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TTIE1 JkU EXCELLENT 2 .ADVERTISING ElEDITJII. Official Organ of Washington Coanly. riEST OF AIL THE NEWS. Circulates extensively in the Counties ef Washington, Martin, Tyrrell and tiasfsit Job Printing In ItsVarlous BranchiSi l.OO A YEAR IX ADVANCE. ' ':. " ' . , ' " TOR GOD, TOR COUNTRY, AND TOR TRUTH." ' . . , , SINGLE COPY, 5 CENTS. VOL. IX. . ( PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898. NO. 49. "" " " ' . " ... '. '. ; . " ' " - - ' r I. 1 DAUGHTERS OF AMERICA. V. Iting out, ye bells, your sweetest chimesj Miag, all ye poets, dulcet rhymes; Shout loud, ye crowds, In strongest praise; Shine out, lair sun, In softest rays, And dance ye rippling waters. Por Freedom's sons will sing a song, That in a chorus: high and strong, v -Shall sounding ring, from sea to sea, "Whose theme of harmony shall be, America's true daughters. Oh! they are loyal, brave and true, i And fair the red, and white, and blue, That in the nation's colors rise, " Shine in their cheeks, and brows, and eyes, And glow upon their banners. Prom ocean shore to mountain crest; -' . Prom north, and south, and east, and west; Prom all the bright and beauteous land, They come, a blessing-laden band, And singing sweet hosannans. "With cheering words from such a mouth, As thine, oh! daughter of the south! , And love from such a loyal breast, As thine, oh! daughter of the west! aVv The sons can never falter. jMijvwhile in north and east shall stand X earnest, helping, sister band, , 3-Feet Freedom's flay shall know no night, :ut ever shall the flame glow bright '; '. . T. Upon the country's altar. 4 A Tragedy of the Thames. The two tall standard lamps in Mount's resort on board the Primrose shed a cheerful light on the cosy sur roundings. , A fire was burning bright ly in the grate at the further end, and, to accentuate the sense of com- fort, the cold, treacherous stream be Y eath was lapping and gurgling under J the stout bottom boards. . i v . For davs the river, swollen bv win- Y,r streams, na been carrying down VjWat blocks of ice and frozen snow Ifroin the upper reaches, and on this particular evening London was ' smothered in a dense black fog. So inteusewa3 it that, looking through the window, it was impossible to see the little wharf light a few feet away. Silently and suddenly it had crept . forward all through the winter's .day, gradually enveloping everything, like the visible embodiment of some dread ful plague. Denser and darker it grew as the night closed in; wreaths of it circled and eddied round the dim street lamps; it crept under ill-fitting doors, and through the tightly-closed windows; until even in the snug' par . lor of the Primrose it made the lights -Imrnless brightly, and the polished metal work glint a little more dimly , an the firelight. B - 'Curious thing," said Mount, break- ing a luxurious silence "curious thing how that fellow Dortheim managed to get away?,' ? 'Eh?" said I drowsily, and waking up; for, to tell the truth, I was half asleep when he spoke. "Oh, ah! yes, very." ''I heard from Carter's again today," Mount continued. "The police have tried their very utmost; but they simply can't get hold of the faintest trice." This wa,s apropos of the breaking up of the river swindler's gang, of which Dortheim was the head, some fortnight or more ago. On the infor mation with which Mount and I had leeu able to supply thefm, the police Jiad raided Dortheirn's store, and effec tually broken up the whole crew of them, besides recovering a large amount of stolen property; but Dor theim himself had managed to escape at the last moment through a sliding panel, and got away. "By the way," I asked", "did they V find out where that emergency exit of f Dortheirn's led to?" "Yea; it was rather a cute con trivance; it gave into an old-fashioned. flimisAfl cliimner. with a ladder in it. At the foot of the ladder' was a crude tunnel I should think Dortheim had made it himself which ran under the road in to the block of houses opposite; and once there he was as safe as if he v- 'va9 in Africa. There are hundreds f different exits from the place, so ' jf5"Uittle wonder they missed him. But what I cannot understand is how it isthat they've heard nothing of him einc. It's all very well, you hear people talk and say, that it's the easiest thing in the world to disappear, and that a simple disguise and a little pre caution are all that is ; necessary, and so on.' Well, that's all right as long as no one cares twopence whether you disappear