Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 27 December 1907 — Page 4

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MAIN Cri'ICKS HAMMOND, IN'D. TELEl'HOAES nAMMOSn, 111112 WIIITIXO, lit EAST CHICAGO, 111. INDIANA HARBOn, 111 south cnicAGo, 310 south chicago office 0140 buffalo avenue, telephone, ssn. folleigx representatives payne & young. 7 so mahul'ette nuildinu. chicago, mo iotte!l i1uilding, new yohk.

ROW AMONGATHLETES Trouble May Result in Shakeup of Olympic Team Rose Suspended.

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COMMERCIAL VALUE OF HUMAN HEALTH.

Health Commissioner Evans' remark before a Chicago Woman's club yesterday to the effect that "tho mothers of the land have just as much right to demand that the United .States government spend money on the health of the children, as the farmers that their hogs be eared for," was very much to the point and may he the means of starting people thinking along a. channel that may ultimately be productive of mueli good. Tho commissioner of health pointed out that the povemmrnt now has 1.700 chemists and bacteriologists engaged in Investigating why hogs die of cholera and why other animals are afflicted with various diseases. Dr. Evans' remarks wero made before a meeting which had under consideration tho establishment of a hospital for consumptives. It seems strange that this point of view lias never been advanced before, or if advanced, taken up. Why should not a human life be of as much consequence as that of a head of live stock? Merely because a human life has not a marketal.de value. Of course, the economic features In the case should have the least to do with the case of conserving human health. But when so much importance is attached to commercial values, from an economic standpoint alone, it would more than pay the government to expend a portion of its vast revenues on the stamping out of consumption. Consumptives not only are a pitiful burden to themselves but a burden to their families or to the tax paying community. It costs money to support a consumptive and there are no returns. Besides they are the greatest menace to others with whom they come into contact and who are possessed of a commercial value which by such contact may be irretrieveably impaired. All of which sounds cold-blooded, but since a basis of dollars and cents seems essential In gaining proper recognition for the subject, it may be permissable in this instance. While the American reputation for the worship of the almighty dollar may be a bit overdrawn, there Is no gainsaying the fact that Americans as a people are a bit cold-blooded, and worship more or less largely at the shrine of Commercialism. As in Hammond, where It is a greater crime for a man to steal a loaf of bread than to violate the virture of womankind, according to justice court standards and practices, eo is it with the nation as regards the comparative value of marketable products and human health; Human health lias no fixed price in trade, but it has its commercial as well R3 other Vadue, and if for no other reasons than those of economy, it should be conserved. k GIVE INDIANA HARBOR A FIRE DEPARTMENT.

ew crk, Dec. 21. The result of j row among the athletes over tin- i

appointment of Matthew P. Halpin as ' manager of the American team which

will, take part in the Olympic games at, London may be the selection of a

I rLl -' i.umwei ui college athletes tor

tin- team. Several of last year's Athens team announce that they will not go to London with Halpin as manager and the committee deelints to remove him. The recent suspension of Ralph Hose, of San lAancisco, the great weight thrower, fn charges of professionalism, and leftjhs those int--rpPted in athletics to

1 x-ii-ir inai me .vmatoo.r Athletic union fis going to be stricter than over l,..f,.v..

in enforcing the rules against professionalism, and several other well known athletes are believed to be slated for suspension. It is said the colleges are prepared 'to raise sufficient money to send their athletes abroad, and the men naturally having more time at their disposal than athletes engaged in business, it is the general opinion that fully twotulrds of the members of the team

will be college men.

American athletes are discussing the

peculiar position in which thev nre

kely to be placed by an expected act

ion of Cue Canadian Athletic nssm-hi.

tion. It is said on trood authoritv rhot

the Canadian association will rein

state Longboat, the Indian runner who

was suspended by both the Canadian association and the Amateur Athletic Union on charges of professionalism.

The reason given for this action is

the Canadians desire to enter a team at the Olympic games in London next summer. Longboat would doubtless prove a winning card at the meet in

London. It is not likely, however.

that the Amateur Athletic Union will remove the suspension against the In

dian, in which case no American ath

lete could enter "he race against him in London.

Amateur oarsmen are busy figuring

on the makeup of the crews which

President James Pilkington of the Na

tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen

will select to tako part as the repre

sentatives of America in the races

which will be part of the Olympic games at London next summer. Several New York Oarsmen are candidates already for places on the crews and it is said in rowing circles that the Phila

delphia oarsmen are sure to capture

several places.

