The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-07-06

Where, also. have the subscriptions
been 50 lib-ral that they had to be
stopped; snd final y, let me ask, where
else mas there been promulgated, as the
first act aftsr the guns of dawn and in
especial honor and recognition OF this
great day, national constitution, bting-
ing into being nsw Republic?
The banks stores wareuo1s,S and
school are cl0,td, the water craft AID
plantations ave resting the Stars and
5 ripes are flying. and the people arr
r. jlcing [ ~ pc III It the gsntlemeu OF
I press il there h. any here, will LIT
the vast and friendly populttIon Of the
States distinctly know thai they are
all Americans VIII, doing this Please
tell them That the G-rrnan, he Dane,
the Greek, rhs POrtug iese, he French
man, the children of A ia, the gentle
/ Hawaiian ami the irrepressible irishman
are assisting" and | strongly suspect
I that some ot the hardy sons OF Great
/ K itain, who are pleased TO say that
+ bloJd is thicker than water are taking
+ a q net hard to lay at Little Britain.
The stranger may say that the cele-
bra'ion o. he Fourth OF July il ths Ia
/ w4ii4n Islands is new thing, bora of
revolution or gotten up for dramatic ef-
( iect, but suth is not the case. One
I learns upon i qulry that 1t has always
been 81 and that the tie which bind,
mn,titudes OF this people, rich and poor,
brown as we'll as white, TO the land OF
, lioer,y Is stronger pertsps than any of
them IN ly realize. Ii I mistake not, the
day is not far distant when this feeling
will as -ert Itself with a un.uimity and re-
suit alike amazing IN every island Of the
Banner Group the Pacific.
rul v eighty wears agD. 1t first began,
and that wa six wears before the mis-
sionarjes first arrived The dos had not
yet been destroyed. when kamshameha
|, surnam d tn. Cir a., began the custom
Of ebratlng the fourth vi July
Th-re wes jpyousness in the pro-
Gee ings which commended them to
naive tas es, aud the custom to k hold
and grew uuIil il became the holiday II
all the year. The Kamehameha fOlss,
il not mlsreprese- ted by the esteemed
historia', Prof Alexander, fully und-r-
stood the art of celebrating, and could
pat car inal hue on village uf grass
huts with " "neatnes~ and dispat, h p"
hough noJ rxdctly a kamaaina, am
lar from being stranger mere. -Four and
twenty years have passed since | frs
beh-d the hrli front ani rugged sides
of Dia uonl Head, bit my recollections
OF tn 80 char.ul islands remain clear
aud sirnug, aud Inv int -rest in them has
never faggei As / had resided ior
som, time with the * 4ueen, then Mrs.
,'om MS and he sister the Princess
LiSenke, at Wa bingtOn Place, and had
a sisted tri ce David halAkaua, their
brother, with some military instruction
for the funeral of the Dowager Queen
Kalama, when he vas a clerk in the
Foreign uflic- and an officer of the Vol
unteers, their subsequent careers always
excl ed friendly interest. Kameha-
meha V. (Prinee Lott was King during
that Wit, and although there appeaTed
To he then profound content, the seed
had been sown, and the American leaven
was working
remember particularly visit made
to Hilo in the old kilauea, the pioneer
and only inter island steamer then ply
ing. Now you have two fleets. Her
sIeed, never ALA ming, had become so
reduced that they could see her smoke
at Lahaina seven or eight hours before
she arrived, and it was decided to over
haul her Major G. IL. Judi, better
| known to you as "Charley Judd was
| then her agent, and, after she was re-
storei to eight knois on Level, he ad-
vertised her for trip to Hilo If enough
passengers could be had who wanted to
| visit the volcano. Enough were booked,
and We rolled over there i'll the month ot
October, 1870 There were Sc e. al young
off 'ers in the party who belonged to the
| U S 81 ,op jamestown, then in this port,
and, finding no hotel in Hllo, we were
v.ry thankful to be invited by the
! veteran Captain Tom Spencer to make
our heal quarters at his hospItable
mouse After a grand bath in running
stream Of cold water, and an excellent
dinner, we were treated 10 a serenade by
a small band composed # some native
boys, friends Of poor Bill kagsd lie.
| The music would not have suited MoZ at
or Beethoven. perhaps, but we liked 1t.
Was il the melodous Aloha De" or
"Ahi Wela" You ask ? No, not bit OF
it Those boys made the cocpanut
palms and bamboo clumps rustic with
''John Browns Body" Sherman's
March to the Sa," and Columbia 8
the Gem of the Ocean," and we felt that
it was only couple of miles from Rain
bow Falls to the Golden Gate.
ADout eighteen months ago l was an
nounced to lecture in Metropolitan Tenn
pie, S IN rancsco On my way TO the
building in street car, on January 2 tn,
l saw hanging ia great plate glass win
dow OF the Chronicle office, on Market
street, small placard which made
known to pis-er by that James q.
Blaine, the di ,tinguished sta esman, and
friend OF Hawaii had died that morning
in Washington. The sad news was the
topic OF converse ion everywhere, and l
referIed to it in my lecture, which was
attetded by about 100 peope Among
thos, people there were several newspa-
per men, and one especially we'll known
was Mr. v. ii D-YoIug. l mention
this because his presence aroused In me
considerable interest to see what criii-
cism Of my humble effort his paper, the
Chronicle, might contain next day. I'm
mediately after hreakias, / bought copy
and found that l had been crowded ut.
A black, schoone -rigged, ir,n steamer,
called the Claudine had unexpectedly
arrived in the night and the Chronicle
and San Francisco were alike taken up
with the news OF "a Revolt in Hawaii"
Even blaine WAS for the tune being for
gotten, and column after column was
filed with the details of the incidents