Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 203, Hammond, Lake County, 14 February 1907 — Page 4
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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES .Thursday, Feb. 14, 1907.
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
AN EVENING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY TUB LAKE COUNTY PRINT. INQ AND PUBLISHING COMPANY... "Entered &e econd-claa mattsr June, tl. 1101. at the postofflce at Hammond, Indiana, under the Act of Coojrreas, March t. llTt." - Offices in Biend, Xsi HaniFtond Telephone, building. 111. liamCblcaKo Office. FUm 211 Tribune Building', Montgomery, representative. Hugh W. Tar isui at Subscription. Yearty 13 09 Half Yearly $1.50 EingU Copies 1 cent LARGER PAID UP Circulation than any other Newspaper in Northern Ind. Circulation Yesterday ClftCCLATIO.V BOOKS OPESf TO TUB rSTSJLXC FOR INSPECTION AT ALL TIMES. Sfj E'lbscribers. Headers of the Xiziea tie requested to favor the mssEgoaeat by reporting any irregularities in delivering. Communicate aI& tie circulation department, or Telephone 111. WITH THE EDITORS. Look Out for Themselves. Both the senate and the house have voted members of congress a fifty per cent increase of pay, and they already had mileage. Hut a proposal in the senate to allow the railroad companies to transport families of officers of the army at half rates under the railroad rate law they must pay full fart has provoked much declamatory opposition, and some pitiless logic, the latter from senators, who talk solemnly about a violation of the spirit of railroad rate legislation. Mr. McCumber of North Dakota drew a picture of the swell military man going down "with his wife and family in his carriage to the tlepcA" and said his ho'art bled "to think that they must pay just tue same prices as other citizens." The true condition of the pampered army officer and the demands upon his nurse for living expenses, rearing a family, and carrying his wife and children about with him does not seem to worry the senators. The, proposal to allow transportation of army off! cers' families at half rates is not a revolutionary or unpatriotic. Unless congress Indorses it, or some similar plan of relief, congress should Increase the pay of army officers to keep pace with the rise In living expenses. Hut whv should it not make the increase without regard to the question of trans portatlon? New York Sun. The President Playing Truant. Tho other evening the president evaded tho secret service men and went for a lonely walk In a remote part of the White House ground. The New York Times comments on tho incident That was boyish, no doubt, but the president's boyishness Is not the least amiable of his traits. We would all like to think that a president of the United States was in no danger from the people who have chosen him for their most honorable service, and that he could move about among them safe ly anywhere, bat lamentable experience has proved that this is not true. And reallv. It Is less the president than the country that the secret service men pro tect. His personal peril from insane attack, while measurably greater than that of men less obviously set apart for publlo attention, is hardly large enough In Itself to reconcile him to the burden of his merciless followers, but Incalculable interests are Involved with his. and he must endure the restriction of his natural liberties with such patience as he can command. Which, of course, he does. It Hakes a Difference. The report of the legislative visiting committee shows that a " state inFtltution located at Indianapolis Isn't skimped for funds. The trustees of the Institution for the deaf and dumb asked an appropriation of $325,000 with which to buy a site and erect newbuildings. The trustees proceeded to exceed the appropriation with all the assurance in the world that they would bo sustained. The institution when completed and equipped will have cost $1,044,714. And all this for a school accommodating but five hundred pupils! This is almost as great a sum as the stato has invested In Purdue. Indiana and the Ncrmal combined. What a howl there would be should Purdue board exceed an appropriation In any such manner! Lafayette Journal. The Other Side. There are ministers of the gospel all over the country defending the un written law, but mere is a written law that has not yet been repealed that is a little more binding than the unwritten law, whatever that may be. It Is to the effect that "Thcu shalt do no murder." Assassination, which, the unwritten law seeks to justify, is about the most revolting form of murder. The fewer excuses offered for it from the pulpit the better. Marlon Chronicle.
