The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 June 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND. Unfortunately those who rock boats' are not all drowned. There is but one mother's day In the year. Daughter has all the others. The Chicago man who says eating Is a habit is mistaken. Eating is hereditary. China appears to be in earnest in her desire, for progress. She wants to borrow money. Gossip is one of the few things that doesn’t lose its taste after being warmed over several times. The value of a fish as a substitute for beefsteak is likely to take some of the romance out of this summer’s fishing poetry. An; Indiana novelist’s father has taken to literature. Indiana may add to its achievements by showing that herec ity works both ways. Wc nder it that fellow who stole the SIO,O >0 picture in California a few days, ago, did it to satisfy the cravings of a hungry soul or an empty stom. ch. Th >, old theory that a fool and his money are soon parted should be revised} If there were no fools in the work there would be less money in circu attorn Oni> man who thought opportunity was } knocking at his door married his Btepn other. Now she is dead and he finds by reading her will that he has been disinherited. Cot nt Boni de Castellahe, having had a sudden and effectual crimp put in hl I political aspirations, may have to touch his revered parents for some of that Gould annuity to help pay expense! If (American cpstoms officers are going to begin apologizing for all the troub e they make for returning American tourists, how are they going t) have any time left for examining tie baggage? » . ~ — A Belgian aeroplane carrying two men has remained in the air two hourii and twenty minutes, the longest flight by forty-five. minutes. The hazal-ds of aeronautics have no effect on tie nerve and enthusiasm of the darli.g sky pilots. The northerpmost grave of all the numberless graves of earth is the last resting place of Prof. Ross G. Marvin, who (lost his life while a member of the Peary expedition. A tablet in his memory was dedicated at Cornell University recently and Commander Peary was the principal speaker. An English novelist is in this country io study the women. The American woman just now seems to be the Inost interesting topic of civilized creptloh. Still, there is no need to be going to outside writers for a full understanding of her. It takes the native] American to appreciate her full Worth. The tide of immigration is continuing and increasing. The authorities at Washington estimate that the arrivals during the present year will be pot less than 1.000.0 Mk which will comje close to the resffl. The figured weWi 1,027,421 in 1905, 1,100,735 in 1906 and 1,285,349 in 1907. The rush this year shows that the effect of the “panic” of 1907 has pretty well worn off. Pulaski and Kosciuszko, two Polish herpes whose names are particularly revered by Americans for their services in our War of Independence, are now honored by monuments at Washington. Congress voted the money for the! Pulaski monument, and contributions by the Polish-American societies of this country paid for that of Koscluszko. Since 1828 there has been a monument to Kosciuszko at West Point, where extensive fortifications, under his direction as chief engineer, were constructed during the Revolution. ’ The largest salmon pack ever recorded is announced on the Pacific toast, where about five and one-fourth million cases represent the output of the canneries—nearly half a million cases more than during the last previous good season, that of 1905. Only once before In the history of the business has the five-million mark been reached. The run of salmon in 1909 Was the largest ever known, and those Who study the conditions say that the regulations which are now enforced and the operations of the hatcheries are not enough to account tor all of the Increase. They advance the theory that the depletion Df the Bering Sea seal herds has an Important bearing on the Increasing .salmon supply. The seal herd, as It goes north to the breeding-grounds, follows the run of the salmon, and the fishermen assert that the voracious seal kills his weight In salmon every day. The fact that a business firm has had the temerity to engage In a lawsuit to resist the Imposition of the ; nib,* and that It won its case, holds ■' Out some prospect of ultimate relief Aram this growing nuisance. A travj eMng salesman of the concern had turned in, among other Items of his i expense account* a charge of $l6O for

