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Evening star., 1923-09-23

A severe march went on all day.
Barton was in command of the ad-
vance, and feeling hard with his
| scouts for touch with the Doriri
! party ahead; / was in charge of the
rear guard and was severely driv-
ing the fearful Maisina carriers.
Night was closing in, the head of the
line had halted to camp, when back
to me came an orderly with mes
sage from Barton. Hurry up; we are
within touch OF the Doriri"
X
THE Maisina. on hearing the magic
l. word Doriri. rushed like sacred
rabbits for the camp. Upon the rear
guards coming up with me- Barton
told me that the scouts ahead had
seen a man up a tree who was calling
to a party of Doriri ahead of him.
The Maisina now fairly collapsed
with fright, and begged US to go back.
saying that we would all be eaten IL
we stayed. Barton and consulted as
to what was to be done with them;
to send them back was our best course,
but then. IL by any remote chance
there happened to be Doriri left In the
country we had traversed, they would
stand good chance of being cut to
pieces, as we could not weaken our
force. on the eve of a fight, by de-
taching constabulary to escort them.
They, however settled the question
for themselves. Fearful as they were
of going on with US into the land of
the dreaded Doriri, they were still
more afraid of leaving US and having
to follow lonely road back. Finding
that we were determined to go on,
and that the constabulary and Kali
Kali apparently treated the Doriri
with contempt. they quaveringly said
they would follow.
We felled trees and made our camp
as strongly defensive as possible.
Needless to say, the Maisina required
no pressing to do their share of this
work. but toiled like veritabIe de-
mons. clearing scrub and dragging
trees into stockade long after the
Evening star., 1923-09-23

"But that Is work."
''I'm ready for It."
But, of course, you'll go up and
bid Miss Roland goodbye before you
sail?''
Reggie turned without replying.
He would see Miss Roland and say
something sarcastic about January
and May, or the sacrifice of youth to
age.
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nLIVIA admitted Reggie at once
~ the next morning, although his
call was unconventionally early. She
was all smiles. Her loveIiness in a
morning gown made him feel faint.
Il have an answer to your propo-
SAL" she said, with no embarrassment
whatever 'Tt depended upon a pro-
posai made to me last night by your
father"
She waited. Reggie was unable to
speak.
Your father wants to make you a
working director In the Universal
Supply Company on condition that
you marry" continued Olivia.
He's very kind, isn't her Reggie
laughed, mockingly.
why. Reggie." cried Olivia. Re-
proach was in her eyes,. Never be-
fore had she called him Reggie. He
looked at her for the briefest part of
a moment in a daze. Then his desire
to become a cowboy somehow got lost
In q lot of kisses.
copyright, 1928,
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Story of the Officials Who Cbd the Is Told by of
GuineTer the Maisi-An Appalling SormT Gallant

more than mortal man, standing at a
solitary post, could be expected to
endure. I was also firmly convinced
that no human being. Doriri or other
wise. would be fool enough to be
abroad on such a night. We struck
camp very early the next morning.
only too glad to get away from such
a storm torn, uncanny SPOT.
After marching a few miles, we
found a Doriri track leaving the Wa
kioki, and leading across the Didina
ranges toward the Doriri country at
the head of the Musa river. The Mais-
ina were now blue with funk, and we
greatly feared they would bolt; but
curses from US. threats from the con-
stabulary and jeers from the Kali
Kali, who told them that IL they left
us they tthe Kali KailD would make
them the laughing-stock OF the coast
as set Of women and weakllngs
made them pluck up their courage
enough still to follow us.
Evening star., 1923-09-23

| order had been given, THAT will do
the camp: post the night guard"
We were now right on the borders
OF the Doriri country. Dawn broke,
and no time was lost In striking camp.
While a difficult piece of walking
was causing the carriers to struggle
rather more than usual. and thus de-
laying Barton and the rear guard
two of the scouts came back and re-
ported that they had discovered men.
how many they could not ascertain.
In the bush on one side of the river
Evening star., 1923-09-23

