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VOL. I, NO. 25.
PINEHURST, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1898.
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FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING. .
i itin of a Few of the lleaiitiful
l(looiiis Now Found In and About
Our Village.
Spring lias come upon us so suddenly
junl with such a vengeance that the days
aiv ival ly too short now to keep track of
.,11 the wonders Nature has to show us.
While a great variety of flowers have
been seen in town for weeks, the woods
begin to change their appearance
ow. I shall try to name at
least a few of the plants now in hlooni.
To begin with the Holly Inn, we see
wistarias (Wistaria sinensis) make a
splendid show with their large, fragrant,
purple racemes. They are a little ahead
of the Cherokee rose, which covers the
pillars around the piazza and just begins
to open its buds. Among the shrubs
we notice the ashebeny or Japanese bar
berry (Mahonia aquifoliumj. Its large
clusters of yellow flowers contrast
splendidly with its wine-red foliage, and
they are admired by everybody. Smooth
ie ived thorns (Crataegus ylabra) have
developed their greenish-yellow fragrant
umbels. Uncountable quantities of the
sweet-scented flowers of our Pinehurst
violet cover the edges of the lawns and
beds, while daffodils, jonquils, scillas and
other bulbs have joyously found their
way through the grass.
The Casino piazza is covered now with
the curiously shaped fragrant blooms of
the akebia (Akebia qninata). This
climber is one of our most valuable ac
quisitions from .Japan, and though quite
seldom found yet in American gardens,
its strange beauty and graceful pie
turesqueness recommend it greatly, the
more because it isj quite hardy in New
England. The yellow jasmine (,asmin
urn )iiid(ffoni in) has been in flower now
for several months and has begun to put
its time into the better development of its
foliage, while its semi-namesake the yel
low jessamine (delseuiiuin sempercireus) is
just now in its prime. Is the sunny
south not entitled to be proud of this
most beautiful climber with its dainty
foliage and magnificent clusters of large,
yellow, bell-shaped flowers of refined
fragrance? While we have to cultivate
them in rinehurst, nearer the coast, and
especially further South, they occur wild
and ramble liana like over bush and
trees. The garden bells (Forsythia cirid
issima and F. siispensa) have nearly
bloomed out. The different meadow
sweets (Spiraia thunberyi with its fern
hke foliage), prunifolia with its
double snow-white flowers, blooming
j't now in front of the Hall) the double
iovered almond (Prunus triloba) with its
-terns covered with double pink flowers
"11 of these and others yet enhance the
spring-like aspect of our grounds.
Out in the woods the typical flower of
!!e New Englander the Mayflower
'.Fpiyam repens) blooms sweetly and
fi-eely, not minding all-destroying tires
nd blizzards. In the branches the pitch
"i' and trumpet plants (Sarraeenias) be
gin to put forth their remarkable flowers,
while tiny milkweeds are coming up right
under our feet through the sand. Every
where in the woods we notice now a
wild phlox (Phlox, subulatu) pushing
forth its starry flowers in every shade of
red and often even snow-white. This
lovely moss-pink is peculiar to our sand
region, but its modest beauty and endur
ance of heat and cold would make it a val
uable addition to Northern gardens. The
flowering dogwood (Cornus jiorida) has
just commenced to develop its grand
flowers, which will soon be grown to
their full size and excite the admiration
of everybody. Those bare ugly black
jack oaks (Querent! uiyru), which during
winter hardly seemed to be alive,
undergo a complete metamorphosis
at present. They have begun to
bloom queer, that such large trees
"My dearest, I have been to the Klon
dike, and last summer I accumulated fifty
thousand "
"Fif-ty thou-sand dollars!'' shrieked
the loving wife, as she fell on his neck.
"No Mosquito bites.'"
It was a moment later only that he fell
on his neck himself. Indianapolis Journal.
(rant mid I.t'O.
When Hamlin Garland was gathering
material for "The Life of Grant," he
spent a day or two in Atlanta, where he
met an old Virginia negro, who said that
he had witnessed Iee's surrender. Gar
land was interested and questioned him
closely.
