Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1886, Page 10

Matters Matrimonial in Short and Oheering Chapters. HOW THE JAPS TAKE PARTNERS Bome Reasons Why Husbands 8honld Not Stay at Rome—The Policy Mar- ringes of Royalty—Other Do mestic Selections. A Waiting Wife, Westward, a st splendor fills the sky, Eastward, the rose-flushed ocean turns to Kray; Merry loangers pace And mark t Their glanc Where, lc A fistier's wite in Her bent brows the sands hard turns upward to a King out to sea,n woma n of si ded by ) stands; orn ay, | etling bluff, | ASSORTED TALK ON TIES. | ¢ hands. nee has she for sunset goes her ga e the safety of the single sail fair detall— across the darkening Why Fears )‘nu’um before the southwind fresh and ree But gentle s the sea and calin the sky, And languidly the slow waves rise in tune; One lone bright star, asingle watchful eye, Awaits the coming of the silver moon. “Whatreck these fisher-folk of sunsets rare,” The merry loungers sald, ‘“or beauteous day Like yonder woman idly gazing there. "They turn their backs to gold and view the Eray. 8o, jesting. spoke they of the waiting wife, Tlu-‘r(x passed her by: her faithful watch to ¢ They could not know it held her best ot life, ‘I'hat little boat alone upon the deep. Some Reasons Why Husbands Should NotStay at Home. Men about home, writes the author of *“How to Be Happy Though Married.” in the London Queen, all day are fidget, grumpy and interfering—altogether o jectionablein short l'his is the case very often with authors, or parsons, or painters; but it 1s particularly apt to be 80 with the unemploved, such, for in- | stance, as officers and business men, who | have retired or are out of harness for a | short ume. The spirit of mischief never at a loss for a job for paterfamilias if it catches him idling and xumglu(gi t about—neither at work nor at play stirs up his bile and irritability, and in cites him to the reform of domestic abuses. It kindles his sanitary ardor, and sends him poking and snifling about mconveniently into ail corners of the es. tablishment; or sets him about the cur- tailment of housckeeping expenses, or the amendment of various unmethodical houschold proceedings all of which, how- ever right and proper, tend to disturb domestic peace and quictude, and to make the women of the house devoutly pray for the time when business shall call the disturber sway immediately after breakfast, and keep him away till toward evening. We have known clever men who were always thinking of new theories and “fads’ about the manage- ment of children and other parts of family govetnment. Such men torment their wives and injure the health of their children when they allow these theories to anterfere with common sense and practical experience. The following case will illustrate what is meant. A cer- tain family had the youngest members ill with me, The time was winter,and, amongst his other prescriptions for their benetit the doctor ordered that the room in which the patients wereshould be kept free from drafts of cold air. Everything went on comfortably, and all were con- valescent but the two youngest,one about three years of age and the other fifteen months. To them their father came one day in January; the temperature was higher than usual, he wore a great coat, and had walked fast about a mile up hill at noon under a winter sun. He was warm, and when he, entered the sick chamber he found it stifling. Being a bustling sort of man, and _very opinion- ated, he ordered the children and their nurses to leave the “stifling chamber, where none but salamanders could 1 and go into another room where the air was pure, and sweet, and cool.” Remonstrances were vain, and the poor patients were packed off to an unaired bedroom. Within one hour the young- est child was affected with croup, and in a few more the second became equally ill. Both died within three days, victims to pedantry and obstinacy. But the pedantry and obstinacy. would probably never have had such fatal results if the father bad not been idling at home. A man can never pull with his wife until he learns not to interfere with what does not concern him. He who can trust his wife, should no more meddle with her homie concerns than she should pester him with questions about his busi- n There will be no peace if he poke over the weekly bills, insist upon know- ing how much each thing is per pound, and what he is going to have every da for dinner, It is, indeed, almost a sine qua non of domestic felicity that pater fumilins should be absent from home at least six hours in the day. Jones asked his wife: *Why is a husband like dough*” He expected she would give it up, and he was going to tell her that it was because a woman needs him; but she said it was becaunse_he was hard to get off her hands. Ot course, ITke