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The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-05
Class Of the 1914
Commencement Week

The final act of the 1914 com.
menccment Of the Lennon High
School took place last Friday even
ing at the opera house with the
commencement address, delivered
by Prof. } w. McClinton, super
intendent of the city schools of
Mitchell, followed by the presenta.
tion of the diplomas to the seven
graduates by Dr. II. A. Ellis
chairman Of the board Of educa-
ton. The exercises were attended
by large gathering that taxed
the seating capacity of the large
hall TO its utmost.
Prof. McClinton delivered a
most interesting address, taking
for his subject "A Revised Vision"
The speaker made an excellent
impression on his audience and
held its attention throughout. His
theme was the exposition of the
contrast between the past and the
present in the development and
attainment Of the various fields Of
knowledge and the prophecy Of
even a greater and more marked
development n the immediate
future.
Dr. Ellis in few well chosen
remarks presented the graduates
with their diplomas. The program
for the evening was as follows:
March, Stabat Mater, Rossini,
Mrs. w. +. Lyman.
Invocation, Rev. Martin Hyinkp
Mems Chorus, Selected, Messrs.
Erickson, Sampson, Riis, Sorby,
Austad, Hermanson.
Class Address, Prof j. w. Nc
Clinton, Supt. Schools Mitchell.
Piano Solo, selected, Mrs. w. f
Lyman.
Vocal solo, A Miniature, Jean
Drew Freeman, Mrs. Cal Ingalls,
Presentation of Diplomas, DIR.
Fl. A.. Ellis. President of Board of
Education.
Mems Chorus.
Benediction, Father Frci.
On the afternoon before the
members of the graduating class
held their class day exercises, in
the school auditorium which were
attended by a large number Of
their friends. The program of the
afternoon was as follows:
Salutatory-Bernita Balch
Essay-Rudolph Buchholtz
Class Poem-Mabel Southworth
Cello and Violin Duet-Roy and
Ruby Daniels
Prophecy-Marie Rose
Glass Song-Genevieve Hoehn
Class Will-Willlam Stamm
Valedictory-Ephriam Trenrer
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-05

l was the one they wanted. as
everything goes to show, and
here was their chance: but they
had to grab both places to make
it look right to the people at
large.
| On the End of December |
came out for the Office of sheriff,
at the mass meeting of the Demo-
Gratis at Bison, and then | was
grabbed on the 9th of December.
| What was Anderson and Stan.
Icy doing from September 2lst to
December 9th? Too much busi-
ness, they say, with the Hickman
case. That's a good one, as
Hickman madea confession with
| in week after his arrest and
plead guilty on November End,
during court.
What was doing during the
month of November that they
could not have had me arrested?
They didn't want me at that
time, but they were not too busy
on the 10Th of December to dis
charge me on Stanley's warrant
and make out another one signed
by John Anderson, and spend
nearly day trying to bind me
over to the spring term Of court.
while Fred Richards was lying
dead, 60 miles from Bison. wait
ing for Stanley to hold an inquest
and find out the facts about the
shoe ting, whether it was murder
or Not. Tend to the the live
ones the dead ones will tell no
tales, is what it looked like.
| was strung on by Anderson,
as he was my witness, and made
out the warrant on the 10Th of
December? He swore he saw
those boys come out of my place
June 18th at 1920 P. M. l was
sucker enough to put him on the
stand after he made out the
complaint. Do you think | woult
] put a witness on the stand wht
: would swear that he had seen
the crime committed? There is
: where the double-cross worked.
, Stanley pleaded in his write
r up of the case that they didn't
! have the needed witnesses and
, guess that is right; but they had
John Anderson and four young
men from Coal Springs do their
E best. And they had not been
: out of the county from June 18th
1 to December 9Th inclusive. And
erson was out of the county a
short time. Don't you think
!, that was enough witnesses for
, one case? When all they have
7 to say is that they were in a
! saloon after hours, whether the
! proprietor or his agents knew it
, , or not, and the judge then in
structs the jury to find the saloon
man guilty inasmuch as he is the
= proprietor, even if he did not
: know any one was in his place of
business after hours or on Sun
day.
In conclusion | want to say, ]
| did not expect to fight through
the press of Perkins county tor
. this Office but was willing to
e leave it to the people. However,
4 as man l can't stand such mis-.
: leading and inconsistent state.
] ments, especially when they are
, so fimsy as to be absurd.
In Stanley's write-up of this
4 -.. AL:n1x ha hno Told
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1914-06-05

