge of the art department. There is Probably it will be well learned, both by no satisfactory account of how she re- the owners of tenements and by public ceived the infection. She was ill about officials. Honolulu is likely heteafttr 48 hours. Mrs. Boardman was 46 years to become a clean city not only in its of age, and an old resident. She was a better sections, but among the homes lady of charming qualities and greatly of the lowly and poor. esteemed by neighbors and friends. She leaves no children or relatives in HonoThe Australia on January 24th, took lulu. Mr. Boardman merits the deepest many of sympathy as deprived at once of wife and over 150 cabin passengers, for fitted whom had to be quarters up in with home. His house has been burned, the whole of the furniture, and Mrs. B's steerage. A majority of the regular rare collection of curios. This case il liners calling here have been refusing lustrates the determined and, we trust, to take passengers: hence the crowd on successful effort to abate the scourge the Australia. Among them were several tourists from the down trip, who which has invaded our city. had remained on board while the ship was in port, in order to escape quaranKerosene Warehouse Camp. tine in San Francisco. previously stated, that during the visitation of cholera in 1895, not a single one of the 80 cases among Hawaiians oc curred in the household of any member of either the Kawaiahao or the Kaumakapili Church. It remains to be seen whether the like will be true of the present visitation of pestilence. The Detention ('amp so designated especial mention among the several establishments created by the energy of the Board of Health and the citizens' cooperation for the segregation of people who have been exposed to The importance of this infection. establishment is indicated by the number of persons 1,054 who were reported as confined there on the 26th ult. Of merits The whole district of Chinatown is being enclosed by a high board fence, in order to prevent plague-germs from being carried thence by searchers for objects of value in the debris. The district will be tabooed ground for a King street is opened long time. through it after thorough disinfection. Some forty large and small fire-proofsafes have been taken from the ruins. �Mortality From Plague in Honolulu. According to the best corrected data attainable, the total number of deaths from Bubonic Plague in this city to the end of January has been 47. These deaths have been distributed as follows during seven successive weeks, beginning with December 1 2, and ending January 31: 2, 3, 7, 6, 15, 9, 5. During the last four days only one death occurred, on the 28th. There are 4 convales cent cases, one entirely cured. There is another case still hanging doubtful. The deaths have been from the following nationalities: Chinese, 24; Hawaiians, 14; Japanese, 6; Whites, 2; Gilbertese, I. No cases have occurred among the 5460 Portu guese. The percentage of deaths has been as follows; among Chinese, .00124; Hawaiians, .00109; Japanese, .00082; Whites, .000266. It thus appears that the relative mortality among the Chinese has been over twice that among Hawaiians, nearly thrice that among Japanese, and nearly ten times that among Whites. The percent-ge of deaths among the whole population of Honolulu has been .00106, or a little over one in one thousand. During the cholera visitation in 1895, nine-tenths of the sufferers were Hawaiians. Now the Chinese have one-half of the cases. Are they more susceptible to the disease? Or do their habits more expose them to infection? A Census of Honolulu. The district inspectors have recorded all the inhabitants of their districts. Returns to headquarters are still in com plete, but indicate that the population of the city is nearly 45,000. The population by nationalities is as follows: 12,820 Hawaiians Chinese 10,741 Japanese 7,298 Portuguese 5,466 Other Foreigners 7,927 44,252 Total That over one-sixth of the whole po pulation of the city are now under guard in the various detention camps, is a portentous fact, which shows the magnitude and vigor of the operations of the Board of Health and of the white community in combating the pestilence. Survey Ship Nero Arrives. Present hopes for an, early