12                THE STATE:COLUMBIA,S.C., MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1920
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|[The article begins below in
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|            -------O--O--O-------
|SOME WHITE HEATHER
| SENT FROM SCOTLAND
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|W. Banks Dove, Secretary of State,
| Has  Interesting  Ornament  for 
|             Mantle.
|  Occupying  a prominent  place  on the
|mantle  in  the  office  of   W.  Banks
|Dove,  secretary of state,  is a  small
|box of  white heather,  fresh  from the
|highlands of Scotland.   The small box,
|emitting  a  faint,  spicy   fragrance,
|seems strangely out of place in the of-
|fice,  and  is  commented  upon  by the
|visitors to the official.
|  Purple  heather  is more or less com-
|mon,  but the white  is  rare  and  not
|much of it has been seen in this state.
|  The  box was sent  from Forfor, Scot-
|land   by  Mesdames  Jesse  and   Janie
|Lowe   who  trace  their  lineage  from
|Robert  Bruce  and  are   kinswomen  of
|Mr.  Dove  on the  Banks side.   Corre-
|spondence  between  the  two   families
|has been kept  up  for  many years.
|  The  relationship,  according  to Mr.

|Dove,  was discovered  in  a  rather un-
|usual  fashion.  Many years ago a let-
|ter   from  Scotland  directed  to  Mrs.
|Elizabeth  Marjoribanks  was  advertised
|and   Mr.   Dove's   grandmother,   Mrs.
|Elizabeth  Weir,   saw   the  advertise-
|ment  and  recalled  to  mind  the   ad-
|dressee.  The letter contained inquiries
|concerning  Samuel   Marjoriebanks   who 
|came to America in  1795  and  who  went
|on an exploring  tour  to Chester  coun-
|ty  where he  later  purchased  property
|and  built a dam which is still  in  ex-
|istence.  He  died  after  residing  for
|several  years  in Chester  county.
|  The  records  show,   Mr.  Dove  says,
|that a relative of this Samuel Marjorie-
|banks,   who   was   afterwards   called
|Banks,  the first  part  of the name be-
|ing  dropped,  came from  England  seek-
|ing  traces  of  his  kinsman,  no  word
|having  been   received   from  him  for
|many years.   When  he  landed  at Char-
|leston,  he  happened  to  meet  William
|Peden  of  Chester,  who told him  some-
|thing  of  his  lost relative and later,
|by  wagon,  transferred  the visitor  to
|Chester,  his plaids and kilts  attract-
|ing  much attention,  more  or  less  to
|the    embarrassment   of   the   modest
|Scotchman.  It  was  not  until  he went
|to  Pleasant  Grove  church  and   heard
|Rouse's  version  of  the  Psalms "lined
|out"  in  the  old  fashioned  way  that
|he  really  began  to feel  that  he was
|in the  hands  of friends.   Later  this
|visitor  met  and  married  Miss  Eliza-
|beth  Robinson.   Mr.  Dove   says,  and
|when the young  bride  went  to Charles-
|ton,  purposing  to  sail  with her hus-
|band  to Scotland,  and  saw  the  small
|boats  and  the great ocean  she remark-
|ed  to  her  husband,  "I'll ane cross."
|The   husband  also  decided  to  forego
|the  trip  and the two returned  to  the
|community of  the  bride.
|  The small  box  of  heather is another
|link  that serves  to  bind still closer
|together the widely  separated  branches
|of  this  family,  many  of  whom   have
|held  high and  responsible positions in
|this  country though  few  of  them have
|amassed great  riches,  Mr. Dove  says.
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