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rr !i i! II : i " r I .-'i. . ... ,- . . . . - - -.V... ;-s Y '-- , . S ., " . . irciPAY, MAY 6, 1921. THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C Science "Has Made "Marvelous Strides in the- perfection of arti ficial eyes to replace the ones that nature has v -' given. us in case through - ' accident they are lost but Science never has 'V and never will make an -ARTIF I C I AL EYE THAT CAN SEE. ' Treat your sight like a decent friend and ' it -will treat you the same way. 146 Granby Street 112 W. Plume St. NORFOLK, VA. INDIANS TAKE UP FARMNG A Word About Seed Big advantage in buying your Garden Seed from us for several reasons. First, ou get North ern grown, whjch gives earlier start, grows quicker, fruit earlier. Why do we all want Main Grown Seed Potatoes? For the earll ness, certainly so. Why not buy your seed from us for early- mar ket, especially your Watermelon, Cantelopes, Cucumbers, Beans, Corn, Etc. Second, we sell all our smaller seed by the ounce or pound, thereby, giving the cus tomer about twice as many seed for his money as you will get oth erwise. "Third, the seed business is not new to us. For over twen ty years we have given farming a big part of our study and know what it means to have the best seed. Write us for our special Seed Collection offer. ' Aydlett & Owens DANIELS & COX OLD STAND Water & Matthews Sts. Elizabeth City, N. C. First Americans No Longer; A Vanishing Race;-About Fifty , Thousand Engage in Agriculture. " : f . 4sb the first person" you meet how many Indians there are in this country fend .the chances are ten to one that the answer wUl be off at least half a mil lion. ' , There" are 325,000 of them. They are divided into 280 tribes or bands and are located on 200 reservations in 20 different states. . Many people are under the impression that the Indians are rapidly degenerat ing -and disappearing. The truth is the exact opposite. The birth rate among the American Indians now exceeds the death rate. They are advancing along various lines of business, health and education with amazing rapidity. According to Cato Sells, Commission er of Indian Affairs,' the Indians are making good in a most commendable manner. Last year 50,000 Indians were en gaged in stock raising. Their live stock is estimated as being worth $40,000, 000. The 'cattle raisine exnerienfM on the Crow reservation in Montana will serve as a fair illustration -of how the stock movement is progressing among all the tribes. Five years ago 10,000 head of cattle were placed on this res ervation at a total cost of $456,000. The expense of conducting the ranch for the ensuing five years was $399,000. At the end of-that period the profits and value-l of the herd aggregated $1,547,000, show ing a clean profit "of $692,000 on the "in vestment. In the meantime the In dians had mastered the highly impor tant art of breeding, selling and prop erly caring for cattle under all sorts of conditions. Much attention is also being given to sheep raising and the selling of wool. On the Jicarilla reservation inT New Mexico, for instance, 4,000 sheep were purchased in 1914 at a-, cost of $25,000. Five years later this herd had increased SPRAY YOUR Potatoes with ADHESO It kills Potato Bugs, keeps off Blight, and won't wash off. We have Paris Green to sell. See us before you buy. Elizabeth City Milling Co. c.Apr.l5-tf wood. elm and manle. So well f manu factured . is this ' lumber' 4hat a ready market is found in Milwaukee, Chicago and neighboring cities. Some of it is shipped as far, east as Massachusetts. Upon a number -of occasions the Indians shipped several n million feet" of select white pine and rock elm from this res ervation to Liverpool, England. The amount. of merchantable timber remain ing on this reservation is estimated at 1,000,000,000 feet.- - Perhaps the biggest line of business among the Indians is the oil and gas wells and coal mines located in Okla homa.. The mineral properties of the Indians in that state have! marvelously increased in value in recent years.