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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
Annual State Inspection Of
Co. A, n. G. S. N.
Funeral Services for the Late
s. 3. JossIyn, Wednesday.
0. N. Sussi Sells Store and House
lnsthe Town Of Burnham.

The annual STAKE inspection al &c. y,
Cd Infantry, \. G, S. NJ. will take place,
Thursday. April as al Union hlll. Col.
James l.. Moriarty. of Lewiston. inspector
general will conduct this inspection. The
galleries will be open free To the public
in the evening and a cordial invitation
is EXTENDED by the officers and members
of CO. A TO all who care To attend, At
the close of the inspection social hop
will be given, to which the public is also
cordially invited
D. NJ Sussi has sold the store and
house, recently purchased in Burnham
of George Gilmore to Mr.. and Mrs Leon
Gerald of Clinton, who have taken pos
session and will run n general store.
Mrs Gerald. whose marriage occurred.
last week, will be remembered here as
Miss Minnie Merithew.
The funeral Of the late William Thorn
as. whose death occurred in New Hamp-
ton, y. H., Was held. Wednesday fore
noon. at the old home on the Spring
road. Rev. Mr.. Pearson. pastor of the
Methodist church. officiated. Vocal Sc
Iections were rendered by r. 4. Conant
and daughter. Miss Vera Canant. The
internient was in Palmyra cemetery.
The funeral of the late Mrs. G. Il.
Josslyn was held. at p. NJ. Wednes-
day. ut the home on Hunneweil avenue. !
Rev F. S. Walker. pastor of the Uni |
versalist church. effieiated. The men, |
bers of Pttsield Grange and Womens
Relief Corps attended in a body. There |
was quantity OF flowers. including |
pieces from the two organizations mem |
toned and one from the Euxiliary of o. !
s. Haskell camp s of v, of which Mrs. |
Josslyn was past president. The inter-
ment was at the village cemetery. |
Among those present from out of town
were Mrs Hollis Whitney aud Mr. and |
Mrs. Drawn of Cernna.
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Chicago produce Market.

Chicago. April q.
Strength was impaired to wheat. TO-
day, by cold weather which was report,
ed to be retardine spring seeding an ~
by lack of large exports. The net result
was gain of IA. to e Corn made "a ne! ne.
advance Of ale. to Il: oats We're UP sMs
and provisions We're 5 to, zoe. higher,
WHEAT-May 92aMs; July &gMii sept.
90i -. s-z
ass ,,7
OATs-May s51ms6: July 35.; Sept. 3aa; o.
MESS PO..K-.luly 1972a@75; July lsso'
Sept. 1875. .sa- sx.s... ,np-
SHORT RIBS-l112a; July lo2oa' sept
lo77a. a-,,,
UTTER-Steady; creameries 2.@a.
EGGS-Firmer; receipts % ooo cases. at
market. cases included. 17imlS; ORDINARY
frsts 171Ma: firsts 17aM1Sa
POTATOES-Steady; receipts - cars
Michigan 450li7; Minnesota 4sdH; WIS
consin 40di4s.
RYE-No 9 62lM63.
BARLEY--46m6S.
TIMOTHY-275Gl350.
CLOVERI500.
PORk-l972A.
LARD-10S71. -
RlBS-l0S7aQ1ls7a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10

