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tious and adventurous men who. FOR the
sake of trade with Indians, settled deep
er in the wilderness than the average
trader cared to go. 1t is in the records
that many of those pioneer traders on
the Potomac were Scotchmen. and there
was a settlement of them on Quantico
creek, about five miles inland from the
Potomac. as early as 1850 They called
their settlement Dumfries. and the rec
ords of that place which exist now
carry its history well back into the
early part of the last half of the seven
teenth century. Toward the latter part
of the seventeenth century Dumfries
developed into a compactly built city of
brick. with shops dwellings. theater.
bank and courthouse. At the opening
of the eighteenth century it was a place
of about as much trade as Alexandria,
icksburg.
In view of all these facts the Ram
bier has no doubt that when Gov.
Berkeley issued that patent to Howsen
in 1869 for 5000 acres of wild land on
the west side of the Potomac. south of
Washington, white men, some of them
very wild. were already settled among
the Indians there. This seems to be
Indicated in that family chronicle
which the Rambler quoted at some
length last week. and in which these
sentences occur:
1t is said that John Alexander and his wife,
friends and servants. in well armed sloop.
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of the Alexanelers and Their Land

who was q brother Of viscount william
This John came to America That was
the man who took up the Berkeley How
sen patent on which SO many Thousands
OF Washington commuters and near
Washingtonians live today. John mar
ried Miss Graham of Virginia His con
Robert married Miss Sarah Ashton OF vfr-
ginia, a daughter of Charles Ashton
The first house OF Preston was a one
and-half-story structure Of heavy hewed
oak with three dormer windows on the
river front and two thick brick chimneys,
one at each end Of the building. There
was a one-story annex. the kitchen.
There was a cluster Of farm buildings
about the house and a number Of big
gray tobacco barns on the various farms
of the estate.
This house was taken over by Union
troops in 1851. used as a military hos
pital for contagious diseases-the RAM
bier believes 1t was a smallpox hos
pital-and was burned by the troops at
the close of the war. A lane of flne old
cedar trees led from the house to the
river, where there was a landing. A
family chronicle says that "the lawn
near the shore was studded with Eng
lish holly. planted two centuries ago.
and q line of ancient cedars marked an
avenue stretching to the waters edge.
where the owner received his guests
when they came UP the river in private
craft"
The cedars and the hollies are no
more. On the land where they stood
some of the men who work in the rail-
road freight yards set out war gardens
last spring and the ground is covered
by tomato and bean vines. somewhat
! frayed by their summers exertions.
Charles Alexander. I'd, built a house
on the ridge west of the railroad tracks
which was a duplicate of the Preston
house. He called the estate. which then
comprised about half of the original
Preston. Mount Ida. That house stood
until three or four years ago. Tens OF
thouSa nds OF people travelling between
Washington and Alexandria have seen
it from the car window. The house was
long abandoned and. as is the fate OF
most aba ndoned houses. lit was burned.
During the civil war it was the homo
of John Lloyd. whose wife was Miss
Alexander. Armistead Alexander fp.
herited the property and decided 1t 70
Mrs. Lloyd. John Lloyd died there ana
the Lloyd family still retain part OF
the Mount Ida tract. Lloyd station, on
the electric line, comes in that way by
its name Frank Hume's fine place on
the heights, Warwick, is part of the
Mount Ida tract.
1t was Thomas Swami of Preston
whom President John Adams nominated
for attorney of the District Of Columbia
in the winter of 1901. On February %.
that year. he sent to the Senate the
following nominations: Thomas john
son of Frederick. Md. to be chief Judge
of the circuit court of the District of
Columbia: James Marshall Of AleSap-
dria and William Cranch OF Washing
ton to be associate Judges: Thomas
Swami of Alexandria to be attorney for
NJ 10
Lingan to be marshal The nominations
were confirmed.
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of which nearly all the tombstones have
vanished are those OF Charles Alex
ander Of Preston and his wife, Frances
Brown; their sons. Richard Alexander and
Lee Massey Alexander: Annie Brown.
sister OF Mrs. Charles Alexander; Mrs.
Susan Alexander. wife of William Alex
ander, who was a son OF Charles Alex
ander: William Thomas Swami, ST., and
his wife. Frances Alexander; William
Thomas Swami. jr.. and his wife, Rosina
Moore Alexander, and their children, Mary
Frances. Sarah Stuart, William T. and
Mary M; Edward Swami and his wife.
Maria Thrift. and their children, Frances,
Alexander. Robert, Edward and Florence:
Charles Swami. his wife, Louisa Oorick;
their daughter. Mrs. Corinne Sinclair Of
Baltimore, and her little daughter Louisa:
Miss Frances Brown Swami. Miss Mary
Mason Swami and Thomas William
Swami and his wife, Helen Mary Chap
man.
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after Preston Palms." an early home OF
the Alexander family in Scotland. The
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-29
Fowler r-Shealy.
Special to The State.

