The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1909 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIIX SYRACUSE, - - IND. Tne Gomezes seem to be me smitns •f tropical America. A Loudon paper publishes an article entitled: “Why Clever Girls Don’t Marry.’,’ They frequently do. A Michigan man has been sent to jail for stealing a 2-cent stamp. How that man must be despised in Pittsburg I _ The girls who get married this year will be able to hold their heads up proudly, knowing that they are free from suspicion. Champ Clark says the average price of a woman’s hat is $5. And yet it would never do to refer to any woman’s hat as an average one. Now that Mark Twain is a trust he should have himself- investigated and . Show Henry Rogers what a real humorist can do on "the witness stand. * Count Boni de Castellane declares that he doesn’t want any more Gould money. Can it be possible that he had the foresight to save up some of it for the rainy day? A Pullman official says it is the selfish who tip the porter. Then it must be the unselfish who pay him $25 a month, one-half of which must go for meals on the road. It’s all right for Boni to withdraw his demand for SOO,OOO, but if he gets the custody of his sons without an allowance we’re afraid there will be a new child-labor scandal in France, Another county has gone dry ; and Emperor William announces he will never drink again during -the remainder of his life. The temperance movement is making some mighty strides. Some of the prophets are predicting that the Atlantic will be crossed by balloon during the present year. If John W. Gates can be induced to bet a million, on it the matter will be settled. An organization .has been formed to teach farmers’ wives how to cook. What farmers’ wives would really like to know is hdw they can get rid of about half of the cooking they have to do now. A married couple in Montclair, N. J., separated because of incompatibility. He was an inveterate tobacco chewer and she had a habit of kissing the cat. Cautious persons will be careful in bestowing their sympathy in this case. The girl who has neglected to propose during leap year and finds herself still alone and unsought may be expected to begin agreeing with the poet that “of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these, ‘lt might have been.’ ” Can the proposition that the mini; mum salary for an unmarried Episcopalian clergyman in the diocese of New York shouldybe $1,200 and for a married clergyman $1,200, with a suitable place to live in, or $1,500 in money, be taken as an official statement of the exact cost of a wife? Mme. Curie, co-discoverer with her husband of radium, has been promoted • to full professorship in the University of Paris. ■ A woman who can discover new truth is certainly qualified to teach it, and the young men in the university can afford to sit with respect at the feet of this remarkable! woman of science. The general express business of the country is controlled by six companies, although thd Bureau of the Census reports thirty-four such companies in operation. This is largely owing to the fact that the six big companies are all that do business in more'than ten States. ’ Nineteen companies do business in one State only. The companies operate on friendly terms with the railroads, and agree to charge at least 50 per cent more than the freight rate m all articles. Indeed, the railways are part owners of some of the independent express companies. This partnership arrangement may ultimately result in the absorption of the express sompanies by the railroads themselves There is more and more recognition among enterprising ch’urch denomina : tions of fact that mere doctrinal abstractions or dogmatic discussions do not deeply interest young folks. The Imaginative and luminoufijinind of youth needs the poetry oftnings, some- '. what of its- own flavor and kindred. The kernal none the less still continues to be the truth though enveloped in attractive guise. What should be the exact limit of such attractiveness will always be a matter of discussion. That it may—and very readily —be carried to excess is obvious. Among preachers, as among laymen, there will always be those inclined to the spectacular and the eccentric. Latitude, with these, means occasional wide flights of fancy, excessive intermixture of sentiment, display and moral principle, and insufficient devotional exercise. In view of the excessive severity of the arraignment of the modern home to which the American Sociological So-

