Evening star., 1896-09-26

disastrous experience at the time Of build
In the Haiku ditch With all his re-
markable abilities, he had a streak of cur
ious heedlessness about bis personal safety.
When lad he once sawed of a branch be-
tween himself and the tree. and got an ugly
fall. One evening, after his mill at Paia
had stopped grinding, he stood with his en-
gineer by the slowly-turning rollers. and
while talking passed his fingers carelessly
along the futed surface of the moving
iron. Suddenly a finger was caught, and
the hand began to be drawn between the
relentless crushers. The engineer darted
into the building to reverse the engine
But before the great fy-wheel could be
stopped, the limb had ben crushed to the
thinness of pasteboard till just above the
elbow joint.
Since then there have been few better
men with both arms than Henry Baldwin
with no right arm. AS soon he got
about. in order to test his courage for his
own satisfact on, he again repeated with
his left hand the previous fatal movement
OF his fingers upon the roller. How could
ne bear to do it? Not long after he found
that the workmen employed in erecting a
syphon pipe 400 feet high UP the west side
OF Maliko canyon were getting demoralized
Dv 1alllng stones. One hundred feet was
perpendicular, boited to the precipice. A
ladder was fastened alongside So Baldwin
made business of going up and down that
ladder with his one arm several times a
day. The men, after that were ashamed
W Sho" icdf ne was perfectly good a-
tured through 1t all.
Munificcnce.
Baldwin. is man of abundant and ju-
dicious munificence. All look to him for
liberal aid in every educational, religious
or phtlanthropic work He is not inactive
| in politics, and in elections freely EMPLOYS
| his grea: personal influence upon the COM
mun!ty, although l do not believe tina;
there is any just foundation for the charge
made that he uses that influence in an i'm
proper manner. He is naturally conserya-
tive. Being In attendance on the legisla-
ture at the time of the queens attempt
| TO overturn the constitution of 1893, he, IN
| public speech, advocated confining re-
sistance to strictly legal methods. This
was overruled and the queen dethroned
BALDWIN has always declined cabinet Do
sit.ons, but has been senator the past two
years. and sound and weighty in coun-
| sci.
A really historical person died here late
| ly who bore no unimportant part in deter
1 mining the course of affairs under the
| native monarchy. The aged lady of eighty
| five years, Mrs. Jul:ette Montague Cooke
| had been for twelve years about half a
| century ago the chief spirit in the royal
school for young chiefs, and the very be.
| loved and influential teacher of six youths
| who afterward ascended the throne al
Hawaii. 1t was beyond question her higf
| and reasonable influence which infus"d
| such moderation into their wayward and
| capricicus dispositions that the growing
| civilization and commerce of the country
| was able to tolerate their reigns as long a:
| 1t did. The later and younger two SOW
ereigns. Kalakaua and his sister. became
| w!lful and undertook to rule arbitrarily
| Neither OF them were ever as much unde
| Mother" Cookies influence their pre-
| decessors. Mrs. Cooke was a woman o
| rare brightness and lovel.ress, always
| favorite in Honolulu society. She leave
| large circle of descendants, several o
| them wealthy. kAMEHAMEHA-