The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-08-20
PIEDMONT SPRING.
The Popular North Carolina Summer
Resort.
A PERFECT PARADISE FOR VISITORS.
Landscape, Opulent With Mountain
Splendors-Balmy, Bracing Noun
tain Air-Sparkling. Healthgiving
Mineral Water, Etc.

PIEDMONT SPRINGS, Stokes county,
Aug. 15.-Several years ago we laid
our pen down on the score of press
ing labors, and never again expected
to undertake the role of correspond
ent; but, you know "there is a des-
tiny that shapes our ends, rough hew
| them as we may" SO, once more, we
find oWself beguilded into the path
wherein We won't to mentally mean
der with varied and voluptnous feel
ings. Overwork, for number of
years, undermined our constitution,
and we came here, not for the pur-
pose of obtaining perpetual youth,
| the thing for which the visionary
Ponce de Leon sought in vain upon
the semitropic soil of Florida, but to
| sniff the pure, balmy, exhilarating
| mountain air, and to drink of the
sparkling, bubbling. healthful min
eral water, that they might restore
us to our former manhood; for
'Naught cared this body for wind and
| weather,
When youth and lived int together"
! Well, our physician babe us stay q
month, but few weeks have scarcely
elapsed, and arleady we feel like life
wants to go "a-maying;" SO, you
see, with new blood and renewed
powers the old love has come back,
and here we are scribbling you q
batch of rambling rough notes.
Piedmont Springs Hotel is beauti-
fully situated on picturesque knoll
near the summit of the Sauratown
mountains. The structure is COM
handing, commOdious,- three-stOry
building, planned with view to COM
fort and enjoyment.
| Large, outrageous oaks afford q
delightful shade, and under their
green, leafy boughs the visitors spend
many happy, joyous hours. From
the upper western piazza the prospect
is charming. Rugged hills, "arrayed
in living green, and smiling villages,
| dotted here and there with cozy farm
houses, are spread out in panoramic
view, softened in the distant back
ground by the lofty and Handicapped
Blue Ridge.
| On the east, when ''the sun is peep
ing Ger the misty mountain tOps,o
the spectacle is grand and gorgeous
beyond our feeble powers to portray.
Only a poet ofvivid imagination who
has scaled the Empyrian heights,
like Poe or Byron or Bryant, could
possibly do the subject justice. 1t
must be seen to be appreciated. In
deed, wherever the eye turns in this
fairy, skyland, new and enchanting
beauties are beheld filing heart and
brain with the most pleasing and
thrilling sensations.
| AS now conducted the hotel Is a
thing of beauty and a Joy forever.
Mr.. Marshall d. Murray, a progress
i've young South Carolinian is in
| charge of affairs, and he is a gentle
man of numerous attachments, and
has had several years experience as a
hotelist. He is pleasant and affable
and performs his multifarious labors
with tact and ability. Mr.. Geo. r..
Banks makes an attentive and excel
lent clerk and is quite popular. Mrs.
Lou Banks, of the classic and historic
city of Fayetteville. looks after the
culinary department. She keeps the
table linen and furniture ScrupulOusly
clean, and the food, which is the very
best the market affords, is prepared
in the most tempting manner. AS
evidence of her skill, whenever the
bell taps for meals there is a rush for
the dining room, and such eating
well it's the eatingest crowd, we dare
say, on the globe.
The mineral spring is conveniently
located scarcely a stOnes-throw to
the south of the hotel. 1t is nicely
fixed up, being canopied by an at
tractive summer-house; with winding,
shady walks leading to and from it.
The analysis, which / give, is sutfi-
cient to show that it possesses won
derful curative properties. Our U. S,
gallon contains:
Iron and Alumina Oxides, 80
Silica, lis
Sulphate Potash, 81
Sulphate Soda, .3S
Chloride Soda, 151
Carbonate Soda, "a
Carbonate Magnesia, 2.11
Carbonate Lime, $3.50
| Volatile and Organic Matter, and
/ Loss, 1.3C
Total, lies
This water is quite pleasant to the
taste, and after drinking it a few
days, the appetite becomes voracious
Why one feels like he could just eat &
SOW and nine pigs and run calf 9
mile. 1t acts delightfully."- upon thu
kidneys, stimulates the liver, an6
rapidly improves digestion, making
one feel in a few days "like man new
made