The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 March 1909 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. r , v It took a man to write the prizewinning woman suffrage poem. In the course of time February will be wholly devoted to celebrating the birthdays of great men; Prof? Zuebling says woman is a live problem. There is no doubt she keeps toany,busy hunting for the answer. E. H. Harriman is looking for young jnen to fill $50,000 positions. Hobfever, he is looking for $50,000 men. The Los Angeles Express tells of ptomaines in hash in that town. There Is everything in hash from ptonails 6p- • When a Tennessee man is called to do jury duty he runs the risk of being found gulty of being able to read and Write. A St. Louis philologist wants the (Simplified Spelling Board to tackle the tvord “colonel.” Why pass “lieutenant” by? “The per capita circulation .of tnoney is steadily rising,” says the Richmond Times-Dlspat'ch. But does It really circulate per capita? . One of the curious things about some >f the men who think they look like Lincoln is that they act as if they considered it creditable to Lincoln. King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm have had such an enjoyable time together that Great Britain has just decided to build six more big battleships. • Andrew Carnegie admits that Robert Burns was one of the most extraordinary men ever born, although it is IveH known that the poet never saved |1,000,000. The Rosebud settlers’ are calling for tirls who are willing to, become wives. Before going the girls should be given to understand that Rosebud Isn’t a bower garden. Because his wife would not permit him to remain away from home at night for the purpose of playing penuchle a New Jersey man hanged himself. She must have been right in feeling that she ought to watch him. A Pennsylvania carpenter recently burned a barn in order that he might pet a job as a buildep. He can at least set up the claim that there would be' no justice in fining him for trying to operate a combination in restraint of trade. * Panics in burning halls are becoming • less frequent,' thanks "hot to fewer ores, but to excellent co-operation on 111 hands. , Twelve hundred people Walked quietly out of a blazing theater in New York recently. No one Was hurt, and but one girl fainted. iThe orchestra aided the exit by playing until the place was emptied. What boy bom during the current rear will be the Abraham Lincoln or the Charles Darwin of the century? Both Darwin and Lincoln were born fen February 12, 1809. The same fear saw the birth of Oliver Wen|ell Holmes. Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred i tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett*Brownlng fend Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, to Bay nothing of scores of men famous In other branches of learning. It only remains for us to hope that chicken farmers generally throughout the land will get busy now with the brush and the green, paint. If there is One thing we need in the markets above all things, it is more eggs and cheaper. If the hens will double their efforts, the price must - turfible as Inevitably as that the sunshine must follow the rain. ] The hen's will double their efforts if green paint is offered as an inducement. The bargain is so much to the advantage of the owners of the paint and . the remainder of mankind in general that it would seem compounding a monumental folly to hesitate in the emergency upon us. ' Some day not very far distant, it Is hoped, exporters and importers in the United States will awaken to the realization that South America offers them exceptional business opportunities, and then probably a systematic and determined effort vjlll be made to Wrest from Europe the trade which, geographically speaking, belongs to us. Why this rich field has not been cultivated is one of the mysteries which for a decade has puzzled citizens who visited the continent to the south. Perhaps the explanation is that we have been too btfsy extending our trade to "Europe ami Asia, but Whatever the cause, the time has passed when American merchants can any longer afford to lgno:re the possibilities apparent to the well informed. With what scorn do certain of our economic reformers scoff at the girl who prefers working for five dollars a week in store or office rather than in a factory or mill for twice or three times that amount as a skilled operative. Yet how little ar® they justified. The Ideal destiny of every prop-arly-brought-up young woman Is marrlasre. There are no old mnids of 18.