PECULIAR BELIEFS. It is a common belief among Chinesj that If one commits any crime against certain animals cats, for example the soul of that animal will take possession of the wrongdoer until the offense has been purged. A servant girl, according to the Oriental tale, unmindful of tradition, put to death a cat and Its three kittens. She was taken violently ill. Her mistress, suspecting the cause from the fact that the maid was scratching- and mewing, apostrophized the body of the dead cat, demanding to know why it thus tormented the girl. The spirit of the cat, speaking by way of the girl's mouth, denounced the quadruple murder. The whole story was told by the girl in the character of the cat. Then she expired In violent convulsions.
SMELLING FOR A LIVING. A new occupation has been dev ells beis besmell, oped in London and already Ing successfully and already raent is a sensitive sense of and a little practice makes the detector quit proficient. He inspects the gas pipes and hxtures of a building and charges IS cents for each leak he discovers. Some of the men earn $15 a week. Popular Mechanics. Need of Insurance Legislation. The admission made by the preslLife Insurance Corndent of the State pany as to the way the money of has been squandered the stockholders is about the best evidence that the passage or some radical insurance leg islation is necessary. There are. no figures at hand to show that any other companies doing business in Indiana have been guilty of the same practices. Hut that is neither here nor there. 1 he point is that under the present law any company could do as the State Life has done without fear so far as the law is concerned. It should nut be so. Men who in vest their money in like insurance should be protected from the rapa city of the officials in charge of Indiana life insurance companies the same as in those of New York or any other State. No better proof of the necessity for passing the Babcock bill could be produced than facts that have been elicited in connection with the State Life this week. Lafayette Daily Courier. Great Fortunes. A year or two ago Henry Clews, the New York banker, named the five leading fortunes in the country as be ing John D. Rochefeller's, estimated at $500,000,000; Andrew Carnegie's, $250,000,000; W. W. Astor's $200,000,000; Gould's family, $150,000,000, and Mar shall Field's, $100,000,000. The fact that the Field estate is found to in ventory very close to $100,000,000 is regarded at Chicago as tending to confirm the accuracy of the Clews estimates in the other cases. Philadelphia Record. WITH THE AUTHORS. "A Simple Spelling Bee" by Owen Wister is a new story in humorous vein to be published on February 20 The title suggests the story, which Is said to be a worthy successor to 'Philosophy Four." Nora Archibald Smith, the sister of and frequently the collaborator with Kate Douglas Wiggin, has written a new work for children, entitled "The Storv of a Doll." There are three principal characters in the little tale, the scene of which Is laid in a town in the highlands of Scotland, down whose streets the picturesque pipers march in their kilts and tartan plaids. The characters are Betty, a child of live; Muff, a little dog, who is so much like the article of apparel after which he is named that you can't tell his head from his tail, and Bettykin, a rag doll whose adventures are recounted. A son of Mr. Hall Caine has been playing three parts in his father's play of "The Bondman" a coastguardsman, a farmhand and a convict. Mr. Hall Caine, speaking of his son's career, said that he had long wished to be an actor, an ambition which his mother has not been willing to encourage. "For my own part," the author writes, "I have thought best to let him have his way rather than leave on his mind and heart the sore impression of a baffled ambition. But I have taken care that tie snouui oegin at me oottom and learn all there Is to known of the sour as well as the sweet of theatrical life." Cars and Their Cost. The number "557,500" on a Pennsylvania freight car does not mean that the road owns so many freight cars. According to the latest report the entire equipment of all the lines of that great system, Including every possible kind of freight car, Is less than 250,000 of those necessary vehicles. But think of it nearly a quarter million freight cars belonging to one road! The cars are numbered consecutively, but the old ones die out and hundreds are wrecked and burned annually. The Pennsylvania, from Washington down to Altoona, from New York to the desert ranges of tho middle West, owns 6,000 locomotives and a passenger car for each, besides the number of freighters mentioned. In round numbers $380,000,000 was spent last year in rolling stock for the American railroads. More than $250,000,000 was spent for freight cars, a freight costs about $1,000, and a passenger car $8,eoo. The price of a good engine is about $15.000. New York Press. Look over your change again, please. A $1,000 bill has mysteriously disap peared from Chicago. That Milwaukee man, sixty-one years old, who says he has never been kissed, should have made the fact known sooner. Unless he's awful rich it's al4 most too late now.
