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Corners sQuatted on the beach and
stared in our direction. In about
fifteen minutes a second group of
natives appeared from a trail still
farther down the beach, and the first
group sprang to their feet and melted
into the bush with incredible rapidity
What did it all mean? Paul, we'll
yersed in island lore, had the answer.
The beach was used Jointly by four
tribes. three belonging to the Big
Numbers and one to the Small Num-
bers people. All of these tribes are
more or less hostile. but they have
agreed between them that the beach
is neutral ground, for they realize
that if fighting is permitted there
it will never be safe for any of them
to come out into the open TO trade or
fish. Sometimes the beach armistice
is violated, and for weeks there Is
severe fighting along the sand: in the
end however, the matter is always
settled by an exchange of wild pigs
ard the beach is again safe for all
Corners But the armistice never ex-
tends back into the bush. In the
jungle and the tall cane grass it is
always open season for man-killing.
We returned to the schooner early
| to make ready for our trip into the
| interior. AS we packed, the mo-
notonous chanting of some twenty of
| Nagapate's men, who had remained
| on the beach to escort US to the VIII
! lage. drifted across the water. Oc-
casionally We caught glimpse OF
| them. grotesque black shapes against
the light from their campfire
! \ Y x x
NEXT morning, before daybreak,
IN we were on the beach, but our
escort had vanished. l was filled
/ with misgivings. Did Nagapate plan
treachery? We we're thirty-one--
twenty-six trustworthy native boys,
four white men and Osa. We were
all we'll equipped with repeating
rifles and automatic pistols. In open
fight we could have stood off a
thousand sayages. But the men Of
Malekula could pick US off one by
one. if they wished. as we went
through the jungle.
1t was dawn on the beach, but it
was still night in the jungle. The
trail was a dark tunnel with walls
and roof of underbrush and trees and
tangled vines. Only where the jungle
was intersected by one of the numer-
Gus streams-swift but shallow and
never too wide for leaping-that
water the island, did the light sue
coed in struggling weakly through
the tangle.
The sun was well up when we
came out on the first of a series Of
lpIateaus that formed a giant stair
way up the mountain
Wei kept watch for treacherous ma
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Pass Nights of Alarm Where an1tng Season Is Always Ope

gesticulating. ] went ashore, accom-
panied by Paul Mazouyer, and found
that they had presents from their
chief. Nagapate-yams and cocouuts
and wild fruits. But the presents
were not for me. In their almost un-
ineligible beche-d e-mer. the natives
explained that the fruits We're for
"Mary'-their beche de-mer word for
woman. ! could scarcely believe my
ears. In all my experience among
the blacks Of the south seas I had
never known a savage to pay any at
tention TO woman. except to beat
her or to growl at her. went doubt
fully back to the schooner and
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TN the editor: Readers of news
papers threw out the country
seems to be all grog over
4 article which appeared in
the papers a couple wks. ago in re-
CARDS to man that had lived to
be- 1874 yrs. Of age and you would
think from the excitement that the
man must Of been a criterion or
something.
Personally 7 was a whole lot i'm
pressed myself until my tension was
called to a resident OF Terkes. Long
Island, named APPEL Spave who had
Just celebrated his 24oth. birthday
and was still on the qui vive you
might say.
Ny employers made the suggestion
that perhaps it would be best for
US all was I to so out and interview
this behemoth and give my readers
the benefit Of my doubts. Well
friends / found this public menace
Just as advertised and viii assure my
friends that anything I may said in
regards to this man is absolutely true
and made up Of whole cloth.
This man was born in Whaydiggle
dureing the 1st Napoleon and did
| not like the town so moved TO Iowa
the next afternoon on the local
| freight.
! There he soon set up a. farm and
was looseing money at a normal rate
when the country was infected with
! a display of Qwams. These are the
species Of insects that drives trees
off farm in groups of FIVE.
Mr.. Spave. seeing that his whole
crop was the bunk, moved off the
farm the next day but two and found
new land in the fruit belt Of eastern
Greece. Mr.. Spave was at this juno
ton two and a half yrs. old and in
terrible shape financially and physi-
cally, but still docile.
His first move was to call up Presi-
dent Buchanan and ask for a decent
deal. The then President called in
his loudest laughers and laughed MT,
Spave out Of the White House.
He says to this day that here was
the turning pit. The next day the war
started between the Swiss and the
firemen and from then on it was easy
sailing.
| i. < + x
WILL not bore you no more with
w the first 142 yrs. of Apeis
life but sufficient to say that he
| never made a success until reaching
his 143rd. yr. when he became janitor
Of a lawn mower plying between
Pittsburgh and Gresham.
At this time the whole country was
! in terrible shape what with the in
fusion of wee whannies that eat up
the DIESEL Everything seemed i'm
possible. But let Mr.. Spave tell 1t
| for himself:
| st attribute my longitude to how
have lived and breathed. At some
| times II was a caution. But l always
remembered the advice given to me
by my old chow nurse, Never charge
anything, never eat raw meat and
never act as IL you must have your
clothes pressed Both OF us are pc
culiar.'
The night she said --that-shs va:
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Lardner Interviews
Man 24O Years Old

