Friend, 1871-06

Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them.

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HONOLULU, JUNE I, 1871. ,~r.r·res, ,uo ----=--=---- - - -·---=-=--==-=::....=::==-======-=:=::....:====-=====-~=-=--=----=-==-=-=--===-=----=-=-=-=-=;=- - - - -- 'Y:t'e 11u ~J- CONTE~TS Foa• June. 1871 Poctry-lnvali<l's Hymn ................................ .41 Hawaiian Untruthfollntss .............................. .41 Visit to Pompeii. .................................... .41. 42 Jupiter and Ve11us ...•••••••.•..••.•••...••.•.•....••.•• .4·] Letter from the Rev . .Mr. Fletcher .••..•.•.••..••••.••••• .42 Editor's Table .......................................... 43 French Fair in Boston ................................... 43 Don't Forget tho Poor Fellow ............................ .43 Homer's Iliacl ancl Hawaiian l\leies ........................ 44 Old Ruins of Polynesia ...•. . .•...•...••..••......•••... .44 Lecture on Public Opinio!l .. . ....... . ................ . ... 45 Opium License and Pauperism . .......................... 45 Father Tailor, the ::Sailor's Preacher .•...........•.•.•.... 46 Young ttfon's Christian Associa tiou ..•.....•...••......•• .48 THE FRIEND. ===-================= l JUNE t.1871. Invalid's Hymn. llY THO::llAS HASTINGS. Quietly rest in the arms of affection That Heaven extP.nds to the weary and worn, Sweetly repose on a Father's protection Who bade the lone waud'rer to Jesus return. Quietly rest though afflictions atteud thee, And cast every care on the bosom of Love ; Jesus can cause e'en thy griefs to befriend thee, Whi.le blessings unnumbered descend from above. Quietly rest e'en in sickness and sorrow, When energies fail thee in bouy and mind. Rest on the thought of eternity's morrow, With every interest to Jesus resigned. Quietly rest, for whate'er may betide thee, The Shepherd of Israel will keep thee from harm. No good thing will be ever denied thee, Rest on his promise and feel no alarm. FEBRUARY, 1864. [Cr Those interested in Oahu College will douhtless be glad to learn, that the new teacher elect, will come with good credentials. From a private letter, we quote as follows : "Chickering of the senior class, is I think, just the man you want. He is considered one of the most thorough linguists in his class. He will be a faithful and careful teacher in Latin and Greek-giving any boy a& thorough a drill in the languages as he could <lesire. He is a fine mathematician All his professors speak in the highest terms of him. Y 011 cannot fail to be pleased with him, when you come to know him.'' ---- HAWAIIAN UNTRUTHFULNEss.-A writer Visits to Places 9f Special Interest in the Old World. - No. 6. over the signature of Philo-Veritas, di~courses in the last Advertiser upon this sublBy our" Compagnon de Voyage."] ject. Now, we are not going to deny the point as stated, but before any one runs away POMPEII. with the idea that Hawaiians are more unLeaving Sicily. and passing through Scylla truthful than the subjects of other national- and Charybdis, so feared by ancient mariners, in a few hours we enter the beautiful ities, it might be well to reflect a moment. Bay of Naples. The islands of Capri, Ischia After the same style we have heard persons and Procida were reposing in the ligbt of the reason about Hawaiian piety. Not long! morning sun, anrl Vesuvius in the distance since, we received a call from a highly res-: \1vas wr~athed i!s u.strnl filrn . of smoke. ffi b d Naples itself, glitterrng rn the sunhght, seem. • pecta bl e an d re 11g10us o cer on oar an e d 11.1rn a mag,.c · c 1t v, w1·th 1·1s w h't h h 1 e c u re es English man-of-war; " How is it," asks he, and palaces, wrapt.in a shadowy haze. We are these people real1y religious? Is not will not for the present linger in Naples, their piety somewhat supe_rficial ?" Such overlooking the f~'.nous bay, but :v~ll pr_ess were his queries How could we reply? This forward to Pompen, the dead yet hvmg city, th ·Q f l "y f the city of the past living in the present. was our me O · 0 rep Y, . ou ~re, 0 Pompeii was overwhelmed A. D. 79, by course, t0lerably well acquamted w1th the the eruption of Vesuvius. It lay for centucharacter of all on board your 8hip; now ries covered with nshes ::tnd almost forgotten. what proportion of your officers and men, But. in the yea: 1748, ~orkm:n en~aged in are really religious men? We do not ask, makmg excavations on ~ts a~cient site came . . . . suddenly upon the buried city; and we of what proportion are superficially religious, this age are made more acquainted with the but really religious?'' We should hardly, for manners and customs of the Romans in the the credit of humanity and Christianity be most brilliant period of their history, from disposed to publish his reply. He saw that the uncovering of the city o~ Pompeii, than h H .. ld t d th t t O f from all other sources combmed. A recent per a~s . awanans wou s an es writer remarks, that Pompeii is one of the examrnat10n about as well as Englishmen, most wonderful of the antiquities of Italy, or Americans, or Germans. and one which never -disappoints the traveler Now when persons brinoa general charge who i8 at all acquainted with the history o. 0 • H .. h h a-ncient Rome. The impression which i agamst awanans, or any ot er race, t ose . f th l f R ·t . gives o e actua presence o a oman c1 y, charges must be taken with much allowance. in all the circumstantial reality of its exist• Sometimes Hawaiians are charged with in- ence two thousand years ago, is so vivid ant! gratitude, but from our acquaintance with intense, that it requires but a small effort of them they are every whit as grateful for the imagination to place yourself among the .t' • multitudes which once .thronged its streets La vors' s h own as E na1·1s h men or A mencans , . ' . ' and theatres, and occupied the now vo1celess or Germans. lf requued, we could specify chambers. The expression so often used, instances. that you expect to see the inhabitants walk out of their houses to salute you, is scarcely NoTICE.-The annual Examination of the a figure of speech. Many things in fact concur to foster the illusion. You see a street Classes of the Oahu College will take place before you carefully paved and well worn, at Punahou, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and in good preservation, as if it had been June 13th and 14th, continuing each day in use on the previous day. The houses from 1 to 4 o'clock P. M., and the Exhibi- generally extend in unbroken lines, and even tion on Thursday the 15th commencing at 7 the dilapidation is in some measure concealed by the small modern roofs placed · over the o'clock P. M. The public are cordially in- walls to protect them from forther destrucvited to attend. tion by the weather. The doors anq win-. !n '' 42 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1871. ----------------~-------~---~----_ <lows indeed are all open, but so they generally are i11 the inodern houses of Italy, and tbe sombre brown tints of the walls are not verv different from wbat is seen in tbe decay0ed towns of the same country at the present day. You turn to the right and to the left, aud wander frnm street to street., and still you have the perfect imnge of a town before you. except that no inhabitant::; appear, and the::;e you may :1-rn pposc have left a few <lays before. Here we have a Rornan Eorn111, with all its accompaniments of ternples rind porticoes, not indeed perfect, but only so injured, tbat what is missing can be replaced, and what is mutilated, restored. There are also many shops with their utensils of trade in tJem, and many private houses of all descriptions, from the poor cottage to the patrician mansion, enabling- us for the first time to obtain a distinct idea of the form and arrangement of a Homan house, and giving us as it were a glimpse of the domestic life and manners of the people. A few skeletons have been found in the houses of Pompeii, showing that the volcanic dust that covered the city, must have been suddenly <showered upon it. The neighboring city of Herculaneum was covered with tb e lava, and hence very few mementoes of the past have been there excavated. But Pompeii was not destroyed by streams of lava, but by showers of cinders, mixed, as is supposed, with liquid mud, ,vhich penetrated and flowed into all the lower parts of the houses in a way that dry ashes could not have done. Hillard remarks, that the public buildings of Pompeii, consisting of temples, basilicas, forums and theatres, were doubtless imposing in their aspect, and of fine architectural forms, but their ruins are ~omewhat disappointing, from the nature of their materials. They were not built of marble or stone, but of brick covered over with f.tucco. This will do very well in a climate so mild as