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THE PINE KNOT. Published Etery Saturday Morning at Sonltan FLies, Hsere Co., H. C. A. GO ODRIDGrE, - Editor. TERMSi S 1 .00 per Year in Advance , Single Copies 5 cents. ; . 1 : ' Advertising Rates promptly furnished upon application, i Job Printing df every description done with neatness and despatch, and on icasonable terms. Correspondence on all ucpics of general interest invited. "Write only on one fcide of the paper; be brief and to the point. Sign your name and state "whether you wish it published or not. Entered at the Postoffce at Southern Pine N. C. as second-class matter. Two wealthy Mexicans fought a strange duel at Tampico recently. They shut themselves up together in a dark room in which 100 poisonous tarantulas had been let loose. Instead of killing the tarantu las, the tarantulas killed them. The decline and fall of the Saddle Rock oyster are thrillingly described by New York Fish Commissioner Blackford. The Saddle Bock bed was once famous and its product was a most toothsome luxury. Now it is in such a condition that it produces few oysters, but an un limited crop of "roller skates, bottles, ashes, pasteboard and refuse." Yet there is probably not a .New York restaurant where, in tha raster season, Saddle Rocks cannot be obtained by paying a large enough price. A sensible correspondent from Europe advises American parents to educate their children in their native land. He says : ' 'There are here in Europe multi- tudes of American children who can t speak French and German ; better than their own language. I . met the other evening a family from Ohio, and I found the son, a boy twelve years of age, read ing Cooper's hovels and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in German. 'I understand them better in German than in English,' he re marked, with a strong foreign accent. The parents spoke of the fact with evi dent satisfaction. Another American - family, in which are five daughters, who have made a great success in science, medicine, painting and music, employ German or French in their home circle and cannot pronounce an r English' sen tence without making a blunder of some -vkind." . ; '..H'-'-U--. . . , -n.-. The foreign trade of the United States for the last fiscal year was larger than that for the year before in all directions. In other words, we exported more do mestic merchandise (exports of foreign merchandize were but slightly less than before) arid imported more foreign mer chandize. - Including the figure's repre senting the movement of coin, it is found that the totals of imports and exports, merchandise and money, balance within $?40,000, the excess being on the side of the imports. The merchandise account alone shows that we sent abroad products, goods and w:ares valued at 24, 000, 000 more than the imported articles. An an alysis of the export accounthows that about 75 per cent, was agricultural pro ducts, including dairy manufactures, and 20 per cent, manufactured articles, in cluding refined petroleum. A revjew of the import account shows that nearly half the increase of the total is due to a large importation of undutiable goods, principally coffee, tea and raw materials. Steel and iron, an'various forms, contrib uted the most to the increase cf dutiable Bishop "William Taylor has established in Africa a new line of missions extend ing seventy miles from the coast on the Cavalla river. They are seventeen in number, and the principal ones are at Euiiloky, Yawki, Beaboo, Tobo Tatepa, Gerrobo, Wamleka, Fahleky, Baraka, Garaway, and Grand Sess. White men and women are preferred by the natives as teachers in preference to natives.. He has negotiated with the inland kings and chiefs for the establishment, of in dustrial schools and missions along the banks of this river,: and calls for workers to aid him. To each missionary and his wife a good sized dwelling, ground, and agricultural implements will be given. The missionaries have been well received, and many requests for. missions have been set aside for want of workers. Some features of Western land im provement were explained to a New York Tribune reporter in a brief talk by John "W. Bookwalter. He has been de tained from a contemplated foreign trip 1 by the rapid growth of country about his large farm in Nebraska, through-which the railroads are pushing their way. He has cut up his land into farms of 160 acres each, and has leased 125 of these farms on long term leases. The leaseholds vary in price according to location. The farms near the railroads ' are, of course, more valuable than those I rkY- r4- -firti- linn r Tro nci'iArf o ti An The rentals average about $200 per year for each farm. "This is much better," said Mr. Bookwalter, "than farming on a large" scale, for several reasons. In the first place, it develops the country and makes the property more valuable. In the next place it makes , each farmer an eventual settler, who will want to buy the farm that he has been improving and making valuable. Then it is more remunerative." Raising Telegraph Poles. "It looks easy enough," said a super intendent of the construction depart ment of a telephone company, the other day to a New York Commercial Adver tiser reporter, "to put up one of those sticks, but it isn't so simple as it looks, by any manner of means. One of the first things we meet when we start out is the public spirited citizen. He don't Want to have a pole in front-of his house, and he generally declares he won't have. We don't argue with such men, we sim ply get around bright and early in the morning, and when Mr. Man gets up he 'sees a pole towering up some eighty feet in the air. "When we get ready to sink a pole we drop what we call a sheer pole and hold