The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 March 1912 — Page 6

Easter Millinery I have a fine showing of Popular Priced Hats for Easter. The shapes are built on lines of unus- j ual beauty and grace. The assortment is large and consists of a most satisfactory selection. ... < It will be a pleasure for us to show them. d j Parlors over the Postoffice. flfctes Blanche Syracuse, Indiana

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| Local and Personal | Mrs. Sarah Sloan went to Cromwell Wednesday. B, F. Hoopingarner was at Milford Wednesday. Mrs. Myers was at Columbia City Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Grace Ketring went to Ligonier Thursday to spend several days. Mr. Watts and family of Ligonier, moved into the late Rebecca Stetler residence on Main street, dayMrs. John Kavanah of Elkhart, spent Friday and Saturday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Searfoss’ Miss Mamie Cook of Goshen was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hoopengarner Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Wm. Rothenberger was at Elkhart Tuesday and Wednesday on account of the illness of her sister Mrs. Wm. Whitehead.

Mrs. Eldridge who spent several weeks with her son, R. K. Eldridge, and family returned to her home at Coldwater, Mich. Monday. For Safe—A good five passenger automobile, new tires and all new bearings, top and wind shield are in good order. B. F. Hoopingarner. Oscar Edmonds of Laurens, lowa, is here this week the guest of his brother A. E. Edmonds and wife; He came to Chicago with a load of stock and came on here to visit h*s brother and other friends. Two sets of delegates at large to the Republican national convention at Chicago were chosen Tuesday at Ineianapolis. One quartet, elected in the called state convention, was instructed to vote for the renomination of President Taft. The contesting delegates bears the Roosevelt stamp. The Taft delegates are ex-Vice President Fairbanks, Nationol Commiteeman Harry S. New, ex-Congressman James E. Watson, and Joseph D. Oliver of South Bend The Roosevelt delegation includes ex’United States Senator Albert J. Beverage, Edwin M- Lee of Lawrenceburg, chairman of the Rosevelt Indiana campaigne committee; Charles F. Campbell of Shelbyville, and Freeerick Landis of Logansport.

ON GUARD | I against impure food. You § prove your vigilance when you insist upon GERBELLE or NEVER FAIL Flour, made by | Goshen Million Go. I g Goshen, Indiana. §

Republican Caucus. The Republicans of Turkey Creek township met Saturday afternoon at the office of Butt & Xanders fcr the purpose of electing a delegate and alternate to the state convention held at Indianapolis, Tuesday, and a delegate and alternate to the congressional convention to be held at Warsaw, April 2. The meeting was called to order by Township Chairman Otis C. Butt and W. M. Self was elected chairman of the caucus, snd Otis C. Butt secretary. W. T. Colwell and F. B, Mann were nominated as delegates to the state convention, and on the second ballot F. B. Mann was elected,and Mr. Colwell was elected as alternate’ 0. L. Cory. S. B. StifHer and Milton Woods were nominated as delegates to the congressional convention and 0. L. Cory was elected, and Harry Culler was elected alternate. A motion was made to instruct the delegates, but failed to carry on a vote. . ' . . .

High School Notes. The High School Literary Society election of officers was held last Friday. The officers elected were Jacob Kern, president; Mildred Woods, vice preside h; Scott Hire, secretary; Virgil Mock, assistant secretary; Claude Minear, treasurer Through the efforts of Mrs. England, teacher of music in the high school, the pupils of the school enjoyed a Victrola concert on last Monday. Rogers & Wilson of Goshen, dealers in musical instruments, sent their representative here with the instrument, and a number of very elegant records. It is a great pleasure to listen to selections by Schumann-Heinke, Caruso and other artists. The pupils and visitors enjoyed the concert thoroughly and pronounce the Victrola a wonderful instrument.

