Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 157, Hammond, Lake County, 16 April 1908 — Page 4

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THE miE3. Thursday, 'April 16. -903.

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THE TIMES la published In the best always Intended to promote the general P DO SENSAT0NAL ; Sensatlonllsm In the pulpit has Jmd women, who would be a welcome

ilhe church than It has ever brought into it. i Hammond is in the throes of a revival session right now which for sen

'eationalism surpasses any previous efforts in that line that have been pulled

ifcff in this region in many a year. Sermons, bristling with "epigrams" of a tnore or less questionable character, are being delivered, and a great many

people are going to hear them, not religion whose cause they are supposed like something "sticy" and sensational. eame spirit that the same audience tt the theaters.

A sensational speaker draws the better element to the meetings he addresses. People of refinement do not fancy this sort of thing, especially from

Ithe pulpit and 'it can be nothing short Christian. It is more a question of good for the general run of mankind like3 a

rfln his religion as he does In other matters that fill his daily life.

Religion Is too serious a subject

main object seems to be to say cutting and saucy things, about the man or the woman who does not choose to follow the said preachers' line of conduct ,in manifesting their Christianity. Sermons bristling with cheap epigram

lend vulgar Jest certainly are far removed from the example set by the great .author of Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth. The sermon which draws the

greatest crowd does not convert the

women converted by 'their, means, seldom last. The Christian spirit is an

(ievoIution, not the emotional growth of

.There can be no doubt, that revival meetings properly conducted accomplish ; good. They start people to thinking, who have never considered Christianity In a spirit of earnestness, and they have been known to produce the climax

Sn the religious life of the man who tioubt, But it is doubtful whether this tn any person who regarded the subject Jy a sensational sermon, preached by We wonder whether Christ, if he ' this method of conversion? We may Relieve he would. At any rate It would be worth while 6ver it. There is a disease which might THIS DATE IN HISTORY." April 16. 9.746 The English under the duke of Cumberland, defeated the Scottish ' rebels headed by the young pretended at the battle of Culloden, - near Inverness. JL7S6 Sir John Franklin. Arctic explorer, born In Lancashire, England. Died in Arctic region, June 11. 1847. 1S31 Rollin C. Mallary, who introduced In congress the celebrated 'tariff bill of 1828. died in Baltimore. Born in Connecitcut, May .27, 1784. JS51 Clarence D. Clark, United States senator from Wyoming, born - in Oswego county, New York. XS53 Emperor and empress of the French arrived in England to visit Queen Victoria. - JS62. France declared war against the Mexican government. J.865 Battle of Columbus, last conflict of theclvil war fought east of the -Mississippi river. 1900 Troops sent to Cornell Dam, Westchester county, N. Y., to quell a strike of Italian laborers. "THIS IS MY 51ST BIRTHDAY." Henry S. Prltcbett. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was born in Fayette, Mo., April 16. 1S57. His college training was obtained in Central college at Fayette, and supplemented In 1876 by study in mathematics and Astronomy under Prof. Asaph Hall at the naval university at Washington, and later by study at the University of' Munich, leading ' to the degree of doctor of philosophy. Dr. 'Pritchett began his professional career as a computor in the naval observatory, and was advanced to the place ot assistant astronomer in that observatory in 1878. This place he resigned in 1SS0 to become astronomer at the Morrison observatory, and in 1SS1 he became assistant professor of mathematics and astronomy in Washington university of St. Louis, and continued on the faculty of that institution until 1897. From 1897. to 1900 Dr. Pritchett was superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic survey, and from 1901 to 1907 he served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1882 Dr. Pritchett, accompanied the (transit of Venus expedition to Nw

