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Sledgehammer Logic.
The kind of Logic that goes these days is that which appeals to the POCKET.
The DOLLAR kind—that’s the sort we indulge. You must strike a man's stomach pp4|>
or his pocket if you want to hear from him promptly. Folks seem to take to our ’
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AROUND THE WORLD.
Hawaii Extends a Hearty Welcome to
Talmage.
First Glimpses of the Islands—Official
Hospitalities at Honolulu—Enter
tained by President Dole and ex-
Queen Dilinokalina— I The Executive
Council Visitid—A Great Impromptu
Assemblage in Church Kilauea,
King of Volcanoes.
Copyright.
Honolulu, June '.—lt was 3 o’clock !n
the afternoon when at San Francisco I
stepped aboard the Alameda of the
Oceanic Steamship Company, our Cap
taiD Morse, one of the most genial,
popular and able commanders who ever
sailed the seas. •He and the Pacific
Ocean are old acquaintances. He has
been in seventeen hurricanes and safely
outrode them. Profusion of flowers
were sent up the gang plank and the
masses of people on the wharf who had
come to see their friends off waved hand
kerchiefs, and threw kisses and cried and
laughed as is usual when an ocean
steamer is about to start. Tbe gong
sounded for the leaving of all those from
the ship's deck who did not expect to ac
company us. The whistle blew for
loosening from the wharf and the screw
began to whirl, and the ship moved out
toward the Golden Gate.
The Pacific ocean met us with waves
high enough to send many to their berths
and to arouse in the rest of us the ques
tion why so rough a sea should be called
the Pacific. And for two days the roll,
the Jerk, the rise, the fall, the lunge, the
tremor, the quake, spoiled the appetite
and hid from sight the majority of the
passengers. But after the third day the
ocean and the ship ceased their wrestling
and peace smoothed the waves and
hushed the winds, for the same Lord who
too* a short walk upon rough Galilee
takes a longer walk upon Pacific seas.
Different from most voyages, there
seemed no disagreeables on board.
Knough passengers to avoid loneliness,
not so many as to be crowded. What dif
ference between a sea voyage now with
all comforts afforded aud the table con
taining all tbe luxuries that can allure a
w eak appetite, and those days when the
missionaries crossed to Honolulu in ves
sels greasy and rude and with food rancid
w stale and with sail full of whims, now
■till curbed, aud now limp and idle.
Politics has never clone muen for the
Sandwich Islands. If a man has to ex
pectations for these gems of the Pacific
e* l ept that which comes from human leg
■slatioo, I would think he would be as
despairful as was Kamehameha, the third
King of the Sandwich Islands, when od
his dying bed he said “What is to be
come oi my poor country: there is no one
jo follow me. Queen Emma I do not trust,
j-unalilo is a drunkard and Kalakaua is a
7°‘" All that has been done for the
ffaaii an i*iands has been done by our
kfacloua God and the missionaries A
"■reign ship brought them the mosquitoes.
y ,f foreign sgilqrs brought them the lep-
American politics brought them
oc devil. Had it not oeeu for the gospel
'o*e islands would have been putting to
woman for eating bananas when
forbidden to do so, and bowing to a dl*
•resting idolatry, and in all tin; islands it
ud have ts-.-n a midnight of cruelty
abomination
tllK AkNEIATIOM Qt'MTIO*.
, the missionaries cares, and in eight
It'nisi pn,p!c garnered into Hi*
' lies and w.Ust child res into schools
t losing Christian civilirr lion whhdi
' * bsbdaa beautiful aupioinacy over tb
Sandwich Islands. There are two great
parties in the Hawaiian Islands; royal
ists, who want the queen, and annexation
ists, who want to come under our eagle's
wing.
Neither of them will triumph. The
final result will be a republic by itself, of
which the present} government is an ante
past. The Hawaiian nation is strong
enough to stand alone. Because a nation
is not gigantic is no more reason why it
should not have self-control than a man
with limited resources of physical or
financial strength should be denied in
dependence. If God had intended Hono
lulu to belong to the United States, he
would have planted it hundreds of miles
nearer our American coast. The United
States government is not so hungry tor
more land that it needs to be fed on a few
chunks of island brought from 1,800 miles
away. No danger that some other foreign
nation shall take possession of the islands
and give us trouble when we want to run
into Honolulu for the coaling and water
ing of our ships. With some ironsides
from our new navy, and the aid of our
friends oh the islands, we would knock
into smithereens such foreign imperti
nence. Besides that, if we become as a
nation, a great maritime power, and we
will, none of the islands of the Pacific
would decline us sheltering harbor, or
supply for our ships. What though they
belonged to other nations, they would
sell us all we want. It is not necessary
to own a store in order to purchase goods
from it.
