https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/0e08245b8d47e629b3644055314fa531.pdf f9e43bceece9212d6249f6905ff7462d PDF Text Text �February, 1910 THE FRIEND. 2 Iblili aiiaro 3£rust Co • THE FRIEND , . LIMITED. Fire, Marine, Life jjhto and Accident BURETY ON BONDB. Glass, Employers' Liability, and Burglary Insurance. IbS" */ |(g("^—T/.-=—- -y] Plate \^^HStßhJ^'ll 923 FORT BTREET, Safe Deposit Building. mffl COLLEGE HILLS, The magnificent residence tract of the Oahu College. COOL CLIMATE, SPLENDID VIEW TRUSTEES OF OAHU COLLEGE, 205 McCandless Building. Honolulu ,, All business letters should be address- Regular Savings Bank Department maintained in Bank Building on Merchant Street, ed and all M. O.s and checks should be and Insurance Department, doing a Life, made out to I Fire and Marine business on most favorable Theodore Richards, i terms, in Friend Building on Bethel Street. Business Manager of The Friend. P. O. Box 489. OAHU - - - COLLEGE. Doremus Scudder. Editor in Chief. Frank S. Scudder, Managing Editor. F. W. Damon. John Gi Woolley. A. A. Ebersole. Orramel H. Gulick, H. P. Judd. W. B. Oleson. Paul Super. William D. Westervelt. Perley L. Home. Ernest J. Re«ce. Edward W. Thwing, Foreign Correspondent. Punahou Preparatory School. (Charles T. Fltts, A. 8., Principal). The BOY Wants Stories There are none so good as the old BIBLE stories, the boy himself as together with special judge. We know for we have tried with Commercial, Music, and a number of boys, girls too. But you Art courses. should have GOOD PICTURES as texts when you tell Bible stories. For Catalogue, address We have a Bible with 800 good illusJONATHAN SHAW, trations. We knew one copy of it to be Business Agent, worn out by the use of one family,— Honolulu, H. T. four children one after the other liter• Oahu College, ally wearing it to pieces. WHITNEY, M. D., D. D. S. We have one, and have sent for a DENTAL ROOMS. number more. Offer complete College preparatory work, - JM. Fort Street • - - Boston Building. STOCKS, BONDS AND ISLAND SECURITIES THE BOARD OF EDITORS: Entered Orfiilwr 77,1Q02, at Htmnhilii. Hawaii. n**tcmit\ da** mattrr, uttiffr net <>f CewoTSM 0/ March .?. r.^o- — LIMITED 1 (Arthur F. Griffiths, A.8., President.) —and Henry Waterhouse T. ust Go. All Communications of a literary character should be addressed to THE FRIEND, corner Alakea and Merchant Sts., Honolulu, T. H, and must reach the Board Rooms by the 24th of the month. Theodore Richards. Hawaiian Islands. BAN X ERB. Is published the first week of each month in Honolulu, T. H., at the HaHONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. waiian Board Book Rooms, cor. Alakea and Merchant Sts. Subscription price, Established in 1858. $i.oo per year. A special rate is made to Mission! Transact a General Banking and ExChurches or Sunday Schools in the change Business. Loans made on approved Islands, Clubs of 25 to one address 25 1 security. Bills discounted. Commercial Credits granted. Deposits received on curcents apiece per year. rent account subject to check. The cheapest and most desirable lots offered for sale on the easiest terms; onethird cash, one-third in one year, one-third in two years. Interest at 6 per cent. For Information as to building requirements, etc., apply to BISHOP & COMPANY, Hawaiian Board Book Rooms. Fort and Merchant Streets, Honolulu. WICHMAN HF. • & CO., LTD. Manufacturing Optician, Jeweler and Silversmith. Importer of Diamonds, American and Swiss Watches, Art Pottery, Cut Glass Honolulu Leather Goods, Etc. Hawaiian Islands. • - - Castle & Cooke, Ltd. SHIPPING AND COMMISSION MER- CHANTS, SUGAR FACTOR AND GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT. REPRESENTING Bwa Plantation Company, Waiatua Agricultural Co., Ltd. Kohala Sugar Company, Waimea Sugar Mill Company. Apokaa Sugar Company, Ltd. Wahiawa Con. Pineapple Co., Ltd. Fulton Iron Works of St. Louis, Blake Steam Pumps, Marsh Steam Pumps, American Steam Pump Co. Weston's Centrifugals, Baldwin's Automatic Juice Weigher, Babcock & Wilcox Boilers, Demings Superheaters, Green's Fuel Economizers. Matson 'PlantersLine Shipping Co. Insurance Company, Citiaens Insurance Co. (Hartford Fire) Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Marine Dept.) NationalFire Insurance Co. Protector Underwriters of the Phoenix of Hartford. New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Boston. Navigation Co. GEORGE J. AUGUR, M. D. HOMEOPATHIC PRACTITIONER. Residence, 435 Beretania St.; Office, 431 Beretania St. Tel. 1851 Blue. Office Hours—lo to 12 a. m., 3to 4 and 7. �The Friend. OLDEST NEWSPAPER WEST OF THE ROCKIES. HONOLULU, H. T., FEBRUARY, 1910 Vol. LXVII TREASURER'S STATEMENT FROM DEC. The Cleveland. 20, '09—JAN. 20, '10 leccpts— A. B. C. F. M $ Chinese Work Conditional Gift 17.55 43.10 700.00 160.40 Friend 175.00 General Fund Hawaii General Fund.. Hawaiian Work 48.75 20.65 145.85 2,611.80 Hoaloha Invested Funds Japanese Work Kalihi Settlement Kona Cemetery Kohala Girls' School Maui General Fund 431.00 275.00 15.00 160.00 113.50 25.00 Maunaolu Seminary 50.00 Molokal General Fund Oahu General Fund... 2,553.67 .. ... Office 62.00 Expense 3.50 50.00 34.00 87.00 25.00 25.00 .. Opukahaia Fund Palama Settlement Portuguese Work Tomo Wailuku Mission Wailuku Settlement... $7,832.77 — Ixpenditures A. B. C. F. M American Bd. Lands Chinese Work Salaries .. 47 60 $ 122 50 Eug.-Port. Work Salaries 703 25 68.50 834.00 Friend General Fund Hawaiian Work Salaries Hoaloha Interest Invested Funds Japanese Work Salaries Kohala Seminary Salaries Palama Settlement Tomo Wailuku Settlement worker Hawaii General Fund— James Upchurch $ 825.75 902.50 99,'ib 131.91) 107.20 520.07 92.50 808.25 15.90 627.27 42.69 12.09 167.00 900.75 86.75 Kalihi Settlement 10.00 140.00 150.00 250.00 53.90 50.00 3.75 Waiakea Settlement... Wailuku Mission Office Expense Salaries 8.50 $ 52.50 2.50 65.65 449.00 Excess of receipts over expenditures Overdraft at Bank 514.65 $4,945.25 2,887.62 1,901.59 T. R. The coming of this Hamburg-American liner with 650 tourists en route from New York to San Francisco will mark a new era in Hawaii if it lead to the suspension of the coastwise shipping laws for this Territory. The absurdity of these laws is apparent to everyone as soon as personal contact therewith occurs. A law that makes such distinguished public servants as a Cabinet officer like Mr. Strauss and a Governor of the Territory like Mr. Frear lawbreakers simply because they are zealous in their duty is an outrage. If the 650 tourists of the Clark party bring their influence to bear upon their representatives in the National Senate and House it may be possible to secure the attention of these legislators to the injustice from which Hawaii is suffering. The trouble is to get the attention of Senators and Congressmen in the face of the persistent opposition of the protected industries which always close ranks and fight against everything that threatens the slightest encroachment upon their prerogatives. Slowly the American people are being educated against every sort of special privilege. The Ship Subsidy Bill finds unexpected enemies. If it can be kept from enactment through one or two more Congresses its specter will have been laid forever. For by that time the nation will have had its eyes opened and the era of tariff domination will have begun to wane. Meantime let us continue to fight here for freedom of transportation. Already one influential San Francisco paper, the Argonaut, has been moved by the spirit of fairness to side with Hawaii. This is a blessed sign of the times, for hitherto that city has with strange fatality fought against Island interests with singleness of heart. If our great neighbor would only awake to the truth that the development of this Territory means larger things for itself, the two communities would move ahead side by side in mutually strengthening friendship. Why not? The interests of both lie along the line of the peaceful friendly evolution of the Pacific world. When San Francisco ends its anti-Asian crusade and takes up the cause of the community of interests that should bind all the peoples fronting the Pacific into a co-operating whole, it will assume its proper place as leader in No. 2 the grandest historic movement of the coming century. Like everything else good this movement will consist of many details. One of these is the cause of freedom of transportation. Our miserable coastwise laws now fetter this. The very first step in the process should be their suspension so far as Hawaii is concerned. The Japanese School Scare. Klsewhere we print the report of the so-called Japanese Christian Boarding School. This institution is a misnomer. It is not a school at all and never has been. It is a home for Japanese boys and girls who attend Honolulu schools. It has proved to be one of the choicest institutions in the Islands. Here Mr. and Mrs. Okumura have for years gathered a few orphaned little ones together with many children of parents who labor on plantations, and whose boys and girls are exposed to the sad conditions which there menace family life. A few young men have also been welcomed by Mr. Okumura as helpers. In this refuge these children have found a Christian home. Mrs. Okumura has taken the 60 or more little ones into her motherly heart and cared for them as her own. Mr. Okumura has been more than a father to them. As a consequence the boys and girls who have gone from this home have borne a singularly noble impress. There is no institution in Hawaii that is doing more to produce out of Japanese boys and girls true-hearted, loyal, American, Christian citizens than this unselfish pastor's home. It has done its work amid poverty. It is always in debt. Yet its atmosphere is unique, and its spirit embodies the very best that Japan and America produce. In olden days when the Shoguns ruled the Sunrise Empire and public schools were unknown, here and there a Samurai blessed with the spirit of Froebel would gather into his home a few boys and not only teach them the learning of his land but share with them his own high spirit of unselfishness and love of country. Out of these jiku, as they were called, Japan's great men came. These home schools were the nurseries of all that was best in that country. Now to this beautiful ideal Mr. and Mrs. Okumura have joined Ameri- �4 ca's conception of the Christian Home. Because it would have been impossible to secure teachers with the lack of means and because public school life in America offers such large advantages, it was impossible to make this a true jiku, that is technically a school. But all the ideal features of the jiku were kept, that is, the culture of the spirit. Hence out of this Japano-American Christian home have come a band of fine youths. One of these is one of the most successful evangelists our Hawaiian Board has in its Japanese work. Another is just taking a course of study at home to fit him to enter this work. A third is busy under the joint employ of the Board and Makiki Church preparing himself for evanThree others are spegelistic service. cializing along like lines. In fact this home is proving our best theological training school, turning out men familiar with the field, in sympathy both with the Japanese and American point of view, who will prove invaluable helpers. Our plantation managers could not do a better thing than set aside a few hundred dollars a year to assist Mr. and Mrs; Okumura in their noble work, and thus free them from the burden of debt under which they have struggled so unselfishly the past decade. More of the Same. Now wherever this home has moved, and it has led a peripatetic life, it has been dreaded by its new American One irate boarding house neighbors. keeper some years ago threatened to bring suit if it came next door to him. Visions of mischievous schoolboys, fancies of outlandish music and discordant! noises troubled his sleep and worried his days. He consented to wait and see. Experiment converted him into a friend. He lost not a boarder because of his new neighbors, but speedily came to be their friend. The sale of the Hyde premises on Beretania Street to the Rapid Transit Company necessitates the moving of Mr. OkUmura's home. Meanwhile the removal of Mills Institute to Manoa Valley, soon to be consummated, will give room for the older boys who now stay with him. The younger children he wishes to keep in his family until they can be graduated into the Mid-Pacific. Naturally, as pastor of Makiki Church, Mr. Okumura desired a site for his home Instantly the rumor in that vicinity. started that the Hawaiian Board wished to erect a Japanese camp there, and hysterics followed. The Board is not in the camp building business. Its purpose is not to depreciate either its own or other people's property. If it should purchase THE FRIEND land near the Makiki Church as a parsonage site for the minister, no damage whatever would result to anyone. Mr Okumura's quiet home would be found objectionable to no one. After experience the neighbors would realize that it was a helpful force in their vicinity, and their interest would be enlisted by the quiet, orderly conduct and courteous character of the children therein trained. Meantime we commend Mr. Okumura's semiannual report to all our readers. The Vacant Lot Crusade. A copy of the third report, 1908-9, of the Vacant Lot Gardening Association of New York City has just come to hand. The motto of this association is "Help others to help themselves." Its aim is to relieve poverty by giving the poor remunerative gardening to do. Vacant lot owners were found willing to allow their lots to be cultivated. These were subdivided into plots and the distressed people were induced to take each a plot and cultivate it seed free. The results were beyond expectation, and other cities, notably Buffalo, became interested. From this beginning the association induced applicants