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Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24
CHOLERA AT MANILA.
The Sd Infantry Sent Aboard Trans
port to Escape the Disease.

Manila, March 23.-There have been
four more cases of cholera here and two
more deaths from the plague are report
ed. The health authorities believe their
rigid precautions have ayerted an cpl
demic.
AS General Chaffee did not want the
men of the 3rd Infantry to run the risk OF
city, that regiment has already been tax
en- aboard the United States transport
Grant which will sail for San Francisco
one week ahead of her scheduled time.
Five cases of cholera have been report
ed from the provinces.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24
HOTEL EMPIRE,
Broadway and SD ST., New YORK Ct

ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF.
RATES MODERATE.
From Grand Central Station take cars
marked Broadway and 7th Ave. Seven
minutes to Empire.
From the FAN River Boats take the 9th
Ave. Elevated TO 59th Street, from which
Hotel is one minutes walk.
The Hotel Empire restaurant is noted
Cor its excellent cooking. efficient service
and moderate prices.
Within ten minutes of amusement and
shopping centres. All cars pass the In
pre-. Send for descriptive Booklet.
w. JOHNSON QUINN, Proprietor.
MORTIMER Nj. KELLY, Manager
fel12 eod6mo
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24

Fire started by spontaneous combus-
tion of infiammable materials in the Ia
her organ factory on Union street. Wor-
cester, early Saturday, caused that firm
4 loss of $50 600. s Porter, last manu-
facturer, occupying one of the floors, has
a loss TO his stock or 500. The building
was badly burned and the loss is figured
close to $500.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24
Pacifyinq the Philippines.

Vienna, March 24.-An Austro-Hu
garian official report, published here
testifies to the great progress made ir
the pacification of the Philippine is
lands during the year 1901.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24

At the faculty meeting, this week, the
final arrangements were made for a plan
of admission to college by points. This
system is one which is used in many
colleges, and it has been felt for some
time that it should be employed at Bow
doin. The plan has been adopted by the
faculty. Before becoming a rule it will,
Of course have to be adopted by the uni
ted boards at commencement, thing
which is practically assured. 1t will go
into effect beginning III June, 1893. y sub
joct pursued in the preparatory school
for five hours per week for thrty-eight
weeks, will count Cor two points. Twea-
ty-six points must be offered for admis-
sion. of which twenty are required The
required points are as follows: English
t. Latin s, algebra 4, plane geometry 2,
Roman history /, Greek, English, or
American history i; total 20. Six points
must be chosen from the subjects named
below. If Greek is not offered, elemen-
tary French. or elementary German must
be taken. The other two histories beside
the one required may be offered. The
elective courses are as follows: Elemen-
tary French 4, advanced French 2, ele-
mentary German 4. advanced German .
chemistry >, physics ,, botany 2, advanced
algebra /, solid geometry 1, trigonometry
/. Greek history l, English history l,
American history l.
Speaking editorially of these new en-
trance regulations this weeks Bowdoin
Orient says: Under these regulations
many advantages will be offered to pros
pective students. Instead of having a
certain number of courses which must
stand examination. there will not be but
six subjects required Of all. For the rest.
there are fifteen different courses from
which subjects amounting to six points
may be chosen. In this way wide va
riety of courses will be open to men just
entering college y regular instructor
ship in physics will undoubtedly be estab-
lished, so that a course in freshman n
physics may be offered. 1t will be espe-
ciauy noticed that elementary Greek IS
not among the required courses, and if it
is possible Greek will not be a required
course for freshman year as it is now. In
other words the recommendation will
again De IflduS tHeil tAiS utsIct VI peiChc-
lor of arts be granted to men who have
not taken Greek. There is every reason
to suppose that the change will be made
so that exceptional advantages may be
offered to sub-freshmen."
1t is expected that the new grand
stand which General Hubbard has offered
to build will be constructed this spring.
Ii viii be a large and modern structure,
twice as long as the present stand and
much deeper. Underneath there will be
lockers. bathrooms. and dressing-rooms
for both the home team and the visiting
teams, together with u large store-house
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24

A country laborer of Brescia while
cleaning an eel discovered in it's stom-
ach a large black pearl, which has been
purchased by Milan jeweler for $500.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24

Broadwater, near Worthing, has had
but two rectors in the 18th century. The
late incumbent was appointed in 1877
and the present one in 1858.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-03-24
Dally hennsbee Journal
B0WD0IN COLLEGE.
Seniors Win the 10th Annual
Indoor Meet.
The Advantage Of the New Entrance
Regulations.
BasebalI.-New Grand Stand.-The
Chicago Alumni.