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The Butler (Pa.) Times of yesterday tells of a dozen youngsters being arraigned in the mayor's court for being caught bathing in the creek near Butler. Evidently the good folk of Butler do not believe cleanliness is next to Godliness at least in February. Reports from Indianapolis say that the metropolitan police bill is still slumbering. Sort of last sleep, whichever way you please. The New York libel law holds that It is not libelous for a newspaper to call a woman a "common scold." How about calling her an "uncommon scold?" Roosevelt wants papers printing the d talis of the Thaw trial debarred from tli' United States mails. Teddy must be reading the reports very carefully. Lent has begun and In the church the fast days check on the fast days. the spirit of should be a English Quick Witted. Forbes Robertson's company of Eng lish actor3, here for a week, are look ing for trie person In New York who told them that Pittsburg was so dirty that it was no use to take a bath; that no one ever did so here, and that there were no bathtubs In the city. Each member brought a collapsable Dainiuo. v nen iney oegan setting up the tubs in their rooms the clerk charged them for rooms with baths. The collapsable tubs were shipped back to New York. "Deuced queer country, this," ex plained Ian Robertson, a brother of the star. "It's quite impossible to know when a chap is telling the truth, ye know. There seems to be quite a num ber of bathtubs here. It's deucedly queer." Pittsburg Dispatch to New York World. A Foolometer. borne visitors who were being shown over a pauper lunatio asylum inquired of their guide what method was em ployed to discover when the inmates were sufficiently recovered to leave wen, replied he, "you see, It's this way. We have a big trough of water and we turns on the tap. We leave it running and tells 'em to bail out the water with palls until they've emptied the trough. "How does that prove it?" asked of the visitors. one w eu, said the guide, "them as ain't idiots turns off the tap." Harper's Weekly. a popular Hammond physician took it into his head to go rabbit shooting a few days ago. About 4 o'clock In me anerncon ne returned, tired out and empty handed, telling his wife that he hadn't killed a thing. Thereupon she remarked: "I told you so. If you had stayed at home and attended to your legitimate business you might have been more successful." ROBERTS DALE NEWS aj.i. iMLaeisun 01 soutn umeago was here on business yesterday. Mrs. William boulevard Is on Timm, sr., of the sick list. Indiana Mrs. James Judson visited with tives in Chicago Wednesday. rela xieiiiu or Lansing, ill., was a Robertsdale visitor Wednesday. William Rought is confined to his home with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. Charles Stross, sr., of Roberts avenue was a Chicago business visitor yesterday. Dr. T. W, transacted terday. Kohr of business Indiana boulevard In Chicago yesMrs. Erick Lund and Mrs. Chapman visited friends in Edgewater, 111., yesterday. Mrs. Louis Horndobler of 108 Roberts avenue was a Chicago visitor Wednesday. Miss Emma Palmer of Windsor Park was the guest of Mrs. William Rought on Wednesday. Mrs. Herman Theisen and Miss Anna Gross saw "Mixed Up" at the Calumet Wednesday afternoon. Little Vera Flaugher of Harrison avenue, who is seriously 111 with pneumonia, is a little better today. Edwin S. Davis of the Atwood-Davis Sand company of Chicago, called at Robert Atchison's office on business Wednesday. Mesdames Dick Blaul, Henry Eg gers, jr., and Edson Moore visited with Mrs. C . Johnson yesterdav, who is at the St. Bernard hospital in Chicago. -iney report tnat Mrs. Johnson is recovering rapidly and that sho expects to come home Tuesday. The members of the Marquette Pedro club were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mathias of Har rison avenue last evening. A very pleasant evening was passed with cards and music, after which a dainty lunch wes served. The honors were awarded to the following. Miss Mamie Eggers and Arthur Stross, first; Mrs. Arthur Stross and Harry Golding, second, and Miss Clara Schaaf and Frank Buehler, consolation. We Collect County Taxes on Hammond property. Lake County Savings & Trust Co., 92 State St. data evening until 8 o'clock.
