The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 5, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 June 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal . ( —-- SYRACUSE, - - IND. Tt'ihay tie necessary to draft census taksrs the next time a census is taken. Kirig Menelik, who died several weeks ago, is still dead, contrary to his usual custom. The man who said that beauty is only skin deep must have had reference to the Ben Davis apple. We would be glad to know that every man who gets into a hole could, in, some way, come but of it whole. The man who died of heart disease after drawing a royal flush must have had a string of hard luck before that. A revolution in Nicaragua, when in full career, must be fully as wild, furious and spectacular as a game of Rugby football. o It has been a very difficult matter for this country to keep ex-Presidents on hand. Let Colonel Roosevelt look out for his health. In one Georgia county recently thir-ty-six divorces were granted within two hotfrs. If this becomes generally known Reno’s business may be ruined. A Cincinnati man has retired from business with 51,000,000, which he Bays is as much money as any man has the right to possess. How he must dislike ti ouble. Oscar Kammerstein explains that he got out of grand opera with his health unimpaired and his pocketbook unflattened. Oscar is always doing sensational things. A New York cartoonist has been ordered to pay his ; former wife S4OO a month alimony. This will be likely to add to the number of young men who are learning to be cartoonists. One of the latest wrinkles in Arkanlas is to raise large quantities'of rice by an improved American method. Every State can do something new and valuable to increase the food supply. > A “school of matrimony” for girls has been Instituted in Boston, which proposes to teach “the prime essentials of wedded happiness.” After all Is said, one of the primest essentials is a good man. The high price of living ought to diminish cancer. Dr. R. G. Curtin of Philadelphia says that the disease, he thinks, is due to over-nutrition, Ing from-the incapacity of the human —body to great a supply of food. A physician says a man is just as old as his blood vessels, no matter when he was born. Still, it will be difficult to convince the public that a man whose blood vessels are only 35 is no oldei- than that if he has lost his teeth and his hair and ban- no longer run foi’ a car without getting out of breath. In the case of a. sick woman and her children who came to this country in the steerage while the husband and father was a cabin passenger, the mother and children were ordered deported on the ground that they were liable .to become public charges. The authorities/were justified in believing that such a head of a family would put the burden of their support on anyone who would bear it. ’’ One of the most picturesque incidents in Cooper’s novel, “The Pioneers,” is the flight of the passengerpigeons which darkened the sky with their millions and were slaughtered by the thousands. Even as late as 1880 the birds were not uncommon, but since then they have become almost extinct. A fund of nearly $4,000 has been raised by the naturalists of this country and Canada for the protection of the few survivors of these interesting birds. Slxteen-hour eggs are now advertised In the New York papers—that is, eggs - that have been laid only that length of time. The March price was 65 cents a dozen. There is a suggestion in this to farmers who are near any large market. Slxteen-hour celery, or eighthour string-beans or sweet corn or green peas ought to find a ready sale to families who do not raise their own vegetables, and w’ould like something which has not lain in the markets two or three days, till all the freshness has disappeared. By far the greatest undertaking ever tngaged in by a railroad company, in the nature of constructing a station or terminal, is the work now under way nt the Grand Central Station in New fork City. There, on Forty-second itreet and the region north of it, the changes now being made and the new buildings and improvements planned tor the next few years represent an autlay which is estimated at one hundred and eighty million dollars. The station building itself will occupy six city blocks, and the whole terminal plant will occupy seventeen. This station is the greatesttraffic center in Lzthe and on the two levels no fewer than sixty-two tracks will enter. In all the changes being made and all the stupendous structures projected absolute architectural harmony will be maintained. While the work is going sn there is no interruption of traffic, and last year about one hundred and

