The Portland daily press., 1896-06-20
DEADLY PRAYERS.
Hypnotic Fascination Exercised BY
Hawaiian Witch Women.

Powerful Hold of the Superstition Upon
Lliuokalani and the Result to Herself
ana Her Countryside Was Threatened
With Living Burial.
iil.uokalani, an untranslatable word,
signlfylng one belonging to heaven and of
snleny rank, or Lydia, as she was famil-
larly called in childhood, was taught her
letters at the Young Chiefs school. She
was very amiable and rather backward,
in strange yet not inexplioable contrast
with her conduct in after years.
Made queen, she rewarded by dismissal
every effort on the part of. her counselors
to uphold good faith and wise and rea-
sonable conduct of public affairs. In one
week L1liuokalani dissolved three cabinets
opposed to her.
Deposed by her indignant subjects, when
false to her coronation oath, and attempts
ing coup d'etat (the whites, her chosen
teachers and supporters, had, as property
holders and voters, at least equal rights
with the natives), the ex-queen, whenever
generously treated, was found secreting
arms, concooting rebellion and conniving
with a filibustering raid from the Pacific
coast.
1t may not be amiss, in an age ever
ready, for political reasons, to extol lie,
and when certain sort Of poesy is discov-
cred in the unaudlin tragedy of Liliuoka-
lani, to present the briefest possible analy-
sis of a belief and practice not popularity
80 pn, oloapi q" 49,. o ~ ~, ooolA
queen.
Lacking serpents, the fair islands of the
n a.'t aiian s,oup poeeos. s snaAo no "ion
la ao4 'AaheAe'' nypnpeio laso.i "a So
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lhe queen 10 aooins o.ooL oio eussoS-
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gouaess' tnreaeenlhs eiie qae1n' '1O penos'
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oe saheh paoA rom 'iie luIeignefs.
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