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THE HEADLIGHT. A. BOKeOYi.'K, Editor & Proprietor. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BT GAIN." EIGHT PAGES. VOL. III. NO. 4. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889. Subscription, 81.00 Per Tear. POST AND KING. Though I L.n kk:3 I have no throne Bavc thisrou;rh wooden tiege alone; I Lave no en:p'r, yet ;r-y sway Extends a myiir.d Lagrr-s array! No servilo v.--.-al ben-Is his kre-3 In grovii-.i revert nr. -3 to mo Yet, at rpy word, all 5: :-arts beat high Acd tbojx- Ik flx-'j In o- ery eye. And love a.:d tr? nlituT-- they bring As IriJ.i'.tc Ui- r-.iv, a kk:,! .'The folks th;:t teron- lb? busy street Know not i: i . a kaicr they meet, And I am th: ro is nob seen The morr.:-'-.'i in ray f iv ard mien; I should not choo ;o to he the cause Of fawning or of coarso applause I am content to imov laa arts "W'Lcrevrkh to Prd it o:r their hearts; For, when cat ihc-r h.-arts I sing, I a;n a kio;r, I .';: a i.i: .3! My .. pt-T.r.v. it ;: a "When -. ii.li L )'it!o th-:- hearts of men; " orretiracs it pr..-.- th to Iwuiia ( Its monarch i'u.if y with a smile Sometime it is a! h;r?t for tears ' And : aclovrsi tli.; i; urelGd years I walk, t'i" r:o'.J. ;.t ; i on earth, I'Kpe';.:-:i;c sympathy ard mirth Alia, it I; a ja.tcyh- tiling : That uvilw.i 1.:. vvLatl sni akingl. Let --mph-s -viu:;hlc! as they may. 1'roudly I !:.-,M i:ay-rial s,vayl ' j The Kunshmo a;r.i the rati of years 'Are human smiles and human tears' That (-one or v; -;hk at :ay call ; I am the n uaaroh of tLem all! 1 Mindful aiono of this ai I : ' Th- songs I sing t hall never df&-- -7 Not even on vious death can wring i His glory from o great a Icing ! j Com,-, brother, be a kmr; with mo j 'And rule m:u:kh:d eternally; ' , Lift ui the wr :o: aod cl:?cr the strong" Defend th? 1 h. oorabat the wrong! YouThlnd lio.sjviita- liko the pen To hold and .-way tho hearts of men; Its edicts How in binoJ and tears That will o!itva . :i tl.o flood cf years fce, brother. tin- th.' s.on0-s, oh, sing, " And be with me a kh ; . a n' -r, n omanclies. 1 had been scou4;ir:T from FortBascom, c 1 the Canadi2-a Riccr, and carrying de spatches botwryu IV.ciL- y.olnt and Fort Stanton, on the F.io Pecos, for six months, before the Corarraches called the turn on me. It r; r-vcod J hat an Apache is a fiend incarnate, but in the old days there wasn't iriiu-h choice between the tribes. All vr,.ro bloodvhimy and re lentless, and it ir.;-tiered little into whose hr.uds a prisoner .night 1'all. Every tor ture which u:g:.;!:u:'.y could suggest was certain to be j-npik;:!, and no ransom, however great, could dlect the release of a pri?o-ier. It was while engaged in such an. eilort that my ilrst capture came about. A party of fitixcus frcni Santa Fe had come out Fort Ua-x-om for a hunt alono tlic Canadian lihvr to the east. They were all weIi-k;:ov kps, and were out fitted in 'the fim-t viu.''- the best of firearm'-, an; four hunters ;-n iencc. The :." at lhis th if., t: near the fort, t "Watch for r.nv 1 being accompanied by i gv.i 4es of long exper ; .'.s v;cre litterly hostile :'' -though seldom seen. :y v.-ere ever on the one L-..viug its shelter. i0-""d twenty, all told,and iins parly mra ,-.,1 was stron viding it u:- i to go anywhere, pro weil bandied. It left the po-:t one Svnl three weekb, :r. ieac':L:r th' p a Dr. A!hov: . !iehi;d .-,.. i r cam!), ::r.d and cut h;- ol" his own iu . . mile i; -;':.v :tnd, alrliou ji useless. The promin. nee. h, the !n,r.:;j friends, and tl: the po-f than i every t-ilV.ri :.-. idle :h!-.,k foroo, ; ,d k should go ou; his ransoa;. 1 promise la.- h--in cash i'o.- his iul that this i i rcdkins to - told t'oe.e aiai. had ;.cvc- b,t. and I va iiu as I roue aw to ptit :nych morning and was gone .." to two days before ..-! vent well. Then : Aibaqucrque, tarried : as the party broke t 'Va-nclies dashed in '!"iuy mounted him on ' b;'-;: a .start of half a ;: , ; was discovered, i -ut vvas made, it was !etor was a man of .'.v.; io:ce position under -'iud 3 laving m.uiy ' ;rvtio sooner reached ,x;s- ditrmined to make i-'C-.-Tiie lis release. It was ( l r- jiiding out an armed v. .;s. un. Iiy decided that I .:- an t-inissary to treat for ll ra. ag'rccd that I should "dans as high as $10,000 s r -let c. and all were hopc irge snn: would induce the !"ie him i,p. I had been I ng.iin that the Coraanches a !::iowa to give a prisoner, : .' ia a state of doubt "a my errand. I had got i ia their hands in order to 1 ii triey refused to give up it wa? rrob.