that of southern Italy, but nothing is more prrltry and shabby than a brick ruin. Vegetation must give it grace and beauty, and there is none here. The visitor is conducted to a wide space strewn over with shafts and c:ipitals of colmnns, with fallen pediments, broken walls, yawning chasr.ns halt filled with rubbish and shapeless masses of masonry, and he is told that here was a basilica, and there a forum and a temple; but unless his eye be so trained as to see beauty in deformity and symmetry in disorder, he must turn· away c!iscouraged and disappointed. Pompeii is supposed at the time of its destruction to have contained twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and from the few skeletons found in the houses, nearly all the inhabitants must have had time to escape. In a building supposed to have been a garrison, the skeletons of four men were found, and from the place where they lay, it i~ supposed that they were keeping guard, when the showers of cinders fell upon the doomed city. But they did not fly, but stood firm at their post of duty, a~d met a brave and fearful death, showing at least that bravery and fidelity are not confined to our age. The recent explorations in Jerusalem have excited the greatest interc,st among the .Masonic fraternity on account of tbe discovery of what are b elieve<t to be'' Mason's marks " on a considerable number of the im1pense foundation stones recently 11 neovel'eil 1rnilcl' t he clPbris of tht> Templ e. - Jupiter illld _ _ _ J, _ _ _ _ Venus. A RARE SrnnT.-La s t l\'[ondny the ~2d, Venus nnd Jupiter Wl~1·e IJoth visible at noon-day-tue former was iu coujuuctiou with the moon on that day..lldverliser. Editors of various newspapers, at the suggestion-of astronomers·, have been calling- attention to the near approach to each other of the two planet::;, Jupiter and Venus. Their appearance i8 certainly very fine and grand as tbPy adorn the evening sky in the west. The association of these two heavenly borlies remind s us of a p11ssage in the opening of the firteenth book of Homer's lliad. The old Grecian poet represents Jupiter as awakening from sleep "on Ida's height" one bright morning. and looking down upon the warrina Greeks and Trojans. The Greeks were trt umphant, and the Trojans were fleeing, while Hector of" the glancing helm," lay stretched upon the plain. Jupiter immediately saw the sad plight of his favorites the Trojans, and knew that bis wife Juno had been practicing- her wiles upon him, by the aid of" the 11 ,agic belt o( Ve11us.'' In his fury, Jupiter addresses Juno in the followrng language, which we quote from Eur! Derbv's translation. Juno was rather strong {ninded, but srlll Jupiter when aroused, would assert his rights, and believed in no very mild punishment: Letter from the Rev. !Ur. Fletcher. Many of our Honolulu renders will remember the Hev. Mr. Fletcher, who passed through our city a few Weeks since, en route from .Melbourne to London. Some will remember his lecture upon the Crusades, and siege of Jerusalem. Most truly do we sympathize with him in his great disappointment in not being able to reach London in season tor the May meetings, in consequence of his injury upon the railroad. A few paragraphs from a late letter from him, dated at Ogden 1 Utah, will be read with interest: OGDE N, UTAH, April 27, 1871. REV. S. C. DAi\ION,-.My JJ ~ur Sir :-You will see by tue above superscription that I am after nll no iurther on my journey than Ogden. I thought to have a p11ssing peep at Utah, and lo I am here a prisoner! My jailor is a young Methodist minister, who is assisted by his wife in making my c,mfinement as lenient as possible. My prison is a hospita.l.>le home, and the atmosph ere that pervades it is one of genuine Christian kindness. 'l'o make t1 long story short, I have broken my leg, and so "the wandering J£;w" is obliged to halt. The accident occurred in stepping from the train on to the st:\tion ph~tfol'm at Cisco~ among the mountairn;. The cause was the intense darkness of a snow shed full of ste,1m, at 9 o'clock nt night. 'l'he r1ccident was not severe, and Dr. Pinnell soon set it, and I was iiut to l1ed in 11 sleeping car, and c,1,me on hithet', where good Mr. Teall has given me a tempomry refuge. I have been here a week~ an~ shall ever be grateful for the kindness shown to me in my day of adYersity. I hope to be a.hie to visit the "city " on Monday, and to pursue my wander"'l'his, Juno, is thy work ! thy wicked wiles ings during the coUt·se of next week. 'L'he worst disHave Hector qucll'd, :1nd Troj.ms driven to flight; appointment to me is in tieing obliged to miss the Nor know I but thyself mayst reap the fruit, May meeting:s, Lut as the accident was my misfortune Dy shameful scourging, of thy \'ile deceit. and not my fault , not the result of rashness or imHas thou forgotten how in funner times prudence, I hftve no qualms of conscience, and have I hung thee from ou high, aud to thy feet had to lea.rn the lesson of Christian p,1tience. Attach'd two pond'rous anvils, aud thy hands I have hitherto only seen l\lormonism out of the With golden fetters bound, which none might bren.k? window, but a great deal may be seeu even from a There didst thou hang amid the clouds of Heav'n; window when one has eyes to see with, and I have Through all Olympus' breadth the Gods were wroth; gained much kuowledge of this most l'emarkable reliYet <.lar'd not one approach to set them free. gious eccentricity. If any so had veutur'Ll, him had I My sojourn in San Francisco was ve1·y pleasant, H1ul'd from Reav'n's threshold till to earth he fell, but just as I was beginning to feel at home there I With little. left of life. Yet was not quench'd was obliged to leave. My best religious experiences My writth on godlike Hercules' nccount, were reserved for the In.st day of my sojourn, which Whom thou, with Boreas, o'er the wat'ry waste was a Sabuath. I preached in the morning at the With fell intent didst send ; and tempest-toss'd, Calvary Presbyterian Church for the Rev. Mr. HempCast him ashore on Coos' fruitful isle. hill, the new minister. In the afternoon I was presI rescued him from thence, and brought him back, ent at a grand gathering of Sunday schools in the After long toil, to Argos' grassy plains. Pavilion. At least 4,000 were present. The occaThis to thy mind I bring, that thou mayst learn sion was the arrival of a corps of " Evangelists from To cease thy treach 'r:ms wiles, nor hope to gain the East," who were to address the children in the By all thy htYish 'd blandishments of love, nfternoon and hold a mass meeting in the evening. Wherewith thou hast deceived me, n.ud betray'd." 'rhe visitors were Dr. Vincent of the Methodist EpisHe said ; and terror seiz'd the stag-ey'd Queen ; copal Church, Mr. Moody the lay preacher from ChiWho thus with winged words address'd her Lord : "By Earth I swear, and yon broad Heav'n above, cago, and Mr. P. Phillips the singing pilgrim. Mr. :Moody is a rough and ready earnest speaker, who And Stygian stream beneath, the weightiest oath atones amply for want of grammar and polish by his Of solemn pow'r to bind the blessed Gods ; great earnestness and love for souls. Dr. Vincent is By thine own sacred head, our nuptial bed, a good antl effective preacher, who unites order, pithWhose holy tie I neYer could forswear ; iness and point with a chastened zeal. But t.he charm That not by my suggestion nud advice of the gatherings is in the singing of Philip Phillips. Earth-shaking Neptune on the Trojan host, I had heard of him before, but I was not prepared to Aud Hector, pours his wrath, and aids the Greeks; find him such an artist in s~cred song. Musio serves Iu this he but obeys his own desire, him for words. He is an orator in melody, and Who looks with pity on the Grecian host preaches, teaches, comforts n.nd reproves in " harBeside their ships o'erborne ; and could my words monious numbers." Solo-singing in public worship Prevail, my counsel were to shape bis course, is an innovation I am not used to, but I could forgive 0 cloud-girt Ring, obedient to thy will." it and approve it in bis case. I saw a good deal of the low moral life of San FranTHE MosT ExHA USTIN G LABOR.-The idea and had I been able to stay, Mr. l\loore, of the is often ridiculed by uneducated people, that cisco, City Mission, offered to extend my acquaintance with students and those whose professions require the shady side of California life. Not that I have any constant mental exertion, really work as hard leanings in that direction, but " all is grist that as those en·g aged in manual labor. But from comes to my mill.'' * * * * With kind regards and many thanks, the chemical experiments of Prof. Houghton, I am yours very truly, of Trinity College, Dublin, it is proved th.at WILLIA:r.I R. FLETCHER. two hours of severe mental study abstract U Queen Victoria has had nine children from the human system as much vital strength as is taken from it by a whole day of mere and twenty grandchildren, of whom only one has died; that was a grandchild. hard work. 