The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 April 1909 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - ? IND. ■ ■■"= Certainly It Is easy for the average Woman to keep secrets—going. It would certainly be worth going , piles to see a 1500,000,000 Panama eanaL * France’s Increase In population Is ply 34,000 a year. Germany’s is nearly a million a year. Were he pinned down to it even an intl-kissing advocate might have to ad- ■. talt that he really likes it “An Ohio minister says kisses are Intoxicating as much as liquor.” All In favor of the motion say “aye.”. If you listen intently, you can hear the chortles of the goat which did not participate in the Masonic initiation of Mr. Taft ~ Andrew Carnegie knows how to get a lot of fun out of a tariff discussion, since he is in a position where a little revision can’t hurt him. One by one, the old rivermen are passing “over the river.” If they could only stay to see the new and regenerated Mississippi a few years hence. Society women are taking up the cause of woman suffrage. If woman suffrage is to take the place of afternoon teas everybody ought to be for it. If Andrew Carnegie is still fearful of the disgrace of dying rich let him build a “Carnegie boulevard” across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Perhaps you have heard why King Alfonso didn’t go up in an airship? . His wife told him not to do it. Married kings haven’t anything on the average husband. It Is suspected that the anger of the Congressmen who have been robbed of their right to name fourth-class postmasters is designed mainly for home consumption. The hen that laid 3,650 eggs is dead and burled in a rosewood coffin. She made the goose that laid the golden egg look like a piker that got into poetry under false pretenses. Bulgaria’s tax of $2 a year on bachelors can make no practical difference. Any man who would marry in order to Bave that sum is too poor a financier to be worth while as a husband. China has presented to the Congresllonal library the Chinese encyclopedia of 5,000 volumes; Senators and representatives are thus provided with a little light reading to refresh them between periods of arduous labor. The United States has been and •till is very fortunate In her relations with China. We have some advantage over other nations in that we manifested our national friendship before China showed such marked signs of her awakening and promise of rapid modernization. Thus our national friendship Is not tainted with glaring uelf-interest. This good will of the Chinese nation is worth retaining and fortifying. The Boxer uprising and the boycott were hysterical incidents, and •re past. They never represented the nationality of China. In taking the lead in prompt recognition of China’s forward effort as the forecast of a material greatness, the United States might achieve a sentimental foundation for a very practical foothold In China. Our grandfathers owed much to the district school, but in many parts of the country the rural school has fallen ■ behind the best standards. Such is the case in Connecticut, according to the report of a special committee, which finds many of the buildings in bad condition and the teaching of poOt quality. On the other hand in some parts of the country the union school which takes all the children from a wide radius is a model Institution. It will be a great pity If the states do not keep Up the standards of education In the thinly settled districts; for if the people find that their children are not getting the best, they will make any sacrifice to move to the city, and the depopulation of the farming sections i which has been going on in Eastern states will be hastened in spite of efforts in other directions to “Improve the conditions of country life.” Since the higher education of the cow has been taken up and our'universities have been turning out a superior , quality of lowing klne, one is not surprised to hear that the up-to-date queen of the cattle barn and her college-bred companions should be made the objects of a fastidious solicitude undreamed of in the days of yore. A member of the Covington, Ky., board of health has sprung into fame through a demand that cows have their teeth brushed with regularity. Health experts in Other cities have, treated the demand lightly, professing not to see how the innovation would tend to purify the milk supply. If the scheme ever does take hold, however, the dairymaid of romance is likely to become confused With ths servitor who assists In the preparation of the aristocratic cow’s toilet It will not be difficult to picture the time when every fashionable cow wUI have a mirror in its boudoir,

