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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1929)
Temple Ground In (Pnpsrad br th Nttlonsl Otocnphle Socl.tjr. Washington. D. O THE Island of Ball, only a name to thousands of people who pass on round-the-world trips, la social and sociological curi osity. It natives are what biologists might call "sports" tn East Indian ethnology. It tire a night's cruise east of Java. It I about 00 miles long, with a 10.300 foot peak and more than a million peaceful, polygamous people. Its women are the fairest In all Malaysia and a dressmaker would starve. One strange aspect after another break on the obsener. Books are bound from tree leaves. Religion Is the chief ccapatlon. Trial marriage Usually takes. It Is a land of the slimmest women and the fattest pigs. Itlrds talk and butterflies fly like birds. Praying to pagan gods and fooling pagan devil are the main pastimes. Tourist attractions are many, but tourists few. The quest for photographic adven ture along the island paths, past green fields, temples, and walled Tillages. Is an endless delight-sunless a carabao suddenly flounders op from the mud to chase the white man. Ball children ride Uiese clumsy creatures, and even when one runs amuck It la said a (mall boy swishing a switch through the air may canse the mad beast to turn aside In his charge. But here, as In the Philippines, there seems to be something In the looks or smell of a white man which the carabao doesn't like. Such butterflies as one sees In Ball I Orange and white; black and yellow, or black and green, and huge purple ones, all flying like birds, not flutter Ing, as oars do. And there are wild chickens In the woods, the cocks bril liantly colored, and a talking bird they call the beo, a blue, sluggish fowl with dangling yellow wnttles an ugly thing, like a wattled old woman. The Ball Tillage Is a group of kam pongs or compounds. Each surrounds several little houses and s few smaller structures used as granaries and built high to save the grain from pigs and rata. One house may shelter several families. Usually the Ball hut Itself la a small, nlpallke. thatched affair, with a frame of poles. A few feel above the ground Is a platform, where sne sees the family lying around at ease during much of the day. But whenever one of theee family groups Is approached with a camera, the mem bers of the hnuxehnld will roll off the platforms and sidle over to the next bouse, , - The ''Undsrslung-Plfl. The Ball pig Is a physlcul curiosity -like a dachshund with a pig's make op. Even In Infnpcy his tummy al most drags on the gn.-und. In youth he has no youthful figure, tie Is "un leralung," so to speak. , and could never travel a road with "high cen ters." The older he gets, the bigger bis waistline. And his hack sags like that of an old family nag ridden when too young. Ball, too, la the Imid of big noise, there's no brawling, hut If It Isn't the native orchestra, it Is the roosters that keep up the racket They crow by the thousands, li ng before day. Before they quit, the pigs begin to squeal not from hunger, for they're III fat. Foraging In the cool of the morning or lying In midday shade, they test their sipiealer. They seem to want to tell the world flint her no .Moslem prejudice against pork can cramp any pig's style or restrain him from self expression. One sees these Bull pigs, each In his own wicker cage like n prize, bird, being loaded on ships for export to Singapore. The deck Is piled five tiers high with the fiit. waddling creatures, whose squealing chorus al most drowns out the ship's siren. Here pork Is the only meat en ten. Cattle are ruined, but for export Big, brown, beautiful creatures they are, With a singluar while patch on their hind quarters. Reen from behind, they look ns If they were wearing while pants. At times the hulls figure In religious ceremony and nre decorated With big bells. Artists who have known many fa mous models In American and Kuro pean ort centers, assert thut few Specimens of the human nice are so easy to look at as the bountiful women rf Ball. Erect, Mender limbed, snmll of wrist and ankle, with titperlng lln gors, and long, wuvy (reuses fulling over a smooth skin nourly white or the Capital of Ball. light bronie; with perfect, even teeth and a singular grace and dignity of carriage, they have few physical equals among womankind. Drama, Dance and Religion, In Bull the play's the thing, and all over the Island the drama and the dance go on throughout the year. But a playwright would starve; and no "new steps'' are ever Introduced by Ball dancing girls. Here there's never a "Bret night" nor a new show. To day Ball enjoys the same songs, dances, and drama It knew centuries ago, all based on Island folklore, mythology, and historical legends. Vet nobody seems bored. Even the chil dren know the lines and songs by heart; they follow the players' every word and gesture with close attention. Such demons as ruin the rice crops or bring disease to carabao, and the