'l'H~ t'RIEN1', JUNE, - - - - ~- - - - - - -- - - - - - - 43 1871. --- - - -------- -- Editor's Table. French F'air in Boston. •• Don't Foi·get the Poor Fellon-." SEVENTII ANNUAL REPORT OF 1'IIE BOARD OF STATE We find frequent allusions in recent New England newspapers to the French Fair. One of our correspondents writes ns fol lows: But I must tell vou a little sometbincr about the French Fair, and yet it would tak~ long to tell even the half. lt opened the night before I !<:>ft Boston, and is to continue for ten days. It is mid to surpass even the Cretan or Sanitary. It is held in the Boston Theatre-a splendid building for this purpose,-which was elegantly decorated, and the scene from one of the balconies was beautiful. Of course the Hawaiian table was a rendezvous for all islanders, and we hud every reason to be proud of it. The position was excellent, and the picture of His Majesty, framed in Hawaiian fl.ag5, attracted much attention. Mrs. B., Miss P., and a number of other ladies, proved most faithful saleswomen. - - - looked exceedingly pretty in green silk, with ,vhite lace overskirt, pink rose buds, etc. Tbe corals and shells found many admirers and buyers. The table was r.overed with beautiful fancy ai·ticles. NI.rs. Judge Allen sent a noble contribution from Bangor, and a most generous response seems to bave been given at the Islands to the request of the committee and others. Among the most r2markable articles was one which a Boston lady has been engaged for some time past in preparing,-a doll, with wardrobe so perfect, that it would find no rival. So Mademoiselle Fun Frou is the result, and really she is quite worth going to see, if one had nothing else in view. Miss Flora McFlimsey won Id have been poorly clad in comparison. There were the most beautiful ball, party, walking, dinner and carriage dresses, all finished in the choic-e~t materials, in latest style ar,d exquisite taste. She has bonnets (fairy affairs too they are), hats, cloaks, camel's hair shawl, laces of beautiful texture, gloves of every shade and of Paris make. Her jewel box is well fill0ci, and suc-b a tiny, dainty diamond ring as you would find there ! Also, a little mother-ofpearl card ~ase, filled with her cards. Some few days since we received a note from an officer of a whaleship lying off and on, from which we extract the following paragraph: "We have on board a young: man-a Portuguese--wbo seems very desirous to learn. He has a Portuguese Bible, which be is reading every lei-sure. Certainly he cannot re~d a better book; vet he wants sometliinrr explanatory, sny s~rne tracts which would ;iucidatc thf' spirit of the gospel. Can you send him some good, pious books? I think if you could ::-end him such a work as Bunyan's • Pilgrim's ProQrr's::,,' in Portuguese, it would lead him to inquire more and more into the merits nf our Blessed Redeemer. Our ship sails tbis afternoon, and don't forgd the poor jfdlow-always remembering he has no money, nor I either for that matter, or 1 could send it and P"Y for the books." Now it is in the welfare of such "poor fellows" that we take a ~pecial interest. No one need to apologize for asking of us any favor in behalf or those who are desirous of learning to read and become acquainted with Christianity. Although the ship sailed before tbe note reached us, yet we took tbe necessary steps to forward books and papers bv a vessel which is certain to overtake the o;e on board wb ich this young Portuguese is a sailor. ... It i:s to meet suc-h and similar ca5"eS, which are constantlv occurring-, that we invite those interested in. the weHa ~e of seamen to send to our office second-hand school books, lii;;tories, and whatever reading m:-:,tter they are willing should pass out among seamen. Singing books ure always acceptable. Illustrated papers never come art,i~s. Scarrely a day passes tbat we do not receive calls from seamen, and when tbev do not call, Mr. Dun scombe is inte.rested ·to supply seamen on ship board, or lahorers at the Guano I:::lands. Our frie11<ls never need to fear they may send too large a supply. CHARITIES OF 1871. l\IAssAGHUSETTS. Boston: January, We would acknowledge our indebtedness to Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, Mass., an old college classmate, for this valuable publication. The good people of Massachusetts are wide-awake to look after objects of charity at home and abroad. While late news informs us of the great French Fair for the suflerers on the other side of the Atlantic, this publication abounds with the most carefully prepared statistics relating to the poor, the criminals, the imane within the borders of the State of Massachusetts. It is a very good book to furnish materials for sermons and editorials. The interesting report of Edward L. Pierce, Esq., on "Executive Pardons," has already suggested one sermon. It is a most valuable document on a most frnportant subject, and we take pleasure in quoting the following paragraphs from the conclusion of the report : "There is an incident in bio~raphy which may well close these general reflections upon the instrumentalities of human progress. Mr. Justice Talfourd, who graced at once literature and the judicial office, while charging a grand jury upon a long calendar of grave offences, submitted for their examination, dwelt upon the causes of crime, ar,d foremost among them, he placed the indifference of the superior ranks of society to tho~e who are beneath them in station and privileg-es. The messenger of death was waiting impatiently at the door as he uttered, with inarticulate voice, these last words of a well-spent life, falling at once into a mortal swoon: 'If I were fo be asked what is the great want of English society, I would s"J.y in one word, the want of symp::ithy between class and class.' Thus fitly clos~d the career of one who had written these lines worthy of a golden setting. " 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain 'tl by fever'd lips, l\lay give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is tt little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort, which, by daily u·sc, Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the en.r Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, 'twill fall Like choicest music ; fill the glazing eye With gentle tears; relax the knotted hand To know tbe bonds of fellow~hip again ; Aud shed on the departing soul a seme, More precious thau the benison of friends About the honore<l death-heel of the rich, 'l'o him who else were lnnrly, that another Of the great family is near anu feels.'' EDWARD L. Boston, December 31, 1S70. PIERCE. UP TO Tnrn.-Considering the long passages to be made by the Austra!ian steamers, it is a matter of surprise that they have always arrived on or before the time announced in the time-table. These steamers are as punctual as the Atlantic steamers between Europe and A rnerjca. It is vet to be seen whether the American line will be up to time. Jiad emoiselle J1Hn l+ou, THUR:-;DAY. Last. but not least, two perfect little trunks, W!th her name well marked thereon. 'I')1e price is only $2.000. rind t Ii i:a- ta:::-hiorw ble plaything is setting raffl.ers doll-mad. Then there is a Farragut table, with many interesting relics. where serve the prettiest of young ladies in jauntiest of '' navy jackets." Also a Ben. Franklin table. I wonder whose antiquarian tastes will lead them to buy the cbair in which Franklin took bis steam baths! The Curiosity Room wou Id please you. Then too the Latin school table. Some choice books are here, espec-ially an elegant edition of Carlyle. The Floral Temple seemed to have sprung up by some magic power. By far the most elegant article was the autograph album, with the autographs of the literati of England and America, with sketches from a number of artists. Rather a tempting book! THE "Pi1RJSH VrsrTOR."-A friend in Dt' laware, Ubio, has ordered from New York twenty copies of this most excellent monthly for gratuitous distribution. We have received numbers for April and May. It is pttbli:.-hcd hy the "Protestant E1•i::ocopal Soc1ety for Prorno1ing Christian Knowled!!e." \Ve shall take great pleasure in distribntrnrr tl-i-::-!se publications, for they c-ontain religiou,; rPading, rno~t choice, selcrt and evangelical. The selections occupy a wide range, embrncing reJig-io11s writings from the pens or the best writers in other denominations. HAWAJIAN Curuos.