Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-08-26
FLOTsAM AND JETsAM.
BY ANNE MARIE PREsCoTT.

for thought all about us. We
need not seek it from afar. For
such as have eyes to see every
wayside is full of history and
wonder. Every smallest village
holds within its hedges and walls
the same old chronicles of loves
and hates, of jealousies and dis
appointments, of tragedy and
comedy; with the clog dance or
the castanets between "All the
worlds a stage, and all the men
and women merely players"
Special services have been held
for the Hawaiians at St Paul's
church, Makapala, since We'd
nesday the 10Th inst. at p. m.
Crowds of both Natives and Chi.
nese have been in attendance.
A very slim sprinkling, we are
sorry to note, Of either English
or Americans. One would almost
doubt that we all belong to "the
same household of faith" by the
few who ever enter these gates to
show an interest in the Christians
gathered here from Sunday to
Sunday, and the poorer heather
at their very door.
.. We understood, later on, that
there will be special service for
Hawaiians Sunday afternoon, to-
morrow, 23d inst, at 3 p. IN.
Louis Byrde, priest.
In ten months time we have
seen but one "pale face" within
these precincts of Sunday, or a
Wednesday, TO encourage or to
cheer. : hey likely subscribe,
reasoning from the known to the
unknown, for the heather of
"Boolaboolagow
The atmosphere has been, some
days of late, so beautifully clear
that one could descry most minute
objects Or tne hill sides and in
the ravines. But vii hin our line
of vision, so far, we have not dis
covered or unearthed anything
that looks at all like The Parson-
age" Humph! No one can be
killed for his thoughts can he?
"Where much is given much
will be required" aud even
worldly wisdom puts it: NO
blesse oblige." 1t is, certainly,
very easy travelling, going to
heaven by way of the Hawaiian
Islands; and if it does take in a
plantation or two on the way,
what can we not say! Say?
You all know, l am sure, for
what, pray tell me, is not known
i'll this family (this house of Ha
vail from Cape Kumukahi to
Kaena point-tell meY You all
know, and if you really, when it
comes to be winnowed out and
sifted down, don't quite know,
every minutiB; if the arrow is shot
clean over the shanty pretty often,
why if you think you know, only,
it's about the same to you, | sup
pose. So, you all know that we
have never spent n summer in
North Kohala, before; and could
not swear to the climate, exactly.
But, now my dearly beloved
breveren,' we have made an ex-
haustive study Iand we believe in
no trick work. of sea, air and sky
of these parts" and we consti-
tute ourselves, from henceforlh,
as authority on the small subject.
Since this August moon speered
in on us, about two weeks ago,
nothing could exceed, and we,
with all our shortcomings are not
prone to lie, the positive, ,compara-
tive and most superlative magni-
ficence of the nights, and of the
days. The days are as fine as
fine days can be, and the nights
are much finer than the days. It's
enough to make a saint of Il sin.
ner, if he is left with an ounce of
sense in his sentient being, to be
here at the rising and the setting
Of the sun, even when the
moons on an outing" And
now I shall drop the subject, with
the clear understanding that you
understand, that Kohala is one Of
the prettiest spots on earth.
We were taught that we must
always think our things as good
as anyone's, and good enough
just the very thing for us. In
other words, wise mother in
stilled into our little minds, from
babyhood, contentment. To be
banpU mud rnptant THAT yoo tha