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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-07-26
LEXINGTON TO HAVE
new SCHOOL HOUSE
WILL COST ABOUT $4,000
3 Also State, Aided High SchooI...Waat
il Means to Lexington and the
Z People Of the County.

By the overwhelming vote of u to
II the citizens of Lexington School
district No. /, embracing the town Of
lexington, on last Thursday declared
for the issuance of bonds to the amount
of $40, eco for new school building.
In the same election the people. de-
clared, also. for q State-aided high
school, the vote on this issue being 70
. 20 8. Thus Lexington goes to the front
ranks of progressive towns in South
Carolina, leaving only one court house
town in the State, Beaufort, that has
not made special provisions for the ed
ucation Of its children.
The result of the election means
thas Lexington 10 70 have one Of the
most modern and up-to-date school
buildings in the state. Il means that
every child residing in the district
may receive an education absolutely
free OF charge SO far as tuition fees
are concerned. It means, too. that
every school boy and every school girl
in the county of Lexington VINO can
enter the seventh grade, may finish in.
our school without cost to their pa
rents, 80 far as the tuition fees ale
concerned, thus holding ont to ener-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-07-26

getic students the opportunity to pro-
cure an education under the beautiful
roses of our educational system.
It is now "up to'' the board of trus-
tees to select and procure a suitable
site for the erection of the building
a site that will be in keeping with the
progressive spirit that prompted the
voters in casting their ballots for the
issuance Of the bonds. That the pres
e4t site is most unsightly for school
building of the character proposed to
be erected, is obvious to those who
have the best interests of the town
and school at heart. This new build
ing should undoubtedly be placed on
grounds sufficiently large to guarantee
safe playground for the children, and
at the same tune afford an opportunity
to make the surroundings attractive
so attractive that those who visit our
town may see our good works and ben
eft thereby. The present grounds
afford neither of these accessories. It
was only during the last session that
one of the children, while playing, fell
and broke it's arm.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the
trustees will secure q new site and
erect new building that will be q
credit to the town and a living monu-
ment to the progressive spirit of our
town, 30 that the voice Of the people
will not have been in vain.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-07-26
NEGRO LYnCHED
FOR HIS CRIME
HIS FATE NOT CERTAIN
Attempts ASS ault on Prominent Young
Woman at Mt. Gro an, in Ches.
terfieii County.

SPECIAL to The State.
Cheraw, July 25.-Following an at
tempt to assault a young woman in
Mount Crohan, a small! town near
here, negro frorn North Carolina,
whoae name has not been learned, is
believed to have been lynched. The
attempt at assault was committed at
noon yesterday, and all day yesterday
and last night parties of frenzied men
searched the woods for the criminal.
Parties of men returning this morning
were noncommittal as to whether the
negro was caught or not, but it is pre-
sumed from the bearing Of the pursu'
ers, that the negro was caught and
lynched in the woods near this section
The victim of the attempted assault
Is one of the most prominently connec
ted young women Of this community,
and the crime stirred up unusual an
ger and excitement.
Sheriff Douglass of Chesterfield was
on the scene, but was unsuccessful in
capturing the negro.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-07-26
Sunday School Picnic.

st. Stephens Lutheran Sunday
school will have p picnic next Tues
day, August i, at Matthias Mineral
Spring The Sunday schools OF the
town and community are cordially in
.vited to participate,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-07-26
FOR SALE.

Forty (40) head of we'll bred pigs.
Apply to J. J. Fox, Lexington, s. G.
90
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
This is My 68lh Birthday
COL. JAMES MASON.

Colonel James Mason. well known
-. military man and financier, was
born In Toronto. August Is, 1913. Aft
Or leaving school he entered the serv.
Ice Of a Toronto bank. of which he
later became general manager and
director. As young man he was
ardently and actively interested in
military affairs and served for three
years In the Queens Own Rifles dur
ing the Fenian Raid troubles. In
1882 he was gazette captain in the
Tenth Royal Grenadiers. During the
Northwest Rebellion of 1885, Colonel
Mason commanded a service company,
which was the first company to cross
the Saskatchewan ut the Fish Creek
fight. After crossing the stream
Colonel Mason volunteered to rush
with his company to the final position
he'd by the rebels. but General Middle
ton. the commanding officer, refused
to allow the charge. At Batoche, the
seat Ut the rebellion. Colonel Mason
was severely wounded. He attained
the command Of his regiment In 1898
and four years later was one Of the
Canadian officers sent to the Queens
Diamond Jubilee.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25

