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Page
CONTENTS.
The Opportunities and the calls for such
worthy
expenditures crowd upon us.
Service
Hawaii*! Call to
1
Unscientific Higher Criticism
1 There is the regular missionary work of
Mrs A. G Gulick honored
Dog-ma Essential In Religion
... 22 our Hawaiian Board to he sustained.
Temporary Cessation of Plague
8
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Pantheon Pest Center Hotel Stables
3 There is our Theological School to
Chinatown fenced—7l Safes
3 raised out of its present half-starved conPlague on Maui—Plague in Hilo
3
Generous Donation Hilo—Decayed Row
3 dition, and made efficient in training
Green's Tetrahedral Theory
X
support of the great
Logan
Miaa Beulah
4 preachers. There is
Antiquity of Oahu—Death J. W„ Robertson
4 Foreign Mission Boards. There is help
4
Armstrong Smith safe
Havana Sanitated
4 for Mrs. Gulick's richly fruitful work in
Maul News
4 Spain. God has generously and graciousft
Thrum's Annual
5 ly dealt with us His children in Hawaii as
Dr. Maxwell on Queensland
Future of Honolulu
b
Mormon Polygamy Rebuked
& to opportunities and means.
n
Government Deadlock
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Marine, etc
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Kauai Notes—Mrs Eauhane
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Miss Logan's Letter
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HAWAII'S CALL TO SERVICE.
Hawaii is an eminently Christian country. It was originally redeemed from a
very dark heathenism in a wonderful manner. The Church of Christ has grown
and developed here to a noble stature. We
have a heritage of consecrated piety and
heroic devotion from missionary pioneers.
The Church has a great work laid out hefore it. Tens of thousands of our capable
and intelligent Asiatic brothers are by our
sides, ignorant of Christ and His Kingdom of Grace and Truth. They wait to
be instructed. A vast commerce is calling
at our shores. It bears our personal influences of character wide abroad to all
the shores of this great ocean. Our opportunity for evangelizing service is unprecedented. And with this opportunity
we have the kindling stimulus of our
grand missionary heritage, telling us to
Teach the Nations.
Together with this opportunity, our
Christian people possess an unusual share
of the financial strength which enables
them if they will it, to maintain missionary labor in all departments in unusual
force. How largely and how faithfully
Christian men and women will apply, their
UNSCIENTIFIC HIGHER CRITICISM.
"Higher Criticism" is critical investigation into the sources of Ancient Literature, and their historical authority and
verity. Such criticism is just as legitimate and important for the Sacred Scriptures as for any other writings. If the
books attributed to Moses, John or Paul
cannot stand the test of sound and just
investigation, let the truth be known. The
Church should ask for no concealment or
pretense.
An enormous amount of work upon the
Bible has been done by the Higher Critics.
Unquestionably many valuable results
have been reaped, and knowledge of the
Scriptures has been increased. The admirers of the "Polychrome Bible" hail
most of their work as a wonderful triumph of genuine Science, dissipating the
mist of ancient myths and fables, especially those of the Pentateuch, which Moses
never wrote, and which has no historical
value.
There appears, however, to be ample
reason to believe quite the contrary, and
to regard those vaunted conclusions of the
critics, so far from being really scientific,
as fantastic and conjectural, and their
methods as such as would net be tolerated
in the investigation of any secular book of
antiquity. To support and illustrate our
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[March, 1900
contention, we give excerpts from a recent
article in the Bibliotheca Sacra, upon
"Rupprecht on the Pentateuch." Ruppreclit is a conservative German scholar
of eminence. He says:
"The methods of determining the socalled '.sources' are at variance with the
universal conditions of procedure in the
literary investigation of documents, resorting as it does to a course of arbitrary
conjecture and phantasy, which cuts loose
from every mark of science."
"With arbitrary changes of the original, and all conjectural procedures, I
have of set purpose nothing to do. Such
a process, in which Dc Wette, Vatke,
Wi'llhausen, and their followers have taken pleasure, does not deserve the name of
historical investigation."
He boldly declares the "unscientific
character of the false criticism," because
the recognition of the Mosaic authorship
and credibility of the Pentateuch is rendered impossible on any historic proof,
however strong.
"The prejudgment, the fundamental
axiom, which lies at the foundation of all
the procedures of the negative criticism of
earlier and later times, is the denial of the
miraculous, the supernatural. Everything
is made subservient to this axiom. Hence
the maltreatment of the sources, maltreatment in the strictest sense, such as is not
heard of in the case of any secular author.
Such a procedure is the grave of true
science. For them there can be no history
which contains real miracles and prophesy."
He quotes the recent striking statement
of Roscher in his work on "National
Economy," that "modern Science is right
in applying the same fundamental tests to
the biblical hooks as to secular writings.
Hut it should actually do so, and judge
these books, if not more favorably, yet not
more unfavorably than other books. But
the school which today calls itself preeminently the critical one has done wholly otherwise. It follows fundamental
principles which, if applied to profane
writers, would arouse general remonstrance."
One may feel comfortably assured that
when honest and really scientific criticism
recovers control, the fantastic conjectures
of Kuenen. Wellhausen, Cheyne and
Driver, together with their "Polychrome
Bible," will be relegated to the general
limbo of literary absurdities. The fundamental axiom of that whole school of critics is that all miracles and all prophecy
are impossible, and therefore all books
which tell such stories could not have been
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written by the alleged eye witnesses. Accordingly they contrive the most fanciful
conjectures to account for the authorship
of the books. That is what they call Sci-
uttering the complimentary words which the flowers. The astronomer breaks up
the starlight with his lenses and gives us
a doctrine of their motions and their
chemical constitution, which is a very different thing from what the plain man gets
by simple stargazing. It is the science of
astronomy. The botanist cruelly pulls the
lovely flower to pieces and gives you in
place of the beautiful and fragrant whole
prise it is wicked to waste the powers of a name and a place in a system of classisuch a one. We do not get every year, she fication. It is the science of botany. And
have no quarrel
said, a Pundita Ramabai for India, a yet there are men who or
botanist, who
Booker Washington for the South or a with either astronomer
nevertheless
raise
a
hue
and cry the
great
Mrs. Gulick for Spain, but when they are
raised up and seen to possess qualities of moment you begin to analyze God's atleadership the rest of us ought to follow. tributes and attitude toward man and to
When Spain is wanting the best things break up man into his elemental passions
which America has, should not we, out of and pull apart the springs of motivation
the amplitude of our resources and cul- in his soul. They complain that in place
of the living God and breathing man you
ture, respond? It did not need Mr. Capen's final words to make the appeal any are giving them mere dead dogmas and
more powerful, and yet they did enhance inanimate abstractions. To be sure, you
the impression of the hour, as from the are. You are doing for God and man prestandpoint of a business man he pleaded cisely what the botanist does for the
the need'of prompt and generous action if (lower. You are aiming to he scientific;
the desire of Mrs. Gulick's heart, to plant you are applying the tool of science,
her institution in Madrid, the Spanish which is analysis, to the revelation of God
and to the soul of man. It may be a cold,
capital, is to he accomplished."
