Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1891, Page 15

THE OMAHAQ DAILY BEE, EMBER 6, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. A Narrative of Life on the Gilbert Way Group of the South . ATTHE COURT OF A SOUTH SEA KING. Islands an Out of the Pacifie, By Robert Louts Stevenson. Copyright 1991, Rutamitant, Aug. 15, pecial to Tne Bee. | At Honolulu we had said farewell to the Casco and to Captain Otis and our next adventure was made in changed conditions, Passage was taken for myself, my wife, Mr. Osbourne, Mr. J, D. Strong, jr., and my China boy, Ah Foo, on & pigmy tra schooner, The Equator, Captain Dennis J. Reid, and on a certain bright June day in 1880, adorned in the Hawaiian fashion with the gariands of departure, we drew out of port and bore with a fair wind for Micron- esia. The whole extent of the South Soas is desert of ships, more especially that part where we were now to sail. No post runs in these islands; communication is by acci- dent. Where you may have designed to go is one thing; where you shall be able to ar- rive is another. It was my hope, however, te have reached the Carolinos and to return to the light of day by way of Manila and the China ports; and it was in Samoa that we were destinod to reappear and be once moro refreshed with the sight of mountains. The sunset faded from the peaks of Oahu and for #ix months we saw no spot of earth so high as an ordinary cottage. Our path was still on the fiat sea, our dweliings upon unerected coral, our diet from the pickle tub or out of tins. Ilearned to welcome shark’s flesh for & variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or a beefsteak were long lost to senso and dear to aspiration. The two chief piaces of ourstay, Butaritari ana Apemama, lio near the line; the latter within thirty mi Both enjoy a superb ocean climate, days of blinding sun and brac- ing wind, nights of a heavenly brightness. Both are somewhat wider than Fakarava, measuring perhaps (at the widest) a quarter of a mile from beach to beach. In both, & coarse kind of taro thrives; its culture is a chief business of the natives, and the conse- quent mounds and ditches make miniature scenery and amuse the eye. In all elso they show the customary features of an atoll; the low horizon, the expanse of the lagoon, the sedgelike rim of palm tops, the sameness and smallness of the land, the hugely superior size ond interest of sea and sky. Lifo on such islands is in many points like life on shipboard. The ntoll, ke the ship, is soon taken for grauted, and the islanders, like the ship's crew, become soon the center of atte tion. The isles are populous, independent, seats of kinglets, recently civilized, little vis- ited. Inthe last decade many changes bave crept in. 1he Women Wear Clothes. ‘Women no longer go unclothed till mar- riage; the widow no longer sleeps at night and goes abroad by day with the sku'l of her dead husband, and, firearms being intro- duced, the spear and the shark-tooth sword are sold for curiosities, Ten years ago all these things and practices wero to bo seon in 1 yoars more and the old socicty » outirely vanished. We camein a happy moment to see its iastitutions still erect and (in Apemama) scarce decayed. Populous and independent—warrens of men ruled over with some rustic pomp—such ‘was the first and still the recurring impres- sion of thoso tiny lands. As we stood across the lagoon for the town of Butaritari, a stretch of low shore was seen to be crowded with the brown roofs of houses; thoso of the palace and king's summer parlor (which are of enrrugated 1ron) glittered near one end conspicuously bright; the royal colors flow hara vy on a tall flagstaff;in front,on an arti- flcial islet, the jail played tho part of a mar- tello. Even upon this first and distant view the place had scarce the air of what it truly ‘was, a village; rather of that which it was also, & pretty metropolis, a city rustic yet royal. The lagoon 1s a shoal. The tide being out, wo waded for some quarter of a milo in tepid shallows, and stepped ashore at last into a flagrant Stagnancy of sun and heat. Tho lee side of a line island afternoon is, lnduud breathless placo; on the ocean beach trade will be still blowing, boisterous Ind cool; out in the lagoon it will be blowing also, speeding the canoes; hut the screen of bush completely intercepis it from the shore, and sleep, and silence, and