The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 October 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. ■YRACUSEL • INDIANA.

HIS DAY OF EMANCIPATION Cashier Had Lost His Job, but He> Was Free of Thralldom of Politeness, ‘tßoasting the Sox for wasting valuable time on these lunchbox league towns will get you nothing," said a fan who always argues in anecdotes. "lit reminds me of a certain day-and-night restaurant on Washington street. From midnight to dawn this place has a pretty tough run of customers —strays who have been out late and are willing to wind up the excitement with a fight on any subject. "To meet this situation the restaurant employed a cashier, known to fame only as Mickey, who has a record I of having thrown out three men at a time without breaking any glass. He always was ready for emergenand seemed to enjoy them. “But along about 7 o’clock in the morning, when real human beings would begin to drift in for the eats, there would be a surprising change in Mickey. He would wash his face, brush his hair, put on a white coat, sit jn state behind the cash register, and,; most surprising of all, would hand back a polite ‘Thank you’ when a cfistomer paid in. “(j)ne morning when I presented my ticket Mickey received the money in silence, hit the cash register a vicious blow and slammed the change on the counter. “ ‘Got a peeve on?’ I inquired. “ [Go to,’ he growled. ‘And I’ll never have to say “thank you" to anybody again,’ he added. '‘l’ve been fired.’ "—Chicago Post. A Tip to Chicago Hotels. Because the waiter at a certain Pittsburgh hotel would not allow Bob Bescher more than one glass of Iced tea,! the Reds bade said place good night and moved to the Colonial. The tragedy is described thus In the Times-Star: ■The head waiter appeared and said that one iced tea was all that wai coming to any individual athlete. Mr Bescher redoubled his outcries till the high ceiling shoo!! with hie lamentations, and Frank Bancroft intervened. “ ‘Does this poor, suffering, tealess alligator get its iced tea?’ thundered Banny. " ‘lt does not,’ the head waiter an swered. ‘Then,’ cried Banny, ‘you can shove your hotel down the back of your n£ck. Come, fellows-r-come where liberty still rules and R. Becher can be tea-ed to a finale.’ “And the whole club, bag and baggage, moved right out of that diningroom, out of that hotel, and downtown to the Colonial. Before retiring for the night, Banny had the Colonial fix up a bath tub full of Iced tea; a hose was connected with this, and Mr. R. Bescher was connected with the hose. At 3 a. m. the night watchman reported the tub as empty and Mr. Bescher as happily slumbering.” Helpful Son-in-Law. “So you asked my wife for our daughter’s hand, did you?” says the .stern father. “I did, and she began to give me a piece of her mind about my presumption, and I—” ‘ And you beat a retreat and came to see me. Well, sir—” “Oh, no, I didn’t retreat. I argued It out with her, and before I left she had given me her consent. So I —” “You did! Bully for you! You can have the girl, and you can live right here with us. I want to study your system of defying my wifg for a year or so, anyway.”—Womarfs World. « —I ft To Remove a Ring. < Sometimes a ring is so tight that it is most difficult to remove. If wetting the finger well with soapy water will not result in the slipping off of the ring, try this expedient: Take a darning needle and thread it double with not too heavy white Twine; slip : under the ring and cut off the needle, i Repeat until there are four strands of thread beneath the ring. Now soap | the string as well as the finger. Place the strings about equidistant, and j have some one hold them taut. This ! being done, ttye chances are that you will find that the ring will slip over the kpuckles along the .soaped string without any trouble. Very Much Alive. Returning to the club after a week or two in the country, the old member looked around the dining room for his own particular waiter. “Where’s James?” he asked the iteward. “Not defunct, I hope." “That’s just wot ’e ’as done, sir,” replied the steward, “with every blessed thing ’e could lay ’is 'ands on.”— Pink ’Un. Repenting at Leisure. Marie had been naughty at the dinner table and her mother had sent her into the next room to remain until she was sorry for her behavior. Marie cheerfully complied. Making no expression of repentance after a suitable time had elapsed, her mother called from an adjoining room: No answer. On a repetition of the question, however, Marie- replied, with a sweet and patient dignity: “Mamma, please don’t ask me any jmore. Fll tell you when I’m sorry."— jHarper’s Magazine.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ~l „ B|| ON Friday, October 27, the‘University of Illinois will dedicate a new university hall that has been named in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Deneen and many state officers, university and college presidents, and men of science and literature from all over the United States have promised that they will be present and participate in the various exercises. The appropriation of $250,000 for this beautiful memorial was made by the general assembly of, Illinois in 1909, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. This three-story building, which *was planned by the state architect.W. C. Zimmerman, has a frontage of 230 feet, is fire-proof, with exterior walls of Bedford stone, semi-glazed terracotta and brick. The lines of the building are exceedingly simple, and the only elaboration is in connection with the entrance and the spandrels between the windows of the second and third stories which are modeled to depict scenes in the life of Lincoln. The building is intended to provide accommodation for the advanced work in the departments of English, Romance languages, Germanic languages, economics, political * and social science and philosophy.

