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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-18
Look Up At The SKI.

The September spring is here-the
month of warm days and cool nights
and clear skies. How great the
charm to get out these evenings and
gaze into the infinite meadows of
heaven! 1t makes us all think of
the greatness of God and the won
ders of His creations. How utterly
insignificant we are when we think
of the vaStness of the astronomical
world.
The grandeur of the heavens is
absolute. There is nothing like it
in all creation. 1t gives us the clear
est, most adequate conception of in
finitude and of eternity that the mag
ination may conjure up what we
see in
Heavens ebon vault
Studded with stars unutterably
bright"
which is a mere bagatelle of the
great, unending system which is in
visible except under the magnifying
power of the telescope.
The mere contemplation of the
stars forces the belief that we are
merely Indifferent atoms. Contem-
plating the vast distances through
space among the consultations and
picking out a fixed star and meas
uring its distance away is COM
polling force to make us almost look
with pity upon our little span of life
and achievement. Victor Hugo wrote
upon Things of the Infinite" one of
the worlds greatest contributions.
Think of the limitless roads through
space to the nearest planet. To
reach Venus, the brightest of the
worlds, going an hundred miles an
hour, the speed of the fastest aero
plane, would require thirty years!
But, as Hugo says, bestride a ray
of light, that moves more than 2OO,-
600 miles a second, one would be
launched from the earth to the sun
in eight minutes, from the sun to
Oceanus in four hours, from Canta-
rurus to the pole star, which has
guided navigators so many hundreds
of years, in twenty-eight years !;
from the pole star to the Milky Way
in $1,000 years, from the Milky
Way to the Nebula of Canes Venatici
100000 years; to the celestial re-
gion that not even the strongest
telescope can penetrate, and then,-
"you have not yet taken a step!"
We know scarcely more today
about astronomy than the old Egyp-
tians. The early Assyrians, also,
and the Ancient Greeks were we'll
versed in astronomy. Some of the
names given by the Greeks to stars,
as Castor and Pollux, for example,
are the same as are used to designate
them now.
Go out and sit in the open these
nights and look up and gaze at the
stars-and think!
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-18

Vile Vests offense was insignificant
President Wilson might have re-
membered the British incident, but it
in no way furnished established pre-
cedent for the Dumba action.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
FLEEs DOWN A PHONE WIRE
But II Cuts His Hand and New York
Policeman Catches the Fu-
gItiVe.

New York.-Three men alighted
from an auto at One Hundred and
Eleventh street and Lenox venue at
four o'clock yesterday afternoon and,
leaving the chauffeur in the machine,
entered the apartment house, 109
West One Hundred and Eleventh
street.
Soon a tenant phoned to the West
One Hundred and Twenty-third street
police station that three burglars
were in the fiat of John Gray on the
third floor. When Patrolman Clinchy
arrived the men had fed to the roof.
Clinchy got there in time to see two
go down the rear fire escape. The
third man started to slide down on a
telephone wire. The wire cut his
hands so badly that at the second
floor he swung himself through a
window of Charles Levy's fat,
Clinchy followed, found him hiding
behind a bed and arrested him. Tho
prisoner described himself as James
Regan. a chauffeur, of 214 West One
Hundred and Fortieth street. His
hands had to be dressed by a doctor.
The other men fed in the machine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
ERICH LADIES" ARE ARRESTED
Girls Entertain LavishIy While Own
ers Of Handsome Residence In
Pittsburgh Are Away.

Pittsburgh, Pal did so want to
know what 1t felt like to be rich and
entertain people in a fine house." was
the excus given by Audray Garvin,
aged nineteen, who, with her sister
Jeanne, aged seventeen. had played
lady" while her employer, Mrs. Eu-
gene S. Reilly OF No. 1047 Negley av-
enue, was away from her home.
Audray Garvin was left in charge
of the Reilly house three weeks ago
while the family went away. She
sent for hef sister and together the
couple entertained many young men
lavishly. Among their guests were
students of Pittsburgh university and
Carnegie Tech" When Mrs. Reilly
arrived home she learned of the girls
pranks and had them arrested.
Audray said when arrested: Il
should have married n of those
rich fellows while l had the chance"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
Trades and Health.

