Show 11 I 1 ell 1 I i 4 5 11 iw w 2 mn Z V RM M 11 0 Z mg 5 I 1 Z K 4 1 nr im oz o Z n r 1 i P 11 1 HISTORY 1 OP OF AN I 1 EMU EMBLEM I 1 TO V amash MI 71 tw nid bid to do with it it la 18 l it t U a dha direct w defendant Desen dant of 69 another mac vh att 19 palau avria AU all histories hia tories that t are printed of the hawaiian Ha wallan republic tall fau to tell of the interesting story connected with the adoption of th the naz flae of if that oat country the incident hears bears not a little romance and shows shown in a way the ingenuity of the natives n a U v es the adoption of the emblem dates back about twenty five yea years when the country was still a monarchy and king kam kamehameha 11 was on the throne the country was continually visited by the wars warships hips of the different nations of the world and an d the ruler of the hawaiians Hawaii ans had a difficult time to keep his little land from being seized by some foreign power dower j the me story is handed down to posterity the exact date of the occur rence Is not known tho thorah gh it was in the year 1873 the king of the key k ey to the P pacific awoke 0 one ne morning to to find a french warship anchored safely in the harbor of honolulu he became alarmed at the prospect of a conquest and sent at 0 once nee tor for als akis prime minister he was advised by him to run up a flag and show the visitors vis igors that the country belonged to someone and not a no mans land to be pillaged at will by the first foreigners who came along the king heeding the advice cast about tor for a piece of bunting to represent his nation and fell upon an old brit british is h flag thisbe this he ha had d run up t to 0 the top of his highest flagpole the bunting had hardly time to unfurl itself to the breeze when one of the chief advisers to the king came running to him and told him that he would have to take the flag down as the first thing he be knew if he did not an english manof man of war that was expected at the island would arrive and the commander finding his nations colors flying over honolulu would take possession in the name of the queen this frightened kamehameha and he started another hunt for a flag this time the searchers unearthed an american emblem taking the two flags the ruler had them made into one the jack in the corner of the english emblem was left while the stripes of the american flag were added to it thus the hawaiian flag at first had thirteen stripes and a jack the same as the english the king when he had disposed of his french visitors had time to think over the matter it was decided that it would be better to have only eight stripes representing the eight islands of the nation the extra pieces were cut off ff leaving M the eight stripes with a white one on the top the jack still carries the st george cross the st andrews cross and the st patricks cross the same game as aa the english soon atter after the adap 1 tion of this flag the whites who had begun to settle on cm the island came more and more into power each year until as a result the monarchy was finally overthrown and the republic placed on a firm basis with white men at the head of the government the natives who are superstitious believe the change in power from the copper coppe r colored people to the whites t es is directly due to the fact that the white stripe is directly over the red in the flag they say that had the red been first the whites would never have gained toot foot bold on the island sufficient to warrant their taking the reins of the government in their hands As a result of this superstition the legislature of hawaii a scarcely ever meets but what some new bill to change the position of the stripes on the flag Is brought up UD the wisest wis est of the men among the natives are kept constantly at work on the drawing up of such measures and their members in the congress are ever busy trying to put the bills through the belief is that as soon as the order of the stripes is changed the red having the preference the copper colored natives will again ascend to power au and na have tun full sway away in the government fir X T american arms and I aes at a rural camp meeting recently the preacher who was leading the ser vices touched on the war with spain spa I 1 n and stopp stopping ing suddenly in his sermon bennon called to an old colored broth brother er in fa the congregation brer williams r im gwine aw ins ter ax you ter git right do down w on yo knees en pray fer er de success er do de american arms brier brer williams got down immediately and ancl in the course of hu bla petition he be sald said oh dawd hep de american arms arm an bawd whilst at yon lookin atter do de arns arms take keer er do de legs toor duiet forget do de liss legs good lad la d lease kase we gwine need emter em ruri wid take de arms ef yd must but spare spa re do de spare debeis de legs i anck 1 D T tp ea A anday school superintendent d ent pf af alma altnau 1 kan purchased burchai 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