Thd girl who expects to earn her own living only for a few years isn’t studying out economic problems as they may relate to her earning capacity at thirty. Bless her heart, no. The idea that she may be still earning her own living at that age never enters her head until that age is at hand. She 'finds that, rightly or wrongly, in an Indefinable but nonetheless distinct social line between the stenographer and the weaver; between the girl who sells a hat to a customer and the girl who made the hat in the workroom. Quite unconsciously she caters to the social ends of life. Sheprobably would not explain it just that way, but she prefers to be the stenographer br the saleswoman. The possibilities of her marrying foell are greater. Her married estate and the social position of herself and her children are more important than the pay envelope. She w ill be a wage-earner only a few years. She expects to be afewife for many. What are the few 7 against the many? The social reformers are all wrong. Pride does not cause this point of view in the working girl. It is instinct, primal, proper, pure Instinct, as broad as creation. And if the dear reformers imagine they can eradicate.or change it they are very badly mistaken. For which the whole world should be very, very thankful. r The commission on couptry life has not had time to complete its investigations, but it has had time to demonstrate its usefulness and the wisdom of its methods. It has silenced the cheap and silly critics who thought it wildly absurd even to suggest that, as they flippantly put it. “the farmer needed uplifting.” The problems of rural life, known to the thoughtful, are now more generally understood and the farmers themselves have displayed an active interest in their proper solution. It is true that prosperity chiefly comes from the soil. It is true that the rural ajreas of the great west have been the hope and the envy of many city toilers in counting rooms and offices. It is true that lowa and Nebraska have not known the worries which the panic brought to Wall street. But no intelligent student of rural life imagines that it is a life of unalloyed joy. There is misery on farms; there is excessive toll, there is solitude leading in many instances to insanity; there is lack of sanitary and other modern facilities; ’there is backwardness in^ agricultural and business organization. The farmer, like the city dweller, needs co-operation and increased efficiency in organization. He needs better schools for his children, more social and aesthetic life, improved rural libraries and a score of other things. He has advanced in late years, thanks to’ institutes, congresses, postal progress, road construction, governmental aid and interest in him; but we are at the beginning rather than at the end of the process of the readjustment of rural conditions to the standards of modern civilization in industry, in education, in recreation, In religious and social life. The commission can be of help to the farmer in {various ways, chiefly of course by means of discussion, definite, expression of his owm feelings and practical suggestions. It is to be hoped that Congress will recognize the value of the commission’s work and vote the small appropriation necessary to its continuance. Whit® House Renovated. When William Howard Taft stepped into the White- House at noon on the 4th of March as the new president of the United States of America, he found a model home equipped with every modern. convenience; that is what other, presidents have never enjoyed. Before the election of President Roosevelt few changes hail been made in the White House since the days of John Quincy Adams, when it was rebuilt after being fired by the marauding British troops, only the walls being left ' standing. The executive mansion, as it was called before the advent of Mr.'Roosevelt—he dubbed it officially ‘The White House”—was the fir4t public building , erected at the seat of government. The architect was James Hoban, who drew his plans closely aTter those of the seat of the Duke of Leinster, near Dublin. Ireland. ‘George Washington himself selected the site, laid the coner stone on Oct. 13, 1792, and lived to see the building completed. John Adams, however, was the first president to occupy it, which he did Jn 1800.