The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-16

e.; Washington, with the determine !
ton, it was said, of prosecuting her
claim for $250,000 against the govern.
III, Mt for the seizure of so-called crown
lands. Then came the suit of DR..
Charles L. English, who maintained
that the ex-Queen broke her contract
with him, after he had given up his
practice in Washington 20 accompany
her to Hawaii as private physician.
DIR. English obtained judgment of
81 500 by default, but last week this
verdict was set aside apparently be-
cause the summons had blown away
after it had been tossed into Liliuoka-
lani's motor car by deputy marshal.
The most imaginative press agent could
hardly have conceived more ingeni-
Gus accident, and probably in future,
the device will be used by persons who
have no desire to appear in court. At
least, they should remember it.
At the age of seventy Llluokalani
lives in an atmosphere of contradic-
ton. One report says she is in bad
kealah- another afiirms she has found
Tie secret of perpetual youth, and is
thinking of a second venture into
matrimony Various, too, are the tales
told of her wealth or lack of it, Upon
her arrival Mt San Francisco her sec
rotary was quoted as saying that she
possessed a sugar plantation of 5000
acres in addition to smaller parcels
aggregating 1000 acres and the famous
Washington Place residence in Homo
luins Washington dispatches, however,
declared that she had mortgaged her
house TO procure funds for the trip,
and that her only income was an an
nuity OF $4,000 votel by the Hawaiian
Legislature. Whatever her fortune the
ex Qusem. IL is said, still manages to
maintain the fiction Vt royalty.
Credited With Many Accomplishments
Mrs. Lydia Dominis, as she is known
10 prosaic Americans is credited with
many accomplishments, and her writ
inps show no illusions in that respect
In her book, "Hawaii S Story, by Ha
vail % Queen she observes: II wa
studious girl, and the acquisition OF
knowledge has been passion with mi
during my whole life, one which ha
not lost its charm to the present day.
That was written ten years ago. lie
musical talent she describes in Thu
manner:
"The Hawaiian people have beef
from time immemorial lovers OF poetr.
and music, and have been apt in i'm
promising historic poems, songs OF love
and chants of worship, so that praise
of the living or walls over the dea
were with them but the natural expires
sion of their feelings, Ny ancestor
we're peculiarly gifted in this respec
and vet it is remarkable that there ar
few if any written compositions of N
music of Hawaii excepting those pull
lished by me.
"To compose was as natural 10 n
as To breathe; and this gift of natur
never having been suffered TO fall 4
to disuse, remains source of the grea
at consolation TO this day. ] have ne
or yet numbered my compositions, b
am sure that they must run well !
10 the hundreds. OF these not mo
than quarter have been printed b
the most popular have been In su
demand that several editions have be
o, hausted, Hours of which II is n
yet In place to speak, which / mig
have found long and lonely, pass
quickly aud eheerfully by, oeeupi
and sOothed by the expression Of !
thoughts In music, and even when
was denied the aid Of an instrum,
I sEld tTanscribe 20 paper the tol
Of nay voice,
''In the tAriy years NJ the reign
KRmehameha ", he brought 20