The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 October 1910 — Page 3

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Little Boy Who Loved Flowers

Charles C. Clarke’s Delightful Reminiscences of the Childhood of David B. Hill, Former Governor of New York. In May there died the last of the original group of men who were as-. Bociated intimately with Commodore Vanderbilt in the building up of his great railroad system. This was Charles C. Clarke, who as auditor, treasurer and first vice-president of the commodore’s railroad, was his employer’s financial right-hand man for years. For more than half a century Mr. Clarke was a public character, first as a state employe and a banker, and from 1854 until his retirement, as a railroad man. In that period he came to meet most of the big men of his state, and his recollections of Millard Fillmore and Commodore Vanderbilt were particularly vivid. Yet what tie called the most surprising experience in his long business life had nothing to do with either of these great men of yesterday. “When I was assistant deputy treasurer of New York state at the time Millard Fillmore wap comptroller;” said Mr. Clarke, “I jnade the acquaintance of a number; of men engaged in important business undertakings in western New Yojrk. One of these men was establishing a bank in the town of Havana; he asked me to take executive charge of it and 1 accepted his offer. That was in the year 1852. Soon after I went to Havana it became necessary to make soipe important changes in the bank building and offices, and to do this work I employed a local carpenter, a very worthy man, who did honest work. One day he brought tfoth film to the lob a bright-eyed little fellow, who was, 1 should say, about nine years old. The youngster attracted my attention and Tasked him if he went to school He said he did, and then 1 asked him what he wanted to do when he became a man. He replied that he wanted to own a newspaper; “The next day the little fellow again accompanied his father to work. He bore a bunch of violets in his ham) which he diffidently held out to me, the while smiling quaintly. ‘You want to put to put them in a pitcher with some water,’ he cautioned. “A day or two later the little fellow came again to the bank, this time bringing with him a bunch of daffo-

Prophecy That Was Fullfilled

General Garfield's Veiled Prediction of » His Own Nomination for Presidency Just Before Starting to the Convention.) The late John H. Starin, who might have been governor of New'York had he been willing to accept a nomination In the late 80s, and who was for some years; a member of congress from one of the New York districts, was esteemed by business men as one of the ablest of American pien of affairs. He accumulated a very large fortune, was prominent in civic affairs, and to him the city of New York owes a debt of gratitude for his services in aiding to establish the subway rapid transit system. “During a part of the time that 1 was in congress,” said Mr. Starin to me several years before his death, which occured in 1909, “my seat in the house of representatives adjoined that of James A. Garfield. We became very warm friends, and I conceived so great an admiration of his ability that a year or two before the presidential conventions of 1880 I had come to hold the opinion that General Garfield was in many respects the most available] candidate from the west for the Republicans to nominate for the presidency. Os course, later on, as the delegate from my own state to the Republican convention, I was bound to support the nomination Os General Grant. But I had a lurking feeling that if we could not nominate Grant, Garfield would be our man. “It so happened that both General Garfield and I planned independently to go from Washington to Chicago to attend the convention by the same train. Garfield was chairman of the Ohio delegation, which had been instructed to gupport the nomination of John Sherman. We were greatly pleaded when we discovered that we were to take the same train. “We both were In the house of representatives the morning of the day we were *o leave for Chicago. Rather late in me afternoon Garfield turned to me, and said: *Starin, it is time for os to start. My gripsack is In the cloak room, and I suppose yours is also.i Let’s go together from the capital to the railway station, and we’ll keep company all the way to Chicago.’ "AB I was taking my hat and my gripsack from the attendant in the cloak room, I heard some one say to Garfield —I do not now remember who It was, except that it was a Democrat: •Garfield, whom are you going to nomtaaia for president at the convention?

