Nuhou, Volume I, Number 22, 31 March 1874 — The Great Kaiser Wilhelm's Birth-day [ARTICLE]

The Great Kaiser Wilhelm's Birth-day

Was well honored in Honolulu or\ Monday iast tjie 23d inst. Salvos of guns and music and festive cheer, show£d the spirit of Germans and the respect that "is felt for the Fat!terland at this point in the great oeean. How \videly are spread the Germans on every island in everysea; —the descendants of those Suevi and other Allemani, ov Teutons of Tacitus, whose abiding home, in his day, was the heart pf old Europej and whose espeeial \vorship was that of Ertha, the deif5ed impeT3onation of steadfast rock and soil. And now the Teutons, under the Great Kaiser Wilhelm, vex every oeean, and every land with theiv enterprise and industry. None of other nati6ns contribute more in strange lands to development and useful production than they do, and yet none malee so little pr&tension 5 or attempt less than they do, to wield any undue influence, political, or otherwise, as an recoo:nition of the means and influence that they acquire and merit. Therefore, in vie\v of the beneficent presenee of this foreign nationality, whieh eontributes sorae of the most successful and valuable planters, merchants and mechanics ia the islands, the Hawaiian Government has been prompt and cordial in recognizing the gala day of Germany, as was shown on this occasion, when the Govemmcnt Band was ordered at an early hour of the day to serenade, at the Hawaiian Hotel, Mr. T. C. Heuek, the honored €onsul of the German Empire. And America's naval representative in our harbor, not standing upon strict offieial etiquette, that \vould only have required him to salute a German battery in port, ordered the Benicia's guns to roar out an American greeting to Germans on their Emperor's Birth-day. The British Naval Commander, Qapt. Ray, also heartily joined in doing honor to the great Rhineland aitd her Kaiser, and the Tenedos vied with the Benicia in a full dress of interriational bunting(#o do honor to the tricolored flag of New Germania» At noon, Consul Heuek received company at his office, whieh was decorated with flowei-s and flags of every nation, in the name of his Emperor and hfs country. His guests, who inc!uded all Foreign and Hawaiian and gentlemcn of and inAuenee of the city, stood around a tnagnificent eake, nearly a yard in diameter, decorated \vith the 5mperia! cro\vn, with intert\vined German hnd Hawaiian flags, and' thev availing themselves free1y of the boun- [ tiful bouquet of fine wines, whieh supported the gateau d'honneur, did honor to Germany's great Kaiser, when the toast of the day was J proposed by our Minister of Foreign Aflairs. Apd so wine and wassai! flowcd, and hnpjiy memories of Fatherland \vere \vaked np in the evening by music and dance at the German Club, in thfsouls of those,\vho here, on a remote Panfic shore, keep in thoir; hearts the Watch on the Hhine. ! ' ' I i

I ' I MottESTY, how' atfractive ifī a woman. how becoming to a man, and how appropriate j in the attHude of a State like this. Just| think you, that this is a Kingdom, whose subjects could be all transported alive to ■ some other poiht of the earth. in one big ship| that ffoats on ihe oeean—therefore it well! behoovcs such k mere ship !oad of people to j be very when through a kind!y cour-; tesy on the part of mightier peop!e, they have \ been permitted to style themselves a Kingdom, and addr6ss their Chief as a Majesty 4 And it behoovds them all the more to be dif-1 fident in their tone and pretension, when it | is thought, tha! of their ship !oad of about' 50,000 souls, IS,OOO are over forty years of ( age, and barren and unproduetive, and about! 1000 are living dead men, who require thej products of 10;,000 to keep them. Now these| are facts, —not fbr despair; as we know not| any such darkhess of soul, and would stand! by the last jioor remnant of this people, i and never say |die. But by the soul of man, \ are not these bonsiderations to induce mod-1 esty, to move | r ou to take' off your ribbons and gold laee, and to strip to the brawnr fora wrestle 1 witEr'lDidversity that wages such a heavy war with Hawaii,? It vvere asipromising an «ndertaking to petition a Kho'ordish robber to restore his booty as fo i>xpect the proprietor of that sheet to retract a falsehood onee uttered, or redress a wrcmg onee inflicted." This is what one Sap Franci?co journalist says of another, and the words will most fittingly

apply to our u pig-headed " editor and <c per-j sistent slanderer " of the ministerial organ. j He hastens to publish charges without proofi he is deaf to all argument that woiīld eo vince him of error, and is evidently one of. those creatures that is only amenable to the ' influence of m action at law, or a slap in « the face. The former remedy is too tedious j and unsatisfactory: and with the means of redfess, you cannot well in this j case, disgrace your hands, as he is a non-: resistant poitroon : therefore you have | simply to and keep out of the way of. the poisonous snake in the grass, or venom- ' ous toad in the puddle, unless the creature jcrosses your path, when disgusted nature j prompts you to kiek it out of your way.

