SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1906,
5c. Copy. $1 Year
FROM SEASHORE TO SANDHILLS
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By HBI.BN MAR D’AUBY ADAMS
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From fierce wild wind that pierces
And hovrfs in wrath and might,
■ To soft sweet breezes, crooning
Like voices of the night;
Frpm gleam of white-sailed commerce
O’er blue waves, passing by,
»i To glittering pine fops, tossing
Sutr lighted 'gainst the sky.
' Fbr the wide blue that stretches,
’ Li^e'to feod’s patient love,
i . To meet the deep on deep of blue
■8ft* ^Ktnn-Thithetlds serene above;
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Tj^e street encircling fragrance
j'dfi fortat, hrilVnd mead,
The tender whisper of the leaf,
This drop of nut or seed.
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From, silver sea gull, poising
With breast and wing of snow,
Ttr-black, majestic buzzard,
3 L Ak# •ycdf circling low;
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Afar o'er tossing brine,
The lakelet boat with mirrored oars
AdH^pihg and ashine " , v;'
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roar of rocky cavern
And niKNhKrf «Blrf»*t,crn sw '* -- *
To the soit-^ftijsncc o? the fields
rim J ; irtfei. tW Aocking birds agfce
h ■ < t^otp cradle lined with shell tints,
ere,infant day is born,
mpte^fromhis ocean bed,
To grtfet the fffesh made morn.
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To half frown kisses of the sun,
Through pine tops o’er the hill,
Aglint with shadows, where the stream
lis^ying with the mill,
Ait!?Who shall dkre to utter
A prayer for purer bliss *
__Jftjtfcfcf JfoLPfi P7*tic world,
Than may be had in this?
Who dares to hope for brighter heaven
Than in thia world below,
|( 1/ [f-V tfjlaif devf^ eangbt its meaning,
I|as never learned to know,
The violet from t he cowslip; * ?
Has never learned to read
The beauty of the brpokaid* fern
Or fjA the wayside weed.
All Mature sings its anthem
A*foye song, long and dear.
t And he who will but listen
,’i Shall surely know and hear.
Ea<d> pebble has it* secrat,
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New Subscriber*
&£« Smiley.of,South Paris.
^ ^nionfc th$ week's new supKHibcrs
f . (' Cmilav r\f Qniifli Paris
.■* Maine, who will he remembered as
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Jlpda/iing two or more winters iu
: Pines. She is ftill in
m%*din the people here afcd wishes
to keep in touch with them. Other
subscribers during the week are Dr.
O. E. McCarty, of Niagara Falls,
N. Y., who, with his family is
occupying the Stryker cottage, Mrs.
Daniel Howe, of Hillcrest cottage,
and Miss Mary Schwarberg, who is
teaching in the public schools. New
subscribers are being constantly
enrolled, a large portion of them for
one year, which it is hoped may
mean permanent readers, instead of
for three or six months which may
cover the time of one’s sojourn.
Another noticeable thing is that
none of these subscriptions has
been solicited—-all have been vol
untary. Later the Tourist hopes to
send an agent out to secure new
subscribers but as yet has not been
able to spare any one from the office
and has not even had time to look
up just the right person. But do
not wait. Step into the. Tourist
office, drop a line, or call up phone
number 3. " ^
Boston Clergyman Here
Among recent arrivals in South
ern Pines are Rev. Mr. Frederick M.
Gardner and Mrs. Gardner, of
Boston, who are occupying apart
ments in Mr. Burleigh’s house on
May street for the present season.
Mr. Gardner is a graduate of
Colby College, Maine, and Newton
Theological Seminary, and has
served churches in Winthrop, Law
rence and Boston, being at present,
as for eight years past, pastor of
the South Baptist Church in the
New England metropolis. Mrs.
Gardner, who is a niece of Mrs. E.
T. Underhill, is suffering from a
ner\ ous affection and comes South
in the hope of gaining benefit from
its climate. For troubles of this
kind it would be hard to find a more
favorable combination of conditions
than Southern Pines offers.'
Compensation for a Slip
A alight but rather Judicious slip
in the gender pf a noun was allowed
to slip into one of the long articles
in last week’s Tourist and may have
been noted by many but so far has
been mentioned by but one person—
a somewhat sedate, erudite, elderly
gentleman Wuo migm not oe ex
pected to read such light and frivo
lous articles. To be assured that
the paper is read by thoughtful
people is full payment for such an
i.icident now and then.
