The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 February 1913 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. 0., SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, - • - Indiana. * A DAY OF TERROR BRINGS NO CHANGE IN THE SIT- | UATION. ! 9 - I HELLS RAINED IN STREETSj And Tore Their Way In Private Homes and Business Buildings as Weil as Through the Public Structures— Other News of the Day. I — Mexico City, Feb. 14.—Without, decisive advantage to either the govern- | meat or the rebel forces, the fifth day ; of fighting in the capital ended at nightfall. Firing was continued after sundown. President Madero himself bad stated two hours earlier ,that General Huerta was assuming new tactics mid would renew his efforts for the subjugation of Diaz. It was authoratively stated that the government forces were planning to take the rebel positions by assault between. 6 pnd ~ o'clock in the evening, but the day’s operations came to an end with the i • icrces only feebly on tlitP~aggresshe. It was another day of terror for ■ •-mdrtds of thousands of non-com-batantsi These included large numbers of foreigners who could find in nt part : the city a spot free from danger. Shells rained in the principal streets of the capital and tore their ■ way in private homes and- business I buildings as well as through tne puu- I lie .structures for which they were in- ! tended. Bullets from machine guns I and rifles penetrated all corners, finding lodgement in buildings even in the remote sections, unofficially, but tacti- j cally designated yesterday as the neutral zone. The Cuban and Belgian legations were rendered untenable, the ucqppants. seeking refuge elsewhere. The French consulate suffered a fate Bimiiar to that of the American coagulate several days a.50. the consul transferring his office to his country’s legation. Americans Flee to Safer Havens. C-itv of Mexico, Feb. 13.—Anticipating an early resumption of hostili- 1 ties, more than COO Americans fled j from their homes to temporary abodes In the outskirts of the city where the danger from the fire will be minimized. Ambassador Wilson on information from the national palace, ; knew that the government planned s | crushing blow, and, determ’ne’d to save the Americans- (f possible, rent- I ed numerous houses, to which, under | flags of true, agents of the embassy ' hurried in. automobiles as many worn- . j en and children as would agree to be j transported. The capital was- quiet ; Jonight. but the fugitive foreigners, i fillo-.! with horror by the frightful ■ bombardment of tile past two days, i needed little urging. Conditions Regarded as Serious. , Charleston, W. Va.. Feb. 13. —Con- i ditions late last night iq the coal j strike district of county I yvere'regarded as serious. The lives I of Governor Gia cock. Adjutant Gen- ■ oral Elliott. Sheriff Hill and of every J Enember of the military force’ now-in' I the field had been threatened. .. , : Tucks Lose 6.CCC. Sofia. Feb. 12. —The Turkish armv I ?n the Peninsula of Gallinoli lost 6,000 men and 50 officers during the- fight- 1 *>ng at Bulair, according to an official 1 •report issued here. Several thousand ’Turkish declared to have tallen in a battle before tee Tchatalja lines on Febrile-y Oth and thousands more at Charkeuei. Marines Peady to Move. Boston, Feb. 13.--The two hundred at the Charleston navy yard prepared to leave on 15 minutes’ notice. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore P. Kane, the commanding officer of marines. .said: “Officers and men are ‘standing by’ j-cady to move Immediately upon receipt of orders to do Asked to Avert Strike. New York, ’"’eb. 12.—The threatsned strike action of 34,000 firemen on the fifty-four railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, was placed in the hands of government officials last nigh’ for them to avert it by mediation if possible. Bacon to Fll the Short Term. Atlanta. Ga., Feb. 12.—Governor j Brown appointed Senator A. C. Bacon to serve as Uni* d States senator for I the period between March 4 and th® ! time of Senator Bacon’s formal reflection by the legislature In June. Anderson p lremen Hurt. Anderson, Ind.. Feb. 14 —Five firemen were hurt, Arnold probably seriously,. when the fire wagons collided with a street car here yesterday. Nelson Sc ’res Knockout. Tamaqua, Pa.. Feb. 12.—• Battling Kelson, former lightweight champion, displayed much of his old time aggressiveness when he knocked out Harry Dillon, of New York, in the last round of a scheduled ten-round bout here tonight. / — • Woman Held to Be Guilty. Peru, Tnd„ Feb. 14.—Rosa Hatfield, Charged with selling her 13-year-old stepdaughter, Lena Hatfield, to a man tamed Dlrton, was found guilty by a jury in the Miami circuit court hero. Trops In Control. j Charleston,.W. Va., Feb. 12.—Conditions in Paint and Cabin creek* Kanawaha county, were quiet last night Troops are scattered over the territory and it is not Relieved that rioting will occur as long as the militia is

