The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 March 1912 — Page 2

"l BEN’S | COURTSHIP | By LEONARD W. GROSSMAN “I suppose you want to be one of the vice-presidents, at least,” grunted Stephen Gower, as he looked up at Sen Meade. ‘‘ln the course of time, yes,” said Ben easily. ‘‘l’ve an idea I could make a very good vice-president. Meanwhile I suppose that it’s switching or something like that. I don’t want a clerkship.” Gower, sprang up with beaming Xace. "My dear boy,” he said warmly, “I have had a hundred sons of old friends ask me for chances. Every one wanted to start at the top. You’re the first one to want to begin" at the right end. Gome to dinner tonight and I’ll have a letter for you to give the division superintendent.” Meade made acknowledgment and slipped out of the office. He had just completed his college course and the trip to Europe that had followed it. He had a preference for railroading and his father had, sent him to Gower, president of the B. Y. & A. Mabel Gower was waiting in the passenger room to hear the result of the interview. She was a little worried for she knew her father felt tow r ard , those who came to him with letters. “What luck?” she asked as he came toward her. “Bully,” he answered briefly. "1 can come to dinner this evening and he’ll put me on somewhere.” The dinner was his first appearance at the Gower home arid Mabel beamed as she saw r what a good impression he made upon her father. She was moved to seek to take advantage of it when he had left. “You are sending Mr. Meade out to the Carson division?” she asked. ‘I should think you could use him iero in the office.” ‘‘l could,” said her father. “I could ise him in the office a.nd he’s be an office boy to tho end of bis days. Leave him alone, (laughter. He’s under a hard master in Danvers, but if there’s anything in the lad old Charley Danvers will bring it out; Tho-boy has started In right. Don’t hinder him.” Ben soon found for himself that Danvers’ was a hard master. He demanded the best that was in a man and somehow he managed to get it out of them. 1-Ie was prejudiced against Ben because he had come with a letter and for the first three months his work as wiper In the Carson roundhouse was that of an Inferno. Ben bore it patiently, there was no complaint and presently Danvers found himself rather liking the boy. He promoted him to fire a yard engine and before the end of his first year Ben had a. freight run. He was firing for Pete Mabee and under his training rapidly qualified as eugineer. For some reason Pete bated Gower more than anyone else. All us his venom was directed against the man for whom he worked. Ben was glad when Pete was taken on an express run and he was given 763 for himself. He was sitting on the steps of the -cab one afternoon eating his lunch while waiting for a special to go by. A party of eastern .capitalists were visiting tbos,president the B. Y. & G. and it was reported 4cat the line was to become a part ol a great transcontinental system. Mabee had been talking about it In the roundhouse the night before and predicting all sorts of disaster when the road should pass into alien hands. The others had shut him up in short order, but the words lingered in Ben’s memory and he was talking over the probabilities with his fireman when the station agent came to the door and Beckoned wildly to him. Ben went down the track on a dead crun and dashed into the office. The ; agent was back at the telegraph Instrument. “It’s Danvers, down at Carson,” he explained. “He wants to know if you can find some way of Stopping the special. Mabee’s running away witb it.” “Why not use the derail?” suggested Ben, wondering why it had not been before. The derailing switch was orie P leading into, a sandbank and used for runaway engines. •The train’s going too fast,” was the answer. “Mabee’s killed his fireman and is firing himself. There’s a blind baggage on the front end and they can’t get at him.’' “How close is he?” asked Ben. “Just passed Lewis.” “Tell ’em I’ll make it,” he announced. He dashed out of the office and up the track to where 763 stood panting her impatience over tho delay. “Uncouple the engine,” Ben called to his fireman. Coughing loudly 763 slipped up the track, past the switch and onto the main line. He looked anxiously back. The special was tearing up grade. On a curve he could count the cars. There was .the baggage and three special coaches. On board were the eastern men and their wives. The chances were that Mabel formed one of the party—ind she and they were at the mercy rs a maniac. A few miles beyond ate road made the famous figure sight curve to drop down a grade. At the speed the special was going they would jump the track and tumble Into the gorge. B*n smiled and slowed up a little. He could seer Mabee In the cab'dancdng and gesticulating. Presently with

