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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

Lexington will have her share Of
sweet girl graduates and June brides.
One necessarily follows the other.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
For Sale.

A new four-inch vice; never been
used. Placksmiths or any one need
lag a vice will do well to investigate.
Apply at The Dispatch Office.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
ANNOUNCEMENTS,

All announcements coming under
this head will be charged for at the
rate of $500 for each announcement.
The same to run until the result of the
primary.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22

The peach crop and June brides are
still safe in the arms OF spring.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Teachers Examination.

Teachers Examination.
By order of the State Board of Edu-
cation the next regular examination for
teachers will be held in Lexington court
house Friday, May Is, 1908.
Examination will begin at 8 a. m.
and close at p. m.
4w2S j. E. RAWL KYZER,
Supt. Ed. Lexington County.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-22
Alfred ]. Fox,
Real Estate
and Insurance,
LEXINGTON, S. G.

FOR SALE
60 acres within one mile Of
Arthur.
One 10 horsepower boiler.
One s horsepower engine.
One 50 saw gin.
One shingle mill.
One grist mill.
Timber to cut 10000 shingles.
20 resident lots in the town of
r Lexington.
30 acres good farming land in
Rocky Creek. 11a miles from
Peters church.
5 lots near Lexington Depot.
One valuable lot in the town of
Lexington, S. G.
12Acres just outside incorporate
limits, Lexington, s. G.
6 Acres very near Le1in gton,
S, G..
Store building and lot on Main
street, Lexington, S. G..
House and lot in town Lexing-
tom acre land; Groom dwelling.
$50 acres on Southern railroad
o. miles from Barr, 4 miles from
Gilbert-2 buildings, good or
chard, so acres open land.
} acre and three room house
near town of Lexington.
1 acre lot-two story building,
at Irene, S. G..
FOR RENT
One store room, one warehouse
Lexington, S. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-29
Yale's Non-Graduate List.

From the Yale Alumni Weekly.
Returns for the Yale non-graduate cata-
logue. to be published in June. show that
there are probably about eight thousand
men living who have entered the univer-
sity and, for various causes. failed or
graduation. The figures are unexpectedly
large and represent more than half the
enumeration of about fifteen thousand Er-
ing Yale alumni of all departments. All
kinds of men and in all sorts of conditions
are of course upon the non-graduate ros-
ter: but it includes, beyond doubt. 4 large
number especially in that group thrown
out of college life by sheer misfortune.
whose loyalty to the university shames
the lethargic memories Of other men who
carry her diploma. And for that matter
college sentiment may strike a deeper root
in conscientious man whose academic
life has been wrecked by calamity than in
the average graduate. simply because such
a non graduate has an abiding sense OF
his loss His numbers as well as his SEN
timent command respect. He may be
called a kind of Yale reserve. strengthen
ing her regular troops in the long CAM
paign of university life. That he should he
recognized more fully than heretofore
that he should be an ever welcome
figure at class and alumni reunions
that he should nave the glad hand
of Yale fellowship. that he should
even have under exceptional conditions of
personal merit visited by misfortune. the
honor class of enrolment. are statements
that embody justice as well as eXpediency.
both of them emphasized now that we see
the size of the non-graduate host.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-29
BOOK REVIEWS,
THE NEGRO RACES.