"You say you were present when Lee
surrendered?''
"Dat I wuz,sah ! "
tlon. "What he did say was, 'lou'lldo
fust-rate for a new beginner P"
A friend of the poet Bryant chanced to
be alone In Ins study when a cabinet
maker brought home a chair that had
been altered. When Mr. Bryant re
turned, he asked,
"Miss Bobbins, what did the man say
about my chair?"
"lie said," answered the visitor, "that
the equilibrium is now admirably ad
justed."
"What a fine fellow!" said Mr. Bry
ant, laughing. "I never heard him talk
like that. Were those his exact words?"
"Well, he said, 4It joggles just right!"'
repeated Miss Bobbins. Exehanye.
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can i)roduce such insignificant flowers
only and soon all these trees will don
their spring garments which have a most
exquisite greenish-yellow shade of inde
scribable delicacy.
Every day now brings us new develop
ments, Hew beauties and new- flowers,
and Pinehurst never shows itself to bet
ter advantage than in these days, when
peaches, pears and strawberries bloom.
Otto Katzexsteix.
Willi Itienes from tlie Klondike.
Opening the door in response to an in
sistent knock, the lady beheld the figure
of one she remembered.
Oh, it is you is it?" she said icily.
"It is me," was the answer, "your
long-lost husband, who has come back to
telfyou that he is sorry he ran away two
years ago."
"Maybe vou are sorry you went," re
torted the lady, "but 1 ain't. What did
you come back for?"
"Did you see Lee give up his sword:"
"No, sub, 1 didn't. Gin'rul Lee give
up he sword? Not him! Dey tried to
take it fruin him, but he made a pass at
one er two of deni, en day left" oft I tell
vou!"
"And where was Grant at that time?"'
"Oh, he wus right dar, sub! And he
tol 'em, he did: 4 Well, boys, let him keep
the weepon. He can't do much damage,
kase he done whipped anyhow" At
lanta Constitution.
It Joffled KifilU.
A Boston girl, who had been taking
her first lesson in bicycle-riding, ex
pressed her satisfaction at home-at the
result of the experiment.
"The man said," she repeated, "that I
had made most satisfactory progress for a
novice."
"Why, did he really say that?" was
the surprised query.
"Well, no," answered the Boston
young woman, after a moment's reflee
Few but Noisy.
There are records of bloodless battles
having been won by lusty bugle-blowing
which intimidated the enemy into think
ing that overwhelming forces confronted
them, and taking to their heels. The
importance of waiting to discover what
is actually behind the noise of attack, in
all our combats, is illustrated by another
story.
A man came to a hotel-keeper and
asked him if he would buy two car-loads
of fror lers.
"Two car-loads!" exclaimed the as
tonished landlord. "Why, I couldn't
use them in twenty years."
"Well, will you buy half a car-load?"
"No."
"Twenty or thirty bushels?"
"No."
"Two dozen?"
"Yes."
A few days later the man returned
with three pairs of of legs.
"Is that all?" said the landlord.
"Yes; the fact is that I live near a
pond, and the frogs made so much noise
that I thought there were millions of them,
but I dragged the pond with a seine,
drained it, and raked it, and there were
only three frogs in the whole thing."
You may make your own application.
Exehanye.
An old woman whose husband was ill
in bed sent for the doctovf who came and
saw the old lady. "I will send him some
medicine," he said on leaving, "which
must be taken in a. recumbent posture."
After he had gone the old woman sat
down, greatly puzzled. "The recumbent
posture a recumbent posture !" she kept
repeat ing. "1 haven't got one." At last
she thought, "I will go and see if old
Mrs. Smith has got one to lend me."
Accordingly she went and said to her
neighbor, "Have you got a recumbeut
posture to lend me to put some medicine
in?" Mrs. Smith, who was as ignorant
as her friend, replied, "1 had one, but to
tell you the truth I have lost it." Exehanye.
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