Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-14

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| with white ladies. Mrs. Bishop was a wo-
| man of the noblest and purest character.
AS previously intimated, any close inquiry
| into the domestic life of Hawaiian ladies is
| unwise, and a kindly tolerance must cover
| up weaknesses which do not amount to I'M
| disguised scandal. This is not intended to
apply to the upper class Of half-white ladies,
| we'll married to white husbands, among
| whom are many Of high culture and ex-
emplary morals.
Contaminated by the Court.
Had Mrs. Dominis continued in private
| life, the better elements in her nature might
have prevailed. Beyond question the vicious
| excuses of her brothers court contaminated
her. Her frequent participation as a pleased
witness of the unspeakable obscenities of
the hula dances, which Kalakaua cultivated,
could not fail to corrupt her moral sense
Or late years her moral decline was evinced
in her active participation in idoiatrous cere-
monies which Kalakaua had made it his
business to revive. She must be regarded
as largely victim of the poisoning forces
of court life, which gradually heathenized
the previously civilized and refined lady.
To any one familiar with the facts as to
| the sort of physical nature which Kanaka
women inherit, and acquainted with the sur
roundings of the Hawaiian court, there is
nothing more pitlably and ludicrously alb
Surd than the poStiveness with which news
paper correspondents, like the Nordhoffs
and PalmerS, or official Investigators like
Col. Blount, will embrace testimony that the
scandals about such a person are unfounded.
Any one who knows native life and char
acter knows that the probabilities are all
and overwhelmingly the other way, and this
| is in great mitigation of the fault. II the
eX-queen could be charged with no other
than this In a native woman eXcusable
frailty, the reputable people of Honolulu
would have continued to be deaf to scandals,
and to ask no questions SO long veil
of decency covered what might be wrong.
1t was her open championing of lotteries
ODium rings and throwing herself
bodily upon the support of the party of vice
and heathenism, that ended the patience of
reputable society with her. What they
would have done ii is hard to say, had she
gone no farther. Her simultaneous proceed
ing to proclaim an arbitrary constitution
and dissolve her government left our people
no choice but to create a new government
as they did.
COwardice of the Ministers.
An inspection of Senator Morgan's re-
port, since the above was written, shows
it's severest condemnation to have been
that of the queens ministers for their
cowardice and treachery. The queen her
self charged some of them with such con-
duct in her written statement to Mr..
Blount. and there seems ample ground for
1t. What seems first to have made Peter
son and Colburn take fright was the at
titude of Thurston and his white colleagues
in the legislature. in absenting themselves
from the ceremonies of propagation. They
ability of those men. When they found
the queen angrily and fanatically bent on
her purpose to destroy the constitution,
these ministers of hers fell into 8 panic
and gave everything away to her enemies.
In fact, there was nothing else for them
to do except to jump the precipice with
their mistress and all smash together.
1t should be said. in justice to her
premier Sam Parker, that he behaved
more like man, and stood by her the best
he could, although he insisted that she
must abandon her destructive plan. Parker
never tempered like his colleagues with |
the other party. Whatever his faults and
lack of business capacity he is chivalrous
and brave, with a genuine portion of the |
manly nature of the old chieftains. Parker
Is in tight place in his pecuniary affairs. |
He owns a princey estate on the slopes of |
Mt. Kea. probably worth double the quarter |
million of mortgages he has tangled him |
self up in by poker and reckless extrava- |
gance. The financial depression attending |
the revolution and the simultaneous de- |
cline of sugar profits have put him at the |
mercy of his creditors, and he hardly |
knows how to find coin for daily needs |
He has an interesting family-two tall |
daughters, educated for couple Of years
In England. besides other children-aIl !
accustomed to profuse expenditure. The |
only thing to be done is to retire with them
to the country house at Mana, where they
can ride about the country, and he can play |
head cowboy among the myriads of more
than half-wild cattle. He is an adept as
a PAMELA, having learned to ride before he |
learned to walk, probably. The sooner an |
nexation comes, the better for Sam Parker 1
as 1t will double the value OF his estates |
and put him on his feet again. His whole
income now will scarcely meet his annual |
interest.
Sam Parker's Herds.
Pamela is the native pronunciation Of Es-
pagnol, or Spaniard. On Vancouver's Sec
ond visit to Hawaii in 1893, he presented
King Kamehameha with a bull and a cow.
They were turned loose on Mt Kea, and a
strict tabu placed on them. In twenty-five
years their progeny had so multiplied that
when the missionaries arrived in lSoJ the
interior of the island was swarming with
herds of wild cattle. Vaqueros with horses
had already been imported from Mexico to
handle the wild creatures. Being Spaniards.
PAMELA was at once adopted as the name of
a horseman skilled with the lasso.
Most of the surviving descendants Of these
wild herds are now Sam Parker's He has
large stocks of imported breeds, and grades
up the cattle in his great paddocSs-but on
the mountain they are the same lon,-horn-
ed, Wild creatures ever, only the calves
are captured and altered, so that there are
few ferocious bulls as formerly. The Ka-
nakas speedily became adopts as paniolas
1t is a calling precisely suited to the Ha- |
watian nature. Anciently. he delighted to
ride swiftly on the front Of the comting
wall of Il breaker, or dive under and stab a
mighty shark. Now he takes a keener zest
in urging half-wild pony after racing
herds and singing out horns and hoofs for
the unerring cast of his lariat.
The difference between the wild herds of |
California, Mexico and Hawaii and the do
nestle English breeds of Australia is we'll
marked by the well-known difference Of the
Mexican and the Australian saddles, both
strongly made. The Australian drives his
cattle with whip. They are tame, OF tame |
breeds, even If running on open country.
He needs no lasso to handle them, and his
saddle has no high pommel.
The Mexican saddle has massive POM
mel and heavy cinching. so that when the
lariat draws, the horse, throwing himself
back, holds the captured beef with his
whole strength by the elastic hide cord
wound around the pommel. Dur herders
here depend on the lariat. but in driving
use the cruel whip. which will bite a button
hole out of an animals hide fifteen feet
away. -
1t may we'll be supposed that the droves of
for beeves-do not arrive
at the market in very fine condition. Then
there Is the voyage by sea- with it's severe
But that is another story
KAMEHAMEHA.
Cable From Canada to Australia.
From the New York Evening Post.
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