The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 March 1912 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA WHERE THE DIFFERENCE WAS Little Old Lady Had Not Understood, but. After All, Matter Was Quite Simple. A little old lady came into tbe station at Ames and asked for a ticket to Greensburg. “Tbirty-nine cents,” said the agent, as he got the ticket. “Thirty-nine!” exclaimed the woman. “Why, I thought it was 40!” “No,” said the man, as he gave her the change, “it is just 39.” The woman took the change and tße j ticket a!id sat down, but she did not , put either change or ticket into her purse. She held them in her hand, and looked quite troubled. Finally, 6he went to the agent again. j “I am sure there is some mistake, she said. “I came from Greensburg yesterday and I paid 40 cents.” “Our regular rate to Greensburg Is 39 cents.” said the agent. “It’s all right, madam,” he added, in a reassuring way. Again she took her seat, but not for long. Again she cafiie to the window and spoke to the agent: “Will you please explain to me why the rate from here to Greensburg is j only 39 cents when the rate from j Grpensburg here is 40?” This was a question that the agent ; really could not answer, but the worn- j an looked so distressed over the un- i expected cent received in change that ; he felt sorry for her. “Oh, it’s down grade going that way, t you know,” ha explained, in a busl- j nesslike way. “So it is!” she said, in a tone of j enlightenment. Her face cleared at once. She put the change into her j purse and in great content sat down j to wait for her train. —Youth's Com- j panion. ’ One-Seventh of World Goes to Mecca. The city of Mecca is the oldest place of resort in existence, yet of all the millions who have visited it not a score of Christians are known to have come out alive. No flag of citizen- j ship would save a man's life were he j known to be a Christian within the , sacred precincts of the cifv. where j the prophet himself decreed that no j unbeliever should set foot. i Os the 220,000,000 Moslems in the 1 world only 15,500,000 live under the ; Turkish flag, yet most of them acknowledge the sultan of Turkey as their caliph, the successor of the Prophet. As Mohammed shrewdly fore- i saw, the Mecca Pilgrimage binds together disciples into a unity which could be effected in no other vjay. “Mecca,” says Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer j of Arabia, “has bccoaM -eliqlpps 1 capital and the centey of universal | pilgrimage of one-seventh of the f hunian race.” Apostle of Peace. That incessant joker, M. Tristan Bernard, was chatting about the peace movement with some friends the other j evening, and somebody remarked to jhim that peace at any price was quite j an impossibility. “For instance,” he said, “if an ; ‘apache’ cornered „you in the street | one dark night, hurt you, and took J your watch and chain away?” j . “I don’t think I would ever talk to .him again,” said Tristan Bernard quietly. And a day or two back, as we were driving up the Champs Elysees together in an open, horse-drawn cab, a taxicab bumped into us from behind, j Tristan turned slowly around. “My friend,” he said to the chauffeur, “if you want to get in and drive with us, get in by all means, but l warn you beforehand that we haven’t got room for your car." —Paris Correspondence London Express. Strange Methods of Smoking. Strange are the variations of the I strange habit that has become world wide in the last 400 years. The Negritos of the Philippines are cigar smokers and they are said to hold a cigar with the lighted end in their mouths. A nice cool smoke is not what they want. The Hottentot of Africa will sacrifice as much as any man for his smoke. He will sell his wife for tobacco. The Patagonian of the Straits of Magellan has a system of smoke swallowing by which he ; throws himself down on his stomach and secures a few moments of drugged ecstasy. f Success Assured. “I can’t see why I should attempt to produce your play,” said the manager. “There seems to be nothing In it.” “The mayor of this town has promised me that he will threaten to stop It if you put it on,” the eager young dramatist replied. “Hurrah! We’ll put it in rehearsal at once, and in addition to being the author, I want, you to be the press agent” Bismarck’s Hair on Sale, Quite an outburst of indignation has arisen In Berlin over the action of a well-known coiffeur named Roehrig, who i 3 advertising the hair of Bismarck for sale. In the last eight years of the famous statesman’s life Koehrig, with the assistance of a valet, collected all the stray hairs of his Illustrious patron. These he had made Into curls, more than a hundred in number, each of which, before being placed on the market, has been affixed to a bronze bust representing the German chancellor.

