The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-17

the young heir-apparent was to hold her
formal receptions, was noble apartment
thirty feet in length, its windows looking
out upon stretches of velvet lawn, hedges
of luxurious crotons and beds of brilliant
flowers. On the upper floor was the
Princess private suite, bed chamber
whose dimensions correspondent 10 the
drawing room below, opening into a bou-
DOR at one end and a dressing room at
the other. Like the drawing room, il was
panelled in polished koa, and upon the
ceiling, in fresco, were the Hawaiian cor
onet and the khil the ancient symbol
of Hawaiian royalty, which was also much
in evidence everywhere. The view from
the roof was beautiful-acres of rice fields
of the intensest yellow-green the lofty
mountains, whose submits were veued in
clouds, and the shady streets of the city
with their avenues of palm. the blue Pa
cific and the surf, line of dazzling white
beating against the reef.
The grounds were Mr.. Leghorn's pride
and his satisfaction inltheir loveliness was
pardonabie. Their most charming features
were winding avenue of royal palms. a
giant banyan tree that might have shell
tered a caravan, a lake studded with the
white and blue lotus, borders of purple
helotrope and carnations, and almost
every other shrub, plant or vine that flour
ishes in that perfect climate.
After the return to Honolulu the prin-
cess displayed great tact and prudence in
keeping aloof from the ex-Queen and her
faction. 1t is said that she had never
been on very friendly terms with her royal
relative, being much more closely attached
to the warm-hearted and noble Kapolani
the Queen Dowager, who always spoke of
her niece with the greatest affection. There
was at all times a perfect understanding
between Kaiulani and President Dole. and
last season when she entertained the
American army and navy officers, the pres
ident and his ministers We're among the
guests of honor. This subjected both Mr.
Dole and the Princess to sharp criticism
the Reconsideration charging him
with an undue desire to conciliate the ma
tive element, and the adherents of the
Queen accusing the Princess of disloyalty
to her people and her country. The suffix
'lani,' as in Kapiolani, Liluokalani, and
Kaulani means exalted one" and is one
of the proper appellations of Hawaiian
royalty in the female line.
Kaiulani possessed all the beauty of her
comedy race, being tall, slender, the en-
bodiment of grace, with the large, dark
eyes, lustrous purple black hair and per
feet teeth of The best Hawaiian type She
had been betrothed since her return to her
cousin, Prince David who had been one of
the ex-Queen's constant attendants. He
was a strikingly handsome man. 1t was
thought at one time that she would marry
the son of her English guardian.
In the trouble attendant upon the estab-
lishment of the republic IL was proposed
that the Princess Kaiulani should be pro-
claimed with President Dole as regent I'M
I'll she attained her majority, which she
had not then reached. But familiarity with
Hawaiian idiosyncrasies, their susoepH-
bility to influence. moi of the most judi
cious, the unvarying experience of more
than twenty years of revolution, had
shaken public faith. However upright and
disinterested her own personal intentions,
il was argued that IL would be impossible
to shield Kaiulanl from the influences
against which would have been brought to
bear upon her; that were she placed upon
the throne the work accomplished in 1898
would have to be done over again from the
beginning. Hence, Notwithstanding the es-
TEEN which was felt for her, the expert
ment was abandoned. Her death now
would end forever the hope of Hawaiian
succession, and bring definitely to a close
the Intriguing for the rehabilitation of the
defunct monarchy.