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BIIiMffi THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK "Hlal 6 MEMORIES ANNIE OAKLEY A Shooting Match in the Bois de Bologne Where the Grand Duke Michael Gets a Surprise and Confers a Favor OF east Xsfv finality or (0or??am Tn all branches of human endeavor, in Industry, in Art, and in Letters, there are certain names which convey the idea of finality, outshining all others as the North Star outshines subsidiary planets. orfiam is that name in Jiverwore. And when you buy Sterling Silverware with the celebrated Gorham imprint on it, .tt knowing that you have pur chased the finest silverware for the money that the world affords. For sale by leading jewelers-everywbere XJte (brfam (gmpany oFrersmfhs SbUsmiths .7 nil IF ODYSSEUS of many devices were to turn up at The Carolina in a sack coat and bat wing tie, and get him a quiet corner by the tea table to chuckle at the bad guessing of the Tribune the probabilities are that he might come and go, and none of us be the wiser, or even dream of the store of romance and exhaustless narra tive of the cities of men, and manners, climates, councils, and governments, that could be told by this simple visitor, him self not least but honored of them all. Life would be all too short and the diet too rich if the guests within our halls the best shot that ever came out of the West, for many years the favorite of the whole world who went to see the Wild West Shows and riding and shooting exhi bitions of Col. Cody, the immortal Buffalo Bill. You know she can out-shoot William Tell in her sleep, and can drive nails with a Smith and Wesson revolver quite as rapidly as a steam hammer. But sitting there by the fire have you any conception of the amaz ing life of adventure and experience which lies behind this command of her profes sion the countries she has seen, the characters she has known the bronco busters, the field marshalls, the old Sagamores, the Tzars and Khans and will Gorham Silverware is to be had in Pinehurst at f. t. h'EiAi ' '-- ' "THE PINEHURST JEWELRY SHOP" UrCr- T.1 ... S. S. PIERCE CO'S mm Sold at the Leading Hotels II VV" WVZtSS III t I f I 11 III W I 1 1 MM T4m Til A A I l e responsible tamilies America have tykteRock water ,i . i u f&s on tneir taDies r5 ANNIE OAKLEY .WITH MRS. LEONARD TUFT S OUTSIDE THE PADDOCK AT THE RACES were to impart all they know. The tales of a Wayside Inn would pale in compari son. There 's the governor of a great state over there the survivor o many a cam paign, the smasher of a dynasty of grafters, a potential ruler of a great nation. We say good morning, swap platitudes, and rush on to the foursome, under the impression that dynamic thought belongs to the ancient and mythi cal region of the Border Ballads. Uylesses was famous throughout the known world for his mastery of the bow, his deadly manipulation of the ashen spear and the fourfold shield. See that modest little lady sitting over there by the fire, with the keen grey eyes and snow white hair. She is famous in every belt and zone of a world ten times as great as the Greeks ever imagined for the complete mastery of weapons a thousand fold more deadly than a sword and buckler. You have seen her before shooting three ways at once, with the precision and accuracy of a machine you may have taken lessons from her in the handling and use of a rifle. She instructed something over 800 ladies in this fine art last Winter at the gun club. In a word, it is Annie Oakley, Emperors the tight places, the reverses, the dangers and triumphs of a career as exacting and ubiquitous as this. AN OFF HAND SHOT I got my first glimpse of it out shooting quail. We were at Hendren 's farm near Eagle Springs. ' It was the lunch hour, and we had emptied our basket, and were gathering some information from Hendren concerning the probable locality of the birds' siesta, when he opened the way to story by inquiring in an incredu lous manner if the lady could also shoot. If he had seen her when we -first started out he would never have asked the ques tion. We had hardly got out of the car, the dogs showed no signs of interest, and our guns were open on our arms, when a terrified and isolated bird got up at our feet and bolted into the brush like a thunderbolt. My surprise was so com plete I hardly saw him. But he died. About one and one-fifth seconds after his hardy rise. The extra fifth of a second was consumed in dodging my head, which originally stood between Annie Oakley and the noise. Well, Hendren wanted to know if the lady could shoot. We didn't say any- A
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