The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 March 1911 — Page 6

The Sheriff’s Daughter By CARL JENKINS When a man is bored with the club, the theatre, the hippodrome and his friends, the only thing for him to do Is to take a trip to the country to hunt the rabbit and get his mind in a new channel. The rabbit is a harmless and humble animal. He expects to be hunted. He yields up his life as a cure for ennui. Without the rabbit as a bulwark the best of friends would quarrel at times. Thus Ronald Bligh left the town for the country and brought up among the rabbits. He had a diploma as a civil engineer, but an aunt was inconsiderate enough to die and leave him a fortune and so what was the use? Why should he vex his brains* with mathematical problems when he’could sit in a leather chair at the club and plan a trip up . the Mediterranean? And, further, when he has heard of a quiet village that can be reached in an hour and a half —a quiet village with a fairly decent tavern —a quiet village with rabbits almost leaving their tracks in the main street, what’s the use of his being bored or of boring others? Mr. Bligh arrived at the quiet village. He sauntered out with gun on shoulder and peppered rabbits. He also peppered other things —at least one other thing. He peppered a dog belonging to a farmer. It was a dog that objected to the hunter plowing through a foot of snow on his master’s land. The hunter and the farmer differed as to the value of the canine and it thus came about that the farmer took a trip to the county seat and procured a warrant for malicious trespass and called upon the sheriff to serve it. The sheriff was in bed with a rheumatic attack and his constables scattered here and there and the red-hot farmer wanted that warrant served \AwfT 11 JOI tvl fm I y Hi v e W' ilvl < i ft K F /lii I 111 If —I 1 "Well, I Have a Warrant for Your Arrest." Ins/anter. * The culprit would probably leave the state within a day. It was the) farmer’s insistence that brought about many events. Mr. Bligh had returned to the quiet village and the tavern and had eaten a fairly decent supper and sat down in I his room for a smokC when the landlord came up and informed him that Miss Finchley was in the sittingroom and wished to speak to him. ‘‘And who the devil is Miss Finchley?” asked the surprised rabbit hunter. j‘A very nice young lady—very nite.” “But I can’t remember any one of heir name.” “No? Well, she is Inquiring for you. Slie may want to ask you about the price of hats in New York." The landlord was no joker, but he sometimes got off a good thing as above. After pondering over the matter for a moment the rabbit hunter wjent down stairs. As he reached the sitting-room a young lady arose and cime forward to ask: J “Did you have some trouble with farmer Henderson today?” “It might have been Henderson; I didn’t learn his name.” “Well, I have a warrant for your arrest. It is made out in the name of John Doe, but I guess you are the one wanted. You will have to come with me” j “But how—how is it!” exclaimed tjhe hunter. “I’m the sheriff’s daughter, you see. He deputizes me now and then to make an arrest. I hope you won’t think of resisting the law. I must take you to the county seat. You ban probably get ball there.” “And you mean I’m actually under arrest?” “I have served the warrant, si/*. Should you refuse to go quietly “ “Oh, I’ll go quietly enough!” The sheriff’s daughter had come with horse and cutter, and a score of idlers i had gathered to see the prisoner taken away and to comment on his desperate looks and offer to go along as I guards. j Almost as soon as they drove out of the village Mr. Bligh began to talk on other matters, and he soon found that his captor was as well educated as ahe was good looking. . He had been

