The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, November 09, 1910, Image 6
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His two little sons, the princelings of Naikeva, .will reign in his stead and King Waila sleeps at the crest of a gentle slope overlooking a coral reef, where the league-long breakers thunder ihour after hour. His bones lie far from those of .Bcotch-American forbears, who settled in south ern Illinois nearly a century ago. A disappointment in love started him out upon the long road of adventure when he was a youth of nineteen or twenty years. One of these unfor tunates who run to extremes in matters of senti .ment, he fell In love with one of the pretty vil lage girls of old Albion. Things move slowly In :thi8, one of the oldest and proudest towns of I1H (fiois. In the natural course of events it was to be expected that the two would marry In the full ness of time. There was a home to be built and (preparations made for a start in life. Something of the methodical slowness of their English an cestors clung then, and still clings, to the every day life of the citizens of Albion. The town has changed but little in the years that have flown since Thompson left under cover of nightfall. The came houses line the spacious public square. The same homesteads that sheltered the pioneers now 'shelter then descendants of tho third and fourth generations. Red brick homes, low-eaved and with wide doorsteps, still line the older streets of ithc little southern Illinois town. Outwardly the town has changed but little, and in spirit not at all, since the days when young Thompson waited for his girlish sweet iheart at the half-lighted corner of the court house ,equare. The Albion of the Flowers, the Thomp eons. the Hulmes, the Birkbecks, of "Park House" and "Wanborough Place" still remains. Had the white monarch of the savage Isle of Naikeva come back to the place of his birth in the last year of his life he would have found "Little Brit ain," as the region is known, much as he left it It Is the same little city of schools and churches, of quiet hoines and quieter streets that it was .when he was a barefoot lad stealing away to Jfish and loaf along Bonpas creek. The future ruler of Naikeva spent many an Idle hour with !hook and line along the shallows of old Banpas, If the traditions of the folk of "Little Britain" are true. He was fond of making long trips to the shores of the Wabash with his chums, but ho seemed to lack the ambition dear to every boyish heart, the hope of getting out and seeing the big, round world. There was nothing to set him apart from his fellows as one who would taste of strange adventures before his death In the an tipodes. The prosy, uneventful life of a farmer, a storekeeper or at" the most a humdrum profes sional man in a country town was all to which ho could look forward. There came an interruption, an awakening to his love's young dream that drove him out of his home town between sundown and sunrise one summer's night. This spur to his pride, this wound to his self-love sent him adventuring among the spicy isles of the soufii seas and made him a king in his own right before he was twenty five. He was of that shy. retiring, loyal type of the Scotch who love deeply when they love at all. He had become engaged to the village beauty. The day had been set for the ceremony and the unmarried youth of the town looked upon him as one already lost to the fun and frolics of the single state. About this time a new business house was opened in the little town and a youthful eastern manager was sent on by the owners to look after its affairs. He came armed with letters of in troduction that opened the most exclusive hoines of the aristocratic English families to him. Among tha. many young girls that he met was the village- belle, the affianced of the young Scotch-American. It was another varia tion of that old triangle, the woman and two men. From the first the friends of young Thomp son could see that his cause was hopeless. His affianced wife and the young stranger spent more and mere of their time together. Little rumors began to find their way about the village. The gossips, ever ready In a small town, were soon busy. Thompson, moody and hurt by her sys tematic neglect, was the last to hear and the last to countenance the whispered talk that was go ing the round of the village loafing places. There was a great hue and cry along the quiet old streets one summer morning. Thomp Fon's bride to be had disappeared. Her mother had gone to her room to awaken her and found her gone. She had gone with the young man ager of Albion's latest business house, and from that day to this neither of them have been heard from Young Thompson changed In a day from a cheerful, happy lad to a grim-faced man. He became moody and silent. He neglected his work and never went near the home to which he had expected to lead his bride. Less than a month after the flight of the elopers there was more excitement in Albion. It was reported that Ed ward Thompson had disappeared. The strain and the shame of living in a town where every man, woman and child knew the story of his jilting had proven too much for his