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BISHOP - - - - The Peking Horror Letter from Walkup Mr. Coward's Work Anglican Diocese of Honolulu Leper Settlement Generous Bequest.... Visit of Rev. Dr. Buck Catholicsin Hawaii Evangelistic War on Crimps Y.M.B.A . Relatives of Bow Wongi, Arrested McKinley as a Christian Death of the Ex-Queen's Secretary Fourth of July Observed ; American Prosperity Increase of Gold Sun Spot Heat Strange Shark Incident Lady Principal for Kaiulanl School. Glory for the Hawaiian Delegation Record of Events Marine Journal Marriages and Deaths Hawaiian Board Night Blooming Editor. Cereus The Native Pastorate "Geologvof Oahu" Kohala Underground Pump Estate of James Campbell Progress for the Canal New Chinatown 61 61 62 .... 62 63 62 63 63 64 64 64 64 66 64 64 64 65 65 65 65 66 66 66 67 67 67 68 69 69 69 69 The Peking Horror. It is impossible to write adequately of the awful tragedy that befell at Peking nearly four weeks ago. No such heartrending event has come in our days as this brutal destruction of select European envoys, and eminent missionary benefactors, with their wives and children, all overwhelmed in one bloody and burning ruin by the mad fanaticism of China, organized and led by their imperial rulers. \ great company of noble and precious men and women, whose lives were sacred, have been delivered to die by the frenzy of mad-men. Of the details of that great horror we know next to nothing, and may never know much. We know that those choice and noble missionaries were rich in experience of the Divine presence, and are assured that the Lord Jesus walked with them in the storm, and made their souls calm and courageous through all the dark terror, so that they could minister comfort and cheer to all their companions as they fought and endured hopelessly. Our hearts also go out in grief for the many thousands of native Christians who have been ruthlessly hunted out of their Homes, dispersed and massacred, often with nameless outrage and torture. Among these also were many most noble and precious souls, who whether dead or surviving, are destined to be the seed of the great coming Christian Church of China. For it is by such tragic fury of storm that Christ's church has many times been multiplied in the past. Christian Civilization is now facing a dark and terrible problem. The gigantic Empire of China has become maddened in its central parts, and has hideously outraged the (ireat Powers in a manner that makes necessary at any cost some adequate severity of punishment. \ great war, destructive to China, costly to the Powers, seems inevitable. A dense and lurid cloud overhangs all. Christianity dictates wisdom in avoiding a spirit of vengeance, and in tempering severity with mercy and humanity. It may well be considered that China is to be treated as not wholly responsible. Its acts are largely those of a nation demented and not in its sober reason, and therefore to be dealt with in mingled severity and mercy. May wise and Christian counsels prevail. The Chinese are a superior people, high in the scale of human development. They have before them a great and noble future, whenever they emerge from heathen superstition into the blessed and enfranchising light of Christ. Confucianism has done much for them, and mads their dense civilization practicable by its family and social discipline. Buddhism may have contributed some spiritual and moral help out of its murky resources. But the inadequateness of both to deliver from the bonds and madness of heathen superstition is now made horribly conspicuous. The only help, the only hope for China is to become pervaded by the spiritual uplift and illumination of the Gospel of Christ. Doubtless the present outbreak of heathen madness will prove to be an important precursor to the entrance of the Light. Letter from Mr. Walkup. It is a pleasure to give our readers who are interested in Micronesian missions, a late letter from the veteran missionary Walkup. The Rev. A. C. Walkup called at Honolulu last December with his gasoline schponer "Hiram Bingham," which had received a new and more powerful engine in San Francisco. He sailed from here December 22d, reaching Tapiteuea. the southernmost island of his field, on January 18th, having had a passage of 27 days. We give the larger part of his letters: "Hiram Bingham," Nonouti, Feb. 15th, 1900.. The engine took us in the 18th * * in a calm. We anchored well in and set awnings, and had a good night's rest. Both Tibwere and Abera 'came aboard while we were anchored outside on Peacock anchorage. They piloted us in as I was in the engine room most of the time. Friday morning I went ashore, but was on board again by noon. This was fortunate as a squall came and the wind changed to the West. The anchor was dragging until I got the large anchor out and awning down. We were too close in to let out all the chain I wanted to, and in about an hour the swells grew quite large, and the vessel jumped until "bang" went the large anchor chain. It was raining and blowing hard, but I set the mainsail and jib, then slipped the chain and got away—not over a minute to spare as the second chain parted as we were letting the chain run. We were out at sea three nights before the natives found one anchor, and then we had to run in and raise with the windlass, as it was well buried in the slime. The next day we got the second anchor, and slept better with the two anchors out, as the westerly squalls still continued. In fact at daylight that next morning we had the heaviest one of all, but having 25 to 30 fathoms of chain we did not drag. They have been having heavy rains all winter, but very few nuts are ripe as yet, and very little pandanus, arid rough weather for fishing—thus the people have been living on toddy, and here at Nonouti all except our Christians are drinking the sour toddy. (Toddy is the rich sap which flows from the growing flowerstem of the cocoanut, when the end is cut off. When sour, it intoxicates. —Ed.) I think the work at Tapiteuea is growing some; a few seem to have dropped out, but 27 were admitted to the churches on January 28. Here at Nonouti some of the members will be disciplined for the sour toddy drinking, while some that have not been attending the services are coming again. I was glad to see about twenty yesterday that came four miles to the midweek service at Buota. The schools seem to be about the same, having sent eight to Kusaie, the last trip of the Star. The. R. C. Bishop has been per- * �forming miracles at Apaiang with his ring. Tobacco seems to be their bait, as the people have nothing to buy tobacco with. The Bishop, as wcjl as the Commissioner. has gone to Fiji. I have lioan (my second mate to S. F. in '95) and one of Tapitctiea's home mis sionaries as helpers on the "Bingham," also Mr. Harvey. The steamer was at Tapiteuea a day before us, thus some two or three more months before we can send a mail. The engine is working well, and quite a curiosity to the natives, as 1 have used it several times. They all want to see the "iti" flash of electricity. I keep very well and do not get tired as the weather is cool. I probably can write more later to send with this, at the north end of the group, where the Star left five new couples to work, hut two of the old teachers had fallen out during the year, and thus only making three after filling up the gaps. When will we- have eight or ten ? HfTAKI I'AKI, April "til. I^OO. No mail has gone as yet. but "Neptun" for Jaluij, and "Loongana" from Sydney are expected now daily. Thus I must have some general news ready in these manifolds. North winds have continued and T have had to use the engine much. The 200 gallons of gasoline from S. F. and 50 from Honolulu are gone. The logs say 370 miles by engine. 