HAWAIIAN PROGRESS.
These are venerable islands. Those
who can translate the language of tbe
rocks and the language of human bones,
say that theseislandshavebeen inhabited
1.400 years at least. When found in 1778,
they wereold placesof human habitation
The most unique illustration in all the
world of what pure and simple Christ
ianity can do is here. Before the super
natural force began, infanticide was com
mon, and not by milder forms of assassi
nation, butburied alive. Demented people
were murdered; old people were allowed
to me of neglect. Polygamy in its worst
form reigned, and it was as easy for a
man to throw away his wife as to pitch
an apple-core into the sea. Superstition
blockened the earth and the heavens.
Christianity found the Sandwich Islands
a hell, and turned them into a semi
heaven. As in all the other regions where
Christianity triumphed, it was maligned
by those who came from other lands to
preach their iniquities. Loose foreigners
were angered because they.were hindered
in their dissoluteness by anew element
they had never before confronted.
••There is Honolulu,” cried many voices
this morning from the deck of the Ala
meda. These islands, called by many an
archipelago, 1 call them the constellation
of the Pacific, for tney seem not so much
to have grown up, as alighted from the
heavens. The bright, the redolent, the
umbrageous, the tloralized, the orcharded,
the forested, the picturesque Hawaiian
Islands. They came in upon us as much
as we came in upon them in the morning.
Capt. Cook no more discovered them in
1778 than we discovered them to-day.
He saw them for the first time for him
self. and we see them for the first time
this morning for ourselves. More fortu
nate are we than Capt. Cook. He looked
out upon them from a filthy boot, and
wound up his experiences by furnishing
his body as the chops and steaks of a sav
age’s breakfast. We from a graceful
ship alight amid herbage and aborescence.
nrei snail depart with the good wishes
and prayers from all the islanders.
high or noun contrast**.
As you approach the harbor there is In
sigh is long line of surf, rolling over reefs
of coral High mountains, hurricane-cleft
and lightning split, but their wounds
bandaged with the gram of perennial
foliage In a few reiuuu-s after landing
a chamberlain of the que- n extiod U in
rite u* to her roaasbm, and Chief Justice
Judd called with a delegation to ask mo
q, yi eet-n that afternoon. i atcepUtd the
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JULY 29. 1894.
invitation brought by the chamberlain,
and was beautifully entertained by the
queen. With President Dole of the pro
visional government and Chief Justice
Judd I went to the executive build
ings, which were formerly the palace.
The counoil of the president were already
assembled in what was originally the
throne room, and taking the chair on the
platform he called for order, and then
rose, and all the councilors arose with
him. and he led them in prayer, saying,
as near as I can remember: ‘‘O, Lord
God of nations! we ask thy direction in
the matters that shall come before us.
Give us wisdom and prudence and fidelity
in the discharge of our duties, and thou
shalt have all the praise, world without
end. Amen” I have not been told
whether most of the presidents of the
United States have opened their cabinet
meetings in that way, but it certainly is a
good way.
At it o’clock that afternoon the Congre
gational church was packed to overflow
ing with a multitude, about one-half
native Hawaiians. and the other half,
people of many lands. It was amazing to
me that with such a short notice of a few
hours such a throng could be gathered.
But the Honolulu papers have been pub
lishing my sermons for years, and it was
really a gathering of old friends. An in
terpreter stood beside me in the pulpit,
and with marvelous ease translated what
I said into the Hawaiian language. It was
such a scene as I never before witnessed,
and I shall never see it repeated. After
shaking hands with thousands of people,
I went out in the most delicious atmos
phere, and sat down under the palm-trees.
What a bewitchment of scenery! What
heartiness of hospitality! The Hawaiians
have no superiors for genialt.v and kind
ness in all the world. In physical pres
ence they are wondrous specimens of good
health and stalwartness. One Hawaiian
could wrestle down two of our nation.
