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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10
TENNESSEE TROUBLE"

but when look at the cheerful colors
and elaborate pattern OF my Tennessee
Trouble l see happy faced woman, who
wore gay colored muslins, put a flower
In her hair occasionally, and sang at her
spinning and weaving. and to see this
elaborate design In blue. red and white Is
like hearing the music OF The Carnival
OF Venice"
If the producer of Tennessee Trouble"
was as Mrs. Hall imagined her, there
was another reason for styling the prod
uct OF her hands by that name.
In our grandmother's day there were
professional weavers who travelled from
state to state like wandering artists.
Originally from the European countries
in which the textile art had reached per-
lection. they brought the secrets with
them and passed them along to younger
men. or apprentices. They carried the
secret OF the double-woven coverlet, the
weaving OF which has become well-nigh
lost art, and took pride in the intricacy
OF their designs and the gorgeousness OF
their colors. Often they wove their names
and home addresses into the corners of
their creations, just as the artist signs
his paintings. Mrs. Hall has discovered
representatives Of five different nation
alities: German, English. Scotch, French
and Irish, some of them living in the
Revolutionary period. There were three
old weavers OF the professional class still
living when she finished her book
ONE OF THE OLD WEAvERs.
One of these is Sarah La Tourrette, of
Covngton, Indiana. She Is member OF
a family OF French ancestry long known
as weavers. Her father set up factory
with four large looms, in the neighbor-
piled the skill OF the art she had learned
from her father. Up to the time the Civil
War stopped all industry, upward of a
thousand coverlets had been woven on
these looms. most of them by Sarah.
She is now eighty-nine years old. but
she remembers the days when she used
to weave, on an average, three coverlets
week, and could produce one In day
If pushed to II. Forty pounds of home
spun linen thread were required to string
the loom. The thread was made by
Sarah's mother. Two thousand threads
came down from the loom, and when
Sarah was working she could hardly be
seen by a person coming In at the other
end Of the building.
About some of the old coverlets cling
stories for the enthusiast to garner.
There Is one of the mountain coverlets
of blue and scarlet, which tradition says
was carried OF by some Union soldiers In
tia ciup War IA loot. The owner. how
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New Field for Collector of Things Beautiful

ever, objected and followed the maraud-'
ers. Forcing her way into the presence
of the commanding officer, she asserted
her right to search the camp for her lost
treasure. Never was a widows search
more thorough. and when she left the,
camp she carried with her the coverlet
for which she had come. There is an
other coverlet which was so priced as an
heirloom that when four sisters divided
their fathers estate, they contended for
its possession so tenaciously that an old
friend had 10 be called in as arbiter. He
followed the method OF Solomon and the,
coverlet was actually cut into four parts.
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BEAUTY OF covERLET coLoRs.

II have said that the unfaded coiOrf
strike the eye but the colors that strike
both eye and heart are found In thd
unappreclated, abused and abandoned
coverlets that have lain around In stas
bles and barns and braved the elements
year after year Journeying to town orr
the tobacco wagon, serving between times
as a horse blanket or a covering for a.
pile OF potatoes down In the cellars
WI en- YOU see one OF these outcast XIV
ers' YOU will grieve first over its ruinous
estate, and then you will rejoice oyeg
frs colors. Grandmother's dyes were too
intense to please the modern TASTE bue
passed through the softening processeS
of time they turn 10 tints taht make AN
old coverlet worthy to stand with am
oriental rug-blue like the color OF eyeI
was he'd dim by the tears Of a lifetime.
brown and yellow that match the leavex
of autumn after Novembers rains have
fallen on them pale red. paler pink and
dull crimson like faded rose-petals, pur-
ple like withered violets-and through the
rags and tatters Of every breadth
! glimpse of their former beauty comes to
you. Just as an old wornan's smile, or the
ripple OF her snowy hair suggests the
freshness OF her maidenhood."
Such is enthusiasm.
The pictures accompanying this art-
Gle are reproduced by permission of tho
publishers from Mrs. Halls book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-10

The wisest man would make good
bargain II ne could trade on what ne
knows for what he doesn't know. =
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All precious stones are the better foi
f.@a.lAnt sAin hatha.
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WHAT'S IN A coVERLET?

