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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-24
New York Grain Prices.
Liverpool Grain Prices.

LIVERPOOL, July Enclosing: Wheat
Spot No. red western winter, nominal;
futures steady: July. 9s 51ad; September,
IS 5ssd; December. SIS Odd Corn-Spot,
steady; new American mixed (via Gal
veston). 6s Old: futures, quiet; Septem.
Der, IS Cd; October, 5s 614d.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

their religious rites. They were
race Of unusual vigor. longevity ana
comeliness. Their skill in handicraft
Is attested by the marvellous feather
cloaks once worn by Hawaiian roy
atty, and now the almost priceless
possessions OF a few museums.
Such was the stock from which
the 14-year-old boy. bearing the eu-
phonious name of Obookiah, who,
in 1909, was found weeping on the
doorsteps OF Yale college. He had
fed from Hawaii, having seen his
parents slain before his eyes In a
civil war, and had made his way to
America In one of the New England
ships which then piled all waters
His thirst for knowledge and reli-
gion attracted widespread attention.
Samuel ]. Mills. who had come to
New Haven from Williams college.
was especially interested In Oboo-
kiah and took him to his own home.
at Torringford.
Mills was missionary enthusiast.
He was the prime mover In the lit
tie hand Of Williams student. VIM
had devoted themselves to the cause
of foreign missions and whose his.
toric prayer meeting in 1905 nm.
der n Williamstown haystack. ia re-
garded as the beginning OF the Ame-
rican foreign mission enterprise.
Obookiah's Dleadings Dointed Ia
Hawaii as the first stronghold OF
heathenIsm TO he attacked NV the neu
movement and the ,younp zealou,
who were its real leaders. in 1919
party OF twenty-three persons sew.
en- Of whom were wives and Ave chill.
dren. set sail for the long iourne,
around the horn. their departure be-
ing made the occasion for solemn
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02
HOW A NATION WAS MADE

Of these: 1t was taboo and death for
n common man to let his shadow
fall upon chief, or TO stand when
the kings bathing water was car
ried by, or his name mentioned in
song. II was taboo for woman to
eat with her husband. II was taboo
and death for man to enter his
canoe on any day named as sacred
by the priest. So ran the endless
system of expressions. despite which
the race continued hardy and num-
erOus. and against which the nation
arose while the missionary ship
Thaddeus was en-, route to the ISL
ands.
Ripe fOp new religion, having
spurned the old. the natives gave
eager welcome to the missionaries.
Within four years the chief formal
ly agreed to recognized the Chris
tian sabbath, and to adopt the ten
commandments as the basis OF gov
eminent.
There has been white men on the
some of them decent. useful men.
But most OF the representatives OF
the Caucasion race were q bad lot.
When a new regime OF morality be-
gan they opposed II In every way.
Frequently they resorted to violence.
Crews from the whalers would mob
the missionaries and pillage the
Christian communities. Even repre-
sentatives OF the American navy took
part In the most highhanded efforts
to maintain n wide open" Homo,
lulu. But the government at home
when appealed to stood by the mis-
sionaries and morality.
Extraordinary success attended the
efforts of the missionaries. That gen.
Grafton of Hawaiians was practical
ly conqured by them. Great revi-
walls arose all over the group; hun
dreds and even thousands were bap-
OF whom II was said so late as l84l
Coan baptized 1900 natives. sprin-
king them with a brush. Not all
held out, however. Churches and
schools were established. The frs,
of the former was grass building
like the native huts. II was shortly
replaced by another OF similar ma.
I terial. which seated 1000 persons
, When 1t burned the present struc'
! ture. on plain New England lines
was built by devoted converts. who
quarrled and carried the volcanic
stone and Owed into the sea for Co
raj with which to make lime. II
this kawaiahao church. which 4
now one OF the sights of the city
many Hawaiian kings and queen
worshipped,
As to education. It is enough I,
+ say that all the schools and ucadel
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