-The 2,186 Osage Indians, whose property aside from the mineral product is val ued at $20,000,000, received during the past year an income of $8,000,000 from oil and gas alone. The restricted In dians of the Five Civilized Tribes also received $4,000,000 royalty from oil andI gas during the same' year. Durifig the past six years the royalties paid the Indians on oil, gas, coal and other min erals amounted to $27,637,000. ' A con servative , value of the individual and tribal 'property of the Indian, exclu sive of oil and gas, is $667,000,000. Add to this the value of oil and gas proper ties and it will run well over the billion mark. Are Good Farmers. 'Forty thousand Indians have become enthusiastic farmers, and their number is increasing constantly. The creps pro duced by. these thrifty agriculturists last year were "sold for more, than $12,000, 000. There was a time in the history of the red men when about the only kind of irrigation that interested them to any appreciable xtent was the kind obtained by making frequent connec tions - with the neck of a dark yellow bottle from which distiller's dew gurg- gled in dizzy quantities. That style of irrigation has become unpopular, un profitable and unsatisfactory. The pro gressive Indians' have decided that it pays better to raise corn than to drink it. With that idea in mind they are damming the rivers and creeks flowing through their arid and semi-arid lands, and are conveying this harnessed water to their broad and fertile acres by scien tific methods. The results are astound ing. L'and idle for, centuries, producing nothing but lizards, rattlesnakes, skele PAGE SEVEN to 10,000. After deducting all expenses r&rr.o of operation, an average net profit-of $35,000 a year for five years was shown in favor of the Indians. It should also be boqpe in mind that during those five years it was not an uncommon sight to see contented red-skinned ' families feasting on a nice Toast leg. of lamb or nicely browned mutton chops. Engage in Forestry. Forestry an.d lumbering is one of the vast industrial enterprises of the In dians of today. They are the owners of 6,500,000 acres of valuable timber land, conservatively valued at $S4,000, 000. These forests are rapidly and ec onomically being converted into lumber through the daily operation of 73 saw mills located upon the various reserva tions. The most extensive lumbering operation is conducted on tfie Menom inee reservation jn "Wisconsin, which turns out about 20,000,000 feet of lum bvr each year. The logs are brought to the mills over a logging railroad a distance of IS miles. The lumber pro duced at these"taills consists principal ly of white pine, hemlock, birch, bass- ing crops worth $400 an acre. These crops are varied, consisting of alfalfa, corn, cotton and vegetables of all kinds. The cotton produced last year sold for $6,000,000. The facilities-for educating the In dian boys and girls are ,Jon a par with those of an average cits', in the Middle West or New England. The attendance at present- averages 64,000. The importance of being born healthy has, inflate years, become a fixed prin ciple among the Indians. They take the position that health is a prerequisite to happiness and prosperity. Disease and unsanitary conditions are now fought with the same grim determination that they formerly fought their "white broth ers. A total of-SO hospitals has been established on the various reservations. This requires a force of 200 physicians, ably assisted by a capable corps of nurs es and matrons. Dearborn Independent. Field Seeds A full line of highest quality to insure your planting success. The high .purity and germination- of our seeds speak for themselves. We can save you . money, and in crease your yield. Corn Cotton Teasnite Pearl Millet Golden Millet Peanuts Crne or Sorghum Sudan Grass Dwarf Essex Rape Velvet Beans Grasses and Clovers of all kinds, etc. Phone 684. THE LIVE SEED HOUSE 15 S. Water St. 1921 Planting Guids and Catalogue Free. . I SEX. lb : T7 Let Us Know Your Wants We Will Take Care of You The installation of new and im proved ice-making rnacliinery and a thoro overhauling of our plant enables us to give you the quality and service you will appreciate. Bagged Ice a Specialty. Crystal Ice & Coal Co., Inc. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: E. C. CONGER, Mgr. Elizabeth City, N. C By STANISLAV PRZYBYSZEW3KY CopyvrriaUt. 1010, by Bruno's VeekIy. 