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.V MI'.MUIttAM.
The memory of Ilernice I'auahi
Disliop will lc forever hallowed because
in life she found and fought against Ihu
peculiar temptations of the time and
place in which Providence had rast
her life, and in death transferred her
power to an educational work to fight
it still, thus leading her people by a
path, which, !f rightly followed, must
conduct to the honor, the happiness,
the integrity and the perpetuation of a
noble race. We commend the follow
ing from the Hawaiian Monthly
"For all Hawaiians, whether of na
tive or foreign blood, the death of Hon.
Mrs. Disliop is a historical event.
Through the combined influence of
of birth, wealth, culture and character,
she occupied a position not only pecu
liar but unique. The representative of
the most powerful line of chiefs of the
olden time, she was also an exponent
of the best type of foreign habits and
mode of life. Retaining a natural and
proper pride of ancestry and an interest
in the welfare of her own people, she
so perfectly assimilated the essential
spirit of Anglo-American culture as to
take easily and naturally 'hat high posi
tion in the best foreign society to which
her birth and fortune entitled her.
She was thus a link between the old
'and the new, between the native and
the foreign, in a sense which was not
true of any other person whatever. It
should be a source of pride and satis
faction alike to the native Hawaiians
and to those foreigners who have la
bored for their elevation and imple
ment, that this peculiar and in some
respects trying position should have
been so gracefully and so worthily filled.
The Hawaiian race may yet develop
many noble characters, manly, brave,
intelligent, patriotic men and loving,
devoted and virtuous women, but the
peculiar niche occupied by the lady
who has just passed away, is vacant and
must ever remain so."
THIS K.tJIEIl.lMMl.t HOIIOOM.
The magnificent bequest of the late
Mrs. Disliop, in the provision made by
her will for the erection and endowment
of the Kamchamcha Schools, comes to
the rising generation of Hawaii as an
inestimable boon. To all who have at
heart the welfare of the race there is
greater promise of good to future gener
ations in this evidence of the wise fore
thought and matured judgment of the
departed chicfess than could possibly
come from any change in governmental
policy, commercial advantages, develop
ment of natural resources, or establish
ment of intimate relations with foreign
powers. Whether the government of Ha
waii shall be in the future monarchical, or
republican, whether she retain her inde
pendence or be annexed to a foreign
power, the education of the youth who
shall become important factors in de
veloping her future is secured. The
legislative and executive departments
may suffer fre-a bad men in office ;
but here is opened a fountain whence
mu3t issue, though years to come, a
stream of wholesome influence to glad
den all her borders.
We understand the bequest of Mrs.
Bishop to call for the best English edu
cationto be paid for (as it ought to
be) by those who can afford it ; to be
free as air to all those who are too poor
to pay. It will provide training in the
mechanical arts, with such scientific
and literary culture as the judgment
of the trustees of the schools shall de
termine, and is designed to bring the
youth of.both sexes under the best pos
sible moral and religious influences,
according to the traditions of the Prot
estant faith. It is needless to say that
the gentlemen who are put in charge
of this trust possess the fullest confi
dence of the nation and will do their
work " honestly, soberly and in the fear
of God."
We have spoken of an education
for Hawaiian youth as being by this
noble gift secured for all time and
here we may very properly anticipate
the reply that Hawaii is already well
supplied with schools, that the capital
of the kingdom is filled with them,
public and private and of all grades;
from the Kindergarten for prattling
babes to the higher instruction of Oahu
College. What, may be- asked, is the
need of more schools when none arc
now crowded, wh"cn country places
without government schools arc without
them simply because there are no chil
dren to attend them ? The writer never
enjoyed the honor of admission to the
confidence of the heir of the Kameha
mehas, who.lovinghcr racc,loved Itjunto
the end, but he knows whereof he
speaks in affirming that she desired the
best possible educational faculties for
the best boys and girls of Hawaiian
blood and parentage, and determined
that the schools which her bequest is
intended to establish andsupport should
be forever free from the patronage of
politics, and the changes and chances
of, corrupt government , and that the
highest judicial body of the kingdom,
acting in behalf of her people, should
forever keep her trust jn the charge of
true men. Such schools as the Kame
bawcha schools uasy.and we trust will.be
cowc a mighty power to taUe the
whole school work of i)m ahfiom to
a high degree of excellence. They
will not empty other schools nor de
tract from their efficiency, they will of
fer to the board of public education no
excuse to diminish their labor and re
sponsibility one iota. In proportion
as they are thorough schools, impart
ing a thorough mental and moral train
ing, they will inspire Hawaiian youth
to seek the best education that can be
had in the islands or acro?s the sea.
What I Iawaii needs more than aught
else is to have the law of industry
formed in the mind, indelibly written
into the conscience, and held indomit
ably by the will. Her boys and girls
will need more and more as time goes
on, if they are to preserve the integrity
of their ancient race " the iron of right
and truth and chastity in the blood."
It remains to be seen how grateful a
people can be to one who felt how neces
sary it was for those of her people whom
she leaves behind her to rccogni;e this
grand lawoflilc. In the soft air and
calm environment of the Hawaiian's tro
pica! home, the constant temptation of
mind and heart is to Indolence. The
Anglo-Saxon coming to Hawaii's shore
has brought the refinements of civiliza
tion, and alas I its vices also, to tempt
the evil genius of the sunny isles and
take from the strong children of the soil
their public and private ambition. Mrs.
