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( V 11 1 ! A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VII. NO. 50 MAXTON, N. 0., TUESDAY, AUGTUST 1, 1893. SI. CO A YEAH, fn o ! P A 5f t5 i . - uz, m HI wv " is i ! YELLOW FEVER SOUTH. The Government Takes Charge in Georgia. Because Georgia Has No State Board of Health. Washington, D. C la conequence of gros carelessness on the part of the local authorities which nearly caused an epidemic of yellow fever, the Marine Hospital Service has assumed charge of the quarantine service at Brunswick, Ga. Surgeon Geaeral Wyman's official report to Secretary Carlisle is as follows: "I have the honor to stie that I re ceived the following dispatch from the health authorities at Sivannah, Ga. : "The mister of a vessel died ashore on the Satilia river of yellow fever. The vessel was ordered to Sipelo. No health orgau'zitions. Will co-operate with Car ter. Let us have him. Sinitary board expects service to act quickly." "Acting on th;s dispatch, I directed Surge n Carter to proceed to the Satilia river and take all necessary precautions to show that the quarantine regulations were not enforcod with regard to the bark Anita Berwind, on which the ves sel's captain who died of yellow fever was tiken sick, and thit the quarantine authorities at Brunswick have constantly during this season failed to comply with the sail regulations. On account of this laxity, which still threatens to briDg dis sster, 1 am satisfied that the national government shou'.d assume control of th's quarantine, in accordance with sec tioa 3 of the act of February 15th, 1893, which states: "If the Sfate or municipal authorities shall fail or refuse to enforce the Slid rules and regulations, the Presi dent shall execute and enforce the same, and adopt such measures as in his judg meat shall be necessary to prevent the introduction and spread of such disease, and may detail or appoint officers for that purpose." "I will add that the State of Georgia has no State board of Health, and that the quarantine at Brunswick is of a local character altogether. I have therefore t) recommend that Assistant Surgeon John W. Branham, of the United States Marine Hospital Servicebe detailed im mediately by the President to enforce these rules and regulations. Assistant Surgeon Branham has already had quar antine experience, is a native of Georgia, and is considered well qualified to per form this duty." Dr. Wyman'8 recommendations were approved by Secretery Carlisle and Pres dent Cleveland, and he received his let t r with their written endorsements Tu s3ay. NEGRO CHANCES IN AFRICA. Bishop Turner Telia of His Trip to the Dark Continent. Atlanta, Ga Bishop n. M. Turner, of the African Methodist Church, who has be3n in Africi in the interest of the mission work of h s church since Jan uary, his returned ti his homo in Atlanta. B shop Turner while ha did not go to the Dark Continent in the interest of thecol on'z dion of the negro directly, jet he made th t question an important part of his observation. He comes back to thi3 c uutry advocating colonization earnestly as the greit hope of the negro. He came in contact with some who had gone to the lmd of mdk and honey, as it has been he'd up to the colored brother by emigra tion agents from Georgia, and says they are doing fairly well. Many of them are prosperous The B'shop, however, does not believe in sending the ccum of his raca to Africa, but he thicks the chances for prosperity are be-,t with the intelli gent negro. Common laborer.?, hi says, cm be had in abundance there for 25 ce ts a day and ths negro in tbij country could not compete with them. His idea is to encourage the colonization or emi gration of negroes capable of employing the natives and helping to civilize them. The great drawback to emigration, he says, has heretofore been the lack of transportation facilities, there being no steimsh'p line to Africa. This, however, Pishop Turner is at work to overcome. He sajs he is now negotiating with European and Neff York capitalists to establish a line of steamers from New York to Liberia and says the outlook for early success in the movement is good. When this line is e.tablished, Bishop Turner will lend his influence toward in ducing the emigration of the better class of negroes from this country. A Negro Lynched. Columbia, S. C. At Gaston, a little t wn fourteen miles from Columbia on the Sou'h Bound Railroad Monday nigh two negroes named Handy and Thomson forced .n entranca into the dwelling of Arc'iie Sight ler, white, and knocked Mrs. Sightl ir down, threatiag to kill her little toy, six years ol i, if he made any out cry. The boy escaped and met a party f f x hunters, who returned to tbe house, but the negroes escaped it is pre sumed after outraging the lady. Handy was lynched Tuesday, it is ro ported, and Thompson is supposed to be in Columbia Pari ie? are after him. The negroes enter. d the house ia a nnde condition. " " SILVER REFUSED. Jo Much Already