The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 51, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 April 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE. - - INDIANA. •BOY TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD H* Thought This Book Was the Best Kind of an instructor and* Entertainer. A man who toils in a down-town ; building had just hired a new office l boy. The young man. in acordance J with the traditions about new brooms, seemed eager to make himself useful j and tried to fill in his spare time by straightening up things around the office. This was something new around that office, but the boss bore it awhile in .silence, hot wishing to discourage I ambition. After lunch one day he i came in to find that his desk had been nicely cleaned, his papers neatly stacked, and everything set in order. He restrained his exasperation and called ; the boy over. “Now see here," he said, “you need- i n't try to keep busy all the time. Just stay, within reach, that will be enough for the present. How am I going to know where anything is if you insist on cleaning up my desk? Now don’t i you touch it in the future. If you can’t find anything else to do, get something and read.’’ “I’ve read everything there is around here,” said the scared boy. “Then go out and get something—get a book that will be instructive and j at the same time entertaining,” said ’ the boss shortly. The boy took him at his word and returned with a piece of literature with which he sat down in a corner. He did not stir again for hours, and troubled himself no more about office disorders. His boss finally became curious to know what it -was that made the youth so suddenly ob- ; livlous to the flight of time and the pricks of ambition. He glanced over the boy’s shoulder and read the title of the book. It was “The Life and Battles of James J. Jeffries.” . j Stone Carvings of the World. A casual picture of the Hall of Monoliths at Mitla reminds us that there is a Hall of Columns at Karnak. They say the new world follows the fashions of the old. Yet we have our own Egypt—our own pyramids and ■ sculptured temples. On American soil i «- people set up pillars carved with the symbolic shorthand of some forgotten I knowledge that seems to have held ; the key to mysterious mathematic, geometric, astronomic, cosmogonic. : Were the Egyptians ever in America, j or the Americans in Egypt? But not Mexico and Egypt alone ■ have their sculptured monuments. Peru also has its Cyclopean} masonry. i Easter Island, Afghanistan, its Bamian statues; Cambodia its Nagkon Wat, Java its Temple of Borobudor, England its Stonehenge, Brittany its wealth of dolmenes and mohairs. All over the world, seemingly, were these : mighty builders and engravers, with [ their mystic science, which they were anxious to preserve through spine impending catastrophe. — Century Path. Dog Saved Baby. } A fierce battle took place recently near the Henry river, Australia, be- j tween a collie dog and a large eagle. Three sons of Mr. W. Parker of New- ' ton Boyd, went to bathe in the river and left a three-year-old brother playing with the dog on’the bank. Suddenly a great eagle hawk, measuring six to eight feet from tip to tip pf the wings, swooped down on the child with talons ready hooked. It hit the boy on the head, and returned with the evident intention of taking him off,, w’hen the,dog leaped into the air and caught the bird by the claws. The boy’s screams brought the brothers hastily on the scene, but sticks and stones had no effect on the monster, and the eldest boy rushed for a gun, but wlien he got back the eagle was soaring away over the river. But for the faithfulness of the wise dog, the child would undoubtedly have been carried off. — Women Are Gamblers. The Rev. C. B. Mitchell of Chicago has come out flatfooted with the declaration that women are gamblers. He asserted that card playing by members of women's clubs for prizes to the purchase of which each member has contributed should be prohibited. "There never was a time when ■ card playing in women’s clubs was so ! prevalent. In many of the clubs it is a practice for each player to contrlb- i ute her share toward the purchase of a prize. When this is done the women are gambling and each one be- ' comes a gambler as much as if she | were playing for money. “Gambling consists in staking on a i chance something that belongs to you. | It Is an abandonment of reason. You must admit that the sin ofi gambling lies in the willful dethronement of reason.” Immune. “That Tennessee girl I met at your home isn’t at all sentimental, and yet she looks ft I called her attention to the full moon and asked her if the Tennessee quality of moonshine could equal ours, and she didn’t seem to understand what I was talking , about” "Gee, you certainly made an awful mistake.” ' ' "Why?” “Because her old father makes a I Quality of moonshine that is consider- | ed so bad that the revenue never interfere with him.” P *

