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.. NO. 12. PINEHURST, N. C, JAN. 25. 1901. PRICE THREE CENTS
THE STORY OF LIFE.
Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born
A hapless babe, to greet the light
With a sharp wail, as if the morn
Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, to sleep and weep again,
With sunny smiles between, and then?
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite his little woes.
Were he but conscious of his joy;
To he, in short, from two to ten,
A merry, moody child, and then?
And then, in coat and trousers clad,
To learn to say the decalogue
And break it, and, unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog,
A truant oft by field and fen
To capture butterflies, and then?
And then, increased in strength and size,
To be, anon, a youth full grown,
A hero in his mother's eyes,
A young Apollo in his own;
To imitate the ways of men
In fashionable sins, and then?
And then, at last, to be a man ;
To fall in love, to woo and wed,
With soothing brain to scheme and plan ;
To gather gold or toil for bread ;
To sue for fame with tongue or pen
And gain or lose the prize, and then?
And then in gray and wrinkled eld
To mourn the speed of life's decline;
To praise the scenes his youth beheld
And dwell in memory of lang syne;
To dream awhile, with darkened ken,
Then drop into his grave, and then?
Exchange.
AT PINEHURST, N. C.
An Ideal Village linilt for a Winter
Resort. Three Hotels.
The name Pinehurst bids fair to become
one of the most noted among those of
winter resorts in the Sunny South. It is
that of a winter resort village among the
pine hills of North Carolina, in the heart
of as healthful a region as can be found
on the entire Atlantic Slope. It is on
the Piedmont plateau at the altitude of
650 feet, among sand hills covered with
the long-leaf pine. The village of hotels
and cottages embodies the ideas of a
business man of Boston, James W. Tufts,
who founded it as a place of rest and
recuperation. It includes the Carolina,
the Holly Inn and Berkshire hotels,
about fifty cottages, several boarding
houses a public casino, a large hall for
church services and entertainments, a
library, a museum, a school house,
stores, a bowling alley, a deer park, and
an eighteen-hole golf course, which has
no superior in the South.
The village was laid out on the most
artistic lines by eminent-landscape archi
tects, and in the five and a half years
since it was begun it has steadily increased
in attractiveness and interest. The ideal
place in which to "loaf and invite your
soul" is the expression of a well known
public man who came away charmed
with what Pinehurst has to offer to the
wayworn and weary in the fierce compe
tition of life.
Mr. Tufts having been attracted to the
region by its healthfulness and adapta
bility for purposes of physical and mental
recuperation, invested in a tract of 6,000
acres of the beautiful pine forest, and had
a model village laid out on the best sani
tary plans and built in a most substantial
manner. The water supply is from the
Pinehurst spring, which is especially rec
ommended for the cure of rheumatic ills
and digestive and kidney troubles. The
region is a rolling one, and the fresh
breezes, health-giving odor of the resinous
pines, bracing atmosphere and crystal
clearness of the 'skies on most winter
days give to all who have the oppor
tunity to enjoy them a zest, exhilaration
and satisfaction in living that dwellers in
the North seldom, if ever, know. The
ample opportunities for outdoor recrea
tion are fully enjoyed. The golf course
covers nearly one hundred and fifty
acres, and is declared by the highest
expert authority to compare favorably
with any course in the country. A pro
fessional player has charge of the greens,
and there are many tournaments in
course of the season. The opportunities
for automobile driving, bicycle riding,
tennis playing, fox hunting and quail
shooting are ample and are constantly
enjoyed.
The Carolina is the largest of the
hotels, and one of the newest in the
South. It was the original idea of the
creator of Pinehurst to confine it to cot
tage residents, and in this end only cot
tages were at first built. But in response
to the demands of visitors the erection of
hotels was made necessary. The Caro
lina was only completed in the closing
year of the century just ended, and will
compare most favorably with the largest
and finest of similar structures in the
South. It is exceeded in size by no other
hotel in the State. It has nearly fifty
suites of rooms with private baths, and
will accommodate four hundred guests,
while five hundred can be seated in the
great dining hall. Every room is equipped
with a telephone, rendering communica
tion easy with any one desired. The
first floor is finished in oak, the lobby is
spacious, there is a large music room,
which will seat four hundred persons,
the orchestra is an excellent one, and
there is the best possible table service
and cuisine.