56 hours. T find only /S gallons here, as one 100-gallon drum has rusted out. I hope to go from here to Marakei. Abaiang, Tarawa. Maiana, and on to Banaba. The work at the south (four islands) is fairly encouraging, but here at these northern islands the people are crazy for dancing, and last year danced from several weeks to months before each holiday. Here they have been told they could only have a week to prepare, but the dancers want no less than five weeks to get the multitudes 'crazy. The Commissioner went in "Looncana" last November to Sydney, and the dnncers had a big time before last New Year's day. The attendance at the villages here and at Makin have been some smaller than last year, but at Apaiang and Tarawa about the same. Tt was too rough to anchor at Marakei. thus T have not been ashore there, but Rev. Biribo said only a few had fallen by the dancing, and none to the Catholics, who had quite a crowd to get a smoke and hear about miracles, etc. Has the Star reached S. F. all safe? When will she sail again? When will I hear from the old home land ? The rains have not been so heavy the last few weeks, but quite plenty. Thus a big crop of nuts is comine; on, and books will sell, if we can get the people away from the worldly craze, and more into the schools. I trust [August, 1900. THE FRIEND. 62 we can give a better report at the end of 1900. We need your prayers and encouragement. Oh, to have the mind of Christ and Paul, "In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses." April 9th, Monday.—No ships arrived as yet. Thirty-nine communed yesterday, but only ten from this village. The others not attendants here. Taotai had no Sabbath school, but a class of 7 from Makin, 4 from Kuina. and 4 from Tanimaiki. Two were baptized and two reinstated, and four babies baptized. The contribution summed up well, $24.50. Audience of about 75. The King had ridden too far on Saturday, and thus had back-ache and could not attend service. I le lias gone to smoking, and his family and grandchildren follow him in that. We must get on the gasoline and water, and finish letters and be ready to sail. The 16th.— No sail ho! as yet. We were on the flat, and cleaned the copper, and put tallow on. Have had much calm tlie last days, and when a breeze comes we must go. I think I will go on to Jaluij from llanaba to get gasoline, and if wind is north and current strong, might get near to Kusaie, and make them a visit before calling at Jaluij. Mr. Heine has about decided that the "Xeptun" is not to call here, and is thinking of going with US. He is the trader that expects to teach in the Marshall Islands mission. His home is on Xamerik. 1 feel very loth to send this note before a vessel comes, but must, I think. Is this Easter? The German store help has a holiday today. Thus the time goes. and we can hardly think of Easter and Spring. The best surprise will be the "trump of God," and to meet the Lord in the air. Thus God be with you all. is my prayer. Mr. Goward's Work. The following letter is from Rev. W. E. Goward, an experienced missionary in Samoa. He is about to reside in the F.llice and in the southern four Gilbert Islands, which have hitherto been cared for by Sampan native preachers under the London Missionary Society: 7(1 Pitt St.. Sydney. July y\. ttjoo. My Di.ak Mk. Btncham. Please accept our united and best thanks for your exceedingly kind letter, which we shall always treasure, and also for your goodness in sending US so much helpful literature. We are so glad to have it, and already we have read all you sent that was in the English language and that with the deepest interest, and we have also begun to read in the Karaki, and in the hymn book, and in the New Testament. What a great debt of gratitude we owe to you, dear doctor, for all the splendid translation work that you have accomplished by God's help. We arc both so thankful to know that already the people have the Scriptures in their own tongue, and so many other useful books too. The prices also are so very reasonable, which is a boon indeed, for the people have not much money to spare, I fear. I am so grieved to hear about your (iilbertesc-Knglisli dictionary; you have not even the manuscript of that, 1 understand, and only the grammar in manuscript This is a very terrible loss, and one that 1 fear you do not feel strong enough now to repair. Will you pardon the enquiry as to whether you have any manuscript in the language that you would like to see in print? It seems a thousand pities that any of your valuable work should be lost, when there are about 40,(MX) people who speak the Gilbertese. Will you kindly send us one more Karaki, and one more New Testament, and two more Hymn and Tunebooks? I lave you the latter in cloth binding? We have in Sydney the son of one of our Gilbert Island pastors, and as he knows the language well, we are studying it with him. We ate anxious to make good progress. * * We are proposing to make our headquarters at Bern, and shall steadily work away until we get the language, meanwhile putting up a small house and a good school-house. We shall have a large whale-boat. 36 feet long and 8 feet beam, and shall try to reach in her both Ouoatoa and Nikunau, so that all these three islands may have an equal share in us. We shall be most glad of any bints or any advice that you will kindly give us. T have been home on furlough, and do not know anything of the transaction in March 1899, but I will send a word to the Treasurer of the S. D. C. Again thanking you, and with our sincere regards to yourself and also to Mrs. Bingham. I reYours very faithfully. main. *' Wii.uam En. Gowaro. Anglican Diocese of Honolulu. The Anglican Church in Honolulu appears to find itself in much perplexity, in respect to the transfer of its church con- nection from the Church of England to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Such a transfer is greatly desired and is made necessary by the admission of Hawaii as a Territory of the American Union. Tndeed the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel which has heretofore paid the salary of the Bishop of Honolulu, and supported �his various Missionary Chapels, has already withdrawn all its pecuniary aid, in the expectation of the proposed transfer of connection. In the Diocesan Magazine for July the Bishop of Honolulu publishes twelve columns of his official correspondence with the Secretary of the S. P. G. Jn this he complains of undue haste in withdrawing bis support. He sets forth various difficulties of a formal nature which impede the immediate transfer of the Honolulu Diocese. "There is no disposition on the part of the Bishop and Synod of the Anglican Church in Hawaii to place any obstacle in the way of union between the Church in Hawaii and the Church in the United States. All that is asked for is that the change may be made without any breach of continuity or disruption of the present work." Ile quotes a resolution of the Diocesan Synod which was approved by the Bishop of New York, who visited Honolulu for one day, the following words being from Bishop Potter's pen, "the interests of the Church in Hawaii shall be duly and sufficiently safeguarded and its integrity maintained." This, he says, admits of tio other interpretation than that "the See nf Honolulu be preserved unimpaired. Bishop Willis' opponents acre who have long desired his removal, interpret this to mean that the See of Honolulu shall remain under his own supervision. This, however, may not be his meaning. lie assigns strong and plausible reasons why lie should not resign until the property of the Church is transferred in a correct and legal manner, which must take time. We append an extract from the letter of a very reliable friend in Boston, which undoubtedly gives the view prevailing on the subject among the Episcopal authorities in the United States: "I was talking the other day with .1 prominent Episcopalian rector about the state of affairs of their Church at the Islands. He stated that the friends here including officials, were in a great quandary. Bishop Willis did not indicate any intention of withdrawing. He was willing the American Church should conic in; but he had no idea of going out, and once a Bishop always a Bishop, unless proved charges could be made. So—there lie is—and we don't know when or how the end may be. Bishop Willis holds the key, and is in position and possession." The whole state of affairs is'not one to please friends of the Episcopal Church — and we count ourselves such, with fraternal regard. Leper Settlement. The Board of Health made its period- THb FRIEND. 