Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1893 — Page 7

— ■ m.ir - -■ T n ' *•- •' ■ 1 i i i M » ii . — ROCK ON ELMWOOD HILL.

An Irish-American Romance, Written for This Paper.

by william CHAITKK I. A HIT or IHHI.4NI) IN AMKRIOA. The town of Elmwood used to boa t farming suburb of Now York City. Now pb its boundarloH are obliterated, and it is a Hoction of the city lying between Central Park and the Kiverqlde Drive, and nearly built up with line residences. Between the time of these two conditions It had a period of occupation by small gardeners and others, who lived in the humbler kind of homes, some of which were mere huts .on the rocks. The grading of the streets left some of these structures at a conspicuous elevation, and the artists of the magazines and other Illustrated periodicals were fond of sketching these picturesque views. The poorer shanties wore occupied by squatters, but the next grade better yielded ground rent, however slight it might bo, to the owners of the land. But there camo a point In the extension of the city’s building limits when, by means of a city ordinance, these objects were swept out of existence. The early moon of an August evening was shining on Elwood Hill and was favorably lighting it up as a remarkably close resemblance of a rural scene in Ireland. On the shelving rock stood two cabins, composed of a miscellaneous collection of materials, yet formed Into a rude semblance ot cottages. Vinos covered sbme of the lack of architecture, and the moon was not severe In exposing the points of ugliness. They leaned against each other, back to back, as though for mutual support, each being conscious of its own structural frailty. A pig-sty was close by, and a pen for goats, while small patches of garden had been made of the soil which covered a portion of the stone. Up the ledge a stairway led, by means of an interspersion of rock-hewn and boardbuilt steps, from the street to the cabins. Up this ascent climbed a policeman in uniform. lie had been detailed to serve notices of ejectment to the inhabitants of Shanty Town, as the neighborhood was commonly called, and his day’s task had reached into the evening, ending with this visit to the homes of the O'Rourkes and the Beggs. The occasion was, indeed, like that of an evictit nin Ireland. There bod been plenty of warning, however, and when 1 holim O’Bsnrke, smoking in front oi his door, the officer approaching, he knew the errand before it was delivered. Iho visitor simply handed a paper to him, and delivered a similar one into the adjacent premises ot the Beggs. O’Rourke put on a pair of iron-bowed spectacles, shielded the flamo of a match with .his palm, and by the flickering light slowly read the formal notice. A learned man in his way was O’Rourke. He had once taught school in his native Ireland, and his head was full of book learning which had no practical value to him in actual utility. Mo was a vague dreamer, on inventor of wildly Impracticable theories, and altogether a man entirely unsuited to earn a living in a city where adaptability is the first clement of personal success. Instead of making and realizing simple plans for the support of himself and his wife, he gave his thoughts to almost If not qu te irrational philosophizing. 'I It was different with his son, Donnell O’Rourke, a handsome young fellow, who joined him. His hair had the auburn of Ireland in its close-cropped efforts to be curly: his face boro the open good-humor of his race; in a peasant costume, instead <jf the clothes of a New-Yorker, he would I ave looked like a veritable “broth of a boy"; but his tongue had lost tho brogue of his native land, for he had emigrated in childhood. Even his father’s Irish speech was but faintly characteristic, as he handed the document to Donnell and asked him what he thought of that. *1 think it is time wo quit the shanty and tile rock, anyhow," was the spirited reply. “Dm earning sl2 a week as a lawyer's clerk, and in a year I’ll be a lawyer myself. If you can somehow bring in as much, father, wo can afford to live in better quarters.” The one lacking thing to complete the Irish-American scene agreeably was a pretty coiiwn, and >.kecame into it from the jpsidence ot the Beggs. Wide-open gray eyes, With dark lashes, had Nora Begg, and the clear white of her cheeks was freckled like the stipple of an engraved face, bhe seemed younger by two or three A years than. Donnell, who was 20, and like him she had been brought a toss