The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-05

Where. also. have the subscriptions
oeen Sd ho-ral that they mad To be-
stopped. and final V, let me ask, where
else has there been promulgated, as the
hrst act after the guns OF dawI, and in
especial honor and recogui,i III of this
great day, natio ial constitution, bri ~
| lag iito being new Republic?
Inc banks. stores warehouses and
schools ara closed, the water craft aud
piantati ms are resting. the Stars and
stripes are flying, and The people are
r. 1icing. hope that the gentlemen OF
toe press, il there be any mere. will let
the vast and friendly population of the
States distinctly know that they are II
all Americans whp doing this Please
tell them that the German, The Dane,
| the Greek, thu Porting Iese, he French
man, The children of la, the gentle
| Hawaiian anu the irrrpreSsioie irishman
are assisting" and L strongly suspect
| that some OF the hardy son, OF Great
ri'Itain, who are pleased 20 say that
blood is thicker than water arr taking
4 q net hand today at Little Britain.
| The stranger may say that the cele-
| bra'ion OF the Fourth of July thu ia
wdiiin Islands is q new thing, bora of
revolution or gotten up for dramatic eff
| ect, bu5 su,h Is not the case. One
| learns upon il quiry that it has always
| been So and chat the tie which bind, |
mu titudes of this people, rich and poor, |
| brown as we'll as white, to the land of |
lIHer'y Is stronger perhaps than any If |
hem ia 'ly realize. If mistake not, the |
day Is not far distant when this feeling |
will assert Itself with Immunity and re-
suit alike amazing in every island of the
Ban GrJup the Pacific.
rui y eighty years ago, II first began,
and that was SIX Years before the mis-
sonar:es first arrived The ,dos had not
yet been destroyed, when kamehameha
surnam tn Cir az, began the Gu tom
OF e ebratng the fourth of July
There WAS a joyousness in the pro,
Gee tlngs which commended them TO
native tasIes, and the custom to k hold
and grew until il became the h Jli!ay Of
ali the year. The kamehamS ha lulss, |
II not mlsrepreSe"t by the est ened !
historian, Prof Alexander, fully under
stood the art OF celebrating, and could | !
put final hue on village of grass
nuts with neatness and dispatch " .
Though not Exactly a kamaaina, L am :
far from being a stranger here. Fonr anu.
twenty years nave passed since | frs =
beheld the bold trout ami rug 1ed sides !
Of Diamond Head, b t my recoliections
of these charming islands remain clear =
AID strong, aud my interest In them has =
never hagye1. As | had resided Tor :,
some time with the .-x-queen, then Mrs :.
om,ns, AMI he~ sister the Princess -
at Wa ,hington Place, and had =
assisted Prihce David kalakaua, their :,
brother, with some military instruction :,
or the funeral of the Dowager Queen :;
Aalama, when he was a clark in the r.
Foreign tflice and an officer of the Vol y,
their subsequent Careers always @,
'xci ed a friendly interest Kameha- ce
neha V. (Prince Lot) was King during ~
hat visit, and although there appeal ed ar
o be then profound content, the seed m
lad been sown, and the American leavea tb
vas working ~
L remember particularly visit made ~
D Hilo in the old Kilauea, the pioneer ~
nd only inter island steamer then ply ~.
ny. Now you have two fleets. Her ~,
peed, never alarming, had become so vi
sduced that they could see her smoke trl
Lahaina seven or eight hours before No
ne arrived, and it was decided to over ~,
au her. Major g. H. Judi, better | 49,
nown to you as "Charley Judd /" was ~, 80
len her agent. and, after she was re- h hr'
store 10 e ist knots on a; Jewel -he adj
ber for . tr,Tna Vic H;Io If anonay
could be had who wanted to r.
visit the volcano. Enough We're booked, ri
Ind we rolled over there in the month OF r.
October, 1870. There were sc erai young Fl
fiji ers in the party who belonged to the r
S slOop Jamestown, then in this port, | r
md, finding mo- hotel in Hlo, we were n
Try thankful to be invited by the ri
veteran Captain Tom Spencer to make ne
'ur head quarters at his hpspitable re-
louse After a grand bath in running az
tream of cold water, ana an excellent
Inner, we were treated TO a serenade by
small band composed Of some native A
'oys, friends of poor Bill kagsd lie. cf
he music would not have suited Mozat w
r Beethoven, perhaps, but we liked it. by
Vas it the melodious 6 Aloha De - or
Ahi Wela " you ask No, not bit of til
). Those boys made the cocoanut be
aims and bamboo clumps rustic with in
JOHN Browns Body" "Sherman's If
1arch to the Sea-" and Columbia g gi
ne Gem of the Ocean," and we felt that tx
was only couple of miles from Rain pU
ow Falls to the Golden Gate.
About eighteen months ago | was an tn
ounced to lecture in Metropolitan Tenn a
le, San francisco. On my way To the -
uildlng in street car, on January 2 tn, TT
saw hanging in a great plate glass win up
DIV Of the Chronicle office, on Market all
rect, a small placard which made pi:
nown to p4ssers- by that James G.. an
laine, the distinguished sta,esman, and ex
lend of Hawaii, had died that morning --
Washington. The sad news was the -
pic Of converse ion everywhere, and
ferred to it in my lecture, which was
tended by about 100 Peep e Among
losa people there were several newspa-
sr men, aud one especially well known
as Mr.. NJ. IL DeYo1pg. | mention
lis because bis presence aroused in me ss
interest to see what criti- ~
sm of my humble effort his paper, the
nronicle, might contain next day. In on
edistely after bre ikias5 / bought copy K.
I'd found that l had been crowded ut. We
black, schoone r-rigged, iron steamer, ing
lied the Claudine had unexpectedly Inc
rived in the night and the Chronicle
I'd San Francisco were alike taken up
it'll the news OF GA Revolt in Hawaii =
ven blaine was for the time being for
'tten, and column after column was