The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 August 1913 — Page 6

i Hot Weather Care of the Dumb Animals By MRS. A. B. RIGGS. St Louis. Mo.

ponge is fastened on the horse’s head, keep it wet or it is worse than , tseless. Don't cut off your horse’s inane or forelock; he needs them as a ♦roteetion as he does his tail, or nature would not have grown them. If le has been mutilated for life by “docking,” keep off insects either with ty netting >r by rubbing on lightly a mixture of one ounce of pennyroyal n one pint of olive oil. Brighten him up frequently with a drink, but give only a little«at a line. Above all, dispense with that instrument of torture, the high cheeksin. At night let fresh air circulate freely through the stable, and tack losquito netting over its windows, as you would over your own. In case f sunstroke, place the ice pack on the head and along the spine; put •atcr on the body occasionally and give this mixture: Aromatic spirits f ammonia, two ounces; water, one pint. Let dogs have plenty of water; but don't let them run after your cariage, bicycle or car. If a dog acts strangely on the street, that is by o means evidence that he is “mad," for “rabies” is extremely rare. He » suffering from heat, sickness or some form of abuse. Put water on im and get him into a quiet, shady place. Kemember “mad” dogs never roth at the mouth. Don't tie up your dog. His nature demands freedom and a reajnable amount of exercise. Give the long haired dogs a little comfort by lipp ng their heavy coats. Refuse to add one more to the number of abandoned cats left to a •retched existence in black alleys, while their heartless owners enjoy nemselves at summer resorts —an act of cruelty forbidden by law in some tates. If you cannot take your cat with you. get some home or refuge ojr it. or mercifully destroy it or have the Humane society or Anti-Cruelty ociety do so. « If von keep a little bird prisoner in a cage, see that it has plenty of resh water and fresh air, and don't let the sun shine on it too long. Keep an earthen jar sunk in the ground in a shady place near your toor, full of fresh water (changed every day at least), for small wanderug creatures, including the birds. This is a common custom in some . ountries. Every public fountain should have a basin for the small nimals.

Drunkenness More Disease Than Crime By DR. J. K. GIFFORD, Macon, Ga.

nethods of handling drunkards in many states and he is at present pre>aring a bill advocating a state asylum for drunkards. His idea is to tave an asylum for persons who have been adjudged habitual drunkards, before being sent to the asylum they should have the right of a jury trial, lust as in the case of insane persons. When they have been duly adTidged to be drunkards they should be sent to the state institution prodded especially for them for a definite term and should not be released intil the physician in charge is satisfied of their cure. While in the asylum the inebriates should be given such work as 3iey are capable of doing”, and the institution should be made as nearly tels-supporting from the proceeds of their labor as possible. Medical authorities are coming more and more to the conclusion that irunkenness is a disease rather than a crime, and should be treated as <uch. -n It is thought (that by intelligent medical treatment carried on for 8 nifficient time to accomplish results, thousands of men, now regarded as aopeless, could be saved to themselves and their families. Those who have passsed beyond all ho|)e should be put away permanently in an institution where they might receive protection against then »wn weakness, and their friends and relatives relieved of the burden ol their support. *

{J Solution of Lonely Lives Among Women By Mrs. Phoebe Swartz. Chicago

less fortunate, is the only solution. Such work carries with it more individual pleasure and more social possibilities if transferred to a town o: moderate size, where the individual is not lost sight of in the day’s pre occupation. The lonely woman of fifty has a tremendous advantage over th< lonely woman of twenty. The lonely woman of fifty ought to assumt the responsibility of making the lonely woman of twenty more happy anc more safe. Or, go loaf around any one of the public playgrounds anc make the acquaintance of two or three of the most forlorn children; follow them up to their homes; make friends with the mothers; be theii friendly visitor. Find two or three old women stranded in the homei (or old people. They are the women with some right to call themselves lonely. Two women from Chicago have solved the problem by buying a plact tn Michigan, on the lake. They live there quietly in the winter, an integral part of the community. In the summer they fill their house witl eity folks at $7 a week and children half price. That is a clean cu' philanthropy: Feeding and housing healthy children from three tc fifteen at $3.50 a- week.

