change from weariness and toil and heat to thoughts of rest and home, that all is joy and music in his heart! The blood is once more working rapidly in his veins, and signs of returning color are in his countenance. There is now a great work before him in his old New England home, and with strength, and means, and unselfish purpose, my sailor-hero shall live to do it all!

"For men must work and women must weep,

And the harbor-bar be moaning."

He goes to look at "Kilauea" on the Mauna Loa Mountain, that pot of fire and flame, and he forgets to sleep until he has quit that region of Hawaii! He visits Kohola plantation, and stays over Sunday at the quite prosperous mission, with its very pretty church.

He stays in the "Cave," at Mauna Haleakala (House of the Sun), on Maui, one night. Here the view is too glorious at morning and at night for my poor pen to make you see! No painter could fix it on his canvas, no lavish wealth of words describe it! Here, a chrysanthemum is found in the crater, "the silver sword," as big as your head; and here are millions of ferns.

He cannot leave Honolulu until he goes to the wonderful Pali-a precipice five miles from the town, and which is worth a journey from England to see! Neither will he miss going to the top of Punch-bowl, a quiet crater on the east, to get a view of the pretty emerald, bounded by the sea, with its coral reefs, and its waving, star-like crown of cocoanuts.

Aloha, pretty Honolulu !

Last, but not least, by any means, he will go to the Bishop's College. Two exquisite maps were boughtthe work of a half-caste, done in ink and water colors. A game of baseball was played by the seniors. On taking leave, a sum of money was placed in the master's hands to give the Iolani's a "treat"—and a halfholiday was begged for them. On leaving Honolulu for home, the following day, two sets of bats and balls were sent to the college. A lot of toys, also, in the shape of tin sailors, ships, boats, Noah's arks, etc., were for the little folk. The two stout, brown horses used in traveling, were also sent up to the college, and an order for three barrels of "No. 1 washed sugar!"

Days before Christmas, with his mother's help, the Captain has studied and ordered plans for building, so soon as the spring shall open and the ground permit: Homes for aged, infirm and disabled seamen; for widows, old and impoverished; and for boys and girls made fatherless by the sea. Over the door of each Home the words "The Success," "Laus Deo." On Christmas eve the wedding is to be; and for Christmas day all the children of the village are invited to a party and to a "tree"! Rejoicings are arranged for until Twelfth Night, that everybody, old and young, may be able to share. Teas, dinners, sleigh-rides, music, bonfires and skating! An hour before the time of the wedding the bridegroom sends in his choice gifts to his bonny, brown-eyed Alice.

A small bouquet of lilies and maiden's hair fern, tied with a blue ribbon of his own buying; a tiny prayer-book of leather, silver-bound and clasped, and with the inscription, "To my bride, Alice. Faithful and true. Christmas, 1890." An apple-blossom for her hair, fashioned from the pink lining of a rare shell; a brooch of old gold, in fashion of a ship, the sails of silk capable of being furled, and in tiny emeralds the words "The Success"; at its masthead the Hawaiian flag; and lastly, a bracelet of finest workmanship, to be worn on her left arm, with firm, strong padlock, heart-shaped, studded with diamonds and sapphires, and within a portrait of my success, my hero, John! These were the bridal presents from her king, save one, which now stood at the door-a small coupé, lined with leather of old gold, a span of brown mares, and on the door a medallion in bronze, of a ship with sails spread, with "stars and stripes" floating in a brisk wind, and putting out to sea. On her bow can be read, "The Alice."

The bride is ready for church, and her lover goes to meet her to have a word, a look, and a kiss, before starting. She is in a robe and bonnet of softest velvet, white as the snow of to-day, and trimmed with swan's down. On her shoulders is a cape of ermine, lined with blue, the color of her lover's eyes; her gloves and shoes are blue, trimmed, too, with down. In her hair and on her neck and arm are his precious gifts, and in her hand the prayer-book and the lilies.

What did she give to him?

Did you say will keep hers.

"A woman cannot keep a secret?" I But, let me whisper in your ear that he told her as they entered the carriage, "That no other gift on earth could have begun to equal it in his eyes, or suited him even half so well." ALOHA, HAWAII! ALOHA NUI!

"M

THE MANGO.

ANGO-0-0-0!

Please, some mango-o-o!" This cry can be heard from early to late summer, in and about Honolulu, from the native boys, who tramp from place to place, wherever a mango tree can be seen.

As these trees, when full grown, are as large as oaks, it is not difficult to see them! They are so high no one but a native can climb them, with immense crowns, and fruit enough to feed an army! When the fruit is ripe, it will drop from its own weight, a large one being "as heavy as a stone." In color they are of a rich, deep green, with a reddish cheek. The skin is thick and smooth, and can be pulled or stripped off, leaving exposed the deep yellow, golden, juicy fruit, which clings tightly to the large, coarse pit, in color of a squash seed. This fruit is in season for several months, beginning in June—for while some on a tree are ripe, others are but just "coming on," and there is the new leaf to be seen, and the fruit! It is little used for dessert, as it is a very uncomfortable and awkward fruit to handle. While green it can be made into sauce, and tastes not unlike green apples. When ripe, the proper way to enjoy mangoes,