Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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! Auto ' ? ? HISTORIC WHITE HOUSE DESTROYED BY FLAMES t Storied South Carolina Mansion Burn, ed Recently Was Connected With Many Famous Names and Events in State's Glorious Days?Located near Beau-/ fort. The White House was destroyed by fire on December 28, last?not the one in Washington but a famous one in Georgetown county, South Carolina. The place was the property of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Pringle, daughte r of R. F. W. Allston, the last of the antebellum governors of South Carolina. He was the most distincuished mem ber of a family whose wealth arid culture war. once proverbial in the Carolines. Mrs. Pringle had long contributed articles for the New York Sun under the non de plume of "Patience Penmngtory" which were later put into book form under the title of "The Woman Rice Planter." White House was one of the mo3t famous colonial mansions in the state. It >was at one time the residence of Joel R. Poinsett, an eminent public man of South Carolina, in the diplomatic service, who discovered . the beautiful tropic flowers, "poinsetta," -and who adorned the estate with tro^ ^ phies of his travels. In the hands of the Allston family it was the ccn? ter of social life and a landmark along the Pee Dee river. Largest Slav? Owner. Mrs. Pringle's father is said to have been the largest slave, owner in the country at on time. It is noteworthy that he married a sister of the eminent lawyer of Charleston, James L. Petigru who was the strongest union man in the state, and an opponent of secession, while her cousin, James Petigru of North Carolina, was opposed to slavery and tried to limit it when he moved to South Carolina 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 governor many years, living most of the time with Mrs. Pringle at the old Allston home, 'Chicora" an even more famous estate on the Waccamak river in Georgetown county. President Cleveland visited Mrs.' Allston at her home and said some complimentary things on the occasion, so greatly was he impressed with the nable character of the splendid old lady, who was one of the great women of the country all her life. , The Allston family is known in tiie history of the country also in connection with the tragic story of Theodosia Burr, wife of Aaron Burr, wno was lost at sea while en route to join her husband in New York. But she was the daughter of another GovPale <ciii9ureii Mf^de qver to your liking, with rosy cliceivS, hearty ap-. netitc?, vigorous digestion and robust health. Give tliein a glass of this delicious digestant with rncais. Sfilvar Ale PURE DIGESTIVE AROMATIC* WITH SIIIVAR MIRCKa WATCH AliO OINGEtt Nothing like it for building rich blood and solid fleih. At all grocers and druggists?sntihfaction or your money back on first dozen. Shivar Ale retails at 13c per bottle, ori?J.73 per dozen. If youi reg' i ular dealer cannot supply yoti, telephone T>i?tributor? for Union. 1 EAGLE GROCERY CO., ' JL . , 1 , ; f SI : < i mobile raordinary Offer re are more DIAMOND tires piling up : the be?t values in Tires. YOU AFFORD TO LET AN OPPOR' HE UNIO PHOl 'ernor Alston of a century ago, whose name iy spelled with one "1," a distinction of importance in the two famillPS. flR thpv Jirn nnw nnlv vprv rlia. tantly related. One of Sad Tragedies. One of the saddest tragedies in the history of the Allstons was the murder of the eldest grandson on the paternal side, and the namesake of Governor Allston, after he had made a fight for his health only comparable to that of Young Theodore Roosevelt, and had got in a fair way to mend the i family fortunes by personal exertion as splendid, as that of any New England pioneer, and in marked contrast to the way in which the original wealth of his forefathers was accumulated. The story ot Mrs. Pringle's nephew, whose home as a boy had often been at the White House, is one of the unwritten epics of the South the post-bellum South. Robert Allston was the son of tne Rev. Benjamin Allston a colonel in the Confederate army, who took orders in the Episcopal church after the j war. The paternal estates in George- j twon had become proctically unprofitable. -The labor went away to the railways and industrial centers, the neglect of the fields increased the malarial incidence, and soon nearly all that remained of their former grandeur were the two manificent homes at Chicorn and White House, filled i with portraits handsome furniture imported in the old days from London and Paris and a wealth of family treasures of ^11 sorts. The two widowed ladies mother and daughter kept < the places with the help of a few faithful old servants and their families and lived^on the luxuriance of a i soil unexcelled in America to this day. But the Rev. Mr. Allston could not do 1 anything on the place with his naked hands, and his stipend as a minister i wus mniLevi. nis oniy son, rtooei~i, was sent to the state college just after < it had been re-organized by Governor i Tillman, and in spite of the fact that 1 many of the old regime withdrew < their patronage because of their dia- 1 like of the man who "had become the ] head of that one time aristocratic in- ? stitution. Robert stayed on, shcwiag one of the most characteristic Allston qualities in so doing. His aristocracy would not allow Tillman to keep him away from his state's historic institution. 