https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/1c06f28a34e337504194a4b75b7b6b17.pdf 28c3b4be32f7896d5d6756aff747f63f PDF Text Text 83 THE FRIEND. HONOLULU, H. 1., MAY, 1901. Vol. s9 .] R. CASTLE, gENSON, [No. 5. j JT]MMELUTH & CO., LTD. SMITH & CO., Ltd. 227-228 King St. ATTORNEY AT LAW. IMPORTERS OF Merchant Street, Cartwright Block TRUST MONEY CAREFULLY INVESTED Jm M. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S.ST., DENTAL ROOMS ON FORT Office: Brewer's Block, Cor. Hotel & Fort Sta. Entrance on Hotel Street J)R. CLIFFORD B. HIGH, ...DRUGGISTS... JtjSjljtjCjCjtjCjtjtjljCjCjljljtjljljlJi Honolulu, H. I. J)R. A. C. WALL, DR. O. E. WALL, Orncs Houks: Ba.m. to 4p.m. Fort St., Honolulu. Love Bldg. .. , ...OAHU COLLEGE.. Mazson Smith A. M., Ph D President SUGAR HOUSE CHEMICALS AND SUPPLIES. Honolulu Temple Work, Sheet Metal Work and Plumbing. (Arthur DENTIST. Masonic Ranges, House Furnishing Goods, 1Stoves, Sanitary Ware, Brass Goods and Iron Wholesale and Retail T. B. CLAPHAM, Vetehinary Surgeon and Dentist. 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Bishop, Honolulu. H. I." and loveliest revelation has brightest Business letters should be addressed "T. Q. been graciously made in the person of Thrum, Honolulu, H. I." Entered at the Posl OBoS at Honolulu as second cla!>B the Son of God, in whom we behold a have mat tor. wonderful image of the Father. "Great is the Mystery of Godliness," (1 Tim. S. E. BISHOP Editor. 3:16) the wonderful disclosure in the Walkup's Report w» Gospel, of what is so hidden and obscure Kamoliilll chapel *r> as to the nature and character of God. The "Mystery Of GodllllGSS" 85 Church Dedication Ht Lihue Hfi Jesus was no mere Teacher or Prophet. Old Memories of Hawaii 86 Prayer for King; Edward VII kh He was the personal representative of (Jrow ivy Anti-Missionary ID KH the Divine, whose disposition and activBtorlei Dr. Anient Homeward Hound *H Mlssionary•phobia M ity is placed before us for study'and hM Dispensary Bill Fails hh pondering. Keieut Denvase of Bawaiitins km Delegate Wilcox at Home Unprecedented Governor*! MessM^' 1 Two leading elements in the Divine M* Ignominious Leg slHtive Failure HH character are luminously illustrated In Sailors' Home l'rosperom 89 Record of Event! S9 the character and activity of the Son of tio Births, Marriage! and Deaths 91 God. One is the tender, compassionate Vessels for Micronrsia Missions .. Two Weeks on Kauai 91 Love of (rod. The other is his perfect Gilbert Island Report for 1900 91 ! Naval Artesian Well |g Holiness, his devotion to the mainten93 Porto Riean Laborer! Ktwalo Reclamation H3 ance of Righteousness. He is Father No Manama Canal fur Us! U3 and Lover. He is also Judge and Ruler. The two characters are complete We would call especial attention to the and perfect in the Infinite One. They report by Mr. Walkup for the Gilbert are inseparable from his absolute and Islands. It is gratifying that be reports boundless perfection, and are mutually so very favorably respecting Rev. S. Ma- interdependent. Yet the two apparently hihila. our only Hawaiian Missionary clash, owing to the varying attitudes of now remaining in that group. The latest the weak finite creatures. It is an undate from Mr. Walkup is March 6th, a happy error for any of us to doubt the hurried letter "off Xamerik." He was Father's Love because he is the Holy then working in the Marshall Islands It is an equal error for us to Julge. after a good rest at Kusaie. deny His firm justice because He is the compassionate Father. He who tenderKamoiliili Chapel. ly pronounced pardon to the weeping harlot, also uttered doom against hypoMr. Paul Isenberg, Jr., rendered a use- crite and traitor. ful public service, as well as rendered a It is our highest good, the good of becoming tribute to the memory of his souls, to come into a deep knowlour grandfather Rice, in restoring the old deedge of this Revealed Mystery. We cayed Chapel at Kamoiliili, which has so long been a prominent landmark in that want to know all God would have us eastern suburb of Honolulu. It was re- know, all that he has placed within our dedicated with suitable services on March finite reach. Such knowledge exalts purifies. But truly and effectively 31st. The missionary teacher, Mr. W. andknow, we must act in full accordance 1 I. Rice, then in I'unahoti School, labored to with that divine revealing. We must actively in the building of Moiliili Chapel about 1846. It was then central to a labor earnestly to put away impurity, inlarge population, which has died out. justice, selfishness and greed. We must ( )tiier races are succeeding, and will be cherish love and compassion towards neighbor and brother man. So can we served by the renewed edifice. draw nearer and nearer to our Father and dwell in the joy of His presence and The "Mystery of Godliness." the light of His love. It is good to draw The nature of the Infinite One. in near to God. This brings heaven down whom "we live and move, and have our to earth, illumines all darkness, and being," is necessarily beyond our feeble gives peace in the midst of anguish. "He is my soul's sweet Morning-star, powers of apprehension, and can only be understood in very narrow and parAnd He my rising Sun." --- - . . . ' 85 The Friend. I No- 5- Church Dedication at Lihue. From the Pacific Commercial Advertiser we take the following report of the dedication of the new church in that central town of Kauai. Easter was an especially marked day for the residents of Lihue, tot it was the date ( April 8) of the opening of the new church. The dedicatory services were held in the afternoon, a large audience. numbering 300, composed oJ whites and natives, being present, completely filling the main auditorium and the Sunday School rooms which open into it by lifting doors. Mr. Lvdgate. minister of the foreign congregation, had the general conduct of the services, being assisted by Mr. Kaulili, the minister of the native congregation. It is probable that in coming days distinction between these two bodies will lie less and less, leaving only the necessary one of language, till even tins, with the existing school system, must in time disappear, and the church have one minister for all. In the dedicatory service the two languages were blended, Mr. 11. Iscnberg, minister of the Lutheran church at Lihue. reading the Scriptures in English, and Mr. Kopa, minister of the native church at Waimea, reading them in native. Messrs. Lvdgate and Kaili (minister of the church at Ilanalei) made the dedicatory prayers, and Messrs. Desha and Emerson made the addresses. X'ext Sunday the respective services are to be separated, the service in English, conducted by Mr. Lvdgate, is to liegin at 10:30, and the service in native, conducted by Mr. Kaulili, is to begin at 11 .30 a. m. ( hie of the most impressive parts of the service was the singing of the beautiful dedicatory hymn, written by the venerable Judge Hardy, who has so long been a resident of the Island. The residents of Lihue are to be congratulated upon the possession ot so beautiful a church structure. It is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Wilcox, and was designed by Ripley & Dickey. The land on which it stands, as well as the parsonage and parsonage lot, is the gift of Mr. G. X. Wilcox; the deeds, which were read at the services were made out giving the property to three trustees in trust for the people of the community. The trustees named were Messrs. Ralph Wilcox, Charles A. Rice and Judge H. K. Kahele. The power to fill a vacancy in the board of trustees is �86 THE FRIEND. [May, 1901. lodged with the highest judge resident tion. This gradually abated in the cooler was retrodden and moulded into huge breezes of Ewa, with abstinence from bricks to be dried in the sun. So tough school work, although the energetic mis- was the resulting concretion, that it was sionary still applied herself to active lab- nearly impossible to drive a nail into a ors among the women, who met on our well made adobe. I have always fancied that makuikui grass to be worth study as speaks the native language fluently, premises in great numbers. understands the Hawaiians, and is trustOur predecessors at Ewa were Rev. a valuable fibre plant. It has nearly beed by them, and combines with his min- and Mrs. Lowell Smith, specially capable come extinct, being a favorite food of anistry to the foreign church the oversight, and devoted missionaries who had been imals. Probably it can still