THE NEGRO RACES. A Sociological
Study. Vol. I. BY Jerome Dowd.
New York: The Macmillan Company
Washington: Woodward & L.othrop.
This is the first volume of projected
series to consist of sociological study of
mankind from the standpoint ofsrace. The
author has begun with the negro race.
simply because they represent the most
primitive life. and not at all on account of
any special interest in the so-called ne
gro question or any desire to solve 1t upon
preconceived notions The present vol
ume deals with three of the five subdivi-
sionS of the negro type: The Negritos.
The NigritianS. The Fellatahs.
THE authors first object says Mr..
Dowd. lis to establish the fact that each
race has it's distinctive institutions and
special evolution corresponding to the To-
cality in which it lives or has lived. The
second object is to discover the factors
and laws which explain the mental and
moral characteristics and particular insti-
tutionS of each racial division, to the end
that the principles and laws discovered
may be applied to whatever Is abnormal
or retrogressive. If the first few volumes
of the series should seem to lay stress
upon the physical environment 1t is be-
cause that factor is always predominant
in the early stage of development, and
only diminiShes gradually as man
strengthens his intellect and adds to his
knowledge"
In pursuance of his plan the author has
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which are generally considered mere SUI
perstition is luminous. The description of
the daily life. the ceremonials. the atti-
tude toward life and death and eternal
life will present new world to the unln-
structed westerner Whether the poetry
found in THE Inward Light be an eX-
preston of the faith of Burma or the
emanation of the authors own PERSONAL
ity, the book is beautiful and inspiring
one.
THE STEM OF THE CRIMSON
DAHLIA. BY James Locke. With
Frontispiece by Oh. Weber-D itzler.
New York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
The ubiquitous American girl plays a
sympathetic if somewhat irrational, role
in clever story of adventure and po-
litical intrigue In this case she is Bull
garian born. although of American par
ents. and has espoused the cause of her
adopted countrymen. manly young
American traveller. being chance spec
tator of drama i'm which crimson
dahlia plays part which suggests to him
the romance for which his youthful spirit
renders him disposed. plunges into the ac-
ton with results somewhat diScOncerting
to himself. When the full plot is revealed
to him he is too deeply committed, by
reason of loyalty-and certain other more
personal emotions-tc draw back. The
story is exciting one, with novel social
and political conditions as background.
THE IFS OF HISTORY. BY Joseph Ed
gar Chamberlin. Philadelphia: Henry
AltemuS Company.
The fascination of speculat ting on what
would have happened if, at the great piv
otal moments of the worlds history,
things had gone the other way" the
romance of the Might have been" has
been utilized by Mr.. Joseph Edgar Cham
BERLIN who has succeeded Richard Henry
York Evening Mail. as material for a
stimulating little book. While the opin-
ion of the world has always been divided
as to whether decisive events. really
do decide. whether. if one great man had
not appeared another one would-in other
words whether it is not the Zeit-geist that
develops the man and not the man the
Zeit- gest-there can he no doubt as to
the value of such discussion in Stimu-
lating thought and in making more def
mite the students knowledge of the revo-
lutionary train of events set in action by
some apparently trivial occurrence
Mr.. Chamberlin has presented various
events of this nature, some of them prob
ably familiar to the average student of
history others less generally debated. eff
ThemiStocies Had Not Beaten AriStides
in an Athenian Election" IF the MoorS
Had Won the Battle of Tours 'If CO.
lumbus Had Kept His Straight Course
Westward. III the Philharmonic Had Not
Given Concerts at Vicenza," IF Abra-
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: BOOKS RECEIVED.

