The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 February 1912 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA VERY COURTEOUS TO CROOKS Mew York Policemen Respect Their Feelings, but Do Not Let Them Linger. Our polite policemen do not give Msltng crooks the bum’s rush any more, says the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. On the other hand, courtesy and consideration enter into their dealings with the under world. Even a confidence man has feelings, you understand. But the effect seems to be about the same. The other night Second Police Commissioner Dougherty was standing on a corner, watching Broadway go by A tall, well-dressed man, swinging one of the shepherd’s crook canes that Fifth avenue affects nowadays, wearing a comical checkered cap and au air of intense ennui, sauntered along the pavement “ ’Lo. Billy,” said Mr. Dougherty. The tall, welUdressed man swung quickly on his heel. He was surprised, but perfectly calm. As he tapped his leg with his cane and talked to the he smiled easily. They might have been a pair of friends met casually. The quality of the 1911 crop of kittens might have been under discussion. “Just got in from Chicago half an hour ago,” said the man addressed as Billy. ’’Didn’t expect to run across you quite so soon.” “Have a cigar, Billy,” said Commissioner Dougherty. “Too bad you’re starting west again tonight, isn’t it? I would have been delighted to talk with you a bit about old times.” Billy looked at Dougherty with a question in his eye. “On the level, commissioner,” said he, “I haven’t done a thing. I’d like to stay in town long enough to get a polish. I’ve been In Chicago too long.” “Your polish,’’ said Commissioner Dougherty, “costs New York too much money. Mr. Adams will see you to your train.” A defective In the background came op at the Dougherty nod. He shook hands with Billy cordially upon introduction. Dougherty allowed that the western operator would take the first train back to the pee-rairies. The three men smiled in appreciation of the tiny little jest Then Billy and the detective started to stroll toward the Grand Central station. “So long, commissioner,” said the crook. “Bye-bye, Billy,” said the commissioner. A Suggestion. The restaurant manager stood behind the cashier’s wearing bis stock-in-trade smile for each customer. An old gentleman came up. “I notice,” said he, fumbling with his wallet, “that you advertise to make your own pies.” “Yes, sir,” answered the manager proudly, “we do.” “Will you permit me to offer a suggestion ?” “Certainly, sir; certainly. We should be most happy to have you.” “Well, then, let some one else make ’em.”—Exchange. Looking for Trouble. Some persons are always looking for trouble, and certainly the penny prophets are terribly pessimistic as to the prospects of 1912. The“ Random” writer of the Observer tries to cheer us up. “If one must look for trouble surely it should be in the year after this—the year of the unlucky 13.” If you really want to look for trouble at once you will add .the figures 1912 together and find they afe 13.—London Chronicle. Rossetti and Publicity. Rossetti had a good notion of advertising, though he refrained from buying a lion for his back garden menagerie and escaped the fate of the young Norfolk squire. He wanted to buy a young elephant “I mean him,” said Gabriel, “to clean the windows, and then when passersby see the elephant cleaning the windows they will say, ’Who lives in that house?’ And people will tell them, ’Oh, that’s a painter called Rossetti.’ And they will say, ‘I think I should like to buy some of that man’s pictures,’ and so they will ring and come in and buy.” Ancient Sculpture Found. Some large, bas-reliefs dating from the stone age have been discovered at Lanosel, in the French province of Dordogne. They are sculptured on the rock of a shallow grotto and represent animals only. It is thought that the primitive sculptors probably refrained from Introducing the human figure in art by a taboo similar lo the present Mohammedan prohibition of such representation. The animals shown in the reliefs are relnfleer, oxen, bisons and a huge horse. His Recommendation. Hairdresser —Ah, that is a wax, sir. You need never worry about that coming off your mustache with the damp weather. I’ve had one lot on mine for a month —believe me, sir, one month —hincludlng a bath! —Punch. < Some Luck. “Been hunting?” “Yes.” “Any luck?” “Some. Found a man who would cash a check when the game warden fold me what the fine was.” h

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION 5 _ \.. I* .. c. . j .. ■f W ■ - THE international joint boundary commission has been organized and is holding daily sessions in Washington | to hear and decide all boundary disputes between this country and Canada. Three of the members are from the United States and three from Canada. In thqgphotograph, from left to right around the table, they are: Chairman James A. Tawney, Gen. F. S. Streeter, 11. A. Powell, C. A. Magrath, George Turner and T. C. Casgrain.

