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? I ? WOODROW WILSON DRAD. I ?? tit h Came to Great War-Tim* Frea ident Sunday Morning. Washington, February 3, ?For mer Presidont Woodrow Wilson died at 11:16 o'clock thia morning. The end waa peaceful. Life ebbed away while ho alopt* A tired man, he cloned his eyes, and, "xuxtained and soothed by an unfaltering truat" passed on to tho great hereafter "like one who wraps the drapery of hia couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams/' 6 Dr. (jrayson, hia friend and physi cian, announced the end of the groat war president in thiH bulletin: "Mr. Wilson died at 1 1 : 1 f> o'clock. II heart's action became feebler and the heart muscles were mo fatigued that it icfuHcd to act any longer.- The end came peacefully. "The remote -causes of death lie in his ill health which began more than four years agt>, nam dy: General arte i io-schlerosis with haemopligia. The immediate cause of death was ex haustion following a digestive distur bance which began' in the early part of last week but did not reach an acute stago until the early morning hours of February^!." Last Friday the. gnrti reaper had forced his way into the house after waiting on the dObrstey more than fouV years. Saturday he hud advanc ed to the landing on the staircase and stood counting oil' tho ticks of the great clock. Saturday night he knock ed on the chamber door, A faithful physician and a loyal wife stood with their backs against it. At D o'clock he rattled the knob and called to the peaceful prosit ate figure on the bed? a great bed long and wide, * ruplica | bt-d in-Artrtrlr Abmham f ^TTicolnj slept in the White House with a gol den American eagle and a tiny *i!k American Hag ju?l ovc* the, htad board. The watchers knew the battle waj lost. At the portal of door now open the faithful negro servant hoverod. On the bed, sitting beside- her husband, sustained wi'h all the fortitude and composure of a woman facing a erisis, I was Mrs. Wilson, holding between! her hands the wan, withered, right! I hand that had proved lh.? pen might- ; ier than the sword. . Near t'he foot of i the bed wiri his eldest daughter, Mar- ! garet, resigned t<> the inevi able. Close by, tears w lling from his eyes, and cou:p*'ng down his cheeks, was Dr. Grayson, taking the measure of the fluttering pulses, weaker and fainter with each elfort. Death advan ed and beckoned for the last. timr... The. tiit-d . worn out man drew a I b oath, .here was a slight (lu'l' i- of Uv oye'idu, an almost impercep h'.o ? .v 1. 1: of Ihc n.>>lrils. Woodroy W.. ."u'.il had drifted out on th?' jcent riiii k ... t ide that runs around all the world. Mr. Wilson's 'as', woida vi' uuataliu ;d meaning were spoken Friday. They /ere: "I am ready." Realizing fully that he could not, hope to rally from the onslaught of tho digestive disorder which sapped his strength, weakened his heart and accentuated the condition which fol* lowed his first stroke of paralysis, ho watched for a moment when all ex cept Dr. Grayson were out of his chamber. Drawing his friend and physician close, he murmered with some difficulty of articulation: "The old machine has broken down. You've done your best for mo. Hut it's ?otter that 1 should go than to live on helpless invalid, Tell Mrs. Wilson i want her. I'm ready." k ' ? Tw? n'y eighth president of the United Slates, and tho first Democrat j iin< o Jack.'ion to serve two successive} terms, Woodrow Wilson occupied the preside nyy during eight years of such world upheaval and turmoil, that his proper place in history cannot bo us iigned to him until his contemporaries are likewise assigned to their niches. Certainly, he ranks as one of the jjroat war presidents of tho American ?(?public, and ho oxercised such an in fluence in world affairs as never be* fore attached to his office. Empires crumbled, thrones col lapsed; the map of the world was made over# end under his administra tion the country abandoned its policy of Isolation and became an active par ticipant in world affairs. In all of that he took a powerful hand. No biographer could attempt to assess him accurately, and in full, until the processes which began in his day and with lua participation have come to n conclusion. An cbiJcUre lawyer, by natu.c a man of letters, he became an cduca^ ? to? mrt won htn frnrtr nttcrrttorr from' ! public as president of Princeton Uni- j v, rsity. Then by the airango ways of :i political system ho became Governor . wf i.Yw Jo; soy and iatcr, because ine j colors of the Republican party were divided between Theodore Roose- j volt and William II. Taft