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HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE DESTROYED BY FLAMES Storied South Carolina Mansion Burned Recently Was Connected With Many Famous Names and Events in State's Glorious Days?Located Near Beaufort. Atlanta Journal. The White House was destroyed b; riit- on December 28, last?not th< one in Washington, but a famous onin Georgetown county, South Caro Ihia. The place was the property o Mrs. Elizabeth W. Pringrle, daughte of R. F. W. Allston. the last of tin o-nvprnors of South Caro _ 3;n*. He was the most distinguishe< member of a family whose wealth an< culture was once proverbial in th< Carolim.-s. Mrs. Pringle had lonj contributed articles for the New Yorl Sun under the rion de plume o "Patience Pennington," which wer< later put into book form under th< title of "The Woman Rice Planter." White House was one of the mos famous colonial mansions in the state It was at one time the residence o' Joel R. Poinsett, an eminent publii man of South Carolina, in the diplo ntatic service, who discovered th< beautiful tropic flower, "poinsetta/ and who adorned the estate wit! trophies of his travels. In the hand: of the Allston family it was the cen * 1 1"'* '1 ?\ lon^marl ter 01 social me <tuu ? , along: the Pee Dee river. Largest Slave Owner. Mrs. Pringle's father is said to have been the largest slave owner in the country at one time. It is note> worthy that he married a sister of the eminent lawyer of Charleston, James L. Petigru who was the strongesl union man in the state, and an oppo nent of secession, while her cousin ~ <* >T i.1. O James retigru 01 i\orui wiwma was opposed to slavery and tried tc limit it when he moved to South Caro lina and was elected to the legislature of that state. He subsequently became a brigadier in the Confederate army and was killed at Gettysburg, having been in Pickett's charge Mrs. Allston survived the governoi many years, living most of the time with Mrs. Pringle at the old Allstor home, "Chicora," an even more fam ous estate ooi the Waccamaw river ir 'Georgetown county. President Oleve ' ?* * ll-i T iani visited iurs. Aii^ton at uci nvmc and said some complimentary thing: on the occasion, so greatly was he impressed with the noble character o1 the splendid old lady, who was one of the great women of the country al h&? life. The Allston family is known in th< "'nisiory of the country also in connee 'tion with the tragic story of Theodo t sia Burr, wife of Aaron Burr, whe was lost at sea while en route to joir tier husband in New York. But she 'was the daughter of another gover nor Alston, of a century ago, whose "name is spelled with one "V a Jis 'ti*etion of importance in the two farn iHes, as they are now only very dis tantly related. One of Sad Tragedies. One of the saddest tragedies in th< history of the Allston's was the imir <der of the oldest grandson cn th< paternal side, and the namesake ol "Governor Allston. after he had mad< a figrht for his health only comparabl< to that of young Theodore Roosevelt and had got in a fair way to mend th< family fortunes by personal exertior as splendid as that of any New Eng Ian?! pioneer, and in marked contrasi to the way in which the origina wealth of his forefathers was ac cumulated. The story of Mrs Prinjrle's nephew, whose home as z "boy had often been at the Whitt House, is one of the unwritten epics of the South?the'post-bellum South * Robert Allston was the son of thf Rev. Benjamin Allston, a colonel ir ta? Confederate army, who took or ders in the Episcopal church after the war. The paternal estates in George town had.become practically unprof itable. The labor went away to th( railways and industrial centers, th< neglect of the fields increased the ma laria" Incidence, and soon nearly al th.iT remained of their former grand *- ur were the two magnificent home: at Chicora and White House rilled with portraits. handsom< furniture imported in the ol( days from London and Paris and a wealth of family treasure of all sorts. The two widowe< ladies, mother and daughter, kept th< places with the help of a few faith * / ^, :?" ! old servants ana tneir iauuu? an. : lived on the luxuriance of a soil un v excelled in America to this day. Bu the Rev. Mr. Allston could not d : anything on the place with his nake hands, and his stipend as a ministe was limited. His only son, Roberl " was sent to the state college jus after it had been reorganized b Governor Tillman, and. in spite of th fact that many of the old regim withdrew their patronage because c their dislike of the man who had b( come the head of that one tim aristocratic institution. Robert staye on, showing ore of the most chara< teristic* Allston qualities >n so doinj His aristocracy would not allow Ti! man to keep him away from his state's > historic institution. Decides on Farming. ; i Kut an attack of measles at the end : of his sophomore year left ins eyes ! ;so impaired that he could neither nr. isli h:S education nor m ?.i, . ;clerical occupation. Ke was not esipecially strong, though possessed of a > ! stern will and a sound constitution. 