The Meeker herald., 1904-12-24
,Nakedness of Brown
Races Didn't
Shock This Womanj

cipal of the Salem street school is visit
ing her sister. Mrs. Charles E. Burnhan,.
ut No. u. Sever street.
Miss Whittier relates many experiences
in schools in the South and West. also
q her six years teaching in Hawaii
done lot for the brown. at least not
for the brown in the Hawaiian islands.
In Hawaii the brown man has acquired
the vices of the white man without &C
curing his virtues. and, as 4 result, he
Is dying out. Though Miss Whittier was
q missionary as well as Z ,saehsr, she
have introduced Christianity into :he
islands, have done the native more harm
than good.
fne people. There We're 4OO,0OO Of them
when Capt. Cook discovered the Islands.
while we were busy settling our affairs
5000 of them now. and at least quar-
ter OF these are half-castes. The ma
whites brought it, The hatives did not
smoke: the whites taught them. The
natives were a moral people. md are
sailors took their women on board their
chips as they lay in the harbors for per:
haps months at time, and then sailed
are proud Of the distinction of being
native king tried to interfere with the
liquor traffic and with the corruption OF
the women the sailors made SO much
trouble and aroused natives with whom
much trouble that the laws were repealed
as fast as they were made.
..still. under the later native kings. the
liquor traffic was regulated. Now under
white rule saloons are plentiful and n
kanaka may get drunk as long as he
has money or credit or alleged friends
IAN the big business interests on the
islands are in the hands of the whites.
or at least Of the half whites, The full
0looded Hawaiian Is no buiness man.
He makes a fairly honeIt. faithful clerk.
but he can't run business. He is Il
he is eloquent. But he dossn't ' make a
good doctor. The doctors are nearly all
whites. There are the native doctors.
between faith curIsts and fortune tell
err err They pray pray, over people who are X, sick
the Bible on their knees and muttering
old charms between prayers.
Nearly all the natives employ both
sorts: sonsult white doctor. but have
kahuna In the background. and they
won't carry out the Instructions of the
! remember one man who had his hand
frightfully crushed. Dr. Bond. our mis-
sion, doctor. examined him and said 1t
hand His wife objected What good
would he be to her without his hand?
1.-THE doctor insisted and the woman
went to a kahuna. The kahuna said not
to cut it on he would pray over 1t and
make II as good as new: So he set about
two and the man got worse. Finally the
kahuna decided he couldn't pray hard
enough and they'd better e. let the white
and the man died.
ct once found kahuna. a woman.
had very tough pain IN her little inside.
]. told the kahuna I'd excuse her. /
then administered some peppermint with
IF the kahunas can get anything that
their proposed victim has worn" says
of nails. or even n rag from. their cloth
ing. they send word that they have 1t
nd sSnf to praS eIyna
can die II he sets out to. never heard
Of their committing suicide, they simply
terest in life and so cease to live. In
the old time believe the process of pray
ing to death was often FASTENED by pol.
ea ly Ply eaars. se i the
isn't " N 's"'
ut is of course. a survival of their old
religion. Nominally the people are Chris-
burned and formally abtIred. but there
are many survivals of the old supersti-
tio1s They the hrt and IND
ard. Their lizards are harmless, but they
also worshipped me shark. and regarded
cred after the hoaor. It's like some
very good people here who are absolute
bliss whe. they ,;.s. but are still in no
Every once In while the old supersti-
a .e sfsp s aR they still ali tna II
as well to keep on the right side of
them. In the doorway Of many Usher ,,tIa
bunch Of withered grass-a tribute and
a Precipitation to one of the sea gods;
whose favor should insure them good
Ack Nor rff l,R rpnI n16 m
foa and make Offering to Pelee. the god
Iess Of FIRE Tha sssy ,h ssd the to sinss
even after they became Christians-al-
ways went and paid honor to Police he,
the crises in their affairs that are al.
ways cropping up. And It ts said that
Kalakaua went there and worshipp,ea
"Mauna Loa. by the way. H. probably
ths most wsy on ths side i the
crater known rs Kilauea, and that is
perpetuaiIy active. but not particularly
every tourist is taken to see. The main
crater of Mauna Loa At the top OF the
yoleane T. generally e,sysn Years SUI a"nt
AZ nearly as its periods have been nxed.
Kilauea seems to subside. and then Maun
Ioa erupts and that is serious 1t is
likely to send out great stream Of lava,
which will overflow the crater and now
down the mountain side. sometimes max,
Ing a broad track down to the sea and
overwheiming any native huts that may
..The Hawaiians regret ennexation be-
cause they realize that they have lost
their nationality and gained nothing;
There really aren't enough fnli-blooded
Hawaiians left for 1t to make much
difference what they think. and as the
race is fast dying out the islands will
undoubtedly In time. become islands of
when the whites first began to settle
there there were no white women on the
is1apds and the men who came and
stayed took brown wives and had half
breed families. Some Of them when white
women began to come repudiated their
brown wives and families. but the ma
iority stuck to the marriages they had
made in good faith. Then. OF course.
there is a strong infusion Of Chinese blood
there, and the Hawaiian-Chinesea dmix-
fure really makes the best blood of the
Islands.
..The Ha waiians are a superior race. but
they are not thrifty. The Chinese. lacking
Manv of the Hawaiian virtues, are indus
erfo,i. and perservering to n degree. And