for relief to leave tenements and live in tents in the open air cultivating plots of land close to their tents. This was found both to benefit wonderfully the health of the tenter's family and to stimulate the longing to live outside the city. The third step was to secure land in the country near the city and start families on acre lots. The work has developed slowly but with fine results, and thus one more effective blow is being struck at that vast modern death trap the city tenement. One of the saddest features of Honolulu growth at the present is the craze for erecting tenement blocks. Large barnlike, flimsy structures unhygienic, menacing home life, breeders of vice and gambling, these hideous buildings are the direst foes to pure home life and clean character that we have. Fortunately the attention of the city is being turned to them thru their menace to the community as fire traps. Honolulu should not have a single tenement house. Plenty of good open land for cottages is on every hand. A few well constructed dormitories for young men erected in accordance with hygienic requirements may be a necessity, but some way should be found to prevent the nuisance of the The one-family onefamily tenement. cottage plan is the only safe expedient for this city if we are ever to Americanize our alien population. As far as possible each such home should have its garden plot where flowers and vegetables Will not some of can be cultivated. February, 1910 Honolulu's public spirited men and women of wealth give this subject consider- ation and plan to make our city ideal by fostering little homes and by making family tenement houses impossible? Palama's experience shows that the business may be financed successfully. A return of from 6 to 10 per cent may be secured without question if the project be carefully engineered. The Campaign of Letters. "This lot of letters has done much for the natives in the good opinion of the mainland," is one of the latest words from Mr. Woolley. He refers to the Splendid letter-writing campaign put up by the Hawaiian people in behalf of prohibition of the liquor traffic in this terriThe extei.t tory by national legislation. to which this quiet but effective procedure has been employed by the people all about us is as yet unknown even to the warmest friends of the temperance cause. ()nc church, Kaumakapali, has secured the writing of 1177 personal letters by Hawaiians- Some of these are slaves to drink who beg the Congressmen to deliver them from the terrible traffic. Many relatives of drunkards beseech the aid of National lawmakers. Children with debauched parents have pictured in childish language their sufferings. It has been a spontaneous movement, the suggestion once made has been carried out by individuals in their own fashion. All the islands have shared in it and Congress hns been flooded with these personal appeals. The result has been nothing less than a revelation. It is safe to say that Congress never conceived so forcefully the possibilities of the native Hawaiians. They are looking into the very heart of this people and are beginning to realize that prohibition here is on a totally different basis from that on the mainland. There it is an exotic, here it has lived in the experience of a race ever since the Great Kamehameha directed the mind of his nation to the hideous menace of intoxicants. What Congress will do it is too early to prophecy. But we urge all the friends of Hawaii to redouble their prayers and efforts to influence Washington to grant us the relief which will save the Hawaiian race. The Lahainaluna Decision. Once more the Supreme Court of the Nation has reversed our Territorial Supreme Court in the now famous Lahainaluna case. The cable reports that the reversal is on every point. The first decision of the National court was so sweep- �February, iqio THE ing that it seemed to leave the local Court hainaluna property and good will for slim basis for a second judgment ad- $15,000. verse to the American Board. To some persons it seemed as tho the court were exhausting its resources however to find a ground that would stand the test of the higher examination. But if so it availed We have heard whispered nothing. opinions that when the Court hears a case which involves the Territory it appears to feel it to be its duty to decide if possible for the government rather than to ask what justice demands. We do not share this opinion because we are not in possession of data upon which to ground any) such criticism. We would be very loth to credit such a view because a Court has no business to be swayed by the personnel of the contending parties in a controversy submitted to it. Its only raison d'etre is to find the right. But human justice is a subtle and evasive quest. Points of view differ. The Territorial Court elected to take one and the National Court the other, owever to the man on the street the Lahainaluna case had a very simple face. The American Board built the Lahainaluna school, expended more than $70,000 thereon and gave it teachers who made it what it was. No body of men on earth in their senses are going to sacrifice a property like this for nothing. The Board traded it to a government who could deliver a class of goods most valuable to the Board. Those goods were a certain religious impress. The United States Government succeeded to the privileges and engagements of the Hawaiian sovereigns. This government by its constitution is prevented from delivering the goods stipulated in the original contract. Hence it owed the forfeit, namely, the $15,000 pledged at the time of transfer. It is futile for the government to plead "we do give the religious impress stipulated;" because even if at any given moment it should chance to do this thru the excellent personality of some teacher, it violates its own constitution in so doing, it can give no possible guarantee of the continuance of the impress, nay it is pledged by its organic law not to continue it. It is to be judged not by what it winks at but by what in justice to its own law of being it must do. This is so clear that all pleading to the contrary seems sophistry to the simple soul unlearned in the law. Of course the Territory may turn Lahainaluna over to the American Board Trustees in lieu of the $15,000. In either case the work of the Fathers will be maintained by the forfeit which the government makes. The interests of education for manhood will merely be enhanced by this decision of the National Supreme Court. Looked at by the man on the street the Territory gets a mighty cheap bargain, the La- 5 FRIEND Tidings of a Friend. Friends of the Rev. Curtis E. Shields, in Hawaii—and they are many—will be glad to know that after leaving the Islands as soon as he was ready to take a pastorate he was called at once to a very promising field in Defiance, Ohio, a city of 10,000 people. Here a fine church engaged in erecting a new meeting house wanted him and he is both settled and hard at work. Mr. Shields will do well wherever he goes because he has the right stuff in him. THE SCHOOL FUND COMMISSION FEELER. Messrs. Bowen, Farrington and Wood, the commission appointed by Governor Frear to study the question of methods of raising funds for public education and to recommend some plan that will rescue our territorial school system from the chaos that now characterizes its financial life, have done very wisely in issuing a feeler in the shape of a little pamphlet embodying suggestions which are submitted for criticism. These tentative propositions are three in number: first, a plan for the preparation of the Budget of Estimates ; second, a proposal to levy a mill tax; and third, a recommendation to increase the annual poll tox, and reserve a definite part thereof for school support. The Friend has been asked by the commission to express its mind upon these suggestions and to offer some of its own. It is happy to comply with the request. First, the plan for preparing the Budget of Estimates. Viewed superficially it seems cumbersome as it calls for the co-operation of no less than five separate sets of reviewers, the Department of Education, a special Board of Estimates, the Governor, the Joint Committees of the Legislature and the Legislature itself. However, it is not as heavy with red tape as it seems, because it adds only one to the present number of inquisitorial units, the special Board of Estimates. The suggestion comes from former Superintendent Babbitt and embodies the results of his experience. Evidently he hopes that such a Board will enable the superintendent to influence Governor and Legislature not to knife the Edu cational Department's estimates so cruelly as has been their habit for the last half dozen years. And the people are with him in this longing. Hence by all means give us the Board of Estimates if it can squeeze out larger appropriations. Second, the proposal to levy a mill tax for purely educational purposes. This is excellent. Hawaii is richer than the rest of the American Union in annual per capita production of wealth. Yet it spends a niggardly $2.07* per capita on its public schools annually, against the mainland's average of $3.66. Compare its record with that of the following Western States: $6.07 North Dakota 6.08 Utah ; California 6.58 Colorado 6.98 8.02 Washington to tax We ought be willing to ourselves more for our public schools. By all means, give us the mill tax as a permanent source of supply. Third, the proposed increased poll tax. We know of no state with a poll tax higher than $1.00. Hawaii levies $500 and the proposition now is to make this $8.00, and apply $5.00 thereof to publid education. At present $2.00 of the poll tax is deceitfully called a school tax. As a matter of fact it is no such thing and the suggestion that this falsehood be ended by turning the school tax over to the Department of Education is in the interests of honesty. The whole question of our poll tax, however, is a miserable one. In the first place, clergymen are exempt, presumably because they would be sure to pay, and the great mass of them are ill able to afford it. Again, it is said that no great pressure is brought to bear upon the mass of Hawaiians to cause them to obey the law, because the tax is so inordinately high. Furthermore, the tax is believed to be aimed chiefly at Asiatics. Inasmuch as it is impossible to collect successfully, generally the plantations, pay for them. The principle is thoroughly bad. A law levying a tax which it is not the intention of the law makers to collect from many of those who are legally bound to pay it, invites its own infringement, essence wrong. It in and is has no place in the statute books of a law and order loving community. A proposal to enact more such law deserves rejection and our present poll tax law should be repealed or amended into honesty. As for further suggestions we have only one at present to offer. Ever since the famous North-West Ordinance of 1787 Congress has consistently fostered the cause of public education in its new territories, has often decreed that certain lands be set aside for the support of schools, and has ratified constitutions of new states containing such provisions. In the case of Hawaii the Organic Act did practically nothing for public education. Some years ago the suggestion was made .... • �February, THE FRIEND. 6 hji<> may he stroke oar's excitable swing, lluis keep the ciew sleadv and Calming the return run or to secure llic hall if it stroke t" hold his valuable nervous should lie muffed, of (ho regretful but oncrgx fol the crucial moment, or as unhesitating sacrifice of your own more from the corner of your eye you see first difhYult chance to tackle, allot (he hall is the rudder of your foe. then the COX* caught, in order thai you may force the wain.-thou the stroke, No. 7, No. b, and man With the ball inlo the surei reach Of so on until yon ire swinging oven with "i xont team mate who is there to the rlghl your own numbei in the other boat, preparing for a terrific tackle, of your as the Captain signals foi the spin I mad |o\ when, as reward of virtue, that which may break then hearts and win tackle tats the hall ftom the tunnel's the race, or as on failure of the eight. anxiety to respond as gtasp and hx a fearful effort you catch boeause of ovei it on the bound, ol youi loot, like \xing- one man. the usiiallv quiet I louoluht No. ed mercuries at Ural l"it growing leaden 9, with his keen fooling ol what Is Wrong under (he pain of the xxrencheil knee in the boat and his acute knowledge (hat caused hx youi (00 quick and the Stroke Oar will go I" pirres unless the forceful (urn 10 catch the bound , tew bark linn up. shouts like a berserker ing ball, ot (he goal pos(s look going into battle: "I.ill hoi together so far aw ax, xxhen ing youi hoys! (lime up and take the load oil knee forces you to labor along, and you the stroke!" or as one strongly cndili *MM and pinnpi pension ol teachers hear the swift Stride of youi opponent as ing oarsman or another, watchful of tin not necessaril) out ot the fund grant ! he closes the gap and prepares for his punt lefl in the water by a weaker oar one condition of its plunging tackle, of xonr stlddctl drown* 011 his side and leading from il -igns of lw the nation but lvv: \ i' and guaranteeing correspond ing man's realization thai there is almost wobbling exhaustion, calls cheerfully mg con-.ons public support Of I'll. no time left to plax. that your to.llll is be "Don't you rare No. ,|! We ate xvoll pcfeoob h\ our Ijegislature, would prove hind in ixoints, and that unless yon score ahead! Don't pull so infernally hard for successful. It oortainlv seem* Worth try now the game is lost, of hearing sud a while, and give 1110 a chance to do some denly the COOI, hut intense, voice of youi of the word on this siil,- ol the boat !" IV S mg •Figure tor 1908. Other figures for heady team mate end rusher a little be 01 as, after the race is won, each man ol hind and to your left, saxing: "Pass it the eight chafes at am praise of how he ihe last ascertainable year, toot. to me' Pass it to me NOW!" of your rowed, and declares to the admiring lowquick delivery of the hall diagonally back er classman: "Hang it all you young felxx aid across xont body in (he direction of lows, it wasn't any one man's rowing. WORK. TEAM (he urgent voice, inst as a catapult -hurl- Praise the crow or don't say anything. Addross hx Hnn o<wjrr XV Woodnifl ed bod) strikes xont pain racked knee You kids can't win races next year or and you go doxx n and out for the mo- year after, if you think of anything but banquet ihr Y .4 A C m ment, —and. best exemplification of the team-work.' But specific team-work pictured above, the me for illustratng teamLord Dacca, besides writing Shakes- gi»l-natured quarrel that night, as each work excuse memories by of teams I have peare and doing several other noteworthy ixariicii,xant in that successful team plax known. I forgot for the moment that things, has said that reading makoth a pooh-poohs the (bought that he was the some say it is a matter of reproach to full man.