surprised and vexed at flrat, but he now took the adventure more in the light of a lark. The horse was fast, the sleighing fine, and the conversation I Interesting. The rabbit hunter had almost forgotten that he was a prisoner when they suddenly stopped before a twostory brick building with iron-barred windows. “This Is the jail,” was quietly announced. “You see, it is too late for you to be arraigned this evening. That will take place at 9 o’clock in the morning.” “And I’m to be jailed over night?” “You can’t give bail until you are arraigned, you know.” “But —but I was never in jail, you know.” “No?” “And the club fellows would guy the life out of me. No; I’d never hear the last of it.” “But you see, Mr. Bligh, you are a very desperate man,” replied the girl as she turned her face away. “The farmer says you threatened to blow off his head. Now that I have you here I am wondering how I dared arrest) you. You could have cut my throat and made off with the rig.” “Miss Finchley, I have enjoyed my drive with the sheriff’s daughter, even though a prisoner, but I don't want any more of the law until morning. I will go to the inn and report myself here at 9 o’clock. Or, if you’d rather, we’ll ride about the country all night. This is my first cutter ride in 15 years.” “We must think of the poor horse. I think of him. And you mustn’t come Into court in the morning looking ) sleepy. Let me see? The jailer is | asleep, the cells are not provided with I beds, and I believe there are about 30 tramps in the place. Yes; | you might go to the inn, but if you should skip out on me they’d raise a row with my father. Down the street | one block, Mr. Bligh, and then to your | left one block.” ilr. Bligh raised his hat and bade het good-night and departed, and though he found the bed at the inn I very comfortable it was a long time before he fell asleep. He decided that thle country was indeed the place for the man who was bored. He was up for an early breakfast next morning, and as he finished it he found a man at his elbow who said: “I am Gripps, the lawyer. I have i taken your case.” “But I —l haven’t employed you.” _ “No. Miss Finchley telephoned me. She said if you hadn’t escaped I’d better see you through." “Thanks to Miss Finchley.” ; Farmer Henderson prized that old dbg above rubies. He was also mad clear through at the way the rabbit hunter had “sassed” him on his own land. He took the stand and made j it out so desperate that the justice j doubted his testimony and discharged the prisoner. Then he was overcome dgain when Mr. Bligh put a S2O ’dll In his hand and said he was sorry the thing had happened. Whpn the lawyer received his fee he was asked where the sheriff resided. ! “Why, in the north wing of the jail,” he replied. “You don’t owe him { any thanks.” “N-o-o, but ” Half an hour later he was holding out his hand to the sheriff’s daughter and trying to say nice things, while at j the same time he was saying to him- j self that daylight had brought jut ad- ; ditional charms. She showed him ’ through the jail he came so near occupying, introduced him to her father, and was so friendly that when he was ready to go he made bold enough to ask: “Miss Finchley, are there any rab- } bits in the country hereabouts?” “Thousands, they tell me,” was the ) answer. “Then I shall move over here and hunt them.” And there are those mean enough to say that he hasn’t killed a single rabbit yet, but is hunting for a bride, instead. Not the Answer Expected. Whitefield, whose dramatic appeals to his listeners were always a noteworthy part of his sermons, once preached to a body of seamen in New York. In the course of his sermon he introduced the following words: “Well, my boys, we have a clear sky, and are making fine headway over a smooth sea, before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of land; but what means this sudden lowering of the heavens and that dark cloud rising from the western horizon? Hark! Don’t you hear the distant thunder? Don’t you see those flashes of lightning? There’is a storm gathering! Every man to his duty! How the waves rise and dash against the ship! The air is dark! The tempest rages! Durmasts are gone! The ship Is on her beam ends! What next?” The hands of every sailor were gripping the pews in front of them and a wild excitement was in their eyes. And when the preacher reached the climax of his dramatic speech they sprang to their feet in a body and shouted, “Take the long boat!”—New York Sun. Paying the Freight. Tourist—How much your bows and arrows? Indian—Bows, arrow, free dollar. Tourist— Why, In New York, they're only 50 cents! Indian —In New York no have pay freight to Idaho. —Judge, Not Short and Ugly. “Do you believe in using words of one syllable?” asked the student of politics. “Certainly not,” replied Senate’Sorghum. “Every real gentlemc says ‘perqulsltles’ Instead of ‘graft.

Washing; knGossip The Bryces and Gould-Decies Wedding

HOMEAHD S WASHINGTON— Somebody with a nose for a “scare story” precipiated the tale around Washington that ts the Ambassador Bryces did not go io the Gould-Decies wedding, w-hlle the terribly swagger military attache of the embassy, Capt. Sowerby K . and his equally swagger compatriot and diplomatic colleague, Lord Eustace Percy, 4id, why, therefore, and consequently, there must be a sure enough “mad” an between the Ambassador Bryces and the Decies, or the Goulds, or both. As a matter of record, almost every time there is a big International wedding on the tapis, the head of the em- ) bassy of the country represented by the bridegroom, duly and properly puts on all his ambassadorial good clothes : and thus fittingly equipped with all the “atmosphere” of his high office as perI sonal representative of his majesty-of-whatever-country, duly attends the I wedding. This time the Bryces did j not observe the custom, so there was a thrilling “now what” whispered all j over Washington, when, after the wedI ding was over, the Dowager Lady

