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Show W&ere Are You, Now ? King Kalakaua is a brick of a man, and wont go back on a friend When his majesty passed Ogden, his supposed Salt Lake cousin went up to meet his royal relative, but the latter declined seeing the claimant, and with the immortal remark, "give him a dollar and let him go," dismissed the subject from his thoughts. We published the Ogden affair as an item of current news, but still the pretending pretend-ing cousin persisted in asserting that royal blood coursed through his veins; that he was indeed a chip off the same block from which the king was hewn; and he even went so far as to endeavor to cast a shade of doubt on the Herald's report of the scene at the junction city. But now Kalakaua Kalak-aua comes to the front. He denounces de-nounces the Salt Laker as a base pretender, pre-tender, and confirms all that we said about the couBin being no cousin at ..II An "Intnruipwpr" nf tllR kinff has the following to say in the New York Herald of the 26th ult., in regard re-gard to the Btory of his majesty's parentage: It has been stated that King Kalakaua is the son of an Americau from Massachusetts, who married a native woman of the Hawaiian islands, and afterwards returned to ibe United States, having tired of his iBland life. Some papers have even gone so far as to say that bis majesty has made arrangements to visit his father's family in the Bay state. He contradictd emphatically this Btory. The king is unmixed Hawaiian blood, and the story of his American ancestry can be explained by the following statement: When this Americau sailor arrived at t he ishud ho married a native woman, who bore him a son. Tne child was christened Kalakua, not Kalakaua, and from this similarity of names has arisen tnis very romantic but utterly untrue story. After this royal explanation the Salt Lake cousin ought to take a back seat, and say no more about his " blood." His real cousin is probably on tho island, having a good time with the common herd, but it U scarcely possible our fellow townsmen, late of Massachuse U, will institute an inquiry lo disciver hia relative, when he knows his " blood is muddy, and his hair doth kink." |