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The Washington times., 1905-07-16

This old window has seen nanv
pathetic, many happy stories PLAYED
cut, but one that we remember we'll
with q great deal of pleasure was the
finding of little girl, not more than
twelve years old. who had been lost
to her parents for weeks. Her home
was in Manitoba, Canada. and she was
regularly kidnapped. BY regular
mean in the most approved style But
the kidnaper left a trace behind him.
however. that led to Washington The
little girls parents followed the clue to
| this city. One of them was constantly
on watch at the window of the general
delivery department. while the other
| rested or searched in some other place.
Finally who should walk into the post
Office but the kidnaper and the little
! girl.
You would be surprised to learn
how many persons mistake this build
ing for a hotel. Scores of them walk
up to this window and ask for the hotel
register or for double room with bath
or any of the other Things which are
found in a first-ciass hosiery. It's all
I can do sometimes to keep from call
ing Front
Twice men have come to the window
| while I was there and slapped down 25
cents and asked for a ticket to Alexan-
dria without so much as turning a
hair"
Does the good that is done through
the agency of the general delivery win
dow counterbalance the evii2 1t would
require the brain Of a more wonderful
statistician than has yet figured out the
cost of living in this country, where
prices leap about on stills. The win
dow itself Is a. passive agent It can
never originate; It can only connect
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
Woman q Mighty Hunter

a me This incident was a veri6 alton
of the saying that 'E1e who hesita es In
lost ] took careful aim, fired, and Mr.
Bear with one last despairing grunt top
pied over.
My next bear gave me fight Ee
weighed almost 500 pounds, and was az
fierce as fifty devils. This time also
was on Megaphone-my horse. The
horse and 1 caught simultaneous
glance of the huge baidface black bear.
The habits and characteristics OF this.
species are like those of the grizzly.
They are ferocious fighters. That old
fellow walked leisurely toward US, wag-
g1ng his head from side to side, and re-
garding us with nurderous eye When
within about fifty feet of US he stood on
his launches and blew-wioof, whoc&,
whoof, l shouted at him all the hideouS
noises could think of. just to see if he
would shoe. but he wouldn't.
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Getting the First Bear.

Getting the first bear was a cinch.
said Miss Taggart. Il was riding along.
when suddenly my horse gave snort
and jumped about ten feet Right
ahead, among the pines. L discovered
black bear. l had been wishing for just
this thing to happen. determined TO
kill that bear, but my horse was
pirouetting about dreadfully. 1t was his
first bear as well as mine, and he did
not like IL. After he had turned several
somersaults and tried to climb a tree
jumped off and let him go.
Then | faced MIR. Bear. who was
backing away and looking rather indis-
nant. as IL to say. Madam. you're in
truding.' He eyed me savagely, but
backed a4knst a log, stopped and glared
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Her Long Suit.

''Megaphone was pl;tnging frightfuIly.
and had all I could do to keep the sad
die. Using my gun under such condt-
tions was impossible. so I leaped TO tha
gro ind and blazed away at the monster.
The bullet did not strike right. and hs
jumped toward me madiy. Quickly I
fired again. this time SUCCESSFULLY for
the ball went through his head Yes.
L did have a narrow escape probably
but 1t was all so exciting and exhiIa-
rating that | didn't think of danger once.
Next day L shot a mountain lion. No;
I've never shot deer, and I've seen lots
of them, too. They are too pretty to
kill Rattlesnakes and bears are my
iens suit. I've n2 Use fxs either one"
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
Why the Crowds Yell

! chard, Maine, once crowd OF people
VINO had an average tight hand on their
pocketbooks, after hearing an address by
returned missionary, gave $4,000 for
missions. Men took watches from their
pockets and women stripped their fingers
Of rings and threw them on the col1ec-
ton plates
Up at Chicago an audience Of 5000
women gathered to hear Paderewsh.
They were held speilbound by the music
and refused to let the great pianist 60
until some men came In and too., the
piano out bodily
Prof. Vincent told these incidents in
detail as Illustrating what a crowd VIII
sometimes do when acting in unison Ae
referred TO historical eyents-the Cru
sades, and like events. He told OF the
Jumbo craze IN London. when the late
Mr. lsarnum worked the London press
for some free advertising about Jumbo
md for ten days London went wild over
Jumbo Pictures Of Jumbo were every
where One minister preached a sermon
on Jumbo Children were named after
him, and 200 boxes Of buns were sent
to the big elephant with personal let
ferS
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Every Crowd Not Psychological