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Other Newspaper in Calumet Region Times are requested to favor the manIn delivering. Communicate with ths Interest of the people and Its atterancea welfare of the public at large. SERMONS PAY? probably done more to keep good men addition to any congregation, out of because they have any interest in the to advance, but merely because they These meetings are attended In the would attend a senational play in one of offensive to the earnest, thinking taste than it is one of good morals, show of decency, not to say dignity to be burlesqued by preachers whose greatest number of souls. Men and a single sermon or series of sermons has been wavering between faith and state of mind was ever brought about from a properly serious standpoint, a 'yellow" preacher. were to visit Hammond, would adopt be a bit old-fashioned, but we don"t for the senational preachers to ponder be called "revivalitis." Zealand and spent a year in scientific investigation in Australia, China, In dia and Japan. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS A waiter took gas and shuffled off the coll. Somebody ought to have given him a tip not to do that. It is better to be brought up on a bottle than It is to be brought down by one. The continual bungling of Secretary Taft's opponents in the presidential race make it more and more a certainty every day that he will be nominated. Stick a pin in that -for next June. A woman who bas been divorced five times says she is not discouraged. Probably she Is optimistic enough to believe that the right sort of man still lives. A Hammond man was bragging the other day that his auto went like the wind. Probably meant that he never knew when it was going to stop. When You remember That you have to try To be nice, and can be mean without Trying, the wonder is that People are as nice As they Are. There is a poker scene in one of the new plays In New York. They prob ably always get a hand onr it. We are all struggling forcibly for fame and money and will not stop for anything except to abuse those who have already succeeded In acquiring that which wc are aeeklnar.

THE ; 1 j J "" : ' ' : : Daily Round UP AMD DOWfj IM.; INDIANA

Don't forget that the ben Is trying her level best to have the eggs cheap enough for the children at Easter. Buy an egg for the loved one at home. Jabots are said to be selling for $4.25. This does not Include 25c for a diction ary so you can find out what a jabot Is. It will undoubtedly be Mr. Marshall's first convention In a tent, but not his first etrcus, by any means. We don't see how Dad Cameron can afford new rails on South Hohman street after all the Improvements he has made on the line In the past few months. The peek-a-boo wo lit and the Panama hat can be put back In the ice box for a spell. The Standard Steel car people Indignantly deny that they are evicting tenants from their boarding houses. Sounds as If some one was going to be kept in after school. Don't think much of the noiseless gun. What s the use of shooting down a man if you can't make any noise about It? A lawyer argued recently that Ice cream Is a luxury. We wonder how some men can possibly forget their courting days. New York man who did some shady thing was convicted after identifica tion by his voice alone. He should have eaten a clove. IT MUST BE QUITE A STRAIN ON A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE TO KEEP FROM SAYING SOMETHING FOOLISH NOW AND THEN. Business may halt, but there is no difficulty In raising the wind. IN POLITICS A. H. W. Johnson, who has the con tract for buifding the East Chicago city hall, was up to Chicago Tuesday, where he ran into ex-Governor Durbin, who was there to transact a little business, and the two men had a long chat. The faithful are preparing for a great time when Tom Marshall comes to Gary. The republicans are sorry now they held their convention so soon. The first bet of the coming campaign was made In Goshen when a democrat bet a republican $10 to $8 that Thomas R. Marshall of Columbia City, would defeat James E. Watson of Rushville, for governor. It has been stated that William R. Hearst's Independence league will invade the Thirteenth Indiana congres sional district and nominate a candidate for congress to be voted upon at the special election which may be held soon to fill the vacancy created by the recent unexpected death of Congressman Brick. The Johnson campaign headquarters in Chicago have been placed in charge of Frederick B. Lynch, treasurer of the Minnesota state democratic committee. Colonel Waring Russell of Savannah, Ga., is seeking re-election as county treasurer of Chatham county at the age of SI years. Attorney General Robert S. Hadley of Missouri has announced that he will not be a candidate for the republican nomination for governor of "that state on account of the condition of his health. The new Taft organization of New York City IS planning to turn out in great array at Carnegie hall on April 28, when Secretary Taft will deliver an address under the auspices of the Civic Forum. The democratic state executive committee of West Virginia has decided to hold the state convention in Wheeling on May 28 to select delegates to the national convention. The state nominating convention will be held in Charleston near the end of July. Tammany politicians who are on intimate terms with Charles F. Murphy, the leader of that organization, are of the opinion that Lewis Nixon is likely to be the next candidate for mayor of New York City to succeed George B. McClellan. Lafayette Times: "The best way for the republican politicians of the Tenth district to get rid of Congressman Crumpacker is to boom him for some federal judgeship. I am told that such a position would be very acceptable to Mr. Crumpacker, in fact, that his ambition leads him to the bench. Ho is regarded as a man well versed in law and he would find the duties of a judge more ot his liking than he does the responsibilities of a lawmaker. Mr. Crumpacker is an enthusiastic Taft man, that Is, of course, after our favorite son is out of the race, and In

