Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 38, Hammond, Lake County, 1 August 1906 — Page 6

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Corydon, Intl., Aug. 1. The woman

of mystery, who, for several weeks,

has caused the people of this county

much anxiety, akin to fear, is now ;n inmate of the county poorhouse. Who she is, where she came from, or her purpose in riding about the country, followed by a dozen or more dogs, re

mains as much an unsolved problem

as tne day sue hm dashed down the road hurling defiance at gaping persons who paused in their work in the

fields to gaze at her.

Wears Short Skirts and Tights. Mounted on a small pony, followed

by the yelping dogs, this strange wo

man has caused a commotion wherever she has appeared. She was fairly well dressed, wore a short skirt of dark material and tights. While the most imaginative have sever been heard to make the assertion that the woman was likely to take a prize at a beauty show, yet there is that about her that commands attention. She made her first appearance several weeks ago, crossing the Ohio from Kentucky, where she traveled in the same manner as here. Plenty of Money, Character Good. In Brandenburg county, Ky., she was arrested on the charge of vagrancy, but she had plenty of money, promptly paid her fine and was released. She also experienced, no difficulty in furnishing proof that she is of good character. Nevertheless all efforts to establish her identity have been unsuccessful. There are traces of refinement about the woman which adds all the more to the mystery. Identity a Sealed Book. The mysterious stranger has been plaj'ing star engagements in Scott township, this county, riding up and

down the highways during the day and sleeping in the woods at night, guarded by her dogs. A few days ago she was taken seriously ill, and the township trustee was notified. Helpless yet defiant, the woman was forced to accept charity, and she is now in the county institution. The pony liars been turned out to pasture, but the disposition of the twelve dogs is causing the authorities to loose sleep. The woman in the meantime keeps her

own counsel, ana ner identity is a sealed book.

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LEAST OP TWO EVILS

That Was the Choice of a Conductor of a Trolley, and lie Averted a Horror. Muncie, Ind., Aug. 1. Choosing the lesser of two evils, Conductor Frank

Reed, in charge of a Muncie, Hartford

and Fort Wayne traction car, deliber

ately derailed the car filled with passengers, realizing that unless he did

so, the chances would favor its being struck by a Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville train. Luckily, the car did

not turn over, and none of the passen

gers was injured. At a dangerous

railroad crossing north of town, Reed

ran ahead of the car, and neither seeing nor hearing an approaching traiu,

signaled his motorinan to proceed. Xo sooner had the signal been giv

en than a train, coming at a hp-rh rate

of speed, appeared around a neighbor

ing curve, it was too late for the motorman to stop the car, but Reed thought quickly, and deliberately threw a switch at the approach to the steam railroad track, derailing the heavy traction car. The passengers, glad to have escaped a serious accident, did not mind the delay caused by getting the car on the track again.

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Imprisons a Child in a Cistern. Jeffersonvilie, Ind., Aug. 1. Sarah. Green, an aged woman, was in the city court here, charged with hiding the 7-year-old daughter of Minnie Everett in a cistern for several hours, the cistern being covered with tin and boards. The old woman stated that she had been so often annoyed by the child that she caught it on her premises, lowered it into the cistern, which was partly filled with water, and then covered the opening at the top. The child's cries attracted the mother.

Gamblers "Take a Change." Taoli. Ind.. Aug. 1. The sixty gambling cases against those arrested when the raids were made recently on tha casinos at French Lick Springs hotel and West Baden hotel M ere called in Justice Gillum's court, and on motion of the defendants a change of venue w?.s taken to the court of Justice Jacob Wooner. of Orange ville township. The cases will be tried Sept. 11.

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Wanted Her To Be a Thnff. Terre Haute. Ind.. Aug. 1. Miss Ivn Dale caused the arrest of her sweetheart, Elmer -Johnson, charging that be shot at her when she refused to assist him in robbing the Star City postoffice. Ho Jnmped to His Death. Lafayette, Ind.. Aug. 3. Charles Fisher, a car repairer, jumped off the pilot of an engine on which he was riding directly in the path of another train, and received injuries frcia whick te died.

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la Primitive Time It Is Probable Tlint Both Hand Were Equally tsed-What the Hieroglyphics of tLe Egyptians Teach Us. The fact that some persons are left handed may start the question wheth

er the human animal was always right handed, for abnormality often indicates a "trying back" to an ancestral condition. Now, when we look at our language, and that in the case of man is a fair test, we find how strongly the comparative force exhibited by each of the hands has left its mark on our common expressions. The right is the "ruling" hand; the left is the "worthless" or the "weaker" hand if we regard the derivative meanings of the names. In words imported from the Latin a certain ability is called "dexterity," or right handedness, while that which has an evil or unsuccessful influence becomes "sinister" or left handed. In like manuer If we look at words from a French source we find that a

clever person is "adroit" because he has right handed qualities, but a clumsy person is "gauche" because his work is left handed. It is evident that when our race became so far advanced as to frame words for ideas and things the rule was that the members of it were right handed. And if we examine other lan

guages we find proofs that such a rule

existed amoug the people using them.

There is, however, good reason for thinking that man originally could use

either hand equally well.