the river on our left. at once changed
our line of march toward the direction
OF the Doriri. but after going short
distance the grass became so thick and
the track so narrow as to prevent any
safe lighting formation being retained.
A halt. therefore, was made. and
the constabulary formed into two
bodies. fronting two lanes In the tall
grass. from either of which the now
expected attack might develop, the
carriers being packed between the
two lines of police. From the voices
Evening star., 1923-09-23

| dashing about with a club, leaped
| into the river, and though evidently
wounded in half a dozen places, still
| stuck to his club and made his way
across to the scrub on the opposite
| side of the river, hotIy pursued by
two police.
Never have known a man so tena-
cious Of life as that Doriri I myself
| sent four 500 bullets through him as
he bolted. and yet he ran on. We
| found him aferward dead in the
scrub, quite half a mile away. On
gaining time to look around ! saw
about a dozen Kali Kali, who, in de-
f1ance of my order that they were to
| remain on the river bed to await Bar
| ton, had thrown down their yoads and
were rushing to join the two police
chasing the man across the river;
while tearing, like devils possessed,
| through the tangled underground to-
| ward me came the remainder of the
Kali Kali
When Barton finally arrived 1
found the poor old chap had under
gone a dreadful time. Firstly, tooth
ache had prevented him from eating
fully struggled over the rough track
| shepherding the terror-stricken Mais-
| ina. the roughness of the track and
his empty condition had brought on
a recurrence of his dysentery. Sud
denly the crack of rifles came from
| the front, and the Maisina were
bowling with panic and crowding all
| around him; his constabulary, fairly
foaming with impatience to be in the
| fight, were endeavoring to make a
| break for me and 1t took all his time
| to hold them while the Kali Kali
threw all restraint to the winds as
! they cast their loads on the ground,
and, fiourishing their tomahawks,
| flew to the sound of the firing. Their
own white master and their own
police were fighting, that was
enough for the Kali Kali; they
should not lack the assistance of
their own people, be hanged to the
Port Moresby police; Kali Kali into
the fighting line.
From the Doriri prisoners we
learned that their villages were small
| and widely scattered, and that their
food supplies were none too good.
They really made their expeditions to
Collingwood Bay in order to hunt
game and make sago and the killing
of the people there was only a sup
Elementary diversion, though of
course the slain gave them an agree
able" change of diet.
'Will your people fightr' l asked.
| Yes was the reply, "of course they
will; but those fire spears of yours
are dreadful things to meet. If it was
| the Maisina, now" Here they
stared contemptuously at those un-
happy people. who wilted accordingly.
| Never mind the Maisina, they are
my people now" I cut in; will the
| Doriri fight us?' Yes, once" was
the reply, until they have learned
all about those fire spears" Yes.
what thenT' queried. "They will
bolt for the hills, where you can't find
them, and starve there. for we have
| little food"
n IPoN leaving our camp at Boure in
~ the morning we followed the
track down the river bank through
. thick ciumps of pampaslike grass,
| twelve feet high: beastly dangerous
country to traverse among q hostile
people, was with the advance. when
suddenly we heard the loud blowing
OF war horns and the defiant shouting
Of a large force Sa men moving up the
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Yellow Rain and Red Snow.

MELLOW rain in the Yukon terri
tory and red snow in Greenland
are sights often seen. The yellow
rains, so called because the ground
becomes covered with a peculiar fine
be caused by the pollen of pine trees
growing miles distant. The pollen is
caught by the winds, carried away
and then dropped.
The red snow of Greenland Is
made" by wind-placed deposits sof
minute vegetable organisms. bits soA
seaweed which contain red spots. "A
Evening star., 1923-09-23

