The Cedarville Herald, Volume 56, Numbers 1-26

CERMfvir.T.K, O , HEUAT.D, FRIDAY, MARCH 3,1933 TheDismal Swamp A Hunter of the Dlemal Swamp, , ’S Prepared by National Geographic Socloty, Washington, IV C.—~WNU Service. W HEN the eastern hunting season Is at Its height, the usual quiet o f the Dismal Swamp, one of the famous hunting grounds o f the eastern sea­ board, is broken by the crack o f sportsmen’s guns. Since it was first explored, Dismal Swamp lias remained a mystery place. Its" last Indian disappeared around the 1790s, 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 o f its orig­ inal area to the plow, much of the re- ■maiuder is an unbroken wilderness on the Virginia-North Carolina border. George Washington’s name is per­ manently 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 Dis­ mal Swamp Lund company. Wash­ ington made at least.six visits to the great wilderness, to which he refers in correspondence as , a “glorious para­ dise.” - 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 tim­ ber from the swamp to the Nanse-. lyond river, near Suffolk. Thence the timber went by ship to its destina­ tion. Some went to .England. . A hamlet known as “Dismal Town" grew up at the White Marsh road end o f the ditch.- It has disappeared: com­ pletely and the road’s course ha's been slightly changed. In his will Washington valued his 4,000 acres o f Dismal Swamp holdings at about $20,000. Today, to nil except a very few, the swamp’s interior is ns much of a mys­ tery as Yucatan. Men are born, live, and die in towns that touch Dismal Swamp’s very edges without ever hav­ ing entered it.- Has a Bad Reputation. The name given to the swamp by Col, William Byrd in 1728; stories of the ghosts of Lake Drummond;’ of venomous serpents and poisonous1 plants; of savage descendants of run­ away slaves still roaming its depths; o f fugitives hiding out and, in recent years, of moonshiners that kill on sight; of wild beasts and “ the noxious vapors that infest the air”—all have created a feeling of fear that has con­ tributed to the grim atmosphere that enshrouds Great Dismal,' There are miles of dry forest abound Lake Drummond, but here and there along the west "shore" are holes that would mire you to the waist. Near the headwaters of Pasquotank river gre holes that would engulf yon ; quicksands, also. A11 Over the peat areas are deep fire-holes. When the swamp is fuU Of water and covered with vines, travel is difficult and dan­ gerous. Dismal Swamp canal, connecting Hampton roads with Pasquotank river and Albemarle'sound, begins at the village of Deep Creek, six miles southwest of Portsmouth, It Is 50 feet wide and navigable for vessels with a seven-foot draft. 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 enthusias­ tic. While it passes through the wide, reedy, treeless, and vine matted ex­ panse, the Feeder's banks are lined with stately trees for most of its three miles. la springtime there are jasmine, honeysuckle, and other fragrant flow­ ers, In places It resembles a sylvan tunnel, as, enchanting and alluring, it runs straight as an arrow Into the mysterious and romantic depths toward Lake Drummond. Otter slides along (be banks, and hear trails, where old llruin mvims the canal In passing from open space to open space,-add fcosit to the journey. In summer the logs ami roots that jut from the banks, and often the overhanging limbs, swarm wltl snakes, most of them however, Thv IVcilor is ”0 feet wide. Clogged v t'l ik-bris from yea rs'of log raft- r r ;•..innerseven-foot normal Stage has dwindled to three, and with low water -the ditch is almost impassable. ' The so-called "juniper water" of the Feeder and Lake Drummond - Is in reality a blend of the ieachings of water from gum, cypress, maple, and “juniper” (southern white cedar) peatiand, which covered several hun­ dred square miles. The occasional visitor to . Dismal Swamp cannot distinguish between the various waters or the blends; but a small amount of juniper teachings is required to make other swamp waters palatable. Pure gum w&ter is dark in color and causes a feeling of. dis tress after drinking. Cypress water is palatable and of a lighter color and will, keep longer thnn gum water, which will not remain sweet an entire sum­ mer. Pure juniper water, however, is smooth, healthful, and palatable. It is of a beautiful, sparkling color, - be­ tween rich chrome yellow and orange. Given the same kind, of food, timber workers who drink other swamp wa­ ters never look as healthy ns 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 