The sun., 1891-05-31

their hands into their bodies and BRING forth
cutlery and necklaces and cloth and nails"
and to-day the coming OF the most attractive
stranger failed Ut would eppear) to divert
them from Miss Porters Scottish Chiefs." for
that was the novel Of tho day-"Na Lii seko-
tia 80 ran the tltle In Hawaii
My host returned. and led me round the
shore among the mules and donkeys to his
house. Like oil the houses Of the hamlet It
was on tho Europesn.or to be moro desorip-
tive. on the American plan. The parlor was
fitted with the usual furniture. and ornament
cd with the portraits Of Kamehsmeha the
Third. Lunalflo. Kalakaua, the queen consort
OF the Isles and Queen Victoria. There.was Q
Bible on the table. other books stood on .
she'll A comfortable bedroom was placed at
my service. the Welcome afforded me was cor
dial and unembarrassed. the food good and
plentiful Ny host, my hostess, his grown
daughters. strapping lassies. his young hope
fuls. misbohaving at meal or perfunctorily
employed upon their schoolbooks: all that I
found in that house. beyond the speech and
few exotic dishes on the table. would have been
familiar and exemplary IN Europe.
] walked that niGht beside the ssA. The
steamer. with It's lights and crowd Of tourists,
was gone BY: 1t had left mo alone AMONG these
aliens. and felt no touch Of stranReness. Tho
trim. lamplit houses shining quietly. like villas.
each in its marrow garden: the gentle sound
Of speech from within; the room that awaited
my return. with the lamp and the books and
the specialized householder studying his Bible
there WAS nothing changed; 1t was In such
conditions had myself crown mp and played.
child. beside the borders Of another Sea And
some ten miles from where walked Cook was
Adored ss . deity: his bones, when he was
Dead were cleansod for worship: his sntrails
devourod in mistake By rambllng.children.
A day Of session In the Hookena Court House
equally surprised me. The judge. very in
telligent, serious Hawaiian. sat behind ta-
bic. taking careful notes. two policemen. with
their bright metal badges, standing attention
at his back or bustling forth on srrands. Tho
plaintiff was Portuguese. For yoars he had
kept store and raised cattle in the district
without trouble or DISPUTE. His store stood
always open-lt was standing 90. seven miles
away. at the moment OF the oase-snd when
his cattle strayed they were duly impounded
and restored to him on payment OF one shil-
ling. But recently q gentleman Of great acute.
ness and thousand imperfect talents had
married into the family OF . neiRhboring pro-
prletor. consecutively on which event the
storek eeper's cattle began to be detained aud
starved. the fine rose to half q dollar and last
IL COW had disappeared. The Portuguese
may have been right or wrong: he was con-
tho change. called . suit in consequence
against the father-in-law. and It was tho
son-in-law who appeared for the de-
fence. I saw him there. seated at his
ease. with spectacles on brow: still younR
much OF gentleman In looks, and dressed In
faultless European clothes, and presently. for
my good fortune. he arose to address the
court. 1t appears he has already stood for the
Hawaiian Parliament but the people II was
toldJ did not think him honest" and he was
defeated. Honesty. to our wsys Of thought.
appears trihe in candidate. and think ws
have few constituents to refuse 80 great q
eharmer. understood but . few dozsniwords.
yet heard the man with delight followed the
junctures OF his argument knew when he was
snumeratina points In his own favor, whom he
was admitting those against him. when he
was putting question per absurdum. when
latter the due pauss) he smilingly replied to 1t.
There was NO haste. no heat. NO prejudice:
with hinted gesture with semitons OF In
tonation. the speaker lightly SGT forth and
underlined the processes OF reason; he could
not shift . foot or touch his sDectaoles but
what persuasion radiated in the court; IL Is
impossible to conceive q style Of oratory moro
rational or civilized. The point to which no
spoke was pretty in itself Tho people. as had
been told. did not think the orator. honest;
some Judge, ON particular occasion, had In
.ciinsd to the same view. and tho man of talent
was disbarred. By clause In statute. o lay.
man or o disbarred lawyer might conduct o
case for himself or for one Of his own fam
ily." Is q father.in-law ono OF mans own
family7 "Yes." argued the orator; NO"
with less grace and Dersplcuity. Nahinu. re-
tanned by tho Portuguese. The laws OF tho
tight little kingdom are conceived In duplicate
for tho Hawaiian hare and his many white
friends. The native text appearing inconclu-
Awe, an appeal was made to the English, ana
las amicus curtae) led out. installed upon tho
Court House steps and painfully examined as
70 Its precise significance. Tbs Judge heard
the Orator; he heard Nahlnu; he received by
the mouth OF the schoolm aster.my report, for
which he thanked me with bow. and ruled
the claimant out. This sklrmish decided the
fate OF the enRaRement; fortune was faithful
TO tho Portuguese. and late In the afternoon
the capable Judge rode OF homeward with bis
portfolio under his arm. No court could have
judge, parties. lawyers. and police were all de-
corous and competent and but for the plain
tin the business was entirely native.
The Portuguese had como soven miles to
Hookena, sure OF substantial Justice. and he
left his storo open. fearless OF being robbed.
Another white man of stronR sense and much
fruRallty and choler. thus reckoned up what
he had lost by theft In thirty-nine years among
tho different islands OF Hawaii: pair Of
shoes, An umbrella, some feet Of hose pipe. and
ono batch OF chickens. 1t 10 his continual
practice TO send Hawaiisns By perllous. soil.
tsry path with sums In specie; at any momons
the messenger might slip the money bag roll
down o thousand fsot OF preclplce. and lodge
in assures inaccessible to men: and consider
how easy II were to inventsuch misadventurssl
IT should have to know white man we'll be-
fore trusted him." he said, II trust Ha-
vsiians without fear. It would be vilainous
OF mo to say less" Il should be rsmem-
bersd the Hswaiians OF yors were
not particular; they were eager to steal
from Cook. whom they believed TO 20
A god. and II was theft that led to the tragedy
st KesIakeakua Bay: and 1t must not be for
gotten that the Hnwsiians Of to-day are many
81 them One rsSduSsl tsss o. saSsse to sbnv ,n
cannnt adminiater a trust. was told there