Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-11-04

Waila Nambuka "the Child of the Sun" To the
simpe-nipded islanders he always looked
upon 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 princelings Of Naikeva
Will reign in his stead and King Wala sleeps at
the crest of gentle slope overlooking a coral
reef. where the league-long breakers thunder
hour after hour. His bones lie far from those OF
Scotch American forbears, who settled in south
ern Illinois nearly century ago
disappointment in love started him out upon
the long road of adventure when he was youth
of nineteen twenty years. One of these unfor-
Inmates who run to extremes in matters of senti-
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 proudes towns of I'LL
nois In the natural course Of events 1t was to
be expected that the two would marry in the full
ness of time. There was home to be built and
preparations made for start in life. something
OF the methodical slowness of their English an
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
same houses line the spacious public square. Inc
same homesteads 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 for his girlish sweet
heart at the haf-ghted corner of the court mouse
square The Albion of the Flowers, the Thomp-
sons the Hulrnes the Birkbecks of Park House
and Marlborough Place" still remains. Had the
white monarch of the savage isle OF Naikeva
come back to the place Of his birth IN the last
year of his life he would have found Latue bflt
ain" as the region is known. much as ne le1t IT.
It Is the same little city of schools and churcnes
OF quiet homes and quieter streets that IL was
when he was a barefoot lad stealing away TO
fish and loaf along Bonpas creek. The future
ruler Of Nafkeva spent many an idle hour with
hook and line along the shadows OF Old bahpaa'
e tke traditions of the folk OF Little britain ar
true He was fond of making long trips 10 the
shores of the Wab2zh with his chums. but ne
seemed n lack the ambition dear to every boyish
heart the hone OF getting out and seeing the nis'
round world There nothing 70 set MIN
apart from his fellows one who would TASTE VI
strange adventures before his death IN me an
tfpodes The prosy, uneventtul NE OF larilS''
A storekeeper or at the most humdrum pTotes'
sional man in a country town all TO which
ae could look forward.
There came an interruption, an aWahehihs -
his loves young dream that drove MIN OUT Oh H''
home town between shutdown and sunrise o"e
summers night This spur TO his PRIDE 'llS
wound IN his selflove sent him adVentuFlhg
among the spicv isles OF the south seas and mace
him king in his own right before ne was t"eh'y
Ave He was of that shy, retiring loyal type "
the Scotch " love deeply when they IoVe al al
He had become engaged to the village oeau,''
The day had been set for the ceremony anu >"o
unmarried youth of the town looked upon hiHh q
one already lost to the fun and frolics OF the
single state. -
'About this time new business house vas
opened I'm the little town and youthiai eastern
manager was sent on By the owners TO LOOK al'er