The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 January 1912 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA ROTHSCHILDS OF THE EAST Great Western Family of Financiers Has Its Counterpart In the East. The Mitsui family of Japan have been called the Rothschilds of the east; but while the fame of the latter has tone abroad over the world, the Mltsuis have remained practically unknown except to a few western merchants who have extensive dealings with the Orient. The European family owes its great renown to the fact that for a century there has been no slightest stain upon its commercial honor. But its career, it should be remembered, has been passed in a world where business itself has been held In honor; while the Mitsuis, engaged In a pursuit utterly contemned by public sentiment, for three centuries, in spite of the demoralizing influence of the social ban, have been trusted by government and people alike, and have kept the honor of their name unstained. Now, thanks to the new spirit animating the nation, they no longer stand bo conspicuously alone. Other great commercial families are being ranged with this one, their members not only enrolled among the peers of the realm, I but ranking with the merchant princes j of the west as exponents of all that is honorable in the conduct of mercantile affairs. To their number Are yearly being added many of the Samurai, or knightly chivalry of old, who once scorned all contact with trade, but who are now entering the field of business affairs, determined to bring to the rescue of their country the fine sense of honor in which they were educated under the ancient regime. That they will eventually succeed in their task, backed as they are by , the in- ■ stinct of common honesty pervading the rank and file, there can be no manner of doubt. —Arthur May Knapp in the Atlantic. Juliana’s First Saiu|e. The little Princess Juliana of Holland is said to be growing into a most delightful little girl, simply and sensibly brought up and well and strong. A pretty little story was told of her first appearance in public. It whs this: When she was first taken out to ride in the palace gardens the passers-by saw only a nursemaid and a baby and no special notice was taken of her. Then a young sentry on duty suddenly realized that this same baby carriage contained her royal highness Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, heiress to the throne of Holland. solemnly, and as it happened the tiny princess's father was looking out and saw the first salute given to his small daughter. The young sentry was sent for and presented with a gift as a souvenir of the occasion. The little princess was born .»in the spring of 1909, so she is now nearly three years old. —Harper’s Bazar. Great Flowering Rock Wall. A wall 1,300 feet long, 4 feet high aftd 3 feet thick at the bottom has just been completed on a country estate near Port Chester, New York, under the direction of Samuel Parsons, who says that it is unique. The granite blocks which form the wall were quarried about 50 miles 5 away and were used just as they came from the quarry. The interstices have been filled with loam and mold and planted profusely with such flowering herbs and creepers as will flourish best and look prettiest in that environments The stones are all large—from three tons down and from 3 to 10 feet long and fitted as closely as they could be without the use of any other tool than ■a hammer to knock off the rough edges. Scared Off. Miss Mary Garden was talking at the Ritz-Carlton in New York about the winter’s fashions in evening gowns. “Some of these black-and-white gowns," she said, “are lovely, but others are tod decollette. “A bishop, at a reception the other night, rose and took leave rather suddenly. “‘Why, bishop!’ said his hostess in a hurt tone. ‘When it’s still so early!’ “‘I can't help it, dear lady,’ said the bishop, with a grim smile. ‘You gave me a warm welcome, but your guests are giving me altogether too much cold shoulder.’ ’’ Where He Shines. “I don’t Imagine that big collegian over there is a very bright student” “Well, to tell you the truth, he is rather stupid. Yet, that fellow Is making a great reputation at college by his head-work ” “Surprising! You don’|t mean to tel! me that he uses his head for thinking?” f “No; he uses it as a battering ram •gains*- opposing football teams?” When Moody Was Reproved. The tate D. L. Moody, the noted and mucb-K)ved revivalist, told this story on himself: “When I first held meetings in Glasgow, my committee (without my knowledge) sent to a livery establishment that kept a thousand horses, to engage a cab Ho drive me to my meetings on Sunday. The proprietor was a godly man and sent me this message: ‘Tell Mr Moody he will do as mucn good by Walking to his meetings as by driving three or four miles through the Fourth Commandment’'

HAS COMPLETED ITS REPORT ON THE WOOL TARIFF (0 ' w ■ Illy ' • K b- 4 C Orl | Jk- ? Ora- ritfSJ HERE is the tariff board appointed by President Taft, which has just completed its report on wool for the guidance of congress in readjusting the wool schedule. The document is a comprehensive digest of the dif-' ference in the cost of production in this country and t abroad. The board members, from left to right are Thomas W. Page, Alvin H. Sanders, Henry C. Emery, James B- Reynolds and William M. Howard.

