The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1909 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. Cuba Is going in for baseban. snen baa great country yet. Everything may be made of cement fey and by. This may be the dawn of the cement age. Does anybody remember the name of the gentleman who became president of &aytl a few weeks ago? After all it Is the wedding march composed by Mendelssohn that keeps his memory marching on. Denver has a three-weeks-old baby that can talk. Let us hope she will grow up to be a useful woman. "Marriage is a woman’s duty,” says a magazine writer. And the average woman governs herself accordingly. In sleeping out of doors during the winter season it is permissible for baldheaded gentlemen to wear stocking caps. If Hero Binns, on a salary of sl2 a • week, refused an offer of SI,OOO a week from a dime museum manager, he is indeed a hero. “New Jersey has discovered footprints of the devil.” And in all probability about half the men in the State are following them. Mr. Fairbanks will take a trip around the world. Thus the world will get an opportunity to see what an exviye president looks like. Aristocratic hotels in ‘ London now offer pedigreed oysters to their guests, many of whom have long been acquainted. with pedigreed lobsters. Headwear made of straw was already In use among the ancient Greeks, but straw hats, like those we wear, did not come into use lif Europe until half a century ago. “Should actresses marry?” asks a French paper. Yes; but it might be well if they were to quit marrying as often as they have been in the habit of marrying heretofore. King Alfonso was allowed to sit in the flying machine and try the levers, but he had promised his wife that ha would not go up, and he didn’t. There’s a kingly man for you I The Ladies’ Home Journal is right—a lady should precede he? escort down the aisle of the theater, but in churchgoing, lest he should get away,’ she should shoo the man on ahead. . A Kentucky woman!wants a divorce because her husband whistled and sang while she scolded him. The poor fellow's name should be sent to the Carnegie hero commission at once. Russia is going to build 148,179 school houses within the next ten years. Teaching the children that two and two make four will be much better than having them studying the art of throwing bombs at crowned htads. Fog is the one great obstacle to safe and speedy navigation, against which science has made little progress. Science cannot re-enforce eyes or glasses to the point that will penetrate the curtain of the. fog, but indirectly science by the wireless telegraphy can throw out warnings which if not complete are of mighty assistance to the puzzled man on the bridge who is enabled to pick them up. An American citizen has been released after being locked up on .a false arrest for two weeks in a British jail in Guiana. It was after energetic work by this government that he was allowed to prove his identity. If the case were reversed, the British, government would have; been in an indignant state of inF stence on its subject’s release, for there is no point on which the British government is so tenacious as- the rights and liberties of its own subjects In other lands. But governments, like individuals, are apt to be a trifle incon»i stent. Amid all our questioning certain facts remain. We know that mother’s love, the love of wife, of husband, .of children, and of friends, is real. We know that some men spend their lives for a great cause, that some will die for the » truth. Every day the press tells of some deed that reveals the capacity for heroic action that lies in all men. On .every hand we see evidences of geodv will and kindliness. No bitter experience, no misfortune, should blind' our eyes to these great facts of life. On these we can build a faith that reaches 1 to God. A witness should be made to understand at once upon taking the stand what is expected of him, and to subpit graciously and patiently to any kind of examination short of physical attack which lawyers may make. Suppose an attorney snarls, snaps, and growls at the witness, or sneeringly •miles a suspicion. What of it? A Witness is only an unprotected, defenseless citizen doing his duty; to be terrified or cajoled into revealing his innermost thoughts according to the waythe lawyer Intends him to speak them. To impugn the veracity of a witness by Insinuation or veiled threats is a legiti-

