The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1921, Page 9

Head Hunters of Borneo Not So Bad as the Profiteers of New York, Says Missionary , From Other Side of World —Former May Be More Barbaric, but They’re More Honest—Flotilla of Logs, Enough to Supply Lumber for Many Big Cities, Has Been Started Down a Cana- dian River. “The Dyak head-hunters are gen- ttemen compared with New York Profiteers,” said the Rev. J. M. Hoover, missionary to Sibu, Sarawak, Borneo, who has just come to New York, in an interview at offices of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Meth- dist Episcopal Church. “It may seem strange, but I mean exactly what Ieay. Tho prices charged in this city to-day are outrageous} I buy the same products by wholesale for the Chinese colonists in Sarawak, which is at about the end of the world, and I know something about that end of the market. Ten thousand of these Chinese have come over from South ee China, and taken up the Methodist| concessions, and they are all pros- perous rubber-planters to-day.” Dr. Hoover declared that the Dyaks are rough natives, who live in the jungles and refuse the uses of civill- ato} om. But itt Ay y a their belts. When: they trade, they do a lot of dickering, but they have & good senso of the equality of yal I'd risk my head among them #001 than my pocketbook in New York.” The missionary is one of 150 white people in Sarawak, an independent principality ruled by a Rajah who is absolute monarch of 500,000 square miles of jungle, and of the Dyak and Malay inhabitants, The tropical jun- gie is enormously rich in hard woods and building timber, he asserted, oe 8 “Another national holiday should be added to our present calendar,” ac- cording to Walter Lewis of Sacra- mento, who is at the Commodore. “It acramento has just had a most ccessful music week,” he explained, “and music scored a great triumph, There is no better medium for the establishment of harmony and unity Our public achools should go into more enthusiastically than they do at the present time. oe iat mt Tat seven wire — ‘That old nursery rhyme has made the name of the little town in Corn- wall a byword for several genera- tions. But now something has been discovered which will make it much more famous than the seven cats, sacks, kits and wives, “Pitchblende, from which radium is produced, is being mined at St. Ive: asserted William H. Day, a London manufacturer, who is at the Penn- ia. Many of these mines extend m the ooast far underneath . and in rough weather the can hear the roaring of the waves over their heads. | Cornwall has many marvellous old | mines, dating back to the berinn:ng | English history,” he continned, are still very rich in metals, | e price is so low that their jon is not profitable at pres — be known as National Music | nr en! Rene’ THE EVENING Wor LD, the Bow River, near Calgary, Al- berta,” declared George Wright, a Canadian lunberman, who is at the Biltmore, “The floating bridge of jogs will be many miles long and the value of the winter's cut will be millions of dollars One company alone will send down nearly 10,000,100 feet of logs to the C: y mills. The early break of the {oe has facil itated matters this year,” he con- cluded. eee “The creation of a perfume is a true work of art,” sald M. Robert Bie- naime, now at the Pennsylvania, a no of the most famous and himself trumes whic dy's dressing y @ can mix- , but it takes a e confided, from father to son and care- guarded. The ingredients come from al! parts of the earth and are made from essentini olla in from natural flowel for in- stance, come from, Bulgaria; ember is taken from the depths of ‘the sea, and musk comes from far Tibet. A pound of some of these oils costs from $750 to $1,000."" In spite of the historical references to the subtle scents by the an- cients, Bienaime res us that Cleopatra, and other renowned vamps had nothing which could compare with the perfumes of the present day. “Though the fabul ous | but a mo ’ fantasy, there are actually in the Persian Gulf which mermaids by the fisher: third ofi- cer of t nt ship Are magh, now . “They are amall and have t hand-tt members which merinaid is | | first of September,” he declared, “and then oalm weather is due. In Bom- bay there are two tiny inlets, 200 yards apart from each other, and when the monsoon period ts presum- ably over, the fishermen go to one of these and float empty halves of cocoa- nut shells, If on the following day a single shell has reached the second hay they set out in their boats, But if none washes ashore they know that stormy weather will come and wait another week. They declare that this method weather prediction has never failed them.” . Jules Verawe imagination would bo outdistanced If the elevators in five New York hotels could combine their year's travel in one supreme ef- fort, ‘The distance they cover would take the elevator 150,000 miles beyond the and back to New York. In their up! downs they cover 756,198 miles ty. FUR STORAGE—Remodeling and Repairing Phone 6900 Fitzroy franklin Simon g Co, A Store of Individual Shops FIFTH AVE.— 37th and 38th Sts, THE FRILLED LINGERIE BLOUSE For Madame and -Mademoiselle 8. Rt ad | exys a moonshiner, Will Ferrell, killed when he turned on the officers | JAIL 10, KILL 1, IN STILL RAID MIDDLESBORO, Ky., May 9%.—Fed- eral Prohtbition officers received word to-day of sweeping raids on moon- shiners In Rell, Harlgnd and Clay Coun- ties, in the mountains, Seven stills, a great quantity of whiskey, beer and equipment were seized and ten men were arrested. A report from Pineville waa and opened fire, The onslaught on the moonshiners was the most extensive ever carried out in. 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