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FACTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT! > Interesting Incident* About Chie and Vice Executives. Possibly you have forgotten som< of these incidents relating to Presi dents and Vice Presidents of the Un ited States, says the Philadelphii r Ledger: Washington was the one Presiden to be elected unanimously. The only President or Vice Presi dent to resign was John C. Calhoun who gave up the vice presidency tc become a United States senator. J. Q. Adams refused to ride to th( Capitol with Andrew Jackson anc left town when Old Hickory took th? oath of office. Jefferson and the second Adam* | * were the only Presidents who wer? elected by the house of representatives, neither having had a majoritj I of electoral votes. r ^ William Henry Harrison servec the shortest time as President, having caught a fatal cold the day ii( was inaugurated and died exactlj one month later. Impeachment was tried againsl but one President or Vice Presidenl and failed by one vote even in thf case of Andrew Johnson. Johnson was a tailor and coulc not read until his wife taught hire how. 'Are you not President Harrison? inquired a gushing woman sometime after this son of Indiana had left the White House. "No, madame, I'nr Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis Grover Cleveland is the only Presi * dent in the United States." The senate elected only one Vict President, Richard M. Johnson, ir 1837, having failed to receive a ma jority of electoral votes. Five /Vice Presidents became Pre sident yy the death of the President Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthui and Roosevelt. No physician, preacher or journal ist has become President. Grant and Roosevelt are the onlj two who sought three terms. Cleveland was the only Presideni to have someone else sandwiched be tween his two terms. Benjamin Har rison being the sandwich. John Adams was .not only the old ' est of ex-Presidents when he died being more than 90, but he lived th< offor loo\rinrr oKaiv r-- - -^-r f~ w^VVJ. tv??v Aug V4UVV) OWU twenty-five years. | r.. Relatively, Washington was th( richest President, but his private in come was hardly equal to that o Roosevelt. Col. Roosevelt was the only Vici President to attain the presidency b; another's death and then be honore< by a re-election. There have been four ex-Presi dents living at one time?Adams Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. Af ter Washington's death, durinj Adams' term, the country had no ex President. Now we have two, bu v they don't speak to each other. Buchanan went through hi? tern a bachelor. Woodrow Wilson and Jame> A Garfield were college president.? an; Jefferson founded the University o Virginia after he retired from th< WTiite House. Washington, Monroe, Jackson, lb two Harrisons, Taylor, Lincoln Grant, Garfield, Hayes, McKinle: and Roosevelt were soldiers. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech am Washington's farewell address an quoted far more frequently than an; other presidential utterances. Cleveland's "Public office is a pub lie trust," Grant's "Let us hav< peace." Jackson's "By the Eternal' and Roosevelt's "Malefactors o great wealth" became universa catch words. Of cabinet officers, the luckiest ii a presidential way were secretarie of state. Grant and Taft were sec I retary of war, but there has been n< secretary of the navy in the Whit House. Washington and Lincoln were th tallest Presidents, Cleveland an< Taft the heaviest. When Buchanan was a young mai in Lancaster county some one tol< him that if he should change his poli tics he might become President. H did both. Grant had always been a Demo crat until after the war, when th Republicans'elected him President. The only President to turn his coat after election was Tyler. Elected by the Whigs on the "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" slogan, he went over I to the Democrats when he had climbi ed into the presidency over the coffin of Harrison. When the chancellor of New York administered the oath to Washing^ ton he ended with this: "Long live George Washington President of the United States." That form was e never repeated. ' , One President was inaugruated in " New York, two in Philadelphia, and 1 all the others in Washington. At first the salary of the Presit dent was $25,000,- and that of the Vice President $5,000. Now the President receives $75,000. > Alexander Hamilton proposed that ? a President be elected for life. Others in the constitutional convention 5 favored two or three Presidents in1 stead of one. * The official salute for the Presi dent is twenty-one guns. I heard a > salute of 101 guns fired for King i Edward when the proclamation was read. When the body of Napoleon r was brought back from St. Helena, and arrived in the river Seine, a saI lute of 1,000 guns was fired. i Death of Richard T. Kirkpatrick. r Richard T. Kirkpatrick, of the t Donalds section of the county, died t at his home on last Tuesday from i paralysis, from which disease he has been suffering for the lrfst three I years. He was 72 years of age. i Mr. Kirkpatrick was a Confederate veteran. He was a member of ' Company F. Second South Carolina s Rifles, and was dangerously woundt ed at Frasier's Farm, in 1862. i He was buried-at Turkey Creek . church on Wednesday. He is sur vived by his wife, who was a Miss Brock, one daughter, Mrs. R. C. i Bernau, of Greensboro, N. C.f and i three sons, one of wfiom in Dr. T. - 0. Kirkpatrick, of Lowndesville, S.