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3 PlNEHURST CASINO.x rT5 F!nJ Fiiicifia iTwu-H?' V'.wr.i.w cii;tK:t i f itr sA OPEN FROM NOVEMBER 1st TO JUNE 1st. This tasteful building is designed for the comfort and convenience of the resi dents of Pinehurst, all of whom are privileged to make use of it. The Ladies' Parlor and Cafe are on the lower floor, and the second floor has Heading Jioom supplied with daily Papers and all the Popular Periodicals, Billiard h'oom, Smoking l'oom and Hath Pooins. The Casino Cafe. The Casino Cafe provides Excellent Xew England Cooking. Table Board $4.50 per Week. Dinners $2.50 per Week. A BAKEI'Y is connected with the Cafe, where families can obtain supplies. Address for Board Mrs. A. E. UPHAM, Pinehurst, N. C. THE MAGNOLIA, Pinehurst, N. C. RATES: $8.00 TO $12.00 PER WEEK. ) ; lip's J, L. POTTLE, Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. C T. HAWBS, DENTIST, OHico New Hampshire Ave., over News Depot, in front of Hotel Ozone, SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. The Ozone SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. THE DRUMMERS' RESORT. One of the best known ho tels on the S. A, L. II. U, Guests for Pinehurst who arrive on the u. in. ex press will find a comfort able bed and good break fast while waiting for the 51.20 electric, car to take thein to their destination. Parlor always open and free to Pineliurst visitors. R. M. COUCH, Proprietor and Manager. The Magnolia is under the same man agement as last winter, Mr. J. L. Pottle, who has had more than twenty years' ex perience as proprietor of The Highland House, Jefferson Highlands, N. H. This house is modern in all appointments; steam heat throughout, open tires in all public, rooms and several of the cham bers, electric lights, bath rooms, the best of running water and perfect sanitary arrangements. Cooking by first class Northern cook. Table supplied with good food, well cooked and neatly served. No pains will be spared to make it home-like and pleasant for all guests. For further information address Vegetable Sponges LUFFAHS, DISH RAGS Are especially fine this year, 15 to 18 inches long. We will send thein postpaid at 10 cents each, either prepared and ready for use, or in orig inal shell and with seeds in side, to any address as long as they last. The Pinehurst Nurseries Send us a postal card with the address es of your friends and a free sample copy of The Otttuok will he mailed to them. ttrowlli of lVaimt IiidiiMtr.y. "The American people are evidently very partial to peanuts," remarked a large peanut planter in Virginia to the writer recently, "for there are nearly 4,000 bushels of them consumed in the United States annually. Before the civil war the peanut was only a holiday luxury to the majority of the people liv ing in the north; the day when the cir cus was in town, during the county fair and the great and glorious Fourth of July being the principal occasions that the popular yearning for the peanut was in any measure satisfied. The product then amounted to barely 500,000 bushels a year. "At the close of the war, when the soldiers returned north, thousands of them had cultivated such a liking for the nut, which they had often pulled from the ground and roasted at their camp tires when in Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, that the crop then raised in these States didn't begin to supply the demand. "Wideawake farmers saw the point, and small garden patches where peanuts had been grown for generations were soon abandoned for broad fields, and to day Virginia and North Carolina .are growing 4,000,000 bushels of peanuts a year a result due almost entirely to the civil war, and the habit the federal troops contracted of eating large quanti ties of the nuts. Naturally the re tnrned soldiers' demand for peanuts placed them within reach of the rural population in the north, and the nut soon ceased to be a holiday luxury. "When the war broke out most of the peanuts consumed in this country were raised in North Carolina. A great many were also imported from Africa. They were of inferior quality. In fact, the best antebellum peanuts were poor com pared with the nuts grown today. But the demand for the nuts in recent years has not had the effect of improving the North Carolina product, or increasing its yield to any great extent. Virginia and Tennessee, however, woke right up under the increased demand, and im proved cultivation has produced a nut, especially in Virginia, that is as near per fect as it can be. "I don't suppose there are many peo ple who know that the peanut came to this country with the first cargo of slaves that were landed on our shores. It is a native of Africa, and in its orig inal state as full of grease almost as a bit of pork. Cultivation and change of soil have greatly reduced the oleaginous quality of the nut, although the North Carolina variety has enough grease yet to find a ready sale in France, where it joins its African ancestor and cotton seed in supplying not a little of the olive oil we find in the restaurants and family groceries. Norfolk, Va., is the greatest peanut centre in the world and handles annnually 200,000 bags, or 8,000,000 bushels. "It is a pretty sight to see a peanut plantation when the vines are in blos som. The blossoms are a bright yellow and the vines are a vivid green. As soon as the blossom appears a fine branch forms on the vine and shoots down into the ground. The peas, as the nuts are called on the plantation, form on the shoot beneath the ground, like potatoes. "When the crop is gathered in Octo ber the vine is plowed up and the nuts hang to the roots. Vines and all are piled in cocks in the field, and in 20 days the nuts are ready to be pulled off, placed in bags and taken to the factories. There they are cleansed of dirt, assorted, pol ished in revolving cylinders and put into bags ready for the market." Washington Star. Am mi IiivMtment. The elderly caller unwrapped a bright, new-looking coin from several thicknesses of paper. "I have a Columbian half-dollar," he said. "How much is it worth?" "It is worth 50 cents," replied the deal er in old coins. The caller put it back in his pocket. "1 can do better than that with it," he rejoined. "I can lend it and get good interest on it." And he went out and gave it to a poor boy . Ch Icatja Trih u n e. PUNGENCIES. Mrs. .lohnsing: "Can't stay long, Mrs. Snow: I just come to see ef yo' wouldn't join de mission band." Mrs. Snow: "Fo' de lan' sakes, honey, doan come to me. I can't even play on a mouf organ." Exchanyr. Little Ethel Mamma, I wish you'd wash AV i 1 lie Prettie's face. Mamma The idea! lie's a neighbor's little boy. I have nothing to do with him. Little Ethel Hut I have. We've become en gaged, an' I want to kiss him. Tid Iiitn. A little girl being put at a table by herself at dinner as a punishment, said this grace before meat, "O Lord, I thank thee that thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." ConyreyationaUat. lie My dear, i have just written a little masterpiece. I call it ah "How to be master of the household." Wouldn't you like to hear it? "No, Samuel. I'm going off for a day's golf. You stay with the twins until ! return." Life. Mrs. Porkly: "1 often wonder how people manage to understand each other in France." Mrs. Gotham: "How ab surd!" Mrs. Porkly: "I don't think it absurd at all. Both my daughters speak French, and they can't understand each other.' E xch a nye. Fat and his friend Mike had killed a snake in the fields. As the tail of the snake continued to oscillate, Pat re marked to his friend : "And is he dead, Mike, div ye think? " "Oh, yis, sure," said Mike, "he's dead, but he ain't con scious of it yit." Exchange. "That was a disgusting tramp 1 helped this morning,'' said old Mrs. Smythe of liungtown Corners. "I gave him a pie and asked him to saw some vvocd, and about ten minutes later lie came in and asked me if I'd mind if he ate the wood and sawed the pie.'' Bazar. "Talking about people with poor mem ories," said the man of remarkable ex periences, "the worst case of the kind 1 ever knew was a man named A. Freling huysen Smith. He invariably wrote his name that way, and after he had been doing it for about 15 years, I'm blest if he didn't forget what the 'A.' stood for !" Puck.
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