Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 72

Hostile Dobudura Prove Tenacious, Mysteriously Recedin Government Forces in New Guinea Wilds March Against Group of Natives Which Has Created Trouble Because of Belief that Drought Was Caused by Sorcerers—Expedition Ap- pears to Be Surrounded by Thin, Invisible Net, Which Always Gives When Pressed—Effect idental Death of a Chief. of Dobu- | This is the sixth and last of a series [sengers had gone for them, to tell| of unusual articles, giving some of the|¢hem of our invasion. 1 gave theman | remarkable experiences of Cabt. Mo7K-|a.q {1y woman some tobacco, and | he armed con. :::h lar.;," ,’.&Tff' no\:;--trat. and in |Showed them how a bullet would pass | other posts which he held under the |through a shielg or even @ cocoanut British qovernment of New Guinea. | tree; then 1 told them to seek out| { their chief and tell him that it was useless for him to fight me, but that | L must stop his fighting the Notu | I sald that he had better | me and see himself next day. | flering him safe conduct. So off | | they went X ! Platforms of skulls at each | end of this village: hundreds of skulls | . . people. me were a was BY CAPT. C. A. W, MONCKTON, ORD ¢ame to me that a pre- 7\:\1Hng arought had badly Affectdd the country of the Dobudura tribe, and man of that people’s gardens had perished: while a sago swamp. upon which they relied in time# of scarcity. had be- come dry as tinder and been swept i T Ly fire. Some rain had fallen in u?» h"x n‘-flull‘} Ilun _!!;x-mm I«n:- ln-” l\: immediate viclnity of the Notu vil- had leaut hix rifle against a tree s lages at Oro bay and had mn-.: ‘n\‘« ‘:.l.(::\v. d:::llm.\'\"u:“:;\lu::‘l‘::gu‘:nm:l‘\it’ N ::::wl mis. | ground when a Dobudura crept’ up | dura people e e of the Noty{sud rushed him with a club. Ola | sorcerers, and set out to Ihl;‘)\ '\.llllhlgl‘ ":)’::n:{fu:".“l‘g‘:v‘l:fll"“\:‘ ":-l(:lyn{lxi\;s“:*:; extremely unpleasant for the Notu. | ao o § erous | and succeede catel e blow ¥Is the Dobudura tribe a numerous |4nd succeeded in catching ":n ow ? *Yes, ch more nu- e pode! 3 i :;km‘ M hey told me, | shoulder intead of the cutting-stone merous than we are’ LS bout 500 |disc on his head. Ofu then fore the The Touy. e refore, 1 con- | Club from the man's grasp and dashed fighting men, and, therefore, 1 con-{lub from the man's ¢ ndad that tho Dobusura bet prob-|SUBlERBIE WML o ably four or five hundred men. | Whose Dobudues, may be ol el At dawn T march.d fnland in search | WIth the spear but they are no & of the Dobudurs country. accom-|With the club” me y 3. D. Aclund and R 3L . {'3":@ ty 1] (‘._;k‘.,. M“. e abouti “If that fool had been cluse enough \.' kél: N St f with spear, club {to make a side cut at my knee Instead | sk .l‘;t“ "IY“T"( as scouts and ]" @ down cut at my head, he would and shield, 19 0t opatabulary and [have got me” e sald; “to use the iadada ik et siaty |down cut agwinst a stooping man is Village_constables and about SIXty (SRR O AEAINL & stooDIom Mud b Kalll Ealli uider old Chlet Giwk (ollv. asitineo esslly avillstis. 0K The track, after clearing the nuuxmll‘. a s At wa soamp ran through alternate belts an expert in'the use of & olub. The 2 : T was well | 01d man despised a shield, consider- orcatl fl:‘";lflnnf,i, K;:i:,,‘:::d‘:“;n,, of |INE it a useless encumbrance, and worn and defineds 1t Ao o A Cdics | trusted to his clever manipulation of e his club to ward off missiles. bk Night was closing In with the - in front,}fi Nig 3 The Notu marched in fron N;gfi!mw'm" S Slogig ot Swith - th out as a screen of Hooutn & B eupy. | calmly told me that the Dobudura | e N e { prefered to fight at night, which was in We marched until noon, when, | = ige of a belt of |auite contrary to all usual native cul as we neared the edge Of & P |tom. This to me was a very alarming forest we were passing (hTeUEh, 1% 1. (atement, &8 it was also to the police. ANoukieAm SIINE | “I dom't like this at all” I told Ac- hind the column, saying that the ) . %.p 400 been an absolute fool. Dobudura were hll.uh.’hl.rs\r“:-'r"‘l;::ml“““- R e i oot oo oo gpetl M hiek grove | Turnish quite 300 men, and the other Village surrounded by u thick wrove SRR AU B R, Bl