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vRTPAY, JULY 4, 1919.
THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
PAGE FIVE
0f WE HAVE KEPT OUT
OF WAR WITH CANADA
ls An Interesting Bit of History
HerThat Should Have Served The
Peace Conference
BY ELBERT HUBBARD
at preparedness leads to war.
The coast line between Canada -and
lT11ited States, from the St. Law
lece River to Lake Superior, is about
0 thousand miles.
In the year Eighteen Hundred Twelve
. were forty-six forts, big ahd
little,
about
from Canada.
Fort Niagara alone there were
at one time six thousand troops. Al
together we had on the Great Lakes
er a hundred craft devoted to the
art of fi&hting this in the interest oi
on the United States side, and
the same number frowned at us
peace. y i
In one little battle we had with our
British cousins, on Lake Erie, Com
modore Perry, a real youth of twenty
seven, captured six British ships and
killed three hundred men. A little be
fore this the British destroyed ten
ships for us and killed two hundred
Americans.
After the War of Eighteen Hundred
Twelve was ended and peace was . de
clared, both sides got busy, very busy,
strengthening the forts and building
warships. At Watertown, Conneaut
Erie, Port Huron, Cleveland and De
troit were shipyards where hundreds ol
men were working night and day build
ing warships. Not that war was im
minent, but the statesmen of the time
said there was nothing like prepared
ness" In Canada things were much the
same, and there were threats that
Perry's famous message, "We have met
the enemy and they are ours," would
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Elizabeth City, N. C.
soon be reversed
Suddenly, but very quietly, two men
in Washington got together and made
an agreement. One man was acting
Secretary of State, Richard - Rush oi
Philadelphia; the other was Charles
Bagot, Minister to the United States
from England. Rush was of Quakei
parentage, and naturally was opposed,
to the business of war.
Bagot had seen enough of fighting tc
know it was neither glorious nor amus
ing. Rush wrote out a memorandum of
agreement which he headed "An Ar
rangement." The document is writ
ten on one side of a single sheet oi
paper and is dated April Twenty-eight,
Eighteen Hundred Seventeen.
Here is a copy:
"1. The Naval Forces henceforth to
be maintained upon the Great Lakes
shall be confined to the following ves
sels on each side:
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2. On Lake Ontario one vessel, not
to -i exceed one hundred tons burden
carrying not more than twenty men
and one eight-pound cannon.
3. On the Upper Lakes two vessels,
of same burden, and armed in a like
way.
"4. On Lake Champlain one vessel
of like size and armament.
"5. All other armed vessels to be
at once dismantled, and no other vessel
of war shall be built or armed along
the Saint Lawrence River or on the
Great Lakes."
This agreement has been religiously
kept. Its effect was to stop work at
once on the fortifications, and cause
disarmament along the Great Lakes
So far as we know, the agreement will
continue for all time. Both parties are
satisfied, and in fact so naturally has
it been accepted, very few people know
of its existence.
Here is an example that our friends
in Europe might well ponder over. If
those forts on the frontier had beer
maintained, and had the ships of wai
continued to sail up and down, it would
have been a postive miracle if there
had not been fighting.
Probably they would have forced
us in a war with England before this.
We have had several disputes with
Canada when it would have been very
easy to open hostilities, if the tools
had been handy. ' Men who tote pistols
find reasons for using them, and the
nations that have big armies will find
excuse for testing their efficiency.
If two countries can make an "ar
rangement" limiting the extent of
armament, and this arrangement holds
for a hundred years, can . not nine
countries do the same .'
Then all that is needed is a f ?w sol
diers to do police duty.
Nations can not afford to be savages
anv more than individuals.
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piece of dirty brown paper, and
stuck there with a sailor's rusty
knife, was this message. And well
they knew what it meant. The girl
they had sought for days and believed
to be lost now they knew her to be
worse than lost.
Calypso, with her pure, olive skin and black,
silken hair Calypso, the beautiful Spanish
girl who had masked as a boy and begged
to be allowed to go with the rest on their
perilous journey
Should he give up the treasure that he and
his party some of whom had paid the su
preme price had fought and repeatedly
risked their lives for; should he give up this
wealth of gold and jewels for the girl he
adored, or trust to mercy of his enemies
for her safety?
This is the situation created by Richard Le
Gallienne in his inimitable way of writing in
dpff EngM
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ing, sometimes uncanny and at all times
exciting just full of adventure ? Then read
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SAYS ELIZABETH CITY
ISN'T THE ONLY TOWN
Roper N. C. Man Here This Week Tells
of Progress1 in His Go
Ahead Town r
S. J. Barco, of Roper, was in Eliza
beth City this week and agreed that
Elizabeth City is some town; but he
wants Elizabeth City to know that
Roper is some town too. He says that
everything is smiling on Roper these
days and that Roper is destined to be
a considerable town. Roper has a
population of about 1,000; but with this
small population she puts it all over
Elizabeth City in the matter of public
utilities. Roper owns her electric light
plant and has a good one. Roper also
provides her citizens with pure water
from five artesian wells.
Roper's main industry is the John L.
Roper Lumber Co. mills; but take these
mills away and Roper would still thrive
because she has the finest farming
country in eastern North Carolina.
Hhose farm lands around Roper can't
be beat for either truck or general
farming. A drainage canal 40 feet
wide and eight feet deep, now about to
be completed, will completely drain the
lowlands in that vicinity.
