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ft V 11 L Subscription $1.50 per year. WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. W. H. KitchiB, Oirner. SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1885. VOL. 1. NO. 52 (For the Democrat.) AltOV T KWkVC 4TIOX III. VIio isTResponsiblc? It is a principle of moral law that wen are not only responsible for what they are and what they do, hut also for what they might be B1ore than they are, and for higher excellence in what they attempt. Mtlionsrh it is said too often for CD - I repetition hers, it is none the less true that this is an age of progress. And the very fact that the world's great enterprises are being contin ually pushed forward with all the force that this restless age can command; that inventions are daily multiplying; that every department of human activity is aglowj'witli powerful enthusiasm,- this fact de mands of every one his best efforts, and directed in the most judicious manner, for the accomplishments oi Tcsnlts commensurate with his op portunities, and for the real ad vaucement which the age de mands. Every man owes it to himself, to the world around him, and to God, to make the most possible of his op portunities, lie owes it to himself, because every man's success de pends upon his own efforts: he owes to his fellows, because they expect much of him, and in elevat ing and improving himself he does the same indirectly for them; he owes it to God, because lie makes it possible for man to develop his powers and enlarge his estate. There is a penalty fixed upon all violations of this moral law, whose execution can not be averted. "To thine own self be true, and it doth follow as the night tho day, inou canst uottncnDc iaise to any man." So it "doth follow," that whoev er fails to make the highest possi ble development of opportunities of any kind, suffers the penalty of the law in being deprived of the blessings and pleasures that wu.'-l have come to him in consequence ui of his obedience to that law, had he obeyed it. For instance, it is a duty which every man owes to himself to accu mulate as much wealth as he can in an honorable way, in order that he may have home comforts and be able to open his hand in benevolence towards those less fortunate than himself. If his failure to attain unto such competency comes through indolence and lack of proper effort, he pays the penalty in being forced to do without those things himself and to see those around him share this penalty. Then again, it is a duty which every man owes to himself, to his family and his friends, to make for himself the bett possible reputation. All reasonable effort, both in act and in thought, should" be put forth, in order that he may acquire such reputation. But if from a failure to properly estimate such a reputation he does not exert himself to attain unto it, he must suffer the penalty placed npon such neglect. He must see those who are willing to strive for a name and a reputation occupying seats higher than his; and receiv ing favors at the hands of their fellows, which he might have shar ed had ho been willing to exert him self, physically and mentally, in order to be thought worthy of them by others. Finally, it is a duty which every man owes to himself, to his country, and t t his fellows, to make himself as intelligent as possible- to know as much of this great world and what is being done by the human race as his circumstances will admit. All the higher and nobler elements of ( his own nature call upon him to rise up and be a man worthy of his lot ; worthy of the possibilities which lie before him; worthy, of tho sympathy, love and respect of his fellows ; worthy in some way, of the favor be stowed upon him, in bearing in his person the image of 11 im who has fashioned his being. Now, whoever violates the moral law bj' failing to discharge this debt which he owes to himself, suffers the penality in being compelled to drag out an ex istence far less satisfactory to him self than if he had made the most of life possible. Ia our daily contact with men ve occasionally meet with some un fortunate ones of all these classes. We sometimes see the man in pov erty who might have been in wealth if he had made hi3 visits lass fre pient at the dram shop, and had ex erted himself according to his ca pacity for making motie'. We some times sec tha man in questionable so j-icty who could have moved in the ligher walks of life, as regards his reputation, had he been more careful in lis earlier years about his associates and the habits which he fell into. We see hundreds and thousand of respectable, hard toiling, noble hearted men continually embarrassed arid made unhaDov bv rea30u of their ignorance of many things which immediately concern them, and of ah far out from their own homes an I iresides. These are perhaps worthy of much more respect than is bestow ed upon them and would have seen life so far differeat had they spent a few of their earliest years in ac- lairinsr an education. There usa l fulness would be far greater and their lives much more satisfactory to them selves. The two classes of young men dis cussed in my preceding articles in clude those whose t;fer lives arc such as I have lastly described And we find ourselves reproachiug these unfortunates too often. Of course there is a fault somewhere. Some one has made a mistake;, but very often wc charge the fault to the guiltless. The young man who does not alwa-s da what he might is no' every time himself to be blamed for all his short comings. And while every one Is responsible more or less for his own course, and must make life what it really is for himself ; yet the