The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 September 1914 — Page 2

F .... The Syracuse Journal INDEPENDENT. -t ndiana Associated Weeklies;.™ GEO. 0. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher Largest circulation in Kosciusko County outside of Warsaw. $1.50 Per Year Published Every Thursday at Syracuse Indiana. $1.50-I’er Year. Phones—Office jZ-House 117 . % NET ADVERTISING RATES DISPLAY MATTER One Week 15c per inch Two Weeks to 1 Month. .12 per inch One Month or more 10c per inch Electrotypes J.-—loc per inch The above rates are for continuous insertion, run of paper; specified positions at one week rate. READING MATTER 5c per line (average 6 words to line); classified “Wants” 1c per word; Cards of Thanks 50c; Resolutions SI.OO. NOTE.—These rates are net and allow of no discounts. COPY FOR ADVERTISEMENTS An extra charge of 5c per inch and up will be charged for an overabundance of copy or intricate composition. DEATH NOTICES. Obituary notices run other than as news will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. When the death occurs just prior to publication and it is impossible to print the obituary with the death notice, its insertion may be had the following week without charge, in all other cases the above rate applies. Obituary poetry, 10c per line. Card of Thanks, 50c. Entered as second-class matter May 4, f9 oB, at the ffiist office at Syracuse, Indiana, under the Act of Congress oj Mdrch 3, 1879. MAIL EDITOR’S OPINION While We have known that there are some people who pay so little attention to current events that they were unaware of the magnitude of the war in Europe, we hardly believed that there was a person of average intelligence who did not consider this the greatest war of the world’s history. To show how easily one can be fooled we print the following from the Milford Mail: That there is a little scrimmage across the water, all are willing to admit, but it is not so serious to the extent that it will at all affect either Europe or the United States seriously. If the reports of the European war were given truthfully, they would create but very little concern among our people. To say the least, this is a peculiar view to take of a conflict involving seven or eight countries. One can’t help but smile while wondering how Bro. Groves arrived at his conclusions. WILD STORIES PRINTED We Must not be too quick to give credence to stories of cruelty on the part of German soldiers in Belgium. A high German official states that citizens of Belgium had shot at doctors, mutilated wounded German soldiers and committed other un- * warranted acts. Without proof, we would hesitate to believe this story just as we hesitated to believe that the Germans were guilty of Joutrageous conduct. The German ambassador who recently arrived in this country has protested that the uncensored cables of the U. S. are being used by British representatives for the purpose of communicating the whereabouts of German warships to the British ♦ government. The United States, to preserve her attittude of strict nuetralitv, will have to sit up nights devising ways to keep out of trouble. SOMETHING BESIDES PRAYER “All things come to him who waits,” is a poor adage to follow. It is also poor judgement to indulge in prayer without doing your part to make the prayer possible of fulfilment. One day last winter two little Syracuse girls were hurrying to school and were afraid they were going to be tardy. One said: “Let’s kneel right down and pray that we won’t be tardy.” “Oh, no,” said the other, “let’s hike on

to school and pray while we’re hikin’.” Very sound reasoning, don’t you think? CONTROLLING THE SITUATION The man who keeps abreast of things and sees that he has a prominent part in all undertakings need never fear that he will be left out of anything. It pays to make one’s self indispensable. The following story of the small boy happily illustrates this. A merchant met this youngster rather late one evening when the boy was carrying a package. “You will be late for sup per,” remarked the business man. “No, I won’t,” was the reply. “I’ve dot de meat.” INSANITY INCREASING The State institutions are no longer able to care of the insane of Indiana. There are now three patients at Elkhart who are awaiting admission to state saylums. Early Frosts are forecasted for this fall. The prediction is based on the appearance of katydids. It is an old saw that within six weeks after the katydid first is heard frost will be here. And katydids have been making themselves heard for some time. LEONARD BROWN IFUNERAL DECEASED LIVED HERE SIXTY YEARS AGO The funeral of Leonard Brown who was born and spent his boyhood at Syracuse, arid who always hdld his native town in loving remembrance was held in the Methodist Church, at 10:30 Friday morning. Rev. Cloud conducted the services, taking for his text the Exclamation of Job, “I would not live away.” Appropriate music was furnished by a Quartette. Notwithstanding the short notice and the unfavorable weather, many of the older people of the community were present. Some of our oldest citizens were acquainted with Mr. Brown when he lived here as a boy over sixty years ago, others had become acquainted with him during his numerous visits to his birthplace. while many knew him through his articles which appeared from time to time in the Journal, throughout a long and active life as prominent citizen of.a larger community, Leonard Brown cherished an affectionate regard for the town of his birth which will be long kept in grateful memory by all of our people who knew him. Obituary Leonard Brown was born at Syracuse, Indiana, July 4, 1837, and died at Chicago, August 24, 1914, at the age of 77. While his naturally vigorous constitution bad recently broken somewhat under the increasing weight of years, he had nevertheless largely recovered from a light paralytic stroke which occured in February last and his condition was such that his family was totally unprepared for the end. Leonard Brown came of sterling stock. His father, Aaron Brown, was decended from the Brown’s of Ayr, Scotland, the birthplace of Robert Burns whose mothers maiden name was Brown. Among the noteworthy American descendants of these Browns and a cousin of Leonard Brown was Charles Farrar Browne, known throughout the English-speaking woild as Artemas Ward, the humorist. His mother, Margaret Melinda Cory, likewise had worthy forbears prominent among their present day descendant is ‘‘Billy Sunday,” the evangelist. The fact of having been born on the Fourth of July and of sharing the same birthday as the nation, always appealed to Leonard Browns patriotic imagination and caused him to feel that he owed an'unusual debt of loyalty to his country. But this was not due merely to the fortuitous circumstance of being born on Independence Day. Its roots lay far deeper. It had been in the blood for generations. For some two hundred years we find each new generation of the Browns, either in the advance guard of pioneers on the frontier or as soldiers in the ranks risking life and limb for causes which their consciences declared justly demanded