Illshop has gone to her reward,
' Where, beyond Iheie votcei, Ihere le peete."
being dead, she yet spcakcth, protesting
against the evil genius which indolence,
sensuality and intemperance have
evoked, presenting her virtue against its
vice, her will power against its fatal re
pose. The outcome of the future life
of the nation is in the hands of an
education realized in its full importance,
mental, moral and spiritual. May the
Kamchamcha schools continue from
generation to generation the nursery of
a line of noble youth of whom their
shall be kings of men in nobility of
kingly character, and queens of the peo
ple m the queenly virtue of unsullied
womanhood.
cvi.TVitr. i.v li.nrAir.
The announcement made some time
ago of the contemplated organization of
a literary society here, is a suggestive
one. There arc few communities cer
tainly in which an enterprise of this
kind is more needed. Such organiza
tions ought to have a mission in Hono
lulu. We arc an endogenous commu
nity, compelled by the force of cir
cumstances to unfold from within.
Cut off from the great centres of civili
zation by two thousand miles of ocean,
the heart throb from those centres
loses much of its vigor by the time it
reaches an extremity so remote. We
are thrown upon ourselves for our de
velopment, and must unfold by an in
ner law. Something is needed to sup
ply the lack of external stimulus which,
at the centres of thought in Europe
and Amcrica,kceps up a generous intel
lectual circulation, and makes stagna
tion an impossibility. We take this to
be the proper functionof a literary so
ciety. A community with no good opera
or thcatre.a people having few opportu
nities to hear orators or lecturers, who
do not get the news until it is old, who
print no books, have access to no great
libraries, and cannot boast of a single
great institution of learning within the
national borders, is certainly liable to
fall into a condition of luxurious ease
and inaction very hostile to the inter
ests of culture and education ; and
doubly so liable if their skies are sunny
from January to December, and they
arc blessed with the climate of a land,
'Where falls not hall or rain or any snow,
Or ever wind blows loudly."
The object of a literary, society here
should be to operate as a genial and
healthy intellectual stimulus, to quicken
and create thourht, to set the mental
pulses to beating more firmly, to de
velop an interest in questions of a larger
application and more abiding interest
than those which generally attract public
attention here. Such a society would
be the very best substitute for an in
stitution of higher education. As a
matter of fact it would be such an in
stitution, since it would operate not
merely as a means for the development
of thought, but for the acquisition of
knowledge. Its members would dis
cuss a large range of questions of vari
ous dcgiees of significance and interest.
Politics would occupy a large share of
attention, but, politics as divorced
from petty local issues and from the
transitory men and measures of the
hour. Political principals and not poli
tical squabbles' would be among the
themes discussed. The larger and
more important problems of govern
ment and constitutional law would re
ceive a share of the energy which is now
wasted on questions which are new for a
week, and forgotten in a month. Ques
tions of history, literature, science, art,
and criticism would in their turnbecome
the subject of debate. And occasionally,
(why not.ythc discussion would rise to
themes still higher, to be dealt with by
the speculative reason, to problems with
the solution of which mankind is per
ennially concerned; the foundations of
religion and morals, the cardinal facts
andprinciplesof human nature,and those
old perplexities, still summoning the mind
anew " fixed fate, free will fore know
ledge absolute." We do not know
why subjects ot this kind should not
receive an occasional glance, even in
this age when Philosophy is the object
of only obloquy and neglect, and when
the aiti like a discrowned queen, t
Niobe iepwtd of bw oWWrw.
We trust that no one will consider
that what we say about the value of a lit
erary society like the one above outlined
is intended to disparage the work done
by our best schools, or by any one of
the societies already organized. The
possibilities of Oahu College as an aid
to a higher national education as a
stimulus to national research and cul
turearc great. We hope great things
for Oahu College. We appreciate and
commend the work it is already doing,
and believe that its development will
be upward and onward. Hut so far as
the adult population of Honolulu arc
concerned what they need is the elec
tric contact of its best minds. The
Social Science Club docs much for the
elder generation. The younger men and
women and somcof their elders also
need a similar organization. One
has already begun work. There is
ample field for another.
Another great advantage to be de
rived from a good active literary society
here is the fact that it would.operate as
a partial corrective to the miserably ma
terialistic tendencies of the age. Our
eyes arc so dazzled by the huge strides
lately made in material prosperity, by
the wonderful discoveries of science, and
the thousand inventions by which those
discoveries have been applied to the
practical purposes of life, by the new
uses of steam and light and electricity,
by the discovery of new continents, the
growth of new nations, the vast increase
of populations, the commercial prospe
rity resulting in a wealth almost defying
numerical expression, that we have for
gotten that there arc any other realities.
The throbbing sense is so full that the
inner eye and car have lost their use:
and as for the reason, considered as a
faculty for apprehending super sensuous
truth, it is really quite obsolete. The
perceptive power has all settled in the
finger ends, and anything which cannot
be felt, tasted, or weighed, this self suffi
cicntagc is quite ready to pronounce a
figment of the imagination. These ten
dencies, which exist everywhere, of
course arc found in Honolulu. A good
literary society could not fail tobcat least
partially corrcctve" of them, by calling the
attention tosomcthing besides brcadand
butter considerations, and bringing into
prominence the fact thatthere are values
not measurable even by the almighty
dollar.
