The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 January 1912 — Page 1

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INIERESTINfi EXPERIENCES OF A TR|P INFOREIGN LANDS BY MRS. MATTIE CROW-FICK. A tiresome dusty ride on an express train - landed us in France’s capital, “Gay Paree,” the “city of delight.” We arrived at 7 o’clock iq the morning, entering the Gate du Nord station on the northeast side of the city. We were fortunate in meeting a Mexican Jew who spoke good English and directed 'us to a hotel in yrhat we afterward learned was one of the best locations in the city. Our hotel was on the Rue de la Victoire, a short street just back of the

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Place de Opera, from which Paris best boulevards radiate in all directions. We were only a block and a half from the fashionable shopping streets, Rue de Paix and Rue de la Opera, and easy walking distance from almost everything else of most interest. It is quite easy finding one’s way alone in Paris—at least we found it so. Our only guide during the five days’ sojourn there being a picture map of the city which has the picture as well as the name of all the most important places and buildings, as well as the names of the streets. These maps are sold on Aie street for one franc, or twenty cents each, and are most excellent guides. “If in Rome we must do as the

i Romans do,” then in frivolous Paris ■ we must do as the Parisians do. i That, they told us, was to attend ; the Paris races, and we -did it, a i thing neither of us cared a jot for s at home. But the Paris races, with horses owned by Baron de Roths- ; child, Edmond Blanc, H. B. Duryea, W. K. Vanderbilt, etc., on the turf, means something more than a horse race at the county fair “back home” and the many lessons we learned there of the awful evil of gambling was really worth many times the price of admission. The strained faces of men and women crowding the bookmakers’ stalls — rushing wildly out to see the race—pushing madly in to view their winnings or doggedly paying what they had lost, and then, seemingly in sheer desperation, taking one more chance to win it back, made a human na ture study different from anything we had ever before witnessed. We were late in arriving, but one of the most interesting things was when we stood near the. gate and watched the crowd coming out. Jt was then that we saw Paris in her Parisian costumes most resplendent on one side, arid Paris in. her poverty on the other. We rode back to the city on the upper deck of a trolley car and while passing under a railroad bridge the wind blew a cinder into a gentleman’s eye. Several of his friends made repeated peeps and jabs at it and finally gave up and let the poor fellow suffer. He was a full blooded Frenchman and couldn’t understand a word of English, and we had been in Paris too short a time to understand much French, but the more he writhed in agony the greater grew our desire to help him, so when we simply could not endure his suffering any longer* Mr. Fick marched boldly across and signified in pantomime his desire to bring relief. With the swollen eyelid rolled over a lead pencil the offending cinder was quickly removed with the corner of a handkerchief, and we were quite overwhelmed with “Merci, merci, Monsieur, merci” ffom the sufferer and all of his friends. Our second day in France we spent in Fontainebleau, forty miles from Paris—the home of the great animal painter, Rosa Bonheur, and the chateau which has been the home of royalty for 700 years, being the attractions which drew us thither. Fontanebleau is now a dead, sleepy little half deserted French town, yet four of France’s kings were born, and two have died, within its walls. In the center of its one main street stands a statue to Rosa Bonheur —a large bull mounted on a broad, massive pedestal. On the front of the base is carved the portrait of the painter and on either side a reproduction of two of her famous paintings, one of course is “The Horse Fair.” Near the monument is the gate we entered into the garden leading to the chateau and stepped within the area known as the “Court ot Adieux.” We entered by the horse shoe stair case into a bewildering assortment of old but magnificently furnished rooms, each one fairly teeming with things of historic interest. Stoddard, of the “Stoddard Lectures,” describes the chateau as reminding him of a stage set for the play, with the actors alone being absent. Yes, that is really what it is, a stage upon which were enacted some of the greatest plays in real life, that made up the history of France. Napoleon, the star performer, was not there that hot August day when we visited his former abode. His part in life’s great drama was finished long ago, but the stage upon which he played it is there in all its old time interest. His library, his maps and charts, many of them traced with his own hand, are still on the walls. In the Cabinet de Abdication is the table upon which he

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wroteOhis renouncement of all France and Italy, prior to his exile on the island of Elba. There stands his massive and ponderous looking bed on which he tried to commit suicide by taking poison which his physician had prepared at his request to prevent his falling into the hands of the Cossacks in the retreat from Moscow. This poison he had kept and when he at last did resort to it to end his troubles, it had so far lost its strength as to be powerless to destroy life; It would take too much time and space were we to tell of all the interesting things we saw there in one afternoon, so will mention but those of most interest. The council chamber with the Emperor’s throne; the elaborately decorated rooms. occupied by Pope Pius VII on his visits to Fontainebleau, the gorgeous ballroom with French windows opening on the loveliest balconies.* from wt;ich is obtained a magnificent view of the chateau gardens; the library under which Christina, ex-Queen of Sweden, had one of her unfaithful lovers most cruelly put to death. We afterward saw her tomb in St. Peter’s, Rome, with a bas-relief portraying her conversion to the Catholic faith, but unfortunately the dates show that the affair at Fontainebleau occurred two years after her conversion, so we somehow hadn’t the greatest of faith in Christina’s newly acquired religion. Most interesting to me were the apartments of poor, ill-fated Marie/ Antoinette. Oh, the pity of it! When you see all this splendor and luxury in which she was born and bred, the dainty, luxurious furniture, the life of ease, of song and gaiety to which she was once accustomed, and compare it with her ' s*pent in the little prison cell over in Paris with slimv floor, a filthy bed, an old pine table and one chair, while awaiting the barbarous knife of the guillotine. Back again in Paris, on the beautiful Place de la Concorde, where the Obelisk of Luxor now stands, we saw the old site of this same guillotine. It is the most beautiful place in Paris today, but we shudder to think what it must have been like 120 years ago. (To be Continued) Family Bible Stolen. A large family bible was recently stolen from the home of Mrs. E. A. Ketring. The volume had been in the possession of Mrs. Ketring for more than forty years, and to her had a sentimental value far beyond its monetary worth. Every housewife of experience in this vicinity knows that GERBELLE FLOUR is always reliable, always uniform and always reasonable in price, and that she can get better results on baking day than from any ocher brand. Ask your grocer for GERBELLE and if he does not have it, send his name to THE GOSHEN MILLING CO. Goshen, Ind The bogus check man prospered during the last year. Statistics show that the sum of fifteen million dollars passed on bad checks in the country. Companies issuing forgery insurance are discomfited over the showing and are drawing tighter restrictions.