'in the beginning there was sex Out of the voice' box of the human being sex tore ffte first long stretched sounds, directed them to the tact of the pulsing heart, formed them into rhythm and melodj-, shaped them into the neigh ing, howling and growling of pain into the snarling and grinning of hatred, into the niucmurlng and whispering of love, into the snmttered, heavenhigh joyful shouts of gladness of the organism and of ecstacy: Sex gave birth to the world: And sex diffused itself with super power into the muscles Of the human body; it handed man the club as it came upon him to destroy his rival in the contest for his mate, it increased his powFs unto fhe infinite when he had to protect the life of his mate and of his brood. It helped him to clear forests, hfto tear apart the womb of the earth, to -direct into new beds rivers and lakes, to subdue seas and to conquer moun tains; sex awakened the brain from "its slumber, forcing it into incomprehens ible suffering and into the labors of never-heard-of work , and Into cunning and into the sly " betraying with which he stole the fire from the gods arid into audacious daring so that he mounted the Pelian upon the Ossa, and broke open the doors of the kingdom of heaven. Sex gave birth to the deed. And sex forced its way into the heart of man. It filled it out completely. It awaked in man the desire to see every body as happy assex itself was in its sacred elevation of happiness. It in censed in him the powerful wish to play a joy-dance for the whole world, so that everybody might become self-conscious in blissful "play and join .in the great sacred hymn of life. To the ta bles of richest banquets did it invite- all, and therefore sex created pity and con solidation, it created father and mother, brother 'and sister, it united the human sex throueh bonds of blood and of friendship. But at the same time it became the origin of revenjpfulness and of inoedinate desire of murder and f of crime; it separated and crushed to every wind the seed of the Abel, of the Seth and of the Cain'. And so created sex the family,' the clan, the nation. And then it widely tore open, its eyes and looked back with in-N expressible longing( and looked far, far back , towards its divine origin:-' -- Millions and millions of years had it been staring into the sacred fire, whose lustre meant life to all worlds and all animals on wnich it lived. . Sex craved for divinity! And it expanded the chest of man with fervent longing, it saturated his heart with the sweet poison of weakness and of trust, it stole pe beam after 1 an other from out "of 'the aboriginal fire until it had kindled in the soul of man a heart-flame through which it started to dissolve and to diffise completely and forget its own self -subsisting ego. ; In the,, love! And there came to pass the miracle: Amorphos Hyle united with Logos! ' The Holy Spirit rescended upon sex and thus sex created love. And now the bars broke down and the Moors of the' human soul wide to the stars, to the heavens, , to the sun ; the beams of mercy and the most in comprehensibje wonders sprouted sud denly from invisible origins ; a thousand unknown feelings, comprehensions and perceptions expanded the- human soul, expanded it to the bigness of the divine being; the arms were stretehed out to ward never-thought-of worlds; it bowed the knees before gruesome mysterious powers and man rooted up dust , in ter- ror, in trembling and in reverence ; hid den forebodings became certainties and the certainty j did hide in the deep, unlit darkness of the unknown the unknown which was so indefinitely near. ! Mind ful of its divine origin, sex nestled in the heart of man with the glad tidings: Sex was the first one to talk to man of God! The superpower of sex grew with love and the consciousness of its divinity. - A hot stream poured out intq - the darkest hiding places and the most se cret vaults of the sorl: it illuminated the darkest abysses with the sunny glow of light; it inflamed rocks so that they were glowing in blazing flames; it-reorganized the worlds and created them into its shapes and in new forms. All in stincts were directed into its broad bed; all forebodings, all lust and all pain, hatred and the blessed ascension of man to heaven, the whole life's struggle of a boundless and unrestrained soul, and it carried the foaming waves to the op posite shore and threw them down at