Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 14 July 1908 — Page 4

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THIS IS THE FRENCH FOURTH OF JULY. TODAY IS THE FOURTH OF JULY of the French, though it comes on the 14th the anniversary of the fall of Bastille, an event that taught them, as the Battle of Bunker Hill taught us, the inherent weakness of tyranny. The introduction of American crackers, torpedoes, toy pistols and fireworks would make the French celebration more spectacular, and there are hundreds of Americans in Paris to demonstrate how noise stimulates patriotism. As far as we were able to ascertain there were no firing of national salutes, waving flags, nor exchange of congratulatory message around these parts. A DENSE AND VERY STUPID CORPORATION.

ONE WONDERS SOMETIMES WHY IT 13 that with the passing of the years, wisdom never comes to the corporation known as the Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago street railrway company? The company operates Its lines in the cities of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago and yet if there ever was a time when it sought a concession or a favor from the city councils of these places and got it without having to fight for it, no one ever heard of such an occurance. The street railway company always on the offensive has to be on the defensive when it wants something, Everything man's hand is against it for some reason or other. Every time the company iops up its collective head after a concersion, there are hundreds ready to peg bricks at it. Wonder if the street railway company ever tries to figure out how this is? There must be some reason. Other street railway companies passing through Lake county are granted favors and concessions without a murmur. There is a loud and unanimous grunt heard when the Cameron line wants anything. Ask a citizen of any of the cities named before, why it is and he will tell you that it is because the company wants everything and gives nothing in return. He will tell you -that the company does not live up to its franchise. He will tell you of the poor equipment, vile service, poor schedules and if he is at all observant, he will name a score of other reasons. The II. W- & E. C. company is an 'Ishmaelite among railroads. People have stood for its service all these years hoping that it will get better, that it will do better, and some have grown gray waiting for it. In the words of the immortal "Skimpy Draggles," 111 it ever take a tumble to itself?" PAPERS ALWAYS WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH.

SOME PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE A NEWSPAPER is led into error, 'by misinformation that it deliberately falsifies and distorts its news. Nothing is farther from the truth. Nothing does the editorial staff of a newspaper greater injustice. The Chicago Post says: The better newspapers, the majority of newspapers, we believe, strive to tell the truth, and for many reasons. It gives them an aspect of infallibiliay which is flattering to any mortal man; it is more profitable, and, HanHy, it is more honorable. There are, of course, papers, and big papers, ,which deliberately "color" the news to suit their own private purposes, who permit their editorial columns to seep into their news columns, but it is a hazardous undertaking, like unto trying to fool all the people all the time. Such a course may win temporary success, but the inevitable day of retribution comes sooner or later. Newspapers worthy the name expend more effort in "getting things Tight" than in getting them. That sometimes incorrect statements creep into print is because, in the first place, no paper can be more accurate than its most inaccurate reporter; and, secondly, because of the unavoidable haste In collecting and printing the world happenings of a day. If every report "sent into a newspaper office were accurate, if every employe had attained to that superhuman degree of perfection where mistakes are impossible, papers would print only the truth, and the task of publishing would become a delight. CONSOLIDATION BRINGS NO IMPROVEMENT.

A FEW MONTHS AGO WHEN the Calumet Electric railway company End the South Chicago City railway company consolidated, the people of the Calumet region were given glorious promises of a marvelous street car service. After the talk of the consolidation and after the lines had consolidated the service began to get worse and worse, but the officials asked the people to patiently wait until the new service was in working order. The lines have now consolidated and the service is about as wretched as was ever given to any city. Cheltenham is worse off now than it was before the consolidation of the two street car lines. South Deering is just as bad and the East Side is made to appear as the neglected suburb of the city. At the present time petitions are being circulated for thhe purpose of getting the Calumet and South Chicago City railway company to again operate the Roby line but the officials are refusing to even favorably consider the matter. Complaints on the poor service continue to pour in the company's office at Burnside, and yesterday one "kicker" was informed that the service would soon be bettered when the Chicago City railway company took charge of the system. It may get better, it cannot be much worse; anyway, it will be only a few weeks until the people of the Calumet region can determine whether ,jor not they have been handed another lemon by the corporations