-dde that thev negotiate, the Doctor would hang on to inc. i rode away to the cast, knowing that the prisouor had been conveyed to some camp in the "Wichita range. I left the post iu the morning and rode hard all day wk ort r-'yhi'gan Indian. At dark I ".vent l.aco caia; and nau no alarm during the night, and vt sunri3cAvas again hold- ng for the mountains. At about 11 o'clock, while riding over broken ground, I caught sight of il Indian taking cover, and hatting toy horse I made the peaco signs -with any blanket. Ten minuiea later I was surrounded by a dozen war ridrs, who were evidently astonished at my foolhardiness, I could speak theii lingo fairly well, and I told them what I had come for, and asked to be taken to thv nearest village. This request waa sulkily complied with, and at the end of two hour3 I found mysslf in the village of Red Moon, Chief of all the Comanches. The' village was scattered along the river for a mile or more, and numbered at least a thousand soul3. My advent was hailed with whoops and yells and other tokens of satisfaction, and even when it was imown that I had voluntarily come into camp on an errand of mercy it was hard to restrain some of the young bucks from doing me injury. I was taken directly to Ked Moon's tent, and my reception there was anything but cordial. He was any thing but noble in speech and look. lie was dirty, unkempt and out of sorts, end I had no sooner set eyes on him than I knew my mission would be a failure. "Why does tho dog of a white man come to my camp?1' was his salutation. 'Four days ago some of your warriors captured a white hunter a sun's journey ot the west," I replied. "They did, and to-morrow he shall diel" "I have come from his friends to buy his liberty. They will give Rod Moon more silver than he ever had before." "I spit upon the white man's money!" he retorted. "The white man has killed my young men, built his forts on my land, and would drive us away if he were strong enough. I would not take food from his hand if I was starving!" I named the price which we would pay for the Doctor, and tried to make him un derstand how many guns and blankets and other things the amount would pur chase, but he grew more and more ex cited, and finally shouted : "Does tho white man regard the Co manche as squaws that their heads can. be turned by soft talk? Only the Dog Indian begs for mercy from a foe or takes presents from an enemy. Were you to offer all you had I would not give him up. He shall die. I have said it !" Finding him so obstinate and deter mined, I mentioned that I had come alone and placed myself in his power, trusting to his honor to bo permitted to return in safety. 'Did I ask you to come?" he thundered. "Are you not here to insult me? You ehall see the other prisoner die, and then 7ou shall Buffer the same fate 1" I began to protest, but was hurried away to a lodge, disarmed, searched, and very roughly used. Before being left alone my hands and feet were tied, and tho buck who did this gave me a good-day in the shape of a slap in the face which made my teeth rattle. I was left alone un til just at dark, when a boy brought me a gourd of water, rud helped it to my lips while I drank. I thanked him, and inquired where the Doctor was. lie replied that he was con- lined in a lodge about two hundred feet away, and that he would be put to the torture next day. All the tribe within call had been notified to be present. I asked him about my own fate, and he said it was understood that I was to die the day after. If there was any doubt about this it was soon dispelled. The boy had scarcely disappeared when old Red Moon appeared. lie was now fully dressed as a chief, and had on all his dignity. I was lying on my back, and he stood over me far a moment, glower ing down upon me with savage expression before he said: "Does the white man think the Co manche a dog that he can come into his village and insult him?" "On the contrary, the white man knows the Comanches to be brave," I re plied, "and no chief is greater or braver than Red Moon." 4 'But you conje to buy us off." "The white man captured by your brave warrior is neither a soldier, huaicr nor scout. He is a man of peace, liviaj far away. He has never harmed you. lie is a great medicine man among his people. For these reasons his friends hoped the great chief would spare his Life. We wished to make you a pres ent." "White dog, you lie!'