The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-11-11


waia Nambuka, "the Child Of the Sum-" To the
s,mn,e minded islanders he was always looked
unon as a supernatural being. His recent deaIh
has nIunged his people in gloom. The mournlns
robes of his subjects have been brought out VI
the napa huts and worn IN the dead KING nohoi'
His two little sons, the pr1ncehngs OF Naihe,
will reign in his stead and King Wala sleeps d.
the crest of gentle slope overlooking coial
reef where the leaguelong breakers tnunoei
hour after hour. His bones lie far from those OK
ScotchAmerican forbears. who setted III sou'n
ern Illinois nearly century ago.
disappointment In love started him out upon
the long road Of adventure when ne was you'n
Of nineteen or twenty years. One OF these anfor'
Inmates who run to extremes IN matters OF sei.f
ment, he fell In Il with one of the pretty VII
lage girls OF old A.on. Things move slowly IN
this one Of the oldest and proudest towns OF lh'
nos In the natural course Of events 1t was 10
he exnected that the two would marry IN the 1uli
ness of time There was home 10 De pulI anu
preparations made for start IN n1e' oolnethins
=, tho noathodjcal sowness of their English an
castors chung then and still clings, to the every
aav life of the citizens Of Albion. The town mas
changed but little In the years that nave noNh
since Thompson left under cover of nightfal. inc
same houses line the spacious pubic square, lhe
same htrnesteaGs that sheltered the pioneers now
shelter their descendants of the third and fourth
generations. Red brick homes, low-eaVed ana
with wide docrsteps. still line the older streets Oh
the little southern Illinois town.
Outwardly the town has changed but httle'
and IN shirt not at all, since the days Wnen
voung Thompson waited for his gFl1sh sweet
heart at the halflighted corner OF the court house
square, The Albion Of the Flowers the lhohip
sons the Hulmes the Birkbecks, OF PARK house
and marlborough Place" still remains HAD the
white monarch of the savage Isle OF Nalhe'e
come back to the place Of his birth IN the lds'
vear of his life he would have found Lutte II.
Gin - ss the region Is known, much as he LETT II
II ia the same little city of schools and cnurcnes
NJ auiet homes and quieter streets that IL wa
uhen he was barefoot lad stealing away I
ah ona loaf along Bonpas creek. The futur
LEV of Naikeya spent many an Idle hour VIII
,ook and line along the shadows OF old BanpaS
~ the traditions Of the folk OF Little Britain ai
two He was fond Of making long TRIPS 10 III
.hores NJ the Wabash with his chums' out
.oon,ea tn lack the ambition dear TO every ooyls
hoart the hope of getting out and seeing inc o.
ronnd world There was nothm% 10 set III
nort from his fellows as one VINO would .as'e
strange adventures before MS death III tno a
+,nodes The prosy, uneVentlul NE vi io nv
.torekeeper or at the most numdrulh pioie
sional man in county w.
he could look forward
There came an interruption, an awakening
49,. ronnq dream that drove him out OF u
me town between shutdown and sunrise OF
nurmn night. This spur to his pride, "a
=. bie self.love sent him adVehtuih
"uono the spicy isles of the south seas and ma
Nm, king in his own right oetore lie was ."0n
eo He was of that shy retlrlng, oyai Vpe
tho Scotch who love deeply Wheh thes io'e az
tne o0o'G La,nn,o engaged = the village beau
he had peoII hoor cot ceremony and t
Inc daS ""u ,tr of tha )oked upon him
ono already lost to the tul and rolics oi
single state. ,s,,oss house "
opered in the little town and youthlul ease a
manager was sent on by the owners 70 iooA a.