''FOR OODt FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
TV. Pletclier Ausbon, Editor
VOL. IV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FKIDAY, MAY 26, 1893.
NO. 50.
Published by Roanoko PnblisbingCo
. J SptUHG CLEANING. .
Yes, clean yer houss an' clean yer shel
' An' etna yer barn in evry part;
But brash ths cobwebs from yer hm 1
An swep the snow banks from yer heart.
wefi w ea aprlng oleanln comes aroun'
Brlnj? forth the dust3r p.rt the bravn,
' But rake yer foggy notions down
. An' sweep yer dusty soul of glooro.
Sweep ol Wees out with the, dust
An' dress yer soul in newer style,
Scrape from yer min its wjroout crust
An dump it in the rubbish pile.
Sw?p out the hates that burn an smart,
' Bring in new lores serene an' pur
Aronn' the herth-stone of the hearfe
. Place modern styles of furniture. .
: Cloan out yer morril chubby-hole ;
Sweep out the dirt, sorap3 off the senm;
, Tia cleanin' time for healthy souls
Git up an' dustl The spring hez oonel .
Clean out the corners of the brain. ,
Bear down with scmbbm' brush an' soap,
-, An' dump ol' Fear into the rain,
An dust a cosy chair for Hops.
Clean out the brain's deep rubbish hole,
Soak ev'ry cranny great an' small,
An' in the front room of the soul .
Hang pootier pioturs on the wall.
Scrub up the winders of the mind, 1
- . Clean up, an' let the spring bstn; '
Swing open wide the dusty blind
An' letthe April sunshine in. ; "
Plant flowers in the soul's front yard.
Set out new shade au blossom trees, -An
let the soil onoe froze an' hard
Sprout crocuses of new idees.
Yes, clean yer house an' clean yer ihaJ,
An clean yer barn in ev'ry part;
But brush the cobwebs from ver head .
An' sweep the snow banks from yer heart!
ti. Walter Foss, in Yankee Biaie
; REVENGED. .
. T was about half an
hour after sunset, but
an orange light still
burned above' the
lonely southern val-
tey The trembling
evening star was
V:2 haDging over the
Ivb . ..
sreen suence or the
fragrant Tennessee
woods. Vapor
wreathed phantoms from the river course,
and from the dense thickets that skirted
the camp ground came ever and anon
the mournful sound of whippoorwills,
sounding faint and low, like the remem
bered echoes of a dream. Yet 'Wallace
Keene would have given well nigh all he
. was worth to exchange its luxuriant
verdure one moment only for the pine
clad "heights and salt winds of Main?,
'with russet winged robins chirping their
familiar madrigals in the apple orchards
below. . '.
"Two years ago I loft home," mur
mured Wallace Keene as he gazed
thoughtfully out where the purple sky
Boomnrl in frmnh t.tif nurinir WAnda.
"Two years since youug Harney told me
he never would give Marion to 'a com-'
mon mechanic,' yet the wound rankles
sharply still." .
"Captain "
, "Is that you, Spicer? What now?"
I ; Captain Keene turned hii fac toward
the opening of the tent, where Private
Spicer's head was just visible.
,"vvuy, sir, our ieuuw i-uv jun
brought in that lot o' men that wai hurt
in that scrimmage across the rlvar this
morning, and some on rem , is wounded
bad."
VI will be there dirjctly, Spicer,"
I ' There was a little crowd of mon gath
ered on the rivor shore in tho warm -
glow of tho opring, but they .silently
parted right and left' for Captain Keene's
tall figure to pass through their "midst.
Sir nr anxron rlnsfcv. VilnA.lincr men WPM
sitting and lying around in various pos
tures, their ghastly brows made still ,
paler by the faint, uncertain glimmer of ,
the young moon. ' Keene glanced quickly
around, taking in the whole scene in
that one brief survey. ' v
'He stopped short as his ej) fell on a
new-face, half shadowed by tlie gre?n
sweep of drooping alders a pale, blood
streaked face with a gaping cut on tho
forehead.' - '
V "This is not one of our meal" he ex
claimed sharply.. "How came he here?"