, eignty thousand trains, handling over twenty million passengers, came and went at the present station. The cry “Back to the Farm” proceeds chiefly from persons who have achieved position and wealth by ways as remote as possible from the corp rows and the potato hills of the life bucolic. Their examples are the magnets which form the chief attraction to draw the youth of the country districts to the cities. There is nothing more absurd than the vehement ap- ! peals of the railroad president or the well-paid metropolitan editor to Hodges and Gregory to “Stand by the soil and make food for the people.” Armour was a farmer’s boy, as was Rockefeller, and as were McCormick and Pullman. Why did not they praci tlce -what they preach, cling to the plow handles and be content to earn in a lifetime by daily toil a sum about half either of.their sort pays his chauffeur annually? The only thing that strikes us as ridiculous as the anxiety of this class to keep.the hayseeds a< work for them is the zeal of every silk, hatted and velvet-handed politician in going about telling men who have grown gray in agricultural pursuits how they should till their acres, and plant their seed, and house their crops, arid feed their cattle, and breed their chickens, and milk their cows, and bring up their children. It is enough for a person to hold a public office and straightway he becomes an authority on all things pertaining to husbandry, horticulture, stock raising and" fertilizers. He may not, oftenqst does not, know the difference between growing wheat and rye, but that does not' deter him from playing the role of an expert before audiences not one among whom wouldn’t starve to death if he brought to his occupation no more practical is -possessed by his would-be instructor. Why should the farmers be singled out for this sort of imposition? Os course, we are aware that nearly every individual who can read write thinks he could fill a pulpit than the bishop of his diocese and run a newspaper more brilliantly than the dean of American journalism; but such folks at least abstain from calling thq preachers and editors together to endure lectures of criticism and advice from Inexperience and incompetence. . “FAN’’ AND THE “ROOTER.” Important Respects in Which the Two Are Quite Wide Apart. “There’s one thing about this baseball game I’d like to have the public straightened out on before the season proceeds any further,” began the smooth-faced little man with the closely cropped white hair, at exactly 2, o’clock in the grand stand yesterday, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I refer to the use of the words ‘rooter’ and ‘fan’ interchangeably. “I may be wrong—this is nothing more than my 6pinion—but it is my firm belief that the baseball fan, by which I mean the man that attends all the games and reads all the accounts in the newspapers after he gets home, is seldom much of a rooter. The fan’s 4 the regular; the rooter’s the occasional.- The fan, the regular, is as impassive and nonexcitable as an old theater attendant is over the dastardly act of the villain in a melodrama. He used to be a rooter, but he quit all forms of outward demonstration when, he was graduated into the regular class and became a blown in the bottle fan. It isn’t that he’s any less appreciative, but he’s too old a fixture in the grand stand to be sw-ayed by the passion of the multitude any more, than Willie Winter would get het up over the climax to a strong scene on the stage. “This play-worsted fan says to himself, ‘You’re out!’ or ‘You’re safe!’ the, moment the ball has left the surface of the bat, and he begins to jot something down on his scorecard, but you don’t see him getting up on his hind legs and hollering about it and making a spectacle of himself. “Now, the rooter, on the other hand —he doesn’t get a chance to attend a ball game every day in the week, and the intervals between his visits to the ball park are sufficient to renew his enthusiasm. So he makes a good deal of noise. Let him do it. He adds to the gayety of the occasion. We couldn’t get along without him. But don’t let him pose around' as a ‘regular.’ ” A disappointment. “Uncle Jed,” asked his neighbor, “how is your boy getting along at college?” “First rate,” answered "Uncle Jed. “He hasn’t cost me a cent. He’s working his way through, fife’s winning all the class honors, and they’ve promised him a professorship of some kind.” ‘’Great Scott,” gasped his neighbor, “is that all he is doing? With that Sig husky frame of his I supposed he’d be playing center By this ti.me!”-7-Chicago Tribune. Tailors’ Dummies, Present-day fashion drawings are artificially run amuck. According to the artist, every man has beautifully squared shoulders, an unnaturally straight back, feminine waist proportions, and long, slender and perfectly straight legs that are Innocent of muscular development.—Men’s Wear. Making a Life. Many a man has made a good living who has made a poor life. Some men have made splendid lives who have made very moderate and even scanty livings.—'Success Magazine. Russia is establishing numerous wireless stations over its' great territory. _______ Some men are proud of their ability to tell a He that passes for the truth.