POWERS ARE ASKED TO STOP THE W Turkish Note Requests Intervention by Nations. FIGHTING STILL GOES ON Censorship Prevents Much of Real News of Operations in Near East From Reaching Outside World. Sofia. Bulgaria, Feb. 14.—Two attempted sorties by the beleaguered Turkish garrison of Adrianople were repulsed by the Bulgarians. The Turks lost more -than 1,000 killed and wounded, according to the official report of the Bulgarian war office today. London, Feb. 14. —The Turkish gov eminent on Wednesday formally invited the European powers to intervene and stop the Balkan war. The request for- intervention has been made in London by Ambassa- i dor Tewfik Pasha to Sir Edwin Grey. ; who communicated the same to the ambassadors of the powers. The ambassadors’ conference meets Friday. It is stated that the powers will probably refuse to intervene unless Turkey's proposals are likely to be acceptable to the allies. Meanwhile Turkey continues un- i wonted activity in was operations 1 though the strict censorship established at Constantinople prevents much news reaching the outside world. Apparently Turkey is planning to take the Bulgarians in the rear by landing troops in Thrace, westward of the Bulgar position before Tchatalja. ' Turkish landings are reported at Rodosto and Silistri, while troops are also being rushed to dallipoli, where there has been severe fighting. The actual invasion of Bulgaria is hinted in the report of a Russian steamer, which arrived at Odessa, saying she had sighted a flotilla of large Turkish troopships bound from AsiaMinor in the direction of the coast of the Bulgarian Black sea. Sofia, Bulgaria, Feb. 14—According to dispatches given out here, the Turkish troops assembled the whole male Christian population of the seaport of Buyuk Chekmadje in the village schoolhouse and massacred them. Subsequently they killed all the Christian women and children except the young girls, whom they carried off on board ship. Londo’'. Feb. 13.—While accounts of the fighting in the Balkans issued from Sofia and Constantinople are conflicting, the battle at Bulair was the bloodiest that has taken place during the war. 'l. 1 ■ A total of 15,500 casualties was suffered by the Turks in the disaster of the third day when they fled in panic to the ships in Charkeui harbor. The Bulgarians buried 250 bodies o' their slain foes and 3,000 more Turkish dead were left strewn over the battlefield, in addition to the 5,500 killed, mere than 10,600 Turks were wounded. JAP RIOTS ARE SPREADING. Disturbances at Osaka Promise to Eclipse Those at Tokyo. Tokyo, Feb. 14. —Decidedly in favor of the new era of government for Japan the people have become thoroughly aroused by the change in the cabinet and other events that occurred here and in other parts of the empire. The rioting and bloodshed that attended the fall of the Katsura ministry two days ago has spread from the capital do Osaka, where the disturbances promise to eclipse those of Tokyo. When the Osaka police attempted to break up a meeting of the constitutionalisms. held in the city park there on Wednesday a mob was quickly formed and attacked the offices of the newspapers that had been favorable to Katsura and the government that supported him. The mob then destroyed the residences of several prominent persons known to be in sympathy -with Katsura. Several persons were killed. FIRM FAILS FOR $8,500,000. Milliken Brothers of New York File Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition. New Y’ork, Feb. 13.—An involuntary petition in bankruptcy' which places the liabilities at $8,500,000 was filed in the United States district court against Milliken Bros., Inc., one of the largest steel contracting houses in the east. No statement of the assets was given. Judge Hand was asked to appoint receivers. This is the second time that the ■ firm has been in financial trouble. In ; 1907 an involuntary petition was filed, i the firm’s liabilities at that time be- : ing given as over $6,500,000. Charles R. Heike Seeks Pardon. Washington, Feb. 14.—An application for pardon was made Wednesday by Charles R. Heike, convicted of complicity in the sugar weighing frauds in New York and sentenced to six months Imprisonment. Prestons Begin Honeymoon. Princeton, N. J., Feb. 14.—Prof, and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston left here Wednesday morning on their honeymoon trip to Florida. Mrs. Preston was formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Fallows Party In Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 13.—Bishop Samuel Fallows and his party of Chicago, with the international quartette, which is accompanying Fred Smith and Raymond Robbins, also of Chicago, arrived here Tuesday. ; Princess Victoria Luise Engaged. Berlin, Germany, Feb. 13.—The offi--1 elal Reichs-Anzelger, in an extra edi- : tion Tuesday, announced the engage--1 meat of Princess Victoria Luise, : daughter of the German emperor, and * Prince Ernst August