what he knew or swore he knew,
as the law is very strict about
not reporting to the States At
torney such an offense as they
proved was committed. also to
protect Anderson for not testify
ing at the investigations held at
Meadow on September 21st, and
at Coal Springs one week later,
where he served summons On
the witnesses. He was never
on the stand at either place.
Don't you think Stanley or And
erson could have stopped me
from getting a license granted
by the County Board, as both of
them were present on July End,
1918?
That looks like they were short
on gray matter but long on pro-
secution. | will let you draw
your own conclusions as to
whether they are telling you the
truth or not. The States At
torney tells you in plain English
that he knew this on the 18th of
June, 1913, or soon AFTER and
the County Commissioners were
in session ten days in July. He
was there. as | have stated be-
fore, and let things go through
without one protest, licensing a
man who was selling to minors
and was open on Sunday; and
the sheriff had told him he saw
it with his own eyes.
You must have overlooked
your duties, Amos O. Stanley,
for murder will out" is the old
saying, and it is true. Then
seven months after, | am arrest
ed for the crime Of June 18th;
here is what he calls unavoid-
able circumstances.
Gentlemen, | will pledge my
self to withdraw from the cam
didacy of sheriff and pay all
costs and plead guilty to the
charges they bring up, if they
can show you this to be a case
of unavoidable circumstances.
Now, you know they were
after ''piggers" at Lennon, and
what was done?
| One Fred Smith was arrested
for selling to Deputy Sheriff
Helvig a bottle of beer. The
deputy was known to Smith,
Helvig laid a quarter on the
table while Smith was lying on
the bed, drunk at the time; not
knowing he was committing a
crime, as he could barely speak
English and wasn't very bright
when sober. This happened in
the middle of July. Now, that
looks like they didn't have much
business on hand when they had
to pull off such stuff.
On the night of July the 18th
they went to Coal Springs and
arrested AL Simmons for blind
pigging, just because he bought
some whiskey in Meadow that
evening and had it put up in
bottles instead of a jug. 7 h e
case was tried at the November
term of court and dismissed by
the States Attorney because he
could not get men to swear that
Simmons told them he intended
selling the whiskey. During this
time the Sheriff had the whiskey
in his possession as evidence,
and when Simmons was turned
loose and wanted his whiskey
he couldn't get it for three weeks
and then it was three pints and
live half pints short, which had
been drunk up or destroyed
while in the care of the sheriff
as evidence. l know it was
short, as l filled the order for
John Anderson, gave the whiskey
to Simmons and charged the
same to John Anderson, and it
I-A:1o ~4o,1o IN INV h0OkS n0f
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Hobbies for Health.

Hobbies have ceased to be re-
garded merely as a means Of putting
in time, and have come to occupy an
important place in medical treat
ment," says a well-known physician,
But a hobby that promotes physical
exercise is the finest recreation that
a man whose work entails consider
able mental strain can have.
The kaiser has taken up wood-cut-
ting as the best possible hobby and
exercise for hard-Working monarch,
and his physicians warmly encourage
the pastime. Every morning in the
Sans Souci park at Potsdam the
kaiser may be seen hard at work with
saw and ak. He not only fells
trees, but chops and saws the wood
into convenient sizes for use. At the
expiration of his hours toll the logs
are either given to the workmen in
attendance or sent to a charity.
Tree-felling, of course, was one OF
Mr.. Gladstone's favorite pastimes.
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"Dour Scotch Enqineer."

The "dour Scotch engineer" of INC.
Andrews Hymn" by Kipling, is al,
most as sure to be found in the engine
room of a steamer that plies to Asiatic
ports as the steam gauge or the con.
meeting rod. He is almost as newt.
able on the liners and tramp freighters
of the Atlantic, or the lake and river
steamboats, of Europe. Col. Thomas
Prendergast, retired officer of the
British army, tells an amusing anec.
dote to illustrate that fact.
: He was crossing the little lake OF
Lugano, in the Italian Alps, on one OF
the small steamers that ply in those
waters. When he paid his fare he
asked for his change in silver, since
the Italian copper coins would not
pass current on the Swiss side. But
the fare collector had no silver
. 'I never had seen this steamer be,
FORE" the colonel says, "but I knew
that a Scotchman is never without
silver coin, and steamer never with.
out a Scotch engineer. So l stepped
to the hatchway that opened into the
engine room, and called:
j "'Mac, are We there?
Gay, ay! What dye want?' came
back in a strong Scottish accent.
"'Hae ye any siller?'
silver coin. ."-Youth's Companion.
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OLDPREJUDICE GONE.
indians Have Overcome Their
Fear of the Camera.
Moving Pictures Responsible for
Changed Attitude of the Red Men
Now Take Delight in Posing
for the Films.