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! lives in fantastic dres3, they seem | Ignorant or oblivious of the fact j that they might fipd similar attrac- ! tions here in our own country If | they would look for them and go a little out of the “beaten paths” ; to find them, as they do in the old i world. Particularly rich In such el--1 ements of the unusual Is our great ; southwest, the scene of the oldest ; civilization la life United States. It I is a region that up to this time ; has not had the attention it de- | lerves from either colonists or | lightseers, but the situation is likely to be changed now that the boon o fstatehood will give the people of the region a more direct participation in the affairs of the .republic. There are, in the southwest, i more “show places” well worthy a ! visit than could be enumerated within the limits of any newspaper ■ article, but there is one .hat is 1 perhaps unique in the extent to ' which it rivals anything abroad in i the charm of its alien atmosphere and the unique characteristics of i its. architecture. This is Santa Fe, the ancient capital of New Hex- ; Ice. and a community which as the | terminus of the famous “Santa Fe Trail” of other days, was well known to history and the annals of western romance long before many a now prosperous city had emerged 7 from the infant stage. Some of her latter day rivals may have passed Santa Fe in the race for ! population and ''ommerciai stand-

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oldest capital on the American continent, but it | Is probably the quaintest and most picturesque | settlement within the borders of the United States. In the centuries in which its interesting history has extended the Villa Real de Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asslssi—to give Its full Spanish name—has been under three Sags, each ruling power having left irs impress without obliterating the influences of the others. In short, no other city of this hemisphere, not even St. Augus.Ine or New Orleans, so links the past and the j present—the old era and the new in American I civilization. j To a certain extent Santa Fe. may be said to I be off the main beaten paths of transcontinental | railway travel, being in fact, the terminus of a branch railroad which forms an offshoot of some 18 miles from the through line to the Pacific coast. However, this circumstance has not prevented a commendable commercial development in the ancient city and in these days of automobiles and in the future of the aeroplane Santa Fe will be relieved of any sense of isolation. The ancient capital is situated in the middle of a high plain rimmed with mountain peaks, the altitude being more than 7,000 feet above the sea, and as the tourist climbs up on to what appears to be in very | truth the roof of the world, there lies spread out j on either hand a panorama of far-reaching plains i euarded by a close cordon of blue mountains that is simply inspiring in its sublime beauty. The little city of Santa Fe has a wealth of "show places," any one of which might be expected to make the reputation of a much larger city es a tourist Mecca. One of the most interesting of these historical headliners is the famous Church of San Miguel, the “cradle of Christianity on the American continent.” This time-honored place of worship was built in the year 1540. but was partially destroyed in the Indian revolution against the Spaniards in 1680. It was reoccupied by the conquerors in 1632 and was completely restored in 1710. The contents of the church as it stands today, include an ancient copper bell in which the date 1350 is cast, and several valuable old religious paintings pierced with arrow holes —grim reminders of the days when the settlement was attacked by hostiie Indians. Almost in the shadow of the church stands an idobe structure which Is claimed to be the “Oldist House in the United States.” A considerable portion of this quaint dwelling remains as it has been for centuries, and there seems to be no reaton to doubt the claim that it is the most ancient building, continuously inhabited, in this country. On the main road entering the city from the south stand the ruins of the old Spanish fortifications, and within a radius of a few miles are a

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marks is the Rosario chapel, erected in pious gratitude by Diego de Vargas when he, in the year 1692, vanquished the rebellious Indians and recaptured the little city of the Holy Faith from which his countrymen had been excluded for a dozen years. At the side of the plaza or central square of Santa Fe stands the palace. This is an adobe structure which was built in 1595, and, from^ CHANGES IN CHINATOWN. Residents of New York’s Oriental Quarter Dress for Dinner. One reliable source of big city wheezes seems to have dried up. The Chinks are no longer to be considered funny, the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star writes. Time was when hard working humorists could take a turn through Chinatown and come back with a screamingly funny story about flapping panties and streaming queues and pigeon English. Now the Chinese residents have taken on a different air. They act like regular people ever since their moldy old country got out of its grave clothes long enough to put up a fight for liberty. They talk straight to you, and their dialect isn’t a bit funnier than is the brogue of the newly arrived Irishman or the broken English of the German immigrant or the lingo of the newcomer from Russia or the patois of the French Canadian. They look you right in the eye. They never did cringe any—memory fails to recall any John Chinaman who would rub his hands together to get trade —but they are independent and self respecting now. Maybe the facts are not related, but there has been little disorder in the Chinese quarter since that fever broke out in the Chinese body politic. It may be, of course, due to the fact that other people respect them nowadays. In the old days they broke into the news only as the objects at which wit was aimed, or as mysterious Orientals who liked the black smoke and sold chop suey. Nowadays mey are figures in a movement of world importance, and they appreciate the fact The other night a reporter went to Chinatown to see one of the prominent residents. The last time the reporter talked to him the Chinaman was garbed a la John Laundryman, although his house was illuminated by gold embroidery. This time the reporter found him wearing a dinner jacket. Two or three guest 3 were similarly attired. “Just a symbol of our new status,” said the Chinaman, with a smile. He 1b a graduate of an American college, by. the way. “We are no longer to be considered barbarians.”

