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TAKING A MAN KILLER. J In Portuguese East Africa, on the eastern shore of Lake Nyasa, nearly opposite to the island of Likoma, is a tract of land commonly known as the Kobwe district, and it is about six miles in all in extent. At one of the "Tillages, Uchesi, in the portion of land called after the Kobwe River, a na tive -was one day looking after the cattle of a neighboring chief, when a full-grown lioness in broad daylight attacked one of the cows which were feeding on the open plain near the waters of the lake. The herdsman at" -ones went pluckily to the rescue, and with a native axe wounded the beast on the forehead, which turned on him and grabbed him by the thigh. How ever, he was able to free himself, and the lioness went off bleeding into the bush at the back. The man returned to the village, apparently not serious ly injured, but toward evening sud denly collapsed and was buried the next morning. Act two of the tragedy took place at night at Mlarnbe. Only in the last few years have the Portuguese of ficers of the district been engaged in collecting hut tax, and many of the people still try to avoid paying the Kama, for all youths who have hair growing under their armpit are reck oned to be of an age to pay, and women whose husbands are down south at the mines or are at work elsewhere are called upon to work at the Eoma (Government residence), or to cut and bring in so many bun dles of grass in lieu of hut tax, price 4 s.,. or its equivalent in kind. Na tive policemen are sent round to vil lages and are told to raid the houses during the night for which no tax has been paid, and to bring all found therein to Eoma. On this occasion thrc women, to avoid being taken, for the police were in the village, had passed the night In the reeds close to tho shore, and almost in the rice fields. Just before sunrise they de termined to return to their homes, and one of them stood up preparatory to start, when the lioness sprang upon her, but made off again, apparently frightened by the shrieks of the oth ers and perhaps startled by the noise 'of men, who quickly began to appear an the scene, armed with native weapons. The woman was carried into a neighboring hut, where she shortly afterward expired. In some parts the natives, who are Fery fond of the f.esh of wild animals, will collect on a certain day in order to organize a big game drive. Men, women and children would go out onto tho hills at the back, scattering 1n all directions, and then, tracing Khcir way home, will gradually close An, singing, beating drums and sound ing horns, until they have driven all tefore them into a small semi-circle, often a clump of bushes or reeds, the 1ak? acting as a background to head off the game. When they had sur rounded the reeds near Mataka's vil lage, and were preparing to enter to kill the game they had driven there in,, one man shouted that the lioness was asleep within, apparently bein gorged with food, having taken op portunity to help herself from the spoib of the drive. As it was get ting toward dusk, the men deter mined to wait till the morning, so they collected all their fishing nets and surrounded the reeds, with their gear firmly fastened into the ground with poles, those who were bold enough sleeping outside with guns, spears, bows and arrows and ai:es. 1 In the morning they commenced to burn as much as would burn of the undergrowth, and to cut down what through dampness would not ignite, gradually reducing tho space that contained her ladyship. Suddenly at one corner men fled, and one, by name 'William, tripped over the stump of a reed and was immediately seized by 'the pursuing brute. This rallied the others, who with guns and other weapons forced her to loose her hold and retreat into the small piece of -cover still left. The lioness was "b!?.?ding from a gunshot, and on T.eir.g still further harassed appeared ia the open, wading out into the shal low water of the lake. Here she re ceived two more wounds before she Jell, and amid the shouts of the ex alted natives was dragged ashore, where she was cut open with much ceremony, and found to contain two cubs almost ready for birth. Will iam, like the first man, seemed like ly to get over hi3 wounds, for he walked to his home: but he after ward likewise suddenly collapsed. The skin of the liones3 with the axe , mark on her forehead was taken to the Eoma, and th? district now live; :ln i;:aci sgaia. London Field. A REAL GHOST STORY. An experience wherein phantoms presented themselves to view in pro ;digfous numbers simultaneously is re lated by a young lady whose name, at her request, i3 withheld, the narra tive being endorsed by her sister, who was with her at the time. She writes: "One autumn night my sister and myself, with our maid, were return ing from evening service in the vil lage church. There was a thick fog; the moon was full, but it made a Bort of steam in the fog, instead of shln Scs brightly. Suddenly I saw a man it ay sisters side, wjrbza com ther? without making: a sound. I puliel her sleeve, whispering. 