The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 October 1913 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER. Publisher. Syracuse, - • Indiana. ■ bT 135 OIE HI SEA, 521 ARE RESCUED liner Volturno Burns Following Explosion. LIFEBOATS ARE LOST Ten Steamships Stand by All Night Unable to Get Line ■ Aboard Blazing Craft. MANY JUMP INTO THE SEA Storm Abates at Daylight and Work of Rescue Begins—Carmania on Way to Queenstown With Eleven Survivors —Other Ships Carrying the Persons Saved From Burning Ship Will React} Port This Week. London. Oct. 13.—The following was received at the offices of the Cunard company by wireless from the Carmania, one of the vessels that assisted in rescuing passengers on board the burning Volturno, which is due to arrive at Queenstown at five o’clock today. “The Volturno is floating, ablaze at ■the fore end, her masts and funnel standing. The northwest gale ie moderating. Records are not complete. It is supposed that 135 were lost who attempted to get away in the steamship's boats previous to the arrival of aid. Others were saved." Rappahannock Saves Nineteen, On board the Steamship.Rappahannock. Via Cape Race and Camerdown Wireless Station and Halifax, N. S., Oct. 13—We are bound for Halifax with 19 of the survivors of the steamer Volturno. We were fortunate enough to save 15 women and four children. There were ten steamers engaged in the worjc of rescue, but the weather was rough. J The names of those we saved follow : Feice, Katake, Esther Kalske, Maria Asenburg. Esther Lentelake, Bella Receresky, Mrs. Pio Pollack, Mrs. Geduck ■Parsche and son, Nikoli; Mrs. Maria SVeketezek and sons, Pedro and Dimitr ri and daughter, Katrinia; Leolodia Woyore, Alex. Konlkousk?., Esther Kap,plina, Previe Becks, Pearl Becks, Edna 'Freedman and Vesey Lav den. All these were scantily clad when we rescued them and they were suffering from ‘ exhaustion and the great hardships to which they had been subjected. Volturno Burns at Sea. London, Oct, 13.—The Volturno of the Uranium line, burning and helpless in a raging mid-Atlantic storm, last Thursday sent a wireless call over the sea and drew to it ten ships that came up in time; to save 521 of its 656 passengers and crew. The others. 135, were swallowed by the ocean when the lifting waves crushed four of the Volturno’s lifeboats against the ship’s side. Helpless for Twenty Hours. ■ For more than twenty hours the ten 'rescuing ships that had wheeled in itheir courses when the “S. O. S.” halted them in the storm cruised around the Volturno, unable to. give aid because of the dangers of wind and wave. It was not until Friday morning that they were able to transfer the VolturJno’s passengers, who were for the 'most part immigrants from eastern Europe bound for Halifax and New .York. And it was a matter of two or three hoyrs at the least that meant the difiference between life and death to the 1521 who bad been driven aft by the growing fire and who had about given up all hope. Resort to Lifeboats Vain. Most of those who lost their lives had taken to the lifeboats in an,effort to reach the vessels which had arrived Ito give aid. Several of these boats ’were seen to be swamped by the gigantic waves. Nearly all who remained vn board were rescued. Miners’ Parade Is Fired Upon. Calumet, Mich., Oct. 13.—A parade of striking copper 'miners, was fired on yesterday as it was passing the Centennial mine. Fortunately no one was struck. Train Kills Two Driving Automobile, Xenia. Ohio. Oct. 13. —Homer Hawkins, a farmer living near this city, and Levi S. Kramer, an insurance agent of Osborne, Ohio, were killed yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding, was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train. Earthquake Shock Felt. Messina, Sicily, Oct. 13.—An earthquake shock, accompanied by distinct rumblings, was felt here yesterday The disturbance continued for about ten .seconds. Aviator Fails Into Ocean. New York, Oct. 13. —While flying from Hempstead Plains, L. L, to th« Aerodrome at Oakwood Heights, Cap tain William Walb got Into difficulties when over New York bay and fell ■with his machine 500 feet into the wa ter. Captain Walb was uninjured.

