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THE FOR 1927 WHEN JIM CAME BACK HOME S) ky D. 3. ARIA MATTHEWS sat by the table In the living room in sorrowful slli'nce. Outside the weather ivas' in accord wltii tier melancholy mood, The future loomed before her lonely, forbidding, liopeless. Two years before to a day a steamboat had gone down on the Atlantic with oil on board, Including her husband--big, bluff, Jolly Jim His name was on the steamboat's list of passengers.

Before embarking he )md sent her the letter which she now- lield in her hand. Tears fell from her eyes as she read It for the hundredth lime. ilarla: When you receive i 1 ehall be on my way to South America. That last Informal quarrel we had settled It. The way you louked at me--something you said- veil, I made up ihy mind that we had lieiter bo apart for while.

Everything we own Is now In your name. Good-by and good luck. "JIM." Jim's wife was a tiny creature, full of sparkle and life In her girlhood, hut now subdued through trouble nnd sorrow. She went over the old ground nsaln aiid again In her mind until her brain was weary. "Jim meant come home.

He jicver meant to desert me," she told herself Dercely. "Why, why--of nil afloat--must the steamer that carried Jim bo the go down I 1 Why had Got punished her so terribly? For punishment It was! she had no doubt of that. She acknowledged to herself that she Imd been hard to 'live with--exacting, unreasonable, aggravating. She had a caustic lougue. Jim had thought her sharp speeches "cute" at first Perhaps he did not admire them so much when he himself became the object of.

them. Brother Tom had once said to her: "Maria, you can say the most cutting things In that confounded drawl of yours of anybody I ever knew." As for that quarrel," It had been like all their quarrels. She could not even remember what It was about, caustic remark was on the tip of her.tongue The snapping- black eyes were soft and humid, with dark rings around them- caused by much weeping. Jim's photogrnph; in pretty frame, stood on Hie. table.

She gazed at it lovingly, hungrily, i Suddenly she started to her feet A baby's voice was calling "Ma-ma! Ma-ma Maria liito the: bedroom nnd, lifting, the child- in her arms, came back'to her seat, holding him tightly to her bosom. A beautiful baby boy, rosy from sleep, he was health and beauty personified. He reached out eager hands toward the nnd cooed cunningly: "Pa-pa. 'Pa-pa." Maria kissed him passionately. would never have gone away 'if he had known God was sending a little Jim to bridge the chasm between us," she lamented.

Every one who saw the child declared him to be the "dead Image of Jim Matthews," Indeed he was ridiculously like big Jim, even to the mole the middle of bis forehead, which on the little face seemed ludicrously Incongruous. There was the same fine head with the rippling fair hair, the same fearless blue eyes, the same straight nose, square chin and mouth -with upward curving corners, always ready for a laugh. The elder Jim was Impatient, so was little Jim. commanded Imperiously. And, course, milk was 'immediately forthcoming.

It wa.s Saturday afternoon. Saturday night supper had always been a festal occasion--when good humor happeaed to Maria cooked something especially appetizing, and Jim brought home a treat which he knew his wife would enjoy. Often It was a box of candy, sometimes rnre fruit, and more often than anything at this time of the year big California melon, golden nnd luscious. Maria's mind dwelt upon this now, and like child she begun to pretend. She would have a make-believe parly.

"I shall go mad If 1 keep on thinking," she declared abruptly. "1 may as well make a fool of myself one way as another. If I can get any pleasure out of pretending that Jim Is coming iliome to supper, whose business I iff" She bustled about adding coal to the fire nnd getting out cooking mate- 'rlals from the pantry. may as well have a real gooc supper while I am about It," she salt "I suppose It will take me a week to eat the stuff, but what's uhe difference," recklessly. "Let roe see--tea biscuit, raisin cake, will i chocolate Icing, strawberry Jam cheese and boncy.