1 Decides on Farming. 1 But an attack of measles at the end ' of his sophomore year left his eyes 1 so impaired that he could neither fi i- J ish his education nor engage in any clerical occupation. He was not especially strong, though possessed of a stern will and a sound constitution. So he decided to go to work as a 1 farmer with his own hands. He had 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 his own plan. He was 17 years old. 1 He sought a good climate by going to ' the slope of the Blue Ridge below ' Asheville on the line of the Southern railway. He bought some wild moun- ' tain land there cheap. He built a one- 1 y*AA*M n o Kl n ott/J 1 AIAMA UA *1** 4 AVVtll vawillf U>?U XX T CU atUIIC X1C UC" cided to specialize on Niagara graphs He cleared the land with his own ^ hands, cut and planted the posts for | the wires, studied viti-culture with a j close and practical application that ( made him ? master of the subject. His grandfather Kad been one of "the "agricultural" governors ? probably j did more for scientific argicultme | than any other governor of the state , except Tillman. Robert seemed to ( have inherited that quality in full measure. He planted corn and vegc- , tables between the young grapes | along without going into debt. No j mountaineer ever lived simpler and | harder than this iscion of the wealthiest and most patrician of Southern \ families. He also made friends with ? , ' ? Tube! For th^ next ten days we are every DIAMOND TIRE, a DIA] And remember, we guaranty and TUBE. DIAMOND FABRI DIAMOND CORDS high mileage in Union today, tha TUNITY LIKE THIS GET BY YOI IIARDWAR: N TIAR] NES 33 and 34 his mountain neighbors in a plai manly fashion. Success at Last. He succeeded. His grapes pa well. He built a cottage home tht other houses to rent to summer res dents and then he married a daught* of a retired English gentleman, 1 the British foreign service, who h: settled in the famous French Broj valley of North Carolina. He conti: ued to prosper, adding to his interes and investments, every cent of it bui up on the labor of his own hands, i 30 he was practicaly independent, *u likely at 40 to be wealthier tht his grandfathers had been six gener tfons of slaves behind him. Then came the tragedy. A man wl had been employed to prune the vim in a part of the place got drunk at when Mr. Allston asked him why 1 had neglected his work at a critic time, the man took a pistol-from h pocket and shot him through tl heart without a word of warning. Robert Allison's character was pr nuouced to be more like that of son ideal here in a story book than a ordinary mortal. Courteous to a! the humble and poor especially; defe ential to his elders, sound in practic. judgement, a Christian without bigo ry, a gentleman without a trace < snobbery, pure in morals, high \ ideals, utterly without apparent oo: scious of his high lineage, he was or of' the finest types of Americanis of the new South that ever grew x from the old. * Mr. Allston left one son and tv daughters. The boy lately distil guished himself in the war. He ust to say that some day he would buil a house in the mountains big enoug to hold his share of the family treai ures at Chicora and White House, b\ now many of them are gone in tl smoke of the old mansion on the Pc Dee. However, the three splendi children are exemplifying the strengt and beauty of the old stock. An bassador Phelps once met young Rol srt Allston and remarked that tl war was not in vain which emanc paiea sucn a young man?Auam Journal. rather late for this generatioi The protest of the western dentist against the epidemic of wholesal tooth extraction which has bee sweeping the country came just 1 time to leave a tooth or two to han bridges on.?Kansas City Star. GLAD TOTESTIFY Says Watoga Lady, "As To Whs Cardni Has Done For Me, So As To Help Others." Watoga, W. Va.?Mrs. 5. W. Oladwel Df this town, says: "When about 15 year af age, I suffered greatly ... Sometime would go a month or two, and 1 ha terrible headache, backache, and bearing Jown pains, and would just drag am rtad no appetite. Then ... it would lat ,.. two weeks, and was so weakening ind my health was awful. My mother bought me a bottle c 3ardui, and 1 began to* improve afte taking the first bottle, so kept it up till look three... I gained, and was we! ind strong, and 1 owe it all to Cardui. I am married now and have 3 childre .. Have never had to have a doctor fo emale trouble, and Just resort to Cardv f I need a tonic. 