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Page Four THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Friday, October 11, 1963 THE NEW BERN MIRROR Published Every Fridey at StO Pollock Street New Bern, N. C., by the Sole Owner j. GASKiLL McDaniel Editor and Publisher subscription RATES: One Year. $2.50 SixMonths $1.25 Entered as second-class mail at New Bern April 4, 1958, under the act of March 3, 1879. THEY'RE GONE Having a National Save The Horse Week to honor nags and mules is a wonderful idea, but New Bern’s horse population will never hear about it. The trusted steeds won’t know about it, because thgy’ve been dead these many years. Paying compli ments to a deceased horse, or a mule that stopped kicking long ago, is as futile as bailing out the ocean with a thimble. You just don’t get anywhere, no matter how much you try. Maybe it’s different out in Colorado, where the Denver Post started this whole idea. And of course, it’s different on television, where horses gallop across the screen in much the same ratio that ants and flies show up at a Sunday school picnic in July or August. It wasn’t waning popularity, but the march ‘ of modern gadgets that consigned New Bern’s forlorn hayburners to oblivion. There was nothing but oblivion waiting remaining, when the horsepower in gasoline engines and the watts in electric voltage replaced bit, harness and reins. First casualty here, or certainly one of the first, was the steed who pulled a local trash wagon, and doubled as a fire horse. The fire truck and garbage truck put him out of commission, even as tractors eliminated most horses and mules on Craven county farms. Then, of course, the good old dray horse that used to come into your backyard with a load of dry kiln or slabs met his doom too. Those modern gas and electric stoves, replacing the old wood range that your Ma cooked wonderful vittles on, sentenced him to certain extinction. You need not be told what happened to the horse that pulled the ice wagon. You got to know hini real well as a kid, when you hopped on the back step of this enchanted conveyance, and scooped up chips of frozen pleasure while the ice man was deliver ing a 50-pound lump to Mrs. Jones, on the second floor of the house across the way. The ice-wagon horse was a nice horse. Much nicer, as we recall, than the spirited critter at the front of the milk wagon. He would take a nip at you, if you tried to pat him, and the horse that provided mo mentum for the bread truck was just as ornery. But the ice-wagon horse was gentle, or maybe he was perpetually tired. Anyhow, he obeyed the ice man’s commands with unfaltering precision. The ice man called to him from the sidewalk, or porches, and his horse would take a few steps along the oyster- shelled street until he was right smack in front of the house where the next customer lived. The most patient horse of all, however, was the trash horse that tumbled into a hole up to his neck, when Metcalf street caved in near the corner of Pol lock. If he was the least bit surprised, he didn’t show it, and he waited with astounding dignity while em ployees of the city labored to extricate him from his unexpected predicament. And we’ve told the story before about the mo mentous morning when a run-away mule from James City headed straight for Mitchell’s hardware store, and dropped dead the moment he entered the estab lishment. Friends of the popular proprietor, Tom Mitchell, (the father of Buzz and Johnnie) joshed him to a fare- thee-well about the matter. One wag insisted that the mule keeled over when he found out how much Tom wanted for a set of horse shoes. All in all. New Bern’s horses were good citizens. They never got drunk, snitched nickels out of the col lection plate on Sunday morning, or lived beyond their means. It’s fitting that they’re being appreciated, along with America’s other horses and mules, but why did it have to happen too late? FRY BONDED BUILT-UP ROOFING -Call For Froo Estimates- R. E. BENGEL 1311 N. Craven St. SHEET METAL WORK Dial ME 7-3404 Historical Gleanings -By- ELIZABETH MOORE “HOW EACH STATE CAME BY ITS NAME” 1868-1871 “LOUISIANA: When LaSalle in Ms voyage of discovery reached the mouth of the Miss issippi he claimed for his Sov- ereigh Louis the Great, all the Country watered by that stream and Its tributaries, and called it in his honor. The name has been retained by only a very small portion of that vast territory, but it covers the spot where the column and