LIGHTED FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF TAB HEELS, BOTH NATIVE AND ADOPTED.
VOL. 2.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1888.
NO. 37
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 $3.00 pet
day. Special rates by the
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
notice, free of charge.
FAY'S
Water-Proof Building
Manilla.
(Established 1866)
This. w&ter-Droof material, resembling fine
if nthpr. is nsnd f oi roofs, outside walls of build
ines and inside in place of plaster. Made also
into carpets and rugs. .. .
S. N. Rockwell. Agent
45t7l
G. N. Walters, -
FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILOR, '
RALEIGH. N. C.
Has the largest stock 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
Business suits $30 to $60
Samples furnished on application.
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Rubber Stamp
23 Yisiting Cards and INDIA INK to inark Lin
en, only 23 cts. (stamps.) Book of 2000 styles
free with each order. Agents wanted. Big Pay.
THALMAN M'F'G CO., BALTIMORE. MD,
A Brief Respite.
There will .be an interval of two
weeks, possibly three, before the next
issue of the Pine Knot. The editor
will be absent in Boston and New
York during that time and feels sure
that this brief respite will be grateful
o his constituents as well as to him-
self. Since the paper started the
editor has not followed the almost
universal custom of this section, to
ake holiday vacations. He does not
now take a vacation, but simply omits
for the present two or three issues
which will be made up to subscribers
at the end of the year. Nothing will
be lost, and perhaps much may be
gained by this temporary cessation of
the usual routine. Both editor and
readers will perhaps have a heartier
appreciation of each other when they
get face to face once more. Not that
he editor expects to be seriously
missed, for in these- newspaper-pestered
times one journal the less is
hardly noted but he thinks it proba
ble that future issues of the paper
may be made more valuable, and the
interests of all better served, by this
brief recess.
Americanism is getting many able
advocates land exciting much interest.
The weekly America, of Chicago, is
doing a great work in that direction.
Some of its facts, figures and deduc
tions are startling and deserve careful
attention.
Some newspaper man, a lover of his
kind, uttered a vigorous protest
against punning on the name of Judge
Fowle, the Democratic nominee for
governor. But it did no good. . Hard
ly was the result of the convention
made public before the air was full of
sickly puns. If Fowle is elected we
hope he will make a recommendation
to the Legislature to pass laws for the
suppression of bad puns. The hawk
ing of them ought to be a peniten
tiary offence.
We suppose one reason why we lost
the election last Monday was over
confidence in the strength of the
temperance sentiment in our midst.
The no-license vote started off so wel
that it seemed as if temperance and
decency must carry the day. But by
a free use of liquor at the polls enough
men were bereft of reason and sense
to vote the rum devil into power for
another year, but his day is short.
Evil shall not prevail, and we look
with confidence to the righting of this
great wrong a year from this time.
Meanwhile we take comfort in the
nought that though whiskey is sold
in th township it is not sold in our
own. Let us see to it that this curse
is kept from our midst.
We are glad to state in justice to the
good j people of Manly that the white
vote within a radius of three miles
from town' was four to one in favor of
no license and that the best' element
of the colored people was for no license.
The same can be truthfully said of
Winder and vicinity. Not a single
merchant in Manly except the bar
room men voted for license. Whisky
in unlimited quantities was dispensed
by ihe rumsellers among negroes, and
the results were disgraceful and sick
ening enough. Let the blame rest
where it belongs, and let all honor be
given to the business men of Manly
who made a bold stand for the right !
, -
Boys Gambling For Pennies.
The luxuriance and magnificence of
he gambling establishments of Monte
Carlo, Baden and Aix have given the
idea that they are the most costly
gambling houses in the world. This
may in one sense be true, but there is
a building in this city which cost more
than any of the gaming establishments
. &
daily used by gamblers. Players are
daily cheated there by chance out of
their last penny literally and are forced
to leave the place without enough
money to buy a meal.
Where is this great building and
who are the gamblers'? you ask. It is
the Federal building, the United States
post office in this city, and the gam
blers are the newsboys all around it.
Who has hot seen them?
From early in the morning until it
is too dark to distinguish heads from
tails, between the buttresses of the
postofiice, along Mail street and all
over the sidewalk, can be seen knots
of these little street gamblers anxious
ly trying their fortune. They have
become one of the institutions of the
city. It is just as natural that a news
boy should pitch pennies as that he
should sell papers, and no one thinks
of disturbing him. He has taken
possession of the Federal building
presumably with the knowledge of the
officials, and he considers it a trespass
on his rights when , a pedestrian pushes
his way through and interupts. his
game. He puts his entire capital into
the venture, and many an enthusiastic
little gambler, who never dreamed of
systems and who never broke a bank
has been compelled to sleep at nigh
in some uncomfortable doorway be
cause he lost his little all at pitching
Den rues.
To be able to tell those who are in
terested and who do not know all
about this game a reporter hunted up
a little chap the other day who had
"gone broke on der pavement" and
who was anxious to sell all his know
ledge of the game for a small consider
ation. There are, according to this
boy's story, two ways of pitching pen
nies. TEe first game is called 4 'liner,' '
and it may be played by from two t
eight boys In this game a line is
chosen and the players stand ft' certain'
distance off and pitch their coppers a
near as possible to the line, but not
over it. If five are playing they all
pitch. SuDDOse three of them r.nt
heir coppers across the line and two
his side.. - The pennies beyond the
ine are lost and must be divided be-
ween the other two. The one whose
penny lies nearest the line takes all of
the pennies, shakes them in his hand
and- drops them to the pavement.
The heads belong to him and the tails
to his opponent.
Another and more difficult game is
played, and is called "crack." It is
played just the same as the "liner"
game, except that the penny must
first be thrown against the wall and
made to rebound to that part of the
pavement where the chosen crack i
situated. This requires more skill
than the other game, and only those
who are expert ever attempt it.
Another favorite game of these little
chaps is called "crap." It is played
with a single die and is shaken in the
hand, and the opposite player calls
'odd or "even" for the number of
spots on the face of the die.
As superstition is to be found
also to be found among t:he penny
pitching newsboys, and it takes some
queer shape. Not a lad of them who
sens papers will pitch a penny until
he has made at least one sale, and the
little fellow with the box is just as
determined and will not try his fortune
until he has had one "shine." Again,
nearly all of the boys have their favo
rite pennies, in which they believe,
and they cherish them just as fondly as
the late John T. Ravmond did his
pretentious 1804 dollar, and these
pennies are often the one thing about
the boys that are kept scrupulously
clean. Another, and probably the
most peculiar superstition, is that
they believe a woman brings them bad
luck. If, in playing on the street, a
woman passes before a boy who is
about to pitch, and between him and
the crack at which he throws, he can,
if he likes, refuse to throw, and the
game is given up and another crack
chosen. Why a woman and not a
man should be chosen as the omen of
ill luck does" not appear, but "Dey
alius bring de rocky wid 'em." Neio
York World.
Mrs. Maria E. Beasley, of Philadel
phia, has made a fortune by the in
vention of a machine for the construc
tion of barrels, which, up to that
time, had been made almost wholly
by hand. The machine is worked by
three men and turns out more than
600 completed barrels a day. Mrs.
Beasley was born in North Carolina,
of wealthy parents. She possesses
remarkable mechanical genius. Her
first invention was a machine for
hooping barrels. It will hoop 1,700
barrels a day, and is used by the.
Standard Oil Company.