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' ' """ I - . . f. - l"tS irS r H 1 A. 4ftjKb 9- B T. J rtr 1 ! K 1 5 V """ -," J I JH I ft i t v II ! fc & "I i FIRST VESSEL BUILT m pnnipp RU. 1 1 UUUI An Hawaiian, Helped Build and Launch it. STORY BV G. SWAX The BuMint or the "rorth West America." Wondennent an J of the Chinook Lanjuaje The Undertaking ty Captain Meares Was a Great Success. In 17SS Capt John Meares, a lieutenant of the royal navy in command of an expedition from China to the northwest coast of Jforth America, sailed from Canton on the 22d.day of January, "with two vessels, the Felia of 230 tons, commanded by Capt. Meares, and the Iphigenia of 200 tons, In command of Capt, Douglas, who had been with Capt. Meares in a former voyage of the ship Xootka, as first officer. The vessels were bound to Nootka, on the west coast of Vancouver island, B. C, " to establish a trading post. The crew of the Felia was composed of English sailors and Chinese carpenters and smiths, as well as European artisans, and numbered fifty men. The Iphigenia had a crew composed of the same necessary and useful classes of people, and numbered forty men. They had also as passengers Tianna, a prince of 'Hawaii, and a native of Nootka, King George's Sound named la. both of whom had been taken to China by other vessels, and Capt Meares was now returning them to their native lands. The head carpenter of the Felia was a young man of much professional skill who had served his time in London. By direction of Capt. Meares he made the model and got out the moulds all complete for a essel of fifty tons to be built immediately on the arrival of the Felia at Nootka, to be used as a tender to collect furs and to trade on the coast. The Chinese carpenters had not the least idea of our mode of naval architecture, but they were skillful workmen and willing to do as they were directed. The ship had a long and tempestuous passage from China, and finally arrived in Friendly cove, on the west coast of Vancouver island, on Tuesday, May 13, 17SS. Much to the joy of who was brother of Maquilla, the chief of King George's sound, and his relative Callicum, who stood next in rank. Wicananish was a powerful prince of a tribe to the southward, and resided at Clyoquot. The carpenters were sent into the woods to cut timber for the frame of the new vessel, and on the 4th of June, 17SS, the keel was laid, and all hands evinced the greatest interest. The vessel was finished and launched on Saturday, the 20th of September, 17SS, and the event is thus described by Meares in the following graphic manner: "On the 20th at noon an event to which we had so long looked with anxious expectation and had been the fruit of so much care and labor, was ripe for accomplishment. The vessel was then waiting to quit the stocks, and to give all due honor to such an important scene, we adopted as far as was in our power the ceremony of other dockyards. As soon as the tide was at its proper height the English ensign was displayed on shore at the house and on board the new vessel, which at the proper moment was named the North West America, as being the first bottom ever built and launched on this side of the globe. "It was a moment of much expectation. The circumstances of out situation made us look to it with more than common hope. Maquilla, Cali-cum and a large body of their people who had received information of the launch, were come to behold it. The Chinese carpenters did not very well conceive the last operation of a business in which, they themselves had been so much and so materially concerned. Nor shall we torget to mention the chief of the Sandwich Islands, whose every power was absorbed in the business that approached and who had determined to be on board the vessel when, she glided into the' water. The presence of the Indians, ought also to be considered when, we are describing ' the attendant ceremonies of this important event, which from the labor that produced it, the scene that surrounded it, the spectators that beheld it and the commercial advantages as well as civilizing ideas connected with it, will attach some little consequences to its proceeding in the mind of the philosopher, as well as in the views of the politician. "But our suspense was not of long duration. On the firing of a gun, the vessel started from the ways like a shot. Indeed she went off with so much velocity that she had nearly made her way out of the harbor, for the fact was, not being accustomed to this business, we had forgotten to place an anchor and cable on board to bring her up, which is the nsual practice on these occasions. The boats, however, soon towed her to her intended station and in a short time the North West America was anchored close to the Felia and Iphigenia. "Tianna, who was on board the vessel at the time of her being launched, not only saw. but may be said to have felt, the operation as if It had been the work of enchantment, and could only express his astonishment by capering about, clapping his hands and exclaiming 'Maifcai Mafkai!' good, handsome, beautiful, a word the most expressive in the language of the Sandwich