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NEW YORK LETTER. New York, Feb. 14. The stock mar ket started the day slightly higher with St. Paul the strongest feature. The advancing tendency, however, was of short duration. After the opening flurry, prices began to ease off. The opinion prevailed In some of the best posted quarters that the market had gone up too rapidly and that a reac tion was in order. As a consequence the selling was of a better order than the buying. Selling pressure appeared largely in St. Paul, Union Pacific, Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Copper Smelters, Sugar and Atchison. The highest prices were obtained at the opening, later the market lapsed into dulness with a declining: tendency. Looses for the day were the largest m St. Paul which opened at 150Va ana declined to 148 Union Pacific from 6 to 175 and the balance of the active list in a like proportion. Tho directors of both Union Pacific and Southern Pacific met late yesterday afternoon and declared the usual dividends on both properties. This announcement had no material enect on the prices of these two Harriman roads. They followed the balance of the market throughout the session. In the late afternoon, the call money market showed signs of becoming a trifle firmer, loans ruling as high as per cent., finally closing at 4 per cent. This induced further liquidation by bull operators who are afraid of a money stringency. The market as a whole closed with a weak tendency with indications pointing to still further declines. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Descpt. Open High 105 99 1361.:. 44?s 1151-8 145 83 Low 103 99 134 43 113 144 83 73 32 114 84 74 15 51 4 9 36 23 V 184 122 33 76 35 35 59 135 24 153 76 168 40 82 72 128 86 34 96 131 51 Close 104 99 134 43 113 144 83 73 32 114 84 74 16 51 49 36 23 30 185 122 3 8 76 35 35 59 135 24 153 76 168 40 82 72 128 86 34 97 131 51 124 35 93 26 61 94 26 14 9 44 33 175 45 104 34 16 32 Atchison , , ,.101 .. 9914 Do pfd . . Am. Sugar Am. Car. . . 13 6 U . 44 114?8 14 54 83 75 . 32M.115 . Si '. 75 . 16 . 51 . 5014 . 36 23 . 186 122 V2 3 98 A ma I. Cop Am. Smelt Am. Ice Scs Am. Locom Am. Wool . B. & O Biscuit ... Brook. R. 1 C. & G. W . . Ches. & O. C. F. & I. . . Col. South Corn Pdts Cotton Oil . Canad Pac. Coast Lino Cent. Leath r.i ...m 32 115 85 75 16 51 50 36 Ts 23 186 122 39 77 8 37 35 59 136 25 155 77 171 41 85 74 130 35 97 132 53 s line i a ... t i ;a Erie com . . 37 Interboro ... 85 K. C. S. pfd 59 L. & Nash 13 61,4 Mex. Cent 25 Nor. Pacific 155' Gt. Nor Ore 77 Great Nor 171 M K & T cm 411,4 Mis. Pac .. 85i,I Nat. Lead .. 74 N. Y. Cent 129 Nor. & W. . . 86T8 Pacific Mail 35 Peoples Gas 97i,4 Pennsyl. ...132 Press Steel 63 Reading ... 1254 125 123 35 93 26 51 94 26 14 8 44 33 17 5 1,3 45 104 34 16 31 R. I. & S. . . Do pfd . . R. Isl. com Rubber . . . South Pac -. SO 3 9S 27 61 95i 36 9S 51 95 27 150 44 34 176 46 105 34 16 Va S3 So. Ry com 27? St. Paul ...1501. St L&SF2dpf 44 Texas 1'ac .. 34 Union Pac 176 U. S. Steel Do pfd . . Va. Cnemic Wabash . . . Do pfd . . 46 105 3412 16 33 NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Month Open High Low Close Feb. ...920b ... ... 918-20 Mch. ...926 926 918 925-26 May ...943 943 935 942-43 July ...954 955 948 954-55 Aug. ...952 954 951 953-54 Oct. ...973 974 970 975-76
GRAIN WD PROVISION MARKET
Month High Low Open Close Wheat. May ..79 79 78 79 July ..78-79 79 78 79 Sept. ..78 7S 78 78 Corn. May ..46 47 46 47 July ..46 46 46 46 Sept. ..46 47 46 47 Out. May ..40 41 40 40 July ..36-37 37 36 37 Sept. ..32 32 32 32 l.ftrtl. May ..1740-35 1752 1735 1740 July ..1750 1762 1735 1752 Vork. May ..997 1005 997 1000 July ..1002 1007 1002 1002-05 Sept.. ..1007 1017 1007 1012-15 RIb. May ..950 957-60 950 952-55 July ..960 967 960 960-62
