Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-02

Woolley said TO us, do not drinl
whisky and sake and samsieu and
wine and beer. Send me two blue
buttons for my brgother and me- Sure
not drinks sake and beer and whisky
and sansu ever any more. Yours re
specially.
"NOBUICHI KOBAYASHI."
Profits BY His Mission.
But whatever margin for shrinkage
ought to be left as to the net certainty
Of public good. the tour has made i'm
portant contributions to my own edu
cation and 1t is mot too much to say
that | shall go back tn the mainland
adults with increased efficiency, for
having tried my head and heart upon
these unspoiled and open.minded audi.
ences In Hawaiian schools.
My first attempts In the novel cam
paign were crowned with the cypress
of decisive and immediate failure
Trying my more or less abstract, al
truistic, cut and dried deliverances
adapted to the opportunity only in the
size Of the dose. found myself non.
plused, futile and nightly instructed
by prompt and visible inadequacy. The
rut had no message for the little hill
Immortal values were not currency In
that market. But when raised the
question OF turning streams OF whisky
into the irrigating bitches of the sugar
cane, of flooding the rice and taro
patches with beer, or freshening flow
ers with gin, found myself suddenly
in the midst Of a i've Issue, from which
the exit was easy into the gardening
of the wonderful bulbs OF nerves and
the fine gray vines Of brain fllaments,
Then the response was quick and. en-.
thusiastic and realized as never be.
fore that the road to ethics is through
the field of economics. A Sunday OF
high religion sandwiched between two
working weeks OF silly, crooked bust
ness is lost cause by first intention,
Helped Dedicate Church.
My business at Ulupalakua was Ia
address the school and take part In
the dedication festivities of new ma
tive church. | say Festivities" be
cause the word precisely Ats the case
From far and near the natives came
| on Saturday, to the number OF 200
counting men. women and children
with dogs which no man can number
A bullock was killed and cut into
small butts, which, wrapped In I,
leaves, were buried In a cooking hol,
with taro and sweet potatoes. Unlim
tied poi was served In calabasheS.
boys and girls played like. kittens II
the churchyard; dark beauties will
glorious eyes, In white holokus AM
with wreaths about their necks, mad
moving pictures passing back an
forth between the forest and tn
church with vines and palms and bel
ries for the walls. Sedate matronS
who looked as II they had neve
known care, sat In the shady spaces
barefooted, smoking cigarettes, an
conversation rose as gently as tn
smoke that issued with II. The me
moved silently about the new built
ing inspecting everything; candle
were lit at windows; and when wer
to sleep after midnight the crowd wa
still singing.
At daylight the meetings began an
at noon the cooking hole was uncO
cred and the luau was on. Beef all
pork and fish, wrapped In u leave
and perfectly cooked by lying owe
night on a bed of fragrant leav,
under a little mountain OF hot roci
and fresh earth, calabashes OF poi an
other calabashes OF limpets gathere
from the rocks and served In the sc
moss-all these with spring water ar
perfect contentment, under the ope
sky. left nothing wanting to a feas
Then there were more meetings unit
another midnight.