The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 February 1912 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA hroo MUCH ~FOR THE LAWYER How a Michigan Congressman, Testifying as Lumber Expert, Silenced the Noisy Attorney. There is a certain representative in congress from Michigan who was once mmmoned as a witness in a case being tried in Saginaw, the summons being based on his expert knowledge of the lumber business. It appears that the whole case hinged on whether or, not merchantable lumber had been supplied a certain flrm, as set forth in its contract with the party of the second part. ■ . / Representing the opposition appeared a very vociferous lawyer who made up in noise what he lacked In argument. He would shout and roar and pound the table in front of him Jike an auctioneer. “What,” demanded the counsel in stentorian tones of the witness, “what do you regard are merchantable lumber?” “Lumber that may be sold at a profit,” replied the imperturbable witness. The lawyer pounded the table again, strutting about, shouting a good deal more, and finally came back at the witness in this wise: “And what, sir, would you regard as merchantable grain?” “I don't kntJw anything about grain.” “Ah, you don't, you don't, eh? Well, then, what about merchantable fruit?” “Nor fruit. I am a lumberman.” “Come, now, my dear sir. As to Blabs and culls —should you say that they were merchantable?” “They are products of the mills.” “Oh, ho!” fairly yelled this lawyer this time. “Can you tell the honorable court whether you have any ideas at all about any kind of merchantable goods?” “Oh, yes,“ replied the redoubtable witness. “A lawyer, for example, who tries his “Case with his brains —1 should call him a merchantable lawper; but the one who tries his case with his mouth and his hands and feet, I should call him a cull!” That closed the cross-examination. — The Green Bag. i • Reunited in Strange Way. While a scene in a play was being reproduced at a cinematograph theater at St. Petersburg the other day, a peasant and his wife in the audience recognized an actress in the scene as their long-lost daughter. The woman swooned, and her husband, shouting “My daughter!” tried to force his way behind the stage, expecting to find his daughter there. To convince him that his daughter was not the manager had the curtain drawn UP. ’ Then ringing up the firm from whom he had the film, the manager was informed that the actress was there and would set out for the theater at once. Soon after this information had been given to the audience a cab drove up with the actress, and parents and daughter had an affectionate meeting. Makes Pet of Bantam. Fashions in pets . among society women are becoming as changeable as fashions in hats. A lady who has been seen on several occasions in the streets of London with a pretty little black bantam nestled in her arms, entered a West-end restaurant recently with her pet. While bis mistress removed her gloves and sables the bird was ( perched upon'her knee and was afterward fed from the lady's hand with sugar crumbs. While at home the bantam is permitted to hop about the table, but in the restaurant his manners were beyond reproach. Lottery Prizes Bring Joy. ’ The two great prizes of the Spanish Christmas lottery, amounting to sl,200,000 and respectively, have been won by workmen. The first winning ticket was sold at Barcelona, and according to custom was divided into several shares among several owners. Ten parts of the ticket were bought by persons living as far away as Marseilles, and they will all share in the munificence of Fortune. The second prize ticket for $1,000,000 was bought by a factory proprietor, at Mauresa, in Catalonia, and distributed among the workmen, who are Joyed. Swindled Again. “By gosh th«p ain’t no chance to git ahead of these swindlers,” complained Silas Hossbarnes. “What’s the matter now?” h?s wife asked. “I sent a dollar to one of ’em for a receipt to keep hair from failin’ out and what do you s’pase he writes?” “I can’t guess.” “ ‘Quarrel with your wife and git it pulled out.’ ’’ —Chicago Record Herald. Expected. “.Father,” said the small boy, “what la a reformer?” “A reformer, my son,” replied the statesman, “Is a man who expects everybody to be economical and selfsacrificing except his own constituents. Its Status. "I wonder why they attach so much importance to a coal strike.” “Why; isn’t It important?" "Os course not It is merely a miner occurrence.” /

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4 ITH the lumber Jacks in many sections of the United States the winter is the busy season of the year, the harvest time, as it ■ were, and they work almost as b energetically to “get out” the . requisite number of logs during the interim of snow and ice as does the farmer to get in his grain ere the autumn rains set in. Only, to be sure, the lumt menaced by quite the same uncer-

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talnty as to weather conditions as is the farmer In autumn, for in many of the northern lumber

rumps it is almost unheard of for a season to embody less than five months of esedding, that is, five months of continuous snow and i ice. In the logging regions of the Pacific Northwest, of course, where may be found perhaps the greatest of nature’s lumber storehouses, the winter does not make the marked difference in conditions that it does in the forests of some other sections of the country. In western Oregon and Washington there is so little snow, and that of such a transient character, that the lumbermen cannot depend upon it as they do elsewhere to help them with their work. But, on the other hand, the Puget Sound and Columbia River country is free from that severe weather which renders it Imperative for lumber jacks elsewhere to constantly have a care lest they suffer from frostbitten hands and feet Similarly In the south, where cypress Is king and wtere much of the