Statehood Advocates Invade Capital

rv cm WASHINGTON was invaded recently by an army of leading politicians and business men from Arizona and ) New Mexico, who came to urge con- . gress to take favorable action on [ statehood for these territories. It had been supposed this action could be taken by the president and statehood accomplished by proclamation, in case congress should adjourn ) without acting. But the statehood I boomers found that Attorney General Wickersham held differently. He says the enabling act contains an alternative clause making approval by joint resolution necessary. To the constitution submitted by New Mexico the principal objection o' sered came from those who wante state-wide prohibition article incori rated. The objection raised against the Arizona constitution has been that it contains a sweeping recall provision applying to the judiciary as every other elective office. Under the Arizona constitution the people can recall the judges of any ) court and the provision is said to of-

Railway Mail Clerks Make a Protest

lfUipg-1 BEST rao (WHY, GEE w WHlz ' rr ’* s ' — somethin’ , ..Jgk HERC E- - THE men employed in the railway mail service have successfully appealed to congress to correct what they call the “intolerable conditions” brought about by the attempt of the department to “take up the slack” in the service. This “take up the slack” order was issued about six months ’ ago. The object of the order was to obtain greater uniformity in the average hours of work in a day by the railway mail clerks. According to representations made both to congress and to the postmaster-general th order has caused great demoralization in the service. In some sections of the country the railway mail clerks have threatened to quit in a body unless relief was afforded. The controversy has hung on the

Hobson Again Predicts War With Japs

CONGRESSMAN RICHARD PEARson Hobson of Alabama, in a recent red-hot speech in the house of representatives, said that war with Japan was bound to come, and he believed that it would come within ten months. We are utterly unprepared, he said. Japan is prepared. In fact, she is practically bankrupt because of her war chest. He detailed all of the various causes as to why Japan will make war on us. Once the war is on, he said, the European nations will try to stop it and our moneyed men will cry for peace, but the nation in its pride will persist and the struggle will last for years and will become one simply. of endurance. He argues for an Increased navy as protection.

Decles and her daughter, Hon. Mrs. Wilkerson, bore down upon the capital for a nice little visit with the former naval attache of the American embassy at London and Mrs. Gibbons. When the visitors arrived they were promptly and fearfully feasted afternoon and evening—at the homes of smart society, at the country clubs, and, incidentally, over to the White House they journeyed one pleasant afternoon and drank five o’clock tea with Mrs. Taft. Next thing everybody knew the Dowager Lady Decies was dining over at the British embassy. Now the story goes that the ambassador didn’t go to the wedding because he isn’t fond of wearing his gold-laced clothes. Mrs. Bryce, who has a naively frank enjoyment of the glamour and glitter of ambassadorial prominence and such internationally glorious international events as the Gould-De-cies wedding, likes nothing better than to get properly “fixed up” and be among “those present,” and she, wasn’t pleased a bit when* the ambassador shrugged his scholarly shoulders and, thinking how much more comfy he would be sitting at home with a nice well-thumbed book on his knee, stopped pat in Washington. However, Mrs. Bryce, like the wise and obedient wife she is, put her glorious raiment and contented herself with reading the newspaper accounts of ine great event.

fend those who are sticklers for upholding the dignity of the judiciary. The Arizona men say a good judge who doesn’t become inoculated with corporation and trust microbes has nothing to fear from the recall, but that the official life of a judge who leans away from the law- might be shortened by the recall provision, and it was to provide for such cases,that it was made applicable to the judiciary as well as other offices. The gist of the Arizona argument to a cornered congressman was: “After our recent election 90 per cent of the people voted to approve the constitution. We know what we want. We know what Arizona needs. Why don’t you let us have the constitution we made and approved? Let us attend to cj.tr own affairs —we are plenty able to do it.” It was a strong committee that came on from Arizona, though not as large as could have been brought, for business men all over the state volunteered to join the invasion of Washington if it was thought their presence would help. The committee was carefully selected from among the volunteers and instead of chartering a special train and making a junket out of the trip, each member came on his own account, regarding it as a serious business matter, rather than a pleasure jaunt.