killed by somebody listening to her
and 1 will say at this PIT. that I have
adopted her entire credo and lived up
train for Wadon."
But listen" ! put in, don't You
think some Of your memories would
be interesting TO the public?"
IF YOU must have them" he re-
sponded in stupor. Il shall never
forget the inauguration OF Presiden.
Monroe. At that time the White
House was N a. side street lot in
Montgomery. The actual ceremony
was held in big open field along
side of the high school
x x x x
Sc 4 T 1910 O'Clock the four tc,.,.-
"A ers and the student both came
out the side entrance in a terrible
condition. President Monroe Va.
shaking hands on all sides Hello.
Mr.. President / said with a grimace.
The remark was passed unnoticed."
That will make fine reading. Mr..
Spave,' I said, with just the sugges-
ton Of an ogle. But still think We
could get something more enticinG If
you would cut loose and tell US how
you got so old"
He pretended to act silly.
Listen" he said: IF you have got
to have it, I will give YOU my entire
recipe for attaining this age and how
I am. In the first place l always
made it a pit to shave every forty yrs.
and six days. In the matter Of diet,
I have always confined myself to two
anchovies a day with a dash of car
rots.
Just before going 10 bed every
night, I always make it a pit 10 go
| into the next rm. and pick up all the
lamb chops and tomato relish tina
have been left there from the party
of the night before and fling them
from one rug to another in an i'm
partial way.
Il will anticipate your next ques-
| ton which no doubt will be in re-
CARDS to my smoking habits and will
say that I have always been a great
admirer Of cubebs and have always
given them full ply, tho~Sh never TO
| excess"
How many cubebs Old You smoke
| day." was my inquiry.
II never managed to get through
| one in a whole day." was his reply
We next brought up the question OF
his family life
i got married every little while =
| said Mr.. Spave, but always managed
to leave my bride at the altar"
| This man is now living out al
Yerkes, Long Island. and is no doub
| the oldest man on Long Island and
yet is the most democratic man you
would care to meet and is always
welcome when You come to see him.
Like for inst. vest. morning he came
in from playing 234 holes of golf anG
they was S3 visitors waiting to well
come. He passed them all up.
| RING W. LARDNER
Great Neck, Long Island. April.
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asa aud T forgot that this savage
" had once wanted to eat US. We
looked at each other and smiled.
and then, actuated by the same un-
accountable impulse, we rushed for
ward and grabbed his hand. His
heavy face, gashed deeply with
wrinkles, broke into a delighted grin.
He recovered his dignity in a mo-
ment, however, and stood to one side,
with his arms folded on his massive
chest. The strong guard we had
, brought with us must have impressed
him: but he could tell by our conduct
that we were friendly. Fresh relays
of savages continued to come down
from the jungle, SO we decided to
wait until we had with US all the
boys from the other boat before TAX
ing any further chances
AS we were about to return TO the
cutter, an extraordinary thing hap
pened. Nagapate came up to Osa
and made signs to show that he would
like to go aboard with us. Now hun
dreds OF his own people had been
grabbed from his beach in times gone
by and ''black birded'' away to slavery
lie was accustomed, and with some
cause, TO think the white men as
merciless as we thought him to be.
Yet Of his own free will Nagapate put
himself completely in our power.
An hour later, while we ate our
dinner, Nagapate. with two of his
men. squatted on the deck at our feet
and ate hard-tack and white trade
salmon. I brought out pictures l had
made on my first visit. The savages
gave yelIs Of excitement when they