Jim liked them all 11 wonder what he will bring home to (night," with a strange smilo. She set the table with her best linen china, being careful to select a cup and saucer, decorated wit ibiue forget-me-nots and bands of gold JA Christmas present from her to Jim jShe paused for a moment to bury he 'face in a man's coat that hung on behind the kitchen door. Jim ha jnot stopped to take any of Iiis belong lings. "Two years today since the boa Swcnt down!" she moaned. "Poo Ijlm!" Bnhy w.is In his high chair by the table, making deafening riin with a spoon.

Maria felt that It was 'safe to leave him while she hurried, eking tiioe to make ht-rself pretty for hf occasion. A knot of crlrnsoo rib- on at the throat relieving the comber ue of her black dress, and a gold lain and locket Jim tiad given her. he biscuits were baked, to a beautl- ul. brown, the cake was walling oil ie table. Everything was ready but ic ten.

She never put the tea to until Jim came. Baby Jim was oddlng sleepily. She must lay him his crib. This done, she Eat dmvn the rocking chair by the window to atch for Jim, How beautiful everything" looked, ren to the purple chrysanthemums i their cut-glass bowl In the center the table. Jim's slippers were be- de his chair, ready to the moment he came in.

"He Is late," she hlspcred, with a forlorn attempt at a augli. still, her inlnd wan- erlng back and forth from the pres- nt to the past', 1 from the past to the resent. Whether she dozed for a few loments she never knew. She was roused by the sound of footsteps-risk, energetic, familiar--moving ulckly along the sidewalk. They assed through the front gate nnd round the side of the house, pausing or 'a moment outside the kitchen oor.

Marta trembled violently. Was ie awake or dreaming? The foot- tops crossed the kitchen door, the all, and stopped In the doorway. She as afraid to look up, but did at last lanage to raise her "Well, Maria, here I am at last," aid the big man who stood looking own ot her. "Supper 'most ready? your melon." Maria had risen to her feet One lance In the a a and she rapped down upon the lounge In a ead faint The basket dropped from Im's hand. The mejon rolled under ID table.

Jim knelt by the lounge nd took his 'wife in his arras. "I light to have written!" he told him- elf accusingly. "I ought not to have aken her by surprise." It was relief nspeakoble to him when she opened er eyes. "Jim!" she uttered. Imploringly.

Oh, Jim, you are rot dead I thought ou were dead 1" Her eyes demanded answer. "Not me!" declared Jim ungrammatically. "In fact, I'm very much live. That confounded boat went off nd left me staring at It like a fool rom the dock. Great Scott I What's Little Jim as enterprising as his fa- her had learned a new trick.

Housed rom bis nap by the sound of voices ie had managed by considerable In- and a great determination to one fat leg after the other over lie top his crib. From that perll- ius position he descended to the car- ict with a soft thud. This accom- ilished, he started on a tour of Inves- igation. "Pa-pa? Pa-pn?" he was lisping In- errogatively, his blue eyes staring up at those so like his own. "Good heavens, Maria, Is it demanded Jim in an awed whisper, itariii" ns if fascinated at that tell- alc mnle.

Mnrla nodded, her eyes filled with blissful tears, while both hands clutched the sleeve of Jim's coat ns If she he would disappear as sud- ns lie came. "Well, nil I've got to say Is this," gathering baby nnd mother a huge, engulfing embrace, "you've clayed mighty mean trick on me Maria." HeaeHJuntgfg Kampanzan Savages of Formosa. (Prepared by the National Geogra Society, a i D. C.I Women of South Seas Have Many Liberties Despite the fact that the Inhabitants of the PaclDc archipelago are of much the same race or races--light brown, straight-haired Polynesians or dark brown, frizzly-haired Melanesl- ans--their customs vary from group to group. And while exceptions must be made here or there, in most of the Islands--and particularly In Tonga, Samoa, and FIJI--feminine virtue Is and always has tieen as highly prized as anywhere else in the world.

