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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-02-17

N. n. Walsh was in Chesaning and
Saginaw Thursday.
+. j. Storrer went to Detroit OH
Thursday for short stay.
VIM. Hughes has gone to Findlay,
o., where he has good position.
The marriage of Mrs. Selma Neu-
man and John Cute took place in this
city Wednesday evening. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Chris
tian Spathelf.
The State Roundup Farmers In
stitute to be held at the Agriculture
college, beginning on Tuesday, Feb.
2S, and lasting four days, promises
to be the largest and most successful
ever held in the state.
Owosso lodge No. 81, F. & A. M.
conferred the first degree on four
candidates Wednesday afternoon. A
chicken pie supper was served to sew
enty-one brothers at Connor's cafe,
and the evening was enjoyed social
ly in the lodge rooms.
A small smokehouse in the rear of
the home of Henry H. Hecke, 91S
South Chapman street caught fire on
Thursday morning while some meat
was being smoked and called out the
lire department for its first run in
exactly four weeks. The fire was ex-
tinguished before any serious dam
age was done.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-02-17
THE OWOSSO TIMES
EDMUND O. DEWEY. EDITOR.
OWOSSO, MICH, FEB. II. 1911.
Local News.

w. E. Billiard was in st. Johns on
business Monday.
Phillip Black of Detroit, was bust
ness visitor here Monday
DIR. Hugh Conkliu of Battle Creek,
spent the first of the week in Owosso.
Edward Madden of Lansing, was a
guest of Aid. John BRANDED, Sunday.
A. W. Curtis of Corunna, has return
cd from stay of several weeks in
Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. u. L. Taylor and son
Howard, spent part of the week in
Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. E Howard and
daughter of Grand Rapids, spent Sun
day at A. F. Towards.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Davies Of the
Standard Food Co. spent the week in
Chicago on business.
Mrs. w. E. Payne has returned from
q visit with her sister, Mrs. Henry
Nelson, at Salem, N. Y.
Colon, nine months old son Of Mr.
aud Mrs. Frank Yeoman, Herman
street, died Sunday afternoon.
Imro Czech has purchased of q. r.
Lyon the latter's 1870 acre farm east of
Owosso. paying So, 500 for it.
Geo. Osborn. Bernard Ward and
EuoIx,, Char,,op xuara home from the
NJ. A. G. Saturday and Sunday.
Misses Libbie and Margaret Byrnes
Corunns avenue, spent Sunday with
relatives and friends in Lansing.
Miss Lelah Bonnell has resumed her
work in the Owosso Grocery store after
being absent on account of Illness
Mrs. John King of New Lothrop,
spent Saturday and Sunday at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Thomas Heath.
Mayor w. D Burke attended the
meeting of the Michigan League of
N inequalities at Detroit yesterday.
l.. E. Dingler has purchased the
store building at 500 West Main street
now occupied by the Reliance Cafe.
B. s. Stratton attended the annual
meeting Of the Michigan State Life
Insurance Co., at Detro this week.
Percy Crum and Frank Kohler re-
turned to Ann Arbor Monday morning
after spending Sunday at their homes
IN this city.
Mrs. Glenn Perkins and Mrs. John
McAfee are In Cleveland and Grand
Rapids this week visiting the millinery
houses.
A private pension bill granting Will
liam r., Smith Of this city, $40 month
passed the house of representatives on
Friday. 1t will unquestionab'p pass
the senate within few days The bill
was introduced by Congressman Ford
ney only few days before and its pas
sage in so short time is very unusual.
The sheriff's office is in receipt of
Communication from Sheriff Taylor OF
Ionia, which gives a good description
of man wanted there for forged
deed game, which has been working
in various parts of the country on real
estate men. The local real estate men
are warned to be on the lookout for
this man, as he Is said to be a slick In
dividual.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1911-02-17
Marriage Licenses.