saw Nagapate's face caught on paper
When 1 produced a large colored
poster Of the chief and presented ii
to him, he was speeches..
But the browning touch Of all came
when OSa brought out her ukulele
and commenced to sing. To our sur
prise. Eagapate joined in. chanting d
weird melody, which his men took up
After a few bars they were made shy
by the sound Of their own voices.
About 10 o'clock sent them ashore
happy. with their bare arms full OF
knives and calico and tobacco. The
visit, in many ways significant. did
not give the least assurance Of con-
tinued friendliness. These savages
are as willful and as uncertain in theiI
moods as children. They are physic-
ally powerful, they are passionate and
they possess deadly weapons.
We were awakened Al daybreak BY a
shout from tho shore \ score Of ma
tives stood on the beach calling and
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une New Hebrde Find Nagapate Big Numbers Chief
Friendly Mood Native Village Where Water Is Taboo for Women
TbeExperience With Savages During Thrilling Time When Rival Tribe
Make Observation-Disclosures Inspired by White Man Method
COOKING Food
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to leave a. tiny peephole for the
wearer to look through, and a long
train that hung down the back nearly
to the ground. Every one Of the
dresses was matted with filth. I did
not sec single pig-rooting about
inside and outside the houses-that
was SO dirty as the women Of that
village. I found that for women to
wash was strictly taboo. From birth
to death water never touched their
skins.
The women hid in the houses and
would not come out to be photo
graphed. Not until Nagapate com
manded them to come into the clear
ing did they creep whimpering in ter
ror from the low doors.
We had heard from the natives at
our headquarters on the island of
Vac that Nagapate had a hundred
wives, but there were only ten Of
them, and they were as wretched as
any OF the other women. Osa pre-
scented them each with a string OF
beads and a small glass jar OF cheap
candy. They did not even look at
their gifts. They wanted only to get
the ordeal over to escape. Their
lords and masters felt our skins and
our hair and our clothes examining
US with embarrassing freedom. But
whenever we came upon q woman,
she squatted down and hid her face
behind the grass veil.
We walked about the village, in
specting the houses. AS we APP
preached. the children, scrawny lit
tie wretches, big bellied from mall
nutrition, scurried off into the bush
like frightened rabbits. The houses
we're wretched huts made Of poles
with a covering Of leaves and grass.
or occasionally OF woven bamboo. IN.
side were the embers OF flres-noth-
ing more. A hard, worn place on the
ground in one corner showed where
the owner slept. Nagapates house
stood off by itself IT was larger
than the rest and more compact!y
made. But it was as bare as any Of
the others.
* = X
TOWARD sunset We built a fire and
L cooked our supper. The natives
watched US in establishment. They
themselves made no such elaborate
preparation for eating. Once in a
while a man would kindle O. fire and
throw a few vans among the Goals
When the yams were burned black on
oRe side he would turn them with a
stick and burn them on the other.
Then they were ready for eating
the outside burned crisp and the in
side raw. One evening some of the
men brought in spme little pigs, broke
their legs 80 that they could not
escape. and threw them, squealing.
into a corner of a hut. The next day
there was half-cosked meat to eat.
The natives tore it with their teeth
and seemed especially to relish the
crisp, burned PORTIONS Each man was
his own cook. Even Eagapate made
| his own fire and cooked his own food
! for 1t was taboo for him to eat any
| thing prepared by an inferior or
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BY MARTIN JOHNSON.

