The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 July 1910 — Page 3

F KENTUCKY’S HANDSOME NEW CAPITOL BUILDING I U I i t* A I r ■ ' i MhBMTO w ' yA ItW'' ----- :n ,ir ''*' st si»wt*'lO^ilOlk, Jfe s '"■ y ' . -<f - \ '-y ’ [ ' KENTUCKYI? H&W CAPITOL y FRANKFORT Ky.—Thursday, Jun 2, was a proud day for Kentucky, for on that day the new state capital building/ at Frankfort was dedicated. It is one of the handsome st and most convenient state houses in th< country, and when the grounds surrounding it have been completed, the total cost will be two and a half million dollars. Its erection has taken less than four years, and ther.e never has been the least hint of graft connected with the wok. The dedication exercises lasted all day, Senator Bradley delivered the chief address.

STREET OF FREAKS ■ i I • ..

1 4 Thoroughfare in Worcester, Mass., Quper Breeding Place. L ’. 0 Frog With Five Legs Was the Foundation’’ of Museum of Curiosities Which Is Constantly Gaining in Size. ; Worcester, Mass. —-By the recept arrival of a four-legged chicken and a tailless kitten at t-rfe homes of Mrs.' 1 William Scotlt and Mrs. Joseph. Warbis, Cairo stjreet, /this city has once more heightened its fame as the New England street 91 freak curiosities. By one of the curious twists of chance this I thoroughfare, although only a block in length and occupied by about 20 modest families,' has arisen to a pinnacle of renown seldom equaled by any street in the world. The advent recently of the fourlegged chick,/ the offspring of a Rhode Island Red hen with a brood of about 25 other children, and owned by Mrs. William Scott, 31 Cairo street, and the arrival- the day following of a kitten minus a tailj a freak seldom heard of among cat fanciers, has resulted in bringing hundreds of curious people to <get a glimpse of this street of freaks and its curiosities. " The four-legged chicken arrived on the peaceful scenes of Cairo street recently, the tenth in succession of the 25 fluffy babies that broke away from their shells and began to shrill little strains of joy Skyward on that same morning. Since Mr. Scott one afternoon about two years aigo discovered a frog with five legs hppping about in his back yard and then a little later found himself the possessor of a cat with a screw tail, tjhe advent of any cofhmonplace freak) arrival in his neighborEbod -has ceased to create much of a sensation, but when Peggy, the fourlegged chicken, made! an appearance there was a gathering of the neighbors, and it was conceded that Cairo street was) easily outdistancing its deputation for being the birthplace of freaks V The chicpen was x>f the etfact size of its multitude of brothers and sisters and to have arrived from an ordinary sized egg./ But there were the fbtfr legs—two stocky ones, upon which Peggy roamed about, and two others* one each just behind the two larger.: The second pair were per- . fectly formed, only the legs were a

Finds Servant Is Countess

-—-4-" ' * For Two Years Delka Romanoff, of Polish Nobility, Worked for V Brooklyn Citizen. New York. —At least one American citizen can boast of having had a bona fide countess as a servant He is a wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer, - M. L. Lehman, of No. 55 Park place. The servant, who has left them to go back to Russia, was the Countess Delka Romanoff, the wife of Count Ivan Romanoff, one of the nobility of Russian Poland. Nearly two years ago Mrs. Lehman, »in making the rounds of the various employment agencies, saw a young woman who looked particularly intelligent. The young woman said she was Delka: Romanoff and was hired. Mrs. Lehman and her family regarded as the best servant they ever Her wages were raisdd three IKimes. : ■ A little more than two years ago husband, Cpunt Ivan, who had a estate, became embroiled in a gKfilticn! quarrel, and he was exiled HKd his lands confiscated. He was to communicate with his wife for fear hit mail would be tampered With. The wife only knew he had come to America. She brought her taooer-in-lnw and her two children to America While working for Mrs. Lyhiian. her children having been

