The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 July 1908 — Page 2

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It is the results of love at first sight that prove that love is blind. liven If a mosquito sang like a lark; Its bite would feel just about the same. Doubtless It never, at any time, occurred to Harry Thaw to be more than temporarily insane. If these air-ship accidents continue it will .soon be almost as dapgerous to own one as to own an automobile. When nothing else is bothering' France the people over there can always stir up a lively rOw by reburying somebody. Richard Pearson Hobson has generously decided not to have war between this country and Japan before 1909 at the earliest. “Where is the most lonesome place on earth?” somebody asks. Our answer is home, when wife and the babies are away. An elderly lady has died from burns received while smoking her pipe in bed. A warning to other ladies who indulge in this habit. Much of the correspondence that passes between the United States and Great Britain is not worth more than a 2 cent stamp, anyway. Sometimes the despairing conviction forces itself upon Editor Stead’s mind that the world isn't really worth all the trouble he. is taking to save it. Miss Bronislawa Machszewsychowlyskis, of Philadelphia, will shortly become Mrs. Soznow, and the city directory’ people are no doubt glad of it. Somfe women get queer notions at times. A Pittsburg wife, who has kept her husband for thirty-five years, has suddenly decided that she wants a divorce. Russia's plan to put a skull and crossbones on all vodka bottles is not likely to frighten the thirsty. It's what they see after imbibing too freely that teaches them a lesson. The steamships Mauretania and Lusitania have earned their owners $750,000 a year. Young couples anxious to ger along in the world should buy a Lusitania or two and live cutting coupons ever afterward. ?A Reading railroad train ran into a team driven by an eleven-year-old boy the other , day, wrecked the wagon and threw the • boy into the air. A brakeman who happened to fie standing on the locomotive steps at the time Caught the boy by the arm as he came down and saved his life.. If the brakeman was a baseball-player in his youth, the incident affords another illustration of the value of athletic sports;’ The best protection for any city is found not in the nu'mber of its policemen but in the number of lights on its streets. Another fact, just as true, though not so well known, is that the greatest protection to society is found not in the statute books but in the newspapers. No one knows the number of men who have refrained from committing crimes against society through fear of in the public press. - ■ Perhaps it is a waste of words to moralize over social scandals, but each new domestic upheaval in what is called our best society (meaning our wealthiest) exerts an evil influence so fat beyond its source that the impulse to plead for a higher standard of morals among the richest people-is hard to resist. It must be admitted that little good has resulted from the most earnest remonstrance in the past. The young lions of society, in many instances, continue to conduct themselves as if they were unconscious of any public duty incumbent upon them, as if they were unaware that the position they hold, by the grace of tile community, carries an influence which, if exerted for evil, menaces the very existence of the social order. Yet this Ist the plain truth. —- - = — « ■ Last year the American Bible Society distributed 1,800,000 copies of Bibles, Testaments and Scripture portions. The British Bible Society also is very active in distributing the Scriptures, and the two Organizations send the “Good Bgok” to every part of the world. Th© Bible has been translated into about one hundred different languages, and the American and British societies thus provide for all races. It is stated that Mrs. Russell Sage has offered to contribute $500,000 toward the permanent endowment fund of the American society. When it is considered that millions of copies of the Bible, or parts of it, are printed yearly for distribution from one end of the world to the other, it seems to be clear that religion is not losing ground. It Is said that rationalism is spreading in continental Europe, and even in the United States there are those who profess to see a decline in religious faith. Yet the Bible Is printed and circulated as never before. The "best sellers” In fiction are thought to achieve marvelous success If the wales reach a few hundred thousands. Khe

B’ble, or portions of it, goes out by ‘millions every year to the uttermost parts of the earth. It is incomparably the greatest of all books from all points of view.

