Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 3, Hammond, Lake County, 20 June 1906 — Page 4

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1906

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

AN EVENING NEWSPAPER PUBBY THE LAKE COUNTY COMPANY. Terms of Subscription: Yearly $2.50 Half Yearly $1.25 Single Copies 1 cent. Entered at the Hammond, Ind. postoffice as second class matter. Offices in Hammond building, HamInd. Telephone 111. Wednesday, June 20, 1906 WONDERFUL how our industries grow. Whiting is now competing with St. Joe, Michigan, in the get-ried-quick trade. HAD Governor Hanly tipped it off that he was coming to Hammond, he would have been met at the train by a delegation from the Apple ShinUnion with reference to the lid on the peanut industry. ALL efforts made by English cato promote the cultivation of cotton in Palestine have been fruitLand is one-tenth the price of Egyptian and labor is twenty-five cents per day. The chief cause of failure is the laziness of incapacity of the natives. THE oldest railway station in the world is in Manchester England and is identically like the concrete buildof Spain or Old Mexico. When George Stephenson constructed the first English railway, farmers and noblemen opposed him, and in the court of inquiry he was obliged to answer such questions as: What would result if the locomotive ran into a cow! CURIOUS things are constantly coming to light and among the most interesting relics of the Civil war is a huge iron key which turned in the lock and made John Brown a prisoner in the Charleston jail, at the time when he raided Virginia and incited negroes to fight for freedom. John Brown ostensibly pursued the calling of a watchmaker while secretly visiting negro quarters in the cause of their freedom. It was considered a foolish and hopeless task but it roused the country, brought about a controversy, Lincoln's election fol lowed and John Brown's dreams were realized. McClelland's men afterwards burned the historic old jail where Brown went to the gallows, and when the ashes cooled, the quaint old key was found unharmed. It is over foot long, and is in the possession of Dr. Tucker of New York. HAMMOND Is slowly developing the aesthetic sense. While LaPorte and Rensselaer are famous for the beauty of their streets, Hammond has been famed for being a smoky, dirty, factory town. But we are be ginning to outgrow this reputation This will always be a working man's city and yet it is fast improving in the beauty of its residences and streets. More and more of the working men own their own houses and take a pride in beautifying their lawns and keeping their yards in trim. To those who have the improve ment of the city at heart it is disto see the main thoroughdefaced by unsightly bill boards. A bill board with a new adpasted on it is glaring enough, but on many of the boards the paper is old and hangs down in shreds. Great bare places are exand blood curdling scenes in shows which have frequented Hamin the past, still stand out as reminders of their visit. These unscars on the landscape are a disgrace to the city. We are not ready to suggest the appointment of a billboard inspector, but a stringent ordinance on the defacing of the streets would greatly aid in beautithe city. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET Chicago, Ills. June 20th 06 The wheat market opened with light offerings and light trade. The weakness in corn and oats being an influence. General rains made an easier corn market. Some few commission houses selling. Volume of trade very good. Oats were generally lower on fine rains which are expected to fill out the crop. Considerable long oats were sold at the opening. Provisions market opened a shade easier, with no material change from yesterdays quotations. After early weakness the wheat market turned very strong and scored a substantial advance, recovering more than the decline of yesterday. Corn and oats participated in the advance and prices rose rapidly putthem considerably above yesclose. At the close there was a net gain in July, September, December and May wheat of about 1 3/8c; in corn

and oats an average net gain of lc. Provn's were dull, there was a brief weakness at opening then a substanrally headed by pork. Offerings of lard were more liberal than others. The market closed strong.

