Title | Friend, 1871-10 |
Subject | Christians-Hawaii--Newspapers; Missions--Hawaii--Newspapers; Sailors-Hawaii--Newspapers; Temperance--Newspapers |
Description | 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. |
OCR Text | Show HONOLULU, O(YfOB~R. 2, 187 I. CONTE:llw'l'S Fot• October, 1 87 t. PAGF.. Visit to Police Court ..•••.••..••••••••••.••••.•••••••.••• i3 Lands of Scott .••..••..••.••••..•••.•••.•••..•••••••• 73 74 Dool,s and RE>ading .•.••.••..••.••...•• , .•••.•••••••.•••. 74 On the Cam ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••••••••• 75 The Rev. Dr. Stone's Sermon ...••...•••...••.•••••••. 76 77 Alic!! Cary..•••.•••••••..••.•••.• , •••••.•.•••••••••••••• 78 j apanese Inconsistency •••.••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••• 78 .Marine .Journal•••••.•••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• SO THE FRIEND OCTOBER 2, l 871. Visit to tile Police Court. It is seldom that we visit this place, but we did on a late occasion, when two seamen were undergoing their trial for an assault upon their officers. They belonged to a vessel from China. We listened to the evidence, and we have seen by the newspapers that they have been sentenced, but in a way, not at all corresponding with the nature of their crime. Why not? Most manifestly because, the second officer during the passage from China, had behaved in a most brutal and criminal manner. While the seamen were guilty of a most criminal assault upon their officers, and deserved severe punishment, one of those officers deserved to be as severely punished, yet he was allowed to escape, "Scot free," and has gone forward in the vessel to practice his brutal conduct unless taught to reform by this lesson. If brought before a Court of Admiralty, we doubt not, he would have been severely punished. We allude to this subject, because we think many of the troubles on ship-board originate in the after part of the ships. When those in command respect themselves, seamen will respect them and obey their commands and orders,. We know of ship ·masters and officers sailing out of this port, about whom seamen never make any complaint. The late Commodore Paty, who made 170 passages between these islands and California, was a most wise man in managing sailors. His words were few, and Editor's Table. he never would allow his officers to abuse his men. A coarse, profane and brutal man, THE LANDS OF ScoTT. Ry J. F. Hunnewell, has no business to become officer or master Boston. J. R. Osgood f Co., 1871, VP· 508. of a ship. We never hear seamen complain of strict dis;,ipline, but when seamen are Sir Walter Scott, in one of his novels, called out of their names and are threatened with hand spikes, and all sorts of weapons, under the cogomen of 1• Olcl Mortality," re•· then of course there will be troubles, and we fers to a Mr. Robert Peterson, who spent really wonder there are not more of them. some thirty or forty years of his life in traveling from one cemetery to another in An Omnibus full of Punabou Pupils. Scotland, and in repaiting and recutting The Rev. Mr. Boyd, author of the inscriptions upon tomb-stones erected to the "Country Parson," has written an essay Covenanters, who suffered for conscience'"Concerning the Sorrows of Childhood." sake. Year after year he might be seen He makes out that children have rather a riding about the country engaged in this hard lot. How this may be in old Scotland pious work. The writer of this work appears and in Mr. Boyd'5 Parish, we cannot say, to have been engaged in a labor of love, but he surely would not draw this inference somewhat similar to that of" Old Mortality." if seated in our sanctum, and saw the As a tribute to Scott's genius and that his Punahou Omnibus pass every morning, with writings might be better understood, be has its full compliment of young folks, bound to been traveling over all those lands described Oahu College. 1t never has been our lot to or referred to, in either his poetical or prose see a more happy jovial and mirthful comwritings. pany of "lads and lasses." Each one is providHe has visited 8cotland and wandered ed with satchel, hence we infer that there has the Highlands and Lowlands, also over over been study at home, in readiness for the morning recitation. We are glad to learn parts of England, and thence extended his from various sources that the institution has travels to the continent, ascending t.he Rhine, opened under most favorable auspices, with and visiting France, Switzerland and Italy, an increased number of pupils. even going as far as Constantinople. He General Lee Died of a Broken Heart. has performed this immense labor with most From a late number of the London Satur- pains-taking minuteness. Huined abbeys, day Review, we learn that General Lee, late old castles, bye-streets of cities, churches, of the Confederate army, died of a "broken farm-houses, and the most out-of-the-way heart." The writer had a good many kind places have not escaped his keen and observand eulogistic things to say, respecting the ing eye. No ::.pot has been left unvisited "idol" of the Southern people, but to assert which was supposed to have been once inthat Lee died of a broken heart, to our view habited by any of those airy and imaginary was anything but complimentary. Accord- beings, whose birth-place was Scott's brain! ing to this view, he died because he could If Mr. Hunnewell had found in any of those not break up the American" Union." Better localities the grave of Waverly, Rob Roy, that his heart should be broken than that the . Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake, Marmion, the Union should be broken and destroyed! For Antiquary, or even that of Jeanie Deans o-r his own good name in coming time, we her sister Effie, whose lives are so graphically could wish General Lee might have published and touchingly described in "The Heart of some statement which could have exonerated him from all blame touching the treatment Mid Lothian," we have uo doubt he would of Federal prisoners in Libbey Prison, and have employed his chisel and mallet in re .. Andersonville. newing anq. retouching the~r e~itap~s. 74 'J' H J:i~ F R I E N D , 0 C 'I' 0 B •~ R , l 8 7 1 . [t was to have been expected on the Centenary of Scott's birth that some enthusiastic admirer among the thousands of Scotchmen and Englishmen, would have engaged in this or some similar undertaking, in 4honor of his memory, but it was quite unlooked for, that this pious labor sh.ou Id have been ::;o happily, felicitously and satisfactorily per• formed by the son of an old Honolulu mer• chant, who now occupies his father's residence in Charlestown, now fitted up in palatial style, where he entertains his literary friends. One of our American correspondents thus writes us: "lVIr. Hunnewell gives a great many elegant dinners, and leads the life of a literary gentleman of fortune. He entertained the Japanese Embassy lately in splendid style. The house has undergone a most magical change. He has a house large enough to satisfy his fancy. The parlor is hung with heavy crimson, embossed crimson papn, crimson carpet, in fact it is the crimson room. Then too, there are those great sleep-inviting chairs, rich carvings and "antiques" everywhere. The dining-room has a deep bay window, and the walls are all panelled in walnut and chesnut. The ceiling beautifully frescoed. From this leads off a "smok1"ng room," &c., &c. w~e uronder 1"f .. Virgil, Horace, or Cicero, in their sumptuous villas, had a "f,moking room !" Any one who will carefully examine this book, must see that it required years to collect the materials, and then a most ·peculiar literary and antiquarian taste to arrange the same in this species of mosaic composition. What a guide-book is to the traveler, when visiting London, Paris or Rome, this book of Mr. Hunnewell is to the reader of Scott's writings. Most heartily, we congratulate the readers of Scott that they should have found so laborious, peculiar and pains-taking a literary toiler.• He has thus reduced Scott's works of fiction to plain matter-of-fact prose. Shakespeare says: " The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth ; And, as imagination bodies forth 'rhe forms of things unknown. the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to ail'y nothing, 4 local habitation and a name." Jn a mo:t eminent degree Sir Walter Scott has verified this idea so beautifully expressed. Now, lVIr. Hunnewell, while ,r eading Scott's works and all books illus,t rative thereof, gathered many hints, his• torical and geographical, and starting out with these as his guides, visits all those places inhabited by Scott's imaginary beings, then returning home with his well-stored port-folio and diary, notes and memoranda, sits down to the labor which eventually results in this interesting volume, the title of which stands ;it the head of these remarks. We also r.on• o-ratulat~ the writer in having executed the work in so satisfactory a .manner. It is an undertaking which but few literary men would have the taste, leisure, means and ability to execute, while the amount of reading and research required wonld tiisk the patience of no ordinary man. The more we read and examine the book, the more are we impressed with its accuracy, minutcnetis of detail, and wide range of authorities to which reference has been made. It cannot be styled a mulfom i;i parvo book, but rather a marvellously well-stored thesaurus of facts and references, illustrative of all of the writings of the great Romancer and poet, all of whose books, historical, poetical and fictions, would form a good sized library. The book appears