The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-11
WAS A GOOD YEAR
Comparison Of 1897 With Many
Other Periods.
ALL ARE FORTUNATE In HAWAII
Twelve Months Free From Plague
or Famine No Disasters.
Thankful For Much.
ALL ARE FORTUNATE IN HAWAII

In an address before a gOOdly audi
ence in Kaumakapili church on New
Years eve, Mrs Emma Nakuina spoke
of what Hawaii should be thankful for,
and the blessings the country had re-
ceived during the year just coming to
an end In contrast to these bless
| ings on Hawaii nei, the speaker cited
events of a sorowful nature in foreign
lands. Following is a translation of
notes from the Hawaiian in which Ian
guage Mrs. Nakuina spoke:
IF you will but pause to glance back
over the year that has just now reach
ed its end, you Will find feel certain,
many things for which you must needs
be thankful. When you come to think
of the blessings received, ought not we
to be grateful to God might cite to
you, although I am certain you must
yourselves have come already to a real
ization of them, few of the things for
which we should offer up praise.
''First-During the year 1897, God
granted us immunity from all kinds of
epidemics. Look at this in contrast to
the year 1895 when dread cholera Wis
listed our fair shores. However, while
we have been free, Japan has suffered
from an edipemic.
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peace-with a state OF affairs not call
ing for the destruction of lives in dead
| ly conflict. Peace has smiled upon us
while we have the knowledge that in
Cuba, that land now torn by internal
dissension in the attempts of the peo-
pie to free themselves from the oppres-
| families have been rent asunder and
relative has pitted himself against re-
lative, neighbor against neighbor and
friend against friend. People who have
had plantations and happy homes,
| have seen them destroyed before their
very eyes. People in that country have
gone to bed rich and wakened in the
morning to find their all destroyed and
themselves paupers and wanderers on
the face of the earth.
"Third-Food has been plentiful
throughout the year and it can be said
of Hawaii nei with the strictest of
truth, that there has not been single
case of starvation. That [ say is a re-
cord to be proud of. Although our lit
tie nation is one of the smallest and
poorest in the world, the horrors of
starvation have never been known
here
'See the difference in America, in
Europe and especially in China. There,
men, women and children starve to
death every year. The worst suffering
of this kind during the past year has
been in India, where people have died
by the thousands On account of the
lack of food in that country, ships
laden with supplies have been sent
from other countries for the relief of
the people.
"Fourth-We have had no floods,
cloudbursts or freshets, such as you
find in America where the Mississippi
river overfiows it's borders and where,
when the waters subside, they leave in
their wake, the dread yellow fever
1--WE have escaped from all these
terrors and the winds still blow calm
ly, lightly and pleasantly over our
land
1--WE are now having a spell of the
cold wind of the WaikoIoa but this is
not so cold as to cause suffering It is
just cold enough to cause the young to
like looking forth to pleasures athletic
that must rebound to the benefit of
their health.
1.-The green mountains of our Islands
are still smiling in their beauty and
the lovely borders Of Hawaii Kuauli
Ga poetical appelation given to Hawaii
nei by the Hawaiians), of the land
known to the foreigners as the Para
disc of the Pacific. still remain for us
to enjoy"
Mrs Nakuina closed with an elo-
Quent peronation on the flag of Ha-
waii and an admonation to the people
to bow to the will Of the living God in
all things