The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 May 1910 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal 1 * SYRACUSE, - - IND Poorly cooked food often drives men to drink and women to suicide. "An Indiana man wants a divorce because his wife chews tobacco.” Fine cut or plug? When it comes to keeping out of the penitentiary women are more successful than men. * Buy your own home'in the country, and become a perennial instead of a hardy annual. Paris has a “ham and iron” fair, faough ham and diamonds would be a ffiore appropriate combination. A pastor says he wants to go to heaven by the quickest route. He is not, however, in a hurry to start. s. A Western man has the distinction ©f having survived the professional treatment of twenty-six physicians; It is evident that the Grand Vizier of Morocco isn’t popular among his ■wives. Three of them tried to poison him. ■ A man was found wandering about • Chicago in a dazed condition with $7,000 in his pocket. That’s enough to daze anybody. Everybody counts in a census. One doesn’t have to be a baseball pitcher Or a banker to have his name recorded in Uncle Sam’s big book. A celebrated oculist says that people seldom see things as they are. Particularly is this true when they look at get-rich-quick schemes. Leguminotherapy, this alleged new science of rutabagas and things, can never hope to be popular unless it Changes its name to something easier. It seems to be the consensus of opinion among public men that Governor Hughes would make an excellent Supreme Court Justice in spite of his trhlskers. ’ . According to a Chicago Judge, a ■woman has a right to bounce a rolling pin off her husband’s head. Does gie same ruling apply in the case of a ove pokeh A New England woman'detectlve is to marry a millionaire. Perhaps he tljlnks in view of the attacks on wealth, now the fashion, that a detective will come handy in the family. ~~"~The girls who take the domestic science courses at the Kansas Agricultural College have to make themselves a complete outfit, from underclothing “ to a silk dress, before they can takea degree. Most of their grandmothers had to do their own dressmaking without getting a diploma for doing-IL But whether taught at home or in School, it is a useful thing for young women to learn —and it is fascinating work besides. Some Interesting statistics about the paigratory habits of a portion of- the human race have been collected by a great city gas company. It was found, for example, that in the course Os thirty-two months , 132 families moved into out of one tenement building. During the same period a Single apartment sheltered twenty-five different families. Surely the philosophy of Poor Richard must be at fault, for in these cases “three removes” could not have been “as bad as a fire.” Artemus Ward said that a comic paper was no worse for having a joke In it now and then, and his words have ever since been quoted aS embodying the gospel of wit and humor. The neat form of American mirth Is uie Joke. “It is to laugh”—that’s our Creed in a sentence. Misplaced capitals, awkward spelling, impossible grammar, Infinite incongruity of situation, endless word-play, grotesquery Os action and character, heightened by pictures equally funny, these are the tilings that mak’e us laugh. We Ore quick to catch the point of a cartoon, to enjoy the exaggeration of a Caricature. But to smile at the mockterious, to be amused by satire, is a fefinement as yet beyond us. Probably half in jest, Anthony J. Drexel, multi-millionaire of PhlladelI phla, expressed his consternation over the cost of a breakfast at one of New York’s splurge hotels. He ordered two tggs and a cup of coffee and the bill #as |1.75. “A man’s wages for a day/’ he remarked-“not for me,” he £dded, "but for many just as good st tnan.” Os course, the many just-as-fcood men don’t pay that price for eggs. They ean buy a dozen for what ; pfr. Drexel paid for his coffee, and they can drink coffee a week on what ifr. Drexel paid for one of his eggs. jCevertheless, the price Mr. Drexel pays has its influence upon what the Common man pays. Under the cold giorage system the great companies han hold up the supply of eggs, and t£en, if they can sell the fresh eggs fa New York to absurd hotels for a faonstrous price, they will add somefalng to the price the common man pgya for storage eggs. The rich people of to-day have a chance to make a dtot upon the price of living by asfaming the virtue, if they have, it not, if demanding their money’s worth, |nd refusing to give away their shnney simply because Lt comes easy.