tho < cean too early in life to leave the brogue of Ireland on her tongue. A modest girl, and a neatly dressed one, was this New York colleen of Elmwood Rock. Close dwellers there had she and Donnell been, and closer yet had their hearts become. When she was told that the eviction was a certainty, and thereupon Donnell asked her to walk with him, she blushed a little, but took his arm, and it was evident that their conversation would relate to the question of a future home. Even the abstracted Phelim O’Bourke vaguely * understood that, as ho watched them out of sight. While I’holim O’Rourke was still meditating upon the document, his neighbor, Mkky Begg, zigzagged up the stairway. Micky was a sad example of .intemperance, and he had just returned from the“berren” of old Pete McGlathery. As, the bottle was passed around very freely alter old Pete was put under the ground, Micky was full to tho back teeth. To show bls sobriety he called upon O’Rourke to see him jump from the three-legged stool, which stood by the doorstep, to the lot om of , the washtub. He put himself in post-I tion and said: “Soo mo lep, and then say if I’m dhrunk. Hurroo!” “Are you cornin’ in. Micky?" came in i a woman's feeble voice from within, for poor Mrs. Begg was a helplessly, hope- I c lessiy bedridden invalid. “Divil a s' ep till O’Rourke sees me Irp ' from the tub to the stool. I can lep like | n goat, mo iturlln!” And giving u sj r ng in the air Micky' oa'Te down with a thud, . Heariy crush ng a goat!' that was com- . ep ng near tho cabin door. jr, "A nice o-uinipie you are, Mh ky,” said i O’l'ourkc, solemnly, “to come from a funeial as drunk as a piper. Cot up, Micky, here comes the priest." Sure < trough, Blither Hanley, who was returning from old Me'■ lathery’s luntral, < ame along. Micky had picked hifn--1 self up, brushed the mud from his clothes, and put himself on tho stool before tho Bather eitme up. “How are you, 1 helim?" said tho priest. “And tip, children? Well, 1 hope, . Go i bless them!” “Yes. Bather, they are well and can eat as well as tiny childcron the rocks. I with you would spake to Micky. Father. He wants looking after. To-morrow morning he has to bo up bright end <V‘i’ly, for we’re going to be evicted. Look at him as drunk as a lid- ". dler." "Yes," said the priest. “I watched him at the funeral. The death ot old ’■ -- z X .

. FLORENCE. , McGlathery should boa warning to him. That sinner did not draw a sober breath for many months. Do you hear mo, Micky?" said the priest, shaking up his stupid parishioner. “Don’t you want to buy Idm, Father?" I replied Micky, “He’s as fat us butter." I “He’s thinking of Helling the pig," I spld O’Rourke apologetically. "It's got j to be made a riddance of, and he's drunk enough to fancy he's back in Ireland —bound for a fair with tho porker." "Liffen, Micky," said the priest. “You see how that toper McGlathery died, d.d<ye not? What can you expect to gain by this constant inebriety? Think: of MoGlathory'H end, my man!" “He’ll roast like pipe clay,” replied ' Micky, In a maudlin manner, his eyes now half opened, and tours running (’own his cheeks. “And.” ho continued, “If it wasn’t for the black spot on his belly he'd bring more’n I’m uxin. ” “Oh, you are incorrigible, Micky," said the priest, as ho roared with laughter at his parishioner’s answers. A shout of laughter whs heard as three pretty, bright-faced children camo up tho hillside, and, witli hands filled with wild Howers, camo running toward th priest, who received them with a kiss for one, ail embrace for another, and taking the smallest In his arms held her high in tho air till she laughed with childish glee. They were O’Rouko’s youngsters, and had stayed till dark in Cential Dark, thus getting home by moonlight. “Well, darling*, I’m glad to see ye this blessed summer evening. You are all as pretty as the flowers, and reflect great credit on your loving mother, who takes such good care of you." It Is something to be remembered, thb fpndness the Irish children have for tho priest. The appearance of “The Father" in nn Irish village is the signal for a general assembling of the children, who run toward the good man, and, climbing around his legs, with shouts ot welcome, hug and kiss him in token of their love and veneration. The rocks of Elmwood presented the same characteristics. “Run into the house, my darlings," said Father Hanley. "I want to speak to Mr. Begg on a matter of business. Come here, Micky; you are sober enough to listen