Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 243, Hammond, Lake County, 2 April 1907 — Page 5

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Tuesday, April 2, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

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Wire from All Over Indiana.

WESTEBtf MEN THANKED

Irfi(lent Expresses Ills Gratitude to

Representatives Who Voted for the Subsidy Hill.

Omaha, April 2. Representative Pollard, of the First Nebraska district.

has received a letter from President

Iloosevelt thanking him for his sup

port of the ship subsidy gill, congratu-

. -vr TTI l Tk:- lating him and other western repreTelegraph News by Direct 6eDtaKtives for taklng a ..broad land

patriotic view" of the situation, and

deprecating the defeat of the bill as a

serious injury to the commercial inter-!

ests of the United States.

In addition to reiterating what he

said in his last message to congress on

Indianapolis, April 2. A minimura the subject be declare as to the bill

temperature of 24 and a killing frost that was defeated: "I should heartily nlaved havoc, annnrwiilf. with tho favor the present measure in any

frui

oils

that it Is not possible to tell just now

the amount of damage done, but they are of the opinion that the damage is very serious. It is probable that tha plum and peach crops have suffered most, with the cherries and apples next. The flowers were heavy sufferers. Garden truck, it is said, was not Kulliciently advanced to have suffered heavily. Bright Sun Made It Worse. The fact that the sun came out so brightly will have the result of caus-

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GJSAffAfil

77I&C6ST. 7ffDU'G. Etc.

lyed havoc, apparently, witn mo layui luc icn.v numc i auj .it in the neighborhood of Indiana?- ev ent; but the experiences of Seereo i . . a. ,Mra u..i7 tary Hoot on his trip to South America s Sunday night. Fruit grovve s say q on paciflc

seem to me to render it of the ut-

(To Be Continued). CHAPTER V. A Good Man and His Woes. After Ed and I had carried the Fre-

donia election against Dunkirk's road,

we went fishing with Roebuck in the northern Wisconsin woods. I had

most consequence to pass the proposed two weeks, two uninterrupted weeks,

bill."

SIX TRAINMEN KILLED

Two Freights Collide on a Down

Grade Two of the Dead Cremated in the Resulting Fire.

Fort Worth, Tex., April 2. Six

trainmen were killed in a head-on col

lision between two freight trains on

the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, six miles south of here. The

lng greater damage than if the day dead are Engineer Wooden and Fire-

liad been coojer and" cloudy, thus al- man Ilines, of the south-bound train;

lowinc a crradual passing away of the Engineer Caldwell and Fireman Wal-

cold, as it 13 the rapid thawing that causes the chief damage. It is said that if the vegetation that has been frosted is sprinkled early the following morning, before it is reached by the raya of the sun. It may often be saved. Low .Temperatures Elsewhere.

lace, of the north-bound train; two

brakemen, names not known.

The collision, occurred while both trains were running down grade at a high speed. Fire broke out Immediate

ly and the two brakemen were cremated before assistance could reach

In which to Impress myself upon him;

besides, there was Ed, who related in

tedious but effective detail, on the slightest provocation, the achievements that had made him my devoted

admirer. So when, I went to visit Roebuck In June, at his house near

Chicago, he was ready to listen to mo in proper spirit.

I soon drew him on to tell of his

troubles with Dunkirk how the sena

tor was gouging him and every big

corporation doing business in the state "I've been loyal to tho party for 40 years," said he bitterly, "yet, if I had been on the other side it

couldn't cost me more to do business. I have to pay enough here, heaven knows. But it costs me more in your

state with your man Dunkirk." His white face grew pink with anger.

It's monstrous! Yet you should

have heard him address my Sunday

them. Over 30) head of cattle were

burned and eight cars of merchandise st.hnol Rrhn1nra fl, thfi lMt annual out

T II I 1 .1 . ... Ih.1 a 1 VI t 1 . v i 1 j ml

inuiuuapoiis uau muuu cuuipuuy m aesrroyeu. j; anure or me nonn-uounii jng j gaye them What an evidence of

ts low temperatures, i ue following train to receive m order is said to be tne r of religion it is that such

wretches as he Days the tribute of

hypocrisy to it!"

hardest step, toward the realization

of my dream of real political power to become an unbossed boss, not the

agent and servant of plutocracy or

partisanship, but using both to further ray own purposes and plans.