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Old Art of Pantomime Has Gained in Popularity. George L. Fox and “Humpty Dumpty” Recalled—London's Regular Annual Revival—ls a Novelty In America. New York. —Gesture —the refinement of action —is perhaps the oldest form of expressing emotion, and just now there seems to be a tendency to revive the old art of pantomime. With the English the pantomime play is an Institution, with Americans it is almost a novelty. Our older generation of theater-goers, however, can recall “Humpty Dumpty," in which Goody Two-Shoes, Old One-Two, Tommy Tucker and Humpty Dumpty became famous. "For tho’ true love ne’er did run smooth, I’m told. All will end well where true hearts, like yours, are gold.” What a satisfying couplet to come from a fairy queen after the opening vicissitudes of the wordless play. Perrot, Arlecchino, Pantalene and Columbine were characters in Italian masque plays of the middle ages. An incoherent plot was strung together to embrace acrobatics and ballet dancing. It was 400 years later that the descendants of the Italian quartet appeared before an American audience. Plots of the older pantomime plays were simple and fantastic. Without speech there must be swiftness of action to sustain interest. The story of “Humpty Dumpty,” whose popularity began in the spring of 1868, when George L. Fox played the great clown at the Olympic theater in this city, is a good example of pantomimic plot. Goody and Tommy w r ere rustic lovers and were forced to make love in secret. 01cJ> One-Two was the guardian of Goody, and at the beginning of the play comes upon the pair and threatens pupishmept. Humpty appears to

BLONDE FLEECES MINISTERS With Tale of Woe She Gets “Loans” From Several Charitably Disposed Pastors. San Francisco, Cal.—The police of the central station and ministers of half a dozen local churches are earnestly seeking the present whereabouts of a “Mrs. Davidson,” who is described as a beautiful matron of the blonde type, who visited various local parsonages and told a story so “touching" that the reverend gentlemen donated sums ranging from 55 to 510 each to save her from “being thrown into the street by a relentless and cruel landlord.” The Rev. William Rader, one of her victims, reported to Captain of Detectives Thomas Ryan that he, with others of the cloth who had contributed to the “impoverished” lady, had discovered that she did not live at the addresses she gave. The Rev. W. H. Bagley of the West Side Christian church, the Rev. J. Cooper of St. Paul’s Episcopal and Dr. Alexander Eakin of St. John’s Presbyterian church are named among the sympathizing donators to the prepossessing visitor. “I am an old friend of your daughter, Dr. Rader,” she declared when she visited the Calvary Presbyterian rectory, “and if she knew of my terrible predicament she would surely help me. Unless I give my landlord 55 at once he will turn me into the street.” The Rev Dr. F. W Clampett of Trinity church and the Rev. W. K. Guthrie were suspicious of the stereoof the stylishly dressed seeker of their charity and did not Jield to her entreaties.

take away the ugly guardian in his wheelbarrow. .. Then the good fairy appears to deliver her hopeful couplet about true love and changes the characters Into Columbine, Pantaloon. c Harlequin and Clown. Tommy Tucker becomes the Harlequin, garbed in scales of yellow, symbolizing jealousy, blue for love, red for passion, black for death. Harlequin is given a magic hat and a mask to make him invincible. Old One-Two, for offense against true love, is put in the power of Humpty’s tricks, Humpty becoming the clown of the harlequinade. Such was Humpty, who has gone where. “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Can never put Humpty together again.” Pantomime is a distinctly different art from that of acting. Some of the clowns of the day who are pantomimists are Adams, Ravel. Melville, Marceline, Miaco. A pointed finger must often tell the whold story. The most difficult task in pantomime is to mimic animals. The animal costume does not suffice. A close study of animal movements is necessary. Without speech an actor is wholly ineffective unless he can express his thought and emotion by facial expression, manner and gesture. The niceties and gradations of feeling until lately have not been considered within, the province of pantomimlsts. Pantomimic acting has been “broad” to the point of bad art. The art, it is said, never gained permanent favor because of the very fact that it lacked the resources of suggestion. Mother Guards Dead. New York. — In an East side neighborhood, inhabited by the poorest of the poor, Kitty Rice, two and onehalf years old, was found dead of cold and starvation. The child’s inanimate form was wrapped in a bit of old blanket in the rear room of a three-room flat The mother of the family of three was found half-conscious and partly frozen.