That it Can't be Handled. Chicago, III. Notice was posted Monday in ths United States sub-Treasury t the effect that silver would not be received. During the day many employes of banks brought in sacks of the white metal to get currency in exchange, but they had to shoulder their loads "and go agdn as they came. There is more sil ver lying around uncounted bhind the i ails of the sub Treasury than the force can handle. On every ehelf and in piles on the floor, canvas sacks filled with dollars and other coins, are stacked up until there is hardly room to get about. "We are un able to handle the big amount of silver we have on hand," said one of the offi cials,' 'and until it cin be all counted and cleaned up we will not receive any more over the counter. For some time past great quantities of silver have been brought here by banks to ba exchanged for currency, uatil the amount has be come greater than we canhindle, and we will have had to call a temporary halt. This is all there is to the matter. EX TREASURER HUSTON'S B4.NK DOWN. Connorsvtllb, Int. The Citizens' Bank, owned by ex-United States Treas urer Huston, failed to open its doors Mondiy morning owing to the strin gency of the money markef. The liabili ties and assets have not yet been made known. The depositors will, it is said, be paid in full. HAD HELPED OTHERS COULD NOT SAVE ITSELF. Tacoma, Wash. The Tacoma Na tional Bank, one of the strongest in the Northwest, suspended Monday morning. This bank has been assisting the other banks in the city for the past six months. A LOUISVILLE BANK. Louisville, Ky. Th8 Louisville City National Bank closed its doors at 1:10 Monday evening. SENATOR MITCHELL'S BANK FAILS. Milwaukee, Wis. The Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Compiny Bank closed its doors Tuesday morning. This is Senator Mitchell's bank and had been considered the strongest bank in the city. A FARMERS' NATIONAL. Toledo, O. The Farmers' National Bmk of Find lay, O., closed Its doors at noon. No statement prevails, and the other three banks in the city are prepared for any ran that my follow. A FLORIDA BANK. Washington, D. C. Examiner Mc Donald has been directed to take charge of the failed First National Bank, of Or lando, Florida. A LOUISVILLE BANK. Louisville, Ky. The Merchants National Bmk has suspended payment. THE LOUISVILLE FAILURES. Louisville, Ky. The Fourth Nation a! Bank threw up the sponge at 1:18 o'clock in the afternoon, after a hard fight. A run during tbe morning, with a drain from the country bsnks, caused the suspension. President Geo. Davis was seen just after the closing of the doors. "AU the inform ition we have to give out at this time," he said, "ia that no none will los3 a mill by our suspen sion . Four national banks have thus far sus pended since Saturday. The officers of the Merchants' National Bank assert their solvency. Depositors and stock holders received dollar for dollar. By 10:30 o'clock it bscame evident to the directors of the Louisville Deposit Bank that th'y could not meet the day's demands, as the general condition of financial affairs was such as to preclude the hope of outside assistance. The di rectors ordered the doors to be closed, and papers were prepared making an as signment to the Germanii Trust Com pany. The Drpo3it Bank was organized a little over a year ago by Moses Schwartz, its president, wi.h a paid up capital of $300,000. It was start id at a bad time, and was refused admittance to the clear ance house. It, however, seemed to pros per for a while and it3 stock sold above par. It might have pulled through but for the suspens'on of three national banks. failure for $1,200,000. Indianapolis, Ind. The Indianapolis National Bank suspended payment Tues day morning. The fa lure is for $1,200, 000. For s me days rumors have been current that the bank was in trouble and these ruo.ors had the effect cf starting a quiet run on it, which, though quiet, depleted the bink's funds and finally made necessary the action of Tuesday. AN INDIANAPOLIS BANK FAILS. Indianapolis, Isd The Bank of Commerce did not open Tuesday The Great Fair Deserted on Sunday. Chicago, III. The White City was de:erted Sunday an! thj warm sun of the Sabbath stone upon th3 desolate thoroughfares, lonely Coiumbi n guards and a ftw inhabitants of tbe Midway PJaisance, who had left that costnopolU tan quarter early in the day to vi-w the big buildings in the park. Sunday clos ing ws rigidly enforced and any person who entered the Expisaion grounds had to prove tha". his presence there was ab solutely necessary . "dOiliril EOOE,"' OF THE TP.AXSrOETATION EUILDiya. At the World's Columbian Exposition. TROUBLE IN SIAM. The French "Want to Gobble Up One third of the Country. Paris. The reply of the Siamese Minister of Foreign. Affairs, in the name of his king, to the French demands is couchtd in most courteous terms, but Siam only agrees to give half the terri tory demanded by France. The reply says: "His Majesty, therefore, consents to the