or not, if it amuses you so to do. But it's quite another kind of game when you've got the whole of . Scotland Yard at your heels simply tearing their hair to get hold of you, when your description, usual haunts, acquaintances and. such-like are all duly entered on the official list, and whn Bsliflrht mistake will end a visit noticed that Master i-icular variety of '4.nd as long as the gentle' dortheim to ras- -i is get his knife into mar before he makes a final bolt for it. You see, it is prac tically entirely my fault that he is in all this trouble. Montha and months ago quite accidentally I stumbled across the fact of the existence of this man and his company of fellow ruffiaus. I wasn't on the lookout for him in the very least. It was sheer luck'on my part, but ever since then, in nine cases out of ten, I've had the whip hand of him, and, of course.he's feeling pretty sure about the raid of the other day. "At first he did not know who it was who was working against him, but I couldn't keep in the dark forever, and directly he knew he began to take re prisals, as you saw for yourself when you arrived so happily at Steppings flat. I admit that it sounds fantastic enough that a man whose life is in momentary danger at the hands of the common hangman should worry him self about anything more than an un obtrusive departure. But you "know what vindictive animals some men are; they never forget an injury, and sooner or later they'll have a try at you. ' ' ' ' .. "But it's not only that. Yesterday, as I was coming home rather late, I caught sight of a figure lurking about here that I ruther fancy was Dortheim or his twin Ijrother. I gave chase, but, what with my lame leg and the dark ness the fellow got away. This morn ing I had some neat little brass bolts screwed on to the hatchway, and I think I shall have the shutters looked to. I am ashamed to confess that the man is getting on my nerves he is so duced artful one can never tell quite what he will be up to." II. "When Mount had finished speaking he sat and stared gloomily into the fire. It was evident that he was weary more so than I should have expected in a man who was usually pretty well indifferent to danger. But for real nerve-straining work which makes your courage ooze out of your finger tips, there is nothing like living for a week or two in constant expectation of you don't know ex actly what; when any minute some thing may spring out of somewhere and take you where you least expect it. You can't give it a name, and you can't quite explain, but the result in the end is loss of nerves. I felt quite shivery myself as I sat there watching Mount. Everything was so deathly still, and over every thing and around everything and through everything there lay that hor rible, dark, unclean fog. It lurked in the corners of the place, making the shadows deeper. It got into one's throat and into one's eyes, and de pressed one like an evil dream. And as I sat there, listening vaguely, I shuddered; and, remembering Dor theirn's face as I had last seen it, I shuddered again. How long the intense silence had lasted I don't , know. It might have been five minutes, it might have been an hour. Anyhow, after a certain lapse of time, I became dimly con scious of a faint.regular noise, like the gentle scraping of a boat's gunwale against the side of the barge as it swayed gently on the tide. I could not say how long the noise might have been going on, or when it had began. I simply remember that gradually, quite gradually, I became aware of it, and then all of a sudden, with a start, I realized the meaning of it. Mount's two boats were,I knew,laid up for the winter under canvas on the upper deck, but the noise was unmis takably made by a boat scraping against the barge. And well,, and there was Dortheim! I leant forward in my chair and touched Mount on the arm. I saw him start convulsively at the pressure; and his farther hand, slid into his coat pocket. The man's nerves were posi tively on the rack. "Listen!" I whispered, holding up my finger to enjoin silence. We both sat with strained ears, and there it came again scrape, scrape! bump, bump! at regular intervals. Mount sprang from his chair and crept noiselessly to the hatchway.' I followed close behind, having armed myself with a thick stick. Together we crouched in the shadow of the door, while Mount gently slid back the bolts. The door was one that opened outwards, thus affording any one coming from within partial pro tection a fact that Mouut has to be thankful for for the