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FROM THE PEOPLE BACK HOME. Congressmen Get Word on War Re solves. What Doughton Heard Caused Him to Line Up for the Res olution. For Peace Hut Could Not Aid the Kaiser. Kitchin (Jets Many Telegrams Commending Him For Stand He Took; Will Not lie Oust ed as Leader, Though Feeling Is He Should Resign. Washington, April 6. ? The h:mos phere has cleared and Washington people in and out of public life are be ginning to view the battlefields of this week. The North Carolina honor roll contains the following names: Senator Overman, Senator Simmons; Repre sentative Small, Representative Hood, Representative Pou, Representative Stedman, Representative Godwin, Representative Robinson, Representa tive Doughton, and Representative Weaver. These men stood by their country and by their President, and for their inherited rights. They were brave and strong. Representative Doughton deserves special praise for the stand he took. At heart he is more of a peace advo cate than either Mr. Kitchin or Mr. Webb, but realizing that the die was cast and a vote against the measure could do nothing but give aid and comfort to the Kaiser, he took his place by the side of the friends of the President and the defenders of the rights of his country. He did not talk about war traffickers, persons who will have to pay the taxes, or other im material things but marched up like a man and was counted for his coun try. It was a hard task for Mr. Dough ton; therefore, he deserves all the more credit. Yesterday when in great distress Mr. Doughton wired to people in his district and asked them to sound out the sentiment for him. The responses came in time and they were for the President. Mr. Webb went down under the load. He did not vote but accepted a pair with Representative Hill, of Connecticut, who was for the resolu tion. Mr. Webb's friends would have been happier had he voted against the measure rather than acquitted himself with a pair. The talk of having Mr. Kitchin re sign is nonsense. There will be no formidable move to have him resign as leader of the House. Those who think that he should not continue to hold that position say that it is a matter foi him and his conscience. In a time like this the administration, the country needs men at the front who will be there when the cannons fire. There is a deep-seated feeling that Mr. Kitchin should give up the leader ship voluntarily as he is out of sym pathy with the foreign policy of the administration. While this is true, no man will make a move to have him forced out. Just as the Senate refused to dethrone Senator Stone from the Foreign Relations Committee, the House will refuse to remove Mr. Kitchin. < Kitchin Will Not Pull Back. It is believed, furthermore, that ' frohi this time on Mr. Kitchin will j stand by the President. It is not 1 thought that he will pull back. His ] ?speech of yesterday will be quoted by ; the German officials, by German and ; |iro-Germans in this country; that is i where the real hurt comes. Representative Kitchin received I more than 100 telegrams today. All I except three or four congratulated i him; several charged him with being a traitor. About twenty of the mes sages came from North Carolina peo- < pie. ] T^?- T \1 TnmnlnfAn nf Pnrv \XM rOl\ 1 '1 ? V t 1U> A VTllljptClrVii) V* Vl?? J ) " ?* W? him to the effect that 95 per cent of i the Tar Heels who would have to do the fighting and tax paying approve | his course. i Dr. H. Q. Alexander, of Mecklen-" i burg County, wired from Matthews: ' "People oppose war except to repel in- i vasion. Demand referendum vote." i Dr. Alexander has not been in har mony with President Wilson in years. He essays to speak for "the people" when the truth is, Providence town ship, where he lives, would not sup port him on any proposition. The most interesting telegram Mr. Kitchin had from North Carolina is that of Mrs. Helen Bonner Eshelmann, of High Point, which reads: "As a patriotic American mother and Daughter of Revolution am depend ing upon courageous men like you in Congress to keep us out of Europe's war. Am willing to make any sacri fice to defend my country, but not to protect interests of munition traffick ers. May God direct Congress aright." Others who congratulated Mr. Kitchin are: W. F. Snider, of Salis bury. E. T. Hargrave, Lexington; J. Allen Austin, High Point; J. O. Al derman, Edenton; J. C. Hardin, Nor lina; T. B. Deloache, Burlington. Mr. Doughton's Telegrams. Telegrams received from North Carolina towns by