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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
HOW HE KNEW.

Of the many reporters who represent. ed their papers at the teamsters con- vention in Philadelphia recently none could equal Kind in his perceptive powers Newspaper men have often jocularly remarked that he is the pro- totype of Conan Doyle's famous char acter, Sherlock Holmes. Be that as it may no one can doubt that Kind is a very shrewd reporter.
 He was walking down the street in company with three other reporters when a passer by asked a policeman the way to the city hall The police man answered the question, and Kind, who had overheard him, smiled silently.
 That policeman" he remarked pond erously, "is a Chicago man. He has not been here long"
 "On what grounds does the deducer base his statement?' quiered Fielding of a Philadelphia paper.
 "Oh, just ask him if he isn't a. Chi cago man" said Kind, airily, evading the question.
 lOlulllS sldHCSu at lile pOltSSUldH and recognized an officer who had giv- en him some information a year before. Here was chance to show Kind up,
 Kind" said Fielding, unless you positively knew that cop in Chicago I'll bet you $5 that that policeman never saw the Windy City"
 That's a bet" said Kind, T never saw hi mbefore,'' and the stakes were passed over to one of the others.
 q suppose you have some Sherlock Holmes reason for your statement, J sneered Fielding. But hereis where you lose out. I happen to know that cop."
 That policeman came from Chic ago." persisted Kind, and the group walked over to where the policeman was standing.
 Hello, Jones'" said Fielding. You remember me, don't you? I was doing night police when you arrested that wife murderer, Bingley."
 "Shure, I remember ye. MT. Fielding. . answered the policeman. How are ye?"
 Well, here is a gentleman who says
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You are lately from Chicago" said Fielding.
 'shure, an I left there just fourteen months ago." cried the astonished. off cer.
 Well, the refreshments are on me- ejaculated Fielding. "TIo wdid you do 1t, Kind?"
 Easy when you know how, watson -er-Fielding, answered the Chicago reporter gleefully. You see, ever since I've been here I have been impressed by the fact that every one, from the newsboys to the mayor of this town, uses the term squares instead of blocks And as I was passing this policeman a man came up to him and says: How many squares is it to the city hall?'
 " Its four blocks, sir responded the officer. Oh, it's simple" concluded Kind, "when you know how, Watson er-Fielding. ."-Chicago Record Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
THE DUEL OF SEX.

How One Phase of it Serves as an Eff
 fectual Barrier to Matrimony.
 T was brought up to regard with repugnance all efforts to attract or to please mankind. My native indiffer- ence was festered. Girls who iran af- ter the boys were declared, when mother and my aunts met in sewing room conclave, to be the most disgust ing objects Young women who per mitted familiarities dire licenses I suppose as a romplng dance, care less use of the first names, free cir culation of photographs-how they were condemned held up to scorn in our sitting-room! Not for my mothers daughters, not for my aunts' nieces were such ways
 Mother would have thought it vul- gar and indelicate to the last degree to train us to look toward matrimony as a goal. She would have died of shame at the thought of teaching us the artifices of attraction. She dis dained to suggest to us in any way that is was desirable to please. I think she heartily despised those mothers who invited young men to their houses, or made things attractive for young men in their houses. In her heart I suppose the dear lady was, convinced that the intrinsic worth of her daugh- ters, their compelling, natural charms would be a resistless magnet, that that, in due course of time, there would come three dukes a-riding to bear us off in a whirl of glory. Poor mother!
 What nature began, and mother con- tinued, novels, I think, completed for me. In all my early favorties the heroine was as unapproachable as a star; her love was a reward graciously bestowed upon the doer of great deeds mot an equal force flowing out to meet the love of mere man. Or she was capricious, wilful, charmingly diff ficult. Her withdrawls lured on her wooers; her petulances, her piques and poutings, were so many entrancements, her very refusals inflamed. But in our town and our circle, the men, when one refused them, went off and married the girl around the corner; when one adopted the distance attitude of the tournament queen, they stayed away And when one flouted and jeered them one was held to have bad manners and a sharp tongue" e."-"The Autobiography of an Old Maid," in Everybody $ Mag azine.
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fContinued from First Page) wishes as to the welfare of the insti- tuition.
 'erhe news of President Harpers daath came as a great shock to my fla finer and to his family" said young Mr. Rockefeller tonight. My father Will feel Dr. Harpers death most keenly, not only because of his official rela- tionship with the University of Chica- 20. in which my father has taken such a deep interest, but because of the warm feelings of personal regard, friendship and admiration of the man, which is long sustained.
 Mot only the University of Chicago, hut the cause of education in this coun- try has lost in the death of Dr. liar per one of it's greatest friends and ablest promoters. Possibly no greater organizer than Dr. Harper has ever oc- cupied the position of president of a university in this country if in any countrv. The contribution which he has made to higher education during the time of his connection with the Uni yersity of Chicago as it's president has been greater perhaps than that of any other university president during an equal number of years.
 ''Whatever the future of the Univer- sity of Chicago may be will in large measure result from the courage and foresightedness, as well as the wisdom
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
SHOT IN THE FOOT.
Albert s. Bishop of Seymour in Grace
 Hospital.

