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the coast were said to be at raid Punchbowl would brcau out in eruption, the Bishop Estate did not let go any of its land. Star. "Too often good churchmen are not good citizens. The pulpit has no higher function than that of training them to be good citizens. Let the pulpit cry in season and out of season that the state is God's state just as truly as the church is God's church, and a body of citizens will arise which will for all time wipe from our municipalities the conditions which to-day make tliern a by-word among the nations of the world." Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the famous traveler, who died October 7th, has recorded her experience of Chinese converts to Christianity, and it deserves a wide circulation to correct the hard things often said of them by those who do not know whereof they speak, as Airs. Bishop did. The converts, she avers, "live pure and honest lives : they are teachable, greedy of Bible knowledge, generous and self-denying for Christian purposes the best stuff in Asia." "I called at the superintendent's office and asked, 'How is Miss H. getting along?' The superintendent told me that she was one of the most effective teachers that he had ever had thoroughly consecrated to her work. Then I said: 'Why in the world don't you tell her so? Dont you like to hear your work commended ?' " DEATH OF MRS. W. G. SMITH SHE HAD BEEN CUITICAM.Y ILL FOR SOME MONTHS, HUT WAS THOUGHT TO 11E RECOVERING. Mrs. Walter Gifford Smith, wife cjf Walter Gifford Smith, editor of I he Pacific Commercial Advertiser died last evening at Coronado Beach California, whither she went four months ago in searcch of health. Mrs. Smith had a serious operation three and a half years ago, which was followed by attacks of THE HONOLULU TIMES. dengue fever and pneumonia. The latter malady left her with a throat affection which did not yield to treatment and which worried her into a state of nervous prostration. She left here on September 13 in a weak stale and stayed a short time in Sr.n Francisco, going then to Coronado Beach, her former home, where she had always been well. Early in October she became helpless, no one being allowed to see her but her nurse and doctor until her son visited her about three weeks ago. Late letters from friends said she had a good chance of recovery. Mrs. Smith was a native of Illinois, but spent the greater part of her girlhood in New York, where she was married in the winter of 1882. Besides her husband she leaves a son, Ernest N. Smith, who is a student at Stanford University, and two daughters, Agnes and Edith Smith, who arc at Oahu College. Her remains will be sent to New York for bivial. Mrs. Smith was a woman of charming personality, with a keen sense of humor. She had made many friends during her residence here and her death will be sincerely mourned. The Star. "And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." A friend said to us the other day : "You have no pull or you wouldn't work so hard. How is it that known enemies prosper and live luxuriously every day?" "Well, we manage to sleep when night comes anyway." To those who have patience and can wait, content to use self-denial and to live plain, they will see unbounded prosperity in a f;w years ; and all who condemned Hawaii will flee "to the woods" (any kind of a covered cart) "Oh. not T that dinned 'hard times' says Brown; it was that man Smith. Indeed, I could always see jugs of milk and honev just ahead (just). (Ed.) ' Asiatics for field labor arc a necessity in this country. How to restrict the immigration to the limits of this necessity, or hinder emigration so that immigration will cease because of the labor market being full, is a problem this Association cannot elucidate. .1 .' vl? Yesterday was a day for the farm policy. The strong stand of the Merchants' Association for diversified agriculture was supplemented by the good start of a $1 50,000 corporation, towards the creation of a rubber industry. ' .' . Go to the Queen Hotel, Nuuanu for good room and board. NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW. By Mary Louise Cummins. Alan Heathcrington stood amid the usual 5.30 p. m. crowd waiting for his particular suburban car. The day had been scorching even for a metropolis. He pushed back his straw hat. revealing the fine, clean-looking fair hair which was his English heritage, and fingered the roll of evening papers under his arm with an anticipatory breath, born of the thought of the open electric. It was characteristic of him that he stood as much aloof as possible from the jostling throng. His ancestry was as discernible in his attitude as in the blue eyes, which looked as though a thin veil of reserve had been lowered between them and the rest of mankind, and in the strong, well set up figure. Suddenly he drew forth his bundle of papers and became apparently absorbed in their contents. His gaze in wandering over the sea of faces had encountered that of a small man with bright, dark eyes and a head which protruded from between square shoulders. Heathcrington felt his approach with every resenting nerve of his body, even while he feigned ignorance of it. There were many things not pleasant in connection with business life. By far the most unpleasant was Bernstein.