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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 19CS, by Edwin A. Nye. JESSE JAMES. JR. HONOR. MAN. He was a boy with a handicap. But he won out Jesse James, Jr., of Kansas City Is a practicing attorney and stands high in ai3 profession, though but recently admitted to the bar. He is self made in the highest sense. His father was killed when the boy was six years of age. The usly brand of the outlaw's son was upon him. He made THAT SHAME A STEPPING STONE upon which to rise to higher things. When he was twelve years old he quit school of his own motion. He said he was old enough to work and support his mother. He worked in a packing plant. He saved his money and opened a cigar store. lie wrote a book defending his father's name from unwarranted slanders. The book sold well. When he was twenty-one years of age he had $700 in bank and owned the neat cottage In which he and his mother lived. More than that All the time he kept up his studies, taking a regular high school course, his mother being his teacher. He entered the night law school, where he graduated with honors. In a class of thirty-seven applicants for license to practice law HE STOOD AT THE HEAD. Pretty good for the outlaw's boy. Today Jesse James, Jr.. is worth $10,000 and is fairly launched in his profession. He is married to a fine girl. THE HUMAN WILL IS KING. If you determine that you will be a certain sort of man or accomplish certain things, holding fast that determination; if you will keep on trying to be or do, you willt BY THE WONDERFUL POWER THAT IS IN YOU, do what you want to do or be what you want to Income. Jesse James, Jr., proved that He determined to cover the stain of the family name by making that family name all luminous with honor. "THIS BATE IX HISTORY." July 14. 1602 Cardinal Jules Mazarin, French statesman, born. Died March 9, 1861. 1CS3 Vienna besieged by the Turks under Kara Mustapha. 17S0 Destruction of the Bastile at Paris. 1796 The Connecticut western reserve in Ohio first occupied. 1S04 Russia refused to acknowledge Napoleon as emperor of France. 1863 Serious anti-draft riots in Boston. 1874 Abbas Hilmi II., the present khedive of Egypt, born. 1S7S Island of Cyprus occupied by the British. 1902 The Marquis of Salisbury resigned as premier of England and was succeeded by Arthur J. Balfour. 1907 Attempt to assassinate President Fallieres of France. "THIS IS MY -1ST1I BIRTHDAY." Owen A later. Owen Wister. the author of "The Virginian" and other popular novels, was born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1860, the son of Owen YVister and descendants of Thomas Wynne, who emigrated to Pennsylvania as one of the companions of William Fenn. lie was educated in a preparatory school at Concord, X. II., and graduated from Harvard university In 1SSS. Having made the law his study, he was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1SS9. But his : love for literature was greater than his 1 ive for law and lie abandoned the ! practice of the legal profession In 1891 j and went to work with his pen. It was not until nearly ten years later, however, that he scored his first great literary success with "The Virginian," and became entitled to a permanent place among the leading American novelists. Since then lie has written a number of successful novels and many magazine articles. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Mr. Snake Failed to Illte. The society reporter that referred to Crazy Snake as Mr. Demented Serpent wasted her sweetness on the des ert air. The old chief did not know to whom she referred. Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix. Too many people In this world wait for the cat to jump before expressing an opinion. If this blazing weather keeps up much longer, you can take in all the Keep-off-the-Grass signs because there won't be any grass. A small boy first lenrns to handle women by getting his sweetheart's bean under his thumb. It is said by the Newport grocers that the millionaires there don't pay their little bills. That's often characteristic of fhe rich. Many of them don't pay any bills at all. Women generally object to entertaining unexpected company for it prevents them from borrowing the neighbors' silverware nad having it all ready. Don't Care If He Never Comes Back. The light well organ announces that