a mild bump the special hit 763. They were so nearly at one speed that the shock was no more heavy than when a coupling is made. Ben shut off steam and climbed back on the tender. Mabee peered from one of the windows and Ben waved his hand at him. “Hello, Pete, playing tag?” he called. “I’m coming over to see you." He worked his way to the edge of the tender, dropped down on the pilot of the special, made his way along the running board and presently stepped into the cab window. “You’re running on my time, Pete,” he shouted across the cab. “I was , told that the special would be held back until I could get out of the way. One of the boys was hurt and I was running to Grant for a doctor.” “You won’t need one now,” chuckled Mabee. “I’ve got the lot of fiends on board and I’m going to drop ’em down Ayal canyon.” “Who’s firing for you?” he asked carelessly, as he looked for the fireman. “He wouldn’t come into the j scheme,” chuckled Mabee, “so I bad i to get him out of the way. I threw j him off at Parsons, where there’s a , soft sandbank.” “Great idea,” commended Ben. | “Sho needs more coal. I’ll fire for 1 you.” I He dropped down and, threw a few , shovels on the flames. j “That’s right,” Mabee chuckled, ; “we’ll take the whole crowd clean ; into eternity.” Ben’s ready acceptance of his idea j > lulled suspicion and when the fire box j Mabel Insisted on Climbing in the Cab with Him. had been filled be climbed up on Mabee’s side of the cab and stood be hind him. “I’m going to toll the bell for them,” he shouted in the maniac’s ear, then climbed back to the fireman’s side and began to pull the bfell rope. Mabee shouted with glee at the gruesome joke while Ben pulled with desperate energy. The cord was stoul and it w'as some time before he sue ceeded in pulling it off the bell. In time his desperate strength won and with a gesture of disgust he cut the rope where it was fastened in the cab and threw it on the floor. He climbed down after it and fired the engine again. Mabee, unsuspicious, looked ahead to catch the first view of the down grade. He never even turned when Ben climbed on his side a second time. The noosed bell rope slipped down over his body without warning, pinioning his arms to hia side, the spare ends were fastened ! around the post of the window and be fore Mabee realized what had hap pened he was securely trussed up. Ben then climbed past the now help less man and gradually shut ofl steam and the special slow’ed down Then there came a rush from the coaches and the train hands sprang Into the cab. Ben staggered unsteadily to the footboard, but as,he started to climb down be lurched forward and would have fallen had not Stephen Gowei caught him in his arm. The excite ment was too much for him and now that the danger was over he fainted dead away. When he recovered consciousness he was on a sofa in tne directors’ car, “Pete will be awfully disappointed,” laughed Ben. “It was the chance of his life to destroy capital and now I’ve spoiled even his belief in human nature.” “It was splendidly done,” praised Mabel, pushing forward. “Your fire man was telling us how you made that jump.” “You jumped into a superintendency,” Gower. “I have had some very good reports from Danvers and I have had my mind made up l'oi some time to call you to headquarters. Now that you have proven your ability to act quickly in an emergency I guess I won’t wait any longer.” “I guess I’ll have to stay engineer long enough to get this train along,” said Ben. Mabel insisted upon climbing into the cab with him. They were rounding the figure eight when Mabel caught his arm. “That’s where he wanted us to go over?” she asked. Ben nodded. She put her cheek against his. “And you saved my life,” she mur mured. “I cannot realize it even yet.’* “You see,” he laughed, ‘1 want to marry you. That’s why I did it,” “You don’t need to make such a strenuous courtship,” she laughed aa she kissed him, “but I’m proud of you, dear.”

