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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Among Head-Hunting CannibaIs.

The Minota was a teak-built, Au-
Strali&n Nacht, ketch-rigged, long and
lean. with deep fin-keel, and design
ed for harbor racing rather than for
recruiting blacks. When Chairman
and I came on board we found her
crowded. Her double boats-crew, in
Guiding substitutes. was fifteen, and
she had score and more of return
boys, whose time on the plantations
was served and who were bound back
to their disadvantages. To look at.
they were certainly true head-hunt-
ing cannibals. Their perforated nos
trils were thrust through with bone
and wooden bOdkins the size of lead
pencils. Numbers of them had pune
tured the extreme meaty part of the
nose, from which protruded, straight
out, spikes of turtle-shell or of beads
strung on stiff wire. A few had fur
Their punctured their noses with rows
of holes following the curves of the
nostrils from lip to point. Each ear
of every man had from two to dozen
holes in it-holes large enough to
carry wooden plugs three inches in
were carried clay-pipes and similar
trifies. In fact, so many holes did
they possess that they lacked orna-
ments to fill them; and when, the fol-
lowing day, as we neared Malaita,
we tried out our rifles to see if they
were IN working Oruer, Inere was a
general scramble for the empty car
tridges, which were thrust forthwith
into the many aching Voids in our
passengers ears.
At the time we tried out our rifles
we put up our barbed-wire ratings.
The Minota, crown-decked, without
any house. and with a rail six inches
high, was too accessible to boarders.
SO brass stanchions were screwed into
the rail and a double row of barbed-
wire stretched around her from stem
to stern and back again. Which was
all very well as a protection from
savages, but 1t was mighty uncom-
Portable to those on board when the
Minota took to jumping and plunging
in sea-way.-Jack London, in the
June Pacific Monthly
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% CENTS BUYS ENTIRE
ESTATE OF EX-PUGuIST

NEW YOR K-Special.-
the smallest estate ever administered
in this city was settled when Public
Administrator John T. Robinson, of
Queens, Monday gave % cents to the
City Chamberlain to be held subject
to the claims of the heirs of old Bill"
Portland, negro. To reach this set
Element a land developing company.
by which Portland had been employed
up 70 his removal to the Flushing
Hospital, where he died a few weeks
ago, had to petition the Surrogate
of Queens county.
Many years ago "Bill" was a heavy
weight bare-knuckle fighter and fig
ured in battles in Harry Hills resort
on the shore of Flushing Bay When
his lighting days were over he had no
money, so he became a Waterman for
realty company. After his death
the company wished to get possession
of the shanty in which he had lived.
so the Surrogate was requested to ap-
point an administrator.
Mr.. Robinson found a trunk. cloth
ing and a large brass ring in which
was set big piece of cut glass, back
ed with quicksilver. When cutting A
dash in his better days Bill always
wore this ring, which his admirers
mistook for a diamond.
A junkman, attracted by the ring.
bought the entire estate for 25 cents.
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WILL HEAD
THE CONSOLIDATION BANK.

RICHMOND, VA.-Special.-W. NJ.
Habliston of the National Bank
of Virginia, is to be the presi-
dent of the bank after consolidation
with the Bank of Richmond, and
John SHELTON Williams will be first
present the cashier of the National
Bank of Virginia, will be the cashier
of the consolidated bank.
Mr.. Addison stated that there had
been no official action as yet. II have
heard that Mr.. Habliston has been Sc
lected by influential men of both banks
for the presidency and that I will be
named cashier. 1 can only hope it Is
SO, but have as yet received no noti-
fication to that effect"
There can be no doubt but what
this is the program, however. though
officially il has not been announced.
Mr.. Williams is in New York. An
other vice president is to be named,
and it is expected that this Office will
be filled by Frederick Noting, vice
president of the Bank of Richmond.
This appointment has not been off,
cially made yet, either, but it is I'M
derstood that il will he made.
Acting Cashier II. a. Williams, OF
to give out this morning. "I know
nothing of the terms of consolida-
tion?" he said.
The capital stock of the CONSOLE
dated bank will be s1,2OO.O0O. and
the surplus will he 100000, and de-
posits close to 100000.
The new board of directors will be
chosen equally from the directors of
the Bank of Richmond and the Ma
tional Bank of Virginia The con-
solidated bank will occupy the site OF
the Bank of Richmond.
John Shelton Williams is the pres
ent head of the Bank of Richmond;
Frederick Noting, vice president, and
III. A. Williams, acting cashier. w.
NJ. Habliston is president of the Ma
tional Bank of Virginia; w. Meade
Addison. cashier, and o. S. Morton,
assistant cashier.
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LEAP INTO INLET TO
ESCAPE RAIDING POLICE