These men were, in my opinion, the
party whom We had been following
all along, with possibly others; and
from their silence. 1 concluded that
they had either laid an ambush, or,
still more probably, formed a portion
of a body OF men coming round on to
the brink of our extended line.
I dared not risk sending the scouts
out again, with a probability of their
falling into the hands of a strong
party OF Doriri. and should delay
to communicate with Barton, and lose
time In waiting for the rest Of the
police and carriers to come up, /
might allow tina for an attack to
develop on our dangerously strag-
Cling line. This would be followed
with an absolute certainty by a
stampede on the part of the Maisina
on top Of Barton and the rear-guard
and a possible bad slaughter before
Barton knew what was occurring or
could clear his police.
I therefore hastily detached seven
police and ordered the others, with
the village constables and Kali Kali
carriers who were nearest to the
front, to draw out into the clear river
bed and there wait for Barton, who,
with the rear guard, would be COM
ing up. In the meantime /, with my
seven men. made a detour into the
scrub on the exposed side of our line,
with the object Of both intercepting
any attack that might be coming, so
as to allow of a better fighting for
nation being adopted. and to come
out on the rear and flank of the men
seen by our scouts.
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\ FTER we had crawled and forced
"A our way for some distance under
a dense tangled underground over
marshy ground, we suddenly emerged
Evening star., 1923-09-23

upon a couple of bush shelters. from
one of which a Doriri armed with
spear and club sprang up in front of
US with frightful howl of surprise
and alarm. In response to a hasty
order from me. the man was shot
dead and rush made upon the shell
ters, from which three more men
leaped, all armed.
Two OF these men were at once
knocked over by the police, and Sc
cured ,uninjured: a, fourth. who
fought most desperately, frantfcally
Evening star., 1923-09-23

\ FTER we had crawled and forced
"A our way for some distance under
a dense tangled underground over
marshy ground, we suddenly emerged
Evening star., 1923-02-20
limit. and there are now 1879 guests

limit, and tnere arc NOW 1,o'5 guests
at the hotels"
The buildings on the property which
the railroad company requests be va
Gated include the power plant and the
laundry. two most vital parts of the
hotel machinery. Mrs. Sumner said.
Their removal would cripple the ma
chinery of the hotels and, according
to Secretary Of Labor Davis. might
necessitate abandonment Of the en-
tire project.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
AUTO GREAT HELP .
TO VISITING NURSES
Gift Adds to Efficiency in
Handling Cases in Out +
lying Sections. 1
WORK GROWING APAcE
Additions to Stat Nearly Offset,
However, by Expansion
Of City. :.
WORK GROWING APAcE

One of the most ardent and long
deferred hopes Of the Instructive
visiting Nurse sootsty 10 realised. It
has an automobile.
It 10 q cosy sedan. given.the organ.
isation outright by . sympathetic ana
generous member Of the board OF
managers The value OF this aid, ON"
dals OF the nursing orSanization
state. In reaching scattered cases and
In minimising the time lost In trans
portation, cannot be overestimated. II
IL planned to put the new car to
work in some one definite spaFsley
settled district, and without a doubt
its. utilization there will be eouiva-
lent to an additional nurse. for the
nurse who enjoys its facilities can
do twice Is much work.
Lose Much Time.
With the increasing use OF the In
structive Visiting Nurse Society serv-
ice by those Of small and moderate
incomes. as well a. the continued
use by those otherwise unable to re-
ceive nursing care, tho work OF the
society has increased all over the
city. and particularly In suoh out
lying areas a. Anacostia, the further
parts Of Georgetown and certain
northeast sectionR This increase has
constantly accentuated the difficulty
Of transportation. Not infrequsntly
has a nurse walked q mile or two to
reach her patient after leaving the
street car. The current grip cpl
demic has added to this burden.
Ideally. each unit covered BY q
nurse should be a small one. wherein
she can be a familiar neighborhood
figure. known to school and church
and citizens' association as well a
| to the cooperating agencies. When
nurses are few. districts must be
large and such intimate contact !,
| impossible. Washington. II 10 claimed
| and the claim is backed up by figures
from other cities. is undermanned In
| public health nurses.
Better or Than In 1921.
The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
| ciety is in many ways better OF than
| In 1921. although the growth Of the
city. especially in the semi-suburbar
parts. has greatly offset this. In thai
| focus public attention on Its work o,
conserving the health Of the commu.
| nifty; to increase It's nursing stah; te
raise the nurses salaries to an ade
Quete amount. TO develop Ine mater
nifty service. and to open an educa'
tional center. where pupils in the Army
School of Nursing could receive felt
supervision and public health lee
1 lures.
All these objects were accomplished
! Four nurses were added In 1891 ant
five more In 1922. The education cen
ter was opened with . specially train
ed instructor. Last year Z third nurs.
| was added to the del very service
In July . specialized maternity su
pervisor with post.graduate training
was placed in charge Of the materni
~ service. The stan now consists O.
ltwenty-six graduate nurses.
| Pay ]S,573 Visits.
In 1920 the society had 3,245 pa
tients; in 1922 1t had 5.698. In tn,
first named year its stan paid 32.41
nursing visits: last year they pail
! 4S.573.
In 1921 1855 mothers called on tn,
Evening star., 1923-02-20
w. K. COOPER ATTENDS
YIN. C. A. CONFERENCE
Meets With International Commit
tee in New York-Ex-Directo Of
Athletics in Poland Visits D. c.