I had thus laid out for myself the

difficult feat of -controlling two fiery

steeds. Difficult, but not impossible, if I should develop skill as a driver

for the skillful driver has a hand 6C light that his horses fancy they s,re going their own road at their own

gait.

CAPTAIN MACKLINS BELIEF

He Does Not Believe the Negro Soldiers

"Shot Up" Brownsville Suspicious Shot Collections.

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reports of minimum temptratures for responsible for the wreck.

the twenty-four hours ended at 7 a. in. Monday were received from various stations In Indiana: Auburn, 19;

Bloomlngton, 22; Cambridge City, 22; Columbus, 23; Evansville, 20; Farmland, 21; Logansport, 20; Marion, 20; TiDcennes, 24. At Auburn and Cambridge City only was there cloudy weather. The weather bureau offera come comfort, however, for the forecast Is for fair weather with rising temperature. Killing Frost Reported. At Lafayette. Purdue university experiment station reported a killing frost throughout the county. Teaches nd plums suffered severely. The ther-

His business and his religion were

Roebuck's two absorbing passions religion rapidly predominating as he drew farther away from 60.

"Why do you endure his blackmail

ing, Mr. Roebuck?" I asked. "He is growing steadily worse."

"He's certainly more rapacious

Washington April 2. The test!

money of Captain Edward A. Macklin,

of company C, Twenty-fifth infantry,

was taken by the senate committee on than ten years ago," Roebuck admit-

military affairs in the Brownsville in- ted. "Our virtues or our vices, which-

vestigation. It proved interesting par- ever we give the stronger hold on us.

tlcularly for the reason that Macklin, become more marked as we approach

in reply to the question by Foraker judgment When we finally go, we

"Who 'shot up' the town? Said, are prepared for the place that has

"Well, I don't think it was the men." been prepared for us.

Also it was interesting from the "But why do you put up with his

juometer fell to 21 degrees and a half fact that he corroborated what other impudence?"

Inch of Ice formed. The damage ia witnesses had said that empty shell3 "What can we do? He has political believed to have been extensive, aa found in Brownsville the morninz aft- cower and is our onlv Drotectlon

or the firing were found, six or seven against the people. They have been in a bunch, In a circular space about Inflamed with absurd notions about

ten Inches in diameter, an impossible their rights. They are filled with

position unless placed there by hand, envy and suspicion of the rich. They

have passed laws to hamper us In de-

Lottery and Policy. veloplng the country and want to pass

t .rttf-ortr wmwimr ia Bntirro,i tn hA more and worse laws. So we must

tnany fruit trees were in bloom. Strawberry Crop Kuined. New Albany reports the strawberry crop ruined. Madison, with the thermometer stood the same at Petersburg, with loss to the small fruit crops. At Washington the mercury registered E3 degrees and no damage to fruits is believed to have been caused.

FftEAK OF A SIX-YEAIl OLD

Little Girl Hines the Private Boxes in a Postollice Because She Saw Their

Owners Do So. Peru, Iud., April 2. A little girl, scarcely 7 years old, loitering In the lobby of the postotiice. noticed patrons taking letters from their private boxes, usually walking away without locking the boxes, and she followed their example, opening all letters which sho could reach and throwing away the contents. She took a check calling for $145 addressed to the Parkhurst Elevator company, which she gave to a friend, and in this way knowledge of what she was doing reached the postoffice officials.

i a i l a i 1 . l a

n lnrl Mmo nt Inst and stransreJv .w e - -

. , , - . . talents God has given us lie idle in

, . . .. i , ., a napkin, or pay the Dunkirks to prereported in New ork city, the old . . . .