—-talking a ready msjn, tad real cause of the touch down which won have boon an athlete. Lot us forget that writing an exact man. 1 have been strict- the game Old sleadv head who made side, ami turn to avenues of greater eruJv ordered to use less than ten morales of Wuch-down, and will get the nexvs- dition Ditl you know that one of the the time for this talk, and am so Mronglx in- paper head lines tomorrow morning demost usual early meanings of "team" clined to obedience, thai 1 will break my clares "What 1 had the easy was the family? The family has from nonsense! usual rule oi speaking without notes and, part. Yon fellows mustn't let the papers by following Lord P»acan's cue. will read fool you. or discourage you. If you want the start been the fundamental means which savage selfishness has worked upwhat 1 have to sax. in order to be exact our good old college to win you must The about the time occupied, if not aixiui the prize one thing most oi all.—team work!" ward toward civilized altruism.life, the and truer the family higher subject-matter of mv talk. finer the civilization. Chrisgreater and Or again in imagination I feel the TEAM \\ OKK !! What thrilling mecivilization is the flower of family mories those words bring of checking thrill as the Referee at the boat race tian work—hence, in fact as well as ethynovout opponent iusi long enough to make shouts: "Gentlemen are you ready ?" and of WORK. TEAM logy. the crew says of the Captain quietly: sure your full-hack has time to kick the oar bkdes!"—or as the coxWhat are the characteristics of team"Bury your —of held with hall. then rushing down the <-yes watchfully studying the fielders of swain tells the captain at the mile flag work ? First, togetherness whereby many the other team to learn from their action. that THEY are two and a half lengths with as little loss of energy as possible, rather than from the delay of looking in ahead.—or as he shouts at the mile and lift and pull and push and work for one the air for the hurtling Lall. just where it a half flag: "They are only a length and desired or desirable end. For successful will strike.—of the last praeter-human a quarter ahead!"—or as the captain togetherness there must of course be a rush to reach the catcher at the same tune spares one precious breath to say: "All course of action known to and agreed with the ball which you now see falling together boys, but keep well within your upon by all. The second necessary elefccsSwe you towards his outstretched strength. Save the spurt for when we ment of team-work is leadership, wherearms.—of the agile readjustment of vout have them caught!"—or as George Car- by the many are directed more or less line of approach t" make it sure that the ter, rowing there in front of you at No. wisely along the course agreed upon. senncrrck of vout Hurrying team matt-. 7. smooths out the irregularities of the Third, there must be in each person, who at the Mohonk Conference that the M (ion shuuld correct this omission by vol 10 Hawaii for its.public schools three fourth" of the net revenue derived thru the ouMoniv collected at our island poit Thta wav itvwtil with great favor and Provident was adv«vatcd quite wnlclv Roosevelt mymh'il to approve, for in one ot hiv mowagov io i ongrea* ho urged thai a largo proportion ol iluv revenue Ih applied <o needed public world here This iv rcponrd iiiil lii have received the saiK HoM ol Speaker cannon, and thai groat squelcher of progressive legislation gout 1\ put hiv elephantine fool upon it and \\ c believe that I it* lite evaporated yol\ conducted along the (campaign lnie of tftis suggestion, not asking foi too largo a |>roportion oi the revenue, con rming it rttictiy to the cause ot pubtk c<i noation. safeguarding the adequate pax. last most closing around (he catcher, advantageously placed to prevent a ing • % : : : �THE I ebrtiary, IQIO 7 FRIEND. ENDEAVOR AMONG THE FRONDEPALMS.* constitutes the many working together under one direeling head, a divine spaik ,d Individualistic personality, without which (lie whole mass of togetherness is a dead lump of clay. Thus family is the highest type of team Work (eliding to the John l\ ( owan, D. D. Dial was a great day in Honolulu, < the residence of Mr. S. M. Kaiiakanui. Ihe visitors learned to eat poi with their lingers, and to like all the unique and dainty dishes that grace a Hawaiian luau. It was a most gracious and grateful courtesy, the bretxy palm liowercd cottage, fronting on famous Waikiki Beach, where the surf riders might be seen, the Hawaiian songs, and the good fellow- up MMVatiofl of (he world, but 00 Hue ivi when on Jan. 3J the Endeavorers got the before to down dancing go daylight from highly organised the li/ation came family of the link and the Moor, where harbor in a launch, headed by Mr. Paty, there wai headship and togetherness Inn their president, to meet Dr. and Mrs. ship. ( the forty l.ndeav But without u<> allowance of individualism to wives lark, Mr Shaw, and hour, . ' on the big tourist steam hip leve and children. This is worthy of though) a, land, with her 050 around the world general, work in in voiir V M. P. A. well as in Ihe great task you have just tourists. \moni; them were Harold S. lark, Dr Sdidd't. and his assistant, undertaken, Klfcrsolc, Rev. Mo.c Nakiiina, pre Mr. of team work I The last characteristic at the Hawaii C. K. I'nion, and sident will sugest is threefold —I'aith, Hope, the writer. ot Charity, Partii in the togetherness, course of United action agreed on, I'aith in the Headship or the authority chosen In direct the action, and in the individuals Who Constitute the team, in (Ins case the membership of the Y. M. ( '.. A. and the orris, * members who join in their fight,—■ but, most of all, Faith m the fundamental principle of Y If, <. A. work, that clean, iiou energetic young men from nine to ninety, are, except for (Hire, healthy young wo men, the greatest hope and asset ol civili- zation.Team work is dead without I lope Constant Mope and expectation that the good thing you are working for will, he attained, And Charity is p'-rhaps the greateal of all, the Charity that vaunt eth not itself, that i not elfish, that leads tin- efficient man to strengthen the efficiency of the ranks, until he is more needed for places of command, Charity that causes team members to take upon themselves the hard and thankless (ask, glad always to leave to others the glory and praise, if only the desirable end can Ik- attained. This meeting is called to consider the furtherance, the betterment, the enlargement of (me wing, or corps, or field of the mighty team which is on one side of the never ceasing contest of unselftshllOS against selfishness,—of purity against vice,—of fairness against injustice,—of wise knowledge against ignorance,—of law and order against lawlessness,—of true freedom against bondage. We have faith that the score of our great team is increasing and will increase in a geometrical ratio,—Hope that the rate of increase will one day reach the millenium,—Charity for all and, I hope, malice tow.'.r i none. a click Time turned anand the Junior Rally moved Mis. Clark, Mrs. Robert np at 3p. in. |. Burdette, Dr. Vittmu, of North Dakota, and Mr. Shaw made bright addresses. M iss Florence Yarrow, who has been such a host in Endeavor in Honolulu, had also a program of society reiponses and other things that just would not let the loan feasters grow sleepy. Die (imiors sang as only Hawaiian children ran sing. Crcctings were sent "From the Palm frond Juniors t,> the Poppy Juniors f California)," and to Mr. Shaw's Junior.. P.allardvale, Mass," Alo ha mv ( full love j and thanks for tending us your Mr. Shaw." Mrs, Clark said it w;i, the best Junior rally of the w;iole other tour Ihe evening session in Kawaiahao Church, the oldest native church in the city, was the cap heat of a day of iucCC tul and helpful meetings. The great auditorium, -eating 2,000, had no standing room left. 'Die royal pexvs were filled and mati> turned away. The singing, under Mr. I.cc, was grand. Dr Clark's message was one of the most inspiring the writer ever heard from his lips. ft brought greetings from Endeavorers around rhe world. REV. FRANCIS E. CLARK Dr. kol*-rt J. Burdette, Mr. Bridgeman, of New York, and Mr. Shaw s|<,ke They circled around the ship, arid sang fo an audience intent on catching every and called "Alohas," and laughed and word. sang, though every one was drenched The responses to the roll-call were unMr. Ebersokt carried 050 ique and prophetic of fulfillment ot the with spray. Central Union Church Calendars and in- evening's theme, —Christian general vitations to all the churches. The large, beautiful auditorium of Central Union was filled to hear Dr. Clark at 11 a. m„ the Endeavorers from the Cleveland, and many others of the tourists, and Kndeavorcrs from the other islands swelling the regular congregation. Dr. Clark had got his text "By wireless" the day before, Psa. 95:1-5, in a greeting the Endeavorers had sent to him, while yet several hundred mile 3at sea. He gave an inspiring message on the signs of wonderful progress he had The many friends of Rev. and Mrs. T. noted in this his fifth tour around the Okumura, of the Maklkl Japanese Church world, and his third visit to Honolulu. will be sorry to learn of the grief that has From the church the visitors were takcome to them In the loss of another son, Haruki, while away from home. He was en to a Hawaiian "poi luncheon" given an earnest Christian boy twenty years of by the Oahu Young Peoples' Union, at age, full of promise, and a bright example of faithfulness and devotion in work and in hrlntUn En<le*ror World, bat (• Written for the prcTlotuly pabllibed in Thi Fiticur, by pcmlarion.) friendship. < unity. Japanese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Korean, Portuguese, and mixed societies responded in song, and scripture and greetings. Three other islands—Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, had delegation* ranging from eleven to twenty-three in numbers. It was a splendid meeting, and will long live in the memories and lives of Hawaiian Endeavorers. On Monday, autos for the forty visitors were generously provided by the hospitable citizens of Honolulu, and the beautiful city and its environs were enjoyed until the Geveland steamed out of the harbor at 5 p. m., bands playing, banners flying, "Alohas" and leis in evidence of the love of Hawaiian Endeavorers for their leaders. Kohala, Hawaii. �8 THE FRIEND. Range Lights By JOHN G. WOOLLEY, LL. D. It is too early to make any specific prediction about federal prohibition in Hawaii, but our fight for it has opened most favorably in Congress, and by the time this letter appears in The Friend for February it may be supplemented with important cable news. At any ratt it may be said conservatively and confidently that the temperance cause in the Islands is receiving great reinforcement from the mainland. The presentation of the need for or ganized total abstinence work, combining strong social and musical features, among the native Hawaiians was received by the Grand Lodge of Good Templars with instant and most cordial sympathy, and the National Grand Lodge is preparing to put a trained organizer at work establishing a line of lodges throughout the This effort in the interest Territory. of total abstinence promises very rich returns, even if the licensed saloon is to continue, but if the beverage liquor trade becomes an outlaw it will still be very useful, for in my opinion both on the islands and the mainland, no matter how successful we may be in securing prohibitory legislation we must return to the fundamental personal equation, in the interest of individual betterment and the enforcement of public law. From Santa Cruz, California, where I met the Good Templars, on October 12-14, I traveled eastward slowly, addressing large audiences on the way. I wish somebody could have reported those meetings to my critics in Honolulu who call me an outside meddler engaged in giving the islands a bad name. On that trip I made ten thousand people directly, and I don't know how many more indirectly, understand clearly that Hawaii is America at Its most beautiful, and from the standpoint of world power, its best. It is astonishing how vague and foreign the mainland idea of us is, and 1 enjoy a very comfortable consciousness that I am doing good work in that direction on this trip. But, of course, I did not fail to say that the old serpent of the earlier Eden, cold-blooded, red-eyed, split-tongued. bellys its poison way beneath our palms. whispering lies to the ignorant and the weak—traitor to industry, traitor to order, traitor to health, traitor to law, traitor