The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 December 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIU SYRACUSE, - - IND Few people can envy the Job ot the man who has to give Emperor William a call down. ■A: cat has tied a Connecticut town that voted dry. It probably was scared away by a blind tiger. When a soulmqte hits tv man with a chair does it hurt as pinch as the oldfashioned roiling-pin ? Rather' than have any more trouble with his loving subjects Emperor William will drop his'conversazione habit. On second thought t.he Shah decides that Persia can get along comfortably without a constitution tor a few„more thousand years. Porto Rjco, after the most prosperous year in the island’s history, is getting ®o cocky that She wants to cut the traces' and try it al(me. . . Nat Goodwin is married again.' A. ‘ few weeks ago Nat said he with matrimony, but he had his fingers crossed when lie said it. =— - ~ Mr. Rockefeller says that the Standard Oil Company is "a hazardous undertaking." Most of us would be willing to take a chance' it; it. A. California man has obtained a divorce on the ground that his wife cleaned kids with gasoline. The kids, however, happened to.be their children. A husky Pennsylvanian of 1)7 years his just sworn off- the tobacco habit. The average smoker will cheerfully accept that age as the nicotine deadline. Something has. been gained by establishing the principle that when a ; wife washes her children in gasoline s.ie furnishes sufficient ground for divorce. - ■ . . The general introduction of cobless corn, recently discovered in Illinois, would settle that long-discus--ed problem in etiquette, of the proper way to eat the roasted ear. • . ' If Kaiser can make it convenient to visit the United States he n.iay be assured of h grand reception, with full permission to do as much talking as he pleases. «’ Two subjects of Austria are said to have celebrated fheir 100th wedding anniversary. They are humble people, lived modestly, and had the advantage of never having heard of Dr. Osler. Most, of lus would if we were to make -millions be able to remember perfectly how we did it. JohnjD. has so ■ many millions, however, that it is perhaps too-mueh to expbet that he should lx? able to recall how he got them all.. When the officers of the American battleships arrived at Tokyo they were welcomed by crowds of school children, who (sang “Hail Columbia" and other .American songs in English. Whey have American school children’ ever welcorned foreign visitors by singing songs in their native tongue? The recent refrigeration congress in .Europe has reminded'a. student of history that Francis Bacon made the first experiment in the usb’of snow- for the preservation of . meat. The people of New Zealand, who have been largely dependent on refrigerated meat, have shown their appreciation', of Bacon's t discovery-by erecting a statue of him suitably inscribed. ' Ministers may regain something like their old authority in civil matters if they will only use the discretion entrusted to them. A Boston clergyman has announced that he will not marry persons with incurable diseases, or men who have not an income of at least fifteen dollars a week. Whether his position is sound in these specific restrictions, it is right in its general recognition of the clergyman's responsibility. Phonographic records of; hymns sung by Ira D. Sankey were used at a praMe service in one of the Brooklyn churches on the last Sunday evening in October. Among them were “The Ninety and Nine,” “Hiding in Thee,” and “Simply Trusting.” Just before the benediction the lights were turned low, and there came from the shadows the song. “There’ll be no dark valley wheil Jesus comes.” Thus through the wonders of modern invention the voice of the dead was heard by his friends. l&Ci-Y ' ' ■ ' ' Folly is a fertile plant and bears fruit for a long time. The French are discovering the truth of this in the demoralization of their navy. Mons. Gaston Thomson, the minister of marine. ,has resigned from the cabinet after the Ch imlier of Deputies condeuined his department because of the explosion on the warship lena, iq 1907, when more than a hundred officers and men were killed. There have been more than thirty explosions on French warships within the past two years, and the officers and men are said to- be completely demoralized. The demoralization, however. did not begin under the administration of Monsieur Thomson, but under that of his predecessor, who issuec regulations which destroyed discipline on the ships. For the good of all, the commander of a battleship, even more than the commander of a merchant ves

