The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 March 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE, - - INDIANA. SUCCESS IN LIFE DESERVED Orphan Girl's Career Shows What M**y Be Done With Pluck and Energy. An orphan girl, left to shift for } herself ; early in life, saved and applied three separate educational funds before she got where she wanted to be. The first was made up of money she earned odd jobs. When; her widowed mother died the girl, theto 12 years old, found a home with a married sister, who boarded her and gave her some clothing in return for her services. She worked at whatever her hand could be turned to in the Mttld town where her sister lived, saving every dollar she could and putting it into the savings bank. Before she was 15 she had enough to take a course ih dressmaking, and after following that a couple of years set out in the world for herself, going to a /, large city, where she got a place in a fashionable dressmaker’s establishment. CMy life soon gave her larger ambitions, and when she had saved enough money she took a course of training that flttejd her to become a professional nurse. This paid better and also opened up further fields of endeavor. By thrift and the skillful use of every opportunity she saved enough money to take a full coujrse in a medical school. While she was at college work was incessant! and funds often ran dangerously low;; hut she stuck to K plucklly and helped herself along by her knowledge of nursing. Today she is a fullfledged physician, and is just coming into a profitable practice In a large city.—Saturday Evening Post Liberty Without Bloodshed. The present emperor of Japan virtually forced constitutional government upon his people, says Adachi Kinnosuke in an article on the emperor of Japan. It was original on a monarch’s part;- absolutely without precedent! Elsewhere, even in the homes of! Christian enlightenment blood has; ever been the price that a people pajid for their charter of liberty—witness the struggle with King John, the American war of Independence, the French revolution. When the Japanese emperor wished to limit his own absolute powers and give us constitutional liberty, the people did not want Sit; they did not understand it; they ;were entirely indifferent about about it; they accepted it out of respecjt to his majesty’s wishes. On Feb. 11, 1889, the constitution of the empire was promulgated. It passed into history as the first and the only bloodless Magna Charta known. T — The Short-Lived Pin. By a series of experiments conducted on his estate a French investigator has discovered that pins go the way of all flesh and are resolved into dust. Hairpins, which the experimenter watched for 154 days, disappeared at the end qf that time, having been resolved into a ferrous oxide, a brownish rust, whifch was blown away by the wind. ! Bright pins took nearly 18 months to disappear; polished steel needles nearly two years and a half, brass pins had but little endurance, steel pens at the end of 15 months had nearly < gone, while their wooden holders were still intact. Pencils, with which he also experimented, puttered little by exposure; the lead yas unharmed, and the cedar almost asj good as new. l—-ijrtan-Carrying* Kites. Man-carrying by kites was demonstrated fpr the first time in America at the Bbston-Harvard aviation meet last September. There it was shown » tfiat a min could be sent 200 feet in the air supported by from six to fifteen 18-spot passenger-carrying kites. The height to which man can rise (up to 1,000 feet) by this method varies according to the wind velocity. Army officers present testified to the great value of the man-carrying kite for scouting purposes in time of war. It is certainly a point in favor of the plan that such a kite is at its best when the winds are so strong that aviators dare not 'venture out with their aeroplanes. To Brighten Gilt Frames. Try the following for brightening the gilt frames which have become dulled, though not actually injured by the “peeling””of the applied gilding: Taking sufficient Spur of sulphur to give a golden tinge to about one and one-half pints of water, and in this boil four or five bruised onions, or garlic, vrhich will answer the same purpose. Strain off the liquid, and with it, when cold, brush with a soft brush all the gilding which needs restoring. When dry it will be found it has come out almost as bright as when new. A New Animal. A gigantic carnivorous mammal, hitherto unknown, was discovered recently In Dutch New Guinea. This animal, found and named by English naturalists In the course of coast explorations, lives at an altitude of 660 yards In a place inhabited by a tribe of black dwarfs. The gazeka, as this beast Is known, is striped like a zebra, but iti aspect is ferocious. The animal Is like a tapir, and Is of a species supposed to have died out thousands of years ago. Its protruding teeth give it an appearance of extreme cruelty.

