The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL, SYRACUSE, - - IND. i ________ One way to buy experience is to (peculate in futures. Invisible patches are not used In patching up quarrels. The reddest apple doesn’t always Bake the best sauce. Wise is the man who knows wh«ti » treat and when to -retreat. It’s easy for a deaf mute to love a jlrl more than tongue can telh Many a spinster who could have married in haste repents at leisure. No man can sneak into heaven on the. strength of his tombstone epitaph. Our idea of a romantic girl is one rho sends out invitations to her elopement Nobody ever heard anybody complain that going to the devil is a lonesome Journey. Some people think they are in the manufacturing line because they make promises. A bird can sing without a piano acrompantment, which is a blessing we »ften overlook. One may get along without doctors, lawyers and preachers, but the groceryman Is Indispensable. King AlphOnso, of Spain, wouldn’t make a bad sort of anti-race suicide ritlzen'of -the ( United States. The average married man has about is much to do with managing his home is a mouse has with managing the family cat . . «■ When a girl tries to dodge a kiss the always manages- to do It In a Way khat enables her to catch It square on ier lips. - t It was a colored girl that won the . shampionship T ih the spelling contest in Cleveland. But the negro Is used to hard words. They are going to spend $46,000,000 tor the Improvement of the Russian army. We never knew anything that needed it more. ■ We have heard a great deal about the mayor of a Texas town who draws a salary of $1 a year, but not a word to the effect that he earns it j Ida Tarbell wants the women of the world to unite and prepare to fight their common enemy—-man. If It is ill the same to Ida, man would much prefer waiting for cooler weather before opening hostilities. The “abandoned” farms of several 9t the New England States present no floubt a gloomy picture to some perlons, and yet, so far as future growth Is concerned, there is more hope in the fact that these farms are not worked than there would be If all the available land in the six New England States were cultivated to the limit of Its productive power. The farms which have been abandoned are to the future of New England what the land which has never been brought under cultivation is to some of the States of the West. At some time in the future they will be occupied and tilled, for the demand for land will force them into use. Neglected now, they are nevertheless a source of future wealth and production. New England as a whole has a long way to go before it reaches tn density of population the condition £>f some countries In Europe to-day. To become gloomy in reflecting upon Its future is to ignore what may be learned from the history And the example of other prosperous and yet more densely populated parts of the world. The Immigration commissioner of a Western railroad recently applied to in Eastern traffic manager for special H homeseekers’ excursion” rates to enable farmers to go out and look at his Western lands. “I won’t help you a cent’s worth." said the Easterner, emphatically. “Every farmer you take off irar lines makes a dead loss, to us of at •least a thousand dollars a year.” The estimate must have been a large one— In the west each new settler is expected to add S3OO a year to the Income of the railway—but it is of Interest as illustrating the fact that every one of us, no matter how he may esteem his own worth to his community or to society In general, has a value to his fellows that can be figured in dollars and cents. What he produces others consume, and what he consumes others produce. Prosperity is a mutual affair. Especially Is this so as between the fanner and the railroad or between the railroad and every other man. What each new settler produces the road must haul to market; and all his machinery, all his clothing, all his fuel, all that his own Hand does not give him, the road must bring. The true science of transportation Is based on the knowledge of mutual dependence, and the problem the rate regulator must solve is that of enabling the farmer to get the most wares Into the best-paying market, maintaining a profitable rate on the carriage and on the return haul of what his surplus buys. It would be an interesting problem for some readers to figure » .' t.