The virtues of abstlnnece are as open to the rich as to the poor. Where there is a rapid growth in a country there is always a tendency to overestimate the population. This falls in with the plans of boomers and even gives pleasure to disinterested patriots. No doubt it is felt in .Canada just now, and the fever of it may have got into the blood of Sydney Fisher, minister of agriculture, who predicts that the census of 1911 will show that the Dominion has 8.000,000 inhabit; ants. However this may be, there have been changes enough in the last ten, years to make the development of Canada one of the most interesting studies of the time. During the latter part\of the last century the growth of the country had been slow. The populatlon, which was 4,324,810 in 1881, increased to 4,833,239 in 1891- and to 5,371,315 in 1901, making a small percentage for the twenty years. But though complete figures are lacking, it is certain that there has been an as- , tonishing change since the beginning I of the present century. The Province of Manitoba, which had a population of 255,211 in 1901, had increased to 365,688 in 1906, and in the same period Alberta had advanced from 72,841 to 185,412 and Saskatchewan from 91,460 to 257,763. In 1901 the number of people from the United States was placed at 127,899. The Immigration from the United States alone in the year 1909 was more than 90,000, and the current has been strong for several years. It is to be noted also that the newcomers from this country take capital with them, and the estimate of the Canadian Immigration commissioner is that these immigrants added to the wealth of western’ Canada at least $90,000,000. That the country will prove attractive from now on is highly probable, because it offers inviting farms to settlers, and its fame as a wheat field is constantly increasing. The crop of last year was valued at $120,000,000, and each year sees a large Increase in the acreage devoted to wheat cultivation. PHYSICAL EXERCISE. Enfllsh Physician Say« It Not Good for Office Workers. A distinguished London physician, Dr. Alexander Bryce, has started a discussion by asserting that office workers should not take exercise after their dG’te work. He says: “The ro©t—reason is that though head work is noft exercise in the sense that it. develops the body, it most decidedly is exercise in that it quickly Induces ‘fag* and physical lassitude. So it is almost pathetic for a man to expect any good to come from taking more exercise when the exercise involved in the day’s work has already tired him out, “One takes it that young people have had sufficient outdoor exercise to reasonably develop their frames before beginning office work. So when once they have started in the office in earnest it is much better for them to realize at once that their days of hard physical strain are over and done with, and that henceforth they -must confine these efforts to week-ends and holidays. They can follow this advice calmly enough, for it does not mean at all that they are going to deteriorate suddenly into wrecks. “The” body pnd system easily attune themselves to circumstances, even to over-civilized and consequently rather unnatural circumstances, and indoor head workers will soon find that a very detent state of health can be maintained with little or no apparent exercise. “For all people living under the undoubted inconvenience of earning a livelihood a most excellent rule of thumb in regard to this much misunderstood question of work and exercise is the following:. Never try to mix the two, and stop exercising at once if you do not find that it gives you real enjoyment. “And I need only add,” he concluded, “that the rational way home after a day’s work in the office is by train, tram or omnibus, not walking, and that* the proper time for real exercise is when no thought of work need intervene for at least forty-eight hours after the exercise has stopped.” Polyglot Dialect. “Haw do you like my new Japanese dialect stories?” inquired the budding author of the eminent traveler. The latter smiled. “They read,” he answered, "like a combination of Chinese, Cingalese, Bengalese, Javanese, Maltese and slangese. Aside from this they are pretty fair.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Was Short. Chief of Detectives —Now give us a description of your missing cashier. How tall was he? ' Business Man —I don’t know how • tall he was. What worries me is that ’ he was $25,000 short. —Philadelphia L Record. r Forcing; a Handicap. Diogenes returned from his search ; for an honest man. I “Given up the chase?” they in- '• quired. “It becomes a matter of necessity,” 1 replied the philosopher. “Some one ’ stole my lantern.” —Lippincott’s. j Mi*ht Be Won*. [ "My wife often says she could have j married a better man.” t “Cheer up. Some wives would threat- . en to get a divorce and do it.”-—Louis-i villa Courier-Journal. Malting World Brighter. 1 Everybody quit heckling for forty- * eight hours and see sow much bright- ’ er the world looks. —New York Herald. r If a man could only unload his ex- - perlence for half it cost!

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PATRIOTIC LESSON IN MEMORIAL DAY.

