The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 April 1911 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. Syracuse, - - Indiana! DAILY LIFE OF SPANISH KING Kellogg Durland Declares Alfonso Is One of the Hardest Workers 5 in Spain. "King Alfonso is one of the hardest working men in all Spain,” says Kellogg Durland, in Woman’s Home Com"Ordinarily he rises at 7:00 to 7:30 and after breakfast in the queen’s boudoir he is steadily occupied until half past one or two o’clock. Mornings when he reviews troops he leaves ;the palace at six. After lunch he attends to affairs about town — opens exhibitions and bazaars and performs such other social duties as devolve upon a sovereign. At five o’clock he plays polo or goes shooting till about 7:30, when he returns to the pa|ace and locks over the news of the day gleaned from 46 leading newspapers of the world. At 8:30 he dines, and in the late evening goes to other social functions, the theater or the circus. The circus he is particularly fond of and during the several months of the.circus season in Madrid he attends regularly every Thursday night. He is as delighted with the performing horses, the trained monkeys and the tumbling clowns as any small boy in his kingdom. Any one who knows how strenuous is the life of King Alfonso from early morning until five o’clock in the afternoon marvels at his strength and energy, yet constantly one hears and sees in the newspapers that he devotes all of his time to polo playing and shooting! Without this hour or two of daily exercise he could never maintain the energetic routine of his life.” A Diminishing Dog. In “Walks and People in Tuscany’ Sir Francis Vane tells the story of a courageous but unfortunate dog, Turco, whose acquaintance he made near Greve. The animal was a farm dog, a splendid specimen of a black-and white sheep dog. Born with an adventurous disposition, Turco explored the neighborhood, and one sa,d day was shot at and with such little accuracy that his near hind leg was destroyed. A kindly English lady had him attended by a veterinary and the dog recovered, although, of course, with three legs only. Yet his indomitable daring was not lessened. He still roamed and fought many battles. Then came the poison incident. Burglars had arranged to rob my friend’s had prepared their way by laying down poison. Yet almost by a miracle Turco recovered after weeks of agony, and regained his spirits, too; for he sauntered out one night, had* ar immense battle with a dog larger |an himself and came back to the house with his fore leg hopelessly broken. He now has only two legs, or had * when I saw him last, yet although 1 had not seen him for more than a year he limped up to greet me With the wildest of welcomes. —Youth’s Companion. Crippen’s Money. American lawyers will be interested to learn the London court has cut Clara Leneve out of any share of the estate of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. Cora Crippen left more than £BOO In furs and jewels, besides money in two banks. The Leneve girl wore one of the rings when she and Crippen • were caught on the steamship in the St. Lawrence. Ordinarily, under the law, Mrs. Crippen’s property would have been inherited by Ifer husband. He had made a will leaving to Miss Leneve whatever he possessed. The court, in deciding against Leneve, followed the ruling of the lords justice of appeal in the case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, where it was held it would ! be against public policy to let her or ’ her representatives share in the in- ; surance on her slain husband’s life. - Thus, as -Crippen couldn’t Inherit it, j neither could Miss Leneve, his representative. ■ J His Hands in Her Muff. “My hands are nearly frozen,” he complained. “Won’t you put them in my muff?” she sweetly asked. “But you would have to take your hands out of it if I did that." “It is plenty large enough for both of us.” “Well, all right, I’ll just sit on the front seat, then, an—” “But there is away in which you can put them in and still sit here beside me.” "All right. Hold it over this way, then, please.” “O, pshaw! If I must tell you how, put one of your arms around me.” It should be explained, however, that they had been married for several years.—Chicago Record-Herald. Coetly Truck Farms. The prices New Yorkers pay for garden truck make farming under glass—“intensive” farming—profitable, even on ground worth as much as $lO,000 an acre. There are Long Island suburban districts, within ten miles of the city hall, where agriculture is pursued year after year, notwithstanding the fields are assessed at building lot prices. Not long ago a man of foreign birth who had accumulated 29 adjoining acres In 25 years, an acre or two at a time, sold his tract for $198,000. He had several acres under glass, and he has rented the place for another year at five per cent, on the selling prlcq.