companies of mos- quitoes brood upon the towus. They Sleep All Day. ‘We may thus be said to have taken Bu- taritari by surprise. A foew inhabitants were still abroad in the north end, at which we landed. As we advaunced, we were soon dono with encounter, and secmed to explore a city of the dead, Ouly, between tho posts of open houses, we could see the townsfolk stretehed in the siesta sometimes a family together veiled in & mosquito net, sometimes @ single sleeper on u platform, like a corpse on & bier. ‘The houses wore of all dimensions, from those of toys to those of churches. Some might hold a battalion; some were so min- ute they could ncarce receive a pair of lovers. Only in the playroom, when the toys are miogled, do we mest such incongruities of scale. Man; ivwom open sheds: some took the form of a roofed stage; others were walled, and the walls pierced with little windows. A few were perched on piles in the lagoon; the rest stood at random on a green, through which the roadway made a ribbon of sand, or along the embankments of a shoet of water like a shallow dock. One and all woro the creatures of a siugle tree; palm tree wood and palm troe leaf their ma- terials. No nail bad been driven, no hammer sounded, in their building, and they w held in ore by lashings of palm tree sinnet. In the midst of the thoroughfare the church atands like un island, u lofty and dim house with rows of windows; a rich tracery of framing sustains the roof, and through tne door at cither end of the street shows ina vista. The proportions of tho place, in such surroundings and built of such materials, ap- peared august, and wo threaded the nave Wwith a_sentiment befitting visitors in a ca- thedral. Benches run along either side. In the midst, on a crazy dais, two chairs stand ready for the king and queen when they shall ¢hoose to worship; over their heads @ hoop, apoarently from a hogshead, aepends by & strip of red cotton; and the hoop (which hangs askew) is dressoed with streamers of the same material, red and white, The Royal Palace. This was our first advertisement of the royal dignity; and presontly we stood before its seut and nter. The palace is built of imported wood upon & European plan; the roof of corrugated iron, the yard enclosed with walls, the gate surmountéd by a sort of lych house. It cannot be called spacious; a laborer in the states is sometimes more com- lously lodged; but when we had the to see it within, we found it was enriobed (bevond all island expectation) with colored advertisements and cuts from the illustrated papers. Even before the gate some of the treasures of the crown stand public; a bell of good magnitude, two vleces of cannon, and a sivgle shell. The bell canuot be ruLg mor the guns fired; they are curiosities, proofs of wealth, a part of the parade of royalty; and stand to be ad- mired like statutes in a squure. A straight gut ot water like a caunl ruus afmost to the alace door, the coutaing quay walls excel- ontly built'of coral; over against the mouth, by which seems an offect of landscape art, the marteilo-like islet of the goal breaks the lagoon. Vuasal chiefs with tribute, neigh- bor monarchs come vourting might here sail in, view lic works, and be awed by these mouths of silent cannon. It was impossible to see the place and not to fanoy it designed for pagon- try. Butthe elaborate theatre then stood empty; tho royal house deserted, its doors and windows gaping; the whole quarter of the town immersed in silence. On the oppo- site bank of tho canal, on arcofod stage, an auclent gentieman slept publicly, sole visible inbabitant; and boyond on the lagoon a canoe prm a striped lateon, tho sole thing mov- ng. The King's Pasture. The canal is formed on the south or causeway with parapet. At the by a bier with surprise these exiensive pub- | pands into an oblong peninsuls in tho lagoon, the breathing place and summer parlor of tho king. ‘The midst 15 occupied by an open house or permanent marquee—called bere a moniapa, or as the word i now pronovuced, A moniap—at the lowest estimation, forty fect by sixty. I'he iron, roof, lofty, but exceedingly low browe 80 that & woman must stoop to eater, is su orted externally on pillars of coral’ within by a frame of wood. The floor is of broken coral, divided in aisles by the uprights of the frame; the houso far enough from shoro to ch the breoze, which enters freely and