HENRY A. MORGENTHAU. wL V HO ! Wk W 101 Henry A. Morgenthau of New York, it is rumored, may be made secretary of the treasury in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet. SEIZE FIVE LEGISLATORS ON CHARGE OF BRIBERY: West Virginia Officials Arrest Men Said to Have Accepted Money in Senatorial Fight. Charleston. W. Va., Feb. . 13. — Charged with having accepted bribe money all ;>d to have been paid over by managers of William Seymour Edwards-, one of the leading candidates for United States senator, Representatives U. S. G. Rhodes, Mingo county; Dr. R. F. Asbury, Putman county; David E. Hill, Mason county; Rath Duff, Jackson county, and Senator B. A. Smith were placed under arrest 1 Tuesday by Sheriff Ponner Hill in a , hotel here in the presence of the pub- ; lie prosecutor, Thomas C. Townsend. ' It is stated tfye money, which had • been marked, was fouud on the men. It is understood that Rhodes alone was found to have $15,000 on his person. The other amounts ar« said to range from $3,500 to SIO,OOO each. Rhodes had nominated Mann when the race started, but later went over to Edwards, in answer to the “demands of the folks baek home,” as he put it. The accused men waived a preliminary hearing before Squire C. W. Dering, and were held to the grand jury under $5,000 bond All the men furnished bond. WILL ENFORCE PURE FOOD ACT. Dr. Carl Alsberg Addresses Medicine Manufacturers’ Meeting. New York, Feb. 14. —That there would be no let up ia the enforcement of the pure food and drugs act by the department of agriculture, was the assertion made here on Wednesday by Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the bu- > reau of chemistry, in an address at the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers of Medical Products. “Conditions throughout the Union will be right only when each and every state passes, and enforces, adequate foiod laws; and when these laws have been unified, and harmonized with those of the federal government. MISS ALYS MEYER TO MARRY. Engagement to Lieut. Raymond Rodgers, U. S. A., Announced. Washington, Feb. 11. —One of the most interesting engagements of the winter was announced when Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. George L. Von Meyer entertained at a large birthday luncheon at their residence in Scott circle, and told their guests that the luncheon was not only to celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of Miss Alys Meyer but to announce her engagement to Lieut. Raymond Rodgers, U. S. N. Miss Meyer is the youngest daughter of Secretary and Mrs. Meyer and is one of the prettiest and most popular girls in Washington. Senate Passes Webb Bill. Washington, Feb. 12. —After an allday debate on Monday the senate passed what is known as the Webb bill, that prohibits the shipment of liquor from any other state into a “dry" state, or, as expressed in the bill, “when intended to be received or sold in violation of the law of the state to which the shipment is made." This bill has already passed the house. Steamer Ashore; 13 Lost. London, Feb. 13.—The Spanish steamer Pauline grounded on the rocks off the Wightonshire coast during a terrific storin early Tuesday, morning. The captain and thirteen men are reported lost. 'Big Water Stand Pipe Falls. Cairo, 111., Feb. 13.—The big stand pipe, 175 feet high, of the Cairo Water company, fell to the ground Tuesday. The pipe was built of steel and contained .four hundred thousand gallons of water when it fell. Three Die In Feud. Watertown, S. D., Feb. 12.—As the climax of a long-standing family dissensions between father and stepsons, . E. S. Hammond and Clifford Jenkins ' were shot dead and James Jenkins probably fatally wounded Monday. Defense Scores. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 12.—Teeti- ■ many concerning the convulsions of - Margaret Swope was ruled out in , the third trial of Dr. B. Clarke Hyde I for the murder of CoL Thotnoa K. Swope Monday.