affairs and worship the next day.
As proof Of this he said that he
had recently found native judge
in one of the Honolulu courts
think he said United States court
-worshipping at an old native o.
tar In one of the remote parts OF
the Island of Oahu. Within stones
throw OF the Bishop museum, where
I'VE were talking, was broken down
altar, which, at the time of the po-
litical overthrow In 1898, was re.es.
tablished. along with a somewhat
general recrudescence of idolatry
throughout the islands. Within
three months. he further said. In the
city of Honolulu itself a native priest
had fallen dead while conducting
heather rites before the altar. The
worshippers, fearful that the devil
would catch them also. quickly bum
died up the appliances of idol wOr-
ship and carried them to Prof. Brig
ham, for, they said. he would know
what to do with the devil better
than any other man OF their ac-
quaintance.
Local missionary authorities af-
firm, with great reservations, the
facts upon which Prof. Brigham
bases his observations, while not all
accepting his conclusions.
There religious leaders say that
Prof. Brigham's intense hospitality to
the entire missionary idea disqual-
ifies him from rendering fair judg-
ment; and must confess that the
latter told me that he believed 1.-THE
heather" should be let alone and
that "one religion is as good as an.
other"
The Sandwich islands, as the Ha'
waiian group were named by theil
discoverer, Capt, Cook, were popu
lated by race of remote Aryap orr
gin. who in the sixth century before
had been driven north from the Sa
moan islands, over thousands o.
miles of sea, In canoes of their owl
making. As late as the thirteenth
century they maintained relations
mostly warlike. with the people o
the southern Polynesian archipelago
They never practiced cannibalism
though human sacrifice was one o
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

les and colleges on the islands HAD
their origin with the churches. Con.
spicuous among these is the vener-
able Oahu college, which in Its Blsh-
op museum perpetuates the memory
OF the last of the royal line OF ka-
the Great. Punahou col
iege enrolls the students OF the best
families OF Hawaii. or SO high a
grade were the educational institu-
tions established by the missionaries
that CaHfornians used to send their
children to Honolulu to be educat-
ed. English is now the only Ian
guage taught to the children OF this
polyglot people; and the percentage
OF illiteracy on the Islands Is said
to be lower than In some parts OF
New England. Nothing IL more
marked about the present-day reli-
glous activity OF the ISLANDS than
the prominence given to education.
Industrial schools, kindergartens and
night schools are too common to
enumerate. Seminaries for young
women, theological schools and what
may be styled academies" as we'll
rs the night schools. are. one or
all. department OF the work OF al
most every religious agency to be
found here. including the Buddhists.
Naturally. the printing press has
been used from the beginning. and
the Oldest English periodical west OF
the Rockies Is the Friend, which IL
still published by the Hawaiian
board. the local successor to the Ame-
rican board.
The Kanakas. once missionary OBJ
jects. are now missionary givers.
They support mission work among
their own people and for forty seven
years have been generous givers to
missionary work on the Gilbert ISL
ands and elsewhere IN Polynesia. At
least twenty native Hawaiians have
gone out as missionaries. There are
now seventy-hve ordained native
ministers on the islands. The theo-
logical seminary for natives. the
Mid-Paciac institute. 10 1pst now ex.
banding so as to include In one or.
ganization the board,s three schools
which begin the new sha with an en-
roilment of more than 800 pupils.
The benefits to Hawaii from the
missionary invasion may be sum
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02
SHORT SPORTS.

Arrangements have been finally
made for the annual game between
the st. Mary's College fifteen and
the rugby team of Santa Clara Col
lege. and the contest will take place
on the grpunds at Twelfth and Mis-
sion stsefts, San Francisco, Thurs
day. November %, at p. n,./says
the Examiner. Graduate Manager
John r. Doran OF the oakland in
stitution and Manager George Boles
OF Santa Clara have settled the pre-
limiraries and have given orders for
the construction of bleachers to hold
over seven thousand people. For
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

married. as follows: The naked saw
age was clothed. A reign Of law and
Justice was established. People
ceased to be mere vassals of king;
and the lands. instead Of belonging
entirely to the rulers, were appor-
toned among the inhabitants. Self
government was instituted. The ia-
waiian tongue was reduced to writ
ing and a system of education was
introduced, which today compares
favorabiy with that of the main
land rhe very land itself. bare OF
vele alton. was made to bloom with
the verdaAt beauty which evokes ex-
CARNATIONS OF delight from every
traveller. A people without music,
Of within II was said SO late as 1871
that their. efforts to sing illustrated
piety rather than melody" have be-
come famed musicians, with a band
touring the large cities of the con
tinent. The decline of the race has
been arrested. Homes have been
evolved where there was little wor-
thy Of that name. The spirit OF
chastity has been created within a
race to whom It was not instructive,
Seventy thousand natives have been
enrolled In the membership col
Christian churches. A people who.
less than a century ago. were be-
nighted objects of Christian benevo-
lence. have themselves freely sent
and carried the gospel to other isl
ands. IN a word, future state o.
the AgIsrican union has been made
out of tfe Hawaiian islands.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