number of old mission buildings — the churches of the pioneers of Christianity and civilization — which are older , than the oldest of the similar ruins in California, and are in an infinitely better state of preservation. Among these old land-

a political-historical standpoint, is the most important building in the ancient city. For more than 300 years it served as the home and office of the Spanish, Mexican and American governors. Here, in the seventeenth century, the Holy Inquisition held its functions, and in this building, hundreds of year« later, Gen. Lew Wallace, while serving as governor, wrote his novel, “Ben-Hur.” In the different eras the rulers who established the seat of authority in the old palace were designated respectively as viceroy, captain general, political chief, department commander and governor, while the territory over which they held sway was known successively as a kingdom, province, department and territory. Now it advances to the dignity of a sovereign state In the great . American sisterhood. The older portions of Santa Fe are typically Mexican, with squat little adobe houses strung irregularly along narrow, winding streets, and even in what is known as the “new town” on the other side of the little river, the baked mud structures of the same unconventional architectural lines are inter- | spersed with the massive cathedral. modern business blocks and other creations of present-day American enterprise. More than half of the population of the city is Mexican, and many of the women of that race go about with their heads swathed in the invariable black fringed shawls. Frowsy burros amble along with packs of firewood or garden truck as large j as themselves, and Indians from ! the neighboring pueblos offer the strange pottery of their own manufacture. Santa Fe rejoices in a wonderful climate. As is to be expected in a locality that is nearer the heavens than the highest moun- j tain peaks east of the Mississippi j river, there is a fine, bracing, tonic air, and the sun shines on at least 340 days out of the year. ! These climatic advantages, com-

bined with the creature comforts brought by the invading Yankees have produced a combination that is attracting to Santa Fe and vicinity many invalids and persons in search of health to whom | the dry atmosphere is a boon of priceless value. Some of these health seekers live in tents in the country or in the outskirts of the city, but the leisure folk who have been attracted to Santa Fe merely because of its ideal climate, dwell in cozy cottages which are in striking contrast to the houses of adobe —the ‘‘forerunner of concrete.” Although the Mexicans of Santa Fe take life j with the traditional ease of their race, it is pos- ; sibie for the American housewife in New Mexico to secure domestic help with perhaps somewhat less difficulty than is encountered by her sister in the average American city. A cook or general houseworker may be obtained at a wage of from sl2 to S2O a month. However a family living in a cozy five or six room cottage seldom requires outside help, or at most, will find their needs In ; this direction amply served by a young Mexican girl whp wiU act as nurse or household helper, and who can be secured for a wage of from $8 to sl2 per month. American residents of Santa Fe who are proud of her progress point with pride to a number of twentieth century residences and business structures, and, incidentally, they di* rect attention to the handsome capftol building, erected as the territorial capitol of Netp Mexico, and which from every standpoint compares most favorably with many of the capitol buildings throughout the Union, VMHiV*. WHWHWWWWWWWWW QUEER FISH HOOKS. To go back as far as the stone age, we have only to turn to the inhabitants of Oceania, because these natives have never progressed any farther, in the art of capturing fish than did their ancestors centuries ago. The Polynesian hooks are generally barbed and some curious specimens have been collected in New Zealand, says the Hawaiian Star. One of these is made from a section of a dog's jawbone, a single tooth, which has been filed to a sharp point, being left for the barb. In this same country a hook that has been pointed with human bone is regarded as possessin exceptionally fine qualities for attracting the fish. The best workmanship is exhibited in the nooka which are used without bait and which correspond to our spoons. Pearl or other iridescent shell furnishes the part which attracts the fish, and frequently the shank consists of the ribbed part of a shell, near the hinge of the valve, thereby giving the hook a spinning motion as it is drawn through the wnter. Many elaborate designs have a wooden shank, neatly carved and inlaid with a sliver of haliotis shell, while the barb is of sharpened bone. The extreme delicacy required in accurately piecing together one of these composite hooks may be imagined. HER PRIVILEGE. “Have you made a resolution to marry this year, colonel T’ asked the determined young person archly. “No,’* replied the colonel in his preoccupied manner; "have you?”