true germ of failure does not always rest in the one in whom the failure is observed and upon whom the penalt' is executed. We shall see hereafter to whom many ot these things may be charged be sides to those in whom they appear. E. E. HlLLlAttD. (For the Democrat.) AMOAtt TIIK KAHIHVICH ISI-A'OS. In list inn. Anciently called Le'e, from the short stay of chiefs there, is pleas antly located on the western shore of the Island of Maui. It may be considered as the sec ond port of the Hawaiian Islands :is next to Honolulu, it is mostly fre quented by the whaling fleet which toucn at me lsianas in toe spring and fall for recruits and refresh ments. This town was selected by Kamehameha III and hi c.uefs to be the seat of government of the group, and it continued so until the troublesome times of 1843, when he removed the Royal residence to Hon olulu. It has several churches. hospital and the old Palace, which frcra the anchorage looms up and appears a grand and stately building but it is fa3t going to ruin from neg leot. There are quite a number o stores in this town, and several prac ticing physicians. There is a serai nary on the Island for the education of natives located about two miles back of the town. It is under the charge of capable foreign teachers and is sustained -by the government. It numbers about two hundred stu dents. Perhaps there is no town on tae group that presents to the stranger a more strikingly tropical appear ance. There is one principal street, several miles in length intersected with many others lined with large trees which cover the road, render ing it in places a shady and cool bower. Numerous groves of cocoa nuts and tall bananas line the beach, and environ?, while grape and other vines almost bur' in their foliage many of the cottages. There is no 1 ot. on these islands equal to -La-liaina for gardening or raising fruit and vegetables of every description, owing to the abundant supply of wa ter. The native inhabitants of Maui are far more advanced in the knowl edge of agriculture than those of the other islands of the group. Potatoes are raised in abundance and there are also large sugar plantations from which the best sugar and molasses are cured, aud there are fine herds I of cattle. Fruits are generally abundant. The 'rape seems to luxuriate in the ricli soil and the sunnv clear weather of Lahaina. Figs, bananas, and melons are produced in abundance, and pump kins enough for all North Carolina to make pies for a general thanks giving. The population of Lahaina is estimated at three thousand, tho foreign part of which will not proba hly excejd eight hundred. "Years ago there was a hut under every bread fruit tree," was the statement of an old man who has s een tho four Kara ehatnehas as the rulers of the land. Lahaina is singularly frea from local diseases. The climate is uneualed, the mild sea breezes temper the heat of the day, and the cool breeze of the night makes sleeping a luxury. The natives of the islands resemble our Indians, they are Urge and well formed, with long black hair. The women are well formed and graceful in their movements, some being nearly white and very pretty, they dress after the manner of our women here. They arc very Courteous and hospitable to strangers, l here are large numbers of Chinese on these islands laboring ou rice and sugar cane plantations, some are doing business in the towns. The Kana kas are not ver' fond of the Chinesc- and take every opportunity to an noy them. At Honolulu the Chi nese have a theatre, where they have a performance every night, Sunday excepted. Their thea'rts differ from ours in ever' particular. The stage is a raised platform, at one end of the room with a door on each end of it they have no scenery or curtain, the musicians sit on the stage, close to the wall and between the two doors Their music sounds like the wailins of 17 lost cats. They do not plaj piece in one night, a Chinese drama lasts generally two or three months. After the performance is over for the evening a Chinaman appears and says few words to the audience. I suppose lie informs them the play is "to be continued in our next." I have never seen the Chinese applaud the performers The' remain very quiet during the entire performance. The Chinese do not care to allow foreigners in thei theatres, and when one gets a chance to get in he has to pay dearly for the privilege of hearing a lot of China men screeching and howling. I have been there. I paid my way too. It is very diffiicult to get ahead of John Chinaman. As I have strayed back to Hon olulu I will go a little farther and try to interest my readers in another city, of the Hawaiian group, called Hanalei situated on the island of Kauai. The view from the anchor age is one of the most picturesque in the world, towering mountains, cov ered with woods, cascad'-s, ravines and the Waiolc river, with one of the richest valleys in the group, all min gled together in making it a scene of unusual , beauty. The trade of this port is now very limited and is con fi nod to a few coasting vessels and a steamer, which stops there in making her trips around the islands, to supply the wants of the natives. The two largest coffee plantations oir the is lands are located here, producing about 250.0001bs of coffee annually. In the neighborhood of this port sev eral thousand head of cattle run wild and in fornier years large quantities of beef was shipped from this port, but owing to the irregular facilities for sending it to market, it has of late j-ears been entirely broken up. It was in this harbor during the year of 1824, that the Royal Hawa iian brig (a vessel owned by the King) "The Pride of Hawaii," was