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jf'f THE GAME LAW STATE On October lint the President 1 I approved regulations drawn mp hp * 'the United States Department of ? n Agriculture at the direction of Gong- t reee bp the terms of which the Federal government assumes control jof ] AU migratory game and lneedtiviroua birds, and Axes closed ssgsona for 1 SffJ3 the s pedes affected. Laws eeacted hp the several states can lengthen c vi hat cannot shorten these cloeed sea- I sods fixed bj* Federal law. a Following Is a synopsis of the dosed seasons or "Zone 2," which Includes North Carolina: t ?' Regulation It?A daily cloeed 1 season on all migratory game and In- a sec tiro roue birds shall extend from ft sunset to sunrise. f ? Regulation S.?There shall he a fl 3 perpetual dosed season on the fol- e lowing migratory Insectivorous birds, and on all other perching o ? birds which feed entirely or chiefly b on insects: Bobolinks, catbirds, h ' margin, meadow?arks, nlghthawks, chickadee*, cuckoos, flicker* (y?V- li low .hammers), flycatcher*, gros- C beaks, humming birds, kingleas 4 beaks, humor bollbaU, nuthachea. p robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, e orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, b tanager*. titmice, thrushes, rlreos, p I bullbats, nuthaches, orioles, d woodpeckers, and wrens. 11 Regulation 4,?A closed season s shall continue until 8ep'tember 1, b 1918, on the following migratory c gam6 birds: Band-tailed .pigeons, 1< sfttle brown, sandLffl. and whoop- a V ing cranes, swans, curlew, and all -r x shore birds except the black-breast- b ed and goldne plover, Wilson or n jacksnlpe, woodcock, and greater U and lesser yellow legs. Regulation 9.?(For the purpose fi of this regulstion, each period of ft time herein prescribed aa a closed u season shall be construed to include b LEFT YOUNG MOTHER GASPING ' Htm. O'Leary'i Well-Me,nt Word, of " Compassion Contained a Meaning That Shocked. There are still two opinions conJeruing red hafr. fibe was a very * proud young mother. All the old maa- t, ters had never painted such a bam- # blno, had never imagined such a cherub as here. Quite simply she be- _ lleved it. And the baby's hair was red. ^ It did not occur to her that red hair j, was anything hut oomDletelv and whd- - ly admirable. The little shining cop- h per colored head seemed to her the j, sum of all that was radiant and love? * . ! ^. Tr* come for the baby's wash, b ? ~ ma'am." It was Mrs. O'Leary, the washer- d _ woman,?a raw boned, dejected soul? ^ who spoke. Evidently there was for ^ her no Inexpressible glory shining amtd the bine and white draperies of a ; ? a bassinet How hard the world was ^ on some women! 80 thought the t] young mother and proudly drew back c the coyer from the baby's nest. "Come and look at my little daugh; tar," she said. "Bee, she has red ' fchlr." # n A fiash of some strong feeling? u , could it be compassion??illumined I tbp dejected features of Mrs. O'Leary. h \ The proud young mother felt her p hand gripped in a grasp of iron, and u ' a warm lrlah voice sounded in her D* rs. a y j "Thero, there," It said soothingly. 1 "Don't you fret Dont you fret You 1 1 ican't never tell what they look like o | when thej'ie hhBi?Borne of 'am (grows up Into real good loo kin' girls, ? [They do that!" s | LEAVE OUT THE SUPERFLUOUS Some Truth In Aeaertlon That Pree- Q ! ' ent Generation Considers Too 1, Many "Wants" aa "Needs." TT" t _ , A woman who has been observing | people and things has come to the T 1 conclusion that the expense of living ^ . it (today la largely doe to individual in- B / r any rate. If they wanted It before, f they often did without it, for expo- 9 \ lifei ij's sake; bet now, aha aays, to ? f Want and to have go hand In hand , Without regard for expediency. This B woman aays: "My Idea of the widespread complaint of the high coat of B i living la that people are not temper* . Iota la aepptylnc their three principal M.