The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-28
Crime and d. q

After hi. : hardly need add that the
character of their whole family llfe Is
wre,chedly low. They have very few
children. ard such as they have are trea-
ted with little more care than the pup
pies. The government of them IS first a
~csress and then q cuff. 1t naturally fol
lows that the relation which the W
sexes in a household bear to each othei
IS of the loosest character. In further
evidence of this l cite the records Of the
courts. which show that IN the two years
ending Dec. 81, 1879 when the last report
was made to to the legislature, l. l69
cases of adultry we're tried in the KING
dom, chiefly among the natives who con
slitute a population only two-thlrds d"
large as that of Minneapolis. | sui'pese
this astounding aggregate OF prosecu-
mons for that crime is due to a laudaDie
special effort made by the g"vernmeni
in tha- period of purify the domestic lie
of the Ia Ives.
But more than this and verse. One
IN twenty of the whole native populs-
tlon is a confirmed leper. On the Island
OF Molokai IS a colony Of 500 or 900 OF
these pitlable wretches where the incur
a5les are sent as fast as they are ound
anu Rdli1tTcU. AuSiS, o'H
ing to each other kindly as best the, can,
they move sloly down to death, their
features and limbs, one by one, rotting
aud dropping of, Having at last only a
phastly semblance to anything human.
And whence tins leprosy2 The latest
and best authority %pronounces 1t the
fourth or last stage of venereal diseases
the final and unquenchable burst OF
-. - PnJtS3 l.,nI II
centiousness. In the Queens Hnstitai
of this CIty-a uosle and we'll equipped
institutiou-open to the treatment to ali
diseases, and free TO the natives, four
ffihs OF the female patients are native
women suffering from the sexual maiady.
AT the fire dlspensary here, also supper
ted by the government, tronl 100 to 200
natives of b.th sexes, and from all parts
OF the islands, daily present themselves
for treatment. The physician in charge
iDld me that nine t.hths OF them were
ailing from this same disease or incipicnt
l~eprosy. He further declared, and the
same is published in his report 10 the
minister Of HE INTERIOR, that nearly all
the natives are more or less affected by
this vile taint, it ire qucntiJ appearing in
little children by inherit tnce. Another
fact: The census returns show that the
| adul, native females only number three
fourths as many AS the addit Daslve males.
| Whg sue !; dctfl rate among these fc
maiesl! All these facts loints 10 only
one conclusion. Tue g%,eatcr portion If
these women ale PROSTITUTES. AID whai
renders their case 80 hopeless as THAI
they are not fallen WOmcn. Iii Y seem
little more Conscious OF nmodes'y o.
depravtty than Will AZ i'm zig. " ha can
~ done to elevate "a WON III. who, when
earnestly urged - mend her evil WAYS,
Itpin With Il wondering. good natured
olIr! the iact i, the weight Of Il hun
iie,i san>ua. GENERATIONS is directly upon
the poor creatures and has .tatlped them
through and through with bestia!itA
while the Incidence Of the air they
breathe, like Il ball and chain. still holds
them down. MJny times, here have
said to myself that We of SAXON stock
can never. never make Sufficient thanks
giving for that wonaniv purity and
fidelity, as we'll as manly freedom, " hich
is our Heritage from the cold woods OF
grand Old Gcrmanla. The language Of
The islands is opulent enough, especially
in the coarse and imaginative, it having
more words than DR.. johnson put in his
English dictionary, but there Is not in
this language any equivalent for our
terms honor and chnstity. curse
with the whites has added a fe names.
but otherwise the language is unchanged
in substance or use. Blu language is a
peoples atmosphere, their inreImost
education and 50, like Il foul old gar
mcnt full Of vcrmin, the language ofih!s
people ciings to them night and day.
Sleeping or waking, and constantly filters
through them the same fifth which it
first borrowed from them To be sure
all languages, like trees, start in the dirt
bat whether . tree shall, with benef
cencc left its branches high and broad
like the En2iish o; k, or shall Turk near
the earth in noisom dnmps and dews,
del ends On the environment aud cult
vstion.
SO. whether tic native inirmity be of
body or mind, the physician fines his
match.
Like other effeminatc virgin aces.
every disease seems to seek them, ami
Furnishes them at tie hardest. Leprosy,
for instance, rarely touches the Chinese
in these islands, and almost never a white
man. The native manifest no will power
to battle with sickness, and always seems
Indifferent whether he lives or dies. Tn
doubleday, the putting Oh oi clothing ha.
injured him or account Of the thought
less way in Which he wears it. He will
not take any care of himself, sick or we'll
and cannot be trusted to take medicine
when prescribed. He sti has great re
gard Tor the native quack doctor or sor-
cerer. The natives believe tha, this sor-
cerer has the power to pray u person to
death, II he can procure something from
the person of his v.c;im like the saliva. a
planter told me OF a natis in his employ
who recently took to his mats an declal-
ed he should die, for the prayer man was
after him. The fellow was actually pin
ing away aud seemed about to die, as they
frequently do. from sheer fr, b.. Tie
planter took hold Of him and gave him .
good shaking and told him lie should fog
him every day till he got well. The ma
tive was soon on his taps again. cured on
the homeopathic principle, sinl,tiu sin,tH-
bus %curnntur. The new terror drove and
the old one. Some years ago, one Of
the missionaries here, though not a PHYS
lcian, being constantly bothered by the
natives running to him with their a hes.
procured a lot Of Perry Davis pain killer {
bulk, strength en,i i. with red pepper
and her administered it in large dose. t
internally. No other decoction wa. ever
50 consplatory to the native stom> c
ach. Your reformed c~annibal, when he q