S ia NJ F ORD, NN.-Special.-
Darien constables raided Monday a
"speakeasy" at Collender's Point at
the entrance TO a section containing
the homes of wealthy summer resi-
dents. among whom are John ID. Grim
Minis, Mrs. William Ziegler. A. II. Rem
shaw, j. a. Trowbridge and Arson
Phelps Stokes.
The conStables found a little back
room of the place filled with men,
many of whom were drinking. When
the constables burst in the drinkers
fled in dismay through a rear door
opening upon an inlet of Long Island
Sound and leaped off the veranda into
the water. The tide was out and the
fugitives fioundered in mud up to their
waists.
One man stuck in the mud and was
unable to eXtricate himself. The con-
stables hauled him out. The proprie-
tor Of the place. Fault Farrara, was
fined SIS and costs.
The raid followed complaints made
by the Collender's Point summer resi-
dents.
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Tho origin of the ..NIarseilIaisc.' -

In the reign OF terror under Freron
and BarraS-when hundreds of vic
TINS were carved by the guillotine,
and the people rose against the aris-
tocracy. was born the hymn of France,
composed 10y Rouget de llsle lie was
an officer of engineers. and at ban
1uet was asked TO compose war song.
lie wrote it in his room that night
before going 70 bed, and the next
morning his hostess. the wife Of tnc
Mayor OF Strasbur-c tried il on piano
and i'm the aftcrnO,. The orchestra OF
the theater played "a IN the square
Of Strasburg. whore 2 created much
excitement and gatnt. / many vOlun-
teers. ROuget called e a song for the
Army of the Rhine. q subsequently
il was sung by a reGiuont of vOlun-
teers. mostly ASA ssius. Who marched
out of NIarseilleS to Paris, where it
was appropriated by the capital and
called the Hymne deS Marseallais. But
Joseph Rouget, the author, died in
pOverty-DeSler Welch, in Harper
Magazine for June.
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CHARGES HER HUSBAND
WITH ASSAULTING HER.

RICHMOND, VA.-Special-J G.
Dunbrower, plumber, of 209 Gov
ernor Street, was arrested Friday
morning by Acting Detective Louis r.
Kellam on a warrant sworn out by his
wife, who charges him with aSSaulting
and striking her
In addition to this, Dunbrower is
further charged with Kidnapping his
twenty-five months old child, a pretty
haXen-haired girl.
Dunbrower and his wife, ii would
appear, have been estranged for some
time. Mrs. Dunbrower has been liv-
ing at sos North Tenth Street.
Dunbrower went to the home of his
o'clock, and, it is alleged, brutality
beat her.
Rushing from the house, she hur-
ried for assistance, leaving the child
alone, not divining the subsequent ac-
ton of the man.
Upon returning she discovered that
both Dunbrower and the child had
disappeared. She Immediately re-
ported the matter to the police, charg-
ing Dunbrower with kidnapping.
Acting Detective Kellam was detail
ed on the case, and shortly after
wards located Dunbrower, together
father. The man was placed under
arrest and the infant surrendered to
Mrs. Dunbrower.
Dunbrower was bailed in the sum
OF $50 for his appearance in the Po-
lice Court tomorrow morning. Jacob
Cohen, an attorney, acted as bonds
man. He incidentally remarked, IL is
said, that he would not represent Dun
brewer, however.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
Sporting Instincts of Ternatenese.