LADY’S FOOT LARGER

London Shoemakers Have Known This for Some Time. V Day of Narrow, Pointed Shoe Has Passed and This Is Declared to Be Factor In Increased Size. London. —That the women of the present generation have larger feet than their mothers had, which, according to cabled dispatches, was the unanimous finding of the National Conference of American Shoe Manufacturers, came as something of a surprise to society women, but not to their shoemakers. They have known it tor a long .time, but kept a discreet silence on the question. The managers of Messrs. Seadon Brothers, shoemakers to the king and royal family in King street, St. James', said: “Yes, it is quite true that women are wearing bigger shoes nowac ys, and that it is easily accounted lor. The modern girl is much taller than her mother or grandmother was. That is the result of the athletic exercises, the outdoor sports and generally healthier life she leads. See the women who are our customers. They all belong to the upper classes, and they are all tall. You cannot expect a tall woman to wear a small shoe. The day of the 2’s and 3’s in shoes is gone, and 1 should say that 4‘s are more generally used for small women, while tall women wear shoes that run up to 7 and 9. “Let me put In in another way. If you examine the feet of a domestic servant you will note that, as a rule, they are broad, the natural result of the amount of foot work she has to do. So it has become with the modern girl. She does so much exercise on foot that naturally her feet have grown larger—she requires more comfortable shoes —and our women will no longer buy a shoe that has the least tendency to pinch." Francis Bauer of 40 and 41 Burlington arcade is another shoemaker whose chief business is supplying footwear to English society women. He and his woman assistant showed much Interest in the subject, and they agreed that the statement made at the.

RESORT FOR TIRED HORSES Owners Desiring to Give Animals Rest May Send Them There Without Charge—Run by Women. New York. —Mountain Rest farm, a summer home for horses, has been opened under the direction of the New York Women’s League of Animals. This farm is for the purpose of aiding owners who desire to give their animals a holiday, but are unable to afford the expense of boarding them in the country Horses will be received at the farm and. at any tlme.hrdbrdl It. uuuuuuuu° at any time, upon request of their owners, will be returned, recuperated and better able to go on with their work. Owners of old horses who wish ’to retire them (not desiring to destroy them) may turn their charges over it, the farm, and be assured of good care for the animals and plenty to eat so long as the veterans live. There is no fee required for the care of the horses. The owners are under no expense further than the transportation charges. Sea’s Queer Disgorge. Liverpool.—An earthenware casket, containing ashes of human bones, has been recovered from the sea about twenty miles from the Bar Lightship, near Liverpool, by the crew of the fishing smack Ruby when trawling in the track of the Liverpool and Isle of Man steamers. The casket was fastened with copper wire, and attached to it was a slab of lead. 'On the lid was written: “John Henry Wood, Cremated June 8. 1911."