CHICAGO LETTER. Chicago, Feb. 14. WHEAT Abroad active market with a range of a full cent for the day. The news was more in favor of the bulls than otherwise. Despite the denials issued yesterday pertaining to the Russian situation, the fact will not down that Russia is large ouyer or wheat in this country. Bad crop reports also were in circula tion rrom nouses witn roreign connec tions stating that the drouth in India would cause a shortage for export from that country. Foreign cables were practically unchanged from yesterday. Cash demand both here and in the northwest reported only fair. The market closed strong with a gain of about a cent for the day. CORN: Developed marked strength in the last half hour. Continued reports of the drouth in Argentine Republic and renewed activity by the local bull operators started the shorts to covering bringing about a rally of three quarters of a cent for the May option. Cash corn in the sample market also sympathized with the general firmness, prices being one quarter to one half a cent higher. The market closed strong within a fraction of the highest prices of the day. OATS: Dull and lifeless early, but turned strong in sympathy with the advance in other grains. There was a few scattered buying orders executed by the local commission houses. The volume of trade not large. Sales to the seaboard about 50,000 bu. The market , closed Eteady with a slight .advance for the day.
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SOUTH WATER STREET MARKET. Chicago. Feb. 14. The Lenten season which begins today and will continue f'.-r seven Weeks, is expected to cause a beter demand for etjrs. butter and vegetables in general, "while in meats and poultry trade is expected to fall off somewhat. There was an excellent shipping demand for eggs and dealers are of an opinion that' the demand at the present level of prices is settled on a linn basis. There was a good local demand for butter. Butter Receipts, 8.371 tubs. Extra creamery, jobbing. 320: price to retailers. S4c; prints, 35c"; firsts, 27 29c; seconds, 21-3 24c; June extras. 2Si& 29c; dairies. Coolevs. 27c; firsts, 22'a 25c: renovated, 22C?23c; packing stock, lbTi IS Vic. Eggs Receipts, 10,220 cases. Fresh stock at mark, new cases included or cases returned, 23fr25c; firsts, 251,:c; prime firsts, packed in whitewood cases grading 60 per cent fresh stock, 26Hc: extra. 80 per cent fresh stock, especially pacKed tor city stock. 23 (ft; 24c. trade, 270; storage Potatoes Receipts, 3 0 cars. Wisconsin. Minnesota, white stock, choice. 42&''44e; choice to fancv. Michigan, 42 3M4c: red. fair to good.' 39 U" 40c; mixed, red and white. 39'i40e; common, small red and white, 3Sc. Sweet potatoes, Illinois, $2.25 2.50 per bbl; No. 2, $1.501.75. New potatoes, $3.00 7.00 per bbl. Veal Quotations for" calves in good order were as follows: 50 to 85 lbs, 5H654c: 80 to 65 lbs. 7rSc: 80 to 100 lbs, fancv, 9f?10c; 150 to 175 lbs, good, meaty, o(S5Hc. Dressed Hppf Xn i Hhs. 15e: No. 1 loins, 1" y?c; No. 1 round, 7c; No. 1 chuck. vjc; x,o. 1 nlatf 4 sic. Live Poultrv Turkevs. ner lb, 12c; lit! chickens, fowls, llMlc; springs, 11c; roosters, 6c; geese. $5.00 7.00; ducks, 11c. Fruits Apples, $1.00 ff? 3.50 per brl; bananas, jumbo, per bunch, $1.401.5t; straight. $1.10 at 1.25; lemons, California, $3.00 a' 3.50; oranges, California, $1.753.25. Green Vegetables Beets, 40?? 50c per sack; cabbage, $22.00 j? 26.00 per ton; carrots, 36fj)t5c per sack; onions, b01v 80c per bu; parsnips, 75c per tub; spinach, 25 30c per hamper; turnips, 40 li 7 5c per sack. C. H. WANZER STOCK AND BONO BROKER. Stocks Carried on 3 to 5 Point Margia. Nominal Rates of Interest. 333 Rookery Bldg., Chicago. TELEPHONE HARRISON, 3405. JOHN DICKINSON & GO. STOCKS, BONDS, GRAIN, PROVISIONS. 171 La Sails St., Chicago. New York Office, 41 Baoadway. Members Chicago Board of Trade. New York Consolidated Stock Exchange. Direct Private Telephone, Central 5551 Wires East. Automatic 4058. Central 5351 GRAIN MARKET. Chicago, Feb. 14. Car lots. 6 cars; corn, 561 cars; oats, Wheat, 175 cars. Estimate tot- Tomorrow. Wheat, 16 cars; corn, 402 cars: oats, 115 cars; hogs, 30,000 head. Total Clearance!!. Wheat and flour equal 305,000 bush els; corn, 104,000 bushels; oats, none. Northwest Receipts Cars. Last Last Today Week Year Duluth 57 49 45 Minneapolis 217 148 273 Chicago 2b 7 20 Primary Movement. Receipts . . . .447,000 ....298,000 Ship. 159,000 