of cocoanut and Dbetel-nut PUME L, pper ot Jeast, which makes 600; ihree or four Dobudura were stand- [ MSber At least WAICR OAten Gl c. fully armed and plumed. watch- | SUE O BEE B8 6 SR T ing for us to emerge {rom Whe BTN know, - I should have camped early they had evidently dlscovered our|lfOWe J sRORIS Bave BlmCe e advanceiinto thelr sountry |a stockade for the night. If these They at once gave tongwe to 4 pro- | SAEREE (N0 D Ly e longed bloodeurdling war cry. "000EN | g rk, the police won't be able to dis- asrell, Jenich taken up DY 1 guish carriers from Dobudura fin{ namper of other men invisible to uss [ i€, T Shere il be; and thenfcame the long decp boom of the |1 ERESE T BN Mo Keep up conéh shells and wooden war horas; || "ATR DOt SHCUEC Pl S T e the the beggars clearly meant fight. I, ., \ithout the whole force being ordered the police to kneel in line | UT00, TR just inside the edge of the forest, and L0 then semt Hhe Mo e Mona. draw | JUST betore dark, our late prisoner the Dobudura out from cover {J walkea in and told us that the 5o ok % {men from the Sangara district had | » - i s .q i returned, and thee chief proposed to | \ 7i2 could now see dozeus of |:lun|u:“‘l‘) e o o Dobudura heads bobbing ub ANC |¢ries were posted at the time, but the down in the tall grass about a fhile | Hme8 WO BORLCC L 0 o nd Fight away, but, though the Notu came y, 4, me, unchallenged. My police tearing back several times in alamm | g epe ' Notu protested strongly at having discovered a Dobudura |, .o our receiving visitors at <cout close to them, no further ad- |28 vance was made by them, though [MMBL L customs lhuh;‘ R B SR to receive visitors at night, and there stantly ] it, and ‘ " i : comething behind this," they said. Those fellows are wailing for T~ {.p,1urn to your chief and tell him inforcements.” 1 sald, “I'll take them | “Return to vour chiet had CC0 LT in detail”; and advanced upon m-{I T e at it my, village, while the Dobudura scouts (% 014 the meTeener " IO B CAG hung on our flank and rea | P ’ tely,” and oft Approaching close to the village, I }::‘LJ;\’( shot Immediately a ordered the police to rush it, which | e A Bt tonlEht, How ke they did, only, however, Juat as Tab- | ("o, g stinguish the.carriers from idly as the Dobudur, ated st ton | W8 (L0 RO REIA o e the other side. I judged, from the | ? . 5 o number of holes in the ground made each in;rlegdksf‘l:eb‘v“:!:l:eiow‘i‘:: by the Dobuduras sticking nmr!n“"!fl Fm» flcome:__ il oty apears upright while they rested, u\mzi de oN e o e it G about a hundred and fifty.men had ,}‘«“P;ef:rfl)l‘c’v‘(;‘d:" been in the village. In the center of |in . : v vice, and 1 took it: the village thére was a platform | It was good advice, about four feef high, stacked with |and each L‘&f‘rler :ooll(n:'ook:le c;?zul‘:: skulls, some quite fresh. “Ours.” sald ‘;:kl‘l:t’h::l:l:‘ "r;mr:ln;wore :n g the Notu. lig! . N e Dobudura scouts 'still hung aboutjthree Eurwe{mla' nln: n;’u‘;e;‘ro:::l_ us, but their main body had vanished. | With our revolvers buckled on, A group of four or five of them got |rifles ready to.grasp, and with our up a tree, about 500 yards distant, |pockets uncomfortably full of car- and, as we continued our march, |tridges; the police that were mot on \atched us and shouted directions |duty lay on their rifies, and each car- and information of our movements to i”“ kept spear-or tomahawk handy. invisible Dobudura ahead. I ordered{ I stationed men at houses at each half a dozen constabulary to fire at{end and side of the village, with fire- the men in the tree, which they did, ;pots full of live embers, and in- Walker and Acland also firing; the |structed them—in case of an attack— men dropped rapidly from the tree, at once to set fire to the dry sago-| but none of them was hit, though the |leaf roofs, in order to give us light sound, heard by them for the first|to fire by. The nerves of the whole time, must have disturbed thelr |party were now in @ state of tense nerves a little * pectation. The Notu quietly be- As we continued our march we ! wailed their folly in coming with me. found that we were surrounded by a! “If we are smashed up” I told thin ring of Dobddura, who were now Walker