cm j SMALL GIRL OBEYED ORDERS [ Tot- Informs Noted American Author He Was Wonderful, "Because , Mother Told Her To.” A well-known American author tells o? an amusing incident that occurred j d Uring a reception given in his honor Iby a London society woman. The : lionizing accorded this writer, who is t a great favorite in England, did not ! upset him, nor w'as he chagrined by j an embarrassing situation that ccnj fronted him just before the reception | closed. It was then that the hostess brought ' up to him her daughter, a pretty child l of seven years. Just as soon as she had been presented, the youngster said in a loud, clear voice: “I think you’re a very wonderful man.” “Why do you say that, my dear?” asked the author, smiling. ‘Because,” said the little girl, “mother told me to.” —Harper’s Magazine. A Good Scheme. The aggressive young man elbowed his way into the private office. “I have a great scheme,” he asserted, “to boom your headache remedy.” “What is it?” grunted the manufacturer. “Give away sheet music with your card printed on it; all the popular i songs of the day.’ “What’s so great about that. | scheme?” “Why, man, don’t you see? You are not only advertising the remedy, but creating a demand for it as well.” He’d Keep Away. ! It was ash day. Pat and Mike were I obliged to halt their heavily loaded | cart to make way for a funeral. Gazi ing at the procession, Pat suddenly re- | marked: “Mike, I wish I knew where I was going to die. I’d give SI,OOO to know the place where I’m going to die!” “Well, Pat, what good would it do If you knew?” “Lots,” asid Pat; “shure I’d nivir go near the place,”—National Monthly. HE KNEW ’EM. tfV'M.,,, -J Green —Did you read that story of the poet who lent an entire stranger $200? Wise—Yes. Green —Do you believe it? Wise—No. Never heard of a poet with S2OO. Economy. General Manager—lt will cost a million to equip the rolling stock with safety appliances. Railroad President—What did it cost for accidents last year? General Manager—About SIOO,OOO. Railroad President —Then I guess we’ll continue to take a chance.—Life. Not a Large Volume. “A returned diplomat Is writing ‘The Decline and Fall of Seventeen South American Governments.’ ” “Why seventeen?” “Well, his publishers refused to consider a volume of less than 125 pages.” - J 6 ' A Sweet Ond, “It’s molasses that catches the files,” ventured the fond mother to her eligible daughter. “But, mother,” objected the daughter, “then they’ll say I’m too stuck up.”—Judge. A Pirate. Harduppe—ls Wigwag honest? Borrowell —Well, he came around to my house the other day and stole an umbrella I had borrowed from him. A Hardship of Travel. “Why do you enjoy looking at tho views on souvenir post cards?” "Chiefly because I never get a cinler in my eye doing that.’

MAID TANGLED HER ORDERS Lady Wasn’t Home to Anybody but Mri Brown Until That Gentleman Called, Then She Forgot. “I am at home to no one except Mr. Brown,” said the lady to her new maid; “now be sure and remember that.” She stayed at home al the afternoon, but nobody was announced. Then she sent for the girl. “Didn’t anybody call?” she asked impatiently. “Yee, ma’am. Five gentlemen. And I told ’em all that you wasn’t home to anybody but Mr: Brown, and they all went away, mam.” “You idiot J You have alienated al my friends by .your stupidity! Didn't j any of the gentlemen leave any mes- ’ sage?” “Yessum. After I’d said it four times ; I got it mixed up, an’ I guess I told the last gentleman that you was home to everybody but Mr. Brown.” ‘Well —and what did he say?” “He says. ‘Ha—l‘m Brown!’ an’ I then he turned arourid an’ run off, jest i like the rest of ’em!/’ I Moment of Triumph. Browning had just finished his Ijioem, “Sordello.’ “There, by George!” lie ejaculated as he signed his name at the end. '“lf that hasn’t got Henry James and the Sherman law skinned ninety-two ways at once in the line of periphrastic ambiguosity and nubiferous obfuscation. I’ll go in for vitrified diaphaneity from this time on.”—-Lip-pincott’s Magazine. SHARP TALK. Mrs. Slowpay—l think I owe you a 1 call. - Mrs. Doctors (cuttingly)—Really! Only this morning my Jiusband was remarking that jour, owes him a half-dozen visits. j Little Choice. Russian Official —You can not stay j in this country. » Traveler —Then I’ll leave it. Russian -Official —Have you a pass j • port to leave? Traveler—‘No. Russian Official —Then you can no! j leave. I will give you twenty-foui : hours to decide what you will do. — Cassel’s Saturday' Journal. Up to Date. “That story of the building of the Tower of Babel should be modern ized.” “But how would you account for the confusion of tongues?’ “Why, I suppose they had the towet pretty nearly up and then somebody j'elled ‘Graft!’ and everybody accused everybody else and the job was held up!” Probably Lost Case. Lawyer—My client painted a pic ture of this young lady, your honor, and she claims it does not do her jus tlce. Judge—Does not do her justice, did you say? Lawyer—Yes, your honor; and she ■ was foolish enough to think she could , get it by bringing the case before you! Changed. “I’m glad to find you as you are,’ said the old friend. “Your great wealth hasn’t changed you.” “Well,” replied the wealthy man, “it has changed me in one thing. I’m now eccentric where I used to be impolite, and delightfully sarcastic where I used to be rude,” —Tit-Bits. Very Foolish. “Last night my wife and myself had the most foolish- squabble of our man ried career.” “What was the subject of your dla pute?” “How we would invest our money, if we tad any.” Identified. “That was the spirit of your uncle j that made that table stand, turn ov-ei j and do such queer stunts.” "I am not surprised; he never did! have good table manners.’ Free. ‘T see that Gladys Piffleton, the beautiful actress, is free.” ‘ls that so? Let me see, was she being tried for murder or suing for a divorce?” 4 Nothing Serious. “Made any mistakes in the new year as yet?” “Well, I’m still writing it 1911.” Indoor Journeys. “Tipps tells me he has done a great deal of traveling In his time.” “So he has —ou elevators.” *'

MAN-EATING TIGERS Inhabitants of Corean-Manchu Border in Constant Terror. Villages Visited Almost Dally by the Beasts and Absolutely Disregard the Efforts of the Poorly Armed Natives to Kill Them. Vladivostok.—Travelers from the Corean-Manchu border bring startling tales of the activities of the Siberian tigers in that locality. According to I an English writer, who just has re- | turned from an extensive trip in that i region, the natives live in a constant j state of abject fear for their lives. ; Some of the villages are visited almost daily by tigers, who, with an absolute disregard of the efforts of the mildly combative natives and the ! dozen or two small spears and arrows ■ that eventually, porcupine quill sash- \ ion, decorate their rough hides, smash j in hut doors and proceed to devour j everybody in sight. Unable to get within striking distance of live prey these tigers will visit the graveyards. The natives of the smaller villages, with their primitive arms, being powerless against these man-eating beasts, big battues are organizing in Seoul and are sallying forth in an effort to rid the country of the “noxious vermin.” Hunting tigers along the CoreanManqhu border is not the child’s play that mrffingjN similar beasts in India ; has becQme. '‘There is none of the j difficulty and exasperation of having j to deal with a small armj T of native ; beaters; foil unlike the jungle tiger of j : Bengal, who sleeps away the day and | pounces by night on his prey at drinking places, the northern beast is at his fullest activity by day. Instead ol | i having to steal, from the security ol an elephant howdah, with a sleepy, i surprised creature that cowers, alarmed by the beaters, from the path of your ponderous mount, one is out to j encounter a thoroughly well-awake | brute, ravaging the open countryside; : and j r ou are, if you follow the Russian i custom, afoot. One may rely on the j element of sport being well to the fore. I Well, fed, well exercised, long, lithe, 1 tawny and glossy, the Siberian tiger A Siberian Tiger. I Is the finest wild beast alive. The i further north one goes the better spej cimen of tiger one meets, till one | (omes eventually to the pink of per--1 feotion, the super-tiger, on the hinter- ; land of Vladivostock. He is as phys- | ically superior to the Bengal tiger as | the wildcat is to the domestic pussy ■ cat A Bengal tiger—in fact, any sort of | tiger in a mild climate —has a thin pelt; it is. sufficiently warrff for him. But in the cold climate, where there is constant exposure, as in the Oosoorle, to a winter temperature of 20 degrees below zero, the fur becomes so luxuriant that you may plunge both hands out of sight in it. The Siberian tiger’s pelt is worth nearly twice as much, commercially, as that of the Malay branch of the family. A Siberian tigress runs to only ibout 250 pounds. The biggest Bengal tiger encountered rarely will exceed 400 pounds. The Siberian tiger, however, often runs to 550 pounds and even 600 pounds. Unforgeable Banknotes. Paris. —It is a remarkable tribute to the 100-franc (S2O) banknote