to school, traitor to soldier, sailor, missionary—and has a license. At Chicago, December 7th, the opening gun of the National Convention of the American Anti-Saloon League was fired in the Chicago Opera House, where I told the story of the liquor plague in Hawaii, from the escaped convicts who brought it there a hundred years ago, to the frightened poison blenders of the present day. Then and there two members of Congress pledged themselves to help the Johnson bill through Congress and prophesied that it would pass. At Washington, December 17, the Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico met to hear my argument, and from the questions asked by the Senators and their close attention it was abundantly evident that they were interested, and those of us who took part in the hearing felt strongly justified in believing that a majority was favorably inclined. A neatly printed pamphlet containing the protest of the territorial legislature, was already in the hands of every SenI ator and was dealt with first of all. reckon that it was completely disposed of by our mere suggestion that as a matter of law the territorial relation was based on the theory that the federal government carried the right and the duty of control, and that, without any affront to the citizens involved. For the rest, an analysis of the Hawaiian legislature and a few life-like sketches of its liquor personnel appeared to be interesting and convincing. The patriotic anxiety of the legislature about popular rights dropped with a dull thud before the statement of fact, that the mere mention of a plebescjte to let the Hawaiian people pass on the liquor question would throw their misrepresentatives into hysterics. For my argument in behalf of the Hawaiian people I read from the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, the interview of Prince Cupid—an ideal statement of our case by the best possible authority. And the case on behalf of the army and navy was self-evident. In this first hearing I took pains to publish all the weaknesses of our position and all the criticism made upon it. together with the authorship of them. And in this connection I made a clean breast as to the low temperature of my own relation to the territorial statesmanship and that my activity was resented as that of a meddling outsider with a salary. I made it clear that I was not the author February, 1910 nor instigator of the Johnson bill, and had been in entire ignorance of it until it appeared in the newspapers, but that 1 had been instructed by my board, representing, in general, the Christian and educational interests and activities of the islands, to give all the aid in my power to the bill, and that I was backed by practically the whole body of well informed and well disposed native people. One Senator remarked grimly, "They all seem to be writing letters to me." I am very proud of the fact that the Christian men and women of the islands. the teachers and educated youth of the whole group, have let loose an avalanche of letters and petitions which in volume and in subject matter has instantly compelled the attention of both houses of Congress. One Senator asked me if I did not expect a counter current of letters and petitions. I answered that I thought it could not be produced, but that if it could we should welcome it with enthusiasm, for we desired nothing better than to fight it out in the open. Of course, it can't be produced. Churches, schools, social settlements, missions and Christian men and women can't be had for that. And such people as can be had for such correspondence can't write convincingly, except adversely, to their own purpose. One of the most powerful Senators said to me privately, "You ought to win, and I think you will, but you are in for a big fight;" and a leading representative said, "If you can get past the Senate your bill will pass the House." I replied, "I have here a bill which I wish to have introduced in the House. Will you take charge of it?" And he said, "Yes." I have written hastily and frankly, with full knowledge that the enemy will read, and do its worst. So be it. We are not playing politics, but fighting above board, for the bodies and souls of men and the honor of the flag, and I want the readers of The Friend to see the fighting. We may not win, but we have a fighting chance to. And remember this. If we fail the responsibility will be at the door of the missionary whites. Give me the whole weight of their influence and I'll bring back the scalp of the liquor wolf. Washington, D. C, Doc. 20, 1909. /s Your Japanese Servant a Christian? Let him have THE TOMO Every Month. I 50c. a year. �THE FRIEND. February, 1910 President Women's Society, Mrs. W. J. Forbes. President Gleaners, Mrs. D. L. Withington. Supt. Palama Settlement, J. A. Rath. Pastor Kalihi Branch, Rev. H. W. Chamberlain. Supt. Kakaako Mission, P. W. Rider. Nauru Mission and Japanese Sunday Schools, Rev. O. H. Gulick. Portuguese Sunday Schools, W. A. Bowen. Chines c Sunday Schools—F. W. Damon. Space will not permit to give even a review of these reports, but a few statements from the minister's message will, we are sure, be of general interest: "The year 1909 is likely to prove unique in the history of our church, because we can hardly a second time expect the men to best the women in ay n bers of new members." "We have never done so well in bene- 9 tages is the one agency that is definitely fighting them in Honolulu. Central Union men and women are in every local movement for civic betterment. They number nine out of the thirteen members of the Central Anti-Tuberculosis Committee, not by any concerted campaign of election but in accordance with natural selection. They arc at the front in trying to better politics, some thru the regular political organizations, others thru that free lance, the Civic Federation. The Men's League spent $667 in itself in 1909. In 1910 it will more than double that figure for others. The Women's Society is bound to even up this record." "Too many churches," cries Prophet Gladden, "are sponges rather than springs of influence —which devote their energies to building themselves up out of the community instead of Joining themselves into the community in streams of service, which have not learned that it is as true of churches as of men, that they who would save their lives lose them." I believe Central Union is making the wise choice between these two sorts of church life." Without exception the reports showed splendid progress and again reminded us how large a responsibility rests upon this church and its members to carry on these many lines of work with efficiency. volent contributions. The total for the year was $15,735, which was $3,290 better than in 1908. The figures are as follows: A. A. EBERSOLE $3,995 Foreign Missions 8,286 Home Missions American Missionary Assn 1,103 High Water Mark. work Educational 575 The tide of our church life for the 100 ■a year reached high water mark at the an- Ministerial aid 1,676 Miscellaneous benevolences nual church supper held in the Parish DR. CLARK AT CENTRAL UNION. House, Wednesday evening, Jan. 19. In $15735 Total attendance, in its spirit of good fellowwas a memorable day in January of the the churches23 of Honolulu. Others will "For the first time the history in ship, and in the splendid note of triumph that sounded through all the reports of church we have given away more than tell in this number of the various meetthe various departments of the chuich's we have spent upon ourselves. Leaving ings held in honor of Dr. Clark and his life and activities, it was undoubtedly the off decimals we expended on ourselves party of Christian Endeavorers. We only best meeting Central Union has ever only $14,058 in 1909, as against $15,735 wish to say that it gave us all great, joy held. given to benevolences-" to hear Dr. Clark in Central Union pulThree hundred and fifty of the best, "The criticism so often heard that the pit on Sunday morning tell of the remost representative people of the church church is out of harmony with the deeper markable changes he witnessed on this and congregation assembled in the chapel trend of our age, certainly does not lie tour of the Orient from what conditions of the main building at 6 o'clock, where against Central Union. The great Fed- were ten years ago when last he visited for a half hour a most enjoyable social eral Council of the Churches of the Un- these countries. Especially encouraging time was had. At 6:30 they all adjourn- ited States which convened inDe cember, were his reports of the progress of Chrised to the parish house and there sat down 1908, and marked the opening of a new tian Endeavor in the various mission to a chowder supper such as only the epoch in American Christianity, recog- fields. In a number of the countries the ladies of Central Union know how to nizing the truth of the change called upon membership of the young people enlisted serve. the churches of the Union to realize that for Christ and His Church has doubled After supper came the reports. Besides society is being reorganized, to study the in the last two years. the annual message of the minister there social conditions of the day, to apply to It was a real privilege to hear such were reports from each of the following modern industry Jesus' teachings, to help words from the one man whom above officers and organizations: establish closer relations between wage all others God has used in developing this Clerk of the church, W. W. Hall. earners and employers and to lend a world-wide movement among the young Treasurer of the church, O. C. Swain. hand in curing the evils of the time." people of the churches. Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, "Is not this exactly what Central Union church is endeavoring to do? Last ThursJonathan Shaw. Superintendent of the Bible School, C day this room re-echoed to a stirring de"Thy /Man-Servant H. Tracy. bate between men soberly studying soTreasurer of the Bible School, W. J. scialism in connection with the League's and thy Forbes. social section. More wage-earning men ARE THEY JAPANESE? President Christian Endeavor, Albert joined us last year than employers. GIVE THEM THE TOMO Parsons. There is much talk in the papers anent 50c. a year. Chairman Men's League, J. P. Cooke. tenements but our Palama with its cot- Central Union News Maid-Servant"\ J �February, 1910 THE FRIEND. 10 Ode to The Farmer* By th» late SADAYOSHI TAKAHASHI, Evangelic at Makaweli, Kauai, Translated from the Japanese by F. S, S. 11l i THE FARMER'S CALL. ROYAL EXAMPLE. In the rosy-fingered dawn of history Some twenty centuries agone Our country's breeze—swept fields waved far and near With crops of rice and barley, wheat and corn. Once strayed our people from the gracious rule Of their true sovereign. Then Feudal lords Held sway, and Samurai with proud contempt looked down upon the swordless farming class. Encouraged by the Emperor, people crowned But when our Heaven-descended Emperor Resumed his right, he forthwith, by a word, All classes on an equal footing placed, And thus again the farmer's rank restored. Thus in the soil our forbears laid secure Foundations for Japan's prosperity, Bequeathing this rich heritageto us, To have and hold it for our native land. First, dazzled by the new light from the West, Our youth forsook the tilling of the soil, Esteeming it a calling too obscure Compared with new found opportunities. The hills and Allied the vales with thrifty homes And tilled the soil, while from their hearths the smoke. Like incense from contented altars, rose. Accept, my countrymen, the sacred trust. Spurn not the farmer's calling; honor it, Adorn it. Search the world for new ideas; Be experts in the art of husbandry. Then we a higher principle discerned; T'was this:—that any work is honorable That's honorably performed; and character May thrive on farms, well as in Senate halls. II THE OPEN DOOR. Say not the land is narrow. Lift your eyes! For northward lie Hokkaido, Wagalicn; And southward, Loochoo, and Formosa too, All in the Sunrise Kingdom,—beckoning you. — Abroad, Korea and Manchuria, Hawaii nei, and all America, Both North and South, a tempting opening Present to faithful tillers of the soil. Among the first-fruits of his farm, we hold He ought to raise a noble character. Of all vocations, none affords a chance More rare to grow in manly excellence. Does not that man his character adorn Who gives the finished touch to all his work, Who gives full weight, and measure shaken down, And guards his neighbor's welfare as his own? To gain unfair advantage, men sometimes Have sent abroad dishonest goods, and thus Have brought our country Into disrepute And dragged Japan's fair name In foreign dust. To us then, farmers, louder sounds the call To spurn dishonesty. With honest goods, With silk of matchless texture, let us win Again from other lands praise for our own. Did not Ninomiya, our farmer sage, Regard himself of holy Heavea called The plow to follow? We, like him, may make Our farms the stepping stones to cherished fame. The farm our country doth enrich. It turns Waste places into gold. For dreadful war The sinews it supplies, of blessed peace Its peaceful folk the best defenders are. Written to higher Ideals in their daily work. Translated ol the author. (or And did not Washington, who left his plow To found a mighty commonwealth, forthwith Return again to husbandry, and say Farms are the basis of our nation's power? On that foundation reared, America, Replenishing the earth, has blessed mankind. Consider, too, the varied industries The farmer has from which to choose. He plants Fruit-bearing trees and forest trees; he breeds Live-stock and fowls, and raises grain and silk. Shorcl No Uta. * Nogyoby Mr. Takahashl as a tract designed to inspire The Chinese Emperor, Shin, took hoe and scythe And labored often on a farm, and thus By royal precept and example taught Th' essential dignity of common toil. plantation laborers Thr Fkiend by permission With lavish hand she aids misfortune's sons. Her cup o'erflows, for she is "Farmer's Land." THE FARMER'S RECOMPENSE. A wholesome moral influence pervades The farmer's home. No dreams of sudden wealth Unbalance him. He can not fondly hope The soil will yield a fortune in a day. A little patch of ground he first acquires. And tills it to perfection. Then, by thrift, He adds to- that a field, and still to this An acre, till at last he owns a farm. Who better know than they who labor hard That labor is its own reward? To such, Success well earned, strong arms, and robust health Repay sevenfold the irksomeness of toil. Who such remuneration finds as one Who works in partnership with Mother Earth? Says he, "I touch the ground and make it sing, I plant it, and it smiles at me with flowers. — When to some neighboring mountain height I climb What joy to view the landscape I have made, Its waving crops, and trees with luscious fruits, The berry-bushes, grapes, and melon vines! Those meadows, dotted with my flocks of sheep! Those groves, whose shade my cows and horses love, And 'mid whose branches flitting, all the birds Of God's blue heaven build their nests and sing!" �February, THE iqio v THE COST OF CHARACTER. No tree attains perfection in a day. The little seed that falls into the ground First sinks into oblivion, then sprouts Then blooms,—nor yet its full fruition finds. For, like young men, it Against temptations and Afflictions sore beset it It writhes, indignant at still must match its strength discouragements. and ofttimes the adverse Fates. 