—Technical World Magazine. Woman Succeeds at Farming. “I see no reason why a woman cannot earn as good a living on a small farm as in any other field.” Such is the assertion, made with the cheerful certainty of one who has tried it—and succeeded —by a Connecticut woman, Mrs. Jane C. Barrow, who has for the past eight years supported herself and sent two children to school, on the earnings of a four-acre farm, only one acre of which is available for planting and buildings. “If a woman is as fond of the country as I am,” said Mrs. Barrow, “she will not find it a hardship, but rather a pleasure. I had everything to learn and I have succeeded, so I thinkqther women could do as well. I began with a small boy as assistant; now I have a woman and a man and we are all three kept pretty busy.” When this energetic and courageous woman took her land she was forced to go into debt for money to pay for groceries enough to keep her and the two children until, the farm began to make returns. —Technical World Maga-

Different Ivories. “Let us go down and have a game of billiards,” said the tall stranger in the hotel lobby. “Excuse me, but I am a greenhorn at billiards,” hastened the short one. “Greenhorn? I am surprised, sir. Why you told me you were at home with the ivories.” “So I am, sir. I’m a dentist].’ Nerve. / Heiress —The count states in his mad love letter that he wiTT _ call and ends up by saying: “I beg to remain forever, Count Hickoff.” Irate Father—Remain forever? What does he think this is—a charity hotiJt? How to Land Him in a Week. Monday—Be pretty. Smile once. Tuesday—Be prettier. Frown at him'. * Wednesday—Be pensive. Sigh once. Thursday—Confess your regard for him. Friday—Laugh at him. Saturday—Be “out.” Sunday—Name the day ! —New York Herald. Good Idea. Hairless Henery—Can you suggest anything to nourish my hair? Uncle—Develop . your brains a bit and the roots will have something to feed on.—Judge. His Point of View. She—Are you lucky in love? He—l should say I was! I have been refused five times in three years. Every Time. Gussie —To snuff a candle out is a sign of marriage. Dora—Yes, and to turn down a lamp is a sign of courtship. Unfair Treatment; Visitor-—My man, why are you here? Number 13 —I’m a shoemaker by trade. -A. guy brought me a pair of shoes to be heeled and I sold ’em. Difference. Jinks—He gave his first child a silver cup. Blinks—He gave his last one a tin cup yesterday. Wanted to Know. The Professor —Yes, a caterpillar is the most voracious of living things. In a month it will eat about 600 times its own weight Absent-minded Parent—Whose boy did you say he was? The Auto Elopement. On sped the elopers in the big red machine. The farmhouses were few and far between. “Ah,” whispered the young man, joyously, “see those lights ahead? That is the ‘Last Chance.’ ’’ “The Last Chance,” echoed the pretty girl. “What is it, George, a—a tavern ?”.. “No, a parsonage, the last on the road.” ■’ And ten minutes later a good man in embroidered slippers was reading the marriage service before a flickering lamp. Live and Learn Farmer Meddergrass—Waal, by clover! I knew them Chinese lived on t’other side o’ th’ airth, but hang me if I knew they lied a through route! Couldn’t Explain. “What is a ‘tempest in a teapot,’ pa?” “My child, you will have to ask your mother; I never attend afternoon teas.” —New York Herald. The Mean Thing-. “£lara told me that her new gown is going to be a dream.” . “Very likely. That’s all it will be—a dream. Her husband won’t give, her the money for it.” Down, on the Whole Sex. Wangs—Do you think that lighthaired women are apt to be bad tempered? Bangs—Yes, and black-haired, brownhaired and any other ’old color, natural or artificial. Misflt Advice. “Always climb up and never go down —that is the way to gain a crown and make your life work greater.” Something like this the moralist said, the youth replied as he shook his head: “I run an elevator.”—Emporia Gazette. A Notable Exception. Kwoter —It’s a very true saying that "silence is golden” and—— Wise—Not always. In the case of a politician accused of crookedness it’s usually merely gilt.—The Catholic Standard and Times.