« = little shorter, and for that reason did not permit the claws to touch the ground. However, this did not seem to matter to the strangely formed Peggy, for she tumbled over her brothers and sisters as actively as any of the rest and piped defiance at every stranger among the many who came to see this feathered wonder. But the fame of the four-legger had scarcely been sounded when Mrs. Joseph Warbis, who lives just across the street from the Scotts, announced the arrival of a cat minus a tail at her home. Instantly attention became attracted across the street. Interested neighbors from near and far, besides many strangers, took trips to Cairo street to the freak arrivals. ♦ The tailless kitten, Rhodamanthus by name, a tiny black ball of fur spotted with white, had assuredly maintained the reputation of Cairo street. Not a sign of a tail was apparent. Even the bobtail of the mother was missing on the son. And just now the freak street residents are apparently waiting for the coming of the next freak wonder that will add to the roll of fame there. For it is almost devoutly believed

Rickshaw Was Yankee Idea

American Frst Suggested Glorified GoCarts in Japan—Japanese Also Ctgims Credit. London. —Twenty years or so ago when railways in Japan were yet few and motor cars undreamed of the common method of travel for natives and foreigners alike was the rickshaw. Horses were scarce and of indifferent the bicycle had hardly made its appearance in the far east, so practically the only means of getting about th% country away from the main line of the railway between Tokyo and Hiogo was in the modified perambulator which is known all over the world w the rickshaw. There are a number of versions of its invention and to whom credit should be given for it. The Japanese themselves claim it for a paralytic old gentleman of Kyoto, who some time before 1868, finding his palahquin uncomfortable, took to a little cart., instead. The usual foreign account

t placed in a charitable institution, Delka would go from hospital to hospital to inquire about Ivan, believing that was the best way to trace him. / While she was on her way to the Kings County hospital she met a low-countryman who told her he had 4 seen Ivan and where she could find him. That night she met her husband. All went to live in a home which Count Ivan established. “Last week, after they had started their little home,” Mrs. Lehm’an said: “There came to our home, addressed to the Countess Delka Romanoff, a large package bearing a Russian postmark and numerous Russian seals. This letter Informed her that she and her husband and her family could return; that the husband was pardoned for his political activity, and that his estates would be returned to him. On Saturday they sailed and we saw them off. I will not tell you on what steamer, because they do not want to attract any attention.” Drama Contains 35 Acts. Vienna. —The manager of the Vienna municipal theater has received a play In 35 acts and a prologue, and the author promises to call and explain the-beauties of the work. The manager will probably be out when the dramatist calls.

! that a curfosity is due to happen this thoroughfare at regular stated in; tervals of time. The past history of the street, as re called by its old residents, has included half a dozen animal from the rule that have upon arrival stirred up a seven days’ wonder in the district. A few years ago a family who moved into one of the tenements there brought with it a live snake of the adder variety, w’hich was kept in a gilded cage covered with a mesh wire and was fed upon grasshoppers and tadpoles. The strartge pet created so much terror along the street that finally its owner’ was .obliged to move away. Only a sihort time later a resident of Cairet street, w’ho owned a pair of geeso which he kept in a penin his back found the twain one day rolling 'on the ground, apparently dying. Investigation proved that a bottle containing wild cherries sbaked in brandy had been emptied into the yard and that the reckless pair had gorged themselves upon the cherries until both had acumulated a staggering jag. Another animal belonging to a resit dent of the street was a pet calf, with a stub tail and . a penchant for gnawing bones and, chasing cats like a dog. Another was a parrot that by screaming fire terrified the entire street on several midnight occasions.

S adopted by Mr. Black, the author of “Young Japan,” is that an American named Goble, .half cobbler and half missionary, was the person to suggest the idea of a glorified go-cart somewhere about 1867. The first official application to be allowed to manufacture rickshaws was, however, made in 1870. They were soon being turned out in hundreds and thousands, for the middle class Japanese found it a cheap and comfortable way of traveling long or short distances and there was an inexhaustible supply of men eager to turn themselves into beasts of burden In order to-earn the high wages which the employment brought them. Curiously enough, though elsewhere the thing is called a rickshaw, in Japan it generally goes by the name of jinriki. Both are abbreviations of the real word, which is jin-.riki-sha, meaning literally “man power vehicle;” that is, a cart pulled by a man. Sometimes you hear kuruma used as an equivalent and that is a of the Chinese syllable sha. Ku-ruma-ya is a rickshaw puller and you would call it out in Japan when you wanted a rickshaw, just as we called “hansom” in the days when the hansom had not been driven off the ranks by the taxicab. Dogs Ate Cooked Sponges. Pasadena, Cat —Autopsies upon the carcasses of several valuable dogs that were believed 4o have died of rabies has revealed a condition that j probably explains the epidemic of “hydrophobia” which has aroused terror in Pasadena for several months and resulted in drastic orders for the destruction of urimuzzled canines. It is alleged that some miscreant has been scattering cooked sponge broadcast to be picked up and eaten by hungry dogs. The sponge is fried in beef drippings, pressed and cut intc small slices. After it is eaten K swells and the dog dies in agony. Ax autopsy on a St Bernard revealed that it had been eating sponge. Hatches Chick In Bosom. Bangor, Pa. —TSlrs. Michael Ross of Portland carries off the palm for •chicken hatching records. Out of a hatching of three dozen eggs the mother hen walked off the nest with 35 chicks. Sirs. Ross placed the thir-ty-sixth egg in her hpsom, completing the incubation and the chick th»e produced is the liveliest of the (at

