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BY AN INTIMATE FRIEND L New York Tiling ha* swuml milili<?itl?w> (ho following iiiliniiUf Lxial sketch of WtKHlrow Wllaon, i iittiu. wrll It'll by Professor Stock - .***<')'? whose sister, Wllen Louise (M.ii. wti s the President's llrwt wife. >f Avx'ii "?l tuily had cIono jmr ai illation* with tilt* for !??' ho served mirier him t.? Mr. Wilson whh president ' of iic<>l*)ii I'nlvendty. Hf wax assist professor of lOoK'Ush literature at iMvloit 1 1 "in I Mill to 1IMM and pro ?ur frt'ii* MM 1? 101S, when ho ,1,1 i lie facility t?f Klee Institute, Texas, as professor <i>f Kiik stan hriv MM- umnv who frtii amilUo ami Wilson. I ho NUitosinnn, known ,,11 i tic ? orld, hul (ho ranks nro mill).' iiiiioiik thoMo who l,iavo ^ till' 111:111 f lit idllCO Ills uv iiiuhliiMKl. Woodrow YVIhton ?ij,n it< tin* world; Ih It, then In had for one who has had the K''<vnl rlh*^c nl* :.?'?'Iiiu hint t.t clone llllijfo Jlfi .V I'll rs to talk xltoul ll I III 1*1! Illil' ? tu the ? oi'ld ? v ktviH*.- 1 einhurassment arises | in \ womlcr :i limit. whaf Ml*. Wii hiiiist'lf "ill sn.\ if be tUumhl over I tlii^ a i'( it-U'. for It has ?never 1 stMj hint to liavo Wis personal af < iui.iiiiatt*) \ talked about, ami yet imiIx rryson why I should write at is ilial 1 .ini in a position to talk ill liim Iiersoiiall.v anil that tln? air) lifl- <?' '"'K'ht to know what mau nf man Is President. (jo iii it hu|>|h?so than I myself know L j ??*<. lieiml Wtwtdiow VT|tH(kn*sr [(> iwiit lulled : probably in in.v ear childhuiKl. for between his family mine there ha* always l?een an lt? Hi* mother's Sister was Mrs. us Rones. 2i nil the Honeses were, nevt door neighbors in Home, (ia. ; ill1 anil Mil rl? ?n Hones were my dii.kMl nunpaiiioiis, Helen helni; <h youufrr ? i Ke names of Wood IViNon's father and mother, Unele and .Aunt Jessie. were as familiar We as the unities of my own uncles aimtv at I verj tli-f inet ly remember the t time that tiny body talked to me detail :i l?? ?m Wood row Wilson : it k my father, ia m letter m.Uen to ; ulioii i \va away at senuoi, lake , Jix<ej?J? \Viis..M, my father' was 'avhyti-riau minister, and, also like U'i!>.!i he pr:i? ti,-ed more than he ?w,.i| ( Hiii !; 1 1 1 \ father weht on the thOOty" that Ills example WOUld tit. more for my upbringing than word> precepts, and so the tlrst hoadly he ever delivered to me w*s in the form of a loug letter written Ju-.t after Wood row Wilson had ended a visit to Ids relative* in ltome. My father made thin youug atao. ten years older than myself. Ids text, described him, ami held him up to me as a pattern of young manhood. I m all one phrase, virtually verbatim: "J ean tldnk of nothing that would make me *<? happy fts to have a son like thuj " That hitter was written tldrt.s four years ago: hut 1 remember it vi\ld|y, hoih because It was practlcall.v the only private sermon my father .over preaehed to me, ami beeause the wish expressed was fulfilled. not in the way gagemeut. though he ? ) i?M t before the marriage. It was In 1KNU that Wood row Wil son and Kllen Axson became engaged She was visiting friends in the North Carolina mountains when my father fell seriously 111. He bad me summon lier home by tdlcgmm *my mother' hail died two years before, and my sister was the responsible member <'f the family. KJie went to Ashevillc to catch a train, but as the had to wait several hours for it she went to a hotel and w Id led away the time read ing by a window. As fate wouhl have it. Wood row Wilson, who was driv ing in the mountains, passod