IS HERE TO Sffl ___ Control and Publicity for Publio Service Corporations. VERDICT OF PROMINENT MAN Theodore N. Vail, President of Western Union and Telephone Companies, Recognizes Rights of the American Public. Public regulation of public service corporations has come to stay. It ought to have come and it ought to stay. That is the flat and unequivocal assertion of Theodore N. Vail, presi dent of both the American Telephone and. Telegraph company and the Western Union Telegraph company. It came In the form of his annual report to the seventy thousand stockholders of the two great corporations. Although Mr. Vail’s advocacy of full publicity In connection with the affairs of such concerns was well understood, nobody in financial circles had anticipated so frank an avowal of full public rights in the shaping of their general conduct It came consequently as a surprise, not only because of its novelty and squareness, but also on account -of ' the unqualified acquiescence of a board of directors comprising such eminent and conservative financiers as Robert Winson, of Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Henry L. Higginson of Boston, Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Senator W. Murray Crane, George F. Baer, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Norman W. Harris, John I. Waterbury end others. President Vail’s declaration is heralded as the first recognition by those in high corporate authority of the justice of the demand that the public be regarded as virtual partners in all matters that pertain to the common welfare. He goes directly to the point. “Public control or regulation of public service corporations by permanent commissions,” he says, “has come and come to* stay. Control or regulation, to be effective, means publicity; It means semi-public discussion and consideration before action; fit means everything which is the opposite of and Inconsistent with effective competition. Competition—aggressive, effective competition—means strife, Industrial warfare; it means contention; it oftentimes lAeans taking advantage of or resorting to any means that the conscience of the contestants or the degree of the enforcement of the laws will permit. “Aggressive competition means duplication of plant and investment The ultimate object of such competition is the possession of the field wholly or partially; therefore it means either ultimate combination on such basis and with such prices as will cover past losses, or it means less of return on investment, and eventual loss of capital. However it results, all costs of aggressive, uncontrolled competition are eventually borne, directly or Indirectly, by the public. Competition which Is not aggressive, presupposes co-operative action, understandings, agreements, which result In general uniformity er harmony of action, which, in fact, is not competition but is combination, unstable, but for the time effective. When thoroughly understood it will be found that ‘control’ will give more of the benefits and public advantages, which are expected to be obtained through such ownership, and will obtain them without the public burden of either the public office-holder or public debt or operating deficit “When through a wise and judicious state control and regulation all the advantages without any of the disadvantages of state ownership are secured, state ownership is doomed.” °“lf Mr. Vail is right,” says Harper’s Weekly in a concise sum-ming-up, “then it seems pretty plain that we are entered upon a new era in both economics and politics. And it is high time we did if evolution Is to supplant revolution as an efficient force in the development of civilization.” Fighting Man. It is man’s nature to fight. It is his merit to fight for what he believes to be right. Courage and bravery are not achieved by hiring a lawyer. A man who is not willing to fight to the I death for the right or for his own is not as good or complete a man as one who is is willing. But opinions about this are not so? Important as the fact that it is man’s nature to fight, and that neither resolutions nor legislation nor provision to get over all kinds o! trouble in any other way than fighting will avail.—Ellwood Hendricks, in At- } lantic. —: Mere to the Purpose. “Are you in favor of a ten-houi day?" “I don’t care anything about ths days,” replied young Rounderley, “but It would be a jolly good thing If w« could have 24-hour nights.” Misguided Energy. “I am bound to make a noise in th/ world,” said the determined youth. "But be careful how you go about It," replied Mr. Osage Spouter. “Aj amateur with a bass drum can spot the finest symphony ever written." — Joyous Economist. "You don’t mind high prices?" "No,” replied the resolute phllosoI pher. "When prices are high, think I how much mono you save every time l you decide to got along without ioa» i thing/'

SCENE IN PLAGUE-STRICKEN MANCHURIA Hi Sjj i « .*> IP ■ I Wi /w '-.awbr 'i' -’ TnE deaths from plague in Manchuria amount approximately to 200 daily, but the reduction in the death rate in different centers continues. The procession here depicted shows the inhabitants of Kwang-cheng-tsze, near ; Harbin, parading the streets wjth a figure of Buddha, to whom prayers are daily offered., for deliverance from further spread of the terrible scourge. Although the most stringent precautions are being taken by the Chinese j 'authorities, the question of continuing the unstinted expenditure which Is being incurred in combating the plague is becoming critical.