11 FRIEND. The cloudburst ra;n would root it from the soil, Fierce typhoons madly wrestle with Its boughs. Yet, though its branches breaK, it perseveres, Lo! neath each wound a smiling bud appears. Shall Master Man less perseverance show! Nay, nay! Let us to every obstacle Oppose our wills superior, until The crown of victory our brow adorns. Tree, flower or fruit,—each true to type, aspires To its ideal. So, let us emulate The perfect man: and let our finished work Reveal the hign Ideals of our life. MR. TAKAHASHI AND HIS BIBLE CLASS A PITIFUL TRAGEDY A bolt from the blue sky has fallen upon the family of Mr S. Takahashi, our noble evangelist of Makaweli, whose picture is in the centre of the above group of young men. On the 22nd of January Mrs. Takahashi underwent a serious operation in Palama Hospital. On the next evening Mr. Takahashi was riding over a rather dangerous road to hold a preaching service in Makaweli Camp 4. Some time afterwards his horse returned riderless. Search was made for him and he was found unconscious at the bottom of a cliff three hours after he had fallen. Three days later his spirit took its flight to the side of the Master to whom he had so devotedly given his life and strength. Two days after the accident a letter came to his wife which her husband had written a few hours before his fatal fall, encouraging her to bear cheerfully the suf- fering in the hospital, and hoping she would soon be able to join him in carrying out their larger plans for work in the camps. The loss of so noble a friend and worker seems too hard to accept, but what of the poor wife and three children who in addition to the sorrow, must also fa-e the future! Mr. Takahashi had a truly remarkable gift in winning men, and holding them in complete devotion to his ideals. His Sunday school and his church services produced a profound impression of reverent orderliness and careful, painstaking training. During his two years' service in Makaweli he has rescued to manhood and trained to service twice the number of men that appear in the above photo, and that in a field where at first he found hardly a single adherent. Always scholarly, yet preaching straight from a burning heart, and with a voice which of itself at once caught the attention and won the heart, Mr. Takahashi was always welcomed as a speaker and invariably left the impression of man with a great and important message which had taken possession of his life and which he longed to have take possession of his hearers. He had recently prepared two books especially adapted to conditions in Hawaii, one on the subject, "A Young Man's Preparation for Life," another entitled "Counsel to Parents." His untimely death will add new interest to the "Ode to the Farmer" which appears in this issue. Where are we to look for the successor of such a man ? May his fall be like that of the Hon. lon Keith Falconer, by the inspiration of whose death after a short service in Aden, two vigorous missions were established in neglected Arabia! �THE FRIEND. 12 February, 1910 hope that their quest shall be fraught whom otherwise the wonderful story ot with the largest success. the comng of the Christ child would be unknown. One of the most sights which one could ask to see is to Do These Things for Your Children. be witnessed again and again at ChristF. W. DAMON mas time when both in the city and By Leo Tolstoy. through the country districts of the Ter"The eighteenth century school and "Let them do all they can for them- ritory large throngs of eager, expectant university wrote over its doors the words: selves; carry their own water, fill theii little ones and those of larger growth are 'I believe,' as an expression for that for own jugs, wash up, arrange their own gathered about the brilliantly lighted which its education stood; the nineteenth rooms, clean their boots, and clothes, lay Christmas tree. Many different races century school and university wrote over the table. Believe me, that unimportant here blend into one large family and its doors the words, T believe but 1 as these things may seem, they are a hun- share a common joy. Here in Hawaii think;' the twentieth century school, dred times more important for your chil-» let us do all in our power through all the writes over its doors, '1 believe and I dren's happiness, than a knowledge of varying, helpful anniversaries to cultivate this beautiful spirit of union and friendthink, in order that I may work.'"— French or of history. Henry B. Pritchett. "These things train the children to' ship. simplicity, to work and to self-dependJS ence. A Splendid Record. Education Arguments. "If you can add work on the land, if "The record of generosity in this counit be but a kitchen garden, that will be try (United States) for One of the most interesting companies wise. 1909 probably record previous in any any surpasses vast of voyagers that ever traversed the "Believe me, that without that condiwaters of the Pacific made a brief halt in tion there is no possibility of a moral part of the world. So far as this genethe long journey recently at Honolulu. education, a Christian education, or a rosity was reported, the gifts to public This special group was made up of near- consciousness of the fact that men arc institutions during the past year exceeded those of any previous year by.forty ly three score Chinese students, who hat not naturally divided into the classes of millions of dollars, and reached the great a within short time successfully passed masters and slaves, but that they are all aggregate of one hundred and forty-one the prescribed examinations, and were brothers and equals." Three years ago millions of dollars. going forward to various institutions in j» these benefactions passed the one hunthe mainland. A large number of them were government students, while some The Educational Value of Anniversaries. dred million point. With the return of the wave of prosperity, American genewere paying their own way. A more manly, warm-hearted, enthusiastic lot of One of the most interesting features of rosity has responded by an enormous young fellows could not be anywhere modern schoolJjife is to be found in the enlargement of its benefactions. These found. They were under the charge of careful and well-considered celebration gifts are all for human betterment— The Mr. Tong Kinson, a Chinese gentleman of certain great anniversaries, which be- largely for educational purposes. of high standing and education, a mem- come bright and stimulating periods in endowment of education, not only by anber of the Foreign office, Peking, and a the growth and development of the pu- nual gifts from States, but by private ingraduate in the early Bo's of Vale. A pils. The preparation for the exercises, dividuals, is beginning to assume a magmore sympathetic and better fitted guide which characterize these occasions, be- nitude commensurate with the wealth of for this band of eager students it would comes a most valuable training for large the country. Never before has research not have been easy to select. Mr. Tong numbers of pupils in historical research, had so many tools at its service or the is truly in touch with the awakening life in the memorizing of choice selections in opportunity of conducting its enormous-\ of his native land but he is a man oi both prose and poetry, in elocution, but ly valuable work under such favorable broad and liberal culture and desirous ol above all in the absorption of the great conditions. The equipment of science gaining the best he can abroad to aid in ideas and ideals for which these special for service is one of the most impressive the uplift of his people. It was a delight days stand. Thousands of the children and beneficent facts of the day and it is and pleasure to converse with him and to in Hawaii, in our public and privatej impossible to predict the benefactions feel the warmth and glow of his enthu- schools feel yearly the inspiration which that will flow to humanity from this siasm. It was our privilege to meet comes from hearing over again the great enormously enlarged activity."—The with the students and listen to their events which culminated in the Declara- Outlook. J* This group of tion of Independence dating from Fourth eager, hopeful words. A DELIGHTFUL GATHERING. young men, representing as they did of July, 1776. Here in Hawaii the birthseventeen of the provinces of the Chinese day of Washington has become one of splendid manifestation of the love of empire, brought vividly before one the, our most festal days. May Day appeals theA graduates of Kawaiahao Seminary for millions of their countrymen, whom they to all with its wealth of poetic sugges- this institution was given recently in the are preparing to aid and guide. They tions and so through a long list of annual coming together of a large number of the came from many points between Peking events, which are eagerly looked forward ladies formerly connected with this school form an Alumnae Association. The long and Canton, and from the far distant to. It is however, in the remembrance to noble record of the seminary, coverThibetan border. By this time they are of the great and beautiful facts which and ing so many years as one of the foremost busily at work in different leading school glorify the Christmas season that the educational agencies In Hawaii should never and colleges of the United States. We crowning celebration of the year is found. be forgotten. That her daugtuers remain to her, and desire to advance her Infeel sure their work will be a high and In Sabbath schools and day schools thou- true terests in the future was strikingly brought noble one. They are seeking a treasure sands of children join in the glad carols out in the enthusiastic meeting above almore precious than the "Golden Fleece", and recitations which voice the spirit of luded to. Some hundred and fifty invitaand not for themselves alone. All well this season. Christianity makes its most tions were issued to ladles in the city who wishers of the race must join in the pre- beautiful appeal to large numbers to (Continued on page 16). Educational Advance sent �February, THE iqio Men Working for Men PAUL SUPER The first decade of the century has been a great one in Y. M. C. A. work in the U. S. and Canada. During these ten years the Association has grown wonderfully in every department. The membership has reached 465,000, these associations owning property which in ten years has grown from $26,000,000 to $66,500,000. The educational department has grown from 998 teachers teaching 25,900 students to 49,148 students with 2184 instructors. These students paid $375,000 in tuition last year. The physical department has grown from 80.373 members to 216,262, and in addition to this 194,425 men and boys have received physical instruction outside the membership. The 243 railroad associations now number 75,721 members. We Smile. Some misinformed people have said the Y. M. C. A. of today is not what it formerly was as a religious agency. They are right, but for a reason different from the one they imagine. We smile as we show that whereas ten years ago 4438 men and boys were won to the Christian life thru Association agencies, last year the number reached the fine figure of 20,116. This was brought about in part by an attendance of 2,767,472 at religious meetings, compared with 1,027,242 ten years ago, and 68,700 enrolled in Bible classes as compared with but 13,676 in 1900. The College Men. 13 FRIEND country towns. The foreign work has advanced its firing line till now 86 secretaries are working in i5 countries, with 84 associated native secretaries. These facts make us proud of our organization, thankful to God for his great blessings, and give us a sense of responsibility. The Y. M. C. A. must do the big work to which it has been called, and for which men have provided it equipment. JS The Boys. The boys are now to have their innings. For a long time the boys' clubs and the Y. C. A. Boys have been neglected till a man could be found to devote his time to this department. Mr. R. S. Gault arrived the first of January and has taken charge. He has already demonstrated his ability to lead the boys, and will soon have the clubs and boys' department