OF AT J, our anniversaries. Memorial Day is the one that has most power to stir the American heart, and to show that this heart still beats frue to the traditions of the heroic age of our republic. The decoration of the .graves of those who have died for their country is no outgrowth of-modern sentimentality. ■ This custom is of great antiquity; classic Greece was wont to thus honor its departed heroes. Inspired poets tecited their eulogies. t .Great orators extolled their - Sweet-voiced singers sang their praises* White-robed maidens strewed with flowers the graves of,.those who had been laid to rest in native earth, while a nation’s tears fell for the unreturning brave who had fallen on the field of battle, and lay in unmarked trenches which are bo often the soldier’s last resting place. * On the 23d and 24th of May, 1865, the armies of the Union passed in grand review before the President and

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the Secretary of War In Washington. It was one..of. the most impressive and soul-stirring pageants which this country has ever seeiD On the first day eighty thousand men of the Army of the Potomac marched through the streets of the national capital, and on the following day the sixty-nine thousand members of Sherman’s army carried their tattered flags over the same line march. In all there were one hundred and forty-nine thousand men in that blue tide which, for six hours on one day and seven on the next, flowed past the Capitol; and on the great banner which stretched across the front of the building the tired and war-worn veterans read a sentiment which must have tduched their hearts. It was their country’s acknowledgment of her sense of obligation to them. The words were these: “The only national debt we can never pay is the debt we owe the’ victorious Union soldiers.’j This year a thousand little processions made up of those same men will march behind muffled drums and with flowers in their hands, to decorate the graves of those comrades whose marching days are done. Those who passed before the President in the grand review of forty-five years ago were mostly young men, some of them mere boys. The little companies . which make their way from post headquarters to the cemetery pow are ‘ made up of old men. Each year finds the heads whiter, the line thinner, the steps more feeble. Yet the loving memories remain unchanged, the old comrades unforgotten, the service in their honor unneglected. The dignity and faithfulness with which the veterans of the Civil War observe this annual ceremony’ has not been lost upon the country. The pathetic spectacle of these feeble old men marching every year under the flag they once defended has touched us all. It has helped us to realize that we have indeed a “national debt we can never pay,” and has- confirmed the beautiful custom of giving one day in the year to our dead, he they soldier or civilian.

PROVED HIS BRAVERY. How a New Hampshire Lad Resented Epithet of “Coward.” A Washington newspaper man, one of the °few survivors of the Fiftyninth Massachusetts regiment, recently told this story: i “A young New Hampshire lad of I sixteen, Sumner Elliott, was a member of Company I, my company. In ‘ some w’ay a companion ' had been moved to call him a coward at Spottsylvania. The epithet was undeserved, for Elliott “was a brave boy. He thrashi ed the map who called him a coward, I but the insult rankled. On the march to North Ann river he brooded over it. | We led the corps across the river and | advanced on the enemy. A rattling musketry fire was dotting the ground with our dead and wounded. “Presently young Elliott sprang ahead of the advancing line, and as he waved his musket over his head he shouted out in broad New England accent:. „ ' 4— ‘“Sergeant Mertin, am I a coward?* "The enemy opened a masked battery full on our front and under a thousand yards from their line. The guns were loaded to the muzzles with grape and canister, and as the sward we were tripping over was perfectly level great gaps were ’fciade in our ranks. Nevertheless vte rushed on, cheering, Sumner well in the lead. Presently he went down, full length, and as we swept over him the gallant lad was still faintly shouting: “ ‘Sergeant Mertin, a-m I a c-o-w- --„ «rr-d?’ “His kneecap‘had been broken with a grapeshot, and when subsequently ’ removed to the field hospital our first jiergeant, John H. Mertih, managed to

visit him. As the poor boy, laid out on the rude operating tabid, grasped the sergeant’s hand he faintly muttered, ‘S-e-r-g-e-a-n-t M-e-r-t-i-p, am I a C-o-w-a-r-d?’ “The sergeant pressed his hand and replied with tears in his eyes, ‘No, Sumner, my lad; New Hampshire never raised a coward.’ ” General Grant’s Joice. Eliot M. Miller, a civil engineer of New Orleans,, tells how General U. S. Grant made his father, Chaplain Miller, swear. It was one of the chaplain’s duties to receive and distribute the mail to General Grant’s staff. Whenever the mail was late he was greatly annoyed by questions as to the cause of the delay, time of probable arrival, etc. On one occasion, when the post was unusually late, the chaplain for fear of losing his temper attached the following notice to the door of his tent: “The chaplain does not know when the mail will arrive.” Shortly afterward General Grant, passing the chaplain’s quarters, noticed the Sign. He paused before it a moment and then walked slowly on his way. Coming out of his tent a few moments later. Chaplain Miller was horrified to read: “The chaplain does not know when the mail will arrive, and he doesn’t give a d—a.” —Harper’s Weekly. Both Pierced by Bayonets. Notable in the chronicles of the Second Michigan infantry is an official report by its colonel, Orlando M. Poe, about the battle at Williamsburg. He found one of his men “dead beside a dead foe, each transfixed with the other’s bayonet.”

