The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 July 1910 — Page 3

* IAT THE VANDER I BOER PARTY By J. RALEIGH NELSON Dora pinned a memorandum on Jack’s handkerchief that morning, put a note in his lunch box, fastened a rubber band around the stem of his ■watch, and as she waved him a last farewell from the porch she called: “Now, Jack, don’t forget! Be sure to come home on the five o’clock train.” It was the busy week preceding March examinations, and Dora, for all her precaution, felt no assurance that Jack would remember her injunctions, but to her surprise and delight j he came at the time appointed. Dinner was eaten with all possible expedition, the dishes stacked, unwashed, in the sink, and they rushed upstairs to dress. The harrowing experiences incident upon the assumption of unfamiliar garments absorbed them both too completely for any discussion of their evening’s plans. At 17:10 they boarded the train for the pity, and arrived at the Wells street station at 7:31 by the big clock. L Jack consulted his watch, setting it forward three minutes. Then he asked: “Say, Dora, you said it was a wedding, didn’t you?” Dora laughed, but she was evidently annoyed. “Why, my dear, I don’t believe you heard one word of what I said this i morning. It’s Clara Farinsworth’s wedding.” “Oh, yes,” assented Jack, sagely nodding his head; “I remember the whole matter perfectly. He began to watch the street signs on the lamps at the corners, and suddenly thrust his head out of the window and called to the driver to halt. “Driver, this is Forty-third street. Stop at-l—Dora, what’s the number?” . “Why* I told you.this morning, Jack. I declarja I don’t remember.” “Well), you have the invitation with you, of course?” Jack’s tone was a little sharp. t , Jack, you know I haven’t a pocket in this dress. Dear, dear, what shall we do?” Jack was beginning to laugh. The driver showed signs of impatience. Jack opened the door and stepped out. “Hurrah, Dora,” he cried, “there it is in the next block.” > She put her head out of the open door. | “Oh, yes, that’s it! O course!” A block away, carriages were driving up to a brilliantly ngnted bouse. • Jack got in, and they rolled up to the canivas-covered passage way. A colored j footman opened the I door anji helped Dora to alight. They passed up the velvet carpet to the massive; doors which swung open as by magic, and they were ushered up the splendid staircase to the dressing < rooms. Dora glanced in surprise about hier at the paintings along the walls, the expensive hangings, and the elaborate appointments on every hand. “They’ve evidently struck it rich in some wjay,” she confided to Jack at the top pf the stairs, as he fished her clean gloves and fan from the depths of his pocket. In the dressing room Dora met two or three of the ladies whom she had known that memorable winter with I Aunt Suisan. At the foot of the stairs a pompous colored pan received their cards upon a silver tray, and stepping to the archway announced: “Mr. and Mrs. John Mittison Perkins,” Dora gave one last little touch to j her hair, drew a long breath and | swept into the presence of the re- '* ceiving party. One swift glance along the line and she realized that there was among 'tn not one face that she had ever seen before. She had time only for a frightened . gasp. An imposing elderly gentleman L was greeting her with stereotyped | courtesy. 'l' ■ “So glad to see you, Mrs. Perkins., f Wife, this is Mrs. Perkins. Glad to see you! this evening, Mr. Perkins.” “Good evening, Sirs. Perkins,” the resplendent lady with the white hair and elaborate aigrette was saying. “Have you met our youngest daughter? Daughter, this is Mrs. Perkins.” This ■ little social device passed them expeditiously along the line and swept them out into a back eddy in * the croyd, where they had a minute to catch their breath. . “Why, where’s the wedding party?” asked jack, blankly. * “Hush,” warned Dora. “Don’t say one word to any one about a wedding. I’ll explain later. Why, good evening, Mrs. Fitz-William. HaVe you met my husbanft? I believe not.” And in a minute they were the center of an animated group of Dora’s \ old acquaintances. The expression on Jack Perkins’ face was a study, and as soon as she could bring it about with any sort of grace, Dora said sweetly: “I know you will excuse us a moment, Mrs. Fitz-William, I so want Jack to see H the conservatory.” There was some- • thing almost desperate in the haste with which she towed him through the crowd and into the seclusion of a corner behind a scree® of palms and ferns. “Dora Perkins!” he gasped, “what in the world is the matter?” “Hush!” she whispered melodramatically. “Now listen. This is the most terrible predicament I was. ever in. And you must do Just as I tell you or we shall probably be arrested.

