The Redwood gazette., 1899-06-28

resident in the islands what he under
stood it to mean. and he said it signi-
fed a peck of trouble. Then I heard a
young man who had been out in the
darkness over a wretched road upon his
bicycle say he had got into |'all sorts
of piikia.' Wikiwiki and pilikia ought
to be introduced into the English Ian
guage They would enrich it. They
have lively sound and meaningful
Their hat other musical word, ''alo-
ha .so@ not mean. II hove you. I"
as ave so often read, although that
is very pretty Specification. IF you
want to say II love you" in Hawaiian
you must add prpnoun, thus '"Alo-
ha o-e." which sounds just as sweet
Aloha alone signifies good win, best
wishes, friendship or any kindly feeling
one human being puts out toward an
other. The word Is such one as would
be inscribed over the door Of a beer sa-
loon or hotel as we sometimes see the
word welcome in the States You
notice it upon the threshold or over the
door of many buildings in Honolulu
In such places it means welcome CON
fess I was surprised to see *'aloha''
painted upon the doornlat at the en-
trance to United States Consul General
Haywood's Office here That is the first
time I ever saw the word welcome
ON the doormat of public office. You
are generally warned to keep off Mr.
Haywood knows it is out of the COM
mon order. and he half apologies for
its presence there by pretending he did
not know it's meaning when he bought
that mat
The native language seems to me- to
have no backbone to It. nke the charao-
ter of the race that speak IT. Yet once
they had backbone, and that only 100
years ago, when Kamehameha the Great.
the first of his royal line. conquered by
force or treachery all the other chiefs
and united the islands into one kingdom.
ruled by himself. and one nation the poo
pie have remained to this day. Kane
hameha was quite as splendid q saw
age in his way as either Frederick of
Prussia or Peter of Russia In om-
memoration Of his quality as first
class fighting man a fine statue of him
has been erected in front Of the govern
ment judiciary building. It is in bronze
and represents a handsome heathen
draped in the royal yellow feather cloak
and as little besides as the requirements
Of modern propriety demand It was
made several generations after the mon
arch's death by an American sculptor.
who evolved It mostly out of his own
head for he did not even visit the 1e-
ianda The statue probably looks as
much like the real king as the man In
the moon, but it is much better looking
than the man In the moon. 50 what
matters
Honolulu Is to Hawaii what Wash
fngton is to the Dtstrictof Columbia It
is practically the republic Of Hawaii
Whatever roads. bridges orother public
improvements are ordered for any Of the
islands must come from the legislative
assembly at the capital The rule works
both ways When a public work is or
dered for the city of Honolulu, theother
islands must be taxed 10 pay fx IT. For
instance Honolulu, large as it Ia a
city Of 80. 600 inhabitanta has no sewer
system. which is not to fits credit A
move Is now on foot to construct ona
As q mr. tier of fact, Honolulu has
never had city government Of itsown
The kings and queens of the past ruled
it themselves jealousy prevented the
monarchs from permitting any munici-
pal authority apart from their own.