-Strangers and visitors are often making inquiries for Hav.aiian curiosities, specimens of lava, coral, etc. e are glad to see that the brntber of Mr. Dickson the photographer is doing his bef-t to meet the demand. Already he is able to make a good exhibition 1 and ere long we are (lispm:ed to :think he will be able to gratify curiof,ity hunters to their fulle st desire. HiR collection [Cr Quebec gets a revenue of $10,000 a may be seen at hi s brotber·s photographic stand in F or:t street. year out of chimney sweeping. ,v T ll 44 ·- - - - -· THE FRIEND JUNE 1, 1S71. Homer's Iliad arul Hawaiian lUeles. w·e desire once more to call the attention of Hawaiian s~holars, to the desirableness of giving some attention to the subject of Hawaiian meles, for the purpose of illustrating some perplexing questions connected with the poems of Homer. Upon examination, it might be found that there is no little resemblance between these meles and the "chants" or "ballads" sung by the Rapsodists of ancient Greece. There is a most interesting article in the North American Review, for April, called forth by the recent publication of Brvant's Translation of the Iliad. Persons i;terested in the discussion of the '' Homeric question " and kindred topics will read this article with much interest. This writer def-cribes the Homeric F R I E N D, .J U N E \ l ti 7l. --- - -- --=--=--=--=--=------- fonnd· a form in our language which three OLD RcINs · oF PoLYNESlA.-The explorers competent critics will ngree to call adequate." of old ruins in Eg-ypt, Nineveh, Jerusalem, The Bible i~ sometimes called a wonder- Athens, Rome, Central America, Mexico, ful book, penned by so many different and Peru. have come to feel that their work writers, in so many diflerent ages and parts was about done and their occupation gone, of the old world, yet breathing the i-ame but a new field is opening. Strange as it spirit and characrerized by such marvellous may appear, Polynesia has its rnins ancl its unity; yet, if not as wonderful and marvel- hieroglyphics. A writer in the Town and lous as the Bible, still the Poems of Homer Country, a weekly illustrdted paper, pubwill take precedence o( all human composi- lished in Sydney, is now furnishing for that tions. They out-rank and out-shine all paper, a series of engravings and explanahuman productions, yet who can tell us who tions, respecting old ruins on Bonape, was Homer, or where he lived, or where he Strong's Island, and the Kingsrnill Islands. was born? When the Greeks commenced They tell of an age and pe_o ple unknown to as an historic people, the Poems of Homer any now living upon those islands. Having were old-were ancient. After all that has seen with our eyes the ruins on Bonape and been written upon these Poems in ancient Strong's Islands, we are somewhat prepared and modern times, including such men as for such explorations. As yet a profound I Wolf, Mure, Grote, and humlreds more, still, mystery rests upon the whole subject. Dr. says Mr. Lewis, "no history of the Homeric Rae tells us, Polynesians belong to a very Poems can be written and any account of old rnce of humanity coeval with what the them which aims to be satisfactory must be learned style the stone age; and W. C. Jones, Esq., came bade from a recent trip to poefo:s " as chants addressed to the sense of largely conjectural." Hawaii stating that he has discovered an melody," anJ refers to that dass of translaU In reading late numbers of E1,ery old ruin on that island, resembling the tors, "vbo treat the Iliad as '' a series of S1turdoy, now illustrated and improved, we old Mexican ruins of the Temple of Cholula. ballad$, joined together as an after-thought notice that the author of "Tom Brown of Who knows, but that the garden of Eden by some others, than the bard or bards, who Rugby," Thomas Hughes, Esq:, is writing may yet be discovered as located in the first sung them." a series of sketchy and graphic articles upon Pacific Islands! We certainly may witness If our ideas of Hawaiian or Polynesian American colleges. We have read with here the ruins of the fall! rneles are correct, they were unwritten chants much interest his not.ices of Harvard and GENERAL MEETING.-Tbe Hawaiian Evanaddressed to the ear and rehear:ed by a Cornell Universities-the oldest and younggelical Ai"sociation will commence its sessions class of men corresponding very nearly to est of American Colleges. We are somenext week, on Monday. The Association the ancient Grecian Rapsodists. Many of what surprised that an .English Universityis now com posed of ·about forty ordained these meles, we u:-iderstand, have now been man, with a mind under the influences of -committed to writing and are in possession Hawaiian Pastors, five Lay Delegates from Oxford prejudices, should find so much to ot Mr. Fornander, President Alexander, and Hawaii, four from Maui, four from Oahu, commend and so little to censure in the 11 10 1t,he HawaiiaR Government. The late 1\/fr. · and three from Kauai beside' ace\" c r · iv.1. American system of education. Perhaps, < ' s • ·• eign .And,rews, author of the Hawaiian Dictionary, Pastors and Delegates. Tbe proceedings ,collected many of the meles and his papers, we ought not to be :surprised at th1 s fact, for are all conducted in the Ha,vaiian language we do not forget his keen criticism and . . . · we learn, have been purchased by the Gov. , f h -t:. • • Thus, 1t appeari-, that the m1sstonary work caustic expose o t e Joagzna and roastzna 0 0 0 , has pretty effectually passed over to the ernment. Is t h. ere no one, who will edit a t. prac,1ces of Rugbv. He was also a areat I h d t· th e H awanans. ·· Th. · · sufficient number of these meles, to let the . • b an s o 1s 1s as 1t admirer of Dr. Arnold, head-master of Ruba- should be. literary world know their worth, and at the . . . . . by, whose reformatory measures have had DRINKING PETROLEUM.-It is am_ong the same time describe their ongm and method h · fl h • • • sue an rn uence upon t e educational sys- ~iarvels of_ modern chemistr.;:- that a spa.rk1 of preservation? Perhaps some Hawauan f E . tern o ngland. W h1le educn tors of the hng, foarmng champagne wine can be proPisistratus might join them together and form a little Iliad! New World may learn much by going duced from refined petroleum, which will to the Old vVorld, so may those of please the eye and tickle the palate like the From the reading of this article referred the Old vVorl<l learn something useful, genuine, bnt is more deadly in its effect upon the consumer. to, we a re glad to learn that Bryant's trans- by vi~iting America and witnessina that Judging from the effects upon :some who la tio•n of the Iliad meets with such a favor- wonderful fusing process now i; prosuppose they have been drinking brandy or able reception from critics and scholars. gress. Opposite national traits and pegin, or wine. in Honolulu, ma v it not be This writer,-.M:r. Charles T. Lewis-speaks culiarities, old and stereotyped prejudices, that they have been drinking pet~oleum ? of Earl Derby's tramlation as "better than may now there be seen rubbing against each PooR EnucATlON.-Thc ~tatistics of eduany of its predecessors," yet he thinks Bry- other, being modified . and softened by conant's work, challenges comparison, with" the tact, and finally settling down and gradually cation in France. wluch for fifty years has been in the hands of the priests, show that best :English Iliad in existance before it being welded together and forming a new forty out of a hundred women contracting appeared." He places much stress upon the nationality, which, in afrer ages, will prove marriage were entirely illiterate, and a large fact that Bryant is a poet of world-wide to be a vast imp.rovement. Vve believe old proportion of those who professed to be edufame, while Earl Derby did not profess to be Bishop Berkely caught the true idea when cated could barely sign their names; :28 per cen~. of the men couk! not s_ign the marriage a poet. In regard t0 rrhe difficulty of trans- he wrote: · register, and one-third of the conscripts lation, Mr. Lewis rremarks, "The whole "Westward the Star of Empire takes its way, could neither read nor write. These facts The first four acts already past, Iliad hag been turned into English verse show the need of the reform that the gov~ A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; abo ut forty times; but no page of it has yet ernment is introducing. Time's nobles t olf'~pring is the last." 45 THE IrRIEND, JUNi~, 1871. Lecture on Public Opinion, J uclge ABOLISH THE BAR.-W e learn that the owners ot the Australian line of steamers, Fons IN FRANCiSCO-Per Ajax, May lst-J J \!\'heeler, I~ T !