Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-18

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cruelty that would have Mortified a
Kongo savage.
Late one afternoon Rider was noti-
ned that q man and a woman were
In violent quarrel He went to their
cottage and asked them to quiet down,
and was rewarded for his trouble by
being sworn at and told to go about
his own affairs. He left them; but
had not been away long before he
heard screams in the direction of the
hut. He started back, and had gone
about halfway when frightened lit.
tie girl came running to him. Her
face and hands were bloody, and she
could not speak. When Rider ->sked
her what was the matter, all she could
do was to put her finger down her
throat. He picked her up and car
ried her to his home. Mrs. Rider took
charge of the child and stopped the
flow of blood. 1t was discovered that
the little girls throat had been cut
from the inside. The woman was ar
rested. tried. and sentenced to three
months In Jail. The facts were learn
ed from the man at the cottage The
woman, drunk and angry with the
child, had knocked her down, sat upon
her, forced finger down her throat,
and tried to sever a vein with the
fingernail The Riders found home
for the little girl In a respectable,
well-to-do family, and she is being well
brought up.
Another little girl, an orphan, was
forced by brutal woman with whom
she was living to work from early
morning till bedtime at tasks that
were heavy enough for a woman of
more than average strength. Angered
one day by the child's failure to do
as much as she expected of her, the
woman grabbed her by the wrist and
twisted 1t until the bone cracked.
Fearing exposure and probable pun
ishment, the woman kept the child in.
doors for week or more without hav-
ing the fracture treated. But that was
not all. She made the child work with
the broken arm. The pain grew worse
and worse, until the miserable child
became desperate and stole out into
the street to look for someone who
might do something to relieve her. A
strange woman found the girl exhaust
ed not far from the brutal woman's
home, and took her to Rider, who
found that the child not only had a
broken wrist, but was badly bruised
nearly all over the body-the woman
had beaten her when, because of the
fractured wrist, she failed to perform
her usual tasks. The child was plac-
ed in a good home. The woman who
had treated her so cruelty was allow
ed to go unpublished.
When the Riders had been in the
district long enough to convince the
doubters that they had come to stay,
John Magoon, owner of a block of
tenements, gave them the free use OF
the room in which the clashes with
the ruffians took place. Magoon's gen.
erosity meant a great deal, because
it was public testimonial to the sue
cess of Riders undertaking, and be.
cause it provided the missionary with
hall in which to conduct his meet
ings.
Athertcn died in 1903; but in ODE
dience to his wishes his heirs conti-
nued to support the mission, and in
1904 they purchased house and lot
in the central part of the district and
turned it over to Rider to be used as
permanent headquarters. A Sunday
school was organized, with thirty lit
tie children as charter members. A
few adults joined the mission.
Pleased with the good showing, the
Anterior heirs in 1905 had the old
building torn down and modern set
Element house erected. In 1907 free
medical dispensary, with trained
nurses in charge, and free milk de-
pot were opened. Physicians volun-
teered their services, and Rider could
get doctor any time he wanted one.
Since the installation of the medical
dispensary and the milk depot thou
sands of visits have been made to the
homes of the sick, and the lives Of
hundreds of babies have been saved.
The milk depot was recently taken
over by the territorial government in
order to relieve the institution.
For eight years Mrs. Rider has been
conducting large sewing school for
girls of the district, teaching them to
cut, fit, and make clothes for them
selves and their little brothers and
sisters. A kindergarten was opened
in the main hall of the new building in
1908, and it grew so rapidly during
the first few months that a member
of the Atherton family had a building
erected purposely for the kindergar-
ten. There are now one hundred and
twenty children under six years old in
the kindergarten, and superintend-
ent and five teachers are employed
regularly. 1t receives considerable