Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-05-03
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Dear Advertiser:
f. / have three more weeks in which
Ito write letters before school is out.
If. / had more Pm afraid should find
rn,y information and inspiration here
inadequate for the occasions. "The
world is so full of a number of
things" that I should he able to
find subject matter, but Tonkawa is
mot the world, only little western
fcross-section of it.
Z The Indians have hibernated now
that the spring rains have come. 1
Haven't seen any for long time.
How inappropriate anyway is damp
(ness and grayness to their colorful-
mess and brilliance.
If l had finished the quotation of
Robert Louis Stevenson. 1 would
|.haye added, 81 am sure we should all
be as happy as kings" Since it is
possible for words to become obso-
lete, perhaps it is also possible for
quotations to have the same fate.
That was an excellent quotation in
its time, but there are few of us who
would exchange. our simple and
simple and sometimes infrequent
inesses for that of anyaking to-
day. i'z'--- .s5sses y, =;
I have a new expression pupil, a
little boy five years old, named Bob
bic. He is the son Of one of the teach
ers. at the University Preparatory
School. The other day I was telling
him story about king. asked him
who a king was, and he replied "a
king is a man who wears crown" J"
That struck me as being the best def
milton I had heard in many day.
He did not know what wisdom he
had uttered. "The golden symbol of
his kinglihood" is about all that the
good sovereign has to boast of today.
Conventions, like clanking chains
hold him to traditions of the past.
The future holds nothing more truly
for him than wars and rumors of
wars, that may dethrone him. And
how helpless is a king without his
throne. The peasant knows the
"sweet weariness of accustomed
toll" but king has been cursed with
luxury. What soul satisfying thing
it is to work, for the joy of working.
The worst injustice of all that they.
do king, is to have his advisors think
for him. began at the wrong
end of Stevenson's other quotation,
"Shoes and ships and sealing wax and
cabbages and kings" and perhaps /
know more about any of the other
things than l do about kings, for l
have never seen one. And that brings
me to another idea for this article
has developed into regular
Joseph's coat for miscellany, or a
patch work quilt. This idea is-Facts.
Ny articles are often, not fact, but
fancy. The actual statements are ac-
curate but they are embellished with
my own imaginings. If one of the
faculty here could see them he
would say that they were fiat, stale
and Improbable, and that the truth
was not in them. This particular fac
ulty member thinks that if three hun
dred men were killed in battle, it
would be worse than falsehood, it
would be irretrievably. wrong to say
there were about two hundred and
ninety-nine.
One must be accurate, know sta
tistics and be able to quote them,
One must not dream but reason. And
| it is not without a vision according to
him but with vision that the people
perish.
The other day, some one was dis
cussing the size of Alabama, and he
Immediately announced that there
were certain number of square
miles in Alabama and he may have
even added the rods and yards. Now,