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CASH WINSICH WINS DAVIS-ROPERCO Just received a lot of Beautiful Coat Suits and Silk Dresses which ar going at lowest cash prices. Suits $9.95 to $23.75 worth $12.50 to $30.00 Dresses $14.75 to $15.75 worth $18.00 to $25.00 Other goods coming in daily and we hope to show you a full line by March 10th. All goods will be placed on show on arrival. All we ask is for you not to buy until you see our lines, as the low cash price we will make will get your business. Your Money Buys DavisRoper Co. btMr ee YbAll goods advancin More ere.CASH STORE prices on our stock. carried it out with such zeal and circumstances. Indeed, like most perseverance that its success was soon great. undertakings, it seems to have niiVRN Nmii8[ V[iiNrii -ss-redl grown. 11er first idea appear to 1i. V[RHOM'8 PRESERVER HONOR D a ed gerfstdeaapeast"When it became known that con- have been to call upon the women of gress had virtually declined to pur- the South alone. But as the idon A beautiful portrait or Miss Ann very great pleasure to be able to throw chase and preserve Mount Vernon in widened and spread she gladly em Pamela Cuningham, organizer and together a few facts which I have been December, 1853, Miss Cuningham be- braced as her coadiutors women from first regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' able to glean concerning a life whose gan her work. The Washington heirs all parts of the United States. When association and conserver of the Mt. self-abnegation, grand patriotism and felt obliged to sell and offered the One considers the obstacles she sui Vernon estate as a national memorial, high purpose may, I trust, prove an estate for $200,000. 11er stirring se- mounted, the dliculties against which was presented to the State senate yes- incentive to the generation in whose i s of articles, signed 'A Southern she struggled, the prejudices she terday by the South Carolina division hands lies the future of otr well -e- Matron,' aroused the countlry and in; fought and overcame. her success I - of the society. The speech of presen- loved state. IS.5 I the women of the 'nited States, seems little short of a miracle. Init tation was made by Mrs. .1. 1. Pringle "1 wish just here to acknowledge under r gidance, formed lhe she ('m from sturdy stock, tnen and of Georgetown, daughter of the late my indebtedness to .\lis Mary Miller .\l0unt. Vernon association. It was in. wome who had cmered the forest, Gov. 1. W. Allston. Mrs. Pringle is of Winthrop 'College, class of I893%, to corporated, a ctariter secu'ed and tamed the wilderness and trained the now vlc0 reget and geraI secretary whose admi'able sketch of Miss ('it negotiabtions entered into for th'e pur- siteans of 1lie new world, and 'blood eia sc ot' thle hiouise andc its ens~ i rots will teil.' Those who retiletiher lIi t(', of the organization. Clarence Cuning- ingham I owe many of the facts in chs of te ham, who Is a nephew (of the ilust r- the folowing a rtice atd 200 acres surrounding the estate. tell of the vivid personality and won- -- c m i l h o d s nt l e p ho f o fs lt ie l a t c esh -t teth e f l w n s a t l :h t h n d I w r ois wvoman and who now lives at "When I was a very young girl, I 'I'he inspiration was caught by the derful mtagnetisi which, from thy - Ruon. -Edward lverett, then consid- couch to which for years she was for Rlosemont. In Laur'ens ('0111ty, the used to see amn~g 1113' mtothler's tpatei's thle most pa rt routne cl ai ereod the gt'atest orator Ii Amterica, ('dlilllldh a10(1 .,. childhood home of llss Cuninghan),certificates stating that she and I were ee h rts.oao nAeia h otpr.cniecnrle n attended the cereonies yesterday, members of the MOunt Verno associa Ilis grand oration on Washington was inspired thousands; of the magniilcent - Speeches of acknowledgment were tion, for the purchase of the home delivered by him in many towns nd development of braIn ad lustrous,\ madle by A. . Hethea, lieutenani gov- and bomb of \Vashington. cities and brought inRto the treasury eye, which told of the mighty spirit ernor and president of the senate; "Thle surest test of Washington's of the assoication about $70,000. 1'i- within. Senators Sinkler and Alan Johnstone greatness, it has always seemed to vale subscriptions in large amounts "i' ruly it was a marvelous force andi.odoLaren nwh , that slo unity poured in, beautiful entertainments which could influence such men as and It. 1). lBoyd of Lautrens, inl whiicih mte ta it stood the closeBrlnt glowing tributes were paid to the pa- of his own and succeeding generations. ere given and in 1860 the work was dlward Ev'erett, George Riggs Ftre triotic duties and service of the wo- There were no mists between him and done. and Ann Pamela Cuningham linghuysen, Reverdy .Johnson and man. Miss Cuningham was born Au- them, which, like the vapors of the saw the sacred spot in the custody even from South Carolina enlist the gust 15, 