to what I have to say. Lady Maud Tennisom, from the big house at Kilrona, where you camo from, has written me a letter. She was very fond - of your Nora .before you emigrated. She has lost her own daughter since then, and she writes that she constantly thinks of her dead pet s foster-sister, Nora." “Yes, father," said Micky, now perfectly sober from his sn-jrtnap. “Her ladyship was always fond of Nora, and Nora seemed quite taken wid her, too. She is a true, good lady, and a Christian woman. Sure, didn’t she put a beautiful stone over the corpse of ould Carolan in Kilrona Abbey, at her own expense, the darlin’, and ain’tshe loved by the poor people from one end of Loch Dermid to tho other. God bless her!” “Listen to me, Micky, if you’re sober enough to comprehend. Lady Maud writes that she will adopt Nora as her own daughter. If she can get a complete and legal release from her parents. I suppose It’s Oonah that I must see about it.” “Yes, yer reverence. It’s tho mother that decides. “Is she able to see me?" * “Blaze come in and try.” Tho priest entered tho cabin and found the b d-ridden Oonah Begg lying awake on her couch. She was feeble with an incurable malady, which had been caused by a street railway accident a year before and which was sure to result in her death at no distant day. He gave her a priestly blessing and then delivered hiserran.i—very gently and considerately, for he knew that no true mother could at once tolerate the suggestion of giving away her ciaught r. 'When he had at length rea l the letter to her and she fully comprehended it, sir - cried: “Oh, I couldn’t do It, Father. 1 ' “It is a pity it isn’t Do’t’ that somebody wants." the priest exclaimed, “and not the daughter that is a comfort to you, ” “Don’t say one word, if ye plaze, against me boy. May be he isn’t what he ought to be, but I am in hopes he will como around in time.” “Well, I hope so," and the priest indulged in th ■ frrnkness of advice common to his profession in dealing with tho poor and ignorant of their parishes; “but he’ll have to mend a deal to become a good boy. 1 see him too much with tho toughs and the gangs. But there, don’t cry, Oonah. We’ll try to reform Dolf; and as to Nora, think the matter over. Remember, she will receive a good education and become a grand lady. Won’t that boa satisfaction to you, for you know that you haven’t long to remain wi.h her. Think it over, Oonah. ” Father Hanley emerged from tho cabin to find Phelim O’Rourke and Micky Begg engaged in a dialogue in which tho talk is all being done by Phelim. That learned and erratic man was discoursing upon a subject which, so he was telling, he had elucidated in a speech on tho previous evening before tho Kosmlc Klub. That was a body which met in the ba?k room of a saloon, and was composed of a dozen nil but irrational theorists, each one of whom consented to listen to the whimsicalities of tho rest lor the sake of being heard patiently when his own turn came. They were so thoroughly at variance with all established things that they wouldn’t even spelt the name of their club in accordance with the dictionary, and at times they took to adopting long resolutions directing how tho affairs oi tho universe ought to be conducted. Phelim O’Rourke wa about tho oddest of them all. The address Hint he had delivered, and about which he was talking so the belli Idled Micky, lie had forwarded as a theory which, ev n to ids companions, seemed singular in-j deed. It had kept them so interested i that they litiid neglected the convivtal function or tho club. Their Leer glasses had been empty for a quarter of an hour before ho finished, but upon his conclusion the mugs weto-qu.ckly.lKed, and the overtopping foam ran down their s:di sto the table. „ i "Here is to tin? ho e," said one, “that Mr. O’Rourke’s theory may never bo tested on O’l Qurfte’s self.” That, was drank with n.day laughter, so O’Rourke confessed in ids account to neighbor.’ And yet ho declared that he hud Impressed his fellow-members immensely. “You ve trains enough and to spare, I helim,” eald the priest, after listening to enough of tho concluding nan utlve to understand that O’Rourke was full of A. me new. strange and impracticable dactrinu ot his own Invention, "thy

