The San Francisco call., 1898-08-13
BY ALICE RlX.

TT ONOLULU, Aug. 2, via Victoria,
 B. C., Aug. 12.-A little after
 midnight the Gaelic was sighted * off Koko Head and Honolulu awakened slowly to whistles, telephone bells and messenger calls,
 cab wheels and the home coming of :: Ltliuokalani. 4 little party of royal : ists with hearts faithful to a lost cause made all the stir The rest of Homo lulu turned on it's pillows and slept :; again the sleep of peace and satisfied politics, undisturbed by melancholy :. dreams of a Queens home coming to the land no longer hers.
 : All this is for royalists and natives to. lie awake and to rise between small f hours. to sadly celebrate.
 .: It was believed the natives would .mak- some demonstration on the ar :. rival of the ex-Queen. Annexationists : are fond of saying that the hatchet is buried, that there are TO more royal : .ists: that the easy Hawaiian nature . has accepted the inevitable and in good .'time will cheer the alien flag and join fin the singing of America" out of
 sheer joy of cheering over anything. But in truth the native heart is full of
 bitterness and grief; there are royalists uunumbered and unsoothed by the Q pleasure of defeat; the hatchet is mere : 'fy fallen into powerless hands and whatever Time, good Time, may do for :. the Hawaiians, these little weeks have borne no obvious fruit
 4 large class of natives-those living :. on the other islands, the more childish
 and ignorant of these at Oahu-have
 not yet accepted the fact of annexa- ton. Years of convulsive politics have
 educated them gradually to an idea of . 'e,overnment as a series of shifting con- :. ditions in whose final happy adjust .: rnant their chiefs would necessarily :: have part and power. A forlorn hope sustained them that the home coming ; of Liliuokalani might turn destiny : aside. With the instinct of allegiance . to the chief deep-rooted in the race 1t is> hard for this people to realize the ~. uhimportance of a queen. From the better Informed of her people the cer- . .tainty and the sadness of her new fall from dignity have brought her a : boundless sympathy, in which her faults as queen are almost forgotten. .. I,iliuokalani ruled her people neither
 wisely nor well. Acording to the tra-
 ditiOns of a race accustomed to yield >obedience. to recognize the divine right of kings to rule, Queen whose obstin- : ate policy gained a republic for Ha- wall and lost Kaiulani a throne could ;. not be called good Queen. Friend -. and foe and the cold record of their
 hot disputes attribute to the mistakes
 of her reign the hastenin6 of the end.
 But in the hour of their common
 grief her people do not remind her of
 her responsibility in the common loss.
 There is no party feeling. There are
 no political interests to divide the sen
 timents of Hawaiians. It is the heart of Hawaiians that bleeds. Queen and
 conmoner mourn the fall of the Ha-
 waiian flag, and in touching tribute to .a: chief, in this day when chiefs must
 yield. the people set her sorrow before their own. Stripped of crown, throne, . dtgnities, title, prospects, she has the
 aloha of their hearts. Her name is spoken everywhere in love and pity and resnect. Her safe return was asked of heaven in two tongues and out of a great anxiety.
 The little red fish which herald mis- fortune to royalty have come in schools into Honolulu harbor since tie sailing oF the Gaelic from San Francisco. word has been sent from the other islands that the red fish have been seen about the harbors there. News came