Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-05-23

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Carriage of Chief Mourner,
Carriage of His Majesty
His Majes,y's Staff
Carriage OF Her Royal Highness Princess
Liliuokalani
Carriage OF Her Royal Hig hness Princess
Likelike
Carriage Of Her Royal Highness Princess
Pomaikelani
The Chancellor
His Majestys Ministers
Diplomatic Corps
Captain and Officers II. |. r. NJ. S. Djighitt
Members Of the House OF Mobiles
Judges of the Supreme Court
Privy Councillors
Circuit Judges
Postmaster General
Governor OF Oahu Jail
Sheriffs of the Different Islands
Clerks Of Government Departments
Custom House Officers and Officers of the
Customs
Members Of the Bar
Foreign Residents
Hawaiian Population Generally.
Along the line of march doors,
windows and sidewalks were filed with
spectators The funeral guns pealed
solemnly and constantly from the pre-
cipitious sides of Punchbowl hill. 1t
was heterogeneous crowd that
watched royalty faring to the dread
metropolis. Chinese faces, passionless
Hawaiian faces, forlorn with sympathy
and sad with tears; foreign faces, ,peering
from the four corners Of the earth, idle,
curious, some showing pity, most in
different,-all stared at the sad cortege
which death had prepared.
The pageant was unique it was the
blending of savage rites aad customs
with the tinsel and insincerity of civiliza-
ton. Such funeral procession can
be seen but in one place on earth-in
Hawaii The kahilis, gorgeous and
swaying, wonderful combinations Of
colors, beautiful symbols of ugly death !;
the military, with slow measured tread,
arms reversed, representing detach-
ments from the frozen steppes of the
north, from the hills and valleys of the
new empire of man whence freedom
lights the world, and from the indolent
tribes Of mid ocean. The bands played
alternately and sadly, dirges, solemn
tunes without hope, notes Of death. She,
who had so often led the dance and had
hidden her subjects be merry, now
led them weeping to the tomb.
1t is needless to recount the pity and
devotion Of the long lines Of Hawaiian
men and women, nay, even children,
that followed their beloved queen with
weeping and wailing to the gateway OF
the somber land ; it is needless to cata-
logue the trappings Of death and num-
Der the emblems Of personal mourning,
may it is needless, for the outside
world could not appreciate, not under
standing the depth and simplicity of
the Hawaiian nature, and We who
knew this right royal queen need no
vain combinations Of sounds and letters
to portray our feelings and express our
sympathies.
AS the day declined they laid her
within the shadows Of the tomb.
Around the mausoleum, which over
looks the capitol city, embowered in
greenery within the sound OF the sum
mer sea, gathered great crowd, such
perchance as followed the scriptural pa
triarchs to death. At last it was finished
and volleys Of muskety announced tina,
all was over save the grief Of those who
loved her in life and mourned her in
death. The drums heat a prolonged
roll the procession turned homeward
the quick firm tread Of the living left
the cerement for the Ilume the kahilis
seemed to dance in the last rays OF the
sun-no longer emblsms Of death ; the
troops marched with opened ranks
balancing their guns ily-they ever
joked and laughed. That wonderful
} thing, the human heart always turns
! gladly from sorrow to the joys Of life
I'VE printed las, week an article from
the commercial columns Of the Sal
! Francisco Bulletin. We hope our read
! en read il carefully. 1, shows tha
there is great rivalry among jobbers, s.
that the retailers get their sugars OF
most favorable terms Yet--unlil re
Gently sugars have been much deare
: in San Francisco than IN New Yo.l
The reason--as any one may easily d.
,ermine by brief analysis Of the fac:
. has been that Claus Spreckeis, b
! working his monopoly mill to its VI
J most speed, has kept the price G
: sugars high, and has made the enoI
0 nous profit that enabled him to bull
n his enormous refinery. The American
! in the sugar industry here have profte
4 BY the American reciprocity treaty
. but in spite Of. no, because oi. III
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