laying of Pacific Cable are encouraged not only by reported action in Congress, but by a the arrival at this port of the armed survey-ship Nero. She is 80 days fr m Guam, whence she has followed a zigzag course hither, surveying the ocean bottom for a cable. She has been for three months without news from the outside world. Her officers asked who won the Yacht Race? They were surprised to hear of the events of the Boer war. This is very different from being in cable connection with the world. It makes one recall the the old Cape Horn mails of sixty years ago. The Nero reports havihg found and surveyed a region of depression in the ocean bed between Guam and Luzon, which is much deeper than has hitherto been discovered elsewhere. The ex treme depth is 5,2 6 fathoms, or 31,536 feet. Proposed Harbor Improvements. Arrangements are nearly concluded, for building a wharf 400 feet long on the Fast side of the harbor channel, to the seaward of all present structures. It would be 120 feet wide, and entirely disconnected with the adjacent land, in order that freight from foreign ships may be discharged there without danger of infection from the shore, and that our quarantined coasting stesmers may safely take it aboard for the other islands. The reverse process may also be employed for shipping sugar. The subject is being mooted of utilizing for shipping more or less space of the present low ground along the River, or mouth of the Nuuanu stream. There are between thirty and forty acres of such land between the harbor and Kukui street, the only occupied part of which is now the grounds of the St. Louis College. This is nearly one half the area of the present harbor, It is now too low for proper sanitation or sewerage. It could probably be dredged out easily to a depth of 25 feet below mean tide. The material removed would furnish convenient filling for low grounds in the vicinity. Access for ship ping would be through drawbridges at King and Beretania streets. The project is a novel one, but wears a hopeful aspect. Mr. Dooley on Aguinaldo. " Up gets this little monkey of an Aguenaldoo an'says he: 'Not for us,' he says. 'We thank you kindly, but we believe,' he says, 'in pathronisin' home industhries,' he says, 'an' he says, 'I have on hand,' he says, 'an' for sale, a very superyor brand iv home made liber ty like ye'er mother used to make,' he "I'is a long way fr'm ye'er plant says. to here,' he says, 'an' be th' time a cargo iv liberty,' he says, 'got out here an' was handled by th' middlemen,' he says, ' it might spoil,' he says. 'We do 'nt want army col' storage or embalmed liberty,' he says. 'What we want an' what th' old reliable house of Aguenaldoo,' he says, 'supplies to th' thrade,' he says, 'is fr-resh liberty, r-right off th' far rm,' he says. 'I can't do annything with ye'er proposition,' he says. 'I can't give up,' he says, 'th' rights f'r which f r five years I've fought an' bled ivry man I could reach,' he says. 'Onless,' he says, 'ye'd ' 5 THE FRIEND. Vol. 58, No. 2. ] feel like buyin' out th' whole business,' he says. 'I 'ni a pathrite,' he says, 'but I'm no bigot,' he says. An' there it stands, Hinaissy, with the indulgent parent kneelin' on th' stomach iv his adopted child, while a dilligation from Boston bates him wid an umbrella. -Mr. Dooley in Pence and Wnr. RECORD OF EVENTS. Jan. Ist—New Year's day. The Ad exceptionally fine illustrated Holiday number of twentyeight pages, replete with Hawaii's past, present and future Plague infected buildings on Maunakea Street burned by direction of the Health authotities. Important evening meeting of the Board of Health at which the Cabinet and a number of prominent citizens were pre sent to consider the situation. Drastic measures adopted to fight the plague. 2nd —Two suspect cases discovered. Quarantine area txtended. Another Chinatown section condemned to be burnt.—Citizen's Committee report on selection of a site for proposed quarantine barracks on the Kwa side of Iwtlt-i. 3rd—F"urther suspicious cases d«vel oping, the Board of Health place the entire judicial district of Honolulu under strict quarantine, and all persons are forbidden to leave the city without pervertiser issues an — mission. 