Every crowd is not a psychological
crowd. Prof. Vincent said. \ psyche
logical crowd has four characteristics:
In IT there is concentration of attention,
each person Is off guard as TO his in
dividuality. the central attitude toward
life disappears, and The Psychologist.
crowd is uggestible''-capable Of re-
ceivfng suggestions.
The lecturer told of an experiment
made by a psychologist in which a
young man was hypnotized and told that
when a person entered the room he
wc.Iid rise, strike match and light the
gas Then he was awakened from his
hypnosis, and the subject and hypnotist
conveIsAd together. The subject had no
recollection OF anything that had BEEN
told him. But the minute that person
entered the room he arose and lighted
the gas, although the room YVES already
lighted When asked why he did It he
sheepishly said he did not know, but
that the idea just came into his mind
TO do IL. A second and third time the
same impression came to him when per-
sons entered the room
This. Prof. Vincent explained, is sup
posed to be the lower self asserting itself
over the higher self of the dual per-
SonaHty. He then elaborated on the
arts OF the spelIbinder, telling how the
patent medicine vendor on the street
corner describes certain symptoms until
thirty out of fifty men in his audience
VIII put their hands to their backs to
feel the pain. I've done it myself"
said Professor Vincent. The political
meeting was again described and how
the spenbinder works on his audience.
mingling anecdote with argument, and
driving home the arguments he is max
ing without seeming to do So The next
day the same ideas occur to the man
who was in the audience. and he thinks
he thought II out himself.
In closing, Prof. Vincent said that the
influence OF the average crowd was
downward and not upward, and that the
people who accomplish things in the
world, and who work for the worlds
advancement, are those who resist the
mind of the mob and refuse to act with
it
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-
makes you get enthusiastic in in
heated political campaign, or
what makes you get excited in
a close baseball game when your team
gets a little aheads says the Topeka
State Journal
Professor George l. Vincent, Of Chi
cago, discussed that proposition in q
lecture at the Auditorium. He says it
is because people become partially hyp-
noticed 1t is a psychological question.
and the psychologists who have studied
it have come to the conclusion that the
partial hypnosis theory Is correct. Po-
litical spelibinders, patent medicine
street takers. and other public speakers
manipulate their audiences in the same
way.
Prof Vincent is son of Bishop Vim
cent, who made his home in Topeka
for a number OF years and who is well
known here Bishop Vincent is recog-
nized as one Of the best lecturers on the
American platform, and the son is
chip off the old block, fully up to the
original. His lecture was a psychology
cal one.
He calls his lecture THE Mind of the
Mob In introducing the subject he
told Of the study of the mob psycholo-
gists,' in seeking an explanation for the
actions of people who act in crowds.
He told of the dignifed Mr.. Brown, who
is a staid and sober citizen. but who
goes to baseball game one day. Mr..
Brown becomes interested in his home
team. AS the team makes runs his en-
thuSiasm warns. and when the other
side gets ahead he becomes depressed
In the last half of the ninth inning the
score stands 3 to for the visitors.
There are two outs and two men on
bases. Things are looking pretty bad
for the home team, and there is a deep
undercurrent of excitement. Then Casey
comes to the bat, and at a critical point
lines out a home run and turns defeat
into victory. Instantly the sober. dignt-
fed Mr.. Brown leaps to his feet yelling
like madman. He is another Brown
an emotional Mr.. Brown He hugs all
of his neighbors that he can get his
arms around. He puts his silk hat on
the end of his umbrella and waves 1t
frantically. Two hours later he is sit
ting quietly In his home giving nom
committal answers to the questions of
his children. Why did Brown act 50
at the ball game?
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Here she had lived in Washington fori
years. was well known throughout the
ciey, and yet the postoffice officials were
letters.
Il told her that mistakes will some
times happen, no matter how careful
we may be; but it didn't seem to have
any effect on her. Then ] sprung an
other surprise. I suggested that there
might possibly be another woman OF
the sane name here she was SO angry
she nearly ehoked. At lasf she gasped
out that she wanted to see that letter.
So l looked it up. 1t was addressed
D. IS. -. Tin Can alley southeast The
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A "Great Ovation" !"

