Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 126, Hammond, Lake County, 13 November 1906 — Page 5
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1906.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES PAOE FIVE.
THEATRICAL NOTES.
TOWLE'S OI'IjKA HOUSE. The Immense royalties accruing to Hal Calnc annually from companies using "The Christian" would be a princely income for the average individual. ""The Christian" is the play to be presented by the Imperial Stock, company at the Towle opera house tonight, and it is probable that no theater patron will allow this opportunity to witness this famous play go unheeded. The scenic investiture is equal to that carried by the original company, and if indications can be depended upon, a capacity house will be In evidence. Other plays in the repertoire are "At the Risk of I lis Life," "The Parisian Princess," "The Scout's Revenge," and the Kreat Saturday matinee bill, "Jack, the Giant Killer."
CHICAGO SKASO.V OF HE.V-IU R ENDS I.N FOLK. WEEKS. The closing- days of "P.en-Hur" at the Chicago Auditorium are announced. Klaw & Erlanjer's stupendous production of Wallace's mighty Biblical romance is to be withdrawn in four weeks' time. A special matinee la announced for Thanksgiving day in addition to the regular "Wednesday and Saturday matinees of that week. The present engagement of "Ben-llur" is the most notable in its career. Chicago's largest and most classic amusement temple has never held more cultured and distinguished audiences. It Is estimated that by the time the engagement closes fully 200,000 people willi have attended. This is a marvelous record and indicates that this great ernl-relig'ious drama of Palestine, the product of the pen of General Lew Wallace, able statesman, gallant soldier, entertaining writer and courteous American gentleman, will remain a potent ' factor in the amusement world for years to come. It la advisable for those who intend witnessing this attraction to lose no time In writing Mr. Mllward Adams, director of the Chicago Auditorium, for seat reservation. Mr. Adams promises prompt attention to mall orders accompanied by remittance.
GEN. SHAFTEE IS DEAD
A thoroughly delightful dramatic novelty is being offered at the Garrick theater this week in the "Road to Yesterday." Its rirst audiences went to the theater with the vuguest notions of what would be really revealed in this curiously named play, concerning which it had been so mysteriously announced that it dealt with tho spirit of- fantasy with tho idea of reincarnation of soul. What they have seen is
a refreshing, whimsical comedy, half of
which Is told in the shape of a unique dream play. A young American girl on her first sight-seeing visit to Lon
don and the Old World falls under the superstitious spell of midsummer eve
and, dizzy with the exciting peeps which she has had of a romantic past, falls Into a sleep-like trance In which
she is wafted back to the England of
Elizabeth and Shakespeare. The odd part of it all is that she not only seems to be herself living a real life among the picturesque figures of (hat time, but she sees all her modern London relatives and friends moving around her in the strange guise of that by
gone age. The metamorphoses, or changes of conditions are strikingly astonishing. Gypsy and witch, or wife and tapster, lord of the ostle and maid of the Inn, soldiers, of fortune and all the typical characters of the England of 1G03 enact a peculiar dream romance in which exciting melodrama, sparkling comedy and fant astic novelty are all co-mingled in as rare a treat as has been enjoyed before the footlights in a long day. It is just such a play in its whimsical' originality as Barrie's "Peter Pan," only absolutely novel in its own kind, and in the fourth and last act the dreaming heroine and all her mystically reincarnated personages come back from yesterday to today again. New bewilderments attend the change back to modern scenes and personalities once more, and two love romances one serious and poetic, and the other happy and light-hearted are brought to a pleasant climax in curiously interesting fashion. The play is brimful of picturesque charm and dramatic urprlses, with the spirit of comedy and fantasy over all from start to finish. Above all the piece is capitally
enacted. Every role is interpretated by a well-known player. Minnie Pupree, that winsome comedienne, conveys the full spirit of the half-mystic dream scenes as the dreaming heroine and carries the incidental love romance In her most fascinating manner. Helen Ware makes a dashingly dramatic figure of the gypsy, Plack Halena, and Julia Blanc gives a cleverly contrasted double portrayal of the superstitious Irish maid servant, Morah. and the old witch. Mother Giliaw. White Whittlesey and Miriam Nesbitt add a touch of tender romance as the strangely divided lovers. As all the old personages of the rlay are seen as two absolutely different characters being utterly different in acts two and three from their modern selves of acts one and four the odd dramatic values of the various roles are easily appreciated. This genuinely novel comedy of fantasy will hold the boards at the Garrick for a limited engagement of two weeks only ere going to New York.
points and white blaze face that races in the chariot of Judah, the Prince of
Ilur, in the collosal production of Gen
eral Lew aliaces stirring romance
"Ben-Ilur" now running at the Chicago Auditorium. "Monk is the horse near
est the audience; he has always raced
there from the first performance up to the present time, and now is in his eighth year on the treadmills he is as active and speedy as ever.