and Acland, “don’t Pet those quite silent. They gave one a funny jbeggars get you alivs feeling—the feeling of belng sur-| All at once I heard the voice of a vounded by @ thin, invisible net which | village constable, in the circle of the always gave when pressed, only to|sentries, raised in anger, “What two lose again when we relaxed our)gools are you, walking past me with- pressure® ‘Master, be cautious; I|oue fire-sticks? You know the think we shall ind a big fight,” 8aid | orqers:” The order had been given Barigl. “Keep close together, and|{yy me that any carrier moving about your tomahawks ready.” old Giwi|ine camp was to carry his fire-stick TolaiRib iy cmxn {The men made no reply, but rushed 1 detached half a dozen «Dnltfl\t\l'|".‘“‘l him from our camp into the Jary and told them to sneak through, pithe."hereupon he fired after them, the long grass and break thé ring of/,ng ymmediately there broke out a Dobudura scouts. ~They left; andjygze of fire from the rifles of the soon [ heard shots. The police Ie-jgopirieq all rouna the camp. The two turned, Bringing with them the "' Lor0 Dobudura ® who, unper- shot; but hardly had they returned| when the ring reformed. We marched on once more, my flanking police constantly having=slight skir- mishes with small bodies of the Dobudura, but nothing like a fight taking ‘place. The Dobudura were clearly carryiig out some well de-i torce. Then came the blood-curdling war- cry of the Dobudura all round us, which was answered by a yell of de- flance from the Kalli Kalili, and a howl of terror from the Notu. “Fire the houses! Fall in the constabu-| fined plan; they were not afraid of | 1ary1” I yelled amid the din. i us, that was certain, or they would| ghe houses shot up into a blaze) have bolted*altogether; neither dld!and lit up the village and surround- | they ‘mean to come into open col-|ing grass for fifty yards; the con- lision” with us yet. stabulary and village constables rap. Village after village we enfgred,|idly formed in line, and the xaiu! all being' deserted &t our approach. | Kalli and Notu, who were frantically | At one spot on our line of march a|waving their fire-sticks, lay ,1‘,“‘"’5 very big Dobudura nearly got Sergt.|in-order that we might fite over them. Kimal, who was slightly away from The nolse died away as quickly as | . his men on one flank. The man crept|it had, risen, and the Dobudura de-! up ‘apd then rushed silently at parted as swiftly as they had come, Kimai . with a club;j fortunately he without pushthg their attack. caught sight of him, and, dropping on * % X ¥ his knee, blew the man in at a yard's | o wag extremely pusaled, but de- distance. . 3 Heich village we entered had the cided that perhaps they would yet same platform filled with skulls, some | COM; 80 the men stood 4s they were, rs old, others but a few days;|!D the lEht of the burning houses While. in some villages an additional [ Unt!l 8 In the morning, when rain decoration in the form of topes hung | Z¢11 UPoR us. The Notu sald we were with human jawbones was provided, | ROW &1l right, as nothing would in- The skulls were all those of people | Juce the Dobudura to fight in the 5 rain. = Xilled and eaten, ana were of Both | ™ (e morning there ‘were the caet ever-present encircling Dobudura scouts, silent and watchful, “Damn T last we came to a big village | ynese people!” I sald, “they have got of 200 houses, where two men |yupon my nerves. I am going to run were shot in a skirmish, and a|away and get more police; my men man and a woman captured by |can’t march and hunt them all day the scouting police. The man was|and keep watch all night” sullen and would not answer ques-| . Back for the coast we marched, the tions; the woman talkative, when | Notu scouting in advance, while the onee she found that she was not|rear guard was composed of constab- =o0ing to be killed. She told me that{ ulary. As we passed through and most of the men were away fighting | vacated each village it was at once the Sangara, but that swift m reoccupled by many people, and a - THE SUNDAY € € of the Acc - : 3 - gradually increasing body Gura followed on our track. point, as we entered the At one forest. 