dils. I took him between my knees, and after thanking him for his gift asked him If he was fond of flowers. ‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘but I like the flowers that grow in the. woods best and I know most of them.’ “As the season passed from spring to summer the boy marked the proggress of the year by bringing to my office the seasonable flowers; and one day, when hot weather was on in dead earnest, he came bearing very proudly a bunch of pond lilies which he said he had gathered especially for me. ‘•Thus I was showered with the blooms of the seasons until the carpenter moved away from Havana —at least, I lost sight of him and the boy. Two years later I entered railroad life and myself moved away from Havana. “More than 30 years passed. Then one day I found myself In Albany for a call upon the governor of the state in connection with some important business for my railroad company. As I entered the executive offices a gentleman, with every evidence of real plasure showing in his face, came up to me and extended his hand. ‘Why, how do you do, Mr. Clarke?’ be ex-

He Made Up With Jackson

Thomas H. Benton Could Not Afford to Remain Estranged From General After Latter’s Praise of Henry Clay. One very warm evening in July, 188 L several members of President Garfield’s cabinet went from the White House to the lawn and stood a while in jsueh a position that they were able to catch the cooling breeze that came from the Potomac. There were two or three friend's with them, and all were in a happier frame of mind than they had been for some time, for the physicians had reported but a short while before that the president was in a more comfortable condition than at any time since he had been shot. As they stood thus, enjoying the cool brtieze, Mr. Blaine, the secretary of state, who wore a very thin and somewhat frayed alpaca coat and a straw hat which had certainly seen service for several summers, turned to his companions.

You don’t expect to nominate Sherman, do you? And we Democrats figure that Blaine and Grant will neutralize each other’s votes? “In reply Garfield said: ‘I am to nominate Sherman in behalf of the state of Ohio. Os course we all hope that he. will be nominated by the convention? “ ‘But whom are you going to nominate, Garfield?’ persisted the Democrat, “I remember perfectly how Garfidld looked; when that question was repeated to him. He turned half around, there was a cordial smile upon his sac that was characteristic of him —and then he said: “I don’t know. It’s very likely to be some one not now named. It is just as likely to be myself as anybody else? “I was mightily impressed by that reply. It confirmed my own impression that Garfield might be our candidate; I had already said to one or two friends: ‘We can’t nominate Grant, Blaine cannot be nominated, and in my opinion Garfield will be the man? And lam satisfied that at the time Garfield left Washington for Chicago in my company he had reasoned the situation out exactly as I had done.” x (Copyright, 1910, t by the Associated Literary Press.) A Tip In Need. She entered the Columbus avenue car carrying a huge bandbox in one hand and a number of parcels in her other doubled up arm. They were unmanageable parcels. Even after the woman got a seat they kept slipping off her lap at every lurch of the car and jolted all over the floor. When the common sense man had picked up one particularly refractory parcel for the third time, he said: “Madam, may I ask if you have a hat in that box?” The woman said she had. “Then allow me to suggest,” he said, “that you put it on your head and pack the small hat you now wear and all your bundles into the box It is big enough to hold them all.” Resentment at his interference flashed across the woman’s face, but just then two more packages slipped their moorings and her expression changed to gratitude. “Thank you,” she said. Then, with the aid of a mirror loaned by a woman opposite the transference of hats was effected and the woman rode the rest of the way home with only the bandbox to worry about —New York Press.

claimed, heartily. ‘I am very glad to see you after all these years. But I see that you do not remember me.’ “‘I do not recall, governor, that I have ever met you. Have I?’ I was forced to confess. “The governor smiled. ‘l’ll try to aid your memory, Mr. Clarke,’ he said. ‘Don’t you remember a carpenter named Hill who repaired your bank at Havana? Don’t you remember his little boy, whom he used to call Davey, who sometimes brought you flowers?’ “ ‘Are you that lad, Governor Hill?’ I gasped, In astonishment. And then, as he smiled at my surprise, I added truthfully: ‘Every spring I have been reminded of that little boy by the sight of violets, daffodils and pansies. I have often wonder what had become of him. But not once did it ever occur to me that David B. Hill, governor of New York, was the little Davey who used to bring me flowers and left me one of the most charming recollections of my early manhood.’ “ ‘Yes,’ said the governor when I had ceased,’ ‘I was the boy, Mr. Clarke. I have never forgotten your kindness and your sympathetic talks with me. And I have long hoped that the day would tome when I could see you again renew that boyhood acquaintance.’ * (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards, All Rights Reserved.)