AS sportsmen the Ternatenese Gin
habitants of the little-known Island
of Ternate) are as good as their
brethren in Java and elsewhere. Arm
ed with a rife they will bring down
scores of birds with magnificent plum
age, amongst them the birds of para
disc. for which they obtain from four
to five dollars per bird. Another ia
vorite form of sport is the catching
of fish and a kind of tortoise, called
"tripang" This is done on dark
nights, when the "tripangs" come to
the surface of the water to breathe.
on showing themselves they are
caught with a native-made harpoon.
The natives are great experts in re-
moving the valuable shell from the
back of the tortoise by the cruel pro-
cess of holding the poor creatures
over a fire Very often they are still
alive after their natural covering has
been removed, and in this case they
are thrown back into the sea, where
they are allowed to grow another
shell-a long and slow process
Small sharks are caught in a very
original way. About a dozen dry CO.
coanut-shells are strung together and
thrown into the sea. They make a
dull noise on touching the water, and
so cause the sharks to come up and
see what is going on, when they are
caught with harpoons by the expert
fishermen.-From "a Quaint King
DOM" in the June Wide World Maya
zine,
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plural Subjects with singular VERBS

The principal difficulty with the
rule that two singlar nouns. united
by the conjunction and, must have the
verb in the plural is that there is no
lish than il does, for instance. in Ger
man, or for that matter I'm Latin, from
the grammars of which il has been
foisted upon us. by this is meant
that there is no rule which I'm such
circumstances imperatively requires
the verb TO be in the plural. There
would be little objection 10 stating
il as a general principle. were ample
allowance made for the cases to which
IL does not apply. In the majority Of
instances the construction with the
plural is something more than the
one. But there is a respectable mi
nority i'm which the use of the singu-
lar verb is more idiomatic and there
fore distinctly more desirable.
1t is consequence of this view that
the number proper to be employed in
any given phrase depends largely on
the conception of unity or diversity
which il is sought to convey. 1t there
fore cannot be decided by any alb
stract cut-and-dried rule. Do the two
or more words forming the subject
blend into one idea in the mind Of
the speaker or writer Does he seek to
make the fact of that blending prOmi-
nent? In such n case the singular
verb should be chosen in order to
cause the conception of oneness to be
controlling. If, on the other hand.
there is no such feeling of unity of
impression-aS in four cases out of
five there is not-the plural number
is the one to be employed. But the
point, here to be made emphatic, is
that in the large domain lying be-
tween the extremes the use of the
particular number rests in the discre-
ton of the writer and not at the die
tation of the critic. The former may
subject himself to just cencure for re-
sorting to the wrong one. if he lacks
the constituencies to idiom which
comes from the possession of genius
or from intimate familiarity with the
best usage.
But far more likely is the latter to
blunder when he sets out to make a
universal and indiscriminate applica-
ton of a rule which is subject to man.
fold eXceptions.-Tho r. Louns-
bury, in Harper's Magazine for June.
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WANTS RETURN
OF LITTLE WIFE
Man in North Carolina Writes a
Plaintive Letter-She Weighs
1910 Pounds and Is Slender.

