The herald., 1897-08-17
QUEEN ILLS GUARDIAN
JULIUS A. PALMER, A SAILOR
AND A GENIUS
Created Talk by His Queer Dress and
Mushroom Hunting-Wore High
Water Pants

Julius A. Palmer, the Boston genius,
who, as special representative and pro-
tector of Liliuokalani, ex-queen OF
Hawaii, is short man with a big
head, a smOtth face, keen eyes, hair
almost white and voice that suggests
partial deafness. His manner is cour-
teous, his method of pronouncing the
words 1.-The queen" impressive, and his
reticence concerning the dusky ex-mon-
arch's future movements superb. He
says he doesn't know what she will do
next, and there is strong proba bility
that he is telling the whole truth.
Though he would not attract attention
because of imposing size or majestic
bearing, Mr.. Palmer, just now at least,
would be noticed anywhere on the
streets in crowd. In this hot weather
he wears a 6iuck suit of Immaculate
white, adorned with brilliantly polished
buttons of brass. His collar stud is as
large as his coat buttons; it contains a
huge sparkler, and his neckwear is so
arranged that the sparklers rays are
at all times Visible.
Mr.. Palmer always has been an out
of-th ordinary individual. He was born
near Boston, and his family is one of
the Oldest and best-known in the Bay
state. A brother, George H. Palmer,
is a professor al Harvard, and another
brother is in business in this city.
WENT TO SEA EARLY
julius A went to sea at an early
age, and soon worked his way up from
the comparatively low level of his earli-
est services to be first mate, and then
got to be captain of a sailing vessel
trading in different parts of the world,
after which he made number of prof
liable voyages, the proceeds of which
enabled him to retire from seafaring
years ago. He is still registered sea-
captain, however, and possesses GER
tificate from the proper United States
marine authorities in Boston that he is
competent to navigate steam vessels
on either the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.
He thinks President Dole would have
run him out of the islands except for
this certificate. Long before he aban-
doned the profession of sailoring he
showed an aptitude for literary compo-
eition. His earliest works are all short
stories, but after he left the sea he put
out book entitled zone Voyage"
which was decidedly successful, as far
as sales go.
Besides his short stories and his book
Mr.. Palmer wrote a great many news
paper articles, mostly treating on the
curious parts of the world he had visited
and the people that dwell therein, and
these were so we'll done that his work
was always popular in the office of the
Boston Transcript. 1t was because OF
his standing there that he was sent K
Hawaii to write up the situation there
for the Transcript, and later for the New
York Evening Post. His employers be-
ing in favor of the native government
and against annexation, his own sym
pathies We're enlisted in that direction
and he naturally became persona grats
with the deposed queen.
ABOUT HAWAII AND MUSHROOMS
But Mr. Palmer's most notable achieve.
ments from his own point of view were
neither journalistic nor diplomatic. He
was the first man in the United States
seriously to take up the study of mush-
rooms, and he is proud of that. He hao
learned abroad of the excellent qualities
of these growths, and and it grieved him
that his countrymen, with millions or
millions of nutritious, delicious mush-
rooms maturing every day all about
them, had not the sense and thrift tC
pluck and eat. AS his studies of Ameri-
can mushrooms continued his grief in
creased, and he began to write about
them. Many columns of newspaper ar
ticles and several books were thus pro-
duced. One of the varieties that greatly
interested him in his mushroom days was
I, tol~ -, =
tree for it's growing ylace. He found