In a few of the more cosmopolitan ports-such as Apia or Suva or I'agopago-- there may be some women who take, theirs lightly, but they are a limited minority and' quite a recent Institution stimulated almost invariably by nn acquired fondness for the ribbons and trinkets of civilization. In these islands--although the woman has never enjoyed the unrestricted liberty of her Mnrquesan sister-her position is a fairly happy one. Of course, in many parts of the world, she is regarded ns belonging to a somewhat Inferior sei; throughout Polynesia she waits until the men are served before she thinks of dining herself; but thi? seems to cause her little concern. She appears to accept it philosophically, as though to say, "Let them strut and cherish their pelty vanities; I'll assert raycelf whenever 1 want anything very badly." And in all practical matters, she undoubtedly commands respect In Tonga--the only IndcpendcntTiS- tion In the South seas--a woman actually occupies the throne. Her majesty, Queen Salote, is absolute boss, too, not only over her subjects but over her prime minister; who.happens Just Incidentally to be her husband.

Kven In Fiji, where the people are of the kinky haired Melanesia!) race, converted within the last fifty years from a i a i the women enjoy considerable L. Foster. In the Independent. Huston. OHMOSA, where a recent earlh- quake took heavy toll o'f lire.

Is still inhabited by savage iiead- hunters who have resisted the development of the island's resources. Formosa Is larger a and I Khode Island combined but tlie region extending from the mountains form the backbone of tlie island to the rocky eastern coast Is yet to be wrested from the tribesmen. The civilized agricultural regions I along the western side of Formosa were so menaced by the head-hunters during the middle of the last century that the. government of. China, which i owned the Island at that time, built a high metal fence for more tlinn a 1 hundred miles, along the border of the 1 wilderness.

Some sections of the fence are now charged with electrlc- Ity. The Japanese who took (he Island from the'Chlnesc In ISUo have extended the barrier until the tribes, men aro shut off from civilization. Heavily puardcd gales at frequent In: tervnls permit the savages to trade 1 with the Formpsans but no savage is I allowed to come Into the "foreign" territory and no "foreigner" Is nl- lowed to enter the savages' domain i special permission of the Jap- anese police nnd a well-armed guard. Buck in the mountain recesses, Hie live in compact villages, so camoullngcil a one Is within their confines before realizing It. The lints arc built of large slabs of slate with thatched roofs that resemble the thick foliage of the forest.

There is no i furniture. When the savage squats ns If ready to spring upon his prey, or lies on the floor. 1 No tribesman's hut Is 'complete without a skull shelf Just outside the door. His shelf may have a hundred pigeonholes, each containing the skull of human being. It Is as indicative of his glory as the trophy cabinet of a modern Olympic star.

Women Insist on Heads. The women have been blamed for maintaining this ghastly custom, for among tribes the maidens will not listen to the pleadings of suitor until he has at least one skull on his shelf. When there are no victims within easy reach of the village the ardent swain goes to the borderland i of civilization, sometimes digging his way under or climbing over the fence. The first person who crosses his path Is his victim. Failing in this, he may a member of a neighboring Edenic, What? "The bride wns gowned In white chrysanthemums, and autumn leaves formed the decorations." Boston Transcript attack: tribe.

i It Is so common for a Chinaman liv- ing near the savage border to lose his head a little attention is paid to tlie incident unless his relations band together to the murder, Freshly severed heads must be dis- played at various savage festivals, religious rites nnd on other occasions too numerous for safety of the Formo'snns. Since the Japanese have owned Formosa, towns more modern than those In Japan nnd China have been built, schools established, harbors In- proved, nnd a railroad built nearly the entire length of the Island. Now there are approximately 4,000,000 Ip habitants. More than three-fourths them are natives who are of Chinese extraction or an admixture of Chinese and aborigines. The aborigines number about The remainder of the population is made up of Japanese and foreigners.