v her good rule, this one of non-intervention may be car. ried too far, as it was by the studious man who said, when a servant told him that s house was on fire, *'‘Go to your mistress; you know I have no charge of household matters.”” No doubt occasions will arise when & husband wili be only 100 glad to take counsel with his wife in business cares; while she may have to re- wember all her life long, with gratitude and love, some ason of sickness or afflietion when he filled his own place and hers too, hamed of no womanish task and neither irritated or humiiated by ever such trivial houschold cares. She Wasn't That Kind, Somerville Journal, “We are wodded now, my darling,” Said the husband to his bride, ad heneeforth we'll go together On life’s journey, side by side. **We must bear each other's burdens, Help each other when we can, And to make life happier, brighter, Each must for the other plan, “Let's begin this very morning— Lo start right is my desire— You just ket up now, my preelous, And construet the kitehen fire,” Sad. ah! sad, his disappointment ! “ourage oozed from every pore When Lis sweet young br e responded : “Say! What do yo take me for?™” Husband and Wife, Des Moines Mail: A man has an eve for beauty in his wife. He notices the £oft wave of her bair and fit of her gown witha sort of pleasurable pride, even after time and trials have dimmed the glamour of tirst love. The successful wife must represent to her husband all the virtue; must be sympathetic, and at tie same time sensible. She must be bright, entertaining and agrecable at home us well as abroad, and she must know how to preserve silence when it is desirable to hold hier tongue, even if she cidy to burst with indignation. If 81e does not possess these qualities let her cultivate them most assiduously Aund there is not trait that is such a pow crful factor in household harmony as as similation-~to become one in thought and purpose, to have kindred tastes and kindrod wishes. The theory of the aflin- ity of opposits was hopolessly exploded long ago. The picture of u petite blonde D&wmu dm‘mf 10 & swurthy Othello is yery pretiy, but if Othello’s mind is out THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17. 18%0. ~-TWELVE PAGES. ince Thou Art Not Sure of a Minute, Throw not Away an Hour.” RAMMERCY PARK LOT8 ARH SHLIJIJING RAPIDLY. Prices will soon be advanced and you should Improve the PRESENT OPPORTUNITY Of Securing = Rare Bargain in the Choicest Addition to Omaha ROPERTY, UNTIL THIS I8 SHOWN YOU. No Other Will then satisfy Youl! IO SUNanEE St PURCHASE NO SUBUR L T. PETERSON & CO., | AARON CAHN, SON & C0. S. E. Cor. I5th and Douglas Sts. UPr STAIRS. {322 Farnam St., Ground Floa: . AN of tune with Desdemona the aflinity can. n ot exist. What a dap Must Do tp Call a Woman His Legal Wife Lovisville Commereidl: The recent Japanese marriagze in this city has caused some discussion as to the marringe rites performed in tha native dand of the Jap. Mr. T. Shimoka of the Jupanese village at the exposition gives the following: The marriage is d by the cere- mony of betrothal,at which all the mem- bers of the two families are present. It often happens that the parties concerned then for the first time are informed of the intentions of their parents with re- gard to them. Fromthistime the couple are allowed to see each other on every opportunity. Visits, invitations, pres- ents, reparations for furnishing their future home, und the be- trothed are soon satisfied with their approaching future. The wedding gene h_y pla when the bride- groom is over 20 years old and the bride in her 17th year or ov The morning of the appointea day the groom dresses, and the toilet articles of the bride carried to the bridegroom’s house and ar: ranged in the room appointed for the ceremony. Among many decorations the small table supports figures representing long Iife, such as the stork and turtle, supposed to live longer than any other creatures. In the evening a splendid procession enters the hall, headed by the young wife, clothed and veiled in white silk, escorted by two bridemaids and fol- lowed by a crowd of relatives and neigh bors; also friends in full costume, all iittering with brocaded and scarlet em- firoidcr)‘. The two bridemaids and two or three young girls who are the friends of the bride volunteer for the service, wearing the same costume, per- form the honors of the house, arrange the guests and flutter from one place to another to see that all are made com- fortable. Among the objects displayed in the middle of the circle of gnests there is a deep sancer of soft ware madeforthe oceasion. It has a metal vase which is furnished with two spouts and elegantly adorned with artiticial flowers. At a given signal one of the bride maids fills the vase with ‘shake,” a queer liquid poured