sensitive, high-strung nature. While life flowed on in the same uneven cur rent In the village of his nativity he was wander ing here and there among the emerald Islands, the lagoens and the coral reefs of the seas that behold the Southern Cross. All the islands that lie off the familiar track of the steamers knew him first and last In the three or four years that he spent with the traders and copra buyers. Tho Philippines, the Lad rones, the Solomons and a dozen other island groups of the southern Pacific were visited by him In the epic years of his Odyssey. Finally he and his trading companions touched at the island of Nai keva In the Fijis. One of the eternal civil wars that are always disrupting the peace of the little Island kingdoms was brewing In Naikeva when the tramp schooner dropped anchor inside the reef of coral that formed the harbor breakwater. A new claimant had risen for the throne and he and his followers were demanding tho scepter and the head of the old king. Thompson had left Illinois, had put the states behind him to escape the constant reminder of his lost love that he saw In every woman. The wandering life of three or four years had cleansed his heart of but little bitterness against woman kind. He had put the old life behind him and dreamed only of adventure and never of bright eyes and loving lips. It was a mixed crew of Kanakas. Malaysians and half-castes aboard the little trading schooner. They cared but little for the kings and chieftains of the islands, but It was a part of their policy to be polite to the na tive rulers. An audience was arranged with the native sovereign and a part of the ship's company attended laden with calicoes, mirrors and brass rods as gifts. It was In the royal hut Thompson first sow the Princess Lakanita. She stood at the side of her father's throne when the white men entered the palm hut for their talk with the old King. Some indefinite attraction seemed to draw the white adventurer and the brown-skinned princess to each other. They met many times while the schooner was Uikiug on its load of native prod ucts. There was more than a little Spanish blood in the veins of the old king's daughter. Her mother was a half-caste Spanish woman and much of the languorous beauty of the maids of old Castile was the heritage of this barbaric princess of the remote Isle of Naikeva. In the half twilight of the cocoanut groves he heard her story of danger and distress. The rival claimant of the throne hail demanded her hand In mar riage, and had promised to spare the life of her father if she would consent to become his queen. It was but a matter of weeks, possibly of days, till his force would be strong enough to back his nrrogant demands. In the end the white man knew that the island beauty had fallen In love with him. She pleaded with him to stay and help her escape from the clutches of the oppressor. It is possible that Thompson would have lin gered for a time if his companions had not been eager to get away from the island before the civil war began. They were traders, and as such they did not care to take sides in the dispute. It might hurt their business chances in case they ever made another trip to the Island. The anchor was lifted, the brown sails spread and the ugly Utile schooner slipped out of the harbor of Nai keva while Tnompson stood on her deck and waved a farewell to the imperious little island beauty. At the very last she had reminded him of his promise to return to Naikeva. It was weeks after the departure of tho ship from Naikeva that Thonipsou was dramatically reminded of his promise to the Princess Laka nita. Tho sun had just set one night and Thomp son was lying on deck smoking and watching the swift tropic dark come up out of the east. A na tive canoe scraped against the schooner's side and a native was heard calling for "the white man with the blue eyes." He was brought aboard and proved to be the faithful messenger of the distressed princess. He had followed the schoon er across leagues of unknown seas In his open canoe searching for the only man upon whom she could rely for aid. Tho end was at hand In Naikeva, and Laka nita and her father were about to be put to death. Help must come quickly, and it was more than possible that It was now too late. That night the stanch itttle trading vessel pointed her prow toward Naikeva. In the final melee along the sands the old king and his rival were both slain and Thompson was stunned by a blow from a war club In the hands of a savage fighting man. When he revived he and his men began a hunt of extermination for all the revolters. They were wiped out and their villages fired before the party returned to the king's village, where the schooner lay anchored. Then the white hero was stricken by one of the malignant Island fevers, brought on by his Injury on the beach. It was many days before he was able to rec ognize his free-trading companions. The princess had been his devoted nurse through his danger ous attack of tropical fever. Now that he was about to leave the island forever she grew sorrowful and listless. She drooped like a dying flower as the ship's preparations for sailing were being made. All his promises to return