be found in also, of the native churches of the Island. only two years in the field. Mr. Smith Ewa among the cliffs. He has just been called to the pastorate had built a comfortable house of adobe My father's cdws were the first cattle of the old native Koloa church, and is to bricks, thatched with grass, and well that had ever run on the Ewa uplands. combine this charge with those already plastered inside and out. He had also Waiawa valley above us lay knee deep entrusted to him. In his call to the Ko- erected the adobe walls of a church, cap- with the richest of grass, where our cows loa church, all the residents of the dis- able of holding an audience of about one rioted. Our goats took to the higher trict, native, white and half-white, co- thousand people. I think the roof also ground, where they flourished, being operated. Here is a possible and fortun- was on Mr. Smith took up his residence driven in and penned at night. This flock ate forecast of the future of the native in Honolulu, at first engaging in organ- of goats was suddenly multiplied in a rechurches of the Islands—strong men, izing and superintending day-schools, markable manner. One day they were familiar with both languages, being but soon organizing a second parish in found missing, and no trace discovered placed in the large, important centers, the capital, and building the old Kauma- by any search. A flock of 200 goats had with the outlying parishes under their kapili church. The architecture of this been driven over from Waialua to Honocare. as well as the Ewa church was simple lulu and our poor little drove of thirty The church has two rich memorial and homely. The adobe walls 15 feet absorbed on the road. The skins of ours windows, after famous pictures by Hoff- high were covered by a steeply pitched were speedily identified in town by a pemann, one, Christ blessing the children, roof, which extended out in a verandah culiar mark on the ears. The thief was the gift of Mother Rice, in memory of on all four sides, in order to protect the brought before Governor Kekuanaoa, her husband, Mr. W. H. Rice, and the base of the mud walls from being des- who sentenced him to make scriptural other, the good shepherd, of Mrs. Hans troyed by rain-drip. The timbers of the reparation, namely fourfold. He had to Isenberg, in memory of her mother, roof were long beams dragged from the sell a fine horse, buying with the proMaria Rice Isenberg. mountains entirely by human strength, ceeds 120 goats, which he very hiunbh Mr. Lydgate, to whose suggestive the labor being secured by volunteering, delivered. An enlarged stockade had to be built for their accommodation. The mind must be given the credit of start- under the leadership of the chiefs. ()ur removal from Kailua was with kids would often stick their noses being the movement for the new church, has already collected on the shelves of many impedimenta. There were four tween the poles, when hungry hogs on the Sunday School room, the nucleus of cows and heifers, and a flock of a dozen the watch would bite off their muzzles. a good circulating library for the com- goats. A good sized canoe was brought We made constant use of goat's milk munity. It already comprises 200 care- for use in transportation between Hono- for the table and cooking. Kid's flesh lulu and Pearl River. Among other was a savory diet. .Goat's mutton was fully selected volumes. things were a few cuttings of tree-figs too rank and went to the use of our naTHE BENEFACTIONS. from Kuapehu, the ends of which were tive servants. Cow's milk was all reMr. G. N. Wilcox, the church lot. Mr. G. N. Wilcox, the parsonage and inserted into sweet potatoes to prevent served for butter, some of which was lot. drying. From these proceeded a small contributed to our hospitable friends at Mr.' and Mrs. A. S. Wilcox, the church grove of fig-trees, which afterwards the capital. The herd gradually multicomplete, including seating and kitchen. yielded abundant fruit. The mission plied and in a few years became large. Mrs. M. S. Rice, memorial window, house was located on the west bank of Mrs. Bishop, finding herself incapacitated "Suffer the Little Children." the Waiawa creek, about one-fourth mile for teaching, finally devoted herself to Mrs. Hans Isenberg, memorial win- northwest of the present railway station butter-making, which brought in a good at Pearl City. There was nearly an acre income, relieving the American Board of dow, "The Good Shepherd." Mr. G. N. Wilcox, the pulpit and com- of ground enclosed in an adobe wall. their support. As the result, the mismunion furniture. Some distance seaward was a glebe of sionary couple when aged, had accumuMrs. S. W. Wilcox, the lamps. a couple of acres of taro swamp, a little lated enough for their own support, and Mr. C. M. Cooke, $250 toward general below where the railway bridge now left about $7,500 apiece to their two crosses the creek. A small cattle pen was children. A third of this, however, grew expenses. Mr. W. H. Rice, 50 per cent discount enclosed about twenty rods north. An from avails of city lots in Rochester, N. on hauling bill, $127. old wall of the natives separated the up- V., originally a piece of primeval forest land from the planted lands and kept out inherited by Mrs. Bishop. As missionthe pigs and afterward the cattle. Copi- aries went forty years ago, these old peoOld Memories of Hawaii. ous springs of most delicious water ple were counted among the "rich misabounded throughout the district of Ewa, sionaries" who had "robbed the poor HaBy S. E. Bishop. a small one being in our own grounds. waiians." Adobes furnished an excellent material I was in Ewa three and a half years, (Continued.) for cheap building. The rich soil was being then sent "home" to the States, Rev. Artemas Bishop, in the summer very clayey. A species of bunch grass after the custom of missionaries' chilof 1836, removed with his wife and two called makuikui, thickly covered the low- dren. During that time I witnessed a children from Kailua, Hawaii, to Ewa, er uplands. The dry fibre of its leaves constant and arduous devotion of my Oahu. A chief cause for the change of lay in great accumulations of many years' parents to spiritual and educational labor parish was the impaired health of Mrs. growth. This very tough fibre was gath- for the native people. My father's parBishop, in whom hard work as a school- ered in great quantities and trodden by ish was a large one, extending from Salt teacher in a very warm climate had pro- the natives into the wet clay. This fib- Lake to Kaena Point, including the disduced some degree of nervous prostra- rous mortar after standing over night, tricts of Ewa and Waianae, with a pop- on the Island, at present, Judge Hardy. The residents of Lihue are also fortunate in the possession of so able and successful a minister as Mr. Lydgate. He . �Vol. 59, No. 5.] illation of seven or eight thousand, exclusively Hawaiians. Owing to their contiguity to a large sea-port, the moral condition of the people was more corrupt than at Kailua. In Ewa, a considerable body of hopeful Christians had been gathered into the Church. Most of the people gave a friendly attention to religious teaching. The proprietary chief of Ewa was the pious Premier Kinau, whose influence secured the general adherence of the people to the missionary. It was otherwise in Waianae, whose proprietary chief was Liliha, or "Madam P>oki," who had long been hostile to the Protestant missionaries. The Waianae people were accordingly averse. We had a most excellent near neighbor in Kanepaiki, the old head man, or Konohiki of Ewa, for whom I formed a decided affection. He was very efficient in completing the unfinished church, and in building a large adobe school-house, not far from the present District school. In a year or two, a very competent teacher came from Lahainaluna Seminary, a fine-looking native, named Hooliliamanu. He grew to be high in the King's favor, and became a "Hulunianu," or member of the King's personal staff. Here and there, in the vicinity, lived native men or women of a class above the common makaainanas, although hardly chiefs, yet in possession of such "ilis" of land as to enable them to keep a few dependents. Of such was a kind old Deborah, who had a very lazy horse, always at our service when needed for a trip to town. Throughout the district of Ewa the common people were generalh well fed. Owing to the decay of population, breadths of taro marsh had fallen into