"Arrested?” I “Yes; now listen. The people in whose home we are now being en>; tertained at this moment, I never saw before in all my life.” Jack was speechless. “I don’t even know their name/ Dora continued. i “Don’t know their name? Never saw them before?” Jack found Bis voice: “Well, now, Dora Perkins, I’m going , to get out of this Just as fast as 1 can.” “Jack Perkins, you’ll do nothing di j the kind,” said Dora, severely. “® you do, we shall both be taken off in a police wagon and disgraced before all these friends of my Aunt Susan’s.’* So at the proper hour she led him, unresisting, to the' formidible line ol people of whose names they were still ignorant, and they were run through the little device contrawise. “We have had such a delightful time.” “Thank you. So glad you could be here with us.” They put on their things, descended again, their carriage number was called, they got in and drove off. “Now that first place we stopped was the right one,” said Dora, “and we’ll tell the driver to stop there.” “What,” gasped Jack, “go through another performance like this? Not on your life.” “Why, of coures we will,” replied Dora in that firm, quiet way that whs always decisive in their little discus sions. “We are all dressed’ and hav< gone to all the trouble of coming away over here.” Jack groaned. They were opposite the Farinsworth home now and Dora called to the driver to stop. The parlor was now brightly lighted. Dora ran up ths steps and rang.. Jack followed with out comment. Clara herself came to the door and was as much surprised to see them as they were to see her. , “Why, Dora Perkins, how glad I am to see you! Come right in. Good eve ning, Mr. Perkins. Why, Dora, it was lovely of you to come over in this informal way. The folks are going out this evening, and I shall be alone. We can have a good, goqd visit. It is so long since I have seen you.” The father and mother and youngei daughter came down at this point, dressed, evidently, for a party. They were cordial, indeed, and expressed their deep regret at going out. “Just a reception in the next block, a debut, I believe. We shall be bach “Why, Dora, you surely remember the Van Der Boers?” said Clara, in some surprise. “Why,.let me see!” Dora pursed her lips and wrinkled her pretty, forehead as if making a great effort .to recall some distant memory. “Yes, I think I did meet them—once.” Jack began to laugh. They all looked at him insurprise, and Dora became very red; the climax, the humor of the situation struck even Dora. After a very pleasant evening with Clara, they rose to go. “Now, my dear,” said Clara kissing Dora goodby at the door, “be sure to come to the wedding next Thursday, won’t you? Just a week from tonight.” “Yes, indeed,” replied Dora heartily, “I certainly shall, but I felt that I must see you once more as Clara Farinsworth.” ’ “Jack,” said Dora as they rolled away down, the avenue, “there is Just one thing that makes me forgive you for telling the Farlnsworths our whole ridiculous performance.” “What’s that?” “You did have sense enough not to let her know that we came to her wedding a whole week early.” Conserving the Resources. j 'T have an idea,” said the man v o has a passion for advancing odd tneorles, “that we would all be better for sleeping in beds with glass rollers. I think it would tend to conserve our mental and physical forces. Scientists tell us that the human body contains a certain amount of electricity, in proportion to the magnetic qualities po» sessed by the individual.- Now, my theory is that during the process of sleep this fluid, or whatever it is, passes from the body, and consequent-: ly must be regenerated. That is why so many people wake in the morning with a spirit of lassitude, and have some difficulty in pulling themselves together. Glass, as every one knows, is a nonconductor of and sleeping in a bed equipped with glass ; castors might have the effect of preventing this force from leaving the [ boay wnen the brain is inactive. Os J course, it’s only a theory, but it might ; be worth experimenting with.” Rather Risky. jGunner—They have some clever innovations over in Europe. For instance, in some of the Rjjssian hotels when you wish an order of sea food you can just run your hand down into a live tank and fetch out whatever you fancy. Guyer—That might work all right with fish, but —er —suppose some on« wanted lobster? Too Many Breakdowns. Roderick —There goes the great humorist. He doesn’t write any mors 1 automobile jokes. Van Albert —No, he sold so many automobile jokes he bought an automo bile, and now he finds they are no ' jokes at all. <• > Cause and Effect, r “You’re looking awful low.” i “Yes, I’ve just been dropped."— Harvard Lampoon. I

