Show CAPT GIBSON GUM ON rhe THE fhe SANDWICH ISLANDS I 1 we have within the past part year seen been several accounts in california prints relative to the operations of capt gibb gibs n on these island islands sp in mostly WY of a favourable favour farou able rable character but none more inore ao so than the following from the honolulu polynesian gian iian which we extract from a ue copy of the sacramento union unions for tor nearly a year captain gibson has been residing pe siding at binai quietly but energetically pursuing the task of a philanthropist and social reformer unheralded by editorial trumpets ioime to misunderstood by the generality genera ltv ity of men time however which corrects cor recta prejudice and winnows windows the chaff from the wheat in human affairs is already begir beginning inin w to do the captain justice and a better opinion is obtaining obtain im 1 about what one calm clear headed energetic c and devoted man can do for the benefit of 0 f his bis neighbors and the social improvement of a bemi barbaroux barbarous people when captain gibson arrived at the mor anon settlement on the island of lanai to whose improvement his efforts have been chiefly directed it consisted of 0 about forty fi families subsisting subsist subsisting in g in mainly aln ain on the proceeds ancia ancya of a precarious fishgig and a few wild goats goa s in the th mountains liv living in in amail amali ruinous and unhealthy houses crowded toe tog together mether gether in hawaiian fashion the people had no agriculture no industry no water for drin drinking in 0 or r cleansing purposes tur lur poses except some very br brackish ck water along the beach the rain water collected in cavities of rocks on the mountains pein being too far off to be easily procurable and no mode of conveying except in cai cal abashes on the backs or of men without ambition and without hope that people vegetated rather thala thaia lived lied such buell was waa the pi picture li of 0 the mormon hawaiian settlement on lanai when captain gabaon joined it last year atthe ot the patience and perseverance required to chan chanze change e the aspect of affairs and the current of their emotions people may imperfectly imigine imagine but never will arrive at an aLd adequate equate conception until they go and try it themselves litvin II eving tving found an lri iri old plow but no noan ani malis malls suitable ia for r draft a tew lew furrows were opened by hand band and with nin nine e badly worm eaten ears of maize all the j bied sted in their possession an agricultural begin ning was made from which at the end of 0 the year resulted over bushels for sale and ang export besides sufficient for home consumption draft animals ani and proper implements of husbandry were procured cisterns for collecting leetin rain water in the mountains were built b by Y means of donkeys a regular and full supply of water brought to the village the houses improved and divided off into sleeping apartments cleanliness and neatness promoted health and morals morais attended to an engi engl english 1 chool school 1 established innocent amusements encouraged 1 ceu cou eu raged such industry fostered foit ered as the danity would permit ermit such as hat making from the white beautiful beautiful pill pili straw and ana mad mac mik huking nuking in poor poorer even than similar villages in other parts of the country the want of capital has been supplied by the combination of or labo works ex system and order established where before alual squalid id misery sat eat at in ili individual helplessness in 1 short with i property increase n ng comart multiplied and seif telf respect implanted im p canted the lanai settlement 0 hows chows today to daya day dax a m at wonderful metamorphosis from the unthrifty condition in which it wa was a year or more moro ago and demonstrate demonstrates a mst mist fully what one truly earnest practical and benevolent man may do for the improvement i of this people when working with the grain erain identifying himself with the people living with and amongst them sharing their labors and tempering their relaxations with his presence and supervision and the not least remarkable and beneficent effect of captain gibbons Giba ons presence and influence in that little etie community is the sanitary condi ion lon on of its people peoples there being not one diseased during the past year J |