& w*ta, namely: food, elothing and dnttir. Boom pwpto oat down on ' food and abater and apaad an ow ? ghondanoo on clothing. Others la- " dalga thamsalTaa In itch fooda that " Ian absolutely nnneoeesary. |K(& j i others Ilka to Jlra tn faahlonable * , quarter* and na?laot their food and . ' baiter. paracm to ba happy moat " j - hlmi i a a balanoe tn all tblnga. One f t 4*nat ba temperate with regard to * (food, olo thing and abater. Ure In i 1 weapectabie bat not oltra-faahlonahle * (neighborhood; wear standard clotbte. " .not the lataat Parte faaMoagflMtt " Utood. aubatantlal food, apt rtgSTKp t .dsDcacies that catar only to t^a pad j .. .... ) ' ,A<^J I I , g t 11 , . W ! ' * SOT ARE STRICT to tint d*7 and to exclude the lul 1*7 ttoraoL) ClotoL hhou:^ *'. Waterfowl?February 1, No vernier 1. Woodcock?January 1, November I. k \ : Rails, ooots, gall'mule*?Leeemter I, September 1. Sbore Bl.d*?The closed season a black-breasted and golden lorer, Jacksnlpe or Wilson snips, ad greater and leaser yellow legs ball be Dsoembar 16. September 1. It will be noted that these reflations make It a violation of the ''edaral laws to kill at any time leadowlarks, or robins, which are eoogalsed by our State lauji as ame birds, and have open seasons xed ln which they may be hunted ad hilled.. Now that onr supreme govern. irds, thoee of us who iia thoughtis# enough to disregard the prolalooa set forth abovu. had battar >ok out for Uncle Sam's federal 5ou?. Congress has taken this step to reSerro to ns and to future genrations, our Insectivorous ' birds, ecause it has been conclusively roten that without the keeping own. of pestiferous bug and Insect Ife by the birds, this world would oon becon|3 uninhabitable; and ecause the rapid decrease of our lfgratory game birds makes It ev? lent that uniform seasons, in rnJch they may be killed, having egard for zones fof temperature, reeding r&blta and migration are ecessary to prevent their tottl erInctlon. ? Accordingly, It behooves us * to urther our 'own lneatests and comort by supporting this wlso measre and by encouraging' bur neigbors to follow our example. IOT PEPPERMINT B'JT STRONG lllterate Man Was Not to Bs Convinced That He Had Really Smelt Nothing. At h certain northern Chautauqua atherlng last summer a lecturer, at he opening of his address, came to he front of the platform and took a mall vial from his pocket, "My friends," he said, "before I bein my address, I wish to test the venllation of this'auditorium. 1 am gong to pour out this oil of peppermint. Vhen the odor reaches you. raise your ands, so that I may see bow rapidly t travels." He smntM tha *H?1 tantly several hands on the front enches went np; then farther back be hands began to go up by the osens, until at last the people in the ist seats' caught the odor, and raised beta* hands. The lecturer thanked his auditors, d went on with his address. When e had almost finished, and was speak* ag of the effect of the imagination on ur senedk he paused, and said with a mile that it was only clear water he ad poured out of his rial. The audience had been caught so eatly that even those who had held p their hands joined In the laugh. . tut one Illiterate fellow, whose hand ad gone up more promptly and emhatlcally than any other, did not quJte nderstand. "What they laughln' at?" he asked, ndlbly, of the man sitting beside htm. "Why," explained the man, "you did tot smell peppermint at all; it was nly Imagination." ..m "I knnwftd 11 ras somethln' that smelled mighty trong."?Youth's Companion. \ " Of Course. A New York dramatic writer telh. f an actress of great populerliy who i just beginning to be obuesned with be notion that the public holds hor 9 be older than she really la. The writer was assigned to lnterlew this player. He wished to otv tin her views with reference to the late of the drama, a topic whereon fifiaeiMirflurndCMitt iiili nlaili UdOMiodMUkt ^ "It does not Mem to me," (0067 aggeeted the lnterrlewer, with a mile, "that I am really ascertaining our opinion. Too ought to bo tnm>; laoe your oyoo are gray and?" "Prematurely ao, my deer boy, premtarely ao." the actress hactaned to sure him.?Judge Walking at Billiards. *1 flgnre out," said one of the Ml ard exports playing la the championhip games. "that I walk throe mllea rhan I play 400 points. Of course, ?edmsa I #0 leas than that, proIdod my average runs by nursing are irger. When 1 can keep the ball* loaely together for a good run, that Means the distance I hare to walk." This cue artlet said he oooe made 00 points and /fid not circle the table alf a doten times. More amnatng tin waa the assertion that ha had mm the lata Jaeob ran 1ft ' ? I -w *-*" ? III . ,, i/ai'ii ?