' Ouk seoms to be aii cxcollont.sani | tariam. We \vere s led to think ?o, on *moet- ; ing ouo or t\vo formcr nativc ffiqnaintanccs I wlio had falle|i into tho elutchsF of the law jand lost their liberty. When we saw them 4 \jmt before tUeir retiremei\t to engage m i pub)ic servico,and last shook hands with TertcmboT distinot!y a | flabby%ueh cjf thoir hands } n? of mon somowhat run do\yn and cffbU\ and fitt?rtg oanditor Uie, hospiul; but when we them &gain īhe othor day, nfteT thc exerc\se of royai clemenoy, vso woto taken by *urhy tca*on of thejfirm, viee l\ke il

I _ - ' I - ; grip we received\.f the of f!i<-o same men. They were buitt ur* wilh a, new physique, and. hael evjflen(ly heo-n liying un<ler healthy cooditions. "And a- we, t!iought of |the many slckly aiid degenerafe suhjtot* t|iat have eome under our observation in this Kingdorn. we reflected that a ji(t!e tasfe of something like prison diet and discip?ine ; would be a great b!essing fo many in thi> |poor debilitated coun(ry, And we must ?ay, that whoever ean esfablīsh fhe "sp!rlt of work Uiid sobriety of life among wi!? !have saved the race.

j Bad Sewage and neglected privys are the I fertile sources of disease in eilie?. īn wa!ks jarouad town, ihe nose is seriou&ly offended jby neglect of cleanliness. īf the olfactories 1 were the only organs that suffereJ. the case j would not be so serious : but a| tainfed atj mosphere will disorder your in(erna! eeonomy jaud lay siege to your life w!(li malignant jfevei\ An offensive stercorary in your j neighborhood is perhaps worse than a upa> j tree, and it maf not be as had to sleep under j the balefal shade of the famed poison tree. jas to repose within the infected »atmo>phere of a cess jpooL that fresh"_oart!t is" the best disinfectantj \vherc!as lin>e )s | merely a deodorant. ! ! The Board of Health shoutd look sharp t after the sanitary condition of the citv: as !in this matter, an ounee I worth more than a thousand poiinds of cnre.

D'lsraeli as onee moxe Premier of Eng!and, is an event vve hail with nlueh inferest. īt q«ite prohable, that if wo were snh]eet to, and res!dent in Englan3. thkt we wouhi partisans of the party undeT| the leacJership of Gladstone : but as it is. ! our >ympatfiies are entirely \vith the jresent ehief Commoner of Engtand. We sympathise with him as a liteniry woiker hiul thinVer. and as he has been ever houndjed by detraotors, and stigmatized as an f; hdventurer he who now leads the proud iiristeernoy of Britain, They are proud ot his leadetship, beeause his mind is mightier than rent rolls to inAnenee the puWie 1 opiniou and 1 marshal! the forees of f\ nation, that will brook none but it? noblest minds to fill its noblest offices. rule ... " :111 ," Lothaiv.'" : ;:" ;;;; |;;;;;;;;;;; i ';:,;;;;; i ; : ::: ' Thkhk is tulk of ovu :i sk\uu>hii> , snbsiity Quick tn\n-it i? tiol jct iinieh of ;.. | for us, ;VS It jl»c wlieu w ,numbcr. u fcw hjiuJrcd* of t!;icusaud% aiu* havcg(HHlsw>iTt?i a dotUra pouap t■-> c\port, ' wott su£*t woTft\ a pioayfii'! > a ov ' theroabouts. > k > j imluee inknestins; tr.«i r*o v N t 1.-.: , it WOuM paj us w Mter to V. - .tr 1 >?uOvt, *niart cur - t 1 % * i ' .