most opportunely, while understand the meaning which the writer would give to this word, but we do not see any more propriety in coining a new word to express the idea intended, than in coining the word hadish to express the opposite idea. In reading the volume, different portion:,; appear to be executed with great diversity of ability. The last part of the book if, much better than the beginning. The first fou~ or five chapter5 are rather goodi$h than good, but all will repay the reader. The remarks upon Gibbon and Hume, we tlrnught peculiarly apt and truthfol. We were much pleased with his remark~ upon religious and Sunday reading. In referring to this subject, Dr. Porter remarks as follows : the admirers of Scott, throughout the world are celebrating his Centenary anniversary. It is issued by the world-renowned publishing house of J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, whose enterprise and ability• have done so mnch for the reading public. " The exercise of the intellect on some question in theology, some scriptural exposition, or Christian history, some quickening Qiography, or Christian poem, and doing this earnestly and systematically is greatly to be recommended in place of the desultory med- itation, the reading of goodish books, and sometimes not even goodish religious newsOR WHAT BooKs SHALL I READ AND How papers, or the meaningless religious gossip SHALL I READ THEM ? which use up and degrade so many bright By Noah Porter, DD., LL. D., Professor in hours of so many Sundays." u [e College-.L,ourtk D .1..a Edition-C. ScrihBooks and Reading ; ner 4· Co., New York, 1781. One of our American correspondents recommends this book for our perusal, and we have found it highly entertaining and instructive. The writer, since the publication of this volume, has been elected President of Yale College, an institution in which he had served for many years as a teacher and professor. Few men enjoy a more enviable reputation among students and literary men in the United States. During the long period of his professorship, he has been industriously gathering materials for this volume, which, if not exhaustive, is very suggestive to the young student and general reader. He writes with a free pen and does not hesitate to criticise a great number of authors mentioned in these pages. As he I has been ·who 1·eads an American Book? This was the rather taunting question of Sydney Smith, a half-century ago. Times have changed, and that ques6on might be thus modified, who does not read Amreican books? We chanced recently to glance over the titles of a catalogue of books, pub• lished by G. Routledge & Co.1 Farrington St., London, under the title of" Routledge's Cheap Series of Standard and Popular Works." The series contained 131 volumes. Of this series 63 volumes or nearly one half were written by American authors, and what is quite noteworthy the first on the list of American authors, is a volume entitled, " Cl overwork ; or our Neighborhood," by Alice Cary, whose much lamented death was annonnced in late American papers. When it was our privilege to glance through the bookstores of London, and wander about the book-stalls, and about railroad stations, it was matter of constant surprise to see so many books for sale, written by American anthors. We were led to infer that some American writers were even more popular in England than in their own land. Longfellow, Cooper, Hawthorne, Prescott, Mrs. Stowe, and many others are household names as much in England as America. pleased so freely to criticise others, not omitting or sparing editors of penodicals and newspapers, it may not appear out of the way, if we should notice one or two points which have arrested our attention in reading the book. We cannot refrain from expressing our surprise that a. writer of President Porter's ability and critical taste in the use of language, should have allowed the word goodish to appear as it does on page 324 (goodish book), and on page 328 (goodish people). This is a word which has not yet found its way into either W orceljter U The widow of a man who died in or Webster, and we think if it had appeared Ironton, 0. of delirum tremens has recovered in the essay of an undergratuate of Yale, it $5,000 damages from the man who furnished would have been erased. We perfectly the whisky. TUE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1871. Editor's Table. THE CAM. Unit1ersity Life at Cambridge, England-By William Everett, M. A., ON London, 1869. 291, pp. its organization-Their membership and history-By G. R. Cutting. Jlrnh.erst, 1871. 204,pp. STUDENT LIFE AT AMHERST. We find these two instructive and representative volumes lying on our table. Each one merits a much longer notice than our space will allow for both. The first presents a graphic and entertaining description of student-life in Cambridge University, old England, and the second presents the outlines of student-life in one of the best New England colleges. The foundat10ns of the U niven~ity on the "C:im," were laid a thousand years ago, while thosP. of Amherst were laid only one half-centnry. If all the colleges of New England, Yale, Amherst, Williams, Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury, V P.rmont University, Washington, 'fufts, Bowdoin, Waterville, Brown, and one or two more, were brought together, and still maintained their separate endowments, and were duly organized into a university, they would form an institution, resembling the old and venerable "Cambridge," on the "Cam." As our readers, in the last number of the FRIEND, were so abundantly supplied with noti~es of Amherst College, we shall now confine our remarks to the first publication, viz., '· On the Cam." The history of this book is briefly as follows :-.A :son of the late Edward Everett, of Boston, graduated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1859. He immediately sailed for England, and entered Trinity, Cambridge, where he remained four years, going through the regular course of study, contending for its prizes, aod finally carrying off some of its highe:st prizes and honors. After graduating, he returned to America, and during the months of January anJ Febn1ary, 1864, delivered a course of twelve lectures, before the Lowell Institute, in Boston. The volun1e before us embodies these lecture::;, and they are worthy of the attentive perusal of any one who desires to learn the course of' ::;tudy and the internal government of this ancient and renowned English Univensity. Our attention was first t:alled to these lectures, during our visit to Ca1rbridge in February, 1870. We enquired of a member of the University for :some book which would giv2 us a good idea of the University. His reply was," Let tne recommend a book by one of vonr own countr?man, i\lr, Everett: a gradu~ate of Trinity." \Ve then and there purchased the book, which hc1d ju~t been printed in England, and we have read the volume with intense 111terest. It give:- a good idea of a 8tudent"~ life and of the course of study, strangely con- But at1 availed not to slay that immortal trasting, however, with the method pursued soul. Blindness could not check the keenin most American colleges. ness of that vision, to whom myriads of Mr. Everett discourses moist delight( ully "Starry l'-1JpB and blazing oressets, fed and charmingly upon some of the great men With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light of the Univesity, among whom may be As from a sky,"numbered, Erasmus, )3acon, Newton, Bently, who beheld the angelic squadron turning Barrow, Pitt, Macaulay and many others. fiery red at the insults of the enemy of God. His sketch of Milton is so noble and elo- No poverty could check that boundless imquent, we cannot refrain from copying it. agination that built up the opal towers of "In no part of history, ancient or modern, heaven and adorned it~ battlements with livis there a life of such intense though mel- ing sapphire, that laid out the walks fragrant ancholy intet·est as that of Milton. His w1th cassia., rnll'd, and balm, that raised course at college is represented by old tradi- Seleucia, Rome, uud Athens, from their tion to have been a contest, and a bitter one, ruins by the splendor of his descriptions. with the authorities. It is not unlikely that ~ervile parliament~ and haughty princes that fearless spirit, that dared confront the might revile or torture the breaker of the direst anathemas of church and state, mny golden image ancl the a~sertor of the liberty have incurred the censure of some academic of the press. But what cared he, who had martinet,-but it is imposElible that the col- but to dictate five words in his majestic lege life of so good a scholar, and so pious a picture of the sun in echpse, and straightman, could have been a series of rebellions way monarchs were perplexed with fear of and punishments. For the ten years after change. The fanatical Sherlock and the leaving Cambridge, the life of Milton is like bigoted Sancroft might fix on him a thousand his own Eden, a living garden of all the charges of heresy, but it yvas nothing to him fruits most exquisite to a young man; per- who felt himself already admitted within the sonal beauty of an enchanting perfection,- veil, and holding- rommunion with heaven the devoted friendship of some of th·e choicest itself in the sol~tion of its eternal history, spirits of the age, and experienced in all the and its transcendent mysteries. The frigid delights of a tour in ltaly,-a welcome at conceits of the past age, and the senseless the delightful country mansions of the Eng- bombast of his own, rould not break one of lish nobility, where the