The Carlisle independent., 1909-04-01

A Ing III Suppllant appeal to HsEnKzxMuS this nation and seeking
 reparation in a measure Tor the taking away of her crown and for her reduction from the rank of the worlds richest woman to penury.
 Lll1uokalani, once queen of the Ha- Wallah islands, asked congress that she be given sum of money that will suffice for her declining years.
 woman of 70 years, weighed down with many sorrows, the remnant of a royal family that has almost disap- peared, she is link between the old forms of the world and the modern. The conditions of life that knew her kind are rapidly passing from even the distant Pacific. Her kingdom, where the motion of a monarch's fin ger in her youth meant life or death. mas become commercialized terri tory of the United States. Her con sort Is dead, she is childless and poor.
 Queen Lflfuokalani recently told her story to Boston newspaper man in this manner:
 Sltt1ng back of the city of Honolu- lu and watching over it like grim guardian IS huge mountain that takes from the form of it's extinct crater the name of the Punch Bowl At the ioot Of this mountain in one of the spacious grass houses that made the abodes of the old-time chiefs. I was born in 1888.
 My father was of the direct branch of the royal family. though not at that tune In the line of succession. His grandfather had founded the long line of the Kamehameha kings. and his aunt, the celebrated Queen Kapiolani. had plucked the sacred berries from the sides of the volcano, had descend ed to the boiling lava and thrown them into the molten mass, thereby forever breaking the power of the fire god dess. destroying at stroke the old pagan beliefs and opening the way for her people to accept Christianity.
 My direct parents had little to do with my career after bringing me in to the world, for l was immediately adopted into the family of another high chief in accordance with ancient custom and was brought up there This was the custom in the olden days in Hawaii, for it was held as a great means of promoting peace and the best of feeling among the tribes that their children should be exchanged
 So l grew up on the knee of my foster father, Paki, knowing little of my real parents, and played with my foster sister, Bernice, who was after ward Mrs. Charles R. Bishop.
 When I was of sufficient age was sent to the royal school mairtained especially for members of the fami- lies that were of regal blood. This school was kept by an American and h whose names were Cooke, and the ed they gave us was not largely differen that which might have been obtained in ica, and all the school sessions were coi entirely in English, so that at that tin well as the rest of the royal children to speak the tongue We now have ado
 From this it will be seen that peopl the outside world were already gettins thing of a hold upon the far Pacific Missionaries had introduced the Christ ligion long before, and it had been qui erally adopted. The warm-hearted De, the islands had welcomed the foreigne
 
 pitality, and had offered to him the plt the islands, for there was always al abundance for all These outsiders had q in from all the maritime nations of l from America, and from the far east had tarried awhile and had come to the sun-bathed islands that they had cared to leave them.
 One event in the long years at the bc school was coupled with my after Ii stands out above everything else 4 board fence divided the royal school school for boys, right next door, and WI were all playing our Hawaiian game day in our shaded yard, lusty lad some older than I and not of native blood c upon the fence and looked over and direct down into my eyes, and I was embarrassed-and impressed. This sar I came to know afterward as John O. D When I had grown into womanhood to live with my sister, Bernice, thel Bishop, and at once there commenced C joy and pleasure that were without end young people of the royal family were in and accessible at that time and their tainments were based upon nothing othe pure pleasure. We had our own circle inmates and these were always arrangin, vals, excursions, dances, musicals and al ner of entertainment. The Americans a ropeans, as strangers within the gates often included in these and became tn mates of the royal family. Even in my gi the outside influence was strongly felt manner of entertainment.
 But not so in the homes of the cbiefs. to whose hospitable plantations