The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 November 1911 — Page 6

WHAT I WENT THROUGH Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Natick, Mass. —”! cannot express what I went through during the change Blife before I tried - dia E. Pinkham’s ! sgetable Commd. I was in such ervous condition could not keep 111. My limbs re cold, J had epy j 11 could not sleep I hts. I was finally I I by two phvs- i ms that I also: I a tumor. I read I irful cures made ; by Lydia E. niixnam’s Vegetable Compound and decided to try it, me a well woman, friends declare it had for me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is | worth’its weight in gold for women during /this period of life. If it will help others you may publish my\ letter.”—Mrs. Nathan B. Greaton, 51N. Main Street, Natick, Mass. The Change of Life is the most criti- ! cal period of a woman’s existence. Women everywhere should remember I that there is no other remedy known to medicine that will so successfully | carry women through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. If you would like special advice about your case write a confidential letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Her advice is and always helpful.

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Experience may be the best teacher, but some people prefer a more fashionable school. Association of Ideas. “You have a great many files and mosquitoes,” said the rather super cllious girl. “Yep,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I didn’t like to mention it, but I’ve noticed every year that flies, mosquitoes and summer boarders all appears to be on hand at the same time.” EXCUSABLE. Judge—You should have known better than drive fast while crossing that bridge; didn’t you see the sign “Walk your horses?” Prisoner —Dat’s right, Jedge; but dem was mules what I were driving. SHIFT If Your Food Fails to Sustain You, Change. One sort of diet may make a person I Impendent, depressed and blue and a change to the kind of food the body demands will change the whole thing. A young woman from Phlla. says: j “For several years I kept In a run- I town, miserable sort of condition, was depressed and apprehensive of trouble. I lost flesh in a distressing way and teemed in a perpetual sort of dreamy nightmare. No one serious disease •bowed, but the ‘all-over’ sickness was tnough. “Finally, between the doctor and father, I was put on Grape-Nuts and cream, as It was decided I must have a nourishing food that the body could make use of. “The wonderful change that came ever me was not, like. Jonah’s gourd, the growth of a single night, yet It came with a rapidity that astonished me. “During the first week I gained in freight, my spirits improved, and the world began to look brighter and more worth while. "And this has continued steadily, till now, after tlje use of Grape-Nuts for only a few weeks, I am perfectly well, feel splendidly, take a lively Interest in everything, ahd am a changed person tn every way.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appear- from time to time. They aws genuine, true, and full of human Ir.tereut.

I New News.o/ Yesterday i ■ r ""1 By E. J. EDWARDS I , — I If ..._Z ,======aq«S uji.i SI

W. M. Evarts and the Potters

Story of the Witty and Famous State*man and His Friend, the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Hew York. William M. Evarts gained international fame as an orator. His speech as the leading counsel in the defense of President Johnson in the impeachment proceedings before the senate is ■ one of the finest examples of AmeriI can professional oratory. His speech i before the Geneva tribunal, organized |to arbitrate the so-called Alabama i claims, is regarded as a masterpiece; and it won the case. As secretary of I state Mr. Evarts added to his other great achievements by very success- ' ful diplomacy. In the senate he was. I until illness, incapacitated him, numI bered among the leaders. But in ad- ' dition, Mr. Evarts gained the highest reputation as a wit ever secured by an American. That reputation was eni banned by the fact that there never : was any malice, in his wit, although i he was prone sometimes to exercise i it at the expense of friends who enI joyed his closest intimacy. One of the most intimate of Mr. Evarts’ per I son al friends was the late Bishop Henry C Potter of New York. As Bishop Potter himself was a very witty map, there always was an exchange of wit between these two when they met, Mr. Evarts sometimes gently chiding the bishop on the eminent respectability of his various flocks. About 1885, when Mr. Evarts was elected a member of the United States senate, he entertained a number of his friends at his country place at Windsor, Vt., during a week end One evening after dinner, as Senator Evarts was chatting over the coffee with his guests, one of them said to him: “Senator, you are of course acquainted with Bishop Potter?” The senator hesitated and an expression of doubt came over his coun tenance as though the name seemed familiar to him and yet fie could not Identify it with any of his acquaintances. At last he said, hesitatingly, enunciating each syllable, each word almost as thought it stood alone: “Potter —Bishop Potter —no, I don’t seem to recall the gentleman ” “But you must know him,” persisted the guest “He is the Protesttant Episcopal bishop of New York” Again Senator Evarts hesitated, apparently trying he had ever met Episcopal bishop of At last his face cleared / “Oh. yes,” he said—and bls manner of speech was that of a minute or two before —“you mean Henry Potter the apostle to the genteels. Yes. lam acquainted with him.” On another occasion, when Bishop Potter was entertaining at dinner a considerable number of distinguished Americans and a member of parlia ment whose surname, like bls own. was Porter. Senator Evarts was called upon to make a speech. There have been various versions of that speech. »

