The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 20, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 September 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - • ISOtHOSE SUMMER ROMANCES ISad Awakening of Man Who Asked "the Girl of His Dreams” for Her Hand. The dark wood had become rosy and sweet. A new dawn had ente-ed Into Harkaway’s vision, and it was all gloriously golden, says Harper s Weekly. Mabel, as they paced the sands on that wonderful moonlight Hight, had yielded to his passionate entreaties, in which he had voiced all the aspirations of his ardent nature and had spoken a soft yes to his question. “Yes, Harold,” she had murmured, with a shy glance at the, moon “res, dear, I will be your wife.” For a long while Harkaway was silent. He feared to breairthe spell of the moment with ordinary human fcpeecb. So far and away beyond his real expectations had her answer been | that it was difficult for him for the time being to realize that it was not all a dream, and who could ten but that the #ound of his own voice would awaken him to a lonely reality? Thus they walked on for a brief period, and < then summoning his courage to his . Mid he ventured: ' I "Say it again, Mabel —let the' en- i Chanting assent come once mori to tny devoted ears that I may know it (s true!” j “Yes, Harold,” she repeated—dear, I will be your wife.” He folded her in his arms, and a kindly cloud obscured the moon for a second, as though to hide her blushes, i “Tomorrow I shall go to New Y<j>rk,” ; he cried, his heart elate. “What is f four father’s address, sweetheart?” "Father?” she repeated. “Oh —father’s address —why, it is steemhun- . fired and two Wall street. WhE.t do | jrou want daddy’s address for, dear?” *‘l am going to ask him to smile apon our —” he began. “Oh, no, Harold,” she remonstrated. | >1 wouldn’t do that. Dad’s very busy, ; and we never bother him with little things.” “Little things?” he cried. “Yes' dear. They annoy him very much, indeed,” she replied. “I don’t think I’m engaged to a single man now who’s been to see popp Jr it makes him so mad when the fall ■comes and I break it off.” Motor Omnibus Useful In The great army maneuvers this year will, as usual, possess many new and interesting departures aff' acting modern warfare. Among other innovations:- it is this year anticipate d that motor omnibuses will play a prery great part in the maneuvers. Each motor omnibus will be provided with room for 50 soldier s, and possess a speed of about 25 kiloi aeters an hour. This experiment was tried with a small portion of troops last autumn in Germany, and was found to work spendidly, the men being conveyed to the desired positions far quicker than if they had marched on foot, in addition to reaching their destination much fresher and ipadier for the work before them. <t This year when a long march is taking place it is intended to tse the motor buses in conjunction wi‘ h foot marches. The buses will coi.vey a portion of the troops ahead, dro ) them at a certain point, whence tin >y will continue their march refreshel with the rest and the drive, and the buses will return to the main body for another Iqad of soldiers, who will In turn be conveyed to the now advance guard. The Flags of France. From the time of Henry IV., 1589 Ito 1794, a white flag was the s :andard of the French monarchy. It consisted of a white field bearing three fleurs-de-lis in gold. This was the flag of at the time of the conquest of Canada by the British. In 1794, during the Revolution, the tri-eplor of (three vertical divisions, blue, i ed, and rwhite, was adopted. This vas also Jthe standard of the empire under the Itwo Napoleons, but it was powdered jwith . golden bees and on th< ; center istrlpe was the eagle of the empire. iThe tri-color is the flag of the republic at the present time, j I I Students Find Relics 700 Old. L Skeletons and skulls of centuries ago are being exhumed hear the mouths of the Topango and Temescal canyons in California by geological students from Stanford university. For years tides have been washing away an occasional relic of former life on this coast, but the Stanford students have followed the lead and dug further back from the shoj-e. The search has also been rewarded by the (exhuming of stone Implements of husbandry and warfare. The explorers ibelieve the remains are about 700 (years old. ' A Benefit. ' “Has that muzzle worried your dog janyT’ “No,” replied the man who likes animals. “On the contrary, I think he has improved in both health and disposition since it become more difficult for my wife and dai ghters to feed him candy and salads. ’ Literary Note. "What is the moral of William de Morgan’s novels?" "Don’t write fiction till you’re o] enough to know how.”

