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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-27
School Superintendent
Certificates

Persons employed AZ superintendent OF
schools for unions of towns where State aid is
given. are required to hold State certificates
of supesntendence grade. An examination
for &C rtlficates OF this grade will be held at
the Council Chamber, City Hall, Augusta,
Friday, January d. Circulars of infor ton
Will be sent on application to
PAYSON SMITH,
State Superintendent OF Public Schools
Augusta, Maine
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-27

A large bunch Of old papers for Sc
at this once.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-27
HACK BUSINESS
FOR SALE !!

Owing to Ill health am forced to
sell out my fine hacking business
which includes two good horses, hack
carry all, pung, rober, blankets etc.
Everything first class and complete
in all particulars. A fine chance for
the right man. Will sell at a sacrifice
to close quick.
THOS. BUTLER,
AZ Leavitt ST.,
2w4 Skowhegan. Me,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
How Cold Can 1t Be

WHAT is the coolest possible temperature
The question is timely one: tor 1t has
seemed at times during this last winter as IT the
bottom of the temperature scale must surely
be struck-providing there is bottom. Is
there, then, any limit to the degree of GOODNESS
that can be obtained or imagined! As we know
of no definite upper limit to possible temper
atures why should there be lower!
We might speculate and argue as long as we
please on the reasona beness of this last point
but all to avail, for science steps IN and says
with great positiveness that there IS definite
limit to the lowest conceivable temperature,
and that this may be placed with considerable
accuracy at four hundred and hfty-nlne degrees
below zero on the Fahrenheit scale. We sup
pose that at all temperatures above this abso-
lutte zero" particles of matter, either solid or
gaseous are in state of vibration, the more
rapid vibrations corresponding to the greater
degree of heat. All such vibrations would
cease entirely at absolute zero and all gases
would liquefy and even solidify before reaching
this point
The gradual approach in scientific expert
ments to this lowest possible temperature re-
minds one of the various "farthest north ex-
petitions. Liquid air, with its three hundred
and twelve degrees below zero, was great adj
vance on previous records. although still over a
hundred degrees above this absolute zero.
Liquid hydrogen at minus four hundred and
twenty-five degrees or thirty-seven absolute,
was a still greater advance and when this was
frozen INTO sohd hydrogen ice atfOur hundred
and thirty-two below zero or twenty-seven
degrees absolute. it seemed as if science had done
its best in this direction
But only little over year ago the rare gas
helium was hqueied at minus four hundred and
fifty one degrees. When this was boiled under re-
duced pressure temperature of minus four
hundred and ffty-four was reached, or only five
degrees above absolute zero. and this will prob
ably remain our "farthest north" point for some
time to come Slightly lower temperatures than
this can undoubtedly be reached; but there is
small hope of our ever attaining absolute zero
any more than there is Of reaching perfection
in anything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

LOW would it feel to be struck by projectile
! travelling at speed of fifteen hundred or
more feet second! 1t is true that all too
many of mankind have had this happen to
them, to their misfortune perhaps suffering
the loss of limb or worse consequence;
but most people hope to be able to escape this
experience.
And vet physical science says that we are at
every instant of lives being besieged by
millions of projectiles travelling with approx
mately this velocity. These not rifle bullets;
nor are they indeed of sufficient size to be visi-
BILE even with microscope. nor yet can their
separate impacts be felt, although their aggre-
gate effect may be easily observed and is indeed
one of the great factors, SO to speak, IN our ex-
lStence
What are the particles, then, that make up
this shower? Before answering this question
let us consider what happens when stream OF
water, as from a nozzle, is directed at some
object say board held in the hand. Although
each drop of water may be thought of as strik-
ing the board separately, thus producing its
own little impact yet so rapidly do they sue
coed one another that steady pressure on the
board results. This example serves to show.
then, that continuous force or pressure may
be produced by series of impacts of moving
particles.
In the present case the pressure to account
for is that of the atmosphere. This is fire.
quently explained by the simple statement that
air has weight; but, while true, this does
not give sufficient insight into the actual mech
anism by which this pressure is produced.
There are the best reasons for believing that
the particles of air or of any other gas for that
matter, are in rapid motion in nearly straight
lines, continually colliding with one another as
well as with the walls of the containing vessel
or other object, and it is these collisions. hap
pening as they do millions of times a second
over even very small area, that give rise to
our atmospheric pressure
The particles that make up this shower are
doubtless the ultimate molecules of the gas.
Their velocites for temperature of thirtytwo
degrees Fahrenheit are on the average, fifteen
hundred and twelve feet second for oxygen
and sixteen hundred and fifteen for nitrogen.
the velocities increasing somewhat for higher
temperatures The number of molecules in
even a cubic inch of air is enormous. and might
be roughly represented by the figure l with
twenty-one ciphers after it. The size of each
molecule must of course be correspondingly
small, so small indeed that many hundred
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20


