The San Francisco call., 1898-08-13

by an earlier steamer that the Queen had been i'll at Washington and again at San Francisco. The native imagina- tion was stirred to its depths of super stition and the homecoming of Kala- kaua was remembered; but although Liliuokalani is in i'll health and has put herself at once under the care of phy siciansI she greeted the faithful who gathered to welcome her in the flesh and held a reception to intimate friends and old retainers immediately on her arrival at her home in Washington Place
 The expected demonstration did not take place at the dock. The crowd, silent and gloomy. waited a full hour l for the Gaelic to come in, her stacks and rigging etched upon silver plain,
 her lights burning a dull, copperish yellow against the white splendor of the night. The moon was in full-that great white radiance of the tropics, un- known to northern skies, which casts its glory over land and sea. All things reflected it's beauty and mystery-the disorder of the dock, the peace of the
 waters. the surf curling on the coral reef, the great peaks breeding over
 
 through the endless summer years. The ships in the harbor lay like painted things upon the water, the trade wind dropped and died. while the tropic night seemed waiting in breathless peace. A group of natives, educated to the Roman faith, but unfOrgetful of the little, fateful fish. crossed themselves piously as T small boat put out toward the ship. It brought back the word that Liliuokalani was on board and well. The natives chattered softly among themselves, obviously relieved by the news. which was confirmed. before the l Gaelic was well in at the wharf, by the ! eX-Queen's secretary, a native gentle man of elaborate manner and resplen- ] dent clothes. He was recognized at the rail with a spasm of gaiety from the shore It was the only Joyous demon stration of the night, and short-lived at l that
 The ex-Queen's appearance on the 1 deck was met with profound silence
 As she came down the plank, leaning ! heavily on Governor Cleghorn's arm, | you could have heard the proVerbiaI pin drop on the dock. The stiffness was 1 infectious. Other passengers landing at Honolulu. and friends come to meet l them, and persons aboard the steamer 1 indifferent to the fate of this ex-king- | dom and its ex-Queen, or happily re- l joicing in the new American posses sions and quite on the other side of l things generally. stood mute and mo- l tionless, while the little file of the de- 1 feated passed them by; and suddenly | out of the strange stiffness In which even the night joined arose In a long.
 low, dreadful cry, gathering strength and syllables and frightful savage form
 until it reached a shuddering chant, | the voice of the waiting, the Oli-oli of the Melee, which Is sung. if such sounds may be called song, at all the ceremonies of Hawaiian royalty, to eel ebrate the joys or sorrows of the royal house; at births, at marriages, deaths feasts, dances, meetings and partings The effect of it tearing the stiffness of the night rising single-voiced from g. silent throng, was one to chill the blood and conjure visions of lost souls weeping between the worlds.
 The waller was a native woman old, black, wrinkled and withered. With lines ot mud-colored seeds and blossoms held about her throat and dropping from her bare. gray head, she danc as she waited or. rather, swayed and shuddered to the measure of the chant The moonlight fell upon her, q weird, barbaric figure, the white holiku falling emptily about