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THE ROANOKE BEACON. Published Eyery Friday. K&tced ta the Post Office at flymonth N. C, at eond el8l mutter. W appeal to every reader of Tn Koanoks Biaoon, to aid uh In making It an acceptable and pribl medium of news to our citizens. Let rlymoutb people and the public know wfiat is going on in Plymouth. Keport to uh all itenwof twisie arrival aaa aepannr 01 ineuus, nutui veutit. dentin. Horioue ilineus. sccidunU. new buildings, new enterprises and improvemcut of whatever character, change in busine indeed anything and everything that would be of intereBt to our people. SmbtcripUon price, $1.00 per year. AdTM-tiBementa inserted at low rsVw. Obituary notice exceeding ten Urn , Ave cents a line. Count the words, allowing eight to the line, and send money with MS, for all in excess of ten The editor will not be responsible for the views of correspondent , . 11 articles for publication must be accompanied by the f nil name of the writer. Correspondent are requested not to write on but one aide or tne paper. All communications must be sent i n by Thursday morning er they will not appear. Address all communications to THE ROANOKE BEACON, Plymouth, N. 0 THE SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT. Great Ceremony Attended Its Cap ture In Former Times. The glory of the white elephant has long since departed. Even In Slam, Its native country, there are many evidences that it will soon cease to be treated other than the ordinary elephants. The contrast r between its former condition and its present forlorn condition is re markable. The early historians of the Orient have left accounts of the capture of the white elephant in different parts of Indo-Chlna, all of which lay great stress on the magnificent ceremonies and the great delight of the kings to welcome the beast to their capitals. The fortunate individual who dis covered, the whereabouts of a white elephant was at once raised to the highest rank of nobility and very likely married to the King's daugh" ter, though this was no great honor, as he probably had many dozens to dispose ef. The capture being ef fected, guards of nobles were mount ed over the animal, which was bound with silken ropes and detained in the jangles where it was caug A palace .was erected for its re ception close to that of the King, and roada were made from the place of capture to the principal highway. Installed in its palace loaded with honors, and with tne highest sound ing titles, surrounded by the golden umbrellas and other insignia of greatness, the white elephant led a life of luxurious ease, lulled to sleep by the choral chants of priests and amused during waking hours by the Bangs and7 dances of the royal corps de balKtt. It was fed on delicious fruits and vegetables, which were specially selected and prepared, bathed every day by obsequious at tendants, thereby increasing the glory of the King and securing the tunate. country which possessed it. Some forty-five years ago the King of Slam possessed a white elephant which was the chief delight and pride of the sovereign in spite of his high education and good intellect. As the greatest compliment he could think of paying to the Queen of England he sent her, by the hands of her envoy, a few hairs pulled ex pressly for her from the talj of his beloved animal. Later, when the object of his affections died, he sent to his friend, Sir John Bowring, a touching letter In Eaglish and a small piece of "its beautiful white skin." The recent addition of a young specimen to a native collection gave as opportunity" for comparison of existing with past conditions. A small pecuniary recompense was thought a sufficient reward for the man who made the capture. When It was tame .enough to be trans ported it was marched across the country to the nearest railway sta tion, where a specially constructed truck was waiting to receive it. But there were no gilded pillars, no silk and satin hangings, no admiring multitude to do homage to the mas cot of their King and country. In Bangkok, however, some prepara tions wero made. A considerable crowd was waiting at the station, and the Btreets were decorated here and there with bunting. A proces sion of four white elephants, resi dents of the capital, escorted the newcomer to its home. The trap pings of the white elephants were tawdry, threadbare, red cloth, instead oththe jewel studded velvet and silk, and the diamond and ruby no longer ornamented the white tusks. The white elephant's existence is now hardly sapertor to that of the com mon black hefd. Torture Bv Savages "Speaking of the torture to which some of the savage tribes in the Philippines sub jact their captives, retnllids me of the in tense suffering I endured for three months from inflammation of the Kidneys," says W. M. Sherman, of Cnsbing, Me , "Noth ing helped me until I tried Electric Bitters, three bottles of wbjeh completely cared me." Cares Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, Blood disorders and Malaria ; anJ restores the weak and nervous to robust heUb Gu&raDUed by Spruiil & Bro. Prioe 50q; No true woman ever lwgins to grow old Until after her marriage. Three littla rules we all should keep. To make life happy and bright, , Smila in the morning, tsmile at coon, Tike liacky Mountain Tea at night, Davenport's drng store. MYSTERIES OF THE OCEAN. Strange Life Encountered In the Depths Effects of Light. "The first sensation experienced," said an intrepid diver at an inter view with an Italian journalist, "is something like that which is felt on uscen:lins into a mine, but you