Not all owners of coverets have Mrs.
Halls enthusiasm. That, you discover
when you go in search Of specimens.
There was one who told Mrs. Hall she hads
two coverlets, but they are on the cook 81
bed and so dirty 1 am ashamed to show
them to you" .
II used to have three or four another
said, "but l gave them away to the family
servants, and now my daughter Is trying
to buy one for a couch cover"
IT used to have two was the response
OF a third, "but | covered the ironing
board with one and 1t was scorched to-
pieces"
Those old blue and white coverletsT
replied a fourth. why, last summer,
when I was down home, down in Georgia
the dog was sleeping on one under the
back porch"
Like many old heirlooms, their owners
have not appreciated their value. You
should have the enthusiasm Of Mrs. Hall,
who expresses herself in this wise: .
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CAPT. T.SCOTTREPORTS
PENETRkTES SOUTHERN HEMI-
SPHERE TO WITHIN THIRTY
MILES OF THE POLE.
HE ENCOUNTERS STORMS.
Miraculously Escapes After Trying
Experimentation Sleds, TeIe-
phone and Moving Pictures
Were New Ideas.

Special Gable to the New York Times.
Akaroa, New Zealand, April q
Lieutenant Pennell, commander of the
Terra Nova, of the British Antarctic
expedition of 1910, which arrived here
yesterday, brought with him long
and intensely interesting account of
the work and experiences of the ex-
pedition up to Jan. 30 last, written
expressly for the New York Times by
Capt. Robert +. Scott, the leader of
the expedition. Captain Scott's story
is as follows:
Special notice: Capt Robert F.
Scott's narrative of his explorations in
the AhtarGtc mt Publshsd below waS AS as
a book, duly entered for copyright and
publicly exposed for sale, the same
being it's first publication anywhere in
the world. It's reproduction in this
newspaper is of course duly authorized
It's reproduction elsewhere in the United
States in any form except by permis-
sion of the New York Times company
Copyright 1912 by the New York
Times company (all rights reserved.
Copyrighted in the United Kingdom by
istered in the department of agricul.
ture, copyright branch Dominion of
Canada, by the Central News, Ltd,
Macmurdo Sound, Oct. 80. 1911.-
Shortly after the departure of depot
laying party from Cape Evans on Jan.
Cape and severed communication with
the ship. The depot party, consisting
of twelve men, eight ponies and two
dog teams, occupied till Jan. 80 in
rier seven miles eastsoutheast of Hut
Point. owing to the heavy weights
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10 be transported the main part of the
supplies were left at this camp. The
party proceeded with single loads
east southeast twenty seven miles to
a spot named Corner Camp, before
turning south to avoid the crevices
of White island.
making terribly hard work for the
ponies. A three days blizzard at Cor
ner Camp was further severe trial
to ood the eondtGn HhiGh Feb were not in
ceeded south. marching by night and
resting by day. The weather was ex-
cepionally bad, but the surface i'm
were sent back, but these unfortunate
ly were caught in another blizzard
and two succumbed. With the re-
ed latitude 791a degrees on the 10th,
when L decided owing to the condition
of the weather and the animals to
make depot there and return. We
point, which we named One-Ton Camp
and which should be great help to
our base camp with dog teams.
Whilst cutting a corner of White
island in bad light; the whole. of
%ears dog vsef and re bs into sedrs
miraculously held up on a part of a
bridge across the crevice along
of the dogs hung by their harness.
With great difficulty and after three
hours work we extracted the animals.
one of which was badly injured by
falling sixty feet. afterward dying.
At the base camp l found every sin
gle pony well, and visiting a hut I
received news of the Terra Nova and
On Feb. "a. with men on skis and
a single pony. 1 started to take more
stores to Corner Camp. On the out
ponies going well. Returning from
Corner Camp, 1 was held up by a
blizzard on the 2sth. l found the
place. raging for three ~ days and Gauss sS
Ing enormous accumulation of snow.
Shifts of wind had baff1ed all efforts
and the animals had suffered very
badly, so 1 decided to retire TO Hut
Point without delay.
.aII Wilson n: and and Iht Mears; driving dog
Oats, Gran and 1 remained to try and
save the one pony. which had been
badly hit BY. the blizzard. while Bow
ers. Cherry, Garad and Cream, with the
four best ponies, set out to follow
the dogs. Nearing Hut Point they
found badly working cracks in the sea
for miles south.
There at 2 a. m. on March 1 the
tired condition OF the ponies Obliged
awakened by a noise found the ice
broken around the camp and giving
away with every swell One pony had
and was not seen again. Hastily pack
ing their sledges, the party decided
TO try. and work southwest over the
pack ice. With infinite difficulty the
sledges were dragged. the ponies jump
ing from foe to foe towards the bar
rier
About noon the party neared the bar
rier, but found its ice wall unclimb-
able and the swell churning and threat
ening heavy foes against it. In this
dilemma Cream was allowed to attempt
to obtain help. He travelled east over
the moving pack to find a break in
the ice wall and eventually hoiSted
himself to the barrier surface by
wedging his ski stick in a crack.
Ignorant of these events. after fail
ing to save our sick pony. my own
party reached the barrier. where ice
breaking under foot forced US to re-
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Risoue Dances Barred.