- mi 1' <1 _ : _ WABHWOTON. N. 0., Tt * _, . p*M? Crom Bh?ph?rd pi th? Hill. UTTU PIOWII OF HEREDITY TVm n for mWmB oo iriM n Mk "MtaatlOo* nnMln. fc talked ? ?? ? ? V TW* mMk to torn c( ft il rtprda plants, tola at snlmato, and almost aothtng u regards humaxlty. write* H fielding-Hall la the Atfentto. To read hooka on heredity, especially those of the Eugenic society, to to read a mass of suppositions and hazardous inductions where most of the facts are negative, and only the exceptions are positive.. The very meahtng of "hereditary" to not understood. If any quality to truly hereditary, then It to i always hereditary. It never occurs except as the results of heredity, and It to constant, that to to say. it invariably follows. But there to no quality of which this can be said. That genius Is not hereditary Is known. Even talent 'to not. Nor to any aptitude. A lawyer's son more often wants to be a soldier or an art-1 1st than a lawyer, notwithstanding the : environment, and It to" so with most j professions. The exceptions seem to; be due to training and Influence, not > to any hereditary transmission. A ; superficial likeness to parents seems j hereditary, but that Is all that we can assert, and that outward Nkeuess by no means Infers an Inward llkenesn. j There to nothing tc attribute to heredity what is due to training or want of training. It excuses suplnenesB In governments and professions. Without Food Twenty-eight Days. A remarkable feat of Involuntary: fasting was performed 12 years ago | by a corporal In a regiment of French colontal Infantry. On his way to work one morning a man heard ories proceeding from a disused mine, near Brest At the bottom of an excavation nearly 100 feet deep Corporal Andre Desrats was fouad In so weak a condition that he could hardly articulate a word. When he recovered hto rescuers learned that, after accidentally falling into the mine, Desrats had been Imprisoned for twenty-eight days without anything to eat or drink. B. Carpenter In his Manual of Physiology records that a pig weighing 160 pounds was entombed by the fall of a portion of the chalk cliffs at Dover. It -- ,^o ivu ttmja lavor, Oliu luunu i to be still alive, but reduced in weight < to 40 poupds. , "Siphon-' Slsson. Thomas Upton 8iBson. member of . congress from the Fourth district of j Alabama, is destined to go down in history as the siphon bottle statesman. 1 Which is an unfortunate fate. . When the California-Japanese imbroglio was at height Mr. Slsson dellv- ' ered an impassioned anti-Japanese Speech on the floor of the house. "If we must have war," he declared, , "or submit to this indignity, 1 am for , war." ' Later, in the tariff debate. Representative Johnson of Washington, re- j proving him for this speech, called attention to the fact that Mr. Slsson had j voted last year against a battleship program, and then he referred to the j! southerner as "the sizzling solon from the Mississippi. Mr. Slsson." If that doesn't sound like a siphon i* bottle, what does? The resemblance 1 caught the fancy of the cloakroom con- ! gresalonal Udders, and they are ringtap-the -fhanges on it whenever Mr. Btsion happens along. New Bed of 80011090. The demand for sea food Is a per- 1 slstent and an increasing one, to < maca mo in*i m *om? lines the supply 1? threatening with * extinction. 