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tion it will be clear and clean and
adds its wisdom and strength to the
amalgam which is America.
The United States will never be
ashamed of the island flag and will
always be glad that it opened the
door for us when it looked over the
transom and saw what nice people
were knocking.
By the way, speaking of Statehood
but this is the end of the
column.
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. (May 20.)
Early yesterday afternoon, Judge
Charles F. Hart, merchant, planter
and jurist, died at his beautiful
home at Waikiki. Judge Hart suffered
for several months from
grippe, complications finally setting
in that caused his death. Death
came to the aged kamaaina at one
o'clock, his wife and his two daughters
being at the bedside in his last
moments.
He was seventy-six years old at
the time of his death and had been a
resident of the Islands since he was
a boy of sixteen. In 1850 he arrived
in Honolulu from England,
after rounding the Horn, and from
this island went to Kauai, where he
spent some years.
From Kauai he returned to Oahu
and established himself in the wine
and liquor business. His firm was
known as Richardson & Hart, but
after several years of success be
abandoned it and went to Hawaii.
It was on Hawaii that the greater
part of his active life was spent.
After quitting his business on Oahu,
he established himself as a planter
on the Big Island, foreseeing the
future of sugar, the planting of
which was even then assuming
great proportions. He first settled
in Kona, where he started a plantation,
but afterwards moved to
and established the Niulii
plantation, of which he was the
owner to the day of his death. He
married in 1869.
The latter part of his life has
been spent on his splendid place in
Kapiolani Park. For twenty-six
years he was circuit judge on Hawaii
under the old regime, and a
long and varied life made the
quietude of his last years the more
appreciable.
Judge Hart was a brilliant
scholar and writer. For many
years his contributions to The Advertiser,
under the nom de plume
of Civis Secundus, were master
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pieces of English and displayed
erudition and controversial ability
of a very high order. He held very
emphatic views against the use of
alcoholic liquors, and backed them
up with a wealth of scientific and
sociological authority. He had
similarly strong views against vaccination,
and his last writings for
the local press were on this subject.
Judge Hart leaves a wife and
two daughters, the daughters being
Mrs. Francis Gay and Mrs. Charles
S. Elston. Mr. Elston is at present
on the Coast, having gone away
for his health. The others of the
family are here.
The funeral services will take
place at St. Andrew's Cathedral.
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"I think I have done my duty."
Men knew that what he thought
was true. They knew also that he
did his duty wisely, tactfully and
kindly, winning men rather than
repelling them, as he did it.
It is this sense of duty in people
and ruler which has contributed
most largely to England's greatness.
It has not been glory which
has been the animating spirit of
her great men, it has been duty.
Duty to fellow men led her to
emancipate the West Indian slaves
at a cost of one hundred million
dollars. Duty to brother men led
her to give to conquered Boers the
privileges of free men. And duty
has led her again to consider right
rather than gain.
If the sense of duty is deep in
the heart of a people there will be
no grafting gain and patriotism
will not be a mere profession of
the lips but a reality of the heart.
We need as men, we need as citizens
of various countries to learn
the lesson of duty as people, as officials,
as men having a part in the
great world's life.
The second lesson is peace
among the nations. Jesus Christ
planted the seed of peace which
shall one clay bear prevailing fruitage.
The Fatherland of God and
the Brotherhood of man made real
in Him is the leavening truth which
is permeating social order and
which is making for peace. King
Edward used his relationship with
Kings, his knowledge of men, his
grasp of affairs, his kindly disposition,
all to bring the powers to a
better understanding. By personal
visits he strove to show friendship
and to promote it. It was far more
comfort, to him, you may be sure;
as he lay dying, to think of what
he had done in the interests of
peace, than to have looked back upon
conquered hosts and fields of
agony and blood.
God grant that the spirit which
he strove to arouse and maintain
may live and grow until the Council
Chamber and not the battle field
shall be the theater of arbitration
for all disputes among the nations.
In speaking of the late King
shall we forget the woman who is
most loved in England today? The
gentle, wise, and good woman who
has been King Edward's queen? I
may be pardoned for giving expression
of a memory which comes
to me of standing with my father
long years ago to see the fair Princess
from Denmark enter London
as a bride. She won that day the
hearts of a people who have always
loved her.
Happy and twice blessed nation
to have had two women with so
potent an influence for good as
King Edward's mother and King
Edward's wife.
And now we go our way and
may the memory of this service do
its part in cementing the friendship
of nations and making a living fact
of the brotherhood of man.
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The late Judge Hart was a very
uncommon man and in many ways,
a great jurist, a far-sighted business
man and one of the most elegant
and powerful writers these
Islands have ever known. He was
a refined, noble, Christian gentleman,
a true prince among men and
he won the esteem and love of this
community and will not soon be
forgotten.
& & &
HAWAII.
O land of beauty,
Land of charm divine !
O land of flashing surf and flying
foam,
Of mountain heights sublime,
Of valleys filled with amythest,
Where the rainbows make their
home !
Hast thou no charm to sooth life's
fearful ills,
No balm for aches unending,
Or even a heartsease for the grief
that kills?
Only the wind's low murmur makes
reply
Only the sea's vast sigh