Cleveland’s Act Explained

He Made Pearson Postmaster at New York to Prove the Sincerity of His Advocacy of Civil Service. One of the first appointments made by President Cleveland after he had I sent the names of his cabinet nomina- ■ tions to the senate a few hours after | his first inauguration in 188J>. was that ! oi Henry G Pearson as postmaster gt .New York It has always been a public mystery why President Cleveland, the first Democratic president since Buchanan, should have decided Jto make practically his first important appointment outi Bide of his cabinet appointments that ' of a very prominent Republican to a i »ery influential office. Mr Cleveland, when there came a Democratic howl over the giving of the country s largest postoffice into the keeping of a member of the opposite political taith. gave no reason for his choice Nor did he offer any explanation to many of his more intimate political friends who linted that they were puzzled over the appointment Now, however, lam able to give the reason as President Cleveland gave it to one who. after Mr Cleveland had retired to private ate. asked him the cause of the appointment; and I think this is the first public explanation ever made of the ippointment “Mr Pearson's appointment was trged upon me by just one Republi;an, and because he urged it it was made.” said Mr Cleveland “The Republican who urged the appointment In face of the fact that he knew there were plenty of Democrats who were hungering to he appointed postmaster of New York was Dorman B Eaton, the civil service reformer He told-'me that 11 I w »uld reappoint Mr Pearson post master at New York i would do more to advance the cause ot civil service than I could accomplish in a dozen recommendations to congress “Mr Pearson, Mr Eaton told me.

but I believe the one here given to be the correct one. With an assumed solemnity of manner. which always prepared dinner guests who knew hts ways for an unusual outburst of wit. the senator began by saying that as be found him--1 self sitting at table in companionship * with a Potter who was a bishop, a Potter who was a member of parlia 1 ment, a Potter who was a great lawyer and had been a member of congress and chairman of the presidential election investigating committee in 1877, and a Potter who was a great architect, be. Evarts, wrs reminded of an anecdote which he had heard when he was taking one of his brief excursions from his sum mer home in Vermont into the delight fully rural villages of that state And this was the way Senator Evarts told the anecdote: “There came among the people of one of the larger communities of Ver moot a young clergyman, who was to be the pastor of the largest church in that community. He was a modest young man and of little experlene in the world He perceived that among his parishioners were men and women of great intelligence and high cultivation. He. therefore, desired to

Eloquent Speech of a Sailor *

How James Marlow’s Description of a Naval Engagement Was Praised •nd Later Rewarded by William M. Evarts. A few weeks after the historic naval battle in Hampton Roads, in the early spring of 1862, between the Merrimac and the Monitor, a great mass meeting was held at the Academy of Music in New York city to celebrate the triumph of the little “cheese box on a raft” which came unexpectedly into Hampton Roads on the eveMng of the day when the Merrimac had destroyed two United States men-of-war, the Cumberland and the Congress. The chairman of the meeting was William E. Dodge, of national reputation as a philanthropist, member of one of the greatest mercantile firms of the time, and at one time a mem ber of congress William M Evarts, who needs no Introduction even at this day, was the chief speaker of the evening. The great building was thronged to its capacity The stage was brilliantly decorated with flags and streamers. The audience was keyed to a very high pitch of excitement Mr Dodge made a brief speech after calling the assembly to order and then introduced Mr Evarts. The great lawyer, then standing almost at the head of the American bar, and famous as an orator, made as impassioned an address as he ever delivered. Then, when the tumultous applause which came at the close of the speech had died away. Mr. Dodge rose