PRAISE JYJANNON Speaker Commends Work of the Sixty-First Congress. Gen. Smith Says Uncle Same Is Not Prepared for War—How Congress Aided Morse—Dolly Madison’s House. Washington.—On the day congress adjourned Speaker Cannon issued a statement covering the work of the sixty-first session, which he says was the best he has known in his 35 years experience. Incidentally “Uncle Joe” said he expects to return next December and will place his fate as speaker in the hands of his party. “I do not think the work of a congress should be measured by the volume of business, but by the character of the legislation and the care taken in its consideration,” he said. “Measured by that standard, the sixty-first congress will take a high place in the ; record of legislation. There have been, however, more than 6,000 of the 27,000 bills considered and reported from committees and about 300 public laws enacted in this session, as against 400 public laws for the entire sixtieth congress. I can commend the entire membership of the house for industry and intelligence in their legislative work of this session.” Continuing, the speaker said: “In my judgment, the two sessions of the sixty-first congress have accomplished more and done better work than any other congress of which I have been a member. It has rarely occurred that a congress enacting a new tariff law has accomplished much else save handling the appropriations for the government. This congress has not only revised the tariff, without disturbing business, but it has enacted important legislation, amending the Interstate Commerce law, making ! that law more effective, giving the Interstate Commerce greater power and creating a court of commerce, and this without seriously affecting the business of the railroads or checking their increase of wages to their employes. This seems to me to meet the definition of statesmanship in legislation. “This congress has also enacted a I r Speaker Cannon. postal savings bank law, which is an entirely new legislation, blazing a new trail in lawmaking in this country. That law is not on the statute books by means of hurried enactment. “After the house had prepared a tentative bill, a Republican caucus was called to consider it, and after three long sessions a bill was agreed upon which received the majority vote In the house, and the senate also accepted that bill without amendment. “In my judgment this is the. best illustration of party legislation we have had., in many years, and it fully justifies the necessity for party action in a great legislative body. If there had not been party solidarity on this bill there would have been no legislation creating postal savings banks.” The I speaker detailed other legislation which had been enacted. “The appropriations,” he said, “have been large, but not nearly as large as demanded by the people who were agi- ■ tating over the development of the various departments of the governI ment. INTEREST IN HISTORIC HOUSE. A great deal of Interest centers just now around what is called “the Dolly Madison house,” which is one of the historic spots in Washington. This house stands at-the corner of H street and Madison place, near the Belasco, theater, which is built on the ground 1 i where Secretary Seward lived during the war, and where he came near receiving his mortal wound on the night that Lincoln was assassinated. It was in this quaint old house that Dolly Madison, the widow of the fourth president, lived and held court for a number of years as the social queen of the National Capital. It is said that j her home was a fair rival for the White House, for she was extremely popular, always agreeable, and was I liked by the young as well as the old. The house was built in 1825 by Richard Cutts, Mrs. Madison’s brother-in-law. It came into the former president’s hand the year before his death, • and he in turn bequeathed it to his widow, Dolly.

In 1837 congress appropriated ' 000 with which it purchased Madisoam , diary, and with this money Mrs. Madison was enabled to take up her residence in her city home. Washington was always attractive to her, and she was glad to get back. Her return was a renewal in private life of all her social triumphs. Her parlors were ah j ways thronged, and she entertained nractically up to the time of her death in 1849. After her death the home was sold to Admiral Wilkes, who occupied the house until the civil war. During the second year of the war Gen. McClellan • used the house as his headquarters, and its parlors then were the scenes of great military and naval social functions. MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH. Here is a story of the establishment of the first telegraph line and the ,circumstances surrounding Mr. Morse’s efforts to get congress to appropriate money for the construction, as told by Senator Bailey, of Texas, in the senate. \ Senator Joseph W. Bailey. It is remarkable now to read the story in all its baldness, and yet it i? absolutely true, and one is fairly startled to think of what might have happened if Morse had become a little bit discouraged and styled to go on with his wonderful invention. Senator Bailey said that Inventor Morse had appealed to congress for an appropriation of $40,000 for the construction of : a telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington. The bill was introduced in the senate, and passed that body near the closing hours of the session. After its passage in the senate Mr. Morse hurried over to the house, and, approaching the doorkeeper, said: “Will you tell me who is the kindesthearted man in the house?” “Sure,” said the doorkeeper; “Mr. Carruthers, of Tennessee.” Mr. Carruthers was called out, the matter was presented to him by Mr. j Morse, and together they went down to the basement of the Capitol, where a miniature plant had been installed for a practical demonstration. Mr. Morse went to one table where there was an instrument, and sent a message dictated by Mr. Carruthers to ar assistant at another table, who received it and transmitted the same i message back to the first table. Mr. | Carruthers was satisfied, the bill passed the house, and in due course of time the line was constructed connecting the two cities. “And it was a strange coincidence,” said Senator Bailey, “that 0 the first . message sent over the line from Balti- | more was one announcing the nomination of James K. Polk, who had been Mr. Carruthers’s opponent for the presidency.” GEN. SMITH’S INTERVIEW. Officers of the army and navy who are in Washington were much interested by the interview recently attributed to Brig.