art of living is un- the thousand strings in his heavenly harp; derstood as nowhere eJse in the world,-the the servility and fanaticism of n whole nation attention of all observers, attraeted more and could not shake one lofty and free thought in more each yeat· to the exquisite beauties of hi8 breaRt; the bestial licentiousness of the his occasional lyrics. Hacl Milton dieJ. at sons of Belial that thronged the court could thirty, he would have been universally es- not cast one spot on t.hat snow-like purity. teemed one .of the happiest of men. In All honor then to the defender of liberty,1641, his life changed. Liberty and rrnth reverence and homage to the champion of were ass~iled by tyranuy and bigotry, and religion. Thrice echoing shouts of glory, calmly this young and elegant poet comes and eve~·-blooming showers of laurel to the forward to grapple in the death-struggle. profound statesman, the elegant scholar, the For ten more years hi life is given to a consummate poet, the revealer of Hell and defence of the great principles on which he Heaven and Paradise! And let no meaner believes justice and truth to rest. He knows name sully our lips to-night than that of the full well what the issue of such a fight must greatest son of Cambridge, John Milton." be, and what the world would require at Iii;;: I Things Greater thau Wealth. hands, and not for au instant does he falter , in his great work, till he bas won a name, RY REV. DR. BUSH.NELL. as a statesman, that souncls through Europe. We must not forget to notice here how Had he died in 1662, twenty years after leaving college, he would have lost some many greater things than wealth, and more private happiness, but he would have die<l to be desired, there are-nay, more to be in the full enjoyment of well-earned fame. desired, in the long run. for the sake of But for twenty-two more years he must wealth itself, if that were any fit motive. struggle with all the ills that flesh is heir to. Strictly s,;,eakrng, there is no money vaiuc First went those rich dark eyes, that had in anything but money; and yet whatever won the heart of the Italian princess,-still good comes round, after many turns, to yield he could bear to lose them in the cause of money, has, in some sense, that kind of liberty, as long as his mighty protector, the value. Works of art, gomg into the souls of protector of England remained. But the a people, kindle sentiments in them, by Stuarts returned, and to the sting of blind- which all their powers are stocked witll neRs, and of that slow but too often sure- beauty, and made fruitful; a11<l so come, at footed guest, poverty, was added a storm of last, to be worth more, even money-wise, obloquy and contumely for what they werf' than placers of gold. A great poet is wortl1 pleased to term ,heresy and treason. The more, in the comput;:itions of public wealth, Duke of York, afterwards the last and worst than any largest millionaire; for if he may of the Stuart kings, who loved to see the yield but a single short lyric that has the Covenanters put to torture, and stood silent force to kindle a nation's feeling. and bewhile his owu nephew crawlc<l in chains to comes its national hymn, he brings in vaster his kne€s and begged for lifc,-delighted to wealth than whole convoys of ships laden expend the energies of his narrow, super:iti- with the riches of the \'V'orld. In it, he buy<J tious, bitter m iud in insults and injuries on courage, enthusia:sm, constancy, victory, all the poor old man. The sweet presence of that conserves the order, knits the strength, woman's love, that has so often breathed concentrates the love of the State-what no com;olation to a hundred wretched hearts, largest largeness in gold can either buy or · vas poisoned for him by countles s trial r; . 01\tweigh.-Scribner·s illal(aztnc. 76 'I' H E ~, It I N D , 0 C rl' 0 B E R , I 8 7 I . [Cr' On the return of the Rev. Dr. Stone emerald mountains, lifting themselves 4,000 feet in 'refined ancl cultivated society. I give the :'Stronger air. Natives of both sexes dash down to the wharf emphasis to this testimony because a contrary imto San Francisco, from a trip to H1rnolulu, he on fleet horses, all riding alike on both sides tbe pression may have been derived from r~cent stateall decently clad, and their bright animated ments somewhat wa,ntonly made and put in print. preached a sermon in the first Congregational steed, faces showing a higher style of intelligence and of Considering the proportions of foreign and native Church of that city, entitled '' The Isles." personal attraction than it strangtcr would be pre- life, it would be hard to find in any city of 10,000 Tbe enterprising publisher5 of the P. C. parcel to expect. The accent~ of the unknown Hawai- inhabitants, I ??n't core wh_ere you go, a. great~r ian tongue fall not unmusically ou our ear-that number of families whose entire demonstrat10n enAdi,ertiser, secured a copy, and have issued tongue in which a. new born nation now reads and deuces a more generous cultivation of mincl and the sermon in a supplement, to their paper speaks the word of God and sings the songs of heart and nrnuners, than can be found in the chief redeemincr love. One word alone has a famili1Lr city of the Hawaiian g;roup. Because they are isoof September 30th. Vv e are confident that sound, th~t .11.loha, with its sweet English meaning lated from the movements of humanity on a contiof" Love to you," which is the iuterchange of s:llutnental scale, and shut up somewhat to themselves, some of our readers, who may not sf'e the ing and parting frientls, ttnd i::eems a perpetual social they are more conversant with books, they turn Advertiser, will be interested in its perusal, benediction. more naturally to literature, they read more and hence we have transferred the sermonThe proverbial hospitality of the IslanJs asserts think more, than would perhaps be the case if their itself at once, and before l can begin to question geographimil Kingdom were broader. If any one entire-to o•ir columns, under the heading whither to turn my steps. I tiud wy hand i11 the expects to find them uninformed in respect to the f h y M C A cordial grasp of a strauger's hand, and a pleasant latest prog1·ess of events, or the current phases of 0 t e · · · · voice is sayincr, "You will make your bowe with human thought, inquiry and speculation, and to be 0 The Reverend speaker has touched upon me." an almoner to them of charitable intelligence, it -will the salient points of island-life-foreign and A ride through the streets, taking one past many not take him long to find out bis mist&ke. And who shops of a lowly and somewhat ruitish style of al'Chi- ever writes them down ignorant, stilted and antiquuria ti ve-island scenery, and many other tecture, yet on the whole deepens the imi,ression first ted in their social and intellectual development, topics. Dr. Stone.'s l<een preception of the made of the beauty of the town. One white cottage must either have been very unfortunate in bis after another, with its wealth of shade, its ample alliances or incapable of appreciating the charm of a general intelligence of the foreign commu- crarden grounds, its broad inviting verandas, its refined simplicity, or willing to bear false witness. nity, kept him from falling in.to one practice, i1impsc of matted floors and tasteful furnishing Of course there a1·e not many social excitements in within, charms the eye, and suggests a home life of a sphere so isolated and so restricted ; and a.11 tho that newly-arrived visitors sometimes in- comfort, refinement and elegance. And after weeks more for this the internal resources of the social eledulge in, viz: An attempt to enlighten the of exploration and familiarity with these urban villas, ments a.re levied upon, and this kind of tribute I must testify that I have nevet· seen sweeter or richer and larger. There is a noticeable absence of beniglited dwellers on the Hawaiian Islands, fairer or more winsome homes in any land than cold and stiff ceremonial, a warmth, a friendliness, a respecting the news of the world. This many of these cottage mansions of the foreign resi- heartliness that breathe out the deepest truth and dents of Honolulu. To a young and ambitious spirit the sincerest welcomes and make even a stranger feel point is happily put. We will not antici- craving excitement, and longing to feel the stir and at home. I a.m not speaking extravagant eulogy, pate the reader's pleasure by noticing addi- pulse of the great world, to be lifted on its ground but the soberest convictions of my mind after min• swell of resolution and progress, to drink the wine of gling for weeks in the pleasant fellowship concerning tiona1 points of interest. \Ve would, ho\V• its enterprise and achievement, and be whirled along which I make this record. ever, suggest that the publishers of the in the train of its great movements, this Island life The peaceful order and quiet of Honolulu are might seem too quiet and isolated. But to one who worthy of observation. The evenings are still. The M h Overland . ont!ity, issue t e sermon as an has drunk deep enough alreaay of that st1mu · 1atmg · "' h is · k ept as a divmc · · or d"mance. T be places of S11bttat offset to the• malicious article which ap- cup, and expended m11ny a time the full ardors of his business nre closed-a,11 of them. The churches, · d· l soul in strenuous field-days, it seems to rue these foreign a.nd native, are filled. '.L'bey are a church pea re d in t hat peno lea • some two years restful retreats might 1:resent an almost irresistible going people-quite as rrnrn,rkably as the inhabitants ago, cntitkid 1 "Life in the Tropics." The fascination. of any old-time far off New England village. · f 1· h d d 1 Nor need it be a drowsy and slumberous life which I saw but one person on all the Islands under the st O wn ter w llC en ea vore very earne Y one should lea,d in this island world. Give him here influence of intoxicating drink ; and he was a sailor ·to conceal his name, although it is now well a. spirit of enterprise and he will find enough to just landed in Honolulu. Each dealer in such beverknown. employ and absorb it. Ile may lavish his capital and ages pays a thous,1 nd dollars annually for his license, his strength, his skill and his ambition uiion any of a heavy duty upon his liquors, and then is absothe new industries inviting and rewarding such lutely inhibited by law from selling one drop to a TIIE ISLES, outlay. He may build up trade and inaugurate ii native, under penalty of hettvy fines and a forfeiture A Sca·mou P1·cnched in the Fi1·1Jt Con:,;a·ega• wider sweep of enriching commerce. Especially if of bis license. Some attempts have been made from tional Chu1·ch of Srua F.