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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
Dr. Marr and Dr. Johnson of Phila
delphia own the next plots, and are even
now designing the dwellings which swell
the onward tide towards Linden. That
below them Mrs. Donald Parson has ap
propriated her share of the survey, swing
ing down the road. A little further we
find an engineer and his chain gang cut
ting the woods up into streets and lots,
;and marvel. Going on down the highway
we come to a great white mansion stand
ing on a hill, crowning the neighborhood.
Eighty acres forever removed from the
.available stakes. The vanguard of the
invaluable people planted there in the
persons of the Warings.
And we look in vain for our shanty of
the hunt. Eight where the hopeless Lin
den languished is a cottage, Northern
style, all ready and painted grey, and
singing a tune of prosperity over a seeded
lawn and a file of young pines lined up
by the rules of landscape design. Four
hundred rolling acres under the plows
advertise the wisdom of the purchaser at
$5.50 an acre. Five times that will never
procure this plot of earth again. On
down the road we find that Mr. Knapp
has just bought him twenty-five; we come
then to 600 procured by the Page
family, at something like thirty times
the price they one time paid for it. Here
on the right the tide has stopped for the
moment. On the left the highway rolls
by the Mason and the Dana strongholds,
on towards Aberdeen.
All this every item of it within two
years.
A PREDICTION
May we then venture an humble guess
that if we go away, and come back again
in five years, that Linden Eoad will be
a residential street, second to none in
Carolina. It is a prediction. We register
it. Five years from today we shall record
it, and put out our shingle as a certified
public land prophet.
COAEIIVATIO.
JL better from r. John Warren
Acliorn About Our lilng-cring
V Forest
With the doctor's permission we are
printing a letter recently received from
him about the destruction of a magnifi
cent surviving island of pines that he had
hoped to save from devastation. Not as
a rebuke to the ravenous mill men, but
as a gun in a battle that we hope will not
be too late to save what there is still left.
In giving his account of the opening of
many miles at the head of the stream to
the canoe, the doctor says:
' ' The great swamp pines on the Upper
Lumbee that I reported having seen sev
eral years ago when exploring the reach
of river above the bridge that leads
towards Hoffman, have disappeared. The
sawmill men who cut this region over,
three or four years ago, got them and
only the stumps and tops of this family
of pines remain. They were the largest
trees I have seen in company anywhere
in this region and there were twelve or
fifteen of them from 120 to 170 feet
high, and their beginnings certainly date
back to 1730, the time of the coming of
the Scotch into these parts.
How any man, with an axe, hunting
for a dollar, dare to touch these magni
cent trees beats me. Are there still men
who see and think of all trees as some
thing to cut down or burn up. That man
is indeed poor in spirit, however poor he
may be in pocket, who can get more out
of the possession of a few shifting rag
dollars (in exchange for the life of a
primeval giant of the forest) than he
can see and feel in the possession and
comradeship of such a friend, the last
of its stand, that established its right to
grow in the soil he now claims he owns,
two hundred years before he was born.
It offends one's sense of justice to think
of such trees being cut down to go into
some board pile. Trees of this rank
should have some right.
The man who owns the island in the
swamp that fostered these pines could
easily have sold their right to live for
much more than he received for them, for
there are men living among us who still
love the sight and have comradeship for
huge trees, just as there are men who
love books and the atmosphere they cre
ate, although they may do little more
than read the titles on their backs, once
in a while, through the doors of their
bookcases.
We put our canoe in from a bluff oppo
site Brewster's Lodge and there were
several pines scattered along the first two
miles of our way, as the river ran, an
inspiring sight. I was especially inter
ested in two of these trees that had died
from some unknown cause. They were
white in appearance, the bark on both
having fallen from their trunks and
limbs. The contrast their nakedness af
forded when compared with their ever
green neighbors impresses one strongly.
They present a weird spectacle, standing
as they do on the river bank, with their
feet tied to the ground and with their
arms stretching toward heaven. "You
have been patient a long time," I said
to one of them as we floated across its
shadow reflected in the water, "the atti
tude you hold and your great patience
will teach us all for years to come, that
we should be more like you than we are. ' '
Trees are the most human thing that
grows out of- the ground.
We were four hours making the run
from the Brewster Place to the Capitol
Highway Bridge, so called, but when the
stream is freed of snags the distance can
be negotiated in half the time."
The Illcn Man
The rich man has his motor-car,
His country and his town estate.
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at Fate.
He frivols through the livelong day,
He knows not Poverty her pinch.
His lot seems light, his heart seems gay,
He has a cinch.
Yet though my lamp burns low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would!
Frannlin P. Adams in
" Tobogganing on Parnassus."
Send The Outlook to your friends.
It saves letter writing. Ask for mailing
envelopes.
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