Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-11-05

Waila Nambuka. 1.-THE Child of the Sun" To the
supplemented islanders he always looked
upon a supernatural being. His recent death
has plunged his people in gloom. The mourning
robes of his subjects have been brought out of
the napa huts and in the dead kings honor.
His two little sons, the princelfngs of Naikeva,
will reign in his stead and King Waila sleeps at
the crest of a gentle slope overlooking coral
reef where the Ieaguelong breakers thunder
hour after hour His bones lie far from those of
Scotch-American forbears, who settled in south
Illinois nearly a century ago.
A disappointment in love started him out upon
the long road of adventure when he youth
of nineteen twenty years. One of these unfor
Inmates who to extremes in matters of sent
ment, he fell in love with of the pretty vii
lage girls of old Albion. Things move slowly in
this one of the Oldest and proudest towns of I'LL
In the natural of events it to
be expected that the two would marry in the full
of time. There a home to be built and
preparations made for start in life Something
of the methodical slowness of their English
cestors chung 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
houses line the spacious public square. The
honesteads that sheltered the pioneers now
shelter their descendants of the third and fourth
generations Red brick homes, low-eaved and
with wide doorsteps still line the older streets of
the little southern Illinois town
Outwardly the town has changed but little.
and in spirit not at all, since the days when
young Thompson waited his girlish sweet
heart at the halfighted corner of the court house
square. The Albion of the Flowers, the Thomp-
sons, the Hulmes, the BirkbeckS, of Park House
and Marlborough Place still remains. Had the
white monarch of the savage isle of Naikeva
come back the place of his birth in the last
year of his life he would have found Little Brit
AIM the region is known, much as he left it,
l is the little city of schools and churches,
of quiet homes and quieter streets that it was
when barefoot lad stealing away to
fish and leaf along Bonpas creek. The future
ruler of Naikeva spent many idle hour with
hook and line along the shadows of old Banpas.
If the traditions of the folk of Little Britain"
true He fond of making long trips to the
shores of the Wabash with his chums. but he
seemed lack the ambition dear to every boyish
heart the hope of getting out and seeing the big,
round world. There nothing to set him
apart from his fellows who would taste OF
strange adventures before his death in the
tipodes. The prosy, uneventful life of farmer,
a storekeeper at the most humdrum profess
sional in country town was all to which
he could look forward.
There interruption, awakening to
his loves young dream that drove him out of his
home town between shutdown and sunrise
summers night. This spur to his pride. this
wound to his self-love sent him adventurng
him king in his right before he twenty
FIVE. He of that shy, retiring, loyal type of
the Scotch who love deeply when they love at ALL
He had become engaged the village beauty.
The day had been set for the ceremony and the
unmarried youth of the town looked upon him
one already lost to the fun and frolics of the
single state
About this time a business house
opened in the little town and a youthful eastern
manager Was gent on by the owners to look after