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Show TAHITI PESTERED WITH WORKERS Dissemination of False Reports Re-ports Held Responsible PAPEETE. Tahiti, March 10. Dissemination Dis-semination of literature about Tahiti and the neighboring islands, falsely picturing them aa t'toplas of unbridled license and no work. Is bearing fruit In the arrival here of neople of little or no resources who, t is predicted, soon will te bothering their respective J cunsuls for help. Wont of the writings stout Tahiti j srt pleasant rr-aHng for one who, would spend a winter evening by a gas log fire and allow his imagination' to ramhle on a holiday. It is for these j people that the books and articles are i written. I But the reader mho takes the writings writ-ings seriously fares d nappolnt m nt when he spends several hundred dol- ; lars to get to a place wh-rr. accord- . ing to the book, a golden brown I maiden, possessed of bruai acres of rich cocoanut lands, will gather him , to her bosom and fish and cook for , him while he rwlin'es In the coot shad- , in silk pi iumus. M n arn i here wit hout funds are. In the lunguage of the fn.andn. "on -the beach" and must depend upon some chance elilp offering the.n opportunity to work passage to Home other point. for the Tahitlan native, afier 150 y-a:s acquaintance with the white man. h.i ; formed an opinion in regard to tht ! majestic being that would not look well in print. The hospitality of the natives has been so abused In the pat that now only sound coin buys his favors. fa-vors. To characterize ths Islands as sinks of debaucherv is not in accord with' the facts. The ia!an1 are beautiful and romantic and being In constant j communication with the outer world by wireless and steamer sre well informed in-formed and civilized. The trading companies are thoroughly organised on modern linen and economic condition condi-tion m offer little opportunity to the oii'stdr -'"' I s |