delimitation of frontiers between Siam and Cambodia. All teir"toiy on the left bank of Mekong river, south of the line drawn from the most northerly of Siamese military posts, recently occu uied by the Franco-Anamite troops, to another point situated in the sane lati tude, that i3 on the eighteenth degree north latitude, will b3 regard -id as Ana mite and Cambodian territory, the river below the poiDt indicated becoming the line of division between neighboring States, as far as to the point at which the river enters Cambodian territory, and the use of the island in the river being common to three cotermiaus military posts." The French claim fixed the 23d parallel as the northern boundry. THE SIAMESE READY TO FIGHT. London. The Bangkok correspond ent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs : "The Siamese war ships are anchoied one mile from the French. They are crowd id with men ready for action. Their intention is, in c ise the French cammence hostilities, to steam down and ram the French gun-boats, attempt to board them in force and attack the crews with fixed bayonets. "The German gun boat Wolf has ar rived here." A dispatch to the Temps from Sa'gon says: "A telegram from Slungstreng announces that Captain Villers, com manding the French forces at Khong, re opened fire upon the Siamese. In the course of the day tha French captured Forts Dondua, Dongo and Donhan, thus confiuiDg th9 enemy to Fort Donzoin The last named stronghold, though pro tected by three series of well-constructed fortifications, was captured on the fol lowing day without loss to the French, who now occupy tb.3 entire ground of the island. Only the town of Khong re mains to be captured. It is estimited that 300 Siamese were killed and 200 were wounded in the last encounters." Sizes In Tiger Skins. That ther Royal Bengal tiger is no inconsiderable beast is a well-known fact, but to even give an approximate guess on the length of one of the monster's skins would puzzla many persons who really believe themselves to be naturalists. For the benefit oi the Republic's scientific readers, as well as the would-be Nimrods, who wish to appear to be loaded with ani mal statistics and facts of all kinds, I will say that the length of the largest tiger skin ever, taken (after being stretched and dried) was 13 feet 6 inches. This must not be taken as meaning the actual length of the living beast, for the skins expand sur prisingly while undergoing the curing process, a green skin of ten feet being accounted a wonder ; - in fact, Mr. Inglis, the recognized tiger authority of Great Britain and India, says that the greatest known length of an un dressed skin was 10 feet 2 J inches. It is believed, however, that the pre decessors of the present tribe oi Bengalese cats were from a fifth to a third larger than the gigantic striped feline that roams the Indian jungles of to-day, and that the old stories of their carrying off full-grown oxen are not exaggerations. St. Louis Re public. Chauncey .'"Depew is author ity for the statement that a man forms few friendships after the age of. foxtj and none at all after fifty. New York Crowds. Long before New York had 1,000, 000 inhabitants it was a city distin guished for its crowds. "With the enormous growth of the city the crowds have become larger and the number of crowded thoroughfares has increased. But if New York seems large when measured by its crowds of busy men and women, it seems perhaps even larger 6till when measured by itt idlers. This is not because the unem-' ployed classes, rich and poor are so large in New York," though they are larger than in any other American city, but rather because of the city's ceaseless and sleeplessly active busi ness life. Every day is a holiday to many thousand's of New Yorkers, be cause many thousands work at nighi and take their sleep and recreation by day. New York is the only American city where crowds throng the parks every day in the year c - almost every hour in the day. Baltimore's beautiful Druid Hill Park is almost deserted ai ordinary times. Even the noble Fair mount is sparsely peopled save on Sun days and ether holidays. New York's activity defies even the most lethargic influence of the dog days, and thou sands of Southerners find the city charming at the season when the fash ionable world has fled. Summer in deed, is the season, when New York presents itself in the most wonderful aspect. No other American city has so many near-by resorts to be reached in a few minutes at cheap rates. No other city needs so many or could maintain half so many. Nothing would so convince a Phila delphian or a Baltimorean or a Chi cagon of New York's great size as to be able on any night of the week by some species of magic to sit down upon all the urban and eurburban pleasure re sorts at once. He would see thousands upon thousands at Coney Island and other resorts that line the harbor; thousands across the Hudson on the Jersey bluffs, still others at the upper extremity of