the hotel chanced to look up. ami saw her pro llle at the window. The two had been together in, .Homo Hie previous" sum mer, am! It. needed just the unexpwt ed encounter in the North Carolina moutdains to show them what life ine? ns for each and ,fur both of them. TTiiforgettnj.de for me Is the conver sation which my ulster and I had on the night of her arrival home. In the earlier part of the evening she had' been anxious about uiy father, but when he had at last been made com fortable and had fallen asleep, she 'olned me in the little sitting room, her dear face flushed, her eyes bright. "Pan you keep a secret-?" she asked and upon my .? intimation that 1 .could she told ftie that she was engaged to be married, the manner of the meet ing. and her joy. "lie Is the greatest man in the world," she said, "and the best." in that faith she never falter ed in all the years that followed. Of the many mental pictures which J have of my sister, three at this uio Leather Quarter Top Buggies as long as they last at cost. GEORGE T. LITTLE iving Dinner CELERY, LETTUCE, CAULIFLOWER, TOMATOES, , - ( ^ANBERRIES and fruits of all kinds. ? . \!V.. . ?. % ' NUN N ALLY'S BONBONS AND CHOCOLATES. CALL AT S'SMn''CANDY kitchen Spero Beleos, Proprietor. lone 78. . .. "V Camden, S. C. "? *lrtX)KMICK,.Prop. 4 E. \V. BOND, Manager McCORMICK & COMPANY Funeral Director! and EmH*lro?r^ n ?* l>n? S3. AMBULANCE MOTH* N:_ht Country CMU An?wered Promptly D?y 795 Model 85-4 f. O. b. Toledo $795 Model 85-4 f. o. b. Toledo These Tremendous Advantages? More power ? 35 horsepower motor. More room ? 112-inch wheelbase. Greater comfort ? long, 48-inch cantilever rear springs and 4 -inch tires. Greater convenience ? electrical control but tons on steering column. Bigger, safer brakes ? service, 1 3 5M&x2}<? '.emer gency, 13x2)4. Better cooling ? you never heard of an Over land motor overheating. These are tremendous advantages over any thing; ,to be had in other ears that sell for anywhere near as low a price. And they make it hard for us to keep up with orders. The factory has never yet caught up with the demand. You ought to own one of these ears ? nothing else so big and fine for the money. Come in and order yours now. Geo. T. Little, Dealer. Camden, S. C. Phone 169 Tho Wiily?-Ov?rland Company, Tolodo, Ohio "Mad* In U. S. A." incut stand out. with peculiar noss; the way she looked thai night j when she told .W of her engage m ft Iho way sho 'yoked when she hoi I h t lirst horn hi hoi- anas. waitinn r ; | aha to come from a distant place f< i I tLii iirst sight of Wm t4iiW -rnirt tbS , wav sho looked hi the little cottage ii , rri\iceton the night that he \ od President of tin* I tided, ? ? - ?w^'-jwtrr t1rfnrn--TWv A <-to am - i i?o was * t tidying at .b nns 11 1 > ; kins ' | 'uiV'V-df > hi l'.alt.nu" ? ni n,an,e .T tho ladepcmlont i n*l*U; via ii church in savannah. <.a.. hi- ? flier and grandfather olh m nr I ? member ln?w ho and * the books in my -ran- -Ifa! Mi - y en so whih? wo s* ailed . .r H e ~ ? to -come downsi->?rs. 1 ? Miss WHS jarred and tho < blossom tornnM- : ' wllilo siut.'^.hoys. i?th^ trroom s iKii lH' ^ 1 ThT hri/h-V lather. r .Av*r <? , A- ; "mixed it up ' iH a o-j f:n,?o <niivr?MH-?" u? i>< \ |'r : i T!u? bri<lo vus miw #i sh<w ^ caught a twinkle in Hu- - ovo. which sotnn 1 i" ?>>? "*? * ' ? ( ai-SJto them; hut don t W . he desperate haste ahout it. Their tlivt Dome was a i Hr.vu l'oilll.. where 14,1 *' ii ow 1 v fouiuhS college for won.fi.. t hoi r second was in Middletoii. < whoro ho was -professor in W <*shj.i i U vorsitv: thoir third lmmo was m Prinoetoi* X. J- wlioro ho was profes io"iof w^v,. year* ami present for eJght: tlion came tin* whlet lif\ . * governor of NVw .lorscy and i rosid. of tho United, Statos. As soon as thoy had a ho,nn' in Hr.