The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 14, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 August 1911 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE. • - INDIANA. JOCKO KNEW HIS BUSINESS No Chance for Man With Basket of Provisions to Get It Away From Guardian. “HpW Is this for a bunco game?” said the man who markets. “On my way home with a basket of provisions I met a man who buttonholed me with an interesting political story. While we talked I set the basket down on the doorstep of a plumber's shop that is built level with the sidewalk. In our excitement I walked on half a dozen steps. When I turned back a big brindle bulldog that had been sunning himself on the cellar step% was standing guard over my basket. I tried to pick it up; he wouldn’t let me. I couldn’t even get near enough to the door to ring the bell. For about ten minutes the dog and I sparred for possession of that basket. Then the door was opened suddenly from within, a red-headed woman took up my basket with one hand, patted the dog with the other hand, said, ‘Good old boy, ain’t ’ims?’ and shut the door. “With the disappearance of the basket the dog ceased to regard me as an enemy and allowed me to ring the bell. The red-headed woman answered. “ ‘That was my basket you took in,’ (I said. “ ‘lmpossible,’ said she. “Fortunately there was a street full of amused witnesses to swear that it 'was not impossible, but even then she wouldn’t give up the basket until she had looked through the accompanying bills. “ ‘The boy who does my marketing .often sets the basket down and leaves Jocko to watch it till I get ready to come to the door,’ she said. “Maybe that was the explanation of Jocko’s vigilance, maybe it wasn’t; anyhow, I shall not set another basket down when Jocko is on the job.” Water Purified by Ozone. The city of Nice, France, now purifies its drinking water, heretofore considered unwholesome, by means of ozone. There is an electric powei plant, worked by turbines, the force produced being 110 volts, 500 periods per second, which is transformed intc an alternating current with a powei of 17,000 volts. A system consisting of vertical copper plates, with spaces between them in which are glass plates between which electric sparks decompose the air as it h forced through. The air becomes ozone and azotic acid. The acid is retained and the ozone made available [by passing the decomposed air through charcoal dust and particles of cement. The water then flows through earthen tubes which are in a space filled with ozone, which the water absorbs. After this the ozone is extracted by having the water fall on stone steps. Safe for Detectives. “Do you know,” began the barber as he laid the lather thickly over his client’s mouth, “that we’re the only fellows I know of that <y>uld commit a crime and not be detected through the Bertillon system or whatever it is that pinches people by comparing thumb-prints?” The victim moved uneasily in his chair, but circumstances over which he had no control sealed his lips. He grunted interrogatively and politely. “Yris, sir! The reason is simple. We ain’t got no thumbprints. We get ’em all worn off rubbing our thumbs >ver you fellers’ chins. Fact! I’ll show you when I let you out of the chair. My thumbs’ are pretty near as ironed-out-looking as your face will be when I get through with you.”— New York Press. How He Sought Fame. With a vaulting ambition by which he hoped to place himself at a single bound in a class with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, William McKinley and other celebrities, a citizen of Memphis, Tenn., has written Postmaster General Hitchcock, with a lead pencil, asking what the department would charge him to make some postcards and stamps with his own phyiognomy engraved thereon. He wants to know what they would cost a hundred and what would be the smallest amount he could have “run off.” The postmater general, in his most gracious manner, Informed the Tennesseean what the “smallest amount” would be, although this reply was not made public. The Urgent Need. - She (flattering with eyes and voice) —Arthur, dear, I find that we still need a few things to make our little household more serviceable. “What one thing, perhaps?” She —Well, for instance, we need a new hat for me.—Harper’s Bazar. Grew Suddenly Worse. “You’re not looking very well,” said the head of the firm addressing the office boy. "I think you had better take a day off." i “I can’t afford it My mother needs all I can earn every week.” J “Oh, never mind that You will get your full pay, just the same. I wouldn’t think of docking you for being away on account of illness.” * ' “Gee, but I feel bad. I’m almost sure I won’t be able to come to work (tomorrow either." . .

fcMairi : •- •• i i • / - xS'SB fair f ‘ISH . - warn wHlWlfcii ;JflFi gr aZtA I 7'” i". I Jzx - ■ 'WuTimlii i M BEVERLY. MASS. —President Taft’s family already Is settled In “Parrametta,” which is the summer seat of government for this season, and Mr. Taft himself will be here as soon as national affairs permit him to abandon Washington. He came with the family, but could stay only two days. Mrs. Taft’s health already is benefiting by the change, and the children are enjoying themselves Immensely.

