The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 June 1911 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE. - - INDIANA. DIDN’T HELP MR. JIMMERSON Admitting That Mabel Walloper Wat Thoughtful. She Still Had His Umbrella. “They may say what they please about Mabel Walloper.” said old Mrs Jimmerson, as she poured out her husband's tea the other night, while the rain fell in torrents outside. ‘‘She may be frivolous —indeed, I know she is frivolous—and one of the worst little flirts in town, and the way she treats poor Hiram Winkeltop is all that anybody who chooses to criticize her for it may say about her. Then she is the bossiest woman from here to Skowhegan—there isn’t a pie in this town that she isn’t eternally trying to get her finger in; and I don’t wonder the minister’s wife hates her, the way she goes in to run everything from the Sunday school up to the Sewing society; but all the same she is a considerate woman —mighty considerate. I don't know another woman who would do what she did today.” “What did she do today?” asked Jimmerson, who had his own opinions as to the lady’s good points. “Why, when this perfect deluge of a rain started in this afternoon she remembered that the last time she was here at our meeting of the Browning club she had borrowed our umbrella,” said Mrs. Jimmerson enthusiastically, “and, without hesitating a minute, she put on her hat and waterproof coat and came all the way over here in that raging storm ‘to return it I think that was mighty thoughtful of her. Don’t you?” “I certainly do,” said Jimmerson. “I shouldn’t have thought it of her.” “I guess we’ve all done her an injustice,” said Mrs. Jimmerson, “but hereafter I shall know better. I don’t think 1 should have ventured out on a day like this in such an errand.” “Well, I’m mighty glad she did it,” said Jimmerson. “Mighty glad. I’ve got to go back to the store for a little while this evening, and that bumbershcot will come in handy.” Mrs. Jimmerson’s face flushed, and she coughed in an embarrassed way. “Why, Tom, I’m sorry, but you can’t have it, dear,” she said. “Why not?” demanded Jimmerson. “Why,” said Mrs. Jimmerson, “it was raining so hard that I had to lend It to Mabel again to go home with: I couldn’t do anything else after she had been so thoughtful as to bring it back.”—John Kendrick Bangs, in Lippincott’s. In Other Worlds. The suggestion, often made before and repeated by Prof. T. J. J. See in his lecture that other worlds might be inhabited by other varieties-of beings than those found on earth —what Is there improbable about it? "Why should man, the product of evolution, tracing his ancestry back through reptiles and fishes, to the atoms of space, dependents on the sun for the energy that keeps his bodily mechanism working, assume himself to be the fine flower of the universe? “What a monstrous spectacle,” exclaimed Stevenson, “is this man; the disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown upon with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that move and glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming!” • Mere smouldering fires of consciousness that only here and there, a few times in a century, really burst forth into flame, why should we suppose that we are the best tl at the universe can do? Lesson Evidently Lost. 'lf his mental characteristics shall continue through life, Daniel Spooner, who lives in Lakewood and boasts of the high old age of four years plus four months, will prove a stubborn man when he comes to grow up. The other day he was dilatory about coming to the table. Did he want any luncheon? He considered the matter and replied, “Yes-no.” The answer being unsatisfactory he was told to take his place. Asked whether he wanted a bit of bacon he repeated his.answer, “Yes-no.” Thereupon his father told him what happened to little boys who answered in that way, drawing a moving picture of the sad consequences of flippant answers and careless table manners. To all this Daniel listened with a great deal of attention. Then, when his father had concluded the sermon he asked his young hopeful, “Now will you have some bacon?” And Danny said, “Yes-no.”—Cleve-land Leader. An Island for Sale. Gigha, one of the western isles which a tired Scottish landowner is about to offer to the highest bidder, Js one of those happy places which would delight the soul of Peter Pan, says the London Chronicle. Its 25 miles of indented coast is honeycombed with caves and tunnels; it has a genuine ancient fort, the ruins of an old chapel, and It is hardly possible td tlose sight of the sea. It Is just the size—five miles by two—to give one a feeling of owning a little world. Then the habi 1 : in the west is to name the owner after his island, and the purchaser might in turn attain to the dignity of Being saluted as “Glaha.”

