The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-10-27

deed the true Tu-kila-klIa DO not
90 away like this and desert rs Oh,
our mother. great queen mighty god
dess, stop with = Take not away
your Sun from the heavens. nor your
rain from our crops We acknOW edge
we have sinned: we have done very
wrong: but the IN ef sinner is dead;
the wrong-doer has ali: spare n who
remain: ; are Us, great deity: do not
make the bright lights OF heaven be
come dark over rs. stay with Your
worshipers, and We Will give you
choice young girls TO eat every day. we
VIII sacrifice the tenGereat Of our chill
dren to feed You
1t is an awful thing for any race or
nation when its tabOOo fail all at on e,
and die out entirely. To the men OF
Boupari. the Tu-ki.a-kila Of the mo-
ment represented both the Mo al or
Ger and the regular e 4uence OF the
physical universe. Anarchy ami
chaos might rule when he was gone.
The sun might be quenchcd and the
people run riot. No wonder they
shEank from tho fearful. cOEse Iuence
that might next en~uc King and
riest, god and religion, all a one fell
blow were to be taken away from
them
Felix turned on the shore anu spoke
TO them again. My people, he said,
in kindly tone for after all, he
pitied them ''you need have no fear
When ] am gone, the sun win still
shine and the trees will still bear fruit
every wear as formerly. wi send
messengers | promised from my own
land to teach YOU. Until they come,
] leave you this great Taboo Tu
kiIa-hila en- Oins il. Shed no human
blood: eat no human flesh. Those who
do Will be punished when another tire
canoe comes from the far land TO b. ing
my messengers
The King Of Fire bent low at the
words. "Ch, Tu-kila-kila. he said.
1t shall b. done a you say. Till
your messengers come, every man shall
live al pea e with all his neighbOrs
They step ed into the dig, Mali
and Toxic followed before NJ Pcyron as
naturally as they had always followed
their masters on the island before.
Who are these" the Captain asked,
smiling
"Our Sha lows" Felix answered.
Let them alone. wiz pay their pas
sage when / reached san Francis 0.
They have been very faithful to Us,
and they are afraid 20 remain lest, the
islanders should kill them for letting
us 20 or for not az ompanying us.
Very well, the taptain answered.
"Forward all there, boys. Now
ahead for the ship. and thank God,
were well ont of it"
But the islanders still stood on the
i l. T.. l..
in vain after the departing boat, and
crying aloud in pitcous tones: "Oh,
my mother, come back oh, : cry great
gods, Go not fly and desert rs.
Seven WecEs later Mr. and Mrs.
Felix TnmstOn, who had been married
in the cathedral 1T Honolulu The vcrf
morning the Australasian arrived
there. sat in an emincntIy respectable
drawing room N j London square,
where Mrs Ellis MurIc'9 aunt hr mar
riage was acting as their hostess.
But how dreadful it Is 10 think,
dear, Mrs. Ellis remarked Tor the
twentieth time since their arrival,
with a ueep-draWn sigh, "how dread
full to think that you and Felix should
have been all those months alone on
the island together without being
married.
Muriel looked up with quiet smile
toward Felix. II think, Aunt MARY"
she said dreamiIy, If you'd been
there yourself, and suffered all those
horrors that we di3 together, you'd
have troubled your head very little
indeed about sJch conyentiUnaitics,
As whether or not you happened to be
married. Besides She added.
after pause. with Il fine perception Of
the memorable ,tringcncy OF Mrs
Grundy's law, we weren't quite with
out chaperons, either, don't you know:
for our Shadows, of course, were al
ways with rs.
Whereat Felix smiled an equally
quiet smile And terrible as it all
was, he put in, Il shall never regret
il. because it made me know how brave
and tIustful and pure woman could
be under such awful conditions"
But Mrs. Ellis sat still in her chair
and smiled uncomfortubly Ii affected
her spirits. Taboo,, after all are much
the same IN England As in Boupari.
THE END.