a correspondent OF an Eastern
paper, who styles himself an
AZ impartial Investigator and
spent some time ON these ISL
ands gathering data regard
ing the missionary work In
Hawaii from Its infancy ana
It's beneficial effects on the native
race, writes as follows:
As Il paradise of natural beauty,
Hawaii Is of interest to the togfst,
but to the student of religious, So
cial and political questions its great
est Importance lies in the swiftness
of its transition from n savage COM
munity. bound by the practice or
human sacrifice and the allied and
greater curse of the taboo, into a
selfgoverning, orderly and prosperous
community, admitted into the sister
hood of the American union within
seventy-hve years after the time 1t
began to emerge from rank barbar-
ism. AS fading race also, the
Kanakas, or native Hawaiians, are
worth studying, for the 100000 in
habitants whom Capt. Cook estimate
ed as living on these Sandwich ISL
ands in 1878, had dwindled to 142,-
900 In 1928, to $1,000 in 1866 and
to about 10000 in this present year.
As widely heralded completed
product of missions Hawaii has long
been advertised by missionary work
ers as one of the few places on the
globe where the missionaries finish
ed their task; leaving to support and
direct themselves as a Christian ma
ton, the people whom, little more
than generation before, they had
found naked savages. For in 1868
the American board formally with
drew from the Hawaiian islands
which 1t had entered in 1870.
Even more serious, to my mind
was the charge made by Prof. vii
liam 7. Brigham, director of the IA
nous Bishop museum OF Polynesiar
objects In Honolulu. He declared Il
me that the work of the Christian
ization and civilization of the Ha
waiian people has been altogethe
superficial, and that, II the white
were to move out tomorrow, the ma
tive would be found restoring his oil,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

both teams the Thanksgiving battle
will be the climax Of the year ana
the rivals are preparing for the con-
test with great earnestness.
q /. ;:
American League. at Is annual
meeting next month, the exact date
of which has not been decided, Will
take up seriously the matter of alb
olishing spikes from the parapherna-
liza of the diamond. President John
son made that statement yesterday
in discussing the probable problems
10 he considered by the league mag
hates this winter. lie said 1t Was
hoped suitable substitute for the
spike now used on the shoes of play
ers would be discovered. so that ac-
cidents witch marrded the sport last
season could be eliminated,
III y 3.
when the time for applications
for tickets for the Yale-Harvard foot
ball game at Cambridge ended near
ly 1900 tickets, representing more
than half of the seating capacity or
the Harvard stadium, had been spok-
en- for.
For the Princeton game To be play
ed at New Haven. $4,000 applica-
tions have been received from Yale
men. while Princeton has taken
$500. which leaves the ticket de-
partment> 1900 short, as but $1,000
can he accommodated on the Yale
stands.
: Governor John +. Shafroth said
1 lately that he would not allow up-
/ der any circumstances the holding
of the Jenries-Johnson fight any
where in Colorado. Reports that
/ syndicate was beiag formed by Dem
Yer and Pueblo sport fans to bid for
! the fight were called to the Gov
4 ernor's attention. Laws of Colorado
! prohibit prizehghting and make puff
ishnble any violation by incarcera-
/ tion in the penitentiary." he. said.
Il cannot sanction any violation or
the law permitting fight that would
give Colorado the same reputation
Nevada obtained by permitting the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons eight"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02
VIOLINS

Our position field such that instruments
finish those marketed by others advance
prices.
violns th2m to be- we glad to
exchange them PRICES RANGE FROM IS 10 SIS co.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

both teams the Thanksgiving battle
will be the climax Of the yeai, and
the rivals are preparing for the con-
test with great earnestness.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-02

correspondent of an Eastern
paper, who styles himself an
impartial investigator and
spent some time on these ISL
ands gathering data regard
ing the missionary work In
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
HAL CHASE AT BOTTOM OF
BASEBALL WAR ON COAST

