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no sooner get into it when they's
either ships concert starts or q
radio begins buzzing.
This car has frequently been refer
red to as the ultra In combinations
between sea and land devices 1t Is
practically ambiguous.
These is just a few Of the new
models that has been exhibited on
our front lawn dureing the present
tell tale exposition. but would be re-
miss In duty was to forget the 1928
Reed which instead of horn, 1t has
a saxophone or bassoon or clarinet.
Each one of these models is equip
ped with an orchestra leader and
when four or five of them Is going
along the road together. the passen-
gers Is practally all inspired to dance.
This serves to congest traffic inside Of
the car but not on the road and all
and all Is a big step forwards in the
problem OF clearing the road to big
Der and better things.
RING w. LARDNER.
Great Neck, Long Island, April 20.
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Modern Alchemy.

CHEMISTS used to devote their time
~ to the discovery of the philoso-
piers stone, which would transmute
all baser metals into gold. The mod
ern scientist works in a different way.
For instance, in Napoleon't time.
when the great Frenchman directed
the attention of his countrymen to
the manufacture of sugar from beets.
there was only about or per cent
Of saccharine matter in the ordinary
beet. BY various processes of de-
velopment the sugar beet of our
western states has been brought to
such a state that 1t contains nearly 30
per cent of sugar: and by recent ex-
periments in fertilization the yield OF
beets has been increased by more
than u ton an acre, or about 25 per
cent. Instead of attempting directly
to turn beets into gold, we are now
turning beets into sugar, and sugar
into gold. This Is only one of the
various benefits which have accrued
to the country through the activities
of the experimental stations Of the
Department Of Agriculture.
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separated from the other toes anc
turned in. They could grasp brenct
with their feet as easily as ! could
with my hands.
When luncheon time came we
spread out our meal Of cold broiled
wood-pigeon. timed asparagus, and
sea biscuit and began to eat. After
watching us for few moments, two
or three savages fetched some small
almond-like nuts. which they shared
with their companions. They seemed
moro like monkeys than ever as they
squatted there. busily cracking the
nuts with stones and picking out the
meats with their skinny fingers
By dint of many presents / won
the confidence OF the chief and before
the afternoon was over / was calling
him by name, Wo-bang- -an-ar. He
was a strang crony. He was covered
with layer after layer of dirt No
one who has not been among savage
tribes can image a human being so
filthy. His hair had never been
combed or cut; it was matted with
dirt and grease. His eyes were pro-
truding and bloodshot and they were
never still. But, like Nagapate, he
proved to be a real chief, and his
people jumped when he gave com
mand. He ordered them to do what
ever I asked, and I made pictures all
the afternoon
X r n
THAT night we slept in the banian.
L and the next day Nella led us
through the Jungle to a clearing some
five miles distant There we found
about a hundred men, women, and
children. All of them, save Woban-
ganar. who had his food supplied to
him by his subjects, looked thin and
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Strange Tribes With Habits Foreign Each Oher on Same Isan

The man of wealth is the one who
has the largest number of pigs and
wives and cocoanut trees and canoes,
acquired by judicious swapping or by
purchase, with pigs tusks, rare,
orange -colored cowries. and stones
of strange shape or coloring as cur
rency. Most of the natives keep
treasures in "bokus belong bella
estern- made box with bell that
rings whenever the lid is lifted. But
this burglar alarm Is utterly super
fuous. for natives uncontaminated
by civilization never steal.
While the cooking was in progress,
the dancing began. a group of men
in the center of the clearing went
through the motions of killing pigs
and birds and men. Though the pan
tomime was crude, 1t was effective.
The barbaric swing of the dancers,
in time to the strange rhythm beaten
out on the boo-boos-the followed
logs that serve as drums-got into
my blood, and l understood how the
dances sometimes ended in a drunken
frenzy.
When the first group of dancers
was tired, the older men gathered in
the center of the clearing and pala-
vered excitedly. Then they retired
to their fires and waited. So did we.
But nothing happened save another
dance, different in detail from the
first. though in essentials monoto-
nously similar. When the second
dance was over, there was more pala-
vecing and then more dancing-and
SO on interminably. Osa and I grew
sleepy and went back to the bunga-
low. But the tom-toms sounded until
dawn.
The queerest vessel I have ever
seen anchored off Vac, one night at
midnight She was about the size of
a large schooner and nearly as wide
I in the beam as she was long. She
had auxiliary sails. schooner-rigged.
