The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 23 March 1911 — Page 2

WHERE UNCLE SAM j MAY GET LIGHT AND POWER f j ' UMi rTiiir■ J'-’ Jmksb ■'■ ■ • • nr SHINGTON —l£ congress adopts the plan that has been submitted to it, the city of Washington will be W supplied with light and power from the great falls of the Potomac, fifteen miles away. The government now pays $60,000 a month to a local company for electricity, and much of this large sum would be saved if Uncle Sam should harness the “Little Niagara of Washington,’’ as the falls are called.

PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS

Ten Eastern States to Be Visited This Year. Bsventeen-Year Variety Shows Indisputable Signs of Appearing in New Jersey and Other Nearby Commonwealths—Habits of Insect. Oceon City, N. J.—According to State Entomologist John B. Smith, New Jersey and nine other states will experience a plague of locusts this fear. The state entomologist has a corps of workers studying methods to tvard off the threatened plague, among whom is Mrs. E. S. Starr, of this place, who, under his direction, is observing the underground habits of the insect. Mrs. Starr has made a statement on the result of observations. She says: “There are 15 species of the cleada septendecum. or 17-year locusts, in the state bureau of entomology. This makes the study of the insect almost continuous. With each appearing of the insect something is added to give the entomologists a new problem to work out. In Cape May county the insect gave indisputable evidence of its presence months in advance of its regulation date for appearing, in April, when its seventeen years’ sleep underground will end. “Last summer a breaking out on the surface of the earth was noticed. It resembled circular spots about four Inches in diameter. The soil in these spots was different in color from that nearby. The layers of the mounds were even and appeared to have been blown from a central cavity, such as the ashes from a volcano. There was no central opening visible, but inves-

“GREEN” TEAS TO BE BROWN After First of May No Artificially Colored Product Can Be Imported Into Country. New York. —Popular brands of low priced teas, including “gunpowder” and other time honored favorites, will don a motley garb after May 1. After that date, according to government direction, no more artificially colored teas can be imported, and as a result many of the teas which have appeared in beautiful green shades for 100 years or more will come in hereafter in hues of brown, yellow and green. According to a statement from the Importers’ association, “the trade all over the country is unanimous in approving the new regulation. Green tea will still be green, but the color will be more natural. The artificial coloring heretofore used by the Chinese to emphasize the greenness of their product and to impart a uniform color and gloss to the leaves, a harmless dye. will be eliminated. "The general public here knows little about tea. America is not a great tea drinking nation. The per capita consumption is only one pound a year, whereas in Canada it is six pounds and in Great Britain nearly seven pounds. Tea is popular all over Europe because of Its economy. A 50 cent pound of tea will provide at least 250 cups of generous strength, while a 25 cent pound of coffee, the American beverage, is good for, not more than 30 cups.” Recalls Peace of Ghent. Brussels. —A committee has been formed at Ghent to arrange for the celebration in 1914 of the centenary of the congress of Ghent, where peace was concluded between Great Britain and the United States in 1814. German Navy to Shift Base. Berlin.—lt is reported that the German submarine flotilla will shortly be removed from the Baltic to Wilhelmshaven, which is to be its base in the future.

tigation showed that it had been covered with sand. There was no change in these mounds until after a rain, when the central portion seemed to rise. Later galleries in the mounds were discovered. Some of these extended more than three feet beneath the surface of the earth. It was in these that the locusts were sleeping. "The range of the outbreak, so far as has been discovered, extends along bbth sides of the West Jersey and Seashore railroad from Mt. Pleasant to near Ocean City, and over uncultivated ground for a mile to the northwest. There are mounds to be seen in the woodland but they are different in formation from those in the open country. “With the first indications of an eruption word was sent to Dr. L O. Howard of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, and to Doctor Smith of the New Jersey bureau. Both pronounced it the work of the 17-year locust, but without precedent, it then being >g year in advance of the time scheduled for the insects to appear. Doctor Smith sent an assistant to make an investigation. He reported that the mounds were the work of the cicada septendecum, but that it was of an unusual character. A careful observation of the appearing of the locusts is to be made in Cape May County, where, it is believed, they will be more numerous. “Brood XII. of the cicada septendecum is due to appear in ten states next spring, the territory ranging from Saratoga county, New York, to western Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and ending in the north central portion of North Carolina. In New Jersey the locusts underline the state. The last appearance of the locusts was in