neatly arranged on the shelf below a toothbrush about the size of the shoe brush of human use; a jar about the size of a half barrel, containing -the latest tooth powder advertised in th“ street cars; a cut glass bottle of eau de cologne, and a fivepound box of violet face powder, together with the creams and other things supplied by the beauty shops, After “Bossy” has had her morning shower, had her teeth brushed, and perhaps been massaged with an electric vibrator, she may then draw up to a neat little glass-covered table for the than! curing of her hoofs. It will next be in order for somebody to Interest the cows in a brand of cud flavored as in the chewing gum of commerce. Os late years a wave of sympathy has swept over the world for those whom we call “shut-ins”—men, women and children who are forced by Illness or by accident to lead their lives cut off from the outside world. Societies and warm-hearted philanthropists have vied with one another to bring sunshine Into the crippled lives. Meantime thousands of persons deliberately choose employments which, almost as completely as physical disability, separate them from the great influences of nature. The factory and the shop, and even the kitchen, shut in the woman and hide from her the glory of sky and mountain and meadow. The grim law of habit accustoms her to her loss; and at last she makes no effort to enlarge her vision. When occasionally some woman rises in rebellion and throws off the yoke, we regard her as eccentric or foolish. A woman of thirty, who had gained by twelve years of hard toil a responsibly and. lucrative position in a great paper mill, gave up her place, with Its generous salary, and put all her small savings Into a little farm by the side of a beautiful lake In Maine. She was reproached by her friends for Improvidence and threatened with the tedium of the long winters and the hard work |of the short summers. She replied, “You forget what big pay I am going to get.” “Big pay?” queried her astonished friend. “Yes, a dollar a day in the pleasure of setting foot on the ground instead of on board floors, two dollars a day in satisfaction by looking at the sky, .and my board and clothes out of the farm byway Os Chickens and pigs and vegetables.” The final misery of the “shut-in” comes when she loses the desire to get out. By every possible device let her keep her love for the open. Fed on ten minutes a day of unrestricted vision, it will not die. . She who grasps and hoards the picture of sunset or field of daisies or evening star need never be alone. At her call the vision will flash upon that Inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, and in an Instant, spite of four walls, she is free. He Saw the Ball Game. The manager of a manufactory was suddenly called away to New York, leaving negotiations for the sale of a large quantity of merchandise uncompleted. After his departure the office boy, anxious to witness a big baseball game, asked the under manager for a half holiday, but was refused. In the meantime an offer was received for the merchandise referred to above, which the under manager did not feel justified in accepting without the authority of his chief, to whom he dispatched a telegram, worded : “Five hundred dollars offered; shall I accept?” The boy was deputed to take the message to the nearest telegraph office, but before handing it over the counter added a few words to it on his own account, with the result that when it reached New York It read as follows: “Five hundred dollars offered; shall I accept, and can William have the afternoon off?” In due time the under manager was much amazed to receive the following reply: , “Accept SSOO, and give William afternoon off.” ' ■ When all the facts were subsequently revealed the boy was reprimanded for his audacity, but the manager could not help but inwardly admire bls enterprise. A- Pluelcy The only person who resisted the Yellowstone stage robber at the recent hold-up was a woman and when he asked her to hand over a ring she smilingly answered, “Not on your life.’’ Not a single man had her courage, which goes to prove that women are a little braver than men at such times. Tryin* to Prove It» “Do you know they’ll carry hogs on this road cheaper than they will passengers?” said the red-faced man In the smoker. “Is that so?” replied his neighbor, who was being crowded in his seat; “bow much did you pay?”—Yonkers Statesman. One Thin* He Conld Do. Green —I’m looking for a plumber to do some work for me. Do you happen to know of one that does satisfactory work? Brown —I know of one that I can guarantee to fill the bill; out I won’t know how satisfactory his work will be. . The Time and the Offense. “Oh, ma; teacher whipped Tommy Crow to-day!” “What for?” “For five minutes.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. , We suppose there never was a married woman who did not say to someone. at some time, that if it wasn’t for -the children, she would leave him.

"GIVE US LIBERTY OR GIVE US DEATH!” TWENTY CENTURIES I 'A RT LOOK DOWN ON YOU V - —Chicago Journal.