Albert s. Bishop of Seymour in Grace
 Hospital.
 Seymour, Conn, Jan. S--Albert $. Bishop, plumber, aged 30, was re- moved to Grace Hospital in New Ha- ven, suffering from 8 gunshot wound in the foot.
 Yesterday he called his landlady, Mrs. Addie Stoddard 10 his room, and told her he was going to commit suicide.
 He had revolver in his hand and Mrs. Stoddard tried to wrest it from him. Tn the struggle which followed the revolver was discharged and the bullet went through Bishops foot
 Mrs. Stoddard called a physician and a constable and Bishop was closely watched through the night to prevent him from doing himself harm. He was Respondent, but from what cause is not known
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
1,oNDoNs SUPREME PROBLEM.

LONDON'S SUPREME PROBLEM.
 At Millbank London, on the Middle sex side of the Thames, half a mile above the Parliament buildings, is group of substantial fiat houses built and owned by the London county coun- cil. The architecture is good, air and light are provided for, the courts be- tween are paved with asphalt, every thing is clean, well-ordered, quiet, em- inently respectable. In front is little strip of park where the. children play. On Sunday, July 2, at noon, there came through one of the asphalt courts a young man, little boy and a young woman carrying baby They were dreadful to look upon, all of them clothed in dropping rags, emaciated, tallowy and unclean. The woman had a vacant face and next to no chin; the man had sloping shoulders, one higher than the other, and stopped. The boy reproduced and exaggerated the physi- cal defects of the man and the woman. The man slowly led the way down the court, singing. I have never known a
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
N Y. CENTRAL INDICTED.
Railroad Charged With Violating the
 EIkins Law.

Utica, N. Y. Jan 1O The United States grand jury, which has been in session in the government building for more than a week, has reported two bills of indictment for alleged violation of the Elkins bill against the giving of rebates to shippers. One indictment was against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad company and the other against the Delaware and Hudson company, and both corpora tions were charged with giving a rebate of 20 cents a ton to the General Electric company at Schenectady on all ship menjts of freight, incoming and outgo- ing, This practice, it is claimed, has been in operation since the establish ment of the General Electric company at Schenectady, and it is alleged to have continued after the passage of 9he Elkins law The discovery of the viola tion of the law was made by the Inter state commerce commission iD an in- vestigation which was held last August.
 The Investigation, which is a very im- portant one, has not been completed by the government officials, and before it is concluded some of the officials of the two railroads may be involved. The Elkins law prescribes a penalty of $20- 900 for each and every violation of the law The issues involved will be tried eventually before a jury
 The indictment of these two railroads for violating the Elkins law is said to be the first official action taken by the federal authorities in this state against the givers of rebates and discriminators in freight shipments District Attor- ney Curtiss of Singhamton had charge of the procuring of evidence and the in- dictment of the two railroad corpora tions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
Commended for Bravery.