1 lsent @ man up a tree to look back, and he ‘reported- large numbers of men éreeping after us in the grass. 1 haited my men and faced about; thinking that perhaps they had at last made up-their minds to come ta. conclustons with.me; the men In the grass halted, too, and after waiting some time for an attack to develop, 2nd none coming. 1 sent out a flank- fng party to try to round them. but their ever-watching scouts de- tected my maneuvers apd the Dobu- cura. retreated. We reached the Notu village again that night, when the thanked me for fighting the Dobu- cura, and proffered gifis of laces made from dogs' teeth shells. That night we slept stone—police, Kaili Kaili and all our purty—while the Notp people kept wateh. The following day I took the and like L A\ DA } u\\\\ N | old people | neck- | g ,// '3?,»5\! ) s WAk e \\"“\ M . “HERE, APPARENTLY, THEIR J L FORCE WAS ASSEM. BLED, PREPARING TO MAKE A STAND.” whaleboat, and with half a dozen police, Acland and Walker sailed for the Kumusi river, from which point I could send a message overland to Elliott, assistant resident at Tamata, asking him for more po- lice. _The Kaili Kaili and the re- mainder of the constabulary I left encamped at Notu. We nearly. got swamped crossing the bag of the Kumusi river, a beastly shark and alligator infested spot. “Lord love a duck!” said Acland, weReRt2HONORS ARE EVEN=zgxzewwws ILLINGTON crowded Palm Beach He was at a loss as idled about hotel. to a clubs of tw they had what he should do with the sex. spears and clubs of two men they had | o oiveq had been right through ourjweek he had stolen from business,|many person he knew. He had been abroad for three years and realized that a {new multitude of persons able to spend money lavishly at such places came into view each season. His search for familiar faces con- tinued. As he strolled out upon a far-reaching piazza he caught sight of a woman whose aspect stirred his memory. DIid he know her? She had settled herself lazily in a chair de- isigned for an indolent mood and was reading a book. Bjllington walked toward her de- termined to renew- or scrape ac- quaintance. She looked up with quick recognition, shut her book and skillfully covered its title, and re- laxed to a charming smile. “Why, ' Egbert—Mr. Billington! Poaitively you are the last person I expected to see “Bessie!” His delight was appar- ent. An elderly woman nearby va- cated a chair which he was quick to take. “What a pleasure! You are the only person I've seen here I could claim as an acquaintance. I assume I may still call you ‘Bessie’ “Didn’t T call you Egbert? “Why not?” He brought his chair to & familiar nearness and looked at her in frank admiration. “You are handsomer than over, Bessie!" “And you are as bold as ever In complimen “l pay compliments only where they are due. I'm always honest with your dear sex. How I love to pronounce your name, Bessie!” . “But there’'s nothing musieal or romantic in my name!" “Ah! But I think there is. Tt magistrate | the | brings i i STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,. AP ¥ “yesterday you nearly got us eatén by cannibals Today you offer us a choice between drowning, sharks or crocodiles! If I ever hear any one saying that your guests are not pro- vided with plenty of excitement and By J. A. such memories! And. your beauty emphasizes them!” “I like the way you qualify my My ‘dear’ sex, you say. How pretty women have you camp, studying the dlsposition of my [for he had not yet encbuntered alsugared o'er singe I saw you last?” ot one—I swear it!" Emotional oaths do not Keep. They are as ephemeral as twilight; or morning dew. Do you remember when we met at Saratoga?’ “What a question! Didn't I reco, nize you at once?” 7 y “Oh, you would have recognized any other woman friend in the same way." “Friend! word!" “Well, we were friends, weren't we? ‘But you probably know many women you would recognize at sight.” “Not with the thrill you Bessie!” Do you forget Saratoga we were—"" “Summer lovers? No. But that was more than three years ago. How time flje: “But you remember. shall forget!” “Nor I, Egbert!” ERE What a commonplace inspire, that in Ah! T never E drew his chair a little closer. “Hew could either of us for- get?” “And you remember that we went so far that we actually became en- gaged?” “A dear climax to our sweet com- panionship. And on my part—this T swear, Bessie!