The son whose death is alluded to, a cruel thing to do. It may be that the prorecent graduate of Harvard, had landed duct is not so beautiful as is the living
at Porto Rico on educational duty, was whole with which we start. But it is just
found disabled by some not understood as necessary and just as useful in the one
illness, was put on board a steamer for case as in the other. If any man in this
home, and died on the passage. Young late day wishes to go up and down the
earth decrying science, he is welcome to
(rulick's familiarity with the Spanish language and character makes his death a the task, though he will get scant hearing
serious loss to Porto Rico. He was a for his pains. Let him not, however, pose
as the friend and advocate of science in
nephew of Rev. Orramel Gulick.
every other department of knowledge and
then when it comes to the subject of man
DOGMA ESSENTIAL IN RELIGION. in his relation to God decry the scientific
method of logical analysis and dogma,
By Pres. W. De Witt Hyde.
which is its inevitable product. You can
The fashion nowadays to decry and de- get star-gazing without spectrum analysis.
preciate dogma is the most silly and fool- You can get the bloom and fragrance of
rose without a compound microscope.
ish of the many fads of the hour. Indul- the
You can get sweet, sentimental experigence in it has brought our Unitarian ences of piety without logic and dogma.
friends to the very verge of doctrinal ster- Tn all other departments, however, the
ility, and rendered it impossible for them world has agreed that the shallow, sentito breed their ministry out of their own mental first impression is not enough.
"Ah!" my unscientific, sentimental
loins. If we give way to it we shall meet
friend
objects.'"you forget what wretched,
the same fate, and be forced to borrow- false, grotesque work men have made of
ed the Methodists as the Unitarians bor- it when they have tried to subject the idea
row from us, or else we shall have to ac- of God to logical analysis and draw up
cept such intellectual standards for our man's nature and destiny in terms of doghas
ministry as those with which the High ma." No, I do not forget. There
been a great deal of false and pernicious
( hurch party of the Episcopal Church apdogma in the world. T must admit. But
pear to he content, and substitute second- theoloey is no exception. The Ptolemaic
hand ecclesiastical hearsay, in fantastic nstronomv taught many errouneous nogarb and unctuous intonation, for person- tions. Shall we therefore decry astronto simple staral insight into the laws and personal pos- omy as a whole and revert
system of botanThe
Linnean
eraziii"-?
session of the motives of wise and noble ical classification was arbitrary, fantastic
living.
snd misleading. Shall we therefore asDogma is to religion what astronomy is sume in advance that Gray and Goodale
*o the stars, what botany is to flowers. We have nothing to tell us which it is worth
do not consider it sufficient to simply gaze our while to hear? Augustine and Calvin
at the stars and smell the sweet odor of and Edwards doubtless made mistakes.
were on every one's lips, and when she
said that Mrs. Gulick was known all over
Spain as the American Madonna one felt
that the instincts of the common people in
ence.
True Science is modest, and abstains any land could be trusted to rate the benefrom irreverent assertions about those factors of humanity at their proper value.
things which belong to the sphere of the Mrs. Palmer's main point was that when
God raises us a leader for a great enterImmaterial and Supernatural.
MRS. ALICE GORDON GULICK
HONORED.
The Congrcgationalist reports some influential meetings held near Boston.
"On the second occasion the parlors
were filled with a company of men and
women of prominence and influence in
the social and professional life of the
town. It was very much like the ordinary social assemblage up to the point when
the host presented Mrs. Alice < iordon Gulick as the speaker of the evening. From
that point on the thought and feeling of
the company broadened and deepened until one felt the electric atmosphere of an
enthusiastic missionary meeting. The
simple telling of the extraordinary story
of the International Institute for Girls in
Spain made all hearts tender and responsive. There was no hint of the sacrifices
this heroic woman and her husband had
made, of the persecution and opposition
encountered, or of the succession of personal sorrows down to her latest affliction,
the loss of her son, who had just begun
educational work in Porto Rico. Instead,
this queenly woman, with her strong, serene face and musical voice, showed what
wonderful things and yet what natural
things, too, in view of the superior character of the human instrumentalities involved, God had been doing in Spain. She
spoke of the warmth of feeling toward our
country since the war, of the appreciation
on the part of the Spanish soldiers of kind
treatment in American prisons, and of the
$40 worth of clothing which our Government presented to each of them to take
hack to Spain. She depicted the leiderless condition of our fallen foe and th
yearning of the better class for liberty and
enlightenment. Her narration of the appearance of her pupils before the Imperial
University at Madrid, to take the examinations which had heretofore been open
only to men, of the softening of the hearts
of the professors toward them and of the'r
•
triumphant scholarship was scarcely less
than thrilling. The tiny educational seed
which she planted at .San S bastian si
many years ago has. indeed, alreidv
reached a splendid fruition.
"Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer was at
her best that night. She could not forbear
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Meantime the
dwelling and store of Mr. Serrao were
burned with all their contents. Both Hilo
and the whole island and group are to be
congratulated that those fears of evil are
sary.
dispelled. The port of Hilo has done good
Seventy-one safes have been recovered service to U. S. transports during this em-at
bargo upon their landing of animals
thereby intellectually side-tracked, and from the ruins of Chinatown.
Honolulu.
ere long will find that the train of earnest
thinking has moved on and left him standPLAGUE ON MAUI.
GENEROUS DONATION FROM HILO.
ing generations behind the times.
Bubonic plague has appeared on the
of Hilo rallied most genTEMPORARY CESSATION OF THE island of Maui. Between February 4th The people
et ously to the aid of the sufferers by the
PLAGUE.
and nth, seven deaths from plague took fire
in Chinatown. On February ioth
place at Kahului, the chief seaport. They
For a period of twelve days, between were not recognized as such until the yth, they sent down to Honolulu for their rethe 7th and 19th of February, no new when word was sent to Honolulu. Dr. lief, nearly twelve hundred dollars in
made garmoney, three hundred
cases of plague appeared. On the latter Wood, president of the Board of Health, ments, and many other newly
articles
of clothdate, three cases came to light, all of at once hastened to Kahului, arriving on ing. This kindness is the more notable,
which proved fatal before the close of the the nth. All the cases had occurred in since considerable friction had arisen out
day. The hope of relief, which had he- the chief group of wooden buildings, oc- of the stringent measures enforced by the
This
come sanguine, was again disappointed. cupied by about 250 Asiatics.
people of Hilo to keep out the infection of
A few other cases continued to appear at Chinatown was at once burned, and the plague.