eel. must be an autocrat, and any pol- I lev which undermines his authority ikens the efficiency of the ship’s crew, U While countless‘strictures are launch(xl against the strenuous daily life of the present day business man, and the fast artificial existence of the young of both sexes is bemoaned, it is nevertheless true that’the average of human life is now greater than in times past, when, the pace was more leisurely, and Ben Franklin’s adage, “early to bed, early ' to rise.” etc., had a greater vogue. In I the time of Caesar nineteen years was i the average span of life; to-day it is* about thirty-five. That people live to greater age than formerly, notwithstanding Hie many pernicious vices of the period, vices unknown to those of a few generations back, and notwithstanding the 'ceaseless: daily grind for existence’ which is the lot of most men. is indisputable. And that the stretch., of life is destined to even greater length in the future, no one who-- is abreast of the times as to the wonderful discoveries in medical science, surgery and all that pertains to modern day hygiene can doubt. Many learned men contend that man is intended to. ‘live a hundred years, and but for his indiscretions would do so. Many do attain this age even now. and that, too, to credit the statements of some of them, without any especial jare as to their daily habits. though certainly in regard to the • latter a wise discretion and temperance must militate for longevity. No universal rule, however, can be prescrilietl for all people. What is poison to one., another may enjoy with impunity. That the next fifty years, are to witness won- j drous accomplishments in the further- i anee of physical health and consequent- | ly life, is the confident prediction -of men now foremost in the medical profession. All people may never live equally long, but all will ‘live longer, than at present, just as people now live to greater length than they used to. The same nervous, restless spirit of the age that is responsible for the marvelous strides in other professions will undoubtedly be responsible for feats in surgery and medical science that are now'unheard of. While the great -business activity now the'rule is oftener than ’otherwise condemned and deplored, if is proven that, the brain worker lives longer than the -farmer, whose monotonous existence wears'hint out early. The recent assertions of medical men and scientists lead to the belief that many of the heretofore fatal diseases may soon be conquered. Though people may live faster than formerly, it is also true that they now inject more pleasure into their lives than hitherto. When the many partial I discoveries and inventions having for their object ;the prolongation of human lifW—some of which are now in a nascent state of development—shall have been brought to a oonditioii of perfection. and these benefits augmented by a wiser general plan of existence, then, perhaps, the world may lopk for the huiidred-year-old matt or woman; then perhaps, a hundred years of life will he the rule, and not as now. the rare exception. Some animals even pass the eenjury mark in years. Why should not man? KONGO FEARS ROOSEVELT. OiHcinl'i Hard at House Cleaning in : Anticipation of His Visit. j President Roosevelt’s coming trip to -I Afrb •’ lias started a general house-: cleaning among she administrative otli- I cel’s-of the Kongo Free State, according i to /S. P. Verner, who was active in j rhe exploitation of the rubber and min- : era! concessions of the Belgian king, which are now being commercially developed by an international syndicate in which Thomas F. Ryan‘and the Guggenheims are largely interested, says the New York Times. . Mr. Verner explained that the recent annexation of the Kongo Free State by. Belgium will add .greatly to the value of all commercial enterprises, in the:: country through the greater stability it will secure. In this connection he spoke of the effect, of President Roosevelt’s African trip. “The mere announcement of the President’s proposed visit has already produced a regular panic in the Kongo.” he said. “It has set them to a furious housecleaning. They may have thought that the .financial interests of Americans interested in that country would,cause them to be careful about what they said ami did in relation to this question. They were mistaken about this, for on the field we gate them distinctly to understand that we would not stand for any such implication. At the same time, no doubt, it was felt that the American interests in the country would be somewhat of a safeguard against international interference. . . “The visit of the President, however, has thrown the fat completely into the fire. They will have the eyes of one man on them of whom they are more afraid than anybody else in the world. Os course the President may not at all interest himself in the question, but I doubt much whether he will be able to shut his eyes and stop his ears if he gets’ only within a few hundred miles of the Kongo frontier. That is why I say the anticipation of his trip to Africa is leading to a pretty general straightening up of things all around. I regard it as the best thing for Afric t and the bravest and most beneficial in its influence on world-wide conditions of any of President Roosevelt’s actions, with the possible exception of the peace, of Portsmouth.” The man who gets the short end of a , lawsuit is willing to bet that the scales of justice have been tampered with.