w It'll the French recruiter,
~ Paul Mayouzer, Osa and
wv sailed from Vac to Male
lula the island of the
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
SESSUE tlAYAkAWA AT COLISEUM THURSDAY

Although "The Beggar Prince, which will be seen at the Coliseum Theater Thursday is a fantasy, il is based on very human theme, and filled with love interest and dra- matte moments The story of a young fisherman. whose sWeetAeaN, is seen and loved by q naughty Prince, furnishes ihis Robertson Cole Superior picture With it's central sit uataon Sessue Hayawaka is the star.
 The scene K a small fisher village down by the sea, above which looks down such a castle as one finds in the Arabian Nights or Grimm's Fairy Tales. Yet the hearts which beat in the picture arc the hearts which are about Us every day. There is the Prince, egotistical and blind; the fisherman poor and ambitious; the grand vizier cunning and cruel; the fisher girl sweet and innocent, and so on.
 In this picture Havakawa is sup ported by Beatrice La Plante, Thelma Percy. Joseph Swickard, Bort Hadley and others. A beautiful part of the Pacific Coast was the background.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
Women Need Swamp-Root

Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never sus- poet il.
 Womens complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease.
 II the kidneys are not in d healthy condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased.
 Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness. are often times symptoms of kidney trouble.
 Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's swamp Root, phys- clans prescription. obtained at any drug stcre, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. | Get a medium or large size bottle Immediately from any drug store.
 However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer x Co.,, Bing- hamton, N. Y, for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. (advertisement)
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20

competition to get the few cents charge for running the traveller Tn and out among the narrow streets amid crowds of strangely garbed people, curious shops, street hawk CTS. endless numbers of brilliant kimono-clad children, and carts drawn by men and beasts.
 Adding to the natural beatty of Japan is the cultivation. Japanese are the best agriculturists and gardeners in the world. Tones have been written about Mount Fuji and the mountains and lakes and streams of the country. Lake Chuzenji is the Lake Louise of Japan and Mount Fuji, its Mount Rainier, although not so high. Tie cherry blossoms are not so won- derful as those of this country if one remembers the hundred miles of orchards in Nova Scotia's Evan geline Land and Annapolis Valley. The cherry trees in Japan are rais- ed for their flowers and not for theii fruit, as. strangely enough
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
JANE NOVAk WINS ROLE LONG COVETED BY OTHERS

The part of Vera Mather in "The Rosary" at the Palace tonight, has been long sought goal among ae- tresses. Kathlyn Williams originally Ilaycd it for the screen. But in the new version of the famous classic, the Selig Rork feature production, Bernard MeConville has written an original story inspired by the theme of both stage play and song Vera Mather is now a younger woman, which makes tho role ideal for Jane Novak. who was chosen for it after the motion L.cture field had been thoroughly combed for suitable tai ent.
 With an all-star cast the produc- tion was filmed under the direction of Jerome Storm. The scenario was written by Bernard McConville, who was inspired by the Ilay by Edward E. Rose and the song, "The Rosary < Lewis s. Stone is seen in the lead ing male role as tue kind and gentle priest around whom a powerful drama and romance is woven in the peace ,ful little fishing village of Sandy Bay
 ! Cher prominent piayers arc Robert Gordon as .1overs; Wallace Bccry as an cnviotts and greedy troublemaller; Rdbart.,5 Gordcl, Eugenie Besserer. Dore Davidson. Pomcroy Cannon. Bert Woodruff, Mildred June and Harold Goodwin.
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to put across, but is going to do it in splendid manner.
 Claude II. IIclgesen is playing the rart of Prowl, college attache who hates boys on general principles, and Mrs. Lois Cleveland is tho fixer in the married couples house.
 There is the parrot, firemen in t.gats with red shirts outside of them. and brass band that plays in regular old-fashioned style to attract the people. and many other supers who fill in as the Hines arc spoken.
 The curtain viii rise promptly at o'clock and the fun starts right at that time The Coliseum Theater Or chestra will be in the pit as usual, furnishing a varied program between acts and the incidental music.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
SHRINE DANCE BE BIC AFFAIR HELD
 THURSDAY NIGHT

From all indications the dance to be given Thursday night, Washing ,an's birthday. at Elks' Hall by the Southeastern Alaska Shrine Club, w.lI be one of the prcstiest, informal public affairs to be gwen during the Lenten season, Dancing will begin at 9:50 o'e.aek and fezed Shriners will see that all guess of the evening enjoy themselves. The dance will be the only big social event To hap pen. on the holiday night Music will be furnished by the Coliseum Orchestra
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20

Japan mas so distinctly put ner. self lon the map" that the wei travelled person is now compelled to put the Land of the Rising Sun
 into his life's itinerary. At one time Europe was the lode stone, but now it is rivalled by the Tar East. knproved trado relations and growing interest in things ne- longing to the other side of the globe. make a closer study ot the countries there of prime import ance.
 Transportation, trans-continentai and trans Pacific, has become so highly developed that it is as easy to get to Japan as to Italy. Nine- ty-fwo hours from Montreal to Vancouver, Canada Id the fastest tir1e across the Pacihc-a rife more than ten days-puts the .rav Ter into Yokohama. the chief port of the Land of Nippon. :.
 Here the sights are unusual. Jin- :ickashas jostle one another n sheir
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
"A NIGHT OFF" ON TONIGHT AT
 THE COLISEUM
American Legion Comedy Company Will Appear in
 Four Act Funmaker.