\loller, WR Castle, Mrs Hailey, Hou II A Wideniann and servant, Miss E Widemaon, Miss l\I Widemann, Ed Hofr. D Dole and wife, S 8 Dole, Mrs A J Cartwright, lt schlacger, s ubject a few evenings since, at the accommodations on board their vessels. Hruce Cartwright, A Cartwright, l\Jis.i E Hrewei·, Joo \1\-ater house, wife and child , II 8egelken, C A Williams and son, '.Ur" Olympic Hall. It 1s highly agreeable 1s not only our opinion, but that of ::; I' 8mitll, Uapt .U Klencke, i\lisg S Brown, .Jacob hiller, E I' A Llams, Mrs Jernegan and two chllctreu, HM Whitney and mriny others, that it would be a great and profitable, when men of the legal wife, :\'liss Whitney, ,Judge l\lcUryde aud wife, Henry J ohu ~on, II Baumeister, ill r Fletcher, 1J l ri8h, J Cred1ford, A Joaimprovement in those ve~sels if the bar profession or those presiding upon the quiH, H G MeLeau a ml wi fe, anti l0i in transitu from AustraBench, are willing to bring forth from was abolished, or certainly removed from lia aud New Zealancl-150. Fon TAHITI-Per Sovercign,llfoy 3d-Hu11;h Morrison-1. their store house of gathered lore, illus- the prominent place which it occupies on Fon PORTLAND, O.-Pe1·- Jane A. Falkiuburg, ~lay 9thCheny-1. Peter We do not believe the public trations for a lecture upon some topic of ship-board. Fon GUANO I s u,Nns-Per C. l\I. Ward, l\'lay 9th-Jno good requires a public bar to be opened on Strachan-I. public interest. The orecedents cited in sleamers running in the Pacific. FnoM NEWCA STLE, N. S. W.-Per Hilda & Carin, l\lay illustration and the historical references 9th-.l ohn Cordy, Miss S Cordy-2. FoR S.\N FRA NC isco-Per Queen Emma., l\1 ay 16th-Mr111 NAVAL.-Arrived yesterdny, H. I. R. Majesty's were peculiarly apt and appropriate. The G G Ernmcs and 3 child ren, Uapt Bat~s, Jo:se1,h Thomp~on, . Steamship .!Jlm,1z, Commodore Pilxin, commanding 1\lr Webh-7 . lecture was too condensed and ben1~e too the Russian squadron in the Pacific, 13 days from Fon AUCKLAND AND SYDNEY-Per N ehraska, May 15thshort, instead of thirty minutes, all present S:m Francisco, bound to Nagasaki, Japan. 'fhe fol- R Linck and wife, S l',la~on, and 33 from San l•ranci~co-::!6. FROM NEW UA STLE , N. S. \V.-Per Siam, May 15th-l\Jr111 would most gladly have listened twice that 1':lwing is a list of the officers attached to the ..ilmaz: Mary Uordy, Miss CE Cordy, AM Cordy, MR Cordv, Walter Coruy, Juo J Cordy, Edward E Cordy, Capt Thos Bateij-8. time. The delivery of the lecture was unFlag Captain-Brylkin. Fon Fu1 ISLANDS-Per Camliria, May 18th-Chns Wooley , Exei:ntive ~tficer-Siedletzky. commonly good, every sentence having been Lientenunts - Razvozoff, Fevdosieff, Blagodoreff, D C Hurnphre ys- 2. Foll SAN FRANctsc o-l'er A. P. Jordan, )lay 23d- J E uttered with great clearness and force. We LinJen, Bykafl. HuhlJard-1. Flag Officers-l\fanink, Rymsky, Kosakoff, Navig. Fntm SYDNEY-Per City of Melbourne, May 2fl th, hound regretted to bear the announcement that the L ·i eutenant-TvanotJ: for San Francisco-llr Forrest, Mr .Hrocklchurst, .J no Brockleseries of lectures wou Id now clos e, and still hurst, Mr Henry Smith, Geo Green, Geo lla.thertou, Mn; Hatli Chi1f Engineer-Gavraloff. erton, i\lrs T Allworth, Wm Hitchcock, llunca.n Love. Geo Eight Midshipmen. more regret that no more of the community Traill. Mrs Traill, H Metcalf, Wife and ! chtldr~n, Mni Gm The .lilrnaz is _1,500 tons blll'then, has 173 men, 7 ham and son, Mr Rupin, Wife and 4 children, H Spense~, It are inclined to avail themselves of this Abb ntt, i\lrs Pearle, II Pury Lovegrove, J110 Schoner, Victor steel breech loading guns. Her engine is of 350 Lincluer, S \Vard an,t Wife, D Robertson, Michael Ry a n aml method of gaining information and quicken- horse-power, steams 12 knots, and she is a full W ifc, Jas Sexton. Ed wart! Rice illld Wife, .Jos Lee, Fras Murray, ,J Deehunty, T Nelson. Walter Ria, M Gunshilrl, .J H ing thought. clipper and a be:1Utiful specimen of naval architec- Beestoa, Geo Smith, .Jos Brown Fras Rhurta , Dani ~ul iv:i.n, - -- - - Mrs l\laughn, Mrs King-, Mrs lluckland, R obt Edwards, Tho.. ture.-./ldvertiser. l\Jc.Sh erry, H Potter-57 . OPIUM LrcENSE-AND PA urERlsi\r.-Vv e with learn Hartwell favored our _community a most excellent lecture upon this from the public prints, that the license to sell opium in Honolulu for one year, was sold at public auction for $13,870. As the Government realizes this amount from the traffic in opium, has not the time fully come for the Govermrn=mt to assume the support in of tbP paupers islands? Honolulu and upon the Many of these paupers, so far as the Chinese are concerned have become so through the use of Hitherto the support of destitute persons has churches, Mas onic lows, Stranger's Associations, Odd Fel- St. George's Society. when we think the Friend Society, and The time has come Government is under obligation to take the matter up -and s y stema tically provide for the paupers in the community, especially, such as have bePn brought hither under the Board of Immigration. We desire to call atte 11tion to this subject, in no spirit of fault finding or captious critici :,: m, but for the purpose of having tne matter duly considere d by Government offic~als, and the community in genernl. contemplating improvements in the Information Wantetl. Respectin>( Edwin 8. FP.dPrhen. who left Ne1v Di;dford in the wh«leship Gay [had, Capt. Lawrence, in 18tH, and was last heard from at Sydney, N. S. W. in 1862. Cornrnunicatio11 as to the said Federh (:: n, will be tba.nkfuily received. hy hi~ brother, Wm. Jl'. C. FP.d erhen, 141 Pleasant Street. Boston, Mass., or by C. Urewer & Co., Honolulu, or by the ~:1litor. MAltlNE JO UllN11-L. PORT OF HONOLULU, S. I. ARRIVALS. opium. been left to private charity and the aid -ot the are May -!-Am wh bk Eugenia., DB Nye, from cruise South, 170 bbls sperm. 5-Am schr CM Ward, GD Rickman, 16 days from .Jarvis ls. Reports strong trade~ aud heavy sea, with squalls <hiring passage. 5-Rus8ian stmr Almaz, Com. Pilxin, 13 days from San Francisco. 9-Swedish bk Hilda & Carin, C \V Lofgren, 7f> days from Newcastle, N S W. 9-Tahitian bk Ionia, J a mes McLean, 25 clays from T ahiti. U-Am stmr Nebrask a, J Harding, 7 days, 18 hours from San Francisco. lf>-Brit ship Siam, H Kindrick, f>6 days from Newcastle, N. S. W. 16-Aru wh ship Europa, Thos MP.lien, from cruise to Southward, 22f> bbls sp and 20 bbls wh. 25-Norwegian ship Atlas, L. Larsen, 4f> days from Melbourne. 25-British bk Gaucho, J. T. Hiltz, 20 days from San Francisco. :26-British stmr City of Melbourne, Grainger, 21 days from Livuka, Fiji. 26-North Germ an hk Elizabeth. Oscan, from ~Jontil·edio bound to Bakers Island. DEPARTURES. April 29-Brit ~chr Southern Cross, Kinney, for S,vdney . Even wh e n Governm e nt shall have done its 29-Brlt bk Henry Adderley, Langlois, tr San Francisco. May 1-Am stmr Ajax, Floyd, for San Francisco. part, there will still remain an ample field ::!-Am schr Sovereign, Cha mbers, for Tahiti via Molokai. for private charity. The Savior of man• 6-Brit steam frigate Zealous, Admiral Farquhar, for San Francisco, via Maui. kind has told us, '' ye have the poor with 6-Am wh bk Eugenia, Nye, to cruise. st~am corvette Almaz, Commander Pil7-Russian ·you always, and whensoever ye will ye may kioe, for Japan. 9-Am bktn Jane A Fa.lkinburg, Cathcart, for Portdo them good." By calling public attention land, O. 9-Am schr C M Ward, Rickman, for Guano Islands. to this subject, we do not wish to exonerate lf>-Arn stmr Nebraska, Harding, for Auckht.nd, N . Z. l ti-lla~v h~ Queen Emma, l) Hempstead, for San private individuals and churches from their I• rancisco. JS-Am wh Ilk Emily Morgan, Dexter, to cruise. duty to the poor, but there is a limit to snch 18 -llril schr Cambri a, Meldrum , for Fiji ls. a matter, where private c harity ends and 20-Am wh :sh Europa , Mellen, r.o cruise. :.m-Tahitian bk Ionia, M'Lean, for Tahiti via )folokai. public Government aid begins. We corn-I 2::1-Am three-masted sch A. P. Jordan, l'erry, for Ban FranCitico. m e nd this subject to the consideration of the '.lo -Brit ish bk Gaucho, Hiltz, for Yokoham,i. e di '. ors .of the Ga z ttte and .fldvertiser. :.lo-Am sh Sy ren, Johnson, !or New lledford. ===========--========-====----- 1"L.\RR1ED. R,sEL Y-D ON OHOE-I n this city, on Tues,lay evening, i\tuy '2,i. at the Catholic Uhurch, by the Rev. Fathe1· Hermann, l\lr. GEUllGE RI SELY, of Honolulu . to Mrs MARGARET DO NOHUE, widow of the late .J ames D onohoe, of Syduey , N. S. \'V., and fourtll daughter of the late .J oseph J ennings, of Galwuy, Ireland. No cards. [Syrlney papers please copy.) JHEU, WALTON-At the Queen's Hospital, :\fay 10th, HE NRY \V ALTON , a colored man. Obitnna•y, On the 23d of :.