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T" HE finest, the most unique, and the best located all-the-year
fl I resort hotel in the world is being built in Asheville, N. C.
- It will be opened July ist, 19 13, under the management of
Wm. S. Kenney, of The Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, N. H.,
and Hotel Clarendon, Seabreeze, Florida.
It is being built of the great boulders of Sunset Mountain at whose
foot it sits. It is being built by hand in the old fashioned way,
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF, and will be full of rest, comfort and
wholesomeness.
It is being built plainly, but as richly as man can do it. Four
hundred one-piece rugs are being made at Aubusson, France; the
furniture is being made by hand by the Roycrofters ; the silver hand
hammered ; and the "big room" will contain two great stone fire-places,
capable of burning twelve-foot logs.
In front of this hotel, GROVE PARK INN - are one hundred and
sixty acres of golf links and lawn, and all' around, miles of majestic
mountains and the wonderful climate. The Hotel Company owns eight
hundred acres around the hotel and consumptives will not be taken.
For particulars address Wm. S. Kenney, Mgr., Grove Park Inn,
Asheville, N. C. Southern Office until April 20th, Hotel Clarendon,
Seabreeze, Florida. New York Office, n 80 Broadway.
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THE HIGHLAND PINES INN
Weymouth Heights, Southern Pines, N. C.
THE Highland Pines Inn is a new hotel, Southern Colonial style, with modern
conveniences and luxurious appointments. Has 60 rooms en suite with private
. bath. Excellent orchestra. Nightly concerts and many social events.
Accomodations for 200 or 250 guests. Open December 1st to May 1st. Charmingly
situated on Weymouth Heights with extensive and delightful views in all directions.
Behind the Inn are the 2,000 acres of the great Weymouth Woods, among whose
giant long leaf pines run many miles of hard, picturesque and well-kept roads, the
freedom of which is accorded the guests of the Inn. The Southern Pines Country
Club golf course five minutes walk from the hotel. Auto bus service to the Pine
hurst Country Club. For rates and reservations address :
A. I. Creamer Lessees and Managers Al. H. Turner
Southern Pines, North Carolina
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS
Way in Which Animal Mauaffe to
Find Their Homes
EVERY evening from
about 5 o'clock till 10
many thousands of peo
ple stream out of town
by tram and train and
sort themselves out into
their separate homes,
says Pearson's Weekly.
A visitor from Mars
might wonder how we do it. It is the
same with nature ; every day and night
millions of creatures find their way home
over long distances with unerring ac
curacy, and some of us marvel how it is
done.
Imagine what would be the effect if
the whole of London were struck blind I
This is not nearly so good a guide a&
the ant's sense of smell, for if another
tree happens to be growing opposite, un
suitable to feed upon, it will crawl to
that tree and have all its journey for
nothing. Also, if a brick wall happens
to be nearer than the tree it will make
for the brick wall.
But some caterpillars are much clev
erer than this.
The caterpillar of the Purple Emperor
Butterfly chooses in its infancy special
ly selected leaves to sleep upon. At
dusk and dawn it crawls away over an
apparently trackless waste of branches
to some favored spot to have supper and
breakfast.
When the meals are over it invariably
finds its way back to its home, because
"WHO DOES THE SENTRY CHALLENGE ?"
at 6 o'clock. A few minutes awful si
lence, during which everybody would be
groping about in wild stupefaction ; then
a vast stampede; thousands would per
ish by falling down areas and trampling
on each other, and hardly a soul would
find his house. This means that human
beings depend chiefly on their sight for
getting about from place to place.
With nature's creatures things vary.
An ant, for instance, could find his way
to the nest if he were struck blind or
not. Trailing out from an ant's nest are
many tiny ant tracks branching out into
tributaries. Along these tracks thou
sands of ants crawl daily to and fro.
Some of the ants travel into the forest
distances equal by comparison to a man's
25 mile walk. They find their way back
by their sense of smell.
Caterpillars as a rule rely entirely up
on light and gravitation. A caterpillar
fallen from a tree detects the presence
of the trunk by its shadow and attraction.
it has left a thin trail of silk all along
the branches. This silk forms a kind of
guiding string, such as sometimes as
sists explorers to retrace their way back
out of catacombs.
But when we come to bee3, the hom
ing faculty is much more mysterious,
since bees can neither leave tracks of
scent nor web. How is it that a bee can
fly all over a town and yet invariably
come home to the hive in the evening?
There can .be little doubt that so in
telligent an insect as a bee has a long
memory and a keen eye for landmarks.
This is testified to by the fact that al
most all bees fly by day, whereas such
creatures as moths of no fixed home or
occupation fly in the darkness. A bee
would be lost at midnight because it
could not recognize its surroundings.
The same method is practiced by birds,
although naturalists differ widely upon
this subject. There can be little doubt
that a migrating bird knows the differ
ence between north and south ; so that