Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 45, Hammond, Lake County, 10 August 1908 — Page 4
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THE FRETTING OF THIS
HUMANITY IN ALL ITS NEEDS, hopes and fears, in all its weakness and strength, has remained much the same through all the centuries. With all our boasted progress in learning and in material prosperity we are today the Bame feeble creatures that landed on Aarat, says a contemporary editor. Yes, and through the control and manipulation of matters some of us a small minority are better clothed, sheltered and fed than were our ancestors. Are we happier, more moral, longer-lived or in better health? Alas U3 build to ourselves grand houses, with stout walls, double-plated windows and strong doors; let us make to ourselves summer in the dead of winter and cool retreats from the heat of summer but sins, sorrows, failures disappointments, wasting diseases and ghastly death will enter and abide with us still. We may build against the wild elements, shut out the burning sun, the biting winter wind; but we can not build against the real ills of life that are a part of our nature. Where are the walls that can keep out envy, spite, ingratitude, selfishness and meanness and the thousand ills that flesh is eternally heir to? How many of those who in times past have professed to be our friends, have wished us well, are now seeking to figuratively stab us in the dark? A good woman went to the mansion of a rich man with the petition of a poor woman dying of cancer who asked relief for her hungry and helpless children. She waited in rooms where art had exhausted its last resource in all that was beautiful. Huge mirrors seemed to double the palatial decorations. The ceilings were gems of frescoed excellence; the walls held fortunes in pictures on every panel. The rugs, woven by hand had a poor laborer's life in each square foot. And while 6he waited she heard a moan from the sickroom within a deep and agonizing that it seemed to come from the very grave. She thought she had left the poor widow all the misery of which life is capable. That moan taught her her error. Death, the great democrat, knows no distinction. We all continue struggling fiercely for these things as If their possession could lift us above all suffering and make disease and death our friends in the way we want them- And if it is not wordly possession that own us, it is some fevered ambition worse than racking bodily pain. Not all the real estate a king may possess holds as much of the human heart as one little grave. Not all the machinery in the world can carry us the smallest fraction of an inch out of ourselves. Not all the wireless messages in the world can fetch one word of wisdom from beyond the dark valley. And we fret and stew on this little earth with its brief little hour and its inconsequential atoms. Poor creatures are we after all!
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. AnKnut 10. 13S8 Earl of Douglas killed and "Hotspur" taken prisoner at the battle of Otterburn. J.753 Edmund Randolph, first attorney general of the United States, born in Williamsburg. Va. Died in Virginia, Sept, 13, 1813. 1821 Jay Cooke, eminent American financier, born in Sandusky, O. Died in Philadelphia. Feb. 16, 1905. 1860 The prince of Wales visited Charlottetown, P. E. I. J861 General Lyon killed at the battle of Wilson's Creek. Mo. 1S64 Twelve persons killed by an explosion of the steamer "Racine" in Lake Erie. 1900 Robert Kingston Scott, ex-governor of South Carolina, died. 1904 George G. Vest, United States senator from Missouri, died. Born Dec. 6, 1830. THIS IS MY C5TH BIRTHDAY. Rear Admiral Clark. Hear Admiral Charle3 F. Clark, U. S. N., retired, was born August 10, 1843., in the town of Bradford, Vt., and en tered the United States naval academy in 1860. During the closing years of the civil war he was attached to the West Gulf blockading squadron and participated in the battle of Mobile Bay and the bombardment of Fort were to master In 1S66, lieutenant Morgan. His subsequent promotions were to master in 1866, lieutenant In 1S67, lieutenant-commander in 186S, commender In 1881. captain in 1896, and rear admiral in 1902. Early in 189S he was ordered to the command of the battleship Oregon just built at San Francisco. He left San .Francisco in March with the battleship Oregon, and arrived with her at Key West, Florida, a distance of 14,000 miles. May 26. 189S, in time to take part in the naval battle at Santiago. This cruise of the Oregon was unprecedented for speed with a battleship, and has,, taken a prominent place in naval nnnai,
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ii9oo Times are requested to faro the lm delivering. Ccnununieate with tks LITTLE WORLD OF OURS. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS The Calumet ditch project story, after being published in The Times and stolen by a lot of other county papers, came back to Hammond last Saturday, about a week late, but just as it was in The Times. The stand-patters have come and gone and now, thnnk goodness, come the noa-fretters, for everything wUl come out all right If you only let it alone. An exchange, in describing a misa ing girl, says that she wore gold nose glasses. Did you ever hear of any one wearing gold mouth glasses? The top of the ladder Is many yeara op and not half that many seconds down. He Was Misunderstood. The busy man stopped before an of fice building and leaped from his car riage. At the same moment an ambi tious urchin ran forward and piped; 'Hey, mister, kin I hold your horse?" "No, you can't!" snapped the busy man "Won't charge much," insisted the urchin. "I don't care about the charge," impatiently responded tha man, throwing a blanket over his ebony steed. "My horse will not run away." "Gee, mister, I didn't think he'd run away!" "Nor "No.
