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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
Miss Florence Minis Writes
From Boston.
Dear Advertisers:

Several times almost every day,
pass Mrs. j. L. Gardner's famous
Art Palace, which is just next door
to my school. Today for the first
time l had the pleasure of going
through it, for it is open only three
days every year. From the exterior
it looks like some old European cas-
tie, surrounded by wall. 1t is Sc
we're and prison-like but with all the
door-ways, windows and decorations
in keeping with the foreign atmos,
phere. Two marble lions guard the
doorway.
This morning there were many
cars and some old carriages at the
entrance, which were bringing many
Boston aristocrats to this great art
centre.
Most of the treasures found on the
inside came from Europe. Mrs. Gard
ner was exempted from duty by the
government on these treasures pro-
vided she would let the public enter
every year and give the proceeds
from the tickets to the government,
There were many pictures by ia
nous people and much antique fur
niture. On the first floor, near the
centre of the palace there was love-
ly court filled with flowers in full
bloom, statuary and fountains. There
were walks around this leading to
a stairway on the right. This mount
ed up and up and led to great CALLER
les filled with tapestries, little
chapel with rich red and blue stain
ed glass window and choice relics
that are not often to be seen in or
binary museums. For all the sur
roundings, the quaint freplaces, the
decorated ceilings, and splendid col
or schemes moke more excellent
back ground for these treasures than
white walls of new and modern build
ings. s
In one room you might imagine
yourself in Holland, in another, IN
Italy. In the scourtSyou would almost
believe yourself in fairyland.
always knew that something sim
liar to the garden of Eden must lie
behind those stalwart stone barriers.
but today they were burned away,
and I shall always have a pleasure
able sensation when l pass them here
after on my way to school.
FLORENCE MINIS.
142 Hemenway ST.,
Boston, Mass.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
Postmaster Examination.

At the request of the Postmaster
General the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announced an
examination to be held at Augusta,
Ca, on May 10, 1920, for the posi-
tion of postmaster at Johnston, S. G.
This office has an annual compensa-
tion of S1,700.
To be eligible for this examination
an applicant must be citizen of the
United States, must actually reside
within the delivery of the office and
have so resided at the time the pres
ent vacancy occurred.
Applicants must have reached
their twenty-first but not their sixty
fifth birthday on the date of the ex,
animation.
Application Form 2241 and full in
formation concerning the require,
ments of the examination may be Sc
cured from tine postmaster at the
place of vacancy or from the Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D
C. Applications should be properly
executed and filed out with the
Commission at Washington, D. G..
in time to arrange for the examina
tion of the applicant.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
Cotton Growers Take Notice.

Cotton Growers Take Notice.
Notice has been sent to w. A.
Strom, president of the Edgefeld
county Cotton Association that there
will be rally at the Court House on
Friday, April %, beginning at II a.
m. This notice was sent out by Mr..
R. NJ. Mixson, President of the South
Carolina Cotton Association, who is
striving to get the workings of the
Association before the people of the
State. The subjects of marketing
of cotton through the association, of
warehousing the cotton and many
points vital to the interest of the cot
ton producers of this county, will be
discussed.
Heretofore, Edgefeld county has
not taken the active part in the as
sociation movement that it should
have, but this is no reason why we
should neglect this important move
ment any longer. Some may question
the benefits of such an organization,
but we are here to say that the good
to be derived from the Cotton Asso-
citation depends on the interest put
into it and the efforts put forth. AS
a good example of what the Asso-
citation is doing, we cite you to Spar
tanburg county, where they have
built many warehouses to store their
cotton and have arranged credit
system and spread the selling of the
cotton over the entire twelve months
of the eyar, instead of the few fall
months, a matter that relieves the
distress cotton from the market. And
besides this, the Association has en-
gagged the services of an expert cot
ton grader for the county, a matter
that will mean much towards aiding
the farmer to get the proper price
for his cotton.
Now, Mr.. Farmer, Mr.. Business
Man, Mr.. Banker, Mr.. Merchant, Mr..
Preacher, Miss School Teacher, we
urge you to lay down your regular
schedule for the day and come to this
meeting to lend your influence to
make the Cotton Association of Edge
field county the hardest working or
ganization in the South.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21