Washington, Jan. 1o,-Thomas Ack- erman, first class, on the U. s. s. Penn sylvania, has been commended in a let ter from the secretary of the navy for presence of mind and personal bravery dis played in jumping overheard from the Pennsylvania on November in Annapolis roads and saving G. A. Roth, ordinary seaman from drowning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11

The Rough Riders gathered in the town hall, West Haven, last night and did their prettiest as entertainers at their annual masquerade ball. The pro- grammes with the pictures of the com mittee made a handsome souvenir. Three extra cars were on hand to take the crowd back to New Haven after the dance was over. A large crowd was present.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-11
PRES. W. R. HARPER OF
 CHICAGO DIES SUDDENLY

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-16

made for the hrooStonk special If this
offer is accepted. which is quite probable.
the tour of the lower part of the State
would probably have to be made during
the summer recess, presumably during the
month Of August.
The musical clubs will leave for their
annual Western trip Saturday. March %.
stopping at Pittsied and then starting
at Sl1owhegan they will give six concerts
gan, Belfast. Rockland, Auburn Rumford
Falls and Portland.
The Junior Civil Engineering SS,ciety
has secured Fl. X. Barrows of Boston to
deliver an illustrated lecture before the
society on the evening Of March q. Mr..
Barrows is in charge of the photographic
work of the United States geological sur
vey in New England. and is fully qualified
to deal with his subject, which will be
"a Modern New England Water Power
Plant, It's Design and Construction.
These lectures on practical subjects by
practical men are of great benefit to the
engineering students who are, Of course.
taking up largely the theoretical side OF
these subjects The lectures of II. A.
Hall on "rhe Motor Tool Drive" and C..
r. Burleigh of Lynn on '"The Steam Tur-
bine" were highly appreciated, and more
instructive lecturers of this type are
promised by the engineering societies
which are assisted materially by Profs
| Roardman, Ganong and Jewett OF the en-
cheering departments.
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APPOINTMENT TO ANNAPOLIS.
Ioriston, Maine. March Is. 1906

I.oriston. Maine. March Is. 1906.
Early ir April next. Senator Frye will
pnn,;n.tI Il Principal and three Alter
mates for examination for appointment to
Tho naval Academy at Annapolis. These
cX, lima lions will be made in accordance
wsh the recommendations of a Commit
We designated by Mr.. FRYE to eXamin :
applicants and report to him. OF which
Committee the undersigned is Chairman.
This Committee will hold Il preliminary
examination on Friday. March Goth. at
go A. NJ, at the Jordan High School
RuiIdng in Lewiston. The applicants will
be given a written examination in Gram
mar, Geography, History. Arithmetic. Al
zebra and Geometry. In the ranking of
these papers, spelling. punctuation and
the use of capitals will be considered.
The recommendation of this Committee
will be based upon the results of this ex-
animation which Is open to residents Of
this State between the ages of sixteen and
twenty years. Applicants should be phys
icaly sound
All desiring to take this examination
are requested to notify the Chairman of
this Committee at as\carly a date as pos
s'''e' EXAMINING COMMITTEE.
By Wallace II. White. Jr..
marI6-2i-2S Chairman.
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MAINE D. A. r.
Assemble at Bangor for the Annual
State Council Today.

Bangor. Me, March 1J.-On Thursday
afternoon and night delegates arrived in
Bangor for the annual State council of
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, which convenes here Friday morn
ing. There are about 50 delegates, repre-
senting Elizabeth Wadaworth Chapter,
Portland; Mary Dillingham; Chapter. Lew
iston; Rebecca Emery Chapter, Bidde-
ford: Samuel Grant Chapter. Gardiner
koussinoc Chapter, Augusta: Silence
Howard Hayden Chapter, Waterville;
Unicc Farnsworth Chapter, Skowhegan:
Lady Knox Chapter, Rockland; General
Knox Chapter, Thomaston; Hannah Wes-
ton Chapter, Machias; Ruth Head Cragin
Chapter, North Anson.
The meetings on Friday will be held at
the Penobscot Exchange, under the aus
pices of Frances Dighton Williams Chap
ter of Bangor, which will act as host.
There will be an address by the State re-
gent, Miss c. A. Baldwin, the reports Of
various committees and an election of Off
GERS.
On Thursday night the delegates al
ready in the city were entertained by Miss
Baldwin at her home on Cedar street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-16

