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PAGE THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK killed by nailing a picture of one upon a tree and shooting it with a silver bullet. There are also plenty wno oeneve in "conjuration," and right here in Kaleigh, are "Conjur Doctors" doing business, and whose hold on their patients is in making them believe they have been "conjured" bv witches. The usual method of "cure" is to bury a bottle, containing queer things, under the room in which the pa tient lies ill, or to resort to some weird device to "lay the witch." The superstition of the darkeys is also well illustrated in the negro cemetery here. On not a few graves will be found the medicine bottles used by the deceased in the last illness, and other strange things. , A queer sight is a large vault in which in a coffin, almost entirely of glass, lies dressed in sombre black, the body of a once well known and well to do negro whose will required that his body be em balmed and taken to the cemtery and placed in such a casket, in order that his family and friends could view his remains whenever they liked. The casket stands upon a frame work, and the body looks as if in life. REMINDERS OF SLAVERY DAYS. In this connection the relics of slavery days in the Hall of History in the State Museum here are worthy of attention. There is a great rarity in the shape of a pass for a slave to leave the owner's premises at night, such a pass being shown to the patrollers, or citizens, a cer tain number of whom rode here and there and kept watch and ward after nine o'clock each night. In many places cur few used to be rung, and when those bell-strokes were heard the negroes kept within bounds, but now curfew is rung in only one place in North Carolina, Fay etteville. Generation after generation has passed, and all have heard that big bell give its booming notes at nine o'clock, though 4of course its call, once so peremptory, is now unheeded. Other interesting slavery day remind ers are notices of runaway slaves, re wards, etc., in newspapers from Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, etc., as they reach back to a time when there were slaves in all of the thirteen original states. There are also adver tisements from papers North and South alike, offering slaves for sale or for hire, some ot the advertisements in the Boston papers announcing for sale, all in a breath, so to speak, "likely" slaves and "prime" New England rum. Fred A. Olds. Go ito Africa. Bishop Goodman (impressively) :"Only think, children! In Africa there are 10,000,000 square miles of territory with out a single Sunday school where little boys and girls can spend their Sundays. Now, what should we all try and save up our money and dd?" Class (in ecstatic union) : "Go to Africa." Ww Interpretation. Teacher What does the word trans parent mean? Johnnie Somethin' you can see through. Teacher Give me an examjle. Johnnie A doughnut. IlIItDg AW1EENOG, Songsters Tuning- Up With Com In? of Glorious Spring-. - JNO season of the year in Pinehurst is absolutely destitute of bird notes, but though occasional songs may be heard in the winter, during the last three weeks the approach of spring has wakened all the birds to melody. 1 be mocking birds are not yet in full voice, nor are they giving many aerial athletic exhibitions, but these may take place any day. me cardinal is singing, Dut not as much as he will later. The song sparrows are practising all their new notes and cheating old friends by departing from the regulation, "Maids, maids, maids, put the teakettle on." The peabody occasionally admonishes us to "sow wheat," but he may ihink this soil unfortunate for that business, as he is less emphatic by far than at the North. The brown thrasher, most finished of songsters, has condescended to give a few short rehearsals that we may know he nas not lost ins voice, wnue tne ringing tones of his cousin, the Carolina wren, atiract the attention of the most unob serving. There have been a few arrivals from the South, but the great wave of mi grating birds will not strike us till the last of March. Flocks of rusty blackbirds are about and may be seen in full possession of bare trees, where they sit and "discourse-most sweetly." I counted over fifty in one group recently ,the gray females strangely conspicuous among the irridescent black feathered males. "Chippy" is here with his usual air of permanent resident, oblivious of his re cent journey and confusing new acquaint ances bv his resemblance to the field sparrow. . . The lovely little blue-gray gnat catcher may be looked for shortly, as well as the Maryland yellow throat, purple finch and brown creeper. Elizabeth Olney. ' ' 1 " ' r SI "THINGS HAS CHANGED SINCE BEFO' DE war." Photo by Marrow Pinehurst. The ORAPTON Washington, D.C, CONNECTICUT AVE. fl Pirn-. 1;. -S' TLiBm ;3 - - n.Tr- 'h I illUi'l- tr z -'czr3 fc"fwf r.r rim THE GRAFTON is Pitnated A on the most fashionable thoroughfare in Washington, very convenient to nil points of interest and within live uiiuwtes' walk of the White House, State. War, Navy and Treasury Departments, and Corcoran Art Gallery. Cars parsing the door run direct to Capitol n"d depots. The bouse and furnishing are new-. The rooms are arranged both sinurle and en suite, with pri vate baths, and is conducted on the American plan. 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