7 THE DAIL .Y BRITISH WHIG. : Copyright, 1920; by The Century Company; published by special arrangement with 'The McClure Newspaper Syndicate, sn The Marquesan was guaranteed his day in court. There was one judge in the archipelago and one doctor, and they were the same, being united in the august person of M. L'Hermier des antes, who was also the pharmacist. The jolly nor, in his twenties, with medical experience in an African army post and in bar- racks in France, was irked by his judicial and administrative dutie though little troubled by his medic: functions, since he had few drugs and knew that unless thesd were ow- ed by the patient in his p they would be tried upon the pigs or worn as &n amulet around the neck. Faith- . ful to his orders, however, the judge sat upon the woolsack Saturdays, un- less it was raining or he wished to 'shoot kuku. 5 " One Saturda, morning, being in- vited to breakiast at the palace, I strolled down to observe the work- ings of justice, Court was called to order in the archives room of the governor's house. The judge sat at a large table, resplendent in army blue and gold, with cavalry boots spurs, his whiskers shining, his de- meanor grave and stern. Bauda, clerk of the. court, sat at his right, and Peterano, a native ecatechist, opposite him, attired in blue overalls and a nec of small green nuts, ready to act as interpreter. . Bach defendant, plaintiff, prisoner, and witness was sworn impressively, Shough no Bible was used; which re- mi me that in Hongkong I saw a defendant refuse to handle a Bible in court, and when the irate Englis! ju demanded his reasons, calmly yeplied that the witness who had just laid down the book had the plague, and it was so proved, The first case was that of a Chi- nese, member of the Shan-Shan syn- dicate which owned a store in Atu- ona. He was charged with shooting kukts without a license. There were not many of these small green doves left in the islands, and the governor, whose favorite sport and delicacy they were, was righteously angered at the Chinaman's infraction of the law. He fined the culprit twenty dol- lars, and confiscated to the realm the murderous rifle which had aided the crime, The Shan-Shan man was stunned, and expostulated so long that he was led out by Flag, the gendarme, r being informed that he might appeal to Tahiti. He was forcibly put off the veranda, struggling to explain that he had not Shot the gun, but had merely carried it as a reserve weapon in case he should meet a Chinese with whom he had a feud. : The criminal . docket dome, civil cases were called, The barefooted bailiff, Flag, stole out on the veranda occaglonally to take a' cigarette from the inhabitants of the valley of Taaoa, who erowded the lawn around ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN For Colds, Pain, Lum! . hess, Rh cumatiom, Scat, Nogrt, ak, Ap eh Se r" or you are|teem years. taking Aspirin at all Accepl A "Barer Tablets Aspirin" in sn un ° meeticacidestar of Sallcyilencyd, will bo stamped with thelr the veranda steps. All save Kahuliti, they had come over the mountains to | attend in a body a trial in which two | of them figured--the case of Santos! Pigeon.) ot 5 ntos was a small man, bora in Guam, and had been ten years in| One, and Taaoa, having deserted from a ship. | . a He and I talked on the veranda in the Pigeon, "what return did you Spanish, and he explained the des- make to this woman for keeping your perate plight into which love * had house?" drageed him. He adored Tahaiupeh | "I 'provided her food and her the belle of Taaoa. For months he had dresses," stammered the little man. poured at her feet all his earnings,| "Food hangs from trees, and and faithfully Ke had labored at dresses are a few yards of stuff," copra-making to gain money for her. said the surgical Solomon: "The fair He had lavished upon her all his 'ones of the Marquesas do not give material wealth and the fierce passion | themselves to men of your plainess of his Malay heart, only to find her for popoi and muslin robes. You are a disdainful, untrue, and, at last, a run- foreigner. You expect too much. The away. While he was in the forest, he (preponderance of probability, added said, climbing cocoanut-trees to pro- to the weight of testimony, causes the vide her with luxuries, she had fled court to believe that this woman is his hut, carrying