Moderate Amount of Spooning Is Favored By Mrs. Phyllis Brown, Kansas Qty, Mo.

goes with, just the favored ones she can trust as friends. Very few men like a “prig,” and a girl who is too nice to spool will miss many a chance of going and having companions of the oppo site sex. For several years before I was married I went with dozens a young men, had a dandy social time (also spooned with certain ones) and I am certain they all respected me. Now I am a, happy married woman, and my husband is proud t< have a moral wife. And he hasn’t any reason to care because I die spoon a little. Girls, don’t go to extremes either way. Keep your character pure but lie jolly and you will have more friends and more good times. The assertion of a successful novelist that most novices are auto biographical will be received without question. Talking about themselve seems to be a fixed habit with most literary persons. The sq-called “see-more” skirt, now so much affected, makes th> peek-a-boo shirtwaist of yesteryear seem modest in comparison. A Russian girl in Omaha got married because she couldn’t make mon than $5 a week. She will have to worry along on less now. Yes. a woman can keep a secret—circulating. ~ — -• ' - ~ '‘V

Whether the “poke bonnet” horse hats are “woree than nothing” or not, they should, at least, be taken off at sundown. The twostory, wire-framed canopies are far better. If a wet

For .some time men of learning in many states have been considering what to do with habitual drunkards. Recently a member of the Georgia legislature has been investigating the

The “woman above fifty” with no home center or man, either, for thai matter, has missed th« point of life. Make a homt for some one else. Work absorbing work, for othen

I believe a moderati amount of spooning is al right. A girl can be strict ly moral, and respectet also, if she does spoon a lit tie. Os course, I don’ mean with every fellow sb

EVICTED IPSWICH STRIKERS LIVING IN STREET J . 'J The families of scores of striking mill employes of Ipswich. Mass., have been evicted from their homes and an oking, eating and sleeping in the streets.

IN POLITICAL SNARL

Jap Parties Formed About Men Rather Than Principles. Conditions Are Well Nigh Inexplicable tn Many—Result Is Considerable Confusion —Different Periods of Country’s Political Progress. Tokyo, Japan.—Japanese politics is weL nigh inexplicable to many perBonn, especially occidentals. The sudden and frequent changes of cabinets, in part or in whole, are difficult to understand. And, while wo can make no Claim to a perfect understanding of the mysteries, we may be able to throw a little light on the subject. Ii» the first place, it should be kept in mind that political parties in Japan are more personal than political. Factions and parties have formed around men rather than measures, around perrons more than principles. The history of political parties in New Japan may be divided into five periods, as follows: 1867-1882 —Embryonic period. 1882-1890—Oorganizing period. 1890-1898—Developing period. 1898-1911—Influential period. 1911—Predominant period. The chief political parties which have been organized in Japan during the past 30 years have all illustrated the point just mentioned. The first parti’ in the field was the jiyuto, or liberal party, which was organized by Count (then Mr.) Itagakl, and which consisted largely of his personal following. The next party was the shimpoto, or progressive party, which was started by Mr. (now Count) Okuma and his friends. The chief difference in these two parties, so far as principles were concerned, was that the liberals were more radical than the progressives; but the greater difference was the personal one. In more recent days it has been Ito and his proteges who have dominated the seiyukai. Small factions have rallied around smaller men; while personal considerations have largely caused splits in factions and parties. As ex-Mayor Ozaki has pointed out, this feature is a not unnatural survival of the feudal system. And it was Ozaki himself who has just led a bolt v ? Emperor of Japan. from the seiyukai on the ground that said party was no standing firmly enough for principles, but was compromising with the Satsuma clan element in forming the Yamamoto cabinet The feature mentioned above has naturally evolved another peculiar feature; not only party ties, but party principles, have been too loose. Or the reverse may be partly economic, and these have been so vague and indefinite, party ties have been very loose. The party platforms have too often consisted of glittering generalities and lacking positively distinguishing principles. In some cases there have been clearly defined issues as between conservatives and liberals, but in general there have been

