TOO HAWAIIAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



We are able to see how in the possible twelve centuries that the Hawaiians have 

 been on this group they utilized the stone for their daily needs, until at last the stranger 

 from distant lands broiight metals, pottery, and the loom, supplanting the rude tools 

 and their imperfect products, until only the whetstones and poi pounders retain their 

 place in the native armamentarium. How few the stone implements retained by the 

 most civilized peoples ! The mechanic uses his grindstone and whetstone, the latter 

 not very different from the most primitive form, and the chemist clings to his agate 

 mortar, as the cobbler to his lapstone, but little else is left; even the millstones are 

 yielding place to hardened steel rollers for the comminution of cereals. With all this 

 change, improvement doubtless, the stone implements of a people without a written 

 history are the remaining link to connect us with their past. 



"O there are voices of the Past, 

 Links of a broken chain, 

 Wings that can bear me back to Times 



Which cannot come again : 

 Yet Ciod forbid that I should lose 

 The echoes that remain ! ' ' 



Ordered printed November S, igoi. 