-a1.11ciseo, he have a heart to glorify God and serve humanity, time to time, to modify these stringent provisions, August 20th. 1871. he may put his hand to the rising fabric of a Chris- but the Government, thus far, is busily and notoritian civilizn,tion and help to rear for its arching ously rigorous in their maintenance. BY REV. A. L. STONE, D. D. dome many a pillar of strength and beauty yet to be l3ut you will, I think, feel most interest in learnIs. 2-1:15 "Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the supplied. One need not stagnate on the Islands or ing something of the aspects of the native life in fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the sink down into tropical sloth for want of something these regenerated "Isles of the Sea." to do. It may even be doubted whether the climate In Honolulu, on Oahu, Lahain!\ and Wailuku, on Isles of the Sea.'' itself is enervating. 'fhe summer weather is far Jess Maui, Hilo, on H,wrn.ii, and other large towns or vilSn.iling on over the central wastes of the broad oppressive in its intensity than in our own interiors lages, many of the natives live in small nea,t framed Pacific, midway between the Hemispheres, thousands or in the Cities of New York and Boston. Of course houses, neatly painted, neatly furnished and showing of miles from either continental shore, the sight of there can be found localities on the leeward side of many signs of taste and care in green window blinds, land comes to the voyager as a wonder and a sur- the Islands level with the sea margin, where the air broad vern,11das, climbing and flowering vines, and is still and the sun is scorching. .But even at Labaina, well kept grounds and paths. In the rougher and prise. What is yon dim blue cloud seen at closing on Maui, the abundant shade interrupts the fiery wilder portions of the falands, they occupy the grass day far off where the sky and the ocean meet? floods, and a few hundred feet of climbing on the houses of their own original type of architecture, not '' 'l'bat," says the Captain, "is the highest moun- rapidly ascending slopes gives you the gr,1cious airs a few of them spacious and comfortable, even for tain of l'lfaui, old Ifalealrnla, more than 10,000 feet of a different zone. .And then on all the windwarJ those accustomed to all the appliances of civilized in height, iind now eighty miles away." All eyes shores and through the gorges of the mountains the life. stmly that low fixed cloud till the short deepening regular trade winds pour in with every morning tbe In costume, with few exceptions among the men, twilight veils it from view. And a sweeter song, cooling breath of the sea-the evenings are dewy and and none that I saw among the woillen, they conform and a more thankful prayer rose that night around fresh with delicious breezes, and ncvct· a sultry night. to the English idea; except that the long loose flowing our family altar iu the saloon of the good steamer On the Ishtnd of Oahu the mercury seldom rises outside garment of the women is seldom belted at the .fl.Jax. The early morning twilight reveals near 11t above 80°, and at the head of the lovely Nuuanu waist. l\fony of the women go barefoot, which is no hand the bold pyramidal rock of Coco Head and the valley a.long which the pleasantest part of Honolulu hardship in that ever genial clime, but many of them bri~htening driwn lights up the green mo1mtain sum- stretches, a remarkable rift in the mountain wall at also are as daintily furnished with stockings and mits of Oahu. Our glasses are leveled at the strange the Pali tunnels the ocean wind down upon the gaiters as their fairer sisters. One would suppose land, and past the arid rocks of the shore line, and houses of the city before the sun is intemperately bot, that when a naked bitrbaric race take to dress, they the surf breaking on coral reefs, we look up the spa- i1ud after the day is done. There may be with the would develop a love of finery, a, fondness for brillcious aisles of verdant valleys, and through cocoanut lapse of years a growing disinclination to active iant display, aud gorgeous coloring ; but it does not groves upon scenes of beauty and of grandeur, worth labor, under a sky from which no frosty tonic ever seem to be so with these Hawaiian conve1·t8. Here 11 longer voyage to win and gaze upon. Soon we falls, but I could not so judge from the business and there a little of this tendency appertrs, and it round the long extinct crater of Diamond Head and habits of the gentlemen of whom I saw most. was a masculine display chiefly iha,t I saw, hut I was through a gateway of the reef steam into port. Of course the foreign life of Honolulu is heteroge- surprised at the sobriety and moderation with which Before us lies the beautiful little City of Honolulu, neous and cosmopolitan and presents some variety of the women of the Islands select and fashion their nPstled amid a forest of tropical shade, all planted types and aspects. But the leading social elements wardrobe. Neither in excess nor in deficiency of 13 the hand of man, with the back ground of the of the town are iu harmouy with the best ideals of toilet, will the aspect of a Sabuath congregation of 'l' H E F R I E N D , 0 () 'I' 0 B IC It natives offend the eye, or in fact, attract to itself special attention, unless for its tastetulness and pro• prie'ty. In sorue of the rough out-districts, ruost remote from the influence of the foreign element and from. habits of village life, the men ccasionally exhibit a more primitive simplicity of appareliug. 'l'here is perhaps with all the island natives lesH sensitiveness to partial exposure of the person than with the conventional mod~sty of our type of civilization, scarcely surpassing however, in degree, that which consents to what is called "The full dress" of the S!tloons of fashionable life. It ga,thers to itself no more comment or notice than the paintings and statuary of gay European capitals, presenting a kind of common ground on which semi-barbarism and the extreme of refined civilization stand together, and l10lding up the, suggestion tb11t in the matter of real modesty the fastidious prudery of an eye on the lookout for offense may not worthily claim the palm. The wants of the natives are but few. It were better for them if they were more. Bountiful nature supplies theie almost spont11neously with the necessaries of life. Anything that will 8helter them from the rain is all they need of wall or roof. '£heir taro patch and breadfruit will furnish them with food. 'l'he universal poi made from their taro is both relishing and sustaining. A little occasional industry will earn for them the few rials that pay their moderate ta,xtJs, and buy for them the simple articles of foreign manufacture which they need to supplement the gifts of nature. As a consequence they are not given as a race to steady and continuous labor. You will 8ee them at every hour of the day sitting on the ground in the shade or basking in the sun, in the ,·ery luxury of idleness. Why should they work when they have, with now and then a stroke or two of toil, all they want? If one of them grows an extra crop of taro, his neighbors and acquaintances think it right to share his better providence as long as it fasts, and in what is he the better off for his diligence and prudence. It never occurs to him to question his self:.invited guests, or if it does his hospitality forbids it. He mn,y as well forage us produce. It seems an almost impracticable lesson for them to learn to by up ahead for a wet day coming. H a special demand for their labor puts a few dollars into their hands it is not invested for the future, but consumed on some mere festal 'expenditures for the present Why not " Let them enjoy as they go along-why shoulJ they be slaves to bard work all their years and then leave behind what they have accumulated?" So their way is to spend :is they go. If a pinch comes, some more fortunate friend or a day or two's hire of their muscles, will carry them through. There is a gradual corrective to this state of things in what they are taught by their Christian Teachers, and in wlrnt they see of the foreign life in contact with their own. Orie artificial want after another begins to assert itself. 'fhese wants impose lallor and stimulate forethought. 