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1 I'!-''U!.;j-V KV'I
EDITOR
, SUHSCKIPTIOX KATKS
,One Year ?! "U
afiix Months ."(I
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published Tucxdaijs and Fridays.
. GCTTI.Mi IT STHAHillT
t
. The Advance had Imped I'.ial
it was done with the school ques
tion for the present. I In I an in
advertent and minor error in the
pditorial "Fair Warning" in Tues
day's issue makes an additional
word necessary.
The senate hill amending the
graded scliool charter makes the
number of trustee proper, inihnl
Jng two women trustees, ten,
The chairman of the county
board of education, acting as
chairman at all meetings of the
graded school trustees brings the
(number virtually up to elecu.
Tuesday's editorial gave the nuni
ber as thirteen, which wi an er-
Jr Jii.-,.iviwft.- ,.;... v
9 Spite of this mistake, which
IW'e regiret very much and now of
fer our apologies for, the argn
' tment of the editorial which had
t0 do mainly with the proposed
change in the hounds of the grad
ed sohool district is undisturb
ed,. Ami as for the number of
trustees, it is still to be increas
ed but increased to e'eveu in
(Stead of fo thirteen.
The present number is nine
and at first sight it appear- ilia'
the only change made is in the
addition of Ami women -o ilie
board ; bieb in its,. if H ,,ubl
Object to. Kul when the lioiiuds
Of the disi i it J are made In i mi
form to iht corporate limits o:
the town and one of the ti uMecs
to he elected bv the aldermen
thereby eliminated, irluallv Mr
U M. I'Hoy is named to lake his
Jilaiv. Now the Ailanc dmilits
Whether the educational inter
ests of tln county and of the
iun II nil ieniii. lueiiinai. ineie
have been in some counties suit
between the town and th- county
88 to which should receive cer
-.tain funds Here in I'a -imoiank
, i
Hot long aeii the county laid claim
to certain tines w i i -' i bad been
going to the low ii t an i A i beiik
It strikes i;s that I Ii charm. in
Cf the cmmi v boa'' ' ' "' '
luore eab'i. i
ests of 1 1 ,,, , . i..
by any .:! '. 'i i . .
school. I , i a :. '.p
Wondering i . : ;
thing p" in i :'!'; ':'
jtion.
And 1 ' rce we 1 1 . e . ','
Boluif. i ; 1 1 -1 ion a g. i ' 1 1 'i"ie Ad
Ranee wants to set forth what i!
fcfld in mind when we suggested
that rather Ihan circumscribed
fthe graded school district should
J)6 enlarged. If the district were
jextended in Providence township
plong both sides of Knobbs creek
Toad, instead of takinir in part
vi one sine ami leaving me oi.ier
almost altogether out, as at prc-
m i i i ji , ji.
v pnt, it would make it possible to
consolidate the two schools on thin
joaa; and one rural township in
thy countj at least vjfould be in
way of establishing rural schools
that could compare with those
of other progressive communi
ties in the 8taH
A FACIMi OF ISSUES
Some of our readers may be
wondering why we have given so
much more f space in this pajer
to the grade, 1 sciiool bill than to
some of the other measures intro
duced into the legislature by Pas
(piotank's representatives there.
And yet it serins to us' that
there is no ground for anv such
iee i'ig. The other measures so
!:!! a wo have heard of them
a -re all disrmsed before Messrs
'""'''on and Small e't Elizabeth
1 The roMi bi and the sal
a s sieln bid introduced bv Mr
( ohoon i--e Ii before be I a
T-t I 'niou and before llie ( 'o,.n
ly ( 'nininissjoiie; s and embused
b both Ii. .lies. Kill ill.- evaded
-clio.d bi I seemed to maieriali.e
aft'-r the aforesaid gentlemen
readied Ualeigh.
Since, however, we have brought
up these matters, the Advance
will set forth its position.
This paper began talking about
establishing the oftice of county
treasurer and putting the ollicers
of the county on a sularv basis
before these reforms were incor
porated in ;i bill or. so far as we
know, discussed by the Farmers
Union. Now if a bill embodying
reforms that we have advocated
seems to lie in way of passage we
Kiinnot do other than wish it well.
