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VOL. 2.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1888.
NO. 39
SOUTHERN PINES
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
Bays 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 Maxilla.
. - (Established 1866)
This water-proof material, resembling' fine
leather, is used f 01 roofs, outside walls of build
ings and imitle in place of plaster. Made also
i nto carpets and rugs. -
S. N. Rockwell, Agent.
4;t7l "
Rubber Stamps1';
25 Visiting Cards and INDIA INK to mark Lin
en, only 2t3 cts. (stamps.) Book of 2000 styles
free with each order.- Agents wanted. Big Pav.
THAI.MAN M'F'G CO., BALTIMORE, MD,
FURNITURE!
BED-ROOM SUITS:
Ash, wood top, . . . .$23.50
Antique Ash, wood top .:X).50
Walnut, marble top .1 .37.50
alnut, marble top J : ., 40.50
DINING ROOM:
Walnut Sideboard .$22.00
l'oplar Sideboard 10.00
Oak Dini ng- Chairs $1.00 and 1.50
Maple Dining Chairs.;.. ........ .....75c and 1.00
MISCELLANEOUS:
Walnut Hall Stands ...$11.50, 12.50, 15-50
Canvas f oldinjr cots S 1.75
Tin and wire safes.... w 3.50
Refrigerators . .-. .'. .... 17.50
Uureaus. from ..; .... $6.50 to 17.50
Wardrobes, from 8.00 to 16.50
Orders receive prompt attention.
J. C. HUTS ON & CO.,
No 12 Ea.st Martin st, between Racket
and Woollcott -Stores, v
3S- RALEIGH, N. C.
A Change.
After careful consideration of the
best interests of all concerned we have
decided to consolidate the Leader
and Pine Knot, and this issue is the
lastjn which the Pine Knot will ap
pear in its separate form. Two rea
sons lead us to this step. First, the
one publication can be made to cover
the ground now occupied by two, and
give a paper better in every respect
than either of them. This should, in
itself, be sufficient reason for the
change, if no other existed. Second,
as a matter of . expense it does not
seem wise to continue to do a thing by
the present method when it . can be
better done with much less outlay.
Under the new arrangement we shall
give our readers more original matter
each week, and to our advertisers we
shall give a circulation double that of
either of the two papers. The inter
ests of our Southern Pines patrons
and of subscribers in the North who
are particularly interested in this sec
tion will ,bo looked after, and every
item of news will be published each
week, as heretofore.' The names of
all subscribers to the Pine Knot will
be transferred to the books of the Lead
er and they will receive it regularly
for the time! for which they have paid.
All advertising contracts with the
Pine Knot will be completed by the
Leader, and in the case of those who
have subscribed for, or advertised in,
both papers, they will receive addi
tional credit on the books of the Lead
er for whatever is due them from the
Pine Knot.: We feel certain that this
arrangement will be found satisfac
tory in every way and that the only
regret our friends will experience will
be that we didn't do the thing sooner.
We hereby tender our thanks for pat
ronage in the past and desire a con
tinuance of the same. All communi
cations of a business nature should be
addressed to "The Leader," Jones-
i ' r I '
boro, N.C. Communications pertain
ing solely to; the interests of Southern
Pines should be addressed to B. A.
-is.
Goodridge, Southern Pines, N. C.
We have j noticed frequently one
mistake w.hich some of our Northern
people make, particularly when they
first come to this section. They wear
out their strength and sometimes in
jure their health in doing work which
they cannot do as effectively as they
could hire it done for fifty or sixty
cents a day. This is economy gone
mad. There may be exceptional cases
when a five dollar man finds, it neces
sary to do the work of a fif tv cent man
i
for the Ume being, but such cases are :
not common, and as a rule, such ex-
penditure of vital force is sheer waste.