POSSE HO MINERS CLASH, 16 KILLED Battle Rages Furiously in Wilds of West Virginia. TROOPS SENT TO THE SCENE Governor Glasscock Orders Two Companies of Militia to Kanawha District to Restore Order Among Coal Strikers. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 12.—As a I result of a tierce battle between strike- , ing coal miners and police authorities in the Kanawha district, near Mack low, W. Va., on Monday, sixteen persons are dead and at least a score ini jured, some seriously Twelve of the dead are strikers and ; four are members of the mine ' guards and railroad police. Os the injured fifteen are said to be strikers and the others guards. Five companies of state militia, two from this city and three from Hunting- ■ ton, W. Va., are now ia Mucklow. having been ordered to the troubled i district by Gov. William F. Glasscock. ■ I Striking miners marching toward ; Mucklow were met in the mountains by a posse under Fred Lester, a for- I mer captain of the West Virginia Na- , tional Guard, now in the employ of a i coal company. A sharp engagement : followed. A bookkeeper and two mine guards were shot dead and several others wounded. Lester and his men were slowly driven back. ! Reinforcements from other mine companies, railroad police and deputy sherffs joined Lester’s men. but with little success. The miners steadily advanced, pouring a hot tire into the ranks of the officers. MRS. CLEVELAND IS WED. Widow of Former President Married to T. J. Preston. Princeton, N. J., Feb 12.- —The sudden and unannounced marriage of Mrs. Grover Cleveland to Thomas Jes Preston, Jr., by President John G. \ Hibben of Princeton university took, ; all Princeton by surprise on Monday, i Aside from the lumbers of the im--1 mediate families the only other per-■ ; sons who attended tho ceremony were President and Mrs. Hibben, Miss Li ' wy • ! I ■■ ■' ■ ' ' Mrs. T. J. Preston. Elizabeth Hibben and Dean Andrew W. West of the Princeton graduate school. The bride wore a white silk gown and carried a bouquet of white Killarney. The main drawing room at Prospect was prettily decorated with palms. Professor ,and Mrs. Preston will spend their honeymoon in Florida. They will leave at once, owing to the health of the bridegroom. “STONE TRUST" IS ATTACKED. Wickersham Takes Steps to Have Combine Dissolved. Cleveland, 0., Feb. 14.—Sensational charges are contained in a civil antitrust suit for the dissolution of the Cleveland Stone company and its subsidiaries. filed here on Wednesday by order of Attorney General Wickersham. To acquire a monopoly in the building, paving, curbing and grindstone business the “stone trust” is charged with influencing architects “by a money consideration or by conferring favors” to specify its stone in their building plans; maintaining a separate organization of its subsidiaries to .enable them to appear as competitors in bidding for contracts; fixing prices of building, paving and curbing stones in the central states, and contrqjlifig the price of grindstones throughout . the United States by agreements with jobbers, and rebating. The Cleveland Stone company, its subsidiaries and their officers and directors are made defendants by the government’s petition in equity. Detective Shot; Killed. East St. Louis, 111., Feb. 14 —James , J. Arnold, twenty-five years old, su- . perintendent of a private detective • agency, was shot and killed when he to the home of Otto Schaumberg to arrest him Wednesday. ® Strong for Income Tax. [ Harrisburg, Pa.. Feb. 14. The ■ house passed without a dissenting vote the joint resolutions ratifying the in- - come tax amendment to the federal 1 Constitution. The resolution now goes to the senate. Tafts Begin to Move. > Washington, Feb. 13- —President - Taft began Tuesday to make the White House ready for the occupancy j of Woodrow Wilson. Scores of articles j belonging to the president, Mrs. Taft and their children, were moved. China Taxes Up for War Fund. . Canton, China, Feb. 13—The govs emrnent began increasing the salt, 1 wine and tobacco taxes 20 per cent. B Tuesday for the war fund, as the expedition to Mongolia is expected to ■tart roap.