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LITTLE THINGS, A good-by kiss is a little thing. With your- hand on the door to go, But it takes the venom out of the sting 3f a thoughtless word of a cruel fling That you made an hour ago. A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare After the -toil of the day; And it smooths the furrows plowed by care, ’ ' L’he lines on the forehead you once Called fair In the years that have flown away. Tis a little tilling to say, “You are kind: I love you, my dear,” each night: But it sends a thrill .through the heart, .•I find— For Love is tender and Love is blind As we climb life’s rugged height. We starve each other for love’s caress; We take, but we do not give; It (seems so easy some soiil to bless. Bits we dole'the'love grudgingly, less and Less, . Till ’tis bitter and hard to live. —Andrew Lang. I urn mis -| The girl broke the silence that had fallen upon the two persons in the rather formal room known as the “parlor.” “I want’so much to read your palm,” she said. “I’ve been, studying palmistry for nearly a week and I know just lots. Os course I’m not like a professional. but, anyhow. I think it’s fun You won’t mind, will you?” The young man. who seemed rather anxious than-otherwise to submit his fate to her judgment, yielded his palm. “My, what a nice big handshe cried admiringly. “It’s better to have big hands than little—or is ft little than big? Anyhow, you have a splendid line of life. It looks as though you might live to be 90. Aren’t you glad?” “That depends.” the young man said “Is yours a long one?” “You’ll be very successful in the law.” she went on. “And even make money in it.” “Look here!” broke in the young man.. “You’re reading from wh'at you know. I’ve been a lawyer for a long while.” “Yes, but look at this line!” she cried triumphantly. “That means the law.” “That isn’t a line. That’s where I cut myself on the sardine can. last month at the picnic,” he said. “I nearly had blood poisoning and npbody paid any attention tt> it. Wasn’t there a lovely moon, though?” “Looks as. if you were going to have lots of trouble,” she murmured. “Here’s a line of influence that’s awfully strong, but I don’t see any divorce or anything.” • “I don’t see any wife yet.” he said, gloomily. “How’s anybody to get a divorce if he hasn’t even got a wife?” ■ “Oh, but you’re going to get married/’ she assured him. “But, of course, a falmist can’t fell what she’s like.” “If you can’t nobody can.” “Please don’t interrupt. You have a hollow hand and that means disappoint-

ment. but you have a# perfectly lovely fate line, and that means you’re never going to be disappointed. You'll never be a social success.” ‘:l am crushed to learn it,” he.said dolefully. “Can’t I take a course of correspondence school lessons on ‘How to Be Liked?’ Don't ,yop have to hold my hand to read it?” “It isn’t necessary.” ' ■ “It keeps slipping off the chair arm.” he said. “Besides, when you take. it the psychic circuit or something like that seems more complete, more satisfactory.” “You have lots of humps in your hand,” she went on, unheeding. “It looks as if those that ought to be large are small and those that ought to be small.;fre large, but I'm not sure. You are going abroad.” “Ask fate to make it the wedding trip.” he said. “Go on.” “One journey ends in a disappointment and on one you are going to be ill." • “I’m always seasick. Go on.” “You’ve always been strong, but your nails seem to indicate heart trouble and nervousness.’ l ■' “That's right,” he confessed. “One causes the other, but neither, is incurable if given proper care.” “You’ve had lots of flirtations.” “There you know you’re wrong.” “Well,” she hesitated, “I’m not sure y II “give me youb hand again.” whether they're flirtations or only worries, but, anyhow, there_they are.” “A flirtation is a worry.” “How do you know?" she asked. “Here's a thing that lobks like a feather duster. I wonder what that means?” “A clean sweep,” he said. “The world is mine.” ■■ ‘AYell, maybe,” she went on. “Jupiter, Mercury and the sun are all nice and big.” “I seem to possess all the planets. I suppose you think I want the earth?” —-“You can make speeches and you ard going to die a long way from your birthplace.”