4th —Wilder Steamship Company's new steamer Kaiulani, arrives from San FYancisco via Kahului. -Kekaulike Street block of infected buildings burned. F"our Plague deaths occur today, making a total of nineteen since its first appearance. 6th—Dr. C. B. Wood succeeds Minister Cooper as the President of the Board of Health.—Council of State votes $270,000 for the work of suppressing the plague.—S. S. Moana from the Colonies, en route for San Francisco, refusing to take even mail matter, continues on her voyage. 6th —Condemned buildings corner of Nuuanu and Marine Streets adjoining the Honolulu Iron Works burned. Physicians of the city held their month ly meeting in the Progress Hall to discuss the sanitation of Honolulu, at which some radical measures were proposed for the relief of existing evils. Committee appointed to confer with the Board of Health. 9th. —Chamber of Commerce support certain resolutions of the Medical Association to be submitted to the Health authorities. The Executive Council held a session to consider the present grave situation, which was attended also by representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association. 11 th.—No improvement in the situation. Couneil of State vote $15,000 for the construction of temporary shelter for persons released from quarantine, — — �r t-» THE FRIEND. 6 snd $5000 for their maintenance while a Nuuanu is condemned and burned, also public charge —Three deaths occur; sev- the Boardman residence and a couple eral buildings corner of Nuuanu and of houses on the Punchbowl street, Kukui lane burned.—Tramway Co. and corner of Palace walk. Rapid Transit Company's forces collide 25th Plague situation shows im in their track laying work on King St. provement, there being but three deaths 12th—Condemned block 10, bounded and two suspects in the past three days. by Nuuanu, Pauahi, Smith and Bereta Condemned premises at Leleo burned. nia Streets burned, the Holt building 26th—A death at Kaimuki and a facing the Queen Emma premises being above Wyllie street indicate suspect the only one saved. A case developing that still lurks in the city. the danger in the building corner of King St. and Public Health Committee Hilo send a of Union Square, causes the condemnation to the Board of Health, whom of the block. —Destructive coffee grove itdelegate has defied, for authority and funds. fire at Olaa, Hawaii, estimated loss $3000 Improvement clubs organize in various to $5000. sections of the city. 14th—Several plague deaths and new 27th—An incendiary fire practically suspect cases create much anxiety cleans out the Aala section from its unthroughout the city. Citizens' Sanitary sanitary buildings. The Railroad station Committee establish house to house and adjoining lumber yard, as also the visitation by inspectors twice a day. large merchants' warehouse recently 16th—Death of Mrs. Boardman casts erected for and filled with goods from a gloom over the city. Block 9, bound- condemned quarters, narrowly escaped ed by Beretania, Smith, Pauahi and destruction. Maunakea streets, burned by order of 29th—Arrival of the U. S. survty the Health authorities. ship Nero from Guam, and hospital 17th—Three more plague victims and ship Missouri rom Manila with 272 one suspect case comprise the day's re- sick and wounded men, en route for cord. More of Chinatown is condemn- San Francisco. ed for purification by fire. 30th—Inter-Island Telegraph Co. 19th—Half of block 11, and infected effect permanent organization. Citizens' stable on King street near Liliha, Sanitary Committee from their rough census work gives the population of burned. Honolulu as 44,252. 20th —Condemned block 15 fire started, near Kaumakapili church, and in 31st—The month closes without furspite of strenuous effort to save the ther plague developments; the outlook building, the steeples catch fire and in is now hopeful for an end of further theirdestruction send fire brands to other trouble. blocks which, getting beyond control, makes a clean sweep of Chinatown to Nuuanu stream and the water front. Marine Journal. Honolulu Iron Works narrowly escapes PORT OF HONOLULU, JANUARY. destruction. Many citizen volunteeis aid the authorities in controling the homeless hordes of this quarantined ARRIVALS. section and marching them to temporary I—U S trans Athenian, Mowatt, from