The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 26, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 October 1911 — Page 2

MISS KATRINA’S HALLOWE’EN

By MINNIE E. HICKS

Miss Katrina rinsed the door behind her, and stepped- out into the darkness. The tiro pumpkin jack-o-lanterns grinned gpuesquely at her from either side of; the tfoorway and sounds of merriment floated to her from inside the house, but she heeded neither. She had wanted to have this night alone, but when the young people had asked permission to hold their annual Hallowe'en party in her home, she had put aside her wish as selfish, and heartily thrown open her doors to the lads and lassies of the neighborhood. Still, Memory was not to be cheated of her tryst, and as Miss Katrina moved about the rooms, starting games and seeing that no one was neglected, it persistently followed her and carried her back to a similar gathering of 15 years before. Now she knew that all was going well, and. leaning against a pillar of the porch, she let Memory have its way. Again a girl of 20, she played the time-honored games of Hallowe’en at that other party, her partner always the man with the dark eyes whose glance rested so tenderly upon her. “Anybody can see that Dr. Clinton is in love with Katrina March," some one whispered. “But he needn't think there's any chance for him; she’s refused some of the best around here." Despite this opinion, when the walk home in the dim starlight was ended, Katrina had given her heart irrevocably into the the keeping of the handsome young physician, at whom the people of that community looked as* kance because lie had dared to come into their midst without exhibiting his family tree, or proving his claim She and Elsie Reached the Old Well. to any ancestral acres. A bitter storm of opposition had greeted the news of Katrina’s engagement, all the harder for her to bear because it vented itself in unjust invectives against her lover. Her mother might have yielded, but Mr. March was inexorable-; and when one day the latter was found lying in the road with a bullet through his heart, for want of any tangible evidence, the finger, of suspicion pointed tp Dr. Clinton. There was nothing definite enough to lead to his arrest, but his life, was rendered miserable, and, after using every possible means cf tracing the perpetrator of the deed without avail, he went west, bidding his sweetheart wait until he could return to bestow upon her a name freed from the blot of suspicion.- “Truth must triumph, my darling," he said as they parted: “it may take years, but we will try to be pali'.'Ut.” t And so. filling the time by carrying love and sunshine into many darkened lives, using the sorrows of others as a bulwark against her own. lest it overwhelm her. Miss Katrina bad waited for 15 years, while the silver crept in among her brown hairs, and in her deep eyes there grew the expression of one who watches for a ship that never comes. "Miss Katrina! Miss Katrina! Where are you?" The door was flung open, and. with an effort to throw the spell of the old days. Miss Katrina turned to the eager group “It was so warm in the house,” she said, “and 1 thought you wouldn't miss me." ■ “Oh, Miss Katrina!” chorused the girls reproachfully, as they gathered round her.' j “It's nearly 12 olclock,” said Myrtle North, “the time when all sorts of things happen.' Now, Miss Katrina, Elsie is to take this candle and go with you while you hold a mirror over the well and see your lover’s face in it.” * ' In spite of her protests, Miss Katrina was hurried from the house, mirror in hand, and just as the clock struck the hour, she and Elsie reached the old well, which yawned grimly in the flickering candle-light. “Now. told the glass up and look,” whispered Elsie. Miss Katrina raising the mirror obediently. but the next moment it slipped from her hands and was shattered on the stone curb of the well. "Oh. it's broken,” Elsie said helplessly. “Srd the wind is going to blow my candle out; I guess we’d better go back to the house.” Miss Katrina followed without a word. tad -vh» it she re-entered the