63 Vol. 58, No. B.J ical visit to the leper settlement at Molo- cure has ever been discovered for this kai on July 21St, spending the day there. malady, although it may be greatly mitiThey were accompanied by a number of gated. It is really less fatal and tar less physicians, officials and others. It had painful than tubercular consumption, while much less infectious. It is, however, very disfiguring, and therefore more dreaded by civilized people. Whenever the authorities thoroughly segregate the lepers, the disease will diminish and ultimately disappear. It will continue to ment of flower-gardening and tree-plant- spread as long as lepers are allowed to ing an mud the cottages of the lepers. The kiss healthy persons. people were comfortable and happy, excepting those in the advanced stages of Generous Bequest. the disease and disabled thereby. Having now an abundant supply of water piped In accordance with the will of the late to their villages, the lepers have many Rev. Dr. C. M. Hyde, the sum of one banana, sweet potato and sugar cane thousand dollars has been given to the 1latches. ()n the eastern side of the penin- Treasurer of the Hawaiian Board for the sula at Waikolu, they have over one hun- use of the North Pacific Mission Instidred acres of taro patches, which produce tute, which was so long under the care nearly all the poi required for their food. and direction of the deceased missionary. The employment in cultivating is whole- It was a worthy and a fitting gift to be some for mind and body. made at the end of a noble and conseThe arrangements at the Baldwin crated life. I lonic for cooking the taro are on a large scale. At the hospital of that Home were Visit of Rev. Dr. Buck. eight patients in a helpless condition from the progress of the disease. There are We were greatly favored the past 125 women and girls in the Bishop Home month by many most agreeable interviews for dirls under the care of the Sisters of with the Key. C. H. Buck, D.D., of N. Y. St. Francis. Dozens of cottages along city. Dr. Buck brought special introducthe road were greatly beautified as the tion from an esteemed relative. He result of prizes offered a year ago by W. preached with great acceptance in the M. (). Smith to the amount of $150. There I'., and C. U. churches. Dr. Buck and are many marriages among the lepers. wife are extensive travellers. They have All children born there are speedily gone on to Australasia, en route to India brought, if file parents consent, to the and Japan, and possibly Siberia. The kapiolani Home in I lonolulu, and seldom able divine is a careful and systematic indevelop the disease, which does not appear vestigator, and will certainly give some to be hereditary. good lectures on Hawaii when he gets home. serious cause There appears to lie a of complaint against the Hoard of Health, for permitting large numbers of the Catholics in Hawaii. friends of the lepers to visit them, and We have com/ across the following have such freedom of intercourse as to a which is not far from correct: paragraph, extent, neutralize the benefit of great Rev. Father Wendelin Moellers writes segregation. Over a hundred such persons accompanied the Board on this trip. from the Hawaiian Islands: At the presWhen landed, there was the most unre- ent time we number 27,000 Catholics, stricted intercourse, accompanied by ard- Protestants reckon themselves at 24,000 There remain ent embracing and kissing. Of course, the and M.ormons, 5.000. native 1 law aiian has little thought about 50,000 heathens, infidels and free-thinkinfection. But no fact is better estab- ers. Besides the chapel of the convent of lished about leprous contagion than that the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and that the chief source of infection is in the sa- of the College of St. Louis, we have one liva of the mouth, which swarms with Cathedral Church in Honolulu. More than one-third of the Catholics the well known'bacillus of leprosy. Until the segregation of lepers at Molokai is arc Portuguese, of whom perhaps five per made more thorough, and they are kept cent have become Protestant. Besides a from kissing their friends, the disease will number of small Protestant chapels in Honolulu, there are two large native continue to spread among the natives. churches, one large Congregational Forto 6,000 have been taken lepers Nearly Molokai since 1866. There now survive eign church, one Methodist and one Dis988, three-fifths being males. Thirty are ciple for whites. Besides there are several Chinese, and twenty are whites, of whom Chinese and Japanese chapels, and one there are five each of Americans, Ger- fine Portuguese church. The Mormons mans and Portuguese. There is an aver- are nearly all native Hawaiians. The Catholics are diligent workers, age of 125 deaths in a year. No effective been a year since the last official visitation, owing to tlie plague when the proper time came six months ago. The condition of affairs was found to be excellent, and many improvements had been made. A leading improvement is in the develop- �THE FRIEND. 64 and have much success among the natives. The intelligence and enterprise of the Islands is, however, too manifestly Protestant for the Catholics to gain any intellectual ascendency. For * instance, they are entirely apart from all journalistic interest, which is wholly in Protestant hands. A small minority of the public school teachers are Catholics. Evangelistic War on Crimps. The notorious crimps, Turk and Lewis, who handle sailors, have found an ardent antagonist in the evangelist of the Joyful News Mission, J. Leslie McComb. His method is the one most likely to be effective against the wiles of the crimps, the secret of whose success is in a cunning use of the depraved appetites and brainless folly of the sailormen. These poor fallen men, McComb inspires with -the fear of God and the redeeming Love of Christ, and teaches them to stand on their feet and be men, spurning the ensnaring wiles of the crimp who sells them for his own gain. Mr. McComb is in some peril from the henchmen of Turk and Lewis, who maltreat all opponents. He is fearless and will go forward, and teach the seamen to save themselves, for no one can do it for them so long as they crazily consent to be sold. Such easy prey always generates the pirates to prey upon them. McComb is on the right track. Make of the sailors men in Christ Jesus, and the crimps are paralyzed. Y. M. B. A. Young Men's Buddhist Association. Relatives of Bow Wongs Arrested. her private secretary. He was buried from her residence. Mr. Heleluhe re"The members of the Bow Wong So- ceived his school instruction in the Hilo ciety in Honolulu are very bitter against Boarding school under Rev. D. B. Lythe Chinese Consul-general, Yang Wei man. The climate of Washington was Pin. This is a political society, organized too severe for his delicate lungs. He was here by the Chinese Reformer Leim Chi- a faithful and capable servant. tso. Its object is the restoration of the young emporor Kwang Hsu, and the proFourth of July Observed. motion of the great reforms which he had ordered, but which were suppressed by The Independence day just past was the Empress Dowager. the first one celebrated in Hawaii TerriIn compliance with the orders of the tory, but by no means the first one obMinister at Washington, Wu Ting Fang, served here. Americans in Honolulu have Consul Yang has sent to the Chinese Gov- been wont to celebrate the day with great ernment the names of the leading men of effusion. So many holidays had occurred the Bow Wongs in Honolulu, in order in June that there were few metaphorical that they may be punished by the arrest fireworks left for the 4th of July, and and torture of their relatives in China. even the real ones were less plentiful than Leading merchants in Honolulu are now usual. There was a large assembly at the hearing of such arrests of their relatives, Opera House, where Rev. W. M. Kincaid and are in great distress in consequence. delivered an excellent address. Mr. Lamsai hears that his grandmother, It is hardly probable that the memories aged 80, has been thrown into prison in of the American War of Independence Canton. Thus are the cruel barbarisms will linger many years longer. The edof China brought near to us in the midst itor's