Manila. Am ss Mariposa, Houdlettf, from San Fram ilea places of shelter. Kawaiahao church 4— 6—Br ss Mo.iii.t, Carey, from the Colouies. and grounds received over 6,000, some 7—Am sh St. Nicholas, Brown, fiom Vancouver. Wes'minster, Petrie, from San Fran ISCO. of whom were assigned to other camps 8- UAmS sstrans China, Se.bury, from Yokohama. Conway bk Castle, Evans, from Liverpool, Br by night-fall as space was found. Then schr Mary E Foster. Thompson, from San Francisco came the feeding and clothing of the 9 Am Topgallant, bk Lundvaldt, from Tacoma. Am Am schr Ruby A Cousins, Walton, from Francis, o multitude, in which service a sympaLady Joicey, Cook, from Yokohama, Br ss thetic public generously aid the govern 10—Ger sh Caeserea. Cordis, from Newcastle. Am schr Golden .Shore, from Newcastle. ment. No fatality or serious personal Am schr A J West, Ogilvic, from Gray's Harbor, 11—Br bk Adderly, Bertjuist. from Newcastle* injury reported for the day. — 12 Br sh Inverness-shire, Peattie, from Newcastle. Am bk Pactolus, Watts, from Nanaimo. Dodd, a well 21st—Death of Br SS Doric, Smith from Yokohama. know citizen of many years residence. 18—Br ss Gaelic, Finch, from San Francisco. Br ss Aorangi, Hepworth, from Vancouver. The Advertiser gets out a Sunday ediBr bk Holywuod, McCauley, from Antwerp. Am schrLdlebonne, Hanson, from Alierdeen, Wash. tion with a full account of the "passing 14 Haw hk Nuuanu, JoSselyn, from New York, of Chinatown." Ladies of the city Am bk Alex McNeil, Jorgensen, from Newcastle. 15—Am schr Mary Dodge, Olsen, from San FraiKiaco. form various "sewing bees," to make Jap ss Doyo Maru, Asara, from Yokohama, Am schrAlice M Kimlwdl, Anderson, from San Francisco up garments for the needy. 16 Am schr Chas E Falk, Brown, from San Francisco. Am &chr Henry Wilson, Johnson, from Gray's Harlwr. 22nd—Merchants agree on business 17—Am SS Australia, lawless, from San Francisco, Br %B Miower.i, Hemming, from the Colonies. hours from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. so as to Qar schr Ebon, from San Francis, o. It allow clerks or others in inspection or Br sh Champion, Jones, from Newcastle. 19—Br ss from Seattle. Blocmfontin, Blelloch, guard duty ample time for same. A 20 —Am schr Lmile, Anderson, from Tacoma. Druminuir, sh from Newcastle. Anderson, Br partially constructed block on the new Hawbk MannaAla, Smith, from San Francisco. extension of Kukui street corner of Haw bk lolani, McClure, from Nanaimo, James , % r\t\ , 21—Haw bk Santiago, F.ngalls, from San Francisco. Haw schr Surprise, from San Francisco. H \m bk Ceylon, Wilier, from Tacoma. Jap ss Hongkong Mara, Filmer, from San Francisco 28—Jap ss Nipi>on Maru, Allen, fiom Yokohama. U h trans Manucnse, from Yokohama. M Am bkt \V H Diinond, Nelson, from San Francisco. Stanford, lohnson, from Newcastle. 2"> -Am hktne Jane I. Am hk Northern Light, Challston, from San Francisco Br bk Fortlibank, Yuung, from Newcastle. 2fi Am bktne Archer, Calhoun, from San Francisco. 2M- Am schr Okanogan, Reusch, from Port Ludlow. Br hk I-ancing, Chapman, from Sydney. 29—U Sss Nero, Hodges, from Manila. U S hosp sh Missouri, Dillon, from Manila. Am SCO Aloha, Fry, from San Francisco. 31 U S survey ship Pathfinder, from wiftdWatrd pons Am ss China, Friel, from San Francis, o. , — DKPAR 'LUKES. I—U S trans Flintshire, Dwyer, for Manila. lap ss Hongkong Maru, Filmer, for San FramJKO. Am I'l: Il P Cheney, Johnson, for the Sound. 4—Am schr Ktliel Zane. Holmstrom, for the Sound. Am ss Mariposa, Houdlette, for the Colonies. f> Br ss Moana, Carey, for San Francisco. 7 —Am sh Centennial, Marshall, for San Francisco. Am m In Colombia, Spraguc, for Port Townsend. 9 -Am bk Martha I>avis, McAUuin, for San Fram isco. Am schr Vine, Small, for San Francisco. Am ss China, Seabury, for San Francisco. Haw bk Diamond Head, Ward, for San Francisco. Br sh Gulf Stream, Kerbyson, for the Sound. Am schr Robert Lrwers, Goodman, for Koloa, to load for San Francisco. Am bktne lrmgard, St hmidt, for Hilo, to load for San Krancisco. 10—Am bk Mohican, Kelly, for San Francisco. 12—Hawsh Star of Prime, Wells, for Port Townsend. IS—lir ss Doric, Smith, for San Francisco. Br ss Gaelic, Pinch, for Yokohama. 