DONS WIFE’S SKIRT

Young Soldier Tires at Being Removed From Bride. Disguises Himself In Female Garments and Successfully Makes His Escape From United States Army Transport. San Francisco. —Here's a romance of the army transport service in which there are neither swords nor shoulder straps. It is a strictly story in spite of the fact that at the critical point the hero takes refuge in the heroine’s skirts, during the absence, of course, of the heroine. On the records of the transport Sheridan, which arrived here the other day from Manila, the hero is described as “C. R. , Talerifo, discharged soldier.” After each name is this note. "Left ship at Nagasaki.” The Talerifos were married in Manila just before the man received his discharge from the army. They applied for transportation home on the Sheridan, and the best that an unromantic Uncle Sam could do for them was to provide Mrs. Talerifo with cabin accommodation and her husband with a bunk in the steerage. Although out of th» army, he was still an enlisted man for the purpose of transportation, and as such was barred from accommodation anywhere but on the troop dack. Now, a honeymoon cruise is not much fun where the billing and cooing have to be done in accents loud enough to reach from the troop deck to the promenade deck, and in full view of an observing regiment of cavalry. By the time the Sheridan reached Nagasaki the Talerifos came to the conclusion that honeymooning under such conditions were what Sherman said war was and they decided to leave the ship and go home by liner. They were confronted, however, by another military bar to happiness. Although Mrs. Talerifo, as a cabin passenger, was at liberty to go ashore, this privilege was denied the enlisted men, with whom her husband was classed, and armed sentries were posted at strategic points to see that the soldiers stayed on board. Now comes the skirt act. In the confusion of arrivals at the Japanese

Girl Walks in Her Sleep

Young Woman Anxious Over Result of Brother’s Examination Wakes Up at Home of Teacher. Pittsburg, Pa. —Imbued with the spirit of the evening when the probable results of the school examinations were the burden of expectant anxiety throughout Pittsburg, Miss Fronia Jennings, aged nineteen, daughter of E. C. Jennings of 326 Sycamore street, business manager of the South Hills News, carried her impressions through dreamland and woke up the other morning -in a neighbor’s house after a perilous sleep walk. Miss Jennings had taken much interest in the fortunes of her brother Paul, aged thirteen, a pupil at the Mount Washington school, who betrayed much unrest the other evenfcig because of the uncertainty of passing his “exam” for high school promotion. The family had discussed She subject freely during the evening and retired to await the news of the morning. But their slumbers were disturbed shortly after midnight by a message from the home of Miss Grace Hawk of 48 Natchez street, who is teacher in the Mount Washington school, saying Miss Jennings had reached there and had been carefully put to bed. Miss Jennings had arrived at the Hawk home about 1 a. m., still traveling in Slumberland, clad only in her night robes. Her first inquiry at the Hawk home was: “Did Paul pass?”

THIS YEAR’S “SUMMER WHITE HOUSE”

port Talerifo managed to make his way unnoticed to his wife’s stateroom. When he came out his legs were draped in his wife’s best skirt, his wife’s cloak was around his shoulders and on his head a big picture hat formed a screen from which fell the heavy veil that hid his face. Out on deck he tripped and down the gangway to a waiting sampan. One of the sentries assisted hi.m into the sampan and when Mrs. Talerifo went down she ladder behind her disguised husband she heard the sentry remark, as he pointed to the figure in the picture hat: “She has a hand like a ham.” The Talerifos went to the best hotel in Nagasaki and engaged the bridal suite on the Japanese liner Nippon Maru. CAPTURE TWO VICIOUS BIRDS Two Immense Seafowl Caught After Struggle by California Fisherman —Made Fierce Fight. Los Angeles, Cal.—Two vicious sea birds of immense size, entirely unknown to naturalists of this section, were caught off the pier at Long Beach, and will be carefully kept until possible identification can be made.