with her a certain the real owner of the sewing-machine "8 re" and a trunk. He was in and the trunk. It is so adjudged." court to regain this property. "La mujer es una diabola, pero me "Ben Santos me Tahainpehe mave! gusto mucho," said Santos to me, and A mai i nei!" cried Flag, pompously. sighed deeply. "The woman is a devil, The pair entered the court, jo all but I like her very much." others were excluded except me. As a| The unfortunate Malay got upon waiting to his horse and, his soul deep in the distinguished visitor, stood |breakfast with the judge and the |swamp of jealousy, departed to re- clerk, I had a seat. {sume his copra-making. The Daughter of the Pigeon, comely | Court adjourned. The judge, the and voluptuous, wore an expression clerk, and the interpreter, Daughter of brazen bitterness such as I have of the Pigeon, and I toasted tha blind seen on the faces of few women. A goddess in rum, the sun being very procuress in White-chapel and a wo- (hot on the iron roof. Bauda and I man in America who had poisoned stayed to breakfast at eleven o'clock, half a dozen of her kin had that sate (and the governor permitted me to look; sneering, desperate, contemptu- {look thrpugh the dossier of Daughter ous, altogether evil. I wondered what 'of the Pigeon. This record is kept of experiences had written those lines on all Marquesans or others resident in the handsome face of Daughter of the the islands; each governor adds his Pigean, {facts and prejudices and each new- n Santos was sworn. Through coming official finds the history and of devotion and desertion and asked 'down for his perusal. In this record of for his property. The singaire had. Daughter of the Pigeon I found the been bought of the German store. |reason for the malevolent®character He had bought it that Daughter of depicted by her face. the Pigeon might mend his garments, | The men of the hills have a terrible since she had refused to do so without custom. of capturing any woman of jt. He had not given it to her at all, another valley who goes alone in their ut allowed her the use of it JR €on= district. Grelet's first companion was sideration of "love and affection" he {caught one night by forty, who for swore. : {punishment built the ten. kilometres Daughter of the Pigeon glared at 'of road between Haniapa and Atuona the unhappy little man with an in- Many Daughters, the beautiful iittle tensity of hatred that alarmed me leper, when thirteemr years old was a for his life. She took the stand, victim of seventeen men. sonte of malevolently handsome in finery of whom were imprisoned. Daughter of pink tunic, gold ear-rings, and neck- 'the Pigeon 'had had a fearful experi- lace of red peppers, barefooted, bare- 'ence of this kind, It had seared her ated, barbaric. She spat 'out her soul, and Santos was paying for his ords. Isex. . "This man made love to me and| In feud times this custom was a lived with me. He gave me the sew- form of retaliation, as the slaying of ing-machine and the trunk. He is a men and eating them. It has sur- runt and a pig, and I am tired of him. |vived as a sport. Lest horror should I left his hut and went to the hotise (spend itself upon these natives of of my father. I my Singaire and the islands, I mention that in every my tu tate in uni imi Santos," inquired the judge our. union similar records package which contains complete di- rections. Them you are getting real of a but a few ceats. Druggists "Bayer" 'also sell latger "Bayer" pa:iages. There is only ono Aspirin="Sayer"~Yon must say "Bayer" Aspirin is the trade mark (registered In 'While it is well known that Aspiria mesns Bayer manufacture, to sasist ths puiile aguinst imitations, the Tablets of Bayer Company goasisl trade mars, the "Bayer Cros" been correct; Drink of Beer had him- 8 1 ly blacken our history. War's pages with a critical glance at Daughter of from the first glimmerings to the last foul moment reek with this dev- iltry. British and French at Bada- joz and Tarragona, in Spain, left fear. ful memories. Occident and Orient alike are guilty. This crime smutches the chronicle of every invasion. It is part of the degradation of slums in all our cities, a sport of hoodlum gangs everywhere. In the Marquesas it is a recognized, 'though forbidden, game, and has its retaliatory side. Time was when troops of women have revenged it in strange, savage