TRAPPING THE WARY BEASTS

; Caution of Martens and Foxes Is Taken Advantage of by Hunters In Nofthern Maine. — ' Olamon, Me.—A curious feature of trapping fur bearing animals in the ; woods of northern Maine is that iri many cases the hunters are enabled to succeed by reason of the extreme caution of the animals themselves. Along the swift waters of the upper Penobscot river the most valuable fur 1 is that of the slim and alert fisher cat, or marten. The American fisher Is one of the most cautious creatures of the forests and streams, and only a j few Indians and white trappers have the secret of luring it to the vicinity lof traps. The fisher will never negotiate anything but live fish for bait, and will never approach its food save from the shore side of a stream or ■ lake. As a rule when winter fishermen catch tropt through the ice they pass ,on from hidden eddies to deep holes, i chopping canals in the surface ice as they go, which when filled with water are used to hold the live trout until they return over the same stream later in the day. The trappers of fisher cats, finding half torpid trout squirming about in the icy water, make ready to parry out their plans.. The -flat trencher of a stout steel trap 1 is baited with a live trout, which has become too weak to spring the mechanism, and a deeper water canal than usual is chopped far inshore, if possible under a limb of an overhanging 1 tree. I I' The fisher never walks up or down the stream on the open ice, but clings ' close to the shore. At the sight of ths living trout ©n top of the ice the ; fisher creeps out cautiously and hav- '; tog mads sure the coast is clear leaps ’ i directly from the shore or the tree on I top of the trout, only to be clutched in the jaws of the trap. In .most parts of New England foxes enter baited traps set in running water without, great hesitation. Further north along the Allagash river not a I fox will enter a trap save through i strategy, although the bait may be I scented with secret preparations costing much money to buy and use. j The, best results are secured by sticking, a limber spring pole upright r to the ground or in a snowdrift in the center of a small clearing in the forest, the spring pole having a dead hare or the body of a hen or duck attached by the neck and lifted a foot or less above the level surface. Two or more steel traps are put out set but unbaited from ten to fifteen feet from the spring pole. When an old fox comes along and t scents the flesh he sniffs the air for a i long time, and begins slowly to circle , the pole, keeping far away from the bait at flrat, but drawing nearer with

every turn. The process is long and slow. At some point along the course the fox, with ears and nostrils and eyes always intent upon the suspended bait, steps suddenly within the open jaws of the trap, which closes with a snap, and the fox is an active and regretful prisoner until the trapper comes along and removes the pelt. Aeroplane Flights Are Barred. San Francisco. —A report was brought here by the steamer Mongolia from the orient that Aviator J. C. Mars Was prohibited by the British authorities from making flights at Hongkong.- The British government has strict regulations against the use of aeroplanes within the sight of fortifications. Mars, who left here in January, gave exhibitions in Honoulu. It is said that he planned ambitious work on the present tour.

HOW TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS

Grade School Children of Des Moines to Be Taught the Art of Self-Preservation. Des Moines, lowa. —Des Moines grade school children will be taught how to prevent accidents to themselves while in the city streets, if the Greater Des Moines school board decides to adopt a plan which will soon be proposed by Dan Finch, claim agent for the Des Moines City Railway company. Mr. Finch stated that he expects to go before the board and suggest a course of study which he believes, if followed by the children, will cut down accidents to the people of Dee Moines in the future. The plan Mr. Finch has mapped out embodies numerous suggestions which, if told the children by their school teachers, will cause them to exercise much greater care while in the streets. “Adults can not be taught to exercise care,” said Mr. Finch. “They will continue to be careless and get hurt. There is no need, however, of allowing the children to grow dp to the same rut their fathers and mothers have lived in. Teach the child that danger lurks In the crowded street and how to avoid it, and the death and injury rate will be cut down 90 per cent in a few years. Parents seldom give the child any more than a parting warning. The only sure way to impress on a child’s mind that it should be careful in the streets is to have it taught in the schools. “The children should be taught how to get on and off street cars. They should also be taught to stop, look and listen at crossings. When to the busiest streets they should have It