14 —Br ss Aorangi, Hepworth, for the Colonies* II S trans Wesl minster, Petrie. for Manila. Jap ss Nanyo Maru. Tomita, for Kobe. Br ss Lady Joiccy, Cook, for Sac Francis.o. 15 Am bk Alden Besse. Potter, for San Francisco. Am brig Win G Irwin, Williams, for San Francisco, lir ss Miowera, Hemming, for Vancouver. 19—Am schr Rtftiy Cousins, Walton, for San Francisco. 10 Haw sh Fort George, Morse, for* San Francisco. Am schr Alice Kimball, Anderson, for Hawaii. 21 m shcr Alice Cooke, Penhallow, for San Francisco. Am schr Winslow, Birkholni, for San Francis' o. Am schr Rol>ert Lewers, Goodman, for San Francisco. 22—(ier schr Fbon, -, for Mar-hall Is. Jap ss Hongkong Maru, Filmer, for Yokohama. Am schr Allen A., Iverson, for Tacoma. 24—Am ss Australia, L iwless, for San Francisco. 2f>—U S Manuense, Barncson, for San Francisco. Jap ss Nippon Mam, Allen, for San Francisco. bk Antiope, Murry, for Kihei, Maui 27 Am sh*Sania i'lata, Linhurg, for the Sound. Am sh Eclipse, Peterson, for Tacoma. Am schr H D Bendixen, ONen, for Port Blakeley. Am schr Charmer, Slater, for Tacoma. ■ A*V schr Surprise Wharton, for Kailua. 29—Haw bk Andrew Welch, Drew, for Hilo, to load for — San Franris, o 30—Jap ss Yorihime Maru, Waila. for Yokohama Am hk S (' Allen, Johnson, for San Francisco. Am bktne S G Wilder, Jackson, for San Francisco U S survey ship Nero, Hodges, for San Francisco 31—Brbk Beechdale, Knox, for Portland Am bktne Klikitat, Cutler, for Port Townsend MARRIAGES. CtOUGH-STERN In this city, Jan. 6th, by the Rev. H. H. I'arker, Jas. \. Clougtl to Miss Maud A. Stern. EDWARDS DRYDEN In Honolulu, Jan. I7th, by the Rev W. M Kintaid, K. H. Kdwards to Mrs. M. I). |)r\'den, both of this city. TIMMONS-KENNEDY- In Honolulu, Jan 20th. L. It. Timmon-to Itua Margaret Kennedy, daughter of Mrs. M. N. Ki-nncily, Rev. Kather Valentine officiating. . BIRTHS. r On 'th, at (iraig-ide, Honolulu, io the VIESJan. DA wife of T. Clive Davies, a daughter. MOIT-SMITH In ibis- city, Jan. 21st, to thewife of H M Mott-Smiih, a son. DEATHS. this city, Jan 16:h, Mrs Gto X l!o;inlman, aged 46 jears. Albany, New York, papers please copy. SACHS In New York City, Jan 16th, Mrs R Sachs, beloved mother of N S Sachs of this city. SCRIMOK "ITR-At Waikiki, nn lan 18th, Robert Swain Scrimgeour, in the fiftieth year of bis age. TRKOI.OAN In Honolulu, Jan 19th, John W Tregloan, aged US' years, son of the late H S Trcgloan. DODO—In this city, Jan 21st, James IJodd, aged 61 ve.irs. San I-'rancisco papers please cojcy. BOOTH-At Kaalawai, Oahu, Jan 24th, Catherine Kinina, youngest daughter of Charles W and Elizabeth K. Booth, aged 1 year nnd 9 month,. BOA ROMAN In �Vol. 58, No. 2.] HAWAIIAN BOABB. HONOLULU. H. I. This page is devoted to theinterests of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and the Kditor, appointed by the Hoard, is responsible for its contents. Rev. O. P. Emerson, - Editor. Kaumakapili Church Building. Smith, the first pastor of the church, was taken down in April 1881. This old adobe building was the scene of many a good work. It was erected in 1839, was 125 ft. long and 60 ft. wide and had at first a thatched roof. That large audience room with its spacious veranda, was often filled to overflowing with congregations num bering from 2000 to 2500. The great revival continued about three years. During the standing of the old church Rev. L. Smith was minister for thirty years, A. O. Forbes for three years, G. VV. Pilipo for two years and M. Kuaea for seven years. Mr. Kuaeu's ministry covered the period of the tearing down of the old structure and the laying of the corner stone and the beginning of the new building till his death in May, 1884. Rev. John Waiamau was installed August 11, 1894, and it was during his ministry that the new structure was completed. It is said that when plans were being formed for the erection of the new building, some were in favor of a cruciform structure with but one floor. Notably this was the desire of Dr. Hyde, who was one of the committee. In this he was opposed by King Kalakaua, who desired a lofty, twostory structure. It was Kalakaua who also advised two steeples, remarking that a man with only one eye, one ear, one arm, one leg, would be a freak. When a stone structure was proposed Rev. Mr. Forbes argued in favor of brick, saying that it would be well in such a