A. MITCHELL PALMER. v ■ warm 1 nniy I Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania may be President-eiect Wilson's choice for the position of attorneyJ general. SCOTT ANTARCTIC SHIP BACK WITH DEATH NEWS j Terra Nova Brings Records ant Diaries of Dead Explorers—Six Have Narrow Escape. • Christchurch, New Zealand, Feb 14. —The Terra Nova, the vessel which took Capt. Robert F. Scott to the tintarctic region on his way to the south"i pole, and which returned thither tc bring him back, but instead brought news of the. heroic death o: himself and companions, arrived in this port on Wednesday. Commander Evans is not inclined tc speak of the tragic side of the expedition, and has forbidden fellow officers to do so. ' The full diaries of Captain Scott and the other members of the ill-fated polar party have been recovered in- ; tact. They’ have not been opened and 1 will be forwarded to their relatives. ' Commander E. R. G. Evans will com- ; : pile Captain Scott's book with the aid i of the other members of the expedi- ■ j tion. The escape of Lieutenant Campbell ■ 1 and the northern party is described as I miraculous. His comrades were Doc- ’ tor Lovick, Mr. Priestly, geologis': and ; Seamen Albert, Browning and Dick- | inson. They were landed at Cape Adare in February, 1912, and had in- j tended making a short sledge jour j ney and returning to the Terra Nova ' before she sailed for New Zealand. Ice prevented the ship from reaching them and they were left to their own resources for nine months, uittil November. 1912, with only a month's pro--1 visions. Lieutenant Campbell gives a graphic j description of the party's life in the i igloo in which they lived through-the I antarctic winter. They existed in abj solute darkness c-xcept for the faint | gleam of a seal blubber lamp. Their supply of biscuits was soon exhausted and henceforth they lived entirely on seal meat. Extraordinary hardships were endured on the return journey to Cape Evans. Browning and Dickinson fell ill and the latter was carried on a sledge. Commander Evins declared that the public can have no conception of the hardships Lieutenant Campbell and his party endured. Going south to bring back the explorers, the Terra Nova passed between two immense icebergs and only fine seamanship prevented the total destruction of the ship. LINCOLN LAUDED BY “AFT. Declares He Would Be a Republican If Alive Today. Philadelphia, Feb. 1-1. —Resident ' Taft, five members of his cabinet, two governors and a score of other distinguished men were guests on Wednesday at the fiftieth anniversa.y dinner of the Union League club —a. banquet j given in honor of Abraham Lincoln. The president, first speaker on the program, praised Lincoln, declared bluntly that if he were alive today he would be joined in line with the Republican party, and said that he hoped to see that element of the party which deserted the standard last fall swing back into line again to Insure the continuation for 50 years more of the policies of that party. The president made no reference in his speech to conditions in Mexico. Two Battleship Plan Wins. Washington, Feb. 13.—The friends of the navy in the house won their initial victory on Tuesday when the committee on naval affairs by a vote of 14 to 7 decided to recommend two new battleships in the naval bill. In addition to the authorization for two new battleships to cost $15,000,000 each, the naval committee will include in its bill provision for the construction of six destroyers, four submarines, one supply ship and one transport Bryan Returns From Cuba. sKey West, Fla., Feb. 14.