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: r "; m* of an fcMNOIS WHO ft ji Ki^& NK ot the Strangest stories that ver came out of the tropic seas i that of Edward Thompson, the ttly American who ever king in his own right. Noth- lg more romantic exists in po­ etry or legend than the tale of the lad from southern Illinois, n-mg far-off Isle of Naikeva. For quarter of a century he ruled in his savage realm, forgetful of the world that had forgotten him While he sat in Judgment the affairs of his tribesmen or led his warriors to battle the map of the world was being changed. Ooly the faintest echoes from civilization ever reached the island kingdom of Naikeva, where ruled ^ II ife ^ X v x • " / V jv s JS V» .< Wmm Is §\|P'* Walla Nambuka. "the Child of the Sun." To the simple-minded islanders Ud was always looked upon as a supernatural being. His recent death has plunged his people in gloom. The mourning robes of his subjects have been brought out of tbe napa huts and worn in the dead king's honor. His two little sons, the princelings of Naikeva, irtll reign In his stead and King Waila sleeps at the crest of a gentle slope overlooking & coral reef, where the league-long breakers thunder hour «fter hour. His bones lie far from those of Scotch-American forbears, who settled in south­ ern Illinois nearly a century ago. A disappointment in love started him out upon tbe long road of adventure when he was a youth of nineteen or twenty years. One of these unfor­ tunates who run to extremes in matters of senti­ ment, he fell In love with one of the pretty vil­ lage girls of old Albion. Things move slowly in this, one of the oldest and proudest towns of Illi­ nois. In the natural course of events it was to be expected that the two would marry in the full­ ness of time. There was a home to be built and preparations made for a start in life. Something of the methodical slowness of their English an­ cestors clung then, and still clings, to the every­ day life of the citizens of Albion. The town has changed but little in the years that havp flown since Thompson left under cover of nightfall. The same houses line the spacious public square. The 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 half-lighted corner of the court house square, The Albion of the Flowers, the Thomp­ sons, the Hulmes, the Birkbecks, of "Park House" snd "Wanborough 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 "I>ittle Brit­ ain," as the region is known, much as he left it. It Is the same little city of schools and churches, of quiet homes and quieter streets that it was 4^hen he was a barefoot lad stealing away to flsh and loaf along Bonpas creek. The future Tiller of Naikeva spent many an idle hour with -hook aud Une along the shallows of old Banpas, ilf the traditions ot the folk of "Little Britain" are true. He was fond of making long trips to the shores, of the Wabash with his chums, but he seemed to lack the ambition dear to every boyish heart, the hop$ of getting out and seeing the big, round world. There was nothing to set him apart from his fellows as one who would taste of strange adventures before his death In the an­ tipodes. Tbe prosy, uneventful life of a farmer, a storekeeper or at the most a humdrum profes­ sional man in a country town was all to which lie could look forward. There came an interruption, an awakening to his love's young dream that drove him out of his home town between sundown and sunrise one summer's night. This spur to his pride, this •wound to his self-love sent him adventuring among the spicy isles of the south seas and made him a king in his own right before he was twenty- rive. He was of that shy. retiring, loyal type of the Scotch who love deeply when they love at all. He had become engaged to the village beauty. The day had been set for the ceremony and the unmarried youth of the town looked upon him as one already lost to the. fun and frolics of the single estate. About this time a new business house was opened In the little town and a youthful eastern manager was sent on by the owners to look after its afTairs. He came armed with letters of In­ troduction that opened the most exclusive homes of the aristocratic English families to him. Among the many young girls that he met was the village belle, the affianced of the young Scotch-American. It was another varia­ tion of that old triangle, the woman and two men. From the first the friend^ of young Thomp­ son could see that his cause tvas hopeless. His affianced wife and the young stranger spent more and more of their time