Between Trains MINERVA (By Frank X. Fennegan in Chicago Examiner.) How would you like to be today Up with the lark and far away, Leaving the city's noisy street, Out of the rush and toil and heat, Off where the shadows, long and cool, Lie on come sedgy woodland pool? How would you like to leave behind Turmoil, clamor, unrest of mind, Maddening struggle and losing fight Leave them all for the dancing light That flickers over the forest sod Out there where you are close to God? How would you like to put away Every care for a little day, Shutting out from your tired brain Work and worry and hope of gain, Prone on the, soft green turf to lie Dreaming, watching the summer sky? Hark! in the town's din, sweet and small Trembles a wild bird's haunting callRush of waters and sweep of wind Ho! let us leave the town behind! Flee away to the wildwood's shade, Back to the groves that God has made. (If that's the way you feel about it Frank, come to Hammond. Ye Ed.) MEAT IN THE CLASSICS "Upon what meat does this our Ceasar feed that he is grown so great?" (Julius Caesar) (Not canned meat surely.)) "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The fu neral baked meats." Deserted Village "O pardon me that I am meek and gentle with these butchers." Caesar. This was the most unkindest cut of all." Julius Caesar. "Let us return to our muttons." Rabelais (There is no hurry.) "What's one man's poison, Signor, is another's meat." Beaumont & Fletcher. (And what's meat from Chicago seems to be poison for us all.) "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat." Tusser (Yes, but who packs it?) "Heaven sends us good meat." (Then somebody is tampering with the delivery.) "I cannot eat hut little meat." Bishop Still. (Same here, your Reverence.) "After meat comes mustard." Cervantes (But what comes in the meat?) "He made it part of his religion never to say grace to his meat." Swift. (Can any one blame him?) "Strong meat belongeth to them that are full of age. New Testament (Maybe; but it will be taken from them if the Roosevelt inspectors find it.) "Let there be light." Old Testament. (And there was.) THE MUCK-RAKER. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Iguatz Kohn, Indiana Harbor. Regina Hoffman. Indiana Harbor. Wm. Pleis, South Chicago Gertrude Greene, South Chicago. Geo. Kourker, Whiting Anna Magwich. Whiting 29 21 24 23 20 Roy Edelman, Chicago 21 Cora Christopher, Chicago 17 Jay P. Bedford, Indiana Harbor 32 Anna Saluski, Indiana Harbor 25 Wesley Johnson, East Chicago Helen Lohse, Hessville Geo. Heckman, Chicago 24 26 59 4 Barbara Frzok, Chicago John W. Allen, Chicago Eva Bryant, Chicago Arthur V. Larson, Chicago Harriet Wahlestrom, Chicago. Henry Stevens, Chicago Mabel Fuller Brown, Chicago 21 2 29 31 James McArea, South Chicago Laura Machellau, South Chicago Gus J. Hanich, Chicago Marv Karm, Chicago 44 41 34 20 NEW STEAMER ON ITS WAY The new steel steamer Theodore Roosevelt sailed today for Chicago from Toledo Ohio where it was built. It will make daily trips from Chito Michigan City begining June 3 The Theodore Roosevelt will have a large dancing floor and music will be furnished by an orchestra daily.