| HUERTH ARRESTS 110 LAWMAKERS President of Mexico Has Troops Seize Deputies. ONE SENATOR IS MISSING Disappears After Denouncing Executive and Colleagues’ Demand planation—February Scenes Re-Enacted. Mexico City, Mex., Oct. 12. —President Huerta had 110 members of the chamber of deputies arrested Friday night and locked in the penitentiary for signing resolutions of warning to him as the result of the disappearance on Thursday night of Dr. Belisaro j Domingues, senator for Chiapas. Five other deputies who signed the resolution were absent when a cordon of troops was thrown about the legislative building and several hundred soldiers invaded the chamber. In anticipation of trouble heavy patrols of troops are on the streets. The rapid fire guns which were posted in the interior courts-of the palace in February are again in place and quantities of ammunition are at hand. The arrests followed a demand by President Huerta that the chamber withdraw the resolution, which carried a threat that the deputies would abondon the capitol owing to an alleged lack of guarantees for their personal safety. Senator Dominguez made a speech in the senate early in the month violently attacking Huerta, saying that not only had nothing been done during Huerta’s regime toward pacification of the country, but that the present situation in the republic was infinitely worse than before. He said the currency of Mexico had depreciated, fields had been neglected, towns razed, and that famine threatened. He added that the situation was proof that the Mexican people could not resign themselves to be governed by Huerta. The senator who thus attacked Huerta disappeared mysteriously at night. Before the hour for the regular opening of the session of the chamber at four o’clock in the afternoon the basement and roof of the building had been packed with troops. Scores of police were scattered through the gallery. When the deputies were in their places the minister the interior, Manuel Garza Aidape, entered the chamber. Simultaneously several hundred federal troops lined up in front of the building. Senor Aidape ascended the platform and read the reply of President Huerta to the resolution warning him of the deputies’ intention to dissolve parliament and hold their sessions elsewhere and demanding an investigation of the disappearance of Senator Dominguez. The reply said that President Huerta could do no less than consider the resolution an act of unjustified aggression and transgression of the rights of the tw'o other powers—the executive and the courts. When the arrests were made a few of the leaders -were placed in automobiles while the other deputies were taken to the penitentiary in street cars. Meanwhile similar demands to recant had been made on members of the senate who had concurred in the chamber’s resolution. A committee of senators called on President Huerta and signified their willingness to comply With „his deJuan ds. Later the senators formally withdrew’ this action. The war department has issued orders recalling all army officers on special missions abroad to active service at home. LIGHTNING KILLS TWO MEN. Clcione Wrecks Houses at Afton, Wis. —Several Are Injured. Minot. N. D.. Oct. 12.—Two men were killed and one injured and nine horses cremated when lightning struck a barn on John Engebreton’s farm near Berthold, N. D. Beloit, Wis., Oct. 12. —A cyclone destroyed two farmhouses, four barns and injured four persons at Afton, seven miles north of this city. Mrs. Jackson and three children suffered injuries; also Mrs. McCrea. Mrs. Jackson was buried under debris and the wreck caught fire. Mr. McCrea rescued his family from the ruins of their home. O'Neill. Neb., Oct. 12.—A tornado near here killed three persons and did an immense amount of damage. The dead are the twelve-year-old son of Fred Beckwith, the fifteen-year-old son of Mike Walsh and the three-year-old son of Walter Farewell. Fred Beckwith and another son are not expected to live and the entire family of Clark Lewis was injured. < $300,000 Fire in Georgia Town. Eatonton, Ga., Oct. 13. —Fire raged in the business district of Eatonton, destroying four dry goods stores, a 'pharmacy, a jewelry store and a dozen smaller business houses. The loss is estimated at $300,000. Prince Taro Katsura Dead. Tokio, Oct. 13. —Prince Taro Katsura, former premier, died after a long illness. The prince was not only the foremost of the older school of Japanese statesmen, bqt also famous as a warrior. Smith Wins on a Foul. New York, Oct. 11.—Gunboat Smith was given the decision over Carl Morris, the Oklahoma “white hope,” in the fifth round of their fight at the Madison Square garden. The decision Went to Smith on a foul. Champ Clark Hurt on Train. Washington, Oct. 11.—Champ Clark returned to Washington on Thursday badly bruised by a severe bumping in a sleeping car in the Pittsburgh railroad yards. He was not seriously injured.

HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL I/ Right Hon. Herbert Louis Samuel, postmaster general of Great Britain, is making a tour of the United States following a trip through Canada. SMALLPOX CAUSES PANIC AMONG MEXICAN REFUGEES Federate Assert No More Rebel Prisoners Will Be Taken If Slaughter is True. Washington, Oct. 11. —Smallpox has added to the panic and destitution of 10,000 Mexican refugees on the American side of the border at Eagle Pass, Tex., according to reports to immigration headquarters Thursday. The department of labor issued instructions that additional immigration inspectors be rushed to Eagle Pass. Surgeon General Blue of the department of public health also directed department doctors and nurses to hurry to the scene. Eagle Pass, Oct. 11.—Plague has broken out among the 10,000 Mexican refugees here. They have been ordred segregated and doctors and nurses are being rushed to their relief by the immigration authorities. Monterey, Mexico, Oct. 11. —A rebel army of 15,000 men is reported marching on this city and the residents are terror-stricken. According to information received here General Alvarez and many of his officers were assassinated by their own soldiers, who revolted when Torreon was captured by the rebels and joined the Constitutionalists. Mexico City, Oct. 11.—No prisoners will be taken by federate troops in nothern Mexico if reports that General Alvarez and 125 of his men were massacred by constitutionalists at Torreon are confirmed by the war department. War Minister Blanquet may be ordered by President Huerta to take the field in person, it was learned. ADOLPHUS BUSCH IS DEAD. Wealthy St. Louis Brewer Dies of Old Ailment in Germany. St. Louis, Oct. 12. —A cablegram was received here last night announcing the death of Adolphus Busch, the multi-millionaire brewer, at Langensonwalbach, Germany. The cablegram was received by Adolphus Busch 111., grandson of the well known brewer, from his father, August A. Busch. The cablegram read: “Father passed away peacefully at 8:15 o'clock.” This would be 1:15 p. m. St. Louis time. “Father passed away peacefully at 8:15.” The wealth of Adolphus Busch is estimated at $60,000,000. ASKED TO QUIT SENATE RACE. Personal Appeal From President Changes Clayton’s Plans. Washington, Oct. 12.—President Wilson has urged Representative Clayton, chairman of the house judiciary committee, to retire from the Alabama senatorial race, on the ground that his loss to the house just as the administration anti-trust legislation program is to be taken up would be a calamity. Mr. Clayton has about decided to withdraw. ALASKAN TOWN WIPED OUT. Storm. Which Devastated Nome Destroyed Soloman. Nome, Alaska, Oct. 11. —The storm that devastated Nome wiped the town of Soloman entirely off the map. Not a building of any sort In the settlement which had a population of 300. remained standing after the gale. It is reported all the Inhabitants escaped with their lives when the town was blown away. Senator’s Foot Is Inflamed. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 11. —B. F. Shively of South Bend, U. S. senator, who had two toes amputated two years ago as a result of infection In his left foot, is now threatened with blood poisoning in the same foot. Aviator Beachey Is Exonerated. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 11.—A coroner’s jury at Hammondsport exonerated Lincoln Beachey, aviator, from blame in the case of Miss Ruth Hildreth of New York, who was killed by Beachey’s machine. Miss Edison Is to Wed. New York, Oct. 10. —Miss Madeline Edison, daughter of Thomas Edison, the Inventor, and John Ayre Sloane, will be married next month. The engagement was announced in January, but no date was set. Rebels Kill 145 Federal*. Laredo, Tex., Oct. 10.—Federal General Alvarez and his staff and 135 federal soldiers were executed In Torreon, Mex., under orders of Gen. Francisco Villa of the constitutionalist forces.

BANKERS ARE HIT; BILL DEFENDED Senators Aroused to Defense of Currency Act. CONSPIRACY IS HINTED AT Wilson Asserts That Views of Financiers Who Attended Boston Convention Are Not Those of Public. Washington, Oct. 11.—New feelings of confidence in the currency reform bill were felt on Thursday following a concerted defense of the measure by Democratic senators who denounced the criticisms of the bill made by bankers at the Boston convention of the American Bankers’ association and against what was alleged to be an organized effort to hinder its consideration and passage. A senate debate in which the bankers’ criticisms came in for sharp answer from jfriends of the bill on the senate floor found its echo later in the day when President Wilson made plain to callers his own view of the recent developments surrounding the bill. The president let It be known that he did not think the views of the Boston bankers’ convention, as they bore on the currency bill now before the senate, represented the general public sentiment of the country. In the president’s view the attacks made on the bill by the Boston conference represented the activities of men whom he believed to be acting with sincerity, but who as individuate refused to yield their position of control of the country’s financial system. JThe expressions in the senate were more emphatic. “I think this Boston meeting’s obvious purpose was to work up opposition to this Bill,” said Senator Owen, “and either to force the.bankers’ view or to delay or defeat this bill.”