KIWCJTIXa HAirAlIAX (I MLS.
The annual reports of the Woman's
Board of Missions for the Pacific
Islands, and of the Hawaiian Mission
Children's Society, (familiarly known as
"The Cousins,") have been printed and
distributed in good season. But the
issue of the annual report of the Hawai
ian Board is delayed for some reason,
as has been the case for the two or
three years just passed. Both the re
ports named above are very creditable
to the two benevolent organizations,
whose resources and whose aims grow
larger and higher each succeeding year.
We regret to see that in the annual ad
dress before the Cousin's Society, the
retiring president shows such ignorance
of what has been attempted and ac
complished in the education of Hawai
ian girls, from the very origin of the
American Mission down to the present
day. The Friend.
Doctor Emerson's address on the
education of Hawaiian girls, delivered
at the annual meeting of the "Cousin's"
society has been printed in the Annual
Report of that organization and, has no
doubt had many readers. For our own
part we are glad that the doctor selected
this topic and especially that he troated
it in so practical a manner. The sub
ject is not only important; it is the most
important 01 any wmen concern me
futdre well-being of the Hawaiian race.
We think Doctor Emerson was
perfectly correct in laying particular
emphasis on the importance of a
practical training, practical in the com
monly accepted meaning of the word.
We cannot enlarge upon this matter,
but are sure that the following pas
sages which convey the general spirit
and scope of the paper are sound and
will commend themselves to the sober
judgment of the thoughtful
We noticed that several esteemed friends
who were present when the address
was delivered seemed diposed to regard
it as an unfriendly reflection upon what
hadbeen done heretofore. We do not
think such an inference can be. fairly
drawn from the language of the address,
and any such intention was expressly
disclaimed by the speaker. Undue
sensitiveness to criticism and a disposi
tion to regard any suggestions in the
way ot chance as implying an unfair or
unfriendly attitude on the part of those
making them, are things to be particu
larly deprecated in those who have
charge of such important interests as
the education of Hawaiian girls. The
Hawaiian Monthly. '
Doctors disagree and so occasion
ally do editors. To the editor of the
Fnend, Doctor Emerson's paper was
that of a writer who wished to dispa
rage the good work already done by the
schools for Hawaiian girls, of which
Kawaiahao and Makawao are the most
prominent In the judgment of the
editor of the Hawaiian Mdnthly, Doctor
Emerson meant no such disparage
ment. We fully agree rith the last
mentioned editor. In fact, we know
that Doctor Emerson meant no such
disparagement, because, in several con
versations, he has explained his views
on the education of Hawaiian girls at
length, and has not failed in ample
justice to all teachers. In nearly all of
his positions on the topic under dis
cussion we agree with the doctor. We
believe his views are thoroughly sound
and that they will stand the test of crit
icism. As we have already published
Doctor Emerson's address in full, as
well as its support by General Arm
strong, we need not restate any of his
positions. We think the good natured
veteran who edits the Friend will be
prompt to acknowledge that he haa
wronged the doctor, tad will make suit-
Esai.ASit'x s.irr
A IMnrttlng St'rrlnllon
The Pall Mall Budget of September
19th has a leading article on the con
dition of the English navy based upon
a long contributed article from .1 writer
especially instructed to examine the
subject We print the first part of the
editorial and last part of the special
article each being in summary of the
questions raised and the answers elici
ted: We publish in another column, at
a length which although fully warrcntcd
by the importance of the subject is
entirely without precedent in the history
of this journal, a detailed statement of
what purports to be the truth about the
navy, made by one who is in position
to know the facts, although for obvious
reasons we withhold his name. So
startling are his disclosures so alarm
ing the net effect of his exposure of the
weakness of our defensive position,
that we hesitated at making it public
before submitting his statements to the
examination of some of the most com
petent and careful authorities in the
service in both its branches, adminis
trative and naval. Without pledging
themselves to all the details of the cal
culations And the figures of our con
tributor, those to whom we referred
"The Truth about the Navy" agreed
entirely with the general accuracy of
the writer's reprcscntaUon.oQhe facts.
iWeMKcn subjected his's'tatement to a
careful and minute comparison with the
published estimates and the speeches,
in the house and out of it, of the
official representatives of the admiralty,
Not only were none of his general state
ments challenged, but this remarkable
feet was brought into clear relief: in his
discription of the state of the navy he
has in almost every case followed very
closely the figures of those who are gen
erally denounced as official optimists.
His totals of the displacement of our
ironclads, for instance, correspond ex
actly with those given by Sir Thomas
Brassy in his speech at Portsmouth,
which has J)ccn derided by every
"alarmists" in the service as being a pre
posterous exaggeration of our naval
resources. Another remarkable fact that
was brought out in examination is that
in no single case does he base his dis
quieting revelations upon the assump
tion that the present board of ad
miralty have made a single mistake
either in armor, guns, or any other de
partment of our naval administration.
In the comparison of rival ironclads
and their armaments he applies no
standard of cfiiency to which Lord
Northbrook, Lord Hartington, Mr.
