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SATURDAY . .DECEMBER tj, iSe
-I885.-
Fair mt, soft-D'aming In trie cmtaln'd west,
Blight hsrabl of Kterriltyt "hose light
llaih Uss'd the vrearj IVitth Ihro' stilly aifht
And left my aching brain with i'n of ift.
O Isles nf llrightncss I tho' a fat on guest
Thou sremesl near to me, and iloiY requite
Earth's lunging for tlir dark Ilejond, despite
That far of death which lingers In the brent.
Thou art to me an unknown throbbing 1011I -An
emblem of tomr world'a identity 1
A thought Instinct with mysteries untold,
Which llvest conscieus of Divinity :
A dweller o'er mortality of old,
Who wateriest silent from Infinity
A'TIIUit Johnstone.
Honolulu, December JJth, 1881.
viiitt.ir.H.1.1 sr.ir rr.Aiin.
The wheels of time and change tun
swiftly, and we have just recorded an
anniversary of the birth of Christ wtiich
the world accepts as the one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-fourth. The
scholars tell us that Christian chro
nology Im blundered, and that the
Christian era .should date back four
years. I lowcver that may be, the event
which divides the past from the ancient
and modern is very far back in the years
that are gone. It is nearly two thousand
jrrars. The rule of Rome did not last
more than half so long, the sway of
Syria and Egypt no longer ; yet how
fresh is the story. It may be true that
the Christmas festival has not been
exempt from the law of commemorative
celebrations, the original facts of which
recede from view, or lose distinctness
and power of impression, though exten
sion in area or repetition in time. It is
true Christmas Day was disliked and
disused under Puritan rule, both in
England and America but to day it
occupies a large place in the attention
and interest of people of all classes and
conditions in civilized countries than it
ever occupied before, and it connccts.it
self with the widest existing range of
social usages. The social spirit has
entered into it,has taken possession of
it, and pcrctuatcs it. The social be
ing called man is n holiday-keeping
creature, a ritualist, and a mycologist
by nature. He must have his almanac
and must look back and forth to his
days of remembrance with a fervor of
grateful harmony and loving anticipa
tion. He will even keep his periodic
festivals, and ceremonials of which
neither tradition nor chronicle can tell
him the cause or the beginning. And
so through Gradgrinds will always be
found to grumble nt the ringing of the
changes in the notes of joy, as year by
year we 'sing the old old story of the
shepherds and the wise men, the Virgin
Mother, and the Holy Child we -to
whom the Christmas chimes have
brought a thrill of gladness that is not all
of the earth earthy, a stirring of memory
that is not from a past all selfish, thank
God for the Christmas story, its beauty
and its truth.
Next Thursday will be the first day
of 1885. Doubtless 'twill be a day of
good resolving here as everywhere.
On that day Messrs. Wine Dibbers will
pause to consider whether their daily
allowance of claret or port or sherry, of
Californian pressing, of New York bot
tling.and of French or Spanish labelling
is being ingested for their stomach's good
or for their palate's pleasure. Several
bakers' dozens of them will conclude
rightly and "s car off." Of each baker'i
dozen some will fall from grace within
an hour of resolving, others may hold
out a week, others a month, others six
months, still others a year, a few, let us
trust many, will keep their resolve of
total abstinence always. Hut not only
they will swear off who "look upon'
the wine when it is red and golden and
amber and purple, or who " press their
s Unsey" be-brandicd brown, or be-ginned
translucent.orbc-whukcyed variously,ot'
who " smile" in ruddy rum, or say "lets"
in liquid of all the myriad guises in
which the Devil knows his alcoholic
own. Lcfftenant Lush is not the
only distinguished person who will
turn over the new leaf. Captain
' Strutt and Dominie Know It All
and Cad t'uffdup and Snob Comic
cend and l'raisc God Ten ' Cent
Esq. and Mr. Pharisee Quaver-Smirk will
one and all resolve to lead somewhat less
censorious lives to "run down" their
neighbors less as do some of them, to
potc less as national and civic example
at do others of them, and to try to live
a little more according to the plain
letter ol. the law of Christ. Some of
e them will fail Let us trust that others
of them willvuccccd. For as we could
11 commend Lush as husband and
neighbor, save for this one failing, so
we should ajl look up to and admire
most of the others, if they cast aside
the fictitious superiority that makes
them targets for ridicule and put on the
uniform of that Christian manliness
1 !.-.'. ineir iciigtoti prescribe, uut wc who
arc not intemperate, (in liquor drinking
or in ought else if any of us o be)
have faults enough to re-icnt, God
know. Those of iu who cannot see
that wc have left " undoae thoe things
we ought to have done" and " have
dooe lhoc things wcought not to have
