. Lorillard Spencer to Desert Newport for. , ous Jolo Jungles as Missionary to Wild Tribesmen Wealthy Woman Determines to Work Among Igorrotes After Trip Around World. wi F on very near future, and to this end she has : . : vs cancelied nearly all her social engagements within & stone's throw of New Tork' made months ago. Miss Young, her com- Fifth avenue and a villa with one o panion in this broad field of mission work, the most commanding views obtainable in hurriedly left the city in the waning to the jungles of the Philip- hours of the Protestant Episcopal Con- vention, recently in session here for two weeks or more, and when she returns this {month she will so perfect her ataige) ROM the Juzuries of a m Newport pines, where warlike tribes of Izorrotes, iar in ambush for any and all representa-; tives of civilization who may bappen to invade their fastnesses, is a far cry, but'may pe get. this is the conrageous step Mrs. Lorillard | Mrs. Spencer and Miss Young. will pro- Spencer is about to take. While men and ceed directly to Manila and then seek | %omen reared in the lap of luxury often [the interior of- this archipelago and seek | jto found a mission at Jolo, the native theath of one of the cruellest and most} or pleasure, no such motive prompts such roo tribes this government has had | a radical course by this matron, whose'to contend with since the United States | tame has been synonymous with all those | constituted itself the guardian of this Far| pursuits which these of culture and social) Eastern race. Miss Young will outline the | J iwork in view; giving Mrs. Spencerithe aid | a « f her ripe and. valuable experiences, while Iv announced determination to make His! ioe tat or, Pop M ng gramped thé situa-| pilgrimage might be termed quixotic by tiou thoroughly, will advance the nicessary | some, but the great canse of Christianity fonds to finance the work themission i to undertake. Bishop Brent Is siaturally " overjoyed with having succeeded in enlist slogan Mrs. Spencer will make an ex- ing so wealthy and influential a convert to] of the his and Philippines, and her heart aud purse are, was made he exultantly told of the, wk | "that lay before these lone women and of !the many injustices that had been heaped! jeopardize their lives in pursuit of sport qualifications are entitled to. Her recent, is her watchword, and with this for her haugtive study conditions in cause, when the announcement at the disposal! of those who have inter- ested her inf this work. A upon « tribe which he described ds foirbisad When friends of Mrs. Spencer learned and made wp of one of the i mag that she, actompanied by Miss Virginia nificent bodies of warriors" he had ever! Young, for years the head deaconness at known Mrs. where Spencer's well known aid the Deeply interested name a 81. George's Protestant Episcopal Church charity and desire to Naw York city, were soon td leave for the i : 1 stricken are concerned. *hili re read the doctrines hai Philippines, there to spread the doctrim chnich work, although not what might f th of the Church among the ignorant and 'be stric tly termed a "church worker." she | "that barbarous tribes inhabit this coun as 'ever' stood ready to aid the "trodden and whe to crept spread cheer and comfort suffering and want bad The mistress of a large fortune, | she has been more than generous in her contributions to Home and Foreign Mis- oy. they deemed her conrse uf madness. Bat learn that this determination had only! been reached wi3xr 4 long awd earnest talk with Bishop Brent. in charge of the sions, and the Protestaut Episeapal-diveese of * Charch has bad no they vealized that it was only afier doe tribntor to these 16d mature deliberation that she had de- fords of endeavor. vided on the move, : |. Before arriving To intimate friends Mrs. Spencer has Spencer bad many conferences with! asserted that 'she, never cobtemplated|pBishop Brent.' who while fn this city ® Juurney With more pleasurable thrillsigtopped with Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. She! than this. While dier arrangements have WW made thoroughly familiar with the! rot Leen vamaleted by any means, never-iwork that lay beyond and she knew of the bh an undertaking. ! theless ei» is so arranging her affairs] n.the desire to extend the work| little short sorrow, when they paused Episcopal | liberal ' con-| branches of its broad | | the Philippines, more at this conclusion Mrs. | that whe will be able to embark in the{But keen § {perils that attended suc ET RR Et a Sree ee Sr Menace of New Guinea N New Guinea they have reaches the prison. ~The rules ,of the ei effec prison are then read to him and the Bj tive method of eontroll-| hounds ra [vs prisoners whereby clearly an oxtraordinarily within which be must keep are stated apd pointed out." Then he : " le ispe : 4} ; oy they are able to dispense is (41d there is no possible chance of his the high attaining liberty. stone wall that usually | i entirely with 'You may escape from this place," he ane ao > iol hie ha at : hedges about convicted violators of th jis told, "that is easy enough, for, as you nw | see, there are no walls, and the guards do Pigture to