All Gone. “Since it went dry,” announced the prominent citizen, with pride in his voice, “our town is unexcelled.”* “How do you make that out?” asked the casual visitor, who had seen better towns. “Because,” replied the prominent citizen, “it is now a good town_bar none.” —Baltimore American. Diagnosis. “Is that water you are using well water?” “I s’pose not,” answered Farmer Comtossel. “I don’t see how it could be exactly well with all the germs the doctors say it has in it.” —Washington Star. Give Him the Boot. Belle —He just won’t propose. Nelle—Give him the mitten. Belle—What good is a mitten for cold feet?—Cleveland Leader. Glasses and Glasses. “I’m troubled a great deal with head aches in the morning,” said Luschman “Perhaps it’s my eyes. Do you think I need stronger glasses?” “No,” replied Dr. Wise, meaningly, “what you need is not stronger glasses, but .fewer.”—Catholic Standard and Times. He “Beat It.” “Where did you steal that mat from?” demanded the policeman as he seized the tramp. “I didn’t steal it,” said the tramp “A lady up the street gave it to me and told me to beat it.” —Judge. Prevalent Type. “What kind of people are they?” “Well, when they are not playing bridge they are working a phonograph.”—Life. Back to the Farm. “Well, Silas, what did you find new down to the city?” “Why, somethin’ wuth seein’. The hull place is full o’ cabs with cash registers on ’em,- an’ red flags to show folks it’s dangerous to dispute the fare. They call ’em taxidermy cabs, ’cause es you don’t mind, the drivers ’ll jest take the skin off ye.”—Life. Possibly So. Simpkins—That fellow Muggins beats the world on snoring—he runs the scale on every snore. . Tompkins—l suppose, then, on second thought, you might call his snoring sheet musk. —Puck. Not with the Power. — Johnnie (to new visitor)- —So you are my grandma, are you? Grandmother —Y’es, Johnnie! I’m your grandma on your father’s side. Johnnie—Well, you’re on the wrong side, you’ll find that out! His Kick. “I do wish,” said Mrs. Stiles, “that you’d try to keep yourself neater.” “But, my dear,” protested her husband, . “you’re not so careful- ■ “I’m not? I’m certainly more careful of my clothes than you ” “That’s just it. You should be more careful of me.”—Catholic Standard and Times. Over Their Heads. Musician—At your, afternoon concert would you like me to play some of Wagner’s works? Parvenu—-Yes—but on the hurdygurdy, or my guests will not- understand it. —Fliegende Blaetter. A Sham. f “He puts his watch under his pillow every night.” “I notice he likes to sleep overtime.’ 1 —Christian Advocate. Prosperity. “Old Cush landed in this country it his bare feet, ten years ago. Now he’s got millions.” “You don’t say! Why, he’s got s centipede skinned to death, hasn’t he?’ —Cleveland Leader. An Enemy of Hera. Maud —Miss I’assee looks quite wel tonight, doesn’t she? Tom—Yes, like a Grecian goddess Maud—But not quite so old. ® 1 gj She . Lost Out. Mrs. B. —It doesn’t always pay t< husband one’s resources. Mrs. W.—Why not?” "Mrs. B.—Well, I judge so from Mrs Goodthing's experience. She let het husband have the SIO,OOO she inherited from her grandmother and he lost i! all in speculation. £ A Danger. “Why don’t you read up on scientific farming?” “I started that once,” answered Mr Corntossel. “It didn’t pay. I got st' interested readin’ that I forgot to g< out and farih.”—Washington Star. They AH Do. “What kind of a lunch did sh,e serf last night?” “I thought it was all right, but she apologized for it just the same.”—De troit Free Press. A Foregone Conclusion. . Elsie —And then, mind you, she asked me if I woudn’t marry the first mar that came along. Ethel —The idea! Don’t these ob vlously unnecessary questions make yoi; tired? .• ...... . ;.. . ' ■ ' ]...' ’-'T 1 .