American convention was correct, the latter remarking: “My experience is that the English women's feet are bigger than the feet of American women. We do not stock anything less than 4’s, because they are not wanted now. Indeed, young women of eighteen to twenty-five years take sizes of 6 and 7, whereas their mothers wore as small as 2 and 3. But it does not follow that because the girl of today is taller and bigger than her ancestors and her feet are larger and developed by the amount of outdoor exercise in which she Indulges, that they are less beautiful. On t|e contrary, the feet of the present-day girl are more symmetrical than they used to be. We have a customer who wears 7’s and her feet are really beautiful. Another wears 9’s and her feet are absolutely perfect in shape." J. C. Hitchcock, manager of the Walkover Shoe company, the American firm, in Regent street, agreed on all the points referred to as to the size of women’s footwear. “My experience,” he said, “is that the woman of today is becoming more sensible in regard to her footwear. Unlike the women of yesterday, who did not care if a shoe pinched if it looked small and neat, the woman of today insists on comfort. And she gets neatness as well. That is what the American manufacturer has done for women. It is not so much the custom for women to come and say they wear such and such a size. They leave the matter to us and they go away satisfied with a comfortable and neat shoe." The manager of the American Shoe company* 169 Regent street, said: "Most of our business is In large sizes. The 2's and the 4’s of even five years ago are seldom, if ever, required. Os course the make of the shoes has greatly improved. With short vamps and the Improved Cuban heel, we can make 7’s look as small as s’s. In fact, all sizes now look two sizes smaller than formerly. That explains a great deal. The making of shoes has become a fine art, mainly due to the improvements effected by makers, whose methods and style are being copied by both English and French makers. 'The day of the narrow pointed French shoe has gone and comfort, combined with neatness, is insisted upon."

FINOS AZTECS’ IDOL Stone Man Dug Up at Durango, Colo., Shows Signs of Art. Renewed Activity In Explorations of New Mexico Ruins Leads to Discovery of Mummy of Extinct Race. z Durango, Colo. —A renewed activity in the explorations of the Aztec ruins located in the vicinity of Aztec, N. M„ by the residents of Aztec and Durango has resulted over the discovery of either a stone idol or a miimmy of the extinct Aztec race by George Garlinghouse of this city, who has brought to light a relic of prehistoric ages and aroused the curiosity of antiquarians and archaeologists of this section. The discovery was made by Mr. Garlinghouse in an arroya 30 miles southwest of Aztec and had been partly uncovered by the recent rains. It either had been buried 30 feet underground or else the ground had been washed over it to tha| depth. The finder insists on calling it a stone man, but is cautious of displaying it, not allowing anyone to take a picture of it or to make a thorough investigation of It In form it is similar to a prehistoric man, being about four and a half feet tall, but abnormally wide through the body in proportion to its height In thickness the body is only about five inches throqgh and when found one of the legs was broken off at the knee. While being unearthed the finder broke

INDUSTRY OF NEW ZEALAND Most Important Is That of Sheep Raising for Which Country Is Most Admirably Adapted. Auckland, N. Z. —The most important Industry of New Zealand is that of sheep raising, for which the country is admirably adapted, thanks to the equable climate, the regularity of the seasons, the uniform fall of rain, and the suitability of the soil for growing of nutritious grasses, turnips, rape, and other feed especially suited for sheep. In 1910 New Zealand exported wool to the value of $40,378,873 as against $30,646,616 in 1909; frozen, preserved, and cured meat, chiefly mutton and lamb, $19,560,684 in 1910, and $lB.301,331 in 1909; tallow, $3,674,233 in 1910, and $3,155,151 in 1909; sheepskins, $3,602,519 in 1910. and $3,326,698 in 1909. The last returns (1910) showed a total of 24,269,620 sheep, including 12,917,662 In the North Island, and 11.351,958 in the South Island. During the year 1909 the total production of wool was estimated at 192.822,002 pounds, of whlcji 5,202,821 pounds were purchased by local mills and 187,619,181 pounds exported. The percentage of greasy wool exported in 1909 was 82.40, of scoured and sliped wool 17.09, and washed wood 0.51. FISH SWALLOW FALSE TEETH Big-Mouthed Bass Seizes Man’s Artificial Molars When He Drops Them From Side of Boat Winsted, Conn. —A big-mouthed bass in Highland lake wears or carries a set of false teeth belonging to James Turley of New York, who is sojourning at that resort Turley went out bass fishing with Dennis Coffey. The city man, his eyes and mouth wide open, was looking over the side of the boat into the deep, clear water when a swell from a passing motor boat rocked the craft and his false teeth fell into the lake. As he peered downward he saw his teeth disappear in the mouth of a large bass, which swam away with them. If any piscatorial artist should catch a bass having in possession the missing teeth he will confer a favor on the owner by leafing them with Dennis Coffey.

