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THE, PACIFIC COMMERCIAL AJISffiBfllSEB, OCTOBER 21, 1884.
HEATH. OF
HON. MRS.C.R. BISHOP.
On Thursday last, October 16th, at
twelve minutes past 12 o'clock, noon,
tlie above named estimable lady died
at. her residence, on Emma street,
in this city.
fobe was the daughter of the High
Chief and Chiefess, Hon. A. Paki
and Konia; born on the 19th of De
cember, 1831, aud christened Bernice
Pauahi.
She was educated at the Roval
School, established for young Chiefs
in 1840, by Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Cooke,
where also the present heir apparent,
then known as Lydia Paki, and
David Kalakaua, our present King,
received their early training. The?
advantages of this institution were
the best the islands afforded in those
days.
In June, l&oO, the young Chiefess
was united in marriage to the Hon.
Charles R. Bishop, then Collector
General of Customs of this port.
During all these years she has filled a
prominent and brilliant place in
Honolulu society, and for many year?
has been an active and useful mem-
THE LAST AND BEST OF THE
HAMEHAS. .
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KAME-l lery prrest, truest
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Scrraou Delivered ut Fort Street;
CHurcIi on Sunday Mom in 7,
October 19th, by the Rev. -J.
A. Cruzau, 1'astor.
. This toxt contains three truths: First
Our real lives are an "opon secret." A
mask cannot be successfully worn rery
long. Sooner or later the community in
which a person lives knows him for what he
is. In a hundred ways, and on countless
occasions, the real character is revealed.
jThere is an unconscious revelation of ono f
real self which no one can avoiJ. And,
lOlb rCill BCli IB IClli iUU ICUUq-
oized wherever we go. The moral and social
Kom. 14:7 For non of
and none dietu to himself.
U3 liveth to himself,
(He vised version.")
atmosphere is made either warmer and! itatious faithfulness.
purer, or more frigid in its selfishness and
unclean in its putridity, by our lives. And
third What is true of living, this text says,
lis true of dying "and none dieth to him
self." Death croups together and earners
up the whole bent and drift of life. The re
sults of the dead one's life, not only lie "on
God's threshing floor," but on man's as
well, and is sifted and weighed. The good
abides, and the bad also, though men chari
tably forget that,' but it abides all the same.
The last" and the best "of the Kanieha-
mehas lie in her last long sleep." For
fifty-three years has she "gone in and out"
before this people and this city. In her
position, high iu rank, with great wealth at
jpart in the social life of this city and nation,
it was especially impossible for her to "live
to herself." Her life was known to alf.
noblest beings, we know
It is the livinsr man on
woman, himself or Ltrlf, which lifts us up
or drags us down. We are elevated and
punned, or polluted and degraded; made
nobler and larger by the one, or belittled by
the other. All the greatest saints, and heroes.
and prophets of history have influenced
mankind far more by what thev were than
by what they said or did. The whole mora!
life and heart cf the farther East has been
colored by the mind and heart of Gautama
Budha. The stupendous change which has
passed over humanity during the last
eighteen hundred years, and which we name
iChristianitv. Vi Via1
J V& W lltl iUHtUDMliUQ)
acting to this hour through millions of
hearts, not so much the Sermon on the
Mount, or even the martyrdom of Cavalry,
as the personal character of Jesus Christ."
I pray God that we may each one learn from
this noble life this lesson of quiet, unosten-
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. , it i ,i . . . , riuow good and how true that life was you
she was devotedly attached. j
Her intense interest iu, and strong!
influence over, the youth of her race
has been most noticeable, and the
future only can divulge the extent
of her usefulness in this regard.
But little more than a year has
elapsed since, by the death of .the
Princess Ruth Keelikolani, shefell
heir to the largest estate in- these
islands, but " before r sh'e; had fairly
come into possession of this property
the relentless - hand of the Angel of
Death has summoned her to leave all
for ther scenes.- : ' '
u .The : funeral i will . probably take
place on Sunday, November 2nd. !
should haltingly
a comparative stranger
and imperfectly tell you
jtiiut, while our hearts are
On Thursday, the city of Honolulu
bore a truly sorrowful aspect. The
sun never shone throughout the day,
and immediately after , mid-day, the
announcement of- the death of Mrs
Bishop was a signal for the closing of
all houses of business.