FIGHT LOAN Ml® Women’s Civic Federation Takes Aggressive Part. Welfare Department of the Organization in Active Campaign Against Usury in the District cf Columbia. Washington. — The Washington branch of the Woman’s Welfare Department of the National Civic Federation is taking an aggressive part in the campaign against usury by the loan organizations of the District of Columbia, it was announced at its meeting recently in the Southern building. The president, Mr 3. Archibald Hopkins. presided. A discussion was held in regard to the attitude of congress toward the “loan shark” question. | Mrs. Hopkins reviewed the progress which remedial loan association legislation has made throughout the country, with particular reference as to what has been done in the Disi trict. She enumerated what some of the leading cities, through their commercial and philanthropic fiodies, are doing to put a check “upon the most flagrant evils of the short-time money loaning agencies.” She said that while usury in Its ! simplest 'form doubtless dates from | the days of creation, yet it is only within the last quarter of a century | that the “loan shark” offices, with an alarmingly increasing clientage, have become recognized fixtures in AmeriI. can commerce. j “Money loaning organizations,” the | speaker said, “have multiplied in ail ! parts of the country until now there | is scarcely a city of 20.000 or over ; which has not one or more—usually j many more —of these places. Innum- | erable firms are known to conduct a half dozen or more offices In as many cities, while in addition to the vast number of local houses there are the men who conceal their occupation to Rvoid payment of the high license tax.” Mrs. Hopkins declared that the Mon- ! day Evening Club nearly two years ago began the agitation against local j loan office methods. “Six per cent, is the maximum legal rate for money lending in the District, but for an indefinitely long period usurious rates have been charged necessitous borrowers, and most piteous suffering has often resulted.” She said: “To do away with this state of affairs a committee from the j Monday Night Club in connection with i a committee from the Associated Charities came together and drafted a bill to regulate the business of money loaning by this class of money lenders in the District which provided a 2 per cent, a month interest-bearing schedule. Shortly afterward the bill I was introduced and passed the senate ! and in spite of strong opposition was 1 favorably reported by the house comj mittee to which it was referred. But I congress adjourned without the enaqti ment of the bill and its history has | been varied since then. For another 1 year it met the fate of the majority of the bills which are introduced into j congress, it was shuffled from chami ber to committee and from committee to chamber, twice amended, but never enacted.” “In the Hopkins | explained, “the welfare de- ; partment became interested in the ! matter and threw the influence of its I membership with* the other two or--1 ganizations. Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Richard Wainwright were appointed a special committee to look after the 1 bill and made repeated trips to the capitol to watch its progress. With many of their sister welfare workers | they tried to interest the members :of congress. Twice within the last few months the bill has been before the house “Our representatives in congress want to us in securing righteous legislation,” tsaid Mrs. Hopkins, “but the poor men have so many bills to look after for their individual consti- ! tuents that we cannot blame them for ; forgetting our District needs. We are' ; not to blame for this, but we are to ! blame ourselves.” 4 discussion followed Mrs. Hopkins’ address as to the best methods of I interesting the members of congress. ; — * TO TORTURE THE VISITOR. | The trial of trials to which a weokj end visitor is subjected is the guest I book This is not so grjfcvous when all that is asked is your name, but when Mrs. Bolivar insists as you are leaving that you should write a sentiment, a motto, or draw a sketch or caricature, or pen a few measures in musical notation, or say something witty in verse, then you pay dearly for your visit. She gives you fair i warning. The night of your arrival ! you are requested to read the album, and you see, “as from a tower, the end of all.” Whatever you write, it must be complimentary. Hostesses likes it laid on with a trowel dnd few guests have the courage of the im-. mortal one who wrote simply: “Quoth the raven —” and then signed his name. Even in this case the guest paid his hostess a compliment. He gave her credit for subtle, the ability to fill a hiatus and draw an inference. These house books are almost as bad ns the “Mental Photograph” albums that for some time threatened to disintegrate society. “Who is your favorite poet?” “What is your favorite flower, color.” and so on, and so on. I