had been the executive head of the civil service system In thp New York ■ post office from the time of Its Inception, both as assistant postmaster and as postmaster under Arthur He further told me that it w’as largely through the succeess of the civil service in the New York post office that he had been able to Induce congress In 1883 to act favorably upon the first civil service bill ever presented to congress That was the bill championed by George H Pendfeton of Ohio in the senate Mr Eaton drafted that act. though ft came to bear Sen ator Pendleton’s name, and it was Eaton who largely kept the members of congress who were fighting for the passage of this civil service bill supplied with arguments and moral courage “But that was not all that Mr. Eaton told me.” continued Mr Cleveland. “He did not hesitate to remind me that as 1 was known to be a advocate of civil service It would be difficult for me to make my public advocacy of civil service consistent wife my conduct If 1 were to ignore Postmaster Pearson, who had done so much for civil service, and give his office to a Democrat. On the other 1 hand, Mr. Eaton went on to to say that If I were to reappoint B Mr Pearson postmaster. Republican though he was, > I would thereby show how consistent and sincere my attitude upon civil i service was. “That was a line of reasoning that 1 It was hard to escape from, and so 1 decided to nominate Mr Pearson for postmaster, and 1 did. I had some of ’ the party leaders barking at me. one 1 in particular criticizing me severely for giving one of the best offices at the ■ disposal of the president to a Repub--1 licau But 1 never regretted making that appointment, and 1 am certain * that the making of It did much to per--1 suade tnc public of the sincerity of my 1 advocacy of the civil service.” (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.)

prepare bls first sermon In such manner as would be acceptable to the people. But when ha began the sermon he was very much agitated by embarrassment and diffidence; and he said, byway of preliminary prayer: ‘O. Lord, tn this presence we now acknowledge that Thou art the clay and we are the potters? And,” continued Senator Everts, when the laughter had subsided so that he could be beard: “1 am now satisfied that these are the fottehi to whom that embarrassed clergyman referred ” (Copyright. t»t», by K 3. Edwards. AU Rights Reserve ) For Psrls* flake. Romain Qresstar, the French aviator. was praising Paris tn the saloon of La Provence “Everybody praises : he said “Everybody loves Paris A Vermont gentleman said to me yesterday: ’Some Americans don't i like Paris at first But the taste; grows on them.' “•Did you like Paris at first?' 1 asked. “‘Did IT he replied. ‘I came home in the steerage.' “ ; Natural. “What makes so many authors blue?” “The fact that they are afraid they won’t be read.”

and said: “We have upon the platform a sailor who is a survivor of the gallant crew of the man-of-war Cumberland which the Merrimac sank. I am sure you will all be glad to hear his description of the battle.” Mr. Dodge led forward a man of modest appearance, a young man perhaps thirty years of age, who seemed not at all abashed by the great tribute which went up from that vast audience to him. He stood modestly, smiling slightly, awaiting the moment when what he said could be heard. At last he began: “I suppose you all would like to know Just how that battle was fought; well, I saw’ it and I can tell you. The captain of the Merrimac called out with loud voice to the captain of our ship Just as he was closing up on us: “ ‘Will you surrender?’ “Says cur gailanrt captain: ‘Never!’ ■ And then he put a broadside at the ! Merrimac, but the balls were only hailstones against her armor. ‘‘Then the captain of the Merrimac ran his ship into the side of the Cumberland and it shook her like a leaf. When he drew the Merrimac back there was a great hole in the side of the Cumberland and the water rushed in. “Once more the captain of the Merrimac says in a loud voice: “ ‘Now, will you surrender?* “Says our gallant captain again: ‘Never!’ So the Merrimac gave us her broadside, and as we went down then I took a dead bead on her captain and he must have felt it, because I heard that he was shot.” That was all that this sailor, James Marlow, by name, said, the great audience went wild with enthusiasm. They saw the battle as this plainspoken sailor had described it And as the multitude before him was shouting itself hoarse, William M. Evarts went up to James Marlow and ! took his hand, and his voice shook with emotion as be said: “You have described a great sea battle better than it has ever been described before, and I want to say to you that if at any time you need assistance of any kind you must come to me ” Sixteen years later, when William M Evarts was secretary of state, there came to him one day a gentleman who asked him if be remembered James Marlow and the description he gave of the battle between the Merrimac and the Cumberland at the u great meeting in the Academy of Music. “Weil.” said the gentleman, “James Marlow is in need of help. He has a large family and he finds it almost impossible to support them. He things you may keep your promise to him.” “I certainly will keep my promise.” said the secretary of state; and picking up his pen he wrote as follows to Thomas L. James, then postmaster of New York, and now the dean of national bank presidents of the United States: “In 1862 I promised to help James Marlow if he ever needed help. Ha is a survivor of the man-of-war Cumberland that went down in the battle with the Merrimac at Hampton Rosas Will you now aid me in redeeming my promise to him?" Five days after Postmaster James received this letter from the secretary of state he appointed James Marlow to a position tn the New York office, and there, until the day of bis death. Marlow proved as faithful a civil servant as he had been sailor. (Copyright. 1911. by E J. Edwards All Rights Reserved.) The Old Habit. ‘‘How did Congressman Wombat sc quit himself in the congressional on’ match’” “He struck out twice and then w leave to print a base hit ’’

