The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-11

fold works he is found through all
the various ways by which society ad.
Remarkable Changes in the Sandwich Islands.
From the San Francisco Post.
There are now some $4,000 natives
and half whites in the Sandwich
Islands. The pure natives are DYING
off at the rate of 1000 a year in ad.
vance of the births. so that it does not
require much figuring to know how
long the lineal descendants of the
ancient stock will last. The Kanakas
have been sadly, terribly decimated
since the introduction of civilization.
The half whites are gradually iucreas.
ing. Many of the heightened white
men on the islands are married to
native women, and in a majority of
cases large families sprung from the
union. Among other marriages be-
tween whites and natives there is no
issue, and this specially applies to what
we call by our courtesy the aristocracy
OF Honolulu. Where whites intermar-
ry with whites large families usually
1olloW,and grow up strong and healthy,
but fearfully lazy. A lazy white man
on the islands,and there are any numb.
er OF them. can discount anative, take a
years loafing, night and day, as a test.
The natives, with very few exc-p.
tions, have small families, one, two or
three children being considered a large
household. In the families of the
chiefs there is great sterility "A majority
of the late kings and queens having
died childless. The present monarch
and his queen have no child in the
palace, although married for number
of years.
From indications it would seem that
the Chinaman is destined to become
master OF the situation. In numbers
he is more rapidly increasing than all
the other races put together. During
the past year several hundred were
shipped from this city, and hundreds
arrived here direct from China. The
Hawaiian Government gives sea cap.
tains $50 for every Chinaman deliver.
ed on the islands, and regular con-
tracts are entered into for this purpose,
based upon legislative enactment,
which aroused strong opposition.
There are several thousand Cinnamon
on the islands at present. At first
when brought as coolies they work pa
tiently on the plantations for awhile,
but take the first opportunity to set up
for themselves. Two of the wealth..
est merchants in Honolulu were for
merly coolies. The Chinaman controls
the retail trade in all it's branches, and
has driven small white dealers from
stands held by them for years. The
Celestial gets most of the native
trade. They sometimes marry native
women.
The Celestial has introduced some
shocking habits among the Hawaiians,
and brought to Hawaii that curse of
curses to humanity-the leprosy. tits
predicted that unless there is a new
supply OF merchants and business men
from San Francisco, the Cinnamon will
be more than match for the effete
whites now doing business in the is
lands. The coolie of fifteen years ago
is now a welcome visitor at the palace
of Kalakaua, and looked upon as the
co.equal of any white man in the king
dom. A wealthy Chinese merchant in
Honolulu, in former times a coolie, is
married to beautiful native woman
who refused the hand of prominent
white man.
Why Lady Clerks Are SO Popular With Lady
Customers.
Scene--A store. Lady Clerk putting
a finishing touch to her longest curl
| with her fore-inger. TO her
Enter Female Customer.
Female Customer wish to see
some linen collars, please.
Lady Clerk latter brief pause. and
with a feeble show of plying inter.
est)-Underllnen at the second counter
to the left. (Relapses into contem-
| plation of the Infinitely
! Female Customer-Linen collars
wished to see.
| Lady Clerk latter mentally apprais-
ing the customers wardrobe, and re-
solving if ever she has a black-silk
dress to have more bugles on it)-Oh!
Takes down and languidly opens box
Ind becomes absorbed in a filtration
between the shopwalker and the girl
at the lace c0unter.)
! Female custOmer-These are very
common. Have you nothing betterl
Lady Clerk recovering her con.
seriousness and politely smothering a
yawn) THE others are twenty cents
each; I didn't know as you would care
to pay so much: (Takes down other
boxes and sighs.'
Female Customer-These will do,
but these are too large. twalva il the