out their own cash value to the road which serves them, and to their fellows, and thus determine whether they are giving as much as they receive. Happiness Is not a matter of dollars and cents, but much comfort is begotten of a proper sharing of prosperity. In this free country, with universal education, with the richest natural resources in the world, needing only development by means of labor and capital to produce wealth (enough to lift the entire population above want, the fact remains that the numbers of the able-bodied poor are vbry great, and the condition Is not confined to hard times. Ten mplion people—an eighth ■of the entire population!—are in a condition of’what may be considered extreme want. Yet it is stated on good statistical authority that within a hundred miles of New York City, where there is a very large poverty-stricken population, there are hundreds of abandoned farms with thousands of acres of idle land. Not only Is this true, but within the territory named there are allowed to go to waste each year thousands of ’ bushels of! apples, garden stuff and other (produce, much of it being left to rot on the ground. Something like this can be said of every city where unemployed people are found In large numbers. If all the unemployed people who could get work in the cities, if they wanted it, were earning wages,! and if all who cannot' find employment in the cities would seek it in the i country, there would be a decided decrease In pov- ! erty, not only in a hard times period ( but at all periods. The}marvelous pos- ( sibillties of the millions of acres of ! vacant land in this country are only, beginning to be realized. Intensive farming is making laid wonderfully productive to all who will bring intelli- < gence and energy to bear upon it. The world never yet had too much to eat and wear and provide (shelter. There can be no overproduction in this line as long as there is left a hungry mouth or a ragged back. ( HE WAS AN IRISH CHINAMAN. How Celtic American Became a Celestial Citißen. While on a visit to Washington, D. C., recently, John B. OfNeill, a former Washington attorney, Who is now engaged as military Instructor in China, related an Interesting j and out-of-the- ■ ordinary happening in Which he was a principal. It occurred, ( says the Wash- . ington Star, about fifty miles from I Pekin. I “We were trying to get a big gun , across a little stream,” Said Mr. O’Neill.l “I had about thirty Chinamen engaged at the task, while fully a hundred more stood about the banks of the stream and looked on. When the cannon had reached the middle of the creek, or river, It became stalled; In the soft mud at the bottom. I was yelling at the ( ‘Chlnke’ in pidgin English, trying tc get them to extricate; the gun, when * above the babel of Chinese voices there ' came in a high falsetto and decidedly' Irish brogue this remark: ‘“Why the dlvil don't yez spalpeens! pull th’ cannon to yez right? Begor- ( rah, ye’r a lot ov low-tide clams!’ J “I looked in the direction whence . tfie voice came and saw a short China- I man, as I supposed, with a long, queue ‘ and a genuine Celtic' cast of counte- ; nance. He was holding a little Chinese ' boy by the hand. “‘Who are you?’ I shouted at him. | “ ‘An Amlrikin, like yerself,’ was the j reply. ' ' . ‘“I am a Chinese-Irish-American, an' me name is O’Flaherty.’ ” Mr. O'Neill said he had a long talk ' with the quaint fellow, who informed him that he left Tyrone, Pa., for China ; about twenty years ago, and upon his arrival in the celestial empire he mar- ( ried a Chinese woman, adopted theii ( manners and garb, including a false queue. He added that he was the fa ther of several liijtle .Chinese-Irish O’Flahertys. (, “Why have you not dropped the ‘O i forninst your name?” asked Mr. O’Neill j “You seldom see an O'Flaherty these I days. They'are all Flahertys.” “I didn’t drap me. ‘O’ for th’ same ! r’ason ye did not drap yers. Ye know in th’ owld counthry the O’Flahertys : and the O’Neills ‘O’ iverybody.” ,O Jofce oil Somebody. Calling on a maid ono evening In the season of gQod cheer, William saw green decoration Hanging on the chandelier. William was a bit near-sighted, But you couldn’t call him slow; And he thought he knew his business When he sighted mistletoe. Then he up and kissed the maiden, Kissed her for an hour or two. But she merely smiled demurely As shy maidens often do. ( ; “Tell me why you smile?” he asked her When they parted in the hall. “Really, can’t you guess?” she giggled- “ That’s not mistletoe at all!” —Yonkers Statesman. Takes ’Em Easy. “Does she run after the men?” “No, she doesn’t have to. She wlm in >a walk.” —Cleveland Leader. The average woman’s letter beglm one of two ways: “it is a perfect shamt I have not written to you before,” oi “Do I owe you a letter, or do you owi me one F* j - Every, woman has an idea it shouli be a pleasure for a man to work foj money for her to Spend. Too many pray for what thej want Instead of for what they need.