intervals. During the month of Febru- inmates quarantined at the race track.
ary there were twelve cases and eight Some scores of them had escaped, but
A row of decayed and unsightly builddeaths. The whole number of cases in were hunted up as rapidly as possible and ings have long been an eve-sore between
Honolulu has been 64, with 55 deaths.
brought back. One other case subse- Fort and Bethel streets on the inland side
quently developed among the people in of King. The city is now gladdened by
quarantine. The infection appears not to
removal, and hopes to see a noble
THE PANTHEON PEST CENTER. have extended beyond Kahului. It is their
structure in their place.
hoped that the measures taken have
There were four victims of Plague who stopped the pest on Maui. The evidence
were employes of the Pantheon Stables, is strong that the infection was conveyed MR. W. LOWTHIAN GREEN AND HIS
at the north corner of Fort and Hotel in Chinese provisions shipped from HoTETRAHEDRAL THEORY.
streets. One, a white man, recovered. nolulu before the pest appeared here.
were opened in Kahului
The late Mr. W. L. Green was a leadThe Pantheon premises accordingly were Those provisions
after
Year,
on
Chinese
New
immediately
citizen of Honolulu, eminent both in
ing
ult.
was
A high fence
burned on the 7th
broke out. The plague in business relations, and as a Minister of
thrown around the entire block bounded which plague
was probably imported here in
State. His memory bids fair also to beby Nuuanu, Hotel, Fort and Chaplain Honolulu
same
the
way.
streets. One hundred and forty-three income distinguished as the author of a
mates of the block, 80 of them white,
widely accepted Theory of the Evolution
SUPPOSED PLAGUE IN HILO.
were removed to a detention camp to be
of
the shape of the Earth's Features.
disinfected and quarantined. "Fowler's
the January number of the American
In
Great
alarm
was
created
Hilo
the
by
in
yard" was known to be infected, with its death of Mrs.
on
G.
Serrao
February
Urologist
appears a biographical account
A.
crowd of occupants. Mr. F. W. Damon's 6th, supposed to
nf
Mr.
bubonic
plague.
by C. H. Hitchcock, L. L.
Green,
be
from
Mills Institute was enclosed with the rest.
with
a succinct statement of
together
D.,
went
He
up
Wood
there.
immediately
Most happily, Mr. Damon had previously Dr.
case to be suspicious, and his Theory and of the support which it
declared
the
removed to Moanalua his interesting body ordered all precautionary measures to be is receiving.
of Chinese students and their teachers.
Mr. Green was led to believe that in the
taken, as if it were actually plague.
to the incipient wrinkling of this Globe's outer
the
case
opposed
in
Conditions
The Hotel Stables have followed the
that the sickness had crust upon its contracting interior, the
fate of the Pantheon, for similar reasons. plague theory were that
bacilli general lines of its collapse were those of
lasted
twelve
days;
Three cases of plague occurred there. were distinctly revealed nobyplague
a tetrahedron or four-sided pyramid.
the
microThey occupied a large lot on the west
was a Portu- Three angles of this tetrahedron are perSerrao
scope;
that
Mrs.
corner of Hotel and Richards streets.
guese, a class not previously attacked by petuated in the three northern land proThey were burned on the 27th ult.
the disease in these Islands; and that tuberances of Asia, Europe and America,
Chinese have hitherto been the first, as the remaining angle in the Antarctic ConCHINATOWN FENCED IN.
well as the most numerous victims. While tinent, and the three edges of the tetraheinfection
might have been carried to Hilo don in the three southward continental exA ten-foot board fence was placed
in Chinese provisions, as it probably was tensions of South America, Africa and
around Chinatown early in February. It to Kahului before the plague had ap- Australia. The four flat sides are indienclosed a tract extending from Kukui peared in Honolulu, it would be likely to cated by the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific
Oceans, and the broad Arctic Ocean. This
street to the harbor, and from Nuuanu to have broken out among Chinese only.
the River. A portion of King street was
Mr. Serrao is one of the most promi- is only a very rude outline of Mr. Green's
left open, the west half being fenced in. nent and esteemed persons in that Portu- Theory, which he illustrated and elaboratAbout the 20th of February Nuuanu and guese community. Up to a late date, six- ed in his two published volumes on the
King streets were entirely opened for teen days after the death of Mrs. Serrao, "Vestiges of the Molten Globe."
The truth of this theory appeals strongtravel, after a closing of two months. To- no other case of plague had appeired.
to the mind in observing the somewhat
the
ly
blocks,
of
about
This
confirms
the
belief
that
alarm
fencing
other
gether with
But does it follow that there is nothing
for us to do but settle down in self-complacent ignorance and trust that man is
on the whole a very good being, or if he
is not, a good God will bring him out all
right in the sweet by and by? The man
that takes this indolent attitude becomes
miles of high fences have been constructed. Probably there are no precedents for such city disfiguration elsewhere. They are now undoubtedly neces-
two
was not well founded.
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THE FRIEND
symmetrical extension of three continental points to the south, as well as the antithesis of an Antarctic Continent to an
Arctic Ocean. The shape of the earth
may be compared to an elastic tetrahedron
inflated, so as to have a spherical form,
but not quite obliterating its angles and
edges.
The Tetrahedral Theory now receives
extensive support from French and American geologists. Mr. E. D. Preston, 01
the LT. S. Geodetic Survey, has pointed
out that recent measurements of arcs in
America, Europe and Asia indicate "a
greater curvature than would be required
on an oblate spheroid of the dimensions
of our earth"; and that "the theory which
seems to provide most consistently for
the phenomena" is the tetrahedral one.
LETTER FROM MISS LOGAN.
Sydney, February sth, 1900.
Rev. O. P. Emerson, Hawaiian Board,
Honolulu.
Dear Sir:—l am sure the Honolulu
friends will be somewhat surprised to
hear from me from this part of the world,
and I am quite surprised to find myself
here. As the Morning Star has been
ordered not to visit Ruk, I found it necessary to engage a passage for Sydney in
the steam trading vessel Archer, as 1
have been ill for many months, and besides my own comfort there was the care
and anxiety which 1 caused others to be
thought of.
I arrived in Sydney on Wednesday,
February Ist and shall probably stay here
for some few weeks, then I shall start for
home via Honolulu and possibly stay over
one steamer to rest and to visit friends.
I have a native couple with me and
must arrange some way of getting them
back to Ruk if the Star sails from Frisco
before I can reach there I shall have to
leave them in Honolulu, hoping they may
find some way back to the islands, but J
feel it is most important that the Star
shouldawait my arrival so as to take them
on. I can spare them now so that they
can go to Honolulu by the next steamer if
you advise it. I have also written to my
brother asking him to advise with the
American Board in regard to them, and
I hope he will cable.