i house, all were startled by aer unI usual pallor. “Did you value the mirror very I highly. Miss Katrina?” one of the girls asked, after Elsie told what had Happened. “Oh, no,” she replied, trying to smile, “but—but it’s seven ypars of bad luck, you know." “Miss Katrina is Hhe last person 1 should ever think of as superstitious.” Myrtle said, as they went home a short time later, "but 1 suppose we each have our pet . superstition, and that is hers." Meantime, Miss Katrina sat In her own room, thinking, not of the possible bad luck to which she referred, but of the' face which had flashed out of the darkness and looked at her from the mirror a second before it had fallen to the ground. "I am getting old,” she said to herself, "old and fanciful.” Yet the face stood out clearly in her memory—the face of Maurice Clinton, stamped with the impress of time and with hair as plentifully sprinkled with silver as her own. “Just as ♦.e might look now,” she murmured, "but, of course, it couldn’t, couldn’t be-” When the first light of the late November dawn stole into the room Miss Katrina, weary of futile attempts to sleep, was up and dressed. As she took a spray of cosmos from a vase on the bureau and fastened it in her hair the whistled melody of “Juanita” floated up from beneath the window. She knew the signal well and, without pausing to wonder or question, ran down the stairs and threw open the z door to find herself face to face with Maurice Clinfbn. For one breathless moment they looked deep, deep ipto each other’s eyes. Yon have waited for trie, my ’Trina." he said at length, taking her hand and drawing her into the parlor. "And you have come,” she said. “Oh. I knew you would.” “Fate dropped into my hands the information which made it possible for me to come to you,” he said, in a low tone; "read this, Trina,” He handed her a document drawn up in legal form and signed by two witnesses, the dying testimony of one John Denham, the purport of which was that on a certain day. while engaged in a hunting expedition, John Denham had, at a spot accurately described, shot and killed a man who chanced to be passing and of whose name the testator was ignorant. Denham was to start for Europe the following day, on a commission of great Importance, and, knowing himself to be wholly innocent of crime, did not feel bound to incur the delay w hich a statement of facts would necessitate, and which would risk the high place in the business world just within his grasp. When, after almost fifteen years, failing health compelled his retirment from active life, the unhappy Incident constantly recurred to his mind, tormenting him w ith the thought that some innocent person might be suffering for his carelessness and subsequent selfishness. As his attending physician Dr. Clinton summoned the lawyer at Denham’s request, little dreaming that the matter which w-eighed so heavily on the sick man’s conscience in any way concerned himself. When Denham died a few days later Dr. Clinton secured the paper from the lawyer and started at once for the place which still held his heart. “I am so glad we know just how it was,” Katrina said, with tears in her eyes. “And now you will keep your promise,” he said, taking her in his arms. The years of trouble seemed to slip far into the background, as these two renewed the vows’made so long ago. “I came too late to see you last night,” he said.‘‘but 1 could not rest, so I wandered down the old orchard path and came out by the well just in time to see you there. What were you doing?” “Trying to see my lover’s face in the mirror," she whispered, “and I did.” He bsnt and kissed her tenderly, while outside the late chrysanthemums nodded to each other and the pumpkin jack-o-lanterns by the door grinned knowingly in the warm autumn sunshine. Lesson in Etiquette. The captain was trying to impress upon the sailor the importance of saying “sir” in addressing his superior. “How’s her head?” he asked. “Nor'-by-east.” answered the old tar gruffly. Another trial was without success. “Let me take the wheel,” said the skipper, “and you ask me the question.” “Ow's her head?” roared the sailor. “Nor’-by-east. sir." replied the captain. “Keep her so. my man,” said the old tar,'“while I goes forward and has a smoke.” —Success. Providing for the Deadheads. “Is your town doing anything in the uplift way?” “Oh, yes! We have a committee appointed to see all shows suspected of being immoral and report on them.” x “Good! ” “Yes. a committee of one thousand." “Indeed! Isn’t that a—er —rather large committee?” “Well, you see. we couldn’t afford to create any hard feeling, and so we made it large enough to include about everybody.”—Lippincott’s Magazine/ First Aid. “Are you writing to Ferdy?" “Yes.” “But 1 thought he was engaged.” "He writes me that the girl has thrown him overboard, so I’m dropI ping him a line "