Frank Fl. Johnson, Owosso, %.
Bertha c. Ashley, Oxford, 10.
Wesley Bowen, Durand, 81.
Winifred M. Harmon, Venice, 26.
Anil Sholte, Durand, %.
Della Sypher, Durand %.
20. w. Leisinger, Waynesborough,
Pa, q.
Christina Morse, Owosso, 81.
Charles Coon. Owosso, Al.
Emma Foote, Owosso As.
Glen j. Peruitt, Urbana, ILL.,, 23.
Grace A. Amos. Owosso "a.
Frank B. WEIGH, Byron "a.
Louisa Smith, Byron 80.
Lee, G.. OFT, Owosso, 23.
Clara Murphy, Owosso, "a
Frank E. Chase, Owosso, So.
Alice Wood, Owosso, 40.
John Bansesse, New Haven, 81.
Cora Chaffee, New Haven, 20.
JOS. F. Weaver, Nashville, Tenn, 81.
Elsie Worden, Morrice, II.
J.. G. Boyce, Durand, 33
Anna B. Hudson. Gaines, Of.
Willie E. Cook, Owosso, So.
Emma Haber, Owosso, Al.
Ted Vanduesan, Owosso, 20.
Myrtle Ockman, Bennington, 21.
Ernest E. Bailey, New Lothrop, 81.
Roxy A. Schroeder, Owosso, 10.
Chas. j. Barteli, Owosso, 81.
Ethel Baker, Mt. Pleasant, %.
George Clapp, Owosso, %.
Anna Miller, Owosso 20.
William F. Cook, Middebury, 81.
Leora Bell Clapp, Owosso, 22.
Daniel Higbie. Perry. 81.
Josephine Cole, Perry, IS.
Lewis w. Dodge, Oakland county, Ga
Mime G. Cantrell, Byron, 81.
FOR SALE Automobile. 30. horse
rover touring Car. in tine condition.
Factory price was $3.50 90, extra tire,
brass mounted wind shield, extra spiral
IN 'ck absorbers springs. gas tank and
generator ETC. An excellent car for sale
cheap.
JAMES osBURN, Jr., Owosso.
Call Osburn & Sons
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12

in the WEAKNESS of spirit that comes
from battling with a friend, Bliss wav-
cred momentarily. Il should sacrifice
my home" he told Hanna, but II Mrs.
Bliss consents, I'll yield"
Once When Hanna Was Beaten.
Your answer Mr.. Hanna said-and
I use his words Just as he gave them
to me-''puts the case entirely beyond
my reach. Mrs. Bliss would scarcely
speak to me after you went into the
Cabinet believing me to blame. II she
is to decide, you will not be nominated"
From that hour on II was Roosevelt
In a happy disorder that almost edged
on violence. Those persons who knew
the hidden currents which flowed be-
meath the surface of events at Phila-
delphia are sure in their opinion that
Bliss, unwilling to take his wife back
into the publicity and confusion she alb
hOrred, put away the opportunity that
would have made him President.
The friends never spoke of the matter
but once afterward. Mckinley dead,
Hanna hastened to Washington. At the
hotel Bliss was waiting for him in sor-
row. The two men, so much alike and
yet so unlike. clasped hands in silence.
When they were in tho elevator, Hanna,
gaunt with sleepless nights and a heavy
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
NEW AMERICAN CARDINALS
SAIL FOR ROME THIS WEEK

ON economic grounds they touch on
ethical lines, and then, especially in re-
lation to the growth of socialism and
divorce, his utterances have been force
full.
Mgr. O'Connell, the second incumbent
of the see to be created a member Of the
senate Of the Pope, duplicates also many
Of the accomplishments of the popular
Cheverus. His long residence in Rome
has given to him all the suave and pol
tshed social graces OF the oldest court in
the civilized world, though some think
him a trlfie too distant, austere and cere-
monious for American democratic notions.
Archbishop O'Connell has been rated as
the best dressed cleric in the civil circles
of the Hub. He Is a member of an ex-
elusive club, plays golf now and then for
its benefit in keeping down his tendency
to put on weight; goes about in a fine
automobile, and fits in readily with the
up-to-date details OF modern social activi-
ties as far as the exacting duties of his
important ecclesiastical Office permit
When, on the death of the venerable
Archbishop Williams, he assumed charge
of the diocese, in August, 1907, Archbishop
O'Connell set to work at once the pro-
gramme of diocesan reorganization and
stimulation that had been waiting for
some time the advent of a young and
executive. Education, parochial
expansion, exact conformity with the dis
cipline of the church, Capitalization OF
religious influence and all other important
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
Enecta nf CnInrn.

