THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK.
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Published Friday, Twenty-five Weeks
in the year, at
Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina,
(Founded by James W. Tufts.)
Leonard Tufts, Publisher.
Herbert L. Jillson, Editor.
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(Copyright 1902.)
1 JIIIIAY, DEC. 111, lOOS.
In the death of Thomas Brackett
Reed, which occurred just after midnight
Sunday morning, the nation loses one ol
her ablest statesman and i the State of
Maine one of her most distinguished sons.
It is such men as Mr. Heed that make
a nation great and it is the loss of such
that cause deep and sincere mourning on
every hand.
Mr Heed's career as a statesman has
made him famous throughout every State
in the Union. As speaker of the Nation
al House of Representatives he made a
name for himself which resounded hall
around the world.
Of mighty intellect, broad understand
ing and courageous convictions, he was
bound to attain success in the highest
degree. He was a statesman, not a poli
tician. Original in thought and fearless
in advancing his ideas, he was resolute
and aggressive in executing them.
A man of Mr. Reed's characteristics
was bound to constantly clash with poli
tical opponents and around him have
centered some of the bitterest political
conflicts in the history of the National
House of Representatives. As the vic
tor of these conflicts he was not al
together popular, but he made no real
enemies and was universally admired
and respected. Staunch and true as a
Republican and American citizen, bril
liant as a statesman, an astute lawyer,
a kind and loving husband and father,
all the nation will join with Maine in
her grief Bangor (Maine) News.
Thomas B. Reed was not only a great
figure in American public life, he im
pressed himself in a striking manner
upon European politics. He was the
first to attempt reform in parliamen
tary procedure, and the success of his
effort was so immediate and beneficial
as to open the eyes of all enlightened
countries. It was a remarkable achieve
ment, demanding absolute courage as
well as ability and judgment. He had
them all in an uncommon degree, and
he startled even his own party asso
ciates by his audacious use of them.
Though the parliamentary revolution
wrought by Mr. Reed occurred only a
few years ago, it would seem strange
now for a minority to endeavor to con
trol the majority and arrest legislation.
Baltimore American.
Christmas will be given a fitting ob
servance at Pinehurst. The celebration
will begin with informal a flairs at the
various hotels and boarding houses
Christmas eve. Already plans are mak
ing at The Berkshire for Christmas
trees. Christmas morning services will
be held in the Village Hall and Christmas
evening the same place will be used for a
colored cake walk which promises to be
unique, entertaining and instructive.' The
cake walk is typical of the negro; some
thing that has been developed by him
and it represents a true phase of the life
that cannot fail to interest those who on
the outside, catch only fleeting glimpses
of his character.
Not the least of the attractive fea
tures of the country-side 'round about
Pinehurst, are the homes of the country
people. Though often tumbled down,
they are always picturesque and quaint,
especially attractive to artists and pho
tographers, and having a strange human
interest for all. Often they comprise but
a single room which serves alike as
kitchen, dining, sitting and sleeping
room, and in which the open fire is used
for both cooking and heating.
.Education a Capital.
Take a man earning' $15 a month, and
capitalize him like any other business
enterprise at say six per cent, and he
would be Avorth $3000. Deducting one
third of this amount for the average
chances of death, he would still be worth
2,000 dollars to himself. His value to
his family would be further lessened
by the cost of his personal support.
Take another earning $150 a month, and
capitalize him in the same manner. He
would represent a capital of $20,000, ten
times that of the other. This is not a
mere financial conceit. It is practically
the rule of damages followed by the
courts in cases of death by wrongful act,
taking into consideration the life expect
ancy of the deceased. It should be the
rule to be substantially followed in the
education of every child.
If a parent can educate a son from a
$15 hand to a $150 hand, he has started
him with a handsome capital most se
curely invested. If the father is unable
to do it, and the State does it, is it not a
profitable investment? The State rec
ognizes it as such in its system of taxa
tion, inasmuch as it taxes a man both
upon his head in the shape of a poll tax,
and his personal earnings in the shape of
an income. By education I do not mean
exclusively scholastic training. I mean
such training, manual and mental, as
will best fit a child for the fulfillment of
those duties in life which he will be
called on to perform.
