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The Honolulu times. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1902-1911, December 01, 1902, Image 5

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ill the gardens and fields with tin
cans and baths to make as much
noise as possible something like
the 'Augustinian Rag' on Marking
day but it was all of no
avail. And I feel it somewhat as
a personal matter between myself
and Mr. Locust, because I had
spent several afternoons planting
out seeds and tomato plants and
watering the seeds and young
plants, but now it seems that I simply
watered them to make them
grow for the locusts to eat. In
parts they were so thick that by
just hitting into the air with an
ordinary sf'ck you could bring
down three or four at each stroke.
We also heard they were all the
way from here to Umtali, twel.'e
miles by road." St. Augustine's
College Occasional Papers.
Make all you can, give all you
can. J. Wesley.
A BRAVE BOY.
When the cruiser Boston went
into action in the battle of Manila
Bay, one of the powder boys took
off his coat hurriedly, and it went
over the rail into the water. He
turned to the nearest officer and
asked permission to jump overboard
and recover it. Naturally
the request was refused ; so the
boy went to the other side of the
ship, climbed down the ladder,
swam around to where the coat
was floating, and came back with
it. The action was noticed, and
the officer ordered him put into
the brig. After the battle, the
boy was and
found guilty of disobedience of
orders, and he made no defense.
Being in command of the fleet,
Commodore Dewey had to review
'the findings of the court. lie sent
for the lad and asked him in a
kindly way why he had risked
punishment for an old coat. The
boy burst into tears and explained
that his mother's picture was in
his coat pocket and he could not
bear to lose it. The gallant Commodore
fairly picked the boy up in
his arms, and then ordered him to
be instantly released and pardoned.
"B6ys who love their mothers
enough to risk their lives for
THE HONOLULU TIMES.
their pictures cannot be imprisoned
in this fleet," he said. Selected.
A letter was read from Secretary
Wilson of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington regarding
the establishment of an
agricultural school in Honolulu,
in which he says :
"Without doubt institutions for
agricultural education should be
established in Hawaii as soon as
practicable. It is, however, a
question well worth considering
whether an agricultural institution
of college trade is at present needed
in Hawaii. Exycricnce under
similar conditions elsewhere would
seem to indicate that it would be
better to establish agricultural
schools of secondary grade in
which along with the studies ordinarily
pursued in high schools
a considerable amount of instruction
in the theory and practice of
agriculture may be given. Such
schools should have farms well
equipped with live stock and farm
machinery, and instruction in agi i-culture
should be along practical
lines, with special reference to local
and agricultural needs. The
principals of such schools should
be men trained in our agricultural
colleges and in thorough sympathy
with industrial education."
Another "wise" man! ED.
AT-THE-BEACH JOURNAL.
This country, Territory, will become
a State and will be one of
the richest, most prosperous, most
wise of all the States. Why? Because
the Banks and the Commercial
houses and the sugar barons
are veritable salt-licks, and I
know whereof I speak. This little
"community" of Hawaii-nei is a
compact, unanimous body for
righteousness, and makes for that
alone. Disaster of any sort cannot
subdue it while it may sadden for
a lime. It rallies, as one man,
stronger, for the coming attack.
It laughs at trouble and sings and
says its prayers and goes to
sleep, safe-folded and watched by
Angels. Of such is this Territory
to-day, November, A. D. 1902,
and All Saints' Day at that. What
date? Oh mv! don't vou know?
have to do, is 'far morally stronger
than before the "great fire." Yes,
far stronger since Annexation
of course it is. Do you fancy that
a few thousand dollars or even
many, say one hundred or so, can
this startle men of calibre? There
is a great lot of money in the
treasury at Washington ! but more
in the treasury of France, which
same is the richest country in the
world to-day, as to cash-in-hand.
Unless, it may be but I hope not,
that a few have had hands in the
"crib" since I last read. But it's
a war that depletes a money-chest,
eh? We want no war to take off
our money, or, our handsome
youth.
Go in to any of the Banks or
Houses of Hawaii and see the
young gentlemen employed men
on whose faces are stamped honor
and kindness and good-will. It is
a joy to know that they are a part
of this splendid heritage.
Our conscience be it said is our
own, together with a good steel
pen, and we purpose to write; but
it is not to our gre to explain to
any one why we do this or that.
If we fail in everything else, we
do try to mind our own affairs
petite.
November 3.
The glare and heat of summer
are past. How glad we were to
hear the warm, soft shower of
yesterday and to see the sunlight
dancing in between the big, heavy
thuds of rain. It was most charming
to sit on the veranda, the
sea so calm under the whipping
of that sky that sa;d to it : "Who's
the here at
this beach to-day, you or I ?" And
then another small but furious
flood dashed on its face. "There !
take that and that, and that old
salt sea, and how much do you like
sky water?" And so the Rain was
on the rampage all the day long,
and until the small hours of this
morning. That sea, to-day, is
glorious just the murmur of the
breakers and the brilliant sunshine
on its blue surface. The fields are
coming on green as never was,
and the trees are bursting with
new leafage. In one week more
every hill-top will be a velvet carpet
fit for the footsteps of a queen.

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