Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-01

places, and vines run over the ground and bind
together the pine tree and the oak the hick-
DRY and the gum. There is no sign of the
silent foe that is forcing its way toward them
against which all their united strength will not
avail
There was much about this place to interest
the club during the two or three days they spent
there Nag's Head is quite popular resort for the
people within reach Of it during certain seasons
OF the year. There are generally about 200
people at the hotel during the season and the
cottages about are occupied With a breeze
always blowing, with fishing and Grabbing and
sailing to the hearts content, snipe shooting in
the salt marshes a mile or so away. squirrel
shooting in the woods above and wonderful
fresh water lake. Of which more will be said
later on, this place must be attractive to many
people. The guests were all away and the
hotel closed when the South Mountain Fishing
Club sailed into the harbor. Only the few peo-
pie who always live there and the workmen en-
gagged In moving the houses out of the way Of
the creeping sand hills we're there. Over on
the sea coast there was a cluster of fisher cot
tages and lfe-saving station. Take them all
IN all, they are a hardy. hospitabie, seif-sus-
tanning people, whose greatest trouble on this
earth is with the sands. They live by hunting
and fishing chsefy, and, take it, the yeGr around,
markets. The ducks are abundant certain sea-
sons, and Que of the hunters told US that he
made an average of 800 a month with his gun.
THE MARCH OF THE SAND HILLS.
But there is something dreadful about the
silent menace of the sand hills. keeping barren
country that should be green with foliage.
Nobody now living knows when they started;
but it Is thought that they first began when the
early inhabitants began to cut away the heavy
timber from the coast Getting a foothold in
the clearing, the sands banked up against the
forests and we're drifted in by the winds, the
mounds growing larger as the clearing ex-
banded, until the creeping hills got to be
force in nature greater than the tenacity of the
trees and all the lower part of the point was
swept over. The hills are like mighty ocean
waves. The sand piles up, sloping from the
wlndward and almost perpendicular on the
other side, until finally the top slides Off as the
crest of a mighty wave breaks and falls over in
a "comber." The wind keeps the fine particles
of sand on the surface always in motion and the
surface is all in little waves, miniatures of the
mighty waves which are sweeping across the
point. The piling up and topping over is what
the heavy gales, which are Of frequent occur
renee, help them on their way.
INA STORM.
The club experienced one OF the Nag's Head
storms. The president, the vice president, the
colonel and the new member were fishing in
the surf not lar from the place where the
Huron was lost. Tradition has it that wreckers
used to allure ships to destruction by showing
false lights on the shore. Stories are told of
lights being tied about the necks of horses,
which were driven along the coast as a sort
Of lgnis fatuus to lead the mariners astray,
but In the place of wreckers there are now life
savers, who do noble work en- that treacherous
coast. The president caught shark and he