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tY I. NO. 828. at Klu*U>tl? City, N. 0.. June ?. l?0SPU"^?ff,C"
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923. r?i>ua>* xr.^o. s.a.d.n SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
IEVIVES TALK OF GOLF !
LINKS AND THE LIKE
Lgcnt For New York Syndicate Coming To
Seek Site For Big Tourist Hotel In
This Vicinity
The fact ?'t a New York|
;i,:iv\itc iookinir i:iti? Xorth
,jt it -rtli Carolina tor the
. ihrc- tor a U>uri>t hotel
jiV u> .W rooms is he^in
,Met,. revive talk of an Kliz
i>et!t t :v eowtitry clnh. jjolf:
I.tiulinof ticM for air
ami all that sort of
!titt>
\ r> pre-entative of the syndi- '
J- -ktnc for a tourist hotel
Northeastern North Carolina ,
i ,.\:irefe?l in Klizal?eth City in a
,7. Thy identity of the j?ros
?? < net to In- pnMiely revealeil
iforeiia' I In-i-anse ililireetors of
i, |.k:iI Chamber ef Commerce
jut t1 -et hot,I of him lie fore ho |
off to some other loealitv.
I
\ r i . r.iers are loirinniiisr to fiml
? hat North Carolina offers
.. ? ::? 'Vaetions than Florida
- .I'iii- ami s|tort. The elimate
?v enough and never ener
?: _? winter as it is in Florida
? i j.'itifs farther south. Western
Carolina is already thiekl.v
?; with tourist hotels, lmt Kas
r \'?rtli Carolina lias ne^leeted
. il'ilities of tourist trade,
v.- Fastern North Carolina has
.. fishins. Iioiitinc. limiting
' wafer sjxirts that Western
.rrh Carolina ean never, offer
-t-: and the ozone of the At
? I? H'sn't eoiieoile a tiling to
r?s-zi s of the Western mottn
:r-.
pp the tourists who run away
r h>>ni?' t > play almost iuvar
My 'ietuaml some tilings that
: 'h-th City. for instamv. lias;
t*sl. Tin- Northern business
wp.i take* a night's journey
? rest ami p - n ation i'\|K'rts to
ir.i golf link* at the eml of the
. ---v. Klizalo'li City has no
i>i; links. Then too. the uuiuhors
f who travel l?v air is ;ro\v
i towns that get tourist
- :;'ist have soni" ^>rt of lami
r'or laml flying mai-hines.
V. ???? one of the l>esf liarlstrs
n :? uorM for hydroaeroplanes.
? isn't a safe plare any
i!..? rhy for a laml ma eh i tie.
T ? inilier of I'otnmeree Com
? is preparing data t<
? ?????ain New York symli
Ivantage of a loeation
??;ti City are l>eginniiig
? asy ah-uit the fact that
;a some of thi' things
' A>r must have. I; is all
h of a eoutlfiv elllh
i. ?interest in the jM.ssi
? ot ? telling a lot of the
: a Jss that is now high
ru tiie Stale to less ?ie
points farther South.
WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL
TO OPEN MONDAY
Y Ml . una Rural High School
l"'n|ile;e: Kiirollnieiit to !?t*
run Hundred ami F ifty
???.?ink i'i.iiiiIv's finest rural
? - i .1- jll-t I" >11 < ninpl'-tril
and will <?|wn Mint
???r wit It :iii i'lirolliiH'iit
| !,, Si |;o"l is iimmIitii in
? Ix-in^ j>i'i>viil?'d with
_ watiT iind si'Wcrnui1.
'' iii |?> eleven teaehers in
I Tin. principal is I'mf.
? ?I' .J'dinsinii t'utility.
? '.I'll liiuli s?Iiix?l IfiniiiTS
?I t- Whitflinrst mrl Mrs.
?* : Tin- I' aeliers ill":
urade, \\*. II. rritrlinril:
- id-. F. M. K. fd: tiltli snide
? U'l-ft Mnndfii: foiirtli grade.