Mr. Barco says many building im
provements are under way in Roper
at the present time, including five
brick stores; three for Mr. Ben'Spruill
and two for Mr. Ted Blount.
Mr. Barco is a native of Shiloh.
Camden county. He moved to Roper
22 years ago and has grown up with the
town. He is in the undertaking busi
ness and is using a motor hearse, which
shows that he is moving along with the
times.
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DA0DY3 EVENING
FAIDYTAIF 1),
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6y Mary Crahajn Bonn-
THE NAUGHTY COLDS.
Mr. and Mrs. Cold were having a
very good time. Now, when most pev
pie have a good time it means that
they're playing or singing or laughing
or dancing or reading or hearing music.
Perhaps It means they're hdving a
party of some sort, or perhaps it may
mean they're in swimming or having a
picnic. Oh, there are lots and lots
of ways of having good times as every
one knows.
But when Mr. and Mrs. Cold have a
good time It is something very differ
ent from what we mean a good time.
In the first place, Mr. and Mrs Cold
are very disagreeable people. They
have always been disagreeable. Their
daddy and mother were the same way,
and as for Aunt Grippe and their
Uncle Bronchitis well, theyre hor
rid old creatures, I can tell you.
m, an Mra Cold have very mean
children, tod. There is Susy Sneeze,
for example. She has the worst sort
of a disposition! She just loves to
plague people and make them as un
comfortable, as she cap.
Then there Is Charlie Cough. He
likes to hurt creatures. You can just
Imagine how mean he is. And there
ls Sadie Sore-Throat, and Hatty Head
ache. They are all children of Mr.
and Mrs. Cold.
"Let's go on a trip," they said to
the children.
"All right," said the children. They
always agree to go a-traveling, and
the worst thing about them is that they
have many cousins and relations, and
their cousins and relations are just
as busy a-traveling as they are!
"I think," said Mrs. Cold, "we'll go
and call on a little girl named Annette.
She is such a nice little girl, I'd like
to make her feel uncomfortable. Let's
give her a good dose of us."
And the Cold children clapped their
hands.
"Is she nice?" they said. And when
their mother and daddy said :
"Oh, she ls wonderfully nice," they
were just overjoyed. That is how
mean they are. They love to be hor
rid to nice, nice boys and girls and
grown-ups !
So they picked up their suitcases
with plenty . of Susy Sneeze's best
frocks, and plenty of Charlie Cough's
extra neckties, and lots of Hatty Head
ache's hair ribbons and Sadie Sore
Throat's collars and off they went.
Their hair ribbons and collars and
dresses aren't like nice children's, for
they are mean like themselves !
"Oh, please," said Annette, when
they all arrived. "I didn't ask you to
come and see me. I don't need you.
I have a nice daddy and a nice mother
all of my own. I don't want Mr. and
Mrs. Cold, and I have two nice broth
ers," and I don't want any others, or
even any sisters. Please go away."
But the Cold family paid no atten
tion. They were so mean they liked
being where they weren't wanted.
But the time passed and the dream
king found out that Annette had some
horrid visitors. The dream king hur
ried to tell the fairy queen about it.
"Did you ever hear of such rudeness
and such unkindness as that horrible
Cold family show?" he said.
"We'll put a stop to this, Dream
King," said the fairy queen. "Thank
you for telling me. I know that little
girl Annette. Yes, I know her well.
She has golden hair and fair skin and
blue eyes. And she lives in a city
house. Ah, yes, I know her. Just
like that horrid Cold family to go and
bother some one who is nice !"
The fairy queen set to work. She
called together all her assistants and
they hurried to Annette's house when
she was fast asleep.
They gave the Cold family a good
talking to and they waved their wands
over Annette so that the Cold family
were driven away.
And in the meantime-the old dream
king had told the dream fairies about
Annette and' they made up the most
wonderful package of dreams, lovely
dreams sent to her as she was getting
all, all wll again. But the dream
king himself made up this poem for
her:
"Annette Is so nice, Annette is so sweet,
Just Annette herself is a great big treat!"
Bribe Me Not!
Little Dorothy was knitting in the
breakfast room, when her elder sister
approached her in an ingratiating
way.
"Well done!" she remarked. "That
really is capital! You are doing the
work so nicely and quietly."
"Look here!" broke in the small
girl definitely. "If It is anything you
want fetching from the top of the
house, I'm not going to fetch it !"
Take Your Choice.
If you have your choice between a
seat in a sunny window, and another
Lin a dark corner, take the sunny place
of course. If you can choose between
thinking a cheerful thought or a
gloomy one, think that which will turn
the corners of your mouth upward. As
a rule we have our choice between
sun and shadow, cheerfulness and
gloom. Which do you choose? Girl's
Companion.
course.
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A Question.
Little Philip (who has just begun to
study natural history) Papa, which
do you think is worse for a tadpole
to think about tomorrow or for a frog
tb remember yesterday?
No Place for Him to Die.
Daniel Webster, taken ill one day in
a town, of decided Democratic lean
ings, begged his friends to take him
home at once. "I was born a Federal
ist," he pleaded. "I have lived aFed
eralist, and I can't die in a Democratic
town." "
Optimistic Trought.
Those who have few affairs to attend
to are great speakers; the less men
think the more they talk.
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Especially pleasing Summer Frocks, made of navy
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Sport Dresses at $39.75
These Dresses were designed to meet the require
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A wonderfully pleasing offering in Summer Dresses
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