question as to what shall constitute a working day for the railway mail clerks. The burden of the complaint has been that a large majority of the men on road duty were not, prior to the issuing of the “take up the slack” order, makin the hours now required. Official notice has now been given to the clerks that on the lines where their work is heavy continuously sot six days each week, the standard of the service hours shall be considered as six hours. It is announced also that credit for overtime will be given to clerks who do terminal work at either end of their runs, or extra work that requires them to remain on duty beyond the standard number of hours. With this arrangement the clerks generally have expressed themselves as quite satisfied. There are 14,483 railway postal clerks assigned to road duty. The total average of time on duty on trains and at terminals is now six hours and thirty-two minutes. The postoffice department insists that it has had no desire to put additional burdens on the men.

Japan and the United States will go ■ to war in the near future. The con- i filet will begin in less than ten months. The war will last five years, perhaps ten. The Panama canal will be destroyed, and in the end this nation will carry the war to Japan and conquer that kingdom. These are a few of the predictions made by Representative Hobson, who used to be an officer in the navy. “We will be struck,” he declared, “and when we are —gentlemen may differ with me as to the time, but I firmly believe it can be counted in months on the fingers of my two hands—we will find ourselves practically powerless. The nations of the world will call on us to give up the war and not continue to disturb the peace of the world, Just as we did with Russia in her war with Japan. Our own financiers will demand that we end an apparently hopeless struggle. “But we will not give up. We will fight on, angered and humiliated, until it becomes a mere question of rw sources.'*

CAP I and jBELLS i HOST WAS EAGER TO PLEASE Fastidious Guest at Philadelphia Hotel Who Preferred Axle Grease to Butter Is Satisfied. One of the smaller hotels in Market ! street serves meals very cheaply. ) They have a table d’hote there for 30 I cents, and, as might be Imagined, the viands are not the best. The proprieI tor is a jolly good fellow and is a noted humorist. This keeps him from be- ) Ing annoyed by the frequent kicks made to him by his touchy patrons. • The other day a most fastidious gentleman complained. “What do you call that?” he asked ) of the hotel man. i “Butter, sir; what else?” retorted the boniface. “Why, I’d as soon eat axle grease as that butter,” snapped the patron. “John,” called the hotel man to one ) of the waiters, “run out to the kitchen II and get the gentleman some of that i axle grease we use on the elevator.” — ! Philadelphia Times. His Money’s Worth. “Sixtane shilluns a da’ did they i charrge me for my room at the hotel I in Lunnon! ” roared Sandy, indignantly, on his return to Croburgh Burgh from a sight-seeing expedition. 1 1 “Ou, aye, it wasna cheap,” agreed his father; “but ye must ’a’ had a gey I fine time seein’ the ischts.” II “Seein’ the sichts!” roared Sandy. “I didna see a sicht a’ the time I was in Lunnon. Mon, mon, ye dinna suppose ) I was going to be stuck that much for I a room, an’ then no get the proper use o’t!” —Tit-Bits. END OF THE FIGHT. fS3 “I am sorry to say,” said the lawyer, “that the $50,000 left by your I grandfather is all gone. We have just made an inventory of the estate and find that there is nothing left.” “Thank heaven,” replied the heir at ■ law. “Now the fight over the will will be settled at once, and I shall not have to bother about it any more.” No Clew. Stranger—Yes, I have the general lojatlbn of my friend s building and the name of the street, but I can’t find the place.” Citizen —Haven’t you anything more lefinite?” Stranger—Nothing, except the architect’s point of how the finished building would look. At His Worst. The Doctor —Isn’t bowling rather an expensive pastime? The Professor —I think so. I have read of an English statesman, if my memory serves me rightly, who was spoken of as Bowlingbroke. Keeping Them Busy. Redd —I see it is said that the automobile Industry provides a livelihood for 1,000,000 persons. Green —Gee! Are there as many doctors and helpers In the hospitals as all that? What He Slipped On. “And you say you had a bad fall, Pat?” “Indade I did, sir.” “What did you slip on?” “Shure, I think it was on a Monday, sir.” Discrimination. “What do you charge for your rooms ?” “Five dollars up.” “But I’m a student —” “Then it’s five dollars down."—Cornell Widow. The Truth of It. Old Man Kerrigan—“Ut’s too bad Kelley died —such a foine felley! Old Man Mooney—Well, yls—but, then, If nobody died there’d be no foine felleys—Punch. Her Egotism. The Bride —George believes I am the sweetest thing that ever happened. The Friend—lndeed! The Bride —Yes; and I agree with | dear George in everything. 1

