Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 2, Hammond, Lake County, 19 June 1906 — Page 2
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
PAGE TWO TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1906
Charles Irish is here, the guest of his brother J. Floyd Irish. Ground work on the Tapper buildin Ann St. was begun this mornAttorney South Bend business. Stuart is here McKibben of today on legal Pros. Atty. D. E. Boone and his family have moved in to their new residence on May St. Master Cyril Bell left last evening to spend a his grandparents there. for Lowell week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fehring drove to St. John last evening to attend John Twp. Eight Grade exercises. Messrs. Fred Brinken and John Idzorek of the Lion Store were in Chicago today on business for their firm. The Board of Public Works awardthe contract to build the Clark St. sewer to W. F. Brunt the State St. plumber. John Haney is reported to be quite ill at his home 41 Sibley St. The case has been diagnosed as incipient typhoid fever. The Chicago & Southern Indiana will run an excursion to Muncie next Sunday giving the many people of Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor a chance to reto their former home. TWO MORE HAMMONDITES A pair of girl twins arrived early sterday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Richard Hill 722 SiSt. Judging from appearances the arrivals will make a permanent stay.
Special Judge in Olson Case Judge Hanlon of Goodland is actingas special judge in the case of Olsen Adm. vs. Knickerbocker Ice Co. Arguments in the case are being heard this afternoon, all the evidence having been introduced. The claim is that through negli gence of the company at their ice house a plank fell hitting Olsen on the head causing his death. Most Oliver Holmes is acting as both reand interpreter.
GAME DOGS AND GAME. A Remarkable Instance of the Influof Heredity. The setter ate the mutton chop greed ily, but he would have none of the parbones. "A good game dog," said his master, "can't eat game. Its taste is repugto him. This is a remarkable inof the influence of heredity. "Game dogs have been trained for many generations not to eat the game -the birds and rabbits and what notwhich they bring back to their masters in their mouths. They have been train ed to consider that the eating of such game would be a disgrace and an un pardonable sin, the same as bank clerks have been trained to consider that the pocketing of a few dollars from the millions they annually han dle would be a disgrace and a sin. "And the result in the game dogs' case has been that this moral abhor rence of game, suggested to them by their masters, has been transmitted in its passage down from one generation to another, into an actual physical ab horrence. In the matter or game, thanks to heredity, game dogs now are never tempted. They can't sin. "It would be a good thing for policy holders if, In the same way, man's moral disinclination to steal had been changed by heredity to an actual phys ical aversion of other people's money Ancient Tricks.. The arts of juggling were, as has been proved by learned writers, of high antiquity. The Hirpini, who lived near Rome, jumped through burning coals: women in early time were ac customed to walk over burning coals in Cappadocla, and the exhibition of balls and cups is often mentioned in the works of the ancients. It was as far back as the third century that one Fermus, or Firmius, who endeavored to make himself emperor in Egypt, suffered a smith forge iron on an anvil placed on breast, and rope dancers with balancpoles are mentioned by Petronius and others, while the various feats of horsemanship exhibited in our circuses passed, in the thirteenth century, from Egypt to the Byzantine court and thence over all Europe. A Proud Man. "Did you see that proud man going out just now?' asked the cashier. "Proud as Lucifer. Know what he did? Found that I had made a misin his favor and handed me back the change. Now, I wonder why it is that people are so proud when they have discovered that they are honest. I could rake in a lot of extra coin if I availed myself of the mistakes that are made here every hour of the day, but I don't on general principles, because I am naturally honest. It's nothto be proud of." New York Sun.