DEATH OF THE SLEEPING MAN A. F. Mann Drops Into River During Attack of Coma —Was Well Known In U. 8. London. —Well known in the United States, Canada and Derbyshire as “the sleeping man,” Arthur Fitzgerald Mann, aged forty-six. the son of a Duffield magistrate, died recently under peculiar circumstances. Mann left the United States in April last and on arriving in Derbyshire he

distinctions without differences. For instance, on such an important issue as the increase of the land tax the same party has been working, now in support, now in opposition. All parties and factions having too often been found guilty of opportunism. Another peculiar feature of parties in Japan is the almost complete lack of grouping on economic class lines. There have been geographical lineups, which have been partly economic, and (here have been attempts to line up the business men toegther. But, as indicated above, even the land tax issue has not succeeded in forming any permanent alignment, and the tariff question has not yet affected the political situation. The burning topic of socialism has not made any perceptible impression on the political world of Japan. Several years ago a socialistic party was organized, but was speedily forbidden and suppressed by the government. Moreover, the anarchist conspiracy against the emperor only served to increase the severity of the officials toward socialists of all kinds —good, bad or indifferent. Therefore, there is no socialist party.

CASH FOR FARMER

Col. Green Hits Sending Surplus to Wall Street. Millionaire Declares That Local Bank Balances Created by Producers Should Be Loaned Agriculturists at Very Moderate Rates. New York. —Col. Edward H. R. Green of Texas and New York city, son of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in the world, and her active associate in a vast money lending business that extends across the country, bas decided views of financing the American farmer. He has practical get-up-and-do-it ideas that have a big, substantial bearing on the subject Although in business within a stone's throw of the New York stock exchange, Colonel Green never enters its portals. He is opposed to stock gambling. Twenty years in Texas, running a railroad that got its tonnage from carrying products of the soil, gave him a viewpoint quite at variance with the ideas of the exchange floor. “The farmer still rocks the cradle of our country, but I often wonder how he does it so well with no financial scheme whatever in existence for his particular benefit,” he said. “Everybody is telling how to finance the farmer these days. It is almost as popular a topic as ‘better tenements’ for the city and ‘good roads’ for motor club members to use and farmers to pay for. In all I have read and heard no one seems yet to have got down to brass tacks with a real financial uplift plan for the farmer. “Two phases of the farmer’s predicament have enlisted my personal interest because they run directly counter to the way my mother has always handled her wealth in relation to the public good. “First is the rate of interest the farmer has to pay for money he borrows. Government statistics show that 12,000,000 farmers of the United states pay an average interest rate of 8% per cent upon borrowed capital of about $3,192,000,000 to work crops on land valued at $40,000,000,000. Since my mother began her career as a business woman she has never asked more than 6 per cent a year for the use of her money. The bulk of her loans have been at rates considerably below 6 per cent. In France and Germany the farmer gets all the money he wants at from 344 to 444 per cent. “The second phase of the problem I have observed is the action of banks throughout the country in sending

fell asleep for a week. On recovering he started for Bakewell, but fell asleep on the road and did not wake f,or five days. In America and Canada he had frequent sleeping attacks which lasted for a week. He was lately found on the bank of the River Lathkil wet and unconscious and taken to the Bakewell workhouse infirmary, where he died without recovering consciousness. The medical officer was of the opinion that when sitting on the bank of the Lathkil river he was seized with one of his

