Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 18 August 1908 — Page 4

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THE COMPLEX PROBLEM

SURPRISE IS FREQUENTLY EXPRESSED at wages' resistance to forces, loosed last October that have been making for lower prices, General prices have kept up pretty well, but the wage-earner if he has kept his job has fared exceptionally well. Speaking broadly, the man who has had a chance to make his bread by the sweat of his brow has got as big a loaf as ever at any time when many persons have not found the wherewithal to get any loaves at all. This is no new phenomenon. Every employer knows it is hard to put wages down as it is easy, not counting the cost to put them up. That is one reason why wages are usually among the stragglers in upward movements; the man who finds the money for them knows he will have to pay them when he can no longer afford the rate demanded. In many industries wages funds having been cut in two or more, the result has been that highly renumerative employment has been left to comparatively few while the army of unpaid spectators has grown. The railroad companies are hoping for business to come and help them out and the problem in itself is complex. Easy resolution will come with a sharp recovery in the fall, following the harvesting of bounteous crops. Renewal of confidence cannot help but be inspired by the prospect of a rest from incessant agitation which the result of the coming election will bring. Times point this way, the Improvement is already noted. The pessimist grunts and groans that the turn for the better may never come. He doesn't want it to come. Anything to discourage people to depress them, to make the optimist out a liar, that's the pessimistic howl for you- , WATER HAS CLAIMED AN AWFUL TOLL.

TWExTY-FIVE HUMAN LIVES, according to statistics kept by THE TIMES, have lost their lives by drowning in the Calumet region since the first of June. Thirteen of them have been lost in the Calumet river. The awful toll breaks all records in past years and in connection with the history of these drownings, it is significant to note that in eighteen of the cases, the victims have been drowned In fewer than four feet of water. It brings forcibly to the mind that a person does not necessarily have to go out of his depth to be drowned. If the eighteen drowned persons who lost their lives in what is practically shallow water, had been able to stand up, they could have stood head and shoulders above the water. In most of the cases cramps has been the cause of the drowning and it should be a solemn warning to those who venture in water to be sure their body is sufficiently warm to withstand the shock. Twenty-five lives have been lost and there have been twenty-seven cases of near-drowning. In the majority of these cases also the fact is shown that they occurred in water less than four feet in depth. The danger has been pointed out repeatedly that it does not pay to be careless or foolhardy while bathing or swimming in hot weather. The human body will stand just so much and no more. Do not stay in the water too long. There lies the greatest danger. After all, the safest place to swim is a bath tub. THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA WILL ELECT NEXT LEGISLATURE. THE VISIT OF REPRESENTATIVES of the Indianapolis brewing combine at whose head is the Lieber-Fairbanks crowd, to Lake county on a mission which was intended to be secret is another evidence that has been uncovered relative to the part the brewers at Indianapolis and Terre Haute intend to play in the state campaign. Lawabiding saloonkeepers, respectable democrats and republicans alike resent the insolence of the combine to interfere in Lake county politics. They do not intend to come out in the open, but they skulk into Lake county to influence and intimidate the saloonkeeper by making him think he imperils his interest unless he does as the brewery agents want him to do. This secret work is being done not only in Lake county but In other counties up and down the state. Fortunately the emissaries overreached themselves. They visited business men who know that they stand in no danger from impudent brewers- The saloonman and the voter in Lake county have brains enough to do their own thinking. They won't be led around by the nose, through the efforts of the Indianapolis-Terre Haute crowd. The people of Indiana will elect the next legislature

Fairbanks clique. The latter and their friends can fill their pipes with that and smoke it. The emissaries have been in Lake county and say they will stay in Lake county till they get through. Watch out for them and tell them you can run your own business.

THIS DATE IX HISTORY. August 10. 1493 Frederick III. of Germany died; born September 21, 1415. 1617 Sir Walter Raleigh sailed from Cork on his last voyage to America. 1699 George Burroughs, a New England minister, hung for witchcraft. 1708 British took the Island of Minorca. . .. . , 1780 Pierre de Baranger born; died July 16, 1857. 1793 Elisha Mitchell, who conducted the first State geological survey in America, orn In Washington, Conn., died in North Carolina, June 27. 1857. , 1812 United States frigate Constitution captured the British frigate Guerrlere. 1814 Brltlsli troops landed In Chesa