first participation in Independence of our justice and liberty./. day was just sixty years ago in the town of Oswego, when there were present at least forty old soldiers of the Revolution, McKinley as a Christian. our grandfather being one. Animosity Says the editor of the Pittsburg Chris- towards the British was then still hot and tian Advocate: hearty, and King George 111 was abThe writer has known President Mc- horred like an Antiochus. We now beKinley for twenty-five years and may gin to feel that some of the wrongs set claim to be informed as to his private life, forth in the old Declaration were a trifle as well as his public conduct, and speaks exaggerated. But America has grandly on the subject without reserve. The Pres- justified her revolt in 1876 by her splenident has been a temperate and a temper- did growth in independence. And our ance man all his life. We do not believe Mother Britain has grown wiser and he has ever known what it is to be intox- kinder, and a true and loving parent to icated. We do not affirm that he never her subject peoples. There is no happier touches wine, but, if he does, it is rare. lot for any weak people than to dwell Such is not his habit. He is not a wine- under the shelter of England. And we bibber. Neither by precept nor example must not forget that these conditions does he encourage the habit. His conduct grew out of the lesson which America in this respect, as in all others, is well taught England by her Revolt. known to the pastor and members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of American Prosperity. Canton, 0., of which he is a member and has been since his early manhood, and no Between 1897 and 1900 the American fault has ever been found with him nor banks increased their gold from 693 to can be. Let it be understood that the 1,016 millions, while European banks inmembership of William McKinley in the creased only from 1.591 to 1,595 millions. Methodist Episcopal Church is not nom- The postal money orders increased 55 inal, but real. His attendance on its min- millions in four years. FYom 1897 to istry is regular and reverent. His place 1899, the diamond imports grew in two at the Lord's table is never vacant, and years from two to twelve millions. Charno one who knows his inner life doubts itable donations grew in two years from for a moment the genuineness or simplic- 24 to 80 millions of dollars. ity of his Christian faith. And we knowThe Republican party attribute this inthat nothing wounds him so deeply as creased prosperity to the Dingley tariff charges which affect the integrity of his and its protection to industry. It greatly Christian character. favors the re-election of McKinley. Perhaps on the whole it may be regarded as a wholesome effect of the power of Christianity among the Japanese, that the Buddhist teachers feel constrained to imitate the former. A Buddhist temple on upper Fort street was occupied on Sunday, July 22nd by the inauguration of a Buddhist association in emulation of the Y. M. C. A. As an ethical system Buddhism is far superior to heathen Hinduism, althoug it has totally failed to ele vate the Japanese people anywhere near to the current morality and decency of Christian peoples. Jesus is the Sun of Righteousness. Buddha was but a dim star. A Theosophist magnate participated in the exercises, and made a long address. There seems to be a strong tendency towards an alliance between Buddhism and Death of the Ex-Queen's Secretary. Increase of Gold. Theosophy to promote the two together under the light of Christianity. Those Joseph. Heleluhe died of consumption The world's gold product of 1898 was who love what is murky and dim can find on the Bth of July. He had been for two $289,000,000. This was 39 per cent more satisfaction there. than the united product of silver and gold �THE FRIEND. 65 Vol. 58, No. B.] in 1890, and 45 per cent more than the gold product ot 1895. The immense addition of two billions to the world's stock of gold in the past ten years, has materially reduced the value of gold relatively to commodities, and has correspondingly raised the price of the great staples. This state of things has much relieved the financial stringency which was produced by the demonetization of silver, and accordingly weakens the force of Mr. Bryan's 16 to 1 talk. When prices of the products of industry are high, it is very difficult to make the voters understand that demonetization of silver causes a decline of prices. All which goes against the success of the Democratic Presidential ticket this year. Sun-Spot Heat. The exceptional heat of the past two months all over the world, is no doubt correctly attributed by F'lammarion, to a sun-spot. Or rather it is from the eruption of hot vapor from the sun's interior, whose return is through the gigantic vortex known as a sun-spot. This hot eruption rises in a fountain to the upper atmosphere of the orb, radiates its enormous heat into space, and falls back partially cooled and less luminous, plunging into the depths as a dark spot. Strange Shark Incident. On the 15th inst., a young man named Emil Uhlbrecht was searching for sea- shells in the rocks at Makapuu, at the east point of this island, when he was swept from his footing, and drowned in the violent breakers, his three companions being unable to assist him. Four days later, a Gilbert islander was fishing for sharks off this harbor, and skillfully hooked one twelve feet long, which he conquered and towed ashore. Upon cutting the shark open, inside of the stomach were found human bones, together with the perfect foot of a white man. By means of the ingrowing nail of a toe, this foot was soon after identified by the unhappy wife of Emil Uhlbrecht as belonging to her unfortunate husband. She had the mournful satisfaction of giving him a funeral. His fellow employees of the Honolulu Iron Works sympathetically contributed $1,100 to her aid. Such a reclamation of a lost body is without record in these Islands. Mr. Uhlbrecht undoubtedly died by drowning. It is very fare here for sharks to attack a living person. Lady Principal for Kaiulani School. Hawaii gives woman equal place. An instance of this is the appointment of Mrs. Frasher to be principal of the great Kaiulani public school in Palania district, at the salary of $i,BOO. Miss Snow also was appointed vice-principal at the salary of Fresher has been teaching disc, estimated at probably $100,000; the in the Honolulu public schools for a long result of smoking in defiance of orders.— period, and has thoroughly earned her Bar and bench join in a tribute of respect to the late Chief Justice Judd.—Bark promotion. Ceylon reports the loss of the McNear on Glory for the Hawaiian Delegation. Dowsett reef, 60 miles from Laysan Island, last May. The crew and laborers At the great Democratic Convention at for Laysan Island, in open boats, all Kansas Lity, it was the vote of Hawaii reached their destination safely but in a Territory that barely turned the scale for destitute condition and, with the islandthe Bryan silver plank of 16 to 1. The ers, went on short allowance of food till delegates have come home filled with the aid reached them, June 10th. sense of their importance. 9th.—Brilliant evening reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cooke A wealthy young Californian, whose in honor of F". H. Baldwin and bride, very name we withhold, a through passenger to largely attended. Japan, was drugged and robbed in a vile 10th.—The Australia sails away with joint in Kakaako. He lost valuable jew- one of the largest freight and passenger elry and $250 in coin. Sin meets its var- lists she ever took from this port. ious penalties in Honolulu as elsewhere. Leung Chi-tso, the Chinese reformer, delivered an address in Progress Hall on The world's sugar product for 1900 is the aim of the reform movement. estimated at 8,320,944 tons, which is over nth.—Annual meeting of stockholders four per cent more than the world's pro- of First American Bank of Hawaii and duct in 1899. Europe produces 6o per steps taken toward its conversion to Hacent of the whole, and Hawaii about four waii's First National Bank.—Sudden per cent. death of Miss Kate Gray at the Hobron Waikiki residence. Record of Events. 