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

HIS HIDEOUS ( ; HEIRLOOM •: ' By STACY E* BAKER (Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press.) Miss Harriet Herlien was eccentric, and her Eccentricity led her to extremes when, at her death, she willed a time-worn and hideous bureau to her favorite nephew—and nothing else. Marvin Chapman debated long on whether to favor the relic of an artless manufacturer with resting room, or relegate it to a second-hand emporium. la the end love and a certain respect for the old lady won; the bureau was installed In the otherwise up-to-date apartments of the young man. > Miss Harriet Herlien had been a highly esteemed woman, aggressive in word and action. She had a shrewd mind, calculating, keen. ""Chapmafl, who had not seen his aunt for a number of years, remembered her Jas a sharp-eyed old lady, • silver-haireid and always garbed in black. [' The bureau amused the friends of the young artist, and laughing conwere given Chapman on having secured so handsome an antique. He! volunteered no explanations. The bureau became a permanent fixture in his rooms. Chpamai was an artist of much talent, but; as yet, little success. He managed, Iby rigid economy, to live within hisi all-to-small income, and keep up appearances. Meanwhile, the ‘spotlight of publicity was gradually coming closer. The youith had alw;ays believed that his aunt was a womin of vast wealth and that he was tjo inherit all of her fortune. Believing this, he had made no effort to husband his own little mopey. Now he realized his mistake —this leaning on possibilities —for his! dream was farther away from him j than ever—and he had imagined it most tangible, and of bound-to-come-trpe construction. But, after all, even if the little country sltudio, far away from the stress anq clamor of the town, were eliminated, and the constant production of “pot boilers” was always to be a necessity, the heart of the dream Was still j left to him. The heart of the drearp, the radiant center around which all! these thoughts and visions of -the future revolved, was —Annette Leya! f The ydung artist had known the girl for yjears. They had been fellow students in Paris, and her dark eyes, studded beneath perfect brows, had tl Jr* In the End Love and a Certain Respect for the Old Lady Won. made their strong appeal to him long before he had become acquainted with her. Above and beyond her perfect figure, her rare poise; above and beyond all these, the magnetism of her personalty had claimed, him, and he knew ifi his heart, that there never could bb any other. The youth had been a keen boy, fresh from the country in those days, and what the girl could have found in him was a mystery. To be sure, the aquilinb nose, the firm, frank eyes and the fighting jaw told of victories to comp; but, as a general rule, young girls ai-e not able to judge of such things. | Both Chapman and the girl were now back in New York, and the friendship haid long since ripened to an engagement and a full understanding. Annette’s career, as an artist was in the same state as that of her sweetheart. ■ “I think it is rather quaint,” complimented Miss Leya, upon her first glimpse of the monstrosity. Nevertheless, her enthusiasm broke to no line frenzy. Polite fabrications came to the girl with difficulty. Her perfect lips and her rather serious profile were consistently above trivial word vagaries. Several months after the installation of the heirloom Chapman received a caller. “My name is Cummings,” introduced ! the elderly person, having calmly, helped himself to a chair. He removed an ancient tile and mopped the shining dome; of his head with a gaudy handkerchief. “You have never met me, | sir, but your late aunt—a most estimable woman—insisted that I call on you when in the city. We were friends,” he finished simply. The keen eyes of the caller roamed about the room, resting at last upon a little door leading to a chamber. Just visible from where he sat was