"No, sir," exclaimed Spicer, stepping
forward. "I think he belonged to the
Eighth. I'm sure I don't know how he
ever got mixed up wiih our fellows, but
there he wa?, and I thought we'd better;
not wait for their, ambulance, but bring:
him straight here." . ;
. 'Right," briefly pronounced Keene, .
stopping over the insensible j. figure.
- 'Let' them carry . him to my teat,
Sjiiecr." - ' .
i "I beg your pardon, captain to your
tcntl" f '
"Didn't you hes-r wr.t I said?'- sharp
ly in I rrog'i!-. t the up .-rior f.Ti:r.
irlll be plenty of room for them there."
' '"Well, Tm beat I" ejaculated Spicer
five or ten minutes afterward as be came
out of the captain's tent scratching his
shock of coarse red carls.
Meanwhile the dim light of a lamp
swinging from the center of the little
tent shone full on the singular group
within its circling folds the wounded
private lying like a corpse, still aud pale,
-on the narrow iron bedstead, the young
officer leaning over him and supporting
his head and the brisk, gray eyed little
surgeon keenly surveying both as he un
folded his case of phials and powders.
"He is not dead, doctor?? " 1
' "No; but he would have boon in an
other half hour. Your prompt remedies
have saved his life,1' Captain Keene."
"Thaak Qodl oh, thank God I" A
The surgeon looked at Keene in
amazement. .
"He doesn't belongto your regiment.
Why are you so interested in the easel"
"Because, doctor,"1 said Keene, with
a strange, bright smile, "when I saw
him lying under the alders, dead, as I
thought, I rejoiced in ,my secret heart.
At first only at first. ;The next moment
I remembered that I was a man and a
Christian. For jfuars I have carried the
spirit of Cain In 'my breast toward that
man : now it is t washed out in his
blood." ., - A : v
It was high noon of the next day be
fore the wounded man started from a
fevered doze intothe feint dawn of con
lousness i
"Whore am 17" he faltered, looking
wildly around him, with an ineffectual
effort to raise his dizzyhead from the
pillow,
"Now, be cosy," said' Private Spicer,
; who was cleaning his gun by the bed
aide. "You're all right, my boy. Where
reyoul" Why in the captain's tent,
to be sure, and that's pretty good quar
ters for tho rank and , file, I should
think."
"The captain's tentf l How came
herel" ,
"That's just what I can't tell you
voa'll have to ask himself, I guess. You
ain't any relation to Captain Keene, be
you!" ..'
' "Keene Keener' repeated tne man.
' "Because,? pursued ISpicer, "If you'd
been his'own brother born, he couldn't
have taken better care . of you. His
cousin, maybe I" .
"No! God forgive me, mo I" faltered
the wounded man with alow, bitter
groan.
"Hero ho is now," sald1y Spicer, the
familiar accents of his voice (falling to a
more respectfully modulated! tbne ai ho
rose and saluted his officer, "lie's au'
risrht. caotaia as clear neaaea as a
belli"
"Very well, Spicer; you can go."
The private obeyed with, alacrity.
When they we alone together in the
tent, Wallace Keene came to the low
bedside.
"So you're all right, Mr. Harney?" he
asked kindly.
"Captain Keene," murmured Harney,
shrinking from the soothing tone as if
it had been a daggor's point, "I have
no rignc to expect inis treatment at
your hands."
Oh, never mind,' said the young
man lightly. "What canvl do to make
you more comfortable?"
Harney was silent, but his eye? wore
full of the tears he fain would anvo
back tears of remorseful shame and
he turned his flushed face away lest the
man ' he ' had once so grossly insulted
should see them fall. , . . .
' Ths next day he again alluded to the
home subject.
' "Captain -Keene, you asked ma ye?.
terday what you could do for me!" t
"Yes." : . :
4I want you to obtain leave for Mty
to come and nurse me when I am trans
ferred to the hospital." . :
Captain Keene turned toward the sick
man a xace wane anu naru as rairut
and said in a strangely altered voles:
Do you mean your sisteri"
"My sister yes."
"Of course, if you wish it, I can ob
tain permission, Harney. Hut
"Well?"