wafer, where underlying roots are exposed, the traveler gets an idea of the source of the swamp's . rich amber-colored waters. There are places in tlie cedar and cypress growths where roots, logs, limbs, stumps, and snags are lapped and tied and twisted to a depth of 17 to 20 feet. Such a natural laboratory will produce juniper or cypress water for years. JUngle Hard to Conquer. , The-ox means little to Great Dls* mal. It was wild before the lumber­ man came, and after he passes It re­ verts to its former, state. The jungle, with Its claws and thorns, returns, and the bear, the deer, the panther, the raccoon, again come Into their own. ' One lumber company operates more than 30 miles. of narrow-gauge log railroad in the section lying southeast o f Lake Drummond and extending well Into North Carolina. There is little high-grade timber left. The greater portion lies south of Lake Drummond. There are Immense areas of hardwoods in which most of the trees are worthless} still others where the never-failing cedar will ap­ pear and the slow-growing cypress; and miles of scorched standing timber of all kinds, unfit for any use except firewood. Then there are the square miles of scattered clearings, where, in places, the peat has burned eight and ten feet, down to the sand and clay. The only permanent human habita­ tion In the Lake Drummond wilder­ ness Is the house of the government- employed lock tender at the Waste Weir clearing, two and three-quarter 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 1929, the Feeder and canal were privately oper­ 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 1930-31 many sand bars were exposed nlonfr the shores o f Lake Drummond. In places the water receded more than a thousand feet One can find Indian arrow-heads, ham­ mers, and other weapons and imple­ ments along the north shore, where the Indians had hunted and Ashed for ' generations. Few Indian relics are ever found ashore, They were soon covered by the decaying vegetation that forms the peat, while adds 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 use— 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 passes through clearings. Near the lake Its banks are lined with stately trees whose tops lean Inward. East of the Jericho ditch deer abound. Th* Logical Thinker The sage who said a man's friend was the person who told him his faults must liavo been thinking o f wives.- -Novn-anth* Courier. 1 . Boy* to Learn Homo Arts The schools :t the future, according to a Now York educator, will teach boys as well as girls such arte a* ar­ rangement and care of the home and Adequate care of children, J .......” Mstroy oMs j Cairo, with a population o f about i 809,900. la the inrsosf city in Africa, Mwsales Mare Appropriate Several masked tenors are featured where muzzles would be more appro- prJate.—Totedn Jliniie' OK, W«R A wife is nometlfflM known ns n man’* better half and sometimes as the whole thing,—Chicago Post i m p r o v e d UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAYI chool Lesson Instltuto of CiilciiSO.).. , ©, ism , western Nowspuper union. Lesson fo r March 5 JESUS GIVING LIFE AND HEALTH LESSON TEXT—Mark 5 :!l-«S , GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord hath dona great things for us; whereof we *ro glad. Psalm 126:S. > PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesua Making a Ltttlo Girl Live Again. JUNIOR TOPIC—JesuS Raising Jal- rua’ Daughter. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP­ IC—Life and Health Throush Jesus. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP­ IC—Christianity and Human Suffering. «,iHmMiiiiii»m,inipwH,,in»‘llll" lll|i‘lll|n'» 11 i|lll‘ 1 ‘l"m<- . . LOANS AND . . . . . INSURANCE . . • i i s We Will Loan Yon money on Your § AUTOMOBILE j Farmers* Special Rate On | INSURANCE I Thought for Today To rejoice in the prosperity of an­ other la U partake of It—William Austin. A Saving Can BeMade on Insur­ ance by Calling Us S I S* 3ELDEN & CO,, Inc., I li Tim accounts of the raising of the damsel and the healing of the woman are so interwoven as almost to con­ stitute one narrative, but since the principles ure diverse and the places separate, and the one at) interruption of the other, they should be treated separately. I. Jairus’ Daughter Raised From the Dead (vv. 22-2^ 35-43). 