Special to The State.
Clinton, June 23.-Wednesday al
ternoon at o'clock at the home Oh
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Shealy a wedding
that came as quite surprise 10 tneif
manv friends was solemnized when
Miss Gertrude Fowler and Jack
shealey were married. the Rev. Jas. y
Kinard of Greenwood officiating. Inc
ceremony was witnessed by only a
few friends and relatives. Mr. anu
Mrs. Shealy left on the evening Vestl-
bule for a Northern trip, after "nlcn
thew will be at home to their frlenuS
here. The bride is popular young
woman and has a large circle ol
friends who will be interested IN her
marriage. The groom holds respon-
sible position with the local SeaDoaro
Air Line railway office and IS hetd III
high esteem by all Of his associates
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-29

iou.c, ror when Col D. ". McLaur1n,
An ex-Confederate soldier was re-
piaced i'm his position with the state
sinking fund commission by son OF
Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry'
ncr when the governor began the sus-
pension of magistrates who happened
to belong to the Reform party, in one
of which suspensions, at least, IN
Aiken county, he was overridden even
by an administration senate.
Richardson's Case.
!. There was no protest on the part OF
Mr. Blease when after hundreds OF
nartisan appointments and partisan
removals from office, it became EVIL
dent that the governor had made up
his moind to get rid o. the last OF the
Reformers in South Carolina holding
an appointfnve office - Col. Alfred a.
Richardson: not even when the gov
arror. in order to carry out his IN
tention in this regard. first vetoed
an act to place the election In 1he
hands O fthe legislature. and the veto
ed and act to place the election III
the hands of the people, in order TO
keen the appointment in his own
hands, oust Richardson, and appoint
one of his own political supporters TO
the position.
These were political appointments
and Mr.. Blease adhered strictly 20
the course which he had mapped out
for himself, personally, when he lett
the governors of6ee-"D- them
they are in the saddle, let them rloe.
He even, made no statement, nor
anv comment, when Governor Man
ming promoted other officers over tne
head of Capt. ]. Frost Walker, Jr.' OF
Union of the First regiment, South
Carolina infantry, last sumner, Wnen
+be troops were mobolized prepara-
torv to going to the Mexican oorder'
nor has he made any comment as 70
many other appointments in the ma
t;onal guard of South Carolina, whfcn
have been promoted over the heauS
Of other officers who were Reformers'
politics has held free sway IN na-
tional guard appointments, just as
if thew were political ofices-and still
tho governor has wondered why
though he said prior to the declara-
tion Of war that the people OF Soutn
Carolina were eager for war, that the
ranks of the national guard have not
filed by voluntary enlistment
These partisan determinations were
noted-they spoke for themselves Dut
past actions of the governor mad leu
the Reformers to expect nothing else'
and the matter passed by.
Coming down to the war emergen-
cv there was no protest by Mr.. Blease
nor bv any of the Reform leaders,
when a partisan civic preparedness
commission was appointed anu
pottery of speakers selected whose
nersonnel would have done credit TO
a list of selections made for the pur-
pose Of carrying the doctrine OF par
tisan politics a la Manning to the
people of the state, rather tnan th7
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4 Stickler,