New News a Os ILSTEPDAT

Problem Was Easy for Edison

' * Wizard Quickly Told New York Commission Just How Electric Current Wires Could Be Placed Underground. When New York city, back in the late eighties, passed an ordinance forbidding the stringing of telegraph and telephone wires overhead and ordering the miles of wires already overhead to be placed underground a commission was appointed to take charge of the work of burying them. A member of this commission was the late Jacob Hess, at one time very prominent as a Republican organization , leader in New York, and One of the group of very energetic young men Who were trained in politics by Chester A. Arthur when he was a power in New York city politics. j “The most impressive evidence I I ever had of Edison’s genius I received when I was a member of what I be- ! lieve was the first authoritative body to deal with the problem of laying a | city’s wires underground,” said Mr. Hess to me a few years before his death. “And, by the way, our work as I a commission was closely followed by : municipal authorities throughout the j United States and also by some of the leading municipal experts of Europe. f “Well, when we started out we [ knew that it wouldn’t do just to place I the wires in trenches and let it go at i that; anybody knows that wires so placed would not work and would ' toon be destroyed. So wfe had authority to spend money to make experiments in order to get at least one satisfactory system of burying the ' wires, and to enter into contracts with : Inventors of satisfactory systems. One of our first moves, therefore, was to I advertise our needs. “You can’t imagine the number of Inventions that were brought to our attention —they simply were legion, as the saying is. Most of them were worthless on their face, and we were asked by their inventors all sorts of prices, ranging from a few dollars away up into the thousands. One of the best of the inventions, as we thought, was so expensive, that its cost alone made its use prohibitive.. “One day, after we had been struggling with the problem for weeks, and were as far away from solving it apparently as when we first tackled it, it was suggested that we call on Thomas A. Edison and ask him to invent something that we could use, or, at least, give us a suggeAion that we could have worked out. We wrote him, and he invited us to visit him at ; his laboratory in New Jersey. I “Presenting ourselves before him at the appointed time, we found him i wearing an old linen duster and a much battered straw hat. As we

Why Blaine Left Journalism

Proprietor of Portland Advertiser Would Not Raise His Salary, So He Quit and Turned to Politics. This story of how a refusal tc raise James G. Blaine’s salary practically opened up a political career before j him was told me by two competent i authorities, an editor of Blaine’s old : paper, the Portland (Me.) Advertiser, | during the Maine state campaign of 1878, and, some years later, by Hani nibal Hamblin, Lincoln’s second vice- | president and later senator from the [ state of Maine. “Senator Hamblin,” I asked one day, having recalled the story told me by the Portland editor, “did you ever hear that Blaine’s career might have been entirely different had he been granted the raise in salary that he desired when he was editor of the Portland Advertiser in 1857?” “Oh, yes, I know about that story, and I know it to be true,” responded the senator, “and I am certain that Blaine’s career would at least have been greatly delayed—to say nothing of being different —had he remained as editor of that paper. “Mr. Blaine,” continued his senatorial colleague—both were in that august body at the time —"was one of the associate editors of the Kepnebec Journal for two or three years after he first went to Maine to live. His work in that position was so noticeable that the owner of the Portland Advertiser secured him as that paper’s editor. The salary was twelve hundred dollars a year. “As the end of the first year of Mr. Blaine’s service with the Advertiser approached, he and its proprietor had several conferences about re-engage-ment. Mr. Blaine thought that he ought to receive fifteen hundred dollars a year, and he was willing to bind himself for a number of years to the Advertiser if he could get the desired raise of three hundred dollars a year. The proprietor admitted that Mr. Blaine was perfectly justified in asking the Increase in salary, because he was worth it; but, added the owner, frankly, he could not afford to pay so much money. In those days, you know— back in the late fifties —fifteen

& stated the object of our call a queer little smile passed over his features. Finally, he said: ‘I suppose you have had all sorts of inventions offered to you?’ “We nodded acquiescence. “ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘chuck ’em all out. Most of them are no good, and, besides, you don’t need any invention.’ "We looked surprised and Edison was clearly amused at our astonishment. Then he proceeded to elucidate. ‘All you have to do, gentlemen, is to insulate your wires, draw them through the cheapest thing on earth, lead pipes, run your pipes through channels or galleries under the street, and you’ve got the whole thing done.’ “'mere he was telling us in that simple, off-hand way how to do the thing we had spent the best part of a year puzzling over; for none of us doubted that he had solved the problem, and afterward the experiments which we conducted proved conclusively that he had. “Before we left; Edison we asked him what his bill was for the advice he had given us. “ ‘Not a cent,’ he replied. ‘Do you suppose I’d stick you for so simple a thing as that’