rourself an aggregation of not trouble too much about the prisoners ¥ N men who fave been fonnd guilty of every! getting far away. But in any direction crime ¢n earth, desperate fellows, many that rou go there is something to stop of them, med who have not stopped at you, You will inevitably be devoured by murder, men whose hands are doubly, cannibals." often trehly dyed with the stains of the o foulest of deeds, violent characters who about and there before his eyes he sees 'would hesitate at nothing which would more than a bundred human heads staring The soTeRgr pent has bought these heads from the head hunters of the 'morve their ends. [Prison guards hard- at him ened to danger are afraid of this elass of mon in other vountries. Let them loose Wilds which lie beyond the prison bounds. upon any community, with their liberty at stake "and "even the guard inns of the law might hesitate before try- ng Only thickest of stope walls, the broadest of iron bars are strong enough to hold them. "Those who favor the rule of kindness instead of that of restraint in dealing with prisoners are often deeply inter: lested in the success of the government of New Guinea in controlling their prison- ery and keeping them from running away | : ; without the bigh wall or the frog bars of |"? '*%% Willing to pay ils probable cost other pri "says the Rev. C. V. Han! Ibe horror of the brooding mountains and} a Moth odist Episcopal missionary who! '™® Jovest paths never trod by the foot of; bas justirethened to this country after] Vilized man and haunted by menacing, a five years' tour of the world. The Rev- ered Dr. Hall explored various parts of New Guines for nearly five months and! be Wak greatly interested in the spectacle' of the New Guinea prisoners, quiet and' passive within the prison bounds, even though mo. wall, ne bars, ho visible bar- vier of apy kind stood between theny and "eat-eat" . Dr. perfect liberty. {Hall believes these natives to be descend- "You koow," said Dr. Hall, "the Duteh nis of the Australiap aborigines. "are at present doing with New Guinea, "We siaged at the mouth of the Fly what the British did with Australia River," said Dr, Hall. "There were three Years ago. They are shipping their con: white men and a troop of native soldiers. vidts from Java to New Guinea, and oné, We embarked in capoes at that point and of the moet striking experiences of the made balf~of onr journey in that way country is to see their methods of cov and the remainder on foot. trolling the prisoners and keeping them "I was extremely fortunate in being per- within bounds without so much as a 'mitted to go at all, becausé the authori: prison wall. ties of New Guinea do not permit any "When the mew convict arrives he is ome lo go into the juterior. In that they marched out into the prison yard and are very wise, for it would be impossible" inte a certain alley of the prison grounds. '{or thew to afford any protection against Lois takes place the morning after Lethe ualises. Canpibalisw exists within | . They ate the lieads of those who have gone bravest to make many a canuiba! feast, The new prisoner, as brave as any man | to effect often, and usually more reckless than the average human being, finds after this theig, capture. the exhibition the no inclination to take to wilderness. lustead, he keeps well inside the prison bounds, and as the "weeks ge by and shu ving tales of savage Massa. cres and the hideous orgies that follow them are whispered through the prison he finds liberty less dear and becomes less {ghoulish figures takes possession of him! and be in his little place of safety. | The Bev. Dr. Hall joined an expedition into the interior of New Guinea, and he! ecowers closer and closer and bis party in the course of their wan- derings discovered a mew tribe of natives | whom they named "Ki-Ki {native language means " which in the {meats that*an early date for embarkation] Lhen the prisoner is ordered to. face! {The son of the Dutch THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, down-|- of the Church reared and thoroughly enthusiasm of 'the head of the diocese. she determined to allow no obstacles to de her in her most in which infused with the ter recent resolve. Mrs. Spencer has been a member of St OOO 0 Ooo o By the Rev. C. V. | 64 OU may escape from this place," the 1 { told, "that is easy enough, for, as vou see, there | finds after o are no walls, and the much about the i direction that you You will inevital guard. soners getting 80 be there devoured by before his eye sees more heads staring a hoof heads from the head yond the prison bounds. who have gone to make m he gover ers of t o< 150 mi Guinea. in the practice i although in many ot it flourished it no other caunibal secti But Nev i lessened in pant, and any man thin) into the interior without and. escape its dangérs let it.: 1 he escapes he will come back a wiser man him try and he will leave him cold for sible to civilization. "I did not receive any off permis sion te accompany the government exp tion which was bound to go beyond any point ever reached hy white men before that will horror ha seen sights reve Governor was a member of ti expedition, and