The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-10-28
THE PACIFIC
Commercial 0Otrtiscr
OCTOBER o

ANOTHER HFETrs is about to be given t
4 home industry, in the erection by Mr.. }. \
Hopper Of q rice mill Of large capacity auC
superior manufacture, go far as we can Judge
built on quite a new model. The machiner,
has been imported from New York overland
and Is in course of erection near Robinson
wharf in tie rear Of Mr.. IIopper's extensive
brass foundry and barrel factory. The motiv,
power Of the mill viii be the steam engine which
runs the factory. The situation ia n very
suitable one for n rice mill, as the proximity t.
the wharvez gives every facility for receiving the
paddy that Is brought hither from n distance, n:
we'll as re-shipping the cleaned rice to market
Ii is expected that the new mill will be IN
operation during the next eight or ten days,
that its days work will much exceed that of any
other heretofore seen here, and that it will turn
out a superior article Of rice.
We are pleased to note the importation Of this
extensive rice cleaning machinery, for the same
reasons that we last week advocated the erection
Of q wooden mill here. 1t must be obvious that
no small amount Of benefit will result to tho
country from cleaning at nome our entire rice
crop instead of sending the paddy abroad, espe-
ciaiy when we cmemb that the operation OF
the treaty OF reciprocity is already beginning to
give n great impetus to rice culture.
In 1875, the exports Of paddy amounted to
$50 ,495 pounds, and of rice l,573.739 pounds !;
an increase over 1874 Of III 1893 pounds of
paddy and 8 1873 pounds of rice. Under the
stimulus Of better prices through the operation
Of the treaty, it will not be nm over estimate to
expect an increase during the coming year Of say
a million pounds. The energy and enterprise of
our people and the capacity OF the large extent
OF kalo lands lying waste and uncultivated,
should soon more than treble our present product
of rice. We predict, rs We certainly hope, a
brilliant success for Mr.. I~lopper's new enter
prise, as another step towards developing the
resources of the country.
OSE OF THE most marked as well as hopeful
features of the present age is the growing
tendency in all Christian nations to honor and
properly appreciate woman. \ thoughtful and
interesting discourse was preached at the Bethel
church on Sunday morning last, by the pastor,
the Rev. DR.. Damon, from Cor. xi:7-" The
woman is the glory of the man; :" and meeting
a day or two thereafter a bevy Of girls returning
from school, whites, halfcastes and native chill
dren, cleanly attired, bright, happy and we'll
behaved, we were forcibly reminded Of the
pleasing reality that during the last few years in
the history of IIOnolulu-as well as Of other
parts of the islands-great advances have been
made in the means provided for the education
of our female children Every one who feels an
interest in the welfare OF the country mus
rejoice at this moYemcn in the right direction
the best. and we may truly say the only way to
elevate a people, and to advance n nation. The
HOME presided over by a virtuous woman is the
real school that moulds the future man; a
care and kind teachings leave impress
sions upon the heart Of the boy which neither
years, nor trials, nor Maynard wanderings can
ever quite efface.
'sThe mother, in her Office, holds the key
OF the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin
OF character, and makes the being who would be a savage,
There crown her Queen o the world ~
From the girls that are growing up in our
midst, are to come Ifawaii's future mothers
and upon these will depend the future destiny of
the country-its progress, its advance as n nation
and its good or bad report among the other
nations of the earth. Vicious women are the
as %yirtuous women are the life, of civili-
and society. Apparently, oman's sphere
is limited, her field of action circumscribed, and
the realm over which she yields her sceptre-
the homestead-is small but in reality her
is large, her sccptre is potent, and her
sway is unbounded. Who shall undertake to
estimate how much Hawaii owes to woman's
influence for the rapid advance of her people in
he path towards a civilization which, in the
course of half a century, has changed a village of
'emi-savage barbarians into a city of culture and
Commerce opened the gates for the
missionaries, and the spelling book and the
Bible scattered the seeds of religion and ciyili-
.ation but the gentle hands of the missionary
wives and mothers, their pure lives, their patient
and kind guidance, brought tho lile-giving
water to the seed thus sown, and it grew, bles-
ling for eyermore woman's work in the redemp-
ion of these isles Of the sea from heathenism
md barbarism. Wherever and whatsoever the
true history Of Hawaii shall be read, wOman's
york must be recognized as its browning glory.
And since the day when the first missionary
woman placed her foot on the shore of HAWAII,
he good influences of her seq have continued
or the advancement of the people in civilization.
We see Woman's influence in our quiet and
orderly streets; in our neat and cosy home
;teads; in our calm and peaceful Sundays IN
,ur full churches and last, but not least, in
he increase and progress of our fcmale schools.
t is to woman's influence solely that all this is
luc and we speak adviscdly in saying so. Let
he doubter-if there be such-remember for n
moment San Francisco in 1890, when no lady
rod the streets of that city wherein only men
aggregated was it not Pandemonium itself?
The days were spent in a constant rush for gain;
he finer feelings once implanted by a mothers
,entle hand, were blunted honor, rectitude and
eligion were but too often forgotten in the
Shirl of a daily toll and scramble for gold;
nd the nights were squandered in the saloons
nd gambling helIs. At last q kind Providence
ouchsafed woman's purity, woman's faith,