UNCLE SAM’S PURE FOOD EXPERT AND HIS FIANCEE I HARVEY W. WILEY, chief of the bureau of chemistry of tbe department of agriculture, has been the sub- | ject of much good-natured joking ever since the announcement of his engagement to Miss Anna C. Kelton. At the same time the government’s pure food expert is being warmly congratulated, for Miss Kelton, who Is a resident of Washington, ia most highly esteemed by her numerous friend*. The wedding will take place in the near future. *

GRAVITY IS A PUSH

Ohio Physicist Gives Old Newton Theory a Jolt.! t Assumes Ether to Be Endoyved With Vast Kinetic Energy Relative to Atoms—Dr. Brush Explains His Idea of Gravitation,' St. Paul, Minn.—The Newtonian theory of gravitation that has stood tor ages was upset when Dr. Charles F. Brush, Cleveland. 0.. one of the leading physicists of the country, ascribed the failing propensities of matter to a “pushing” property within itlelf derived from the ether through which it falls, rather than to a “pulling” power from the earth on the falling body. Doctor Brush established the converse theory that the energy exhibited (n the gravitation Is fully restored to the ether when the body Is raised against the gravitation attraction. Dootor Brush assumes the ether to be endowed with a vast Intrinsic kinetic energy, which is in wave form and is translated to the atoms or molecules. In his paper on the “Kinetic Theory of Gravitation,” read before the physics section of the scientists’ convention, Doctor Brush, after discussing at length the origin of the energy acquired by a falling body, concludes that the gathered! energy comes from the ether through which the body falls. “Conversely,” said Dootor Brush, “equivalent energy Is restored to the ether when the body Is raised against gravitation attraction. ‘The ether is assumed to be endowed with vast intrinsic klnetio energy in wave form. The waves are of Buoh low frequency, or otherwise of Buch character, that they pass through the bodies without obstruction other than that concMned in gravitation. They are propagated In straight lines in every conceivable direction, so that the wave energy is isotropic, being In this respect like radiation In the Interior space of a furnace with uniformly heated walls. Distribution of the ether’s intrinsic energy is uniform throughout the universe as modified by the presence of matter. Any kind of ether waves capable of exerting motive action on the atoms or molecules of matter will fulfill the requirements. j “Atoms are imagined to he continually buffeted in all directions toy the ether waves in paths almost infinitesimally short, but without collision because neighboring atoms follow very nearly paralelled paths. The moving atoms are likened to particles of a precipitate suspended jn turbulent water. “Each atom or molecule is regarded as a center of activity, due to its kinetic energy of translation derived Initially from the ether. There Is continual absorption and restitution of the ether’s energy, normally equal In amount. But the ether is permanently robbed of as much of Its energy as It represented by the mean kinetic energy of the atom. This energy deficiency In the ether is not wholly local, but extends indefinitely Into space, diminishing in strength as the square of the distance increases. “A body of matter is pictured as casting In effect a spherical energy shadow consisting of the sum of the shadows of its constituent units, t depth or intensity of the shadow va. tng with the inverse square of the distance from the center of the body. Another body at any distance will cast a similar shadow and the two shadows will intersect, each (body being partially shielded by the other from waves coming from that direction. the extent of the shielding effect

depending directly on the mass of the shielding body. “Os the several components into which the composite motion of each atom can be resolved, that one lying In the direction of an attracting body will be the greatest because the waves from that direction being partially intercepted by the attracting body, are weakest, and the atom will be pushed in that direction by the superior waves behind it.. If free to “fall, the atom will continually absorb more energy from the stronger waves behind it than it restores to the weaker waves in front, and will thus acquire additional kinetic energy of translation in the line of fall, measured directly by the number of waves involved, i. e., by the distance moved. Conversely, if the atom be forced away from the attracting body restitution of energy will exceed absorption, and the energy expended in moving the atom against attraction will be transferred to the ether. “It will be seen that gravitation is a push toward the attracting body and not a pull. It Is clear, also, that the velocity which a falling body can acquire tends asymptotically to a limit, which is the velocity of the ether waves which push; the velocity of light, if. transverse waves are involved."