The lull, may have its defects.
This paper has made request for
a copy hut lias not received one.
Hut for defects, if they exist, Mr.
V. 1 4. ( 'ohoon must answer to
the people of this county.
Again the Advance now for
more than two years has leeu
hammering in .season and out of
season on the question of good
roads and urging some measure
that: would insiure good roads for
Pasquotank county. V. I,, i'o
hoon's road bill is the tirst an
swer to our efforts. The bill may
not be exactly what we wanted,
for no copy has ben furnished
us that we may go over it careful
ly and study its provisions. I!ut
with its general trend we are at
oiiainicd ami can liml no fault
with il. It has i In- endorsement
of i!ie farmers. Objections thai
ale ollered by i.'hers applv o!i
to certain details. We say let
it M.i-s and h-l Mr. ( 'uhonn and
M ! Sma'l answer in i be people
'n- l!
To be entirely IVauL I he Ad
van e v. ou id Icel bei ler sa t Nlitvl
i f sonie one ol her I ban W . I ,. Co
boon w-re sponsor for these bills
This paper has never been able
to eniiiel for. jet that Cohooli
w eii I to Uab'igh lu ii ears jigo
w ilh a cil v charier endorsed In
the board of aldermen; and what
he bgislature and Mr. Column
turned out was something palls
of which the citv fathers bad ae
s re. 1 1 won d be well for I he
people of this county to reaien,
her this also audio write i I i 1
M ('obooii oi Mr. Small l'-r
i- ; of e;r ii l-ili as i . , i 1 p.i
' ' . '! sil ..', lie a 1 e ! ' - ,
i
loial
to m
( i.
la- li... I i r
Hi. , , ii- I ;,e ,
I - ! ;.' r r a iiue -one
of iii-i i-s -ol'
the coiiniv
.-! e, .'
r: i i -', ii i -.
lor ilelial,
The a
i oinnilssiollel
ilenyiiifj the tow n Ihe us- of the
enmity juil nfter -liine 1st niaih'
an v ilillydallyin or h-lav im
ossille.
Tlio lio.'iril nf Ahlernieii. then.
Ie.sere no part ieuliir credii fur
the fad that they are planum;:
to take this step. They have
Hot. to do il The only question
io ono of the coat of the yropoft
ed structure. As to this the
Advance may make further com-
ment when we hare heard the
report, of the special 'committee
which is investigating this very
question. For the present
we wii go no further than to
say that the building of tempo
rary quarters that will later
have to be destroyed or disposed
of will be a mistake.
The man who is responsible
for the awakened interest in this
matter and to whom is due the
greatest measure of credit for the
a tion ibaf las been taken in th"
county physician. Dr. Z. Fear
ing. The conditions set forth in
his report and first given puliH
citv in The editorial columns of
this newspaper last Eridav havt
I pr-va i !e. for some lime ; and
the
imty had a
's .isician t
ah r:
inhu
oilher
maia
ci v;'-
d of handling ih
ners might hae i or
! i ' i : i i ! i I even unti
' coiiiily had be n c la
niser for ilus injas
I
i urn .1 :
I In- low n
pelled lo
tice ia ' ""i t .
The coimtv it now appears will
not be satisfied with refusing to
quarter Ih" cits prisoners in i s
jail but will remod"! thai iruc
tun- in -1 1 1 1 1 a way as to make
it possible to allow each 'uisiip
ei his own ell an i certaialy his
own I ei I .
The jaii. we hdicve is four
ted or fifteen years old. It was
not built right in lb" first place
It is now totally inadequate to the
city's needs. Norfolk has one
cell for each prisoner and so has
Hertford. It i time for Eliza
beth City to fall in line. The Ad
vance thinks that two or I lire"
thousand dollars, if it would
make the Pasquotank County
jail a fit place for prisoners. would
be money well spent..
The Advance was more enter
tained than impressed by the mo
tion of Alderman Anderson last
Monday that the Market House
bond issue be submitted to the
people of the town. Probably
we would have thought no more
about it but our attitude on this
matter has been questioned. Our
position will be set forth in the
1 1 1 -x I issue.