1 This Is particularly true of the lob- ' star, which ts every year beeoming < career and consetpiently dearer, and 1 even the nooulent clam to not found 1 In lto former abundance In those ' haunts to which It once gave fame. But the scallop to a good substitute, ' and the report just made to the seo< 5 rotary of commerce that a bed of the giant variety, thirty miles wide and t extending from Rhode Island to the i Virginia on pes, has been found, to < very* reassuring. The common kind ' ate plenty enough, but they are only 1 half as large aa the giant variety, and i net accounted so great a delicacy. * This new souroe of supply to regard* ? ed as practically Inexhaustible, and it \ Is not likely to have aa immediately i lowering effbet apon the price of a | hotel order. _. I 6 * *1'V',4* V -. ' * *' I -" I?. "I ." IBB LAY AFTERNOON, MOVBMBBi OPPORTUNITY FOR : ROAD ENGINEERS Cm Improvs the Present Conditio! el Highways. MUCH TO CONTEND WITH. Must Lmmi U Make the RmI %f Liamt Condition.?Poor porionood Workor. Hmffr Pr>>pr.ea. . Good Road. Built For Borvioo. Om of the principal feuona forth, poor condition. of tba roads in many of : ovr state, la tb. lack of conp^eol M glneere to handle the work and ttfa at- ; tendant lack of an educated P*Wlc opinion which will demand fixat tftua, work In all caaea. "%/* . g Tb. employment of county antnew baa heao relatively am mack neglected aa the Croatia* of atata highway depaitmenta. It la tb. exceptional county n where an engineer la regularly employed from on. yeafi end _\p the _ other. In the larger cooattaa. pertlcu- 4 larty thoee having large town* or dtlea, the annual expenditure. for road Improvement are seldom laaa than |30tooa frequently two or three tlmea that amount. v; f The naual rule In such counties ta to a have a county engineer who preparea . Diana and anrvorvla?? all w/?Fir ?hnn?h ? 7T" * II ; . .""; -;; hsavt traffic nCICAHS dow>' HOUTHXBJt aetnnl legal control of the work Is still 3 pes ted in the county commissioners. J For Instance, in the great majority of J counties in Texas the regular annual 1 income 1b less than $SO.OOO, and the , Iwholo matter of road improvement In ] leach county rests with the county Hudge and four commissioners, who ] 'constitute the county commissioners' court. If a bond issue for road lm- : , proveroent Is authorized by the votem 1 ? of a county or a district an engineer Is employed to plan and supervise the i construction of the roads. Payment for such engineering service. Is made either as a percentage fee based on the cost or tne wofig or by u stipulated salary. The general Improvement of the country is'pushing the road question :o the front. Counties lu large numbers are Issuing bonds*for good roads fvery month. It Is very Important lhat the taxpayers get a dollar's worth. >f rond for each dollar expended. Koads must be built so well that they svlll give service and at the same dme not be prohibitive lu cost. In nany sections the engineer is at ouco confronted with the fact that he must julld a road of muterinl that would >e quickly rejected under the standard ipeclflcatlons. It therefore becomes necessary to so adapt bis materials ind so regulate the character of worknnnshlp and the' consequent cost of he road that It a servleeableness wllj^ >e commensurate wltb Its cost Much progress has already been nade toward adapting local material :o road construction, but much more emains to be done. There is opporunlty for every engineering college to ender valuable service to ltd state >y a study of these problems There s still greater opportunity for every >racticlng highway engineer to thus dd In the development of his country tnd thereby put his own future success High Cost of Poor Road*. Tbe cost of bad roads Is strikingly . let forth by William C. Redfleld, score- ^ ary of commerce in President Wilson's ablnet, in thli manner: The Inefficiency arising from bad , oads makes It cost something like ? (300,000,000 a year to cart our cotton T :rop from tbe fields to tbe railway sta- , j Ions. I think few people realise tbe , mmense tax put on us all by bad reads t ind inefficient handling. c I hare said that if our farmers ones j realised the awful tax that bad roads t mpose'upon them public opinion would ? iternly demand the making and main- * sluing of g<fod roads eyerywhere. It j iow coats the farmer twelve?yea, i wenty or mocv?times as much per ton 4 nlle to more his goods to tbe railway j itation as It does to move tbem on tbe t ailway after they leave the station, f [he farmer. Indeed, in bad cases