12th.—Governor Dole appoints the several Boards of Registration for the July Ist.—A native passenger assaults various districts, their work to begin his Chinese hackdriver, robs him of his Aug. 31st. money and leaves him, tied by his queue 15th.—E. Uhlbrecht, a well known to a bush, by the wayside. The police machinist, while shell gathering off young learn of the highwayman act and quickly Makapuu point is swept from the rocks capture the assailant. The driver, badly and drowned in sight of his companions. wounded, was conveyed to the hospital.— Aid from town was secured for the reFred B. Oat, after months of suffering, covery of the body, but without success. peacefully passes away at the residence of 17th.—Admiral and Mrs. Beardslee rehis brother, Postmaster J. M. Oat. visit Honolulu for a brief sojourn, en 3rd.—Tumer-Norris floral wedding at route for Hongkong. the residence of Mr. F. W. Damon, large18th.—Property owners and officials of ly attended by relatives of the contract- the government have a conference for ing parties, recently arrived from the the improvement of Chinatown district States for the event. in rebuilding.—A Japanese alleged mur4th. —The Australia arrives with a big derer, long wanted by the police, is found passenger list to help swell the city's en- in a cane field at Ewa, where he has been thusiasm over "the day we celebrate." A in hiding the past four months.—Brilliant short parade—mostly military—started Jones-Henneghan wedding at the resiat 9 a. m. succeeded by literary exercises dence of Hon. W. C. Wilder, followed by at the Opera House, Rev. W. M. Kincaid a delightful reception the generous indelivering the address. Athletic sports vitations to which met a general response. entertained a vast company during the 19th.—Injunction issues again against afternoon at Makiki. The light breeze the Tramway Co. restraining it from prevailing robbed the yacht contests of King street track laying.—Kinipeki, a the excitement anticipated. No public South-sea islander, while fishing near the ball or exhibition of fireworks was in- outside anchorage captures a large shark. dulged in. Upon being towed ashore, and cut open, of a human body were discovered parts —The *banks notice of reducgive sth. tion in rates of exchange.—Corner stone and later identified as the remains of Emil laid of the new Hall building, corner of Uhlbrecht,recently drowned off Makapuu point.—lnventory of the estate of Jas. King and Fort streets. 6th.—A refused liquor license for a Campbell, filed, shows property valued at would-be water front saloon brings down $1,929,998.69. 20th.—The limit of saloon licenses for a storm of abuse on the government in general and the Treasurer in particular. Honolulu are increased to eighteen.— 7th.—Word received of a heavy loss, The Board of Health, with a number of by fire, of the Paia depot, with nearly permitted individuals, leaves on its usual semi-annual visit to the leper ettlement 12,000 bags of sugar and other merchan$1,200. Mrs. — �66 THE FRIEND. natives meet their deaths in short order from drinking methylated spirits. 24th.—Mr. Horace G. Crabbe is run over by a Chinese hack driver and severely injured. 26th.—The new steamship Lalifornian, planned for the Hawaiian trade arrives as a transport en route to Manila, in consequence of the warfare waging in China. 27th.—Friends of the late E. Uhlbrecht collect the sum of $1,458 for his unfortunate widow.—Ewa Plantation has a can fire whereby some twenty acres are destroyed.—German warship Geir arrives with hurry orders for China. 28th.—Sixty-one acres of hitherto mountain grazing land, in the Wahiawa tract, Oahu, realized the sum of $4,000 at auction.—Hon. and Mrs. H. Waterhouse entertain a large party of invited guests at a luau at their Peninsula home. 30th. —Judge Humphries rules that all documents filed in the Circuit Court shall be in the English language, and all old documents now on file must be translated and filed with the originals.—A gruesome discovery is made at Waialua, in finding the remains of W. E. Miller, a water prospector, in his tent, headless, from some explosives and evidently dead several days ; a supposed case of suicide. 31st.—Chinese residents of Honolulu, in mass meeting assembled, denounce the Boxer massacre of foreigners in China, and pass resolutions to that effect for forwardance to Washington. 23rd. —Two MARINE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU-JULY. ARRIVALS. from Port 2—Am schr Maria E. Smith, Nellson, Gamble. 3—ltal sh Ellsa, Maresea, from Newcastle. 4—Br ss Mlowera, Hemming, from Sydney. Am ss Australia, Lawless, from San Francisco. 5-Am sh Ivy, Hallstead, from Newcastle. Am achr W. H. Bendlxen, Peterson, from Eureka. Am bktn Irmgard, Schmidt, from San Fran(-Am cisco. bk Alden Besse, Potter, from San Fran- Am bk Mohican, Kelly, from San Francisco. Br ss Doric, Smith, from San Francisco. Br ss Warrlmoo. Phillips, from Vancouver. 7-Am schr Rosamond, Ward, from Ban FranAm bk Ceylon, Wilier, from Laysan Island. Ban B—Am bktn W. H. Dlmond, Nllson, from Franclaco. Am bk Diamond Head, Peterson, from San Francisco. Am bktn Kllkltat, Cutler, from Eureka. from 9—Am achr Serena Thayer, McVlcar, Eureka. Am bktn Geo C Perkins, Mass, from Eureka Br ss Coptic, Rlnder, from Yokohama. 11—IT S trnspt I.eelanaw, Storm, from Ban Francisco. Am. schr Helene, Christiansen, from San Francisco. Am schr Bainbridge, Banman, from Port Townsend. Am schr Mary B, Foster. Thompson, from San Francisco. 12—Am bk. St. Katherlne, Saunders, from San Francisco. Am schr \V. 11. Smith, Smith, Irom Port Blakeley. Am schr Luzon, Anderson, from dray's Harbor. 14—Am schr Azalia, Fardellus, from Gray's Harbor. Am schr Meteor, Lass, from Port Blakeley. l.'i—Jap ss America Maru, (joint?, from Yokohama. 17—Jap ss Nippon Maru, Allen, from San Francisco. Am bktn S. N. Castle, Hubbard, from San Francisco. Am bktn Skagit, Robinson, from Port Gamble. IX— Br ss Moana, Carey, from San Francisco. Br ss Bloemfonteln, Blcllock, from Seattle. Ill—Am schr Alice Kimball, Anderson, from the Ocr »h Sollde, Schumacker, for the Sound. Jap as Nippon Mn.ru, Allen, for Yokohama. IS—Br 8s Moana, Carey, for the Colonies. 19—Am sh J. F. Chapman, Carter, for New York. Am sh Chas F. Moody. Anderson, for the Sound. Am bk OrcKon, Parker, for the Sound. Hi- ss Bloemfonteln, Blellook, for Melbourne. 2ii—Am ss Alameda, Van Oterpndorp, for San Francisco. 21—Am ah Ersklne M. Phelps. Graham, for San Francisco. K-.IUU sh F.llsa, Maresoa, for the Sound. Am lik Olympic, Qibbs. for San Francisco. 27—Am schr Azalia. Fardellus. for the Sound. Am ss Rio dc Janeiro. Ward, for Yokohama. V S trnspt Callfornlan, Morrison, for Manila. 2X—Am ss City of Peking, Smith, for San Francisco. Am ah C. F. Sargent. Gammana, for the Siund. Am schr Inca, Rasmussen, for the Sound. Am schr Mary X Foster, Thompson, for San Francisco. Sound. Am schr Bertie Minor, Ravens, from Kureka. 2(l—Am ss Alameda, Van Oterendorp, from the Am bk Diamond Head. Peterson, for San Francisco. Colonies. 23—Am schr Robt. l.ewers, Goodman, from San 2(l—Am bktn.lV. 11. Ilimnnil. Xilson, (or San Francisco Francisco. 30—Am schr rlainhridge. Hantaan, tor the Sound. bktn Newsboy, Malestad, from Port Am bktn. George ('. Perkins, Maas. fur the Sound. Townsend. (3er. Warship(leier. Peters, (or China. from San M—V S trnspt Callfornlan, Morrison, Am schr. Luzon. Anderson, (or the SoundFrancisco. -81 Am bk. Ceylon. Wilder, (or l.aystin Islands. Am ss Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, from San Francisco. Am schr Fannle Allele., Monson, from Sun 2j—Am — . Diego. City of Peking, Smith, IT—Am ss from Yokohama. Ger cruiser Geier, Peters, from Acapulco. 2S—Am sh X B Sutton, Carver, from San Francisco. .lapall. 30--Nor. ss. Kidsvold, Schlydcll, from in ah. Iroquois, Thompson, [rom Health;. 81 -Am schr. W. 11. Kalhoi. Bennche. from Ke» Castle, DEPARTURES. MARRIAGES. TITRNER-NORRIS—In this city, July 3rd, at the residence of F. W. Damon, by the Rev. J. E. Russell, Rev. Ed. B. Turner to Miss Gertrude 1.. Norrls. PATTEN-MrWAYNE—At St. Andrew's Cathedral, this city, July 3rd, ny the Rev. Alex. Mackintosh, E. F. Patten, of Kona, Hawaii, to Miss Lulu McWayne. I'ALI.