'So he decided to go to work as a j farmer with his own hands. He had f not the capital to buy and to equip ? a large place. He laid his lines of ? ; procedure with remarkable sagacity ~ ' for one of his years?and it was all f f his own plan. He was 17 ye^rs old. i r He sought a good climate by going to * j the slope of the Blue Ridge below "; Asheville on the line of the Southern I ? 'I"-"TJ,. Knncrhf- snmp wild ITlOUn i l clli ? a v . i.ic *-/ v uws** v *jtain land there cheap. He built a e j one-room cabin, and lived alone. He *' decided to specialize on Niagara * grapes. He cleared the land with his f i own hands, cut and planted the 2 i posts for the wires, studied viti-cul^ jture with a close and practical applij cation that made him a master of the , subject. His grandfather had been i one of the "agricultural" governors ^ ; ?probably did more for scientific 2 ' agriculture than any other governor " I of the state except Tillman. Robert 1 seemed to have inherited that quality I in full measure. He planted corn 1 !fnH vpp-ptables between the young i - _0 s j grapes and lived on the place as he ", went along without going into debt. c: No mountaineer ever lived simpler j and harder than this scion of the '.wealthiest and most partrician of j Southern families. He also made j friends with his mountain neighbors ! | in a plain, manly fashion. He succeeded. His grapes paid i well. He built a cottage home, then j other houses to rent to summer resis?r?H fhpn hp married'a daughter j ' | of a retired English gentleman, of ', the British foreign service, who had } settle'd in the famous French Broad '! valley of North Carolina. He continued to prosper, adding to his interests and investments, every cent of it '1 built up on the labor of his own i hands. At SO he was practically in- j * ; dependent, and was likely at 40 to be j *, wealthier than his grandfather had j 5 been with six generations of slaves ! 1 hehind him. Then came the tragedy. A man who 1 had been employed to prune the "; vines in a part of the place got drunk - and when Mr. Allston asked him why 51 he had neglected his work at a criti[. cal time, the man took a pistol from ' his pocket and shot him through the heart without a word of warning. * j Robert Allston's character was proi nounced to be more like that of some J; ideal hero in a story book than an ": ordinary mortal. Courteous to all, ~; the humble and poor especially; def} I erential to his elders, sound in prac 1 tical judgment, a Christian without 1 bigotry, a gentleman without a tr^ce " of snobbery, pure in morals, high in 1 ideals, utterly without apparent con" sciousness of his high lineage, he was " one of the finest types of the Ameri", canism of the new South that ever 'grew up from the old. | Mr. Allston left one son and two J daughters. The boy lately distin' guished himself in the war. He used ? to say that some day he would build ^ a house in the mountains big enough i to hold his share of the family treas; ures at Chicora and White House, l 7 ? but now many of them are gone in J, the smoke of the old mansion on the 1 Pee Dee. However, the three splen did children are exemplifying the t" Koontv nf thp old Stock. JU Cllf Lit aim ' Ambassador Phelps once met young " Robert Allston and remarked that the war was not in vain which emanci1 pated such a young man. * ? r J ? 5 | How to Be Safe in New York. .'New York Evening Post. ;! A New York woman desirous of ? i renting her house was surprised that - the real estate agent should make ;< the following recommendation: "In -; showing prospective tenants over the - house insist always that they prei cede you going up and down stairs: ? never turn your back upon them and - allow them to follow you. Don't turn 1 your back upon them at any time, if - you can possibly help it." "But," 5 said the woman, "this is a highly re- j , spec-table neighborhood, and my j ?, house is not one to attract crooks or j ! adventurers. Moreover, you, as my I ,, aerent, would send no one who was s not above both reproach ami sus i picion." The agent smiled cynically. 