Campbcll-Banncrman, and Sir Thomas
Brasscy have taken exception in their
public utterances. Yet, notwithstand
ing all that, he sets forth one of the
most gloomy pictures of the condition
of our navy that has probably ever been
published in an English newspaper, and
one which, unless its substantial accur
acy can be promptly disproved, must
arouse the nation to energetic and im
mediate action. For that we need not
rely upon the "proud instincts of an
imperial race" the instinct of self
preservation is at once stronger and
more constant.
The following are the questions in
summary:
1. Our war risks have enormously
increased. Has our navy, which is our.
national insurance, been correspond
ingly strengthened?
2. Can we or can we not demon
strate beyond all gainsaying our "irre
sistable superiority" in armor, guns,
speed, and coal-carrying capacity over
any combination of fleets which it is
reasonable to believe could be brought
against us?
3. If at this moment we are in this
position, how will it be five years hence,
when the ironclads now building are in
commission?
4. Have repairs been sacrificed to
building, or are our ships in commis
sion really serviceable ?
5. If our iron dads are superior in
hull, is their armament up to their
mark? Is it or is it not true that both
the French and Italian navies are armed
with heavier guns of greater precision
and more convenient for handling than
are our own ships?
6. In case of a sudden outbreak
of war with any naval power, have we
at this moment a fighting ship on each
of our foreign stations better than the
best that the enemy could send against
us?
7, Have we sufficient store of fast
ocean cruisers to scour the seas in
search of the innumerable vessels
which in case of war would at once be
let loose upon our commerce?
a. Are our coaling and telegraph
stations secured against the sudden de
scent of a hostile ship?
9. Are our own seaports in a state
of defence, and our own harbors ade
quately protected?
10. it an irondd were disabled in
any part of the world, have we provi
ded docks wherein it could be refitted
within reasonable distance of the scene
of action?
1 1. Have wc sufficient trained sail
ors and gunners, first, toman our shins:
and, secondly, to supply the wear and
tear 01 service in time ot war?
1 a. And, lastly, it all these can be
answered in the affirmative, have we a
sufficiently numerous mosquito fleet of
torpedo boats, steam launches, and
picket boats to fend off the attacks of
an enemy's torpedos and save our gi
gantic ironclads from sudden destruc
tion.
The following are the answers also
in summary:
1. Increased Risks. Our risks
from war have enormously increased
since 1868-9. The naval expenditure
of other powers has increased 40 per
cent Our population has increased 16
per cent, our trade 40 per cent, our
wealth 40 per cent, our shipping 30 per
cent, and our possessions have been
enormously extended. Yet in face of
all these increased responsibilities and
increased danger our naval expenditure
has been slightly diminished. To bring
it up to the relative position of 1868-9,
it ought at least to be increased four
millions a year, and even then the in
creased premium would not be equiv
alent to the increased risks.
a. Ironclads Afloat, So far
from being able to demonstrate our
"irresistible superiority" in armor.
guns, and speed, to any probable combi
nation of fleets, we are just a little ahead
of France in ships, behind her in gun
and in the age of our ship, and about
equal in armor and speed. France
haa outbuilt ui bv io.oe tona of iraa-
klad in the Um tea yen. Tomten
the proportion between the shipbuild
ing votes of the two countries that
existed before 1879 our shipbuilding
vote should be increased by at least
one million per annum.
3. Iron'cuds Buh.dino. Instead
of making up lost ground we arc losing
it, and two years hence France will be
ahead of us In second-class ironclads,
and our superiority in the first-class
will have been slightly diminished.
4. Repairs. -Repairs have to sonic
extent been sacrificed to building, with
the result that more than half our
third class ironclads can hardly be re
garded as fit to go into battle.
5. Gu.vs, Our guns actually fitted
1 arc Interior both in weight and in
power to those of France and Italy.
We have not one ironclad afloat armed
with the new breechloader, of which
500 have been made since 1880,
6. Otm Foreion Stations. In
case of sudden vy r, the French have
better fighting ships, on the China sta
tion than England j the Chilian iron
clads arc stronger than our Pacific
cruisers, the new ironclad of. Brazil
could sweep our South American
squadron off the sea. On the other
stations we have ships better than the
nest tn.it could be sent against them.
7. The Protection or our Ma
rine. -Our fast ocean cruisers avail
able for policcing our maritime high
ways against the Alabamas of the future
are insufficient to allot three to each
station. We have 10,000 merchant
men scattered all over the world to pro
tect, and only' 24 unarmorcd ships of a
speed exceeding 14 knots for their pro
tection. 8. Coaling and Telegraph Sta
tions. A hostile cruiser could with
almost entire impunity destroy to-mor
row the coaling stations of Hong Kong,
Singapore, Bombay, the Cape, Ascen
sion, St. Helena, Mauritius, St. George's
Sound, Fiji, and Vancouver's Island,
which are virtually unprotected, al
though Hong Kong has four torpedo
boats, and there arc slight fortificatioas
at one or two or the other ports.
9; Docks. We have eight foreign
stations and four docks. There is no
dock in all India in which an ironclad
could refit, and although a dock is
building at Hong Kong, if the Auda
cious were injured, she would have to
go to Sydney 0LUjHfRJttM.11 -to Malta to
10. TffEVJWreNcE 0 Home
PoRTS.-Thcrc areijomore'llian two
harbors in I'tneJWnifedKlncdom ade
quately protected, and some of the
most important commercial ports abso
lutely lack ainglc torpedo boat
ir. 1 he I'ersonneloetheNanv.
