North Carolina Newspapers

v ------ - - - 14 . T-'P NEW BERN SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA may 11 1915 n ft HPRF TWO " " 1HA1 UttUC UNIULD I ADVANTAGES TO ALL Craven1, and Pamlico Are the El Dorado of Eastern North Caroli na, Fertile Soil Makes Them Paradise For the Agriculturist Thirty miles below New Bern, right on the banks of the majestic Neute, and within all most a gun shot of Pamlico Sound lies Oriental, famous all over the eastern section of the OM North State as well as in other f (rations, as one of the most fertile . spots in the South, a section which baa proven itself to be almost as fer tile as the far famed valley of the Nile. The Town. Oriental, in itself is a town of good ly proportior, but in speaking of it, one includes the whole section lying for 'miles around. Just when Orien tal first panic into being, no one seems to know. Fifteen years or more ago the writer paid his first visit to that wonder-spot. At that time the old steamer Neuse and the Ooracoke Juritfshed the only means of reaching , the town except via the country road leading down from New Bern, and thelsemi-wookU! trips of the boats were of great interest to the citizens. ' The OK Landmarks. Then there wore but few signs of v habitation there. Old man Lou Mid get Atr better known all over the coun tyiA t'Uncle.Lou'end Aant Becky, !' trie" estimable .wife, .OoadttBted . the one and only holy in tha place and around this had sprung into being a church , a few stores and a few houses and there the oitizens lived, prospered and were happy. However, they did not know of the vast wealth which lay at their door. Time Goes By. Time, . jwawid. Jfey,, pjbflbj y live years sped into t he bw past, jind the town began toVKiow by lt'aps and bounds as did the 'country side'arouiftjj , and soon it was a prosperous village and the hum of machinery was heard on every hand. While being an ex cellent place for the lumbering busi ness Oriental's future lay in farming and finally theefforj ofjhe major Krtion of the inhabitant of uHlpvt ng section turned tha -way ' and to-day some of the .finest farms in the State are to be found within half a mile of the town. Realizing the advantages that the Oriental section- offered, progressive men a few years ago built from New ltern to that town a railroad and this opened that section to the world, and gave them ah outlet to the market places of t he State and nation. Then It was that .farming began in real earnestness. Truck farms sprang into being on every side, and it seem ed that everything that was planted thrived In the, rich soil and like Jack's .famous bean stalk grew overnight Into plants of marvellous sice. The fame of the sect ion was broad pasted over the whole country. Tho Noifolk Southern Railway Company who never lose and opportunity of doing good work along this line, have given that section great pub licity and even at present arc plan ning to take there a party of home seekers who are looking for a tertile soil which can be. made doubly pro ductive by the .use of scientific me thods. Anyth'nd Will Grow. Anything that is planted in that wonderful country will grow. Cotton corn, potatoes, tobacco and in fact any plant life thrives on the rich black loam and produces crops that can not be surpassed. This sort of con dition exists all over Pamlico county On up the line from Oriental, past Asbwood. on to Stonewall and Bay boro, the county seat, up through the Alliance section and on to Olym pia the same sort of rich soil is to be found, and the farmers there have only to till the land a little in the spring to pluck from it at harvest time the bounty of its richness. Oriental individually and Pamlico county as a whole, is a wonderful sec tioo, and one to whieh the seeker after wealth from agricultural pur suits, could not find surpassed if he were to travel across this broad oon tinent , and to visit the' re and ie she vast possibilities lying at hand is alt that one desires to convince them that the section is the Kl Dorado of KaaUm North Carolina. la Craven County. We had at Aral intended to tell only of Oriental and of Pamlieo county but these two names, eon pled with that Of vsst agricultural riches are to the writer synonymous with Craven county and what it has to offer this Us. Craven, It annexed Pamjloo ip4 the me ooattttlon PftITNTIFS!OYSTBS FULLY 7" YCT which prevails in the latter will be found in the former and in a way Craven has (one her sister county several better by adopting more pro rettivt and scientific methods of farming, and of being more ideally situated. In this