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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1912-08-21
Newspaper advertising is

Newspaper advertising is
the cheapest advertising known.
That is to say it reaches more
people In proportion to the
money expended than any other
kind OF advertising. What is
really needed is concentration
of support on one section of the
country at time. This con-
centration can only be obtained
by use of locality mediums, and
cf these the daily newspaper is
far and away the best."-From
Newspapers as Advertising Me-
diunns, by F. J. Gibson.
Evening star., 1912-06-30
RAxoRoUH1D FESTIVAL Ar WAs11IrIqToN

American and French students on horse
back. attired as cowboys, Indians, horse
thieves, soldiers, brigands and rough
riders, paraded the streets of the Latin
quarter between bountiful displays OF
the tags Of both countries. And after
this procession had eliminated in SEN
sational attack upon an overland mail
wagon" supposed to be crossing the
American prairies, all repaired to the
Luxembourg Gardens in the evening to
witness grand gala festival including
a Louis XVI ballet danced under the
light of torches by students and girls
OF the Latin quarter. The program then
ended with historical tableaus depicting
such events of international interest as
the reception Of Franklin at Versailles,
and that of Lafayette at Washing ton.
merry Fourth Of July picnic has long
been an established event of the Amer
ican colony in Berlin A steamer is an
nually chartered for sail up the pic
turesque forest-girted river Spree-pro-
nounced "Spray'-and when the shady
village of Grunau is reached all Of the
festive Yankees disembark for a frolc
on shore.
Field sports are always enjoyed. and Of
late 1t has become the custom to award
medals to the victors A good old Amer
lean base ball game is an inevitable
Evening star., 1912-06-30

return was in the nature of a triunphal
procession. Their mother. who had grown
old through sorrow and loss, received
the congratulations of the entire country
side These little girls all grew up and
all three married three brothers, who,
like them. had been placed in Fort Davis
for safe keeping. These were the three
Bennett brothers. The eldest girl, Mar
garet Davis, married Joseph Bennett, and
they became the grandparents of Mrs.
Pitzer and Mrs. Champ Clark.
The third, Rebecca Davis. married Moses
Bennett, and they became the grandpar-
ents of Gov. James Bennett McCreary
at present governor of Kentucky. and for
many years it's senator. There Were
four Bennett boys, but as there were only
three Davis girls, the last had to be con-
tent with a cousin, Miss Isabel Harris
This family still lives in the old home
Evening star., 1912-06-30

sions which escorted President John
Quincy Adams to the Capitol consisted
OF squadron of cavalry and a float
bearing a seminary Of gayly attired
young ladies'. one representing each of
the four and twenty states of the Union.
This was in 1925. and ii is recorded that
the President rode to the Capitol with
his secretary. the reader Of the Declara-
ton OF independence and the orator or
the day" During these July days the
second Adams was suffering with the
heat ard seeking such relief as he could
by taking daily plunge, soon after day
break. in the Potomac, at the foot OF
the White House lawn. His successors
also came to dread the torrid atmos-
phere CT the ceremonious Fourths, but
both Jackson and Van Buren were
growled at by the local press upon occa-
sions when they omitted the ceremony or
absented themselves from the Capital
city, Van Burens offense being COM
mitted in 1899, when he spent the Fourth
in New York receiving an address at
Castle Garden. reviewing troops and rid
ing up Broadway upon fine black
charger and with royal air. managing
his steed like a cavalier"
On Independence day. 1915. President
Tyler gave a dinner attended by John
Quincy Adams, who in his diary. says
of it: There was turtle soup from
turtle weighing 500 pounds. a present
from Key West. The President drank
Evening star., 1912-06-30

