Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOL

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ijarlatt II. Suarlmnutgh We arc glad to present on the oppo- site page a photograph of one of our former teachers—Mr. Harlan J. Scar- borough. He came to Lancaster in the fall of 1910 in the capacity of mathe- matics instructor and head of the De- partment of Athletics. Previous to his work here he had been connected with the rural schools of Monroe county and had filled the position of principal at New Vienna and of superintendent at Woodsfield. He had received the degree of Bachelor of Science from the Na- tional Normal university at Lebanon, and that of Bachelor of Arts from Anti- och college. He quickly won his way into our hearts by his fair dealing and good hu- mor and commanded our respect by making us work hard—especially in Geometry. In athletics, Mr. Scarborough gave his undivided attention to making win- ning teams. We are all justly proud of our present state of athletics and a good share of the credit belongs to him be- cause of his untiring efforts. It was his enthusiasm and boosting which enliv- ened the teams even in defeat. About the middle of the first semester of the present year, Mr. Scarborough received a very flattering offer from the superintendent of the Akron schools to become a member of their teaching force. Ilis resignation was reluctantly accepted and in the early part of No- vember lie took up his work in the South High school at Akron. We envy that High school their pos- session but extend our good wishes to our one-time instructor for the success of all his work in the future.

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A Jfontlfaa Effort Chapter I. About one hundred miles from the mouth of the Neuse river in North Car- olina lies the little town of Hutton, whose chief industry is cotton milling. For many years the inhabitants of the beau- tiful little town have worked in the great mills which have grown up there. One day in the early spring of 1880, a freight crept slowly into the yards from the north and after much shifting about of cars, the train-crew left for their homes. A few minutes after the men had withdrawn a young man well built and neatly dressed, with black curly hair and great dark eyes, on whose face sorrow had already left its indeli- ble stamp, dropped from the door of an empty box-car and disappeared in the direction of the business section of the town. A little over a year previous Harry Brown had held a Hue clerical position in one of the large brokerage offices of Wall street. He received a fairly good salary hut the care of an invalid mother added to his own expense, made the ma- king of ends meet sometimes a difficult task. Then, too, the doctors informed Harry that the only chance for his mother’s life was a change of climate. At this news Harry was heartsick, for he realized that without the change his mother would undoubtedly die, but the expense of such a trip was so great that it was beyond their means. Day and night he worked trying to figure out how it could be done. Unexpectedly his chance came. A wealthy client of Har- ry’s firm dropped into the offiice and left five thousand dollars to be used in pur- chasing bonds. The money was turned over to Harry to be put into the safe, but instead Harry, to save bis mother’s life, broke the eighth commandment. The next day Mrs. Brown left for Florida and Harry became a fugitive from justice. But his plans had been well laid and he easily escaped the police net that was stretched to catch him. Some- how the bad news reached Mrs. Brown and the shock of learning of Harry’s embezzlement caused her death. After his mother’s death young Brown left New York and for fear of the police, traveled by the side-door Pullman route. After two weeks of traveling in a box- car we find Harry with a couple of hun- dred dollars in his pocket, leaving the box-car at Hutton. Inquiring of a small boy where work was to be found Harry entered the office of the superintendent of the Hut- ton combined cotton mills, where he ap- plied for work, stating that he was a New Yorker, out of work. When asked what he could do, he told the superinten- dent that his specialty was clerical work. He gave his name as Jack Clark, by which name he was afterwards known. Being short of good office men the su- perintendent hired Jack, (as he will now be known) as his private secretary, and arranged for the young man to live at his home. The great mills never closed, working in three eight-hour shifts each day, and