THE LANt) OF FLOWERS.
Miracle of productiveness, these isl
ands. Enough sugar to sweeten all the
world's beverages. Enough bananas to
pile all the world s baskets: enough rice
to mix all the world s puddings; enough
cocoanuts to powder all the world's
cakes; enough flowers to garland all the
world’s beauty Banks of flowers white
as snow, or blue as skies, or yellow’ as sun
set. or starry as November nights, or red
as battlefields. A heaven of flowers.
Flowers entwined in maidens’ hair, and
twisted around hats, and hung on necks,
and embroidered on capes and sacks
Tube roses, gardenias, magnolias, passi
floras, trumpet-creepers, oleanders, ge
raniums. convolvuli, fuchias. hibis
cus red as fire, jessamine, which
we, in America, carefully coax to
climb the wall ' just once, here run
ning up and down and jumping over to
the other side and coming back again to
jump down this side. 'Night-blooming
cereus so rare in our northern latitude we
call in our neighbors to see it and they
must come right away or never see it at
all, here in these islands scattering its
epulence of perfume on all the nights
and. not able to expend enough in dark- I
ness, also flooding the day. Struggling (
to surpass each other all kinds of trees
whether of fruit or of rich garniture, 1
mango and orange aud bamboo, and alli
gator pear, and umbrella trees, and
bread fruit, and algabora, and tamarine,
and ail the South Sea exotics. Rough
cheek of pine apple against smooth cheek
of melon. The tropics burning incense
of aromatics to the high heavens.
IHE WORLD’S ORKATF.ST VOLCANO.
These islands are volcanic result*. The
volcanoes are giants living in the cellars
of the earth and warming themselves by
aubterraiiooua Area, and when they come
out U> play they Joss Islands, and aome
limes in tbrlr sport they sprinkle tbe sea
with tiic So< i-ty Islands, aud then they
toss up the Navigator Islands, and than
tbe Fiji lslui.d and Du n Die Hawaiian
Islands They are Titans, and when they
play quoits they pitch islands. When tbe
earth busily guc, aa go it wiil, wiuta it
will be a very serious matter to us it will
be only the work of volcanoes, which in
their sport are apt to be careless with fire.
While volcanoes are assigned to the de
structive agencies we see here what they
ran do as architects. See here what they
have builded. All up and down these
islands are dead volcanoes. Rocked
in cradle of earthquake, they grew
up to an active life, and came to their
last breath, and the mounds in which
they sleep are decorated with tropical
blooms. But the greatest living volcano
of all the earth is Hawaiian, and named
Kilauea. What a hissing, bellowing,
tumbling, roaring, thundering place is
Kilauea! Lake of unquenchable tire!
Convolutions and paroxyms of flame! Ele
ments of nature in torture! Torridity
and luridity! Congregation of dreads!
Molten horrors! Sulphurous abysms!
Swirling mystery of all time! Infinite
turbulence! Chimney of pOrditlon' Wal
lowing terrors! Fifteen -acres of
threat! Glooms insufferable and
Dantesque! Cauldron stirred hy
the champion witch of Pandemonium!
Camp-fire of the armies of Diabo
lus! Wrath of the mountains in full
bloom! Shimmering incandescence! Py
rotechnics of the planet! Furnace-beast
of the ages—Kilauea! Once upon a time
all the geysers, and boiling springs, and
volcanoes of the earth held a convention
to elect a king: and Etna was there, and
Heckla was there, aud Strom boli was
there, and Vesuvius was there, and
Fusiyama was there, and Mauna Loa was
there. The discussion in this convention
of volcanoes was heated. Thpy all spouted
impassioned Some were can
didates for tie throne and crown because
of one pre eminence and others for other
superiorities. But when it was put to
vote, b? unanimous acclamation. Kil
auea was elected to bo king of vol
canoes. All the natural forces of the
earth, all the vapors, all the earthquakes,
all the hills, all tbe continents voted aye!
And that ight was the Coronation. The
throne was of lava. The scepter was of
smoke. The coronet was of tire. And hil
the sublimities and grandeurs and solemn
ities of tbe earth kneeling at the foot of
the burning throne cried out, "Long live
Kilaeau of the Hawaiians!" And a voice
from heaven added mightiness to the
scene as it declared, "He toucheth
the hills and they smoke.”
