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A BOY THAT | KNEW.

boy that I knew, when skies were all
blue.
And fields Of the morning were sparkling
with dew,
With a smile on his face and a smile in
his heart,
He walked from the phantom OF tfoubIe
apart:
And his laughter was sweet as the liIt
OF a song.
For he knew not the care Of the world.
or its wrong;
The past and the future might bury their
The day was enough for that boy hat /
knew.
A youth that I knew, as he stood where
the way
Leads down to the mists AMI the toll
and the fray,
Bore smilc cn his face, and kept faith
And Hope. with her promise. "TCr YOU
is the goal"
Though others we're crushed. AMI though
others might wear
On their foraheads the embIems OF doubt
and despair.
He would win in the strife. stsndins
stalwaTt and true.
For Achieve" was the word os that
youth that I knew.
man that I know. worn, weary, and
old
Looks backward en- years that his fail
IRE have told:
Looks backward tG hope. with 4 promise
no more.
To the faith like a wrath from the
country of yOre-
T., ~N,e r-rN
feet.
The vail of the bugle that called 20 re-
treat;
And tits o for the morning, the sheen OF
its dewi
And o to go back TO the boy that I
knew,
Alfred J. Waterhouse, in June Success.
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such a conventional character that the
interest in this class OF work Is but
slight. Charles R. Van Horn has also
presented a study of a negro child, who
is looking pleasant and is posed direct
ly in front of the camera, and there
seems no good reason for this bit OF
picture work unless for the purpose Of
testing the lens or the plate The tech
nical work is very creditable The sub
ject in the present arrangement is not
novel, and the effort lacks thought.
"At Cabin John Bridge"
AT Cabin John Bridge" is the title
Of the contribution OF Clifford L. Hall
1t is difficult to find in the print sub
mitted any leading point OF interest.
and the most reasonable explanation is
that the picture looked charming when
seen In color on the ground glass. but
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that the whole charm was contained in
the coloring at the time the negative
was made. There is abundance of ma
terial at this spot for beautiful pic
lures. Fences. and architectural sub
jects like the bridge Ghe iron BRIDGE
shown in this picture, do not lend them
selves to pleasing compositions, espe-
cially when the lines are made TO par
allel the base line of the picture.
Mr.. Perry's Pictures.
John S. Perry, in addition to the pic
lures referred to elsewhere. submitted
other work which It would be e pleasure
to refer to If space would permit. His
work as whole shows much technical
skill, although there is a slight tendency
TO hatness in the pictures submitted
This may be due to the printing process
Used and may be due to a slight over
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EXPENSIVE FLORAL GIFTS
INSTEAD of having floral gifts for