The Wild West shows and the "mov-
les" have broken down the Indians
prejudice against being photographed.
Old overland travellers will smile at
the statement, but it is true.
The Indian brave who experiences
The excitement Of the Wild West
arena and the admiring attention of
the crowd, or who engages in a mo-
ton picture battle scene in which his
prOWess as a warrior and his skill as
a hOrsenan are exploited, almost in
variably becomes a fan" on having
his picture taken" He will pose al
most without question for the cam
era fiend," and will travel any distance
to see a film in which he appears. He
is as proud Of his picture as a cowboy
is Of pair of new chaps"
The Indians natural dislike to be-
ing photographed was formerly a IA
mll1ar fact to passengers on the trans
continental railway lines. Travellers
in the West and Southwest will recall
the efforts Of the Indians to keep
from being "snap-shotted" by amateur
photographers. The Indian woman
who clustered about the railway sta
tions and offered pottery and bead
work for sale were keenly alert for
the kodak" and would cover their
faces the moment they sawta devil
machine" turned toward them.
If they submitted to being photo
graphed, it was with great hesitancy
and for stipulated price, and their
uneasiness during the operation
was evident. But never, with their
consent. was it possible to snap a
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BEST USE OF GREAT WEALTH

A few years ago a gift of $1,000,0O0
for any benevolent object was sur
prising and epoch-making event. A
great advance in ideas of benevolence
and the sense Of responsibility for the
use of wealth is marked when it is
found that during the year 1913 there
were % persons in the United States
who gave $1,OO0,000 or more to benevo-
lent purposes.
If full list of these were printed
few would be able to tell on what OBJ
jects the majority Of these gifts were
bestowed, so common have great gifts
to benevolent purposes become.
The amount in the aggregate of
gifts during the year, as far as record
ed, was $302,0O0,000. OF this, $780,
100000 was for education, and $95, 5,0O0,-
900 for religious and charitable pur-
poses, including missions.
The largest beneficiary was the Met
ropolitan Museum of Arts in New
York city, which received $23, 100000,
Including an art collection valued at
$4,000, 900 from the Benjamin Altman
estate, a collection of arms valued at
$5,0O0,OOO from w. M. Riggs, and the
whole estate of J. M. Hammond, the
typewriter manufacturer, estimated at
S3,000,000. This does not include what
the museum may receive from the
$5O,O0O,0OO collection of J. Pierpont
Morgan, part of which is now on loan
exhibition in the museum.
Probably the next largest beneficiary
of the year is the foundation for char
table purposes established by John D.
Rockefeller, chartered in the state of
New York. The amount is not named,
and ultimately may exceed the gifts tt
the museum.
The $10,000000 given by Andrew
Carnegie for a charitable foundation
in his native town, Dunfermline, Scot
land, comes next. The gifts of Oliver
H. Payne, of $4,250,000 to Cornell uni
versity, and Robert P Doremus, esti-
mated at under $5,OOO,O00, to Washing
ton and Lee university of Virginia, are
in the same class.
But the most unique and heart-stir
ring gift of the whole year was that of
Reed B. Freeman of Binghamton, N!
Y, who gave his whole fortune, esti-
mated at $3,000,000, to the families of
the 80 girls who perished in the burn
ing of his factory, and at sixty-fve
years of age began business again as
clerk in New York city, poor man.
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NO SERVANT PROBLEM THERE
Worried Housewife of the United
States May Well Envy Her Happy
Sister in Jamaica.