the island ; and yet others np the Sound, to say nothing of enor mous numbers upon the streets, ia cafes, on the roof gardens, at the the atres and in the parks and public squares a number exceeding the pop -ulation of many big cities amusing themselves in their leisure hours. One thing that interests rural Ameri cans in New York is the same thing that made Walt Whitman celebrat "Manhatta" as his first love, its fluent, unnumbered crowds. Chicago hai taller buildings, Philadelphia has sev eral more charming residence streetf than New York, but when a country man wishes to see his fellow Americans in the aggregate he has to come to thii city. It is tha bewildering crowds thai makes Coney Island a fairyland to the rural visitor on a summer night. It is the varied crowds that make a thou sand restaurants and two hundred anc fifty club dining-room places of inter est to the rural visitor. New Yori Sun. - A Rose Farm. , -3 A rose ranch of sixteen acres and a practical manufactory for the extrac tion of perfumes frem flowers and plants is to be found in the foothills near Los Gatos, CaL It is managed by the wife of a San Francisco phy sician, and she understands the busi ness, having lived in the towns ot France where the extraction of perf um9 is the principal occupation. Her earn pies of rose extract are found to ba fully equal to the imported. This ia looked upon by enterprising California ladies as a coining aud profitable in du try for women. Sfew York World A SUMMER DIET. BOW TO KEEP WELiTj AN1 COM 1 FORTABLE IN HOT WEATHER. Instead of Meats, Sweets, Pastry and Cold Drinks, Eat Fish, Eggs, JBread, Fruits and Vegetables, " and Drink Hot Water, AtUkE itself suggests to a man the proper diet for the different seasons of the year. Nature has so arranged things that, beginning with the early spring, the first fruits and vegetables to ma ture have a medicinal effect on the system to make it throw off the results of the heavier winter diet, to open the pores, and to make the various func tions work more freely. Instead of adopting this suggestion of nature that with the first ripening of vegetables in the spring large quantities of them should be eaten, the majority of peo ple neglect nature's hint and take med icine instead. The spring "tired feel ing," which almost every one has at that season, comes because the system is clogged and nature's remedies have not been taken. 7' Nature always takes care to punish those who are inattentive to her ad vice. f The Bummer colds which hang on so much longer and are so much more troublesome than winter colds are the direct result of the clogging of the system through an improper diet. Nature and a man's constitution alike suggest the diet and the behavior for the summer which, if adopted, will make the warm, long days enjoyable instead of oppresaive. If a man is work ing hard and is accustemed to meat three times a day during the winter, it may be well for him to eat meat once a day during the summer. Once a day is enough, and he should not eat greasy meat. This is good advice the year round, for though there are times when a man's system craves a fatty diet, fried fat is not the best 6hape to fur nish it in. The meat should be well cooked ; a little of it is enough. The evening dinner is naturally the time for it, for then the day is cooler and a man can idle away an hour or tw oafter the repast, amelio rating by rest the heat and increase in temperature which the digestion of meat usually causes. If a man has not accustomed his system to taking meat until the lack of meat would make him ill, it would be well for him to adopt an almost ex clusively vegetarian diet during the spring and summer and continue it until the crisp days of fall. Eggs, lean bacon, spring chickens, and fish during the spring and summer should take the place of the heavy meats of winter, especially hot roasts and steaks. All the fats a man needs in the summer can be taken in the sys tem in the form of vegetable oils, helped out by the natural starch of raw fruits. " Sweet drinks of any - kind, drinks with alcohol in them, and ice water are not cooling in their ultimate ef fects. Anything with sugar in it or sweet syrups is heating. Acid drinks, especially those made from natural fruit juice, are cooling. One way to start out cool with the day's work is to "drink a quantity of hot water soma time before breakfast and to wait for the reaction from it. The reaction from hot drinks and hot baths is cooling just as the reaction from iced drinks and cold baths is warming. Everybody knows how in the winter a cold shower or a cold plunge, with a rub-down to hasten the reaction, brings a glow and a feeling of warmth which lasts for some time. In the same way a hot shower or hot bath, not prolonged too much, in its reac tion brings a feeling of coolness. A contrast between the temperature of the bath and the temperature of the air sxwsys""Dnngsr a - seiisa'tlo'n.' OI "JXeat or cold, accordingly as the bath or tho air