rest of his days. He thrust the door open sharply, and stepped out into the darkness with his arm well to the front, and at that in stant there was a crash, a tinkle of broken glass, and something liquid and burning splashed on my hand. I heard a yell of rage from Mount, -and saw him spring forward. "Vitriol !" he said. - And with that I, too, sprang out, with my head low and covered by my arm. Two figures were struggling and twisting in the blackness on the edge of the upper deck. I could hear the hard breathing, and see a confused mass whirling about perilously near , he edje, but which was friend and (hich foe I could not make out at first. ' u eves got aeeusto.ued to the 'sU'esrt, I saw that Mount had got Yml twi3ted in his assailant's collar, while with the other he held the man's left wrist high in the air. III. Dortheim for he it was was fight ing like a demon. I could see his broad shoulders heave and strain with every movement. But Mount was mad with rage and pain a consider able quantity of the vitriol had splashed over him, and he was in hor rible agony from, the burning acid; and so the two swayed backward and forward, so closely intertwined that I could not render assistance. Presently Mount shouted: "Knock it out of his hand, Lascelles! Knock it out of his hand! My leg is giving!" And then for the first time I realized why it was Mount struggled to hold his adversary's hand so high. Dor theim had got a second glass bomb filled with vitriol, and Mount daren't release his grip. " I made a grab at the man's arm, in tending either to make him leave go or break his wrist. But just as J. did so I heard a- cry from Mount, and saw him go down. His wounded leg, which had burst out bleeding afresh, had given under him. Dortheirn's arm naturally jerked xback, and I missed my hold. At the same instant he gave a horrible scream, and, putting his Hand to his eyes, fell head foremost into the river below. 'I heard his body strike a projecting corner of the lower deck. There was a splash and in an instant he was whirled away out of sight into the black fog. With a word to Mount I hurried to the boat, which I found moored to the stern, and casting loose pulled franti cally down stream, but after ten minutes it was evident that there was no chance of finding him alive or dead in that inky darkness in fact, it was with the greatest difficulty that I was able to get back to the barge in safety. .. Mount had escaped permanent in jury by a miracle. As it was, the acid had scarred his temple and hands badly, but owing partly to the fact of the d6or opening outward and partly because he had naturally emerged in a stooping attitude (the doorway being alow one), the full charge had missed his face, and, beyond the awful pain at first, he was comparatively little damaged. , Dortheirn's body was picked up the next day in a fearful condition. How it happened exactly I cannot telf, but I imagine that the sudden release of his wrist caused him to grip the frail glass vessel so tightly that it broke, and the acid fell straight on his up turned face, blinding him instantly. I shall never forget the poor wretch's screams as he fell. It may have been retribution, but it was none the less horrible, and I can't think of it with out shuddering. However, such was the death of one of the cleverest scoundrels of the period, and the leader and organizer of Dortheim & Co. Answers. A VICTORIAN IDYL- Charming: Story In Early Wedded Life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Queen Victoria's marriage was a true love match, as all know, and one of the most charming pictures of the girl queen is presented by the roman tic incident of her betrothal, when the young queen made her offer of mar riage to the haudsome young Prince Albert,, son of the Duke of Saxe-Co-burg-Saalgeld. As she was a sover eign, the prince could not with pro priety make the offer to her, and so the blushing girl, now the woman rather than the queen, in the presence of the youth who had already gained her love, forgot the sovereign as she tim idly took this momentous step. But even the most devoted married couple will have their passing misunderstand ings, and the following story is told concerning one of . their youthful dis agreements: Both were high-spirited, strong of character and tenacious of what each considered the right in any matter of discussion. Atone time their differ ences of opinion had led to a temporary coolness of demeanor' toward each other, and the prince had retired to his apartments and locked the door. Victoria was the first to yield par tially, and she soon knocked at the door of her husband's library, affirms Short Stories. , "Who is there?" asked the prince, in answer to the knock. "The queen!" replied Victoria, still rather haughtily, though somewhat yielding. The qneea e&iuot enter," rejoined the prince, proudly. Ashort tuueaftet warl Victoria again approached her husband's apartments and once again knocked for admittance. "Who is. there ?"again the prince in quired. "Your wife," replied Victoria, in tender tones. Instantly the door was flung wide open, and the prince received her in his outstretched arms, saying with deepest affection, "My wife is always welcome!"