CAT ON STEEPLE JUMPS OFF Ldaps Distance of 75 Feet to Brick Pavement and Appears to Be UnhugMeridian, Miss. —The fire department was called to the Central Methodist church to take from t the high steeple of the church a cat that had been disturbing worship and making some very mournful sounds for about a week. All efforts to entice the cat to come down failed, so the fire department ran up the aerial ladder and went after the mouser. Seeing the firemen approaching the cat jumped seventy-five feet to the brick paving below attd was stunned for a while, but one at its proverbial lives came back anrf it was soon al) right. The cat had bden without food and was very emaciated. Held Under “Whlf* Slave” Law. Louisville, Ky.—Because he smiled at her, sixteen-year-oM Minnie Bell Wallace says she left her home In Evansville and came tt» Louisville with Alger Hochhalber. a caeck man for a transfer company. The girl’s fathey traced them here and caused Hochhalber’s arrest for violating the “white slave” law. Hochhalber has a wife and Infant child in Evansville.

their balances to Wall street, forming a huge fund used for speculative purposes. These balances represent the net business profit of each particular locality—the very cream off the pan of milk in the cool springhouse—yet the creators of this surplus wealth, the farmers, are starved financially when they apply for loans, because the funds of the community are in Wall street being used in stock and bond promotions reaching even to China and the Philippines. "For years my mother has held to the belief and has absolutely lived up to it, as far as her influence and power have gone, that every community is entitled to the full benefit of its prosperity. She always made it an inviolable rule that profits acquired in a given locality belonged to that locality and should always be reinvested in that locality. Our books are into different cities; we keep an ao count of San Francis';e money sepa- / w FLv. ' W- **' ..tit. Col. E. H. R. Green. rate from Chicago money; Toledo money separate from New York money, while Texas not only has its own net profits left there for reinvestment in Texas enterprises, but now and then gets additional help from sun plus ’funds.” Colonel. Green explained that the application of his mother’s principles ol home cash for home people and he» rule of 6 per cent or less would work wonders in giving the farmer a freer hand if generally adopted. Blows Self to Pieces. Grand Rapids, Mich. —Placing a stick of dynamite on top of his heao and lighting the fuse, John Aho, a farmer, committed suicide here.

sleeping attacks and fell into the w» ter. The shock, said the doctor, would, produce sufficient stimulus foi Mann to get out,* and when he reached the bank there would be a relapse With his clothing saturated, he re mained on the bank for four or flv« hours before being removed to the in flrmary. Death was attributed to shock pro duced by cold and exposure. Th« man's sister, who identified the body, stated that American doctors said h« was subject' to attacks of coma.