the freak gift that had descended to Chapman. The artist noted the curious glance of th« visitor. “That bureau,” he laughel, “was my inheritance. Aunt Harriet willed it to me. If I had followed first impressions the thing wouldn't be here now, but —well. Aunt was a good old soul, and sh® certainly must have thought something as the old affair or I wouldn’t have t een Inflicted with it. Her sentiments are mine. I shall stand by that £ nclent chest of drawers until grim death relieves me of its guardianship.” “I jvouldn’t mind owning it myself,” confessed Cummings. “I’ll give you twice what the thing cost—just to own it for a keepsake, you know.” “It [is not for sale,” answered Chapman. “I will give,” said the old man, sticking to the subject, “just SIOO for the clap-trap. Better take it.” “It is not for sale,” reiterated; Chapman, patiently. “Can’t you un-| derstand, sir? It is not for sale.” “On|e thousand dollars,” exclaimed the old man, “and not a cent more, by jink! No, sir, not a cent more!” “You had better see a doctor,” suggested Chapman. “That bureau isn’t worth a cent to anyone but me. It is old, dilapidated and tideous.” Cummings had already started for the door. “I see we can’t do business,’ he called back to the surprised Chapman. “Good-by.” The painter stared after his eccentric visitor. “Crazy,” he ejaculated. “Mad’ as a March hare! Some old lover of aunt’s, probably, and he wanted that—-er—thing as a keepsake. Jove! who would have supposed romance existed in such a frame?’ Nevertheless, and despite his firm and indignant refusal of Cummings’s' offer, Chapman had been tempted. One thousand dollars meant a lot to him. Annette laughed when he told her. “Why, boy,” she said, softly, “you don’t know yourself as well as I know you.” • One slim hand rested on his arm. “Your visitor Couldn’t have bought that bureau for $50,000, I know.’ A week later Chapman received this etter: “Dea: - Mr. Chapman: , “In calling upon you recently I did so ac ting in the capacity of your late aunt’s legal adviser, and as the administrator of her estate; The legacy of th 3. bureau was a test. If you kept it an allotted time and refused to dispose !bf it for even such!a ridiculously large' sum as I offered I you it would prove your love for her and the rest of the estate was to come to you. “You have won, and |n the face of great temptation. Congratulations. “The property amounts to over SIOO,OOO. Call upon me as soon as possible for more explicit information. Very Jtruly, “C. C. Cummings.’ “It pays,” said Annette Leya, who was present at the opening of the letter, ‘to cherish heirlooms.” He Was Too Enthusiastic. Hank Dobbs was noted as an “honest” horse trader. He would not lie about a horse. He would merely suppress the truth. Incidentally he always beat the customer who dealt with him. The way he could slur over* the defects and buzz about the virtues of an animal amounted to genius. Once Hank was trying to sell a neigibor a horse that had an eye which was nearly sightless. The neighbor knew Hank w-ould not lie outright to him, so he questioned the horse trader as to the various points of the brute. “How about his eyesight? Can he see out of both eyes?” “Sure,” said Hank, “he’s got good eyes.’ Here he leaned forward, his eyes fairly scintillating with suppressed honesty. “One eye is particularly good!” Hank’s enthusiasm for the truth had carried him too far. The deal was oft As a Refrigerator. Jerome S. McWade, on the Cunard pier in New York, was! talking about last month’s long and terrible heat wave. “The heat wave,” he said, “caused conic as well as tragic happenings. For instance: “Late on a hot afternoon a guard at the Metropolitan museum, entering the hall of sculptures, was amazed to see a fat, red-faced man seated on the knee of a marble Venus. “The guard could hardly believe his eyes. He advanced hurriedly. Yes, it was true. The fat man sat on the Venus’ •white lap, his arms were arornd her neck, and his head lay on her shoulder. “ ‘Say, what are you doin’ there?’ - the scandalized guard demanded. “ It’s all—hie—all ri’l guard,’ replied the fat man. ‘l’m just coolin’ off a bit- —hie —thash all.’ ” D;ath Rate Among German Babies. The figures of the present infant mortality alarm Germany, where the fact that there is a notable increase is evident from the statistics just pu ilished. Out of 2,000,000 persons bom alive last year in the empire 35 ~000 died under the age of one ye ir, a record exceeding 17 per cent. The highest mortality by kingdoms is Bavaria, 22 pen cent; the lowest, 16 8 per cent, is in Prussia. As comtpafred with the British Isles the infant mortality in Germany is v,ery high. In the former the general perce|ntage is 10.8, the rate of mortality, varying ffom 11.8 per cent in England ai d Wales, where it is highest, to 9.2 per cent in Ireland, where it is lowest. 1 —America.