Keene's cheek colored, and he bit his
"1 shouia not suppow sne woma m
willing leave her husband for the
very uncertain comforts of hospital life."
Harney smiled, looking Into his co:u
uioiAj T ,ce with keen, searching ej:U
''ilay i not nirriei, Captaia K?3a?.
1 l' '
"I know what you thought. She wai
engaged and almost married. ' We had.
nearly induced her' to becom? Lisle
Spencer's wife, but she refused on the
very eve of the wedding day."
Keene had risen and was pacing up
and down the narrow limits of the tent
with feverish haste.
Because,", went on Harney, "she
loved a certain young volunteer who left
S about two years ago too well ever
to become any other man's wife."' ;
"Harney you do not meaa to say "
"I do, though, old fellow, and, what'
is more, I mean to say that since I've
been lying in this tent my eyes have
been . pretty thoroughly opened to my
. own absurd folly and impertinence."
i Captain Keene wrung his companion's
Sand and hurried away, to mistake the
bootjack for the inkstand and to com
mit several other no les3 inoxcusable ab
surdities. I see you'll get nothing written to
day," sighed Harney as he lay watching
Wallace Keene tear up sneoc attcr sneet
of condemned note paper.
"I shall,' though," smiled .Wallace.
"Only I can't tell exactly which end of
my letter to begin at." -
Captain Keene did write and if ho
inserted a little foreign matter- into the
epistle it didn't matter, for Harney, con
siderate fellow, never asked to see it.
Marion came, and when her brother
was promoted into the convalescent ward,
and she went home again, it was only to
lose herself in bowers of orange bios
.lomf , forests of white satin ribbon and
acres of pearly, shimmering silk, shot
with frosty gleams of silvery brocade ,
for tho course of true love, after all its
turn and intricacies, had at length found
its way into the sunshine and was run
mng smoothly over sands of gold. New
York News. 1
Twenty Thousand People in a Crater.
Thirty miles from the city of Kuma
mota, Japan, is the volcano Asa San.
This volcano has tho largest crater in the
world. It is more than thirty miles in
circumference, and peopled by 2i),000
inhabitants. Think of walking for mile3
among fertile farms and prosperous' vil
lages, peoring into schoolhouse windows
and sacred shrines well within the shell
of an old-time crater, whose walls rise
300 feet all about you. It givos one a
"queer feeling, j v. Hot springs abound
everywhere.. In one place I saw the
brick-red hot water utilized to turn a rice
' mill. The inner crater is nearly half a
mile in diameter, and a steady column
. of roaring steam pours out of it.
The last serious eruption was in 1831,
when immense quantities of black ashes
and dust were ejected and carried by the
wind as far as Kumamota, where for
three days it was so dark that artificial
light had to bo used. But what inter
ested me most was to learn that out of
that old-time crater had come -not only
a stream of pure water and many kinds
of farm products, but young men .who,
seeking a wider school and home than
the mouth of a vigorous ' volcano, had
found their way to Kumamota, Kyoto
and America, and wero now foremost
among the Christian educators and
preachers of Japan. The pulpit orator
of Osaka, the pnncipal of an ' English
school at Kumamota', who is a graduate
of Andover, and one of the Doshishi
professors at Kyoto, a New flavou gra l
uate, all camo from that valley of death
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Not so Attractivi, '
When Lieutenant Peary was here his
hotel was besieged by boys and young
men who wanted . to go with the ex
plorer to the North Pole next summer.
To one of them he said i a. effect: .
Have you ever' been to the Arctic
kions!"i "No." v". ,
'Have you been a sailor?" "No.". .
"A. mechanic?" "No."
"Are you grounded in any branch of
scientific knowledge?" "No.'
"You have no special qualifications?'
"No but I can work." ..." ,
You are the man for me," said the
Lieutenant, and. the applicant flushed
with hope. "But, by the way,'1 he Con
tinued, "there is a slight preliminary
before we sign papers. You will pay
$5000 towards the expense of the expe
dition." "Five thousand dollars I'
"Certainly. You may remember that
Mr. Verhoef paid $3000 for the privilege
of accompanying me on my List expedi
tion, and he, you know, was a man of
sHk'nliSc 'att'-.lnm-nts, and he Ir-t L'.j
lifo in the exi-.jdit'on."