I have never seen 4 ghost, but once
in the company Of friend | heard a
shnstzSing. -set3.s. ast
II was in London. l must not men
ton the house, because To say a house
IS haunted in London is criminal libel.
The .hoilse WAS haunted. u knew il was
haunted, iAd the ghost had never
troubled me II bothered Il friend of
house, By tramping up the stairs in the
middle of the night. 1t troubled my
secretary, who used TO work alone IN
the mouse in the evening sometimes by
opening and shutting the doors. 1t
troubled the police by lighting up the
house and giving 4 false alarm of
burglars in the middle of the night. 1t
never troubled me. never saw it. l
isfr.s4-T fVE ats.ii. never. heard IT. ill this
once.
1t was about | o'clock in the MORN
ing. | was sitting in my sitting room
with q friend, whom | will call X, who
il a we'll known author. zone generally
ADDS in n ghost story. land who was a
hardfesfded man ot business. utterly
sksptical and completely matter of
fact" as il that had anything to do
with it, We had just come in and We're
expecting another friend, who lived in
! the house, and we We're sitting UP for
him. We We're talking about Swim
| burne's verse, and | took down the
| first edition of "4Atalanta in Calydon,
which | then possessed and Which 1
foolishly sold for small sum tit was
| Immediately afterward resold at an
| auction fer a large sum and went 10
| America, and is now in some collectors
| library, and | read out a passage. AS |
| was reading We heard singing next
door. | said, There's Phil" and didp't
pay any further attention, as | expect
cd him to. come in, and / went on read
ing. But the singing continued. 1t
sounded foreign, like Spanish. This
didn't surprise U.s. as Phil WAS in the
| habit of singing Proyancal songs. The
lsinging went on, and as he didn't come
| in we went to meet him ana opened
| the door. The next room was a Tiny
anteroom opening into another sitting
room and beyond this again was the
smallest Of bedrooms-not bigger than
a cupboard. There Was nobody there,
but the singing went on-such curious
| singing. too, strange, alien, faint. tlnk-
~, as if four confused voices were
singing the song of an earlier century.
1t was unreal. and it had a kind OF
| burr in it, rs il You were listening to
voices on II telephone that is out OF
order. We walked through the rooms
and we walked through the singing,
and we heard it behind US still going
on, and in the bedroom we found ouI
friend asleep in his bed Then the
singing stopped. Nov, rs we Waikee
through that sitting room | noticed
my friends hair in Killings phrase
| sitting up. | dare say he noticed tn,
same thing about mine, or he would
have done so had | any heir TO notice.
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ing, managed TO stop the dangerous
anu Sement.

An EngMshman in Shanghai was
twitting the eldest son of DR.. sun
Yat-sen about his fathers cosmopol-
itanism. Nobody knows for certain
where your father was born, he said
Canton claims him and so does Hon
olulu. Before the revolution he had not
been here in China for many years
The English port of Hong-kong was
the nearest he ever approached.
don't see how your father can call
himself Il Chinaman, and, in fact,
l don't know what to call him.
Part of what You say is true. an
swered the son of the famous patriot.
For fifteen years my father was a
man without a country, but now" and
tine boy smiled proudly, "a country
has been made for him.
For several weeks one of the public
street lamps at Greenfield, near Ear
ing, was found alight every day, al
though the lamplighter extinguished
the light each morning. Suspecting
that some youthful imp with mischiev-
GUS propensities was at work the
lampighter set himself to capture the
eulprit who WAS giving him so much
trouble While waiting in hiding to
bounce upon the offender he was
amazed to see the lamp apparently
light itself Investigation revealed the
fact that a tomtit had built Il snug
nest in corner of the lamp, and was
in the habit of hopping on to the ring
attached to the chain of the incandes-
cent bypass, thus turning on the
light London Times.
An Australian correspondent sends
Electrical Engineering the following:
Not long ago, somewhere in New
Zealand, a firm ordered a number of
house service alternating current me-
tiers. 1t happened that the inside of
one Of these contained a loose piece of
cast iron, which caused a fairly loud
humming noise when the current was
passed through the meter The firm
who had received it returned it to the
wholesale house from whence it came,
accompanied by a letter, which was
dictated and evidently signed in a hur-
ry, as it read thus: We return you
herewith one of the six meters recent
~ supplied. as this meter makes a
dreadful noise and huns considerably.
We think this must be due to the la
mentations of the iron core
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York. April a.-After u showing OF
strength in the early trading, the stock
market turned heavy, today, some OF
the leading issues falling more than two
points from the best prices of the morn
iug. Trading was actiV" at times, ana
movements were irregular The improve
ment Of the morning was based on the
more cheerful feeling abroad, cable ac-
vices reporting hetterment of both po-
litical and financial affairs, London
bought about i5.tao shares here special
iziug i'm Erie. Bun traders operated con-
iidnntly for a time, buying large blocks
of the favorite issues ana forcing tur-
Their short covering.
The turn in the market came With the
announcement of several new security
issues. chief among which were st. Paul
sale of 3o.oeooe1 Z per cent. general mort
gag, bonds and Pennsylvania offering
10 stock holders of 45,NsttV1 stock at
bar II has been generally understood
for some time that these companies as
we'll a many other large corporations
were only awaiting an Improvement in
the investment demand to float new Sc
curitv issues. There has been some inn
movement i'm bond buying recently, hut
the markets ahsorptiee power is still
limited and in more than one instance
have been left with large
iinsold balances on hand. The effect OF
offer was to depress the
stock n points 10 1l55, the lowest figure
narrow The point of interest in con
nection with the -. Paul bond issue was
that the company found it necessary 4
pay Il per cent. previous issues under
Inc general mortgage having been made
~ g md 1 per cent. 81. Paul general As
have declined two points IN as many
aavs and bankers predicted that the ef
fecf of the high rate eff interest on this
class Of bonds would h. felt by other is
sues of similar character
Announcement that the attorney gem
rral was opposed te the Hartman disso-
utinn plan which Is To be presented TO
In, FEDERAL courts contributed 10 the
leaviness OF the market. which was man
tested especially in the railroad stocks.
Steel and the copper shares also were
Bonds we're under slight pressure. To-
-al sales. par value $.soa@o. United
states bonds were unchanged on call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
Boston Produce Market.

