The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-25
"BUFFALOES' THE NATIVES.
MANY REVERE PAPA TIA As
MIGHTY KAHUNA.
Crowded Around His Carriage Ncster-
day and Forced Money Upon Him.
Want Him TO Work Miracles.

want Him 60 work Miracles,
Like Phoenix. Papa lta has risen out
of the ashes of his exposed fake.
Among the natives ne is now hailed
/ ar man Of wondrous power. II mat
ters not TO the credulous Hawaiian
whether the ridiculous prctensi0ns of
the old Tahitau exploded like the
South Sea bubble the fear Of the ka-
huna has dimmvd their eyes TO the ut
ter falsity of his claims ana hc is in
their belief a worker of miracles. Al
though the Performance yesterday ended
| i'm the most amusing farce, Papa Ita
left the pit of hidden holiness, a revered
man and today there is before him
thousands of boarded native dollars,
dimes and nickels which can be had
for the asking. Judging from the utter
Incompetence Of Manager A. II. Lewis
it is very probably that this splendid
| opportunity for easy graft will be lost.
When Corporal Murray walked into
the arena yesterday after Papa Ita and
stood ready TO walk upon the heated
stones, the vast majority of the natives
| present resented this intrusion of the
haOle. To many of them 1t was sacri-
lege for mere common soldier to try
and deprecate by duplication the power
of a kahuna. When Murray declined
to allow the spieler to msrepresent
him and compel him to walk before the
old Tahitian Ventured on the rocks the
crowd seized the opportunity of crying
down the interlOper To the credu
luOus minds of the older and indeed
scores of the younger Hawaiians, the
soldier feared to walk on the rocks be-
fore the kahuna, because he realized
that The wonderful power of the ka-
huna gave him peNer to Subdue the
heat in the stones. They looked upon
this retirement of the soldier as a vic
tory for Papa and when Papa stood
or the big stone and wiggled his toes
to allay the neat, the triumph of the
old faker was complete. No doubt,
when the soldier stood on the same
rock a few minutes later without
twitching his feet. the natives assign
ed the rigidity to the well known char
acter of the horse hair socks with
which Uncle Sam provides his soldier
boys.
But like the village Idol who is
knocked out by a "chance blow" the
/, natives flocked around Papa Ita in the
box office to offer sympathy They
wanted to take his hand, to touch the
hem of his lawa-lawa, and after failing
in this, the women devoted their at
tention and energies to roasting" the
haole. AS a matter of fact Papa Ita
lost splendid chance to redeem him
self. Knowing the heat subduing prop
, critics of his feet, the old man should
have at once proceed to slap his Tril-
bies on the necks of a few of the wo-
\ men and see if he could subdue the heat
or their resentment against "haOes"
who refused to be buncoed While it
might not have cooled their anger it
would effectively have shut off the flow
Of gas"
Although Papa was not the only
pebble in the pile the natives seemed to
E think he was wonder. They crowded
| hig stuer
could not heal the lame, cure the blind
| and help the sick. HE is a kahuna"
whispered the women between their
! roasCings" of the haoles and the well
2 balanced natives who had discoun-
5 tenanced the farce Money was all but
; showered upon the old Tahitian. Dol
2 lars and halves We're showed into his
2 paws and the muscles of his hands
must have grown stiff closing down on
: the money tributes of his dupes.
But Lewis may learn by experience.
: He evidently intends to profit by his
past failures and also by the extensive
, advertising which his fake show has
! ! received. He has advertised an
: other performance for tomorrow night
! How many will attend the fake then
is a matter of conjecture. That many
natives VIII be on hand to gape at the
wonder and listen to the gibberings of
Ihe ola Tahitian is certain. The pro-
, III WIZ not come from this source how
ever but 1t will be by private methods
! that the money will be made Lewis
should not waste time giving perform
. ances when private exhibition will net
/, so much more.
: Today Papa TIA is regarded by hun
dfedss or natives as a mighty kahuna.
} when he goes among them he will be
I received with fear and Difference. His
prayers for the relief of the sick will
t De sought; the maleVolent will try To
puy his incantations for the death of
successful rivals. All that he will have
TO do will be to tour the country dis
: trlcts OF the Islands and money which
mas grown green with the moss of OBJ
scurity, will be dug up and poured into
ms lap. Indeed, the old man ought 70
; play an engagement for the next three
months, with office hours from 6 a. m,
while the money holds out.
The combination should prove a
! winner. Even the glib tongue and
. soaring Imagination of a Ben Bruins
could not picture stronger combina-
tlon then Papa tia and A. H. Lewis
The manager Already Lewis has shown
that he is good understudy for Papa,
Lewis chased as nimbly over the hot
test stones yesterday after Corporal
murray as II he had been weaned in a
cradle OF hot stones. If the money
hoWs III as fast as many well posted
people think. Lewis digits ought 10
become sufficiently calloused within
TWO weeks from counting Il, to permit
him to walk on his hands across tbe
rocks atter Papa's Klondyke feet have
shown the way, .
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