Brunswick, Me-, March 23-(SpeciaD-
The 18th annual exhibition and indoor
meet of the Bowdoin College Athletic
Association at Town hall, Friday even
ing, was an unqualified success. The at
tendance was large, the contests were
close, the drills were beautifully done
and everything went off promptly and
smoothly. The honors of the evening
were carried off by the seniors with IS
points, the freshmen We're next with Is
points, the sophomores third with II
points, and the juniors fourth with eight
AS usual one of the most popular feat
ures was the class drills. Each college
class was represented by squad of
twelve which gave a drill representing d
part Of the work that the class has had
in Sargent gymnasium during the win
ter. The seniors have fencing with foils
juniors fencing with broad-swords; So
phomores, dumb bell; freshmen Indian
clubs. The drills We're all finely executed
those of the two lower classes in partic
ular, being to the ordinary observer alb
solutely perfect, the Il men making ev-
cry movement to music with the precision
of a machine. The judges awarded first
prize to the freshmen, second to the So
phomores and third to the juniors, and
then pandemonium broke loose among
the classes on the floor. All through the
evening there was no end of cheering and
enthusiastic roofing.
In the 20-yard dash there were score
of starters who were gradually thinned
out in the trials and semi-final heats. In
the final heat, Hunt 02 was first, Rowe
04, second and Pierce '05, third. In the
final heat of the 25-yard hurdle race
Hunt '02 was, was first, Hamilton 'O2,
second and Dunlap '03, third.
In the pole vault first honors were di-
vided between Stanwood, '02, and Hill, '0J
at s ft. 1912 inches, with Hill, '05, third.
Stanwood would have gone higher had he
not spraned his wrist. He and Hamilton
'02, were tied for first place in the high
jump at TT. ~ inches, a most creditabie
height for indoor jumping. Clark, '04
was third at 5 #. 3lA inches. The shot
put was won by Hamilton, '02, with a put
of 81 it. ~ inches, with Webb, '02, Sec
ond with a put of 81 fit. inches, and
Dunlap. '03 third with a put of 81 feet
| 10 inches. AS the meet was strictly ar
inter-ciass affair, y. c. Denning who is
by far the best shot putter in college
and who is ranked as a special student
was barred from competition.
The class relay races were the most cX-
| citing events of the evening, and tho
| great rivalry aroused keenest interest ii
| them. Each relay team consisted oi
| eight men. First '02 beat '0i, then %.
| beat '0J. Then the two winning team:
| came together and it was the great race
| )f the evening. The last '03 man finished
| 4 yard ahead of his rival, but the judge:
| declared that one of the '03 men ha,
started before he had a right to, anC
| gave the race to '02 on the foul. Then i
was the seniors turn to cheer and the!
| well Improved it. The closing heat wa!
between 'O4 and 05 for third honors, ant
the sophomore team won by narrow
margin.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
THE MOTIVES OF MIsERS.
Fear of Possible Poverty the One
That More Often Makes
Itself Manifest.

