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SOUTJirORT. Brunswick Co.. N.C. Southpoht, N. C, October 8, 1891. T " THE NEW OYSTER LAW. Some uncertainty seems to exist among the oyster-gatherers of this county, as to their liabilities, under the new oyster law. Especially does this seem, true as to the question of license. The most important sections bearing upon the matter, important to those engaged in the oyster business in the waters contiguous to Brunswick county, do not indicate that the law affects them. What action the Shell fish Com mission may hereafter take, of course cannot bo predicted. Chapter 119, Sec. I, of the Acts of 1887, says, "That the State shall ex ercise exclusive jurisdiction and con trol over all shell-fisheries which are or may be located in the boundaries of the State, south of Roanoke and Croatan sounds, arid north of Core sound." And in the laws of lS'Jl, Article 1, Sec. XI 1, reads, "Nothing in the provisions' of this article shall apply to the taking or catching of oysters,e.xcept upon the public grounds of the State"J And Sec. V, says, "The Board of Commissioners of shellfish eries, shall upon making the said final decisions as to the location, limits, area and designation of the several public grounds in the county, publish tho same in the county in which the said public grounds are located and in two newspapers having a general cir culation in tho State." . Nothing in the above sections seem to have any bearing or can effect in any particular the accustomed gather mg of oysters in this locality. It is possible, that .the Shellfish Commis sioners attention may bo directed to tho natural oyster grounds in these waters, and tkey may take some action in regard to locating such grounds. Public notification would be given of such action on the part of tho Com missioners, PRESS ASSOCIATION (JUERY. During the year there are many matters of importance occurring in various sections of the State,and which come before some member of the North Carolina Press Association. Somo of these may bo only local in character, it is true, yet they may be of sufficient importance to warrant tho action "of tho Association. But there are many things of real import ance to each and every member of the Association, which occurring during the year are not brought before the annual meeting for official action. These questions are not brought up, perhaps because theV have not been noted down at time of occurrence, or in the excitement of the annual meet ing are forgotten. Would it not 1-e well, when any matter, which a mem ber believes to be of importance, worthy of Association action, or a matter which injures his paper, and can bo Yedressed by the Association, for such a member or members, to present the point at issue to the ex ecut vo board in writing, and if ap proved by the board as worthy of dis cussion and action, have the board give it to some member of the Asso elation, who will prepare to handle the question at the next annual con vention of the Association. A portion of the time o the regular session can be set apart for the discussioruof these questions. The questions can be sent to the members selected by the board, and need not be ofBciaUy published, but can be arranged for as private business of the Association at its first annual convention, and the different questions can there be thoroughly dis cussed and settled. LAW-BREAKING TO PROMOTE MO RALITY. The readiness with which the avowed promoters of -morality adopt illegal and violent courses in furtherance of the objects which they have in view constitutes a puzzling and somewhat contradictory element in the history of social progress. Yet from the be ginning to the present time this dispo sition has had its manifestations in one form or another. Promoters of morality have not always been contest to trust to the effect of truth and moral means. They have sometimes resorted to the persuasive influences of physical harm or loss of property in advancing their ends. It is the same old spirit as that which once inflicted pains and penalties upon air dissen tients and ruthlessly sacrificed life itself for the glory of God and the good of men. Within a few years "praying bands" of women, as they were called, in somo of the cities and smaller towns of the West, made, a practice of visit ing saloons, interfering with the busi ness done there, and in instances wast ing and destroying the liquors kept for sale. The purpose of these women was the promotion of temperance a purpose assuredly most laudable in itself. But, losing faith in moral means, their zeal carried them into acts of violence, and they presented the singular spectacle of endeavoring to promote sobriety bv totally disre- garding personal rights and by becom ing themselves flagrant law-breakers. A similar spirit has recent.lv mani fested itself m the anti-lottery cam paign which is now being waged in Louisiana. . At the beginning of "this campaign tho Rev.. I)r. Palmer, of New Orleans,' made tho ominous an nouncement that even revolution would be resorted to iC it were neces sary to defeat the lottery. It this means that the opponents of the lottery would resort to violence. Dr. Palmer's statement has already been made good. The lottery people were to hold a bar becue and mass-meeting in Sabine parish, at the county seat, on Friday last. On Thursday evening Secretary Marshall, of the Pro-Lottery Associa tion; Judge Blackmail, of one of the circuit courts of the State, and Major Sandiford, a member of the