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fWTB CENT Otlut Newspaper in Calumet Region 10909 Times are relocated to favor the matt in delivering. Crmmonlcai with th OF HIGH WAGES' GRIP. peake Bay and threatened Washington. 1S31 Nearly 300 lives lost in the wreck of the ship "'Lady Sherbrooke" near Cape Ray. 1886 Charles D. Graham passed through the Niagara whirlpool rapIds In a barrel. 1SS7 Spencer F. Baird, the first United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, died at Woods Hole, Mass.,; born at Reading, Pa., February 3, 1823. 1898 Spain named her commissioners to treat for peace with he United States. THIS 18 MY 0TH BIRTHDAY. . Rear Admiral Nasblha.. Rear Admiral Nashlha, one of the officers of the Japanese navy who won

Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.

FISHIN'. You feel the delicious languor of boyhood stealing over you. Nature wooes you to her bosom. You want to loll In the sun. You want to dig a little in the ground. The ripple of distant waters lures you. Of a sudden you straighten your shoulders and emit this pronunciamento: Tm goin' fishin'. " (When one is under that sort of Impulse, it is proper to cut out the final "S") There can be no doubt you have correctly diagnosed the ailment. The symptoms are unmistakable. Your disease is "spring fever"' plus. The prescription is specific. It is the recipe Simon Teter used when he said, "I go a-flshing." Well You get out the tackle. You don an old suit and fix It. It is not elaborate, that outfit. No fancy reel for you. You are no professional. Just a bamboo pole with the old fashioned string and cork and lead. And as for bait? You dig for worms In the back yard as you did when you wore knee breeches. If you are a city man you take the car as far as it goes and walk the rest of the way. Walk is scarcely the word. You slouch over the countryside. Arrived at the stream, you select a log or a rock whence to dangle your simple enticements. You discover the fish are not in a biting mood. You do not care. By degrees your pole droops into the water. You have forgotten what you came for. Well, the fact is you are not particularly concerned as to the catch. You Just wanted "to go fishin'," that was all. And when you go home emntv handed, if the boy jibes at you and your "fisherman's luck," why, you are content. You have had your "fun." Is it not so? You wanted to get away from everybody. You wanted to loaf and invite your soul. You were tired of the buzz of business and the clash of civilized things. You heard the call of the wild. And nobody saw you and nobody bothered you as you nodded and dreamed over your fish pole. And you dreamed of a little mite of a boy who fished with a hickory switch and a pin hook long, long ago. And you dreamed but it's nobody's business what. It was nature calling to you and saying to you what science in these last days is saying to all humans: "Relax. Relax. The bow that is always bent will sometime lose its spring." When you plod back home the string of fish may be lacking (save It may be you can buy some from a boy), but you have obeyed the primal Impulse that came to you. And Mother Nature has rocked you In her cradle and crooned her soothing lullabies. The cure for that tired feeling is to Go fishin'. great renown in the late war between Japan and Russia, was born in Hagl, Nagato, August 19, 1848, and served In the War of Restoration (1868) as ensign in the troops of the Choshu Clan. Me was appointed a surveying engineer in 1874 and an official of the Home Department and detailed to the Fujisan in September, 1880. He saw much service afloat and was detailed to foreign countries, the Pacific and Hawaii in 1890. Then he was made Chief Superintendent of Cadets of the Naval College and appointed the commanding officer of the attacking department of the Kure Torpedo division in November, 1895. On his promotion to captain. ne was appointed to the command of the battleship Akitsushtma In October, 1898, and commanded others of the principal Japanese ships. In the war with Russia he distinguished himself as commander of a division of the first squadron under the famous Admiral Togo. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS The Gary lad who played Indian and shot and killed his pal, is another striking example of the pernicious evil dime novels have done. A woman alwaya like to think her husband In having a miserable time nt home while she Is on her vacation no matter bow much tthe loves him. A Peek-a-bwo Story. The following interesting literary note is found in the Atchison (Kan.) Globe: The peek-a-boo bathing suit story which Robert Chambers induced the editors of the Saturday Evening Post to run as a serial is drawing to an end, and with its conclusion a man can'agaln read the magazine and escape accusation. In the last instalment of this very suggestive and silly tale. Shiela fears that her husband may break into her bedroom and assault her, so she telephones for the Hero, who comes over and sits under her window all night on his horse. It Is pouring rain, and he has just been lifted from a pneumonia deathbed, but that doesn't seem to worry Shiela. She sleeps sound all night, knowing that she is Protected. The next day, the husband goes out and shoots and kills himself. The husband, by the way, seems to be a clever and decent sort of a fellow, while the Hero has about as much to him as a paper doll. But this le the trend of the modern love story: The husband, finding his wife

THE TIMES.

