The National tribune., 1897-12-02
COMMENTS BY CONTRIBUTORS.
Loyal Home Workers Views About Interest
inc

Loyal Home Workers Views About Interest
ing Things.
As an outgrowth of the discussion of
names and their meanings. Comrade I. ID.
MCGillicuddy, Akron, o., who traces his an
cestry to the Emerald Isle, forwards legend
connected with the naming of the McGiiir
cuddy Reeks, a picturesque mountain range
in the south of Ireland:
Mr.. McGillcuddy, u landed Irish gentle
man, went TO visit some friends in England,
and took with him an Irish servant with
more national pride than fidelity to truth.
Whatever he saw among the Englishmen
was nothing ut all to what might be seen
among the Irish.
The Englishman visited by Mr.. McGilii-
cuddy had a large extent of rich meadow
land, and took special pride in his hay
stacks His valet was as proud as himself,
and at the first opportunity took his Irish
companion out to the stackyard, expecting
to see him astonished by the spectacle be-
fore him. What was his surprise when
Paddy looked on with Indifference and
coolly said:
Its nice bit of grass you've brought
home here for present use. Now let us
have peep at the reeks (ricks)."
"Rcks!" exclaimed the Englishman.
"Wy, these be they"
We'll, then" says Paddy, "I'll Just tell
you there's about enough hay in this stack
yard to make the bands for matching my
masters reeks."
The following year the Englishman re-
turned the visit of his Irish friend near Kill
larney, and brought his servant, who soon
asked for view of the haystacks. The
Irish servant said he would show them to
him with pleasure, but was sorry that he
could not take his friend to view them be-
fore evening. When the twilight began to
fall the two sauntered forth, and the Irish
man, pointing to the distant mountain
range, sad, There are our reeks," and by
that name the mountains have been known
to this day, following the Irish pronuncia-
ton, the McGillicuddy Reeks"
There is saying that one might as well
be out of the world as out of the fashion.
At present the fashion is Hawaiian in char
acter, and II one cannot talk about The
Hawaiian Islands and facts relating thereto,
he is dreadfully behind the times and had
better hide for time if he does not wish to
be pitied.
Among the many interesting and import
ant facts connected with these interesting
islands, is the fact that it is virtually an
American colony. In 1919 missionaries
were sent to Hawaii from Boston. These
missionaries not only taught Christianity,
which was readily accepted but gave the
people written language and founded
schools and introduced dress reforms To-
day there is no place in the world where
public schools are SO carefully managed as
in the Hawaiian Islands. The school fur
niture comes from the United States, as do
also the doors and windows, and other lum-
Der used in building the school houses.
The majority of the teachers are American,
and all the instruction is given in English.
Our countrymen residing in the Hawaiian
Islands are intensely loyal to the United
States. During our war of the rebellion,
Hawaii contributed more than its quota of
Americans to the Union army, and now
there is Post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public located there, and Memorial Day is
kept annually with great solemnity.
Thanksgiving and Fourth of Jaly are also
celebrated there with great enthusiasm.
Thus it seems that Hawaii has been, and is,
a sort of a protege of the United States and it
would seem cruel to abandon it now.-Alice
l.. Putnam.