legislature, who were to be speakers at the mass- meeting in Sabine parish next day. arrived at Robeline, the nearest rail road station to the place of the inten ded meeting. They were soon after surrounded by a force of men armed with rifles and shot-guns, who kept up a continual firing for purposes of intimidation, and were presented with a communication which stated that the barbecue would result, in bloodshed; that the men who should attempt to light tho fires would be killed; that 1,000 armed men were on the ground, and that any one attempting to speak would have to take the consequences. The pro lottery men did not take long to -make up their minds that in such a case absence would be their wisest course. Now, however desirable the suppres sion of the Louisiana lottery may be, the worthiness of the object does not justify a recourse to lawlessness and violence. Good causes are not heljed but hindered and discredited by such acts as those threatened by the Sabine parish anti-lottery campaigners. Moral ends are never attained by illegal methods. The more enlightened' the people of all sections of our country become the more clearly will they ap prehend that law-breaking cannot promote morality. WashingtonJ'ost. ire VIEWS. Table Talk for October, gives special attention to Housekeeper's Inquiries for menus of all sorts;. Menus Tor Wedding Brvakfats: Lunch , lb ners. Suppers and Simple Tc-33. a.' well as suggestions for arrangement uf table, favors for gue-ts -etc, -Taking Care o,f the Hamls iv l:. t'.r;ivon. contains some new ideas ou this oft discussed subject. A notLcr interest ing article Is "Fashionable Luncheon and Tea Toilets" by Tiliie 1 fay Forney. Table Talk $1 a year. Table Talk Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ENTHUSIASTIC FARMERS, It is very diiUcuIt for a mar. to suc ceed in any business which he doe? not reallv like and for which he has no genuine enthusiasm. He must ne cessarily go through his work ia the spirit of the drudge, and whether the work be hard or easy, it is done more or less in a hard way. Job observed that his hired hands watched for the "shadow," or in other "words longed for sundown, and the man who has no love for his work no genuine enthu siasm for it must necessarily have more or less of the spirit of old Job's hired hands. It is not in human nature to like drudgery. It is astonish ing to notice the violent exertion the boy will make in the game of base ball and think it a genuine pleasure, and how little exertion will tire the same boy when his mother set3 him to pulling weeds in the garden. He likes the first, lias genuine enthusiasm for it, and this makes violent exertion a pleasure and delight. He abominates the second and pulls every weed with a groan. Nothing but a deep-seated love for his mother will make weed pulling a pleasure to a boy. There is no game, no honor, no prize to be won in the weed pulling, no demand on the intellect, and therefore it is drudgery, pure and simple, which the healthy mind hates and ought to hate. The game of base ball, with all 'its severe physical exertion, requires constant watchfulness, careful calculations, gives full scope to the mind, demands the closest attention, and inspires" enthu siasm that makes the severe physical exertion an actual pleasure. On every farm there is a lot of hard, back aching work, mere drudgery. It is always very hard wojk . unless in some way the mind can be occupied? either in devising .some better and easier way of doing" it, or in supplying a motive that will lift it out of the piane of mere drudgery or physical toil. As we vvi'iteTthoiisands of our readers are engaged in cutting up com. On the old pia?i, v.-iiicli most ol them stul-ioi-l low, it is as hard and "disgreeable we; rH as we ever did ou the farm How is it with the men who have learned to use one of the simple machines in use en many faims? There is a pleasure in the very thought that -two mei and one horse will do the work of six or eight men on the old method. There is pleasure in the thought that with this new device tho whole crop can be cut in good condition, in a week or ten days at the furthest, in the pink of condition and with far less weariness of body than by the old method. It is cne of the triumphs of mind over matter. No farmer, however enthusiastic he may be. likes the drudgery of farming, but his enthusiasm will enable him to relieve himself of the drudgery by every possible device within the profit able employment of his means. It is astonishing, in looking over farms, to see how easy some men do the disagree able work and how hard it is for others. A discouraged farmer always seems to do his work m a hard way. Whether the way be hard or easy in itself it is hard for him. To the man who has a genuine enthusiasm in his business even hard work becomes comparatively easy, because it is a means to an end in which his whole nature is interested. The man who sees no future iuJ farm ing, or the man who is always on the lookout for some other business than farming, generally farms in the hard est way. The man who is enthusiastic in the business, sees a bright future and never expects to be anything else than a farmer, finds an easy way to do work that is in itself disagreeable. TT . . i. . . ins enuiusiasm m nse.ll greatly helps to maKe disagreeable work easy. 1 1 1 is a great iity to be the sons of a j discouraged farmer. With little knowl- j edge of the world, they adopt their! father's views and determine, whatever ! auu iicicisiuue. wuaiever : a...ttr wia i. ; else may co the fathers business. .They learn to ' hate farm work, and hating it do it in ! the hardest way and find out, at the last, from Utter ext-riehee and !er-; ur.al knov'!' de t. tjicre is U r.. .'; c; "v' is e;ty tu r.::y ;uh! -u ut-i. K The' way u u f a tv is t ". ;:.e .r.rld. :h.Vt - &5 labor is demanded of his hands. Bo not treat him as a hired man or as a mere drudge. Give hira his man's wages as soon as he can do a man's work.