\n Maw r tho\ "sont for our little 4^P"^' , Luuthert-l^lwuriUa4?d-hv ? n,tr" bor of their iHnwehohl until ho JTl' ' ' viod Probably the sliarp?'st v sistl.r over suffered 'was \\htn Edward, his younipr wife, and thoii lml>v wore all| drowned trtgethof. ^ 11^ naturally stroinr troustitution ? ?? temporarily, for he was as he . rather than her brother, I n> hr aine a 'member of thoir family foi a ylar to Miartloumn. sjnro Iiractk-nlly " "'' 'V,,'0 r-rinA-! ft,?- dnring the lonjx years In ? rtne ton. though I had my own apartmeidj I tiKod thoir house ?f. " .,u; own home. And our young sister. Maraaret. (now Mrs. Elliott ) had thf nmo nrlviloL'os. All of which would indicate that when Wowlrow ^vl^n r? nl never todlcat?l It. An.l v't'r, . eocli n'loBtcl tlie olber'K family ?? <"jm pletolv. He ovJ*n used to refer to he lead 'father and mother by tho eh l ood names by which she always call cm 1 the 1 Ortnk be would prof>abi> Kav now that one of his favorite uncles was her Uncle Tom? Dr. Thomas tto. .f i?ntl?doH?hia Onee when Ln<ii Toa war vdmn, ??." I" ""'XS Mr WIIK..1. I. rot.- Into n ?oft el?n< kl. While lie ami I were .11. 1..K alene. "What^ro you laughing at . flHlio replie<l; "To think how 1 bjatk I od 1 'ncle Toms fMK,t? this .mor.Li. -? Passing "nis bedroom door 1 saw that ho luVd Pttt his boots outside, naturalh S?S? ??-? ?" TruC; nle keep a man. I knew wouMn'l ' bliiek them, and Annie couldn't so there was nothing to do M thle true ejtowj*. th?t h!', m'gl't wuil have I* til do It. WfilllN M1?T I was Mtifm coll ego he wri a proftwor. ftn<l bwideft. " ?nK mv rnele Tom. any way. Il? W<??lrow Wilson woillil ,'llr the m,.?t ^enerjan. and the tendert**t- Ho there w ? gidcntial picture to go coin splitting rails. -and- ?a*fteW on a boat. and (irnrii driving a dray j- Wibon blacking rnolo Tom's boots I ? I ji< It- 'J'um by marriage. I li i hard fi } r mo to speak in mod erate tonus of the beauty of the. Wil (styi's married life that 1,1.1 ij i?'< I II fo Uv1i1.li 1 su iiYflmatoly for more than il.V years. Tlu>y sav "the bravest" are the lendcwMt.'' ami flits strongest1 5?il!L 'M all - the world today !??? ?'i. ways been so ueutJo in tits home* life l'1"1 '?? lias npealcd t ? ? some too do ji'i' '??. In the days of tin* nnfortu j < -.?] ft* quarrels In I'rim eton. I< . " ' Iv.Tjro that Used U> he made 1 Mm \vas thut lio u a-. <? shul ; > ? I'. ? hojpr. II IV that he . ! I n,?t unv :? 1 1 ? i I ho ways of iuoii. * ?ii'-i-. .'i Mia 11 of WPdrow Wil ii s :f"iwn-? for rapid 1 oreopt ion : h.:.-;T?s more ftttmit men in tfjr flnKh of than slower men loarn of oaeh :? '?>) w !io!o long afternoon* of ?-i ul? 1 1 ::?> ;sip ov< r their highballs-. iint . i:t ;he flu I iLfe there H this mtrrtr trrrrtrr that .Mr. Wilson's own tirpiirle has a' , v.- ays (icon dearer to him than the ithromred marts of easuui eontaets. if I were asked to name the leading i.ii>| gov?rni?ig elmraeterisi je of .this man, 1 should reply* "Thai is not easy, f;ij" lie is a man of ? commanding Renins, j :ii!'l genius is jieeessn rll$- complex: luit i cel'tainl.v iiiii: of his b'M^ltng., tl'aifs he |'_h?ep nffoetjoh- .Sometimes in' his pub i iio dealings, he is f??t*?