INSTEAD of having floral gifts for
warded in tissue paper wrapping.
CT in an ordinary oasteboard box
covered with gaily-stamped paper. it is
now the rad TO have violets. carnations.
roses. or tulips sent in basket These
high-priced contrivancso are TO the po-
sizes what the satin bonboniere is to the
gift of candies
They differ from all other baskets in
that they are meant 10 inclose the bios
SONS entirely and serve some oston-
sibly useful purpose when their special
freight has faded. The sturdiest kinds
or hampers. with hinged and daintily
padlocked lids, are being used for the
long-stemmed roses. The flowers are
laid at full length in papier mache trays.
six in a tray. When the roses are prop
erly located in vases the hamper proves
the foundation for an ideal tea. picnic,
or automobile hamper.
One florist has introduced beautiful
South American baskets woven of scent
ed roots. which he lines with green or
lavender satin and places therein Two
superb orchid blooms.
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was on the lookout for wife. Re was
a very practical man. His first wife had
died year before. and he wanted some
body to take care Of his five little chill
dren. He explained the situation TO An
geIina dispassionately.
What I want said he. is somebody
to fill my wife's place in my home
For the first and last time in her life
Angelina blazed out with real passion.
Don't you love me2' she asked.
"The man had e bristling red beard
and managed a storage warehouse. and
Angelina ought to have known better
than TO put such question to him He
did not answer for about five mirhtes.
Z" Not the way you seem to expect me
to-. he said. but I like you and will be
good to you. and 1 think you woald do
well TO take me-
Angelina realized then that she need
never expect TO be first in anything, aad
she consented TO act as domestic hiler-in.
zone day Angelina died. There are no
authoritative records on the subject but
Il is quite likely that she did even that
because there was no one else ready to
go at that moment. and she was, taken
TO fill in the breach. She had asked 10
be taken back to her old home for burial
Her request caused no end of t<ouble.
The family burial lots were pretty well
occupied. but finally one cousin tele-
graphed that there was room for another
grave In his lot and he guessed Angelina
could fill in AngeHna's red headed
husband decided TO have a funeral ser
mon preached at the house. The preach
er he liked best had so many engage
ments for that particular day that he
didn't see how he could find time TO
come. but upon being urged he recon
sidered the matter. He COULD change two
other dates. he said. and let Angaiina's
funeral fIl in between. In speaking. the
young man received an inspiration
straight from the devil. as so many
preachers are apt to do He knew moth
ing OF Angelina's frustrated hopes. but
nevertheless he wound I'D his prayer by
saying that he hoped there was. some
empty spot in heaven where the departed
handmaiden of the Lord could fIl IN.
And that was the earthly end OF An
gelina. She is probably filing in. some
place yet. unless she has been promoted.
which is not likely. for a woman Of An
gelina temperament is destined tc be a
fIler-ln TO the end OF all chapters"
The girls were disappointed with the
old lady's story.
Il thought said the one with the
crooked smile. that you were going TO
tell US a tragedy"
ragedy?" said the old lady "Oh.
my dear child. if that is not tragedy.
where Will you find it?"-New York
Times.
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z TP on the top floor of the board
ing house lived a woman who
liked 10 tell stories. She was
chock full of them, and no matter how
often the young girls in the house came
into her room and asked for story.
she always bad one ready for them
Her stories were OF all kinds. Some
were so funny that they made the girls
laugh till their sides ached. some were
so sad that they made them cry, and
others were so scary that they brought
on an attack of gooseflesh and made
the girls afraid to go to their own
rooms alone. Generally they were gay
stories. because the old lady was a ge-
nial soul and liked to tell things that
made people feel good But when the
girls asked for tragedy she gave it to
them. They asked for it just the other
night This is what she told them:
"Ouce upon a time there was a baby
born and named Angelina. Angelina
was an ugly baby. Everybody said so
except her mother. and she probably
thought it. but being a mother she was
too loyal to say anything. Angelina's
father came right out with his opinion.
" Lord said he, what an ugly little
sinner,'
THAT made Angelina's mother cry.
Angelina cried. too. although probably
from other causes. II certainly was an
unkind remark. II was more unkind
than he really meant. perhaps, and the
chances are he wouldn't have said it if
he hadn't been so disappointed because
Angelina had turned out to be a girl
He was prejudiced against girls for
financial reasons
"'Girls.' said he. are such a bother
! They are so dependent. and they cost SO
much. If we were rich I wouldn't mind
but since We are not.I like boys better
They can get out and hustle and make a
way for themselves
"Angelina's mother cried again. 4
wish she said. you wouldn't feel that
way about her. We have four BOYS and
have never had but one girl. There has
been hole In my heart ever since she
/ died. and Angelina will kind OF sH in
'Angelina's father said OH and turn
ed away. He never complained about
Angelina after that. and the little girl
cried out her tantrums and pulled
/ through her rashes and cut her teeth
without paternal Interference. And all
that time Angelina remained ugly. She
was still ugly when she started to Sun
day school. Every teacher in the room
thought so. and although plainness of
feature was no bar to religious instruc
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tfcn, they couldn't agree as to which
class Angelina should 20 in. Each
teacher said she already had more pu-
Iils than she knew how to manage. and
she couldn't possibly make room for an
other. II looked for a time as IL Ange-
lima would have a new class started
for her own special benefit or else be
cut of from all knowledge Of the paths
that lead to heaven. but by and by the
young woman who corralled her brood
in the corner back OF the organ took
pity on the child. She had been ugly
herself when little girl, and wasn't any
too good looking yet. and she didn't mind
Angelina's frizzly hair and little pug
nose.
I think I can take care of her. she
said. One OF my children moved away
last week. and Angelina can fill into
her place
Angelina filled in again when she
started TO day school. Her mother had
built great hopes on her education She
wanted to send her 70 an exclusive pri-
vate school whose principal could re-
ceive only limited number of girls, and
for many months Angelina was shut out
on the ground that there was no room
for her. Finally one little girl met an
untimely end while sliding down hill.
and the principal sent word that if
Angelina's parents liked they could let
Angelina come on and fill the place of
the unlucky slider. At school Angelina's
chief mission was to fll in She was a
bright girl. She learned all there was
TO BE learned IN that institution about
declensions and conjugations and
theorems. but she never learned how to
be popular. The other girls did not
really dislike her, but they never made
friend OF her, and the only times An
gelina was invited anywhere was when
/ she was needed to fill in.
Angelina S social career was regu-
/ lated on the same stop-gap principle.
! In her whole lifetime she was invited to
] Just two balls and seven dinner parties.
/ and each time she was asked because
some preferred guest backed out at the
/ last minute and she was convenient to
fill in.
Angelina had studied to be a teacher.
! and for several years she filed odd
| places in different schools. At last she
/ tried her hand at newspaper work. She
wrote several nice little sketches and
| submitted them 20 an editor. He was
! pleased with them.
! I think he said. you Will be able
/ to write very good filters for US
/ so Angelina wrote hllers. She had
! ideals and wanted to write something
more ambitious, but. as usual, fate had
| staked off her limitations. and she
never got beyond fllers-
"One day Angelina met a man who
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CAUSE OF FLAT WHEELS
sELAT WHEEL" growled the old

