The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 February 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE, - - INDIANA. <SOOD NEIGHBORS AND BAD Old Innkeeper Wise in His Generation and His Knowledge of Human Nature. A man moving his family and household effects across the country stopped at a wayside inn for the night. During the evening, as was the custom, the priprietor, an old Scotchman, chatted with his guests. “Why move ao far?” he asked and was overwhelmed with tales of backbiting and gossip and unkindness among their former neighbors. The old innkeeper listened in silence, but when they announced their half-formed determination to locate in the little settlement then forming about the inn, he slowly cleared his throat. “Well, strangers,” he said, “I’m loath to say aught against my neighbors, but I’m afraid you’ll find the same kind of folks here”—and the travelers regretfully decided to move on, expressing their disappointment that so promising a looking country should be infested with those “talebearing, backbiting kind of folks.” “Well,” said the old innkeeper, sagely, “I’m ’fraid you’d find ’em here if you stayed;” and as they drove away the next morning he chuckled to himself, “Glad I got rid of those folks. Bad neighbors always make bad neighbors.” A week later another mover’s camping outfit stopped at his doors, and during the evening a similar conversation ensued, and the question, “Why j move so far?” was propounded a second time. “Because my health required it,” said the man, who coughed frequently, and then followed tales of the homeland, and of the friends and neighbors they had left behind. They were good neighbors, and kind, was the verdict repeated again and again during the evening’s conversation, and sometimes the innkeeper noticed there were tears in their eyes as they spoke feelingly of those dear ones in the far eastern state. “Where shall you settle down?” queried their host, kindly. “Oh, most anywhere now,” was the reply. ‘Think we’ve come about far enough, and we’re just looking for some homy little place that won’t cost too much.” “Just the thing!” burst out the old man. f“I know just the place for you, only a little way up the road here. And you’ll find good neighbors here, too,” he assured them. “Mighty good ones. I’ll take you up there myself in the morning to see the place.” And as they trooped off to bed he nodded his grizzled old head and chuckled softly to himself: “Good, neighbors always make good neighbors. They’re the kind of folks we want here.” —Youth’s Companion.* Woman Dies for Her Claim, j James Balkwell, a fanner, brings to Seattle the story of an aged woman’s fight with the elements in the Cascade mountains and her subsequent death. The woman was Miss H. E. Conradson, a spinster, aged 55 years. Aliss , Conradson had mining claims in j the mountain. Braving the snow and icy blasts she determined to remainl 1 on her claim this winter rather than run the chance of losing it. About ten days ago she contracted a severe cold. In desperation she itarted toward civilization and medical aid. Her strength, however, was lot equal to the task. Racked with ;old and fever and further weakened by the lack of proper food, she staggered into the Balkwell home on Thursday night barely able to tell her story. She died before medical aid could ireach her. —Seattle Correspondence Portland Oregonian. * The Man and the Likeness. The obstinate refusal of the everyday man to sit for his picture is almost humorous in its dogged sincerity. And right here, it might not be out of place to state that the brusque, goodnatured modesty of man on these lines is a thousand times more sincere and heartfelt that the very evident demureness of the more comely ■es. But think a moment, men. The portrait may not mean much now, but In years to come, after the lines and shadows have deepened perhaps it win make your heart young to look upon a faithful likeness of yourself when you were a debonair, dashing young sapling. And, no doubt, even at present, there are a score of dear ones who would give much to possess your picture. A Double Cross. "I made my husband cross this afternoon,” said Mrs. Caller. “How was that?” queried Mrs. Homer. “He was on the opposite side of the street, and I beckoned him to come over,” explained the other. —Stray Stories. The Individualist. “What is Bigg’s grievance against the railroad company?" “He has two grievances; one la that •ome of the trains don’t stop at his station and the other that after he gets on board the train loses time by stopping at other stations.” A Freak, Indeed. Mrs. Xr—l don't care for that Mrs. fThfrnisigh. She is a hypocrite. Mrs. Y.—A hypocrite! Why, that woman is two-faced from the crown Os her head to the soles of her feet t

First Presidents First [ Political Toured

O. 13,” a long-lost diary in Washington’s own hand, has at last come to light. This unique Journal, which runs from October 1, 1789, to March 10, 1780, is occupied with the first political tour made by the first president. In a coach

