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Show t UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHl e Dismal Swamp Our Government Enchantment Now Fringe Lends Its How It Operates By William Bv CnERlE NICHOLAS Bruciart CLEARING HOUSE FOR FACTS AND FIGURES It '- -r f !. T ' 'V 7K A t V. V " T " Hunter of the Dismal Swamp. PrprMf br National Oemrriphlo 8ocly. riric Wuhlnctun. l. C WNU the eastern hunting Is at Its height, the quiet of the Dismal Swamp, one of the famous bunting gro inula of Uie eusterii seaboard. Is broken by the crack of sportsmen's guns. Since It was first explored. Dismal Swamp has remained a mystery place. Its last Indian disappeared around the 2700s, but In Its depth It Is almost as wild today as It was then. Neither fire nor ax has tamed It Though It has yielded about a third of Its original area to the plow, much of the remainder Is an unbroken wilderness on Carolina border. the Virginia-NortGeorge Washington's name Is permanently linked with Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond. Soon after the French and Indian war, Washington and others, attracted by the wealth of "Juniper" In this region, obtained a grant of land and organized the Dismal Swamp Land company. Washington made at least six visits to the great wilderness, to which he refers In correspondence as a "glorious paradise." One of the six ditches connecting Lake Drummond with the outer world bears his name. It extends five and a half miles from the northwest shore of the lake to a point on the White Marsh road, and was dug to get timber from the swamp to the Nnnse-mon- d river, near Suffolk. Thence the timber went by ship to its destination. Some went to England. A hamlet known as "Dismal Town" grew up at the White Marsh road end of the ditch. It has disappeared completely and the road's course has been allsthtly changed. In his will Washington valued his 4,000 acres of Dismal Swamp holdings at about $20,000. Today, to all except a very few, the iwamp's Interior Is as much of a mystery as Yucatan. Men are born, live, and die la towns that touch Dismal Swamp's very edges without ever having entered it. Has a Bad Reputation. The name given to the swamp by Col. William ISyrd In 1728: stories of the ghosts of Lake Drummond; of venomous and poisonous serpents plants; of savage descendants of runaway slaves still roaming Its depths; of fugitives hiding out and, Iti recent years, of moonshiners that kill on sight; of wild beasts and "the noxious Tapors that Infest the air" all have created a feeling of fear that has contributed to the grim atmosphere that enshrouds Great Dismal. There are miles of dry forest around Lake Drummond, hut here and there along the wfst "shore" are holes that would mire you to the waist. Near the headwaters of Pasquotank river are holes that would engulf you; quicksands, also. All over the peat When the areas are deep awamp Is full of water and covered with vines, travel Is difficult and dangerous. Dismal Swamp canal, connecting roads with Pasquotank Ilampton river and Albemarle sound, begins at the village of Deep Creek, six miles It is R0 outhwest of Portsmouth. fet wide and navigable for vessels draft. with a seven-foo- t However forbidding many people regard Dismal Swamp's exterior few can view the mouth of the Feeder Ditch from the George Washington highway without becoming enthusiastic. While It passes through the wide, reedy, treeless, and vine motted expanse, the Feeder's banks are lined with stately trees for most of Its three WIIKN h fire-hole- s. miles. In springtime there are Jasmine, honeysuckle, and other fragrant flowers. In places It resembles a sylvan tunnel, as, enchanting and alluring. It runs Btralght as an arrow Into the and romantic depths mysterious toward Lake Drummond. Otter slides along the banks, and bear trails, where old Bruin swims the canal In passing from open space to open space, add test to the Journey. In summer the logs and roots that Jut from the banks, limbs, and often the overhanging twarm with snakes, most of them barn-Jes- s, however. ' The Feeder la 30 feet wide, (logged with debris from years of log raftnormal stage ing, the former seven-foo- t has dwindled to three, and with low water the ditch is almost impassable. The "Juniper water" of the Feeder and Lake Drumuiond Is in reality a blend of the teachings of water from gum. cypress, maple, and