Maker: third grade,
? ?!. M. Sii?tt: second ttiiiili', Miss '
W Triiiiioti: first grade, Miss
1 l.fSSOII.
? two s|||;||| ?||.H>|s til
" i'i-iii mi ihf saliii* datf fnl"
? '??nd and third i'rudrs.
\i i ; si In" I will
Mi>s Mary I.niiisc Skinner
t?'li t'ity: and fin* I>ry
?li -.! i.y Mis< KlizaUlh
1. /.a In-: !i i "ity.
a' iniial lil'dol" l.ltsrs
'If i lli>? Ir?-ii and from
' ? s iii Salt-iii t-iwii-lii|> and
^ a in ;lr ni'W Wrvks
? building.
, - ' >kis|;n. I'.eiea and
??I Monday nf this wifk.
' ai Itkisku iii" Misses
' -li':- i.y i:.i|? r and Miss
K'.sti r i.r K. F. I>. ?. Kite-1
;ii iSfi-i-a. Miss Annie
? ^w-ll and Miss Anna
' '??l ?>i' Hertford: and sit
? diss i:..i,iij,. sbtiford of
M.-- \ ?? I'riiihard
- i I. -
A Chip Off the
Old Block
I KKiH S1IEKP. JR.
FEW mothers ran lioast of hand
somer youngsters than Leigh
SJui|>. Jr.. son of the proprietor of
the Woman's Wear Store. This
photo by trallant Studio catches
him in the art of inspecting a new
tooth.
A GOOD OPENING DAY
FOR WILDFOWL HUNTING
Season Seems to Be Starting Off
Just the Way Old Hunters
Predicted it Would
There never was better opening
days it seems, for the hunting of
wild fowl in eastern North Caro
lina. than Thursday of this week,
scores of old hunters who had cx
piTssnl themselves as having a
hunch that all would be well this
.Mar. rrc highly gratified at the
turn i:i the weather and are going
forth to the marshes in high spirits.
Kvery old hunter knows that the
rougher the weather the greater
the i pportunify of bagging the limit
on wildfowl. Ducks and gees?
seems to enjoy tin-blustery weather
The blustr.v weather makes the
bird come down from the air and
seek the quieter elements where
they enn feed in security.' The phy
sical discomforts of a eobl day
mean little to the true sportsman
v ho from experiences rail ex|>col
many fowl.to come near his blind at
such a time.
The hunting season began well for
hunters elsewhere. Heavy rains be
fore the opening day made many
;m.?h|s on the beaehes. it i< in these
tenijH-rary jhuuIs that hutiters tind
great s|h>rt after the rains sulfide,
in nearly every j?ond. hundreds of
geese will eotnc to ]>arndc and d's
porf themselves in the shallow
wafer. The s|M>rtsman who lias had
the forethought to build himself
a Mind nearby, can usually count
oti good s|M?!*t on a blastry day fol
lowing a rain on the beaches.
I?nf WILL Ltrnsts TO
MLD TWO-WEEKS REVIVAL
Tin' members of fh?' Free "Will
ISapfisf Chun-h will Imbl their first
revival Ix-uintii*iir Tuesday. Novem
l-cr ??. and continuing for two
weeks. The Iter. Krnrst 1'ostoni of
Ay Ion. \. will cuiiilnct the serv
ices. The Free Will l!:i[it ists have
not Iwen Ions organized in Fli/nhcth
City. I?ut they have recently huilt
a cluirch on Parsonage street antl
ho|,| prcachins services once a
month. A large nuiulter of the mem
bers arc natives of Tyrrell County,
a section of the state where the
Kro will Baptists have a strong
hoM. and from where luau.v Eliz
abeth City residents migrated.
CIO FXICIMNKS rK'TI'KE
AT AEIiKA.MA NEXT WEEK
"The .Mollycoddle." a his Douglas
Fairbanks special, is coining to the
Aikrain:.' for two days. Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week antl is de
claretl l?y .Manager John Burgess to
l>e one of the biggest pictures of the
season. "Bringing ttiis super-spce
?al picture to Elizabeth City tit this
time costs us a lot of money," says
Mr. Burgess. "hut we tire anxious
to ojtcti tlie winter season with the
very best pictures rimnins, and ex
pect to give Elizabeth City as s<>o<l
films risht at home as they can get
elsewhere."
