Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-01-29
MARK TWAIN AGAIN.
MORE ABOUT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS

Mark Twain has written to the Tri-
buRe another of his inimitable letters
about the Sandwich Islands. We have
room for only few extracts.
KAMEHA1IEHA V.
He was a wise sovereign; he had
seen something of the world; he was
educated and accomplished, and he
tried hard to do well by his people,
and succeeded. There was no trivial
royal nonsense about him /; he dressed
plainly, pOked about Honolulu, night
or day, on his old horse, unattended !;
he was popular, greatly respected, and
even beloved. Perhaps the only man
who never feared him was "Prlnee
Bill, u whom 1 have mentioned here
tOfore. Perhaps the only man who
ever veDtured to. SPEAK his whole
mind about the King, in Parliament
and the hustings, was the present
| true heir to the throne-if Prince Bill
sti j Ii yes, and l have not heard that
he is dead. This gO-ahead young fel-
low used to handle His Majesty with
out gloves, and wholly Indifferent to
consequences; and being shade more
popular with the native masses than
the King himself, perhaps his oppOsi-
ton amounted to something. The
foregoing was the common talk of
Honolulu six years ago, and I set the
statements down here because / be-
lieve them to be true, and not because
know them to be true.
A WORD ABOUT "PRINCE BILL"
Prince William is about 80 years of
age, now, should think. There is
no blood relationship between him
and the house of the Kamehamehas. /
He comes of an older and prouder
race; a race of imperious chiefs ana
princes of the Island of Maine, who /
held undisputsd sway there during
several hundred years. He is the elev- |
enth prince in the direct descent, and |
the natives always paid a peculiar /
homage to his venerable nobility,
which they never vOuchsafed to the 4
mushroom Kamehamehas. He is con-
sidered The true heir to the Hawaiian /
throne, for this reason, viz: A dying
or retiring king can name his own
successor, by the law of the land-he
can name any child of his he pleases,
or he can name his brother or any
other member of the royal family
The late king has passed away with.
out leaving son, daughter, brother,
uncle, nephew or father (his father
never was a king-he died a year or
two ago), and without appointing any
The Parliament has power
now to elect king. and this king can
be chosen from any one of the twelve
chief families. This has been my un-
OF the matter, and L am
very sure am right. In rank, Prince
William overtops any chief in the Is
lands about as an English royal Duke
Overtops a mere earl. He is the only
Hawaiian outside of the royal family
who is entitled to bear and transmit
the title of Prince: and he is so popu-
lar that if the scepter were put to a
popular vote, he would walk over
the traek.n
He used to be a very handsome fell
low, with a truly princely depOrt-
ment, drunk or sober; but merely
speak figuratively - be never was
trunk; he didn't hold enough. All
mis- features were fine, and lie had a
Roman nose that was model of beau !
y and grandeur. He was brim full
'f spirit, plack and enterprise; his
lead was full of brains, and his speech
aciie and all alive with point and Wig
Or; there was nothing underhanded
)r twO-faced about him, but he always !
vent straight at everything lie under.
ook, without caring who saw his
land or understood his game, He was
! potent friend of America and Amer
cans. Such is the true heir to the
'acant thrOne-if he is not dead, as I
aid before.
wHIsKEY'S ANTIDOTE. r
1 have suggested that William il
thinks, That is not an objection to {
sandwich Islander. Whisky cannot o
lurJ them it can seldom even tangle f
he leggor befog the brain OF a prae- b
iced i've Ii is ONLY water with q ii