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ueauquarcers oi mis vice, roucy auu norant wicked way, and destroying

lottery worked together in the old days U3 and themselves. For how would

of the Louisiana lottery, when news- they get work If we didn't provide

papers openly advertised ticket sales it for them?"

and drawings. Fifteen years ago the "A miserable makeshift system,"

state of Louisiana abolished the draw- EaidJ, harkening back to Dunkirk and

ings in that city by refusing an extension of charter, and the big wheel

was removed, to Honduras. It is be

lieved that the sale of tickets has been stopped in the United States. The chief scandal of the lottery business was Its use to rob the very poor by means of policy. The policy game was to sell slips containing numbers every day. The policy men alleged

that drawings took place in New Orleans daily, although the lottery wheel

Another cheek for $74 was thrown was supposed to turn but once a month on the lioor. The little girl acknowl- In the presence of witnesses. People edged that she had been taking letters could play policy by small change ln-

for some time, and she did not seem

to realize that It was wrong for her to tamper with the boxes. Owing to her youth no prosecution will follow, but her parents have been instructed

to keep her away from the postotiice.

Hereafter patrons will lock boxes.

vestments ranging from a nickel upward. Small winnings were paid as a bait for further playing, but when a policy slip contained a number which won a big prize in New Orleans it was

their uot Paid- Ucj kings got rich until

the authorities stamped out the games.

Can't Get a Clew to Cue. Windfall, Ind., April 2. John Cue, the live .stock dealer who disappeared several days ago, after worsting trie Ke'mpton bank in his operations, as alleged, besides an Indianapolis commission house, is also accused of defrauding other people by his methods. Ward Jackson, of Kempton, is said to hold a note for $300, to which the signatures of sureties are declared to ba forged, and Benjamin Mott, a neighbor, is also a victim for a similar amount. Nothing has been heard of Cue since his Might.

Condition of Governor llanly. Indianapolis, April 2. Althouu;n Governor llanly is reported better on theh advice of his doctor he decided not to go down to the office. He is tip and dressed and at work In the library at his home in North Alabama street.

That's What They Said. Terre Haute, Ind., April 2. Lester Young and Earl Stewart aged respectively 13 and 15 years, runaway boys from Worthington, told the police that they left home because the school they attended was infested by fleas.

In view of the recent frightful accident from an explosion of gas In one of the coal mines at Reden, Germany, which killed 150 miners, it is interest

ing to loam that the Prussian authorities have so improved the appliances needed in coal mining and have adopted so many precautionary measures to protect the lives of miners that while on the average 571 miners out of every million annually lost their lives during the decade 1SS1-00 this record has been steadily reduced until in 190. only twenty-nine to the million perished

from explosion by fire damp. Hereafter when your boy engages in a game of football and is brought home on a shutter with several ribs fractured, a few teeth missing and his clavicle splintered, just pat him on the head and say, "Don't be a mollycoddle."

Fifteen Children to One Mother. j Masonvijle, Ind., April 2. Mrs. George Stovesky, wife of a Greek mlnt here, has given birth to triplets, making fifteen children, of whom all but one are living. The mother is 35 jears of age.

John D. nowMls, son of Novelist Wil

liam D. Howells, and an architect, is to build a country home for Mark Twain on that 200 acre farm recently purchased for an old age hobby. Many people think this old world has the ague pretty often, but few will believe Its tremors foot up 30,000 or so a year unless that scientist proves it by his err fhquake detector.

"Take Dunkirk, for example," I pushed on. "His lieutenants and heelers hate him because he doesn't divide squarely. The only factor in his power is tho rank and file of the voters of our party. They, I'm convinced are pretty well aware of his hypocrisy but it doesn't matter much what they think. They vote like sheep and accept whatever leaders and candidates our machine gives them. They are almost stone bllni In their partizanship and they can always bo fooled up to the necessary

point. Ana we can root tnem ourselves, if we go about It right, just

as well as Durkirk does It for hire.

"But Dunkirk is their man isn't

he?" he suggested.

"Any man is their man whom you choose to give them,"replied I. "And

don't you give them Dunkirk? He

takes the money from the big busi

ness interests, and with it hires the

men to sit in the legislature and

finances the machine throughout the

state. It takes big money to run

political machine. His power belongs to you people, to a dozen of you,

and you can take ft away from him;

his popularity belongs to the party,

and it would cheer just as loudly for

any other man who wore the party

uniform." "I see," he said reflectively; "the machine rules the party, and money rules the machine and we supply the money and don't get the benefit. It's as If my wife or one of my employes run my property." "Much like that," I answered. "Now, why shouldn't you finance the machine directly and do away with Dunkirk who takes as his own wages about half what you give him? Ife takes it and wastes it In stock specu