THE SHOPLIFTER.

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The general public has little idea of the well-organized plans in operation in nearly all large city retail stores to check thievery, says the head detective in one of the largest dry goods establishments. By the systematic prosecution of thieves the losses do not amount to one-third of what they did three years ago. “Every large retail department store in New York and Chicago has its regularly organized staff of detectives whose duty it is to detect dishonesty in almost every form Inside the store, while many establishments have a force of. detectives who watch for thieves who may seek to rob the establishment’s delivery wagons when out on their tours. Part of this force are men and part women. The employment of wom- . __ DETECTIVE NABS A SHOPLIFTEB. en in this capacity is absolutely necessary, for women can do excellent work where men would be worse than useless. For instance, if a male detective should be seen in the crowd at a bargain sale or at a counter where an unusually large number of women were congregated, the suspicions of any woman shoplifter in the crowd would be immediately aroused and she would transfer her activities elsewhere, where no man was directly in evidence. , . Arresting a Thief. “When a detective noftps the theft of any article she follows the thief from counter to counter and thence out of the store, where the offender is arrested, not by the female detective, but by one of the male detectives of the establishment, who has been notified hurriedly by one of the salesmen or saleswomen, who are uncommonly quick to take in .such a situation, knowing the identity of the men or women detectives; or by some policeman near the store to whom the female detective would appeal. The arrest of a shoplifter never is made inside the store If it can be avoided, and for two reasons, one being the probability of a scene being created, which is to be avoided, while the likelihood of the case against the shoplifter ‘sticking’ when it comes up in court is much greater If he or she is found with the stolen goods in their possession outside of the building. < “The best detectives are those who are unobtrusive in manner and appearance, as to attract attention is the last thing desired in that work. Then they have strict orders not to remain at one spot too long. They are to keep moving about In a careless way. “One of the chief deterrents to shoplifting |n the New York department stores Is the fact that it Is known by these criminals that vigorous and determined steps are now taken to prosecute them when arrested, and a long stay at Sing Sing or Auburn prison Is a strong probability. Kleptomaniacs. “As to the moral responsibility of so-called ‘kleptomaniacs,’ you will find

experienced detectives who hold widely divergent opinions on the subject. Some are convinced that many women steal simply liecause they cannot resist the temptation to obtain something for nothing. Certainly many women steal articles for which they have no use and who are so well off financially that there fs no need to steal. Others hold the opinion that ‘a thief is a thief,’ whether she be a woman in no actual need or one who steals as a means of living without working. Certain it is that many an alleged kleptomaniac has been checked in the course which Soon would make a chronic thief, of her by reason of the fact that she has been arrested and badly scared by threat of prosecution and imprisonment, but whose plea of kleptomania has been accepted for the reason that it has been her first offense. “In watching suspicious persons and detecting thieves, secret signals and words are employed that to the ttnsuspicious person, or even to the shoplifters, have no particular meaning, but which are well understood between the stere detectives, floorwalkers and salesmen and saleswomen. Primarily, persons against whom there Seems to be reason for suspicion are quickly ‘sized up’ by the store employe with whom they come in Contact. “Os course, many shoplifters study to disarm suspicion both by their general appearance arid manner of address. They exhibit no nervousness, keep a keen watch of all that®**’ going on near them, and, possessing plenty of nerve and. self-confidence, perform the theft at the most opportune moment, taking care to make no false move. ► Many shoppers carry suit cases, as do hundreds of honest shoppers, and on taking their place at a counter leavethe suit case partly open at their feet, so that articles may be quietly dropped therein when the salesperson is not looking. A small purchase being made, it is openly placed in the suit case and the shoplifter moves away. Other shoplifters carry a folded ne vspaper in one hand, and while the saleswoman’s at--tention is diverted, slip some, article between Its folds. “When suspicion is directed against