1815, and died May 1, 1875, Ier Brocken, could magnify his propor- of her countrywomen. adi o Char'hs Smner and Garrett remains rest in the cemetery of the tions. lie stood face to face with "Then came the struggle of the lavls, It was my privilege to be pres First Presbyterian church of Colum- .,Is people, and was recognized by his South for independence, and during ent at the funeral of Miss Cuningham, bla, which church she attended during own contemporaries high among the the war for State rights the work By her own request her body was her giirlbood school days. mmortals. which nad been begun of restoring brought to Columbia and laid to rest The portrait has been placed in the "So to the young people of my day the place, came to a stop. When the In the capital of the State she loved southeast corner of the senate chamn- the sight of those certificates was an war was over not only was the work so well. ber. The portrait is from a photo, enthusiasm and an inspiratioil. Then of rehabilitating the house and "A deputation of citizens met the painted by John Stolle of Dresden, when we heard ir. Everett's grand grounds to be done, but it was found honored corpse at the train and form Saxony, in Charleston In 1890. This oration, and knew all this was due to that there was a debt on the estate. ed an escort to the church yard of the is the first portrait of a woman to the efforts of a feeble young South . "And so it seemed as if the life First Presbyterian church, where, - . grace the walls of the chambers of Carolina woman, it well may be imag- work of Ann Pamela Cuningham had with solmn religis rites, it was the general assembly, already graced ined to what heights our admiration to be done over, comittted to the earth until the res with portraits of John C. Calhoun, for that young woman rose, "She was equal to the emergency. urrectlon. A handsome granite sar Wade Hampton, Malartin W. Gary and "Few of us have not been touched The council of Mount Vernon, formed cophagus marks the sacred spot, Ilut a great galaxy of other illustrious as we sailed down the Pot.omac and of vIce regents, representing the 13 standing on the porch of the mansion South Carolinians. heard the tolling of the bell and saw original States, with hiss Cunlnghani at .oi. Vermon, gazing oer the The story of the life and patriotic every hat lifted as we passed Mount as regent, ii spite of the desolation beautiful prospect and noting the lov- . service of Miss Cuningham, as record- Vernon. Like the calling of the name which -reigned around, set to work ing care wi which every memento ed by the late Miss Isabella D. Maartin, of La Tour d'Auvergne when the roll again. In 1868 the undaunted regent of Washington is preserved, and re follows; call of the French gr~enadiers was ill alomst to death, went to Washing- Cnbering that all this is owing to the "I have often asked a class of sounded, it is a monument more last- ton and by efforts which m1ay' well e >oyalty and patiotism of Ann ld'amla C t i Southern~~~~~~C oitgham 0om1n toI tlaecaedn nvolutar ihy ex- C br nte Soithern young women to tell m1 ing than marble, more duriable than called superhuman succeeded in se- I something or 'The Southern litt iroi, brass and more touciing than any ' curing from congre a bil! gas: ,inon1men tum uirIs O FRIDAY, MARCH 10th or of Miss Anna Pamela Cuningham, tribute of prose or verse. It was this $7,000 to repair the home and tomb citit0'1cn and invariably the question has been Incident, we are told, which directed of the father of his country! It was.., met by a chilling silence. Yet, once the life purpose of Ann Pamella Cun- he' last. victory, and 1101 te tired Red Iron Racket buters l'''i'e iw sitting where the waters of the Po- ingham, As they passed the venerafed flesh gave vay and tle heroic woman (olt I L ng Iltile tomac lap the turf of Mount Vernon, spot her niother said to her: 'What went back to South 'Carolina, td he' k a steet as te o us t ithcago gir'l at my side gave glor'y 1a beatutiful thing It wvouild be If the I antcestr'al home at Rosenmont, to (lie. ,ul1P~ctuil andI( itaml are'ite5 intemakttisGent'etoakteolli to the name of the South Carolina women of the country could organize "With th fd I iil week, 'Chore is id) t e lots of ( W. ralioad to to b 'i wmnwosaved the hiome of Washt afd(peurchasele otunt Vernonh and hold woman who coundtrywhomen, Wsh and purchase Mouint Vernon and iold elljoyed by te women~ of the prlesent I good thinags to be founad inI the Red nigh~t train bietwveen Ihere andGiet-adIrenllIsIt'wld heSt ington for his countrywomen I t always for the nation.' The young day It is hard to count tie cost of iron Racket Stoies tis season. Watch ville taken off durng tie basio "Therefore it is that tgiv Iwoman stanta took nthe Idea tte work of Miss Cumnnghatn her hese stores for good things, k tiressille at b the ly stages the a n. had bn o "Wt1 h reo n rvlgssek hr sgigt elt fC .C alodt elc h n nClmi.Tefc s ag