San FRANCISCO. Jan. lily 4.
R.-~Thc lines are being drawn for
what promises 70 be ono OF the hot.
test fiShls In the history OF orRaniA.
ed baseball, and one which may al
feet. at least indirectly. every club
under the national agreement The
Pacific Coast league. backed hy the
National and American. h g0lne 60
graphic with the outlaw state
league Of California. There Is CIV.
ery Indication that the war will he
leng aud bitter.
President PNlllam OF the Nation
81 league. and President han John.
Bon OF the American. have gone
back cast after recent unsueeess.
fnl effort Ia bring about peace. but
they have lcll behind a lot og base
ball men who arr eager for tho
fray. President Frank Herman 81
the OUTLAW league says
we arc ready for whatever
conea along This fight Is not 81
our making, We are paying Tor an
our PLAYERS the bis leagues come
aionk and want as 60 enter the
ranks Of organized baseball We
could not see whore No were so
ing 10 gain anything by such a
move, so we have decided % stay
cut That Is all there Is TO t."
Baseball men wen acquainted
with the situation say that there
would not have been any fight, at
least for a time. II Il had not been
Cor the fact OF Hal Chase, the great
first baaeman % the New York
Americans. In jumping from Frank
Tnrrelfs team late last season and
Joining the stockton agsreEaiion
Ia the State league. Chase Is With.
out a superior At his place on the
diamond. and his detection from
the Highlanders meant large
money loss 70 that team. u also
meant a flagrAnt defiance OF the
blg leagues. This. II IL said, Was
what really sent Harry Pulliam and
Ran johnson 10 the coast and made
them stay In conferences AZ this
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

AZ knhlak, the Michigan heavy.
weight. who g creating quite a stir
in the saat. Is being hailed b some
writer's az the coming heavy eight
champion knhiak IL said 90
Il sht very much after the aiyie
81 John l. Sullivan. being a kluEEsf
pure aud simple lie has tremend
oss bulk and strength. fairly eats
up Punishment and when he ianas
on the right sgot It's curtains for
his opponent lie has not lost a
fight since h. invaded the caHf.
bowling them 81 over siih Interest.
ina regularity lie made a monkey
uut ~ Jim Stewart. who has Eivon
Jim Barry several tough battles.
and settled Fred Bradley In four
rounds Il took Al Kaufman i've
rounds 20 pat Bradley away.
kubiak vas a member Of The
GFaud Rapids. Mich. police force
two years Rko. One of the duties
81 patruiman there is to take
daily exercise in the police Rymna.
stun. The chief exercise Is wreHt.
ling and Il WAS through this that
kuhink became aware Of the fact
that he was vastly superior 20 the
ordinary man He served "a "a
tr0lman a year and then took up
wrestling as a professional After
a series Of wrestling bouts IN the
state he turned 70 boxing. which he
liked better He could not find q
field In Michigan vide enough. -
sent east
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
GOOD CARD At
ATHLETIC CLUB

The banked circus seats In the
$. A. g sym were hidden from Wow
by the crowd that attended tho
tryuut smoker Of tho club last night.
The aye-npenef nf the evening waa
the iga-puund boxing match be-
tween Ffod Nord and nili Lewis
Tho youngsters went Ht each other
with vengeance from the tap Of
the Sung Nord received = WE'LL
earned decision. Other results Of
tho evening were az follows Bert
kincnld scored one fall. aud tho
emily fall. over Charley Lewis Ia tho
pound wrestling eiaaN, Harvey
pnnaidaon, lis puunda ~ the v
NJ 4, A.. easily scored two falls
ever VIM Mardin IN the itd-Wrca-
thing GLASS. Jim Kelly was given
the decision over TON Swift ia Is
WeiieFwUiEht event and Henry
and Charley Wright wound up the
entertainment with loss pound
boxing rKnnt North won
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
LEW. Dickey, Successful Eye Specialist, Now
located Peoples Bank Building, Seattle

