The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 April 1912 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA TOOK IT ALL IN EARNEST Two Women at the New Burlesque Could Explain Only One of the Situations. They sat solemnly through “A Slice of Life,” and they took it all in dead earnest. Not once did it occur to either of them—the earnest young woman tn the polo coat, or her somewhat O der companion, in a black eerge suit and bonnet —that anything in the play might possibly be a joke; If you had told them that the whole thing was a burlesque they would have simply smiled at you in com'plete lack of understanding. But they plainly disapproved of the play. They thought the situation interesting, but they didn’t like the -acting. Mr. Hyphen-Brown’s referer».e to his wife once as “Winifred and again as “Penelope” they regarded as shocking bad taste or else evidence of a poor memory they were not sure which. When the maid dropped the breakfast tray and the dishes stayed on it, the older woman nudged the other and murmured, “How cilly!” And then came the final puzzle, and their final disapproval. It was when Mr. Hyphen-Brown has asked about “the child,” and Mrs. Hy-phen-Brown has reminded him that there is none. The girl in the polo coat gasped and said: “Why, how can that the woman in the black syit was staggered. But she had an explanation ready in a moment. “Os course,” she said. “Os course, deaf, he is speaking of a child by a formal marriage!”-—New York Evening Mail. ’ / Widow Lost No Time. Attorneys in probate court do not, as a rule,. try to delay proceedings much. The moment that Judge Ross enters the door h* is surrounded by lawyers who wish “just a minute”' of his time, and he walks through a crowd of them to the bench. Reports are filed and wills are probated, attorneys’ fees are fixed in record time by the judge. More speed than usual was nsed recently in the' probation of a will. A colored attorney walked rapidly nto the courtroom, followed by a large solored woman. She had her sleeves rolled up to the elbows and appeared to have come from the wash tub. Her manner was businesslike. “Ah wants to probate mah husband’s will,” she said. Judge Ross went through the usual procedure. He read the will and asked the usual questions. Then he began making the usual notations. “And when did he die?” the judge isked. “Jes’ about a half hour ago,” was .he answer.—lndianapolis News, Too Much Password. Senator Bacon of Georgia passed a sonstituent around the capitol for a while and then, havings some work to do on the floor, conducted his visitor to the senate gallery. After an hour ar so the visitor approached a gallery doorkeeper and said: * “My name is Swate. I am a friend „ as Senator Bacon. He brought me here and I want to go out and look wound a bit. I thought that I would cell you so I can get back in.” “That’s all right,” said the doorkeeper, “but I may not be here when you return. In order to prevent any mistake, I will give you the password, io you can get your seat again.” “What’s the word?” Mr. Swate isked. “Idiosyncrasy.” “What?” “Idiosyncrasy.” “I guess I’ll stay in,” said Swate.— Washington Star. Being Polite to Children. There Is a boy and a girl that I know, they are older than I am and they are so nice. Their father and mother never speak cross to them, always say “If you please” to them; treat them just as they treat grownup folks, and sthe children are just as polite as grownup folks and very careful not to hurt the feelings of their father and mother. I like to go there, It is so peaceful. We have splendid games, and when it is time for me to go home the mother says: “Now, my little man, you must say good-by, but you must come and see Willie some other day.” Apd she gives me a big homemade cookie to eat, one with caraway seed in it, and I am happy all the way home. I love that lady.—“ Autobiography of a Baby”' by Thomas L. Bradford, M. D. His Problem. Frost—When the whisk-broom is missing nowadays, I always wonder. Mrs. Frost —Wonder what? Frost—Whether we had it served as breakfast food or whether you’re wearing it on your latest hat.—Harper’s Bazar. An Influence. “What book do you think has exerted the most influence on that aggressive politician?” “I don’t know,” replied Senator Sorghum. “but I think it must be an oldfashioned novel I vaguely remember, entitled, ‘Put Yourself in His Place.’" Gone to Waste. “Has that young man nerve and originality?” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; “but he uses them all up in selecting funny hats.”