county will be found some of the largest as well a the finest farms in the State. In the past years cotton has been the chief iop grown here, but last year the agriculturists turned to tobacco, ami finding that this thrived here, hun dreds of acres are tbisyear being plaDtf ed in the weed and the cotton acreage has been considerably cat down Truck farms are seen on every hand in Craven and the owners df these make money "hand over fist" by getting their produce oil the mar kets at just the proper time, and of meeting the public demand to a nice ty. Craven has one drawback, and that is that while its population is large, it has not enough people ajjd there are too many large farms which should be cut up into smaller ones. Along this line, the Chamber of Commerce, through the aid of the papers of the State, is doing a good work. Northern and Western farm ers who are seeking a location are being invited here and the glad band of welcome is extended to each and everyone who will come and make their home within the borders of the county and help to glean from the soil the golden fortune which lies therein. PUNCHES. (By Billy Sunday) . All sins have blue eyes and dimples when they are yotrnd Brains can beatmuacle with Its right hand tied behind Ha back; and it can do it every day in the week. av-wtthdaad dray mat- ter under his hat can Irarn more by stubbing his toe In I he ft ark than a fool can learn b y doing" to college. The tight kind of a man never losea more than one finder by fooling with a buss saw. Aim hldh. It won't be any ' harder ffti your gun to knock the feathers tout of an eatfle than to splinter a barn door. The yound man- who in will lnd to do through lite eawind on the second fiddle will never load the band. An earnest man will get there with , the floods while Ms half-hearted brother is putting1 tori his mitiens When the devil wants to run his claws clear thrOUtfh a man arid clinch them bit the Other side, he makes him believe that fooling with bottle won't hurt hint. The devil bates a happy home as bad as a saloonkeep er hated a prohlbi t Ion preach et. Every matt would like to build a beautiful house Why not go at It and build a beau tlf ul character? The man Is headed straight for the pit who Is living" as the devil wants him to, whether he Is a gambler Or a pillar In the church f& ' Nothing so blocks a man's way toward destruction as the love of wife and child. Nobody spends much time In looking at was tduros In the store windows, but a live man there who Is doing' some thing" always draws a crowd. We should look up for help and down to help. The higher you lift a little 1 man, the more he shrinks. The man who has no God ' never has very much else. The man who alms at not h ' Ing generally hits It. The man who can't learn ' anything from a mistake ' couldn't learn anything la ! college. The woman who manias a man to reform him has mats faith In human nature than St. Paul had. To know some psopls la a staadtod tmststttan to be Whoa a men says. "I wall," something may bo do net but whan a woman says. "I will," something has dot to bo done. Misses Gladys Soadford. Annie Wells and May Feat, of Marsh-ad City, returned borne last sight after short visit tpNeW AS SAFE AS MILK, EXPERTS ASSERT Recite the Safe- ftritfit in the Pro tttttHlg Waters ? INTERESTING STORY - ' Growth of the Bivalve Ie Most Interesting One indeed Washington. May 8. "Oysters aOw being shipped from Northern oyster beds in interstate commerce are safer than ever before, according toi ike bacteriological specialists of the Department of Agriculture," it is stated at the Office of Information of the department. "Ovslers, as these specialists ex press it, are fully as safe a food as is milk. This condition has been brou ght about t hrdugh the -sanitary sur veys of Oyster beds conducted co operatively by the Palate Health Serviee and the Department of eulture, by the hearty eo-oparatip: the State shellfish authorhieaant the Federal, tanties'aa finally by a realisation on the'' 'pari of the oyster men that they themselves, in the interests of then' industry, must prevent the taking of oysters from Bimnnnteri nr nolluted beds. As result Of the survey of oys ter beds by the Federal authorities in co-operation with State' autho'ri- tis, every oyster bed polluted by sewerage or other causes from Virgiyia to Massachusetts, the Northern oys ter-producing region, has been closed, and many beds placed under such restrictions as to the making and handling of oysters, so as to make it practically impossible for oysters at all subject to pollution to be taken