The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
TRIBUTE TO raE
LATE PRINCESS.

death? Nonsense" holly asserted
Colonel Macfarlane. the Kind OF ex-
sggerated rumor, based on native ira
dition, that always gets afoat when a
royal parsonage dies. Yes, | know the
things that were whispered when her
mother, Princess Likelike, died. and
though there was probably no truth in
current reports they undoubtedly had
some justification in the doings of old
er days.
Many a great chief has been prayed
to death by witch kahunas, with the |
aid of certain subtle poisons of which
they knew the secret; decoction OF
dried fern tips, for instance, is sup
posed to have deadly effect without
leaving any trace. At any rate there
was no medical analysis In those times.
But Kaiulanl:-"
The colonel suddenly breaks off with
a culver in his voice.
"Kaiulani," he continues, impress
sively, after a moments silence, was
adored by her people; her death Is the
greatest blow that could have befallen
them; with her their last hopes are
buried. There is not a native in the
islands who could have wished to COM
pass that sweet girls DEATH"
Then 1t is not true that some OF
them resented her attitude toward an
nexation?"
The colonel sits up theoretically:
Every one admired her attitude;
they could not do otherwise. Her dig
nifty, her pathetic resignation, her
go 80, - e.. hor nu,at s,eadf.st
s,,,,na,bv u,,th their woe her uncom-
,iaipina endurance NJ nor own. the
whi,os odmired her for her stately re-
sor,,a bar ,uaoniv disn,av Of all neces-
sarv oour,esv while holding herself
oIoof from ali undue intimacy. All
49, a,traotoJ nv nor sweetness and
araoo. ., n,,s im,ossibIe NO, To love
har
uor. ,ho sneaker b,eaks off again.
o,tnh;n. bis breath All San FRANCISCO
Lnows Coio,e, Nacfarlane, ex-Oueen
7 iiiunr aIani's confidentiaI adviser and
ranresantative. the suaye man of the
; world
"Her photographs give YOU but a
=, faint idea ~ what she really was" he
ads nresentIv 'sNo photograph could
; indicata her graceful winsomeness
Though she could not afford to dress a
!, /, became her rank. she always looked
.vuuisitpIv dressed. People used TO say
rbat ~ she got hold of a few wards OF
material and wound them about hel
sha wnuId contrive 10 look fashionably
attired She had the dignity OF an
English aristocrat and the grace of 9
creole II Is not the case that she wa:
, a three-uuarter caste: she was pur,
Ihalf-caste wholly native on her moth
er's side. But her early seclusion ant
S her English training had made her diff
e ferent from Others and she was tho
J. loughlv English in her ideas and ambi
. lions. She had not a trace of nativ
y superstition left.
J. "As for being afraid of death. tn
It moor girl did not even suspect her dan
d ger: none of us did"
"Except the doctors?"
, NO. not the doctors till the YER
a last. one Of them. indeed. was YER
"a Ineryous. and he must have confided hi
, fears tn some newspaper man. who sen
a the report on tn San Francisco. Blu
% Iour friend DIR. Walters. who fought 70
~ her life as he would for his own. VIII
: mourned his patient as he woul,
:, mourn his child never gave IN hon
:. until The last. Had | had any though
> that her DAYS were numbered woul
"a have begged for a short interview 4
: gain some idea of her diving wishes
# but even ON the last day DR., Walter
had NOT given nm hone: he was onl,
desnerately anxious, You see the
knew II the heart were not attacked
they could save her. but the heart wa
/. her weak organ. had been for som
wears and of course the disease foun,
y il out. then all was over"
and the heart weakness was in
n herited 81
= "The heart weakness" said the colo
!, mel slowly. Twas the result of shock
- the direct consequences of the blow
u that struck the younp girl Of scarce l,
Is when a cablepram announced that he
n nromised kingdom had been wrenche,
"A away from her. II was utterly imam
a ticinated ana sbe never cot over I,
Al TilI then she had taken LITTLE notice n
"a the politics Of the bour. all her ener
"A gies had been concentrated on study
"a on qualifying for the oueen1y role sb
10 was TO assume upon her aunt,s demise
% she aspired 10 he n model oueen wifi