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'■F* OW would you like to be brought to light 2,000 years after you had H been buried and to have the story of your life told again from what was found in your grave? W H Probably not a thimbleful could M— be gathered together, not a shred, not even a nail or metal scrap. Yet from the old. cemeteries of Egypt the story of an extinct civHizatioa ls being wrought out ** anew - Kings and princes long | OK since forgotten, arts long since lost, an almost endless panorama .I ] F| fl of a life that was hoary with age. centuries before Homer sang, Solomon sat in judgment; while . Europe was. still the haunt cf scattered savages

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and before England had been snatched from the contteent by the arms of the sea. Think of the rubbish heaps of these ani dent cities being dug up and of there beJng sifted out from the debris the story of /the daily life of people 3,000 and even 5,000 ! years gone by. Think of a bundle of letters 3,000 years old that retold and In points corroborated the story of Palestine when .the patriarchs were still alive. Think of digging from the ruins of an ancient metropolis the records of 7,000 years. The Egyptians were a people of great J deeds, of incredible achievements. Their first great structures, the pyramids, sur-

pass in magnitude the works of these modern times. Khufu’s pyramid covered thirteen acres and was 500 feet high. Seven hundred and fifty square feet—more than a seventh of a mile. Over 94,000,000 cubic feet of materiar quarried out, dragged to the Nile, floated down the stream, dragged up to the desert, and into place. How they did it engineers are still puzzled to know. So closely were these stones fitted together that in the outside courses, which now are in place only at the base, beneath the sand, the lines were scarcely visible and must be outlined with charcoal to be photographed. Scarcely less wonderful were the temples of the mighty Ramses. The gateway at Luxor was j 100 feet wide and 80 feet high, and was flunked Iby obelisks 82 feet high. Before the temple at Tanis stood a 90-foot statue of the king. Leading from Luxor to Karnak was a great avenue more ; than a ri&le and a quarter long, 80 feet wide, and flanked on either side the entire distance by colossal sphinxes. In the great Hall of Columns i at Karnak stands 12 columns 35 feet In circumference and 60 feet high. Flanking these are 122 columns 27 feet in girth and 40 feet high. Crowning these are hundred-ton architectraves. Here Stood huge obelisks 98 and 125 feet high, , one obelisk weighed a thousand tons. In one ! city were 14 of these huge monoliths. More than 3,000 years ago the genius of man carved these cyclopean 9 blocks from the rock, transported them tor miles down stream and across country, and finally lifted them onto high walls or set them up on end, an enigma to modern engineers.

| UNWRITTEN LAWS

There Is a class of unwritten law which does not find cannot become written law, says Case and Comment, because it approaches so near the danger line that man dare not recognize it to the extent of publishing it and declaring it as a part sf the positive law. It Is the unwritten law of the sea that a captain must go down with his ship. Men dare not write it into the contract, and nations dare not incorporate it in their navy or marine regulations, yet the tyrants of the sea know the law, and be- ; lleve that to obey it betters their service, and there are few instances of its being disregarded. It is the unwritten law of the army and navy that an officer shall not seek cover, or at least ‘ shall not show apprehension of danger to his person, in time of battle and in the presence of enJisted men or common sailors. In the FrancoPrussian war nearly four thousand officers of the German army were killed and the great majority of them gave up their lives because they believed In this law of conduct In obedience to this law Farragiit bound himself to the mast, Lee rode to the head of his ! eharging column at the bloody angle, and Lawton