The adoption of a letter postage of 2 cents an ounce between the United States and the United Kingdom is an interesting experiment that is likely to have far-reaching results. The agreement, which will go into effect Oct 1 of this year, follows the reduction by the universal postal union of the international rate of letter postage from 5 cents a half ounce to 5 cents for the first ounce and 3 cents for each additional ounce. It is a case of the restricted union that is permissible under the articles of the universal union, o£.,which other examples are furnished in the letter rate between this country and Canada and Cuba. Naturally, if the arrangement proves to be satisfacory, it should lead to other arrangements of the same sort between the United States and countries in continental Europe, and it is confidently expected that it will be satisfactory both here and in the British Isles. One result that is predicted is a very large Increase in business correspondence. The difference on the cost of sending out a large number of business circulars will be very large, and the tendency will be to multiply letters rather than to save the 3 cents. It is fair to in fact, thpt ultimately the increase will be larger than the percentage indicated by the difference between the new and old rates, for, as the postmaster general says, it has always been found that a reduction of the letter rate resulted finally in increasing the revenue. The change will mean much, also, to Immigrants, as we should realize quickly enough if we were forced to pay 5 cents instead of 2 on domestic letters, and there, are a great many immigrants from the United Kingdom. During the last three ifiscal years the immigrants from England alone those from Germany each year, and the total for the three years from the United Kingdom was 353.894. These are only the recent arrivals, but there was a very heavy immigration between 1880 and 1890, that from England alone exceeding 80,000’in two of the years, and there have been additions, sometimes small and sometimes large, every year since. What with the new arrivals and the older residents, all the immigrants from, the British Islands would make a populous state by themselves.

Chilblains. A mixture of the greatest value is a composed of iodine four parts, ether thirty parts, and collodion 100 parts. Mix and apply With a camel-hair pencil to the affected part. Another formula is oil of turpentine one ounce, linseed oil six ounces mixed with yolk of one egg. One pint of alum dissolved in one pint of hot water is also valuable. Begin dipping the toes and feet when they can hardly bear the heat and keep them in until the alum crystalizes. Medicnl Qualities of Nutmegs. These are useful in the treatment of various illnesses. In case of colic dysentery, for Instance, nutmeg very fine-’ ly powdered and mixed with a little milk, often has a beneficial effect. For children, one-sixth to one-third of a teaspoonful, according to age, should be given and for older people from one to two : teaspoonfuls every two hours. Sleeplessness is often relieved in the same manner, for nutmegs have soothing qualities. Popular Science. In San Francisco the campaign against rats, as spreaders of the plague, is a subject of universal discussion. A reported by a writer In the Call shows that the topic has reached even the children. “Wot they hunting up all rats fer?” “Aw, don’t yer know nothing? Rats has the plague, an’ if you see one you’d better look out, cause you’ll get it, too, maybe.” . “If you just see a rat do you get it?” “Aw, don’t yer know nothing? You’ve got the plague when you’ve been bit by a flea what’s been bit by a rat what’s •been bit by a sailor.” Slightly Ambiguous. “How was your speech received at the club?” asked one of Chumley’s friends. “Why, they congratulated me very heartily. In fact, one of the members came to me and told me that when I sat down he had said to himself it was the best thing I had ever done." Serious Trouble. “Yes,” said Dr. Bright, “I had him for a. patient once—just once.” “What was the matter?” asked his friend. “He wouldn’t pay his bills.”—Philadelphia Press/ The woifian who is ambitious to become a society leader begins by leading her husband around by the nose. There is one time when a woman gives as little satisfaction as a widower; When she is la “mourning.”

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LEPERS IN THE CANAL ZONE. Site Selected for the Colony I« Worthy a Fashionable Sanitarium. Near the beautiful little suburb of Palo Seco, six miles from the city of Panama, is a group of eight new buildings erected by American officials for the segregation of lepers in the canal zone—there are seventeen of them — and they are under the care erf an American physician aided by several attendants, says the New York Times. Nothing illustrates the change that has been wrought in the zone by the introduction of American methods better than the American way of treating these outcasts of society. When the zone first came under American control there were a number of makeshift pesthouses in out-of-the-way stations along thfe line of the Panama railroad. Some were in the city of Colon, while on the outskirts of Panama eleven patients, nominally in the care of the government of Panama, were huddled together in a small building. The site selected for the colony is worthy a fashionable sanitarium. On rising ground the broad verandas which surround three sides of every building look across the bay, with its ever-in-creasing shipping, to the city of Panama in the middle distance. Farther on the winding coast line stretches till it is lost in the tropic haze. To the rear, beyond the little suburb, the low country . stretches indefinitely toward the hills, its slow winding rivers and scattered clearings showing like lines on a map. The colony is utterly isolated—the chief /eason for the selection of the spot. The whole width of the bay protects Panama from infection, while to the rear the Rio Grande and the little Farfan river separate it from Palo

