THE ELEVENTH OF JUNE.

If cannot be a law-maker I can be, "a peace-maker." If do not like, do not entirely approve of, and endorse every act political, legislative, or municipal, I need not worry about it, and fret and fume and try to coax every friend and neighbor into my discontented, fault-finding, hypercritical mood, and vicious temper. No, I am resolved, let every man in Hawaii now say, to make for peace so far as in me lies and to help along law and order and true prosperity. And the country would prosper; would grow to the wonder and amazement of all men. Don't you know, my dear Hawaiians, that you have a right more than others to be grateful for your country, and to seek the highest good; for, while you are to-day a part of the United States you are like to no other part of it. You are peculiar still, as a country. You are unique and must be. This Hawaii is to be rich, mark me! is to be powerful in the years to come. Nothing can keep, your country back. If you will but be wise men here, you natives, it matters not what the tint of your skin, I declare to you that Hawaii can be one of the strongest and most influential of all the States and still be, the little territory. There's paddy for you! Now figure out that problem while I go on writing the rest. What state has your place, on the map? There gentlemen, is your raison d'etre! Aloha Hawaii! That is where your especial fairy gift, your good luck comes in, that you are a port of entry for the entire globe as every Hawaiian child ought to know today and toss up the cap in glee. Why, you ought to be as happy as the day is long to know that the cloud of prosperity and

all true progress is hanging directly over this land and if you have but half a wit you can see it.

Now, you have my dear friends ("beloved brethren”) to do your honest helpful part, to push on the cart, not throw rocks in front of the wheels! but to take your place in affairs of your territory, keep your own door-way (each one) quiet, orderly, sweet and clean and then see what will come! And may God grant you wisdom “to live,” as Goethe says: “each day as if new born."

I'll be there when Holiday comes,

My friends, I'll be there!

And the lei of carnation I'll wear,

Will make you stare,

When you see me there.

My pretty Vaiolani she'll be there,

But you needn't stare;

My lei she'll make that I shall wear,

We'll be there, when Holiday comes,

My friends, we'll be there!

Oh, yes, we'll be there!

My friends we'll meet there,

We'll all meet there and have fun to spare—

Vote away care, vote away care;

The country's safe, we'll be there,

Oh, yes, we'll be there!

MY CUP OF COFFEE.

A Lady's Visit to the Hackfeld's Coffee Plantations and MillsSome Interesting Thoughts for Hawaiians to Ponder Over.

Of H Hackfeld & Co's highest grade coffee-“Kamehameha No 1"-take a large half cup, and putting the same into an open porcelain-lined kettle add one fresh egg and beating together, shell and all, pour over it one pint of boiling water (the minute the water boils), and let it boil hard for seven minutes (no cover, you understand), take it off and throw in a small dash of cold water and a trifle of salt. Pour out a cupful three times and pour it back; cover it and let it stand still for five minutes, and your coffee is "clear as a bell" and ready for cream and loaf-sugar. If you like, you can add a dessert-spoonful of fine brandy, not putting in the cream. You have now a cup of coffee fit for the gods -both meat and drink.

We have been "through the mill" and can write about it, not about centrifugals and centripetals exactly, but something of the coffee centre of Hawaii, in which this splendid, generous, enterprising firm of Hackfeld & Co.-and long may it wave-is interested.

THE TWO MILLS

soon to be in operation, one at Kailua and the other in Hilo, will take coffee in a bee-line from the tree to the coffee pot, having the entire process of drying, pulping, hulling, polishing, burning, grinding, and putting into pound packages ready for the grocer, in their own hand.

This does not follow that one cannot purchase of the firm a thousand sacks, if he choose, in any stage of the berry he may prefer.

Now, the coffee reaches the Honolulu mill after having been dried and pulped; the fatty, sticky part having been taken off the berry, on the plantations, and it is all ready for the further precess of hulling, etc. So there is a great advantage where the mill is close to the plantations. Coffee will then be shipped direct from Hilo to the Coast and ready for the cook and breakfast.

WHEN THE COFFEE COMES TO HONOLULU

to the mill, if it is not perfectly dried, it cannot go through the mills without injuring the looks of the berry, and making the highest grade coffee (the most aromatic flavor) look like something inferior-causing the berry to flatten and perhaps wrinkle, or crumple as it were.

So you will see at once that it needs careful discernment, wisdom and skill in dealing with the precious berry. Also, when coffee is pulped and dried on the plantations the berries may be nicked by the pulper or a little discolored in some way, and all such kernels must be picked out by hand and sold for a lower price; they cannot enter the sack of perfect berries.

This is the work for girls, and there we found fifteen, busy and attentive. They place both hands on the little table and, as the coffee slowly covers the board, they pick rapidly for the poor kernels, the contents of the board moving on and off constantly -a sort of treadmill for the hands. It keeps coming every minute, that coffee.

VERY FEW HAWAIIAN GIRLS

have applied for work; mostly Portuguese and Japanese.

The Hawaiians excel as workers when they will work, as we have always declared; they cannot be beat.

But when will they work? Alas! when their spirit moves and no other when. Certainly not just after a holiday; and indeed they don't fancy Monday very much, and not more than half session for Saturday, and so you will see where business must go on, in spite of battledore and shuttlecock, why, the Portuguese comes to the front, for she will see to it that pleasure does not interfere with her pocket-book, and will work every hour where she can see the money.

This picking-work is not hard but requires a quick eye, care, and steady application. The smell of the coffee is rather agreeable and the mill is so sweet and orderly we coveted a corner for our housekeeping, almost.

Putting coffee into packages is also girls' work.

We saw one full native there, and instantly took his measure. He has been working for the firm for forty years. Another has

CHARGE OF ALL THE MACHINERY

in the girls' room and also keeps the books of that department. A Portuguese in the cellar has entire care there and keeps the books.

There is perfect system in this perfect mill as one can see at a glance! Commend us to the German.

Of Kona, Olaa and Hamakua coffee, experts have proved that the highest grade of the latter has the most delicious flavor of the three. This No. I coffee needs no chiccory to enhance the flavor or aroma; but, a hypercritic would throw cologne upon a Marechal Niel rose.

For the lower grade coffees a little chiccory would doubtless