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S. S. Pierce co.
BOSTON.
YARBOROUGH HOUSE,
RALEIGH, N. C.
a strictly high class hostelry situated on the seaboard alr
Line Railway, thoroughfare between New York and Florida,
and within one hour of plnehurst, n. c.
Raleigh is a City of hospitable people, pretty homes, de
lighful climate, fine macadamized roads, instructing museums
numerous State Institutions, and much historic interest.
Write for illustrated booklet.
HOWELL COBB.
Pinehurst Department Store.
We carry a full line of Fancy and Heavy
GROCERIES
Such brands as are handled by New England Grocers.
The Dry Goods and Shoe Departments
are complete. Stock bought in Northern Markets. Quality Standard for selec
tion. Full line of Columbia, Saxony Floss and Germantown Yarns.
A Complete Aanortment of Finest nibbona and Embroidery Silka.
The Latest Styles of Stationery, both Printed and Plain.
GENERAL SUPPLY OF
FIELD AND TRAP SMOKLESS AMMUNITION.
Prices on par with New England Markets.
IN THE DECEMBER HEAVENS
Four Planets Visible in the Sky
During This Month.
Venus is the Evening- Star and U Con
tinually Crowing: nriffhter
Interesting Data.
HERE are four planets
which may be seen in the
evening sky during De
cember. First towards
the southwest, is the bril
liant evening star, Ve
nus, which each night mounts perceptibly
higher aud higher among the stars, and
grows continually brighter, until by the
end of this year it is the second brightest
object in the heavens. Then, a little to
the east of Venus, in the eastern part of
the constellation Capricorn, is the planet
Saturn, which is still in good position
planet Saturn. At this instant the tv, .
planets will be exactly one above the
other, with Venus four-fifth of a degi ..
to the south.
On December 20, in the early evening
the moon will pass over the bright st.Mr
Aldcbaran. Its eastern edge will reach
the star and shut it from view at 8 hour
25 minutes eastern time, and the eniei
gence will occur at 9 hours 4G minutes.
The observer will notice that while tin:
light of Mars will fade gradually away
as the moon passes over it, the light of
Aldebaran will be blotted out instanta
neously. This is because Mars appears
to us a round disc, while every star ap
pears as but a single point of light. The
instant the edge of the moon reaches this
point of light the star simply goes out,
with a suddenness far more rapid than
that of a Hash of lightening. Were there
the slightest trace of air or water vapor
on the moon, the light of the star would
be extinguished more gradually. It is
observing occultation of stars in this way
that astronomers have learned that the
moon is a dead world without either air
or water.
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INTERESTED SPECTATORS WATCHING THAI? SHOOTING.
for ol)servation with a small telescope.
The earth is elevated nearly fifteen de
grees above the rings, so that we look
down upon them and see them well open
ed out, while the singular dark band
which recently appeared encircling the
ball of the planet is still distinctly visible.
To the south, two-thirds of the way up to
the zenith, is the planet Jupiter, the
most striking and brilliant object of the
entire sky, and finally, low down in the
east, the possessor of a small telescope
may pick up the faint, greenish planet
Neptune, which is now near the center
of the constellation Gemini.
If the observer will turn toward the
southwest soon after sunset, he cannot
fail to notice this brilliant planet, which
is now the brightest object in the whole
sky, with the single exception of Jupiter.
It is at present moving rapidly eastward
among the stars, so that while it sets two
and one-half hours after the sun on De
cember 1, by January 1 it has reached so
high an altitude that it does not set until
three and one-half hours after sunset.
Its rapid eastward motion will cany it
entirely across the constellation Capri
corn during the month ; on December 28,
at 4 a. m., it will overtake and pass the
ClIfllftTJIAS ttREEXS.
JPlnehumtlVuneriea Han Them Parked
Heady for Mending Away.
The Pinehurst Nurseries are putting up
many boxes of Christmas greens and the
collection is one which visitors here will
find particular delight in sending t
Northern friends.
The boxes are of three sizes and packed
ready for shipment, costing sixty cents,
one dollar and a dollar and a half aud
they include pine boughs and cones,
holly, mistletoe, peanuts, cotton, persim
mons, etc.
Seaboard Air JLine Service.
Cafe dining car service was begun Mon
day on the Seaboard Air Line trains (50
and 43 between Hamlet and Norlina, and
through Pullman sleeping cars will be
run tri-weekly on trains 31 and 34, be
tween Washington and Pinehurst.
The "Seaboard Florida Limited," be
tween New York and St. Augustine, will
be put on January ninth. Through day
parlor cars between Washington and
Pinehurst, have been running for some
time past.
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