'rhey are beginning to feel that they must be better lodged than they are, better chd, sit in chairs, not on the ground ; e:1t from a well spre:1d table, not from a cnlabash between their knees, lluy books, send their children to school and maintain in various ways a respectable personal and domestic standing. It is not respectable to be ignorant, to be shabby, to drift backward toward the mere vegetation of a heathen life. A higher motive thus invites them continually, inspires a discontent with the fruits of idleness, and shows them instances amon(l' themselves of self-im~rovement and personal adva.n~ement which kindle their emulation. So they become blacksmiths, carpenters and small farmersthey hire out for service on the wharves, and upon sugar plantations-they engage as domestic helpers, g:trdeners, hostlers, house nurses, and their na,tive indolence and all the old habits of the tropical life are thus, to some extent, countervn.iled. But towat·d this iod astrial and finnnchl growth the process is s<low, the moving forces languiu and the inertia great. Indeed I don't know but you are tempted yo1uself to say, " Perha,ps their philosopqy of life is, :Q,n the whole, the wisest-take tbing8 easy~ live by the day, iet the morrow take care o'f ,its own things. 'Man wants but little here below'-'having food and. raiment, let us be therewith content.' '' As to their moral and religious state_, they have ncccpted, as you know, from the faithful labors of their :rilissionary 'l'eacbers, tbe Bible as the word of {lod, and Christianity as the faith that saves. They lH1ve the Bible in their own tongue, and great numbers are able to re 1d it. They h:.we also many C hristian ltymns in their nn,tive language, anrl are very fond of singiug them to the tune:; which for us ] 87 I• have so many hn.llowed associations. They are naturally a musical people. Alld I have never beard sweeter or ricLer voices in sacred song than some I have listened to in their public and domestic wor8hip. '!'heir faith seems to rne both simple and intelligent. '!'here is much of a child-like spirit in it, while there is also the strength of deep arn..l full conviction. Of course some of tlieir e:u·ly ::superstitions cling partially to them yet, but the revealed will of God is sovereign authol'ity with them in every practical qnestion. They remember aud keep the Sabbath day. They are a cbu1·ch-goi1,g people. On the long rough tr·ail that skirts the principal Island, it was pleasitut to see in every thin and scattered village of uative buts, the Christian church, and to know that on each Sunday the whole population come together to hear from a native pastor 13oroe mrssage of divine trut11. These churches and their pastors are under the supervision of some Missioua.ry Bi8hop, whose care of the wide diocese is faithfol, fruitful and laborious. ln any of these rude n»tive how,es, where you ai-e sheltered for the night, invite the occupants to family prayer, and you will very likely Le surprised at the joyful alacrity of their responl.le. They produce their Biblessome in Hawaiian and sume in English, (for a sou or a daughter of' the ltouse, has been educated perhaps in some of the Mis8ion schools) and read with you, each in bis turn around the circle, the chapter which you select. The prayer may be to some of them in an unknown tongue, but it is addressed to the one God in whom they have learned to believe, and offered in the name of the Medin.tor whose work of love is their hope awl trust, and they join in its offering with every outw:trd token of interest and devotion. You sleep beneath such roofs with no sense of fear, no neces8ity of keeping watch and guard over any treasure, small or g1·e11t. You and your goods are as safe from molestation as though armed men patrolled the round of your lodging place through all the hours of your slumber. You are more than safe. Whatever the kindest hospitality can do to JJromote your comfort, is freely ottered-the best restieg place in the domicile is yours-the mats are piled to make your couch soft, and your privacy secured, if you sutler it, by their own exile into the open air. Y 011 ma,y reward them if you will for their contributions to yom· needs, Lut if you do not, you are welcome to all they have supplied, and are miide to feel that, they hold it a privilege to have entertained you as a guest. Naturally they are generous nnd kind. They seem in all rebttions and fellowship, ami:ible and afl:ectionate. I saw not one instance of personal di:;sension between them in all my mingling with them. I heard not one word spoken in hate or anger. And you are made to feel that tbe spirit of the Gospel of peace and love has breathed upon them, anu the old angelic " Good will '' flows tlowu through all the channel of their lives. 'l'he sentiment of purity and chastity in their relations with one another and with foreigners, is one that needed at first an absolute creation, aud since an assiduous development. There had to be a kind of artificial conscience supplied them in reference to the evil of their Mtive habits. The testimony of this cultivated conscience is, with some of them, pronounced and imperative ; and with others it is still faint and inconclusive. They do not judge a transgression of this kind to he grossly vile, and f,dl into it without ii sense of unpardonable guilt. It is a long stride, my friends, from the darkness of heathenism to the cle:mrnss of moral apprehension which attends upon the light ancl nurture of Christian society in Christian lands. . 'l'he Gospel may be received upon its ,mnouncement, and a Saviour accepted as soon as his story is told, blit u sharp moral discernment, the suprem::rcy of moral ideas, the coronation of now mora.l standanls is a slower process, and must be waited for in pa,tience and charity. As to tbe future of 'thj:lse Islands it would he rash to prophecy in set tennl-$_. It will be safo tu say, however, that they wi~l be visited JI/Ore aud more from ou1· shores, for the p,ea,uty and gr9,ndeur of their scenery, the peculiar charm of soci.a l Ffe which they present, and the victories of Christian nurture over Pnganisru and Idolatry. In neithc1· bemif,phere can the tritvelcr find more wondcrt:1,11 and rewarding aspects of nature. The uplift of lofty mounta ins like :Mauna Loa and Uauno, Kea, on t.he Isla,nd of Hawaii, rising about 14,000 feet frocu tbe level of the soa-tbe terrible and srtvage desolation of great lava, fields-black glacie1·s outvieing in length und breadth the blue-white glaciers of the Alps-the surging fury of Kilauea-the most maguificcnt liviug volcuno in lhc worlu-thc vast cratct· 77 of H11leakala, 10,000 feet in height, its rim, 30 miles in circumference, its bed, 2,000 feet below the summit of its rocky walls, with a scoi·e of cmter cones scattered on its surface, looking like ant hills from the crest, and yet hundreds of feet from base to topthe tossing sea of gree·n mountain billows on West Maui, with strange rift8 anJ clw8ms between, furnishing more studies for the canvass tllan almost a,uy other field the wide en,rth can show ; the grand 1111d lovely volley of Wailuku pe11etratiug deep into thi!!! rocky system with its guardian walls, frum 3 1000 to 6,000 feet in height, thin lamiuc.e uf rock moved forward fol,j beyond folJ like i:;tage scenery on a colossal scale, all clothed in ,i,·iJ intense green us though tapestried in emerald whet, and pockets and cliffs of this Jeep verdure, clrarn1ing auJ resting the eye with a full and foawing strc,im roaring tlowu the rocky valley bed, presenting a wor!J of loveli11ess and of majesty, wonderftll and fascinating, even to one who has gazed upon the unrivalled gloril:!s of our owu Yosemite. It is easy to predict, l say, that such scenery has only to be known to draw to it au e,·e1· increa8ing numocr vf Pilgrims from every land. Thetime will come wlren .Eastern visitors und tuuristl'.! from the old world will not stop at our shore line, content with California marvels, but will push on over the Pacific plain to regale the eye aud the taste, and to enrich ,ut and song with these isbud wondcr-1'. The foreign element in the Hawaiian Kit1gdom is becoming, of .course, with every year, of increiising weight and importance. 'fbere must be, I thiuk, a, growing commerce from these" Isles of the Sea"already the half-way house between Australia and our Golden Gate. Men of capital, enterpl'ise and large sagacity are laying their plans for au increaseJ production of island pro,lucts anJ an enlarged aut.l extending trade. Tl.tis element is, to a g1·eat extent, in sympathy with the religious prosperity of the Islands, and ever_y American traveler will congratulate himself and his country that tbe official repre~ ser.tatives of his national ffag, are men who iitly guard the honor and the purity, not only cf the civil principles of the Republic, but of her type of Christiau institutions. Whether there is a better and b:tppier future for the native population it is more difficult to say. They are politically the governing race. llut in all the relations of the people, to the foreign l;fe, they are of course inferiors. They are a simple heartei.1 1 molfonsive and quiet element. They are easily and iudo~ lently content with the generosities of their climate, and its almost spontaneous productions. It il! bard to inspire them with personal ambitious. 