is the cooler. So, drinking very hot water in the morning by its reac tion brings about a cool feeling. This is aside from the other advantages of drinking hot water. As far as possible during the sum mer cold drinks should not be taken with meals. Cold drinks taken with food on a hot day stop the action of the stomach for a while and then bring about an uncomfortable feeling of warmth. The cold water first causes the blood vessels of the stomach to contract, and then with the reaction th blood vessels become diluted and there is an uncomfortable sense of op pression and heat, which leads to the drinking of more ice water and to re newed oppression and heat. The best way to get the amount of water neces sary for the system is to take it hot before breakfast on an empty stomach., then to drink nothing more during the day. All the cooling effects of per spiration can be enjoyed by drinking enough water to keep the skin moist and to supply the natural evaporation. This evaporation, if the pores are not filled with hot water, will keep the skin cool. With this way of getting the neces sary fluids into the system there should be a light diet composed largely of vegetables and fruit. Salads, berries and raw fruit of any kind are good Eggs in various forms, fish, lfan bacon and lean light meats will make a cheap and comfortable diet. Thia diet may be favored through motives of economy as well as reasons of comfort and health. Roasts, steaks and heavy meats are among the most costly of foods. So are elaborate desHerts and fancy dishes. Simple things like omelets, broiled bacon in strips as long as one's hand, strawberries, salads, and the like are cheap as well as better for the health. Heavy and fatty soups have no place in the sum mertime diet. They make a meal by themselves. Such things as clam chowder are good to eat and are sus taining, but they should not be fol lowed y a heavy dinner. It ia more than the 6y6tem can stand on a hot day when it is pretty well occupied in tak ing care of itself. Thin, clear soups are good with a reasonable interval between them and the next course and the absence of bread and butter with, the soup. The observance of these simple sug gestions does net call for great self denial and it is repaid by an enor mous increase in comfort. Let any man who is accustomed to allaying his thirst by copious draughts of ice water and various artificial waters with sweet syrups, try the effect of drink ing hot water in the morning before breakfast as much as he can comforta bly take, and not drink anything else during the day. It may be hard for the first two or three days, but he will find how it reduces his discomfort in hot weather. If he cannot drink enough water in tho morning to last him until the next morning let him drink mCre water at night just before coing to bed. The human organism is much 5ike a piece of machinery, re quiring cre, and if a man occasionally would regard his physical functions in that light he would get a good deal more enjoyment out of them and out of life than most of his fellows now do. New York Sun. The Sizeless Universe. To form some idea of the largeness of this earth one may look upon the land scape from the top of an ordinary church steeple and then bear in mind that one must view 90i,000 similar landscapes to get an approximately correct idea of the size of the earth. Place 500 earths like floors side by side, yet Saturn's uttermost ring would easily inclose them. Three hundred thousand earth globes could be stored inside the sun if hollow. If a human eye every hour was capable of looking upon a fresh measure of world material 14,000 square kilometres large that i vq would need 55,000 years to overlook the surface of the sun. To reach the nearest fixed star one must travel 33, 000,000,000 of kilometres, and if tho velocity were equal to that of a can non ball it would require 5,000,000 years to travel the distance. On a clear night the ordinary human eyo can discover about 1000 stars in the northern hemisphere, most of which send their light from distances which we cannot measure. How large they must be. Round these 1000 stars circle 50,000 other stars of various sizes. Besides single stars we know of systems of stars moving round one air other. Still wo are but a short way into space a3 yet ! Outside our limits of vision and imagination there are D3 doubt still large spaces. The milky way holds probably at least 20, 191,0 ") J stars, and as each is a sun wo prai i n" it is encircled by at least fifty planets. Counting up these figures we arriv-3 at the magnitude of 1,000,953,0)3 stir?. A thousand million of stars! Who can comprehend it? Still, this inr..i!y a part of the universe. The modem telescopes have discovered more and similar milky ways still farther away. "We know of 6000 nebula which repre sent milky ways like ours. L-t us coxint 2000 of them as being of tlva size of our milky way, then 2000 by 20,190,100 equals 403, 82, 000, 000 sun?, or 2,019,100,000,000 