Her engine burned wood Her name
was Amour. We found that the COM
mander and owner was Capt. Moran.
whom we had met in the Solomons
wo years before. He was out to
get copra wherever he could get it.
proposed that he turn over his ship
to US at a daily rental, so that we
could continue our explorations
among the tribes of Malekula He
assented readily.
Osa and I were delighted. for there
wasn't a better skipper than Capt.
Moran in the South seas. Both he
and his brother. who acted as engi-
neer, knew the treacherous channels
as we'll as any whites in those waters.
and they knew the natives from long
experience as traders.
The next morning we left Vac. and
it was nearly dark when we again
reached Tanemarou bay. the sea
port" OF the Big Numbers territory.
We discharged a stick of dynamite
and rolled ourselves in our blankets.
sure that there would be plenty of
natives on hand to greet us next
morning.
X X
WE were awakened at daylight by
w cries About a hundred saw
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ages had gathered on the beach. but
to our disappointment, Nagapate had
not come down to greet us. Only
Velle-VelI, the prime minister. was
on hand. / gave him plenty of to-
bacco and the strangest and most
wonderful plaything he had ever
had-a foot ball 1t was sight for
sore eyes to see that dignified old
savage kicking his football about the
beach.
At about 10 o'clock, I took few
boys and went inland to get some pic
lures. Osa wanted to accompany me,
but felt that Nagapate's interest in
| her made 1t unsafe for her to venture.
went to the top of a hill a few
miles back, where 1 made some fine
pictures Of the surrounding country,
and was lucky enough to get a group
of savages coming over the ridge of
another hill about half a mile away.
On the following morning, Naga-
pate made his appearance, and told
me, through Atree, his Interpreter,
that he had brought his wives to see
Osa I sent the boat to the schooner
for her, but when she appeared.
Nagapate said that his wives could
not come to the beach and that Osa,
accordingly, must go inland as far
as the first river to meet them. The
| armed crew of the Amour. and Capt.
Moran and I accompanied her. We
found the wives waiting at the desig-
mated spot with sugar cane and yams
and a nice, now Big Numbers dress
for Osa. They had not come to the
beach because the newest wife was
not permitted to look at the sea for
a certain time after marriage.
Osa was pleased to add the Big
Numbers dress to her collection of
strange things from Melanesia- In
spite of their apparent simplicity, the
making and dyeing of the pandanus
garments is complicated process.
Since the grass will not take the dye
il 1t is the least green, 1t has to be
dried and washed and dried again.
When 1t Is thoroughly bleached, 1t is
dyed deep purple.
After Osa in turn had presented
the wives with salmon and sea bis
cults (Which 1 afterward saw Naga-
pate and his men devouring) and
strings Of bright-colored beads, Naga-
pate agreed to get his men to dance
for me II I would come to his village.
Osa returned to the schooner, and
Capt. Moran and I, with five boys,
went inland. We made the village
in four hours. Savages crowded
about mo while I got my cameras
ready for action. At Nagapate's COM
mand. a few men went to the great
boo-boos and beat out a weird
rhythm. The savages warmed UP
gradually They marched quickly
and in perfect time around the boo
boos. Then they stopped suddenly.
with a great shout. stood for a mo-
ment marking time with their feet
marched on again and stopped again
land 20 on the march bscouinS 1aAtAy
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~ NE day, after Osa and l were
srpe. in .,.ss xss Ss Ssr # %s ~ss's
like to attend a feast that
was being held to celebrate the COM
pletion of a evil-devil, one of the
crude. carved logs that are the only
visible signs Of religion among the
savages.
Feasting was about the only amuse-
ment of the natives of Vac. A birth
or death, the building of house or
canoe. or the installation of Il chief
any event in the least out of the
ordinary furnished an excuse for an
orgy of pig meat. The one we at
terded was typical.
First the new devil-devil was car
ried into the clearing and. with scant
ceremony. set up among some hun
dreds OF others. Then some of the
men brought out about a hundred
pigs and tied them to posts Others
piled yams in the center OF the clear
ing, and still others threw chickens,
their legs tied together, in Il squawk-
ing heap.
When all was ready, the yams were
divided among the older men, each
of whom then united pig from post
and presented It solemnly to his neigh
Dor. receiving in return another pig
OF about the same size. The savages
broke one front and one hind leg of
their pigs and threw the squealing
little beasts on the ground beside the
vans. Then they exchanged chickens
and promptly broke the legs and
wings Of their fowls. The men took
their pigs to the center Of the clear
ing, beat them over the head with
sticks until they were nearly dead
and threw them down to squeal and
jerk their lives away.