into the saucer. The bride drinks one-half of the liquid and the bridegroom drinks the other half. After this every- body is invited to the dining-room, where the “'best man sings the happy song and serves out the great dinner to all. With the exception of certamn Buddhist sects and Christians, a priest or clergyman never tukes part in the cele- bration. The verson known as the be man acts as priest and performs the mar- riage ceremony. The next day after the marriage follows a festival given by the holice officer who has giv permission )or the nuptials. He then places the newly-married couple on his list, Royal Marriages. Ban Francisco Chronicle: Persons who are interested in the royal family of Great Britain will regret to hear that the marriage of the Princess Beatrice does not promise to be as happy as might be wished. While it is understood that she is hikely to gave proof this winter that she loves her lord, the London newspapers which make a specialty of reporting the feelings of the royal family and the no- bility, state positively that she is in low spirits, and in such condition that gossips declure she 1s disappointed in her mar- riage. Marriage is a lottery, in royal as in other circles. The fair ~ Beatrice fiul for her lot the handsomest man in Eu- rope. We know on this continent that the handsomest man in society 1s apt to proye a poor matrimonial bargain. Those of us who have both daughters and ex- perience are eontent with the second or third handsomest man, and those of us who have more than once gone through the nmull are content to dispense with good looks altogetier if we can get for our daughiters a man who is honest and ell-behaved and able to earn his living. Male beauty is even shallower than the skin-deep beauty of women. he queen had five daughters. Of these two proved perfect women, who would have been an honor to their sex if thoy had been borm in lowly station. Perhaps the brightest and bravest woman are | | in_ Europe to-day is princess of Germany. deeming spot in the dull German court; a woman gifted with all good gifts, and so sweet that even those who cannot appre- ciate her adore her in silence. Her sister lice, the ill-fated wife of the Prince of Hesse, was so tender a daughter, so true a wife, so devoted a mother, that her me- re given by American mothers to their daughters as the record of a life which good women should strive to emulate . Of the wife of Prince Christian noth- ing is known. Louise, Princess of Lorne, d not conyince the Can that she Victoria, crown is the one re- did was as loyal to her husband as the con- jug required, She may be good wife, but European gossip deseribes her s t00 constantly separated from her hus band to fulfiit matrimonial oblign tion. The law that the wite shall | cleave unto her husband. She cannot | well cleaye if he she remains at War her memoirs that ner m love match, dating from a boy and girl flection. As a rule the nursery 1# a bad cradle for conjugal love. Both men and women tire of nursery fare. Now Princess Beatrice is said to have drawn a blank in the matrimonial lottery. 1f so, kindly people will be sorry. She has been "a gentle daughter, tenderly affec- tionate to a morose old mother. She was fairly entitled to a good husband. A story is floating through the l that the eldest son of the Prince of Wales who, if he lives, will come to be King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, is about to mar girl. We do not believe it. aws of monarchical etiquet to forbid any such alliance. The young prince will probably | be restricted in his choice to those pauper German families whose stock in trade is various quarteringsand their strict ad herence to the protestant religion. It would be a hopcful sign if the Prince of Wales dared to depart from precedent so far as to permit his son to marry plan Miss Smith of New York or Miss Jones of Philadelphia. But the American public would be surprised to learn th: modern idens had made such progr that such a marriage was possible, - Theatrical Accidents G. C. Miln in the Chicago W Not long ago I took a turn one afternoon at ries, and a member of the company to relieve me played Hamlet. Everything went well until the closing ne, unh even that was pretty nearly through, when a very funny thing happen. The queen had died quite decently, with the ante mortem aflirmation on her lips that it w “The drink, the drink, my dear Ham- let; 1 am poisoned The king had been properly termi- nated; Laertes, undone by his ‘‘own treachery,”” was sercnely slecping the final sleep, when Horatio, declaring him- self ‘‘more an antique Roman thana Dane," seized the poisoned goblet to end his noble life. But the impetuous prince zed it, and, with tremendous force, threw 1t to the other side of the stage, where it landed on the pit of Laertes's