Harry w. Long, for many years direc-
tor Of athletics in Poland for the 7. NJ.
c. A.. visited the local organization here
yesterday on his way to Winston Salem,
N. c., where he has been detailed until
September /. From 1908 to 1919 Mr..
Long was associated In this city with
G. Edwin Beckett. physical director OF
the Washington "Y.'
William Knowles Cooper, general Sec
retary of the association here. yester-
day attended a conference Of the Y. NJ
C. A. foreign work committee Of the
International committee in New York.
before the Rotary Club At Pottsville
Pa. at noon today, and tonight II to be
the speaker at the annual banquet OF
the Pottsville Y. NJ. c. A.
DR.. j. Walter Fewkes, chief of the
bureau of American ethnology OF the
Smithsonian Institute. will give An II.
lustrated lecture at o'clock tomorrow
street northwest, on Mesa Verde Ma
tional Park"
Leslie NJ. Shaw. former Secretary Of
the Treasury. will be the principal
speaker at the new members dinner
to be held Friday evening at o'clock
day school for boys yesterday went or
the roll Of honor. having general aver
ages Of S5 per cent or more for the
first semester. They are Loren Adams
Philip Alter, Robert Baldwin. Eugene
Beebe. Russell Coombes. Albert Craig
Blaine Harrel, Herbert Hukriede, Rob.
ert Jacquet. Gelston Mcneil. Franz
Phillips, William Taylor, Leroy Voshal
and Marion Wise.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
89WANT ROOMS
|NPLMA HOTELS
Waiting List Pointed to as
Need for Continuing Gov
ernment HosteIries.

The convenience and necessity OF
ntinued operation Of the govern
ment hotels on the Union Station plaza
10 evidenced by the fact that q waiting
list Of 1Ss now desire admission to the
hotels, Mrs. Sarah Z. Sumner, manager
Of the government hostelries, said to-
day. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
owner OF the property on which a
major part OF tho buildings copsti-
tuting the hotel group has been
erected, has asked the governm en- t
to vacate the property by April /,
charging that rent has not been paid
on the property since November II.
1922.
Comments ON Situation.
While I cannot say what change
would take place in tho rental sftua-
tion in Washington as result Of
closing OF the hotels Mrs Sumner
said today. "it appears to me that
the need for the hotels is evidenced
by the waiting list Of girls who wish
to make their residence here. We now
have q waiting list Of 1Ss girls who
wish to procure accomm modauonS al
the hotels. Our rooms are full to the
Evening star., 1923-02-20

delivery nurse for services at the time
o. childbirth: in 1922 22s mothers
USED this service for confinement in
the home. making a total OF as5 pa
tients cared for in the two years.
MnSy Activities Carried On.
Among other special achieveme nts
or the society are: The supervision OF
the Children's Country Home for
three months; supervision Of the
tuberculosis day camp at 18th and
Upshur streets northwest; arrange
ments for a night registry whereby
emergency calls coming for the de-
livery service nurses at night or on
holidays might be promptly attend ed
to, and the Introduction of a new sys-
tenn OF records. with empha asis on the
family Al unit rather than the In.
dividual, calculated to develop more
&C mplete and more helpful social data
Tho doctor said might come home
today, provided sent for q visiting
nurse to take his orders and attend tc
my dressings as long as necessary
| said a patient recently who had jus,
undergone an operation in q local
hospital for appendicitis. The man IL
thus saved not only q long and expen.
| sive stay in the hospital. but can un.
| dergo his convalescence In the com.
Portable and cheerful environment oil
his home.
Evening star., 1923-02-20