Boston, April 2.
Quotations on flour. grain, millfeed,
meal, hay and straw are strictly whole
sale for carload lots TO jobbers. All other
quotations represent sales TO the re-
tailersD
BEEF-Dressed unchanged: whole cat
tie 12lM13a.
BRAN-Higher, 2l25M2l75.
BUTTER-Steady, northern 3SM3sa
western 37aM3S. -,.,
CORN-Hgher; No. 3 yellow 81. 80
EGGS-Firm; choice 24M25; western Il
G22
pateIits 4S00t525.
HAY-Firm No. l grade 23d2S50
LAMBS-Firm: spring l5aG16i.
LARD-Unchanged: pure 12a.
MIXED FEED-Higher. 2275@2525.
OATS-Steady: No. 2 clipped white A. IL
PORK-Steady; medium backs ZSM2Sio.
SUGAR-Firm: granulated 400
NEALS-Eirme 9n15. 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
New York Produce Market.
New York. April ..

New York, April ..
FLOCR-Firm.
BARLEY-Steady.
WHEAT-Spot strong; No red il2a ell
evator and III fob afioat nominal; No. /
northern Duluth 1893 fob atfoat.
CORN-Spot firm; exports COZ fob atioat.
OATS-Spot steady.
SUGAR-Raw barely steady; refined
quiet: centrifugal $780, muscovado 2S';
molasses Si
PORk-Steady
BEEF-Steady.
LARD-Firm middle west llo5G1ll5;
refined steady; compound firm. H..
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; receipts l6is tubs;
creamery extras 35s; firsts S4am55 sec
onds 1894; thirds 3lG32; state dairy fin
est 3ia55; good to prime $la33; common
to fair 2lM30; factory current make Sec
onds 24ad25.
EGGS-Firm receipts 3o,954 cases: fresh
gathered storage packed firsts 20; do. reg
ular packed firsts northerly 1913; fresh
gathered thirds III; state. Pa. ana near
by white defective in size. and color 20
AGO.; western gathered whites .2oa2l.
PoTAToES-Steady and unchanged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10

Thirty years ago the principal sup
ply Of quinine came from the western
coast of South America. although II
small amount was obtained from India.
and Ceylon. The average quinine con-
tents of the cinchona bark is from
to 3 per cent. Better methods of hanGl-
ing the bark, however, have resulted
in recent years of yields of from SIS to
II per cent. In Amsterdam monthly
sales of quinine are held. Java, which
was scarcely in the market at first.
now sends from thirty-five To seventy
tons of quinne sulphate eacf month
TO the Dutch market These enormous
increases in production haye lowered
the price considerably. = HarpeFs
Weekly. Is
From Germany comes the suEgcs
stion that, in order THAT the Wpfkmen
can know at a glance what each pipe
contains. all large industrial establish
ments adopt uniform system of col
ors for the various pipes Of their
buildings. The German engineers rec
commended painting water pipes green.
gas pires yellow air pipes blue, vacu!-
UNI pipes gray. pipes for I've rose. for
oil brown, ami fer acids rose with red
stripes; and indicating With arrows
the direction of flow. If such Il plan
We're generally adopted it would doubt
less save much confusion and prevent
serious accidents. The same color sys-
tenn would be useful in making me-
chanical drawings.--Youth's Cpmpan-
ion. 1
Ask your arithmetic teacher az
school to double the number ofahis pu-
pills. add 3, multiply this sum by s, ado,
to it the number OF pupils absent on
that day. multiply the result by 10,
add to II the number Of his own aunts,
and then tell you his answer. From
this answer subtract. $50 and ithe re-
mainder will be the correct number of
his pupils present and absent and the
number of his aunts as well. For ex-
ample: Surprising the number of pu-
pills is 6, doubled equals II, plus 3
equals 49, multiplied by equals Is.
plus equals IS, multiplied by 10 equals
$50. plus equals 1888. Substracting 15o
from 7Ss leaves 633. Therefore YOU can
safely announce to your teacher that
he has pupils. absent pupils and
aunts.-Christian Herald. "a
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WILL DROP 676 FEET.
Expect to Test Elevator Safety Device
in New York Skyscraper.
The thrills Of the lea