REBELLIOUS ZULU WELL TREATED JOT - -a* , ' - v LJ Dinza/u r™ CAPE TOWN. —Great Britain has the reputation of treating her political prisoners with leniency, and the case of Dinzulu, just released from prison, is no exception the rule. He was imprisoned at PreI toria in 1907 for complicity in the Zulu risings of that and the previous year, and has fared well during his term of confinement. Now he has been given a farm hear Nylstroom in the Transvaal and $2,500 a year. Chief Dinzulu has 27 wives and 11 children, all of whom will live with him on his farm. stwdemnTarFs —.. ■

Mishap Often Occurs to Americans in Big French City. [Many Tourists Fail to Engage Return Passage and Are Unwilling Pris-oners—-Steamship Companies Unable to Carry Them. Paris.—lt will come as a surprise to many Americans to hear that every year a few of their compatriots are actually prisoners in Paris and London. There are two classes of prisoners, the willing and the unwilling; neither is to be envied, even though j confined in a city of pleasure. There is no doubt that the number ;of Americans touring in Europe is greater this year than ever before. It is impossible to obtain the exact figures, but one can realize the magnitude of the invasion when it is known that up to date more than

OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD Bulgarian Peasant’s Daughter Says She Is 126 Years Old—Worked in Fields. Berlin. —The claim of Frau Dutklewitz of Posen, born on February 21, 1785, to be the oldest woman in the world is now contested by Mme. Baba Vasilka, who was born in May, 1784, in the little Bulgarian village of Bavelsko, where she has lived ever since. The record of her birth is preserved in a neighboring monastery of the orthodox Greek faith. She is the daughter of a peasant and has worked herself as a peasant up till a comparatively recent date. For more than 100 years she regularly worked in the fields, according to the custom of her country, where women are employed in all sorts of manual labor. . The events of her life up to the time when she attained the age of eighty are far more distinctly impressed on her mina than the happenings of the last forty-six years. Her son Todor, following the family tradition, has also worked in the fields as a peasant nearly all his life, but he has also taken part in various wars and rebellions in the Balkan peninsula. He is not quite as fresh and vigorous as his mother, although he is still capable of doing a good day’s work, and enjoying such sma.. luxuries of life as a ' pipe and the strong spirits drunk by ' the Bulgarian populace. ' The oldest woman in the world is J said to enjoy fairly good eyesight and ’ good hearing, and she is able to walk ' without support. She lives on a pension paid to her by many of her de1 scendants, who number more than one ’ hund~»d. 200,000 Cyclists Sign Bill. , London.-~-Signed by 200,000 cyclists a petition in favor ct the bill to proI vide for the cheaper conveyance of bicycles was presented in the House of Commons the other day.

75,000 Americans have attended the passion play at Oberammergau. Furthermore, one mus£. take into consideration the thousands of Americans who couldn’t see the passion play if they wanted to. Every returning steamship now is crowded to the gunwales, and, consequently, the number of stranded Americans is larger than ever. Os those who become prisoners, the unwilling are the tourists who have failed to engage return passage on the steamships. Owing to the general exodus of tourists in the autumn the steamship companies are unable to accommodate these people who have trusted to luck to get tickets at the last moment. Then the money that Was set aside for their passage goes to pay for their “prison fare” and for “begging” cables to friends at home. Occasionally t one of these unwilling prisoners degenerates into a willing prisoner. Hopelessly stranded, the

Help “Queen Mary’s Bill.”

London Milliners Now Oppose Use of Plumage in Hats —Probably Will Become Law. London.—The next session of parliament is likely to be enlivened by an interesting debate on the plumage bill introduced before the close of the last session by a private member for the purpose of prohibiting the sale or exchange oi plumage birds, which are sacrifice in enormous numbers on the altar of fashion. The rumor that Queen Mary herself inspired the bill is sufficient to promise an active ard successful campaign, since the great millinery establishments which had formerly opposed such measures are not likely to offer any opposition. Indeed, the interviews obtained by the London press from representatives of the millinery trade have brought forth some curious statements which are diametrically opposed to those uttered in the same quarters a year ago. Then the trade cited the Parisian milliners and the demands of their own customers. The former, they said, set the fashion, w T hile the latter were slaves to it. Now they sing a different tune. Said one fashionable milliner of the West end: “We think it wicked and shameful that so many beautiful birds should be killed and the countries they inhab'it deprived of them. Very little objection is urged by our customers against using the plumage of birds killed for food, but these customers are discouraging the slaughter of humming birds and birds of paradise by steadily refusing to purchase hats in whose decorative schemes they appear.” “You would be surprised," remarked another milliner, “to know how the sentiment against the Indiscriminate slaughter of beautiful birds has developed among our fashionable patrons. There are many, of course, who will have feathers at any cost, and if ' the bill prohibits the Importation of I