tips to the waiters and other servants of a fashionable hotel. The firm re pudiated the item and refused to pay any portion of the bill unless it was eliminated. The salesman sued foi the entire amount of his bill, and the court allowed it all excepting the tips. It held that the regular hotel bill benefited the employer, and was necessary, also the railroad and steamship . fare, but that the tips Were a luxury and unnecessary. The counsel for the salesman argued that the tips were a necessity without which their client could not have lived at the high-toned hostelry with that peace and quiet of mind needed to transact his employer’s business satisfactorily, but the court proved cal--lous to this line of sympathetic reasoning. The argument, however, reveals one of the compelling reasons for the giving of tips. It is to save the equanimity and peace of mind of the giver. He would rather endure the ills of a depleted pocketbook than to brave the scorn of the arrogant waiter, the Insolence of the hall boy, or the contumely of presumed meanness. This is also one 'basis of the extravagant living of the day. It is pride in keeping up appearances. This is not altogether an unworthy motive, but it is ruinous to those wb<o cannot afford it. It is quite natural for one to wish to have as good a house as his neighbor, and not to have his ladles walk when those of his neighbor ride in their machines. <• But If such luxuries are beyond his means, only a stronger pride can come to his relief and save him from bankruptcy. That is the pride of paying one hundred cents on the dollar. The same high pride can even nerve a man to resist the insinuating demand for a tip from the superb servitor. CAUSES OF SMOKE. Gases Distilled from the Coal Not Burned In the Furnace. The direct cause of smoke is the fact that the gases distilled from the coal are not completely burned In the furnace before coming in contact with the surface of the shell of tubes, which chills them below the ignition temperature. Now, says the Engineering Magazine, these gases are the volatile hydrocarbons which all bituminous coals contain to a greater or less extent, and which are driven off when the coal Is heated. The percentage of this volatile matter varies all tne way from 3 per cent for the Eastern anthracite to as high as 50 per cent for the Western lignites. The larger percentage of volatile matter the greater the liability to smoke production, other things being equal, and the more difficult is smoke prevention. The behavior of these volatile gases during Combustion is complex. There are good reasons for supposing that a hydrocarbon at a sufficiently high temperature is" decomposed into its elements. The carbon particles are seemingly averse to combining with oxygen except under favorable conditions. If the "temperature is too low or the air supply insufficient the carbon refuses to combine and appears later as soot of smoke. We must have sufficient air at a high temperature. The question revolves about the point of perfect combustion. We have successfully solved ‘ these problems for oil. We started with smoky tprehes, as the air could not get at the body of the oil in the center of rhe wick. We then used a flat wick—that is, we gave the oil more surface for the air to act on. We then used a hollow cylindrical wick, air acting on both sides. The final step was the center core or argand lamp, which first heated the air for the wick supply. But when we try to force Hie lamp by turning up the wick and thereby increase the oil consumption we get into trouble immediately, producing smoke. We have exactly the same conditions to meet in the combustion of solid fuel. In other words, if coal Is to be burned with maximum economy and without smoke it must be supplied with the correct amount of air at the proper temperature. Dentist to the Mastodon. If one were to reason wholly from appearances, the prehistoric mastodon must have had an accomplished dentist with modern appliances. This Is the conclusion one might reach .after reading an incident cited by John R. Spears in “Gold Diggings of Cape Horn;” The story was told to the author by a South American miner, who himself found the curious deposit This miner, searching for gold along the coast, found in an earth bank a fossil which proved to be a part of a mastodon’s lower jaw, with two teeth In place. • ' The bone was in such a decayed condition that the finder was about to throw it away, when his eye fell., on crack In the top and side of one of the teeth. The cavity thus formed was filled with a foreign substance, to which the miner applied his knife, and found, to his astonishment, that It was pure goldi The explanation of the curious discovery is probably as follows: The gold, contained In broken-down quartz, was washed Into the cavity by the action of water, deposited there, and the fine grains united to forcn a nugget The old bone simply happened to be lying in the track of the silt. The piece of gold thus formed weighed about eight grams. All the London "tubes” but one carried • greatly increased number of passengers in the last half of 1909 over the same period in 190 S. Increases ranged from 5 to 47 per cent A man can be good natured when he la sick; if he Is sick enough: to be scared, he will be good natured all light