BEAUTIFUL WINONA

Some Of the Things That Will Make This Resort More Attractive Than Ever This Year. SEASON CF UNUSUAL INTEREST Program Includes Many of the ForePreachers, Lecturers, Teachers and Entertainers of the Country A Paradise for Women, an Outing Place for Brain-Fagged and BusiMen and a Playground for Children-Summer Training Schools and Great Bible Conference. The year book of affairs at Winona Lake show that a season of extraordlnary interest has been arranged for this attractive resort In northern Indiana. The program includes the names of many of the foremost preachers, lecturers and teachers of the country, a number of monologists, readers and other entertainers are to appear, while the whole list of events j and attractions is dominated by music. The management of Winona Assembly has from its beginning eleven years ago bent its efforts toward mak ing Winona Lake a resort for Christian people by eliminating everything which would be unattractive to all other classes, and that there is a demand for such a place as this was inlast season when about 250,000 people from all over the country visitthe lake. The. tone of the affairs for this year are in keeping with the Winona spirit of wholesomeness, and the indications are that the total numof visitors will by several thouexceed the figures of other years. An unusually large number of convenare to be held at the lake. The park on the shores has been materially improved in extent and appearance. Outdoor recreations are to have more than common attention. The greatest enterprise which the Winona management has developed during the year is an interurban railsystem, reaching from the lake to Goshen, where it connects with trolley lines to many cities in northern Indiand southern Michigan. Speakers at Winona Lake. Among the notable speakers who are to be heard from the platform at WiLake this season will be three state governors who have won fame as reformers. One of them is GoverHanly of Indiana; Governor Folk of Missouri will speak on questions which are holding the attention of the American people; Senator LaFollette, former governor of Wisconsin, is in this trio, and they will all appear durthe same week at Winona. A great debate has also been arranged, the subject to be the ship subsidy, the affirmative to be taken by CongressC. H. Grosvenor of Ohio, and the negative by Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, and Congressman A. L. Brick of Indiana is to preside. Dr. R. W. Rogers of Drew Theologi cal Seminary, one of the foremost explorers of buried cities of the Holy Land, is to give fifteen lectures at Winona on Bible people and times. With pick and shovel Dr. Rogers has dug out of the old cities the libraries of kings, written on clay tablets, and translated the inscriptions for himDr. W. J. Dawson, the famous British preacher and author, will also be heard at Winona. Booker T. WashDr. Frank Dixon, the anti-so cialist; John G. Woolley, the prohibi tlon orator, and many others are also on the program. A Paradise for Women. Winona Lake has among the women of the middle West become known as "a paradise," because of the many features offered for their enjoyment during the summer season. The muprograms, the light entertainments, the sermons and lectures, are all of appealing interest. The outdoor life, with fountains, flower beds, walks in the woods and on the lake shore, the boat rides, the social affairs of the Winona Women's Club, all combine in giving wide range of entertainment. Tired mothers who go to the lake inin number from year to year, for there they turn their children loose

in the sandheaps and on the beaches, the students will each afternoon asmothers themselves getting oppor- semble at the auditorium, where they

tunities to rest. This resort will this year be more than ever a playground for children. An elephant, a wild animal, a pony and dog show, and some other events of the kind have been arranged to inthe children. The little folks will have their own Sunday school, and there will be special playgrounds, in the charge of adults, open to them. There will also be a big Indian camp, with the youngsters as Indians, back in the Winona woods. For the older boys and girls there will be a clubhouse, where they may play on rainy days, and outdoors there will be tennis, baseball and field athof various kinds for them. A Feast of Summer Music. There will be a feast of music at Winona Lake during the season of 1906. It will be marked by many band and orchestra concerts, in which a number of noted singers will particiate. Gargiulo's Italian band of New York opens the list at Winona, and through July Rogers' Winona band and symphony orchestra will give daiconcerts. On July 30 the Thomas orchestra of Chicago will begin twelve concerts at the lake, during which Bruno Steindel, 'cellist, of Chicago;