! shouted the Chief. "You wish to get us in a trap I" I argued and protested, and again ap pealed to his honor in my own case. He heard me through, and then gave me several hearty kicks in the side, and ex claimed: " " "You shall die ! You were a fool -to; come!" j The kicks made me mad, and feeling that I had no hope of release I opened on Red Moon in the choicest Billings-; gate of the West. I called him a cow-. irctly paltroon, squaw, buzzard, and. jverything else mean I could think of. I: offered to fight him in any way he wanted, and boasted that I had on ono occasion charged five of his bravest war-1 rior3 and killed two and run the others Into the woods. I gave it to him straight, from the shoulder for ten minutes with-, out a break, and he did not interrupt me by word or gesture. When I finally paused for want of breath he said: "The white scout is not a dog, as I thotight for. He is a brave man. H; will not cry and beg for his life when the fire is lighted at his feet. My young, men shall lot it be known at the fort that he died without being a woman." "And that's more than you can say for any of your warriors!" I flung back at him. "The Coinanch whines like a dog, when he is hurt. Ke cannot stand fire.; When his feet get a little warm he be-: comes a child." He pulled his knife from his belt, thinking to end my life then and there, but on the second thought he replaced it and walked out. Directly he had gone two warriors came in with a liberal sup ply of food, and my arms wfs untied and I was given a chance to eat. They ap peared good natured, and as the thongs were being replaced one of them said: "The white man is very brave. He will hold out a long time." At last two guards were placed otitside my tent, and knowing that I had no show for escape, I made myself as com fotable as possible and soon fell asleep. It may be thought curious that a person could sleep soundly under such circum stances, but as a matter of fact I did not open my eyes until long after daylight. There was considerable bustle in the camp, and in a few minutes my break fast was brought in. Arms and legs were now untied, and one of tho three bucks who came into the tent informed me that preparations were being made to torture the Doctor. It was an hour later before I was sent for. Then my arms were left free and my legs were hobbed just bslow the knees. While I could walk it was only with short steps, and the idea of my try ing to escape from such a crowd was too absurd to be entertained. I found the inhabitants of the village drawn up in two long lines extending out on the plsins. Thrcn children five or six rears old. wore in line, each one armed with stick or switch. I was led to the head of the line between two warriors, and in four or five minutes the Doctor was brought out Red Moon bad arranged this as a mental tor ture to both of us. He signified to us that we might speak, and I at once in formed the Doctor of my errand and its failure. He expressed his pleasure that his friends thought so well of him, and bis sorrow that I bad brought misfortune upon myself, and he seemed to have made up mind to die like a man. I knew the Indians thoroughly, and I told him what the programme would be. After running the gauntlet, he would b3 tied to a post and submitted to the powder tor ture, which consists in shooting charges of powder into the flesh, with the muzzle of the gun only a foot or two away. After that would come cutting and mu tilating, and he would not be tied to the fire stake until pretty thoroughly ex haustcd. I advised him to do as I in tended to do leap upon some warrior as he ran down the lines, grab his knife or tomahawk, if possible, and then fight un til they would have to kill him then and there. He calmly replied that he should adopt the plan, shook mc by the hand, and all was ready. As we talked I had been getting the lay of the village. It was only a quarter flf a mile to the foothills. I had made up my mind to make a break for liberty, and I had my plans all laid before the Doctor started. Red Moon commanded rce to tell him that he was to run straight down the lane and back, and that if h made a srood run he would not be much hurt. I gave him the information, and advised him. to make his break about two-thirds of the way down, as he came to the last of the warriors. When I. stepped back my elbows touched a guard; on either side and I saw that they were deeply interested in the scene before1 thorn. When I dropped my left hand down it was close to the hilt of the war-; rior's knife, and then I was a3 ready as I' could be. The