DEMAND FOR KANSAS WOMEN

Alberta Man Emissary to That State to Secure Wives for Hunters and Lumbermen. Ottawa, Kan. —“We want marriageable women,” was the substance of a message received here by W. R. Hutchinson, from Alberta, Canada. “We understand that Ottawa has lots of good looking widows and girls of marriageable age, who have no immediate prospects or intentions in a matrimonial way.” Oliver Moore, formerly of Ottawa, now of Alberta, who is here on a visit, was the bearer of the message. He was in earnest, too. “There are no women at all up there,” said Mr. Moore. “It has been too cold for them. Why, it has been 50 degrees below zero for a week now.” The hunters and lumbermen of Alberta have organized themselves into a society for the purpose of mutual assistance in a search for wives. Mr. Moore, who came down to Kansas on business, wss given full authority to bargain for as many women as he could get. He agrees to take all who will go under the promise of being married inside of 30 days after they are there. He has gone to counting noses here, with the assistance of his friends, and he has found 82 who could “just as well go as not.” Several women have been interviewed and have given their consent to carry on a correspondence with some of the most likely Canadian nimrods. It is rumored that Ottawa is going to lose some of its feminine population and that a few trunks are being packed with “dainty things” just now. This sudden demand for wives has caused the young men of Ottawa a good deal of nervousness, and Judge Chaffee of the probate court has lowered the price of marriage licenses I from $3 to $2.35. Moore said he would probably exj tend a similar invitation to other cities . shortly in behalf of his brothers in the } north. “And,” said he, “Kansas City will likely be next on the list Os

1894, when in Cumberland and Cape May counties the discarded shells of the insects covered the ground. Trees and lumber today bear traces of that visit. “Doctor Smith has sent out a warning against the pruning and setting out of orchards untif the locusts disappear.” URGES BABY EVERY 2 YEARS Dr. Eliot, Harvard’s President Emeritus, Gives Recipe for Happiness <* Though Married. Boston.—As a result of dfference of opinion between Dr. J. Lovett Morse and Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, on the subject of large families, Boston women are up in arms. “I don’t agree with Dr. Morse in his advocacy of small families,” said President Eliot. “I believe no restriction of the birth rate can be supported by morals or economics. The durable satisfaction of life depend upon having the normal number of children, and the normal number of children is five or six to the family. A mother should bear a child every two years. “Granting that marriage should come at the average age of twentyfour, this periodical child bearing should continue until the mother is forty, resulting in eight chldren. This high number, however, would be lowered in average by the death of either parent or two or more of the children. I believe in monogamy, equal chastity and the normal birth rate. “Durable satisfaction of life is not obtained by families that have only one or two children. Therefore, lam not able to accept the economic excuse for limiting the number of children. The number to be born has a natural limit, and the economical limitation is wholly unnatural."

course Ottawa would be first, as it was my home town. But there are no better looking girls bn earth than those in Kansas City.” -x Moore is a wealthy land owner and lumber man in Alberta. $1,500,000 TO BUILD ROAD Delaware Philanthropist Plans for Boulevard 100 Miles Long as Gift to Native State. New York.—Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont of Wilmington, Del., is arranging with New York lawyers a deed of gift for an unusual philanthropy. He plans to contribute $1,550,000 for a boulevard the length of Delaware, from Claymont on the north to Shelbyville on the south. The proposal will be submitted to the Delaware legslature. Gen. Du Pont proposes the roadway be 100 feet wide and 100 miles long. It will be given outright to the people. The only condition is that a majority of the legislature consent to it This is the first offer of the kind made to any state. X-Rays to Find Pearls. London.—Dr. J. Hall Edwards, in a lecture at Bishopsgate Institute, said that the only practical use to which he knew X-rays were put apart from medicine was the discovery of pearls. Instead of the oyster being destroyed in order to find if it contained pearls the rays could be use, and if niching was discovered the oyster was put back into the sea in the hope that it would grow pearls. Teach Farming In City. Kansas City, Mo. —The state agricultural school at Columbia will open a night school of agriculture in the Central high school. City men will hear the Instructors lecture on such sub-' jects as "The Money-Making Farm” and “Improvement of Wheat” /