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HE STIDIES BIGS. W. J. Phillips, a specialist in botany and animal life from the cereal and forage plant insect investigating; department of the government. 1 In Mt. Vernon investigating the Insect life of the county, and especially the insect life in Point township. WOMAN'S GIFT TO COUNTRY. Few women have given more for their country than Mrs. Luclnda Copper of Wabash, 78, who Is dead at her home there. Her husband lost his life in the civil war. Two brothers fell, side by side, at Missionary Ridge. Two grandsons were killed by Filipinos and another brother was killed in the Mexican war. OFFERED PLACE OX TICKET. Samuel R. Artman of Lebanon, Ind., has been approached by prohibition party leaders with reference to accepting a place on the national ticket. He has not yet given assurance that he would accept a nomination if offered. CAUGHT SHOOTING CHAPS. Just outside the western limits of Indianapolis where the natural, formation of the land between Big and Little Eagle creeks affords an ideal place for a Sunday gathering, four city patrolmen yesterday arrested five men on gambling charges. The policemen, in plain clothes, had been sent to the place at Chief Metzger's orders on account of the complaints that have been reaching his office lately regarding a game of craps that holds forth there on Sundays. WHEAT YIELD HEAVY. William Wood, who lives on the Thurston farm, near Shelbyville, thrashed ten acres of wheat which yielded 3314 bushels to the acre. DENIES $10,000 THEFT. Emphatically denying his guilt, and going further in a statement that he will employ Pinkertons on the case and make the Adams Express company stand good for a $10,000 Fhipment," Eugene F. McDonald, the young man who is charged with an attempt to defraud the express company, was returned to Indianapolis from Louisville yesterday. Brother Sifton is and has been for days beyond the reach of telegraphs. What a God's blessing it would be for the country if he would only stay there. Winnipeg Tribune. A HAMMOND YOUNG MAX IN WRITING TO INQURE ABOUT A BOARDING HOUSE ADVERTISED IN THE TIMES SAID! "I WANT A PLACE AWAY FROM THE GIRLS AND FLIES." Ah! He Wns Klsted and Tonrbeil! It was quite a relaxation from tin strain of these strenuous times for your correspondent to get out Into the woods at Burnham Park on last Tuesday. A holy quiet was on the forest. Not even a chipmunk chipped. but there was a stirring of the wind In the tree tops that kissed with cooling touch the brow of age and youth (the lRtter being me) and started a lament on the part of some of the older folks about having to go down again into the heated town. In the afternoon the frogs in the pond at the pavilion began to croak as if their little croakers would break in an effort to entertain the ladies, but when the Stevenson baby appeared on the grounds everything else was declared off. The wee winsome miss received on the piazza of the cottage and ruled the hearts and Interest of all until the time of departure from the grounds. McVeytown Corresponience Lewiston (Pa.) Sentinel. Very Few art Heat prostration From the sun of prosperity. We hope that Mr. and Mrs. De Pagan will retire from the limelight and stay retired. Which Bill are you shouting fc-. inyway? WHERE IS THE OLD-FASHIONED MAN WHO USED TO WEAR A CABItGE LEAF INSIDE HIS II T TO KEEP FROM GETTING SUN STR Ut'K t A dispatch In a democratic newa paper says that Governor John John son was calm through it all. Gosh! We don't see where there was any thing for Yon to get excited about. LABOR NEWS Baton Rouge (La.) barbers recently organized. Kalamazoo, Mich., has thirty labor organizations. Chicago has a school of instruction for railway trainmen. A Women'S'Iabel League has recently been organized at La Crosse, Wis. A State Federation of Labor for Louisiana was recently organized at Shreveport. The Montana State Federation convention will meet next month at Billings. Iast month's report of the iron molders of Scotland showed a balance on hand of $420,000. A city ordinance recently passed at Denning. Ark., requires union labor on all street w-ork. The Welsh miners are still very energetic in their efforts to get the nonunion men into the federation. The annual convention of the Trades and Labor congress of Canada will be held at Halifax In September.

