The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-01-30

sort. To reach Sans Souci had only
to take the Waikiki street car, go to
the end of the line and walk the rest
of the way. The ride is a pleasant one,
and we'll worth the time and ten cents
it costs to make it. 1t was about two
O'Clock in the afternoon when boarded
the car driven my native and went
rolling along the street past the gov
eminent grounds and buildings, past
pretty houses half hidden by graceful
swaying palms, ferns, and the rich
tropical foliage, past banana planta-
tions and groves of tall cocoanuts, for
long stretches with the sea beach on
one side and delightful grove on the
other.
The manager of the famous resort
showed me the room which had been
occupied by Jules Verne and Robert
Louis Stevenson, also the tables at
which they wrote, and narrated some
anecdotes about them. Their rooms
fronted on the beach. After a sea
bath, l returned to the cool lama, and
was joined by Mr.. Thomas E. Evans,
a gentleman who is stopping at Sans
Souci. Mr.. Evans, who is Royalist
of the most pronounced type, is a
Canadian by birth. He was promi-
nent in pushing the lottery scheme to
which the missionaries objected so
strongly. Nj. Evans claims that it was
no worse to have lottery on the
Islands than for thousands of dollars
to 60 out of the country every year to
lotteries in other count, les. At the
time OF the overthrow of the Queen,
he was in Chicago closing up the con-
tract with company of capitalists for
the lottery. He says that the Chicago
people were to pay the government
FIVE hundred thousand dollars a year
for twenty-five years for the franchise.
OF this sum one hundred thousand a
year was to be expended for cable to
San Francisco, one hundred thousand
year for the Oahu Railroad, twenty-five
thousand for the encouragement of
tourists travel, seventy-fve thousand
for improvement of roads and bridges,
and one hundred and twenty-five
thousand for the opening of Pearl
Harbor. Mr.. Evans did not state
what was to be done with the other
seventy-five thousand dollars, though
it was probably to be used as pin
money for the Queen. The rosy hued
vision Of Mr.. Evans with other Royal
ist: were all dissipated by the sudden
revolt of the missionary element, and
the subsequent overthrow Of the queen.
The Royalists are still very bitter
against the Republic. They always
refer to it con,emptuously as the Pro-
visioual Government, and the adher-
ents OF it are styled P. G.. S. But they
all have great respect for President
Dole. I have met more than one who
says the country is safe in his hands
The natives all respect him, but they
want him to be declared King. 1t is
not the man they object to, so much
as the Republican form of govern
ment.
All of the more intelligent Royal
lists however, admit that the Republic
has come to stay, and even the Queen
has lost all hope of being restored to
the throne, unless Great Britain or
some EuroI can power espouses her
cause; which evvl she admits is not
probable.
| have been informed that Mr..
Charles Wilson, the agent and trusted
friend of the ex-Qeen, has declared
that he is willing to shoulder his mus
ket to support the Republic. He was
the ex Queens bravest friend in hour
of trouble. He advised her against
the promulgation of the constitution
which brought about to overthrow, but
when he found she was determined,
he declared he would stand or fall with
her. When the uprising came, he was
the only one of her followers willing to
fight the revolutionists. The average
Kanaka doesn't care fig about any
sort of government. His mind is
taken up with luans, hulas, and fishing
TO him life presents no serious prob
lens. He devotes more energy to a
fishing party than to political mat
ters
The sun was setting when left Sans
Souci, and it was nearly dark by the
time | reached the street Car line. No
car was in sight, and | was told that
it would be fifteen minutes before an
other would come along. J walked
about two hundred PAGES further down
the track TO where a Chinaman has
erected and fitted up small shop and
restaurant, and took up a seat on the
bench under his awning. The shop
. keeper, a man we'll along in years,
whose queue is turning gray, came Out
to keep me company. On learning
was from New York, he tried to scrape
up an acquaintance. He had once
conducted laundry in that city. and
thought the Brooklyn bridge was the
most magnificent structure in the
world. He was more sociable than
most Cinnamon, and talked very freel,
of the customs and habits of his coun
trymen. He said they had only worn
queues for the last three hundred years
The queue was not religious badge
but a fad Of their Emperor. He hac
been to China nine times since his frs
arrival. Like most Cinnamon he hat
wife and children in China and one
in this country, this, he explained, as ;
matter OF economy. 1t twas much easie
to support family in each countr.
than to be constantly Transporting ;
family from one land to the other
The average Chinaman remains in thi
country from three TO seven years an.
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