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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 ’ $lO. W.'it jj.e 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 GOOD NEWS FOR PARENTS™ AND TO EVERY FAMILY. All who patronize us for the next sixty days, commencing Aug. 1, may ob tain from us opunm onni/c At2OPERCENLOFF dUllllUL DUUIYO OF NEW YORK PRICES, > Or About 50 Per Cent. Less Than Book Store Prices. | A great Raving In this liberal offer. The Bent Groceries cheap and flehool , Books for a great deal less than heretofore. : ESTATE S. W. BRANCH, I BROUGHTON AND WHITAKER STREETS. SUMMER Where Will You Spend That Vacation ! The coolest Resort In the State, with pleasant surroundings, sociable, clever people, and no end of sport for the angler or hunter, is what you will find at the famous old town of WHITE SPRINGS, “WAY DOWN UPON DE S’WANEE RIBBER.” Finest natural bathing pool In the world, possessing wonderful medical properties. Full particulars by addressing the undersigned, and by inclosing a 2-cent postage stamp ho will send you a SouVenlr of the Suwannee River. WM. H. WREN, Proprietor White SulphurSprlngs, Hotel, White Spring*, Fla. 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.” 5