latter make desperate attempts to ( a livelihood in Paris, a city that ' offers employment only to the most Parisian of foreigners. On the boulevards you frequently'are accosted by an obvious American, who either sells questionable picture cards, offers to show you what you shouldn’t see, or asks you for money that you probably haven’t got. In fact, the begging American is now an institution in Paris. He hails from the same town that you do; he knows of your father; perhaps he once worked on the staff of the leading daily. There is only one dodge to get rid of this “broke" compatriotgive him the address of some one you know or don’t know, who, you tell him, “will be interested in his case.” The name you give should be, of course, that of an artist who is starving and who has a sense of humor, and there are plenty of them. Though the willing prisoners are on the Increase, it is a fact that this year comparatively few Americans have been stranded in Paris through failing to engage their return passage. The actual number Is a record. Nowadays not only do many Americans pay their European hotel bills, ! Railroad fares and steamship tickets ! before leaving New York, but their expenses are figured so closely that they arrive back in New York with just about uptown carfare in their pockets. To those who figure too closely the pawnshops of Paris are a boon. A • watch often pays for an emphatic ! cable. [■ — FARMER HAS NEW VEGETABLE Tennesseean Says He Has at Last Raised Peppermato—Peculiar Combination. Humboldt, Tenn.—Henry P. Cole, j a prosperous farmer of this vicinity, i promises to rival the great Burbank in marvelous feats of plant raising. ' His latest Innovation is a combination tomato and pepper plant, which will enable the lover of the delicious fruit to abandon the antiquated method of using pepper, it being only necessary to slice the new product and it is ready for use. The tomato patch from which the freak tomato was taken is in close proximity to a field of peppers, and it is supposed by the plant raisers of this section that the pollen of the two was mixed during the blooming season. The physical construction of the “peppermato,” as it has been locally dubbed, is peculiarly interesting. As if taking into consideration the tastes of every one, nature so arranged the fruit that the pepper part may be separated from the tomato, and those who fear the ill effects of pepper upon human vitality may raise the fruit for market purposes and at the same time remove the pod from the few which they may personally consume. S' The “peppermato” resembles the poverbial Siamese twins, being a perfect specimen of tomato species, to which is grafted a full pod of pepper. It is thought that the new plant involves principles which will be of interest to scientists. New Bug Blood Poisoner. Pottsville, Pa.—Frank Ebach may lose his right hand as the result of being stung by a new bug of greenish color, much resembling a mosquito, which is now as much of a pest in Schuykill county as the seventeenyear locusts. There are scores of victims in this vicinity and blood poisoning has been caused in several instances.

£ —_ — — birds of gay plumage these ladies, instead of patronizing London millinery establishments, will go over to Paris ! for their headgear.” These two extracts from interviews in quarters least expected show that “Queen Mary’s bill,” as it is coming to be called, will probably become a law without much opposition. MACHINE TO SEPARATE COINS Simple Device Invented by Pennsylvania Man Great Convenience in Bank. — Harrisburg, Pa. —At the age of 83 years, Daniel Drawbaugh, the prolific Cumberland county inventor, to whom many people give the credit for being the originator of the modern telephone, is organizing a company and i planning to erect a big factory for the manufacture of a coin separator which his brain has recently evolved. The separator consists of a series of brass plates, one above another, perforated with holes sufficiently large to allow a coin of a certain size to slip through, and no larger. Mr. Drawuaugh’s model works to perfection. He dumps in a shovelful or so of dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, nickels and cents, gives the crank a turn and the dollars drop into a tube; another turn and out come the halves, etc. Pressure of a button in the tube separates the coins into piles of five, ten, twenty, etc., for easy rolling into packages. Mr. Drawbaugh says two sizes of the separator will be marketed, one retailing at $65 and the other at $75. The price, he claims, will bring the machine within the reach of every financial Institution or counting room which needs one, while previous separators have been so complicated or so expensive as to be either practically useless or beyond the reach of I the average individual or firm.

