The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 May 1912 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA PIE A UNIVERSAL PANACEA Young Woman Recommends It as a Never-Failing Dispeller of Domestic Discord. They were discussing problems. “Life at our house,” said the young woman who lives at home, “is very simple, and there seems to be one solution of every problem that never falls, no matter how diverse the questions to which it is applied. When discussions run rife and threaten the dissolution of the entire household: when difficulties seem too great to be borne; •when visions of creditors obscure the mental horizon; when an expensive hat proves to be unbecoming, but must be worn nevertheless; when the bread is sour or the cream has lost its integrity, we invariably look around for mother and find her out in the 4 kffchen making a pie. “Instant *peace follows this discovery. Sister’s scowl melts, little sister’s melancholy tone revives, brother’s wrath subsides, father’s nervousness abates, the dove of peace gently flaps its wings above our dwelling place. Mother just simply smiles and goes on making her pie or pudding. It is so simple, but nobody else ever seems to think of it. Besides its efficiency Charlotte’s masterly cutting of bread and butter was an inefficient process. We are of New England descent. and are, of course, addicted to pie. Besides, mother’s pies and puddings are of a nature and quality to appease the wrath of Jove. A southern family might require hot muffins or chicken and ice cream on Sunday or some other local application. The details might differ, but the method I heartily recommend for all soul_problems. The only objection to it is that it might put the problem novelists out of commission and, abate their incomes, but even that sacrifice they K ought to be willing to make for the kpod of the nation.” Human Attics. Most people think their head is, mainly filled with that gray mater known as “brain." But they are quite mistaken. Inside the head of the average human being there is a large space for storing away even heavy articles. As a remarkable instance of this, one burglar was in the habit of keeping a skeleton key in his head, which was inserted through his nose. Even more remarkable, was the case of another burglar,, who kept a circular saw, coiled around like a watch chain, in his human attic, j Some months ago a young farmer went to the hospital, complaining of nasal catarrh. An operation was deemed necessary, and while in the act of operating the doctor found a loose mass of metal 'situated above the roof of the man’s mouth. This mass of metal had been in his head for five years without his knowing it, for five years previous to the operation a gun had exploded in his face, and. although the wound healed, it evidently left some of the shot behind. Oldest Methodist Chtirch. St George’s church, Fourth street below Vine, where the 125th session of the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal conference will be held, is the oldest Methodist church edifice, used continuously for worship, in existence. It was dedicated 142 years ago. When the British occupied Philadelphia after the battle of Brandywine In 1777 the church was used for a time as a hospital, and later as a “riding school” for the cavalry. Long after peace was restored weapons of warfare lay around the building.—Philadelphia Press. Tunnel to Be 16 Miles Long. Swiss engineers have convinced the Russian government that it is perfectly feasible to bore a tunnel through the Caucasian mountains near Tiflis in order to join the Black and Caspian seas. This will be a tremendous undertaking, as the tunnel will be about sixteen miles in length and .the* Russian government had practically decided that it was beyond the limit of possibility. Howeevr, the Swiss experts have reported that the tunnel could be* built within seven years without much difficulty, but at a great expense. A Paris firm of bankers, it is understood, is supporting the enterprise, which will be put into execution about the ¥ early part of 1913, and with Swiss engineers in control. Not Satisfied. ’ “Well,” said the Billville neighbor, “I reckon your John is satisfied, now that he’s safe in congress.” > “No,” said the old lady. “Just as soon as he gits his shoes polished, puts on a biled shirt an’ takes a ride in a ortermobile he’ll wonder why it didn’t occur to him to run for presidenf.” He Wished to Know. “Uncle Bill,” asked little Lester Livermore, who possessed an inquiring mind, “when were you born?” “In 1860.” “That wasn’t what the war was about, was it, Uncle Bill?”—Judge. And That One Hers. Mrs. Sappleigh (with magazine)— Here’s a writer who says we have two brains. I wonder it is so? Miss Keen —WeL ! between you and me, Mr. Sappleigs, I think we have only one. J

SECRETARY KNOX AND PARTY AT CARACAS ' IB . Ir jI r ? 9ESi Koi - I® 9 —Hi / 9 US IBs 9HM jL i gggMjh-’ jb * « '■ ® , 1 BSHniir Iff S Hl I . THE accompanying photogarph, received from Caracas, was taken at the home of the American minister to Venezuela during the visit there of Secretary of State Knox. Seated, left to right, are Senora Manuel A. Matos, Secretary Knox, Mrs. Knox and Senor Manuel A. Matos, minister of foreign affairs. Standing, left to right, are Mrs. Elliot Northcott, P. C. Knox. Jr., Mrs. P. C. Knox. Jr., and Elliot Northcott, the American minister. - ■ .