tuberculosis is more prevalent in
some industries than in others. Gar
ment workers are particularly subject
to this disease. Since 1910 DR.. George
NJ. Price of New York has examined
nearly 5000 garment workers en-
ployed in that city and has found that
about 2 per cent Of them have cor
sumption. An investigation OF the con.
ditions under which $4,000 garment
workers are employed shows that the
causes for the prevalence Of tubercu-
losis are insanitary home surround.
ings, lack of ventilation in workshops,
stopping position of workers while at
work, and the low standard of living.
Doctor Price claims that the ordinary
methods of controlling tuberculosis are
not sufficient to check it under these
conditions. Cooperation between the
employers and the labor unions has
been undertaken in several instances,
notably by the International Cigar
makers union, the International Ty-
biographical union and the cloak, suit,
dress and waist industries. Doctor
Price urges the establishment of state
invalidity and sickness insurance.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
COULDN'T WED; ADOPTS HIM
Los Angeles Woman Takes a Singer,
Whose Voice Attracted Her,
Into Family.

Los Angeles.-The sweet voice of
Alois Mayer, twenty-seven years old,
who earns his living by singing in a
cafe. and whose parents were alive in
Germany the last he heard, won him
a fortune when the superior court
granted the petition of Mrs. Edith
Amos, ~forty-seven, to adopt him as a
son.
Mrs. Amos, who said she had been
attracted by the singing, which re.
minded her of her own dead boy, is
the daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Burke
of San Francisco. At her death Mrs
Burke left an estate valued at about
l 1000, 900.
Il couldn't very we'll marry him,
Mrs. Amos told Judge Sidney N. Reeve
in urging her petition. Mayer came
here from Munich a couple of years
ago. He said he had not heard from
his parents for months.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24

be mine and / will be thine without
money and without the price?"
Gonsalvo pauses to let this idea get
noised about a little.
Then he goes on: BE mine, Imo-
gene! You will be minus the money
while l will have the price!"
Gonsalvo trembles with the passion
which is consuming his pocketbook,
and then Imogene turns languidly from
a right angle triangle into more of a
straight front and hands Gonsalvo a
bitter look of scorn.
Then Gonsalvo grabs his revolver,
and aiming it at her marble brow, ex-
claims, Marry me this minute or
will shoot you in the topknot, because
I love you"
Then papa rushes into the room and
Gonsalvo politely requests the old gen.
tleman to hold two or three bullets
for him for a few moments.
Gonsalvo then bites deeply into a bot
tie of carbolic acid and just as the
coroner climbs into the house the pic
lures of the modern lover and lover
ess appear in the newspapers and fash
ionable society receives a jolt.
This is the new up-to-date way OF
making love.
However, l think the old style OF
counting is the best, because you can
generally stop a jag before it gets tc
the undertaken.
What do you think?
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
NELSON GIFT TO NAVY LEAGUE
lection Presented Under Ger
tain Conditions.

London.-A well wisher has placed
at the disposal of the Navy league 2S
pieces of plate which we're at one
time the property of Admiral Lord
Nelson and bearing his arms and used
by him on the Victory up to the day
of his death at the battle of Trafalgar.
The conditions attaching to the gift
are: That a sun of not less than the
equivalent of 1925 for each piece of
plate be raised by the Navy league,
which amount shall be paid over to
the British Red Cross society and the
Order of st. John of Jerusalem in
equal shares, and that the plate be
presented in separate pieces to such
of the British warships as shall have
done conspicuous service during the
present war.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
SEEING LIFE with
HENRY
xSSMWG eo1peV Hoba1t
HT[AE1FV John Henry on the LoveIorn
John Henry on the LoveIorn