mate device for rolling him to the point of saying something which may be used to advantage against him. What! A witness to be allowed to tell a simple tale of what he had seen or heard, uninterrupted and undismayed? Never! Justice might be precipitated, and witnesses might retain their selfrespect. Witnesses may be distressed, bullied, and cowed, but legal circumlocution must be preserved and the dignity of the advocate safeguarded. One of the denominational religious publications which secures statistics each year on the growth of the church population of the United States has just published figures which show a smaller increase in 1908 than In 1907. The earlier year was, however, phenomenal in t certain details of the re corded growth, and the increase of the last year is not at all disappointing. The figures show a net increase foi 19OS of 2,835 ministers, 1,874 churches and 720,047 communicants. The growth of the Catholic church is, of course, included, though the statistics come from a Protestant source. The most inter esting feature of the statistics is a comparison with similar statistics ol 1890. The total number of communicants to-day Is put at 34.282,543, or almost 40 per cent of the entire ’ estimated population of the nation, and this is a growth of 66 per cent In the last eighteen years. The number of ministers In 1908, 165.725, indicates a growth of 49 per cent in the period. And the number of churches, 213.049. shows a growth of 49 per cent. That this growth is really of great significance appears when one compares it with the total growth of the country in population In the same period. Ol course, the 1908 population figure must be an estimate,, but if one takes the estimate used by government authorities at Washington one Is safe enough. On this basis the growth of our population has been only just about 40 per cent to the eighteen years. The rate of Increase In church communicants 18 therefore more than half again as rapid as that in total population. The churches are indeed to be congratulated on the showing. DEADLY HORNETS. Th« Ones That Bulled About th* Young Soldier’s Ears. A great general was. taking his regiment Into action. He sent forward a detail of men to make gaps in a rail fence to avoid the heavy loss sure to result if the whole body of men paused to tear it down. The coolest and finest man in the detail was a young soldier who had hever been under fire before. When he began pulling down the fence he fancied he had disturbed a nest of hornets, as he thought he heard them singing fiercely about his pars. But the. lad was not going to run from hornets when there was more serious business ahead. Ignoring the angry Insects, he opened the fence and rejoined the regiment without being stung. In a day or two he Was surprised tc hear that he was to be promoted. “But,” he said modestly, “I don’t think I deserve promotion over the others.” “My-boy,” replied the general, “I saw you pull down that fence. You were the coolest man under fire I ever saw!” ’ • The man gasped, stared and turned pale. “What!” he exclaimed, regardless oi grammar. “Was them wasps bullets?” Scotch Thrift. “Hey, mon/’ exclaimed the braw, bonnle north countryman, “thrift Is a wunnerful thing.!” “Yes,” replied his English traveling companipii. “You’r, eright there. Now, I gave my wife a? ten-pound note to manage on last time I was away, and —would you believe it?—instead of exceeding it: she saved nearly a sovereign out of it tftbuy herself a hat!” “That's nowt,” replied the Scotsman. “My wife gives the kids ha’pennies apiece to go to bed supperless; when they’re asleep she takes the ha’pennies off on ’em ageean, and then she makes ’em do wl’out ony breakfasts for losin’ ' ’em! Hey, mon, that’s thrift "’—London Scraps. Aa Time Is Reckoned. M N “They do say there be sixty minutes ip every hour, Jack.” “That may be, Tom, but they do be awful short minutes they put in th’ noon hour.” Heaven’s First Law. The Rev. Dr. Frank Crane tells ol a bride who refused to answer the question, “Will you love, honor and obey?" Her friends Interceded, but It was of no use. Finally the intended bridegroom gathered up his hat and started for the door. Instantly she sprang after him, and, leading him back, looked up meekly and said, “I wlll.’’-4From Success Magazine. Our Idea of a good cook Is one whc keeps her temper from boiling over. Don't try to flatter one woman b| complimenting another.

