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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
IN ALEXANDRIA
CONRAD JOHNSON CHOSEN
PRINCIPAL OF GIRLS SCHOOL.
Jury Returns Verdict of Criminal
Negligence in Gasoline Launch
Drowning Case.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 6. 1909.
At the annual meeting of the city school
board last night Conrad Johnson was
chosen principal of the public school for
white girls to succeed Capt. William II.
Sweeney, elected to that position, but
later chosen superintendent Of schools.
Mahlon H. Janney was elected vice prin-
cipal of the Washington School for Boys
and will teach in the seventh grade, which
was formerly taught by Capt. Sweeney.
Eugene Lindsay was elected teacher
for the boys school to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Fitzgerald
Jones' ALI Of the present teachers were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06
Have The Star Follow You.

order for The Star to be mailed to you
while you are out of town this summer
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Star. postage prepaid, is GO cents month
Cash with order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-06

In1S Is moving Ody.
The executive Offices by tomorrow aft
ernoon will be vacant-no clerks, no fur
niture. Some of the furniture has al
ready been moved out and tomorrow
everything will be taken out. This is to
permit the contractors to get to work
on the new $4,000 addition to the ex-
ecutiye offices. The executive office staff,
except those who go to Beverly with the
President, will be Quartered in the rooms
of the basement of the main White
House used as dressing rooms during the
winter social season. There are five large
rooms, ample for the staff during the
summer vacation. Assistant Secretary
Mischler will remain in charge of the
force, assisted by Executive Clerks Latta
and Young. Secretary Fred Carpentry
and Assistant Secretary Rudolph Forster
will accompany the President, as will
several of the clerks, including Edward
w. Smithers. chief of the Geographic
| force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-25
CROUNDLESS WEATHER REPORTS

During the coming festive holiday week
the glass will continue to go up causing tenn
peratures to rise far above normal
High tides will predominant at the bars
along the Atlantic Coast and inland as well.
These disturbances will cease with the new
year, when better conditions are promised
which, however. may only be temporary.
At this season fresh airs will prevail par
ticularly in the growing boy. Snow-balllng,
however, should be encouraged as ii gives
the youth an aim in life and also helps the
hat business.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
MANCHESTER

Mrs. w. p. Burton is spending a
few days in Glens Falls, n. Y.
Miss Ellis Western Union Tele-
graph operator. spent Sunday in Al
bany.
The Manchester Union band will
give concert on Court house square
this evening.
Mrs. d. X. Simonds went today to
Brattleboro to attend a reunion Of
her high scnool class.
The annual meeting of the Ekwan-
ok Country club will be held at the
club house this evening.
Services were held in st. Johns
Episcopal church Sunday with Rev.
Mr.. Carroll OF New York officiating.
Otto r. Bennett, A. C. Orvis. Myron
Pettibone and Henry Walker spent
Sunday at Bourn pond in the Green
Mountains.
Frederick A. Martin has been spend
ing a few days in Saratoga with j. F.
Stanley of Newark. n. J. They made
the trip in the latter's automobile.
Assistant Judges Norman Il. Maths
on of Glastonbury and Charles b.
Kent of Dorset were in town Monday
to transact some business concerning
the court house.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Miss Catherine McOuatt of Pitts
field is visiting at her former home
in this town.
Miss Margaret Healy has returned
from visit with her brother, John L.
Healy of Portsmouth, N. H.
Mrs. John Robinson returned Mon
day from Burlington where she at
tended the Champlain celebration.
A party of about twenty ladies were
conveyed to Camp L'Oafmore this
morning wlere they are spending the
day on a picnic.
Bert L. Allen and wife and Miss
Mamie MERCER have gone to Boston
for two weeks outing They will
visit Revere Beach and later will go
to Concord, n. II.
The price of eggs has remained tAe
same during the past week and are
still retailing at the local stores for
% cents a dozen. Farmers butter is
selling for 20 cents a pound while
creamery brings SO cents.
Joseph Garreau mas leased from
John Norton the store under C. T.
Burt's harness shop on South street,
formerly occupied by Joseph J. Cone.
Mr. Garreau is repairing and remodel
ing the interior and will soon open a
quick-u-want lunch room.
At two o'clock this afternoon Their
mometers registered sc on Main st.
This is four degrees warmer than on
Monday. The morning dawned warm
with very oppressive humidity AL
though rain is needed badly no pros
poets OF a shower are in sight.
Ray Collins, for the past four years
star pitcher on the University of Yer
mont team, left Burlington Monday
for Boston to report to President John
| Taylor, president Of the Boston Am
erican team. The Red Sox members
are now in the West, closing their Sc
ries with the White SoX at Chicago
yesterday and beginning series in st
Louis today. The team will also play
Cleveland and Detroit in the order
named before returning East and il
is probable that Collins will join the
team in one of those cities.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
s22 OUT OF 900 DIDN'T PASS
Sheffield Puts Up Her Entrance Re-
quirements with This Result