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munds, soprano, of Indianapolis, and other eminent soloists will be heard. The Newsboys' Band of Indianapolis will spend the week of August 6 at the lake, when an airship and two fast motor-boats will give exhibitions. The Indiana Editorial associations will be at Winona during this week. The Kilties band, of Canada, with bagpipers, male chorus, giant drumand other features, will spend the week of August 13 at this resort. On August 10 a national choral conwill be held, the Winona manoffering prizes amounting to $1,000. This contest will be on the order of an Americanized Welsh Eisteddfod, or German sangerfest, and a number of choirs and singing societies will participate. E. O. Excell, one of the best- known writers of hymns, will organize a church chorus of 400 or 500 voices for Sabbath services at Winona. An Outing Place for Men. The management of Winona Assemhas arranged many attractions for business-weary men who may during the summer indulge in sort or lengthy vacations. Winona Lake is proving to be unusually good bass fishing ground this year, and fagged-out men will find outings on the water there of much physical benefit. There will be golf tournaments, baseball and athletcontests for college men, water paand other attractions to take men into the big outdoors. Summer Training Schools. There seems to be a general effort on the part of organizations which work toward clean citizenship to get their affairs on better basis through the medium of trained workers, the workers being developed in summer schools. Several of these schools will be in session at Winona Lake this seaOne of them is in the charge of the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana, which will teach township temperance workers how to clear out saloons, the operations of the state laws, and how to organize for temperance campaigns. The Winona Bible school will teach ministers, missionaries and church workers, as well as other students of the Scriptures. There will be a speschool for the training of Sunday School workers, and another will be to instruct women that they may lead their local missionary societies in the work during the winter months. There is also a department to train workers among children. In all of these schools some of the most promauthorities in the country will be the teachers and lecturers. The Winona Bible Conference. The Bible conference which attracts many thousand men and women to Winona Lake every year will open on August 19 and continue through ten days. Dr. David Gregg, formerly of Lafayette, Ind., now one of America's greatest preachers; Archdeacon Weba leader in the Episcopal church; Bishop Morrison of the M. E. South; Dr. R. A. Torrey of Chicago; Dr. W. E. Geil of London, Eng.; Dr. C. H. Woolston of Philadelphia, are a few of the eminent men who will be heard. There will be special conferences for evangelists, missions, rescue work, and along other lines. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Work ers, will be one of the speakers in the conference on church work among men. The Bible Conference days will he so crowded with speakers and servthat the programs will begin at 6 a. m. and continue until 10 p. m., with several meetings in progress at one time. The indications are that the attendance will be greater than ever. The Winona Summer Schools. Some of the best-known instructors from Indiana colleges and high schools are on the teaching force of the sumschools at Winona Lake this seathere being more than fifty of the instructors in about twenty-five school departments. All lines of school and college work are taught, and there are also schools for music, art and nature study. One of the new departments is domestic science, in charge of Daisy A. Dean, of the Fort Wayne public schools. Another is a school of swimfor women, conducted by a young woman who is an expert at swimming. D. W. Dennis of Earlham College directs the study of birds, flowand trees, and Isaac Brown, "the bird and bee man," will lead the chilinto the woods and talk to them of birds. During the summer school season will hear some noted speakers on educational topics. These lectures will supplement the work of all summer school departments, and the convocaaffairs will be open to all visitors to Winona Lake. Y. M. C. A. Camp at Winona. A new feature at Winona Lake is a camp in the woods for members of the Y. M. C. A. and college students, and several hundred young men are exto spend their vacation there. The camp is in the deep woods far from the hotels and centers of Winona park, with a fine swimming beach close at hand. The camp occupies a large frame building, about which sevtents have been pitched, where the young men will eat and sleep. To those who have limited means the Winona management is giving work that the young men may have a fine vacation and meet expenses, and for the others the price of living in the camp has been placed at actual cost. Some famous story tellers are to gathwith the young men at their campsome good singers will be heard, and other entertainments will be givso that camp life will have no dull moments.