Weed and the Two McCarthys

One In Dublin Did Him a Favor Because the Other Was His Favorite Whiter in New York. In one. of the chats I had with Thurlow Weed when that great political figure of ante-bellum and wartimes was living in the peaceful retirement of old age, he told me the story of the brothers McCarthy. “On the first excursion that I made to Europe,” said Mr. Weed, “I went with my daughter Harriet, and in our party were Archbishop Hughes of New York, a warm personal friend of mine, and Archbishop John Baptist Purchell of Clhcinnati, both, at that time, being bishops only. The captain of the steamship on which we crossed learned that we were going to Ireland as soon as we had landed, so, doubtless out of respect for the two dignitaries of the Catholic church, he’ volunteered to save us the tri to Liverpool by putting us ashore in Ireland .I in one of the ship’s boats. We gladly accepted the invitation, were rowed ashore off Queenstown and so reached Dublin just in time to secure good seats at an addrjess delivered by Daniel O’Connell, the great Irish liberator. “Ah, that was oratory! I have heard all of our great American speaaers.

hundred dollars was a large sum of money down in' Maine. “Well, Blaine thought the situation over for some time, and finally came to the conclusion that he was worth fifteen hundred dollars a year, if he was worth a cent, and that he did not propose to hold down his editorial position for less than what he was worth. So, parting in a most friendly spirit with his employer, Mr. Blaine returned to Augusta whither he had gone to Portland, and he had not been there long when he was nominated and elected a member of the legislature. He was four years a member of that body, and for two years he was its speaker, apd that before he had finished his thirty-second year. In that body he discovered wherein his real ability lay; and so, I say, had he not returned to Augusta when he did, and all because he could not get the raise in salary that he wanted, his great political career would undoubtedly have been considerably delayed, and maybe—who can tell? —he might have become a great newspaper editor instead of a great statesman. I have always believed that Mr. Blaine cherished at one time a strong secret ambition to become the editor of a great newspaper, and had he remained in Portland with the Advertiser a Boston or a New York newspaper might have tempted him thither in time." (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Pertinent Query. The One Girl—-I haven’t seen you for some time. Been away? The Other Girl—Yes, just returned from a two weeks’ sojourn at the seashore. The One Girl —Have a good time? The Otfier Girl—Well, rather! Had several proposals while there. The One Girl—lndeed! Why didn’t you accept him the first time he proposed? A Star Here. “The defender in that breach of promise case manages to be cheerful.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne,’ l he has at least the satisfaction of knowing that In his present position he attracts more attention than he would have a* a bridegroom.”

“And yet,” concluded Mr. Hess, “tin plan that Edison gave us off-hand and free gratis for nothing is the one nov universally employed when wires are to be placed underground.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Showing Himself Up. “Unk” Russell, the local prize fight er, is very fond of playing baseball and when the Athletics are at home he often goes out in the morning to practise with them. Apropos of this practise of “Unk’s” Eddie Collins tells the following story: “Unk came to Shibe park early in the season and made himself known to us with the request that if it were possible he would like to have a little practise with us, as it would aid in his training. “I tbld him we would be glad to have him get in the game, and told him to get in left field. He looked around helplessly for a moment or two, and then, coming close to me, said, almost in a whisper: “'Say, which is left Held? I never played on this diamond.’ ”—Philadelpphia Times. A Good Actor. “I see you have an actor employed on the farm.” ' “Yes, I put him on. He’s a darn good actor, too. I thought he was working the first year he was here.”