The men built little fires all around
the clearing to cook the feast. Most
of them were chiefs. It is a general
rule throughout the region that no
chief may eat food prepared by an
inferior, or cooked over a fire built
by an inferior
The greatest chiefs on Vac are
those who have killed the most pigs.
The pig is more important in the
New Hebrides than anywhere else in
the world. A mans wealth Is reck-
oned in pigs, and a woman's beauty
is rated according to the number of
pigs she will bring.
X X
TT is the custom throughout the
New Tiebridges to take young
pigs and gouge out two upper
teeth, so as to make room for the
tusks. The most valuable tusks are
those that have grown up and curled
around so as to form two complete
circles. These are very rare. The
New Hebridean native considers him
self we'll off II he has q single circ-
let to wear as a bracelet or nose
ring and he takes pride in a collec-
tion of ordinary crescentshaped
tusks. Pigs tusks are the New Heb
ridean equivalent of money.
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AUTO SHOW GIVEN
ON LARDNER'S LAWN
Sport Model Aspersia You Chancellor Don't Live
20 Pay Second Instamen on

car is built specially for people that
wants their normal number of nails
tended TO. A person with six fingers
or six toes on one limb Is out of luck
when they buy this model as 1t will
only take care of 20 nails.
Each car is equipped with a mani
cure and q chiropodist and Is q great
time saving device as a person that
needs tension along these lines can
get it on the way to or from business.
Instead of tool chest. this model has
complete nail pairing set and Is SELL
ing big as these lines goes to press.
The wheel-base is IA yards
Least but by no means last In the
Ultra Marine. This model Is built
along the lines of a sea-going vessel
and you can hardly tell IL you are
at sea or the reverse as It rocks ter
ribly.
This design Is divided into cabin
passengers and a steerage 1t Is
equipped with ships officers and you
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pictures all around them. At sun
down we went back to the ship, with
nothing to show for our days effort
WE set sail betimes and before long
w reached Lambumba bay. I had
been anxious to visit this region. for
I had heard that it was inhabited by
nonlad tribes. Early next morning
we struck inland along a we'll beaten
trail. We followed this trail all day.
but we saw no signs of natives. Next
! day we took a second trail, which
crossed the first. Again we met no
| one. But we found baskets hanging
| from a bantam and the embers of a
| fire still alive under a blanket of
ashes.
This was the most beautiful part
of Malekula we had seen. The trails
were we'll beaten and for the most
part followed small streams that cut
| an opening in the dense jungle to let
the breeze through. Here. as else
where, we were surrounded by gay
| tropical birds and in the trees hung
| lovely orchids.
| On the third morning we took a
new trail. We were walking along
very slowly. I was in the lead.
turned a sharp corner around big
| banian and all but collided with a
savage. The savage was as aston
ished as I, but he got his wits back
| more quickly than l did mine and
| fitted off into the jungle as quietly
as a butterfly. In the hope of sur
| prising other natives, we agreed to
stay close together and to make as
| little noise as possible. In about half
an hour four natives appeared on the
brow of low hill directly in front
of us. They. too, turned at the sight
of us and ran.
We followed and in about fifteen
| minutes stopped to rest near a great
| banian. AS grew accustomed to the
light, I saw dimIy, peering from be-
hind the tendrils, four intent black
faces. We had caught up with the
men we had surprised on the trail
spent an hour in trying to coax
them into the open. I held out to-
ward them the things most coveted
by the natives of the New Hebrides-
tobacco, salt, a knife, a piece Of red
calico. I made an attractive heap of
presents on the ground and we all
stood back. hoping that the shy saw
ages would pick up courage to come
out and examine them. But they re-
| fused to be tempted. At last I lost
patience and ordered the boys to sur
round the banian. When I was sure
that we had the natives cornered
went under the tree and hunted
around among it's many trunks for
my captives. There was not a sign
of them. But in the center Of the
banian was an opening in which hung
long ladders fashioned from the ten
drills.
We did not get another glimpse Of
them that day, but when we returned
to the Amour we saw footprints in
the sand of the beach, and the two
boys we had left in charge said that
q number OF savages had inspected
the vessel from distance. dis
appearing into the jungle just before
our arrival.