—It was not one of those occasional affairs that so often happen. You meant to me all that a woman—the only woman—can mean to a man. And weren't we happy? I can the feel the thrill of| it mow as you look at me! Why can't we—" RN .SEPTMER 30, 1923—PART 5. variety, I shall call the speaker a liar, it he's small enough We waited a week at the mouth of the Kumusi for the return of my AARARAR AR ARAAA | village where we were previously at- | tacked, | length we -came to the big village of messenger to EHiott. We spent our time catching big sharks and groper Waldron “Not eo fast! You are again lover! You are so impulsivi “But it's an honest impulse, Bes- sie!” His voice vibrated, even though it was low. He was either a clever actor, or it was real emotion. “Walt. If your memory is so vivid, Bgbert, you will recall the night we sald au revoir—" “Recall it!” He seemed for the mo- ment far away. “In that wonderful grove, after our ride, we plighted troth and promised—-" “Oh, yes, I know. You promised to write to me daily “And you promised the same, Bes- sie! And you also promised to marry me.”. “But you never wrote at all!” Billingtan was plainly embar- rgssed. “Bessle, in the joy of find- ihg you again I forgot to tell you the what I should have -told you the mo- ment’ I saw you. My emotion put it out of mind. I.lost your address!” “Pruly?” 3 : “Truly, ‘You will remember when we came in.that:night—that night of “précfous memories—that I put n oy :book.” And T lost the e thing 1" strange, ting!” o “whs. But you ‘might have writ- “It was, gain. “But what 1| swas strange ‘Is address! What Sasler s 100Kk ‘unbefier, Vit really’ is"very Stfhnge!” s Yot “But ‘it f¥-truel. And, at’this mo- ment it seems‘awlully. funny!” "She saw that tiibhuft hi n 3 his hand, reforming her expression to one of sympatliy. ¢ .~ . 0 “It is tragedy! But now, Be now? “Oh, things always change, you o iz AA7 | fled, others tried to pug up a fight, A” tut without method or order. Sev- eral were killed, and again they de- camped as my force occupled the vil- lage. Night was now fast coming: and, made cautious by first experience, I vacated the village for the forest on tbe bank of the Samboga river, where the Kaill Kaill and Mambrare hastily felled trees and built a stockade, wElle half the police were dispatched in pursuit of the scattered Dobudura, Several they shot, others they cap- trred; but that night we passed in sweet security within the walls cur stockade, although Walker the only*White member of the pa not down with fever. * ok ok % T was not until afterward that 1 learned what had saved us on the earlier crucial night and accounted afterward for the peculiar and finally ireffectual behavior of the Dobudura They had discovered our advance into thelr country almost immediately after we had left the coast, and had accided to draw us as far as possible iuto thelr district and avoid a fight until the men from Sangara could re- tirn; then to throw every available fighting man upon my camp before dawn. They knew a large portion of my force was composed of whom they despised ana would bolt at the first attack Their chief, . who devised the scheme, had wished to visit my camp to see for himself héw my foree was disposed; finding he could not do this, he had sent men who had crept un- perceived past the sentries. Some of the men had already returned to him with news, and he was waiting for the others, when bang went the vil- lage constable’s rifie and the chief fell dead, shot through the heart. The fire from the ring of sentries on a stout cotton line; we got one sroper of 400 pounds weight, and some enormous sharks which our men ate. A. W. Walsh, assistant R. M. from Papangi Station, now put in an ap- pearance with a trader named Clark; they had been searching for a track from Bogi on the Kumusi river to the Mangrove Isles on the coast, I at once commandeered Walsh's services, together with his nine police, for service against the Dobudura. Walsh was an Irshman, a happy-go-lucky fellow who had gone broke farming in Australia and had then been given a small appointment in New Guinea. His detail of police were very slack and untidy. Then arrived from Tamata ten po- lice sent me by Elliott, a smart, well drilled lot; also old Bushimal ap- peared with about fifty fighting men in canoes, Bushimai stating that he had heard T sent for help to Tamata and thought that he would bring some men to my assistance. 