I am in good hands here in Sydney and
have found many unexpected friends. I
am quite cheerful and hopeful about
things and trust I may speedily recover
health, but it is a difficulty with my
nerves and I cannot hope for very rapid
progress. By the next opportunity I
shall hope to write to you and to other
friends more fully, but now just a word
or two will have to suffice as I am not
able to go into details.
Please remember me to all the friends
[March, 1900,
in Honolulu, and with kind regards to
HAVANA WELL SANITATED.
yourself and Mrs. Emerson,
The sanitary condition of Havana will
1 am, yours truly,
become of great importance to Honolulu
Beulah Logan.
after the Nicaragua canal is opened.
ANTIQUITY OF OAHU.
I nder Spanish rule that city was a pestbreeding center, one of the worst in the
Dr. Maxwell, on page 63 of Thrum's world. Yellow fever always abounded
Annual says, "Over the sites upon which there. Havana being on the main line of
the several islands rest today the waters the coming traffic with the Pacific, Honoof the Pacific rolled, and but a short time lulu could not expect to escape the introago." A few lines later, he qualifies this duction of yellow fever thence, if prevaby the words, "geologically speaking, they lent there. It is therefore good news to
us that the late occupation of that city
are of very recent date."
b) American forces has resulted in a sucIt seems probable that we shall be com- cessful purification of the greater part of
pelled to impute a much greater antiquity the town, and corresponding decrease of
to Oahu than has hitherto been done. Pro- mortality. Havana seems likely to befessor Dall, who is an expert on the age come soon a clean and healthy city. '
of fossils, last year examined the fossil
THE "MAUI NEWS."
strata of Pearl Harbor. He now assigns
those shells to the Pliocene, and probably
It is a pleasure to notice the issue on
as far back in the Tertiary as the MioFebruary
17th of the first number of the
cene. This is somewhat recent, "geologfirst
weekly
newspaper published on the
ically," yet probably a million years ago.
Maui,
Island
of
under the title of the
But the elevated reefs of Pearl Harbor
are modern as compared with the deep "Maui News." It is under the capable
calcareous strata of artesian borings 1,500 editorship of Mr. G. B. Robertson, who
feet below the surface. How much more is also the publisher. Wailuku, the place
ancient also are Bird I.and Neckar 1., cf
issue, is the chief town of the island.
which are but surviving summits of vast Some 60 odd years ago a small monthly
volcanic domes long sunken beneath the sheet in the Hawaiian language was pubocean. We cannot say how many million lished at Lahainaluna.
We trust the
years ago or how long before the Tertiary, present paper has come to stay, and may
volcanoes began to vomit up mountain- hereafter grow into a daily.
domes in these seas.
"Making Out" in Georgia. —One of the
old-time darkies, on being asked "how he
DEATH OF J. W. ROBERTSON.
was making out," replied in this fashion:
"Well, sub, times is mighty tight wid
Mr. J. Weir Robertson died of plague
me,
but 1 manage to make a livin'."
on Sunday, February 4th, after an illness
"What
are you doing now?"
of several days. Ile had long been in the
"Well, suh, I keeps the pot b'ilin' by
service of the Waterhouse Co., and was doin' a little plowin', a little votin', en a
highly esteemed. Mr. Robertson doubt- little baptizin'; en w'en dey's nuttin' doin'
less became infected by handling rats at dem times, I hangs roun' dc white folks
which had been killed in fumigating the en waits 'twell dey gits in dc notion ter
basement of the store, and which had ac- run fer office agin."
cess to and from Chinatown through an
Church (after service): "Well!
archway on Nuuanu street. The cottage theMrs.
nerve of our pastor!"
occupied by him near School street was
Mr. Church (who stayed at home)
burned the day after his death. Much "What's
up now?"
sympathy is felt for his orphaned children,
Mrs. Church: "You know last week
for whom there is a moderate provision.
we presented him with a horse and cutter ?"
Mr. Church: "Yes?"
ARMSTRONG SMITH SAFE.
Mrs. Church: "Well, today he got in
(treat anxiety existed for a few days on the pulpit and asked us to pray for snow."
account of the illness of Mr. Armstrong —Puck.
Smith, the heroic and devoted superinI had all of it; I gave it to my friend;
tendent of the Plague Hospital. The fear he took it all and kept it; yet I lost none.
that he had contracted the disease was He had it, and I had it, and yet there were
soon dispelled. A number of wealthy not two, but one, which, though doubled,
gentlemen have subscribed a large sum to was not increased. Mathematically this
carry Mr. Smith through a medical is impossible; but logically it is inevitable,
course.
for the Thing is knowledge.
:
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Vol. 58, No. 3.]
THRUMS ANNUAL-1900.
21
dustry. Dr. Maxwell's official report has "Henceforth European commerce, Euro-
not been received here. It appears from pean politics, European thought and EuSince the present editor of The Frienp statements made by him that their busi- ropean activity, although actually gainfirst wrote a notice of"The Hawaiian An- ness is not wholly prosperous. The cane ing force, and European connections, alnual," it has doubled its years, this being is largely raised by small farmers, most though actually becoming more intimate,
will nevertheless relatively sink
its twenty-sixth issue. During the same
period it has steadily grown in interest
and value. The present number contains
the usual comprehensive statistical
tables, carefully revised and enlarged.
There is hardly any branch of facts in Hawaii, reducible to figures, not included in
these statistics.
There is the usual variety of special articles of interest relating to Hawaii. The
most important of them seems to be one
of twenty-five pages by Dr. Maxwell on
"The Hawaiian Islands." This is revised
by the author from its previous publication in the Year Book of Agriculture for
1898, for which it was prepared for the
U. S. Government. Its information is
confined chiefly to agricultural features.
Professor A. B. Ingalls devotes ten
pages to the story of a trip from Kona to
the eruption of Mauna Loa last July. Dr.
A. B. Lyons tells in sixteen pages "What
a Botanist may see in Honolulu." This
should be abridged as part of a Guide
Book for visitors to our city, who traverse
the streets ignorantly wondering at
strange and beautiful vegetation.
Ten pages are given to a most suggestive article by the late Rev. Dr. C. M.
Hyde upon "Hawaiian Legends Resembling Old Testament History." The material is mainly derived from Fornander's
History. No tenable theory appears yet
to have been constructed to account for
the diffusion of Semitic legends among a
race so remote as the Polynesian.
Ed Towse has a neat article on "An Island Art Center," showing how art treasures are gravitating to the beautiful Pauahi Hall of Oahu College. "More Picture
Rocks" are described from a cave beyond
Koko Head. We have early recollections
of having seen similar pictures on calabashes, scratched on the green gourds.
Besides a number of other short articles
there are six pages of special "Information for Tourists."
