VOL. II., NO. 15.
PINEHURST, N. C, FEB. 3, 1899.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
HEALTH IS FOUND
In the Sand Hills Where Tine
hurst is Located.
No Grippe, Malaria, Fever and Chills, nor
Noxious Microbes in Soil or Water.
Plenty ol Bright Sunshine and Baimy Air
Hope for the Invalid.
That "Fountain of Youth" the Spanish
cranks so eagerly sought for still exists
only in fabled story, nor is there any
Eden (its primitive innocence left out) in
North Carolina of which we have any
definite knowledge. Hut something an-'
alogous thereto where the blight of
sickness and sorrow finds no native
origin has been located by common
consent in what is called the ''Sand
Hills" in the middle section of the state,
which include the towns of Manly,
Southern Pines, Pinehurst. Pinebluff and
other places as far south as Hamlet, per
haps in many respects equally as desir
able. This stretch of apparently barren
land that the farmer once passed by with
contempt, and in which the orchardist
could see nothing of value, possessed the
very elements and conditions which have
made it one of the most favored sections
of country on the globe. It was (and
still is to a considerable extent) pano
plied with groves of long-leafed pine
which exhale the fragrant ozone so grate
ful to the impaired tissues of human
throats and lungs. Here the porous
sand, extending to a depth of fifty to
ninety feet, absorbs the rain almost as
last as it falls, leaving no moisture on
t lie earth's surface, nor humus in the at
mosphere after a shower. Here are no
extremes of heat and cold, the tempera
ture heimr imiformlv mild and even. Ill
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the summer the ocean breezes (filtered
through the pine forests in their west
ward course) cool the air; in winter the
influences of the gulf stre.im soften and
subdue its rigors. It has proved the
ideal region for invalids suffering from
bronchial and lung maladies and on the
advice of physicians who have studied
the countrv they have flocked hither and
found that immediate and permanent re
lief they had vainly sought in Colorado,
Florida, on the Pacific slope, and in
other parts of the United States.
THE PLACE FOR CONSUMPTIVES.
It is a noteworthy fact that of late the
tide of migration hns changed and is
changing from California and Colorado
(where the atmosphere is surcharged at
times with an excess of moisture, and the
vinds are chilly if not sharply cold), to
the sand hills of North Carolina, where
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me lenuency or sou and climate is to
soothe and heal rather than aggravate
the susceptible lungs and throats of
those who are suflering from consump
tion in its first stages. "I know of few
uungs more pitmii, (says David Sta
Jordan, in the Atlantic Monthly) uth;
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the annual migration of consumptives to
Los Angeles, Pasadena and San Diego.
The Pullman cars in the winter are full
of sick people, banished from the east by
physicians who do not know what else to
do with their hopeless patients. They
go to the large hotels of Los Angeles or
Pasadena, and pay a rate they cannot af
ford. They shiver in half warmed
rooms, take cold after cold, their symp
toms grow alarming, their money wastes
away, and finally in utter despair they
are hurried back homeward, perhaps to
die on board the train. Or it may be
that they choose cheap lodging houses,
at prices more nearly within their reach.
Here, again, they sutler for want of home
food, home comforts and home warmth,
and the end is just the same.''
What is said of the places above re
ferred to cannot be truthfully spoken of
any of the towns in the high and dry
"Sand Hill" region. A large majority of
those visiting or residing here (if they
have not reached the hopeless stage), re
cover from their ailments. The cases of
fatality almost invariably occur where
the invalid is so far restored that he
deems it safe to return north before a
iH.i-in:Mient, cure is effected. Then he is
liable to a relapse, and succumbs to the
inevitable, or hastens back when it is too
late. Numberless Instances of this kind
can be cited.
A GLIMPSE AT PlXEIIUKST.
A brisk fifteen minutes" ride on the
f.nllnv ciir from the Seaboard Air Line
depot at Southern Pines, spanning a dis
tance of six miles through forest open
ings, pine, groves and the famous v an
lin.ih.v neach orchard, is not an unwel
come experience. Pinehurst, with its
isolated cottages, intervening lawns and
ornamental grounds, its village
iu tPnni courts, its wealth of green
i....,M,n, ;md occasional flowers in
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bloom, presents a picture as beautiful
and alluring as ever, uusi b
.i.?fo,.t.mil .reins is the Holly Inn,
which has been considerably enlarged,
i .ia to its interior accommodations,
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greatlv improved. Mr. Tufts, the
originator and proprietor of this marvel
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until recently a lonely looking, un
converted wilderness, intermits the ex
penditure of no money and effort in the
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development or ins granu
within the uast year an ad
dition of thirty-two rooms has been made
iiniir Inn. the village hall,
roomy department store the little red
school house, the Berkshire hotel, he
four handsome apartment houses (the
Dartmouth, Marlboro, neacon u
mont), with steam laundry; besides
seven workmen's cottages just outside
the town limits, have been completed.
