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COX:-GE ISLAND v. , I shall ttempt to send this by a passing
toat If any should venture on the lake- in the middle of this bowling
-I.jr'easter. If not, then I shall put it in a plastic bag and put the bag in
m bottle and hope that it will reach ginTi.?' : '
k In all my years in Maine I have never seen a season like this. OqU
by the calendar would you know that it has been summer. Each month
" the optimists have dung to the superstition that Maine weather is
' fickle, will change the next minute. If it has changed at all, it has been
steadily for the worse.
The old timers say; well, the law of averages will certainly require
that August will be dry if not warm. This is one year when the law of
averages has been, broken , . . broken by record rains, continual, unre
lenting rain. The only break has been an occasional' drizzle mixed with
such a fog that even a Californian. would admit that was measurable
waterv;. h i"S ': ' v V,
There have been a few precious golden vdays when the sun did
bine, the air. was clear, the North wind dried the land on the surface.
But before it was dry enough to work In the garden, another low pres-
area moved in, and the fains came again.' -r
. ' ' .. Dispositions had become short. A kind of slimy green moid covers
everything including your spirit The plants are drooping from mere
Mteture than they can assimilate ... and I was drooping, too. I need
ed a change. I was tired, very tired. My mind was as rusty as the tools
: I had stupidly left outside near what I had hoped would be a garden,
ft Bight have been at that had I planted something that grows under
I needed a change, I needed a rest Surely the island couldn't be any
,'than Greentrees. All the bushes and trees would drip, but the
would be warm and dry. Surrounded by water, any additional
saoistUTs wbuld not ,be too bad . . , I thought.
The barometer has been steady for two or three days. I could sit
DR. THOMAS W. ALLEY
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Of Wilmington, N. C.
Announces The Opening Of His Office For The
Practice Of Optometry
In Warsaw, N. C
On Tuesdays & Saturdays
From 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Second Floor Warsaw Drug Co.
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted
THE DUPLIN TIMES
Published each Thursday In Kenansvflle. N. C, County Seat ef
DUPLIN COUNTY
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' J. RORERT GRADY, EDITOR OWNER
Entered At The Peat Office. KmiansvUle. N. C.
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out the miserable weather as well on the island as on the mainland
. . . and I would be free from interruptions. So I fled to Gooseneck
between showers on a Monday afternoon. Now it is Wednesday or
maybe Thursday ... and it Is still raining. , --m I, ,
The water is rising rapidly. I wonder if an Island will float when
the water covers it. Maybe 1 shall find that out these next few days.
A fog has hidden the mainlaind and most of the other islands. The
wind-whipped 'waves would swamp a boat before' I had cleared the reef
of Norman's Woe. 1 , ' , . 1 ' '
. The stillness is broken only by the Weird and unearthly cries of
loons calling to each other from unseen bays and hidden coves, and by
.the rhythmic lap of the waves against the rocks. All I can see through
the rivulets of Water are the supple, swirling, eyanecent Whisples. Theyj
are the strange fog maidens who 'seem to beoon to unwray travelers,
luriiy them on silently with a macabre ballet to the shoals and reefs
that 'smash boats to. pieces. ' '. '
The whisples have been known since the days-of the Indians ,
they are reputed to be land-locked mermaids who have been trapped
in the inland waters by the series, of dams and, mill races that man
built They seek revenge forever until that day when the rising waters
will sweep the dams away, Then they will find their mermaid sisters
in whatever paradise they inhabit in the deep oceans. -
The Whispies seem to dislike all fishermen, especially salmon and
trout fanciers. They will frighten the fish away .from the best pools
whenever a fisherman approaches. Perhaps they are close kin to the
lost Mulrish 'who Doc Higglns shot one day underneath a willow tree
. . . shot her because she bothered him, scared the trout and is alleged
to have seduced his nephew. He couldn't decide whether she was fish
or woman, fiend or human. Like too many people, he condemned any.
thing he couldn't understand . . . and wanted to destroy it
He shot the mermaid, so -the ballad goes, but it didn't do him
much good. The next day he went fishing, sure that no mermaid would
be near that pool near the willow tree to frighten away the trout The
fog closed in. And with the fog came the sisters of the lost Mulrish,
moaning, sighing in their bereavement. Their cola, clammy arms wrap
ped around old Doc Higgins. They drew him under the swirling waters.
When they found his body, they might have attributed . his death
to drowning. But on hjs throat were marks made by long, supple fing
ers, and around his arms were twisted strands of sea-green hair. And
in his eyes which had remained open was such a look of horror that
those who found him woke up screaming, the rest of their lives.
All the Lake People know the legend of a renegade Revolutionary
soldier named Zebe Parker . . he had helped build the series of dams
on this chain of lakes that flowed then unrestricted down to (the An
droscoggin Siver and thence to Merry-Meeting Bay to the Atlantic.
There are some who claim he deserted from that rabble army which
went with Arnold to Quebec.
However he got here, he was no credit to the community. He sired
enough half-breed children to populate a county. Some of his worth
less descendants still live and breed and die north of East Jaloppi be
yond Slab City. They manufacture a potent liquor called orchard tea, a
kind of apple brandy which they draw from a barrell of hard cider that
has frozen almost solid leaving only firey 190 proof alcohol. They jack
deer, fish in closed brooks, and are notorious poachers.