and 3 it certain seasons may have to pay as i neb as $1 a torn mile, while the rail* j ?ad carries the freight when It one# 1 iota tt st an cranage of three-quarters J fanalgn ban mOe. r ' > ii BU ^7 " i leepea fro% Shepherd of the Hill. | KINGS THAT ALMOST HAPPEN Weill i il Capiat* , TeUs Why Hie i Hair la NeaHy Whtt% Though Ha Nana Had aa Accident. "It is the thln?a that alnvoat hapten which nanao crer hair* In tHia raainesa rather than the things that actually oocar," aald a veteran capain of an excursion boat to a New fork Sun man. "When I was thirty-three years old was running a boat to Coney Island. >n one occasion. In the lower bay. tog ettled down thicker than mush. I eld a'compass course and everything rent smoothly enough until It was alnost time to change the course and iead from the bay toward Coney. I tad heard a boat?by Its whistle I ;now It was a towing tug?pass me urther np the bay. "Even though I could not see the tow of my boat, I was hanging with ny head out of the pilot house win- I low and straining my eyes to see. I i rben my quartermaster, who was j itandlng on the very peak of the | i >ow, called for me to reverse. -I rang or full speed astern and threw the j trheel hard to port. i "The fog lifted for an Instant and t lead ahead of me I saw a scow with I Dynamite' written on its side and a ' : cd flag floating above It. .1 kept the j , sheel hard over and it seemed to me I toe engineer was an eternity in get-*! i lag the engine reversed. We just j crazed the icow. riearned afterward . hat-It had Deen In tofc of a tug and fi ,hat the hawser broke and the tug : :row had lost sight of the scow in ' he fog. I "When I got home that night my rife pointed out a gray hair?the first had ever had. "In all my experience I've never lad a serious accident, but as you see 1 [ have a head full of gray hairs mused by things that almost hap- i >oned." I VTCOY KNEW HUMAN NATURE1 Explaining How the Pugilist Was Ablo to Get His Car Through Jam Where Others Failed. Kid McCoy drove down In his large, ihlny motor. A friend accompanied | ilm. Coming up the avenue was a Sock of hooting cars. It seemed Im-1 >ossible for McCoy to find a way j Jirouga. "Let's turn down a side Btreet, Kid," ' tald the friend. "We'll make by it." 1 "Watch me," said McCoy. He turned his head to one sido, and . ooked Into the eyes of the alarmed 'riend. Ho drove.his car right at the | ipproaching covey. Tholr drivers set 1 ip a quacking like a lot of frightened ! lucks. McCoy drove on, without look-' c ng at the road ahead. All the other 11 5ars pulled to one side and made way , * 'or him. As he parsed, all the other)1 Lrivers leaned out of their cars to * nake injurious comment upon Mr.'* McCoy. 1 "Get your blufT In first." said McCoy.' * 'That's the rule In life that applies to ] * notorlng as well as to fighting. If I'd 1 Iropped back and honked timidly ev- * try one of those guys would have :rowded me a little farther Into the c iurb. Because they thought I was a r tareless, recklesB, E flat muahhead. 1 vho'd as Uef have an accident as not. B hey gave me the right of way."?New ' fork Times. H * " Abbreviation Gone Mad. There are people to this oountry . vho have so much respect for Its govirnment and Institutions that they al- " nost consider those guilty of treason vho spell the capital of the country "W-sHS-h." It is all they can do to estraln themselves when they get a etter dated "Wash., D. C." They vonld JuBt as soon see one addreased o **Boa, Mass.." although Bait., Md.. 0 ir Phi la.. Pa., doea not offend ao much. h Nobody but a human aloth would 1 hlnk of writing on his envelope 8 Chlo^ IIL.- or "ButL. N. T." Yet the las grown to such an ax tent that It la n Ugh time that business houses lay b lown the law, as found tn the back E art of nearly any dictionary, against 0 he practice. And If yon follow the h Mings of the porlsts In spelling, 1 on'd dock the man or woman a whole Ay*? pay who la so utterly dead to * atrtotlo Instincts as to address a ? stter to -Wash. D. C.~?Well Street ouraal. ? ?? a 'i - . neI ' ? = * - '.