-DYER—In this city, July 3, Frank Sydney Pall, of Ewa, to Miss Eva Blanchett Dyer, of Kealla, at the residence of the officiating minister. Rev. John C. Hay, pastor of the Christian Church. I—Am ss Rio dc Janeiro, Ward, for San Francisco. Am schr Jessie Minor, Whitney, for the GOODWIN-BERRY—JuIy 12, by Rev. J. C. Hay, pastor Christian Church, Nanum C. Goodwin Sound. to Miss Mlndora L. Berry. Am schr Carrier Dove, Brandt, for the JOMXB HKXNEGHAN-In this cltv, Julr 18th. at the Sound. residence of Mr. »nit Mrs. \V. (' Wilder, bvthe Rev. 3—Am sh Henry B. Hyde, McLeod, for New Wm. If. Kincaid, J. Walter Jones to Miss (''ora HENYork. NKUAN 4—Am bk Carondelet, Stetson, for the Sound. Br ss Mlowera, Hemming, for Vancouver. s—Ger bk Hera, Kulsen, for Seattle. DEATHS. B—Am bk S. C. Allen, Johnson, for San Francisco. Phillips, for the Colonies. KING—At Waikapu, Maui, July (Ith, after a 7—Br ss Warrlmoo, short illness, Jas. L. King, aged 78 years; a Br sb Doric, Smith, for Yokohama. resident of these islands for some fifty years. B—Am schr E X Wood, Hansen, for the Sound. MINTON—At the French Hlapital, San Fran9—Br ss Coptic, Rtnder, for San Francisco. cisco, July 6, Felice L., beloved wife of W. M. 10—Am ss Australia, lawless, for San FranMlnton of Honolulu, aged 38 years, 7 months cisco. and 24 days. 11—Br bk Sussex, Guthrie, for the Sound. ROSENBERG—In San Francisco, July 8, Fannle beloved wife of Louis Rosenberg, and dearly 12—Am bktn Katie FUcklnger, Monson, for the beloved mother of Mrs. S. W. Lederer of HoSound. nolulu, a native of Alltenaw, near Hamburg, 13—Am schr Jas Rolph, Deldrlcksen, for San Germany, aged 64 years and 4 months. Francisco. off Makapuu Point 14—Am schr A G Ropes, Chapman, for San UHLBRECHT—Drowned Oahu, while shell gathering, July 15th, Emik Francisco. Uhlbrecht, aged 28 years. Am bktn Omega, Harrington, for Shoalwater OAT—In this city, July Ist, Fredk. B. Oat, after Bay. a long selge of suffering, aged 41 years; a Nagasaki. for Leelanaw, Storrs, trnspt S native of I! Honolulu. 16—Br sh Australia, Jeuss, for the Sound. BOLBTER,-At Knhala, Hawaii. July 10th. Alex \\ Jap ss America Maru, Going, for San FranBolster, aged about 70. years, a native of Count y Cook, Ireland. cisco. Thayer, Serena for the McVlcar, schr 17—Am GRAY.-At Walkikl, this city, July 11th. Mias Sarrah Sound. Kate Gray, aiater of Mrs. F. E. Hobron, aged 66 veara Am schr Maria K. Smith, Nelson, for the a native of New London, Conn, Sound. • �HAWAIIAN BOARD. HONOLULU, H. I. 2 This page is devoted to the Interests of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and the Editor, appointed by the Board, is responsible for Its con- tents. Rev. O. P. EMERSON - - Editor. The "Book Rooms" of the Hawaiian Hoard have been moved from the late 'Woman's Exchange" building to the Magoon Block, corner of Merchant and Alakea streets. The schooner "Queen of the Isles," commanded by Captain Hitchfield, was to have left San Francisco on the 20th of July on the way to Micronesia. She is expected to touch here about- the sth of August. All mail matter to go on her would best he left at the Hook Rooms of the Hawaiian Hoard very soon after the Ist of 67 THE FRIEND. Vol. 58, No. B.] August. The Native Pastorate. that the leading educators of the islands must present with greater emphasis the It will be seen by the foregoing report! claims and dignity of the Christian minthat the native pastorate is well sus- istry to our best Hawaiian youth—must tained on Kauai in connection with the proclaim that the mission of the church is watchful care, assistance and instruction divine, claiming the support of every of Mr. Lydgate. He is a leader in their earnest soul, and that they must make work as well as in their studies—parson- each of those they are guiding feel that ages and church-buildings arc kept in re- the point of first importance in entering upon the duties of life is that his chosen pair and every pulpit is filled. On Oahu Mr. Richards is reviving the career shall be noble and fitting as well as Pastors' Aid Society, parsonages and a means of support. It means to us who have the responsimeeting-houses are being put in order and salaries are being made up. livery parish bility of the school, that it needs a strong has a pastor, that at Waianae having just faculty and must be made to inspire in the extended a call to Rev. S. P. Kaaia, and young student an interest in the Christian that at Kalihi and Moanalua, having ministry and a desire to enter it; it means called Win. Kaulii Poai of the theological more instruction in the vernacular as well as in English—a man who can give inschool. Rev. H. Manasc, having resigned his struction in the theology and ethics of the pastorate at Kaluaaha, Molokai, the Mihle in both English and Hawaiian; it church has called Rev, 1). Kaai. These means also supplementary courses of lectwo missionaries lately returned from the tures given by leading pastors. Gilbert islands —Revs. Kaaia and Kaai It is not entirely just to say that the arc now occupying important home fields. spiritual life of the churches is at a low The parish at Kekaha, Hawaii, has called ebb and hence the youth are not stirred to Rev. \Y. 11. Lono, also a successful mis- enter the ministry; there is an unusual sionary to the Gilbert Islands, but obliged interest in many of our churches and to return home on account of his health. young men are feeling it. The matter is — Rev. and Mrs. O. H. Gulick, who went east in April to attend the meeting of the Ecumenical Missionary Conference held in New York April 20-May pected to arrive in Honolulu hist. Ist, are exon the 29th Night Blooming Cereus. The night is fair—too fair for us to stay. Close-curtained from the soft and radiant light. We wander forth to breathe the sweet sea breeze, Where on the road the shadows of the palms Make soundless music, as we slowly pass, By gentle swaying. Lo, and what is this ? Is this a banquet for the gods outspread Upon this lichen-covered wall? There lies The knotted, creeping cactus, loosely flung Upon the lava stones. Upon it stand A thousand glistening goblets, flared at brim, And turning towards the moon. The cups of white Arc set on scaly necks of greenish gray; And trembling in their gleaming lipcurved bowls. Is—scented gold?—nay; —amber wine? —no, no, 'Tis rather moonlight trapped,—or odor — seen. Ah! goblets rare, I know that when the light Shall come at morn, ye shall be overturned, And drained of all the glory of tonight. —Mary Dillingham Frear, in Overland Monthly 1 le has accepted the call. There are at least three vacant pastorates on Maui—at Wailuku. Kaupo and Honuala, and the natives at Lanai are also in need of pastoral care. Four good native pastors are needed on the island of Hawaii—at Xapoopoo, Waimca and Laupahoehoe, and one to care for the churches of I'una. Thus seven new men are required for the proper conduct of the work among the outlying native churches. To meet this need there are but two who have finished a course of study at the Institute and are properly equipped, and they have calls to stay in this city. Moreover, notwithstanding the faithful labor of Mr. Leadingham and his associates, the present condition of the Institute does not warrant us in expecting a sufficient supply of new men for some time to come, only three students being reported as taking a course of study there at the present time. In view of such facts as these, it was but to be expected that the Oahu Association should take such action as it did at its last meeting, and ask that the condition of the theological school be taken into serious consideration at the next meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. This anxiety with regard to our present and future supply of native pastors, together with a strong feeling that new life must be infused into the native churches, is very general among those interested, and the prevailing thought seems to be that as a first step something must be done to enlarge and strengthen the North Pacific Missionary Institute. This means not explained by saying that the spirit of commercialism is abroad and that our young men are being caught by it. They ought to be, it is thriftlessness and indolence that we fear and not enterprise and we wish that there were a still stronger commercial