SIGNS OF AGE. 80, I am growing old, you say; I walk in a decrepit way;. My hair is absolutely gray ’ And growing thinner; My books are all the stupid kjnd That entertain a senile mind; And somehow I am disinclined To dress for dinner. I smoke a pipe most of the time; I hate to walk too far or climb; In fact, summed up completely, I’m A true back nifmber. I read my morning paper twice I’m always offering advice; Amusement serves but to entice My wite to slumber. I hate to leave my home at night; I rise almost before ’tis light; I must confess I am not quite' So young? and sporty ; I cut my coupons twice a yearr— Os course you do not call that queer—■ Os course not!—Come to think, my dee’’. You, too, are forty! Durand, in New York Sun. * i X | Her Independence t “If I wus a woman an’ I had a man like that I’d quit him cold,” remarked Jim Holliday, as the farmer who had just assisted his wife in her choice of a calico dress left the store. “I b’lieve in treatin’ a woman right.” “Most fellers do afore they’re married,” observed Sol Baker. “I’d like to get your wife’s opinion o’ you ’bout ten years after you’ve swore- to love an’ cherish her. I don’t mean the opinion she gives out to the neighbors, but the prlvlt an’ strlckly conferdential klne that she keeps to herse’f.” “I never knowed a woman keep her opinion of her husband to herself—-not If she got mad ernuff with him,” said the storekeeper. “A woman ought to have some epunk,” resumed Jim Holliday. “I tell ye, I’d quit him.” “There’s a many that ’ud quit if they knowed where they'd go with the young ones after they quit,” said Baker. “What do you reckon a woman’s goin’ to do if she hain’t got no money?" “That’s the p’lnt," said Washington Hancock. “Now you’re a-glttiii’ at It,Sol. Same time a man’s got to be keerful how he trusts ’em with too much. Wimmen are jes’ nachally reckless when they think they can be. Once you turn ’em loose or let ’em git loose, there ain’t no doubt but they’ll come high to ruinin’ a man. “I knowed a case happened like that wunst,” went on Hancock. “It was a warnin’ to me. The feller’s name wus Strode. Cambyses Strode. He wus a kinder hard-workln’, savin’ an’ thrifty man, Cambyses wus, but wunst in a while a feller will git into financial troubles even if he ain’t no spen’thrlft.” “That’s so, sure ernuff,” said Milt Sowash, feelingly. “You bet! An’ you hain’t the only one, Milt,” said Hancock. “I wusn’t talkin’ about myseX” said Sowash, Indignantly. “C-ambysea worked early an’ late,” Hancock resumed. “He jes’ nachally had to. It wasn’t only the mill an* the farm that kep* him busy; he had to pot in a consid’able *time around the

house, too. If he hadn’t his wife would have cut ha’f the taters away peelin’ of ’em, an’ she’d have used twlcet the soap an’ starch that wus ness’ry for the washin’. , She wus about the most wasteful, extravergant woman you ever seen. Alius wantin’ Camb to buy her suthln’ or ernuther —this yer white rubber cloth for tables or graniteware dishes or new brooms or things like that she could have got along jest as well without. If her dress got a little faded or tore she’d want Camb to bpy her a new one out of the butter money. One time she got the kid boughten mittens. An’ then If he’d have let her she’d have had fresh butcher meat twlcet or three times a week. Good sowbelly an’ taters an’ corn bread an’ merlasses wusn’t good ernuff for her, seemed like. She cert’nly did need watchin’. “Well, as I wus sayin’, Camb got into financial troubles an’ fin'ly he had to put everythin’ .In her name. He didn’t say nothin’ to her about it He wus kinder close-mouthed, anyway. He jest had the transfers made an’ then went on about • the same as he alius did, ’ceptln’ that when he wanted to sell a critter or suthin’ he’d have •to have her sign the bill o’ sale. She didn’t know nothin’ about bills o’ sale. Camb would call her an’ hand her a pen an’ tell her to sign an’ she’d sign. “Flnerly there come a time when she took a notion that she wanted a new cook stove. She had a right good one that Camb’s mother had given her for a weddln’ present. The oven