stomach! *“‘Holy Moses!"” ex- claimed that noble corpse, and for a mipute and a half or so writhed and groaned as to create the belief that it ‘was simply & case of suspended anima- tion. It is needless to say that the mel- ancholy prince himself died to the chorus of uproarious laughter, Lapses of language are often very funny. Richelieu” was being d one even- ing, and Dr. Msuprat, instead of speak- ing the lines furnished by Lord Lytton had undertaken to substitute an improve edition. He should say: *‘Your fate has been one triumph,” etc. But be twisted it unaccountably into; *‘Your faith has | been one blossom—b-l-o- o-m-m." “Yes,” ground Richelieu, sotto voice; ‘‘one pansy blossom.” - In dyspepsis and indigestion the use of | Dr.J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cor- | dial and Blood Purifier, strengthens the exhausted coats of the stomaeh, notes | a healthy flow of gastric juice, §hich i the solyent of the 1ooa and imdpels th organs which seerete it, to perform their functions vigorously and with regalarity. A THRILLING LIFE ROMANCE. The Strange Family History of Eon. Court- land Bymmes. Change of Name and Chan. Fortune—Clearing Up a Mys- tery of two States. The appointment of Hon. Courtland Symmes to be judgeof’ the Brunswick judicial court, says the special corres pondent of the St. Louigfilobe Democrat, writing from Brunswick, Georgia, is not only remarkable in that the incumbent is the youngest judgeever appointed in tne state, but that he:is the hero of a life of romance of thrilling detail. The story was developed 1n a suitr cently entered in Cincinnati, wherein Mr. Symmes sct himself up as the long- lost heir of the Moore family. Nearly u century ago there lived in Cincinnati John Cleves Symmes, a man who had distingaished himself in the war of the revolution, and who, subsequently, had been licutenant governor of New Jersey, judge of the court of common pleas, and rv&uulvdh‘ a member of congress. His large landed interests led him into the Ohio valley, where he soon be- came recognized asone of the most prom- inent pioneers of the day. Amongthe gentleman with whom he be- came famihar was Mr. Hugh Moore, ~a merchant, who, like wise, had amassed wealth and influenc Colonel Symms had left behind him ew Jersey a charming niece, daughter of his brother also had held high honors of state. It was the dream of Colonel Symmes' life to bring about a union between his friend Moore and this nicce. A meeting s arranged, when Mr. Moore found himself in the presence of a lady, young, beautiful and accomplished, one whose mind had been cultivated by attendance in the best schools of Europe. The re sult, as may be imagined, was an engage ment, followed by a speedy marriage To mark his approval of his niece choice, Colonel Symmes conveyed to her ge tracts of land, besides other pr ents of a substantial character. in the ‘imothy, who PLANS THAT MISCARRIED. Mr. and Mrs. Moore at once became the centers of an exclusive coterie of friends. Their illustrions revoluticnary connections, their wealth, their cultiva- tion, all united to place them at the he of the embryo society ot the future que city of the west, The early pioneers were men who had distinguished themselves in the service of their country, but who, finding the avenues of advancement in the east crowded, sought the opportuni- ties of the west. Having so much in common in the way of tradition and fel- low fecling, their association was of the closest character. It s matural then that the birth of an heir to Mr. and Mrs Moore should have been an occasion of real congratulation, and that in seeking a name for it, not only should the father be remembered, but acompliment should be bestowed upon a un..qu friend of the family—Judge Courtland Montgomery The child, then, was named Hugh Mout gomery Moore. For “twenty-one yenrs following but little happened to disturb the happiness of the friends thus wtroduced to the public. Business progpered with thein, in consevience of which they contin- ually grew richer. Children grew in beuuty, and engaged the fondest antici- pations of their parems. Young Hugh .hunlgullhr\ Moore at 21 was as fine a specimen of manhood as cver lived. His parents had fashionad for him a marriag, which should add’ both fortune and prestige to the family, and never dreamed that the yowgg man could think otherwise than they themselves, It was & terrible interwdew, then, in which Hu informed hie fsther that he had already set his b upon one who, while not 50 wealthy ‘or exclusive, was df! yet oue of the noblest types of American | womanhood—Miss Maurgaret Crane, of T. B. WILDE, 1312 Farnam St., Up Stairs. H: nilton, Ohio. In spite her or mother could do married the girl of his choice, of all that oung Moore | This led to still other misuunderstandings, which