Madison, Wis. = Risque dances
have been barred from Lathrop hall,
the palatial new club house for Wis
consin co-eds. When the Boston dip"
was led through its wavy evolutions
at recent mixer" by several
couples an official chaperon brought
it to a sudden halt. Now the young
people seek uptown halls, away from
university supervision, in which to
crafty their tastes for the newest in
terpischorean art. At some of these
student dances fully half the par
ticipantS were devoted to the dip"
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
HOUNDS AFTER ALIENS.
Virginia Detectives Put Dogs on Trail
of Virginia Outlaws.

hillsville, Virginia.-Two blood
ma Allen. and his nephew, Wesley Ed
wards, the two remaining fugitives of
the Allen clan. Though given what
the detectives considered was the best
trail they had found thus far, a heavy
rain is thought to have washed away
the scent and at nightfall the posse
had met with no success
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
EP|T0ME
Of A
WEEKS NEWS
Most Important Happen
ings Told in Brief.
Washington

The right of the federal government
to bring actions to have set aside
some 5000 conveyances by full-blood
Cherokee Indians of their allotted
lands was upheld by the Supreme
court of the United States in Wash
ington.
The United States senate rejected
the Sherwood dollar a day pension
bill, which carried additional pension
expenditure of s75,O00,000, and adopt
ed Senator McCumber's substitute
measure, which is based on both age
and service and which will increase
the pension expenditures by approx
mately s27.000,000 annually.
The right of Senator Lorimer Of ILL.,
nois to his seat in the United States
senate was upheld by the special in
vestigation committee, which decided
that the senate's vote sustaining Mr..
Lorimer in the last congress on sub
stantially the same charges barred
any further proceedings against him.
The vote was to 8. Another reso-
luton adopted exonerated Edward
Hines, the Chicago lumberman. of any
wrongdoing.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
"Wets" Claim Victory.

Detroit, Mich. Michigan's city
county elections were featured by a
bitter contest in the 25 counties
where local option was voted on.
When the final returns were in the
saloon forces claimed victory. OF
seven wet" counties that voted on
the question only two went dry
They were Mecosta and Wexford
Among the 1S dry" counties where
the saloon issue was at stake six
turned to the wet" column, as fol
lows: Arenac, Ingham, Lapeer, Oge.
ma, Otsego and Pressure Isle.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Ia Crosse Boy a Prisoner.

La Crosse, Wis. - A letter, SNUG.
gled through the revolutionary lines
at Lluvia de Orc, Chihuahua, Mexico,
written by Harry Conklin to his moth.
er, Mary Conklin of this city, declares
that Conklin and a party of Americans
are held captive there by band of
about 300 Mexican bandits, and that
their lives are in momentary danger.
The letter was dated March 19 and
some fear is expressed for the safety
of the Americans.
Lluvia is small mining settlement
of Americans.
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Twenty high schools in central and
northern Wisconsin sent representa-
tives to Eau Claire, Wis, to organize
the Northwestern Interscholastic asso-
citation. The schools have broken away
from the Wisconsin association.
Charles e. Heron. bearing proxies
of fifty delegates to the Republican
territorial convention which meets at
Co-dova, Alaska, has arrived from
Nome, completing two thousand
mile dog team journey begun Febru-
airy II.
The proposition to bond San Fran
cisco for $S.S00,000 for land and mu-
nicipal buildings in the proposed civic
center was carried by an overwhelm.
ing majority.
The jury in the case of John e.
Parsons, Washington B. Thomas,
George H. Frazier and Arthur Donner,
charged with violating the criminal
clause of the Sherman antitrust law,
while directors of the American Sugar
Refining company, reported dis
agreement in the United States dis.
trict court.
Governor Deneen affixed his sigma
ture to the presidential preference pri-
mary bill which had been passed by
both branches Of the Illinois legisla-
ture. This action by the governor fin
ished the proceedings necessary to
make the law effective Immediately.
The presidential primaries will be
held throughout the state on April 8.
The postal savings bank which has
been open at Miner, ILL.,, since March
l, has not one deposit
Seventeen thousand carpenters, en-
pioyed on 500 buildings IN Chicago.
went on strike this morning, holding
up contract work to an aggregate of
more than s35,OO0,OOO. This strike
was brought about by the refusal Of
the Chicago Carpenters council to
grant an increase in pay.
Acting Secretary of State Wilson
confirmed a report from Mexico City
that all dependable Americans there
were to be armed for their own de-
Tense and that other foreign govern
ments were taking similar action. 1t
was announced that Ambassador VIII
son would distribute among the Amert-
cans 1000 army rifles and revolvsrs.
on the way to that city.
The Newcastle county (Del) supe-
rior court granted a divorce to John
Bancroft, Jr., from his wife, Madeleine
DIT Pont Bancroft, one of the Du Pont
heiresses. The families of the couple
are among the most prominent in Del
aware and the charges made in connec-
tion with the case were Of a sensa-
tional nature.
has requested the secretary of state
OF Nebraska to withdraw his name
from the list Of candidates for the
Republican preferential nomination
for vice-president. This leaves only
John o. Yieser of Omaha and Albert
Beveridge of Indiana as candidates.
Miss Violet Wade, a talented 80
prano Of Chicago, and John Charles
Thompson of Lynn, Mass. son of
wealthy parents, ran afoul OF tie
health marriage" propaganda begun
by Dean Sumner of Chicago. The cou-
pie was refused license to wed be-
cause of the impaired condition of the
health of the prospective bridegroom.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
YANKEE RIFLES HELD UP.
Shipment to Madero Garrison De-
tained at Border.