Flags
were
displayed at half-mast at the several
Consulates, and also by the, vessels in
port. Though the death .of this es
timable lady was anticipated in con
sequence of the incurable disease
fram which ! she was' sufTerlng, still
the efTect was universally felt, and
the sorrow caused thereby was uni
versally manifested. In this hour oil
tribulation and suffering, we tender
our heartfelt sympathies to the sur
viving relicts of the deceased. '
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A Gratltodliial Acluiowleiljremeut.
'4 To Edward Preston,' Alfred S. Hartwell,
John r.nsaell, W. R. Castle, W. A. Kinney,
William R. ; Austin,! William O. Smith, ,W.
'AQstizOYbitinffB. F. Bickerton, J. L. Kau-
lukou,J. 31. 3Xonsarrat, - A. P. Peterson, J.
V il. Poepoe, W. L. Jlolokahiki, S. 13. Dole,
A. Boss, F. 31. Hatch, Esqs., gentlemen of
the Hawaiian Bar : "
,il -.r ... .
Allow mo to embrace this 'opportunity to
extend to each of you my last farewell while
I sever myself' from' you in my official
capacity as Marshal of the Kingdom ; and
h1so ' express to you my most ' sincere and
heartfelt thanks for' the many kind and most
friendly expressions 'contained in your reso-i
lutions, and copy f which I received from
fWm.-Foster,; Esq., Clerk of the Supreme
t In parting from. you, I bear with me kind
remembrances of , the jnany favors wlucu I
have experienced from each nd every one
of you while discharging the duties of my
oco ; and if in the " discharge of those
"duties I have 'done that which was hurtful
td anv one of vou. I am heartily sorry f6r
'the same, and pray that 'in your goodness
you will forgive me. 1 ' ' ' " 1 -
Allow me again ' to ' express to you my
?. thank3for the kind sentiments bestowed on
me. I prav that vour happiness and pros
perity may "be long continued, and that our
't:lose fnendshm mav b continuea in our
private walks of life., , ...
" ' I have the honor to be, Sirs,
Your obedient 'servant -
. . , i . W-.C. Parke.
all tender, andl;;
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iuuut;uis &iu iuii ui tue irreparauits lush
which this death has brought upon the na
tion, it seem3 most fitting that we should fix
in our minds some of the lessons which her
life and death may teach us.
First, we see in this life the priceless
value of true womanliness. ; The great loss
which Hawaii sustained last Thursday was
not that the last of this great line of High
Chiefs died, nor that the possessor of great
wealth' died, but that a true woman died
Who can find- u virtuous (l. e., a strong,
noble, true) woman; her price -is far above
rubies.'? True in nil- times and among all
paces pre-eminently . true : in these days,
among our native Hawaiians. And all the
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nvqre-. valuable is such a rare jewel, of
womanhood , when there is joined to it rank
and potential influence and wealth. .
That Bernice Pauahi Bishop was such a
true woman her life -bears witness.' 'ite
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fusing a crown, she so lived that she was
crowned.' Refusing to- rulejier people, Bhe.
did what was better, she served them : and
in no way so grandly- Tas by her ; example
nd ' her "death brings home the truth ut
tered years ago by Dr. Howe, 'The world
can do witnout its masters Better man it
can without its servants."
'And her example was especially marked
and helpful, just in the'direction in which
the" . Hawaiian race, and especially Ha
waiian women, have greatest need ofj help.
For ifty-three years her royal life here has
borne unswerving witness in favor of virtue
and purity. Her example in this direction
was not mute. It took voice on all proper
occasions ana maae itseii Known in an
womanly ways. She hated that which was
impure with an intense hatred. She had
only loathing and contempt for that which
was coarse and low. : Place power, wealth,
nor influence could win her favor or regard
if it was' joined with degraded character.
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And her womanly example was all the
more potent for good because it was so quiet
This is contrary to the general idea, "1!
know; In this day of steam and noise and
bluster men are apt to overlook those who
do not suund a trumpet before them. -And
yet, when we think a little better and deeper,
we know that all real abiding power is quiet
hmd unostentatious. We speak of the roll
ins thunder as powerful: but gravitation,
which makes no noise, has no speech, and
utters no syllable,! keeps the whole system
of the universe in order, holds not only
every planet but every atom in its mighty
rasp, is ten thousand times more powerful.
jWe say of the red lightning, "It is very
powerful;" and so it is. But it is not half
so powerful as the lisrht, which comes soi
softly from the skies that we do not feel it,
travels at an inconceivable speed, strikes,
lyet is not felt, but exercises an influence so
powerful that the sea is kept back by it that
the earth is clothed with verdure by its
influence,, and all nature beautified and
blessed by its action. The things that arc
most noisy are not the most powerful. ,Nay,
things . that make no noise, and make
pretension, may be really the most powerful.