Indications arp th7t taare wisl be l Caeao.ty house tonight I, the Coliseum Theatsr when eha curtain ,;scs q s o'clock on the American neSl9ns production of "A \ .-at Off"
 This big comedy ia full O. tragedy. G}d.t.ma meloarama and ri hty of comedy It is rlay with.i a play anu has been one of the greatest comedies of the season wherever it aas been presented.
 The American Legion is practically the only big organization in Juneaa that has furnished the theatrical fans of Gassincau Channel with q diversion in anusamerzs ana as previously, the present presentation is going to be right up 10 tho sIappy limit.
 "A Night Orr is in four ,ast and furious acts. There is only drop i1 the speed of the various acts to peimit the audience to get few ih.nules of breathing spell between lau-la.
 there are going b be many sur pris0s sprung tonight in the way of new thespians on the local stage. LerCl Nolan is going to be seen as one of the old style transformers, Marcus Brutus Snap, pllying anything from light opera 10 Roman tragedy. Bus varied costumes. Donald Haley, light comedian, with Nolan's barn stormers. is seen in a splendid role.
 George r. Mann is east as charac- ter. married of course, who has no past. but mannfacnres one and starts much trouble
 r. W. M Coiburn is going to show speed" in the part of Prof. Bab- bit, college professor who has writ ten Roman tragedy but which has never been produced, until Snap gets his hands on il and then-.
 Charles Westlake is seen as an eccentric Englishman looking for his son who has become involved in all sorts Of scandals with a comic opera singer and runs into debt. Mrs. Francis Beaudn Will be seen as a Istage-struck girl but who stands by the professor through thick and thin.
 LeSia Kasheyaroff will be in a character of a young married woman who desires that her husband has a past and when. he springs all sorts Of intrigues in which he is supposed to have been a party 10. she gets as mad as a hornet when he slips the truth 10 her.
 Rose Mclaughlin plays the part of a little imp, egging on everybody whom she thinks will start some thing and then gets tangled mp herself.
 Mrs. Charles Westlake as the dominating factor over everybody with whom she comes in contact, ex- ercising absolutely complete control oyer her household, including her sonin.law, plays a part that is hard
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
NOTICE TO JUNEAUITES.

Mrs. James Hogan Wishes 10 an nounce that she has taken personal possession of her properties, the Ju- neau and Seaview Apartments and the adjoining cabins, and that all of them are being renovated through out: the apartments are thoroughly sanitary, and comfortable, and pro- vide desirable living quarters for small families and bachelors.
 Mrs. Hogan announces further, that IL Is her purpose to remain in Juneau and 10 retain personal charge of her properties. adv.
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they bear no fruit.
 Although the voyage from Van couver to Yokohama is longer than the four days at sea from the Eastern seaboard via the St. Lawrence River Route to Europe. the Canadian Pacific Empress steamers, largest and fastest on the Pacific, are so thoroughly com fortable that the time slips away quickly. All of these steamers are so equipped that most all of the amusements to be had on land are also to be found on board. Crowds on the trans Pacific ships are al- ways cosmopolitan. Importers from Java, Japanese, Chinese, Javanese, India men. soldiers and sailors, in fact the whole world is represented, bound for all ports from Yokohama to Bagdad and from Pekin to Sing apore. ..
 April marks the beginning of the best season in Japan and even fur- ther down the Chinese coast to Manila.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
MASQUERADE BALL
 IS ON TOMORROW

On Wednesday r.sat a mask bah will take place at the A. E. Hail and dancers as wei as spectators will come in for participation in the va riou5 prizes to be offered. The dance will start at 10 o'clock and the announcement is made that as the next day is a holiday, the music will not stop until q. m. Thursday
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-02-20
REREKAI,S TO MEET.

Perseverance Rebekah Lodge. Nc. PA, l. O. O. F.. will hold it's re9u- lar meeting Tuesday. February 20. Lodge will start at o'clock sharp. Luncheon will follow All members of the degree team are urged to be present for practice before Lodge.
 ALPHONSlNE CARTIER. adv. Secretary.