The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-30

not possess a deeper driving power"
If then it is good TO know" and ito
have" and better still TO do what
then is the best? ITO be-" Character
lies at the foundation of all noble
achievement TO be pure, brave,
honest, strong, manly womanly gen.
uine. This is best This is highest
1T is not in knowing or in having or in
doing but through knowing and hav-
ing and doing the best in order to
reach the best. 1t is in being in what
a man is in himself" Mastery of
knowledge, mastery of wealth, mas
terry of circumstance comes only
through mastery of self.
Here then in ones own breast is
the highest sphere OF action. Here in
ones own heart, the highest achieve
ment may be attained. The COrsican
! Emperor of the French won great vic
tories on bloody batIfefields and pass
ed his name down the years as one OF
the greatest generals of all times or
lands but he failed to master and sub
due the greed of his own selfish ambi-
| ton, and so the poorest and most ig-
norant man who walks the street of
this or any other city IL greater than
a Napoleon, if he has learned to con-
! quer his own spirit This then is our
mountain summit. A summit which
all may endeavor to reach. Only a
few can be well educated. Only few
can be rich. The great majorities of
men and women must remain illiteTate
and poor but anyone and everyone
may be good. Only character abides
| For whether there be prophecies they
shall fail, whether there be tongues
/ they shall cease, whether there be
knowledge it SHAH vanish. Now
abideth Faith, Hope, Love, these three,
but the greatest of these is Love" and
! Character embodied in Love perisheth
nevermore.
In the center OF one of the great
parks of New Orleans the people of
that city proudly point the tourist to
one of the most beautiful monuments
seen anywhere in America, bearing
the simple inscription of Margaret"
The figure is that of a woman. a very
ordinary looking person, with Irish
features, dressed in calico frock, with
her arm around a little child thinly
clad, looking up into the woman's face
with a happy smile of contentment
and gratitude on its features. This
monument cost several thousands OF
dollars, freely subscribed by the citi-
zens of New Orleans, and is the first
public monument ever erected to- the
memory OF a woman in the United
States. Who then was Margaret? Her
full name was Margaret Haughery.
Soon after emigrating from Ireland,
her parents died of yellow fever in
Baltimore and the orphan child was
adopted into a Protestant home but
reared in the faith of her kindred
which was of the Roman Catholic
: church. She married and removed
J with her husband to New Orleans
; where first he and then her only child
, soon died. To make a living, she be-
came the laundress of the st. Charles
) hotel. AT this time the sisters OF a
= neighboring orphanage were having a
hard struggle to continue the work OF
1 the institution and Margaret went tC
the lady superior one day and offered
her poor help. She Tought two cows
- and winter and summer delivered mill
= to the asylum and bestowed all of hel
, meagre savings in the operation. 1t
2 some strange way, she did not know
how, her business prospered. Money
4 was quickly made. Her dairy was en-
! larged, She opened a bakery and sup
piled good bread and sweet milk a
= such reasonable prices and gave ava!
e so much in charity that the little or
- phans soon had food enough and t,
70 spare. In time everybody came I,
70 know Margaret. as she was Away
p called. and 10 love her. The children
d especially adorod her-this plain iris
3 woman In a calico gown I'm which SIN
\ always dressed When she died mn
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