Brussels. each of which spreads its
grand annual feast on independence
day. At one of these recent July ban
quets in Copenhagen the crown prince
was a guest and made speech ard a
specially arranged cantata. THE
Fourth of July" was sung by a chorus
OF excellent voices. Concerts by Amer
lean singers have been features of our
recent Independence day programs also
in Brussels
The Japanese, like the French, join
enthusiastically in the independence day
spirit Of Americans resident in their coun-
try. The Fourth of July in Yokohama
has become an annual event of unusual
gayety. High native officials and members
of the American colony sit down together
to discuss sumptuous banquet at the
Grand Hotel. The entire bay is illumi-
mated in honor of the holiday. Several
Fourths ago a huge American flag, grac-
ing the illumination as a centerpece was
repeatedly cheerei by thousands of Japa-
nese.
As a matter of fact, Uncle Sam cele-
brates his birthday with greater formal
ity and ceremony in foreign capitals than
he observes 1t in his own. But it was
not ever thus. In the days when the re-
public was in swaddling clothes the mill
tary distributed about Washington fired
Evening star., 1912-06-30
MRS. WILLIAM WASHINGTON PTZE} SISTER OF MRS. CHAMP CL

tation on the part of the visiting ants
l read some alarming accounts in alien
papers about our disorder disregard for
law and conventions. But we never see
such things. We just hear about them
We have four women in the legislature
and they are brainy. useful members of
the body, commanding RESPECT and ad-
miration. We have not an overwhelming
number Of professional women or women
seeking a public career. Conditions are
altogether normal and it would be a
brave person indeed to assert that Colo
rado has declined in domestic perfection
Long before this part Of the country
became excited over the pure food aues-
ton we had taken it up and solved it.
We pride ourselves on getting the fresh
est and least contaminated of food. of
preparing 1t in the most dainty and most
appet:zing way and of culttvating the art
of living in its sanest and most useful as
pect. 1t might be that Colorado being
one vast sanitarium prepared by nature
Evening star., 1912-06-30

sylvania railroad will call forth veri-
table flood of eloquence.
The Pennsylvania system has dropped a
bomb into the camp of the hoboes. Its
latest announcement is the sole topic OF
conversation in the '.jungles," and 1t must
be admitted that the tattered ones are
worried. They have begun to wonder IL
they must perform the unheard-of (for
them) feat of walking to Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York. For be it known,
for the first time since the road knew
him the hobo has found it almost i'm
possible to get out of one OF the freight
yards of Washington on either a freight
or passenger train.
The roads are beginning to realize that
the tramp Is a factor that must be dealt
with. If they are successful in keeping
him from the trains it will be but mat
ter Of time before the sulking figure seen
now and then on the streets of the city
will be a thing of the past. If The tramp
cannot ride, he will not walk. He has no
use for the city. with it's blue-coated min
ions of the law and its harsh judges. He
likes the road with Its shady trees and
its good-natured housewives. Remove his
means of travel and he will find it i'm
possible to enjoy the delights that the
road now gives him. In the cities he
must go to work or go to jail. So if the
railroads succeed, the tramp will vanish.
There is wide difference in the char
acters and personalities Of tramps. They
have just three things in common-they
won't work, they love intoxicants and
they are failures from some other segment
Of life. The denizens of the road are GULL
ed from widely different stations Of civil
lization. The college graduate who has
known a youth of ease and luxury may
chum on the road with the petty crook
from Baxter street tenement who can't
write his own name. The road also has
such characters as the drunkard. the
yeggman, the mechanic out of job the
boy whose mind has been distorted by
bad books and the lazy. shiftless charac-
ter who loves the road because he can live
without effort. They ell unite under the
common title OF hobo and form that class
that has been the bane Of railroad officials
Evening star., 1912-06-30

found keen pleasure in academic work
for suffrage and in observing the excel
lent results. that men and women are ac-
complishing in working harmoniously for
the common good, Colorado has fixed the
eyes Of the country. and all those who
are hostile to votesfor women are observ-
ing it rather closely. There are, OF
course, two ways to look at every question
One Is to look for good and the other to
look for faults. We are satisfied with the
way the problem has worked out. and
SO are the gallant men who freely and
generously bestowed the gift. We point
to progress as the answer to critics.
clean cities. good schools and a con-
stantly increasing population. We have
a woman head of our state school sys-
tenn, Mrs. Helen NJ. Greenfield, and
what she has accomplished is an open
page for all to read
Evening star., 1912-06-30
Am Umw@lc0m@ @S@@img Washington" Crowd.