locality to have walls of a fire tempered material. Rev. E. S. Timoteo is the present minister of the church. He was installed April 25, 1897. The native people are greatly shocked at the burning of the church. Some have said that the burning was premeditated, but the majority of the people plainly understand that it was ac cidental. While the church was burning and many of the people weeping at the sight, it was Hon. H. Waterhouse, one of the building committee of the burning church, who remarked to the heavy hearted Hawaiians, "E pii hou ana no kona mau paia (its walls shall be built again)," may this prophecy be speedily fulfilled. As soon as he can be permitted to call the church members, Mr. Timoteo proposes to appoint a committee whose duty it shall be to find out what can be done towards securing another church as soon as possible. On the 20th of January, the stately Church was accidentally burned. The fire was communicated from a blazing huddle of plague-infected shacks near by, which had been fired by order of the Board of Health. A spark carried the blaze to the roofing of the south eastern steeple, too far up to be reached by the jet of water which the firemen tried to play on to it. As the wood-work was destroyed and bell after bell of the chimes fell to the floor below, an attempt was made from within to check the progress of the flames, and for a time it was hoped that the effort had been successful, but it soon proved otherwise. The flames crept in under the corrugated iron roof and lit the wood-work and soon it was all ablaze and now only the fire-warped brick walls remain. The fine $4000 pipe organ is destroyed, also a piano and the chime of bells which cost $5,500. With the building was also destroyed much costly storage placed in its basement during the quar antine, when the shacks of Chinatown were condemned. The silver communion set, the gift of Hon. A. F. Judd, was also destroyed, also the old pewter set. The burning of the stored goods, along with Kaumakapili Church, is said to have entailed on Japanese and Chinese merchants and householders very heavy losses. Costly jewels and fine fabrics had been placed there for safe keeping, and yet there may been a kind prov idence in the total annihilation of these precious things, for who knows what of contagion there was in them that might have perpetuated the plague in our beautiful city, to the cost of many more lives. The corner stone of the present building was laid on the 2nd of September, 1881, by the then Princess Liliuokalani. It was her birth-day and Rev. Kuaea the minister of the church, knowing this asked her to perform the rite. It took seven years to complete the structure which cost, organ, bells, electric lights and all, about $t>5,000. The building was dedicated Sunday, J jne 5, IHBB, at the time of the annual meeting of the Pleasant Island Mission and Its Missionaries Hawaiian Evangelical Association. and Mrs. De la Porte. Mr. Although, by the burning of the church with of the building most the records, exact dates of all the doings are not On the 6th of January interesting known, yet it is probable that the old letters were received trom the young -•lobe structure, built by the Rev. Mr. missionaries Mr. and Mrs. Dc la Porte edifice of Kaumakapili 7 THE FRIEND who sailed for Micronesia Morning Star last April. by the These letters contained a brief ac- count of their experiences up to October 10. Months had been spent on Kusaie, waiting for the opportunity to get to Pleasant Island. The time had been improved in the study of the language with the young man William, a halfcaste, who was born on Pleasant Island, and who promises to be a great helper in the wotk there. On the 19thof September, Mr. Dc la Porte was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the laying on of hands by Rev. Messrs. Channon and Rife and of the two native Kusaien ministers. This step seemed desirable for a missionary who looks forward to the building up of the Church of Christ upon a lone and unfrequented island, where other gospel minister or ministers might not touch for a generation; besides being a valued testimonial to the character and estimation in which the young missionary is held by those who have known him well. At the last