Frogs and Toads Eat Flies

Chicagoans Commend Greeley, Colo., Farm to Raise Pest Destroyers— Idea Is Good One. Chicago—Chicago is interested in a new fly ridding device. The new scheme which has for Its basis the utilization of the insatiate appetite of frogs and toads for the swarming summer pests originated in Greeley, Colo. It is there, according to a dispatch, that a man has a toad farm which is absolutely “flyless.” “Hundreds of toads and frogs on this unique farm,” says the dispatch, "keep the place free from flies.” “Frogs and toads, I have found,” Keeper Cy De Vry of the Lincoln park zoo said, “are the great fly eaters in the world. If Chicago had enough of them the flies would soon disappear. We have one big frog out here called

Miss Jennings’ journey was not altogether roseate. She traveled about eight squares In tier bare feet over a rugged path, twice crossing the tracks of the Mount Washington Tunnel car line,’ but says she feels no ill effects and was happy in the knowledge that "Paul passed." Case Scats 20,000 Diners. Berlin. —The new Zoological Garden restaurant, the world’s greatest eating house, has been opened in Berlin in the presence of representatives of the government, the municipality, and a distinguished assembly .of leading Berliners. Ten thousand persons can sit down simultaneously beneath a roof. Openair terraces for use in summer will accommodate 10,000 diners. Twenty thousand will be able'to take a meal at the same time. There are 1,000 waiters, and the kitchen staff exceeds 500. The restaurant has Its own laundry and own bakery. Balloon Drops Amid Fish. Berlin. —A dangerous but successful balloon landing is reported from Altoona, where the aeronaut, Wilson, fearing that bis balloon would be driven by an adverse wind into the River Elbe, which is very broad at Altoona, elected to come down in the middle of the city. He pulled the ripcord when the balloon was above the city fishmarket, coming down successfully and safely amid the fish dealers in the uncovered square.

Their wing measurement is 7 1-2 feet from tip to tip, the bodies are brown and the heads white, with sharp, powerful hooked bills seven Inches long. No seafaring man or fisherman here ever saw anything like them before. = The birds were taken by R. H. Floyd while angling for yellow tail. He used large live minnows for bait, and one of the birds seeing it trailing through the water, swooped down and seized the fish. It became hooked and made a violent struggle to free itself, but did not succeed. Its mate dropped out of the sky and flew to its aid, becoming itself entangled, and both were hauled up. They made fierce attacks on bystanders, who had to clear away, and were cleared from the line and caged after a hard struggle. 42 Inches Tall, Weighs 58. Knoxville, Tenn.—Joseph A. Carter, smallest adult in Tennessee, is dead at his home in Jefferson county. He was 73 years old, 42 inches tall and weighed 58 pounds. He served as register of Jefferson county eighteen consecutive years. He was a college graduate, bachelor and school teacher. Man 8 Feet, 1 Inch Tail. Bridgeport, Conn.—The tallest citizen ever naturalized in New England has obtained his final papers. He is Capt. George Auger, 8 feet 1 inch tall, a native of Cardiff, Wales, and formerly London policeman. He has a farm near Fairfield. Conn.