CHILDREN LAY KEEL PLATE OF BIG BATTLESHIP • - ■ - - - -. - < ■ Ms it A Il B ' T hl L & i - r' ■ aBBgwBF JL i O- - ; 1 ■ Bl 1 h ? - ' .few*:/ - 1 1 J AT the Brooklyn navy yard recently there took place a ceremony unique in the annals of naval construction. This was the riveting of a horseshoe onto the .first keel plate of the New York, that is to be the latest, largest and most powerful of the ships of the Dreadnaught class in the navy of this country. After the emblem of good luck was thus fastened in place, the keel plate, nominally with the assistance of the children was lowered to its assigned position on the frame of the ship and riveted there. The sturdy little chaps who participated in the ceremony were all the children of naval officers or attaches of the yard. The picture shows one of them taking his turn with the hammer and driving a rivet through its appointed hole in the horseshoe and the white keel plate beneath.

“BUYS” A BIG HOTEL

Man Pays Out $48,680 for Chicago Auditorium.George J. Lawton, Tax Sale Bidder, Plans Test Case td Get Possession—Value of Hostelry Is Placed at $4,000,000. Chicago.—Who owns the Auditorium hotel? George J. Lawton. Who owns the Auditorium theater? George J. Lawton. Who owns the Auditorium office building? George J. Lawton. Who is George J. Mr. Lawton, briefly, is a gentleman who stays awake when other persons go to sleep. Owing to his careful cul tivation for many years of this faculty, Mr. Lawton at a sheriff’s sale the other day bought in the Auditorium Jiotel. office building and theater, valued at about $4,000,000, for $48,680. This was $2,680 more than the tidy little taxes of $46,000, which the owners of the property had forgotten to pay. Under the usual translation of the Illinois law’ they can get back the property by paying Mr. Lawton a bonus of $2,500, but Mr. Lawton says quite frankly and emphatically that he Is not anxious for the bonus. He would rather have the building. “I am going to make a test case and see if I can get possession of this property," said Mr. Lawton. “I can get a deed, and as soon as I get that I’m going to try to get a title. If I can get that, I will begin legal proceedings to oust the present owners ft will take two years to fight it out, 6ut I think it’s worth trying.” The figures of assessors figure the value of the property as follows: Value of land $2,254,295 Value of improvements 1,600,000 Total value L $3,854,295 When the owners of the property

“WANDERLUST” LATE IN LIFE Man Wedded Forty-Seven Years Develops Roving Disposition and Seeks Divorce From Wife. Kansas City, Mo.—A roving disposition which did not develop until 47 years after he was married, but which then caused David C. Rinehart to make three long, profitless Journeys from home, the last with the announcement that he never would return, was the reason given the other day by Mrs. Ida Rinehart for bringing divorce proceedings in the Wyandotte county district court. The Rineharts were married Christmas day, 1863. They own several houses in Kansas City, Kan., besides the one in which- they lived, 1936 North Fifth street Mrs. Rinehart alleges that the “wanderlust” first seized her husband in April, 191®, when he went to Canada without saying good-by or telling where he was going. Three times, she says, he returned and said he would “settle down” again, but eacn time he broke the resolution. Last Fourth of July, she states, he called her on the telephone to go to the Union station. There, she declared, he bade her goodby and said he was going into the far northwest and never would return She has not heard from him since. He Is a carpenter and seldom bad been from home until a year ago. Find Rat With Plague. Seattle, Wash. —Os 75,000 rats killed by the Seattle health department in the last fifteen months, only one was Infected with bubonic plague. This rat was captured recently down town.