FOR THE BRIDE AND HER ATTENDANTS. ry- "• i ’I ’ wnM ill!' aMS f • fl / vW/lffi' : i ll'

Letter to a Bride. The following letter was written by an old friend to a young lady on the eve of her wedding day: 4,' have sent you a few flowers to adorn the dying moments of your single life." They, are the gentlest types of a delicate and durabld.. friendship. They spring up by our Iside when others have deserted it; and they will be found watching over our graves when those who should caerish have forgotten us. It seems thaftg past, so calm and pure as yours, should pire with kindred sweetness about it? that flowers and music, kind friends and earnest words, should consecrate the hour when a sentiment is passing into a sacrament. The three great stages of our being are the birth, the bridal and the burial. To the first we bring only weakness, for. the last we have nothing but dust! But here at the altar, where life joins life, the pair come throbbing up to the holy man, whispering the deep promises that arms each other’s heart to help on in the life struggle of care and duty. The beautiful will be there, borrowing new beauties from the scene. The gay and the frivolous, they and their flounces will look solemn for once. And youth will come to gaze on all that its sacred thoughts pant for; and age will totter up to hear the old words repeated, that to their own lives have given the charm. Some will weep over it as if it were a tomb, and some laugh over it as if it were a joke; but two must stand by it, for it is fate, 'not fun, this everlasting locking of their lives! And now, can you, who havequeened it over so many bending forms, can you come down to the frugal diet of a single heart? Hitherto you have been a clock giving your time to all the world. Now you are a watch, buried in one particular bosom, warming only his breast, making > only his hours, and ticking only to the beat of his heart, where time and ticking shall be in unison, until these lower ties are lost in that higher wedlock where all hearts are united around the Central Heart of all. Hoping that calm and sunshine may hallow your clasped hands, I sink silently into a signature.—Manford’s Magazine. To Iron Linens. As linens form a large percentage of summer dresses, it is advisable to study a method of preserving the beauty of this fabric. No linen should be starched. True, linen has a crisp, clean finish when starched and ironed, but it rumples easily and one wearing makes a garment unfit for second appearance. Instead, dampen the goods well and iron until perfectly dry. Iron as much of a garment as possible on the wrong side to raise the thread. In washing blue linen add vinegar to the last rinsing water. Place a teaspoonful of soda in a gallon of water when dipping a lavender. Use no bluing in tans, but supply it plentifully in the rinsing water for white, blue and pink. Green should not be dipped into’ indigo wafer. Whep the

green begins to fade dip it into a sour solution of water and vinegar and hang it in the shade to dry. Dress linens are not unlike table linens as to laundry work, as hard pressing on damp material furnishes a certain amount of stiffness, sufficient for such fabrics. Use a very large iron for pressing large pieces. Simple Turban. * -wW The folded turban of soft straw or silk, trimmed only with a large rosette of flowers, or a chou of tulle, is a popular and most becoming hat for the young girl. Needlework Notes. Bullion stitch works in effectively on embroidery for gowns.. . Geometrical figures are always used in Hardanger embroidery. The making of lace is a pleasant as well as a fashionable pastime. Richelieu embroidery is one of the loveliest of the different forms of cut work. A dainty centerpiece was embroidered in joflquils and feathery sprays of maidenhair fernf » Irish crochet roses appliqued on a band of filet net make a dainty and effective trimming for a party gown. A dashingly effective Japanese notif is a great dragon embroidered solid' with satin stitch and large clusters of French knots. Ruffles thought scant ones, begin at /the hem of the dress and it takes nine «jhort ones to complete the entire skirt to the edge of the embroidered cuirasse. In cutting the yokes for waist and skirt cut them first of some other material than that of the frock, fit them exactly and then cut the yokes of material from these. Home-made pillow cases should have the selvage torn from the material, then overcast. This makes pillow cases much smoother and they will not wrinkle along the seam. Cut the selvage

from napkins to give a neather turned edge. When a tablecloth becomes too worn for use the good parts may be cut up in -numerous little trays and. doilies. Edged with cluny lace they are dainty as well as exceedingly useful. If you have a number of old sheets that have outlived their usefulness, sew sinail rings across one end of each and use them as clothes covers. Tne rings may be placed over hooks and by tucking the sheet under and 'using a few pins fine dresses, coats and furs can be protected from dust. s For Health and Strength. A sun bath is of more value to health than much warming by the fire. . •' A little good toilet water or cologne poured into a bath is delightful in its effects. If your heart is weak, do not indulge in showers, and be careful to temper the water, no matter how strong the heart. An excellent household remedy for 'burns is a pure vaseline or olive oil. The great thing is to exclude the air and dirt from the burned surface and this the oil will do. Drinking with meals greatly dilutes the saliva, mating mastication all the more difficult; besides in this way the contents are easily softened and washed down before being properly chewed. To take disagreeable medicine eat ofae or two cloves or hold ice in the njouth until the tongue is chilled, and the medicine will be less disagreeable. Medicines that discolor the teeth may be taken through soda straws. For Rainy Days. A mother lately hit upon the happy idea of having a “rainy day” cupboard, the key of which always remains strictly in her possession and is used only when a "rainy day keeps the bairnies' ifidoors. The contents are added to and varied from time to time. There is crepe paper, with a book of instructions how to transform it into various pretty things; paints, .magazines to be colored and cut out, beads, of all colors and sizes, and the ever-fascinating jig saws, says Home Notes. These are all sacred to wet weather, and since the rainy day cupboard was instituted, rainy days have ceased to be dreaded. Shabby Skirt Edges. When the embroidery ruffle of a petticoat is worn on the edge cut off as much as is shabby and turn a narrow hem. Then get torchon lace as wide as the piece which you have removed and sew it to the hem just made. The fSetime of the petticoat will be doubled and its appearance improved. Teacjiinu’ Obedience. Let children understand that disobedience is sure to be followed by punishment. A child seldom'disobeys nature more than once in touching a hot lamp glass. It will soon learn to obey you as well. Never allow’ it to ask wiiu. You know —that is enough.