i wmev.ing ap iviia ■ wi ! like to be if you were no: vouteelf?’ | The serious answers to these impertij nent questions were mere amusing j than those deliberately funny And | wnere are all these albums, for they were many of them? Legboots are not wholly extinct; they are worn by a few southwestern statesmen in Washington, D. C. The linen duster, or a species of It. has reappeared with the automobile. But where are the hair-covered trunks with leather hinges, the mustache cups inscribed in endearing terms, the hair jewelry, the moss agate rings? Somewhere, for nothing is #hoily lost on this great rubbish heap, the earth, and near them will ba found the mental photograph albums and the wall fans that were the rage when aesthetic New Euglanders pronounced “decorative” With a violent accent on the second syllable. FAMOUS TABLE RESTORED. Secretary Brown of the American Institute of Architects is just having restored to his office in the Octagon building the table upon which the treaty of Ghent was signed in the Madison administration. This famous old structure was erected in 1798 by Colonel John Tavloe and it is said that during the process of Its erection General Washington frequently visited the building When the White House was burned, in 1814. Colonel Tayloe tendered the building to President Madison, and during his occupancy the Treaty of Ghent, which closed our second war witfh England, was signed by Madison in the circular room'now used by Secretary Brown — as altablet oter the door leading from the hall attests. The table is a small, circular mahogany affair, evidently used as a card table. It was hapdefl down through several generations of Tayloes and finally reached San Francisco, where it was bought for S9OO hy the local branch- of the American Institute of Architects and by that body presented to the parent society. The table is accompanied by affidavits validating its ownership back to Colonel John Tayloe. The story goes—and has some explicit believers in Washington, although Secretary Brown is incredulous —that the Octagon building once was connected by a tunnel with the White House and that Dolly Madison more than once made the passage from her home to the Executive Mansion by this route. No evidence of the existence of such a tunnel Is to be seen in the cellar of the house, a! though the Transcript corespondent is assured by a reputable resident of Washington that years ago this now elderly gentleman penetrated the tunnel to a depth of fifty feet. MUST CLEAN GUAYAQUIL The death of Captain Bertolette and an enlisted man of the gunboat Yorktown and tbe affliction of ten other members of the crew of that vessel with yellow fever at Guayaquil, Ecuador, promise to bring down upon that country the mailed fist of the United States. For years Guayaquil has been known as the pesthole of the western hemisphere. Thomas Nast. a surgeon of the United States marine and public health service, lost his life in trying to clean the city. About five years ago Dr. J. B. Lloyd, a surgeon of .the public health and marine hospital servicej went to Cuay aquil. He met with no better result, than did Dr. Nast, hut he did not losd his life. • y After Dr. Lloyd's efforts failed the state department went to work on another angle. They persuaded Ecuador to negotiate a loan for the purpose of installing a sanitation system in Guayaquil. Under the terms of the loan a Frenchman, Edmund Colgnet, has been engaged to contract for the construction of a water works for the port of Guayaquil, which will be the first step in a system of sanitation. Before the loan can be made and Colgnet can do the work, the United States will pass upon the contracts J This government insists upon taking this action owing to the proximity of the Panama canal. To carry out this government’s part Colonel Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the canal zone, the man who stamp ed out yellow fever in Havana and Panama, will be the judge of the plans for the sanitation system. FLAN GREAT ARMY MANOEUVERS New York City will be the scene ol the greatest joint army manoeuvers in its history next summer if the plans of the militia division of the war department do not go astray. The scheme is contingent upon congress appsopriating $1,135,000 for army and militia manoeuvers- in a number of places in the United States. The manoeuvers planned for New York consist of a land attack of the city. The attacking forces will ’Consist of the Tenth Cavalry (negro regiment), two battalions of the Third Field Artillery, the Fifth Infantry and the organized militia of New England. The defense will consist of the First Squadron of the Fifteenth Cavalry, the Third Battalion of the Twenty-ninth Infantry, and the National Guard of New York and New Jersey. In addition to these troops, the Coast Artillery now stationed at forts in and around New York—the forts in New York’s scheme of defense as charted by the army War College—will participate The manoeuvers will be in charge of the commandant of the department 1 of the east