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Tee Kmdt. , !:... . -' LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAR HEELS, BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED. i . '' : - -;-r;y;.; JLjL-di . . . J.L, : . !- VOL. I. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1887. NO., 16. The Pine Knot! : PUBLISHED KVKRT SATURDAY MORNING AT Southern Pines, Moore Co,, I. C, ,' I ' B. A. GOODRIDGE, Editor. . TERMS-1 1 .OO Per Year in Advance. Single Copies 5 Cents. IVAdvektisino Rates promptly furnished upon application. .: t2BT"Jo Printing of every description done with neatness and despatch, and on reasonable terms. ' -' j tJTCoRREfiPONDENCC on all topics of gen eral interest invited. Write only on one side of the paper; be brief and to the point. i Sign 'our name and state whether you wish it published or not, i The, success of the new Mutruiine is ; phenomenal. Scribner'B we strike the hard snow ahead, then Does the slowly bite our way through the same secret lie in the fact of its lower price and the blessed relief from "War ; Ar ticles7 in its columns? We hope the wonderful popularity HOW THE THISTLE TRAVELS. There is no weed weedier or more ubiquitous than the common thistle. Cntered at the Posfoffice at Southern Pines, K. C, as second class matter. I on toward the North Pole; The tops of the fences and walls mark the prob able boundaries of farms in summer, j n Paradise, it is true, if we may trust and how forcibly comes to my mind ! Jnn Milton and the Sunday school the words of the Sage of Walden Pond: books wise, as usual, beyond what is "Frost and snow make all New Eng- written there were no thorns or this- of Mr H. W Grady will not prove too land common property and obliterate tles tne creation and introduction of much for his mental equipoise. The ; a boundaries to ownersnip '. Here u unce inno- and there farm' houses with gable ends j cent and thornless earth being a di and now and then an old fashioned j rect consequence of the fall of man, "lean-to" nestle in some sheltered and tern retribution for Adam's de- equipoise pictures of him ' that the newspapers are publishing will, no doubt, keep him humble. BRANSON HOUSE, RALEIGH, N. C. Central location. Good board by the Day Week or Month. 1 ;4f3pecial terms to Northern Prospectors and Tourist.' Kept by j Mrs. L. BRANSON, Now that the concentrated wisdom of North Carolina is to be found at Raleigh, we, who remain at home must nook, covered up to the window sills with snow. No signs of life about the barns or out-buildings now. As we cross a highway you would say "dirt road", but' you would find no linquency. But since then the thistle has managed so to diffuse itself over the habitable globe that there hardly now remains a spot on earth without its own local representative of tha$ back into barbarism. Edward sJ. ardii, So. 210 Fayetteville St. ' RALEIGH, N, C. Offers at all times a full and coin plete stock of J Groceries & Provisions of every description, suited to the wants of a first class family trade. All goods thoroughly guaranteed as to quality, anrt sold at lowest possible prices. , j ' Fine Teas and Coffees, ! Flour, Sugars, Meats, Choice Butter, Preserves and Jellies, Pickles, Sauces, Spices, Soaps and Starches, Canned foods and everything else in the way of table supplies. i Orders for goods by Express or Freight carefully filled. Mr. Dodge's letter just below gives a very vivid description of winter travelling in cold New England. ! But such cold as he experienced is rare ev en in that section. The winter seems i I i-f V ra r-r 1 v cnn -a minor rlwUa i ever intrusive and conouerinfir eenus. make the best use possible of our few j stamping his Wherever civilized man goes, there i and feeble wits to . keep the outlying eet an(J thrashing his arms to keep the thistle accompanies him as a mat portions of the State from sinking his blood in circulation. ter of course, in his various wander ings. It adapts itself to all earthly environments. Close up to the Arctic Circle you find it defying the indige nous reindeer with its prickly wings; under an equatorial sky you may ob serve it accomodating itself most com- I placently, with a sardonic smile, to j tropical existence, and battling with j the prickly cactuses and the thorny At last we arrive in Bangor, to find more and deeper .snow piled fence high and covering everything from house top to telegraph wires, the latter being as big as cart ropes in their winter covering, through which they flash the frozen truths. I find the whole bay frozen solid from shore to shore, to be unusually severe both North . holding in its icy grip,' as in a vise and South the vessels dismantled for the winter, j acacias, to me manner born, ror its I ask a bear-robed pedestrian if he has j fair share of the dry and arid uplands. St34 E. J. HARDIN. WHERE MERCURY HIDES. Bangor, Me. , Jan. 5th, 1887. Dear Pine Knot: Pile on the pitch pine knots and pile them high, and I will give you something in the way of contrast in climate that will almost make you rub your ears and turn up your coat collar. Thermometer 40 below 0 