(ione"arciti exceeding need of enlighten
ment. This U the time of the year when
piombc hangs rainbow on every man's
ariaon and the exceptions (or, as
GrajM White says, the "excepting")
ytovc the rule- The old year may have
proven a false jade, wc fear the sex of
tnc mciapnorj to wnom wc gave ticari
and purse and reputation with disas
j trotis result. Hut surely this joyous
I New Year, in its youth and beauty, its
clear tjed candor, its ingenuous trust
fulness, is not to prove false. No mat
ter if the new year of twelve monthsago
was just as beautiful and just as ingen
uous, we. input, wc eel, wet are sure be
yond virety that 1885 will be to us all
that 1884 was not if the old was un
kind. Hut kt none of us forget the
past year's lessons. It will be well for
those Hawaiian who take nothing on
trust who take every fair promise of
nature and of the "signs of the
times" "with a grain of salt." It is
far letter that wc make up our minds
that sugar will be low during 1885, and
retrench accordingly, than that we see
rosc-hued skies through op.il-tintcd
glasses. If the planters and merchants
of the Hawaiian Islands do not lctrn
speedily the twin lessons of economy
in expenditure and prudence in invest
ment the next few cars are likely to
prove the saddest in our cotntncnial
and industrial history.
Vital problems arc pressing for solu
tion , I low Shall wc Compete with
other Sugar-producing Countries ?, On
what llasis Shall our Currency Rest ?,
How shall wc be Governed by auto
cracy, by pure Democracy, by the
Will of the Most Intelligent, or by the
Property-holding Class?, Shall we Al
low the IJntire Retail Trade of the
Nation to fall into the hands of Chinese?,
Shall this Nation takes its place with
England and the United States in a per
sistant effort to blot out Intemperance
and so build up National Morality ?
Those arc a few of the great questions.
They are to be settled in only one way
- by union and by hard work.
A IIKKIKIt I.IK fl'.T.
We cannot permit next Monday's
mail lo leave without carrying to San
Franrsco readers a few important de
tails in addition to those furnished by
the admirable and in most respects
adequate account which appeared in
the San Francisco Alta of the 15th
instant.
The story ol Mate Moran of the
Mendoza, as related to him by the
captain of the Tropic Bird, is satisfac
torily circumstantial so far as it goes,
but contains a few errors and ommis
sions which we will briefly repair as
follows : When the buccaneers captured
Mr. Ilrown of the Advertiser, they were
obliged to leave with him a guard of
twelve men (as the narrative relates.)
Hut the report fails to show that it
was because of Mr. Brown's stupendous
physical powers, as evidenced while
stauggling with some twenty of the
pirates before he was secured.
The statement that General Hsdey
and the editor of the Press were locked
up togather in the cellcr is correct;
but the report fails to add that the
editor did the general signal service by
bandaging the latter's broken wrist , as
well as by whistling martial airs to keep
up his spirits a service that will
doubtless receive official recognition
ere long.
Of the omissions, it may be men
tioned that in the sack of the Adver
tiser office a valuable package of bills
belonging to Daniel O'Connell, the ex-poet-editor
of the Advertiser, were
carried away.
It is also worthy of note that in the
sack of the office of another contem
porary the officer of the pirates second
in command fell over a pair of hnglish
walking brogans, that had been left in
the middle of the floor, and was seri
ously injured the only casualty sus
tained by the marauders.
It is well known here that the pirates
at first conceived the idea of carrying
off the king and his prime minister and
holding them for ransom. But that a
carclul examination of risks and bene
fits compelled the leader to decide
that the game wasn't worth the candle,
It is also well known that the leader
of the buccaneers captured a young
lawyer of the place, who was burning
the midnight oil in the interests of a
client, and received his liberty in
exchange for advice to the tbllowinc
effect : That the pirate leader sfioimC
instead of levying tribute upon the
town, uniply buy up the attorney
general at the value placed upon him
by the. community generally, and carry
him away to sell in some foreign coun
try, at his valuation as fixed by himself
and certain of his friends the valua
tion at one time set upon him by the
editor of this aper. The young
attorney very clearly showed that there
was " millions in it." Uut, on finding
the good damaged by having been
hung too long in a decayed cabinet,
the pirate captain reluctantly aban
doned th most taking project
The narrative was in error in men
tioning minister Kapena as prescnat
the place during the capture. Don
Juan was in hi own library, deep in a
studious comjvarison of the view of
Adam Smith, Francis A. Walker, W,
Stanley Jevons, Honamy Price, Ed
mund About, and other eminent
economic and financial authorities.