I'.v iwacllv what mental pi"
. ess we had figured out that b
Column's bili the number of
s- ho..: riis.-i s oil!.) be increa
. , to i hirieeii w e do not kimw
io,le-s ia ihe idea thai two wolll
en are equal to four men . e
presume thai ibat is the wax
ii I.i gislalilie al Waleigh
about ii when the suffragist
-iiiided Upon them this wee
fi
Tin
yens
I. -.ill
'Thrift Club" of the Citi
.ink amiuttces Februa!
s the hist opportunity to
enter its ranks for ibis veai
U
l-r Ihal time it w ill be too late
linl that it is never too earh
meinbei s joining at the tender agi
..f one week or thereaboiil cai
I lesld
l t ill"S
.ud iu spite
poor relalio'
,f ban!
I he--
ami
oimr
I e lows a i " l'c'
a.cci in n ' s
Xo matter whetaer spring is
early or late there will he sa'e
ones to tell us that the ground
liojr said so.
wiiKnr. t 1 1 1 : would is
vorxti
Telling of times when doH
nuut imd the meat of starved
to death dos at that taste
better than any porter-house
steak he had even eaten; pie-
taring a region' where the aveiS
ige velocity of the'wind isififty
milea, where a bunting flag
goes to shreds iu a few minutes',
a flag of stoutest canvas is
threshed to pieces in an hour
and a flag of tin is battered out
of shape in the first gale, so that
sheet iron is the material that
must be used ; describing sea
elephants that weigh sometimes
as much as four tons each and
measure) twenty five feet iu
length; showing penguin rook
eries so large and so densely
populated that from a vantage
point they seemed like vast
pebble-strewn beached instead
i f bird colonies Sir 1'oug'as
V;iv,sm!i lias pies. 'Hied belor"
the National ( leu graphic S.ch ;
;ir of i he most r. ma. : kab'e
o;- ( s o; '
ilar e ; .era I urn t na '
. s c i r ( : i!ne ' 1 Hi I hi
g i o n s .
r
Ill his account of Ins
i s along t he : rea I
coir ilicli I discovered
Admiral Charles Wilke
was the saiin- Admiral
who Ii gored in the
l esea rch
nlarcMc
by Kear
s - who
Wilkes
historic
Trent affair in which he dur
ing the American Civil War.
held up the Uritish packet.
'Ti-ent' and removed Irom her.
Mason and Slidell, Sir Houglas
paid tribute to the explorer and
his work.
Maw'sou and his party under
took the work under the patron
age of the Australian (iovern
ii i -1 1 1 . The steamer. Aurora,
foimerly plying in American
waters, was the ship that car
ried them to their base and li
nally brought them away. A
midway basic with a wireless re
lav station through which the
party could keep in touch with
civilization, was established at
Macqnarie Is and, which was
the old sailing ship route be
tween Australia and Cape Horn
and whose beaches are lined with
the rocks of many a ship. The
main base, was established at
Cape Dennison, on the Antar
tic Continent, and a second
base several hundred miles far
ther easli
Pictures were brought back
bv Sir Douglas showing the
nesting places of a number of
birds of
passage w ho go to 1 be
iiitiueut to nest ami.
l'ola
whose egs have never been seen
e rphaii! s w ' re absolute si rang
el . o i l ami W oil hi
'I . am ' i ma;, w ilh a
i en. i ii" 1 1 I . re s t as I hi
.s.ei
I m . i b
ca ii '. a
m , i i 1 -1 - 1 ' 1 . ' . -
'I i.e lea, i.t r o I lb- Wills
I ha I blow 1 i. t he ed-a- of I he An
i -'ti. I ' .'i ' i lien . w a - :' a phi- a '-1
Mim, Ii l, ' lie la t lh:M I he men
I ad to b an mil upon ;;. at ai
angle of perhaps la degrees. M
w alk in the ordina: w iml. w hi'''
no caae'ia cmild n-cord any
thing hat a blank when the
l.'ai,l was al its liel':lit. 1 I1'',
bill w h;i Ii was the lu-adipia ri els
of i lie pa i 1 v. bad one w indow .
... i- MM...