\iay, died in this city, .Jos ErH lIENRY s~11·r11 , EsQ., a. much reRpected citizen and for more than a quarter of a century a most faithful and con~cientious officer of the H a waiian Governm ent, haviug serv ed under three of the Kamehameha. Dyn asty. He was in the eightieth year of hi,s age. He was a native of Islington, near London, England; and was educated, in part, at Oxford Univeroity, an<l h a!! n•i w a. brother who is a clergyman of the Church of England, settle,! in L, ml on. Mr. Smith ca me to these islands fr om T ahiti in 18!5, and after living a fow months at Ifanalei, ca me to Honolulu, wh ere he has since resid ed. For ma ny years, he was secretary and member of the Board of Commissionen to Quiet I.and T itles, and after tli ~t Boa rd ceased to act, he was re·ained as one of the secretari es of the Interior Department and had cha rge of the Dooms' Day Books, 011 which he hall been working ror so m any years His presence will long he reremen,bered in that oilice. He wa s a stated hearer in the hou8e ofG nd, until the infirwiticsofa~ e preventecl him. li e belonged to tli at cla~s of read in::: and thoughtful Christians, of which, alas. there are too few . The works of Butler. author of tlie An a.logy, Paley, J ohn Newton, Henry aud Scott , and writer>of this class were his constant peru:sal. It was a real plearnre to converse with him upon religious topics, for with meekness ,wd fear he was alwnys ready to give an answer for th" Christian hope th at be ch erishecl . His mind was remarkably logical and reflective. He leaves a widow a m! a large famil y of children and granrlchil1lren to revere hi,; memory . Ii i~ wife was a daughter of the Rev. :'tJr. Ueory, one of the pioneer Englislt Missionaries to the Society Islands. BEN~"IELn-In ll onolulu, April 30 Lh, aft er a mofi t painful illness of ten days, En1c LEX, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Benfi eld, aged 16 months and 13 days. KAlillEMA-In this city, May 22d, PETER PORTER KAuHEMA, printer, a native Hawaiian, aged about 30 years. He was a good compositor, an honorable man, and died as a Christian. Now that lus form is locked up in the chase of death, may his last take. prove to have been a good one. I)uNN-At Waipa Plantation, Hana.lei, Kauai, May 24th suddenly, of con,;estion of the luu::;s, l\l. ll. Dunn. Obitllll l'Y• Dr J ,1 s . R. Dow , form erl y of Lahaioa, depa.rt eu this life on 1he 27th of February last, in Aiken, South Carolina, where he had gone for his health, which had been delicate during the la11t two years. Early in November last, he w as taken with pneumonia, a nd it developed in, or revealed tubercular forma~ tion in the lung,, wll h:h terminated his life. .,.. 46 TUE FRll1;NU. JUNI~, IS7i. made. Even our new friends, the Millerites, every soul. Were they grateful? I think since they broke their crank in trying to they were. But suppose it had been nightwind the world up, liave been compelled to for God works at all times and in all weathacid a new patch to their creed to explain the ers-and the poor souls could have seen only blu~ders in the~r fi~uring., No ~nan shall her lights rising and falling with every roll make a creed fo1 me, and Im su1e I do not of the waves, they would have been just as . d f M wish to make a cree or a,iy one. .1. y sea- much given to speculation. Bven in the faring friends know as well as myself that a darkness :somebody would have thought that common danger gives men a common creed. he saw something better than his shipmates, A few days since one ol the brcthr('n just re- and so on probably through the whole ship's tur?ed from sea told me a story tbat will ex- company. Sailors as well as landsmen are p~a~n what I mean by a comn~~n danger not wilijng to take God at His word, and g1vrng men a common creed, or, it you like wait patiently for the working out of His Britain he shipped on board the privateer the phrase better, a common religion. He ways, but they want to know all about Him Curley, and was captured by the English and was one of the crew of a large ship bound right off; and becau:se 1hey can't, then they carried a prisoner into Halifax. Here he was from Liverpool for New York, ,vith over four go to work and make what they think He fonnd by a poor but Chrisrian widow who bad hundred souls on board, mostly ~teerage pas- ought to do, and call it a creed." In common discours~ Father Tavlor was known him in Boston. The pious lady min- sengers. Half-passage out she wa') beset by istered to his wants and gave him a Bible. a hurricane, which blew all her sails from graphic, witty, and sometimes very ;arcastic. Heturning to Boston, hewn~ converted under the bolt-ropes. The sea swept away her At a Unitarian meeting some one had made FatlHir the ministry of the Rev. Elijah Hedding, boats, bnl warks, and evl'rytbing movable from a lugubriot1~ address about sin. afterward one of the bi:shops of the Methodist her decks, and, to add to the horror of those Tavlor remarked that it reminded him of a Episcopal Church. Through the kind offices on board, when the storm moderated she "b~etle-bug rolling his ball of dirt." Being of Amos Binny, a benevolent Boston mer- eauaht fire below. New sails were immedi- annoyed at a prayer-mee1ing by persons getchant, he was sent to Newmarket Semioary, ately bent, and she was headed for the West- ting llp and going out, be said, "Tide's risNew Hampshire. Here he received the only em lslnnds, while the passengers were em- ing; the bye stuff is floating off." Being school training of his ]ife. His available tal- ployed pouring water h2low, in the hope of asked when leaving a house to make a prayer, ents b:.-coming quickly known, he was pressed drowning 1he fire. It was all in vain. The he replied, '' If there is anything you wish into the service of the Church, and joined the fire increased instead of diHJini:-hing; the me to pray for, I will do so; bur I can't make New England Conference in 1819. Very pitch began to melt from the seams of 1he a prayer." One of his most characteristic judiciously he was sent to labor in the sea- planking; the lower pHts of the bold pumps sayings was that about Emerson, whom he coast towns, where the success of bis mims- were burned, so that there were no means declared to be a Christian without knowing trations was marvelous. Everywhere the left to pump the water out. In short, after it. "He is a Christian, no matter what he people flocked to hear the sailor-preacher, doing all that men could do to save the ship, says about it, and will have to go to heavenj and hung rapturously upon his impassioned. they found themselves at their wit's end. for if the devil got him he would never know tlo with him. There seems to me to presentations of trurh. In 1829 he was Then they cried unto the LorJ rn their trou- what rlaced in charge of the l\ietbodist Seamen's ble, and He delivered them out of their dis- be a screw loose somewhere, though I never Bethel, of Boston; he had been here but a tresses. AH work ceased; the captain called could tell where ; for, listen as close· as I few years when a commodious f>lace of wor- the crew and passengrrs together, and told might, l co·1ld never hear any jar in the maship was erected for him by the contributions them that it was hardly possible for the ship to chinery. He's certainly a Christian, though of Christians of all creeds. In this chapel he continue afloat another day, for she was leaky be knows no ruore of the principles of Chrisprayed and preached and labored for the as well as on fire. He therefore thought it tian doctrine than Balaam's ass knew of the right. that they should all unite in prayei·, and principles of Hebrew grammar." He had a good of seamen to the end of his days. The congregations of Father Taylor were, be advised ~very one to pray for himself in great contempt for metaphysics, and once, without dollbt, the most extraordinary that his own way. As if moved h~, a common referring to a metaphysical disputation, said ever assembled to hear preaching. In the impube, they prostra tee! themselves on the "it reminded him of being down South in a centre, furnished with seats reserved expressly deck without uttering a word. .Now what dark cedar swamp in the night, and the lightfor them, were sailors from every clime, and do you thir,k they prayed for? A little more ning-bugs would snap, snap, snap; and when of every tongue spoken by civilized men. .Methodism, a little more Catholicism, a little thC'y were up, you would think you had some Around them were grouped families of sea- more Presbyterianism, a little more Unita- light; but when they went <lown, it was faring people, most of them poor ancl lowly, rianism, Universalism, or any other ism? darker than ever." To a minister whom he but constant attendants upon Father Taylor's ~o, no, brethren, a common danger had wished to encourage to labor and to wait he rninistrations. But in the congregation would given them a common religion. Every soul gave the advice "not to carry the seed-basket always be found representatives of the high- communed with the ::mn1e God. WIH'n they and the ~ick!e into the field at the same 0,st culture-authors, poets, orators, wits, the rose fr,m1 the