The Hawaiian Gazette from Honolulu, Hawaii • Page 11

KjSWonraged over the outlook for Sun I i EX 11 An Interesting Letter From the Scene of the 'World's Fair. (From our special correspondent.) Since I last wrote yon things have assumed shape in a more positive form. Many of the buildings are completed and dedicated. Even now there are immense crowds of sightseers and visitors to the Expositiou grounds, pecially on Sundays. Aside from the attractiveness of the buildings in genera.

Horticultural Hall especially is is fine sight, with its magnificent display of tropi cal foliage and flowers. The village is a very great attraction to curiosity seekers, as it is an exact reproduction of Arctic life, with the exception of there being no icebergs or Polar bears. Two babies were born in the colony since their arrival, one of which has died. As to the question of Sunday opening, a word hero will not be out of place. I quote as follows from the 'NTRiIr "Ahnpr Tnvlor is day ODenmg.

Ho has begun ques tioning the Senators at "Washington, and finds strong opposition to any such movement. The Chicago Congressmen will hold a conference this week, and will mark out a plan of action. Nothing but the hardest kind of work will secnre the passage of a bill repealing the Sunday closing clause. The members of Congress know little or nothing of the strength of the opposition to the Sunday closing, and thus far no systematic effort has been made to enlighten them. Chicago wants the Exposition opened on Sunday she had better make her desires known at Washington." Anions the manv notices of amuse ments not specially connected with the Exposition, the Passion Play is noticeable.

As to the advisability of reproducing the Passion Play in Chicago during the Exposition, I quote the following from the Christian Union The Passion Play of it is announced, is likely to be given at the World's Pair! Keport, in Chicago Inter-Ocean, says that an amphitheatre is to be erected with a canvas large enough to seat 5000 or 10,000 people. Scenery will represent the mountains which nature has furnished as background at Josef Haver is to come across the water to repre sent the Christ It will be easy to import the actors but not the audiences and the latter determine the spirit of a performance The project has reached, it is said, that state of advancement where but the final word remains to be said to make it effectual. This is to come from, the people of the United States. If serious objection is raised, the idea of course will be abandoned. "We trust this objection will be raised in a most vigorous and emphatic protest." In the Electrical department astounding: results as to the many uses and appliances will be shown its effects on plants and animals and different forms of life.

Reference has recently been made as to the effect of the electric lieht on plants, especially those at the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, where there is a noted collection of ornamental plants, especially fine palms, grown for the decoration of the banqueting halls of the palace. The illumination, of a room for a single night caused the eaves to turn yellow, dry up, and drop off. The cays in St. Petersburg are'almost sunless, and the sudden change from this dim light to the blinding glare of the electric lights is more than the plants can bear; plants that are partly shaded escape injury tu then: foliage.

Th a telegraphic device invented by Iiangdon of London also the submarine telegraph; train telegraphy system of llr. Lucius J. Phelps, are to be exhibited. In the United States alone the lines of telegraph have a total of miles of wire enough to-encircle the world -times. France has 241,500 miles, Germany 186,733 miles.

Great Britain and Ireland 183)2 miles, Eussia 172,360 miles. As to the extent of the telephone in 1S90 in this country, there were 7oi exchanges, 471 branch oiEces, 192,610 miles of land wire, 603 miles of submarine cables, 156,780 circuits and 185,003 subscribers- Exchange connections daily in the United States, 14240,147 or a total ner year of 400.000,000, the company received for rental in 1SS9 $2,657,361. The Bell Telephone Co. and its subsidiary companies represent about of capitaL or A word right here for Thomas A. Edison.

He will astonish the world by the exhibit he will make in 1S93. I have two or three things to show, said he recently, which 1 think will both please and surprise the visitors to the electrical department of the his Exposition, which by the way I am. fully convinced will be a great success. Two of these are not vet ready to be described, the third Is so nearly perfected that I do not hesitate to say something about it. I hope to be able by the invention to throw upon a canvas a perfect picture I of anybody and reproduce his words.

Thus should Patti be sins-ins? somewhere this invention will put her full length picture upon the canvas so perfectly-, as to enable one to distinguish every feature and expression of her face, see all her actions and listen to the entrancing melody of her peerless voice. This invention will bo called the Tho first half of the word signifies motion, and the last write, and both together mean, the portrayal of motion. Aside from Edison's will be shown the general method of operating electric railways, telophrago a name given to a system deviced for the transportation of goods and passengers for overhead suspended cars driven by electric motors; police and fire alarm systems, capital punishment by electricity, electric woodea, driven by electricity, recently hunched in an e'ectric awakerer, an ordinary alarm clock with e'ectric attachment which includes in circuits one of the rollers at the bottom of the legs of tho bed when tho hour arrives at which the sleeper has to set the alarm, his weight closes the circuit and the bell rings and continues to ring until tho sleeper gets off the bed; also many improvements on tho present system of phoning, recording and return message or phoue, patent of H. C. Adams of Honolulu and Chicago, U.