MISS GOULD’S HENS

Fine Flocks of Chickens Bid Defiance to Egg Trust. Product of Two Thousand Prize Birds at Tarrytown Farm More Than Owner Can Use—Many Are Sold to the Trade. New York. —There may be 30,000,000 eggs in cold storage in New Jersey or anywhere else, but Miss Helen Miller Gould can snap her fingers and forget about it, for she owns one of the finest poultry farms in New York state, writes a Tarrytown correspondent The establishment of this farm has proved Miss Gould to be a good business woman, for it is practically self-sustaining. This is an added comfort to the convenience of having fresh eggs when yon want them and as many as you want. Miss Gould decided about a year ago that she wanted a poultry farm to free herself from any.egg trust. She has a most capable superintendent in Archibald Robbie, and upon him devolved the work of carrying out the plans. Miss Gould has plenty of land, and the site selected for the chicken farm was on the property on the White Plains road, east of Meadow street. Only two breeds are housed fin the farm—white Leghorns and Wyandottes. Miss Gould tries to keep the number up to 8,000. Just now it is below that figure, but the incubators will he started soon and a large num-

BOY HOLDUPS ARE CAUGHT They Pinioned a Victim’s Arms With a Lariat and Then Rifled ■" Pockets. New York. —Using a lariat with ! ahich, in true western style, they lassoed a victim so that he was Apowerless to resist, three highwaymen, the oldest of whom was but eleven ' years, robbed Lester Feist, eighteen ' years old, 69 Cedar street, Williams- ' burg, of a valuable stickpin while he was on his way home from making a call. Feist struggled to free himself, but the boys pulled the lariat tighter. The more he struggled the tighter they drew the rope. Feist was turning into Hamburg avenue from Hart street, when three boys stepped from a doorway. One of them began whirling a lariat, and suddenly the rope shot toward him. it circled his head and dropped down over his arms. As it did the three boys pulled on the rope and pinioned his arms. He ran toward the three, but they wound the lariat around his legs and threw him to the gutter. Feist cried for help as one of the trio took a stickpin from the victim’s tie. They were going through his pockets when Policeman Nicholas Benson, responding to Feist’s cry, appeared. After a long chase Benson arrested the three boys. Old Women Defend Estate. ; New York. —Four generations of one of New York’s oldest families and > • an estate variously estimated at from j $1,250,000 to $10,900,000, are Involved in a lawsuit, the facts in which have come to light through a decision handed down by the state supreme court here. The defendants in the action are the Misses Furniss, three very old andivealthy women, who are holding in trust the estate of their father, William Furniss, a\ West Indian merchant. They hive multiplied its value many , times over by shrewd investment in New York real estate. The present action is brought by the ultimate heirs of the trust fund, all distant relatives, who demand a definite accounting from the three aged trustees.

* ber of broilers are planned for the spring. The farm provides Miss Gould with all the eggs she wants at all times. It also provides broilers, chickens for roasting, squabs, capons and ducks. In the spring, when the egg harvest Is greatest. Miss Gould often finds that- she has more eggs than she can use. Following the policy that nothing shall be wasted, these eggs are sent to some grocery stores in Tarrytown, where they are on sale as the Gould estate eggs, and great is the demand. These eggs bring the highest prices and are sold quickly. That is why there is such a demand for these eggs by grocers. The henhouses are built with every convenience, proper ventilation and freedom from dampness. The houses are of wood and are not lined with plaster boards, but have a tight board wood finish which prevents dampness. This wood is sprayed with whitening once a week. The floor is of concrete, and about one and one-hall inches above the concrete is a tight board flooring. A cottage adjoining the farm has been built. This is occupied by the keeper. The chickens have to be ted at regular periods and air the food is selected with the idea of getting maximum results. A pond has been made for the ducks. As to the egg production, no exact figures are obtainable, but it is said that often a thousand are obtained in a day. Miss Gould is fond of chickens and the choicest stock is always at her disposal. The farm is one or the sights for a visitor to Lyndhurst