The story needs no further amend
ment Thank goodness it i all over.
The hard worked but always zealou
staff of this journal handed in copy
enough last night to fill several extra
column. Uut the foreman refuse to
enlarge the paper and so such of it as
will keep will be given next week.
The Cholera had not ceased in Pari
at last advice.
.rot nx.ii.ii.il,
III, Mllartal Oplnlnn l.tly rtii'f
II rrh ly Xrimjuiprri
Since writing my last p.ier, in which
I had something to say about Editorial
Writers, I found, in the New York
Hour, the following on the Declinp of
the Influence of Editoriil Opinion
The article is so interesting that I print
it in lieu of something of my own on the
same topic I fear it will not accord with
the views of my daily contemporaries.
Many capable journalists have lor a
long time believed that editorial writing
has had its day and that it will grad
ually cease to be an important feature
in daily newspapers. In the West this
opinion has led several journals of
prominence to restrict Rieallj the spate
devoted to the expression of opinion ,
while in the more conservative hast it
has led to a marked change in the
character of the matter printed on the
editorial page. It has become the cus
tom of many papers to treat all public
questions lightly, and to assume the
attitude of being amused at any
earnestness of opinion or warmth of
advocacy 011 the part of others. It is
true that (luring the recent political
canvass some of these very writers for
got themselves and occasionally were
jitter and earnest: but an amused atti
tude is their usual one, adopted deliber
ately, and not from any lark of means
for the emplovjncnt of capable writers,
or from any indisposition to furnish their
readers with what they desire, cost what
it may. Those responsible for the
policy will unhesitatingly tell any in
quirer that few people read editorials
nowadays, and that the lighter and
more amusing such articles arc the
more likely are they to receive the
attention of these few. The further
declare that the proper function of the
newspaper is ths recording of current
events and the amusement of its readers,
and that preaching is no proper part of
its business. In proof of the truth of
their assertion they triumphantly point
to the phenomenal success of these
journals which habitually neglect or
refuse to treat any subject seriously,
and at the same time they call atten
tion to the undeniable fact that some
of the papers conspicuous for the ability
displayed by their editorial writers, and
for the sincerity and fairness of their
treatment of public questions, have
only a small circulation and a conse
quently restricted influence.
It may be in part answered that in
too many instances an able journal runs
to the other extreme, and acts on the
theory that a waiting world is more
anxious to learn what its editors think
of events than to know what the events
are. It assumes, therefore, a sort of
mental strut which leads it in time to
mistake ponderous solemnity for dig
nity, and to condemn vivacity as fri
volity, and wholesome homeliness of
speech as vulgarity.
Nevertheless, despite all partial ex
planations, the fact remains that the
papers least marked by serious purpose
and mental strength in their editorial
utterances are largely circulated and
successful ; and the inference that the
influence of editoiial utterances is wan
ing is a fair one. There are several
ways of accounting for this. One cause
is doubtless to be found in the loss of
interest In public affairs on the part of
people wnere the population has Be
come dense, and the struggle for exis
tence intensified, lo such a people
amusement becomes a necessity as a
relief from menutl strain and anxiety in
business, and that which amuses suits
them better than that which instructs
or calls for thought in their hours of
leisure. I here is also a widespread
distrust of the honesty and sincerity of
newspaper writers.
Everybody knows that men of lit
erary skill and no mean ability can
readily be found who will write on
cither side, or both sides, of any ques
tion. No judgment as to the writer's
sincerity, therefore, can be formed from
the tone or matter of an article. On
the other hand, men having a personal
interest in misleading public opinion
are known to control certain news
papers, and no one is able to say with
certainty that this is not true of papers
not yet suspected. Whether this suspi
cion is well founded or not, it exists, and
the knowledge that such a condition of
affairs is possible naturally weakens
public trust in editorial utterances.
All of this goes to sustain the "fact
and fun" theory as to the true aim of
journalism, and to point to the gradual
abandonment of the attempt to make a
daily newspapewcrve the double pur-
)ose of a chronicler of events and a
moulder of public opinion. The stock
company control, which has done so
much to diminish individual rcsponst
bility for editorial utterances, and to
cause distrust as to their real purpose
and design, has become a necessity of
modern journalism. Nothing short of
a plant representing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, and the ansjswd ex
penditure of enormous sums of money
without regard to currerft receipts, will
meet the requirements of modern
metropolitai4ournaltsm. A new paper
with no revenue must sH.'nd as much
money as an old and well-established
one, if it is to have even a chance to
succeed. The cost of establishing or
purchasing a paper is, therefore, save
in exceptional cases, beyond the ability
of individual enterprise. There is no
escape for pajcrs thus owned from at
least the liability to secret and selfish
control, and perhaps the sooner thej
lay aside all pretence of offering disin
terested advice to the public the better.