TO i OPEN ARCHIVES

Change Made in Rules Governing Military Records. Regulation Inaugurated by General Ainsworth Prevented Profitable Investigation of Valuable Papers in Files at Washington. Washington.—Within a few days the military archives housed in the war department in Washington will be made accessible* to students and investigators—a step which students and investigators for years have been endeavoring to have the government take. Pending the issuance of the new regulations, the authorities in charge have let it be known that those desiring to consult the archives may obtain permission at the office of Secretary of War Stimson. The significance of this revolutionary change can best be appreciated by reference to a report made to the president in 1908 on the historical gocunjents of the United signed by Messrs*. Worthington C. Ford, Charles Francis Adams, Charles M. Andrews, William A. Dunning, Albert Bushnell Hart, Andrew C. McLaughlin, Alfred T. Mahan, Frederick J. Turner and J. Franklin Jameson. They said, speaking particularly of the acts of congress of July 27, 1892, and August 18, 1894, which provided that all military records of the revolution and the war of 1812 should be transferred to the war department and there properly indexed and arranged for use, that “under existing conditions at the war department their effect has been to make these materials entirely inaccessible to historians, as may be seen by a perusal of the regulations of 1897 and .still in force. “Those regulations provide for proper supply of information to persons seeking pensions or admissions to ‘patriotic-hereditary societies,’ but

Big Loss By Country’s Strikes

Efforts for Bigger Pay—What Has Been Effected in the Struggles Which Have Taken Place Since 1900. Philadelphia, Pa.—The suspension of coal mining in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania is the fourth general labor disturbance in the industry in 12 years. In 1900, the miners struck six weeks; in 1902 they were out five and a half months and in 1906 they again suspended work for six weeks. In the 1900 and 1902 strikes the coal diggers, through the United Mine Workers of America, won an increase in wages and a readjustment of working conditions. In neither struggle, however, did the Organization obtain what it has in some of the bituminous fields —straightout recognition of the union. In the following year there was no general movement; but 102 separate strikes were recorded during the year. The 1902 strike was the greatest in the history of the country. The union asked for a 20 per cent, increase in wages, a reduction in hours from ten to eight a day and recognition of the union. The strike lasted from May 12 to October 23. Nearly 147,000 workers were idle and thousands of railroad and other workers were thrown out of employment. The entire national guard of Pennsylvania, about 10,000 men, were called into service before the struggle came to an end. Loss Was Over $100,000,000. President Roosevelt was instrumen-

close the archives of the war department absolutely to American historical investigators.” The “regulations of 1897” which thus clapped the lid on these public documents is a long and elaborate piece of literature. It is signed by Daniel S. Lamont, as secretary of war, and specifies as the chief reason why the records cannot be used “for the compilation of statistical and other data” the fact that “the limited clerical force allowed by law is insufficient to enable the department to comply with such requests without serious interference with more important current work.” On the face of it, this appears plausible enough, but there is a reason within the reason advanced. In short, General Ainsworth, lately put on the retired list, consistently advocated be-

“Killed” Man Who is Alive

Preacher in Prison Three Years as Murderer, His Supposed Victim Appears. Suffolk, Va.—The fallibility of courts, the unreliability of circumstantial evidence and the depravity of perjured witnesses all figure with peculiar force in a court drama_jyhich had its denouement here recently. A man for whose murder -another man already has served thrjfe years in prison on an eighteen year sentence suddenly appeared and had his identity clearly established by dozens of reliable witnesses. Both principals are preachers and both are negroes. Rev. Ernest Lyons confessed to the murder of Rev. James Larry Smith, the man who apparently sprang from the tomb to face those who had sent Rev. Mr. Lyons «to prison. The reason for the confession was disclosed by the county clerk, Georgy E. Bunting, who was a neighbor of Lyons at

