Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1898, Page 16

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1898-24 PAGES, se t original title of h’s predecessors had pass- iN ed away from it. “In fact, it aac cae a. fi ‘outsiders’ you de- y PIQMONG ‘amily by one of those ‘outs! dismantled reféctory. In the plenitude of | dence about her that Miss Desborough halt highly prized, and also highly priced. 1 her feelings she felt a siignt recognition of | liked and half resented. However, Miss household cookery 1s almost invariably some beneficent being who nad roiled this |Amelyn did not sem to notice it, and after done in a cook house entirely separate golden apple af her fect, and felt as if she | leaving a bottle of port for the ‘grandfath- from the dwelling house, and there the Chi- e; 7 good” in her | er, she took her leave and led Sadie away. : nese cook 1s as supreme and autocratic as ie oe ee As they passed into the village a carriage | What the Hawaiian Islands Offer to / was <vcr nrideee oe Tena te Ogre as Jea the present earl, and that even the | with bread and_pulse m ‘he crumbling and | there was a certain dogged, selfish indepen- | A R ] Cc H T R EAS U R E servants, almost without exception. and are | { Sey SDA ONE OOM ONIONNE INOMOANC HONE DOM 2 y preeate. But I daresay you'd find the place quite as comfortable with Lord Bev- erdale for a host as you would if you had Jf these preferences?” said the consul with a smile. household. ard o ? he added. it so chanced that, passing through aj returning to the priory, filled with their s: = C3 rotten nectnthie Sonne ie ‘frankly. smail gate in the park, sue saw walking a Sain kaeats, dashed by, but was instantly Wide-Awake Americans, The Cost of Living. t a Wm “I suppose your mother particlpates in | little ahead of her a young girl whom she | pulled up at a word from Lord Algernon, é t on Miss Amelyn, one | Who leaped from the vehicle, hat in hand. Living, on the whole, is rather dear — tiatgteas etree aacaiee: hefore. ‘Miss | and implored the fair truant and her com. Honolulu, and Desborough remembered that she piayed | Panion to join them. PaPae there is large dependence “No,” said Miss Desborough, with the “Wey on canned goods, both for its meat and for PART 1. : tp at apt Andis A Desbarsugh., Gas wus | Ubon the ete hea wad even cremated | Over Bill-and back Mor tetthsne na oes | BUSINESS LIFE IM HONOLULU | srutes ana veuceanies such cu'ere ver nce up at not finding a Desborough. She was 0, and had eve: od . oa 5 fi invited down here—but she's rather inde-"| long solo during the general conversatign, | With @ rising color. “We missed you aw- See cessfully produced in the islands. _——— Sie gedent, pua knaw-ao sus allowed ¢ Goad | Witceue aatenel from the others, and ap- ae ly! een oe = ebenepel ae Honolulu fish market is one of the sights he A cea and so early at it, by Jove, sae f the town. The dealers are mostly native WRITTEN THE EVENING STAR BY BRET HARTE. ( take care of myself—while she went off to | parently with little irritation to herself, “ é 5 o al y yee Se : stay with the old dowager, Lady Mistowe, | subsiding afterward im an. armchair, | iegave St Up & ‘slummin’ party’ and ali | Opportunities fcr Wealth and Pleas- | funn on™. Tee * may see here neariy all (Copyright, 1898, by Bret Harte.) who thinks maw a very proper womanly | @uite on the fringe of otner people's con r pe v | “And you haven’t seen half,” said Lord ; o - the uncouth monsters of the sea—the dying yormation. “Bhd hag base Gear | Beverdale from the box, “Miss sere ure in Our New Domain. splendors of the dolphin and the dem: tian name by the eatl, and had a way of Gruner tates ene, chere'owan old squid, which is a favorite article of impalpably melting out of sight at times. | hut in Crawley woods, whem its ect ke with the natives, Fresh fish of chotc These trifies led Miss Desborough to con- ‘A flavor ci clude that she was some kind of dependent | There's wnatigccey Qyith, @ large party. | 4 TaAND OF PROMISE person. I made maw mad by telling her that’s just what old Lady Mistowe would say of her cook—for I can’t stand these people’s patronage. However, 1 shouldn't wonder if I was invited here as a ‘most original person’ ” always be had from these na- tive dealers, who form mullet pc There's malignant diphtheria over at the pdb - | OF Poor relation. Here was an opportunity | gouth f; building sea walls of stones, and have some noe Aaron uses urecerties pian to begin her work of “doing good.” She 2 eS ail! in cultivating the fish.’ An ice factory “Then it isn’t a question of property or { chance of becoming related to the Earl of quickened her pace and overtook Miss Ai ene and an old woman who had affords ample supply for refrigerating pur- Amelyn. But Mise Debeonn was adamant, | Written for@he Evening Star. poses and for cooling drinks, the need for aket me walk with you?” she said gra- though Sparkling. She thanked him, but | People are begirning to ask practical pote ratid = lena og as the tem- ously. said she had just seen an old woman “who questions about the nation’s new domain ¥Y oppressive and is tem- asse ed di : sae bar of last night's eyes unattended. proposed “going outside ‘or Dora Bever- ; *Pread inquiry as to opportunities presented | upon the time and energies of businece amen “Oh,” said Sadie, answering the mute | dale’s own preserves of grain-fed poor,” | in the islands for fortune getting. Many of} are not excessive, and life flows e vd query. “‘I didn’t want to be ‘shown round’ | and starting up her own game. She would ie atae KEE ola (he Sake Beverdale, through his son and heir, Al- | ‘Uon songs.” and Miss Desborough, with searcely a change of voice or manner, al- “Lord! no!” said the lady, vivactously. | Forough “among then nore eat et Das | lowed herself to be led to the piano. “The “Why. goodness me! I" reckon old Des-| consul mew that Lord Beverdale was not | COmu! had little chence to spea! Scene