me coldly-ju' merely indicated the
door, that bew'ful girl, and I passed
out of her life f'rever. Two days later
l found out JUS what eugenic meant
and blieve me, from my heart, my
sincere regret is that | was not col
lege bred before l met that bew'ful
girl"
Saying this he grabbed a wineglass
from the table and held 1t close to his
heart in order to illustrate the inten-
sity of his feeling.
The next instant a thick, reddish
liquid began to flow s~luggishly over
the bosom of his immaculate white
shirt and was lost in the region of his
equator, seeing which Dixie gave vent
to a yell that brought the walters on
the hot foot.
I'm stabbed, stabbed" groaned
the startled j~ag-carpenter, clutching
wildly at his shirt front as the plate
passers bore him away to a haven OF
rest.
IT'S my clam cocktail" whispered
Stephen to me; Il poured 1t in his
wineglass cause they was too much
tobascum sauce in it for mel"
Brave boy!" l answered. 1T was a
kindly deed"
Then we finished our dinners in all
the refined silence Of Saint Astormore
so carefully furnishes.
bikes sad story of misplaced af-
lection and an unused dictionary puts
us wise to the fact that in these
changeful days even the old-fashioned
idea of courtship has been chased to
the woods.
1t used to be hat on a Saturday
evening the Young Gent would draw
down six dollars worth Of salary and
chase himself to the barber shop,
where the Bolivian lawn trimmer
would put a crimp in his mustache
and plaster his forehead with three
cents worth of hair and a dollars
worth of axle grease.
Then the Young Gent would go out
and spread 40 cents around among the
tradesmen for a mess Of lilies of the
valley and a bag OF peanut brittle.
The lilies of the valley were to put
on the dining table so mother would
be pleased, and with the peanut brittle
he intended to fill in the weary mo-
ments when he and his little geisha
girl were. not making 100000 eyes at
each other.
But nowadays it is different.
What with eugenics and the high
speed of living Dan Cupid spends
most of his time on the hot foot be-
tween the c%oroner's Office and the
divorce court.
Nowadays when a clever young man
goes to visit his sweetheart he hikes
over the streets in a benzine buggy,
and when he pulls the bellrope at the
front door he has a rapid fire revolver
in one pocket and a bottle of carbolic
acid in the other.
His intentions are honorable and
he wishes to prove them SC by shoot
ing his lady love If she renigs when
he makes a play for her hand.
l think the old style was the best,
because when young people quarreled
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
Mad. a difference.

Little Willie became slightly indis-
posed, and when the family doctor
was called he prescribed some medi-
cine in powder form.
"Come, Willie" said the fond moth
er, preparing one of the powders as
soon as the medicine arrived from the
drug store, you must take this right
away so that you will be we'll"
mo, / don't want to take It"
whined Willie. backing away from the
dose. Il don't need no medicine"
why, Willie" pleaded mother, gen.
tly drawing the boy toward her, you
never heard me complain about a lit
tie powder, did your"
mo, an neither would l." was the
startling rejoinder of Willie. IF
could Just put it on my face like YOU
do, but / have to swallow it."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
MARRY Me This Minute or VIII Shoot You In the Topknot"

they didn't need an ambulance and a
hospital surgeon to help them make
up.
In the old days Simpson Green
would draw the stove brush cheerful
ly across his dogskin shoes and rush
with eager feet to see Lena Jones,
the girl he wished to make the wife of
his bosom.
Darling" Simpson would say, Il
am sure to the bad for love of you.
Pipe the downcast droop in this eye Of
mine and notice the way my heart is
bubbling over like a bottle of sarspar
lila on a hot day! Be mine, Lena!
Be mine!"
Then Lena would giggle. Not once,
but seven giggles, something like
those used in a spasm.
Then she would reply: mo, Simp-
son; it canno be. Fate wills it other.
WISE"
Then Simpson would bite his finger
nails, pick his hat up out of the coal.
scuttle and say to Lena: False onel
You Love Conrad, the ioorwalker in
the butcher shop. Curses on Conrad
and see what you have missed, Lena.
/ have tickets for a swell chowder
party next Tuesday. All! Farewell
f~orever!"
Then Simpson would walk out and
hunt up one of those places that cam
get an allnight license and there, with
one arm glued around the bar rail
he would fasten his system to a jal
which would last a week.
Despair would grab him and, Xix,
Dixie. he'd be Simpson with the sous,
thing for sure.
When he would recover strength
enough to walk downtown without al
tracing the attention OF the other sid
Of the street, he would call on LEM
and say: Lena, forgive me for wha
/ done, but love Is blind-and, besides
| mixed my drinks. Lena. | was on tn
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
coffin Found by Workmen.

Ladoga, Ind.-The remains of a cof-
fin containing some fragments of hui
man bones was unearthed here by
workmen excavating for a cellar in
New Ross. The grave was not al a
cemetery.
About fifty years ago a mar named
Noffsinger disappeared mysteriously
from New Ross and vas not seer oil
heard from afterward. Residents Of
New Ross believe he met with fou.
play and was buried in the big woods
which then covered the land where
the grave was found.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
COST SIT TO HANG A MAN
Old Warrants In Rush County. lndl.
ana, Show Some Curious
Statistics.