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The business men of Indiana Harbor have long been aware of tho fact

that the local volunteer tire department is inadequate for a city of its size and importance and have repeatedly asked the city council to make the

necessary appropriations for a paid department.

There can be no question that the value of the business and residential

property, and especially of that owned by the various industries in the vicinity

of the city, demands that provisions be made for a more adequate fire protection. Christmas day the people of the harbor city were badly frightened by a f:re that not only destroyed one of the large business blocks of the city and stocks

o goods, owned by four merchants who were tenants there, but threatened for

a time to spread to other buildings near by.

u omj uue 10 me most valiant wont on the part or the local depart ment that the fire was kept within bounds and did not destroy $100,000 worth

of property instead of $13,000 as was the case.

It must be apparent to the East Chicago councilmen that if a paid depart

ment could have saved one-half of this loss, It would have paid for its main

ieu.io.e iui iu c.ii. .v Kiitm me department is the best Insurance a citv can buy and the sooner paid departments can be installed in both East Chicago

and Indiana Harbor the better it will be for all concerned.

"Whew, but this is going to 1

cold winter," said the boss of th. Michigan Central s. c tbn gang as !.

KleKeil t SLOW I Tom his COW boots and motb'm-d to a Ooz'-n or

of bis m- a to follow him into the tav f rn. "Well, Kitty, we are going to b-av.-you," he said. "We've beer: working all summer ami the road is built within half a mile of your place, but that is a.s far us we will get this tiir. They have made arrangements to lun the trains in to the end of the line a mile east of hero and the passengers will have to take- the stage the iet of the way to Chicago." The section men had seated th'-m-s.-lves about the roaring. crackling logs in the fireplace in an effort to get tho frost out of their fingers while the boss addressed his remarks to the swarthy faced halfbreod girl who kept house for David Gibson and his sister, Elizabeth. Tlie country round about was practically uninhabited. Within a radius of five miles there were only three other

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AT TOWLE'S SUNDAY, DEC. 29. S m,raou!ju trick ! work. i

"CI STEICS LAST KHiHT." j Her second From other titles come echoes of the! TcK pat'.-.y." :

phenomena! success of Ha! Kei.l's mo!o- quest. osss put to her b m. -ushers of tho drama. 'Custer's Last Fight." Patrons audience. This, she s ys is not clalrof the Towle opera house will have an j vovanoo or spiritualism but the peropportunity of seeing this great pro-i'' -' development of a peculiar natural

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LEASE WEST SI' D HALL.

The Semi-Professional Indoor Base

ball league managers have closed a

lease on the Vorwaerts Turner hall, 46G West Twelfth street, and the fust game will be played there Sunday af

ternoon between the Lawndales and

the Pirates. The new hall has a large seating capacity, and is in a good location. Two veteran batteries, Goeckel

and Uckerman for the Pirates and

Sweeney for the Lawndales, will meet in the game. The Spaldings will play the South Chicagos at Lincoln hall, Thirty-first street, and the Marquettes and Normals will meet at Casino hall. California avenue and Davidson street. Otto Kempf, the phenomenal yosingstor, will pitch for the Spauldings. Joe Tinker '.titl Jimmy Callihan will probably be in the South Chicago line-up. Resolutions of condolence have ben adopted by the league, to be presented to the relatives of Umpire Timothy Hyan, who died Christmas eve. The deceased was associated with the semipro league for many years.

families and it was a long way Chicago considering the fact that

was reached only by wagon road. Port Wayne Only Enateru Bund. The "ne long railroad into Chicago from the east was the "Fort Wayne" and that had not been in operation very

10 me rear ot tne tavern was the Grand Calumet river, a quiet, sluggish stream, alive with pickerel and bass, while the surrounding woods were tilled with deer and other game. The Gibsons lived on a high wooded ridge along the banks of the river and conducted a public tavern where for several years the emigrants on their way to Chicago and the west, were accustomed to stop ami refresh themselves with food and sleep before con-

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Her HiMtttry. Kitty chl sichs real name ine Ihirt.s. she was born !e:s, .., ar.J w!o-n only u

ma U- .i trip to Chit ago to visit friends, aftt rwards securing employm.mt with David Gibson at the tavern, which he ami his sister were oondrcting uiong a rublie highway in Northern Indiana.