white cedar) (southern "Juniper" peatlund, which covered several hundred square miles. The oceuslonnl visitor to Dismal Swamp cannot distinguish between the various waters or the blends; but B small amount of Juniper teachings Is required to make other swamp waters palatable. Pure Kum water Is dark in color and causes a feeling of distress after drinking. Cypress water Is palatable and of a lighter color and will keep longer than gum water, which will not remain sweet an entire summer. Pure Juniper water, however, is smooth, healthful, and palatable. It Is of a beautiful, sparkling color, between rich chrome yellow and orange. Given the same kind of food, timber workers who drink other swamp waters never look as healthy as those who work In the cedar forests and drink pure Juniper water. Formerly Juniper tea, made from steeped cedar "straw," was a standard beverage In swamp lumber camps. Journeying up the Feeder In seasons of low water, where underlying roots are exposed, the traveler gets an Idea of the source of the swamp's rich amber-colorewaters. There are places In the cedar and cypress growths where roots, logs, limbs, stumps, and snags are lapped and tied and twisted to a deptli of 17 to 20 feet. Such a natural laboratory will produce Juniper or cypress water for years. Jungle Hard to Conquer. The ax means little to Great Dis mal. It was wild before the lumber man came, and after he passes it reverts to Its former state. The Jungle, with Its claws and thorns, returns, and the hear, the deer, the panther, the raccoon, again come into their own. One lumber company operates more than 30 miles of narrow-gauglog railroad In the section lying southeast of Lake Drummond and extending well Into North Carolina. timber There la little left. The greater portion lies south of Lake Drummond. There are Immense areas of hardwoods In which most of high-grad- e the trees are worthless; still others cedar will ap where the never-fallinpear and the slow growing cypress; and miles of scorched standing timber of all kinds, unfit for any use except Then there are the square firewood. miles of scattered clearings, where. In places, the peat has burned eight and ten feet, down to the snnd and clay. The only permanent human hahlta tlon In the Ijike Drummond wilder ness Is the house of the government employed lock tender at the Waste Weir clearing, two and miles west of Dismal Swamp canal and a quarter of a mile from Lake Drummond Six gates, or wickets, regulate the flow from the lake. Until the govern ment obtained possession. In 102!t. the Feeder and canal were privately nper ated. Now the lake and canals are controlled by the United States army engineers,. whose orderly methods are bringing a new day to Dismal Swamp Indian Relics on Sand Bars. During the abnormally low water of the winter of 10.10-3many sand bars were exposed along the shores of Lake Drummond. In places the water receded more than a thousand feet One can find Indian arrow-head- , ham mers, and other weapons and Implements along the north shore, where the Indians had hunted and fished for generations. Few Indian relics are ever found ashore. They were soon covered by the decaying vegetation that forms the peat, while acids In some of the woods disintegrate the very bones of men and animals. Only three of the swamp's many canals and ditches are now In ase Dismal Swamp canal, the Feeder, and the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal. All the rest have been abandoned. Many of them were dug by slaves. The Jericho canal for the most part Near the passes through cleanncs. lake Its banks are lined with stately trees whose tops lean Inward. East of the Jericho dltcb deer abound. three-quarte- Department of Commerce Is a national clearing house for facts and figures, and If one may Judge from the demands upon it, commerce and Industry of the nation are fully aware of Its potentialities and make the fullest use of its facilities and its services. It has been demonstrated how the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce gathers Its Information, but that Is only half of the story. Those facts are worse than useless unless they are available, and quickly so, to those who have use for them. Dissemination of farts Is never Ask the advertising manager easy. of any store r manufacturing establishment! So the department has slowly built up what