Doctor was a powerful hig fellow and was entirely naked. He was to start at the report of a rifie fired." in the air, and when the signal came h4, bounded away like a deer. The lines closed up and eveiy one tried to stnke: at him, but the climax came when he made his bolt. With a leap to one side: he seized a tomahawk, and at that mo-! mentl got hold of the knife without being detected. A great cry arose andi one of my guards started forward I bent down and cut my thongs at a single sweep, and then by a back hand blow,i drove the knife so far into the body of the other guard, who had given me no; attention, that it was wrenched from my: grasp as he fell. Then I bounded awayj down the river, and I believe I had aj start of twenty rod3 before pursuit bsgan.i It is not bragadocio to assert that in those days I had the speed and bottom of a thoroughbred. I hadn't the least fear: of being overtaken after I got that start' by anyone on foot, and as I at once made for the broken ground their ponies had no advantage. I looked back only once,' 1 and that was as I got clear of the village.; At least fifty Indians were pursuing mej on foot, and a few minutes later a score of others had mounted. Tho pursuers; were so strung out that no one dared shoot, and when I got settled down to the pace I ran for iny life. Iu five or six minutes I was in the foothills, and in ten, I had gained the shelter of the scrub pine. At that moment twenty rifles turned loose du me, but none of the bullets came near, enough to make me dodge, and I con trived to put in my best licks. They followed me for about four miles, losing ground all the time, and then drew off, to return to the Doctor. It wa3 five days before I got back to, the fort, my clothes in tatters, and my strength almost gone, and it was two years before I learned the particulars of the Doctor's fate. He made a gallant fight when he got posses-; sion of the tomahawk, killing a warrior and a boy and wounding another warrior and an old man, but he was overpowered and disarmed, and then the devils glutted their vengeance. Some idea of his suf ferings can be imagined from the fact that he was under some sort of torture: for three days and nights, and and there was still life left in him. when he was given up to the fangs of! the village dogs. The Comanche who j gave me the particulars was then ward of the Government," drawing his rations, ammunition, and blankets from the very men whose scalps he hungered Cor, and he could not be punisheel. He identified himself as the warior who was guarding me on the right when I made; my break, and for his carelessness on that occasion the chief stripped him of all his worldly possessions and gave the goods to the widow of the warrior I had slain. New Tori: Sun. A Korss Swam Eirht P.!i!3. A horse belonging to a ferryman was on the boat recently at Irvine and was in the act of drinking, when he plunged for ward fiom some cause and fell into the water up to his nose. With remarkable instinct he turned round and swam to the boat, and made several eflorts to crawl back into it, but it only served to push it further away. By this time he had drifted below the ferry, and he then made euorts to get out upon either bank. In this he also failed, as the bank was too steep. He then turned aside and swam down tho middle of the river. The ferryman, Mr. White, made vain efforts to rescue his horse, and, watching him until he was out of sight, gave up all hopes of ever seeing him again. Next morning the passengers on the Irvine stage were amused at the manner ia which the ferry man was fondly caressing a horse which had just arrived, and later learned that the steamboat from Ford had inched t:p 1 j the swimming animal eight miles below. "When dragged upon the boat lie said; down, too completely exhausted to stand. When this became known the .sympathiz ing passengers joined Avith Mr. "White in his exuberance over the recovery of Lis -noble steed. Richmond (A).') RegUter. A Fneumatic Carver. A pneumatic carver has been invented by a Rhode Islander which cubs a swath half an inch deep and wide tluuiigh the hardest granite in an incredibly short time. An air cylinder, run by steam, discharges into a receiver keeping up a constant pressure of from forty to fifty pounds on :he square inch. By a number of flexible Lubes the air is fed into the carving room of the "pneumatic carver." The too! consists of a cylinder in which is a pisioi with a transverse angular valve in it. I The valve regulates the pressure and from 15,000 to 16,000 strokes a miuutecanbi made by the little machine, the tool cut ling the stone with reat rapidity. TTs3 Theory of Dew. r.