RIG II NJ OND, Vas pee a l.
Mayor Richardson received a thrilling
letter when he came to his office Friday
morning after several days alb
sence. The names of those concerned
in it are eliminated, but otherwise il
is as follows:
To mayer of the town dear sirI notih
you to look out for my wife and Mr..
the man hoo takin
my wife away from Rocky mt. n. C. on
April % 1910 he was running as news
boy from Richmond Va to Whining
ton. n. G. waite 40 Ibis black hair
black eyes dark complexion cloast
built clean shave heith about 5 feet an
a half heith.
My wife ways about 1910 pounds
slendr built drupe sholders lite COM
pleXion ORION hair yellow brown eyes
age 80 Pail Complexion She wore off
a lite tennis tan coat suite arrest my
wife and Motif me With kind regards
yours truly
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WILLIAM SEYLER
IS GIVEN FREEDOM
Man Accused of Murder of Pretty Jane
Adams on Atlantic City's Mil
lion Dollar Pier.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. Especial
William I. Seyler, who was acquitted
last night of the murder of pretty
little Jane Adams on the Million Dol
lar Pier, arrived at his home from
Mays Landing early Friday. He was
loudly cheered by a crowd at the sta
ton.
Although I had no fear of the out
come" he said. Il am very thankful
for the jury's verdict. and l am CRATE
full to everyone who has stuck by me.
Il am not going TO run away, but
will remain in Atlantic City, unless
the people make 1t too unpleasant for
me and my family.
Il will at once try to obtain a po-
sition, and hope that before long the
sad occurrence will be forgotten.
Il have heard rumors that in case
harm. j do not fear anything of that
sort. and shall stay in the city unless
/ feel that II is TO my advantage to
go elsewhere"
In marked contrast to the day that
William Seyler and his brother, Orvis.
were brought back to this city after
their arrest, was the scene of their
arrival here.
IT appeared almost incredible that
the men. who had been hooted, Kissed
and threatened as they stepped from
the train on their way TO police head
pudi lSIS WHeH lnSy were DrOuSnt Dac k
from Virginia only three months ago.
should have received the ovation that
was given them on their return as
free men.
AS the train drew into the station
hundreds of persons were waiting, and
when the brothers stepped to the plat
form they held a regular reception.
Men who before had turned their
backs on them rushed forward in an
endeaVor to be the first to grasp their
hands.
'Hurrah for the Seyler boys" some
one in the crowd cried, and the words
were taken up by the hundreds who
pressed about the Seylers and almost
swept them from their feet. The ac-
quilted man FASTENED to his home and
the wife who has been loyal to him.
Their meeting was pathetic.
Mrs. Seyler threw her arms about
her husbands neck and drew him in
to the house.
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personnel OF the committee now serv-
ing.
Mr.. Cutchins could not be found
that day. and Mr.. Lynch is on the ex-
listing committee.
Mr.. Peters. that day. was standing
In front OF the Commercial Hotel. and
The Journal reporter asked him II the
report of this tentative committee was
correct. He said that II il was he
would not tell IL TO a Journal repre-
sentative.
Asked why. he said that The Jour
nal. on the day of the original publica-
ton, had misrepresented the story Of
the affair
That story was written in the main
by gentleman whose name is Syno-
nym for respect. and kindliness-Evan
r. Chesterman.
1t is nothing more than fair to say
that neither DIR. Miller nor MIR. Brown
had a part in this course
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MADRIz FORCES
FALLING BACK
Field Guns Operated by Soldiers
of Fortune from the United
States Army-Sharpshoot-
ers Pick Out Trench Dig
ers as They Work.

BLUEFIELDS. - Special. = The
Madriz forces are now falling
back and the Government army
Is likely TO lose the advantage it
has gained in view of the fact
that IL il apparently demOralized.
AS the army of Madriz fell back
under the heavy rain of shells,
again and again il attempted to
hold it's ground. throwing up
trenches about the city. The sol
diers were killed as they dug the
the efforts of the American hold
bitches, picked of by the field
guns operated by the American
soldiers of fortune or picked off
by the SharpShOOters from the
States.
With the fortunes of the insurgents
almost from the first dependent or
the Nicaraguan war is now clearly
more a struggle between Americans
than between Central Americans. MeI
from the States form the backbone Of
each army.
Schooner Is Searched.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 26.-
The State Department was advised by
United States Consul Moffitt at Blue.
fields today that the American owned
schooner Elfuerzo, of Nicaragua reg.
lister and flying the Nicaraguan flag
has been stopped fifteen miles of
Bluenelds by the Venus, the Madris
gunboat, and searched.
The department today said it /.
without information concerning the
fighting at Bluehelds
1t is also maintaining a silence al
to what its next move will be in tn,
Nicaraguan situation and Will not dis
cuss the orders given to Commando
Gilmer, of the Cruiser Paducah, ex
cept to state that the United States
will not permit fighting in Bluefield
under any conditions. The fact tina
the vessel held up was not flying tn,
American flag puts a different aspec
on the case. The situation is compli
Gated, however, by the fact that tn
United States does not recognize tn
Madriz faction, which is operating tn
Venus as the constitutional govern
ment of Nicaragua. Tt is understood
according to diplomatic authorities
that from the viewpoint Of the Unite,
States the Venus committee a piratica
action In holding UP the ElfuerZo.
That some action concerning the pos
sible future acts of the Venus is to b
taken by the United States seems Ger
tain. Owing to the fact that Wash
ington and New Orleans are overru
with secret agents of both Estrada an
Madriz, the State Department is no
making public any plans of action tina
Commander Gilmer may be directed {
execute.
The department has no information
concerning todays report of the dealt
of Estrada in BluenefIss
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RICHMOND PROBABLY HAS
ABOUT 10000 PEOPLE