1t may comfort you to know that a
place has been found at last where the
servant problem does not exist. This
part Of the world is Jamaica, in the
West Indies. 1t is described by julius
Muller in an article in the Century
called 1--WE Find the Island of Serv-
ants" Speaking of his arrival there
he said:
eve strolled into a merchants Of
fee, on arrival, and proclaimed that
we wanted servants at once. We did
not know the merchant, but we knew
the strains that West Indian hospital
ity will withstand. In half an hour
there was little regiment, men and
women, before the door. In five min
utes the merchant had singled out
those whom he could recommend.
I'VE gave the house keys to the one
we hired as cook, and told her what
we wanted for breakfast, meaning
what is called luncheon in the North
She trotted off to market, followed by
the others who had been hired-and
followed, too, by dozen unhired, who
went in the hope of discovering some
untitled position in the retinue.
"The hopeful dozen, with some re-
Inducements, were sitting under the
mango and poinciana trees in the gar
den, smiling hopefully and pleading,
Please, Marster,' and Good mareen,
Missees.' In the pantry the butler was
mixing a planters punch. The estima-
BILE creature had borrowed the rum
from another household. I am aware
that Mr.. Sinbad would have worked
this into much more effective eli
max. But he was strikingly unham-
pered by truth. When one is con-
strained to tell only the truth, and
the truth is so simple, it must per.
force be told simply"
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FREE HOLLANDS SLAVE ISLANDS

merry laugh and chatter characteris-
tic of the Javanese. One evening the
overseer called Sina into his bunga-
low. She struggled, but Of no avail.
Her father appealed to the magistrate,
but with no more success. The double
standard of justice exists in Java
one standard for the Europeans and an
other, save in few notable cases, for
the native, Sina remained as house
keeper" in the overseers bungalow,
her predecessor being no longer pleas
ing in the masters sight. She did not
return to the tea factory, nor did the
color return to her cheeks.
KechiTs father and brothers, Jaw
anese of intelligence and strength,
could relate, if they dared, stories of
their own enforced labor which make
the Dutch islands in the Far East,
mistakenly called model colonies,
seem slave islands. Her father could
tell-and did tell, under pledge Of Sc
crecy as to his name-sOme things
from his own experience and others
from the common stock of native
knowledge.
Few more fertile countries are to be
found in all the world than Java. It's
inhabitants are born farmers, skilled
in irrigation methods and with ex-
pert acquaintance with hydraulics,
and yet, living in a land where the
richest harvests come with scarcely
an effort, large territories are periodi-
cally visited by famine. "The cause
of this" said J. F. Scheltema, has to
be sought in system Of colonial ex-
ploitation which made the natives
raise products for the European mar
kets by forced labor and deliver them
into the government storehouses
whence they were shipped to Holland
and sold at an enormous profit. This
system, called after Count van den
Bosch, on whose recommendation it
was introduced, to meet Hollands
financial difficulties, has now been
abandoned, though the corvee, the
calling out of the villagers in un-
paid service for the mending of roads,
etc., continues as before. Even now,
however, it would be too much to say
that native toll, when demanded by
direct or indirect pressure, always
commands wages sufficient to keep
body and soul together. The word
coffee" still has an especially om-
inous sound in native ears, for it re-
minds them of the oppression connect
ed with the growing of that commod-
ity for government purposes. Rice,
the principal food of the people, if
they can afford it, is also their prin-
cipal crop, and yet, for reasons closely
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Explosion to Be Depicted.