lations gambling with yoiy hardearned wealth, gambling it away cheerfully, because he feels that you people will always give him more." "What do you propose?" he asked; and I could see that his acute business mind was ready to pounce upon my scheme and search it hopefully if

mercilessly. "A secret absolutely secret, combine of a dozen of the big corporations of my state those, that make the bulk of the political business the combine to me under the management of some man whom they trust and whose interests are business, not political." "He would have enormous power," said Roebuck. I knew that he would point first and straight at that phase of my scheme, no matter how subtly I might disguise It So I had pushed it into hin face and had all but pointed at it myself so that I might explain it away. "Power?" said I. "How do you make that out? Any member of the combine that la dissatisfied can withdraw at any time and go back to the old

way of doing business. Besides, the

manager won't dare appear in It at all,

he'll have to hide himself from the people and from the politicians, be-

hindrsnme popular figurehead. There's

r advantage that mustn't be

oked. Dunkirk and these other demagogues who bleed you are inflam

ing public sentiment more and more against big corporations that's their

way of fighting you into yielding to their demands. Under the new plan their demogogery would cease. Don't

you think It's high time for the leaders of commerce and industry to combine intelligently against demagogery?

Don't you think they have cringed before it and have financed and foster

ed It too long?"

lnis argument wnicn i naa re

served for the last, had all the effect

I anticipated. He sat rubbing his

broad, bald forehead, twisting his

vvhite whiskers and muttering to him

self. Presently he asked: "When are you and Lottie Ramsay going to

be married?"

"In the fall" cald I. "In about

three months."

"Well we'll talk it over again after you are married and settled. If

you had the substantial interests to

give you the steadiness and ballast, I think you'd be the man for your scheme. Yes, something some such thing as you suggest must be done to stop the poisoning of public opinion against the country's best and strongest men. The political depart-

his blackmailing, for I was not just then in the mood to amuse myself with the contortions of Roebuck's flexible and fantastic "moral sense."

"I've been troubled in conscience a

great deal, Harvey, about the moral

ity of what we business men

forced to do. I hope indeed I feelthat we are justified in protecting our

property in the only way open to us. The devil must be fought with fire, you know." "How much did Dunkirk rob you of last year?" I asked. "Nearly $300,000," he said, and his expression suggested that each dollar had been separated from him with as great agony aa if it had been so much flesh pinched from his body. "There was Dominick, besides, and a lot of infamous strike-bills to be quieted. It cost $500,000 in all in your state alone. And we didn't ask a single bit of new legislation. All the money was paid Just to escape persecution under those alleged laws! Yet they call this a free country! When I think of the martyrdom yes, the mental and moral martyrdom, of

the men who have made this country What are the fer millions a man

may amass in compensation for what he has to endure? Why, Sayler, I've not the slightest doubt you could find well-meaning, yes, really honest, Godfearing people, who would tell you I am a scoundrel! I have read sermons, delivered from pulpits against me! Sermons from pulpits!" "I have thought out a plan," said I,

after a moment's silence and shocked j ment of the business Liests ought

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contemplation of this deplorable state

of affairs, "a plan to end Dunkirk and cheapen the cost of practical business." At "cheapen the cost" his big ears twitched as if they had been tickled. "You can't expect to get what you need for nothing," I continued, "on the present state of public opinion. But I'm sure I could reduce expenses by half at least half."

I had his undivided attention. "It Is patently absurd," I went on, "that you who finance politics and keep in funds these fellows of both machines should let them treat you as if you were their servants. Why don't you put them in their place, servants at servants' wages?" "But I've no time to go into politics ani I don't know anything about It don't want to know. It's a low business ignorant, corruption fUUii

to be thoroughly organized as the other departments are. Come to me again after you're married." I saw that his mind was fixed, that he would be unable to trust me until I was of his class, of the aristocracy

of corpulent corporate persons. I went away, much downcast; but two weeks afterward he telegraphed for me, and when I came he at once brought up the subject of the combine. "Go ahead with it," he said. "I've been thinking it over and talking it over. We shall need only nine others besides myself and you. You represent the Ramsay Interest." He equipped me with the necessary letters of Introduction and sent me forth on a tour of my own state.