The thrills Of the leap of life"
loon the loop" and kindred hair rails
ing spectacles are tame beside the dar-
ua OF OF the nee elevators in New Yorks tai i
ssss skyseqapper. For substantially zoo feet
the express cars of this new building
have a straight lift, and their sehedul-
stss ed time for that rise is about one min
ute for the distance without stops.
So much for the upward journey, but
INV, what .ilp~yoll tAnk Moaiia, .ha .the Yes
les locity of the fall II something went
wrong just after the had reached
the top Each one Of those elevators
will be tested for Just such a drop. and
one soldier of public safety, F. r. Eli
thorpe, will actually make that plunge
fa A. 10 demonstrate exactly what are tina
chances of passengers surviving II
breakdown OF that nature. The actual
fall is a total drop of 616 feet and car
in that interval would attain ulti-
mate velocity of quite miles a minute.
- No fast express train comes measure
~ bly, near this speed. and yet TO safe
,e,.,g guard life provisions must be made
TO stop g. plunging car within very
short distance and to do it so gradually
80, - that the runaway vehicle can be halted
~s.s virtually without shock.
gle. ~ But the public need not be unneces-
SaFliy QiSluIDtUt uctiuSt tHeIt is Il
.sfilst way TO make all elevators reasonably
.vpboy safe against the chances of a sudden
mr. breakdown and the Forthcoming test
a. @1a ing of the system in the Woolworth
E s,s building Will be but another speetacu-
T1ia's lar proof of what nature and the skill
ssssE full engineer together make possible in
- as the way Of effective protection. Mr.
v Eliithrope is going TO make that dror
q 80 of 6s6 feet in order 10 inspire conf
~ z dence and to show beyond question
that a breaking cable need have no
go menace to the traveller in any of those
t'isa- sky cars
The safety equipment Is what is
termed an air cushion 1T consists of q
metallic envelope which reaches from
he bottom Of the shaft upward for a
distance OF one fifth OF it's total height
~ This casing forms an air.tight tuba
closed at the bottom and the SIDES, but
open at the top, go that the elet tor
can enter freely. IN other words, thu
elevator moves in this envelope very
much like loosely fitting piston in a
pump.
The air confined In the tube by the
descent of the elevator exerts a cush =
Joining effect as the air is progressive
- ~ compressed. So far So good: bu if
the elevator dropping. at full speed,
were suddenly halted by this compress
.ar,,, fed ar, the shock would be great and
~ the passengers probably would be hur-
:. 49, ed about with dangerous force in iact
like dice in a box. The really cunning
..lr part OF the whole scheme is the manner
.-- IN which the air is controlled SO that
~ there shah be no violence Of reaction,
.yT3ra When the falling car first enters this
a9naA metallic sleeve, valves furnishing di
~ s diminishing outlet for the air are install
a. 80 ln. Hoe, 4,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
Herbert Rowe.

Herbert Rowe. who has been eriti-
cally ill., for the past TIVE months.
died, Tuesday afternoon, at the home
of his brother. George Rowe. on Pine
street. Mr.. Rowe was native OF
London, Eng, and was 80 years, 9
months, and days old. Besides his
brother in Madison. Mr.: Rowe is sur
vived by brother in Atlanta, Ga.
and two sisters in London.
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New York Cotton Market.

New York, April y.
Spot closed quiet. Midding uplands
l2.60; do. gulf 12s5. No sales.
Galveston quiet, 12s New Orleans
Charleston steady, 121; Memphis steady
12l
Net receipts for five, days 1851.
Exports to Great Britain 2S,202: to
France 1900; to the Continent 56,s62; to
Japan II ,S35
Stock 670,USi
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CHICAGO Cattle Market.