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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright. 190S, by Edwin A. Nye THE WOMAN WITH THE DISH RAG. Do you know what is the most dangerous occupation in the world? It may surprise you to learn that ii is the occupation of housekeeping. So says Dr. Dickenson of Chicago, an au thority in statistical studies. Thest are some of the dangers the house keeper faces every day: Death by scalding. By gasoline or gas explosions. By falling down dark stairways. By heat prostration. By insanitary sewerage. 1 By exhausting drudgery. By suicide caused by the hopelessBess of daily routine. These are not fanciful dangers. Each of them has Its frightful statis tics of fatality. At the battle of Santiago, of 10,000 soldiers, 300 were killed a death rate of three-tenths of 1 per cent. The death rate of women who keep house is much larger. And, strangely enough, while modern warfare reduces the percentage of deaths, labor saving devices in the household increase the percentage. Gas and gasoline explosions are especially notable as domestic tragedies. The slaughter of mothers exceeds that of the warriors. That old time picture of the husband going forth to the dangers of the day, leaving the wife safely protected in the home nook, must be changed. Housekeeping at the best is more or less a menial and monotonous occupation. It is to weary thousands a spiritless regime. To many a frail or nervous woman this bondage to the commonplace is in itself a tragedy. When there is added to it all exhausting la bors and a menace as real as that of the battlefield, what must we say? The remedy? Society must do more for the house wife. There must be more safety appliances and better sanitary conditions. Kitchens and cellars should be more habitable. Women Bhould be better instructed as to the nature? of explo sives. CHILDREN TAUGHT IN THE SHOULD BE SCHOOL THE as well as the There should be COMMON THINGS higher things of life. a better division of labor in the house hold. Let the man, if necessary, do his part. There should be some diversion from the ceaseless strain of drudgery. "Work is not a curse; drudgery is." Let the world forget for awhile the sorrows of "The Man With the Hoe" and contemplate for a time the fate of the woman with the dish rag. thought he might fall down!" Argo naut. A girl cares little for the book of life except the chapter in it, if there is any such and there generally in, devoted to love. It just makes the croakers sick to read The Times building boom stories. A man's idea of a girl's den is a place where she can serve tea and nut powder on her face. Rain? Well, perhaps. Tou don't be lieve it? Well, neither do we. IT IS PRETTY HARD TO TRUST THE SINCERITY OF THOSE PER SONS, SOMETIMES, WHO HAVE TO "MAKE CP" THEIR MINDS. They are also calling the Bryan and Kern ticket the try-try-try aga'.n ticket. Did yon ever notice that tremble's scales are aSways out of balance. St. Swlthin seems to be no better a weather prophet in dry weather than our friend Deacon Hicks of St. Louis. The pessimist thinks it's hard to be poor, the optimist knows that it's easy. LABOR NEWS As an expression of appreciation for their faithful service and courtesy to the traveling public, checks amount Ing to a total of $175,000 were mailed to 1,153 conductors and 2,617 porters by the Pullman company. In each case the check was equivalent to one month's pay, an average of $46.40. The West Virginia State Federation of Labor continues to grow bigger and stronger every week. President Welch is confident that by the time of the next state convention the state federation reorganized at Huntington last February, will contain all the la bor unions in the Mountain state. The prospect of smooth working in the labor world in Sweden is any thing but bright, and a great deal of trouble is expected during the sum mer. The most threatening feature is the conflict between the doorworkexs' union and the shipowners, which is bound to involve all kinds of work ers. Miss Hazel MacDonald of Chicago, who some time ago advocated the establishment of a home for aged and indigent postofflce clerks, has been elected a delegate to the convention of the National Federation of Post office clerks, which will open at Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 7. She will have an opportunity to submit her plan to the convention.
