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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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Published Every Saturday Morning, During
the Season, November to May, at
Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tufts)
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Saturday, January 11, 190M.
Tbe Lure of the Links.
With a pinch of sand
In his strong right hand
lie builded a conical tee,
For, whatever befall
He would drive that ball
In a style that was grand to see.
He shook himself loose
Like a waking goose
To make himself supple and spry,
Then he swung his club :
'Twas a sorry dub
For the mucker he raised his eye.
The ball rolled away
Fifty yards I'd say,
Which was little for one like he;
His six feet in length
And terrific strength
Should do so much better, you see.
"Here Caddy," said he,
"That brassy give me
I'll land her clean up on the green!"
He dubbed it again,
But said to explain
"The very worst lie ever seen."
The mashie he took,
In rage fairly shook,
And swatted away at the ball,
The ball gave a pitch
Plunk into the ditch,
Was bunkered b'gosh after all.
With niblick in hand
He stood in tbe sand ,
With a rage that was plain to see;
He hammered the ball
Far beyond recall :
It was lost for eternity.
Then what should he do
The dub never knew
For the game was a medal score;
So he mopped his head
And peevishly said
"Now : Could anything jar you more."
Next day he was out
With a laugh and shout
Eager and ripe for the fray;
He felt in his heart
He'd make a good start
And do a lot better that day.
But alas, alack
He gave it a whack
And the ball went ove the fence;
That very first loss
Sure made him feel cross
At such rotten luck to commence.
The very next day
He went out to play
As eager as ever before;
He didn't half try
And that is just why
He make such an elegant score.
Tin Whistle.
IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS
HE "Affair at Pine
Court. by Nelson liust
Gilbert (J.B. Lippincott
Co.) depicts a state of
aflairs almost medieval,
as existing today in the
Adiiondacks if we are to interpret the
author literally. According to the story
desperate outlaws are banded in several
settlements who can be brought together
in a common cause to murder landowners
and their guests or to lay siege for the
purpose of pillage.
The story opens with a house party at
" Pine Court," the summer home of a
rich Xew Yorker, who has acquired a
large tract of land as a preserve, and by
so doing has aroused the enmity of cer
tain organized gangs who live by plun
der and poaching.
The plot centers upon a certain " Gau
Lens " which a German traveller, a man
of mystery and a guest at The Court,
displays, claiming to have taken the gem
from Satan himself and that with it he
can acquire untold wealth and power.
A French butler, present during the
German's rhapsodies, takes in most of
the conversation and becoming con
vinced that the stone is a diamond of
fabulous value, conveys the information
to the banded outlaws who resolve to
possess themselves of the treasure by
plunder and pillage if necessary.
Later, while walking in the forest, the
German is shot from ambush, but not by
an assailant in search of the lens. As he
lies wounded he is visited in turn by
three young men from whom the Ger
man has won heavily at baccarat, the
night previous, one of whom the Ger
man, upon recovery of consciousness,
accuses of robbing him of the lens,
which is later found to have been taken
by a woman among the guests who, in
love with the German, feels that the lens
stands between herself and his love and
so has secured it ana throws it in the
river.
Complications follow the shooting
thick and fast, the outlaws demanding
the instant delivery of the stone and
upon being refused, attack the house.
Repulsed in a sharp attack, they lay
siege, cutting oft all communication, un
til the hero and heroine, stealing through
the lines, bring aid, and the outlaws are
repulsed. Naturally the hero and hero
ine marry, returning to Pine Court for
their honeymoon.
There is incident and action, vivid por
trayal of character and a wide imagina
tive range ; a book well worth the read
ins and which will hold the interest
throughout. Mr. Gilbert has -certainly
shown us that we need not turn back
times pages or cross the ocean to cret
material for romantic action.
The II roUen Itoad.
"The Broken lioad," by A. E. W.
Mann (Charles Scribners Sons; is dan
gerously close, to a remarkable book if it
were only more of a completed picture
and less of a sketch; if the writer had
only worked longer and more in detail
upon it.
"The lioad" is the great highway
from India toward the Hindu Kush, and
its magic lay in the fascination of the
idea of pushing it further and further
into the debated lands of the Indian
frontier. - The fate of quiet English fam
ilies and their ambitious sons and of In
dian Princes and provinces lay in that
enterprise.
The Prince in the foreground is Shere
Ali, son of Abdulla Mahommed, Khan of
Chiltistan, who is sent to Eton and Ox
ford that he may familiarize himself
with English ways. Petted in England,
he goes back to India to rind himself, a
member of the inferior race, cut oft" from
his former friends with white skins, un
able to aspire to the Victoria Cross, for
instance, but expected to " be good " and
teach his own people submission to the
will of their British masters. It is all a
mistake a horrible mistake is the
argument of the book. Shere Ali does
not stay "good." A few months in his
father's country make him again as wild
a fanatic as India contains, put him at
the head of an insurrection, make him
the attempted abductor of his English
sweetheart, Violet Oliver, who has en
gaged herself to the Indian Prince's own
college friend, Liuforth. The insurrec
tion comes to nothing, as will be the way
of Indian insurrections for years to
come, but of the tragic consequences to
white and brown alike of a revolt in the
hills this powerful book gives an idea.
It is a book filled with the spirit and at
mosphere of India, written, it is appar
ent, out of the most intimate familiarity
with the various phases of the life of
that teeming hive of men. It is a better
book than " Kim," though perhaps it
might not have been written except for
"Kim."
To Ilia Book.
Bright books : perspectives on our weak sights,
The clear projections of discerning lights,
Burning in shining thoughts, man's posthume
day,
The track of lied souls in their inllkie way,
The dead alive and busy, the still voice
Of enlarged spirits, kind heaven's white decoys!
Who lives with you lives like those knowing
flowers
Which in commerce with light spend all their
hours;
Which shut to clouds and shadows nicely shun,
But with glad haste unveil to kiss the sun,
Beneath you all is dark and a dead night,
Which whoso lives in wants both health and
sight.
By sucking you, the wise, like bees, do grow,
Healing and rich, though this they do most slow,
Because most choicely; for as great a store
Have we of books as bees, or herbs, or more;
And the great task to try, then know, the good,
To discern weeds and judge of wholesome food,
Is a rare scant performance. For man dies
Oft ere 'tis done, while the bee feeds and Hies.
But you were all choice flowers; all set anddrest
By old sage florists, who well know the best;
And I amidst you all am turned to weed !
Not wanting knowledge, but for want of heed.
Then thank thyself, wild fool, that would'st not
be
Content to know what waB too much for thee.
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