Talhokti, the capital, lying 38 miles Inland from the port of Keelung, has been called the most modern city of the Japanese empire. Wide, well- paved streets, fine parks, large hand- i tome government buildings and a bo- i (nnlcnl garden give It more of a Wcst- em an oriental appearance. For busy city of 180,000 Inhabitants, It Is unusually quiet There are no street cars, and automobile traffic is not yet large enough to disturb the population. Hundreds of Jlnrlklshas arc propoltrd through the streets by Kormosan "chauffeurs'' In spotlessly clean white uniforms and large pic- i turcsque mushroom hats. Save for the ptiter-paltcr of their soft shoes ns they carefully transport their fares, and the occasional riimlle of heavy wooden-wheeled cart, one hears only tho of oriental tongues.

Japanese orderliness marks every uove of the Formosans. All through lie civilized portion of the Island oue totites Hie effect of Japanese govern- nont. From the window of the train all the way from Talhnku to Tainan, he old Chinese capital near the southern end of the island, the traveler sees miles ot Rootled rice fields In lie lowlands while higher land Is sys- eniatically planted to sugar cane, sweet potatoes and tobacco. hack loward the hills, camphor vie will: huge bamboos. Men nnd women work side by side In the lelds.

Because ot their loose-Uttlng and mushroom hats, one cannot detect tlie sex of the workers at a distance. Its Products Are Large. Although thousands of miles of the sland have scarcely been touched by In a recent year Formosa iroduced approximately 25,000,000 mshels of rice, 25,000 tons of sugar, 12,000 tons ot tea, 1,000,000 tons of coal, 3,000 tons of camphor, and 5,000 ons of camphor oil. Petroleum, gold, sliver, copper, jute, opium, tobacco nnd salt also are Important products. Opium is sold only to old licensed smokers and the number of users Is reduced 'each year.

Among tho. na- tlvrs men and women smoke to- jacco In Ions-stemmed bamboo pipes and many chew helel nut, Tlie need for new sources of camphor lias liecn one of the principal causes, for the development of the sland. When tlie trees on the civilized side of tlie boundary fence have been leveled and supplies diminish, tlie feilce is moved back into savage territory; for the constant demand for the product Is too grc.it" to await the maturity of new trees that the Japanese have recently planted. "This gradual encroachment on the savage domain and tlie plan to penetrate certain parts the Interior with roads nnd railroads, should bring the entire Island under Japanese control In a few years. Peril of Camphor Many of the stations are near the head-hunters' district.

While the Japanese are bringing the savages more under control each year, and a heavy guard Is constantly on duty among the workers, raids on these stations are not uncommon occurrences. The huge trees are felled and then chipped with a scooplike cutting Instrument When small cars, that the workers push on a narrow gauge track, are filled, the load is consigned to a camphor stiil where tlie cuttings are transformed into pure camphor by a boiling process. Altachcd to tlie still bamboo pipes take oft the camphor oil. A large quantity of the world production of camphor of wliicli about three-fourths conies from Formosa, Is used In the manufacture of celluloid, perfumes and drugs. As Is the case with many of the larger Industries of Formosa, the Japanese government has a monopoly of the camphor business and dictates Its own price by which the product Is purchased from the I i i a pro ducers.

In the wilderness, one cannot mis take head-hunter fnr harmless native If he keeps his head ions enoi to see one approach. For clothes they wear single piece of cloth a reaches from their armpits to their knees, arounJ their Iilps is huge knife encased In a tamboo scabbard and some of them carry bows and arrows to assist them in their head hunting activities! Most of them are tattooed with a blue substance that adds to their at ready uncomely features. Every sav age child Is forced to submit to the cruel operation which Is performei by holding the victim on a bamboo mat on the ground while wooden chls ind hammers arc used to break the skin. Natives and savages of Formosa are fond of fishing. Instead of using a hook and line, the savages throw a narcotic fluid into the water, whlcl ctnpifics fish and causes them Hoat on (he surface.

Then, In the! home-lunik: crafl of h.imhoo tree lashed together, they collect thel catch. HIDDEN 300 YEARS, TREASURES RETURN Two Dycki and One Murillo Found in Peru. Lima. paintings by the "Je'iiilsh muster. Van Dyck, and anther long-forgotten treasure from the rush of Murlllo are about to make heir reappearance In the world of urt fter more than three.centuries of seclusion In the ancestral mansion of Senor J.

