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VOL. 2. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1888. j NO. 33
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SOUTHERN PINES
REAL, ESTATE AGENCY.
Buys and sells choice and reliable
property, Valuable information for
investors. Correspondence solicited
For Circulars and Price-list address
P. POND,
Southern Pines, N, C.
PROSPECT HOUSE,
Southern Pines, N. C.
First-class and homelike accom
modations. Tables supplied from
the" best Northern markets. OPEN
FIRE-PLACES. SPACIOUS GLASS-
ENCLOSED VERANDAS.
Rates: $2.50 to S3. 00 pn
: m dqjsy Special rates by the
-fh week and month.
Wm.R. Raymond, ."
' Proprietor.
Contractor & Builder,
Southern Pines, N. C.
I am now prepared to take and ex
ecute contracts for building houses and
cottages in the latest styles; None but
competent and thorough workmen em
ployed. Suggestive plans, drawn by
skilled architects, furnished at short
noticefree of charge.
FAY'S
"Water-Proof Building Manilla,
(Established 186G) .
This water-proof material, resembling fine
leather, is used f 01 roofs, outside walls of build
ing-s and inside in place of plaster. Made also
into carpets and rugs. -
S. N. Rockwell, Agent.
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G. N. Walters,
- FASHIONABLE tfERCMfNT TAILOR,
RALEIGH. N.
..Has the largest stock of Foreign
Cloths, Cassirneres, Cheviots, plain
and fancy Silk mixed Suitings, "
Shark skin Suitings in all
" shades. The latest
, . New York styles ;
for full dress
Suits. ' - -
- Dress suits from' $40 to $83.
Business suits $30 to $60.
Samples furnished on application.
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free with each order. Aeents Wanted. BigPay.
THALMAN M F'G CO., BAX.TXMORE. MD,
Small minds are often swamped in
the midst of great opportunities.
They grasp at all, but seize nothing.
We reverse the true order when we
reverence "the money-maker. As his
talent is the lowest of God's gifts, so
he should be servant of all.
Many health resorts advertise to be
"right in the midst of the pines," and
this may mean one of several things:
"...3
either that there is a lonely grove of
pine .trees just on the outskirts of
town, or that by going two or three
miles into the country one may find a
considerable body of pine growth, or,
honestly, that the town is surrounded
and hemmed in closely by forests of
pine. Southern Pines is not only in
the midst of the pines, but the pines
are in the midst of it, and everywhere
through it.
The man who makes newspapers is
apt to get tired of them. Tired m
proportion to the frequency with
which he is obliged to send them forth.
After the first thrill the tendency is
to regard each succeeding issue rather
istlessly, unless there be some espe
cial article which the writer expects
admiring exchanges to quote and com-
mend. But it need not be so. The
printed word as well as the spoken
one, goes far and sinks deep. Small
indeed must be the journal, and feeble
its utterance : that cannot do great
good for its community, if animated
by the right spirit, j
Yes, we live in the "pine barrens"
and this is ' 'mighty" poor land for
those who don't use common sense in
tilling it. It won't produce some
things as well as they can be produced
in the North j it i will produce some
others a. great deal better. It won't
bring forth large crops without manur
ing any more than most of the land
in the North. But treat it generously
and it will give back generously. Yes,
it is "light" soil. That is to say it
doesn't take two yokes' of oxen to
plow i a furrow in it and a man to fol
low behind with a"; sledge, hammer to
beat up taeh separate clod. A boy
ten "years old and a mule, not too old
and feeble to walk can plough all day
long and made no' fuss about it. We
f- - -.
"doHr't . raise enormous quantities of
Irish potatoes he,rey but our sweet po
tatoes (and compared to these Irish
potatoes are but as
. "Moonllg-ht unto sunlight"
Or as water unto wine")
lie so thick in the hill that they. crack-
the ground. tjpen. f Our apples are not
quite equal to those of the North, but
our grapes are incomparably better.
We don't raise quite so many pump
kins down here, but we can raise
plenty of big, fat watermelons and
don't have to wrap them up in flannel
to keep them from freezing to death
before they are-ripe, either. On the
whole it is safe to conclude that this
land is " mighty" poor only when you
try to put it ioi uses" for which it was
never intended.
Weather Report.
May 7 a. rri. 1 p. m. 7 p. m.