Not only has "Monk" raced two thou
sand times, but he lias visited every city of importance in this country and Canada, and has traveled over 57,000
miks. He was the first horse to be taught to run on a modern treadmill, and so intelligent Is he that his trainer, Mr. Charles J. O'Brien, uses him to break in the "green" horses. Through long association he has been taught a variety of tricks. He is a high school horse with ail its gaits, he will play "tag" with his trainer; he will lie down and roll over like a dog at the word of
command; he win run into tils harness like the bourses at the fire station; and will trot, pace, gallop and singlefoot at command. Out of the twenty-two horses in the "Ben-Hur" stable, he is the only one that is not led, ha follows by himself. Should one or two of the horses be left behind through any cause "Monk" always manifests the greatest uneasiness, and he lingers about until they appear. He is most jealous in his disposition; if a piece of apple or sugar, of which he is extremely fond, ia not offered to him first, he will not take it, and he ia resentful for two or three days, acting as though his dignity had been offended. Hundreds of offers have been made for this horse and some very large sums of money involved, but the answer that has always been returned in every case was tnat "Monk" was not for sale. Just recently overtures were made to secure "Monk" as the star of a dramatization of the famous story "Black Beauty." Last summer "Monk" spent his vacation in a large pasture at Hempstead, Long Island. He did not Seem to thrive well there, and refused to associate with the strange horses with which he had been placed, but when some of his old companions of "BenHur" trouping days were sent down to the pasture he took on new life and seemed to thoroughly enjoy his summer's outing. . When "Monk" becomes too old to win the laurel crown of victory for the Prince of Hur, he will be honorably retired and placed on the pension list for the remainder of his days by the Klaw & Erlanger company.
Leader of the United States Force in the Spanish War Has fassed Beyond the Veil. Ba&ersfield, Cal., Nov. 13. Major General William Ilufus Sliafter, U. S. A., retired, died at 12:45 p. m. yesterday at the ranch of Captain W. II.
ptisan?
THE GENTLER SEX.
Ellen Beach Taw, the prima donna,
so the story goes, is camping in the mountains near Los Angeles. The oth
er day she saw two deer drinking; also two "creeping hunters." What does the fair lady do? Why, she saves the
deer's lives by singing a brilliant operatic cadenza, which so charmed the
wicked gunners they forgot their
quarry, arul so . scared the deer they scampered out of range. After this
don't try divorce or lost diamonds or anv other hackneyed catastrophe to
advertise a star. Musical Age.
The numbers of quail that Inhabit the Arizona valleys are almost unbe
lievable. 1 went out to snoot with a young lady the other day. We drove
for a couple of miles up the course of
the Gila valley. That is, I drove and
she did the shooting, firing from the seat in the buckboard. We had only
twenty-five cartridges, but she killed
seventeen birds with them, a good bag
for a lady, considering the conditions. It's not so easy to shoot from a seat
in a wabbly buckboard. I do not hesi
tate to say tnat we saw at least a
thousand quail during our two hours
drive. There wasn't a moment of our
time that more or less of them wen
in sight, to the right, to the left and ahead of us, feeding on chickweed
seed and chasing one another away
from the best patches of it. They arc
as pugnacious as they are handsome.
Forest and Stream.
MONK
Equine Star of the World.
