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DIOGENEI VISIT DAVIg (Concluded from page five) electricity than Rome was to Carthage or Persia to us. Is that wine that you have in that cup, mony of all the scholars is that we have never - come very near to equaling the excellence of your writers in poetry, in oratory, in drama, in history, or in any thing. Our buildings are bigger than yours were, and .our literature is too. Hearst, for example, puts out more in a Sunday edition than Herodotus, Aeschy lus, Aristophanes and Sapho produced in a year." " i es, replied tne pnnosopner, in acreage Hearst does excel; but that does not touch the question. Your literature, judging from what I have read in a Car negie library, will not survive the Ameri can people except as curiosities like bricks from Babylonian and the cuneiform seratehings from Egypt. How about military science?" I swallowed hard and tried to change the subject. "That's a wonderful old story about how Alexander the Great visited you when you lived in the tub and you told him he could do nothiny for you but to stand out of your sunlight." "Alec was a great warrior and a re markable man," mused my guest. "Tee hee! I might tell you the rest of that story although the world has forgotten it. About a minute after I made that lippy remark to King Alec I was a firm believer in preparedness. It doesn't pay a hum ble, unarmed, democratic individual to talk back to an armed king. Theory is all right but a mailed fist is a reality." I I Tell me, ' ' he added, ' 1 Can you today excel the generalship of Alexander, his military formations, or the fortitude and spirit of the Spartan of the line?" ' ' No, sir, I must say we cannot. The Porto Rico expedition in the Spanish "War is a fair sample of our organizaion. Bull Run and Antietam are fair examples of large bodies of our troops in action. Our rank and file are good men but like Demosthenes at Plaetea or Horace at Fhillipi they are not trained soldiers. They would make excellent 'living tar gets.' But then you see we don't need soldiers. The ocean protects us from attack. We can devote all our time and money to building trusts, endowing libra ries and establishing finishing schools and dancing academies for our young." The old man sat for some time in silence his chin resting on his gnarled knuckles. Finally tears trickled slowly down his hard cheeks. ' What 's the mat ter, Mr. Diogenes," I said, "are you having internal pain? Wait, I'll get you a drink." I opened the drawer and poured out half a glass of old Kentucky Mountain Dew. "No, my son," said he old sage, "I am not sick except sick at heart. One generation cannot learn from another. You, for example, seem to be a fairly intelligent fellow, but your talk shows you to be the same sort of a simple hope ful man without foresight that I used to meet in Athens hundreds of years before the birth of Christ or the building of the Roman Empire. My friend Plato 's defi nition that a 'man is a two legged animal without feathers ' still holds good in spite of the progress that you assert but cannot proVe. Other countries are nearer Wash ington, D. C, in these days of steam and my boy?" he suddenly asked. "No sir, it isn't wine. We call it whiskey. It is made in a still. Before that invention liquor was not a serious problem. But today it's different." "More progress, eh?" croaked the cynic. "Won't you drink that, Mr. Diogenes? Maybe it'll make you feel better." .tie took the cup and drank it off. A minute later he reeled against the wall as if he had been struck with a post mall. He made grimaces, shouted, and wanted to bet me his lantern that he could stand on his left ear and balance my typewriter on his big toe. Finally he collapsed in a corner and snored heavily. Next morning on coming to work I found him still there I roused him by rough shaking. He sat up and reached out wide and high trying to locate the sides of his head. "Oh, Jove, my head! my head!" he groaned. Boy, what did you call that stuff? Whiskey? Is that what men drink today in place of wine? Wine, good cheerful wine such as we drank at the Symposiums, wine which the Psalmist recounted as one of God's blessings to man, wine such as the Falernian that Hor ace sang? We had no liquor problem in the old days. Good wine never hurt any body." "You're mistaken, sir," I persisted. "A Scotchman will get as drunk on it as he will on whiskey. I ought to know. This is a Scotch settlement and " My visitor looked wildly around, caught up his lantern and square of old carpet and pushed hurriedly out of the door in spite of my protests. "No sir-ee, mister, I'm going right back to Hades." Clyde Davis. Quail Shooting- at Jackon Springs . Mr. Bennet, mine host of the Jackson Springs Hotel, reports that a number of guests have arrived for the good quail shooting that is to be had over there and that a satisfactory number of other Nim rods are on the way. Among the latest arrivals are John R. Fanning, a noted gun, of Rochester, N. Y.,; C. W. Cochran, L. Y. Cochran of Pittsburgh, and others. The Cochrans motored down from their corner of Pennsylvania. Mr. Bennett is making a specialty of afternoon teas, by the way, and asks us to say so. He is now arranging for an auto bus line to carry his guests over to the tournament at Pinehurst and it 's a poor bus line that won't work both ways. lllaion .Toins the Settlement Within three years Pinehurst will be the center of the largest single peach dis trict in North Carolina. Charlie Mason, the son of General Angus E. Mason of Samarcand and the Drowning Creek Plantation, champion checker player of the world and president of the United States Piquet Association, has acquired a strip of territory between the Dana Broth ers and the railroad and by this time is hard at the clearing thereof, and will join his neighbors in establishing a standard of packing and shipping fruit in about four years to come. Cartridges For Rifles, Re volvers or Pistols The most accurate shooting rifle, revolver or pistol made will do unsatisfactory work unless the cartridges used in it are as accurate as the arm. For that reason it is important when buying to get cartridges that have an established reputation for quality. Win chester the Vf brand of cartridges in all calibers from .22 to .50 are unexcelled for I accuracy, penetration and uniform shooting j qualities. They cost no more than inferior makes and are for sale everywhere. If you I want to get the most satisfactory results with your rifle, revolver or pistol, always use Winchester ammunition. Do not simply ask for "some cartridges" when you buy, but be sure to specify Winchester make and look for the bold jJ on the box. THEY SHOOT STRAIGHT AND HIT HARD j Winchester Shells and Cartridges for Sale at the Pinehurst Store, Traps and Ranges. Look for the big " W" on every Box. PINEHURST SCHOOL PINEHUKST School was constructed during the spring and summer of the present year, on a site one mile south of Pinehurst. The school receives both day and board ing scholars. In the day school the curri culum is composed of both elementary and college preparatory courses. Arrangements have been made to con vey to and from school boys who live in Pinehurst during the winter and who desire to enroll in the day school department. Cbc School Calendar First Term Begins Thursday, October 14, 1915 First Term Ends Wednesday, December 22, 1915 CHRISTMAS VACATION Second Term Begins Wednesday, January 5, 1916 Second Term Ends Monday, March 13, 1916 Third Term Begins Tuesday, March 14, 1916 Third Term Ends . Thursday, May, 18, 1916 For additional information address ERIC PARSON (Headmaster) Pinehurst, - North Carolina Grass Seed of Known Quality GUARANTEED for PURITY and GERMINATION Stumpp & Walter Co. 30-32 Barclay St., NEW YORK THE LEXINGTON Pinehurst, N. C. Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Baths, Excellent Table, Moderate Rates EDWARD FITZGERALD, Manager. Summer Season: THE COLUMBUS, .White Mountains, Bethlehem, N. H.
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