"This seems a hazardous statement to make about a remote ancestor in tha age before the great glacial epoch had

furrowed the mountains of northern Europe, but nevertheless it is strictly

true and strictly demonstrable. Just

try as you read to draw with the fore

finger and thumb of your right hand an imaginary human profile on the

page on which these words are printed. Do you observe that (unless you are an artist and therefore sophisticated) yoji

naturally and instinctively draw it with

the face turned toward your left shoul

der? Try now to draw it with the

profile to the right and you will find it

requires a far greater effort of the

thumb and forefinger.

"The hand moves of its own accord from without inward, not from within outward. Then again draw with your left thumb and forefinger another imaginary profile and you will find, for the same reason, that the face In this case looks right ward. .Existing savages and our own young children whenever they draw a figure in profile be it of man or beast, with their right hand, draw it almost always with the face or head turned to the left, in accordance with this natural instinct. Their doing so is a test of their perfect right handedness. "But primitive man, or, at any rate, the most primitive men we know personally, the carvers of the figures from the French bone caves, drew men and beasts on bone or mammoth tusk turned either way indiscriminately. The in

ference is obvious. They must have been ambidextrous. Only ambidextrous

people draw so at the present day,

and, indeed, to scrape a figure other

wise with a sharp flint on a piece of bone or tooth or mammoth tusk would, even for a practiced hand, be comparatively difficult" (Allen). In connection with this passage it is interesting to examine the reports of the bureau of ethnology, where it will be seen that, although the majority of

profiles executed by the North American Indians follow the rule, many faces also turn to the right, and it Is found that left handedness, or, rather, ambidexterity, is very common among" these tribes. But doubtless the reader will notice that In writing his hand moves from left to right and not from, right to left. Here is an apparent violation of the principle laid down in the quotation given from Grant Allen. It is, however, more apparent than real. If you study Egyptian hieroglyphics you will find that profiles invariably lqok to the left. Hebrew, Arabic, Hindoostanee and other ancient languages read from right to left. In these, as in some modern tfngues, we have to begin the book at what is to us the wrong end. The reason of this is that the early languages were inscribed, not written. A tablet of marble or a brick formed the

page. The right hand could therefore

carve or impress the symbol in the nat

ural way and pass on. With the intro

duction of wax tablets of papyrus and

in later times of parchment and paper, a dhSeulty arose, for if the hand began at the right and worked leftward It

ould obliterate its own work.

Hence the habit of writing from left

to right so that not only may the writ

ing be clean, but also that it may bs visible. With writing from left to right

came also reading in the same direc

tion, and one result of this is very curi

ous. We have become so accustomed to moving the eyes from left to right

that we Instinctively look at things in that way. Close your eyes in a room

and then open them. You will find, nn

less you make a positive effort, that

your eyes take in the objects on the

left . hand first and then move to the

right This is the way In which we view a landscape or a picture. The painter follows the habit of the writer and works from left to right to avoid "smudging" his work, and it has been

remarked that when several compositions eater into one picture, a3 In some c? the ancient altar pieces, the chronological order runs from the upper left hand corner to tha lower right hand

ONE MONTH LATER.

Oh. bride o June, When you came out You were the works Beyond a doubt. But now on looking Once or twice You find the old man Cuts tome ice. Here is where The June bride Makes a discovery. Although she may not mention It To the neighbors, She finds . On close acquaintance ! That she has married A man Instead of one ot those Superior beings You read about In the story books. Imagine the shock If you can A most shocking shock. And yet When die recovers And accepts the situation. As she does in time. She finds. To her astonishment. That just a man Has some good points After all.

He used to call her "Love"

"Dear" As by her side he sat. But now he simply calls her "Mame" And lets it go at that. And that isn't all. He actually sits On the other side of the room And smokes a pipe. To be sure. He brings home groceries Regularly, And sho will appreciate that Later on. But Not now.

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"If we continue our usefulness in the next world the assessor might spell the recording angel occasionally." "The assessor! Do they go to heaven?"

Using All His Time. "Funny about Jones. lie would like to acquire the habit of walking in his sleep." "What does he want to do that for?" "Walking is such fine exercise, And he hasn't time to take it when he is awake."

All on Credit.

You have heard of the charge of the light

brigade

And the credit they got for the act so

rash,

And doubtless 'you often have wondered

why

They didn't come down to the store wltb

the cash.

Self Defense. "I do so love gossip." "Why?"

"When I have something sensational to tell It keeps people from talking

about me."

Too Common.

"How would you like to have an au

tomobile, Weary?"

"Not for me, Miksy. Nottin' will an

swer for Weary but de .wings of de

wind."

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Assuming responsibility without dis

charging it is the way some men figure

as prominent citizens.

So far as he is concerned all the

world can go to destruction if it will

leave the small boy his swimming hole and his fishing pond.

Some men are always blowing people

up while others are content with merely running them down.

Inexperience is the only thing that

can afford to make rash promises.

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Though a thing may not be worth all you put into it It easily Is worth all that you take out of it Justice too often concerns itself with the question -of who is your lawyer and who your banker.

Being disagreeable and polite at the same time is a fine art. Bald headed men have to grin and

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