A book much needed here is a Visitors'
Guide, for the use of transient callers
from steamers, who need to make the
most of their few hours. Why cannot
Mr. Thrum prepare a little work of the
kind? It ought to sell on steamers and
at hotels like war extras.
DR. WALTER MAXWELL IN QUEENSLAND.
Hawaii's agricultural expert, Dr. Maxwell, returned on the 21st ult. from the
Australian colony of Queensland, whither
he went in the interests of their sucar in-
in im-
of whom lack the skill of our planters in
Hawaii. Under their management, the
fertility of the soil is being greatly impaired. With expert instruction its improvement may be expected. Dr. Maxwell's visit of inspection will doubtless
promote that end.
He was greatly impressed with the vast
natural resources of Queensland, both agricultural and mineral. It is almost exclusively a "white man's country," a colony of hard-working, intelligent people.
Their exports are immense. Brisbane, the
capital, is a city of 130,000 people. No
doubt it will soon begin to have its own
steamers crossing the Pacific via Honolulu. Most of Queensland is in the tropics. It remains to be seen how far north
the wdiite man can thrive in their tropic
heat. Brisbane is in latitude 27 0 , where
winter has some coolness.
portance ; while the Pacific ocean, its
shores, its islands and the vast region be-
THE FUTURE OF HONOLULU.
Brigham H. Roberts, the husband of
three wives, who was elected as Representative to Congress from Utah, was excluded from his seat by a vote of 278 to
50. The Mormons will hardly choose
again a polygamist to represent them in
Congress. Most ofthe minority of 50 believed that the proper way was to let Roberts take his seat, and then expel him.
Mr. Theodore W. Noyes is the editor
of The Evening Star, the leading paper of
Washington City. He recently visited
Honolulu, and wrote home as follows:
Probably the London or New York of
the future Pacific will not spring up in
Hawaii. The comparatively small size
and limited resources of the Islands perhaps forbid. But a large, prosperous city,
not alone as the market of steadily increasing domestic imports and exports,
but as the Half-Way House between
America and Asia at which every Pacifictraversing ship will naturally call is reasonably certain to be developed and to
prosper in exact accordance with the expansion of Pacific trade.
When the commerce of this ocean was
represented by a single Spanish galleon,
sailing annually from Manila to Acapulco,
the author of Anson's Voyage said in
1746:
"It is indeed most remarkable that by
the concurrent testimony of all the Spanish navigators. there is not one port betwixt the Philippine Islands and the coast
of California; so that from the time the
Manila ship first loses sight of land she
never lets go her anchor till she arrives
on the coast of California."
Now when this commerce has been
multiplied by the thousand, and will
speedily be multiplied by the tens and
hundreds of thousands, we have happily
changed all that and an admirable and attractive intermediate port is provided.
In 1852 William H. Seward said:
yond will become the chief theater of
events in the world's great hereafter."
This bold prediction, visionary at the date
of its delivery, is rapidly being verified.
The Pacific is steadily outstripping the
Atlantic in volume of trade. The acquisition of the Philippines, in connection with
the new development of Japan, the remaking of China, the near-by completion
of the Siberian railroad and the construction of an isthmian canal, will tremendously increase the commerce between
America and Asia, and Honolulu will be
an essential link in the American commercial chain connecting the two hemispheres, and will participate in Pacific
business activity and prosperity.
MORMON POLYGAMY REBUKED.
GOVERNMENT DEADLOCK.
The existing Government of Hawaii
finds itself in a most singular position
financially. It has an overflowing treasury, but there seems to be no legal way
of taking the money for the necessary expenses of public affairs. The reason is
that there is no Legislature of Hawaii to
make the legal appropriation. The old
Legislature has ceased to exist. President
Dole ordered the election of a new Legislature in September last; but President
McKinley forbade that election, for reasons not set forth Consequently we
have no Legislative body. The old appropriations have expired, and there is no
body of men authorized to make new ones
however necessary. President McKinley
has been appealed to and seems to appreciate our trouble, but administers no remedy. Minister Damon proposes to get the
Council of State to pass the indispensable
appropriations, and to ask the President
to ratify them.
Meanwhile Congress is in hard labor
with the Bill to constitute a Territorial
Government for Hawaii, but the parturition is tedious, and no one can tell when
it will be born.
.
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[March, 1900.
THE FRIEND
RECORD OF EVENTS.
Feb. ist—Noon wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral of Dr. Walter Hoffmann and Miss Katherine McNeill.
Three Japanese crushed to death at the
Pioneer Mill, Lahaina, by the fall of a
molasses tank.
2nd—J. Weir Robertson is stricken
with the plague and becomes the first patient treated with the Pasteur serum, recently received through the Marine Hospital Service at Washington. In his case,
however, it fails to prove efficacious, and
he succumbs two days later.
4th—A welcome rain gladdens Honolulu and proves general throughout Oahu.
5th—A new attempt at brick making
in this city has the promise of early .siabl'shment with machinery from the coast,
samples of bricks made abroad from
island clay being very satisfactory.—Ol
three new plague cases one is a white employe of the Pantheon stables.—Annual
meeting and election of officers of the Pacific Club.
7th—Death of Portuguese at the
Queen's Hospital from an accident at
Ewa Plantation by falling between the
cars of a loaded train.—Burning of the
Pantheon infected premises.
9th—The Board of Health decides to
inaugurate a rat crusade throughout the
city.
10th—News received of a plague outbreak at Kahului, Maui, four deaths hiving occurred. Drs. Wood and Garvin
leave per stmr. Kauai to investigate and
aid.
nth—Church services resumed, restrictions against public assemblies by
the Health authorities being removed.
13th—Report of a case of plague at
Hilo in the death of Mrs. A. G. Serrao.
Drs. Wood and Carmichael and Consul
General Hayward leave on an investigation trip by the Iroquois.—Demolition of
the condemned buildings of the Austin
estate, on King street, the same to be removed and destroyed by fire.
15th—The Fire Department burn the
Weaver & Hoogs house, South street, declared infected.
16th—Hilo declared to be without
plague.
distribution
17th—Rat crusade begins;
city
the
throughout
by the inof poison
spectors of the various districts and
apanas.
jgth—Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. G. E. Boardman at the
Christian church, by the Rev. Jno. C.
Hay. Interment at Makiki cemetery.
TO/th—Attempt made to rob the safe
and fire the Union Feed Cos. building,
unQueen street, which, fortunately, was
successful—After a respite of twelve
days three plague cases occur.
21 st.—The Legislature meets at the
call of the Speaker, J. L. Kaulukou, then
adjourns for a few days.—Hotel Stables
—
quarantined.—Dr. Walter Maxwell returns from his Queensland mission in the
interest of the sugar industry there.