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a shopper by a salesperson, the fact is quietly conveyed to one of the dewho approaches seemingly as if wishing to look at some object with the intention of purchasing it. When it is shown the detective makes some objection to it, whereupon the salesperson moves a few feet away, apparently for the purpose of showing another article of the kind wanted. This gives the opportunity to speak a few words of explanation. “Signals are sometimes given tc salespersons by when the? have-reasbh to be suspicious of a shop per who is being waited upon at the time. Again, words of seemingly no im portance are used by the salespersons to Inform a detective or floorwalkei that a shopper has been detected in the act of stealing. “When possible the shoplifter is let to the private office or a room where persons under suspicion are questioned and searched. Once inside, one of the male and one of the female detectives are summoned, and the . thlei informed she must submit to be searched by the female detective, the floor walker and the male detective waiting just, outside the door. If the shoplifter objects, which she seldom does! knowing that the game is up, the police department is notified by telephone, and a city detective sent to the store, when the thief is placed under arrest, taken out of the place as quietly as possible and removed to a police station, where she is searched by the police matron, and a charge of theft made against her. The experienced shoplifter usually seeks to make as little disturbance as possible when caught, relying upon quieter methods of getting out of her dilemma. Shrtwer of Fish in Australia. In a communication to the Royhl Society of Queensland,- Douglas Ogilby records the occurrence of a shower of fishes which fell in Brisbane during a -severe hailstorm on Oct. 7 last. —w. They were identified as the species known as the trout gudgeon (krefftius adspersus). Such showers of small fis'b are not unknown in other parts of the world. Sometimes after a heavy rain they are found swimming about in the pools formed on the surface of the fields. The explanation is that the waters of a pond or lake have been drawn up into the clouds by a whirlwind, carrying some of the smaller fry with them. The latter, of course, promptly descend again In the rain.—Loudon Globe. “Nobuddy” Answered. The average small boy’s opinion of himself is none too high, but the reply of a small stable boy in Chicago may scarcely be taken as the average. A wonian whose husband kept the driving horse in one of the many “boarding stables” in tke clty-telepboned the other day to have she horse and carriage brought to the house. A strange voice answered the telephone. “Is this So & So's stable?” queried the woman. “Yes.” came the answer. “Well, who is this?” “Aw, ’tairi’t nobuddy. Walt a minnit and I’ll call somebody,” came the answer. * We have never heard of a man whe bought a farm with the money saved by quitting smoking. Still, the Sunday i school books say .such a result is possible.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