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Not only are there such outward evidences of Egypt’s wealth. From the burials come the very objects with which the people were wont to surround themselves. The tombs of the kings have given us the grave of loua and Tioua with its chariot, funeral, sledges, mummy cases, chairs, beds, and jewel box —all gilded and paneled; alabaster vases, and larder still stored with food. Even the feather cushions have been preserved these 3,000 years. The excavations of 1906 brought to light the wonderful Hathor shrine with its statue of Egypt’s cow-goddess plumed and crowned with the lunar disc, trailing lotus blossoms from her splendid head and with the stars of heaven gleaming along her form. Beneath her kneels the infant king whom she nourishes; before her stands the dead king whom she protects. The excavating of ancient sites is a tack that calls for expert knowledge, the utmost skill, punctilious care, and no small diplomacy. Often owners, more or less real, must be placated and bought off. Before money is expended the utmost care must be taken to insure a profitable site. Trial trenches and shafts must be driven to confirm or disprove, if possslble, expectations. When at last the site seems feasible, the work begins in earnest The excavations of ancient sites is a task that neers in the field, has jiist- entered upon the work at Abydos. Following the methods of scientific excavators, they are settling for a long period. A considerable tract of land has been se-

Traditions Which Have Almost the Force of Statutes

walked coolly in front of the line and was shot in | the presence of his men. The law of the right of revolution has been much talked about and much written about Every intelligent citizen believes that he has the right under certain conditions to oppose the established government of his own land and join in an effort to establish another in its place. Just prior to and during the Civil war there was much discussion in this country by learned men on either side of the right of revolution and the “higher power” and the “greater law.” The law justifying one person in the killing of another has required the serious consideration of every country. Every criminal code provides certain punishments for homicide, and many of them graduate the punishment with minute particularity, according to the of the killing, so that any one of six crimes may be Involved in a single tragedy. Such codes also attempt to define what killing is justifiable and what is excusable and with their interpretation by the courts attempt to describe the only conditions under which one human being can kill another The Hebrew code almost stands alone in its

cured, necessary buildings erected for the health of workmen and the preservation of antiquities. Not only are actual remains to be sought, but also important historical or artistic questions are to be solved. Indeed, the Egyptian Exploration Fund was the first to employ this method of clearing old monuments and of showing the world what they were. Such stupendous undertakings call for equipment on a considerable scale. By the courtesy of Sir Gaston Maspero, the goveinment has loaned to the Fund a light railway with equipment. Work must be rapid. December I to April 1 marks the working year. Every moment Is precious. Every car load must count. Every shovelful of earth must be carefully sifted wherever there Is a possibility of a find. Even a basket brigade Is sometimes pressed into use. As soon as some apparently valuable piece of located, workmen are called off, experts are sent in, every man is on guard; carefully every inch of soil Is watched as the last few baskets of earth are removed. Every fragment must be saved and laid away until everything has been recovered. Think of the disappointment when a magnificent statue comes out headless, for example. Think of the conjectures as to the whereabouts of the missing piece and the furore when, perhaps weeks afterward, the lost is found. There is an air of hushed expectancy, a suppressed excitement hovering over, that keeps men up under the most tense strain under which the work is of necessity conducted. America has joined hands with the old world in prosecuting the work. An American professor, Dr. Whittemore, is now with the staff in the field. An American secretary, Mrs. Marie N. Buckman, has been assigned to the direction of the American office, located in Tremont temple, Boston. Wonderful are the results attained. Every student of history and literature, every student of the Bible is vitally concerned in the confirmations yearly coming to light from the sands of Egypt. There is need of haste. To extend the arable district of Egypt Is an economic necessity. Accordingly, the British government has erected at Assuan a great dam, whose 95-foot. head has sent the waters of the Nile back over great areas of hitherto dry ground. Already a dozen great temples have been flooded, and ere long will be forever lost to sight Already beautiful Philae, at the head of the first cataract, is gone. The soil is becoming Infiltrated, and the stores of treasures, especially the papyrus manuscripts, are being ruined even before the waters cover the ground above.

recognition of man’s desire to kill and his right to have that desire and that climax of all satisfactions which comes to him who under great provocation slays another. It is not at all strange that in his branch there should be an extended code of unwritten as written law, unwritten now and always to be unwritten for the reason that th* recognition given by its embodiment in the statutes would be taken as a license by dishonest men and would result in harm rather than good. It is an unwritten law among the officers of the army that if a subordinate officer kilis a superior officer because that officer has publicly degraded him by striking him or .by other action equally humiliating then the court-martial will not convict. During the Civil wax at Louisville, Ky., General Nelson said to General Davis: "How many men have you?” General Davis replied, “About—” giving an approximate number. Nelson said, “You an army officer and say 'about!’ Why don’t you 'know' how many men you have?” And with that he struck Davis in the face with his glove. Davis shot and killed him, and the oourt-martlal acquitted Pavla