For your eyes' sake see Pr. J. P.
Hathaway, Optometrist. Bradford
B'd" . Vp'Ci both Cite. v. c. J>a_
'GOSSIP FROM
j YOUR CAPITAL
j
Locke Like Work Mapped
j Out For Currituck's Lov
ers of Hunting
r.y O. .1. COFFIN
i Mpt'tlit] Kaleigh Correspondent of
Till: INDEPENDENT
KALKK il I. Oct. 31.?Cur-'
til nek might as well got ready
j lor a sure-enough fight it it
expects to balk uniformity of
?Same laws at the next session
lot" the (ieneral Assembly. The
iXorth C arolina Fish and Game
I League will be more than a
I
I name by that time, unless all
! signs fail, and will have built j
isuch a hot fire under the divers
'members of the Legislature
that a Statewide game law will (
| be a strong probability.
The league alius at a momltership!
of 2n.(MN? lN>fure the lU2o Legisla-1
! tare meets. It is organizing the!
larger communities first ami has a j
'man in the field. Italcigh is com-!
ing through, i: is estiiuiiteil. with a j
'membership of around "(Mi. I Mir
ham with that many and perhaps' <
since hoth secretary and treasurer ?
of the league are Durham men. a fj
hundred more. Charlotte aliout four ^
hundred and (Ireenshoro. Asheville ,
and Winston-Salem in proportion. | -
As soon as sufficient funds aceu- I
initiate in the treasury every county
>111 wliieh it is possible to effect
an organization will he visited and
the leagues will get busy informing
?he legsl.utors-to-be as to what the
i will of the people is?or should he. 1
I Drains, prominence, pcrsistemv
and money are heing interested. If
the promoters do not weaken, it
promises to he a great life for the
Assemblyman who doesn't want to j
think in terms of conservation of |
wild life.
Another Man l'aroled.
Allen .1. 1 loneyeutt. whoso trial
'ami conviction a oottple of years
1W1 was a Fedcwi 1 court sensation, |
will he eoHiiin: home from Atlanta
soon. having l'een paroled l?.v Presi
dent Cool idee on reeoiameiida! ion of
Judge Henry (I. Connor and former
District Attorney Aydlett. Honey
eiitt, who distributed merchandise j;
!stolen from trains passim: through j
| in interstate eotninerc, was form-1 j
' orly a rather repntahle merchant at "
the Falls of the Neitse this county, jj
He made considerable money dur
ing boom limes, always had many
friends, who gave him :i good char-,
neter at his trial, lie employed
the ablest of etinnsel mid put up :i (l
great fight. A lawyer now lives .
? li
oil a Stio.ooo place which belonged
to Iloiieyeittt when the trial begiin. t
Coining home as applied to liis re
turn was something of a figure of s
speech. 0
Speaking of Mr. Aydlett, there
jicrsists ti rumor in this section ?
of the State that he has been think- ,
ing of contesting for llallett Ward's j
seat in Congress, ahum with Dr. K. ,
J. Criffin of Chowan and Lindsay _
Warren of Ilcnufort. Th|- Itist
' named has heen mentioned about as
often as First District polities was
brought up for discussion: but of
lute there has appeared among the
statesmen of the First District
visiting here a disposition to yield
the seat to llallett without 21 sirug
srle. j
Looks (iooil For MrLran.
Throimhoiit |ho Stale timos ap
pear too good to start anything.!
Thirty-cent cotton has piillt'<| nhout
oil tIn* leading political lights of il
Fast Carolina into 1 i!??? for Angus s
Wilton McLean of Luuilicrton for ?'
(Sovornor. it n|t|iv>irs. There is loss
I'ailcy talk than for months past, h
although tin* \vis?> I toys nod sagelj t
ami concede that Bailey wotiM give
't in lifll if thi> bottom should dn?p ?
out of farm prices as it tlid during j ?
the year of the last gubernatorial { ?
primary. j?