Si 1 I I (Copyright. 1910, by Associated Literary Press.) Hal Phillips hung to his strap in the 9 o’clock down car, and thanked the fates he was stationed where he could study her back hair and the soft curve of her cheek. It was now March and all winter he had been watching the girl with a persistence hitherto all unrewarded. She had not even seemed to see him. He reflected discontentedly that she might safely glance at him some day, but she never had—so far as he could tell. So he continued to see her every morning, to wonder who she was, and to think how lonely he was there in the mid-west trying to make good in the law. This girl, he said to himself, was the real article, and he had a captious taste. Her soft brown hair, coiffed demurely with a well-bred ignoring of the flamboyant fashion, was manifestly all her own; her dainty color came ! and went; her dainty figure swayed softly as she walked, and her manner was perfect. In three months he had been unable to decide what she did —she would not classify. She could not be a stenographer, nor a clerk; surely not a professional woman—she was too young, too sheltered looking. She left the car some blocks before he did, so he could not see where she went. This morning as they neared her usual stopping' place he looked up from his contemplation of her profile to meet the grin of Smith, who was hanging to a strap a bit farther on. Phillips nodded and frowned—Smith was such an observant wretch. He hoped he had not seen his interest in the girl. Just then the car stopped with a jerk, and Phillips, off his guard, swayed just in time'to strike the girl’s shoulder as she rose, and to loosen by the shock her hold on her immense handbag. Furious at his awkwardness, he re-* stored the bag, apologized as best he could in the three smiling seconds she gave him, and touched his hat as she got off. Then he watched Smith, who had an office in the same building with his.: T..e idiot was still grinning —he would ignore the grin. Getting off at their corner, the young men started for the building and entered the elevator in silence but Phillips, meeting his own stern blue eye in the mirror, frowned at himself in disgust. He had seen Smith lift his hat to the girl, &nd was wondering why he, Phillips, was such a confoundedly self-conscious donkey that he could not carelessly ask who she was. as another man would have ! done. Why not? Bu* -senldwt—she had, somehow, become too personal to him to allow herself. Therefore, he mentioned the weather to Smith, who rose to the occasion and predicted a storm. Then they parted. Once in his office, Henry Phillips read his mail—advertisements offerbig sets of law books on the installment plan; propositions for connections with not too reputable firms in greater cities; his mother’s loving, anxious letter, with its accustomed questions about his health, his clothing and lodging, his friends, his success. Then finally, a letter from Linda, his lifelong neighbor and friend. Nice girl, Linda, he reflected, as he finished the balanced, cheerful, epistle with its unfeigned interest in his doings. For the first time he wondered why oh earth he and Linda had never come to care for each other. Come to think of it, there was no girl quite like Linda! He decided that when he went home in the summer he would see a great deal of her, and he remembered that her hair was much like that of the girl in the car. Who was the girl, anyway? He took the code and began working on the case he was soon to try, but his thought was confused. Why had he not met her? He had met many good people in the four months he had been in Blairton, which was not big enough to preclude the possibility of his meeing most of the desirable folk therein. He had come well armed with introductions. He 1 knew himself to be well bred, well looking. But the only girl he wanted ! to know, never came in his way, and never even seemed to see him. Manifestly, he could not follow her to wherever she worked—but he did not believe she worked. And he could not ask about her. Once he had sebn her at the theater in a box with Mrs. 1 Weston and a fine looking man, a stranger, and much her elder. He ■ had seen her nowhere else—except on the car. With a wrench, he brought his thoughts back to the law with such success that he forgot his lunch and went out for a sandwich an hour past his usual time. And by chance, he perched upon a stool in the lunchroom next to Smith, who welcomed him jovially. “Just the man,’’ Smith remarked. "Phillips, help me out! I’m bidden by my cousin, Mrs. Best, you know, to go out into the hedges and byways and find a presentable man to bring to dinner—some one failed her at the eleventh hour. You’re neither maimed nor halt—though I won’t say you’re not blind, the w ay you knock against people in—cars, for Instance!” He grinned maliciously as he continued. “But you’ll da I’ve Intended ft>r a long time past to ask you to call there with me, but haven’t got rOund to it Wlll you go tonight?" Phillips accepted, oaurteously, but not too eagerly. He felt cross and