song, "Hot times in the old town to-
night" but the weather would in
cline us to sing "Hard times" for
since about the first of February
the ground has been too wet to
plow over half of the time, and cold,
too. Had thick ice here on the morn
ing of the 9Th inst. and while I write,
'tis cold and windy, and fire feels
good to me. But you know l am old,
blood thin, nothing to heat it up ex-
cept coffee once day, but had
rather it was so than have our young
men to become sots and drunkards.
Though 1 am afraid the way prohi-
bition was brought about, was not
the right way. When you force peo-
pie, or try to force them to do any,
thing in which they have not been al
lowed a voice Pm afraid it wont hold.
But if you will educate people to a
thing then it will be of lasting good.
Am / right or wrong?
God never made man to be driven
to do thing but to be led into doing
it. Men can be led, but very few will
be driven. No sir, when you under
take TO drive men into doing thing,
you may expect a fight. No matter if
that which you are driving him into
is for his good. Am right or wrong,
again? I think l hear someone say,
81 do wonder of Old Uncle Iv is op-
posed to prohibition" No, am not
opposed to anything for mans good,
but am opposed to a good many
things that have been done the last
three years. am now nearly 76
years old and brave never known of
as much force being used on every
hand to throttle free men. And if it
is not stopped 1 am afraid serious
trouble is ahead in our government.
I try to hope that am wrong in see
ing things as I do, but for the life of
me, can't see things in any other
way. "Well, you say that you are not
well, and maybe that accounts for
it. Your liver needs regulatingp
Well, maybe so, but if it is my liver,
it has affected my brain and heart,
too.
in yours4- last issue that.
you said that some had called Presi-
dent Wilson hard-headed, and if he
failed to listen to those who were
opposed to his candidacy for the
third term, you would think so, too.
Now, isn't it fact that he has been
too much inclined to have his own
way in the League? That is the way
see it. No man knows it all, and
every man has a right to his own
opinion. am only one, but have the
God-given right to think and at the
same time to accord to every other
man the same right-and not fall
out with him because he sees through
different glasses.
No, 1 haven't forgotten the far
mer, and he certainly is having the
time of his life Oh the farm. Already
month behind and the ground now
about as wet as water can make it.
But very little corn planted yet and
little cotton bedded. but the grain
looks fine, both wheat and oats only
not half enough of either sown.
Well, here is love to all of Old
Edgefeld county from
"UNCLE w."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21
Belts Academy Commence
ment.

NJ. Editor:
Our commencement at Belts
Academy will be on the 29th inst.
For a number of years the good
white people of Edgefeld have en-
couraged this school by their pres
ence and it will be great pleasure
to us to have as many as will come
to our commencement this year.
We assure them the patrons and
friends of the school will do all i'm
their power to make it pleasant for
them. Exercises will begin at IL
o'clock.
A. W. NICHOLSON.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-04-21

WANTED: At once, good honest,
industrious young white man % drive
truck in town of Edgefield. Will pay
good salary and furnish room.
POSTOFFICE BOX 116.
Edgefeld. S. G..
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03
HRANKLIN PIERCE was the sec.

FRANKLIN PIERCE was the sec
4 ond dark horse and the third
New Englander to enter the White
house. He was chosen not as a rep
resentative Of New England, but rath-
cr as an agent Of the south, and New
Hampshire debated half century be-
fore it grudsingly set up in the yard
OF the capital at Concord a statue Of
her only president.
A member of the legislature at
twenty-nine, while his father was gov
ernor, and twice a member Of congress,
he was 4 senator Of the United States
at thirty three Resigning when his
term had yet a year to run. he after
ward refused a second election to the
senate and refused the governorship
The Mexican war tempted Pierce
from his retirement and. as brisadler
general, he served with Scott in the
advance on the city of Mexico. Re-
turning to his family and first-class
law practice at Concord, General
Pierce, at forty-three, had no thought
that any further public distinction
awaited him.
Pierce was elected in more sweep
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

