The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-06-23
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

About Town.
even with brilliant writer's like Arthur
McEwen to make them both strong
and sensational, WELD as much in
fuence now as the old fashioned lead
ers George X. Fitch turned out day af-
ter day. Much abused and ridiculed
for those editorials and for his methods
was Fitch, by his more lively competi-
tors and many were the efforts to show
him up as u railroad CRATER. But as
soon as he stepped out of the rivalry of
journalism, all Joined in honoring him
and there was no important San Fran
cisco movement in which he was not
prominent. Those who had attacked
him, knew the value of having his name
with them in any movement they tried
to advance
G @ @ @
1 really didn't know how hard times
were until friend of mine, who is a
trustee for a big estate began to tell
me. He said times were so hard that
it was very hard indeed to loan out all
their money, and practically impossible
to loan any of it at eight per cent.
told him he hadn't tried to loan any to
me yet. But he looked as though he
felt hurt, as though it were too serious
thing to jest about.
9 @ 9 @
One of my friends has fine large
lichee tree, one of the few i'm the islands
growing in the front yard, and was
very enthusiastic a few days ago over
the heavy crop of fruit on the tree.
Great was the anticipated pleasure
when the fruit should become ripe and
be stored away for the family use. One
day not long ago knock was heard at
the door and upon it's being open
ed a Chinaman was discovered.
You likee sell lichee?" queried the
Oriental at the same time waving one
of his arms in the direction of the tree.
Upon being told mo" the willy China
man after a few moments hesitation
departed.
All went well for a few days and
nothing was thought of the affair but
one morning my friend awoke and hap
poned to notice the tree. 1t was strip
ped clean. All of the fruit was gone.
Now my friend wishes that the crop
had been sold
G @ @ @
That Lahaina church record is an
interesting document in more WAYS
than one. There is something pathetic
in its unassuming narratives of con-
versions and backsliding, of early Ha-
waiian stumbling in the effort to walk
the straight and narrow path that was
so new to the race. The first incident
to be recorded after the establishment
of the church is that of removing a
native member,-one of the original few
who started the church. He had been
guilty of drunkenness and fornication
and when efforts to reform him failed,
the little church met and dropped him
from its roll. The record merely says
that the various degrees of discipline
having failed, the hayward member
was dropped. All through the years
are numerous such incidents, quietly
put down in the most matter of fact
way possible. The names of some chiefs
and chiefesses of high rank, names
that live in history and are honored
today,-are to be found among those
whom the little church found it neces-
sary to discipline. Often they came
back, penitent, and lived in the fold
again, only to stumble some more, and
the record shows with what persistence
they We're aided and prayed for. II
was a brave little churchill half dozen
Christians in the midst of a population
of natives either idolators or utterly
irreligious. 1t is perhaps not to be
wondered at that the few Hawaiians
who Joined the little band found it hard
to keep from the designations which
We're so fearfully attacking their race
They came into the church with con-
siderable readiness,-but Heaven knows
that they did backslide. In this con-
nection it might be remarked that the
high standard of that little early La
haina church applied to all races alike
in our churches today might fill an
other even bigger record with trials.
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city and also to draw attention to a
most attractive American dependency
Thirty-one years ago this band was or
ganized by Captain Berger under whose