TICKLE WOOL OUH —— “Schedule K” to Be Center of Tariff Struggle. Speech by Dolliver Charging Iniquities In Rates Gives Customs Reformers Valuable Points —Did Senate Sit Too Long? Washington.—The country will hear much of . schedule "K” of the present tariff law during the next few months. This is the schedule which is officially labeled “Wool and the Manufactures Os.” When it was under consideration during the first session of the last congress, Senator Aldrich frequently referred to it as the “citadel of protection.” It is 21 years old. .Insurgent Republican senators who-attacked it in the last congress asserted that it was originally written by the men who would be most benefited by its provisions, and had been maintained Intact ever since through the influence they exerted. President Taft has said that some of its provisions are "indefensible.” The Democrats in the house of representatives purpose to down this "citadel of protection.” Having disposed of this schedule they will take up schedule “I,” which has to do with cottons. The ways and means committee ' members acknowledge that they have a hard nut to crack in schedule "K.” It has been something of a mystery since it appeared 21 years ago. Neither the members of the ways and means committee of the last Rebubllcan house nor the Republican members of the finance committee of the. senate, attempted to explain the schedule when it was under consideration. The insurgent Republican senators did lay bare many of its inequalities. At this time the Democratic members of the ways and means committee of the new house are making a careful study of what Senator Dolliver of lowa said about this schedule when it was up in the senate. They expect to get from the speeches of the lowa senator a good many pointers that will be helpful in pulling down the “citadel.” Senator Dolliver, on May 4, 1909, in exposing the iniquities of the wool schedule, insisted not only that the rates were entirely too high, but that the section is full of mischief-maiding provisions; he called them “blindbridle attachments that have been put onto the working harness of schedule K.” One of the chief points made by the lowa senator was that this schedule “K” had exerted a sort of “morbid and abnormal influence” on the tariff system of the United States. He asserted that the high rates imposed throughout the schedule had been “peculiarly attractive to laborers in other departments of the textile vineyard,” and he said that “it is easy to trace the movements pf greed in more than one schedule framed to protect these industries. Manufacturers in other textile departments have been persistent in their efforts to get the advantage of the rates on woolen goods.” Makers or silks, of cottons and of furs, the senator pointed out, not satisfled with their own rates, had sought shelter among the slippery provisions of the woolen tariff. The Democratic members of the new ways and means committee find in studying Dolliver’s speches that he believes the root of the tariff abuse lies In schedule K. It is fortunate that the lowa senator, now dead, left of record such a thorough analysis of schedule K. The Democrats frankly say that this analysis will be helpful to them, although they will probably not revise the schedule in precisely the same way. Four hundred millions of dollars appropriated by the last session of congress may never be paid out of the treasury unless further legislation is enacted authorizing it. The sum referred to was carried by the bills appropriating money for the support of the post office department for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1911, and the money carried in the sundry civil bilk The post office bill appropriated $258,000,000 in round numbers and the sundry civil bill carried $142,000,000. In all the previous congresses the last legislative day of the session has been March 3, and when the business of the calendar day of March 3 had expired the senate would take a recess until the calendar day of March 4, thus continuing the legislative day of March 3. But at the last session of the senate, on the motion of Senator Hale of Maine, who has now retired from congress, the senate adjourned on March 3 to meet at eight o’clock on the morning of March 4. As it has always been understood that a third of the commissions of the senators composing the senate expired on March 3, it is not now understood how they could sit and enact laws on March 4, one day after their commissions had expired. FLEECING THE EASY MARKS. That there is a new sucker born every minute seems to be proved by the fact that when the government got after the “Get-rich-quitek” grafters that were using the mails the same people began hiring the most expert and expensive agents they could procure. They invested heavily before they opened thdir new schemes and after they began to do business profits poured in handsomely. Agents do most of the work now, passing from town to town and Separating the easy ones from their coin. Their mode of doing business is quite perfect and very sel-