convinced the son that h for reconciliation with h had a final inferview with hu. could not hope father. He father, when, with his wife, he disappeared, and for years the name of Hugh Montgomer ind was wrapped up in myste Moore was er mentioned, THE MYSTERY DEEPENS. ton, 0. and setiling in Augusta, Ga upon a career of promise. Gr Augusta, and abandon his fami his ieorge W. Crane had left Haml- , toscek his fortune in_the south, , entered it was his surprise, then, when he discovered that | Ins sister and her husband had reached | reater still when he was informed that Mr. Moore had resolved to | name and to assume Though born into one of the most aristo- cratic families of Georgia, he was d tined to meet with difficulties before which he might well have quailed. He was but six years of age when the war broke out. In the general run which fol- lowed, the Harrises suffered equally with their neighbors, and it required the labor of their own hands to build them- | selves up again. Young Symmes had to trudge four miles to such schools as ex- isted. He had to study under many ‘un advantages; but he never lost courage mor abated lus_ determi- nation to work his way up. He stndied law under his uncle, Judge Harris, of Ware county, and when admitted to the bar he hung out his shingle in Jesup, | Wayne county, where he landed with just sixty-five cents in his pocket. He walked ten miles to attend the justice that of Courtland” Symmes—the first in | court. Such determination soon brought honor of the friend for whom he | its own reward. Practice increased so christened and the second in honor of | that he found it necessary to secure his mothe family. This, then, was | wider field, and hence his removal to this the Courtland ymmes who, in | cityin1 Since that time his life has 1842, set up as a tutor in Geo; been honorable and successful, well | gia, and whos elezant manners | qualifying him for the high position to wob all hearts, His wif¢ did not take | Whicll Gov. MeDanial has appointed him. kindly to the malarial clir and ina NRAT 5 o 3o year death claimed her as its own. With l\lllu death of the fair girl, for whose love Mr. Symmes had dared the last tie was the parental broken, and there was no mark by which Symmes of Georgia, could be identified « 10. Intime grief gave wi ve, when Mr. Symmes marr Clarentine H. Hurri noted Judge Harris, a fam social and political mfluenc was 1nfi ot his life. Moore, of y 10 & new ed Miss , the daughter of the f wide The lady | med by her husband of the stos Tn the sammer of 1834 an expected fam- ily event gave joy suited in the opening of cori with friends in Ohio, pri long wished for reconci family. Mr.Symmes felt th to the couple and re- sspondence aratory ion with the upon the to a pirth of his child such a reconciliation would be certain, While this joyous reunion Mr. victim to yellow tever. ater a posthumous son_ w cost of the young mother's her dying breath Mrs. mme: antic ing s fell a Three months | € born at the | life. Symmes directed With that the correspondence had by her late husband with his friends in Obio should | r, and that the child, bearing the name by which she had mur- raised us be buried with he ried her husband, should be member of her father's family. ®.1ING FOR PROPERTY, at once b n suit courts to establish its ¢ the large estates which hind by the old Cinc Hugh Moore. This prop through probate, and w the hands of third parties. liminary smits were gained, identity of th for some caus mtoa y had until March of this vear. , much o The and child established, when, the whole matter was dropped. Thus it continued from A Harris, on behalf of his grand- in th sl i been left inati merchant, Ohio re in be- ussed it, pre- the 1855 It seems that the child grew up asa member of Judge Harris’ 1 ence w ade to the Harrises we press themselves uot until ) reached man's recalled in such & way as to attention. He w 1o a lovely girl, w marrisge. t00 proud & upon othe family, Woodhill, Richmond county. No refer- the family tradition, because it was felt to be unprofitabl at and ple to It was ung Courtland Symmes had estate that the matter was claim ying his addresses ¢ hand he sou Imitating the example of his s t in father, he made her the confidaute of his story before be at the solicitation of Mrs. the recent guit for the Ohio estate was begun only as & matter of justic rig I)u the family history, so future no This, in oming his wife, recovery that brief, i It was Symmes that of the She urged it not but to sot in the misconstruction might arise the romantic fawily story of Georgin's newest Judge, Hon Courtland Symmes. It is a only romantic that the whole story but highly honorable, in affair shows devotion not the most cluvalricemotions of the bumian heart. This life history might well end were it pot