This quiet, modest, true womanly life has
been for years, and still is, and will be for
lyears to come, a, mighty power for good!
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here in Hawaii. Only the God who lovelh
purity and righteousness can . measure this
one true woman s influence lor crootl urom
her people. As Frances Power Cobbe says
in her admirable book, "The 'Duties of
iWomen": :"-The truest and surest way in
0 t m
wmcn we can serTe our leiiow-men is not so
much to do anything for them as to be, the
no'
1 And second, her life . for more than
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thirty years has taught her. own race, and
all this people, the sacredness of marriage
and the home. As she lived and moved
among her people her example was
"A calm and gracious element,
- Whose presence seemed the sweet incense,
And womanly atmosphere of home."
as a true wife, she leaves a rich heritage
to ner- people, jjor thjs all men, bad men
ja.3 buuu, nonor ner. Ana ner own
uuiuc mu iiufc uouna ner tnougnts. one be
lieved m pure homes for her people. Her
thought ran parallel with Longfellows'
-0, fortunate, O happy day,
When a new household rinds Its place,
Among the myriad homes of earth.
Like a new star just sprung to birth
And rolled on its harmonious way
Into the boundless realms of space."
And in order that there might be homes
orthy of the name, she knew and felt that
her Hawaiian sisters must be trained to be
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0wu i.i.ta, juuilcib iiuu uome-ixuepers.
With open, generous hand, and with woman-l
Iy sympathy and tenderness, many a young
f Hawaiian girl has been thus led and trained
jby this noble woman. , "
J And m this respect she was wise. The
great. neeu 01 tnis nation is a wise, sys
tematic training of young girls to be home-.
makers. , For the reason that Hawaiian men
out-numDentne Hawaiian women. . and. so
very -one. .of these dark-skinned sisters off
ours can . look, forward to, ahome, thy
should receive the largest, completest, and
most thorough, training as home-makers.
Education, religion, practical training in
the work-routine of a home should be
lavished upon every Hawaiian girl, so that
she may be fitted to ' do the best work W
which she is capable, and be fitted to do her
part in making Hawaii a nation of homes.
Let us keep before our daughters,' as? well
as before these darker-skinned daughters of
Hawaii, that' the ' very1 highest function of
women is to raise and train a family. It is
the very highest function of man also, in
deed civilization has but this end in view 1
the perpetuation .and improvement of .the
iva.ee, rine establishment of, homes, the?
frearing ol families, the founding of schools?
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and colleges, the plantincr of institutions.
the maintaining of governments all are but!
means to this end. As Humboldt said years
!ago, "Governments, religion property,'
books, arc but the scaffolding to build menJ
Earth holds up' to her blaster no fruit but
the'' finished man." The most important
agency of all f 13 the home. For here the
very foundation ; is laid for good or evil.
The very first step away from animalism is
taken when a human being, young or old, is
established in a well-ordered home. ; The
advance of. a nation comes only through the
improvement of- the homes of the nation.
As the aggregate of these may be, so will the
nation be. For it is here that the real
humanizing and civilizing is carried for
ward. And, as a rule, the worth or worth-
lessness of the home is the work of woman.
A ' M a T W o tt Y-n Jlrf-l o nnofln av a nolo nt ' '
says Miss Cobbe, but, poor creature! be
he wise as Solomon, and rich as Croesus, he
cannot turn it into a home. No masculine
mortal can 'do that. It is a woman, and
only a woman a woman all, by herself, if
she likes, and without any man to help her
who can turn a house into a home."
We have heard a good deal in the last few
years about " loung Hawaii," and us
motto, "Hawaii for the Hawaiians ! " I
believe " that the hope of Hawaii, so far as
the native race is concerned, does lie in a!
"Young Hawaii ; " but not the blustering,
swearing, ooscene, saioon-iounging, young
men, facile tools of demagogues, who are'
facing backward toward the old idolatry,
with its unspeakable obscenities and vices.
jThe " Young Hawaii," in whom alone there
13 nope lor tms nation, are tne young .Ha
waiian girls, provided always . they arc
trained to be modest, virtuous, true, capable
wives and home-keepers 1 The future of the
Hawaiian race is bound up ery largelv in
jtha destiny of ' these girls now scattered
throughout these so-called' homes in these
islands. Shall 'these be trained to make
Ihoines worthy of the name, and live in them
as honored virtuous wives ? or shall theyj
Jbe left an asy. prey to the vile white seducer
-t1 .the CbinpejA nirammir?