'Let the ran pass.' As I spoke the man disappeared. Ia another moment we were ail bewildered at the sight around usN-.It was as if we were in a crowded street, innumerable fig ures surrounding us. Men, women, and children were moving briskly about, some singly, others in groups, but all without a sound. Some seemed to rise out of the, grass on either side 6t us,- others to pass through us and to come out on the other side. The women were dressed in bygone fashion, with high' bonnets and shawls, and large flounces on their dresses. There was one very tall man who took great strides, though perfectly noiseless; he wore a kind of cape. We approached our own gate, where we should turn in, and then we had a long driveway to walk up before we could reach the house. I think that by the time we had reached the gate all the figures had disappeared except this one tall man. He had quite a different look from an7 of the others more horri ble altogether. As we entered our gate, to our intense relief, he passed by along the road and vanished. Of course we were all very much fright ened. The maid and my sister were crying aloud." In a case like this, where the same spectral phenomena are witnessed by several persons, the value of the test imony, obviously, is multiplied a hun dredfold. For, while one individual may bo the victim of a hallucination, such an illustion can hardly be shared by many. What then, is to be said in answer to such evidence, furnished by deponents of unimpeachable char acter and reputation for truthful ness? To supose that they are com bining in the manufacture of a lie is scarcely reasonable. Joseph M. Rogers, in Lippincott's. BABY SAVED BY MIRACLE. Almost through a miracle the liTe of a five months' old infant was saved at Willow Beach, Nahant, Mass., where it was discovered after it had apparently been thrown into the sea. The police are certain that someone, perhaps the child's mother, intended that it should die. Chief of Police Larkin, who per sonally began an investigation after the finding of the wailing infant, is of the opinion that the baby was thrown into the water at a spot where there are a number of jagged rocks at the full flood tide. Instead of be ing washed out to sea the child was carried back toward the shore and landed between two of the rocks, where it became firmly wedged. Every particle of clothing was water-soaked, and the child's face looked as if it long had been exposed to the water, but Larkin declares that it i3 not likely that it was thrown from any steamer. He does not be lieve the child would have floated long enough to reach the shore if it had come from the ship. The young one's appearance is not that of a baby that has lacked any thing in life. No clews to the Identity of the would-be murderer have been discovered. BOY'S REMARKAELE ESCAPE. The four-year-old son of John Sharp Ilighani, M. P., has had a re markable escape from death. He fell from an express train and though he received severe scalp wounds, does not appear to be injured seri ously. The boy was traveling with his mother from Liverpool to London. At Stafford tea was put into the carriage by a railroad employe, who neglected to fasten the door when he left the carriage. Presently the boy leaned against the carriage door, which flew open, and he fell back ward on to the line. He is now being nursed at his home in Lltch-i field, and is doing well. TWO GIRLS MET FIVE BEARS. Miss Caroline S. Barnes, of Wat- kins, N. Y., and Miss Isabel M. Chan dler, of Ithaca, N. Y., were much startled while walking down the mountain from Mount Elliott Springs, in Virginia, to come upon two old bears and three cubs feeding in a field. Not realizing the nature of the animals at first the young women ap proached, and one of the old animals, evidently thinking the intruders were after their cubs, showed fight. The young women ran screaming back to the hotel. Miss Barnes was com pletely overcome and required the services of a physician. I CAUGHT HER LIKE A BALL. Falling from a fourth-floor porch, two-year-old Vera Moese escaped un injured in Chicago because her eight-3-ear-old sister Gladys rushed