brought on fits of passionate weeping on the part of the little princess. She wanted him to stay. "I fought that fever when It tried to take you away from me. and It was all for nothing," was her constant reply, "and now that you are well the white men arc taking you away where Laka nita can never hope to see you again." In the end her pleading.: won. After all there was nothing in the outer world to which he cared to go back. The good news spread quickly over tho little kingdom. "The Chil.l of the Sun" was to wed their princess and rule-them in the wise ways of the white man. After twenty-five years of Idyllic happiness. Thompson, the iovo-lorn youth who fled from the covert jeers of the town of hi3 birth, died a king In far-off Naikeva, The princess still lives and his two sons will reign In his place. The silence of twenty-five years has been broken by the news of his passing away surrounded to tho last by his dusky retainers. Protecting the Lyre Bird So great has been the destruction wrought upon the beautiful l;re bird of Queensland (Henura superba) that the state has absolutely protected the bird till the middle of 1915; a 5 penalty is attached to Its capture, or Injury. r taking its eggs. Still the bird Is getting scarcer and scarcer. It is the extraordinary lyre form de velopment of the tall feathers which tempts e sord'd vandals. The con tour of the bird, with its long neck and stout ga-linacioas feet,. Is by no means unlike that of a peacock, and the wonderful tail, possessed only by the male bird, fulfills a correspond ing role of vain display. The bird ex ecutes antics for a train of female admirers on a raised earthen mound. For a short period of the year, after January, the lyre bird loses its char acteristic plumes and has to be con tent with the sober plumage of Its mate. The fully-developed male lyre bird 13 one of the most handsome and notable of the forms of bird life of Queensland. New Fireproof Construction. A new method of fireproof construc tion for small buildings has been in vented in response to the growing de mand. Steel tubing filled with con- crete is used for the frame ana a net- work of wire for the basis of walls, j Hoor and roof. On this skeleton a con crete house of such strength can be built that, It Is claimed, it will b practically earthquake proof. Six inch pipe, steel wire and expanded metal, malleable Iron fittings and cement are the materials used. The wires are strung to a tension of 1,000 pounds and bind the whole together with enoromus solidity. On them the concrete Is spread three Inches thick In spans not exceeding 16 feet Con struction is so simple that unskilled labor can be largely used. Youth's Companion. A Chrysanthemum Luncheon. Judging from the numerous letters from brides-elect, Cupid must have been unusually busy with his little bow and arrow. There are so many requests for pre-nuptlal functions, I am sure the description of this chry santhemum luncheon will be very ac ceptable. It was gorgeously brilliant, the color scheme being yellow; especlrlly fitting for this month as November claims the topaz and the chrysanthemum: in this Instance it was also tho bride's birthday month as well as her wed ding day season. For a centerpiece there was a mound of yellow "mums," kept in place by embedding the stems In sand. At each place there was a little yellow jardiniere containing one stiff, straight little yellow "mum" to which tho name card was attached with a yellow ribbon. The grapo fruit ccck-tall had a wee "mum" In the cen ter of the fruit; around the stem of the glass there was a fluffy bow of white tulle. The plates on which the frappe glasses stood had a wreath of yellow "mums" around them and the ice-cream was In boxes concealed by petals of yellow crepe paper "mums." The candle sticks were of silver and had yellow shades. At each place were yellow slippers filled with salted nuts. Just the bridal party were In cluded in the guests, I mean the girls in the party and two matrons of honor. box of soap, of thread, of pins, work box. glove and handkerchief box, stamp box, tool box and a nest of boxes ending with a wee pill box which contained a collar button; box of tin kitchen utensils, box of paper napkins, box of labels, etc. When It came to serving refreshments the hos tess had a dainty luncheon put up in pasteboard boxes covered with rose wall paper, a box for each couple, cof fee and ice cream completed the re past There were salted almonds and bon-bons In pretty heart shaped boxes bearing the monogram of the bride and groom elect, which the guests re tained as souvenirs. A Box Shower. A jolly crowd wishing to "shower" one of their number who was about to leave the state of single blessed ness, conceived the bright idea of giv ing a box shower. The boys were in on it too. and they had loads of fun. AH the gifts were In boxes, which in turn were put In a huge dry goods box covered with white paper cambric on which hearts of red, large and small were pasted. When all had arrived, the bell rang and the village express man appeared and said he had a small parcel for Miss B and Imagine the surprise when he entered with the as sistance of several of the masculine guests