As regards Hie movement to re- n
tire memlters of (lie State adminis- 4.
trot ion more or less as whole several I
sprightly prospects have pine to the e
bath-house, put on tlieir bathing 11
suits and strolled tlown t?? the water.1 n
put in a toe ami heat it hack for l'
their hritehes. Living is much loo
doggoncd easy in the old North jj.
State nowadays to stir tap any ex- |
eiteineiif over turning it man out of' 4
a Sl.."iH) joh. j.
For all the walk over this and f
that concession made to special in- d
terests, the prevailing sentiment is g
to let well enough alone. e
North Carolina has hecoine pri- 11
tnarily an industrial State. Its J-'
capital is for the most part invest- ?
ed in cori>orate prc?iK?rty. .Money l1
is timid and opjiosed to change: s
sleek, well-fed folks seldom kick Si
over the traces. The natural con
servatism of (.he most American j,
State in the t'nion is being added t]
' I('outiniicil on viage Fonr 1 *-??
Coming With M. E. Conference ]
UK nofnl North Carolinian who was Secretary 01 the Navy in Wilson's
abinet and who publishes tlie News & Observer at Kaleijjh. will come I
o tliis city November 11 to IP when the Methodist conference takes'"
ilace. No more interest inR or widely known North Carolinian than I J
loseplias Daniels will attend this conference and Klizabeth City will take,
?ride in bis visit. 11
KKKP ON IIITTINO IT!
Watching a child bouncing
a rubber ball suggested this
thought. A ball will ke< p
bouncing as long as you .slrike
it. When you cease striking,
it may rebound a few times
but each movement grows
weaker until the ball become<
inert.
The same principle applies
to your advertising. You
must Keep "bouncliing" if yop
want a "come-back" in sales.
IJesides. it requires less ef
fort and less expense to keep
oil advertising than if dors
to stop every litile wV.le ami
then ge at it again. In the
one case you have the ad
vantage of "momentum"?in
the other you mast overcome
the "inertia."
Keep "hitting the ball!"
OKI.l.KK WII.I, SHOW IMC
i:\lllltIT OK I'itOTIM.K \!'IIS
An interesting exhibition of photo
rapbs made by the Kastern faro
11a 1'hotograpliers" Association will
e exliihited ill Kli'/.aheth City next
feck. Tile exhibit is the same
hat attracted so much attention
ml favorable comment a; the big
Hate Fair ami i? worth going out
f the way to sec. \V. II. Zovllrr.
fho is viee president of ilia I'hoto
rapliers this year inditeed the
issoeiation to send the exhibit to
?"lizabe'h f iI,v and xx i!I display it ii
lis studio all next week.
A COMMUNITY FAIR 'J
AT NEWLAND SCHOOL js
) Arbor I My will he duly observed a
iii Xeulnnd lliuli St-houl (hi Friday j It
of this week when ii CiJiiuuimily
*":? i:? is i? ? he simreil. Milking n double a
reVhrntii.ii. Tin1 program will lie- *
u: 11 .mi icii oYluik In the morning s
iiiul will continue thru llif ilny. I
Speeches will he niiuli' hy visitors. <
Tin1 Iloiiii' I icnioiist ration chilis'f
of Xewlnnd iiro iissisflng in tlie n
preparations for tlio fnir and pro-n
iiiisr ;i fine ilrinonstr.'ilioii of what '
tiny h.'ivi' learned to ilo under the."