100 MANYJMITHS Senate Clerk Cannot Call the Roll, as in Olden Times. There Are Big Smiths and Little Smiths, and Smiths From Nearly Every Section of the Country in the Chamber. Washington.—Time was when the reading clerk of the senate called the roll of senators and shouted Sipith” just as he called the names of other senators. If he’ called “Mr. Smith” in a session of the senate now five senators would respond, provided all the Smiths who are entitled to vote were present. The largest of the senate Smiths is Hoko Smith of Georgia, who weighs over 250 pounds and is more than six feet tall. The smallest of the five Is probably Senator John Walter Smith of Maryland, but it is just as well not to ask him about it. The latest enumeration of Smiths in the senate shows the following result: Hoke Smith of Georgia, John Walter Smith of Maryland, Ellison Duraat Smith of South Carolina, all Democrats, and William Alden Smith of Michigan, Republican. Marcus Aurelius Smith of Arizona, another Democrat. Marcus Aurelius is some Smith and will measure almost as many inches from head to toe as does Hoke Smith of Georgia. Os the five Smiths now In the senate three are lawyers, Hoke Smith, William Alden Smith and Marcus Smith, while one, John Alden Smith, is a merchant, and the fourth, Ellison D. Smith, a farmer. When the clerk of the senate calls the roll of senators ; he names the Smiths as follows: “Mr. i Smith of Michigan,” or “Mr. Smith of I Georgia,” always adding the name of the state. The oldest of the Smiths is John Walter, who will soon be 67, i and the youngest is Ellison of South ■Carolina, who was 45 in August. When William Alden Smith of Michigan served in the house there were ‘ two other Smiths from the same state, ! so he came over to the senate. Turning to the Congressional Directory for information concerning the five Smiths, one finds that Senator Hoke Smith requires but seven lines to recount his life history, while Ellison D. requires 25 lines to explain how he came to the senate. William Alden Smith started life as a newsboy and sold popborn in the streets of Detroit to support his mother. John Walter Smith of Maryland grew wealthy in the lumber business. Marcus Aurelius Smith, the senate’s latest acquisition, is Kentucky born, but early in life discovered that there were enough Smiths in that state without him and moved to Arizona. Each and every one of the Smiths in the senate contends that the senate would be better off if more members of the family belonged to it. ACQUISITION OF WIRELESS URGED Four hundred and eighty-eight ocean passenger steamships in the United ■ States have complied with the wire- ■ less ship act, according to the report | <of the commissioner of navigation. One hundred and forty-two other vessels in this country have voluntarily equipped with wireless. The total number of merchant vessels In the world equipped with wireless is now 1,013. It is suggested that the United States government should control all wireless stations in the country, now operated by four or five On this point the report says: “In the light of experience, it Is probable that if we had now to meet at the beginning the question of land telegraph lines, the United States would have assumed the ownership and operation of them as other nations have dpne. If it should be deemed desirable for the government of the United States to acquire the same ownership and control of wireless stations within its limits which other nations have acquired virtually from the outset, that result can be brought about with adequate consideration for all bona fide investments of individuals, at much l*ess cost and with much less disturbance to the established order of things now than in the course of a few years.” The commissioner also recommends that.the United States make provision to give American ships free use of the Panama canal. VENEZUELA HUNTER’S PARADISE. Ralph Totten, recently consul of the United States at Maracaigo, Venezuela, thinks that Venezuela is the greatest hunting ground in the world. Mr. Totten has been appointed to Trieste, Austria, and stopped in Washington on his way to his posL He says: “It has always been a source of wonder to me that more Americans fond of hunting have not gone to Venezuela, where, along the Atnazon and in the vicinity of Lake Maracaibo, m.ore varieties of wild birds and small game can be found than perhaps any other place .on earth. So far as I know, there have been only two Americans who have hunted In that country. One* of them was Caspar Whitney, the naturalist and writer, who went there to kill a jaguar—a species of the tiger family. “The jaguar is probably one of the most powerful members of the cat family. He has tremendous strength in his forelegs, and with a stroke of his paw can kill an ox There are all varieties of the wildcat family in Venezuela, and they can be found al-