Seco. On the side toward the bay a short stretch of beach offers a landing place to small boats. A part of the Island has been cleared and each leper will receive a small lot to take care of and till. So far as vegetables and poultry are concerned, the colony is expected soon to be self-supporting. Not Too Soon. When a tactful host entertains a tactful guest, there is sure to be rewarding conversation for the onlooker and listener. “What do you think of our place, on the whole?’’ asked Mr. Brown, as he stood with his old school friend on the piazza, waiting for the station carriage which was to bear the twenty-four hours’ guest away. •, “Rather a good little place,’* said Mr. Ray, impartially. “Perhaps a bit bare now, but no doubt time will change all that.’’ “Yes, indeed,” said his host, with great heartiness arid no hint of offense. “I hope before you come again the trees and shrubs will have made a good growth—then you’ll see a change.” Os Some Value Still. < “I am a worthless thing!” exclaimed the rejected and dejected young man despairingly. “Oh, no,” replied the fair girl cheerfully, “not worthless. Your skeleton alone would sell for S2O.” —Somerville, Mass., Journal. You are always hearing of the beauty of women. Women are not so beau tiful, after all; it is the gentleness, patience and kindness of women that Is most attractive. A woman looks for something that is pretty when buying for a girl, and something that will wear when buying for a boy.

WHERE THE FLEET CAN DOCX. Luitecl States Hj/lm - Only Two Bi« Drydocks on tile Pacific Coast. It needs only a glaiice at the government drydock facilities on the Pacific coast to convince 'one of their uttei inadequacy to the demands which will be made by oqr navyi during the coining two or three yealrs, says Gassier’s Magazine. The United States government pos sesses upon the entire: Pacific coast only two completed din docks; one at thf Mare Island navy. ytird, in San Fran cisco bay, and one at Bremerton, Wash., on Puget Sound. The dock at Mare island is 513 feet long over all, 80 fd-et 7 inches wide at its entrance and 27 feet G inches deep over tiie sill. It is available only for the accommodation, of the smaller ships. The drydock at Bi’emerton is more commodious, being GOO feet long over all, 92 feet 8; incites' 'wide at the entrance and 30’ feet! d£ep over sill. This will permit the entrance of the larger battleships, but it is distant from the main naval base. At Mare Island.lthje government has under construction la third Pacific coast drydock, but it Is estimated that it will take three years of! hard work to finish it-' j . I.Tliis dock was in 1900 and the contract calle! for its completion Nov 2»>. 1907; but unforeseen emergencies delayed matters and the dock will hard ly be available for. use during the present visit of the fleet Outside of the government docks on the Pacific there |s ljust one private plant on that coast which has facilities for handling the bijg battleship. This.is situated at Hunter’s Point, on the west side of San Franbisco bay. about five miles south of tfii <£ity, and is owned by the San Francisco Drydock Com pany. It has only one drydock capable of admitting the large battleships, be ing 750 feet long, .122 feet wide and 30 feet 5 inches deep, . There are thus bnljy two docks on the entire Pacific coast of the United States capable of handling; the larger of the navy’s battleships, and one of these is a private one and will need to be leased by the year by the government In order that it may be the navy’s disposal at any and all times. Some time before the announcement of the proposed mobilization of the fleet bn the Pacific was made the San Francisco Drydock Company had perfected plans for the construction of a drydock which when completed will be unique in thisjclass of marine engineering In that it? will 6e the largest drydock in the worjd. - At the present t;ime the largest drydock in the world Is at Belfast, Ireland; but the proposed San Francisco drydock will materially exceed •it in dimensions. In exact figures the new dock will be 1,050 ’eet 10ng.'.144 feet wide and 34 feet J(5 Inches deep. The Hetort : Courteous. An official of the Department of the Interior tells of an incident at one of the Government schools for the Indians. A patronizing young woman of Cincinnati was being Shown through the institution, when she came upon a fine looking Indian girl of perhaps sixteen years of age. The Indian girl was hemming napkins), which the girl from Cincinnati watchM for some moments in silence. Then Said she to the Indian, “Are you civilized ?’’ The -Sioux rajsed her head slowly from her woink And glanced coldly at her interrogaiwr. i “No,” she replied, as her eyes again sarik to her napkins; “are you?” J ' Costljr Target. Probably the most elaborate and costly target in toe world has recently been launched by the New York navy yard The target Is almost an exact duplicate of a section from the bull of |t battleship and is estimated to have cost $50,000. ; I -'.7 Even if an actor Is not a spiritualist he likes to see the ghost walk.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