through a high official of the government I was ¢ abled to go although no off was furnished me. "It was understood, of course, that 1 would take things as they came and that such risks as there were I took upon my- self, the government not being in any way responsible. S "We travelled rapidly but when ded jungle we encountered al permission in the canoes it was de to take to the such vast im passable masses of growth at many points and even a little awe for us. Owe of the be called 'a village really even from the y cannibals." Then the prisoner is ordered to face about POS-| ric she had been George's Protestant Episcopal Church for should have interested Mrs. Spencer in! pagan of Fifth avente who worships the {this giMrs, 8 many years, and there it know Miss Young, head wha that she ame t for a ti tie | sionary work had ever interested Miss X \o deaconess of this Cannibals Serves Qo SOO Oo O<>0 o o Why They Do Not Attempt fall new he comvict is (usually more recl s do not trouble too | wilderness. | far away. But in any |bounds, and as the un om to stop you.|savage massacres d {are whispered |i dear and becor The and there cost horror forest nied f lam and safety. bv » ahead to the Wn trees-and cannibal fr in wany cases '1 experiences we had traveile that up tue days we Jd 0 a b tribe As count bome "of a Manorki. 1s and rich erways . we saw innumerable' flash across our way, ite as common. So n alluring prospects direciion that a thousand paths Constantly, bowever, we were aware of lurking danger, Naked k forms glided out of the forest. hese were the warrior tribes, all of them iibals. Usually they were absolutely nude, but there are some that en 8 in a coating of F » time we came to villages and were able with some of the na We bad with us a boy who could speak the dialect of that part of the country, and most of our communication was carried beckoned us to explore them. bod clay rom ne to meet yes, oft through hi "Forinta rus ceived us to be supernatural characters. They be- lieved that we had come up out of the sea and they seemed to have respect | : Pant Ea oung, aud it was but natural' that she ment of the Philippine project was made. [can only admire them. Warriors though)to his wife THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914, "=r 5 . v1 . Miss'Virginia Young, Deacon- ess of New York Church, to Aid. ---- {In the course of this trip Miss Young and | Mrs. Spencer visited nearly all of the for- |eign missions in which the Protestant Episcopal Church is interested, and there-| United States might in this way wake {fore obtained first hand an intimate|reparation for the way it has acted {foward knowledge of the splendid work the Church gnother primiti-e race--the North Awerie {is doing. Shortly after their _returican Indians { {the Episcopal Convention began its s Since her recent return fo Now York |slons, and the head of every diocese wh { Mrs, Spencer has been stopping with rela comes under the control of that Church in ives, Her handsome home in Last Fizh- | North America went to New York to at | pv. fourth street' h tend the sessions of the House of Bishopsdy i tumn, In discussing the work ahead in the | Philippines Bishop Breut said that the; | field broad and the work hard and! | arduous, but with womeén of the type of | Mrs. Spencer and Miss Young to blaze| {tha frail he felt confident that the most | {important step in this direction had been {taken. He is sure that others just as {prominent as Mrs. Spencer aud Miss i Young will soon manifest a sidiiflar in- i a {terest in this far distant field and that Secret surrounding the arrangements the work mow started will go steadily Ber Journey to and her stay in the Phili) forward. : Lines. At the it was sid z In the course of one of his addresses hat it was wel there that Miss before the joint session he said: -- Young is soon to leave for the Philippines, "So\ far 'the Christian nations have Yut that she bad bad very little to say cone been showing the Filipinos how profi- i . ate |cient they. were in. the manufacture" of|" LAE PRD " wr | nigh class weapovs and hay effectively| wth the programme of tiie one time head {they could use them. I ami tryirg to in-|° their order, although: one of thea | fluence the natives with the principles of Lo they be, they are entitled to just tnat treatment one would expect a Christian nation to accord any race of people. Ihe ass not been opened rhix and the chances are it will 1émain closed until Mrs, Spencer returns {rom the Far East. Miss Young, making either the Deaconesses' Howe of George's or the Keston Club her heady nar ters, has been stopping with her Bast Sixty-fonrth stre 3 while is sister in il receiviiy a sudden summons call city for a peripd of three Miss Young has carefully guarded the Sesrap ( ) known hose we Dencon {maiked that she was sure a wide field | Christianity. If you should one day hear| Stretched before Miss Young ang sie that I have lost my life, let there be moj confident she would accomplish retributive justice. I do not wish to have | toward awakening the tribe amo bloodshed stain the honor of my name." | she is to cast her lot. ~ 3 - This eloquent and zealous appeal