News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-09

fortunes seem IN nowlSe to have sad
dened her. She spoke freely of the
brightness of life to any one disposed to
meet all obligations, and at my sugges-
tion that we found in life chiefly what
we look for, and if we look for flowers
we find flowers, and ii we look for
thorns we find thorns, she remarked
81 have found in the path of life chiefly
flowers. l do not see how any one sur
rounded by as many blessings as many
of us possess could be so ungrateful as
to complain" She said it was some
thing to be remembered thankfully that
for 30 years there was no revolution in
the islands. She has full faith that the
provisional government is only tenn
porary affair, and that she will again
occupy the throne.
She asked her servant to show me, as
something had not seen before royal
!adornment made up from the small bird
with large name-the Melithreptes pa
cifica. This bird, had read, had under
its wing single feather of very exqui-
site color. The queen corrected my in
formation by saying that it was not
single feather, but tuft of feathers
from under the wing of the bird from
which the adornment was fashioned in
to chain of beauty for the neck. She
spoke of her visit to New York, but said
that prolonged illness hindered her from
seeing much of the city. She talked
freely and intelligently ON many sub
jects pertaining to the present and the
future.
was delighted with her appearance
and manner and do not believe one word
of the wretched stuff that has been writ
ten concerning her immoralities. Def
,amation is SO easy, and there is so
much cynicism abroad, which would
rather believe evil than good, that it is
not to be thought strange that this
queen, like all the other rulers of the
earth, has been beaten with storms of
Obloquy and misrepresentation. George
Washington was called by Tom Paine
lying impostor. Thomas Jefferson was
styled an infidel, and since those times
we are said to have had in the United
States presidency bloodthirsty man,
drunkard and at least two libertines,
and if anybody in prominent place and
effective work has escaped "let him
speak, for him have offended " After
an exchange of autographs on that day
in Honolulu we parted
President Dole Greets His Guest.
AT l o'clock Chief Justice Judd came
to the hotel with his carriage to take us
to the mansion of President Dole. 1t
was only minute after our entrance
when the president and his accomplish
ed and brilliant lady appeared, with q
cordially of welcome that made us feel
much at home. The president is pro-
nounced Christian man, deeply interest
ed in all religious affairs as we'll as secu-
lar. his private life beyond criticism,
honored by both political parties, tai
ented, urbane. attractive strong and fit
for any position where oonscientiousness
and culture and downright earnestness
are requisites
1t was to me a matter Cf surprise that
at time when politics are redhot in
the Hawaiian Islands. and President
Dole is very positive in his opinions on
all subjects, heard not one word Of
bitterness spoken against him. Hawai-
ians and foreigners are alike his eulo-
gists. When l referred to the tremen-
dous questions he and his associates
had on hand, he said it was remarkable
how many of the busy men of these is
lands were willing to give so much of
their time, free of all charge, to the
business of the new government and
from what he believed to be patriotic
and Christian motives. The president
is graduate of Williams college, Mas.
sachusetts, and when I asked him If
his opinion of President Hopkins of
that college was as elevated as that of
President Garfield be replied: eyes, /
think, as Garfield did, that to sit on one
end of log, with President Hopkins
on the other, and talk with him ON liter
AIRY matters would be something like q
liberal education.
The presidents wife is a charm Of
loveliness and is an artist withal. Her
walls are partly decorated with her pen
Gil And, though under her protest, as
though the room was unworthy Of q
visit, Chief Justice Judd took me to her
studio, where she passes much Of her