heavenly bodies. New York Sn. Wlid Camels oi Europe. That there i3 a part of Europe where the camel lives and breeds in a wild state might reasonably be doubted, yet such is the "Bcetican wilderness," in Spain. Camels were first introduced from the Canaries in 1833, and for some years used as beasts of burden in the province of Cadiz. Railways ren dered them useless, and there being no market for the "desert ship," the discarded beasts were permitted to run at large, and at this moment some of their descendants live and flourish in a state of nature quite wild and prac tically ownerless. New York Post. FUN. With all their wisdom astronomer have not yet announced wlictlu r tho dog-star is a bkye terrier. Jinlgo. When nature wants to lm il iMnrt f able fdu is ingenious about it. Mud turns tho black hhoo yellow, nnd tho yellow nhoe black. --Puck. "Well, my boy, how do you find yourself?" "I don't," responded tin detective with an air of oflVndiMl dig nity. Indianapolis Journal. No matter how well ho miy lmvi lived, when a man reaches 10 ) year he knows that his lifo lias come tn naught. Chicago Inter-Ocean. "I had three invitations t lnneh to-day," said Oscar. "Which did you accept?" nuked his mother. "All," returned Oscar proudly. Judge. Edythe (playfully) "How daro you steal a kiss from mo, nir? Don't you know it is petty larceny?" Jack (-n-thusiastically) "I call it grand larceny."- -Brooklyn Lifo. "I never saw a man n hnppy as Dicky Billings is over the loss of his wife's fortuno." "Happy?" "Y.-s. Dicky says ho is now able to kiok about things at home." Brooklyn Lifo. The gorgeous sunst ou tlio sky A brilliant scene is limning, The small boy surreptitiously Departs to go in swimming. Detroit Tribuno. Little pug dogs are now being taught to wear tho curl of their tails down instead of up. Tho coil im pinges on the ground and nerves to take np tho recoil of the bark. Minne apolis Journal. "I never realized until to-day how terrible poverty must bo," said Mrs. Dollargilt to her husband. "And lnw did you realize it?" "I couldn't find enough change to bribe tho limnl organ man to go away." Industries. "Have you any Gretna greens?" in quired the facetious customer with fv basket ou his arm. "Xo sir," an swered the grocer ; "nearest I rim come to 'em is parlor matc hes. Any body waiting on you, ma'am?" -Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Carper "Yes, my daughter was crazy to get married and bLe mar ried a man who has failed in every thing he Las undertaken. " Mrs. Jloz (whose husband failed for a million) - "Gracious! They must be immensely rich." New York Press. Geography. Most persons of average education know astonishingly little about geog raphy. If one ia inclined to doubt this statement let him take a newspa per and begin to discuss with his neighbors the topics mentioned there in. Let him notice how many of them can locate Dahomey, the Soudan, or Mashonaland; how many can follow intelligently a description of explora tions in the Arctic regions ; how many can give tho number of States in tho Union, and name their capitals with out hesitation; how many can tell you exactly where the battle of Water loo was fought, or where the Ameer of Afghanistan lives. South America and parts of Africa might as well be a how ling wilderness for all that the aver age person knows to the contrary. And yet we have all of us studied geogra phy and "finished" it years ago. A child should begin the study -of geography as soon as he can read, and finish it never. Every class room should contain a .series of maps baited to the subjects that are studied and recited therein. When a pupil de scribes a battle, a treaty, or the build ing of an empire, he should be obliged to point out the very epot where tha important events took place. Thus his history and his geography will hep each other to stand fast. Tho eame method should be used in every class where it can be made practicable. Teachers are beginning to appreciata the value of associating facts in tha minds of their pupils. Geographical Magazine. It is the opinion of men familiar with the character of the Navajo In dians, declares the Argonant, that a war with them will prove to bo a seri ous business for the Government. The tribe numbers about thirty thousand, of whom nine thousand are fighting warriors. The reservation where they aro intrenched is rough and diScuIt, and contains mony passes where, ac cording to one authority, "two Indians can hold their ground againit the en tire United States Army. " Tha Nava joes have trained their ponies to go .vithout water for two days, if neces sary. The whole tribe is armed with ll3 most approved repeating riflep.an.l vhe bucks have been storing ammuni tion for years in anticipation of trou ble. The Navajoes have a perfect sys tem f signals and scoutp, and are al ways informed hours ia advance of the movements of troop3 sent abajr-Kt them.
Maxton Scottish Chief (Maxton, N.C.)
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