“This afternoon, as I stood before the fireplace in the president’s room, there came to my mind for the first time in years an anecdote —or, rather, two anecdotes—of Andrew Jackson that I heard on good authority when I first came to Washington,” he began. “But before I tell them to you as they were told to me I shall remind you of the fact that an intense animosity characterized the relations that existed between Jackson and Henry Clay. It was one of the rare cases in which Clay permitted himself to have a personal animosity, though frequently, as we all know, he would be a man’s political enemy to the full limit of his powers. “Well, one day, a friend, calling upon President Jackson, remarked in the course of the conversation: ‘Henry Clay is not only a moral coward; he is a physical coward, as well? “Thereupon Jackson got up, knocked the ashes out of his corncob pipe into the presidential fireplace, straightened up to his full height, and retorted: “ ‘By God, you wrong him ! The d d scoundrel is as brave as a lie” I know his weakness and his strength? "Now, for many years Thomas H. Benton, for thirty successive years senator from Missouri, beginning in 1820, and Andrew Jackson had been bitter enemies, although they were of the same party. They had not spoken since 1813, I believe, when Benton wks thrown downstairs at the time when his brother put .a bullet through Jackson’s shoulder down In North Carolina. At any rate, Benton had not visited the white house since Jackson had been its chief occupant. But it so happened that a day or two after President Jackson had paid his characteristic tribute to Clay’s bravery, the man to whom Jackson had delivered the tribute’met Benton and told him of the incident. Benton, clearly astonished for an Instant, eagerly asked if his Informant was sure that Jackson had made the remark as quoted, and the reply was that there was no doubt about It. “ ‘Then I will call upon him myself,’ said Benton, with grim determination. f “Sure enough, a day or two later the senior senator from Missouri presented himself at the white house and his name was taken into his old enemy. In a moment he was admitted to the president’s private office. Jackson was standing before the fireplace. He looked searchingly at Benton, who remained standing upon the threshold. At last Jackson ‘ls it to be war or peace?’ he asked. “For answer, Benton, with both hands outstretched, went across the room, the next moment the differences of years were healed, and the friendship thus unexpectedly and suddenly re-established remained unbroken until Jackson’s death, Benton becoming Jackson’s lieutenant in many things on the floor of the senate. “But to my mind,” concluded Mr. Blaine, “the best part of the reconciliation of those two great characters lay in the reply that Benton gave to his friends when they asked him how he came to put aside his enmity toward Andrew Jackson. ‘I could not afford to remain estranged from a man who was brave enough to pay such a tribute to an enemy as Andrew Jackson did to Henry Clay when he declared he was as brave as a lion? said Senator Benton?’ (Copyright 1910, by E. J. Edwards, AH Rights Reserved.) A Last Resort. “I’m not quite sure whether yovra is a constitutional disease or not,” admitted the physician. “•flirt being the case,” sighed the invalid, "I’ll have to get a decision from the United States Supreme court.”

PIGEONS AS CARRIERS OF MESSAGES J v" ' ? * ■■ v-A-. .. t '* t oils W* r v /O) ' - RE-LFASING Paris. —The French have never lost their interest in the flying of carrier pigeons, and every year great speed contests are held. At a recent event of this sort there was a v.onderful scene when 1,200 pigeons were released at once from their wicker hampers. The birds rose in a great cloud, circled about a few times, and then started like ( arrows for their homes.