HILLRISE. BY w. B. Maxwell. author
of The Guarded Flame" etc. Illus
trated by III. Il. Matthews. New
York: Empire Book Company.
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS. For So
prano Edited by III. E. krehbiel.
Boston.
GRAPHOIOGY. BY Mary III. Booth.
Character Delineation. Detroit: The
Book-keeper Publishing Company.
4 PECULIAR PEOPLE. BY Mrs. Ara
bella Virginia Chase. Washington:
William Calvin Chase. jr., Printer.
THE FLYING DEATH. BY samuel
Hopkins Adams. author. with stew
art Edward White. of Tine Mys-
terry" Illustrated by c. r. Macauley.
New York: The Mcclure Company.
Washington: Woodward & i.othrop.
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ham Lincolns Father Had Moved South
ward Not Northward." IF Orsinis Bomb
Had Not Failed to Destroy Napoleon III
and host of other equally faScina ting
conundrums. He has shown cleverness
in utilizing the natural delight i'm such
speculation as the material for what
ought 10 be Il popular book. 1t will prove
an admirab BILE method by which grown
ups Can refresh their knowledge of his
tory or test their recollection of earlier
studies, and it should prove helpful to
every teacher who is engaged i'm the
problem of making history alive and sug
gestive to class of modern pupils.
LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA. BY James ].
Mcdonald formerly state senator
from the thirty sixth senatorial dis
trict of Virginia. Edited by J. A. c.
Chandler. Norfolk, Va: The Old
Virginia Publishing Company.
More valuable than formal histories are
those human documents out of which the
reader may reconstruct past epoch. the
records of customs, manners. methods of
thought. Often crowded out of historical
works for lack of space. they are lost un-
less some CLEANER with an appreciation Of
the value of minutiae gathers them up
that all may see. That is what the pres
ent author has done for these records of
Life in Old Virginia; and he will UNI
doubtedly be thanked. not only by Vir-
ginians, but by all who are interested in
knowing out of what materials the Ameri-
can nation was built.
Mr.. Mcdonald begins by bringing to-
gether the various charters. letters. re-
ports which together narrate the story of
the first attempts at colonization. He dis
cusSes the lost colony at Roanoke, with
all that is known or SurmiSed concerning
its fate. With passing discussion of the
rather more generally known facts relat-
ing to the colony at jamestown and the
final establishment of Virginia. he pro-
ceeds to those topics which are of more
intimate interest. relating particularly to
earliest development of the dstinctively
aristocratic atmosphere of Virginia life.
He is especially happy in points relating
to the manners and customs of the old
days. where he has brought fund of
anecdote and incident to make vivid his
text. Much of this material is invaluable
for il is derived largely from oral ira
dtion. which is fast becoming thing Of
the past. The chapters dealing with the
negro. before and after the war. are of
great interest. There is humor and keen
appreciation of character evidenced. and
the many songs. proverbs and old prints
with which the book is enriched add in
calculably to the interest.
POEMS. BY Helen Elizabeth Coolidge.
Boston: Richard G. Badger Wash
ington: Brentano's.
collection of religious verse part
of which has heretofore been printed in
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compiled. from all the leading sources OF
information on the African races, details
concerning the characters. political lnSt-
tutiOns family life. etc. Of the variou:
races. He has discussed the three sub
divisions of the Negrtos: The Pygmies
the Bushmen and the IIottentots. show
ing how their environment had influenced
their physical and mental attributes. Ii
the analysis of the Nigritians and Fella-
tabs. the author has divided the subject
matter into the life in the Banana Zone,
the Millet Zone the Cattle Zone. tracing,
in each case. the economic. family anf
political life. with the addition of point
concerning the customs ceremonies. etc
In this manner he has been able to SHOW
more cOnciusively how important. now
practically determining has been the in
f1uence of climatic and natural features
upon the evolution of the race.
The book shows research. 1t cannot
but prove a valuable reference book for
those who wish to inform themselves con-
corning these localities. While the
author disclaims any intentions of dis
GUESSING the negro question, he feels that
it is impossible for America. or any other
country to settle the matters that arr
pressing for adjustment, without {
knowledge OF the sociological conditions
of kindred populations in Africa. In con-
ciusion he gives an interesting and prac-
tcal discussion of THE Negro Problem
III the Sudan in which he makes sug
Sesuons as to- what the methods of mis-