ORLEANS LOSES HOPE

■ 4 “Pretender” Changes Plans in Attempt to Form Monarchy. Royalist Leader Attempts to Reconcile Few Warring Followers —Populace Care Nothing for Restoration c Throne. Paris. —The royalists, who are always fervent in France, although their political influence ceased to be important long ago, were surprised and rather dismayed to receive from the Duke of Orleans an order that he will have no direct representative in France hereafter. The Duke of Orleans, the royalist pretender to the French throne, of course, who is an exile in England, writes an open letter in which he expressly says that any one assuming to be his personal representative will do so without authority. In this way the duke hopes to end the z discord which began several months ago after he changed his representative here. On the one side is the newspaper known as Action Francaise, of which Leon Daudet is head; on the other are individuals who oppose the militant methods of this newspaper. In his letter the Duke of Orleans says he has undertaken to reorganize his followers in an effort to decentralize the royalist movement, as he has always-been opposed to centralization. The political bureau is suppressed, but delegates will be appointed who, by means of committees, will carry on the royalist campaign. As a matter of fact the cause.of the Orleanists, the most important branch of royalism in France, has shrunk to a mere shadow. Tourists, particularly Americans, visiting France, are prone to discuss the possibility of the mon archy some day replacing the present republic. But these discussions spring more from ropiantic speculation than from any knowledge of the situa'tion. The French republic was never stronger, more solidly placed on its foundations than at this moment. The royalists proclaim themselves openly in the senate and chamber of deputies, but their number is insignificant; they fall to hold even the balance of power when the other parties are closely divided. Among the, working, classes no desire" for the restoration of the monarchy is apparent The last strong-.

Clever Russian Swindler

He Got Insurance Money by Fraud—. Now St. Petersburg Police Have Him in CustodySt Petersburg.—A widespread swln die effected by fictitious life insurance operations has just been discovered by the St. Petersburg police. The chief figure is Sigismund Poplavsky, son of an insurance agent He has owned to frauds on the New York Life, the Urbaine and the Kemch Insurance companies. Poplavsky received a high school education in his native town of Tiflis and started swindling early. He got appointed to the traffic department of the Vladikavkag railroad and there sold six Wagonloads of wheat belonging to a shipper He was indicted and his mother bailed him out, giving him the title deeds qf an estate she owned as security. He sold the bail security and hid in the Caucasus. His first experiment in fraudulent life insurance was a dozen years ago He insured himself with the Urbaine company for 15,000 rubles The following year a very sick man presented himself at the Pskof office of the company, far away from where the policy was taken out, and duly paid the premium. He showed all the passport identification documents of . Poplavsky. Soon the sick man, whose I true name was Ivan Fedlounin, died, and Poplavsky, who had taken the other’s identity, drew the insurance policy. Still keeping Fediounin’s name he went to Narva and in a year had spent the money. Then in 1901 he insured as Fedlounin with the New

held of those who still retain loyalty t-j a king of France is found among the aristocracy, but even there the sentiment is not nearly as strong as it was a decade or even five years ago. The Catholic church has always been royalist in its tendencies, but since the separation of church and state this influence is npt as far-reaching as it was. , Many officers in the French army and perhaps the majority of those holding highest rank in the navy belong to the old nobility or aristocracy, but the new generation is quickly crowding these representatives of the ancient life of France into the background. In spite of the Socialists’ efforts to decry militarism, the army is intensely loyal to the republic. In a word, the old ghost, the restoration of the monarchy, seems to be laid definitely. Therefore the letter of the Duke of Orleans, completely changing his past plans, awakens interest only among his few followers.