disuse, and there was a surplus of soil and water for raising food. The dwellings of the common natives, I think, were in poorer condition than those in Kailua. Doubtless the moister climate caused more decay of the thatch. The people were also probably more drunken and dissolute. As in Kailua, there was no dwelling of a native not of the old Hawaiian style. Three miles west at Waipahu, stood a partially framed house, occupied by Mr. Thomas 1 hint. The clothing of the common people was mostly in the old native costume. A few more men were cotton shirts when out on a week-day, and now and then legs were encased in pants when at church. No beasts of burden were in use All burdens were carried on the old native yoke or mamaka, just as Chinese now carry them in the streets of Honolulu. As in Kailua, numbers of lean swine hung around the outer walls of the villages, or were occasionally enclosed in pens. Owning no land, and dependent on the caprice of their superiors, the common people were shiftless and indolent, living from hand to mouth. Money wages for labor were nearly 87 THE FRIEND. unknown. Perhaps along the wharves in Honolulu, laborers might earn a real or hapawalu a day. Domestic servants or ohuas were glad to be employed for their keep. It needed quite a number of them to perform the work of a small household. Expenses were light. In the later thirties, the missionaries began to be paid regular stipends of $400 for each couple, and a small addition for each child. This was found to be comparative opulence, with our very plain way of living. Our servants cultivated the little glebe,-and so fed us and themselves. Pigpen, cowpen and goatpen contributed, with broods of fowls and turkeys. Supplies of bananas, sugar cane, melons, squashes and other eatables were bought for books, slates, etc. A very common article was pia, or arrowroot, which came in the form of balls in a dirty condition, imperfectly separated from the fibre of the tubers. This we would wash and strain, leaving the snow-white sediment to be dried in the sun. Pia was a favorite diet with the little mission children in Honolulu, and probably wholesome. I had a special aversion for it, owing to an unhappy infantile experience. It was with a distressing loathing that I used to see the little tots gorging themselves on their home steps with the brown jelly in their tin cups. It was colored with molasses. But those little Clarks and Judds all grew tip healthy. A chief use of pia was for starching clothes. To separate the starch from the potato-like tubers required only grating, straining and washing. The tubers grew wild, probably an imported plant, with an arrow-shaped leaf. Our family made repeated trips to the home of Rev. John S. Emerson at Waialua during those years. There was then no road save a foot path across the generally smooth upland. We forded the streams. Beyond Kipapa gulch the upland was dotted with occasional groves of Koa trees. On the high plains the tiplant abounded, often so high as to intercept the view. No cattle then existed to destroy its succulent foliage. According to the statements of the natives, a forest formely covered the whole of the then nearly naked plains. It was burned off by the natives in search of sandalwhich they detected by its odor when burning. There were no bridges in Waialua. I think we crossed the creeks in canoes, swimming the horses. The Emersons were living in the then new stone house, which is still standing, much dilapidated. The wooden upper story was added later. At one time I spent several weeks there very pleasantly with my mother. Both Mr. and Mrs. E. were very kind. Mr. Emerson heard my Virgil lessons, and inducted me into the mystery of scanning hexameters. He was an apt teacher. The only disagreeable thing I remember was a certain monotony of diet at supper, which consisted chiefly of pai-ai and molasses. Mr. E. made his own molasses, grinding a few bundles of cane in a little wooden mill turned by oxen, and boiling down the juice in an old whaler's try-pot. The syrup was so thick as to run with difficulty from the bottle, and extremely sweet. All our molasses at Ewa was supplied by Mr. Emerson. On one occasion the missionary took his oxcart, and with several natives, we went some distance along the beach to the northward, where we broke out and loaded the cart with a quantity of large blocks of creamy sandstone, from 12 to 15 inches thick. It was found beneath the sand in the water, and was in so soft a condition as to be cut like cheese. After a few days' exposure, it petrified to great hardness, just as lime mortar does by carbonating in the air. After getting It to the house, all hands went to work to hollow and shape the blocks into conical drip stones. I was furnished with mallet and gouge, and hollowed out a passable drip stone not very well proportioned. Such stones were much used for filtering and cooling water in those days. Our journeys to Honolulu were infrequent, at first by canoe, but latterly on horseback, my father having become the possessor of a horse or two. The road was only the native trail, winding up the various pal is on the way. There were no bridges in these islands until after 1840. We emerged from Moanalua valley a quarter mile above the present road, fording the fish pond beyond Iwilei, and wading through the mud flats near the prsent Railway wharves. Every two or three months, Mr. Emerson would call at our house on his way to town. Rev. Lowell Smith was also a frequent guest, loving to visit his old parish, and helping to inspire the people in spiritual things. He was an alert and genial missionary, very single-minded and full of zeal. In riding, he always wore a thin black clawhammer coat, with the skirts carefully pinned forward to keep them from contact with the back of the horse. Those old Ewa missionaries would have marvelled could they have had a vision of present conditions, with swift railway trains sweeping through the country, vast cane fields intersected by rail-tracks and huge irrigation pipes climbing the uplands from the immense steam pumps. My father, who died in 1872, never saw a railway, nor even a large steamer. During half a century his only trip abroad was on a missionary errand to the Marquesas. The lochs or lagoons of Pearl River were not then as shoal as now. The subsequent occupation of the uplands by cattle denuded the country of herbage, and caused vast quantities of earth to be washed down by storms into the lagoons, shoaling the water for a long distance seaward, No doubt the area of deep �88 [May, 1901. THE FRIEND. anchorage has been greatly diminished. In the thirties, the small pearl oyster was quite abundant, and common on our table. Small pearls were frequently found in them. No doubt the copious inflow of fresh water favored their presence. I think they have become almost entirely extinct, drowned out by the mud. There was also at Pearl River a handsome speckled clam, of delicate flavor, which contained milk white pearls of exquisite luster, and perfectly spherical. I think that clam is still found in the I'.wa lochs. But the greatest change in Fwa n ii. the almost extinction of the native population. Some 4,000 Asiatic laborers liavi taken their places, and few Hawaiians are to be seen. The few who remain have abundant means, renting their lands to the industrious Chinese. The greatest destruction of Hawaiian population took place in the summer of 1853, by an invasion of small-pox. This broke out in Honolulu. Rev. A. Bishop immediately water and weaken the hands, blast the designs, and defeat the enterprises of all his enemies, that no secret conspiracies, nor open violences, may disquiet his Reign"; that "supported by Thy power, he may triumph over all opposition." The first of the above three petitions savors too much for the American mind, of subserviency to royal station and authority. The second is repugnant to the principle that it is often a duty of citizens to use violence in resisting the tyrannies of kings, as did Cromwell ami Hampden. The third petition assumes that the king will always be in the right. As Americans, we cannot pray that King Edward may triumph over us, if we should happen to be in opposition to him. We respectfully recommend that the prayer be materially changed, and made suitable for the .American citizens of Hawaii to offer in behalf of our honored neighbor the King of England What is manifestly needed here is a Bishop of healthy American instincts