such devotion. t Leonard Brown’s ancestors came 1 to New England early in the seven- * teen hundreds and the records show ’ that one of them served as a lieu- 1 tenant in the French and Indian 1 War, assisting at the capture of Ft. J Ticonderoga and Crown Point. ’ When the smoldering revolution 1 burst into flame at Lexington and 1 Bunker Hill, seven patriotic broth- 1 ers by the name Brown earolled on 1 the roster of continental troops at ’ Boston, am6ng them Daniel Brown, grandfather of Leonard Brown. ’ There was a similar gathering to i the colors in 1812, a point-blank refusal to the last man on grounds of principle in the Mexican War, and an equally unanimous rallying to the flag of the Union in the soulstirring days of 1861. His oldest son was severely wounded while on active service in the Rhodesia Guards during the Mashona-Mata-bele war while his youngest son won promotion in General Funston’s fighting regiment, the Twentieth Kansas, in the Philippines. While this ardor of the blood to undergo the hardships of the frontier and to face the perils of battle for consciences sake, long inherited from father to son, profoundly influenced his conduct at critical times, the great outstanding fact is that during his boyhood and throughout the formative periods of his life Leonard Brown owed his unquenchable passion for study, his unflagging pursuit of knowledge and his keen aspirations toward the highest things of life to his mother. Although she died while he was yet a mere lad. Over sixty years have passed since that noble woman went to her long rest but through them all, through boyhood, manhood, maturity and age, amid the storm and stress of a many-sided struggle to win an honorable place in the world the inspiration of the mother’s words and the memory of her love and prayers clung to the loyal son. It was in fulfillment of his long expressed and oft-repeated wish that his mortal remains were brought back to his native town to be placed at rest beside those of the mother- who bore him there to await together the requiem of the summer suns and the winter snows until “the present order changeth. ” While yet in his teens and not long after his mother’s death, the family moved to Des Moines, lowa, then a frontier village of 80b inhabitants and it was with the life of this community, which has since developed into a city of 100,000 sons, that the important activities of his career were centered. His first concern was for more education which he obtained from the best available instructors there and from the frontier college located in Burlington, at all points supplemented by his own intense application to study and try his active association with leading men of affairs. He became a teacher and a remarkably successful one. For some time he was associated with Dr. Nash, conducting an academy which later developed into Des Moines College. He also became county superintendent of schools, for Polk county in which the city of Des Moines is situated and for a time was professor in one of the pioneer colleges of the state. But his active mind, his vast store of information and his growing ability to express himself clearly and forcibly with voice and pen led him to seek wider educational ranges than those afforded by a single teaching chair or schoolroom. He began to contribute with increasing frequency discussions of pertinent questions of the day to newspapers and magazines, and to lecture for a portion of each year to a widening circle of audiences. About this time he published a volume of verse entitled “Poems of the Prairies,” which attracted considerable notice. This was followed by other collections of verse which had appeared from time to time in the press. His marked patriotism which j prompted him in common with his I brothers to enlist in lowa’s quota of i soldiers for the Union and his deep I interest in vital questions of the 1 time led him to discuss political as | well as educational subjects. For I many years he was an effective platform speaker in congressional and presidential campaigns. During the Blaine presidential cam- ’ paign, the Republican national I committee sent him as far east as Massachusetts where he stumped <