together. Little rumors began to find their way about the village. The gossips, ever ready in a small town, were soon busy. Thompson, moody and hurt by her sys­ tematic neglect, was the last to hear and the last to countenance the whispered talk that was go­ ing the round of the village loafing places. There was a great hue and cry along the quiet old streets one summer morning. Thomp­ son's bride to be had disappeared. Her mother had gone to her room to awaken her and found her gone. She had gone with the young man­ ager of Albion's latest business house, and from that day to this neither of them have been heard from Young Thompson changed in a day from a cheerful, happy lad to a grim-faced man. He became moody and silent. He neglected his work and never went near the home to which he had expected to lead his bride. Less than a month after the flight of the elopers there was more excitement in Albion. It was reported that Ed­ ward Thompson had disappeared. The strain and the shame of living In a town where every man, woman and child knew the story of his Jilting had proven too much for his sensitive, high-strung nature. While life flowed on in the same uneven cur­ rent In the village of his nativity he was wander­ ing here and there among the emerald islands, the lagoons and the coral reefs of the seas thdt behold the Southern Cross. All the islands that lie ofT the familiar track of the steamers knew him first and last in the three or four years that he spent with the traders and copra buyers. The Philippines, the Ladrones, the Solomons and a dozen other island groups of the southern Pacific were visited by him in the epic years of his Odyssey. Finally he and his trading companions touched at the island of Nai­ keva In the Fijis. One of the eternal civil wars that are always disrupting the peace of the little island kingdoms was brewing in Naikeva when the tramp schooner dropped anchor inside the reef of coral that formed the harbor breakwater. A new claimant had risen for the throne and he and his followers wtere demanding the scepter and the head of the old king. Thompson had left Illinois, had put the states behind him to escape the constant reminder of his lost love that he saw in every woman. The wandering life of three or four years had cleansed his heart of but little bitterness against woman­ kind. He had put the old life behind him and dreamed only of adventure and never of bright eyes and loving lips. It was a mixed crew of Kanakas, Malaysians and half-castes aboard the little trading schooner. They cared but little for the kings and chieftains of the islands, but it was a part of their policy to be polite to the na­ tive rulers. An audience was arranged with the native sovereign and a part of the Bhip's company attended laden with calicoes, mirrors and brass rods as gifts. It was in the royal hut Thompson first sow the Princess Lakanita. She stood at the side of her father's throne when the white men entered the palm hut for their talk with the old king. Some indefinite attraction seemed to draw the white adventurer and the brown-skinned princess to each other. They met many times while the schooner Mas taking on Its load of native prod­ ucts. There was more than a little Spanish blood in the veins of the old king's daughter. Her mother was a half-caste Spanish woman and much of the languorous beauty of the maids of old Castile was the heritage of this barbaric princess of the remote isle of Naikeva. In the half twilight of the cocoanut groves he heard her story of danger and distress. The rival claimant of the throne had demanded her hand in mar­ riage, and had promised to spare the life of her father if she would consent to become his queen., It was but a matter of weeks, possibly of days, till his force would be strong enough to back his arrogant demands. In the end the white man knew that the island beauty had fallen In love with him. She pleaded with him to stay and help her escape from the clutches of the oppressor. It is possible that Thompson would have lin­ gered for a time If his companions had not been eager to get away from the island before the civil war began. They were traders, and as such they did not care to take sides in the dispute. It might hurt their business chances in case they ever made another trip to the island. The anchor was lifted, the brown sails spread and the ugly little schooner slipped out of the harbor of Nai­ keva while Thompson stood on her deck and waved a farewell to the imperious little island beauty. At the very last she had reminded him of his promise