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Jun by THIS HAS HAPPENED Attempts have been made on the life of I'liae Marberty, owner of con- ftiderablc property near Porto Verde, Brazil, and several mysterious deaths have occurred. Vilak, Elise's cousin and guardian, believer that Gnylord Prentiss is res|x>nsible. Vilak, Elisc, and Lincoln Nunnally, an elderly chemist, rescue Pryntiss from being murdered by the natives. The next day Tinky, Elise's orphaned baby ne- phew, is stolen. Natives have seen Prentiss with a white child, and Vila forms an expedition to penetrate th Jungle and follow Prentiss. Whil bathing in the river with Nunnally Vilak suddenly dashes out and seize a native who had been squatting 01 the bank. The water where they ha been swimming was infested with th fierce flesh-eating piranhas. NOW BEGIN THE STORY gle Breath Ben Lucien Burman CHAPTER XXXVII. "What did he do?" Nunnally re peated. "Nothing except to cut his fingi> to that the blood would draw th piranhas and make them attack us If you know anything about the! characteristics you know that blooc makes them perfectly mad. If we hac waited a few minutes longer they'i have come in swarms and torn u to pieces." He dragged the prisoner roughl' back to the camp, kept him unde strict guard, then at dawn when th expedition started on its way again slackened his bondi so that his fee were free and put him at the htad o the train, where the wasps and fir ants were apt to be most irritating and the dangers from the pararac.i and deadly coral snake greatest. MuH as Vilak wished it, no jararaca struck him. Instead, one of the negroes through carelessness in crossing Fwamp, was bitten by a loathsome so/ of copperhead and died before an anti toxin could be administered. The last tragedy deepened the glooir which had begun like a cloud to over hang the travelers. The murmuring among the men in cr<;i^od. When the cook was prepnr ing supper the other albino shuffles forward to Vilak, and announced tha he and his fellows would go no far thcr. It was certain dath for all them if they proceeded, he mumbled Everyone except foolish white men knew that the country which they were approaching was haunted; thi closer they came to it, the tighter th' evil spell was woven about thorn. Hi and the other natives had decided to turn back. To their astonishment, Vilak quiet ly replied that he and his friends were at liberty to depart any time they liked; further, that their departure would delight him. At dawn the expedition split, the five mutineers sullenly going back in the direction from which they ha< come, while the three whites and the silent Indian guide, who after som vaccilation had refused to join in th rebels' councils, tramped on towari the west As they traveled the three friends conversed little, the humid heat of the jungle and their steady, unflagging pace consuming all the energies o! Elise and the old man. Day after day they went on un interruptedly through the tangle of grim, towering trees, always with the feeling that they were being watched followed. Soon the increasing densitj fit the underbrush made traveling ex tremely difficlut for the remaining mules, which, on the point of exhaus- tion, were now mere breathing skele- tons through the ravages of tiny wind- ed and crawling parasites. Reluctantly Vilak decided to aban- don them, shift as many of their bur- dens as possible onto human shoul- il'Ts, and for the rest, live on the country. Two days after they had so decided they came upon a tribe of dwarfed blackish Indians, almost pyg- mies. who lived in the branches of trees or in mere windbreaks which they hastily constructed wherever they might be. The chief, whose favor Vilak won l>y a gift of jewelry, said in answer to - Made of pure rn* Uls in modern sunlit factories No expense .pared to have It clean, wholesome and full flavored. WRIGLEYS wrapped and scaled to keep it u ood ai when it leave, .he factory. WniGLEY'S ii bound to be the bert I* wrapped and scaled to keep it KOCH] p I.-. i* - Wn -. -..,., tu ,, c tnc [^aj lhat men and machine* and money can make. The dclicloim peppermint flavor fre.heni the mouth nd aidi digestion* ISSUE No. 32 '30 the other's question that he had heard from a neighboring chief how stranKc men had passed that way not long before. But he could only say what he had heard from the lips of other?; none of his own tribe had seen. "Where you white men got" he grunted in thick Guarany. Vilak pointed toward the setting Bun. "Other Indian tell me, whiti man, no good there. What there?" The old chief shuddered, closed his ferret-like eyes, and did not answer. As the sun disappeared, and th'.' cool damp night enveloped the junglo, the chief took two pieces of wood, and rubbing them together while his fol- lowers murmured a dismal ceremonial chant, kindled a fire. The newcomers sat around it to eat birds eggs and a large sort of squirrel. Their hunger satifisd, the women danced, then the chief folded his legs under him, and like Bagarundi, began to tell the heroic legends of his race. He continued until his shrill, piping voice grew weary, bade the visitors good night and slowly climbed up into the trees, the other men and women following, leaping from limb to limb and liana to liana with all the dex- terity of monkeys. "More proof that there Is a pro- nounced Oriental influence all through the Indians," Vilak said to Nunnally as they sat by the fire. "Even a tribe in such a low state of development as this one. This chief, too, told the story about the mai who walked through the fire and be- came a god. These men probably got the Oriental traces in their culture pushed on. The next day the jungk began to lessen perceptibly. The tree? became fewer and smaller, the trai they were following