dom do the agents fail In landing their suckers. Even the most astute business men are caught occasionally so adept are the agents- at their questionable trade. A quondam manager of a concern gave out the following statement: "I paid SI,OOO for a particularly good list of 100,000 names of investors in gold mining stocks and $2,000 was spent tn postage in getting my literature to my list of investors. Another SI,OOO went for printing and office expenses before I was ready to start my agents out. “In all, I had spent $6,750 in preliminary expenses, but I knew it was a good graft and that the money would come back. In a short time my preliminary expenses ran to SIO,OOC through advances to agents, for I selected the best men I could find and told them to get results, no matter what the cost. “Inside of tw’o months I had taken in $37,000, after deducting agents’ commissions. I paid dividends of tw-o pe dent, a month, juggling the bullion re turns so as to make it seem that the dividends were legitimate. That concern ran 19 months, during which time I took in over $300,000 clear after agents' commissions and dividends had been deducted.” rs THEY LIKE WASHINGTON. Some years ago—and not so very many, either —I think that I should have been perfectly safe in saying that the highest ambition of the average negro in America was to hold some sort of office, or to have some sort oi a job that connected him with the government, writes Booker T. Washington. Just to be able to live in the capital city was a sort of distinction, and the man who ran an elevator or merely washed windows in ton, particularly if the windows or the elevator belonged to the United States government, felt that he wasNn some way superior to a man who cleaned windows' or ran an elevator in any other part of the cotmtry. He felt that he was an office holder. There has been a great change In this respect in recent years. Many members of my race have learned that in the long run, they can earn more money and be of more service to the community in almost any other position than that of an employee or office holder under the government. I know of a number of recent cases in which negro business men have refused positions of bailor and trust in the government service because they did not care to give up their business interests. Notwithstanding, the city of Washington still has a peculiar attraction and even fascination for the average negro. WORD JUGGLING BY KNOX. It was during the days when the president was wrestling with the message. It seemed as if unexpected kinks would occur after paragraph upon paragraph had been carefully “ironed ! out,” and then something else would appear to open the forms again—more reports would be needed and more Information from the different departments. The slogan seemed to be “Curtail! Curtail!” until it seemed as if things would never “come right.” But during all the trying period, Secretary Knox would not lose his sense of humor, and as he began his fourteenth trip across Executive avenifelo be conferred with for the thir-ty-fourth time, some one told him of an acquaintance who had sold his political birthright for “a mess of pot-tage-4g> il “Yt>u don’t say,” commented the secretary, withja smile playing about the corners of his mouth. “Well, I know a man who’s just now watching the political caldron, busy with a pot of message.”—Joe Mitchell Chapple, In National Magazine. ' RECORD OF LAST CONGRESS. The record of the Sixty-first con congress on legislation shows that during its three sessions there were introduced in the senate 10,906 bills, of which 695 were passed by the senate. In the house 33,105 bills were introduced, of which 678 were passed. In the senate there were also Introduced 57 joint resolutions and in the house 295 joint resolutions. Os the 695 bills passed by the senate. 326 were in turn passed by the house and sent to the president for his signature. Os the 673 bills passed by the house 576 ■werd pasesd by the senate and sent to the president. The congress passed 401 bills referring to the court of claims certain claims against the government The senate passed 29 concurrent resolutions, of which 18 were in turn passed by the house. The house passed 18 concurrent resolutions‘originating in that body, of which 17 were passed by the senate. The president vetoed five measures that originated in the senate and seven that originated in the house. DROP PLAN FOR $1 NOTE ISSUE.. The issue of one-dollar greenbacks,, which was planned by the treasury department to meet the pressing demand for small bills, has been tentatively abandoned. It was found that the conversion of the large outstanding silver certificates into one-dollar denominations. promises to meet the demands for the present at least. There are about $35,000,000 in large denomination silver certificates which will be retired and one-dollar notes will be issued in their places. There has been no one-dollar greenback since 1885. The announcement of the intention to reissue the old note caused wide comment la banking circles.