FARM TO SAVE CITY YOUTH

Pittsburg Begins Odd Municipal Experiment In Training Boys for Better Citizenship. Pittsburg, Pa.—An odd municipal experiment in training for better citizenship has begun in this county with the purchase of 900 acres of farm land, on which 500 boys, all wards of the Juvenile court, shall be taught close to nature, to become good men. A committee of prominent citizens, led by David B. Oliver, formerly comptroller of public schools of the city and a brother of Senator George T. Oliver, originated the idea, and, aided by the county commissioners, ia carrying it out. Mr. Oliver, who is one of the wealthiest men in Pittsburg, has found that frequently the “bad boys” make the best men, and he is giving hi* time and money to the project, which really marks a new step in the care of Juvenile court children. The only noteworthy institution like It is at Industry, N. Y., but that is a state institution. On the land, which is thirty miles from Pittsburg, will be built cottages which will accommodate twenty boys. A head farmer will look after the youngsters. The present plan for the home is to build a central colony of five cottages around machine, carpenter and blacksmith shops, where hoys who want to learn trades will be grouped. Removed, however, from this central group will be fifteen other cottages. They will be occupied by boys who want to be farmers. It is not the intention to segregate the boys, but to keep them apart as much aB possible. Half of each day will be devoted to school and half to work. Os course, a time will be set aside for playing. To still further carry out the family idea here will he a number of school uildings constructed at different places on the farm. Each of the school buildings will accommodate a certain number of pupils. It will be so arranged that children from probably four cottages will go to each school. Thus the farm will correspond to a country community and the school houses to country schools.

FIRM GRIP OF BULL-FIGHTING “Sport” Continues to Amuse People of Southern France, Despite Efforts of Officials. Paris. —The extent to which the practice or “sport” of bull-fighting still exists in the south of Franoe, despite all the efforts of the authorities to stamp it out, is litle known by the rest of the world. A meeting was recently held at Beziers of those interested in the spectacles and a protest drawn up against the bill of the minister of justice which provides for the punishment by fine and imprisonment of those connected with bull fights. It developed at this meeting that there are 27 associations for the promotion of bull-fightlng in the south of, France, with a total membership of 24,000. According to the protest the bill would interfere with the favorite pastime of these and many more people, would be a check to the liberties of the- south and would be against the interests of the country. Nevertheless there is an excellent chance of the bill becoming law. “News Girl" 70 Years Old. New York. —Anna Eliza Beach, who is said to be the oldest “newsgirl” in the United States, finished her fiftieth year as a paper seller. Miss Beach, who is 70 years old, lives in Caldwell, N. J. She covers a route of eight miles, serving 100 customer* with the local paper.

It Is the purpose of the commission to keep from the home any semblance of a reform school or prison, so that the children who leave can go out into the world without any handicap of any kind In the form of a past to live down. The only gully in the nearly one thousand acres will be dammed up and there in the summer time the children can swim in the water flowing from Brush Creek. The swimming hole will be shaded by trees on the slopes leading to it and no sulphur from mines will mar its clearness. LONG DEFERS A RESTITUTION Anonymous Letter Received by Aged Man Containing SSOO for Team Stolen In 1865. Lancaster, Pa. —An unusual occur rence took plaoe at Washington bor ough when Rev. H D. Boughter, pastor of the Church of God, was handed at his rectory a letter by a man and told to hand It some time during the day to Uriah Douglas, now nearly eighty years old, and a retired rest dent. Rev. Mr. Boughter went to Mr. Douglas’s home and the letter was opened. To their surprise it contained five new SIOO bills. A note on the inside said the sender had done Mr. Douglas a wrong forty-five years ago, and here was money enough to pay for It with interest, and that he would hear from him in a few days. Mr. Douglas recalls that in 1865 a team had been stolen from him, and from which nothing had ever been heard, and it is believed this is the man who handed over the letter. He had purchased the team with bounty money received from the government after the close of the war, and ifrhile at the picnic at Highville the team was stolen and nothing but the lines left. The supposition is that the man who handed the letter to Rev. Mr. Boughter is a wealthy ranch owner of the west, as several young men about that time went west and have made good. Mr. Douglas is an invalid and can use tbe money.