unfit for society—a sure/sign that he needed to mix more with his fellows. Smith went on talking. “You’re to take out Constance Morton, too, lucky dog! Guess you’ve not been introduced to her." He gave Phillips a sly look. “She came here from New Hampshire—not so far from our sacred Boston. You ought to know her. She’s not been out much because she’s busy with the Fairlie family portraits—has her studio in Wellington. Great stuff, to be a successful artist at barely twenty-five! Well, you’ll see for yourself. I’ll call for you about 6. So long!” At 6:30, groomed within an inch of his life, glad to get away from himself and to be civilized for an evening, and hoping to get the girl out of his mind, Mr. Henry Phillips entered the Best home. He did wish that Smith did not grin so much, but others seemed not to mind. Mrs. Best was hospitality itself, and her three pretty daughters welcomed him with interest. But all this was nothing, for after a moment his hostess led him to a group near the fireplace, and his head began to go round queerly and his heart cut strange antics. For the girl, sweet and lithe in her rose-colored gown, gave him her,, slender hand a moment, and smiled conventionally, quite as if she had never seen him before. He was conscious, too, of a great joy, that her name was Constance —■ that was as it should be. And, thana heaven, she slurred her “r’s”—he could not abide the western burring of that abused consonant. And presently he took her out to dinner —a very good dinner. Fate was with him. The man on her other side was engaged to his dinner And, afterward, she was his partner as cards. And he maneuvered until Mrs. Best asked him to see the girl home. Then she herself asked him to call. Time slipped by after that, and Phillips ’alternated between hope and fear. Sometimes she seemed very near to caring; then for weeks at a time she would seem very far away. Spring had Zome to her full and was ’ gliding intoifcarly summer when, as “often happens in love matters, a little) Il thing brought the one great thing to pass. The two were taking a walk in the early twilight, and as they passed through a small park, he began abruptly to tell her that he was soon going “back east” for a long vacation. At the moment he was preceding her down some steps that led to the street and turned to offer her a hand, should she need it He saw, surprised, that tears were running down her cheeks and that she was unable to answer a trifling question he was asking. “Why, Constance —why”—he uncon- ; ‘ sciously used her name. "Why, what it is?” Then, suddenly, her foot slipped and she would have fallen but that he caught her in his arms. “I’tq— id,” ’cM finally qiur- , mured, “but I think ybur talking of ' going home made me homesick. I did not mean to be a—baby—l—suppose I ; wanted to go home, too. I” —she stammered, but he at last found his tongue and his courage. He began to tell her how he loved her, had always loved her, always would love her. It was not a new tale in the world, but she listened with astonishing interest. Twilight had passed into soft darkness before she remembered that she stood on the street letting a man make love to her. Then she remembered - that her hands, though prom-, ised, were yet her own. She withdrew them. Together, these two with one heart; sauntered homeward. It w r as all very wonderful. They wondered why they had not realized it before. For she admitted that she had noticed him on the car, and had wormed much information out of the grinning Smith. The Flag of Denmark. In the year 1219, King Waldemar of Denmark, when leading his troops to battle against the Livonians, saw, or thought he saw, a bright light in ths form of a cross in the sky. He held this appearance to be a promise of divine aid, and pressed forward to victory. From this time he had the cross placed on the flag of his country and called it the Dannebrog, that is, the strength of Denmark. Aside from legend, there is no doubt that this flag with the cross was adopted by Denmark in the thirteenth century, and that at about the same date an order, known as the order of Dannebrog, was instituted, to which only soldiers and sailors who were distin, guished for courage, were allowed to belong. The flag of Denmark, a plain red banner bearing on it a white cross, is the oldest flag now in existence. For 30 years, both Norway and Sweden were united with Denmark under this flag.—Housekeeper. Custom House Wisdom. Custom house stories are always in, teresting, and here is a new one. hero of it, a Swiss missionary, returning to Basle from South America," bringing with him some skulls discovered in ancient Patagonian burying places. At the frontier the authorities insisted on inspecting his trunk. They classified the skulls as “bones of ant ■ mats,” and demanded duty at the rata; of a penny a pound. The missionary i protested; and it was presently agreed that as the skulls were for scientific purposes they must be allowed to enter without payment. The only question was how to classify them for the purposes of the Swiss statistical bureau. This problem was deba.ed at great length, but ultimately the skulls went through as "personal effects already worn.”'