instinct of the right kind among the Hawaiians. We do not believe that the ministry fails to offer sufficient inducement to the educated young Hawaiians, that its sphere is limited and the salary inadequate: our brightest young men who have lately entered the ministry are feeling the stress of a noble and interesting work laid upon them, a work equal to their finest ambition, and they are well supported financially: it orfcrs to young Hawaiians a career up to their best training and ability, the kindly putting of-these facts has quickened the soul of many a native youth and made him listen for the call of God to the Christian ministry. There are those who are ready to give themselves to the work provided they can be assured of sufficient and proper training for so arduous a profession and are appealed to in the right way. Nor do we think it in accordance with facts to say that in the rapid decrease of the Hawaiian people, the growing use of English and disuse of the Hawaiian language, the training of a native ministry is coming to be a matter of relatively less importance. Statistics show that the halfwhite class among us is on the increase and is forming an element of growing importance in the parishes of the Hawaiian pastors. In other words, the process of amalgamation of the Polynesian race with other races which we see going on among �THE FRIEND. 68 us and which some call extinction, probably does not mean, for a long time to come, the curtailment of the sphere of the native pastor. In truth, those of native blood and many of those whose blood is partly native have a strong race-feeling, they prefer to have their own preachers and it is best that they should, though they are dependent on the guidance and aid of the white missionary. Scattered through the islands and grouped in small villages as they are, the native pastor for a long time to come must serve them and the native language be the language of their worship. We appeal to our friends and to the educators and educated of the land for sympathy in this matter of a Christian ministry and its training. "Geology of Oahu." By C. H. Hitchcock. This is a pamphlet of 46 pages, which was originally printed as part of Vol. II of the "Bulletin of the Geological Society of America." It is a report of geological observations and conclusions respecting tne Island of Oahu, made by Professor Chas. H. Hitchcock, LL.D., including three pages of "notes on the Tertiary Geology of Oahu," by W. H. Dall. Although the geology of this Island has been extensively discussed before, by Prof. J. D. Dana, by Prof. W. T. I'.righam, by W. Lowthian Green, by Capt. C. E. Dutton, by Messrs. W. D. Alexander, A. B. Lyons, and Walter Maxwell, yet Dr. Hitchcock's work constitutes a valuable-manual of the subject, with important additions to previous knowledge. Besides observations made during two previous visits, Dr. Hitchcock in 1888-9, carefully inspected a great number of locations, especially along the line of the Oahu railway, the Nuuanu Pali, and the series of secondary craters along the coast. A leading place is given to the original separation of Oahu into two islands, now represented by the Kaaia range, and the Koolau range. The former is much older than the other, as evidenced in many ways. Volcanic activity had perhaps ceased on Kaaia, before the Koolau mountain had been built up by its eruptions much above the surface of the ocean. Dr. Hitchcock develops the fact pointed out by Dana, that enormous outflows of lava from the northern half of Koolau mountain flooded and built up the broad plateau between Ewa and Waialua. The already deeply eroded canyons of the Kaaia range were invaded by this plateau of lava, and their lower parts buried therein. Similar elevated plains have been built up by like means in Waimea, between Maunakea and Kohala mountain, also be- Maunakea and Maunaloa. One by a later submergence. The land had may conjecture that before the deep sub- evidently sunk after the sand-dunes were sidence of Oahu, the Waialua plateau was created, but again emerged with the eleas high as Waimca, although now 1,700 vation of the coral reefs all around the tween feet lower. Dr. Hitchcock adopts the now generally accepted conclusion that Dr. Dana was in error in believing the great Kaneohe amphitheater to be the remains of an ancient caldera or crater. The vast Koolau precipice from Nuuanu Pali to Waikane is not the effect of a fault or breakdown, but is entirely produced by atmospheric erosion or weathering. The prevailing and heaviest rain storms were from the northeast, resulting in vastlygreater erosion on that side of the range. A similar result is conspicuous on the west side of the Kaaia range and from a like cause. There the East side of the mountain was protected by the Koolau range from the easterly rains, and the heaviest torrents of rain were westerly, and wore down that side of the mountain even more completely than in Koolau. ()n page 30, Dr. Hitchcock briefly discusses the limestone bluff at Kahtiku, already considered by Dr. Dana in his "Characteristics of Volcanoes." This remarkable bluff he says "consists of coral rock up to 60 feet, capped by blown calcareous sand now firmly consolidated, which may extend inland to a height of 250 feet." Here we must contradict the eminent geologist by denying that any part of the bluff "consists of coral rock," although traces of corals exist, owing to its long submergence. The bluff is composed from top to bottom of the same laminated loose sandstone which pervades the ancient and massive sand-dunes between Kahuku and Laic. Those dunes were hills of blown sand which had been accumulating for ages by reason of the force of the trade wind sweeping around and over the low angle of the Kahuku mountain. Their sands had become gradually cemented by percolating rainwater into a fragile laminated sandstone. This sort of sandstone, which abounds between Kahului and Wailuku, on Maui, is to be distinguished from the very hard and compact marine sandstone which takes a fine polish. The latter is cemented by sea water underneath deep sand beaches, and is composed entirely of hard fragments of sea shells. Captain Dutton failed to distinguish apart these marine and subaerial sandstones, and thus was betrayed into the enormous, blunder of imputing the Wailuku and Waikapu sandstones to a former period of submergence, whereas they are obviously formed aliove water, and that district was plainly never subjected to marine action. Off the Laic shore are a peninsula and an island which are mainly composed of the same fragile laminated sandstone; but this has become hardened island. Dr. Hitchcock made special inspection of most of the secondary craters fringing the coast of Oahu, which belong to a comparatively recent period. He visited each of the five craters of the Laeloa group, which are located on the Ewa and Oahu plantations, and whose wide spread ejections of ashes, now decomposed, constitute the exceptional richness of the soil which yields such unprecedented crops of sugar. Like the Kaaia mountain on whose flanks they rest, these cones are much older than the Honolulu series from Salt Lake to Koko Head, whose soft tufa is only partially eroded. Dr. Hitchcock, however, seems to impute a greater age to the latter, apparently misled by Dall's erroneous assignment of Diamond Head to the Tertiary Period. With that conclusion of W. H. Dall we are strenuously at variance. He thinks that Diamond Head was thrown up in the very ancient Pliocene period. He tries to make out that the Achatinellidae (land shells) imbedded in the breccia at the foot of Diamond Head are ancient types, whereas the expert J. T. (julick (p. 54) found no essential difference in them from present species. Dall says,"The conclusion to which I came was that the whole mass of Diamond Head had been slowly deposited in comparatively shallow water, and gradually elevated. The ejection of material at first must have been intermittent, with long quiescent periods, to enable the shore to have been repopulated with mollusks and corals." Those mollusks and corals are found in the layers of breccia and were evidently fragments of the coral reef through which the eruption of the crater had torn