S. A. The Woman's JJaundry Co. is doubly dcrerringof prouvreat mention, for women only; men can only participate through "the ladies that own them." It will both tho community in general, ard women in particular, by employing women exclusively and them in the best methods of laundry work, paying them the best wages poosible and giving them certificates of proficiency when they become thorooghly skilled. Each share is of the nominal value of $10 and was sold at par, so that it has an authorized cupital of 300,000.

The President of the same is Mrs. Sarah Wilder Pratt, member of the "Woman's Club of Chicago. We are having seasonable weather. Just now occasional falls of suow; not much with flies, if yon see one and it goes out of he window it comes back with both of its knees frozen and icicles on its feet unless it wears Jaegers' underwear and top boots. The souvenir coins are at last here Chicago.

The coin shows on the obverse side the profile of Columbus. The reverse side shows the caravel Santa ilaria in full sail, and underneath the two hemispheres. The inscription reads. ''World's Columbian Exposition, the inscription on the obverse reads, "Columbian Souvenir Half-Dollar, 1S92." H. O.

A. Chicago, Dec. 19, 1S92. FROM KOHALA. Superstitions Hawaiians Fear the Loss of Their Children.

(From an Occasional Correspondent.) Here is a district with five sugar plantations, ten houses of worship within a distance of seven miles, besides the one at Mahukona, two Government and one private English schools of over 100 pupils each, one seminary, a railroad, two ports of entry, and the "handsomest chimney in the Kingdom," all on the side of Hawaii nearest the metropolis, yet having, it is believed, the poorest mail and steamer ser vice the Kingdom. No mai.er how urgent a case mav be, there's no communicating with Honolulu by any regular service excepting once in ten days. Better to be sure than was the condition forty years ago, but not as good as five years ago, and not entirely satisfactory. As rather marked evidence of the decided vitality of Hawaiian superstitions, may be mentioned the fact that natives were with credulous concern a few days ago about a certain report that three haole mu and one kanaka mu were touring the island in quest of children to bury under the foundation of the New Masonic Temple and that three children had already been secretly seized in Hamakua for that purpose. It would appear from some sources of information that notices had been posted in the district warning Hawaiians to keep their children within doors after sundown.

The churches of North and West Kohala celebrated their New Year's Day by having a grand Sunday School union at the stone church, where there was said to have been some amusing attempts to dramatize Scriptural historical incidents. Eight hundred people were in attendance. After services, quite a number of the older natives, many whom have not seen rather Bond for months and perhaps years, called at the house of their aged ex-pastor with the hope of beine permitted to see him. A hand to hand greeting was impossible in poor state of his health, but for the purpose of gratifying them, he was lifted to a chair at the window, and many were the expressions of sympathy which greeted him there. Justin V.

McCarthy, formerly a I school-teacher at Lahaina. was committed to the Insane Asvlnm last week at his own request. He Buffers temporary insanity at times, and this coarse was adonted to see if he can. "he cured. HAWAuiuN AZBTTt, lUKdUAY JXUARY 17 A NEW GAEINET.

Some yew Ministers for the Public to From Daily, Jan. 14 Yesterday morning when President Walker called the House to order it was discovered that about ten members were present, so the President adjourned things until the afternoon at 2 o'clock. It was a noticeable fact that in the morning there were no "haole" members present, and various reports were circulated for their non-attendance. In the afternoon at 2 o'clock a (nall number of native members were in their seats and additions k-pt cons itly arriving until the cojnted noses and found abodt twenty-four honoables present. While all this was going on no "haole" members made their appearance, and it looked like tho House would have to be adjourned but in some manner a story was circulated in the lobby that a message would soon arrive from the Palace, so everybody waited until it arrived.

Nobody knew just what the nature of the message was until nearly 3 o'clock, when the Secretary read a document an nouncing that nau appoirted a new Cabinet, the of which had arrived and were staiding by the desks usually assigned to Cabiret Ministers. It was Samuel Parker, Foreign Affairs W. H. Cornwell, Finance J. iv.