date, October 10, our friends were in the Morning Star, accompanied by Rev. Dr. Rife, touching at the port of Jaluit, Marshall Islands, en route to Pleasant Island. They were receiving from the friendly German Governor, or Commissioner, the final instructions, or regulations that were to be as law for their guidance as residents on that insular possession of the German empire. By the Morning Star, now due at San Francisco, we may hope to learn of the safe landing upon the island, and of the reception of our missionaries by the natives. These consecrated young missionaries are dependent for their support entirely upon the friends of the enterprise residing upon these islands. Their supplies for the current year should be sent them by the Missionary packet that will be leaving San Francisco probably in February. Contributions will be most gratefully received by the treasurer of the enterprise, O. H. Gulick. The Plague in Kobe, Japan. A correspondent in Kobe, Japan, under date of Jan. Nth, 1900, writes a Honolulu friend as follows: "The plague has nearly disappeared here, but still continues in Osaka. Three hundred physicians have been sent there. Three physicians have died of it there. 9000 rats have been taken in Kobe, at five sen a head. Out of 300 found dead 50 showed signs of having died of plague." One sen is of the value of half a cent gold; 450 yen, $225 in gold. The County paid for dead rats. �8 Mv Hi ar Mr. Emerson: I have been deeply impressed with the earnest and ready sympathy in the cause of missions shown by my dear countrymen who have been brought into connection with the work of the Hawaiian Board Missions, and my deep conviction remains unalterable as to the truly spiritual character of the work and the immense service it is rendering to the cause of Christ among "Lusitano" people of the Hawaiian Islands. Nine years have passed since the first Portuguese Missionaries came to these Islands from Illinois and the world has heard the story of the opposition they encountered at their arrival. Rev. Antonio Y. Soares and his dear good wife were settled in this city and the Rev. Robert K. Baptista at Hilo, Hawaii. They have shown great selfdenial and their work deserves more than a passing notice. Moving inch by inch, through the opposition and persecution, it is steadily advancing and becoming a power of great good in the Evangelisation of my countrymen. Through these efficient workers new fields of labor are being opened and occupied at Kohala and Kona, Hawaii, and at Paia, Maui, and other places where the Rev. Antonio Y. Soares has earned the Gospel, demands are con stantly made for help. Kohala and Kona, Hawaii, are the new fields of labor recently entered. Kohala is a field t f great promise not only for evangelical but educational woik and for this purpose an acre of land was given by Mr. Francisco C'aetano of Kaauhuhu, Kohala, for the Portuguese work. This generous gift from a poor man begins a new period of rapid ch.tnge in hastening and beginning in Kohala, Hawaii, a strong evangelical work. The homes of our Portuguese people are visited and the gospel is being introduced. If strong Christian influence prevails more signs of progress will be seen and those interesting regions will be beautified by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the truth will conquer falsehood and Christianity will win its way among the Portuguese families of Kohala; will make them better citizens of the Republic, better husbands and wives and better fathers—the Gospel is the only element that can regenerate them. Is not the Lord, by His wonderful working in behalf of my people, showing to a Christian world a great opportunity to aid in the extension of His Kingdom in this part of the world? Every one acknowledges that words cannot express the great need my dear people have of a free and pure Gospel. It means that when the centre of life is reached by Christianity then influences will flow forth into all its ramifications, as sweet waters from a pure fountain. In these fields of labor among the THE FRIEND new difficulties will arise, and the missionaries of our race will need wis dom and zeal to embrace the opportu nities as the way opens to carry the gospel to every one of our fellow I have never felt