/ Senator Thomas talked of an “organized conspiracy” to misrepresent the president and impede legislation; Senator Overman declared the Boston conference did not reflect the views of the general public; and Senator Owen answering a question by his Demo cratic colleagues, said he believed there was an organized propaganda against the bill that found its reflection in the Boston conference and in the various state bankerss’ conventions which have adopted resolutions criticising the currency measure. The senate debate and discussions by the president with visitors at the White House developed the following facts: No effort will be made to make the currency bill a party measure in the senate unless it becomes impossible to get it through in any other way. The presitait believes early action on the bill inessential, while\ many Democrat!/: senators will oppose any effort to force the situation unduly. Criticism of the Boston bankers’ conference has tended to solidify the Democratic ranks in support of the bill. President Wilson told callers that time was most essential' in the currency situation; that with the accumulations of business in the autumn and early winter business men of the country were anxious that the banking and credit question should be definitely settled at once. While the president also took the position that the senate’s currency hearings had been prolonged unduly, senators in the debate on the floor indicated a general satisfaction with the facts and information that had been disclosed through these hearings. NEGROES FEAR THE NOOSE. Race Riot Near at Romeo, 111., After ’ Giant Black Is Killed. Joliet, 111., Oct. 9.—Hue negro was • killed, the village jail was wrecked, ; and a serious race riot narrowly ■ averted at Romeo, eight miles north | of Joliet Wednesday. The arrival of j a big corps of special deputy sheriffs I from Joliet, sent in answer to the ap- ! peal of Mayor Edward Swansoia of Romeo, was all that saved a part of the whole population from massacre John Winfield, a giant negro, battered in the lockup door with a railroad tie, seized Lulu Hills, a negress. and holding her before him as a shield made a savage attack upon Louis Hanson, a resident of the village, whom the town marshal had called to his aid. Hanson killed Winfield in defense of his own life. NEGROES AND INDIANS RIOT. War Breaks Out Among 3,000 at Fishing Party. Lumberton, N. C., Oct. 11. —Sheriff Lewis and deputies have left here for Moss Neck, nine miles distant, to quelj a riot among 3,000 negroes and Creatan Indians gathered at a picnic fishing party. Three negroes are reported dead and an Indian deputy sheriff seriously wounded. Indict Schmidt for Murder. New York, Oct. 13.—The supreme court grand jury returned an indict-, ment charging murder in the first degree against Hans Schmidt, the priest who murdered Anna Aumuller and threw her body in the Hudson. G*rl Married by Own Mother. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 13.—Married by her own mother was the unique experience of Miss Mary Love, who became the bride of J. Virgil Wiseman of Kokomo at the bride’s home in Muncie. Rail Riders Are Indicted. Waukegan. 111.. Oct. 10.—Indictments for riot were returned here against Anna Staedfeld, Alma Walton, Lavina Redmond, Mary Sable, Kate Wagner and E. Krepel, riding on a rail Mrs. Richardson at Volo. Income Tax Chief Named. Washington, Oct. 10.—-L. F. Speer of Bangor, Pa., chief of the corporation tax division of the treasury department, was named deputy commissioner of internal revenue in charge of income tax administration. _

GEN. THOMAS J. STEWART j J • • X, / / i • 2' i General Stewart is president of the National Guard association, whose officers have engaged in a controversy with Secretary of War Garrison over the militia pay bill. General Stewart was re-elected president at the meeting of the association just held in Chicago. SULZER ENDS CASE; DOES NOT TESTIFY N. Y. Governor Seeks to Shield Wife —Court Has Three Issues for Verdict. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 10. —The Sulzer impeachment trial came to an end abruptly on Wednesday, when ex-Sen-ator Harvey Hinman, who had been battling valiantly in defense of the governor, dropped languidly into his chair at 3:45 o’clock and murmured: “The respondent rests.” Delivered on Wednesday, following the rejection by the court of counter attacks by Mr. Sulzer s accusers and his defenders, the effect of the announcement was electrical, little short of dumfounding. It required a full five minutes for the nine court of appeals judges and forty-eight senators composing the court to relaize the full import of the statement made by counsel for the defendant. It established the fact that William Sulzer had no personal defense or explanation to make of the charges preferred by the assembly that he has been guilty of “mal and corrupt practices,” involving violations of the corrupt practices act, perjury and personal degradation by indulging in stock gambling since the people elected him governor in November last by the largest majority ever given a political candidate in this state. According to D. C. Herrick, chief of his attorneys, Governor Sulzer decided not to defend himself in person because he did not want to be placed in the position of shielding himself behind his wife —for it was for Mrs. Sulzer, according to the testimony, that the governor had his Wall street dealings. ATHLETICS WIN THIRD GAME. Fourth of Series Won by Score of 6 to s—Macks Near Flag. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 12.—Bpt one victory stands between the. Philadelphia Athletics and the world's championship in baseball, for the Mackmen defeated the New York Giants at Shibe park by a score of 6 to 5 in the fourth game of the titular series. Before the contest was clinched, however. 20,000 Quaker city fans suffered a period of anxious suspense that will keep the Giants’ eleventh hour batting rally gften in their memory for some time to come. The game effort of the National league players to overtake their rivals in the closing innings of the game changed the entire complexion of the battle, lifting what appeared to be a one-sided match into a contest that hung in the balance until the last putout. TEN YEARS FOR “SLAVERY.” Edwin Brunswick de Corompa Sentenced in Davenport, lowa. Davenport, la., Oct. 12.—Edwin Brunswick de Corompa, wanted in Chicago on a warrant accusing him of violation of the Mann anti-white slavery act, was sentenced here to ten years in the federal prison at Stillwater, Minn., after trial on the accusation of having transported Autumn Stonebraker from Crawfordsville, Ind., to this city. The charge against him in Chicago was the same, so the case there has been dropped. In the trial here it was shown that his name was Charles Edward Layton and the other name was assumed when he posed as an Austrian nobleman. Evangelist Seeks Damages. Cincinnati, Oct. 13.—Rev. George W. Elliott, a well known evangelist, filed suit against the Foreign Missionary Society of America for slander. He demands SIOO,OOO damages. Rev. Elliott alleged that he was called a thief. McNamaras Bar Visitors. San Quentin. Cal., Oct. 13. —John J. and James B. McNamara, Los Angeles dynamiters in prison here, have denied themselves to all visitors. John J. still is in the jute mill. His brother is much improved in health. Sixteen Hurt in Wreck. Natchez, Miss., Oct. 11.—Sixteen were Injured, five fatally, when a passenger train on the New Orleans & Northwestern railroad tumbled down a 20-foot embankment near Winnsboro,. LA., smashing two coaches. Brlde-to-Be Killed In Auto. Cincinnati, O.» Oct. 11.—Miss Bright Kelly, twenty-two years old, a society girl of Covington, Ky., who was to wed soon, was killed and two other young women and three men were Injured in an auto accident.

' THE j MaflF Wil WILLIAM A.RADFORD,EDITOR .—•• • • ■

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor. Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, thq, highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 178 West lackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only ■ enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A little house we’\e got, on a flower I bowered lot, in a hustling, breezy, busy i little city; it’s ,big pnough for two, ' for our wants are very few; there’s ■ only just myself atra little Kitty. A simple little house like this is very much like going back to first | principles, but it furnishes accommoi dation for a small family, just as well as a more elaborate affair. We all have acquaintances, especially among our older friends who commenced life simply and who are now enjoying the accumulations resulting from frugality and good management. If a young couple forms the habit of paying rent they are very likely to pay rent as long as they live. We often hear the remark that it is cheaper to rent than to own your own property. There never was a more foolish or misleading statement. The man who lives in a rented house seldom gets ahead financially. This holds good whether he is working on salary or is conducting a business on his own account. It would be difficult to say why, but it probably is because in the majority of cases a renter fails to give attention to the advancing value of real estate. I knew a man, a clerk in a lubricating oil manufactory who rented a new house on a pleasant street about 20 years ago. At first he paid S2O per month, but in seven or eight years' time the rent was raised to $25. He is still living in the same house and is nov paying $35 per month. The house has not improved with age, and he is continually looking about to better his condition, but can find no other property that suits him so well or that he can rent at a cheaper rate in proportion to the advantages he now has. He has paid enough rent to buy the house, to pay all street improvements, city taxes, insurance and repairs. He tells me he was offered the property years ago for $2,500, which he thought was too much money. The lot itself is worth more than that today. This is one instance in a great many similar ones that have come to my notice. It is not always that a neighborhood improves so rapidly and substantially. but generally speaking.