?ol.li- (yrcriioii of .Miss March' Al-!>
:!*>i\snii nullify lioliii' ili'lilonslI'll-|
I ion audit. ; 1
Dinners .-iiiil suppers will lie sen-;*
eil. ihe proceeds of which are to 1
lie i|oii:ili'il !?< I he iniproveiiieiil of j'
I iIn* school iilirnry. The public is'1
coiili.illv invileil to aiteml. '
I
TKXNAXT NK1.S0N , >
Thus. T. Xi Isnn. proprietor of the '
Soniherii Hotel loss returned from 1
the funeral of his father. Teniiant i
Nelson, use To. w ho died Sunday i t
;it his home in Knltinmre Coiiiity.il
Maryland, following ii stroke of n
apoplexy on Satunhiy. Mr. Nelson r
was called to the heilsiile of Ills in
lather mi Saturday. Mr. Nelson ,r
w.as of one of the oldest and most :n
proinitieiit families in Maryland, r
lie was the sen of the late John 1
Nelson who was Attorney (Seneral t
of the 1'iiiled Stales ilttriug the <
i administration of rresident Tyler,
i ami later Minister to Italy. The ,
.funeral was romlm-teil Tuesday. j
________ i
n i
# oJhe<BANK CtCQK THE S'OOA JCQKE.fi |f
THE POLICE AND SOCIETY BOOTLEGGERS. \[
"I see the police arc now looking
hlo high society for bootleggers."
aiil l lie Haul; Clerk to tlx- Sot I a
.?I ki'i\
"Ami lil like to km\w if thai
!*n"l tin1 place In look for "em?" said
h" SoiIh .Iciker.
"It's mostly roil nooks thai make
iliilo li<|iior, Imt the whito collar
entry pi ink the profits. Von
loodii'f think that, all those kill
love sports around town who toil
ml, spin not anil dress like tho
liolnros in a stylo hook of Society,
5rand olothos are mission all t!???,
asy profits in the honllcggiiig Inisi
icss! Moot legging is jn-O the sort
f soft snap they've boon wait inn
or all their lives.
"They pay some rough nook out I
a the sticks five dollars a gallon
a make the stlilT and tote it to "em. <
'hen they pay a black boy or some
ool room loafer fifty cents a ijiiart
or retailing it. All they have to
0 is to furnish an office or a
a rage where the stuff can he re
el veil and distributed, and they
lake from five to twenty bucks a
alien clean gravy out of the hnsi
oss and never touch ir. If the
oliee blow in and pick up their
tock. they just look innocent and
ay somebody framed 'em.
"And the poor rough necks out
1 the tall timber who are making
lie liquor are usually working for
kiiio note higbei- on 'vtin hue nlentv
1
?if coin Mini who lioliiiohs with the'
lawyers ;iixl court officers. The 11
poor Imo!> sweating over the still 1
in the I'ocosiu gets nabbed nnd is 1 li
to ld up as the cneni.v cd' society, i a
All the rich man does is to get some- j v
body to go on :i bond and whisper t
something to the sheriff. If the ,
poli'o tire going to look into society j
for bootleggers, they are going t> : \
look i!i the right, direction. But it's,
my hunch that policemen know
almiit as much about high society;
and how to gel nround in it as a'li
backwoods yearling ralf would Ie
know about how to ramble around ; o
in a Shrine Circus without getting |g
Ids tail twisted and being rode for j e
a billy goat. The coinimm run of s
Cops are perfectly at home in no
Nigger Alley or barking up the $
backstairs of a Biimmy Club, but-; g
when you ]nit 'em on the trail ofje
the real sports you might as well r
be putting your grandpap's old sor- A
id mare down behind u twelve's
cylinder l'ackanl on u cement ? A
road.*' 1
"Von don't think much of police-jo
men. do you?" said the Bank Clerk. '1
"Oh. I like 'em all right; but tl
in this strenuous and aggravatin' a
age. haul workin' citizens like my- t
self have got to have somebody a
tu cuss; that's what wo hire police-, p
men for. just to have somebody'
standin' around that we can feel,
privileged to say what we, doggone|T
plea so about?
RVIN COBB ON !
OUR ANCESTORS1
'
j
loted Writer Doesn't Believe
There were Many "Gentle
men'" First Settlers
Folks who brag about their
arly Colonial ancestors should
ut on the soft pedal around ?
rvin S| Cobb who thinks ourj
irst settlers were in the main
ust ordinary run of folks and
othi.ng to brag about.
Mr. Cobb bus writfen mi interest- |
iK article nlmnt North Carolina in
lie current number of Hearst's I11
?runtiomil in which he says Hint
,'orth Carolina is the greatest state
oath of Mason & Dixon ami then '
nine: bufhe Isn't enthused over the i
arly aristocracy. Mr. Cobb says:!