don’t you use your education itenufbly, ' as your son Doi-noil does'? He'll boa successful lawyer one day, for he’s ; strengthening his head by good work, I wliilo you’re addling yours with your l philosophical rubbish." While tho priest was speaking Dolf Bngg camo up tho stairway, gave to tho priest a none too respectful “good-even-ing," and slouched into his humble I homo. He was not an 111-looking fellow, but his manner betrayed bad hab- j its and a reckless disposition. The three men conversed a sow minutes about the I impending eviction. Then they were ■ startled by an outcry. It was tho fooblo ! yet shrill voice of Oonah Bogg, and I they hurried into hor cabin to find out what was tho mutter with hor. Hho lay with hor eyes closed, and exhaustion expressed in her thin, wan face. Dolf .Begg, her hulking son, sat in a chair tipped back against the wall, with ills i arms folded hard, one leg crossed stiffly I over tho other, and his scowling brows so lowered over his eyes that only half | their evil light was visible. j “What is it?" Father Hanley asked, taking n seat on tho edge of tho bed, and holding one of tne invalid’s hands. “Hus tho boy beon doing anything to you?” “That's right!" Dolf exclaimed. “Ask hor—don’t ask me. Os course, she’ll : tell you the truth, und I won't." “Did he strike you?" tho priest asked, ’ seeing a red mark on the woman's wrist, ' us though she had warded off a blow. “He didn’t strike mo," she responded. “He tried to rob me. Ho know nayhundred dollars had been drawn from the savings bank, that I had it here under my pillow. It’s part av what the railroad folks gave ino fer tho accident . and now we’ve got to uso it fer the hirin’of a place to Eve in. When he thought I was fast aslupe, he comes in on tiptoe, and feels fer it. But I was awake, and I screamed with all me might, which wasn’t much. I’m sorry to tell it av him, but, sure, the priest ought to know it. And 1 had to call fer help, fer he’d have stolen mo money.” Tho priest patted tho woman's hand, and said soothingly: “Never mind it — never mind it,” But turning to tho young man, he addressed him with bitter emphasis: “Dolf, I knew you were a brute. How it came to be so I don’t know, for your dying mother here is a good woman, and your father's one fault is the drink. I have known of your striking your poor, helpless mother, and that is both ferocious and cowardly. Now you've turned thief —a most contemptible thief—for you’d steal the very money that she received in payment for her life. Dolf, take my warning. You’ll come to some bad end it you don’t reform yoursetf." Dolf said nothing, but sullenly unfolded his arms, uncrossed his legs, picked up his hat and slouched out of the cabin. He stamped down the stairs to the street, and bent his steps toward the groggery, where his gang congregated, bound to get drunk if whisky co’uld be obtained without money. Micky Begg was sober by this time, and his customary affection for his wife manifested itself in the exclamation: “I'll thrash the devil out of him —that’s what I’ll do." “Don’t do that,” Oonah said. “Lave him to Father Hanley. May be he’ll be sorry when I’m dead, and do better.” She dosed her eyes and was silent for a minute; then she said, with a sad smile: “There’s pleasant news. Anyhow, it’s pleasant to me. The doctor was here. He said I wouldn’t live longer than six months at tho most. There, Micky, don’t be sorry. As I thought me sufferings—me days and nights av dreadful, dreadful pain—was going to last longer I'd be in despair. But the doctor is certain about it. He says I'll die within six months.” "And there’s no possibility -of your recovery?" Phelim O’Rourke inquired,with a singular manifestation of interest. “You’ve got to lie here, and do nothing but suffer, and wait for death?” The priest and tho neighbor bado the Beggs good-uight, and departed. CHAPTER 11. MICKY AND TUB WITCH. At daylight next morning Micky started for the stockyard at the river’s side underneath Washington Heights, driving the pig before him. He felt full of Irish patriotism, for was ho not almost taking a pig to the fair? And wasn’t the proceeds to go to pay the ground rent of his doomed cabin, before the eviction of the family, and the demolition ot tho structure? Micky lighted his pipe, and as he trudged along the road would whistle a bar oritwo of some reel or jig between the whiffs of his "dudheen, ’ while his mind was filled with Lady Maud's request to bring up Nora as her own. "Why not? ’ thought Micky. “Heaven knows we have as much asr we run du to bring up-the little wans, and if one was gone there'd be more for the rest;” and then, as if ashamed of this selfish view of the matter, ho muttered: “No; give away me own flesh and