te borcugh could at any time before he died } a rich man, that like most men of old famt- | SSnvines him: that Sot way raed eee have bought up ard bought out the whole | ly he was not a slave to class prejudice; in- : in love with her, but that ; deed. Gi i ai mae? "| was very much in ; lot of his relatives on this side of the big | Men oft che srege ee seen ery, few noble. | the fact had been equally and complacently bly in the Ittle com . Bi : ‘bese inquiries betrey the supposition that {| °@¥@ munity P mp pecan yorth. a accepted by the family and guests. That 4 ; + t Reich ony mater of coroaty and fot |ctaton Sé nahory tht hee" whatas | hr Srnec wan onl au onertunly | Ru RaRiny na gute Se pot at | een ihe aches he oul | Wom ie nat ee nas OES {Tittle doubt of the young lady's wealth as | fF @ formal ee ete wae eeeet ine | walk together; wherever you're going is | first kind Incapable she moc” given over to half-naked savages in an| There are various social clubs in che city, “The American consul at St. Kentigorn fett | there was of her personal attractions. every, worman in the House “net exeepting,. | 2ooq-enbugh forthie? Yet, actually, she was far from displeased | aboriginal s . ven the fai f gossip her- ; They were nearing the house through a |! fear, even the fair subject o the old story of delusive quests for im- | leaves were already beginning to stron the aha reeihyacecadutoeetaew Bigcme cara aginary estates and impossible inheritances | Sround beneath, and they could see the | — : i » , -. | Vista open - « | having thus wondered, he came to the con- which he had confronted so often in nerv- | VSta Tehtening Woake oni ee Ghislin thirties sealariteniienl auaktec torsene te of simplicity and heathea- | including a British club and a German club, ee = far Ae Suan mc at Being, etd imcovered by eee ism. There is much picturesque material | which have very well appointed club iss Amelyn, looking down doubtfully at{ peopie, while following out her capricious n a abel * ~ = 2 Sadie’s smart French shoes—“if you care| whim of the morning, One on 1abrcious {in the native lite and customs, which ae houses. The Honolulu Music Hall has a to walk so far." Sadie noticed that her | ladies, who had fought shy of her frocks | Vites the descriptive writer to turn aside | stage and auditorium in which & season companion was more solidly booted, and | and her frankness the evening before, were | and dweil upon it. It is thus given rather | of dramatic representations is usually that her straight, short skirts, although | quite touched now by this butterfly who | undue prominence in much that is written | given some time during the by ous, wan-eyed enthusiasts and obstreper- | of the priory. In the sunshine, dressed in | happiness of so practically organized a | toss stylisis ther her own, had’ & sorta | Was wiline’ to forego the sunlight of so- | 5, t Spokes year by @ stock ous claimants from his own land. Certain- | a shooting suit, stood a tall, clean-limbed | Young lady if she loved him OF Dot: ies. | character, better fitted to the freer outdoor | clety, and soil her pretty wines om the {Of the islands, As a matter of fact, the | company from San Francisco, usually of ly there was no suggestion of this in the | young fellow, whom the corfsul recognized Tt is highly probable tha’ iss Sadle Des: life of the'country. But she only said, how- | haunts of the impoverished with only a sin. | Bative element is a constantly dwindling | limited numbers, but ste, ever, ““The village will do,” and gayly took | gle companion—of her own sex!—and smiled | influence, not only by reason of the de- | pertory, ranging from “Hamlet” to ° her companion'¢ ann. approvingly. And In her wnpanions timia | crease in numbers of the race, but also of | geline” and “Uncle Tom's Cabin” “But I'm afraid you'll find it very unin- ide toward Dard teens timid ' the increasing ratio of the foreign popula- World's great artists, ¢ teresting, for I am going to visit some poor | attitude toward Lord Beverdale’s opinions, tion and pthc a atthe “ im- | Zealand and Austratio oe -* =f cottages,” persisted Miss Amelyn, with a]| She was not above administering this slight cay — —— 1 | Sive a performan » wanally certain ‘timid ingenuousness of manner | Sub to him in her presence. Soe ents witha toial population in the steamship's time table silow ean which, however, was as distinct as Miss} When they had driven away, wich many | the islands of much less than 100,000, It i times these performance, wlo™ Desborough's bolder frankness. “{ prom-| regrets, Miss Amelyn was deeeply con | ¢asily seen that a smail change in the ab- out by the aM of bon neve ised the rector’s daughter to take her place | Cemmed. “I am afraid,” she said, with timid | Solute numbers may work vast changes in The artistic contrast, ay amateur today.” conscientiousness, “I have kept you from | Proportions. Thus the introduction in the ot cian istic contrasts are often ma. “And I feel as if 1 was ready to pour oil | 8lng with them. And you must be bored | last few years of only a few Japanese | STking, if not effective. tat mely varied re- 1 n | at once as Lord Algernon, the son of his | borough had not even gone so far as to a Sk ae eee cern companion. As if to eeeehcrtile Rae of | ask herself that question. She awoke the before him, nor in her pretty daughter, | this vision of youth and vigor, near him, in | Next mornirg with a sense of easy victory charming In a Paris frock, alive with the | the shadow, an old man had halted, hat in | and calm satisfaction that hed nowever: conselousress of beauty and admiration, | hand, still holding the rake with which he | none of the Erenssorta en etioy Pee ud yet a little ennuye Trom gratified in- | had been gathering the dead leaves in the | taste was ae led by Suaseoe arena: font shin) Girt ther to be the | venue, his back bent, partly with years, | some young fellow—a typical English eee oionann, | Pandy ‘with the obeisance of a servitor. | who, if not exactly original nor ideal, was, fa ew York milliona ing for pleasure neeting with he: nsent to a chance r . : i ; Baber Sef “fa Saturday afte wen elary i nce I ‘ 4 sores - | with what you have seen, I know. I don’t | laborers has awakened grave tears of a ¥ Bfternoons and on moonlight Sean Cait connanetiahs ano Bare Ue re een aes cattle, aeut ues USP dl uellave -yonrvanlipicaes che Ue hew predominating influence in the affairs | €venings the Hawaiian Band gives ious, re onfidential a Mise seen - Bieta Pace: yet glancea | You are only doing it to please me. of the tslan But the little brown men | @!F concerts in the public square This i creel tea ee axacud der Gale = a if whe thouett shat Trot out the re y have thus far proved themselves as quiet, | S@Mlzation is made up entirely of 1, Saiiecion abe & pant Miss Desborough ought to have a larger | Sadie, promptly, “and we'll wind ‘up by | contented and’ law-abiding as had the | YUtMS and fs @ full wera eet : on Se aE and more impartunt: audience. Thon one | laching with the rector. Chinese, who numbered the largest part of | | They were very efficiently and succes je who died some ye: z D par 5 “He'd be too delighted,” said Miss Ame-| the male. population after the growth ct | fully trained by a Prvssian bandmast Mr. Desborough never seemed ecntinued more confidentially and 1} ae : 2 : sory. : 5 wh a beaaae’ a a ., ‘But it isn't at all like ‘slumming.’ you lyn, with disaster ritten all over her | the sugar industry had invited the use of 10 Was sent out by the lw Emperor Wi)- f much after his English re know. These poor people here are not | Sitlish, truthful face, “but—but—you know | their labor. ham after a competition at the t+ of new : now t sit 3 P sora}. | ~it really wouldn’t be quite right to Lord = ing Kalakeua. All Honol ; re over why. we guessed we Se) bad, and they are not at all extraordi- | pov eraale! "Youre bie principal guest—you | T#€ An#lo-Saxon Character coeeien the concerts, which are quite on tmporcant lock “em up an¢ t of P : ee apoaet afin know! and—they’d think I had taken you But it is surprising how little effect a’ element in the life and amuserr th the } eel alg a : pees Heras paises See at Ee on & 1," said Miss Desb. h. i i these alien elements have in changing the | Place. Many residents = He oe e lady. with a compl - c r a pause, st “Well,” sa: Ss rough, impetuous. | peayaili 4 ened e | cottages on the sea be : ever, had a suggestion. of que know the priory very well, 1 guess , ly, “What's the matter with that ram thas | Drevailing Anglo-Saxon character of th a beach at W only ad tho coaaal “fone I lived there when I was a little girl, 2 = : ors, | 2 few miles from Honolulu. The surf come, ndwich there, | ttle country’s institutions, All matte in over the coral reef and breaks on 2 industrial, commercial, social and political, shelving, sandy beach. A noble grov ra center in Honolulu. And Honolulu is @| coccanut palms fringes ‘the kesh af With my aunt the Dowager Lady Bever- | [ed 22].,We can get a sa dale,” aot sates aa Ww hen auy: ‘iss Amelyn looked horritiel fur a mo. cousin Fred, who was the young heir, died, | ,, {2188 Amelyn looked horrii cted the lady. n it may be an old Nor and the present Lord Beverdale succeeded | P\2t. 2 oa aeons ge : New England town, transplanted into the | shades the cottages. Here ‘the waty-tuns id the consul he never expectod it, you know, for there | pectme concerned again. | “No! listen to | tropics and embowered in palms inatend of | residents of Wentita rusticate: and there Norman's good enough for me,” said the Were two lives, his two elder brothers, be- | Me ! y ter, reflecting. ‘We'll just settle it elms. The selection of the site of Honolulu | 13 no lovelier spot the world am 1 ve ara m y id around. Be- sides poor Fred’se between, but they both | one! You'll have ample time if you go rman. I never thought about that, P Was not merely fortuitous. The deep bay, | yond Walkikt and still near the heach 1a died. “we went to live in the Dower House.” | Duasat Tt wont Ber eee ec emeneon: Do. | with ‘the entrance locked by a coral rect, | the Kapiolani Riding Park, where the ‘The Dower House?” repeated Sadie. for everybody. I feel quite guilty as it is, |°Peing away from the prevailing trade | ccmparative merits of rival Ieee, (ne : Lady Beverdaie’s separate prop- | {0% Gvervbody. (1 1 already in Lord Bever- | Winds. ‘makes it the one secure harbor in | tested. ‘There is nothing stands higher 1 dales Wack Gagkec” the group, as it did when the New England } the esteem of the native Hawalklane «h. an The trouble in the young girl’s face was | Whalers first made it their rendezvous for | a horse, and the running races ar. look unmistakable, and as it suited Miss Des- their annual expeditions, Even Pearl River| forward to and patronized with fle borough's purpose just as well to show her | P@tbor itself, which is counted valuable ax | zest that is truly Kiplingesque. The fer- independence by returning, as she had set | Paval coaling station for the you may find it called ‘Deb- 2 and spelt so,” said the con- But I thought all this property—the Priory—came into the family through “It did—this was the Amelyns’ place— but the oldest son or nearest male heir |. Smiling. fiss Desborough lifted her pretty shox d made a charming grimace n't acknowledge ‘em. No Det United | tile, flowery valleys in the neighborhood of Debs teennl always succeeds to the property and title.”"