Ways. But the end of court-day was not yet. 1 had barely fallen into my first slumber that night when I was awak- jened by the disconsolate Shan-Shan man, who came humbly to present me with a half-pound doughnut of his own making, and to beg my interces- sion with the governor for the return of his gun. + He reiterated tearfully that he had not meant to shoot kukus with it, that he had not done so, that he desired it only in order to be able to take a pot-shot at the offendin countryman in the village. He es desperately that the other Chinese still possessed a gun well oiled and loatled. He asserted even with tears that he had all respect and admiration for the white man's law. But he want- ed his gun, and he wanted it qujekly. 1 calmed him with the twicé-cons venient namu, and after promising to explain the situation to the governor, I sat for some time on my pae in the moonlight, talking with. the un- happy convict. Without prompting he divulged to me that my suspicions had genuine Aspirin tin boxes containing 12 tab. Caneda) of Bayer Manufacture of Mono- self instigated the raid of the bold are prom Poe tHoMas' EC wi Daughter of the Pigeon upon my rum, Drink of Beer, it appeared, was known in the islands for many feats of successful duplicity. One had near- ly cost the life of Jean Richard, a young Frenchman who worked for the a, Gelman trader in Taka-Uk External ] ins ECTRIC O1 S Fe Worm was a man of Tasos," said my guest, sitting cross- legged on my mats, his long-nuited, T THE BEST TEA Rich in flavor and delicious-- an ideal stimulant. L. Chaput, Fils & Cie Limitée w fingers folded in his lap. "He was nephews, of Pohuetoa, 'eater of Earth W A much. a i i. th Re an sak no Z, . Others sr to him, saying thatthe would rofit by the Tahiti Whole the word of ernor was powerful, : b 5 the interpreter he told his sad tale reputation of each of his charges set | y nt feel fase Pigeon oe reer of Bre Jolly Young Frenchman Who Was Governor, Judge and Doctor All o Dispensed Justice and Nostrums with a Generous Hand. reply. Themen of the crew wished Earth Worm to kill the governor, for every Marquesan ed im, and he had done a terrible thing for which he deserved death. "There had been an a gend- arme who fell ill betause of a curse laid on him by a tahuna. He was dying. This governor took from his box in the house of medicines a sharp small knife, and with it he cut, the veins of a Marquesan who had done some small wrong against the law and lay in jail. He bound this man by the arm to the gendarme who was dying, and through the cut the blood ran in the gendarme's veins. His heart suck- ed the blood from the body of the Marquesan like a vampire bat of the forest, and he lay bound, feeling the blood go from him. The village Er that this was being done, and could do nothing but hate and fear, for it was the governor who had done it. "The gendarme died, and you ma yet see on the beach sometimes tha man who was a strong and brave Marquesan. He trembles now like hotu leaves in the wind, for he never forgets the terrible magic done upon him by that governor. , He remem- bers the hours when he lay bound to that man who was dying, and the dying man sucked his blood from him. "Now this governor was on the ship going away, and he had not been | Killed. This made all Marquesans sad, {and those in the crew talked to Earth | Worm, who had also been wronged, {and urged him to rise and strike. But {he said nothing. - White Shadoivs In The = South By FREDERICK O'BRIEN XVIL-Holding Court in the Marquesas in days gaVe him little time for social intercourse, he occasionally invited me there to dinner with him and his wife, One Sunday he dined me hand- somely on eels stewed in white wine, tame duck, and codfish balls, and after the dance, in which his wife, Ghost Girl, Malicious Gossip, Water and the host joined, we sat for some time singing "Malbrouck se va t'en guerre," "La Carmagnole," and other songs of France. Stirred by the memories of home, these melodies awakened, Le Vergose remembered a countryman who lived nearby. "There is a hermit' who lives a thousand feet up tha valle 2» said he. "We might take him hal? a litre of rum. He is a Breton of Brest who has been here many ypars. He eats [nothing but bananas, for he lives in a banana grove, and he is able only to totter to the river for water. He never moves from his little