We have not sufficient trained men
to man our fleet when war is declared
without drawing 8,ooo from the re
serve, and that reserve is not half as
numerous as that of France.
i2. The Mosquito Fleet. In
the. cheapest and deadliest mode of
defense our naval supremacy, instead
of being absolutely irresistible, is abso
lutely non-existent To bring us into
line with our rivals one hundred tor
pedo boats shonld be laid down at
once.
THE UIVTH.
The respectable porion of the community
are highly incensed at a most vulgar allusion
contained In a paragraph relating to the post
ponement of the St.. Andrew's fair, in this
morning's Guide. Bullttin.
The paragraph above quoted is a
cowardly attempt to make capitial for
itself out of a paragraph in this morn
ing's Cuide. The paragraph in ques
tion has been suppressed and would
never have been thought of again ex
cept for the Bulletin's effort to keep it
alive. No one regrets its appearance
in the Guide more than the writer of
this. And at worst it was merely a piece
of bad taste, without one whit of mal
ice or indecent thinking. If the prurient
prude who takes the Guide to task can
point to another instance in which
either the Guide or the Press has been
guilty of similiar ill taste, we will cease
wondering at the altitude of the Bul
letin's ears.
Equally cowardly, and equally unjust
is the attempt to make out that the
Press or the Guide has ever tried to ar
ray any class of our population against
any other class, borne ot the best
friends of this paper are English and
Germans. The proprietor is of Eng
lish birth. But the facts that the Bul
letin has sneered at things American is
proven. "American, in yesterdays
Guide hit the mark hence last
night's malice.
The Bulltlln't rlqut.
Editor Morning Guide Sin After
the article which appeared a short time ago
in the Bulletin, which, by the way, was a very
patriotic and sensible comment on the love
and respect which Canadian subjects should
have for their country, it seems rather out of
place for that paper to take the first occasion
to sneer at an expression of the patriotism of
others, and to even go so far as to object to
genial George flying the American flag over
the Hawaiian Hotel on Sundays. As no dis
respect has ever been shown the Hawaiian
Government by Americans, or by the American
Government, the objection becor.es decidedly
absurd, coming as it does from one who Is
neither English nor American, nor yet Ha
waiian,
To leave .yvu country for your country'igood,
O rath Canadian 1 b It understood.
Is to remove, O scrawny thistle, thence.
Across your neat door neighbor's blown-down fence ;
But fate, unldnJ, one waif give, and .am I
It blows the thistle to Hawali-neL
Auaaicax,
Honolulu, November e, ill.
A KrySy.
Editor Moxninq Guide, Sirs The edi
tor of the Bulletin losesighi of the fact that I up
held in my nolcqf yesterday the expression of
patriotism for Canada published in the Bulle
tin some time ago, and only asked that we
Americans be allowed to express, without a
sneer Irons the Bulletin, our patriotism as
Americans, who "stand upon their own merits
out of their country."
AMERICAN,
Honolulu, November 7, 18S4.
It comes with exceeding ill grace
from the editor of the Bulletin to give
forth the baby cry that he is being
"hounded," while he and his assistant
lose no opportunity to write as insult
ing as their chaste tastes permit about
the editor of this paper whote of
fense seems to be his fkrobavant
pow. As that fact is the sole circura-
mnce that enable the gentlemen of
the Bulletin to be ilunny" we Hunk
they ought to. be grateful and not ta
tod tBf)tft4. Lay m I
Moklhl
The hole In a doughnut, the musical sense
of a native man with a guitar, the vacuum In
an air pomp all these consist solely In the ab
sence of something. And thus Maklkl valley
eiists, simply because It is not filled up with a
mountain. That Igneous layer-cake, which
is this patt of Oahu, has been gnawed into by
the rains of centuries running down from the
mountains around, and the tooth-marks are
Maklkl.
Seen from the plains below, it is simply a
three pronged ralne considerably smaller and
with less of lerel floor than its neighbors Pauoa
and Manoa, walled in its lower point with
treacherously smooth and grassy slopes, and
finally changing from depression to mountain
on the western Hank of Tantalus. In the
mouth of the volley, on Ihe last list before the
sloping begins, Bland a group of half-whitened
native houses, like the lonesome teeth In the
mouth of a hag But Maklki will not be found
an ugly old woman, but like many another of
indefinite ge, will prove delightful and beauti
ful. Come then, O ncwly.arrived, before the In
sidlous, lotus-eating climate, vihiclt makes
even the impecunious Chinaman hire an cs
picss, teach sou how not to walk. Comeve.
also of ten years residence who still tell to the
children around Ihe glowing mosquito-powder,
the hearth-fire of Hawaii, how you walked
twenty miles in New Ungland I Come, nerve
yourself for a tenth as many.
A fence or tvvn to. climb, a bit of sloping
field to cross and we are beside the native
houses. That vanishing gleam of color Is Ihe
trailing robe of the lady of the house. This
gentle savage In overalls is the proprietor, a
veritable flesh-and-blood cannibal islander.