beneath the falling child and caught her in her arms. "I caught her jist like a basket ball," Gladys calmly explained after she had picked herself up unhurt from the ground on which she and the rescued baby had rolled. Gladys' attention was attracted by the scream of a woman who lives ia the third fiat. She was on her back porch and saw the child fall from the top of the railing fifty feet to the J back yard where Gladys was play ; ng. Philadelphia Ledger. Antediluvians. A lady who kept poultry had, among others, some Andalusian fowls. Ons day she had one killed for dinner, and it proved to be a very tough bird. "Rachel," said the lady to her old servant, "what fowl is this? It seems an extremely ancient one." "Well, mum," replied the servant, "no wonder; it's one of these there Antedeluvlans!" Mark Lane Express. inn' iMopiery 1 VARIABLE. What is the color of Mabel's hair? Is it of chestnutty auburn rare? Maybe 'tis raveu and shimmery black. Or do golden rivulets hang down her back? What is the color, 1 prithee say? I haven't seen it since yesterday. Tho Cynic, in Town Topics. TAINTED. 1 Mah "Did she marry him for pure love?" Chloe "No; it was adulterated with money." Philadelphia ln ttuirer. THE SUDDEN SMITH. Knicker "I always said the Smiths were fools." Bocker "Yes, they went and named their baby for an earlyboom." New York Sun. NOT WHAT HE CAME FOR. The Cop "How did you come to get hit by the car?" The Reub "I didn't come ter git hit by no car I come ter visit my son-in-law." Cleveland Leader. NOTHING DOING. Beggs "What do you say to your tvife when -you come home late at aight?" Jaggs "Foolish man! What makes you think I get a chance to talk?" Cleveland Leader. ANATOMY. "How many ribs have you, John- Ay?" asked the teacher. "I don't know, ma'am," giggled Johnny, squirming around on one foot; "I'm so awful ticklish I never could count 'em." Ladies' Home Journal. TAKEN AT HIS WORD. "I'm bad medicine," boasted the tough citizen with the bulging hip pocket. "Need to be shaken before being taken, eh?" queried the facetious copper, acting accordingly. Phila delphia Ledger. AFTER INSPECTION. Caller "I should think that your father's duties as building inspector should be awfully dangerous, going round unsafe biulings." Small Son of the House "Oh, no; he doesn't go near 'em till after they fall down." Life. NO ARGUMENT THERE. Dolly "No, I won't wash my face. just hate to wash my face!" Grandma "Naughty, naughty! When I was a little girl I always washed my face." Dolly "Yes, an' now look at it!" Cleveland Leader. THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. Little Harold "Mamma!" Mamma "Yes, child." L. H. "Do you still think that if I ate some of that pie. in the closet it would make me sick?" Mamma "I certainly do, dear." L. H. "But it didn't." Brooklyn Life. ' RETRIBUTION AT HAND. "Ouch " complained the automatic fcales in the railroad station, "these fat men will be the ruin of me. That last one simply put me on the bum." "Well," replied the chewing gum machine, "now you can lio in weight for the next one." Catholic Standard and Times. ANOTHER SEA YARN. Mr. Flatdwell (his first Atlantic voyage) "Do you know, Mary, that this ship burns 400 tons of coal every day?" Mrs. Flatdwell "William Henry, have you been letting tho janitor stuff you with any such fairy tale as that?" Puck. THE SECRET OUT. Neighbors "I have no secrets from my wife. I can tell her everything." Nextdoor "Yes, I know you do." Neighbors "How do you know It?" , Nextdoor "Oh, your wife tells what you tell her to my wife and she tells me." Chicago News. A BIG LOSER. Mrs. Myles "I see the twenty-four-year-old son of a London dry goods man is a bankrupt, having managed to get rid of $2,100,000 since he came of age." Mrs. Styles "Oh, well, boys will bo boys!" Mrs. Myles "Well, this looks as if a boy had an ambition to ba h bridge whist player." Yonker Statesman. PERHAPS. MI went to a fortune teller yester day," she said, with a cunning little giggle, "and what do you suppose she told me?" He confessed that he was a poor guesser. "Well, she said it would not be long before I would pass most of my time within the walls of a marblo palace." "Perhaps," he suggested, "you are going to become a clerk in one of our his department stores." Chicago Record-Herald. NEW ROYAL AUTHOR. Queen Victoria of Spain is now to be added to the list of Europe's royal authors. She has produced a play in French which is to be acted this sum mer by noble amateurs at the royal villa at San Sebastian. The Queen inherits her literary gift from her mother, Princess Beatrice of England, who has written much. In