Then the peopje will turn to the weekly
press for honest and disinterested com
ment on, and elucidation of, the daily
reports of current events.
I have always thought that the daily
ueus'iaper is an unsound medium of
opinion, because ft editorials, on most
topics, must be so hastily written.
Given two editorial writer of equal
average ability in the discussion of aver
age topics one of whom is employed
on a daily the other on a weekly, it
seems to me inevitable granting each
is conscientious -that the writer for the
weekly will do letter work than his
equally able confrere of the daily. His
editorial or current topics have the ad
vantage of deliberate preparation and
revision by new light, and are like to be
more nearly free from verbal inaccura
cies because of the comparative free
dom from haste which characti not
only the writing and rcvition but the
printing ol weeklies a compartd with
like work done for dailies. Of toi r-.c
I rcali7e that unavoidable haste is re
sensible for many of the imperfec
tions of daily newsp.-iers especially
in communities too Small to support
complete newspaper organizations
which mean a dally expenditure nf
large sums. I do not in the least dispar
age the value of daily newspaper work,
or deny that the public demand for
it has created an acknowledged public
need. I merely wish to express my
belief that a community which neglects
its good weekly press for its daily is
short sighted ; and such neglect weak
ens, an influence for good which the
daily press is powerless to supply.
The introduction of the above quo
tation makes it impossiblewithin the
limits I have assigned for each of these
essays to go into anything like an ade
quate discussion of newspaper matter.
So I shall conclude this paper with a
brief statement of what I think ought
to be the province of the daily and
of the weekly newspaper. .
The term newspaper may be taken
to inciuoe an papers vvnicn lurnisn in
formation in excess of opinionuSoinc
of the so-called "literary'' andlUscien-
tific" papers have as sound a title to'
the name newspaper as has the Daily
Monger, that deals with the idle tattle
of the empty hour. It would take too
long, and it is quite tineccssary, to go
into a detailed classification of news
papers the list would be an interest
ing one, though, and I may refer to it
later. This community is chiefly con
cerned with the daily and weekly (and
monthly) publications it supports. I
beg leave to offer, for the consideration
of every reader who does me the favor
to read this article, an opinion
based as much upon the judgment of
the ablest journalists of my personal
acquaintance as upon my own deliber
ate conviction.'
The daily newspaper of the sort
best appreciated at the present time
is a vehicle for the record and the dis
semination of daily news. If more than
that, so much the better ; if less, it fails
ofitsobject Nineteen twentiethsof every
Anglo Saxon communty it safely may
be ventured are interested in the daily
happenings of their little world. The
harmless tittle tattle of the streets, the
on 'change, the local improvement, the
incidents, the accidents, the chances
and the mischances of the fleeting
hour. I am not discussing whether
this sort of brain food (this "mental
mush" Greeley used to call it) is good
for a steady intellectual diet. I ack
nowledge the fact that the public dc
mands it, and it is just as mor.it and
legal to furnish it as it is to sell soda
water and ice cream. I do not need
(in Honolulu) to discriminate between
the sort of local news that may and
may not properly be told.
It remains that the public , dctuand
the news of the day; and is willing to
pay for it The daily paper that best
fills its mission will reflect pretty faith
fully all that portion of the daily life
of the community which is fairly the
property of the public's curiosity. And
there is no city, no large town even,
where the daily newspaper, in the right
hands, may not serve the public faith
fully and well.
Of course there are among the ex
acting readers of every daily paper those
who do not like personality, who call
complimentary mention of private affairs
" fulsome flattery," and consider even
the most mildly satirical mention " in
sulting." There are those who think
their paper " stupidly trivial" if the re
pairing of Davy Jones' chicken house
is chronicled; and others who think
the sheet " lacks enterprise" if the "im
provement" is not mentioned. One
man wants commercial intelligence but
is- not interested in shipping news. His
neighbor's preference is vice versa. The
intelligent conductor of the daily news
paper will cater to each. Sermons and
religious intelligence please one sub
scriber; but the subscriber whose shop
or residence is next door may not care
for anything religious, but be absorb
ingly interested in stock breeding or
fish culture. Each must be considered
And so on indefinitely.
