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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-17

Tho old noblcmdn stopped hts head and
 kissed thc achttc hand. has many brave men within his do- mains, but none braver than these. They have come back up the Richelieu river from the Iroquois villages with their nails gone, their fingers torn out. . cinder where their eye should be and the scars of the pine splinters as thick npon their bodies as the fleurs-de-lIs on wonder curtain"
 "And you have suffered this?" cried Louis hotly. "You allow these infa- nous assassins to liveY'
 T have asked for troops, sire"
 And have sent some"
 "One regiment. More is needed, sire"
 There are the Canadians themselves. Have you not militia? Could you not iaIse force enough to punish these ras- rally murderers of Gods priests? l had always understood that you were a soldier"
 Tt is just because am soldier and have seen something of war that l know how hard 1t is to penetrate into country much larger than the Low lands, all thick with forest and bog, with . savage lurking behind every tree. You are a soldier yourself. sire. ask you if such a war is an easy task for a handful of soldiers. with a few censitaires straight from the blow. and a troop of coureurs-de-bois whose hearts all the time are with their traps and their beaver skins"
 No, no; I am sorry If I spoke too hastily" said Louis. We shall look into the matter at our council. And yet you must not look for too much, for Canada has been a heavy cost to us, and we have many calls in Eu- rope"
 "Ah. sire. I would that you could see that great land. It is so vast, sire. So rich. so beautiful, Where are there such hills. such forests. such rivers? And it Is all for us if we will but take 1t. Who is there to stand in our way a few nations of scattered Indians and a thin strip of English farmers and fishermen. Turn your thoughts there. sire. and in few years you would be able to stand upon your citadel at Que bee and to say there Is one great em- pire here from the shows of the north to the warm southern gulf and from the waves of the ocean to the great plains beyond Marquette's river. and the name of this empire is France. and her king is Louis. and her flag Is the feurs-de-lis."
 -On my word. count said the king. ~you have caught something of this gift of Indian eloquence of which we have heard But about these English folk. They are Huzuenots. are they noty-
 For the most part. especiaIIy in the north
 Then It might be a service to the boiy church to send them packing Tel me nov. Fro1fe1sc. what force would you need to clear these people cut one regiment. two regiments and pr hsps q frfzafe CT fuoy
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-17

Ana wnys
 "The Marquise de Montespan has a memory"
 Her influence may soon be nothing more. Maintenon is the cleverest wo- man in France"
 "Pshaw. Racine. you know our dear master well. or you should. for you seem to have been at his elbow since the days of the Fronde. Is he a man, think you, to be amused forever by sermonsy No. no: 1t will be the Mon tespan or. if not she. some younger beauty"
 My dear BoIleau. I say again that her sun is setting. Have you not heard the newsf Her brother, N. de yivonne. has been refused the entree."
 Prom whom had you Itr'
 From De Catinat. the captain of the guard. He had his orders to bar the way to him
 -Ha. then the king does indeed mean mischief. That is why his brow is % cloudy this morning then By my faith. if the narquIse has the spirit with which foIk credit her. he may Ind inst it vas easser to win her than to slight her"
 -Aye. the Mortemsrts are 10 easy race to handle
 well. heaven send him q safe way out of 1t. But who is this genfien1anf Hi. face Es somewhat grinmer than those to which the court is accustomed Ha. the King eatcbes sight of him. and Louvois becko1s fe him to advance
 Tbe ssrsneer vbo he'd attracted ka- ciaeTs affene1un vas c tnlL thin DnA. vfsA c hfuA agzflI1s pes4 seu2 e1es
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-09