UVESINSOD HOUSE Man of Royal Lineage Thus Resides in Kansas. E. D. Smith, Whose Ancestors Came From England With the Pilgrim Fathers, Is Descended From King Charles I. Meade, Kan.—A man with royal blood in his veins lives In a sod house j on a Kansas prairie and has lived I there for twenty-seven years. E. D. Smith, whose farm is three i miles southwest of this place, is de- , scended from a niece of King Charles I I. of Englund, who was beheaded lu i 1649 by the British house of commons. Smith’s great-grandmother was a ; niece of Andrew Jackson, president ol the United States, and he is directly descended from John Quincy Adams , another president. His grandfather’f ’ brother wits Capt. Jedediah. Strong | Smith, the original pathfinder of tbe I ’American plains and mountains, the i ; first white man who saw Salt Lake ; ■ Utah, the first white man who crossed I I the mountains and deserts to Los AnI geles and the first man who broughl ; i gold from California to “the states." j I . Smith comes of a family oi i pioneers. His ancestors, Jededial \ p and Ira Smith, came from England with the Pilgrim Fathers and landed j in Plymouth in 1620. When Charles HI. was king of Eng land Earl Simonds of the Isle of Mar was an officer of the king’s household and he fell in love with the king’s niece and asked King Charles for hei hand in marriage. The king was ths legal guardian of his niece and he re fused to permit the wedding. There upon the niece eloped with Earl SI monds, who carried her to his vesse and set sail for America. One of ths king’s warships went in pursuit and overtook the eloping couple, but ths earl fired a cannon shot which car ried away the foremast of the king’s ship and thereafter the earl and hii bride had clear sailing. They landed in the Carolinas and from there wen* to Canada. Twin boys were born of the mar riage and the mother, niece of ths king, died at their birth. After ths 'TO death of his wife Earl Simonds went from Canada to New York state and in the War of the Revolution one of his twin sons was a Tory and fought with the English. He was Irowned in Lake CM m P^ aiQ w^iie escaping with other British soldiers after the Battle of Bennington. The other son, Gordon Titus Vespasian Simonds, fought with the Revolutionary army. After the war he mar--ried Miss Jackson, a cousin of President Andrew Jackson. Their daugh ter married Ralph Smith, grandson of Ira Smith, who had come to Plymouth Colony with the Pilgrim Fathers. Ralph Smith had two sons, Ira and Jedediah Strong Smith. Ira was the father of E. D. Smith, the Kansas pioneer who lives in a sod house. E. E>. Smith came to Meade, Kan., twen-ty-seven years ago. The doctors said lie was dying with consumption. For a year he had been living on whisky and eggs. Meade is nearly 3.000 feet above the sea, Its air is pure and bracing. It healed Smith’s lungs and he took a land claim here, built a sexi house and sent for his wife, md their three children were burn in the sod house. Mr. Smith is pros perous. he owns nearly a section ot land, has a herd of milch cows and an irrigated garden and orchard. He and his family love the old sod house and have no wish to leave it. It is large, roomy and comfortable, cool in summer and warm in winter. Finds SIOO Pearl in Tooth. Thomaston, Conn. —Ruska Antillles, an Italian laborer employed at Wig warn reservoir here, is SIOO richer as a result of a visit to a local dentist. The dentist’s examination of a tooth which had been troubling Antilles, showed that a good sized pearl had lodged in a cavity in the side of the tooth. It was removed in good condi tion and appraised at SIOO. Antilles remembered getting something in the javlty when eating oysters a few weeks ago at a shore resort. Man Choked on Three Dimes. St. Joseph, Mo. —Arrested on a charge of drunkenness, Pat Connors, laborer, swallowed times' dollars in small change, and almost choked tc leath in his haste to get the last three dimes down. The police, not knowing what he had done, locked him In a cell, where the coughing be came so violent that they called r nhysieian. Before he arrived, how ever, Connors had coughed up th three dimes.