The great difficulty in most communi
ties is not the lack of local news. But
lack of tact, taste and judgment in
gathering and ie-telling it- The right
sort of a newspaper is so systematic in
the arrangement of its news that there
is a gratuated scale of clarification,
giving its adequate imporunce.to.each
and every article or item. Airy light
ness is at once the natural and. the
artistic mode of treating certain topics.
The judicious editor never permit that
airy lightness to degenerate into flip
pancy. Dignity and earnestness ought
to characterize the treatment of cer
tain other topics, even when merely
treating of them as news. The judi
cious editor never permits his dignity to
become pompousness, or hi serious
ness rant. And so on to the end of a
long chapter.
Those weeklies which are merely the
reprint editions of their daily issue
need not be here considered They are
of little value in the community where
their daily issues appear: and
unless edited with rare judgment
carry to distant readers a mass of in
formation interesting to home reader
only.
The only kind of weekly newspapers
which I care to consider now are those
existing here, which, from the nature of
the circumstance under which they are
supported, combine the function of
newspaper and journal of opinion.
For example ; The real new Mt of
the other UUud of laic group arc bM
met by a condensed yet explicit abstract
of Honoltilan happenings, and the sa
lient feature of the news of the world
for the weeks covered by the semi
monthly mail. Such an abstract re
quires quite as muth industry and good
judgment (per amount of news fur
nished) as the like work of similar news
papers in other lands. The news of'
Honolulu ought to include every im
portant political, financial, commercial
and social event ; every public improve
ment, and every private improvement
of sufficient importance to awaken pub
lic interest ; social questions that have
become part of public discussion ; the
educational and religious interests' of
the place. The world's news ought
not to be merely political, commercial
and sporting. Something of what is
going on in literature, science, art,
music, philosophy and criticism ought
to make part of the world's news. I
do not mean that any W:r here could
or ought, give exhaustive intelligence
on any topic I have mentioned.
I do not forget that some of the
world's best periodical literature, hi all
the departments of modern thought,
reaches many Hawaiian homes. Hut
I think every four issues of a really use
ful English-Hawaiian weekly ought to
give something of at least suggestive
interest on retry topic I have mentioned.
Hut I consider the news-supplying
function of the weekly press of less
importance than its function as a med
ium for diffusing thought among the
people. I say this in no spirit of
journalistic conceit. On the contrary
I cheerfully acknowledge that the ideas
uf his readers are very often better
worth recording than arc the editors
own. It is the general fund of ideas
that the judicious editor will most often
draw open. He will, if possible,
makes his columns a desirable vehicle
for the opinions of thoughtful men and
women in every walk of life. He will
do the best-eithcrto make them write
or talk on current topics ; and there
will be ample scope for the exercise of
both tact and judgment in excising,
expanding and suppressing without
offense) the material so acquired.
I think he will prove in the end
the most successful conductor of a
weekly in countries like this who,
in news, in the reflection of popular
ideas, and in his own editorial expres
sion, keeps most nearly pefect pace
with the best intelligence of the com
munity in which he labors.
a FitiESDi.r pury.
We always read with especial pleasure
the selected articles in the Gazette sup
liment The following excerpts are
particularly interesting.
She immediately- seized the whip, nd pro
cccdcd to encourage her dear husband with it.
" Get up thcr, you laiy brific,' she remarked,
fetching him a clip that made him jumpand
removed portion of lnsshirt and some cuticle.
This cheered' up the husband, who made the
greatest effort of his life, and started off with
the loaded wagon, his devoted wife walking
by his side, and helping him from timr to time,
the usual quantities suggested being one sjuart
of molatses a day for a steer, and two quart
lor a Aliening east. inissnouiuoe uuxeu
with cut chaff, cake, mangel, &c, and turned
over a few times, leaving It for a few hours lo
allow the sugar to be thoroughly absorbed,
and in addittion a slight degree of fcrmanta
Hon to be set up.
Various receipts have been given by well
known agriculturists and stock raisers along by
an occasional punch in the ribs, or a well-directed
kick when he became discouarged.
The Washington Monument was'
finished on the 16th instant. The fol
lowing apposite comment is taken from
the Sacramento Record Union .of the
1 3th : " The Washington monument is
completed. The white marble shaft
towers to a greater hight than any other
architectural work of man. That which
is most pleasing in it is the severe simpli
city of the structure, and which is in
keeping with the character of the hero
and patriot for whose name and virtues
it is to stand as a perpetual memorial.