\ C. , Death of Mrs. Will Leith. r Mrs. Will Leith, who before her - marriage was Miss Euphia Winn, died at 'her home in the upper part r of the county, on last Monday, after a few days illness from pnuemonia. t The funeral and burial were ai . Greenville church, near Donalds, of which she had been a member since childhood. Mrs. Leith was the oldest daughter of the late W. Calvin Winn, and i a sister of John R. Winn, Eugene t Winn, Chas. M. Winn and Mrs. J. N. Gordon. Her mother was a Miss e Hagan before her marriage. She was a young woman of the f highest christian character. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Will e Leith, and her sister and brothers. y j R. R. Martin Dead. A telegram Monday morning to ( Mr. James W. Martin, of the Press _ and Banner, brought the sad news of the death of his brother, Mr. R. R. Martin, of Savannah, Ga. Mr. Martin was born and reared in Abbeville. He was a printer by trade. For many years he was an employee of the Abbeville Medium. He also wprked for sometime at Due West on the Presbyterian, and at times he did special work for the e Press and Banner. He is survived by a wife and seve eral children, by one sister, Mrs. Fannie Kearsey, of Augusta, and his v brother here. i Visitors from McCormick B yr Hon. Frank C. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson, Miss Fannie Stuart and - Mrs. C. F. Simmons came up from b McCormick last Friday and were ' present at the Opera House for the f closing contest of the School Fair. 1 They were interested in the exercises and were delighted that the i McCormick school carried off one of s the medals. Mr. Robinson repre sents Abbeville in the General As3 sembly, to the entire satisfaction of e his constituents. He shows that he is a man of excellent judgment e when he comes to Abbeville and i brings with him three such fine looking and charming women. It was i a pleasure to sit beside them in the i opera house and to know them. e Huyler's candy, Martha Washington and Monkey candy always fresh at Speed's Drug Store. M artha Washington candy in hal e and> pound boxes. Try it. There is nothing like it for the money, at Speed's. WOULD POS1ME |i THE TELEPHONE) {\4 Burleson is Not First to Advocate \i The Idea. BY BURTON K. STANDISH. {"Written for the United Press) <j Washington, April 14?Whenever !| any member of the House of Repre- ;j sentatives wishes to know about pos- ;i tal affairs, wishes to bolster up an impending speech with few facts, ;; and hasn't time to get in touch with jj the Post Office Department, he has !j! always the alternative of asking ;i Rep. David J. Lewis, of Maryland. ;jj Lewis is a simple and sure remedy for ignorance concerning the post ! office, if taken in time and sufficient doses. He is as full of information regarding the ms.ils as Represents- ;i tive James R. Mann is regarding parliamentary precedents or Senator ;i; Lafollette regarding the railroads. Right off the bat he could tell you if you wanted to know, how much it ? would cost you to send a dozen China eggs from your home in Bluefield to your aunt in Billings, Mont., and if you asked further, he'd tell you just now mucn proni, tne government made on the shipment and how much the railroad made. ;!;? Congressman Lewis is a great believer in the possibilities of the post office and his present pet idea is the J|; postalization of the telephone and telegraph. Commenting on the advo- \\ cacy of this move by Postmaster jj Burleson, he said the other day: jj "Mr. Burleson's predecessors '.for 50 years have given like cqunsel. The principal countries of the world, ;i the United States alone excepted, jj have already postalized these agen- ji cies. Why? Briefly, because the postoffic^ alone has the motive and :j the facilities to make rates low en- ;i ough to render service to all the people. Before the parcels post we j; had the highest parcel rates. They |! | are now among the lowest in the ; | world. We still have the highest ;; telegrapn rates, rney run irom 20 cents to $1. Where the post con- ? ducts the telegraph they run from ^ 10 cents to 24 cents for the longest distances. "The result of our high rates is P that we use the telegraph little. New P Zealand with a 12-cent rate shows 9 P telegraph per capita, the United I' States only 1. But with the lowest P letter rates we show the highest us;, c 101 letters per capita, as against 93 v for New Zealand. While our tele- f graph rates run from two to over ^ four times as high as countries like *1 Australia, with distances as long and wages as high as our own, our ^ toll or long distance rates are ijven a more immoderate. They run from P three to seven times as high as the $ postal telephone /ates; of other coun- ^ tries. * "The average rate for 100 miles 8 in nine countries of Europe is 20 P cents/ as against 60 cents here; for ^ 300 miles, 37 cents, as against $1.80 0 here; for 400 miles, 39 cents as P against $2.40; for 500 miles, 46 P cents, as against $3; for 700 miles, 53 cents, as against $4.20. "That is to say, for 100 miles we pay three times as much as they in Europe and for 700 miles, we pay eight times as much. "It costs the American as much ^ to ship his long-distance conversa- s tion over the wires as it costs him n to ship his ireight over the rails. 