for|, Mrs, Spencer has occupied a command. {the tribes whose souls he is seeking to| 08 Position in New York aud Newport Fog | : ? Fears jan pl reclaim struck a responsive chord in the | SOCeLY for many years, As Miss Careline heart of every aan and woman in theo: BETTYman she was a aud { riage Was: ous cathedral, ands as the women far out-|lF Marriage to Mr. §, as: au numbered the men at this session it could | the most brilliant functions of the autumn readily be seen that more than one |% 1888, She was the. granddaughter of {woman would willingly follow the Jead | Stephen Whitney. one of the most pi | taken by Mrs. Spevcer had she the means | "tt Merchants of bis day. Mr. Spencer , |and time at her disposal. | inherited a large fortune from bis fatter hs LORILLARD OLENCERS Those women present who take a prom. | 10¢ he and his wile set up thelr estabt'- do |iment part in he social life of this city Hut Chastellux, one of Newport's s {were even more deeply stirred when! . | Bishop Brent concluded his sadress by ying "There fe no difference between the was wteh wim / Both were fond of travel and thege journeyed ali over the world aboard Me Spencer's yacht. Mr. Spencer was the founder of the Illustrated American Mig 1 azine. - Due to an illness which aitimarely her work, Only recently | tinsel god of pleasure and the pagan of the resulted in the amputation of his lez. pencer aud Miss Young: encircled | hills of Luzon who worships the pitiable!iast years of his life were spoof in practi globe together, and it was mot long|¢onception of a pitiless God. The Moros| cal retirement. He died about two reirs return here that the announce-| bave been unconquered for centuries and I}ago and the bulk of branch of after their his fortune was left ee s Prison Wall for Convicts. > Ox C ~O<>0<-0 simplest standpoint. The natives have the garment of our s no actual constructive ability, the most! like that in shape that they do in this line being the arrange-'I haye described this garment ment of a few bran hes in such a man- clared that the Ki-Ki belles ner that they are protected from the ing slit skirts, or sun. A group eof these simple shelters they manage to get constitutes a village. avage stater was pmch Some of those to whom 2 have de. must be wears to Escape. ° how otherwise could about-in this nar Sut . I really 1 on over their h ° being, | tubelike garment" io the "These natives were large and dreadful they put the garments 9 | ooking, jet black in color and savage of|and it is not long aspect. They were very strong and fero | progress. cious and appeared to have no arts ofl, any kind. They did not, so far as we were made the windem of b 1S 5 ake , t ' 1 2 . able to discover, make any sort of po!-|the wild animal and the bird. nof to men tery or do even the simplest style of (ion the serpent, weaving and we saw effort at per- sonal adornment, such as the stringing of feathers or patural forest They mated and. were loyal to their iven to | mates, fighting to the death for the valleys. They «| women whom they had taken as wives. | yade $f forest | Occasionally by way of a rebuke a sav-'&c. Boil men and women are very much . to be : age husband kills and cats one of his smaller thax the people and vot Xx US lo be supernat-| wivas which serves as a lesson in abso- |g Tage fis. - ) Ki-Kis, the strange 3: x arage a Tustead they are extremely . ' 5 ed -- te af . lute obedience to the others.| It BO cimid, so much so that it was impossible at we aiscovered, grow pale afier pigee at all for the suffragettes, and yet to get near enough to them (0 learn much 'Lhe cannibals always sep the Ki-igpart from this occasional catastrophe of their waes. Kis after death infortunat y for the Al gomastic relations appear to be quite | Kis, and so th€y were familiar with US| pleasant. We could not discover any re- other wild iv aud fl Theraf p os v a HA irulls ana Appar y o t he refore they reasoned {}igion at all, even the most primitive,| oo PRATEntiy. ale ot themselves that we too must have por any rites which celebrated even the Sue " and emerged triumphant) poet grewsome of gods, So far as we m that encounter. There is something could find, the cannibalistic feasts in hicre of interest to the psychologist,, that which the natives indulged were purely tural association of pallor-with the for the gratification of appetite and had cut ordeal that besets mankind. no. further significance unless it were as wp A : "We found -that the savages of these: o howling demonstration of their triymph here is no acubt that cannibalism small villages were first class fighting! over their enemies. rampant in New Guinea apd that 1! men. The object of their military pil-| "Sometimes 'the cannibals make their "*P0bals of the vailey regard (he Wi-liis Frima is alw : p> ise - o . 