dis- porses the mosquitoes; and undor the low eavos the sun is seen 1o glitter und the waves to dance on the lagoon. It was now_some while sinco we had met any but slumberers; and when we had wan- ored down the pierand stumbled at lastinto this bright shed wo were surprised to find it occupied by a socety of w.m-tuumoplu, some twenty souls in all, the court and guardsmen of Butaritari. ‘o court ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and sprawled. Half a dozen rifles lay in a rack, and a cutlass was leaned against a pillar; the armory of these drowsy musketeers, At tho far " eud, a little closed house of wood dis- played some tinsel decorations, and proved uron oxamination to be a privy on tho Eu- ropean model. Behold, the King! In front of this, upon some mats, loiled Tebureimoa, the king: behind him, on the panels of the house, two crossed rifles repre- sented fasces, He wore pyjamas, which sor- rowfully misbecame his bilk; his nose was hooked and cruel, his body overcome with sodden corpulence, his eye timorous and dull; comed at once oppressed with drowsiness and held awake by apprehension: a pepper rajah, muddled with opium and listening for the march of a Dutch army, looks perbaps not otherwiso. We were to grow better ac- quainted, and first and last I had the same impression; ho seemed always drowsy, yet always to harken and start; and whother from remorse or fear, there is no doubt ne seeks a refuge iu the abuse of drugs. “The rajah displayed no sign of interest in our coming. But the queen, who sat beside him in a purple sacque, was more accessible. And there was present an interpreter so will- ing that bis volubility becamo at last the causo of our departure. He had greeted us Upon our entranice, ‘“That {s the honorable King and I am his interpreter,” he had said, with more stateliness than truth. For he beld no appointment in the court, seemed ox- tremely ill-acquainted with the isiand lan- guage, and was present, like ourselves, upon of civility. Mr. Williams was his n American darky, runaway ship's cook, and barkecper at The Land We Live In Tavern, Butarita I never knew a man who had more word: his command or less truth tocommunicate; neither the gloom of the monarch nor my own efforts to be distant could in the least abash him; and when the scone closed tho darky was left talking. The town still slumbered, or had but just begun to turn and stretch itself: it was stiil plunged in heat and silence. So much the more vivid was the impression that we car- ried away of the house upon the islet, the Micronesian Saul wakeful amid his guards, and his unmelodious David, Mr. Williams, chattering through the drowsy hours. Butaritari: The Four Brothers. The kingdow of Tebureimoa jacludes two islands. Greatand Little Makin. Sometwo thousand subjects pay him tribute and two semi-independent ¢hieftains do him quaiified homage. ‘The importance of the office is measured by the man; he may be nobody, he may be absoiute, and both extremes have been exemplified within the memory of resi- dents. On the death ot Kiug Tetimarora, Teburei- moa's father, Nakasia, the oldest son, suc- ceeded. He was a fellow of huge physicai strength, mastorful, violent, with & certain barbaric thrift, und some intelligence of men and business. Alone in his islands, it was he who dealt and profited ; he was the planter and the merchant, and his. subjects toiled for his behoof in servitude. When they had wrought long and well their taskmaster de- clared a holiday, and supplied and shared a general debauch. The scale of his providing was at times magnificont; $600 worth of gin and brandy was set forth at once; the nar- row land resounded with the noise of revelry; and it was a common (hing thing to see the subjects (staggering themselves) parade their drunken sovereign on the forehatch of a wrecked vessel, king and commous howling and singing as they went. Ata word from Nakaeia's mouth the revel ended; Makin ve- came once more an isio of slaves and of tee- totalers, aind on the morrow all the pobula- tion must be on the roads or in the toro patches toiling under his bloodshot eye. The King the Exccutioner. The fear of Nakacia filled the land. No regularity of justice was affected; thero was no trial, i) ere were no officers of the law; it seoms there was but one ponalty, the capi- tal; and daylight assault and midnight mur- der were the forms of process. The