Thursday WAS bargain day in Angus
Ia and it was more than that. for cv-
cry lay is a bargain day iii the Capt.
tai city. with its many big stores and
their complete stocks Of all classes, but
Thursday was II big bargain day
among the bargain DAYS of the year, a
cay when great values in goods may
be obtained at prices 50 moderate that
they are within the reach of all. These
conditions are usually brought through
one agency and that agency is a fire.
Such was the case yesterday and the
opportunity Of purchasing from a
great stock of goods for little money
was brought about by the fire which
occurred i'll the dry goods store Of BUS
sell & Weston Monday evening, March
5, which caused loss Of thousands Of
dollars to the large stock which that
firm carries AMI also caused loss to
the stocks of Mrs. T.. G. Leighton and
7. c. buckley, whose stores adjoin that
in which the fire occurred.
Augusta has several of these sales in
the past and they have always been
the occasion of the assembling of a
great crowd of the fair sex, who are,
ny the way, the past masters in the art
Oi bargain seekers, but never has there
been Il gathering of such magnitude as
that which assembled before the en-
trance of the Russell & Weston store
yesterday morning and waited the ar
rival Of the hour when the doors should
opcn and the sale begin.
Many of the male readers Of tho
Journal will doubtless remember the
DAVIS at the horse races and the county
fairs, when the fakir i'll a wagon with
a basket full of pill boxes used to
draw the crowd around him and then
after placing s. or so bills in some Of
the boxes ca, allow the crowd to draw
from he basket for such 4 price as he
saw fit to ask. Well. those gentlemen
used 20 get quite a crowd around them
bat The crowd that gathered yesterday
morning was II larger one.
The hour announced for the sale to
commence was . O'Clock, but one
would have thought by the way that
the women commenced to gather that
it was at least an hour earlier. 1t was
barely 80 when the first woman
wend.d her way down Water street and
after craning her neck in in order e
read the sign above the entrance Of the
store, to make sure that she Was IL
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the right place. stepped i'll from the
sidewalk and waited.
She was not long alone. for pretty
soon two more came up the other side
Of Tie street and on reaching Il point
opposite the stores, crossed over and
took their places near the first arrival.
BY s clock the gathering of the bar
gain hunters was in full swing and
look whichever way one would, women
could DC seen approaching, singly and
by tWCS, threeS and even skies. They
wore coming from up the street and
down the street, down Bridge hill and
across the Kennebec bridge and their
steps all led to one spot.
First the doorway was filled and
then the sidewalk in front of the en-
trance. Each woman who put III an APP
pnarancc wanted to get as near the en-
trance as possible. and 50 they snug
glcd W % one another, even as Sar-
dimes in :. box. The crowd on the side
walk Wid"ned out 50 that it extended
along the store front and also out into
the street and before 8 o'clock it bad
reached the railroad track and there
was no passing for teams except on the
east side Of the track. Pedestrians also
had to either go out around the crowd
or take the other side of the street.
1t WAS a spectacle not often seen.
The crowd at that time must have
numbered hun lrcds, and every woman
in the crowd had her eyes glued as
nearly as possible on the entrance %
the store. and every woman in til"
n OVID was StrairinE her cars to eaten
the first sound which would Jndcat"
tie opening of the doors. 1t was not
warm standing outside. for the mer
curry was at that time at zero, and the
lIicliS and snow were cold to stand
upon. But that did not make any diff
ference. The fever of bargain hunting
WAS hot in their veins and they did
not care for the cold.
During the long cold wait there was
hut one little thing that distracted
their attention. and that was when y
wandering rat appeared upon tho street.
Everyone knows the feminine fear for
"A rat or a mouse, and the chorus of
little ShriekS and cries that greeted the
appearance of that lone rodent was
something laugh able. The grea. crowd
sec med to Squet re together at least
ono third ana it is doubtful which
WAS scared the most. the crowd or the
rat. The rat vas scared All right. AMI
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE,
Preparing for Indoor Meet-"Farmers
Special" May Visit All Maine.