Jumbo. He is from Florida and we feed him nothing but flies. We can’t give him enough, and I am thinking of turning him out and maybe he’ll rid the park of flies attracted by the other animals.?’ F. J. Burns, 340 West South Water street, who handles hundreds of frogs for live fishing bait, felt sure the idea would be a good one here. “We have few toads here, but hundreds of frogs," he said, “and to wotch'them devour flies is a marvel. My little boy started to count how many disappeared in the mouths of a healthy collection of the animals one day and at last became bewildered in his mathematics. They will eat all they can get near. We have very few flies bothering us here.” THIS COUNTRY IS SUPERIOR Cincinnati Capitalist Declares We Excel in Every Essential Respect— Makes Comparison. Baltimore, Md.—“lf any man doubts that thia country is not superior in every essential respect to all other lands, let him go abroad and make comparisons,” said Mr. Frank L. Perin, a well-known Cincinnati capitalist, while In the city the other day. “Such an experience will prove of benefit, for It will open the eyes of the most confirmed American pessimist to the advantages of Yankeeland. if nothing else will do it, the experience on French and Italian railroads, where they charge you five cents a mile for inferior transportation facilities, will make one think of the infinitely swifter, cheaper and more comfortable trains of the United States. “While I do not sympathize with some of the tendencies of the present day, I still maintain that we are far in advance of the nations of Europe and that to be born in Uncle Sam’s country and to remain under his flag Is the happiest human destiny." Tree Cute House in Two. Bridgeport, Conn.—While the family of William Crates were about to retire the other night they were startled by a sudden, deafening crash as a massive tree fell from an adjoining yard and smashed thro-gh the roof. The tree cut thehouse In two. making a clean path through the garret /and two bedrooms. The huge trunk can not be removed without practically tearing the house down.

New News a Os Yesterday

John Van Buren’s Bad Break

Chauncey Depew’s Interesting Story of Horatio Seymour and the Campaign In New York State in 1865. In the year 1865 there was to be a very important election in New York state, important partly because it would be the first to occur after the close of the Civil war, and, second, because it was thought that the election would have an-important bearing upon presidential politics, which would be st their height two and one-half years later. Chauncey M. Depew had been elected secretary of state In 1863, the only papular elective office he ever held. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1865, and so there came a spontaneous demand from all over the state for the nomination of Gen. FYancis C. Barlow as the successor of Mr. Depew as secretary of state. General Barlow was a popular hero at that time; very dramatic stories were told of the manner in which he nad fought at Antietam, Chancellorsvllle, Gettysburg and Spottsylvania, and the skill with which he had conducted the more important of the strategic moves by which General Grant changed his base 1q the summer of 1864 from the Rapidan to the James River. Moreover, everybody in the state knew that General Barlow had twice been dangerously wounded, and was once picked up for dead. He 'Jirid another qualification which appealed to voters, and that was that he was one of the youngest generals in the whole Union army. The Democrats named as their candidate for attorney general “Prince” John Van Buren, the very brilliant out Intellectually somewhat erratic son of Martin Van Buren. Then the party leaders sought out Horatio Seymour, who had been elected governor of New York in 1562, and who was already regarded as a most available candidate of the Democracy for the presidency in 1868; for it was held that a Democrat who had been popular enough to carry New York state in the second year of the Civil war surely had very strong presidential qualifications. Said the Democratic leaders to Governor Seymour: “Will you go upon the stump for the Democratic state ticket? If you will, we are sure that we can carry the state." “In any way in which I can serve my party, I will do it,” Governor Seymour replied. And he began straightway what was expected to be a state I 9

Ended Sunday Mail Delivery

Postmaster Jewell’s Compromise After One Day’s Trial in Big Cities Had Aroused Opposition of the Religious People. One day in the early summer of 1874 Postmaster General Marshall Jewell ushered himself into the office of the postmaster of New York city. He brought with him that abundance of physical vitality, the high spirits and the smile to which was due so much of his success as a politician, and which were characteristic of him. “Mr. Postmaster,” he said, as he seated himself, “why Is it that we don’t have one delivery of mails on Sundays, at least in the larger cities?” “I suppose It is because the postmaster general at Washington has never directed post officers to deliver mail by carrier on Sunday,” was the reply. “Well, I believe that 1 will order it to be done," the postmaster general answered. “I think it Is as much of a necessity as running railway trains or horse cars. What do you think. Mr. Postmaster?” "I think you’ll have trouble If you issue an order of that kind. It will run counter to the moral convictions of religious people. They will oppose you bitterly, because opposition which is based upon moral principle is always persistent and strong. The people who would be benefited by a Sunday delivery do not care enough about it to make a strike for it.” “I think you are mistaken,” said the postmaster general. “I am going to issue an order directing that there be one Sunday delivery by carrier from all postoffices of the first class.” The postmaster general went back to Washington and within a day or two Issued the order. It occasioned a great deal of comment, although the opposition to it was not apparently as strong as was expected. Early In the week following the first Sunday delivery In New York city by carrier the postmaster of New York was visited by a committee of which the distinguished philanthropist. William E. Dodge, was the spokesman. “Mr. Postmaster," said Mr. Dodge, "I cannot express my amazement, regret and astonishment that you should have issued an order which is virtually a command to break the Lord’s I have come to ask you the reason.” “The reason is very simple, Mr. Dodge,” was the reply. “I was direct-