Mr. Doughton yes terday afternoon read as follows: Albemarle: "Our people are sol idly with the President." Lenoir: "Ninety out of hundred strongly favor standing by the Presi dent. Sentiment practically unani mous for resolution since President has asked for its passage." Concord: "Think it is time to de clare war and to fight to the finish.'' Lenoir: "People here solidly behind the President." West Jefferson: "Sentiment let war be last chance. But we stand by Presi dent." Mr. Webb explained his position to day. "I was against the resolution and paired with Hill, of Conn.," , said he. "He was sick and asked to pair with me. He was for the resolution. I would have voted against it. I consulted Kitchin, Clark and Flood. They advis ed to pair. One Republican had al ready paired with Lee, of Georgia. I will be on this like my position would be if a convention had adopted a poli cy 1 was opposed to prior to the con vention. I will support the govern ment." ? H. E. C. Bryant, in News and Observer. ft. il- . s.< V.W> . ri ? W ? ? Cllnedlnst. Captain Victor Blue. The Old Navy Yard at Wilmington. (W. A. Wilson, in State Journal.) I have been asked to write my re collections of the old Navy Yard at Wilmington, N. C. I regret very much not being able to give the full information asked ? names of em ployes, etc., as it has been so long ago. Tho Beery Ship Yard, called the Navy Yard during the war, was own ed and operated by Capt. B. W. Beery and his brother, Mr. W. L. Beery. I kept the books and was time-keeper and paymaster of all the employes. The firm was engaged in ship build ing many years before the war. Tho services of the Beerys and their ship yard was requisitioned early in the war by the C. S. Govern ment. The first work done for the Confederacy was the converting the steam tug Mariner into a privateer, of which the senior partner, Captain Benjamin W. Beery, was i-ommissioned captain by President Davis on July 14, 18(51. The Mariner was 185 tons burthen, equipped with i 16-pound gun, and was manned by Lhirty men. After capturing several prizes, carrying them to New Bern ?nd Beaufort, it was decided that on account of the importance of block ide running between Wilmington and Nassau the port must be protected by warships. So the firm began ship building operations for the Govern ment. The employes of the yard were composed of skilled engineers, me chanics and workmen of various occu pations and were largely detailed from the army and navy, but every man was in the government service. All worked in the construction de partment of the C. S. Navy and un der government control as much as any officer or private of the line. There were over one hundred men employed at the yard and they were divided into two companies C and D. 1 was assigned to Company D. The men were quartered in the City Hall on guard duty from the lat ter part of 18(54 until the fall of Fort Fisher, sleeping with thoir rifles be side them. It is impossible for me to give you the names' of all the men, because several weeks before the fall of Fort Fisher I was sent up to Bladen Coun ty to look after some timber we were getting for ship building. I was so near Laurinburg, where my family were refugees that I asked and re ceived a two-weeks' furlough to go to them. Before the two weeks were over Fort Fisher had fallen and Sher man's army had passed, cutting off communication. Now, when I left to go up into Bladen, I had no access to the books, pay rolls, papers, etc., af terwards. I think Captain Beery had all of them destroyed as I had heard him threaten to do if ever the Yan kees came in sight. We built the Iron-Clad North Car olina. She looked like a big terrapin on the water, and the Steamer Yad kin, a dispatch boat, for Commodore William Lynch, then stationed in Wilmington, a number of other ves I sets and several launches about 20 feet long. ? I remember one or more of these launches were secretly taken from the yard one night and placid aboard a train in charge of Capt. Joseph Price, C. S. N., who filled them with marines and made for New Bern; stole up secretly and captured a Yan kee gunboat, setting her afire and es caped without the loss of a man. Per haps Mrs. Lassie Price, of Wilming ton, could give a more detailed re port of this as well as more of Capt. Price's exploits, for he was a brave and gallant officer. Now let me tell you a little joke about the ship yard. It was situated in a low land adjoining the rice lands on Eagle Island. After the buildings were burned, the lone chimney was