1 now had a force I considered suf- ficent to smash up any tribe in New Guines, namely, forty-four of the ocnstabulary, an extra European officer, and as carriers such redoubt- able fighting men as Giwi's Kalli Kaill and Bushimal's Membare, who were also good night fighters. * k% CE more I returned to Oro Bay to march against the Dobudura. I found the constabulary and carriers that I had left at that point in xool.l' health and spirits. The Notu, how- ever, had all bolted for the bush, and upon asking for the reason I found that while I was at the Ku- musi they had captured, killed and eaten two,runaway Kumusl carriers, and they knew that I would call them to account for it. Also they were by no means keen upon putting in angther night at Dobudura, the big of w otu, expected The Notu and their offenses, howewer, could wait: first I had to finishy with the Dobuduras. Accord- ingly I again marched for their vil- lages, this time full of confidence. We found that the Dobudura had planted concealed spears on the track as well as spear pits, but they were easily discovereq, by the scouting Mambare and avoided by us. “These bush fools think we are children,” said old Bushimal when we found the things. “Perhaps before we leave they will know different.” At the first sight’ of the outlying Dobudura village we saw that it was crowded with armed plumed men, back to whom, as my force emerged from the forest, rapidly fled four of their scouts. 1 hastily detached the Papangi and Tamata constabulary respectively as right and left flank- ing parties, and advanced straight upon the village With my own men; the police had orders to take as many prisoners as possible. Getting close to the village I or- dered my men to rush it, which they did; but the Dobudura, suddenly dis- covering that they were being at- tacked upon three sides at once, hastily decamped, and the police suc- | ceeded only in capturing two old men and a youth who were not swift- of police to chase or shoot them. All the othBr villages were likewise vacated at our approach, rows of grinning skulls alone receiving us; and again we had an encircling screen of Dobudura scouts around us. But now they had a lively time, as now 1 did not care what attack was made upon my main body and could therefore detail plenty of side patrols of police t chase or shoot them. All that day I drove the Dobu- dura before us; whenever they showed any signs of forming, or put- ting up a serious fight, I at once fung out my flanking parties and developed so severe an attack upon their front and sides as to send them fiying back to the next village. At had also killed and wounded several others. Struck with dismay at the loss of their leader, and appalied by the flames and sound of the rifl they had then drawn off until dawn skould come; but with the dawn also came the rain, and that damped their fighting ardor. I, however, did not know this at the time, and was considerably surprised then and later at the whole behavior of the Dobu- dura. I questioned the prisoners taken in the second fight at the big village, who told me that the spirit of the Dobudura was broken, and that, though some of the tribe wished for a pitched fight with me, others were afraid, while the death of their chief tribe. “Why do you kill the Notu?” I asked. “That is the sole reason why I fight with you.” “We rwere always friendly with the Notu until two years ago,” they replied, “but then their sorcerers began making a drought, and we had nothing except sago to eat; then the sorcerers destroyed that also, so we had to eat the Notu..The proof of the wickedness of the Notu is that they Lad rain while we had none.” * All that day I endeavored to bring the Dobudura to a final fight, but en- the night alarm. Here apparently their full force was assembled and prepared to make a