REVIEW OF INDIANA . *

When Mrs. Charles Masters, of Brookville, clasped her 2-year-old son in her arms a needle in her dress penetrated two inches into the child’s chest, narrowly missing the heart. The needle was removed, and the child appears to have suffered no serious consequences. Charged with stealing two horses from residents of Thorntown,'an unidentified man was arrested at Westfield by members of the Hamilton County Detective Association. The alleged thief is also said to have stolen a horse from F. F. McKnight, of Westfield, three weeks ago. Drawn to the top of the shafting on a belt, Frank Newcomb, a mechanic at the Evansville Cotton Mill, was whirled around the shafting several hundred times until practically every muscle and tendon in his body had been bruised and torn. He is still alive, but his recovery is doubtful. Comet-shaped eggs and three-legged chickens will have to give way to’ twin goslings. Mrs. Ines Lockwood, of Decker, out of curiosity, set the 1 largest goose egg she had along with six others, and from the seven eggs hatched eight goslings. The large egg was the last to hatch and contained two fair sized goslipgs, alike in color and size. A million wall-eyed pike were placed in the Kankakee river, north of Morocco recently by C. H. Briggs, president of the Kankakee Fish and Game Association. The fish were hatched by the Illinois State Fish and Game Commission and represented one-eighth of the commission’s total supply. Assurances have been received of further consighments of bass and other game fish. Lightning struck a barn on the farm of Thomas H. New near Greenfield, tearing out one end of the stable near where several horses were standing, four feet below the barn floor, in (tank stalls. .After the stroke of lightning all the .animals were found on the flM>r of the barn, having in some unexplained manner elevated themselves to above the stall where they had been quartered. A pair of wood thrushes have built a nest and are now raising their young in a climbing rose bush against the house of Mrs. M. H. Mayhood, of Lyons. The circumstance is remarkable, as the wood thrush delights in deep shady glens and in dark woods, and is seldom seen near the haunts of men. Its soft, half plaintive notes are equal in- sweetness to those of any other American bird. Thieves evidently have found a market elsewhere for Boston terriers are stealing this breed of dogs in large numbers at.Munnie,-ter the neglect of all-other kinds. The express companies in that city are notified daily not to ship away Boston terriers until owners ,of! stolen dogs have been notified. A few weeks ago many Scotch collies were stolen. Then all other breeds but Scotch collies were safe. The police have made no arrests. Eight belonging to Byrne Zollerman; living near Walton, ten miles south of Logansport, which were bitten by a rabid dog a fortnight ago,, went mad and frantically raced about the pasture, bumping into and knocking down other stock. They finally became so violent and the danger of affecting other cattle became so great, that they Were shot. Other live stock was bittep; by mad dogs a couple of weeks ago and since the Zollerman cows went mad, alarm is felt by farmers throughout the district ’lt took Julius Hoffman, aged 60, 2332 West Fifty-second street, Chicago, and Miss Henrietta Doruke, who boarded in the sarhe house, fifteen years to make up their minds to marry. Hoffman got license in Cook County fifteen years ago, and was married last week by Judge Frank Green in West Hammond.: He astonished Green by pulling out the weather-beaten license granted in’ 1895. Hoffman was a widower with /three children who objected to the wedding. He finally induced Miss Dorujse, who is 52 years old, to elope with him. Uncle Jesse Eggers, aged 92 years, who lives west of New Maysville, Putnam County, has just made his annual visit to Danville, on horseback. For years it his been his custom to make the trip in f this manner, and no matter what comes up to disarrange his plans he invariably succeeds in carrying out this part of the program. The aged man is anjply able td ride in as gdod a buggy as could be made, or even make the trip in his own automobile, should he so desire, but he insists on saddling his trusty horse and making the journey of thirty miles on the animal’s j back. He has an easy-going horse’and a saddle that has been in service many years. For one of his age the trip is regarded as remarkable, but Mr. Eggers says that he thoroughly enjoys the exercise and that -after he gets home he feels as spry as a two-year-old. t, Avis, a pacing mare owned by Greensburg people, has been sold to Wallingford & Bergen, of Liverpool, England, and will be shipped soon. The price was not made public, although it ran yyell into four figures. James West, aged 19, living near Keystone, suffered a fracture of the leg while playing ball at Montpelier. On his way to a physician’s office the young man fainted and fell from a rig, breaking his leg a second time a few inches below the first fracture.