IBOOSEVEirS TOUR OF AFRICA ARD EUROPE '8 Strenuous Ex-President Has Spent Fifteen Months in His Remarkable Trip. IN THE JUNGLE AND AT COURT. j His Triumphs as a Hunter Only Equaled in His Reception. by Royalty. Ex-President Roosevelt’s fifteen months’ tour abroad has been one of triumph both in the jungles of Africa and in the courts of Europe. The hunting trip, officially known as the Smithsonian African expedition, occupied nearly eleven months of the time. The Smithsonian Institution wanted specimens from the Dark Continent, Mr. Roosevelt was commissioned to obtain then!, and he has been most successful. So, there was something back of the strenuous ex-President’s desire to hunt big game. Soon after his successor was inaugurated Colonel Roosevelt bade farewell to a great throng of friends and sailed from New York for Naples. With him were his son Kermit and three natural* ists, and stowed in the hold was most of their elaborate outfit for killing or photographing the animals of East Africa and for preserving the specimens destined for the Smithsonian Institution. The Institution paid part of the expenses of the expedition, but Mr. Roosevelt bore the personal expense of himself and son. Wireless copimunication was maintained with the steamship Hamburg, which bore the party, and the Colonel found it impossible even in mid-ocean to be lost from the world. At the Azores, and again at Gibraltar, the officials and people insisted on doing him honor, and when he reached Naples the entire populace turned out to greet him. Flowers and a letter from Emperor

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William wishing him “good hunting” aw;aited Mr. Roosevelt when he boarded the German steamship Admiral for Mqmbasa. A stop was made at Messina to view the earthquake ruins, and there, at King Victor Emmanuel’s request, Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit visited the Italian monarch. At Mombasa the party was cordially received, ind the feting Governor, under instructions from the British government, did al} in his power to further the plans of the expedition. Mr. Roosevelt and Kermit were licensed to kill Hons, and thie hunters were otherwise granted unusual privileges. Kermit had train; ecj himself to be the chief photographer ‘of the expedition, but he also turned out to be considerable of a hunter. The party was here joined by R. J. Cunninghame, a veteran African hunter and explorer, and Leslie J. Tarleton, and these two managed the expedition in a most able manner. Big Hunt Begins. The party next became guests on the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease at Kapitil' plains. Here a caravan of over 250 persons was organized and on April 25 Colonel Roosevelt had his first African hunt, during which he bagged a Thompson’s gazelle and two other beasts. Five days later the first lions fell victims to the shots of the Roosevelts. After that the big game came fast and cheetahs, giraffes, rhinoceroses and more lions were added to the list, in all fourteen varieties of animals being secured. Meanwhile Kermit was busy with his cameras and the naturalists prepared the specimens. Several weeks were spent on the ranch of an American named MacMillan and in the surrounding country. Game was plentiful thereabouts and many fine specimens were secured. Leaving East Africa on December 19. the expedition crossed Uganda and went down the White Nile, getting back to comparative civilization at Gondokoro. There they went aboard a Steamer put at their disposal by the Sirdar, and Journeyed to Khartum, where Mrs. Roosevelt met her husband, and accompanied him in a leisurely trip to Cairo. During his stay in Egypt Colonel Roosevelt was the recipient of many honors and made several speeches. At the end of March the Roosevelts sailed for Italy.

In a preliminary report to the Smithsonian Institution Mr. Roosevelt summarized the material results of the expedition as follows: “On the trip Mr. Heller has prepared 1,02 b specimens of mammals,, the majority of large size; Mr. Loring has prepared 3,163, and Doctor Mearns 714 —a total of 4,997 mammals. Os birds, Doctor Mearns has prepared nearly 3,100, Mr. Loring 899, and Mr. Heller about 50—a total of about 4,000 birds.