INDEPENDENCE ON THE FARM SPLENDID RESULTS FOLLOW FARMING IN THE CANADIAN ’ WEST. * Americans In Canada Not Asked to Forget That They Were Bofc» Americans. • Farm produce today is / remunerative, and this helps to make farm life agreeable. Those who are studying the economics of the day tell us that the strength of the nation lies in the cultivation of the soil. Farming is no longer a hand-to-mouth existence. It means independence, often affluence, but certainly independence. Calling at a farm house, near one of the numerous thriving towns of Alberta, in Western Canada, the writer was given a definition of “independence” that was accepted as quite original. The broad acres of the farmer’s land had a crop—and a splendid one, too, by the way—ripening for the : reapers’ work. The evenness, of the crop, covering field after field, attract- ! ed attention, as did also the ijeatness of the surroundings, the well-built substantial story-and-a-half log house, and the well-rounded sides of the cattle. His broken English—he was a French ; Canadian—was easily understandable and pleasant to listen to. He had come there from Montreal a year ago, had paid S2O an acre for the 320-acre farm, with the little improvement it had. He had never farmed before, yet i his crop was excellent, giving evi- ! dence as to the quality of the soil, and the good judgment that had been used ,in its preparation. And brains count in farming as well as “braw.” Asked how he liked it there, he straightened his broad shoulders, and with hand outstretched towards the waving fieldg ; of grlin, this young French Canadian, [model of symmetrical build, replied: ! “Be gosh, yes, yre like him—the | farmin’—well, don’t we, Jeannette?” as he smilingly turned to the young wife standing near. She had accomI panied him from Montreal to his farwest home, to assist him by her wifely help and companionship, in making a new home in this new land. “Yes, we ! come here wan year ago, and we never farm before. Near Montreal, me ! father, he kep de gris’ mill, an’ de cardin’ mill, an’ be gosh! he run de cheese factor’ too. He worfi? an’ me work, an’ us-work tarn har’,.-be gosh! Us work for de farmer; *well ’den, sometin’ go not always w’at you call RANG THE BELL, ALL RIGHT Iwl Wwi I : Ectimates of Yield of Wheat in Western Canada for 1910 More Than One Hundred Million Bushels. de’ right, an’ de farmer he say de’ mean t’ihg, be gosh! and tell us go to —well, anyway he tarn mad. Now,” i and then he waved his hand again towards the fields, “I ’ave ho bodder, I no cardin’ mill, no gris’ mill, no cheese , ! factor’. I am now de farmer man an’ when me want to, me can say to de 1 oder fellow ! you go— —! . Well, we like him —the farmin’.” And that was ! a good definition of independence. Throughout a trip of several hundred miles in the agricultural district ! of Western Canada, the writer found : the farmers in excellent spirits, an optimistic feeling being prevalent everywhere. It will be interesting to the thousands on the American side i of the line to know that their rela- ! tlves and friends are doing well there, ■ that they have made their home in a ! country that stands up so splendidly under what has been trying conditions in most of the northwestern part of I the farming districts of the. continent. . With the exception of some portions of Southern Alberta, and also a portion of Manitoba and Southern Saskatchewan the grain crops could be described as fair, good and excellent. The same drought that affected North and South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and other of the northern central states extended over into a portion of Canada just mentioned. But in these portions the crops for the past four or five years were splendid and the yields good. The great province of Saskatchewan has suffered less from drought in proportion to her area under cultivation than either of the other provinces. On the other hand, instead of the drought being confined very largely to the south of the main line of the C. P. R. it is to be found in patches right through the center of northern Saskatchewan also. In spite of this, however, Saskatchewan has a splendid crop’ A careful checking of the averages of yield, with the acreages in the different districts, gives an average yield of 15% bushels to the acre. In Southern Alberta one-fifth of the winter wheat will not ke cut, or has “ f

