Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-06-15
Miss Florence Minis Writes of
Scenes From Aurora, Mimi,
to Billings, Montana.
Dear Advertiser:

TO DllllnSS, Montdud.
Dear Advertiser:
On leaving Edgefeld last August,
my first letter to The Advertiser was
written from Atlanta, Ca, where my
thoughts were all anticipations and
great expectations.
I did not knew then how many
good things the then approaching
winter or this present summer held in
store, and it was better for me that I
did not, for one gains great deal
by risking if the venture is made in
a sensible way and for good pur-
pose.
1t is better to find new joy
around each turn of the road rather
than see them all at once shining in
a broad white path before US, for
knowing that they will undoubtedly
come, makes their happening COM
monplace.
Far be it from me to recount my
adventures in any but a humble and
thankful way, but I cannot but think
what 1 though most sincerely in Au-
gust when l went away, that ones
family and home town can do only
so much for a person. After he has
received the things that others can DO,
he must go forward by some inner
urging, or stand still. No one can
grow for us any more than one can
breathe for us. We must set out to
accomplish things for ourselves or
they will never be accomplished.
There is no royal road to anything. A
short cut to achievement, brings you
not to the goal, but to mile post
along the same road which every per-
son must travel, be he king or peas
ant.
AS travelled along the other day
across the state of Minnesota, in the
Genital part, I was surprised to see
oak trees, the first l had seen with:
green leaves since / left the South,
and huge lilacs in full bloom along,
the roadway. i am certainly surprised.
at the pro fuse vegetation rand Color
full flowers that are out already, so
soon after the cold weather, blooming
everywhere. Seemingly overnight
they grow up, for there is really no
spring here but only summer and win
ter.
In the South vegetation can take
its time through the spring, and grad
ually bud and bloom, but here nature
must hurry and assert itself, or not
at all, for the summer will end as
abruptly as it began.
l am always surprised to see the
great difference in the states. One
abruptly begins, and another ends
with such different; physical forma-
tions, and different vegetation, as
though nature set about to arrange
them in contast, after land had been
surveyed, and named, but it would
rather have to work the other way,
for the many lakes of Minnesota
would naturally give it its name, "The
Land of the Sky Blue Water"
When 1 went to sleep Saturday
night in my berth my eyes closed on
the smooth, level plains of North Da-
kota, grass covered like carpet, and
on awakening l suddenly saw pecu-
liarly shaped hills which came into
view, and I thought, "The buttes of
Montana" The formations were most
interesting, being dome shaped rocks,
high and symmetrical covered with
tufts of gray green sage brush. Just
before reaching Billings we passed
one of these buttes, especial
ly large and separate and distinct
from the rest, known as "Pompey's
Pillar" and named for Pompey, the
negro servant of the Lewis and
Clarke pioneers and explorers in this
part of the country in the early days.
Having exchanged the lakes of
Minnesota, and the rolling plains of
North Dakota for the hills of Mon
tana so quaint and different, I am
looking forward to the Rockies, which
I shall see and write about as go
farther west.
FLORENCE MINIS.
Napton Hotel,
Billings, Monana.
June z, 1921.
d. A. r. Holds Last Meeting
for S,,roYpar