- It is now held by the best physicians that, instead of falling from above, the dew arises from the earth. Tho generally received opinion that the dew is formed of vapor existing at the time in the at mosphere must be given up for the estab lished fact that the vapor which arises from the heated earth, is trapped by the cold surface earth. Besides, when wo imagine that on a cool evening after a sultry day in summer, our feet are being wet by the dew on the grass, we make a grave mistake. For that moisture on the grass is not dew at all, it is false dew . in reality the transpired humor of tho plants. The drops at the tips which glisten diamond -like, are not dew; close, examination shows that crystalline spheres are all situated at the points where the veins cf the leaves cut the outer; edges. These drops only give endencej of the vitality of the plant. The diflercnce between the true dew on the grass and the exuded drops through the veins from within the grass can be easily distinguished, for the former is distributed all over the blade in a moist film, whereas the latter are of some size, and are situated near the tips of the blade. Altered then is the meaning of the lino: "Ilka blade o' grass keeps its ain drap o dew;" for those brilliant globules on the petal, shaking to the same sweet air, and often "gliding at once all fragrant into one," arc no dewdrops, but are exuda tions of the healthy plants. They give evidence of the elixir vitaj of vegetation; whereas, the true dew is the pearly lustre, varnished in filmy humidity over the blades by that wondrous alchemy which tra: orms the water vapor rising from the ground into the plant-refreshing dew. Good Words. Gum in Felt Hats. Of late some complaint has been heard as to the wearing quality of these hats. It is stated that they are over stiffened and over finished, and that the gum soon appears upon the surface and the struc ture is easily broken. This is a fault which in years past dogged the steps of the American hatter and wearied the retailer. A hat when sold would seem ! to be perfect, with no trace of gum on the surface. In a few days it would be brought back looking as if a glue pot had been upset upon the brim. Sometimes even the crown would be disfigured. It was difficult to convince some customers that the retailer was not aware before hand that such a condition would en sue. The reasons why the gum showed itself first upon the brim was that the brim was more heavily sliffened than the crown and was handled more in use. The discovery and the application of the wire edge for brims enabled hatters to disjense with much of the stiffening, and crowns as well as brims were gummed lighter, and thus the whole hat became flexible. Freedom from the gum nuisance and tae of adjustment to the head were both secured by this improvement. Men's Out fitter. Uses of Mineral Wax. The uses to which ozokerite, or min eral wax, can be put are almost innumer able. It makes an excellent insulation for electric wires for underground and line purposes ; and finds extensive use in clectrotyping and stereotyping, as well as in etching on steel plates. It is used for imparting lustre to shoeblacking, and in the making of seabng wax. It is recom mended as a base for a cheap composite paving material and for indurating piles and posts to prevent decay. It is a lubri cant for rapid running machinery, and it is used for all kinds of waterproofing, paper treated with it being preferred to oil paper. It is largely in demand for wrapping soaps, metals, books and all articles which require protection from moisture. It is used as an adulterant of beeswax and i j applicable to much the same uses as the beeswax itself. It is used to protect boxes, tubs, barrcte and kegs, and such when lined with it be come tight, as the wax penneats the pores of the wood instead of giving it a mere surface coating-, and it imparts no odor to the contents, even if they are the most delicate mineral waters. A recent inter esting application is in coating the paper cylinder on which the graphophone stylus traces its record. Its use for the manu tacture of candles is growing so rapidly that it is believed.when a refinery Is built iu the Utah district, much of this trade will ie lost to eastern candle makers. Its other u-es are as a vehicle in the making of liniments, salves and plasters, in mak