Uolburn, tnteaor; and A. F. Peterson, The natives received the new Cabinet with cheers, but the ness men about were not so enthusiastic, as some of the opinions expressed yesterday regarding the new Ministers would not look nice in print. SOME OF THE CABIXETS. The Legislature which will be prorogued to-day will always be remembered by the many bad bills it has passed, and by the number of Cabinets which have been presented and fired in turn.

With the Cabinet above mentioned there have been five in all: THE WIDEMAKN CABIXET. Attorney-General W. A. Whiting. Interior C.

N. Spencer. Finance H. A. Widemann, Foreign Affairs Samuel Parker.

THE JIACTAELAXE CABINET. Attorney-General P. Neumann. Interior C.T.Gulick. Finance E.

C. Macfarlane. Foreign Affairs Samuel Parker. THE COESWELL CABINET. Attorney General Chas.

Creij ton. Interior C. T. Gulick. Finance W.

H. Cornwell. Foreign Affairs Joseph Nawahi. THE WILCOX CABINET. Attorney-General Cecil Brown.

Interior G. N. Wilcox. Finance P. C.

Jones. Foreign Affairs M. P. Eobinson. SAMOA AND FIJI.

(From, our Travalinj; Correspondent.) I left Honolulu in October on the Alameda, bonnd for Apia, but on my arrival there I found the country bordering on rebellion so decided to keep on to Fiji. Apia is one of the prettiest garden spots on earth. I wonder why people with plenty of money and time do not extend their excursion trips to the Samoan group. The views in and around Apia are more grand than your famous Pali near Honolulu, with its sky-scraping mountains and forests. Compared with Honolulu or Apia, tne village ot Suva is nowhere.

The weather is very warm here. I am told that the heat equals 120 degrees in the shade, though the thermometer does not indicate it. It rains yery hard and frequently, and the heat appears to be a steam from the ground and the rotting vegetation on it. One's clothing feel3 damp all day, and foreigners men and women of whom there are very few, look as though they had fever and chills or jaundice. There are very lew norses, ana no nacKs or expresses or teams for work.

The natives do all the carrying on then-backs or the best way they can handle it. These natives are a fine specimen at of the human race, some of them to being fully 7 feet high, and many of them over 6 feet. The English missionaries did wonders in early days, and are still doing a great deal in civilizing and improving them. am told, however, that cannibalism is still practiced to some extent in the monntains of Fiji, and that if they catch a white man on his tramps in some of the outer in districts they will take him and roast him. Should he happen to is bo too lean, they will keep him in confinement, and stall-feed him till ho is considered iu good order.

The natives have very large canoes, some of them over one hundred feet in length. I used to think that Mr. H. F. Bertleman, at uis cottage near Diamond Mead, had the bos3 canoe, but these Fiji canoes throw his all into tho shade, and are splendid specimens of native work.

Coolies from India are worked on the plantations, on the five-year contract system. They get about $7.50 a month, and do task work mostly, that is, a certain stent is given them each day. The coolie women are a queer-looking people, and very fond of jewelry. Ornaments of every kind of jewelry are seen hanging from their ears, noses, necks, fingers, and with gilt rings on their toes. As I said before, there are very few horses here.

Most of the wealthy people ride in a small wagon, like an American brake, with a pole to it, and drawn by two or three natives two at the pole and one behind pushing. To a stranger, it is amusing to see them racing Temple fashion) on the boulevard, known as the Victoria Parade." Suva, Fiji, Dec. 15, 1S92. OFFICERS INSTALLED. Pacific Rebecknh Lodge, No.

1, I. O. O. invited the members of their brother lodges and their families to be present at the installation of the new officers of the lodge. The invitation was heartily accepted, and Friday, when th exercises were held, Excelsior Hall was well filled with friends and brothers to witness the installation.

The new officers were installed by C. J. Fishel, P.C.P., D.D.G.S., assisted by Messrs. J. J.

Lecker, F.D.D.G.S., Petrie, Burnheimer and H. H. Williams, all of whom acted as grand officers. The following are the new officers of the Lodge Mrs. E.

F. Burnheimer, N.G. Mrs. F. M.

Nicolls, Y.G. Miss Iu Adler, Secretary. Miss M. White, Treasurer. Mrs.

C. Williams, Warden. Mrs. A. Petrie, Conductor.

Mr. A. Petrie, I.G. Mr. E.

F. Burnheimer, R.S.N.G. Miss E. L.S.N.G. Mrs.

A. E. Pratt, R.S.V.G. Mr. J.

W. Pritchard, L.S.V.G. Bev. Alex. Mackintosh, Chaplain.

After the installation exercises were over Mr. Fishel made an appropriate address, which was received with favor. The Rev. Alex. Mackintosh was then called upon, and in response delivered an address which was both interesting and humorous.