L— rx What Made Him Funny. “I thought he had been entirely cured of stuttering?” “He was, but he started it again on purpose.” “For goodness’ sake, why?” “He found that his whole reputation for saying witty things was found jn his affliction.' Nobody laughed at his epigrams when he didn't stutter, so he relapsed.”—Cleveland Leader. Übiquitous. Dr. Griffin—l must say that the world Is very ungrateful towards our profession J How seldom one sees a public memorial erected to a doctor! Mrs. Golightly—How seldom? Oh, doctor, think of our cemeteries! —-Royal Magazine. He Knew. Wife (laying down the daily paper) —Hubby, what’s Wall street? Hubby—The street in New York where almost all the residents go to the wall.—Judge, He Feared the Cost. Jj-- "~ r '■ V wgK 1 Ills Wife—The dressmaker said I had a sylph-like form. Her Husband—Great Caesar! I hope she doesn’t add that to the bill. Cnnght on the Rebound. * The old man was lecturing his more or less wayward son on the evils of jetting up late in the morning. “Remember,” he said, “that It was the early bird that caught the worm.” “But how about the worm, dad?” queried the youth, who thought he had his sire up in the air. “Where did his reward for getting up early :ome in?” “I am informed,” replied the old man, gravely, “that the worm was on his way home—hadn’t been in bed at ill.” ■ And there being nothing more to say, the young man said nothing. Leisure with Disnity. Knicker—Wouldn’t you like to wake up and find yourself famous? Bocker—l’d rather be so famous I wouldn't have to wake York Sun. Saw Through Him. Reggy Bluff—l was going to ask you to go sleighing to-day, but last night’s rain has thawed the roads.. Peggy Quick —Oh! I don't doubt I shall enjoy the auto ride qjflte as well. Mean. Dick—When Harry eloped with May. Scads he rubbed it into her father. Tom —How? Dick—He telegraphed her old man that they had been married—and sent the message collect. II JXm I ftWOK Boy—SixpenZorth o’ cod liver o 11, please, sir. An', I say, don't give me too much, 'cos It’s me what’s got to irlnk it. Ambiguous. Hostess—lt's beginning to rain. You’ll get wet. 1 think you’d better stay to dinner. Departing Guest—Oh, dear, no! It’s not raining so badly as all that!—Sydney Bulletin. Quite Contrary. “I started out to get a business opening.” “Did you find it?” “I did. I’m in a hole.”—Baltimore American, Quite a Deal. "There’s a lot in that girl if it can only be brought out.” “Yes; she has a quarter of a million in her name.” Can’t Borrow Everything. Biggs—Shortleigh is a cheerful chap —never borrows trouble. Diggs—Oh, well, I suppose he has to draw the line somewhere. They Did. Kicker —I got mixed up in a real estate deal last week. Snicker —Did you? Kicker—Yes, they did me.—Puck.

The Code. Emily—Why are you waving your handkerchief? * Angelina—Since papa lias forbidden Tom the house we have arranged a code of signals. Emily—What is it? Angelina—When he waves his handkerchief five times, that means “Do you love me?” And when, I wave frantically in reply it means “Yes, darling.” . Emily—And how do you ask other questions? Angelina—We don't.. That’s the whole code.—Harper’s Weekly. Unavoidable Delay. The Lawyer—You can prove an alibi on this charge, can't you?” The Crook—Yes’r; but we’ll have to wait a week or two. The fellers I’m. goto’ to prove it by ain't out o’ jail yit. He Knows. “Young man, do you know where little boys go that smoke?” “Sure, I do; but I'm not allowed tc say it.” Real Mean. Pearl—And he stole a kiss? Ruby (pouting)—He did and I shall never forgive him. Pearl —Do you really feel so bad about it as all that? Ruby—l should say so. He said it was petty larceny, while any other young man would have said it was grand. Slyker’s Way. Muggs—Slyker has an underhanded way of doing business. Buggs—l suppose that's why he usually gets the upper hand of his business associates. No Room for Argument. “My lines,” remarked the poet, “haven’t always fallen in pleasant places.” “I suppose not,” rejoined the horse reporter. “The average waste basket is anything but a pleasure resort.” Proof. Biggs—Attorney Coke Is one of the very best men at the bar. He’s thoroughly honest and conscientious. Take your damage suit to him. Wiggs — I did, and he said he wouldn’t touch lt.^— .Cleveland Plain Dealer. ■ Tbe Reason. 