king hitself would play the executioner; and his blows were dealt by stealth, and with the belp and countenance of none but his own wives. Toese were his oarswomen; oue that caught a crab, he slow with the tiller; thus disciplined, they pulled him by night to the scene of his vengeance, which he would then oxecute alone and return well pleased with his connubial crew. The inmates of the harem neld a station hard for us to conceive, Beasts of draught and driven by tha fear of death, they were yet implicitly trusted with their sovereign’s life; they wore still wives and queens, and it was supposed that no man should behold their faces. They killed by the sight like basilisks; a chance view of one of those boatwomen was a crime to be wipea out with blood. A Harem Scandal. In tho days of Nakueia the palace w asbe- ot with some tall cocoa palms which com- anded the enclosure, It chanced one eve- ning, while Nakaeia st below at supper with his wives, that the owner of the grove was in & treetop drawing valm-treo wine; it chanced that he looked down, and the king at the same moment looking up, their eves evcountered. Instant flignt preserved the involuntary criminal. But during the remainder of that reign he must lurk and be hid by friends in remote parts of the 1sle; Nakaeia hunted him without remission, al- though still in vain; and the paims, access- ories to that fact, were ruthlessly cut down. Such was theideal of wifely purity in an islo where nubile virgins went naked as in Para- dise. And yet scandal found its way into Nakaeia's well-guarded harem. He was at that time the owner of a schooner, which he used for a pleasure house, lodging ou board as she lay anchored; and thither oue day he mmoned a new wife, She was one that 3 thay is to say (I ume) that he was married to Ler sister, or the husband of au older sister has the call of the cadets. She would be arrayed for the occasion; she would como scented, gar- lauded, decked with fine mats and fawmily jewels, for marriage, us her friends supposed : for death, as she well knew. Pell o the man’s name and I will spare you," said Nakaecia. But the girl was staunch; she held her peace, saved her lover, and the queens Strangled Her Between the Masts, Nakaoiu was fearod; it does not appear that he was hated. Deeds that smell to us of murder wore to_his subjects the reverend face of justice; his orgles made him popular; natives 1o this duy recall with respect the frmuess of his government, and even the whites, whom he long opposed and kept at arm'’s length, give him the name (in the canonical South Soa phrase) of “u perfect gel nau when sober.”” When he came to lio without issue on tha bed of death be summoned his next brother, Naoteitel, made him a discourse on royal polioy, and warned him he was too weak to relgn. The waraing was taken to hoart, and for some while the government moved ou the modei of Nakaeia's. Nauteitel dispensed with guards, and walked abroad alone with @ revolver i o leather wail bag. To couceal his weakuess he affected a rude silence; you might talk to him all day; advice, reproof, u&lpflll aud menace alike remained unanswer- The number of his wives was seventeen, many of them heiresses; for the royal house is poor, and wmarriage was in those days a chief means of buttressing the throne. kaela kept his harem busy for himself teitel bired it out to otbers. Iu his days. fnstanve, Messrs. Wrightman bult a pier with a verauda at the north eud of town A W pu'-pvl. determives, and the quay ex- | Phe masoury was the work of the sevealecn queens, who toiled and waded there like fisner | Insses; but the man who was to do the roof- ing durst not begin till they had finished, lest by chance he should look down and see them. Fall of the Harom, It was perhaps the last appearance of the harem gang. For some time already Ha ailan missionaries had beon seated at Butari- tari—Maka and Kauoa, two ebrave, childlike mon. Nakneia would none of their doctrino. He was, perhaps, jealous of their presence; but, being human, e had some affection for their porsons, In'the house and before the eyes of Kanoa ho slew with his own baud three sailors of Oahu, crouching on their backs to knife them, and menacing the mis- sfonary if he interfered; yet he not only spared him at the moment but recalled him afterward (when he had fled) with some ex- pressions of respect. Nanteitei, the weaker man, fell more