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VOL. 2.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1888.
NO. 36
SOUTHERN PINES
REAt ESTATE AGENCY.
Tinvs and saIIq rlimp anrl rolio'hla I
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 $3.00 pet
day. Special rates by he
week and month.
1. Wm.H. Raymond,
Proprietor.
2551 . ,
Contractor & Builder,
Southern Pines, N. C.
P 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
notice, free of charge
FAY'S
Water-Proof. Building Manilla.
(Established 1866)
TViia w!itf.r.iimnf material- rpsemhlinor fine
leather, is used f 01 roofs, outside wails of buUd-
lugs auu UWW ill yitn-i; ui piaonci iw
into carpets and rujrs. s
S. N. Rockwell. Agent.
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G.N. Walters,
FfiStyONABLE MEFiOftfN T TfilLVR,
RALEIGH. N. C.
Has the largest stocl of Foreign
Cloths, Cassimeres, 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 $85.
.DUbmebb bUitb cpov tu cnuu. iieioas fruits wild in the greatest
Samples furnished on application, j abundance, and cultivated ones re
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- ! spond generously to the slightest care!
Rubber Stamp invJncV.lBm fat is more expensive than but-
5 VisiUng Cards and INDIA INK to mark Lm- I j i -rve:.
mi. only 2.0 cts. (stamps.) Booit of 2COO styles ter and bacon itself is more expensive
thalman. mV'G co, baltimoriS m
We are glad to be able to contra
dict the doleful prophecy contained
in our Washington letter concerning
(rfr. Shpri dan's dpath. At latest at-
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counts the general was not dead, but
rather improving. We hope the news
will continue to be favorable. .
Not long since a man boarded the ;
train at a small station on our railroad,
He had a small keg of whiskey in a j
gnnny sack wnich he took with him
into the passenger coach. The sharp
eyed young conductor very properly
and promptly odered him to take it
out and have it billed as freight. He
objected with some round oaths, but
finally had to submit and the evil
smelling keg was unceremoniously
dumped out onto the platform of the
station. The passenger really had no
more weight with him than is often
carried as baggage,, and if it had been
a sack of almost anything else of
equal weight probably , no objection
would have been made, but this stuff
was so evidently villainous and unfit
for decent company; ; that nobody
doubted the authority of the conductor
to have it put out. j
It is a favorite saying of a friend of
ours that "the Lord sends the food,
and it is good and wholesome, but the
devil sends the cooks." These emis-
garies of gatfm are ofteh- as innocent
- ... . . ...
of any evil intent as it is possible to
imagine, but they work the works of
their master, as is evidenced by the
dyspeptic victims of their diabolic arts;
m, . . y
Their weapons are various. In some
i
sections it is the nightmare-producing
mmce piej in otners the bullet-proof
pound cake ; here in the South it is the
frying pan that tortures its countless
victims with "misery
ach. A gentlem an ,
? in the stom
native to this
state, and well Known tnrougnout its
length and breadth, once remarked to
us that he would like to travel through
this section, equipped with a lecture
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CUUUCU A. lit? -L I y JL ullj 1110 VjUiSC
of the South." He thought he could
do more good in that way than in any
other. Along with the frying pan go
the abominations that are put into it.
chief of which is bacon. Strange, isn't
it, that such an indigestible, heat pro-
uueuiiT iuuu siiouiu ue useu 111 a warm
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country where the severities of winter
are almost unknown, and where de-
s than goodbeef, without taking account
of the doctor's bill and the patent niecU
icine vendor's profit, which are princi
pally paid by those who make bacon
the staple of their living. Aside from
this the continued absorption of bacon
fat tends to destroy the taste for deli
cate flavors. Those who eat it seldom
care for much of anything else. The
moral is: Don't fry anything that can
possibly be cooked any other way;
leave the grease out of nine-tenths of
the articles of food it is used in nowj
don't spoil good beef by cooking the
life all out of it; eat fruits in prefer
ence to everything else; in short, live
the life nature intends you to and eat
what she intends you should.
Inside of a Japanese House.