deck a young sailor bounded time." Speaking of the worn-out ministers elite of tbe intellectual world-attracted and aloft, and when be reached the royal-mast- of the Methodist Church, he said "they defascinated by the ima~ery, humor, and resist- head shouted with all his might, 'Sciil ho! SC'rveJ to be fed on preserved diamonds." less sympathy of Father Taylor's preaching. steering in our wakC'.' In a moment rhe ship His quaintness was very perceptible in bis One of rhe finest pa~sages in Dickens'" Amer- was hove to, after which the sailor,;; swarmed prayers. Many well remember his petition for President Lincoln, that the Lord would ican Notes" is hi::; description of one of Tay- up the rigging to see for the1ll:selve~. "Now wait a minute, shirrnatcs, and I will ·• protect him from the creatures who were ]nr·s s0rmons. Cool and philosophic Miss Martineau felt and acknowledged his power show you how these poor souls, who but a trying to bore their way through the sheathto stir tile feelings. The wealth of bis illus- few minutes before were all praying to a iug of his integrity." The good, saintly old preacher was feeble tr.: tions was ,vitl~out limit; his hearers were common Father, began to differ, to make s nrprised, melted, and taken captive. James creeds according to their range of vision. for some years before his death, yet tenacious .Freeman Clarke says that Father Taylor Only one small square sail coulJ bs seen of life to the ]ast. Only a few days before always r"minded him, in the richness of his above the horizon, for the vessel was end on ; the end he saiJ, "I shan't die while there is fancy, of Jeremy Taylor, the Chrysostom of and from this the sailors began to reason anything left of me." The Boston papers whether the craft to which it -· belonged was tell us that he passed away in the first quarthe old English divines. Very few of the brilliaNt passages of Father a ship, a bark, or a brig. And this contro- ter of the ebb-tide, the proper time, according Taylor's sermons have been reeorded; one, versy continued until she was hu1l out with to the sailors, for a natural death. Boston however, in which he gives bis estimate of studding-sails set on both sides. The signal will not soon forget his rugged lace, fnrrowed creeds, shows, though veTy imperfectly, hi5 of distress had been seen, and, as if by magic, all through and through, yet beaming with she was clothed wirh all drawing mil. Now the light of genius; but his memory will be pecllliar style: "Creeds, like Joseph's coat of ,many colors, what mattered it whether she w;1s a ship, a tenderly cherished by sailors all over the are m~1de of patches, no two of t'hem alike, bark, or a brig ? She was a savior. Was world. To th€m he was, in the strongest or one of them to-day what it was when first not that enough ? She rounded to and saved sense, Fathfr Taylor.-Harper's Weekly. .Father Taylor, the Sailor~' Preacher. , . Father Taylor, as he was fam1harly called, was born in the city of Hichmond, Virginia, in the year 179:J. In early childhood he was II . h an, .clnCl \\;,11en q~,·te,, 1e ft an orp . al " vouth en . . tered upon. a sea-fnnn~ life, fir st as a surgeon's boy 111 the Amenc,in navy, and afterward in the navy of Spain, which was then operating in Mexican waters against the .French. In our war of 1812 with Great to -- ADV ER rrISE M:ENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. OAS'I,LI~ & COOKE., SAILOR'S HOME! ADV ER 'I'I S ElVIE N ".£1 S. C• S. BARTOW, Auctioneer. AGENTS Sales Room on Queen Street, Clne door from Kaahumanu Street. w-M• NE\~'COMB. H O F F M _\. N N , M • SEW rn G MACH INES, I D •,. FOR WHEELER & \VILSON'S l AM I LY Dentist. Office corner of Fort ancl Hotel Street~, llonolulu. • 47 THE FRIEND, JUNE, 1871. ------ --- Physician and Surgeon, -WITH ALL- THE LATEST IMPROVEMEJ\"TS! Corner Merchant and Kaahum~nu Streets, near the Po5t Office. C DREWER s.., I Commission and Shipping Merchants, Honolulu, Oahu, H. I. ·• I The HIGHEST PREl\H~JM GOLD MEDAL co .. P. .1~ . I'...le - ADAMS. - 1 - - Over A\V AROJW AT THE Gil RH' WOltLD'S EXPOSITION AT Auction and Commission JVIerchant, Fit·e-Prnof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street. J O H :S S . M c G R E \V , Late Surgeon U. S. Army, c. \V E T M O R E , D ., M . 1SG7I THE :HALL TREADLE Can be consulted at his residence,on Hotel slreet, between Alakt:!it and Fort ~treets. II . J.>AH.IS, Physician and Surgeon, A LABOR .. SAVJ:SG AND HEALTH-PRESERVING INVENTION! Hilo, Hawaii, S. I. N. Il.-:\ledicine Chests carefully replenishecl at the Hilo D1•11g Stol'e. 6 tf A, W, A. PIERCE. W. RECOMMENDED BY THE l,ADIES 1. B. P~'l'ERSUN, & CO •• (5uccesors to U. L. Richards & Co.) PIERUE account of the perfect ease with whi. h it operates, the very I On slig!Jt pressure of the foot that sets it in rnotior., its simplicity cf construction and action, its prnctical durability. Ship Chandlers and General Commission llier chants, Don't forget to Call and J~xamiue for 1:·ourselves ! Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. FOR THE Agents Punloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb Lances, FIJIS AND SYDNEY, Ancl Porry Dnvi~' Pain Killel'. ~ ,,r t~ New Boolis Just llcceived AND FOR SALE AT THOMAS G. THRU~l'S NEWS DEPOT ! GEMS OF THE CORAL ISL,\ NDS, copies .Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Midnight Sky, 2 lCOPIES Hiblical Atlas, 1 Seience and Christian '£hought, 6 1 1 .Bil>le .l!.mblems, 1 Divine and Mo1al Songs, each Sunday Pictures, Book of Animals, Willie and Lucy, Little Plays, 2 Pretty Books, 10 llixpence :Cooks (toy), One Shilling Books (toy;, 2 Packets Cards, illustrnted, Discussions on P 11ilosophy and Literature, 1 Life of Jeff. Davis, 1 Results of Slavery, 1 ltesolts of Emancipation, 1 Life of Edward Ervrng, 1 History of Rationalism, l Five Years of Praye1·, 1 Cyclopedia of Anecdotes, 1 Journey m Brazil. 1 2 6 1 J. C, MERRILL, JOHN M J. C. DIERRILL & Co., CRAKEN Commission Merchants and Auctioneers, 204: and 206 California Street, San F r a n c i s c o . ALSO, AGENTS Ol!' THE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. Partlcula.rattentiongiven to the sale and purchasi ot mer thandise, ships' business, supplying whaleships, negotiating exchange, &c. ID' All freight arriving at San l<'rancisco, by or to the Ho oolulu Line of Pa.ckets, will be forwar.led FREE OF COMMISSION, o::r Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold . .£0 -REFERENC&SMessrS. C. L. Richards & Co ................... , •• Honoluh1 " H. Hackfeld & Co........................ " C. Brewer & Cc, •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bishop & Co ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Dr. R. W. Wood .•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••. Hon. E. H. Allen .•••.•••••••••••••••.•••••••••••• D. C. Waterman, Esq ............................ . n27 OFFIC~RS ..\ND SEAMEN C APTAl;\"S. comfortably accommodated on reasonable terms. Shower Baths on th~ Premises. '1l'i,j• AGENTS, ALSO, FOR D ., 1\1 . all Ot11 ers ? ly CONNECTING WITH AUCKLAND Honolulu, April 1, 18G8. ,v HJTEU!:-, .Manager. CEORCE WILLIAMS, LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. C ONT IN CI ES THE BUSINESS O:S HIS OLD Plan of settling with Officers and Seamen immediately au their 81iippi:•g at (i is Office. Havir)g no connection, either dirt:!ct or m1lirect, with auy outfitting establishment. and allow ing no delits tc, he collccled at his ollice, he hopes to give as {!ood satisfaction in the future as he has in the past. lt:Y Office on Jas. llobii,son & Uo.'s '\,\-"barf, near the U S Cnosulate. 566 3m Photography. I MPROVEMENT IS THIC ORDER OF _the day. I-laving constructecl a new Sky-light, and made various otlter improvements, I hope nuw to be alile to ,mit th!:! most fastidious with .A. Pho"to~raph., Of any Size.from, ct Crystal to a 1"}/Jamrnoth, taken in the best f:3tyle of the A1·t, And on most reasonahle terms. ALSO for sale Vfows of the lslands, 1:'ortraits of the Kings, Quecns,\wu other Notables, &c. 689 ly 11. L. Cll AS!<:, Fort Street. THuS. G. THRUlll'S STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, AND CIRCULATING LIBRARY, BY BRANCH STEAMERH FJW J.v l TJIE FIJIS. No. 19 Me1•cha11t St1•eet, - .. - Honolulu. The Fine Powerful Iron Sc1·e1v Steamers CITY OF MELBOURNE, WONGA WONGA, -AND- CITY OF ADELAIDE, Are intended to leave Honolulu for the above Ports On 01· about the fallowing dates : June 29, Jnly 27, August 24, Sept. 21, Oct. 19, Nov. 16, Dec. 14. oc::r l!'or further particulars, apply to WlLLIAl\1 L. GREEN, Agent. --.