demigods who have Influenced the lives of the Ballnese through the cen turies, figure in the songs and drama. Shows are usually given In the day time, against a temple or a nutural back dtop of Jungle green. Hindu temples, big and little, cover this thickly Inhabited Island. Mos lem Immigrants have come over from Java, of course, and one sees Chinese proprietors of shops where even American-mode hand sewing machines are on sale, but neither Cross nor Crescent seem to have gained much foothold on Ball. One singular story is told of an early Christian mission ary who, after long efforts finally mode one Bull convert But this na tive apostate, thus cut off from his kind, finally turned ou the missionary who had made blm a social outcast and killed him. Religion Is everything In Bait It seems to Inspire all work and play. No one seems lonely; there are no beggars, no drunkards, no prostitutes. Every act la service to the temple gods; every sMtt Is holy, snd every peaceful hour seems sanctified to dully life. Here the external and spiritual world are closely akin. In the prettiest spot on every little farm stands the family altar, usually shaded by trees or plants. Here the furiner builds the wood or stone altars to the gods of his rliolce. Should a man's prayers go unanswered, he Is quite justified In demolishing his ex isting altars and building new ones to a new divinity.- .t Irrigation Is Skillful. No region on earth Is more highly cultivated than the tillable parts of Ball. Here Irrigation Is applied to Its utmost refinement. In. building reservoirs, or waduks, In luylng out and digging canals and laterals, the Balinese nre among the world's most skillful engineers. So highly was their system developed that when Dutch engineers came thejr had noth ing to add. (in Bull, at In the United States. Irrigation districts are set up. Each controls its own water supply, and water rights are equitably distributed. It also regulate land transfers and holding. The planting of crops, the tending of cuttle, snd collection of rates are all supervised by these co operative associations. It Ice I the chief food, but wheat, copra, groundnuts, tobacco, fruit, and onions are also grown. Cuttle, bide, horns and swine sre exported, for Its soup, crude hardware, tools, and a limited amount of cloth and clothing. Bull depends on Imports bundled by Chinese and Imteh trad ers; but, to a singular degree, the Island Is a self-contained gnrden of Eden, where life I easy and food plentiful. Swift and sweeping a change I In our modern, Inventive world. Ball respond but slowly. Here the well dressed young man and everybody else need wear only the surong a multi colored strip of hut Ik. about a yard wide, wound around the waist and hanging to the knees. Till cheap factory-made sarongs came from Enroie. these simple garment were works of art for nt weaving, as at carving nnd In the fabrication of objects of gold and sliver, the Hnllnet are skillful. Only on entering (he temple must women cover the upper part of their bodies, for thl they use a light sen rf. When one stops to think that Bull, with Ita singular ciinrmi, I only night' run from the tourist path through Kiiernbiivn, one wonder Hint Irresistible civilization In not aJ ready upset It primitive life. An Adventure Pimpernel By the BARONESS ORCZY Copyright Ttaronesa Ores? WNU Sxrvlc CHAPTER VII Continued 12 "Malediction I" But Rnffet got no further. Astonishment not unmixed with terror rendered him speechless. The Scarlet riinpernel Ye Oodal And the chief of section and his friend at the mercy of that fiend I Even now hi straining ear seemed to perceive through those calls for help a triumph ant battle cry In a barbaric tongue. "Here!" he cried to the troopers. "Two of you are sufficient to bring these rascals along; and you corporal, and two men come with me. Cltlr.cn I.auiet nnd his friends are being mur dered even now." lie hurried down the road followed by the corporal and two men of the gendarmerie, while those (but were left behind saw to It that the perpe trators of all this additional outrage and of all this pother were duly atari ed on their way. To them Rnffel shouted a final ; "Three of you remain to guard the prisoners snd make ready for an Im mediate start when we return." Then he disappeared round the bend In the road. The shouting had ceased as Itaffet and hla troopers hurried along. In deed, at first he might have thought that hla ears had deceived him. had not that agonized call for help still ris en Insistently through the gloom. He searched the darkness, snd suddenly a sight greeted him by the roadside which caused the hair to stand up on his head. At first this seemed nothing but s bundle lying half In and hall out of (he ditch In the mud, with the drip drip from the trees making s slimy puddle around It It was from this bundle that the calls for help snd the curses proceeded. ft was appalling! Almost unbeliev able for there were the chief of sec tion In the rural division of the de partment of Seine et