Upon Him By OTHO B. SENGA Copyright, 1906, by E. C. Parcells

Squire Hart looked the young fellow over keenly. "M-m!" giving his pudgy hand to the clasp of the long, thin one extended in greeting. "Ralph Reed, eh? And what do you do?" Football, I suppose, like the rest of these donkeys!" Reed laughed good humoredly. "No, Mr. Hart, I wouldn't stand the ghost of a chance in a rush. I'm on the track team." "He's the champion sprinter, papa," interposed Elsie eagerly. "He won five points for the blue in the intercollegiate contest!" Her father frowned at her enthusiand Reed's thin, brown face col"You ought to run," grumbled the squire, continuing his examination of the young fellow; "you're built like a greyhound or a grasshopper!" Reed, outwardly at ease, flinched inunder the squire's keen scrutiHis compact with the pretty Elsie would be null and void without her faconsent, and he felt that his athcareer was a detriment in the eyes of the older man. He was not at encouraged by the remarks that fol"I don't believe in it," irascibly. "Boys go to college to study, or ought to. and they make a business of some kind of foolish play. If those football fellows," pointing to the three other young men who were his daugnter's guests for the spring vacation, "had to work one-half as hard sawing wood or plowing, they'd think they were terriabused." Some one called Elsie, and she hurried away, giving a pleading glance at her lover which he interpreted as counhim to patience. "And as for running," continued the squire, with increasing choler, for he, too, ''had seen the pleading glance, "as for running, why should a man of ordiTHEN A STREAK OF BLUE DASHED BY HIM. narv courage care to excel as a runner? Running is an accomplishment for cowThe blood rushed to the dark face, but Reed spoke quietly and cour"There are things to run for as well as things to run from, Mr. Hart, and I hope I'd not be lacking if a test of courage came to me." It was a merry party that roamed over the fields and through the woods searching for the earliest spring flowthat rode and drove and sang and danced. Young Reed and his fair hostess carried heavy hearts that made gayety an effort and laughter a mockery. The squire had refused to sanction their engagement, to listen to any suggestion or to make any promises for the future. "I'll wait." he said grimly, "until you have shown that you can do something besides run!" Apparently oblivious to the sports of the guests at Hart's Holm, the squire had kept a keen eye on them all. He rather admired the dogged pertinacity with which Reed took his daily run of three or four miles over the country roads. He smiled grimly when he saw the young fellow start out as if for a walk wearing a long raincoat over his running togs. "Doesn't mean to give any unnecessary offense to the 'crewel parient,' " chuckled the squire appreciatively, "but intends to have his own way just the same. "It'll be rather quiet and lonely at the house tomorrow," soliloquized the squire as he drove along, sniffing the fresh, clear air of the bright spring morning. "The lads and lassies all go today. I wish I hadn't been quite so sharp with Elsie and that young fellow. He seems a fine, manly chap. But what on earth does he want to run for?" ending irritably. "Hello, Bartlett, what's e matter with your horse?" He had reached the top of a long, steep hill, and overtaken a neighbor with a heavy load of rock. "Stepped on a stone that rolled, and gone as lame as a lazy man's excuses," Bartlett answered characteristically. "Suppose I hitch in my team and take the load down for you," suggested the squire, "it's all level after we pass my house. You can lead yours down.

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Sit still, Betty Bartlett. and hold on

tight," playfully addressing the little girl perched on the seat. "My horses Result of the Experiments of th are frisky, you know." Montgolfier Brothers. Bartlett had locked the wagon wheels Proceeding on the principle that heatto making the descent, but ed air expands and so becomes lighter,

as the squire lifted the tongue for the other horses to be hitched in the lock

chain snapped and broke and the heav- Joseph Montgolfier tilled a paper bag ily loaded wagon started down the hill, with heated air, which rose to the ceilHe shouted to Bartlett, who, ham- ing of the room. This preliminary sucby the four horses, lost his head cess was rapidly followed up, and they and only bawled, "Whoa. Hart, whoa!" gradually increased the size of the balHart held on to the tongue and loons experimented with until they braced back with all his strength, but were so satisfied with their progress

despite his efforts the wagon went flyiug down the hill like an engine on down grade. "Hold on tight, Betty," the squire managed to scream. He knew that if he dropped the tongue the wagon would be tipped over instantly and that there would be small chance indeed for the life of the child; so he too "held on tight" and ran as if fleeing from death. Go on, horsy," cried Betty, in great glee; "go faster!" The squire couldn't spare breath now even to groan. The heavy wagon, with a ton of rock behind him, crashed and roared, bounced over the rough places in the road, struck fire from cut stones, and the man ran till his legs seemed merely rags fluttering in a fierce wind. Almost at the foot! If only he could hold out a few seconds more! And then he tried to close his eyes-for there, crossing the road, directly in the path from which he dared not diverge, was a little scarlet clad figure drawing a child's cart! Bobby-his own little Bobby! He tried to pray, he tried again to close his eyes, and then a streak of blue dashed by him, the scarlet spot was caught up and rushed to safety! He jumped instinctively when he reached the little cart, and it was crushed to pieces under the thundering wheels. He had reached the level. He could feel the slackening of the terrific speed, but he still ran on, miles it seemed to him now. before he could stop the demon that was forcing him onward. "Go on, horsy! Gidd up!" cried the insatiate Betty as the squire dropped limp to the ground. "You can be my horsy now," she remarked complato the first of the young men who reached the side of the exhausted squire. They quickly improvised a stretcher from the blankets and carried the unman to the house. He opened his eyes after awhile and looked anxiously about him. "Bobby's all right," said some one quickly, "and the little girl-and-and. I guess, everybody." "Ralph!" gasped the squire. "Here I am, Mr. Hart," bending over him. "I am glad you can run," faintly. "So am I, Mr. Hart," feelingly. "I feared you were going to run over me, though." "We'll have to concede you to be the champion sprinter!" cried one of the other men. "That was a pretty long dash, sure enough!" "Ralph must yield the palm to you, squire," added another jovially. The squire shook his head feebly. "He-he 'achieved' it" he whispered, his eyes on Ralph's fine face, "but it it was"-He sighed wearily. "It was 'thrust upon you,' you mean, squire," understandingly. The squire smiled grimly in acquiescence. An Old Family Society. The Buchanan society, as the name