This Indolent fellow's grandfather may have
been of that band which measured Ihe Pall
under the Instigation of Kamehatneha's spears
men! his grandfather's grandfather, perhaps,
struck down Captain Cook, He is descend
ant, further back, of one of that not Impossible
canoe-load, which drifting away from home
and friends, naked, dying of thirst, starved,
though they be feeding on the lean ribs of a
comrade (we Anglo-Savons do that when we
really get hungry) saw the over-clouded Is
lands resting on the limitless ocean plain.
Perhaps the ancestor of this man was the one
who first of that famished boat load made out
the mountain's dim blue robe below the cloudy
sky.fioor saw with uncouth cries of joy, as the
long swells bore him on, the fringing cocoa
nuts, the green valleys, the water, and last and
best of all felt Ihe firm ground once more
under his feet.
But here I What arc these ?.A pig, a dilap
idated dog, another, a goat, chickens, a dirty
baby and all gating at the strangers except the
dogs, which, with true dog-democracy,-bark at
all men alike.
Now wc are by them all, and dipping down
steeply cross the dry bed of the creek, near a lit
tle cement reservoir. Then turning to the right,
we make our way among lantanas and over
black volcanic sand which slips over shoe-tops
and engenders a lively sympathy for those poor
fellows whose penance it was to walk with peas
In their shoes. The thorny bushes, the volcan
ic debris, the discomfort, suggest Purgatory well
enough; and what could better stand for our
own mistakes, than those same lantanas,
brought in as beautiful flowers, now to be rooted
out with aching back and bleeding fingers.
A hundred yards or so of this, then another
native house and more dogs and a little space
of rough hillside covered with grass, and we
are at the lower end of the flume. This used
to bring down water to the reservoir, but is now
unused, except as a sidewalk by those who fre
quent the place. It hugs the west wall and
holds its unvarying incline up the western fork
of the valley almost to the fall. Sometimes it
seems to rest on the top of the grass-bunches
and coarse ferns, or it crosses a stone wall where
blue morning glories rest like great foam flecks
cast up from the sloping waves of grass on either
side, or, skirting a bare rock face, it carries
one for a dozen yards at a time twenty or thir
ty feet above ground. Across the valley, as
we ascend, may be seen a couple of decrepit
bread fruit trees perhaps a Kanaka Baucis
and Philemon, turned into trees in their old age
for hospitably furnishing Pele with fish and poi.
In front are the sunny upper slopes of the val
ley but the backward view is much the finer.
Over thealgarobasof the plain you see the feath
ery Jeaves of the cocoanuts, and beyond, the
ocean, at first but a narrow band, out widen
ing as you go up, alwa) s bordered by the rib
bon of green water on the reef and this itself
fringed with surf. Even frum here you can see
the long lines of water rise and darken, and the
crest begin to comb and the spot ef white leng
then till the whole is one line of cottony foam.
Further seaward in the midst of the "innumer
able laughter of the waves" you perhaps will
see the sails of some Hawaiian schooner darken
and lighten as she tacks, or the black hull and
square sails of some whaler whose prudent cap
tain dares not trust his slippery crew in the har
bor, or it may be that one of the inter-island
steamers under both tail and steam will glide
into the picture and you will be thankful you
are not onboard; or, if the day of the month
serve, you may see the prouder formof an ocean
steamer, like a trout among the minnows.
But to come back to our march and to the
practical,! tribe of wasps has taken possession
of a section of the flume and discretion for
bids us to interfere. We shall have to descend
and try navigating in our sea of grass. Think
what wading In the real tea would be, if the
drops were strung on wires and the wire all
tangled together. I do not hesitate to say,
that, had Lcandcr been obliged to swim a mile
of sea like this to see his Hero, the romance
would have been nipped in the bud and Lcan
dcr would have lived to a green old age on his
own side of the Hellespont. Once more upon
the path and a few moments will bring us to
the little dam which used to turn the water
into the flume. Here you may see wild taro
and water cresses 1 and with them, a littler
blue-flowered, water-loving plant that on the
coast belongs to the tender, aristocracy of the
hanging-basket, but here contends In no unequal
battle for its share of light and water.
Edging along the bank, above the little
pool, you cross the stream again, and scram
bling, slipping and sliding over twenty rods of
rougn, wet, overgrown creek bottom, under
ohia trees, and among tall grass and ferns, you
come In sight of the falls. It the first part or
the walk was Purgatory, this is certainly Para
dise. The floor ofthe valley breaks down
from the upper level sixty or seventy feel. The
walls are steeper and coming closer together
form a horltantal V with the falls at the point.
