Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-04
MAKAPALA BY-THE-SEA.
WORD PICTURE or THE DIS
TRICT OF KOHALA.
Anglican Mission Work for chinese
How the Holidays are Kcpt-A
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MAKAPALA, KoHALA, HAWAII,
January B, 1896.
This is the most important dis
trict of Hawaii, the largest island
of the group, while in size it is the
smallest. Kohala has immense
cane fields, and plenty Of rain,
magnificent green country of hill,
dale and running water. 1t is
about twenty hours sail by steam
er from Honolulu and three by rail
from Mahukona. The capital and its
Oahu are left back in the north
west; and here it is much cooler,
more beautiful, quiet, peaceful, no
hum of mosquitoes with their mean
bite and no political warfare and
jargling, no filibusters ~
Humph The land has rest.
Here in this little village of
Chinese, natives and half-castes,
n the middle of it, is an acre of
we'll freed land where is the church
of "St. Paul." the school-house
shaded in by passion-vine and
the cottage for the teacher of Eng
fish, the Anglican Mission for the
Chinese. Here in the school are
now 80 Chinese boys and girls
and half-castes, half native. The
wife of the lay reader, Mrs. Aseu,
teaches the Chinese. Between us
and the sea is field of cane coming
into tassel now; and farther down
he coast, half mile, is the plan
tation of Multi by whose whistle
at 5 a. m. we can set our clocks.
There is the pretty picture with its
cluster of cottages, trees and cane
and its tall chimney. All life and
industry and sweetness are there
to be sure. Ii we go to the upland
we can look across to the island of
Maui, and over to the Kohala
plantations, "outside." Just six
miles from "St. Paul's" is "St Au-
gustine's" with its English-speak-
ing crowd of perhaps twenty, on a
single Sunday. There are other
places of worship, but we write of
our own-what we know all about.
The Rev. Louis Byrde, not long
out from England, ministers in
these two parishes and does be-
sides much camp" work on the
Church army" lines. He often
goes out in the evening alone with
only an interpreter to preach to
the heather in places where they
congregate after work, sin the cool
of the day." or the early hours
of the evening; for by s o'clock
most of the toilers are asleep.
| One may travel over these coun-
try roads, following the coast and
the cane, for three months, later
than the curfew hour, and not
meet likely six people all told.
OF course at Christmastide, Chi
nese new year, Fourth of July,
quite a number would be up and
making what merry" their poor
circumstances permitted. They
remind us in the main a good
deal of the children of the poor
at home, who manage, without
toys, to get plenty of fun out of
bits of broken crockery and mud
pies; and the men and women will
hunt out and contrive ways to
enjoy the holidays when they
come around. Just before IL m.
the last night of the year we were
pleasantly surprised to hear the
bell (which is a good deal larger
than COW belly on the little ma
tive church begin to toll-and it
ended Ia ringing out the old and
ringing in the new year with as
earnest a ding-a-ling. ling, and
with as much hearty good will as
any peal in Christendom. All
honor to the natives of Makapala!
Not another little bell wagged
its tongue nor peeped-dead in
slumber all, and every candle out
of sight and light on that eventful
night. The natives have lost
their country and every native
heart today knows its own bitter
ness, even if they "give
their thoughts no tongue"
On Wednesday nights a pro-