An automobile driven by James Rook, of Angola, caught fire on the public highway near Metz and was totally burned. Irene Beaumont, of Goshen, 16 years of age, who was stolen in infancy, has just been located and claimed by relatives residing in Texas who are wealthy and propose to educate her. Alois Stineti, 18 years, old, was drowned in a pond at St. John, south of Hammond. He went into the water to seek relief-ami, although the depth was only four feet, he was overcome by cramps and died before help could reach him. • A bronze bust of the late James Oliver, the well-known manufacturer, who died a few months ago, is to be placed in the nicb-e in the lobby of the Oliver Hotel in South Bend. The bust is the work of Lorado Taft, the Chicago sculpor. Carl, son of former Mayor O. S. Jones, of Covington, was' painfully injured by an infuriated hog while helping to put the animal in a wagon. The its. tusks in the young man’s thigh and'had the boy down. Only the prompt action of Charlton Blyth, the lad's hrother-in-law, saved his life. Some time during the day the members of the family of Mrs. John A. Reitz, of Evansville, were away, thieves entered the home and stole $4,009 worth of diamonds. Among the articles taken was a diamond bracelet valued at $2,400. The police have no clew. Mrs. Reitz is a social leader. The 8-year-old son of Mrs. George Purcell, of Sullivan, was drowned in the lake at the Fair grounds while bathing. He was seized with cramps while, in deep water. Chester Towsley, another boy 1 , hearing his cries, dived into the water, and succeeded in bringing the body ashore, but not in time to save his life, A gasoline stove explosion in the home of J. F. Smith, agent of the. American Express Company at Lawrenceburg, caused SSOO damages, covered by insurance. Mr. Smith was outside of the house at the time, but the cries of a parrot alarmed him, and he succeeded in rescuing his Wife and two children, and also the bird. ’ Karl F. Roerig, 31 years old, leader of the Junker llilitary Band, and employed as foreman at . the Cook pump Works in Lawrenceburg, attempted to throw a belt off a wheel, and he was .caught and whirled around the shaft several times, finally being thrown with great force against a bpck wall, lie was rendered unconscious. It is thought his skull is fractured. Samuel Cropoff, of Hammond, under treatment in the. hospital for the insane at Logansport, escaped from that institution in a bude condition, and he was captured five miles south of Peru by a posse of farmers. Cropoff is said to be the wildest man in the hospital, but he was tame as a kitten when captured, owing to physical exhaustion. He was wrapped in a blanket and returned to the hospital. Eugene Colemhn, of Warsaw, an insurance man, who is known throughout the northern part of the State, on being held up by two robbers on the streets of Tacoma, Wash., last week, knocked a revolver from the hand of one of the men attacking him, obtained possession of the weapon, ar-' rested both men and landed them in the/fioiice station, where he recovered siu and a gold watch taken from him. It has just been learned that F. W. Swaim and his son, George Swaim, of Bluffton, who were supposed -to have been murdered in Death Valley,' Cal., J.re alive and well at Los Angeles. A few weeks ago dispatches told of the finding of two skeletons by prospectors in Death Valley, and near them were blankets bearing the initials of the Swaims. This led to the belief that ' the skeletons were those of thfe Bluffton men, and friends were mourning them as dead. William E. Crane, of Greenfield, is defendint ih a divorce suit brought against him alleging cruel treatment. Mrs. Crane says.' she is the defendant’s fifteenth wife, but he will admit to only seven marriages. Two of the seven wives are dead, he got a divorce from two, two received the decree, and the records show the seventh wife charges him with feeding their cow sorne kind of powder unknown to her with the purpose of rendering the cow’s milk unfit, for use. Bhe also alleges that he threw the same powder about her bedroom, causing her annoyance and inability to sleep. Mr. Crane says life has been a great trouble and he sometimes wished he could be taken away and have it all ended. He declares he never suicide as he believes It an unpardonable sin. Mrs. Crane declares her husband has been married fifteen times and that she can prove it. The defendant is 82 years old. The first wheht thrashed in Boone County this season was that of Deiqpcratic District Chairman T. D. Scales, grown on his farm east of Booneville. The yield averaged about 27 bushels of a good quality. During a recent rain and thunder storini, the home of Dr. Jessup, at Curtisville, was struck by lightning and badly damaged. The doctor was badly stiinned and he was not in possession of his faculties for a long time afterward.