this same advertising manager would describe as complete coverage. To accomplish this end, the mails, the newspapers, the radio, all are employed. The bureau publishes a weekly magazine, known as Commerce Reports, and hundreds of other documents and periodicals. Even then, it has some difficulty in getting all of the vast store of facts thoroughly distributed. In order to gain the fullest use of newspaper space no begging Is necessary, for business news In these days Is as likely to find a place on the front page as is a police scandalthe bureau's staff sees to It that the latest cable and radio messages are made available to the newspaper correspondents In Washington. The facts that are of Immediate Import are made public as quickly as it Is humanly possible to do so. The corto recognize trained respondents, what Is of value from a news standpoint, do the rest. Let us examine one day's grist of those press releases: The number of automobiles owned throughout tiie world, a world census: an expert analysis of a section of the new revenue act; a summary of reports from trade commissioners In every South and Central American country, showing economic conditions there; statistics on Canadian gold production ; a cable from Vienna that the Austrian national bank had suspended ail sales of foreign exchange trade figures from temporarily: Greece, Hungary, Turkey and Rumania, for the last month ; radio advices that Great Britain would require marks of the country of origin on Imports of rubber footwear and certain Iron and steel products; official notice that the Polish government had established bonded or free zones within customs territory, permitting manufacture or storage of foreign goods therein; cables announcing that France had reduced and that Italy had Increased the amount of foreign wheat permitted to he used In domestic milling in those countries; compilations of credit conditions and data concerning collections In a dozen nations; a detailed analysis of Netherland India tire market; statistics indicating the potentialities of the Canadian market for shoes, and a discussion of the production and distribution of electricity In northern France. Even u casual reading of that list will reveal what widespread Interest the department's Pandora's box of facts can develop. How important it Is for exporters of wheat to know that France will use a little mre, that Italy will use a little less, than heretofore, and how necessary it is for the producer of rubber footwear and the other enumerated products to know before the next order Is sent to the seaboard that the articles must bear the name of the country of origin or they will not be admitted through the British customs houses ! And from the reports on credit and collection conditions, every exporting agent can clean what may prove to his firm to be the difference between profit and r Is quite obvious that e. Mil, WUn Nwippr C7mlo ttxs ' ants T n 1 His it I dre i r..v, mm in spienuia condition dnsi and mediately planted. The iw was planted by Mrs. Taft W fifths A ' rblns h l!4H (mm V? . il n v. i - I. i j "I Pueblo, Colo. have used Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and it is a medicine wonderful for the blood or a n condition," said Mrs. Bertha M. Ft Kirgan of 609 E. Third St "At one time my stomach ma f u.t Irani. tnuihlul u ft, unrmu is niruuiw v lacked energy. Frequent I my sapped strength. used owenv bottles of 'Golden Medical Distort and it strengthened my srgtea V every way. It drove away the stooj, made rue ha ew complaintT' I.and : i energy, i r.v neauueues aisappwr too." Sold by all druggists. Writ la Dr. Pierra'( CUnie, Buff iU, HI, or ire mvaicM n.m. inTt -Mb V on Uus anil rini; e on V tlint In the at vie nanide this fc: &m Fns season. To live jp to the ..m.Ui..5-'jS.l.'2f- e pace set by smart Parisiennes some lacliuble draped cape scurf ol the same thing or ottier in your wardrobe reallj material as the dress, following tht must be trimmed with fringe. lines of the one which graces I he black of how to As fringe many yards just Thus should be lavished on a garment, there fringe trimmed model pictured. you have an exquisitely simple gown is no iimit. Some frocks are literally which depends on fabric elegance to covered with fringe, yet withal, han be trans died that artfully one does not feel distinguish it and which can of less for a dinner into