wide stumping tour. Then, all of a sudden something happed which caused Horatio Seymour abruptly to abandon the canvass. But what it was very few persons have ever known, and one of the few is Senator Depew. “When the campaign was getting under way, I was a passenger upon a steamboat from Albany to New York,” said Mr. Depew to me at a time when he felt free to tell the reason why Governor Seymour had abandoned the Democratic candidacy. “I found a fellow passenger upon the steamboat in 'Prince' John Van Buren; we were old friends, although he was much older than I. We talked freely and confidentially, as men of opposing parties who are friends are accustomed to do. 1 spoke my mind about seme Republicans and some Republican politics, but had I known ’Prince’ John a little better, I should have been careful as to what I said, for he made a speech soon after in which he quoted much that I had said, in the expectation undoubtedly that this would do damage to the Republican party. “I could not deny the accuracy of

No One First to Volunteer

Gen. Joseph R. Hawley Found Hundreds Put Their Names on the Enlistment Rolls at Practically the Same Moment (7 The late Joseph R. Hawley, who became governor of Connecticut in 1886, chairman of the Republican national committee in the first Grant campaign, member of the national house of representatives in 1872 and United States senator in 1881, holding that office until his death in 1900, recruited the first company of volunteers for the Civil war raised in the state of Connecticut —Company A of the First Connecticut regiment As its captain, Hawley led the company he had recruited through the first Bull Run fight. Then he became a lieutenant colonel, took part .in the Port Royal expedition, was present at the siege of Charleston and the capture of Fort Wagner, took part in the siege of Petersburg, was made a brigadier general of volunteers, campaigned with Sherman in the Carolinas, and was mustered out of service at the end of the struggle as a brevet major general

ed by the postmaster general to do It. Here Is his order.” Mr. Dodge read the order signed by the postmaster general and turned to the committee. “I will attend to this immediately." he said, and departed with his companions. He certainly did attend to It In fact he must have got Into Instant telegraphic communication with Jewell, for before the close of the business day the postmaster of New York and probably of other large cities affected by the order received a telegram practically in these words: “The moral sentiment of the people te against the Sunday delivery of letters by carriers. If we insist upon it there will be war between us and the good people of the United States. We want to avoid that Therefore I request that you make arrangements Immediately to hedge by establishing a carrier delivery at a late hour of Saturday night" The following Saturday night came the late delivery; and many persons wondered how it happened that a Sunday delivery by carrier was tried in the large cities just once, and that a. late Saturday night delivery, which has continued to this day, was adopted. The explanation is now given for the first time. It was all the result of a request, tantamount to an order, of the postmaster general to hedge. (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AH Rights Reserved.) Couldn’t Hold Them. During the American invasion of Porto Rico, in the course of the war with Spain, Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, with his troops, was stationed near a village held by an overwhelming force of Spaniards. Orders were to keep his “eye peeled” and, if he heard anything suspicious, to fall back about eight miles. Instead of this his men turned in one day and captured the village, chasing the Spaniards out The next day the commander of the American forces came along to find Bliss sitting in front of the home of the chief man of the village. The commander asked him why he’had attacked the Spanish force, when he knew that he was outnumbered. “Couldn’t help it," said General Bliss. “You see, my men have been hungry for some days, and the wind blew toward them from the village, and some squaw was frying oit ions over there. And so-—" Evil Practice Growing In Formosa. Formosa’s demand for opium paste has grown with the general rise erf wages.