ciety was treated by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins (Ulman, one almost expects some judge to ask„ the poor home whether it has anything to say before sentence is pronounced against it. A« a matter of fact, the modern home need not hang its head in shame and sorrow, and is in no danger of condemnation. It has done very well considering its prehistoric and even historic past, and it goes on improving. ■With all Its imperfections—and these it shares with other human institutions and with human nature itself—it manages to put to the front millions of tolerably healthy, tolerably moral and tolerably intelligent men and women- toi do the work and carry on the civilization of the known world. It is true that extreme poverty, like idleness in luxury and parasitism, is bad for maternity, and it is true that in too many homes the provisions for child culture are still sadly inadequate. But it is not true that we have reached the parlous state where “the woman refuses to go back, the home refuses to go forward, and marriage waits.” Few of us would send woman back to slavery and abject‘dependence if we could, and most of tis understand that we couldn’t if we."would. Revolutions do not go backward, and the progress of woman is assured. As to the home, it never has been so unreasonable as .to refuse to advance. It advances slowly, to be sure, but this shows wise conservatism and a due realization of its solemn responsibilities. The home knows that not everything is advance which is so described in formidable volumes and at sociological meetings, and it wishes to be certain of the next step before taking it. Industrial, educational and social conditions are reacting on the home aS on other basic ■ institutions. Our various problems are interdependent, and no sovereign remedy for all our ills is in sight. Society is struggling, developing, making experiments. accumulating knowledge. It cannot give its entire time and attention to the future, for the simple reason that man does not live by high thinking alone. We must use'such light as we have to make the modern home a fit place for all who dwell in it. To improve education, to eliminate unnecesary poverty, to remove unjust inequalities. to disseminate intellectual moral and aesthetic culture is directly and indirectly to raise the morale and ennoble the atmosphere of the home. PHOSPHATE IN SOUTH SEAS. Larg-cst Known Deposits of Higffi Grade Phosphate. The islands of the Pacific ocean contain the largest known deposits of high grade phosphates. A Lohdon company controls the deposits in Ocean and I’lcasapt islands, in the Gilbert group. The deposits on these islands are estimated at 50,000 ( 000 tons; of which scarcely. 1.000,000 tons have been marketed. By the employment of a large number of Chinese, Japanese and natives the company is now marketing ‘250000 to 300,000 tons a year, of which 1,00.000 tons go to Japan, 80,000 to Australia and the remainder to. Europe. Europe also receives yearly 100,000 tons of high grade phosphates from Christmas island and more than 100.000 tons of lower grade phosphates from Tunis and Algeria. Notwithstanding the very large deposits owned by the London company, the mining of phosphates pays so well that not only that company, but various other investors, have been, and are, making constant efforts to discover Other phosphate deposits, and in many islands deposits, small in quantity and poor in quality, have been discovered, as in the Fijis. ’ Recently,' however, phosphate of good quality has been dis covered on three islands ih the French colony of Tahiti and dependencies. These islands —Makatea, Matahiva and Niau—lie in the northwestern part ot the Tuamotu archipelago of eights atoll islands. It is also probable that deposits exist on other islands of this group. The deposits in Matahiva ano Niau are small, but the high grade db posits in Makatea are estimated al 10,000.00 tons, with many million mon tons of an inferior quality. The qual ity of this deposit ranges from 73 t« 80 per cent. The island has an eleva tion of 230 feet —the highest of ths group—and an area Qf six to eight square miles. Although many others are interested in these deposits, they will be worked by a French company just formed in Paris for that purpose As Makatea is surrounded by coral reefs and has no harbor, the phosphate will have to be loaded at deep sea moorings outside the .reefs. On account of the expense incident theretc it will be some time before the com; pany can make any considerable shipments, but in the course of a few years it is considered that the capacity ol the works will be 200,000 tons per annum. 1 - As Makatea is so near Papete, the ! commercial center of this colony, thworking of the phosphate deposits ol ' that Island will add largely to the business and prosperity of the colony.— ’ Philadelphia Record. 1 : —- i England’s Oldest Canal. 1 The oldest canal in England was t originally a Roman ciitting—the Foss 1 dike —running its 11 miles from Lin- • coin to the Trent, near Torksey. Deep- - ened in the time of King Henry 1., it - was allowed to decay until 1840, when i the Edinburgh Stevensons both widens ed and deepened it. I When a womafi says to her husband: “You know I /haven’t a bit of jealousy In my nature, but I would like to know, f etc.,” look ov.t for storms. ? There is more or iess of the graftei - in the average man. > i

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Suggestion as a Cure. Rev. Henry C. Rose has given to the world a discovery which cannot fail to be a great boon to all downtrodden wives. He calls it “the sleep cure, and it consists in sneaking in when hubby is asleep and talking to his subconscious self. In this way, Rev. Mr. Rose declares, a woman of his acquaintance cured her husband of a bad case of going to the club,- says Success. “To-morrow night,” this neglected wife whispered into his subconscious ear, “you will not go to the club to drink and' carouse, but you will spend the evening with me.” The head of the family thus taken advantage of has completely forgotten his club and its annual dues, and now they have to vend for a blacksmith to pry him loose from his home. According to the Newark gentleman, this is only one of numerous cases where> people have been reformed against the be'tter judg; ment. It’s all very well for the wife, -but what of the rent-payer and provider