1 have two friends, each fifty years
Of age. who have retired from bust
ness.
As myself am on the shady side OF
fifty, though as young in spirit as any
boy. I wanted to know how these mer
looked upon life.
One said:
II had hard fight to make my mon
ey. No one helped me; on the contrary
everybody tried to beat me. have
enough to pay all bills while am on
earth. l am under no obligations to
anybody
The other said:
II tried to do some good as wen,
along, but failed. am tired Of the
struggle. l have earned a rest. have
no grievance against any one. Let the
world wag as it will"
was surprised at the bitter dregs
had discovered in the bottom Of these
hearts.
They are wrong. both Of them.
They hauled down the dag too soon
They were well whipped. though still
OOdSt1uf. uC UdltIG Ol lll0 AZ OILY
about one-half over at fifty.
Both these men had lost the I'm,
flush of enthusiasm and the fine edge
Of endeavor which should come to the
veteran when the drums are sounded
for a charge.
They had quit the days job while il
was yet noon.
And, having quenched the spirit. they
had shortened their days.
Like some forest trees. they are dead
not only at the tops. but in the hear
Of them.
A man should not quit growing &c
long as there is in him the sap OF sell
development nor so long as he can b<
useful to his fellows.
Roll up your sleeves, Fifty!
Suppose Franklin or Edison had re
tired at fifty. how much the WORLD
had lost:
Some Of the best work done by hu
mans has been done by men between
the ages Of fifty and eighty.
Quit at fifty? Why, that's treason.
Renew your youth like the eagles
Climb up where you catch again tn.
visions Of your boyhood.
Fight on, Fifty!
Is the old sword battered and bro
kent Nevertheless fight on with thu
remnant Of the old blade Wait unit
the bugles blow the retreat.
When the sun goes down on thu
fighting there is time enough to q
into camp.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
What Municipal League Does

ny in the preparation of budgets in
advance of legislative appropriations,
and of the fullest publicity to the tax
payers whose money is to be spent"
1t was set forth that 1.-The league has
always contended for municipal home
rule as against the interference and
domination of a state legislature in
the government of a city,
To the yearly conventions of the
National Municipal league this tribute
was paid:
1.-THE Leagues yearly conferences
have furnished a clearing house for an
interchange of municipal experiences,
and forum for their discussion by
publicists and men of practical expert
ence in municipal affairs. Out of them
improved methods of municipal admin
istration have been finally evolved and
published in the yearly reports. or in
separate treatises. This literature has
been generally recognized as contain
ing expert methods of operation and
the standard principles of municipal
government. ya.4a a. IL
1T has been the arsenal out of
which the progressive independents
have received their weapons for bat
thing against political partisanship,
corruption and the spoils system OF
government 1t has furnished the equ-
ipment for the workers. in the recon
struction of municipal politics and mu'
nicipal government on the basis of the
eternal principles of civic righteous
ness-honesty, efficiency and econo-
my"
AS for the benefits which Pittsburg
received through the league, the re.
port said significantly:
1.-THE progressives of no city are
more indebted to the National Munich
pal League than are those of Pitts
burg, for it was from the Leagues ar
mory that they received their weapons
for attacking craftsmanship and the
spoils system Of city government"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
Protect The Insurance OF The Poor

To those who believe that insurance
ought to insure, the denunciation OF
the crooked practices of some COM
panies issuing industrial health or &C
cident policies, made in the report OF
Q special committee to the insurance
commissioners now holding their an
nual convention in Milwaukee. will be
refreshing reading. To issue pol
icy full OF glowing promises to q
workingman and then to beat him out
Of the benefits due him by taking ad-
vantage Of his poverty and ignorance
81 the height-or the depth-of rascal
" .meanness. Yet settlements in
which the rights of policy-holders
have been ignored or fraud has been
committed are numerous. according to
the committee.
The committee asks the dismissal
Of the heads of the claims depart
ments Of several companies and Of
other officials. and the reopening Of
many cases to the end Of granting
restitution to defrauded policy-hold-
ers. Reforms in methods of doing
business also are asked. and legisla.
tion to protect the insured Is forceful.
" recommended.
There has been q great and rapid
growth in these forms OF insurance,
and the state should do all 1t can do
to make them safe. Insurance that
does not insure not only does injustice
TO the defrauded policy-holder but 1t
Injuries Insurance conducted by hon.
orable methods and gives to the poor
. feeling that rich corporations exist
only to break promises. The strong
recommendations OF the committee
should be carried out It has spoken
boldly. and It's wrath is righteous. Re.
form must come from within or from
without.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25