Irenes of true Christianity. Standing, last
Iweek, on one of -your busy streets with her
Ipastor, with hushed, but intense and quiver
ling voice, he bore such witness of her faith
fulness as a Christian, of her power for good
among his peeple, of her unostentatious,
but generous charities, that my heart burned
Iwithin mo with thanksgiving to God for such
a Christian. Some one has said, " A reli
gion in which ono good man will become
ten good men is the only one that will
offer society hope." Such was the religion
of Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Hers was an
attractive religion. In the office at each end
of the Atlantic cable, there is set a mirror
connected with the cable. When the cable
is alive that is when the insulation is per-
ifect and the cable, is fitted for its work, a
bright light is reflected on the mirror. Her
glad, cheery, happy face was such a mirror,
showing the steady light of a redeemed and!
purified heart. There was a subtle charm
about her, especially for young girls of herf
own race. And the reason for this is not far
to seek. Beauty comes from within. To be
" upright before God, and downright before
mn ; " to be honest, faithful, helpful,
kindly disposed, will give a charm to any
ttace, and draw loving, admiring hearts
around it. It is within the province ofi
all to possess beauty of the highest order.
" Tnere is no beautiner 01 form, or 01 com
plexion, or . behaviour," says Emerson,
" like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain,
around us."
And her religion showed itself in self
sacrificing adherence to duty. She( turned
iaside from following her own religious and.
social tastes, that she might walk in the
patn or duty, it is nothing against our
sister church which I' honor for the noble
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iwork it is doing, of which she was so long
an honored member, to say that in many
respects it was a self-denial for this noble
woman to remain there as a worshipper.
Her superior education, refinement, culture,
and social affiliations, all would have led herj
elsewhere. But that was the Church of her;
race ; it was the Church of her mother ; it
was the medium through which her influence!
could be most potently brought to bear on
her "own people. And so, like her Master!
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oetore ner, sue sougnt not her own pleasure,
but went nobly forward in the path of duty.
I pray God td raiso up many more such
Christiana here in Hawaii. I .pray .that we
may all have some of this same, spirit ; that
wemay not, in our religion, seek for what
pleases, satisfies, , and gratifies us, but that
we may think of. others also, and like our
Master, if need be givq ourselves to them in
lowly ministry. May we be brave, helpful,
jdutiful Christians. Standing in the midst
of evil, may we not run from it, nor ally'
lourselves with it : but maintaining our own
integrity," and putting the protest of a pure!
life against the wrong,' draw1 the erring lip
to "our standard through the might of our
earnestness, and the divine attraction of oui
live.. . . : I'
. She is not dead. The body ef Bernice
Pauahi; Bishop - lies yonder; in her palatial
home. But she has gone to her reward. It
Iwas not Wyclifie, but the dust he had worn,
which -went bv the Avon and the Severn toK
the sea. He lived, .and his work lived. So
Idoes this noble woman, and so does "her
work. Are vou so living that vou will live for-
jtance from tbe sun is of a more som
bre blue tban tile normal, tint; of this,
tone may convince bimself in the eve
luiug. when as thesun goes down be-
hind the snowy mountain nagea, ine
sunset seems to assure the shades f
. 11 "r "Kvre)i pops on to
SI.U11UJ OWkJm o
say that this phenomenon had been
seen throughout Switzerland during
the spring and summer. AjWhen n3
paper was read before thecademy
filth Auirust M. Jamin rtiraeu
observed at Paris and
in prions
parts of France during tue trci'
tional heats of the previous w.
Durintr July and August M. 1
v
made a second tour through the A.