The bottom is filled with trees, and the sides
thickly set with fern, and over head Ihe clear
sky arches. The lower part of the slaty feet
the little streams makes In short leaps with
cascades between, but the uppermost twenty it
takes in one free plunge. As you stand close
below, the water coming In one smooth curve,
from between the ranks'of creu and weeds
that fill its upper course, seems to be flowing
out of the sky. It broadens as it falls and
striking the rock below scatters coarse spray
upon the waiting ferns. On each tide the
rocks arc partiyhldden by ragged drapery of
vine, which curtain off the little grotto bdusd
Ihe fall, and the locks all about arc fftacecd
with swinging uaidttvhalr. It b only Ui,
to b. awe, just such son hi reiWnsnIrt
aifex wish to have is alt lamimutty. Aa4
wcraMlksna eUieftWi WMMti
piano of one's own. Does It not make a con
tinnal music without Ihe din of any lwtly's
practicing. And as for looks the best piano
that wis ever made is only a rather homely box
of strings, with more or less polish on the out-
sidet but the fall It is the esvence of grace and
music and poetry alt united. Hut lei no covet
ous plutocrat aspire to this one. It would not
be at home with his hot-house flowers' it would
not Iiirmonlieith the elegant artificiality of
his new mansion) It would not thrjve In an at
mosphere of new psinl. It is too beautiful for
him. It leans, between Its dripping weeds,
like the last crystal column of some Aladdin's
palace) It is like a slender Andromeda chained
to the rock and wrapped In her water-white
flowing hair 1 it Is a veritable baby waterfall In
a long embroidered christening robe, and It is
christened when the sun touches Its forehead
with lir,ht and clssps Its feet in a rainbow.
If one doesn't mind the exertion, it is pos
sible by going back a little way to climb out
upon Ihe eastern wall and get into the upper
valley. But here are only more grass and guava
bushes and a clump of bananas. The stream
divlndlcs too and the valley soon becomes a
steep sided gully over-hung with rocks and
trees ami great ferns, till at last It looses it
self on Ihe face of the mountain.
In going home you may either return by
the flume, or, making a sharp climb up the
ridge, come down over the erest of Hound
Top. Both have their' attractions, but if a
shower should drift over from Manoa and
trail its silver-gray skirts over you, the flume
will make the pteaianter walking. The rain
though will do sou no harm 1 It is only the
cool kiss of nature, and you need not fear her
kiss. She Is your own mother. If these lava
hills are not like your own home hilts, if no
famllfcr flower-face greet you, if no well
known bird or beast crosses your path, If the
wind sings fantastically In strange trees, even If
the clouds are different, yet the mother has
only changed her dress j there lias no step
mother come In her place. Go to her, worried,
confuted, lired of adjusting your acts and feel
Fngs, Impatient even of sympathy go to her
and see If the old beauty and power are not
there. See if, without flattering you, without
even caring for you, she does not soothe you
and breathe into you the breath of life, set you
on the right key again and send you back joy
fully to your place in the general harmony.
Theocritus,
Honolulu, November t, 1884.
f-w-a-e-jwMae
Amendrti ISuItt nfthn SHpftm Courl.
K.ULE xxx.
The various clerks of the supreme court
shall keep the following books of record, pro
perly indexed !
Admirality, Criminal, Divorce, Equity,
Law, Probate and also a Daily Register.
A clerk shall attend all hearings at chambers
or the term, and record on legal-cap paper a
concise statement of all proceedings had,
together with such testimony as the court
shall direct to be recorded, which record shall
be filed with the papers in the case ; and
shall subsequently be entered In the appropri
ate accord book a brief summary of the plead
ings and proceedings in each case, followed by
judgment or decree of the court which shall be
entered In full.
Rule XXXI.
The deputy clerks of tRe supreme court may
perform any duty required of the clerk, subject
to the approval nf the court.
Order.
Justices of the supreme court, by virtue of
the provisions of section 1281 of the Civil Code,
prescribe the following costs and fees, which
are to be hereafter charged by the supreme and
circuit courts in addition 'to the costs author
ized by statue :
For contested hearings, or hearings on the
merits, In banco, jury-waived cases, divorces
and all matters at chambers (other than pro
bate) five dollars for each hearing, without re
gard to the time occupied.
For tx-partt hearings on motion, etc, one
dollar.
For recording testimony and proceedings in
all matters at chambers or term, twenty-five,
cents per folio. For copying twenty-five cents
per folio. For clerk's certificate under seal,
one dollar. For, seal of court on all papers
except process and certificates, one dollar.
ctu JlbbcrtiscmtntB.
N
OT1CE OF.COPARTNERSHIP,
Wc ihe undersigned have formed a copartaetshlp for
the purpose of carrying on a dry foods store at La
hatna, Mam, under the turn name of HANOLA MER.
CAN-TILE COMPANY, lo U opened on November
5. 83.i I
C. Kaluakinl ..President, Honolulu, Oahu.
S. Anapu.. ,. .Secm.u-y, "
J. B. KaaunoVu. ....Treasurer, Wailuiu. Maul,
Members Mr. Kamlkl, WailuVu, Maul ; Mrt-Na
maichia, Honolulu, Oahu ; Mrs. Kelupaioa, Honolulu,
Oahi ; Mr HooLano, Honolulu ; It. Maemae, Ewa,
Oahu. j 19 at
N
OT!CE.
Al the Aaual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
WAILUKU SUGAR COMPANY, held October 13,
iSlej, the following officer were ie-eleaeJ to holJ of
fice for one year 1
W.H. Bailey..... HrWenL
P. C Jones ...tf...Trcaturer
Wm. W. Hal Secretary.
M, P. Robinson.. ..,.,..,..,....,.. ....Auditor,
Wm. W. Hail.
"3 Secretary.
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THE HAWAIIAN AL
. for 1885,
A HAMD.BOOK OF IMTORMA
TO TUB HAWAIIAN ISLAMD.