to preside procured a supply of vncctne matter, over an American Church. which proved to be spurious, lie then proceeded to inoculate the people with How Anti-Missionary Stories Grow. small-pox, thus saving hundreds of lives, A visitor to New Guinea missions reand himself coming down with varioloid, having formerly been vaccinated. Put cords the following: "One of our party, who seemed surmore than half the population of Ewa perished in a few weeks. The earliest prised at the number of people who came cases were pathetic. A young woman in to the service, told in a facetious way of Kalauao was visiting in Honolulu, and how. when the mission was started, tocontracted the malady. She hastened bacco was given to each one who would home in terror and summoned her friends attend service. After a time the workand kindred from all the villages of Ewa ers thought they ought to come without to bid her farewell. They all came and the bribe, but the natives replied: "Xo kissed her. then returned to their homes tobacco, no halleluiah." We began to and all died. The young woman herself question this statement, and found out that this was a stock story, told at all the recovered. The population of the other islands islands where missionaries were at work. were nearly all saved by means of thor- Later we found one of our passengers ough vaccination before the pestilence had heard it, and was writing it as a had time to spread, although about 80 fact." We hesitate to reprint this amusing died at Lahaina before they could be protected. I was then living there. At that story, in little doubt that some slanderer time no one had thought of objecting to will again repeat it as a fact. vaccination. Dr. Ament Homeward Bound. Prayer for King Edward VII. Our greatly esteemed friend, the editor of the Anglican Church Chronicle, appears to have in view the March issue of THE FRIEND, in some strictures upon the unreasonableness of objecting to prayers in I (aw aiian churches for the King of England. We hasten to assure our good neighbor that we highly approve of such prayers, if suitably worded. Our objection was solely to the kind of prayer promulgated, which contained expressions repugnant to the democratic minds of Americans. It was for this reason that we reprinted the prayer in full Such expressions are the three following: "that his people may never be wanting in honor to his Person, -and dutiful submission to his Authority"; "Do thou We felt it a privilege to greet upon his Way home the other day. this distinguished missionary, who proved himself so faithful and valiant a father and protector to his flock of Christian converts after the siege of Peking, through which he passed. We have no doubt that he will effectively expose the slanders, and confound the misconstructions to which his noble activity in behalf of the Chinese Christian sufferers has subjected him. personally testify that up to 1840, twenty years after the arrival of the missionaries, very few of the natives ever wore shirts, except at church. Moreover the decrease of population was more rapid (hiring the forty years before the missionaries came, than it was in the forty succeeding. '7^°—estimated population ....400,000 1820—estimated population 140,000 1836—first census 108,579 1800—census 69,800 Our men-servants, when about the house, always wore a shirt, but 110 pants. 1 hey were usually healthy, being under the missionaries' sanitary regimen. The only material modification in female attire, was in clothing to cover the boson.. which had been always left exposed. A leading cause of depopulation was the introduction of syphilis by the white discoverers, syphilization preceding civilization. .... Dispensary Bill Fails. Ihe bill for confining the sale of intoxicants to Government Dispensaries, is in South Carolina, failed to pass the Senate, where it was introduced. Some strong temperance men opposed it on the ground that it opened the way to extensive manufacture of intoxicants; that some of its provisions were obscure: that it was not maturely prepared, and therefore liable to be set aside by the courts; and that it had not been submitted to public discussion, nor expected by the people. Although we looked upon the measure with favor as likely to diminish greatly the consumption of intoxicants, probably it was an immature measure, and the public not prepared for it. It may well go over to the next legislature. Recent Decrease of Hawaiians. Last year's census tables show the following decrease of Hawaiians since the census of 1896: Hawaiians in 1896, 31,019; in 1900 29.834. Part Hawaiians in 1900, 7,835. 1896, 8,485; in This is a decrease of about one per cent per annum. Caucasians number 28,533, °f whom 1.2.357 an-' bom abroad. The whole population was of whom 86,594 were Asiatics. Of these 17,044, or only 20 per cent, were females. ()f the Asiatics, Ihe Japanese numbered 61,122, or over 70 per cent, and nearly 40 per cent of the whole population. Caucasians have increased in four years 6,095, or over 27 lx*r cent. This Missionary-phobia. increase is largely in births among the TheAY;,' Yvrk Sun recently devoted a Portuguese. column or two to showing that the mortality of the Sandwich Islands was in Delegate Wilcox at Home. ronseouence of the missionaries teaching Hon. R. W. Wilcox, Congressional diem to wear shirts, which were destrucDelegate from Hawaii Territory, re- �Vol. 59, No. 5.] turned home early last month. He speedily entered upon his special errand, which was to persuade the Independent I lome Rule Party, composed of native Hawaiians, by whose votes he was elected, to adopt a certain measure, which he found to be necessary to his usefulness at Washington. This measure was nothing less than that they should all at once join the Republican Party, by tacking the name Republican at the end of their present title, becoming the "Independent Home Rule Republican Party." This would enable the Delegate to enter the next Congress as a genuine Republican, and to enjoy all the advantages of such a relation. At present he was debarred from advantages in either the Republican or the Democratic parties. Mr. Wilcox thought this measure would enable him speedily to secure statehood for Hawaii. There was much opposition among the Home Rulers to this proposition of Wilcox, and a strong faction among them held out against it with much bitterness and obstinacy. The majority, however. finally accepted the proposition, and now call themselves "Independent Home Rule Republicans." Put this is with the explicit understanding that they shall have no connection with the existing Republican organization in Hawaii. Indeed, Mr. Wilcox himself warns them against so doing. A reliable report of his speech gives the following words from Mr. Wil- of a special session for this purpose. I he methods of the present session have been wasteful of both time and money, and there is little to show for a large expenditure of public funds. "Under the circumstances it seems to me that it is unreasonable for the Legislature to look for botli a special session and an extension of the regular session as well, with the inevitable accompanying large expenses. "The delay in enacting the appropriations has continued to so late a period that all expectations of such legislation before the expiration of this session by limitation of time appears now to be hopeless, and the calling of a special session to be imperative. Such limitation of time will, I submit, take effect on Tuesday, the 30th day of April. "I cannot therefore accede to the request of the Senate, failing such appropriations." A special session will be called, with solely to pass an Appropriation Pill. It is probable that no Governor in the United States ever before issued a message to a Legislature so charging them with waste of time and moncv. or had occasion to do it. power Ignominious Legislative Failure. The First Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii convened on the 20th of Feb"Resuming bis main subject again, the ruary for a sixty days' session, with an speaker emphasized the point that, al- overwhelming majority of the Native though the name of the party should be Home Rule party, and every prospect changed as suggested, under no circum- of a destructive victory over the power stances were the members to have any- of the Republican Governor Dole. The here; if to do with the Republicans thing chief means of such victory was to be they did they would be lost. They were in the