pearance of this singular coroi:
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as sften irom numerous puims 11
his journey. He corrects his former
description by saying that the first
circle round the sun, is silvery white
when the sun is low in the heavens,
but that at noon it often presents very
evident bluish tints, being all the
time, however, very brilliant. He
Istates that the weather during his
observations presented almost every
possible phase. He gives a table of
meteorological elements for a number
of days on which he was able to make
his observations, and adds : Under
these different distributions of atmos
pheric pressure, we have in Switzer
land been under the influence ot cur
rents of air coming alternately from
the four cardinal points; we have
been subjected successively to warm
and cold winds; have been plunged
in air now dry, now humid; wo have
hatl snow while at Furka, and the
ochn (a hot, dry wind) at Grindel-
wald ; nevertheless the phenomenon
has always been visible when the sky
was clear." He maintains the I'dust
cloud"- hypothesis as .the.. only ten
able explanation;' but hesitates to
roiiouhce; on the origin and. nature
of the dust. : : . ' " -
An English observer, who also
describes . this .'corona 'saw it from a
lower elevation at which the intense
silvery light of the inner circle appears
to have been obscured; he. describes
the color of the outer one as like the
' red of clean cepper wiien-it has be
come coated witu suboxide," and
says that it faded away -in to what
fseemedr brown in contrast with ' the
blue sky. ' in jsature ot September 11
Professor IPiazzi! Smyth ; describes i u
his characteristic style the appearance
of meteor,, moon, aud sun shine as
noted by him on the same evening.
He thus "notes the optical' effects
t-puised by the dust-cloud on the light
F.'nf fif full mnnn ? " rriw mnrm ' ivffliin
la day of full, was shining brilliantly
in white light immediately around
vand alinvft it. but nrnrlnninf Imf.wppn
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ever there atid here? Remember that im-fcjut and the horizon, and for a consider-
mortality will come to those who are fit forfciable distance on either side, exactly,
it, and he who would be a great soul in .the
future must be a great soul here
How soon and how .swiftly will your earth-
life be ended, and your work done ! May
God bring you to that end with sheaves!
era tVtnroA few Viia ofornal Vio rvoot
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and, worthy to
paramour
mate with
And as equal
these . trained
young - women, there should also be well-
trained, pure young men. ,
Third, as we, thus look into, this true
woman's life we see the power and attract
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
Written for the P. C. Advertiser.
Some of the scientific periodicals
lately to hand contain the record off
lobservations of a very interesting
lilio roof or in rafr') ffl to f li r il n ctli C170
to which were due those remarkable
sunsets and sunrises that used to be
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so common and wmcu in. moaineu
form still persist. M. Forel has sent
two communications to the French
Academy of Sciences describing the
luminous phenomena wnicn arei
seen around the sun. M. Forel's ob
servations were made in Switzerland,
but corroborative accounts come
from many quarters. They were
seen from the plains, but were much
more remarkable when observed
from high elevations on the Alps.
M. Forel thus describes them: "The
sun'is surrounded by a limb of silvery
whiteness, very brilliant and giving
out much lignt, (t?cs ectairant)
wliieh I should cbmpare to the
strangely bright light of the first
phase of the sunset nres Of last win
ter. This limb, which measures per
haps ten degrees in radius, is sur-
Jrounded by a large, reddish corona,
whose limits are not well defined
with orange tints within and violet
tints without, shading off into the
silvery limb on the one hand and
the blue of the sky on the other. The
"... w
ize of this corona is nearly equal to
Ithe radius of the silvery :Iimb. Be-j
lybnd, the sky for a considerable dis-t
and .most perceptibly that' faintlv
claret-colored haze which I have re
marked above and below the sun all
this year. Precisely too, as with the
sun, the color was shown on this occa
sion, with the moon to be in the very
highest region of the atmosphere, by
cumulus clouds, at heights of 3000
and 4000 feet, that lloated past, being
pre-eminent on that warm colored
backing by the pearly whiteness of
their lights arid bluencss of their
shadows' He goes on to state that
j m
a ratner extensive series or spectr-
fscopic observations prove the cause of
Ithese appearances to be solid particles
ILL ih SLilLC, UUU llUV.w) EUUXC UUYU
ventured to conjecture, any new gas
introduced into the atmosphere.
The-theory ? that we owe to the
grand eruption of Krakatoa the dust-
icloud which has produced so many
skyey, wonders is still combated by a
few sceptical spirits, and a statement
which ha3 been made by, Mr. Nelson
of the Natal observatory, that he ob
served the phenomenal sunsets in the
3pring of 1883, and that they increased
in intensity from February to June
of that year is triumphantly quoted
in opposition, to- the theory. The
majority of people, however, are
willing to allow Natal her own local
phenomenon as a thing by itself;
local in character, and therefore cer
tainly local in origin: ' Since the
enormous energies f which displayed
themselves at Krakatoa have come
to be more truly appreciated by com
parison of accotints'and calculations
of the forces required to accomplish
Assertaihed results; - few have con
tinued to doubt that this eruption
was the actual originator of 'the all-
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