of any sort. He wants to run things
exactly as his grandfather did, and
hangs to precedent with a stubborn
ness that is as remarkable as it is UNI
reasonable. He seems to argue that
anything that is not English is not
worth while. The reason he refuses to
buy Typewriter is not altogether be-
cause he wants to do the right thing
by the employees who have been long
in his service. IF this were the case
he would not keep them working all
their lives on boys wages, or keep
them at their tasks after they have
become disabled There are many
firms in London that could well afford
to pension all their old employees and
replace them with new staff operat-
ing under modern methods, in fact they
could save money by retiring their
whole force on full pay.
L have worked in all parts of the
world and believe / thoroughly under
stand the disadvantages of trying to
accomplish something among strangers
whose language l can not speak and
whose ways are unfamiliar. While in
Asia and Europe I kept looking for
ward to the time when / would be in
England, because L could then talk to
people myself and not have to depend
upon interpreters. But 1 give you
my word of honor I have never been
in any city where one can accomplish
as little in day as in London. In
the first place the distances are great
and the transportation facilities are
extremely poor.
One needs no further proof of Lon
dom slowness than the fact that It's
great population is content to ride on
the ancient omnibuses. Few of the
buildings are equipped with elevators
and much time and muscle must be
spent in climbing long flights of stairs.
The delays that are encountered in
reaching your man after you have ar
rived at your destination are most try
ing. Several times / have had occa-
sion to interview President Roosevelt,
and in each instance / got to him with
less trouble than it took to see a num-
Der of London business men who were
characters of only ordinary Importance.
A CORRESPONDENTS "KICK. !"
Whenever English newspaper men
come to the United States things are
made easy for them, but the American
correspondent in London usually has a
sorry time of it. The press gallery in
parliament is an Anticipated little stall
only a few feet square. There is not
enough room in it for representatives
of the English press, much less foreign
ers, and at last accounts no alien, not
even the representative of our Asso-
ciated Press, was given admittance to
it. When parliament is in session the
best that an American correspondent
can do in the attempt to reach mem
Der. is to send in his card from the
cloak room, or wait in the lobby until
the session is dismissed. Considering
the Importance of British and Amer
lean newspaper interests, it would seem
that the English authorities would see
the necessity for an exchange of
reciprocal courtesies. That they fail
Continued from Page g.
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that he was the fourth man of his
family to be at the head of his firm,
and that he wanted nothing to do with
Americans in one way or another.
By this time the youth IS ire was
pretty thoroughly aroused and he re-
piled: ''All right sir. I have come
across the Atlantic to see you and |
have been properly introduced. Ac-
cording to business courtesy as it is
understood in America you might at
least be civil to me, whether you want
to buy or not Inasmuch as YOU choose
to be so surly. and have taken so
much pains to state how Independent
you are of Americans and their ideas,
1 will say this, that if. two or three
more men of your family continue to
blindly ignore new ideas and improve
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ther. The invariable reply is: I could
not think of cutting down my force.
Now there is John, who has been with
our firm TIVE nty-nine years, and Henry
thirty-one years, and Uncle Joe forty
two years. None of them are very
fast, but they manage to do our work,
and we could not think of making any
change in our way of doing business -
In going about London one finds in
Vulnerable instances where men have
served firms in one capacity from their
early youth to extreme old age. With
no difficulty at all / secured photo
of group of six employees working
in one corner of a room, the first or
whom had been there over fifty years,
three had served over forty years, and
two over thirty years. These men be-
gan as bookkeepers and had never been
advanced beyond that capacity. The
average American would not be salts
fed to work thirty or forty years In
one place on the same salary, but the
Englishman invariably takes great
pride in the length of time he has
served in one position.
CLERK HAD STIFF FINGERS.
One day I happened to be in a
photographer 8 shop on the Strand, and
the attendant who waited on me was
so deerepit that he could not tie up
the package l had purchased on ae-
count of his fingers being stiff. He
made the usual boast, saying that as
boy and man he has been clerklng IN
that one place for forty years. l asked
him what salary he was getting, and
he told me that the highest wages he |
had ever received during his long term !
of faithful service were ten dollars |
week. According to the English way !
of reckoning it seems to be perfectly |
natural for a man to work all his life !
at beginner s wages. but in the United
States a man who can t make himself
useful enough to force promotion
has little chance of holding down his
lob for half century
! was very much amused at the ac-
count given me by an American bust
ness man who sent his son to London
TO introduce a Iabor-saving device, and
who met with almost total failure The
was not so much put out
at the boys failure to place orders,
as he was at the ill-treatment accorded
him. His patent is an addressing ma
chine. by the use of which sixteen
year-old boy or girl can mail more cir
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culars or postals than number of
clerks can address by hand. 1t is par
ticularly valuable for the use of whole
sale houses that send out weekly quota
lions to large lists of customers. Its
merits are so palpable that it has en-
joyed big sale everywhere among
business men who are alive to the
advantage of it's money-saving quail
ties. The young man who went to Lon
don to introduce it is a well-manner-
ed, easy going chap, of the sort not
likely to offend anyone, yet after 6 few
days he wrote home that there must
be something wrong with his creden-
tials or his appearance, because he
could not even get access to the heads
of English firms, let alone talk bust
ness to them.
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"FoURTH MAN OF HIS FAMILY

