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III., NO. 2. PINEHURST, N. C, NOV. 10, 1899. PRICP: THREE CENTS.
THUNDERING GUNS.
May-One-Day was Sunday.
Gloried thu day when thundering guns
spoke with a language weighted of tons!
Out from the gloaming at dawning of day
Sped Dewey's squadron in battle array
( ) Hirers and crews of steel
Fearing naught that Fate reveal,
Cainly viewing foe so near
Mightiest moments of the year!
"Maine" their thoughts of murderous past;
Vengeance dire at hand, at last!
No weak heart among them all
Answering to their country's call ;
Every tar in loyal zeal
At their posts with eager leal;
Joyous for the fray at hand,
Waiting for the stern command!
Thundering guns and hurtling shell
Sound the Spanish funeral knell
Haughty Dons In self conceit
Tread their dread beneath their feet,
Hoping luck and favoring chance
Cause and Fortune may enhance !
Cloyed with pomp and vanity,
Aim they guns at sky and sea;
Aim aloft and aim alow
Ne'er a shot its mark to show;
Missiles amiss scattering in vain,
Flit fast from view as splashing rain.
Bursting shell and magazine,
Foundering ships asink
Dismay the Dons, inducing them
From further strife to shrink.
Surprise then smites their doleful minds,
Well smitten hitherto;
The Yankees quit their circling course,
And from the scene withdrew !
Their needed stores supplied
Their light a fasting one
They break their fast,
And hasten back to Victory yet unwon;
Full well equipped, with anchors tripped,
They meet the foe again
Long ere the morning's task is o'er
They have avenged the "Maine"!
The battered hulks sink speedily,
While Hags come hastening down
And crews from burning ships essay
To reach Manila town !
The grand commander's strategy
In circling 'round and 'round
Had brought success unmarred by loss,
Wherever foe was found!
The combat, o'er, the battle lost,
Proud Spain had risked her best
Along with feeble Powers of Earth
The Dons take needed rest
While over seas in glad acclaim
Our Nation hails its Heroes' fame!
Kighteen-hundred and ninety odds
Drift far astern to placate the gods!
Kighteen-hundred and .thundering guns
Moves in review as a tale oft-told
None earlier fraught with issues so great
As Eighteen lumdred-and-ninety -ami-eight!
Glorious the day when thundering guns
Spoke with a voice all Memory stuns!
Cone are visions of waj- with John Bull!
Closed are the dream-books those records are
lull.
Cood Fortune, this way, steadily runs
Thanks to brave Dewey's thundering guns!
G. W. Maiiston.
At the Telephone.
Casey Who does yiz want ter see?
Grogan Dunnohue.
Casey Who did yis say?
G rogan Dun nohue, Dunnohue.
Casey Well if you dunno who, how
the devil do I know who? Scribner's
Nnytizine.
OUR NEW POST OFFICE.
IMnelmrst Now lias the Finest Post
Office In North Carolina.
The Pinehurst post office, which has
been moved several times since it was
first established here, is now permanent
ly located in new quarters in the front of
the drug store, and a finer or more con
veniently arranged office cannot be found
in the state of North Carolina.
The new office is enclosed by oak panel
work of tasteful design, built by the
Corbin Cabinet Lock Co. of New Briton,
Conn., from plans furnished by Burr &
Sise, the well-known Boston architects.
It was completed last week and opened
for business last Friday.
The large plate glass window in the
PATH IN THE
drug store on the side next the piazza
has been removed and the space has been
filled by lock boxes of several sizes
fitted with combination locks, and with
call boxes. In the centre is the general
delivery and stamp window of frosted
glass protected by brass guards, and be
low is an opening for letters and papers.
On the inside of the store the panel
work rises to the height of three and one
half feet, except the part containing
boxes, which are raised two feet from
the floor. This panel work has openings
for mailing letters and papers. Above
the panel work the space next the front
of the building is occupied by the win
dow of the telegraph operator, who will
move in here in about ten days. Next
comes a group of one hundred call boxes,
followed by a delivery and stamp win
dow ; then another group of one hundred
call boxes, and a window for money
orders and registered letters. The win
dows are closed by frosted glass and
protected by brass guards which may be
lifted out of the way for the delivery of
large packages. This occupies the whole
of the front.
On the end the door for the entrance
of the postmaster and his clerks occupies
the centre; and on either hand the panel
work rises to the same height as in front
and is surmounted by large glass win
dows. On the top of the partition, on
both front and end, are panels of stained
glass. All the wood work is of oak,
finished in natural color and highly
polished, and the whole presents a hand
some appearance.
The interior of the office is fitted with
PINE GROVE. Courtesy of Salmagundi.
numerous cabinets, cases of drawers and
shelves, and everything is arranged in
the most convenient manner. The are
about three hundred boxes in all, and the
space at the end may be used for about
as many more, as the population of our
village increases. The general arrange
ment of the office can thus remain un
changed for many years to come. There
are very few towns of the size of Pine
hurst that can boast of such a handsome
and convenient post office, and our vil
lagers may well feel proud of the latest
addition to our village.
Mrs. II. S. Davis cf Farmington, N. II.,
is in charge of the office and is receiving
many compliments for the efficient man
ner in which she performs her duties
there.
A free sample copy of The Outlook
will be mailed on receipt of address.
Private Mark In WatclieM.
There was a crowd around the counter
of a downtown jewelry store where
watches are received for repairs. A
woman who was evidently in a hurry
made her way to the place where the
man with the magnifying glass stood,
and handed a little watch to him.
"Will you please tell me what ails this
watch?" she asked.
The watch doctor opened the case de
liberately, peered into the works and
said: "It needs cleaning."
My! that seems strange," said the
woman, "you cleaned it only a few
months ago."
"Is that so?" asked the man, and
opened the case once more and made an
other examination with the aid of a
miniature microscope. Then he handed
the watch back and said : "Wre cleaned
this watch in December, 1896, and it has
not been in our hands since that time."
"Is that so? I must be mistaken, but
how do you know when it was cleaned
last?"
The man explained that it was no trick
of memory, but simply the result of a
system. "Whenever a watch is brought
to us," he said, "to be cleaned, regulated,
repaired or 'fixed up,' we put a tag on it
which is numbered to correspond with a
number in our work book.
"In the book we record the style and
make of the watch, the owner, what re
pairs are to be made, and the amount
charged for the work, and when the
workman finishes the job he puts the
same number in microscopic figures on
the edge of the inner case.
"A letter or sign also shows what has
been done to the watch. So you se,
when a watch comes .here, we look for
a mark of that kind, and when we find it
we refer to the book and there you are."
The woman left the watch with the
man of system, and when she had gone
he said: "That happens many times
every day. We have the most fun with
the people who say, 'You guaranteed
this watch for a year when you repaired
it, and here it is out of order again.'
The glass usually reveals the fact that
the watch was 'due to break' months,
and sometimes years ago."
All watchmakers keep records and
mark the watches which are placed with
them for repairs, but no two have the
same system. Some makers mark the
watch with the name of the workman
and a record number after it; some mark
the date and the workman's initial on the
case, and others have signs in conjunc
tion with these designators to show just
what work has been done on the time
piece. This system of marking and recording
watches is of much service to the police
also, and lost and stolen watches are
identified daily by means of the watch
maker's private marks. New York Tribune.
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