that more is duc to the stoedy independenc worked nis way uwp from the of the new judge who bas tom in | here | THE BONANZA FAMILY. Men of Many Millions Not Always the Happiest. Town Topics: A California correspond- ent is my authority for the statement | that there has been “quite a brecze in the Mackay family, with® Mrs. Mackay's re- cent London exploits for cause. has long winced under the notor wife has purchased at such subst s my informant,and when her ex- wgunce reached the culminating mad- of a contemplated settlement in England on a fairly regal scale he put an terdict on it, The social aspirations of are averred to haye made a de- vity in his ready mone His nilure in Paris alone cost him st st a couple of millions, #nd her waste fulness in_London surpassed all prec dents. M ckay is & very rich man, his wealth is so disposed that'to snstain o | prolongation of these amazing outlays he wounld be forced to sacrifice important business interests. This he refeses to do. The project for purchasing Houghton | Hall was really broached to him, and he sut down upon it promptly. Pouts und persuasions failed to moye him. For one was firm. A simple, wethodical maun of business, living the cold lite of a homeless man, he was wise enough the last moment to deeline to support palace for a rabble of far-weather friends to gratify the empty vauity of his wife The marriage of Miss Eva Mackay to Prince Colonna is defined as having | the sorest blow her stepfather was d by the hands he loved. He had a fervid fatherly affection for this child of his pri decessor, and is believed to have beheld | in the Colonna match only a hollow sham, a sort of callous sacrifice of the aughter to the ambitions of the mother. [he sacrifice, if sueh it was, completely | failed of its effect ta door in Paris was opened to Mrs. Mackay or the Prin cess Colonna that had not™ been opened i before. The piwans sung by the venal trumj of press were hollow | mockeric men of common | sens the cachet | of society is not 1o be bought by monoy or compélicd by noise, Then the horror | of the whole situation dawned on him. | He suddenly saw the gibe beh the ful some praise, and the grin of mockery on the smiling faces he had sll been | | eajoled into t ing all honesty and | | friendship. This, itis asserted. led him | | to the English campaign Mrs. Mackay reported to him by & disinter | ested observer of it, and the report | clinched his deternunation to stay the rs, at least as far as he progress of s could. Tk st time alone can show - i} A Peculiar Power. “Now, children," the teacher the infant natural history class after peculiaritios of the ersh had been the dis | cussed, '‘is there auy other member of the aniaal Kindom that possesses the | power to move rapidly backward? id cne of the most promising of the little scholars,*the wule kiu do it of | 0 A CANNIBAL KING'S BOSS. Eventfnl Oareer of a Centenarian in the South Seas. How a Manilla Man Centrolled the Destinfes of the Fiji 1sle ands and Died in overty. New York Journal: One morning & little vessel from Manila m the Fijian coast, and the natives welcomed the sight as if a visit of thei s Hundreds of these cannibals &wam out to meet the boat, armed with gifts of every kind, and implored n who were on board to land It was not mise \t Antikoi, the Manila captain, ken to the shore, but all three men had stout hearts and on by every means in their power without grave st consented to be t shore they went, says a San Francisco paper. There they received a frantic greeting from the natives, who singled out Antikoi, and from some legendary reason believed he wasthe father of their little gods, known as Luve-ni-wai, or children of the waters Antikoi saw his opportunity and with his two companions set himself to a the chiefs and rid them of their convict oppressors, Slowly but surely these white wretche: met their doom. Savage was killed in 18 3, and the whole gang of twenty-seven perished during the ten or twelve years following, Idy O'Connor being spared only on le.ml of his abject weakness and cowardice and therefore his inability to do harm. o quietly did Auntikor lift nimself into popalarity that to gain possession of the anchor of the vessel in which he arrived wars were con- tinually occuring, and hetacombs of lives were lost to gain and regain possession of the treasure, until the Manila mauster hem understand that it was s alone would keep it wdopted the native costume; wear- ing a long sulu of many folds of chief's tappa, generally of a hight brown color, with black spots and reaching nearly to the feet. Shoes he had none, but bound his feet with palm leaf tied around with «ds. Thus equipped and with a variety of weapons, he would lead many a fray striking terror into the rebel forces and often deciding a_conflict with his pres- ence