: A Singular ;i : Elopement :r =' t —-vi > | By Constance Morton . [ “How do you like Aunt Amabel?” asked Della eagerly, when she found herself alone with her lover. “She is—delightful,” said Willis feebly. “Willis Ransom,” chided Della, “tell the whole truth or none at all. Tell me what you really think of Aunt Amabel?” “If you will have it dearest—Miss Amabel looks and acts as If her name ought to be Mehitable, or something like that,” admitted Willis deprecatingly. “That is what everybody says. If only Aunt Amabel would live up to her name how pretty and sweet she might be.” Della looked across the room to where Miss Amabel Deane sat stiffly before the chess board on the other side of which her bachelor brother sat quite as rigidly and with the some uncompromising grimness of expression. “They looked very much alike; there was the same crown of snow white hair above their long, strongfeatured faces with their protuberant light blue eyes and thin, unsmiling lips. Severity was the keynote of Miss Amabel’s dress as well as of her facial expression and the few words that passed her tightly compressed Ups were stern almost to harshness. Her brother, Philo, was her twin in everything save garb. Willis Ransom and Della, watching them from the deep bow window were perhaps indulging in the same thought but it was the young man who first broke the silence. “Do you suppose they will permit it, Della?” he asked in a low tone. “I’m afraid, Willis,” confided Della; “I’m dreadfully afraid they won’t listen to y.ou. Aunt Amabel doesn’t be-

|^| Hovering Around the Entrance Gate. lieve that any woman ought to marry until she’s 35 and Uncle Philo says Aunt Amabel Is perfectly right—and I’m only 22. Can you wait 13 years for me?” “Never!” said Willis firmly. “Thirteen is an unlucky number as everybody knows, so I’m going to ask them this very moment. Don’t be afraid, darling; they can’t do more than forcibly eject me and you must take comfort In the recollection that I am twice as big as Uncle Philo.” Despite her blushing remonstrances Willis left her side and approached the pair at the chess table. They looked up and frowned at him. “Must you go now?” asked Miss Amabel politely. Uncle Philo whipped out his watch utd lifted his bushy eyebrows at the early hour. “No, I didn’t intend to leave now,” said Willis coolly. “I merely came over to ask you and Mr. Dean if you would consent to my marriage with Della. We love each other.” “Marriage!” sniffed Miss Amabel raising her lorgnette. “Della is entirely too young to be married.” “Marriage!” snooted Uncle Philo Irascibly. “I’m surprised at you, Willis; I didn’t suppose you’d take advantage of my—er —hospitality by making love to my niece.” “I fell,in love with Della long before I ever met you, sir,” said Willis quietly. “Now, as you know very well, I am in a position to take care of her and as we love each other what objection is there to our marrying?” “Della is too young—no woman should marry before she is 36,” said Miss Amabel airing her favorite maxim. “And by the time she is 35 she has grown too sensible to want to marry,” added Uncle Philo sagely. “We have brought up Della In the hope that she would cheer our old age; she has had every advantage that our money could procure and we have hoped that she would have gratitude enough to recognize that fact.” Miss Amabol frowned towr.rd the bow window where Della shrank nervously among the cushions of the deep chair. “Then you will not consent?" asked WUlis coolly. “Not until she is 35.” said Uncle