The oM tavern which may still bet seen standing north of the Michigan j Central railroad tracks just opposite !

the Gibson "hump" varus, has been tho home of Kitty Gibson and a man by the Sonne of William Drm 11 Davis for years. 11-re they lived together apparently .satis-hd with each other's company and unintert sted in the swirl of life's activities that was closing about there. How limit fame Into Her Life. The old man is d-ad now, he having passed away this summer at tho age of soventy. Kitty Gibson, his life long friend, is lonesome without him for they had been associated together for a lifetime. How Willi, tin came into her life is a story of intense heart interest and before she had finished tho recital of it, the eyes of the edd woman had frequently filled with tears. William Darnell Davis came from an aristocratic English family and win n only a boy was taken to Vernada, West Indies, where his father was interested in a plantation in the colonies. 1 While there, ho was sunstruck and

duetion as it comes to that theater is.-t i

Sunday, niatir.ee and r.iglst. M.uiv books , havi been written on the subject. h.t ! this is the first time it has ever ! en st.med. The- play calls for such a j large number of people, and the ex- j pense of mounting and carrying it is so j trre.u. that few managers cartd to iin - h rtahe the venture. This company! tarries forty people, a car-load of special scenery, horses and dogs. In the: company is a band of full-blooded in-j di.tns. cowboys and scouts. The play :

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MU.l.lo.A!!Ul TllVMP." Millionaire Ttiss-n." which has v"r wit'; ti;eaT.r-goets will bo te i at the Gil niut theater t.oVy an able company. The rdav

tclb. tlu st.ry of a man who won tarns

fortune on the stage and returned

to his home town to claim Use woman he love,-. !,, r parent -s. opposed to all things theatrical, refuse to permit the marriagt . To .'own his sorrow tho man takes to drink and tvt i tually becomes a tramp. In his wanderings ho enters the town of Ridgevlllo. Ind. There b.e fin, Is that the woman herstlf 1ms adopted th..- theatrical profession assd is the leading lady of a small company play r.g there. The

company being short an actor, tho tramp is induced to play a part on tha stage, he comes face to face with his former sweetheart. There is much int resting dialogue, running through the play and the comedy element la particularly strong; the scenery attractive and tho company adequate. Tha play will Isold the boards at the Calumet for three days.

AT THE CALUMET.

Scene from "Custer's Last Fight" at Tovvle's next Sunday night and Matinee.

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WITH THE EDITORS

A Poet Deprived of His Poultry. It is with the deepest regret that we find this dispatch in our morning palter: r.vansville, Tnd., Dec. 22. A chicken thief last night broke into the henhouse of James 11. Klmore. carried off half a dozen chickens and tacked on the door a ppper with tho following verse: 'Christmas tins,' is drawing near; Thought I'd get my chickens litre." In addition to being one of the largest poultry i-aisers in Indiana James lb Klmore is one ot Indiana's famous poets. It was James 1?. Klmore who wrote the familiar line

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Mr. Kltnore's hcr.c. at the time when poems comes from volume Mr. Klmon Grafters" thus:

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Hauehtv and shcek and Void of feeling, with he; Donkeys fed in a gi'.d . May K 'oscVelt with his ' l'lail and poucd li.t I r .-ti

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We sire conv iiu t d tl .i: sou.. ' S nate grafter" is guilty of t..e rape of the Klmore cliicken coop. Who bsst one with a heart of gall womd. after taking a poet's pullets, nail to the henhouse door such a sentiment as that which we find in the dispatch.. It is to be hoped that the budding stick of

Alamo bard may tie.il and p-m-vl

the stiffened reck ". f the da.-taid who is fattening ots stolen poultry. Chicago Itecurd-IK raid.