TO KILL MOSQUITOES

Insect Is Deadly Foe of Stinging Pest. Experiments I Made to Determine Whether It Would Not Be Good Investment to Breed Dragon Flies. New York. — i “Experiments are being made at Bronx park to determine whether it would not be a good investment for the government to breed dragon flies to destroy mosquitoes,” said William Conroy, an employe of the zoological department of Harvard, after spending his vacation in and about New York and Jersey City taking notes on (the mosquito. “Not everyone knows,” he said, “that the dragon fly is the worst natural enemy that the mosquito has. Both of them are born in the water and both wiggle around in the mud and ooze till the time comes for them to emerge. Then they come out on the stock of a lilypad, dry off in the hot sun and split their skin down the back and emerge from it with wings. “The dragon fly has a wonderful lower jaw that shoots out like ah arm and can grab almost anything that comes its way, but what it likes better. than anything else is a mosquito “A few years ago I was out on the plains of Wyoming at a rather high altitude and near some wet land where, mosquitoes simply seemed to eat usi alive. Late in the afternoon they came swarming around us as the sun sank and made life a torment. I was with a troop of United States soldiers, and we had camped for the night and had built a fire to smoke the mosquitoes away, but it did little good. While; we sat there slapping at the pests, there came a sudden dispersing of them. In a second’s time almost therp wasn’t one of them in sight. We all noticed it. Then, darting from side to side and flying around the camp, caipie the dragon flies, six or eight of them, with their big shining bodies and tremulous gauze wings

Average Pay of Ministers

Government Census Figures Show That There Are 164,830 Clergymen In Country. New York.—All churchmen have been Interested in the census bulletin recently issued giving! church statistics. There were 164,830 Cnristian ministers in the United States, besides 1,084 Jewish rabbis, and increase at the rate of nearly 4,000 avyear. Their average salaries are not |so small as many suppose, for the sum is $663. Baptists and Methodists hpve more thaij half the whole number of ministers in the country, due to’their large number of small churchesl especially in rural districts. \ There are in Manhattan (and Brooklyn several scores of ministers whose salaries exceed $5,000 a /‘year. The highest salary ever offereq a minister to preach in New York, aVid given out In a public call, was SIS,OOO a year and a house, offered last, year by the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, and declined. Several ministers ceive $15,000 a year, anq there arc dozen or more who get $12,000. Thest salaries are the highest/ in the world. |A minister in London x/ho gets $3,000 a year is near the topj In New York he Is near the bottom! / The government shows the average isa’aries of ministers' in cities having 306,000 population £nd over for the principal religious bodies to be: Baptist. $1,793; Congregational, $1,938; Metnodist, $1,672;' Presbyterian, $2,450. Protestant Episcopal, $1,873; Reformed, $1,938; Roman Catholic, $684, and Jewish rabbis, $1,491. It is estimated mat in 1910 the sum t>f $100,000,000 is being paid to minis tors c* United States In peraonal

making a pretty picture in the afternoon haze. _ "An old Indian guide who was in the party was the first to point out the dragon flies and tell us that the mosquitoes had been afraid of them. A little after the dragon flies had gone and back came the mosquitoes. Then after a little the flies came back, a dozen of them this time, stretched out across the plain in line of battle 15 feet apart and each one advancing and darting from side to side in quick dashes. Every dash pieant a mosquito killed and eaten, and it was no wonder that the mosquitoes fled. “A few years ago the question was seriously taken up at the Museum of Natural History and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington of whether it would not pay y to breed dragon flies, or devil’s • darning needles, as the grandmothers used to call them, to rid the country of mosquitoes. The investigations were called off for some reason and never pursued. “I know a lady out in Cambridge who breeds a lot of dragon flies in an

Treat Peevish Zoo Python

Czarina, Star Monster of Her Kind, Forced to Devour. Two EightPound Roosters. New York.—The regal or reticulated python Czarina, measuring 24 feet in length, weighing 200 pounds and possessing a color pattern of a richness that rivals oriental tapestry, had to be fed on two eight-pound roosters, feathers and all, at the Bronx park zoo a few days ago, and now it is satisfied arid preoccupied with digestion. Czarina, the star monster of her kind, has been very peevish of late. The keepers in the reptile house notified Curator Raymond L. Ditmars that the big snake had refused food, and it was then decided to force the python to eat. So three husky keep-

