News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-09-06

M AZ rail or the san francisco
steamer as it slowly drew
In to the crowded wharf. He was
scanning the throng on shore with
keen interest. The Kanakas, with their
smiling broad faces and their barbaric
richness of color-crimson hibiscus
blossoms and marigolds Of dusky gold
around the brown threats and inter-
twined with the black locks--were in
teresting enough surely, but a more
lively curiosity possessed him. We're
there any missionaries in the polychro-
matte multitude?
Hawaiian missionaries had been de-
scribed to him in America as the most
comprehensive rogues in creation,
showing in their dealings cant, hypoc-
risV, covetousness, unscrupulousness,
fraud, deceit and gross abuse of power
in about equal proportions" AS though
this were not enough to pique the GU
riosity, he had heard on the steamer a
curiously variant account of them.
"They're daft on the subject of up
lifting people," a fellow passenger de-
clared. "They had to set up a sort of
aristocracy in government few years
ago, for the ship was making straight
for the rocks. But they're possessed to
make the Kanakas our equals and
members of the governing class. The
crew are all to be officers in their nice
little craft Some of these days they'll
try to put the Asiatics on the white
mans level, and then there'll be the
devil to pay"
Osborne ran his eyes over the motley,
merry multitude below searching for
these knavish sentimentalists, at once
pious and greedy, soft headed and
high handed. Then his aunt came
aboard and carried him Off On shore
flower crowned straw hats and bright
hued shirts and Mother Hubbard
gowns shut out other things at first.
He supposed a picnic was afoOt until
his aunt explained that with the gay
Polynesians life was all a picnic. Pres
emily, with a wave of perfume a gar
land of white plumeria blossoms de-
scended on his shoulders, and he found
a comely native dansel with white
teeth and lustrous, laughing eyes re-
gaSding him with the frankest sort of
interest.
"What'd she do that for?" he said to
Miss Peters when he had thanked the
girl and passed on.
"Why, she likes your looks: that's
ALL"
ooh, does she? I'm obliged to her,
I'm sure. The girls are more apprecia-
tive here than in my country"
The little woman looked up at her
big nephew and smiled, thinking that
perhaps the girls were not so different
iy minded. She, too, liked the young
mans looks. He was a stAlwart fell
low, upward Of 200 in weight. 1t was
not without substantial reasons that
he had been center rush" on many
a hard fought field. Then he had a
broad brow and firm chin, and CHEEKY
good fellowship was in the steady,
honest eyes.
Osborne's chief inquiry remained an
satisfied for several days. His aunt
was a recluse, living apart in the midst
Of her overgrown grounds as in the
EMPOWERED, flower planted city alone
He found white men enough in all
shades of clothing, from white duck to
conventional black, but nowhere the |
typical missionary figure Moreover
along the avenues, where tamarinds
and algarobas make a mist of green
Through the treetOps and lordly palms |
Jn e l,
found he could not distinguish the man |
sion of the wealthy Hawaiian and |
half caste from that of the chief of the |
missionary offenders
One afternoon he reclined on a |
craggy spur Of the Koolau range. The !
greater submits were cloud hung, as |
usual, the lower fringes of the moist |
curtains reaching farther and farther |
down until every now and then they |
swept over the idle youth with a chill |
ing touch. More than ever, however, |
between their gray gates was the out |
look beautiful-the bird shaped city, !
reaching one green wing up the vale |
of Nuuanu and another out to the |
cocoa palms and seaside cottages of |
Waikiki; the stern, ruddy mass of
Diamond head, an old crater extend
Ing out into the sea like a titanic lion
couchant; the lovely violet and blue
Walanae peaks westward, with the in
ngo-lke Pearl lochs between, and the
long white sweep of the foaming reef
fringing the ocean.
He was aroused by the sound of
iron striking on rock not far away.
He looked around, but a cloud envel-
eped the ridge. In a moment it swept
over him also. Out of the heart of il
came again the sound of iron and
then Of heavy feet. He rose and went
back. He had just surmounted the
first of two Lodges Of rock when sud
denly through the fog a horse and
rider appeared on the second one. the
animal scrambling down timorously.
He had only time to see that it was a
white lady riding Hawaiian fashion
(astride) when, with a cry, rider and
saddle came sliding over the animals
name almost at his feet. He sprang
to her assistance, but it was some mo-
ments before he could untangle the
confused mass of saddle girths and
paus.