Chicago, April 3.
ers strong; bulk of sales 900d9a0: light
Ssod925: mixed >s0ns25 heavy Ss56el5.
TT l. E Receipts 14,50o; steady;
becves 730a920. stoekers and feeders bio
@Slo; cows and heifers 390dSio calves $50
@S60.
SHEEP-Receipts 1900: strong: native
650df750; Yearlings 1i0ds6o; native lambs
5000 $50.
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PATENTS a 1NeT rH nRorHcr

Books, Advice. Search and EDEE
List OF Inventions Wanted i AIIII
Send sketch or model for search. High
est References. Best Results. Prompt
ness Assured.
Watson e. Coleman, Patent Lawyer
622 r St, N. w. Washington, p. C.
mays.thurs. eowtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10

North Dakota farmers are turning
from wheat to cattle raising. II pays
better.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10

II. B. Loyelace is walking from San
Francisco To Bangor, Me, about three
thousand miles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10

For transplanting growing plants an
Idaho man has patented a metal pot.
made In two sections. which may be In
serted In the ground around the roots
and brought together and clamped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
New York Money Market.

New York, April 9.
Prime mercantile paper 81 to per cent,
Sterling exchange steady at 1890 tor
6o-dav bills and AT an for demand.
Commercial bills MI
Bar silver 80.
Mexican dollars IL.
Government bonds steady.
Railroad bonds easy.
Money on call steady at 3G3s per cent ;
ruling rate ~: last loan 81; closing bid y.
United States reg. IS .................. lUt
40 conn ....................... itai
Tinted states Is. reg. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l12t
do. coup. ................... 1o2k
JInited states As. reg. ............ u35
do com. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. llSl
RaItimore &, Ohio As Observation-Disclosures. g5s
4 n G O. Joint As ................ %
Chicago. Nil. & St p CIV AIS $3.50. l02i
Denver & Rio Grande Ref. is $500. Ml
Erie Gen. As ...a:................ ........ ~
Mo-. Kansas & Texas 1st Is ......... "
edo 4Ls s4t
Northern Pacific Is .................. ~
Union Pacific is .....,.......,-......... y
do. con. As sd4
tOffered.
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The ChostIhat SANG.

have never seen 4 ghost, but once
in the company Of friend | heard u
ghnstSsing. r. -e4tl5..
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Chalmers "Thirty=SM"
gives the answer TO both
10 The man whe is thinking
Of buying a cheap car:

The difference between the Oh;
mers Thirty Six and some 9th
car you may be thinking of buyir
is probably about $500 or $500.
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-12-31

the sherirfs hands. This starts some
thing. The outlaw. finding that he is
CLOSELY pursued. rides toward the rail-
road, and seeing "A freight train moy-
ing along, rides close enough To CLASP
ihe rungs of the iron side ladder. and.
abandoning his pony. swings onto the
Train and climbs up Ia the ton of the
ears. The sheriff, not to be outdone
IN this species of agility, also catches
the Same moving train. Then COM
mcnccs the duel proper over the tops
ot the cars as both empty their guns
until the last cartridge is gone. Thev
then close In and have AN exciting
ana desperate fight on the top of The
running cars. The train Is crossing IA
river and then men. claaepd In each
others arms, fan into the water FAR
below. The bath apparently cools
them Off and each man starts 10
swim for himself Singularly enough
The cowboy In heavy chapereios
reaches the shore first. and although
almost exhausted. he struggles up the
nnnk 10 a place OF conccnlment, and.
the sheriff having providentialiy se-
cured horse, starts In pursuit
Joe. the rustler. in frantic effort
TO escape PUSHES into bed of quick
sand tthe real thing by the way).
finding himself In most dangerous
ana desperate prcdicamont. He ~
being slowly engulfcd In the soft
sands when the sherin comes upon
the little blum ana sees his man who
mas given him such a chase calamity
struggling against the seemingly In
eNiiabie lie takes his trusty lasso
ana by skillful east. lac loops Il
about tho outlaws shoulders Then
giving it "a tuTn about the canuc OF
the saddle he hauls the victim Of
the quicksand oui ana these two
game men shake hands at last ON
hrm ground, face Go face. ana tho
oullnW gives hlmaoIl ND al Last.