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of material blessings? Has he no ' rights which his own family is bound to respect? Somewhere a judge has decreed that a wife is justified In rifling her husband’s pockets for small ! change. Is she also to be allowed to take away his inalienable right to make a fool of himself? i Health 1 BEAUTY J A jmt bath taken at night affords refreshing sleep. | Persons subject to rheumatism or . weak heart should not take baths that . are ice-cold. When the eyebrows are too heavy *nd inclined to be coarse, a stick pomade that holds the hairs in place is 3 an excellent lotion to apply. 3 For the baggy appearance under the eyes, rub gently with the tips of the fingers dipped in alcohol. Afterward t massage in the same way with cold 1 cream. i i When shampooing, never rub the i soap directly on the hair, as it gums : and is almost Impossible to rub or f rinse off. Always have the soap io some liquid form. | Olive oil, taken internally, is excel- .' lent for biliousness, and will do much to Improve a yellow, pimpled skin.

Commence by taking a spoonful before breakfast and one at bedtime. Bushy, irregular eyebrows should be brushed lightly with a camel’s-hair brush dipped in olive oil. The same treatment is good for stiff and harsh eyebrows and is said to make them grow. To help keep hands smooth sewing, make mittens of canton ffiannel, fleeced side next to hands. A half yard will make two pairs. If you cannot cut them, buy a pair of men’s and baste them to fit. Then rip one and use for pattern. An excellent hair wash is to take one ounce of borax and one ounce of powdered camphor and dissolve in a pint of boiling water added to cold water in a bowl. The camphor will form into lumps, but a sufficient amount will dissolve. This will strengthen the hai-r and preserve the color. Attraction. The charm of woman lies not In beauty, but individuality—if she could

— but be brought to understand that fact. It.isn’t the details that confit. It is her carriage, her manner, her voice, her expression ; in short, herself —thitt makes or unmakes her charm. It is the woman, then, who 'has the courage to be herself' who attracts. Originals are much more desirable than copies, no matter how accurate the copy may be. If it be natural to wear one’s hair in earless fashion, by all means do so —nature is never mistaken. But let the admiring sister whom that same autocrat intended to be a tailormade girl beware of disorder; in her it would cease to be artistic, it would simply be untidy. ' , Let every woman dare to be herself, develop her own Individuality, not blindly copy some other woman, whom, it may be, her husband happens to admire. Let her think for herself, act for herself and express her own honest opinions. Individuality, when combined with that nameless something called manner, is the most potent weapon in the possession of the sex. It is this which has given many a homely woman a reputation for beauty which a bona fide beauty, with faultless face and figure has sighed in vain to attain. The Secret of Happlneix. ' The moment we set about the task of making every human being we come in contact with better for knowing us —more cheerful, more courageous and with greater faith in the kindness' of God and man—that moment we begin

to attain the third purpose of lifepersonal happiness. Would you possess the magic secret of the alchemist which transforms all things to gold? It is unselfishness —or, | to use a better word, selfishness. He : who goes forth bent upon being al- ' ways kind, always helpful, in the little daily events of life, will find all skies tinted with gold, all his nights set with stars and unexpected flowers of pleasure springing up in his pathway. And all his tears shall turn into smiles. I MILLINERY Hats are all trimmed on the right, and the favored way is to have the flowers or ribbon tossed on hazardously rear the edge, as if just about to fall overboard. This jaunty,’irresponsible device is supixised to lend careless grace to the millinery master-, piece. * . As variegated as the crowns and the brims of the new hats are, there is a

clearly expressed tendency toward picturesque, artistic effects noticeable in them all. The idea of the crown and brim of a hat of contrasting material, but in the same color, is new and has evoked great admiration.. t Newly imported beaver hats are small, cocked straight up on the left side,.- with a high roll of brim that gives them the semblance of dashing riding hats. Ornament for Girl’s Coiffure. There is quite a fashion for wearing a wide bow of soft satin or silver or gilt gauze in the hair. This -sketch shows just how this is adjusted. The double fillet is of thin silver and goes half way round the head bringing triple bow of silver gauze at the side of the bead back of the ear. This is a very pretty ornament, and is usually most becoming to any girlish face. Now the Engagement la Broken. Edna, stop flattering me, or I’ll put my hands over my ears. Edward (trying to be complimentary). Your lovely hands are too small. —Bystander.