to return to Naikeva. It was weeks after the departure of the ship from Naikeva that Thompson was dramatically reminded of his promise to the Princess Laka­ nita. The sun had Just set one nigbt and Thomp­ son was lying on deck smoking and watching the swift tropic dark come up out of the east. A na­ tive canoe scrapod against the schooner's side and a native was heard calling for "the white man with the blue eyes." He was brought aboard and proved to be the faithful messenger of the distressed princess. He had followed the schoon­ er across leagues of unknown seas in his open canoe searching for the only man upon whom she could rely for aid. The end was at hand in Naikeva, and Laka­ nita and her father were about to be put to death. Help must come quickly, and it was more than possible that it was now too late. That night the stanch itttle trading vessel pointed her prow toward Naikeva. In the final melee along the sands the old king and his rival were both slain and Thompson was stunned by a blow from a war club In the hands of a savage fighting man. When he revived he and his men began a hunt of extermination for all the revolters. They were wiped out and their villages fired before the party returned to the king's village, where the schooner lay anchored. Then the white hero was stricken by one of the malignant island fevers, brought • on by his injury on the beach. It was many days before he was able to rec­ ognize hiB free-trading companions. The princess had been his devoted nurse through his danger­ ous attack of tropical fever. Now that he was about to leave the island forever she grew sorrowful and listless. She drooped like a dying flower as the ship's preparations for sailing were being made. All his promises to return brought on fits of passionate weeping on the part of the little princess. She wanted him to stay. I fought that fever when it tried to take you away from me, and it was all for nothing," was her constant reply, "and now that you are well the white men are taking you away where Laka­ nita can never hope to see you again." In the end her pleadings won. After all there was nothing In the outer world to which he cared to go back. The good news spread quickly over the little kingdom. "The Child of the Sun" was to wed their princess and rule them In the wise ways of the white man. After twenty-flve years of idyllic happiness, Thompson, the iove-lorfv youth who fled from , the covert Jeers of the town of his birth, died a king in far-off Naikeva. The princess still Uvea and his two sons will reign In his place. The silence of twenty-flve years has been broken by the news of his passing away surrounded to the last by his dusky retainers. aftArfAME.WHITg TAKE8 INTER­ NATIONAL BENNETT Cl/P AT f AVIATION MEET. TWO ACCIDENTS MAR CONTEST Ls Bfanc Strikes Telegraph Pole-- Srooklns Dives to'Earth and Aero- plane Collapses. Burying Him in New York.--Claude Grahame-Whlte, flying for the Royal Aero club of the United Kingdom, Saturday lifted the Gordon Bennett international speed trophy from the custody of America in the fastest tinle ever covered for the full distance of 100 kilometers, 62.14 miles, around a five kilcm eter course. His average speed was a fraction better than 61 miles as hour and his fastest lap was 2:55:77, but Alfred he Blanc, in a similar machine, a 100 horsepower Bleriot monoplane, was making each lap on an average of 20 seconds faster than Grahame-White and would have won the cup if hf had not met with a disastrous accident in his last lap, when he had the race seemingly well in hand. Le Blanc was running with the wind under full power at an estimated speed of 80 miles an hour when the feed pipe from his gasoline tank to his motor loosened under the inces­ sant jarring of the engine and he sud­ denly found,himself with nothing but momentum to carry him. When a puff of wind caught him he drifted sideways, still driving at tremendous speed, and crashed head foremost in- to u Cvivfti apu The pole was 14 inches thick, but he broke' It in three pieces as if it had been a toothpick. In addition to Le Blanc's accident, the program was marred by a serious mishap to Walter Brookins of the Wright team, who had taken up the new "baby" Wright racer for the first time. Brookins was just coming around the turn into the homestretch for a trial circle preparatory to entering Into the Gordon Bennett race when four of his eight cylinders ceased firing. Driven by the wind and his engine, he came hurtling through the air at such tremendous speed that when he touched the earth his front wheels and forward frame collapsed and he was buried under its debris. Neither of the men were badly hurt. John B. Moisant, the American who flew from Paris to London, was the victor in a most perilous and spec­ tacular race. Dashing at more than a mile a min­ ute speed from Belmont park to the Statue of Liberty In New York har­ bor and back again to Belmont park, a distance of 33 miles as the crow flies, he won over Count de Lesseps, the French aviator, and Claude Gra- hame-Whlte, the English champion, by a margin of 45 seconds. DEPUTIES STIR UP TUMULT Disorder in French Chamber During 8trike Debate Rivals Turbulence of Revolution. Paris.