hut except to ipick a few bananas. e lives alone. lardly any ore sees him from year to | year. I think he would be glad to have a visitor." A wet and slippery trail through the forest along the river bank led toward. the hermit's grove. Toiling up it, sliding and clutching the boughs that overhung and almost obliterated it, we passed a small na- tive house of straw, almost hidden by the trees, and were hailed by the voice of a woman. "I hea? Where do you go?" The words were sharp, with a tone al- most of anxiety, of fear. | "The ship came to the Paumotas,# "We go to see Hemeury Francois," jand the governor sat all day long on ia stool on the deck, watching the |islands as they passed. Earth Worm sat In his place, watching the gov- {ernor. One night at dark he rose, and jtaking an iron rod laid beside him by {one of the crew he crept along the {deck and stood behind the man on the |stool. He raised the iron red and {brought it down with fury upon the {head of that man, who fell covered Then he leaped into the with: blood. ea. "But the governor had gone below, and it was Richard who sat on the stool in the darkmess. He was found bleeding upon the deck, and the and patched, so that today he lives, as well as ever. Earth Worm was never found. A boat with a lantern was lowered, but it found nothing but the fing of sharks. Beer, who had hated Earth Worm be- cause he was a brave and strong man of Taaoa. When this was told to Drink of Beer, he smiled and said, 'Earth Worm is safer where he is,' "I have talked too much. Your rum is very good. I thank you for your kindness. You will not forget to deign to speak to the governo concerning the matter of the ? I promised that I would not forget, and after 'a prolonged leave-taking the Shan-Shan man sipped silently down the trail and vanished in the moon-lit forest. Le vergose, a Breton planter who lived in Taka-Uka Valley, was full of camaraderie, esteeming friendship a genuine tie, and given to many friendly jinpulsey, e had a. two- room cabin set high on the slope of the river bank, unadorned, but clean, A New Blood-Food Has Been Discovered That Works Wonders Said to Put New Life Into People That Are Run Down. For years doctors have been searching - for & combination that would enable them to inject into thin blood the elements ft lacked. This can now be done, and any weak- blooded person can quickly be made strong 'and well. Already a small army of ailing people has proved the merit of ta- king after each meal with a sip or two of water, two chocolate-coated Ferrozone Tablets. This is easily done, and even one week's use of this wonderful Llood-food will prove how nourishing and strengthening aad flesh-building the tredtment is. 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"That was the work of Drink of and though his busy, hard-working, replied Le Vergose. The woman who had spoken came half-way down the worn and dirty [steps of her paepae. She was old, but with an age more of bitter and |devastating emotion than of years. {Her haggard face, drawn and seamed {with cruel lines, showed still the {traces of a beauty that had been hard land handsome rather than lovely. {She said nothing more, but stood {watching our progress, her tall figure {absolutely motionless in its dark {tunic, her eyes curiously intent upon lus, 1 felt relief when the thick cur- tains of leaves shut us from her view. "That is Mohuto," said Le Vergose. "She is a solitary, too. All her people have died, and she has become hard and bitter. That is a strange thing, for an islander. But she was beautifu once. Perhaps she broods upon that." We entered the banana-grove, an acre or two of huge plants, thirty feet high, so close together that the sun could not touch the soil. The earth was . dank and dark, almost a swamp, and the trees were like yel- lowish-green hosts in the gloom. Their great soft leaves shut out the sky, and from their limp edges there was a ceaseless drip of moisture. A horde of mosquitos, black and small, emerged from the shadows, thous- ands upon thousands, and smote us upon every exposed part. In a few minutes our faces were smeared with blood from their killing. Curses in Breton, in Marquesan, and American rent the stillness. In this dismal, noisome spot was a wretched hut built of purau saplings, as crude a dwelling as the shelter a trapper builds for a few