from William Wirt, who prosecuted Aaron Burr, down to Roscoe Conkling, but A never heard by them such oratoryas that which fell from O’Connell’s lips. Then it was that I understood for the first time what the source of O’Connell’s power over the people of Ireland was. “After the meeting was over I. said to the two bishops: ‘I will go to the newspaper office and wait there until I can get copies of the paper with the speech in it, so that I can send them to the United States by the steamer which sails tomorrow.’ “Arriving at the newspaper office, I heard the presses clanging, but I could see no light in the editorial rooms. I rapped at several doors, and at last a porter came to one of them. “ ‘I am anxious to get a few copies of the paper,’ I said, ‘and I don’t find anyone about the building who can give them to me.’ ‘“Faith, then, you’ll have to wait till the morning,’ was the porter’s answer. “ ‘But I can’t wait,’ I protested. ‘lt I get the papers now, I can address them and they will catch the early morning mail for Queenstown and so get to the United States several days earlier than they could in any other way. “The porter pricked up his ears. ‘Do you come from the United States of America?’ he asked. “ ‘Yes, and with me are two bishops of the Catholic church, and we have heard O’Connell speak tonight.’ “ ‘Sure, then, if you’re from America,’ —of course, the porter spoke with a delightfully broad brogue—‘you will know my brother.’ “ ‘Very doubtful,’ I replied. ‘America is a big country. What is your brother’s name?’ “‘lt’s McCarthy, sir.’ . “ ‘What does he do?’ “ ‘He’s a waiter in an inn, sir.’ “ What’s the name of the inn?’ “ ‘lt’s the Astor Inn, on the Broadway street in New York city, sir.’ “‘What!’ I said. ‘Your brother, McCarthy, is a waiter in the Astor House?’ 1“ ‘Sure,’ he replied. ‘Then,’ said I, ‘I have to tell you that your brother stood behind my chair attending to my wants during the last meal I took in the United States before I sailed. He’s my friend, McCarthy, the waiter, is.’ “The porter was overjoyed, while I was amazed, to think that in all the vast number of Immigrants in the United States his brother should happen to be my favorite waiter in the Astor House. Then the porter ran to the press room and returned with an armful of papers, and I got them off by mall. And when I returned home I had his brother appointed to a good paying clerkship in the New York customs house.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) — Equine Geographer. Here is a story of an equine geographer, who was the cause of saving his master some distance in traveling. A gentleman in the habit of riding a good deal, found that whenever he approached a certain gully, his sagacious horse invariably opposed his wishes to cross at the particular spot he had been accustomed to, always ehdeavoring to lead off to another part of the gully, where no passage was known to exist by his rider. Resolving to see whither the cunning rogue would go, he gave him the rein, and soon found himself carried over the gully by a route that he had never before followed. Still, however, thinking that the former way was the nearest, he was curious enough to have both measured, when he found the horse’s judgment correct, that way being the nearer by several hundred yards.

CAP and BELLS " "n FOUR LADIES IN DISCUSSION What Man Overheard While Dining at Restaurant—Women All Talked at Same Time. A man dining alone at a restaurant the other night was observed to smile hugely as he listened to the prattle of four ladies seated immediately behind him. They were discussing divergent topics, and, as is usual in such cases, they were all talking at the same time. This is the result as It reached the man’s ears: “Thank goodness, my Polly is blessed —” “With a calf’s head and a pig’s sac “I love to see little Johnny well dressed —” “In the fish kettle over a charcoal ■ fire—” “To see the darlings dancing before one—” K “In the frying pan—” '“And to hear their guileless tongues—” r “Bubble and squeak—” “I always see the children put to bed personally—” “And smothered in onions—” “And if they have been good bairns, I invariably order—” “The heart to be stuffed and roasted, the gizzard to be peppered, and the sole to be fried—” And so on, and so on. < Her Little Jest. The man who goes about selling those little Swiss clocks stopped at the wayside cottage. “Lady,” he said, politely, “let me sell you one of these tiny timepieces. They are very simple and even the works are wood.” “Gracious!” exclaimed the humorous housewife, with a merry twinkle in her eye, “I should Imagine those clocks would be dangerous to have around in the summer.” “Dangerous in the summer? Why so, ma’am?” “Why, on account of the wood .ticks.” Lunchoom Taffy. “Bring me a plain steak,” ordered the new patron in the lunch room. “Yes, sir,” responded the pretty waitress. ’ “And some plain potatoes.” “I have your order, sir.” “And some plain bread.” “Gracious, sir, you must think we keep everything plain in here?” “Yes, everything is plain, but the waitress.” And when the boss was not looking she slipped him two wedges of apple pie gratis. Rejected. Howard—How did you make your wife stop buying your ties? Coward—l told her I’d let her pick out my ties for me if she’d let me choose the style of hair dressing for her.—Life. SO MANY FEET. ro £ , I I * Beetle —I see the old foot doctor has an automobile. He must be making money these days. Willie Worm —Why not? Nearly all his patients are centipedes. Near. “Did I understand you to say he was a near relative of yours?” “Yes. He is a second cousjn.” “I shouldn’t call that very near.” “But he’s Scotch." The Philosopher of Folly. “Many a girl can learn to love a man,” says the philosopher of folly, “if the man has enough money to-pay for her education.” No Other Excuse. Tom —And was theirs a love match ? Jack —It must have been; they were both quite wealthy (