before hardly a blow w struck When. in 1820, Na Ulivou bad died, Antikoi still helped along the fortunes of his successor, Tano: Tanoa was old and feeble and th nila chieftain agreed upon the exile of the ancient ruler, placing the son, Cacombau or Tho- kambau, in his stead. With great bar- baric pomp and show did Antikoi con- duct the installation of the new chieftain, and he induce him to take the title of Tul Viti, or King of Viti. Now grati- tude snccumbed before a deepened rev- erence, and instead of assistant, Antikoi became master of combau aud all his realms, Antikoi's aim peace, but, alas! such aims were visionary in so bloodthirsty a country. It was no y life for any man. Rewa, the principal village, was only a mass of rudely erected thatched huts, searcely ever occupied on account of the endless wars; the only animals in- digenous to the soil’ were rats and flying foxes, human flesh being the general ar- ticle of food, and the natives were too to till the soil, depending on their gods for all their products. Very soon Antikoi began to learn the wrongs of the wholesale massacres in which the king's forces indulged, and the arrival of more missionaries and a number of white settlers led him to dis- courage these horrible events by every means in his powe The missionaries s continually being menaced, and knew that they carried theirlives in their hands, still they stuck to their noble One night when Antikoi was , no one knew where, the natives unded the missionary hut. These tlous men closed the frail doors of their =d house and hung up curtams of na- e cloth to hide themselves from the savage eves that peered through the open walls, and all that night they knelt in prayer, expecting the blood-thirsty wretches to rush in and massacre them- selves and their families at any moment. Seemingly, superstition and Antikoi's friendship for the missionaries awed the savages from commencing the attack, and through the. night there was an awful stillness, broken near dawn by a wild, ringing yell. The Christian teach- ersthought it was a death shout, but it was not. Antikoi bad arriv nd such was his power that he led the white families out from the hut and made the savages, nearly three hundred in num- ber, prostrate themseives before the missionaries and then march silently away. But with all his wonderful powers An- tikoi conld not live forever, and old age was begmning to show severe signsin the Manila man’s system, and in the year 1860 sickness began to uttack him, He was getting very old and very weak and the king could” not see it. The Manila man’s wise head and strong arms were often wanting at the king's side, and m 1863, when the rebel chief Toi Wainoono declared war against King Cacombau, his Manila master was lying sick unto death and the weak king trembled for his power. But to the king's surprise he vanquished his enemy ncar the Boiling Springs without nd his 1 then, finding he conld do ter, he fargot all grati- rmined to be rid of Manila way from the king's village o0 shed, all openings and vices, with no sustaining’ poles or no protecting thateh. Into this poor Anti- Koi was thrown and left to die But Antikoi was rescued from this mis- eruble plight by a white settler named Wilhiam Berwick, who acted toward him the rt of the good Samaritan, and, taking him to his house at Draiba, he nursed him, pulled him through his ill- ness, aud continued to give him a home till the day of his death. Only a few days ago—not more than two months—poor Antikoi gave up the ghost, dying at the wonderfully advanced age of one hundred and fourteen years, having during eighty years of that time been a resident of l"lil Heis buried near Berwick’s house, at Draiba, and his mon- umental headstone is the larger portion of the anchor of the vessel which led him to meet with so strangely varied an ex- perience. e How Cigar Dealers are Breaking the Law, mira (N, Y.) Gazette: “Did you know cigar dealer violates the law nearly every time you buy a cigar?'’ asked an ol!'u-n-r of & Guzetle representative the other “Well, no; [did not know it,”" ihe's response; “‘how does he do i ust this way,” pursued the ofticer; “you cull for u cigar; the dealer takes a nandful from the box, spreads them out before you, and after you e seleeted what you want he returns the remainder to the box; this is a violation of the law! hie has no right to return those cig the box, and be could be punished 50 Wihen the face is haggard, the cheek hollow and the form lank and debilitated the party concludes he is the vietim of 8 wasting” and mysterious disease; when th imple truth is, his digestive organs re in had order, if he wonld use Dr. J. H. Melean's Strengthening Cordial and Bivod Purifier, he would look ns weil, and feel as hearty as the L of ps he needs bracing up, vitalizing p 2