**/" t j: * 1? ,' '? . V r ?????????? CITY AND CHA OF COMMEF ' TOPI f "' ? ALWAYS timmmd OLD REALLY NO EIQNIPtGANCE II "iHOWlNQ ONE'S AGE." Imply Mmm Thai l?ama! Chan pa Maka AppMmno* om th? Surface Not That Thar* Nasd Bs Daaraaaa la Capability. Dr. Woods Hntnhlnaon. to hto boob "Corn moo Dtaaaraa." aalartalningl] dlamii? old aga conditions that wll coma to aaob of o> IT ?? lift loiv aaoagti If at ara going to do anything It oars tha rtlaaatt of old ag?. ws our begin bafors birth, lndaad. as Oil sr Waodall Holm? wittily rsmarha< to tha prsTsoUoa of dl?aaa. *vt maat bagln with tha grandparent*. Tha aooallad ttolU changes an ah trig? which ha? boon going ot ww tin? wt bagaa oar lndindan Tha tlma whan at bagln to fad otCL. u? particular period at which tn begin to 'show our ego.' la mere)} that period el which those Interna: changes hare reached and ahowi thomielvee upon the surface; 1? which, so to apeak, those microscopic alterations hare filially beoome visible to the naked eye. *7t Is nothing short of absurd to say that a man becomes old, or senile, 01 Incapable of further development of Incapable of the conception of new Ideas at, or after, any special or particular age. There Is no one period of life in which we grow, and another In which we decline, lloth processes are going on sldo by Bide in every part of our body from the day we are born. Just as the life of the body means the death of certain of Its cells, so tho gTowth of every power and faculty means the sacrifice and tho decay of others. Every primitive cell of the embryo lays down part of Its life to become a muscle cell, a neurone, a blood corpuscle, or a bone cell. "Tho p-c^c-s has no limit, any more than 1' has beginnings. Life Is lust that, one-third dying that twothirds may live, whether It be the single cell, or the hugest and most elaborate body. While in auch gross matters as mere avoirdupois and stature, hud the actual horsepower of ouf muscles, we reach a limit, a period of what we are pleased to call maturity. at a comparatively early age; yet In other and more important reBpects wo continue to grow and develop steadiiy, to a very much later period, fifty-five, sixty and even seventy years. New and valuable achievements, masterpieces In every realm of human activity and Interest, have been produced hundreds of times in every decade, up to and Including the ninth. "It la obvious then that there Is no tiard and fast 'dead line' which can possibly be drawn, beyond which no further growth, or fresh creative effort, or new enterprise, or improvement 1b possible. In fact, by living & iealthful. active, happy life, and koepng up all our Interests, we can grow ind develop and adjust ourselves, and feel that wc arc growing until wo are >ne day suddenly dead, without ever realizing in any distressing or painful way that we are growing old at all." ?New York American. Stratford, Ancient and Modrt-n. More than three hundred years have Missed since the birth of that colossal renius, Shakespeare, and many :hanges must have occurred in his naive town within that period. The Stratford of Shakespeare's time was milt principally of timber, as. indeed, t 1b now, and contained about 1,400 Inlabltants. Today its population numvers upwards of 8.000, new dwellings lave arisen where once were fields of vheat, glorious with the shimmering uster of the scarlet poppy. The older vulldlnga, for the moBt part, have been lemollshed or altered. Manufacture, hlcfly of beer, and of Shakespearean ellcs, hae been stimulated Into proslerous activity. The Avon baa been panned by a new bridge of Iron. The illago streets have been leveled, wept, rolled and garnished til) they pok llke^fiU$Ei4>tv drawjpg the. Diddle *ageB. SCven The Sbakesffeare1 ottage, the ancient Tudor house, in llgh street, and the two old churches -authentic and splendid memorials of, t distant and storied past?have been etsored. ? Winter's "Shakespeare's tngland." Henry Ward Bescher'a Memory. Henry Ward Beecher, the centenary f whose birth i? hoi no ad a poor verbal memory, says the Irltlsh Weekly. On one occasion he are & notice In hi* church thus: "la addition to the notices Just read, desire to say that 1 shall be absent I ext Sabbath, and that this pulpit will e occupied by?ah?by?ah?the? lev.? (he became much flushed and onfuaed). I will not be here next 8abath, and, as I was trying to say, the reach er will he?ah?why, 1 know im?you all know him?know??8am* rill preach next Sabbath. Let us raise Ood by singing the?the hymn.