210,000 181,000 578,000 599,000 263,000 Wheat, today Last week Last year . Corn, today Last week Last year .437,000 692,000 ..... .644.000 526,000 LIVE STOCK MARKET. Union Stock Yards, Feb. 14. Hog receipts, 25,000; market 5 cents lower; left over, 12,000. Light, $6.85 to 7.10; mixed, $6.90 to 7.17; heavy, $6.90 to 7.15; rough, $6.90 to 7.10. Cattle receipts, 5,500; market steady. Sheep receipts, 14,000; market steady. Union Stock Yards, Feb. 14. Hogs closed strong. Light, $6.85 to 7.07; mixed, $6.90 to 7.15; heavy, $6.90 to 7.17; rough, $6.90 to 7.00. Cattle closed strong; sheep closed steady. Hogs Cattle Omaha 8,500 2,200 Kansas City ...13,000 4,000 St. Louis 10,000 3,500 Sheep 3,500 5,000 1,000 LIVERPOOL MARKETS. Liverpool, Feb. 14. Wheat opened to lower; corn, to lower. Liverpool, Feb. 14. Wheat closed to lower; corn, higher. WEATHER FORECAST. Illinois Generally fair tonight and Friday; cooler east and south tonight; warmer Frldav. Indiana Fair tonight and Friday except snow near Lake Michigan tonight. Missouri Fair tonight and Friday; cooler east tonight; warmer Friday. Lower Michigan Snow flurries and colder tonight; fair and slightly warmer Frldav. Wisconsin and Iowa Fair tonight and Friday; warmer Friday. Minnesota Fair tonight and Friday; slowlv rising temperature. North Dakota Fair tonight and Friday; moderate temperature. South Dakota Fair tonight and Frldav: warmer tonisrht. Nebraska Fair tonight and Friday; moderate temperature. Kansas Fair tonight and Friday warmer west. Montana Fair tonight and Friday; warmer tonight. HEARD ON THE BOURSE New York, Feb. 14. Traders have taken some profits and are looking for a further reaction, but I don't think they will get it. I look for a stronger market. No special news of any kind develop &. Anaconda was the leader early in
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Wire to Lake County Times. the bou day ?ht and late Union Taciflc was heavily r, leading the advance. There is no reason that some profit taking will not take place on these advances, but the situation in general seems a little better and we feel inclined to play the long side of the market and would advise doing so on any recession. The market should advance further before there, is material reaction, but the advance is perhaps more in the nature of a rally than the beginning of a real bull campaign. In our judgment the bear movement ended ten days ago with declines averaging more than twenty points from their high records tor most of the active, stocks. It is said the Aldrich bill will bo presented to tho senate this afternoon. Prominent bankers and brokers think it is sure to become a law. Standard Oil people ore waiting for this and are supposed to bo willing to bull their property when the bill becomes a law. The market was very buoyant today and stocks throughout the list made material advances, but commission house business was exceedingly small as the public does not sympathize with the advance in prices and, In lact. It seems that a good many brokers are still bearish and are keeping their customers from buying stocks. This is always a sign that the market will advance and the short interest, which is very large, is bound to cover. No doubt some buying was for this account today, but there are always people who are stubborn and wait until stocks are much higher or until their margin becomes exhausted. The advance in the Copper shares appears to have for its basis the enormous earnings of all copper producing companies, which is good enough reason for speculative support at this time. There is also a much improved sentiment gaining ground with regard to the attitude of the administration toward corporations, in addition to evidence of solicitude regarding the financial situation and the promise of legislation on this subject before the adjournment of the present congress. Most thiiigs point to a stronger market today and activity in the coppers which became a most pronounced feature Monday will quite likely prove the leadership in today's trading, though steel shares appear to be under the influence of good buying