3Sc Paris Carriers ;. .1oc'
$l.W FIannelette Night
Shirts. .@c
zoe Biltrite Semi.soft Col
l4rS LOG
Csc Silk Neckties. 3 for 90.
Each ................39c
$l.00 Silk-and.knit Ties, 8
for 500. Each :. -. .69c
$1.O0 Blue chambray Work
Sh1ftS -. .oSc
AH.khaIki and Odd Woolen
Trousers .$1.o5
500 Woven Madras Shirts,
$1.39
Evening star., 1923-02-20
OIL COMPANY ASKS
AIRING BY SENATE
Charges by Thomas S. Black
of Western Petroleum Call
ed ''FIagrantIy False"

Declaring charges made against
1t by Thomas s. Black of the West
ern Petroleum Company of Chicago
were "fagranty untrue" the Stand
ard Oil Company Of Indiana yester-
day fled requests for hearing with
the Senate oil investigating COM
mittee.
The Standard Company declared in
tts request, made by Harry A.
Daugherty. its general attorney. that
it desired to produce witnesses to re-
fute the testimony given by Black
at the final session of the committees
inquiry into conditions and prices in
the oil industry. In this testimony
Black charged the Standard OF In
diana, by whom he said he was en-
ployed for twenty-five years. with
price fixing.
The charges made by Black" said
the Standard Company in its request,
are hagrantly untrue that the
Standard Oil Company Of Indiana can
not permit them to stand on the rec
ord unchallenged."
The Standard Of Indiana asserted
further that the charges made by
Black were "manifestly made for the
purpose of prejudicing the Standard
company IN the eyes OF the public
and embarrassing it in the conduct
or its business"
Never Company EmpIoye.
Declaring it was sure the committee
desired to have before 1t "the exact
facts In regard to the transactions con-
''erntng which Black testified" the COM
pany said 1t was prepared IL hearing
vas given to show the following: That
Black was never at any time in the en-
ploy OF the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana.
Chairman La Toilette of the Senate
OH investigating conittee, received yes
terday and promised to refer to the full
membership of his committee, a request
made by Clayton Townes president of
the Cleveland city council, that the COM
mittee's inquiry be reopened to go into
the arrangement made by the Hope
Natural Gas Company of West Vir-
;sinia, subsidiary of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, for applying
gas to the East Ohio Gas Company.
The last named company sells gas to
consumers in the Cleveland territory.
Members of the committee pending a
meeting, refused to say whether the
hearings would be reopened, although
indications were that the committee
would vote against a reopening. A
meeting Is expected to be held by the
committee within few days.
Evening star., 1923-02-20
Charges Bishop
Gove Comfort to
Foes of Dry LalU
~ the Associated Press.

- the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, February 20.
: ---John Royal Hurts. president of
Cumberland University and vice
president Of the National Reform As
sociation. here today. issued Z state
I. Enent replying 10 Bishop Thomas r.
0ailors sermon In Washington. In
which the minister was quoted a.
saying that ''reformers and law
breakers ssem to be IN conspiracy
to bring the law into disrepute."
Dr.. Harris, former superintendent
Of the Tennessee Anti-saloon League
says In his statement:
"Bishop Gailor. In his latest out
break against prohibition; charges
that rsformsrs and iawbfeakers .ars
Joined In bringing the law into dis
repute. With. equal truth II can be
saiq that ref0r1pers, lAwbreakers
and Bishop 'Gailor are bringing the
law into disrepute.y He has. persist
entity spoken against prohibition and
thereby gfyen much aid aud comfort
to Its enemies. Most lawlesspess to-
day 10 undoubtedly due 10 the enc
mics OF prohibition. who lawiessly
drink and deal.in liquor and deliver
speeches against this law and its
enforcement"