bearing the Immense box. The honored couple were told they could unpack, but each package was to be shown, the card read and speech made before the next box was opened. Among the articles were boxes of paper, box of matches, box of tacks. A Neck-Tie and Apron Party. This really is an old time stunt, but like many other old things has been rejuvenated. The hostess prepares as many cheese cloth aprons as there at n men and as many pieces of silk or rib bon as there are girls. When all arrive tho men are given spools of thread and told to find the girl who has an apron to match it In this way part ners are chosen and the girls put C3 the aprons after the men have sewed the hems and sewed on the strings Allow half or three-quarters of tn hour for this. Next the girls are giv en the necktio pieces and they are gathered together and put through a door, each girl having hold of an end. the door is closed and the men are to come in and take hold of an end When each man has an end. the door is opened and the girl who has hold of the other end must fashion a neck tie for her swain. The latter puts It en and the girl puts on her apron, and thus partners are selected for suppei or refreshments. This is a very Jolly party, adapted to private parties oi for a church social. MADAME MnrtHI. To Clean a Black Skirt. To clean a black skirt, lay the skirt as flatly as possible on a clean table Remove all grease spots with brown paper and a hot iron, then with a sponge dipped in strong coffee rut over the whole of the dress, paying special attention to the front and edge of the skirt When the whole of the skirt has been sponged and is still damp, iron on the wrong side until perfectly dry. For Thanksgiving P 'l I VTBBBBBM 9S5m tl I W I I 1 V f VERY housekeeper does herself E proud in getting up the Thanks giving dinner. Besides the snowy linen, sparkling silver and glass, ind savory dishes, some decoration Is nee'ded to make the festive occasion quite complete. These decorations are no small item of expense if purchased in the art shops where band work brings its price. Any woman or girl may. how ever, make her own decorations at very small expense and in a short time. We are giving today several designs which work out attractively In color. The candle shade, representing the horn of plenty, always In evidence In Thanksgiving decorations, is to be traced on thin water-color paper by means of carton paper, and tinted in water-color. The horn is to be purple not too dark the ribbons green, and the fruit of the gay richness of the natural color. The inside of the horn mav be tinted dark green. To add to the effect when lighted, put a bright bit of color on the wrong side of the shade under any gay col ored fruit, such .13 orange or apple.?. Leave a Utile scam on each end of the shade and fasten with brass brads. The edge is cut out Irregularly around the fruit. When the painting Is done "o over all lines with waterproof black All-black hats are seen in satin, vel vets, brocade, hatter's plush, veloure, beaver, beaver cloth. More dress hats are In all-black cr black-and-white with a touch of metal or color than In auy other shade. Ostrich feathers, willow plumes es pecially, are much In demand. Shaded and two-tone effects lead In favor. Brimmed turbans are seen, with up right brims almost as high as the hat itself and close to It except at the back. Hat shapes are of three sorts the large, wide-brimmed hat (the most popular, the clotche, or Charlotte Cor day, and the turban. Popularity of Coral. With her Pierrot Frill Mile. Paris Ienne wears a little string of coral beads around her pretty throat There are all shades of coral, from the pa'eft clnk. that is almcct white. ink. and do the work carefully. Four place cards are given, one a demure Puritan maiden to be colored in light gray gown, darker gray cape with bright red lining, cap to match the cape with a white facing and tk and kerchief which just shows a lir tlo in front Paint the face and hands In the nat ural color. Red and yellow, if prop erly mixed, will give a satisfactory flesh color for beginners. The lines in all the cards shou'd be gone over with a pen and ink out line. The turkey is to be painted brown, light and dark shades, with a bit of, red on the head, and outlined. The pumpkin is a brilliant orange color with dark green leaves, and the apples shaded in light and dark red and green leaves, with brown stems. The water-color cards may be bought by the dozen, or very stiff and heavy water-color paper may be used. Those who do not already possess a box of water-color paints may secure a very excellent little box of a new make with all the necessary colors, for 60 cents. A five-cent Japanese brush, which comes to a very fine point will answer all purposes for doing this work to thH very deep rich coral shade. And a girl may choose the shade which Is most becoming to her par ticular type the shade which best shows up or brings out the color in her cheeks. One may have the queer. Irregular ly shaped bits of coral, or the round or oval beads, whichever Is pre ferred. Some strings arc quite inexpensive, and one may obtain the real coral beads for a very reasonable sum. Hat and Cap