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members. He desired to compliment those present upon their fresh appearance. Before coming to Kauai he himself wore a youthful look, but there was no barber in Koloa, and he couldn't shave himself. His heart, however, remained the same. He was thankful to the Kodak Klub. It was a noble institution, because it entertained strangers that never expected to return favors received. It fed, ornamented, and drove around these strangers, who, at this safe distance, could invite their entertainers to be sure to come and visit them

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the minute they set foot in America; but Hawaiian Kodak Klubbers must not take it to heart if when they did come to America these same strangers were too busy to receive them. On the same principle you could at home ignore your traveling companions. He said that he had come to Hawaii to make discoveries. Although some of these discoveries had been made before he came across them, he didn't know it at the time. That was the case once when he thought that he had discovered a wife in a very charming young lady, but very soon rediscovered that his was not a prior claim. He

did not feel so sad about it when he considered how many others had proved equally untenable.

The Klub now started. It may be well to quote from an article that appeared in the Hawaiian Lava Flow:

The Kauai Kodak Klub, like a tropic bird, spread its wings toward Hanalei last Saturday. With banners waving, and amidst the music of poi pounding, the sinuous column wound through the streets of Koloa from Monkey-pod Hall. As the triumphal procession moved along crowds flocked to see it, and it could be compared to nothing else so well as to the journeyings of a presidential candidate in the United States.

The writer of this article was evidently an old reporter. During the year he had used "departed" for "gone" 889 times," inaugurated" for "begun " six times more. Such words as "enthused," "coincidence," "yclept," "nonce,'

quondam," and "anent " were a joy to him; he had utterly forsaken monosyllables, and at one time had thought of starting a paper in Russian. What follows is told by the Secretary, whose report is official:

We left Koloa one bright morning feeling in the best of spirits. A few members rode in carriages, but the most of us preferred saddles. All the members had the red, white, and blue badges of the Klub, which flapped in the breeze. We soon came to Lihue, a place famous for its sugar and rice, rice especially. There are many Germans here, some of whom came as contract laborers. Lihue has two senators, both of them descendants of missionaries. One of them is a philanthropist who gives large sums of money for good causes but does not himself belong to any Christian organization.

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"To tell the truth," remarked Mr. Musk, usurers are generally strict Calvinists, or, at any rate, sticklers for orthodoxy, and whoever they get hold of is that day predestined to eternal insolvency. It takes a deacon to foreclose a mortgage. He rubs his hands, says, 'The laborer is worthy of his hire,' and forthwith proceeds to pull in his net."

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The parson said that religion was much like a suit of clothes; it could be worn to advantage. It was civilizing, and covered a multitude of sins, and without it a man would be absolutely naked, but it could never make a man of something less.

"And as we think of it," he added, "the Bible speaks of a robe of righteousness. It is true, Scripture mentions a new heart, but what puts heart into a man quicker than a new suit of well-fitting clothes?"

Leaving the main road, we passed through a plain and came suddenly upon Wailua Falls, one of the sights of Kauai. The impression made upon the visitor is startling as he gazes down into the gorge and is brought to the view and sound of the waters tumbling into it. The Wailua River, beginning among the spurs of Waialeale, by five different sources, grows into two main ones, and reaches the sea as one, nearly two hundred feet wide, navigable for small boats as far as three miles from its mouth. It has the deepest water of any river on the island, and once, in 1812, gave shelter to a United States whaleboat that was running away from its British pursuer. If you sail up, it is between rocky sides sometimes two hundred feet high, partly wooded but often so sheer that nothing has found lodgment except small ferns. The lower fall is eighty feet high, and plunges over a partial crescent of solid rock into a deep bosom of white foam, forever agitated between the sides of encroaching cliffs. Lower down the walls have been degraded, and with the help of what vegetation has fastened itself there one may get down to the foot of the fall. When there has been a heavy rainfall the plunge may be fifty feet wide and five feet deep. Often a rainbow rises from the depths. We called this real spectacle "Howells' Falls," because, as Mr. Green said, nobody had ever romanced about it. There was more than had ever been told. A mile and a half far

ther up is the second fall, on another branch of the river. It is not so high and carries less water, but is well worth seeing.

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Everybody loves waterfalls. They appeal to a boyish sense in men and women. To see a sheet of water move along unconcernedly, then suddenly plunge one, two, or three hundred feet down into some chasm, with a roar like thunder, and a breaking up into white wrath, is exhilarating, stimulating; better than wine. One turns away from the sight feeling several years younger. At any rate, we soon fell into a sort of enthusiasm that took us on, talking, laughing, swinging our hats, and shouting "Hurrah for Hawaii! Hip-hip-hip, hurrah!" Then we rattled down-horses, carriages, saddle-bags, lunch can, everything-over the Wailua Bridge toward Kapaa.

The road keeps near the beach, here covered with many of the littoral plants that grow in Hawaii. Not far away, on a wide stretch of sand, human bones are found, and in a severe storm the wind plays billiards with the loose skulls that lie strewn about.

Our President alluded to the frequent battles of the early Hawaiians, their heartless slaughters, and, to our horror, of their methods. They fought constantly, and had no mercy. Once in a battle fought among the Wailuku sandhills all except two of a large attacking army were killed. We say that they were barbarians, without religion, uncivilized, cruel. Yet we turn to the Mosaic records and don't feel the same way at all about their horrible accounts. The massacres of the Amorites, of the people "north of the mountains," the battle in the woods of Ephraim-a great slaughter that day of 20,000 men," and so on. The record says that the Lord fought their battles. Having become used to the thought that all this murder was done with divine sanction, we read it approvingly, unless we happen to feel in a just mood and realize that wrong is no better in one place than another. The Lord never had anything to do with quarrels that could have been settled peaceably. These old warriors laid the results of their own wicked acts upon the Lord, and the more people there were butchered the more praise the

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