22nd
Washington's birthday. —
Trouble among the Japanese at Kalihi
camp; refusing a few hours labor daily
for their board and lodging, as others;
further supply of food is withheld from
the men.
25th—To burn, or not to burn—the
Hotel stables—is the agitated question of
several days past between the press, Citizen's Committee, and Board of Health.
East African's cargo of coal on fire, in
the harbor, is saved by the timely arrival
of the Iroquois' powerful pump.
26th—Death, at Waikiki, of Solly Walters, a well known San Francisco newspaper artist, recently arrived for our
climate benefits.
—
—
MARINE
JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU.-FEBRUARY.
ARRIVALS.
R. W. Bartlett, Olsen, from
Gray's Harbor.
Br ss Moana. Carey, from San Francisco.
2—Am bktn S. N. Castle, Lanfeldt, from San
Franclßco.
Am sh Cyrus Wakefield, Macloon, from San
Francisco.
Am ss Alameda, Van Oterendorp, from the
Colonies.
Nor bk Sobreig, TJostolsen, from Newcastle.
4—Am schr Defiance, Blom, from Puget Sound.
Am bk Chas. B. Kenney, Anderson, from Chemanus.
7—Am sh Geo. Curtis, Calhoun, from San Francisco.
Br ss Doric, Smith, from San Francisco.
B—Am bktn Skagit, Robinson, from Port Townsend.
Am schr Annie M. Campbell, Frldberg, from
Tacoma.
9—Br ss Coptic, Rlnder, from Yokohama.
Am sh Cnas. E. Moody, Anderson, from Tacoma.
10—Am schr F. S. Redfield, Jorgensen, from Tacoma.
Am schr G. W. Watson, Petterson, from Port
I—Am
schr
__
Townsend.
11—Am schr Emma Claudlna, Nielsen, from
Eureka.
Arago, Perry, from Pasagua.
12—Am bktn
Br sh Glennesslln, Prltchard, for Newcastle.
McTarlsh, from Yokohama.
13—Br ss Strathgyle,
14—Br sh Asplce, Bremmer, from Newcastle.
Am ss Australia, Lawless, from San Francisco.
15—Jap ss Nippon Maru, Allen, from San Fran-
departures.
Jan. 31—Am ss China, Fricle, for Yokohama.
Fib. I—Ocr bk Paul Isenberg, Kruse, for San
Francisco.
Br ss Moana, Carey, for the Colonies.
Br sh Klnfauns, Crelghton, for Portland.
2—U 8 hosp sh Missouri, Dillon, for San Francisco,
Am sh Jabez Howes, Clapp, for San Francisco.
Am ss Alameda, Yon Oterendorp, for San
Francisco.
Am schr A. J. West, Ogilvie, for Gray's Harbor.
Haw bk luliiiii. McClure, for Kaunakakal.
3—Am schr Lilllbonne, Hansen, for Gray's Harbor.
Am schr Chas. E. Falk, Brown, for the
Sound.
Am brg J. D. Spreckels, Christiansen, for
San Francisco.
Hi- ss Kloemfoiitein, Rellock, for Seattle.
7—Am schr Transit, Jorgensen, for San Francisco.
B—Br ss Doric, Smith, for Yokohama.
U S S Pathfinder, Perkins, for Lahalna.
9—Br ss Coptic, Kinder, for San Francisco.
10—Br bk Addeney, Lindfons, for the Sound.
12—Am bk Topgallant, Lundvaldt, for the Sound.
14—Am sh St. Nicholas. Brown, for the Sound.
15—Br ss Strathgyle, McTarish, for San Diego.
I(s—Am schr R. W. Bartlett, Olsen, for the
Sound.
Jap ss America Maru, Going, for San Francisco.
Jap ss Nippon Maru, Allen, for Yokohama.
18—Br ss Miowera, Hemming, for the Colonies.
19—Am hktn W. H. Dlmond, Nilson, for San
Francisco.
20—Am ss Australia, Lawless, for San Francisco.
Am bk Northern Light, Challeston, for San
Francisco.
Am schr Mary Dodge, Oleson, for San Francisco.
21—Am sh John McDonald. Stover, for Hilo.
Haw bk Nuuanu, Josselyn, for Kahului.
Am schr Henry Wilson, Johnson, for the
Sound.
Br ss Aorangl, Hay, for Victoria.
24—Am bk Alex. McNeil, Jorgensen, for the
Sound.
Am bktn Skagit. Robinson, for Port Townsend.
25—Br sh Poseidon, Chamberlain, for the Sound.
Am. ss Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for Yokohama.
26- Ger sh Caesarea, Cordes, for the Sound.
Am schr Defiance, Blom, for the Sound.
Br sh Holywood, Macaulay, for the Sound.
17 S transp Warren, Hart, for San Francisco.
28—Am as Alameda Van Otterendorp, for the Colo-
nies.
MARRIAGES.
HOFFMANN—McNEILL—At St. Andrew's Cathedral, this city, February Ist, by the Rev.
Alex. Mackintosh, Dr. Walter Hoffmann to
Miss Katherlne McNeill.
SAMPSON—AGNEW—In this city, February
Bth, at the Catholic Cathedral, by the Bishop
of Panopolls, G. L. Sampson to Miss Alice
Agnew.
DIMOND—BARTI7SKA—At Nlu, February 9.
by the Rev. H. H. Parker, William W. Dlmond
to Emme Anna Bartuska.
WATERHOUSE—ALEXANDER—In Oakland,
CaL, February 6th, at the residence of the
bride's parents, John Waterhouse to Martha
Alexander. Rev. Chas. R. Brown officiating.
NOTT—ATWOOD—In this city February 21, at
cisco.
the residence of Mr. John Nott, by the Rev. H.
Am bk Albert. Griffiths, from San Francisco.
Hongfrom
sh
McDonald,
Storer,
H. Parker, W. B. Nott to Miss F. E. Atwood.
John
Am
kong.
NAYLOR—FRENCH—In this city, February 21,
,
16—Jap ss America Maru, Going, from Yokoat the residence of Mr. Robert French, by the
hama.
Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, William Naylor to
„
Wayland,
San
FranG.,
brg
Harriet
from
Mary K. French.
Am
cisco.
U S S Iroquois, Pond, from Hilo. Blakeley.
BIRTHS.
Amelia, Wilier, from Port
KNOWLTON—In this city, February 12, to the
17—Am bktnBerwickshire,
Blanche, from NewBr bk
wife of Willis T. Knowlton, a daughter.
castle
LONG—In this city, February 11th, to the wife
son.
Am schr Louis, Genberg, from Marquesas.
of G. A. Long, acity,
from Newcastle.
February 26, to the wife
this
Am bk Seminole, Taylor,
BLACK—In
NagaWooley,
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CLARK—In Kallua, North Kona,
Newcastle.
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�Vol. 58, No. 3.]
THE FRIEND.