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drawn by two horses Washington, accompanied by three friends and attended by six servants, went through Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and parts of New Hampshire. He thus sets the example of “swinging around the circle,” a practice now common in the United States. “Exercised in my carriage in the forenoon,” begins the diary. Then follows a list of the company “that dined with us today.” i Here is a peep at his home life: “*m giving sitting to John Ramage, who is drawing a miniature of me for Mrs. Washington.” Ramage had a great vogu& in the revolutionary era. He was fashion’s petted and pampered artist. Born in Ireland, he early drift-

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#d into the British army, saw service in Canada. Doming to New York city; he painted the belles ind beaux, was lionized in select circles. RamIge’s scarlet coat must have caught Washington’s aye. The artist wore a white silk waistcoat. Mack satin breeches, knee buckles, white silk itockings, silver shoe buckles, cocked hat, wellpowdered curls and on the street carried a goldheaded cane. As a fop of the day, when he talked be offered a gold snuff box; you took a, pinch and vowed Ramage was a deuced good fellow. Sunday, 4th—Went to St. Paul’s in the forenoon. Monday, sth—Exercised on horseback between hours of eight and eleven, and between five and six in the; afternoon on foot. “Had a conversation with Colonel Hamilton on the propriety of my making a tour through the eastern states during the recess of congress, to acquire knowledge of the. face of the country, the growth of agriculture: thereof.” "And the temper and disposition of the people,” adds Washington in his diary, “toward tjie new government who .thought It a very desirg&e pfan,” he goes on. stringing o\it his sentence, “and he advised It J accordingly.” “Upon consulting Mr. Jay on my intended tour Into the eastern states, ]he highly approved it, But observed that a similar visit would be expected by those of the sduthern,” writes the distinguished diarist. It may be added that Washington later made this trip “to the southern.” He started in 1791, went 1,900 miles, was gone three months, and used the same span of* horses throughout the Journey. i Thursday, 16th —Commenced my journey about nine o’clock for Boston, and a tour through the eastern states. The chief Justice, Mr. Jay, and the secretaries of the treasury and war departments, accompanied me-some distance out of the city. About ten it began to rain and continued to do so until about eleven, when we arrived at the house of Mr. Hoyatt, who keeps a tavern at Kingsbridge, where we, that is, Major Jackson, Mr. Lear and mysslf, with six servants, which composed my retinue, dined. After dinner, through frequent light * showers, we proceeded to the tavern of a Mrs. Haviland at Rye—who keeps a very neat and decent inn. These words show Washington’s formal style admirably. He continues: “The road, for the greater part of the way, was very rough and stoney, but the land strong and well covered with grass and a luxuriant crop of Indian corn intermixed with pumpkins which were yet ungathered in the fields. We met four droves of beef cattle foir the New York market, about *0 in a drove, some of which were very fine, also a large flocki of sheep for the same place. We scarcely passed a farmhouse that did hot abound (“abd” Washington writes it) In geese. Their cattle seemed to be of a good quality, their hogs large biit rather long-legged. No dwelling house Is seen-without a Btone or brick chimney and rarely any ; without a shingled roof — generally the sides are of shingles also. “The distance of this day’s travel was 81

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that to 25. The destructive evidences of the British cruelty are yet visible both In Norwlk and Fairfield, as there are chimneys of many burnt houses standing in them yet. The principal export from Norwalk Is horses and cattle, salted beef and pork, lumber and Indian corn to the West Indies, and In a small degree, flour and wheat" Saturday, 17th—At sunrise we left Fairfield and breakfasted at Stratford, which Is ten miles beyond. . . . “There are two decent-looking churches In this place,” says the diarist. . . . “There Is a busy manufactory of duck and have lately turned out 400 bolts.” He speaks of “stoney ground” and oontlnues with remarks on wayside churches. Once in a while Washington reoords the beauties of nature. Here is one of hla longest notes: “But one of the prettiest things of this kind Is at Stamford, occasioned by damming the water for their mills: it la nearly 100 yards In width, and the water now being of the proper height, and the rays of the sun striking on it as we passed, bad g pretty effect upon the foaming water as It fell.” Here Is the entry on New Haven: "The city of New-haven,” which Washington writes with a hyphen and a small “h,” “occupies a good deal of ground, but Is thinly though regularly laid out and built. The number of souls in It Is said to be about 4,000. There Is an Episcopal church and three Congregational meeting houses, and a college, in which there are at this time about 120 students, under the auspices of Doctor Styles. The harbour of the place Is not good for large vessels —abt. 16 foot belong to it. The linen Industry does not appear to be of so much importance as I had been led to believe. In a word, I could hear but little of It.” ... The following day, Sunday, the president went to the Episcopal church and In the afternoon to the Congregational meeting houses. He tells of a dinner at Brown’s tavern with lieutenant governor, mayor and speaker. "Drank tea at the mayor’s (Mr. Sherman). On farther Inquiry I find that there has been abt—(the diarist leaves a blank) —yards of coarse linnen manufactured at this place since It was established and that a glass factory Is on foot here for the manufacture of bottles. “The officers of the Continental Army called,” Washington adds. “This state could, this year, with ease pay an additional 100,000 £ tax, over what was paid last year.” Monday, 19th—-The noted traveler records that his coach was “under way at 6 a. m. and breakfast was taken 18 miles up the road, at 8:80.” En route he sees extensive haystacks in the marsh lands, sandy roads, rail fences now taking the plaoe of stone. “At Wallingford we see the white mulberry growing, raised from the seed to feed the silkworm. We also saw samples of fluttering, exceeding good, which had been manufactured from the cocoon raised hi this town and silk thread, very toe. This, except for the weaving, la the work of private families, without interference from other businesses, and Is likely to torn out a beneficial amusement.”