--New York Telegram. 4 Lunf Memory, "What's ; the matter?" asked the pennriouf landlord. .'The blaster's fallen off the ceiling," said thetenant's Bon. "Wo J, I hope you're satisfied. The first tulip T'l.i did when you cured in war to complain that tlr ceilings v(;v ,!.) luw, ' Waftliiru't'iuVStar. 1 ' WILD FILIPINO TRIBES. UNCIVILIZED INDIANS OCCUPY THE ISLANDS MINDORO AND PALAWAN. They Number Some Three or Fonr Hun dred Thousand and Belong to Fifty Dif ferent Tribe The Miserable Existence They Lead Strang Pablts and Customs. The uncivilized Indian tribes occupy much of the interior and mountainous parts of all the large islands of the Philippine group, except Cebu and Bohol, in which they have either been Christianized and merged with the civilized Indiana or have been driven out. They still occupy nearly all the territory of the great islands of Min doro and Palawan. They number, ac cording to Spanish estimates, some three or four hundred thousand, be longing to over fifty different tribes. They are shut off from the sea and means of communicating with one an other and the outside world by the civilized Indians about them, and probably remain in much the same condition of savagery as when first observed by the Spanish. It has been contrary to Spanish pol icy in the Philippines to subdue them by force, and, as they have usually re mained at peace with their more pow erful and better armed Christian neighbors, they still continue to exist beside them. Like the ' civilized " Indians, the' "Filipino's" are brown in color, with coarse, straight, black hair and little beard. They seem to be somewhat smaller and slighter of figure than their Christian neighbors. Their languages show close kinship to those of the civilized tribes adjacent and also as close to those of the sav ages of Formosa. Few of the tribes possess lands fit for the cultivation of lowland rices, and fewer still have the necessary skill and implements and plow beasts (buffaloes) for cultivating such lands. Their recourse is the common one of savages nearly the world round they cut off small por tions of the forest during the dry sea son, and after burning this over, they plant, at the beginning of the rainy season, upland rice, maize, sweet po tatoes, etc., among the blackened logs and stumps. The supply of food thus gained is usually insufficient, and after it is eaten up they lead a miserable existence, scouring the woods for game and wild fruit and going to the sea beach wherever they can. reach it for shell fish and other food. Their method of cultivation compels contin ual change of place. Their little patch es of cleared forest can only be cul tivated in their rude way for one or two years, when they are abandoned and new pieces of forest chosen. Their houses are usually built after the plan of those of the civilized In diansa basketlike structure of bam boo and palm leaves raised upon posts above the ground, but they are not so well built aud are occupied but for a few years. They are not built into compact villages, but a few scattered houses are formed without streets, but near enough to be within call. Nec essarily, what can be said of such a multitude of. detached tribes in regard to their clothing, arms, religion, etc., must be of the most general character.' Their clothiDg usually consists sole ly of the taparabo, or breech clout, all else generally being in the nature of ornament, and consisting of beads about the neck and head and arms, and anklets or legletsof boar's bris tles, and frequently with bright col ored pearl shells hanging upon the back or breast. The Spanish author ities do not allow the savages to enter the towns in their ordinary 'sfat:- of nakedness. They frequently blacken the teeth and in some cases file them to a point. Some tribes wear a stiff, round hat similar to the salacot of the civilized Indians; other