stand. I at once united the two flanking parties into | one under Walsh, with ‘orders to} make a flank attack whilst I made a | ¢irect one. The Dobudura, however, did not stand. As my force advanced, some PARIS, September 15. N American who prepared him- self by reading up everything he could find about the Latin Quarter has descended, as the French say, on Paris. He set out the next day to find the places and people he had been reading about. “I will go.” he said, “to the Cafe | Vachette, where the poor student can sit at a little table and for a drink that costs him 5 cents can read the Revue des Deux Mondes, whose price 1s 75 cents.” The Revue is the heaviest French periodical; it still appears twice a month—and the poor student, like Danlel Webster, still lives. But when our American reached the place on the student's particular boulevard where the Cafe Vachette ought to be, he found a brand-new—bank. “Here Troy was.” Like Hans Breitmann's party, it had vanished in the golden sunshine,"and like that party's beer, it had left no address. “Tavern Pascal.” he said to himself, and found his way to the corner of the street df the school of medicine where it ought to be. Up the cross street he could see the prism-shaped tower Which was part of a college built in the year 1252—and during all these hundreds of years students had sowed wild oats with much talk and singing at this corner. Where now is the tavern where they could wash down their noise cheaply? The corner was there for therh long befoge coffee and cafes were heard of. Noise was still ‘there, and the door from the street still opened on what had been the great smoky hall, where students lingered over a single cheap drink and intoxicated themselves with the sound of their voices. Our’ American rubbed "his eyes. Slant-eyed, natty youths in clothes of Paris cut were sitting about; but the little marble-topped tables from which thin beer in small glasses called “bocks,” of coffee whitened with hot milk in large glasses, Wwere drunk exist no longer. He raised his eyes to what should have been the smoke- jarkened oelling—and behold, it shone with pipes—but they were painted on it in red and ' gold. And all round the walls strokes of blackest ink made strange signs to him. “Chop suey today,” insinuated a volce at'his elbow, and a consumer, as the Know. do. “Women change, tone was bitter. * %k * It is strange, but they really T know!" His HB was sympathetic dgain, and he smiled in hope. “If you had wiltten me, Hgbert, it might have been different. Might, I say. I'm not positive.” “Bessie!” “Please don't 100k at me so ardent- 1y! I want to introduce you to some one.” She indicated a handsome chap in flannels approaching with tennis racquet. “Oh!" Billington arose. “John, please meet Mr. Billington— an old friend of mine. Mr. Billing- ton, my husband, Mr. Nettleton.” The men shook hands with a show of cordfality, but Billington quickly excused. himself on the plea that he had forgotten to send a wire. “Billington?" Nettleton asked, tak- ing thé vacant chalr. “Known him long, Bess?' #I knew him but casually ‘more ‘than three years ago, and had not seen him since.” “What's his first name? business?” “Dgbert. I believe hes an importer on- a-large scale. “New Yorker? f “But,” Jack, why are you so cur ous? Yes, T believe he is a New Yorker.” g {#Same chap, I'l wager.” | | “What do you'mean?” “Well, .an importer named, Egbert Billixigton caused quite &. sensation in London last winter. Had a row in, the Hotel Cecil with an actor over 4 dancer. And he married the dancer.” iy And his a (Cororigtt, 1023.) had caused divided councils in the | «Foe they not r scouts were shot and prisoner, in one dozen constabulary and re of Mambare were vigorousl attacked by 4 strong force; but when more constabulary and the Kaili Kaili ran up to the sound of the firing, the Dobudura retreated. 