Rev. A. L. Weaver is attending the sixty-ninth session of the Northern Indiana conference of the M. E. church, which convened at Wabash yesterday morning, Bishop David H. Moore, of Cincinnati, Ohio, presiding. Circuitous Retribution. "Did you help elect that man bocause of his personal popularity?” "No,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I had my suspicions of him for a long time and wanted to shove him along to where the muckrakers could get a good go at him.”— Washington - --

INVENTOR KEEPS HIS SECRET Austrian Government’s Large Offer of Deposit, Sealed Until His Death, Is-Refused. At the Paris exposition in 1900 there was exhibited an assortment of marquetry work of great intricacy, of design and beauty of finish, but at prices so low as to cast reflection; upon its genuineness. Many of the pieces were of duplicate pattern. Here is another industrial secret of considerable value that doubtless is destined to go to the grave with l its discdverer, if it has not already done so, says Cassier’s Magazine. No amount of no matter how searching, sufficed to reveal the manner in which the designs, of table tops were duplicated with such marvelous accuracy. That much, the inventor, an Austrian, was willing to divulge. The pattern, instead of being made singly of the thickness requisite for the piece it was intended to ornament, such as a table top, was built up of pieces two or three feet long, from which sections were then sawed off. How this composite structure was held together was quite another matter. Interest in the invention reached a point where the Austrian government offered its discoverer a small fortune on condition that his secret be deposited, sealed, in the royal vaults, in order that it might be known after his death. He was to have the sole right of manumacture as long as he lived, the secret not to be revealed until after his demise, but he preferred to keep it locked up in his own head. I 1 —

FOND RECOLLECTIONS. (/ x I J Uncle Reub —Ah, good old New York! Here’s the very place where I was slugged an’ robbed of $4 and my watch 10 years ago!

FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. Grandfather Billings smiled covertly when Billings junior wondered where Billings third, aged seven, got his trickiness.” “If I didn’t keep my eyes open,” said Billings junior, hotly, “Billy would outwit me every time. “This morning,” he continued, “I promised him a whipping tonight. When the event came off just now, he never flinched or yelled. Thick, pure and simple!’ said I to myself, mighty proud for I wasn’t sparing him in the least. But that wasn’t it at all,” he concluded in disgust. “The young rascal had on three pairs of trousers.” “As I remember,” observed Grandfather Billings, reflectively, “you used 1 to insert a small geography when a ‘good sound one’ was due you.”—Youth’s Companion. | SOIL BACTERIA. As the poisoning of the harmful bacteria in the soil may injuriously affect useful plants, a French agri- ■ culturist has proposed the use of volatile poisons, which evaporate after sterilizing the soil, ready for planting. Effective sterilizers have been found in copper salts, iron sulphate, 1 formal, carbolic derivatives, and carbon disulphide, but these are to be applied with due regard to the character of the soil, of the crop expected and of the germs likely to do harm. t The iron and copper salts, for in- ’ stance, are rendered inert by chemical reaction with calcareous soils. . t ELIGIBLE. > , The magnate was asking about a certain man whom he thought of employing in a confidential capacity. “Well, there’s this about the fel- , low,” replied he whose advice was sought; “the truth certainly is not in him!” • t • “Just the thing—then it can’t be i dragged out of him?” exclaimed the? 1 magnate enthuaiasticeltyi—iLgorcin.-; 1 I IgyfriTTT PiHi T

USE FOR DISCARDED THINGS Shoe Buckles, Belts and Shabby Leather Articles Can Be/Ref - stored to Usefulness. „ Has'it ever-occurred to some women that if they occasionally went (through the boxes and baskets of things that have been put away, “too good to throw away and too shabby to use,” that there are many little things among their contents that could be put to use once more. What woman does not possess in some niche or corner of her room a box of old belt or shoe buckles, pocketbooks, belts and numerous other articles of woman’s attire. Ofter a trip to the seashore has rusted steel buckles, which are then put aside as useless. These buckles, however, can very easily be cleaned by using emery powder made into a paste with some oil. This should be applied to the buckles, where it is left for a. few moments and allowed to soak into the rust. This should then be thoroughly removed with a soft cloth dipped in oil and finally polished with a clean cloth. For the shabby leather article's all the- stores are selling preparations which will color, bronze or blacken to suit the individual taste. Bits of lace can be resurrected and laundered, ribbons cleaned and pressed, brass buckles cleaned with metal polish and rhinestones or brilliants with a dry powder. „ TO CURE UNTIDY HOUSEWIVES Cry of "Anarchists” Stops Habit of Shaking Tablecloth' Out' of Window.

