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Show H ;'. i in: iioii, kali:. HJ K Jules Verne could mike a very In- B f torcKtlog story of that "race for a king- HJ ' dom" acrois the great republic. There B Is so much that Is at once profoundly Pj consiquentlal aud Irreslitlbly humor- PJ ouslnltall, that no less potent a pen Hj: i than that of tb gifted I'renchmau could bring cut all Its salient features while presorvlug the unity of tbe subject, sub-ject, t.'olonel Cleghorn of Htn Fran-alico, Fran-alico, whoocouplea the more or leai proud poilllon of uncle to the heir apparent ap-parent of Hawaii, the aame being Princes i Kalulant who la now going to school In Kuglind, heirs of tho revolution anJ the arrival of a commission oiroufe to Washington to ask for annexation. He does not atsnd upon the order of hie going but Riea atonce, determlieJ to cad ofT Hut commission and got Itie ear of the state depirtmint flrat, with tho hope of having his niece recognliol as tho deposed quel n's succ ssor. Putting on bliseven-leaguo boots he atrldts across the continent In hot haste, with the revolutionists close upon hit hills; perhtis they have stood In tbe cab wlthluo engineer and fireman, on couraglngtho one to kcop the throttle wide open and the other to kiep the furnace filled to Us utmost oipaclty. A race with Iron steeds ncroia n vait continent, with nn ocean-bound kingdom king-dom as the stikit How roraaiillc.how lutireillug, bow consequential, how abaurdt We shall soon know how tbe oonlest terminated and whether Uncle (leghorn (leg-horn succeeded In getting his say first or not. If he should accomplish this feat, It an mi a reasonably afe prediction tbst his triumph will end with that. Tbo United Htates Is not muoh a I-dieted I-dieted to recognizing "Cheap-John" kingdoms when the poople have do. clared in favor of a reubllcau form of government. It may bo urged that those who have so decltfed aro no moro the people of Haw ill than were the three Tooly atreet Ullora the people of I,oud)n; but It canoot U denied tlmt they (utistltuto the Intelligent, educated and thrlltleat part of thn population, nor that but for them there would I o no civilized imvurnment Uild no projreaa lu the litauds. That their motlvo la Aselllili one mil haa but lit-tlo lit-tlo reference to nitlvo alvancemsnt or political Indepondenco may be the case; tliore la more or leta aelflihnria In evtry atraliglo movement of the klndspken of, and this will hardly Im comldered when the queitlon of general elevation anl progreis Is lu the lnue. |