ONE OF THE ALLEN “MOONSHINE” DISTILLERIES ;. hi. ’ d ~ NV wo™"* Q/y£ or ALl_£M MA/D £>AST/i-L£AS£5 ONE result of the tragedy in Hillsville, Va., has been the discovery and confiscation of a number of “moonshine” distilleries that had been operated by the Allen gang. The outlaws had made a fortune by the illicit manufacture of whisky.

NEW FLOATING CITY

Imperator, Largest of Ocean Craft, Soon to Be Launched. Ship Will Be 900 Feet Long—Monster of the Seas, With 50,000 Ton Capacity, to Have Many Luxurious Features. Berlin.- —Records for* size in the ocean steamship world ’’are not held long nowadays. We find a new “Goliath of the Ocean” of German construction. The new ship now building for the Hamburg-American line is to be called Imperator, and will be launched on the Elbe, Mr. Kerns tells us, in a few months —“such a vessel,” he says, “as hitherto man’s eye has not beheld.” The Imperator will have a gross tonnage of 50,000, outdoing the Olympic and Titantic (45,324 and 45,000). The length of the Imperator over all will be about 900 feet. Says Mr. Kern, according to Land und Meer: “It would be impossible for a man at the bow of the Imperator to recognize with the naked eye another standing in the stern. If we think of the Imperator set up on end beside the cathedral of Cologne, the heavens reaching tower would come only to the second funnel of the steamship. To get a still better idea of the size of the vessel, it may be. compared with one of the largest warehouses in the world — the new store of Tietz on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin, which, although forty houses were demolished to make room for it, could be placed entirely inside of the Imperator. The steamship, when complete and fully laden, will displace 50,000 tons. The following figures how much larger she is than the vessels which once held the world’s record for size: “The Deutschland, once the largest ship of the Hamburg-American line, which at the time she was built, and for ten years after, was one of the wonders of the world, displaced 6,500 tons; the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, of the same line, 24,600 tons, and the

PLAN NEW “ELECTRIC RAIL” Railroads and Steel Men Trying Hart to Find a Solution of Baffling Problem. New York. —An open hearth steel rail finished by an electrical process being perfected by the United States Steel corporation is the chief present hope of the steel makers and railroad men, who are looking for a solution of the baffling rail problem. In the mills the new rail is known as the “electric rail,” and a statement by one of the railroad presidents who attended the recent rail conference explains: “If this electrical process does not contain the secret, then we shall have to rely on a rail heavier than that we have been using. We shall have to put In a hundred-pound rail at a cost of more than S3O a ton. At the conference with the steel men last week we demanded that more be cut off the ends of rails after they had been rolled and more cut off tiie ends of the ingots before they were rqlled. The idea of this is to prevent air holes and other defects. The steel men were averse to this unless we consented to pay more for the product. However, in the end they agreed to make a concession and to cut off a little' more from the ends, although they declined tot go as far as we asked at the present price, which w-e think ample. “Unless this electric rail solves the problem, my belief is. we shall have to put in a heavier rail if we want it as hard as those now’ in use. If not, we shall have to use a softer one, which will wear out in half the time.”

giant of English ocean liners, the Mauretania, 32,000. Each of the funnels of the Imperator will be so large that a steamer like those which ply on the river Spree could sail through it lengthwise. “The term ‘floating hotel,’ often applied to such ships when it is desired to emphasize their bulk, would convey, in the case of the Imperator, an impression far short of the truth. For where in all the world is there a hotel that can hold 5,000 persons at once? None exists of anywhere near such? capacity. It is the population of a small city. “One of the features of the Imperator is entirely new and unprecedented. The first cabin passengers on this ship will have the use of a roomy swimming pool in a beautiful Pompeian hall. Near by is a suite of rooms for gymnastics.” It will have a promenade deck nearly a quarter of a mile long, a great entertainment hall two stories high, holding 700 guests, a conversation room, a smoking room, a ladies’ hall, a winter garden and a Ritz-Carlton restaurant, serving a la-carte. It goes almost without saying that the Imperator will be driven by turbines. What will be the next step on the part of the designers of steamship leviathans? Will the English outbid their German cousins once more; and if this keeps on, how soon shall we reach the sea monster of 100,000 tons? •' -/ Wore 69-Cent Hat Three Years. Chicago.—Telling the court her husband used all his money for gambling, Mrs. David O’Keefe showed a 69-cent hat she had worn five years and a $3 coat that had served three years. O’Keefe was held. Give Bachelors as Prizes. Chicago.—Four handsome bachelors are prizes to be distributed to winners of a series of card parties for unmarried women members of Carnation Lodge K. of P. One bachelor is reserved for the booby prize.