1 f m ■ - Individual Heroism. The War Department files in Washington, in which are recorded the acts >f individual heroism of officers and loldlers of the Union armies, abound with interesting matter. Here are a few more relating to the operations of the Western troops in the Armies of ffie Tennessee and Cumberland. ! In the battle of Shelbyville, Tenn., ffie right wing of Gen. Rosecrans’ irmy had driven the left wing of the Confederate army, commanded by Gen. Joseph Wheeler, into the town of Shelbyville. The-' Confederate force, tvhlch numbered 3,000, formed a line lust at the outskirts of the town to lefend their stores; A battery of four pins pointed north commanded the' principal turnpike. This battery was ivell supported by dismounted/ cavalry >n the right and left. Gen. Rosecrans iecided to attack the center and, if possible, ride right over the battery, the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry and ffie Fourth United States Cavalry irere selected for the assault. The pike was so narrow that it was neees- } 3ary to make the charge in columns of ?our. Maj. Cas. C. Davis of the Seventh Pennsylvania would have properly belonged on the right of the second squadron, but he volunteered to lead ffie charge, and his offer was accepted. Fie took his place in the front of the I leading column of fours. A volley from ffie Federal cannon was to be the sigaal for the charge, and when all Was 'ln readiness Maj. Davis raised his sword aloft, the cannon boomed, and at the instant the gallant troops dashed ! forward, Maj. Davis in the"-lead, the : aeau ideal of a magn'ifipent trooper. The Confederate guns belched forth. Put their deadly missiles did not stop ffie rush of the courageous cavalrylien. Again they boomed, and one of ffie shells, striking the center of the onrushing horsemen, seut two men and three horses to the ground in a heap. The Federals. with the valiant Davis. Btill in the. van, . were now close upon ffie breastworks; it was too late for mother volley; and the Confederates fell back in terror. Right over the breastworks the pavalry went., and soon were dealing death to the panic-stricken rebels. The Confederates could not' Btand the onslaught, a®d made signs if surrender. Three hundred of them ind, the battery complete were taken. Sens. Wheeler and Martin escaped by Bwimming the river, many of their troops following their example, the rest scattering in all directions, getting iway as best they could. The number if Union cavalry in this charge was 150, and in gallantry and success it is •ntitled to rank with any charge of ffie war. At the battle of Stone ‘ River, the Confederates had caused a stampede in me wing of Gen. Thomas’ army, and the Brigade of the Cumberland was irdered forward by. Gen. Thomas to hold a position until the broken line :ould be re-formed. The brigade was successful in stopping- the advance of ffie enemy, and broken troops were rallied and soon again presented a solid front. The desired object having been accomplished, the Brigade of the Cumberland was withdrawn. As it retired from “the cedars”' and started across an open field, the Confederates discharged a volley. Col. Henry Douglas, U. S. A., who commanded the First Battalion, was struck by a shell, and with a cry he sank to the ground. Maj. H. B. Freeman of the Eighteenth Cavalry saw his brother officer fall, and funning to him, under fire of the snemy, who were not more than 1-50 fa rds away, raised him up, and supporting him in his arms, carried him to a place of safety. First Sergt. F. W. Judge of Company .K, Seventy-ninth Regiment of New Forlj Volunteers, known as “The Highlanders,’-’ performed a thrilling act of bravery during the assault on Fort Saunders, Tenn. The rebels, under Gen. Longstreet, assaulted the fort with a view to the capture of Knoxville. The garrison of the fort consisted of the Seventy-ninth New York Volunteers and Benjamin’s battery. Longstreet’s force was vastly superior, and the asault was made, with vigor and determination. The rebels had passed all. the obstructions and obstacles in front of the fort, were showering shot and shell into the fortifications. and for a Federal to show his ffiead meant a perfect storm of bpllets. A • rebel color-bearer, followed by about fifty men of the colbr guard, had ' crossed the ditch In front of the fort and planted his colors on the side of the works. The rebel yell rang out. Sergt. Judge saw the waving Emblem of the enemy, heard the shout of ; triumph, and his blood boiled with rage. Springing up from his position where he had been comparatively projected while firing his piece, he leaped upon the parapet, and running along where the flag had been planted, while shot and shell split the air around him, he seized the color and returned with it in safety to the fort. A might; cheer went up from his comrade? many of whom embraced him in the! admiration of his courage and the ei überance of their joy over his safet It was not long after that the hero young sergeant received, his commissi' n as a captain.