'tFOURTH MAN OF HIS FAMILY. -
Finally he selected one large con-
Germ and managed after repeated re-
Bluffs to get a personal letter of in
PRODUCTION to the head of the firm.
After he had cooled his heels in an
outside ante-room for an hour or so,
the boss came out, red with anger at
the boy s persistence in trying to reach
him, and said: & Now what do you
want, young man, and be quick about
it." When the salesman quietly and
politely stated that he wished to call
his attention to remarkable labor
saving device made in America, the
Englishman blurted out that the upf
start Yankees could not tell him any
thing about how to run his business i
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ments in business, your competitors
will eventually make it so hot for you
that some future head of your house
will have no business at all, but will
be driving a hack. Good morning.
This young man may have made a
mistake by losing his temper and re-
plying to uncivility in kind, but it is
certain that if the Englishman persists
in clinging to his old ways, and spurn-
ing new ideas, the young drummer from
America will prove a good prophet.
- LIKE GRANDFATHER USED TO
DC.'
The Englishman' g antagonism to all
innovations seems to be due to an in
herent objection to making changes
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FlASKIN SAYS THAT THE ENGLISH ARE SLOW
Conservative About All
Time-Saving
Devices.

LONDON-One dismal evening as 1
Cecil / overheard couple of be-
draggled Americans talking about the
English being slow. The Yankee drum
mers were tired out from tramping
through the damp streets and were
thoroughly discouraged by the many
rebuffs they had suffered at the hands
of our unprogressive cousins on this
side of the water. One of them said
to the other: "By God, Bill, talk
about these people being slow; do you
know that London has only los miles of
street car track, and that there is not
a typewriter nor a telephone in the
Bank of England7'
Think of that, Mr.. Reader, the first
financial institution in the world, locat-
ed in the heart of the largest city in
the world, without a telephone or
typewriter. 1t seemed incredible. To
make sure L went to the telephone
book and examined the directory. Sure
enough, the name was not in the book.
The next morning | called at the bank
and asked the doughty attendant who
came forward please tell me what
make of typewriter you use here He
looked me over as suspiciously as if
he thought / might contemplate rob-
bing the vault, and shut the door in
my face without deigning to reply at
all.
ARGUMENTS AGAINST TIME
SAVERS
I called at the agency of we'll
known American firm that manufac-
lures typewriters, and in response to
my inquiry about what Roadway they
were making in the English market,
the manager said: ''Slow enough. We
have sold more machines in Asia than
we have in England. The first argu-
ment for a typewriter is that it is
time saver; that by its use one en-
ploye can turn out more work than
several can by hand. When our agents
make this statement to an English
business man they never get any far
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
Sen. Spooner Concludes
Railroad Rate Speech.
House Votes $170,OOO for Men
for Mare Island Yard.
Williams Keeps House Busy During Speech
on Tariff Question.

Washington. April 27-m concluding
TO-DAY his tWo-day speech on the rail-
ro"d rate bill. Mr.. Spooner took cogni-
Zancr Of the charge Of misquotatioll
dS.iIEt himself which he said had been
mad" in connection with Mr.. Bailey \
@pt cch, though not in the speech and
quoted at length from his previous re-
marks 10 show that the criticism had
been without foundation. Mr. Bailey
disuVored any intention To reflect upon
the Wisconsin senator either in his
public address or in private cnnversa-
ton, but said that privately he had ex-
pressed that Mr.. SpOOner had not made
personal examination Of the authorities
cited by him. Mr.. SpOoner spoke for
two hours, again devoting his attention
largely to Mr.. Bailey's non-SuSpenSon
amendment to the rate bill.
Thcr" was no discussion Of the ncces-
sity Of fixing q day for vote on The
rate BAL. ANA Mr.. Tillman gave notice
after next Monday he would ineist that
the Senate shall proceed to vote if sen
atcrS are not prepared to speak.
AL the private pension bills on the
calender We're passed during The day.
Al 2.i5 the Senate adjourned.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
FARMING SPECIAL OF UNIVERSITY OF MAINE.