The case of a man who died from
personal privations with 1000 hoard
ed pounds within reach of his skele-
ton fingers inspires a moralizing
mood concerning the motives OF
misers, says the London Globe. The
one that strikes us as reaching the
nearest to the truth is the hypothesis
of fear-fear of extreme poverty, to
avoid which at some indefinite future
time the miser faces all it's conse-
quences in the present. The gibe OF
the old laborer, who said to his
master: 81 be drawer man than you
be, for I burst spend my last farden,
and you dursent," is quoted as at
fording the best hint of the real
truth. When once the mind conceives
the idea of possible poverty there is
scarcely anything it will not do to
avert the horrible contingency. Men
in battle, as our contemporary re-
minds us, have been known to shoot
themselves in the dread fear of being
shot by the advancing enemy. Fear
in money matters, as in all other,
paralyzes the Judgment and shakes
the reason. Misers are probably in
all other respects the purest and
most moral of men; they are at any
rate as rigorous in their asceticisn
as monk and friar. But such is the
force of this vice that it destroys by
its own strong arm all the higher
emotions and aspirations of human
ity, leaving its victim miserable
and negative creature, beneath the
contempt of his weaker brethren.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
CITY POOR NOT wRETcRED.
Many Sources of Happiness Remain
where Vices Are Not In
Evidence.

Life is not necessarily altogether
miserable for those who have poor
clothing, poor food and narrow house
room. There still remain some sources
of happiness, not perhaps very many
but enough, where vice and drink are
absent. to make men cheerful, women
patient and children merry, says the
London Spectator. Granting then that
a family living below the poverty line"
is sober and respectable-it would be
manifestly absurd to deny those vir-
tues to good quarter Of the whole
population-what are the consultations
open to them? First Of all. the happi-
ness deriyable from the affections be-
longs alike to all, though among the
very poor we think strong affection is
generally limited to that existing be-
tween parents and children. Secondly,
there is a pleasure to be got from the
general social life of town. The
fascination exercised by the perpetual
procession of the streets is incOnceiv-
able to those who do not feel it, but
almost all the poor do feel it. How
many people does this fascination draw
from the country? How few who have
once fallen under its spell ever tear
themselves free from it? Movement,
light company, "mates" for the man.
neighbors for the women, playfellows
| for the children, all these things q
| town offers to the poorest OF her in
| habitants
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
HE KNEW HER ALL RIGHT.
p.o.u.a One of Her Kind Had Bright.
ened His Life During the leo
Cream Season.

The dexterous manipulation of soda
fountain and the cashier at restau-
rant making specially of after-thea-
ter suppers were exchanging conn
dences, writes w. G. Jackson, in the
Salt Lake Herald.
"She is unlike other girls, SO nat
ural and sincere" explained the
cashier.
'Looks at you out of the depths OF
her soulful eyes when she talks to you,
doesn't she?" queried the soda artist.
Exactly"
'Sings doesn't she?'
eyes"
"Favorite song is oh, Promise Me- !"
"That's it,
"And when she sings it her soul GEMS
to fly out on the wings of song and soar
among the heayens?"
"Yes, yes,' said the cashier, "but how
do YOU know? Are you acquainted
with her?"
"Well, can't say exactly, but all last
summer / was tied up with soulful
creature of that class who drifted out
of nv life Just as the ice cream season
was waning and the oyster-eating days
had come in upon us, and I thought
maybe she had drifted into yours"
Then it was that the cashier at the
restaurant remembered that it was in
the first of the series of months con-
tanning the letter ST" that his path and
| that of his fair maid had become en-
twined, and great and heavy thought
| fulness came upon him.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
THEY MADE HIM RIGHT.
One Wrong Made Him Out Five Dol
lars, But the Second Put Him
Even Again.

A few wears ago, in one OF our rural
towns, had the pleasure of listening
10 a lecture on Capital Punishment"
by local clergyman, said a well-known
Bostonian recently, relates the Cou-
rier. It was at the close of noted
murder trial which resulted in the con-
yiction of the accused and his sentence
to death. The reverend gentleman
took strong grounds against the death
penalty, arguing that while it was
wrong for a man to commit murder 1t
was but another wrong to kill the muir
derer, and that two wrongs never made
a right.
cat least" said he, 81 never heard Of
but one case where they did" And he
proceeded to relate the following
story, presumably in support OF his ar
gument: ga man entered country
grocery, where a number OF the viii
layers sat around on barrels and boxes.
and asked if two wrongs ever made
right. The response was Never. SO
thought until recently,' continued he,
when | met stranger who asked me
to change a fve-dollar bill for him..
did so, and after his departure found
the bill was a counterfeit. So | kept
it till yesterday and showed it on tel
low greener than T. The listeners ex'
claimed that those were two wrongs
certainly, but they didn't make right
Well replied the man, 'they made me
all right"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
ONE OF EDUCAT10N's FREAKS
Dull Pupils Generally Win Success
i'm Life While Smart Ones More
Often Fail.

