The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-04-03
THE PASSING SHOW.
A QUIET SUNDAY AMONG THE
MILITARY.
The Efforts Of the Natives to Capture
Colonel Blount's Favor-Rumors
About the Streets.

tary department OF the Provisional
Government. At the barracks, the
regulars went about their duties as
usual, and at the Government Build
ing, Co. A of the National Guard was
stationed. There was no disturbance
in any quarter. The Portuguese troops
occupied the Palace and between guard
duty, hard pallets and foraging mos
quitoes had a rather hard time of it,
Lieutenant Colonel Fisher was in com.
mand.
The efforts of the Royalsts to make
friend of that staunch old Dem crat,
Colonel Blount, have taken every form
which the scope of Hawaiian cunning
and hospitality suggests. Since the
Rush arrived and the Commissioner
came ashore, Snow cottage has been
filled with leis and bouquets ard IN.
vitations to native entertainments. AT
the hotel dining room where the
Commissioner takes his meals, a care.
full arrangement of seats has been
made by that sagaClous and staunCh
Royaist, Colonel MaCfarlane, SO that
annexationists are seated as far as pos
sible from the Blount table and the
Queens friends as near as possible.
Two of the foreign correspondents
were banished to distant corner and
their places given to the British Min
lister. So far as the hotel management
could fix things the Commissioner is
pretty well hedged in with Royal en-
vronments.
The ex-Queen tried to get Col
Blount to take apartments in her house
but the Georgia statesman was much
too foxy for that. However, she has
got herself into position to know what
he is doing from day to day, and if one
is curious to watch departing Hawaii
an from Snow cottage one will see him
travel, as fast as his constitutional Ian
guor will permit, to the Dominis man
sion in Washington place.
All over town the native women have
been told to watch for the Commission.
er and hang leis about his neck. 1t is
as difficult for him to walk about now
and escape a ring of flowers as it would
be for lone buffalo to stalk through a
cowboy camp in Texas without being
caught by assoc. Saturday evening
Mr.. Blount and his Secretary, Mr.. Mills
went through Chinatown and when the
flower girls found it out they surround
ed both gentlemen and hung leis abou
them until their own wives woudn'
have known them. As quickly as they
could they got away in a hack, anc
some say that they strewed the route
back to the hotel with fragments of thu
floral offering.
The young Hawaiians are reported
to have made their plans to captur
the Commissioners secretary. They
don't intend to kahuna his cigars a
they did Mrs. Blount leis, but the
propose to give him as good a time a
he will take. In case the luau wi
catch him, luaus will be given as Ion
as there is quart of poi and a roastin
dog left in the Sandwich group; and il
by some halucinatlon he should lik
the hula, he will have a chance to Sc
it in all its pristine glory. In fact
Brother Mills yields to the tempter h
will be able to go home distended wit
food and in a state of eXhilaratlo
which the Washington peace Officer
would not recognize as anything the
had ever seen before.
John E. Bush went with a commi
tee the other day to present the resolr
tons framed at the mass meeting whiC
the three black crows addressedin PalaC
Square Bush tells about it in kd Lee
the paper which he used to howl
for annexation. He says that he toI
the Commissioner that the natives ha
confidence in the strict sense of justic
always shown by the American Peep
and that they were now ground dow
by men who wanted to possess the
country. If Bush is to be believe
Col Bount replied as llows
Gentlemen Bear in mind that that is c
actly the course Of America always. I
American people do not approve of any
their representatives personally interfering
the conduct of the government OF forei
countries
Rumors have been flying thick al
fast among the natives since Saturd
afternoon of some impending chang
1t was said that President Dole was
be banished, and that the Queen" W
to be restored this morning at te
Others said the old Cabinet would c
mand reinstatement. Nobody thong
to predict that Punchbowl would Won
lava, and that the neighboring S
would run dry, but that was becau
there was no political encourageme
to be found in such prophecies, a
not because the royalist imaginati
was unequal to the task.
Meanwhile Col. Blount really tie
nothing, No chloroformed oyster cot
be less garrulous than he. The ap
of polar berg could then as much
moonlight as do his sealed fountains
speech under the baffied sunshine
the interviewer, There is no NUM-
in Syrian tomb, hidden under a m
of sand, to whom appeals for inform
ton could not be as satisfactorily {
dressed. At the same time he can {