-Gen. Jacob H, Smith, retired —perhaps better known as “Hell Roaring Jake”—Who has just re ‘■wned from a tour of the world, i’ hich he declared that the United . ates is wholly unprepared for war. He was discussing the possibility of a clash with Japan. “I believe there is little probability of trouble,” he said, “but if it comes our army is wholly unprepared and our navy is by no means ready. I hope to heaven such a war never is started. I am one of those soldiers who doesn’t w r ant war. But I believe the best way to prevent war is to be prepared. “Now, how ; about our army? The people will not let ui have enough soldiers to be of any use. The Japanese would seize the Philippines and Sandwich Islands before we could say ‘Jack Robinson.’ We haven’t enough of an army to hold these island and we have to send our troops 14,000 miles to get them there. Once we lost our Pacific islands we never could get them back. “As for the navy, our ships are all right, but our idea of battle is different from the Japanese idea. They are as fanatical as Moslems and believe that every soldier killed in battle goes straight to heaven. They think nothing of sinking a ship. The men would go to the bottom singing hosannas. u American general sacrificed h men as the Japanese commandert slaughtered theirs at Port Arthur there would not be a general fifteen minutes. “Thank heaven, there is little probability of war. To be sure, the people of the west coast are bitter toward Japan, but Japan has her hands full with Korea and is in no financial condition to undertake another conflict Then, too, the statesmen of the two governments are getting to understand each other and any trouble that comes np Is sure to be settled by diplomacy."

DIAZ’ CLOSE GALLS Mexico’s President Has Had I Many Thrilling Escapes. Near Death on Battlefield Many Times—Swims Through SharkInfested Water to Safety on American Steamer. Mexico City.—The career of Sir Porflrio Diaz, who has just been reelected president of Mexico, forms a veritable romance of adventure and thrilling escapes from death. Perhaps his narrowest escape from his enemies, however, was in 1875, after he had led a futile Insurrection against the government. At that time Diaz was running for the presidency . against Juarez. The people wanted Diaz, the politicians Juarez, and Diaz finally took the field with his supporters, determined to fight it out. He was defeated, driven from Mexico, and took Refuge in New Orleans. He then communicated with his friends, and decided to return and continue the fight With this end in view he took pass- | age secretly on the City of Havana under the name of “Dr. de la Doza. Unfortunately, when the vessel reached Tampico a large body of troops were taken on board. As it happened, the very man who had recently defeated Diaz and his men was among them. It is assumed that Diaz thought he was about to be captured. At all events, he slipped off his clothes, rushed from his stateroom and plunged overboard, beginning a swim, through bad, sharky water, lor some American vessels lying in the distance. A boat was lowered, and the unfortunate general was rescued and brought back to the steamer. He was a striking figure, and as he stepped on the gangway some of the j • •"■'t "''l All Ir uiri - i Tn ” President Diaz. men thought they recognized Diaz and shouted his name. But luckily a ■ woman who was a friend of the general’s saw the situation and, seizing ' a sheet from the stateroom, rushed ! down the gangway and threw the sheet over his head, so that he passed through the crowd and so reached his stateroom. Capture deemed almost certain. The soldiers who had seen Diaz come aboard had reported to the colonel, who prompted looked into the matter and found that the supposed Diaz had come aboard as “Dr. de la Boza.” He at once went to the captain and demanded the surrender of Diaz. The colonel could not speak English, and the captain could not speak Spanish, so Mr. Coney, the purser, was sent for. Now, Mr. Coney, who, for the important part he played in this exciting episode, was afterward rewarded by the grateful Diaz with the post of consul general of Mexico at San Francisco, had seen Diaz in the stateroom, and, in response to a Masonic signal of distress which Diaz made, had decided to aid the fugitive to his utmost —Coney himself being a Mason. Therefore, when, having translated i the colonel’s demand to the captain, the latter said he could not deliver up the supposed Diaz, but if the colonel liked he could place sentries at the door so that Diaz could