Tug Hits Whale During Fog

Strikes Sea Monster Asleep Off the Pacific Coast, But Escapes Damage. ♦ Tacoma, Wash. —With a mighty thump, that sent Capt. Crosby sprawling in his deck bouse, and deck hands flopping wildly out of the bunks, put the engineer on his back and set the mechanism shuddering, the tug Redondo came to a sudden stop near the light four miles north of the fork of the Fraser river on the sturdy tramp ship’s trip here from Vancouver, B. C. At first Capt. Crosby thought the tug was aground. But the real reason for the big thump and the cessation of the engines was even more hair raising. For it was discovered the Rodonda was on the back of a whale. •And it was a whale something more than three fifties as big as the tug. Capt. Crosby said the sea monster must have been asleep, for otherwise he would not have lain about in the deep in that way and got bumped into. Whales have been reported as extraordinarily plentiful off the mouth of the Fraser, and constant lookout was kept for them, but the night was misty and completely hid the whopping, napping ocean giant The tug smashed into the whale

s York Life for 35,000 rubles and in the following year he took a man from the hospital who was incurably ill and equipped him with all the Feriounin papers. The dying man was installed in the apartment of Poplavsky’s brother, where very soon he died. His real name is so far unknown, but he was buried as Fediounin and once again Poplavsky got the insurance money. Then Poplavsky married a young woman named Smurnoff and forthwith insured her with the Kertch company for 1,500 rubes. Soon he found a female patient in one of the St. Petersburg hospitals whose case was hopeless. He was able get her furnished with his wife’s civic papers, and when she died he collected his wife’s insurance money. She also was buried in the name of Fediounin. Then he settled in St. Petersburg as Boleslav Kupinsky and opened a timber business. He tried to insure with the Helsingfors company for 25,000 rubles, as he now admits, intendiag to repeat the swindle that had so far succeeded. But by this time he was being watched. The police will exhume his and his wife’s doubles to try anfl learn how they died They believe that he had severaPpupils, who worked the trick on other companies. The obligation in Russia to produce passports and documents showing one’s antecedents really made the swindle easy, because the production of them had the effect of stopping the Inquiries that would have followed natural suspicion.

HAS WORKED A FULL CENTURY . Coloradan Retires, at Age 114—-Said to Be Nation’s Oldest Man —Want- j. ed to Retire With SIOO,OOO. Grand Junction. ■ Col.—“ Cherokee Bill," an Indian negro, said to be one hundred and fourteen years old, and declared ly the United States census to be the oldest man in America, has announced that he will?retire. ,i “One hundred years of work is i enough for any manj” said Bill, wanted to retire with SIOO,OOO to my credit, an average of SI,OOO for every year of my life, but I cannot make it.’’ He is reputed to have 300 pounds of gold cached away in hiding places' about the little shack which he calls home. His gold, according to esti mates, is worth between $75,000 and SBO,OOO. His fortune has been made ' within the last fifteen years from gold mining in Leadville, Cripple Creels and along the Grand river. The only name by which he has ever been known in this part of the country is “Cherokee Bill.”

with terrific Impact, and as the big fellow struggled, the tug’s propeller blades sank into his sides. That put the engine out of commia sion. “The tug,” said Capt. Crosby, “was really at the mercy of the big fish for several minutes. If he had been inclined to get mad over his loss of sleep and try tossing about a bit he certainly could have turned, the Redonda over. But he was apparently a peacefu' fish, for, instead of trying to throw us up in the air, he only struggled enough,to get the propeller blades out of his ribs and then left us on the dive. Finds SIO,OOO in Wooden Lifg. Oklahoma City, Okla. —An old wooden leg may not bet much of a legacy, but when it contains SIO,OOO it certainly is worth having, thinks Jacob Randall, a pauper at the poor farm of Canadian county. The leg was given to him by Alexander P Hamilton, a supposed pauper at the farm, just before he died a few days ago. i Randall later discovered a large I roll of money in the stock of the ’ artificial limb. If Hamilton had relatives they are not known of here

