The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-01-21
The Thanksgiving Day in Ho-
nolulu.
HER OPINION OF THE SOLDIERS.
Methods A Church Where the
Gospel is Preached AT Dinner
With the News Boys Turkey.

HONOLULU, Nov. 2S.-Just on
week today since set foot on thi
speck of land, so small when com
pared to the water around it that
am surprised to wake of a morning
and find myself still anchored to terrs
firma. There seems 10 be no reason
why tidal wave should not inundatt
this pretty town, which lies few feel
above the ocean, nor why the extinct
volcanoes embracing it should not
come to life and belch forth destroying
fire. The Hawaiian Islands have lit
orally gone through fire and water in
the past. Why not again? Made uI
of coral reefs and lava, they inspire 8
feeling OF insecurity / never before
experienced. OF 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, 60 about with CONT
mental assurance, while I mediate
tying life preserver to my bedpost
and hanging canoe outside of my
window, Familiarity stiles imagi-
nation.
The United States is not alone to-
day in celebrating a national thanks
giving. With the thermometer at rs
degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, with
mountains clad in luxuriant verdure,
with flowers blooming in every gar
den, am undergoing more thanks
giving than l 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 tn deny thi- hypotbe-
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 Dole's Proclamation.
Read the following proclamation
and then ask yourself whether the
United States is far away:
PROCLAMATION.
The past year has brought varied
experiences to the republic. With
abundant crops and fair business pros.
perity, both foreign and domestic,
have come the critical incidents of
domestic disturbance and dangerous
pestilence, from both OF which the
country has been mercifully delivered
with small loss Of life through the
blessing of providence and the efforts
of the government and its citizens.
In view OF these things and other
countless benefits which have been
to US / Sanford B. Dole,
president OF the Republic of Hawaii,
recommend that Thursday, the 2Sth
day OF this present month, November,
be set apart as day of national
TO Almighty God 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 with
in the last ten months and the cause
for rejoicing becomes manifest.
NV celebration began at IL o'clock
last night, when native youths ser
enaded my hotel with songs of the
soil, monotonous in character, but
plaintiye and sympathetic. Hawai-
fans are natural musicians-I have
heard a missionary call them the
French of the Pacific-and / believe
they would show more talent music
ally than in any other direction were
their Unborn taste developed. Left
to themselves, they have evolved n
instrument looking like
a violin, but thrummed like guitar,
and they sing in soft voices airs
devoid of strong originally, yet suf-
ficiently unlike English or American
ballads to be warmly welcomed by
thirsty ears.
Troops on Parade.
Again at o'clock in the morning
awakened me. / think
thew were serenading Queen Liliuo-
kalani. who lives in retirement near
by, and were paying her the compli-
nent of singing song said to have
heen composed by her. Three hours
later a bugle called the troops to order
NOT three blocks away from the royal
residence. / wondered what Liliuo-
kalani thought of the new kind OF
that meant the down
fall of monarchy. The Hawaiian
army was ordered to parade, for the
first time and began marching at $50.
Few American regulars would have
done better, and though you may be
inclined to laugh at an army of 750
men. it would be folly for the Govern
ment to have more troops and unwise
to have lesa. A more peaceable popu-
latiou was never made up of such
heterogeneous material, but no one
knows what might happen were all
signs of force to disappear. Stories OF
fiiibusters still prevade the air, though
where these filibusters are to get the
sinews of war nobody knows. Royal
lists would undoubtedly like to see the
Queen restored, but after the f1asco OF
last January not one OF them is likely
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