of the Y. M. C. A. in good running condition. Boys' work offers a large field in Honolulu, but a peculiarly hard one owing to the difficulty of getting the boys indoors. Mr. Gault is-not afraid of work and we look for results. The Soldiers. The Association has held several meetings at Fort Ruger recently, addressed by Rev. A. C. McKeever. No man in Honolulu is so popular with the men of the service as is Mr. McKeever, and the boys at the fort turned out in good numbers to hear him. The series of talks being given at Fort Ruger will be given at Fort Dv Rusey as soon as conditions are favorable. Many of the men from the ranks take advantage of the educational department of the Association, and are learning to be bookkeepers and stenographers after they are mustered out of the army. One of the most encouraging things to see is the great growth of religious work among college men, till now every third college man in America belongs to the Association, which in college is strictly a religious organization, having no educational or physical work. Further, 33,000 college men are in Bible J» classes as compared with but 12,000 ten years ago. Social. In spite of the meager social equipMovements. ment the social work at the building has Numbers, however, do not tell the been excellent this winter. The Roundwhole story, for the past decade has seen Ups have drawn larger numbers than the inauguration of some most effective ever before, and chess, checkers, dominew movements, among which may be noes, etc., have many devotees. The mentioned the work for immigrants and building is now quite a center for the foreign peoples within our borders; the younger men, and indicates the splendid work for men working on the Panama work that will be done with the magnifiCanal; the great industrial department cent equipment provided by the new and the work for men and boys in the building. The last Round-Up, "Seeing Honolulu by Moonlight," drew 175 members to the building for a social evening. They reported it the best yet. Pope and Lindsay. The last two appointments of the Governor have been from the Board of Directors of the Association. Mr. W. T. Pope, chairman of the educational department, becomes superintendent d public schools for the territory, and Judge Alexander Lindsay, Jr., also a director and teacher of commercial law in the night school, is appointed attorneygeneral. We are glad to have our judgment of these men confirmed by the chief executive of the territory, and that along the very line for which they were chosen directors, the one to head the educationa 1 work, the other to be the legal end of the Board. J* Plans for the Building. The officers of the Association have decided to secure plans for the new building by means of an architectural compe tition. M essrs. Dickey, Pinkham, Traphagen, Ripley, and York & Sawyer from the States have been asked to enter the competition, while it is thrown open to all local architects that care to enter. The competition opened February first, and plans must be in the hands of the building committee by April first. It will then take a month to finish the plans chosen and perhaps a month to let contracts. We now hope to break ground in June, and to complete the building in one year from that time. Double Last Year. The opening of the commercial law class under the leadership of Judge Lindsay brought 25 more men into the night school, making a total enrollment of 222, which is almost double last year's record, 114. There are still two months of school, and it is likely that the enrollment for this year will be more than double last year's total. This is a great record for Mr. Larimer, the new membership and educational secretary. The membership is also growing; 485 in the spring, it is now 655. 4 Dr. Scudder** Talks. The series of talks by Dr. Scudder on "Young America's Religious Problems" is to be given at the Association building Wednesday noons during Lent, beginning at 12:30 and closing at 12:55. Always helpful, the doctor is particularly happy in solving the problems a young man finds in his Christian religious thinking. �THE 14 Boys' Work Conference A dozen men interested in the work for boys met at the Myrtle Boat House Monday, January 24th, to plan the year's activities. It was the most enthusiastic meeting we have had in many months. As a result of this conference the boys' field will be put in shape and track meets and baseball games held there as soon as the work is finished. Th;> trade school at Palama will probably be discontinued, the government having awakened to the need of manual training and relieved the clubs of this work, in which it has pioneered. Clubs will be organized on three bases. Church clubs, affiliated with a church, school clubs, and district clubs. The interest the Oahu College teachers and students are taking in helping in the district clubs encourages us as well as adds valuable workers to the force. KAUAI NOTES. The Christmas season was duly celebrated by the Churches and Sunday schools on Kauai in spite of the very inclement weather. Most, if not all of the Sunday schools had Christmas trees or the equivalent, which brought joy to the hearts of the young people. The observance of Christmas in this way is becoming more and more general and has had a beneficial effect on the Sunday schools by increasing the numbers and stimulating the interest. The Old Historic Hawaiian church at Lihue is being enlarged and renovated, and will again be used by the Hawaiians for their church services. When the beautltui new Union church building was erected, the use of the old church was given up; but now, In order that both congregations may have their morning service at 11 a. ttV the old church will be brought into use again. The expense of enlarging and repairing will be met mostly by the Rice family. The Kapaa parish are the happy possessors of a fine new Sunday school hall witn a large seating capacity, such as is required on special occasions for Sunday school exhibitions, etc. It is very largely the gift of "Mother Rice." Kapaa is also making plans for a new parsonage. The Anahola people are working for a new Christjan Endeavor Hall such as that recently built at Kapaa. The money is mostly in hand and they expect to begin building soon. Rev. Wm. Kamau continues to give great satisfaction at Lihue where he has entered Into the work with an enthusiasm which is being crowned with success. At Waimea Rev. J. A. Akina has won the hearts of his people and renewed the activity and vitality of his church. The Historic Waloll church at Hanalet, built in the Thirties by Father Alexander, has become a menace to the safety of the congregation worshipping there. Built In the first Instance for a thatch roof it has tor some years been carrying a heavy iron roof, with a ceiling which proves too heavy for the walls which are bulging outwards. Steps will be taken immediately to support these walls temporarily, and then later an February, 1910 FRIEND new church will probably be bunt, they ask for five cents I make it clear to suited to the needs of the community. them that five cents is hard earned money Readers of the Outlook will be interested to know that Hans Egede whose devoted of a loving parent and must not be wastwork in Greenland was so interesting;'.. ed. Under this guardianship and by help treated In the January number of that mag- of God 1 believe that in these children azine, has lineal descendants on these Islanas the love for their parents becomes more in the persons of Mrs. Egede-Minu* Iviahium and her family of Waimea, Kauai. Mrs. intense. One young man who commenced Mahlum is the great grana-uaugniei- 01 iuc school life with us at the age of eight, famous missionary and is named for him has remained with vi fourteen years and Egede-Minde (Egede-memory). She is the the High School. He is mother ot Mrs. <J. B. Hotgaard, Mis. um- graduated from sted and Mr. E. Maehlum and is very much now a clerk in Yokohama Specie Bank, beloved by all who know her. They are and still remains in our household. His all justly proud of their ancestor. piety and love for his parents shows a J. M. L. entirely J* Semi-Annual Report ofJapaneseChristian Boarding School, July 1-Dec.31.1909. fine example of the growth and development he derived from our school system. I pointed out these facts to our people on the plantations; and it moved the hearts of many. As a result four girls were sent to Kawaiahao Seminary and nine boys to our school. It is my intention to again visit Maui and Hawaii. We have at present 63 children: 14 from Kauai, 7 from Maui, 2 from Hawaii, y from Oahu and 30 from Honolulu. We are supporting nine children. Five of them orphans, one was left by his parents, who have gone to the mainland, and two are placed under my guardianship. There are twelve children who, owing to the poverty of parents, pay only half rates. These children are supported every month of the year, while the others return to their homes during vacation months. This is the reason for our financial difficulty. We wish to express our hearty thanks to Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Jones and Mrs. C. M. Cooke for the Christmas gifts. We sincerely trust that our kind-hearted friends will continue to help us in the future as they have in the past. The semi-annual report is respectfully submitted. In publishing this semi-annual report of the Japanese Christian Boarding School, 1 must first of all thank our generous friends, who have from time to time assisted the school financially. The following donations have helped largely to in a measure liquidate the deficit shown by the last report. From Mr. S. M. Damon, $25.00; Air. F. J. Lowrey, $25.00; Mr. F. A. Schaefer, $25.00; Mrs. J. B. Atherton, $50.00; Mr. F. C. Atherton, $25.00; Mrs. M. S. Rice, $50.00; Mr. and Mrs. T. Richards, $25.00; Mr. W. A. Bowen, $25.00 and Mr. G. P. Castle, $50.00, making the total amount of three hundred dollars donated, and leaving the small deficit of $iy2.ys to be carried over to our next report. Last October 1 visited the plantations of Kauai and Oahu. I improved the opportunity of talking with our people on the advantage of our school. The cnildren, who are brought to our care soon show marked improvement in bodily health and conduct. On account of the irregular and unsystematic habits of the home life of some of the Japanese, we often have children come to us who are in a thin, FINANCIAL REPORT JULY 1ST—DEC. 31st, 1903. weak condition. This is due to irregular hours for working, eating and sleepRECEIPTS. ing. There is system and regularity in toarders $ 672.50 our school, regular hours for work, lary Castle Trust 150.00 Castle Trust (famstudy, play, sleeping and eating. Under tary ily Board) 150.00 this good system the children grow lawaiian Board 60.00 strong. At first it is hard for the child Irs. H. C. Coleman 30.00 to obey our rule on account of their liee- Ir. and Mrs. P. C. Jones (Xmas gift) 25.00 dom at home. Even the small children Irs. C. M. Cooke (Xmas of six and seven years of age arise at leggift) 25.00 ular time fulfilling their duties of bedTotal 11,112.50 making, bathing and dressing without asDISBURSEMENTS. sistance, also attending the morning de$ 328.15 votions. They are thus cherishing a Lice and Bread 774.60 self-helping spirit. This responsibility hashing 93.15 brings us one great anxiety—that of 'uel 64.00 171.00 weakening, by the separation, of the filial Pages 66.85 tie of children for their parents. I there- linor Expenses fore emphatically teach that these child$1,497.75 ren must honor their parents. They must Deficit of last report S 385.25 Present pray for their parents and must write to deficit I 192.95 them at least once every month. When T. OKUMURA. . . �February, 15 THE FRIEND. iqio used be, and to work of the coming year, or at least, ing the house to what it THE END OF THE OLD YEAR AND THE theThe ot the grounds are being steadily improved be a continuance will quarter, first which In time BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR the work in Clarke, Bosworth's "Teaching of year by year by new walls, the beautiful premON MAUI. Jesus," Sunday School lessons, and sermon will completely surround outlines. celebrations in Wailuku During the last few months of the old much year the Agent of the Board has been the in interest find a decided pleased to work that the Central Maui ministers are theological doing in sermon preparation and study. A desire was expressed by a few work than me men'to do more thorough offered so Rev. Monthly Ministers' School L. B. Kaumeheiwa, Mr. Job K. Manaso, »Ho is the preacher at Honokohau and Klfiaiu loa, Mr. Yee Kui, our Chinese evangel**a and Mr. Sam T. Kaiepa, for many years much esteemed pastor, but of late not in the ministry, have been gathering at the William and Mary Alexander Parsonage every Tuesday for deeper study of the "things of God." The course has been somewhat varied to suit the needs of the men engaged in the study—New Testament Apologetics, with a view to understanding exactly what opposition Jesus faced, has been studied. That magnificent work of Dr. Clarke's "An Outline of Christian Theology" has been put into simpler English, and each man has been furnished a typewritten copy. Again thu work of three weeks has been carefully translated into Hawaiian by Mr. Sam. T. Kalepa, and the translation mimeographed for the Monthly Theological School. Sermon Outlines have been a prominent part of the study. Suggestions have been given one week, and each man has worked out his own outline in English the weeK following. These, too, have all been typewritten, so each man could see just what the other men were accomplishing not only, but be able, also, to offer intelligent criticisms. Of course, this work takes time, but it pays, for every member of the class is inspired to do better and more thorough work as a minister of