Islands, to convev wonder, approbation ind delight. The Chinese carpenters were also in an almost equal degree of astonishment, as they never had before been witnesses of such a spectacle. Nor were the natives of the Sound who were present at this ceremony less impressed by a series of operations, the simplest of which was far above their comprehension. In short, this business did not fail to raise us still higher in their good opinion, and to afford them better and more correct notions than they hitherto possessedrf)f"the superiority of civilized over savage life." The "North West America went to Queen Charlotte sound and collected a large quantity of sea otter skins and subsequently went to Canton. Capt Meares then says what our own naval officers will endorse: "I trust it will not be considered as an impertinent digression if I express my gratitude of that example of professional vigor and perseverance, which in my early days were set before me, on the opposite side of this continent, where ability and courage alleviated, In some measure, the chagrin of unsuccessful war. The campaigns in Canada owe their only honor to the naval warfare on the lakes of that country; and it was my good fortune when a youth to be innured in such a school to the hardships and difficulties of naval life; to learn there that temper and perseverance must be added to professional knowledge in order to surmount them. I was ready to acknowledge that, for the little skill I may possess as a professional man, as well as the patience I have exercised and the perseverance which I have exerted in this or any other voyage, I am indebted to the rigorous discipline which necessarily arose from the continual action, hazard and conflict of the service in which I was first engaged. Some little experience has convinced me that danger and difficulties form the best school of maritime education; and he that has been so employed as to have seen everything, and so circumstanced as to despise nothing, cannot fail of rendering service to his country." Meares says that Comekala "was at first very active in forwarding our commercial arrangements; but he now spoke such a jargon of Ghinese, English and Nootkan as to be b no means a ready interpreter between us and the natives." This was probably the origin of the Chinook jargon, as it was after the white man had traded at Nootka that the Columbia river was discovered by Gray, and the Nootka trades went to the Columbia river at Chinook, taking with them the Nootka jargon, which was added to by the Chinook, French Japanese and Spanish language till it assumed its present shape. It was early utilized by the Hudson Bay Company as a means of trade intercourse, and through their influence has gradually spread among all the tribes of Northwest America, from California to Alaska. It is interesting to trace the ship building of Puget sound and British Columbia from the building of the Northwest America to the present time, and if Meares can look from his spiritual abode and see the fine essels which have been built at Port Madison, Port Ludlow, Port Blakeley, Seat-Kle and in Victoria and other places, to the beautiful steam launches just finished at Port Townsend for the United States revenue marine service by Giggs & Heffernan, he will see that his predictions have been more than fulfilled. What became of the schooner Northwest. America is not stated, but she went to Canton with a cargo of sea otter skins and was probably sold there. Tianna, the Sandwich island prince, was taken home to Hawaii by the Iphigenia, and the friendly intercourse that had been started and so eminently successfully continued by the wise action of the American missionaries has culminated in making the most thrify and prosperous Hawaiian republic. JAMES G. SWAN. Port Townsend, August 31. A POPULAR PASTOR. Suffered Greatlv With Kidney Troubles. From the News, Jonesboro, Ga. A reporter of the News called at the residence of Rev. L. M. Lyle, the popu lar pastor of the Methodist Churdh of this place (Jonesboro, Ga.) last week, and in reply to a question from the scribe he said: "I was born near Jefferson County, Ga., in 1S43, and was reared and educated in Athens. In April, 1SG1, shortly after the first guns of the great rebellion were sounded, I entered the Confederate army and served four years. "Shortly after that I joined the conference of the M. E. Church South, and in March, 1SS7, while near Prince Fred erick, Maryland, was caught in the great blizzard and nearly frozen to death. Soon after that my health be.