'ZT >4 L'lin Binks—l wonder why those twc women so strenuously Insisted on Miss Jolies playing the piano? Jinks —They had something to talk about that they didn’t want anybody else to hear. Wouldn’t Have It Long. Harker—They say that Rounder’s wife has money. Parker —Well, that isn’t Rounder's fault. They have been married only a week. A Pardonable Error. Mrs. Henpex—Job, you’ve been riding in an automobile. Henpexx—No, Maria, I haven't. I've just been cleaning my pants with gasoline. Stingy. She —He’s very close. He—Yes; he reminds me <!’ ;■ expensive umbrella. She—How so? He—He’s a tight role. Experience. She—And are you sure you really and truly love me? He—Am I sure? Darling, I’ve loved dozens of girls and I guess I ought to know. The Limit. De Quiz —Who was the meanest man you ever knew? De Whiz—One who paid with a bad check the doctor who attended his mother-in-law during her last illness. Great Magnifiers. He—These glasses give me a verj intellectual appearance, don’t you think? She —Yes. Aren't they powerful?— Boston Transcript. Hard Luck. “Why was your wedding postponed? “My fiance and his best man overate themselves —or something like that —at his bachelor dinner.” —Cleveland Leader. Couldn’t Be Fooled. It was In the midst of a violent scene. The indignant wife had spared neither tears nor reproaches, when hei husband interrupted her brutally: “My dear, tears are useless,” he said “I have discovered on analysis that' tears contain a little phosphate of lime some chlorate of sodium, and that’s all.”—New York Herald. Heard in the Barber Shop. “Our charges are the lowest ir town,” observed the barber. “Cut rates, eh?” said the customer, as he looked at his lacerated chin ir the glass.—Judge. Paternalism. “Do you believe in a government bureau for children?” “Well,” replied the thoughtful moth er, “It might do for boys, but I think my daughter would prefer a dressing table.”—Philadelphia Ledger,

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Awcie®L_Aafrfculture. _ Why agriculture, the first industry to be learned and so obviously the most fundamental, was the last to be developed is one of the most baffling mysteries of history. One marvels at ft afresh as one stands before a certain glass case in the Egyptian quarter of the British Museum, wherein is a little group of farm utensils —a fractured wooden plow; a rusted sickle, two sticks tied together with a leathern thong and, several tassels that had hung on. the horns of oxen. To be sure, these implements were used .3.000 years ago—they were found in the tomb of Seti I.—but one remembers that when Egypt was using these bread tools, no better than those of the barbarians about her, she had a most elaborate government, an army and navy and art and literature. The records and relics of other nations down through history show the same strange incongruity. For thousands of wise men of the world absolutely ignored the problems of the farm. A farmer remained either a serf or a tenant. He was a stolid drudge—“brother to the ox.” Even the masterful 'old pilgrim fathers had no plows at all—nothing but hoes and sharp sticks—for the first twelve years of their pioneering. And therefore for thousands of years there was hunger.— Journal of Agriculture. Milking; by Hand and MachineAfter a test of milking machines for a period of more than a year, Prof. A. L. Haecker. of Nebraska, has made several conclusions. Heifers in their first lactation, apparently give better results by machine milking than do aged cows that have been accustomed to hand milking for one or more years.

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One of the most popular- breeds of chickens for general utility is the White Wyandotte. The birds of this strain are smaller than the Plymouth Rock, but are equally rapid growing. Good layefs and fine market fowls. Pekin ducks excel all other breeds both tor eggs and flesh. To raise ducks successfully and make a . profit both from eggs and young ducklipgs, the stock birds should be young—as far as possible March hatched birds, and never more than two years old. The Light Brahmas are the oldest si nd perhaps the best known of "the feather-legged chickens. Size is. the i quality that recommends this breed. Where large an d slowly maturing fojwls are desired the Light Brahma has no superior.