Christ. Often, besides the strictly theological work, the mem bers prepare essays upon some important Church problems that have been troubling either the minister or his congregation. On Halloween Night at the Parsonage ir, Wailuku a laree number sf eh" members of the Union Church and congregation gathered for a social evening under the auspices of the Women's Aid Society. It was a decidedly jolly evening, for, in the first place everyone who could be there was there, and in the second place everybody was determined to have the best time in the whole year. The various stunts so familiar to the fun of college days were practiced, and then toward the end of the entertainment popcorn and candy with merry songs closed an evening that was pronounced a decided success. During the larger part of the month of November workmen were improving the new parsonage and grounds. New fences and a handsome stone wall were built, while in the interior much work was done that added greatly to the comfort of the delightful rambling house that has been the home of so many of the Maui missionaries. One of the constant pleasures of the beautiful Parsonage is the sweet memory of so many who have labored in the Lord's work, and found here their home. Mrs. H. P. Baldwin, for whose father and mother the Parsonage is named, has done a very great deal during the last four years in restor- The Christmas and vicinity were as usual of great interest to everyone. At Walhee there was a large gathering of Hawaiian people, who celebrated the opening of the newly repaired old Church by holding an interesting Sunday School and Christmas Endeavor Rally. On different nights during the week before Christmas trees and exercises for and by the children were held in the Churchea and at the Settlement. The Chinese Tree was especially pretty, and the auditorium and Sunday School rooms were filled with child in the Sunday Every people. Turner, School was remembered by Miss who with help from some friends, was able to make this Christmas a notable one. The exercises by the children here and at tne Japanese Church were excellent. At the latter celebration, though held on Christmas night amid a down pour of rain, there it was an attendance of about 450 people,when many, astonishing see so really to w as last year only perhaps half that number were present, and last year's attendance was a record one. The Japanese Church has had a splendid year under the direction of Rev. G. Tanaka and his able workers. Miss Turner has accomplished wonderful results with the women. Her patient teaching of English to the Japanese of higher rank, who wish to learn, has brought them in intimate assopresciation with the Church, so that at the many ent time there are at least half as as women in uttendance at public worship hardly there are men. Only four years ago You can "Eat your cake and have it" in a very real sense. You can give away your property and have it,—really enjoy it, as long as you live. You couldn't have it longer than that anyway. This is the idea of "The Conditional Gift Plan"s Your money,—property, or whatever can be converted into money,—pays you a good, steady income during your life and goes on working for you and for humanity after you are gone. So you ''make friends (by) the mammon of unrighteousness," So also, you "lay up for yourself treasures, etc' This is no can't. It is Christian stewardship and sound business sense combined. The Finance Committee makes you an offer of one whole per cent better than before. You can hardly invest much better elsewhere and the amount you invest with the Hawaiian Board in your life time will not be wrangled for after you are gone. If you are N «. . 20 ft cr /-_ ft tt tt It tt tt ~ years or over your money will earn 5 per cent. it it It 11 11 it It fi. tt It N ,( ,( tt tt tt tt m tt It tt II It II tt tt tt Q See the Treasurer of the Board and talk over the security, the form of gift, etc. £pfs I E5 JD S> — ma^e your money make friends. Make it work. BOARD OF THE HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. �16 a woman would come to the Sunday services. The change shows a healthy growth that is due largely to Miss Turner's association with the Japanese in her mission work here. Miss Tanaka has been a great help, and has constantly called with Miss Turner among the women. On Christmas Sunday night your Agent baptized three young men and three young women into the Japanese Church. Christmas at the Wailuku Union Church was observed with a tree in the Church auditorium and exercises by the children. The service of Sunday was not as largely attended as usual, but the music under the direction of the music committee of the Church was fine, and the decoration simple and very effective. The Union Church has issued the first number of the Quarterly Calendar, which is to be a regular feature of the work of the coming year. The Sunday School has been increased by new additions. The lower story of the Church has been much improved by a new table given by the Women's Aid Society, if any friend of the work on Maui has two or three pretty pictures that would be suit able for a Sunday School room, we wouio. be very glad to receive them for the decoration of the walls, which are now unadorned. Those in the Islands familiar with th'> old Hawaiian Church in Wailuku, called the Kaahumanu, will rejoice to learn that it has rapidly built up under the efficient pastorship of Rev. L. B. Kaumeheiwa, who came from Hana to this his second charge. He is an energetic worker among his people, and the result is telling in good audiences, and faithful interest on the part ot all his members. He moves this present month into the parsonage connected with the Church. Some of his friends have been aiding him in securing a sum for the necessary improvements on the place. R. B. D. February, 1910 THE FRIEND. Our Young People HENRY P. Christian Endeavor to the Front. During the month of January, the Christian Endeavor movement has been brought very prominently to the front through the visit to Honolulu of "Father Endeavor" Clark, Secretary Shaw and other C. E. officials of national and international fame. These leaders of the World's Christian Endeavor Union were in Honolulu from Sunday morning, January 23rd to Monday afternoon January 24th as through passengers on the S. S. "Cleveland" that has been taking Clark's Tour around the world. The fact of their coming to Honolulu had been welladvertised among the C. E. societies of the islands. Several of the societies had sent delegates to meet these leaders. As many as twenty were noticed in the sessions at Kawaiahao. and it is likely that several others were present. These men and women were sent to represent their societies, showing the interest that is taken in the C. E. movement on all the islands. This fact was spoken of by Dr. Clark, Secretary Shaw and others. Some of the local Endeavorers, wishing to to extend a warm welcome to the party on the 'Cleveland" had gone out in a launch, but were disappointed in not being able to go on board. The travellers were givA DELIGHTFUL GATHERING. en a hearty welcome, however, at the wharf and were at once taken care of by (Continued from page 12). spoke had formerly been pupils in Kawaiahao, the local Endeavorers. Dr. Clark and to at least a dozen of tne instructors at the Central Union Church, telling of of other days. It was a pleasure to see in the progress of C. E. work and the misthe midst of her pupils of otner days the sionary outlook in the lands recently visitbeloved Principal, Mrs. Coan, who so early Mr. William in its history guided the Seminary amid ed by the Endeavor party. many difficulties to a prosperous growth Shaw, the secretary-treasurer of the Now in the beautiful assembly room in World's Christian Endeavor Union, adnoble "Atherton Hall" which looks out from dressed a large gathering in the Kawaiaits firm vantage ground over the lovely Mawas a union service of noa Valley she with teachers of earlier hao church. It classes, the Kaumakapili and Kawaiahao churchdays and representatives many joined with Miss Bosher the honor- es, and the audience listened to Mr. ed Principal of the present "Kawaiahao,-' Shaw's address attentively. He spoke on her Faculty and the large throng of pupils text Acts 1 :8 and made a very strong of today, in glad and harmonious union. the to witness for Jesus With the utmost heartiness steps were appeal for Christians He immediately taken to form an Association, Christ, especially in their homes. with Mrs. C. 8. Holloway, as its President, spoke feelingly of the cordial reception acand other leading ladies to assist Jier, as corded the C. E. party in Honolulu and its different officers. To show the warmth won the hearts of the congregation at and sincerity of the spirit of the memoership generous gifts were made towardß im- once by his saying "Aloha" before he beproving the grounds surrounding the school gan to deliver his address. Rev. Stephen hall. We feel sure that all will heartily interpreted his address ably. Desha L. join in wishing long and ever increasing A splendid luncheon a la Hawaii +iad success to the newly formed Alumnae Association. A delightful feature of the after- been prepared for the Endeavorers at the noon was the presence of the many pupils home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Kanakanui of the Seminary, who sang so delightfully. at Waikiki. Besides the guests of honor, A pretty little ceremony attending the ocHawaiian board casion was the crowning with wreaths the there were some of the present to other kamaainas recently arrived members and "hundredth" and "one hundred and first" girl-pupils. entertain the C. E. party. The delicious JUDD Hawaiian dishes and fruits were greatly enjoyed by all at the table, and the lovely singing of the Hawaiian hymns was appreciated by the guests who expressed their thankfulness in britf words of gratitude, both at the table and afterwards. Later in the afternoon Mrs. F. E. Clark addressed the Junior C. E. rally at Central Union Church, presided over by Miss Yarrow, President of the Junior C. E. societies of Hawaii nei. There was a large audience present at this service as there was at the morning and evening services. The most important of all the gatherings of the day was the one at Kawaiahao church in the evening, at which time the repreentatives of the Territorial G E. Union and the Oahu Young People's Union met for a roll-call and to listen to the words of greeting from Dr. Clark, Mr. Shaw and others. It was a most cosmopolitan gathering that assembled in the old historic church that evening to give the World's C. E. Union officials the greetings of the Hawaiian C. E. societies. Such a meeting as this is sure to result in increased interest in the C. E. movement throughout the islands as the delegates return to their homes and report back to the societies what they have seen and heard. It has been a great time for the local Endeavorers and it is to be hoped that this recent inspiration will result in a forward movement all along the line and that the motto of this organization will be carried out more faithfully than ever before, "For Christ and the Church." J» Teacher Training. Last year it was the aim of the Superintendent to introduce some necessary reforms in many of the schools. Some of these reforms pertained to the management of the schools and the conduct of the district superintendents. This year it is the purpose of the Superintendent to work on the vital problem of the training of teachers. Though there are many problems in our Hawaiian Sunday Schools none is as pressing as the problem of the efficient teacher. You may hold your school in a splendid building and have it full of boys and girls and elder people and yet it may be a failure as a school, because the teachers know neither how to teach nor what to teach. The problem is a very real one in our country schools where so much of �February, iqio THE FRIEND. 17 of the work, and we hope later on to say more about the way in which Mr. Dole Rev. Charles F. Dole, who delighted unfolds his ethical theory with this as his Honolulu on his recent visit, has written cue. a book on this theme. Its basis was a FOUR HELPFUL MEETINGS. series of lectures delivered before the Brooklyn Institute in 1906-7. Mr. Dole For the week of prayer this year the divides his subject into the following sugChristian Church united with Central gestive sub-themes: Ethics and EvoluUnion the study on four successive in Will; Contion ; The Doctrine of Good science and The Right; Moral Evil, How nights of the general topic, "The ChrisTreat It; The Problems of Human Nat- tian—a Winner of Men." Tuesday evening Mr. C. J. Day led ure; The Realm of Casuistry, and Prous in the consideration of "The Field— All Men;" Wednesday evening, Mr. Paul Super presented a study of "The Resources—God"; Thursday evening our theme was "The Equipment," Mr. W. G. Hall of the Christian Church leading; and on Friday evening the series was concluded with a study of what is "The Right Spirit" of him who would be a winner of men, Pres. Perley L. Home J* conducting this service. Though not so largely attended as The New School for Ministers. some years, on account of the rainy weaAmong the courses offered by the father, these meetings were all most helpculty of the new school for ministers that ful and greatly appreciated by those who is held in Kawaiahao Church every weekwere able to attend. day morning except Saturday, is a course of instruction in Sunday School work, Brief Tour Along the East Coast given by Mr. Theodore Richards. This class meets on Monday mornings at 10 of Hawaii. o'clock and is most interesting and helpful. Among the points first brought out By H. P. J. in Mr. Richards' introductory lecture was the importance of learning and underRecently I rode up to Paauhau, HaCHARLES F. DOLE, D.D. standing the excellent definition of the makua, Author of "The Ethics of Progress" and became the guest of the Sunday School given by Dr. J. 11. VinThos. Y. Crowell & Co., New York M. Kamakawiwoole for over Rev. C. cent. —"The Sunday School is a departThe schedule called for a Sunday. ment of the Church of Christ, in which blems in Practice. No one can read this the Word of Christ is taught, for the pur- work without being again and again stir- series of addresses during the day. pose of bringing souls to Christ, and ot red by the writer's vigorous thought. It First there was the Sunday School building up souls in Christ." is not possible to agree with the author session in the Hawaiian church, at on all his points. But one rarely misses I gave a talk on the S. S. his contention, and is moved to think out which time work in these Islands. At the hour of the many problems for himself, which is the best thing a book can do. The "Doc- morning worship I preached the sermon For those Japanese Servants? trine of Good Will" is the central theme and then at the C. E. hour gave another address. In the evening there was an I More than we think, perhaps. Let them Charles By *The Ethics of Progress. interesting meeting at the Plantation I read a Christian paper in their own tongue. It is THE TOMO. 50c a year. F. Dole. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Boarding House and quite a number of & Co. plantation people came out to the service. Mr. James Gibb was very kind and helpful to us, and we regret to hear that he is about to leave Paauhau to become the manager of the Honolulu hon P « plantation. Mr. Gibb has been a good BAGGAGE, SHIPPING, friend to the Christian work in HamsiSTORAGE, WOOD, kua. PACKING, COAL. After a long stage ride of almost 50 miles, I arrived in Hilo and was the FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING guest of Mr. and Mrs. Levi C. Lyman at the Boarding School. It wasa pleas—= 126 KING STREET ure to visit the school the next mornthe success of the work lies with the teachers. What can be done about it? The teachers can be encouraged to re their Bibles daily and thus gain a better knowledge of the Word as a whoie and they can be urged to study faithfully their Lessons for the various Sundays. Oftentimes this is not enough. The teachers are not able to secure much light on the lessons from the literature at their comThe pastor and superintendent mand. must then be pressed into service. A school for the teachers should be held at regular intervals where the lessons for the following month or months can be discussed by pastor and superintendent and other matters pertaining to the welfare of the school may be taken up. There might also be time for some instruction in Biblical introduction by the pastor. Teaching along this line is greatly needed m the schools of Hawaii nei. ETHICS OF PROGRESS* I RESPONSIBLE | Union Pacific Transfer Co., v*. C .ft, fL^C3 — �THE 18 ing and give a talk to the boys before going out to Puna in the morning train. At the Kapoho station I" was met by Mr. Riifus Lyman and later met Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lyman, at whose residence I made my headquarters for a few days. We held a meeting that afternoon in the interests of the Sunday School and were assisted by Rev. L. K. Kalawe, pastor of the Puula Church, Rev. J. N. Kamoku, pastor of the churches in Kau, and Mr. Rufus Lyman. On Wednesday morning I visited the public school of Kapoho, and at Mrs. Lyman's invitation gave a short talk to the young people. Riding down to Opihikao along the interesting road that runs between lava flows, groves of coeoanuts and skirts the grand old ocean, I reached the school in time to say a few words to the children before it was time to keep my appointment at the Opihikao church. The latter was well filled with an attentive audience, and we had a fine meeting. Rev. J. H. K. Kaiwi, the pastor, presided, and after the meeting we were invited to the home of Mr. John Kahao for the noonday meal of fish and poi, followed by some delicious draughts of "niu haohao." It is a lonely ride to Kalapana. but most interesting to one who is a stranger in that part of the country. We held a meeting in the church that evening and though it was not well attended because the men were very weary from all-day working on the road between Kalapana and Kamaile, nevertheless there was an attentive spirit manifested. I was the guest over night of Mr. John Kama, who was recently licensed by the Association at Lanpahoehoe. The next morning we visited the school and were asked to speak to the children—an opportunity that was not neglected. We were somewhat impressed with the fact at this school and other schools in Puna that the large majority of the children were Hawaiians, and that the Orientals were not to be seen in as large num- Eo d FRIEND. bers as in the Hamakua district, for example. We were much surprised with the beauty and extent of the forest between Kalapana and Pahoa. February, 1910 KEEP ON THE GRASS. It is not necessary in Honolulu to put up the sign "Keep off the Grass." The vigorous "maniania" will stand a deal of trampling without showing any ill effects; but it is a pity to see some beautiful grass plots marred by a beaten path. READ THIS. Can not the public be educated to avoid walking on places that begin to show wear? a "The American Public School as Instead of the sign "Keep off the Grass,' Factor in International Conciliation" is it would be well to revive the sign once the subject of a most readable booklet seen in the Pallt Park, by Myra Kelly. It is one of the latest among the publications of the American Association for International Concilia- More Better U Go Round tion. or such a sign as this On the divine principle of making the KEEP ON THE GRASS. best things of life free, this association offers through The Friend to place on EVENTS. the mailing list the names of any persons who would like to receive its publicaDec. 25. Hawaiian exhibit at Seattle, retions. Every one of these publications turned in Dix. is valuable, their object being to arouse Thetis arrived. Will patrol the Bird Isthe interest of the American people in lands in Hawaiian group to protect them the progress of the movement for pro- from raiders. Dec. 26. Children's Hospital receives moting international peace and relations gift of $10,000 from the Mary Castle Trust. of comity and good fellowship between Dec. 27. Maj.-Gen. Barry arrives to senations. lect site for brigade post at Leilehua. There is no place in the United States 1910. where such literature is of more immeJan 3. Governor Frear returns from his diate interest than here in Hawaii where Washington trip. To reach here he Had to and daughter all races meet, and the paths of all na- pay fine of $400 for himself, for extra passage money, having taken a intersect-each other. tions foreign boat to save time. The names of the executive committee St. Andrew's Priory opens and dedicates are a guarantee of the high character of its fine new building. Great corporation formed in New York every publication which will be issued. City with capital aggregating $150,000,000. J. They are P. Morgan, Z. P. Morton and Thomas Ryan Nicholas Murray Butler joining together on the Title Guaranty and Trust Co. Richard Bartholf Jan. 4. Kauai Railway Co. vote a hall Lyman Abbott million bond issue for extension of their Speyer James system. Richard Watson Gilder Government topographers depart for KauOlin ai to begin their survey. Stephen Henry British bark Alexander Black runs on Seth Low reef off Paia Mill, Maui. Will be a total Robert A. Franks. loss. If you desire to receive the publicaJan. 6. John Q. Wood, formerly a teacher tions of this Association as they are is- at Oahu College, appointed American Consued, send your name and address to sul to Venice. Jan. 8. President Taft dismisses Chief The Friend, and we will request the AsPinchot on charge of insubordinasociation to place you on its free mailing Forester tion. list. Chinese Consul, Mr. Liang Kwo Ying {Continuedfrom page 16, column /.) nolds his first reception. * Jan. 10. Governor Frear breaks ground There are 6 bright and interesting Japanese girls. Kawaiahao Seminary is a happy for new Methodist Church building. school home for many races, at a bright and Jan. 11. Willis T. Pope appointed by hopeful period of its development. Its union Governor Frear, Superintendent of Public with the larger educational system of the Instruction. "Mid-Pacific Institute" has given it new lite Jan. 12. M. F. Prosser resigns as Comand inspiration. Gratefully and gladly does of Public Instruction. their alma mater welcome the strong am missioner Jan 13-15. Poultry Show. Fine exhibiand support of the Alumnae of earlier tion. years! Printing and Developing : : : Eastman Photographic Supplies ' Tasty Frames for Pictures at HE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOP: Fort Street below King �February, 19 THE FRIEND. iqio Jan. 13. School Fund Commission through its Secretary W. A. Bowen, sends out report and asks for suggestions on ways and means for raising funds for public schools. Hem»:tiway Jan. 14. Attorney-General announces that he will resign soon to resume private practice as a member or 'he firm of Smith, Warren, and Heirjf-nway. Professor W. D. Alexander, bel'oiv the Historical Society advances theory that Hawaiians are of Asiatic origin. Jan. 17. Associated charities hold annual meeting and elected officers for ensuing year. Jan 17. Robertson, Dc Bolt, and Robinson recommended by President Taft for local judicial positions. Jan. 18. Work on observatory started. MARRIAGES. ROBINSON—At Philadelphia, Pa., December 26, 1909, Mrs. Edward M. Robinson, sister of Richard Ivers of Honolulu. OKUMURA—At Hamadera, Japan, Dec. 31, 1909. Son of Rev. and Mrs. T. Okumura, of the Makiki Japanese Church, aged 20 years. BAILEY—At Los Angeles, California, January 1, 1910, W. H. Bailey, a native oi Wailuku, Maui, a former instructor at Oahu College, aged 67 years. JACOBSEN—At Honolulu, January 3, 191U, Viggo Jacobsen. YON HAMM-YOUNG CO., Ltd IMPORTERS, COMMISSION THE AND AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS Honolulu, T. H. TOO MUCH stress cannot be laid on the importance of having your eyes fitted with proper glasses. ROGERS—At Wailuku, Maui, January 11, 1910, Waldrou H. Rogers, aged 35 years. S. E. LUCAS, Optician CAMPTON—At Honolulu, January 16, 1910, George Campton, aged 73 years. Masonic Temple, : Alakea Street. Ltd. HAWAIIAN IRON FENCE & MONUMENT WORKS, P"Q"e 648 1805. King St. : Safes, Vaults, Concrete Reinforcement. BICKERTON-CASSIDY—In Honolulu, January 1, 1910, by Rev. W. A. Bliss, Spen- cer Bickerton and Miss Agnes Cassidy. WALDRON-SCHAEFER—In Honolulu, January 4, 1910, at St. Andrew's Cathedral. J. W. Waldron and Miss Elsie Schaefer. FRATES-DRIER—Iu Honolulu, January 5, 1910, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Libert, Dr. F. E. Frates and Miss Adele Drier. WILHAMS-AYLETT—In Honolum, January 11, 1910, by Rev. Father Valentin, Alfred L. Williams and Miss Mary K. Aylett. BLATT-VOSS—In Honolulu, January 12, 1910, by Rev. H. H. Parker, Albert Blatt and Miss Martha Voss. CANNON-LEWIS—In Honolulu, 1066 Fort Street Pictures and Picture Framing jfi Local Views Ansco Cameras j* Ansco Films Art Pottery and Casts DEVELOPING AND PRINTING January 14, 1910, by Rev. Doremus Scudder, D. D.. assisted by Rev. A. C. McKeever, Walter Alfred Cannon and Miss Etelka May Lewis. FISH-BRISTOL—In Honolulu, January 17, 1910, by Rev. W. E. Potwine, Irving W. Fish and Miss Clare Bristol. ROBINSON-JAEGER—In Honolulu, January 20, 1910, Mr. E. Robinson and Miss Iwalani Jaeger. DIED. TESTA—At Honolulu, December 25, Isaac Testa of the Star staff. 1909, L.B.KERR&CO. ALLEN & ROBINSON LIMITED. Alakea Street. Building Material, The only store in Honolulu where Lumber and Hardware, Builders' you can get anything in Wearing ApPaints, Oils, Etc. parel for MEN, WOMEN or CHILDREN Good Goods and Reasonable Prices. Agents for Walkover and Sorosis Shoes. 55 Queen Street : : Honolulu, i lilt firs! national ißank of Hawaii IV galdnrin flaHonal JJank of Kalißlni CAPITAL $500,000. KAHULUI, MAUI, T, H. W. R. CASTLE, BANKING, EXCHANGE, INSURANCE. Savings Bank Department, Interest on Terms Deposit*, Safe Deposit Vaults for Rent. LIMITED. AT HONOLULU. CECIL BROWN, Pres. M. P. ROBINSON, Vlce-Pres. G. N. WILCOX. BURPLUB $123,000. L. T. PECK, Cashier. G. P. CASTLE. United States Government Depository General Banking.—lssues Drafts, Money Orders, Letters of Credit and Cable. Transfers available in all parts of the world. ACCOUNTS INVITED �February, 1910 THE FRIEND. 20 C A. SCHAEFER ft CO., f~> BREWER & CO., Limited, If You Are Wise * * you will think of future as well as present needs. J- JBegin by opening a saving account with this bank. J- > Banking by mail, 44% interest. AGENTS FOR—Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea Sugar Co., Hohomu Sugar Co., Wailuku Sugar Co., Pepeekeo Sugar Co., OFFICERS—H. P. Baldwin, Pres't; J. B. Kapapala Ranch. Castle Ist Vice-Pres't; W. M. Alexander, 2d Vice-Pres't; J. P. Cooke, Treas.; W. O. Smith, Secy; George R. Carter, Auditor. LIST OF OFFICERS—E. F. Bishop, President; Geo. H. Robertson, Vice-President and Manager; W. W. North, TreasurSUGAR FACTORS AND COMMIS- er and Secretary; G. R. Carter, Auditor; P. C. Jones, C. H. Cooke, J. R. Gait, R. A. SION MERCHANTS. Cooke, Directors. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Honolulu, T. H. THE RANK OF HAWAII, Ltd. Honolulu HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. including Garland Stoves and Ranges, Aluminum Ware, Enameled Ware. Kitchen Furnishings, Refrigerators, Garden Tools, Rubber Hose, &c. Second floor, take the Elevator. Day & Co. FINE GROCERIES OLD KONA b7f. Sugar Co., Haiku Sugar Co.. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1910) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1910.02 - Newspaper