Orono. Me, March 1J.-tSpeciaD.-Au
classes are hard at work in preparation
for the annual indoor meet which will
take place Friday, March d; As one OF
the events is to he the frcshman-sonho-
more basketball game both classes are
now trying out candidates for the teams
AT meeting of the class Of 90 held
Thursday, James G.. Scales Of Guilford
was chosen to captdin the basketball
team, and Harold +. Marsh Of Bangor
was elected manager. The prospects for
a winning team are bright as there are
several varsity men. including Scales,
Black. Higgins and Morrison,
Candidates for the class relay teams are
practicing every day under Coach Far
rell, and the races promise plenty of ex-
element. The senior Junior teams are
very closely matched, and the two lower
classes promise a close fight for "A chance
in the final race. Each man runs two laps
or about 10 yards. the starts being made
from opposite sides of the running track,
on account of there not being room IA
run side by side
The tug-'o-war teams promise some live
" struggles, and here again the enterine
class seems to have the advantage in
Drawn and muscle. Among the heavy men
ont for the shotput are Bennett, Wey.
| mouth. Reed 'OS; Jordan 'O7, Smith 'Os and
Ray and Farwell 'O9.
The high jump and pole vault will b.
closely contested as will the dashes ans
hurdle races. A new feature VIII be in.
troduced in the shape of a mile bandicar
for the purpose of trying out the distanc.
men, many Of whom have never take,
part in race
President Fellows announced Thursda,
that word had been received from Presi
dent Tuttls that arrangements could h.
perfected for running the farmers spec
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LAW COURT DECISION,

The following decision in a Pisca taqllis
case has beer received from the law
court:
Piscataduis County.-John s. Williams,
assignee. VS.. Columbus w. Ellis and VIII
liam f. Wise.
Rescript, Emery, J.
/. When it is alleged in n declaration
that another and prior action had been
brought relating in some degree to the
same subject matter and there is no allie
CATION that such prior action had been
determined, it must be assumed to be still
pending.
=. No action for the malice with which
an act was done can be maintained while
another action for the act itself is pend
ing undetermined.
8. No statement of fact in a bill of ex-
ccptions to ruling sustaining a demur-
rer to a declaration can be considered if
it DO not also stated i'll the declaration.
Exceptions overrulcd.
Declaration adjudged insufficient.
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BURNED 70 Dead.
Terrible Death of Mrs. Dolly Decrow,
Aged 81, of Camden.

Rockland, Me-. March 15.-Mrs. Dolly
in the town of Camden, was burned to
death in her home late last night. Her
clothing caught fire from a spark while
she WIS sitting alone beside the fire.
place. She was heard to fall to the
floor by her son, who was in another
part Of the house and when he entered
the room her clothing was all in flames.
She was so badly burned. death follow
ed within an hour. The fire was extin-
guished before spreading about the
room.
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when some one opened a nearby door
to see what was the matter the little
fellow dashed III and was seen no
more.
When the o'clock train arrived
squad of recruits, and the clectrics were
running double to accommodate the
rush. But meantime the doors had
been opened t. let i'll some Of the ear
~ corners, and in this way the street
was prevented from becoming COM
rletcly congested.
The scenes inside tie store could
hardly be described. Mr.. Russell had
Il small army OF clerks to attend to
tie wants of the customers, but with
tie store crowded full of women, not
enc of whom knew just what she want
ca, it was something. that taxed the
al ilities OF those behind the counters to
tie utmost. How the customers got
cut alive and unhUrt is Il problem. fer
the crush was something terrible. One
lone man who got mixed up in the first
lot that went in said after getting out
that Il football ecrimra2e was not a
circumstance TO the scramble that was
going on inside. That it was hard on
those in the store there is not doubt.
Several women tainted and had to be
carried out, and one VINO was jammed
against the side of the door in going
i'll narrowly escaped serious injury.
Tho scenes described at the opening
held good for the day, for from early
morning until 6 at night, the women
fuCkcd to the store, and there was tn.
same crowd on the sidewalk waiting
to get in and the same crowd inside
trying 30 get a chance to buy some
thing. There was no ictup at the noon
hour. and many went without their
dinner III order to get into the store
and buy something, whether they
needed it or not. The clerks had no
time to get out, ana had their lunch
brought i'll, eating it as they had an
opportunity.
And thus the day passed. The rush
was not all at the store mentioned, as
the other two stores mentioned above
got "A share of tie trade. put the main
point of attack was at Russell & Wes-
toms. It was not Il dull day at the
ether stores on the street. for many OF
the bargain seekers, rather than to en-
counter the crush and Inconvenience,
sought the other stores and after buy
iiic what they waltcd. went home.