formed gown a of much good they are getting too mality by covering the shoulders with thing. Illustrating this point, we re fer to the handsome fringe laden dress the fringe bordered capelet. In the picture. It is black crepe with Other ideas for little capelets and a satiny sheen. The row upon row of shoulder fancies which are trimmed fringe on the skirt subscribes to the with fringe are shown In the tiny sketches. The cape in the upper right diagonal movement which Is so characteristic of trimming treatments at corner Is particularly Interesting. It present. The draped capelike scarf is made of white transparent velvet achieves a high neckline effect as it (it can just as well be In any pre should to conform with the dictates ferred color or black). As you see. of fashion. Then, too, observe that rows and rows of narrow white silk the ends of the scarf are brought to fringe cover It from neckline to hem the back instead of the front in latest line. Little evening muffs and bags approved manner. This same frock are also very cleverly ornamented in repeated In white is perfectly charm this way. ing. To vary the theme some designers are Here Is a suggestion for the woman using two kinds of fringe in alternat who must make one formal evening ing rows. The black dress pictured dress do duty for many occasions would be very effective trimmed in al Suppose in order to give a concrete ternating rows of beaded Jet fringe to illustration, your gown Is of velvet or gether with the usual silken type. crepe in one of the rich tones of red A most dramatic play is made in which are so beloved this season, or treatment for the evening cos fringe black or white, if you prefer. It is tume shown to the right. Here the made very simply, we will say, the of this stunning model skirt cut on the bias lines which make creator achieves a high waistline by means ot it slenderizing, tall and it scarf and girdle combination made stately. The bodice is semi form-fi- t of red crepe in contrast to the white ting and extremely decollete with sim crepe frock. The long fringe is hand pie straps of the velvet over the shoul tied Often very sever silhouettes a ders. In such frock there lurk are relieved by sections ol long knot untold possibilities in the way of in ted and tied fringe which is worked terchangeahle effects, one of the most in panels or sections here and there intriguing being the making of a de1932. Western Newsnanr Union IT'S fringe 1 aar Nerv run-dow- - H MJt fcving k" In the presence of the JanaiuJl bassador. At the invitation of 3 !avto" j ail uie tiscoumess thindaplj. ;ar the second tree. Stomach; Weak, -- P open to replace those This shipment arrived in r, ""m a. Tokyo snug-fittin- tr 1 Hands sterol: seoiBc k to one tt bon mie S01 Cove re with Large Eruptio: Cuticura Heahd "Eczema began with small pimp breaking out on my hands. Km worse until my hands were coverl with large, wet, sore eruptions th. later spread to my wrists and c; It itched and burned, and as m painful most of the time. I tc. not sleep nor use my hands at i.4 could not even feed myself. "My mother purchased Ciita Soap and Ointment and they reuere the burning, and after using ca box of the Ointment and part 0! cake of Cuticura Soap I was cd plctely healed." (Signed) SlissF'et Smith, Rt 1, Nabb, Ind. Cuticura Soap 23c. Ointment! and COc. Talcum 25c. Sold enq w here. One sample each free. A dress "Cuticura Laboratories, R, Maiden, Mass. Adv. De?1 nave to uei up 13 1 sidei at Night? Iretar nai - CROCHET IN VCGUE By CHERIE NICHOLAS I.... ii 1 T AT liX no single day's reports at the department are going to be of Interest to every line of trade in this farfiiuur nation of varied commercial effort. It is equally obvious, however, to those of us whose function Is that of observers of government operations, that there are valuable facts for every line within very brief periods of time. There has been much comment during the last year or so, especially In congress, that the government was spending too much money In the type of work thnt shows no direct return to the treasury, such for example as that which has Just been outlined. One group has maintained steadfastly that such expenses ought to bo. eliminated entirely, while another school of thought argued against that course. The later maintained those expenses could be reduced In accordance with other reductions In the cost of government, but thnt the function should be continued. 