left standing, and is there yet. A thick brush or under growth and vines grew up for many yards around, and some thick vines covered the chimney; this green growth was no ticeable across the river to any one looking at the old chimney, but on one occasion the vines around the chimney were noticed to shrivel up and turned a yellowish brown ? this was so much noticed that a party went across the river and after dark sneaked up under the undergrowth to the chimney and found a blockader with a whiskey still in full blast ? of course the dead vine betrayed him. But the old chimney is still stand ing, as I said before, in defiance of Yankees, fire and whiskey. It has been so long, and having no data to go by I can do no more than give a few names of the employes, some of whom were prominent men, whose names I shall append to this article. John H. Hanby, B. F. Penny, W. T. Bannerman, Richard Frazier, fore man; James Howard, foreman. James Burch, Archie Burch, Pittman, Wil liams, Joseph W. Rowell, Samuel Rowland, David Connor, (father of Judge II. G. Connor, U. S. Judge), Ivey Bell, W. R. Beery, W. L. Tart, Benjamin Bushel, Elijah Hancock, Charles Hobbs, William Bryan, John G. Barnes (living) William Patter son, William Burch, Sylvester Riley, James W. Barnes, Thomas Dugett, Capt. Watson, H. R. Kuhl (living). Good Fences a Necessity. Good fences are a necessity for the growing of good livestock. Indeed, good fences are probably necessary to the best farming. To build good fences costs money and this cost forms one of the chief obstacles to the growing of good livestock. The fencing problem is one of the real problems of the Southern' farmer. Whatever is to be done in the fenc ing line this year should probably be done now. There is nothing more annoying than to have our own live stock break out of the pastures and get into our neighbor's crops unless it is to have our neighbor's stock get into our own crops. There is no more i fruitful cause of trouble between < neighbors than poor fences. The scrub ! bull or boar seems to have a most re markable faculty of finding the weak places in the fence and consequently < fencing is a necessity in all lines of i stock raising. If the cost is too great then livestock should not be kept. Fencing for cattle is not so expen sive, but hogs require good fences. Just as we would not advise a man to raise beef or dairy cattle without pastures, we insist that pastures are also essential to economical hog pro duction. Not simply a woods pasture or a place to confine the hogs, but fencing of fields where special grazing crops for hogs are grown. Unless this can be done and ample grazing for all livestock provided by the fencing of large enough areas, we think it un wise to keep any livestock. So let us regard the fencing prob lem as a real one and go to work to solve it in a busines-like way. ? Pro gressive Farmer. Saw Mill and Much Lumber Burned. Mr. J. A. Vinson suffered a very heavy loss by fire which broke out in one of his mills near Kniphtsdale last Saturday, dt^troyinp: the plant and nearly a million feet of lumber. The fire was not extinguished until Mon day and then not until much hard work had been done by Mr. Vinson and a number of his men. The loss was partly covered by insurance. ? Clayton News, 5th. < < For sale by Creech Prut? Co., Smith field; R. C. I^assiter & Co., Four Oaks; and all good dealers. ? Adv. DOWNY WOODPECKER [<ryobatea ^ubfKtni .. ? . J Length, six inches. Our smallest woodpecker; spotted with black and white. Dark bars on the outer tail feathers distinguish it from the simi larly colored but larger hairy wood pecker. Range: Resident In the United States and the forested parts of Can ada. and Alaska. Habits and economic status: This woodpecker is commonly distributed, living in woodland tracts, orchards, and gardens. The bird has several characteristic notes, and, like the hairy woodpecker, is fond of beating on a dry resonant tree branch a tat too which to appreciative ears has the quality of woodland music. In a hole excavated in a dead branch the downy woodpecker lays four to six eggs. This and the hairy woodpecker are among our most valuable allies, their food consisting of some of the worst toes of orchard and woodland, which the woodpeckers are especially equipped to dig out of dead and living wood. In the examination of 723 stomachs of this bird, animal food, mostly insects, was found to con stitute 76 per cent of the diet and vegetable matter 24 per cent. The animal food consists largely of beetles ! that bore into timber or burrow under the bark. Caterpillars amount to 16 per cent of the food and include many especially harmful species. Grasshop per eggs are freely eaten. The vege table food of the downy woodpecker consists of small fruit and seeds, most ly of wild species. It distributes seeds of poison ivy, or poison oak, which is about the only fault of this very use ful bird. TO LET WOMEN VOTE. Prince Lvoff Declares Eor Extension of Suffrage. London, April 5. ? Women will be allowed to vote in the elections to the constituent assembly in Russia, says Reuter's Petrograd correspondent. The correspondent adds that Prince Lvoff, premier in the provisional gov ernment, has so informed a deputa tion of women who waited upon him. Judge these Eon Bons by a trial CHOCOLATES Extra Superb New Creams ? contains only Nougats, Nuts, Fruits, Nutted Caramels, Maras chino Cherries, ctc. CQc per pound La Trlomphe de Pcr/cccon In a beautiful linked top box. Contains no Creams ? cr.'.y Nougats, Nuts, Fruiis, Maraschino Cherries, Nutted Caramrls, ctc. The la~t v/ord Li ihc confectioners' art. C 1 .CO per pound ?neclwl iJacka?e, ?1.25 per pound Not cn sr.'o unless Absolutely fresh There is a s'ors in your town that sells Block's Candies. It will pny you to End this store. For Sale by CREECH DRUG CO., Smithfield, N. C. TURNER'S NORTH CAROLINA Almanacs for 1917 now on sale at The Herald Office. Price ten cent* Take Advertising With You (C. B. Clark, in The Harvester World.) Advertising is not the Locomotive ? It is the ribbon of steel over which your salesman ship advances. Advertising is not the Dynamo ? It is the 1,000 c. p. arc which illuminates your prop osition. Advertising is not the Automobile ? It is the gasoline which puts power into your sales engine. Advertising is not the Physician ? It is the prescription which renews overworked sales arguments. Advertising is not the Grain Binder ? It is the twine that binds personal forces into effec tive efforts. Advertising is ndt the Typewriter ? It is the ribbon that words clearly your best argu ments. Advertising is not the Elevator ? It is the cable by which salesmanship rises to its highest efficiency. Advertising is not you ? It is your grip ? your shoes ? your hat. Without it you are handicapped ? lamed for compe tition, weakened, unfortified, unprotected. With Advertising ? confidently face the severest blizzards, travel the roughest roads, mount the steepest pinnacles, accomplish giant feats of sales manship. Take Advertising with you wherever you go. Wrhile you work ? keep it at work. While you play it will work. While you sleep it will be on the job. Salesmanship alone fights a hard battle ? though it win. With Advertising, battles become skirmishes, sieges momentary set-backs, extended campaigns day's engagements. Full traveling equipment for sales success, now-a days ever includes Advertising among its necessi ties. If you would win ? Take Advertising with you. Send Your Orders For Job Printing fo Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield, N. C. Books for Children I The average child likes a Book, and the parent who provides his child with a good Book, is doing a good deed. We have in the list below a few Books suitable for Chil dren from four to ten years of age. We have one copy each of the following: Squinty, the Comical Pig 50c |j Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit 50c I Pilgrims Progress, in words of one syllable 25c I The Tale of Brownie Beaver 40c i The Adventures of Reddy Fox 50c I The Adventures of Johnny Chuck 50c 1 Mr. Possum's Great Balloon Trip 50c I Mr. Rabbit's Big Dinner 50c I How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail 50c How Mr. Dog Got Even 50c l Making Up With Mr. Dog 50c [ When Jack Rabbit Was a Little Boy 50c l For Older Children J Waste Not, Want Not Stories 50c ? Bird World, by Stickney and Hoffman 50c k Books for Boys [ The Woodcraft Manual, by E. S. Thompson 50c [ Lives of the Presidents, by E. S. Ellis 50c Civil War Stories ? From St. Nicholas 50c Life of Thomas A. Edison 50c George Washington, by W. O. Stoddard 50c [ Herald Book Store ! f Smithfield, N. C. Turner's North Carolina Almanac for 1917 Bigger and Better than Ever Before. The Almanac that our Fathers and Grandfathers kept by the Fireside and consulted daily. One man says the jokes alone in it are worth a Dollar. Price 10 Cents each. The Herald Office Smithfield, N. C. tttttiiiiiiiiiiiiif 1 1 tin 1 1 1 tit i m i ? i ??
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