1. Irlviirreu de la Puente, lescendaiit of one of the most cele- rated members of the old Spanish nobility in Peru, the Marquis de Villa- 'ucrte de la Puente. The three works, valued at approximately $1,250,000. have been pronounced genuine by the lute The- iphllus Ciistllio, Peruvian artist and critic who enjoyed 8 high reputation Kuropean urt circles. They have Men vouched for by oilier critics who mvo' made special visits to Peru to view them.

Of the trio the most valuable la the ilurlllo, worth' $1,000,000. Its subject "Saint Joseph and the Infant Jesus." its canvas measures approximately three, feet In height by two 'eet In width. The first of tiie Van Dycks Is painted on copper, Ils subject being: "The Itepentent Magdalen Distributing Her Jewels." it is rectangular and is iinalier than tlie Murlllo. This work In a perfect state of preservallon and is valued at $150.000. The other Van Dyck is "The Worship of the Golden Calf." The owner this picture at 5100,000.

The pictures were brought to Peru more than 300 years ago by the Marquis tie Villafuorte de la Puente. The owner recently decided to sell nil three works and has oltered them the Hritish museum. rlerd of Antelope Is Found in Texas County Mercedes, the remote wilderness of chnparral In the border district between Mercedes and Laredo, herd of antelope was recently discovered by Charles G. Jones, state warden. Mr.

Jones snld upon ils return to Mercedes that the ranch region of the border Is still teemln- with wild "Vm three weeks I have been get- ing acquainted in Starr, Znpata' and Jim Hogg counties and find game plentiful," he said. "There t.re thousands of quail, deer and wild hogs on every side. There are about 150 antelope In Jim Hogg county. If the. hunter was ever careful In his life, let be when he runs across iliese pro- rected animals, for no one is allowed shoot an antelope In Texas at any "Tlicy are the most graceful animals that ever lived, and the hunter should them for.

their beauty nnd not their meat. This little herd In Uogg county is practically all that Is left of hundreds thousands of these, lioble creatures a 35 years ago roamed over the prnlric sections of Texas." Expedition to Study Life 500 Feet Below Pacific Denver, for an expedition that has Its destination 600 feet below, the surface of the Pacific ocean wei3 revealed here recently by George M. one of the Williamson brothers who filmed Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the.Sea" 13 years ago. In the project announced by three men be lowered to a depth of BOO feet below the the Mean In a steel ball-shaped chamber, and, from heavy glass portholes, they will study deep-sea life. A specially bulli schooner carrying the party of scientists, who will perform the researches will sail from San Diego, within the next 60 days for the west coast of Mexico, where the first experiment Is to be made, he said.

Stamps of Late Czar Bring Little at Sale once owned by the czar of Russia and which cost his government 5250,000 to produce were put up for auction here recently. They failed to bring one-hundredth of their The stamps were oltcred on the Instructions of client In Latvia, whose representative attended the sale In case the reserve price was not reached. This was set at which was the price once offered for the stamps when exhibited In America. Although the bidding began at 51,000 and rose by S125 bids to $2,000 It went no higher. Great American Hen 760 Eggs a Second Washington.

American hens- are creating a record for them- selves by laying collectively at the rate of TOO eggs a second, or 24,000,000,000 a year, according to the Department of Agricul- ture, thus accounting for about 18 per cent of the total value ol all live stock and Its products last year. Only the dairy Industry, with 40 per cent, and the swine Industry, with-22 per cent, were higher. The great American hen Is responsible for more than onc- third of the world's supply of poultry nnd eggs, the depart- mcnt slated. OLD IN EH AN LIVES ON MEMORIES OF PAST Lwt of the Ojibwayi Recall Frontier Days. llunlslnf, Tog, menty-elglit, is the sole survivor! of the OJIbway Indian tribe that once roamed Hie wilds of Alger He lives la an old crude tback fltn'atej between two hills and Jiere and are the old tumbled down homes of tn his former neighbors who have passed to the "happy hunting grounds." Tea- chock Is roughly boarded wlihln tat there are numerous cracks thit pef.