1CH CASHJM BUS Twenty-Nine State Institutions of N. Y. Show Deposits of $225,000,000. New York, Dec. 26. Under enll of the state banking department twentyone trust companies and twenty-nine state banks of Greater New York have

1 tiled their formal statements. While

the effects of the recent storm are evident, their statements bear testimony of the quick recovery generally made and tho unwavering confidence of the great body of depositors. Tlie twenty-nine state banks of New York, Brooklyn, ami the other boroughs of Greater New York, which so

far have reported, show aggregate deposits of $L,2f.,00h"0ih Tho net loss in withdrawals since Aug. "2 last amounted to only $3. ",r,,i 17. Heserve in Koesn of Requirement. Allowing for sill withdrawals and the purchase of clearing house certificates which row art held as collateral, the state banks indicated their prospt rious condition by maintaining cash reserves "i:i some Instances far in excess of the 15 per cent required, by state laws. One of the largest holders of the certificates shows a reserve of .1 per cent. Tie- trust companies of (.renter New York were forced t bear the brunt of the financial storm which broke with, the suspension of the Knickerbocker Trust company. The twentyor.e eompsir.ies which have reported show a falling oft of deposits from f -'.e.V!. IV'O on August 22 last to Sl'.'O,- ;:..."' on Dec. lL'.

lhe market values 01 stock show a

FLENNER LOSES TO STEHN0. South Chicago, Dec. 27. Will Flenner failed in his attempt to catch Dave Woodbury in the Greater Chicago individual tournament last night at Steele's South Chicago alleys, Anton Stehno winning six games out of twelve from him tlie seventh resulting in a tie. With each man having five games to his credit, the finish was of the most exciting kind. Stehno was ten pins behind in the ninth and went the nrnto for thirty count, while Flenner spared, and on the last ball left up the No. 10 on a perfect hit, losing the game and series by one pin. Scores: Flenner 187 213 164 191 1S 213 193 IMS 191 1S2 111? 1 S3. Stehno ITS 23C 245 1S4 1S1 193 149 104 1 70 211 1S1. Tie game not counted.

D ARROW, ILL. SITS IN CHAIR TO OPEN PETTIE0NE DEFENSE.

World's Greatest Cathedral. ' Tiie rioor space of St. Peter's, Rome, is 227,000 sotuarf? I'ect. the greatest of anv cathedral ia the world.

decline of about $20,000,000. In sptcie the twtnty-onc trust companies show a loss of less than $2,000,000, while in legal tenders and hair-c notes, held as reserve, they show an increase of

nearly 51,000,000.

Chlrnuo I.awjrr Outline ' Cone Similar to 'Mint of i I ay wood Trial Attacks Orchard In l'len.

Doise. Idaho. Dec. 27. Too. ill to stand while speaking. Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for the defence in the l'cttibone trial, sat in his chair yesterday afternoon as he outlined his case. lie sp' die With; effort at times and never raUed his voice above a conversational tone. Darrow's statement made it evident that to a gr at degree the same line of defense would be follow, d as in the Haywood trial. He reviewed briefiy the early life of lVttibono in Pennsylvania, atsd of his twining west and engaging in mining in the Coeur d'A'.enes. where he became president of the Gem union. In lst'2. Darrow said, the defendant left the Co ur d'Alenes and never engaged in mining again. Harry Orchard was referred to by Darrow as a man always looking for easy money, who never stuck to anything except gambling. He told of Orchard's transferring his interest in the Hercules to Gardener, from whom he s.lways had the hope of getting his claim back, and said tho defense would show that he tried to sell this interest a year after he had disposed of it to

Gardener.

The people who Trill patronlte you re the people vrfco will read the ads la this nevrsptper.

tinning on the last stage of a wearisome journey. The- Gibsons were hospitable people and everyone who "put up there" was (specially impressed with the little black-eyed Indian woman whom the proprietor had taken to raise years before, whose cheerfulness and quiet demeanor won for her the respect of all comers. I.nndsnnrk Still Stand. Today the old tavern is still standing, althougli the storms of many summers stnl winters have warped tho rough boards of which it was coisstructed. Within, the only survivor of those pioneer days, is the half-bred Indian woman, who has lived on practically the same spot for all that time. Her swarthy face is wrinkled now, but

the black eyes shine as brightly as over assd when she speaks, her voice is so soft and well modulated that it is almost musical. The tall oaks that once surrounded the Gibson tavern, have all been cut down and coonverted into railroad ties. Another growth of struggling oak

trees have taken their place. The silence of a primeval forest is now replaced ly the shrill shrieks from a dozens of loeoeotimes that daily pass

the once isolated tavern. What the Yenrs Have Done. In place of the vast stretches of timberland, swamp or marsh. over which the wild fowl llew unmolested as they migrated north or south, tall chimneys now pierce the sky, marking the location of dozens of industries. Dotted over tho region are many villages, towns or ctites. connected by the steel highways of as massy railroads. The three families whose heads were then practically monarch.? of ail they surveyed have been replaced by ten thousand or more others and tlie cities are growing so

rapidly that it will be but a few years until they will completely cover the fifty square miles that was then practically uninhabited. The Present Kitty Gibson. Tlse Indian at tlie tavern, now old and wrinkled faced, living in the house of weather', eaten boards is Kitty Gibson. The one connecting link between the pioneer days of fifty years pgo and those of the great industrial act-