HAWAIIAN BOARD.
HONOLULU, H. I.
This page Is devoted to the Interests of the Hawalfan Board of Missions, and the Editor, ap-
pointed by the Board, 1b responsible for Its con-
tents.
Rev. O. P. EMERSON
- -
KAUAI NOTES.
Editor.
acting as pastor and the latter as choir
leader and musical evangelist. In addition to the regular church services, a very
thorough house to house visitation is being conducted.
Mr. Ishida, in charge of the Japanese
work at Lihue, is both active and acceptable in his efforts for his countrymen and
reports encouraging prospects.
The new church at Lihue, the gift of
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Wilcox, will be one
of the finest on the Islands outside of Honolulu, modern, artistic and convenient in
every respect. Mrs. M. S. Rice and Mrs.
Hans Isenberg will each contribute suitable memorial windows.
By Rev. J. If. Lydgate.
At the last meeting of the "Ministers'
School" at Lihue, the leader, Rev. J. M.
Lydgate, as part of a course on "Disease
and Sanitation" gave an outline sketch of
the nature and activity of bacteria, with
especial reference to those forms which
prove dangerous in causing disease, and
the preventive precautions to escape
We greatly grieve to record the death
them. It was a novel theme to the Ha- on the 3rd of February, of Mrs. James
waiians and elicited a great deal of won- Kauhane, of Waiohinu, Kau. I ler illness
der and interest.
was but of a week's duration and occurred
One of the subjects for general discus- while she was away from home and on a
sion at this "school" was "The Future of visit.with friends in Kalihi, Oahu. Althe Native Hawaiian Churches," atten- though a son and a daughter were with
tion being called by the leader to the her, the husband and companion of thirtysteadily diminishing congregations, and six years was absent. We shall never
the steadily increasing difficulty of main- forget a day of travel we had together
taining church organization and activity. when, far from home and his family, Mr.
The questions were raised: What are the Kauhane opened his heart to me and told
causes? and, What is the remedy? Var- me the story of his youth, of his childious causes were suggested, the proselyt- hood, his education and his home-making inroads of the Mormons; the levity of ing. His married life had been a romance
the rising generation ; the inadequacy of and had had its strong effect on his charthe present ministry, and most serious of acter. Kauhane, the minister, the statesall, the decadence of the race. The only man and man-of-affairs, tender in the deradical remedy suggested was the grad- livery of the Gospel message, wise in
ual and final adoption of these diminish- counsel and strong and true in action, has,
ing Hawaiian churches into such Eng- all these years of his valuable life, had
lish-speaking churches as may grow up in this .noble woman beside him. She was
their place. The subject was so vital and married to Mr. Kauhane in 1863, after
interesting that it was continued to the having been the wife of John Richardson
next meeting and two special papers will of Waikapu, Maui, for one year. She
be prepared on it, the one dealing with the was born in Waikapu and was educated in
nature and causes of the present condi- the Wailuku Girls' boarding school,
which was kept by Mrs. Bailey. Mrs.
tion, and the other with the remedy.
Kauhane became the mother of thirteen
One of the most acceptable Hawaiian children, seven of whom died in infancy.
ministers on Kauai is Rev. Z. M. Naahu- She was an unusually attractive Hawaiian
makua, familiarly known as Maluo. He woman and loved to entertain. Hermaidis 70 years of age, a man of the old school, en name was Manohealii and her father's
from one of the outlying villages of Puna, name was Napuupahoehoe, a native of
Hawaii, where he was for many years the Kona, Hawaii. The funeral was held on
village schoolmaster and then minister, the 17th of February at Kawaiahao
building his church—at Opihikao—with church.
his own hands. Comparatively ignorant
of the learning of the schools, he is wideMISS BEULAH LOGAN.
ly and accurately versed in the Bible,
which he still studies with a great deal of The many friends of Miss Logan will
diligence, and withal an original and ef- read with interest her letter printed in
fective preacher after a manner that the Hawaiian Board page. We add the
would seem strange to us perhaps, but following items from statements pubwhich appeals to the Hawaiian. His field lished by Dr. Bingham in the Advertiser.
Mr. and Mrs. dc la Porte had been
is a large one, especially for so elderly a
man, extending from Kealia to Kilauea, landed from the Morning Star on Pleashut he gets over it with surprising dili- ant Island about November 7th. Mr. J.
T. Arundel writes:
gence.
Lihue church is being aroused to
"We were deeply sorry to find that Miss
interest and activity by the services Logan was an invalid and suffering from
> active Hawaiians, Rev. Sol. Kau- an injury to her spine caused at the time
d Mr. David Kapahu, the former of the wreck of the mission schooner
B!
23
Robert W. Logan. We have done all we
possibly could for her welfare and comfort, and will continue to give her all the
sympathy it is possible. We might mention that we have engaged the services of
Dr. Jenkins who is our leading expert on
spinal troubles and have engaged a room
for her at Miss Duffy's private hospital."
"Dr. Jenkins says it will be about three
months before she is able to travel. She
has been visited by several of my missionary friends here, who are much interested in her welfare. You may rest assured that she is in good hands. It is interesting to note that Dr. Jenkins holds
out good hopes for her recovery."
She has yet to learn of the death of her
mother. To a reporter Miss Logan stated:
"For the last six years or so the work
of the mission has been carried on despite
a good many adversities; but with much
encouragement. The natives are always
fighting among themselves, but the German authorities are now endeavoring to
disarm them. In some districts the natives are suffering from famine, chiefly
through having neglected their crops to
fight.
"Traders complain of the hostilities of
the natives," observed Miss Logan, "but
we found that if a person was straightforward and honest he had nothing to
fear. The natives are taught in the mission schools, and then sent out to teach.
In many cases they disappoint us, but we
can scarcely expect great results in such
a short time, especially considering the
reverses we have had, and the lack of support from the Government. The native
population speaking the Ruk language is
about 12,000. There are ten churches in
the group, in charge of native teachers.
The only communication which the missionaries have with the outside world is
about once a year, when the mission
steamer arrives with supplies."
Describing the manners and customs of
the natives, Miss Logan said it was difficult to imagine the fihh and vice in which
they lived-. The children marry when
they are eight or nine years of age. Miss
Logan brought a native couple to Sydney
with her. The wife looks quite a child,
though she is 19 years of age. Girls have
no voice in the selection of their husbands. Drunkenness is not known in the
group. The natives make a drink which
ferments, but they do not keep it long
enough for it to become intoxicating.
Miss Logan's reminiscences told of a
rough life, in which she had to undertake
hard manual work such as no civilized
woman would dream of doing. She had
also been in danger of her life from the
natives, whom she describes as thankless
and cowardly in their natural state. It
has also fallen to her lot to interfere between fighting chiefs, but she says she
was never afraid. When her health improves she hopes to return to her mother
in the States.