—W. J. Bryan returned to the United States from a trip "to Cuba and the Isle of Pines Wednesday. Mr. Bryan was given much attention in Cuba by the authorities. $50,000 Fire at Rockford. Rockford, 111., Feb. 14—Fifty men ‘ are out of employment as result of destructive fire of America Milk I Producers’ factory at Capron, Wedt nesday night. The loss will reach $50,. 000. Four Mine Guardi Killed. t Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 12.—Four s mine guards were killed when a parr ty of mine guards were amb hed‘by ’ armed strikers near Mucklow, which t is in the Cabin Creek district, Monday afternoon. # . X——■ ■ First Arrest for P. P. Robbery. Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 12.—Or* - Surran, negro, arrested here Monday by special agents charged with rifling - parcel post pouch at Missouri Pacific > station, said to be first arrest on sueb charge.

RACE THAT HAS STOOD STILL I Explorer Tells of His Visit to the f Dolphin and Union Straitv Eskimos I —A Primitive PeopleOur first day among the Dolphin tnd Union Straits Eskimos was the 1 day of all my life to which 1 had c •ooked forward with the most vivid : j anticipations, and to which I now look t sack with equally vivid memories, for ! f It introduced me, a student of man- i« kind and of primitive men especially, i to a people of a bygone agq. Mark i i Twain’s Connecticut Yankee went to 1 sleep in the nineteenth century and ■ < woke up in King Arthur's time among j t knights who rode in clastkiWg mail to - '.he rescue of lair ladies; we, without : i going to sleep at all. had walked out , 1 pf the twentieth century into the coun- j ‘ try of the intellectual and cultural t lontemporrt.ies of a far earlier age 1 than King Arthur’s. These were not I such men as Caesar found in Gaul or i In Britain: they were more nearly like 1 the still earlier hunting tribes of Brit- 11 aiu and of Gaul living oblivious to I i the building of the first pyramid in s Egypt. Their existence on 'the same s continent with our populous cities was j s an anachronism of ten thousand years ' In intelligence and material develop- 1 ment. They gathered their food with ; i the weapons of the men of the Stone-: ] Age, they thought their simple, prim- 1 itive thoughts and lived their insecure 1 1 and tense lives- Their lives were to 1 • me the mirrors of the lives of our far j 1 , ancestors whose bones and crude handiwork we now and then discover : lin river gravels or in prehistoric caves. Such archaeological remains L found in various parts of the world, of j 1 the men who antedated the knowledge ■ of the smelting of metals, tell a fas- h : einating story to him whose scientific t imagination can piece it together and fill in the wide gaps, but far better than such dreaming was my present opportunity. I had nothing to imagine; I had merely to look and listen; for here were not renainsof the Stone ; Age, but the Stone Age itself, mer. *nd women, very human, entirely friendly, who welcomed us to their • homes and bade us stay.