*e*l to harden his I heart deliberately in order that lie | may do just lee. hut so kooij as he eau . follow hi*? own instinct there emerges, above all his intellect ua lity and all his Iron tirmness of will, his affec tion." In the family circle he can give this affection free reign. and honeo lie probably never fools so completely himself as when he gathers wlt.li wife ?1 1 1.' 1 ffn ugh tors ? whI a few i-howen ! riends around the fireside and "allows his spirit to move him whither it lLs tetli. ,IU> simply cam lot live without affection,- for this, our American groat man, Is no superman, hut human to the core of him. In the Jong years of his and my sister's life together, they were more completely, one than any two people with whom I have been thrown 'Into intimate contact. They took 'color from each other, ns water and sky re flect each other's moods. Their tastes in books, pictures, statues, and arelri t cot a re coa faced. lie taught her to love bis prose favorite. Hurke antf ibtgehot and Blerrell, (the first. J Mr roll book I ever saw was an inscribed gift book from him to )ier ; > she taught him to love her poetic fav orites, cspoobiljy Wordsworth and drowning; lie imd a -deep^iud true' In stinct for archltectu re, whfvh he Im parted to her, and she In turn quick ened Ids dlfccrlin.'nntlon for color In iaiHlscai?e painting and in nature ? for she had a nklll in color that would have made her a distinguished ai'tKt had she. not made her painting secon dary. to ho|' greater caiver ;is wife and motJier, .a. ... tt Intef-es'ts me t<> observe how the thref? girls hav<' ?;hare<t their parenTR*" tastw am!' talents : Maignrot has her father's j>issloi| fo.* music j Jihuibor. MH .McA<V' ), bcrVmeHiLr's gift for palntfngj in y< unjr ehlhlhoorl. Te?.sle, .Mrs. Say re, had soi.ictliin^ of her fa ther's taste for litem rv 0 predion and oC her tr others taste for art : b.p us she dey<"l?VjH?tl those were overshadrtw ed by t|iat which both lio'r parents had ' ln^rOmnion. a strong humanitar ian inttindt. whic 1 -? mi:i.t s iti?faetion in MtflffjiiUtt iv.?rU until *he mar riod. We oftci h.^a r it -,0d if a married pair ? so often that It has become a sort of "bromide" ? "A cross word tujyei pwwtl iK'twroTTthat- wuplg.'J T ha\-e been honestly tr.vlhg to think If I e?er heard anything approehlng an altercation between Mr. and MrS. Wil son, and I cannot recall, area ? shad ow i>f ? nnch. And yot the?^ were no weakling, but two spirited people, each with a power of conviction pos sible only to rery strong character*. They would sometimes differ In their -opinion*, vtwif 'theif- relationship was Mt root i'<l In mutual h?vo nut I loyalty thai tlu'lr <lifl'erenees were casual ami shim rfit-i.M J. never fundamental. 1 have seen .Mr. Wilson humorously assume the rule of n brow bontetn nml ; lunptvU^ul j?erson, una I lowed to hoht nil opinion, when his wife would say in her Impetuous . wuy, "W*oodro\v. you know you don't think' th.it !" ami Im? would snillr and say. "Madam I was venturing to think that 1 thought I that until I \\a> i-ouvt-N-d." At out' time, when the girls wi'i'c growing up. he usi'd to lau?;h and < n n >t ?* (Mliof .luetlt**- Avtto iriTinrkcft thnf 1ltR "Jurisdiction pxMmuUmI over all the United Stat ps c\i?'pt I ho Fuller fain L ( '".ullnuvd.-cu ..lttiii -UUtfC- J. Attractive Personally Conducted Tours1 Operated During THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS T January, February and March ~ To ^ ? ? j JACKSONVILLE ST. 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Get our <prices on field fence, barbed wire, etc. Raise some hogs and we will be fortified when the little^ pest readies our section. tlC. f \ ' ' ? A - * '? ' : . . / * \ ^*5 ' ? ? i u ?? * ' - " ' VV i ?? , vs