I must leave to my next letter the polit
cal aspects of the Hawaiian Islands, and
the story of my visit to the Presi
dent and the ex-queen, and my opinion of
both of them T. Dr. Witt Talmaoe.
A MEXICAN LION AT LARGE.
The Brute Spreading Terror in the
Country Around Reesburg.
Reesburg, (Q>.i letter to Rome Tribune.
Very little ever happens to mar the
quiet of this peaceful community, but for
the past four weeks the good people have
left their homes after the evening shad
ows closed down over hill and valley with
fear aud trembling.
The lithe, tawny body of a Mexican lion
has been seen several times, both at night
and in the broad daylight, by men of un
doubted integrity. rarrn houses are
pretty close together about two miles
north of here, around Caldwell's station
on the Chattanooga Rome and Columbus
railroad. The bouses are nearly all on
Did eastern side of the railroad, while on
the other is a dense stretch of vguxih with
only a dwelling here and there, and it is
around here that the lion la seen more
frequently than elsewhere.
Several nights ago Mr. John Caldwell,
a prosperous fanner and mill owner,
heard a noise in the yard, and went to the
buck door to investigate Coming from a
room brightly lighted, lie could only sec
objects outside very indistinctly Htaud
lug within a foot oj the door, was some
thing which Mr Caldwell first thought
wgnhis large yard dog. and blaseo the
animal on. thinking that the disturbance
was caused hygutne wild an;real anno* !
the chickens. As objects became plainer,
he was horrified to see that the supposed
dog was the sinuous form of the lion. The
animal never moved during the several
minutes that Mr. Caldwell stood so near
it, but when the gentleman ran into the
house, seized his gun and returned, the
intruder had disappeared. Next morn
ing fifteen fine chickens were missing.
Mrs. Ledbetter, who lives on Mr. Cald
well's plantation, has seen the lion plainly
in the daytime, while it was crossing an
opening near her home. She describes it
as being about the hight of a large dog,
with short, .yellow hair covering its body,
a large leonine like head, ana shaggy,
heavy hair covering neck and head. But
the strage part of it is that the beast has
a thick leather collar around his neck,
with about twelve inches of chain at
tached to it.
A large party spent a whole day hunt
ing for it, but while they were scouring
one part of the country, the cunning
brute was seen quite a distance from
where they were searching.
Mr. J. B. Daniel, the third party leader
of Baker’s district, had an experience
with the dangerous beast recently that he
won’t forget soon. Mr. Daniel was re
turning home about 10 o’clock at night,
and while passing new Bethel church, a
mile north of here, heard a growling
noise in the woods, his path lay through
a dense, swampy piece of woods, and the
night was intensely dark, making it al
most impossible to see his hand afoot
from his face. He stopped to listen,
and heard cat-like steps coming to
ward him through the leaves. Queer
sensations shot up and down his
backbone, and his hair had an
alarming tendency to do the porcupine
act. As he turned to hasten his steps
homeward, a fearful, prolonged howl
right behind him was heard. Mr. Daniel,
thinking personal safety the better part
of valor, dashed swiftly up the road.
Like a race horse, he ran and close in the
rear he heard something leaping through
the underbrush The cold perspiration
streamed from his face, and when at last
he saw the welcome light of home, and
reached the front door, he fell exhausted
irom fright and the mad race over rough
and hilly country.
It is reported that the lion was the pet
of a rich lady in Alabama, ard that she
has offered a reward of S2(JO for its cap
ture. Keport also has it that any lady
can easily capture it. as it is accustomed
to the touch of a lady's hand. So far no
lady has volunteered her service for at
tempting so risky a trick. In the mean
time the good folk hereabout are kept in
a constant state of terror, and chickens
are disapperring with alarming regular
ity.
DEFECTIVE MEMORIES.
Queer Situations People Sometimes
Stumble Into.