tai in bringing the two sides together and to agreeing to the appointing of the anthracite coal strike commission to arbitrate the differences. The commission visited many mines and examined 558 witnesses between October, 1902, and February, 1903. It awarded a 10 per cent, increase in wages to miners and reduced the hours of the men from ten tp nine a day. It also created the board of conciliation, to which has been referred most of the grievances that have arisen since the commission’s awards weS? made. The commission estimated the losses occasioned by that strike as follows: Decreasp in coal production, 24,694,482 tons. Decrease in receipts

Pay of British Ambassador

English Diplomats Get From $25,000 to $57,500 a Year, While Ours Get $17,500. London. —Some particulars concern'ing the salaries of Adierican, British and French ambassadors are contained in a parliamentary paper which has been issued by the governmeptThe salaries of British ambassadors abroad are: Austria-Hungarr, £8,000; France, £11,500; Germany, £8,000; Italy, £7,000; Japan, £5,000; Russia, £8,000; Spain, £5,500; Turkey, £B,000, and the United States, £IO,OOO. Residences are provided at the public expense. The United States of America la

fore congress the necessity of cutting down this very clerical force, and as ( consistently and regularly disCour* aged any historical students from in-, specting the records. There are those in Washington who, say that General Ainsworth’s resignation has cleared the way for the new order of things about to be inaugurated. At any rate, the records hereafter will be open. It will be difficult to estimate what’ an enormous loss to American history these regulations have entailed The military archives of the United States contain much else than simply the records of military operations. As one man has put it: “The army was so largely the advance guard of American civilization in its westward march across the continent that the archives contain a great wealth of material for the understanding of pioneer conditions and the early history of all parts of the United States but the Atlantic seaboard.

Reid’s Ferry and knew him well. Lyons did not confess until after his conviction. He told Mr. Bunting before being taken to prison that his confession was a fabrication, but that he made it in a spirit of revenge, acknowledging falsely that, he had killed Smith, but implicating others whom he accused of trying to swear away his life. Pair Betrothed Fifty Years. London. —A pathetic story of a daughter's devotion to her mother is recalled by the death of an octogenarian, Miss M. T. Turner at Fornham St. Martin. Suffolk. As a young girl she became engaged, but refused to marry while her mother was alive. Fifty years later the couple were still engaged and the mother was still alive. Then Mr. Farrant, Miss Turner’s sweetheart, became ill and died, Miss Turner nursing him till the end.

of coal companies, $46,100,000. Wages lost by men, $25,000,000. Miners’ relief fund, $1,800,000. Decrease in coal freight, $28,000,000. The award of the strike commission remained in force three years until 1906, when it was renewed for another period of three years after the miners had suspended work for about six weeks. When this agreement expired on March 31, 1909, the miners did not stop, but agreed to continue operations pending the negotiations of a working arrangement. After conferring until 29 .flays after the agreement of 190*6 expired, the commission award, was again put into effect for another three years. The anthracite miners began to prepare for the present trouble last fall, when they held a convention at Pottsville, Pa., and formulated demands.

represented by ambassadors in London, Vienna, Paris. Berlin, St. Petersburg, Rome, Tokio. Constantinople, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico, witn salaries of $17,500 a year. French ambassadors on the active list . have yearly salaries of with allowances. Bridegroom Had Mumps. Atlantic City, N. J. —Many guests fled when they learned that Max Kirscht, a bridegroom, had mumps. His bridfe, Miss Lola Gaskill, stayett for the ceremony. The attendants held sterilized handkerchiefs over their faces