been re-sown to feed, ihtie *re individual crops which will run is high as 45 bushels on acres of 500 add 1,000 acres, but there are others which will drop as low as 15. A safe average for winter wheat will be 19 bushels. The sample is exceptionally fine, excepting in a few cases where it has been wrinkled by extreme heat. The northern section of Alberta has been naturally anxious to impress the world with the fact that it has not suffered from drought, and this is quite true. Wheat crops run from 20 to 30 bushels to an acre, but in a report such as this it is really only possible to deal’with the province as a whole and while the estimate may seem very low to the people of Alberta, it is fair to the province throughout. tVhen the very light rainfdll and other eccentricities of the past season are taken into account, it seems nothing short of a miracle that the Canaefian West should have produced 102 million bushels of wheat, which is less than 18 million bushels short of the crop of 1909. It is for the West generally a paying crop and perhaps the best advertisement the country ever had, as it shows that no matter how dry the year, with thorough tillage, good seed and proper methods of conserving the moisture, a crop can always be produced. As some evidence of the feeling of the farmers, are submitted letters written by farmers but a few, days ago, and they offer the best proof that can be given. Maidstone, Sask., Aug. 4, TO. I came to Maidstone from Menominee, Wis., four years ago, with my patents and two brotherjs. . We all located homesteads at that, time and now have our patents. The soil is a rich black loam as good as I have ever sedn. We have had good crops each year and in 1909 they were exceedingly good. Wheat yielding from 22 to 40 bushels per acre and oats from 40 to 80. We are well pleased* with the country and do not care to return to our native state. I certainly believe that Saskatchewan is just the place for a hustler to get a start and make himself a home. Wages here for farm labor range from $35 to $45 per month. Lee Dow. Tofield, Alberta, July 10, 1910. & I am a native of Texas, the larged and one of the very best states of the Union. I have been here three years and have not one desire to return to the States to live. There is no place I iknow of that offers such splendid inducements for, capital, brain and bi*awn. I would like to say to all who are not satisfied where you are, make a trip to Western Canada; if you do not like it you will feel well repaid for your trip. Take this from one who’s on the ground. We enjoy Splendid government, laws, school, railway facilities, health, and last, but not least, an ideal climate, and this from a Texan. O. L. Pughs. ( James Normdr of Porter, Wisconsin, after visiting Dauphin, Manitoba, says: “I have been in Wisconsin 25 years, coming out from Norway. Never have I seen better land and the crops in East Dauphin are better than I have ever seen, especially the oats.’ T-here is more straw and it has heavier beads than ours in Wisconsin, t “This is just the kind of land w« are looking for. We are all used to mixed farming and the land we have seen is finely adapted to that sort- of xyork. Cattle, hogs, horses and grain Mdll be my products, and for the live stock, prospects could not be better. I have never seen such cattle as are raised here on the wild prairie grasses and the vetch that ..stands three or four feet high in the groves and on the open prairie. Sir Wilfred Laurier Talks to Americans. ' Sir Wilfred Laurier, Premier of Canada, Is now making a tour of Western Canada and in the course of his tour he has visited many of the districts in which Americans have settled. He expresses himself as highly .pleased with them. At Craig, Saskatchewan, the American settlers joined with the others in an address of welcome. In replying Sir Wilfred said in part: ; "I understand that many of you have come from the great Republio to the south of us—a land which is akin to us by blood and tradition. I hope that in coming from a free country you realize that you come also to another free country, and that although you came from a republic you have come to what is a crowned democracy. The King, our sovereign, . has perhaps not so many powers as the President of the United States, but whether ■we are on the one side of the line or the other, we are all brothers by blood, by kinship, by ties of relationship. In coming here as you have come and -ecoming naturalized citizens of this country no one desires you to forget the land of your ancestors. It would be a poor man who would not always have in his heart a fond affection for the land which he came from. The two greatest countries today are certainly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of the United States. Let them be united together and the peace of the world will be forever assured. “I hope that in coming here as you have, you have found liberty, justice and equality of rights. In this country. as in your own, you know nothing of separation of creed and race, for you are all Canadians here. And if I may express a wish it is that you would become as good Canadians, as you have been good Americans and that you may yet remain good Americans. We do not want you to forget what you have been; but we want you to look more to the future than to the past. Let me, before we part, tender you the sincere expression of my warmest gratitude for your reception. *