above. There is one establishment on
Vine street that advertises q room
with breakfast consisting of eggs.
small price Of 10 cents. Another SINH
lar institution near Locust street gives
two meals a day and a room, all for
$50 week. just about 20 cents a day.
Despite these low prices, the tramp
does not patronize the establishments
in any great numbers. II is only on
some gala occasion when he finds what
to him is a vast amount of money in
his pocket that he will blow himself"
to a ten or even a fve-cent meal. He
prefers the saloon. Here he can get
large glass OF beer and two or three
plates OF stew or soup. all for cents.
AS for his bed. the tramp who would
expend or 10 cents for place where
on to lay his head would be considered
crazy by his brothers. The benches in
the parks deserted houses. empty box
cars and porches. all offer him a place
in which he can sleep and wake up in
the morning prepared to begin another
campaign OF nickels and dimes.
Washington has never been q fayorfte
resting place for the hobo. He has
learned through past experiences that IL
is good place for his kind to shun, and
that Is why the number of tramps seen
on the streets here Is smaller than In any
other city of the same size In the United
States. Before the invasion OF Gen Coxey
and his tattered army. Washington was
a soft spot for the buns to spend a few
weeks In. After that event, however, the
city became noted from coast to coast
among the knights OF the road as q town
to pass through very quickly.
The army on Its retreat from Washing
ton marked every box car from here to
San Francisco with the warning and the
hoboes all paid heed. There was very
small colony OF them here up to a few
years ago, but the new vagrancy law
that went into effect about three years
back drove them all out Of the city. Now
the only tramps seen on the streets are
those who are passing through town on
their way north to spend the hot months
and In the fall they will return to the
sunny skies~ss1 the south.
Evening star., 1912-06-30
fEr1E STATUE. PARIS
IN WHICH WREATHS
ARE PLACED JIHY4TK

vine with every person at the table in
squads" What effect this drinking bout.
at tropical a season had upon the
President and his guests the second
Adams does not describe, but he records
that later the same evening he was out
on the White House square viewing the
fireworks.
1t was one Of these Independence DAY OBJ
servances that finished the career OF
President Taylor four years later or in
1870. He commenced his holiday pro-
gram In apparently sound health and ex-
cellent spirits. and during the day. &C.
companied by his family and cabinet.
went TO the Washington Monument 10
hear the days Grafton, delivered there in
the open air. instead OF at the Capitol.
After drinking freely of ice water on
the Monument grounds he drove home
and ate heartily of cherries. which he
washed down with generous drafts OF
iced milk. An hour after dinner, having
eaten still more cherries, he was stricken
with cholera morbus. which eliminated In
typhoid, from which he d.ed within few
days.
The White House grounds were the
scene of mammoth sunday school fes-
tival of colored people on the occasion
Of Lincoln's last Fourth. in 1864 His
guests presented him with a large gold
mounted Bible bound in violet-colored
velvet.
The Independence day levee. attenued
by the diplomats. home officials and gen.
eral public. was continued for some years
later, but went out Of vogue after Presi-
dent Grant established the custom Of
leasing a presidential cottage during the
hot term at some summer resort. In re-
cent years the occasion of a Presidents
spending Independence day in Washing
ton has been very rare and necessitated
only by his awaiting the adjournment Of
Congress, which, IL IL then sits on that
date, now takes no notice Of the natal
day OF Uncle Sam unless IL chooses to ad-
journ early or unless one of the chap
hins chooses to include a reference to
the event in his opening prayer.
The National Capital was one OF the
first of our great cities to 60 safe and
sane" on the Independence day PROPOSE
tion three years ago.
It's Juvenile population enjoys in the
White Lot daylight fireworks in the morn
ing and a grand pyrotechnic display In
the evening, both exhibitions being Of .
public nature. The Declaration of In
dependence Is read and the days Grafton
delivered in front of the District building.
Then there are festivals on the public
Fairgrounds, hand concerts in the par IS
and water sports upon the Potomac. the
day ending with a grand red-fire iilumi-
nation of Pennsylvania avenue. follow
ing the fireworks.
Copyright 1912, by John EIfreth watkinsD
Evening star., 1912-06-30