TLaapic- it v lite 1 t- h;-r n la; - j
WN. Y.) Co- ' ' r. '
F0PWAR SCIENCE.
About the ago of thirty-six the loan
men generally become fatter and the fa.
men leaner.
The fecundity of fish Is Indicated by
the fact that thd flounder lays 7,000,000
eggs a year. "
A microscopic examination of a dia
mond frequently discloses minute plants
and vegetable fibres in its substance.
A Canadian has invented a contrivance'
to do away with holding a telephone re
ceiver to tho ear while talking over the
wire. -" ' .
' Female fish of all species are consider
ably more numorous than , males, 'with
two single exceptions, the angler and the
catfish. .
The Carnegie Steel Company has or
dered, in Englaud, a press for its armor
plate works at Homestead, Penn., which
will cost $1,000,000 and have a capacity
of 1600 tons. . .
New Guinea is extremely rich in
plants, the number of species discovered
in the sixtv-five years since Lesson
brought home tho first collection being
2000, or as many as are known from the
whole of Germany.
The largest shaft ever forged in Amer
ica has been sent from the Bethlehem
Penn.) Iron Works to the Chicago Fair.
It weighs 89,320 pounds and will be the
axle of the perpendicular hurdy gurdy,
261 feet high, invented by a Pittsburg
engineer.
' Recently some glacial scratches were
found on the top of the Palisades, above
Fort Lse, on tho Hudson, showing the
course of iie ice that covered the con
tinent down to this point. The general
motion of the glacier was southward,
but these cuttings point to the southeast.
Many bowlders of trap, obviously . from
the Palisades, are found on tho western
end of Long Island.'
A vivid sketch was given by Professor
Gruber, of Roumania, in the Interna
tional Congress of Experimental Psychol
ogy, of remarkable associations of color
and sound which he had beon observing
for many years. To a small number of
his best educated patients the sound of
the vowel e was accompanied by a sen
sation of yellow color, of i by blue, of o
by black, and so on through all the
Roumanian vowels and diphthongs, and
to some extent with numbers. The same
color was not always induced by the
same sound in different persons, but the
observations had been earef ully tested. f
Physicians explain in tn interesting
fashion that the electric current when
applied to the tongue seems to taste
sour. The gustatory or testing nerves,
according to the doctors, are industrious
and well-meaning Uttle thing3, and al
though it is not thoir business , to take
cognizance of any impression made by
touch, they do their best to look after
anything that happens to coino in their
way. Thus, when subjected to tho elec
tric current, they telegraph the fact in
their own language to tho brain, and as
their language is exclusively that of
taste they inform the brain that an elec
tric current is sour. The ordinary un
scientific citizen, having confidence in
the Btories told by his gustatory nerves,
really believes that the electric current
has an acid taste. ,
Protection Against Lightning at Sea.
The small proportion of vessels struck
by lightning at sea is excellent testi
mony to the effectiveness of the meas
ures that have been adopted for the pro
tection ' of ships against such disaster.
The plan usually followed is to run
copper lightning rods down the masts,
connecting at the lower end with the
copper sheathing of the vessel in case ol
a wooden ship. The upper, ends of tho
rods extend a little above the tops of
the masts and have platinum points. In
iron vessels connection is made with the
mass of metal, and in both cases light,
ning is almost invariably dissipated
without -damage. This system is of
"great value on board of . - men of war,
"where there are . large quantities of
powder, and were it not for the protec
tion thus afforded it would be positively
dangerous " to be anywhere near a war
vessel during a thunderstorm. Of tho
two ways' of 'connecting the lightning
rod-j with the sheathing, one in to, run
rod through tho decks, down the ,
jjhasfs, and make the' connection at tha
bottom of the vessel, and the other ia to
run It acrom the deck from the point
where the misvt enters over the side and
down to the r..4athinj. The la'.' t .an
js c
:.i.si.lerc 1 V- s f fcr of the two.
Jl A Will AN FACiS.