MAN 71 TO WED WOMAN 38 Professor H. F. Fisk of Northwestern University and a Former Pupil I to Marry in Spring. Evanston, 11l. —Dr. Herbert F. Fisk, member of the faculty of Northwest ern university, and Miss Carla Sar gent, formerly a student in one of his classes, are to be married next spring. Dr Fisk is 71 years old and his fiancee is 33 years his junior. The romance began several years ago when Miss Sargent was a pupil listen ing daily to Dr. Fisk’s lectures. Dr. Fisk has been an instructor in Northwestern university for nearly 4f years and is one of the best known educators in the west. He is a gradu ate of Wesleyan university in 1873 he became principal of the Evanston academy, which position he held until 1904, when he resigned Since then he has been principal emeritus ot the academy and professor of pedagogics in the university Dr. Fisk’s first wife was Miss Anna Green, whom he married tn 1806. They had two daughters, the elder be ing the wife of Prof. Charles Zueblin, and Miss Neil Fisk Mrs Fisk died tn 1908. Miss Sargent was a student ot Dr. Fisk, first in the academy, from which she was graduated in 1891. and iater in his classes in pedagogics in the university, from which she_graduated 1 in 1895. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa sorority In 1897 she be came a member of the faculty ot the academy She resigned, giving as her reason that she “wished to take care of he’ mother during her declining year* .

1 ' ll! / 11 .—r—r i New News of Yesterday i i — — IByE. J. EDWARDS i" | *

How Grant Made First Speech

Persuaded by Rawlins, He Addressed ‘ a Meeting Near Galena to Recruit Company After the Attack on Sumter. When General Grant became presi- | dent on March 4. 1869. he made John A. Rawlins secretary of war. Shortly t after he had become a major of ■ a volunteer Illinois regiment in the ; first year of the civil war, Rawlins re- ; signed ti nt post in order to assume \ the duties of assistant adjutant gen- I eral on General Grant’s staff. From then on until the ’close of the war, ; Rawlins served on Grant’s staff. He ! was the youngest of all the men who i served with the great commander, out, i nevertheless, he was one of Grant’s closest advisers in military matters. : He also was his chief’s intimate j friend; and it was ‘most natural for Grant, when he knew for a certainty that he would be called upon to make j up a cabinet, to turn to General Raw- | 'ins as the one man to fill the office j of secretary of war. But that post : General Rawlins occupied for a few , mqnths only. He had contracted con- i surnption as the result of exposure I during, the war, qnd in September, 1869, he died. One afternoon in 1901 I met the late Genera? A. C./Ohetlain, then of Chicago, who. as a resident of Galena, i 111., in 1861. had enlisted in the first company of volunteers that left Grant’s , borne town in defense of the Union. 1 i asked General Chetlain if he had ■ known well General Raw'lins, who was ; a resident of Galena at the time of ; the war. 1 “Indeed I did,” was the reply, “and I remember well the intimacy that existed between him and Grant to the outbreak of the war. I have only to shut my eyed now and see them in memory as they sit together In Grant's father’s leather store earn- j estly discussing political questions, | and, most earnestly of all, the one < great question of the day—would there ■. be war between north and south? | “But though they often differed on ; other questions, on the question of the j possibility of war they were fully ! agreed; and of all the men who gath sred in the leather store from time to time to talk the matter over they were the only two who felt that war was surely coming and that it would be a prolonged struggle. Rawlins thought that it would take as much as five years to overcome the south, while Grant would declare that no one could tell how long it would take to do that. And then they would have a time of it trying to convince their fellow citizens that they were wrong in the be- > lief that, if war did come, the north would be able to subdue the south in 90 days—an opinion commonly held throughout the north at that time. “And well I remember, too,” continued General Chetlain, “that it was Rawlins who persuaded Grant to make the first speech he ever delivered. “As soon as we had received the news that Fort Sumter had been fired on, I immediately began to recruit our first Galena company, of which 1 was elected captain, and with which Grant went from Galena to Springfield, the state capital, where the company was mustered in. It was thought