Washington, d. ca shipment
of 500 rifles and 10000 rounds of am
munition, destined to the Madero gar
rison at Ojinaga. was held up at Eagle
Pass. 1t was feared these arms would
fall into Orozco's hands. President
Taft approved Colonel Stever's action
in preventing delivery to the insuT-
gents of the French aeroplanes in El
Paso. 1t is thought the machines
came from New York.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
OXFORD THE WINNER.
In the Annual Race Over the Course al
Putney, England.

Putney England. - Oxford won
with the greatest ease the sixty~ninth
annual boat race between eight-oared
crews representing the universities OF
Oxford and Cambridge over the usual
course on the Thames from Putney
to Mortlake. The Dark Blues finished
six lengths ahead of their rivals.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Foreign

During the recent crisis in the Hun,
garian cabinet at Vienna, Austria, EN-
peror Francis Joseph at one time
threatened to abdicate unless certain
proposals in connection with the con.
troversy over the army were granted.
The United States cruiser Washing
ton, which arrived at San Juan, Porto
Rico, with Secretary of State Knox
and his party on board, has sailed for
Port 81 Prince, Haiti.
President Francisco Madero of
Mexico has decided upon a vigorous
campaign against the rebels, and the
American government has consented
to permit the shipment from the Uni
ted States of arms and ammunition
for his soldiers.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Mexican Palace Burned.

Mexico City, April 2.-The original
declaration of Independence of the re-
public of Mexico was destroyed with
other priceless documents when the
city palace of Iguala, state OF Guer4
rero. was destroyed by FIRE.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
New Automobile Record.

San Diego, Californian the Jay
Eye See, 290 horsepower race car,
Louis Disbrow has set new worlds
record for one mile on a circular track
of dirt, cutting the old mark of 81 4-6
seconds to SO 3-5 seconds.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Hockey PLAYER KILLED

Ottawa, Ontario.-Edward Belan.
ger, aged 13, at Montreal, met death
while playing hockey. The puck hit
Belanger on the right temple with ter
rible force. The boy responsible could
not be identified.
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pavenport. s. o.. Wiped out

Pierre, South Dakota.-The town of
Davenport, in northern Stanley coun-
ty, was wiped out by fire. The loss
was total, as there was no insurance
on the structures burned and no wa
ter supply.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Griscom Operated Upon.