1 am glad to testify t what it has done for me, so as to he!; >ther^." If you are nervous or weak, have head iches, backaches, or any of the othe lilments so common to women, why m five Cardui a trial? Recommended tr nany physicians. In use over 40 years Begin taking Cardui today. It ma; m the very medicine you need. NC-13 X i $ Given going to give FREE, with each and MOND INNER TUBE to fit it. e each and every DIAMOND TIRE CS 6,000 Miles i 8,000-Miles n most of the other makes put together. U ? Don't put it off?give us your order t< E LEADERS DWARE C UNION, S. id ii jr af id id ts S 1 rpo, in Jl pla Buick 10 morro es * \ may c. le <>r n'n ai Buick < is each d advise u. car de ie tant si diate r- " purchc al are re It the sui in Shoulc ie take a in ... ip ity m i ro >?. Modi Modi >d Moil Id h 3lt ie >e Id L 41 ie .a . .1 ' le When better ant n I n I HAMES1 "THE LADY OF THE LAMP" j f ? > t A What Florence Nightingale Did in i i the Crimean War. ' o i \ In the mind of almost everybody J r for whom the name of Florence! ? Nightingale has more than a vague, a significance, it is that of a woman'* * who went to Constantinople at the i time of the Crimean war and there! ? cared for sick and wounded soldiers i . with heroic of anirolic devot ion oh-1 t H, ~ "" , ? ? i serves the Ney York Times. Thei? happy phrase of a London newspaper i ^ man placed her permanently in the r ,r pufciic'8 imagination as "the lady of 1 I th" lamp." The conception is accu- t y rate enough so far as it goes, for on s many and many a night Miss Night? ingale did pass along the wards of c f the great Sctari Hospital, sometimes I II with alittle camp lamp and some- s 0 times with a lantern in her hand. { p But these late visits to the wards t were usually those of inspection and c _ supervision; and she herself wrote 1 f that actual nursing was among the \ if least important of the many funcr t f tions forced upon her. Even that 1 i. statement was not quite accurate for t f Miss Nightingale undertook her in- c numerable tasks of her own accord, 1 11 and, far from* their having been im-' j \ / * f 9 " . MMBaiHi .aiff-iTwraiW , . Away Extraordinary Of Ask any DIAMOND user?he'll tell 3 >day. ^OMPAN C. 3AY is your opportuni ice your order for deliver Valve-in-Head motor ca w, next week, or longer ause your waiting thirty, ety days in securing del demands are increasing st< lay?and present purchas d as a protection in future i livery. It is a vital and ii abject that demands the i consideration of moto isers, for tSuick dealers al ceiving hundreds of orde tnmer and fall months. I you prefer earlier del 1 r . 1 ? avaniage or to-ciay s opp< jiacing your order. Pric?a f. o. b. Flint, Michigan .1 K-44 . $1595.00 Model K-47 $2465 tl K.-I5 . $1695.00 Modal K.-49 - $1568 >1 K-46 . $2235.00 Model K-50 . $2595 Pricma KtvimaJ April I, 1920 \ The Bukfc Model K-Six-45 omobilM are built, Buick i MOTOR CO., Uni losed upon her, no small part of her 1 imazing energy was used up in meet- < np, and overcoming the antagonism 1 if the medical and military officials 1 vith whose habits and systems she i uthlessly interfered?officials whom \ ihe coerced by her strength of char- t icter and by the influence her family's 1 vealth and social position enabled 1 ler to command. < As a result of her vehemence and ler tireless persistence, the hospital it Scutari, which she found a place f filth, torture and death was turned . nto one where men received far nore care, and care of a more ntclligent quality, than before that ime had been bestowed on wounded ' oldiers in any war or country. Another reason for changing this ommon conception of Florence ^lgthingale :s the fact that, just as he was, much more than a nurse at icutari, so it was in the years after he Crimean war?years in which she 1 lid no nursing at all?that she per- 1 oimed her best and most important i vork. For it was then that she under- > ook and accomplished a complete re- t 'ormation of the medical service naintained by the British army. In loing this she showed traits little in i tarmony with those she would have t >ossessed if she had been only "the t MH9s3M!HKiK!i* IHUBslam ;.v? wmlMa I Free N * i i i i ity to y of a r?to delay j 1 sixty | ivery. ea dily ing is rsotor Tipormme r car ready rs for ivery, >rtun.00 00 1 00 I 1 kvill build tliem on, S. C. ady of the lamp"?the ministering mgel putting cool hands on fevered irows. She could be that, and was 5ut also she was a woman who could ind did fight fiercely the lords of the var office, a woman who threatened ;hem as often as she pleased, and who literally wore them out by her per'.inaoity, even w'.c.. she left them union vi need. NEWSPAPERS IN SUMATRA A curious item of commercial news s that the east coast district of the tsiand of Sumatra in li)18 imported 160,853, pounds of "secondhand newspapers" from the United States. Imports of the same kind of merchanlise from January 1 to September 1 >f last year were 572,585 pounds. HE OUGHT TO SUIT We heard of an up-to-date undertaker the other day who put up over lis door a big sign in black letters vhich read: "We have buried others vhy not you."?Hillsboro Ncws-Herild. The best way to overcome coward ce is to do something daring. Ask he grocer for a nickel's worth of something. a V ; 1 ' I . ; V.,,. ;