Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 7 July 1906 — Page 4

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906

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Entered at the Hammond, Ind. "Assuredly not," returned the Texas second class matter. an. "Neither in Ireland nor elsein Hammond building, Ham- where."

mond, Ind. Telephone SATURDAY Gems In Verse Light o' Love. A man once wooed a maid divine And asked what you may guess, guess, And said, "Sweetheart, will you be mine? She smiled and answered, yes." "Yes, yes, And then (in business such as this Men love to act just so, so, so) He asked for just one little kiss. She smiled and answered, "No, no, no! "Unless you'll follow where I lead, Follow for good or ill, ill, ill!" Then swore that swain: "I will indeed! Sweetheard, indeed I will, will, will!" "Then will we to the church repair And in due form be wed, wed, wed!" Alas, he had no time to spare And so he turned and fled, fled, fled! From the German. THEY tell us that Tom Taggart's smile has been Hanlyized. The world has waited for some time for a comprehensive and satisdefinition of an egotist. Geo. M. Cohan, the patron of American music and poetry, has supplied the want. Mr. Cohan believes that an egotist is one who over-estimates himself, and then goes on to show why George M. Cohan is not one. He says: "I write my own songs because I write better songs than any one else I know of. I publish these songs because they bring greater royalties than any other class of music sold in this country. I write my own plays because I have never yet seen or read plays from the pens of other authors that seem as good as the plays I write. I produce my own plays because I think I'm as good a theatrical manager as any man in this line. I dance because I know I am the best dancer in the country. I sing because I can sing my own songs better than any other man on the stage." Mr. Cohan has clearly proved that he is not an egotist. Lafayette Journal. Between Trains The anouncement of the fish comat Washington that some fishes are not entirely dumb is altosurprising. Nearly all of us have heard a sucker holler. J. Alex Dowie has only disappeared from the news columns temporarily. As soon as present sensations begin to wane the faithful J. Alex will be back in his accustomed place on the first page. John Tysczkiewicsz of Cleveland, has had his name changed to John Tidd by the probate court of that place on the plea that his former apwas unpronouncable. We would suggest this treatment for some of the members of the East Chicity council. "The late Hezekiah Butterworth," said a Boston journalist, "had a high opinion of woman's wit. He liked to prove woman man's superior in fancy, wit and humor, in retort. "He related one day to me a quarbetween a married couple that he had overheard in the subway. "There is no calamity that can bea woman that I have not sufferthe woman said in a bitter voice. "There you are wrong, Jane, the husband replied. 'You have never been a widow.' "She frowned at him as she rejoinsaid "calamity," sir.' "--New York Tribune. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafand that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you havs a rumbling sound or imperfect hearand when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dolfor any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh- that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cirfree. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con-7-6-1m.

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JULY 7, 1906.

STONES SET ON FIRE.

Truly Remarknble Action of Sea Wa ter In Ireland. All the talk was of the old country, its marvelous beauty, its marvelous happenings, and Casey said to the Texan: "The sea setting fire to tall cliffs you wouldn't believe that possible, I I suppose." "By those words." said Casey, smellhis shamrock tenderly, "you prove your ignorance of Ireland, sir, and show you have never been to Bally"The tall cliffs of Ballybunion wade knee deep in the rough Atlantic. They are the bulwarks of Erin's west coast, and since the world's beginning the wild Atlantic surges, breaking against them, have eaten them out in caves and hollows "These cliffs of Ballybunion contain in their depths masses or iron pyrites and alum. Now and then the salt sea water eats into these masses, and oxidization at once takes place, and flames burst forth, and the rocks crack and melt in the great heat. "Once the cliffs of Ballybunion burned for weeks. Like a volcano, they sent up yellow flame and black, foul smelling, bitter smoke, and the Irish came from hundreds of miles to see that wonderful sight. "Only in Ireland, only in Ballybunsir," said Casey, fingering his shamrock, "may you see cliffs set afire by the salt sea they stand knee deep ' in."--Minneapolis Journal. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. Fairbanks is a frequent occupant of the vice presidential seat in the reserved senate gallery, being accompanied usually by several friends. Miss Margery Bell of Chicago has "broken the world s record" by throwa baseball 204 feet 4 inches. She is a member of the University high school in Chicago. Japan has its first female professor. The title has been bestowed by the government, honoris causa, on Miss Tada Urata, the first Japanese woman who studied medicine in Germany. There are a few women chemists.