Acting upon the implied criticism
of the ease with which entrance was
made to Yale. the authorities of the
Sheffield Scientific school this year
so raised the requirements that of the
900 who tried the entrance examinat-
ions only 27S succeeded in passing.
The number that tried is much lar
ger than ever before and the number
which passed smaller than for some
years past.
The trouble started with criticism
in which Yale, Harvard and Columbia
with some of the other colleges, were
included and the entrance require
ments with the number of special stu
dents were attacked. Secretary
Stokes succeeded in getting from the
Carnegie Foundation whose officers
made the attack. denial that Yale
was meant especially" So the Yale
authorities raised the requirements
for this Junes examinations.
In the past the standard of scholar
ship has been maintained by whole
sale explosions during freshmen and
junior years of men who were unable
TO keep up in their work. The class
which will be senior next year has
been cut down at least one-half since
it entered as freshmen two years ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13

visiting her mother, Mrs. ]. H. War
rem of School street.
Circle No. 5 of the Methodist
church will meet Wednesday after
noon from to with Mrs. c. w.
Evans of Grandview street
Leon Lamarre returned Friday last
from Readsboro, Nottingham and Bur
lington. He left Monday evening on
the Pilgrimage to ST. Anne de Beau
pre- and will also visit in Quebec and
st Johns before returning home.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Brief,
for Busy Readers

William Warren of School street
picked two ripe tomatoes from his
garden today.
Mr. and Mrs. William e. Hawks, Sr.
are at Clifton Springs, n. Y, for the
benefit of Mr. Hawks health.
Mrs. Carrie Goldsmith of Boston is
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
TO RENT

V1O RENT-One of the most desirableltene-
ments in Woodford Inquire of j. L.
Harbour. 6t6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
Notice

The board OF license commissioners
will meet next Tuesday evening at
o'clock in the town rooms to receive
applications for second class license.
Anyone wishing to make application
before the meeting may do SO by
handing his application to F. Il. Bat
ties, chairman.
F.. E. Battles,
F.. S. Pratt,
w. A. Wall.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13

NO RENT-Desirable tenemants offices
i stores, mill property with water power
individual storage lockers VIM. L. Hawks. 2O5
North St.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13

TO RENT-Two desirable tenements on
l. Main street. Apply TO Dr' H. j. Potter
off
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Paul Cronin OF Hoosick Falls visit
ed in town Monday.
Aldace Vondette went to East Dor
set today on business.
Horace Kenney is visiting his cous-
in, Robert Cummings of North street.
Mrs. Hattie Albee of Gage street
left today for Troy for a weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Keeler left tnis
morning to visit relatives in Cohoes.
Miss Luella Goldsmith and guest,
Mrs. G. E. Lassor spent Monday in
North Adams.
Miss ALA Casey, a former resident
and now of Pittsburg, Pa, is visiting
friends in town.
Daniel l.. Karanaugh, who has been
visiting John Eddington, returned
Monday to Buffalo, N. Y.
F. b. Carver has returned from Cot
tage City, Mass, where his family
are spending the summer
Miss Helen Darling of West Ben
nington is spending few days with
Miss Alice Brade.
Hugh MacLaren and sister Isabelle
went this morning to Troy to spend a
weeks visit with relatives.
r. P. Bracket Of New York City
was the guest over Sunday of Mrs. j.
II. Warren of School street.
DR.. w. B. Stewart of Oneonta, N.
Y. has been spending few days in
town. He is now in Burlington.
Herbert Remington, who has been
spending a few days in Fitchburg,
Mass, returned Monday evening
Misses Claire O'Neil and Nellie
Baldwin of Cohoes are visiting Mrs.
Daniel O'Donnell of River street
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
LOST

| OsT-Between Bennington and the dugway
L. in Pownal, brass cover to automobile
starter. Finder will please ret lrn TO A. X
Richie, Bennington. 03tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13

TABITHA:
Raised biscuits from Gold Medal Flour
are excellent SAMANTHA
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-13
Notice..

Whereas my husband has left my
bed and board without just cause of
of provocation, hereby forbid all
persons harbouring him or trusting
him on my account as | shall pay no
bills of his contracting after this
date.
Mrs. Mary Waite,
North Bennington. VT. June 2S, 'O9.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-03
we will give you
ALL the Profit
Mems OVerCOatS!