Olse. Citizen Lauzet. and hla friend from Curls whom Captain Ruffet knew as Citizen Chanvettn, a man who stood high In the estimation of the government, and they were lying In a muddy puddle In the ditch like a pair of calves tied together for market. Itaffet might have disbelieved his eyes, had It not been for the language which Citizen I auzet used sll the while that the rone which bound hltn was being cut by the corporal. "Thank the Lord," Buffet exclaimed tervently. "thai you are safe!" "I'll have 'em flayed alive, the ras es is !" Lauzet exclaimed In a voice rendered feeble and hoarse with much shouting, ss well as with rage. "The guillotine Is too mild a death for such miscreants. They attacked me, cltl sen captain, would you believe 111 Mel Chief of section In the rural gendarmerie I Have you ever heard of such sn outrage? They shouted si ns from behind My friend and I were riding along quite slowly, and we bid Just turned Into the bridle path from the road We heard the cart and all fh shouting, but we thought that they were Just a pack of drunken oafs returning from mar ket So we pnld no heed; nor even when anon we heard thai on the mad the cart had drawn up and. rhunclng to glance hack at (be moment, I saw those lout Jumping belter skl(er out of the ran. And the next moment they were on os. the lot of them. Ten or a dozen of them they were, the rogue I" "The miserable scoundrels I" UnlTel ejaculated fervently. "They dragged ns out of onr sad dles." Lauzet continued, "they beat us about the htad." "'nnie of I name!" "And all the while they kept on Snouting. Traitor 1 Traitor I Civ up the English spy to us.' In vain did we cry and protest They would not hear us, snd what could we do against a dozen of them? Then finally they bound us with roies, wound our cra vats about our mouth so Hint we could scarcely breathe, and lifted us Into Hint Jolting cart where we lay more dead than alive while It was driven by a lout at breakneck apeed." "Have no fear, citizen." Bnffet put la forcefully, "their punishment shall be exemplsry." "I bsve no fear," Laurel retorted dryly, "for I'll see to their punish ment myself. The scamps, the Minds ofSntanl But I'll tench them I There w lay, citizen captHln. nt the bottom of the curt, my friend Citizen Cbauve lln, who wore the tricolor scarf of of fice around his middle, and I. chief commissary of Hie district, nnd those ruffians actually dared to wlie their shoes on us I Sn we drove for s kilo meter and a half through the forest. Then presently the carl drew up and all these louts Jumped down like a pack of puppies nnd ran away up the ti Il with shouts that would witke (he drod. Tha lasl I remember, for In the Jolting snd my cramped poslion 1 bed partly losl consciousness, was tkei my friend snd 1 were lifted out Ajsia Trousers Loon Once again (he French dressmakers aro trying desperately to get women into trousers. The model of the fall sport suits from Paris seen In some of tiie New York shop are nearly all of the three-piece type, consisting of coat, wrap-around, skirt and knickers. Nsgli; Silhouettes Straight mid slender negligee have failed out if the picture, for creator of these delicate gurtnenl of Ince nnd Ilk tuke their cue from the evening of the Scarlet of the cart na unceremoniously as we had been thrust Into It. We went then thrown Inlo l ho ditch by the roadside, In the mud. Just whore you ultimately found us, and our cravats were loosened from round our mouths. Immediately wo started screaming for help, hut there was such a din going on up the road that wit felt tho sound of our voice could nof possibly reach you. fortunately In the end, yon did hear us, or tiinybe we should have per ished of odd and Inanition." "Malediction I" ItiilTet swore vi ciously. "And you might have been nt tacked by those cursed English spies while you lay helpless here. W thought we heard them, and their hat llo cry, nnd hurried to your assist ance." Chnuvelln showed no emotion. As soon as the rope Hint held him hud been severed he hud ant up on a brok en tree stump, staring straight out be fore til us Into the mist, and meditative ly stroking hla sore wrists nnd nrms. When first those abominable louts had, thrust him nod Lauzet In the bot tom of the cart and he lay there bound and gngged, nursing his stupen dous wrath and hopes of revenge, he had become aware that the driver, who sflll snt aloft Just above hltn, had suddenly turned and, leaning over, had peered Into bis face. It had only been a brief glarce; the next moment the man was sitting up quite straight again, and all that Chnuvelln saw of hlra was his back, with the great breadth of shoulder and a general look of power end tenacity. But It wits the brief vision of that glance that Chnuvelln now was striving to recapture. The blue-gray eyes with their heavy lids that could not be dis guised, and the mocking glance which hid seemed to htm like rasping metal against his exacerbated nerves. And suddenly he called to Itaffet "The drjver and the cart where are they?" CHAPTER VIII Charles-Mario The captain's shnrp eyes searched the mint that was rising In the valley. "The driver seems to be on the box." he said. "I shall want him to drive these rnscals back to Mantes." "Send hlra to me at once." Cling velln broke In curtly. Itaffet gave the necessary orders, al though Inwardly he .