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K ( HE Fourth of July as come to hold in the United States a ■ B proud and pre-emi-J nent position as a V.Bb'A'? N day of sport and the ? " J occasion of an an- - nua * carnival of competitive contests in outdoor athletics. This is an eminently fitting use for the joyous anniversary and it is perfectly natural, if not inevitable, considering the great and growing interest of the whole American people in feats of skill that call for mental and muscular agility. Moreover its acceptance as a day of sport is not confined to the small towns on the one hand, nor to the large cities on the

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or her, but is in actual fact universal That Americans have come to recognize the Fourth as a day when lovers of athletics of all kinds may enjoy their ! favorite sports to their fill is a matter of congratulation, for, 1 a good many of us take few enough “days off” during the summer. \Ye have not to any great extent adopted and perhaps may never adopt, the English and European custom of banishing work and business cares every Friday evening during the summpr and thf* intprvnl until

mer arci aevoung me lrnervai until Monday morning to open-air exercise. On the contrary there are thousands of Americans who are so busy that it is only on a full-fledged holiday when all business ceases absolutely that they feel that they can take part in the loafing. Os the three summer holidays the Fourth of July is manifestly the ideal one for sporting contests. Memorial Day is a little early in the season in the face of the climatic conditions that prevail in some sections of the country, and then, too, many patriotic organizations and prominent citizens are opposed to making use of Decoration Day as an occasion for sports, claiming that it h.-*s a solemn, almost religious significance that should be respected by all the people of the community, even though they have no relatives among the soldier dead. Labor Day in September shares with the Fourth to some extent the prestige of a day of sport, but it is far overshadowed by the July festival in point of number of races, games and contests. First and foremost among the manifestations of the American love of sport on-the glorious Fourth must be placed, of course, the vast attendance at gafnes of baseball. The games on that eventful day range all the way from a “dou-ble-header” by major league teams, which in New York or Chicago or Boston may call out an attendance of twenty thousand “fans” to the equally spirited contest on a vacant lot where a number of youthful “rooters” watch a struggle for supremacy between “Red’ Finnegan’s “Invincibles" and “Scrub” Schmidt’s “Red Sox Juniors.*” It is safe to say that the amount spent on baseball on this one day, allowing for the expenditure for peanuts and score cards and all the other incidentals, would form a stack of silver dollars mountain high. As every person knows, the Fourth of July is a favorite occasion for picnics—particularly family picnics and neighborhood outings, and lodge picnics, and like excursions. And usually as a feature of any such holiday frolic there is a ball game. Perhaps the women and girls are pitted against the men or we have such nerve-racking battles of the diamond as can be witnessed only when the lawyers cross bats with the doctors, or the married men play the single men, or the bald-headed boys try conclusions with thoqe that wear beards, or the fat men essay a test of skill with the lean members of the community. It is in such an environment, too, that he spirit of sport on the Fourth provokes croquet games and the pitching of quoits and target practice on the part of the picnickers who do not care for the more strenuoris exercise on a hot summer day. Speaking of target practice with revolver and rifle), which has gained rapidly in favor of recent years, it may be well to that another somewhat similar sport has come up markedly and the Fourth of July is a favorite occasion for tournaments in communities where ciubs exist This latter pastime is.the old, yet new diversion of archery. Just how much fun It is to shoot with bow and arrow —not the familiar child’s toy but the regulation Indian weapon—can only be appreciated by those who have tried It and the fact that the sport can be enjoyed by both men and women of all ages is proving a big factor in winning for it. The Fourth of July is a great occasion for formal and informal golf tournaments, and sometimes these fire arranged to extend over from the 3d to the sth of July if the community is a suburban one, or a rural one, or a summer resort to which there has been a sudden influx of'men from the city. And this very fact lets you into the secret of wrhy the Fourth is the climax of the season in the matter of sport at many a summer resort Under ordinary circumstances men are a scarce commodity at these vacation retreats hut there is always a plentiful supply on