most any place in the country outside of the cities. “Everyone knows, of course, that myriads of all varieties of the parrot family and monkeys can be found there. There are dozens of different kinds of parrots. Am&ig them is the largest parrot In the world —the ma caw—which measures several feet in length. These birds are black, with bright red heads and tails and wings tipped with red. A more beautiful bird I never saw. They fly in pairs, and a peculiarity of the species Is that while flying they hook their bills together. Along, the Amazon and Lake Marac/ibo, which, by tbe t way, is as large ' a body of water as Lake Erie, there j dre all varieties of large snakes. The boa constrictor is a native of that country. The anaconda is another ljuge reptile that is met frequently. LABOR STRIKE IN CONGRESS. For the first time in the (history of the government a labor strike held up the machinery of congressional legislation a few days ago. The house committee stenographers refused to work because the accounts committee reduced their compensation from 25 tc 15 cents a folio. Thq sugar trust investigating committee had to adjourn until the following day. Dr. H. W. Wiley, the pure food expert, had been sumoned from the department of agriculture to elucidate the No. 16 Dutch standard clause of the sugar tariff. Be came armed with a polarsiscope, which he set up before the committee, and was re-en-forced by two assistants. The full committee was in attendance and a score of witnesses, sugar experts, sugar refiners, beet sugar growers and Michigan farmers were waiting to b« called. Chairman Hardwick called the committee to order and Announced that a labor strike had stopped the proceedings. The stenographers “out” are extras employed to help the regular salaried committee reporters. The reduction of pay would save about $5,000. ChaiF man Lloyd of the accounts committee said that if the regular reporters Interfered they would be dismissed. POSTAL DEPOSITS GROW. Postmaster General Hitchcock in his annual report Issued recently, discusses the postal savings banks, now established in virtually all of the 7,500 presidential post offices, and announces that plans are under way to extend the service to the 40,000 fourth class post offices that do a money order business. The report expresses the hope that congress will authorize the establishment of a parcels post, although Mr. Hitchcock believes “great care should be taken not to cause a congestion of the mails and thus embarrass ths present operation of the post offices.” “Postal savings deposits have kept pace with the extension of the system,” says the report. “Amounting at me end of the first month to only $60,252 in the 48 experimental offices, they increased in a half year to $679,310, and nov\ after 11 months of oper ation, have reached a total of $11,000,000. At the present rate of increase the total on deposit in postal banks by July 1, 1912, will be $40,000,000.” ECONOMY TIES BUILDING PLANS Congressmen who are depending on having obtained appropriations for public buildings to help them on theli way back to another term, are much exercised over the dismissal of 80 draftsmen from the treasury department. No fault was found with the men or their work, but the appropriation ran out, thus severing their connection with the pay roll This brings work on plans for public buildings to a standstill and turns 80 government employes out of their positions. It if going to be a little hard for congressmen to explain why promised public buildings are delayed, but not half as hard as it will be for some of the 80 men out of a job tt> connect with another where the duties were as light and the pay as heafty. PLAN MODEL ARMY POST. Plans have been approved for and work is about to start at Fort Scofield, near Honolulu, on what is to be the model military post of the army. The buildings will be of reinforced' concrete, so designed that each regi ment will have a building of its own, including barracks, storerooms and everything necessary for its maintenance as a unit The officers quarters will be apart, with double houses for married officers and one house for each four or five bachelor officers. At the post will be concentrated most of the troops now scattered through the islands, so that drills and field exercises on a large scale may be undertaken. NEW CIVIL SERVICE RULE. ’ In future, civil service employes proposed for dismissal or reduction in grade or compensation will be fur nlshed with a copy of reason or charges and granted a reasonable time to make answer In writing. This right is granted under an amendment to the civil service rules, the adoption of which has just been made publice. Heretofore employes have have dismissed or reduced without notice. The new rule provides that removal or reduction may be imposed for any cause which will promote the efficiency of the service, but that like penalties shall be imposed .or like offenses, and that no discrimination shall be exercised for political or religious reasons.