0 The railroads get on an average 7 ^ mills a mile for moving a ton of ^ freight. The charge for earring ,s three-minute conversation a mile is a 6 mills. Conversations weigh about s a ton on the long distance wires, "The effect of the rates is to reduce the traffic to a point as abnormally low as the rates are abnormally high. Combining telegrams and { telephone messages we find that other countries use the wire from two to four times as much as we. i Denmark shows 17 such messages per capita?we show only three. We ^ rank first in the use of the letter, but thirteenth in the use of the wire. Moreover, our companies maintain g but one telegraph office to every sev- ^ en post offices. The postal institutions maintain an average of two * telegraph offices to every three post offices. This is the penalty our country pays for permitting a priv- _ ate monopoly to conduct this pait of the Postal Service?the highest c rates and the poorest service among t the nations. * "Second only to the letter in in.- \ " 1 l.,y - 1 r ? s?--= ? . ' . r., . J . # ?** I ; i I;| SCHLOSS l|?=? ? " ,]? Baltimon New York [ 11 age, in such details ; [ jif hang of otir classy \ i [1:1: They have the "G [l It's the Inimital I jii: that give these youn !; j III Pri I j ani I !i pri ; . ; !i Dr. r B| M CIA ?V. il t"$ti2KfflffiKfiyilfilRfi mmmammmmmmammmmmm^amtmmmmim?ummmMwmmwmmmmtmm^ma ortance is the local telephone call, erhaps it would be first if its cost ermitted its use by all the people, n countries having postal telehones the rate averages about a ent a call, or half the letter rates, rhile in our cities the rates run rom 5 to 10 cents a call. We rank ighest'but two among 31 nations in fie rates paid. "The flat, or unlimited rate in Jhristiana, Norway, is $21.44 a year s against Seattle, about the same opulation, ?au a year; joeriin, 43.20, as against Manhattan $205; K>ndon is $82.79, as aguinst San 'rancisco, $180. It seems a duty to ay that these telegraph and telehone rates are the scandal of pubic service rates 1he world over, and nly to be compared with the excess rates before the advent of the iarcel post." Free Stalls For Fire Horses. (The Greenwood Journal.) Through the kindness of Mr. B. F. IcKellar, all horses that will be hipped to Greenwood for the Firelen's tournament will be kept free f charge in the large stable on laxwell avenue. Heretofore, fire epartments have had to pay for tails. The local firemen are very ppreciative of Mr. McKellar's asistance. ?KIRKW00D JEWELER up to his eyes work batches, Clocks Jewelry, Spectacles told and Repaired, and Mrs. Sirkwood Testing the Eyes and fitting Glasses a specialty. Next to the Candy Kitchen ABBEVILLE, S. C. Comparison is the highest form of lattery. All cigars sold in Abbeville ire represented to be as good, or better, han Speed's Cinco's. There is nothing ike them. Stick to them. They keep i good taste in your mouth and a clear lead. .?/V .. c-'-S". '4g .rfii - . ?/&? PJ JW J J J J JJ J JjJ U.J J ***?}* " l IB. Mad Ipt ..- Youn Our Young 1 are not merely i smaller. They ifeSjk. signed by style ? '^\| always before th " wft?' PurPose pka [| taste,?and who ' ness. to know jr demands. You'll See th a< 5 between our moc as the fabric, the pattern, roung Men's Suits. inger"?"Pep"?that make yc ale Tailoring as well as g Men's Clothes their real I ; ices $10.00 to $25.( d Big Values at ai ce you want to pz er<x#c mmsmmm ?s$ss$? j H B ? WAA WAJ AHi # vaetwieu AH' | 30 c< I Wehavebou | Press for th I Try I Abbeville Ste< ? Phone 4 The largest flour mill in the world, located at Minneapolis, is equipped < with 5580 horse power , in electric i motors. A number of very large i motors are used. This mill in one day turned out 16,125 barrels of t flour. I Cigars Speed's Di Pkrmo A UVtIV Always [Ready Stationery >jrgtfpglijyg|#gygi|gi?^ !S9SCT?j??^ I i e For 1 g Men 1 Men's Clothes U nen's clothes made |lp are specially de- ilffli experts who keep ijjgj: lem the important !j jS j ising the}younger ||S| make it their busi- llgj ; B;; i. lels and the aver- |Uj|: the cut, the fit and ! J;;:, ' Hi 1^ ill || >ur step livelier. ]|I|f :il j ! ; clever designing, 11: distinction. :i I; ! j[ iy !? ' ;, -'A- . rasjiTi VJL1 UUIIU ? a Pressed ' i ;nts I ght a $250 | e purpose. 1 Us I imLaundiy I 68-B * Movie Operator?"What shall I lo with this film? There is a tear in t that cuts right through the hero's lose!" Clever Manager?"Ha!" just the hing. Bill it as a feature in two )arts."?Sun Dial. ' # | > * Candy ug Store. 18. to Serve You. Toilet Goods