and shipped. All the oyster beds in the State mentioned have been- so charted that when certain beds are owing to pollution or other causes, it is easy to establish from these maps the definite area covered by these beds. . State Co-operating. "In certain Cases these restrictions have compelled the transplanting of o.vsfef if tor-" a time long enough to make them absolutely free from any danger of pollution, or have limited the taking of Oysters to the seasons when the beds are in absolutely clean condition. In this work all the States concerned have co-operated most actively, and what is regarded as of great importance by the Federal au thorities, the oyster men themselves are seeing to it that no oysters' from the prohibited sources enter the Ideal markets or are shipped inland. "The Federal co-operative surveys have embraced all the oyster beds in New York, Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland. These surveys, made mainly op Government laboratory boats, 'consisted in taking oysters from the beds and making careful bacterio logical examinations of them, whieh would accurately determine whether or not the waters in which the oysters were growing were contaminated in any way by sewerage of ot her dan gerous elements. These baeterio- his , i. . . ... . .1 logical examinations were supple mented by float test 8 made by the State authorities. The float test con sists in starting a float at a soitrce of sewcraire ot other pollution and trap- in? its course to See whether it is carried from the sewers to the neigh bur hood or oyster beds, ' "While outbreaks of typhoid fever which have come from local milk sup plies or water supplies or other sources are frequently blamed by local health authorities who wish to escape res ponaibiltty on oysters winch come from outside sources, it is recognized that the oyster can under exceptional conditions convey typhoid bacteria. The only conditions, however under which an oyster can become a typhoid earlier is when it has become infected by typhoid bacteria taken from water that is polluted by sewage or when, after being opened, it washed in polluted water or allowed to come in contact with infected sur roundings. The sanitary surveys of the Federal Government and toe States have elimint ' . d from the oys ter industry all bods in the r eaten named which are polluted in any way or whieh are subject to pollution at certain seasons. The only oysters be ing skipped from this region, there fore are from beds where theie is not even a liklibood of the food heeom ing Infected." DIVORCE GRANTED TO MRS. L. E. New York, May 7. Aa echo the Lorlys Elton RogersIda Mat Walters love tragedy, la whieh the mother poisoned bar two babies who had as Basse, was beard la Supreme Court today whoa Mrs. Caroline Gld- diags pagers was awarded a divoree Ska was Lefts Bison Rogers legal the lawyer's "love at, ftba asked ao tmst iTH1 Mem try l e PRAISE BANKS FOR HIS DEFENSE OF THE U. S. NAVY Army and Nsvy Register Lauds North Carolina Man HE S TRUE BLUE Expresses Satisfaction Over His Reply to His Critics Washington, May The cur- rest Iteue of the Army and Navy Register, devoted exclusively to the militarv branches of the Government, carries an editorial praising The man ner in which Secretary Daniels has defended his administration against the criticism heaped upon him during the last few months. The editorial caused ooaknent in the Navy Department today because the publication was formerly .one of the Secret aiv's most, consistent critics asmueh as the Register lis accepted voicing tue opinions oi navai oi- eera in Washington, tne editorial was interpreted to mean that the feel ing whieh was aroused in some quar ters as a result of his famous anti- ram order is rapidly passing and that the general tendency to oriticise Mr Daniels is givink.way to: a desire to improve ui unvm urgwiftauuu sunoort ine the administration The editorial says: "With swiftness Of response and reversal of position almost acrobatip, most of the newspapers that have been vilifying the Secretary of the Nfvy for a wme range of moompe teoee, inaction and maladministra tion are now found praising him for the 'splendid showing' hd has made for the navy in making it, in his own defense, in a letter whieh' was auspi eiouslv extracted from him by the president of Williams College Change of Attitude "The particularly vicious editorial opinions that have indorsed Repre sentative Gardner in hording Mr. Daniels responsible for the loss of the Submarine F-4 at Honolulu, and as one nersonoll v and directly and solely to blame for our famiio