her child hood the young Queen was' a clever little actress, and her fondness for the stage has not diminished of re cent years. Leslie's Weekly. WOMEN IN THINGS MUNICIPAL. Professor Charles Zueblin, of the University of Chicago, was not a min uto too soon in saying that women should be given certain places in the scheme of things municipal. Unlike many men who have advanced their theories, he will have an opportunity to see whether or not women are the ones to keep a city clean and health ful. Chicago has a woman a3 a mem ber of the advisory committee of the board of health and another who wishes to serve as smoke inspector. If there is any truth in the profes sor's statements he should be able to prove it by the results here in Chi cago. Chicago Evening Post. BABY'S FIRST STEPS. The child at one year experiences iittlo difficulty in learning to walk or to balance himself; he has no fear of hurting himself, for, if he topples over, he is so small and light the con cussion is very slight, and apparently makes no impression. He immedi ately picks himself up and resumes his endeavors to balance himself, and with each effort gains more confi dence. It i3 quite different with a child who has been withheld from the privilege of walking until he i3 a year and a half or two years old. The chances then are that he has grown heavy from lack of exercise, and at last, When allowed the use of his feet, is not. sure of himself and fears a fall; or, from constant holding and fondling, the child may have become delicate. Lack of strength alone stands in the way of this child's walk ing. Harper's Bazar. THE TRAGEDY OF MARRIAGE. If our home had been in New York instead of in a near-by suburb, I don't imagine for a moment that any thing would have been changed by a hairbreadth. The tragedy of A and B goes on everywhere. I shut my eyes to my own little tragedy for a long time, though there were signs enough to let me know that being with me wasn't any more the one thing in life that Joe wanted, whereas I, "poor jwretch," wanted more than ever to be with Joe, though I instinctively tried not to make a nuisance of myself about it. If he got up from the room where we were sitting and went off to read his paper by himself, I used to try hard not to follow him, and that was precisely what I most wanted to do. I used to fairly hold myself in my chair so' that Joo would be the one to come and look for me. instead of following my instinct, which was to run down to the front gate and half way up the street to mt-et him. Until I learned, as I said before, to do without Joe, to fill up my life with other things, there was never a time, I suppose, not one single day, that I didn't hear the whistle of his train. Harper's Weekly. MERCY FOR MERE MAN. Although Professor Armstrong's Appeal before the British Association for mercy for mere man from ad vanced women aroused his audience to continued mirth, the subject is be ing discussed seriously by teachers and others. Mrs. Luther Gulick de clares against college training for girls, writes the London correspond ent of the New York Sun. She says: "I would not send my daughters to college, and, unlike many Amer ican women, 1 believe there will be a reaction against a college or uni versity training for girls. Hardly more than fifty per cent, of them marry after such a training. Girls ought to go slowly through high school and then specialize in domestic training or something by which they could earn a living." Mrs. Gulick is the wife of a well known educator who was at one time principal of the Pratt Institute in Brooklya. Mrs. Homan, an English educa tionist, holds a contrary view. Sha says the more educated a woman is the more she wants to learn. For thi3 reason an educated woman makes the best housewife and the best mother. I Dr. Simarro, professor at the Uni versity of Madrid, says the question ha3 not arisen in Spain. Women there have only one idea, to be docile and obedient to their husbands. Woman's prestige in Spain depends principally upon whether she is pretty and whether men consider her so. THE CAELADY OF PARIS. I was being driven by the first cab lady in the world. We went down the boulevards and nobody noticed us. Not a soul was amused or inter ested. But a block in the traffic gave us and the street boy a chance at last. I caught a young eye beneath a cloth cap staring at us. Then came the young voice: "Where's the poor baby? Left at home sucking its poor bottle, I suppose. Shame!" Madam on the box stirred never a muscle. "How about depopulation?" the young and piercing voice added. Madam flicked the cob, who was going to