OFFICI ATj INFOKMATICW ABOUT
TUB SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Tbe Treasury Department tiires Out
Some Interesting Statistics
Commerce and Industrie .
of tbe Islands.
1" I"yilE Bureau of Statistics of the
I ' Treasury Department has is-
Jkm sued a carefully prepared his
tory of the Hawaiian Islands
and their commerce with the United
States which is interesting at the present
moment. It states that there is no reli
able information showing tho discovery
of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands,
prior to Captain Cook's visit , there in
1778, when he gave ths islands the nam) '
of "Sandwich'! in honor of Earl( Sand
wich, the First Lord of the 1 Admiralty.
The next year Captain Cook' was . killed
in one of the harbors of ' Hawaii. At
that time each of the islands had an in
dependent Government with its own
ruler, but Kamehameha I. brought all of
these islands under his sway between
1784 and 1819,' and being a man of un
usual intelligence' and great strength of
character, he established a commerce
with a fleet of twenty vessels of from
twenty-five to fifty tons each, which he
caused to be built after the' model of
European vessels. His son, his successor,
Kamehameha n., abolished idolatry in
1819, and in 1820 missionaries went to
tbe islands. "From that time the social
aud commercial conditions have steadily
improved, various lines of industries
being established and the islands and
their commerce greatly developed.
' The islands in this group number
thirteen, eight of 'which are inhabited.
Their total area is about six thousand
square miles, or about the size of the
States of Connecticut and Rhode Island
put together, Hawaii, the largest of the
islands in the group, having an area of
about four thousand square miles, and of
Itself nearly the size of Connecticut. The
five uninhabited islands are very small,
having less than sixty square miles each.
The islands, as is well understood, are
of volcanic origin, high, steep, and
mountainous, with many lofty , peaks,
rising in some instances to the height of
from 10,000 to 13,950 feet, their slopes
covered with vcrdue and forests. The
climate, although the islands are situated
within the tropics, is temperate, ex
tremely equable and salubrious, having
neither extreme heat nor extreme cold,
the temperature ranging from fifty-three
to ninety degrees. The principal pro
ductions are coffee, sugar, cotton, rice,
cocoa, oranges, bananas and sweet pota
toes. ' On the uplands wheat and other
cereals are produced;, on the mountain
slopes is abundant pastures for large
flocks which flourish .in this mild climate.
. Tbe population is estimated at one
hundred thousand, which is considera
bly Jiore than that of Idaho or Wyom
ing or Nevada, all of which are now
States in the Union. Of this number
one-half are native Hawaiians, fifteen
thousand are Chinese and nearly as many
Japanese, over eight thousand Portu
guese, two thousand Americans, four
teen hundred British, and seven hun
dred Germans. In other words one -half
the population are native, one-fourth
Chinese and Japanese, and the other
fourth are representatives of the
Caucasian race. Curiously, the native
population has decreased rapidly since
the foreign element entered the islands.
In 1823 the native population was nearly
one hundred and fifty - thousand and is
now but fiftj thousand. . , '.;
There is more of civilization and the
methods, of civilized life among the
representatives than is generally
supposed. Over 11,000 children are in
attendance upon the publio schools, of
which number over eight thousand are
Hawaiians. English is taught in most
of the schools, and there is a growing
tendency to abandon the native language)
There are about one hundred and seven
ty-five schools of which nearly ' all are
under the control of the Government.
That tha people are prosperous as well
as fairly indigent is shown by tho fp.ct
that they have deposited in .the postal
savings batiks which the Government has
established nearly a million dollars. The
Government ia a complete ono in all y$
characteristics, having hs Custom llouaa,
PostoiUce' Department, Interior Djpart
tnent, F'.aanca Department, Judiciary
Department, Postal Savings B:ink ste
etc. The larjest inJastry i V i pr -d'-vV
ac'su-ir, there beia L -.v.
raluod at thirty-four million doHara, of
which Americans own about two-thir h.