tribes . wear, a 'turban or go bareheaded. Tattooing' is 'com mon amonsc them, but varies with each tribe. x Their arms are a large knife or cut lass carried in a scabbard, this serv ing for an ax aud " hoe as w ell as a weapon of war. In addition to this they carry a lance or spear, and some tribes are armed with' bows aud ar rows; The more warlike tribes have shields of various forms. Some of the wilder tribes of North Luzon are said still to hunt the heads of their enemies with which to orna ment their dwellings, like the head huutiug savages of Formosa, and the Dyaks of Borneo, but the tribes in contact with the Christian Indians content themselves with hanging the skulls of monkeys, deer, wild boars and buffaloes about their doors. They all seem-to have some idea of a great spirit who rules over the affairs of men. They also recog nize spirits ...of' lower orders, some good, some evil, the evil ones causing disease and death in men. Each vil lage usually has one who serves as priest and doctor, who is supposed to be a special favorite of the great spirit. His chief duties seem to be to cure disease or to foretell its re sults. He is usually aided by certain old women who undertake to frighten away the evil spirit by cries and wild gestures. They do not appear to have idols, but some pay reverence to certain stones before which they place food and drink. Taey have many forms of tabu, Hka the other island-dwelling people of the Pacific. At the death of a person a fence of bushes is built about the village, and for a certain period no one is allowed to enter or depart, food for those within being brought . by friends to the fence, where it is re ceived by those within. They are usually monogamists, the wife being . purchased from her par ents. Divorce is common, the pur chase price being returned with the divorced woman. Their laws are proclaimed and en forced by the elders of the villages, rather than by chiefs or kings. The Spanish, whenever they have come in contact with the wild tribes, have undertaken to gain influence among them by recognizing some head man of the village as chief, or gobernadorcillo, giving him as a sym bol of his office a cane, and perhaps a few articles of cast-off military uni form. In the future of the Philippines the wild tribes will probably" have but a small share. They must be gradually merged with the civilized tribes or be as gradually starved to death by being pushed back by the rapidly multiply ing civilized Indians. The hundred thousand Chinese and the two hun dred thousand Mohammedans of the southern islands will form more powerful factors in making future history, as they have already in mak ing that of the past. Scientific American. THE SOLDIERS' THIRST. The Best 'Ways of Quenching It In Camp and on the March, t Everybody at all familiar with the actual conditions of an army on the march, says The Independent, appre ciates the great practical difficulties in the way of obtaining an uncontami nated supply of drinking water; and one of the most valuable suggestions was made by a gentleman who imag ined the possibility of making use of "driven" wells, through which safe water might be obtained, and, fortu nately, there is carefully recorded ex perience to testify to their value. In the French invasion of China in 1856-1857, the Chinese, when driven from a place, put poison in the springs and surface wells, and many French soldiers were killed thereby, and at once the engineers made requisition for iron pipes. These were forced into the earth with sledgehammers and common pumps put on and an ade quate supply of wholesome water drawn. As our authorities are quick to avail themselves of all really fertile ideasrjt.his suggestion will not be lost on them. 'Another way of quenching thirst, harmless and efficient and available, when there is strong pressure for un interrupted action on the part of the soldier, would be to fill his canteen with tea. Of course this would be made from boiled water; and the addi tion of a few drops of lemon juice would increase its power of exciting the salivary glands to greater activity, and it is an expedient often resorted to where it is desirable that the least possible amount of liquid should be ingested. The use of tea is still further ap proved by the testimony of experience. Sir John Hall, K. C. B., says: "In the Kaffir war (1852) a march was made by 200 men, in which 1000 miles were covered in 71 days, or at the rate of 15 miles a day, without wine, spirits or beer. Officers in India, when marches