Young Teddy, who had just begun
the study of geography was told by his
aunt that the Mississippi was called by
the Indians "Fasler of Waters -
"You must be mistaken, auntle, said
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-29

doctrine Of enlargement CT food crops
and food conversation in great war
emergency: nor when the governor
appointed state council OF defense,
which included three ReforElers out
of some thirty. even aftel he had sent
for one OF the Reform leaders and
equested the suggestion of six names
Of those who were known to be op-
posed to him in politics; nor when
various other boards, commissions,
committees and councils have been
appointed, though there was carried
out, even on these war emergency
boards, the most bitterly partisan
propaganda ever attempted in the
history of South Carolina, and carried
out by a governor who, in his frs.
inaugural address, had promised to
know no faction. The Reformers dur
ing the past week, have contributed
according to their means to the Red
Cross fund, though the war council
appointed by Governor Manning to
carry the campaign for funds into
the various campaigns included one
Reformer out of forty-eight members
with the governor and the two Sec
retaries.
Another Matter.
But when it came to the registration
and the exemption borads, the pro-
position was entirely different. These
are not positions ordinarily sought
by any one. Conscription is not a
pleasant task, at best. Did it not in
volve the lives and the liberties OF
the people of South Carolina, the Re
form party would have been glad for
Governor Manning to parcel out the
machinery among his partisans. But
when reliable information canae from
Washintgon that the governor had
told the War Department that If the
normal boards were appointed IN
South Carolina, that 'slackers' might
ihaYe their day, and that politics would
control the work in South Carolina"
when. in the face of this conversation
with Major John G. Richards, he ap-
pointed partisan registration boards
and has recommended partisan exemp-
i tion boards, Mr.. Blease felt that the
time had come for a protest to the
War Department, and for a Tequess
for fair dealing in a mater OF llel
and death-not in the parcelling OUT
! of petty political Offices or the dis
tribution of petty political spoils, but
in the selection of the flower of the
Young manhood of South Carolina
who are to be called upon, if need be,
to offer up their lives.
Life and Death.
That politics should be allowed 10
play a part in the selection OF ma
chinerv which deals with life ana
death almost passes understanding
but facts are facts. and the speak
Of themselves. The publication in
The Charleston American on last
rbur.dav morning of the exemption
boards recommended by Governor
Manning surprised those who were
expecting nothing less than inat par
tisan appointment should character
ize even these boards. The Reform
ers are not seeking any oinces or any
appointments, either of proht or OF
honor. at the hands of the Manning
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Accounted For.

Aunt-'sMy goodness, Eddie, why
did YOU take the biggest apple in the
dish?"
Eddie-"I was afraid some one else
would get 1.-THE Delineator,
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the little fellow. If it was the 'Fa-
trem of Wa.ers' it would be Mister
ppi,'-EXchange
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age limits, and this young man,
nephew, applied for admission to the
military training camp, and was
prom pity rejected.
In this connection, the remark Of
Mr. Blease as he left the governors
Office in January. 1915, is recalled.
What Of the situation now?" one OF
his friends asked. so ar as l am per
sonally concerned repied Mr.. Blease,
they are in the saddle, and d
them, let them ride" In the COM
)aign OF 1915 he called attention t.
the bitterly partisan attitude of the
Manning administrator, but other
wise he has uttered no complaint
as Reformer after Reformer has been
displaced by the most actively bitter
apti-Reformers, and as every ap-
pointment has been characterized by
the most intense partisanship. There
was no murmur from him when, soon
after Governor Manning was inau-
gurated, with the echo of his prom
ise know no factionalism still echo
ing in the ears of the people of the
State, he removed Attorney General
Peoples father from the Barn
well county dispensary poard along
with the entire board of Reformers.
Nothing was said by him when shortly
afterwards Governor Manning atempt-
ed to remove Sheriff Huckabee, OF
Kershaw county, step so far De-
yond the law that the supreme court
of the state called a halt and told
the governor that he had exceeded his
power in trying to remove sheriff
reelected by the people of Kedshaw,
In this connection, it may be stated
that in the following campaign o. 1916
Sheriff Huckabee, now deceased, was
reelected by the epople Of KershaW,
and held the Office at the time OF his
death.
Never Squealed.
There was no complaint from Mr..
Blease when the entire state board
Of education was removed with one
fell swoop, and administration men
appointed; nor when, between mid
night and morning of Sabbath day
the board of regents of the State hos
pital for the insanse were regulated in
to official oblivion and succeeded by
Manning partisans: nor when former
Congressman and former State Sen
ator Thomas ]. Strait, of Lancaster,
; was removed as superintendent OF
that institution, with all sorts OF
charges against his management and
with no opportunity for him to have
the charges against him heard,
replaced with DR.. Williams.
There was still no complaint from
Mr. Blease when Governor Manning
attempted to force Attorney General
Peoples to ask for the resignation of
Assistant Attorney General Frederick
H. Dominick, Mr. Blease's former law
partner, now congressman from the
third South Carolina district-another
partisan effort in which the governor
failed. There was no protest from Mr.
Blease when the governor cleaned out,
lock, stock and barrel, every Re-
former connected with the Confederate
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Not Personally Affected.