miles,” writes Washington in Diary No. 13. He speaks of the stoney country, “Immensely stoney,” he calls it “We find,” he adds, “their crops of wheat and rye have been abundant —though of the first they had sown rather sparingly on account of the destruction which had of late years been made in that grain by what is called the Hessian fly.” Friday, 16th— Washington tells that the next day “noon halt” was made at Norwalk, to feed the horses. “Part is very rough road,” he goes on. ‘The superb landscape, however, which is to be seen from the meeting house of the latter, is a rich regalia. We found all the farmers busily engaged in gathering, grinding and ing the juice of their apples, the crop of which, they said, is rather above mediocrity. The average crop of wheat, they add, is about 15 bushels to the acre from their fallow land, often 20, and from

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Tuesday, 20th —The president vis ited the woolen mills at Weathersfield. He explains: “(It) seems to be going on, with spirit. Their broadcloths are not of the first quality, as yet, but they are good, as are their coatings, cassimeres, serges and everlastings. Os the first, that is, broadcloth, I ordered a suit, to be sent to me at New York—and of the latter, a whole, piece, to make breeches for my servants. All parts of this business are performed at the manufactory, except the spin-

ning—this is done by the country people, who are paid by the cut. “Hartford is more compactly built than Middletown and contains more souls, the computed number of which amount to about double. The number of houses in Middletown are said to be 50 or 60. These, reckoning eight to the house, would make 2,000 at least. The depth of water, which vessels can make to the last place, is about ten feet, and is as much as there is over Saybrook bar. “At Middletown there is one Episcopal church and two Congregational churches. In Hartford there Is none of the first and two of the latter. Dined and drank tea at Colonel Wadsworth’s, and about 7 o’clock received from and answered address of the town of Hartford. “There is a great equality in the people of this state. Few or no opulent men and no poor, and great similitude in their buildings—the general fashion of which is a chimney always of brick or stone and a door in the middle, with a staircase running up by the side of the latter, two flush stories, with a very good show of sash and glass windows —the size generally is from 30 to 50 feet in length and from 20 to 30 in width —exclusive of a back shed, which seems to be added as the family increases. The farms, by the contiguity of the houses, are small, not averaging more than 100 acres. They are worked chiefly -by oxen, which have no other feed than hay, with a horse and sometimes two before them, both in plow and cart. In their light lands, and in their sleighs they work horses, but find them much more expensive than oxen. Springfield is on the east side of Connecticut river; before you come to which a large branch, called Agawam, is crossed by a bridge. It stands under the hill on the interval land, and has only one meeting house, 28 miles from Hartford. “Set out at 7 and for the first eight miles, ride over an almost uninhabitable plain, much mixed with sand.” Saturday”, 24th—Dressed by 7 and set out by 8 — at 10 arrived at Cambridge, according to appointment. But most of the militia, living a little out of town, were not in line till after 11. Washington’s modest description of the civic honors follows: “We passed through the citizens classed in their different professions and under their own banners till we came to the state house from which across the street an arch was thrown, in front of which was this description: “To the Man Who Unites All Hearts,” and on the other, ‘To Columbia’s Favorite Son,” and on the other side thereof, next the state house, In a panel decorated with a trophy composed of the arms of the United States of the commonwealth of Massachusetts and our French allies, crowned with a wreath of laurel, was this inscription: “Boston Relieved, March 17th, 1776.” This arch was handsomely decorated and over the center of it a canopy was erected 20 feet high with the American eagle perched on the top. After passing through the arch and entering the state house at the south end, and ascending to the upper floor and returning to a balcony at the north end, three cheers were given by a vast concourse of people who by this time had assembled at the arch —then followed by an ode composed in honor of the president and well sung by a band of selected singers—after this three cheers —followed by the different professions and mechanics, in the order they were drawn up, with their colors, through a lane of the people, which had thronged about the arch, under which they passed. . . . The procession being over I was conducted to my lodgings at a Widow Ingersoll’s (which is a very decent and good house) by the lieutenant governor, council, accompanied by the vice president, where they took leave of me.” Next day, being Funday, Washington went to the Episcopal church in the morning and listened to Dr. Parker, and In the afternoon he visited the Congregational church. The diarist also indulges that dignity with which the name of Washington Is ever surrounded. The day before he expected the governor to welcome him at the public reception; had engaged to take