were made through malarious regions, had an opportunity to test the virtues of tea. Sir Garnet Wolse ley urges its use, and the experience of the Canada lumbermen confirms its value. They spend the winter in the backwoods in the hardest sort of labor and are exposed to a freezing temper ature, aud, while no spirits are allowed, they hare an unlimited supply of tea. Enough has been said of the horri ble sanitary conditions in Cuba in the neighborhood of the cities to warn us that even the driven wells might not serve as an absolute protection where the soil is saturated with infectious material, unless they could be driven far down beyond what must be the in evitable soakage during the rainy sea son. People forget that the decaying vegetation in a kitchen midden con tains mauymiuute organisms, to whicb the interstices of common earth ai y spacious galleries and ample needing only water to down iuto the earth. Iiet for KIdet.' ' 3 teaiv ibst) people to ab? stimulating dicated by y part of ppj the age f foods of niflk, if teemed an exel talking USe Of !i agaiust j person it staff of life." After si the torpedo which receii nish coast, 1 1 that she can i knots an hour knots she mad, IRREPRESSIBLE. I am the swiftest thing on earth t I lump from continent to continent I I leap Across the deep, From Occident to orient I I never rest, I never stop ! From east to west, . From field to shop I swoop ' 1 ' Now with a whoop Of exultation, Now with a tinge of perturbation I Day after day I retain my wonderful gait I I never rest, I never stay I am busier than Fate 1 I am here and there, I am everywhere At the same time In every land in every clime I am always busy with a big B, And men quit eating to consider me I am the war rumor ! Cleveland Leader. HUMOROUS. "Weft, Monthleigh is going to join the ranks of the Benedicts!" "Vol unteer or drafted?" "If you found a large sum of money, would you give it back to the owner?" "To be honest, "No!" ' Magistrate Excuse me, madam, but are you married? Witness Oh, youl worship, this is so sudden! Lawyer I have my opinion of you. Citizen Well, you can keep it. The last opinion I got from you cost ma $150. "Without a word of warning hi threw himself at my feet." "Oh, well, you know he couldn't misa them." ' Quizzer What makes you think the inventor of the tandem was a wom an? Ouyer Man is placed in the background. "I see that big canvas in the gold frame is signed by Smith as well aa you." "Yes; we collaborated. SorJ of companions in gilt, eh?" Friend I suppose you've had soma ' hard experiences? Returned Klon diker Oh, yes! I've seen times when we hadn't a thing but money. "I suppose it s out of considera tion for your wife that you haven't enlisted and gone to the front." "On the contrary, it is to spite her." Mrs. Upjohn Doesn't your hus band resent the way in which you manage him? Mrs. Highup 'Sh! He never suspects that I manage him. Little Elmer Pa, what is an extem poraneous speaker? Professor Broad head One who can talk fluently about nothing without any previous prepara tion. HeThis is the last time I will ever auk yon to marry me. . She Do youswjar.it, Eudolph? - He I swear it by aU I hold sacred. She Then'l Accept. - "Thcpe rough riders ought to make a good set of fighters." "Yes, but wait until you see the regiment oi trolley motormen that is preparing for the front." Miss Prettysweet So you have a parrot, Mr. Softleigh? Softleigh(who stammers) Yes, and it's gr-great f fun. I'm t-t-teachjng it t-to t-t-talk, you k-know. "I thought you said you didn't care for him?" "Well, I thought I didn't, : but I didn't know then that the Smith girl in the next block is desperately in love with him." Wife We've been living here six months now and not one of the neigh-x bors has called. Husband Don't worry. I'm going to have a telephone ' put in the house next week. ... "What ! You have written a new cook book for your wife. How did you do it?" . "Easy enough. I "wrote the name of each dish, and underneath the restaurant where it can be had best." No; it is not hard to -write funny paragraphs. All you have to do is to procure a pen,, some paper aud ink, and then sit down and write them, as they occur to you. It is not the writ ing, but the occurring, that is hard. She Is this your cyclometer on the mantel? He Yes. She ! Why, it only registers 21. Is that all the miles you have ridden in six months? , He Oh, no!, I keep that to tell the number of dollars I have paid in in- illments. "i'lumeu lu au uueu- uy bird by its '"ilt for the "xbird U LIU'S it