Prof. Vincent then told of the political
rally. There is a brass band. and a big
audience has gathered in expectation OF
hearing the great spellbinder. The COM
mittee on applause has been stationed In
various parts Of the great hall to pro-
vide for the spontaneous uprising OF the
people
IF you want to have a spontaneous
uprising Of the ~eople arrive on schedule
time" said the lecturer. you must pro-
vide for It in advance"
At the proper moment the band COM
mences to play a lively air and three fig
ures appear at one of the doors, which
the crowd Is expectantly watching. One
of them is the great spellbinder. The
committee on applause takes it's cue and
starts e great ovation" The people
applaud wildly
At missionary convention at Old Or
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
The Vindication of a Wife.

THE man carried a letter IN his hand
which bore his wifes name. The con-
tents Of the letter were little to his Hk-
ing-in fact the letter was from another
man and IN anything but merely
friendly style. The letter had been de-
livered TO his wife and ne had read it
a bad plan for any married man to pur-
sue. AS soon as he had finished the let
ter he taxed his wife with being un-
faithful TO him. She swore that she had
no knowledge of the man who wrote
the letter, and that there must be an
other woman OF the same name IN town
He remarked that that was a childish
argument, a mere bubble. But she
chung TO her assertion that she had
never met the writer Of the letter. and
at last persuaded her husband to come
down to the general delivery office with
her 10 find out If there were not another
woman by the same name TO whom the
loving letter might belong
WAS there another woman OF the
same name? Yes, there was, and you
never saw such a triumphant look on
any man or woman's face as that which
spread over the fearful countenance of
that righteous wife. The man looked a
little bit worse than 30 cents and mad
enough still to make a breakfast off
rocks.
You have no idea how many persons
there are Of the same name in city the
size Of Washington. This fact comes TO
the front especially in the distribution Of
advertised letters. For nearly any let
ter we advertise there arc at least four
applicants. It's strange thing that.
with few exceptions. every man that
ooypeS for an adyert!seH leftc- thin 1Ixs
that he IS the only ono OF his name IN
the world, even if his name be John
Smith. We have hard time convincing
any of them that there are others. Even
when we point 10 another man rubbing
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

= n ORE romance turks in common
NH place spots visited by thou
vi sands daily than the majority
Gf persons in this busy world
ever stop to think. Many a love affair
has had its inception AID been fostered
in city street cars, while he was cling
ing vaIiantly to a strap and she was
Strengthening her hat: many an illicit
affaire du coeur has begun IN the seats
of theater before the eyes OF all who
chose to see Even the well-thronged
department stores may lay claim to their
share of romance. But Of all places
whittier hundreds turn their footsteps
every day none in Washington can equal
in number or variety the romances Of
the general delivery window in the post
ONCE, at the corner of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Twelfth street In Washing
ton, as in every other town of the
Union where there IL general delivery
Of the mail, Uncle Sam has kindly, Or
unkindly. as the case happens, furnished
a connecting link for thousands Of TO
mances.
Human nature? Yes, we see human
nature, all phases of it," said one of
the clerks behind the trio of windows
in the great gray-slone building which
remain open TO the public twenty-four
hours out of every day In the year. He
smiled as though human nature were a
joke, which 1t is. Sooner or later, near
ly every one in the city comes 10 this
window. the rich and the poor alike.
Those that have homes here, and are
in the postoffice directory. come to the
general delivery window usually when
they are expecting letters which 1t is
more convenient for themselves alone
to see. The servants have such
a careless way of strewing the mail all
over the house, and leaving it on tables
where it cannot but catch the eye Of any
chance passer-by, and ii is impossible TO
be ever waiting for the postman oneself.
II is far easier to tip your correspond
ent off and have the letters sent to the
postoftice to be held till called for.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
Leads the Real Simple Life.