2 i "All I know is that you'd better fol low my advice," he said: "it's a queer d town and it's a big; one, and the num ber of persons in it who, if not crooks, 11 are crazy, is surprising. No matter o j how respectable a neighborhood or d jhow inoffensive a house, the rule I'm I'fc nnp all agents rj giving you ^auu . t, I give) is a safe one." The warning, ;t j given some years ago, was brought to y! mind by the horrible murder of the e | young girl by the prospective tenant e | she was showing over her father's f j apartment. Keeping a possible i- > criminal always in front of you would ie j not insure safety, but the risk would d ; be less. The real estate agent's advice shows chiefly that with human I. na'.ure are without illusions in reI ' .za-'d tc it. FERTILIZERS ARE DELAYED Side Application After Planting Advised by Agricultural Authority if Plant Food is Not I Received in Time to Put E Them Under the Crop r "Southern farmers are demandini more fertilizer* than ever before; but unfortunately, all indications are thai enough fertilizers cannot be jnanufac tured and delivered in time to rneel this demand before the crops are planted," says Director J. N. Harpej of the Soil Improvement Committee who has been traveling extensively throughout the fanning sections of th< South. "In this exigency, what is the farm sr to do? Sit idly down and say then is no use trying? .By no manner ol means! He should prcceed with nit preparation and pknting. He aStulc porsist in his efforts fo get hi* fex tilizers until he does get them, thei apply them as a side application to hii crops. . ' "Side applications have long beei practiced under normal conditions, anc now necessity demands that a. lar^f "luantity of the plant food be appliec in this way. The plant can feed* up on the fertilizers when they are pui on as a side application just as wel as when put under the crop. Tht first application can be made as sooi as the fertilizers are received, ever if the' cotton is up and has made som< growth. "Under boll weevil conditions, it if desirable, of course, where possible, t< apply the fertilizer under the cotton but a farmer is not taking as great t chance at failure with a side applica tion as in attempting to grow the croj iritliniit for+ill7orj "It is not as ?c0i-0mical to make s side application as to distribute th< fertilizers and prepare the land witt the same operations as is ueuall] done at seeding time. But the preseu demp.nd for p!1 f?TTi commodities ant the prices they are bringing abund antly justify this comparatively sioal additional expense. "The /actors influencing the short age of fertilizers have been beyont the control of the fertilizer manufac turers. The main difficulty has beer the scarcity of ground phosphate rock from which to manufacture acid phos phate, due chiefly to the protractec strikes in the Phosphate fields of Flor ~ * ida, and to the railroad car shortage The factories have been unable to rut at full capacity, not only because ol insufficient raw materials but becaus* of a lack of labor. The manufacturers are making e:ery effort to get suf ficient materials and labor to operate their factories at tae highest possciblt speed. "The farmers should accept the sit nation, proceed with his pbnting tilize what fertilizers he has, if any by putting them under his crop, anc apply cne rest as u? A9LD4TV/0 uivui and feel confident that a satisfactory crop can be made." ivfORE MONEY CROPS FOft SOUTHERN STATES Though cotton will always reraaii the South's main money crop, there ? no good reason why it should be th< only money crop that a southen planter should raise, especiall> whei there are so many others that pay *.< well, or better, t-"' cotton. Rpfprrine to the crop reports of th? United States Department of Agricul ture for the year 1919, it will be fount that the gross returns on some of th< leading crops are very attractive as compared to cotton. The returns pei acre, aa shown in this report, are a; follows : Cotton average, $70.87 per acre. Peanuts average $70.93 per acre. Tobacco average 52S5.37 per acre. Sweet potatoes average $134.19" pe: acre. Sugar cane (syrup), averages $203.01 per acre. PINK BOLL WORM INVADES COTTON BELT. The pink boll worm, a worse enera; of cotton than the boll weevil, has ad vancea from Mexico through the ^)oi ton Belt as far as Louisiana. The United States department c Agriculture has sounded a cry c warning, declaring that a very seriou situation exists which calls for th closest co-operation between states an the government agencies that ar seeking to exterminate the peat. j special appropriation bas been aske of congress. The appearance of this dreaded coi ton enemy in Louisiana was a grea surprise. Those who were workin for its eradication thought that the had so nflned it to a narrow strip i 'exas tnat it would be an easy meaaui to kill it by estannsning a auu-cuuu sons. A much larger territory mut now be watched and plans are on fot: destroy the growing cotton croj wher?v#? it appears, destroying at th same time the unhatched eggs and th ivorms. W . .era r^.?r.' ! > = t. i j j i 35 ;i >/ The ) ! MOREth of the i 4.1 > | ; arc ciiuiuau jj their friends I riding qualit Triplex Spri: | the rough rot ! "Rides as i ! rode before.0 i I I - ' M +.3 I l\ 9# i 5 1 - . f?// j M J^. :[ \ W^~ I I I II ? 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Long, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Thursday, the 15th dav of April, 1920, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as administrator of said estate. H. T. LONG, Administrator. Newberry, S. C., March 13,t 1920. t 4