His remarks were puuctuated with laughter and applause. A literary and musical was then carried out, in which the lady members of the Lodge and friends participated. Everybody present had a most pleasant evening, and Rebeckah i r. nrl fp vin nrirl nnnfhor cnnocofiil O- uvuwAU I entertainment to their long list. AYETT SURVEYOR.

Clarence L. Crabbe Stepped Down and Oat Yesterday. (From Daily, January 9.) Clarence L. Crabbe, who has been Port Surveyor for over a year stepped down and out yesterday, and he is no longer on the pa' roll of -this Government. The cause which led to his resignation occur red on the arrival of the S.

S. Rio Janeiro, when by some-oversight he allowed sixty-two adult Chinese to land from that vessel, all of whom held passports which called for children under 14 years of age. Crabbe made an explanation to his superiors claiming that when he examined the immigrants on board of the vessel, it was quite dark between decks and he was unable to make a proper examination of the men. Collector Cleg-horn spoke in the highest terms of Crabbe's ability and in tegrity yesterday, and said he was sorry to lose his services; but under the circumstances he could not overlook such glaring carelessness, and therefore he accepted the resignation of the Port Surveyor. Mr.

Crabbe has made many friends since he has been in office by the uniform courtesy he has always shown to the general public, and many regrets were expressed yesterday when it was known that he had lost hi3 office. Captain A. X. Tripp, the jailer Oahu Prison, has been appointed the place. Mr.

Tripp has held the office before. of Under the new Judicary Act a to new form will be carried out at the Police Station. Hereafter when a wants to have another ar rested, the injured one swears to a complaint and as soon as possible the defendant is notified to appear court the following day. If he does not tarn up, a bench" warrant issued for his arrest. KOHALA NOTES, The Holidays Steam Service Plantation, Etc.

This holiday season has been red-letter week for serennders. Tho boys have turned out with every conceivable musical instrument from a mouth organ to a bass drum. Christmas and Now Year's eves, they came at all hours of the night. Their comings and goings were as uncertain and often as startling as an earthquake. Native songs wens sung in great profusion, and with a delightfully harmonious abandon.

To my notion, the hula music sounded well, its rollicking cadences trembling through the moonlight like the distant jingle of sleigh-bells. There was one band that deserves especial mention. It was composed of about twenty boys with a big tri- augie and something that squeaked, and an appetite for anything that fortuuo might send their way. They made such noises as only boys can, and if the audience did not enjoy it, the performers did. Now the great need of North is a better mail servico from Honolulu.

It would become our representatives to endeavor to make some provision for at least a weekly mail service between the capital and the country. The Kinau could easily make weekly trips. If by legislative grant or otherwise, Wilder S. S. Co cannot be induced to give us a weekly service, the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co.

might be approached. If it could be made an object for the G. Hall to land mails at Mahukona, it would be highly satisfactory to the taxpayers of North Kohala. When the Kinau leaves Honolulu a day or two before the arrival of the foreign steamer it is especially tantalizing. Kauai and Maui have a weekly and ofteu a semi-weekly service, while much of Hawaii gets mails sometimes every ten days, sometimes not.

Tho thanks of this community are due to the Wilder S. S. who for the past few weeks have promptly forwarded the foreign mail per steamer Hawaii. If we can get Friday's foreign mall before Sunday civil war will probably be averted. There were extra church services on New Year's; Monday was general holiday.

At Hawi, we had an old-fashioned game of cricket, which ended In a tie. The most interesting play occurred at the end of the game. One of the players who had never seen cricket before, after a little coquetting with the ball, jrot a swipe at it that nearly sent it out of sight. Then, forgetting it was not baseball, he threw his bat about forty yards and lit out for first base amid the enthusiastic cheers of the audience. This ended a most exciting match to the satisfaction of everybody.

The New Year dinners were fully equally to the Christmas festivals, and were too numerous for individual mention. Kohala Sugar Co. began grinding on Monday, the 0th. This makes three mills at work. The remaining mills will soon begin.

The past nine or ten months have been a period of exceptional drought in North Kohala, and the yield will be somewhat les3 than last year's. The red cane, the Rose Bamboo, has stood the drought the best. It has flourished while other cane was dying for want of water. In the mills the density of the juice etnnrlq mtlinr hirh? if 'a nnlv f.llllf. Iia- -o-i ins mat tnere is not enougn ot it Br.