-hated nt this new delay. The prisoners slowly contin ued their wny, and Chnuvelln waited, expectant. Kor what? He could not have told you. He certainly did not expect to be brought face to face with his old enemy. And yet . . ' . But whatever vague hopes he might have entertained were dissipated soon enough by an exclamation from Bnf fet "Charles Muriel What In a dog's name sre you doing here? And a weak, querulous vole rose In reply. "He told me I was to run along and drive the cart bark to Mantes for hltn. He" "Her queried Baffel sharply. "Who?" "I don't know. Citizen Captain." re plied Charles-Marie, "Who ordered you to leave the dili gence snd your horses?" "I don't know. Citizen Captain." pro tested the unfortunate Charles-Murls. "It's God's truth. I don t know." "Yon must know why yo are not sitting on the box ot the diligence." "Yes. I know that, for I scrambled down as soon ss I saw Gnspard full oo yon. Citizen Cnptuln." "Why did yoo s'ramble down?" "Because the horses were restive. At the first pistol shot they started rearing and I had i mighty task to hold them Fortunately, some on came snd gave me a haud allh them." "What do you meno by 'some oo came"? Who wa l(T "He was a drover from Alncourt, Citizen Captain, snd so he knew all bout horse; and how could I keep four terrified horses qulel all by my self?" "Yoo miserable fool I" "All very well. Citizen Captain, but I never wus a fighting man. and I didn't Ilk those pistol shots sll slwuit me. On of then) might have caught me, I say, and l, wus only right I should And cover somewhere, lest Indeed I he hit by niUiiikw. "You ulHitiiiiinble coward P" Itaffet rejoined euvugcly.',Mlliit all that does not explnlii how you got here." "Well, i lliu-ii. It was like this: The drover from Alncourt saw Hint I wus not sltogi-tliei happy, snd he said to uie. There'll he a UA more "fighting presently, when the English spies come in nttnek.' I said nothing at first AH I could do wus to groan, for, as I say. I'm not a lighting man. I went out of Hi army because I wus loo III l tight, and my mother" to riK roNTlNI'KI). ) May Miracles The world Is so full ol miracles and all life Is so essentially mysterious that we should he slow to assert Hint wild creature have no consciousness of (iod. The Amerimn Magazine. mode. Skirt sections droop toward tho rearjind flare In soft voluminous nesn, sleeve widening to an upprccl uble Dure. Evening Cape The loveliest of all evening wrnps are without doubt those of transparent velvet, and when, as In thn case of n black velvet nioiM, they have n collar formed of huge muslin roses, the effect Is even more Intriguing. In Pari ll la laid white velvet wrap nre much In evidence. 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If yon sre wise today yon ran afford to be otherwise tomorrow. Ry letting nature take Its course man would never have had apples bigger than walnuts. It I only necessary to fool sums of the people some of the time to make a living nt It, Grammar Is tssistly learned from people who know how to speak cor rectly; not from book. The only place where roses nre grown with sulllclent scent to make It worth while to dlslll perfume from them I In a narrow Unitarian valley. are upset Baby i!li and ailments seem twice as serious at night. A sud den cry may mean colic. Or a Hidden attack of diarrhea a con dition it is always Important to check quickly. How would you meet this emergency tonight t Have you a bottle of Castoria ready? There if nolhlnjr that can ' take the place of this harmless but effective remedy for children; nothing- that acts quite the same, or hai quite the tame com fortinp; effect on them. 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Put (wo or three Ishlesi-oniifuls of the mixture In the grale, lay on the dry wood nnd the fire Is ready to go. Knnn and fireside. Itusa Hall Hlue delight the house wife. Makes clothes biter than suuw. At your Grocer s. Adv. Filing the Pttour "What) The main mad to Rlnks tllle Is om-h'mII lb wiiyT" "Ye, we had to open It until wo gel the detour fixed." Itilffulu Time Admit It Ignorance Is not so tragic a handi cap as long as II Is arknow lodged. Woman's I loin Companion. Matrimony Is a contract and there nre a lot of rout met Jiimpcra. If he la a born naturalist, he will never do anything else very well. 222 CASTORIA ! IU"!' -. l,li.VW " tion alwayi on hand. But don't keep it just for emergencies; let it be an everyday aid. Its gentle. Influence will ease and soot lie the infant who cannot sleep. Its mild regulation will help an older child whose tongue ii coated became of sluggish bowels. All druggists have Castoria; the genuine bears Chat. II. 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