ARMY AUTO TRUCKS BACK

Return of Machines From the South —Cross the Ohio River at Louisville. Louisville, Ky.—Capt. Alexander Elliott Williams, U. S. A., and his party, almost famished after an allday run from the crossroads town of Magnolia, Ky., where for five consecumeals they had dined on biscuit and pork, arrived in on their automobile trucks in the army efficiency test. The party consists of Captain Williams, Capt. H. A. Hegeman, who joined them at Atlanta; W. C. Sterling Gs New York and four mechanics. They left Bowling Green, Ky., Saturday, hoping to reach Louisville Saturday night, but they were forced to halt at Magnolia. They made the run to Louisville during the day and crossed ovei- the Ohio river to Jeffersonville, Ind., setting out from the

COURT SEES ‘GRIZZLY’ DANCE Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terpischorean Illustration and Convinces Judge. Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the “grizzly bear” in Municipal court here to show Judge C. L. Smith just how. it was done. With his arm over the shoulders of a bystander, he swayed rhythmically from sid» to side to the strains of the San Fj-ancisco tune, and, according to witnesses, gave a fair imitation of txow itrwaa

M3HRL BALKS AT THE ALTAR Mother’s Ruse Successful in Preventing Daughter From Being a Bride. Centralia, Wash. —"Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?” “I do not.” This unexpected answer brought a su J den ending to the wedding ceremony which was almost performed for Charles E. Caldwell and Mina Erickson, a young couple of Torio, by the Rev. Robert Reid of Centralia. The couple had made preparations for a hasty marriage, the bride’s mother being opposed to the union, and the wedding guests - were assembled in a hill back of Tono. A carriage 'was in readiness to convey the newlyweds to this city, where they were to take the train for Puget Sound points. The mother, learning that she had been outwitted, pretended to take poison. News of her mother’s attempted suicide was conveyed to the bride, who called the wedding off just as the pronouncement of “man and wife” was on the lips of the Rev. Mr. Reid. INDIANA HORSE A SUICIDE Animal Drowns Itself in Swollen Stream Following a Severe Sickness. Jeffersonville, Ind. —Suicide is what Charles Pangburn, a veterinary surgeon, pronounced it when he saw a pain maddened horse dash into the swollen current of Fourteen Mile* creek here and with no appearance of a struggle sink to its death. Dr. Pangburn had just been treating the animal for a severe ailmpnt with which it had suffered several days. He was driving away when he saw’ the sick horse gallop furiously toward the stream and watched it unhesitatingly plunge in and end its misery. ■ Chokes Dog to Death, i New York. —In a struggle with a dog that had bitten him in the face, arms and body, Edmund Lith, aged 67, choked the animal to death.

quartermaster’s depot the e this morning for Fort Benjamin Harrisoh, near Indianapolis. Captain Williams declared his experience with the three trucks on this trip has convinced him that automobile trucks will prove more satisfac; tory ,and economical in transportation of army supplies than wagons. He left Washington February 8, ing to Louisville byway of Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston, Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville. . He will turn east from Indianapolis. Molasses as Dust Layer. Washington.—The people of the United States may be riding over roads of. molasses in the near future. The bureau of good roads is making experiments near .here with a very cheap grade of molasses, mixed with lime water, as a dust laying cover for roads.

being done in a local dance hall when two girls were arrested for dancing the “grizzly bear.” The judge decided that the dance was “disorderly and ordered the two girls to promise to remain away'from dance hails in the future and report regularly to the police matron. Pat Crowe Is Arrested. Chicago.—Pat Crowe of Cudahy kidnaping fame was fined $1 and sent to the Bridewell hospital for treatment for the drink habit by Judge Rooney. The former outlaw was in a pitiable condition.