IIP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
WIXO.XA ENDS SEASON". The coming week will see the finish of the Winona assembly season, to be followed for ten days by the Bible conference. In its fourteen years the assembly has not had many better summers than the present one, business having flourished in all directions. CHILD CHOKES TO DEATH. The little one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Woodcock of St. Joe choked on a piece of apple which he was eating, last night, and died before medical assistance could be reached. A singular coincident is, that the grand mother of the child choked to death in the same house only four months ago. REWRITE K. T. CONSTITUTION. Knightstown, Ind., Aug. 7. L. P. Newby started today for York Beach, Me., where he is to meet four other Knights Templars, the five constituting a committee to rewrite the constition governing the Knight Templar branch of Masonry of the United States. Mr. Newby has been a member of this committee for six years. The laws when rewritten will com-, prise two books of 200 pages each. BRYAN WRITES TO BOY CITY. In a letter addressed to the resi dents of the Winona Lake boy city, and received by them today from Lin coln, Neb., W. J. Bryan sends greetings to the members of the juvenile municipality. He compliments the youngsters for the manner in which they are handling politics, which, he says, speaking generally, is in need of purification. DESERTED GERMAN ARMY. Conrad Boemele, who returned today from Germany, brought word that two Evansville citizens, William Gotto and Gottlieb Wolfe, were arrested at Stuttgart, Germany, for failure to serve time in the Germany army more than twenty-five years ago. The two men, each of whom is over 50 years old, were put In uniform for twelve days and made to serve In barracks. WOULD KILL TOW.V MARSHAL. An attempt was made at North Judson early today to assassinate Henry Kuester, town marshal, who has been active in the prosecution of violators of the law. He was fired at from am bush, the bullet cutting the hair from IN POLITICS Winona Lake, Ind., Aug. 8. Repub lican editors of the twelfth and thirteenth districts held conferences here yesterday with George B. Lockwood and Carl W. Riddick of the state com mittee. Campaign plans were dis cussed. The twelfth district editors held a business meeting yesterday and the thirteenth district editors met to day. Elkhart The democrats organized a campaign club last night, with forty members. Ellis M. Chester is president. and Jacob P. Sanders, president. Newcastle The first republican club in Henry county was organized last night. It is known as the Young Men's Republican club. Several drum corps and a glee club will be formed. Shelbyville Robert W. Buxton, who seme time ago announced his name as a candidate for the nomination of rep resentative on the democratic ticket, has withdrawn on account of business interests. Logansport Because Dr. M. B. Stewart accepted nomination on tha republican county ticket, the prohibition party, which nominated him at Its convention last spring, will name another man to fill the vacancy. Muncie The first union labor republican club formed in Indiana this campaign has just been organized in Muncie, with one hundred members. It is expected that similar clubs will be organized throughout the eighth congressional district at once. The club grew out of James E. Watson's visit to Muncie this week. New York, August 8. Elmer Dover declared that there van no truth in the report that he has resigned as secretary of the republican national committee. Mr. Dover was in this city to see Mrs. Dover off to Europe. He said he had been in conference with Chairman Hitchcock and would see him again before he left town, but Mr. Dover said It was not his present intention to resign now as secretary of the committee. Whether he intended to resign later he would not say. New York, Aug. 8. W'hen Frank II. Hitchcock, chairman of the republican committee, returned here last night from his visit to the president at Oyster Bay, he had little to say about tha political matters taken up. He said that the president had shown great interest in the plans for the republican campaign in general and that the stato situation had been considered. It is understood that the policy of Mr Hitchcock in listening to what everybody has to say on both sides of the question, was aproved by the president and that the latter advised that this course be continued until the sentiment of the various sections and classes In the state could be ascer-