1. Jairus’ urgent mission (vv. "22, 23). His only daughter (Luke 8:42), Perhaps Ills only child lay dying. •In this time of fitter helplessness he came ' to Jesus for lie hud faith in his abil­ ity to raise her up. In the providence of God sorrow, sickness and death are often used to bring needy men and women Into contact with Jesus. He showed the proper attitude toward Jesus, “he fell at his feet” (v. 22), 2. Jesus goes with Jairus (v, 24). Jairus believed that if Jesus would lay his hand upon his daughter she would live. Sucli faith always gets a response from Jesus. No one des titnte of faith can receive his bless­ ing. i A. News of his daughter’s death (v. 35), This was a wosf starting message. The messenger who brought the news of her death suggested tbtyL Jesus should be excused from going™ further ns it was now too late. 4. Jairus’ faltli strengthened (v. 38). As soon as Jesus heard the word spok­ en concerning the death of this girl, lie said to the father, “ Be not afraid, only helleve.” This Is the message still to every distressed soul. 5. The mourners rebuked (vv, 37- 39). He dismissed the crowd’ and al­ lowed only three of his disciples nml the parents o the damsel to enter this chamber of deatli with him. The tu­ multuous wailing showed the despair of the friends. In connection witli this death-wail the Lord was ridiculed, but be declared that the girl could be nwakened from her sleep of death. 0. Jairus' .faith rewarded (vv. 41- 13). He took the damsel by the hand and commanded her to arise, The ex­ pression “Tnlitha cumi" ln the Arama­ ic may be freely translated, “ Wake up, little girl." She straightway arose and wulked and partook o f food. Her walking was proof of tlie reality of the miracle. There was n0 sign bf the weakness which usually follows q se­ vere sickness. II. The Woman With an Issue of Blood (vv. 25-34). 1. Her helpless condition (vv. 25. 28. cf. Luke 8:43). She had been a great sufferer for twelve long years. In addition to physical suffering her malady involved ceremonial unefean- ness which was perhaps harder to bear than tlie physical suffering.. Tills ceremonial uncleanness meant her ex­ clusion from the places of worship and divorce from her husband, as well ns social isolation. 2. Her faith (vv. 27, 28); She pos­ sessed a real and earnest faith. Hav­ ing heard of the fame of Jesus as a healer, she likely Journeyed a consid­ erable distance. For a poor emaci­ ated woman after twelve years, o f suf­ fering to press her way through n thronging multitude, shows that she possessed a determined purpose. Tlie test of the actuality and quality of one's faith Is the determined activity which it engenders. Her faith wns/so strong that she believed that contact with the Master's garments would se­ cure the,needoil help, 3. Her healing (vv. 29-32). As soon ns she touched the hem o f his garment, she experienced in her body his heal­ ing power. Jesfis was conscious of the outgoing of virtue from himself. 4. Her confession (v. 33, cf. Luke 8 :47). She thought secretly to get the blessing of healing, but Jesus per­ ceived that virtue had gone out from him and had her make a public con­ fession, 5. Jesus' words of encouragement (v. 84). With the communication of his healing virtue he Spoke most gra­ cious afid comforting words to this poor wotnnn. He told her that It was her faith, not her touch that had saved her. Faith does not need to face danger and to exhaust itself In active endeavor in order to gain Christ’s blessing. All that is required is a trusting prayer, She obtained the blessing immediately. | Steele Bldg. Xenia, O, I i | - Phone 21 § i i.. . • l Tall Story The dwarf who Admitted he was "ether short when askcii for « la-ji Not Fair to Jungle The lecturer who says gossip Is a •MJi’vivol of the Jungle isn't altogether fair to the jungle.—Indianapollg News. Recipe for Comfort The chief secret o f comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures.-—Archbishop Sharp, Not to Mention— A sharp nose Indicates curiosity; s flat one, too much curiosity. And big eura denote generosity—of nature.— I'uthfiiidcr Magazine. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Estate o f Charles C. Kyle, Deceased. Eliza E. Kyle has been appointed and qualified as Executor o f the estate o f Charles C. Kyle, late o f Greene County, Ohio, deceased. Dated this 24th day o f January, 1933, S. C. WEIGHT, Probate Judge o f said County. -Nation's SwSst Tooth The United States consumes more than 20 per cent of the world’s cane sugar. RAD IO SERVICE j and Supplies j ALL TYPES TUBES IN STOCK f ' | j | CALL— | If G reer M cCallister, | is S | Phone 13-101 § i Cedarville. Ohio f I • * I ... .»»»«.,,........ ................ . 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