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“Os reptiles and batrachians, Messrs. Mearns, Loring and Heller collected about 2,000. “Os fishes, about 500 were collected. Doctor Mearns collected marine fishes near Mombasa, and fresh water fishes elsewhere in British East Africa, and he and Cuninghame collected fishes in the White Nile. “This makes, in all, of vertebrates: Mammals 4,897 Birds (about) 4,000 Reptiles and batrachians (about)... 2,000 Fishes (about) 500 Total 11,397 “The invertebrates were collected chiefly by Doctor Mearns, with some assistance from Messrs. Cunninghame and Kermit Roosevelt. “A few marine shells were collected near Mombasa, and land and freshwater shells throughout the regions

visited, as well as crabs, beetles, millipeds, and other invertebrates. “Several thousand plants were collected throughout the regions visited by Doctor Mearns, who employed and trained for the work a M’nyumnezi named Makangarri, who soon learned how to make very good specimens, and turned out an excellent man in every way. “Anthropological materials were gathered by Doctor Mearns, with some assistance from others; a collection was contributed by Major Ross, •an American in the government service at Nairobi.” Tour Through Europe. In the tour of Europe the American ex-President desired to be treated as a man of letters and science, rather than

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as a sportsman, and his desire was gratified. But in addition, Europe insisted on receiving him as the most distinguished American of the time, and everywhere-he went honors were showered on him. Emperors, kings, princes and all manner of royalties and nobility greeted him, dined him and toasted him, and the people in all the lands that he visited turned out in vast throngs to see him and cheer him. In Paris, Christiania, Berlin and Ox-

ford Mr. Roosevelt delivered scholarly public addresses and the literary and scientific circles opened to let him In and marveled at the wide scope of his knowledge. The event connected with Mr. Roosewelt’s European tour that aroused the most interest and excitement occurred Immediately after his arrival in Italy fearly in April. Before he left Africa his desire to pay his respects to the

pope had be’en conveyed to the Vatican and the holy father had intimated that he would be glad to see the distinguished American. However, upon his arrival in Rome the Colonel called off the contemplated audience, stating that as an independent American citizen he could not submit to the restrictions that were imposed. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt and Kermit were received by the king and queen of Italy and spent some days in that country. The Colonel and his wife visited Venice and traveled once again the Riviera route that they passed over on their honeymoon, and next Mr. Roosevelt visited Vienna and Budapest, where he was given a royal welcome. Paris was next visited and there, on April 23, he lectured in the Sorbonne before a great audience of savants and students. The municipality and its officials, the president of France and various- learned societies vied with each other in doing honor to the visitor, and for amusement he was taken to the field of aviation, where he saw some exciting aeroplane flights. Then, traveling northward byway of Brussels, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, Mr. Roosevelt arrived at Christiania and delivered an address on international peace ' before the Nobel prize commission, which had awarded to him the Nobel peace prize for his successful efforts to end the RussianJapanese war. Emperor William had made great plans for the entertainment of the ex-President in Berlin, but the death of King Edward caused the curtailment of the program to a considerable extent. Having been appointed special ambassador of the United States to attend the funeral of King Edward, Colonel Roosevelt next crossed the channel to England, and when the body of the dead monarch was carried to the tomb he was one of the remarkable crowd of royal personages and distinguished men that followed the gun carriage on which Edward’s coffin was borne. After the funeral he was received by King George and Mary and by/the widowed queen mother, and in a quiet way made necessary by the mourning of the nation much attention was shown him. This culminated, in London, by a reception in the Guild Hall, at which the freedom of the city in a gold casket was presented to him. He was the guest, thereafter, of several prominent Englishmen, and on June 7 he delivered the Romanes lecture at Oxford, which had been postponed by the demise of the king. This was the most pretentious of all his European addresses and the best.

Mr. Roosevelt was honored by Cambridge University, which conferred upon him the degree of doctor of laws, and the occasion served to demonstrate his popularity with all classes. After fifteen months abroad the traveler, together with Mrs. Roosevelt, Kermit and Miss Ethel, sailed, June 10, on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on thejr way to New York and the rousing Welcome that he knew was awaiting him on the American shore.