haye an fficient fleet Or anything else in a naval way permit ting us to adequate ly meet any sort of enemy, no matter how insignifieent newspapers, that have been boieteroous in their assaults Upon Mr: Daniels are now found ex press! ng a degree of satisfaction, 'so ff as the showing goes,' and williiu? to entertain a kind of faith in fitness with a conviction, which U proper, that much remain? to be done. There is no occasion to. aaarrel with any reputable newspaper that srgues in favor of a larger army and navy at aVahhalf of increased ap- propriat OBI s Hi military-naval establishment! Thal ne thing and something whieh, eondao 4 with dig- Slty, vigor and auvn.nty, may help the service by creating a wholesome ahd influential public sentiment, dp eteting in due 'Itie upon Congress for erislalion that is really helpful to the svidphi of national defense . But there is no benefit to be de- iived (rom such 'knocking' as has been done by Mr. Gardner in his highly sensational and irresponsible speeches and by the newspapers that Tare quick to see the startling feat ure of that gentleman's exaggeration? and expletives and to make use of them in the advertisement of himself mainly. Rejoinder to Critics "Despite the suspicion of legitimate pre-arrange me nt from which Presi dent Garfield's inquiry and Secretary Daniel's reply are inoperable, theie will be appreciation oi an opportunity aqd a duty of which effective and convincing advantage has now been taken. There will be a division of the uses which Mr. Daniel's letter has served. "It is, ta truth, a rejoinder to his critics and, as well, a detente to the navy, the fitness of whieh hat been a. ailed by those who have been too anxious in malingning the head of the Navy Department to remember that lay were also injuring th service, oi were wining to do so ir Injury were po. sible, by sueh peraonalitUs. 'Tktre are tome mings in Mr. uan- ieL' tetter which might vary well be questioned, such as hi ; claim of an unprecedented record in the matter of recruiting, but it is not worth while making too fine an analysis of the document which has tally served of its author and nhould a saaer discussion of the Made, along with the army path of which may be best to a state of relief by pub- that 4s not abominable ia its lirad of individeul and ignorant and wicked In its reeklett assertion of serviee Worthlessnees." T. D . Hewitt loft last night where she will tasad a ft mas Vlintlai relatives 3 hfOUgk Hoity ghapi Mp Vtetlac relatives, returned home last night after a last evening as ere the guetti of both front-. ft believed, wtU help 1 It... . i . i . , i I . ... m- , I . . . J . . - .J . L..J1.. ThAlw mm " jtibw v) retail vet m vn oiy, iir, ana. irs, en, pwnop, vae nvuawap a wws l&M FEW RAISE HANDS AT SUNDAY'S CALL ' FOR SAVED SOULS Nine Thousand People Indi cate That They Are Sinners FEW ASKPRAYER Famous Evangelist Contin to Thrill His Hearers Jfew York, May 8. Nine thousand men and women in the faterson Tabernacle indicated by their lack of response last night that they did not believe that tbey were Baved, while but a few hundred gave witness to their preparedness by raising their hands when Billy Sunday asked "How manv can honestlv say from your heart that H you knew you Were to die tonight you would be saved Raise your hands." Billy scanned the sea of sober faces and added: Thousands did not lift their they are asked his hands. Still, I believe honest," For the first time, Billy- auditors to name those whom they would like to see saved. "My friend," a minister called. "My boys," said a mother. Then there came a succession of responses from every section of the big gospel shed. When Billy asked those wlio' did rtot care to name those, whom they desired to see redemed to stand, the audience rose as one. City Officials Attend. Twenty-five City Hall officials and politicians were present, but none of his 414 trail hitters were from that delegation. City Clerk Thompson Standeven. Comntroller James Cur- ran, Postmaster Thomas O'Neil, Building Inspector John Quigley. Tax Receiver Eueene Wickham, St. SuDerintendent James Taylor and Assessors John Colfer, Maurice Ang land and Timothy Delaney were in the group. ;'Rodey," introduci..tfleJ tion, hoped tSiaf they wr.,A9t..thp city officials' who ha'd -invited him in to a dbwntown cafe for a drink the other day. y- There are many "here tonight.' said Billy, preaching from the text Is it well with thee?" "whose names in an ooiiuary notico to-morrow morning, would. cause no one to guess twice to tell whe tfeey are going. They are too jnupli wrapped up in