days' habita- tion. It was ten feet long and four wide, shaky.and rotten. Inside it was like the lair of a wild beast, a bed of moldy leaves. A line stretched just be- low the thatched roof held a few dis- colored newspapers. On the heap of leaves sat the rem- nant of a man, a crooked skeleton in dirty rags, his face a parchment of wrinkles framed by a mass of whit- ening hair. He looked ages old, his eyes small' holes, red rimmed, his hands, in which he held Ww shaking piece of paper, foul claws. His flesh, through his rags, was the deadly white of the morgue. He looked a thing no soul should animate. "Ah! Hemeury Francois," said Le Vergose in the Breton dialect that recalled their childhood home, "I have brought an American to see you. You can talk your English to him. "By damn, y&s," croacked the her- mit, in the voice of a raven loosed from a deserted house. But he made no movement until Le Vergose held before his bone-like nose a pint of strong Tahiti 'rum. Far back "in his eyes, away beyond the visible organs, ters came a gleam of greater con- sciousness, a realization of life around-him. His mouth, like a rent in an old, battered purse, gédped, and though no teeth were there, the vacuity seemed to smile feebly. He felt about the litter of paper and leaves and found a dirty nut-shell and a calabash of water. Shaking and gasping, he poured the bottle of rum into the shell, mixed water with it and lifted the precious elixir Hr his lips. He made two chol swallows, and drdvged the shell--empty. t Wi : ha ad st ind that Tong Like by lie he cop of his i £3 gd 19P1a5E% § ¥¥ re and was |one WoralRg, over the side. |and called joff. lundo the lock,» Scallamera Seas - "One day, we opened the hatches to when she came wooing me again? I get coal for the galley. The smell of 'had left her. She was with child, and gas arose. The coal was making gas. ugly. I loved beautiful women. But No fire. Just gas. If there was fire she was beautiful again when the we never knew it. We felt no heat. We [child was dead. I was with another. could find no fire. But every day the What was her name? I have fore gas got worse, 3 |gotten her name. Is there no more "It filled the ship. The watch be- rum? I remember when I have rum. low could not sleep because of it. If! "So I went again to Mohuto. .The we went aloft, still we smelled it. devil from hell! There was poison The food tasted of gas. Our lungs 'in her embraces. Why does she not were pressed down by it. Day after die? - She knew too much. She was day we sailed, and the' gas sailed 'too wise. It was I who died. No, with us. i |1 did not die. I became old before my "The bo'sn fell in a fit. A man time, but I am living yet. on the t- allan i fell to the deck Catholic mission gave me this lai We threw their bodies away. How long ago? Je ne sais pas. The mate spat blood [Twenty years? Forty I do not see any on God as he leaped gas never the path below and waits. I will live long yet." sea. The smell of the left us. - | "The captain called us by the poop- | rail, and said we must abandon the He ship any time. "We were twenty men all told. We The and rose to his feet, staggered, circled in mosquitos any and the grove. by the Mongol. We were far from "He is an example port and we dared not go adrift in| open boats, on us like a weight. It never left us fore did and for a moment, Men lay in the scup- | jamais de la vie! pers and vomited. Food went un- to church again." touched. No man could walk without | staggering, At last we took to the and slipped boats. Two thousand miles from the Marquesas. We lit'a fuse, and pushed I come here, Y downward on the up. land I palsed to speak to her. "We suffered. Mon dieu, how we! "You knew Hemeury Francois suffered in those boats! But the gas he was young?" was gone. We struck Vait-hua on the 1 island of Tahuata. It was heaven. spat. Rivers and trees and women. Women! "He was mv Saere! How I loved them! "I came to Taha-Uka with Mathieu Scallamera. We worked for Captain Hart in the cotton, driving the £hi- nese and natives. Bill Pincher was a boy, and he worked there, too. In! the minlight on the beach there | were dances. e women danced nak-! . nd ed on the beaches in the moonlight. chaplain of the Springfield (Mass.) And there was rum./Mohuta danced. | Pranch of the club. Ah, she was beautiful, beautiful! She | was a devil, ' "Scallamera and I