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TO LAY CORNER STONE. The exercises attending the corner stone laying of the new Y. M. C. A. building, now under construction at the corner of New York and Ilinois streets, Indianapolis, will be held Sunday afternoon, July 28, according to an announcement made yesterday by A. H. Godard, secretary of the organization, who has had charge of the arrangements. MONEY ORDER BUSINESS GROWS. The report of Postmaster Randall, which lias been sent to the postal department at Washington, P. C, in regard to tbe amount of money order business on the rural routes out of Shelbyville, for the year ending June 30, shows that there was an immense business done by the merchants in the mail order line. There are thirteen routes leaving this city and during the year 2,597 orders were issued, which called for $12,152.89. THIEVES FOLLOW CIRCUS. John Todd and James Chadwick, followers of Barnum & Bailey's circus, which showed at Anderson Saturday, were arrested early this morning by Patrolmen Shea and Todd, suspected of robbing George Coyle of 34 53 West Michigan street of $100. WOMEN HIGHWAY ROBBERS. Shuler Maberry and Mrs. Bettie Scott of Newcastle were arrested and placed in jail this morning and tomorrow will be charged with highway robbery. The alleged victim of the woman and her companion was Fred Caldwell of Lewisville, who has been working here this summer. POLITICIAN'S ALL SHANNONS. In delivering a sermon last night on the subject, "Working to an Ideal," the Rev. Albert Hurlestone of the Roberts Park M. E. church. Indianapolis, spoke of the enthusiasm that characterized the two recent political conventions. He said that when people are enthusiastic and noisy about religion they are criticised, but when they shout themselves hoarse over politics nothing is thought of it. IN POLITICS The socialists of North Carolina have nominated a full state ticket, headed by J. A. Transou as governor. Official Washington will greatly miss Representative John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee who has been defeated for renomination. James II. Whitecotton has withdrawn from the contest for the democratic nomination for governor of Missouri. William H. Taft has been Invited to speak before the republican state convention of North Carolina, which is to be held at Charlotte next month. G. N. Tillman will probably receive the republican nomination for governor of Tennessee. Mr. Tillman is an advocate of state wide prohibition. Missouri will try its new primary election law for the first time next month, when candidates will be named for practically all state and county offices. It is reported that the Farmers' union of Oklahoma, with a membership of nearly 100,000, Is planning the organization of a new political party, similar to the old-line populists. Lincoln, July 13. It develops thit the conference here Saturday between Theodore A. Bell and Mr. Bryan concerned particularly campaign plans for Mr. Bell's state California. The democrats could not carry the state, Mr Bell urged, if policies of President Roosevelt were attacked. Mr. Bryan, who maintains the president's best reforms are democratic, agreed with the Californian, and the so-called Roosevelt reforms will not be an issue in the Pacific coast state. Morocco, Ind., July 13. Judge William Darroch, candidate for the democratic nomination for congress in the tenth district, will havo opposition in convention called to meet at Monticello on the 22d inst. Colonel L. T Meyer of Hammond is being urged by the county democracy to seek the honor, and E. P. Honan of Rensselaer is also a candidate. Many republican friends say that Honan would come nearer defeating Crumpacker than any other democrat who could be named. Lincoln, July 13. A windstorm which tore things up around Fairview has served to disclose a new fad which jl'neoln's young women have taken up. The wind showed the embroidery on their hosiery bore the likenesses of great men past and present. One girl whose skirts were caught by the wind had pictures of Washington, Bryan and Taft worked on her stockings and blushfngly admitted that "all the girls were taking up the idea." Toklo, July 13. The news that the democratic national convention at Denver, included in its platform a rlank favoring the exclusion from the United States of Asiatic laborers, is taken here to be directed again tt Japanese, and 'a causing considerable surprise and displeasure. In some quarters ind'gna-

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Perhaps It Is Reaction From Excitement But Leaders' View is Less Rosy and There is No Great Rush to Follow Ridder.