The Earl OF Leicester is a notable
example OF the good results of the sim
pie life--the real simple life, that is,
not that counterfeit of which self
approving votaries write to the papers.
When well, ON any fine day he might
be encountered on one of the fields of
his estate, clad In a suit of rough
tweeds, with gun on shoulder. a true
sportsman, he believes in the sport that
gives the game a chance-not that form
Of slaughter SO popular among the Brit
Ish arietocracy in which an army of
beaters drive the birds on the guns.
Nor does he ever make sport an ex-
cuse for gorging At lunch time he
may be looked for under q hedge,
munching bread and cheese and onions,
and washing It down with a draught
of beer brewed in his own house. That
menu IS not altered even for the Prince
of Wales when he goes shooting with
the Earl Of Leicester. He will not
devtate from his simple habits. or put
on style. to please anybody.
Hoiktsam Hall, where the veteran peer
has spent most OF his time IN recent
years. is a vast Palladlan edlfice of
white stone. standing in "A park as fiat
h@e tAsaber. He occupikS tAe ground
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"You Can Have Her.


He never moved until the woman
had received the letter she was looking
for and started TO go. Then he stepped
out of the corner and touched her or
the shoulder She jumped about a foot
and said OH
She looked scared enough TO faint
but she didn't. only waited for the mar
10 say something. The saIlow youth
hadn't much of part to play in the
drama after all. it seemed
The tall stranger locker her owe,
from head to foot. Then he turned tc
the sallow youth. and that youth seemed
II snrivel UP just the way a sheet OF
paper shriyeIs into a mere nothing wher
the flames of hot fire meet 1t. The
tall man smiled and said in a quiet
voice:
You can have her. only came here
for my own satisfaction to see who the
lucky man might be-
''Then he turned on his heel and walk
ed quickly away. I was interested in
the case, having seen the climax, as II
were, of the play, and 1 found out later
taat the tall Southerner and the little
woman were man and wife. They lived
in Virginia town not far from Wash
ington. and when she disappeared SUD
denly c'1e day he mad suspected tina.
she would come to Washington and look
for mail from her family at the post
office. Therefore he took the next train
and waited for his wife.
Not all men who make discoveries
about their wives through the general
deliver. are so quiet and easy going
about these feminine backslidings. ]
don't know as have right to call
Ihem feminine, after all. for Just as
many men deceive their wives by means
Of the mail as 90 wives their husbands
as fer as I have been able to discover.
That's as 1t may be- At any rate man
and woman came TO the window to-
gether. he IN rage and she locking
ready to cry.
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A Venerable English Patriarch
A Notable Example of
the Genuine Simple
Life.
His Guests Required to
Conform to His
Habits.

London, July 8.
T HOUGH he was born over eighty
four years ago, one of the least
of the claims TO distinction of the
venerable Earl of Leicester, who
is now seriously Ill, is that he is num-
bered among the partriarchs Of the
British peerage. He is in many ways
absolutely unique among English no.
bles. He has been the father of eight
cen children of whom fourteen sur
vive, and he numbers among his sons
in-law four earls. a viscount, and a
baron.
There is a difference in age of close
on half a century between his eldest
daughter, Lady Powerscourt, and his
youngest son. He is at once a great
grandfather several times over and the
proud father of a boy of eleven. Per
haps, however, the most astonishing
thing about the Eari's family history is
the fact that he married his second wife,
the present countess, exactly one hun
dred years after his father married his
first LAID Ronald Cover once men
toned the amazing fact to Queen Vic
toria, who was pretty well posted on
the family history of the peerage. but
1t so sta ggered her that she refused
to believe IT without documentary proof
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
Friendships Break.

THAT was one Of the cases which
ended well Probably there are a good
many others which have just as happy
an ending. Eut there are many which
are tragedies ia more or less exagger-
ated form. A good many lovers are
first class as long as they stick TO pen
and paper. but pan out exceeding bad
on closer observation.
THE way some young women dash
into hasty friendship with other equal
ly young or old women and then dash
cut again with the same speed, is
enough to wreck a mere mans believe in
the friendship of one woman for an
other. We see a good deal of this idiosyn-
Grassy. Two girls come TO the window
for letters They are as thick as thieves
and insist upon reading each others let
ters- ITe had many OF them tell me to
be sure to give any mail that might be
addressed TO them to their friends i'm
mediateiy II they called for It. Probably
this would continue for a week or two
and then one of a couple of dear
friends would come to the window by
herself and tell me on no condition to
let that person have ker letters. It
was a sure thing that before sundown
the other member of the friendship firm
would hurry IN and give the came direc-
tisns In regard to her mail.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