Robert Stewart, of Goshen, deputystate inspector of boats, is at Rome City inspecting the launches operating on Sylvan Lake. ' ■ < James Kane, of Pittsburg, 25 years old, was drowned in the Calumet river , at Liverpool. He was attacked by the cramps while swimming. An unknown thief plundered the ginseng -patch owned by William Compton, near Boggstown, escaping with SIOO worth of the root. John Janz, of Evansville, who recently confessed that he killed his wife, was convicted pf murder In the second degree and sentenced to • Ilf© imprisonment. While shooting a kiln of brick In Greenfield, at the Greenfield Brick Company’s yards, B. S. Smith was severely burned about' the fact and jtvill lose the sight of his eye. * Harra Johnson, farmer, 56 years old, near Salem, failing to report at the noon hour, his family made search.and found h|s dead body swinging from a free. No cause is known for the "suicide. He leaves a widow and three idult children. Two thousand boys from all parts of the country will go into camp at Winona next month, and will conduct Areal city—-“Boyville.” The plan was origina.ted last year by Judge Willis Brown, of Shit Lake City, and the first city had a population of 500. Assessments of banks and trust companies in Richmond and Wayne'Conn-, ty show.an increase in every instance, despite the financial depression of the bast year. The chief increase was on yhe Second National Bank of Richmond— from $337,600 to $453,450. Dennis Murphy, aged 65 years, was drowned at Fort Wayne while bathing Jn St. Mary’s river with his brother-in-law, William Dooley. He was seized with cramps ajid nearly drowned Dooley, who went to his assistance. Jvlurphy leaves seven daughters and a son. Entirely through a kitchen door went a bullet frcim a rifle fired Harry Johnson, a Muncie boy, arid (imbedded itself in the abdomen of Mrs. Jbhn Jladabaugh. The wound is not serious, but Mrs. Radabaugh L Offering severely from the shock. The "boy was shooting at a target. 1 ' The Rev. J. Al Stover has >een compelled to give up thq pas*o eh' of the Tirst Christian church in Le l ; < non, on account Os voice failure. Fie vvilll give ■up ministerial work for ;c leasth.one year and will go to Colorado. The ReV, Mr. Stover came to Lebanon two years'? from Griswold, la. » Henry Adams; 21, recently married, died, at a hospital in Evansville last Week from the effects of being struck in the side by a 'baseball. Several days ago, while placing ball, he was {struck in the right side by a ball thrown by a player. Adams was brought home unconscious, and „wis never able to give the name of the player who threw the ball that struck him. Penniless, and walking from Goshen to his old home at Wabash, Joseph Kindlespohr, 58 years old, tvas<overcome ■by the heat Warsaw, and he )was removed to the County Infirmary. {His condition is serious. He was for- ■ merly a railroad engineer, and he' lost a leg in an accident on the Northern. Pacific railway, in North Dakota. H© covered the twenty-four miles from Goshen on a “peg-leg” in hvlf a day. While contractors were cutting down a hill in the vicinity of Azalia, Bartholomew County, looking to the construction of a new highway, they struck a bed of some unknown, substance which has the appearance of flour. It contained no grit nor sand, and was as soft as putty. The stuff would not hold any weight, but it gradually hardened as it was exposed to the air. The County Commissioners were called in cohsultation, in an effort ,to find some? way out of the There seems to be no bottom to the bed on which a solid foundation canjrest. The commissioners, nor the contractors, have yet determined the nature of the “find,” or any plan to get rid of it. Mrs. Lon Camp, of Lebanon, almost put an end to her husband’s wh.en she publicly horse-whipped Mrs. Susie Cochran. Upon hearing th’at her husband had bought Mrs. Cochran a new Merry Widow hat, Mrs. Campi armed herself with a heavy, blacksnake whip and started out on the hunt. In the courthouse square, before a crowd of 200 people, she ran across th© woman with the big sailor hat. Mrs. Camp first made a grab for the hat and threw it in the street. Then she laid to with the whip. After cutting her clothes into ribbons, Mrs. Camp knocked Mrs. Cochran dowtPand beat her with her fists and bit her until the police pulled her off. Mrs. Cochran had to be taken home in a cab. A Greek laborer employed at a greenhouse in Newcastle, died of Bright’s disease several days ago, and his fellow countrymen fled in a body, believing his death was due to working in glass-covered houses. Mrs. Lydia Carter, of Greenfield, has an American Beauty rose bush thirtyeight inches high, bearing a rose that will not go inside a quart measure. This iri dn unusual length for a stem of that variety. The bloom is beautiful.