ONLY WANTED HIS CONSENT Merchant Thought Caller Wantecr Daughter’s Hand, but He Wanted to Sell Automobile. He was well dressed and breezy, and when he entered the private office of the great tea merchant he looked capable of doing anything from selling books to writing up insurance. “I have cope, sir,” he announced without hesitation, “to get your consent —” “Consent for what?” demanded the old man, without looking up. “Well—er —you see, your daughter—” . “Oh, I understand now. So you like my daughter, eh?” “I think she is the finest young woman I have met in many moons. As I was saying, if you’ll give your consent she will have the handsomest —” “Come! Come! Don’t get vain and say she’ll have the finest husband if she accepts you.” “I’m married, sir. I’m trying to tell yqu that if you give your consent she’ll have the handsomest auto runabout in town. She’s dead struck on it and if you’ll consent and put up one thousand cash we will —” But the great tea merchant had collapsed. In s Barber Shop. Senator Aldrich entered a barber shop in Washington not long ago and placed himself unde,r the care of a colored barber. When the senator was departing through the door, another customer inquired as to his identity. “ ’Deed, sah,” replied the barber, “dat’s Senato’ Alrich, who is de general manager of dese United States. I had seen ’im several times, but I nebber met ’im socigdly before.” SnodgrasijScheme. Til give you ?100 if you’ll move into the house next to mine,” sajd Mr; Snodgrass to the man with the stentorian voice. “What is your scheme?" vibrated the other. ■ “Why,” explained Mr. Snodgrass, “the houses are a mile apart, and I’m trying to sell my house to a timid lady who specifies it must be within calling distance from her next-door neighbor.” High Lineage. “This milk looks mighty blue,” remarked the young man who had just put up $lO in advance for a week’s board in the country. “Yew bet it air,” replied the rural host. “Thet comes from havin’ nawthin’ but peddygreed cows, by grass!” f Something Durable. “What kind of cigars will you have ?” asked the dealer. “Light, medium or strong?" f "Strong ones, by all means,” said ' the blushing damsel. “Strong enough i not to break in the young man’s pocket, don’t you know.” No Cause for Alarm. Traveler —Herq! Keep off! What the — Pullman Porter—Don’t shy, sah! It am on’ly de vackum-cleaneh, which hab supehceded de microbey whisk broom in dis heah up-to-date car, sah!”—Puck. His Argument. “Kindly remove your arm front around my waist,” said the proud beauty. "I could never learn to love you.” “How do you know you couldn’t?” urged the persistent suitor. “You might at least try a sample lesson.” The Reverse. T once knew a woman who treated her-husband like - a dog.” “That’s nothing, if you mean the comparison of suffering. I once knew a woman who treated her dog like a husband.” Hereditary Power. Hoax—Poor old Henpeckke has to mind the baby. Joax —Yes, it’s wonderful how that baby takes after its mother. —Philadelphia Record. A Mean Man. “If you hadn’t proposed to me nine times I never would have accepted you!” “Quite true. I’ve had a sneaking suspicion ever since that eight is my lucky number." Defined. “What Is suspended animation?” “It’s what happens at an afternoon tea when the very woman they have been talking about enters the room." —Puck. No Blds. "Scribe has started to writing poetry.” "He ought to take something for IL” “He would, but nothing’s offered.” Cause and Effect. “If Solomon was so wise, why did : he marry 1,000 wives?” i "You’ve got it backward. It was • his wives that wised him up.” 1 Hopeless. “What sort of chap is Tibbles?” “The sort who’d dress up to go fishing.” — Joint Owners. Proud Mother —Oh, James! what do you think? The twins have another ♦-'nth. —Life.