X n y X
TARLY next morning, as we were
! II eating breakfast. a native march
ed boldly down the beach and up to
| the side of the ship. In bad beche-
| de-mer he asked us who we were
and where we came from and what
we wanted. We learned that he had
been ''hlaclhirdsd'' or te Queensland
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Pigs More Important New Hbres Than Anywhere Else in the World
Mans Wealth Rd Those Animals Wman Rated According
Number of Pigs She Will the Monkey Men, Whose Protection
in Methods of Flght-Whe
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long before and had made his way
| back home after years absence. He
| knew all about the white men and
| their ways, he told us. and proved 1t
| by asking for tobacco.
But finally succeeded in extracting
| from Nella-so he called himself-an
| agreement to guide us to the head
quarters of his tribe.
He took US along one of the trails
| that we had followed in vain during
| the preceding days. But presently he
| turned off into another trail that we
had not noticed. The entrance was
| masked with cane grass. After about
ten feet. however, the path was clean
| and we'll beaten. When we had pass
| ed through the cane he returned and
carefully Strengthened out the stalks
that we had trampled down.
After a mile or SO of trail Nella
called a halt and disappeared into
| the depths of the banian. Soon he
returned, followed by three young
savages and an old man, who was
| nearer to a monkey than any human
| being l have ever seen before or
since--bright eyes peering out from
| a shock of woolly hair. and enor-
nous mouth. disclosing teeth as
white and perfect as those of a dental
advertisement; skin creased with deep
wrinkles; an alert. nervous, monkey
like expression; quick, sure. monkey
like movements. He approached US
| carefully, ready to turn and run at
the slightest alarm. 1 endeavored to
] shake hands with him, but he jerked
his hand away. The friendly greet
ing had no meaning for him. My
presents. however, talked to him Re-
assured by them and the voluble
Nella, the savages squatted near us.
The five savages sat and discussed
US in their own language OF growls
| and apelike chattering. They tried to
examine the rifles carried by our boys.
| but the boys were afraid to let their
guns out Of their hands. Osa, more
confident, explained to the savages
| the working of her repeater. Then
they focused their attention on her.
| They felt her boots and grunted ad-
miringly. They fingered her blond
hair and carefully touched her skin,
giving strange little whistles of awe.
| Osa was used to such attentions from
| savages and took them as a matter
! of course.
2 We examined the banian from
| which our visitors had come. Like
the tree we had seen on the previous
day, it had a hole In the center, in
which hung a ladder for hasty exits
Empty baskets. hung from the
branches, showed that the place was
much frequented.
x* ~
| \ FTER a while about twenty ma
"A tives came along the trail and
! the examination of us and our be-
| longings began all over. Osa went
among the newcomers with her
| kodak. taking snapshots, and I set
up my moving picture camera on
| tripod and began to turn the crank.
Like lightning they sprang to their
feet and ran to the banian. They
| scampered up the tendrils like mon
keys and by the time could follow
them with the camera I could see
only their bright eyes here and there
peering from the crevices.
! Through Nella we coaxed them
back, and down they came, while
| ground out one of the best pictures
ever got. Osa at once dubbed them
tho monkey people" They had enor-
] neHs dat feet with the great toe
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By MARTIN JOHNSON.

~ NE day, after Osa and l were
again in Vac. our house boy,
j Arree, asked us If we would
like to attend a feast that
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WE were awakened at daylight by
w cries About a hundred saw
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EARLY next morning, as we were
T. eating breakfast. a native march
ed boldly down the beach and up to
the side of the ship. In bad beche-
de-mer he asked us who we were
and where we came from and what
we wanted. We learned that he had
been "hlackhirdsd'' OF te 0uAsps1anA
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18

Miss M. e. Holmes office will be
closed Patriots day, April 19.
y Mrs. Alice Parker left Monday for
visit of several weeks in Portland
The regular meeting of Irene chap
ter, o. E. s., viii be held Friday
evening,
The literature club will meet next
Monday evening with Mrs. A p
Royal.
. Mrs c. r. Foster is at home from
Massachusetts, where she spent the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Walker of
Medford, Mass. are in Ellsworth for
a few days.
- Miss Madeline Drummey has re-
turned from Bangor where she Wis
tied relatives.
Lygonia lodge, F. and A NJ, will
work the degree of fellowcraft to-
morrow evening.
/ Mrs. Harold Linnehan is visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs George
Grindle. in South Penobscot
The Thursday club will meet as
usual this week in the Congrega-
tiOnal church vestry at $50
Mrs w. c. Bellatty has returned
from Winterport where she went to
see her brother, who is very i'll.