Rushville. Ind.-The first record OF
warrants ever used by a treasurer OF
Rush county, covering the period from
1922 to 1871, was found in the treas
urer's Office recently. The record
showed that it cost the county only
SIT to hang Edward L. Swanson, the
only man who ever paid the death
penalty in Rush county.
He was convicted of the murder OF
Elisha Clark, in April. 1929. and after
a motion for a new trial failed, was
hanged in May of the same year. The
warrants issued show that SIS was al
lowed Beverly R. Ward for making q
coffin for Swanson, 81 was allowed Da,
vid Looney for digging the grave. and
$40 was paid William L. Bupelt fol
rope. cap, shroud and gallows for the
execution of Edward l. Swanson"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24

G AYI have you ever noticed that
~ when a gink with IN aluminium
headpiece is handed the "This-Way-
Out" signal by his adored one, he
either hikes for a pickle parlor and
begins to festoon his system with hops,
or he stands in front Of a hardware
store and gazes gloomily at the guns?
You haven't noticed it? Why, you
astpnish me!
Friend wife met me by appointment
TO take dinner at the Saint Astormore
the, other evening. and with her was
her. little brother, stephen, aged nine.
Il brought Stevie with me because
! had some shopping to do. and he's
80 much company" Peaches explained
as we sat down in the restaurant.
"Stevie is always pleasant COM
pany." l agreed, politely, but with a
watchful eye on my youthful brother
ln-law all the while.
That kid was born with an abnor-
NAL bump Of mischief, and by pains
taking endeavor he has o the
worlds championship as an organizer
OF impromptu riots.
ooh, joint" said Peaches, when l
began to make faces at the menu
card. 81 didn't notice until now how
pale you loot. Have you had a busy
day7"
Busy" l repeated. well rather.
I've been giving limitations of a bull
fight. Everybody l met was the bull
and was the fight. Nominate your
eats! What1l 1t be, Stevie?'
Sponge cake" said Stephen prompt
Iy.
What else?" asked Peaches.
More sponge cake" the youth re-
piled. and just then the smiling and
sympathetic waiter stopped down to
pick up a fork which stephen had
droppen.
In his anxiety not to miss anything
Stevie rubbered alphabetically, with the
result that he upset a glass Of ice wa
ter down the walters neck, and three
seconds later the traytrotter had is
sued an extra and was saying things
in French that would sound scandal
Gus If translated.
1t cost me q dollar TO Drlng the ulsn-
dragger back to earth, and Stevie said
l could break his bank open when
we got home and take all the money
If I'd let him do It again.
Just then | got a fash OF Dixie
Lawrence bearing down in our direc-
ton under q full head of benzine.
Dixie was escorting a three days jag
and whispering words of encourage.
ment to 1t.
A good fellow. Dixie, but he shouldn't
permit a distillery to use his thirst as
q testing station-he's too tempera,
mental.
"H'ar'ye, Mrs. John?" he gurgled as
the waiter pushed an extra chair un
der. "Howdy, John? How de do, little
man? 'Scuse me for i%nt'rupting a per
fly splendid family party-my mis-.
take!-Tm all in-that's tim all in,
and it's your fault, John; all your
fault"
whats wrong, Dike?" l inquired.
"Ev'thing!" he martinied; "ev'thing
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
Boiled Cod. Venetian Sauce.

Wipe a thick piece of cod, weighing
four pounds, with a piece of cheese
cloth, wrung out Of cold water. and
boil 45 minutes. Remove to hot plat
ter and garnish with slices of lemon
and parsley. Serve with Venetian
sauce.
Venetian Sauce.-Melt one-fourth
cupful butter. and four tablespoonfuls
-four. and stir until well blended; then
pour on gradually, while stirring con-
%stantly, two cupfuls boiling water.
Bring to the boiling point and add the
Juice of one-half lemon, o~ne-fourth cup
full capers. n tablespoonful finely
chopped pickles. Again bring to the
boiling point, season with salt and add
two tablespoonfuls butter. bit by bit.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24