"LAT WHEEL" gr0wied the old
4 railroad brakeman, as the troll
ley car in which he sat went humping
along at twelve miles an hour, shaking
the passengers uncomfortably at every
revolution Of the wheels.
What makes fiat wheels" asked the
man sitting next the old brakeman.
Darn FOOLS" said the brakeman. IT'S
this way: II man doesn't know how 10
stop his car he makes a fiat wheel. On
the steam roads some brakemen hatten
wheel every time they put on the
brakes. When the wheel suddenly stops
revolving and the, momentum Of the
train carries IL on, the wheel slides
along the track and a fiat is started
Next stop. perhaps. makes IT worse, and
80 the thing goes until the wheel is no
good. II brakeman knows his busi-
ness he need never make a fat wheel
unless he has TO stop suddenly to avoid
an accident. II he keeps his wheels
turning slowly they don't fatten. Now
these fellows on the troIleys take no
care at all. and every other car in some
places has fiat Wheel
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The mother wit OF the riggers in get
ting 10 the top OF a tall building Is
a thing to marvel at, but not to under
stand In this case of the washing o,
the Goddess timbers for the scaffoIdin1
were hauled to the closest point OF an
proach to the statue, which happened
to be thirty feet below the base. Then
Ports and his daring crew Of riggers
went outside the dome on the topmost
platform. set up a thirty-foot ladder
and clambered up to the top of the
statue. The scaffolding timbers were
hauled u2 to them one at a time and
net work OF them was built I'm e-o,,us
the figure.
Then the riggers rolled up their sleeves
and fell to work. The real work =,
cleaning began. Pumice stone was usad
at hrst, but it was found that this nro-
cess gave too high a polish. Finally
CASTLE soap was substituted with er-
cellent results.
During the past two years ugbtnin,
has struck the Goddess many tjmos
lightning rods rise from each of her
shoulders and from the points of her
coronet, though they are invisible n
the specks Of humanity below. The tins
OF these rods were hit so often that thew
melted, fused and ran down upon the
brass These points, which are about 4
couple Of inches long and covered with
an alloy OF gold and platinum. have
been replaced.
Besides cleaning the Goddess the en-
tire Capitol building has been reno
waited. The great dome has been re-
painted and the central part, of Vir-
ginia freestone, has been frescoed again.
Twentyfour barrels of white paint were
necessary and Uncle Sam paid a round
$4,000 for them. The figures represent
Ing the Constitution" and Freedom. !"
which stand on the central part OF The
east front have been partly gilded. Sew
eral Washington artists say that the
gold tips on the shield OF Freedom and
on the arrows OF her culver cheaper the
digDified appearance OF the entire group.
Architect Woods. however. says that II
was originally intended to gild tboss
portions Of the group. and that he
thought he could not do better than TO
follow the frst plan.
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Continued from First Page)