Some cow’s are nqt, adapted to machine milking. Alternate hand and machine methods of milking have a detrimental effect upon the flow. Manipulation of the udder is absolutely necessary in some instances before all the milk can be drawn by the machine. One man operating one machine can milk about "the same number of cows in an hour as one milking by hand. Two men operating four machines can practically do the work of three men milking by hand. Two operators with four machines milked twenty-four cows in an hour. It is necessary to thoroughly wash and boil the- milking machine parts after each usage in order to produce milk with as low bacterial content as that resulting from careful methods of hand milking.—Denver Field and Farm. Errs Preserved With Wax. By a novel process of preserving, eggs six months, old are made to retain their “new laid” freshness. The process has been developed by a firm of English importers, acting on the theory that an egg decomposes owing to the entrance .of bacteria through the shell. The eggs are thoroughly bleansed and disinfected and then immersed in a vessel of hot paraffin wax in vacuum. The air in the shell is extracted by the vacuum and atmospheric pressure is then allowed to enter the vessel, when the hot wax is forced into the “pores” of. the shell, which thus hermetincally seals it. - Evaporation of the contents of the eggs, which has a harmtul effect, is thereby prevented and the egg is practically sterile. Peat for Fuel. The United States government, through JJie Geoiogical Survey, is endeavoring to work up interest in the subject of peat as a fuel, and it is claimed that gas made from peat com-, prises a fuel that is cheaper than the power of Niagara Falls. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 square miles of peat to the western part of New York w’hich is now regarded as worthless, and it is the object of the government officials to make this and other similar lands productive; The Annual Honey Crop. In one year the bees sent to market a crop of honey worth nearly as much as the barley crop; three times as much as the buckwheat crop; $6,000,000 greater than the rye crop, and nearly $9,000,000 greater than the rice crojK

All t of the rice and buckwheat grown on an aggregate area of 2.126 1-3 square miles, did not reach to the value of the honey by $151,259. Lifting; the Wagon Box. I constructed a wagon" bed jack that is one of the handiest devices on the farm where there is only one man to put or take off a grain rack or wagon box. The construction is very simple. Make a carpenter’s jack, only ONK MAN CAN HANDLE IT. a little stronger to suit yourself. Then bore a hole, b, in the center for a 2inch gas pipe to act as a king bolt. Then take a 4x4-inch, 3 foot 6i inch long crosspiece and fasten it to the gas pipe, c. and brace it with 4x4 inch braces, a. The height is 3 feet 6l inches and width 4 feet. When taking off the grain bed place the jack a little better than haft way to the rear end. then remove rear end off the .wagon first and swing, it on to the jack. Then put your weight on it and swing it off the wagon, placing a small jack under the front end.—C. Z. Rux. Farm and Home. Early Tomatoes. A truck gardener tells this is the way he raised early tomatoes: He took a dry goods box 2 by 3 feet and 8 inches deep. In each corner of the box he set a pieec of 2-inch pipe, so that he could water the plants from

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the bottom, pouring in the water and letting it permeate through the soil, which was composed of a sandy loam put into the box after the bottom had been covered to the depth of! 3 inches with well rotted and sifted stable mai nure. The seeds were planted qnd lightly covered and the soil kept moist, but not wet. In one week aflter planting the green tops appeared, and in three weeks they were transplanted into a similar box, being set an incli deeper than they grew in the first box. They grew in the box in sheltered places for three weeks, when they were ready for the garden. Too Much ■' Salt Kills. Hogs like salt, and too much salt will kill them. Being hogs they do not always know when they have had enough. If mixed with dr ashes and sulphur, and deposited in piles no danger need be feared unless they are ravenous for salt from long continued deprivation. But if you ‘give them brine from the meat barrel in free doses you might as well give them ar-1 senic. • Meat brine is one of the hog poisons. Cottonseed is another, but why no man knoweth. The latter is a slow poison for hogs, yet a good food for cattle; In the Feed Lot. Wheat bran is preferably, however, because it is less bulky. Cow pea and alfalfa is ftn excellent substitute for wheat bran for