failed to pay the taxes on May 1 the penalty of one per cent, a month was added to the amount. Six weeks elapsed and County Treasurer O’Connell advertised the property for sale. About the middle of July he obtained a judgment in the county court against owners of the property because they still neglected to pay the taxes and the penalty. The other morning the property was placed on sale at public auction. Thomas Gaham, one of Mr O’Connell’s assistants, received the bids. Mr. Law ton, who is a professional “bidder-in,” made the highest offer. He handed over a check for $48,680, and came into the possession of a frontage of 186 feet on Michigan avenue, 360 Congress street and 160 on Wabash avenue. The original owners of the land. Mr. Lawton says, were the Studebakers of South Bend, Ind.; Ambrose Cramer of Lake Forest and the Peck estate of Chicago. A ninety-nine year lease was secured by the company which built the hotel, theater and office building. Failure of the owners of the building to pay the taxes, Mr. Lawton says, means that they forfeit their lease and therefore he has obtained possession of all the property by paying the taxes. Hen Vindicates Her Owner. Athol, Mass. —Townspeople challenge the statement of Albert Ellsworth, a prominent citizen, that Mary Hooker, his prize buff Orpington, laid two eggs every day. Ellsworth appeared at the Athol fair and placed the hen on some straw at the foot of the judges. She laid two eggs, one of them double-yolked. chirped a triumphant cackle and disdainfully strode away. Hundreds of visitors to the fair applauded the Orpington vindication of her owner.

TO TEST EARS OF CHILDREN

Pennsylvania Health Officers Will Examine All Pupils Who Seek to Enter Public Schools. Harrisburg, Pa.—State Health Commissioner Dixon is preparing to make the medical inspection of school children authorized by the new school code. The inspections will be made in 785 school districts, which means that 250,000 children will receive the direct benefits of this important work. The inspectors make a thorough investigation of the sanitary conditions existing at the schools. The medical inspector will be instructed to note the age and sex of the pupil, the condition of sight, hearing, respiration, skin, teeth, cervical glands, contagious diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis and 4 e f° rm *^ es ’ Each eye will be tested separately, using Snellen’s chart at 20 feet. The presence of ' blepharitis, conjunctivitis, iritis or trachoma or any affection of the cornea will be observed. Each 4?ar will likewise be tested separately for accuracy of hearing by whispering also at 20 feet, the distance at which the whisper is heard being used as the numerator and the distance at which it should be heard given as the denominator of the fraction. Defective teeth and nasal breathing wfh be noted. If indications of present or recent contagious disease are found, note will be made of the fact and the exclusion of the child and its broth/rs and sisters at once ordered, u/ider no circumstances will the medical Inspector advise as to the selection of a physician or communicate yrith the family

LIGHTER HATS, MORE BRAINS Smaller Headgear Increases Wcman’r Mentality, Declares Dr. George W. Galvin of Boston. Boston. —That the undeniable improvement in the mentality of the up to-date woman is due to the decrease in weight of her stylish headgear >s the conclusion that Dr. George W. Gal vin, founder of the Emergency hospb tai, has reached after scientific inves* tigation. “Many women wonder how It it that they find themselves able to da work which a few years ago they wouldn’t have dreamed of attempting.” said Dr. Galvin. “Many are doing much more than the mere routine of housework. And should they desire to know the reason of this they need but think on the decrease in the size, and consequent ly in the weight, of their hats and they have the answer to their question. “I consider it a significant fact that most college girls wear no hats al all and only caps when the weathei demands a covering for the head." K Many Germans Divorced. Berlin. —Divorces in Germany are heavily on the increase. The latesl official statistics for the year 1909, just published, show that the average of 120,000 divorces a year for the five years preceding rose in 1909 to 141,730. Marriages also continue to increase, however, the total for 1909 having been over 400,000, or at the rate of 8t persons to every 1,000 of the popula -tion. Dog Swallows Hatpin. St. Louis. —Mrs. Pauline Nesslein has a dog with prize-winning digestive organs. Her Boston terrier Fudge sun vived carrying a ten-inch hatpin in hie interior for ten days. A veterinary then removed the offending fastener from the dog’s anatomy. Fudge is 21’ inches long.