blood? No; better starve foorst. ” And then the idea of Nora becoming a tine lady and riding in her carrdgo, while people would take off their hats t' her, took possession of Micky’s brain. “ Why not, indade? Sure, she’s'as pretty as Lord Lorton’s daughter, and maybe I’d g-'t a chance to be a gatekeeper or loadmaster estate. Begorra, Nora can go! We’U all be rich one of these days. ” “G’long there, ye divil,” as tjie pig tugged at the rope around his neck, and with the natural disposition inherent in pigs to go the wrong way, he darted between Micky’s legs, upsetting him. The rope slipped from his neck, the pig started back the road he had come. Micky picked himself up and lan in pursuit with many a wild and wicked oath, “Bad luck to ye as a racer; but I’ll pay ye off for this when I catch ye,” said Micky as he ran for dear life afte« the porker. When he captured the pig, which he did after a long chase, he struck upon a new idea. “I’ll put the rope around his waist,” said he, “and then, begorra, I can drive him either way. ” 'The stockyard was reached in an hour, and Micky sought a |urcha-ei, but'no one seemed inclined to buy a single pig. He saw them in the pens by the thousand, but they had come bycar loads from the West, and there was nobody to buy one lone pig. Noon passed 'without giving poor Micky an opportunity to dispose of his charge. “Como here, uvick," said ho. addressing a little ragged boy. “Hou’d this darlin’ while 1 go to take a bite. I’m hungry and must eat, or I’ll drop with the'waitin’." And ghing tho p'g in charge of the boy, Micky skipped off to a shebeen, whore he disposed of two great pieces of tread and took three j yoggins of whisky in tho space of half I an hour. Just then an pld friend 6f his, one Tommy bane, came in. “Ah, ha. Tommy! how- are ye, me bould buck" t ome, have a noggin wid mo," said Micky., And another drink was the result. Now, Tommy took a turn at treating, and down went two more glasses. By this time was half drunk, and tlio thought of the pig took possession of him. “Hould hard, Tommy.” said he, refusing another glass;* “I’ll drink no more till I sell the pg" And he zig-zaugea back to the yard. “Here is the owner," sa d the ioy, who by this time had got tired of his charge, and, was talking to a woll-to do looking man; “here’s the man as owns de pig." / "Do you want to/buy him?" asked '

Micky, addressing the man. who wns an overseer. 4 He laughed at tho proposal first, but seeing that Micky was in earnest ho listened to it. A bargain was struck und tlio pig transferred to the custody of tho uew proprietor, while Micky returned to the shebeen to spend the “luck penny” with his old friend, Tommy Knno. Drink after drink was now tho order of the day, until Micky had spent a dollar of the money ho had received lor the pig, and was so drunk he could hardly stand. Tommy had dropped in a dark corner of the shebeen and gone fast asleep. it was quite dark when Micky started homeward, und with much difficulty ho picked his way through tlio park skirting tho Hudson und towuid Id, cabin, two miles away. Micky wa* not so drunk as to forgot the letter from I ady Maud und her desire to adopt little Nora, and as he staggered from uno side to thoother ho would hb- otigh out: “Me little Nora will be a folne leddy, and me, her feythcr, will be a gentiemin, begorra." He was now approaching a deep cut at tho foot of 104th street. Tlds was a place which Elmwood tradition said was peopled by fairies. But Micky was tilled with couraire, for the whisky had fired his blood, and he did not care a straw for man or devil. So, with un effort to steady his pace, ami wrapping his long coot around his legs, he boldly plodded on. Ho had not proceeded more than a quarter of a mile before the whisky began to die within him. and he folt inq oiled to sic down on a rock by tl>e wayside. Strange music was heard, as if from afar; so soft and distinct that the faintest sound camo to Micky’s bewildered ears. Nearer and neart rit < ame; now a trifle louder, now dying away in tho distance. Suddenlythe gra a s at Micky’s feet became fjtrangciy illuminated w.th tiny glass lamps, which hung like lighted dewdrops from each blade of" grass, while hundreds of little figures, little men and women dressed In spangled green, danced and leaped about, keeping time to the fairy music. These tiny creatures were not larger than pins, yet were perfect in form and features. They were a merry set, und clapped their hands with glee, as they