II am almost discouraged by the
results of popular education" said an
old teacher. For forty years I have
been teaching in the public schools of
the city in which 1 live, and many OF
my earliest pupils are now men OF
middle age. What discourages me is
that so many of my brightest schol.
ars have proved failures in the pro-
fessions, in business, and in public
life, while the most successful of ou1
citizens were,. as a rule, classed
among the dull pupils. .,
Give of the leading lawyers in this
city were my pupils, and they were
all below the average in scholarship
department and punctuality. Severa
of our most prominent business mer
belong to the same group, while
among physicians, engineers and min
listers l find that some of my dulles1
pupils are in the front rank.
"On the other hand, some of my
brightest and most promising schoi
ars are little better than tramps
and most of them are below the av
erage in the avocations they have
chosen"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
RATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
A Matter That Interests More People
Than Do Many Subjects OF
National Importance.

Since the report became current that
the white house was oyerrun with rats
there has been large increase in mail
for the executive mansion. AS judged
by this, index of public sentiment, Sec
rotary Cortelyou says that the people
of the country are great deal more
interested in the white house rats than
they are in the repeal of the war tax,
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies, the reciprocity treaties or the
visit of Prince Henry. To one letter
that has been received regarding any
one of these four questions. says a
Washington report, there have been
ten given up entirely to the subject OF
rats. Letters have been received from
the presidents of national banks as
well as professional rat catchers who
desire to free the white house OF the
pests in return for generous slice OF
the contingent fund. At first Mr.. Cor
telyou and the assistant secretaries
thought the rat correspondence very
funny, but when they had opened over
thousand letters about rats they be-
gan to see the serious side of the sub
ject. Everybody in the white house
now, from the president to the door,
tenders, becomes ill-tempered when
rats are mentioned. tits said one Iowa
congressman who tried to Josh the
president about rats while Mr.. Roose'
yelt was considering the appointment
of one of the Iowan's constituents not
only received short reply from the
chief executive, but failed to get the ap'
| nOintment
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
WHISPERS ON WASHINGTON.
small Marble Statue of the First Pres.
ident That Takes On q Sth.
gular Appearance.

Judson Clayton, proprietor OF the
Lady Washington inn, at Huntington
Valley, Pa, says the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph, has small mar
BILE statue of Gen. George Washington
on the lawn adjoining his house that
requires constant shaving to keep it
from raising beard and mustache.
Periodically growth of moss makes
it's appearance on the upper lip, chin
and cheeks of the stone figure, and it
left untouched for any length of time
it develops into close-cropped beard
and mustache, giving to the image of
the Father of His Country an ex-
tremely dandified appearance. If the
moss is not interfered with it will
grow to point resembling the ap-
proved cut that BARRIERS give to the
boards of men of fashion. Every few
months the action of the weather
causes the face of the marble statue
to become coated with the velvety
moss, and shave is in order. The
freak whiskers have made the statue
quite curiosity in the vicinity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
A. Ancient "Fakir" Defrauded Many
Persons, But His Victims
Never Complained.

Prof. Musterberg, of Harvard, whose
speciality is psychology, relies to some
extent on the point of good story in
enforcing his positions in abstract DEM
onstrations. He has one on the associ.
alton of ideas that will illustrate.
A mediaeval magician-more accu-
rately called "fakirs" nowadays-an
nounced that he had invented and had
for sale magic pot. If certain rather
common stones were mixed and placed
in the pot, with certain portion OF
water, and the whole shaken diligently
for an hour, the stones would turn to
gold-provided that during the hour
the opera tor should not think OF hip.
popotamus.
The fakir sold great many for fab.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29