• “And all alone? Is there no one wfi. will throw out the life line to me?” “Dmi't be foolish, for'this is serious. I wish I could remember whether or 'not it is a good, thing to have sticking out lines on the line of head.” “Give me the benefit of the doubt. Now, tell me more about the heart.” ■ “I never go.back,” she said definite ly. “I’ve finished with your heart,” v. . “Really?” he asked, drawing away his hand. “What are you going to tin with it—chuck it?" . ‘ "Please give me your hand again.” ( “No. I'd rather have yours.” he said “I know I could read you a first-rate fortune. Let's see it.” . Reluctantly she held her palm out and he took it in his own. "Those wiggly lines under your mid die finger show you are going to marry a- lawyer,” he said. “And your fat line says there's no use your squirm ir.g. for I'm going to keep this hand, no matter what you do. May I?" “I—l don't seem able to help it." sht faltered. "I can’t get it away.” ?. “And don't want to?" “Not—not awfully much." “Come on. let's go out on the porch," he ■ said softly. “I can tell fortunes better out there.”—Chicago News. A Substitute. Irish wit is as excellent as it is proverbial. 1 A writer in the Mariner’s Advocate tells the story of a ship doctor on an English liner who notified the death watch steward, a Hibernian, that a map had died in stateroom 45. The usual instructions to bury the body were given. Some hours later the doctor jpeened into the room and found that the hotly was still there. He called the matter to tlje attention of the Irishman, who replied: “I thought you said roornJU. I wint in . there and seen wan of thim in a bunk. ‘Are ye dead?’ says I. ‘No.’says he. ‘but I’m pretty neqr dead.’ So 1 was getting ready to bury him.” History In July. In at least four countries perhaps the most important event in their histories was recorded in July—namely, the establishment of their independence. In our own history we Have the memorable Fourth of July, while the patriotic efforts of the liberator Simon Bolivar for the independence of Venezuela were consupunated on July 5. Colombia! ridding herself of the Spanish yoke on July 20. Then there is France,' witlrdier July 14. marking the date when the suffering French - ,people stormed the famed and fearsome Bastite. The Spanish forces at Santiago, Cuba, capitulated on July 16. A Lesson of Defeat. Oh. the way won’t be so gloomy whec you’ve learned to say good-by— To take your leave of buried hopes witb clear, undaunted eye; To stand beside the grave of dream where sorrow laid your heart. Determined, though the heavens - fan, tc make another start! ' —Birmingham Age-Herald. ’ . Ineonsisteney.vvhat is tlie meaiiing of inconsistency?" asked Freddy. “Inconsistency, my son,” exclaimed pa, “means a man who growls all day and then goes home and kicks the dog for barking at night.” As soon as yellow shoes stop squeaking, they begin to look as though Noah had worn them in the ark-

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, Harley Dew, aged 24 years, was f? .tally stabbed by Emmet Taylor in troi - ble over a can! game at Linton. Ta; Ipr escaped. Dew is paralyzed in bot legs. , The large warehouse'' and elevate • belonging to Jeff Ray & Sons, at Rog - hill, Spencer Cotanty, were destroy*- 1 by fire, the loss being wit i $7,500 of insurance. Henry and George Lash, 20 and jf years of age, respectively, two Avil ; Lads, won a wager of $25 by sawin , splitting and piling ten cords of woe 1 in a single day of ten hours. Attacked by an infuriated boar. Pt :- er Gresinger. of Wabash, was beii g fearfully lacerated when his broth r Will rushed to his rescue. He w 1 his body will bear the marl s of the boar. Fairmount probably holds the heal h record for November, not only in ti e State, but in the whole country. Wi h a population of 4,000, there was e it one death within the corporate 1-ini ;s during the month and only one. th it of.an aged wenjan, in the township David Clancy, aggd 58 years, wh le digging a grave at Paoli, in Oran ;e County, was