enactment of City and County to keep their own central committee, comlaws, which should divest Municipality posed of sixty-five Home Rulers, and not the Governor most of his power, by of or Demlet a haole Republican to single ocrat into that committee, but to preserve placing official appointments and expenditures in the hands of the native it just as it is, always." It will remain to be seen how Con- majority of the voters, organized to put gress and thi' Administration will look down the power of the whites, who have Upon an accession of Hawaiian Republi- been controlling public affairs for over cans of this stripe to the ranks of their eight years. About a month was occupied in caucus by the Home Rulers in Party. cox : preparing the proposed legislation besession commenced. Such however, was the incapacity developed by the legislators that their sixty working days have-been consumed without their being able to mature their ill-constructed Bills, and the whole of their formidable scheme for "decentralizing" the Government of the Territory has ignominiously lapsed. This incapacity for business has been largely displayed in garrulous verbosity, quarrelsome contention about trifles introduction of numerous bills either trifling- or absurd, and wordy contention about them, and general failure to really do any business. The two white men of some capacity in the party failed in Unprecedented Governor's Message. fore the A Committee of the Hawaiian Senate waited upon Governor Dole with a request to extend the sixty days' session of the Legislature to thirty days additional, as he was empowered to do This request the Governor refused, in the following terms: "The law provides for a special session of the legislature in case there is an adjournment of a regular session without the enactment of the necessary appropriations for the conduct of the Government during the succeeding biennial period. The Legislature therefore has the power to compel the calling 89 THE FRIEND. leadership, and were themselves much devoted to cranky fads of their own. Rather severely these Hawaiian legislators have been compared to Kipling's "Bander-logs." Certainly the immature childishness of the Hawaiian character has been unfortunately illustrated. The Legislature seems now to have fallen very much into the power of the Governor, which they aimed to overthrow. Sailors' Home Prosperous. A delayed annual meeting of the Sailors' Home Society was held April 20th. at which W. F. Allen became President. The principal report presented was that of the efficient superintendent. Captain Isaiah Bray, covering the period from April 15, to December 31, 1900. During that time 371 availed themselves of the advantages of the institution, besides transients. Sixty-four boarders defaulted to the amount of $235.10. The number of men shipped from the home was 242. Gross receipts were $2,807.36, and Many gross expenditures $2,684.06. liberal subscriptions have been made to the Sailors' Home. "The seafaring men do not like the dormitory scheme, but prefer rooms, and 1 recommend that an addition of twentyfive rooms be made as a means of increasing the revenues. "Incoming vessels are now visited by a Home runner; a boat has been purchased and by this means the vessels are easily reached and the masters and sailors 011 the ships are made acquainted with the fact that Honolulu has an admirable institution where seamen can find comfortable quarters ashore. A regular shipping business is also conducted, although it is not remunerative. A careful record is maintained of all sailors entering the Home, with their nationality, last ship, capacity, ship joined, where bound and date of sailing." The Home is near the waterfront and Xaval Station and presents a most attractive appearance, with its pleasant grounds fronting those of the market. Record of Events. April 2nd.—Hawaii is to be misrepresented at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition by a Midway exhibit in which hula dancing and singing is to be the strong attraction, under W. Maurice Tobin, who takes with him a party of Hawaiians on a six months' contract.— Death of W. Seaborn Luce, a well known kamaaina, after a lingering illness. 3rd.—Wireless telegraph reports the loss at Puako, Hawaii, of tne Stmr. I'polu on the 2nd.—Robt. McKibbin, a long time prominent physician of this city, passes away at Makawao, whither he had gone recently for a change.— �90 The Senate committee reports adversely on the Dispensary Bill. 4th.—Reception at Kamehameha school to Mr. and Mrs. Dyke, the new principal succeeding Mr. U. Thompson. sth.—Good Friday; more generally observed as a holy day than has been the rule in this city.—Arrival of the Sonoma, somewhat belated by loss of the use of one screw the past three days from the bursting of the high pressure cylinder head. She brought many passengers, including a number of returned residents. 7th.—Easter Sunday; special services in all the churches, the attendance gratifyingly large, and the music fine.—The transport Lawton arrives off port, from Manila, with two cases of small-pox among the troops. The ship is placed in strict quarantine'and the patient! sent to quarantine island.—President Raymond of the Poard of Health reports the result of investigations on the recent supposed case of bubonic plague as being confirmatory. Bth.—Senator Russel presents a minority report strongly in favor of the Dispensary bill.—Farewell reception by the ladies of St. Clements' Guild at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. Jno. LNbOflie in honor of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Tom May, which wis largely attended by their many friends Qth.—Congressman Hill. Judges Cooper, Willard, Ladd and Kincaid for the Supreme and trial courts in the Phil ippines arrive by the transport Buford for a few days sojourn en route.— Federal Grand Jury meets and hears the charge of Judge Estee upon the work of the term. 10th.—The Chamber of Commerce puts itself on record as opposed to the Dispensary bill.—Officers of the transport Garonne entertain the officers of the lhtford at the Moana hotel and find pleasure in throwing bouquets at Honolulu all the evening. nth.—The Honolulu Steam Laundry is absorbed by its younger sanitary rival. —Executive Council considers favorably a project to improve Kakaako and Kewalo tracts, beautify the Beach road and deepen the water along its front to about eight or ten feet for bathing and boating purposes.—Our solons propose, as a revenue measure, to tax sugar plantations ten dollars per ton on their annual product.—The visiting officials honored the House with an hour's visit and each indulged in brief remarks. 12th.—The House has a hard day in wrestling with the County bill.—The Department of Public Instruction will send an educational exhibit from Hav.'aiian schools to the Buffalo Exposition, in charge of Miss Rose Davidson.—-Concert at the opera nouse by friends of the May,1901. THE FRIEND. Bcretania Tennis Club, for its benefit, proved a delightful and successful affair. 13th.—Transport Kilpatrick arrives from San Francisco with several cases of small-pox and measles among her troops. They desire to land, but the Board of Health objects.—P>y the ,l/<;/'--tposa a delegation of the order of Ella arrive to institute that branch of fraternity in these islands. 15th.—The Governor vetoes the reduced dog-tax bill.—Order of Elks instituted, with Dr. C. B. Cooper as the Exalted Ruler. 16th.—The Medical Association pro test against the anti-compulsory vaccin ation act and asks the Governor to veto it, which was eventually done. 17th.—The Dispensary bill fails to p.ass in the Senate. 18th.—Minister Conger, wife, daughter and niece arrive by the Nippon Mam, and enjoy a brief sojourn here, en route to the States for relaxation from the arduous strain of the Peking seige. 20th.—Maui and Oahu Polo dubs meet in contest at the Moanalua grounds of Mr. S. M. Damon, which a large gathering of society folks witnessed. Contrary to general expectations the older, visiting team lost the game.— Annual meeting and election of officers of the Sailors' Home Society, with reports of the superintendent, Capt. I. Bray, and others. 22nd.—House bill to legalize gambling meets its death on second reading. — Meeting of the Par Association to consider a plan for the larger Judiciary system needs of the Territory, for submission to Congress.—Polo teams nice: again in contest and repeat Saturday's victory.