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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.
BAYER ASriRIN U Ilka an old friend, tried and
true. There can never bo a tatlnfactory sub
stitute for either one, Bayer Aspirin Is genuine.
It is tits accepted antidote for pain. It relief may
always bo relied en, whether used for tha occa
lonal headache, to hoad-off a cold, or for tha mora
orlous aches and pain from neuralgia, neuritis,
rheumatiatn or othor ailment. It's easy to
identify Bayer Aspirin by tho Bayer Cross on
very tablot, by tho name Bayer on tha bog and
tho word "gonuiue" always printed in red.
A man who "goes ahead and docs
things," hardly ever docs them your
wny.
When one "has an onon mind" It
may be because he doesn't cure.
When a White Collar Man
"Goes Army"
Perhaps he doesn't
learn a few things!
DON'T envy a mn who "only
has to work a typewriter."
So w were told by Mr. Solon 8.
Dloom of 8503 YYoodbrook Avenue,
Baltimore, Md., whose health began
to give way because hie work give
him no bodily exorcise.
fl decided to get away to a military
training camp," says Mr. Bloom,
fthlnking tha rough and tumble
with tho army would do me good
for a month. I asked the doctor
what to do about my condition.
'I've seen men, I've known men,' he
said. 'I know what they eat, drink,
and how they live. I know cathartics;
physics, and all the way men try
to keep themselves regular and the
only two that go together well are
men and NuJoL Nujol soothes snd
heals the ' membranes and expels
bodily poisons normally, naturally,
easily, so that you are regular as
clock-work.' "
That was what Mr. Bloom learned
when he left his typewriter and went
It Isn't necessary to cultivate fools;
they grow of their own accord.
Rieiik kindly nt sll limes If ou
Would hear only pleasing echoes
A dark secret may be Just a shady
sfter ll comes to light.
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.
For the protection of your wee
one for your own peace of mind
keep this old, reliable prcpara-
The Mark of
Genuine
Aspirin..
ati(rts to lh tnito surk af
aUmlilMiM ( stllcfllncul
I on't worry If you are dead la
love; you will come to life agulu.
Capacity without education Is de
plorable, nnd education without ca
pacity Is thrown sway. Sandl.
Into the army. II you are like moat
other people, you too will find that
Nujol will make all tha difference la
the world in the wy you feci.
Remember Nujol la not a medi
cine, for It contains no drugs of
any kind. It Is simply bodily lubrica
tion that everybody needs.
You can get a bottle of Nujol at
any good drug store, in a sealed pack
age, for the price of a couple of good
cigira. If you will start today and
try it for two weeks you will sgre
thit Nujol Is the easy normal way
to keep well and Risk a success out
of your life. You will be astonished
st the results!
Starting a Fir Safaly
Kill a bucket with tin ahe and)
saturate them with kerosene. 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
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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. Fletcher's signature, on
the wrapper.
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