its vent. Mr. Dall evidently lacks the proper conception of the process of formation of a tufa-cone like Diamond Head. That process is extremely rapid. The hot mud is driven high into the air, and falls in vast showers around the vent, building up a ring of soft laminated tufa rock, which at once cements and hardens. If the showers of mud were intermittent, with "long quescent periods" intervening, that would be evidenced by layers of soil interposed between the laminae or strata of tufa, which is not the case. Diamond Head was evidently the product of a single gigantic explosion, and not of a protracted succession of volcanic activities. It is older than the Koko Heads, because more deeply fluted by weathering, but cannot be older than the Pleistocene. Mr. Dall may be correct in referring the extinct fossil species of oyster found in some Pearl Harbor beds, to the �Pliocene. But he seems to go very far, in saying that "It is probable that Oahu was land, inhabited by animals, as early as the Locene." The immense erosions of Oahu prove a great antiquity—but, the Eocene ? Dr. Hitchcock seems disposed to accept a hypothesis of Alexander Agassiz that vast aggregations of limestoneaccumulate on the ocean floor, and by their weight engender fissures through which volcanic eruptions break forth. Dr. H. thinks it not improbable that such limestone beds underlie the mountains of Oafm. But the evidence seems to confine the existence of limestone beds to the fringing coral reefs It is characteristic of the secondary craters along the shore to have discharged great quantities of limestone, coral and shells. But no calcareous matter seems to have been thrown out by interior craters like Tantalus or Luakaha. If the vents of those craters came through limestone beds three or four miles below, surely some fragments of the white rock would have been torn off and brought to the surface. I have never seen any trace of calcareous matter in the older lavas of our mountains. There is certainly none in the varied ejecta of the great explosion of 1790 from Kilauea. I think those alleged limestone beds under our mountains have no existence. Dr. Hitchcock's four pages on our artesian wells are highly instructive, and embody a quantity of important facts. He finds no law determining the depth of the wells. There does seem to be a general rule that the deeper .wells are those farthest seawards from the general slope of the mountain mass. On pages 55-57 is an "Order of Events in the Geological History of Oahu." Seventeen numbers are named in the series. We should make the "accumulation of dunes" in 17 precede the "depression" in 16, for reasons indicated above. The whole discussion is carefully arranged, and easy to understand. It should be widely read and studied by residents of Oahu, to obtain an intelligent apprehension of the rocks constantly in sight. Kohala Underground Pump. THE FRIEND. tains are vast rocky sponges, full of fresh water at sea-level. Indeed, tunnels drifted into the sides of interior precipices will often yield copious streams. Estate of James Campbell. The official inventory of the estate left by the late James Campbell sums up to a total of $1,900,000. This is, of course, greatly underestimated. For example, the Kahuku and Honouliuli ranches are valued at $320,000, whereas they are on a long lease to the O. R. & L. Co. at an annual rent of $40,000, which makes them worth at least $500,000. Mr. Campbell acquired this large property honestly by his ability and enterprise, which gave to the public as least as much as he saved for himself. Progress for the Canal. The House of Representatives passed a Bill to make the Nicaraguan Canal, by the overwhelming vote of 225 to 35. This does not mean the final success of the measure, but only a very decisive progress towards it. Certain international obstacles exist which appear to cause delay on the part of the President. But it can hardly be long before this great and necessary work begins to be actively under way. 69 [August, 1900. from them. Many Japanese are earning large wages under that system. It will greatly help to remedy the growing scarcity of laborers. A little girl wanted to make a sensation in the parlor. She had been hearing the newsboys cry their papers. So she appeared tugging a big sheet and shouting "Dreat news, Dreat news, Dod's dead, hell's burned up, and there ain't going to be any more Sundays." She had got quite beyond mere agnosticism. Looked Like Something Else.—A man saw for the first time a school girl go through her gymnastic exercises for the of the little ones at home. After gazing at her with looks of interest and compassion for some time, he asked a boy if she had fits. "No," replied the boy, "them's gymnastics." "Ah, how sad," said the man; "how long's she had 'em ?"—Exchange. amusement QAHU RAILWAY & LAND CO. New Chinatown. Tbains Run Between ■xliately beyond the old Chinatown HONOLULU, PEARL CITY, EWA still lies waste, has grown up a AND WAIANAE PLANTATIONS. nd crowded district of the same nature, but of new and large though cheap buildings. It extends from the TAKE AN OUTING SATURDAYS. River to beyond Liliha street, and up to Trains will leave at 9:15 a. m., and 1:46 p.m. Kukui street. arriving in Honolulu at 3:11 p. m. and 5:56 p.m. ROUND TRIP TIOKETB: The Maui News justly notes a great Ist Class 2nd Class advantage in the profit-sharing system as Pearl City 8 75 ft 60 applied to Japanese laborers, in that it Ewa Plantation 100 75 secures so much more and better work Waianae 160 125 Importers of— » Kohala plantation has just installed a LIVE STOCK, MODERN LIVERY and BOARDING STABLE big Riedler pumping engine, in a chamber MANUFACTURERS and DEALERS IN HARNESS ioo feet underground, which is 20 by 74 feet in dimensions, with concrete walls, WAGON MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING and brick arching overhead. Lateral tunBLACKSMITHING and HORSE-SHOEING nels supply water from copious underwater near sea-level. DEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN and FEED ground bodies of Several hundred acres of cane will thus HORSES, MULES, COWS, CHICKENS and VEHICLES be kept under irrigation. The dependence of Kohala plantation has hitherto been upon the scanty rain supply, which the destruction of inland forests has greatly diminished. Several other plantaLIMITED. tions are establishing similar underground W. H. RICE, President. W. S. WITHERS, Manager. pumps. The interiors of our lava moun- HONOLULU STOCK-YARDS CO. �Q m 70 THE FRIEND. OF HAWAII, Ltd., THE BREWER & CO., Lift. General Mercantile (Incorporated under the laws of the Republic.) HAWAIIAN ANNUAL COMMISSION AGENTS. 26TH Issue. LIST OF OHUCKRS: President Manaser C. M. Co >k* George A. RuberUon X Fexou Rlaliop Hecrotary I >1 HECTORS: (leu. R, I'a'ler H Wttterlioiißt' C. M. Cook* mid Treaailrer W.F.Allen PACIFIC HARDWARE CO., Ltd. Fort St., Honolulu HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, CUTLERY AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. PLANTATION SUPPLIES, SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. HONOLULU * PRICE 7.1 CENTS. Framing a Specialty MEAT CO. METROPOLITAN G. 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SHIPPING AND FAMILY BUTCHERS AND NAVY CONTRACTORS. *400,000.00 Ordinary and te! m Deposits will be received Is an Illustrative Numlier Replete with Valuable and rules Interest allowed In accordance withCopies Historic Information pertaining to Hawaii and condition* as printed In lass Books. for Haudy Beference. of terms and conditions upon which Deposits will be received may he had upon application, or Carefully revised Statistical and Census Tables, mailed to thOM desiring same. Specially prepared Articles on Timely Topics, relating to the Progress and Development of IRON WORKS CO. the Islands. Research and t urreut History \l lIIDfACTUSUI OF concisely dealt with. the Most Interesting yet of Numbers One MACERATION TWO-ROLL MILLS, Published. Alike Valuable for Home and Headers. Foreign with Patent Automatic Feed the the in excels Hawaiian Annual Nothing Double and Triple Effect*, Vacuum Pans and amount and variety of Keliuble Information Cleaning Pans. 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