his report; I had said the things he reported me as having said. But 1 could, at least, counter upon 'Prince' John, and I did it. I wrote a let<t>r to a personal friend, in which 1 said that ‘Prince’ John had reported me accurately, but that he had riot told all of our conversation; for, in the course of it, while we were speaking of .Governor Seymour and the campaign he was making in the state. ‘Prince’ John interrupted me with: “Seymour—Horatio Seymour? Why, he is a d—fool!’ “Just as I expected, my report of what ‘Prince’ John had said-reached Horatio Seymour’s ears. He was naturally very indignant, and he Immediately wrote to the Democratic state committee saying that, for reasons of which members of the committee had been informed privately, he de» sired to cancel all his engagements to speak, and to withdraw from the canvass. “It was of course speedily and publicly reported that Governor Seymour had withdrawn trom the canvass.” concluded Mr. Depew, “and that announcement made it absolutely certain that the Republican state ticket would win, and that Gen. Francis C. Barlow would become secretary of state.” (Copyright. 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

Sixteen years after peace had come, and just after General Hawley had been elected United States senator, he met his old friend, the late Colonel George Bliss of New York. Luring the war Colonel Bliss had served on the military staff of New York’s great war governor, E. D. Morgan, who, that he might the better carry out the wishes of the federal administration, was made a njajor general in command of the military district of N&w York state. Under Governor Morgan’s administration more than 223,000 volunteers were enlisted in the Union army, and as g member of Major General Morgan’s staff Colonel Bliss helped to see to it that the New York volunteers were properly clothed, properly fed and otherwise properly cared for until they were mustered into the service of the United States. “From the day I began to have a part in enlisting volunteers for the war I jjad a curious desire to know who was the first man to respond to Lincoln’s first call for volunteers," said Colonel Bliss, “and knowing that Senator Hawley had recruited the first i volunteer company tn the state of ConI necticut, I asked if, by chance, he was the first man in the north to respond to Lincoln's call for volunteers after it had become known in Washington that Fort Sumter had been fired upon. " ‘Not until at least ten years after the war was over was I able to answer tfee question you have just put to ipe,’ was General Hawley’s reply. ‘For a time I prided myself upon having gained the distinction of being the first volunteer. I got up early on the morning that the proclamation was published, read it in the paper, slipped out of the house, and hurried away to a convenient room and opened a recruiting office, putting my name at the head of the enrollment list. And so I came to believe that I was the first man to volunteer “ ‘lt was in the second year of the war that I happened Incidentally to mention the incident to Gen. Alfred EL Terry, with whom I had been long acquainted, and who, like myself, had been before the war a lawyer and a newspaper writer. What, therefore, was my surprise when the hero of Fort Fisher told me that he had volunteered in much the same fashion at about the same hour that I was putting my name at the head of the list of recruits in Hartford. “ ‘Later I learned that a young dry goods clerk named Chester, who lived tn the eastern part of Connecticut, as soon as he had read Lincoln's proclamation—and he had got up early, too. to go about his business —went out of his store and opened up a recruiting office npon ,an upturned box before most of the town was sitting down to breakfast. “ ‘So, from time to time, I learned of this or that man who had put his name, much after my fashion, to an enlistment roll bright and early on the morning of the day of the appearance of the proclamation. This thing'was done all over the north, as my information made plain, and so at last I made up my mind—and this is my conviction today—that there wasn’t any one first volunteer —there were hundreds of them, all over the north, enlisting at practically the same moment' ” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edward*. All Rights Reserved.) In the Swim, A reviewer in the New York Nation Illustrates his own comments on a certain new volume of essays by a story that is worth putting into circulation. Three hearers, he says, of the admired Dr. X.. were talking in the vestibule after the sermon. “We must admit," remarked the first, “that the doctor dives deeper into his subject than any other preacher." “Yes,” said: the second, “and stays under longer.” “And comes up drier,” added the third. —Western Christian Advocate.