"In the first place, bach at the
eginnings of the English-speaking
bite man's statu of things on this
nntineiit, her soil was squatted up
11 by types of men and women
?hose descendants today form a
opulatioii that makes North Car-1
lina perhaps the most typically 1
.tiierican of the .Southern States!
nst as Indians, li.v virtue of sinrtlnr I
lends In her original composition, I
< undeniably the most typically!
iineriean of all the so-called Middle !
Vest em States, aud just as Oregon, j
nun similar causes, is probably the j
lost distinctively American of all j
hose Slates which indubitably?j
ml geographically?are Western. |
,'liese first settlers almost exclu-1
ivcl.v were of Anglo-Saxon stocks.
-nriisans, hi risers. smim <r;nu.-i>?:
sturdy, hard-hciulcd. monoy-pnnr.i
n nd-greedy raw. very sliorlly I<> ln>
iiriclicil by {Troup* of Irish refugees i
ml Highlander .Ineobites mid >it n
uniewluit IntiT jieriixl by n valuable
lmini of trekkors across tlu* moiui-j
nins from up Pennsylvania way?!
Junkers anil I>nti-liuit'ii niul Welsh-j
noil, inn I uly: still Inter in 1110 Swiss
mil ii fow Swedes out of Pelownro
iml Now Jorsoy. So. yon soo. bolli
11 tin* strains of her ininii^rrntin^
mil her emigrating mlilifions, thoi
?tiling ooiiiitry signally was favored.
' She did not carry the outset the
.union of an aristocratic institution
vliieh his- high-headed neighbors on
?ither flank?Virginia ami South
\-irolina?nlready were carrying. It
nay sound like treason in some ears
or me to say if. I being Southern
?orn myself, but ii seems to me the;
South rather has overworked the;
'awilier fetish just as New Kng
nml has overdone the Puritan
?'ather fetish.
"I tun constrained to believe that
here were not nearly so i-my gon
lefoik among the Sunt hern -Is i
is one might lie led to l> .otu
ending of the histories. vv.,
is 11 rule, do not eric-:
?us uncharted sea to bin.- . wil-i
tnd savage land. The in- . .1
ver foiitui. are prone to stay on at
none: they are doing pretty well
here, else they would not lie rat
-d as belonging among (he elect.
"It is the traveling tailor, the
?iinnway apprentice, the petty
radesuiau in debt, the down-ut
lels schoolmaster. tlie itinerant
lrenclier. the briefless barrister, the
?titelicr, the bilker and the cniullc
itiek-maker who compose the mass
?f settlers in far places and these
toon absorb the' trickling adniix
urcs of adventurous younger sons
ind gentlemen soldiers of fortune
vho wane with them overseas. Lnt
r. with prosperity, the pleasing
oninnce of an aristocratic ancestry j
s created.
"At any rato, this largely was
rue of North Carolina's settlement.
Ier first citizens dhl not build
nnny mansions. hut with hush hook
mil axe Made they hacked their
ray to the heart of the wilderness
here to set up thqir log home
tea ds."
VHY TRICES WENT DOWN
. ON 01 R FALL TRt'C'K TEAS
i
As a result of a deluge of lima
cans from the farms of the East
rn Xlioro of Virginia and Maryland
a the New York markets this wck,
rowers in this section received tin
xpected low prices for their coii- ?
igiiinents of truck pens for the time
f year. Truck pease went down to j
2.50 a basket when they seldom,
p hrdow JSR at this seas in. This!
xplanatiou is made by t". 1). B.vrd, j
epresentative of .Jill Bros, of New j
"ork who was here with Brock &}
eotf Produce Company this week.,
Ir. Boyd stated that more than
5.000 baskets of lima tieaus went
n the New York markets one day.
'lie limn beans sold much cheaper
linn truck pens, and the result was
serious drop in the market. Now
hat the lima bean shipments are
bout over, ho anticipates better
rices on pens.
