The sun., 1901-03-31
! he Bothc- OF Being King.

have shown what an undesirable business
and how bad risk 1t is TO be sovereign
There Ls little fun in Kings life, for pri-
vacy is virtually denied to him and the most
absolute ruler Is a slave to immemoria
restrictions and laws and Intangible rules
of court etiquette: and as to money. there
are plenty Of private men who could buy
out the most forehanded Of sceptre- bearing
! Kings, A King or Emperor is to be ptied
but 1t is mistake. we are inclined to think.
10 suppose as so many persons do. that the
/ profession is on the decline. IL Is in bad
way but it is much better of than II was
at the start Nhilists and Anarchists
lunatics and cranks, take pot shot at
sovereign every now and then. In the
good old days, which were such had old
days, the King was killed at the end OF the
first year Of his reign
Such at leas, is the hypothesis Of some
learned students OF old custom and of those
still eXtant savage customs which throw
40 much light upon civilized usagcs and
their origin Originally the King Priest
or Prest-king was sacrificed M the end
Of year either aS man-god or goldman
whose deCaying godhood must be freshened
by new incarnation or as the sacrticer
who had smitten the first blow at the sacred
animal. the totem Of the tribe. and taken
the first drauCht of the victim blood, the
common life Of the tribe and itS link with
the god or gods. The sacred King wa4
thus blOod-Cui!ty and must die when the
,g a. ,r,n
The King of Babylon had TO die AZ the end
of year. but finally a criminal was suh,ti-
tWed, allowe ~ reign for few DAYS,
and then put to death The old Prussian
ruler called Gods Mouth was allowed o
burn himself % death at sacred oak.
bodily bemisheS. The early sacred Kings
must have had a hard time of IT,
Byand 10y, they got better torms lor them
s"lvcs They lived, and the eldest son
or somo other representative dloi The
time waS extended Thus the hing of
Quihcaue in India didn't have to kill him
s'lt till no had relgnod ten wears Finally
Kings cam" 10 rciEn FOR lie. thai iS 40 Iopg
rs they could keep their Amounted heads
on their shoulders. fixily Of tenure Ike
tenure during good behavior has scarcely
been secured b. Kings even now
In Mr.. j. G.. FRAZERS Golden Bough."
a book that MoNrNGNE would have loved.
will b" found much consolation for many
European soveregns There. for instance,
Is their brother King kUKrIA Of Shark Point
in Lower Guinea. krKuLA may enjoy
himself but II So he has a queer way Of
doing It. He lives alone in wood He
cant Lave his house. He cant even leave
his chair In that he must sit nisht and
day. In that he must sleep. Ii he Iav
down, the wind would lie down too. and
there would be no going down TO the sea
in ships. \ still more unfortunate pnten-
tate ia tho King Of Fernando Po. He lives
in the depths Of an extinct crater around
which are the hutS aud yam fields Of Ri |
abba, his capnal lIl, people are the |
Boobies and he must keep their good old |
aborginal customs. II would Kill him. |
the Boobies think, 10 see the sea. Ne has
never seen and never will see white man.
He will never set foot upon the beach. f.
He ia covered with old SILVER coins il is
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"'' ven ana Soo7'' '"'Ir "''IrN o' walking .
ana "''H'nR' 'h'H most 'h'lma'" domestic .
a''ahS'"''h'' were PFe@'T'h'd. f"'r devils
l h'F h'"l according To 'hn" 'a'ie
" coupe o' ''A''"''' ago 'h" MIkado OF
'R'ah was I'''' ''' "'F'I ana awfnI 10 .
h''"m'"r'ao.'. II''h"' ana nails cou,d1 /
h' ''' except "h'N h' was s.''NIng Ine
po'S ana al'AoS IN NH''l hlS meals were
''"N'o IN" '"rV'.' haa L" be broken and
nnr'"' d'''r ne aad 'lS'd mem once. Any
mean" person H''1g th'm would have
'woh'n hN ana be'n 'HlaN"d IN the throat.
For NlnG u ar'H'e'nE ana injecting as
we'll as sacred Tia" 1'kado had To - N
his chair OF s'HiN with ihr imperial crown
IN his head for several hours every morning,
ooiing straight ah'ad II a. mpod Nj,
load the least hiI there would b" rrmp,-,