salaries, and that congregational expenses, missions and extensions involve an outlay this year of $200,000,000 more. These outlays are higher than ever before. CAT INJURES YOUNG WOMAN Springs on Rooster on Girl’s Hat as Latter Passes Under Tree — Adornment Ruined. Des Moines, la.—When it comes to distinct disadvantages, the hobble skirt has nothing on the chantecler hat, in the opinion of Miss Lucy Livingstone. She Is a freshman at Drake university and lives in Garden Grove. Recently Miss Livingstone became the proud possessor of a handsome chantecler hat and the envy of her classmates, and a big cat with a pronounced appetite for poultry. The classmates sighed resignedly, the cat designedly. Puss wanted the realistic-looking -nster of the hat and several times lowed Miss Livingstone, me-owing vetously. Finally, convinced the ooster was not to be given it, the cat brought strategy into play. While Miss Livingstone was passing the point where puss had been accustomed to take up her trail there suddenly was precipitated from a high overhanging branch of a tree a ball of spitting fur. It landed half on and half off the chantecler hat. The cat clawed at the rooster and the atmosphere and succeeded in ruining tho handsome hat and a goodly portion of Miss Livingstone’s features before it was beaten off. The services of a surgeon were relulred to close the wounds in the girl’s face.

aquarium on her back porch every summer just to keep the mosquitoes away. After breeding they hang around the porch all summer close to the water where they were hatched, and she never has to use screens, While I sat there on the porch under the honeysuckle one evening I counted 15 dragon flies on the wall or vines—but never a mosquito.” PLANTS 27 KINDS OF WHEAT Oregon Farmer Raises Many Varieties on His Farm—Seeds From All Over the World. Cottage G’-ove, Ore. —Felix Currin, a farmer residing four ,miles east of Cottage Grove, has on exhibition here 27 varieties of wheat grown on his farm, planted as an experiment, from seeds secured from different parts of the. world, each variety being planted in a single row 100 yards long. Among the different kinds is the original wild wheat from the old world. One variety, the Mediterranean, has been grown on his farm continuously in one field since 1853, and this year’s yield will be heavy. Among his other experiments, Mr Currin has 150 varieties of and pumpkins.

ers fearlessly took the creature from its glass cage out into the open. There the reptile wiggled for a half hour while the three keepers tried to straighten it out so ttiat it could be stuffed. And they had to be extremely careful, for if the python should coil itself around the body of one of them it coiffd with great ease crush him to death. ’ After a hard struggle the big snake was forced to swallow two roosters which had been punchased in a Bronx butcher shop for the banquet In captivity the regal python is vicious and resents any familiarity on the part of the keeper. While confined it prefers to feed on po iltry and can engulf without difficulty, as it did a few days ago, two eight-pound roosters in full feather. Two such fowls usually constitute a square meal, but a very hungry snake of this species will consume four chickens of this size and be ready for more within ten days’ time. During the first few months of confinement very large specimens of this variety of snake appear to suffer from the restraints of captivity, and refuse food. Whenever, a large serpent is thus languishing and approaching a suicidal end, it is necessary to feed it by force and thus counteract its sluggish appetite. Generally young rabbits are killed and tied together with twine; "the snake is then held by the keepers as nearly straight as possible and by means of a pole the meal is forced down its throat a distance of about six feet Food thus administered usually changes the snake’s demeanor toward captivity. With such a meal once digested, there comes an appetite for food, which usually can be detected by the snake’s actions, although for a time the reptile may lack sufficient courage to feed voluntarily. Attention on the part of the keeper usually renders a repetition of compulsory feeding unnecessary, although occasional specimens are very stubborn, as in the case of Czarina at the park. Cats Soler for Rabbits. London. —In his report issued recently the medical officer of Finsbury describes the discovery of a cat in a consignment of Ostend rabbits. “The cat, a fat, sleek, well matured animal, weighing about four pounds, had ben decapitated, its tall removed, and its carcass had been dexterously . attached to the emaciataed head of a rabbit, sewn on by ordinary gray thread. “On a previous occasion thi-ee carcasses of cat-rabbit had been conflscatated in like manner.” The docto’ also describes a bottle of lema squash which contained a large po> tion of ther backbone of a fish.

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