HEN RESTORES A LOST COIN Intelligent White Leghorn, Owned by Tarrytown Man, Picks Up Nickel He Had Dropped. Tarrytown, N. Y. —John Grohan ol Glenville believes he owns the most Intelligent hen in New York state. The hen, which is a white Leghorn, is a pet, and Grohan has taught it many tricks. Grohan, who is employed in Tarrytown, has to take the trolley every morning. The hen follows him to the tracks, when he goes aboard the hen turns around and goes home. Grohan overslept once, and he was in such a hurry to catch the trolley that he forgot about the hen until he boarded the car. He heard a flopping of wings behind him, and turning, saw the hen looking up from the ground. It lighted on his shoulder, and as it did a coin fell to the floor. It was a nickel. In his hurry to get away Grohan had dropped the coin and the hen picked it up and ran after him.

deeply im. ressed on their minds that the utmost caution should be taken to crossing. Not only would such a plan save the children from injury, but the ■ lessons learned in childhood are never forgotten. In Portland, Ore., and several other western cities, I am told, the study of self-preservation is one of the regular courses of study in the grade schools. Des Moines should keep abreast of- the times, and I hope that the people and the board will become deeply interested in the movement.” Big Farm for Tramps. Albany, N. Y. —The New York state board of charities in its annual report to the legislature recommends the establishment of a million-dollar farm colony for • tramps and vagrants. It points out that these classes are now kept. practically in idleness to the penitentiaries, jails and workhouses at an annual cost of $2,000,000, whereas, following the example of a number of countries of Europe, they could be humanely maintained and cared for in farm colonies which could be made self-supporting through their labor. Mrs. Harriman Pays Big Tax. Salt Lake City, Utah.—State officials have forwarded to New York for collection a check for $798,546.85 signed by Mary W. Harriman. The check was given in payment of the 5 per cent inheritance tax on 55,000 shares of common and 51,900 shares of preferred stock in the Union Paci sic railroad, worth $15,980,937, belong ing to the estate of the late E. H. Harriman. Utah was entitled to the tax. as the Union Pacific is incorporated in this state.

BELLS ULTIMATUM OF MRS. DUGGAN "Uplifters” Must o Either Do Her Washing or Pay Her Fifty Cents an Hour for Listening. "I should like to chat with you a while, Mrs. Duggan,” the young lady says, who has taken up settlement work. “I want to talk with you about ” “Are ye one of them uplifters?” Mrs. Duggan interrupts, without taking her hands from the washtub. “Well —in a sense, that is my hope.” “Well, I’ve just this to say. I was one day behind with my washin’s last week because of helpful visitin’ committee ladies, an’ from now on them that wants to improve my condition In life will either have to do th’ washin’ while I sit an 'listen or pay me fifty cents an hour f’r bearin’ them through with an interested an’ Inspirin’ expression.”—Judge. Didn’t Remember It. "John,” his wife called from the top of the stairway, “what are you doing down there?” “’M tryin’ to get m’ overcoat off, m’ dear, thash all.” “Well, what’s the matter? I never knew before that your overcoat was hard to get off.” “'S funny thing. I never knew It t' c’m off hard b’fore, eisher. Can’t un’rstand It. Shay, when did I get thlsh overcoat that buttonish up back, ’nyhow ?” All Right Otherwise. i Everybody who knows Professor I McGoozle is aware that he is the most i absent minded man on the planet. This Is what he said to the optician: “I wish you would see what is the matter with these spectacles. Something has been wrong with them for more than a week.” The oculist examined them. “There is nothing the matter with those spectacles,” he said, handing them back, “except that the glasses have dropped out of them." Didn’t Get It “And did you call on that woman for her gas bill today?”’ asked the manager of the office. “Yes, sir,” replied the green collector. “And what did she say?” “She asked me to take a chair.” “And did you?” “No, I told her you wouldn’t accept anything but money in payment!”— Yonkers Statesman. PROBABLE. (^| rMK James —Yes. she jilted me, for some reason or another. Jessie —You’re right; she probably jilted you for another. Resistless Stream. “I understand he lets his wife do all the talking.” “Yes: in the same way that a man stands on the banks of the Mississippi and ‘lets’ it flow by him." The Leading Citizen. Little Willie —Say, pa, what Is a leading citizen? Pa —A leading citizen, my son, is a man whose example it isn’t always safe to follow. The Reason. Inquisitive Person —Why does the ordinary playgoer always Insist on a happy ending to a drama? Manager (with bitterness) —Why? Because he’s the ordinary playgoer! Curious to Know. “I went to hear Shakespeare In German last night.” “Did you? How did he get away with it?” Annoyed Him Still More. lawyer (annoyed)—Better take your case somewhere else. You are too thin-skinned for me Client —Hardly pay to skin me, eh? Approval. “I want you to read my last poem.” “And I want to. I am glad you have written it.”