Wivurna encampment will work
the Royal Purple degree Monday eve
ming. Supper will be served at $50.
= Justice and Mrs. L. B. Deasy left
Monday for Houlton, where Justice
Deasy opened a term of court yester-
day.
An ,,xrtt &c nxfn 70 n
bekahs in district No. 23 to attend a
district meeting of No. "a at Bar
Harbor on April 26.
! Mrs E. P Jordan, who has been
studying chiropody in Boston the
past winter, has opened parlors at
her home on Pine street.
Allston Wheelden, who has been
employed at Sorrento, helping to tear
down the Jones cottage. spent the
weekend with his parents.
The ladies of the Baptist church
and parish will be the guests of Mrs.
Emery at the parsonage, Thursday
afternoon, from to o'clock.
The Woman's Alliance of the Uni
tartan church will have a cooked
food sale at Mrs E. M. Kings store
next Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
The April term of the supreme
judicial court convenes next Tuesday,
Justice George M. Hanson presiding.
DR.. Laurence G. Higgins, who re-
Gently underwent a surgical opera
tion at the Hurley hospital, will re-
sumo his dental practice next Mon
day.
\ The fish market of Edw. M. Moore,
Wv hn ica pI wifi Il 10
i'll a fish and meat market, was
moved yesterday to its new place
of business in the block below A
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18

Hne new showroom is to be remod-
elled Tor the Noyes Motor Car Co.
out of the block they are vacating.
The Noyes Motor Car Co. has
taken over the garage on Water
street formerly managed by D. E.
Llnnehan, and installed Joseph Col
Inns as manager to give help on all
electrical troubles.
4 w. H. Harris, who has been en-
ployed in the mems furnishing de-
partment of the c. l.. Morang depart
ment stores, left recently for Ban
gor, where he has employment with
the Waterman Co.
At the Baptist church Sunday
evening missionary program, in
pageant form, will he given, with the
aid of the young people The public
is cordially invited.
The regular meeting of the MethO-
dist ladies' aid society will be held in
the church vestry Tuesday. There
will also be special get-together of
the parish at this time. Refresh
ments will be served.
Rev. Iebedee Andrews will attend
the Methodist conference in Bangor
this week A service will be held in
his church at 230 Sunday afternoon,
Rev. George S. Brookes spea king on
"Paul's Triumphant Faith" g"
Lucretia, widow OF David Harden,
died this morning at her home on
Washington street, after an illness of
nearly three months. Mrs Harden
was sixtyfiVe years old yesterday.
She was woman of admirable traits
of character and will be greatly
missed. She had always lived in
Ellsworth Her only child is Mrs
Colin Mckenzie, who has always
lived with her mother and who has
the sympathy of her many friends in
her bereavement. OF her own fam
lily, Mrs. Harden is survived by one
brother and three sisters-Charles
Sargent of Ellsworth Falls, Mrs.
Henry Colpitts of Ellsworth, Mrs. w.
l.. Alley of Salisbury Cove and Mrs
Edward Arnold of Orland. Funeral
services will be held at the home Fri
Gay afternoon at 2 o'clock
V A striking testim onial of the
esteem in which Judge Clarence Hale
and Judge John A. Peters of the U.
S. District Court for Maine are held
by the attorneys of this State, was
given last Thursday night at dinner
held in their honor by members of
the Cumberland Bar association. Ap
proximately 100 attorneys and guests
attended the dinner and reception in
the Falmouth hotel, Portland, in the
same room where the same aSsocia
tion rendered dinner to Judge Hale
twenty-one years ago, on the eve of
his advent to the Federal bench.
Augustus F. Moulton, president of
the bar association was toastmaster,
and speakers included Judge Hale,
Judge Peters, Associate Justice AL
bert NJ Spear of the Maine Supreme
Judicial Court, and Charles A.
Strout, former mayor of Portland
and past president of the bar associa-
ton The speakers paid tribute to
the federal judges and Judge Spear
gave an interesting comparison be-
tween conditions prevailing forty
years ago in the legal profession and
those of to-day
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18
AY-SATURDAY, APRIL 2O-21
Matinee Saturday at 2.

Matinee Saturday at z.
JACK HOLT in a Peter B. Kyne story,
WHILE SATAN SLEEPS" Real life
and real heart-punch make a picture of
great popular appeal. Century Comedy and
News.