Mrs. Hulda Galbraith, 40 years old, living near Evansville, fell downstairs and digd of her injuries. ___ Miss*Ethel Brookbank, of Jeffersonville, is recovering from blood poisoning, due to wearing new hose and new shoes. The 2-year-old daughter of Ross Shields, at Clay City, followed ducks into a pond near her home, and was drowned in two feet of water. Clay Rutledge, 14 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Rutledge, of Muncie, fell off a. hay rack, fracturing both wrists in exactly the same manner and position. In a storm while Join Browning, a well-known citizen near Leesville was , engaged in hauling gravel, lightning struck the load on which he was seated, killing Mr. Browning instantly. Notice was given that the Citizens’ Glass Company will begin operating i the plant of the old Evansville Glass | Company on the 2nd of September, giving employment to nearly 200 skilled workmen. | Masons of Greensboro recently celej brated the fiftieth anniversary of the i initiation of Quinton Hinshaw into ■ Mfcsonry. Among Masons present was Noble Butler, of Spiceland, fifty-five years a member. The Rev. Turner Brasher has resigned the pastorate of the Park Me- ; mortal Presbyterian church in Evansville, and -he will be assigned else- ! where at the -coming meeting of the | Vincennes Presbytery. i' The youngest township trustee in Newton C.ounty is Algie Martin, of ! Morocco, aged 23 years. The town al- | so has the only licensed female lawyer in the county, Mrs, R. O. Graves, wife of the prosecuting attorney. Amos Goad, a well-known Boonville Democratic politician, while milking , his cow, was dragged against a stall ! and his right hip was broken. The : eagerness of the cow to reach her calf in another stall was responsible for the accident. Walter Dahlen, 21 years old, was instantly killed by a coal train coming from Crown Hill mine No.- 2, west of Dahlen attempted to board the train .while it was in motion, and his skull was cut open and an arm was severed under the wheels. Andrew Mullen, 52 years old, and unmarried, was found dead in a chair when his brother, George Mullen, also’ a bachelor, returned home from work at Anderson. He had committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. *lll health is thought to have been the cause of the suicide. W. R. Swett, of Crawfordsville, general manager of the newly organized .Acme Match Company, which' is soon j to start a plant at Roanoke, Va_, for the purpose of manufacturing matches by the Swett system, will soon establish two new match factories in the Northwest, one at Alberta, Canada, •and the other at Baker City, .Ore. The County Attorney of Elkhart i County holds that the contract by the ' County Commissioners in 1903 with Sheriff Manning, to retain in-and-out | fees and apply them to the wages of ( a turnkey, is null and -void, and that the present board is in dut y bound to collect all moneys due the County. The Commissioners thereupon insist on ( the reimbursement of the County for the ( amount involved, j Judge McClure has overruled a mo- ; tion for a new trial for Vandyke ( Griggsby, of Alexandria, and sentenced ( him to a life term in prison for the | murder of James Brown, a white man, !at Alexandria, last December. Griggsby was convicted by a jury in May, but the court did not enter judgment until now. Arthur Jernes, of Indianapolis, counsel for Griggsby, took an appeal to the Supreme Court. Renewed interest is being shown in the Princeton gas and oil field, and three new Wells are now being drilled. New leases are being taken daily, and in most instances extra prices are being paid. The Southwestern Oil and Gas Company, by its local representative, Lewis Deutsch, filed with the County Recorder twenty-four leases covering nearly 2,000 acres of land in /Columbia and Barton Townships. Brooding over the fact that he had killed a .man because they quarreled over a dog, Joseph Mercier, of Linton, ’has been declared to be a person of unsound mind. He was removed to Bloomfield, and he will be transferred to the hospital at Evansville without delay. Last December David Jones went to the Mercier home, where Mercier and Jones quarreled over the ownership of a and Mercier seized a Winchester rifle and fired a shot which struck a belt filled with shells that Jones was wearing. The shells exploded, setting fire to Jones’ clothing, and he died the following day. Mercier was tried for murder in the first degree, but was acquitted. W. G. Laye, city salesman for Bement & Seitz, wholesale grocers, of Evansville, has been missing for several days, and there fS no explanation for his absence. Billy Sunday, the evangelist, desired to cancel his January engagement in Elkhart because all the ministers were not in favor of the proposed meeting. A majority voted to hold him to the engagement, but at the last meeting of the Ministerial Association it was dehim.