—V. Stefans- j ; Bon, in Harper’s Magazine. To Be Happy. There was once a wise woman who • “realized the possibilities of health fcr , ‘ her husband and children at the frm- ■ Sly table. ) She had learned by experience that 1 (pleasant conversation should wait on ' digestion, just as good digestion on i appetite. Nutritious food she provided J jn variety day after day, but she went ! further than that. She made it a : point that meal time should be hours 1 of refreshment even more for the mind I than the body. Robert Louis Stevenson recognized 1 humor to bq a saving grace- in that ! peaiitiful mprning prayer of his. r “Help us,‘«’he says, “to perforin the 1 petty round of irritating duties and : yoncerns with laughter and kind faces. 1 ! to go blithely on the business of the : day; to let cheerfulness abound with ' Industry.” So the wise woman had every pain- , ! ful topic promptly dismissed at her j ; ioard. and business cares and burdens 1 ■ were not so much as hinted at. Bright, j end gay talk only was cultivated by ■ common ccnSent. The children were never scolded nor ’ the father of the family called to book. ! It was not found difficult to keep the ; talk in pleasant channels, and the I effort was amply repaid both at the j | time and Iqrer. Finger Nails. It is always amusing to speculate 1 ; pn the characjer of one’s neighbor A , : very simple aid in so doing is to watch ! the nails. If a man’s or woman’s j I pails are long and slender you may I I be quite certain the person is not so ! ! robust physically as the possessor of j | short, broad nails. Whereas, men and women with the j long, narrow type of nail are invet- , irate visionaries, those having short : pails are almost always conspicuous ! by the strength of their logical pow- I | ers. It is the mtter who make the best and most reliable critics. A further and almost certain charpcteristic of long-nailed people is their 1 intense depreciation of themselves and their own efforts in any branch of work. The feeling almost amounts : Ito pessimism with them. Such a ! point of view, however, seldom wor- ■ ries those possessing short nails. Irf fact, more often than not rather, the reverse is the case; they are inclined to be ov ensure of themselves. Strictly Truthful. They are already asking for jobs on the ground of party services rendered. One of the successful candidates tells ps that yesterday morning he was approached by a rough neck whom he positively knew to be a member of the defeated party. “Well,” said the jobber-elect, “what do you want?” “I want you to remember me when you begin to give out the jobs.” ! “Why, what did you ever do for me j or the party?” “Didn’t I stick up for you all durin’ the campaign?” ; “Stick up for me? Why. you’re a Republican.” ' “Sure, but I stuck up for you. I’m ] a bill poster.”—Cleveland Plain j Dealer. Thought Samuel Was a Thief. ’ it was the Scripture lesson. Tho subject was the call of Samuel. The children had sung, “Hushed Was the Evening Hymn,” which describes the call. The teacher then asked a few questions, one being, “What did Samuel do while Eli was asleep?” “Stole his watch.” was the prompt reply from one of the girls. The teacher, somewhat annoyed at such an apparently senseless answer, called for the second verse: • His watch'the Temple child. The little Levite kept ’ Now came the child’s turn. 1 “Please, teacher, doesn’t that mean r that Samuel kept the old man’s watch for himself?”—Strand. Coal High Enough. i Mrs. Crimsonbeak—This paper says, r dear, that aluminum will next year I cost S3BO for a metric ton of 2,204.63 s pounds. 1 Mr. Crimsonbeak —Oh, well, I guess we’ll still stick, tc coal!