To be sure the labor we have at hand
here is not fir&t-class, neither does it
demand a first-class price, and it is
certainly better to make the best pos
sible use of it than to rush into the
breach oneself and attempt to do work
one is physically unable to accom
plish. A Northern man who has just re
turned from a long journey through
the South has a "novel theory regard
ing the slow development of
that section. He believes that the
diet of the people is to blame for their
lackfof enterprise. America.
This is not a novel view, by any
means. The' Pine Knot has often
presented the matter in this light, and
supposed that others had done the
same thing. .
We tftink the record of temperature
at Southern Pines during the months
of June, and July, printed in another
column, shows a rather remarkable
uniformity.' These readings are not
given i4 standard, but were taken
from a good thermometer" and will not
vary much from what the official re
cord would be.
Norfolk begins to feel metropolitan
thrills. It is growing rapidly in bus
iness and population, getting a large
ly increased cotton trade, and if the
plans of the Richmond & Danville R.
R. people are carried out it will get a
decided push forward. Under the
circumstances we are ready to ap
prove of the plan, recently mentioned,
of making it a North Carolina city, by
changing the boundary line between
us and Virginia. Wouldn't it be
more glorifying to be the largest city
in a great state like North Carolina
than to play second fiddle in the Old
Dominion? Just step over the line
easy Norfolk, and don't wake up
Portsmouth when vou come!
It is aggravating to find that there
is so much misinformation in the !
Norths regarding the condition of
things in the South. Within the last
few weeks weV have had intelligent
people "suppose that Northern men
cannot yet live arid do business on a
safe basis in the South." This belief
is largely due to the influence of par-r
tisan newspapers like the New York
Tribune and fkhers of like character,
that are willing to go any length forjThereare old people living in such
1 the making of party interest. If the'
people f who feel an interest in the
South would only come down here
and. see for themselves they would be
able to dispel these foolish 'notions,
and capital and immigration would
find their natural channel, which i
unmistakably southern.
Lippincott's Magazine.
Lippincott's for July has for its
leading attraction "Mammon," a nov
el by Maud Howe. There are poems
by Clinton Scollard and Frank Demp
ster Sherman, but among the pros?
articles none Will excite so much in
terest as that announcing the names
of the successful competitors in the
great "One Hundred Questions" tour
nament. Part of the answers are
given in this issue and the rest are to
be given in succeeding numbers. So
much curious information has been
brought together in these answers
that the editor approves the suggestion
of a correspondent that they jbe pub
lished in book form, tt is quite likely,
therefore, that they will thus appear.
We notice that in the September is
sue Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chanler will
have a tragedy, "Herod and Marianne,"
and also the statement of the publish
ers that up to this time they have not
been able to supply the demand for
her last novelette "The Quick or the
Dead."
Will 1 888 be a Year of War?
The present year is the fifth year of
modern times in which the aggregate
of the figures is twenty-five, and there
will be but five more years in which
such a combination is possible prior
to the year 2399. Probably but few
have ever heard of the old prophecy,
which runs as follows:
In every future year of our Lord,
When the sum of the figures is twenty-five,'
Some warlike kingdom will draw the sword,
Uut peaceful nations. in peace shall thrive.
Students of mo'dern History will
readily recall how faithfully this pro
phecy has been fulfilled in the four
previous years to which it applied.
In 1699 Russia, Denmark and Po
land formed the coalition against
Sweden which inaugurated the great
war that elided in the disastrous de
feat of Charles XII. , at Pultowa.
The year 1739 will ever be memora
ble on account of the breaking out of
the French Revolution. " ;
The year 179$ witnessed the cam
paign of Bonaparte in Egypt and the
formation of the second European co
alition against France, i
In 1879 war broke out between Eng
land and Afghanistan, followed by the
. invasion of the latter country by Brit-
ish troops.
In what manner the prediction is to
be verified in 1SSS remains yet to be
seen, but the present condition of
i Europe seems to promise an abundant
fulfilment of the prophecy. Vhiladil
phia Inquirer.
The pine barrens of North Carolina
are the healthiest rart of the earth.
; places who never, saw any one with a
' fever of any kind. Wilmington Star .
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