cross were planted in April 1682, by the Great explorer. ‘The CreoleState’and'Creoles’ are well known designations. “MAINE: The wife of Charles I, had already been remember ed in the naming of Maryland and as it was the desire of those having charge of the mat ter to pay still further homage to that branch of the Royal family, it became necessary, it seems for them to cross the English channel, and make the new American Province a namesake of the French Pro vince of Maine of which the King’s consort happened to be the landed proprietor. Maine is ‘The Pine Tree State' and its people are ‘Foxes'-plne trees and foxes being plenty. It is sometimes dubbed, ‘The Lumber State’. “MARYLAND; Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, sup plied this name; as Maryland appears to be without a so briquet, let one be furnished it in ‘The Bivalve State’. The na tives are called ‘Craw Thump ers’ “MASSACHUSETTS: This is another one of Indian origin, and according to some author ities signifies, ‘The Country of Hills’ while others maintain that ‘Blue Hills’ is the correct in terpretation. The name is ‘Bay State’ from the bay on the eastern coast, and the natives are ‘Bay Staters’. “MICHIGAN: This is also a word of Indian derivation, the meaning of which is ‘Great Lake’;....bordering on five lakes, from one of wMch it was named Michigan is appro priately called ‘The Lake State’ The wolves, however, have fur nished another title in ‘The Wolverine State’, inhabited by ‘Wolverines’. “MINNESOTA: Is so called from the river of that name. The word is of Dakota origin de noting according to Schoolcraft, ‘bluish green water’, ‘Minne’ water, and ‘Solato’ bluish green. Featherstonhaugh, how ever, says ‘The Indian name of the St, Peters is Mlnnaysotor'- or ‘turbid waters’. It has three fictitious names; ‘The North Star State’. ‘The LandofLakes’ and ‘The Gopher State’ peopled by ‘Gophers’. “MISSISSIPPI: The significa tion of this word in its applica tion to the river from which the State received its name is pop ularly but erroneously supposed to be ‘The Father of Waters’, The true definition is ‘Great River’, and comes from the com Dination of two Algonquin words ‘Missl’ great and‘seppe’ river. Mississippi is the‘Bayou THERE'S NO PARKING PROBLEM AT ROSS BARBER SHOP 13M Old Cherry Point Rood Village Verses WHEN DAY IS DONE In sunset clouds, a blaze of red and gold Brings us a promise of smiles after tears; God’s sunset clouds, they renew dreams of old. And paint the hopes of fadpd yesteryears. Each saddened heart finds sincere sympathy. As twilight draws the curtain for its play; Beneath a scene of bright hued majesty. The night comes down, to softly kiss the day. —JGMcD. state’ and from ll.i many out lets, and the residents are dub bed ‘Tap poles’. “MISSOURI: Another river name given to a state—it has the meaning of ‘Great Mud Water’ or ‘Great Murky Water’ though one authority pretends that the ture one is ‘Canoe’ and that is first appears on Marquette’s map, as Wemls- souret. TMs last statement is correct. The state is the land of the ‘Pewkes’ and is with out a sobriquet. “NEBRASKA: This is acorn- pound Sioux word that signifies ‘Water Valley’, Ne, the water; and Abraska Valley. It is also without a fancy name, though its inhabitants are noted ‘BUG EASTERS’. “NEVADA: The Spanish for ‘Snow Clad’, which charac terizes the mountain range of that name to the west of the State. This is the ‘Sage-hen State’ and the boys and girls are all ‘Sage-hens’, without re gard to sex, and are probably very wise, “NEW HAMPSHIRE: Was so named for the county of Hamp- sMre England, and it enjoys the wellknown sobriquet of‘The Granite State’ and the people that of ‘Granite Boys’. “NEW JERSEY: George Car teret a part owner of the grant under wMch New Jersey was settled was a former Governor of the Isle of Jersey and from these circumstances the colony received its name. ‘The Jersey Blue State’ is the whimsical Auto Radiators Cleaned, Rodded and Repaired We remove and replace B & R Radiator Shop BRIDGETON ME 7-4504 FOR YOUR CHOICE of Sacred, Popular and Classical Sheet Music and Musical Instruments It's FULLER'S MUSIC HOUSE name and the natives are said to be ‘Clam Catchers’,” W. C. CHADWICK GENERAL INSURANCE Clark Building Talephonet Office ME 7-3144—Home ME 7-1411 DIXON BROS. NURSERY Glenbumie GROWERS OF FINE TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS 19T8 1963 John R. Taylor John R. 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