laughed and shouted in the,moonlight, Presently from their midst came one, a queer-looking old fellow, with a large red nase and the most comical of faces. His little eyes had a merry twinkle, and though he was no bigger than Micky's little finger, he pushed aside his companions, who seemed to hold him in great esteem, for they ceased their dancing and shouting at his approach, and bowed most respectfully to him as he climbed up Micky’s leg and took a seat on his shoulder. “Oh, bedad, but this is a quare party I’ve got into," said Micky, as lie glanced at tho little old man on his shoulder. “How are you, me darlin’,” chattered the old man, while the myriads of tiny creatures at his feet peeped from their shelter behind stalks, blades of grass and grains of sand, as if intent on Micky’s reply. . “Would you like i*drink of whisky, me darlin’?” again queried the leprachaun, for the old fellow was none other. “I would indeed,” said Micky. “My mouth is as dry as a lime burner’s heel." “Come along, then.” said the old man, jumping from Micky’s shoulder to his knee and with another jump to the ground. He led the bewildered Irishman across the road to a cabin, well lighted and warm, in strong contrast to the dark pathway. Thousands of little fairies, each with his little lamp lighted up, were in front of him. “Across the road! By the powers, I'm afraid I’Jl step on some of yer friends here and crush a few thousand of them wid me feet. ” “Never mind them," said the old man, “they can take care of themselves; they will leave us at the door.” And sure enough, the moment Micky and his companion reached, the door of the cabin the tiny guardians flew away, their lamps Shining like myriads of fireflies in the darkness. Micky and his conductor entered the cabin. Across at the back stood a little bar er drinking stand, on which were arranged bottles of various colors. With a bound the old fairy jumped upon the counter, and dancing a tattoo with his heels summoned a fearfully wrinkled old lady with pointed chin and wqazened lace. jTO BE COX-rixLED. J Dancing Birds. The lc»c of dancing is found throughout the animal world, shown tqore conspicuously in butterflies and other insects, but also in large birds and even in beasts. The “Naturalist, in La Plata,” has lately added some veryTcutlousr’lnSEahces to those ac-' cumulated by Darwin and others, showing the delight certain birds take in moving together on the ground after a set fashion, which does not vary. The Janaea, a lar. ail, with vertlong toes and beautiful greenish-gold feathers under the wings, stops feeding every little while, rushes to on ■ spot to the number of six or a dozen, and then all move about in a cluster with wings raised, The Y’pecaha, a true rail, does the same, but prepares smooth places beforehand forth? dances, as our prairie chicken is said to do. Both these birds scream loudly while dancing. The most novel as well as the most singular performance is that of the spun winged lapwings These have a ceremonial for the reception of a visitor. They live in pairs, but often one lapwing will leave its mate and approach a pair. The latter advance to meet it, and place themselves side by side behind their guest. All three begin to march in that order, the leader emitting loud n >tcs at regular intervals, the pair keeping up a stream of sound like the roll ot a drum. Then all three stop. The leader raises his wings and stands erect and motionless, still uttering loud notes; while the other two, with puffed-out plumage and standing exactly abreast, stoop forward and downward until, the tips of their beaks touch the grourict, and sinking their rytimieal . voices to a murmur, remain for some time in that position. The guest then departs to its mate, and they in turn receive a visitor with the saiuf ceremonies.

dSlv>rt-lived Anger. lii recounting hi<‘ experience, t. pearl diver says that one of the strange effeetso’ dh inir is the invariable bad temper felt wliilo working at the bottom of the sea: and as this usually passes away as soon as the surface is reached, it may be stip. o-e I to bo duo to the pressure of the air inside, of the dress, alTcting th • lungs "and through them the brain. A diver often becomes so angry at some , imaginary wrong-doing on the p:rtoi those in the boat above that he g ves the signal to be pulled up. “with the intention of knocking tiic heads off the entire crew," only to forget what be came up for when the surface is reached. » • i ri . . ... Ye .