Apparently the best way to break untidy housewives of the habit of shaking a tablecloth out of the window is to shout “Anarchist” at them. This can easily be done if the tablecloth is red and the neighborhood seditious. A policeman whose specialty is anarchists gave valuable aid to a settlement worker who had expatiated in vain on the beauties of a crumb tray and brush. The woman she labored with watched each demonstration and^said: “Oh, yes, miss; ain’t that nice?” but when they cleared their own tables the cloths were shaken out of the window. One day the visitor witnessed that performance from the street. A policeman saw it, too. “Hi, there, you bloomin’ anarchist,” he growled. “You’ll get pinched for shakin’ that red rag the first thing you know.” His threat was an inspiration to the settlement worker. “Oh,” said she, “would you mind going upstairs and telling her that? All these people are scared to death for fear they will be suspected of anarchist affiliations.” He went. The next time the visitor made the rounds every woman made it a point to show hoir dextrous she had become with a brush and tray.

SHREWD BUSINESS WOMAN. Mrs. Nettie Klingelbiel is a woman of Des Moines, la., who started eight years ago with five dollars, and although she has never earned wore than $lO a week she has bought a farm that is valued at $5,000. She. has four acres of ripening corn, a jersey cow and 500 chickens, six cats and a dog, which ought to go a long way toward comfort. She began by buying a 25-foot lot for SSO, paying five dollars down and five dollars a month. She lived in a shed on the lot till she paid for it and the next one to it. She has borrowed on hei property, traded and so on until she has a valuable piece of property. She works in an office and all the work of her farm is done after she comes home at night. ON THE ROLL OF HEROES. One of the soldiers who volunteered to allow himself to be bitten by an infected yellow fever mosquito in Cuba is now working on the Panama canal. He is John J. AJoran of Ohio. After Doctors Carroll and Lazear had permitted themselves to be bitten and Carroll had recovered and Lazear had died, Gen. Leonard Wood offered a purse of S2OO for each private who would volunteer to submit himself to the test. The first volunteers were Moran and another Ohio man, John R. Kissinger. BOUND TO FAIL. * “My brother put all his money in an elevator manufactory.” “Poor fellow I” “Why?” “Because the elevator business is am which is bound to <o

MULE IS SURE OF HIS JOB To Be Retained as Mainstay and Backbone of Army in Spite of Modern Motor Trucks. Major General Carter, reporting on the lessons learned from the military maneuvers in Texas, declares that while motor trucks have been found available in transporting army supplies over passably good roads through country ordinarily smooth the old reliable mule is the boy for use when it comes to mountain climbing and packing trails. The mule, therefore, will not be abolished, but will be retained as the mainstay and backbone of the regular army, the power that can always be relied upon to have the bread wagon on hand and the camp equipment in reach when the day’s fighting is done and the army is ready to eat and sleep. The mule is not much to rave about for speed, and does not rank high in a beauty show, but for patient toil and dependableness jp.e is there seven days in the week', uncomplaining, faithful and efficient. New kinds of arms and ammunition may be adopted; changed methods of‘fighting, marching and campaigning may come into vogue; improvements in forts and in rations may be invented or discovered, but there is nothing new, changed or improved in the army mule. He is the same yesterday, today and in the next war, the one absolutely finished, unimprovable produce of the ages. He can only be abolished by the adoption of that univereal peace for which we all hope and pray, but which none of us really expects in the near future. And then the army mule will not be abolished, but only transferred to the corn field and the cotton patch. Here’s to the army mule. Long may he kick and pull.

