300 SPARKS FROM A GEOLOGIST'S HAMMER. 



of the Kewahwenaw method to the suppression of men 

 with hammers, that it will be readily understood how 

 great is its utility in extinguishing brainy pretenders in 

 other fields of aspiration. There are always persons who 

 think themselves qualified for positions of responsibility, 

 but who are totally deficient in that tact, alertness, cun- 

 ning, bluff and brass which are the true qualifications 

 for getting into position. Brainy people, moreover, have 

 the vanity to think their services more valuable than those 

 of bullet-heads and plumbiputs. Their pay-day has ar- 

 rived. We have banished them from many judicial po- 

 sitions, and put men in their places who are content 

 without robbing the people with extravagant salaries. 

 We have generally secured cheap ferule-men and women 

 to train our youth in the curricula; and even the high 

 trainers in the grand currus, who style themselves proffy- 

 sawers, are given traveling-papers in Kewahwenaw when- 

 ever their aspirations rise above fair Kewahwenaw mod- 

 eration. We are aiming to crush out the whole breed 

 of so-styled " experts." In a country like Maui all men 

 are truly equal; and the person who sets himself up as 

 superior to his fellow-men in any respect is immediately 

 taken down and packed away in a row with his fellow- 

 citizens, or banished from the country. There is nothing 

 more beautiful than a civil society in which all men 

 possess exactly equal power and privileges, and are recog- 

 nized as equally qualified for all duties, and all, conse- 

 quently, receive the same compensation for services, a 

 community which is not preyed upon by an over-cere- 

 brated aristocracy, and in which the ancient superstition 

 of special competency for any duty is a by-word and a 

 joke. 