denotes, is composed of individuals of methylamln bases, prussic acid, sulname and clan of Buchanan and is phuretted hydrogen, oxide of carbon

the oldest named society in Scotland. It was instituted in Glasgow so far back as 1725. At a friendly meeting of some of the name of Buchanan held there on March 5 of that year the folproposal was made: "That the name of Buchanan, being now the most numerous name in the place, and many poor boys of that name, who are found to be of good genius, being lost for want of good education, a fund might be begun and carried on by the name, the interest of which in time might enable some of them to be useful in church and state." This society has since gone on with almost uninterrupted success. It has attained a position of high importance and is of great practical use.-London Notes and Queries.

irectory THE FIRST BALLOON. bulk for bulk, than air at the ordinary temperature, the brothers Stephen and that in 1783 they gave a public exhibition, sending up a linen balloon 105 feet in circumference, which was inflated over a fire supplied with small bundles of chopped straw. The balloon succeedbeyond their utmost expectation, and after rising to a height of over 6,000 feet it descended ten minutes after in a field a mile and a half away. The next balloon carried a car, in which were a sheep, a cock and a duck. The success of this further experiinduced M. Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes to risk their lives by making the first ascent in the new and wonderful machine. Their balloon, which was forty-five feet in diameter and seventy-five feet high and was inflated with hot air, passed over Paris to the great astonishment of the people, attaining an altitude of half a mile. Ballast was then for the first time employed in regulating the aspower of the balloon. The first venture was followed by others, and De Rozier, the first to ascend, was also the first to meet his death in this manhaving been killed, with a comby the burning of his baloon near Boulogne. BACKBONE. The Self Reliant Man Is the One Wh Is In Demand. Haven't you depended upon clothes, upon appearances, upon introductions, upon recommendations about long enough? Haven't you leaned about long enough on other things? Isn't it about time for you to call a halt, to tear off all masks, to discard everyyou have been leaning on outside of yourself, and depend upon your own worth? Haven't you been in doubt about yourself long enough? Haven't you had enough unfortunate experiences depending upon superficial, artificial, outside things to drive you home to the real power in yourself? Aren't you tired of leaning and borrowing and depending upon this thing and that thing which have failed you? The man who learns to seek power within himself, who learns to rely upon himself, is never disappointed, but he always will be disappointed when he depends upon any outside help. There is one person in the world that will never fail you if you depend upon him and are honest with him, and that is yourself. It is the self reman that is in demand everyO. S. Marden In Success Magazine. Tobacco Smoke. The composition of tobacco smoke is complex. Analysis gives nicotine, pyridic bases, formic aldehyde, ammomethylamin, pyrrol, sulphuretted hydrogen, prussic acid, butyric acid, carbonic acid, oxide of carbon, the steam of water, an etherized empyreumatic oil, and tarry or resinous products, among which we detect small quantities of phenol. Of all the products of tobacco the most venomous are nicotine, pyridic and and empyreumatic oil, and all that we draw into our lungs with more or less satisfaction.-Harper's Weekly. It Happens. "You are a very successful prophet," we said. "Will you tell us the secret of your success?" "Certainly," the sage replied in a kindly tone. "As it is always the unthat happens, I merely prophthe unexpected."-American SpecForesight. Winebiddle-I hear that you dictated to your new typine an impassioned love letter to another girl. Gildersleeve Yes, it was a fictitious sweetheart. I wanted to nip in the bud any designs she might have on me in a matrimonial way.-London Mail.