EED OF THE MONEY
Having lost every cent of his ready money at the gaming tables, an EngFreddie Muth's Kidnaper, lish visitor at Monte Carlo Wired a
a Father Himself, Offers for His Diabolism. HE HAD ROBBED HIS EMPLOYER And Is the No Account Son of a Good New York Family. Stolen Boy Is Kept Hidden Just Week-How the Police Got on the Right Trail. Philadelphia, June 19 Muth, the 7-year-old son Freddie of Jeweler Charles Muth. who was kidnaped from Muhlenburg public school last Tuesday, was found yesterday afternoon in a vacant house and returned to his parnts. John Joseph Kean, member of a respectable New York family, one time bookkeeper of the Harlem bank, a stock broker, and more recently a real estate agent, is the abductor. Replete with dramatic incidents throughout, the climax of the abduction was sensa tional. The kidnaper was taken at the point of a pistol only after he had been fired upon, and when he realized that escape was impossible. Kean is a marman and the father of three chil dren. He gave as his reason for ab ducting the Muth boy that he needed money. Police Get on the Trail. From the day of the kidnaping until the arrest Kean had kept the child in three vacant houses in West Philadel phia. The first information that Kean and his captive were in the vicinity in which the arrest was eventually made came from Joseph Sager, a baker, who told a policeman that he had seen man and boy answering the descripof the pair in an oyster saloon on Haverford avenue last Wednesday night. Special officers began a search of all the vacant houses in the neighand their search led them to the very house occupied by the abductor and the child. These dwellings were so constructed, however, that by means of a rear shed Kean was able to elude the police the first time by climbing into the back windows of two adjoininng houses which wore also un occupied. Real Estate Man Gives a Clue. J. Cooke, a real estate dealer, complained at headquarters that John Jo seph Kean, who had acted as collector and agent for him, had embezzled $400. Specimens of his handwriting were shown the police and they were found to be identical with the writing in the letters which the abductor had begun. sending to Muth. Special Officers Clare and Vale again instituted a search of the vacant houses in their district, and they paid another visit to the dwellings Nos. 423, 425 and 427, North Sixty-second street. When Chief Vale reached the third floor of 425 he observed Freddie Muth standing on the rear shed of 427. He called to him, saving: 'Hello, Freddie," Freddie said "Hello," and immediately began to cry. HOW THE FIEND WAS CAUGHT Saw Him Just in Time to Follow on His Heels. Vale leaped through the window and stepped across the roof to the adjoininhouse. He was just in time to see Kean hurrying down the stairs. Draw ing his revolver he fired at the fleeing man, but missed. He finally caught him and the kidnaper surrendered. Th child in the meantime had followed the pair and reached the first floor as the arrest was made. The news of the capture had reached the center of the city, and when the prisoner and the boy arrived at the city hall a great crowd had gathered. Kean, white with fear, trembled so that he could scarcewalk, and begged the detectives not to let them kill him. With the boy he was taken to Mayor Weaver's office, and the mayor immediately communicated by telephone with Muth. who hastened to the mayor's ofand the meeting between father and child was most affecting. The child bore no evidence of ill treatment beyond lack of sufficient nourishment. He had been fed on bread and milk which Kean had stolen from door steps. When found he held a couple of crusts of bread in his hands, and his school book was under his arm. In the letters which the kidnaper wrote to Muth he threatened to kill the boy if his demands were not met. He demanded that Muth tell the police a fictitious tale about the disappearance of his son, in order might be withdrawn. that the detectives His letters were answered by Captain Donaghy through the "Personal" columns of the newspaand apparently all of his demand were granted, but Kean avoided arKean told the police that he abductthe boy primarily to secure the $400 he had embezzeled from Char!es J. Cooke. In addition, he said, he was in debt, with no means of providing for his family. He said he never into harm the boy. Tobacco Trust Indicted. New York. June 19. The federal grand jury has handed down an in indictcharging . the MacAndrews & Forbes company, the John S. Young company, and the presidents of the two corporations, Karl Jungbluth and HowE. Young, with violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The indictment is the result of an investigation int the so-called tobacco trust
GAMBLERS' LUCK.
A Joke Which Brought a Fortune to Its Innocent Victim. pathetic appeal for help to a friend in England. Two days later he received a letter addressed in the friend's handwriting which on being opened revealed a five pound note, Without pausing to read the letter, the plunger hastened to Ciro's, the famous restaurant in the Galerie Charles Ill., and changed his "fiver" into French money. From Ciro's he went straight into the Casino, where, exan extraordinary run of luck, he not merely retrieved all his previous losses, but gained a substantial increase into the bargain. Weary of play, be retired with a few cronies to Ciro's again to celebrate the occasion. The usually genial M. Ciro met him at the door of his establishment with a flood of reproaches and upbraidings. The five pound note was bad! He waved it angrily in the plunger's face-mais oui, it was false, this five pound note! The plunger took the guilty "fiver" and scrutinized it carefully. It was one of the sham bank notes issued by Sir Augustus Harris and bore on its face an advertisement of the Drury Lane pantomime. The English friend, himself as "broke" as the Monte Carlo plunger, had posted him the flagrantly worthless note as a joke-a joke which had the plunger taken the trouble to examine the "fiver" or read its coverletter he would have seen only too clearly himself. It was fortunate that he did not do so. He merely paid Ciro his £5 and, inviting the pacified resto share in the champagne, pretended that the whole affair was an intentional witticism. The conceit of a croupier, who fondly imagined that he understood the Englanguage, was instrumental in preanother and far less experi enced Britisher with 1,000 francs This gentleman, handing a 1,000 franc billet to the croupier in question, askfor plaques in exchange for It. Plaques are the large five louis gold pieces peculiar to Monaco. The croufancying that the player had said "black" and was requesting him to place the note on the "black" comof the cloth, did so unobBlack duly turned up, and the croupier politely handed 2,000 francs to the surprised Britisher.