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THE PINE KNOT. Fullished Every. Saturday Morning at Mltm Fiiies, Msore Ce. H. C. B, A. GO ODRIDG-E, - Editor. 3 I .OO per Year In Advance. Single Copies 5 cents. Advertising Rates promptly furnished upen application. Job Printing of every description done with neatness and despatch, and en. leasonable terms. , Correspondence on all topics of general interest invited. Write only on one tide of the paper; be brief and to the point. Sign your name and state whether you wish it published or not. Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pines JV. C. as second-class matter. In the office of one of the big clock concerns is the timepiece-by which a na :tive missionary in South Africa preached his sermons. It is a brass bowl with a little hole in the bottom.' The bowl is placed in a gourd of water, and when it fills and sinks the preacher knows that an hour lias elapsed, and if he is wise he concludes his sermon. It is alleged that a wag once plugged this timepiece, and the preacher, seeing it still above water talked on and on until his sermon dragged, on its appalling length over three hours, which caused so much dis satisfaction anion": the congregation that the minister purchassd a nickle-plated $2 watch and, became the marvel and envy of all his townsmen WORDS OF WISDOM. A notable phase of railway industry is a railway tie nursery, situated near the little town of Farlington, Kansas, in the southern part of that; State. It is said to be the largest artificial plantation of forest trees in North America, and is owned by the Southern Pacific. The different sections have been planted,; re spectivelytwo, four, and six years, one fourth being planted with the ailaiithus, the rest wi th the catalpa, together with a few of white ash. Those first planted are now about twenty-five in height, the last about twelve, and some of the taller are seven inches through the stem. There are in all about three million tree, in full vigor, on the plantation; all were planted four feet apart each way, to shade the ground, though eight feet is the ultimate intention, this plan allowing three-fourths of the trec3 to be cut out. When they are fit for fence posts. When rather larger it is expected the trees will make excellent railway ties in great numbers that is, after a thinning-out process there will be some nine hundred thousand trees to come to maturity. The area of this vast raiiwaj' tie nursery is to be still further increased. The good we have received from a man should make us bear with the ill he does US. . ' It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and lose power over a man's self. Bashful ness has as little in common with modesty as impudence has with courage. Anxiety is the poison of life, the sure destroyer of health; parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow; and reap at once, but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. ' Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man's exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought ; but it will always be known. The weak man is he who forms many purposes and drops one after another in the face of difficulties. The strong is he who forms a few. purposes, but, in the face of all opposition carries each one through to successful issues. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be the still, small voh:e that speaks to the conscience and the heart i prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity. Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. When thougoest up into the mountain, leave this servant in the valley ; when thou goest to the city, leave him in the suburbs, and remember the servant must not be greater than the master. It is not necessary or right that all men should enjoy art, nature or music to make them useful or honorable. When wc go a pleasuring at least let us be honest, and not pretend to a liking for white bait, when we hunger for a good meal of wholesome coarse bread and salt herring. Ojieer Things in Persia. A Mr. Neesan lecture 1 in New York not long agoon Persian life. The young ladies of the audience laughed when Mr. Neesan told how the Persian youth was allowed to take one kiss from his future wife on the eve before tlftir marriufe, provided lie could find her in a dark room full i of other ladies. They were silent and sympathetic when he told how, although he was" engaged for three years, he never got one kiss in all that time. Mr. Neesan was forced to confess that the Persian newspapers are rather slow. They are divided into two classes those published evpry week and those published every seventh day and all Persia has just one of each c'ass. Some time after Cleveland was elected Mr, Neesan received a copy of some of these papers. He looked anxiously to see if the election returns had reached the enterprising editor, but the only mention he found of America was its discovery by. one Christopher Columbus, lie doesn't expect to live long enough for the editor to go through the" subsequent Imtorv of America and give his readers some com paratively recent news concerning the United States. Fcur Rich New Yorkers. In a cheap restaurant on Park row four shabbily dressed men seated themselves at different tables and called for "coffee and cakes" price ten cents. The poor est looking of the four is the President of a pie-baking company and owns stocks and real estate representing $5, 000, 000. The second of the quartet is a builder worth at least $2,000,000. He sat next