Frederick Remington struck a responsive chord in the heart of nearly every man when he declared that his tombstone would contain but one phrase, "lie loved a horse." There are horses and horses; not only of different colors, shapes and qualities, but of dispositions as well. Some horses attract you to them; you don't know why, but there is something that excites your interest and, with association, your affection. This is true to a remarkable degree with the horse "Monk", who possesses the most remarkable record for having raced two thousand times without ever once being defeated. You look at the scene upon the stage and while you know that he and his fellow racers gain the advantage by a mechanical device, yet his struggle is so earnest and so magnificent that the illusion of a real vie- , tory sinks down deep into the mind. "Monk" is the bay horse with black
Bless their little hearts and forgive their funny brains those lasses who
imagine they resemble some of th great dead and gone! Once upon
time there was a girl who had been told that her pallid white skin, black hair, straight eyebrows and general
cast of features resembled Napoleon
The idea posessed her to the degree
that she forthwith modeled her ward robe to be that of a feminine littb
corporal. It was tremendously becom
ing and made her a great social sue cess. The Napoleon girl must have s
long coat modeled on the lines of the
top coat worn by the defeated general
on the Isle of St. Helena. The pattern
is easy to rind by turning the leaves of a Napoleon book and paying attention
to the striking effects of collars am:
cuffs and hang on the front of the top coat. It is a bit military, but never
mind, that is what a Napoleon girl
likes. Chicago Post.
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Humor end Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Don't expect your friends to be enthusiastically glad of your company every minute if they are paying tho freight.
Lots of men consider their duty to
the government done when they dodge I cat or goat.
their taxes.
EYEBROWS AND LASHES TO ORDER "Eyebrows and lashes are in season. They are cheap today!" Although
the above notice is not actually dis- j played to the public gaze, it is literally J true. A well-known ladies' hairdresser j
in Oxford circus, London, who invents false eyebrows and lashes, is having
his busy time just now. "Eyelashes ! are selling very well now the dark j days have commenced." he said. "They j can be had in all shades, and only cost ' sixty cents a pair, which is cheap, con- j sidering their delicacy and fine workmanship. The hairs are sometimes human and sometimes those of an Angora '
'jvbrows are the most j
difficult thing's to make. The shape; of
the forehead has to be taken, and they j
are composed of came l's hair on a tint-, j
invisible skin. They cost $2.50. False j eyebrows and -yf-lash-s can only be
worn two or three weeks, as the 'skin' I
becomes dirty, and the 'deception' ap parent."
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GENERAL, SHAFTEIt IN PARADE UNIFORM.
McKittrick. his son-in-law, twenty miles south of this city, after an illness of seven days, despite the best
medical attention available in Gall fornia.
While returning from the polls last
Tuesday General Shafter contracted zi
severe chill, which augmented a slight
indisposition and necessitated confine
ment to his bed. The case soon developed into pneumonia and. although ev-
You never hear of a dog saving I1I3 money to buy a muzzle. A pood boaster who is his own backer Is a hard man to bluff. In real life most things are imitations or something just as good. In the game of life one half is apt to be bluff and the other half buncombe. Your expected caller never disappoints you when he is a bill collector. Anybody who can give valuable
pointers gets so busy with It that he
erything known to medical science ' neglects his own business to make oth-
was done to mve his lire, he lapsed. ers happy,
into unconsciousness at v a. m. yester
day. Up to this time he had been ful
ly conscious and cognizant of his con
dition. His body will be taken to the
rresiuio tomorrow evening and interment will take place in the post ceme
tery there, with full military honors.
General Sliafter was born Oct. 16,
l03.", at Cale-sburg. Mich. He first entered military life in the civil wur and
made a fine record, entering the regular army at the close of the war,
WHITES 1HE AGGRESSORS
Ohio Keeps Up Her Reputation for
ttace Troubles Fatal Case of Cutting. Mount Vernon, O., Nov. 13. Race
troubles, which have existed here for some time, culminated in a serious cutting affray when Grant Stewart, colored, slashed George Dunn, white,
with a knife so that forty -seven stitches
were required to close the wound.
Dunn is dying, and Stewart is in jail. Dunn ordered Stewart out of a restaurant where Stewart was seated, the
order being given without authority of any kind and because Stewart was a
negro. This ended In the fight narratod
above. The race trouble started four weeks ago when a white man Is alleged to have made an insulting remark to a coWed woman on the street. Street fights between the whites and blacks have occurred frequently since.
What this country needs ia more peo
ple to attend to their own affairs and
A man's good intentions may do his heart credit, but they are often a sad commentary upon his executive ability.
