The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-27

willing to shoulder his musket
to support the Republic, He
was the ex-Queen's bravest
friend in her hour of trouble.
lie advised her against the
PRONUNCIATION of the constitu-
ton which brought about her
overthrow, but when he found
she was determined, he de-
clared he would stand or fall
with her. When the uprising
came, he was the only one of
her followers willing to fight
revolutionists. The average
kanaka doesn't care fig about
any sort of government. His
mind is taken up with luans,
hulas, and fishing. To him life
presents no serious problems.
lie devotes more energy to a
fishing party than to political
matters.
The Sun was setting when l
LETT Sans Souci, and it was
nearly dark by the time I
reached the street car-line.. No
car was in sight, and l was
told that it would be fifteen
minutes before another would
come along. I walked about
two hundred PAGES further
down the track to where a
Chinaman had fitted up a small
shop and restaurant, and took
a seat on the bench under his
awning. The shop-keeper, a
man we'll along in years, whose
queue was turning gray, came
out to keep me company. On
learning | was from New York,
he tried to scrape up an ac-
quaintance. He had once con-
Quoted a laundry in that city,
and thought the Brooklyn
bridge the most magnificent
structure in the world. He was
more soCiable than most
Cinnamon, and talked very
freely of the customs and hab-
it's of his countrymen. He said
that they had only worn queues
for the last three hundred
years. The queue was not a
religious badge, but a fad of
their Emperor. He had been
to China nine times since his
first arrival. Like most China
men he had a wife and child
rem in China, and one in this
country, this, he explained, as
a matter of economy. It is
much easier to support fam
lily in each country than to be
constantly transporting fam
lily from one land to the other.
The average Chinaman remains
in this country from three to
seven years and then goes back
to China, to spend an equal
length of time there, and again
return.
The next day in company
with Mr.. TimmOns | visited the
government building proper
It is a large building, two stor.
les in heighth, with lofty cell.
ings, and a broad stairway
There is a large hall below, or.
namented with handsome life.
size portraits of Kamehamehs
l. and his wife, Kamehameha
H., Ill, and w., and thei1
wives, and Kamehameha V
These comprise all the Kane
hameha dynasty, the first grea1
rulers of the nation. The up
per hall is decorated with fine
. portraits in oil, most of them
life-size. There is a fine por
trait of Queen Emma, the
granddaughter of John Young
the mate of an American ship
who was the trusted adviser
and general of Kamehameha /
There is a full life-size portrait
of King David Kalakaua, one
of ex-Oeen Liliuokalani, or Mrs
Domnus as she is now called
and her deceased husband
John O. Dorninis. There is al
so a fine life-size portrait o:
Admiral Farragut, who was
very much admired by King
Kalakaua. Legislative halls
committee rooms, and council
chambers with the various
rooms of the cabinets, are il
this building. The building
before the revolution which
overthrow monarchy, was
known as the Palace, and i:
even yet so called by some
though monarchy is rapidly
passing away, and the spunky
little reD11h1ic is everyday he