to a peddler of collar buttons, who looked as though a bath would be beneficial. The builder started life as a brick layer. He grumbled at the diminutive propor tion of the cakes. The third individual of note is the proprietor of a large coop erage and has all he can do to spend a fraction of his income. His estate is Valued at a million. At one time he drove a truck. The fourth man in his day owned two gambling houses on Ann street. He is engaged at present in mis sionary work for a confidence establish ment on Broadway near Eighth street. His victims are numerous and his com missions large. His clothes are rusty, but his pockets are always well' filled. As he went out he chatted with the pro prietor and appropriated a cigar without paying for it. It costs the pie man less than $10 .a week to live ; the builder something like twice that sum;thecoop perage man not more than $12; and the ex-gambler nothing at all if he can help it. Mail and Express. An Astonished Governor. Governor Gray was one of the most astonished persons ever seen for a few moments the other afternoon, says the Indianapolis Journal of recent date. Among the sightseers at the new State capitol building were two nicely dressed ladies, who, after meeting the Governor and being shown through with a great deal of courtesy, stopped before one of the beautiful lambrequins, which cost something over 300. and both modestlv r - J requested that they be permitted to cut It A 1 1 1 J 1 - . SOUTHERN PINES HOTEL, f V This line new house is novf open for guests. Comfdrtable quarters! for both invalids and tourists. The rooms are large and commodious. Fire-place in each. . s TERMS: $1150 per day; $6.00 to $8.00 per week. F. A- OR D WAY, Prop'r. & 0 UT1IERX PIXES, 2T. C. iust a small little ; Diece." as ther were making ''such lovely crazy quilts,"' and they wanted so much to have some of that lovely material in them. If women could vote the Governor would surely lose those two when the occasion pre sented itself. After the ladies had some what hastily departed he said in conver sation that it was remarkable what some people would ask for. Only recently he was aked to mail some of the ground of the State House yard tc a man in Illi nois, who stated in'his letter that he had a little dirt from the grounds cf every State House in the Union except Indi ana. He got the dirt. tlHUUf E. R ALEIGH, KM. C. Bates, $2.50 to 83.00 per Day Special Bates by the Week or Month. B. B. KANE Y, Proprietor, Bay View HouSse; F. A. WHITE, Proprietor. I. D. BOND, Clerk. KING ST., EDEN TON, N. C Mild climate, free from malaria. Jf earest Winter Resort to the large rtherfr cities. Less than' one day's travel from New York, Boats and fishing tackle, guides, dogs and guns, can te hired at very low rates. Finest fishing and duck shooting in the United States near by: Pleasant rooms, fronting on Bay, Preserved fcr Northern guests. As a trial, the first week's or month's charges will be spec ally low. For routes of travel and full particulars, address the proprietor, f F. A. WHITE , EdentorvN. C. BRITTON HOUSE, CAMERON, N. C. MOSES BRITTON, Prop'r. v A new brick building, riewly furnished. Unsurpassed accon nidations. Qeneral livery in connection: Also a dally ! ; HACK FROM CAMERON TO CARTHAGE :23t4 v":: ' t - Stop at Barkley's , when you visit Raleigh. Good meals and comfortable rooms. ; $2.00'PBK IXA"5r. S13 FAYETTEVILLE ST.. OPP. POSTOFFICE 24t3G .. t J . ' BBIGGS BUILDING, i RALEIGH, N. C. HARDWARE, Wagon and Buggy Material, Stoves and Tinware, Paints, Oils, Glass, Sash, Door, i Blinds, Lime, Cement, Buil der's Supplies. .; G UNS and P I STOLS. First-class Loaded Shells for breech loading guns, 2 cents each. SP O RT1NG GOODS ! Best Goods, Lowest Prices, Square Dealing. 13t39 SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR Books and Stationery TO ALFRED WILLIAMS & CO-; Booksellers and Stationers, 2 .A. LEIGH, N . O. '.rt30 EDWARD J- HARDIN, No. 210 Fayetteyille St. RALEIGH, N C . Offers at all times a full and, complete stock of Groceries ana Provisions of every description, suited to the wants of a first-class family trade. All gooda thoroughly guaranteed as to quality, and sold at lowest possible prices. 1 FINE '.TEASrANDICOFFEES. 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. Orders for goods by Express v or Freight carefully filled. 6tM E.J.HARDIN. W. 1 WBT1QRB & CO. RALEIGH, N. C. Factory Cor. Harget and Salisbury Sts. MANUFACTURERS OF Hand Sewed Gaiters, BUTTON, CONGRESS AND LACE Made to order, of the best material, at ; . short notice. We also manufacture a full lice of Pegged and STA NDARD SC RE W SHOE S. Our Northern friends at Southern Pines can have their shoes made to order at verv reasonahlo nnVnc v-, 1 will give satisfaction. Prices .for Men's Sewed ShOes, S3.00 to S6.00. LIHE PHOSPHATE Is a North Caxolina Home Made Fertilizer. The rock is mined near Wilmington and ground at Raleigh. It contains over sixty yer cent, of Carbonate of lime (Agricultural Lime) badly needed on every farm and ten or twelve per cent, of Phosphate of Lime (Phosphoric Acid) and a small per cent, of Potash both standard articles; analysis by the State Chemist. It is . . I THE RICHEST MARL UU THE WORLD . Sold for less than half the price of fertilizers made with Sulphuric acid. Write for circulars, how to u. in compost or alone. EVERY FARMER who has given it a trial has sent a larger order. Ask your merchant for itor order direct of the N.C PHOSPHATE COMPANY, 2U33 BALEIGH, N. Ct
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