The chickens have come in for Il
cnnl share. ~ :Ittcnfinn ANA nave St.ry-
"a as Nh uhi..t lesson fnr tht. farmer
chicks nearly four weeks old They
are kept in Il broader that is has
| temperature of 80 degrees heated 10y
| Il Kerosene. lamp. In" farmers have
asked MANY ulIpstinuS cone. luiu- these
chickens ANA ann man vino WHs in
tnusIv interested s.lii II sa,. hnw il il
dnna un,y ana u,n .uiug lirht home
| ana. start in the right way" I,ut there
| is cnnSidcrabl" more to this exhibit
besides the chicks The whole life
story of the hen is given. from the
| time the egg is placed in tn" incubator
| until the hen is laying eggs ut the
rate of 200 4 year.
T.. L. iiHchihSS IN" STAT" "htnmnln-
Z giSt has put in u busy week explaining
1 the insects. He has given away a good
many samples nf the nest of tn"
br"wn-tail moth and people will he
able t" tell til" pest AT glance.
| Many propl" Wrr" interested ~ the
/ line Of ScparatnrS shown. There are
,I,roa nr ma leading brln,.h.s shnvn
| . ,,..,;.,,,, ,,.. r.I r VIVA
| ,'i''
( ,,...,;,,,,, ,.,,.,., ,,.,. ;...,
..,, !, ,,,,,,;,,,r md r,.,f,irfr mi,
/ norticnIarI,- true nj sherman ,vh.re an
\ interested farmer took Prof. NIunson
\ out IL se> an orchard that had been
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
GROW PlSTAcHIoS IN AMERICA
Seeding Plants Are to Be Introduced
in Colorado.

Tcnv,r. April 2,.-It will not he long
before III" yuung women who delight ["
max. candies for the visiting young mcl,
will H. able to ara to their home product \
the expensive ::nd highly priced lriStlChir
cream which is the iiid" of all tii,. nt her
great c:ndNmHtcrs of America
And thiS is why the pStacho nut. til"
choic, st and most costly tnat reaches the
American rp"rk"t is to b" grown right
here in Colorado. it having been discov
cred that Il profitable rate of production
can im had in N,w Mexico, Colorado,
Utah ana southern Nevada. Having
learned that piStachi1S grow wild in cen
tral Asia where the winters are quite Sc
we're tho promoters Of the plant introduce
ton garden Of Chico. Cal. with the co
Oh, ration CC the office of seed and plant
intl nduction and distribution at Washing
ton have grown y large number of seed
ing piSta"hiOS and these during the next
sixty davs Will bc distributed among tn"
various localities where tn" nut NAV b.
grown, Colorado coming in for consider
able share.
The pistachios grown in California are
Of excellent color and flavor and it has
hcen aSccrtained that nuts Of similar ma
turr thrive better in Colorado than in
California. and at maturity arc of supe-
rior Quality. One of the first of the Colo
rado niStachio orchards will be estah-
lished in tho San Luis Valley. another will
he near LongmOut. while still another will
lie planted in the Boulder Creek Valley.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
SLOSSON ACCEPTS.
Billiard Champion Picks Up French
Players Gauntlet.

New York. April 21.-Ge0. +. Slosson
who won the worlds championship at
1&-inch balk liz" two shots in. in the
recent tournament az Madison Square
Garden, announces that he will accept
the chHilegc issued BY Geo. +. Sutton,
who finished second. The match will
be played here in the last week in Au-
gust. 1t will be 500 points up for the
championship. Il stake of 500 Il side,
and the net receipts.
Sloss"n is in Saratoga praclicing for
the Chicago contest. He will start for
Chicago early next week. The net re-
ceipts Of the recent tournament We're
$1,000 which. with u purse of $4,000
offered by the promoters and $3.50 en-
tranr" fees. yielded $500 to Slosson.
the winner: $223I to Sutton. $l3i3 to
Scha"lf"r. $l0lf To Hoppe and $1lG to
Cure. cur" ana Sutton also received
bonuses for coming to America.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28