off the head and the other leg. but in its entirety the image is in a well-pre-served condition. The stone man or mummy gives every indication of being the means of learning something concerning an extinct race. It appears to have been an idol sculptured from a hard sandstone which is found in abundance near the ruins, and it seems to have been a part of a bas-relief in the early ages. The shoulders and arms form a concentric arc from the neck to the hands with the face inclined to the left. The sculptural work displays fine art, every little detail of a man being clearly brought out, and may be possible that the extinct race of Aztecs may have been sculptors of no mean extent The curiosity of the people of this section has been aroused to such an extent that exploring parties are being formed to probe the ruins thoroughly in anticipation of more results. This is the first discovery of its kind ever made in the ruins, and so rare is the specimen brought to light that the finder, Mr. Garlinghouse, is corresponding with the Smithsonian institution in Washington, with the view of it being placed in that mecca of science and history. In the past scientists have explored the ruins but have never been rewarded with anything but pottery and small articles—nothing to explain the mode of living of the extinct race. The one peculiar phase of the urn known history is that hundreds of years ago the Aztec race suddenly disappeared and no scientist has ever been able to decipher where they went or much of their history. A thorough exploration of the rains nt this time may result in discovering a great deal of historic information.

NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY

They Sized Each Other Up

How Samuel J. Tilden Met Thomaa B. Reed at Session of Committee That Was Investigating the Presidential Election. The first congress which was organized after the Inauguration of President Hayes adopted a resolution providing for an investigation of the manner in which the presidential election of the year previous was conducted in the states of Louisiana and South Carolina. The purpose of this investigation, although not the acknowledged purpose, was to discover whether returning boards in either or both of those states had been bribed to make returns in favor of the Republican electors of those states. Clarkson M. Potter was the chairman of this committee. ' He was the elder brothef of Rev. Dr. Henry C. Potter, who afterwards became bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York. He was a lawyer of some distinction and a man of unusual charm of personal character. This committee held several sessions at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York in the winter of 1878. Samuel J. Tilden, the defeated Democratic candidate for president, for whom nevertheless a plurality of the people had voted, was subpoenaed as a witness to appear before this committee. Some of the Republican members of the committee were anxious to test Governor Tilden’s knowledge as to whether or not cipher dispatches, so called, containing improper propositions, had been sent by some of those who were managing the Democratic campaign to the returning boards of South Carolina and Louisiana. Mr. Tilden appeared before the committee in response to the subpoena one afternoon. He stood beside the chair of Mr. Potter, one hand resting upon the back of the chair. The expression on Governor Tilden’s face wes extremely stern. Os course he commanded the intensest interest on the part of every member of the committee, some of whom had never before seen him. Slowly, with penetrating although almost furtive look, he glanced from one member of the committee to the other as though trying to measure them. At last his eyes fell upon the junior member of the committee; and the defeated presidential candidate seemed to be fascinated, or at least intensely occupied, with the conduct of that young man. This youngest member of the committee sat at the lower end of the table, his chin resting in the palm of one hand. He fixed upon Governor Tilden a strange, curious glance, with Something of quizzical suggestion, and there seemed to play about his lips the faint flicker of a smile. And so these two men watched each other, each apparently being oblivious to the presence of any other person. I was sitfitag a little to the rear of my friend, the late Congressman William M. Springer of Illinois, who was a membep of the committee. He turned to me and said: “The governor and Reed are measaring each other up.” The young man at the end of the table was Thomas B. Reed, at that