Thomas 'R. Kackley of Indianapolis,

now visiting In California, may be compelled to return to his home city 10 answer to grand jury charges of graft. Kackley was the head of the Atlas Engine works, which is alleged to have paid Marion county officials $3,800 for a contract. John W. Kern, representing the Indianapolis Commercial club, took occasion to praise the Oklahoma constitution during the visit of the Tusla Oklahoma boomers in Indianapolis. Gov. Hanly has authorized Sheriff Ebenezer Gray of Jefferson county to make a careful Investigation of the depredations of the "Night Riders" who threaten to carry the Kentucky, tobacco war into this state. Henry McDonald, slayer of the chief of detectives in the Terre Haute court room hinted today that he would make a confession of his complicity in the dynamiting cases for which he was being tried at the time. Congressman James Watson and Judge E. W. Felt have been invited to make an address on Redmanship at the district the district meeting to be held at Connersville, April 21. Bryan and Roosevelt will also be asked to speak. M. A. Crash of Indianapolis was robbed last night of $40 in bills. The money was found hidden away in the house. Roscoe Lancaster, his room-

Provide For Interurban Plans Well Under Way to Between Towns Heretofore Inaccessible to Each Other- Excepting by Steam Road.

Various forces have been quietly at work arranging for the building of a street railway between Indiana Harbor and Whiting. The .proposed road will be a branch of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend. It will be a god-send to the citizens of both towns, If it can be put through as at present it is imJossible to get from one of these towne to the other excepting by way of East Chicago, or by taking a train on one of the various steam railroads that run between these two points. There is not even a wagon road between the two towns at present. The officials of the Iqterurban have been working with the East Chicago Land company in regard to land for their right of way, and have also succeeded in interesting the Standard Oil company and H. C. Frlck, through the latter's agents. They already have an understanding whereby the Standard Oil company is to remove certain tanks to make room for the railway and with the Frlck interests for a strip of land parallel to the right of way of the Pennsylvania. In return for all this the South Bend company is to pave a roadbed for wagons alongside its tracks in the case of the right of way that traverses the Frlck track, while certain private streets of the Standard Oil are asked the event of the nomination and election of the Ohio man, Mr. Crumpacker would be pretty close to the throne, for he is a personal friend of Mr. Taft as well as a political worker for him. "Let the weary waiters take hope from this suggestion. It seems that the Valparaiso man cannot be beaten when he appears every two years for renomination, so the next best thing is to assist him to any other ambition he may have. Then let Tippecanoe county be on the alert and ready to land the congressional prize." THE CREAM OF THE Morning News While the trial of Mrs. Jennie Scott, affinity agent, progresses in Chicago, Marion Grey, also a Cupid's aid, is sentenced to one year in the bridewell. Two men are drowned in a sudden squall on the lake while relatives watch the tragedy from the Chicago shore. Greater publicity in the management of financial affairs of state and private institutions is urged by speakers at Chicago Woman's club meeting. Chairman Wilson of the Prohibition party offers $100 to the person who will show that Abraham Lincoln declared prohibition would injure the cause of temperance. Highland Park is divided over the proposed , annexation of Highwood, which is to be voted upon Tuesday. Lake excursion steamers open their summer season despite rough sea. By a vote of 199 to 83 the House of Representatives rejects the president's naval program for four battle ships and votes for two. Representatives of the Lake Torpedo Boat company admit before investigators that they furnished Representative Lllley with most of questions asked witnesses of Of Electric Boat Concern. Five thousand blue jackets and marines from the American battle ship fleet are cheered as they parade through the streets of San Diego, Cal. Hoard of $24,500 is found in hover where Long Island hermit, now dead, iived many years.

mate, was arrested for complicity in the crime.

