The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-17

remain here in my home where you know can hear everything; the guns, the music of the band, the cheering. I could do that. do not think everyone could"
 q am sure, indeed" I answered, truthfully, hardly anyone could. I thought perhaps you would go away into the country"
 I.iliuokalani raised her brows.
 why? I came here to be near my people-to show them how to meet this. It has come upon us together-you un- derstand? Together I am not alone. My people lose their country; they lose their identity. Should I run away and shut my eyes and my ears when so many of them had to remain here in their homes? My house also is here, in Honolulu. It gives us all courage to think of others. I remember my people this day and they remember me. We bore our trouble together. I did not leave my house. I receive no visitors. | I instructed my household to pass this | day as we pass all our days, as if noth- | ing happened to us-nothing at all.
 
 | not so? I ordered that the duties of my house be attended to as usual. permitted no one to speak to me of this"-she hesitated-"of this matter. did not permit myself to think of it. Can you believe that? It is true. ig- nored''
 There was a short, pregnant pause I knew, as one sometimes knows un- | spoken thoughts, that her own move- ments on this fateful day were pass ing through her mind in swift review. The lines about her mouth deepened, her eyes were sad and far. Her wo- men, watching her. wept solely among | themselves. There were no tears in Li- liuokalanis eyes. But I think she Is one to weep in the heart. When she spake 1t was to go on quite naturally with her thought.
 II made up my mind that I must be brave, and to be brave I knew I must be busy. For the morning l went to my desk and sorted over all my let ters. They have accumulated during my absence, and it is a task have put off for a good moment. This day." Li- liuokalani smiled bitterly, gave me that good moment I wrote several letters and then I put my mind upon my book I am writing my third book "a work on the Hawaiian islands. There are any of the old words which are passing out of use-many now quite obsolete; and yet their origin is inter- esting and full of suggestion concern ing the manners and customs of our people before-you know, in other days. I have already written one book on the Hawaiian music and that will be inval- uable, I hope, to those interested in such subjects. I have managed to put upon paper the peculiar musical phras- es of the melees even the oli-olf; that is the gurglng sound our melee sing CTS use in wailing or chanting. It was very baffiing task, but l wanted to preserve the music of my country. That was all So I wrote and revised and planned and kept my mind on other things. It was while looking through my letters that'-the queen paused "A few of my friends were here-my close friends-my attendants. They were weeping about me It was not for me to weep. We heard--you know-eyerything I spoke of other things-I do not remember now of what, and it matters very little-and then I went on looking over my let ters.''
 The little court at the end of the room sobbed audibly. A trio of voices rose from the shadow of the palms, singing the plaintive native music, which is forever sounding in the queens gar dens. She sat, listening quietly to the sobbing and the singing. Her command was admirable.
 Did you send any protest?' I asked , when the song was ended; that is, did you send one to Washington"
 ITO Washington? To Washington? Have not exhausted Washington? To whom would I make protest? Your government Is government of many by many" and this daughter of a race which has one supreme and suffi- cient chief shut her eyes derisively When an appeal reaches the last O
 your governors, 1t has had time to be forgotten by the first My people sent their protest. That is as it should be-
 but as for mel have written enougf for the waste paper baskets, of Wash.
 ington.''
 q thought" I said suggestively
 that you might have some idea of go f ing to Washington when congress meets in December, to make a.persona
 appeal"
 Liliuokalani shook her hear. e have" she said, mo such idea. have no such ideas at al just nolw. shall i've here, I believe. I worked yer, hard for my people, for my country for my cause, while I was away in
 foreign land, as you know, I worked il vain. l have returned here to take III
 the life l have lived before l wen away; life of retirement among m.
 friends, my books, my thoughts. I an
 now, more than ever, woan in privat D life. ."-San Francisco Call.
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