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B. F. Shively. United States Senator, has selected Byford N. Long, of Brownstown, as his private secretary. Edgar Klenk, the 21-year-old son of Charles Klenk, committed suicide at his home in Connersville, by taking two ounces of carbolic acid. No cause is known for the act. Mrs. Isabelle Robinson, 76 years of age, mother of former Congressman James M. Robinson, died at Fort Wayne after a long illness. She had been a resident of Allen County since 1855. When Lewis Newton, aged 40, offended a woman in Charles Acton’s grocery in Terre Haute, Acton put him out. Newton died a few hours later from a fractured skull. Acton is under arrest, charged with murder. George W, Celie, a Civil War veteran, who for many years has lived in the gold mining district on Bear creek in Brown County, has sold his farm to John Billheimer, Auditor of State, who proposes to hake a summer resort of the place (and spend his vacations there. Newton Stricklapd, 65 years old, and his son. William Strickland, both died of pneumonia at their home, north of Bloopfield last week. Their deaths were ont more than thirty minutes apart. The familis; seriously afflicted, as three other ijnembers are ill with the same disease. , In spite of the fflet that he had lived sixty five of hisj sixty-seven years without a wife; August Doudik, of Fort Wayne, asked for a divorce on the grounds that his wife twitted him day and night about being a gay Lothario and that he could! stand it no longer. The judge granted him a divorce. Mrs. Simon Bax; a widow, who lives in Evansville, with her only son, a boy of 14, fell from exhaustion at*the washtub and her condition is regarded as critical. It is said she has worked! literally night and day since the death of hes husband, several months ago, “to keep the wolf from the door,” and failed. Emanuel Easte-rday, a well-knowp farmer of Butleir Township, Miami County, is dead pf 'heart disease' and injuries. While he w r as driving home from Peru he fell put of his wagon and later was found dead along the roadside. It was discovered by Coroner Goodrick that in the fall the man had a broken neck anh other injuries. Ariie Barnes, living in Brazil, went in search of her 3-year-old daughter last week and found the dead body of the child in a hole in the back yard. The hole was during the summer to keep provisions cool, but it had 'filled with 'water during the recent . rains, and it is; believed the child, while playing with her little sister, plunged head foremost into the hole. Miss Lulu Burkhart, a teacher in the public schools of Martinsville, was severely burned whjle at the home of her parents in Paragon. She attempted to start a fire with kerosene. There was probably a live coal in the ashes as the kerosene imjnediately flashed up, burning her face and eyebrows and singeing her hair. She is confined to her home by her injuries, and it will be some time before she can resume her duties in the schools. Bloomfield hunters are having fine sport on account of the large number of wild ducks on White river. The advance gtiard came two or three weeks ago, but the birtjls are now coming in flocks, and many fine bags have been exhibited as tokens of good marksmanship. At wfiat is known -as “Old Bed,” which is a long pond formerly the bed of White river, four miles southwest of Bloomfield, there are many wild geese. These go out in the day time to feefi, but return "to roost at night in the thickets of elbow, brush which skirt the {pond. While Charles Lemmon, Dr. Ben Cornbaum, A. Q. Brooks and Fpm P. Veeck Were skiff riding 1 ’ on swollen. White river jpst opposite Petersburg, A. L. Brooks, wjio was standing up in a skiff with Charles Lemmon, lost his balancfe- and tumbled headlong into the stream. He arose to the surface three %imes before Lemmon finally succeeded in throwing him the boat chain and pulling him into the boat. Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmon, who was in a boat near by, also succeeded in grabbing Brooks by the coat collar as he was going down for the third time. .Tames Larone, 7 years old, of Elwood, is receiving praise from the Society for the Prevention of to Animals. James was walking a" gaspipe that spans Duck creek and his, dog tried to follow him, but slipped off into the rushing waters, which’were bank high. Undaunted, the’lad, unmindful of his own danger, plunged in, rescued the and swam to shore with it, where he was pulled out by a companion. Taken to task by his father for his rash act, he said: “Think I would Stand and see my pup drown? Not me, pop, I would rather drown myself.”; Because he voted “wet” in the recent Wayne County local option election, Prof. William N. Trueblood, head of the English department at Earlham College, Richmond, may be asked to resign. Fred C. Nilks, a log-hauler at La-, Grange, has figured that In his work the past twenty-eight years he has traveled i 0,000 miles, or a distance of more th& three times around the earth, and: all of it in LaGrange County. I

