They evidently believed that the act of the president was from fear rather than humanity.

Thanksgiving morning dawned bright and clear. The mina-birds sang among the algarobas, and the ringdove's soft cooing came in mournful cadence from the shady groves. There was a spirit of restless anxiety on the part of every one; a great eagerness to know who would be set at liberty and who would remain in prison. At an early hour the seven men for whom the petition had been circulated were called to the prison court and their pardons read to them. Those who had been too stubborn to sue for pardon were left in the prison, completely crushed by the knowledge that the Government was strong enough to longer refuse them their liberty. They had been sentenced to long terms, and were now without hope. Their manner at once changed. They were no longer defiant and rebellious, but became humiliated and meek. But their day of grace for the present had passed, and there was no intimation that executive clemency would ever be granted to them. Their friends began to hope that on the first day of the new year the president might extend executive clemency to them. It was thought that it would be a fitting act of mercy, a proof that the republic did not harbor malice against them for their evil deeds. Consequently the haughty prisoners, who had not deigned to ask mercy before, began to plead for it now.

Their friends, who had declared that they would stubbornly hold out against the Government, became alarmed; petitions were circulated in their behalf, and assurances given that the culprits would take the oath of allegiance to the Government, if pardon was granted.

Church services on Thanksgiving day in Hawaii are similar to such services in the United States. Turkeys suffer there as in the temperate zones. The early morning witnessed one of the largest military displays ever seen in Honolulu. The regulars, the artillerymen, and the national guards, a company of cavalry, and mounted police—all joined in the parade. At nine o'clock in the morning vast crowds were seen moving toward the capitol grounds. It seemed as if the whole city had been suddenly seized with the notion to go to the state building. The crowd was well-behaved and good-natured considering its size, and only a few policemen were required to preserve order. The Hawaiian soldiers are all armed with Winchesters, or breech-loading Springfield rifles, all forty-five calibre. The United States uniform as well as arms are adopted by the regulars of the Hawaiian army, and they only need the stars and stripes to make their Americanism complete.

The Hawaiian flag has the stripes of the United States, alternating red, white, and blue, and the red cross of Great Britain, instead of the blue field and

stars of the United States. The story of the Hawaiian flag is a very amusing one, and illustrates the nature of the Hawaiian people. The Hawaiian King Kamehameha I. was very friendly to both the American and English, and up to 1812, having no flag of his own, alternately flew the British and American flag. The War of 1812 had been raging for several months between the United States and Great Britain, when a Yankee privateer, putting into the port of Honolulu, saw the British flag flying.

"How is this?" demanded the captain of the American vessel. “You pretend to be our friend, and I

find you flying the flag of our enemy."

The king, in order to gratify his American friends, hauled down the British flag and hoisted the stars and stripes. A few days after the departure of the Yankee privateer a British man-of-war appeared, and the captain demanded to know of the king:

"Why do you, professing to be our friend, fly the flag of our enemy?"

The king was perplexed. He then called his two able advisers, Young and Da is, to his presence, laid the whole matter before them, a.

do to fly both flags from the same

asked how it would

mast. But they reasoned that hostile flags could not fly from the same mast. Young suggested that as a compromise they take the British cross for the field, and add the American stripes, with the red, white, and blue, and make a