Attending as it does to all the mechanical
part of our doings, nothingis more natural than
that the subconsciousness should keep for us a
reckoning OF time. There is no question what
ever that it does keep such reckoning and a
remarkably accurate one. How it accom-
plishes this, nobody can say. 1t would be in
teresting to know whether the lower animals
are able to count me. and if SO with what de-
gree of accuracy.
Some dogs exhibit unmistakable knowledge
of the hour the masters home coming is to be
expected. There is obviously no reason, a
prforf, for surprising that they or other lower
animals do not possess a fairly correct notion
OF time. Of course they know the hours for
meals. but that Is merely matter of habit and
hunger prompting. Thus, in like manner. our
own stomachs count the hours that separate
one feeding time from another. In that sense,
the stomach NAV be called the hour hand of the
human clock
Such an idea may apply to any physical
habit. The writer once knew man who quit
ting work every day at four p NJ. invariably
went directly across the street to convenient
saloon and took drink of whisky. He thought
it was good for him. Eventually, however he
decided that 1t was quite the reverse, and so
gave 1T up. But for manv years after he had
abandoned the habit and retired from business
he could always tell when four o'clock arrived,
almost to the minute. by slight sinking feel
ing Just beneath what he called his wish
bone. 1t was, of course, call by the nervous
long
been accustomed
The human clock has no pendulum. 1t is a
spring clock, the spring being the alimentarv
system. One winds it up when he eats. If
there should be anything wrong with the mech
anism, it is likely to show on the face of the
clock
Anyone who gets into the habit of doing
without watches and clocks is to find that
his own time sense improves to remarkable
extent. Like other senses, this one is much
I,,o1c hon, hoo
some persons being extraordinarily accurate
guessers of time
But of course watches and clocks set stan
dards of time which purely arbitrary and
artificial Time, in the sense in which we think
Of it, has no existence, properly speaking. So
far can be perceived, to day is the same day
as yesterday, or as tomorrow, and the only
thing comprehensive that we mean when we
speak of the duration of time is the decay of
things. Things pass, not time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
By Rene Bache

WING awake for awhile IN the By Rem
IL middle of the night, especially
if one reclines on his left side he
hears, quite loud, rhythmic beating 1t IS the
ticking of the human clock
Every human being is clock. The heart is
the escapement which makes the ticks, The
hour hand is the stomach. Man the first
and original clock. His body kept time for
him ages before there were clocks or watches.
There is such thing as time sense" All
of us have it. To some extent civilized people
have lost it, owing to the habit Of depending
upon mechanical timekeepers. but man or
woman who gets accustomed to judging time.
in the absence of watches and clocks, soon
develops surprising accuracy in this regard.
There is an experiment, which everyone has
tried, that serves admirably to illustrate the
efficiency of the human creature clock. 1t
is very simple. On going to bed, you impress
upon your mind the fact that, in order to catch
a certain train next morning, you must wake at
five A. NJ. 1t IS an unusual and inconvenien.
time, but having made the appointment with
yourself, you keep it. 1t is not vet daylight
when you awake; but YOU light match, look
at your watch, and-loi- lit is within two or
three minutes of the hour.
Something has been keeping time for you.
What is it, Evidently your subconsciousness
that portion of the mind which retains more or
less activity even in the most profound slum-
Der, whose thoughts represent the fabric out of
which dreams are constructed.
1t is rather curious fact that all savages
nights. If they wish to express the idea that
certain thing will happen one week hence
they say that the event will occur seven
sleeps from now.
When it is a question of counting months,
they reckon by the dark Of the moon. They
say that a thing happened SO many lost
moons" ago. And where years are concerned
they count not by summers, but by winters
Thus the Indians used to keep their winter
counts, that is to say their tallies of years, on
buffalo robes.
In every case, where primitive peoples are
concerned, it is the dead, or lost, time that
counts; but this, Of course, is matter of calen-
dars not of clocks. Man becomes clock through
the relation that exists between his bodily
functions and the external influences he en-
counters in nature.
We are accustomed to think of our subcon-
sciousness as of small relative importance. AS
a matter of fact, however, it represents the
bulk of the mind, SO to speak. Probably it
does ninety-nine per cent. of our thinking for
US. In other words. it is likely that we are not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
DO YOU KNOW? :
Perhaps You Dc
Perhaps You Don't