While J’rs. Cech in:”. vd 20, was handling a revolved at-her home, three miles north of Hagerstown, the weapon was accidentally discharged and she was shot through the arm. Her condi; tion is serious and amputation of the ’ arm may be necessary. A over a fence caused Steward Ward and Frank Billhimer, 'living in the southern part of Tipton County, to pay heavy fines besides attorney’s fees and court costs. Billhimer caused Ward’s arrest on charge of provoke, assault and battery ind drawing a deadly weapon. Ward stood trial and on being defeated filed similar charges against Billhimer. Billhimer entered a plea of guilty. aged 82 years, a prominent farmer who lived north of Rochester, was drowned in the Tippecanoe river. He had been fishing in the morning,' and when he did not return at supper time his daughter started in search of him. She found a rowboat run up near the shore and the body of her father hanging backward over theside with the feet in the boat and the head and shoulders beneath the water. Nine hundred Purdue citdets, accompanied by the Purdue band, and several of the members of the faculty, » spent one day last week at. Ft. Benjamin Harrisojj. The program included . maneuvers and drills given by both the • cadets and the regualrs. The morning was devoted to drill, including extended order, advance and advantages of cover by the soldiers at the post. During the afternoon the cadets, inspected the post and had a regimental parade. * When J. A. Boyd and his sons, John and Abram, went to an unused bai* on , their farm, near Capital Hill, east of Cambridge City, they found the body of a man who had apparently been dead some time. The barn had not been opened since March, and the body was so badly decomposed no marks of” identification could be found. The man was whitfc, with brown hair and was well dressed. He was apparently about 21 years old. Coroner Bramkamp is investigating. The citizens of Elkhart are preparing a big demonstration to welcome , Colonel C. G. Conn on his arrival from California. A parade will march from the station to the hotel where an informal reception will be held. Two bands, automobiles, Knights of Pythias and perhaps other organizations besides prominent residents of Elkhart will take part in the parade. The demonstration is to express sympathy for the half million-dollar fire loss and the appreciatidn of Colonel Conn’s purpose to rebuild the plant immediately. Solon A. Enloe, aged 50, an attorney of Danville, is suffering from a stubborn case of whooping cough. He contracted the disease a month ago, and while he is able to be aj his office’most of the time, he has practically lost his voiqe. He is in charge of the law department at the Central Normal College, and has been compelled to put a substitute in his place. He was selected by the Jesse S. Ogden Post, G. A. R., to deliver the Decoration Day address, May 30, but he has been compelled to surrender that work to another. Kir. Enloe is over six feet in height and weighs two hundred pounds r .William Geake, of Fort Wayne, who is known all over the United States for his Eminence in Masonry, has just been „ elected thrice potent master of the Fort Wayne-Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R., for the twenty-fourth consecutive year. In all the history of Maropry, so far as is known, there is but one case in which any man has served at head of a lodge of perfection for a greater number of years consecutively than Mr. Geake.has presided over the Fort Wayne body. He is a member of the Supreme Council and the ranking deputy for Indiana. But a short time ago Mr. Geake was elected an honorary member of the Supreme Council of Italy. That the alleged will of Marshall McMurran, a wealthy hermit, filed re- » cently by Mrs. Mattie Hannum, of Vincennes, and by which she lays claim to a $25,000 estate, is not in the! handwriting of McMurran and that the signature to; the alleged will does not resemble that of the dead man, is the . contention of John A. Gleichman, a prominent fruit grower who lives id the Stringtown road near Evansvilld. Protests against the adniission of the alleged will to probate were filed in Probate Court by Burtis Cody and William L. Wood, relatives of McMurran. Allen B. Cody also filed application to be appointed administrator of the McMurran estate, setting out that he is a first cousin of McMurran. Both the application to be appointed as administrator and the protests against the admission of the will to probate were ordered filed and passed for further hearing by the court. No time is set when the matter will be brought up again. The farmers of Decatur County are alarmed by cholera among the hogs. Several cases have been reported where the disease appeared after the hogs had been loaded on the ears for shipment to market. In repairing a porch at the home of Mrs. Harris, widow of Captain Lee O. Harris, in Greenfield, myriads of white ants were found. They had cut off all the supports to the porch and had attacked other portions of the hous» when discove’-^ 1