- - Let him buy his own' clothes and T;ut his favinsrs ia the bank, or, if .needed on the farm, 'pivc hint a note and :ay him interest; consult him in bavin stock' scd listen to his opinion T: 4. whether it be correct or incorrect. If he 13" a born farmer he will soon be come an enthusiast in his work, and that enthusiasm will be catching to every member of the family that is susceptible to such a blessed contagion. If he does not take kindlv to it and cannot interest himself in farming, find but for what nature intended him and send him away with a parent's blessing. It is an unspeakable calamity for any man to.be tied down to a life of drudgery in a business for which he is not fitted by nature, for which he has no taste and in which he has no enthusiasm There are boys wearing out their lives on the farm who ought to be in the machine shop or m the professions, and there are men drud ging along in the professions and liv ing from hand to mouth who would have been leaders and distinguished successes on the farm. The farm gains nothing by having men who regard farm life as one of drudgery and un requited toil. On thQ other hand it loses, for each man of this character becomes a center of chronic discontent. Nature fashions us at birth to her liking, and much of our success, in life lies in carrying out her intentions. Des Moines, la., Homestead. UNCLE JERRY SKEPTICAL. Gen. Dyrenforth ha3 not yet sub mitted his final full and detailed re port of his rain-making experiments Consequently Secretary liusk has not yet determined what he will say or recommend concerning them.' In scientific circles here- there is consid erable skepticism about the real suc cess and actual value of those experi ments. Prof. Simon Ncwconib has written a magazine article in opposi tion to the ..concussion theory, Gen. Dyrenforth, of course, supoorting it. The latter will, it is understood, come before Congress and ask for a further appropriation t? enable him to con duct -his experiments to a finish. 1 rorn 1110 SKepiicai tone.wnicn pre- ,- : , - r, . ' .- , . theory or the conclusiveness of his experiments, it is doubtful it Secreta U Kusk will recommend an increased appropriation, or, indeed, any appro-, priation at all, for the continuance of the cloud-compelling concussions. What his decision will finally -be will depend, of course, largely upon Gen. Dyrenforth's final report " That may present the matter in such a iight as to justify the practical Secretary in recommending that the concussion theory be further investigated; Just now, however, Secretaiy Rusk is a skeptical frame of mind. Washing ton Post. W I L 31 1 NOTOX A I) VERT I S KM ENTS. B. F. PENNY Has just returned from the North era Markets with an Immense Stock of , I bought late, therefore I-bought cheap and can afford to undersell an' clothier in the city. 15. F. ''PEXXY, 110 and 112 .Market St., Wilmington. X. C. ASSIGNEE SALE At Cost! At Cost! HEDRICK'S CORNER. Commencing with Saturday, October ioth. I will offer the entire .st ck of TT) A7 rfTC U lY I VJ vJ J U 05 NOTIONS, i - bents himishings, I-.tc, of J. J. Iledrick. f . i Jo 1..,r-.h:- will l- :j-T5.d to? .;: !: d lota- - .;,!.!; J. ; 11 CLOTH BG IT COST 1. B. BROWN, Issi-a. 1 Q II CTQTIPI A TI? 0, II. r MiMl H, WILMINGTON, N, 0, S. H. :FISHBLATEHl3 WILMINGTON, X. C. BIG BARGAINS. S. H. FISH BL ATE WILMINGTON, N. C. S. H. FISHBLATE. WILMINGTON, N. 0. RtUlL & WILSON'S Collars and Cuffs are the best in the world and at NAUMBURG'S 113 Princess St. Wilmington, You will Snd a larae stock of them. FINEST MEN'S FURNISHINGS Best Fitting CHILDREN'S SUITS. KNOX'S i I ATS, ETC, ILH ! XL WILL BE HERE OCT. 9TH. ... We are now oui hiiz the larp-sl CIGARS AND TOBACCO NOT to be found : in the ciiy and at prices s Fancy Goodt, WciUling Prcs to suit the times. . ' I No. 12 MrtrVpf, Rt WihMIXUTON, X. ( WILMINGTON MARBLE YARD, 1 JOHN 3IAUNDKH, 'lroiric!tor. WILMINGTON, N. C. ! North Front Street. :o: . Monuments and Ghivei Stoxe!? Maje to Okder. ' W. 3IUXROE & CO, Iealer in i - FURNiTUKI: s CAKI'KTS. -V BEDUlNi;, &c. No. 10 South Front Street, WIL3IINGTON, X. C. ALDERMAN & PLANNER. Importers and Wholesale DK.U.KKS IX IIAIlUWAllE, STOVES, TLWARE, Etc. B j Ho. 114 North Front Street WILMINGTON, X. C. Is W!' vt :TIU- IiACKlv 'i's-h,,,.. ;t; v U' :. i Iryi. t ... u . . in , dow Miadi-. 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Violins. hitru liicnts. U.'l!U. Wi L xj j x (; T() N C THE0RT0N WILMINGTON, N. C. The Favorite Hotel tcr all Northern Travel. - QUIET, liOMIiLlKI:. "the oirrox" Caters to the highest class of patronage with Cuisine and Service equal to any in the South. Careful attention paid to Business Men and Tourists- Hates: per day and upwards. J. K. 3IONTAGUK. 3Ianaj;cr. IKHDHLL MEARES. ATTORNEY AT XiVW. Office, 17 Princess Street WILMINGTON. C. Pn.xiic.-s in aM tilaiii utd Federal CourU CBGQXEEY,- LAMPS and EOUSE FUBiUSMNG GOODS. tlj -uht-r, !H m .?r i.ud Tea Sets S. A. sullies '& CO. , ;.. ' - i iiua.-rj urket Street. " . WILMINGTON, N. C.
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