1 find myself nligned with the latter whose argument Is that by promoting trade the whole country gains, assuming that conditions are normal or near normal. When the country Is doing business, tt Is producing wealth and when wealth Is produced, men have Income which the government can and does tax. So In the end. aid by the government In this direction appears to result In a net Increase to the treasury In its revenut receipts. fc' tIj loss. It In Norember, 1900. th. . ity of Tokyo, Japan, presented! city of Washington 20y , l cherry trees as a token of esteem which was held by tt the ruvmi. vl .. '1 of Tokvo- for j trees arrived yj, The States, h M1 lngton In January, mm i.. careful Inspection by expert,!, United States Department of J culture were found to be with the rootgall worm Insect pests and with eertaia fcj diseases : this necessitated ty?1 Ing destroyed, which wu Z' burning. In February, 1912, shipment of trees was n!L 5j i iiet THE , Cherry Trees Gift of Tokyo to Washin. ODD NEW FEATURE IS VELVET JEWELS As far as th" Paris styles go. this is a year when velvet practically runs It is being used away with fashion. in Paris for dresses, daytime ot eve ning, and for wraps and suits. But that is only half of it. The shoe match ing a black dinner dress mny be vel vet; the muff worn with a winter en semhle may be velvet; hats, bags scarfs, even bracelets, all may be vel vet. "One reason for the dominating po sition of this fabric Is the challenging variety of new weaves," says the Com tesse Tolstoi In the Woman's Home Companion. "There are dull mat vel vet? and rough velvets, ribbed velvets and corded Augustahermtrd's after noon dress Is In the rough crinkled 'peasant velour,' and it is smart with one of Descat'F velvet caps bordered in handmade cording. Mnlynenx's white evening gown is ribbed and he uses the material effectively with the ribs going up and down, around and diagonally." Velvet jewelry might seem odd It It weren't done In Paris, and attractively A set of three bracelets In bright vel vet, rolled like a cigarette. Is perfect for sleeves that fit tight at the lower :..vffi2-- Xtt-kJ- i& ft f4 V Deal PrompUy with BW&f irregtuanues Are you bothered with blairregularities: burning, scanty or too frequent passage and getting up at night? Hew promptly these symptoms. diThey may warn of some dder sordered kidney or bladder con- - 1 dition. Users everywhere w U on Doan's Pills. Reconrntn JVor 50 years. Sold everwhe 1 rs V A Diuretic for w VW .11 arm. - Plump Figured Ladies e Adopt Two-Piec- Many of the choicest I'nris froeks are trimmed with crochet, In the form of a yoke done in perhaps mercerized cotton either In contrasting r matching color or possibly insertions or crochet motifs or bandings and other equally as attractive Ideas. The vogue for lingerie collar and cuf sets which are crochet-edgeis reflected out neckwear sections. The through edge on the set pictured Is done In mercerized cotton. This smartly clad young worn an carries a pocketbook crocheted of bright-remercerized cotton. Note the cunning sailor hat with its shallow crown. It Is up moment in chic The scarf pictured Is crocheted In lacv stitch of mercerized cotton. Smart specialty shops display scarfs of this foe among their newest style Itemi Af Nfshf ? The sculptural lines have evident I, been too great a tax on the figure of many women, or rather the tigref have taxed too greatly the nerve of dress sculptors, because ot H sud den now, one Is discovering n vmt many smart women wearing dresses This is a great break affe! the past seasons of trying to ok lik. a Plaster relief. And those who aren , opting the news are al most gulping down the lowered waist Ifyouareoneofthewiffio whomustgetup severalty" a night, your trouble wPot tw ably due to an irritation bUdder and kidneys w be corrected. Warmth in Color the season of the year to eeneroui ssmpl. print your name nd mail it to Department M GOLD MEDAL HAARLEM OIL COMPANJ 220-3- 6th U Brooxiyv1"- two-piec- w"-c- an Haarle taking Gold Medal. OU Capsules regularly.? 236 years this fine, old prV aratioa has been widely scribed for this very purpos It has helped uhons 3 others; why not 75c you? FREE d to-th- e Dress This Is coats, bo avoid steel grays tain colorless, chilly tones o. JroTI hionabie color an" ",,Rbndy 8 A 'a I Fit |