II Ia asked shy Or. 2. W Dickey
IL a successful eye specialist.
Since coming 70 Seattle DF. Dick
ey has leased a corner suite on the
sscoEd floor Ut the Peoples Bank
building. Second and Pike. which
he has furnished In the most lux.
urlous style and equipped with all
ths modern scientific Instruments.
making them the finest and best
equspped offices OK their kind on
the Pacific coast
Those who have met Or. uickey
and had dealings with him since
coming here. agree with others wbo
have known him for years. who say
he has won such great success In
his chosen profession because be Is
honest In all his dealings lie tells
tha truth 10 his patients fIs makes
no promise uniesa he can fulfill It.
lie doesn't misrspressnt anything
II he can ours your troubles. be
proves what he says Re is fair
and square 10 one and all Re is
courteous and Kind and consideraic.
and most reasonable IN hla charges
Dr.. Diekey treats successfully the
most difficult cases known IN his
specially BY his scientific sklH and
ability lie has earned for himself
By hard work and 20 years study
OF the human eye ard all the d.
fective courses thereof such as
headaches. dizziness. sick SPELLS %
stomach. indigestion. liver and Md
ney trouble. nervousness IN many
forms. constipation. congestion Of
the spine. congestion Of the base
o. the brain. faintinE spells fits.
spasms. sleepleaaneas. insanity. and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
FAMOUS SHIPS
TO VISIT SOUND

The steamer kaga Marn. which
arrived yesterday IN Victoria after
belns storm bound for several days
IN the straits. brings the news that
when tho A-r-p opens IN June
three Japanese training ships viii
probably visit Seattle The fleet
will DO composed ~ the NaryaR
hayRn and pailada. all Of which
we're formerly Russian wAnhips
captured By Togo in the battle Of
Port Arthur during the recent war.
aud converted into trulaing ships
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

with music % eniiven the inter-
walls. the Olympia high BASKETBALL
team win meet the fanceln high five
al the iattcr's gymnasium tonight
the affair win b a double header
MANAGE f.owman having also ar
ragged for a game between the
Msssors and the Z. u W. second
team. Tie Lincoln game a. q rru-
oia1 one. for. " Olympia 4 returned
winner, Liuculns championship
chances win 20 wifmmeFfng
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
LEFT RAvlhG MAD
by ROBBERS

CHICAGO. Jan BY q. P.-
Strapped 20 a cot IN a hospital. raw.
ing In deiifium and suffering from
a double fracture If The skull and
hemofrhagca Of the brain. lion an
unidentified man OF apparent
wealth and refinement. who WAS
robbed. beaten and left unconscious
o. the xero cold OF "Wednesday
night
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
SUSPECTED SEATTLE
MURDERER FREED

SPOKANE, Jan .. ny q. p
Frank Arnold. who has been IN the
county jail ~ Sand Point. Idaho,
for nearly week on annplclon Of
being Charles nurllaon. who IN sc.
cuaed of having assisted Frank Gov.
ington IN the murder Of the iatter'a
wife In Seattle IN 1907. has been
set free
The authorities failed 10 receive
a communicates Of any kind from
the Seattle police.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

city until all hope OF real peace was
given up.
Chase meanwhile declares that
no r. going 90 stay with the state
league. Cv Moroing. manager 81
the stockton. Cal. club. and one
Of the guiding spirits OF the out.
laws. hints that a strong club viii
be put by the State league into
Oakland. Cal. and that Chase viii
run r.
There IL going 70 be- hard flght
and as a result the coast fans are
likely to have better baseball next
season than ever before.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

Do women cling to delusions longer
han men9 That's an open question. In
China, men do the washing and they have
been doing it in the same old way for
1000 years.
In America more than a million
women have broken away from the old
fashioned traditions, and have adopted the
Fels-Naptha way of washing. That means
cold or lukcwarm water-nevcr hot-no
boiling, no hard rubbing, saving of time,
temper, trouble, fuel, clothes and health.
Follow directions on the red and green
wrapper.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
win Play Here.

The "wMlablea." tho amateur
Rugby team. will play many gamee
IN this country. They play their
last game IA Great Britain today
against an All.England team They
will arrive az Frisco February 0 10
play stanford. Berkeley and tho
narharians. They will pass through
here ON route 10 Victoria and Van.
eouver for games, leaving for Aus.
tralla on February 20.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
U. S. RELIEF SHIP
AT MESSINA

MEssfNA. Jan. s.--By u. p
The United siatee supply ship Cui-
goa has arrived from Port Said
The body ~ n man who lived on
tho third floor above Mr. and Mrs
A, = Cheney. IA the American con.
aulate building. was taken out OF
the ruins yesterday. The work TO
recover the bodies OF the Cheneya
Is progressing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
100000 STOLEN
IN MAIL SACK

PARIS, Jan. e.--ny y. PA mail
sack containing bonds. etc. worth
100000 was stolen from a delivery
wagon IN the Chausae D'Antin In
broad daylight yesterday The DO.
Hoe have not the slightest elew to
the thieves