soon get accustomed to it. At a depth of about nine feet medusae began to bo fo.ind in large quantities. Seen through the water, everything ap pears magnified, and they areappar ently of enormous proportions. All recollection of e protection af forded by the glass front of the hel met Is forgotten, and the first lrn rresslon is that these masses of hor rid f.accid and slimy medusae will ihoro to your face. Just a little iower down, and a scintillating mul citudlonus shoal of small fishes. !a encountered, shimmering like so many .strips of shining copper, or t".ier metal, In a state of continuous vibration. At a depth of about 162 Coot thick masses of seaweed are .raversed; some ot these are heir- like vegetable growths, with arms Trom 2 0 to 30 yards In length, which, with a kind of horrid vitality, wrap themselves round every part of the "Below 162 feet there are small snakeli'.io fishes of about three feet In length, and also other denizens of the deep "resembling dolphins. These iatter hurl themselves violently against the diver. If, as already re marked, he is somewhat young at the game, and has forgotten the pro tection afforded by his helmet, he Is still filled with a mortal dread lest they should succeed In smashing the glass front of the helmet despite its' four inches of thickness. Of course should that occur, death would be almost instantaneous. Still other and worse monsters are the polypi or devilfish, who wrap their slimy ten tacles around the bold explorer; but although repugnant these monsters are cowardly, and immediately re nounce their attack on coming in contact with the unfamiliar feel of the metal armor plating of my diving dress. There aro also equally hor rible, and much more intrei-Id, giant crab3. "In the vicinity of Ostend." he re- latos, "I was requested ortce to ex amine the wreck of a vessel which had sunk not long before. This was the occasion upon which I was as sailed by a veritable horde of those giant crabs of which I have already spoken. They were at the time busy devouring the corpses of the dead sailors. One of these monsters seized me by the leg, which would have been crushed, as if squeezed by a Jaw of steel, had It not been pro tected by the powerful armoring of my diving dress. I had a kind of sword In my hand, with which I suc ceeded in killing two of these mon sters, the shells of which I still pos sess. "All objects at the bottom of the sea are covered with a kind of cu rious powder, and a terrible gloom and silence prevailB. What a scene of melancholy! The 'floor of the ocean is strewn with bones, not a few of them .of human origin. A very singular fact which I have ob served is that the sea for a certain period of time keops bodies In a per fect state of preservation. I once visited the hull of a vessel which had gone down with all hands. "The crew were mostly asleep at the moment when the disaster oc curred, and had thus practically passed instantaneously from sleep to death. So far they had not been bit ten or gnawed by any fish, as most of the hatchways were closed. The men still appeared as if asleep. There they lay, wrapped in a calm and mysterious slumber. I ap proached and climbing down to the hatchways, touched one of the corpses with my hand; the flesh Beemed to dissolve and vanish under my hand, leaving nothing but a grin ning skeleton!" Scientific Ameri can. Champion Liniment for Rheumatism. Cnas. Drake. & Hlftil pan-lot at r.hanin. ville, Conn., says : "Chamberlain's Pain Dnu ih me cuampion of all lmimenta. The past year I was troubled a great deal with rheumatism in niv Khmilrlor After trir, several cures the storekeeper here recom mended this remedy and it completely cured rue." There is no use of anyone suf. faring irom that painful ailment when this unimeai can De obtained for a small sum. One Application cont'nued use for a short time will produce r jjcimnuouicure. r or sale by all druggists. Will football take the hint or will 5r wait until it is kicked out? Chinese Census Taking. In China an odd way of taking the census prevails. The cities and towns are arranged in groups of ten houses. The oldest man In each group visits the nine houses, which, with his own, make up the group, counts the memebers of every fam ily, and sends his report to the Im perial Census Bureau. Exchange. Doctors Are Puzzled. The remarkable recovery of Kenneth Mclver. of Vancoboro, Me., is the subject of mucn interest to the medical frateruity and a wide circle of friends. lis Bays ot his ease : "Owing to severe inflammation rjf.ttao Throat and coneeKtion of tha Lnoes. three doctors gave me up to die, when, as a IftSf resert, I was induced to try Dr. King's New piHcovwy and I cm tappy to tsay, it aavbd my lifs,'. Cores the west Congba and Loldt, BronohitiB, Tonsililis. Weak Luuga, IlOarssnesa and LaGripp') Guaran teed st spmtu & iiro'i. 5u and f 1.00. Trial bottle free, . CHRISTMAS ISLAND'S RICSIES. Tit of Rock Revealed Its Secret and .Mines of Phosphate. Christmas Island ia a speck of land, shaped like a dumbbell, rising steeply from the Indian ocean, 190 miles south of Java,-says the Now York Sun. No one is known ever to have landed on it previous to 18!7. It was thought -of only as a little rock, without good anchorage, not worth examining whilo large regions wcro still white on the maps. But to-day some fifty men are liv ing on Christmas Island, and now and then we see a paragraph in the trade journals telling of the lncreas ln quantity of phosphate that it 13 shipping. Last year for example, as we are told by one of these authori ties, tho Island shipped "1,757 tons of phosphate