Philadelphia, Penn. - Lloyd C.
Griscom, who was operated upon at
the Bryn Mawr hospital for acute
stomach trouble, is resting easy.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Personal

Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, u
S. A., commander Of the department
of the east, has left his post at Gov
ernor's island and gone south on
four months sick leave to recover
his health.
Lloyd C. Griscom. former American
ambassador to Italy. is In critical
condition in the Bryn Mawr hospital,
Philadelphia, where he underwent an
operation for acute stomach trouble.
Congressman w. ]. Fields OF the
Ninth Kentucky district, who re-
Gently underwent surgical opera.
tion, is able to leave the hospital at
Louisville. KY.
Dates for American mining congress
in Spokane, Wash, were fixed for No.
vember $500
Ten million dollars worth of Pitts.
burgh (Pa.) realty was transferred by
Henry Phipps, Sr., to his three sons.
John S. Henry and Howard Phipps. all
DR.. l.. w. Lyteg, president of the
Iowa State Medical society, delivered
the opening address at the semi-an-
nual session of the Missouri Valley
Medical society at Colfax. la.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley closed a con-
tract in New York to give 100 lectures
throughout the United States next sea-
son.
BY a unanimous decision of the SUI
preme court, at San Francisco. the
heirs of Elias J. Uucky) Baldwin are
confirmed in the possession of his
estate. estimated to be worth ap-
proximately $11.000.000. and the
claims against it of Beatrice Anita
Baldwin, or Turnbull. as a pretermit-
ted child. was dismissed.
Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston heiress,
has completed more than half of u.s.
mile walk from Buriingame to Del
Mon. She is trying to break 6 record
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05
Domestic

Under the will of the late Susan
Monroe of Fall River, Mass, her es-
tate, valued at 100000, will be placed
in trust and the income used to pro-
vide for the care and support Of her
horse, Daisy. The animal is thirty-one
years old and probably will not live
long. After the mares death the
money is to be divided by the tesla
trix's nephews and nieces.
When the guns are stilled aboard
the flagship of the Duke d'Abruzzi,
rear admiral of the Italian fleet, he
will listen to whisperings from Miss
Katherine Elkins, waited through a
phonograph, which she has sent to
him, according to report from Wash
ington.
With only two exceptions the sus-
pension in the coal mining industry OF
the country, which went into effect
when the wage contracts between
members of the United Mine Workers
of America and the bituminous and
anthracite coal operators expired, was
general Approximately 100000 are
idle.
The floods in Missouri, Illinois and
Kentucky are the worst on record.
Property loss already has run into
the millions.
The mystery surrounding the MUIR
der of DR.. Helene Knabe, the woman
physician who was found dead with
her throat cut last October in Indian
apolis, has been solved. Seth Nichols,
a deserter from the United States
ship Dixie, confessed to Chief OF Po-
lice Entwistle of Portsmouth that he
murdered Dr. Knabe and that he had
been paid 1,500 by an Indianapolis
man to put the doctor out of the way.
Ju, re Cross of the United States dis
tri> court, in suit of the Westing-
house Air Brake company against the
New York Air Brake company for in
RIM -nent of patent, at Trenton, N. j.,
company, sustaining the patent cover
lng the quick-scrvice brake apparatus
known as the type TX" triple valve.
The First National and Capitol Ma
tional banks of Denver will consoli-
late under the name of the First Ma
ional with combined resources cf $685.
100000.
Freel. Allen, youngest of the Allen
outlaws, was captured at the home of
his father, Jack Allen, near Hillsville.
Va. Freel, who is a lad of eighteen
years, with pink cheeks and light of
build. had separated from the other
members of the band who shot and
killed five men in the local courthouse
md sought refuge at the home of his
parents.
Equal suffrage for women is largely
responsible for the marked decrease
in the number of marriage licenses is
sued in California during the month
of March, according to County Clerk
Ed Pfund of Sacramento, Cal.
The defeated parties of the patent
monopoly case" recently decided, to
3, by the Supreme court of the Uni
ted States at Washington, have asked
the court to rehear the Issue before a
full bench.
Oxford won with the greatest ease
the sixty-ninth annual boat race be-
tween eight-oared crews representing
the universities OF Oxford and Cam
bridge over the usual course on the
Thames from Putney, England, to
Mortlake.
A mail clerk was killed and Is pas
sengers were injured, three seriously.
when the trestle across Ross creek.
six miles north OF Muskogee, Okla,
collapsed, plunging the Frisco train
No q into the stream helou
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05

Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston heiress.
has completed more than half of us
mile walk from Buriingame to Del
Mon. She is trying to break 6 record
established by an Englishman.-
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05

Equal suffrage for women is largely
responsible for the marked decrease
in the number of marriage licenses is
sued in California during the month
of March, according to County Clerk
Ed Pfund of Sacramento, Cal.
The Ely miner., 1912-04-05

A mail clerk was killed and Is pas
sengers were injured, three seriously,
when the trestle across Ross creek.
six miles north OF Muskogee, Okla,
collapsed. plunging the Frisco train
No. 3 into the stream below.