wreckedtthe circumstances attending whic'i it may not be amiss to relate here. The wreck 13 supposed to have occurred solely thro the negligence of the Captain, a foreigner. After the natives had brought o.i shore from the wreck, the spars, rigging, and otlmr articles, thej attempted to haul up the brig itself. This fur nished one of the best specimens of plrysical force ever wituessed among them. They collected from the woods and margins of a river, a large quantity of the bark of the tree which grows on the island and from which they made their rope, and with their hands, without any machinery, nade several thousand yards of Iron g rope. Twelve folds of this they made into a cable; three cables of this kind they' prepared for the ) .rpose of dragging the wreck of 3 brig ashore. These three ca bles were then attached to the main mast of the brig, a few fee above 3 deckj leading some distance on the shore towards the mountains, nearly parallel to each other. Ai the sides of these the multitude weie arranged as closely as they could conveniently sit or stand togeth er. The brig was in about ten-foot water, and partly on her side which was furthest from the shore, and near a reef of rocks rising nearly ball' way to the surface. Over this reef they proposed first to roll the vessel. Everything boing arranged for their muscular effort an old chieftain, for merly from Oahu, called the "Wind- watcher," passing up and down in in front of the different ranks, re peatedly sung out with prolonged notes and trumpet tongue, "be qui et shut up the voice," to which the neonle responded, "say nothing.' Between the trumpet notes, the old chieftain, with the natural tones instructed them to grasp the ropes firmly, rise together at the signal, and leaning island, to look aud draw straight forward without look ing backward towards the vessel. They being thus instructed remained quiet for sometime on their hips. A man called a Kaukan, or council or with the chiefs, whose office it was to rehearse for tho encourage ment of the people an ancient and popular song, (used when a tree for a canoe was to be drawn from ' the mountains to the shore) rose and with great rapidity commeneirg with an address to LonO, the undent god, rehearsed the mythologicahsong, of ffhiuh the following is averse. 'Give me the trunk of the tree, O Lono, Giy ma the tree's mam root, 6 Lono, (live me the ear 0' the tree, O Lono, Hearken by night and hear by day, O Poihihi O Poahaha . Come for the tree, and take to the sea side." 1 lie multitude quietly listening a few minutes, at a particular tufn or passage in the song indicating the order to march, rose together and as the soncc continued with increasing volubility and force slowly moved forward in silence, and all leaning from the shore, strained their huge ropes, all tugging together to heave up the vessel. The brig fait their power, rolled up slowly towards the shore upon her keel, till her side came firmly against the rock and there in stantly stopped, but the immense team moved on unchecked and the mainmast broke and fell rrtth its shrouds, being taken off by the cables drawn by unaided muscular strength The hull instantly rolled back to hei former place, and was never recover en. i no interest ol the scene was much heightened by th-3 fact that large man uy the nams oi run, who had ascended the standing shrouds being near the maintop when th-.' hull beg.n to move, was descending when the mast oroue. ana was soon ,o come down su.ldcnly and simuitane ously with it in its fall, strong ap prehensions were felt on the shore i thnt !ip w!i killed amidst the ruins. numbers hastened from the shore to the wreck, to see the effects of theii" haul and to look after Kin. He was found amusing himself swimming about on the seaward side of the wreck, where he had opportune y plunged and was unhurt, when lit was in imminent danger. For a number of years the wreck, could be seen but the sands have en gulfed it and all that remains to be seen is part of the foremast rising about two feet from the surface, marking the spot where lie the bones of "Cleopatra's Barge," a3 she wa called. The Kanakas have compos ed numerous songs relating to her inte. A. St.C B. "Your son is an actor, you say," Mr. Maginnis. "Faitb, he is." "Where docs lie act?" "Down the Bowery." "And what roles does he play I" "Bolls, is it? Faith, he rolls up the curtain." He Needed a New Watch- "Mary," remarked old man Cros beam to his wife at breakfast one was Will Trimble here to see Kate last night ?" "Y' s mv dear." What time did he leave?"' "I heard him say it was 11 o'clock hy his watch as ieWnt out." "What kind of watch does he car- 9- A !,f.fit. lovpr o!d Katie." rv "A patent laver, en? Woll, you tell him, with my compliments, that if he wants to remain healthy, lu ll ad better change that patent to a 10 o'clock leave her. I was young once myself, and know what time of night 11 is by those patent lever watches." Merchant Traveler. -r-w -r-m -. a -r-r -WW Tt 1 - 1 lie LXpiainS HOW lit bOt a ISiaCK "Rvft. Johnnie, have you been fighting?' bravely inquired Mrs. Muggins. "No, ma'am," promptly answered thp hpir of f lm lIinT.rinse3. " " " w" 7f3 "John Muggins, how dare you tell me an untruth !" exclaimed hi? moth- er. "Where did you get that black eye, t-ir?" "I traded another boy two front teeth and a broken no3e for it,'' re plied Johnnie as he crossed the woodpile. at. Louis Post. Of Course He Could Ask. "Might I- ask who lives here?' asked a polite gentleman of a stran- ger he met in front of a handsome HI u-llC It'll. Certainly, sir,"' as politely replied the stranger. 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