Philo with a nod at his sister. “If Della disobeys—why she will receive nothing from us.” “Very well,” said Willis wheeling about and going back to his sweetheart. “I knew they’d refuse,” whispered Della. “What can we do now, Willis?” “Elope,” he replied promptly. “Oh!” “Why not?” “It would be so ungrateful—they have been kind to me—-but I wish they hadn’t showered so many favors. I would be free to go.” “You’ve paid them back in a measure—you’ve lived with them, sang and played and read to them—they can’t be permitted to absorb all the sweetness of your youth, Della! You are entitled to your happiness and if they only would look at it in the right way you could make them just as happy if we were married.” “They wouldn’t let me elope,” quav ered Della. “I don’t intend to take them into our confidence,” said Willis grimly. “Listen to me.” , Della listened to such purpose that the next evening found her hovering around the entrance gates to the Deane estate, her slim form enveloped in a long cloak and a black bag g irped nervously in one hand. From her hiding place among the rhododendrons she could see the tall angular form of Miss Amabel passing to and fro before the lighted windows while she heard Uncle Philo’s bass viol thrumming in the library Then a motor car whisked suddenly out of the darkness and came to a standstill before the gate. Della rushed out and was taken into Willis’ arms for a brief instant before he placed her in the tonneau.'' He uttered a word to the chauffeur and they sped away. “How many miles is it to Beafeeville?” asked Della. “Twenty-five—we’ll get there about ten. I went over this morning and made arrangements with Mr. Frayle; he will have the proper witnesses. After the ceremony I’ll call Miss Amabel on the telephone and announce our marriage and if she won’t give us her blessing weT have to set up housekeeping without it.” “I’d rather have their blessing,” said Della., “So would I,” admitted Willis. The machine rolled smoothly along -the roads, the headlights making two triangular patches of white that threw the surroundings into blackest shadow. For an hour they rode in silence, occasionally meeting another blazing-eyed monster. Up hill and down inclines they recognized few landmarks; they had the quiet hour to themselves and this meant much since Wilds’ courtship had been carried on under difficulties. At last they drew up before a dark portico, the chauffeur jumped down and opened tlfe door and assisted them to alight. A door swung open to receive them, they were hustled along a dark and narrow hallway to emerge into the blazing dean’s draw-ing-room where Rev. Mr. Frayle stood smilingly expectant under a huge marriage bell of roses and smilax. Miss Amabel in black velvet and Uncle Philo, also in gala attire, stood, grim sentinels, ih the middle of the stately room. * Della cried out and hid her face on Willis* arm. “I don’t understand,” said the young man stiffly, his face pale with displeasure. 4 “If Della must be married, she shall be married at home and in a proper manner,” said Miss Amabel severely. “I guessed you would try to elope and so I prevailed upon Mr. Frayle to come here and perform the ceremony—and Philo bribed your chauffeur to drive you around for an hour and finally to bring you around to the little side entrance —and that’s all! If you want Mr. Frayle’s services, here he is! Now, Della, my dear—if a woman can’t wait until she’s thirty-five before she marries I don’t believe it makes much differ ence when she marries before that! If you and Willis hadn’t taken our hearts to be as severe as our faces are, you might have realized we could be persuaded to your way of thinking! Now, Willis, do I look as If my name should have been ‘Mehitable?’ " Miss Amabel actually smiled. “Oh, you heard, Miss Amabel, I am so sorry," apologized Willis; then as he helped Della to remove her hat and cloak he threw a grateful look at the grim looking lady. “I really think your name should have been Angela,” he added. '■