The Holly Inn, which will now accom
modate two hundred guests, has been
enlarged each year since its construction.
It is finely furnished, heated by steam,
lighted by electricity, supplied with open
fire-places, electric bells and every con
venience for comfortable living. A tine
music room, octagonal in shape, with a
width of forty feet, affords facilities for
concerts, dancing and entertainments.
The Berkshire is a homelike structure,
which will accommodate over a hundred
persons and make them exceedingly
comfortable. The dining room is finished
in North Carolina pine and has a huge
fire-place where pine logs are burned,
and with pine trees outside, in Pinehurst
one can feel that he is certainly in a
piney atmosphere. The house has also
steam heat, electric lighting, and all the
needs of the guests are amply supplied.
To reach Pinehurst one can go by
either the Southern Railway or the Sea
board Air Line. It is about three hun
dred miles from Washington, and a short
branch of the Southern leaves the main
line at High Point, N. C. Southern
Pines is the station on the Seaboard, six
miles away, with a trolley road reaching
it from Pinehurst. The winter climate
of Pinehurst is almost the same as that
of Southern France or Northern Italy,
and the soil is sandy, so that rain is at
once absorbed, and there is no undue
moisture, while malaria is unknown. It
takes eighteen hours from this city to
Pinehurst, and on Tuesdays and Thurs
days there is a special Pullman car from
Washington thither. The Rev. Dr.
Edward Everett Hale writes as follows
of the benefit of living at this ideal
resort :
"I have enjoyed so much a residence
of some weeks at Pinehurst that I like to
speak of it to other people. I do so with
a certain terror, for fear that sick people
who ought to be at home under the care
of their own doctor will go there, as poor
Ponce de Leon went to his ruin. There
is no fountain of health in Pinehurst,
except so far as the fresh air of the good
God is a perpetual fountain everywhere.
There is no hospital there; it is no sort
of a sanitarium. It is not, therefore, a place
to which what we call a consumptive
person should go. On the other hand, it
is an excellent place for lazy persons to
go, or for a person who, not being lazy,
has for the moment overworked himself,
has seen too many people, or who has
heard too many door bells. . . . Peo
ple who like to live a quiet life will go to
Pinehurst, because, so far as I know, at
least, there is not a door bell within five
miles of its centre. In a word, a good
many of the requisitions of a decent,
simple, Christian life can be found in
thih little out of the way village, as they
cannot be found elsewhere." New York
Tribune, January 13, 1901.
Appalachian Forest Reserve.
A National Forest Reserve in the
Appalachain Belt can be established only
by the purchase of land, for there is no
public domain in that region. The bill
now before Congress directs the Secre
tary of Agriculture to purchase not more
than 2,000,000 acres of forest in the
southern Appalachains and appropriate
$5,000,000 for that purpose. The lands
must be situated within the States of
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The
purpose of establishing the proposed
reserve is to introduce scientific forestry
methods, conserve the forests and at the
same time permit lumbering in this large
area of hard woods.
No one now doubts that it was wise
policy to set apart the forest reserves
which have been established since 1896
in eleven of our Western States and Ter
ritories. The idea was at first strongly
opposed on the ground that the with
drawal of so much public land from pur
chase would retard the development of
the States concerned and delay the dis
covery of new sources of mineral wealth.
These misgivings, however, were not
justified by our policy with regard to the
reserves. The Geological Survey has
been engaged, since the summer of 1897,
in studying the timber, mineral and agri
cultural resources of these regions. All
of them may be developed as fast as cap
ital and labor seek employment there.
In some of the reserves, as in the Black
Hills, for example, large industries have
long been established. But these large
aieascan no longer be stripped of all
their timber without a thought of tree
relating. The propagation of timler
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A GLIMPSE OF PINEHURST.