The age-herald., 1898-01-29
PEN PICTURE OF
 PRESIDENT DOLE

president of the Hawaiian republic is six feet two inches in height He is about 60 years of age, but he has not taken on
 flesh. He is as trim as a man of 3O Hc
 is admirably proportioned-broad-sho
 ed deep-chested, thin-hanked and long of limb. One cannot help thinking in looking
 at him that such bone and sinew were
 wasted on the supreme bench A weak
 man can sit still and think as we'll as an- other Dole would have made an ideal ! ! head for boarding party. Properly trained, he could have attained interna- 1 tional reputation in the prize ring. He is, or rather has been, a giant of man, Twenty years ago his strength must haveT been enormous So far as physics go, he' is the biggest president the world ever saw. Spare of flesh as he is, he weighs
 more than 200 pounds.
 Those who knew him as a boy, youth and man tell many tales of his prowess. The Kanakas of undiluted race are finely proportioned and we'll grown, but Dole was swifter of foot than any man on the island. He handled without effort weights i that others could not stir. As a mountain
 climber he was unsurpassed. Like the na- tives of the little group that lies lonely but smiling in the heart of the Pacific, he
 was much at home in the water as on the land. As swimmer, diver and shark fighter, he held his own with the best of them. His skill in aquatics made him re-
 membered at Williams college, Massachu- setts, for many years He was supreme judge of the Hawaiian Islands, but his former college mates and those who came
 after him thought of him only as mighty
 swimmer, runner, climber, walker and fighter.
 The old Puritans bred big, raw-boned,
 hardy men, and Dole is of Puritan stock | undeflled His ancestors lived down New Bedford way, where they believe in Med- ford rum and true religion. He possesses the more salient characteristics of the Pu-
 ritan stock, modified by a long life spent in an easier cline and amid an easier peo- ple He is direct, positive, earnest per- sonaly abstemious, grave of demeanor,
 with little sense of humor, with tenden- cy to estimate observance above the thing observed; very straightforward, very
 moral very honest and very reverent. He has lost the Puritan desire to force others to his way of thinking. He is not in any
 sense missionary, or an evangelist, or an exhorter.
 He is a handsome men even now. Un- dersized cynics say that avoirdupois is all ways more potent with the other sex than brain and there may be something in it.
 Dole had both the size and the brain.
 His features are regular and well molded, his head is rather long, but well shaped; his eyes are a soft, lustrous dark brown.
 
 could never have been the loving and vol-
 canieally remorseful Laneelot or the mer- rily testing Gawane, or Tristan of the fiery heart and conscienceless desire; but he could have been Arthur, who was hand- some and good and, with 1t all, something of a prig. It is Charles Reade who in one of his lesser stories, "The Jilt' makes his heroine faithless, charmed from her equpose by a magnificent beard which belonged to a man who should not have unn nor sphere of influence of that torrent of hair. she was powerless. Dole's beard is splen- did It is silken and brown slightly tinged with gray and pours over his breast in | masses
 With all of his personality, however, his reposeful manner and suggestion of latent force, one cannot talk to the Hawaiian president without realizing that he was not, is not and can never be the real leader of the revolution and the forces which maintain the present form of government. | He has the judicial, not the active mind. He can plan, but is not of the kind which executes. All of his previous life had un- | fitted him to be the man to strike the de- cisive blow. He was the of a school teacher and was educated in this country. where a respect for the established order of things was ground into him. He was lawyer until called to the bench, and was on the bench until a short time pre- vious to Liliuokalani's overthrow. He was made president because of his lifelong reputation for an unswervable rectitude. No man could say aught against him. He was a representative of the purer and bet ter life of Honolulu. He was known also to possess some administrative ability. He was, in the vernacular' of politics in this country, ''safe man. Therefore he was honored and made famous. The deus machina, the organizer, the dominant spirit of that surprising and well-night bloodess emeute was Thurston. subsequently, Hawaiian minister to tho United States and not now connected with | its government in any official capacity. Thurston conferred with other members of the American colony. Thurston pointed out the immediate necessity for a changd of government Thurston selected theif meeting places. Thurston drilled them. Thurston laid out the diagram from the movement down to the minutest detail. Thurston called Dole to the head of the plotters and explained why 1t was necesl sary. Thurston gave the signal was himI self in the thick of the fray and saw the utter success of his boldness and craft. One day he had been a conspirator with his head in jeopardy The next he was the savior of his country.
 This under-the-surface feature of the Hawaiian revolution is well known to the chief actors in it, and is often discussed among themselves. The difference be-
 
 man of law and the other Is a fighter. They are both admirable in their spheres, and both found their spheres. The placing of Dole at the head of the revolution was the wisest thing that could have been done, He had no enemies; Thurston had many. He had no detractors; Thurston had mora than a few He has fulfilled to the ut- most all expectations. Thurston is satis- fled.
 Mr. Dole was not elected president as many suppose. He was proclaimed presi- dent, and the proclamation was ratified by the "Amercan party" By the Hawaiian constitution he holds office for six years. His term expires at 12 o'clock midnight. Dec 31, 1900. If annexation fails Thurs. ton. 1t is thought, will be the next presiS dent of the islands
 THE HAWTHORN AND THE VINE. From Youth and Home.
 Once a monarch, fond of wine, Owned @ hawthorn tree, And upon it grew a vine n fine SGrhf