~ i
Good eyesight is inexpensive. See
>r. J. D. Hathaway, Optometrist, j
!!i?bcth City, N. C.
"Blackbeard" May
Be Staged Here
I,
HERE is Blackboard. (lie famous
piente of (lie N'orilt Carolina Coast
as retreated by George Denny of
the Carolina Playmakers. As the
name of Blackboard is so often ;
associated with the early history s
of this section, "Blackboard, ? the
Pirate of the Carolina Coast," may ,
Ite one of the plays whisk Play
makers will present at their first;J
performance in Elizabeth City at i
a date to be announced. ?
In the early part of the nine- ,
I rent It century orte of the most ,
notorious sea-robbers of all times
was harrassing the coast of North
America. His real name was Ed
ward Teach or Thatch. But on ac
count of his enormous beard he
acquired the name of Rlacklteard. .
He had come from England as a j
privateer in the war of the Spanish
succession, and was first heard of]'
as a pirate in 1*16. when he began I
cruising among the West Indies.'
along the Spanish Main, and up |
artd down the roasts of Virginia and
the Curnlinas. Wherever he went '
(enroi- and death followed. In or-i
dec to pursue his piracies tyt- j.
molested in North Carolina. - lie ? (
made an ally of the weak-kneed i,
Eden, then governor of the State, i,
en prize. For a time the pirate j
who shared with him many a gold
en prize. For a time the priate
led a rollicking life, forcing the |
planters to cater to his will and |
exacting toll from every vessel he
hailed. At last the exasperated ,
settlers appealed to Governor (
Spottswood, of Virginia, who sent j
Captain Maynard in November, 1718 ..
with two sloops to take the ma-i,
randers dead or alive. The scene .
of the battle was off Ocracokc J
beard's ship had run aground in ,
Inlet. North Carolina, where Black
shallow water. In the fight ther,
pirate was killed and his head taken
back to the Virginia governor. |(
ficinrc Hitnin I no prill i'ii kiii 01
our modern life, we hardly ran
imagine wifli what fear (lie people j.
regarded (his Atlila of (lie western (
world. To (hem lie was (he wrath i
of God. Many a night (he quiet j
roloii'st lay dreaming of this de
mon and his frightful hand, hear- ,
ing (lie hlood-songs rise ahove (he
crackle of (lie flames and (lie cries ,
of (lie dying, (o wake wilh (lie !
cold knife at his throat.
ANOTHER VETERAN OF THE
SEVENTH DISTRICT DIES
I
Another of th$ "old-timers" who '
spoilt a lifetime in the Coast Guard <
serviio dropped out last week, when '
Capt. Macajah W. Etheridge. t*. S. ? I
Const Guard. retiml, died al his 1
homo near JInnteo. Capt. Etheridjre i
was keeper of New Inlet Coast
Guard station until he was retired <
a few years a fro. He was 7'? years 1
old and died of heart, failure on '
Thursday last. His surviving ehil- '
dren are M. W. Ktheridge. Jr.. of I
Louisville, Kentueky: C. L. Etbe
rblgij of Norfolk. Virginia: C. M .'
Etheridge and Mrs. W. 0. Dough of , i
Manteo.
CLINIC FOR CRIITLK&
Elizabeth City's erippled children
will have an opportunity to attend ,
a clinic for cripples which will l??j,
held hew on November 21, accord- f
ing to Mr. Anna Lewis, County j
Welfare Officer. jl
l"
?,
Carload of fine apples at our '
warehouse, several different variet- 1
ies, $2 to $2.2.7 a bushel. It rock & ''
Scott Produce Co., Ilufgess Street.'1
cN2-lt. !'
jl
Don't neglect your eyes. Seej1
Hathaway. He knows. adv.
HERE'S FORTUNE
RUNNING WILD
Experts Think our Yaupon
Contains Possibilities as a
National Beverage
' ?
That some one may yet make
a fortune from a plant that
flourishes in a wild slat _? here
iii Eastern North Carolina i>
the opinion of experts of the
IT. S. Department of Agricul
ture. We have here a shrub
that yields tea without tannin
and front which some one may
yet produce a soda fountain
beverage that will eclipse Coca
Cola in popular favor.