and new methods of loading vessels were introduced, something, like those by which iron ore is poured into the holds of Lake Superior steamers. The phosphate is tipped from a high pier into tho ship. The last vessel to sail loaded in a day with 1,300 tons. It was a deep sea research that pointed to Christmas Island as , a source of wealth, and the facts in the case have only recently been told. About 10 years ago a British naval vessel started for the Indian ocean to examine a part of its sea floor. Its main work was a long dis tance from Christmas Island, but Sir John Murray, the great Scottish oceanographer, in mapping out tho project, happened to think of an area around Christmas Island where no investigations had been made. He suggested that the vessel diverge from its course to make soundings and collect samples from the ocean bed in the neighborhood of Christ mas Island. The work was thoroughly done, and in due time a list of soundings and specimens of the mud and bits of rock dredged from the bottom were delivered at St. John's labora tory near Edinburgh. In the collec ton was a fragment of rock which he conid not identify on casual inspec tion, and 1t excited his curiosity. He made an analysis of the fragment and found that it was phosphate. The results fulfilled the most san guine expectations of the man of science. There was no longer any doubt of tho existence of a thick bed of phosphate on the Island. But to ascertain all the conditions and the prospects of mining with profit. Sir John made a journey to it. He found that the mineral offered a promising commercial possibility; that there was a good anchorage on one side cf the island, and that by bulldin;; a wharf with a second story, on which trucks could bo run out, vessels might be loaded easily and cheaply. A company was organised with the necessary capital. Parliament made a concession, giving the com pany the right to work the phos phate for a series of years, and de velopment was begun. It has been a most profitable venture, and the b-st of it Is that it has placed Sir John Murray, who, like . most scientific men, had no supsrfluity or this world's goods, in very comfortable circumntanrei'. for the rest of his life. J tn Ittll.. TV xL. js numes. voes mas record a,r,ciose3 yyitn every CURES AFTER THE DOCTORS HAVE FAILED. RHEUMACIDE has cured thousands of cases of Rheumatism after all the doctors and all other means had failed. Rheumacide cured John F. Eiine and others, of Baltimore, after the famous specialists of Johns Hopkins Hospital, the greatest hospital in the vorld, had failed. Rheumacidc cured Austin Psrcellc, of Salem, Va., and D. H. Olmstead, the Norfolk, Va., contractor, after they had spent large sums on other remedies and the doctors had given up hope. Rheumacidc cured Mrs. Mary welborn, of High Point, N. C, Almost a Miracle in This Case. n Lui..r.. Dillon, S. C. Aug. IS. Bobbitt Chemical Company : Gentlemen: In September, 1S99. I took rheu matism in a very bad form (inflammatory). In a month after the disease started I had to give up my work and go to bed. It continued to rrow worse until my arms and tiands were badly drawn, so much so that I could not use them. My lexs were drawn back till my feet touched rny hips. I was as helpless as a baby for nearly 12 months. The muscles of my arms and legs were hard and shriveled up. I suffered death mans; times over. Was treated by six d Liferent physicians in- McColl, Dillon and Marion, hot none of them Could do me any pood, until Dr. J. R Ewin?, of Dillon, came to see me. He told me to try your RHKUMACIDE. He pot me one bottieof the medicine and I bepan to take it. and before the first bottle was used up I bcff.in ta ret better I used 5 bottles and was com pletely cured. That was years sr and my health has been excellent ever since. Have had no symptoms of rheumatism. Will say further that I began to in about Fix days after I beean to take RHEUM ACIDE vith the aid of crutchi s; in about three months after I twantotake it I could walk as good as anj boay. and went back to work apain, Yjure trulr. JAMES WtLKES. Name Survives the Use. One of the most remarkable in stances of the name of an article sur viving its use Is the penknife. We talk of it every day, but the purpose for which the penknife was origi nally designed exists no longer. The pen of Western civiliation was fab ricated, as old people remember, of qrllls, and quill pen3 are still af fected by old-fashioned persons, who declare that no efficient substitute has yet been found for them. The penknife of our ' great-grandfather's day was, indeed, a triumph of the cutler's art in the keenness of Its edge. According to a rhymed list of the requirements of a complete wri ter, the scribe needed "a penknife, razor metal," always at hand and people who remember how soon a quill pen becamis unsuitable in the hands of vigorous writers will appre ciate the necessity. To be a good pen mender was one of tho first essentials In a village pedagogue; his penknife wras as in dispensable to him as his cane. Strangely enough, there were mend ers of pens who seemed born to ful fill the function, and men could never learn the art let them try a.s they might. But the penknife, prop erly so called, is no mare, and with Its disappearance has vanished the expert who wielded. It. London Globe. A dose of Piue-ules at bed time will usu ally releive backache, before morning. These beautiful little globules are soft geltaino coated and when moistened and placed iu the mouth you cau't keep from swallowing tuenj. 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