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•'t i j?/:* * sty ' - ‘ ■ -- -AO* z - N tor the twentieth century logging crews. In w hat we might term the traditional seats of the lumber Industry, however, puts a very different face on the whole matter of getting out the logs and transporting them to the sawmills that transform them into the marketable form known to the average consumer. In Maine, in northern New York and Canada, in Michigan, in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas the summer is in one sense a vacation season for the lumber Jacks. At least it is an interlude of restricted activity and the lumbermen, unlike some other members of the community, welcome the passing of the long, bright days and the advent of the Ice King. The explanation of this state of affairs Is found, bf course, in the fact that snow and ice afford the material for the Ideal arteries of communication in the lumber regions. The felled . trees may be conveyed to market more quickly and more economically over snow roads and ice trails than by any other method known to the industry. Indeed, there are lumber regions where without these factors —and their sequel, the “big thaw” in the spring—it would be virtually impracticable to get the timber to market at an expense that would justify operations. The snow and ice, Important as is their aid. are not the only influences that are now tending to make the lumbermen concentrate their activities in the fall and winter. Os late years a constantly increasing number of our lumbermen have been brought to see the wisdom of adopting what is known as conservative lumbering—that is, lumbering which treats a forest as a working capital whose purpose is to produce successive crops and which calls for work in the woods that will leave the standing trees and young growth as nearly unharmed as possible. Well, the minute a man becomes a convert to conservative lumbering he Is certain to become an advocate es the cold season as the proper time tt»r carrying on all the operations of lumbering. To make this point clear it may be pointed out that the difference between practical work under ordinary methods of lumbering and under conservative lumbering is principally in the selection of the trees to cut, Im the felling pf these trees, and in the first part of their Journey from the stump to the mH. It is an established fact that the amount of harm done to a forest by the cutting depends considerably upon the season of the year when the work in the woods is carried on. ur.« -I. AnmaM will result to the young growth

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would otherwise be the case when the st mon arch comes down on rocky, uneven grou - After all. however, it is in the stages of the transportation of the logs tha and ice yield the greatest aid. First of all it simplifies the operation of skidding or dragging the log lengths from the depths of the'forest. This work was formerly done by horses, mules or oxen, and is yet to some extent, but for the most part the modern donkey engine has supplanted all other forms of energy for skidding. Supposed.y the skidding operation is designed only to get. the logs out of the forest depths where no logcarrying vehicle could be operated without infinite trouble and damage to the standing timber. However, when the Snow King is in command it sometimes happens that a similar method may be employed for moving the logs to the rollway or storage yard, perhaps a mile or two distant, where the logs are held to await the spring freshets or are loaded aboard railroad cars that convey them to the mills. For this long-distance log trailing there is employed a more powerful type of engine than the donkey above referred to and a stronger wire cable is supplied. The pathway for the logs is an icy boulevard—kept in condition by “flooding” as circumstances require—and this becomes so smooth from the polishing process afforded by the passage of the logs that it is practicable to transport at each operation not merely a single log., but whole “strings” of logs attached end to end by means of stout chains. At some lumber camps it is the practice to employ giant sleds to carry the logs on the first stage of their journey from the forest to the saw mill. Os course snow is requisite to the satisfactory operation of these sleds, but when a “path” has been worn for the sled runners along the icy roads the vehicles traverse the line thus furrowed with a facility suggestive of that with which a locomotive glides along the steel rails. There is, of course, a minimum of resistance to the progress of a sled along such a glazed surface and in many Instances log loads of almost incredible weight nre thus transported over the glistening surface. A “new wrinkle” that characterizes winter practice in some of the up-to-date logging districts consists of what might be denominated an Ice automobile for log carrying. Powerful traction engines have teen used for some time past on the Pacific Coast to draw trains of logladen trucks out of the forest, but this new form of commercial motor vehicle goes even these

and to the trees left standing it the lumbering is done after the

growing season is over instead of being allowed to go on in the spring and summer while the bark is loose and the leaves and twigs are tender. Moreover, if there be a heavy blanket of snow on the ground, a tree, after It has been felled with ax or saw, stands a chance of crashing to earth with less damage than it would sustain at another season of the year. The tree trunk that falls on a bed of snow is not likely to split or to break as