'l'lie,Y yield themselves ghtdly to the nurture and control af tbeit· Christia,n Teachers, and will, it may be hoped ; advance in their conformity to Ohristii~n ideas 1 and in practical morality. But whether their de,cadencc in numbers can be arrested, whethei- they can be guided with energy and enterprise and s.ne themselves as an independent race and nation, growing in wealth and power, and in tt' l the forces of a various and self-sustaining ci vilizatiop is a problem around which the clouds hang deep and dark. Nu solution of it is over sauguiue Ol' colored with the brightness of an assured hope. We may at lea.st than~ God that the Sun of Righteousness has shone upon the homes and hcttrts of this fading race, and that if their doom be w rittc11 its final issues are clothed with the light that streams from a revealed and blessed imruol'tnlity. Aud that when the central fires that have lifted these lovely Islands sha.11 have flamed forth in that last confl.igmtion that sh11ll consume the continents and isles of earth together and there shall be no more l,1nd and no more sea, we ma.y meet on that other "Cl'ystal Sea" before the throne of God and the Lamb, multitudes of these reclcerried lslrmdcrs, as follow meml>en, of the one great family gathered from '• c,·cry pcoplo and tribe and tongue " 9f e111'lh to wear oue likc11c8s aml sing one song in Heaven. ~EADING ~ool\I.-We are glad to see that t.}1e reading rpom of the Y. M. C. A ., bas be• come a place of resort to strangers ancl others. The selection of newspapers and periodicals is uncommonly good. Strangers and seamen wi shing for good facilitie s for letter-writing could not be better acccommo ~ dated. The few hundred dolla rs in ves ted in such enterprises, could not be bette r expended. It pays. 7§ THE FRIEND, OCTOBER, 1871. Alice Cary. Recent American papers announce the death of this distinguished writer. Her writings have acquired a world-wide fame. Her sister Phoebe, died only a few months previously. We quote the following paragraph from the New York Tribune =-One of her hymns-a favorite in many Christian families and congregations-we must quote, not only for its own sake, but because there is a story con11ected with it that we wish to tell. NEARER HOME. One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er ; I'm nearer my home to-day Than I ever have been before. Nearer my Father's house, Where the many mansions ue, Nearer the great white thl'oue, Near the crystal sea. Nearer the bound of life, Whm·e we lay our burtlens uown, Nearer lell,ving the cross, Nearer gaining the crown. But the waves of that silent sell. Roll dark before my sight, That brightly the other side B1·eak on a shore of light. Oh if my mortal feet Have almost gained the brink, If it be I am nearer home Even to-day than I think. I F,1ther, perfect my trust, Let my spirit feel iu deMh That her teet are firmly set On the Rock of a living faith. A gentleman in China, intrusted with packages for a young man from his friends in the United States, learned that he would probably be found in a certain gambling• house. He went thither, but not seeing the young man, sat down and waited in the hope that he might come in. The place was a bedlam of noises, men getting angry over their cards, and frequently coming to blows. Near him ~at two men-one young, the other 40 years of age. They were betting and drinking in a terrible way, the older one giving utterance continually to the foulest profanity. 'l'wo gan1es had been fini8hed, the young man losing each time. The third game, with fresh bottles of brandy, had just begun, and tho young man sat lazily back in his chair while the oldest shuffled his cards. The man was a long time dealing the cards, and the young man, looking carelessly about the room, begun to hum a tune. He went on, till at Jength he began to sing the hymn of Phrebe Cary above quoted. The words, says the writer of the story, repeated in such a vile place, at first made me shudder. A Sabbath school hymn in a gambling den ! But while the y,mng man sang, the elder stopped dealing the cards, stared at the singer a moment, and, throwing the cards on the floor, exclaimed: " Barry, where did you learn that tune?" "VVhat tune?" "vVhy, that one you've been singing." 1.'he young man said he did not know what he had been singing when he had been singing, when the elder repeated the words 1 with tears in his eyes, and the young man said he had learned them in a Sunday-:school in America. "Corne," said the elder, gettiug up; '' come Harry; here 1s what I won from yon ; go and use it for some good purpose. As for me, as God see's me, I have played my last game and drunk my last bottle. I have misled you, Harry, and 1 am sorry. Give me your hand, my boy, and say that for old America's sake, if for no other, you will quit this infernal business.,, The• gentleman who teJls the :-;tory (originally published in the Boston Daily News) saw these two men leave the gambling-house together, and walk away arm in arm ; and he remarks: "It must be a source of great joy to Miss Cary to know that her lines, which have comforted so many Christian hearts, have been the means of awakening in the breasts of two tempted and erring men on the other side of the glo~e, a resolution to lead a better life." It was a source of great joy to Miss Cary, as we happen to know. Before us lies a private letter from her to an aged friend in this city, with the printed story inclosed, and containing this comment: "I inclose the hymn and the story for you, not because I am vain of the notice, but because I thought yo11, would feel a peculiar interest in them when you know the hymn was written 18 years ago ( 1842) in your house. I composed it in the little back third-story bedroom, one Sunday morning, after coming from church ; and it makes me very happy to think that any word I could say has done a little good in the world." H1LO as it appear::; to the Rev. Dr. Coan, on his return from America. " Hilo is now all aglow with physical beauty. Its fields were never more lovely in 'living green;' its rills were never more ~parkling, as they leap and laugh along their pearly bedis; its waving palms were never more graceful ; the umbrageous bread-fruit, the beauteous pandanus, the modest hibiscus, and the shining candlenut, never more beautifully flecked the ground with quivering light and dancing shadows. The green copse, the quiet dell, the shady lawn, and the tall grove, never sent out sweeter sounds of rustling- leaf, or warbling bird, or more fragrant ar0ma of plant and flower. The long curved line of wh1te foam-the lip of the sea-never kissed more tenderly the crescent shore. The 'deep blue sea' never rested more calmly, or extended more illimitably. The great mountains of Hawaii never towered in more sublime majesty, with their glittering corona of fleecy snow. All 1s now serene upon these towering heights, where we have so often climbed, where we have seen the clouds thicken and darken, where we have heard the trumpet sounding long, where• The God of glory thundereth,' where his burning chariot sometimes rolls along Hiese everlasting hills, where the earthquake is born, where the pent fires rend the mural walls and reeky roof of Pele's habitation, where fountairi:s and rivers of molten rock burst out in 'devouring fire,' and where fiery tempests rave, and burnrng- whirlwinds sweep and howl, and scatter min and deso• lation over wide a11d weird realms. Never did our tropical sky reveal a pure:- cerulean, or our vaulted heavens beam with brighter radiance, or marshal a more shining array of glowing planets, and burning s1rns, and wheeling constellations.-Missionary flerald 1 August, 1871. JAPANESE INcoNsisTENCY.-At the present time, the Japanese Government maintain~ a. strict prohibition in regard to Christian m1ss10ns. Mr. 0. Gulick writes that mi8sionaries are a!lowed to teach only their domestics. Still the Japanese are putting forth unwonted efforts to introduce foreign ideas and books; Japanese young men are rushing to America and Europe for an education. It cannot but result that Christian influences will thereby be exerted upon the nation. Without intending it the Japanese are Christianizing themselves. Some American rn1ss10naries are now employed in Japanese schools and colleges, supported by the government. The fact stated in the following paragraph, clipped from the N. Y. Observer, is worthy of notice : Mr. Charles Lenman, author of the" Dictionary of Congress." and other successful books, has been engaged by the Japanese Government to prepare a descriptive and historical work on the United States, to be translated by .Minister Arinori Mori, and published in Japan. The honorable appointment was made on the recommendation of Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution. Rev. Mr. Verbeck, a missionary to Japan, says that though it is but ten years since that country was openecl to modern commerce, hundreds of native shops now sell foreign goods. A large portion of the men in the middle and upper r.lasses dress in our costume. The army and navy are remodeled on the European and American systems. They have stages, steamers, telegraphs, and a railroad, docks and extensive foundries with foreign machinery, and sew~ ing-machines in the tailors' shops. Beef, the abomination of Buddhism, is largely consumed, and bread is much liked. A foreign college in Yeddo has hundreds of boys studying English, French, and German. Eight foreign physicians teach in medical colleges. Several newspnpers are published, and a large quantity of English and French books are imported. , ana BEWARE oF THE WINE CuP.-A commercial bank of Scotland pound-note was received some time ago by a person in Forfar, with the following inscription written on its back. lt appears to have been dated exactly two years after the issue of the note:" Dru°nlmrds, take heed! When this note passes from me 1 am a ruined man. It is the last out of a fair fortune, bequeathed to me by, and the hard-won earnings of, an indulgent parent. As quickly come, as quickly gone; for :after a few short years of inebriety and reckless folly, my dissipation bas made me homeless, friendless, and a beggar. 