While the banto was gone to pre
pare other things for us to look at the
hostess invited us to walk over the
house. We were shown the proper
cha-no-ma; the family altar, with its
image of Buddha in a heavily gilt
shrine, and the brass incense burner,
flower vase and stork candlestick, and
the various living rooms of the family.
They were all scrupulously clean, the
fresh looking yellow mats giving a
cool effect that was most pleasing at
this season , although highly sugges
tive t cold- anddiscomf ortrin winter,
for any means of producing artificial
heat were entirely wanting, if -I ex
cept the hibachi or brazier, . over
which the people cower when they are
cold. Habit stands them instead of
furnaces, stoves and fireplaces.-
The feature of all these rooms
which struck us most forcibly was the
absence of furniture and ornaments,
The woodwork of the walls, sliding
lscreens that serve for doors and win-
dows, ceilings and staircases, were
. . . . , ,
very elaborately carved, and evidently
cost much money. but excepting a
kake-mono in one or two, or a bit of
bronze, the rooms contained nothing.
One felt constantly as if inspecting a
new house, and disposed to say:
"How comfortable this will be when
the furniture, pictures and hangings
are brought in!" Yet the family is a
: very rich one, and possesses treasures
I of crt that made us almost green with
! envy.-PromorV. K. Goodrich in TJ
Losmopouian.
An Automatic Medicine
Dispenser.
An American manufacturer of sugar
coated pills added to the attractions of
an exhibit of his product in London
I an ingenious piece of mechanism,
which might have been intended to
. ; t, i . u
: jt was in the form of a cabinet pro-
vided with a series of knobs or buttons,
each inscribed with the name of some
malady for which a remedy might be
asked. The customer puts a coin into
a slit and presses the button calling
for the remedy he requires, when im
mediately a drawer flies out containing
; the article sought This antomatic
dispenser of course makes no mistakes.
If the customeraccidentally presses the
wrong button, he alone is responsible
for the error. Is this really what we
are coming to? Scientific American.
Value of Eggs as Food.
No honest appetite ever rejected au
egg in some guise. It is nutriment in
the most portable form and in the
most concentrated shape. Whole na
tions of mankind rarely touch any
other animal food. Kings eat them
plain as readily as do the humble
tradesmen. After the battle of Muhl
dorf, when Kaiser Ludwig sat at a
meal with his burggrafs and great
captains, he determined on a piece of
luxury 'one egg to every . man and
two to the excellently; valiant Schwep
perman." Far more than fish for i t
is a watery diet eggs are the schol
ar's fare. They contain phosphorus,
which is brain food, and sulphur,
which performs a variety of functions
in economy. And they are the best
nutiiment for children, for in a com
pact form they contain everything
that is necessary to the growth of the
youthful frame.
Eggs are, however, not only food
they are medicme also. The white is
the most efficacious of remedies for
burns, and the oil extracted from the
yolk is regarded by the Russians as
as an; almost miraculous salve for cuts,
bruises and scratches. A raw egg, if
swallowed in time, will effectually de
tach a fish bone fastened in the throat,
and the whites of eggs will render the
deadly corrosive sublimate as haim
less as a dose of calomel. They
strengthen the consumptive, invigorate
the feeble and render the most sus
ceptible all but proof against jaundice
in its most malignant phase. Eastern
Farmer.
The Princess of Brazil.
The credit of having struck the .last
blow at the shackles of the slaves in
Brazil belongs to a woman. The
Princess Isabella has been at the head
of the government as the princess re
gent for a year past, during the illness
of her father, the Emperor Dom
Pedro, and she has devoted her
energies to hastening the rather slow
work of emancipation begun by the
Emperor. She summarily dismissed
one ministry that was not in sympathy
with her views on this question, and
she called to her aid a council a month
ago, all of whom were pledged to the
immediate freeing of the slaves of the
empire. Through the influence thu
obtained she was able to get the neces
sary sanction from the legislative
branch, and the great work mapped
out by her father is carried into ex
ecution by the daughter, who will
succeed the invalid Emperor on the
throne. All honor to the Princess
Isabella! Boston Herald.
Gold is being' constantly discovered
in Wales. Doubtless Patti has drop
ped some loose change from her
pockets as ahe passed to and from her
t Craig-y-Nos castle. Ex.
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