St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 21, 1910

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Mountaineers. NDIFFERENT TO SHOTS e unt Woman Has Estab- lished a School in Duck Comet. 4 South Carolina, a gaunt, but pre- osséssing woman, with ea countrified, r, stepped to the front of the platform 1d shyly observed the gathering of art-looxing men and women that filled he auditorium of the Central High } the Squirrel Mountain School, in the - Corner” of South Carolina. from South Carolina opened her oe ; as though to speak and then, ‘seeming to change her mind in a flash, | her lips with a snap. Fiinty of indignation shot out of her eyes that had become hard as ‘Bhe only had three minutes in E guch a tide that jt didn’t seem pos- ible it would ebb in time for her te waited until almost two minutes. 05 her time was up before she faced t This time there came a “hush over the gathering and everybody Mstened attentively while the delegate South Carolina went on to re- “fm from ‘The Dark Corner,’ and ZT want to report that the school at "— Squirrel Mountain is progressing fine. ye _ We have 108 acres of mountain land "| mow, and next year the boys and girls ) #m talking things over afterwards, “whis- “tle the bullets over my head when I’m ; mg the mountains up to the school, just don’t pay any attention to them. let them know that I can hear shooting. - gehool is chased. He doesn't see iy, but there’s music of bullets knows he’s running for dear life a the mountain side. But they don’t me any more, because they've out that I can’t be chased.” > assemblage of sociologists who are Louis to discuss ways and means ving the ignorance, distress and ‘Pultering of the slume of the cities. > From Slums cf the Mountains. mé comes from the: slums of the ns and the wild hills: Educated f in a mission schoo] tn the moun- -of Tennessee, she has resolved to » her life to carrying the light of ation into the fastnesses of "The Corner’ of South Carolina. The rk Corner” is+ not far from_ the ying city of Asheville, but few sel- gem venture into it except revenue men. fi nd they only in large posses and arm to the teeth. neighboring regions are the big states. of the Vanderbilts and the re- jorts of the tourists, But these people, rs. Shankle says, only laugh at the surd life of the inhabitants of the | Corner” and do nothing to help | ex a road to the ‘Dark Corner’;” Mrs. Shankle, “is a real life of the Lonesome Pines.’ If you te to the interior you will meet will whistle over. your head Beg way up the mountain, but don’t you hear them. They are just af ge a af if? itt jerbact? ‘hot Y 2. 6 z , % a 4 : , te we af ‘ rg . \ 3 thre bake ; : oe Re Mut § ioe \ ot 3 . q £ " ilo 4 Me j * ’ é . : “ 4 _.. ‘sy . 2 the © ae i - . § “ . ¥ * 4 ; - > * % 1 % B. f “ = 0 ns . z 4 , 7 - > 4 - ’ : a L S of 4 x arcs ca Women Work for Betterment of the Working Girl Continued From Paxe One.

in bridge building, such as is now being done in the construction of the Free Bridge, is the-object of solicitude on the part of the Charities Conference. The ‘‘sand-hog’’ is subect to a peculiar disease, known as “The Bends,’’ due to the conditions under which he works, and often is fatal. The Charities Con- ference is trying to have laws passed in al] states so that the caisson worker may not be forced to enter the air too suddenly, and may be. otherwise safe- guarded against the malady. Workers. Die of “the Bends.” John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legis- lation, told of the plan Saturday at 2 district conference in Hibernian Hall He read a paper on “Industrial Dis- eases,”’ and part of it was devoted to “the bends.’’ In building the Eads Bridge, he said, 114 of the 600 em- ployes suffered this peculiar malady, and 14 of them died. The district conference was one of four preceding the joint conference at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Newsboys Furnigh \Ausie. Saturday at 2 p. m. the visitors board- ed a boat at the foot of Market street for a river trip to Jefferson Barracks. ba - + &, «3 a Se et: . Ge ee ° ~ ee? s ex SS s a > = ? : 2 Dae ’ 1 393 “ % o * * aa , m, 4 Ni Sei. We 5 « * : 4 PR BI ne BONS BY eh eR Set jack rs ne se Sad that busts of th an ee SaaS ay ‘ gar aa ek 3, Mt a % % *, ; Scoon' bis maat savings ta aaeeeh anne boy at Warsaw. And Joseph came to be a noted musician in Russia. Brether Comes to America. In the meantime, Harry Green come to America to win some of fabled gold. He went to San and thence to Spokane. He was nomical, and he worked hard; chance that he turned ft ov: - int ot to he ee net ee te ig | Prisnetut, } ‘% a . i a ee ae 4 oe i on = bi = 2 ale? ra Oo fasta g a . ‘fi Reger Gave, he # a j, WePy® & ti *

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