Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-06
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.

fortunes seem III nOW1Se 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-
ton 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. I 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 so 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 I had not seen before, a royal
adornment made up from the small bird
with large name-the Melithreptes pa
cifica This bird, had read, had under
it's wing a single feather of very exqui-
site color. The queen corrected my in
formation by saying that it was not a
single feather, but a 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.
I 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 tie
earth, has been beaten with storms OF
obloquy and misrepresentation. George
Washington was called by Tom Paine ii
lying impostor Thomas Jefferson WIS
styled an infdel, and since those times
we are said to have had i'll the United
States presidency bloodthirsty man,
a drunkard and at least two ibertines,
and if anybody in prominent place ;asid
effective work has escaped ''let him
speak, for him have 1 offended. - After
an exchange Of autographs on that Gay
in Honolulu we parted.
President Dole Greets His Guest.
At 1 o'clock Chief Justice Judd came
to the hotel with his carriage to take us
to the mansion Of President Dole It
was only minute after our entrance
when the president and his accomplish
ed and brilliant lady appeared, with a
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 pa3ties, tai
ented, urbane. attractive strong and fit
for any position where conscientiousness
and culture and downright earnestness
are requisites.
1t was to me matter Of surprise that
at a time when politics are redhot i'll
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 e11lo-
gists. When I referred to the tremeI-
dous questions he and his associates |
had on hand. he said it was remarkat,io
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
Ind Christian motives. The president
is graduate of Williams college, Mas
sachuSetts, and when [ asked him If
his opinion of President Hopkins Of
that college was as elevated as that IF
President Garfield he replied: Eyes. /
think, as Garfield did, that to sit on one
end of a log, with President Hopkins
pm the other, and talk with him on liter
ary matters would be something like
liberal education. +"
The PRESIDENT wife is a charm q
loneliness and is an artist withal Her
walls are partly decorated with her pen
ill 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