Led Booth to Play Hamlet

Great Tragedian’s Resemblance to the "Melancholy Dane” Was Noted by His Father When Edwin Was Young Man. One of the famous American theatrical managers of yesterday was William Stuart, who died in the early eighties of the last century. Twenty years before that he had been manager of what was then unquestionably the leading theater of America —the Winter Garden in New York city. There appeared almost all of the leading actors and actresses of the time, among them Edwin Booth, whose productions of “Hamlet” and other Shakespearean plays upon the stage Os the Winter Garden, beginning In 1863, were “famously successful.” Stuart, who was supposed to have fled from Ireland on account of political troubles and whose real name was understood to have been Edmund O’Flaherty, came to be an intimate friend of Edwin Booth, and from him, one day in the evening of his life, I heard the story, as Stuart had heard it from Booth’s own lips, of the manner in which the first suggestion that Booth play Hamlet came to him. “Booth has always been a somewhat difficult man to have personal intercourse with,” said Mr. Stuart, “for there is a tinge of temperamental melancholy about him which sometimes strongly influences him, making him frequently dreamy. -Yet numersus times, when I was a manager, I found myself In delightful conversation with him. “I remember that one afternoon when he was about half through his extraordinarily successful engagement at the Winter Garden, an engagement la which he duplicated his wonderful Philadelphia success as Hamlet. I found him In a somewhat reminiscent mood and asked him if be

time at the beginning of his first term as a member of congress. During the entire giving of the testimony by Governor Tilden Reed maintained the same peculiar attitude, his chin upon the palm of one hand, and that half whimsical light in his eyes, which had come to him when Tilden first took his place beside Chairman Pottef. It was upon. Mr. Reed during all the questioning and cross-ques-tioning that the eyes of Samuel J. Tilden were fixed. And Reed, in that strange, nasal, drawling tone, which he could use with skill When he desired to annoy or confuse or bewilder anyone, asked Governor Tilden two or three questions. They were leading questions, and there seemed to be to some members of the committee a lurking tone of almost insolence in them. After the committee had adjourned for the day Mr. Reed said to Mr. Springer, “If you had put that man into the White House you would have nothing but ice and Intellect there” — as pat a summing up of Samuel J. Tilden as was ever made. So, also, after the committee had adjourned for the day, Governor Tilden said to Clarkson M. Potter: “At the foot of the table sat the man who is to be the leader of his party. He has more personal power than all the other members of the committee. You will find, in the course of a few years, that he will be the master in the house of represen-

Metal McKinley Valued Most

He Believed Tin Was of Greatest Importance to This Country in the Way of Its Possible Development. "I sometimes think that the greatest schoolmaster, both for an American business man and for a member of congress, is a tariff bill when it is under consideration, either by the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, or by the house itself in committee of the whole." It was in 1882 that this statement was made to me by William McKinley, who at that time had been for six years a member of congress and had already become prominent because of his mastery from the protectionist point of view of all questions relating to the tariff. A tariff commission had been appointed in 1882 whose duty it was ti> report to congress a revision of the tariff. It was while Mr. McKinley was discussing some of the difficulties that this commission would be compelled to meet and overcome that he made the remark to me which is quoted above. “It is impossible for any man faithfully to follow the hearings before the ways and means committee, or to serve upon that committee, without learning more of the material resources of the United States, whether they are developed or latent, or what the possibilities of development are, than could be learned by him in any

had always, from the time he went upon the stage, had ambition to play the part of Hamlet. He bestowed upon me that singularly fascinating and beautiful smile which he reserved for those who had his confidence, and then told me that it was his father who first suggested to him that he play Hamlet. “ ‘lt happened in this way,’ Booth said. ‘I was standing in the wings of a theater in San Francisco where my father was playing, and I with him, 1 think about the year 1853. I was dressed for the part I was to assume when my father passed by. Just as he had got by he turned, came back and looked at me steadily for more than a minute. I wondered If I had made some mistake in dressing for my phrt I knew that something was On his mind by the' way he looked at me. “ ‘At last he said to me: “You look like Hamlet; you wouldn’t have to make up much for the part Why don’t you study it and play it? It is more than half the part of Hamlet to look it" “ ‘Then my father went on, nor did he ever again allude to the subject. But he had dropped a seed in my mind. I began to study the part of Hamlet and the entire play. After a time I thought I understood it and was certain that when the opportunity came I could play Hamlet as as look the part.’ “How well he ‘played it,’* said Mr. Stuart, “you may judge from the fact that I happen to know that Booth received from his Philadelphia and New York representations of the part a little over ninety thousand dollars, «nd all because his father, when Edwin Booth was still a young man. thought that the son looked so like Hamlet that be would need to make up very little for the part.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