Former Governor Blease is proba-
b,v as little affected personally by
such action as any man in South Car
olina. so far as his family is concern
ed He has no children, and ne mas
only one relative, either among the
family connections, of himself or MIS-
B,ease. who is within the military
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THE HERALD AMI NEWS. ONR
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LIFE AND DEATH ISSUE,
NOT A POLITICAL GAME
Ex-Governor Cole /. Blease Shows
why Reform Party Had to Take
Hand Against Manningss
Auteeracy.

Columbia, June 25.-"I think the
editorial in The Charleston American
is an amply sufficient reply to John
Richardson, signing himself, Old
Time Bleaseite,' whose open letter to
ms was published IL The American on
Saturday" said former Governor
Rlesse today. The protest which
have entered as 20 the exemption
boards for South Carolina, recon-
mended by the governor, was not
myself, nor was it with any view
Of securing any Offices for any or
INV friends at the hands Of this admin
istration. 1t was simply and solely
an appeal to the War Department at
washington that the members of the
Reform party of South Carolina,
numbering more than half the white
people of the state, be not discrlm-
mated against in the selection OF
those who are to be called upon to
leave their homes and their loved ones
some of whom may be left In want
and all of whom will be left in dis
tress-to fight foreign war. THIS
is no game of politics. If it were,
the part of politics would have been
to have allowed Manning to go the
extreme limit, because the further
he goes the more are the people
resentful and disgusted. But it is a
matter affecting the families and the
lives of the young manhood of South
Carolina, in the most serious CRISIS
which the nation and the state nave
ever faced, and it was as one who
is locker upon as the leader of the Re-
form party of the state (whetner
Justly or not) that 1 went to Washing
ton as chairman of the committee OF
our party, and placed the situation
in this state before the authorities
there"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

HOY, cs1 get rid Of blackheads7 Are the,
What are termed biackheads are s,r,,,.
the mouths Of little ducts in the skin ana
with hardened fat Whenever these occr,
II is important that the entire skin bo o..
over in such a way as to empty comp,s,s,,
each duct every day so there will h. -.
accumulation of this hardened fat II ON.
Of those little rolls Of fat or consdor.,
after being squeezed out of the skin ia mn,
under the microscope and examined II uin
be found to he swarming with parasites,
peculiar creature, known as the dermoaov
follculorum. There is whole farnrv =,
them scrabbing about and they coms an.
on the skin at night when everything a
quiet and creep into other places and =.
extend the colony; there are multitudes !,
them and as they move about they ratbs,
dirt and germs which they carry Win
them into the skin. II there happen IN h.
some infectious germs there that produce
suppuration then you get a pmple So /,
is necessary that these follicles should hs
thoroughly emptied and the skin kan,
thoroughly clean. II is sometimes neces.
sary to disinfect It. Washing the skin wtEe
a little soap is of very great value, An
plying a fine oil TO the skin is a good means
of softening up the fat and the follicles so.
they can be empued. The oil should bs,
applied quite hot. Bathing the face with
very hot water is good plan, because that
softens the fat so it can be easily squeezed
out
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-11