sionarles and government functionaries
should be in order to secure practical re
suits. ~
THE INWARD LIGHT. By TT. Fielding
nan. author of The Soul of q PEG.
PIE. etc. New York: The Macmillan
company. Washington: Woodward
Lothrop.
Inc author is already well known from
his books dealing with the religion Of tbe
east. In the present volume he has chosen
the Burmese as the opponents of this re-
hsion. because they alone of modern
people retain the spirit of Buddhism as it
was understood He says: Il want TO
explain as clearly as may be that con-
cept1on of the world. mans life the past
the present and the future which finds its
latest. not its last. expression in Bud
dhism.' Mr. Hall feels that the religion
of the east is generally misunderstood be-
cause its students fail to realize that the
religion of Buddha was designed not TO
supplement. but to complement the older
Hinduism. the pure Hinduism of twenty
five centuries ago. on which he built
In order to show what the actual place
in the life of the Burmese is filled by his
religion Mr.. Hall tells the story of a
worldworn European who, detained at a
secluded monastery by an accident. lives
among the simple people long enough to
be permeated with their faith. The expo
siton of the meaning underlying practices
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plans, made on the spur of the moment
one OF which is to burn all the vodka In
the empire and forbid the distillation of
fresh supplies. But there seems no doubt
that the question has caught many peo-
pie attention and men like NJ Tchelv-
self are not likely to let it flag for the
want of energy and agitation. Undoubt-
eddy the most popular man. both with
the government and the temperance party.
would be he who could devise some meth
cd by which the imperial treasury could
be provided with other sources of revenue
as profitable as that derived from the sale
or vodka. But in tax-ridden Russia that
is impossible. On the one hand NJ
Tchelyseff and his friends mintain-and
prove II up to the hlt-that the vodka
monopoly is running the country. On the
other hand the mouthpieces of the i'm
perial monopolist assert that without the
money Ii brings into the treasury Russia
would be bankrupt. and prove it by fig
ures. too. And thus Russia is placed be-
tween the devil and the deep sea
SERGIUS NOLKHOVSkY.
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today are not without honor in their own
country, and if the standard is held high
there is no reason why this coming exhi-
bition of local work should be less inter
esting than any which have previously
been held under the same auspices.
:: i
Ful-length portraits of the Italian am
bassador and his wife. painted by Prince
PitIo ToZZi of Italy are now on exhibit
ton in tie lower loan room at The Cor
coran Gallery of Art. They are recent
works executed in this city-so recent. in
fact. that they are scarcely dry. This
may account in part for their rawness
and crudity but it will not cover all their
shortcomings. They are broadly but
somewhat brutally rendered: the brush
work suggests following of Sargent. but
lacks cleverness. and the color. while
strCng is distinctly inharmonious. The
painter has however. indicated to an eX-
tent the character of his Sitters, more
even in the figures than in the faces; he
has gone about his work in a painter
like manner. and his faults though glaring
are by no means weak. Though one may
tcsret that such work should be exhibited.
:here is undoubtedly promise in 1T.
An interesting lecture on Japanese
flower arrangement was given by Miss
Mary Averil in Hubbard Memorial Hall
last Wednesday evening before the Ma
tional Society of the Fine Arts. By
lantern slides and actual demonstrations
Miss Averil made patent to all in very
short space of time the fundamental prin-
cipes of this art which took her seven
years to learn in Japan. and told delight
fully of the relationship of flower ar
rangement to the sister arts and to the
life of the people. The Japanese instinct
fer decoration is shown most frankly in
their arrangement of flowers and for this
ason their methods of procedure are
of great import and interest. For both
tie art student and the flower lover
Miss Averill gave some invaluable sug-
gestions.
On Monday afternoon. March 3 the
regular monthly art talk will be given
in the lower hemicycle of the Corcoran
Gallery at 4:1J. According to the
schedule Mr.. Richard n Brooke will be
the lecturer. The subject has not been
announced
Much interest is being manifested in
New York in the. painting by Henry
Mosler. The Dawn of the American
Flag which has been given by Mr.
Jacob Shift to the Corcoran Gallery of
Art. and is now on exhibition in the
knoedler galleries. 1t is expected to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-29
not remedied must involve Russia in hope
less decadence