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SHOULD not try to march, you think, on Deuteration Day, For fear I’ll overtax myself and falter by the way; But don’t you know the beat . of drums will make m v shoulders square,

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For I shaH feel the old-time strength xvhen music’s in the air; And where the old Flag leads the way, my feet will follow on. For that is how we soldiers marched, and how our fights were won. I know that many years have passed; sometimes I think I’m old; For hair is white and hands are weak, and blood runs thin and cold: But there is fire somewhere within that flares up at the beat And roll.of any drums I hear along the village street; So I’ll put on my uniform, and join my comrades dear, And march with them to honor those who march no longer here. We’ll lay the flowers about the Flag that waves on every grave, And tell the deeds of valor o’er that helped the Flag to save Unstained and beautiful; we’ll say the office for the dead; And hearts that have been sore with loss, will half be comforted. And so I’ll turn out with the Boys, the gallant Boys in Blue, And we will follow Flag and drum the way we used to do. —Emma A. Lente in New York Christian Advocate. His Message Went. One day when the President was with the troops who were fighting at the front the wounded, both Union and Confederate, began to pour in. As one was passing Lincoln he heard the voice of a lad calling his mother in agonizing tones. Lincoln’s great heart filled. He forgot the crisis of the moment. He ordered the carriers to stop. Kneeling and bending over the wounded soldier, he asked, “What can I do for you, my boy?” “Oh, you will do nothing for me,” he replied. “You are a Yankee. I can’t hope that my message will ever reach my mother.” Lincoln, in tears, his voice full of tenderest love, convinced the lad of his sincerity, and he gave his goodby words without reserve. The president directed them copied and ordered that they be sent that night with a flag of truce into the enemy’s lines. Origin of Decoration Day. As a matter of chronology it is interesting to know that the observance of Decoration Day first originated in Richmond, Va., with a little band of New England school teachers on May 30, 1866, and was adopted the next year, 1867, by Confederate women throughout the south, to be systematized the year after, 1868, as a Grand Army ceremonial by order of Gen. John A- Logan, then commander-in-chief, until, its popularity becoming general, the day was made a legal holiday in all the northern states and so observed in the south by the Confederate Veterans’ Association. The Pennypacker Army. It is said that the Pennypacker family of Pennsylvania sent more soldiers to the Civil war than any other American family. Os the descendants of Henry Pennebecker, surveyor, who came to Pennsylvania before the year 1700, 144 were in the Union of Confederate armies, and 27 of the 144 were commissioned officers.