Misapplied kindness is about as valuable as a hot poultice on a door knob.
One Killed and Five Injured. Youugstown, O., Nov. 13. One man was killed, three fatally and two seriously injured in the explosion of a casting at the Youngstown Foundry and Machine company's plant. Michael Key, a fmnaceman, was killed. The fatally injured are Joe Seriton, Charles Croy and John Meshank, and those injured seriously Tercy Tarrock and Clayton English.
Eetrays Himself. Any frosty morning: When the grrass Is white Tou can track Brer Rabbit By his paddies light. How he goes a-bobbin Down the country lane With his bunch of cotton Showing just as plain! Billy little rabbit, Scudding- through the froat, Signaling- to dog- and gun That hla game is lost! Never knows he does it, Not a little bit; There's where Brer Rabbit Geta the worst of it.
Thugs Never Take Chances. Foughkeepsie, N. Y.. Nov. 13. Deputy Sheriff Eugene Cribley, of Dover riains, surprised a burglar at work in the office of the meat market of L. L. Colligan. and the burglar pulled hiss revolver and fired, killing Cribley instantly. NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE
The Thanksgiving Proclamation.
A Thanksgiving proclamation is of
necessity largely a matter of form.
Asking a man to be thankful when his luck is working backward is much like requesting a man to be gay in the
midst of a dream that his mother-in-law is twins.
If prosperity has hit the man a few
friendly, playful raps in the solar
plexus he is only too glad to Join in
the annual slaughter of the turkey
but if the prospects are that he wil
have to work the free- lunch route on
the feasting holiday he may be quite
inclined to find fault with the wording
and punctuation of the proclamation.
Not that we would question the presl
dent's intentions or say for a moment that the majority of people couldn't find eomething to be thankful for without using a microscope, but that doesn't alter the fact that here and there is a man who would have to do some mighty clever detective work to find his reason.
THE UIHDS BILL WAS LOCKKD. A curious bird tragedy is told about
in the London Field. A man found a j yellow-hammer dead in his yard at j
the foot of a wall. The bird had flown j
against it with such force as to be
stunned. Not only that, but the upper j mandible had been bent back, and in j
the straightening out tho sharp point was driven down through the
lower bill and locked, thus dooming the bird to death by starvation. The man sent the head to the Field. A good
many similar accidents have been recorded, but it was always a
heavier bird, whose weisrht made
the springing of the bill easier. A. good many of the birds were found in a
starved condition, showing that they
died lingering deaths from want of
food. Birds that fly against the lighthouses have the skull bones crushed
and die instantly, but others are stunned only.
WAGES ON JUSSIAX FA It. MS.
The extreme poverty and the low standard of living of persons from whom the agricultural laborers are re
cruited assure a low level of waees
for agricultural labor. The average wages will appear almost incredibly low from an American point of view, notwithstanding the general complaints of the estate holders concerning the unreasonable demands of the laborers. According to an official investigation, embracing the decade of 1SS2-1S91 the average annual wages for a male agricultural worker in Russia were less than $32 and for a female worker lets than $18. To this must be added the cost of subsistence, which is equally low, being on an average $24 for a male and $22 for a female worker for a whol year, so that the average cost of employing a laborer for the entire year is equal to only $f5 for the male and $40 for the female. The wages lor the summer season of five months are almost equal to the annual wages, being $22 for the male and $13 for the female.
The Famous Baron Roederer. A New York wine agent is compiling a volume of anecdotes of the famous wine dealers of the past. Of the late Baron Roederer he said the other day:
"Roederer once received a letter
that read: ' 'Sir I have not a centime to my
name, but I adore champagne. Be good enough to send me a case of your delicious nectar. With its help I hope
to forget my wretched poverty." Roederer replied by return mail:
" Sir The means wherewith you propose to forget your poverty will not avail. The incessant and persistent
presentation of my account would re
mind you every moment of your sad
condition.' "
Needs Cooling Off.