Frank Veeck, near Degonla Springs, lost his home and contents by fire, involving a loss of SI,BOO, with partial insurance. Harry Bowles, of Dublin, in alighting from an'interurban; fell in such away as to severely injure himself, and he is confined to his home. » John Bixler and family, comprising five persons, living several miles south- . west of Princeton, were poisoned by eating ice cream, but finally recovered. -“While shooting at a rat, Ralph Rollins, 12 years old. put a bullet through the neck of Cliff Frerichs, a bby of his own age. The wound may result fatally. . , Mahlon Rhodes, a farmer living five miles northeast of Silver Lake,' was seriously injured by his horses running away and throwing him out of the wagon. When trying,to swallow a crab apple Lethea Barnett, aged 7 years, daughter of Thomas Barnett; of Folsomville, choked to death. The apple lodged in hei > throat. Quail and other small game are, unusually numerous in Gibson" County this summer, and hunters are expecting exceptional sport during the next open season. - After lying in the broiling sun for two days Edward Hinkley, of Oxford, died in the jail hospital at Lafayette. He was a hard drijnker at' times.'. He came to Lafayette and was taken,sick at the foot of Main street. People who passed, thjinking he was intoxicated, paid'’ no attention to him when he asked for a drink of water, but passed on. ? John Catt, a wealthy, farmer, living in Clay i Township, Pike County,' was kicked to death by-a mule. The mule was attacking a young calf in the barn lot when Catt armed with a club, -beat the animal off. Suddenly it turned on him and kicked him in the breast, crushing in three ribs. The angry mule then jumped on Catt and, stamped, him to death. • ■ John arid Frank Shi man, aged 19 and 23, both farm hands, were drowned in White river near ethany Parks/ Indianapolis, while bathing. The num . ; had been in the water oi a few mi/iI utes when Frank, the older brother, was seized with fainting s; ells.” While j John was endeavoring to get him to I shore both were caught in a whirlpool ’ and carried down together. At Bowling Green Elijah Stevens and Jacob Michler lost control of their horse while driving, and the buggy was overturned, throwing both to the ground, Stevens suffered two broken ribs and severe cuts about the face, while Michler was injured in the back, 'so that he was helpless. Both men lay for dn hour exposed to the sun’s rays before their condition was discovered. Old bee hunters in the vicinity of Morocco report more wild bees this ( season than at any time in their recolI lection. The bee trees, with one or ' two.exceptions, were well stocked with ! honey. One bee hunter reports finding ; a tree in which was a swarm of gen- . uine Italian bees.- This tree ’was a large, hollow oak, out-es-which he obtained nearly four washtubfuls of honey. ’ ! With the completion of two new buildings that are now .being erected at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Richthond. conditions in the Eastern Indiana district will be somewhat relieved, although it will be far from possible to accommodate all the insane. There are many confined in the county jails, poor farms aiu) other institutions, some of whom could be im proved by treatment, but there is no room for them at the State hospit;tl. Mrs. Lucy Waters. years-old. wife of Richard Waters, e' Owenkvilte. is dead-of burns Received while trying to start a fire in a kitchen stove with coal oil. The can exploded, throwing the burning oil ov.er her dress She r.;.r, into an adjoining roorr. and threw hocself on a feather bed sr. to smother the flames b i the < .'tiling caught tire and the ho.— ;- a.. tents were destroyed V >. ■ was dragged out of .he h a dying condition M V ■ - > severely burned nbe.r ■ »..-a face while trying to save 7 > ■ c. Miss Mary li,- ■ -.-.uroiiif, daughter of Mr aV >• » -u.-. land, of West I’" •' ■ - 'u .j. ly burned while ere- -.- ’ .‘ -reUFf the terminal yards ~i sly stepped into a b-.:t - v- x.-.i hep feet were burned -io ‘..’?e X’xre ?e---fore she could be rose -:y ■ .. rles are frightful. Vhe N -xe. hu •to a depth of ten fee; ,:s surface gave no sign es th.-- W svJtuyf derneath. Naught bus sshos wvre xrparent. The police and dro are flooding the bed " .h * ate-. :.' -e bed is nearly two huadrod feet length. / The stave factory eethpany shipped four car loads of staves. One earn went to Richmond, another to Dayton. O : a third to Columbus. Ohio, and the fourth., to Buffalo. N. Y. The kev. J. K. Edwards, of Owensville, has officiated atAhe dedication of five new churches of the general Baptist denomination since January, going to Evansville. Washington, Vincennes, Decker, this State, and Campbell), Mo. He has also been called to Sims, 111., and Essex, Mo. 1 -■ ■