DEPOSED THE QUEEN. SUDDEN BUT BLOODLESS REVOLT IN HAWAII. Lilluoknlunl Trlr< a Coap Whh’h Proven a UoomerßDg — Provisional Government Itocognl/ttd--Anncvation to the United M iteg lleinnuded — Foreigners Are In Control. Uncle Nam’.* Tors Landed. Little Hawaii’s turbulent history has come to u climax. Queen Llliuokalanl has been deposed and four citizens, two ot them Hawaiians of Amerli an parentage, one an American, and one a Si-o’ch-ninn, are in-charge ot the provisional government which has replaced the island monarchy. The overthrow of tho government was accomplished without bloodshed or violence, and was the work ot a few hours. Tho crisis came as a bolt from the blue sky, though those who knew and feared the di sky Queen’s intrigues were not wholly surprised. Mali advices via the steamship Claudine to San Francisco say that tho revolt began on tho forenoon of Saturday, Jan. 14. and by the following !|uosday DEPOSED QCEEN X.ILIUOKAT.ANI. afternoon It was ended. Tho four men who rule the islands are: Sanford B. Dole, in charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs; P. C. Jones, Finance; James A. King, Department of the Interior; William G. Smith, Attorney General. They were appointed by a citizens’ committee of thirteen, townich the people gave entire control of the government. The deposed Queen at ast accounts was in her residence in Honololu, and at her own request was under an honorary guard of sixteen men. The

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palace stands empty, and in plaee of the native household guards companies of volunteer citizens occupy the barrncks. From Monday, Jan. 16, 300 marines and sailors from the United States cruiser Boston have been ashore under arms to protect the United States Legation and Consulate and the lives and property of American citizens. Five Commissioners were dispatched Wednesday to the United States to ask this government to annex Hawaii. The Commissioners are: Lorrin A. Thurston, Chairman, who was Premier of the first Revolutionary Cabinet of Hawaii in 18S8; William C. Wilder, head of the Wilder Steamship Company, which does a transportation business among the islands: William R. Castle, a lawyer who is largely interested in real estate In the islands: Joseph Marsden, a sugar '/planter; CbariCS‘'l7 " CKrtOTrttßU'SiJfc of a former Hawaiian Minister to Washington. How the Revolution Regan, The Queen attempted Saturday, Jan. 14, to promulgate a new constitution, depriving foreigners of the right of franchise and abrogating the existing House of Nobles, and at the same time giving her the power of appointing a new House. This was resist: d by the foreign element of the community, which at ouce appointed a Committee of Safety of thirteen members, who called a mass meeting of tneir class, at which 1,-00 to ],.'>( 0 were present. That meeting adopted resolutions condemning the action of the Queen, and authorizing the committee to take into further consideration whatever was necessary to protect the public safety. Monday the Committee’ of Public Safety issued a proclamation to the Hawaiian people recounting the history of the Islam.s ifnd calling attention to the misrule of the native line of monarchs. The C uecn, in an address from an upper balcony to crowds outside the ! palace, denounced what she called the peril’y of the ministry. Representative White, from the steps of the > alace, ' told the crowd that the Queen had betrayed them, and demanded her death. It was at this juncture that the (omnitteeo: I’ublie Safety was formol, ant shortly aft rward troops were landed rom the United Sta’es steamer Boson. The armed m rising of : ens and the ) reclamation of a provisional government followed. The exrQueen, seeing re .s’ ance was hopeless, retired to her.private residence, wh< r■a ;. uard was stationed'by the new g v rnir.i'nt. There’ was no bloodshed. Annexation to he United Stqies as a territory is desired, not as a state. The Boston ; is the only warship th* United States 1 as at p ' Soat on the 'l'aci.tlc Oeean.but a a e_d:sp.’iteh trqm San : r.-.nc'sco says t hat the nlel I S tat <s" fag Ti Ip "Molt at? is now on her way to Honolulu an 1 the Ran er and Adapts are expectel .'o Inure bate y leav the ?! a - elsland Navy Yard to the scene o. revol?. , BURIAL OF MR. ELAINE. Thousands I'.iy 110-.nage to the Memory ■ of iv- »>■•■l '•’c.-O'sm n. America hrou h its 1; gh "St d.gn tarles has ] aid the la<:/te-.bu:e of respect to the remains of cairn s <l. Blame, ?{>ys a Wa-lrngton eepresp-ndent. . livery , effort was imide to comply with the wish I tot ti e dead Urfd' h.s family and make I the fu iral a prvate one, but, the surg.Tig wale 'of public interosf. swept over /he barriers imposed and made hie private funeral lone o<‘ ’he n dst impressive, of public ; demonstra ioii* in honor of the dead ;'iho most «h..menl men m :he nation ♦ "w