NEILLARD FILLMORE, the second
lVI vice president to be promoted by
death, was the most commonplace
president even in a ewenty-year period
when the presidency remained at low
water mark. Tall and with magisterial
front, but cold and hollow, he looked
the part which he played-thc dummy
Of northern trimmers in politics and
of southern trafIickers in slaves.
A fable Of the day hit off the truth.
The new president must have car
riage, and "Old Edward Moran, a
White House attendant in many ad-
ministrations, took him to see hand
some outfit, whose owner was leaving
Washington and would sell it st q
bargain.
"This is all very well, Edward
Fillmore mused, according to the pop
ular yarn; 'but how would it do for
the president of the United States
to ride around, in secondhand car
riage?"
"But, sure" argued "Old Edward"
"Your Ixelleney is only secondhand
prisident!"
In FILLMORE we have another from
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03
TAAfEs KNOX POLK was the first

TANES KNOX POLK was the first
u dark horse to win the presidential
race, and his figure remains among
the pale shadows in the procession OF
presidents across the pages Of history.
When he was yet boy the family
of James K. Polk moved from North
Carolina to Tennessee, where he was
too frail for frontier farming and was
put, to work behind the counter of
crossroads store. After time in that
excellent preparatory school OF life ne
returned to his native state to enter
college, and he graduated from the
University Of North Carolina.
Becoming country lawyer, he was
sent to the Tennessee legislature; mar
ried Sarah Childress, daughter of
well-to-do man Of business, and went
to congress for Il years, in the course
of which he became first the Jackson
leader of the house and finally speaker.
Next he took his seat as governor of
Tennessee for a term. After having
been twice defeated in his effort to
obtain second election to the COVER
norship, those defeats were immedi-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

tier president. For western New YORK
was an outpost when he was born
there of New England parents. After
receiving about the same KIND OF
schooling as our other los-caiin presi-
dents, he was bound out to learn the
trade of wool carder.
The one enduring act Of the Fill
more administration WAS taken when
it sent Commodore Perry to knock at
the long-closed gate Of Japan, and,
with the gift of toy railroad ana q
toy telegraph, to tempt the Japanese
to come out Of their hermit sccluslon.
The rest is politics.
AS American men struggled 70 rise
from the bottom in the more primitive
days Of the country, their women OF
ten failed to keep up with them. by
the time half of Fiilmore's predeces-
sors gained the presidency, their
wives were either dead, worn out or
tagging behind.
Mrs. Fillmore, finding herself with
out strength or ambition to reign with
her husband, her place was taken by
a daughter. This girl Of eighteen,
Miss Mary Abigail, was enough OF
new woman to have insisted on fitting
herself by course in normal school
to earn an Independent living. Being
obligated to teach a certain length OF
time after graduating, she went en-
teaching school even after her father
became vice president. She kept at It
until her mother summoned her 70
preside over the White House, where
she promptly induced congress to in
stall library, the mansion having
been until then a bookless desert.
A month after the end OF her hus-
bands term Mrs. Fillmore was dead.
Next Miss Mary died Of cholera, and
then, after tour Of Europe, the
pathetic loneliness Of a retired presi-
dent was relieved by a marriage with
a wealthy widow.
Fillmore had tried to avert this re-
tirement by an unsuccessful effort to
be nominated to succeed himself.
-Four years afterward he attempted
to break the retirement and return
to the presidency. Although he had
both the Knownothing and Wing nom
:nations, he ran third in the election.
He lived On in his Buffalo home until
the very year when another Buffalo
nian, Cover Cleveland, started foC
the White House by way OF the
shricvalty of Erie county.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