but had become somewhat morbid, due
il was explained, to overwork.
Since his recent departure from Cam
bridge. Muenter has written TO several
friends here. the letters bearing a Chica-
go pnstmark In none of these letters did
he reveal his address
1t was learned tonight that in one or
these letters Muenter made inquiries re-
garding the method of procedure in re-
signing his Harvard instructorshp. but
inasmuch as he gave no address his query
remains unanswered. X also oeveroDed
tonight that Muenter had submitted his
resignation to the university authorities
but it could not be learned what had ha
come Of this letter. 1t is believed. how
ever. that it will be acted upon by the
hoard of overseers at their regular meet
ing next Wednesday
Muenter is about feet 10 inches tall,
10 pounds in weight. with a florid COM
plcXicn, dark hair, brown pointed beard
and moustache
Nrcnter was by no means nroroinant
at Harvard. Few persons outside of
the Gcrndnic department knew him.
He VAS Well-known among those stu
dents who are taking German courses
as IN addition to his work as inStr,lc-
tor he added to his income by tutoring.
For some time Muenter has been TAX
ing course in Germanic philology in
the graduate school.
Few cf his acquaintances care to saw
anything nf him. Among Harvard Ger
mans IL, oLlpion was expressed that
nothing SHOULD BE- said until more in
formation wSs available. 1t was sug-
gestcd by one that it had not been
""nrluaivelI shown by the evidence
given out that a murder had been COM
mitted
There was n rumnr at the college to-
night that Nucnter had been seen IN
Boston yestaCday hut when a man who
va" reported 10 0>lavc seen<tfe instruc-
tor vas asked if ffe-rIimor was cor
rect. he said that he saw u persor ra-
stmblin% th. instructor. He was not
positive however, that Muentcr was
the on" he saw.
Several members of the Harvard Ger
man colony think that Mucntcr was The
one ht saw
Several members Of the Harvard
Germ; n colony think that Mucnter may
give himself up as soon as he hears
that he is wanted.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
IN THE HOUSE.
Williams Continues Talk on Tariff
Holding Attention of Members.

Washington. April 27.-The tariff de-
bate which was precipitated upon the
House yesterday through the speeches
Of Mr.. Boutell, Ills. and Mr.. Hepburn
Iowa, was continued today by Mr.. Will
liams. Miss. For two hours Mr.. Will
liams stood the fire of the Republicans,
holding the attention of the members
throughout his presentation of the
Democratic doctrine of tariff for reve-
nue. only. Without concluding, owing
to his physical condition. Mr.. Williams
will finish his address tomorrow.
The House passed an emergency APP
preparation bill, carrying $4,000 for
the employment of laborers ut Mare
Island Navy Yard.
During the day 315 pension bills
We're passed.
An agreement was reached to con-
clude general Gcbatc on the agricultur-
al bill tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-28
Arsenic in Marked Quantity Found by a Chemist
in the Stomach Of His wife, Who
Died April IS in Cambridge.
Muenter Is in West===Warrant Issued-=-Officers
Searching-=-Two Doctors Suspected Something
and Had Given Up the Case.

Cambridge. Mass. April 27-The
Cambridge police tonight issued Il
warrant for the arrest of Erich Mucn-
ter, an instructor in German at Har-
ward University, who is charged with
the murder of his wife i'm this city
about two weeks ago.
death was caused by arsenic. The
body was taken to Chicago April Il.
but the case was not made public un-
til this evening.
Muenter was born in Germany. He
formerly taught school in Chicago and
before coming to Harvard, less than
two years ago he was an instructor ut
the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
KaS. He is 35 years of ag" and lived
at 101 oxford street. this city. His
wife was formerly Miss Leona krcmdS
of Chicago.
The attention of the authorities was
called To The case just after the W0n-
ems death on Monday. April l6. Ten
days before that time 4 child was born
to Mrs. Muenter. who was attcntcd by
a faith cure doctor ana by two nurses
of the same cult. The physician was
Il Mrs. NickerSoA of Winchester. The
nurses were both residents of Cam
bridge. Il Miss Case and Miss Der
rick. Sometime after the child was
born. two regular physicians. DIS.
Frederick ". Taylor ana Herbert Nc
Intyrc. We're called III. Both of the Sc
physicians decided that Mrs. Muentcr
was suffering from some ailmcnt of
the stomach. They prescribed, but
later. it is alleged, they asccrtainod
that the nurses were not following di-
rCctipnS Doctors Taylor ana Mcintyre
then declined to have anything further
To do with the case.
on April 16 Mrs. Mucnt"r died.
ON :he same day Mu"ntcr applied to
DR. Mcintyre for his signature on the
certificate. Cf death. but DIR. M"intyrr
declined Ia sign the paper. He decided
that the cas- needed investigation ami
notified Medical Examiner WillI2m -.
swan. who ;is soon as he received Dr.
McIntyrr'S rcpcrt, performed an autpp-
~ on the body. The medical examiner
sent the stomach to Prof. Whitney. the
w"ll-knoWn chemist of the Harvard
No ,diral Schnnl in Boston. Having TAX