Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-27


thought was food. so I babe the medi-
cine man, who understood few
words of English, to hurry through
the initiatory ceremony and have my
chef" prepare me some food in
stanter.
As | ravenously devoured the fruit
and baked ground nuts that were
brought to me, the old man in his
sadly damaged English informed me
how | came to be made king. 1t
seems that the monkey, which had
perched on my shoulder, was a sort
of personification of a god the ma
tives worshiped, and which lived in
the jungle. When the monkey ran
out to ne and climbed up my sleeve,
1t was sign, so the natives thought,
that the god mad chosen me for their
ruler
Here l was king, and it looked to
me as II had best exercise the prepo-
gatives of my office until had
chance to get back to civilization Be
sides, l was bit curious to see just
what kind Of a king l would make
So decided to stay on the Job, for a
while anyhow.
Haggling for Lions Teeth On.
That night retired to my palace,
nut built of weeds and grasses My
queens, whose apartments were in two
huts separated from the palace, did
not bother me that night, but the next
morning, when l started out for
stroll, all sixteen crowded around
The ringleader, or, | should say, my
supposed favored wife-she was the
latest. and in African social circles
that is the mark Of beauty in women
acted as spokeswoman. l couldn't
understand word she said, so called
my friend the medicine man and he,
with much kowtowing, interpreted.
Sennenneh-that was ny favor
ties name; it means peace" but
think Sens father must have laugh
ed in ghoulish glee at the practical
joke he was playing on some poor,
unfortunate man when he named her
-Sennenneh called me the light Of
the sun" and other pretty names.
vas suspicious all the time that she
wasn't complimenting me for nothing
and when she pointed to those lions
teeth that encircled her fat neck and
| the fifteen others followed suit, knew
| was in for trouble. There followed
lot OF gibberish which was inter-
preted as meaning that my sixteen
wives expected me to show my ap-
probation of their devotion by provid-
ing more lions teeth.
Talk about man being henpecked
by one wife! l had sixteen, and they
had the art Of curtaiL lectures down
to about the finest point imaginable.
Of course, l tried to stop them, but
| there are some things that even a
king is powerless to do, and that was
| one Of them.
Finally, with my head swimming
| from the concentrated chatter of my
| harem, fed to my throne. There l
rested in peace, but when the fear Of
fever in the night air finally drove me
back to the palace the whole harem
| poor head.
Henpecked Off Throne.
1t was terrible, and so one night,
| after | had been tempted to murder
| about sixteen of them-meaning ALL
| slipped out the palace door with my
rifle in my hand and silently fed
| through the forest-literally henpeck-
| ed off my throne.
/ had. gone but few yards when
| / heard a noise behind me and the
sacred monkey came running down
the path. AS l picked it up sound
smote my ears that made my blood
run cold. 1t was made by my sixteen
wives in hot pursuit of their deserving
| husband. l took but ono glance to-
ward the clearing in front of the pal
ace; directly toward me the sixteen
were headed. Peace" in the lead.
| waited for no more, but dived into
| the thick underbrush and ran for my
life. All night l stumbled through
| the jungle, with the monkey as my
only guide. The monkey was again
my salvation, and it led me to path
| that I followed all the next day