became a narrow but well-beuten path. Soon the jungl was behind them, and they were on : wide rocky plateau covered here ant there with dwarfed palm-trees with leaves like knives, or patches of spiny cactus and thickets of thistles ant: thorns. Great vulture-like carranchos circled, in the sky, hopefully searching for some dying bush-deer which would soon provide them with a sumptuous moar^ tiny gossamer spiders drifted everywhere on their f.ne webs. Moun- tains showed dimly in the distance. The trail led toward them. They pitched camp on a wide re;l rock which formed part of a low bluff rising from the plain, delighted to be in the open once more. Two days later the mountains were much nearer. With a little straining of their eyes they could now distinguish the different peaks and ranges, all of the same bril- liant red which had characterized the rock about Porto Vcide. Some were short and jagged, re sembling great, red icicles; others were long and rolling like hug dunes of vermillion si.nd. Over the highest, cone-shaped and looking rather like the upper half of an enormous pear, drifted a thin black cloud. "Ixx>ks like an extinct volcano," said Vilak, pointing to it. "This whole western part of the continent in vol- canic. Undoubtedly why they have so many earthquakes. This one doesn't look as if it compared in size with Chimborazo, but it must have been a good one in its day." Another day and .1 half brought them to the foothills. The trail drop- ped sharply into a long mountain- girded valley which led like a highway built by giants to the great red heap in the distance. It was practically It was Iletto Cicerone. He lay as dead, though there was no out- wnrd sign of a wound or bruise on his small body. Indirect^ through the Incas, whose civilization was undoubtedly an Orien- tal one, possibly Egyptian. "Certainly that's where these fire legends came from, for the Incas had the most elaborate fire-worship ritual the world has ever known. "Incidentally, if we keep on going west this way, we ought to be getting out of the jungle onto the uplands pretty quickly and probably see some Incn ruins. We're heading straight for th;'.v treeless, except for a few bare out- cropping of rock being almost entire- ly covered by continuous matted stretches of cactu . and the other thorny plants which occurred on the plateau. Swarms of purple buttor- flis drifted lazily over the tops of the green vegetation. Hero, too, curran- chos wheeled lazily in the sky. "This is obviously the devil valley Hagarundi warned us of," Vilak grunted as he .stood on 11 high rock and body. Only his eyes seemed alive, drawn and gleaming with anguish like the eyes of the faithful Tony Bar- betta as he lay dying on the road to Porto Verde weeks before. (To be continued.) WhaTNeVYork Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dretumukmy Lesson Fur- nished With Eccry Pattern You can be confident that its quality never varies SALADA" TEA Freth from tho gardens' 730 ;- Spends Ten Months On Cannibal Isle looked down on the wide vista spread the Andes plateau, and weren't confined to that narrow area I before him. 'And that extinct vol- by any means. They wore U.o vigorous j <. is undoubtedly the red moun- ' tain." He took some betel. "We'll know in n little while whether he had any real reason to be afraid. Keep t>> and too colonizing a people. They were spreading out tremendously when the Spanish came and put a sudden end to their empire." Another week they traveled through the gloomy, unbroken forest. Th;>n they lost their last nativn adherenr. They had seen a jaguar lurking in the underbrush as they were nlxwt to pitch their camp; Vilak and the In- dian guide had gone out to stalk it to prcvcn the animal from springing upon them while they slept. They separated to approach it from two sides; Vilak killed it with a well- placed bullet. Striding back to the [amp, he rejoined Klise and the old man. The guide did not return. Vilak and tho others began to beat the Irtish. The setting sun swiftly put an en>! o the search. Long into the night, they sat by the fire shouting ami shooting their rifles to guide the otlwr >ack to the cam,i. "Either he's lost in the thicket or ie's chosen to disappear for his own purposes," Vilak grunted. "Almost certainly the latter, for hc'n one of he few men I've met wh(> really know ho jungle. However, we'll look in he morning." At daylight they renewed their fforts until Vilak decided that they ould afford to look no longer. They j the centre of the path. Remember that. Keep to the centre of the path. Our lives may depend upon it." They descended. They ha.l tramp- od cautiously down the valley for only three or four miles, when Vilak no- ticed that the carranchos over them had sU'.ldenly ceased their listless fly- ing and were concentrating over n spot in the road about half a mile ahead. He quickened his pace. In a few moments he had reached a rocky out- crop a few feet higher than the gen- eral level of tho path. He stopped short. Ten yards ahead was a circle of fifteen or twenty carranchos, all motionless, silent, patiently watching nn obect which lay in the middle of the road. The object was a man. He was with "Walter, a couple of cocktails." Ills frlond gave himself away, how- ever, when he whispered, audibly, "Waiter, If ye don't inolnd, I'd rather have a wing." on his bnck, his legs and his single arm at rigid angles with his lean body. Vilak saw a velvet jacket bright with brass buttons. He did not need to look at the swarthy cheeks or the mouth, where four teeth had boon broken off as though by a crow- bar. It was Potto Cicerone. He lay as dead, though there was no outward ' sign of a wound or bruise on his small For Bll ** r Mlnard't Liniment. A brown and yellow-beige printed linen wraps its bodice in tuxedo coat styling. The collar is plain brown linen. Its long moulded line makes it espe- cially desirable for the larg.'r woman. The curved seaming of the joining of the bodice and the circular skirt does much toward minimizing the width through the hips. It's an opportunity to have a smart linen frock for general wear whose cost will be very small. It will place yru in the "know" of fashion. 