THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK.
in a few weeks. I could hardly believe
that so much improvement could have
been made in a few years, and a wild,
barren country, such as that lifts always
been, could have been made as beautiful,
and the sand hills teem with the most
beautiful flowers and plants. If any of
the sportsmen of the North who go to
Pinehurst this winter will call on Mr.
Powell, who is himself a great lover of
field sports, he can tell them all they
want to know about the game down
there. I am now too far advanced in
years to do much more hunting myself,
but if I were a younger man I would get
together a lot of men who love field
sports, and buy this land and make a
game preserve of it. It can be done at a
small outlay, the there is land enough
there to furnish shooting for the next
fifty or a hundred years. Polk Miller, in
Forest and Steam.
A New IK'vice for Driving Jractlce.
The latest golfing device on the market
is called the parachute ball, and it prom
ises to be popular with beginners, and
even with experienced players who are
not able to get out on the links more
than once or twice a week. The para
chute ball is designed for the purpose of
practicing driving and brassy play in
limited spaces, and it so far accomplishes
the object that a player can now go
through all the delights of driving,
approaching, and putting in a small-sized
back yard. An ordinary golf ball is
pierced through the centre and a piece of
strong cord is run through the hole and
knotted on the further side. The cord is
some six or eight feet long, and on the
other end a small parachute of cloth is
made fast. This is laid out on the ground,
and when the ball is hit it acts as a brake
and prevents the ball flying more than a
few yards. A player can study style
and accuracy in hitting the ball by this
little device without having to Hire a
caddie to retrieve the balls. Moreover,
it saves balls, and practice can be taken
in the half hour before dusk when there
is no time to go to the links for even play
over three or four holes. With a small
putting-green, a tennis net or something
similar for a bunker, and a parachute
golf ball, a player can practice to his
heart's content on a space hardly large
enough for a croquet ground. With the
aid of a gimlet one can make his own
parachute ball. The parachute does not
have to be over six or eight inches in
diameter. American Golf.
Veteran's Testimonial.
Here is a patent medicine story which
comes irom up Vermont way. It may
not be true, and then again it mav. The
man who told it would give neither
names, dates nor neighborhoods, but he
believed it. It is printed on the chance
that it is true, for if it is not true ther
is very little reason for printing it. It
would come under the good old, con
servative heading "Important if True."
The hero was a Grand Army man, who
had seen hard service. He was not
well man, but a friend recommended to
him an advertising medicine firm's pana
cea, and he took it and felt much better
He was enthusiastic, and told all his
neighbors about it. After a while the
patent medicine agent called on him and
told him that the company would be glad
to have him tell in print the tidings of
iov that had been spreading in the village
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where he lived. The old man saiu uun
it was true that he felt much better, and
he believed it was the medicine, but he
did not know about writing a testimonial.
The agent spread himself on the busi
ness value of having your portrait in the
country weekly, with the legend "One
of the Leading Citizens of Bugville"
under it. together with remarks about
your long and honorable career in the
community. The G. A. R. man weak
ened. The agent spoke of the thousands
of sufferers who remained in ignorance
of the virtues of the remedy, and who
might be induced to try it and regain
health and happiness by the indorsement
of a solid man of the place.
He pictured their hollow cheeks, which
the mistaken modesty of the Grand Army
man prevented from becoming rosy; the
tired feeling that a word from him would
help to dispel; the racking cough, that
might be silenced if the sufferer were
made to put confidence in the advertised
mixture. The Grand Army man gave
up the daguerreotype.
When the paper came out he felt much
better about it. lie was given undis
puted possession of the cracker box at
the store. Men listened when he spoke,
and the children pointed him out to the
drummers, as he waited to see one of the
two daily trains go by, saying: "There
is the man that had his picture in the
paper."
He bought many copies and sent them
iway to his friends. But there came a
day when joy was changed to mourning.
lie had made the testimonial rather
strong. Perhaps he had exaggerated his
improved health a bit, with the thought
of the hollow cheeks and the tired feel
ing and the racking cough before him as
he wrote. He thought he had on pen
sion day.
Instead of the customary remittance,
he received a note from the bureau, say
ing that the inspector lately working in
his district had reported the testimonial,
and considering that he never felt better
in his life, was a new man and could do
a hard day's work as well as ever, and
that all painful and disagreeable symp
toms had left him never to return, they
had decided that he could not need the
pension any longer. Worcester Gazette.
on December 25th, and we are about
thousand miles or so from New England,
while our cases will not be the only
goods shipped about Christmas. We
cannot guarantee, therefore, to have
delivered in New England, any cases
which are ordered of us for Christmas
day after the 21st, and for New Year's
dav after December 2Sth.
We book orders now and shall fill
them in strict rotation.
A case 30 x 18 x 9 inches cost 75 cents ;
three casses for two dollars, delivered
free at Pinehurst freight or express
station.
Respectfully,
Pixeiiukst Nurseries.
Otto Katzenstein, Manager.
According: a Method.
"Why do you always prefer to move
into a new flat?" asked the matron in the
paisely shawl.
"It save so much work," replied the
matron with the bored expression, "You
never have to clean house."
