The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-05

GO Jnab IL was Impossible LOT het 80 see
through the apertures. At the time OF the
funeral this box was carried te the palace
amid great ceremony and left at the door
way. Then the two maidens carried it
into the palace, and Margaret was hidden
to get into it. The lid was securely fas-
tened, and after the maidens had carried
the box with its royal occupant out through
the doorway it was slung upon two poles
and the queen was carried to the funeral
of her father by several of the staIwart
chiefs.
It was d great barbaric ceremony, and
there was much weeping and wailing, but
Margaret saw nothing of it, though she
could hear much of what was going on.
After the body was laid away she vas car
ried baok to the palace, and there she re-
NAMED, holding an occasional council
with her chiefs and hoping against hope
that her Samoan lover would soon come
and rescue her from being such a queen.
A year after the death of her father
passed when the Ocean Spray, driven out
of her course by d storm, dropped her an
chor almost within a stones throw of the
palace door. The natives swarmed about
the boat, giving the visitors a warm well
come, but they We're sad BECAUSE their
queen, wise and good, was i'll, and her
two faithful attendants gave outfears that
she was close to death. Some of the wise
men of the island came aboard the schoon
er and asked Captain Luttreil and his
crew to join with them in one mighty
effort to break the evil spell that hung
over their beloved ruler. The priests were
then hoarse with saying their incanta-
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tions were all to no purpose.
Captain Luttrell prepared some remedies
from his medicine chest, and while he was
mixing the powders he explained to the
chiefs and priests who were watching him
what the medicine was for, and that their
queen was suffering from a cold. The
natives carried away the medicine solemn
" enough, but when off the schooner they
hunted some sheltered spot among the
cocoa palms and formed into a council.
The result was that the medicine was yot-
ed to be some mysterious connection that
was dangerous, and they resolved not to
it to their ruler The wise white
mar had said, though, that their queen
suffering from a cold, and after much
elaboration on that point it was agreed
among them that if it was cold, and the
white man ought to know, heat was the
remedy to apply. On this proposition a
general council of all the chiefs and
priests and wise men Of the Kingdom was
called, and the matter was discussed.
Their deliberations resulted in a decree
being issued that heat must be applied to
the body of the suffering queen If the cold,
the spell of the evil ones, would be driven
away.
The next day the palm thatched box
was carried into the palace with as much
ceremony as before, and again the queen
requested to get into it. Feebly she
orawled into the box, while outside the
palace there was a weird chanting of
PRIESTS and a deafening din of tomtomS.
When the lid was securely fastened, the
box was carried out of the palace and, fol
lowed by a weird procession, was taken
down to the beach, where several priests
with many lamentations had started a
number Of fires in a small circle. Solemnly
the box with it's royal occupant was placed
in the center of the circle of fires. and the
of curing the cold by fires began.
All one night and far into the next day
the cold curing ceremony was kept up,
and then all was still within the OK.
Calls to the queen failed to bring any re-
Spouse, and the chiefs and priests and wise
men concluded after a consultation that
the evil illness had been conquered. With
shouts of jubilation and chants of joy the
procession formed back to the palace, and
on the way the royal box was surrounded