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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK 8 PAGE IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS VISIT THE Beautiful Sapphire Country: A Resort of Unlimited Attractions. Three charming lakes, indescribable mountain scenery, dashing waterfalls almost without number, one hundred miles of well maintained mountain roads and bridle paths. Game preserves of 28,000 acres, more than seventy-five miles of trout Btreams. The climate is mild and dry, the air pure and bracing; elevation from 2,250 to 5,000 feet. Toxaway Inn is a beautiful, elegantly furnished hotel, with steam heat, elevator, private baths, etc., situated on the shores of Lake Toxaway, and is nestled at the foot of Mt. Toxaway. Location ideal, southern exposure. Nine hole golf course, unlimited attractions, every convenience. Western Union wire in hotel. For rates, reservation and full information, address: J. C. Burrows, Lake Toxaway, N. C. OLD DOMINION LINE Direct Connections with all Southern Resorts STEAMERS large and fast, operated over a most picturesque route, offer the maximum of comfort ana enjoyment. tJui slne and service of the highest class. DULY SAILINGS at 3 p. m, from Pier 26 N. It., New York, for Old Point Com fort, Norfolk. Portsmouth, Pinner's Point and Newport News, connecting for Pine hurst, Petersburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Washington and entire South and West. For complete information address. OLD DOMINION LINE, 81-85 Beach St., N.Y. Robert JL. Burns, Attorney at Law, Carthage, V. C. Iiooms 7 and 8, Law Building. Phone 18 connects with Pinehurst. Reference : The Bank of Carthage. MISS FEitoussoar, The Cedars, - Pineliurit, N. C Graduate Nurse Boston City Hospital. Boston Floating Hospital for Children. $1 Smith Premier is the simplest and stronor- 1 est of all writing machines. it does better work, does it quicker, lasts longer, and costs less in the long run than any other type writing machine. It is The World's Best Typewriter Let us send you our little book telling all about it. Typewriter supplies. Ma chines rented. Stenographers furnished. The Smith Premier Typewriter Company SOl JE. Main Street, Itlrbmond, Va. READ THIS AGAIN and AGAIN When you return home, send us a standing order for COFFEE You will then be assured of a satisfac tory cup of coffee EERY morning Oriental Tea Company, Scollay Square, Boston, Mass. "The Big Teakettle." THE LEXINGTON, llateobure, S. C. A beautiful new winter resort between Colum bia, South Carolina and Aiken, on Southern Kail way. Magnificently located, dry, healthful, invit ing; pure artesian water, private dairy, Northern management and service. Reasonable rates. Booklet : T. W. CHILI, Manag-er. Di Russell G. Sherrill, DENTIST, 208 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C. Dobbin & Ferrall, J23-J25 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C. North Carolina's Leading Dry Goods Store A Ileal City Store. THE Pinehurst Pharmacy Carries a Complete Line of Drugs, Druggist Sundries, Toilet Articles, Con fections, Etc. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY Compounded by a Registered Pharmacist. Sunday Hourg; 8.30 to 10.30 a. m; 3 to 8 p.m Forty Wear an Advertising- Agent. Of the many "memoirs" and "autobio graphies" which are being written and published these days there is not one that will be read with more genuine interest by newspaper men especially than "Forty Years an Advertising Agent," by George P. Powell. But in point of fact the volume is so well written and is so full of contemporary human interest, that it is bound to find favor with a much larger public than those directly inter ested in newspapers and magazines. The style in which it is written is a model of simplicity, and reminds one somehow of Benjamin Franklin's auto biography, not only in the mere style of the writing, but in the wholesome spirit in which it has been written. The naive confidences that are always discreet and applicable and that stop short at just the right point ; the good natured personali ties; the shrewd measurements of men; the philosophic sizing up of events, and the brief stories, which are told in such an artless manner, make of this volume not only a distinctly interesting book of the present and the past, but an impor tant perhaps the most important con tribution to the newspaper and journal istic history of this country that has ever been made. If one should want to know something of the papers and the characteristics of the men in the newspaper business 40 years ago, in Boston and New York espec ially, here it is all told from a somewhat new standpoint from the standpoint of tlie man who knew the men and the pa pers and yet was not directly affiliated with them. The frankness with which Mr. Powell discusses his own business that of an advertising agent and head of an adver tising agency is positively refreshing, for it is all done without any mental reser vations, until finally one becomes as deeply interested in him and the growth and development of his business, as if it were a romance, because it is all so hu man and so simple. You are made to feel that you are being specially confided in ; that you are being told a secret. Mr. Powell's book consists of 52 chap ters or papers, each in a sense separate and of itself interesting, but making as a whole a context that is complete. He came from the country, where as a boy he had learned habits of thrift, and went to work in the counting room of a Boston newspaper as a sort of collector, which business brought him into contact with a variety of men and such a variety of business enterprises as would scarcely have been possible in any other line. Here he remained for seven years, and during this time he learned many things that served him in good stead in after life. He got an education that could not be ob tained in any school or any college. He learned something of men and of human nature and especially of the mental atti tude of men toward business. He learned much about the newspaper business and about the men engaged in that line of business in Boston. All of this knowl edge enabled him at the end of seven years to start into a unique business with another young man the business of sell ing advertising space in newspapers. How he built this business up from small beginnings in Boston and later moved to New Yrork, and how the many problems of the business were met and solved, constitutes an important and in teresting part of the 517 pages of this book, but the relation of this unique busi ness to the newspapers of the country, to many of the prominent men in business and professional life in the country, is probably the most absorbing part of the work. Here one can get a glimpse of the wrecks that have strewn the sea of jour nalism during the past 40 years, and of some of the journalistic successes that have been made in that time. The wrecks have been many and the rocks on which some of these ventures have foundered are worth noting. One also gets a good idea of the growth of this country in the past 40 years, especially in the newspaper field, and the changes which have taken place in the newspaper methods of doing business in that time. The Quickening-. "The Quickening," by Francis Lynde (The Bobbs-Merrill Co.), begins with the story of a genuine old-fashioned "re vival" in Paradise Valley, a little hamlet which had had no development since the close of the Civil War. Here, drawn by the exhortations of the revivalist, came the mountaineers, who under the lash ings of the minister's tongue, were driven to the mourners' bench, and experienced there that remarkable should we say hysterical? mental state termed conver sion. Among the converts was the hero of the story, then but a boy of twelve. His mother had destined him from his cradle for the ministry, while his father had hoped that at sometime he might become a competent mechanic, as he himself was. Now the heroine enters. She is the grand daughter of an unreconstructed rebel, whose bitter hatred of the Yankees, time had not diminished. The little girl had led a life of hardship with her artist father in Paris until her tenth year, when, on the death of her father, she was brought to her grandfather's home in Paradise Valley, and made the pet of the household. The story of the hero's education in a strict Methodist school, his doubts and questionings both of religion, and of his call to the ministry ; his expulsion from the school, and return to his home; his struggles with the Yankee promoter, who had organized a company to develop the coal mines and ore beds which his father had worked on a very small scale, are of intense interest. In addition to that, the beautiful love story between this success ful young business man and our heroine, who had now reached young woman hood, the complications brought about by the hero being placed in a false posi tion with a young woman of low birth and easy virtue, and the final triumph of n
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