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THE :PINKHURST OUTLOOK; THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK Published every Friday at PINEHURST, MOORE CO., N. C. ARTHUR H. SPINNEY, PUBLISHER. Terms of Subscription. One copy per year, " " (5 months, " 3 months, Single copies, $1.00 .50 - .25 .03 All subscriptions are payable in advance. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished on application. Correspondence on matters of local Interest cordially Invited. Notices of Marriages, Births and Deaths In serted free. Advertisements such as Wanted, To Let, For Sale, Etc., not exceeding live lines, 25 cents per week, payable in advance. Address all orders and communications to Aktiil'k II. Spinney, Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Pinehurst, Moore County, X. C, as second class mail matter. Readers will confer a favor upon the publisher of this paper and benefit their friends by sending the addresses of those who ought to know about Pinehurst, so that copies of THE OUTLOOK may be mailed to them. FRIDAY, FEB. 24, 1899. The recent disaster to the well-known firm of publishers and book-sellers, A. C. MeClurg & Co., of Chicago, in which fire destroyed a priceless collection of rare books and manuscripts reminds us to be thankful that our greatest and most valuable libraries are housed in buildings which are as nearly fire-proof as it is possible for human wisdom and skill to make them. Particularly is this the case with the Library of Congress at Wash ington. We take no greater satisfaction, certainly, in knowing that it is the larg est and most convenient library building in the world than in the fact that on ac count of the quality of the materials of which it is made it will be piratically im possible for it to burn. It ought to be everything that the us ers and lovers of books can wish, for it has cost enough in time and money. Ten years it was in building, having been completed in February, 1897, and seven millions of dollars were expended. In another year this great national li brary for it aims to be that, although it is called the Library of Congress, in 1900 it will have completed a full century of existence. For it was in April 1800, when Congress was sitting in Philadel phia, that the first appropriation of five thousand dollars was made to establish and support it. From that time to this it has had a somewhat eventful career. For the first fifteen years the librarians were the clerks of the Ilquse of KepT resentatives, and one of them, Mr. Pat rick Magruder, was censured by Con gress for not getting the books safely out of Washington .before the British entered it in 1814. With a vandalism which would be quite impossible now, and in deed, seems almost incredible, the Brit ish made use of the books on the shelves for setting fire to the Capitol. President Madison appointed the first regular librarian in 1815, and there have been only five librarians in all. Of these Mr. Ainsworth 1J. Spofford served the longest time, thirty-three years, and the late John Pussell Young, the shortest. less than two years. Since the death of the latter the office has been vacant until the recent appointment by President Mc Kinleyof Hon. Samuel J. Barrows of Massachusetts. Mr. Barrows is a man of high character and scholarly attainment, a member of the present Congress, an editor and author. The appointment U most fit, and should be promptly rati fied. It was in Librarian SpofYord's time that the library made its most rapid growth. This was largely due to a change in the copyright laws which requires that two copies of every new publication must be deposited with the librarian of Congress. There are now over eight hundred thou sand books and two hundred thousand pamphlets and a vast collection of prints in the library. Yet no alarm need be felt lest the building shall speedilv be come overcrowded. It will take four and one half millions of volumes to fill it lull. Best of all .is the fact that this great library is one of the freest in the world. Every one of suitable age is allowed to use the books, without card or other formal permission. By this means it be comes something much greater and more beneficial than a library of Congress. It is the National Library of the American people. The announcement of a forth-coming magazine de luxe which is just now being industriously circulated by the press is almost too silly to be true, and yet it is given with so much circumstan tial detail that one is almost forced to believe it. It is said that the "1'oyal Magazine" will cost five dollars or more each number and that its contributors will be mainly royal personages and members of the nobility. As Lady li.tiulolph Churchill is to be editor, probably nobody less titled than a lord will be admitted to that charmed circle. Emperor William of Germany will con tribute to the first number. Can the insanitv of snobbery go beyond this? And to think that Lady Bandolph Churchill, an American woman, should lend her countenance to such foolishness. However one ought not to be too harsh in judgment. It is a hopeful sign when snobdoni aspires to be literary. Evident ly the "chappies"' are "going in for reading and writing and all t hat sort of thing, doncher know" and if they want a magazine so costly and exclusive and deadly dull that it can be all their own, certainly they will be allowed to have it. Judged by its prospectus the "Itoyal Magazine" will be well adapted to the undeveloped minds of its constituency. There will be nothing in it to give its readers a headache. But there, it is necessary to drop the subject by saying the same thing that we said at the beginning. The announce ment is too preposterously absurb to be anything more than a newspaper romance. We refuse to believe it, and shall until our friend the market boy comes and tells us what his friend the under-butler, was told by the butler him self that he heard it from no less a per son than Mrs. Gouveneur Vanderlip's own maid that she actually had seen with her own eyes a copy of the ltoyal Magazine lying on a table in the boudoir of her mistress. The Outlook for 3 mos. only 25c. THE HOLLY INN Pinehurst, IN. C mil, . -rkl ;? i-iMjy ism.' M Terms: $3.00 per Day; $12 to $20 per Week. The Holly Inn is one of the most attractive hotels in the South. Since it was built in 1895, it has been necessary to enlarge it each year to meet the constantly increasing demand. The interior is elegant, cheerful and tasteful. No modern con venience is lacking. There are bath rooms, electric lights, steam heat and open fireplaces. There is a call bell in each room, and all beds are furnished with best hair mattresses. An orchestra furnishes fine concerts daily, and also provides for dancing. The cuisine is unsurpassed. The table waitresses are all white girls from the Xorth. Kooms for billiards and other games are provided in the hotel. OXSl MITIVi:S AXNOT UK KECK I YE I. Passengers over the Seaboard Air Line U. It. to Southern Pines will find electric ears waiting to convey them directly to Pinehurst. Address ATWOOD A TREADWAY, Managers, Pinehurst, Moore Co., North Carolina. The Ozone SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. THE DRUMMERS' RESORT. One of the best-known ho. tels on the S. A. L. It. II, (iuests for Pinehurst who arrive on the 4.23 a. m. ex press will llnd a comfort able beil and good break fast while waiting for the i.2l electric car to take them to their destination. Parlor always open and free to Pinehurst visitors. R. M. COUCH, Proprietor and Manager. jt FINE ORNAMENTAL & TREES, SHRUBS, VINES. Hardy in North and South. Prices Moderate. Our stock was carefully examined by the State En tomologist on Aug. 23, 18(J, and was found thoroughly healthy and free from nox ious scale or disease. Ev ery shipment guaranteed. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Pinehurst Nurseries. Heroic Treatment. ljowiare you getting along with that raw &vvede girl you hired?" "Slie is not raw now. My wife's mother has been roasting her three times' a da' ever since she came." Cin cinnati Enfnirer. J. N. LONGEST, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Greensboro, N. C. Contractor for the buildings erected In Pine hurst during the past two years. Francis Deaton, Civil Engineer and Surveyor. Four years county surveyor. Laid out Town of Pinehurst. Land surveying and securing abstracts of title a specialty. dealer in real estate. Southern Pines, North Carolina. Native Wood Souvenirs Canes, Paper-weights, Paper knives, Picture Frames, Jewel Itoxes, etc., on sale at the PINEHURST DEPARTMENT STORE. F. L. HIGHTOWER, Mir., Pinehurst, N. C. Bicycles Are rented at the Cowling Alley. A Wheel Chair Available for rental will be found at the Bowling Alley.
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