the dairy cows. Corn makes fat, while alfalfa is rich in flesh-forming and bone-building materials. In feeding pigs shorts or alfalfa beats wheat bran when used as onequarter tof the ration. Hogs will not as a rule relish alfalfa* 2 hay in the winter unless they have previously been matured on the young alfalfa. It is a mistake to believe that alfalfa is purely a fattening ration, especially for calves. On the contrary, it is a growing ration. In feeding beet pulp the best results have been obtained by , using twc pounds of pulp to one pound of graii in the ration for hogs. Very slowly our farmers are comin; to recognize the value of roots in feed ing all kinds of farm animals. W ‘ ought to grow more of them. The average yield of an orange tre I during its life is about 20,000 orangei

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cola di:b and press grapes, tomatoes ai|d pies, riciiig'potatoes, extracting juiet from fruit, smoothing laundry and hundred other uses. ■ ' Marble Cake. Li til—One cup of sugar, half a cup each of butter ami milk, the whites of t ree eggs, two cups of jflour, one and half teaspoons of baking powder. D rk—Half a cup each of brown sug: and molasses, one-fourth .cup eact of butter and milk, two cups of flow Ihe yolks of three eggs, one and one- 'a f teaspoonfuls of baking powder, three teaspoohfuls of ground mixed s dees. Put the batter into the tin Jn i i.rnative layers. Corn Batter Bread, S ': the corn meal and to a teacupful >1 it put in twice the quantity of swt I milk, OnUTpint is a good measure lent. Beat in two eggn, although you can get along with one; add half a t aspoonfuj of salt, and to this add the milk and meal gradually until eve y hing is well blended. A baking dis ■ hould be ready for the batter and pla ed; in a hot oven. It should be -ret ly to serve in half an hoAr. » Omelets. eat two eggs, add two cups of milk, tw level teaspoonfuls of corn starch,, a • inch of salt, and some minced parsley Heat the frying pan and- grease it we I with butter. Pour in just enough of he mixture te cover the surface of th pan, supposing your pan to be' sn ill.’ When the omelet has “se roll over and serve, garnished with pa siey. Pour in another until all the m i ire is cookefl. ; - Klee trical Correction. . novel cure for . naughtiness and ge eral perverseness is advocated byD Elbert Landone, a noted authority or? child culture. He maintains that a fe shocks of electricity, judiciously a] plied, are the most effective .means ol punishment. In one instance a child ol I’ years was effectually cured of obsl nacy after three days’ treatment by t! s means. Savory Potatoes and Onions. Layers of thinly sliced raw potatoes a < mately with layers of thinly sliced o i n, onion on top to prevent the pot to from turning brown. Season each 1 v ; r. Fill one-fourth of the baking £ s with water. Put a tablespoonful c nice pork dripping in little dabs all c er the top. Cover and bake for t iity minutes. Short Suggestions Scaling fish is easier if first dipped in 1 iiling water. Do not put turnips on to cook in .pge pieces. It only wastes fuel. \ little kerosene added to the wash ;• ter is said to make the clothes extra lifte.’ apples cored for baking are delicious ■d - with orange marmalade and a , it lie butter and sugar. To scour brass, dip half a lemon in able salt and rub over the surface. Jnse off in clea rwater and rub dry. To restore discolored ivory, paint ft th spirits of turpentine and lay it to he sunshine for two or three days. Save the water in which Have been boiled and use it to wash tarnished brass. It come out as blight as new ; A delicious saldd may be made of, grapefruit pulp, white grapes and stalks Os romaine, dressed with oil and vinegar and sweetened slightly. Chestnuts shave considerable food Value. The boiled and masfipd pulp may be used as one would use meat or Vegetables, even croquettes being made of it. A good silence cloth for the dining I able can be made with a double thickness of white flannel laid with the soft side on the inside and quilted on the achiae; edge with a binding of white (tape. If one wishes a little stiffness in the: veil which is being washed add a tiny bit of sugar to the rinsing water. Theiy • retch the filmy substance in a doorway, where ft will have a current « of air as it dries. After washing lace curtains, lay a .lanket bn the floor in some empty oom, spread the curtains on the lanket, stretching them carefully, and they will keep their place without any fastenings until dried. To take old stains from marble, mix one gill of soapsuds and oxgall and half a gill of turpentine, and as much uller’s earth as will make a paste, and rub it on the stains. Leave it on for ,1 few days and then wipe off.