That colors have a profound psyche
logical-effect on human beings is a fact
that should be emphasized. Used in small
quantities, either in the clothing or in
household decoration. the color red, for
instance. is most stimulating. both in the
way Of helping to overcome depression
and quickening the intellectual processes
But when used in any amount 1t tends to
overstimulation, with resultant nerve
strain. According to q leading English
authority who has made a careful study
Of the psychology OF colors, there are
some people so constituted that they be-
come violently excited, fall into convul-
sions, or faint II obliged even for a short
time to look at ANYTHING vividly red.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12

heart. turned to Bliss and quietly
asked: Have you thought what might
have been your place to-day" There
was no response. And so the subject
died in all future conversation between
them.
After McKinley's first election there
was talk that might be called into the
administration" Mr.. Bliss said to me
when l interviewed him. Mr.. Hanna
favored the suggestion. 1 supposed, how
ever, that l was done with public af-
fairs. In January, following the election.
was invited to Cleveland, and spent
several days at Mr.. Hanna's house. Mr..
Mckinley was there at the time. On
the morning of the second day he came
out Of the library, holding a letter In
his hand. It was to John Sherman, he
informed me, and was a request that
Mr.. Sherman accept the office of Secre-
tary Of State in the Cabinet just
forming.
During my visit in Cleveland I was
asked by Mr.. Mckinley to become Secre-
tary Of the Navy. On my return to New
York I consulted my family and busi-
ness friends and declined the honor.
Going to Washington a few days before
Mr.. Mckinley was inaugurated, was
told by Mr.. Hanna that all the Cabinet
offices Dut one had been filed. He and
others began to press me again. re-
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
OUR PHILOSOPHY
SEEMS RETROGRADE
Does Not Advance with Com
plex Civilization.
BY G. X. CHESTERTON.

Superfcially one would fancy that COM
plexity of civilization and subtIety of
thought would go together, but they do
not 1t is really easier to think with deli
cacy and exactitude If the materials are
popular and plain. 1t is easier to count
with counters than to count with the varf-
Gus fragments Of Jig saw. It is easier
to point to things with stick than with
a bundle OF sticksg It Is easier to argue
exhaustively about the squaring Of the
circle over a halfpenny and a haIfpenny
stamp than to illustrate the same point
by comparing Trafalgar Square and the
Coliseum. 1t is notable that nearly all the
old typical enigmas of the intellect on
which sages sharpened their wits were
presented under the emblem of some COM
mon or even domestic object. The needle
on which all the angels Of the schoolman
were to dance was presumably q common
sewing or darnlng needle. The Accumu-
lating Heap which has delighted so many
sophists was originally, suppose, a heap
Of salt on the table. or of sand by the sea.
Achilles, perhaps, can hardly be called a
common or domestic object, but the tor
toise has a claim to that description;
moreover, the problem can be as we'll dis
cussed under the old figures of the tor
toise and the hare. 1t is easier to con-
slider the other great calculation of prog
ress in the form of climbing frog; and
another under such primary symbols as
corn, river. a fox, a goose, and man.
The question Of the frog was probably
first debated by some solitary philosopher
or hermit in quiet region and a simple
age, actually watching the struggles of
the frog. The setting of the second prob
lem bears witness to its origin among
agricultural persons, yokels, and country
men who have more time to think. All
the subtleties of political economy begin
with words that might be the beginning OF
some great primitive epic poem, There Is
a man on an Island"
The entangled conditions OF an elabo-
rate civilization like ours are not favorable
to carrying thought to fine point We
are in no danger of discussing how many
holy angels can dance on the point OF a
needle. We are so inordinately proud in
rejecting how many poor devils are en-
gagged in making the needle that we never
think OF that object in its more exquisite
relations to space or measurement. The
Accommodating Heap has accumulated so
much in our time that It scars out Of sight
like vast shapeless mountain, and can
not be embraced by mortal mind Special
details, controversial partialities, come
into every picture so that It can no
longer be treated merely as a diagram. II
We cease to think OF a frog crawling up
two steps and Shipping down one, II we
think OF the thing in any more intimate
or topical form Gas, let us say, a pros
porous gentleman after supper at the
Savoy progressing upstairs on the same
principle), then our affections are
pity. or envy are awakened, and the frog
problem is less scientifically treated than
Il would be treated In a dungeon or q
desert.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12