a congressional district for the election of Henry Cabot Lodge, now | the senior senator in congress from that state. For a long period also he contributed extensively to the preparation of campaign literature; his clear and direct style, apt illustratrations, and ready wit, making his writings peculiarly valuable for the purpose. In connection with this work he brought out a volume of political essays under the title “Popular Perils.” He was a zealous champion of temperance, taking an active part in the movement which resulted in the adoption of the prohibitory amendment by the state of lowa and for a considerale period was a regular weekly contributor to the columns of the New York Voice, the national organ devoted to the cause. After passing middle age and withdrawing from the more active work of the press and platform, his mind turned more and more to the consideration of social problems, in connection with which he published a large number of articles, many of which were recently gathered together in a substantial volume entitled “Our Own Columbia,” his last published wotk. It frequently happened that his extensive learning and I his quick and far-seeing mind led him to conclusions totally at variance with the views of the majority of his fellow men, yet he unflinchingly maintained them regardless of adverse temporary opinion or financial cost. Those who did not appreciate the sweep and scope of his penetrating mind called him a radical and a theorist, but like all far-visioned men who reach a ripe old age, he lived to see many things for which he was ridiculed on account of advocating in earlier years finally adopted and proved true. It is in this respect that his life has been most valuable for he had the will to discover, the vision to foresee and the courage to proclaim and he held his course undeviatingly to the end, like the crushed but unconquered Cyrano when reaching the doorway of heaven, he too came to the eternal threshhold with the banner of his soul unstained for he unwearyingly sought to live and to teach that “There is nothing so Kingly as Kindness. There is nothing so royal as truth. * At Des Moines, lowa, in November, 1861, Leonard Brown married Nancy Jane Houston, who survives him in enfeebled age in California. Miss Houston was a teacher whose native town was Bedford, Indiana. Her family was of Virginian origin and numbered among its connections Sam Houston a noted figure in the early history of Texas. The ten children of this union all grew to manhood and womanhood and seven are now living. The surviving members of the family are; Arthur H. Brown, electrical and mining engineer, Salisbury, Rhodesia and South Africa. Charles M. Brown, real estate,

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|We made a mistake | £ Our old friend, Mark G. Harris, informs us that while he 5 J he has nothing against Louisville, he wants us to understand £ £ that his place of business is in Chicago. This won’t make any > J difference in what we say about him, however. He makes £ £ clothes that are clothes whether he resides in Jerico or Green- ? £ land’s Icy Mountains. £ Whether your single or married, you should be considerate £ £ of your looks. No use looking like a scare-crow when Marl: G. £ 5 Harris makes the clothes that he does at the prices he charges. ? £ And, let us again impress upon your mind the ease with which £ £ you can pick out your suit from the large samples. r i We’re not narrow-minded, come in and look, }ou needn’t £ r buy if you’re not ready. Only we want you to see our suits be- r £ fore you buy elsewhere anc regret it. £ I You’ll Like | Mark’s Clothes I STAR CLOTHING STORE |

Hagerman, New Mexico. Claud D. Brown, mining engineer, now conducting an exploring expedition in Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Mrs. Frank W. Johnson, Chicago, Mrs. Edward W. Hacker, Chicago, Mrs. James Melville Graham, Audubon, lowa, Miss Mabie Brown, Carpintena, California. The death of the oldest daughter, Nettie A. Brown, occured in Kansas about nine years ago. With this exception the large family circle remained unbroken until last year when another daughter, Lida O. Brown, died in California, and the oldest son. William Harvey Brown who was prominently identified with the growth and development of theiprovince of Rhodesia died at Salisbury, South Africa. Os Leonard Brown’s immediate family a brother, Harvey Brown of Winterset, lowa, and a sister, Mrs. Mary M. Fox of Salem, Oregon, survive him. New Paris Route 1. Mrs. Florence Stump Ollie Pence and wife spent Sunday with John Juday of Solomons Creek. . Miss Minna Hartman returned' to

her home in Elkhart after spending ' the week with Lloyd Stump’s. J. S. Mills and wife and daughter I spent over Sunday in Wakarusa. Willard Green and family spent Sunday with Sam Alwine and daughter. Mrs. Geo. Corson and son and the Misses Grace, Thelma and Blanche Bickel spent Sunday with Mrs. Llovd Stump. Rev. Turner and family are spending their vacation at Winona Lake. Elmer Hawkins has purchased a Ford car. Mrs. Geo. Corson and son are spending a couple of weeks with Chas Brickel and wife. Mrs. Wilson and niece of Kendallville are visiting in this vicinity. We’re Getting It Too The publisher is also feeling the effects of the European war. We have received notice of an increase in price us several lines of paper and supplies. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hoch and daughter, Gertrude, went to Delta, Ohio, Tuesday, where they attended the wedding of a niece of Mr. Hoch’s.

iWantAds FOR TRADE —Residence property, electric lights, city water. Located on lake. Will trade for farm land. Geo. W. Jones. FOR SALE —Four room house, well, fruit, two lots. Cheap for cash or will sell on easy terms. Must be sold to close an estate. Second house south of Grist Mill. Apply to Butt& Xanders or S. D. Lung. o— FOR SALE—Motor boat and boat house for sale reasonable. Inquire of H. D. Harkless. WANTED —Cleaning, Pressing, and repair work. Mrs. Henry Snobarger, Phone 905. FOR SALE ipiano for sale at a reasonable price. Walter Newman. J The Misses Ethel Dowd and Myrtle Carter of Ft. Wayne, who have been visiting at the S. N. Widner home, returned Sunday. J. W. ROTHENBERGER : Undertaker : SYRACUSE, : : IND.