The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-13

and eternal purity and life. Those
hours of the watchers by night were
deeply impressive and soul stirring.
Most nobly have Co. G, N. G. H.,
Captain Charles l.. Wilcox's faith
full body of Hawaiian volunteers,
done their duty around the body Of
their late chiefess. Their onerous
duties were discharged as If they
esteemed the privilege.
The Royal storms of'weeping rain
fell on Saturday night and again on
Sunday morning, but happily held
aloof during the conduct Of the obse
quies.
The church doors had been wisely
closed by the directors at early morn
and opened only by degrees at the
approach OF the service. Conse-
quently while the people gathered
by their thousands in the close prox-
unity to the Kawaiahao Church
there was no great Inconvenience in
comfortably seating the congrega-
tion by the polite and efficient gen.
tlemen-ushers, and there was no
vacant seat in the simple but hand
some and capacious edifice and yet
there was no unseemly crowding.
The arrangements were more nearly
perfect than at any of the several
State funerals the scribe has at
tended.
The pen would like to linger over
the mise en- scene but space forbids.
Contented must we be to say that
when the choir and clergy had taken
their seats amidst the exquisite flow
ers, emblems, palms and ferns, and
the candles had been lighted before
the eikon of the Redeemer, the cruci-
fix, it was ideally beautiful. From
the catafalque below to the golden
pipes of the organ and the cross of
orange, brown immortelles, rising out
of base of ferns and the fragrance
of the lilies the motive colors of
white and green, rich orange and
timid yellow, glowing tyrian purple
and ruddy crimson the effect was
sublime, nor must the white doves
amid the feecy clouds of white tulle
and sweet MALE be forgotten for
they gave the key to the whole tone.
The pail of lima deserves especial
mention as showing the love loyalty
of the flower girls. Being unable to
procure the royal pale of yellow
feathers they ingeniously and indus
triously with loving hands manufac-
tured superb pail of the ruddy
orange colored lima flowers which
at the church and finally at the
Mausoleum were accorded the post
of honor, thus testifying that a
woman's love is above all fate
In the church, in appropriate
places, we're nearly all Of those in
political, commercial, professional
and social life whom the country
honors irrespective of creeds and
political rivalries, racial or class
conditions. Among the recognized
leaders we're the President, his en-
tire Cabinet, the Chief Justice Judd,
and Justice Whiting in their robes,
Judges Sta nley and Perry, the Pres
ident Of the Senate and Speaker of
the House, with Senators and Re-
presentatives; the American, Eng
lish and other representatives of
foreign powers, the clergy of every
denomination and the acknowledged
heads of the leading private and
public educational establishments,
the President and Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Planters's Association, the heads of
the leading fraternal organizations
and the loving people.
The officials at the religious por-
tion OF the ceremonies, conducted in
accordance with the ritual of the
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