0 Only Mems Overcoats. Regularly sold at
$l000--$l2.50
These will be sold during this Red Tag
Special Sale at $685.
90 Mems Nobby and Up-To-Date Overcoats,
Storm Collars, Velvet Collars, Swagger
Effect in all the Leading Materials Any SIZE
you want. Every one Of these garments will be
Sold at the Big Red Tag Reduction. Come and
See them and get fitted
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-12-03
BIG BARGAINS DURING THIS
R f D I A 6 S A lie!
Ladies' Silk Underskirts:

ONLY Ladies High Grade Silk Underskirts
in all the leading colors including Black, Brown,
Blue and Wisteria.
Regularly sold at Five Dollars, Six Dollars and
Seven Dollars Fifty Cents.
During this Red Tag Sale we will Sell
Them Without Reserve
So . Each
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
DoubIe-Mindcd Chameleons.

A most remarkable creature is the
chameleon. To all appearances the
nervous centers In one lateral half Of
the animal work independently of
those on the other and 1t has two
lateral centers of perception-sensa-
tion and motion--besides the COM
mon one In which must reside the
faculty of concentration. The eyes
move independently Of one another
and convey separate impressions to
their respective centers of percep-
tion. The consequence is that when
the animal Is agitated its movements
resemble those of two animals, or
rather perhaps two halves of ami
mails glued together. Each half
wishes to go its own way and there
is no concordance.
Therefore the chameleon Is the
only four-legged vertebrate that is
frightened when dropped into water
that all faculty of concentration is
lost and the creature tumbles about
as II in state of intoxication.
When a chameleon Is undisturbed
every impulse to motion is referred
to the proper tribunal and the whole
organism acts in accordance with its
DEGREES. The eye, for example. that
receives the strongest impression
propagates it to the common center,
which then prevails upon the other
eye to follow that impression and d.
rect its gaze toward the same object.
Moreover, the chameleon may be
fast asleep on one side and wide
awake on the other. Cautiously ap-
preached at night with candle 30
as not to awaken the whole animal
at once. the eye turned toward tho
light will open, begin to move. and
the corresponding side to change
color The other side will remain
for longer or shorter time In tor
pid, motionless and unchanged state
with its eye fast shut.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
SKELETONS UNDER
FISHERS HUT.
Jougard Digging Cellar When Spade
Struck Human Skull.

North Sydney, Nova Scotia.-Sixty'
one human skeletons constituted the
gruesome find of fisherman named
Jougard on the island of st. Pierre.
According to private advices re.
ceived here, Jougard made the ghast'
ly discovery while digging a cellar un'
der his home in the little fishing ham
let of Anse Allumets.
Only a few feet below the surface
of the ground Jougard's spade struck
the hidden quarry Of bones. There
was human skull among them, and
the excited fisherman, waiting no fur.
ther developments, hurried to the au,
thorities of st. Pierre with the news,
Sixty years and more ago the i'll.
fated ship Clarisse was wrecked off
the shores Of st. Pierre, near Anse
Allumets, and large number of per.
sons perished. Old islanders now re.
call a tale heard in their childhood of
bodies washed ashore from this his
toric wreck and buried in common
grave.
Jougard's find is probably the bones
of the Clarisse's dead. They have
been given public burial by the peo-
Pile Of st. Pierre.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
BEAT HER FOR READING BIBLE.
Farmers Wife Says Her Husband
Wanted Her In the Fields.

Paterson, N. J.-Her husband beat
her because she halted in her work
of plowing the fields to read the Bible,
which she always carried with her,
said Mrs. Mary Liptak of Richfield,
when she appeared as complainant
against John Liptak before Justice
Keys. Her story moved the Justice
so much that he held Liptak in $500
bail for the Grand Jury.
81 am devout Baptist" Mrs. Lip
tax said, land my husband is not a
member of any church. That often
has caused quarrels between us. |
am a Woodworking woman and l work
with my husband in the fields. ] al
ways carry my Bible with me and
frequently stop when plowing to OBJ
tain comfort by reading it."
Mrs. Liptak said that when she stop
ped work and went to reading the
Bible her husband demonstrated with
her.
HE insisted that l give up my
Bible; | refused to do 1t, and he at
tackled me-" the woman continued,
1--WE quarreled and he chased me and
caused me to take refuge with my
Bible in the home of my brother in
Passaic. After that | caused his ar.
rest"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
RETAIL STORES OF AMERICA.
Teach the World the Art of Selling
bY SYstpm.