mil the wintry winds access to Mj! humble abode, lie has a few rude- pieces of furniture and kitchen uten- fclis. The old fondest wish li thai he be permitted to live In hij cabin the rest of hli remaining days and die on the ground that he and his forefathers trailed over many times, which Is known as Indlnnunvo, Placei Chafrt Alonj Trail. Fifty years ago a dozen or more- OJIbway families resided on the site, but now Jlrnmy KIsh-lIe-Tog Is ait- alone. Here and there among the hills. Jimmy has placed crude chnlrs near old trails nnd he often goes from one- to another and sits nnd ponders over the years a have fleeted by when the Ojllnvnys held sway nnd were happy among themselves and hunted and fished.

010 Jimmy greets his visitors with a smile and will answer a fen- of the questions put to him in brief Kngllsb sentences, fie was born on. the L'Anse reservation. Uts ftuher was a noted hunter and trapper a century ago. i doesn't -know who his grandfather was. His forefaihers were warriors repelled the Iroquois on the easi nnd the Sinus on the west.

Old Jimmy's father once toted the- mall three times a week between old Munlslng nnd Wetmore, carrying the- mail sacks on his hack. Overlooks Lake Superior. The old Ojibway's cabin overlooks. Luke Superior. Jimmy often looks out over the great lake, along whose- shores his tribe hunted and In whose waters they struck the white flsfi and' trout.

He says he could hunt very good If it were not for his rheumatism. For 18 years he tolled at the- old Munlsing furnace. Up to three- years ago he made his living at trapping nnd fishing nnd was adept at both, but now old Jimmy Is crippled up and an object of public charity. He resented being taken to the county poorhouse and pleaded to be left alone in his crude shack--there to die- where he has- lived so many years. An understanding and kind-hearted county board consented.to let the sole- survivor of the Ojihwny tribe thereabout have his heart's wish.

Thss Actress Made Good in One Night: Kileen Carey, who- has become the bride of laborer- pViywrlght, Sean O'C'asey, Is an actress who made gond in one night. She, like her husband, comes from- Dublin. She Is still young and critics say she will make great actress. She started her stage career In the- chorus of the d'Oyly Carte Opera company. Always -eager', to into-straight plays and make a name ID London, she nicked small roles In sev-.

eral plays that were-uol outstanding successes. When Kathleen O'Regnn, leading: lady, fell 111 24 hours before the premiere of Sean O'Casey's "The Plough, and the Stars," Eileen Carey offered-: to take over the-part, and It was then that she.first met her future She mode a hit in spite of the short notice arid has just finished lead In O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman." Now O'Cosey is writing a special 1 play for her, the "lied Lily," which' will be produced soon after their honeymoon. Dogs on Guard at First French Library- now are the night watchmen In France's great library, I the Rlbllotheque Nationale, In the pal- ace Cardinal Maznrin built for It, and'! its additions. One man commands the three dogs that roam the dark or dimly lighted corridors nnd rooms, some of them half a block long. Economy was the motive of the young librarian, Roland Marcel, tint the patrol lias proved to be efficient.

The dogs cover every corner nnd run HO times the distance of the elderly watchmen whose places they have taken. Also, they see and- they, smell and they have no fear. Two of the dogs are from the home of Edouard FTcrriot, minister of public Instruction, who hns control of the library. The dogs were trained by Mme. Herrlot nnd are thoroughly house-broken.

Homing Pigen Back to jRoost After 4 Years for four years, King homing pigeon owned by Frank Madcros of Marlines, came home to his loft the other day, Tvorn nnd tired, apparently from long flight. The bird, i many others belonging to members of Homing Tlgcon club, was loosed in Nevada four years ago for a rnce 10 Martinez, Whci, the bird did rot return, Mnderos thought it tad fallen prey to a hunter or hawk..