he became president of the United States. During his eiijht years of power, hi* traveled the gamut of human emotions; victoiry, defeat; courtship >?n I marriage; responsibility for lead i'.k a natibn into war with jhe collat 1 ie>iponsihiltty of bringing it hack i.i:a n to the ways of poaee; and final ly a doily s .:ugg!e^with death. Ho had heard himself hailed by the millions of Europe as "the God of peace" aud heard his name hissed by J l.e snme millions. Acclaimed at one time almost as a new Messiah, he heard himself excoriated and de noun* ?:d as hii autocrat and worse ai home and abroad. No other president s nc l.'n.:o!n was so worshipped and 1 a e : n> o'hor president since Roose vit I.uj jU. li fii-nds and such ene mies. Through it all he preserved an Oil waul calm while the tfrim de .;_rove. which hovorvd clone about him 7TTO- ' . " during the last months of his occupan cy of the presidency, followed him relentlessly to the modest home where he lived the ways of a retired gentle man and knocked at his door every day until it was at last opened. ?, After having borne the burdens of a war president, he undertook the task of making a peace which he sincerely believed would bo a lasting one and although he succeeded in getting Eu rope to accept it in large measure his own country rejected it. And in the fight he broke his health, wore him self out, suffered u stroke of paralysis which led to his death, and declared through it all that he would have been happy to give Mh life for the success of the elTorts. Woodrow Wilson was a precedent smasher from In-ginning to end. He brgan by reviving the practice of Washington and Jefferson in' deliver ing his most-age to congress in per son? he finished by actually leaving ?American soil and going to Europe. 11 is was the responsibility of deciding when a country with a people torn by conflicting sympathies was ready to throw itself into the great World war, and when the moment came he took the responsibility of throwing in the men and millions which turned the scale to victory. Whatever an army of Boswells may write, that will be the part in which ho will be best remembered by coming generations. Born in Staunton, Va., December 28, 1850, of Scotch-Irish parentage, he was christened Thomas Woodrow Wil son and he was known in early life as "Tommy." After he was graduated from Princeton in 1879 he was known only as Woodrow Wilson. His father wUs the Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, sl Presbyterian clergyman, and his mother was Jessie Woodrow. When ho' was two years old the for tunes of his father took the family to Augusta, Ga., where at the age of 17 Thomas Woodrow Wiison entered Davidson college, but left there soon to go to Princeton. After graduation at Princeton he studied law at the University of Virginia and in 1882 hung out his shingle in Atlanta, Ga. Meantime he courted Ellen Louise Axson, the daughter of a Savannah Presb/terian clergyman. They were married in 1.X85 and had 'three daugh ters, Margaret, the eldest, who did not marry; Jessie, who became the wife cf Francis Bowes Sayre, and Eleanor, who became the wife of Wil liam G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury during her father's adminis tration. Mr. Wilson's 3econd marriage took place on December 18, 1915, to Mrs. Edith Polling Gait, the widow of a Washington merchant. There were no children of this second marriage. Cakes must be cold before being iced. The best results are obtained wlun the cake is made one day and i ed the next, ~ ^ - ? - America** War President, Woodrow Wilson. earned hU place In history as a great American. Theae picture* *how (big photo) as he looked during hi* second term of office Jnat before stalling to Paris to help dictate peace. So. 1. Woodrow Wliaon on Uia dfith birthday, two ?e?r? nftor retiring to private life; No. 2, Wllaoo back frooi Pari* eaee Conference ? himself taking the treaty to present to Vr S. Con gr?K? . Xo. X, Woodroiv Wll mod's Una public appearance fn Washington tiffer Mng stricken do?ra through overwork In coodndlng peace. Mr*. Jt U With him. Mrt. NVoodrow WHmoii, widow of the former president. who lovingly had been liis constant companion and nurae nince hla physical break down before the completion of hla aecond term of office Upper. a* ahe aii>oar?*d when ahe became hi* aec ond wife during hU prealdency. Flower, the most recent picture of ??A? > ?? STEVENSON PLAYS TQLBICRT. Comp?rM His Poptoftc? S?lr? To Thi( of Teapot Dome Scandal. ? > j u'm ' ?? * '- v ' Washington, Jan. 24.