Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-04-29

thick, studded with towers and
pierced by brazen gates.
It's palaces and its hanging gar
dens Ia system of terraces in imita-
ton Of mountain scenery formed
to please ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Median
queen were among the wonders OF
the world. I mention this in order
solely that we may not forget.
But these beautiful gardens and
his Median queen did not keep
Nebuchadnezzar at home all the
time for in 5s6 B. G. he went and
took Jerusalem, SO that the Phoenl-
clans could invent an alphabet,
give it to the Greeks and Romans
that we could inherit it from Cad
mus, in order that we boys and
girls of this late day can write to
each other when far, far away with
out having to travel over mountain
and sea and Edgefeld's roads to
say word TO each other.
I regret, that so far as my read
ing of Grecian, Roman, French
English, Spanish, japanese, "borlgl
! nal, ancient and modern history
including Chapman's his tory
of Edgefeld county, Alexander
Popham's disquisition on COWS,
Bubby Honeysuckle's spiel on You
scarce expect one of my age," or
silas Daggett's twinkle, twinkle
little star,'' or Isaac Ledbetter's
liquid flow of words, or even Josh
Ashley's voluminous loquacity,
have failed to find what became of
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
therefore and hencely you cannot
view me with critics eye
but pass my imperfeetions by,
should I fail to mention my subject
again in this augustus presence, But
really boys don't you know that
queen must have been daisy for
old Nebuchadnezzar to have bank
rupted himself to please her; but
Oh what would Nebuck have done
if he had lived in this day and time
and his orb, had rested on some of
Edgeield's fair daughters but
may be after all it is best that ne
did not or else there would
have been more lost to some of US
than the hanging Gardens of Baby
lon and then there would
have been 6 wonders of the world
for us school children to remember,
instead of I unless we could
roll back the scroll of time and 30
forth and get the Solons of antlqul-
/ ty to adopt some of the wonders
mentioned in this Deestrick Skule.
Honored skule master and beloved
skule mates: As my mind rever-
berates thro the corridors of time
from ancient on thro medieval and
down through modern times, l
know not when, or where or how
to take my pen in hand to typewrite,,
you few lines for behold there Is
Athens, and Sparta, and Rome, and
Carthage clamoring for us to talk
about; and to descant on the an
thropology, the archaeology, and
the philology of the Hindoos, the
Persians, the Greeks, the llatlns,
the Celts not to mention tie
phoenecians, Assyrians orthe Hang
ing Gardens of Babylon (Pardon
me if l should forget myself and
refer now and then to the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon) and perhaps
others, which in my great haste
may have forgotten to mention.
l came not here TO talk or state
my views on politics or woman's
suffrage or those other burning
questions of the hour, to quote my
friend Napoleon Bonaparte. When
Greece her knee in sup-pli-ance
bent" or "Bozarris cheer his suite
band" or to disturb the eloquent ST.
lence Of Josh Ashley: or hear Cassi-
blanca at the hands Of that Irish
orator and patriot Mikey O'F!inn;
or to provoke the silence of that
good but tardy Tommie who never
did reach the skule during single
day during the term, or 70 remark
on the velvet breeches of Jason
Billings or to Te'er to Jeremiah
Winslow who will issue to you boys
and girls when old enough any pa
pers you desire or that Charley
Burts will record any paper / hat
givel title 70 your home, but | des-
pair 10 call the roll of this illustri-
Gus skule.
And with due apologies to Prof.