at Allegany, N. Y, where he was Or
dained priest by Bishop Timon, of Buffalo,
on June 4, 1885. He continued as a teacher
at the college, and while there became
naturaliZed as a citizen, voting at the
Presidential election of 1872. Then he was
sent to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and
was made vicar general of that diocese.
holding that office for several years, until
he returned to New York and took up
the missionary work directed by his order
from st. Anthony's Church, in Sullivan
street.
The Illness of his parents required Mgr.
Falconio's recall to Italy, and there he
was made Bishop of Lacedonia on July IL,
1892, and in 1925 Archbishop of AcerenZa.
The controversy over the Manitoba
school question in Canada in 1899 required
the presence there of an official repre-
sentative of the Pope, and Mgr. Falconio
was sent over as the first permanent
apostolic delegate to the Dominion His
delicate mission was so tactfully accom-
plished that on September 30, 1902 he was
transferred to the same but more in
fuential position at Washington.
Here in the adjustment of the inter-
ests OF the church with the govern
ment in the new insular possessions,
Mgr. Falconio was of great service to
both sides. In, the adjudication before
his tribunal of the many clashing liti-
gants in ecclesiastical disputes, his ad-
ministration of his authority has been
marked by gentleness and modera ton,
but withal by much wisdom, firmnNss,
and strength, and has won him the re-
spect and friendship OF the clerical
body all over the United States. They
know that they will have in him here
after a stanch advocate in the supreme
council of the Church of Rome.
VIII Not Wear Scarlet.
As Cardinal Falconio is a friar-a
member OF the Franciscan order-he
will not wear scarlet robe like his
two associates, who are secular prel-
ates. His costume will be of gray silk,
the color of the habit of his Franciscan
brethren. All cardinals who are regu-
lars wear a costume that is the color
of the habits of their respective orders
His skull cap, biretta, and hst however,
will be scarlet.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
By JAMES B. MORROW.

Five years ago 1 interviewed Corne-
Ius Newton Bliss. The article then
written has been in pickle ever since.
Before 1 could hurry 1t into type, Mr..
Bliss asked me to defer its publication.
saying, The time has not come to
make public some of the things I told
you"
Nor did II ever come in Mr.. Bliss
judgment. He was, moreover, an un-
commonly modest man-an old-fashioned
merchant in his dignity of manner.
fourth Earl of Chesterfield in courtesy
dress, and atmosphere. Elegant, I might
call him, though delightfully."- simple and
sincere. And strong, yet 1 saw his fine
eyes fill with tears as he talked of
Marcus A. Hanna, his dead comrade in
politics and his beloved personal friend
Custodian the war chest through
four campaigns for the Presidency
f1nancier of the Republicans during the
historical battle of 1896, censured, tor
mented, and challenged, he remained
silent, not because of fear concerning
himself, but in the repose and grandeur
which distinguished his mind and char
acter. He thought, I dare say, that
every person who knew him believed
came in. He paid 1t out to the COM
mittees. 1t was spent after leaving his
hands and spent honorably he said.
That was enough, for a merchant whose
word in business was good as gold,
and for the treasurer of the Broadway
Tabernacle, where he had worshiped for
many years.
1t was in 1904 that Judge Alton B.
Parker, running on the Democratic tick
ct, accused the Republicans of accepting
funds from large corporations. Mr.. Bliss
was questioned, but he said nothing
Some day" he remarked to me, all
the facts will be known. I am not the
person, however, to give them out at
this time. When the truth is under
stood, the country will be disillusionized
with respect to a good many fallaCieS
which have been accepted because they
have not been explained. The newspa-
pers insisted that Mr.. Hanna had $1,000.
0CO the first time Mckinley defeated
Bryan. Conservative men estimated Mr..
Hanna's fund at 5000, 600. We didn't have
half that sum.
Cost of the Roosevelt Campaign.
1T I were TO tell how little we spent
in 1904, when Parker was a candidate
against Roosevelt the public would be
surprised and possibly doubtful. The
contributions to the national committee
in that year came from about 5000 busi-
ness concerns and individuals and some
of them were almost Insignificant The
expenses of the compaigns in 1896 and
1900 were very large, it is true. A poll
tical meeting was held in practically
every school district throughout the
United States during each OF those years.
Orators had to be hired and their hotel
bills and railroad fare had 20 be paid
and maintain a great publishing house |
for the printing OF documents. Nearly |
every man who had a dollar was willing |
to spend 30 cents in trying to save it. |
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
Cornelius N. Bliss Was Long Treasurer of
the @. O. p, and His Record in -
y that Office Is Unsullied