of a pupil personally with regard to the results of the examination, all reports to the family being made directly from the department. Upon receiving the Reports at the central bureau in Harrisburg the chief medical inspector and his assistants will go over them very carefully and letters will be written to the parents of children in whom physical defects have been found, calling attention to these defects and suggesting that the child be taken to the family physician for a more detailed examination and treatment New Eyelids by Grafting Kansas City, Mo. —The eyelids ol Rev. Joseph Hohe, pastor of a Catholic church near Bucyrus, Kas., which were burned off when a lamp exploded in his hands, have been replaced by new ones constructed of pieces of skin cut from the priest's arms and grafted on the stumps of the lids. Over the new lids he has almost complete muscular control. The operation was pen formed in a local hospital. . Geese Find Gold. Santa Barbara, Cal.—Thirty golfl nuggets, some as large as peas, wer* taken from the craws of six geese raised by Mrs. Israel Altschul. When neighbors heard of the find a small gold rush was started. They began working pans In the vicinity. In washing out the sand near the bouse they found several small nuggets. The gold probably was washed down from the mountains years ago.

I EVER TAKE A MUSIC BATH? They Are as Good for the Soul, Holmes Says, as Water for the Body. One must be educated, no doubt, to understand the more complex and different kinds of musical composition. Go to the concerts where you know that the music is good, and that you ought to like it whether you do or not. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. I wouldn’t 'trouble myself about the affectations of people who go to this or that series of concerts chiefly because it is fashionable. Some of these people whom we think so silly will perhaps find, sooner or later, that they have a dormant faculty which is at last waking up, and that they who came because others came, and began by staling at the audience, are listening with a newly found aeilght. Everyone of us has a harp under the bodice or waistcoat, and if it can only once get properly strung and tuned it will respond to all outside harmonies. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. Backache Beans Dying Kidneys I A Remarkable Treatment That Saves | the Kidneys. How You May° Cure Yourself Quickly and Thoroughly. f With the progress of science comes one remarkable treatment for kidney diseases. It has been so thoroughly tested and its results have proven so revolutionary that a well-known firm in Michigan has undertaken its distribution into every part of the country. Those who suffer from kidney trouble and the diseases resulting from it will be pleased to know that every package of this treatment is thoroughly guaranteed. This should assure at last a positive cure to every sufferer. Every man and woman should know that backache is usually a well-define l symptom of advancing kidney disease which may end fatally unless treated in time; that rheumatism and - bladder trouble are caused from nothing more nor less than kidneys that do not filter the poison from the blood; that-dropsy. Bright's disease, diabetes and bladderstones arc caused by bad kidneys. I Onee they are made to work properI ly. these diseases .should quickly disapI pear. I This is done by the new treatment, Dr. i Derby's Kidney Pilis. I We urge everyone who has pain in the 1 i small of thy back, profuse or scanty i urination, pains in the bladder, cloudy or foul urine, not to fail to get a package toilay of Dr. Derby’s Kidney Pills, i and drop all other kidney treatments. Senator "Stevenson of Washington ' writes from Olympia: “There is no question about the efficacy of Dr. Derby’s Pure Kidney Pills in curing kidney 1 and bladder trouble. I know whereof I I speak.” Dr. Derby’s Kidney Pills are »bw sold ' at all drug stores—2s and 50 cents. If you would like to try them first, ask your druggist for a free sample package. Theri buy a package: you will not regret it. i Derby Medicine Co., Eaton Rapids, Mich. ! It's all right to help others, but it doesn’t pay to be too busy to stop and help yourself. ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAK? There are two ways to tell if you have weak kidneys. The first is through pains in tie back. The second t>y examining the kidney secre-

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Terrible Suffering Eczema All Over Baby’s Body. “When my baby was four months old his face broke out with eczema and at sixteen months of age his face, hands and anus were in a dreadful etate. The eczema spread all over his body. We had to put a mask or cloth over his face and tic up his hands. Finally we gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and ,in a few months he was entirely cured. Today he is a healthy boy.” Mrs. Inez Lewis, Baring, Maine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures blood diseases and builds'up the system. Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.

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CHANGE IN WOMAN’S LIFE Made Safe by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Graniteville, Vt — “I was passing throtigh the Change of Life and suffered

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