his head and grazing the skin. A second shot went wide of its mark. The would-be assassin escaped in the darkness. WATER SUPPLY ENDANGERED. The scarcity of rain in this locality has alarmed the Kendallville municipal authorities and a fresh water famine is feared, to avert which they have ordered the drilling of four new wells at the local waterworks plant. The system at present has four six-inch welsl, thirty feet apart, the deepest being eighty-seven feet. MOTHER AND CHILD BURNED. Mrs. Ephriam Montgomery of Princeton was seriously burned by carbolic acid yesterday. In removing the bottle containing the acid from the man
tel, the cork having been taken out. in some manner it was overturned and the contents was spilled over the woman's face and neck and also upon the head of her little child. FREE-FOR-ALL SERIOUS. Henry Johnson of this city is in a critical condition as the result of a blow over the head In a general fight in Peter LeClerq's saloon -in Brazil last Saturday night. It was thought at the time that no person was seriously hurt. WELL GAS DANGEROUS. Jesse Harpole of Boonville, after exploding a charge of dynamite in a well which he is digging on the farm of his father, descended to clear away the debris, leaving his brother to draw the dirt out by means of a windlass and bucket. Upon reaching the bottom he was overcome by gas and fell unconscious. WILD MAN' CAPTURED. The "wild man" who was recently captured by the sheriff and his deputies, after terrorizing farmers south of Richmond for several days, proved to be Charles Kissell of Newark, O., who escaped from the Ohio hospital for the insane at Columbus, four or five days ago. BANKER-THIEF WRITES HOME. The whereabouts, on May 25, of Seth M. Richcreek, the former Indianapolis banker, who absconded from Indianapolis less than a year ago, was made known in Sullivan yesterday evening when Henry A. Miles, an Indianapolis man traveling for a St. Louis house, received a letter written from Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 25. toined. Hitchcock would not admit that any conclusion had been reached concerning the renomination of Governor Hughes. Richmond The democratic campaign In Wayne county will be opened st Fountain City on August 26. John W. Kern, democratic candidate for vie president, Is to be the speaker. Fountain City is one of the hotbeds of republicanism in Wayne county, but the democrats believe that a meeting there will this year help the party. Chicago, Aug. 8. Chairman Mack of the democratic national committee, ha? been informed finally that the railroads will not offer reduced rates for the Bryan notification next Wednesday. According to Eben E. McLeod, chairman of the Western Passenger association, the association, found it was impracticable to make the reduction b cause local passenger rates in Nebraska had been reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents and since that time no reduction is permitted. McLeod said that for the Taft notification the rduced rates to Cincinnati were offered by the Central Passenger association. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Deneen's total plurality over Yates is 13,000, the governor of carrying sixty-one of the 102 counties in the state. New evidence of wholesale use of democratic votes to aid the Lorimer candidate is discovered. Eight of the nine republican slat municipal judges are chosen, Andrew T. Powers, who is defeated by Judge Fake, being the only one to lose; Lantry is one of the successful democratic candidates. Constitutionality of the primary law likely to be attacked in the courts and many party leaders expect it to be wiped out before another occasion for its use. City directory for 1903 shows a population of 2.425,000 for Chicago, greatly In excess of the figures based on the recent school census. Rev. J. M. Leddy reports a lively Interest in St. Louis in the aldermanic charity baseball game to be played here next Saturday. Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan, champion of Herman Billik, in an attack on State's Attorney Healy, attributes the latter's failure of renomination to divine wrath. Arthur Burrage Farwell thinks the size of the primary vote was disappointingly small and scores derelict citizens. President Roosevelt appoints a commission to Investigate country life with a view to securing better social, sanitary and economic conditions. Cleveland priest and rich merchant killed when auto goes over embankment near Toledo, capsizes and falls bottom upward with party underneath. Following criticism in the duma, czar relieves Grand Duke Nicholas Nickola vitch of the presidency of the council for national defense. Grain values are at high levels, but strong speculators are confident that still higher prices can be maintained. Oats crop a disappointment, corn drought partially relieved.