in the preferred issues. The Union and Southern Pacific dividend meetings are expected at any time and rather pointed attention is being called to the earnings of Southern Pacific with discussion regarding the possibility of an increase in the dividend of this company, though the recent strength of the stock is about the only reason for this gossip. Think it time to take profits if tho market opens strong. On any sign of a setback wTould buy the good stocks. I understand there will be nothing doing in Anaconda by the right people until after March 4 you can get it cheaper. It has had a big advance. Sell it and copper. Wheat opened lower m sympathy with lower cables and weakness northwest. Everybody well supplied with selling orders. Very little buying. I think we are destined for consid erable irregularity and when stocks are strongest they ought to be sold. The story is that Mr. Hill and the attorney general have come to an agreement and that the suit will be dissolved, the former agreeing to spec! fy what the money is going to be used for. This, however, is only a rumor but it is having its effect by forcing shorts to cover. Anaconda made the most striking opening at better than three points above the close price of Monday. The movement was in line with that de veloped at the beginning of the week and the response in London was an especially encouraging factor. This 13 practically the first time the stock has moved on the other side in sympathy with the great strength shown in Rio Tintos. Washington dispatches are encour aging for the passage through congress between now and March 4 of the fi nance bill, reported through the senate. WHITING NEWS Steven Loftls was in South Chicago yesterday. Orren Mackey of Cleveland avenue was in Chicago last night. Miss Mary Thiel of Chicago was the night. guest of Whiting friends last Herman Ohnberger, rail inspector for the Illinois Steel company at South Chicago, was in town last night. Mrs. A. Anderson of ited her mother, Mrs. mond yesterday. Short street visMoroc, at HamMiss Essie Hatch of been quite sick this slightly improved now John street week, but has Mrs. Quiggle of New York and Ohio avenues left for Franklin, Pa., yester day in answer to a message stating that her mother was seriously ill. Thomas Boyle was brought home from St. Margaret's hospital yesterday, where he was taken about two weeks ago suffering with rheu-matlsm. The W. II. S. girls go to Hobart tomorrow night for a game of basket ball with the hifih school ciris of that
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Several rooters will accompany v... v.,. necora, asslsta the telephone exchange, t manager of who has been t uie nome of was taken to the r. Morton Trout, iter. j, v. v.measr r. to until he recovers. remain there Mrs. George the Magazine T. Gray club at was hostess to Pensvlvnnb, .. 4 ,lome In . uuiiuu last night, ti,. evening was spent in m:,vi " which the following P;,:er at awarded: First. Mrs .Chart, Or?" wald and James QUI; .ccon I Mrs CiT tJreenwald. The P. I tomorrow . A. C. night bovs P" to Hamm for a iraniA uri.v . Baptists whom they simply outclaJ about three weeks ago. Our team t, in excellent form and we have doubt but what the victory will be our The S. P. A. C. Juniors will aslo go to Hammond tomorrow night and have for their opponents the second hi-h school team. ' to The home of Lew Williams of Clevellvv,uu "'us t-ie eivne of a very rreity Mrthday party Monday nisht. mo truest of honor ri;(li,im. . being Miss Arr,. e erur. tr was pleasantly 1 " 1 j --rem j.i iiiavmu- c-nmo ..... " r' v " l"J .vim ami instrumental music Dainty 'I'lrsunivnis were served by Mrs. WiliucKinson was tho reeH.w.i. Kt many oeautitul presents, among tne most valuable being a gold watch rings. and two beautiful The high school boys played a game of basket ball at the Owl's gym Tuesday night, and bowed to honorable defeat to the Owls, the score being 34 to IS. The lineup was as follows: W. II. S. P. Pfeiffer, RF; C. Miller. L F; C. Artman. LF; W. Smith, HO; R, Smith, LG. Owls Archie Judson RFRoy Welsly, LF; Ed. Girard. C; Alvln Eaton, RG; Hoyt Ogram. LG. Charles Lumm was much in evidence a3 referee. Ila-kpt Hall ote. The A. C. W. H. S. firlrls ilffint.l tua a a in a game of basket ball last by a score of 23 to 6. The score night might have been larger hut whon S. P A. C. KlllS f.!W ta t!,..