(j REVIEW OF INDIANA

Grain men in the vicinity of Evansville estimate that the present high water along the Ohio River has submerged more than 53)00 acres of wheat and corn between Owensboro, Ky., and Shawneetown, 111., and that the loss will exceed $250,000. Much of the corn washed out will be a total loss. When Hugh Bickel, aged fifteen years, of Darke County, was trying to dig a bullet from a cartridge to use for a fishline sinker, the shell exploded. The bullet penetrated his right breast just below the collarbone, and he died in five minutes. The hand which held the cartridge was not injured. c Frank Mason, age twenty-six, of New Albany, who has been ill of meas- f les, sprang from his bed while in a delirium, and running to the Ohio River, two squares from his home, leaped into the water. Relatives, who were closely following, sprang into a skiff and reached Mason before he sank for the third time. His condition is serious. A young rooster belonging to Earl Burley, of Rushville, committed suicide the other day. It jumped up and caught its head between two palings, strangling to death. It is said that the bird woke up to find the sun had risen before he gave the signal. His' succeeding loss of prestige in the barnyard was too much to bear, and he ended it all. Holding a branch of a tree which expended out into Pigeon Creek, after they had sunk twice in-the water, Jennie Cox- gftd Stella Julian, each age fifteen, barely escaped drowning. The two girls, with forty-five others, from Evansville, went to Lost Bend on a picnic, and after they h«d decided to go in bathing in Pigeon Creek they got beyond their depths. An elevator in the Claypool building fell in Indianapolis with five passengers. r It down three floors like a shot, injuring Dr. H. A. Koss, Miss Leonie Scott and Miss Leo Rose, Chas. Hendricks and Cornelius Wilson, the colored operator. Nope of them is thought to be seriously hurt. A bolt holding the cable gave way, and the emergency, brake failed to work. Mrs. Amy Carroll and her two daughters, Mabel and Celia, are among' the graduates at the University of Michigan this year. Mrs. Carroll and Miss Mabel will receive a degree of A. B. on June 30, and on June 29 Miss Celia will receive a diploma. The Carrots, who are from Richmond, Ind., each spent two years in the Indiana University before entering Michigan. The following appointments have been announced by Joseph Sego, the new commander of the Sons of Veterans of Indiana: Division councillor, Herbert A. Luckey, Indianapolis; division chaplain, J. B. Dullman, Bloomington; division inspector, Fred S. Kenneson, Valparaiso; division patriotic instructor, Legrand T. Meyer, Hammond; division chief of staff, M. B. Rockwell, Valparaiso; division personal aid, George F. Ogden, Wabash; division organizer’ R. G. Boswell, Winchester. The latest addition to the artist colony of Brown County is Gustave W. Baumann, of Chicago. He was attracted by the glowing accounts given by fellow-artists of that city, and is the first Chicago artist to arrive this season. Mr. Baumann is especially interested in wood engraving and etching, both in color, and is delighted with the numerous subjects the county offers for this kind of work. Mr. Baumann is an American, but is comparatively fresh from two years of study in Munich, where the art of color printing is highly developed. Several months ago Mrs. Frank Mulvey, well known society woman of Hammond, died, and recently Mrs. Marshall Gardner, pf Brideport, Conn., came to visit her brother, Mr. Mulvey, and assist him in housekeeping. While making a bed Mrs. Gardner accidentally tore a mattress and saw a bulky package tied in a handkerchief. When unwrapped it was found to contain $5,000 in bills, which had been sewed into the mattress by Mrs. Mulvey. Her death was sudden, and just before she died she seemed to have a secret to impart, but could not talk. Alonzo Pace, a farmer living west of Bedford, is in receipt of a letter containing “conscience money” from a man who lived in Bedford years ago. The letter contained a one dollar bill. More than twenty years ago Mr. Pace raised many watermelons for market and from the letter, the man, who was then a boy, invaded the farmer’s patch and helped himself. This the writer qays has caused him much worry and his conscience has troubled him so since reaching manhood that he could stand it no longer and inclosed the money that he knew would cover the value of the melons he had taken whefi a boy. Simon Conn, aged fifty, married, a farmer in Washington Township, Marion county, was killed when he was struck by lightning while at work in the field. His wife, witnessed his death. Survivors of the old Fort Wayne volunteer fire fighting organizations are being rallied, together to participate in the fifth annual tournament of the Northeastern Firemen’s Association, which will be held in Fort Wayne June 30.