life, most of the deaths by drowning
would be avcrted. And the princess prac-
tees what she breaches
Her little sons. Prince Edward and
Prince Albert of Wales, began a course
OF lessons last month, and already they
are able to keep themselves af1oat in
tolerably rough water, 1t is their
mothers wish that they learn the art
thoroughly, and before the summer ends
they are to be taught to swim under
water to dive, float scientifically and
is an interested onlooker during every
lesson. Her example is being followed
widely by fashionable mothers in Lon
don, and 1t is ID be hoped tk9 SfynS
&san may or trLGI e New YoxA
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

good landlord, an enthusiastic natural
lst, and a genuine phllanthropist with a
penchant for church restoration, the cost
of which he defrays out of ibis own
pocket. In his own county, Norfolk,
there are several which owe their pre-
SerVatiOn to him.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

elbows with him and say that his name
too, is John Smith the first John is sps-
piclpus lest we be playing a trick upon
him. Occasionally these advertised let
tsrs have been the means of bringing to-
gether relatives that have not met for
years-pessibly have never met before.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

floor of his magnificent mansion, and
there are certain rules Of the esta blish-
ment TO which everyone (royal visitors
not excepted) has TO conform. All under
his roof are expected to be in bed by
II O'Clock, and bridge and kindred di-
versions are forbidden. The earl Is
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
ROYAL YOUNGSTERS LEARNING TO SWIM

w 7oMBN reformers who wish to
NM do really good work would
v y do well to pattern by
the Princess Of Wales in
at least one of her fads, which
Is TO impress on everybody in
the United Kingdom the Importance
OF learning 70 swim. Her royal high
ness says IT is the duty of every mother
TO see that all her children, girls as we'll
as boys, acquire natatory skill at the
earnest age possible. She points to the
enormous number OF drowning accidents
that mar the holiday season year after
year. in the United States and England
and sagely remarks that If the mother
or each OF the victims had insisted on
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
There Are Always Others.

"A stylishly dressed woman came to
the window a short time ago and was
most indignant because her name had
appeared among list of advertised let
ters. The stupidity of some people,
she said, was beyond understanding.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

they weren't using the general delivery
any more, observing as casually as ne
could that they were married now and
cculd tell each other what they wanted
without putting it down in black and
white. The girl added that they had
made 1t up with her mother and every
thing was running smoothly.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16

n Ar ISS ABBIE TAGGART. of Den
tH yer. recently returned to her
VI home from the Lake Tohos
district, where she shot and
killed seven bears and a mountain lion.
not to mention small game
This locality. thirty-five miles from So
nora, is wild and rugged. Twenty-Five
miles away Is Kennedy lake. a place
especially favored by Miss Taggart. who
has often made the trip alone on her
spirited horse, with her hunting knife
and ammunition at her belt and her rife
loaded for big game. She would not re-
turn to camp for two or three days. but
her parents never worried, for they
knew her independent nature.
The Washington times., 1905-07-16
No Other Place in the Capital Fosters as
Many Affairs of the Heart as This
Corner of Uncle Sans
PostOffiCe
Postoffice.

expression, parity of amusement.
think
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-08
ODepetta to be Seen At Academy, With
VariOus Beau and Maiden's Beau
fiful Galore.

One of the best known United States
officers, who has spent a great part of
his army life in fighting the Indians
on the frontier, said there were no
good Indians except dead ones.
History, however, is somewhat
against the officer, as the daughter of
Powhatan, namely the accomplished
and beautiful Ito use a pet society
phrase) Pocahontas, must have been
all that an Indian maiden could be
or should be. If one stands before
a crowd of boys and girls and asks
what sort of a story they would pre-
fer to hear, nine-tenths of the outfit
will yell, Something about Indians!'
And so the Raleigh people are going
to not only hear quite a lot about
the Indians during the next few days,
but on the 18th and 18th inst are
going to have the pleasure of seeing
and hearing Powhatan, Pocahontas
and a very large number of other In
dams, great and small, towit: some
thing like $50. These will be very
live Indians indeed, and very good
ones, and among the female contin-
gent there will certainly be some ex-
.tremely good looking ones running all
the way from the tiny rappoose To the