--The debate on the railway strike In which the government has been bitterly attacked in the cham­ ber of deputies by ttoe Socialists, has taken a new and dramatic turn. During Saturday's session, which was not only the most violent in the history of the French parliament, but rivaled in disorder and turbulence the sessions of the national conven­ tion during the French revolution, Premier Briand, smarting under the repeated attacks of M. Jaures, the leader of the Socialists, and others, leaped to his feet and, defending the cabinet's suppression of the strike as a revolutionary outbreak, exclaimed: "If the actual laws had been insuf­ ficient we would not have hesitated to resort even to illegality for the pur­ pose of preserving the fatherland." An uproar followed these words. The Socialists jumped up and were Joined by a number of radicals. With shouts of anger they moved towards the tribune, crying "Resign! Dictator, resign!" Finally, M. Brlsson, president of the chamber, amid cries from the So­ cialists, adjourned the debate. Mistrial in Bribe Hearing. Springfield, 111.--After a fruitless deliberation of forty-three hours, the Jury which eonsidered the evidence against Senator Stanton C. Pember- ton and Representative Joseph S. Clark, charged with conspiracy tq commit bribery in connection with a state furniture contract, was unable to agree upon a verdict and was dis­ missed by Judge Owen P. Thompson Saturday. The final ballot stood eight to four for conviction. Following the discharge of the jury, State's Attorney Burke announced that an immediate hearing of the case will be had. Protecting the Lyre Bird "So great has been the destruction wrought upon the beautiful lyre bird of Queensland fHenura guperba) that the blate has absolutely protected the bird till the miidle of 1915; a £5 penalty i8 attached to Its capture, or injury, or taking Its eggs. Still the bird ls getting scarcer and Bcarc'er. extraordinary lyre form de­ velopment of the tall feathers which .tempts the sordid vandals. The con­ tour of the bird, with its long neck and stout galllnacious feet, Is by no means unlike that of a peacock, and the wonderful tail, possessed only by the male bird, fulfills a correspond­ ing role of vain display. The bird ex­ ecutes antics for a train of female admirers on a raised earthen niound. For a short period of the year, after January, the lyre bird loses itg char­ acteristic plumes and has to be con­ tent with the sober plumage of tts | mate. Tbe fully-developed male lyre I bird is one of the most handsome and notable of the forms of bird life of Queensland. 7 • New Fireproof Construction* A new method of fireproof construo- tlop for small buildfngs has been in­ vented in response t>o the growing de- mand. Steel tubing filled with con- i crete Is used for the frame and a net­ work of wire for the basis of walls, floor and roof. On this skeleton a con­ crete house of such strength can be built that, it is claimed, tt will be practically earthquake proof. Six- inch pipe, steel wire and expanded metal, malleable iron fittings and cement are the materials used. The wires are strung to a tension of 1,000 pounds and bind the whole together with enoromus solidity. On them the concrete is spread three inches thick in spans not exceeding 16 feet COn etruetlon is so simple that unskUtod labor can be largely used.--Youth's Companion. " Former Illinois Judge Dies. Kenosha, Wis.--Hon. Rufus C. Bai­ ley. aged seventy-one, for many years judge of the probate court in Rockford, 111., and widely known among lawyers in Illinois, died at tbe Pennoyer sani­ tarium here Sunday from senile debil­ ity. The remains were shipped to Rockford. SOME 10 OUNCE IN AUTOS •WELCOME, TWO BITS," GREET- ING OF KIOWA BILL, TRIBAL COUNCIL HOST. RED MEN CHARGE GATE FEE Sheet Dsr.ce, With Frequent War- hoops, Features of Big Three-Day Meeting Near Hobart, Oklahoma- Great Attraction for Pals Face. Hobart, Ok.