ROBBED OF HER HAPPINESS' Woman Not Well Because Husband Does Not Kick at Size of Bills— Mi"**es His Grumbling. “You are not looking well, Mrs. Willington." “No; I haven’t slept well lately.” “What’s the trouble? Has the hot weather affected you?” “Oh, no, it isn’t that.” “I’ll tell you what it is. You ought to give up the practise of drinking i coffee at night. I know a lot of people who toss awake all night after they have been out to a late dinner and finished with coffee. I had to 5 quit it myself.” “I’m sure that isn’t the cause of my trouble.” “Have you seen a doctor?” “No. A doctor couldn’t help me any?’ “But how can you tell until you go ~to one and let him examine you?” “Well, if you must know, I’m worrying about my husband. He hasn’t kicked at the size of the bills lately, and he’s been so kind and even-tem-pered right along for a month or two that I feel almost sure he must be leading a double life. Ah, if he would only get to grumbling and making it disagreeable around the house again!” a All They Could Afford. “Sir,” said the Indignant citizen, ‘T found a fishw’orm in my hydrant this morning.” “I’m very sorry,” replied the complaint clerk, “that we cannot afford to supply you with fish, but at the present low rate for water the best we can do is to furnish bait.” MENTALLY UNBALANCED. “Why was Doctor Gruet, expelled from the medical society?” “For unprofessional conduct.” “What did he do?” “It was what he didn’t do. He neglected an opportunity to perform an operation on aj rich patient.” An Interruption. Among the primary pupils enrolled in a Baltimore school there this term is the son of a prominent business man of that city. * One afternoon at close of school the youngster sought out his father in his office, tp whom he said: “Dad, I’m getting tired of school. I think I’ll quit.” “Why,” asked the astonished parent, “what’s the matter, Tommy? I thought you were fond of going to school.” “So I am, dad,” responded the youngster, repressing a yawn, “but it breaks up the day so.” —Harper’s Magazine. Weighed In. Picking up a sharp knife from the meat stand the customer extends it tc the butcher with the remark: “I haven’t. any use for it, but you may cut it off, and I’ll take it along anyhow." “Cut what out?” gasps the astom ished butcher. “Your hand. You weighed it with the roast, you know, and I want all J pay for." —Life. Not So Bad. Mrs. Myles—You wasn’t at the bridge party yesterday? Mrs. Styles—No; I was detailed by sickness at home. Mrs. Myles—So sorry! I hope youi dear little dog Fldo wasn’t sick? Mrs. Styles—Oh no; only one of the children! —Yonkers Statesman. Unanswered Yet. “Mamma," said little Harry, peering over the dough board with much tater est. “What is it, dear?” “If making bread makes white hands, like I’ve heard you tell sister where does the dirt go to?" Technical Explanation. Assistant Editor —Where is the foreman today? Compositor—He dropped 20 feet from his aeroplane last night and pled his form. Unaccommodating. Mr. Phunn—l tell you these railIs are a tyrannical lot. Mr. Phann—You bet! I’ve even ?on at ball games that were called sc ’ e two teams would be able to catch * their train. —Puck

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I A fool man appreciates the nonsense j of a pretty woman more than he does i the sense of a homely one. I WANTED. —Paper box die maker, I cutters and printing press feeders and i men to learn trade. Linley Carton Co., Gas City, Ind. Scandal. J Mrs. Simmonds glanced at the scare ■ headline: “Bank Robbed! Police at I Sea!” and laid down the sheet. “Naow, look at that, Ez!” she ejaculated, repeating the headline aloud. : “Here’s a big city bank broke into by burglars, and th 'city police’ force all ; off fishin’ somewhere! What a scan- ' dal!” —Judge. Even the Children. Ex-Governor Pennypacker, condemning in his witty why the American divorce ffvil, told, at a Philadelphia luncheon, an appropriate story. “Even our children,” he said, “are becoming infected.. A Kensington school teacher, examining a little girl in gramniar, said: - I “ ‘What is the future of “I love?” ’ “‘A divorce,’ the child answered promptly.” Opportunity of Suffragist. Baroness Aletta Korff tells in one of the magazines how the women of Finland came to vote. The fact is : that women .had to show that they could meet an emergency before the i vote came to them. They have not ; had maiiy opportunities to take the initiative in the world’s history and they’have not always responded when the opportunity came, but when a crisis, such as that in 1904, when the ' strike and the revolutionary outbreak in Russia took place at the same time, occurred, they proved they could : make poace by doing it. Not until England and the United States find ; the women helping them to bear some great trouble will they give them the i right to vote. __

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