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the Fourth beca u s e iji u sbands, broth ers find sweethearts come for the day and accordingly there is a s t a mpede f6r outdoor pas times, just as there is for dancing, and all othor pursuits vjhere male

partners are necessary to round out the full measure of the entertainment. Very nearly as old as the Fourth of July itself m a holiday sense is the custom in the average smaller city, town or village of making the afternoon of Independence Day the occasion of a race meet and athletic carnival. Perhaps this is held on the main street of the town if there Jis no track available, but if there is a fair ground or regular race track in the vicinity that is the mecca for the crowds. Some years ago the prime feature of every such meet was found in the rficing, hose-laying and ladder contests of the various volunteer fire companies from all the towns in the vicinity of the \one where the tournament was held. Latterly as horsedrawn fire-fighting apparatus has come into more general use and even the motor hose wagons have been purchased by many of the smaller cities, the number of volunteer fire-fighting organizations have dwindled somewhat, but there are still a number In existence and there is noth-

Ithe fate of empires I CIVILIZATION CLAIMED TO BE A “RECURRENT PHENOMENON”

The meaning of life has in all ages been the goal of human thought and the great extension of our knowledge of the past, by the researches of recent years, enables us now to view' the eburse of human changes with more completeness than has been the case before. In place of l()oking on the fall of the Roman empire as a monstrous and inexplicable fact, we now see that civilization is not only intermittent, but is a regularly recurrent phenomenon.” This was the theory propounded by Prof. Flinders Petrie in a lecture delivered at the Royal institution on “The Revolutions of Civilization.” ] In Egypt, said the lecturer, we can trace eight civilizations; the first prehistoric; the second prehistoric, the early dynastic, the pyramid builders, the middle kingdom (XHth dynasty), the Empire (XVlllth dynasty), the Greek and the Arab. The rise and fall of art in each of these periods can be well illustrated. Similar periods are found in Europe, the early, middle and late Cretan, the classical and the mediaeval. These periods are contemporary with those of Egypt, so far as we can ascertain. Hence the Mediterranean civilization seems a distinct unit, rising and falling together as one body. The Mesopotamian civilization is in a different phase to that of the Mediterranean, but its period is about the same. * A similar period of about 1,500 years has occurred In India and Mexico. The Etruscan sage*

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ing more exciting than their tournaments when they are. hotly contested. In some sections of the country horse racing has taken the place of the . firemen’s tournaments as a Fourth of July attraction, but of late their drawing power has been surpassed by such novelties as automobile races, motorcycle races and best of all, aeroplane contests. There are yet retained on many Fourth of July programs those homely contests that have been greeted with roars of laughter ever since the days of our grandfathers—such tests of skill as the climbing of the greased pole, egg races, sack races, three-legged races, catching the greased pig, potato races and a host of others in which members of both sexes participate. In the south from time out of mind they have had “tilting contests,” in which local horsemen as twentieth century knights without armor have vied with one another in stunts with lances or spears somewhat similar to those performed by the knights of old. Within the past year or two

puoi> j vui ui v ** v/ other sections of , the country have adopted these tilting tourneys as a Fourth of July feature, and with excellent success. In some communities Fourth of July sports committees have, in their quest for novelties, borrowed some of the features of the modern circus, notably the chariot races, which are

tennis tournaments are held on hundreds o courts all over the country on this midsummer holiday and “sociability runs” by automobile clubs have added yet another event to those on the calendar for this pre-eminent holiday. The very warmth of the weather encountered by the greater part of the country on the average Fourth of July has always rendered popular aquatic festivals and carnivals. Yachting contests, rowing and power boat competitions, swimming and canoe races and other sports on the water have compensations for the participants and regale the spectators ranged in the shade along shore. In this field there are many mirth-provok-ing contests as productive of fun as are the ones above mentioned. Log rolling contests, wrnter polo, water football, tilting contests in which the opponents, armed with lances, stand up in canoes, and walking the greased pole over the water, are a few of the tests of skill in which the price of failure is a ducking, to the delight of the spec- . tators.

assigned 1,100 years as the period of a race, after which it must be succeeded by another. The various activities of man, according to Professor Petrie, are related in the same order in each successive period. This can be best traced in the mediaeval and classical periods, where the stages of sculpture, painting, literature, music, mechanics, science and wealth spread over some .seven centuries. These stages were nearer together in earlier ages, but the order was always the same so far as can be traced. The starting point of each civilization —as of each generation—a mixture «of blood. Without a fusion of race no fresh start can be made. About six or eight centuries are needed for the rise to the sculpture stage. The growth of civilization largely consists; in a lengthening out of the subsequent stages of activity, and diminution of the stagnant period before a new mixture is started. The period seems to belong to the people ani not to the country, and is kept by the people when they go to a land of a different phase. Though, no doubt, climatic periods have a precipitating effect in throwing one people on to another, yet the general regularity of interval of the stages of growth of civilization point to a racial determinant This may be the'time required to promote the maximum mixture of different strains in two races which are in contact.—London Globe.