1 ivity t.n'ay. The one person who by

word of mouth can tell the enquirer the history of the Calumet-regioss since it was first invaded by wlsite men. Kitty Gibson is a remarkable woman. She was S3 years old Oct. 15. and yet is in full possession of all hr faculties and seems as active, mentally, as she was twenty years ago. wis en the people of Hammond remember the frequent calls of the Indian woman who sold them jellies, jam. huckleberries, butter and eggs. That the span of her life covers the period of the history of the Calumet region would be but a matter of passing interest of it were r.ot for the fact that this woman has stored up in her mind, a wealth of valuable information regarding the early Jays.

dians on the Little Big Horn. The world-renowned government scout, "Huffalo Pill," is tlie leading character, and around him and General Custer, the author has written a romantic and thrilling story of love and war. Tlse play opens at tho home ot "Buffalo Bill" and tlie scenes changes during the action to the Indian stronghold and, finally, to the famous battle-ground.

Then comes a grand reproduction of Custer's desperate "last stand." The finale Is Buffalo Bill's historical duel with "Yellow Hand," chief ot the Cheyenne nation. Reserved seats on sale at Bicknell's drug store Saturday, Dec. 23, for both performances.

AT TOWLE'S NEXT WEEK. MYSTKHIOl'S ETHEL MAY. Winninger Bros, own company offers as a special feature this season Ethel

"JOSIE, THE LITTLE MAlk VP." The attraction at the Calumet theater for four days, commencing next Sunday, will bo Lottie Williams In "Josie, the Little Madcap." l:i the play Charles E. Blaney is said to have written for Miss Williams the best musical comedy drama for her career. Tho theme is based on a episode of life In the tenement districts of New Y'ork. In j which two small children (Josie being one of them), saved from a burning building by a woman who Is known ns tho "Truck " The parents ot the" children having lost their lives in the fire, the "Truck" takes tho children to her home, and after days of

starvation and beating, sends them into tho streets to beg or steal money for her, that she may keep supplied with rum. Fortunately for Josie a young millionaire, who is known as the "Fighting Parson," has started a mission against vice and gambling In the tenement district, and through hl3 teachings Josie has learned right from wrong, and afterward becomes his faithful assistant and succeeds in cloa-' ing up the notorious gambling den of Pittsburg S;i and driving him from tho neighborhood, but not unt, ' y ,

has hoodwinked him into giving-it ') the marriage certificate bebv .tim Kate, a pretty mission girl wY.m I'l -burg Sam had tried to ruin. JosleSLisovx succeeds in reforming her ' fostermother, the "Truck," and other almost hopeless bad characters who lived in her district. The play is an Illustration of wealth

never fully recovered from the shock. His mind was affected and he was thought to be peculiar by those who afterwards knew him. His father, believing it best for him

to keep out of tlie hot sun as much as psosible, .sesst hi into work for a firm ! In Chicago by the name of Ilaite & Murray. Here his afi'.iction made him worse than useless and as Mr. Murray had visited th" Gibson on s.-veral occasions when on fishing and hunting trips, lie decided to make arrangements with Mr. Gibson, by which the boy could "do cliorts" for his board assd lodging. Tells Story Best Herself. The rest of the story is told best by Kitty Gibson herself: "When Mr.