Poet Who Peddled a Classic

William Cullen Bryant Had a Hard Time Finding a Publisher for Richhrd Henry Dana’s ‘‘Two . Years Before the Mast.” j Ope ot the great sea classics of ■ English literature is Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s “Two Years Before the Mast.’’ As is’well known, the book was the outcome of a voyage that its author made as a common sailor around the Horn and up .the Pacific coast in the fifties. of the last century. He left college to make -the trip in the hope that the hardly Hie on the deep would cure his weakened eyesight, caused by an attack of measles. His father, Richard Henry Dana, the poet, was fully able to send his son on a health seeking sea voyage as a passenger, even on one extending around the world. But young Dana, as a lad, had conceived a great fascination for the sea, and it was his qwn idea that he sail before the mast. At that time he was still in his teens Young Dana wrote the story of his experience as a sailor partly on shipboard and partly after he returned to his home. The story finished, be showed the manuscript to his father. “The old gentleman was delighted with it,” said the late Col George Bliss, for mqny years a prominent politician of New York state, and an intimate friend of the Dana family “He was so delighted with tt that about the first thing he did after reading it was to hunt up his warm triend. | William Cullen Bryant and give him the manuscript to read Bryant grew almost as enthusiastic over the story as the boy's father had done, and when Dana. Sr., asked Bryant if he could find a publisher tor the story. Bryant gladly replied that be would make every effort to do so, since be

worth while to have somebody go to a little suburb of Galena, some three op four miles beyond the city limits, and make a speech tha't would urge the young farmers round about to enlist in ! our company. Rawlins was well known ! and liked in that community, and 11 asked him if he would undertake this task. He replied that he would be glad to do so, adding, as an afterthought, that he’d take Captain Grant with him. “W’eli 4 at the appointed time Rawlins and Captain Grant drove out to the suburb, and Rawlins told me afterwards that he made a brief speech and then Introduced Captain Grant, saying that the captain had already served in the United States army in

Arthur Wanted Western Man .1

! Story of a Chat With Him Just Before I the Conventfbn at Which He Was Nominated for the VicePresidency. One day In the first Week of June, ■ 1881, 1 was compelled to wait at the ! railway station at Albany, N. Y„ for a train from the west that was reported i two hours late. The day was warm, I and the station platform was almost ; deserted except by employes. i At last I heard a step approaching i and, looking up, saw Gen. Chester A. ' Arthur. He carried d gripsack, which | he set down in order to remove his hat and wipe from his forehead the profuse perspiration which the heat of the flay had brought out. General Arthur seldom failed to ■ recognize any one with whom he had i acquaintance, even the slightest, and 1 his greeting of me. therefore, was f • most cordial. “I suppose you are on your way to i Chicago, general?” I asked, having In i mind the fact that the Republican nai tional convention was about to coni vene in that city. “Yes,” he replied. “I am to take i here the special train that is running from New York city. I came up to Albany yesterday to atte . to some personal business and to visit my sister, Mrs. McElroy, whopa I »have not seen for some time.” She was the sister, who. a little over a year later, was to become mistress of ths White House. As we paced up and down the platform, General Arthur, whose train also was late, spoke with great frankness of the probable result of the balloting for the presidential candidate. “I doubt,” said he —and he was one of Roscoe Conkling's stanch supporters in the Grant third term movement —“I doubt whether we shall be able to secure the nomination of General Grant. Judge William C. Robertson of this state seems to have his bolting delegates well in hand, and I am convinced that the delegates from Pennsylvania who have stated that they will not support Grant’s nomination will stick to that determination. ' All this looks to me as if Grant cannot be nominated.” “In case you do not nominate General Grant," I asked, “who, then, is

considered the book a second ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ and was equally sure that it would net its writer and its publisher each a tine profit. “Bryant entered upon his love's errand with great enthusiasm. But publisher after' publisher refused to be tempted by the poet’s enthusiastic praise of the story. They could see nothing in the book, they said, that would attract the public to it. “At last Bryant carried the manuscript to Fletcher Harper. He told Harper what he had told ether publishers about the book; among other things saying that though it was the work of a mere boy, it was, nevertheless. in his opinion, a second ‘Robinson Crusoe.’ Harper was decidedly reluctant at first to give the book any serious consideration, but at last he told Mr. Bryant that he would buy the manuscript outright, including the copyright, provided he did not have *to pay over three hundred dollars for it. "Bryant, remembering what he had been through, thought that was a pretty fair bargain and he let Fletcher Harper have the manuscript for two hundred and fifty dollars, 1 believe, and twenty-five copies of the book. You know the hit that the bobk made in this country as soon as it was published. And it was the first American work to be widely translated If Harper had accepted it on a royalty basis that would have meant a small fortune for young Dana But Dana never regretted that he did not reap a fortune out of the book. He was satisfied with tne fame that the story brought filmmuch more satisfied than he would have been with any pecuniary success.” V (Copyright. 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AU Rights Reserved.)