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Miss Oldgirl—One of my treasures is a ten dollar gold piede that was given to me on by eighteenth birthday. Miss Caustique—l’ve often heard that rare old coins become valuable. SAVED FOR USEFUL LIFE. George Sirian, gunner, IL S. N., who died in 1891, was a young bey at the outbreak of the Greek revolution, and one day, as he and his mother were on the beach of theii island home, they were warned of the approach of a band of Turks. The mother, forced her boy into a boat that was near, and, placing him on the bottom, thrust him off, remaining herself to await her fate and distract attention from the child. He drifted from the shore and was finally rescued by a boat from one of the American cruisers then in the Mediterranean. Mr. Sirian entered the navy as a boy and by good conduct became a warrant officer, serving his adopted country with credit until his death. CHINESE AND JAPANESE BELLS. Consul S. L. Gracey, stationed at Foochow, calls attention in the Daily Consular Reports to the soft and smooth tone of the bells in use at temples and monasteries in China and Japan. The quality of the tone is due not only to the use of excellent material, but also to the absence of iron clappers. The bells are never swung, but are always suspended in a fixed frame, and are sounded by striking them on the outer edgewith a wooden mallet. FOR NOSEGLASS WEARERS. Here is an original suggestion to everyone who wears nose glasses and aas trouble keeping them on during the warm weather. Get some powlered rosin, dip the end of your finger in the rosin, then rub on the small parts of your glasses that come next the nose and your glasses will you take them.

PLEA FOR “OLD BLACK JOE” How William Alden Smith Induced Senate to Keep Aged Negro on Its Payroll. There was something intensely human in the action of Senator William Alden Smith urging the senate to retain on its payroll the name of “Old Black Joe” Jones, the former bodyguard of President Jefferson Davis. Senator Smith made the air ring as throwing back his head he rolled out , “Sirs” in the good old Patrick Henry fashion. “Sir,” he declared to the chair, “the southerners have cared for their wounded and suffering, they have asked no pensions from the government against which they rebelled. With a solicitude which we may well emulate, they t have bound up their own wounds, nursed their own sick and dying and cared for their dead, rebuilt their devastated states and voluntarily burdened themselves that we might pension our heroes and’ house them in comfort in their declining years. I think it is little less than pusillanimous to object to a simple recognition for an aged negro.” There was a rollcall, and by a vote of 37 to 18 “Old Joe” was retained on the payroll of the senate. One sehator averred that the word “pusillanimous” carried the day for William Alden. But the senator from Michigan only smiled, and after the merry war he strolled down the senate corridor in front of the marble room whistling the refrain of “Old Black Joe” at lively tempo. —Joe Mitchell Chapple in National Magazine.

THE REASON. Mjft? "'"Nj —a * Wk . HKx \r I ° t — The City^Man—What! Fifteen dollars a week! Why, rooms and board ain’t scarce about here! The Countryman—l know, but boarders are.

SMALL WORKING MODELS. Whether tiny working models of machinery are worth the labor they cost or not, such a collection of marvels as British amateurs have brought together in the London exhibition of engineering models is at least highly instructive. For the most part, such products seem to represent the diversion of persons engaged in employment very different from machine making. At this exhibition about one , hundred entries were made by many varied trades—a working steam engine, small enough to stand on a threepenny piece, being one of the eight smallest engines made by three Scotch miners; a complete working model of the Mauretania, the work of a bricklayer of sixty-seven,; and a little traction engine, including water tubes, boiler and superheater, the result of a Surrey gardener’s spare time ef-> forts. FOR LABOR. By actual tests two horses weighing 1,600 pounds each can pull 3,750 pounds, which is 550 pounds than their combined weight. One elephant weighing 12,000 pounds can pull 8,750 pounds, which is 3,250 pounds less than its weight. Fifty men, aggregating 7,500 pounds in weight, can pull 8,750 pounds, which is the score of the elephant. It will be observed that the men also pull more than their own weight. RICHES OF ALASKA. r■- > Alaska has proved to be a bonanza in fisheries and a treasure house of gold, coal and copper. There are agricultural stations within seventyfive miles of the arctic circle. At some points, indeed, vegetables are grown north of the arctic circle, close up to the shares of the Arctic ocean. Stock raising is progressing in Alaska and its islands, while wheat, oats and barley flourish under the icy rtaDutftheiaoiih.

