The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-19
A ROMANCE
OF HAWAII
Love Tale Mixed
With Revolution
airy Plot.
KAIULAN AND
HER FRIEND LILA
Piece of Fiction by Miriam Nj
chelson in Current Number
OF a Magazine.

leStlilS Tale Ol lit Princess hdluidnl Is
the leading article in the July number
of the Black Cat, a bright and breezy
magazine published in Boston by the
Short Story Publishing Co. The story
| is from the pen of Miriam Nicholson,
the well-known and popular San Fran
cisco authoress. She has given the title
of AN Understudy for a Princess to
her fanciful tale of Island life, and like
all stories with flavor of politics, of
intrigue, her version of an abortive at
tempt to place the Princess upon the
throne vacated by Queen Liliuokalani
has a peculiar interest.
The hero of the story is Arthur Jer
drum, a London clubman, much trav
eled as companion of his father,
scientist and civil engineer, who had
been the friend and adviser of the
Queen, Liliuokalan. The son had been
a playmate OF the Princess; years spent
| in Egypt, India and Australia had not
lobliterated his memory of the childhood
days spent in the Hawaiian Islands, and
with the talk of annexation to the
take root in his mind-an idea which
for an Englishman was not surprising.
Annexation was to him gross injustice
| to the Queen, and with a firmly fixed
plan in his mind he arrived in the Unit
ed States in the spring of '9S. His pur-
pose was to free the Hawaiians, to re-
place the Queen upon the throne, or,
better still, to have her abdicate her
| f,,l
and popular Princess Kaiulani.
| The Princess was in San Francisco
| upon his arrival, and he lost no time in
seeking her out. Her friend and COM
panion, Lila Lauzon, was with her
when the Londoner sent up his card. To
the Princess the printed pasteboard
fcard brought no recollections of. the
past, and. busy with an engagement.
she playfully suggested to Miss Lauzon
that she play the part of the Princess.
AS she hurried off to keep the engage
ment, she recollected the Jerdrum Of
her youth, and, with an admonition to
Lila to treat him well for old times
sake left the room.
Lila, with but moments hesitation
over the oddness of the situation, fell
into the humor of her role and met the
London adventurer as AN Understudy
| for a Princess" greeting him as the
Kaiulani of his childhood; Jerdrum
| launched almost Immediately into his
| project, stopping only long enough to
| pay homage to the mimic princess by
kissing her hand, an act which sent the
blood rushing to her forehead.
The girl is an ardent royalist and the
dream of her life is to see the Princess
Kaiulani upon the throne. She has Oft
en- argued this to the princess but the
latter is contented. and characteriZes
all such ideas as foolish and imprac-
ticable. To this girl temporarily essay
ing the role of the Princess and now
continuing. with the hope of lettering
the condition of the girl she loves better
than life. Jerdfum unfolds his plan,
plan which he has spent long months
In maturing. The isolated Islands, cut
off from rapid communication with the
outside world, the wronged natives out
numbering the white men twenty to
one, the abdication of the Queen in ia
vor of her niece, the Princess-a lea Ter
whom every Hawaiian loved and would
follow, for whom it was an easy mat
ter to win a throne.
Here is the harbor of Honolulu"
Jerdrum concludes after stirring the
impressionable girl by a recital of the
wrongs of her friend and the ease with
which they might be remedied.t Here
Is Diamond Head, where arms may be
smuggled ashore. Here is your place.
Princess, at Waikiki. where they shall
be delivered. At this point and at this,
telephone and telegraph wires
shall be cut. Here is the Government
building, of which ten thousand armed
Hawaiians shall take possession in a
night, almost without bloodshed, for
the native police are with US the mo-
ment their Queen shall call upon them.
Before our enemies can commune
cate with any vessel in the harbor the
monarchy will be re-established and no
foreign power may Interfere. Then you
will make me your Minister of War.
perhaps, Princess, and after that If the
Kanaka lets the independence of his
country slip through his fingers, the
white man Is welcome to it."
The effect of words like these upon
woman like Lila may easily be mag
ined and the impossibility of revealing
her true identity to Jerdrum made more
evident. The authoress very cleverly
depicts the result of this conversation
in letter written by the Princess from
Honolulu, where the two girls have gone
upon the urging of Lila. The latter is
wealthy and In sole control of her for
tune, which she Is using lavishly in an
attempt to gain the throne for Kaiu-
lani, fact which the latter does not
suspect, as is evidenced by the tone Of
this letter. All unsuspecting, the Prin-
cess is accompanying her on her jour
neys to the different Islands, where IL
liza meets the native Hawaiians and
uses all the wiles of pretty and fasci-
mating young lady to interest them in
carrying out Jerdrum's plans, the lat
ter having also come to the Islands with
the same object in view. Arms had
been smuggled in and securely hidden,