Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-09-02

\ quccrly arranged society is the
Forty This is the number of its
members. each forty years old or up.
wards, on admission. Its constitution
provides that the Society shall exist
forty years. The admission fee is for.
" dollars. Its assembly room is at
No. 90. - street, is forty fee, square,
and is lighted at night by forty wax
candles The regular meeting is every
foriicth night, and its special meetings
may be held only on days OF the month
exactly diyislblc by four or ten. Each
original member had a number assign
cd to him. and in all meetings and
matter, of the Society, is known only
by his number New members are
elected 20 TN ylcanics, all the members
conouuing The bylaws contain forty
articles. The secrets Of the Society
cannot be disclosed, OF course. They
relate chiefly to mutual aid and com
fort, and there is nothing Objectionable
in them on any ground, moral or polit
ical. The officers are selected by lot.
The Forties are all of fair mental
power, education and experience, and
include in due proportion business men,
professionals and men of leisure. Some
Of their fortyminute discussions have
been singularly pointed, candid and in
structive. The president states the
question and the circumstances, ormen-
tai processes that led up to it. He then
inquiries whether the Society will hear
iour-minute, or ten.minute speeches
upon 1t. The former rule is usually
adopted when the subject is of a popu-
lar character; the latter if the theme is
more serious or difficult In either
case 4 speaker may occupy double time,
il so invited by the President. II no
one volunteers to speak, speakers may
be named from the chair. After the
debate, on the request of four mem
bcrs, the views of the Society will be
taken on the question by a show of
hands. The present leader, call him
~, IS frank, genial, of-hand. well to
do, and very popular He makes no
pretensions to scholarship, but has a
mare, original way of looking at things,
and Of expressing his mind.
On the first meeting in 81, A.,
as in duty bound, presented his
question andstated how it came up.
January Ist, a. SokD, INDUCING
IN his usual morning reverie be
fore rising, hqHifty, 81 wonder
If men generally are really alike
essentially and potentially as the
mental philosophy fellows call it
OF course, there are differenceS-plain-
ly enough. One strong, another sickly.
One well brought up and educated,
another neglected and iliterate. B.,
plenty of money f., none at all. D.,
has always good luck. o., the Old
HaTy'S Own c., comes of good
blood, aud u, out of the mire. F.,
happy fellow has a most charming
wife; but W., he caught Tartar, and
can't get away. VI. is good looking,
and can talk like steam engine. NJ,
homely, and hasn't word to say for
himself. All clear as mud. But if
we eliminate the accidental and un-
essential, as the big wigs have it, how
then3 We all live by eating and sleep
ing. In a hundred years we shall all
be dust. None of us can Jump ten
feet high. Not one is as wise as an
editor prctends to be, or can tell what
weather we shall have next week, or
how long he is going to live, or what
he will see first after he dies. G.. can
build ship, but he can't make tree.
L. is a capital doctor, but he couldn't
make an egg that would hatch. That
fellow, what S his name, said he made
something like louise in his laboratory,
but Tyndall said he didn't, that the
germ OF the louise was floating in the
air, and got into the chemicals. When
ii comes to creating anything, reckon
We are all up stump. But perhaps
there have been smarter men in the
past, who could make living things. II
so, they haven't left us any account OF
1t. In fact, from what little I've read
in history, think we are smarter and
can do more than anybody that pre-
coded rs. But some good people
worked miracles-some of the Jews.
Yes, but il they did, it was through a
higher power, not their own. So they
themselves tell us. | guess, upon the
whole, We are all in the same boat.
In fact, when NEE, our fellows, some
how am conoious, | know, off hand,
We are all pretty much alike. And l
know too, that We men are ahead OF
any other living beings on earth, let
alone in animate things, that I've ever
fallen in with, or read about. A uee
is bigger than l, but ! can cut it down
OF root il up; so can any kanaka or