army Of raw troops was outnumhercd
four to one. But he spurned Santa
Annals demand for his surrender, and.
''with a little more grape" from Cap
tain Bragg's battery, he defeated the
MeXicans.
The commanders in the two Mexican
campaigns, Zachary Taylor and Win
field Scott, were as unlike as their
popular nicknames would indicate
"Cld Rough and Ready" and cold Fuss
and Feathers" "Old Rough and
Ready" remained throughout his army
service simple American soldier, a
capable officer in peace and resource
full one in war.
Obedient always to the civil author
ity, he retained a truly American dis
like Of military ceremonial and man
ners.
He was as plain in his private life
and with a wife as unaffected as him.
self. This devoted companion made her
home with him in military stockade
and tents, sending her children as
they came along back to the care Of
relatives, but refusing to be parted
from her husband.
Like every man who has heard the
seductive suggestion of his name Tor
the presidency, Taylor was not long
in yielding to it. Revising his own
poor opinion of his qualifications in
the light Of their higher appraisal by
others. he came to regard himself as
the peoples candidate and he an
nounced that he would run as such
even if no party should nominate him.
The party preference OF the Old sol
dier was in doubt, with no other clue
to it except his brothers Illuminating
remark that Zachary liked Henri Clay
and American-made clothes. The
Wings nominated him without knowing
where he stood On any question and
they made no platform for him to
stand on. 1t was merry game with
the great problems that confronted the
ration.
After they had nominated Taylor,
the Wings became fearful for time
that the joke was on them. While
they waited and no word came from
their nominee at Baton Rouge, they
took alarm lest he would not accept
the honor from their party. But he
had not received their letter OF notitl-
cation. For they had neglected to pre-
pay the postage on it, and "Old Rough
and Ready" was refusing TO receiTe
Gil UIraid mail.
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ing victory than any other president
had had since Monroe. He had the man.
date and the opportunity to be preSi-
dent Of the whole Union. With all
his good qualities OF head and heart,
he was not broad enough to be more
than the servant Of a section, "of
those who placed me here" as he ex-
pressed it.
The new presidents appointment of
JenerS,n Davis to be secretary Of war
identified his administration at the out
set with the aggressive faction in the
SOUTH Under its counsels Pierce not
only surrendered to the ambitions OF
the slave power for expansion over
the north and west, bat also fcc its
expansion into foreign lands.
Slavery was in its last throcs ev-
erywhere. Great Britain had abolished
it in her West Indian islands, Mexico
had abolished it next door to our OWN
slave states. Even Spain was tend
ing toward the freeing Of the slaves in
Cuba when the American ministers to
Great Britain, France and Spain met
in Belgium and issued the "Ostend
manifesto.n That shameful document
proclaimed the threat that il the Span
ish government should refuse TO sell
us Cuba We would take the island by
force.
At the same time congress at home
was repeating the Missouri compro-
mise and wiping out the dead line
against slavery, which had been drawn
q quarter Of a century before. --hiS
threw open Kansas to wild scramble
between settlers who wished the new
territory to be free and those who
wished it to be slave.
Then and there the Civil war began.
"Border rufianS," as the north called
the settlers, who rushed in from Mis-
souri, and other slave states. and set
tiers no less rough in their fighting
vino poured in from the free states,
quickly turned that primeval into
"Bleeding Kansas" Rival territorial
governments were set UP by the two
factions, and Pierce threw the weight
Of the federal power on the side of
those who were desperately striving to
create another slave state.
The whole country was drawn into
the struggle, and the Republican party
sprang into life. At the election in the
middle Of his term, Pierce saw the
Democratic representation in the house
cut down one-half and the opposition
sweep in with a dig majority. -
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03
AN ELECTION TO REDUCE THE
TOWN LIMITS OF LITTLE
MOUNTAIN

Whereas, majority of the free
holders residing within the incorpor-
ate limits of the town Of Little
Mountain, S. c., having pet;tioncd
the intcndant and wardens 80 ordcr
an election to reduce the present
limits Of said town to its original or
first area, viz:
Commencing in the center CT the
c. N. & L. railroad at the c. n. G. l..
depot, at Little Mountain, S. c., and
running one-half nile north, east,
south and west, so as to embrace, az
area Of one-half mile square.
Therefore, we, the town council of
coid town acting upon said petition,
an election is hereby ordered 20 be
held at Little Mountain. S. c., on TIC
4th day of September, 1920.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03
SPECIAL ELECTION IN POMARlA
SCHOOL DiSTEACI NO. rs.