dinners, levees and garden parties.
Some unkind diplomat has recorded
Mistress Dolly's dinners as being
more like harvest home suppers than
affairs of state. There certainly was
a home-like air about Mrs. Madisons
affairs. 1t was during the Madison
regime that the custom of making
calls at private houses on New Years
day was inaugurated at the capital
# still survives there, in spite of the
fact that other social centers have
voted it plebeian, says the National
Magazine. Jackson's reign is assoc
ciated with the merriest, maddest
scenes the white house has ever
known. The fame of his plebeian
suppers bids fair to rival Washing
tons little Ratchet. While his guests
smoked costly cigars he blew whiffs
from his corncob pipe, whitfield by his
own hand. His lavish entertainments
ate deep inroads in his salary, and II
was his constant worry that his cot
ton crop would fail and leave him un'
able to meet his expenses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
SOMETHING ABOUT ASTHMA.
Often Family Affection That Can
Only to BE Pallfated. Not
Permanently Cured.

In popular usage asthma is term
employed to describe a well-known
condition; yet it is significant of the
broadened knowledge of diseases in
general that, as distinct disease,
the name is applied in more and
more restricted sense by physicians,
says Youths Companion.
For example, the asthma, of which
DR.. johnson complains in his later
years, as recorded by Boswell, is so
clearly set forth by the faithful BIZ
ographer that the modern physician
is even now able to determine that an
affection of the heart was response
BILE for it.
Asthma is often a family affection,
and is frequently traceable to pa
rents, grandparents or great grand
parents. Most sufferers are of an
excitable, emotional or NERVOUS"
temperament. 1t bears rather
striking analogy to epilepsy in that
it's attacks are characterized by sud-
denness and Influenced by strong
emotions, like fear or grief, and not
infrequently occur at night, when the
sufferer may be plunged from deep
sleep into an attack. In both dis
eases excitement during the day is
often followed by attacks. .-
Physicians believe, however, that q
high-strung organization alone is not
sufficient to develop the disorder, but
that some other source of irritation
must be added; that is, some faulty
state of the system elsewhere, like
disease of the digestive tract, harm
full factors circulating in the blood,
obstacles to free breathing in the
nose, and others.
Whatever may be the source, they
must be dealt with energetically and
at an early stage, since long-standlng
| cases of asthma invariably develop
changes in the lungs and heart which
| are permanent. The disease can Their
be dealt with only by measures aimee
at palliating and cutting short the
separate attacks, and with no rea
sonable hope of an actual, permanent
cure.
For the young sufferer and fol
those in the early attacks of asthma
the writer would emphasize the ne
cessity of thorough search for, ant
the removal of, any and every erro'
in hygienic living in order to avoit
the suffering of the chronic asthmat
ic and the further diseases which j
| brings in its train
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Berlin has 1851
students this winter. Munich comes
next, with 4,203.
The total number of students at the
universities of Germany this winter II
1888, as against 34,363 last winter.
Miss Sarah Scoville Whittlesey, OF
Yale, has been appointed professor OF
political economy at Wellesley college.
Charles L. Hutchinson, the million
aire banker of Chicago, has been q
church worker and Sunday school
superintendent for the past "a years.
President Clark, of the Christian En-
deavor society, proposes reglstra-
ton of Endeavorers who are willing
to promise to maintain family prayers
in their homes.
A native of Basic, Switzerland, has
donated the local university 100000
francs for the founding of chairs OF
critical theology, philosophy and
biology, which are to be free from all
interference by church or state.
DIR. Thomas Chowder Chamberlain,
one Of the most widely known geolo-
gists of the country, has been elected
for his sixth terra as president OF the
Academy of Sciences of Chicago. He
is also professor OF geology in the Uni
versity of Chicago and editor OF the
| journal of Geology.
South Germany's oldest monastery,
the Benedictine abbey of Wessobrun,
founded in 735 and confiscated in 1903
has been restored to the Benedictine
order by Baron Won Cramer-Klett, .
Protestant, and will soon be reoccu-
pied by monks. The baron bought all
the lands and remaining buildings of
the old abbey for 100000 marks from
| the Bavarian state and sold them to
| the Benedictines for nominal sum.