all wrong-lesh have drink-my mis-
take-didn't think of it before. Your
little son growing to be a splendid
boy, Mrs. joint"
This is Stephen, my little brother,
not my little son." Peaches explained.
I'VE haven't any children" she added
~nervously.
Dixie carefully closed n eye and
focused the other on her. Haven't
any little sonny mistake!" Then
he turned the open gig lamp on me
and began again. "S'prised at you
John; little son Is the most won'erful
thing any father and mother could
possess with the possible 'ception of
a III 'daughter-ain't that so, Mrs.
John? Little brother is all right, but
don't compare with little son. Look
at me, Mrs. John; can't ever have lit
tie son-when / think about It l could
bust right u crying! Grief has made
me almost hysterical, historical, hys-
%tollihed--I mean I'm nervous-lesh
have drinki"
Whats gone wrong, Dike?' l asked.
Each minute you look more and more
like Mona Lisa without the smile,
What's the trouble?"
"AlI your fault. john" he plunged
on again. Most bew'ful girl she was
Mrs. John; perf1y bew'ful. with won
'erful gray hair and golden eyes, per
fIy bew'ful. girl. l told your husban
all about her-I made confession thai
/ was madly in love with this bew'fu
girl and your husban' told me to &c
and propose to her and drag her of
to a minister and | did p~ropose-ml
mistake After / made my speech sh'
said to me. this bew'ful girl said t
me; That's ali right; no doubt you d,
love me, but are you ~eugenic?" Ant
i said. No. I'm Presbyterian
Dixie paused to let the horror OF th'
scene sink in and then he fell over
board again with a moist splash.
THAT bew'frI esT' ius glanced a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
WIFE QUITS THE PARSONAGE
fredericksburg Foraets Art Of Kiss
ing and Young Bride Returns
to Her Mother.

st. Louis-Mrs. 1ugenia Anderson.
nineteen years old. seven-months
bride of Rev. Arthur r. Anderson, pas
tor Of the Central Christian church in
Granite City. has returned to the
home of her mother, Mrs. Minnie
Koch of this city. because, she says,
her husband would not kiss her.
She told a reporter that. in the last
two months, her husband had kissed
her but once, and that this lone salute
was bestowed, not upon her lips, true
lover fashion, but In a half hearted
way on her cheek.
She said she did not wish to be di
vorced, and would be glad to resume
her place as mistress OF the manse, il
her husband would only give her g
little affection.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
Jam.MakInq Time.

Jam.making time is beginning and 1t
is a good plan to always grease the
bottom of the preserving pan with best
olive oil before putting in the fruit.
for 1t prevents the jam from burning.
Also add a lump of butter about as big
as a walnut for every six pounds of
fruit, putting 1t in when the jam comes
to the boil after the sugar has been
added and let melt
By the way. n should never let
jam boil after the sugar Is put in till
1t has really melted. or the jam will
go thin.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24

downward path and l nearly to
Helgoland."
Then Lena would say, "Oh, Simpsey,
l wanted you to prove our love, but |
thought you'd prove 1t with beer and
not red-eye. Forgive me, d~arlingi"
Then they would kiss and make up,
and the wedding bells would ring just
as soon as Simp's salary grew large
enough to tease a pocketbook.
But these days the idea is altogether
different.
Children are hardly out of the cradle
before they are arrested for butting
into the speed limit with a smoke
wagon.
Even when they go counting they
have to play to the gallery.
Nowadays Gonsalvo H. Puffenlotz
walks into the parlor to see Miss
1mogene Hofbrew.
"wie gents, Imogenel" says Con
salvo.
"Simlich!" says Imogene, standing
at right angles near the piano because
she thinks she is a Gibson girl.
"Imogene, dearest" Gonsalvo con-
tinues, Il called on your papa in Wall
street yesterday to find out how much
money you have, but he refused to
name the sum, therefore you have I'M
told wealth."
Gonsalvo pauses to let the Partisan
clock on the mantle tick, tick, tick!
He is making the bluff of his life,
you see, and he has to do even that
on tick.
Besides, this furnishes the local
color.
Then Gonsalvo bursts forth again:
"Imogenei Oh! Imogene! VIII you
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
Walking Motor Cars.

A motor car without wheels has
been specially designed in England
for passing over rough ground and
climbing hills. Instead of wheels the
car has three parallel pairs Of runners.
resembling those of sledges, except
that they are movable. AS soon as
the motor is started one pair is raised.
moved forward and set on the ground.
and these movements are initiated by
the succeeding n The car al
ways rests on two pairs, and by means
of the forward action of the runners
also moves forward
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
erioht Shades.

For Frightening a large living room
with a dark wall covering one might
select window shades with gorgeous
redbirds perched on greenish brown
branches or Just large. conventional.
ICED red OF mulberry flowers with
ample foliage. For a brown room
shades with long sprays of the r,ch
golden glow as a decoration would be
successful.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-24
FOUR LEGS TO THIS CHICK
Members Of Oak Park Family Each to
Get "Drumstick" Thanks
giving.

Chicago.-There will be four drum
sticks" to be distributed next Thanks
giving to members Of the family OF
Mrs. M. A. McGurn. 22s North Austin
avenue, Oak Park. They will all come
from one fowl.
Rose" a white l.eghorn hen.
matched a freak" chick Monday. 1t