--"Welcome, Two Bits," was the greeting Kiowa Bill gave the white visitors who gathered at his farm to Witness the ceremonies at­ tending the council and ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Klowas during their fall visit. A good sprinkling of the Indians present made the trip from their homes in automobiles. Kiowa Bill is a crafty business man and he knows the value of his* chief­ tainship and also ot Indian ceremo­ nials. The gathering at his farm was to last three days and provisions cost money, so he proceeded to make the show self-sustaining. Beef was the chief article on the menu and often there was not time enough to cook it. The visitors found as much attrao tion in the personality of those gath­ ered for the council, as in the proceed* ings themselves. The Indians still take these councils quite seriously, or at least appear to. Lone Wolf, in his clerical garb, was there. Wolf represented the Klowas in iiie uyyuaiiluu tu uiu opening m the Kiowa-Comanche country in 1901 so persistently that he lost standing with the authorities. It was con. eluded that he was more of a spokes­ man for wealthy cattlemen than for his tribesmen and the government has since ignored him, dealing with his tribe through others. He Is a Bap­ tist clergyman and always appears in civilian dress, which becomes pretty % The Indian Ghost Danes. badly soiled when he squats In the cir­ cle with Komalty, Kiowa Bill, Little Wolf, Prairie Chief. Little Calf and the other wise men. The long pipe and many grunts are the most apparent features of this council, which sometimes lasts as long as the night session of a state con­ vention. The ghost dance, however, enliv­ ened things. When time came for the dancers to take their places, It became evident what had been going on in the tepees. The participants appeared In full glory of feathers, war paint, blankets, buckskin garments, beads and gaudy trinkets. These In­ dians Justified any colored picture of a painted red man that has ever been printed. All dancers, squaws and braves to­ gether. join hands and form a circle around a group of a few of the oldest and wisest of the chiefs. The latter Bing or chant a tribal song. Their voices are pitched In a shrill, high key, which might be compared to the "treble" of the early-^ay white folks class meeting, - and the song usually ends with a war whoop, which is a bit disquieting to timid spectators. Oc­ casionally the dancers join in the chant and also in the whoop, espe­ cially when the dance Is given by the light of a campflre and there is a bet­ ter opportunity of impressing white folks. The dance Is given in five-minute rounds, between which the Indians walk about and converse with each other much as at a fashionable ball. Conversation with white visitors is limited to the younger Indians, those who have attended school. The older ones, when addressed, answer "No savee," but if the person speaking has something of Interest to the Indian to Impart and will continue talking, he usually finds that the brave under­ stands all that he cares to. Disastrous Firs st Pans. Pana, 111.--Five business u -d'ngs were totally destroyed by fire Sunday and six other buildings were damaged, entailing a loss of $50,000. Murder Trial Is Transferred. Bloomington, 111.--The petition of Homer Shepherd, a banker of Loving- ton, for change of venue in his trial for killing Ralph Foster when mis­ taking him for a burglar, was granted by Judge Cochrane Saturday. The case will be beard in Piatt county. Boy Burned at Play; Dies. Keokuk, la.--Nine-year-old Robert Sittler died Saturday from the result of burns sustained wken his Indian suit eaught fire while playing Indian with several companions. Mutual Expectations. A notoriously close-fisted man taking his goinng uonaay in »couand,r. wherfe he hoped to Improve his game, and, by driving a hard bargain, had managed to secure the exclusive serv­ ices of a first-class caddis, who was known to be a very good player. "Mind, now," said the ambltiotw southerner, "I expect to receive some really good tips from you during my stay here, you understand?" "Aye," replied the Scotsman, hitching up the heavy bag, "an' Ah'm expectin' the like frae ye, ye ken."--Golf Illustrated. o* Omcfcmr or To LVC/U) ('OVSTT. C J. CBSNBT maim amtit MAT BE B -S-J-P Mrtoer or tne nrm of P. J. CHINBT A Co., doing Dtwlnm In the City of Toledo. County wuj Stat* tfbranld. that --1,1 flra sS! Day the aura or ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each aod every CM* of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use o< HALL'S CATARRH CUBE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and •ubaerlbed tn my niiwia feta Ith day of December, A. D„ 18M, I ( A. W. OLEASON. I --^-- > NOTAKT Puaua. Hall's taterrb Can to taken Internally and acta directly upon the blood and mucoos surface* ot the feratem. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY a CO., Toledo, a gold by all Druggists. 75c. Tifcs Hall's Family ?tUs for What About Him? The talk had gone back and fro, and the youthful socialist had been an­ nouncing that no man ought to g®t his living by cheating, and we all listened to him, and agreed that It was dread­ ful when men and women did not teil the truth, but tried to make their liv­ ing by deceiving people. Millionaires, landowners, financiers, we scarified all of them who cheat the public. "No one should make a living by decep­ tion," said the young man. Then a quiet voice from a woman came from the corner of the sofa. "What about the conjurer?"--London Chronicle. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY for "Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids. Murine Doesn't Smart--Soothes Eye Pain. Druggists Se!! 5™ Pomodv T.lrmfH 9Jnt> 50c, $1.00. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes, 25c, $1.00. Eye Books and Eye Advice Free by Mail. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. ' His Luck. "I know a man who is always up against It." "Who is he?" ¥The paper hanger when he has to lb| a new wall." Laying the Foundation. "Why are you always so careful to ask sdvlce about what you are going to do?" "So that if things go wrong I can say 'I told you so.' " Cored by Lydia E. Pink* ham'sVegetableCom COW BREAKS UP AUCTION Animal Resents Bslng 80Id for $73, snd Dashes Into Crowd, In- j jurlhg 8everal. LA Payette, Ind.--A Jersey cow, an apparently docile animal, nearly caused a panic during a sale at the Ouy Stockton farm, on the Dayton road east of the city. An auctioneer had just sold the cow to the highest bidder for $73 whqn the animal made a lunge into the crowd gathered in the barnyard. Dr. T. S. Motter was knocked down and his leg cut, and Georgia, the twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. Stockton, received a fractured arm. Frank Baer was thrown and bruised, and Smith Mc- Clure, Eli Brcdsky, Jack Brady and several others were knjeked down and trampled on. The cow fled across tbe fields and, was captured after much trouble. Milwaukee, Wis. "Lydia 1.. _ fcam'^ Vegetable Compound has mad'. -------•»---- o woll wprnflr^ and I would like to tell the whole worM of it. I suffered! £ romf emale trouble and fearful pains in my back, Inadthe best doctors and tiiev all decided that I had a tumor in addition to my female trouble, ana advised an opera- tion. Lydia E. Pinkham'8 Vegetable Compound made me a well woman and I have no more backache, I hope I can help others by telling them what Lydia E. Pinkham 8 Vegetable Compound has done for me."--MRS. EM^IAIMSE, 833 First St., Milwaukee, Wis. The above is only one of the thou­ sands of grateful letters which are constantly being received by the Pinkham Medicine Company of Lvnn. Mass., which prove beyond a doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound, made from roots and herbs, actually does cure these obstinate dis­ eases of women after all other meana have failed, and that every such suf- ©ring woman owes it to herself to at least give Lydia E- Pinkham's Vegeta­ ble Compound a trial before submit­ ting to an operation, or giving up hope of recovery. Mrs. Pinkham,-wt" lUfTim, AlasM., Invites all sick women to write her £01- advice. She has ffuldeft thousands to holth ffcnu hot advice is Don't Persecute your Bowels Tf] ITT LI. El Cm uui ClA>rtM.i CARTER'S I LIVEE PILLS id 4if iSs" kmoW' pal, SbJ oomh, Sm*n Me* Genuine Signaton Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forevw^ f>. ftCI-IX Orion tml * CMBin mmtS Mmglcmt Removes Tun, Pimples, Freckles, Moth Patches Kush and Skin and erery blum* itsh on bi-auiy, f and dotlos dotec* tion. It bus SUK>J the test of 6S yrs. and is mi luirm. less wc tasUi is i«j be sure ltisprop-••rly made. Ac- eppt no counter­ feit of similar name. Pr. L. A. Havro saiil to a lady of iho haut-ton (a patient): "As jrou ladies will use them, I focomiuend •Ooonad't Cream' as (be least harmful of all UM skin preparations." For gals by all drajnrlstMuna Fuacy-Ooods Dealers In th® U B..Catuula and Kurope. FttdX Hopkins, Prop., 37 6reai Jones SL Ne« Yori i*»yoor Kiok unS I I adTiOO KKHR. lisUlblitjIioC lijHilL I 1 ««. B-- K. W nit l«a>i« .B.CL