—At the election of officers of the Y. M. C. A. but one change is made in the old board, that of Recording Secretary, to which J. M. Moore was chosen. 24th.—Death of Jno. N. Wright, a well-known resident and veteran of the G. A. R.—Arrival of U. S. Treasury agent with funds for the redemption of Hawaiian Government Bonds.—A case of smallpox is reported among the Porto Rican laborers, at Lihue, Kauai.—Rapid Transit lines are to be extended to include the College Hills and Kaimuki Tracts. • 25th.—The Tramway Company loses its case in the Supreme Court, denying its right to double track any street; or to change now from animal power to electricity, having failed to avail itself of that right within the years 1890 to 1897, granted by special act of legislature. 26th.—Plans maturing for a school children's May day festival to be held at the Executive grounds.—Odd Fellows celebrate the 82nd anniversary of the order by an entertainment in Progress Hall.—The Senate has a warm session and the Home Rulers defiantly pass the County bill on its third reading without admitted needed amendments. 27th.—Governor Dole declines to the House, as he had also done to the Senate, to extend the session.—Francis Murphy Hall is Opened by the Gospel Temperance League, in Waverly block, for anti-saloon social attractions. 28th.—A Japanese girl meets her death, at Moiliili, from burns through an explosion.—The day opens with a brief but heavy thunder' storm, doing some little damage among the shipping*n port. 29th. —Judgment is rendered in the First Circuit Court against the promoters of the Kamalo Sugar Co. for $155,000.—Dr. Raymond resigns as President of the Board of Health, contemplating making Maui his future home.— The Senate, after various threats by the majority of turning down all the Governor's appointees and slating Home Rulers for responsible positions, conclude to confirm all except the Treasurer, Supt. Public Works, the Commr. of Public Lands.— Reception at Mrs. Dillingham's in honor of Miss Reynolds, Sec. of Worlds Y. W. C. A., which was largely attended. 30th.—The Senate passes 1 louse bill granting Liliuokalani $25o,cxxi by a strict party vote of 9 to 6, subject to approval of Cong/ess. Home Rulers of the I louse decline to acknowledge this as the sixtieth and last day of the session, yet continue to waste time in useless wrangle and refuse to deal with important bills— studiously avoiding the loan act the past two days. BIRTHS. CRAWLEY-To the wife of J. T. Crawlcv, I daughter April 21»t. CRANE-In this city, April 22, to the wife of Olias. s Crane, a son. VKTI.ESEN At Lahaina, Mini, April 21st, to the wife of 1.. M. Vutlesen, a son. COOKE-In Honolulu, April 27th, to the wife of J. P. Cooke, a son. - MARRIAGES. JORDAN-ASBKRRY-In this city, April Ktli, by the Rev. Silas P. Perry, F. H. Jordan to Miss Florence Asberry. BRABCH-WAITY—At Central Union Church, this city, April lflth, by the Rev. W. M. Kincalil, Man rice Braseh to Miss Mabel Watty. DEATHS. EHLERS—In Hanover, Germany, Feb. 22d, Pauline Augustc (nee V<tss) bcloveil wife of A. Ehlers. HINEB—In Winston, Queensland, Australia, Feb. 24th, Miss E. E. Hlnes, a sister of Mrs. Ernest Kopke of this city. LUNING—In Los Angeles, Cal., March 18th, J. W. Luning, for many years a resident of Honolulu. DOUGLAS—At Watsonvlllc, Cal., on March 24th, Susan Jane Douglas, wife of Thomas s. Douglas of Honolulu, and daughter of the late Jeremiah O'Neill. LUCE—In Honolulu, on April 2d, William Seaborn Luce, in his fifty-first year. McINNIB-In this city, April 2d, at the Queen's Hos- Oeorge Mclnnis, a native of Prince Edward Fiital. slanda. April Bd, Dr. Robert McKIBBIN—At Makawao, Maui. McKibbin, aged 70 years. 3d, the infant Honolulu, April BRUNDAOE—In daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Brundage, aged 2 months 19 days. ING ALLS—At Clifton Springs Sanitarium, N. V., April years 7th, Mrs. A. B. Ingalls, aged PHILLIPS—In this city, April Bth, Andrew Brown Phillips, aged 19 years and 9 months, son of the late John Phillips. WRIGHT-In this city, April 24th, John N. Wright, aged 71 years; a native ofDc Ruyter, N. Y. — �THE FRIEND. Vol. 59, No. 4.] HAWAIIAN BOARD. HONOLULU, H. I. This page Is devoted to the Interests of the Haand the Kditor, apwaiian Board of Missions, by tha Board, I* responsible for Its con- Sointed >nt». Rev. O. P. EMERSON - - Editor. Vessel for Micronesia Missions. Rev. Walter Frear writes to Dr. Bingham as follows, under date of April 13: "The Carrie and Annie just bought for our work this year will probably leave here in about six weeks or so, and stop The at Honolulu, I think. purpose of building has been given up for this year. I had plans made. The last two months have been full of vessel problems with me. The Carrie and .-lunie is not large, but the best that has seemed possible. She is a fine sailer, built of oak and strong. Cheaper than chartering." Friends may soon prepare their messages for Kusaie, lionabe, and Ruk. * * * The meeting of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association will be held this year in Haiti Church. Hilo, Hawaii, commencing Thursday, June 6th, at 10 a. m. Rev. D. P. Mahihila, missionary of this Hoard, stationed on the islam! of Maiana. Gilbert Islands, says that he does not think that the Hawaiian Board should withdraw its work from those islands. He does not think the Gilbertesc youth trained for the ministry in the mission school at Kusaie have strength enough of character to withstand the temptations of that semi-heathen life and so become the religious leaders of their people. He makes a call for more Hawaiian missionaries. "Where," says he, "is Rev. Kaaia, the prophet of Tapiteuea. where is Kaai who was at Apaiang, and Kuikahi and Kaauwai and Nuuhiwa who were with me in the theological school? The land is invaded by false teachers, images are set up and to them offerings are made of cuts of tobacco and knees are bent at these altars. The worship of Mary is put in place of the worship of Two Weeks on Kauai. The meetings began Thursday, April with one held in the Y. M. C. A. building in Mr. Rice's yard, Messrs. Lydgate, Desha and Emerson giving the addresses. Most of those present were Hawaiians. The next meeting was held in the mission church at Koloa. A "bus" full of people went over from Lihue and there was quite an audience present. Scattered through it were a number of foreign residents. Mr. Lydgate is pastor of the church. sth The next meeting came on Sunday in the new church. The dedicating exercises being at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and there being also a service of prayer in the evening, which was well attended. On Monday Mr. Lydgate held his theological institute, seven native clergymen and two laymen being present. Expositions of parables were given and afterwards plana of sermons formed on them were criticised and corrected. These exercises closed on Tuesday morning, after which the sessions of the Kauai Association began. Rev. Kaili, pastor at Hanalei, was elected chairman. All the pastors of the island were present with the exception of Rev. Kaauwai, who was in attendance on the legislature as "representative from his district. Some of the reports from the churches were encouraging; some things were not so. Meeting houses had been built and repaired, hut these good works had not stopped the gambling and immorality. One of the best church reports was given by the superintendent of the Waimea Sunday school. She is a graduate of Kawaiahao Seminary and is married to a white man and has been for a number of years a teacher in the public school. She has both Hawaiian and Chinese blood and is highly respected as a Christian leader. With her came the wife of the Chinese preacher at Koloa, who is also of mixed blood. She was the delegate to the Sunday School Association and brought her baby with her. The sessions of the Sunday School Association came after the adjournment of the Kauai Association of churches. Two week-flay evening meetings for prayer and conference were held in the new church during the stay of the Conference in Lihue and one afternoon meeting was held at an outstation. This afternoon meeting met in the Mormon Chapel as the one belonging to the native church had been blown down during the late storm. At one of the mornings during the stay of the delegates at Lihue a dinner was given them by some of the ladies of the foreign church, and on one afternoon there was a gathering to witness the baptism of some children. Among