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TLHE SANDHILL ESTATES
Samarcand, an Independent Duchy 12 Miles from Pinehnrst.
How a Citizen of tie World Found His Household Gods
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TAKE your machine
some day and run up
into the country towards
the foothills. In about
half an hour you will
come into a plantation
of expansive fields and
clustered houses with
innumerable pigs graz
ing on the lingering green and catch
a glimpse of a chateau with a white
pergola and tiled roof, suggestive
of California and the patio. If
you were not bred to the bucolic
life you will ask the chauffeur what
the two great cylindrical towers are,
looming upon the left. If he is a prosaic
man he will say they are silos, providing
endless table d'hote for the lowing kine.
tic. On one side bales of cotton piled
high, the bare boards of a typical tobacco
warehouse and an unsightly boiler making
steam under a shed are an inheritance
from the lumberman 's school of landscape
design. On the other a rustic log house,
a hedge row along an old fence, a lawn
framed in violets and rose bushes, with a
stone balustrade and a retaining wall, tile
covered, flower garden . and vine-clad
Doric columnssuggest the permanent seat
of some retired artist.
Viewing all this, and with the further
fact considered that five years ago it was
an impassible sandy road from Pinehurst
interested spectator of the strange self
conscious students at Harvard (I believe
officially he is still at Harvard. He went
there as I go to the information bureau
at odd times for desirable facts) . He was
to be found most anywhere.
THE PUMPELY TRADITION
It was an easy guess that he would
never stay in an office overlooking the
street, or commute daily from Englewood
every morning. The inevitable occurred.
When he came to settle down in one spot
he went out into the world as if he owned
it, and selected from this vast dominion
wherever he happened to find it a territory
big enough to live in, and rule over, and
proceeded to make it after his own fash
ion, to stay to the end of time.
There is no hurry in the Pumpelly
philosophy. His father bought timber
and iron in primeval countries at what
was considered the end of the earth in the
'70s. He has them yet. It takes time
to make an estate. That is why we have
APPROACH TO THE PUMPELLY HOUSE AT SAMARCAND
If he is not he will state the important
truth and say they are observation towers,
and suggest you add to your memories a
picture conceived in Asia Minor by a
practical poet.
- ... A PASTORAL SCENE
' There is a broad stair leading towards
Heaven which you can ascend with ease
to the.highest point in the Sandhills. And
there you get a full view of the Duchy of
the Duke of Samarcand. A more charm
ing outlook would be hard to find. Well
tilled corn lands stretch into the dim dis
tance, brown herds of Jersey cattle fill a
foreground that would have delighted
Millet, and human endeavor will be there
represented by six great horses pulling a
gang of plows, cutting the field in two.
Underneath is a dairy barn of concrete
with stanchions for 50 cows; and across
the way a gigantic corn crib facing the
stable, where 40 horses and mules are
kept. The bank of pines across the way
protects the residence of Mr. T. B. Cotter.
The whole is cut into squares by the red
roadways flanked by newly planted wal
nut and poplar trees. It is a picture curi
osly mingling the practical and the artis-
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to Greensboro, anyone that can read so rew oi tnem, ana wny xmgianu naa bu
character from landscape as a palmist many. Other people have farms. The
does from the hand, could reconstruct an rumpellys have an estate.
adventure and the character of the ad- S0IIj conservation
And this is the key to the really re
markable results shown on his farm lands
this year.' Today, as far as yields of cot
ton and corn and peanuts and peas and
wheat and rye and the crops planted are
concerned he holds the palm alone in the
district. Every cent spent there is for
permanent improvement. He cares ten
times as much for the lasting betterment
of his soil as he does for any one yield
any one year. Tons and tons of tobacco
stems go on his field every years, regard
less of the times or the market, or the
success of the season.. Four hundred hogs
are grazing on his peanuts and chufus
this minute. To be sure it is a profitable
business in itself. But the hogs are there
primarily because they lend a permanent
increase to acres.
PHILOSOPHY OF COUNTRY LIFE
Samarcand proves one thing. That
any man with a will can make himself a
home and a profitable retreat in the coun
try, and master the mysteries of the soil.
He knew no more about it than I do when
he went there. I doubt if he knew a cot
ton boll from a pumpkin. Yet he is now
his own farm manager, and runs thirty
plows planted 150 acres in cotton that
would be a credit to any planter in
the South, old or new school, runs a suc
cessful modern dairy, which is a delicate
business in itself; plants, tends, cures,
packs and sells carloads of tobacco, breeds
championship Berkshire hogs, feeds hun
dreds of others; raises more corn than he
can use, and more hay; conducts a coun
try store and cotton gin, and still has
time to entertain his neighbors, and de
velop the philosophy of Country Life in
the United States on the principality plan.
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venturer who willed it all into existence.
THE DUKE OF SAMARCAND
I do not suppose the whole world could
produce another such. Raphael Pumpelly
was by profession a mining engineer, fol
lowing in the footsteps of his father, one
of the greatest geologists of his time.
He is one of the few pupils of Nathaniel
Shayler who can detach himself suf
ficiently from the threads of existence to
consider the earth merely as a cooling
cinder. Or as a great laboratory mar
velously and wonderfully stocked with
elements, and human vagaries, and waste
places, and poetry, and ancient customs,
and lost memories; a kind of enchanted
play ground where one minute a fellow
would be riding a yak in search of the
Garden of Eden, the next courting a Cau
cassian princess, or at the bottom of a
shaft in Wisconsin delighted to contem
plate the rich treasures of the earth.
Dublin, Newport, Georgia, the smiling
Isle of Capri these were all home. The
world was home. With a caravan into the
heart of Asia in a sloop on the coast of
Alaska packing a gun across Mexico
at a dance at Sherry 's occasionally an
nati
H. D. Swarts of Scranton-, Pa., has in
vented a Rat Catcher that caught over
100 rats in one month in one establish
ment. This diabolical contrivance has the
rat habit, and sufficient intelligence to
reset itself after getting each victim, ac
cording to information received direct
from the inventor himself.
PINEHURST
SCHOOL
PINEHURST School was constructed
during the spring and summer of the
present year, on a site one mile south
of Pinehurst.
The school receives both day and board
ing scholars. In the day school the curri
culum is composed of both elementary and
college preparatory courses.
Arrangements have been made to con
vey to and from school boys who live in
Pinehurst during the winter and who
desire to enroll in the day school
department.
(Tbe School Calendar
First Term. Begins
Thursday, October 14, 1915
First Term Ends
Wednesday, December 22, 1915
CHRISTMAS VACATION
Second Term Begins
Wednesday, January 5, 191$
Second Term Ends
Monday, March 13, 191&
Third Term Begins
. Tuesday, March 14, 1916
Third Term Ends
Thursday, May, 18, 1916
For additional information address
ERIC PARSON
(Headmaster)
Pinehurst, - North Carolina
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