politics and business." He has a good worth for the old curfew laws and said he hoped to see them enacted and enforced in Paterson. "Children learn more devilment be tween 7 and 10 at night than all the Sunday and public school teachers can make up." he shouted. "A woman said to me: "M"?t 1 keep them in from morning to night?' "No, fsom night until morning," 1 said. ' . . Replies to Professors. Billy paid his compliments to his critics in the universities while tell ing yesterday afternoon how the Apostle Paul had caused the cobra, god of the inhabitants on whose is land he was shipwrecked, to swell up and die. "You see, God can use even a snake to preach His Gospel. He doesn't have to have a oollege professor. No sir." The afternoon, collection of $215 was divided between the Paterson Rescue Mission and the Florence Crittenton Home, while the evening col leet ion of $542. 10 went to the Florence Crittenton Home and the Paterson Orthopedic Association. Firemen Give Scarf to "Ma." "Ma" Sunday was presented with a gray auto scarf, knitted by fifteen firemen at the Central Fire Head quarters. It was given in anticipa tion of the talked-of trip of Billy and "Ma" to the Panama-Paeific Fair. Billy says he may go, but isn't sure. To-morrow he will preach on the text, "If Christ Came to Paterson." On Friday his subjeot will be "Amuse ments." He announced that his friend and co-laborer, John Chlla ban of New York, would conduct his overflow meetings, on Sunday. Billy replied yesterday to the at tack of the Rev. Dan F. Bradley of Cleveland, Ohio, who had told the Chamber of Commerce of that eity that Sunday was out to make money and not to save souls, and flat be was a crude as s ditch digger "I would no mure expect Dan Bradley to be in favor of my coming to unvetaaa inan tne anneuser Basest brewery would be in favor of my coming to fit. Louis,", he said Mrs. Myrtle Leneave, of DaGrange returned home last night after viitt to relatives In the ftlty. GOVERNOR (RAK GRANTS PfitDON ' TO PETER SWINK Prisoner A Burke County Man Charged With Mansalughter SELF DEFENSE PLEA Another Pardoif Was Also Granted Yesterday New Charters Raleigh, May 7. governor Craig today pardoned Peter3wink, a Burke county man charged with the crime of manslaughter and serving three years for killing Platq Sain. Phonse Avery of MorgantoS' brought the papers including a strong appeal for clemancy by Judge James L. Webb and Solicitor STewland. Gov ernor Craig pardondcr 8 Wink upon Judge Webb's statement of the case though unable to repress the feeling of mystery that attended the convic tion of the prisoner. Self Defense Judge Webb's letter recites a case of self defense. It said that the evi dence "tended to show that Sain and one Hoyle, both drinking, went to the home of the prisoner one night, called him into the yard and at the point of a pistol forced him to ac company them to tie home of a woman in the neighborhood. After they hd remained there sometime. the prisoner started to leave to go home when deceased, who was a very large man and had the reputa tion of being a dangerous one when drinking, came on thje' prisoner, who was a very small man, with an open razor and pistol, when prisoner pick ed up a rock and knocked deceased in the head, inflicting, a wound from which the later died. Jury Deliberated "The jury deliberated a long while before they returned a verdict of manslaughter and reoommended the mercy of the court. 1 sentenced the prisoner to a term of three years in the State's prison. The jury say they thought the court would imprison defendant for about 'one year. 1 feel now that this prisoner has been sufficiently punished; having .served of ?hi .sejittmcfe ami: J now in a ke the request that you do. pardon him on condition of good behavior, and this request is, made for the reason that I feel his punish ment has heen sufficient." Solicitor Newland writes in almost the identical launguage of the letter signed bv the Judge. Governor Craig issued the pardon immediately. Thersu.is no condition tOnit. :The iurv.'sBonvictiony"t(lrtl.V aocounted for fry,, the. freflnefrt association 0,1, the dead man and' f be prisoner, their theory being that though a slip of, a man, the prisoner was noi actually afraid of his occasional pal and that neither the knife nor the razor spell ed fear to him. Another Pardon Governor Craig ..also pardoned Paul Jacobs, of Wake bounty, today the sentence being six months for assault with a deadly weapon New Charters The Secretary of.State today char tered the Wo mans Aid Society, .of Rooky Mount, P. E. Davis, E. A Battle and a