not esj cape. Then as the sentry went reeling to ; leeward, Coney suddenly opened the door of the stateroom, and Diaz walked swiftly forward and safely reached Coney’s storeroom. Here he was at once put in a clothe? press. ” Each night Coney took Diaz out of his wardrobe in order that he might exercise his cramped limbs, putting him in his own bed and locking him i up in the wardrobe again early in the I morning. Thus did Diaz elude the i suspicious colonel and he was still in the clothes press when the vessel reached Vera Cruz. Here Coney com-, municated with General Enriquez, and Diaz, with his face besmeared with coal dust and disguised as a laborer, was smuggled ashore. IMaz was obliged to skulk through the foresta from Vera Cruz until he had rallied his forces, which he did with «uch success that the next battle placed him in the Mexican “white house.” i

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Real Reform, Knicker —What is your idea of municipal government? Bocker —First provide an auto and then create an office to fill IL Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it siXX In Use For Over 30 Years. ’The Kind You Have Always Bought. Household Consternation. “Charley, dear!” exclaimed young Mrs. Torkins, “the baby has swallowed j ? gold dollar!” “Great heavens! Something must be done. There will be no end to the cost of living if he gets habits like that!” It Is a Mistake Many have the idea that anything will sell if advertised strong enough. This is a great mistake. True, a few sales might be made’by advertising an absolutely worthless article but it is only the article that is bought again and again that pays. 1 An example of the big success of a worthy article is-the enormous sale that has grown up for* Cascarets Candy Cathartic. This wopfoerful record is the result of great merit successfully made known through persistent advertising and the mouth-to-mouth recommendation given Cascarets by its friends and users. Like all great successes, trade pirates prey on the unsuspecting public, by’ marketing fake tablets similar in gppearance to Carcarets. Care should always be exercised in purchasing well advertised goods, especially aa article that has a national sale like Cascarets. Do not allow a substitute to be palmed off on you. Unflattering Truth. A Chicago physician gleefully tells a child story at his own expense. The five children of some faithful patients had measles, and during their rather long stay in the improvised home hospital they never failed to greet his dally visit with pleased acclamation. The good doctor felt duly flattered, but rashly pressed the children, in the days of convalescense, for the reason of this sudden affection. At last the youngest and most indiscreet let slip [ the better truth. “We felt so sick that we wanted I awfully to do something naughty, but we were afraid to be bad for fear you and the nurse would give us more horrid medicine. So we were awfully glad to see you, always, ’cause you made us stick out our tongues. We stuck ’em out awful far!” Artistic Temperament. “Hamlet, seemed to speak with authority in his advice to the players.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Stormingtpn Barnes, “although he was rather quiet and patient But in his other scenes he was as nervous and irascible as a regular stage manager." Every mind has its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please*—you can never have both.— Emerson.

GOT PHOTOGRAPH OF PANTHER Exciting Experience Which Few Men> bers of the Party Care to Go Through Again. A panther is not easily killed, and will often revive with very unpleasant results, as on a certain occasion in the Deccan. He appeared to be quite dead, and one of the spectators rushed • np with a camera on a stand to obtain a picture of the supreme momenL He got his photograph, and, strange to say, it survived what followed; but no sooner had he taken it than the panthere revived, tore himself loose, and went for the photographer. Somehow the man escaped, but the camera sent flying, and, disconcerted by his encounter with IL the panther turned and made for the nearest tree, up which he went as quickly as a monkey. Now, the tree was crowded with interested spectators, and for three or four strenuous seconds (until the panther was shot) we enjoyed a spectacle of natives dropping to earth with loud thuds like ripe plums from a jungle tree as the panther approached them. —Wide World Magazine. Tactful. A woman with a pronounced squint went to a fashionable photographer. He looked at her and she looked at him and both were enibartassed. He spoke first. “Won’t you permit tne,” he said, “to take your portrait in profile? There is a certain shyness about one of your eyes which is as difficult In art as it is fascinating in nature.” Beacon. We are told that true love will conquer a great many obstacles, but poverty and the toothache are two ceptionsDelightful Desserts and many other pleasing dishes can be made with Post Toasties A crisp, wholesome food — always ready to serve. With fruits or berries it i* delicious. “The Memory Lingers” A little book — “Good Things Made with Toasties”-—in packages, tells how. Sold by Grocers—pkgs. 10c afid 15c. POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Battle Creek, Mich.