feature of the athletic program and after
other games. swimming races and events
have been enjoyed, dinner is spread in
a large grove by the riverside. Then
follows dance, enjoyed especially by the
young people.
Similar excursions have been arranged
for Independence day by the American
colony in Vienna, and one Of the most
delightful Of those. enjoyed in recent
years. was a sail down the Danube to
the ancient Hungarian town of Press
burg, where the Magyar kings used to
be crowned.
At practically every capital of the
world our embassy or legation Is
thrown open during the day for Fourth
OF July Junction. reception, garden
party or luncheon-to the American resi-
dents. who hold a holiday dinner at
night in one Of the principal hotels or
cafes. And it is interesting to note how
our fellow -countrymen abroad band to-
gether in societies and associations.
Thus. like their American Society in
London, and their chamber of COM
merce in Paris. they have their Danish
American Association in Copenhagen
and their chamber of commerce in
Evening star., 1912-06-30

Of Beanetts. all the descendants of the
first Bennett who came from Kent to the
Maryland colony.
They are hymnologists journalists. law
yers, educators and philanthropists. not
to mention novelists and artists. who have
written their names their day and
generation. Miss Pitzer. who is called
Anne Hamilton, after her maternal
grandmother, is a studious girl we'll up
on the topics of the day and politician
worthy the steel of any Of the residents
Of Washington. She belongs to several
of the literary cubs in Colorado Springs
and has written some papers and sketches
OF life out there.
"A public career never appealed either
to me or my daughter, said Mrs. Pitzer,
another proof that giving women the
ballot does not unseX and make them
unfit for their natural duties. / have
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in Madison county. though the three
Bennetts, who married the three Davis
girls, removed to Missouri. where the re-
lationship of all these double cousins Is
confusing enough to have orlglnateo IN
Tennessee, where, according to tradition,
the whole state 4S related.
Mrs Pitzer and her daughter expect to
spend the greater part of the summer in
Washington. After the Baltimore con-
vention adjourns they Will take a fiat on
the western hills and brave the summer
heat with Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve.
who will be here until Congress adjourns
Both Mrs. PitZer and her daughter are
literary in their tastes, and in this they
follow the family traditions. American
history and literature boasts long list
Evening star., 1912-06-30