'Whoever may be the next owner of this note, I would recommend him to follow the advice of sad experien~e, and beware of intemperance.-London, 1845." U An apothecary rn New York state has been successfully sued for damages by a man to whose wife he sold laudanum as a beverage. That is right. Jf wives get pay for drunken husbands, husbands al1-10 have a right to what they lose by opiumed wives, l' H Ji~ R I ·~ 1 }i' ADVERTISEMENTS. C• S. BARTOW, Auctioneer. HOFFM .lNN, M. ADVEB.TISEMENTS. CASTLE & COOKE .. SAILOR'S HOME! WHEELER & WILSON'S D. , Physician and Surgeon, B R E \V E R k FAMILY SEWING MACH INES, -WITH ALL- C O •• Commi~sion and Shipping Jl,lercliants, THE LATEST _____ n _on_ol_nl_u,_o_ah_u_. _ H_ . I_. -- -- - E. J ! The HIGHEST PREMIUM GOLD MEDAL P • .al.DAMS. Over nu <-ltb.crEi ! Fire.Proof Store, in Rohlnsoo's Building, Queen Street. A\V ARD Im AT THF. GREAT WORLD'S l~XPOSITION S. M c G R E \V D ., M . t AT Late Surgeo11, U. S. Army, Can be con11ulted at his re~idence] on Hotel street, between Alakea and Fort streets. c. H. l\1. WETMORE, D., ,r PARIS, OFFICERS AND SEAMEN comfortably accommodated on reasonable terms. C APTAINS. 1867? Shower Baths on the P1·emises. AGENTS, ALSO, FOR Honolulu, THE HALL TREADLE Physician and Surgeon, A LA.BOR•SA VING AXD Hilo, Hawaii, S. I. G INlPROYEl\IENTS ! Jluction and Commission Merchant, O H Y HEALTH-PRESERVING INVENTION ! N. B.-Yedicine Chests carefully replenished e.t the Hilo Dr11K Store. I. B. PETERSON. "'-• W. Pl&ROB. A. w. PIERVE Can be nuach~d te nil Sewing Muchiue1.1! CO •• &. RECOMMENDED BY THE LA.DIES (Succesors to C. L. Richards & Co.) Ship Chandlers and General Commission Mer chants, On account of the perfect ease with whl:h it operates, the very slight pressure of the foot that sets it in motioo, its simplicity of construction and action, its practical durabillty. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. A.gents Parlloa Salt Works, Brand's Bomb LaHes, A.nd Per1·y Da•iM' Pain Killer. Don't forget to Call an,l Examine for Yonrselves ! FOR THE FIJIS AND SYDNEY, l'f e,v Books Just Reeeived THOMAS G. THRUM'S NEWS DEPOT! copies llunye.n's Pilgrim's Progress, 1 l\1idnight Sky, 2 6 Biblical Seience and Christian Thought, COPIES GEMS OF THE CORAL ISLANDS Ath1.s, 1 1 Bible Emblems, 1 Divine and Mo1al Songs, l ea.ch Sunday Pictures, Book of Animals, Willie and Lucy, 2 Little Plays, 2 Pretty Books, 10 :1ixpence Books (toy), 6 1 l 1 1 l One Shilling Books (toy), 2 Packets Cards, illustrated, Discussions on P 11ilosophy and Literature, Life of Jeff. Davis, 1 Results of Slavery, Resdts of Emancipation. 1 Life or Kdward Ervrng, History of ltationalism, l Five Years of Prayer, Cyclopedia of Anecdotes, l Journey in Brazil. JOHN lll ORA KEN .J. 0, MSRRILL, J. C. MERRILL & Vo., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers, 204 and 206 California Street, San. F r a n c i s c o . ALSO, AGENTS Olr THE San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. P&rtioula.ra.ttentiongiven to the aale and purehasa of mer al:u1,udise, shipa' buainess, supplying whaleships, negotlatlni exchange, &c. 117 All Creight 11.rriving at Saa Franoisco, by or to the Ho no lulu Line of Packets, will be forwarJed FRBR OF OOMMI88ION, IJ:7 Exchange on Honolulu bought and sold • -REFERKNO&S- .a J'ilessrs. C. L. Richards & Co ...................... Honolulu H. Hackfeld & Co........................ 11 C. ·Brewer & Co •••••••••••••••• -~•• •••••• Bishop & Oo, •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Dr. R. W. Wood................................. '' Hon.E. H. Allen ................................ . JJ. C. Waterl!lan, Esq ..................... . ...... . u~ Mr•• ,vHITEUS, April 1, 1868. Jlfanager. CEORCE WILLIAMS, LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. C ONTINUES THE BUSINESS ON HIS OLD Plan of settling with Officers and Seamen immediately 011 their Shipping at J.iis Office. Havlcg no connection, eithe1· direct or indirect, with any outfitting establishment. and allow ing no debts to be collected at his office, he hopes to give as ~ood satisf11ctioo in the future as he has in the past. ID" Office on Jas. Robinson & Cc.'s Wharf, near the U S Cnosulate. 666 3m I Photography. MPROVEMENT IS TH~ ORDER OF the day. Having constructed a new Sky-light, and ma«le various other improvements, I hope now to be able to ,mit the most fastidious with .A. Ph.o-to~raph., Of any Size, from a Orystal to a Mamrnoth, talcen in the best Style of the Art, And on most reasonable terms. ALSO, for sale Views of the Islands, Portraits of the Kings, Queens, and other Notables, &c. 689 ly H. L. CilAS.l<J, Fort Street. THuS. G, THRUltl'S AND FOR SALE AT 1 79 0 C 'f O B E R ' I 8 7 I ' AGENTS FOR Oorner Merchant Pod Kaahum11nu Streets, near the Po'it Office. C• 1) • .ADVER TISEMEl\TTS. Salee Room on Queeu 8treet,one door from Kaahuma.nu Street. E. I ly STATIONERY AND NEWS DEPOT, CONNECTING WITH AUCKLAND BY BRANCH STEA.1.1:JERS FROM THE FIJIS. The Fine Powerful Iron Screw Steamers AND CIRCULATING LIBRARY, No. 19 Merchant Sr.rect, • P A LL E N • • Honolulu. ACKAGES OF READING MATTER-OF CITY OF MELBOURNE, WONGA WONGA, Papers and Magazines, back numbers-put up to order e.t reduced rates for parties going to sea. ly -AND- CITY OF ADELAIDE, Are intended to leave Honolnln for the above Ports On or about the following dates : June 29, July 27, August 24, Sept. 21, Oct.19, Nov. 16, "Dec. 14. O' For further particulars, apply to WlLL'IAM L. GREEN, Agent. & C H I LL I NG Kawaihae, Hawaii, ,v O RT H, Will continue the General Merchandise and Shipping bu11i• ness at the above port, where they are prepared to furnish the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes. and such other recruits ae are required by wha.leships, at the shortest notice, and on the most reasonable terms. a:::r Fire,vood on Hautl . .aJ J. l\IcCraken. & Co., Bound Volumes at Reduced Price FORW ARDI.NG A.ND COMlUISSION M.ERCHA.NTS, Portland, Oregon. H AVING BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PRE• sent buslnen for upwards of seven yea.rs, and being located in a fl.re proof brick building, we a.re prepared to receive and dispose of Island staples, sucb as Sugar, Rice, Syrups, Pulu, Coffee, &c., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited for the Oregon market, to which personal attention will be paid, and upon \Vhlch cash advances will be made when required. : • . SAN FRANCISCO REFERRNOES: J3adgcr &. Lindenberger, Fred. l~en, StnenB, l3a.ker & Co. Allen & Lewie. Jas. Patrick & Co., W. T. Coleman & Co., Leone.rd & Green HONOLULU B.EFCBii:NOES : Walk.-r III Allen. THE FRIEND: PUBLISHED AND EDITED DY SAMUEL C. DAMON. A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN, MARINE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TERMS-: PORTLAND RRFBKBKOBS: Ladd & Tilton. 1lJlTE WILL FURNISH BOUND VOLUMES TT of the Friend at one dollar per annum (subscription price $2), for a.ny number of years from 1852 to the present time. ID" Adding the cost of binding. ly One copy, per annum, Two copies, ., Fin copies, ·$2.00 ~.00 6.CO 'I' II i1 ., R I E N I) , 0 «; T _ O li I~ R , I 8b - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- · - - - - - - · - · -- -----•---- Here is a Little, there is a Little. pG; to The Bostonians open the Mille- nium next summer with appropriate festivi- be _u large coli:::eum capa100;000 persons. An orchestra of 2,000 made of tbe first musicians of all 11ations, aod a chorus of 20,000, with anvil anJ nrtillery aC'cornpaniments, will fur11i.sh the music. The celebr:1.t.ion i:--: to occnpv 17 d:iys, endin~- 011 the 4th of July. Gilr~ore, the great pl!,H:e Jubileeist, is 10 ue nrnnager. The Y. 1'I. C. A., of Lawrence, ;\fass., ties. There is to ble of seating <luring the nevPr been few years of its existence, has \'ery vigorous; perhaps was never very well organized, ce,·tainly never very well managed. Very few, perhaps not more than a dozen, were he:irtily interested in doing it~ work and carrying out its plar,s. n reading.room in It kept up good style whirh was use- and it feebly --~-- - --- s7l [Cr' We would acknowledge papers, pam- a debt to accumulate, This was the special and manifest reason why many lost interest --------------_::-_::--.::_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-__ --_-_-_-_-_--_ - for in it three prayer- Tbe expense incurred and withdrew from it. gradually decreased until was larger The interest PORT OF HONOLULU, s. I. ARRIVALS. Moses Taylor N T Bennett, 9 days an<l the Associatior. has Aug. 26-Am20stmr hours from 8,rn Francisco. 26-Brit stmr Citv of Melbourne, H Graing~r, 25 days from Sydney, via ~iji 14 days. 29-N0r Ger bk Charlotte, B Steengrafe, 22 days from of our exchanges. Our own Association San Frnncisco. only needs a large debt and disbandment to Sept. 1-Brit topsail schr Sea Breeze, Jno Austen, 56 days from Auckland. 4-Ato bk Comet, A- Fuller, H days fin San Fra.ncisco. make its record strikingly similar. 4-Brit. bk Lady Bowen, E. G. Tucker, 39 days lrom Newcastle, N. 8 W. o-Am hk Goodell, L. S. Crockett, 15 days from San EARTHQUAKE AT Hlr.o.-The Rev. Dr. Francisco. 5-II. I. R. M. stcnm clipper lzoumroud, !H. Coumany, 1 Coan thus writes us, Hnder date of Sept. 7 guns, 38 days from Callao. 11-Brit topsail schr Southern Cross, G Kenny, 56 days 18th. " On the 13th we had a serious from Newcastle. 15-Am bk I• ra.uces, II 1:1 Field, 6a days from Hongearthquake. It was sharp, not over 10 seckong. 15-Am bk Raimer, Seth Hall, 21 days from Port onds, but it I made things fly,' while it lasted. Townsend. 