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marvels one better. In principle, the ice automobile is not very different from the ordinary commercial motors which are now employed for delivery work in every city. However, the selfpropelled adjunct of winter logging is provided with sharp teeth which it sinks into the snow or ice as it progresses, thus insuring steady progress with no slipping or sliding on the smooth surfaces. But because the winter finds the lumber jacks very busy in a temperature that ranges as low as 20 to 40 degrees below zero it must not be supposed that they do not find time and opportunity for plenty of fun in the isolated camps where they spend tile season. A logging camp may be anywhere from five to twenty-five miles from tfrw". nearest store and postoffice, but the “jacks” are supplied with fresh butter, fresh meat, smoking and chewing tobacco, etc. A graphophone or phonograph is an almost inevitable adjunct of the isolated logging camp and the lumbermen manage in one way and another to get records of the latest song “hits” from time to time. The average logging camp has two main structures —the bunk house where the loggers sleep in bunks arranged in tiers, and the cook shanty where the food is cooked and served. To call this eating hall a shanty is, however, something of a misnomer, since the word is likely to suggest a modest hut, whereas the cook shanty of an up-to-date logging camp must be large enough to accommodate a crude dining table perhaps 40 feet in length. The cooking in a logging camp is usually done by a man and wife (almost invariably German), who hire out as professional cooks and who have the help of two masculine assistants. They work, over a range that is 10 feet long and on top of which stands a coffee urn that holds as much as a barrel; a meat boiler that holds 100 pounds of pork or beef, and a can in which there can be boiled at one time more than a bushel of • potatoes. Below are the ovens where are baked ; some 10 to 15 square feet of biscuits every day. In some camps heavy stoneware is provided for use on the table, but at a majority of logging establishments each of the 50 to 150 men is simply allowed a spoon, plate, and cup of tijfr and a knife and fork of steel. PRAISE WORTH WHILE. “A society woman paid you a handsome compliment the other day, Mr. Drugsly.” “Ah, Indeed! May I ask who the lady was?” "Certainly. It was Mrs. Whoopindyke. She said you sold the best dog soap in town.” EXTREMELY POLITE. “You ought to call on Dr. Pullem, he’s the best dentist in town.” “One of those so-called ‘painless’ dentists, eh?" “No; but he always says, ’I beg your pardon,’ before pulling a tooth.” REVENGE. Official (to barber condemned to death) —In an hour’s time now, my poor man, you must prepare for your doom. Have you any last dying wish? Condemned Barber (savagely)—Yes. I’d like to shave the crown pro««c*>»nr! —London Opinion.

SCHOOLS IN SIBERIA Are More Numerous Than Is * ■ Generally Supposed. Various Systems That Are In Use From Elementary to University and Professional Described — Attendance Is Optional. I 7 Tomsk, Siberia.—The prevalent im- ‘ pression today is that education far i cllities are sadly lacking in Siberia I and the Russias in general. The I average man holds the misconception ! i that Russia has very few schools in- ! deed and Siberia none and no pros- | | pect of ahV better schooling than that j ! of the knoHf and the onslaughts of j wolf and arctic cold. First comes the Narodnija utchilist- [ cha, the national free elementary school. It teaches practically nothing ; more than the three Rs, and if you : j saw and talked to the average Siber- : ian peasant you would see that in his ; present state of mental degradation ! this simple fare is about as much as ; is good for his youngsters yet awhile, : writes Bassett Digby in the Chicago * Daily News. He himself expresses no i desire to go to any school and often * enough he makes himself a nuisance * by wanting to keep his children at i home as wage earners. This type of j school exists in all but the smallest I and most inaccessible pillages, and it , is decidedly on the increase. We saw ‘ several in small villages that had i been erected recently. Attendance is . ; optional. Then there is the realnaia (in GerI tnany the realschule), with a curricu- | him of history, geography and mathe- ! matics. Special attention is given to I geography, the subject being divided j into physical and commercial aspects. 1 The realnaias are met with in the usual run of villages. They occur chiefly in towns and big villages. Attendance is free. Next comes the third of the three free school systems—the gymnagium. i History, literature and the higher ! mathematics are taught. French and I German are voluntary. English cani}’ ' s- <V •. . 1 ' MM c A Siberian Home. not be taken. Latin and Greek are compulsory, and are rather overdone, according to some of our informants. In 1880 Count A. Tolstoy, cousin of the literary Leo and then minister of education for the Rusrnas, became obsessed with the idea tnat in copious doses of the classics would lie the dissipation of the empire’s social unrest and that their study would foster a spirit of Conservatism. So he dealt out Latin and Greek with a generous hand and the rising generation still has to stagger along with his unwelcome legacy. Gymnasia, of course, are to be found only in the towns and cities. The kommerscheskaia are private and trade schools. The courses of men4ll instruction are much easier I than those of the gymnasia. They oc- I cur in the big towns and cities, and j are largely filled with the children of the Jews. In the national free schools of Siberia, only from 2 to 5 per cent of the attendance is permitted to be composed of Jewish lads. This is Slot much hardship in the villages, but in i the towns and cities the position will | not right itself. Great numbers of Jewish lads are on the waiting list of every school. All the Siberian schools, free and otherwise, are filled to the utmost i limit of their capacity. In many cases today they have to go on double time schedule, detachments of the same class being taught in the morning and in the afternoon. Tomsk is the home of the only university in Siberia. Founded in 1880, and opened seven years later, it has now a very creditable attendance, which has been considerably underrated, by the way, in recent books on Siberian affairs. The roll stands at over 1,200, and each succeeding term shows an increase of students. The university is non-residential, students having to find their own quarters in the town. Fees are very moderate, 100 rubles (SSO) the year, which is divided into two long terms—one starting in September, the other early in the new year. There are two “schools”—medicine and law. The former is the more ha*i portant With it are connected splendidly equipped anatomical laboratories and a fine bacteriological institute. It is under the auspices of the medical school of Tomsk uniyer* ( alty.

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