The shrub in question is the com
mon yaiqioii which our cmimIChtil
ers drank. To all North Carolin
ians it should lie u matte:' of much
interest that the leaves of this
particular sliruh, ifter thorough in
vestigation by the Bureau of Chem
istry of the C. 8. Popart incut of
Agriculture, have hoe it recommend
ed as n source for n new tea to bo
called enssina tea. Or, prepared
in the proper way with the addition
of certain flavoring elements, it is
suggested by the government men
that there are genuine possibilities
in the direction of cold drinks either
for fountain use or for bottling.
in a reeeui muicun n.v i?r. unirRf
!?'. Mitchell of the Bureau of Chem
istry, Washington, it is stilted that
fit a recant fulr in the South IhHy
gallons of cassina ten were dis|?ens
ihI daily. From the general rapidly
increasing interest in the new drink,
(he Washington men Itelieve there
are very promising commercial |s?s
Kihilities in this new lievernge.
The shrnh in question is known
commonly as "ynupoii," "eassina" or
"Christmas-berry" tree. In science .
it is called Ilex eassene, which
makes it a relative of the well
known holly. When not exposed to
excessive wind, the shrub assumes
tin oval or nearly spherieul shape. It
has rather rigid branches with
sharp, stiff lateral shoots which are
suggestive of thorns, hut it is not a
thorn-bearer in any real sense. The
small, firm, oval leaves (thrce
foitrths inch long) are somewhat
shining in full sunlight, nud lieing
borne thickly, make this evergreen
shrub one of the most lieuiitiful to
lie found in the Suite. In its
general ns|ieet it Is suggestive of
Ihix. a shrub highly prized by horti
?ulturfsts everywhere.
The use of the leaves for making
brews of various kinds and strength
lias long lieen practiced by certain
folk in the regions where the plant
ivas abundant, and it is well kno.
Hint thy Indians would make long
liihrriiiiagcs In obtain (lie leaves,
riicre had not been worked out In
the past, however, any standard
methods of curing the leaves or deli
iiitc* recijies dealing with the use of
them in hot and eoN drinks.
The essential beverage element in
the leaves is caffeine, of which there
is. according to I)r. Mitchell, about
i?ne per cent. In some samples It
will run as high as 1.0 per cent. Cof
fee may contain up to l.Kr per cent
mid tea .'C" per cent. So that from
it caffeine stund|Kiint eassina may
be rated as a mild drink.
The writer of this article is caf
feine sensitive, yet n clip of cassiua
lea at night produced no n 'icenble
insoninia. The drink, it might lie
said, may Is* readily placed in the
"there is a reason" class of harm
less foods.
Iii lasti* is resoiiiiiics ten, wnuoni
ilif undesirable tang ??f tanliin
which ton possesses. II lias n dis
tinctive flavor, nblcli to the seusi
liilities of the writer, is very attrac
tive. The writer's sample rame from
I lie Washington laltoraloric.-;, the
leaves having lieen treated in no
I'ortlanee with reeeiitly worked-out
inetliotls.
It is of much interest to kitow
that the famous South American
ilri'nk, Verla* Slate, or simply mate,
is made from a near relative of our
I'lissina. There is sm-li a demand
for tiiis tea that in Argentine alone
Itm.iHMi.ootl pounds per annum of
the dried leaves are consumed. This
is alioiil lid pounds |k-^* |<ers .11.
It is needless to remark that if
-assina tea come* into any such
vogue in this eoimlry, it would
mean that certain rather extensive
irons of sterile sandy land in the
?vestal counties would quickly ad
vame in value and North Carolina
ivoiild enjoy a repetition of her
famous Sand Iiiils story.
If one may judge by the distil
lation of (lie plant in uatiire, Hie
?assina actually does hotter in the
poor loneliod-out sandy strctclics of
upland soil, such soil which hardly
inywhere is under cultivation at
[he present time. It. should, how
ever. always be remembered that
plants of'- dimes occupy certain
ureas simply lieeause they ran not
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