They are fine specimens of the builder's
skill. All the cottages are filled, or en
gaged by parties who at this writing
have not arrived, while the Inn has its
usual complement of guests.
The unrutlled serenity of the scene
here, in spite of its many pleasing and
varied features, would in time become
rather irksome to those enjoying a sound
mind in a healthy body. It is no place
for business, especially real estate (for
Mr. Tufts will not sella foot of ground
he owns), while mercantile, market and
even coal and firewood transactions are
restricted to the stores and agencies he
controls and employs. Hut the man or
woman who is afflicted with nervous
prostration or bodily weakness of almost
any kind finds here a sense of blissful re
pose and other conditions favoring a
complete recovery of lost vitality and
drooping energies, whether the stay is
for the season or the year. Pev. Edward
Everett Hale very charmingly portrays
in a recent characteristic letter the al
lurements offered by Pinehurst to a cer
tain class of invalids. We make the fol
lowing extract, and regret we haven't
space for the entire letter, which is
worth reading many times over :
"My recollection of Pinehurst is ol a
place where nobody worried me, where I
was not afraid of anybody, where 1
wanted to get out of bed when 1 woke in
the morning, and wanted to go to bed
when it came to be half-past nine at
ninht. Is not this, perhaps, the method
thP lifivt century? If one were to
imagine an ideal home, would he not say
that it was a place where the drainage
had been arranged first, and the water
supply second, and the light for the
nio-ht third, and the houses fourth, and
what you ate and drank last? Would he
not say that there was a nice post-oflice
and post mistress, and a nice shop with
nice people to keep the shop, and that
vou bought things cheaper than you ever
bought anything in your life before, and
that there was a nice room to spend the
evening in. with a lecture or a concert or
a stereopticon? And would not this de
scribe Pinehurst?"
The Berkshire is the latest addition to
Pinphiirsr, hotels. It is a. handsome
structure, finely furnished and efficiently
managed. This hostelry was built to
meet the growing demand for nice ap
pointments and home-like surroundings
of people of refined tastes but moderate
means. It can comfortably accom
modate about sixty guests. It is located
on the Magnolia road, embracing what
wprft formerly known as the Oaks and
thp Hanover. It is connected with these
two apartment houses, so as to practical-
1 v make one building. A spacious veran
fl i runs along nearly the whole front,
while at the rear the edifice is arranged
in three sections, affording to all parts ol
the connected structure plentiful sun
hine and pure air. The dining room
will seat about one hundred persons. It
is a ll. e, well lighted apartment, with an
open brick fireplace at one end, where,
on cool days, blazing pine logs diffuse a
pleasing warmth. The sides have large
windows, while numerous electric lights
at evening make a brilliant display. The
sleeping rooms are nicely furnished, and
fine mattresses and springs provided,
several bath rooms being located on each
floor. The manager, W. B. Peck, is an
experienced hotel man, who also has
charge (as proprietor) of the Mt. Everett
house in the Berkshire lulls of Massa
chusetts, where for over twenty-live
years he has catered to the wants ol sum
mer visitors. Saluuty itmli.
Ihmii Victoria" Nairn.
What is the nueen's family name? asks
T. P. O'Connor. It is a matter of com
mon belief, he savs.that in the extremely
unlikclv event of the entire abolition of
all titular distinctions in this country,
and the disintegration of the social inei
archv into its primitive elements, her ma
jesty's present royal designation would
be reduced to the simple formula or "Mia.
Guelph." This is an entire mistake.
The Oueen's legal name, were sue uy
some mysterious process to become a
simple commoner, would he .Mis. vti
tin," by virtue of her marriage with
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotna,
whose name, stripped of territorial and
other garnishings, was plain "Albert
Wettin."
Wettiii is the patronymic of King Leo
pold of Belgium, of King Albert of Sax
ony, of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, of
the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, or
the duke of Saxe-Weimar and of the
duke of Saxe-Meiningen, as well as of
the prince of Wales and his brothers aim
of Prince Charles of Portugal. Wettin,
vi ho died in 115(5, was a descendant or
one Wittikind, who was a contemporary
of the great Charlemagne.
The majority of the reigning princes of
in-one claim to be descended from Wit
tikind, among them being King Chris
tian of Denmark, King George of Greece,
Ptr. "rand duke of Oldenburg, and tne
czar of ltussia. The patronymic of these
four rulers is Oldenburg, the emperoi oi
Bussia being neither a Bomanoff nor yet
a Holstein-Gottorp, as has been stated.
The queen prior to her marriage, was
entitled to the patronymic of Azon she
was Miss Azon, in fact. Of the same
name are the reigning prince of Leich
tenstein and the duke of Cumberland, or
king of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as he is now.
The founder of the house of Azon died
in the year 004, and was margrave or
marquis of Este. It is for this reason
that the royal house of Great Britain has
sometimes made use of the name d'Este,
notably in the case of the duke of Sussex,
a younger son of King George III, who
gave the name of d'Este, after marriage
to his morganatic wife. Mainly About
People.