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If you ftre a woman who i?< heir to the Ills of her sex. this remedy will alle viate your sufferings. Try a box at our risk. If It does not bonent you your money will bo cheerfully refunded. f>0c a box Sold by Tho Laurens Drug Co., LauruaS, G. C. THE SAYING OF MOUNT YERNON How Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, of Rosemont In This County, Saved Washington's Home to the Na tion. An Heroic Struggle Against Many Odds. "Let no irreverent hand change It, no vandal hands desecrate it with the fingers of progress! Those who go to the home in which he lived and died wish to see In what he lived and died! Let one spot In this grand coun try of ours be saved from change!" These words former the warning With Which Ann Pamela Cunningham rounded out her work of saving Mount Vernori. To achieve success she had worked many years, had founded and carried to success the first woman's association of the kind in the United states had subjected herself to a pub liciity which she detested, and bad I planned and executed much of the task I while she lay near to death. Miss Cunningham was an invalid, bed-ridden, when she began the move ment for the salvation of Washing ton's home, in carrying out the work says the Woman's World, she was transported from city to city on nir heds. and once so nearly dead from pain and exhaustion that her life was despaired of by her physician and friends. It was in 185:1 that Miss Cunniug ham's mother, on her way from the North to the family home in South Carolina. Journeyed down the Poto mac Itiver and passed Mount Vernon. She saw the home of Washington that ruin had paid a heavy hand upon. Al ready the roofs of the mansion and the other buildings needed repairs, and in the grounds there were signs of neglect and disorder. This was at a time when John Au gustine Washington, unable to keep up the estate which George Washing ton had farmed with profit, had sought to have the National Government or the State of Virginia, buy the proper ly and preserve it as a place of inter est for succeeding generations. lie had expected to receive $250,000 for the building and two hundred acres of land. Both Virginia and the Unit ed States had refused to make the purchase. Mrs. Cunningham, causing over t,he tragedy In the country's indifference toward Mle honte nnd grave of its 'fh\h%*s luul this thought! if the men of the United States wiVl not sAve Mount VernOttt why can not the women do It?" When she repented this to her daughter, then bedridden and suffer ing greatly, the reply was: "I will do It." Miss Cunningham's home was the cehtce of a brilliant circle. When she told her friends of her determination to save Mount Vernon they made com ment of two kinds: One was that her health was not such as to allow her to undertake the wor.;; the other was in the form of ridicule, the statement that no mere woman could succeed in such a task. She disregarded the discouragement and the laughter and addressed a let ter to "Women of America," making it an appeal for their united effort to collect enough money to buy and pre serve the neglected home and forgot ten grave of Washington. This letter, which she had signed "The Southern Matron," was followed by many oth ers, and all of them were published in the newspapers of the country. To supplement this she got out a monthly magazine, the Mount Vernon Record, explaining tho progress in collecting funds and carrying on tlie movement. She then formed the Mount Vernon Ladles' Association, which should he perpetual, made up of vice regents and governed by a regent, and (barged with the duty of restoring Mount Vernon exactly to what it had been when Washington occupied it. Kcspohs?s to her appeals were al most instantaneous in the South, The Northern press also took up the sub ject, but complained that Miss Cun ningham was too sectional, since she expected the work to bo done and the money to bo given by Southerners. Miss Cunningham realized the justice of this claim and immediately extend ed the association so that It was com posed of n vice regent from each State. She was the regent. Her plan was to raise $200,000, buy Mount Vernon and the surrounding 20 acres and then give It to Virginia to hold ns a sacred place forever. Af terward it was decided to purchase the property and have the association own It nnd keep it up. Although the responses to the "Southern Matron's call for help began from the start, tho work of organizing .such an asso ciation nnd or getting $200,000 was slow nnd discouraging, hut in 