In urging the members of the Pitts.
burg Chamber of Commerce to become
active factors in the national Munich
pal league, the two delegates to the
Buffalo convention, Oliver McClintock
and p. c. Williams, prepared a report,
subsequently adopted, giving cogent
reasons why it was to the interest of
every civic association to be enrolled.
This report contained in succint
form a reference to the far reaching
influence and usefulness of the Ma
tional Municipal league, and is of in
terest to civic agencies everywhere.
the league since its formation in 1894,
Fat a time when the general waste
fulness, corruption and misgovernment
of American. cities appalled, the
friends of good government and reused
them to the necessity of getting to-
gether to find. If possible, a remedy
for these conditions" the report said.
in substances:
1.-THE first three or four years were
devoted to investigations and discus.
sions of the practical workings Of the
various city governments, and in ex'
posing and analysing the causes of the
disagreement then so prevalent
This was period of destructive crit
icism. Then followed period of con.
structive reform, in which trained pub
licists and prominent progressives
from all over the country united, for
the common benefit, in defining first
of all the essential principles which
must underlie successful municipal
government
1t was recited that the league was
the sponsor for the Municipal Pro
gram" draft of a model charter
which has ever since been accepted
as the highest authority and standard
for city charter making"
1t was pointed out that the league
was ''the first to emphasize the i'm
portance of system and public scruti
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
Heart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE,
Copyright. 1908. by Edwin ANye
BARE FEET AND n0okw0Rns.

BARE FEET AND nOOkWoRhS.
Blessings on thee. little man,
Barefoot boy with cheeks Of tan.
With thy turned up pantaloons
And thy merry whistled tunes!
Barefoot days.
Remember the time when you fairly
breathed through your bare feet. when
to wear shoes meant suffocation: How
luxurious a pool Of water, how lush
the dewy grass!
To be sure
Sometimes the ruts Of the road made
locomotion slow and cautious and the
sand grew hot In the middle OF the
day.
And sometimes there were thorns in
the wood PASTURE.
Remember how you sat down and
took the poor foot into your lap-the
slow dripping tears tracing channel
of cleanliness on the sole-and plucked
the thorn away? And then. limpins
off. mindful OF the stone bruise on
your heel. how soon your hurt was for
gotten:
Thorns? Occasionally. but weren't
the roses sweet in those olden. golden
days?
All. that thou shouldst know thy JOY
Ere 1t passes. barefoot boy!
Well, we knew our joys all right In
those days. even as we knew our sor-
rows. but-the boy Of the future?
If the hookworm experts have their
way there will be no more barefoot
oh 80 I'M - Uyh3<<ionS
to write about.
You have heard Of the hookworm?
1t is the deadly cause Of laziness in
boys. and it paralyzes the systems OF
grown men. Well, how do you sup
pose the hookworm does its work?
Through barefoot soles!
Which explains much. 1t was the
hookworm that made you long to Toll
in leafy shades and loaf beside still
water. 1t was the hookworm that got
into you through bare feet that caused
you to forget your tasks while you
dreamed OF turreted castles or frond
ed palms and lovely houri, which made
you see visions Of white presences OF
the hills and all that glorious some
thing afar from the field Of boyish
commonplace.
Hookworms, my dear sir!
p. And II you had known you could
have explained to your doting but
stern parent the strange lassitude that
crept over you when told to fill the
wood box or hoe the cabbages. Hook
worms:
Poor boy Of the future! He will
never know barefooted happiness. The
hookworm will "ketch him IL he don't
watch OUT
All too soon his feet must hide
In the prison cell OF pride:
Lose the freedom Of the sod.
- Ikea colts for. work be shod.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
Richmond ChQufduqu1 Program