** He had no difficulty in remembering he family name, "8am," bet Her. Sana el BoovfDe was (go much for Mm. ====?= . I ?? ii *? M* MBER LCE OUGHT tOVIDE WHARF EX-WAYQR SIERLINC REPLIES TO CARD To The Editor: I noticed In your Issue of Saturday an articto signed by Captain D. W. Gasklll who was complaining about the fact that thara was no public wharf here, and a* he mentioned my name I want to say: He was entirely Justified in his complaint regarding the lack of public docks. The writer know* that there is hardly a day but what some captain is not asking for some wharf room to take on. as be terms It. a little stuff. There are probably as many as fifty power boats running out of the bays and creeks of the three counties that border on Plmllco river, to any 4 nothing of the sail boats, that ssns>;(k/ to Washington regular with produce. etc., to sell and all of them carry back more or less merchao- 91 dlse bourht fmm m??~? here. It is a positive shame that there Is no wharf or dock that they can land at unless they are obliged to beg some private owner tot room. Sometimes tbey can be ac- , oommodated and at other time* they annot. Only a few day*> ago a lady came in my house and couiplulned that she could not get In the door a few days before to buy ' some fish on account of the door I being blocked up with boxes and barrels. Now these same boyes and \ barrels were goods some- boat was taking on ut ny wharf. Knowing ' the conditions I have complained but Utile, but It is a well known ' far: that goods taken 011 or off at my wharf have to be hauled j through my house. I will ?.iy if it were not for the kindness of S. H. I Fowle k Sou and some others. I ' do not see how our merchant* could ship their goods. There ar* . three little eight or ten f? ot pier* .owned l?y the town; one of them ! lc entirely occupied by oyster bout* and since the ptorm the one at the foot of Uonner street has bctu useless. also the one at the foot of" Kespess street. Why the town au-1 thoritles tlo not repair them Th known only to themselves. It ha* now been over two months since j the storm and no effort has bee* made to put them in 6hape to b* ! used. This matter of dockage 1* simply up to the merchants and | through the Chamber of Commerce thfty- should |it once tale* some stops to provide a pubBe dOTTT. As is well known daring tho last few months of the writers administration as mayor the Hoard of Aldermen had a bill seat to the legislature providing foar the future necessary improvements for tho town, vis : fro* dockage, water and sewage. An soon as tfc-is became known some of our citizens became hysterical and a mass meeting was called and all was dropped but the bill for a _ public dock. That bill became a law but the next board of aldermen failed to make use of the law and the very piece of property for the pubi c wharf was let go to private parties. Still this law remainh and the merchants and ChnrubeT ?of? Commerce will get busy a bond issue can he provided and a public wharf can be had. Will it be done? Respectfully, C. II. STERLING. i Hurrah I "Now I want something In /vu4 happiest vein." said the editor. "Beta tor par ma In advance, then!" da* clarod the fc>eu j, For Bruises. Starch or arrowroot, slightly mote toned, keeps down swelling and facllfr tales the healing of bruises. naray ,\nim?l la the Goat. ! Goats may be raised profitably land which la unsuited for any kind cultivation. Dally 8p.cl.lEven If You Are Beaten a Nose, To# Got Second Money. Things to Worry Akoot There are woman carpenters fd Thibet. IpVR^TSHKL ROOMS FOR RENT, ijj with or without aboard. 322 East Second Btreet. Mrs. W. B. Ram. dolph. 11-11 f -JIH
Washington Daily News (Washington, N.C.)
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Nov. 11, 1913, edition 1
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