WHERE OIL IS MOST NEEDED ;■ Chauffeur Lubricates Automobile | Thoroughly but Overlooked the License Number. “Giles,” said De Whizz to his chauf- j feur, before he started on his run I across the state, “have you oiled the machine thoroughly?” “Yes, sir.” “Are you sure, Giles?” “Yes, sir. I have filled the spring 1 cups and the engine reservoir and 1 have greased the cornet-a-piston, th« | pluribus unum, the exhaust pipe, the muffled tread, the thingumbob, the ) rigamajig and both the the hot boxes.” “Are you sure those are all the I parts you have oiled, Giles?” “Yes, sir.” “You have forgotten the most important place of all. Take the can and squirt a few drops of oil on the license number so that the dust will I collect on it and make it hard to read. ■ Always remember to lubricate the license number, Giles.” —Lippincott’s. ISN’T HE MEAN? Bigley—Aren’t you afraid to face home after forgetting your wife’s package? Littleton —Not at all; the minute I reach the house I’ll start praising the biscuits I had for breakfast. As It Used to Be. “Have you got a good part?” asks the friend of the actor who has been | engaged to play in Bill Shakespeare’s company at the Globe theater. “Fairish,” answered the player. “I’ve I got “Mercutio’ in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ I’m glad, because I think if a fellow can do one or two seasons in Shake speare’s plays he can get a big enough I reputation to go into melodrama.”— i Life. Too Much of a Strain. “I don’t think grand opera in Eng- I lish will be any improvement.” “You don’t?” “No, When Igoto a grand opera in I French I know I can’t understand what they’re singing, and I take it easy. But the strain to try to understand Eng ) lish as the grand opera stars will sing i it will ju§t about drive me crazy.” Graduation in Exercise. Acquaintance — Mudge, you look tired. Still holding that job in the j department store? It’s time you were promoted. Young. Father—Well, I have been, in ) a sort of way. I’m a counter jump ) er in the daytime a floor walker at night. Once. “Once I entertained an angel unawares.” *‘How was that?” “I had met a lady who was starring in musical comedy and I Invited her and the gentleman wrho was with her to dinner. Later I learned that he was baking her show.” — His Old Job. “Have you never done any work?” asked the considerate lady, as she cu< the third piece of pie. “Yes, ma’am,” replied Hungry Hank, “I used to work at bossin’ me chauffeur an’ me valet. I was a nabob in them days, ma’am.” Encouragement. “Well,” said one art critic, “I think our efforts have improved the display of public statuary in one respect.” | “What is that?” “You don’t see wooden Indians in ! front of cigar stores any more.” Such Is Life. “Well, you are famous now, my boy. Your old landlord has placed a tablet : on the house you occupied so many years.” “Is that so? He never would paper it while I was there.” Set a Hot Pace. The Friend —Have you used your flying machine? The Inventor —No; but my wife has. She used it for kindling last week.” ’ Its Mission. “I regard the hobble skirt as a highly reformatory agent” “How do you make that out?” “Because it compels one to walk in the straight and narrow path.” Scorcher’s Preference. “Automobiling isn’t so good In cold weather as in warm, is it?'* “Better,” replied Mr. Chuggins, “provided it’s cold enough to keep the constables indoors.” A Dangerous Crossing. “And,” said the fortune teller, “an enemy will shortly cross your path." “Gee!” quoth the automobilist “I hope he does It where there ain’t sneed limits.”—Puck

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