was made in the sunlight, and the
patches of sunshine form queer spots in
some portions of the picture. The effort
seems to be sincere, and 1t would be well
to make the attempt again and try and
correct the defects referred to.
"Wreck of the Maine"
Frank J. Hogan sends view of the
wreck of the battleship Maine, in the
harbor of Havana. This is as full Of
statistical information as a carefully
prepared report by the Engineer De-
partment of the navy. The condition OF
the wreck is related in a clear manner
by this photograph, which is full of
value as record of facts. but fails in
presenting any quality which is re-
fuired IN picture making.
Antonio Harbor, Jamaica. W. L." is
the title of the contribution of Roy A.
Dent. This belongs to a very large class
of photographs which seem to have
been made without giving any thought
10 the subject photographed. In this
there is such an abundance of material
that things seem somewhat crowded.
and the eye wanders from an interesting
tree at the left TO the water in the
foreground, then to two boats seen in
the harbor. In Stone Bridge Over Bull
Run" the same artist has given much
more pleasing composition, and has pro-
duced very creditable picture.
Mr.. Anadale's Entry.
II. d. Anadale has submitted this
week a picture of three negro boys
seated on a rail fence and evidently
posed. and intentiy gazing at the cam
era Technically. this is good photo
graph The subject, however, is of
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The Girl in the Automobile.

There's the girl who is up in the sad
die at 6.
In veil and a habit of blue.
To gather the roses Of health for her
cheeks.
While the park is still shining with
dew.
And the girl who is out in the opaIine
dawn
And away for spin on her wheel;
But there is another who leaves them
behind
The girl in the automobile.
When over the floor of the ballroom
she glides
In the languorous dance she is fair,
In simmer of satin and gIimmer of
pearls.
With a rose dropping low in her
But see her by day in the coat and the
cap
Which fashion has stamped with its
seal.
And where is the man but surrenders
his heart
To the girl in the automobile?
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:. WASHING THE GODDESS :.

TT HE spring housecleaning at the
Capitol building has been done
after a workmanlike fashion, for
Il includes a thorough overhauling of
everything even to a scrubbing Of the
Goddess of Freedom on the dome. For
the past two weeks seven riggers have
been washing every inch of it's surface
with--wouId you believe it-castile roap
and warm water. The work has cost
Uncle Sam s400. but when it is finished
the goddess will look like a debutante.
1t is ten years since the last clean
ing. and during that decade, with the
storms of rain and snow and dust. the
Goddess beauty has grown dim. The
steepIe-jacks will tell you that they
found the entire surface Of the big
statue covered with thick scales.
II was feared by some that Senators
and Representatives. on returning 10
Washington next winter. would not be
able to see the Goddess of Freedom upon
the dome OF the Capitol. and Supervising
Architect Woods determined to have
her appearance frightened. Albert
Ports. an Undersized man in stature,
but a giant in nerve, has charge Of the
scrubbing gang. He is regarded as one
Of the most daring riggers in the en-
ploy of Uncle Sam. Long experience
has taught him TO regard danger Of the
hair-lifting kind as part OF the days
work He and his men have overcome
the siren voice OF the space below call
ing out to Jump" It never occurs TO
these chaps to imagine what would
happen If their foot slipped. They are
firm believers in the standing good
fortune Of all steeple-jacks
The task on which they are engaged
is not one TO be undertaken lightly. Re-
member that these fellows have 10 scrub
a seyen-ton lump OF metal. nineteen
foot statue with coquettish folds IN it's
flowing garments. not the three-foot doll
you see from the Capitol terraces. Re-
member, too, that they are doing all this
three hundred and eighty seven feet
from the ground. despite the steady
swayiug of the platform beneath them.
"a the wind humming in their ears.
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She matches her speed with the swal-
low above
As he skins in the blue unconfned.
And gives but touch to her tireIess
machine.
And. 10, she has left him behind.
The wind is a laggard as miles Of the
road
Like silvery ribbons unreel,
And Cupid's the chauffeur who sits bv
the side
or the girl in the automobile.
Like the breeze in its flight, or the
passage of light.
Or swift as the fall Of a star,
She comes and she goes in a nimbus
of dust.
A goddess enthroned on a car.
The maid Of the motor. behold her
erect
With muscles as steady as steel,
Her hand on the lever and always In
'front.'
The girl in the automobile.
-Leslie's Weekly
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JEWELS AND MONEY
FOUND IN OLD BOOKS