31 =SE THE TEST By Minnie Nelson Hinds ;l The snow was melting as it fell, but it fell with persistence, and so heavily that, despite its two big windows, the reception room of Dr. Stafford’s office was gloomy to the point of darkness. When a doctor is skilled, honest and moderate in his charges, even though he is plain spoken to bluntness, he is likely to be popular. Ordinarily his reception room was crowded between the afternoon hours of two and four, but today only five persons awaited him —a fretful young matron without ailment, but possessed of a hobby for being under a physician’s care—a corpulent woman with an ailing throat —an old man with a cough, a big drummer with an impa'tient air, and a boy of fifteen with a bandaged wrist. “Is the doctor late again today, Lavinia?” The fretful lady directed captiously toward the maid, a middleaged negress of a lean and yellow cast of countenance, and a sardonic style of temperament. “He ain’t 'phoned he’s late,” Lavinia answered in an injured tone as light footsteps were heard on the landing, on which both the reception room and the inner office behind it opened. “I reckon that’s him now.” In another moment Stafford, a tall and fair young fellow, with keen blue eyes behind glasses and an unexpected dimple in his square chin, opened the door between the two rooms for the lady of the hobby, whose turn waslirst. When the old gentleman with the cough followed her, the impatient traveling man decided he could better ft ilitate his business by being at it, and went out. On the stairs he met two women, the one elderly and stooped with dark circles under her eyes, the other, tenderly supporting her, was what the big man called a “vision” that made him half wish he had staid for his turn in the office. Flora Dunham’s cheeks glowed above her black furs, her red dress Mllllllllli II I JJgr— ——v: i z V : MB — If I f TyP “Women Know So Little About Firearms." made a bright spot of color on the dark day and when she had settled the frail mother in one of the sleepyhollow chairs and asked after the welfare of Rick Ashbrook’s broken wrist her scarlet lips bestowed a smile on the sardonic creature behind the drooping begonia that made Lavinia brighten in spite of herself. “Lavinia will be good to you, mother dear,” the girl suggested presently, as she looked uneasily at the closed door. “If I run down for a little shopping while you are waitring, you won’t be lonely, will you?” “Go if you like, dear,” answered her mother. But Miss Dunham caught the wistful note in her voice. “No, I won’t leave you, darling,” she said, softly. “I don’t mind waiting up here.” But for some reason she did mind. She looked restlessly at the clock and moved her dhair so that it would be partially hidden when the inner door opened. Robert Stafford was too busy for much social life, but from the moment he had first seen Flora Dunham, when called .to attend her mother, her gay spirits had appealed to his more serious nature. Two weeks before this snowy afternoon he had asked her to marry him. "I would marry you if I were sure that I liked you better than anyone else,” she said, laughing in his solemn eyes. “I like you pretty well when you are a,round, but when there are* others around I like them pretty well, too.” “If I kept myself away—would that help you to come to a decision?” he had asked. She laughed again. “I don’t know; you might try it.” “Thank you,” he had said, simply. “I’ll keep away. But you’ll be good enough to let me know when you are sure, won’t you?” “When I see you again, face to face, I’ll tell you,” she had promised. Since then she had seen him only casually, never face to face. When her mother, out driving with her, had suddenly felt ill, Flora had suggested they go home and send for Dr. Staf- •> d. but Mrs. Dunham had insisted