THE cost of beating free silver was
enormous, but it did not amount to
SIC, 900, 900, nor to 100000. Money was
paid to me by committees composed of
the foremost business men of the COM
munities in which they lived. 1t came
from large places and small places, from
the East and from the West. 1 never
solicited money myself. There are ways
Of getting 1t without begging or threat
ening people with a gun. have re-
ceived contributions and have returned
them. Once 1 sent back check for more
than $4,000. We did not want to be un-
der obligations to certain men. Still, !
suppose the belief is general that we
gladly took all the funds which were
offered. That has never been the case
within my own experience
Soon after Judge Parker's charge
against the managers of Mr.. Roosevelt s
campaign and his subsequent defeat at
the polls, he and Mr.. Bliss were seated
side by side at luncheon given in New
York. Somebody blundered, but the in
cident turned out most happily I had
asked Mr.. Bliss about his New Jersey
farm, and that led him to speak Of his
unexpected meeting with the man who
had attacked him rather savagely on the
stump.
Yes" he said. 'T have about ninety
acres of land on the North Shrewsbury
River. which call Oceanic Park. I have
been going there every spring. early in
May, for thirty years. Butter, eggs,
milk, and flowers come to my town house
in winter, costing me, 1 have no doubt
twice as much as they are worth. 1
also own five Guernsey cows. Shortly
after the election in 1904, I was invited
to a luncheon at the chamber Of COM
merce, given in compliment to John
Morley, the English author and states
man.
Talked to Parker About Cows.
oddly enough, was put down at the
table next to Judge Parker, whom I
found to be a most agreeable and in
teresting person. I was somewhat en-
barrassed at first in hitting on a suita-
BILE subject for converse ton. but we
soon fell into live stock and farming.
learned that he had fifty cows. After
that discovery, we got along splendidly.
When I went home and told Mrs Bliss
that Judge Parker was at my side all
through the luncheon. she smiled in some
amusement And what did you talk
abOut?' she asked.
Oh 1 answered, I talked about my
herd and he talked about his herd.
Thus, and altogether naturally, and
also gracefully, l hope, Mrs. Bliss is
brought into the present article. 1 intro
duced the imprinted interview I wrote
five years ago with these. words:
"A woman, a little woman. the daugh-
ter of a Presbyterian elder and hard as
adamant,' Senator Hanna mournfuIly
said in describing her, changed the rush
of public events in this country and
permitted Theodore Roosevelt to be
President of the United States. She
will not thank me-" I added, for this
recognition of her power in politics and
the great matters Of a nation, but his
tory should not slur over or deny the
facts, even for a sensitive and refined
who asks no other dominion than
her own home"
The Washington herald., 1911-11-12
ConSistory to Be Held by Pope Plus X No
vember u to Be Notable Event.

With the United States coming into its
own as an influence of the Catholic world,
the forthcoming consistory to be held in
Rome November 27-3O, at which Pope
Plus Y will create seventeen new car
dfnals, will be notable. Nothing that Pope
Plus has done since assuming office has
been more notable than his recent notiti-
cation that he would hold the fifth and
long-deferred consistory of his admins
tration and that on this occasion he
would create three new American cardi-
nails as a recognition of the splendid
progress which the church is making in
this country.
1t has long been known that the Pope
has been deeply gratified by the religious
and social work done in America by the
church, and holds the Catholics of the
United States in the highest estimation.
After his election as Pope, the first band
of pilgrims he received were from the
United States, and the first flag he blessed
and saluted was the Stars and Stripes.
Now Complete Autonomy.
Another evidence of his good will came
on November g. 1905, when, in an apos-
tolic constitution, the Pope decreed, as
proof of his confidence and stability of
the church here, that the United States
should not longer be regarded as a mis-
sionary country, and should, on that date,
pass from the tutelage Of the Congrega-
ton of the Propaganda TO his own imme-
diate supervision. The American church,
since that time, has stood on an equal
footing with the ecclesiastical bodies of
older nations, as a complete autonomy,
and has received from the Pope many
marks of favor.
Pope Plus X has created only seventeen
cardinals since he was elected, not count
ing those soon to be named. OF these
nine were Italians and eight of other
nationalities. His determination now to
add eighteen new names to the list at
the coming consistory will be an unpre-
cedented record in this direction, and
makes the Sacred College consist of thir-
ty-two Italian and thirtytwo foreign car
dinals
To attend the consistory, Archbishop
Farley will sail for Rome on November IA
by the Kronprinzessin Cecile. He will be
accompanied by Mgr. John Edwards, one
of his Wears general; Mgr. William G.
Murphy, rector of the Church of the I'M
maculate Conception, in East Fourteenth
street; hfs nephew. Rev. John II. Farley,
8. J., and his private secretary, Very
Rev Mgr. James v. Lewis. Mgr. Falconio
will be on the same vessel Archbishop
oConnelI, will sail from Boston.
Sketches of Cardinals.
The following sketches of the new
American cardinals win be of interest:
New York's metropolitan. the Most Rev.
John Murphy Farley, as head of the
greatest ecclesiastical foundation in the
country ana the second largest in the
whole Catholic world, is no stranger,
either personally or oficially, to the Pope
and his counselors in Rome. AS admin !
isrator' executive, churchman, and
right TO be considered the peer of his as
sociates In the College Of Cardinals.
Seven times has Rome sent a inter to l
New York, and the men Nominated to,