-Ward Muir in Chambers' Journal. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is often contentment. Everybody has trouble of some kind. What is the nature of yours? The average wish is about as valuaas the check of a bankrupt. People are confronted every day with little problems and do not know what to do with them. Some men's idea of perseverance is to see how long they can cherish ill feelfor some real or fancied grievance. No matter how busy a man is he thinks he isn't wasting time if he takes an hour to prove he was right in a most trifling question. After you have worked hard and saved your money it makes you mad to be approached by a man who has spent his and be invited to go into a scheme that is solely for his benefit-Atchison Globe. Queer Drummers. "There's a story," said a drummer, "about a commercial traveler whose line was tunnels and post holes for fences. Him I never met. I did meet once, though, a drummer selling iron churches and suspension bridges. An other time I met a drummer who said his line was pupils. What did he mean by pupils? He meant, I found, glass eyes for stuffed animals, for dolls and for human beings. One of this man's favorite amusements was to open his sample case and ask the people present to pick out the eye that best matched their own. The people made awful mistakes in this, for nobody, it seems, knows the color of his own eyes." Cincinnati Enquirer. What Father Does. Mothers may talk, work, struggle to make their sons models by which to shape a new heaven and a new earth. But the boy's world is in the man who is his father, and the boy believes that whatever may be right on Sunor at prayer times the things that are really good, that really count in life, are what father does. Moreover, it is what father does which defines the means with which the boy shal work, the sphere wherein his efforts shall be shaped. In a word, what fa ther does is the beginning as it is the end of the boy's achievements. Har per's Bazar. Precocious Fox. Charles James Fox is probably the only man who ever made a maid speech in the commons while still a youth in his teens. lie was nineteen when he took his seat for Midhurst, and within a few months he had made three excellent speeches. And yet even at this early age Fox used freto sit up all night drinking and gambling. An Explanation Wanted. "I'd like to know," began the thought fnl boarder. "Would like to know what?" asked the boarder who knew it all. "I'd like to know how 'matches are made in heaven' when they keep all the brimstone in the other place."-Chi-News. Bringing It Home. Bob-Don't you think that love is a species of insanity? Ethel-Sometimes. Who has been falling in love with you? Smart Set.
CLUB LIFE ECONOMIES
POOR MEN IN THE SWELL ORGANIOF NEW YORK. A Democracy Where All, Regardless of Income, Are Equal-Membership In a First Rate Club Regarded as a Profitable Investment. A good many country visitors are disappointed when they learn the sober truth that New York has no clubs comexclusively of millionaires. It is harder still to make country folk believe that hundreds of men join the so called swell clubs in large part from motives of economy. There are scarcely three clubs in the city that do not include a considerable number of poor men in their memberThe average income of the whole membership of the ten best known clubs in the city is probably nearer $10,000 a year than $50,000 a year, and almost every one of these clubs insome scores of men with incomes well below $10,000 and a good many with incomes well below $5,000. There is a real democracy of New York club life. Youths in their early twenties and just beginning their caon very moderate salaries fretruly palatial clubhouses, breakin rooms such as few princes ever and lounge before fireplaces that are to be matched only in the most splendid buildings of Europe. The poor man's credit at the club is as good as the rich man's, and both are impartially posted when they neglect to pay their bills in good season. There are a good many instances also in which the monthly bills of the poor man are higher than those of his rich fellow member, for the frequenters of clubs are apt to be the poorer rather than the richer members. Many a man of small means regards his membership in a first rate club in the light of a profitable investment. Such a man, if a confirmed bachelor, has probably lived for twenty years within half a block of the club, paying few hundreds a year for a small bedroom and finding all his luxuries in the apartments of the clubhouse. Without being in the least mean he makes of the club a money saving in stitution for himself. Its comfortable lounging rooms save him annually from $300 to $1,000 a year in rent, ac cording to the location in which he has is modest lodgings. After that he saves a fair percentage on everything he eats and drinks at the club. His simple breakfast costs him per haps 10 per cent less than it would cost at any restaurant he would be likely to frequent, and the same is true of his dinners. If he takes three-fourths of his meals at the club he saves annually about $100 in tips. If he drinks wine at dinner he saves from 10 to 25 per cent upon every botIf he permits himself the luxury of a cab he saves a handsome per centage by ordering it through the club and avoids all possibility of a row with the cabby over the amount of the fare. Many a man writes all his let ters of a social character and some of a business character at the