wus a trifle burned out an’ one or two o’. ' J/L I I Lili ( * I HPiuf “l BECKON YOU’LL MAKE OUT TO USE IT A FEW YEABS LONGEB.” the lids had got broke an’ there wus a crack or two acrost the top that interfered with the draft, but It wus a right good stove, all the same, an’ Camb put his foot right down. “ ‘You mix you up some salt an’ ashes an’ plaster up them cracks if you don’t like them,’ he says. ‘As fur’s the lids bein’ broke Is concerned, I don’t see why you can’t keep a kittle on one hole all the time an’ make the other lid do. Nex’ time I go to town I’ll bring a piece o’ sheet Iron to put In the oven an’ I reckon you’ll make out to use it a few years longer.’ “Well, she took on about it consld’rable. The more she thought about It the more she wanted a new stove and hated the Idee o’ makln’ out with the old one. Flnerly, one day a neighbor woman came In an’ Mrs. Strode told her all about it. “ ‘Why don’t you pluck up sperrlt an’ git It anyway T says the neighbor woman. “ ‘What’s the use o’ pluckin’ up sperrlt If you can’t pluck up no money?’ says Mrs. Strode. ‘Strode won’t give me none.’ “ ‘I heered that all the property wus

in your name,’ says the neighbor. ‘O’ course if It hain’t you cain’t do nothin’. but if it Is I don’t see nothin’ to hender you from sellin’ a cow or suthin’ an’ buyin’ all the stoves or anythin’ else you need.’ “ ‘Me sell the stock?’ says Mrs. Strode. ‘Could I?’ “ ‘Don’t you sell it any way when there is any sold?’ asked the woman. ‘You signed the bill o’ sale- for the shotes we bought o’ you.’ “Mrs. Strode studied awhile an’ then she says, ‘I b’lieve you’re right, an’ here I’ve beTi a-knucklln’ down to Camb all these years an’ stentin’ myse’f thinkin’ I couldn’t help it. I’ll cert’nly show Camb a thing or two now. He’ll see I’ve got sperrit all right, 1 bet you.’ “All sure enough when Cambyses went out to the field the next mornln’ she went out to the barns an’ hitched up an’ went to town ’thout saying a word to him an’ took the kid with her. She stayed in all that day an' I don’t know but what she’d have stayed longer if Cambyses hadn’t fin’ly got track of her. But by the time he got to her she’d done a plenty.” “Sold some stock, did she?” chuckled Jim Holliday. “Well, she had figgered on sellin’ some,” said Hancock. “She allowed she’d sell ernuff to buy a S3O stove an’ a new bunnit an’ a washin’ machine an’ a sewin’ machine an’ a silk dress an’ a sunshade an’ a dozen cans o' California peaches an’ a rubber plant for the settin’ room winder an’ lace curtains for the same an’ a pair o’ Jiid shoes. But when she got to thinkin’ it oyer she sort o’ compromised an’ bought four yards o’ crash towelin', a 10-cent egg beater, a Mother Hubbard wrapper for 75 cents an’ a pair o’ stockin’s and 5 cents’ worth o’ stick candy for the kid.” “An’ the stove?” asked Holliday. “No, she didn’t dast to go as far .as the stove,” replied Hancock. “The crock o’ butter an’ the aigs she took wouldn’t have been ernuff anyway.”— Chicago Daily News. Drew On Hla Stereotyped Phrases. A young Chicago drummer was taking a vacation with his uncle in the country, and was called upon to ask the blessing, and not being, accustomed to it, he promptly tackled the difficulty in the following words: “We acknowledge the receipt of your favor of this date. Allow us to extend our gratitude for this expression of good wilt Trusting that our house may merit your confidence and have many orders from you this fall, we are youra truly, amen.” The old man will say grace hereafter. A Pretty Kettle of Pish. When the patient called on bis doctor he found the good man in a state of great apprehension. “I’ve got all the symptoms of the disease you have,” said the doctor. “I’m sure I have caught it from you.” “What are you so scared, about?” asked the patient. “Why, man,’’ replied the doctor, “I don’t think I can cure it” —Harper’s Weekly. You complain about little things. But you will have something worth complaining about some day; when you are old, and neglected, and sick, and can’t get well. A woman is somewhat of a fast expresa—unless she is tongue-tied.