ing wax matches, coating life preservers and as varnishes, shoemaker's wax, wax figures, doll heads and similar articles. Items of Interest About Writers. The novelists, Charles Reade and Vic tor Hugo, preferred immense sheets of paper end the coarsest of pens. Bartley Campbell scribbled off his fa mous play, "My Partner," on common wrapping paper, with a blunt lead pencil. Both William Black and R. D. Black more cover dainty sheets of note paper with their almost microscopic chirogra- phy. Lew AVallace writes his first draft upon a slato and finishes upon large sheets of white unruled paper, in a most faultless chirography. Ouida covers large sheets of blue paper with an almost undecipherable chirogra phy, written in an excessively bold and masculine hand. Wilkie Collins writes on very large sheets of paper, and his copy is said to abound in alterations, excisions and scraps of pasted manuscript. Miss Braddon is stated to have pcuzed some of her most thrilling passages on torn envelopes or any other bit of paper that came to hand. Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell was ac customed to write her editorials for the Woman i Jvurnal on the backs of circu lars and similar scraps of waste paper. Mr. Shorthouse, the author of "John Inglesant, Is reported to have violated all the canons of the printing office by sending in tho copy for that once popu lar novel written on both sides of paper of various sizes. A Moorish Gentleman. A Moorish officer we took to Jeddah from Tangier had his wife with him. She was his only wife, and though onlj eighteen years of age, had been married to him five year3 and had three children, one of whom was dead and the other two alive, and left behind at their home in Fez, whence they came. He had' twice before performed the Hadj, andi each time had been accompanied by his! young wife. This time they were taking) her mother with them, and indeed thej thoughtful and considerate way in whichj he treated them occasioned: me a-goodl deal of surprise. This bigoted Mussul-i man looked upon by his European' brethren as a jealous tyrant of women,-as, one utterly incapable of appreciating! their higher qualities, could . certainljj have shamed many of them -in? this mat-j ter. The ship was lying intheybaji about a mile from the city3 of Tangier a the sea was running pretty .Jbigh,v andl long before they came alongside, both! ladies were very sick. Gently h-rliftedi them on board and laid them down in a quiet corner, while he rushed about to seek the best place on the deck whereon! to fix his tent. Then he tore open his packages, and drew out 'from them cari pets and pillows and . curtains, and in ai short while a well-fitted tent was readyj and into it he carried the two women! and laid them down and made them! comfortable. There they lay till thq next day, as much like two bundles olj clothes as anything else, for even their faces and hands were invisible, and 'I; really believe they did not move oncej al&ough in a few hours, as abon as wcj had got through the Straits and enteredj the Mediterranean, the sea became per-j fectly calm, and a great deal of their in4 disposition must have been of that inex-. plicable nature which would have tried the patience of many a Christian husband considerably. But he busied himself about and lit a fire and presently turned out a nice little dinner and didn't losd his temper a bit because they would have none of it, but only gazed sorrowfully at; the provisions that were to be wasted.j Then he made them some tea, and then, some coffee, and left nothing uiitrif d inj the whole category of things to make! them comfortable, patiently sitting there fanning them, or anon starting up to get them some water or any other thing-thigyj might want. Cornhill Magazine.'. Oriental Vigor. There has just died at Mian Mir an old Mussulman woman named Bhuorie, who, says the Lahore paper, is credited with hating reached the advanced age of 150 years. She was brought from near Mont gomery lately by road to the house of her grandson at Mian Mir, and this person is an old man of some eighty years, with married grown-uy children and grand children. Padang, says the Siraits Tinu, can boast something out of the way in the shape of a Nias woman, who, by two husbands, has had no less than thirty-two children, all girls. The number of her granchildren is so great that she cannot tell how many they muster. She is still active, strong and in good health.
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