the feet of God so that He might re joice in his image. And thus sex became the confidat of God and carried Him glad messages of how man had been drawn near ; to HIM through Art. Sex gave birth to Art., And so sex is the Androgyne, "father mother" of all that is', that was, that will be.: the powerful original fountain 6f might, of eternal strength, of enthusiasm and intoxication, of the most sacred at tempt to sform the heavens and of the gravest,-most detestable Fall of Man, of the highest-virtue and -of the most devilish crime. There is no power that can coriipare itself with sex, and as such it is the extreme beauty and the only link uniting us with thp Absolute, be cause there it originated and to thence will it return. It is 'the hot gulf which melts the ice and which fructifies the earth, creating an Eden or a hell for the generation of men. It is the ocean whiek encircles the whole universe, embracing it with lov nng arms. It is the one pledge and the one certainty of the divine in man. REGULAR NOTICE T 0 eOUSUMERS The Corporation Commission Has Directed That the Fallowing be Established As the Gas ate in Elizabeth City: SUMMARY OF RATES. (To be billed in units of 100 ft.) Rates per M. C F. Gross First 10,000 1LI' I $2.40 Next 10,000 2JZ0 - Over 20,060 L . 2.10 Minimum Monthly Charge, $1.50. V V Dis. Net.' $'.05 $25 .05 2.15 .05 2.05 render These rates became effective with the April bills, to which the ; meters are now being . reajL- L FOR THOSE HAVING ORDINARY METERS. Correct bills, at the new rates, will be submitted to those using the regular or ordinary meter. FOR THOSE HAVING QUARTER OR SLOT METERsf The wheels in the slot meters will deliver gas at the old rate un til we can change them. New wheels have been ordered. Mean while, we are collecting a little more than is allowed. Refund of this total excess collected will be made you-when the new wheels are in stalled. Those wishing to collect the excess as it accrues may call at our office and obtain it. Refund will be made at once to consurii ers discontinuing gas service. . 1 Southern Gas Improvement Company "They Say That Gas Can Do It Better" ..... ft Kills ats and mice that's RAT-SNAP, the old reliable rodent destroyer. Comes in cakes no mixing with other food. Your money back if it fails. 35c size (I cake) enough for Pan try, Kitchen or Cellar. 65c size (2 cakes) for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage build ings, or factory buildings. Sold and Guaranteed by Culpepper Hardware Store, City Drug Store, G. W. Twiddy, John C.- Bond, Edenton W. A. Leggett, Edenton; . Sawyer's General Store, Camden. Apr.22-4t A' LECRAMA rlEATRE PROGRAM FOR WEEK BEGINNING May 9th. MAWIYAV MARY PICKFORD in "THE UNWELCOME GUEST" ' lliUilliA 1 "OUT OF THE STORM" EMINENT AUTHORS PRODUCTION. TIII7CrkAV "E BOHEMIAN GIRL" PRESENTED BY THE lUKuiiiil ELIZABETH" CITY CHORAL SOCIETY. - ' WILL ROGERS in "HONEST HUTCH" ; WrnRirCFlAV WILLI AM DUNCAN in "FIGHTING FATE" r ililllllDIil I Episode No. 14 "THIEVES FALL OUT" SNUB POLLARD m "INSULTING THE SULTAN" Till IR QTI A V PAULINE 'FREDERICK in "WOMAN IN ROOM 13" nUHuiiil BUSTER KEAJON in "CONVICT 13" FY BUCK JONES in "JUST PALS" 111 HAY S0N OF TARZAN SuPer Jungle Serial, 111121 1 Episode No. 12. " CONWAY TEARLE in "THE ROAD OF AMBITION" Ay ELMO LINCOLN in "THE FLAMING DISK" ri I Episode No. 17 "THE RAILS OF DESTRUCTION" . t ; PRICES: Matinee 15c and 20c; Night 15c and 25c. 13 I I 1 PINER BROTHERS, Inc State Distributors For KNOX MARINE GASOLINE" AND KEROSENE MOTORS Two and FourCycle, Three to 75 Horse Power; make and brake and jump spark ignition. The Knox Motors are the best medium duty engine on the market today. w. i ' -ssvae jT j 16 H. P. 4 Cycle 50 H. P. 4 Cycle 15 H. P. 2 Cycle These engines are manufactured from the best material that money can buy, and assembled by specialists. They are designed for people who want power, simplicity and economy combined with the latest improvements at reasonable price. Let us send you catalogue. Agents wanted, but mttst be strictly business. x . PINER BROTHERS, Morehead City, N. C. """". otbr. Every Accessory for the Automobile 17 N. Water St. - Elizabeth City, N C ; Mi - v .1: '!!;, 1 M- !ir: ir.;. i''V :i-f ,W- I: Kit 'III 1 l Af '0 If - 9 i. '.'11 it mi mm Ei-,i r mi 0 "J; -r. 7.- wtrr r-.-1 ' -'