Gov. Hanly and the battle ground 1 commission have decided on Vermont granite as the stone to be used in the new monument which is being built near Lafayette by the State and National governments and will cost $25,000. J. A. McDermott last night, at the banquet of the Merchant club in Indianapolis denied that it was God's will that the liquor traffic be wiped out of existence. The Fort Wayne Federation of Labor's special committee was appointed to try Elmer St. John on charges preferred by the political committee found him guilty of supporting Watson and his seat in the federation was declared vacant. The Allen county prohibitionists have denounced local option as a compromise with evil and declared that high licenses is merely a bribe of the public conscience. The program of the annual convlave of the Knights Templar of Indiana, which will be held at Warsaw and Winona lake has been completed. A prize drill will be held Thursday. An unknown Hunyak- herder almost succeeded in dumping a car load of foreigners into Indianapolis on the representation that he would get them work there for $3 each. to be paved at the street car company's expense. Dickering with City and County Officers The latter's officials have approached certain of the city and county officials in regard to the project, having sounded the councilmen and commissioners on the matters of bridges and paving in the case of the former, and bridges alone in the case of the latter. There Is a recent state law which provides that the county shall shoulder onethirds of the costs of construction where street railway bridges are built, the city one-third and the railway company the other third. The greatest difficulty experienced thus far, it is understood, has been that of prevailing on the Frlck interests to tllow the traversing of their land which lies between the Harbor and Whiting, by a street railway. The Pennsylvania railroad track cuts the track in two and Mr. Frick objected to having his land subdivided by any more railroads. When, however, it was suggested that the interurban follow the right of way of the Pennsylvania road, the victory was won. Just when the work will be begun has not yet been decided, as all the arrangements have not yet been com pleted. It is expected, however, that work may be begun this summer, or if not then, not later than a year from then. New York election worker receives heavy jail sentence for falsely registering thirty men. Purpose of the legitimate investigating committee to attack Governor Deneen is shown by a premature statement made at Kankakee by Representative McLaughlin and the .asylum investigation stops suddenb'. Governor Deneen in speeches at Beardstown and Winchester analyzes the vote on the primary bill as evidence to test the sincerity of the Yates supporters. Colonel J. Hamilton Lewis formally enters the race for governor. Engagement of gold for shipment to paris is the feature of the day's news in Wall street, which stock trad ing 13 practically at a standstill in an ticipation of the coming holiday. The Chicago Stock Exchange will be removed from its present quarters in the Stock Exchange building to its new quarters in the Rookery today. STONY ISLAND HEN BEATS EASTER TIDE. Reports With Large Brood Hatched "Unbeknownst to Owner of Flock. Stony Island boasts of the first spring chickens this year and the proud owner of Mrs. G. J. Keyes. of Wilson avenue. Mrs. Wilson owns several fine specimens of the Plymonth Rock variety. Several weeks ago she missed one of her hens, but concluded that the delinquent member had strayed away. However, this morning the missing member of the Keyes familv returned and with her were thirteen little chickens. Where the hen could have hidden her nest, is what Mrs. Keyes is wondering, but so far the so lution is no nearer solving than it was when mother hen first made her appearance with the new family. ANNOUNCEMENTS. I will be a candidate for nominating for sheriff on the democratic ticket. suojeci to me decision or tne demo cratic nominating convention, to be held May 2. at Gary. FRED S. CARTER. Editor of The Times: I hereby authorize to announce my name as a candidate for township trus tee, subject to the democratic prl maries, May 9. e-o-d JOHN C. BECKER.