thousands them would have to be combined
to produce a particle of even microscopic size !,
yet they constitute the unseen hailstorm that
give use to our atmospheric pressure and the
manifold phenomena depending on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
EVERYONE HIS OWN CLOCK

in an intellectual sense, conscious
of ninetv-nine out of every one
hundred thoughts we have.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
SCHEME OF
RAILROADS
To Increase Freight Rates
Uncovered by State
Railroad Commits
sion.
BY United Press Wire.

Columbus, o., June 29.--The state
railroad commission yesterday uncov-
cred an alleged plot OF railroads to
increase freight rates i'm Ohio by re-
classification of tariffs. "
This has been thwarted by refusal
of the commission to file the new
classilications. IT Is believed that the
railroads will bring suit In mandamus
to compel filing.
The commission declares this move
by the railroads to he a subterfuge
for obtaining the increased rates
which were enjoined recently by Pres
ident Taft and Attorney General
Wickersham. The railroads had filed
notice of increases in commodity rates.
These were withdrawn when action
was started in federal courts.
The new classifcations, If allowed.
would increase freight rates from fif-
teen to thrty-1ive per cent say the
railroad commissioners The latter
have refused to file them on the
ground that they violate section $3.50
Of the state code, which fixes the max
imum freight rate at five cents per
ton per mile. The new classification
was to so in effect August l.. ts..d
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
DANIEL dams
HELD BY POLICE
Of Cincinnati on Suspicion
Of Having Murdered An
ma Lloyd January /.
BY United Press Wire.

Cincinnati, June 29.-Daniel Dams,
held by the police as a suspect in
the Anna Lloyd murder mystery, is
being "sweated" again today, i'm the
hope of eliciting information from
him which might furnish clue to
that crime. After severe examina-
ton, Tuesday, he broke down and
confessed that he had attacked Mrs.
Charles Wilson, of Destwood on
June is. He also admitted that he
had served six years in the Ohio pen
itentiary for attacking another woman
i'm Chillicothe. He told Chief of Po-
lice Millikin that he. is periodically
subject to uncomfortable impulses ia
attack women. He has been bound
over to the grand jury Since his re-
lease from prison Dams has been
working as a railroad freight con
ductor. He formerly went by the
name of Ffed Williams. Anna Lloyd
beautiful young woman, was slain
in Westwood January 1.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29