the countryman. difficulties of the work so strongly as now, when entering again into the field, and I am sure also that my faith was never stronger in the gospel and in the power of Him "whose I am and whom I serve." Most truly yours, Joseph P. Durao. Letter from Prince H. Nanpei. Ponape, Sept. 21st, 1899. Rev. Mr. Emerson, dear Christian friend: I shall commence my letter by informing you I am still living, thank God. I was liberated on the 25th day of March. I am sorry to say that my health is not so good as hitherto; but I am exceeding glad to be a free man, and to be able to enjoy the comforts ol home. I beg to say that during my confinement my health was pretty good. It is only since my return home that I feel sort of broken down and quite out of sorts. It may not be out of place for my telling you that a Spanish steamer is now here, she brought along two priests, who wish to remain on the island. We do not like the idea of those priests being allowed to remain. The Germans are expected to arrive here on the 25th of this month. We hope and trust that the Germans will govern the island in a different manner to what the Spaniards have done, The Spaniards have not shown the natives a good example, they have only tended to make them worse, by encouraging them to smoke and drink. We are in hopes that this change of government will be for the betterment of all concerned. We feel quite certain that the German government will not harass, and interfere with our Christian work, the same as what the Spaniards have always done. Our people are overjoyed at the change, especially when they heard that Germany is a Protestant country. The people are very anxious that an American minister be sent to the island; please use your powerful influence with the mission board to that effect. A few weeks ago the King of Matalanim expressed a desire that an American minister might come; and told me that he might locate the mission station on lanian, a good and pleasant site for the purpose. Some time ago I spoke to the Spanish governor about an American missionary coming to the island, and he said "yes," if a change of government should take place. I am pleased say that we dedicate our new church on the 23rd inst. It is a fine spacious buildiug, wooden structure, and good bell. The seating capacity is about 600; but in a case of emergency it would hold 800 people. We are very glad it is completed, it was a great eyesore to the Spanish, they used m<iny threats to raze it to the ground; but through God's mercy we have been allowed to finish it unmolested. We hope through your kindness to receive those hymn books by about the begin ning of the year 1900. God spare us to receive them. I will give you a fuller account in my next about change of government and so forth. I beg to remain, Your Christian friend, H. Nanpei. Tit-bits. The vexed question of conjugal obedience was settled by Spurgeon in a char acteristic way. In an address at the marriage of the daughter of a friend he spoke thus to the bride about her future lord: "Let him be the head, and do you be the neck, and turn him which way you please." "0 yes. 1 was well acquainted with your father," replied the aged citizen. "But I hope you aren't like him; I never knew of his going inside of a church, and he was the greatest believer in nothing that I ever saw." Soulful Youth (languidly): "Do you sing, 'Forever and Forever?" She (practically): "No, sir; I stop lor meals." A man who lived on one side of a high tightboard "spite" fence in a Wisconsin town, not wishing to be unjustly blamed for it, painted on his side, in letters that could be seen a block away: "He built this fence. I didn't do it." The man on the other side retaliated by painting this inscription on his side: "I had to do it." "Sir," began the book canvasser, "I have a little work here—" "Sorry," interrupted the busy man, "but I have a great deal of work here. Good morning." BISHOP &CO. -^BANKEBS*— Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. ESTABLISHED IN ISSB' Transact a general Hanking and Kxchange business. Loans made on approved security Bills discounted, Commercial credits granted. Deposits received on current account subject to check. 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