The Odd Fellows will lay the corner stone of their handsome new temple in Tipton July 15, and to enable all of the members of the order at home and those who will be Invited from neighboring places to attend, will have the exercises in the evening instead of the afternoon as is the custom. Timoer thieves are making inroads on the valuable waluur and hickory timber in the southern part of Brown county, several tracts of thick woods ■ have been denuded 3i d, although the farmers have seen many teamsters with logs on their wagons, they have no way of identifying the logs. Grand jury indictments were returned against four men, but the sheriff failed to find them. The first premature Fourth <’f July celebration accident occurred Monday, when eleven-year-old George Heighway, son of Dr. and Mrs. J, G. Heighway, of Ladoga, was injured in a gunpowder explosion. With some playmates Young Heighway placed the gunpowder im the back yard and touched a match to a short fuse. Young Heigh way’s right hand was badly burned in the- flash that followed. Howard Stanley, living near Pittsboro, has been exhibiting an apple is a novelty. It is about four times as large as the ordinary bloom and looks and smells like a rose, bpt Mr. Stanley is ready to take oath that the blossom and the twig to which it is attached were taken from an apple tree at his home, and there are apple leaves on the twig to bear out the statement. Another remarkable' thing is the lateness of the tree in blooming. Oil has been struck at a depth of less than one thousand feet on the Kirper farm, about two miles east of Huntingburg. The well is now flowing at the rate of twenty-five barrels a day and is covering. Hunley creek and other small streams in the neighborhood. Oil men estimate that the well will produce five hundred barrels a day. Several oil wells will be drilled between Huntingburg and Birdseye, Ind.. Several oil leases on land around Huntingbu’-g have been signed. Mr. and Mrs. Otto B. Kinneman, of Marion, injured by the old cartridge which Mr. Kinnemagyiad found on the grave of a soldier TWjthe cemetery adjoining this city. We toolMhe-shell home and regarding it harmless commenced, to haminer it. It exploded and a piece'*" of the shell struck Kinneman in the right eye and the bullet struck Mrs. Kinneman in the left forearm, inflicting a severe wound. It is feared that Mr. Kinneman will lose the sight of , his eye. 1 Near Hebron Church, on the northern border of Clark County, lives one of the oldest married couples in this part of the country. Thomas Montgomery and Mary E. Blizzard were married December 26, 1848, more than sixty-one years ago. The husband is ninety years old, and his wife is ten years his junior. They are both in good health, and the aged man still works in the field. Their descendants • number well over one hundred, including eight children living of a family of eleven, seventy-ttvo grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren. A dog and a pot of hot coffee were directly the eaufe of the death of little Charlotte Carisen, 1326 North T*remont avenue, Indianapolis, whose death was reported to Coroner Blackwell. The child, who was three and one-half years old, was playing in the kitchen with the pet dog. The mother had been ironing and the ironiiig board was still in place on a stand.. On a table nearby stood the pot, filled with hot coffee. The dog bumped against the stand and the ironing board was shaken down. In falling, one end of the board struck the coffee pot and the scalding liquid was spilled over the child’s back, causing terrible burns. David Bixler, age eighty, a contractor, died at his home in Greenfield last week of Bright’s disease. Fifty years age he did the carpenter work on the house in Greenfield pictured far and wide as the Riley home, and which stands in Main street, near the business district. This property is now owned by James Whitcomb Riley, and although it is understood to be the birthplace of the poetrsuch is not the case. Mr. Riley, it is true, was born on the same Jot, but in a log house that stood several feet to the east of’ the building Mr. Bixler erected for the poet’s A. Riley, and which was the ’childhood home of the Riley boys. Mr. Bixler lived in the original Riley home for a number of years', until tht house was razed. Mr. Riley sold the property later and lived in another part of the city until his death. In, a’few years James Whitcomb Riley bought the place, and, although it is kept in good repair, no material changes have been made since it was built by Mr. Bixler. Dr. Pepper, of Mt. Carmel, has a shipment of Wabash river pearls valued at SBO,OOO. He bought them from musel gatherers along the river between Grayville and Mt. Carmel. A committee of Petersburg business men met recently and decided to celebrate the Fourth bf July by holding automobile races for amateurs at the old fair grounds race track. This will be the first automobile race meet ever held in Southern Indiana, and, it is thought, will attract wide attention.