1855 the whohf'Vountry awoke to the big ness and beauty of the project. All over the country fairs were giv en, and ?onien went to work indi vidually to collect money. Philadel phia formed eluhs nnd set up boxes for contributions. Everything was go ing like a summer breeze, when sud denly the business men of Phlladci phla began to discourage the work by Baying they disapproved of women mixing in public nffnlrs. Interest lag ged, and the frail invalid in South Carolina had to muster all her optim ism, draw on all her mental resourc es to keep up courage and continue the fight. It .was In 1856 that a severe blow fell. A charter had been drawn up for the purchase of Mount Vernon by the Ladies' Association. When it was sub mitted to John Augustine Washington ho declined to sign it. All along he hnd refused to take the work of the women seriously. To his mind, as to the minds of many other men In those days, women could not swing an en terprise of that kind. But .Miss Cunningham did not fal ter. She wrote letters daily to women in all parts of the country, cheering them on, expressing hor belief that success might come. She went on completing the work of organization and taking in new vice regents. She suffered greatly physically, with se vere attacks, convulsions and head aches that exhausted her; but she worked unceasingly. On March 19, 1S5G, she met Edward Everett, and so great was her elo quence that he promised to devote to the cause the proceeds of his lectures for a stated period. As a result of this he turned over to her $G0,0f.l. Although the association did not have (he full $200.000 with which to buy, they had more than half of the amount. Hut Mr. Washington's re fusal to sell the place encouraged re fusals from outsiders to contribute money for the purchase. There were some who pretended to doubt the sin cerity of the "Southern Matron" and the association. Despair conquered nearly every woman in the cause ex cept Ann Cunningham. She went to Mount Vernon, making part of the journey by railroad, al thought the motion of the train at that time aggravated her suffering. She went down the river In a boat, was transferred to a rowbqat ill front of the Mount Vernon house, and was carried In a chair into the house. There she talked to Mr. Washington and his family, but they were obdu rate in their refusal. Mr. Washington, it seemed, could not take the project of the ladies se riously. Miss Cunningham, weeping and bitterly cast down, told the fami ly good-bye and was carried to the wharf and placed in a small boat to catch a steamer on Its way up the river to Washington. But she was late and had to be taken back to Mount Vernon to spend the night. Up on her arrival in the house once more she collapsed utterly nnd had to be put to bed. Late In the evening, by the exercise of her Indomltabl will, she recovered sufficiently to have herself carried down to the parlor, where she renew ed her entreaties to Mr. Washington, that he sell Mount Vernon to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, hut he still refused. The next morning be fore her departure, she pleaded with him again. Her whole heart was In her words. Here is her own descrip tion of that last interview with Mr. Washington: "The spirit moved me as never be fore. I never spoke to mortal as I spoke to him. I told him the isles of the sea would lend their tributes to j Mount Vernon: that he would live to' see It, though I would not. (Wo both | did, for Havana and the Sandwlsh Is-, lands both sent contributions.) When I saw I could not shake his' resolution ngnilist allowing Virginia to buy Mount Vernon, for he was very Indignant Rt that and considered It I would he moan for Virginia to accept! the purchase money, I went so far as to point to him the light in Which com ing generations would view his con duct In preventing our tribute to Washington, I told him his descend* .'ints would mourn having descended from him: * * ? That as soon .as I saw a draft of the charter I realized that it was not what would be agreea ble to Mr. Washington. I assured hiin (Continued on Page Eleven.) FURS WANTED! The highest prices for all kinds of furs will he paid by S. Pollakoff, Lau rens, S. C. Minks from .85c to $7.2.'? Raccoons from.15c to $2.25 Skunks from .10c to $1.50 OpOBSUms from .6c to 75c Musk Hats from .5c to 55c Fox from .25c to $?.00 Otter from .$1.00 to $20.00 Beavers from .50c to $M.50 Clvlt Cats from .5c to 55c Wild Cats from .10c to 75c All prices will be governed accord ing to fur ? market. S. 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