and going lower if there's room in the glass, with out splicing. -As I left Boston yester day: on the "Flyingr Yankee" for this Arctic region the windows were cov ered with a thick coating of frost ; the porter was sitting on the safety valve of tlie steam heater to keep steam high enough to prevent pipes from freezing, W, H. WETMORE &Co. RALEIGH, N.C., Factory Cor. Harget&Sallsbury Sts. ;, - . - .4 " . ' - - - ' i . . Manufacturers of Hand Sowed Gaiters, Button, " . Congress and Lace Made to order, of the best material, at short notice, j We also manufacture a full line of Pegged and Standard Screw Shoes ! and fur -coats, caps, ear-pads and j tbank yur stars you don't have to sit gloves enveloped most of the passsen gers. I ventured on to the platform, and my eye fell upon one unbroken mantle of as beautiful snow as ever poet sang about. The platform is covered with ice and snow, and every now and then we pass between high drifts of snow, in walls higher than the car top. As we stop for water at Portsmouth, N. H., I wade through snow knee 'deejJ to see how fares our motive power. At first I find only a cloud of hissing vapor, which peering throug, I see encases our iron horse. Our engineer is busy looking over his engine, with beard one long icicle, while the fireman could better be called an iceman, so enveloped in j snow and ashes is his clothing. In ; front of the engine Is a huge mass of j more snow, wnicn tne irain men are i rven neiues are nownere in compe tion -with it; in spite of its valuable and irrittaing sting, the nettle has not the plasticity and adaptabiliy of con stitution that mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe. Garnered and harvested yearly with the farmer's corn, its seeds have been gratuitously distributed by its enemy, man, in all climates; and, when once it gains the slightest foothold, its winged down en ables it to diffuse itself ad infinitum through the virgin soil of yet un conquered and unthistly continents. A field of thisles in England itself is a beautiful sight for the enthusiastic botanist (who has usually a, low opin ion of the agricultural interest), but in the fresh and fallow earth of New Zealand they attain a yet more pro digious and portentous stature, that might well strike awe and dismay into the stout heart of a Berkshire farmer. There should be but one sentiment The fact is, the thistle is one' of among North Carolina democrats in those bellicose plants which specially regard to the matter of county gov- j UY themselves out, in the struggle ernment. It is of importance to the j for existence, for the occupation of whole State It is of vital importance j soils where they are compelled to de to the east and the east has its due ; fend their leaves and stems from , the constant attacks of the larger herbi- had it colder this year. "Oh, yes! Yesterday was 46 be low 0.. It is moderating fast and we shall soon have more snow." Well, I suppose it is colder than this up in Greenland, and so, relatively, Bangor is warm. Don't I wish I were witn iyou to-day, r waiKing about on the warm, dry sand, among the grand old long leaf pines, down by the lake. I can see now Brother Raymond's cheerful fire. But I must stop or else I shall get real homesick and come straight back to your sunny clime, and then perhaps I should bring cold weather again, as they said I did the last time I was in Yancey county." ( Now pile on the pine wood and witn me on a from freezing. steam heater to keep L. A. Dodge. proportion of tax payers. If the prop- pair will give satisfaction. Prices for Men's Sewed Shoes, S3.00 to $6.00 j erty holding classes of the east are res. vn open piains anu wiae made to yield place in the manage- ' steppes, much browsed over in the wild raent of their local affairs to those 'j stat h)' der or buffalo, and in the who will make ducks and drakes of degenerate civilized condition by more their means, they will be deprived, at 1 .prosaic cows and donkeys, one may the same time, of the ability to pay 1 always te that only the prickliest taxes in any considerable measure. a,ld moA defensive plant have;any The whole State is therefore interested ! chance of gaining a livelihood. Pop- in the maintenance of the status quo. j uwr onmiy A part cannot be injured without the j I busy digging down through to find the ) effects ? the injury being felt by the It is estimated that upwards of $12,- wnoie, anu a cuange at iuis iiiuc, ii is uvai,wai oi wueai was receivru iu v.ui admitted even by those who seek ; cago last year, but. 114,810,000 repre a repeal for certain counties, would be ' sents its tobacco trade; G,000,000 a serious blow to the people of the , represents the cigar traffic alone. A Vrvf Viom friend at Southern Pines can have their shoes made to j snow plow. The warning bell tells me order at very reasonable prices. Every that we are about to start, and I hur- ry again to my car. We back quite a distance, ; then go ahead, then come almost to a stop, with a sudden jar, as 1 east. Raleigh Netci and Observer. wretched, waste and worse!
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