those baptized was the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lydgate. Thursday and Friday evenings of the second week were spent in and about. Hanalei, union meetings being held for Chinese and Hawaiians. An afternoon meeting was also held at Kaena, where a small meeting house is being built. We were fortunate to have the Rev. Mr. Thwing with us at these meetings. His addresses in Chinese were listened to with marked attentions by at least a 91 hundred of that race. Hanalei is a rice field all the way from Kaalawai to Wainiha, in every valley the Chinaman and his rice field is in evidence. The same is true of the southern side of the island. The former salt marshes of Mana arcnow rice fields. At Waimea, at Hanapepe, at Koloa, and in the intervening valleys there is rice and there are Chinamen. Such a week of meetings, with Chinese as well as natives, as we spent with Mr. Thwing at Lihue and Waimea. as well as at Hanalei, we consider well Spent. We have seen no class of people respond more quickly than did these Chinese, From the first greeting "have \ou had your rice," to the further talk on their faults and needs, Mr. Thwing can win his hearers. The spirit of reform is abroad among this people and such men as Mr. Thwing are absolutely necessary to meet the needs of the hour. Gilbert Island Report for 1900. By Rev. A. C. Walkup. The "Hiram Bingham" has been an important factor in making it possible give this report. We reached TapiJanuary 18, on the vessel's third trip from San Francisco, just two weeks after the "Morning Star" left the group. Since then we have visited at 26 islands 60 times. This has required us to travel 9,064 miles, and 1,062 have been by the use of engine. We have been 101 days at sea or 09 miles a day. In English miles 11,384, or 113 a day. It has given 236 days in harbor; or, as at a few of the islands anchoring outside, and at others "off and on." We have visited at 54 stations, or outstations, 113 times. We have travelled on the vessel in lagoons, 804 miles, not to speak of pulling ashore hundreds of times in the skiff and often a mile or more. All this has required anchoring and getting under way 103 times. We have carried five families on vacations, and to their work. Also Mr. Heine from Rutaritari to Jaluij to commence his work of teaching. Moreover Rev, Jeremia, the native Bishop of the Marshall Islands, made a tour with us. We have delivered 154 cases of supplies to the teachers, and 8 of them wcie very large cases of dry goods, which we had to break up to handle and store away in cabin. On our way to Kusaie I increased our crew to 10 boys, 8 of'them to be left in the Training School, while tiiree families are ready to go with us to the work I think the shareholders in the 'Hiram Bingham" ought to be reminded that this is the ninth year the boat has bevi afloat, and we have been 871 days at sea, sailing about 63,450 miles, or to tctica �92 THE FRIEND. weeks, 72,514 English miles, or nearly three was to stop at the island a few bought But still betCatnolics have the and also the globe. times around the ter, it has given me 1,292 dayr, of home lot next to our mission lot, and the life among the islands., Is this the last, Bishop and Lady Superior have left Nonouti, and arc to make another effort as well as the least of the "Navy"? As to the Islands. A great blessing has been the plenshowers for the- last 20 months. This is bringing a large crop of food and nuts. The trading vessels are racing from island to island. The people can not only clothe themselves now. but they can buy books and give to support the work, if they have the will. At some of the islands I have found such call for Bibles that I have sold 74 of the 140 for benevolent distribution. Now no Bibles come to replace them. Butaritari is the darkest and most discouraging of the islands at present. The scripture truth, "So the last shall be first, and the first last" has a good commentary in comparing Butaritari and Apemama, a few years ago, and now. Here the first Resident Commissioner lived for a time, but the laws have become a farce. There are plenty of fines and birds for the gaol, from among the common people, but none from the very worst class, the chiefish. The chief mag istrate is the Prince, Tabu. Our teacher Taokai, a chief from Apaiang, and intimate friend of Tabu, is continually preaching from the old prophets on this evasion of the laws. The king, Bureimone, while hating the dance of the heathen, that is allowed them Holiday seasons, smuggling in as much other heathen deviltry with it as they can, is himself not so far from heathenism as we had hoped. Both the king and the prince have not only been upbraided, but fined by the Commissioner for old heathen kingly customs still in vogue, after 40 years of instruction. I suppose they might be classed among Paul's "carnal" Christians. But I have hopes for any man who is making the effort that this man made to be restored again to church fellowship. Not one of our three teachers in the principal villages can gather over 20 scholars for school, and 4 or 5 of these regular for Sabbath work. The attendance is from 5 to 20 at each village, or 40 to 50 in a union meeting. We have 28 faithful Christians scattered in each village as lights. Butaritari is doubtless more favored than Sodom. Although I was at the island some 90 days in the five visits, I did not seem to be of much help to the teachers; but I found my time fully occupied in mimeographing Sabbath-school lessons, and care of the boat and engine, and rebuilding one of the mission houses. I am anxious to get there again as the Commissioner teous here. Makin and Kichit. These arc two islets separated from Butaritari by four miles of sea, and their government is dependent on Butaritari. I made two visits, of four days each, in a boat from Butaritari, and also called twice with the vessel for a few hours each. The work is quite encouraging, although weakened the last part of the year by a visit from the king and his party, gathering and carrying off some $3,000 of nuts, not respecting tin rights of individuals to the land, and this besides eating up most of their Babai and other food. It will be six months before they can get nuts for clothes and books and contributions. Timau, the teacher at Makin, had a vacation to Miriam's home at Apaiang, but we would like to give them a year at Kusaie, and ordain him as pastor of the (lock. The couple left at Kiehu ought to have a larger place, and Timau has a couple in training who could hold Kiehu as an out-station. Marakci. 1 have been at this island four times, but was able to anchor only three times, as the anchorage is outside and close to the breakers. We rolled heavily each time, but we held on seven days in all, and wanted to another day on our last visit, as it would be Sabbath. But the wind changed, swinging us to the breakers, and we got away from the danger. On our visit in April, the heathen were dancing in open and full swing six weeks before the Queen's birthday. Yet neither that, nor the Catholic priests seriously affected our work, but in the two months when all the people were gathered at the principal village building a stone gaol-yard, some of the young were ensnared by the promiscuous plays on the beach, and lost to the work for the present at least. The teachers, at the time of this gathering for public works, had a combined school of over a hundred. The vanity of native officials has shown itself several One, the Commissioner left time. orders that girls must not sleep in the mission yards. But the haughty officials tried to keep the yards clear of all persons, except at the time of worship Rev. D. Nauto pressed his protest, and his yard was left open to all in daytime The assistant teacher at another village was not a match for the policemen, and none dared to visit him bringing food. The result was his large family got hungry and wanted to go to their home island.' May,1901. The Catechist left last year is a native of the island, and has some fourteen boys and girls under his charge (his station is in a back district and not all the laws have reached so far) besides eighty day scholars at times. There are two more districts on Marakci not supplied with teachers. Pastor NautO had a severe affliction in his wife being helpless several weeks on her back. Put the angelic disposition of a Christian couple was shown in their taking the family to their house those weeks and caring tor them. The church work is steady, four received, (») members, and an average congregation 180. The contributions and book-sales an a little slow. ApaiauiT. I have been at this island Vive times, but one of them only over night to take Mr. Tabwia to Maiana. He has not been in commission now for about five \ears. but has gathered a congregation at the south end, and has built a church. 