Gibson brought illiam out to the tavern he was thin and sickly looking, and was abused by everybody on accour.t of his peculiarities. ; "He was a young man 21 year3 of age then and as he seemed alone and friendless in the world, I took more than an ordinary interest in him. He would come to me with his troubles end I could generally quiet him and fix them up for him." Finally Elizabeth and David Gibson

passed away and I was left alone with William. The property was to be mine but Mr. Gibson died without a. will and the forty-seven and one-half acres were divided among some distant heirs." However, I was left the house and two and one-half acres of land, which I have kept ever since. William came to depend on me more and more as he grew older and so we have lived here together and found a great

deal of comfort in each other's company." , I. online) Too Much For Her. "Last summer he passed away and since then I have been left alone. I was afraid to stay in the house on account of the rough looking men who frequent this vicinity since the Gibson yards were built, and so I ans giving a Polish man and his wife their rent just for company. Kitty Gibson's stories of the early days are exceedingly interesting. She remembers when the Michigan Central railroad was built through the r gior. a n.l one fall had been completed only as far as the present Lake-

Shore depot at Gibson. It wes impossible to carry on the work of construction during the win-

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The famous Winninger Brothers at Towle's Opera ITous all next week.

May, "The Mystery Girl" Miss May does two different acts at each performance. Her first demonstration takes place In a cabinet and stock where with head, hands and feet securely tied, she performs seemingly

and poperty, vice and purity, ami abounds in witty lines, comedy anl dramatic situations in conjunction with musical numbers. Mr. Blaney has furnished Miss Williams with a good company, including a singing chorus.

sparkr issued in brilliant showers. Cm May 19. 1ST1, the same year of the Chicago fire, there was a strong wind blowing and a fire brand forced out of the smoke stack of one of the passing engines, lit on the roof of the tavern, and set it on fire. The Gibsons were burned out of house and home and were left destitute. Tlse railroad campony, however rebuilt the tavern which is still standing and Mr. Gibson was enabled to make another start in life. The engines in those days were

named instead of being numbered and among the first that were put on the

road were the '"Ruby," the "West Wind." and the "North Wind." It was the "Buoy" that was responsible for the disastrous fire that destroyed the Gibson tavern. Sambr Memories of Kitty. Tlse Calumet region used to bo the best hunting and fishing grounds in the vicinity of Chicago. Miss Gibson remembers when Henry Phillips, the father-in-law of W. B. Conky, used to come out and spend several days each fail on hunting trips. Kitty Gibson is now so old that she is unable to support herself. She provides a p -rtion of the little that she and her four cats eat arid the coal that she burns, from the money she

The deTth of William lias greatly saddened and changed her during th' past few months, but In spite of tha unpromising piospett. she is ch-erfuL Tlse Christmas season is here again and Kitty Gibson is doubtless dreaming of other Chrlst.masos gone by, when she as a girl, hung her stocking near tlse old fireplace.

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"CANNED"' VOICES OF SINGERS TO BE KEPT 100 YEARS. Paris. Dec. 24. There was a unique c remony this afternoon In the subterranean passages of the opera house.

I It consisted of depositing in a special

ly prepared vault a talking machino and a number of discs bearing records of the voices r.f tho greatest singers of the twentieth century. Tamagno, Caruso, Scottl, Planeon, Patti. Melba, Calve and others w ere r presented In the selection. The discs are in double boxes, each separate from the other. Neither light y t air can penetrate the coverings, and It is believed that th-y can be thus preserved for a century. At the end of a hundred years they wjll h'- opt-ned and the pt-oxde of that aire will have the opportunity of hearing voices of this era as wet! as seeing1 the talking r.iachirft aa manufactured today. 1

cers were carried by stage from the

temporary terminal to Chicago. Railroad Woodfr of the Time. When the road was finally completed, it was the wonder of all of the residents of the region. They would come out to See the trains go through and for awhile that was one of tlse events of the day.

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land. The r;i!road company gave her some money for a piece of land they needed but all of tlsat is gone. The county lias helped her seme and will doubt-!:-ss help more. She has several friends who have offer.-.! to lake hc-r home with them and care for her, but shhas lived In the old time so long she

The engines burned wood instead of does not believe she could be happy coal, and instead of the trim little in any other place. smokestacks .that the big moguls now She has lived a Icing, eventful life, have, the boiler waas surmounted with but its close is near, and Kitty Gibson great bulge top stacks, from which the wants to die where she has lived.

MORAL INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS Indianapolis, Deo. 27. In paper read befure the Stat- Teachers' ..st.ci.ttion Mrs. Martha A. Dins, Jo-ad of tho mathematical department of the Munvio high school, discar d plainly the matter of moral instruction in publics schools and comb-run. d as a mistake keeping children n ignorance of tha laws of sex. The banis inunt of th Bible from the schools Is on of th causes of the degeneracy o the time, she declared

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