built a house, and put on the door a lock of wood. It was a big lock, but it had no key. | The natives stole everything. We could keep nothing. Scallamera was angry. One day he hid in the house while I went to work. When a hand was thrust through the opening to took his! brush knife and cut it off. He threw! it through the hole and said, 'That will steal no more.' " e hermit laughed, a laugh like the snarl of a toothless old tiger. "That was a joke. Scallamera Janghed. By gar! But that without a hand lived long. He gave back all that he had taken. He smiled at Scal- lamera, and laughed, too. He worked without pay for Scallamera. He be- came a friend to the man who had cut off his hand. A year went by and two years and three and that man gave Scallamera a piece of land b He helped Scallamere to buil to the dark grove. slowly." Notice, About You. | be a constitutional disease. fére it requires a remedy like Hood's which reaches every part of the sy moves the cause of the more serious disease. Sarsaparilla has relieved m cases as told by voluntary letters commendation. tle to-day and give it a trial? combines economy a. house | ily cathartic. ree did not awake 'I planted bananas. I have never been into one. But I know that Mohuto sits em We said nothing more as we slid; wet | trail, but when we came again to the A straw hut hidden in the trees Mohuto alf a mile away the Mongol blew was still on the paepae, watching us, when She put her hand over her eyes, and 1 first lover. I had a ichild by him. He was handsome once." © {Her eves, full 'of malevolence, turned & "He dies very] of - - Joseph Amen has been appointed So Disagreeable to Yourself and All Catarrh is generally conceded tO Theres constitutional Sarsaparilia Why not get a hott t and efficiency, Vai-ae.| Keep Hood's Pills on hand as a fams upon it. "Land from hell is was, land cursed seven times. Did not Scallamera be- come a leper andl die of it horribly? And all his twelve children by that Henriette? It was the ground. It had been leprous since the Chinese came. Oh, it was a fine return for the cut-off hand! ' "I did not become a leper. I was young and strong. I was never sick. I worked all day, and at night I was with the women. Ah, the beatiful, beautiful women! With souls of fiends from hell. Mohuto is not dead yet. She lives too long. She lives and sits on the path below, and watches. She should be killed, but I have no strength, "I was- young and strong, and loved too many women. How could I know the devil behind her eyes AY BE OVERCOME hot water and a sugar. Take 1 tableapoontul Clogged nostrils should open, b irg become easy and the mucus dropping iato the throat. It is to prepare, costs little ahd is to tak¢: Anyone who has thi prescription a trial. --Advt. Children Cry AANNANNRNNY AN Fletcher's Castoria is strictly a remedy for Infants and Childrelr. Foods are pared for babies, A baby's medicine for Fletcher's AANRANNNNNN oN NN LT that brought Castoria before the public after of ; bre doe OMe ithipiidg Lig dey dei years has not proves. _ 7 What is CAST C arising therefrom, and by ting the Stomach and Bowels, aide the assimilation of Food; natural sleep. Nien oF ood; fring beuty aud a GENUINE CASTORIA : Bears the Signature of THE CONTAUN coMPARYRNEY YORK RrTY In Use For Over 30¥ears ok ~ hy It you have Catarrhal Deafness or head and ear noises or are growing hard of hearing go to your druggist and get 1-ounce of Par: int (double strangth), and add to it % pint of little granilated four times a day. PR This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head nojses. x Sol" x He was like a two-days' old corpse, {lay down oun the heap of soggy leaves, swarms had four whal®boats and a yawl above him. They were devouring us, Plenty for all of us. We provisioned but the hermit they never lighted om: and watered the boats. But we stayed Le Vergose and I fled from the hut Kke those in {Balzac or the religious books," said "Then came a calm. The gas could 'the Breton, crossing himself, "I have not lift. It settied down on us. It lay beeh here manv years, and never bes again, T must begin to go WHY HAVE CATARRA! tem by thoroughly purifying and efis = riching the blood. This medicine ré= trouble, which if not checked may lead to In 46 years of use and test Hood's CATARRHAL DEAFNESS { 5 ¥ easy pleasant Deafness or head noises should give ALWAYS