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The Methodist Sunday School of Greenwood contributed SSO to the Methodist Hospital fund for the childfen s ward. Robert Fulton Lannon, aged 40, died I at Pendleton after a two weeks’ illness jof pneumonia. For many years he was ! a baker in that city, but two years ago I went on a farm, where he died. A . widow survives. J. T. Arkins, aged 25, of Indianapolis, brakeman on a Pennsylvania flight train, was fatally injured in thfVrailroad yards' of Greenfield whea he was run down by a train. He was removed to C. K. Bruner’s sanitarium. The city health officers of Renssalaer have ordered the closing ,of the city schools, theatres, churches anil issued an order forbidding gatherings of any kind owing to the prevalence of scarlet fever in that city. There have been seven cases to date. Ralph, the 7-year-old son of. Mr. and Mrs. John Fremyer, living at Claypool, wasTiitten by a vicious dog a few j days ago. It is thought the deg was the same one that bit Mrs. J. F. ClyI mer, of Silver Lake. Mrs. Clymer was taken to Chicago to take the Pasteur treatment. Frank Kirk, a dredger for the Indiana Harbor canal, recovered a floater near the terminal railway bridge in Hammond. The body was identified as that of Michael Hans; who disappeared two months ago and it was badly decomposed, but marks on the head show it was hit with some blunt instrument. Samuel Roll, aged 74, employed as a miner in the Banner coal mines at Evansville, was instantly killed by a faulty shot. Roll had prepared the shot and when it failed to go off he went back to invest-.gate and the explosion that occurred mangled his body. Roll hhd been employed in the mines for a number of years. He is survived by a family. The Republican Central Committee of Owen County elected Fred Denkewafter County Chairman to take place of George Rentschler, who fell dead last week. . Mr. Denkewalter is a farmer of Clay Township. He has been active ih party work here for many years and is an enthusiastic Beveridge supporter. The committee also decided to hold the county convention on June IS. Representatives of more than a score of churches in Fort Wayne and Allen County, at a meeting held recently, took preliminary steps for the formation of a permanent county organization in connection with the Laymen's Missionary Movement. Permanent officers will be named in mlvance of a banquet which is to be field in Fort Wayne soon, when covers will be laid for one thousand men.’ When Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Royster, who were married, at Greensburg, returned to their home in Sheridan, they expected the usual charivari, including a ride in the calf wagon. Instead they were placed in J. W. Ridge’s “happy Car” and driven about thd town. The car was in the recent automobile parade at Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ridge said he would not remove the decorations until a pair of newlywed? had ridden in it. ; On a second petition by Bishop Alerding, of the Fort Wayne Diocese of the Catholic Church, Judge Austin reissued a temporary restraining order against the Union Grain and Coal Company of Arfderson, enjoining it from rebuilding a large warehouse near the church of St. Mary’s Catholic congregation in that city, because of a recent fire' in the warehouse causing some! damage to the church and other adjoining property. / With the the school enumtfTatipn just completed as a basis for calculation South Bend now has a population somewhat over fifty thousand. The figures given for the number of persons of school age are 14,409, an increase over last year of 1,756. Multiplying this total by 3% gives 50,431. A difference of opinion prevails as to the exact figures to use for multiplication to secure population figures from but those regarded as authorities on the subject in South Bend regard 3% as conservative. Willard Wissler, in tearing off the weather boarding of his country home, near Milton, preparatory to remodeling it, found an old third reality* which ' had belonged to Miss Elizabeth Wissler. The woman says that the book is seventy-three years old and that she , accidentally dropped it between the I walls of the house sixty-four years ago. The dwelling in which the book was found was formerly owned by the late. Peter Wissler, and is located five miles east of town. It is now owned by his son. Miss Wissler is the aunt of Willard Wissler, and still lives in the house. , Joseph Bube, aged 40, died of lockjaw at his home, west of New Several days ago, while cutting wood, an ax glanced and almost severed his great toe. The injury was not regarded as serious until tetanus developed. While walking through his orchard near Owensville, John Nelmier found his mother’s gold ring, which was lost thirty years ago. Mrs. Neimier lost the ring while picking up apples. The orchard was plowed up annually durlug’ that nprinH