club, and thus saves from $15 to $40 a year in stationery. He need buy no books, nor need he subscribe to a library, for there is the club library free for his use. He never need buy a periodical or even a news paper save when he travels, for all that he reads are freely supplied by the club. And the enjoyment of all these things imposes upon him no conexpenditure for extravagant luxuries. He is sure, especially in the college clubs, to find plenty of men with like modest incomes and simple tastes as himself, and he may sit for hours with cronies over the cafe table without spending money that he can not afford and without giving offense to the servants of the house committee. Most club members probably do not keep a debit and credit account with the club, but the man of modest means and moderate habits would find the exof such an account a matter of great satisfaction. Such a man, paying $250 as an entrance fee and $75 a year in dues, is likely to find himself at the end of twenty years a long way ahead of the game. The club in twenyears has cost him rather less than $2,000 for entrance fees, dues and conto the Christmas box, and his savings by reason of the club have been from $10,000 to $16,000.-New York Sun. A Sister's Love. A Boston clergyman whose work takes him among the poor of that town tells a pretty story of sisterly love examong the humble and unfortuOne day a pale and ragged girl of about ten years was seen going along the street carrying on her back her crippled brother, nearly as old as he. A stranger stopped her by saying that she was overexerting herself. "He is too heavy for you to carry," he said. The child of the ghetto looked up at him reproachfully, saying: "He ain't heavy. He is my brother." Capsicine The active principle of capsicum, or red pepper, is a volatile oil known as capsicine. It is so exceedingly acrid that a quarter of a grain exposed to the air in a room will diffuse itself throughout the apartment and cause 11 present to cough and sneeze as though the pepper had been taken into the mouth or nostrils. Th Height of Fame. Superlative fame is where a man has not only forced his name into everybody's mouth, but has kept it there until the first class newspapers are spelling It the same way every time they mention it-Puck. Don't refuse to tell or show the apwhat to do. for you once had to learn all that you know.
HOW WEASELS HUNT.
The Graceful Pose of the Animal When on the Trail. The lithe grace of the weasel may be observed whenever it is on the trail. At an even speed, with nose to the ground, its reddish brown back seems literally to glide along through the rank herbage by the bank. It may be the scent of a rat, and the trail may take it in and out of the bank a good many times before it comes up with its victim. It may even have to swim a stream before its peris rewarded. It is wonderful how small a hole that long, arched body can glide into and emerge from without the slightest difficulty. When it has caught and killed its prey its movements are equally graceas it carries the spoil home to its hole. Crossing a Kentish field I saw a weasel coming along under the hedgered toothed from the chase. There was the same sinuous motion of the back, but the little beast's head was held as high as possible and from its mouth hung the limp carcass of a young rat, freshly killed. The weasel held it by the neck and so high, for all the shortness of its legs, that only the end of the rat's tail dragged through the grass. A family of weasels will often hunt in company, and this is naturally a most interesting sight to witness. The ability of the weasel to enter exceedingly small holes is owing entirely to the structure of its body its flat head, long neck and short limbs and tail. In a cornrick it can pursue mice with ease along their burrows.-London Mail. Purity of Milk. In Paris the municipal chemists acmilk as pure when it contains one ounce of butter and four ounces of solids per quart. At Bern milk must contain at least 3 per cent of butter and may contain 90 per cent of water. At Berlin the police seize all milk offor sale which is below the legalrequired standard of 2.7 per cent of fatty matters. This allows the dairyto add with safety from 10 to 13 per cent of water to fairly rich milk. Safer. "Of course, I don't want to criticise, but I don't think it was altogether right for David to say 'all men are liars.' " "Well, at any rate, it was safer than to pick out one man and say it to him." Philadelphia Ledger. An Old Clock. The great clock at Rouen has been measuring time and striking the hours and quarters for over 500 years and, it is said, has been running all this time without interruption. RHE LUMBAGO, SCIATICA EURALGIA and KIDNEY TROUBLE "5 DROPS" taken internally, rids the blood ot tbe poisonous matter and acids which are the direct causes of these diseases. Applied externally it affords almost inrelief from pain, while a permanent cure is being effected by purifying the blood, dissolving: the poisonous substance and removing it from the system. Of Brewton, Ga., writes: "I had been a sufferer for a number of years with Lumbago and Rheumatism in my arms and legs, and tried all the remedies that I could gather from medical works, and also consulted with a number of the best physicians, but found nothing that gave the relief obtained from "5-DROPS." I shall prescribe it in my practice for rheumatism and kindred diseases.' It you are suffering with Rheumatism Neuralgia, Kidney Trouble or anv kindred disease, write to us for a trial bottle of '5-DROPS," and test it yourself. "5-DROPS" can be used any length of time without acquiring a "drug habit." as it is entirely free of opium, cocaine, alcohol, laudanum, and other similar ingredients. Large Size Bottle, "5-DROPS" (800 Doses) $1.00. For Sale by Druggists. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE COMPANY Dept. 8O, 160 Lake Street, Chicago. How's This We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and finan cially able to carry out any obllga tions made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for cons tipation. 6-2-lmo.
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