dinner with him. but as Governor Hancock did not appear at the arch Washington did not care to dine with him. On Sunday the disconcerted magistrate came to Washington’s lodgings and pleaded indisposition as an excuse for absence at the arch. Washington adds, “But as It was expected that he, the governor, expected to receive a visit from the president”—and Washington In fine sarcasm underscores the word “receive” —“he was resolved, at all hazards, to pay his compliments today,” adds the president. The perplexed governor next sent a committee to Washington. “I informed them, in explicit terms,” reoords the president, “that I would not see the governor unless It was at my own lodgings.” Governor Hancock’s conduct was severely censured by public opinion. It was generally,held that Inordinate dignity, as chief magistrate of Massachusetts, and not bodily illness, was the secret cause of his failure to call on the president The rebuke of official pride administered by Washington, who’ refused to see Governor Hancock except at the president’s lodgings, decided the qn sat ion of superior dignity.

EXIT RIMLCHURCH Pathos in Abandonment of the Country Meeting House. Once Not Only a Place of Worship But Center Around Which the Community’s Social Organization Was Built. Columbia, Mo. —The passing of the country church is a potent cause of dissatisfaction that is helping to reduce the population of country districts. F. B. Mumford, dean of the Missouri Agricultural college, spoke of It as a cause for people leaving the farms. George B. Ellis, for ten years secretary of-the state board of agriculture, says it is a result rather than a cause. Walter Williams says it is both a cause and a result of the loss of farm population. -» But the striking fact is that it Is going on. That the number of churches in the country that have been abandoned will reach into the hundreds is the declaration of these men, all three of whom have studied conditions carefully and intelligently for years. One of the deacons of an abandoned church was asked by a fellow member of his denomination what this change in church attendance meant. “I’ll tell you,” he said. “It has been my observation that religious worship is not the only motive for going to church. With some people I, have thought it was not the motive at all. The social side has been a factor. I have ipore than once heard men start negotiations for a home trade at church services, after the services were over, of course. The women passed whatever news they had back and forth among themselves, and the young men got an opportunity to talk to the girls after church. The telephone in the homes of the families who have most money has made an end of any social use church going served, and the poorer people are not strong enough to maintain the church.” To men who spent their early lives in the country there is no one phase of this gradual reduction of country population that is more pathetic than the abandonment of the country Type of Abandoned Church. church. In the early pioneer days of the west when the Sunday school in the country schoolhouse grew big enough the people would arrange for preaching and then a little church would form. All over the west a quarter of a century ago or more these little organizations were busy putting the white frame buildings on convenient farm corners in the neighborhoods remote from the towns and villages. That “meeting house” served really as a “meeting house” as well as a house of worship. It was the center around which the social organization of the community was built. If flixed standards for the young men and the young women of the community. Half the courtships of the country people of the now outgoing generation began in these country “meeting houses.” The marriages were often solemnized there. In those churches where infant baptism is practiced the children were brought to be “christened,” and slowly in the rear of every country church the graves accumulated. The intimate association of the country church was second only to the family relation itself. Whatever social or economic conditions may have decreed its decay there is unmistakable evidence that In the older counties of this state the country church is of less Importance today than ten years ago. The bare fact that in one county it is possible to name ten churches that have been wholly or partly abandoned in the last ten years is a matter of no small Importance to the communities Involved or to the state as & whole. Blames the Sunday Schools. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —That the Sunday schools are largely responsible for the spread of contagious diseases is the belief expressed by Dr. F. J. Mann, medical inspector of the public schools of Poughkeepsie. The doctor referred to a present epidemic of whooping cough and says he has traced it to the Sunday school attached to one of the wealthiest churches. He adds that there are many deaths from whooping cough and declares that some measures should be taken to protect the Sunday school pupils. “It Is not the child in school that dies of whooping cough,” says Doctor Mann. “It is the baby at home that dies. The same children barred from the public schools because of contagious diseases are permitted to go to Sunday school. In most of the Sunday schools the ventilation is much poorer than in the public schools and Ute diseases are thus quickly spread.”