WERE VERSED IN SURGERY Proof That Ancients Knew A most as Much About It as Do the Proent Race of Practitioners. Digging into the Sanscrit of the “Atharva Veda,” a writer in the London Lancet discovers that a very good imitation of modern stirgery was practiced in India in the third century be-, fore the beginning of the Christian era. The great Indian surgical and medical authority of that time was Sushurta. 'whose pages are said to bear comparison with the most up-to-date treatise on the matter of reparative surgery, hygiene and preventive med icine. "‘A surgeon well vsrsed in the. knowledge of surgery,” he says, “should slice off a patch of living flesh from the cheek of a person devoid of ear lames in a manner so as to have one of its ends attached to its former seat. Then the part where the artificial ear lobe is to be inade should be slightly scarified with a knife and the living flesh, full of blood and sliced off as previously directed, should be united to it so as- to resemble a natural ear lobe in shape.” This is as good work as the surgeons of the present day will do, and again in speaking about infection Sushurta says: “He falls an easy victim to internal and external diseases who drinks of, or bathes in. a pool of water which is full of poisonous worms or is saturated with, decayed, animal matter or is defiled with germs of vermin or decomposed animal organisms, or is covered over with the .growth of aquatic plants, or strewn over with withered and decomposed leaves; or which in any way is ren-“ tiered poisonous and contaminated, as well as he who drinks and bathes in the .freshly collected water of a pool or a reservoir during the rains.” When Women Indulge in R?partee. ♦ Repartee is a delicate instrument, a fine product, a thing of hints, lignts and shadows. Anybody who does not believe this, please stand up. Apparently, everybody agrees to the description. Wherefore there is now related the example of the crudest repartee evfer indulged in by man or woman. , It was in a western city, a place which hqd risen to the dignity of having “fashionable suburbs," in whicl) the inhabitants resented the arrival of people who “did not belong." One day there appeared in the community a woman who had lots of money and a fine and ornamental lack of tact in dealing with her neighbors. She’ called and called and called on the women in the suburb which was “fashionable." and, strange to relate, she could never find them “in.” One woman particularly disliked her, and wqs never to be seen. At last the newcomer met the one who had avoided her in such marked manner. “My dear.” said the avoider. “It is such a pity that when you call I am always out —always." Responded she who bad b°en snubbed: "Out of 'your home —or your head?' - —Popular Magazine. i Had Heard Enough. Fair Elizabeth’ tripped blithely into the country postoflice. “Now, 1 want to know," she demanded, with a telltale blush, as she handed the clerk a pink communication addressed to her lover, “how long it will be before I get au answer to I this letter?” “That depends.” he answered. “It i he’s in jail they will let him write . once a week or. maybe, once' a month , only. If he’s dead broke he’ll have to. 1 wait till lit" can earn the price of a 1 stamp, and 1 hava no data upon which i to base an opinion of his earning cai pacifies. If he’s ill in bed he may not j care to dictate his heart’s sentiments 'to a cold, disinterested third party, j and if it's smallpox they won’t let I him write at all; ditto if he's dead. ! Then, again, if he’s got a new girl—” At which moment he realized that the fair Elizabeth had flown. —TitBits, _— ■ ■ y When the Artist Scored. A nian of penurious habits decided [ to have his portrait painted, but was determined to pay only a certain sum ■of money. He interview the artist, I who accepted the paltry amount — payment in advance. The artist set to work at once, but when the portrait was finished nothing was visible but the back of the sitter’s head. “What does this mean?” cried tha sitter indignantly. “Well,” replied the trtlst, “I thought a man who paid so little as you paid wouldn’t care to show his face.”—Biff! What Is a Peddler? The word peddler is derived from an old English word, “ped,” as in Spencer’s “Shepheards’ Calender,” “A bask is a wicker ped wherein they use to carry fish.” It has no connection with the Latin pedis a foot, as often I reported. A peddler is. therefore, one with aped. basket, er pack, and it has been held in law. one has the identical article he sells in his “ped.” Itis, strictly speaking, incorrect, therefore, to call an itinerant merchant, who simply takes orders for goods bought from seeing samples he carries, a peddler. ■> • Beginning Afresh. Ralph Waldo Trine, writing in Harper’s Bazar, says: “Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning life. In a sease there is no past, no future. Wise is he who takes today and lives it, and tomorrow when it comes— but not before it comes. The past is of value only byway of the lessons it has brought us. There should be no regrets or crippled energies that result from such. We have stumbled—all have stumbled. Dinner Flies Into a Man’s Door, Lawrence Walls of New Castle, Del., secured his Christmas dinner in a most unusual /way. During a storm the day previous a mallard wild duck, weighing more than four pounds, driven by the wind, struck the back kitchen door of Mr. Walls’ house, causing the door to opep. The fowl w*a captured, and the next day it graced the table, forming a conspicuous yart of the Christmas spread.