completely in the spell. Maka —the light hoearted, the lovable, vet in his own trade the very rigorous--gained and improved an intluence on the king ~ which soon grow para- mount, Nauteitel, with the royal house, was publicly converted, and with a severity which ~liberal missionaries disavow, the harem was at onco reduced. It was a com- pendious act. The throne was thus impoy- erished, its influenee shaken, tho queen’s relutives mortified, and sixteen chief women, some of great possossions, cast in a body on the market. I have beon shipmate with a Hawaiian sailor who was succossively mar- ried to two of these impromptu widows, and successively divorced by both for misconduct, That two great and rich ladies (for both of these wero rich) should have married *a man from another island,’’ marks tho dissolution of socioty. The laws besides wero wholiy remodelled, not always for the better. I love Maka as a man. As a legislator he has two defects: weak in the punishment of crime, stern to repress iunocent pleasures. TO IR CONTINUED, K. Bradford Era. It was only a fow short years ago, Atahotel by the sea, That a maiden I met whom you may know By the name of Sally McGee. 1 fell in love and she fell in loye, At this hotel by the sea, And we bathed every aay in the salt sea spray— T and my Sally McGee. That Sally was just as sweet as a peach "Most any blind man could seo; And this was the reason that all and each Were gazing at Sally McGeo; So that a aude from Boston came And took her away from me. 1 was in love aud sho was in love, At this hotel by the sea; Sally was struck on the Boston duclk, And I on Sally McGee. But my love was stronger by far than the ove Of the dude from the Hub could be; And neither tho angels in heaven above Nor tho dandies down thero by tho sea Could evor dissever my soul from the soul Of my swet little Sally McGee, So 1 hit him a spat with a base ball cat, Which made him afraid of mo; And he never bothered me after that At the hotel by the sea. MONARCHS OF THE HEARTH. First Lessons New York Tribune: Little I'lorence, 2 years cld—her mamma was trying to explain to her infant mind, in reply to her question, “‘Who 18 God!'—listened very mmmmv to the explunation, and, with a sigh of s said: I love God, don’t you, Biatminal a good old man.”” And after liztening to the story of Jesus, she said: “Wasn't he nice when he was a little baby? Were you his mamma?” Another time, after being naughty, she was told she would have to be punished. She ran to a large chair, climbed hastily into it, seated herself firmly, grasped each arm of the chair, and with a look of mingled de'i- ance and’ mischief, said, “Now you can't, mamma.” In the infant class ono Sunday, the lesson was about dgisobedience and its punishment. “‘Little children have to mind, or they are not nice,”” said the teacher. “Older peoplo have to obey laws or be punished. Do any of 1 know how older people are punished She answered, *Oh, yes, I know! The hus- bands scold the wives and tho wives scold the husbands.” ‘He's The Baby. R. J. Burdette. The littlo tottering baby foet, With faltering steps ana slow, With pattering echoes soft and swoet Into my heart they go: They also o, in grimy plays, In muddy pools and dusty ways, ‘Then through the bouse in trackful maze They wander to and fro. ‘The baby hands that clasp my neck With touches dear to mo Are the same hands that smash and wreck The ink stand foul to see; They pound the mirror with a cane, They rend the manuscript in twain, Widespread destruction they ordain, In wasteful jubilee. Tho dreamy, murmuring baby voica “That coo: its little tune. That makes my listening heart rojoice Like birds 1n lealy June, Can waie at midnight dark and stitl, Ana all the air with howling fill That splits the ear with echoos shrill, Like cornets out of tune. Faith in Prayer. A little Detroit girl of 4 years of age, says the Freo Pross, has been taught to pray for all kinds of bléssings aud help. The othor day she was guilty of some act of disobedi- ence for whichi her mother took her up stairs to pumsh her with considerable sevority. ‘The little girl had beon there bofore and knew what was coming. On the way up- stairs with her mother she knelt down, put ber little hunds together and lifted them in supplication. %0, Lord,” she said, “I'm going to cateh it. 1t you éver do anything for littlo girls, ploase, Lord. now’s the time,” Then she arose and followed her mother, who, 1n order to increase her little daughter's faith in th eficacy of prayer, let her off taat time, — Easy to Gues “And how old are you, my little man?’ Six years old,” ho promptly ropiied. ny brothers or sistersi" “Yop, a sister.” “H«)\\ ol-l is she!” you must be twins." Didn't think we was trip- hen 0TS0 Wo is. lofs, did yo i i Trinl Bofore Taking. y,” said the humorous gertloman, your little brother. You don't want nim any louger, and I'll make a mau of him.” “Can you do that, mister!” “Indeed I can.” ““Well, lot's see you make one_out_of me, quick, before ma comes; thon I'll fool her fc = <he's gone after a stout switch, and'll be back in a minute,” A sad Baltimore American: of our colored schools apologize for a contix My mudaer savs wou't vo' please skuse my bruddor for 'stayin' home; my brudder can't como to school, kase my brud- der be's dead.”’ Ixcuse. A small boy in one me to his teacher to fraternal absence. Littie Bessie's father had just engaged a new gardner, and Bessie had ‘been told his name wus Auguste, The next morning the little girl walked up to the new arrival and said very sweetly, “Good morning, April™ “Edaie, T wisht I wuz as fat as you, an’ I'd be happy.” *“You only think so. Us fat folks has our sorrers, too, but they doun't show, an’ we don't get no symferty ! Au Indiana baby has eloven living grand- vavents. This beats the proudest triumphs of European geneulogy. (ieorge Washington Lincoln Grant Rich- ardson, a Jersey City youtu, somnambulates, as it wore, and It is thus provon whatever else may or may not be iu & name, it 1s as useless as ballast. _ Geurge Rohrbaoh, a Reading youngster of pounds,and is forty inches ouch iuch more than his father. at birth, weighed sixteen unds, and & yoar and a balf later tipped the scales at sixty pounds. Jimmy—Wnat did yer get on yer birthday Jakey—Nothin'! Never got suything sinoe the first one, an’ then I only got born. T uullny —Waat to shoot off my pistol, Mr Sist Mr. Sis—I'd wather not, Tommy Tommy—Millicent was right; sho sald was wuz afrald to pop. 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One week's telal fro vacatlon, como whon you ara ready. ¥ K, or do work nights and me ame bra ugh 0 por cent to those who to work nights and morn . tetly confldentinl. 1 16 here and find we do not g1ve what we pron offers to give satlsfaction or refund money. but liave a sure thing. G1vo us a trial For further infe Thousands of Its graduates (n businoss for thomaelyes or In good pry!ng positions 108, And st coring ographors. Todividunl Instrict £ monoy Wit bo refunied. 110re 1 & school th 4 battor offar do you want (han tliat? You thke B chances ation call on or addross RATHBUN & CO., Corn r 16th and Capitol Avenue, Omaha, Neb. A NEW INVENTIO N Artificial toeth without plates, and removable bridge work. The only the teeth fn the mouth while eating, spesking, singin Ministers, public speakcers, Tuwy requested to investigate this system. without able method for holding their dropping or when usioop. yers and actors are CAUTION flice in the 0w how to b 444 Sixth Avonue. 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Having decided to close out our we offer our addle and Harness business, entire stock of HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, NETS, ROBES Saddlery, Hardware, ete., at net cost. To those in need of goods in this line, an opportunity is now atforded to secure first-class hand mude goods at lowest possi- ble prices. WELTY & GUY, NO CURER! 1316 FARNAM STREET. NO PAY. DrDOWNS 1816 Douglas St Many yonrs’ exporl rontoat success permatorrhoen, ixenson of the Bluod, Bkin and Uj an to cure. Consultation froe. m.ukmm.m of'i 108 m tol2m Sendstamp for reply. A rogulor gradua CHICHESTER'S ENGLICH, RED CROSS L ENNYRONAL 1 CURE FITS! When 1 say cure 1 do not mean Buffering from the affects of youthful ervod TU WEAK ME Mervons and- denilitatad aadrerl Plt&. (.' FOWLER, Movdus, Coun reet, Omaha, Neb. ow. Is stlll treating aith the ure guaraateed for Catarrh Impotenoy, Syphills, Biricturo, and s 0) for every case | indsrtake and Oftico hours =9 a. m 0§ p. m. Bunds DIAMOND BRAND a@w\’\ L afe, Rure, sd relabie il or sal and 1n Wed and Gol Ko i dlcine as diplos o8, A perm: Night Losses, B. | guarantco Af6) won free. T Bituations procare OMAHA LS. rite for ¢ I”“" SOHOOL OF Sk iyau WA 1 yow k Life B1d’y, Omahn, Ne ' TELEGRAPHY.