but in the specialist line of a "food gest a puzzle nearly so baffling as the beside the driver of Bus A leaned forthere is but one woman in boomerang. The force of elasticity in ward and asked him, "What's the mat-

this country who occupies that distincand that is Miss Lucy Doggert. Mrs. William McKinley continues her daily drives to the tomb of her marhusband and always carries flowwith her. She is constantly attendby nurses and few people ever see her. Miss Martha E. Johnson, T. C. (which means tax collector), is the proudest woman in the state of New Hampshire.

She has the honor of being the first manding much ingenuity and probably woman tax collector in the staid old much time for their development, but Granite State and perhaps in New we can imagine the steps. We are not England. left wondering. Even the throwing Miss Lucy E. Ernst of Philadelphia stick--that very effective application of has received a Carnegie medal on ac- the principle of the lever by which the count of the bravery she showed in wild man added so very greatly to the Pike county, Pa., last summer. A boy force and distance of his throw of his was bitten in the ankle by a rattle- missile spear--may be supposed to snake. Miss Ernst opened the wound have been discovered by accidental slightly with a penknife and with her means which we can reconstruct. The lips drew out the poison. The Carne- boomerang still remains the biggest gie medal is the second she has re- puzzle. ceived, the boy's parents having given There is another adaptation of a her a handsome one shortly after the very simple instrument which we do lad was bitten. not know to have such antiquity as some of these, yet must always seem COLLEGE AND SCHOOL. very marvelous when we first witness the variety of uses and the perfection David Ranken, Jr., of Tarkis, Mo., to which it has been brought--that use will found an industrial school in St. of a bit of rope which we call lassoing. Louis to be modeled after the Massa- The value of the noose we can easily chusetts Institute of Technology and imagine to have been brought very will be one of the finest industrial early to the notice of man in his more schools in the country. or less natural state. Its efficacy in Professor A. W. Wright retires from arresting his progress through a forest active service as professor of experi- thickly hung with lianas must soon mental physics and director of the have struck him as one of the Inconphysical laboratory of Yale col- veniences of his existence, but we do lege at the close of the present aca- not seem to find record at a very early demic year, lie graduated from Yale stage of any practical use to which he in 1859. might have put the hint so given him. Professor Charles F. Johnson, who The greatest wonder in the history of has for twenty-three years been pro- the noose (second only to the marvel-

fessor of English at Trinity college, Hartford, has tendered his resignation, to take effect at the end of the year. He is the author of a number of books on the teaching of English. Professor W. R. Hart of Nebraska in a recent address took the ground that the study of agriculture in our public schools would afford the best possible material for mental discipline. He aid: "What knowledge the country child has is certain and vivid. He has been dealing with realities instead of with symbols and abstractions." BASE HITS Judging from the work of certain

major league spit ball pitchers so far Speak with authority, until the Span- materials. There is a stunning this season it is evident that that pe- iards arrived here. The apparition of model ready to replace them. The delivery is still a great puzzle. their cavalry was so strange as to back is strictly princess, while th

"young blood will have its own course and every dog his day." The youngare very prominent in the major leagues this season. Manager McCloskey of the St. Louis Cardinals is satisfied that he has made

a good move in switching Homer dian that is known as Mexican, espeback to center field and play- cially the Mexican of the southwestArthur Hoelskoetter in right field. ern states of the Union. But we read President Herrmann is quoted as of various tribes of the red Indians, saying that Sam Crawford, now of De probably quite free from any infuwas the best sun outfielder Cin- sion of European blood, to whom the

cinnati ever had and that the Cincinnati club would give $10,000 to have him back.