VAX.VB xo anouaftAim,
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TBM ZUCTMXTU
NOW IN PUBLICATION AND
The well-known character of the Annual
feet that hi renutatlnn both al home and abroad
proves its valut also u an advertising medium.
Standard of late Issues, and will contain several
for its pagea, besides the usual handy tables of
and Customs' Tariff and Kegulatlons.
Departments and Societies not having re
their mention in the Annual will please do so
Advertisers will please report corrections
Prut ftr each Kumkr jo cts., or 60
Persons dmrtHf fytet mailed abroad
tention as MeV4tiW.
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pLAMTBRS' LIMB
FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
(s. nnr.wr.ii 4 cofirjxr, Agtntt.
MrtfuMlit received Storeae Free, at! Iibeftl cehe
Advances made on shipments far this line.
PCIFIC NAVIGATION CO.
(limited)
Conning nttii Cnmmlttion Agents.
CV-r QUJSA.VA .VVVANU Strttti. Hthitn
Ktllr vesxU tar tNe prill tl
Mi'.ilo end Kent on Meal,
LeiipariclK, lfonoma, roVi jJ Hill on
Hawaii;
Kotoe, !finipr and VVeEm'a on Keuel, and
Wiietua on Oana,
And snjr other prle when IndiKementsorTer.
Person harinitfre!(Ml for anv pert of the luandi l
be forwarded from San Tranchco hy way of llonot.1.,
t-r direct shipments frota llonctnta wilt do well to ea
quire first of the Pacific Na!f ation Co., before maalflf
final arrangements
Goods Intended for shipment br anf of our venell
received and stored free of chlrte la our fire-loof
building at any time Apply to the ceptalnt on board,
or to A. r. COOKE,
atlrf Menacer IVIfie Natiaatlon Co.
T
1ME TABLE OF STEAMERS
0 THE
I1TTER.ISLAND STEAM WAVIOA-
TION COMPA1TY.
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Steamer Planter,
Hats ComtMad.
Leaves Hoootulu for Maalaaa, Koeu aavd Kaa M
Wedneaday, October land , at 4 P.M
Monday, November ird at 4 f.M
Arrlvtaf at Hooolatu on
Wednesday, October ith at 5 f.M
Sanday, November oth. at ( f.M
Steamer Iwatttnf,
Cameron, command! r, leave Honolulu .very Tue.
day at 1 pm. for Nawiliwili, Koloa, EleeL, and Was
mea, Kauai. , Returnina leeves Nawiliwili .my
Saturday evemne, arriving bacV every Sunday ssomlaf
Steamer JameM Mitkee,
Freeman, commander, teavee Honolulu every Fri
days, at 9 a.m. for Wataiue, Waialua, ICapaa and
Ktiaaea. Returning leavee Kapaa every Tbeedays as
4 f.M., and touching at Waialua and WalaaM, Hv
ing back every Wednesday afternoon.
Steamer C. 11. Btahop,
Dsril, commander, leaves Honolulu every Tuaeday
at ta m. for Ifamoa, Kulcutnaete, Honokaa and Pa.
hau. Returning will ttopat llamoa, arrlvtaf bacli
every bundey morning.
7 OFFICE ofthe Company, foot 'of KDaiee.
Street, near the V M. S. S. Whari it$-
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1LDERS STEAMSHIP COS
ROUTE AND TIME TABLE
THK K.VJ V
KlHG. . ...... .....COUMAMOC
Leave crery Tuetviay at 4 f. M., for Lahalna, Maa
laea, Mulct ha, Mahukona. Kawaihae, "Laupahotho
and Hilo. Leaves H1L Tburtdays, tpuchlosf at Um
ame portion return, arriving' back Saturday ati r. m
TUB LtKKLIKK
LOKKUlM.
MCOMMAHDSa
Leaves Mondays at 4 r. M. for 'lG.iwalcA.tml, Kjkbv
lal, Keaaae, Huelo, liana, Klpahulj ltd Nun. JU
turning ill stop at the above pxt arr.vio( back Satur
day mornings.
Tor mall and pattenstn only.
TUB LKUVA,
Wbiisakth..
Commands
Leaves Mondays at 5 r. w. for Paauhau, K oh lal.de
Ookala, Kukalau. Honohina Laupahotehoe. IlaJtalaa
andOnomaa. Returning will arrive back aadi Satur
day. .
TUB KILJ OKA ItOU.
McDonald. Com man oca
WUI leave each Wednesday forsana porta as (Jm LaJutft.
TUKMOKOLII.
McGRBGO. . '.. CoMMAWfM
Leaves each Wednesday for Kaunakakal, Ksnslw
Pukoo, Moanut, Halawa. WaUau. Pclekuou and aU
laupapa, returning each Monday evening.
pACIPIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO
The Spttndid StoaasaUp
ZJOAXsAXDXA.
WEB11ER
will leave Honolulu for San Fraadsco
On or about Mo
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The SflcM.Id StCAjiMhJp
AUSTItALIA.
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THAM or IMMCM,
WILL BE OUT IN DECEMMkX
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calls for yeuly lociataiag 4ttioM etfHS4ll
Th coming isaut still b. fully nm to lent
valuable! papm anj table upewiaHy ftftstt
Statistics. Calandar, KUtf u4 Dismaty
potted the additions or (hBf t to U ssstvit i
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or tend In new matter at earliest cwvastUavw,
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