issued in 1910 by tho Bank of France that the first attempt to forge one of them has I only just been reported. The notes o are printed on back and ! front, aro complicated and artistic in design, and in four co’.ors —blue, pink, black and yellowr. The paper Is prepared with the greatest card, and every time a chemical discovery is made likely to hinder the work of a forger it is incorporated in the printing of the banknotes. Since 1889 there have been only six attempts to forge the S2O note, three attempts to forge the 50-franc ($10) note, and one attempt to forge the 1,000-franc ($200) note. The Bank of France, unlike the Bank of England, does not destroy all banknotes when returned, but puts them into circulation several times. It is only after about three years’ use that, tattered and torn, they are burned. Taft Is Honored. j Savannah, Ga.—The Irish leaders of I Savannah have solemnly notified President Taft that if he will visit their city, they will change St. Patrick’s day from March 17 to any date that will suit his convenience. Women Young at Forty. New York. —“At 40, womea are young, if they’ll go to ball games and forget their worries,” declared Miss Villa Faulkner Page to the members of the women’s professional league. Good News for Fat Men. Berlin.—ln a pamphlet “Good news to the fat man,” Doctor Hikidascope, scientist, says there are more germs on a thin man’s skin than on"*he epidermis of the fat man.

CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA An American Girl, Miss Tennat, Has Spent Three Years Among Hindus Fighting the Evil. New York. —No better news has come from India in many a long day than the report that an organized movement in the interests of marriage reform is now being pushed forward there with every promise of final success. By final success is meant the abolition of that horrible practice of child marriages, which has brought Husband, Aged 35; Wife 11. i 1 about tho decadence of so many miA- - j lions of Hindus. About, three years ago a California girl, Miss Carrie A. Tennant, went to India with the purpose of trying to ameliorate the benighted condition of ; her sex in the Far East and of pointI ing the way to a more sane and happy j life for them. She did not have any i very definite notions as to how she I could uplift the native women of India, ! but she wisely concluded that she | must first study the actual social con- j ditions and enlist men of light and j leading in her cause before organizing for a practical crusade. Miss Tennant proceeded to Calcutta, there to take up her work. Quite hopeless seemed her efforts in the earlier stages of her sojourn to gain a hearing from the influential men and women to whom she appealed for support. The natives of India are suspicious of foreigners, and they were inclined to look askance at pretty Miss Tennant when she talked about wanting to help the native women free themselves from the thraldom of their unholy traditions. Meanwhile she was busy! with her eyes and her camera, and a picture taken by her is here reproduced. From a superficial glimpse it would seem that the true regeneration of India lies with- her daughters. Certainly, in the scale of nations India cannot rise unless and until her women rise. The stamina of men depends on sealthy and intelligent mothers; hence :he real foundation of the state is motherhood. HORSES THAT OPEN GATES Kansas City Stock Yards Animals Learn the Trick and the Accomplishment Proves a Great Convenience. Kansas City.—Usually the horse that learns the trick of unlatching a gate uses his knowledge to gain freedom for himself and cause dismay to his owner. At the Kansas City stock yards it is the other way around. A ll Opens Gates With His Nose. horse learns to unhook and open gates with hfs nose, and the accomplishment is a great convenience to his driver and helps the horse to hold his job against other equine competition—for draft horses at the stock yards are extremely well treated. The idea is this. That section of the yards where the most hauling is done is a network of pens and alleys. The alleys must be equipped with frequent gates, swinging either way, to make it possible to handle stock In and out of the pens. A hay wagor In the average day’s run must pass through about 150 gates, not counting the ones found open. You may judge for yourself if the process of the drlv-' er dismounting, opening the gate, remounting and driving on, repeated that many times, would not consume , a large slice of the working day. Hence the educated horses.

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