Wight's residence, Greenbank, was the scene or a delightful gathering on the evening of Wednesday, January 4th, when the Misses Wight gave a german. The guests began to arrive by o'clock, the being represented despite a mist which made traveling uncomfortable. Their beautiful residence was decorated with foliage and perfumed with flowere; and amid this exotic bloom of the southland, the happy throng tripped through the mazes oi the dance to the languorous music of Ha- waii nei The golden hours sped by that night on wings of joy, and mid night passed unnoticed amid the witchery of silvery music and graceful motion, fair faces and laughing eyes. And in the early morn we separated with a sigh that such thing3 cannot last forever. Again tho Kinau has been unable to laud at Mahukona on account of kona winds.

She made a landing at Halawa, where mail and passengers came ashore, our freight, a3 before, going on to Hilo. The schools have reopened, teachers and scholars beginning work with new heart after the pleasant relaxa tion of the holidays. The native Sunday school reunion, so eagerly looked forward to, came oil onjNew lears JJayattne nig native church near Father Bond's. They assembled from far and near to the number of nearly a thousand. They came in plantation wagons decked with flowere, they rode on horseback, and they marched in procession to the sound of music.

a It was a gala day, and a royal day they made of It in the commodious o'd church. Thiy marched down en masse In the old homestead, where they were revitwed by the saintly Father Bond. "Wellsfrickeninyeara. too feeble to leave his room, this good father in Israel was placed by loving bands where, through his window, he could view the joyous throng in the warm sunshine of this Kew Year's Day. It was a touching picture radiant youth on the threshold of a new year, with the sunshine on their face; radiant old age on the threshold a happier new year, with tjie warmth of sunshine in bis heart.

It was, perhaps, the last public tribute departing worth. The JIary E. from San Francisco, has arrived at 3Iahukona with a cargo of merchandise for the plantations, and will probably carry a cargo of sugar back. Kohala, January 10, 1693. in Taro flour is very efficacious for all stomach troubles.

If you don't believe it, just try it. 11 E. 0. Hall Son, I'd. January, ldgj.

Do you want the wheels of your buggy, brake or dray to run smoothly this year? Of course you do, you ain't in love with hot box and a wheel that won't go round. Just try a bottle of Climax Axle Oil and -see how it works. It is far better than castor oil, which is generally used, and is sold for just half the price. This oil has been well tried here and no one once using it will go back to castor or axle grease. We can sell it to you by the bottle, gallon or tin.

If you still prefer castor oil or axle grease we have them both in any quantity. "We have just added 51 do Paint Brushes to our stock, and can now furnish you any kind from a cheap white-wash to a fine all-bristle paint or varnish Brush. We also have a new lot of Carriage Gloss Paint, and your buggy will need touching up when the weather gets settled. Galvanized Iron Padlocks are much better to use out of doors than the ordinary japd. iron locks.

Our new lot has just been opened. Gentlemen who shave themselves know how important it is to have a good strop, and we are selling a new style Strop, which several of our customers say beats anything ever brought here. This strop is purchased by the Commissary-General, U. S. A.

for use throughout the entire army of the United States, aud is supplied to the entire corps of Cadets at the Military Academy, "West Point. Try one of these strops and you will never use any other. The patent Clothes Rack we sell is just the thing to use this wet weather. You can set it up before the stove in a moment, dry out the clothes you got wet in that last shower, and in another moment you can fold'up your rack and stand it up behind the door. Garden Trowels we have been out of some weeks, but the last steamer brought us a new Jot, also Pointing Trowels, Disaton's Saws, Hutchers' Spring Balances, assorted Chalk, Brown Sharp Horse Clippers.

now have a new lot of steel and brass, Jong spout Locomotive Oilers, the last lot having all been sold the day they were received. A new lot of Binoculars and Field Glasses, you will find well worth looking through. We have them all prices- also yacht and pocket Compasses, Maximum and Minimum Brush poor just the thing for this season of the year. "We are out of those Linen Lariats, but have several dozen already invoiced which we expect on the next steamer. "We will have a Gil Net on the next steamer 1000 ft.

long by ft high. This one is sold to arrived but we can take your order for any size net. "We lately sold a large net which paid for its entire cost in two hauls. "Who says fishing don't pay "We have just received new lot of fine Linen Gilling Cord for repairing nets. Hall's Cane Knives, plain or hooked are useful at this time of year, as the cane must be cut.

This brand of knives is made especially for this market, and lasts twice as long as many of the lighter made knives of poor metal. Don't forget that our stock of Lubricating Oils is very large and varied. Anything from pure Strained Sperm to Carbox Oil in barrel, case, or gallon, or bottle lota. Our stock of Ship Cuandlebt has been added to quite extensively of late and now the largest and most complete in these Islands. 1 ti II I.