dam daughters emancipation There VIII
be at least two Independence day func-
tons in dear old London" In the aft
ernoon Ambassador Reid will throw wide
the doors Of palatial Dorchester House to
all Americans dwelling in or visiting the
worlds metropolis.
From 5000 to 1000 of these are expect
ed 10 pass in procession up the grand
staircase. through the libraries. picture
galleries and halls into the great drawing
room where our envoy, his wife and staff.
with their ladies and various guests OF
honor. as we'll as our consular officers
from the provinces. will bid them well
come. Many British dignitaries will also
have the grace to call and pay their re-
spects. and most Of the American peer
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esses who are in London will. if they
follow custom, pay this tribute to the
land of their birth.
From the great drawing room the army
Of guests will file out upon the lawn and
terraces to partake of refreshments in
picturesque marquee tents pitched
upon the grass. Traffic on the streets
about our splendid ambassadorial resi-
dence will be blocked during the two
hours that the function is in progress. and
music will charm the ear of all listeners
gathered both inside the mansion and in
the grounds.
In the evening the annual Independence
day banquet of the American Society of
London will be held in the Hotel Cecil.
and Ambassador Reid will be the guest
Of honor. He will toast King George in
response to a British toast to President
Taft Eloquent Englishmen and Ameri-
cans will pay glowing tributes, each to
the others country. and Ango-American
entente cordiale will be tempered to even
greater strength.
Elsewhere In the British capital are
usually other celebrations of America s
natal day. Thus a year ago the lament
ed British editor, William T. Stead. pre-
sided at q London celebration by veterans
of our civil war and declared George
Washington to have been the greatest
Englishman Of the eighteenth century.
A feature of the July Fourth celebration
a year before was a polo game at Hur-
lingham. ending in victory OF the
American team over ltS f5TltlSH IiSdiS.
Americans in Paris will pay their usual
Independence day tribute to Lafayette
After laying wreaths upon his statue m
the Place du Louvre they will make
their annual pilgrimage to his tomb In
the Picpus cemetery, where his BODY
lies beside that of his wife.
In the afternoon there will be re-
ception at the American embassy. similar
to that held in London, and In the even
ing there will be the annual Independence
day banquet of the American Chamber
of Commerce, at the Hotel du Palais
d'Orsay, our ambassador being the guest
of honor He and a list of American
and French officials will make addresses
laudatory of their respective countries.
About 500 covers will be laid, and
luxurious repast will be served.
Paris enters into our Fourth of July
spirit more than any other city of Eu-
rope Her streets fairly bristle with
American flags on that date, and the
big hotels arrange special souvenir menus
and special musical programs commem-
orative of the anniversary,
In the Latin quarter the French stu
dents delight in aiding their American
colleagues to do honor to the day. Last
year this joint celebration began on the
eve of the Fourth with torchlight pro-
cession Of students. headed by military
bands. Then followed monster students
ball. accompanied by negro minstrels,
barn dances and illuminations.
On the day Of the Fourth an army OF
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dissenters. and joined Lord Baltimore S
band for the sake of religious freedom.
Later one of the Bennetts left the Mary
land colony and settled in Virginia, and
eventually became one of it's governors.
From Virginia the family went to what is
now called Madison county, kentucky,
just a few years before the revolutionary
war began. Another Virginia family, aft
erward closely allied with the Bennetts,
was the Davises, their close ne.ghbors.
The elder Of the Davis family, James
Davis. had married Margaret Dozier,
daughter Of one Of the early French set
tiers about that section. The Davises had
family of three small girls and an In
FAINT son, and were living in rural content
when the word went forth that all the
men OF the section must take arms and
fight or the Indians who were spreading
throughout the country.
A fort commanded by Mr.. Davis cousin,
Capt Jesse Davis and In the vicinity of
the famous Blue Lick Springs, had been
the headquarters of the rural militia and
from there the sturdy farmers had gone
out to repel the enemy whenever they
ventured In their country. Mr.. Davis
Immediately answered the call and for
safety took his wife and little ones. to-
gether with a negro servant. and placed
them with other women and children of
the colony in Fort Davis. Then the mel,
rode off, leaving Capt Jesse Davis and a
Few boys and old men to defend the place.
The Indians however, had been lying in
ambush about Fort Davis and the next
day they bore down on it and killed the
entire garrison. Nearly all the women
escaped, among them Mrs. Davis with
her infant in her arms and the negro
woman. They supposed the little girls
had Deen placed in the care of other
refugees and they sought shelter in the
woods. 1t is legend il the Bennett
family that for days they hid in the hol-
low of tree and subsisted on berries
and what they could get. Meantime word
had been sent to the nearest fort and the
revolutionary soldiers and their scouts
came to their rescue.
When the wanderers were finally
gathered into the ruins of Fort Davis. it
was found to the great agony of their
parents, that the three little girls had
been captured by the Indians. The eldest
was less than six. and their names were
Margaret. Martha and Rebecca, known in
the family as Peggy" Patsy and
Becky"
Mrs. Pitzer and Mrs. Clark both aver
that the story is proof conclusive of what
contended. that the British had armed
the Indians against the colonists. The
tale of the loss of the children went out
and an appeal was made to British COM
IndHuerS ali over tHt seCtlon up 10 foFt
Detroit where CO.. de Peyster a noted
tory of New York, was In command of
the British troops. 1t was from Col
de Peyster that the first news of the
children was obtained, and that after they
had been missing nearly two years. The
Indians had eventually brought the chill
dren to Detroit where their beauty and
helplessness had appealed to de Peyster
Having no children of his own, he had
adopted them, and they were living in
state in the fort. petted and beloved by
all.
Mr.. Davis. under flag Of truce, went to
Detroit to claim his little ones, and their