1 began to feel very sorry for the Do- budura; their resistance to me was 80 courageous and 5o hopeless. Prisoner after prisoner I releaseq to carry messa; to them, teiling them that I did not wish o fight or kill any more of them, and poin out the futility of resistance force; but still they went on, ently hoping that soon lat. should give them an opening to home upon me. ill, to my req that thelr chiefs should meet me a neutral spot and discuss their kili- ing of the Notu, they turned a deaf ear. | At last I marched for the coast again, feeling that my only hope of settling the Notu-Dobudura difficuli: was by training the prisoners I had captured, and making them real the strength of the power they were up against. As I vacated each village cn our return march, it was at onc reocéupied by the Dobudura, still de- 1 nd unconquered. In the lass | village T left ten of the constabular: | concealea the houses, who made Lings very hot indeed for them when they attempted to enter the appar- ently vacuated village. .. x-x % FTERWARDS, through my prisox ers, I got upon good terms witi them and turned their chief into a village constable, and they furnished me with carriers for many a future expedition The wife of the old chief of the Dobodura, whom 1 made constable | sage my funt Several of th others take place half a s orce would and ap in “IF WE'RE SMASHED UP, DON'T LET THEM GET YOU ALIVE." was a woman of one of the finest characters I have ever known, eithe | white or brown. I remember ¢ i“hrn returning from another exped tion, camping in the village, worn. tired and with a hungry lot of car riers, she reogived us, and explained that her husband, the chief and vil- lage constable, was away, §o that she was making all arrangements for & supply of food for us. In thanking her and talking to her before I left, I asked, “Have you no children?” “T had two sons;” she re | plied, “but they are degd. “How did | they dte I asked. = “You killed them,” she said. “Good gracious!" 1 answered in surprise, “how do you make that out?” “Qne was killed in the night, when about to attack your camp,” she sald “the other €peared one of your people and was klilled in your camp.” “I an very sorry,” I said, your two sons marching ther ing to the constabulary, “for were very brave men.” “It was not your fault, I don't blame J you,” said the old dame 'we were a | foolish people: but my husband and myself wish we had our two again.” point- thes sons (Copyright, 1 Paris of . Americans , Last Bohemian Haunt French say, laughed in his teacup to see the American’s astonishment at the “suey-sin” which others were drinking. From upstairs came noises more familiar, and our American chose to follow his ear instead of his nose. On one slde was, something. which n told him was an “American * and there was mixer of cock- all the complicated the rther they are from home. The me was spelled right and the | ticle must be genuine. At Tortoni's when that classic too rich fo the student’s blood, closed forever ir 1893, I remembered the curiosity the last night's card was a “coktel” In those days there was no mixing of music with cafes and in Cincinnati a wise judge had pronounced “beer and music do not mix.” At the upstairs American bar where thirteenth century students once dFank red wine and Chinese stu- dents now take counsel and tea, a jazz band mixes with mew world drinks and the charm of new world dances. At last ences, our he would Guarter. at all. The Latin Quarter— atin oun - try” it was called when the prismatic tower was new—was for those who spoke Latin; that is, Paris University students. Even these do not speak Latin much nowadays, buf they are 12,000 strong and there were once Bohemians among them, who made their drinking places classic in litera- ture and song and the drama, not to speak of opera. Students are perhaps more serlous now, havirfg to succeed in their stud ies it they are to earn a living in the professions, and certainly more of them are living during their studies in their .own or other responsibic famil At any rate, the old orl inal Latin Quarter is vanishing in outer manifestations, except for sin- gle-file parades at critical moments like examination seasons. On his way our American found i remnant in a new literary “cabare where a sad chairman asked young #spiring poets to read out their lat verses while everybody looked sole . STERLING HEILIG. ils more cafe, after other similar experi- American seeker decided try the American Latin He knew this was not Latin “I wish T had } » ) ! ) {