r &c H OND, VA.-Spe cial-
While Supervisor Moore, of the
Third Census District, still refuses to
make public the population of Greater
Richmond under the new census, hav-
ing strict orders TO that effect, all in
dicationS point to the correctness of
the estimate made several weeks ago
oy The Journal, of between $4,000
and 10000.
Building Inspector Beck states that
there are little more than $4,000
occupied homes in the city. Five mem
bers to a family is generally accepted
as the average, but as in many of
the homes there are more than one
family, sometimes as many as three or
four, it is safe TO place the number
to home as seven. Seven times 49,
600 is 1875, 900.
Another method of computation is
TO take the number of pages returned
TO Washington by the census supervis-
ors and multiply this number 10y the
number of names TO a page. This is
very unsatisfactory method, however
as all of the pages are not entirely
nlled. From Richmond there will be
sent to Washington about l 500 pages.
There is room on each page for 100
names. and if every page were filed
the city's population would be 10000.
But it is probable that the average
is not more than IS. Multiplying this
number by 1900, we get the city's
population to be 127.500.
If the amount made by each of the
$50 enumerators employed could be
ascertained il would be easy to as
certain the city's population. as the
rate of pay of the enumerators is
known. One enumerator made S160.
and as the average rate paid per name
is two and half cents. he must have
secured $500 names. On the other
hand another enumerator working at
two cents per name. earned only $1.3S,
showing that he secured only sixty
nine names.
The first method Of estimating is
about the best that can he employed.
showing 126. 900 for the city.
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LYNCHBURG, VA.-Special.-Dr.
Waugh bulletin concerning the con-
dition of Senator Daniel is as follows:
There has not been any special
change in Senator Daniels condition
during the past few days. He is in
every way in as good condition as he
has been for the past several weeks.
For the past two days he has not
talked much, and l have not urged
him to do so especially. He has been
comparatively free from delirium.
and has slept a good deal by day and
by night. He has been taking his
nourishment with more relish at tim es
recently than usual. He is a little less
irritable than he was a few days ago"
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SPEAKER CANNON
IS A CHEAP EATER

WASHINGTON, D. Especial
Speaker Cannon has solved the prob
lem of the high cost of living. He ex-
planned his system to one hundred
visiting school boys of New York and
Philadelphia. He says he spends only
ten cents a day for breakfast, taking
but a cup of coffee and an egg sand
wien. He declared that when he is
recklessly eXtravagant he spends a
nickel more for an orange.
when boy 1 learned to keep
within my income" he said. Now L
am able to do it, and thus can save a
little for a rainy daY."
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MEASLES CAUSES
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE

STANTON, VA.-Speclal.-On
account OF the prevalence OF
measles the Virginia school for
Deaf and Blind closed this morn
ing, earlier than usual, and with
out the formal commencement ex-
ercises. Diplomas were awarded
to v. Aubrey Terry, OF Richmond;
Virginia Harris, of Locust Greek;
Stephens Lindsay, OF OCala, all I'm
the literary department., and Ira
Brunl< I'm piano tuning. Medals
went TO Horton Barker for voice;
John Hunter, for scholarship; Au-
brey Terry. instrumental music;
Stephens Lindsay, instrumental
music.
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William and OrVis Seyler were ar
rested in a factory in Petersburg, Va.
about ten days after the body of Jane
Adams was washed up on the beach at
Atlantic City. They had left the big
resort Immediately after the disap-
pearance of the girl.
The Seylers formerly lived in Ches-
terfield county and in Petersburg. Two
Atlantic City detectives visited the
Cockade City and placed the brothers
under arrest as they lay in bed one
midnight in a boarding house. They
were taken back to Mays Landing
\. j., and placed in Jail. They passed
through Richmond.
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Governor,s Father Die.

DOVER. DELA-Special.-De en-
tered the home OF the Governor OF
Delaware yesterday evening. taking
Simeon Pennewill. father OF Governor
Simeon s. Pennewill and OF Chief Jus
tice James Pennewill.
He was eighty-five years old and he
said he was the happiest man i'm the
world" at the age of eighty-fOur on
the center of the stage OF the Dover
Opera House when he saw his young
est son, Simeon. sworn in as Governor
of his State, with his son, James, adj
ministering the oath.
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Particular Diner.

''What was that man making such
a fuss about?" asked the restaurant
proprietor.
HE found a couple of hairs in the
food, sir" replied the waiter.
"Oh, is that all?"
''You see, sir, he's a vegetarian, and
you can't get him to eat anything but
vegetA bles."-Yonkers Statesman.