Any more ornamental structure would
have failed of its object. In its sim
ple grandeur and massive proportions,
free from all effortful adornment, it
comports with the lofty aims, patriot
ism and heroism of Washington, and is
a fitting shaft to typify the grand pro
portions of a life devoted to the cause
of human liberty. That which is least
pleasing about it, is the long record of the
years of its construction. Almost a cen
tury has elapsed since Washington has
been dead.and only now- is the Republic,
won to the world by his sword and his wis
dom, able to point to a monumental work
at all adequate to indicate the place hi
memory fills in the hearts of freedom."
A dispatch dated New York, Novcm
ber 8th says: " The chamber of com
merce committee on banking and
currency to-day approved Duckner's
bill, and wrote to Chairman Buckner,
suggesting that his bill be made an
amendment to the trade-dollar bill,
which has passed the house and is now
in the hands of the senate." Which
means that the chamber of commerce
tielieves there is far more silver in the
United States than can circulate with
out driving away gold; and unless the
coinage of standard silver- dollars be
suspended, that silver will go to a dis
count. A position not at all unlike
that held by our own chamber.
It is hoped that the sprightly young
gentlemen who does local itemizing
for the Daily Evening Hawaiian will
not consider the following "insulting" :
The society editor ofthe Press is suf
ficiently convalescent to read ten pages
of Kant at a sitting.
Roach's ship-yard at Chaster, Pa.,
has rtduccd wags 1 5 to ae $u cent.
.1 5ortMf C'rfrirlam.
hlnroit Saturday Trrss Sir I quote
from your issue nf last Saturday The italics
are mine :
If this were not so busy a world, if Ikt
ltrnffirftr t.xiittmtt tiui net n,tle jtfrenintnt
tht tread &ni tutltr fdctl oflhe milllon-sideil
poljgon we call life, ijtkt ntrlJ Sad iherttr
reiilwt tuff hears au.t lender heur$ fer that
ihnnge tf uttk Vtfiirh is I'll Itil form t n
inaUen, Iktn ufuJ it hitaitr i,etl in "nitti-
t'fer writing fer the mtrtly tiiitrtftivi urittr.
And if the writer of theatiose article did
not denounce, but combine with men whose '
tery.liies are devoted to the propagation of
principles which are calculated to cause the (
abnluatlon of that cumplalncd of long hour
ftoik." or drudging system, institution and the
In Its stead of a system ot ' Mate lorpera-
lion," then some of the di.graceful appendages
of society, the bummers and loafers in the shape
ofprofilmongets.intetcsllUcscsandtentsliaiks
nasingiostiiiisavrnueoi-uncarnTOincreniciu,
as Henry Ccorgc politely styles it, and being
forced into either st-uving or seeking for a use- ,
fu! avocation, woulij come to the rescue 01 tne
overworked and underpaid "descriptive,
writer 1" then "the world uvuJ have shorter
routint wmk hours and longer hours for that
change of work which Is I he liest form of rec
reation " then life would not be simply "a
struggle for existence " and "the bread and
butler" question would net be quite " so proml
neut," for nature spreads the table for til of
her children, and a wise, a rational, system of
posermnent, a s)Stcm of ttaie-coupeution
under which the energies and materials which
are at ptesent wasted would be utlUied ptop-
etly, would provide emybody with the com
forts ixkJ luxurits of life for but two or three
hours of usefulness a day as eminent social.
connmlsts prove) ,
This is hut one of many Instances, in which
)ou have In )our paper Indirectly, na I Pre
sume unconsciously, pointed out fragments of
reforms, which when picked and put togather
compose thit scientific system for the advocacy
of which )ou have so fiercely denounced me.
I forgive you. I can bear it for the sake of the
noble cause I am engaged In. But be up and
Investigate Socialism. Do not waste your
time in grappling with eflects, like Intemper
ance, etc Kefoimcrs must seek for the eauses
of evils. Intemperance is the tndiiect fjffiet of
the incorrect adjustment of the economic tela
lions of man. Change the system of adjust
ment, purify our economic relations and then
)ou will have killed intemperance by remov
ing its cauu.
HlGISMUND DaNICLVVIIZ.
Honolulu December 22, 1884.
(The editor is tinware of having ever
"fiercely denounced" Mr. Danielwiez.
Hut that aside. What the editor would
like to know is: How is Socialism
going to prevent its own leadcis after
they have topped over all existing insti
tutions from becominc in their turn
"profit mongers," "interest thieves"
and "rent sharks?")
Our Patent isitv.
