Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-02-09
Tubby's
Dummy
How an american Met an
ATTACK OF Head Hunters.
By BRADFORD X. DANIELS.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

from the Luzon power plant through
the fruit laden longboi bushes to his
neat little shack upon an Abra hillside.
aud as he mopped the sweat from hi,
tropic bleached forehead he gave low
whistle of surprise. for impaled upon
bamboo stake Mt the turn Of the
path and on n level with his own eyes
was the head OF an Ilocano, its peck
marked face looking straight into his
with n comical leer. ''Humph-did IL
ut one lick" he commented wheeling
~ as he noted the neat way In which
the neck had been severed.
First peering cautiously about him,
he hastily wrenched the head from the
stake. tucked it under the flap of his
wide khaki coat. sauntered on toward
home and. wrapping the head i'm sew
eral layers of the Manila Times. he
carefully concealed 1t in the bottom OF
his trunk.
That evening Tubby. TO Sebastian'S
unbounded surprise. permitted the mu-
chacho to leave an hour earlier than
usual and. wheel the streaming tail or
his caniSa had vanished round the
turn Of the path, took possession OF
the smoke incrusted kitchen with Its
half dozen primitive clay stoves I'M
| betlded in a long trough Of ashes.
When he had kindled a fire in one OF
these Ohe pungent smoke made him
sneeze ami splutter and anathematize
Filipino kitchens in generap he filled
with --ater The largest big bellied jar
among Sehastian's sooty pots and.
fetching out the mysterious head.
dropped it in.
BY boiling and rubbing lie pro-
duced skull which he slowed
once more In the bottom Of his trunk
and retired TO rest under a strictly
first class mosquito bar upon wide
and very comfortable old Spanish bed
that had cost him % pesos.
Somewhat overheated from such un-
usual exertions, Tubby shifted his
bulky form from time to time all over
the wide cane woven bottom of the
old family CANA I'm a vain search fol
, the coolest spot. And rs he puffed
l and squirmed ponderOusly about like
: a stranded prampus he reviewed the
situation. Head hunters, hey" An
| other SQulrm. l'lun u Ike the way
2 turned the river aside from their clus
ter OF vile shacks. so they're giving IN
Z formal notice TO vamoose. Well, 1t
= kind and considerable of 'em, all right
8 but / guess | like the Abra climat
d better than Manila, even IL II Is bi
t bot"-anothcr shift made the be
j creak-"up here this time of yea
y Let's see: they're due tomorrow night.
% And Tubby drew in n long. fshlik
a gasp as certain possibilities were visl
n allied with startling clearness.
AS electrician at the Luzon pow,
e plant Tubby was the only white ma
10 that side Of Vegan, twenty miles ava
lie the force under him consisting Who'll
ID Of 1locanos. OF course he could tel
o phone to Captain Aiken for detac
re ment of constabulary to come up al
Of protect him. but the thought Of 4
r. way the boys would guy him when
Of went back to Manila rendered such
In alternative impossible.
on The following morning Tubby ma
20 glad the heart Of the cook-recen'
saddened by the large amount of ca
OF fully prepared wood that had dis;
ut | peared from the kitchen during
lai nightly giving him and the mucl
,st cho a holiday. as he was going into
at hills to hunt deer. he declared. TT
vii the fat senior ever hunted deer v
news TO them, but they kept their 4
IN plexities to themselves and hasteI
~ to the cockpit in the village. which
ND lazy presidente permitted to be X
sed open on week days In violation of
hip new law OF the loco American
We against the heavenly sport at any 4
on except on Sundays and feast days.
Ind The servants gone. Tubby slip
tch the heavy wooden bar across the d
closed the sliding bamboo wind'
in and in the subdued twilight OF
Dns. shack brought out the skull and Sc
to work. With pillow under his ki
ex- to protect them from the hard ban
% Stats Of which the floor was constr
was ed, he labored over the skull of
obscure and departed IlOcano witt
much thought and care as he w
have bestowed upon the installa
of n new dynamo. Chisels. nal
wires big and little. solder an
soldering po'. white paper. cal
kerosene oil. Il gimlet. to say nOthiI
heaps Of clothing. Uttered the foo
noon. when. with Il satisfied chu
the steaming electrician replaced
hlch sluu I'm rho ,runt stood l.
~ something l.. the dark interior OF
"aparadOr." or big movable cl
and then opened the windows tC
blessed breeze that Glanced t
blowing down from the hills.
. When he had taken shower
NM from tba Il. that hq had riQQQ