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LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAR HEELS, BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED.
VOL. I.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1 886.
NO 5.
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The Pink Knot.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MOUSING AT
Southern Pines, Moore Co,, 1. C. .
B. A. GOODRIDGE, Editor.
three months. " pretty darned late in tarium, Dr. Morrill of Concord, N. H.,
the fall."j ! and others declare that the natural
Catarrh, rheumatism throat and sanitary conditions of Southern Pines
! lung diseases of every kind keep up are more perfect than those of any
! this dance of Death the whole year other place iu the U. S.,
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visited by
your busy physician in the city or Springs of the purest water gush
tot-
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ural tones
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side and in driest
them con-properties.
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" N. C, as second class matter.
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THE REASONABLENESS OF
SOUTHERN PJNES. ,
An address delivered by H. A. Goodridce be
fore the Northern Men's Convention at Raleigh.
where. New York city loses more From February to December flowers
But the
Every place where people gather in
community, build dwellings and r es
tablish homes must have a reason for
its existence. That reason may be
plain to all or it may be far to seek.
Here, it may be1 that a magnificent
harbor and a' confluence of far reach
ing water-ways will determine the
site of a nations metropolis; there, the
swift rush of a mighty stream will
prefigure the future city of whizzing
looms and spindles; and, again, when
' we find groups of human beings dwel
ling iij regions most unpromising, we
may be sure that nature, having de
nied all else, has here bestowed her
treasures of gold and silver. ;
But ships loaded with richest
freight safe in harbor, huge factories
siinning fabric sufficient to clothe the
nation, untold treasures of the mine
cannot bring comfort to their owner if
with all hese he have not the blessing
of health. !
When we Americans get through
our everlasting .hurry, take longer
than ten minutes for dinner, stop run
ning after trains, (by which we get
heart disease more often, than t be
train ) leave off bouncing up stairs
two steps at a time, wear sensible
clot hing cease to act like candidates f or
a lunatic asylum, then it may be I that
every man's home will be his best and
surest health resort. .But the millen
ium is not here, and the malonehoiy
fact remains that our country, espec
ially the northern and middle states,
is full of invalids.
It is perhaps unfair to attribute all
this invalidism to our manner of liv
ing. A fierce and impaleable climate
is responsible for much of it. A -commercial
traveler was asked about; New
England, and replied that it was a
imntry wherej there was nine months
of winter every year, and the other
people from pneumonia than from bloom upon these ridges
any. disease on the list. Consumption crowning glory is the long leaved
is slaying her thousands, catarrh is pines. Towering upward I 00, 70, .80
rendering life a burden to thousands feet, clear of branches until far above
more, and rheumatism is breaking the ground, bearing leaves or spills"
upon the wheel her tortured victims, often 16 inches in length, it is a strik
even in lands flowing with "streams ing figure in our landscape. But the
of St. Jacobs Oil. poetical aspect of these trees is not
Well, what's the remedy! Shall I the one in which we are most inter
stay here and die, or shall I flee to ested. We are here for health, and to
some more favored land? the business the long leaved pine must we look for
man in the North asks himself . His those active healing properties which,
doctor has shaken his- head over him co-operating with a perfectly drained
three times and he knows that it is a soil, ant i- malarious air and the purest
matter otj lite and death, lie must go. Gf water, effect those wonderful cures
that is settled. But to what point? for which many people must thank
Florida or Southern California? He God until the latest day of life.
groans at the thought of either place, Everywhere the healing virtues of
for they are far, very far, from his be- the pine are known and recognized
loved Northern home. To make such but all authorities agree; that the cur-.
a pilgrimage means a breaking up of ative properties of the long leaf pine
home ties, a wearisome journey, and are far superior to those of the white.
perhaps years of exile from all that he Generation of ozone, the great disin
holds dear. Then, too, if the point f octant gas, is much greater here than
aimed at is Florida which, as Charles n white pine countries. Its presence
pine knots upon the broad hearth.
You are enveloped, saturated, steeped
in pine. The consequence is that you
forget all about that pet cough in a
week or two. You eat all you can
get. You lose your languor and lack
! T m a i
or mteresi. lne laxes on a new
aspect. In fact you are a new man.