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Yon astound us now and then Uy the things you do u>id say. And we often wonder when Fell such wisdom in your way. Unt the mother says to me, It is plain, beyond n doubt, Wo must very careful be When that busy mind's about. Oil, there's much In life to learn, Little eyes and littlo ears. TImo shall teach you In your turn All I ho reasons for our fears. And for you I make this prayer: Through tho years which are to be That but lovely things and fair Will you ever hear and see. Edgar A. (inest. Out of His Element A wealthy Irishman was proud of tho opportunity to "show off" on the occasion of a visit to London of one of his compatriots. To dazzle him ho invited him to ilino at a fashion- ablfl restaurant. "Now, mo bhoy," he said, "Just you follow my lead, and I'll order every-! Woman Anthropologist Visits Savage Tribe Alone New York. A simple civilization where divorces are granted merely by i a refund of the dowry, where women have already gained equality with through magic spells and where no be- men, rfhere courting is accomplished lief in any sort of a deity exists, was described by Dr. Hortense Powder maker, who has just returned to this country after a ten-months' stay among the formerly cannibalistic Mel- aneslans. Dr. Powdermaker, a graduate of Goucher College and a Ph.D. from the University of London, single-handed constituted the first anthropological | expedition to study the people on the island of New Ireland, a long, narrow strip of land off Australia in the man dated territory of New Guinea and a part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Cannibalism has completely died out among the Melanesians, Dr. Powder maker discovered, as a result of the discontinuance of tribal warfare or- dered by white officials of the terri- tory. The middle-aged and the old can still remember the cannibalistic days however, and still smack their lips when recalling the dear old days when human flesh was a delicacy never to be forgotten. The natives never ate anyone except their enemies, Dr. Powdermaker said, explaining that she became so friendly with them after she had picked up a few words of their language that she is quite certain the thought of de- vouring her never entered their heads. Paint Hair White Dr. Powdermaker landed In the little village In the south of New Ireland in April, 1929, being met at the landing by the entire village population ot 270 inhabitants. They stared at her con- stantly, and the only way she at first was by fondling the made friends babies. A thatched-roof two-room house with a floor off the ground a Melanesian luxury of no small proportions was built for her and there with the aid of two servants and a $50 supply of to- bacco with which she regaled the na- tives, sho maintained one of the most Important establishments of the sur- rounding territory. A simple wash dress of bright red and white made, her the cynosure ot all eyes at the high feasts. A native woman casually announced one day that she had adopted iier and sent her l a gift. The women paint their coal black hair white for ordinary wear, but on special occasions change it to blue and red. A young gallant about town will paint a yellow ring around his left eye, and the women will glidly wear de- corations In their hair, but not on their bodies. A simple loin-cloth consti- tutes their only wearing apparel. There are any number of taboos, one of the most interesting being that no man is allowed, by tribal tradition, to speak to his mother-in-law, mention her name in public or enter a room which she occupies. If l.e does so, oven Inadvertently, he loses his social prestige and is disgraced for life. Iloth. polygamy and polyandry are practiced In the same village and tribe but not in the same family. While tho old men of the village have the supreme say In political affairs, society Is matrilineal and matrilcal. The lover asks the mother of his sweetheart for the hand of her daugh- ter and pays her for his wife. He al- so goes to her house, rather than bringing tho bride to his. The wife obtains a divorce by paying back the money. Currency a Myitery The local currency is one of the is- land's mystorios. It consists of disc- shaped shells strung on a special cord a yard long. Five of the units will buy a wife. The currency la made on another Island and has been in circu- lation for about 1,000 years. How it first started no one knows. The only culture of the people consists of carv- ing and dancing. Their music is also very melodious, although their instru- ments are primitive. They worship no god or goddess and do not bow down before moon, sun -or fire. They believe in the ghosts and spirits of the departed, however, but say no prayers for them. If they have a religion, Dr. Powdermaker said, it U their magic. Their morality does not coincide with ours, but they keep theirs with more strictness. The World Is Too Much With Us The world is too much with us; late' and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers Little we see in Nature that is cure; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ! This Sea that bares her bosom to th moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleep- ing flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune. 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