it in pace by four guy ropes. On the top of this pole is a block and tackle. The rope is then made fast to the centre of the big pole on the ground, and the horse to which the other end is attached starts upThe pole rises in the air,, and whentrTgets up a certain height half a . dozen of our men take hold of . the butt end and sink it into the hole. It takes about twenty men and a horse to put up one of these monstnrs, and we can put up from eight to ten per day in the city. Trr the country, where we erect poles all the way from forty to j fifty feet, we can raise anywhere from fifty to seventy-five per day. As to the pay of these men, some get $30 per month and', board, and the more expert climbers $10 per month and board. The hangiug of the wire is quite a trick. The horse does his share in stringing the. wire also. "We attach, the copper wire to a rope and then throw the rope over a dozen poles. The horse is at the last pole,' and when he starts up the wire is drawn just as tight as can be. The whole business is now right down to a science, even to gripping the poles and stringing the wires. He "Busted" Up. Jessie "Oh, by the way, Uncle, how's cousin John eretting alonjj here in New i York ? He came down to the city to make his Way in the world by his w its, vou Know." i Uncle George ' 4 Yes. Well the last I j knew of him he had busted up for want of capital." lexis brfiings. Parents sometimes need instruction as much as the children need education. BRITTON HOUSE, CAMERON, N. C. MOSES BRITTON, Prop'r. :::o:::- A new briefc btrildinjr, newly furnished. Unsurpassed accon modations. General livery in connection. Also a dally HACK FROM CAMERGNT8 CARTHAGE 23t4 ; YiBDBOEH DDDSC RALEIGH, N.C. Bates, $250 to $3.00 per Day Special Kates by the Week I or Month. K. 13. KANE Y, Proprietor. THUS H MES&SBIS i BBIGGS BUILDING, RALEIGH, N. C. Wagon and Buggy Material, Stoves and Tinware. Paints, Oils, Glass, Sash, Doors, T 9 i B linds, Lime, Cement, Builder's Supplies. GUNS and PISTOLS. First-class Loaded Shells for breech loading guns, 2 cents each j SPORTING GOODS Best Goods, Lowest Prices, Square Dealing. 13t39 ' THE II031E DOCTOR. i Beds and Bed Cloth in sr. The covering of a bed ought to be. light as well as warm. Woolen blankets ; are far more healthful than are icavy comforters which admit of no ventila tion, but instead,, absorb and retain the exhalation from the body. -Beds and bed clothing should be aired frequently. Many housewives consider the ailing of the sleeping room all-sufficient, but this is a mistake. Xot only should matt: esses be turned and aired at least three imes each -week, but pillows and bolsters ought to be bedten, shaken and ex osed to the sun every two or three days. If beds and their furnishings are not care fully cared for the bedding soon comes to have a stuffy, disagreeable odorJ and that odor means sleepless nights, for perfect rest is gained only in a bed that is iresh and clean. Treatment of Insect Stints. i he sting otMDsects, such as ghats, mosquitoes, etc., savs Je I'h.ariuhcien lovuiairc. arc otten rsamiul. in such a case apply spirit of hartshorn or volatile alkali to the part. Spider bites are not only painful, but often venomous, an-d it is necessary to wash them with salt waiter or diluted" vinegar. The sting off the bee is harmful only when the stinjj re mains sticking in the wound. So the first thing to be done is to press the wound in order to make it bleed, since the blood that flows will carrv along a portion of the poison. Then suck wound and wash it well with water. the land then with a solution of knos powder. ihis latter, which is much used in I land, consists of three parts of c ride of lime to' eight of common salt. An ounce of this powder is to be sclred in a tumbler of water. If lis- hi.3 compos! tlo'h is hot to be had, Goulard's extract may be -used. For the sting of the scorpion, volatile alkali shouk: be an used, and alter1 the pam subside emollient cataplasm may be applied. SENI YOUR ORDERS FOR Books and Stationery TO ALFRED WILLIAMS & CO., Booksellers and Stationers, BALEIGH,N.a '.30 '. EDWARD J. HARDIN, No. 210 Fayetteville St. RA LEIGH, N- C. Offers at all timet a full and complete stock of Rrnroripc anil PrnvicinnQ Wl uuui tuu UUU ti VI IWivUU of every description, suited to the wants of afirst-class family trade. All goods thoroughly guaranteed as to quality, and sold at lowest possible prices. :FINE LTEASZANDICOFrEES. Flour, Sugars, 3Ieats, 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 or Freight carefully filled. 6t34 E. J. HARDIN. W. I. WETM01E & CO. RALEIGH, N. C. Factory Cor. Karsret and Salisburv Sts. MAUFACTUREKS OF Hand Sewed Gaiters, BUTTON, CONGRESS AND LACE. Made to order, of the best material, at short notice. "We also manufacture a full line of Pegged 'and STANDARD SCREW SHOES. Our Northern friends ' at Southern Pines can have their shotsmadc toorder at very reasonable prices. Every pair will give satisfaction. Prices for Men's Scwed'shOes, , S3.CQ to S6.00. LIME PHOSPHATE 13 a Nor(h Caiolina Homo Made Fertilizer. The rock is mired near Wilmington and ground at lialeigh. It contains over sixty yer cent, of Carbonate of lime (Agricultural Lime) badJy needed on every farm and ten or twelve percent, of' Phosphate of Lime (Phosphoric Acid) and a small per cent, of Potash both standard articles; -analysis by the Stale Chemist. It is 4 THE filCHEST MARL IN THE WOBID Sold for less than half the price of fertilizers made with Sulj huric acid. Wcite for circulars, Low to use in compost or alone. EVERY FAR IVIER who has given it a trial' has sent a larger brder. Ask your merchant for itor order direct of the N. C PHOSPHATE COMPANY, 21t33 EALEIGH, K. C, .
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