The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-17
TRIBUTE TO TIE
LATE PRINCESS.

"a. R. Rose-Saley in the Sunday CalD.
The Princess Kaiulani prayed to
death? Nonsense holly asserted
Colonel Macfarlane, the kind of ex-
aggerated rumor, based on native ira
dition, that always gets afioat when a
royal parsonage dies. Yes, l 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 great chief has been prayed
to death by witch kahunas, with the
aid of certain subtle poisons OF which
they knew the secret; a decoction OF
dried fern tips, for instance, is sup
posed to have deadly effect without
leaving any trace. At any rate there
But Kaiulani:-"
The colonel suddenly breaks off with
a culver in his voice.
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 native in the
islands who could have wished to COM
pass that sweet girls DEATH
'"Then it 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
silent sorrow, appealed to all. The ma
tives loved her for her quiet, steadfast
sympathy with their woe, her uncom-
planning endurance of her own; the
whites admired her for her stately re-
serve, her queenly display of all neces-
sary courtesy, while holding herself
aloof from all undue intimacy. All
were attracted by her sweetness and
grace; it was impossible not to love
her"
Here the speaker breaks off again,
catching his breath. All San Francisco
knows Colonel Macfarlane, eX-Queen
Liliuokalani's confidential adviser and
representative; the suave man OF the
world.
Her photographs give you but a
faint idea of what she really was" he
adds. presently mo photograph could
indicate her graceful winsomeness.
Though she could not afford to dress as
became her rank, she always looked
exquisitely dressed. People used to say
that if she got hold of few yards OF
material and wound them about her
she would contrive to look fashionably
attired. She had the dignity or an
English aristocrat and the grace of a
creole It is not the case that she was
a three-Quarter caste; she was pure
half-caste, wholly native on her moth
er's side. But her early seclusion and
her English training had made her diff
ferent from others, and she was tho
oughly English in her ideas and ambi-
tons She had not q trace of native
superstition left.
'.As for being afraid of death, the
poor girl did not even suspect her dan
ger; meme OF us did
Except the doctors?''
NO, not the doctors till the very
last; one of them, indeed, was very
nervous, and he must have confided his
fears to some newspaper man, who sent
the report on to San Francisco. But
our friend DR.. Walters, who fought foI
her life as he would for his own, who
mourned his patient as he would
mourn his child, never gave UP hope
until the last. Had l had any thought
that her days were numbered | would
have begged for short interview to
gain some idea of her dying wishes;
but even on the last day DR.. Walters
had not given up hope: he was only
4 Il
knew, if the heart were not attacked,
they could save her, but the heart was
her weak organ, had been for some
it out; then all was over"
And the heart weakness was in
herited?'
The heart Weakness said the colo
mel, Slowly, was the result of shock;
the direct consequence of the blow
that struck the young girl of scarce 19
when a cablegram announced that her
promised kingdom had been wrenched
away from her. 1t was utterly unan-
ticipated, and she never got over it,
Till then she had taken little notice of
the politics of the hour; all her ener-
gfes had been concentrated on study
on qualifying for the queenly role she
was to assume upon her aunt'S demise
She aspired to be a model queen, with
modern ideas: TO rule her people for
their happiness, welfare and progress:
TO convert her small kingdom into a
worthy little sister of the more ad-
vanced kingdoms of our day. Her
whole life had been devoted to this
end. AS a child she was kept apart
from children, mixing with them only
by condescensiOn, never allowed for a
to forget the part she was to
play. AS a young girl, at an English
school, she was not as others; she had
her own governess, her own system of
training, her own studies, peculiarly
calculated to fit her for her position.
Suddenly the raisOn d'etre Of her life