REVIEW OT OHIO

Governor Harmon has issued a procamation prohibiting the importation of qattle for dairy or breeding purposes, that have not a certificate that they have not tuberculosis. . David Shields was burned to death (n his home near Cumberland. Shields ran into the burning house to save some papers in an upstairs room. The Soor fell in, taking him with it, and he was not seen again. A, petition is being circulated at Marysville to dredge Big Dary creek and straighten the stream. If the improvement is made it will be one of the ihost expensive of its kind in central Ohio, and affect 735 tax payers. The county commissioners have fixed Aprij 22 for viewing the proposed improvement. Dudley & Leffler, contarctors who built the new school house at Leipsic, were granted a verdict of SI,BOO in common pleas court at Ottawa. They brought suit against the school board for extra expenses incurred softie months ago and at'the first trial got a verdict of $3,000, which the judge set aside as excessive. Mrs. Daisy Watts, 20 years old. with an infant at her breast, was committed to jail in Dayton on an accusation of railroad detectives that she had broken into freight cars and robbed them of good's. Her 7-year-old stepson accompanied her to the jail and shared with' her and her baby a room in the female department. . Henry Dietz, proprietor of the Germania hotel in Youngstown was flimflammed by a new scheme. A patron, borrowed $5 and left as security a package he said contained two suits of valuable underwear. Dietz was later told by the chambermaid that the blankets on the guest’s bed had disappeared. He opened the bundle and found the blankets. Forty years; ago Mrs. Saujhel Brelsford exhibited, some peaches at a county fair in .Piqua and took first prize. These peaches have been taken all over the country since then and large sums, of money won on them for their excellence. They have taken first prize at Troy annually. To-day the fruit is as tempting looking in the jars as it was 40 years ago. Joseph Steinem bought a laundry by mistake recently in Toledo. He purchased the property of the Peerless laundry at assignee’s sale, under the misapprehension that he was buying another piece of property. The mis take was made known to tne probar court and Assignee C. F. Watts ot tained permission to sei the propert igain, sinpe, Steinem declines to tak it. The body of J. Parker Dunbar h< been shipped from Fremont to Guelp Ontario. Dunbar, formerly a proir dent business man in Cincinnati, di< from alcoholism. He had been e ?aged in selling sewing machines Fremont. He had a wife and daug ter in Cincinnati wrom whom he h been separated for some years. E d Wife, however, claimed the body a <1 accompanied it to the final rest! g place. Adjutant General Charles C. Wc brecht has issued orders for the e t bampment dates at Camp Perry of t several regiments of infantry of 11 n National Guard. The First regink" will go into camp on July 11 and str t£> tents on July 18; Second regime 12-20;.Third, August 9-20; Fourth, : ’ ■fixed, as this command will take p . bn a practice march through the soi h ieastern part of the state; Fifth, S tember 4-11; Sixth, August 9-20; £ i - enth and Eighth, last wegk in Ju : engineers, first week in August. Maud Irwin, a Clark county pati Brin the Dayton insane asylum, fell in love with a demented doctor, als a patient in the institution, and t planned to go to 'Springfield and v The woman made several pieces 0 f lace work and sold them to get mo ey to pay the railroad fare. She indt el Susan Bowman, another patient accompany her and act as bridesm if.. They made their escape and wen "to Springfield, expecting to be joined ty the doctor, but he failed to put ir an appearance. The police got them .ml they were returned to the asylum. Lebanon can proudly boast of he youngest known newspaper editor J.n the country. Although he Is but e i:ht years of age, Karl B. Pauly, son of >ll’. and Mrs. Elwood B. Pauly, publish, i weekly newspaper which he has na e<i the Evening Dipper. At an early ge,endowed with a “nose for news,” he ever carries a pencil and pad in its little pocket, writing down all the c ief happenings of the town and the do: igs of his little friends at school. Ele writes his “stories’ in an unusu I y versatile style, making a very read a four-page edition. Ofttlmes colt 1 supplements, which he paints him ell accompany his paper. After he c i:..poses his copy and hangs it on h a hook he gets busy at the case, sets ills type, locks his forms and goes to p ass like any metropolitan daily. The two-year-old son of Alva erguson of Napoleon, was terribly sc tied by boiling water. He upset a tea kettle. The water drenched his h ad, arms and chest which were fright! I y burned. He may recover. On the farm of A. L. Landis f iir Troy, there is standing and still t u ing fruit every year an apple tree i t was planted more than. 100-years :;o. The fruit resembles the Smith c I r apple, but ripens in early fall and a good “cooker.” ,