STATUESOFBUDOHA Make Striking Religious Monument in India. Structure Supposed to Have Been Erected in the Ninth Century Is One of the Most Sacred Shrines. •” Calcutta, India. —Four enormous statues of Buddha, nearly 100 feet high, make one of the most striking religious monuments in India, if not in the world. * The structure is one of the most sacred shrines in India and it is supposed to have been erected In the Ninth century. Rangoon, Burmah, is also famous as having a huge statue of Buddha. To the eastern traveler the statue of Buddha is a familiar sight. From Colombo in Ceylon, to Kobe, in Japan, he is everywhere greeted by the same calm, impassive and mysterious face of the eastern preceptor of perfection But in no city in the Orient do the form and face of Buddha constitute so frequent or so essential a part of the city’s decoration as in Rangoon, the starting place of Mr. Kipling's famous “Road to Mandalay,” the stronghold of Buddhists. Notable ever among the countless statues of Rangoon is the mammoth Buddha, repre senting the strange teacher, not standing or sitting cross-legged, as in the majority of statues, but reclining on a huge raised couch, his mighty forn stretched out for 200 feet, while hl> shoulders rival the width of that w’onier of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes, their titanic breadth reaching 50 feet. But one among the wonders of Ran goon, this mighty figure rests near the famous Shoay Dagon, the center of the Burmese Buddhist world, crowned by the golden pagoda, which rises 300 feet above it, its walls cov ered with pure gold, the gift of prince, who contributed his weight in gold to the pagoda. In the Shoay Dagon there are countless other statues of Buddha, as w T ell as relics of Gua Great Statues of Buddha. tama, the last Buddha. All, equally with the huge reclining Buddha, form a part of the religious rites of the Buddhists. For the essence of Buddhism consists in the struggle to become like Buddha, to attain his perfection by obedience to his precepts. To do this it is necessary always to have Buddha in mind, and it is for thisTeason that every city in the Buddhist world is literally crowded with his images. Buddha himself is not deified; potentially every Buddhist may attain his perfection, but only by the eternal imitation of his practice. HEROES ARE NOT PENSIONED This Is One of the Forbidden Features of the Business of Life Saving, Boston, Mass. —Few persons know much about the life savers stationed at dangerous points along the Atlantic coast. What they do, how they live, what sort of men they are. In the first place they are obscurely living fellows, in the second they attract notice only rarely by some heroic deed. And even in this busines the chances for heroic deeds come seldom. The life saving service pays poorly, judged by most standards. Sixtyfive dollars a month for ten months is the pay of every life saver or surfman, as he properly is called, except the keeper, who gets $75, and surfman No. 1, who gets S7O. , There are no pensions. Even the man who is crippled for life in the work is not entitled to a pension. There is at least one case on record in which such a man was pensioned, but it was through the special interest and command of a president of the United States. Not to he pensioned for disability is Che most forbidding thing about the life saving service which, by the way, got started under the dm jetion of the treasury department and has been under it ever since. This has kept more men away from it than any other 'one thing. It argues no lack of courage in a man that he hesitates a long time over this condition, especially If he has others to provide for. Bad Youth With “Tickler.” Atlantic City, N. J. —Harry Snyder nineteen years old, is under arrest for using what he terms a “tickler,’ which is his own invention. When women stopped to look in show windows on the Boardwalk, he reached through the cracks between the boards of the walk with a long wire and tickled their ankles.

calculated to make the hair of the more timid spectators stand cn end. Field and track sports • such as putting the shot. hammer throwing. jumping, running, pole vaulting and hurdle racing are satisfactory Fourth of July sports because local talent can always be recruited for the competitions and , even if no w’orld’s records are broken there is no end of fun for participants and spectators. Lawn

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