Richard Snow, a street car conductor fell from a rapidly moving car ip Evansville and suffered fatal injuries. A mad dog Jias caused a scare at Memphis and Blue Lick. Four cows and a horse owned by Fred Whitesides, and and a horse owned by, Mat Johnson were bitten. While looking out of his bedroom window trying to see Halley’s comet, Jacob HaberlacS, a barber of Evansville, aged 48 years, became unduly excited and fell over dead from the effects of heart disease. The corner stbne of Elkhart’s Masonic Temple, to be erected at a cost of $26,000, was laid last week by Kane Lodge, the ceremonies being under direction of the Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, William ' I Swientz, of South Bend, who assumed ■ the capacity of acting Grand Master. Winfield S. Fowler, who came prospecting to the Indiana oil* fields from Virginia two years ago. was standing ■ alone near his pump at Hartford City. He wore a long overall coat, buttoned ; tightly at the throat. A whirling shaft . caught the tail of the coat, ripped it up ; the back to the neck band and gifrrot- ■ ed him. He was dead when released. Luther Martin, manager of the West- . ern Union office at Madison, .who died ■ last week, was connected with the office for fifty years and was manager for forty-six years. Officers of the . company say he kept the best and , cleanest set of books of any employe of the company and that he had no superior as an honest, faithful employe. Delirious from fever that accompa- . nied a severe attack of measles, Benja- , min Murray, living south of Bedford, clad only in his night clothes, wandered away from home and was found . by a searching party lying under a tree t in a wheat field a mile from home. He is suffering from exposure in addition to the disease and his condition is serious. Steven Wargo, aged 45, and Matt Varonovich, aged 26, were ground to pieces by a Pennsylvania passenager train at Gary. Fifty persons waiting to board the train as it was pulling into the station saw the accident. The men were waiting! for an east-bound freight train to pass and did not hear the west-bound passenger train pulling into the station. Both were married and employed by the Indiana Steel Co. The State Tuberculosis Hospital Commission has let the final contracts for furnishing the buildings near Rockville, which have been completed. 'The Commission made a final settlement with the Modern Construction (Company, of Terre Haute, paying the concern the $16,267.74 balance due. On comparison, the books of the contractor and those of the Commission, including all extra allowance subtractiops, were found to correspond to the cent. Pensions have been grated to the following Indianites: Jonathan P. Baker, S3O; John ,Bell, sls; Royal R. Dempsey. s6r, William H. Dryden, sls; Cyhthia A. Dunn, sl2; Mary Gonsor, sl2; minor child of John W. Grant, sl2; Enoch Harlan, sl4;. Alex A. Jones, S2O: Seymour P. Kinney, sls; George W. McKinney, sl2;>Marj r E. Pratt, sl*s; John W. Pugh, sl7; Matilda E. Roperts. sl2: Sarah Shonyeiler, sl2; Grover Smith, S2O; George W. Summa, S3O; William H. Wilson. sls; Edson S. Wiftkley. S2O; Milton Wolf, sls. Because his bull terrier swallowed a $lO bill which was dropped by a man in a Logansport case, Chris. Panton, who runs a tailoring establishment in that city, is threatened with a lawsuit. The man has made a demand on Panton for $lO in place of the one which the dog destroyed and the tailor has refused. However, he offered to give the owner of the $lO the dog, but this was refused. The nian says if he does. not receive $lO he will' sub, and Panton says that he can have the dog, put that he will not give up a “ten spot.” An unusual number of circumstances in the life of the Rev. Dr. L. J. Naftzger, of Greenfield, is connected with the number 13. His father and mother “was each a membef of a-fam-ily of thirteen, and they were the parents of thirteen children. The Rev. Mr. Naftzger was born on March 13, joined the church when he Was thirteen years old, and on Friday began the study for the ministry. On the 13th ot the month he erceived the degree of doctor of divinity from Uhaslin University, was married on May 13th, and twin sons came to his home on Friday the 13th. In 1893 the Rev. Mr. aipd Mrs. Naftzger celebrated their thirteenth wedding anniversary on May 13, when thirteen persons were guests at their home, 313 Thirteenth (street* Muncie, and on Friday, May 13, this year, a public reception was given him by the members of the Bradley M. E. church, of Greenfield, the occasion being his thirtieth wedding anniversary. Luther Sanders, aged 25, of Wheatijand, seven miles west of Washington, was drowned while fishing near his home. He suffered an epileptic fit and fell into the stream. A searching party found the young man’s body. Grace Anna Swinford, aged 2, was! searching the cupboard at her grandmother’s home, near Lewis creek for, cookies, and found a bottle of carbolic acid. She drank a part of the poison and became unconscious. The child can not recover.