with Governor Dickerson and rub
down.
Tomorrow the real betting will be-
gin Last night 10 to 6 1-2 were the
prevailing prices. Some guess 1t will
go to 10 to and others look for to
{. Whichever way the coin is laid
here, is expected to make the price
throughout the United States, al
though England may continue to
make Johnson the favorite. The prin-
cipal betting on the rounds was even
money that Jeffries would win Ia if-
teen rounds.
Jeffries is sporting a Mural decora-
ion of the left eye, n memento of
Mondays boxing session. The guilty
person Is not known, each of the four
sparring partners claiming the honor,
with Berger having a lood lead In
the lists.
Disquicting rumors regarding u
number of minor physical ailments
suffered by Jcffries were circulated
asst night. 1t is admitted that he had
an attack of stomach trouble, which
accounted for his failure to do much
work Tuesday. Jim Corbett eX-
Dericnced the game trouble, attribut.
ing it TO the water at Moana Springs
Another rumor had to do with JEFF
'ries' right elbow, which is said to
he innamed and which is in need OF
IN immediate operation. DIR. w. $.
Porter. of Oakland, who attended to
1effrics' knee, when Jim hurt II at
Harbin Springs while training for
Munro, land who also performed an
operation recently upon Mrs. Jeffries
yas closeted with Jeffrics last even
ing and It was reported that he would
tap the big fellows arm today.
Buns continue to drop off every
train and the tough mugs" to be
seen around the gambling houses are
enough TO scare the money out of the
tendcr-foots pocket, even before he
las chance to place a bet. The
gamblers have screwed the percentage
~ to the breaking point and the suck
RS are being busted. The play for
he house is becoming so regular that
nc dealers are kept so busy they
tced help to rake in the coin.
In anticipation of the enforcement
f an anti gambling law on october
= the gamblers have organized mu-
lual admiration society and are help
ng one another to round up the
larks and to make the play against
he visitors In their midst because
his probably will be the last oppor-
unity they will have to make a big
'lcan-up.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
BURY US
- TOGETHER
Asks a Young Man Who
Killed a Woman and Com
mitted Suicide at a Chi
cago Hotel.

Chicago, June ga young man who
gave the name of William Thompson
at the Leland hotel today. shot and
killed handsome young woman, whp
was registered as his wife and com
mitted suicide. :" tried to make q
good girl OF her but-zit can't be done
read note of explanation written by
the man. The young couple registered
at the Leland hotel last night and left
a call for 8 o'clock this morning.
They appeared to be in a happy frame
of mind and exchanged pleasantries
with the clerk before retiring
Soon after they had been called this
morning two shots were heard. The
door of their room was broken open
and both We're found dead, The girl
had been shot through the breast and
the man had a bullet wound in his
head.
A note written by the man was
found IN the room. It read, fS
May God have mercy on me for
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
PRESENTMENT
OF GRAND JURY
Investigating White Slave
Traffic Made Public
---Denounce Pro
CureSSeS.
BY United Press Wire.

New York. June 2S.-The present
ment of the e. and jury, which, head
ed by John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., has
been investigating the white Slave"
traffic in New York City, was made
public today by Judge O'Sullivan, who
few days ago refused to accept the
presentment and ordered the grand
jury to continue their work
The grand Jurors declare that while
they found several cases of white
slavery in New York, they could
find no evidence that there was any
organization, incorporated or other
wise, engaged in women for immoral
purposes"
The grand jurors made a scathing
denunciation of procurers and pro-
curesses, whom they declare to be
largely on the increase in this city
They urge that these persons be ar
'ested on sight when known TO the
police and Legislation be enacted to
make convictions surer and easier for
the officers of the law. The pres
entation denounces the moving pic,
ure show as a hOtbed of vice and
Irges more rigid legislation for safe.
guarding young girls who patronlzt
.hese theaters. Massage parlors an6
| nanicuring establishments are severe
y attacked. The grand jurors de
/ ,lare that they Investigated 125 o.
| .hese establishments and fonud the!
I we're simply disorderly resorts, guis
ng under different names
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
SOCIETY
and CLUBS

The Woman's Home Missionary so
ciety of Epworth NJ f.. church viii
hold its regular monthly meeting al
the home of Mrs. Olive Linn, thre,
n>iles north of the city, on ths-C., NJ
q B. interurban line. Thursday at 2:3C
y. m. The following program will be
observed.
Lesson study, "The Christian"
Hymn.
Devotional exercises. Mrs. w. b
Denman
Roll call, quotations from hymns.
Business.
Report of the 27th annual meeting
Paper, "Our Industrial Homes
Evangelising Agencies" Mrs. Frank
Click.
Reading. Jack Nazarem," Mrs. ].
~ Campbell.
Review, "The Christian Miss Eliz-
abeth ReXroth.
Refreshments will be served by cir
Gle No Everybody invited. BE at
interurban station promptly to take
o'clock car.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29