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11 Sophia Ott. J Sophia Ott, daughter of John and > 5 Amelia Ott, was born in Preble' ’ count y* Ohio. January Uth, 1830. j t At an early age she and her parl ents came to this state and settled • on a farm at Solomon’s Creek, near ! Benton. In the year of 1852 she - was married to John Kitson, and 1 after the death of her husband she was again united in marriage to 1 Stephen H. Marvel, March 12,1868. To this union was born one son, who died in infancy. Shortly after i their marriage they moved onto a farm near Warsaw, in Kosciusko i county, where they have lived until her death, January 7th, 1912, her age being 81 years, 11 months and i 26 days. Three sisters have preceded her to the spirit world, the last being : Lucinda Van Narsdoll, who passed away January sth, 1912. Surviving her are her husband and four brothers". The brothers are Aloway, of Bloomington, Wis.; John William, of Neb.; Levi, of Norvell, Mich., and Daniel Ott, of Defiance, Ohio. Besides these she leaves to mourn her departure many other relatives and a host of friends. Mrs. Marvel had been a member of the Evangelical church at Solomon’s Creek from her childhood until a few years ago, when she and her husband identified with the United Brethren church at Warsaw. Although she has been called awav, yet the memory bf her will always linger with us. Her many acts of kindness will never be forgotten, and the patience with which she endured her suffering was a manifestation of her Christian life. The funeral was held at the home on Wednesday afternoon, at ope o’clock’ Rev. J.’ L. Goshiert and W. L. Hines assisting. Interment was made in the Warsaw cemetery. Maud Stevens Concert Company. The Opera House was crowded to its full capacity Monday evening to hear the Maud Stevens Concert Co., which consists of three ladies, Misses Stevens, Kimball and Chamberlain. These ladies came very highly recommended and we feel sure that no one was disappointed whose good fortune it was to attend this high class entertainment. Each young lady was* an artist in her line and appeared upon the stage with unusual grace and perfect ease. Miss Stevens’ impersonations were perfect and certainly . deserving of much praise. Miss Kimball is a soul stirring violinist, her sejections were superb and her manner fascinating. Miss Chamt berlain’s whistling and warbling ; was astonishing and delightful. She . has remarkable gifts as a whistler. Never before have the people of . Syracuse and community had the pleasure of listening to such a well . selected and well rendered program. Each of the young ladies were artists in their chosen line, and the repeated encores, which they kindly i responded to, was evidence of an appreciative audience. The M. E. I Ladies’ Aid are to be congratulated , for having secured this company as L a number in their lecture course. ' Nobody who buys or receives a s box of He-Mi-La confections is ever ■ disappointed in the pure quality or delicious flavor. There is a differ- : ence between the ones that bear the He-Mi-La mark of purity and the other kind, that is very apparent, | but is inexpressible. Dying at South Bend worth SIOO,- ( 000, and after being a traveling » man for forty years, John Eamah . claims to have never been kissed [ by any other woman than his moth- ■ er and, sisters. A good stock of new pianos al-1 ways on hand at Rothenberger’s.

i PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT DF FARMERS’ INSTITUTE WORK For'several years there has been a growth in popularity and usefulness’of the local or township Farmers’ Institute meeting, and in many instances the local meetings have rivaled, in both interest and numbers, the central meetings held at the county seats. So pronounced has been this development in some counties, that the central meeting has been abandoned. In recognition of this tendency to localize the Farmers’lnstitute work at the outlying points in the several counties of the state, the recent Conference of Extension Workers, held at Purdue University, unanimously adopted the township or local association as the unit in the Farmers’ Institute work. This action of the Conference, which looks toward the holding of a Farmers’ Institute, annually, in ea'ch township of the state, is very timely, in view of the enactment of the Clore law by the last legislature. Underjthe generous provisions of this law, it will be possible to extend the Institute work into every township in the state, as soon as the necessary local organization therefor can be affected. The Department of Agricultural Extension pf Purdue University,* is ready and Willing to undertake this

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larger work, but it regards the effective of active, permanent local Institute associations as essential to the success of the plan. Such local organization is therefore made a condition of extending the Institute work. The Agricultural Extension Department will furnish upon request, an approved form of constitution, suitable for adoption by the local Institute Association. The Department is also prepared to offer suggestions and advice that may be helpful in effecting such local organization 4 . ,Such requests should be addressed to the Superintendent of Extension Work, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. ; While experimenting in sound vibration in the physical laboratories .at Weidner Institute, Prof; Ladd met with what almost proved to be a very serious accident. The wood alcohol blast furnace sprung a leak and exploded, burning one of the students, Mr. Nielson of Chicago, about the face and neck. The wounds healed nicely, but later developed into an internal complication, meningitis. The accident occurred a week ago last Friday. Mr. Nielsop seems to be recovering nicely at present. For Sale—One medium size Cary safe, in excellent condition, being practically new. Too small for our purposes. Butt &. Xanders.

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