| out sane, she consented t) a2. Bae acoct | States, offers its promise to the akilled eye | Hensler are favorite grounds for picnics © ee Ga eaiet prt amt adtvertisern eatin he Do you mean to say that the present | iyn showed her a short cut across the park, | f the engineer rather than to the heart of | and riding expeditions. The somewhat re- SSS “notice, inti- Tord Beverdate tyrmed.that old Indy ott” | O09 they separsted- to meet ot Dae a |= mariner seckiog refeee trom kmmomers stricted social circle is, perforce, brought Loe Se £ they would eqs Amelyny jooked shocked. “I mean | this brief fellowship, the American girl had See ag tonclulu alone boasts of finished | into close and usually harmonious contact, ‘hear of something to their advantage’— Gale woul have ner ey wEady, Bever- | kept a certain supremacy and hall-rascina- and. unload thelr cazoing craft can come | and is much given to hospitality and en: as Late Ge ate Goa son became of aoe bad. he lived” ‘She tion over the English girl, even while she aes ‘andings at | tertaining one another in a merry d was co.1se.ous of an invincible character in | Other points in the islends are made from | easily informal way. Miss Amelyn entirely different from and | the open roadstead in boats or exposed to superior to her own. Certainly there was a | the sweep of the trade winds without the difference in the two peoples. Why else, | Protection of reef or headland. this Inherited, conscientious reverence, for Commerce of the Islands. ture. “Not the men haven't it al! their | its practical benefits, could not understand, | Produce of the islands finds its way first to ete : Analy eee ea she dia not | Would Miss Amelyn and Lord Albernon | Honclulu by the little interisland steamships — 3 oked as ‘After a fon | have made a better match? The thought | for transshipme: t t vorid. fare to discuss: thig.problem. After = few | irritated her, even while she knew that che, on ee ee ee Kimernag Sadie continued: “You and Lord | herself, possessed the young man's affec. | The so-called “esplanade” in Honolulu pre- ratepMel aties Sane rides ” [tions, the power to marry him, and, as she | S¢nts a scene of bustle and activity at any some kind of native corstabulary in the Bo = Aimelyn; “he came | believed, kept her own independence in the | time, with a fair showing of sailing vessels % - 1 “ gnee or twice to the priory for the holi- | matter. ted up to its wharves. Upon the arrival | CUNY districts away from Honolulu. But days when he wasiquite a boy at Marl. (To be concinded next woek.) of one of the regular line steamships this | thelr services are in tho rarest demand. DE Tea ere Very well bustle increases to a very paroxysm of sys- | Crimes of violence are almost unknowr area a 3 - was —_ = tematic hurry and rush, that gives the It is a notable fact that no woman’ was Lee Panne course no one ever | ALLIGATORS PLAYING PYRAMID. newcomer a somewhat exaggerated idea of | ever the victim of violence at the hands ‘ Phingae : nae eg ot. G 7, the business activity of the little tropical | of a Hawaiian. It is hard to conceive that a ae AES aa ae al : - ine: . abundantly filled coal yards, roomy ware- movements, reports of which have come of fae hushed ets they bad ae ‘ er = From the Cincinnati Enquirer. houses and the stone structures of the} late years from the islands, can have had Village, and Miss Amelyn turned the con, | Did you ever see the Zoo alligators play | shipping and commission. houses which any grounds that could not have been met versation to the object of her vistt.. It | “Pyramid” or any other of their famous eee ee eae athese shippioe weg | BY ffm and peaceful measures. Life and was a new village—an unhandsome village, | games? They wrestle like old-time Graeco- eoruictasina aes ath (he: phoee aoc i ae Lage Speer sage ot [adeno —_ ~d oe the ae Reman epee eee ae Roman boys, and strain and struggle in all | element In the business of the islands. rights to property, contrent tights and en- seme mines that were still worked in its |S0fts of ways at it. When, finally, one} The majority of them are American, but | fcrcoment’ of oidigedne meee lous bers vicinity—and to the railway, which the | Wins by getting the other on his back, a eae are gorge British and German | precarioue under the native regime. A uncle of the present earl had 'resisted—but | funnier thing occurs. The victor makes a Beatin mA pave branches oF | native magistrate has been known to de- the railway had triumphed, and the ates Ree ‘ . correspondents in San Francisco, Boston, | cide against a man's rights to » debt be. ton for Scrooby Priory waa there. There | Sianee, tf en ose te enters: aP- | New York, London and Hamburg, through | Ode, 2euinst a, man’s | father had offended was a grim church on the hill, of a black. | Pl@use, if you please. Then they all be- | whom the country’s trade balances are ser, against the moral code, as eloquent ened and: weather-beatened stone with u {come still and watch the vanquished | tled, probably without recourse generally ferth by the counsel for the defendant few grim Amelyns reposing cross-legged in | brother squirm to get off his back and onto to other banking facilities, though there | ‘The post office is efficient and the sere Tage nance! put tho character of the. vil- | his lege again. If he's longer in doing it | 2"@.tWo banks in Honolulu. In a similar | won Boweeon i Gee teen the, erwice paused, and t that way in A. “Dear, ni There are a number of church congregations among the foreign residents, including an Anglican commu- nion, presided over by a bishop. Easily Governed. No government was ever more lightly and easily administered than has been that of the Hanvatian nds. In Honolulu one occasionally sees a native policeman, sit- ting pensively on a stone wall. There is hange te the kind of thing I'm don't you know countrywomen comin English relativ undertaking Isn't it iH Desborough had a faint recollecti there was sume- thing in the Constijuiion or the Declara- carry was quite that would be just ¢! ng our- i saying who we were be- they were like. in his way, « “know anything bout his folks! We ain't here on a mission to im- SRceaee arn fa 3 reaps @ was something so marked in this | she felt, of an universally accepted, “hall- een cate nos Ce) wai nee Pp acta ae aaa Sean ad tte NaTaTRE ECE ee vident that ia of the humor | Shadow of