stricken with paraly. isi and fell-into the open grave, where e ; died in a short time. Mr. Clancy w is: digging the grave intended for. tle body of ;the Rev. Cyrus Jones, a wji iknown minister of that place. Mt. Ayr has been added to the 1 st of "dry” to-wns in Newton County, 1 le one -saloon in that place going out of business last week. J. J*. Garrity, w io owned the saloon, was put out of bi siness by a remonstrance signed bj a majority of three. He has decided iot to contest the matter, and will q fit the saloon permanently. With the wedding guests assembl d, the preacher present, and after . he mother of the prospective bride 1 ad received permission of the court to et her marry, Miss Carmel Harger, a ed 15, disappeared from her 'home in lvansville and went to the home o a neighbor, where she enjoyed a daJ’he. The prospective groom, Charles t ox, later prevailed upon Miss Harger to marry him. ■ , Chester Ferguson, a Booneville i entist, found a meteor while hunting on the Hoover farm, ‘near Gentryv lie. From‘examinations and tests mad it has a peculiar composition. It was the size o't' a large goose egg, about the same shape and was hollo,w. Wien broken it was found to contain a Yellowish substance, which tests by a ids proved to contain iron ore. The interior of the shell is as smooth as i the outside and from appearance aas i been exposed to extreme heat. A woman living near Martinton has ! all her life been afflicted with str: nge names. She has been married t’ ree times. Her maiden name was 1 art- 1 ridge; her first husband’s name .vate Robin, her second Sparrow, and her present husband’s name is Qu; yle. There are now two Robins, one Sparrow and three little Quayles* in the family. One of her grandfathers' was named Swann, a fact which is njot mentioned as having any bearing on her peculiar rim of luck'fn the nattbr of names. George Coppy, a 14-year-old boy of New Richmond, is suffering fro n a strange disease, which is exceed: igly puzzling to the physicians who ,ave attended him at the hospital in Crawfordsville. He is suffering from “lumpy jaw,” a disease common among c; ttle. This is the first case of this kind ?ver reported to the medical profession of j Crawfordsville. The lumps are h the abdomen near the appendix. :it is ; thought the liid became afflicted with the disease by eating diseased r lent. Physicians have pronounced the case as hopeless. There is at least one woman it Indiana who docs not believe in tl? ? rural free delivery of mail-. Miss dan--dane Miller, aged 60. of hear Pi sreeton, Kosciusko County, refuses j allow the postman to bring letters parcels or papers to her home, preft -ring to have a box in the general de very of the postoffice at Pierceton. But more strange is the fact that Mis Miller calls for her mail only twice each year. Ou her last semLyearly vis t she obtained twenty-eight copies >f a weekly newspaper, several packages and third and fourth-class matte . Peculiar interest attaches to ti e announcement just made of the 'oirthcbming marriage of Miss Clar Lillian Thias, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Thias, of Jeffersonvii e, to Harry Worrall, the wedding tc take place in January. Miss Thias ha? been totally deaf almost from infanc; , and it is only in recent years' tha she learned to talk so that she could >e understood by those who know hei well. She did not, however, permit har affliction unduly to hinder her i i her studies. She is a graduate of Ii diana University, passing through the regu-. lar classes of that institution ir spite of her physical disability. Dr. A. J. Willing, the oldest practicing physician in Porter Count , died suddenly lastjweek. He was 78 years old and leaves three sons an 1 one daughter. He had been a resident of the county for fifty-three years. James Bennett, for forty year t tyler of the Shelbyville Masonic ord ar, declined re-election at the election held last week on account of his ag a. He holds the record of the State lor the number of years he served : a this office.