Baseball is the national sport. It loping bison and overthrew him on the can be indulged in by every one and is prairie, but actually lassoed the funin wherever sports are follow- nels of the steam engines when the ed. A fan figures out that baseball trains began to invade their land. It

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THE PUZZLE OF THE ORIGIN OF THE BOOMERANG. Its Cleverness of Design Is One of the Wonders of This Queer Weapon. The Mexicans' Use of the Lasso-The Best "Noose" Story. Among the weapons which the wit of primitive man devised to aid him in the struggle for existence with anifar more formidably endowed by nature than himself, the way in which some were suggested to him by the objects which he saw around him is obvious enough, but of others we are amazed by his ingenuity in their design and his skill in their use. The most striking instance of both this skill in use and cleverness in deis perhaps the boomerang. The perfection of balance, curve and weight in all its parts is so exact that modern dynamics have been quite unable to find a formula according to which a workable boomerang can be turned out by a carpenter, and the skill needed for the use of even the most perfect weapon is such that the untutored efof the most stalwart thrower of a cricket bail are ridiculously futile when he begins to make trial of it. It is scarcely too much to say that in spite of years of practice no white man has ever succeeded in becoming effective with it. We are told that there is in Australia a tree whose seed pod is so formed that when detached by the process of natural growth from the branch it whirls through the air with a curve analogous to that of the boomerang we see a faint suggestion of a similar movement in the gyrations of the seed pods of our own ash-and it has been conjectured that the observant "black fellow" may have received from this the first hint of the weapon which he eventually fashioned into the wonderful boomerang. It is a conjecture which will ever remain conjectural Others of man's early weapons-the club, the spear, the hatchet (originally, we may suppose, a stone cleft by accident to a cutting edge)-are easy to understand. Nature gave them almost ready made Into his hand. The almost universal use of the bow, a weapon of much more elaboration, does not sugthe sapling would be apt almost liter ally to "jump to the eyes" of the savas he made his way through the bush and his friend in front released a bough from its tension to fly back and whip him across the face. To cut such a sapling, to fasten to either end of it a sinew or a stretch of a tough creeping plant, to fit an arrow on the string and discharge it by the relaxed tension of the released string are no doubt a series of operations de ous skill exhibited by the experts in its use) is that certain nations should have acquired the skill that they did acquire in it with so few generations of practice. We may probably take it for granted that the American red Indian did not begin to use it until after the Spaniards had made their way to America. The origin of the word is Latin, laqueus. There is Portuguese "laco." We "lasso" or "lace" our boots every morning, presuming that we do not spend the day in slippers. But apart from that it is not easy to see that the lasso could have had value without the horse. It is the instrument of riders on horse back. There were no horses in America, according to all who claim to tives, who deemed horse and man some fearful composite animal. The most skillful artist in the world with the lasso is that compound-who shall say what is the exact mixture of the ingredients?-of Spaniard and Inlasso had become so familiar a weapon, so trusted in cases of emergency, that they not only used it on the galbeen to give a little shake to their confidence, but their skill in the use of the noose has abundant witness. The Mexican's dexterity has to be

seen to be believed. At full gallop he will send the loop to encircle at his will the neck, the horn, the leg of the