TIPPING JNGERMMIY Secret Marks Put on Baggage of Tourists. kmericana Too Lavish With Gratuities Until They Find They Are Made Ridiculous —Conviction of Two Hotsl Employes. The conviction of two hotel era- ! pioy»-« in Berlin, charged with dam- [ aging tranks, Uta led to the revelaf lion of an international secret signal between hotel employes on •ho subject of the generosity of guests the system is similar to the old sign lanehsiE' of th<. American "hobo,” who irft on the fence of the solicited farm noose a hieroglyph concerning his re“epihili Half a circle with a line drawn tbr'mgh It. marked with chalk or lead pencil on ihe traveler's trunk indl- !•»(• a :n the light of secret intelligence that the guest has plenty of money and pays no tips. If In the corner of the trunk is marked a triangle with i a small cross, the hotel employe translates: "The man has money, expects every sort of service and remunerates j not at all or only with cigars.” A | wavy line signifying the snakiness of i the guest's character means “He ex- | pects the best of service, promises i large tips, pays his bill at the last I minute and then sends a porter from the station tor his baggage.” The real disgrace Is to have the Initials “L B.” on the trunk, for that is translated “Im bruch,” meaning. In good United States, “busted! Such a one is visited by the servants as soon as he is in his room and he must pay in advance. If the guest is a gambler a playing card is sketched on his luggage. If he wins he pays good tips; If he loses there is nothing. Then there is still another form of signal, the much coveted hotel label. If it is stuck on with a great deal of glue it means “he doesn't pay tips.” Such a practice is sometimes supplemented by using acid in the glue, which eats the leather. As a rule the more hotel labels there are—if they are neatly affixed —the more generous the guest. The luggage is not alone marked. There is an inner circle of conspirators, the shoe shiners. The watchful "boots” can read from a man’s shoe the history of his generosity. And If the guest does not watch out the servant may mix vitriol in the polish, i One form of revenge, fortunately not often practiced, is to smear a trunk with one little dab of a Chinese essense used in the filling of "stink bombs.” The trunk is then marked for a long season, and from station to station, from hotel to hotel, it proclaims the stinginess of the traveler. These forms of secret signaling may have had their origin in the practice of the police of one country in passing on a suspicious traveler of marking a little secret sign on his passport, which was interpreted to say: “We have nothing on this man, but we suspect him. Keep your eyes open.” The hotel mark is an evil that is hard to combat. The antl-tipster, who examines his baggage carefully and removes all chalk and pencil marks and who forbids the affixing of labels, will soon be suspected for the very fact that he evidently knows the code and becomes thereby a thrice dangerous man. European tipping, on the whole, is not such an expensive necessity as in America. In Germany smaller tips are accepted with thanks almost everywhere. The 10 per cent rule is accepted by every one and few and far between are the waiters who would refuse 14 pfennig (3 3-4 cents) for a 35 cent meal. The cabby never expects more than 10 pfennig (2 1-2 cents) for a 25 cent fare, with his tip increasing proportionately with the amount of the fare. The taxi driver is equally modest. Tipping on the street car is common, though by no means universal. The American in Germany, unaccustomed to German methods, has won a reputation for braggadocio tipping, which makes it expensive to be known as an American. Thinking in the coin of his own realm, he hesitates to leave so Insignificant a remuneration for the waiter as 10 pfennig after a cup of coffee or a glass of beer. But, instead of winning respect from the waiter, th? larger tip impresses the .waiter with the fact that the customer is a “greenhorn” and doesn’t know any better. In time, the American becomes conscious of this, and, beginning with .a minimum tip of 10 pfennig in a restaurant, he sticks to the 10 per cent rule and is spared the miseries of wondering whether the waiter thinks him stingy. In the hotel he will pay from 10 to 15 per cent of his bill, dividing it carefully, so as not to forget the unseen hands which black his shoes and carry his luggage. Nothing Doing. Hubby returned home rather late—well after midnight, to be precise—and, as often happens in such cases, wifey, though abed, was not asleep. In consequence, breakfast that morning was a gloomy, silent meal. In vain hubby strove to clear the air. and by ill-timed levity to dispel the atmosphere of constraint which hung heavily everywhere, “A penny for your thoughts, my love!” he ventured presently. The lady thus addressed stared at him grimly. “For two,” she retorted, “I’d say exactly what I thought of you!” Hubby made no effort to raise the bidding. Self-Adjusters. “Do you think the 6 o'clock Saturday closing will inconvenience many people?” “Not at all. Give a woman the money and I’ll guarantee that she’ll find the time and the way to spend it.” Hit Class. “Pop, did yo« sa y th at man you were talking about was one of the copper kings?” “Yes, my son." "Then, pop, if he is a copper head, la he a snake T” , _ -» - iTr K.A*. a t i