From the New York Advertiser
Defective memory has become such a
common ailment that some of the finest
medical minds are endeavoring to find
means to check the distemper, and though
there are professors a-plenty who pretend
to be able to roughen up slippery reten
tiveness, the most learned alienists affirm
that no lasting good can come from the
mere practicing of foats of memorising
That forgetfulness is a common complaint
H evidenced in the courts, in public
offices, in mercantile circles and in every
day life. The old saying “in one ear and
out the other’ was never so generally ap
plicable us now
A person with a tenacious memory
could scarcely help doubting that any
sane woman could forget her husband's
name, and yet a wife did that very thing
a day or so ago She is Mrs. Mary
Miller, and she was found comatose on
Briton beai h When she regained her
wits shs was not only unable to tell her
husband s name, but couidb't re*r. .es*r
where she lived "I'Ve u,tmu forgot,’ she
said with a laugh Sue left home With
tier husband and together they west to
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the beach. After going in bathing he
went to business and she remained at
Brighton. The police learned that she is
the wife of James T. Miller, a wine mer
chant living at 212 Clinton street, Brook
lyn. The moment she clapped eyes on
him after she was brought to Brooklyn,
Mrs. Miller exclaimed “Oh! I remem
ber now. My husband's name is Jim.’’
When James O’Neill of 872 First avenue
came out of St. Stephen’s church on Sun
day last he could not recall where his
home was and had to appeal to Policeman
Charles Kink.
Mrs. Mary Mark man of 1421 Market
street. Newark, N. J., forgot her babe on
a bench in the postoffice in that town the
other day and on reaching home was sur
prised that the little one was not there,
riven then she didn’t recollect where she
had left the little one. The forgotten babe
was recovered at police headquarters.
Most persons vd-ill perhaps agree that a
woman might forget her infant iri a public
fdace, but her diamonds, never! Yet a
ittle while ago Mrs W. W. Potter of 122
West Sixtieth street hopped out of a cab
on Broadway, leaving in the vehicle a
poke containing jewels valued at ♦6,200. i
Nor did she miss them until she arrived
at home. The cabman was honest
enough, but as she wvs a transient fare I
he waited until he saw a Tiffany adver
tisement for the jewels. Then he returned
them
A night or two since Policeman llyan j
of the Church street station found a team
and truck Without a driver moving along
Bey street "J. M Hanuiater. Patchogue,
I, |.,“ was |>ainted on the wsgon K.vso
put the rig in a livery stable, where Ban
Ulster regained p*acs*lou of it It seems
that he didn't rein eta her that be hud left
hia team lieiilnd until be was on a train
homeward Is,and 'I hen happening to!
look over his money, he recalled Host he
had -“'d a load of cabbage, but it was not
until neat morning that ba recollected in
w bat part of tb , ity he had sold It
i ha treacherous memor y of tie*. ben^a
SCHOOL BOOKS.
min Peabody, colored, of Anglesea, N. J., la
likely to cost him his pastorate. It seems
that the reverend gentleman forgot that
July 8 was Sunday, and, instead of going
to church he went black berrying. In the
meantime his flock had gathered in the
church waiting for Mr. Peabody to ap
pear and conduct the morning service.
After waiting impatiently for an hour a
committee was sent to hunt him up. Re
turning, they reported the astonishing
truth He pleaded his slippery memory
as an excuse for his absence, and the
, deacons retorted that a clergyman with
such a loose, memory that he couldn’t
remember when the Sabbath came
I was unfit to preach. The congregation
will consider Mr. Peabody’s case in open
meeting to-day.
“I dou’t know where I live. Won’t you
help me out!” said Mary Brophy to the
sergeant in the West Thirtieth street sta
tion a few days since.
“Don't you know the street?”
“I forget. I came out to send a telegram
for my mistress and can’t remember
where she lives.”
“What s your name?”
“I can’t remember. Hold on, yes.” said
she, brightening, “my name's Mary.”
Finally, through the agency of the em
ployment office through which Mary got
her place, she was restored to her em
ployer
Ex-Mayor Haynes of Newark, N. J.,
was booked to |enk at a banquet in
'Trenton on Independence day and forgot
the town and the date. He went to l>ong
Branch July Hand asked the clerk in the
Ocean bouse to bo shown to the banquet
hall
Members of the lambs' dub are gos
siping not a lit tic about the partial oolit
ci tion of the memory of W. T Muirson,
who begun preparing to go to bed right in
cm of the club rooms, under the impres
sion that he was at home. It was not un
til a crowd of tils wondering ciubwatee
gathered that Mr. Mutrsoa isvaned
luii I m “was at.”
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