Living by the Pen. The fountain pen recently proved its usefulness in a suburb near Washington in away hitherto unknown to the general public and undreamed Oi by its inventor. Two parentless squirrels, but a few days old, were discovered in a hollow tree. They were rescued, and given to a sympathetic woman, who lives near, and who willingly assumed the duty of foster parent After the orphans ‘were safely established in a roomy wire cage the problem of feeding them presented itself. They were too young to crack nuts for themselves, and their little teeth were too sharp to permit the use of a rubber tube for liquid refreshments. In this emergency their protector had an inspiration. She filled the reservoir oi her fountain pen with milk, and inserted the point in each small mouth alternately. The orphans drank eag erly. Succeeding experiments have been equally successful, and when laat heard from the pets were thriving vigorously

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HAD A REASON FOR BEING Carnegie Elicited Information Asked For, but It Is Doubtful If He Appreciated It. At the recent dinner given bjr Andrew Carnegie, an eminent lawyer, seated half-way down the tables was deeply immersed in conversation with his neighbor when the host opened up the subject of the British coinage system, and snowed signs of wishing undivided attention. "Every other civilized nation,” he declaimed, “has the decimal system, while England adheres to the absurd and cumbrous table of pounds, shill- ! lngs and pence.” Rap-rap-rap. The raps were for the lawyer, who remained absorbed in his own conversation. “And even farthings,” continued the iron-master. “Is there) any- | thing else in finance so ridiculous as j the farthing?” Rap-rap. The lawyer glanced ‘around Somewhat impatiently. j “Judge G ,” Mr. Carnegie called ; out, “why do the British continue their coinage of farthings?” “To enable the Scotch to practice benevolence, Mr. Carnegie',” returned the lawyer. Probably Got Off. Apropos of certain unfounded charges of drunkenness among the i naval cadets at Annapolis, Admiral ; Dewey, at a dinner in Washington, told a story about a young sailor. j 1 “The sailor, after a long voyage.’* he said, “went ashore in the and, it being a hot day, he drank, in i certain tropical tyars, too much beer, j “As the lurched under his | heavy load along a palm-bordered avei nue, his captain hailed him indigi nantly. “ ‘Look here,’ the captain said, ‘sup- | pose you were my commander, and you met me in such a condition as you’re in now, what would you do to me?* “ ‘Why, sir,’ said the sailor, ‘I would ! n’t condescend to take no notice of | you at all, sir.’ ” — Simple Rather. He—You are the only woman I ever | loved. She —Do you expect me to believe ' that? He —I do. I swear It is true. She —Then I believe you. Any man who would expect a woman to believe that cannot have been much in the company of women. Woman as Bank Cashier. Miss Ethel Boynton is cashier of the National Bank of Bayside, L. 1., j the only woman In the state holding such a position. She says that to be ! trustworthy, a man or woman must first be kind, then he cannot find it in his heart to betray the trust that is i reposed in him. IT’S FOOD That Restores and Makes Health Possible. i There are stomach specialists as well as eye and ear and other specialists. One of these told a young lady, of New Brunswick, N. J., to quit medicines and eat Grape-Nuts. She says: “For about 12 months I suffered severely with gastritis. I was unable to retain much of anything on my stomach, and consequently was compelled to give up my occupation. , “I took quantities of medicine, and had an idea I was dieting, but I continued to suffer, and soon lost 16 pounds in weight. I was depressed in spirits and lost interest in everything generally. My mind was so affected that it was impossible to ‘become interested in even the lightest reading matter. “After suffering for months I decided to go to a stomach specialist He put me on Grape-Nuts and my health began to improve immediately. It was the keynote of a new life. "I found that I had been eating too much starchy food which I did not digest, and that the cereals which I had tried had been too heavy. I soon proved that it is not the qiiantlty ,, of food that one eats, but the quality. “In a few weeks I was able to go back to my old business of doing clerical work. I have continued to eat Grape-Nuts for both the morning and evening meal. I wake in the morning with a clear mind and feel rested. I regained my lost weight in a short time. I am well and happy again and owe it to Grape-Nuts.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. ‘There’s a Reason.” Brer read the above letter* A aew oae appears from time to time. They are pen nine, true, and fall of bnmaa Interest.