TOURIST’S FOURTH BIRTHDAY
Four years ago there was born to
the world at Southern Pines an in
fant, which was destined to exert
the greatest influence in the develop
ment and advancement of Southern
Pines in particular and of the Sand
Hill Section of North Carolina in
general. This infant was christen
ed the Tourist, and now at the
tender age of four it has long since
thrown off its swaddling clothes and
taken its place amoung the journals
of the State, with a definite purpose
to attain and specific principles to
expound.
I regret that I had not the pleas
ure of an earlier acquaintance with
this youth, having known him in
timately only some fifteen months,
but during that time his generous
magnanimity and candid frankness
have won my respect and esteem.
In these days of yellovjr journalism,
when two-t^ird^ of wm4 iV-^rve
up by title daily press }^“news” is
masticated and digested only to be
regurgitated the next day, it is in
deed a relief to find among one»s
mail a paper that does not pretend
to have the largest circulation in
the world and does not depend for
its popularity on “scoops” and
scandal-mongering.
The Tourist, as I have known it,
is not primarily a newspaper, but
while it covers the local news
thoroughly and impartially its chief
purpose is to serve as a mirror to
scatter rays of sunshine and cheer
at home, and to reflect these rays
from the Sand Hills to readers in
the frost bitten North.
In a recent number of the Inde
pendent the following sentiment was
expressed editorially, and as it is
particularly pertinent, I may be
pardoned for appropriating it ver
batim: “The inability of the
American people to read books de
manding a moderate amount of
mental power is commonly atttibut
ted to the influnceof our daily press
which, for the most part, avoids
thoroughness and hesitates to print
matter calling for intellectual con
centration. The newspaper habit
does in many instances* disintegrate
the mind. It creates a comfortable
feeling of being informed, when,
in fact, no information whatever
that will stick in the memory for
more than twenty-four hours has
been acq uired. It uses up a certain
amount of nervous energy and
leaves its victim without appetite
; for more serious application.”
i While the limited space at hand
prevents the Tourist from treating
some of the subjects touched upon
as exhaustively as might be wished,
it cannot be accused of 4 ‘hesitating
to print matter calling for intellece
tual concentration, ’ ’ for its able edi
torials an d its weekly letter by Mr.
Bion Butler are intellectual treats
and their general tone afcd refine
ment certainly tend to create an
appetite for serious application.
It would be fortunate for the world
if there were a vastly greater num
ber of papers like the Tourist, which
does not depend for its subsistence
on the dissemination of sensation
and whose sole purpose is not the
making of money, but which puts
forth its best efforts for the truth
apd the best in human nature. \
Long live the Tourist!
Rusticus.
Lakeview, Nov. 28.
Commissioners' Meeting
The regular meeting of the Board
of Town Commissioners was held at
Firemen’s Hall on Wednesday eve
ning, November 28, with" Mayor Fer
guson in the chair. Commissioner*
present—Eastman, Richards and
Sugg.
The minutes of last meeting were
read and approved.
It was voted to renew the con
tract with the Dorland Advertising
agency for one year.
It was voted to accept the bid of
Alex. Cameron for shrubbing and
grading extension of Broad street.
Twenty cents per cubic yard for
grading and $18 per acre for clear
ing and shrubbing.
It was voted to instruct the l ax
Collector to enforce collection of 10
per cent additional on all unpaid
taxes after January 1, 1907.
It was voted to place an order with
the Cheraw Brick Works for 15,000
bricks.
It was voted to instruct me street
Committee to employ extra help to
repair the sidewalks.
The following bills were read,
audited and ordered to be paid.5
The Dorland Advertising Agency iS 56
J. W. Scott, wood.-----. 6 a*
W. H. Chestnut.engineer-.. 30
William Lee. street work, . $6
William Munn, street work -- a
Southern Pines publishing Com
pany, advertising-- 5 5»
M. N. Sugg, wood— .. a? 43
M. N. Sugg, boarding horae-- 10 00
Son them Pines Publishing Com
pany, booklets . --— *50
W. C.'Riddick, engineer- 75 00
C. L. Blur, Clerk.
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