Editor Saturday Press Sir: I am
sorry tn observe that such an act is in force as
that which the Legislature of Hawaii has lately
passed to establish a "patent system," no
doubt with a desire to benefit the community.
yet an act which has very few safe-guards of
planting and national interests. Some of th;
reasons why I for one am opposed To natcnts,
you will find in a volume which I take the
liberty of sending you. I fear, however, its
bulk wilt prevent Its receiving a sufficiently
early and realizing attention. Let me there
fore say, by your favor, that I am so thoroughly
convinced that a pjtent system giving every
body out of the kingdom who is an inventor
a right to hinder all the sugar-plantcrs'of the
kingdom from adopting every Improvement,
which the growth of science happily brings
within reach of all mankind, is mistaken in
policy and will be oppressive in practice,
that I am bold enough, at the risk of in
curring blame, 10 urge a patriotic government
and an enterprising population to take the
earliest opportunity of getting Ihc act either
abrogated, or modified so as to confine the
granting nf privileges (which in any case would
be hurtful to the public) to actual residents
within the Hawaiian Kingdom. Even those
favored ones should be put under an obligation
to charge for license no marc than is reason
able, and no mare than the sugar business in
these bad times can afford topiy. Vour co
operation in that 'direction will be a great ser
vice to all persons engaged in the staple in
dustry of the kingdom, who I hope will take
In good part this my ' representation, made
without solicitation, on their behalf. Ltt me,
respectfully, say to tbem, and especially to
fiis Majesty an I the Hawaiian government,
"tai'tee and " reriuii sat sapitntibui."
Yours, etc., etc,
K. A. Macfik, K, C. K.
Dr;ghorn, Colinton, Midlothian, Scotland,
November, 1884.
Oh Semrtnf Cu (-.
Editor Saturday VitaSir t I should
ike to call the attention of Hawaiian cattle
breeders to the following article written for th
Rural Pres of S..n Fraucisco by W. . Da
mon of Napa, California t
" Large numbers of valuable heifer calves
are annually sacrificed, sent to the hutches
when but a month old, because their owner
keeps but one cow and cannot spare the.freah
i.iilk that rould be required to rear them, to
raiting calves a common way Is to give the
calf half the milk, fresh from the cow, fen the
first three or four months, and then begin la
feed something else, probably new and skim
aiilk, half and half.
"Of course this kind of feeding Implies the
ditctslon from the table of a large amount
of cream and butter. A calf so raised ought lo
be of tine blood ta make it worth the raising.
" My object, in this article, it to show thaa a
calf can be reartd, and well reared, without
such eapense. If 1 can do this I shall probably
ave the lives of some valuable calves, the prog
eny of choice family cows,
" The calf should never beallowcd to tuck
the cow, not for a tingle time, but should be
removed at once out of sight and heating of Its
mother, and to kept for two or three months.
After that time they may be allowed to run to
gether acaiu, and no trouble will generally be
eapeilenccd.) but they shuuld be watched evea
then, fur the calf still iMght learn to suck,
"Some cows mourn over the loss uf their
calves for weeks, having little appetite for food
and falling away iu both Aeth and milk--tuck
t cow hat been badly educated and is not worth
half price, fur the will fitter become a, good
family cow,
" My cowt seldom miss the calves after the
second dayionktimet ihcyjqiinifevtno thought
jf it aftrriit or twelve hours. Hut these re
sults are only reached by beginning with young
heifers, and removing ihcir calves, tad all
calves, entirely out of tight and hearing. Th
tight of a calf will set some cowt wild a week
or more after hey have calved.
" Put the calf in a pen or yard where it will
have both shelter and sunshine. It mut have
sunshine, and it should has a good, warm
bed at night. If these cannot be piuvided H
it better lo tend it to th butcher keep it aw
fa play male for the dhlldreav, and rear U a a
a roily pet, A calf to uivtd will k woelfc
double price at a family cqw foe avals' IB fsktc
ol a good cow it in bar edacaiion, a4 ike eskW
Ball' i is aw tullk aad tntttar.
"The first week Rue it milk fresh from the
'. " It will drinW. Itut to make It think,
,,a,t the calf into a corner of the pen, place
Its head between jour legt, jet the mirk bucket
on a lo 1 one foot high, hold (lie bucket steady
Kith your left hand, place the middle finger of
your right hand into the calf s mouth and push
Ilsnoselntothemilk. Whenitbeginsto suck slip
)our finger quietly out of Its mouth. When It
throws up Its bead ou must icpeat the opera
tion as before. IJn not get angry t be patlrnt,
and In three das or more, the calf will learn
lo drink. 1 hate known a smart calf jo leatn
the second dar
'',fter one eek the cow's milk wlfl be all
right for family use, so the calf can have no
more new milk, (t assume that you have but
one cowhand thai you wish to make butter.)
sk, p,n 0f ,i;k that has stood for twelve
,ou , mX une uuicrHxmnil of mluMlliici. or
gralum (not short nor cornmeal), In a cup of
coij water, and add one quaitof txiflii.g water.