the fading year, himself as dried | of a highly orderec uily guarded civil- and tle levity of the } and withered as the leaves he was raking, tion. whose re was the absence of saatertntle testlocial oe yet pausing to make his reverence to this | struggle or ambition, and even whose reg- nd the consul, with a | Passing sunshine of youth and prosperity | wiar icatures were not. yet differentiated addr of one or | in the presence of his coming master, that | from the rest of his class by any of those sponsible experts in genealogical ir. | the consul, as they swept by, looked after | disturbing lines which people call character. as he had often done before. He felt | him with a stirring of pain. * ,, | Everything was made ready for her, with- S impessible to offer any advice to | “Rather an old man to be still at work,” | out care or preparation; she had not even ly capable of managing | Said the consul. Beverdale laughed, “You | an ideal to realize or to modify. She could their own affairs as his fair countrywomen, | Must not let him hear you say so; he con- | slip without any Jar or dislocation into this yet he was not withcut some curiosity to | Siders himself quite as fit as any younger | life which was just saved from self-indul- know the result of thelr practical senti- {man in the place, and, by Jove! though he’s | gence and sybaritic luxury by certain con. That fe should ever hear of | nearly eighty, I'm inclined to believe it. | ventional rules of activity and the occupa- again he doubted. He knew that | He's not one of our people, however; he | tion of amusement which, as obligations the first loneliness had worn off in | Comes from the village and is taken on at | of her position, even appeared to suggest the thering at a London | odd times, partly to please himself. His | novel aspect of a duty! She could accept all y were not likely to consort with | Sreat aim is to be Independent of his chil- | this without the sense of being an intruder who, indeed,were | dren—he has a granddaughter who is one | in an unbroken lineage—thanks to the con- WE'VE MISSED YOU AWFULLY.” country people lage was as different ‘from the Priory as if 5 y move | oj, Pmnters on the other islands draw on | system is quite capably administered, and ME oky. cercach Gilien ac ever in | on: the: miciaa at thevurlory “aud ifol keen’ | atin neem eee e. | it were in another country. ‘They stopped | than the gang think ts proper they move | thelr credits with these commicnon bose | 8 = “ ious criticism of one another | himself out of the workhouse. He does not | She already pictured herself as the mis. 5 ‘i @ graded course in English taught in the at the rectory, where Miss Amelyn pro- | uP in single file and give him a jab with | for settlement among themselves or for pinais pObetan Ti Micmniae: ete ee ee tives and foreigners. The suffrage Is base: d to that society In which | Come from these parts—somewhere further | tress of this fair domain, the custodian of vided herself with certain doles and gifts, | their jaw in his upturned belly. When | Payments to merchants in Honolulu. Many equally strangers. So ke took | north, I fancy. But he’s a tough lot, and | its treasures and traditions, and the dispen- Which the American girl would have aug- | finally he gets himself righted all hands | of the plantations are owned and financed on a property qualification which effectual r Way back to London | has a deal of work in him yet.” ser of its hospitalities—but as she conscien- | mented with a five-pound note, but. for again set a the steam-escaping racket, | »Y Such Honolulu houses, who may be also ly Mnuts it to within measurable bounds of that their acquaintance | “Seems to be going a bit stale lately,” | tiously believed, without pride or vanity, | Miss Amelyn’s horrified concern. “‘As | cheering him long and as loud as they did |i the import business and own the bot- the American and European residents Ruth that brief incident. But } said Lord Algernon, “and I think is getting |in her position—only an intense and | many shillings would do, ana they would his victor. Their meaning no fight 1s {toms in which they import dry goods, lum- | ‘That the existing goverhiment would, run mistaken. a little queer in his head. He has a trick | thoughtful appreciation of it. Nor did she | be as grateful,’ shi said. “More they = der and supplies of all kinds and export ; wouldn't understand. shown by Ae eee eee sugar. There are vessels thus owned which | jy) Sy yout friction backed by De eee eeeabd dole At outiae you | times of these Zor. allicators te playing | Come out from Boston or from Liverpool like,” said Sadie, quickiy. pyramid. The ‘gators play pyramid several | amd go on to China and India as traders. ne 2 con't thik ‘thet—that Lord Bey I timasa Gay: Ty eet Gate yoda heen [TNS FOURE: aden pt tha: Sslamde’ conmiier erdale would quite approve—" hesitated that the ugly things had been trained to it. | themselves fortunate to secure business po- capa prepa : it, | But_no. It’s just one of the ways of the | Sitions with these powerful Honolulu Tv ym . “ 9 's yi s, Ei = Peers Sei hac grass comaie riaecon panton fin sporty side-of their life. The game comes | houses, and the young Americans, English: the author- ity of the United States there is not the slightest reom to question. GUY STUART COMLY. tr following he was spending | of stopping and staring straight ahead, at | dream of ever displaying it ostentatiously u vacation at a country house. | times, when he seems to go off for a min- | before her less fortunate fellow-country- a historic house, and ha ute or two. There,” continued the young | women; on the contrary, she looked for- as being—even in that county | man with a light laugh, “I say! he's going | ward to their posible criticism of her cast- seat ular example of|it now! They both turned quickly and h manorial estates | gazed at the bent figure—not fifty yards of its lords. His host | away—standing in exactly the same atti- 2 recalled from foreign | tude as before. But even as_the and the mu prime 3 J : The United States and China Have gazed Wha 5 2 ay Six, | 0m by one of the bigger alligators uttering |™en and Germans who have this connec- 5 to aly succeed to an|he slowly lifted his rake and began his Bees seit ana te ee eae ARIES | thie "ytearn hissing mnie: Stites ake tk iON SOMKS Map OM Atmpuetant alatnemt a ga Se Fae oe Damen ur e and estate. That estate, how- | monotonous work again. Marten Ee eee i oe Se eG AIS | others to attention. Then the big one says | life of the town. Wrom the New York Mail and Express ever re jome into, the pos assim of the At Scrooby Priory the consul found that eer ik chapecd bate poveccase ce ee eh | a line oF two of alligator talk and stretches The Chinese Element. It seems strange that two nations so an- uncle only throug! arriage wi e is ywoman had in- hae i * | himse lengt! t te: i 2 s : traits still le own from the wa) nd : Woman and child. e Miss ugh as he was. One of them had her In London, another knew as one of the house party at the Duxe North: eland’s, where she had been a favoritism of kings, and in its state- | central figure. Some of her natve sallies aad Julned chapel was still | and frank criticisms were repeated with hand of its evicted religious | great unction by the gentlemen, and with ich could aot be shaken off. some stight trepidation and a “fearful joy” Tsang nee individuality that af- | by the ladies. He was more than evet con- MN ere thon eittin or a toweve® | vinced that mother and daughter had for- guests were quite as anxious to Desb u t and alien branch. There Miss Amelyn hesitated—the American | bit smaller alligator crawls on top of the] Ness life of the islands is Ah Fong, the | United States and China should share the effigie: memorials and | | irl looked capable of doin; saig | Other and stretches out lengthwise, but | well-known Chinese merchant. Ah Fong’s distinc jon of being great noise-loving peo- ee eae What she said | head to tall with the other. The second | principal business connections are in China | ple. Yet it is a fact that the two countries Syne’ She took the tote, with tha men | ote being Settled, be inte of « lithe nteam | 4! tn does a Sarge import trade trem | esesume meaty gi the @recrectore tac Pee on Tenia a NU conteselon: |r ks 2nd a cuit. a itl mmalterielllivatir, 4 2 giuch ior tha ice ahal Gonek bras | paar eombohartexcs by the wives and chil- to the rector and Lord Beverdale, climbs up on top of the second and settles | ‘ere. : ria OE ae Chane Keathag\ saakehobee She was right in saying that the poor of | down as the second did. They keep this | China as food supply for his country men | dren o e nese cracker merchants Scrooby village were not interesting. There | UP Until six or seven have builded them- | on the plantations comes through this Chi- | England annually buys a small quantity of was Very litle squalor or degradation; their | Selves into as strange and wonderful a | nese mercantile house. Rice is one of the | the explosives. Other countries take only poverty seemed not a descent, but a condi- | Pyramid as ever an eye beheld. After each | products of the Hawalian Islands, second ences of still older families who apied it through forfeiture by war infinitesimal amounts. Here in America the ere vith a = ten to which they had be 3 one has settled on top of the other he lies | only in importance to sugar, and the grain DERE 2 “ or ner a were tho: hevnnin its walls, who | gotten their lineal Desboroughs, and he re- fone Pies adie aan os Suiles ns Feces perfectly motionless, so that when the | is larger and finer and in every way of a | fitecracker is the small boy's legitimate by Prict, imheritors or inhabitors, | solved to leave any allusion to it to the thetic, rather than sullen or rebeilious. | Pyramid 1s completed it appears as some | superior quality to the Chinese and Indian] medium for expressing his patriotic ap- its own character. “However inoona cee | Young lady herself. = They ‘stood up when Miss Ameiyn entered, | marvelous carving. ce The trade In Chinese rice grew up | proval of a great national event. His en- S own character. owe gruous vev e e de! : - ac! of reci ty sias e 2 ; Don or il-asssorted the portraits that looked poetagn TES caer nes on eee paying her the deference, but taking little | But this effect lasts only about two min- {after the enactment the reciprocity | thusiasm expends itself in a day, and con. rom its w Is, so ill met that they might have flown at each other's throats in th. nights when the family were away 4t house itself was independent of n all. Sr bewiggec _ be! e- | gave us that letter to those genealogical rented’ one day's gathering, the | gentlemen in London.” eaded, steel-fronted and prim-ker- |" The consul hoped that it had proved suc- 1 congregation of another day, and cessful. ‘“ the iack-conted. ‘bare-armed “an@:|" yea: isnt -wiaw: guessed welaiawl carette cmblage of today had | go back to Hengist and Horsa. and when pier anges = pod os they let loose a lot of ‘Desboroughs’ and of their dwellers, “might | got’e drawing ten yam encked We've | «who'd Have Thought of Meeting ma = acd like a sour apple tree, with lots of Des- oeeree ss of the owner, but Scrooby Peete er rae peg bEanches like | ing off all transatlantic ties, with an un- No one had dared even to | worm-eaten. We took that well novel, bet | €a8Y consciousness, that was perhaps her puter qigid integrity; the | when it came to giving us a aap ce | Nearest approach to patriotism. Yet again, time and > were left un- | straight lines and dashes. with atmes | she reasoned that as her father was an En- t held its ¢ indifferent sway | written under them like an old Morse tele, | glishman, she was only returning to her arched portals, | greph slip struck by Hghtning, then maw | 0ld home, As to her mother, she had al- n to believe that he— | Sna 1 guessed that it made uetirel.” ready comforted herself by ‘noticing cer- yo more alien to the | “you know,” she went on, opening her | tain discreparcles in that lady's tempera~ ent owner. clear gray eyés on the consul. with a char- | ™ent, which led her to belleve that she a very, charming compa-! acteristic flash of shrewd good. sense. | Herself alone interited her father’s nature— ”” said Lord Bever- | through her quaint humor—“we never recks | for her mother was, of course, distinctly from the station to- | cned where this thing would land us, and.