CANADA GETS $1,500 TROPHY. NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION, AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AWARDS TROPHY FOR PECK OF OATS GROWN IN SASKATCHEWAN. Again Canada is to the fore, and has secured at the National Com Exposition just closed at Columbus, Ohio, the magnificent Colorado silver trophy valued at $1,500, for the best peck of oats. These oats were grown by Messrs. Hill & Son, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, and, as majg readily be understood, were of splendid quality to have been bo successful In a contest open to the world, and In which competition was keen. At the same Exposition there were exhibits of wheat and barley, and • in all these competitions, the grain shown by Canada secured a wonderful amount of attention, and also a number of awards. During recent exhibitions at which grain from Western Canada was given permission for entry, it always took first place. At the Spokane Interstate Fair, last fall, where the entries were very large, and the competition keen, the Province of Alberta carried off the silver cup, given by Governor Hay, for the best state or province display, and a score of prizes was awarded Canadian exhibl- ; tors for different exhibits of wheat, oats and barley threshed and in the sheaf. Vegetables also received high awards. A pleasing feature of these exhibits was they were mostly made by farmers who had at one time been American Citizens and were now farming in Canada. The Department of the Interior is just in receipt of a magnificent diploma given by the Tri-State Board of Examiners at the Fair held in Cincinnati last fall for agricultural dieplay by Canada. “■ The Surveyor-General of Canada haa Just completed a map showing that a* large area of land was surveyed last year in the northern portion of Saskatchewan and Alberta in order to be ready for the rush of homesteaders to that district during the coming spring and summer. It is understood surveys covering several hundreds of thousands of acres will be made in addition to these during the coming summer. A return just issued by the Dominion Lands Branch shows that 48,257 homestead entries were made last year as compared with 37,061 in 1909; of this 48,257, 14,704 were made by Americans. North] Dakota coming first on the list with 4,810, Minnesota gives 2,528, South Dakota 1,133, Wisconsin 745, Washington 730, Michigan 706, lowa 645, while other states show less, but with the exception of Delaware, District of Columbia and the Indian Territory, every state and territory contributed. - • , The prospects for an abundant crop In all parts of Western Canada for 1911 are said to be excellent. In the districts that required it there was an ample rainfall last autumn, and the snowfall during the present winter is greater than in many previous years. Both are essential factors to the farmers, who look upon the moisture that these will produce as being highly beneficial. A large Immigration from the United States Is expected, and the demand for literature and information from the various Government Agencies located at different points in the States is the greatest it haa ever been. Since the above was written word has been received that In addition to honors won at Columbus, Ohio, Canada won first and second on wheat and first and second on oats, as well as diplomas. Norman Cherry of Davis, Saskatchewan, who was In the reserve for first on wheat, secured the award, with G. H. Hutton of Lacombe, Alberta, second. J. C. Hill & Sons got first on oats besides the silver trophy. G. H. Hutton took second in oats. WISE GIRL. "I suppose your sister is / busily preparing for her wedding?" “Yes, she is up in her room now destroying all her old letters.” Knew Hls Cue. “She told him that she must not see him any more.” “What did he dor “Turned out the gas.”— Exchange. The man In the church with the roving eyes looking over the bulbous nose is pretty sure to be strong on the doctrines. Freeh supply Mrs. Austins Famous he cake Flour. Now at your grocers. Duty makes ns do things well, but love si a kei us do them beautifully /— Phillips Broeks. Garfield Tee has brousht good health to thousands I Unequaled for oonatfpation. An undertaker knows n tot of "dead «srV‘ '■ »♦ he to n.wbl* tn o-