Possibly some of you who listen to
me may say, "This man speaks con
fidently, but where are his proofs!
We are Yankees, and we won't believe
that story of George Washington un-
ess we. see the hatchet. Well, I'm a. i
Yankee too. Born in N. H.. wore
pinafores in Mass. jacket ariJ red-
top boots in Maine, ,fell in love once
in Vt., (got out all right that time)
tried to live in Rhode Island but f ound
there wasn't room enough and so
took to an island off the coast, and
passed through Conn., on my way to
Dudley Warner says, will be a good
state when they get it finished, there
is a grave doubt as to the beneficial
is the best evidence of atmospheric
purity.
Kemember now that you are' at
N. C, I know my audience, there
fore, and shall proceed to show proofs
of all that I have hitherto claimed.
The parties whose names I tshall
mention are either now livincr at
Southern Pines, or their addresses can
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be furnished if correspondence is' de
sired. ' I will not ask your indulgence
for statements personal to myself
and family. I aim to give facts about
Southern Pines, and ' I cannot reach
that end more directly than by relat
ing some personal experience.
In April 1883 I came to Southern
Pines from Mass. In August of the
same year Mrs. Goodridge arrived.
A disease of the lungs had fastened
upon her and fcr more than a year
she had scarcely drawn a breath free
from pain. r Physicians said she could
eueci or us enmare upon consump- Southern Pines, and, standing up
lives. Of the many that go there, straight with shoulders well thrown
fe return except to die. But I am back, take such a breath as you have
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noi nere 10 uuuti up .onn Carolina not taken for years. Inhale the rich
by trying to tear down Florida or any aroma of the pine, let it tingle through
oiner oouinern siaie. it is not neces- l
- j vwi. j uui rjjk iaiL suti t cu
sary. Morover, you may think that iullgs. Don't you feel better already!
from the North to Southern Pines, N. Certainlv vou do. ' You walked half a
C., via Southern California and Flori- mile to-day. That was pretty well for j
day is not the most direct route. you, but tomorrow you will walk a
But don't be impatient for here we mile, and before; you've been here six!
are at last. We are 68 miles south- weeks youM1 walk ten at a stretch and j
west from Raleigh, in the heart of the not brag of it either.
" ttinov " woods. GOO feet ahnvo th. ti . I .
t - ---- ii.nierprising manuiacturers in tne.
sea level. Here a town of about 800 North have mad a succiss 6cII. j ot
acres has been laid out on the top of a
huge sand ridge. This ridge slopes
away in all directions, with beautiful
undulations here and there which give
a pleasing variety to the landscape.
This sand is of great depth and acts
Water dis-
soon as it strikes the
ground, mud is a thing unknown and
as a perfect natural filter.
appears as
ing mattrasses filled with jine I leaves.
Here, not only the bed you sleep on
may be of pine, but the house you
dwell in, the chairs you sit upon, the
r
not survive another winter in New
England. She began to improve at
once and in three months her lung
disease was practically cured. She is
not a strong woman, never was, and
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it is not probable that she ever will be
But I know that Southern Pines has
saved her life and that her health is
better now than ever before. I speak
of her case first as she is a lady in
whom I've taken more; or less interest
Dr. G. H. Saddleson came to this
! place in 1881. That was before South
! era Pines was known or even thought
; of and it is very largely due ho his
table from which you eat, all are of;
! sagacity in perceiving the remarkable
pine. Day and night you must breathe i
its life giving odor. The morning fire ';
is kindled with it. The fresh morning
air brings its fragerance to you from ' .
advantages of the place for a health
resort that the enterprise was under
taken and carried on. The Doctor
received such marked benefit himself
there are no standing pookto breed the forest at noon the hot sun draws . ry severe case of pulmonarj'
disease.
Eminent
j ' that fragrance forth and multiplies it
physicians, such as Dj. A. ! a hundred fold; at night, if it is cool,
W. Bell, editor of the N. Y. Sni- you draw up beside a blazing fire of '
' disease, that he wrote and talked on
j the subject until the matter drew the
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