sleep again. But the rumor had passed among the crowd. "It is the cochere." Another stoppage and another street boy. He began by saying "Hooray!" and the Parisian equivalent of "Bully for you." Then ho stopped and looked at tho red taximeter flag marked "Free," now dipped. "What! aren't you free any more?" he sighed and gazed languishingly. "And who's the happy man?" A pause, and he turned a terrible eye on me. "What, is that it? Well, now, since she hid the choice, she might have dore better." His pal by his side, after a careful scrutiny, did not altogether agree. "After all, he is just about the aver age when you coma to look at him. Of course his topper has been in the rain, but he did brush his coat this morning. He doesn't look much at a "distance, I grant, but just step nearer and study him." Thank goodness the policeman moved us on. Madam turned around and said, "Ah, mon sieur, wo must have indulgence. We are above these things, you and I." Paris Letter in the London Telegraph. A PILLOW PARTY. A pillow party is one of the latest methods of raising money for philan thropic purposes. The affair may be held in a church vestry, a club hall or at a private residence. If the church ia to benefit the function is usually slated for the church vestry, and the accompaniment may be a musical and literary entertainment or an old fashioned sociable, to which the en trance fee is a t cushion or pillow. Such an affair could be advertised in the local newspaper, or announced in the church calendar. If it be given to increase the funds of a lodge or some similar organization, it would naturally be held in the hall of the order, and an audience solicited in the same way. as for a church affair. If it be given at a private residence for some pet charity, invitations are sent out by the hostess for an after noon tea, with the added request, "please bring a pillow." The pillows are disposed of at private sale or at auction. Any other article may take the place of the pillow, but it is sur prising how many pillows are turned in by people in sympathy with the work, and they usually, sell readily at fair prices, so that the beneficiaries net a much larger sum than when smaller articles are asked for as an entrance fee. One contributes a pil low, small or large, inexpensive or elegant, according to her interest in the object. A pillow filled with excel sior and having a cover made of large handkerchiefs, is a pillow just as much as its neighbor, a ribbon-embroidered, silk head rest. Inez Red ding, in tho Boston Cooking School Magazine. DRIFT OF WOMEN TO CITIES. The tide of all classes of humanity towar.d3 cities is noticeable, and in most cases is unfortunate, but par ticularly is this the case with young girl3. Remember that in every city there are more than enough young women living than are needed in of fices, and in other lines of work, art istic, musical, or otherwise. There are twice as many singers as can se cure employment in church choirs or elsewhere, and the same condition is noticeable in almost every depart ment. Most young women are better off in their native village, or on tho farm, than in the city. We give below the views of a prom inent New York clergyman on this subject: "There are serious sides to this question of the restlessness of these young women who think their home village slow and that they-must leave them to come to the glow and glam our of the great city. For the rest lessness is growing. The study of art may have been the original in centive, but it has, in thousands of instances nowadaysf come to be only the excuse. Thousands of even the honest and conscientious girls fail, and are bound to fail. There is no call for so much art, and it is by no means certain that they could re spond to the call did it etist. These young women come on their own re sponsibility. They have passed no examination to see whether they are qualified to study art. Failure is certain under such circumstances. "How many come from the villages of the Central West- to New York ev ery year? I do not know. But their numbers must, run into thousands. In single years in the past hundreds have come under my notice, and yet I was pastor of but one congregation out of 1000 in Greater New York. This movement not only brings suf fering, often intense agony to these your.? women"; but the -movement, which seems to mo to bo growing, threatens the destruction of home life, which is the salvation of the country. What a pity that these young women are infected with the idea that to be married and to settle down to a home life in a small village is beneath them. As a pastor of