-? Renewing his attack on Joaeph W. Tolbert, itepubli Can national committeeman for South Carolina, Representative Stevenson, Democrat, South Carolina, charged to day, in the HousAhat Tolbert resign ed recently as marshal for the western South Carolina district after he had been informed certain federal *vp pointments, favored by him, would be made. Representative Stevenson reiterat ed his charges that Tolbert was h patronage, seller and read from a doz en or more affidavits proving he said, "defiance of the civil service law that ia comparable only to Teapot Domp." ' You can talk about $100,000 bribes in the Teapot Dome deal," sdid Mr? fitovcnson. "If this man had been secretary of the interior that $100,000 would be invested in South Carolina." The% House also was told by Repre sentative Stevenson that Tolbert suc ceeded in having the size of the Re publican delegation to the next Re publican delegation increased to 11 members and in return pledged his support to President Coolidge. As proof of hsi charge that Tolbert at one time had been convicted of crime, the South Carolina representa tive produced what he said was a copy of an indictment which showed that in 1894^ Tolbert while postmaster at Ninety-Six had been charged with paying a $11 debt with stamped en velopes. He was tried, found guilty, and fined $50 in federal court, Steven* son said, , Teapot Dome Scandal. ? The action Of Archie RoosoVgTtr irT telling all he knew about the Teapot Dome oil deal was just what was to have been expected of a son of Theo rjnrA . PnnonyaU In brief, the story of the Teapot Dome deal is this: Teapot Dome em bodies one of the richest oil reserves in America, and had been reserved for the future use of the navy. Trans ferred to private interests it meant 'millions. The secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall had jurisdiction, and Fall being one of those workable kind of men, Harry F. Sinclair and assistants proceeded to work him. Because all the ? circumstances of this rich conservation were so well known, it was desirable to enlist men of prominence in the nation and that is how Archie Roosevelt happened to be taken in . That. the thing was so managed as to keep young Roosevelt from suspect ing any wrong is very probable; be cause it is very well understood that in so far as the Roosevelts inherit the splendid qualities of thfeir father, none of them would knowingly do any thing dirty. When it began to comc out clearly that Fall had been bribed to transfer the interest of the government in this property, Roosevelt came forward and told all about it, turning back on the men who had tried to use his good name all the reproach, contempt and crime that would have been his had they succeeded. There is a whole lot that can be said on different sides of this criminally reproachful situation; but even if Ar chie Roosevelt has. been tempted in connection with the matter, he has piayed "the part of a man and has come out with his honor unsullied. Sinclair knew what he was doing all | the while and so did Albert Fall. I York Enquirer. I .1. H. Howard, a state constable, was shot and killed last Thursday while raiding a moonshine still on Hogback mountain. 31 miles, from Greenville. Howard was in company with Reuben Gosnell and IC. N.. Austin. Fcdoral prohibition officers. His son, ('. G. Howard, was also along. In a j narrow pass the party arrested two ? young men carying sack*;. Austin and< 1 Howard remained with the prisoners while Gosnell and .1. H. Howard went on until they spied two men operating a still. Gosnell captured Holland Pitt man while J. H. Howard was pursuing the other man. The man Howard was ; pursuing turned and fired, the bullet i striking Howard in the mouth, killing him instantly. Pittman, the man who , was captured, told Gosnell that the man who escaped was Henry Lindsay, who was afterward arrested. Gosnell however, who caught a glimpse of the fleeing murderer; thought he was Al exander Pittman, father of Holland Pittman. Alexander Pittman surren dered inr soott he discovered that he wan wanted. The matter is still ! being probed. Howard leaves a wife, seven sons and five daughters. Following the escape of three con demned murderers from the state pri son of Arkansas on Friday, the war den of the prison has been dismissed. The foTcrecr of the *t*te declared thai the escape of the men was due to | carelessness on the inside of the pri A <'onnprehen?iv? Document. Jack ? Tht- grocermen in town haY*! issued a book of the names o / men who don't pay their debt*] Jim ? Yv?, but I heard they are us ing it for another purpoaa now. Jack ? 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