When it was ended, my "combine"

was formed. And I was the combine was master of thi3 political biin4 jooL had. taken, the- first, tha

CHAPTER VI. Miss Ramsay Revolts. The last remark Roebuck had made

to me on his doorstep, as I was starting on my mission was: "Can't you and Lottie hurry up that marriage of

yours? Yeu ought to get it over and j out of the way." When I returned !

home with my mission accomplished, the first remark my mother made after our greeting was: "Harvey, I wish you and Lottie were going to marry a little sooner. A note in her voice made me look swiftly at her, and then, without a word, I was on my knees, my face in her lap and she was stroking my head. "I feel that I'm going to to your father, dear," she said. I heard and I' thought .1 realized; but I did not Who, feeling upon him the living hand of love, was ever able to Imagine that hand other than alive? But her look of illness, of utter exhaustion that I understood and suffered for. "You must rest," said I; "you must sit quiet and be waited on until you are strong again." "Yes, I will rest," she answered, "as soon as my boy is settled." That very day I wrote Carlotta telling her about my mother's health and

asking her to change the date of our

wedding to the first week in August,

then just under a month away. She telegraphed me to come and talk it

ver.

She was at the station In her phae

ton to meet me. We had not driven

far before I felt and saw that she was intensely irritated against me. Aa

I unburdened my mind of my anxl

eties about mother, she listened cold

ly. And I had to wait a long time before I got her answer In a strained

voice and with averted eyes: "Of course, I'm sorry your mother isn't

well, but I can't get ready that

soon."

It was not her words that exasper

ated me; the lightning of speech from

the storm-clouds of anger to clear the

air. It was her expression.

Never have I known anyone who

could concentrate into brows and eyes

and chin and lips more of that sul

len and aggressive obstinacy which Is

the climax of provocativeness. Pa

tience, in thought at least, with re

fusal has not been one of my virtues

This refusal of hers, this denial of

happiness to one who had deserved so

much and had received so little, set temper to working in me like a quick

poison. But I was silent, not so

much from prudence as from inabil

ity to find adequate words.

"I can't do it," repeated Carlotta,

"and I won't." She made It clear

that she meant the "won't" that she 1

was bent upon a quarrel.

But in my struggle to train those

stanchest of servants and maddest of masters, the passions, I had got at least far enough away to choose both the time and the ground of a quar

rel. So I said: "Very well, Car

lotta. Then, that is settled." And with an air sufficiently deceptive to pass muster before angry eyes, I proceeded to talk of indifferent matters. As I sat beside her, my temper glowering In the straining leash, I revolted her conduct and tried to puzzle out its meaning. It is clear, thought I, that she does not care for me as people about to marry usually profess to care. Then, does she wish to break the engagement? That tamed my anger instantly.

Yes, I thought on, she wishes to be

free? to free me. And, as my com- i bine Is formed and my career well ad- j vanced in the way to being established, what reason is there for trying to prevent her from freeing herself? None for I can easily explain the situation to mother. "Yes," I concluded, "you can avoid a quarrel, can remain friends with Carlotta, can give and get freedom." Wrhat had changed her? I did not know; I did not waste time in puzzling; I did not tempt fate by asking: "You are poor, she i3 rich," I reminded myself. "That makes it impossible for you to hesitate. You must give her no excuse

for thmidng you lack pride." Then I reasoned and planned, my temper back in its old kennel and peaceful as a sheep. That evening I avoided being alone with her; just as I was debating how to announce that I must be leaving by the first train in the morning a telegram came from Roebuck calling me to Chicago

at once. When we were all going to bed, I said to Mrs. Ramsay: "I shall

see you and Ed In the morning, but '

to arioua you don t get up so

eariy. I'll say good-by now" this in

the friendliest possible way.

I was conscious of Mrs. Ramsay's look of wonder and anxiety; of Ed's

wild stare from Carlotta to me and

back again at her. She bit her lip

and her voice was unsteady as she said: "Oh, no, Harvey. I'll be up."

There was a certain meekness in her

tone which would probably have de

lighted me had I been what 13 usu ally called "masterful."

When I came down at seven o'clock

after an unquiet night, Carlotta was lying in wait for me, took me into the

parlor and shut the door. "WThat do you mean?" she demanded, facing me with something of her wonted imperiousness. To lie Continued -

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