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all property in American towns advances in value. There is another very great advantage in owning a home, and that Is the comfortable feeling you have of being a landed proprietor and the fact that you are not obliged to have your rent money ready promptly when the month comes round. You can plant a tree or a shrub or some flower bulbs without the permission of the landlord, you cap make alterations in the house when it suits your convenience, and If the house or neighborhood is not to your liking, you can rent it and borrow the money to build another, and the rent from the old one will help pay for the new. A little house like the one illustrated here may be made attractive by making a niee lawn and planting a few trees and flowers. The lawn is most essential and at the same time the most difficult undertaking on the average town lot. The ground often is not very good, it is mixed with cellar earth and rubbish that is not well calculated for a good seed bed tor grass. It is easy to put the ground in proper shape, however, if the job is started from the bottom. The ground must be plowed deep, and thoroughly worked to get the objectionable grass roots out of it. The condition ot the soil will determine whether to seed the first >ear or the second year. If there is no humus in the soil it will pay to cover it thick with coarse manure and plow it under. This again leads to complications in the moisture problem, but if you have a hose attachment you can easily keep the ground moist The top two or three Inches of earth must be repeatedly worked with a disk harrow, or some such implement, every other day for a week or two to kill the weeds as they sprout, then if the top is well mixed with a good commercial fertilizer the grass seed may be sown and you have a lawn that will last as long as you want it, a lawn that will be green when others are parched with sun, a lawn that will look velvety and add ten or twenty per cent to the value of the property. This is a secret that not many householders understand. It is not the house itself that makes a home desirable. I have seen cheap little houses made so attractive that

strangers passing would stop to admire. A young man can build a house like this for $2,000; and the money that he would naturally pay out for ’ will pay for it in a few years’ time£ He can grow fruit trees and have ’"fruit I enough for home use and some to sell I without going to much expense or ■ spending a great deal of time in the ' garden. An hour or two at night for | a few weeks early in the season will i accomplish a good deal if the work is I intelligently laid oxt. In building a house like this doa’t forget the outside embellishments. The lawn and the garden will be the making of the property, at the same time you will be setting a good example that is almost sure to benefit the neighborhood. Another very important item is the painting. A little house sometimes is conspicuous just because it is small and more attention is paid to it than other houses in the neighborhood, especially if it is nicely painted and neatly kept. Always choose quiet colors for a small house; never attempt to make it showy. A drab with white trimmings always looks well. You may deviate from this without serious injury possibly, but you cannot improve on a light drab with white trimmings for a small house, especially if it is partly hidden among the trees and screened with vines. This little home Illustrated te attractive in outside appearance, and the interior te all that eould be desired in a dwelling of this size. A glance at the floor plans show the arrangement of the rooms to be convenient; they are well lighted, cheery and comfortable. TELLING APPROACH OF STORM Many Signs Herald Rain If People Will but Take Note of the Indications. Many people are sufficiently'familiar ' with weather lore to know some of the I signs that herald rain. The repeated ; performance of its toilet by the domestic cat, the of dis- | tant objects, unusual activity on the I part of the snails in the garden—such indications are familiar to most people. { But there are other signs more eas- | lly to be noted by homekeeping town dwellers. Here are a few, as cata- : logued by a weather prophet: i “If, on picking up your newspaper in the morning. It displays a tendency 1 to tear almost on Its own account, a

downpour of rain is not far oft. Rain is also presaged when the contents of the salt-cellar are la a moist and cloggy condition. At such times your bootlaces have a more than ordinary tendency to snap and your kid gloves will have a cold, clammy feeling and be difficult to pull on. Even the walking stick oY umbrella will act the part of a barometer. The handles before rain will reveal a slight deposit of moisture and be sticky to the touch. In this way the question whether it is the wiser to take a walking stick or umbrella on leaving home will be settled for the observant person by an inspection of the articles themselves. —Tit-Bits. Brains Will Succeed. And the fellow with brains, and with energy to direct them, is pretty likely to succeed, no matter what’s pulling him down. If you’re not succeeding, have a heart to heart talk with yourself. Maybe you haven’t so many brains as you have been giving yourself credit for, or maybe you don’t know how to use them to get results. Have a 10-mlnute talk with yourself every night, and do it In the coldest blooded way you possibly can. Every little failure of the day should be analyzed—every opportunity you have let pass you uncaught 1 should be used as a club on your I brain. Then avoid those errors to- ’ morrow.—Leslie’s Weekly. Woman’s Position In the State. Seventy thousand men were In the German army maneuvers on the plains of Silesia on the 150th anniversary of the conquering glory of Frederick the Great And 70,000 German women are doing men’s work to balance up the losses to the people. In the days of the ancient Frederick the women were not thus employed. That Is one of the differences which men neglected to take note of In thia age.— Worcester Telegram. Valuable Secret. “That Styx ferry buaineaa was Ana,** said one manager. “How soF* asked another. “Its ferryman had away of making all the deadheads pay their way.**