"WtS!THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK WMJS. ALLEN'S FOOT -EASEi The Original Antiseptic Powder, for the feat; Tennis and Base Ball : Players, Dancers, Walkers use it because it makes their feet comfortable and keeps them in condition. Shake 5 it in the shoes and sprinkle in the foot-bath. The Standard remedy for J the feet for a Quarter Cen- turjr. Makes tight- fitting or patent- leather shoes feel; easy. Believes hot, puffy feet. : Sold everywhere 25c. For FREEjsampIe, address ALLEN S. OLMSTED, LeRoy, N.Y.: Pine Top Lodge and Kennels PI ne Bluff, Korlh Carolina on main line of Seaboard Railway seven miles from Pinehurst Fine Qtio.il Shooting Comfortoble accommodations for Sportsmen and their Wives All Modern Conveniences Iladqnartra of MIDWINTEIl CABOEIirG CLUB CTTdcli. P. Blow MOORE COUNTY PAPERS N. L. CARPENTER & CO Main Office, 17 William Street, New York City. Members N. Y. Stock and Cotton Exchanges. BRAfiCH OFFICE AT THE CAROLINA Pinehurst, N. C. Private wire to New York give up business Solicited. JACKSON SPRINGS HOTEL ALWAYS OPEN Quail abundant. Special Teas and Dinners. Geo.. R. Ross, Prop'r. Jackson Springs, N. C. Pinehurst Farms Dairy and Market Garden Supplying the Entire Village in their Respective Departments. Village Guests are Cordially Invited to Visit These Modern Plants. Judson Kilpatrick Runs into a Trap. Sherman's Famous Calvary Leader Escapes from Greenspring Monroe's in his Nightshirt Addttts Corntpmdence to parniiuriT cusjjehax oiiioi Looking back at it now, it seems almost like a legend, or a part of some Homeric tale, drifted down on the lyres of wandering minstrels from the mists of time. Coming with tennis racquets and creamy flannels into the warmth of a welcome that is no less pervasive than the sunshine the Boston and New York traveler can scarcely believe that the old fellows he meets on the" roadside, and that pilot him over their own cover crops to locate the coveys of quail, are the self same Johnnies that welcomed the last great immigration of his kinsmen with grape and cannister. It is incredible that the self same lazy landscape over which Charlie Williams whoops his hounds was the identical scene of the last stand of these patriarchs, then com prizing poor old Dixies bottom dollar; or that the country of Drowning Creek and the Little Eiver, flanking the golf courses ( f Pinehurst heard the echo of invading bugles, and the roar of battle within the memory of Jiving men. Drawn by the spell of the all but for gotten memories of this drama, Clyde Davis and I set out to follow the track of. that dashing and dangerous horseman, Judson Kilpatrick, commander of calvary in the United States Army, and forager and flanker and , eyes . and ears of the late William Tecumseh Sherman,, leader of men. To us he and his troopers in the faded army blue, with their short car bines and their jangling sabres belonged among those dim and heroic figures which)' led by Hannibal and Napoleon, predomi nate the strange and fascinating fairy stories of incredible journeys and ex ploits which make up history. But to the old riflemen that we found in the cabins and homesteads of the venerable Scotch settlement, remnants of the followers of Ole Marse Eobert, Kilpatrick and his Yankee squadrons were among the com monplaces of existence, and their coming and going hardly regarded as worthy of comment. We have already recorded in these papers the story of Kilpatrick 's first ap pearance in the Sandhills, how he entered the plateau of Flora Macdonald by the historic gateway of invasion, crossing the Lumbee river below Derby's plantation at Markham's Bridge, while his out riders thundered over the old covered structure that spans Drowning Creek just below Jackson- Springs, and made hot foot straight down the old Morgantown road through the picnic grove now be longing to Parker Whittemore and Eobert Hunter, right over tlie site of the Pine hurst dairy, and so on to the Cross Eoads, since known as Southern Pines. Alex ander McLeod has told how he spent the night at the McLeod place, while Alex spent his night in the swamp, and the McLeod girls who are still there in the self same spot,- refused to cook his dinner. FIGHTING JOE WHEELER This was on the 9th of March, 1865. And at the very moment that this Yankee brigadier was sounding boots and saddles there near Pine Bluff, General Joe Wheeler, in command of Confederate Light horse in other words of a band of children from this neighborhood and other Southern resorts, the same that later led at San Juan, was eating break fast, as casually as you please and prais ing Lis hostess' sweet potato coffee right here at Southern Pines, in the Shaw house, that same old mansion whose vine covered portals make such a charming picture for the passengers in the bus that runs daily to the Highland Pines Hotel from the Pinehurst store. Here was a situation that promised some immediate developments. Neither of these gentlemen were famous for their caution. And it was an affectation of both to consider the other an entirely negligible quantity. kilpatrick's frolic Hence it was that when Kilpatrick had eaten his dinner at the Buchan planta tion, now a part of Jim Boyd's Wey mouth Estate, he decided to take his own personal caravan and retinue to Green spring Monroe's. The reasons for this were obvious. Greenspring was reputed to have the only thoroughly comfortable quarters left in that neck of the woods. Moreover he ran a farm still providing an abundant provinder for a troop of Cavalry, and a chicken dinner good enough for any field marshal. General Kilpatrick belonged to that happy Celtic race that loves and combines its fights and its frolics. Wheeler or no Wheeler, he and his staff were off for a night at Greenspring Monroes. The daring in this decision lay in the fact that this haven lay several miles beyond the direct line of march and the route taken by the majority of his command. And that to his right, making by all the roads there were towards Fayetteville, lay the whole of the famous army that marched to the sea depending upon this intrepid Irish man to protect the encircling fires. THE OLD PLANTATION But the call of the plantation pre vailed. That night at dusk the sleepy old Southern hamlet was aroused by the inrushing troop and was in short order made comfortable for the general and his staff, while the picked squadron of the army bivouaced in the orchard and down by the stream below the barns. Here, we are told by the old people who were left in the section at the time, the tedium of the march was forgotten, and the logs were piled high, and toasts were drunk to all that beauty, all that wealth 'ere gave. To look at the bending rafters of the indestructible but long since deserted shanty, it is almost im- I IMPORTED HOSIERYS For Golf, Tennis and Sport Wear 5 IN ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS FOR t tf MEN AND WOMEN Jj i Hpl N n 1 ft FinentScotch WoolTcnnls SocVsln white, w,lwKv, preen, black, heather and f CA white, with colored clocks, a pair ...... 1V Mn 1C Men's Finest Scotch Wool OolfHose, X J in grcn, fray, brown and O CA heather (without feet fS), a pair .tJ Oft Women'a Pcotch Wool Stockings, in 11 U. J white, white with colored O ft A clocks, Oxford green and heather, a pair . If ' 1 O . . w vompieie line uou, tennis ana opon equipment fj Mail Orders (Wen prompt attenboa. SMewart aporting Sales 425 FIFTH AVE., at 38th St. 1 o til Pinehurst Jewelry Shop At The Carolina Jewelry Notions and Silverware Repairing and Engraving THE CAROLINA Summerville, South Carolina Golf motoring and all out doorpleas . ures in an ideal climate. Hot water heating, Attractive surroundings Artesian water TIlOJl AM H. SlOORl! Grass Seed of Known Quality TESTED FOR PURITY AND GERMINATION In considering the purchase of grass seed, we ask the opportunity of talking or corresponding with those interested in securing the best results. 30 & 32 Barclay Street New Yerk i

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