DIDN’T THINK SHE WAS TIRED , Mr. Jinks* Mean Insinuation When Young Lady Dispossessed Him of His S , » “That was adding‘tumult to injury,” said Representative Mann, the minority leader of the houfee, apropos of a political squabble. “It reminds me of young Jinks. “Late one night young Jinks sat in a crowded trolley car, and, when a girl he knew got aboard and stood directly in front of him, he made no sign. His face hidden by his newspa--1 per, he pretended that he didn’t know i the girl would like to have his seat" “After awhile she spoke. “ ‘Good evening, Mr. Jinks.’ “ ‘Why, good evening.’ “ ’l’ve been to the Primrose social dance.’ > “ ‘lndeed.’ “Then, after a pause, she added: i ’* ‘lt a wonder, Mr. Jinks, yoa i wouldn't offer me your seat!’ “Jinks then got up. He Was very j ong:y. He said, as he hooked himself to a strap: I “‘I thought you wouldn’t want it; i for, as you said you’d been to a dance, : I knew you must have been sitting aU the evening.’ ’’ , A DRAW. 15 V I X. c / iWi \\\ / z Vil lz I 1 i 3 ai i i Old Grouch —So you had a fight with Clarence. He claims he licked you. Choily—Ohl the boastah! It’s twue , he wumpled my cwavat dweadfully, but when it was all ovah his collah was fwightfully wilted. I Got, Back at Critic. i ”1 was walking up Sixth aventie in i New York,” says Capt. F. J. Archibald, “accompanied by James Neilson , of Sweden, who was over here on a * visit. There is a big Swedish employment agency up there about Fortieth street, and the sign Is spelled in Swedish fashion: “ ‘Helpj wanted.’ “I asked Neilson what in the world that extra ‘j’ was doing at the end of the word, especially as, even in Swedish, it is not pronounced. “ ‘Oh, it is just then, I suppose,* ■aid Neilson. “ ‘But now that you don’t pronounce the letter why don’t you people drop it altogether? It looks bo silly to have a letter there you don’t pronounce.* ” ‘We.l,’ said Neilson, ’I suppose we keap it there for the same reason you hang on to the “p” in pneumonia.’ ’’ —New York Herald. On to Her Job. Mrs. Colin Gabble —Do you ever permit your husband to have his own way? . Mrs. Strongmind—Oh, yes, occasionally. He is sure to make a fool of himself, and that makes him easier to manage next time.” THE GARELEBS GROCER Blundered, and Great Good Came of It. A careless grocer left the wrong package at a Michigan home one day and thereby brought a great blessing to the household. “Two years ago I was a sufferer from stomach troubles, so acute that the effort to digest ordinary food gave me great pain, and brought on a condition of such extreme nervousness that I could not be left alone. I thought I should certainly become insane. I was so reduced in flesh that I was little better than a living skeleton. The dootors failed to give me relief and I de- . spaired of recovery. “One day our groceryman left a package of Grape-Nuts food by mistake, so I tried some for dinner. I was surprised to find that it satisfied my appetite and gave me no distress what' ever. The next meal I ate of it again, and to be brief, I have lived for the past year almost exclusively on GrapeNuts. It has proved to be a most healthful and appetizing food, perfectly adapted to the requirements ot my system. “Grape-Nuts is not only easily digested and assimilated, but I find that since I have been using it I am able to eat anything else my appetite fancies, without trouble from indigestion. The stomach trouble and nervousness have left me, I have regained my plumpness and my views ot life are no longer despondent and gloomy. , . “Other members of my family, especially my husband, (whose old enemy, the ‘heart-burn,’ has been vanquished) have also derived great benefit from the use of Grape-Nuts food and we think no morning meal complete without it.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. « “There’s a reason,” and it is explained in the little book, “Ths Road to WeUvllle,”. tn pkgs. Elver read the ehove letter* A aew •m apseMta treat thae te time. They are sioaataa, tree, aad MB of hwauus ntterwt.