LAWYER NEARLY HAD SCRAP Managed to Keep Half Block Ahead of Squiggs, Who Ran Three Blocks in Twelve Seconds. *T near had a scrap this morning.” a slender young whom you wouldn’t suspect of being belligerent, confided. ->■ “Who with?” we asked, with no regard for grammar. "Jimmie Squiggs. I guess I spoke ‘ hastily to him. AnyhoW, he got the ■ idea that I wanted to lick him.” “Well, what.did he do?” "He took it on the run. Honest, he did three blocks in about twelve seconds, before I could say a word.” “That’s going some for a big man : like Squiggs.” “Ain’t it? And it didn’t do him a bit of good. I was a half block ahead of him every step of the way!” A Preference. "After all," said Mrs. Oldcastle. as they were returning from the picture gallery to the drawing-room. “I think my preference is for Boticelli.” “Well,” replied her hostess, “I can’t say that mine is. For me it don’t seem that there’s anything to beat good old-fashioned rawsberry jam.” “Gaby.” In a jingle which appeared in this department yesterday morning Manuel’s Parisian flame was referred to as- “Galby.” “Tout lei monde” knows that her first name ife Gaby. It was written tUkit way, but a printer gave Gaby “1.” FOXY. nEF - - 11 1 First Bad Boy—Let’s put a mouse in teacher’s desk. Second Bad Boy—No, let’s put some cheese in her desk and the mouse will come of its own accord and we won’t be blamed for it. B-r-r-r! — "I feel a hundred years old this evening,” she said. “You don’t look it,” the other-, woman replied. “Thank you.” “Not by at least sixty years.” Then the cold wave arrived. I T Giving Him a Start. Doctor—Now that I’ve set your husband on his feet again, you must see that he gets more exercise. Patient’s Wltq*—All right, doctor; this bill of youbs will help. He’ll be terribly exercised when I show it tc him. A Sly Fellow. “In Ohio a widow and a widower met when selecting monuments for their lost mates and fell in love.” “Quick work on the part of Cupid.” “Yes, indeed. He must have been posing as a cherub on a tombstone.” Faults. "It was Carlyle, 1 believe, who saiA, ‘The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”’ « “Somehow that doesn’t strike me as being as bad as to be conscious, of faults and not care.” The Idea. “What has become of Jinx?” “I shook him." i “Why?" - “Too old-fashioned. Insisted that while I was engaged to him I should not be engaged to any other man.” A Narrow Escape. “Junks used to saf that he xspired to literary recognition.” "Yes.” “Did his dream ever come, true,*” “No. Luck was with him and he went to writing ads.” i i Favorite Seat. Friend —Why do you do your 'Sewing at this window in the a+r shaft? You can’t half see. Mrs. De Platt—No, but I can hear beautifully. Heaven Hl» Only Chance. “He is always sighing for a mansion in the sky.” “No wonder. He lives in a town where residence property is S9O a front foot.” ! CMmatlc Conversation. "The Wt-aintr is always a *convenient topic of conversation.” . “I don’t think so. You are so oftet compelled to think twice in .order tc select polite phraseology." Explained. “How is It that you are back at the office? I thought you said you wanted a day off to enjoy yourself.” “So I did, but my wife wants some ribbons matched.” Inflated. “Pa, what Is an optimist?” “An optimist, my son. is a man wha thinks he is famous because a hfll county sends him, to the state legislature.”