800 D. m-Band Concert.
1880 p. Neutrality-suspicious. Singing
Party.
500 D. m.-Children's Exercises. UNI
der direction OF Miss An
ma K. Neale.
7:0op. m.-Band Concert and Reader
7:30p. Observation-Disclosures Co.
500 p. m.-Nicola, Magician.
Sunday. September 5.
$50 a. m.-Sunday School. Judge
Boggs. Superintendent
10: 90 a. m.-Sermon. Dent Atkinson,
Bible in Civilization.
100 p. m.-Band Concert.
1902. neutrality-suspicious. Singing
Party.
e:00p. m-Raboi Leonard Levy.
Yesterday. Today and
Tomorrow"
400 p. m.-Sacred Concert.
7:00p. m-Band Concert and Reader.
1880 p. m.-kellogg- Haines Singing
Parry
scoop. m.-Rev. J. Everist Cathell.
Our National Signif-
canoe and Scope"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
SCIENCE is VICTOR
In Contest with a Grizzly
Bear.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.-Would-
MT you thing it pretty tough, if you
were a grizzly bear, to be lassoed,
muzzled, packed on scrubby horse,
kicked off,led down the mountain side
like degenerate mendicant bear. and
then tied to tree and chloroformed
by q college professor?
This Is what happened to the griz-
ely that Prof. Joseph Grinnell of the
department Of zoology of the UNIVERSE
ty of California, helped to capture.
Grinnell led a party of scientists into
the Mount Whitney woods in search OF
a grizzly bear for the university mu-
scum.
The professor will soon return to
Berkeley with the best specimen OF
the rapidly disappearing grizzly in ex.
istence.
All the feats of Theodore Roosevelt
and Buffalo Jones in the African jun
giles seem tame to those who have
heard the professors story.
Ropes Grizzly to Show OF.
Andy Peckenhorn, q cowboy, and
0rinnell we're riding through noun
tain meadow one evening with Andy's
bride. when they spied the bear. Wish.
ing to display his prowess before his
wife. Andy grabbed his rope. made 2
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
NEWS OF THE
LABOR WORLD

OF the money contributed to the
strike fund in Los Angeles, $220.74
has been received through the labor
council of San Francisco.
There are 1882 officers and EN-
ployes in the service Of the city of
Chicago. Under civil service there are
14,434. and 1893 are exempt.
Reports from the various coal re-
gions indicate that there has been q
decided improvement in the coal min
ing industry lately and many OF the
idle men return TO work.
The home for superannuated mel
which is now in the course OF erectio
at Santa Monica, Cal, will soon b
heady for occupancy.
The June report of the Boilermai
ers' and Iron and Steel Shipbuildin;
Society of Great Britain states tina
the present membership, including al
classes is $3.50
An army of organizers has just star
ted out over the entire Grand Trunk
railroad system with the object Of or
ganizing every branch of the service,
1nCluQlng the clerks.
The International Brotherhood OF
Blacksmiths has signed an agreement
with the Canadian Northern railroad
with a 2-cent an hour advance, and
improved conditions in the shops.
The International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers will hold its an
nual convention in Rochester, N. Y.
beginning with Monday, September
1s, and continuing two weeks. One
hundred and fifty delegates from the
United States and Canada are expect
ed.
! At Hardwick the granite cutters
obtained an increase of from 10 to So
cents per day, the Jumpers and drill
lers an increase Of II cents per day
while the carpenters, painters and ma
sons secured an eight-hour day, be
sides other concessions.
About ten years ago Is cents in gold
a day was considered a fair wage for a
common day laborer in Mexico. Grad
ually the rate was increased to IS OF
40 cents and continued to increase
until now the prevailing rate is from
so to so cents a day.
The Western Federation of Miners
has defeated a proposition recently
made to call a general strike on the
day set for the opening of the trial
of the Mcnamara brothers. The vote
was 172 against to 124 in favor of the
general strike.
For the first time in nearly two
years the printing trade unions OF Sar
Francisco are working together In
perfect harmony under the rules Of
an Allied Printing Trade Council thai
is recognized by the International AL
lied Printing Trades Association.
| The boilmakers and helpers EN-
ployed in the water bureau Of the De
partment of Public Works of the Cit,
of Philadelphia have obtained an in
crease in their wages. The increase
amounts to 81 rer week to both thu
boilermakers and the helpers, beside,
better conditions.
The Toronto, Ont, iron molderl
have won their recent strife for al
increased wage rate. The old agree
ment called for a minimum wage TO
molders of $3.50 per day and coremak
ers $2.65 per day. Under the new
agreement the molders are to receiv,
1910 per day and the coremakers s;
per day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25

