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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK THE flOIiliY IM APPLETON OAKSMITHS STORY PINEHURST, N. C. T" rP 11 i UJ ij';HFJ "AM The Holly inn is one of the most attractive hotels in the South. Since it was built in 1895 it has been necessary to enlarge it several times to meet the constant ly increasing demand. The interior is elegant, cheerful and tasteful. No modern convenience lacking. There are many suite.3 with private bath, steam heat in all rooms and open fireplaces in foyer and parlors. Music is furnished for concerts and dancing and the Holly Inn ball-room is one of its attractions. The cuisine and service excel. White girls from the North are employed as waitresses. The Holly Inn offers an attractive home to pleasure seekers from November to May. A.. I. CREAMER, 7Vaneger. The Harvard, PINEHURST, N. C. piTj-tuRST.TiC A nomeiiKe notei, moaern in every respect, naving electric lights, steam heat and several suites with bath, and with its cottage annex, accommodating seventy-five guests run in connection with The Berkshire. F. C. ABBE, Manager. ry HOTEL ROYAL FAL,M, Fort Myers, Fla. BOATING, FISHING, SHOOTING, GOLF. Those wishing to enjoy the most tropical soi in Florida, tbould ytii tils wlrlr n neat, beau tifully located oh i the sylph winding Caloosahatcbte twenty miles In m tit Gull i 1 i o. tioieiitoyai j-aim is one oiine nost attia tlve and palatial hotels in eoutb Floiida. Cuisine iineurpassed, yachts, power and house boats, a utoniobilep.liTery, olf, and aleo afloids a music lw mL nci ' r j i Xr . Ul,uureu ana nny rooms, mostly with prKate baths The Clubhouse is equipped with a swimming pool, sulphur baths and a large m.n bei of t Excellent fishing. Finest Section in the Btate for shooting. priv F. H ABBOTT, Manager Pardon d by JPreIdnt CJrant Jlotea Alavvr wa J..onff Ilelilnt of Stat THE FIRST cargo of slaves landed in the Un ited States was brought ashore in 1860, on the Georgia coast, at a very desolate place, by two young men, natives of that state. This was in violation of both United States and state laws, for the common wealths had found that slavery must be limited to the slaves already in being and their natural increase, and that it was pol itic to check further bringing in of the Af ricans . The last men and women brought in were Gullahs, a very wild people. It seems that some of them were sent back to Africa, while others were scattered among planters and could not be traced. One of the young men who brought them over was cried. The war was coming on and the minds of the people were turned away from things of this kind. During the war, no slaves were brought in, pirates as a class. Oaksmith's mother was a noted woman in this country and her husband, Major Seba Smith, was widely known in the United States in the days of Andrew Jackson as a writer and poli tician. Not far from the quaint old town of Beaufort, N. C, there stands very near the railway a big white mansion, typical of the olden times in the sunny south. This was the home until her death, not many years ago, of the mother of Appleton Oakesmith. ' She spelled her name Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes-Smith, while he put his name in one word. She lived there very qnietly, having reached the age of over ninety years, and her house was very full of reminders of the great old days of the republic, when she was such a feature at Washington and else where. But to Oaksmith himself. A price was upon his head, having been set there by this country some years before the Civil War and there was search for him, but he seemed to have disappeared absolutely The war passed, peace came and General c jjJ1 RELICS OF ANOTHER CENTURY though the work of those already here was the most powerful means of main tenance of Confederate troops in the field, since the slaves worked faithfully throughout the war, a number of them even being in the army, and their devo tion to their owners was wonderful to the last degree. There were in the old days, not so long before the Civil war. some noted and very daring slavers ; those modern buccan eers, who going over to Africa, hung along that noisome coast until Arab slave dealers brought out their human chattels, whom they had captured. One of these slavers was an alleged Englishman, his name being Appleton Oaksmith. lie was a burly man, a perfect type of the middle class Englishman, well read, and to him the world was an open book, for he had gone with slaves both to North and South America, and had been in every part of Africa, to which access could in those times be had. He took his life in his hinds on every trip for the whole world was hunting for slavers and the gallows, the prison or the musket shot were the penalties which fell to them when cap tured, since they ranked about along with Grant became president. One day he was in his office when a message came that a particular interview was desired. The card bore a strange name, from some South American place, and the President instructed that the visitor be ushered in. After a few minutes of conversation the man suddenly changing his whole voice and manner, asked the president what he would do in case one who had been years literally a "man without a country,'' who had been sought for everywhere between the four seas, who had broken the laws of God and man, who had carried thou sands into slavery and to whom life had been a hell for so many years, should ask for clemency and pardon. The president, in his quiet way, said that in such a case he would be inclined to show mercy; that meicy which is enjoined by the words of our Master. A s he said this the man fell upon his knees and uplifting his hands, cried out that he was the man mentioned, no other than Appleton Oak smith, so long sought for as slaver, crim inal, outlaw, fugitive. The president kept his word and pardoned him. Not long after Oaksmith came to North Caro lina and made his home at Carolina City
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