steer blundering along beside him. His little horse knows the game as perfectly as he does, throwing himself back on his haunches into the best possible position to stand the shock and the strain which he knows will arrive when the rope is drawn tight, of which one end is about the steer and the other is fastened to the horn of the big Spanish saddle. The horse stands firm and the steer tumbles. Sometimes the Mexicans will ride down and lasso the coyote or the wild turkey, for the turkey likes his leg better than his wings as means of locoand will seldom fly again after he has been flushed and marked down. The actual evolution of the lasso may be imagined easily-at first a big loop of rope thrown about the head of an animal beside which the rider galloped, then the free running noose at the end of a single rope. But the accuracy of aim with the loop is the wonder. After all. it cannot be nearly so subtle an affair as the boomerang throw, or though perhaps the Mexican excels, the white cowboy is nearly if not quite his match. But the things that a Mexcan do with a rope or bit of raw hide are marvelous. He will fit a fresh rawhide "riata" round the nut of a screw that has stuck, and unscrew it when the hide has hardened, though the white mechanic, with his specially made wrench, has failed. You may be told this tale-and it is a credible one by many who have worked on the railin the Mexican republic. The best noose story is a British one. Like many of the best stories, it is a bus driver's story, and, like all of the best stories, it is an old story. Bus A and Bus B were together in a block. The driver of Bus A had the end of his whip hitched up into a little noose and kept playing with it, putting his finger through it and dragging it tight, then loosening it. again. He also "kept saying nothing" and looking nowhere in particular; nevertheless the driver of Bus B began glaring at him. and his face grew more and more crimson, until finally the winged words broke forth Homerically, and he cursed the player with the noose as only one bus driver can curse another. Still the driver of Bus A kept saying nothing, and as innocently as ever playing with the noose. Then the "fare" who sat ter with that man?" indicating the driver of Bus B. "What's he so angry with you about? You're not doing him any harm." "Matter with 'im?" said the noose player scornfully. ""Why, 'e ain't got no sense o' humor; that's what's the matter with 'im. 'Is father was 'ung." Westminster Gazette. THE ETERNAL FEMININE. My Dear Martha: Bargain days have set in. If you are not already affected with this form of dementia, never let the evil fasten its fangs in you. Every day I see hordes of tired women spendhard earned money for innuarticles for which they haven't the slightest possible use, just because they are cheap, and the entire sum expended upon one exsimple outfit would display reason even if seemingly extravato the average mind. Bargain hunting isn't only extravagance, its a mania--a senseless craze. Womwill always be extravagant; that malady dates back to the time when Cleopatra dissolved pearls in vinegar to produce a costly beverage. I have been to Atlantic City over the glori ous Fourth, where one views side by side, the flotsam of the feminine world along with fashions finest models. Hand embroidery is being overdone, which fact was forcibly impressed upon me by the absurd spectacle of five women, arm in arm on whom I venture to say. waists, hats, even parasols, skirts, jackets and bags reeked with hand-em-broidery. I realize that any fad in excess should be relegated o the "painted tray" and corner-bunch-of-era! The corselet skirt is never endorsed it and doomed. its passing provokes little regret as so few found becoming. Only a master of dressmaking art could construct it and even then, the figure required line perfection--just the proper weigh and height--in p of which we have seen every lace and condition of woman hooked into corselet skirts of unsightly cuts ice which is detached in front crosses the corselet skirt in surplice fashion. A black and white wool veiling on these lines has black satin white waist-coat and lace V, while the short satin cuffs and tight lace undersleeves. The other morning dawned as damp and sticky as the sea resort can produce and I saw the smartest frock of the season for just such a morning's constitutional. It was white foulard polka dotted in brown; the princess back laid in close tucks, and from the underarm seams skirt and bodice were separate. The skirt continued in the tucks but the waist was laid in soft folds and they joined with a swathed girdle of brown satin which came with three opal studded buttons.

The neck was cut square to the bust line with tusked white muslin yoke. From shoulder to waist, down the

outside of the sleeve and above the skirt's hem were bands of white foulard strapped with narrow brown velvet ribbon. The hat was white crin with brown satin foulard crushed into a large bow and undertrimming of creamy roses. One must be excessively particular about morning frocks, for attractive gauses and laces stimulated by myriads of helps the dinner gown look after equally w itself and few of us in A. M. and evening toggery. There are few new startling revelations afloat but expect to find in Newport som smart additions to fashion's fancy Always, JANE LAWN SOCIAL. A lawn soci will of th be given the e Ladie Aid of the Presbyterian Church at the of Mrs. V. S. Reiter, 30 Webb Street, on next Saturday evening Lunch will be served on the lawn from cordi 5 to 7 for twenty cents. A l invitation is extended to HOTEL ARRIVALS. Hotel Majestic--E. B. Collins and Joseph Lyons of Detroit; J. E. Coland E. W. Messinger of Chicago. FAREWELL TO THE LID Since the now famous trial of Meeker last Saturday every phase of the affair has been discussed pro and con without seeming to have altered public opinion in regard to the matter to any appreciable extent. The only development is that oweing to the fact that Attorney John Gavit will leave for Denver on a two weeks' vacation, and to give the police more time to secure evidence against certain offenders, the cases will all be continued until July 18. Prosecuting Attorney Boone when asked if he intended to place the cases in the hands of the grand j said that he had not decided the matter. But pointing to the cases that were tried at Crown Point some time ago, he said that he did not believe a grand jury would convict the saloonkeepers at Crown Point any quicker than a Hammond one would. So, without a doubt, the saloons will be wide open tomorrow, and Hammond will again enjoy the thrills of being without a lid. Model 14 THE The highest possible experienced engineers, by

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