swing and saw the moose settle about
the bears neck. Bruin was then tied
to a tree. He was restless at night
and howled to his friends in the wcVds
so mournfully that Andy decided to
sell him for IS to the University of
California.
Tying his four feet, Andy packed
the bear on his horse and started
down the mountain trail to the camp
of the scientists, ten miles away. Half
way down the muzle slipped off and
bruin gave the horse a vIndictive bite.
The horse, naturally, resenting the IA
miliarity, kicked the bear off and the
latter rolled down the embankment
With much difficulty and profanity,
Andy rescued the bear and led him
with rope the rest of the journey
down the mountain.
eruin Tied to a Tree.
Upon their arrival in camp, Grin.
nell and the trappers closed in on the
bear and with the greatest difficulty
landed him on his back. Bruin was
game, and it was well into the night
before he was securely tied to tree
Then the professor cautiously tied a
handkerchief over the bears nose and
approaching with chloroform bottle,
dashed the contents into his face.
Bruin breathed q few gasps of the
sopoforic odor and then sat down. A
few more and he yawned and rubbed
his eyes. Then all OF sudden he
Topped over.
In the museum where bruins pelt
and skull will soon repose will be the
inscription bearing the information
that said bear Was the flrst TO reach
the university BY the chlorotorm route,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
HOW II HAPPENED.

Tho 0xpianaxion ~ the AueesNsAllo
Dr,vsr and c,imax.
Aftsf the victim Of the accident Vas
carried to the sidewalk the autonobile
driver turned biz macAins and cans
hack and explained how It happened
with Considerable warmth.
This woman" hs volubiy remarked
to the policeman. WAS entirely to
blame She ran around from ahead Of
the street car and deliberately put her
self In my way. After she haA lodged
tho coal cart It WAS too late for ne t.
stop couldn't tell which way she
was going. and when saw that she
was da1ed and foolish jaDned on
the brakes and tried to pass 20 the
left. but Of course she bad 20 run the
same way. and the consequence was
that In endeavoring to avoid baby
carriage with twins In Il and an old
man who was walking with Z crutch
| suppose / must hare hit her. Hut
wasn't going more thaa two miles an
hour, and any woman who would
dodge around In that foolish way and
lose her head shouldn't b permitted
to 90 on the streets without bunch
Of guardians"
The policeman nodded.
Come over to the sidewalk" he said,
and take . look at her"
So the driver went to the curb with
the onicer and looked at the unfortu-
nate creature who had % actively con.
tributed to her own disaster.
And. 10. 1t was only q dressmAker's
dummy that had fallen or the rear OF
| q delivery wagon. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY
AUGUST 25TH.

battle of Zorndorn
1776-Davd Hume I'LL.
kofCa ada CONNER in Montreal.
1sa4-Recepton in honor
in
1Ss5-rhe Washington Railroad opened
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
DON'T FRET.

Wory Is . species Of menoma-
nia. No mental attitude Is more
6sasnow 10 pessonA achievement.
% personal happiness and to per
soaal usefulness in the world than
worry and ID vicious twin brother.
dependency. The remedy for
ths EVIL ses u training the viii to
cest o6 cares and seeking . change
d occupation when the 6rss warn
ing i sounded BY nature in intel-
lectual lassikude. Relaxaeion i the
certain Zoe q worry and don't fret''
one q ths heala,isst d maxims.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-25
a Poss,ote Recipe.

a Possiote Recipe.
Bliss Carman once received poeii
contribution to the Chap Book begin
ming:
Tho Joy In me rises. rises.
And will not be suppressed
The JOY In me rises. rises.
Into my throat and breast.
Shortly after publication the follow
ing inquiry was received:
'Gentlemen-l have just read III,
spring song which appears In you'
current number. ] do not wish to b.
inQuisitive; but. being young house
keeper and interested In baking pow
ders. / would be pleased 70 know
what brand the author uses. rs 4
must possess remarkable rising quail
ties. An answer would oblige . seek
er after the best In all foruA"-Hn
man Life.