- gan to fail and I realized that unless something was done quickly I should soon be helpless with disease. "I had some time previous to this been affected with kidney trouble, and after using many remedies without relief found a cure in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. So I thought I would give them another trial, and accordingly purchased a box and began taking them, and a change for the better was at once perceptible. "The kidney complaint is now cured, yet we always keep the pills in the house, as I believe them to be superior to any- other medicine for impoverishment of the blood and nervous exhaustion. "We have since used them in our family for nervous prostration and after severe cases of typhoid fever, and in each case they proved to be all that Is claimed for them. I sound their praises wherever I go, for they are worth their weight in gold. I take great pleasure in adding my testimonial as to the virtue of Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People." Rev. I M. Lyle has lived in Jonesboro for some time, and is pastor of the Methodist Church. He is much admired by the entire community as a servant of God and as a manly man. His words, therefore, will be read with interest Dr, Williams Pink Pills create new blood, build up the nerves and thus drive disease from the system. In hundreds of cases they have cured after all other medicines had failed, thus establishing the claim that they are a marvel among the triumphs of modern medical science. The genuine Pink -n i HAWAIIAN GAZETTE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER JSOfi. I Pills are sold only in glass vials, bear ing the full trade mark. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Sold by Hollister Drug Co., Hobron Drug Co., wholesale agents for Hawaiian Islands, and all dealers in medicines. SOME PLURALS. We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes; Then one fowl is a goose, but two are called geese. Yet the plural of mouse should never bo. meese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Why should'nt the plural of pan be called pen? The cow in the plural may be cows or kine, But a cow if repeated Is never called kine; And the plural of vow is vows, never vine. If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth, and a whole set are treth. Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? If the singular's this and the plural is these, Should the plural of kiss ever be nicknamed keese? Then one may be that and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose We speak of a brother, and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren; Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. So the English, I think you all will agree, Is the queerest language you ever did see. Boston Commonwealth. VERY SUGARY. Quercite is a kind of sugar found in acorns. Mannite is that variety of sugar found in manna. Glucose is the sugar produced from grape juice. Mycose is a sugar produced from the ergot of rye. Galactose is that kind of sugar which exists in ruilK. Maple sugar was first made in New England in 1752. sugar mill was erected in Louisiana in 175S. The botanical name-of the sugar cane is saccharum officinarum. Sugar is found in parsnips, mallows and almost all vegetables. Sorbine is the sugar found in the berry of the mountain ash. Eucalyne is the form of sugar found in the sap of the eucalyptus. Before the discovery of sugar, drinks were sweetened with honey. By the year 170 sugar had become a staple product of Louisiana. The sugar-maple tree is botanically known as the acer saccharinum. The sap of the sugar cane produces from 15 to 20 per cent, of sugar. Sugar exists in the sap or leaves of nearly 200 different kinds of trees. The refining of sugar was invented in Antwerp in the sixteenth century. The word caramel" is of Greek origin and signifies simply black honey. Laevulose is that sugar most liberally found in honey and various fruits. Gibbon says that sugar was first brought from Asia to Europe A. D. C25. Entomologists declare that the sugar cane has 227 varieties of insect enemies. Ine longest run in candy has been made by chocolate creams and caramels. Sugar is boiled, more or less, for candy, according to the kind to be made. o HERE AND NOW. Here in the heart of this world, Here in the noise and the din, Here where our spirits were hurled To battle with sorrow and sin. This is the place and the spot, For knowledge of infinite things; This is the kingdom where Thought Can conquer the prowess of kings. Wait for no heavenly life, Seek for no temple alone; Here in the midst of the strife Know what the sages have known. See what the Perfect One saw, God in the depths of each soul; God as the Light and the Law, God as beginning and goal. Earth is one chamber of Heaven, Death is no grander than birth; Joy is the life that is given, Strive for perfection on earth. Here is the turmoil and roar, Show what it is to be calm; Show how the spirit can soar, And bring back healing and balm. Stand not aloof or apart. Plunge In the thick of the fight; There In the street and the mart, That is the place to do right, Not in some cloister or cave. Not in some kingdom above; Here on this side of the grave. Here should we labor and love. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. PREVENTING ACCIDENTS AT SEA. A very interesting startine annllance. are used on the French cruiser Bou- vines, is describe in the Revue time et Coloniale. Here the distrib uting valve of the steam steering an- paratus is not automatically moved by me apparatus itself, but by a small electrical motor, quite Independent of the steering gear, and the latter follows the movement of the valve. The starting of the motor is done from the deck by means of governing apparatus. Here, however, the current is not led direct into the motor, but first to a relay, which then in its turn governs the motor current The working of the governor apparatus on deck is effected according to a rudder indicator, which contains several numbered lamps. These different lamps correspond with certain rudder angles and are lift up by the movement of the tiller. WANTED FREE LIQUOR. In a discussion on the liquor traffic in Dublin, Ireland, some time ago, a speaker made much of the fact that it was mainly from the whisky tax that the British Government derived the funds wherewith it paid soldiers, police, spies, jailers and so forth, to repress and punish Irish patriotism and keep the country in subjection. "But," said he, "the fault is your own. You cannot blame the Government It leaves you free to drink or not to drink, just as you please. There Is no compulsion. The British Government does not bring you into the public houses and pour the whisky down your throats." Whereupon there arose from some one in the body of the hall the pathetic exclamation: "Ah, I wish they would." A FAIR PROPOSITION. A Kansas boy who smoked 1200 packages of cigarettes saved the pictures and sent them to the firm, asking what they would give for them. The answer was as follows: "Smoke 1200 more and we'll send a coffin." Kansas City Star. o TRUST THE CHILDREN. Trust the children. Never doubt them, Build a wall of love about them; After sowing seeds of duty, Trust them for the flowers of beauty, Trust the children. Don't suspect them; Let your confidence direct them, At the hearth or in the wildwood, Meet them on the plane of childhood. Trust the little ones. Remember May is not like chill December. Let no words of rage or madness Check their happy notes of gladness. Trust the little ones. You guide them, And, above all, ne'er deride them Should they trip or should they blunder, Lest you snap love's cords asunder. Trust the children. Let them treasure Mother's faith in boundless measure, fathers love in them confiding. Then no secrets they 11 be hiding. Trust the children, just as He did, Who for "such" once sweetly pleaded; Trust and guide, but never doubt them; Build a wall of love about them. New York Ledger. Knocked Down Is the way we receive our Racine" Farm Mills but we sell them either knocked down or set up. The coffee-picking season is close at hand and we therefore wish to draw your attention to these mills. They can be used for rice as well as for coffee, and each mill is furnished with different screens as sorters and They are operated by hand and work easily. It will do the work quicker, cleaner and more satisfactorily than any other mill, and our price is only $40. Its capacity for cleaning and sorting is from sixty to ninety bushels per hour. We are also selling the Diamond Corn Shelter at $16. This machine will prove invaluable to those having a large amount of corn to shell, as it is a great time saver. These machines are now on exhibition at our store and if you will give us a call, our salesman will turn the crank for you. II tali idle I "Disfigured Is the despairing cry of thousands afflicted with Unsightly skin diseases. Do you realize what this "disfiguration means to sensitive souls? It means isolation, seclusion. It is a bar to social and business success. Do you wonder that despair seizes upon these sufferers when Doctors fail, Standard remedies fail, And nostrums pfbve worse than useless ? Skin diseases are most obstinate to cure or even relieve. It is easy to claim to cure them, but quite another thing to do so. CUTICURA REMEDIES Have earned the right to be called Skin Specifics Because for years they have met with most remarkable success. There are cases that they cannot cure, but they are few indeed. It is no long-drawn-out, expensive experiment. 25c invested in a tablet of CUTICURA SOAP Will prove most convincing. In short, CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS And its cures are simply marvellous. Spezdt Cubs Theatmfst. Warm bath with Ccnctnu. Soap, gentle applications of Ccri' uru followed by mllil W- of CCTiccru IS cviLYEsr? (the Dew blood purifier). Sold throochont the orll. IliltuH dtp.il F SwntsT Sols. 1, KIn Edvinltt. F ( umi I'm JUCD Cbixicil Coxra&ATiox, Sole Proprietor! lioiton l A G N. WILCOX, President. J. F. HAOKFELD. Vice President. 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If you are not coming to Honolulu send for patterns and quotations. Your orders will be attended to quite as well as if yon selected the articles yourself. JUST RECEIVED: A. complete assortment of French Muslins, French ChalyB, Black Alpacas.-Black and Colored Cashmeres, Serges, Ribbons, I'D LETDD Queen Street; iiiin5 wf' jMii'Siwmtf lawrtnrwt AS$i For Life" wf! 1 Ira n 'if II MM Orders for Fertilizers. NOTT, AND SHEET IKON WORK. 75-79 Kine Street. Dry Goods Laces, Flowers, Linen Handkerchiefs, Table Napkins, Linen Damaaks bleached and unbleached. Bedspreads, Blankets and Sheetings. Also a fine range of Men's Suitings and Trouserings. A Single Yard or Article at "Wholesale Prices Honolulu. 4 i t !