There were six deaths and but one birth in Kend ville in November. I Lieut. C. C. arsh» who was in command of the cruiser Yankee, which Sank near Nev Bedford, Mass., last week, is a Mt ncie man. Authorities ; Warsaw are after an andnymotts lei fir writer, who has been' sending threat ning letters to John W. Sellers, a .'e ider in the temperance movement then. , 0 .. ' The £-year-ill daughter of Harvey' Stembe -g, n ? • Goshen, was kicked in the face by a horse. A gash two inches long s cut in her forehead, the upper ey lid was entirely severed and the lowe yelid' badly cut. John H. übaker. a prominent Warsaw attorney, has just wedded Miss Emma Hollowell, of Goshen. Brubaker is W) years of age and has four sons, C e youngest of whom is oldejxthan hit- bri.o6, who is- 18. The revival services which have been in progress ;for. the last three . weeks at th New- Salem' Methodist church; closed last week. The 1 pastor, the R‘ev. D. W.' Hetrick, was assisted by the Rev. it-. Coen, of Franklin. Thirty :iew members were added -to the chut ch roll. .. ' John Larinx •. IS year's. old. living • north o: Jasc nville, was accidentally shot in the breast and abdomen while hunting. Whih his injuries are not fa-'. tai, he had :> narrow escape from.’ death, and it was due to the fact that he wore a very heavy hunting coat at the time that U? was not killed, j Miss May: Sialcup, who lives hear .Worthington, -and her aunt, Mrs. Mary Stalcup, of Elwood, were badly hurt in r a runaway wl le coming to jhe city. Miss Sialcups' face was badly lacerated, aid she was. badly bruised. Mrs. Stalcup s shoulder is broken and j he. is injured int> nally. She may notfrecover. . - I A. ■ L Bingham..of Ball BrotAws’ Manufacturin'; Company at Muntie, was Whirling northward in Elm street in his Mg t u ring bar when he ran directly in front of a switch engine and a cut of box cars. -Bingham was unhurt.. He st v the cars, but tarrMtte to avoid tjhe accident, although he ■ headed the machine up an .allety that ran alongside the track; - South Bend will have a : 'nVtpry office building J. M. StudebakcShaving just annom ced that he w mid e\m■mehe'e the instruction ot building on he corner, of Main«ai»®k Washington streets, just across from 1 the Oliver Fie'el' and diagonally opposite the court house. The structure will cost s3o<‘,f*oo and will be 111 feet long and hav? a frontage of 66 feet. Whet the new intermban line is built- from. F i'ndallville to Goshen'lt is expected that it Will pass through ' the ancient Village of Benton, in Elk■hart Ci unty and give that place a neW lense o life. Benton is one of the .oldest towns in northern Indiana. Seventy five y jars, ago it was one of thh leading villages in Elkhart County ■ ami before r ulroads made "their appearanc». or up to 185,6. was the commercial center for trading. John Syp! ers, 11 years old. was taken fiom Clinton to a Pasteur institute in Indianapolis. The boy, together ni.h several other children, was* bitten, 'near he Klondike mine west of the city, Y a dog supposed to be mad. Fhe dog. escaped, though pur--sued by farmers and miners. Farmers near Sc Bernice, eight miles west of Clinton, reputed so the health officers that the dog had bitten several head of stock The animal was finally shot and its head was shipped to the ' State laboraury. at Indianapolis. ' The milk famine is the worst in Hagerstown’s history. Needier & Winner, w ’(/op ‘ ited the only dairy, have sold out. The high price of feed made the .business unprofitable and the large ‘herd of dairy,cows was sold. Many are buying cows while others are learning how to do without cream and butter Eggs are. 35 cents a dozen. Some years ago they brought 60 cents, a dozen 'Tlmt was when eggnog was fashionable and every -egg was required tp supply this demand. Saloon- . ists had a s anding order at all grocers for all fresh eggs that came in, at 60 emts a dozen. Earners near Morocco have a new device in connection with the raising of po qtry. It is called the “oats incubatoc.” The outfit is simple and original, consisting .of a number of crates, one above the other, with inches; of space between. On the bo£' tom oli eac 'rate' layers of burlap are placed and on the flop crate water is poured . each, morning. The water soaks the oats and then drops -from one crate to the other Under the influence ot artificial heat the oats sprout and grow rapidly, the green.' . tender sheets making excellent food for chicl- 1 s during the winter mont.is. A tucketful of oats will make five L ucke'.sful of green food. Poultrz raises who have tried the “oats incubator” are enthusiastic in its praise . Mins Mary E. Logan has returned from India, where she has labored in missionary work the last seven years. It was her second trip, to that country. She is now at the home offfier father, S. H. Logar near Rushville. Salem Fashara, earliest leader ot the Syrian colony in Fort. Wayne, long a pio leer among the people of his nationality, tut later dethroned as his fortune dwindled, died at his home atthe age of 51 years. Death was due to dropsy.