-. Ii a Ii as ia ne rom in,,
,' e ' til o- I l-e II ' II ami I I'.'' M"-t Ol
of the : i , In a e;.lS( d th, - I"
( e i r to
a l'i!i
l, . .
, ' ; ; i I 1 ; i , , e llil- I " 1 1 a
i -. 'i" - i - !I,k- W.I-- a i-ii' I'-'i I
1 1 Ti'iya't ii i or. and eonsi.-ti-l ol
? ; mpiy t he sjiiice under (lie floor
,,r the hut. When) the cook
wanted a piorp of meat he
would send :i doe; down to pet
a penguin or a leg of liinlton.
and would take it nway from
him iis he came out. Om day
the doir ui away with n lef: '
mutton, which was rescued on
ly after a chase of two hours;
and then it was so damaged
that the party voted to give it
to the dogs after all.. Read-
A LIE
M
ondav(o)fll!a
February
The Big Musical Comedy You
Have Been Waiting For. Society
Event of the Season
l -V - "viSs
li
Original
Poduction
WITH
Celia Mavis, Jesse Williams, Alex Loftus,
The Big Eastern Company
Original N. Y. Weber Theatre Production
One Solid Year at Weber's Theatre
New York
The Great Waltz Song "ALMA"; Don't Let The
Girlies Get You. Lend of the Beautiful Dreams;
You're Here and l'm.Here; Boo ie Boo: Kiss Me
My Love; Sail Home: Lpving Eyes; Never More,
Come Out and Love Me; It's a Long Way to
Tipperary; and others.
See The Latest Dances, Tango S Hesitation
Same Company and production that Played
Richmond, Atlanta, Memphis, Louisville, and all
the principal Cities of the South.
Prices 25, 50, 75, $1.00
Seats on Sale at Selig, Saturday
iiiL' matter ;i-i m rrat ilrniainl
( tin- of Ih,- a i t v reail I he l ai J
coieiia Hi i 'aiiiii, a I hrnuh to
ihe ( I's j
i .u on
on Sir I ,,ul: ,
I
r. .Mert . a ml 1
on a co. i: i
. I'.. !' '
. l;s m'I nUj W
; l.ielilcnailt N t
: I .',1'i III";
I'olle; ah. 1
ivirs ae
i n ,i i
e
i'"'
hill
e, I l,i,ir-
ll ;e ,- " ! - i
I loll, . I
I ;-o;oe. . .
. i le
I ,
Ihey i. ., 1 1 i, s ; :i r i: , i. ' i I i -
ii. 1 1 1 v t here w il s oi , - : iiog
left Old Cin-er. 'O il C.in -
jSi'r was a noble animal' said
Sir )ouL,rhis, ' 'and he was aine
to the Ins!. lint when he
died of that fdiocr hunger of the
Antaitie wilderness of ice and
snow. Mertz and I had to eat
hi carcass. We ate the hony
parts first, breaking every hone
so as to get out the marrow.
Raw; dog meat may not sound
well at the distance, or when
one is this far removed from the
ultimate hunger in which the
AM i
(0) (ill 0
. 1
itoinache seems to iittack its
i "iv se I', Imi (here ii tasted
is uoinl as anything you ever
ate.
I'inal v Mert Jira'i to sicL
ainl lo weaken, ami in a few
en
I a in:. i ry I i t li
! ahnosl Milan
I out was in
' il till I h
. i hi'
1 1 Wii.-,, lie
, i annihal.
louilition
i'iii-,1 hiai.
I; on the
thai l:l
I
1 1 : ,. i ii ! , i '-t I'ii A urn
i i 1 1 ' a r, ie.1 o -, i 'i tie hori
I I, ad h-i i :-o i si i mis
i '.- "e; ami s' men
an li for me. Nothing
'l'l-viilcnce saved me from
J.
..- :
I '
: to
I hui
the fate of Mertz and Xinnis."
Sir Douglas showed pictures
of beds of coal that tell of i
time when tropic summer once
reigned in this ejeat home
blizzards, ami others revealing
great ice cliffs with the strat
ified snows of ;i hundred win
ters upon Iheni, each stratum
standing out as clearly aa tho
it were a different stratum of
:;: " , '','-s
w J
g- Mhain i mum ia
sedimentary roeki
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