HE GETS AWAY WITH IT Variety Actor Tackles Second Gravadigger in Hamlet and Steals All the Laughs. A company playing “Hamlet” was forced to find an actor to play the Second Gravedigger on account of the Ulnese of the second comedian of tbe company. The only actor available was a variety performer, who had no reverence for Shakespeare and no respect for the traditions of the classic drama. The Second Gravedigger was a comedy part, and he knew that he I could “get away with it’’ I When the First Gravedigger threw off the first waistcoat, revealing an1 other underneath, the audience ' tittered. The removal of the second ' waistcoat brought a loud laugh, and the third produced a roar. The First ' Gravedigger was delighted. He had j never played to such an appreciative i audience, and visions of good notices ' In the papers and a possible increase ' in salary began to loom up before bis | ! eyes. As he threw off the fourth waistcoat he turned, partly around, | and the cause of the unusual’ hit was I disclosed to him. The Second Gravedigger, being uv- I : cust&med to build laughs on lines and ■ business of other actors, saw his op- | portunity and seised it. As fast as / the First Gravedigger would throw : the waistcoats on the ground, the i variety comedian would pick them up and put them on. The new business was much funnier to the audience i than the old, with which it was thoroughly familiar. Not content with having stolen the laugh# from the regular comediah in this scene, the new man went fur- | ther. When the First Gravedigger said to him, “Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of liquor” (to which there is no reply In the text), the assistant sexton replied: “Yaughan told me to tell you that you couldn’t have any more liquor from him ’til you paid for the last you got .”—The Bookman. The Very Wont Clement J. Driscoll, at a dinner in New York, told a number of amusing stories about his strenuous life as commissioner of weights and measures last year. “A friend of mine,” said Mr. Driscoll, “noticed one morning that his grocer looked very sad. ‘What’s the matter, old man?’ my friend asked Jokingly. ’The weights and measures man hasn’t been dropping in on you, 1 hope?’ “ ‘Yes, he has,’ snapped the grocer. “‘But you don’t really mean to say, exclaimed my friend, ‘that he caught you giving only fifteen ounces io the pound?’ “‘Worse than that!’ groaned the grocer. ’l’ve been giving seventeen.’ ” Constipation catises and aggravates many Serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasan'; Pellets. The favorite family laxative. ’ Many * bifl Suu is a smooth bore.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. Talk No. 8. Avoid liquid bluing. In every city there is an accumulation ot junk bottles which-are gathered up and filled with a weak solution called bluing. Don’t buy water for bluing. Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE; a lucent package equals 20 cents’ worth of liquid blue. Makes clothes w’htter than snow. AT ALL GOOD GROCERS. The Awakening. Dignified mother of prospective bride (to social editor)—And little Dorotha, sister of the bride, who is to be flower girl, will be dressed like a Dresden shepherdess, with goldea crook festooned with rosebuds and—< Young voice from the stairway— Ma, where is the washrag?—Judge. Not in Vain. Noah sighted Mount Ararat. “At last,” he cried, “the mountala resort with an ocean view!" Herewith he felt tbe voyage was noi in vain.—Puck.

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