The last few years have shown the
greatest strides in Industrial and
commercial life the world ever has
known" says Kendall Banning. an
aLthority on modern business meth
DDS. This growth began and is
still centcred In this country. In one
century the growth of manufactured
products has increased 200 per
cent, while our exports have in
creased 430 per cent"
Nowhere is this growth and pros
perity more evident than in the large
retail stores. They represent won
derful achievements over the small
country store where people went
both to shop and gossip
These merchants all declare that
this industrial advancement lies in
the Improvement of modern business
methods. 1t is Yankee ingenuity that
has accomplished 1t, which includes
the two ies-adaptibility and
the power of imitation. General
Early once said THE secret of
military success lies in an ability to
there first" This same fact holds
good in business. Many owners Of
great stores have been pioneers
they saw the growing needs and set
out to satisfy the wants.
Such man was John Wanama-
ker, the owner of the first large re-
tail stores. In the early COS busi-
lines: Men began to work at 80
and continued until 7.3O. except on
Saturday nights, when the stores
closed at 11.30. There was no set
tied selling prices for goods: there
was an asking price and the most
pc: sistent haggling often took place
until some price was agreed up0A-
Wages were as unstable as prices.
In the making of clothes wages were
seldom paid to the working people.
The fortnightly payments usually
came In groceries, coal and orders
on which the manufacturer had his
percentage. The only two things
that were plentiful we're ideas and
plans.
Wanamaker was the first mer-
chant to make sweeping reforms. he
said: I'VE shall give cash payments
to work people on the completion of
their work. and we shall shorten
their hours. We shall not have two
prices-only one--and lastly. we are
willing to take back anything sold
and return the money"
He and the other retailers who
adopted these new ideas said, Our
times demand higher business stan
dards. In the planning and system
atizing of our business we shall aim
to do things better than they have
ever been done. We shall try to
eliminate error; work to please as
well as to market our wares. We
shall give the best goods at the low
est prices possible"
System and economy were the
two important principles first recog-
nized by John Wanamaker, and are
still adhered to by every successful
merchant.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08

ers, who seat themselves on this rude
divan while they arrange purchases.
This is always lengthy business,
and expected to be so by buyer and
seller, who quietly give themselves up
to a half hours "haggie" over every
trihe. The buyer seated, the seller
offers a pipe, and sends to the near
est coffee-house for cups of the hot
beverage. Then begins the exaltation
of the article to be sold, and an ex-
travagant price is named, to be sue
ceeded by as great a depreciation of
price and quality on the part of the
buyer. Then the subject is dropped.
pipes and coffee resumed, to be after
a time renewed, as before, until some
thing like a fair medium is reached,
and the bargain concluded.
There is no fixed price for any
thing; hence you cannot ask for an
article, pay its value and leave the
shop with 1t in the course of five min
utes; it is impossible thus to econom-
ize time in the East. The subdivision
of trade, too, is another hindrance.
IL u man WdhlS tuipdh iS iao W
go to one dealer for the scarlet skull
cap fez or tarboosh; to another for
the heavy silk tassel, and to third
for the shawl which he winds about 1t,
and SO makes 1t complete. One man
deals in pipe stems, generally made
of jasmine or cherry-stick; a second
drills them; third deals in amber
mouth-pieces; fourth in the red
earthen bowls from Stout or Stam-
boul; a fifth In leaf-tobacco. which q
man cuts up for you; and thus half
a day may be easily consumed In OBJ.
tanning what half an hour would Sc.
cure for you In our country. Each
trade II distinct. and has Its own ap-
pointed district, 30 that much time
is occupied in visiting shops widely
Rsunder. q.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
Shopping In EqYpt.

The streets are generally crammed
with people, and lined with busy
shops, each shop being a small open
room. unconnected with the house by
any door or passage; and closed in
at night by folding-doors. secured by
locks and bolts outside. It is fitted
all round with shelves or cases for
merchandise, and has a floor raised
about two feet from the ground, which
projects about the same distance into
the roadway, and upon which carpets
and cushions are placed for custom
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-04-08
LAWN PARTY HUGS HOT STOVE
Dancers In Blocks Of 35 Sit Outdoors,
Awaiting Turns Inside the
Small House.

Asbury Park, n. LAWN parties in
cold months in New Jersey are the
exception rather than the rule, but
when they have a big parlor stove to
warm them they are all right. That
has been discovered in Whitesville.
near here. and it is thought mid-win.
ter lawn parties soon viii become
fad with those who are yearning to
get close to nature and back to grass.
even though 1t be frost-bitten.
Eighty-fve friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Martin whose home Is In Bangs
avenue, Whitesvile. agreed to hold a
surprise party at the Martin home
The secret was kept so well that 1t
was not until the merrymakers reach.
ed the house the Martins had an ink.
ling of it. When it came time for
dancing II was discovered that even
after clearing two rooms and throw.
ing them together not more than fifty
persons could stay in the house.
Lets carry the parlor stove out 20
the lawn and sit around 1t until 1t Is
our turn to Dance" one of the men
suggested.
The Martins did not object. The
big stove was carried out. enough pipe
was left on 1t to supply draft and
while fifty members Of the surprise
party danced inside the house the
other thirty-five men and women
clustered about the stove on the
lawn and had Jolly time. After
each dance thirty-five OF those in the
house went to the lawn and left room
inside for the thirty.five who had been
hugging the stove. The arrangement
worked so well that the party did not
break up until long after midnight.