PINEHURST, N. C, APRTrTim
UNION HOME SCHOOL EXHIBIT
Prof. .1. K. Kelly Visits lMiielmrst with
the Art mid Industrial Exhibit of Ills
School.
On Thursday afternoon of last week
Prof. John K. Kelly of the Union Home
school, arrived in our village with the
ii rt .iiid industrial exhibit of his school
Thursday evening the exhibit was dis
played in the Village Hall, after which it
was removed to the music room at I loll'
Inn, where it was viewed by a large
number of our villagers on Friday and
Saturday.
The Tnion Home school is situated in
the town of Victor, about fourteen miles
northeast of Pinehurst. It is in the
cent re of a tract of land comprising 1,200
acres, containing nearly every variety of
soil found in this state, upon which
grows nearly every kind of timber found
in this rejrion. The institution is a co
educational college, preparatory and
finishing, for whites, with art, music
and manual training or industrial depart
nitwits.
The exhibit consists principally of
paintings in different media, etchings,
embroidery, and wood carving, of local
plants, flowers, fruits, birds, fish, ani
nials, etc., from nature. There is a great
variety of wood turnings, plain and face
plate work, mallets, gavels, goblets,
Itoxes, hats, dumb-bells, cake plates, darn
ers, etc.. from many kinds of beautiful
hard woods, showing great skill in the
art, though executed on lathes im
pro vised on the grounds from the ruins
ol burnt saw, shingle and planing mills
A special feature of the exhibit is a
three-panel screen manufactured by the
school from eighteen kinds of timber cut
on the grounds. The left panel consists
!' an oil painting 18x38 inches of the
cotton plant, set in a frame of black
walnut, with a panel of eatalpa wood
xlS inches hand carved to represent a
branch, three leaves and two bolls of
cotton. The centre panel is an oil paint
uig of the same size representing the
opossum in the persimmon tree, showing
'nut and foliage. This is set in a frame
ol quartered oak, with a panel of cedar
:"''ove hand carved to represent the fruit
'"id foliage of the persimmon. The
"iglt panel is an oil painting of the to
Iwuvo plant and thorn-apple, showing
'doom and foliage, set in a frame of wild
cherry, with a panel of mulberry hand
arved to represent the different styles of
"a nufactured tobacco the hand, twist,
I'h'g and cigar. Above the panels is an
'!en work containing spindles of a great
variety of woods, the entire screen pre
siding a harmony of colors and finish
decidedly pleasing. It has "the blue rib
,M,," eertificate of the highest premium
! warded at the late State fair at Raleigh.
i'bere is a beautiful oil painting from
,1:lure, of a branch of the orange tree
with fruit and foliage, framed in cedar;
!l,s a Cape Fear shad on a cedar board
:"1 excellent piece of art. There is a
Wider color painting of a fox "Victim
of the Steel Trap"fr0m nature, framed
witn eeaar, hand carved to represent
wall ivy. This also bears the blue rib
bon, having received the highest premi
um at two fairs. There are water colors
of a bunch of gray squirrels, a water
melon, musk melon, and other fruits,
framed in black walnut, quartered oak
and holly ; also fish and game in crayon.
There is nothing in the exhibit copied ex
cept an oil painting 2x4 feet, represent
ing the battle of Manila, copied from a
magazine cut, and framed in quartered
oak with a border of holly.
All the frames, turnings, hand carv
ings, etc., were cut from wood grown on
the school grounds and manufactured at
the school. Quite a number of articles,
including paper knives of holly and
cedar, were purchased by our villagers,
and copies of several of the paintings
have been ordered.
The man pointed to a place in the
Horizon to which distance gave a purpU
hue.
"What makes you think that is North
Carolina?" Xye asked.
"Oh, we know by the direction and the
conformation of the mountains there,'
the man replied.
"Well, 1 know that's not Xorth Caro
lina," Xye declared, with some vehe
mence. "And you'd know it. too, if vou
would stop to think. Here is a map of
the United States, and you can see that
Xorth Carolina is pink. Besides, I know
it is pink. I live in that state consider
ably, and I have helped to paint it red,
but of course I go away sometimes, and
it fades a little, leaving it pink. Xo, sir;
you can't stuff me. The place you are
pointing at a color-blind man could see is
purple."
