The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-03-17

OF some of my friends in Honolulu
bringing suit against him for black
mailing me. I said his article was very
cleverly worded. and that he perhaps
! thought he was keeping himself out OF
| danger. He said he would send Mr.
Scott. Monday morning Mr.. Scott and
Mr.. Clark came. Miss Mullenger
| brought them to my room. had six
!. or seven fat Hawaiian and Japanese
girls in my room; I was helping them
with some sewing. brought the men
in and excused the girls.
Miss Mullenger proceeded to tell
them that she had wronged me-that
she had misrepresented me to them.
I started to say something once. and
their attitude caused me 10 say excuse
me for saying anything" Once when
Judge Clark was telling Miss Mullen
ger of something she said about me Ca
thing which she had not told me about
and which I had not heard of or
thought of I said that's lie" Judge
Clark Immediately told me to hush.
I obeyed. They talked much to Miss
Mullenger. First Scott talked to her a
long time and then Clark did the same.
Scott asked her if she knew what per-
jury was. She said yes. He said
that's almost what you are doing. His
words implied that he believed she
told the truth to him the first time and
that what she was saying to him then
she was saying because I. in. some
way, was compelling her to. Scott
said that he wanted to see Miss Olsen.
and that he wanted to see her and Miss
! Mullenger together without me- They
started to go. presumably to find Miss
Olsen and to get away from me. 1
said sit still; I'll go out and send a
/ boy for Miss Olsen. 1 went in the
/ second room from where they were.
engaged in prayer. Once I heard such
( a storm that I stepped out on the We
randa, and I heard Judge Clark say
! to Miss Mullenger "either you lied the
/ first time you talked to me or you are
I lying today" 1 went back and heard
no more. After they had gone 1 told
Miss Olsen what I had heard and ask
ed her what conclusion they came to.
She said, think when they left they
thought Miss Mullenger had told the
truth the first time and was lying
that time.
L
lenger asked Mr.. Scott if We had to
go to court when he said for US to. He
said yes. When asked what they
would do if we did not go, he said
they would send a policeman. When
asked what they would do if we did
not so then, he said we would be
pretty likely to go. When asked if
the offense would be the same as II
court was in session, he said YES, this
is court
Before went out of the room Scott
asked me if I had anything to say. 1
told him that in the sight of God and
man 1 had done my best, and that
what I had done I had done openly,
having repeatedly invited people both
here and in Honolulu to come at any
time and see what we were doing and
eat with US: that 1 had often asked
people to drop in at meal time that
they might know just what we had.
He said l had done a good work in
the past, but that now it was not good.
said, ANY time within ten years 1
would have been treated as you are
treating me now if had had a person
who would have opened the way as
Miss Mullenger has done" Scott said
there had been no talk in the past. 1
told him that men just as good as he
had told me that there had been. He
said that he had always tried to sup
press ii. It's been ten days since they
were here. They We're here Monday
morning; this is Wednesday morning.
Among other things, he said that for
any of the things that he had charged
me with the penalty would be not less
than two hundred dollars or six
months imprisonment.
Now I will say that the children are
comfortably clothed, as they always
have been. Sometimes they tear their
clothes and sometimes they look pretty
dirty before they change them. They
change twice a week; if they do not
it is the fault of the woman in charge
of that part of the work. Their clothes
have been pretty well patched and
mended and buttons sewn on before |
they put them on each time. But If
they get them ragged and dirty during |
the three and a half days they wear |
them we often let them go so. The |
littlest ones we change any time when |
their clothes are soiled. The bedding |
is clean and comfortable.
The food has always been good quail
ity and I have always provided plen-
ty. looked at yesterdays milk record /
just now and 1 find that we had 1914 |
quarts for forty people (and one fat
girl does not drink MILK. So that's a
little over a quart apiece daily for each
one. The herd of cows is mostly Jer-
sey: several of them are pure Jersey.
No fresh cows now: season dry; not |
much grass. Sometimes we get eighty
quarts day. 1 don't know how many
banana plants we have-probably a
thousand. 1 don't know how many
papaia trees. but I feel safe in saying
several hundred. We do not sell any
thing that is produced here. except
occasionally a calf or a chicken. Have
not sold anything else for a long time.
I am aiming now to produce only the
things that We need TO use for our own
food or to feed the cows. We have
great abundance of sweet potatoes and
carrots in all stages of growth; we
have more than we can ever use. We
use some of the carrots for the cows
and expect TO use some of the sweet
potatoes for the calves. We always /
have onions in the garden. We always
have string beans. We let a great
many of the beans remain on the vines
and develop into dried beans. We have