The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-20

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week today since / set foot on this
speck of land, so small when COM
pared to the water around IL that
am surprised to wake of morning
and find myself still anchored to terra
firma. There seems to be no reason
why tidal wave should not inundate
this pretty town, which lies q few feet
above the ocean, nor why the extinct
volcanoes embracing 1t should not
come to life and belch forth destroying
fire. The Hawaiian Islands have lit
orally gone through fire and water Ia
the past. Why not again? Made up
of coral reefs and lava, they inspire a
feeling of insecurity / never before
experienced. or course continents
owe their being to equally violent
causes, but their vastness gives them
an appearance of stability that dots
on the map can never attain. Resi-
dents, however, go about with CONT
mental assurance, while L mediate
tying life preserver to my bedpost
and hanging q canoe outside Of my
window. Familiarity stiles imagf-
nation.
The United States is not alone to-
day in celebrating q national thanks
giving. With the thermometer at 7e
degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, with
mountains clad in luxuriant verdure,
with flowers blooming in every gar
den, am undergoing more thanks
giving than 1 ever dreamed OF in New
England, and realize more and more
the influence OF our country. Captain
Morse, an old sea captain, who has
lately lectured on Hawaii in San
Francisco, maintains that these is
lands were originally peopled by
North American Indians, and is in-
clined to believe that they formed
part OF our continent until volcanic
disturbance severed the connection.
Who so wise as to deny this hypothe-
sis? Do not the Aleutian Islands ex-
tend to the very border of Asia? Can
any one doubt that they once belonged
to the eastern promontory OF Alaska
Get out your atlas and you'll discover
that the Hawaiian group is 900 miles
nearer our coast than the last Of the
Aleutian chain. In point of sympa-
thy and commerce the latter are In
finitely Nearer.
President DoIe's Proclamation.
Read the following proclamation
and then ask yourself whether the
United States Is far away:
PROCLAMATION.
The past year has brought varied
to the republic. With
crops and fair business pros
perity, both foreign and domestic.
have come the critical incidents OF
domestic distu chance and dangerous
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has been mercifully delivered
with small loss of life through the
blessing of providence aud the efforts
of the government and its citizens.
In. view OF these things and other
countless benefits which have been
to Us L Sanford B. Dole,
president OF the Republic of Hawaii,
that Thursday. the 2SLh
day of this present month, November,
be set apart a. a day of national
to Almighty Col for
the blessings OF the past year and the
promise of the future, and of prayer
for the continuance of His favor.
By the president: SANFORD b. DOLE.
J. A. KING,
Minister Of the Interior.
Remember that this young Republic
has faced revolution and cholera wi Ia
in the last ten months and the cause
for rejoicing becomes manifest.
My celebration began at IL o'clock
last night, when native youths SER
auadai nv hotel with songs of the
soil, munotonous in character, tut
plaintive aud sympathetic. Hawai-
ans are natural musiciaDs-I have
heart missionary call them the
French OF the Paciic-aud | believe
they would show more talent music
ally than in any other direction were
their Unborn taste developed. Left
10 themselves, they have evolved
our atriuged instrument looking like