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VOL. I.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1887.
NO., 16.
The Pine Knot!
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PUBLISHED KVKRT SATURDAY MORNING AT
Southern Pines, Moore Co,, I. C, ,' I
' B. A. GOODRIDGE, Editor. .
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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.
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Manufacturers of
Hand Sowed Gaiters,
Button,
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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!