HABITS OF THE SEMINOLES Indians of Florida Live in Open Houses —Calico Shirt and Derby Hat Their Costume. The Seminole Indians of Florida sit, eat and sleep on platforms raised about three feet from the ground under the roofs of their open houses. In each village the houses are so arranged as to leave an open space in the middle of the camp, and in the center of this is a cooking house. Hereffood is constantly kept on the fire, for there are no hard-and fast meal hours. They go about dressed in native costume. The men wear, on ordinary occasions, merely a shirt of gayly colored calico. To this they add, whenever they can obtain one, a derby hat and new bandana {handkerchiefs around neck. This is their ordinary dress. On gala occasions they wear a turban, made of a shAyl held’together bv a band of hammered silver, and sport an aigrette or an ostrich feather, beautiful woven bead' belts with symbolic designs, leggings ind moccasins of buckskin and a gorgeous calico coat. The use of buckskin upper garments has long since oeen discontinued on account of the heat; the leggings and moccasins have survived, but are no longer worn about the camps, for they would soon become wef and useless. The.women are more fully clad than the men. Their costume consists of a shirt and a sleeved cape of calico. About their necks they wear enofw thous masses of beads, from the strings of which they often hang silver coins. Many of the women wear brooches or bangles beaten from silver coins by the native smiths. Like most Indians, the tSeminoles do not ?are for gold in any form. * .

RATHER EXPECTED IT ytst tEfcjß IV 7 W -wl ■ J/ F The Doctor —Your wife has water on the brain. Colonel Soak—Well, I’m y not surprised. She’s been frying to get me to' swear off for the last three years.

ECCENTRIC POET. Queer storiefe arc told of the most unusual methods of work and caprices of Gerard de Nerval, the French poet. He followed inspiration literally, scribbled a line upon m omnibus, a couplet upon the parapet of Pont Neuf, in taverns, boudoirs and greenrooms. His long-' est sustained effort would be ten lines. His manuscript consisted of , such strips held together by wafers, ’ Once he entered the garden of the; Palais Royal leading a lobster on a olue ribbon. His -friends Remonstrated 1 . “Wliy,” said De Nerval, '‘why is a lobster, worse than a dog jr a cat or a gazelle or a lion or any' 3ther beast that ‘peopje have follow ‘hem about? I admire lobsters; they have poise, they are serious, they <now the isecrets of the sea, they lon’t bark.” FEMALE INDEPENDENCE. The day of the woman is certainly it, hand and she does about as she jleases and can go wherever she ,vants to on the face of the earth. This was illustrated recently by Miss 'Elizabeth Kendall, professor of his:ory at Wellesley college, who competed a year of travel without any companion-bf ther own sex.' Beginling on the Dalmatian coast, she vent to Turkey and India, by sea to Danton and across China to Tibet. She is now in Peking and will cross Mongolia by the caravan route ;hrough the Gobi flesert to the TransSiberian railway near Lake Baikal md return to America byway of Europe. ORIGINAL "MISS LIBERTY."' Miss Anna Willis Wiliams, the original “Miss Liberty,” whose proule adorns been for the last 12 years at ;he kindergarten system of Philadelphia. her native cits.