Xye said those things so seriously that
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The exhibit is a fine one and wns
viewed with interest by our Northern
iruests. For originality of design and
execution and its tendency to develop
local talent and resources it is indeed sui
Veneris and has been pronounced by com-
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petent judges one or rare excellence.
The school is doing a great ana gooa
ork and should receive all possible aid
and encouragement. The exhibit re
vived a handsome diploma from the
Xorth Carolina Agricultural society for
best display of art work by school.
the man was almost dazed. He gave
Xye a puzzled look, and then went on
pointing out other sister states in the
late confederacy.
Xye Knew North Carolina.
While standing on top of Lookout
mountain a few days ago, says W. L.
Visscher in the Chicago limea-uermu, i
was carried back to the memories of
dear old Bill Xye, for we nau scoou uiu
that same spot some years before, ana a
fi.i us that we could see seven
umv nw'u .
f.,fna f,.m that noint of view; namely,
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Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Xortn
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
Where's North Carolina- .Nje w-
ed.
quin
Sick of Oyster Soup.
It was the head of the household do
ino the talking in the direct manner
that men have with their wives. "I like
oyster soup well enough. It's satisfying
for the time, and I suppose that it's
healthy, but I'm opposed to making an
entire meal of it, as I was required to do
for lunch. Milk and butter and salt and
pepper and oysters may constitute a
variety, but when you mingle them all
in one concoction, and then have crack
ers for a side dish, my imagination is not
equal to maintaining the fiction of varie
ty. His wife placidly informed him that he
would be lucky if he never made a meal
on anything worse than stewed oysters,
and incidentally asserted that she did
not allow any interference in her sole
management of the culinary department.
That afternoon he called on a friend to
have a friendly game of cribbage, and
PRICE THREE CENTS.
the game became so warm that he was
invited to stay for the evening meal in
order that the exciting contest might be
carried to a finish. Word was tele
phoned to his wife, who agreed to come
in the evening.
"I know why he stayed," she began as
soon as they were seated for a four
handed game. "(), you needn't kick
me," as she looked laughingly at her
husband. "I'm going to tell on you.
We had nothing but oyster soup at noon
and he was so put out about it that he
thought he would stay here in order to
get a good square meal. I'm glad he
did."
The husband was blushing and the
host and hostess were laughing inor
dinately. "What in the world is the
matter with vou people?" she Inquired,
with a puzzled expression.
"O, nothing, nothing at all," from the
host, between explosions. "We didn't
have a thing this evening but oyster
soup, not a thing."
Then there was a long and animated
discussion as to whom the joke was on.
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A certain man made a display of dense
ignorance the other day when he went
into a resturant and asked the waiter if
he had any eggs. "Yes," said the wait
er, "we have." "Well, bring me some."
"How do you want them cooked?" "O,
any old way." "My dear man," said the
waiter, "that order will hardly do. We
have over five hundred different ways of
cooking eggs, and you will be pleased to
make a suggestion or mention a choice."
This astonishing fact had the effect of
paralyzing the customer's tongue for
awhile, but he finally recovered enough
to whisper in awe: "Scramble 'em."
"Ves sir," replied the astute waiter still
lingering, "which way?" "O, any old
way." "Sir," said the waiter in a deter
mined voice, "I must insist you will
make a choice there are seventy differ
ent ways of scrambling eggs in this es
tablishment." "Well, then, fry them
forme." "Which way? we have iorty
ways of frying eggs here." "All right,"
said the customer slowly as he reached
for his hat and arose, "you have one
wav here that I can find myself, and that
is straight out of that door. Good day."
Vh iladi'lphia Inquirer.
Whoever is collecting examples of
(iiieer typographical errors is invited to
record the fact that in the proof of the
notice of the Episcopal church entertain
ment, sent in from the Xews composition-
room Monday night, the Second est
Virginia Band was announced as having
on its program Mozart's "Twelfth
Massachusetts." We are so military
here now that no compositor could be
expected to consider "Twelfth Mass" as
meaning anything but "Twelfth Massa-
'husetts." Greenville Xeirs.