The lev. James Kumler, of DeGraff, has be n called to the pastorate of the Metho i.st church at Zanesfield. Nell ; Galbraith, wife of a prominent f Crchant of Manachester, attempt' 1 to start a fire in the kitchen stove iih kerosene and was probably fatallj burned. B. . Smith, of the Findlay high schoo was elected superintendent last week, :o take the place of John W. Zellei elected state school commissione fast fall. Fif km-year-old George Walters was killec by a freight triin at Akron. He and wo other boys went to Warwick and, etu/ning, rode on a Baltimore & Ohio freight. .When they reached the soutf Akron yards they jumped off and Valters fell under the wheels. W lie the children of George Kissling. f near Nevada, were playing! witt a fire in a stove made by thenyl the iress of one, Ruth, aged 5, caughu fire The other children rolled her in the r ass and extinguished the flames, but she was so badly burned that her life is despaired’of. 5 hen members of his family sought hir for dinner, Clarence L. Hurlbutt, coi i not be discovered and a search rev >a led £is dead body in a hog pen. A eiep gash in the-head told of death, bu low it occurred may never be kn wn. It is believed death was due to organic hearb trouble. HO was ag c. 53 years and resided near Gomer. is. Marietta Mustain died, a few d: ; ago from tuberculosis,yand her sc Earl, aged one year, followed an hi lr later. They will be/uuried in a si igle grave. The wife vmis kept alive f< many months by the hope that she v ' Id see her husband, deorge Must in, who is confined in nhe penitent ry. His release will dome next v eek. I Articles of incorporation jbf the DayAstronomical sbeiety i have been led at Columbus, an organization of aich has been perfecteq!. The soiety embraces the names Jot a number persons who are pronhinent in soial and influential circles. The.soiety expects to erect am observatory ;md equip it with a telescope in the near future. I A. D. Smith, Townsend (blacksmith,, celebrated his 80th birthdalv recently by shoeing both fore felet of la horse in just four minutes by ttye watich. Smlthj says it is a record. Smith I®as sbofi aorses for 64 years, but says h®e never did a quicker or better job th An that. His time on the first foot w»s two minutes and eleven seconds. (■Dn the second he speeded up and finishe»*4»jS one minute and forty seconds. • -Two civil war veterans of 'Rushsylvania. Logan county, died suddenly one day last week. James Miller, 70, dropped dead of heart trouble, and when John W. Kramer, 60, heard of the death of his former comrade in arms, he retired to his room and was found lifeless shortly afterwards. Death was due to heart failure caused, it ifc believed, by the shock following the information of his friend’s death. In anticipation of the addition of ' fifty cows tp the dairy of the Massillon : State hospital, made possible by the appropriation of $2500 by the legislature for that purpose, Supt. Eyman this’ week leased forty acres of a nearby farm, making the total number of acres to be under, cultivation this summer 767. Ten of these acres will be planted with apple trees by the Ohio Experiment farm, and in this manner* the institution is to'get a free of expense. . Threat of a term in the boys’ industrial school would not change Grover Yoxheimer’s statement that he hated his mother. Twelve years ago his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Yoxheimer were divorced at Findlay. Grover was then 3 years old and was given into the cutsody of his mother. Recently the father brought suit in the common pleas court and secured possession of the boy. The latter was on the witness stand and said the more he saw of his mother the more he hated her, and that he would rather go to_ the boys’ industrial school than live with her. The juvenile court will maintain jurisdiction over the young man. The Orr Felt and Blanket company have just completed arrangements for the erection at Piqua of the largest felt and blanket mill in the United States, work to begin at once. The new concern will cover an entire city square and will house a million dollar business. The factories already occupied will be abandoned for the new location, which must be completed by January 1, 1910. The Orr Felt and Blanket company has recently secured large government contracts for army blankets and this added to a growing business, made the changes necessary. Welfare work will be a prominent feature of the new plant, modeled much on. the lines of the N. C. R. at Dayton. All the power will be electrical, generated within the plant, each <machine having an individual motor. Alleging nis child, Colatus Barrett, was seriously bitten and disfigured by a dog owued by Ed Felters and Barney Blaser, 'Lesley Barrett filed a suit at Tiffin, asking damages to the amount of $2,100 against them. Mr( and Mrs. Wm. Knauss celebrated their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary at their home north of Bellevue 'recently with a family gathering. Me, Knauss is 86 and his w ife 80, and for fifty-nine years they have lived at their present home.