tatives and will become the leader of his party. He is the man against whom you should concentrate your strength and of whom you should be ever watchful.” A few years later Thomas B. Reed was the big man on the Republican side in the national house of representatives. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.> The Serpent in the Garden. A male dweller in a West End square, finding every lady brought out' her dog to air of an evening, took to sporting on the grass with his own private pet, which happened to be a snake. At this all the ladles in this mutual garden grew terribly alarmed, and implored him to desist He flatly refused. The contention waxed fierce, and finally a custodian of the peace, in the shape of a policeman, was called in to adjudicate. “Robert’s” decision was characteristic. “He don’t bark so I can’t take any haction,” was his obiter dictum. So the man and his voiceless reptile triumphed, and have now, I believe, the square garden entirely to themselves.—From the Gentlewoman. The Animatophone. The animatophone is the latest thing in the public entertainment line. It is a combination of the cinematograph and the gramophone. By its means one may hear the music of the finest operas, and watch at the same time the movement in a dumb show of the principal singers on the stage. The future development of this new invention will be followed with interest

other way,” .continued Mr. McKinley. “If I have any special information which qualifies me to speak with some authority upon the resources of tlie United States and their development and their chances of development, it is due wholly to the fact that I have made a careful study of the tariff my chief work, especially since I have been a member of the ways and means committee. I will illustrate what I am saying to yon by asking you a question. It is this: What, de you think, is the most valuable mineral —valuable in the sense of the greatest possible development—to the United States?” “Do you mean to inclnde the precious metals, like gold or silver?" I asked. "No. because gold and silver are of especial and exclusive importance because they are the basis of our money.” “Well, then, of course, I should say that iron is the most valuable.” “I have my doubts about that,” Mr. McKinley replied. “Os conrse, iron is of the utrfcpst Importance for the development of our industries, and for our railroads; we have, however, plenty of iron. On the other hand the metal which, in my opinion, is almost as valuable and important as Iron to this country, is one of the few minerals which the United States does not produce in any commercial quantity. Can you guess now what it is?" I shook my head. “It is tin,” said the man who was to be the framer of a tariff bill, who was to write the tariff plank in two national Republican platforms, and who was to be elected president upon a protection tariff plank. “The world now largely depends upon the use of tin for no small part of its food. Without tin food could not be' put into packages so that armies can be fed wherever they are; without it prospectors who are exploiting our resources and explorers could not be assured of their daily supply of food. Without food, what is an army, what the ability of the men who are building railroads across deserts, or through the great forests and mountain stretches of the west? Tin cans, tin cases, humble tin receptacles of all sorts —what an important part they play In every day life, in the average kitchen of the Republic? Yes, my experience in the school of tariff making has led me to the belief that this humble metal, which nature has denied the United States, may be compared with iron itself so far ass its material importance to this country is concerned, and though I do not care to say this publicly at this time, some day I shall do bo.” Seven years later, as of the ways and means committee of the house, William McKinley framed the tariff bill that bears his name in history. Probably the most striking single schedule in it—and unquestionably the schedule that caused . the greatest popular discussion —was that »which placed, a duty upon tin plate; and before he died McKinley had the satisfaction of knowing that because of this duty the United States had become independent of the world as a manufacturer of tin products, and an exporter of them as well. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. AU IV (fits Reserved.) Strategy. “Mercy, John! There isn’t a thing in the house fit to eat!" “I know it, Maria; that’s why 1 brought him to dinner. I want him to see how frugally we live. He’s my principal creditor.”