The exports of sugar . havo steadily i i
creased until they aggregated, in IS; 1,
273,000,000 pounds. In additiou to
this, there wa exported about vg
million pounds of rice, all of which wU!i
other exports, such as coffee and fruits,
made up a lot&l value of. domestic ex
ports of over ten million dollars. T in
Francisco ' is the nearest port to b
reached from Hawaii, the distance beinq;
X 100 miles. . Yokohama, Japan, is 8703
wiles away; Auckland, Ne"w Zealand,
4000; Sidney, Australia, 4100 and Hodj
Kong, China, 4800 miles." .
It is natural, both in view of the fact
that ours is the nearest port and that our
people have the largest investments in
the industries of Hawaii, that her com
merce should be mostly with tho United
States. Her exports during tho,, year
1888-91 inclusive, amounted to aoout
fifty million ; dollars, of which abouS
forty-eight millions came to the .Uuiud
States, while of 'imports into Hawaii,
which average about seven million dol
lars a year, about five-sevenths coruo
from the United States. m Of the 311
vessels clearing from Hawaiian ports 1
during tho year 1891, 233 were .Ameri
cans. ' , ' " ' -
, CorloYs Weas Ad oat Whales.
Olans Magnus, one of tho pld-tima
writers on natural history subjects, givs?
the following description of the variou?
kinds of Whale3i "Somos whales aro
hairy and of four Acres in bigness. Tha
Acre is 240 feet long' and 130 feet
broad. Some are smooth-skinned, tho;: a
being the smaller. Chiefly taken in tho
Western and Northern Seas. Jaomb
have their Jaws long . and full of teab, .
the teeth from six, eight to twelve fevt1
long. But their tw dogteeth are longer
than the rest, the upper ones coming out
through loops in the lower jaw and
hanging down through the openings L,ika
the two Tushes of an Elephant. ' This
Kind of Whale hath a fit mouth to eat .
one would naturall? suppose he had J, '
nd his eyes are so large that fifteen men
itn sit in the socket of each if them, ; .
and sometimes twenty or more, accord,-'
Ing to the bigness or quantity of tho '
boast. His horns are six or eight feet
long and he hath 250. around- each eye. I
rheso he can move forward or backward 1
is pleases Mm best. These grow to
gether to defend the eye in tempestuous
weather, or when any other beast that is
his enemy sets upon him. Nor is it a
wonder that he hath -so ma ay horns,
though they bo very troublesome to him,
when between his eyes the space of his
forehead is twenty feet. Having spoken
that the bodies of Whales are very large,
I will mention that the inhabitants of tha
Far North make Mansion Houses of their
carcasses, the which are provided with
doors, windows, seats and tables, for tho
ribs of these creatures are tweuty, thirty
and even fortv feet long sometimes.
When, therefore, the de3h of this Huge
Beast is eat or dissolved, and the Bones
purgod by Rain, they are raised up by a
force of men into the manner of an ,
house. The vut head is chissoled out,
and with Saw? and Files, these peopla
proceed to joine the Forked and the
Whirl bones together with bands and
rivets of iron, just as a Wood Carpenter
would joine Wood, the Wa&le-hoa i
room being much moro compact than a,
room built of Wood. Man who sleap
in houses built of whale bones and cov
ered with whale skin dream no ol'uci
dreams than that they are at sea toiling
with the waves, or are in danger of
Tempest and about . to suffer ehip
wreck," St. Louis Republic.
-. Jasperized Wotd. - 5
' The jasperized wood of Arizona has
become well known . by reason of tho
many cabinet specimens, paper weights'
and decorative slabs of it that are sent to '
the' eastern citie3, but this i3 by no'
means the only petriSed forest in tlu3 1 -country.
In the Hoodoo district of tiiu
Yellowstone many stumps of .tre aro
found converted to stone, somi of
showing knots, grain of tho woo
bark as plainly as the living trcv
.O.-'l
uq.i;
i' i
tho pebbly bcache3 of the Yellu
River are strewn with ton3 of fru:
of fossil wood. In tho dreary i:;
the South Dakota bad Ian Is lc :if i
sions are frequently foua.l in tin;
enod clay, an J at Little Missouri,
point known as tho liura'ng M r
where a coal soara hai becsi o " i'r
nobody .snows win?;, 1
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jarka