1 CG 80 75
2 55 74 CG
3 54 75 08
4 5G 80 72
5 70 83 76
G - G4. 80 72
7 G8 82 70
Clear or partly cloudy every day
With the exception of one day (5th)!
the heat was dry and the air cool and
pleasant in the shade. "
Why Wages Seem Low.
But the widening of the sphere of
one's surrounding, and a larger . ac
quaintance with other men and their
pursuits, have long been recognized
as not productive of content. Writin g
to his nephew a hundred years ago.,
Thomas Jefferson thus concisely ex
pressed the results of his own observa
tion: ''Travelling," he says, "makes
men wiser, out less nappy. When
men of sober age travel they gather
knowledge, but they are, after all,
subject to recollections mixed with
regret; their affections are weakened
by being extended over more objects,
and they learn new habits which can
not be gratified when they return
home." Again, as the former few
and simple requirements of the masses
have become more varied and costly,
the individual effort necessary for the
satisfaction of the latter is not rela
iiveiy less, even unaer tne new
conditions of production, than before,
and in many instances is possibly
greater. Hence notwithstanding the
large advance in recent years in the
average rates of wages, and their in
creased purchasing power, there is no
less complaint than formerly of the
cost of living; when (as M. Leroy
Beaulieu has pointed out in the case
of France) the foundation for the
complaint is for the most part to be
found in the circumstance ' that a to
tally different style of living has been
adopted, and that society makes con
formity with such different style a
standard of family respectability. -Popular
Science Monthly.
A Cake Old Enough to Vote.
, A little over twenty-one years -ago
Albert Watson's grandmother ; down
east, mixed into a yellow spotted mass
flour and sugar and milk and citron
and currants and raisins and eggs and
spices, and baked trie' mass in a hot
oven and placed it; outside the window
to cool. The cake was laid away
quietly then. Thi-ee months later it
was laid away with great ostentation,
as the birthday cake of Albert Watson,
who was born that day. Last week r,
piece of that sam cake, moist and .
appetizing, unnibljfed by the snaggle
tooth of time, was' received by Albert
Watson's, aunt in this. town. Th
cake wa cut up at the celebration oi
; i m ;
it stands as a monument to the ability
of tht? New England women to cook a
good solid, palatable, scrumptious,
old fashioned cake .that will be niv
to eat and pleasaijt to look at when
the new fangled compositions of tlif
French chef have crumbled and
decayed and passed away from ti
memory of man. The cake is twenty
one years old, Albert has a beard,,
and the good old housewife who pro
pared the hardy sweet is long sinc
dead. Chicago Times.
Curious incidents occur in this land,
and one of them is sufficiently' so to
excite interest; - jMrs. - Andrew., who
res five or six miles from town, -
brought recently! to the drug store oi
Mr. Porter a quantity of a certain
metal resembling what is known a-'
' babbitt' ' or pewter,but which , on be i n g
struck with a piece of steel, gave forth a
clear, ringing sound as of silver. Mrs.
Andrews' account of the metal is as fol
lows: One of her sons, during.tho Iatn
cold snap, had cut down a tree rind put
parts of lit on the fire for fuol.
Presently, when the fire had well
burned, this m'etal ; began to poui
from an opening! in the stick of wood,
falling on the hearth in front of -tho
fire. This meta) was gathered up in
the shape it hadltaken on thbvhqartli,
while among the ashes par tudes of
the same metal were found. Th )
quantity was supposed to be several
pounds, and all pronounce it of queer
origin. Greensboro Workman.
We acknowledge the receipt of .a
catalogue of the University for 1887-78,
and congratulate the institution on tho
many evide"nces;of its growth a'nd use- 0
fulness. - Especially noticeable is .tho
increased -activity in literary work.
There is a series of-public, lectures-: bo-.
fore v (he TJ.niveifsity, besides special
lectures before the Scientific Society, ;
the Historical-Society andh4 Semina
ry, of . Literature. The regular courso;
of study offer systematic ell-toundcd
culture, the special courses offer spe-,
cial technical training, the. .-optional -courses
are arranged for those who
cannot stay to graduate, whiielhe va
rious societies stimulate ani. dh'ect
work in all departments. - There is
something here or every youth in
N. C. Total expenses, 870 per annuhi';' ,
poor boys may giye notes; candidates '
for teaching or preaching' and preaf li
ers' sons free. The catalogue shows
203 students. Write. for one-to Presi
dent Battle at Chapel Hill, N. (1
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