This will thoroughly cook the middlings, and I
t w 1 free from tumps, Now potr 111 three :
quails of sweet (never sour) milk, and you
w have one L-allon at the nroner temperature
for feeling. Never feed It loo hot calves do
not like scalded mouths Make It just "milk ;
warm." The llilrd week feet! just the sane,
only double the amount of middlings. The
fourth week increase the middlings to one tea
cupful, but never give more than one gallon of
drink at a time. The calf should be fed every
twelve hours from the first.
After the first month begin to add, a very lit
tle only, of corn meal shrills, bran and oilcake
meal, Uut these should alw)s be thoroughly
scalded before being poured Into the milk.
Do not scald the milk unless the calf scours
badly.
"When the calf Is one month old begin also
to feed a little fine hay just a handful at first,
and from this time let it have a taste of every.
thin J that is good or It, such as beets, carrots,
)otatoes, cabbage, squash, corn fodder, sugar
cane s also bits of bread, crackers, etc., from
the table. 'One object of this style of feeding
is to educate the calf for a model family cow 1
for the family cow should learn tu eat every
thing that is 'dean and good. Keep on
with the gallon of warm drink twice a day un
til the calf is three months old ; after that once
a day, in the morning', and cold watet at noon
or night.
"A calf so raised has cost but very little. It
has made no draft at all upon the cream or but
ter, and the skim milk has not been missed, for
there was more than the family had use for.
It has consumed about a dollar's worth of
ground feed when three month old, and fifty
cents of hay. This with a little work and much
innocent amusement for the children is the sum
total of the expense. I have tried this method
with several calves, and always with the best
success. 1 lie only danger is Irom over-lecu-
ing, which occasionally makes them sick for a
day or two."
Mr. W. C. Damon is altogether 1 practical
and responsible citizen and dairyman. From
experience and observation I most heartily en
dorse his plan of rearing and feeding calves.
Cooked Oil Cake meal is also one of the
safest and best for feeding especially calves
and Young animals of all kinds. 100 pounds
of 'this meal equals 300 pounds oats, 318
pounds corn, 767 pounds bran.
Having been subjected to a steam heat of
over 400 degrees it may be fed freely, and is
the greatest flesh former and milk and butter
producer, as well as the most economical food
n use.
For young cattle From 1 to 2 years old, 3
to 5 quarts per day, in a leeds.
This Spring calves From I to'a quarts per
day.
Sheep One pint of meal to each pound, of
oats fed, or larger proportion of meat if pre
ferred. '
Horses A quart to a feed, with oats or
com, will'keep a horse in good condition.
Pigs From I to 3 quarts in a feed, accord
ing to age and size.
From six to seven quarts of this, meat per
day, in two feeds, morning and evening,
should be fed to cows giving milk, and to
steers intended for beef. Mixed with water,
and allowed to stand 12 hours before using,
it gives the best results, but it may be fed dry.
Stock not accustomed to be fed on linseed
meal should have it first mixed with bran or
corti" meal. In a few days they will cat it
alone. One quart of the mca weighs one
pound. We feed this with unvarying good
results. It has proved the best chemical com
pound yet discovered for auy and all live
stock, as it assimilates so easily and perfectly.
Peter Sax.
Honolulu, December 20, 1884.
BORN.
Iu Honolulu. Dec. aiu. tttht ifo of Cap. F, Ma
cos, a daughter.
OIBD
CHII.UNGWORTH At Makawao, Maul. Dc.
fslh, Lydu, dAitg&ttr ol baml t. ana aiiiatxm a.
Cbtuingwynri, aged 3 years ana 9 uontbs.
HAVSELDEN lathitcilv. ontheeatlilntl. Heurv-
C, reungtit wn ot '1 alula L. anU FttJ II. tUyseldtn,
aged 14 months anil 13 days.
,lcU) i&toeritotmtnto.
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til corporation are hereby requtttaJ to make fall and
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foe ike ytar ending July I, 18I4.
Blanks fur Ike purpusa will be furuishad en appl oa-
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CHAS. T. GUL1CK,
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