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ADVERTISING FOOD PRODUCTS Statement of Prices and Description of Goods More Apt to Get Business Than Generalities. Merchants handling provisions should understand better than any one else the value of advertising. Food is the most vital need of all. No other advertising gets such interested reading as a well-written notice describing food offerings. Manufacturers of food products on a national scale learned this some time ago. Money is poured out like water to adveitise food products in the magazines. It must pay, or it would not be spent. Yet, in the local newspapers, the grocers, butchers, and other provision men do not advertise with the freedom shown in the dry goods, furnishings, furniture and other trades. Probably the reason for this is that many merchants of this type never studied advertising enough to realize Its possibilities. Here is a sample ad, clipped from an article in the Publishers’ Guide: Brandon’s Corner Grocery. Remember when in the city to make this your trading place. Highest market prices paid for country produce, and always a square deal. We always carry a full line of staple and fancy groceries. Canned goods a specialty. Brandon’s Corner ' Grocery. Phone 261. This is an excellent illustration of how hot to do it, says the Moline (Ill.) Dispatch. There is no selling power in that ad. It tells the public that Brandon is alive and wants their trade, which has value as far as it goes. But it might go a great deal further. The provision man who will mention prices of some of his best lines, describe them a bit so as to stir the appetite of the reader, will find his store crowded. Here are a few items from a well written ad. showing how, the trick is turned: Celery, Presley’s white plume, crisp and tender, extra good flavor, large plant for 10 cents. % Sweet cider, made from the choicest apples, per gallon, 25 cents. Oysters. Our oysters come in sanitary sealed packages. The ice never touches. Remember our price. Solid meats, quart, 40 cents. Does it not make you hungry to read an ad, like this? How to Advertise. Advertise to beat the band and get rich. How long do you s’pose Steers Hawbuck or Mongumery Wart would do business if they didn’t send out catalogs every month and the oceans of big fellows they send out must cost them at least $1 a piece in large quantities. The same with Mother Mulligan’s Honkedory Soothing Syrup, Dr. Beatem’s Pale Pills for Pink People and Brown River Toasted Corn Cobs' Why, if advertising did not make people call for these varieties they might go home with “something just as good” and ruin their digestion with Hi Blinkum’s Baled Hay or Skinnem Foozle’s Sawdust Jimjammer. The man that doesn’t advertise, as Bryan once said, is like the fellow that throws kisses at his sweetheart in the dark. He may know what he is doing, ,but she doesn’t and that is where the rub comes. —Ex. Religion Advertised. A new sign, one of the biggest around Broadway, appeared on the roof of a building in Twenty-third streef. in New York City the other day. It»is 13% feet in height and 62 feet in length. Six big electric arcs light it at night. The sign advertises eligion. It bears in large letters these words: “Welcome for Everybody in the Churches of New York.” At both ends are large crosses and on one end the words “Religion for Men” and on the other end “Men for Religion.” and at the bottom is “Men and Religion Forward Movement.” This sign is the first of an advertising campaign. Check a Cold. At the very first symptoms of a cold it is well to commence treatment, tor by doing so serious developments may be prevented. Let camphor be .inhaled, give the feet a hot bath in mustard and water, after which the patient should get into a warm bed with a hot-water bottle to the feet, and drink a large tumblerful of hot lemonade matde thus: The juice of a lemon, a large teaspoonful of glycerine, a little sugar; fill up with boiling water. New Excellencies. Her Excellency—John, take his excellency’s coffee into the library and bring my excellency’s tea into the music room.”