"But you get the new flat dirty after
a time, don't you?"
"Certainly. Then's the time to move
into another new one." Chicaqo Tribune
No Need to Worry What to Send Your
Friends for Christinas.
We would suggest a case with really
choice Holly, Mistletoe and Pine would
be just the thing to gladden the hearts of
the folks at home.
Probably you know that it is our busi
ness to pack just such stuff and incident
ally we know just how to pack all you
will have to do therefore is to tell us
how many cases you want and to which
addresses you wish them shipped, and
then you may be sure that they get ther
in time.
One thing more! Christmas still comes
Which Foot Walks Faster?
You may think this is a very silly
question to ask, but is it? There is no
catch about it. It is a simple, demon-
trable fact, which you can prove to your
own satisfaction in a very few minutes.
If you will take any pavement that is
clear of other pedestriaus, so that there
shall be no interference, and walk briskly
n the centre, you will find that before
you have gone a hundred yards you will
have veered very much to one side. You
must not make any conscious effort, of
course, to keep in the center, or you may
do it, but if you will think of something
and endeavor to walk naturally it is a
hundred to one you cannot keep a direct
line.
The explanation of this lies in the
peculiarity of one foot to walk faster
than the other. Or, to be more correct,
perhaps it should be said that one leg
takes a longer stride than the other, and
this, combined with the quicker move
ment, causes one to walk more to one
side than the other.
It is well known, for instance, that if
one be lost in the woods the tendency is
to walk in a circle and eventually to
return about to the starting point. This
demonstrates the fact, also, that one foot
walks faster than the other.
You can try an interesting experiment
in this way if you will place two stakes
in the lawn, about eight feet apart, and
then stand off about sixty feet from
them, allow yourself to be blindfolded,
and endeavor to walk between them.
You will find it an almost impossible
task, because one foot will go a bit faster
than the other, either to the right or left.
Now, which one of your feet walks faster
than the other? New York Evening Tele
gram.
to Newcastle," and determined to make
use of it. But as he rang the bell the
cold sweat began to ooze from every
pore, and when the lady appeared in the
eception room he scarcely knew where
he was at.
"I 1 thought," stammered the embar-
assed youth, "that I I would bring you
i b bo bouquet ; but it's like casting p
pearls before s s swine." Exchange.
Surprising.
Cannibal Chief "Is the missionary
about fat enough for the pot, slave?"
Chef "No, your Imperial Majesty, the
fellow simply will not fatten. Do you
know I believe he's secretly worrying
ibout something !" Fidele Blatter.
The Day Had Come.
Mrs. Spinks "Where is the money
you have been saving for a rainy day?"
Mr. Spinks "In the Neverbreak
Bank."
Mrs. Spinks "Well, give me a check
for some of it. I want a new water
proof." New York Weekly.
Ethics of the Profession.
The door is open," cried the owner of
the house adjoining the fire. "You
needn't smash the window."
"Sir," cried the foreman of the fire
company, sending his ax through the
glass, "we know our business." Phila
delphia North American.
so
Not Unite What He Meant.
lie was too diffident to tell his love,
resolved to take some flowers to the
beautiful girl who had inspired it, and
trust to fortune for the rest. He pur
chased a fine bouquet, but just as he
arrived at the lady's house it suddenly
occurred to him that she had a conserva
tory. He tried to think of some wav
get over the blunder. Suddenly he recol
lected the saying about "carrying coals
Sentiment Aside.
"My sympathy," he said, is always
with the under dog."
"Yes," she replied, "but did you ever
choke an upper dog loose?" Chicago
Times-Herald.
"Mrs. Langtry haughtily says she can
get along without the aristocracy of this
country." "Well, if she can't she's at
perfect liberty to take it with her."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"I have several reasons for not buying
the horse," said the man. "The first is
that 1 haven't the price, and" "You
needn't mention the others," interrupted
the owner. Philadelphia North American.
Guzzler Have a drink? Bjones (who
is going slow) No thanks; I've just
had a swallow. Guzzler But one swal
low doesn't make a summer. Bjones
But it sometimes means an early fall.
Philadelphia fiecord.
TommySay, paw. Mr. Figg Well?
"What is a kopie?" "A kopje is a place
where the British stopje, and it generally
has a Boer or two on topje." Indianipoli
Press.
A Why do you write to your fiancee
with a typewriter? B Out of precau
tion. She may have my writing examined
by those fellows who can read the char
acter from handwriting. Exchange.
Little Dick: Uncle Richard, what is
bric-a-bracf Uncle Richard: "Bric-a-brac
is anything you knock over and
break when you are feeling for matches
in the dark." Puck.
Boy : "You are going to fight, against
the English, aren't you, Capt. Brown ?,T
Capt. Brown (indignantly) : "Fight the
English? What on earth put that into
your head?" Boy: "Why, daddy saul
you were a Boer!" Punch.
"My, beau," said ten-year-old Lucy,
"is going to be an admiral." "Is he in
the Naval Academy?" asked her sympa
thetic aunt. "Oh, no" replied the little
woman ; "he's too j-oung for that yet,
but he's having an anchor tatooed on his
arm." Philadelphia Press.
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