that she would prefer to wait at the I office. When Stafford looked out to call the lady with the bad throat he did not see the girl. Flora breathed a sigh of relief. She was not sure and she did not want to look in his questioning face. “When it comes mother’s turn I’ll wait on the landing for her,” she thought. At that moment there was a soft step on the landing, the outer door opened and a small, pale man, with preternaturally bright and luminous black eyes, came in and paused by Flora’s chair. He addressed her in a quiet, even voice. “I have just had a message from heaven to put an end to every doctor in the world. I saw Dr. Stafford’s sign and I have come up to kill him. Is he in?” For an instant Flora’s heart stood still. “The doctor has not come yet,” she said, pleasantly, when it resumed its beating, “but it will not be long until he comes. He went to the country, did he not, Lavinia?” Lavinia’s dry lips opened stiffly. “Yes’m, he’s in the country,” they faltered. “So you’re going to kill him?” weat on the girl quickly. (“Dear Lord—show me what to do!” ran her thoughts.) “Oh, won’t that be fun. Tell us how you are going to do it?” Her forehead was wet with a cold perspiration, but she forced herself to smile at the lunatic. The man looked into her brown eyes with an answering smile. “I am going to shoot him.” “Won’t you show me your revolver?” she breathed, laying one slender, ice-cold hand persuasively on his arm. “Over by the window,” she amended as he took a small revolver out of his pocket. “It is so dark here and I want you to explain the workings ’of it to me.” Obediently he followed her to the window. Their backs were to the other three, but Flora knew that her mother lay in her chair in a' swoon. Would Rick Ashbrook or Lavinia manage to get help in time? Would they think to warn Dr. Stafford? The spitting of the fire in the stove was like thunder in her ears, but above it she heard the light tipping of rubbered feet. She laughbd to cover the sound. “Women know so little about firearms,” she cried, merrily. “Where is it you put the cartridges?” If Rob did open the door could she strike the thing that meant his death from the maniac’s hands? O for the presence of the big man they had met on the stairs, or even William, their coachman, holding the horse below — big stalwart black William! After what seemed years she heard a doorknob turn. Her heart stood still, but it was the outer door and before she could turn her head the police of the town and three other big fellows were upon the lunatic and grappling with him, while the revolver fell to the floor. The inner door opened hastily and the intended victim came out. With a little gasping cry Flora ran to him and flung her arms about his neck. “You’ve had a narrow escape, Stafford,” one of the men volunteered a moment later, when, the demented man safely shackled, the other started down the steps with him. “This crazy gentleman came up here to kill you, he said, and if the young lady hadn’t had the presence of mind, after he told his business, to talk and entertain him while young Ashbrook and your maid slipped down for us, you’d have been a dead one the minute you opened that door!” With a shudder Stafford tightened his hold about the girl clinging to him and sobbing. “O, Rob!” she burst out, stormily. “He might have killed you! He might have killed you!” “And you would have cared?” he murmured, his heart beating suffocat ingly. “It isn’t fair to ask you, Flo, when you’re so shaken, but I’d love to know if by this time you’re sure you love me.” . “O Rob, I don’t know!” she cried, burying her wet face in his white office coat “But I would have died if you bad been killed!” Stafford smiled contentedly. Old Houses Rebuilt In Rome. Italy is making great preparations for the Industrial exposition which will be held at Turin this summer. As an annex to this there will be an artistic exposition at Rome that may have even greater Interest for the tourist. One of the features of this will be the reconstruction of ancient and medieval houses of different periods and typical of the principal cities of Italy. For instance, there will be rebuilt the house in which St Francis was born at Assisi, and the Ravenna gate of Faenza. If is intended to make this architectural exhibit the most elaborate of Its kind ever shown. Deserved to Escape. A remarkably resourceful and tough old seaman is Captain Page, who was recently wrecked off the coast of Sydney, Australia. The captain, who is seventy years of age tried to run round by himself to Sydney in his own little craft from Manly. An unpleasant, choppy sea was experienced, .however, and the rudder broke away. The launch drifted helplessly for some distance and then struck a hidden rock. With remarkable pluck for a man of his years, Captain Page secured the launch’s painter and sprang overboard, and swimming bravely, towed his launch to a rocky Island some sixty yards away, from which he was picked up many hours afterwards, none the worse for his adventure.

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