Five hundred pounds of dynamite,
and 1000 pounds of gunpowder will
be used to blow up an island near La
guna beach, in a moving picture. The
blowing up of the island is a part of
a film drama, depicting several phases
of naval affairs, which has its finale
in the destruction of Notifications, in
order to prevent their falling into the
hands of All alien nation.
AS a prelude to the hurting Of the
island into oblivion by the explosive,
several hundred thousand dollars will
be expended in building the replica cf
a modern coast fortidcation, with Off
GERS quarters and other appurte-
nances. 1t is expected that the island,
recently purchased by the Universal
company, will be wiped out of exis-
tence.
A company Of Is motion picture
actors, who will participate in the
film sdrama, left here under the di-
rection of Phillips Smalley and Louis
Weber, who will superintend the pro-
duction of the photO-play, which will
have its finale in the destruction Of
the island.
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sister, the frst-born of the family,
came to the Java home, her parents
names were changed, according to an
cient native custom, and they were
thereafter known by words that mean
in our prosaic English Pa Sina and
Ma Sina. The baby is an important
parsonage in the Javanese home life.
Practical Peonage Enforced.
When Kechil went to work in the
sorting room Of the big tea estate she
was scarcely five years Of age. La
Dor was needed at the tea estate, how
ever. The Dutch rulers Of the East
Indies archipelago have a century-old
system of impressment of labor which,
technically abolished in some islands
and for some purposes, exists in act
ual practise almost to peonage in dis
tricts off the tourists beaten track.
Nowhere in the Dutch archipelago is
there a child-labor law. Nowhere is
there compulsory school attendance.
Why seek to compel the attendance of
children at schools when there are not
schools enough provided to accom-
modate those who go voluntarily?
Why have a ch1ld-labor law when it
would interfere with the profits of the
Dutch-owned estates? The very idea
seemed ridiculous to the courteous
manager of the estate AS for send
ing girls to school-bah! That might
do in Europe and Of course in Amer
lea, where he had heard they even
sent black girls to school, and did
other mad things, or possibly in Ba-
tavia and the big towns, but not in
the country districts, no, indeed.
No Protection for Laborers.
Nor is there a minimum wage law
or any other legislation which gives
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connected with the governments
methods referred to, the production
does not come up to the consumption.
Java, thanks largely to the official
tourist bureau, is the best known of
the islands constituting the Neither
lands East Indies. 1t Is also the best
governed, the most prosperous and
the one where the most consideration,
slight though this may be, has been
shown by the Dutch government for
the welfare Of the natives. Java has
a population Of 35,OO0,OOO, more than
one-third the population of the United
States. Six hundred to a square mile
live on the island. Borneo, Sumatra
and Celebes, all islands in the Dutch
archipelago, exceed Java in size. In
these the conditions are even less IA
vorable to the development of the ma
tive population.
Have No Political Rights.
In Java the primary schools open to
natives are few and inadequate, and,
except recently for doctors, there are
no higher institutions of learning.
The native wishing higher education
must go to Holland. Taxation is high,
particularly for the native, and the
returns he receives therefrom are few
indeed He has no voice in any admin
istration of the islands affairs. He
cannot vote nor hold office of any i'm
portance.
The Dutch government, sterner in
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Praises Channel Tunnel Idea,

Sir Francis Fox, chief engineer of
the proposed Britain and France
channel tunnel, said recently that there
would be no Sunday labor in the con-
struction of the tunnel, and denounced
the idea that the tunnel would be a
serious danger to Great Britain as
only worthy of old women. He said
there was to be a dip in the tunnel
at both ends by which either end
could be rendered impossible in five
minutes. The generating station for
the supply of electricity was to be on
the English side ten miles inland,
and the guns of Dover castle would
command the mouth Of the tunnel.
He held that the tunnel would be an
incentive to an enormous develop
ment of trade.
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protection to the native labOreT,
young or old, in Java. "It isn't hard
work" said the manager, this sort
ing Of tea. The baskets with tie tea
are light. These handled by the young
girls weigh but few pounds. The
hours are only from six in the morn
ing until four in the afternoon, with
time for lunch" There may be
difference of opinion as to the work.
To shake a sieve holding ten pounds
of tea, more or less, for nine or ten
hours a day, in climate Of tropical
heat, might be regarded by some per-
sons as rather hard work. In the
sorting room with Kechil were a hun
dred other laborers, girls and women.
"The wages" replied the manager.
I'VE pay according to the work done.
Our scale of wages is about a half
cent higher than that usually paid.
Some Of the more skillful women can
earn so or 60 cents a day, Dutch
money Gin American money, 20 to "a
cents)." Kechil, the Tiny One, had
been working a year. She was paid
the equivalent of four cents, Ameri-
can money, a day.
The Overseer's "Housekeeper."
Kechil's mother and two sisters
work in the factory. Her oldest Sis
ter, Sina, had worked there. She did
not now. She had dash of rose-color
In her rounded cheeks, was graceful
and pleasing to look upon, with the
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Historic Battle Picture.

One of the most stupendous photo
dramas ever reproduced is the Bat
tie Of Waterloo" reproduced again be-
fore the motion picture camera on the
spot of the original battle. 1t Is said
to be correct in every historical de-
tail. The movements Of the troops,
the guns and the various details Of
the happenings preliminary to the ac-
tual engagement, as we'll as the bat
tie itself, are based upon historically
accurate documents. An army of men
almost as great as that engaged in
the original battle take part In the
struggle and 500 cannon and 5000
horses are utilized. This photodrama
is a European importation and it's ex-
hibition is one of it's first in this coun-
try