TOKEN OF HIS APPRECIATION Sarcastic Boarder, Evidently Disturbed by Little Things, Surprises Landlady With Present. “Madam, yoti* have been most attentive to me during my stay here.” “Thank you, sir, very much.” “Yes, you have been most attentive; and not only you, but everybody and everything in this house, if I may say so, has been most perseveringly attentive to me, day and night—and, madam, to show’ my appreciation I am going to offer you a small present” ,“Oh, how very kind of you!” said the proprietress, and a bright; expectant smile lit up her face. The boarder then handed, her a neatly-packed parcel and made a hasty departure, while she hurried to see what it contained; but judge bf her intense surprise, on opening it in the presence of the other boarders, to find that it contained only insect powder. f His Egg Producer. Ashley—l suppose you remember that wonderful white Leghorn hen of mine? Seymour—Yes; what about her? Ashley—l want to tell you about her laying; it’s something remarkable; why, some days last summer she laid more eggs than all my other hens put together. Seymour—What was the matter with the other hens? Ashley—They were sitting. John’s Foresight. Mabel —Oh, John, papSj asked me this morning if you play poker, and I’m in a quandary to know what to tell him- You —you see, I don’t know bow it might strike him. John —He puts up a pretty fair game, doesn’t he? Mabel- —I —l believe so. John —Then tell him I know absolutely nothing about cards. Would Try Simple Life. “Say, Uncle Hiram,” queried the city nephew, “if some one should give you half a million dollars what would you do?” “Wall,” replied the old man, “th’ fust thing I'd do arter gittin’ th' money would be tew sell th’ farm an’ retire tew th’ city an’ lead er quiet life, by p grass!” Limit Too High. Travers—What became of that bunch- of sweet girl graduates who banded together a year ago, declaring they would only marry men who could show at least $2,000? Homer —Oh, the. hunch is still intact; but I understand they recently voted to cut the limit down to $9.98,, , Other Alms. “Going to church this Sorning?” “No. What’s the sermon to be about?” . ’ - “‘Planting Seeds of Righteousness.’ ” “Pshaw! I’ve got to take a look at my garden.’” Dangerous Explosive. Mr. Honey Mooner (at lunch) —Pettie, there’s something the matter with this tea; it’s hardly lukewarm. Mrs. Honey Mooner (apologetically) —Yes, dear, L know; but, you see, I couldn’t risk having it any warmer. The box was labeled “Gun-powder tea!” —Judge. Quite Right. Church—lt is said that in Spain. shoe blacking is mixed with wine instead of water. 1 Gotham—Well, it’s better, I suppose, to have wine go to your feet than to your head. —Yonkers Statesman. Discovered at Last. Mrs. Hix —They say Mrs. Gaffney has the real thing in the ideal husband line. Mrs. Dix—lndeed. MrsJ Hix—Yes. I understand he sits up and mends her clothes after she has gone to bed. His Nature. r“I consider a professional diver as the modern model.” “How so?" “Because though he always goes to the bottom of things he also rises to the occasion.” •< The Likeness. “Do you know, Jinks, who Is newly e rich, and Binks, who is a connoisseur, always remind me of pugilistic dogs. “How so?” “Because the one Is always snarling over the other’s whine. Proved His Courage. Miles— Why do you think Knox is such a.brave man? Giles— Why, I once heard him tell a woman that her baby looked like all other babies. No Excuse. “Just received an invitation to attend a comet party." “Going to accept?” “Guess I’ll have to. My friend sends an alarm clock.” Hard Hit. Stella —Young Biddell seems to be infatuated with the girl he is engaged to.- , Maud—Yes. They say he proposed! after seeing her with her hair cone up, in ctr-l papers.