dozen more being in corporators. There is no capital stock. The Jioddie and Yarboro Drug Company, of Nasheville, with $1,500 of its $10,000 capital paid in, was chartered today. J. ' B. Doddie, Yarboro and others subscribe the stock. The Purity Coffee company of Winston-Salem, begins its $50,000 business with $5,000 paid in. J. D Long, A. E. Holfon, 8. F. Vance W. A. Lemly and others are the ttock subscribers. IRISH DON'T LIKE IT. Don t ' blnU Well of England' "Dry? Bill. -V London, May 8. The determined opposition of the. Irish Nationalists and the Independent Irish National ists, who joined forces today to op pose the new liquor taxes of David Lloyd-George, thanoellor or tne ax- chequer, forced the Government to postpone until neat week the second reading of (he bill embodying the Chancellor's plan. Both Premier Asquith and Mr. Llovd-George pleaded the necessity of expeditious action, but the Irish members insisted .that the hut snouia not be carried further until they were assured that the Government had de cided to abandon the sapor Vases Mr. Uoyd-OliJSe announced that his negotiations with tne liquor in teres! were making good progress and that 'he hoped an arrangement satisfactory to an parties would be reached within twenty-four hours. E Mrs. J. H. Mock and daughter M... r.ttrlnl MilaJ in lha flltv Uat vanlnv Kttfll iH tha masts iMr, and Mr. j,lt, Bishop. Gerxna is Sink Eig Steamer Send the Canard Liner To the Bottom Off the Irish Coast ---Every Passenger, Among Whom Were Many Americans, Wu Sf-ed Liverpool, May 7. ($ m. The Canard line aaai der dives oat a statement nldht that not a single, ender oa board of tho tanla sank today by tho Qer mans, was lost. It was at first feared that been drowned. say Liverpool, May 7 The Caaard Line manager here says ,ahe Lus, tania was sunk by a suBMsta at i$S o'clock (London I line this af ternoon, eight miles south by west of Hd Head ol Klneale. MUCH EXCITEMENT London, May 7 The big Cm. arder is one of the lardeot shins In the world, and holds the trana- atlantic record, made on her maiden voyage and never eq nul led. There is much excitement la the office here, where t he officials are bending every effort' to get the particulars of the rtaoraesl attack. Whet her the litant steam er was beset by men-of-war .or submarine is not known. HEAVY PASSENGER LIST Liverpool, May 7 The J,usl- tanla had a heavy passenger list of Americans principally. She was torpedoed and sunh on the Irish coast. There was a decided list to the steamer when she went ddwn. Landsead and Queenstown stations picked up noon. : ' 1 EVERT PASSENGER SAVED London, May 7 It ie reported that the Luattanla's passenger were saved ATTACKED BY SURMARMHC New York, May 7 The saasssd report reaching here saya" Lusltania was attacked by a oh- Umarisie which Lid ia wait for her on l he irisn coasi. TURKISH VP Constantinople, May 8. The f ar- kish War Office gave out the follow ing statement Saturday: "An attempt of the enemy to land troops near K aba To pen, souta or Avi Burnu, yesterday morning, failed. "The night before last our troops attacked Sedd-ui-Bahr, in spite of a bombardment by the enemy's fleet, and drove them out of their trenches, capturing three machine guns. "Yesterday the Russian fleet ma- suocesfully bombarded the iipde-fead ed village of Igneaden." a Despite the dicision of the Turkish Government to refuse all correspon dents access to the Dardanelles regjoa exception was made in the case of two Germans and the Associated Press correspondent. The party ar rived oa the night of May Itt, while the Town of Dardanelles, after thirty hours, wis still ablate. The scene was one of desolation, with crumpled walls and housel. Maidos also was burned, and yes terday the Town of Gall i poll was ast ablaze by indirect Are from the 0lf of Saros, with ignition shells denoted by captive balloons and aeroplanes. Incessant and heavy fighting oa the Gtllipoli Peninsula has continued from the first landing of the allied forces, but details of the new eaat- paign cannot be told for military reasons. The straits themselves, so far ae ia known, have not been seriously at tacked tiaoe the reopening of the op erations, but yesterday seven skips were ssea and heard off Sedd-oj- Bahr, flrlag intermittently. HAVE NOT YET ABANDONED HOPE Berlin. Mar 7 tier mat jBi today still rtfuse to abandon ''rTS ORY for a pseeefaj sotUetBent of the Aa- tro-Italian erifsV Not an attempt w made to diajattas the tadiatmai of the sltuaUaa, Oarsman of both front-. It it believed. Ut hate the rituathw Pa to hptdjaa Ml SI m f!H.K 9 j i. M JEH prT wET I M fifing