16-Ilrit brig vVindhover, l' J Roels, 51 days from NewLots of stone wall came down. Crockery, castle, N S W. 18-Am hktn Victor, A B Gove, 26 days from Nanaq,nd c1, great variety of articles were thrown · irno, VI. 18-llaw hk RC Wylie, H Haltermann, 117 days from about our houses. Had it continued for a llre111en. 20-Haw schr Gussie J.yon, Geo L St1uires, 29 days minqte, as did the shake in April 1868, the from Yokohama, via llanalci. 22-English bark Excelsior, ll!J days from Liverpool. damage would have been great. Since my 23-Am stmr Nevada, 15½ days rm Auckland via Navireturn from Honolulu I have been through gator's Island. 23-Am stmr Nevada, J II lllethen, 15 days and 2::l Hilo and Puna, and visited the volcano. The hours from AucklaUil. 23-Am stmr Moses Taylor, N T Dennett, 9 days and heat and gases are very great around the 18 hours from t\an Franr.isco. 2-l-Brit stmr Wonga Wonga, .I Steuart, 24 days from South Lake, and visitors must look well to Sydney, vi,i Fiji. 14 days. 2-1,-Brit stmr City of Melbourne, JI Grainger, 11 days their goings, while they approach the fearful aud 8 hours from 8a,n Francisco. · N-Am wh bk Oak; JaH Russell, 2! months out, 60 pit. The smoke is so dense, that it is not sperm 0n hoard25-Am bk Emma C Beals, J A Bailey, 16 days from often one can get a glimpse of the bottom of San Francisco. 2G-Am schr C M Ward, GD Rickman, 29 days from the fi,ery . caqldrum." Mr. Williams, an Howlaud's Island. English traveler, intorms us that at present DEPARTURES. no fire i~ to be seen in any part of the crater. Aug. ~6-,\m stmr Neuraska, Uarding. for Aucklal1(1. 26-llrit stmr City of MelbtJurne, Graiuger, for San Francisco. H .A MPToN NoRMAL AND AGRICULTURAii lN26-Am bgtn North Star, Morehouse, for Port Townsend. STI'l'U'fE.-This Institution is under the 28-Am stmr Moses Taylor, Bennett, for San Francisco. 29-Am ship l\1esijenger, Hill, for Baker's Islam.I. management of General Armstrong. It 29-Nor Ger bk Charlotte, Steengr,1fe, for Hongkong. ql-Am hk DC Murray, Shepherd, for San Francisco. appears from the. circular just received, that Sept. 4-Tahitian bk Ionia, McLean, for Tahiti via Molokai . .J. F. B. Marsltall, Esq., is the Business and !}-(law ketch Lunalilo, English, fer Humphreys ls. 8-Am bk Goodell, Crockett, for .Jarvis Island. Commercial Agent of the Institution, while 11-Am 3-ma~tcd schr A P Jordan, Perry, for San Francisco. Miss I. S. W ,oql-s ey, niece of ex-President 15-Brit ship Royal Saxon, Rochfort, for Cork. 18-Am bk Comet, Fuller, for San Francisco. Woolsey of New Haven, is manager of the 22-Am bk Fmnces, Field, for Howland's Island. 23-Am bk Rainier, Hall, for Port Townsend; Girls' lndustr1a] Department. Surely the 25-Am stmr Nevada, Blethen, for Auckland. 25-Brit stmr Wonga Wonga, Steuart, for S Francisco. young Freedmen and Freed women of Virgi2u-Am stmr Moses Ta)'lor, Bennett, for San Francisco. 25-Am bk Emma C. Beals, Bailey, for Jarvis Island. nia are watched over :hy persons of marked 26-Brit stmr City of Melbourne, Grainger, for Fiji and Sy!lney. .,~ bility and hi~h spcial ~osition. at last been disb;rnded. Thus itemizes one MEMORANDA. REPOltT OF' IlARK COI\IET, CAPT. A. Ft:LLE!t.-Left San Francisco August 21st. First day out light air from SW and men and strangers from th'e following per- calm. Then moderate breeze,, from W to WNW with foggy weather; then the winu hauletl gradually into NE, where it sons, Mis:il E. K. Bmgham, Rev. J.P. Gulick, remained the rest of tlrn passage. We lrnd considerable rain the last fow days. Mrs. D. B. Lyman, of Hilo, S. N. Castle, Itu:PORT of American bark Frances, Captain H. H. Fielll, 65 <lays from Hongkong, H Chinese l .Europeau passengers, 30 E::;q., and the Rev. T Coan of Hilo. tons cargo. .Uoua.d to Howland',; I~land. 26th July spoke reruvian ship America, 12 days from Macao, bound to Callao, with coolies, all well The Frances experienced light halfling . _FESTJVAL.-VV a:e requeste_d to giY_e easterly winds the entire pas,rnge. ScHOONF:n G11ssrn LYON arrivetl on Thursday, Sept. 21st, notice, that the lad1es rnter,d holdmg a fesn- 3:l days from Yokohama, via Kanai. She is a Javmese-1.>uilt vessel, and has been a Y,)koharna pilot hoat until rece. tly, bej val, about the midd!P of November, for the ing a little over a year old. Dming t.he pas,age to the islands, heavy gale~, during which tl,e water c11slts broke i ~enefit of ~he ~ethe_l Chapel. ~II w_ho _are experi.,nced mlnft, which cau,ed a slwrt allowance prnviouH to arrival at lfanalei. having put in there the 28th day out,--the wind heing j rnternHed 111 this obJt'ct, are conhally rnv1ted light several days before making th,1t port, and unfavorable I • tor making Honolulu. The vessel is owned by Messrs. Squiret! to asSlS t . and Collyer, (the former is captain) lu.tely Yokohama J.1ilots, whr~ bring their vessel here for sale, freight or charter-a>1 U A friend on Hawaii, sends us $20 busine~s was extremely dull at lliat port during the past few months. She lately took a Hawaiian register from the Hafor the Bible came, which we shall remit to waiian Consul at Yokohama. If ~he vessel does not tlnd sale or employment at this port, she will probably sail m a fortnight fur the Fijis, where she will enguge in trading. The the American Bible Society, New York. vessel is 3u tons, and is a co111fortable ,-ea boat. She is coppered with :.!4 onuce copper, and copper fastened-lmilt of DoNATIONs.-For the Bethel, Capt. Welch Japanese oak. Her cr~w consists of the two owners ~foreign-• ers) aod three Japanese. $5.00, Mr. Tullock $2.50. A friend $5.00. PASSK~G~RS. the wodi: done, and the treasurer allowed meetjngs. sustained - phlets and books, for distribution among sea- i\JIAl{}N _1£ .JOURNAL. ful, . -· ---,------- -- ----- FoR SAN 1fltANCISCO-f'er (;ity of Melbourne, Aug. 26thMr J F Arundel, ;\'Jrs Thomas-2. Fon AUCKLAND-Per Nebraska, Au~. 20th-A S Cleghorn nnrl wifo, MiMs L Clej!horn, ilJrs WR ::-ea.I, J .r 1\11:Gill, wife anti child, and 50 in trausitu from San Frnnc,sco-57. FoR SAN F1tANC1sco-Per }loses Taylor, Aug 28th-Edward T Bishop, E Strehz and wile, S H Phillips, S W Caoe and wife, P Van Cleve. AF Cooke. G P Castle, Mr Ridgely, G S Spalding and wife, Thos Graham, W Nortpcott, SC Allen ,:ad wife, Miss M Robinson, W P Ryan, S N Castle, Miss Harris, D Monroe, and 43 from Auckland-04. Fon SAN FRANc1sco-Pcr D. C. Murray, Aug. 31st-S Goodfellow, wife and 5 children, Mrs Walsh, William Walsh, Daniel ~lcivis, wife and 3 childrcn-14. Fno~t SAN FRANCtsco-Per Comet, Sept. 4th--Mr O G Clifford, R Dexter, Aug Smith, Chas Brooks, Frank Jones, .Jake Wallace, Tommy Roi;;a, Torn J\.faciaughlin, Prank :\ledina, G Fayne, C Jfamwell, S i:imith, L llodecker, S Fite, Anthony Prazer, Willy .Boltzmann, ltah Noble, James H Gallagher-18. Fon TAHITI-Per Ionia, Sept. 4.th-1 Chinese. F'on Hunir 11nEvs' Is.-Per Lunalilo, Sept. 5th-Apela, wife and 2 children, Haupine, Taia-U. FROM HONGKONG-Per Frances, Rept. 15th-H .l!'osbrooke, 14 Chinese-lo. FROM Pon'l' Tow:,;sEND-Per Rainier, Sept. 15th-Mr and l\Irs Bush, Miss Wald-3. l<on SAN FnANc1sco-Per (;omet, Sept. 18th-Geo Strickhausen, H l\lcllride, 0 R Woori and son-4. FROM IlnEMEN-l'~r n. C. Wylie, Sept. 18th-W Hopp. FROM AUCKLAND-Per Nevada, Sept. 2:3:-Mr Goodwin, Mrs 1\1 McKean, and 38 -in transitufor Sa11 li'ra11cisco. FOR N~;w ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA-Per Nevada, Sept. 25 :- From Honolulu, uone. In transilu for San Frnnoisco, 41. FnoM SAN FnANC1sco-Per Moses Taylor, Sept. 23:-J S Christie, Jr., E O Hall, ~liss S King:, Miss Anna Wundenburg, Mr M B Beckwith and 2 daughters, Mrs S E Bi:lhop, Madamfl States, l\ldst:e Mandeville, Sig P Gicchi, Sig C Olllandini, Sig A Susini, .-5ig P Givraza, ::-ig A Ilisc:acciant1, .T. C. Moores, Mrs 1\1 oorcs, H .J Franklin, C T Snyder, Mrs GD Korts, 3 Chinese, J Stewart, .J .McCorkindalc, ,ind 41 in tran.~itt, for Auckland and Sydney. FROM'. SYDNEY AND Fur-Per Wonga vVonga, Sept. 25:-J McColgan. E McCorriston, and 33 through passengers for San Francisco. Fon SAN FRANCISCO-Per Moses Ta)"lor. Sept. 25:-.T R Kinney, <..:apt J Makee, Miss Julia Makee, Miss Wager, E S llou,;ton, Mrs l\1 S Rtcc, .I C Cluney, J McDade, WM Lambert, D Vida, wife and 2 children, T Cleghorn, Mrs Crockett and chil<l, ,Johu Waters, M Kinnon, Louis Margot, Mrsc Duckhart and son, E Koebe, 8 Holdsworth, J Beck and wife, S Birtles and wife, .J Wittiker, G Harrison, P Mills, Fi Marloe, A Thompson, Miss Gulick, and 38 in transitufor Sydney 0 and .Auckland. FROM SAN FRANc1sco-Per City of Melbourne, SP.pt. 25:Mrs Chambers, Prof Ilaselrnayer, Mr Welsh. Mrs Welsh, Miss Nellie Osgood, J J Whetler, Mr Reinhart, .I Faher, A Wheeler, Ah Toon, F Patey, T Deloury, and 30 througn pi.ssengers for Sydney. Fon SYDNEY-Per City of Melbourne, Sept. 25:-P Gibson, wife and 3 children. Fon SAN FRANCisco-Per Wonga Wonga, Sept. 25th-E S Pierce, Col Norris, T E Williams, J Fischer, Mr ltichards, Chas .March, and 30 from Sydney. FnoM GUANO ISLANDS-Per G. M. Ward, Sept. 26th-Col F S Pratt, Capt Hempstead. Louis IllcC..:all, A J Reiners, H Wilson, A ntonc Hugo, and 1 Chinese. DIED. BHJCKWOOD-ln this city. Sept. 4th, WILLIAM PARKER KuNJPIPI, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Brfckwood·, ~d 1 year, 2 months and 3 days. MCGURN-At Lahaina, Sept. 7th, of heart disease, THOMAS l\lcGuaN, aged about 37 years, formerly in the whaling -business out of Honolulu. KAMAKAu-In this city, Sept. 29, Mns. KAMA KEE P1rno1 RAMAJau, aged about 40, wife of Hon. \V. P. lfamakau. |
Contributors | Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885 |
Date | 1871-10 |
Type | Text |
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Language | eng |
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Call Number | AN2.H5 F7; Record ID 9928996630102001 |
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