J2- ■ 1 When the Union troops, numbering I 20,000, s arted for the assault on Missionary, the whole length of this great line, ext< ndlng for over two and a hsfif miles, be ng visible and the bright suii- ’ i shine m, king their bayonets shimmer with llgl t, Col. Henry V. Boynton was in comn and of the Thirty -fifth Ohio ! Infantry and was In the front of his column. When they came within range of the rebels occupying the crest the rebel commanders gave the order to fire. At the first volley Col. Boynton, who was about twenty feet in advance, of his tr »ops, was struck and painfully woundec But he gave no sign. He faced at out and shouted: “Forward:” The bra e troops, suspecting nothing of their cc mmander’s Injury, went past him on ffie-run, and when he saw that they wc uld maintain their record for o gallantr he sank to the ground. At .Chickamauga before this Col. Boyntor had done some splendid fighting wh eh won him this fine praise from Gn. Baird: “When the left of our line of battle held by my command had be n turned by the enemy and our ar: ly. was in great jeopardy the brigade to which Col. Boynton be- ‘ longed appeared on ’ the field in the •rear of my left flank, went gallantly into ac ion and aided most materially in retaining, our fortunuZ Lieut. Col. Boynto i was in command, and his conduct wis brave and distinguished.” >. Mari m T. Anderson was the. captalp of the Fifty -first Indiana Volunteers. While ending his company.at the battle of Sto :e River he was wounded by a bullet - and was. left in the field for dead. He remained unconscious for eighte n .hours, and when he came tobis se-ises, found himself a prisoner. Some weeks after his incarceration the C mfederates decided to execute two c iptalns in revenge for treatment given to some of their captured soldiers. Seventy-five Union officers were oblige . to draw lots to determine who . shoulC be the victims. Capt. Anqerson Was ': mong the number. He did not draw the death slip', and his good for-- ■ tune continued with him. for a few days ater he effected lifs escape: At Nash’ file his company held > -advai ced position of all army occupyim: the erest hill about 6CO yards from and t icy were hi the the orks were carried. the storirlng of Overton Hills to wl ich Capt. Anderson was was sixth in line at the start.( When wlthl i 300-’yards of the rebel} works Col.’ ”ost was shot and h|s men’- xthinking him killed and being uiqler ai galling fire, laid down. Capt. Anderson ran- ais horse over five lines of \the pfost ate troops and ordered his eoiinpany, which followed him to a. man, to charge double quick. They wei* by 8 storm of bullets, but were not '• stopped. When his troops were within a fe v feet of the crest of the hills, and ffie Confederates were seen to be rum ng, Capt. Anderson, who was rid- • ing rom right to left. &as hit by a shai shooter and he fell, from his horse , into the enemy's 4 trenches. Lieut Sea: se, seeing him fall, ran to him and excl limed: “Great- God, Captain, are you badly wounded?” “Go on, the wor ts are ours I” answered the fallen con nander. Libut. Scarse rose up to obe the order, ffiut as he did so, he, too. was struck by a, rebel ball and he dro »ped by Capt. Anderson’s side. The Fe< eral troops, having no comtqander, lost confidence and retired, but in good or £., r _St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . “Co. K.” There’s a' cap in the dbset, t Old, tattered, and blue, Os very slight value It may fie to you; • But a crown, jewel-studded, Could not buy it to-day, With its tatters 'of honor, *Brave “Co. K.” Tte head that it sheltered Needs shelter no mor®'. Dead heroes make holy The they wore ; So, like a chaplet of honor, Os laurels and bay, Seems the cap of the soldier Marked “Co. K.” Bright eyes have looked calmly, The visor beneath, \ O’er the work of the reaper, Grim harvester Death I Let the muster roll meager, So mournfully say How foremost in danger Went “Co. K.” Whose footsteps unbroken , . Came up to the town, I. Where rampart and'bastion Looked thTeafningly down? Who, closing up breaches, Still kept on their way, i Till guns, downward pointed Faced “Co. K?” 1 ‘ \ . . Lika cameras awful • Stood cannon aloof. , Till the signal wits given ■ . ■ . . . 4 To strike off a proof ’ Os the soul of the soldier, To send up to Him, (Pray God that he knows it, i Though bloody «pd dim). i Who faltered or shivered? l Who shunned battle stroke? Whose fire was uncertain? > , . Whose battle-line broke? X Go ask it of history, — Years from to-day, / 5 And the record shall , telk you , Not “Co. K.” \ Though my darling is sleeping j ’ To-day with the dead, And daisies and clover Bloom gver his head, I smile through my tears As I lay it away—s That bettle-piereed cap, t Lettered Company “K.” —Lieut. Col. Leon Edwards. V..