Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-01-10
. GoI my TENE


. 0oLDEN TENE
III " Net Tsrrg II nsH. Doing.
II would be q magnificent gain to
human progress it, few OF the golden
text, Of Chtist's Gospel might be so
cupraned upon human belief that. hu.
man faith in things eternal once found,
wc could never filter 1t is the worst
pcril OF the race, OF the age, that fatal.
Ism, A. q creed, is gaining ground so
rapidly among non-bclievets in the
Chn.tiancrced failurcinthislft busi.
ness hilutc, social failure, artistic fail.
utc has come TO mean to SO many
rtf,8di failure that hope is burned to
ashes And on the sorry urn We hang
the plleatd, "kNmet' and 20 on eat
ing, drinking and merry making ere
the morrow OF death come and VIC en-
ter into that rest which may mean cter.
nal gladntss and may mean eternal
sorrow. We do not know, we do not
care; and looking backward. trying to
peer through the pail of yesterday, we
cannot see the sunlight Of to-day We
cannot because We will not
That is all very doleful, some one
says. 1t saundslikc an excerpt from an
editorial in that esteemed oontcmpor-
airy which the late lamentcd Dan o.
Connell said fought to be read by
moonlight in grave yard But one
cannot be sunshiny always not the
most irridescent OF us, Not even
Wanda may be quipping and quirk.
ing continuously We in Hawaii nei
are in "a bad boat and we need to be
reminded of it.
With sugar at SIso money was easy
and stocks were "boomin' and the
flush times lent themselves to lavish ex-
pediturc. Ii was So easy to discount
the future. The planters harvest was
everybody clse's opportunity. Snug
fortunes were made and and some of
them were laid snugly away We who
came too late to so gleaaing,or cleaned
only to scatter again, have no right to
bite our thumbs at the prudent ones of
the kingdom.
But with sugar at 500. things assun
far different aspect "Bue as indigo
the landscape, dull as lead the skyscape,
black as ink the waters OF the river OF
life as Blake saw them in that wonder.
full vision Rose,ti tells of so tenderly,
So many of us are dependant upon the
price of sugar, not for the jam and the
butter and the honey we spread upon
our daily bread but for our daily bread
itself So many of us may have
neither cakes nor ale-at least no ale
save Adam's-if the lever OF prices
rise not, or il sugar be not in the scale.
What care we though Gibson fall,
If sugar go not up at all ?
What care we though Gibson rise,
Ifsugar mountnottowards the skies7
Put not your trust in sugars, neither
carry all your eggs in one basket, fol
the night comeih wherein the man that
hath no. string to his bow save only
sugar gets badly left.
But where shall man gain expert
ence or where shall he get wisdom
Verify It's easy to lock the door after
the horse has been stolen, ard passing
easy to say Il told you So" But the
man who can tell us how to supplement,
sugar by something that will pay as
WELL or better, is the man we are al
looking for
And behold some one cometh who
saith: Hearken unto the voice of A
Jaeger, for he is wise concerning tht
vegetable kingdom and knoweth tht
virtues of shrubs and plants, of herb.
and fruiting trees. Listen unto him ant
go plant cinchona By0ziliexsis and CARL
and the various other productions
which Mr.. Jaeger knows about and
But you say that you can't afford t.
wait until cinchona trees grow and unit
other plants attain maturity You sa'
that you went through long and sor,
experience in sugar. You are tired ant
dlsneartend ana you wantto get out
and either peacefully retire on your say
ings or else "pull up stakes and g
somewhere else.
"Be not weary in well doing.
There are folks worse off than you
There are men and women in ever
land who are suffering more serious re
verses than you. There are darke
clouds in nearly every sky than o'erhan
you-dark though they be-
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"You do not believe it. Bien
/; Look at Hooking valley, Ohio, with it
toilers nm half time and i,s hunpr