“ni in Advertising |n Talks []] jc DOOOOOOOOOOOO AFTER MANY YEARS Never Can Tell When Advertising Brings Results. The man is" not a grouch; far from it. He is a successful merchant on Canal street. He pays his bills, and does the right thing in other than financial matters. ■ But he does not know much about advertising. He advertises in nearly all the cheap dodges that are presented to him. With him advertising is an expense, and not an investment. If he should, some day when he gets a little more money, ever go back to the soil, it is doubtful if he wouldn’t kick on planting any seeds that would not come up the very next day and bring a large profit. When a solicitor for the “’Fair Book” went to him to talk about the advantages to be derived from bringing several hundred thousand dollars to the city during fair week, he looked thoughtful for a moment and then said he would think it over. Nothing would change that attitude. He wanted to think it over. The missionary for the fair went away and returned the next day, hoping that the merchant’s thoughts had been steered in the right direction. “Nothing doing,” said the merchant, when the hopeful solicitor shoved his nose in the doorway. “I have been looking over my books, and I fail to see where the Fair does me any good. My sales are never larger that week than at any other time in the fall.” “Well,” observed the solicitor, “you ean’-t expect every man who brings money here during fair Week to walk straight to your store with it and shove it under the door if you chance to be out. You’ve got to wait for some man who wants something in your line to get hold of this new money and bring it to you.” “Nothing doing,” insisted the merchant. Now, the solicitor was prepared to demonstrate—with a fountain pen and a pad of copy paper—that a certain per cent of all the actual currency handled in his city is every year invested in the sort of goods this merchant exposed for sale. Have you ever figured that out? But that merchant would not listen. He would not even give the solicitor* a couple of hours in which to make himself understood on the law of averages. If the money that came to town in the pockets of Fair visitors during the Fair didn’t reach him the first day the visitors struck the city, that settled ft. He was willing to admit thht the Fair would be likely to bring a heap of money to the city, but he expressed the further conviction that if his fellow merchants got hold of it first that would be the end of it for him. He knew he had to pass his own cash receipts out to Tom, Dick, Harry and the good Lord only knows who else, but he seemed to think that his contemporaries kept their&> Well, while the merchant and the solicitor argued over the matter Uncle Ike came into the store and sat down by the radiator near the desk. Uncle Ike is a favored character there. He sat listening to the war of words for a time, and then hunched closer to the speakers. “Nothing doing,” he. heard the merchant saying. “What. I wouldn't get during the Fair I wouldn’t get at all.” “That’s funny, too,” said Uncle Ike “What’s funny?” demanded the merchant. Uncle Ike grinned at the Fair man. “Ever hear about Aunt Sarah's new sil£ dress?” he asked, pretending to ignore the merchant, but, all the same, watching him out of the corner of a shrewd eye. “It was funny about the new silk dress.” “Come on. Uncle Ike,” the merchant said. “You’ve got a story secreted about your person somewhere. Out with it.” The merchant wasn’t overly, anxious to hear the story just then, but he was anxious to have the stream of eloquence pouring out of the solicitor shut off. Even the .stories of a lazy old man were preferable to the longwinded arguments of the Fair book man. “Aunt Sarah would go to the World’s Fair,” Uncle Ike began, “and the worst of it was that she had no One to go with her but me, her longsufferin’ brother. Someway, we always called Sarah ‘Aunty.’ I got into the notion by bearin’ others call her that, and just dropped into the habit, although I am her brother. “So Sarah and me started off to the World’s Fair. Sarah gave me the money she had saved up for the trip, and I put it with mine. Altogether, we had somethin’ over SIOO in cash, besides the return tickets, an’ felt like we could buy about everythin’ there was in Chicago if we wanted to. I kept the money in an inside pocket of my vest, an’ kept the vest buttoned up mighty tight, at that. “The reason Sarah did not want to carry it was that she had a brand new silk dress, made by Almira Talmadge out of the best silk to be bought at