1 have promised him a field for next year. In the mean time he wished to visit his grandchild and help the work on Maiana. The catechisl Tarakabu has taken that as his field, as he was living in a village too close to the old mission. Here at the old station Solomon, left last year also, is, as a native expressed it, asleep. Thus the work fell low. as only children of steadfast Christians attend school and Sabbath school. The young couple I brought from Kusaie in June was stationed at the village vacated in taking Mr. Morning Star Kaure to Kusaie. Xow these three arc our only schools at Apaiang, as the Home Mission Band has failed in getting support for teachers. The efforts of this P.and are comically enterprising, if not succesful. hirst they got permission of the Women's Board of Apaiang to collect and use their debt of —about $150, in the hands of parties that have lands and plenty of nuts. Their proposition to go and gather the nuts was answered by the promise to pay in Although instalments semiannually. this promise was from the chief magistrate, and another chief by birth, it was not fulfilled. Another effort and only partly successful, was drift-wood from far off Queensland. This drift-wood was set afloat by Gilbert island laborers on sugar plantations, where an Australian society have a missionary to work among < the natives. The first drift-log to reach the islands was six pounds (S3O), but the king of Apaiang snatched it. and only gave up one-half of it to the Band. Then a log of eight pounds ($41.50) drifted into the hands of our teacher at Apemama, but the Apaiang Band heard of it, divided it, and sent for it. But the �bearer has decided that it is for the general work of the group. We hope this mission Band will have one or more teachers working soon. The government has no schools, as the competition between the Catholics (who have several hirelings called teachers) and Protestants are said to be sufficient. At Tarawa, the Commissioner's headquarters, I have called six times, and only met the Commissioner once, on my fifth visit. * * * Rev. Tcraoi has four other helpers, six schools in all, and about 170 children, but they are small, and the parents are indifferent. Along this 30 miles of coast, our Christian families arc much scattered, and only such a patient, faithful pastor as Tcraoi could bear to wait for latter rains and fruit. Maiana. At this island I have made five visits, but inside to anchor only twice, when 1 feel safe and prolong my stay. Rev. and Mrs. P. Mahihila had a vacation of two months on Tarawa and Apaiang, and returned refreshed. Mr. Tabwia took their work and became a favorite. Then later the catcchist Tebaou, a son of Mr. Tabwia, also had a vacation, his father looking out for the work. The work at this station has THE FRIEND. 93 Vol. 59, No. 5.] dredged from the adjacent reef, and part brought by steam railway from Manoa valley. It is to be hoped that a spacious Park will be reserved near the sea. now, have better incomes than the common people on other islands. (To be Continued.) Naval Artesian Well. No Panama Canal for Us! The Naval wharves and grounds are "The Panama canal is a good enough now abundantly supplied with water from canal for Hawaii, which cares nothing an artesian well on the grounds, which is for the rivalarics that exist between Nic1,200 feet deep. The flow is reported to aragua and Panama on the subject. The be 1,500,000 gallons a day. The second point with this Territory is to have the of the new slips was recently completed, 1Atlantic and Pacific joined by a shipbetween the main body 500x150 feet, and 31 feet deep, excavated canalthesomewdierc two American continents. The in hard coral, which has been used to fill .of many acres of tide lands, lying inland particular site is immaterial.—P. C. Adfrom the Marine Railway, and beyond it. One strong reason for preferring the route for the Isthmian CanaL Nicaragua Porto Rican Laborers. is the shorter distance to North Atlantic Immigrants from Porto Rico are pour- ports. Another reason is the prevalence of calms west of Panama which detain ing into Hawaii at the rate of 900 a sailing vessels for weeks. But a far more month. About 10,000 in all are expected. important reason is the prevalence of pesThey arrive in rather wretched condition,' tilential fevers at Panama, especially the but are said to improve rapidly on the very malignant "Panama fever," also sugar plantations. It is too early to ven- yellow fever, neither of which are comture an opinion whether their descend- mon on the Nicaragua route. It would ants will form a desirable class of Amer- be a serious calamity to have a dozen ican citizens. Happily the proportion of steamers monthly bringing infection to females is large. What provision will Hawaii from the Isthmus. be made by the Roman Catholic Church for their spiritual needs, is not learned. QAHU RAILWAY & LAND CO. Their children will he taught English in our public schools. Propably these peo MMs^jnuJaJL pie, having a large admixture of negro blood, are inferior in mental capacity to our Portuguese population. been very encouraging, although for a time they had a great trial by the impertinence of the Catholics who purchased the premises next to the station. Purchasing this property was the entering wedge for the Catholics to land, and they made a great effort to capture the Kewalo Reclamation. whole island, but only succeeded in getting a few renegades, and the hatred of There is a swampy tract lying at sea This native the native government. level'in the southeast part of Honolulu, government has decided not to have a even a on nearly square mile in extent, commonly Catholic officer, or any dancing holiday, and to attend the Protestant known as Kewalo. It is being much built upon, which should not be permitted worship, This gives us a very large congrega- for sanitary reasons. A scheme is likely tion now. and not all wheat. Mr. Cor- to be soon carried into effect to fill the rie, an English trader, has been friendh whole section two or three feet, so as to to our work, and now 1 hear has been' be dry land. Part of the material is to be appointed Government agent, will setthat the laws are enforced, and quiet reigns. Our other catcchist, Teriba. has been afflicted by an island disease, and ' Trains Hon ISf.twekm HONOLULU, PEARL CITY, EWA AND WAIANAE PLANTATIONS TAKE AN OUTING SATURDAYS. Trains will leave nt 9:15 a. m., and 1:45 p. m. arriving in Honolulu at 3:11 p. m. und 5:55 p.m. BOUND TRIP TICKEIH: Ist Class 2ndClam Pearl City S 75 8 60 75 Ewa Plantation 1 00 1 50 1 25 Wnianae Importers of Live Stock above all intellectually is hardly capable MODERN STABLE LIVERY and BOARDING for the large village he has, and must be relieved soon. MANUFACTURERS and DEALERS IN HARNESS Apemama. Here I have made three WAGON MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING visits. Mr. Murdock, a Government BLACKSMITHING and HORSE-SHOEING agent, has given the people a good training on public works, and in selecting offiDEALERS IN HAY, GRAIN and FEED cials only who are faithful and true in HORSES, MULES, COWS, CHICKENS and VEHICLES executing the laws. No white traders, or Catholics are on the island, or either Aremuka or Kuria islands owned mostly by the king and chiefs of Apemama. Trading vessels trade direct with the peoLIMITED. ple, and make the price of goods about RICE, President. W. H. W. S. WITHERS, Manager at Thus one-half of prices other islands. the former slaves, who are the renters HONOLULU STOCK-YARDS CO. �94 THE FRIEND. Q f BREWER & CO., Lra, OF HAWAII, Ltd., THE General Mercantile (Incorporated under COMMISSION-AGENTS. HAWAIIAN ANNUAL Queen St., Honolulu, H. I. FOR 1901 ! President Manager Maaijaasxj ami X Faxuu lilsiioi> Treaaiirsr DIttICTOBSi C. M. ce ooki<0oki< PACIFIC W. F. Allan lleo. K. t'sucr H Waterlioua" HARDWARE CO., Ltd. Port St., Honolulu HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, CUTLERY AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. PLANTATION SUPPLIES, concisely dealt with. 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