Son of ; Illinois War Nominated for
"4 '4 v v p - This Week's Washington, D. C, Aug. 8. The event
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will be the notification of William J. Bryan of his nomination for the presidency
by the Democratic national convention. Wednesday on the state capital grounds
the occasion for a big rally of democratic leaders from all sections of the country. John W. Kern, the candidate for vice president, will be present, as
win also nearly all of the members of Political events of lesser interest
Texas and Tennessee for the nomination of state tickets, Texas democrats
will meet in San Antonio Tuesday to
The American battleship fleet under command of Admiral Sperry will
spend the first four days of the week at Auckland, New Zealand, departing thence for Sydney, Australia. Recent advices from Auckland tell of elaborate arrangements made by the New Zealand officials and people for the
entertainment of the officers and men of
The Congress of Ecuador will convene in special session Monday. Tha
session promises to be of particular funds to relieve the financial straits Judge Taft plans to remain at Hot
visitors and consulting with party leaders in regard to the campaign. At republican campaign headquarters in both New York and Chicago the real work of the fight which is to end in November will be on in full blast.
A "prosperity congress" to infuse a the joint auspices of the two national Other convention of importance to
the American Federation of Catholic Societies of Boston, the National Association of Fire Insurance Agents at St. Paul, the Commercial Secretaries of the Southern States at Chattanooga, and the International Typographical Union at Boston.
Events of interest in the world of
San Francisco automobile run, the international automobile race over the Ardennes circuit in France, andthe annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen on the Connecticut river at Springfield, Mass.
The provincial election in Saskatchewan, which is to be held next Friday, is awaited with interest because of the fact that the result may be the straw
which shows which way the wind mill this fall. TODAY'S NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Washington, D. C, Aug. 10. Chief Carpenter J. B. Fletcher of the navy was placed on the retired list today on account of age. Grand Forks. N. D., Aug. 10. The seventh annual tournament of the North Dakota Tennis association opened here today under favorable auspices The principal events on the weeks program are the state championships and the Red River Valley championships. Tokio, Aug. 10. The South Manchurlan railroad, which recently was placed officially under the control of the department of communications of the Japanese government, today inaugurated a weekly service between Darien and Shanghai. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 10. The ninth biennial convention of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen began in Detroit today with delegates present from all parts of the United States and Canada. The sessions will last till the end of the week. Boston, Mass.. Aug. 10. Delegates representing 2,000,000 Catholic men and women throughout tha United States were present this afternoon when the seventh national convention of the American ederation ofF Catholic societies began its sessions in Symphony hall in this city. President Feeney of Brooklyn, called the gathering to order. Narragansett Pier, R. I., Aug. 10. A national open tennis tournament under the auspices of the Point Judith Country club began here today with a good attendance. The doubles. A $400 silver challenge cup is offered for men. Quito, Aug. 10. The congress of Ecuador convened in special session today pursuant to the recent call issued by the government. The session promlises to be of particular importance, as
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AV.sV . 1 .0... ' e A r ' -1 - News Forecast of the week in the domain of politics The notification is to take place next at Lincoln, Neb., and will be made the national committee. will be republican state conventions in ratify the results of the recent primary. the fleet. importance, as it will have to provide of the government. Springs during the week, receiving; spirit of optimism and good cheer into headquarters of commercial travelers. meet during the week will be those of sport will be the start of the New Yorkblow in the general elections In Canada it will have to provide' funds to relieve the present financial straits of the government. Washington, D. C, Ang. 10. Justice Joseph McKenna of the United States supreme court reached his 65th birthday today. Justice McKenna is a native of Philadelphia, but has passed the greater part of his life In California, from which state he was appointed to the supreme bench by President McKinley in 1898. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 10. Leading republicans of Texas, including the members of the state executive committee, met in conference here today to complete the arrangements for the state convention to be held here tomorrow. The convention will select candidates for governor and other state officers to be voted for at the November elec tion. Erie, Pa.. Aug. 10. There was a large and representative attendance today at the opening of the annual convention of the Luther league of Pennsylvania in this city. The initial session in the Luther Memorial church this afternoon was devoted to reports showing the work being done by the various local organizations. The sessions will be concluded tomorrow. Boston, Mass., Aug. 10. As the day draws near for the "Cy" Young testimonial Interest in the event Increases among the baseball fans of Boston and vicinity. Next Thursday is the day, and the American league park is the place. The people of Greater Boston will then honor the world's greatest baseball player as he deserves. The game on the day of the testimonial will be participated In by two players from each club of the American league. The veteran pitcher in whose honor tha event is held will be the recipient of numerous gifts from the "rooters" clubs and from individual admirers. If yon have a house or a room to rent yon can Inform 40,000 people by ndvertising in the classified columns of The Times.