| HE little second hand book deal
er was standing in front OF his
shop door. smoking his long
stemmed pipe Few places can be i'm
agined which seem more pTosaic and
commonplace than his little store. Yet
the trade has its exciting moments, its
rays of sunlight. its tricks. and subter-
fuges. and sometimes its lucky
strikes"
Have you noticed this diamond I am
wearing?" questioned a second hand
book store keeper the other day. He
plucked a scarf pin from his brilliant
tie and held It in the light so that the
sunshine fell upon the really exquisite
polishing of the stone. I'm wearing
that in the hope that the owner viii
drop in some day and claim his prop
erty. l found it in a lot of secondhand
books l bought at a sale. 1 never could
just remember where. 1t dropped out
of an old volume OF Tennyson's Maud
that I was looking over preparatory TO
throwing II in the trash basket because
it was in such poor condition. There is
food for sentiment in that incident, sir.
DO we often find things in old books?
Very frequently. For the most part il
is money. l picked a $40 bill out Of an
odd volume OF Barrow's 'Lavengro'
that a seedy looking tramp brought Ia
here the other day and sold for 80 CEN
Pawn tickets of all sorts we find more
times than we can count. Old letters
we find sometimes, and certificates OF
marriage and even quarters and 5-cent
pieces. I ran across a bank. book the
other day containing a credit balance OF
$500. l wrote 10 the bank, but they had
lost the address OF the depositor years
before the book came into my posses
sion.
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THE TIMES CAMERA CONTEST.

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Out oft
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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-03-11
Marriage Of Rev. W. Z. Hitler.

Married, February 25, 1908, in St.
James church Concord, N. c., Rev.
William Haskell! Hitler and Miss
Addie Esther Patterson. DR.. Robert
G. Holland performed the marriage
ceremony. The ceremony took place
at $50 p. NJ, the church being filed
with the friends of the bridegroom
and his cultured bride. Hon. A. F.
Lever, M. c., came down from Wash
ington and acted the part of best
man. The church was beautifully
decorated, and this wedding consti-
tuted one of the chief social events of
the city of Concord. The bridal
party, accompanied by Hon. A.. F.
Lever, took the train Immediately for
Washington. Rev. Hitler has made
a most favorable impression as paster
and preacher in Concord and is de-
servedly popular.-Lutheran Visitor.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-03-11
Only One Negro Left.

New Orleane, March 6 6-Only one
negro lie left in Nacogodocbe county,
Texas, where white caps baverecently
operated, and he has given public no.
tice that he will move as soon as sick
ness in his family is over. Most of the
blacks owned their own homes and
have lost heavily.
The movement against the negroes
here, as we'll as in other Texas coun-
ties on the Louisiana border, has
been going on for some time.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-03-11
Dots from Near Peak.

10 the Editor OF the DIspatch:
We have been having some rainy
weather for the past few days.
The small grain is looking very
promising at present. The farmers
are preparing to raise their own hog
and hominy for another year, although
hogs are very scarce.
We are sorry to hear of the sad
accident of Mrs. Happy Derrick.
While she was going from the house
to the lot last week she fell and
broke her left leg. She has bsen
very i'll, but she is now slowly i'm.
proving.
Oo last Thursday morning about
8 o'clock the town of Peak was dis
covered on fire and the business
portion of the town was destroyed.
The loss was very heavy.
A Farmer.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-03-11
More Riots.

Disturbances of strikers are not
nearly as grave as an individual dis
order of the system. Overwork, loss
of sleep, nervous tension will be fol-
lowed by utter collapse, unless a
reliable remedy is Immediately en-
ployed. There's nothing so efficient
to cure disorders of the Liver or
Kidneys as Electric Bitters. It's a
wonderful tonic, and effective nervine
and the greatest all around medicine
for run down systems. It dispels
Nervousness, rheumatism and Neu-
ralgia and expels Malaria germs.
Only SOC and satisfaction guaranteed
by The Kaufman Drug Co., Drug
gist.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-03-11
What's In a Name?

Every thing is in the name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. @
Dewitt & Co., of Chicago, discover
ed, some years ago, how to make a
salve from Witch Hazel that is q
specific for Piles. For blind, bleed
ing, itching and protruding piles,
eczema, cuts, burns, bruises and all
skin diseases, DeWitt's Salve has no
equal. This has given rise to numer-
Gus worthless counterfeits. Ask for
DeWitt's-the genuine. J. E. Kauf-
mann.