Combined. The fancy cap op beguin worn by Parisian fashionables at the opera and theater is adapted to street use by wearing it under the picture hat Be ing of gold or silver or of soft cream Lice, with perhaps a silk rosebud or two entwined, it falls over the hair like a pretty frill; In fact, it gave rise to the fad of wearing these frills sew ed under picture and cloche shapes In millinery. In this case, however, when the hat is removed the beguin is seen, and my lady is "coiffed" for the play. Cured by Lydia E. Pink ham'sVegetibleCompomid Milwaukee Wis. "lydia E. link. barn's Vegetable Compound has made me a weu woman and I would uko to tell the wholo world of it. I sufTcred from female t rouble and fearful I'linsin my back. IK'.dtho best doctoi-i and they all decided that I bad a tusior in addition, to my female trouL !o. ami advised an opera tion. Lvdia E. Unkhain s vegetable Compound made me a well woman and I have no mors backache. I hope I can help others by tolling them -what Lydia E. JMnkham'a Vegetable Compound has done for me." Mrs. EsoiAlaisE; 833EirstSt, Hilwantee, "Wis. The above is only one of the thou sands of grateful letters which are constantly being received by tho Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Mas3.,which prove be vond a doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetnblo Com pound, made from roots and herbs, actually does cure these obstinate dis eases of women after all other means have failed, and that every such suff ering woman owes it to herself to at least give Lydia E. rinkham's Vegeta ble Compound a trial before submit, ting to an operation, or giving up hope of recovery. Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., Invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has puided thousands to health and hec advice is free. I.WP.J1BJBJ Baj.Ba.BBBBBByBBBBJI BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaHBBBBb SWELLING THE HOTEL BILL Hotel Keeper's Method of Taxing Traveler Had at Least the Method of Novelty. One or the things which help swell the traveler's expenses, both in this country and abroad, is the "extra." It may or may not be charged in the bill, but it Is sure to be paid for. Prob ably even the most generous traveler, however, will have some sympathy for the gentleman in the following story who was made to pay liberally for a certain annoying privilege. During his stay at the hotel the weather had been very hot. "Charles," said the landlord to the clerk who was making out the bill to be presented to the departing guest, "have you noticed that the gentleman In number seven has consulted tho thermometer on the piazza at least ten times every morning during hl3 stay Charles replied that he had. "Well." said the landlord, "charge him the price of one dinner a day for the use of the thermometer." Youth's Companion. "Kin by Marriage." A caller was talking to a small Har lem girl who Is extravagantly fond of her mother. She likes her father well enough, but he is far from being first in her affections. The caller, knowing the situation, asked the child why she didn't love her father as she did her mother. "Oh, you see," she explained. loftily, "he is only kin to ns by marriage." The Exception. "Doesn't your husband like cats. Mrs. Binks?" "No, indeed. He hates all cats ex cept a little kitty they have at his club." His Luck. "I know a man who Is always up egamst It." "Who is her "The paper hanger when he has to fix a new wall." A Hot Time. "That fellow cooked bis reports." "I suppose that Is how he happened to get into a stew." When the pulpit gets Into poetic clouds it misses the man on the pavement. THE FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When z Baby. If parents realized the fact that cof fee contains a drug caffeine which Is especially harmful to children, they would doubtless hesitate before giving the babies coffee to drink. "When I was a child In my moth er's arms and first began to nibble things at the table, mother used to give me sips of coffee. As my parents used coffee exclusively at meals I never knew there was anything to drink but coffee and water. "And so I contracted the coffee habit early. I remember when quite young the continual use of coffee so affected my parents that they tried roasting wheat and barley, then ground it in the coffee-mill, as a sub stitute for coffee. "But it did not taste right and they went back to coffee again. That was long Defore Postum was ever heard of. I continued to use coffee until I was 27, and when I got into office work. I began to have nervous spells. Especially after breakfast I was so nervous I could scarcely attend to my correspondence. "At night, after having coffee for supper, I could hardly sleep, and oa ising in the morning would feel weak nd nervous "A friend persuaded me to try Postum. My wife and I did not like It at first, but later when boiled good and strong it was fine. Now we would not give up Postum for the best coCee we ever tasted. "I can now get good sleep, am free from nervousness and headaches. I recommend Postum to all coffee drlak er." Read "The Road to WellTllle," la fkgs. "There's a Reason." Brer rart kc aWv letter A aew Tfcey trae, m faM r f XI "1 su