Simon’s new store. She was proud as a peacock of that new silk dress. She used to keep lookin’ behind her on the Fair grounds to see was effect its magnificence was a-creatin’. She; thought it was about the swellest thing that ever took a year’s savings up to get. “You know how it was in Chicago World’s Fair year—hot and close and crowded —with a lot of hotels just knocked up out of ’ pine boards and furnished with stuff from the install ment stores. We got into one ot them hotels down near the Fair grounds. “Sarah’s room was right next to mine, an’ there was a transom over each door.. We had been there a week, and was most ready for a square meal back on the old hum stead when somethin’ happened. About 1 o’clock in the mornin’ I heard Sarah a-poundin’ on the inch pine wall between the rooms an shoutin’ like she was crossing of the dark river an’ no boat in sight. “I hits the floor mighty quick, thinkin’ of all I had heard about thieves an’ murderers in Chicago, an’ prances into Sarah’s room. I finds Sarah in a panic, a-rockin’ back an forth on the side of her wrenchin’ an’ screechin’ bed, an’ a-lifting up hei voice like all go-bang. “ ‘Oh, Ikey,’ she says to me, ‘l’ve been robbed. I folded up my new silk dress in a neat package and hung it on the wall there, an’ now it’s gone. Some man reached right through the transom an’ took it. I saw his hand.’ “There ain’t no use tryin’ to con sole a woman for a new silk dress when it’s been stole from her. so 1 didn’t try. I just stood there and ex- [ pressed mQ opinion of Chicago, from Kensington to High Ridge avenue. “ ‘Now, Ikey,’ says she to me. when I stopped on account of havin’ nothin more to say that was original. ‘l’m never goin’ back, without that new silk dress. . I’d be, the laughin’ stock of everybody.- You’ve got to take enough of our money an’ buy me a new silk dress. I’ll save up eggs and butter money until I’ve paid you back.’ “It might be a mistake,” said I “You lie quiet for a day or two an mebbe the party what took the dress will bring it back. In the meantime. I’ll advertise it in the newspapers. ‘So I went back to my room to pul on my new suit, an’ the vest wasn’t under my pillow where I had put it It was tucked away in a corner undei the bed. When I looked in the inside pocket there wasn’t any more money there than a robin could carry in his left eye. An’ us with the hotel bill only half paid and the tickets back home gone. I could see the finish for the new silk dress. “I ain’t a-goin’ to tell you what 1 said to Sarah for Josin’ of her dress nor yet what she said to me for los in’ of our money. She wouldn’t gc out of her room until I got money from home, an’ I was mighty hungry before I thought of pledgin’ my new gold watch. But I put the advertise ments in as soon as I cpuld, and of sered a reward for the return of the dress. “So we went back home an’ wait ed eighteen years for that new silk dress to be brought back. Every let ter Sarah’s got in all that time looked to her like it had a hint about that dress in it, until she got it open. ‘Don’t be impatient.’ I used to say to her. ‘Give the advertisement s chance to percolate.’ So she waited, and I waited, and the other day it come.” “What’s that?" demanded the mer chant. “You never got that silk dress back again, did you? Where was It alTthat time? Who stole it?" “It wasn’t stole,” replied Uncle Ike “A man who was leavin’ the hotel reached through the ,wrong transom an’ got it. It was three weeks before he found out his mistake, and then •there was no tracin’ the occupant o! that room. Well, sir, not long ago, he bought some seed onions of a farmer, and the’farmer’s wife went to the garret and brought out an old, old newspaper to wrap them up in. On the way home he noticed the paper was dated World's Fair year, and so he read it, kind of to bring that time back to his mind, I guess. And there he saw the advertisement for Sarah’* new black silk dress. After more than eighteen years that advertisement brought, results! I heard you two talking about advertising, and 1 thought I’d tell you about Aunt Sarah’s new silk dress.” “Is that right?” asked the mer chant. “Sure! The dress came back good as new. Hadn’t never been taken out of the package, so it was wrinkled some, but Sarah’s wearin’ of it today Made over? Why, yes. a little, but it’s a pretty good dress yet.' Wasn't that funny? After eighteen years.” “And If you don’t get returns the same day,” laughed the agent, turn ing to the merchant, “you think yob have been defrauded." “It begins to look to me,” said the merchant, “as if you brought Uncle Ike in here to tell that story' Anyway. I’ll take that advertisement. I! it doesn't bring results for eighteen years I may be dead, but my son will be right here in business, and he’ll get the benefit of it.” You never can tell when a properly written advertisement will bring re suits. A mail order man told a friend, the other day, that it was the advertising he did last year that was selling goods for him now.—Alfred B. Tozer, in The Michigan Tradesman. ♦ A Nightmare. “Oh, hubby, I had a dreadful dream last night.” “What did you dream about?” “I dreamed that in all the world there were no shop windows.”