-,.. thought it time to "skldoo." " The lineup was: W. II. S.R. p., GayneHa Eaton; L. F., Helen O'Hara; C. Josephine Jewett; R. G., Martha Sehanf! L. G., Bessie Naef. S. P. A. C. R. F.. Miss Bonham; L. F.. Martrarpt nrlfflfiT Center; Ella Klose; It G., Miss GladHelen Pfelfer. felter; L. G., Men's CInb Orgnnlzes. The Men's club was organized at the Congregational church last nitrht and in honor of the event a banquet was served by the Ladles Aid society and an excellent musical program was rend. ered by local talent. About two hundred invitations were issued and in nearly every case were responded to, which made quite a gathering. The list of orators for the evening and the fiubjects upon which they spoke were: Toastmaster Henry Beaublen. Fellowship Frank N. Gavlt. Church and Community W. A. Tip ton. How to Make a Chemical Analysis of a Good Citizen Dr. W. Gray. Our Host Rev. M. C. Wright. What Might Have Been Dr. A. J. Lauer. Men's Clubs Rev. J. N. Artman, The club will now begin to see what good It can do in tho community by promoting good fellowship among the citizens and to interest many who here tofore have taken no interest in church work, or who never attended services. If the affair of last night has to do with the future, the efforts of the, lead ers will not be in vain for much concern was taken in the work. MR. EDISON RETIRES. It is announced that Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who celebrated his sixtieth birthday yesterday, will henceforth devote himself to having a good time. His much discussed and, it must be confessed, much announced but long awaited storage battery is about ready for the market and will be "put out" next summer. "I believe," he continued, "that" the new storage battery solves the problem of vehicle transportation In large cities." Doubtless it will, when it finally "comes out." But the most Interesting feature of the great inventor's talk was his idea of what constituted retirement giving up active work and devoting the rest of hl3 life to recre.ation. Here is the plan in his own words: "For forty-five years I making experiments with have been electricity, been turnbut all these years I have lner these experiments into commercial value so fast that I have not had a chance to tdav with electricity for the fun of the thing. But from tomorrow I am going to give up the commercial end of it." In other words, "from tomorrow," that is, yesterday, he enters the laboratory In an entirely new spirit, as an original research worker in science. not an electrical engineer. His purpose will be not to see how much money he can make out of new Inventions, but "how much he can find out about electricity. "lhls is a pleasure,' he declared, "I have long been promising myself." f. One might naturally think a person who had worked for half a century with electricity would already know enough about it to be willing, if not anxious to turn his attention to automoblllng. horses, or in some other electrically antipodean direction, when it became a question of giving up work and enjoying the fruits of his lifetime's labor. Inventors are peculiar creatures, however, and cannot be Judged by ordinary standards. For this reason the "Wizard's" retirement from active work to play may prove as fertile in discoveries of Importance to the world as have his years of active work. Original research has a way of developing the most unexpected results, and inquiries with no apparent possibility of practical outcome sometimes inaugurate new epochs of civilization. As is one or tne inventors mends has pointed out, his idea of having a good tlms is discovering new facts of value to the world, and his so-called retirement may be but the prelude to even mart valuable Inventions than those he ha ial ready achieved. New York Globe,
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