�[March, 1900.
THE FRIEND.
24
LETTER FROM PRINCE H. NANPEI. nified and respectful,
Ponape, Nov. ist,
1899.
Rev. O. P. Emerson,
Respected Sir:—I have much pleasure in reporting that our bitter enemies
in religion have taken their departure;
only three priests and as many cooks, or
brothers, as they are usually termed, have
concluded to remain on the island. Of
course we have nothing to fear now from
them, as their arbitrary and despotic
power is now broken. The German manof-war, accompanied by a transport ship,
arrived Here on the 19th day of Octobet
last, fired a royal salute and the Governor came on shore with a body of marines, who marched up to the Government
house and without any ceremony hoisted
the German flag amid a hundred hearty
cheers. Our new Governor and ruler is
a very plain and unassuming gentleman,
and seems to know his work thoroughly,
and is very firm and steadfast in his purpose. Even whilst the Spaniards were
here he commenced to reform some of
those evil and pernicious habits that the
Spanish had introduced into the island.
The liquor business was his first measure
to reform, the sale and use of all intoxicating liquors to be strictly prohibited.
The Spaniards jeered at this, and told
the natives "Governor mucho-malo, no
more gin, wine, nor brandy for Ponape
man." The Governor's next best measure was to guarantee free and absolute
religious liberty to all sects ami creeds;
and if there are any who prefer to b;
nothing, well, let him, or them be nothing.
Catholic priests must not cause any further trouble in religious matters or they
will at once be removed from off the
island. We, as you may naturally suppose, are highly pleased at this hquor
traffic being put a stop to. Poor Mr.
Doane tried all he could to put it down,
but alas for him, he was powerless to do
so. Governor says that all merchants and
business people are to be taxed, but not so
the natives, until.further orders from his
Government. The Governor very wisely
suggests that "he will not trouble the natives for their fire-arms, so long as they
behave themselves and do what is right;
"but if not"—then he paused. Which
speaks volumes. The Governor is a
great traveler; he has already footed over
the greater portion of the island. He says
he wants to come in contact with the people, to hear, and to see things for himself. He says also that he has no u.se for
an interpreter, they only tend to lie, and
mislead. "I am going," says he "to study
the language and do my own thinking,
and my own talking." I have had several interviews with the Governor, and I
was quite astonished to note the difference between a German Governor and a
Spanish Governor; the one so calm, dig-
and the other so
proud, haughty and overbearing. Hitherto we entertained a sort of dread of
coming in contact with Germans, but now
we are beginning to realize our mistake.
We have every reason to believe that our
present Governor will rule wisely and
well; but woe betide those who
cross arms with the Germans; they
will certainly annihilate old and young
on the island. Every incentive is
held out to the natives to be good,
and to do good. They are guaranteed
protection, and every other thing that
will make them a better, and a happier
people so long as they conform to the laws
and rules laid down by the German Government. There is one tiling certain, that
the Governor has already gained and secured the good will and respect of the
people, a thing which the Spanish could
never do in a thousand years. Why this
Governor has done more real good for
the island and its inhabitants in just a few
weeks, than the Spaniards did in thirteen
years. The Spaniards never tried to help
our people; people who were suffering
with ulcerated sore legs, or any other disease wre afraid to approach a Spanish
doctor, for fear of their getting made
worse, or poisoned. It is not so with the
Germans. The Governor invites all who
are suffering with any complaint to come
and get cured if possible. And it is truly
wonderful to witness the miraculous cures
this doctor has made; running sores of
ten and fifteen years standing are now in
a fair way of recovery; amputation 01
legs, taking out eyes, and replacing, by
glass ones is a truly wonderful sight for
natives to behold. There are quite a*hundred people in the hospital; doctor's attendance free gratis. It was a pleasure
to the Spanish to see the people die off.
We are very hopeful of having some good
American missionary amongst us soon to
help carry on our good Christian work.
We feel that we need some higher power,
and influence, to further enlighten us in
(iod's word. We do all that is in our
power to do; but it is only so far and no
further. I am given to understand that
a mail will be running every two months
or so, there will then be no difficulty in
getting letters to and fro; as it is, it is
quite a bother to know just how we are
going to get a letter sent along.
Meantime I beg to remain
Your obedient servant,
Henry Nan pel
Dec. 29th.
S—
am
at
the Colonia,
hospital
P.
I
in
as my feet are swollen and giving me
some trouble. The German Governor
felt somewhat slighted that the Morning
Star left the Caroline Islands without
calling into Ponape to report herself.
Everything is all right here at present.
SHALL THE PACIFIC CABLE GO BY
ALASKA?
There is no question about the necessity
of a cable "to Honolulu. But reasons are
alleged why instead of going on from Honolulu to Manila, the cable should be laid
along the shallow seas and numerous
landings of Alaska, the Aleutian, and trie
Kurile Islands to Japan, and thence to
Manila. This being a great circle route,
is considerably shorter. Being in shoal
waters and short stretches, the cable required is so much lighter, and the resistance so much less, that several times as
many messages can be sent, and the expenses of wear and maintenance be reduced to less than one-third.
It is not easy to decide what shall be
done. Meantime the cable to Honolulu
will no doubt be rapidly pushed. Probably cables will ultimately be laid through
both routes.
HAWAIIAN FINANCES.
The Hawaiian Treasury at the end of
cash balance in its vaults of
$1,531,784.89, as against $740,280.21 of
the previous year.
The increased prosperity of the Islands
is shown by the fact that customs receipts
for 1899 were $1,295,628.95, as compared with $896,975.70 for 1898, while
tax receipts for 1899 were $1,068,117.27,
as compared with $811,818.67 for 1898.
The taxes are composed mainly of a one
per cent tax on real and personal property, indicating an increase in values of 30
per cent during the year.
The total loan indebtedness is $4,890,-35140.
1X99 held a
The U. S. Treasury on January 18 held
$400,102,275 in gold in its vaults.
U. S. MARINE HOSPITAL.
The President has set apart a reservation in this city of seven acres for a Navy
Hospital. The tract lies on the S. E.
slope of Punchbowl, and north of the Makiki Cemetery, between the sinuosities of
the hill road on the east, and the deep
gully on the west. It is mainly near 200
feet altitude, dry, healthy, cool, and with
deep black sand sub-stratum. With water
pumped to its level it will make a lovely
garden spot to cheer the invalid seamen.
]}ISHOP & CO.,
BANKERS.
Hawaiian Islands.
1858.
Transact a general Banking and Exchange
business. Loans made on approved security
Bills discounted. Commercial credits granted.
Honolulu,
Established in
Deposits received nn current account subject to
oheck. Letters of credit issued on the principal cities of the world.
%HT Agents of the Liverpool and London and
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