WROTE HIS "AD” IN FROST Chicago Merchant Overcame Handicap of Ice Glazed Show Windows. ’ There is' one merchant in Chicago w’ho possesses the faculty of turning defeat into victory. His opportunity came during the most recent zero spell, when frost coated most of the store windows so thickly that it was impossible for persons on the sidewalk to see the display of goods or to make out the lettering on the windows. For a while it seemed to this merchant that the only thing to do was to buttonhole the passers-by and lead them into his shop. It was too cold to consider such a step, however, so he set himself to thinking and at last worked out a plan that gave him a distinct advantage over his neigh bors. * His idea was to let Jack Frost work for him instead of against him. His conciliatory attitude soon won that careless artist over. In the first place the merchant let the frost gather in a thick crust on the panes. Then taking a brush dipped in hot water he applied it to his temporary canvas and dashed off some clever “copy” that was easily visible from without. This required slight retouching from time to time, but there was plenty oi frost for the background and plenty of! hot water. To a person walking along the street the other windows presented a solid opaque front by no means alluring. When, however, hfs eye fell upon the dashing frost written window “ad” announcing a reduction of $1.50 shirts to $1.38 and an overwhelming chop ping off in the price of ear caps anu mufflers, he was moved to go in and invest. EXPERIENCE GREAT TEACHER But There Is No Compulsory Education Laws for Advertisers, Says Printers’ Ink. “Experience is a great teacher,” says Printers’ Ink, “but there isn’t any law compelling attendance at her school.” The other day a circular letter came to hand—the seventh or eighth of a series from a New England city. The letter began: “Before you throw this letter into the waste-basket won’t you admit that I am rather persistent?” What else was in the circular the recipient knoweth not, because at this point, the writer having made it quite clear that he expected his missive to go to the waste-basket, Into the wastebasket It went There is no law, to paraphrase Printers’ Ink. compelling the circularizer to attend the school of experience. If six or seven letters fail to produce results he sends a seventh or eighth. And doubtless there will be a tenth, and mayhap a twentieth. All of which is good for the printer, if not so profitable for the advertiser. If three-quarters of the money that is now spent for futile circularization should be spent for newspaper advertising in strong, influential mediums the campaign orators this fall would all be busy telling the voters just how their respective parties were entitled to the credit for an unprece dented wave of prosperity. Generosity in Advertisements. In England religious bodies, and especially charities that are supported by Christian people, use display advertising space in daily and weekly newspapers to a far greater extent than do the same organizations in this country. A large proportion of chaitable funds are raised through paid advertisements in the periodicals. The men and religion committee of 97. the national organization, is spending slo,ooo' in connection with its conservation congress in this newer form of religious propaganda. The men and religion committee mentions in its advertisements Protestant, Catholic and Jew, and urges men to attend their places of public religious worship. Garbage Can Advertising. A representative of an advertising company has offered to present the city of Montgomery, Ala., with a large number of sanitary garbage cans if the city commission will agree to permit a certain apiount of advertising on the cans. The manufacturers of a successful toilet preparation scaled a bold peak at historic Harper’s Ferry and made a signboard of an ancient promotory which would seem accessible only by airship. But it’s a far cry from the blue-cowled mountains of West Virginia to the garbage cans of Alabama and it is probable that they will not become purveyors of publicity —not for the delicatessen shops anyway. Something New in Advertising. A newspaper in Pennsylvania contains an advertisement of a church pew for sale. Among the indorsements which are mentioned in connection v.’ith the pew. it is stated that it occupies a position which commands a beautiful view of the entire congregation. Presumably, the pulpit also is, visible. Not Compatible. - Printers’ Ink says: You can’t expect honest advertising if at the same time you foster dishonest methods of producing advertising. The two things : are as far apart as the poles. Her Opportunity. Edith—lsn’t Alice the lucky girl?i Just as she had decided to throw Jack; over he broke the engagement Tom —Well? Edith—Well, now she s going to sue him for breach of promise.

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