' " -sfeW' PAGE THE PINEHURST 1 WHEN SOUSA PLAYED FOR KING OUTLOOK MfL . m THE JEFFERSON RICHMOND, VA. With the addition of 300 bed rooms, cafe, private dining room, etc., this far-famed Hotel la more magnificent, attractive and secure, than ever before. Room0 single and en suite, with and without private baths. Long distance phones In every room. The many points of historic Interest in, and around the City, makes Richmond a very desir able stop-over place for tourists, where they can enjoy the equable climate, thus avoiding extreme changes of temperature. DEAL MEANS A6DEAI. A. S. NEWCOMB & COMPANY Southern Pines, N. C. IHntKtHn Flre Automobile, Life, nSUianCU Health, Accident, etc. Do,! F - - Bought and Sold. Bui rttdl Ldlalt; letins on application. Investments Telephone No. 4. six percent mortgages Agents of S. P. Building Company. The Magnolia, PINEHURST, N. C. Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Excellent Tabid J. L. POTTLE & SON THE LEXINGTON PINEHURST, N.C. Pleasant location, Hot and Cold Baths, Electric Light, Steam Heat. Mrs. E. C. Bliss. SOUTHERN FINES HOTEL, Southern JPinea, IV. C. Under new management, Electric lights, Steam heat and call belU in all rooms. Uolf, tennis and croquet. First-class table and service by white girls from the North. For rales, etc., addres J. L. POTTLE & SON. An American Triumph Few persons realize that America as represented by the greatest of the world's silversmiths, The Gorham Co. is producing to day articles for household and table use in sterling silver that have all the fire and spirit of the best examples of the past. Gorham Silverware is now nearly a hundred years old. It has accumulated a fund of experience and tradition. The famous Gorham trade mark is STERLING is recognized all over the world. It means workmanship that excludes the slightest flaw. It guarantees substantial weight. Insist upon this mark when you purchase silver. All the best jewelers carry Gorham Silverware in stock. No others are permitted to handle it. THE GORHAM CO. NEW YORK GORHAM SILVER POLISH the best for cleaning .ilver. There's an Ideal Summer Home in Maine For You THE MT. KINEO HOUSE muuiiwiu unmDing, etc. Superb seen climate ; no hay fever. Handsome booklets free. C A. JUDK1NS, . manaeer. KINEO, Moosehead Lake, MAINE. Man Glorified In Monarch As "God Save the Klngr" i Hendered DUKIJNGa career em bracing many years of concert giving, I can not recall more pleasant events than the two oc casions upon which I had the honor to appear with my organization before the late King Edward. While my artistic success in Europe in the tours of 1900 and 1901 had to be given in honor of Her Majesty's birthday. Secrecy was all right so far as the King and myself were concerned, but how to keep the organization in the dark was the rub. Telling seventy peo ple a secret is very much like publishing the fact with "scare heads," so the envoy and myself resorted to subterfuge. I announced to the band, and asked them not to tell anyone, that we were to give a concert for the Baron llothschild at his country home. The next day all London knew it ! I told the band to re- as t?. a r" ISS! go MR. SOUSA AS A BRITISH CARICATURIST SEES HIM Si been most emphatic, still I had no posi tive intimation that we had "caught on" with His Majesty. Therefore, 1 was most agreeably surprised when one morning, late in November 1901, 1 re ceived a call from a representative of the royal household asking if I would give a performance at Sandringham on December the first. On my telling him it would please me greatly, the repre sentative said that the utmost secrecy must be maintained, for His Majesty de sired to have the concert a complete sur prise to Queen Alexandra, as it was port at the Liverpool street station at five o'clock December first and we would then proceed by train to the Baron's place. That order was immediately communicated by the members of our party to every man, woman and child in all London town, for the band boys were immensely popular and had to tell all their secrt-ts. . On the thirtieth of November nearly every bandsman came to me and told me with an air of superior knowledge that I had evidently made a mistake in the railway station, for the lines going

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