A special despatch from Denver yesterday to the New York Herald says: It may have been the inevitable reaction from the tumult and the shouting of Thursday and Friday, but the democrats last flight seemed to act as if they thought the prospects of the election of Bryan and Kern were not so rosy as they appeared in the afternoon. This feeling was apparently prevalent among the few state leaders still here and the members of the national committee who were sitting around waiting for the time to come for them to take the train for Lincoln and a consultation with William J. Bryan. NOT EXACTLY SANGUINE. I have talked with many of the leaders in confidence, and while hopeful they are not exactly sanguine. They seem to be drifting back to the condition of the conservatives before the nomination of Mr. Bryan, which is explained in these words of a distinguished United States senators: "We tried to get Mr. Bryan to step aside and name the candidate for the presidency. Then all wings of the party would have been united and we could have gone into the campaign to make a fight. But Mr. Bryan would not step aside and name the candidate. If he had done so lie would have been the most admired democrat in America and would havo earned a place in history. We could probably have elected the ticket under those circumstances. We saw this thing coming weeks ago, and many of us concluded that we would submit to the inevitable. If Bryan loses this time he must certainly h convinced that it is impossible for him to be elected president of this country, and we can try to get things ir shape for the campaign nf 1912." NO " VOTE GETTER." One thing that depresses some of the democrats is that they have no "vote getter" on the ticket. The conservative bitterly comment on the fact that Mr. Bryan and Mrs. Kern have unbroken records for defeats. Mr. Bryan has been beaten twice for the presidency and Mr. Kern has been defeated twice for governor of Indiana and or.co tion Is expressed, and the declaration Is made that such a course is an infringement on the treaty rights of Japan and opposed to the principle of humanity that should govern the relations of nations. It Is generally believed, however, by thoso familiar with political conditions in America that the ajorlty of democrats are not antiJapanese in sentiment, and that the exclusion clause was Incorporated In the platform for the purpose of satisfying the labor element. Indianapolis, Infi., July 13. Mr John W. Kern, wife of the vice presi dential candidate of the democratic part-, is nearly convinced that her husband Is going to be elected. "You would be surprised," she said today, "at the people that have pledged us their support. Then I think men are more sincere than women and I count on what they tell me. As I have found it, you can most generally depend on the word of a man. but as for a woman well, I cen't say. I think it Is part of their social training to be

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for United States senator. A few other matters appear In a different light today from that of Thursday night at the all night session when Mr. Bryan was being nominated, or on Friday afternoon when Mr. Kern w-as being named for vice president on the assurance of Thomas S. Marshall (that Mr. Kern could carry Indiana. J For instance, the free paper, free pulp, free logs, free timber plank , brought there by Herman Ridder as put in the platform at the end of the tariff plank because pome one assured the committee that all the newspapers of the country, republican or lndependjent, would support Bryan. The same jsrrt of argument was made in favor of Mr. Ridder, president of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, for vice president. It was said .that if Mr. Ridder were nominated for vice president all the newspapers in .the American Publishers' association would support Mr. Ridder as a inatter of sentiment. I The convention did not nominate Mr. Ridder, fearing he was too serious, but it did put in the platform the freeeve ry thing-connect ed-with -the-newspa-per-business plank and now discovers that there is no tremendous bolt of the penny newspapers to the Bryan standard. j John W. Kern, the candidate for vice president, will leave Denver for Lincoln tomorrow morning and he will probably stay there a few hours for consu'tation with the members of the rational committee. Mr. -Kern said today that he expected to devote a good deal of his time during the campaign to Indiana. 1 Mr. Kern was today asked this question: "Mr. Kern, ft Is reported that President Roosevelt will use the attacks made on him in the Democratic najtlcnal convention ns an excuse to de fend himself and will go on the stump for Taft. What have you to pay about It?" "I do not care what Mr. Roosevelt thinks or does." said Mr. Kern pleasantly. 'Tt does not concern me In the least.' " a little insincere every now and then. Men generally mean what they say and consequently I feel much encouraged over the good news I have receivel today." Mrs. Kern resents the story appearing In an eastern paper to the effect that she has no children and that she writes her husband's speeches. She declares that she is the mother of tw boys and that her husband takes care of the political side of the house, an I rot only knows how to write speeches but how to deliver them effectively. Mackinac Island, Mich., July 13. 'I am tired of politics. Please don't mention the subject any more." This was the reply today of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to the good natured chaffing of friends here. "Uncle Joe" arrived yesterday with W. B. McKlnley of Illinois to rest at the cottage of A. T Hert, a friend. And the speaker !s apparently determined to rest. too. r. he has qut a quietus upon a proposal to have a reception for him at one of tbe hotels.