stood around his bier. All business In I Ltha nation's capital was suspended wliilo the funeral services were in progress. The presence ot tho President and his < ablnet and Supreme Judges un 1 high oflielals of ( ongress and ot tlio diplomatic corps was not more signifli ant, than the homage of the waiting crowds who in ro-poctfiil silence lined the streets through which the funeral cortege passed. The laxly of the lateex-Secretary wan remoied Sunday evening at 5 o’clock and placed in tho parlor on the nurth side ot the second floor of the Bia no residence. The windows of this room open out upon Lafayette Square, one of most delightful spots in Washington. Across thl i plat, of ground stands th* Statu, War and Navy Building, whero the dead man achieved his latest triumphs in statecraft and diplomacy. During tho afternoon and evening a number of Mr. Blaine’s friends called at the house and took a la“t look upon the face of tho departed. The-expres-sion of tho face was peaceful, and tho lineaments of that well-known countenance showed but few traces of tho ravages of the disease that carried him off. The casket was almost burled under tho mass of floral tributes which were received, many of them from adisjtance. It lay in the room where tho first prayers of the funeral service were said by the Rev. Dr. Tunis S. Hamlin, of tho Church of tho Covenant. Notwithstanding the fact that the funeral was a private one the attendants upon th? services were as truly national in their representative character as if a President were I eing buried. The Slate of Maine sent a delegation of fourteen, headed by Gov. Cleaves; Massachusetts had a delegation of five members; the Union League Club of New York sent twentyfive of its members to represent the organization, and. the Union Leaguo Club of Philadelphia twenty. From various other points in Pennsylvania came delegations of societies and organizations. Altogether a hundred or more of the?e representatives were present. Personal friends to the number of sixty-five came from various parts of the country. Mrs. Garfield was there, ahd others from cities as widely sparated as Portland and Omaha. The Maine delegation was invited to attend the services at the house. Services at the House. The ceremonies inside the house were impressively simple. Before the hour of 10 the invited guests began to arrive and take their seats in the front part of the’Tnansion. There were no chairs re- , served, ex opt for the President and for the 11 mediate family ot the deceased, i i Eleven o'clock was the hour named for I the simple service of prayer which was , 'to precede the removal of the body to ' the church for the more public rites. It , , was only a few n inutes after that hour i ■ when the entered, and the

f 1 President and all the distinguished qpn- > course rose to pay fitting honor and • sympathy to the sorrow of the deceased statesman’s relatives. The family was i followed by Rev. Dr. Hamlin of the i Church of the Covenant, who, standing • beside the casket, in a low tone deliv- ■ ered the Presbyter.an service for the I departed" soul. As he did so, Walter Damroseh touched the keys of the I piano to a slow dirge, and the scene : i was an impressive one. Dr. Ham- > ■ liu returned thanks to God that by • ' his power this life was ended only that ! the life of immortality might be begun, i j He besought the Almighty that comfort i might cotne to e'ery member of the ; ; stricken household, because the one • I that had gone out of this life had gone •j to immortality. Let the consolation i ' that came from above fall tenderly an i ■ sweetly upon them. “Speak to them i words—7 . ■tuch a- Thou "alone I<an t( ach. This we. ask in the name of i our Savi'rur, amen.” , This completed tfie brief and impres- ’ sive s rvices, and the c asket was closed and tenderly borne to the hearse. Sol- ’ emnly and in silence the family and the mourning guests left'the. house which has been so frequently invaded by the angel of death, and the procession j wended its way slowly to the church. Outside the house the street was thronged with spectators, who rever'Bi ? ? A Ft ( ft 1 * * Church orpins covenant. ently doffed their bars as the pall-bear-ers deposited their sacred burden in.the hearse, and while the attendants temporarily buried it under as many flowers as could be placed ’.herein. The cortege then started for the church. it. The inteiior o the church was appropriately dr,a ed: ail about the pu pit and ehair ra 1. were b..nked huge musses o: flbwets, below w u, a the casket Vested. The services, Jwhielr were brief, were delayed soitieivliuf, ,'Ty the"rus.h"c>T th* people in the street preventing the im sTiv.r' fro 'o getting into their s< ats on time. At 'U the funeral procession took up its mar hto Oak Hill « J Cemetery, in Gcergeldwn. Vaere the . bod.y was interred ' ' >id » those of the 1 tl ail u au s sen Walk, r and his daug i- . ter, Mrs Co; p.tiger. Mr. B'alne le t a will bestowsg-a tof- 1 his property upon Mrs. Blaine, and making- her sche .executrix Without bonds. The total value of the estate is estimated at sbUt',UCO.’ Bernardo llohNto, who recently died in llamb rg. Cermany, has bequeathed the bui of his fortune to charitable institutin' in the City of Mexl o. . ■ ' ~ Ttrr. Cinvinuaii charily ball netted $7,W#. Id . 1 ~ ‘ v . .. i ■’ • A...*. - - ■.

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