many years, acquainted with life in a great city, with Its attractions and their utter hollowness, with art de mand and art necessity, I urge young women everywhere to remain in the village where God has cast their lives, and to give many, many serious thoughts to a matter so grave as com ing to a city." Green's Fruit Grjw er. ' w MINT VINEGAR. Fill loosely a large, wide mouth bottle with mint leaves. Pour In vinegar, cork securely, and let it re main for two or three weeks. Then pour off the vinegar into another bottle and keep corked until needed. This is a capital substitute for fresh mint when the latter cannot be oh tained. BOILED FROSTING. Put one cupful of sugar and one third of a cupful of boiling water la a saucepan, and stir, to prevent ad hering to saucepan. Heat to boiling point, and boil without stirring until the syrup will thread. Pour grad ually onto the beaten white of one egg, beating mixture constantly, and continue beating until of right con sistency to spread. Add flavoring, one teaspoonful of vanilla or half a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and pour over the cake, spreading evenly with the back of a spoon. Good Housekeeping. FRUIT PUNCH. Make a syrup by boiling four cup fuls of water and two cupfuls of sugar twenty minutes. Separate twelve sprigs of fresh mint in pieces, add one and one-half cupful3 of boil ing water, cover, and let stand in a warm place ten minutes; then strain and add to syrup. Add one cupful of strawberry juice, one cupful of, orange juice and the juice of eight lemons; then cool. Pour into a puneh bowl, add one pint of "grape juice, and chill with a large piece of ice; iilute with water. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and whole strawberries. Serve from a small table in punch glasses Busy Eee. GOLDEN PUDDING. Beat the yolks of three eggs light: add to them one rounding tablespoon ful of butter, half a cupful of sugar, three-quarters of a cupful of milk, a few grains of salt, half a teaspoon ful of lemon extract, three drops nutmeg, one rounding teaspoonful baking powder with flour to make a batter as for a plain cake. Beat un til smooth, add a cup of chopped and floured dates or raisins, place in but tered mould and steam about one hour. For snow sauce heat one cup ful of milk, add to it half a cupful of sugar and a teaspoonful of corn starch mixed with milk, salt to taste, and when cool stir in lightly the beaten whites of three eggs. Flavor with vanilla and serve either hot or cold. Milwaukee Sentinel. I v Scalding hot milk is more effective in removing stains from linen or cot ton fabrics than boiling water. Put a pinch of salt into coal oil lamps for a more brilliant light. For a polish, rub the chimneys with fine salt. Wring a cloth from vinegar and wrap it several thicknesses around cheese to keep it from moulding or drying. Use adhesive plaster to fasten labels to cans or bottles. It is dan gerous to leave either without being ' plainly labeled. If the dining-room has become filled with cooking odors a few drops of the oil of lavender placed in a cup of boiling water will readily remove all traces of the cooking. Melted beef drippings or tallow can be used in the place of paraffin over the top of jelly. Be sure when cold to cover the space around the edge where it has shrunk away from the glass. Add half a teacup of salt to two quarts of water, or in that propor tion, to the lower compartment of a doublf boiler; less time will be re quired to cook the. contents of the lower one. Chopped beef or pork cracklings are good to use in Indian bread, which is usually served warm, or they may be mixed with bread and mashed potato seasoned and fried like sausage. To make perpetual paste, dissolve half an ounce of alum in two teacup fuls of boiling water, beat in an equal weight of flour, add a few drops ot oil of cloves and let boil. This will keep for months. Here is a good use for left-over oat meal: Make a batter as for bread add the oatmeal and beat in well. Put in a little lively yeast, and let stand over night. Add a little salt and soda and bake on a pancake grid dle. An egg or two Is an Improve ment. An old-fashioned feather bed makes a good mattress. For a modern bed stead a few inches of ticking must be added to the width. Spread it on an extension table,- and adjust the feathers evenly. With a darning neddle and two strands of colored wrapping twine, tack evenly at rather short Intervals, using a round piece of kid or soft leather at each placa where the needle Is inserted. , 4 ftp 1T0USE. Ww Hold - W 1 IINXS
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