3 AS a reserve kines ff i Th grimages is always simply the. discom | forays as a single tribe or again several, ; se stock in case of famine. Fhe fiture of their enemies. As a result of a|irihes combine to attack other tribes. so! DUTCH Sovernment does what it can fo battle the visiting team, to speak in the! wo were told through our inferpreter stamp oat the practice, hut so far there in popular parlance of civilization, bring | when victory blesses. the arms of the Lo decrease in it, and the grewsome news hole to their village spoils of war, These: a1lies there is a triumphant Tetarn to]% what happens among the uniiios is o lies of ir viet hel os ity * sup presse : Y ¢ wre the bodies of their victims. At the| yp, village of one of the chiefs engaged di d by the government. feast which follows the bodies are eaten and the heads kept as trophies. take the shuddering tales of at follow them liberty less to pay its probable ntains ana the tized 'man and igures takes possession closer in lus little place { side prison enough to impede Their The part of t that in making it the KiKi interesting 1» Q * 2 ostume is maiden has use of ° t she bas mode hergelf ne practically n the forest by this garment of forest hues invis cli Oriaments.i. "Phe men of this tribe were also mors 3 ess than their brothers of the shonlder ornaments asures, feathers, berries, SOB OOO valley reasons 'why they t a, at was tha the . deat "They live upon roots, nuts, berries und puenomenon. i The principal motive of their escape [rom their pursuess farther down the valley, They ave lighter in color than the cannibals You couldnt call them copper color; it is more truly described as a lighter black. 1 death 5 to na brown or in jin the combat, the prisouers are dragged I" other parts of the world thers is unwilling victims to the banqueting 2/30 much cannibglisw, but so far as I "At one time we came up to a village! piace well knowing what fate awaits W2% able to gather information in the when the fighting men had just takem|i jem. {course of my travels it is/gencr:ilr ou fourteen heads of their enemier. These| «After four days of Giver travel we the decrease, especially in the Marquesas we obtained from them. Two of the|jefr the canoes and dwok Yo. the moun- 2toUp, and yet it was in this group that lot fell fo my share and I presented ONeligins. It was then that we made our I 2% 2 human saerifice aud met a of them to the museum at Jamaica. The most interesting discovery of the journey, Native chief whose skirt was made en. other I brought back with me. |Our choppers 'goitig oncahead to break l'irely of the hair of persons whom he "The villages that we came upon were| gown' some of the defise. growth so that had killed sud heiped to devour." of the crudest sort. Nothing that could we could mave fotward came upon them Pr. Hall started on nis trip as a repre- first--the strange people whom we named S¥ntative of the Methodist Lpiscopal mm {the Ki-Kis. | Th¥ reason for conferring Board of Jam%ica. He expects 1o uss {this name upon the strange people we; the information which he gathered for ths Weird Tales of a House of Mystery. ~~ {bad from one-of- the: cannibals of the beuefit of missions iw. wHich BE i ater. XN the little town of n., ich more Piasa, there is a house of romance = tiie years go on the tales highly colored and are told in more awe soe tones. It is a haunted house. cently the owner, Clayton Kellam, and the' sentiment of LI vou vents its betag sold o Tiave decided fo © ol it. Bs its for thirty. years, sacred to the trygedy demolished. bis lie. as * It was the house fo which Clayton Kel- m took his bride and where they lived happily for a time, until she became jeal- ous of Bes f that she im and went Mr ms since brother. use ol st to live with Kellum 'boarded up the je his home with Nothing in -t Even his wile's ¢ left as they were when she ma tr brother went away With the passing years the house fell] {wore aud wore ite -disrepair, The | valley below. He informed us that the ested. He will publish a book, illustrated NJ chocks became so large that pereons could people or the mountains were 'very good With photographs taken during bis trip, Jook in and see the ravagés of time and eating' He also explained that they sod will also lecture. He bas brought decay. Kellam would not enter the house made their homes: in- the moyntains so back with him a collection. of butterflies and he would permit no one else to go in.| tht they might flee from attack. and of snakes. * Mildew spread unchecked over everything! "The first Ki-Ki woman that we saw, While be was talking of his New and dost accumulated. { we took to be a tree, not because she had Guinea experiences Dr Hall held & loose. Meanwhile Mrs. Kellam had died and/ that romantic resemblance to a tree which ly wrapped newspaper parcel in his hand, left a fortune to her husband. * None one looks fof in a'dryad, but because she! une piece of which be finally disar of the higirs wow cares to be the first (0 was wodesty attired in the bark uf a tree, ranged so that the interviewer wight wee rude upon the s#nctity of the haunted which she had wrought into.s garment a tightly coiled serpent quite large enough house. Therefore it will continue to stand resembling a tube. J have heard of the and wicked looking enough to créate havoe a monument of a tragedy, the real secret | tube skirts which wonien'sre now wear- in any corper of New York outside of thy of which Lads mever beea revealed, |ing in civilized climes, asd I-suppose, that Zoological Park serpent sal ia *