-.., • 1'11r ..1..T..a..C c ALLEN & C H I L L I N G ,v O R T H, ll.awaihae, Hawaii, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping busi• ness at the above port, where they are prepa1·ed to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes, and such other recruits as are required by whaleships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. u:::r Fil•cwood 011 Hiuul.cOJ ra k en & . c o., Bound Volumes at Reduced Price l<;OR\,VARDING AND COI'flllllSSION lllERCHA.N'rS, Portland, Oregon. H P ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF l'a pers ancl Magazines, back numbers-put up to order at reduced rates for parties going to sea. ly AVING BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PRE• sent busineas for upwards of seven years, a.nd being located in a fire proof brick building, we are prepared to receive and dispose of Island staples, sucn as Sngar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Coffee, &c., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon wl:.ich cash advances will be made when required. SAN FRANClSCO RrtFERENCES: Badger & Lindenberger, Jas. Patrick & Co., Fred. lken, W. T. Coleman & Co., Etevens, Baker & Co. PORTLAND REFEltENCES: Allen & Lewis. Ladd & 'filton. Leonard & Green HONOLULU REF'~;RENCJ,;S ; ly Walker & Allen. 745 ,)l.TE WILL FURNJSH BOUND VOLUMES TV of the Friend at one dollai· per annum (subscription price $2), for any number of years from 1852 to the present time. oc::r Adding the cost of binding. THE FRIEND : PUBLISHED AND EDITED BY SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEM~ PERANCE, .f;3EAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS: One copy, per annum, Two copies, Five copies, $2.00 3.00 5.f 0 -----.--- lnnng THIC FRIEND, JUNE, 1871. filbrisfom ~ssotiation nf Jonolulu. 'fHE Y. l\'l. C. A. held its annual business rng a due proportion of evening to this noble , meeting at the residence of S. B. Dole, at ~akini:r a due propq,rtion of time, and devot- 1' The Suuday Question. Various circumstancEs have caused this question to be a good deal discussed in Honolulu of late. The principal cau:::e however has been the arrangement (happily only a temporary one) by which an 1tnportant steamer arrival has regularlJ taken place on Sunday, necessitating, in or<ler to rnsure a speedy transmissi_on of mails and business orders to Australia, a good deal of Sunday work, to say nothing of the excitement and discussion from the usually-considered profitable mode of observing the day. It should not be necessary in any discussion on such a subject to call names. The use of the terms "Puritanical," '' bigoted," &c., &c., is in fact about as old-fashioned as the doctrines supposed to be illustrated thereby. It is not to be supposed either, unless there is good proof thereof, that either side has any desire to injure either the pockets or reputation of the other. Why, then, so many otherwise respectable and sensible men should fly into a passion when sur.h subjects come up, is a question \Vhich we must just now leave to philosophers to explain. There are two ground:s for the observance; distinct and each self-sufficient, and still each supporting the other. The first is the command; wrongly supposed, even by some who are good Christians, to have become obsolete with the change in the day. But I anc~ truly manly duty whic~ alone can s_av_e l M.akiki. A sufficient number were present society ~rom utter c~rruptton. Hence lt 1s \ to make the meeting interesting. The rethat soci_ety has a ri~bt to demand, and a I ports showed that through the liberal r~merncommunity have a nght to demand that I brance of our citizens, the present wants of what interferes with this duty shall be i the Society, including especially the Readstopped, except when real exigencies require I ing Room had been provided for. The fole~c:-ptions . . There is n~ bigo_try, _no~ _super- ,! lowing officers were elected for the incoming sttt10n, nor rntolerance m this; 1t 1s sound year: Presida,it-J. B. Atherton. wisdom and the best sense, and deserves ' Vice PresidP.11/-1'. R. Walker. Treasurer-W. W. f-fall. respect and r.onsideration. Secrelary-J. E. Tucker. Now when we are told that" two millions The treasurer elect having resigned in of people are waitini:J for their mails" it is consequence of removal from town. Mr. E. very true and sounds very plausible as an C. Damon has been elected to the office. argument. But no one asks the steamers to The meeting wus rendered intere~ting by be idle a day. Do not the Eastern mails varied remarks and proposals from different throb in regular pulsations into San Franmembers. An Envoy Plenipotentiary was cisco from New York daily, yea, twice a da v? qualified, in the person of one of the memls · it not possible to accommodate th;se bers departing for the States (W.R. Castle), waiting two millions by starting the steamer to represPnt the Honolulu Y. M. C. A. on Thursday instead of on Saturday for her abroad. One of the most important measures eight-days-to-a-minute voyage? Or is the news telegraphed on Saturday more valuable of the evening was the adoption of a plan than that of any other day. Or is it barely for the production of essays at the regular possible that British lett~rs arriving in New monthly meetings, the subject to be anYork on the previous Sunday-giving six nounced the month previous, in order that days for the passage across,-are the onlv the members may prepare for discussion, if so inclined. valuable ones? And here we leave the subAfter the business of the meeting had ject, feeling, that perhaps, after all the timebeen transacted, a social spread prepared the table is changed, and that in this case it is a members for the ride homeward ; and left dead SRtan that we are after. But the pleasant remembrances of the evening. weapons will do for another encounter. it stands in good company; on an equal footing with other commands that no one disputes. Alongside of "Thou shalt not kill;" "Thou shalt not bear false witness;" stands, "In it thou shalt do no work." The same authority, the same authenticitv, the same genera1 adaptation to the wants ~f human society, exist for this as for the others. Believing this, is it unmanly or unreasonable to obey, or even is it superstitiou~ to expect reward for such obedience and vice versa? " Work" menns the business of the six days allotted thereto, and it was in answer to a constrained interpretation of this word "work" that the Divine Man uttered what is the second ground for observance of the day: " The Sabbath is made for man." ENTERTAINMENTs.-As a provider of entertainments for the million, the Y. M. C. A. may regard itself as somewhat non-plussed -for the present. As furnishing a nucleus for many of us to come together, semi-socially and informally, the readings and lectures are certainly not without their value. More than that, the ;mateur element in them, or rather ~he ~xercise_of the amateur effort is somethrng imperatively needed in our still dreamy island seclusion. Let us confess our weakness as artists and would-be literatures and thereby improve through practice; indiscriminate praise, well-meanincr enouoh it is . t, t, true, is too apt to be the accompaniment to our amateur efforts. With respect to this there is no difficulty in convincing most men that a day of rest from actual business is a good thing, especially when convenient. lt would seem however as if the principle should be carried further. Man is so constituted, that he cannot be fully developed into all that the Maker intended without devoting time and strength to th~ worship of that Maker. He is injuring and ·wronging both himself and society, by not The series of three readings and three lectures under the auspicies of the Association has come to a close. The lecturers, to whom in default of a better commodity, the public tenders thanks, have been W. C. Jones, Esq., James W. Austin, Esq., and Judge A. S. Hartwell. The respective subjects. The probable North American origin of the Ha wiian. race ; Egypt, and the East ; and Public Opinion. At the May meeting of the Association the Sunday question was discussed; also th e proposed idea that members should make it a matter of duty to came together occasionally at the .l:{eading Room, with the direct purpose of making that a pleasant centre of resort. The fact is, that only li>y building up somewhat of an esprit de corps, even at the expense o~ a ~ittle prelimina? self-demal, i ~an the Assosiatton ever make itself of any ' importance, or acquire strength or permanence. It becomes a question with all of us of practical importance; what proporticn should be• • maintained in the attention given to associatwns not professedly Christian, and those whirh are professedly Christian. I [Lr A weekly Sunday afternoon prayermeeting is conducted by the Association in the vestry-room of the Fort Street Church at half-past three o'clock, to which all men are invited. lr7 Visitors calling at the read_ing-room and desirous of writing, will be furnished with materials by application to E. Dunscomb.