T,vERY one ought TO take the morning
T. bath one does not require great facili-
ties for a bath Any receptacle for the
bath water will do---a basin, bucket-any'
thing from a pint bowl to a mans size bath"
tub.
A story Is told Of an Englishman In
Madrid who was turned out Of hotel oe-
cause Of an accident In taking his bath
He called FOR a tub In the morning, and
there wasn't a tub in the house They
finally brought him a couple Of butcher
trays and he established himself In these
trays, one foot in each tray. ike the
Colossus Of Rhodes. and proceeded 10 take
bath Unfortunately, there were cracks IN
the floor, and considerable wafer went
through the cracks and deluged the man
below. He complained to the office, and
the proprietor invited the Englshman TO
leave.
The proprietor told a friend Of his that
he would never again have an Engishman
in his house. why" he said. These Eng
lshmen are so dirty they have TO take
bath every day"
In some parts Of Spain travellers tell us
the custom is to take bath twice In ones
lifetime, the first day Of life and the last
day
Now germs are swarmng about us, upon
us and in US. Millions of germs are to be
found on every square inch Of surface Of
the skin, The cleaner we keep our skins the
less the number of these germs. II one
does not take bath often the germs ac-
cumulate because the dead cells of the skin
accumulate upon the surface and the debris
from the tissues that pass out in the
perspiration supplies material for feeding
the germs, so they grow rapidly. Hence.
uncean skins are likely TO become diseased
skins Eczema and other skin diseases are
most likely TO develop on skins that are not
kept clean. A vigorous hand or towel rub
Of the body after the morning bath Is a fine
tonic. It stimulates the circulation, diges-
ton and mental and physical pep"
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body in time to the music is just a telling
the love and romance and the poetry that
Is inside Of them, Why when ! am dane
ing with a good partner, I forget all the
ugly things of life and IL seems to me that
If there ever ia a God, He is a speaking
to me, and I sometimes feel as If | had
wings and could fly right away with them.
There Is nothing wrong with dancing itself
as | keep a telling Mrs Smith She wants
me to leave 1t all the time and of course
in some of the places where l have to
dance, there is a bum crowd and you do
have to talk to the men and lots of the
women that you wouldn't choose for your
sister. | tell you ! am going to work out
Of this ! am a good dancer and there
amt no reason why / shouldn't be working
in tho better places where the manage
ment won't allow the men to get fresh
with the girls If I live long enough and
don't get parayzed in my legs, you will
see at the Winter Garden Nancy Lane"
in great big electric lights. 1 have been
around some Of them places and If I ever
get n chance / know I can do as we'll as
the girls there now. Why Kate. | would
rather dance at the Winter Garden than
have a front seat in Heaven, and I got
a mighty poor chance of either one, but
l am going to try for them both
You know | believe when YOU want a
thing real bad and just keep thinking of II
night and day, you are going to get it some
way, and when you come out, Kate, / think
you are going to he straight and YOU won't
queer me as you have so many times lust
when | was beginning to get along Always
NAN.
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CONTINUED TOMORROW
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Proper Care of Hands

To the Editor Of Womdu's Page:
Dear Madam--Can you tell me how ,.n
keep my hands looking ,decsnt7 They used to be
pretty, they were well shaped and the ais
were long and narrow, but since doing house
work all the time they look dreadful and / am
ashamed Of them. Mrs JAMES r.
With a little daily care you ought to be
able TO keep your hands looking well, espe-
cislly since they are well-shaped After
the hands have been in soapy water always
use a little lemon juice or vinegar on them
10 counteract the effect of the strong soap.
This may seem like a lot of trouble, but
really takes very little time. You can keen
a cut lemon or a little vinegar on the
kitchen shelf In a convenient place II YOU
keep a dish of cornmeal handy and rub
this into the hands after washing the effect
will be magical When dusting, backing
stoves, etc, wear the large canvas gloves
which come for the purpose. Dust is almost
more injurious than anything, as Il gets
into the skin and dries and cracks H. II
you can conveniently do so, wear rubber
gloves when you have your hands in hot
water At night just before retiring put q
dab Of cold cream on each nail and work Il
in, pushing the cuticle back.