{ American! So little conscious was she of must tell me ehuc to sh»w | we found we were paying £100, not only for | 21Y charming snobbishness in this belief, the Desboroughs, but all the people they'd | that in her superb naivete she would have married, and their children, and children’s | argued the point with the consul, and em- children, and there were a lot of outsiders | ployed a wit and dialect that was purely pote of the pretty butterfly who was with | utes after the pyramid is finished. Then | treaty with this country, by the terms of | sequeatly the noise of countless numbers her—or rather submitting to her frank cur- | comes a new chapter of the act. The San- | which Hawalian-grown tice was admitted ot exploding crackers lasts but a short iosity with that dull consent of the poor as if | dow ‘gator underneath all staris to crawi-|to this country free of duty. Ah Fong | time. they had lost even the sense of privacy—or | ing. He heads for up and down places in | found it profitable to import Chinese rice Not so in the orient. There the use of a right to respect. It seemed to the Amer- | the pen, the game clearly being to see how | for the needs of the Chinamen in Hawaii } firecrackers is not lMmited by age or posi- ican girl that their poverty was more indi- | long it’ will take him to jolt his strange | and thus release Hawaiian rice for a more | tion, Their use Is universal an hes beste cated by what they were satisfied with | pyramid load to pieces. And right here | profitable market in the United States. As | as far back as history records. It is likely than what she thought they missed. It is | develops what appears to be a strict rule | the rice culture in the islands is almost | that in the beginning they were employed to be feared that this did not add to Sadie’s | of the game. Say there are seven in the | entirely in the hands of Chinamen, this to frighten away evil spirits. But as the sympathy. All the beggars she had seen in| pyramid, and the sixth from the bottom | was a brotherly office on the part of the country partially emerged from its dense America wanted all they could get, and she | jolts off first, taking, of course, the seventh | Chinese merchant, as well as a good stroke | ignoraice and shook off part of its load felt as if she were confronted with an in-| one with him. You'd naturally think the | of business. of superstitions, the cracker became an ex- ferior animal. game done for that sixth and seventh alli- | Ah Fong is also a sugar planter and owns, | pression of good will and of ceremonious “There's a wonderful old man lives here,” gator. But not at all. It seems that the | or did own, the controlling interest in a] compliment. Now the exploding of fire- said Miss Amelyn as they halted before 'a | sixth one is in disgrace for having been | prosperous plantation on the Island of Ha- crackers is as much of an incident at wed- stone and thatch cottage quite on the out-| shaken off before the seventh one, who j Wali, which is run entirely by Chinamen. | ding fesnyities in China as the throwing of skirts of the village, “we can’t call him one | was on top of the heap. Therefore, what | The ‘Chinese overseer and his native wife | av f°UY shoes 18 here. Not only is the of our poor, for heistil! works, although | does the seventh do but cling to the back | are quite as observant of the duties of hos- marriage feasi enlivened by the cracker, over eighty, and it’s his pride to keep out of | of the sixth after they’ve fallen off, and | pitality and discharge them as gracefully but births aad funerals, and festivals, re- the Poorhouse, ands8s he calls it, ‘off’ the | proceeds to ride Mr. Alligator No. 6 around |as do their Caucasian confreres. 1 have ligious, civil and military ceremonies bring hands of his granddaughters. But we man- | th pen until Mr. Sandow Alligator has suc- | Gined at this man’s table and listened to| the cracker into pla. Also they are used age to do something for them and we hope | ceeded in dumping the whole shooting | his entertaining talk to the accompaniment | at New Year to salute persons about to he profits by it. Oneof them is at the pri-| match. If the fourth is shaken off before | of a Manila cigar from his box and a bot- make a journey, and, in fact, on all occa- CLy? they're trying to make a maid of her, | the fifth, the “fth, Ike the seventh, pro- | tle of St. Louis export beer from his cellar. sions out of the ordinary routine. but her queer accent—they're from the | ceeds to rile his disgraced “next” until |The machinery for bis sugar mill was ~ee north—is against her! with the servants. I Sandow get rid of «I his load and another | made in Honolulu, and there is no superin. English Dictionary 1 am afraid we won't .see old Debs, for he's | game is starc2d. tendent, accountant or functionary of any at work again-today;‘though the doctor has | © rw kind about the mill who is not a China- | From Punch. warned him.” 7 man. Ah Fong has had two sons gradu- ‘Debs! what a-funny name!” ated from Yale, and one of his daughters “Yes, but as manyvof these people cannot “Who'd have thought of meeting you here?” she sald, sweeping her skirts away to make room for him on a sofa. “It's a | coon’s age since I saw you—not since you aced and be- | “I should think any countrywoman 5f mine would be quite satisfied with the = There : is the wife of an officer in the United Priory.” sald the consul. giancing thouaht- | ward aver head Gr nor wanted te teks | Aimericns Parry pa ont egret ete Can) cists yer ¥ grard the pile dimly seen through | of. Maw once thought shed! got on the | She had sltpped out of the priory carly wicca risiteoee he ae oe Thrifty Merchants and Hucksters. an niente: 1k » {trail of a Plantagenet, and ‘ followed it | that morning that si2 might enjoy alone, | Ta'y. does, callchims‘Debbers.’ ” Small groceries and bake shops in Hono- hued. Beverdale” £4:R¢ bored here,” | keen, until she found she had been reading | unattended and unciesroned, the aspect of They were obliged: to descend into the ¢ontinued Beverdale. “Algy met her at | the dreadful thing upside down. Then we { that vast estate which might be hers for lulu are largely in the hands of Chinamen, and their little provision stores are dotted all over the islands. They are also the pur- veyors of fruits and vegetables for the Honolulu householders. The country about Henolulu is much taken up with their im- maculately kept gardens. A pocket hand- kerchief would more than cover any ne- glected or unfruitful portion of these gar- dens. They labor in them minutely and as- siduously, crowned with broad, pagoda-like hats, carrying huge cans of water on a yoke stick across their shoulders down’ the furrows and sprinkling the vegetables on either side. In marketing his produce the cottage, which \>was wo low that it seemed. to have sunk into the earth until its droop- ing eaves of thatch mingled with the straw heap beside it. Debs was not at home, but his granddaughter was there, who, after a preliminary “bob,” continued the’ sti = the pot before the fire in tentative si- lence. “I am sorry to find that you grandfather has gone to work again in spite of the doc- ter’s orders," said Miss Amelyn. The girl continued to stir the pot, and then said, without looking up, but ‘as if also continuing a train of aggressive thoughts with her occupation: “Eay, but "e's so set oop in ‘issen ee doan’t take or- Rome, where she was occupying-a palace | concluded we wouldmt take anc mere stock | the mere accepting. Perhaps there was with her mother—they're very rich, you |in the family until If bed simeu some Instinct of delicacy in her avotding Know. He found uke was stazite with | Darlay this apieck the conouk uailA molt Lent Algernon that morning; not wishing, Lady Minever at Hedhany Tower, aid I bnety noticing (oat Sitheupe dee Atitinns | me ile eset might have frankly put it, Shee a Mi od, ner with a ittle par- | was playfully confidential to him, her volee | “to take stock” of his inheritance an his ty. She's a Miss Desborough really was pitched high enough to reach | presence. As she passed into the gardén ‘The consul gave ® slight start, and was | the eqrs of emailer groups around her, | through the low postecn deur she turned to Syare that Heverdale was looking a. him. | who were not only itlowing Ley with-the | lock slong’ the stretching facade of the Perhaps you know her?" said Beverdale. | intensest admiration, but hed shamelessly | main building, with the high stained win- Just enough to agree with you that she | abandoned thelr own conversation, and bua |dews of its banqueting hall and the state is charming,” said the consul. “I dined even faced toward her. Was she really { chamber where a king had slept. ven in with them, and saw them at the consulate.” posing in her naivete? There was a certain | that crisp October air, and with the green Jh, yes; I always forget you are a con- mischievous, even aggressive, consciousness ; Of its ivied battlements against the gold of sul. Then, of course, you know all about | jn her pretty eyelids, Then she suddenty | the distant wood. it ssssn, +o He in the them. I suppose they're very rich, and in dropped both eyes and voice, and said to | languid repose of an eternal summer. She society over there?” said Beverdale, in a the consul in a genuine aside: “I like this | hurried on down the other tesrace into the !—leastwa! Chinaman seeks no middleman, but yokes voice that was quite animated sort of thing much better.” Italian garden, a queint survival of past | Sr from mobbut- les doy, fave ee oe Rion Nite Ris Maat MES. with a It was on the consul’s lips to say that the | ‘The consul looked puzzled. “What sort | grandeur, passed the great orangery and. there nowt wrong We’ ‘is 'eart. Mout be basket on each end loaded with vegetables, late sar. Desborough was an Englishman, of thing?” numerous conservatories, making a crystal roight—how’siver, sarten—sewer ‘is ‘eads a’ and with a quick. swinging and even to speak playfully of their pro- “Why, all these swell people, don’t you | hamlet in themselves, and every~ |in @ muddie! ‘roing’ee B0es cil, stam’‘rin ang house to posed quest, but a sudden instinct with- | sce: their pictures on the walls, this ele- | where the same luxury. But it was @ lux-| starin’ at nowt, as if 'ee a’nt a naporth o° the cook held him. After all, perhaps it was only | gant room, everythi:g that has come down | ury that she fancied was redeemed from | sense. ‘How’ I be doing my duty by cheap and & caprice, or idea, they had forgotten—per- | from the past all ready and settled for you, | the vulgarity of ostentatiou by the long | 'em—and “ere’s itch when a’ cooms the climate haps, who knows?—that they were already | you know—ages ago, Something you | custom of years and generations, so unlike | —‘gin a’ be ee hee aaa the all the around. The same is ashamed of. They had evidently “got on” haven't to pick up for yourself and worry | the millionaire palaces of her rican e true of most of fruits. It is no un- jo, Sawth society, it thet was their Feat over.” ‘ie acta eas the | 204 in her enthusiasm sii0 eva usual sight to find amt. less Miss Desborough, by |~ here consul point that was sanctified this Ume, was quike as coment with the wise io fe < t Msclt_was Lot “ancestral” aa regard: aatlc founders who had once