bid you ever come to our town on
what's called circus day?
When all us fcllers get a job so we
don't have to pay.
It's fun to sneak around the tent
And peep through the holes to see
The elephants and monkeys in the
big menagerie
on circus day us felIers all turn out
and help the men
Put up the tent and fix the seats
and'range the lions den.
We march along right in the parade
and make a grand display.
We hold the music for the band and
keep time while they play.
Oh circus day, old circus day, that
comes in hot July,
When days are long and Navy and
the swimmin' hole is dry,
To just relieve us fellers and spur
life in us once more
And give us daring stunts to try
we've talked of weeks before.
So Tommie put a trapese up and
hung on by his toes.
lie slpt and fell just like the clown
but bloodcd up his nose,
And Billie got his eye punched out
that afternoon when he
Was pecpin' in the dressin' tent to
see what he could see.
When / get big I guess I'll be a
circus acrobat
For | can stand upon my head. and
| can skin the cat.
like to see the animals and hear
the brass band play,
And live a life that's happy when
it's always circus day.
FRED *. DIX Prospect, o.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29

a woman was caught red handed
last Tuesday. There was nothing
sensational about it. All she had
done was to do her washing with
cheap, common yellow laundry soap,
and the result was, as IL always is
that her hands were cracked and
chapped and chafed until they were
sights. Hewitts Easy Task soap re-
lieves a woman of so much rubbing
and dipping the hands in the water
that no harm results. As a matter
of fact, Hewitts Easy Task soap Il
good to wash the hands with. Il
won't hurt the most delicate Skin
| any more than the finest lace.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
COURT NEWS

w. f. Scofeld and George b. SEQ
field have filed a petition in court
asking for the revivor of judgment
secured by them in the common
pleas court, May 26, 1894, against
Francis NJ. Drake, E. p. Wright and
John +. McKinstry, The petition al
leges that there is now due the sum
of s1,s1S.SO on the judgment.
The petition was filed by Attorneys
Sconeld and DuTfee.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Dr. j. M. Hoskins and Miss Grace
Wise, and Albert b. Martin and Su'
san T., McElheney.
Arthur NJ. Dent and Mrs. Marie
Myers, both colored, have been IL
censed to marry.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
.OvERRULED
motion OF HYDE
For a New Trial on the
Charge of Numbering
Col. Swope.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 29.-Judgc
Ralph Latshaw, in the criminal court
his morning, overruled the motion of
DR.. B. Clark Hyde for new trial
on the charge of numbering Colonel
Thomas ii, Swope, He handed down
long and carefully written sum-
mary of the reasons which led him
to refuse a rehearing. Attorneys for
the defense Immediately filed a mo-
tion for appeal TO the supreme court
which Judge Latshaw VIII grant. lie
refused to grant BAH TO the prisoner
while the matter is pending before
the higher tribunal. fi6a sNA ii
The Judge declared that the tury'a
verdict was . just one and was war;
ranted by-E.i .ie yefidence submitted.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
BRIEF MENTION

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Sloan. OF Delaware avenue, this morn
ing, son.
A marriage license has been issued
to Lowell Wise and Miss Lillian Col
Inns, both of Marion.
The fire department was called out
at $3.50 p. m. yesterday to extinguisf
a small grass fire on the Boulevard
south of Columbia street. The fire
threatened to spread to small shed
but was put out without difficulty
Sparks from Pennsylvania engine
set the grass afire.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29
PERSONALS

Miss Maud Johnson was a Rich
wood visitor yesterday.
]. NJ. Jennings made business trip
o Columbus today.
Misses Laura Campbell and Edith
)chs returned yesterday from few
lays visit in Columbus. -
John H. Clark and daughter Gladly
vent to LaRue this morning to visit
relatives.
William Fite, professor of mathe-
natics in Cornell university, is visit.
ng relatives In the city. Mr.. Fite IL
A former Marion man.
Mrs, George stiilings OF Chicago and
frand daughter Miss Hazel Powers OF
He Boulevard spent last week wit
eiatiyes and friends in Milford Cen.
ter.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-29

Mrs. Willis Warner, of Pearl street,
received the members of her Sabbath
school class of the German Methodist
church pleasantly Tuesday evening.
The first half hour was given to
the transaction of routine business.
Aftcrward informal social pleasures
whiled away the hours. A delicious
luncheon was served at the close of
the affair.
There were ten present.