" IIUlliillWITHE ""EHURST OUTLOOK (jflJlggHMEi
were a part. Yet we were keenly inter
ested in it, and our minds were alert and
capable of understanding. But oh, how
little chance we had to hear truth. Every
speaker that came along had something
to prove that the Eepublican party was
the greatest thing on earth, that the Man
of Galilee was sprinkled rather than
dipped by the gentleman who wore the
camel's hair cutaway or some other
thesis that branded the talker as the
"hired advocate' ' of some sect or fac
tion. We received a number of papers
most of which were made up of columns
of print as dull as the ordinary and as
innocent of wisdom and of wit. We
received all these with little enthusiasm.,
read them indifferently, and used them
next morning to kindle our fires of corn
cobs and coal.
But when The Mail and Breeze came
there was a general scramble for it. This
was because, besides the local items, Tom
McNeal 's "Passing Comment" was in
it. McNeal was not a preacher and he
never tried, to pose as an oracle. He
simply commented. McNeal was a part
of his own audience. He had many of
our limitations and prejudices. Perhaps
this was one element of his strength, for
he who would lead must not get too far
ahead of the crowd. Great men, says
Macaulay, are the peaks on which the
rising light breaks a little before it
reaches the plains below where dwell the
millions. So whenever some new lumin
ary such as Free Silver, the Populist
Party, Preparedness, or the Single Tax
began to rise in the Eastern sky McNeal
studied it carefully and honestly while we
toiled on six long days per week, and
then he told us as best he could what the
thing seemed to be and what it portended.
He never claimed to know it all. "The
things I don't know," he used to say,
"greatly exceed the things that I do
know." Like Emerson's gentleman, Mc
Neal was big enough to sit carelessly in
the saddle. He refused to let wishing
sweep him away from facts. To some of
us who had wished ourselves into believ
ing that the people would buy at higher
rates from independent companies in
order to whip out grasping trusts, McNeal
replied dolefully, "The people will buy
their supplies where they can get them
cheapest. ' ' When the heavens were
troubled his mild sheet lightning lighted
up. the sky and cleared the atmosphere.
We complained of high taxes. He showed
us just where all our money went. He
never preached at us, never scolded and
he never tried to get us to attempt im
possible things even under the made sable
of co-operation. He was absolutely sin
cere. But best of all he enjoyed the
same sort of fun that we enjoyed and
put plenty of it into his editorials. When
he played the typewriter, wit and wis
dom danced together. This man influ
enced the thought of my home community
not only more than any other man but
more than all other living men taken
together.
If my work here today is to tell you
how to use a paper effectively I can do
so in four words: Use the McNeal
Method.
Send The Outlook to your friends.
It tells the story of the week and saves
letter writing. Ask for mailing envelopes.
NEW CAMP KITC1IEX
Iarg-e and Comfortable Ilnatlc Quar
ters tor Campers and Sporttmen
Dr. John Warren Achorn is a man of
purpose and conviction. When he put
the prow of the first canoe into the eddies
of the Lumbee Eiver and cut his way
down stream through the fallen logs to
the sea, he came out declaring it was the
greatest trip on the seaboard, and that
ho would live to see the canoes going down
in shoals, as he had in times gone by
truly predicted of the Upper Penobscot.
That was only a few years ago. And
now we learn that the club then and
there founded has grown, and the lure of
the stream has enchanted so many people
that they plan to put permanent and
comfortable camps at proper intervals
down the river, with a major club and
camp kitchen at headquarters near Blue 's
Bridge.
It is to be built of cypress logs, based
upon one great raftered hall with the
big open fire and cooking arrangements
dear to the heart of the woodsman. There
the sportsmen can .gather to sing songs
and make merry of a frosty evening
after the hunt there the canoeing parties
can stop and have lunch or dinner, or
spend the night for an early start. For
there will be sleeping quarters and baths
for men and women, and a guide to roast
the haunch of venison and serve the flap
jacks hot with maple syrup.
The Canoeing Club promises to be one
of the greatest assets and sources of diver
sion in the Sandhills. There the spirit
of the fisherman and the hunter the
knowledge of woodcraft and the ways of
the paddle and the horn," the rifle and
the rod may find a permanent retreat.
ROBERT UIIKTER
Rujn a Location in the Conntry
Sheriff Blue has just sold Eobert Hunt
er the old New Gilead place on Deep
Eiver. This is one of the most attractive
places in the Sandhills. It is the site of
the old settlement and post office of anti
bellum days, where the stage coming down
the old Morgantown road left the mail
and passengers for the surrounding terri
tory. It is covered with a splendid
growth of pines, and abounds in little
glens and bottoms full of holly and dog
wood and hickory. Deep Creek runs
through the property and there is a pic
turesque old dam and mill pond.
The property is about a mile the other
side of Charles T. Crocker's new planta
tion, near the highway from Pinehurst
to Jackson Springs, and joins the Page
properties in that neighborhood. It is
expected that eventually the Hunters will
build a country place there.
This purchase emphasizes the progress
of the Pinehurst residents into the coun
try. Out in that direction the Warings,
Crockers, Danas, Ehreharts and Pages
have already established plantation homes.
Charlie Mason and Walter Bruhn have
put out orchards and a new road is in
progress to join up the Chapin
properties.
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Dodson Sheltered
Food House
Complete with 8 ft.
Pole, $8.00
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Feeding Car.
Price $5.00
f. o. b. Kankakee, III.
GIVE A BIRD HOUSE 6i,t taBLifftLH.app,neS8
There is no gift that will give more happiness
than a Dodson Bird House or Feeding;
Device. If put out now will save the lives
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Dodson Sparrow Trap Automatic drop and
double funnel trap combined. Price $6.00
f o. b. Kankakee, 111.
Nature Neighbors Best set of books about
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Free Illustrated book telling how to win
birds to your gardens, and descriptive folder
of Nature Neighbors, illustrated with birds in
natural colors. A picture worth framing.
JOSEPH H. DOOSOH 7i:i"
Mr. Dodson is a director of the American
Audubon Association
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Price $5.00
f.o.b. Kankakee, III.
Weathervane Feeding
Table. Price $6.00
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