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THE PINK HURST OUTLOOK. (I Volcanic Hatha. Volcano baths are the proper tiling nowadays in certain parts of California and Mexico. Down in Mendocino coun ty, Cal., such baths have become most frequent. The volcano bath is not a water bath, nor is it a lire bath or a lava bath, as might be supposed. It is a mud bath, and no ordinary mud bath at that. Ice cold mud of a bluish tint and of the con sistency of freshly mixed mortar is the element into which the bathers plunge, splashing and spluttering. The way they manage it is unique. A sapling is felled in the forests near the volcano craters, stripped of its limbs, carried to the crater and placed across it, so that each end of the pole rests on firm ground. Fancy yourself sliding out on one of these sap lings stretched across- a crater's mouth, then slipping gently oft" into the middle of a gurgling, bubbling, ice-cold mass of mud and swinging yourself there, sus pended by your hands, until fatigued! Then, with just life enough left to crawl back along the log, you reach unyielding ground again. Once plunged into one of the craters of mud, with all ties to the sapling above severed, a person would be lost forever, being swallowed up in the murky depths in an instant, for vastly quicker in action and surer of its victim than quicksand is the mud of Mendocino's mysterious volcanoes. Cleanliness has nothing to do with it. It is not that for which people face the dangers of the volcano bath. The mud which is belched forth from the earth's interior is supposed to contain important medicinal properties. There are about twenty-five of these singular mud-belching volcanoes in Men docino county, and they are among Cali fornia's many wonders. They are situ ated high o-n a mountain side, seven miles from Cahto. At this time of the year they are unusually active. Their gurg ling roar may be heard for a distance of several miles when they are most violent. The mud frequently shoots over the rim of the crater, flows down the mountain like a lava stream and enters one of the Eel river's tributaries called Mud creek. It fills the craters, which are about five feet above the earth's surface and bounded with a circular base or miniature crater from four to seven feet in diameter at the base and two to three feet at the top. Prospecting parties have hewn down saplings fifty feet in length and pushed them into the mouth of a crater. Some of these have disappeared altogether. Others remain near the surface, play things of the muddy element which tosses them about like fishermen's bobbins in a rough sea. A significant coincidence is the fact that when the ocean, twenty miles away, is unusually heavy and rough, the volcanoes become intensely active, belching forth not only their bur den of ice-cold mud, but volumes of warm vapor. In some mysterious way the ocean seems to control their action. San Francisco Bulletin. Lonelyvllle Life. Mr. Isolate (of Lonelyville, after din ner, apprehensively) : "Have you told the new cook that I go in on the 6 :18 train in the morning, Anabel?" Mrs. Isolate (wearily) : "Yes, Ferdi nand, and she says she does, too." -Puck. THE PINEHURST NURSERIES, O. KATZENSTEIN, SUPT., PINEHURST, . N. G. Offer their larj collection of Broad-Leaved Evergreens, Orna mental Trees, Shrubs and Vines AND OF North Carolina Woody and Herbaceous Plants and Seeds Sto"k under regular control by X. C. State Entomologist and is free of any wale or disease. Moderate Prices. Thrifty Plants. Catalogue Free. CORKESrOXDESCE SOLICITED. PUNGENCIES. Cartigan And, Mike, wat is dis game called goluf? Ilartigan Sure it's me belafe that it is shinny wid a college ed dication. Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Newed Was I nervous, dear, during the ceremony ? Her Friend Well, a trifle at first, darling, but not alter Wil liam had said "yes." Tid-Bita. Grogan Have you heard the news? Longley's daughter has run away with Grimson's coachman. Stilpen Thunder ! but it must be an awful blow to Grimson. lie thought the world of that coaehnun. Exchange. An American, strolling through the Green Park in London one day last sum mer, asked one of the gray old guardians of that bit of historic woodland who lived in a stately palace near Stafford House. "It's Lady Blank lives there. She removed to Scotland yesterday to be buried," was the reply. Exchange. "Mar" said Tommy, as he laid aside the pictorial Bible and looked up. "What is it?" asked his mother, lowering her cro cheting. "I know why angels have wings." "Why, Tommy ?" "'Cause the streets in heaven are all a-flowin' with milk an' honey, an' ef they didn't they'd get their feet sticky." Detroit Free Pres. A city girl had spent her whole sum mer in trying to elevate the simple coun try people with whom she was hoarding. Xow she was bidding them adieu. "Good by, Mr. Stiles," she said, "I hope my visit here hasn't been entiiely without good results." "Sartin not," said Farm er Stiles, "Sartin not. You've le.mit a heap since you first come; but by cracky ! you was about the greenest one we ever had on our hands." Detroit Tribune. "You say jou are an actor by profes sion?" asked the magistrate "I am, your honor," answered the frazzled, red-eyed and forlorn, but still dignified, specimen of manhood before him, in a deep, tragic voice. "Well," said the magistrate, "I shall have to send you to the workhouse for sixty days. We haven't any play house." And his honor was so tickled with his own pleasantry that he let the next beery vagabond off with a moral lecture. Chicago Tribune. THE BERKSHIRE PINEHURST, N. C. B'ii-..zr'-4 "MX,. A Ti-'-Jt l W TERMS: $2 per day; $10 to $15 per week. The Berkshire with Its rottnjres la pleasantly located In the new and attractive town of Hue. hurst. It has all modern conveniences for health and comfort, running spring water of exceptionally line quality, hath rooms, steam heat, open tires and electric- lights. Near the house are golf links covering sixty acres, tennis courts and croquet grounds. Horses can he hired at moderate prices for riding and driving. Passengers from New York via I'enn. It. K. and Seaboard Air Line will llml electric cars awaiting them at Southern Tines to convey them to I'lnehurst, a distance of six miles. . II. li:'K. Manager. Proprietor of Mt. Everett House, situated among the Berkshire Hills at South Egremont, Mass DEPARTMENT STORE, PINEHURST, N. C. DEPT A B C D E F C Drugs and Proprietary Medicines. Dry tJoods and Notions. Gents' Furnishings, Hats and Caps. Boots, Shoes and Rubber Goods. Fancy and Heavy Groceries. Fresh Meats in Cold Storage. Hardware, Stoves and Tinware. DEPT. H Crockery and G lass ware. J Furniture. K Electric Supplies. L Plumbing Supplies. M Grain, Hay and Feert Stuffs. N Paints, Oils and Vainishes. O Silverware, Souvenirs and Toys. GROCERIES. We carry fill Mini s of Fa ncy and Heavy Groceries such brands and as sortments as are handled by New England grocers. Dry Goods and Shoes. The Dry Goods and Shoe departments are complete. Stock bought in Northern markets. Quality our standard for selection. Meat and Fish Market. Poultry, Game. Fish, Oysters and Me.its of all kinds constantly in stock. Western Meats handled in cold storage. Hats, Caps and Gents' Furnishings. The latest styles of Hats, Caps and Gents Furm-hings carried in stock. Stationery. A full line of Stationery, both printed and plain, will be found in this department. The Pine Grove House PINEHURST, N. C. f "V. r " ilk 'rgf&$ Ft .3 JLr-zMm&mK TERMS, $8.00 TO $12 TV 71 I X be open with home com forts such as New Engend ers like for a limited number of people who are obliged by health or inclination to leave their homes for a salubrious climate such as I'INKHL'KST, N. C, can claim. For such, I. A. FLINT, of the Stone House Farm, N. Head ing, Mass., (known as a pleasant place to board during the heated term) will be at the Pine Grove House, to welcome. .00 PER WEEK. The Outlook Will be sent postpaid to any address in the United States or Canada THREE MONTHS FOR 35 CENTS. Sample copies sent on receipt of address. SUBSCRIBE NOW. SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
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