Farmers n the vicinity of Disko are worked up over the appearance of a wildcat in that quiet community. A hunting pai -y will be organized-tor the purpose of fflling the “varmint.” Boone Le >nard, county clerk at Bedford, issued a marriage license to Geo W. Jones, aged 82, and Cornelia C C. Grove, a? ?d 70 years. Both are residents of H ron, Lawrence County. Thieves robbed Wiley Mcßride, a. farmer nea Washington, of S4OO. in cash and $>,600 in securities. The booty represents the lifetime savingsof Mr. Mcß ide, who had no faith in banks. An ordina ice has gone into effect at Gas City b; which all dogs are required to be muzzled. The penalty, for non-conform nee to the law is death, to the dog he, be masterlqss, or a*fine of $lO if he h,as a master. Andrew M Coy, 35 years old. son ol Joel McCoy, vho was killed by Edward Ford at Nasi rille, was the victim of a serious laccic ent recently. While at work in his awmill he stepped on a belt and was drawn'to'a pulley. His right arm ai d leg were broken and ■ imputation n iv be necessary. Luther Mai shall was murdered, Stephan Marsha was fatally injured and Emanuel Jacl son was slightly wounded in a revolver battle at Shelbyville. The principle are colored. Tile trouble was the utgrowth of the expulsion of a friei d from the home of Andrew’ Jackson, where a party 1 was held. Jesse Kiger a young horseman of Muncie, breal ng a colt attached to the regulatio training cart, was struck square y in the head by the animal’s hoof when it began kicking, and was seriously injured. He. was found un< msciotis by thfe side of the road. His jaw bone was fractured and he was otherwise hurt. A double-be lied pig borfi on the farm of John Haynes, a /veterinary surgeon, near Eaton, is bekng stuffed for presentation to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Although the freak' had onl; ,one head, it had .two' sets of ears, two throats, tyvo sets of internal organs. two bodies land eight legs. It lived :>nly a few hours. Three boxes of tobacco stolen from a freight car in Petersburg on th* night of January 27, were fo\md by , boys while playing in the loft-, of a barn at Grand na Weaver's hotne at Petersburg. It is believed the 'barn which had not I een used by Mrs. Weaver for a long time, was the hiding place for the lo nt taken by a gang Ofj petty thieves. Abraham Bro hers, of Green Township, Johnson County, have received from the Natidi al Carhj;Growers’ Association a gold medal! aS a prize for the best display of white-dent corn, on exhibition at the National Corn Show, held at Omaha recently. They sent twenty ear: of the famous Johnson County white dent corn, grown by them, to the na ional show and their efforts were rew xrded by winning the prize. . . After two wet <s of suffering Mrs. Frank Olinger, of Auburn, succeeded in drawing a broken needle from the bone in the fiesl y part of her thumb to the surface. It was then easily, taken from the tl tunb. By application of poultices the steel w’as drawn to the surface. While Washing, two weeks ago, a net lie. hidden in a garment, stuck in ier hand and broke off. the point going in until it struck the bone. Joseph Raczyn: ki died last week at the age of 103 j ars in South Bend. He was born Jure 14, 1806, at Flock, Poland, coming to the United States' when 18 years of age. He had been a resident of Chica ;o until' seven years ago. Up until tw weeks ago. he took a daily walk of : mile or more. He was not addicted o the use of tobacco, but was a reguk used of alcohol in small quantities. He is survived by five children, nineteen grandchildren and one great-gra dchild. W. R. McKowr of Greenfield, w’ho was general passenger and ticket agent of the Indi? napolis & Greenfield Traction Compan before it became a part of the present system, received a letter containing 15 cents which the writer : aid he beat the com-, pany out of while Mr. McKown; was in charge. The writer said his, conscience would not be satisfied until the money was retun al. Mr. McKown is not. now connected With the company and has no idea who sent the money. Placing one’s ife on a railroad track and holdin . her there while a fast passenger tr in is bearing down upon her, is suffl ient grounds for divorce, in the opirion of Judge Leffler, of the Circuit C< trt in Muncie, who granted a decree to Mrs. Bessie Major, of Albany. Her husband, John Major, is alleged by her to have attempted to kill her in the manner above described, ut, so she testified, she managed tp f et up from her dangerous situation barely, in tipm to save her life. Ma or did not contest. Taking what she believed to be cough syrup, Mrs. Abe Troxall, of Waterloo, put half 8 teaspoonful df carbolic acid in her mouth. Fortunately, she did not swallc w any of it, but her lips and mouth w< re painfully burned. Pauline Moore, 4 years old, ai woman living at Covin ton, committed'suicide by pouring coal oil over her clothing and touch ng a lighted match to it. Grief over t i.e death of her husband is said to h: ve been the cause. She left no childre