Mexico and was therefore more competent than any civilian to address a meeting called to secure recruits. ‘You know how backward the captain is except before his friends,’ said Rawlins. ‘Well, without the slightest hesitation he stood upon the rostrujn and made a very plain and simple but earnest speech, about 15 minutes in length. After he had finished four or five of- - the farmer boys came forward and said that they would, on the following day, come to our recruiting office in Galena and enlist’ “So it was John Rawlins who induced Grant to make his first speech; and it was Grant’s success as a speaker in that little village which led to our making him chairman of the great mass meeting wlfich a day or two later was held in our Galena public hall." (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. Alt Rights Reserved.)

If 1 likely to be the choice of the conven tlon? Blaine?” “No, not Blaine. But for him Grant would be nonAated. If Grant can’t be nominated, Blaine can’t be.” "Does that mean a dark horse?” I asked. “Or John Sherman?” Sherman was an avowed candidate. General Arthur looked at me quecrly for a moment before replying. “Do you really think :that the New York delegation would, support the nomination of Sherman in view of what has happened?” he asked. He ferred to the fact it was Sherman, who, as secretary of the treasury under Hayes, had caused Arthur’s removal from the office of collector of the port of New York — an act that greatly angered the New ; York organization. “For myself I should like to see i some one nominated from one of the states west of the Mississippi river if we can not nominate General Grant,” Arthur continued. “The temptation will be great. General Arthur,” I said, “to publish the fact that you, and presumably your friends,, have some Republican who lives west of the Mississippi in mind as second choice In case you cannot nominate General Grant.” , “It wouldn’t do at all,” he replied, hastily; “it would mix everything all up.” “Well,” I said, “in case you nominate a far western man for president the convention will probably come east for its candidate for vice-presi-dent.” General Arthur smiled. “The vicepresidency Is so remote a contingency until the candidate for president Is nominated that we haven’t given it a moment’s thought” be said. “Almost any good Republican who lives in the east would make a good candidate tor vice-president. Personally, I should be inclined to some one from Pennsylvania or New England, but the matter at this time is not worth a moment’s consideration.” That was the attitude of the man who a few days later was himself to be nominated for vice-president and who, as we paced the platform together, tacitly admitted to me that he was contemplating his election on the following winter as United States senator from New York to succeed Francis Kernan. Who General Arthur’s far western choice for the presidential nomination was I never learned. (Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) High Cost of Antitoxin. Dr. W. A. Evans of Chicago thinks the price charged for diphtheria antitoxin in this country is teo high. He says: “Antitoxin was discovered by Von Behring of Germany. It was put to practical use by Roux of France. These men gave their discovery to the world. A number of manufacturers went into the business in this country. They had to buy no patent, pay no royalties It does not cost much to make antitoxin. Five thousand units can be made for 50 cents, the cost of the syringe is 10 cents—say a total of 80 cents. Some manufacturers make it for less They sell it to the state for $1 for 5.000 units. If, however, you are a laboring man getting $2 a day and your child needs 5.000 units, you pay the druggist $7.50. If the diphtheria infection is on the tonsils 300 units are all that is usually needed, but if it is in the nose 15.000 units are about the dose —$22.‘50. If your child has been sick for three days with the disease 20.000 units are about what is needed —$30 ” Doctor Evans says that for sixteen years physicians have known what to do for diphtheria —how to diagnose it, how to prevent it and how to cure it. He says that the death rate from diphtheria is dropping down, but that it is villauous there is any >-ate from IL —Milwaukee Wisconsin. According to Agreement. “Look here,” said Blithers, angrily, “you sold this car to me last week, guaranteeing that It was odorless, and now is smells like a benzine trust." “That isn’t the car you smell,” said the agent “It’s the gasolineHarDert Weekly.