GUESSING WEATHER Must Look at the Northwest for Clews. One Who Thoroughly Understands Can Tell the Approach of a Rain or Wind Storm—A “Mackerel Sky” and Other Sure Signs. “Look how cloudy It is! It’ll pour t shortly!” How often do you hear that remark? j Yet clouds do not necessarily mean rain; in fact, they mean quite the reverse in a good many cases. Clouds. I Indeed, will tell you more about the coming weather than any other signs. I providing you thoroughly understand ' the meaning of the clouds, you see. The three chief types of clouds are 1 the cirrus, stratus and cumulus, and j the best times to study them are at sunset and sunrise. Cumulus clouds I are the most impressive of all clouds. I and are more commonly to be seen In I summer than winter. These clouds pile themselves up in masses near the hprizon. When they ! are only of moderate size and gradu- ' ally melt away during the evening [ they indicate a spell of fine weather, i But If. on the contrary, the clouds continue to pile themselves up like j huge snowy mountains, then look for rain. I The stratus cloud Is generally | formed at the end of a fine day. It is I like a widely extended horizontal sheet, and hanging so low that it frequently touches the earth’s surface In I the form of a fog. When such clouds I are formed in the morning it tells the sky experts to look out for another fine day. Stratus clouds, indeed, sel- | dom Indicate rain. Cirrus clouds, as their name Indl- | cates, are white, curly clouds, like I curly hair or curly feathers. They are , the highest of all elouds, floating five I to ten miles above the earth, and ! often drifting in quite a contrary dtI rection to clouds lower down. Cirrus clouds are called by sailors cats’ tails or mares’ tails, and generally foretell rain. When cirrus clouds lie in long. I straight wisps from west to east, then |be sure that rain is coming. When I they float at a lower level than usual, j they become what is known as cirro ; cumulus, small, round masses arj ranged In groups or lines, giving the appearance known as mackerel sky. .* * A mackerel sky Not twenty-four hours dry. Is one of the oldest and truest of weather proverbs. , The nimbus cloud is a mixture of al!, three of the chief types of clouds. It is a dark, shapeless cloud, with ragged edges, as a rule, and floats about a mile high. From its surface it throws off cirrus clouds, known to sailors as scud, and the amount of rain that fall varies generally with the amount of scud. The more rapidly nimbus clouds form the sooner will the rain be over, as a rule. When a dark nimbus cloud is topped by heavy masses of clouds like huge mountains, then look out for thunder. Here are a few hints for foretelling the following day’s weather: First of all look at the northwest for your weather. However threatening the sky may apepar, if you see a bit of blue in the northwest you won’t have a steady downpour. At the worst it will only be a little showery. If the day has been very fine and the blue sky is suddenly speckled over in the evening with little curly clouds, then look out for a change of weather. The longer they take to form the longer the time before the change comes about A red sun in the early morning is a bad sign, for there will be wet weath er before the next twenty-four hours are over. Though the sky at sunrise may be absolutely cloudless, yet it the eastern horizon is red or orange the clouds will roll up and rain probably will fall before nightfall. Evening red and morning gray. Two sure signs of one fine day. is another pretty safe rule. Predestined. R. Fulton Cutting, president of a society for improving the condition of the poor, has learned from his years of philanthropic work to take a broad and charitable view of human failings. In his New York office the other day Mr. Cutting was talking about one of the sciety s proteges who, though given a good deal of help, still kept going from bad to worse. With the wisdom and sympathy that his work has taught him, Mr. Cutting sighed and said: “Any man will get along if he is only started in the right direction; but the only direction for some of us seems to be down hill.” Two Classes of Composers. Gustav Charpentier, the composer of “Louise,” has broken a silence oi thirteen years with another success, “Julien.” “Charpentier,” said a Chicago musician, “has no patience with those who compose for money. After ‘Louise' he could have sold an opera a day. a symphony an hour, a song a minute. But for thirteen years he has been silent, waiting for Inspiration. “Jle has no sympathy with ordinary composers. He said to me one day in Paris: “ ’Composers may be divided into two classes —those who write for the street pianos and those who plagiar ize from them.’ “ Her Idea of It. “It is true that both your husband and the man who lives next door to you have failed in business?” "Yes; but Ned’s failure isn't nearly so bad as Mr. Naybor’s. He failed for 50 cents on the dollar, while my husband failed for only ten cents on the dollar." Carrying It Out. “Mr. Smith likes everything to be on an easy footing.” Ta mat why he always wears felt slippers?”