Zebe was a scoundrel, no doubt about it. He stole fur's from the
traps ct the Indians, and then stole their women. Poor gals may have
had a rough life with their braves but it was nothing compared to
what they had to endure in the. harem of old Zebe Parker. He beat them
regularly, made them cut the wood, haul the water, and even made
them steal food and grain from the settlers.
Had he been content with the women he had, Zebe might have died
a natural death. But one night in the Haunted Cove, his lecherous eyes
lit upon the lovely Wa-na-neesh bathing in the pool by the Cleft Rock.
Wa-na-neesh was too beautiful to be human, but Zebe didn't know that.
She was all gold and silver. Her body was as slender as a birch tree,
her silvery blonde hair floated around her like a path in the moonlight.
Zebe sat motionless in his canoe watching what no mortal eyes
were supposed to see anyway . . . and certainly no evil eyes like those
of Zebe. Wa-na-neesh swam to the shore and shook herself dry. The
moon shining on the drops of water that ran down her enchanting
form made her glow like many opals. In a kind of tecstasy she began
her moon dance ... as though the moon were some Indian brave she was
wooing with exquisite movement.
No one knows exactly what happened after that. Perhaps Wa-na-neesh
discovered the intruder. Or her Heavenly lover took revenge for
the sacrilege. Old Zebe drowned there in the Haunted Cove . . . and
when they found his body, his eyes had been burned out of their
sockets ... a fitting punishment for that peeping Tom, the Lake
People agree.
Wa-na-neesh was a Whispie maiden. She and her sisters still keep
the curious away from the Haunted Cove. They manage to hide the
passages to the best fishing grounds, too. They will punish a trespasser
swiftly and silently. But they are a gentle, a friendly people. If yon
respect them and their element water, they will not harm you. They?
like their domain to be quiet and peaceful ... a raucous noise is of-,
fensive to their sensitive ears. .
Their soft, minor-key lullabye will soothe away any sleeplessness.
They sing of Wa-na-neesh and her immortal beauty. They murmur the
legends of the lake, and the old Lake People. They sing a plaintive lam
ent for their home, the sea, from which they have been exild. Lately
in their song there has been a new note, a kind of exultation. It may
b the Whispies know that all this water will wash out the dams, and
restore the waters to their nautral level. And then all the land-locked
things will be free to return to their home.
HELEN CALDWELL CUSHMAN
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By ROBERT SCHMIDT
:, During the past month several
gardeners have asked me for infor.
mation about peonies.' Should they
be divided? When should they be
moved? When should new plantings
be made? . ,
- The time for making ne wplant
ings or moving or dividing old
plants would be October and No
vember in eastern' North Carolina
and September and October for the
western or mountain section of the
state. But don't 'move them unless
there is some gdod reason to do so.
Peonies do not like to be disturbed.
" If you have a lanrp clump that
is doing very well and producing
good blooms don't dirturb it Any
loss of roots will have a harmful
effect It is not necessary to divide
and move peonies' every two' or
three years as we do Iris and daf
fodils. If a plant is hot blooming
satifsactorily, then i. may be ad
visable to move it to a beter lo
cation, -or perhaps it has been
planted too deep end should be
taken up and replanted. In . such
cases cut off as few roots as pos
sible. Peonies should be planted
shallow the buds Should not be
more than one to two inches below
the surface of the soil.
Have you seen the newspaper ads
of the "Miracle Plant' which will
bloom for you without soil or wat
er? It was really do that. The plant
is the colchicum which resembles a
large crocus and will send out
blooms without leaves during Aug
ust or early September, no matter
if you put it in soil water, or on
the kitchen shelf.
oYu can buy these bulbs at any
pi tne large seed stores. Plant them
in the yard about twi; to three inch
es deed. Leaves are produced in the
spring which die down in summer
and flowers come out during August
or September. Or you may plant
them in a bowl In the house very
much like paper whits narcissus
bulbs. ' , '
ville was ' elected chairman and
Mr. Delia Mattocks of. Rose Hill,
vice-chairman. Othei officers are
Emily Riven bark of Wallace, sec
retary and treasurer'. Mrs. Cornelia
Williams of Burgaw, Future Home
makers ot America Advisor; Char
lotte Murphy, ot Atkinson and Mrs.
Frances Se aright of Garland, re
porters. Mrs. Clara Reads of Rich
lands and 'Emily Rivenbark were
appointed a courtesy committee.
Monthly meetings for -the com
lng school " year - were discussed '
Snd topics for programs for' these '
meetings were selected Plans were - .
made for the annual. meeting of Fu
ture Homemaker of America pres '
iaents and - advisors , at ' Carolina
Beach In .September, u.' t . -
Home Ec Tecchers
Plan t!ev Program
i -Vocational home economics tea
chers of the county group represent
ing Pender; Duplin Sampson, On- I
slow, and Jones counties met re-1
cently at the Kenansvlllo school to
make plans tor the coming' year. ' ' I
Mrs. Ruth Biielow of Jackson-
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Wallace Sleek Yard
Auction Every Thursday
- n( Buying and Selling Daily .
Telephone 3161 - 6171 Wallaa, N. C.
Listen for top hog prices each day over Clinton .
Broadcasting Station about 12:15 and Wallace
Station at 12:25. fi , , ,
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Regardleas ef the ameant of acreage yea waai to srrlgste,- yeall find oar work with ear
new Dragline Quicker and the cost Soulier than yea ever Imagined.
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