d EI:E.- EAES ioN lit EoHHANifA
SCHOOL DiSTElCY NO. rs.
State or Sou;A Carolina,
County OF NeWberry.
Whe. cas-, One-thj~t oI the resident
frceEre!ders and I. Ike proportion OF
the resident electors OF the age Of
y in the fomaria s:Eool district No.
2G, the county OF Newbcrry, state
of South Carolina, have filed pet!-
ton with the county board of cduca,
ton of Ncw5erry county, South Car
Gina, petit:oning and requesting that
ali election be held III the said school
district on the question Of ievylng @
special tax of two (2) mills IN the
taxable property within the said
school district.
Now, therefore, we the u2ders!gn-
ed, composing the county board of
education for Newbcrry county, state
Of South Carolina, do hereby order
the board Of trustees CT the Pomar::a
school district No. 2S to hold an
election on the said question Of levy
ing special tax cf two (2) mills to
be collected or the property located
wit!:in the said school district, which
said election shall be held at the po-
maria school house, in the said
school district No. 26 on Saturday,
the 11th day CT September, 1920, at
which said election the polls shall be
opened at T a. m. ard closed at 4
p. NJ.
The members Of the board of trus-
tees Ct the said school district shail
act as managers Of the said election.
O1ly such electors as reside III the
said school district ard return real
or personal property for taxation. and
VINO exhibit their tax and registration
certificates, shall be allowed to vote.
Electors favoring the levy Of such tax
shall cast q ballot containing the
word Yes written o. printed tn2re-
CT, and each elector cpposed &c such
levy shall csst :; ballot containing the
word NC written or printed there
on.
Given under our hands and seals
This, The oith day Of August, 1920.
c. n. Wilso9,
O. 3. Cannon,
J. 3. Harman,
County Board OF Education, New
berry County.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

~ ACHARY TAYLOR was the first
A army man to be president, the
second being General Grant. A dozen
presidents, from Washington to Roose-
welt, had seen war service, but only as
citizen soldiers.
At twenty-three he entered the ARMY
as lieutenant, and he remained in it
40 years, until he. was inaugurated
president. Yet he had seen only lit
tie fighting with the Indians before his
campaign in Mexico, where he COM
manded perhaps not many more than
5000 men and fought half a dozen en-
gagements, ranging from the opening
skirmish at Palo Alto to the battle OF
BueEs Vista. In this last, his little
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

ately crowned with the, Democratic
nomination for president.
It was in the first year Of the tele-
graph, and when the name Of Clay
was licked off as the nominee Of the
Wing convention at Baltimore those
wiseacres of Washington who still re-
garded Morse as an impostor said that
the trick was easy, since anyone could
have guessed who the Wing nominee
would be. Three weeks afterward,
when the inventor at the capitah
spelled out the name of Polk as the
Democratic nominee the doubling
Thomases were convinced that he was
fraud. They scoffed at such an alb
surdity and were not persuaded Of the
truth until the arrival Of a train from
Baltimore.
The obscurity of "Jim" Polk, which
that SNUG, unsmiling, uninspired little
man Of respectable abilities had pre-
served on the eminence of the speak
er's chair, was deepened by the shin
ing fame of Van Buren, whom he had
displaced at the convention, and OF
Clay, against whom he was matched
before the people. Those two states
men had taken it for granted that
they were to be the champions Of their
respective parties. History suspects
that they concocted in friendly visit
two letters which appeared suspicious
~ close together and which were sus-
piciously alike in discouradng the an
nexation Of Texas at risk of war with
Mexico.
Van Buren stood by his guns against
annexation, going down in the Demo
cratic convention under the displeas-
ure Of the southern Shareholders and
the alarm Of northern doughfaces. Clay
faltered in the campaign. Quibbling,
qualifying and takipg back track,
he went down at the election under
the indignation of the abolitionistS,
who polled enough votes for their
third ticket to cause his defeat.
Polk lost Tennessee at the polls. and
is the only man, with the sole excep.
ton Of Wilson in 1916, who has been
elected without his own state. For
several days the national election was
in doubt, with the result hanging on
complete count in New York. AT
last it was found that Polk had car.
ried the state by 5,00O-thanks to the
Liberty party. which had drawn away
more than that number of votes from
."the .Scat compromised" Henry Clay
had compromised his last chance fol
the presidency.