It is not every one who has lived
i no aiioteu tnree score ancl ten years who can boast of cutting teeth at that
age, but such is the unique experieru
of Mrs. Mary C. Parsons, of this citv
mother-in-law of Labor Commission?
u. t: iion or aiem. Aitnougn .7 years
old, Mrs. Parsons is as healthy and vig orous as though but 50. With the ex
ception of a few molars in the lower
jaw and some of her other incisors, he
teeth are in good condition. Siie, however, was obliged to have some of them removed and has been wearing plates for some years. Recently she consulted a local dentist and was having some crowns put in when something, at first thought to be a sliver of the jawbone, was encountered, but it afterward developed into a full size double tooth. A day or two later a new front tooth was discovered and the dentist is inclined to th belief that Mrs. Parsons is growing a full new set of teeth. Mrs. Parsons was born in Peoria, 111., and came to Oregon in 1S49, settling in Kugene. She has lived in Portland for the past five years, part of the time with her son. XV. H. Parsons, of Vernon, and part of the time with her daughter, Mrs. Harriett II off, with whom she now makes her home. Portland (Ore.) Telegram.
David Tower, for sixty-eight years a resident of Mayfield, 111., is dead, aged SS. The warehouses of the American Snuff company at Eddyville, Princeton and Fredonia, Ky., have been wrecked with dynamite. Mrs. Russell Sage will give away the
bulk of the fortune of about SS0.000.000, bequeathed to her by her late hlsbaud, to individuals whom she considers worthy. News of the omcial nomination of Rafsuli. the bandit chief, to be governor of the town of ArzilLi, Morocco, and neighboring provinces is received at Tangier. The Tri-StateVehicle and Implement Dtalers' association is holding its eighth annual convention and exhibit at Louisville. Six hundred steel passenger cars are to be built for the Pennsylvania railroad in the next year. Chief Justice Fuller has announced that the supreme court of the United States will take a recess from Nov. 19 to Dec. 3. Secretary Shaw says he sees no present need of going to the assistance of the money market. The management of the Rock Island railroad has issued orders for new equipment to cost '..OOO.chtO. At Irkutsk, Siberia, an unsuccessful attempt was made to kill the governor, General Renncnkamyff, with a bomb. It failed and the bomb-thrower was captured. The first colored state fair in the history of the race has opened at Macon, Ga , with a large attendance. An opening address was made by Booker T. Washington. Delphin M.Delmas, a leading lawyer
j on the Pacific coast, has been retained i U defend Uarry K. Thaw.
"Do you think we ought to keep Cuba?" "How could we keep it after our promises?" "The only way I know would be to keep it on ice."
The Bill Was More Material. "How do you like my new hat?" asked the wife. "What did it cost?" inquired her husband. "One ninety-eight." "It is a dream," returned the husband enthusiastically.
"No, your are fooled; the price is the
dream."
Clinchers,
"Though appearances may be deceitful there Is one thing to be said about
disappearances." "What is it?" "They are convincing."
All Needed.
"There isn't a superfluous word in
my latest book."
"That is good. What i3 it, a novel?'
"No; a telephone directory."
Literal
"Think we will be able to make the
train?"
"Possibly, but still you don't look like
a machine shop to me."
Must Ee Exclusive.
"Why are you so crazy to meet M!s
Blazzay?"
i "She snubbed the most popular vrom
J an ia town yesterday,"
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NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING
CREDITORS.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE DIS TRICT OF INDIANA. IN BANKRUPTCY. Before John O. Bowers, Referee.
In the matter of John R. Oppermanr
Bankrupt No. 33, in Bankruptcy, Ham
mond.
To the creditors of John R, Opperman
of the city of East Chicago, in the county of Lake, state and district of
Indiana, a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the
27th day of October, 1906, the said John
R. Opperman was duly adjudicated
bankrupt, and that the first meeting of creditors of said bankrupt will be held
in the office of this referee in the pub
lie court house in the city of Hammond, county of Lake, state and dis
trict of Indiana, on the 17th day of
November, A. D. 1906, at nine o'clock in
the forenoon, at which time said credl
tors may attend, prove their claims, ap
point a trustee, examine the said bank
rupt and transact such other business
as may properly come before said court.
JOHN O. BOWERS, Referee in Bankruptcy,
Twelfth Referee District of Indiana,
Dated at Hammond, Ind., October
31, 1906.
Note Creditors will please observe
reauirements concerning proof of
claims. See section s or bankruptcy
act 1S98, General Order XXI and forma
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