not remedied must involve Russia in hope
less decadence
Things have been going from bad to
worse ever since the year 1893, when
Alexander ILL., the ''hero-czar'' as re-
dictionaries call him. was on the throne.
He and his ministers saw that the con-
tents of the treasury were dwindins
down in an alarming manner Oppres-
sion. war and mismanagement had re-
ouced his empire, SO rich in resources.
to a state verging upon bankruptcy. He
appealed to his ministers of finance Count
then plain NJ. WHte, for some way out
of the difficulty.
White has not gained his high position
for nothing. He is one of the cleverest
servants the czars, father and son. have
ever had. His answer was soon ready
THE amount of drunkenness in the en-
pire is appalling he said. Everybody
who keeps. 'kabak' (grogshop adulter-
ates the vodka. and by making it cheap
induces the peasant to drink too much
of it. The only way TO put stop to 1t
is for your imperial hishness To take
the monopoly of the sale into your own
hands. The treasury will have enormous
profits and the public pure vodka
The ''hero-CZar was enchanted with the
proposal White dilated on the horrors OF
drunkenness to all who cared to listen
and cried that the "kabaks' must be
closed. The "kabak was Il Russian in
stitution which the future generation car
scarcely expect to see. 1t was always il
the largest cottage of the village. fhz
host was a money-lender as we'll He
rented his "kabak' from the lord OF
the manor and got his vodka from
the immortal dstillery. He Wore Z
long dirty coat. white stockings. low
sroes and a flowing beard. He was
musical man and his children played OF
different Instruments fer the delectatior
of the customers His greatest ally was
the village pop ORTHODOX priesD, who
used to unite with him in lending money
at high rates to the peasantry. But he
was an extremely useful man and As
obiging as useful. He would buy o" sell
ANYTHING YOU cared to get or offer. He
knew the gossip of the district before
ANYBODY: he knew when the police were
looking for this one or spying upon that
He always gave credit and never gave
offense. And if he charged high price
for adulterated spirits. well-he had to
live somehow and he always paid for
his yearly license TO the commune.
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him return TO the "Monopol' the
vodka store is now called buy more small
bottles and drown their sorrows as best
they may. The result is that hundreds
of villages have been ruined by this dear
vodka. The poorer the men get the more
they drink and the more they drink the
less they will work The large landed
proprietors are complaining bitterly of
this. In white Russia, where the SOIL Is
unusually rich. the peasants are unusually
poor and the proprietors have to let whole
estates go untitled because they cannot
get laborers. \ man will work half the
day-go to the Srog shop with his earn
inss and not be heard of till next morn
ing Having got enough to get drunk on.
he will not work again until he awakes
to sobriety and empty pockets. He is too
ignorant to see that he Is paying the
ear to his own ruin He Srumbes that
he has grown poorer because the ka-
baks'' no longer pay his community for
their licenses; but he drinks more and
mere of the cars vodka every year, pays
dearer for ii and works less.
X
The secret of much of the banditism
which is now raging in Russia is this
craving for vodka. Most of the booty is
spent on it. BegSars infest the streets
of thc towns and hang on to the cabs
and sledses worrying and threatening the
! passengers until they get few. coppers.
which are promptly spent in the vodka
shops. These poison depotS. as SOM
/ socialists call them. can always be told
from distance by reason of the groups
/ of beggarS and thieves who thronS around
tie entrance. bringing and fighting to
such an extent that all respectable citi-
Zens prefer to make long detour rather
than venture near them.
But the temperance houses. instituted
by Count Witta to replace the ''kabaks,
ara deserted. though they cost. over TO-
cu 'UGa rubles yearly to keep up. They
are dull PAGES. providing nothing but
bad tea and newspapers the habitues are
too ignorant to read. There is some talk
of aboEshinS these expensive, useless
places. which cannot possibly pay their
way But no village commune can abol-
ish the local gTos shop. though many
con.muaes have condemned them as de-
mo"aIizing in the extreme. They cannot
close thrm without the consent of the
state wiic, is naturally almost impos-
sitl to obtain. as one community after
another would follow suit and the result
would % Il great loss to the treasury.
Every village. therefore. has this bot
! tied poison thrust upon it. and In the
! large towns the number of the depots is
/ abncrmally high
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Scientific.

From Transatlantic Tales.
When I accepted Emil he declared
that he WAS in the seventh heaven.
Il believe that all right. He's been
engaged six times before