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WILLIAM JENNINGS m mm killed State Statistican Moore. From Honeymoon, Gives Grewsome Figures. Indianapolis, April 16. Grewsome figures on accidents and crimes furnished by Mrs. Mary Stubbs Moore, state statician, who has just returned from a honeymoon trip to the Pacific coast.. They show. that. , tha. .steam roads killed fewer people last year than in 1906 and that electric lines killed more. The steam roads were responsible for 425 deaths, the interurbans for fifty and the street railways for fortyone. The figures for the year preceding were as follows: Steam roads. 448; Interurbans, thirty-nine and street railways, twenty-four. Homicides for the year aggregated 129 101 men and twenty-eight women. Of the men seventy-eight were white and twenty-three colored; of the women, twenty-three were white and five were colored. For 1906 the num ber aggregated 111. Suicides aggregated 355 to 303 for the year before. Men again were In the majority there being 260 to ninety five women. Only five of the entire number were colored four men and one woman. Deaths by accident aggregated 1233 to 1154 for the year preceding and deaths irom natural causes were 1170 to 1205. In the latter comparison a decrease the only one in the report is noted. The total shows that 2S88 lost their lives last year from all causes to 2775 for the year before. ID CORRECT ANSWER The Missing Word Contest Proves Puzzle to Contestants. The missing word contest has proven a sticker for the busy bees who have puzzled their brains to supply the mis sing words. No one guessed the full list of the missing words for yesterday and Wednesday which were as follows: "A" In Simon's ad. "A" in East Chicago First National Bank ad. "Here" in Borman Drug Store ad. "Doctor" in C. O. D. Laundry ad. "You?" in Lake County Trust ad. "Test" in Given The Tailor ad. The word "doctor" In the C. O. D. ad proyed to be the nut to crack. Some g-uesser had as many asthreewords right. As no one succeeded In getting the correct answers the prize money goes over until tomorrow and the person who guesses first the correct words out of the ads will be given $3, the accumulation of prize money for the three days. Scores of answers were received and the contest is attracting great attention. In the contest to decide the authorship of the interrogation point Ben Bell, the assessor, guessed the advertiser's name right as Otto Negele and was awarded the dollar. Potter's Art Old In Mexleo. The pottery Industry in Mexico, writes Special Agent Arthur B. Butrnan, Is of ancient origin, having been handed down from father to son froia time immemorial. Excavations among the prehistoric ruins of Mitla have resulted In the unearthing of many specimens of this handicraft, the designs of which are reproduced to this day.

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BRYAN OF NEBRASKA. LOOKS AS THOUGH TIMES ARE HOT SO VERY BAD If the payment of mortgaga loans counts for anything, the people of Indiana were fully as prosperous in 1907 as they were in 1906. Reports compiled by the Indiana bureau of statistics on satisfaction of mortgages recorded for the year ending December 31, 1907, shows the total amount of mortgages loans pair at $70,698,748. The total amount of such loans paid in 1906 whs $70,114,605. The total number of mortgages paid off In. 1907 was 57,415 and the total number paid' off In 1906 was 60,748. The report would seem to indicate, too, that farmers, In particular, have been prosperous during the last year. The number of farm mortgage loans paid off in 1907 was 35,616 and the amount $54,432,970. The total number of farm mortgage loans paid off in 1906 was only 28,497, and the total amount anly $32,890,566. In the payment of mortgage loans on city and town lots just the reverse was true. The total number of mortgage loans on city and town lots paid off in 1907 was 21,789, and the total amount was $16,274,878. In 1906 the ttal number ot mortgage loans on city and town lots paid off, as shown by the records, was 32.2S7, and the total amount reached $37,224,039. BITER PASSUM FOR LAKE FRONT PARK "Z00." . Joe Kaspar of the city pumping station base received an addition to his menagerie In the form of a young 'possum. The critter arrived yesterday, and is the gife of Harry Roberts, of 10513 Torrence avenue, who has been spending some time with a bunch of Chicago politicians at West Baden. Br'er possum was captured not far from the hotel at that place. Mr. Kaspar will keep the possum in the park and is now engaged in rigging us a cage for the animal. "ADVERTISING DECIDES." It seems like n lonpr time ago that people "inherited their stores" patronized stores from family habit and traditions. And yet, even now, some of the more "conservative" are in- 4 ellned to attach too much Import n nee to store reputation and good will. These things do have Kreat vulue of course, but they do not outweigh all other 4 thins;, by any means. The newest store in the city will always he able, through enterprialnK- methods and effeo4 tive newspaper advertising; to capture a share of the business "inherited" by the oldest one. And so it comes about that the long - established store mast 4 keep step with the newest ones In selling; methods, In stock ,ln equipment, In service and es4 peclally in advertising. If It does not, then It practically presents to newer competitors a 4 share of its trade. In the eompetitlve fight, therefore, It is not 4 all decided by Rood will, by the 4 following: "The advertising de4 eldes." When the Spirit Counts. To do a favor grudgingly Is like sending a gift with the bill Inclosed. Potato Poultice. Raw grated potato applied on burn scald will relieve the pain imraediI ately.