UmsrioNM. smsoiooi Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Director of \ - ing Department, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR MAY 5. POVERTY AND RICHES. LESSON' TEXT—Lk. 6:20-26 and 16:19-M. GOLDEN TEXT—“A man’s life consisteth pot In the abundance of the things he possesseth.”—Luke 12:15. Last week we were studying the fundamental principles of this new kingdom Jesus came to establish. Today our study presents another of his seeming paradoxes, viz., the blessedness or the happiness of poverty, hunger and persecution. Spoken primarily to the t.welve, Jesus intended these words for all the people—present and prospective. Jesus is distinctly the poor man’s friend. He knew the meaning of hunger and thrift, of weeping and mourning, and so contrasts the joy that shall be to these “happy ones” with the “woe” that shall come to those who from out of their joy and their abundance fail to respond to the needs of mankind. Whait It Is and Why.The last half of the lesson is intended to illustrate the teachings of too first. Let us look at the illustration. “A certain rich man.” He was hot of sufficient importance even to mention his name. How few rich men ever succeed in really perpetuating their names. Not one succeeds in any measure at all except as in some, manner he emulates the life and teachings of Jesus. How f|w monuments really perpetuate names. Character alone is what lives. This rich man, hqweyer, did not out simply because he-was a rich man. Verse 25 tells us why’he was in anguish. His life had been that of a selfish seeker and he had had his reward. Now conditions have changed. Once clothed in purple and faring sumptuously, now he is the beggar. Ignoring the cry of need at his gate now he is compelled to make his cry afar off. “A certain beggar named Lazarus.” It is better to be a beggar vainly seeking a few crumbs and to rest in Abraham’s bosom than to live in luxurious ease, ignoring the cry of the ’needy and to live in hell hereafter. Lazarus did not gain glory hereafter ( because he was a beggar, but rather because of his character. Angels announced the coming of the .Son of Man, angels welcomed the returning of this son of mankind. ■ Which of the twain, Dives or Lazarus, really enjoyed life?. Eternity is a long time, it begins where imagination ends. The name Lazarus really means “God-helps” and God always does help the poor. Lazarus had some friends for we' read that the dogs showed their sympathy. It is always true that thosepoor as poverty are,most ready to respond to the cry of need, and out of their penury will give the most abundantly to relieve distress. Leaves AH Behind. “The rich man died also.” Thus ended his life of ease and luxury for shrouds have no pockets. “How much did he leave? He left it all.” All ot his loved ones, all Os his hopes were” left behind. There is -something appallingly sad in the death of a rich man who trusts only to his wealth, having no faith in God. Millions for a , moment of time. The sarcasm of Jesus’ words is quite apparent, “and he was buried.” Only a clod of earth, no longer useful, of the earth, earthy, bury him, get him out of sight. But did this end all? By no means, for when he reached the otjjer side he did not lose consciousness nor reason. No soul sleeping there. He saw, he observed, he felt, he remembered; he reasoned. Back upon earth le had brother's who were following his same mode of life. Here' he was suffering, crying for “merby,” for an illeviating touch of cold water, yet in that cry there was no note of repeatmce. He and his brethren had lived tor the tongue and Jiad, pampeted it, now it, the seat of taste, of bold words, etc., is crying for cooling relief. But would those behind repent even if one were to rise from the dead? No, except that they might escape a like torment. The desires of their hearts would be the same. Being out of state’s prison is of itself no particular honor. The message of Jesus strikes deeper than outward forms and ceremonies. It is the*heart motiv'e whereby we are to be judged. Dives soughtto excuse or to justify himself (v. 30), hut Abraham tells him plainer that ooth he and his brethren had had sufficient light. If they will not listen to Moses (the Pentateuch) and to the prophets neither will they repent even though one came from the dead. That being so how- much greater condemnation must reSt upon Ihose who rejecC4 him who is greater than these? One who is a greater witness to the mercy and loVe of God. The disciples were poor in both this world’s good< and one of them, Matthew, adds that the happy ones are those who are poor in spirit also. They knew the meaning of hunger and of privation and were ready to learn of him. Jesus is not so much in this ilastration trying to us a picture of the hereafter, of the future life as ne is to show the results of our living 1 this present life. He shows us 1 inly that there are different states er there and that these states are te result of our conduct in the life e now live. Riches are a temptation, to gain fraudulently. ■ • ' b