With increase of capital will come
increase of power; but whoever would
rightly reckon with the industrial forces
of the South in the coming years must not
overlook the human equation. Even in
a material sense, the best capital a State
can ever have, the noblest in its nature
and the most permanent and productive
in its results, consists in the educated
manhood of its people Judge llobert 31.
Douglass.
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Jlarjland'M limit Munnly.
"If some decisive action is not immedi
ately taken by the sportsmen of Mary
lmd," says John Henry Keen, a well
known hunter of Baltimore, "the wild
and Hiiuint."
J duck history of this state must be short
ly written.
"The epoch in the game history of
Maryland is unmistakably in its decline.
The epoch of the pothunter degenerate is
unmistakably announcing its re-approach.
The duck degenerate has shown himself
extremely fertile in most diverse direc
tions. Formerly this midnight assassin
prowled to his prey with a dark lantern
and heavily loaded swivel gun. Stealth
ily he stole upon the feeding grounds of
canvasbacks, redheads, mallards and
baldpates ; at one fire the dead fowl lay
scattered in drifting heaps.
"The present system of the duck de
generate is that of imminent perdition
and destruction, and the duck degenerate
now dominates every tried duck river
and cove in Maryland. The new despoil
ers have appeared with an able body
guard even upon the flats at Havre de
Grace, Northeast river and all the en
vironments of that great feeding ground.
"No one throughout all Maryland, it
seems, dares to molest or make the duck
degenerate afraid. They pursue their
own way with smiling serenity. Their
instruments of torture are an improve
ment upon the Indian fashion. They
can, and do, rack every duck ground and
feeding marsh in Maryland. The cow
ardly degenerate now snares the ducks
by nets. These nets have meshes into
and through which the tired duck dives
for his food. The ground is first sown
with corn. When the duck redives for
the surface, his head and neck pointing
upward, he comes with all his force and
finds himself entangled in the meshes of
the net. The duck misses the opening
into and through which he first plunged.
Before the break of day the duck degen
erate fishes the net, and thousands upon
thousands of these captives go to the
markets.
"The naptha launch fiend does not
stand upon a much higher plane than his
brother degenerate. He sails noiselessly
upon the feeding rick, so screened that
he cannot be seen, and when in range
pours his deadly volley into the quietly
feeding flock. Is it strange that the wild
duck deserts his favorite famous Mary
land feeding grounds?"" The American
Field.
An Eiiniy of Siin'i'Mtitioii.
Mr. llolley looked at his grand on with
a mixture of amusement and reproach on
his shrewd old face. It was dusk in the
barn, a time for confidences. "I dunno
where in all the earth you got such
notions, sonny," the old man said; "not
from your ma's folks, or your pa's either.
There never was any talk o" belief in
signs and superstitions in either the
llolley or the Fawcett stock, that's sure.
It must have come from that foreign
lady they had to teach you, 1 expect.'
"And you don't believe there's any
harm in a bird's flying into the house, or
breaking a mirror, or seeing a black cat,
grandpa?'' asked the little boy, earnest
ly. "And don't you care whether a pin
sticks straight up in the floor, or which
shoulder you see the moon over, or
whether you get anything on you wrong
side out? Not any of those things?''
"All foolishness," said the old man,
with a reassuring pat of the hot little
hand. "I'm glad ye've talked it out
with me, sonny, Now you just put it
out of your head, and I'll tell you what
I'll do. When we go up to the house
I'll give ye a little old penny I've been
saving for ye for a lucky piece. You
jest carry it in your pocket all the time,
change it from one suit o' clothes to
another and see what 't'll bring ye."
" Do they really bring luck, grandpa?"
asked the little boy.
"Course they do," said Mr. llolley,
firmly. "When we get another spare
time I'll relate to ye a few cases that's
come under my own eye, of lives saved
by 'em, and so forth. Course they do."
Youth's Companion.
'1HINMUJ1 A.XJ 'TATJSJt.
Season for Thit Famous Southern Iiu
ow at it JBg-iniiing-.
At this time of the year a steady stream
of fat opossums and Georgia sweet pota
toes comes from the South to the New
Yor4 markets, says the Xeio York Even
ing Post. The trade begins in October
and lasts until May. Originally it was
caused by the yearning desire of home
sick Southerners to have a reminder of
Dixie upon their dining table, but so
many were the Northerners who learned
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