IIP AMD DOWN IN INDIANA

PROFIT JX RIGHT OF WAY. In making a change in its roadbed Just over the line in Michigan, several years ago. the Michigan Central railroad abandoned a strip of land five miles In length, and this land was purchased by J. C. .Goodrich or the little town of Buchanan. Mich., for $1,006. He is now offered $5,000 a mile for the strip by the promoters of a traction line. CITY FACTOS WATER FAM1XR. Sullivan is facing the worst water famine ever known here. The drought has practically dried up Busseron creek, from which the city water supply Is drawn, and the board today entered an order cutting ff the use of city water, beginning at noon today. The reservoir and standpipe. have not sufficient water to supply the city for forty-eight hours. ASK FOR A RECEIVER. Certain stockholders of the Albany Automobile company, of Albany, Ind., have filed a petition for the appointment of a receiver for the concern, asserting that the company is insolvent. The Albany company has been turning out a buggy automobile that is in extensive use. ; - BITTEN BY RABID DOG. Grover Perry, twenty years old, who lives west of Columbus, was bitten in the face yesterday by a rat terrier that is believed to have been suffering from rabies. The dog was killed and its head will be sent to Indianapolis for examination. Before the dog young Perry It killed twenty-fle chick ens and a family cat. ARRESTED FOR ASSAIXT. Ben Shelland, a young farmer living one mile west of Goodland, with his wife and two small children, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by John Grubb of Indianapolis, charging Shelland with an attack on Florence, the 14-year-old doughter of Mr. Grubb. "FRAT" TO RESPECT LAW. If the wishes of prominent members of the Beta Phi Sigma (high school) fraternity are respected, this organization, which has 1,200 members in Indiana and Ohio, will sever all relations with high schools at the national convention to be held in Muncie August 26, 27 and 28, and:will become wholly an alumni institution. ADE'S TOWX IX STORM. Brook, George Ade's new town, south of Morocco, was hit hard during a loves another man, must get himself out of the way. Even then he gets no credit for goodness In doing it. A man will wait on a bank four hours for a fish that won't bite, but he won't wail five minutes for his wife to get ready for church. Wlfle Wna Deserted. Mr. and Mrs. B. Brothers cut the honeymoon short and returned to their home at Aztec this morning. Mr. Brothers is catcher of the Aztec ball team; hence the call of duty could not be disregarded. Durango (Colo.) Herald. A Hammond man got back home the other day nnd told his wife he didn't know whether he had been to a funeral or a wedding, hut it was a success. When Champ Champs His Bit. Champ Clark is going to stump the state for Dave Ball and Woody Dell Reed will take the stump against him for Cowherd. When Champ Clark' gets through with the campaign for Ball Woody Dell Reed will look like a peckerwood hole in a hollow sycamore snag. Missouri Sharpshooter. The very nicest girl In the world Is the one that nil the boys are generally afraid of. A Good Suggestion. Mother, It won't be long before that pretty little bright-eyed girl of yours is a young lady. She is ten, eleven, twelve years old. What a charming lassie she is! What have you done for her? Dressed her like a doll, dawdled her like a lap dog. sent her to school, but taught her nothing at home? Don't you think that you had better teach her to bake bread, boil beans, and roast beef? Uvalde (Texas) Press. WH EX EVER YOU SEE A SIGN. "NO CREDIT," WE HAVE NOTICED THAT YOC CAN GENERALLY GET IT IF VOl GO ABOUT IT IX THE BIGHT WAY. As usual about this time, the cryabout irreparable injury to the crops is as persistent as ever. It is something like the blighting of the peach crop. There are too Many people In this World Who make cake of the nest eggs They have saved np. Ben Tillman sends us a consoling message from Paris, that everything is for Bryan this year. Not disputing Ben, but we would like to know whether he had been bibbing any of the green stuff they sell on the boulevards. The American section of the international boot and shoe workers' body now has more than 100,000 in Its emergency fund, the money being in banks and drawing Interest

recent storm. Both the general store building and the coal, shed were wrecked beyond repair. The grain elevator, the tallest in this part of the state, was not injured. WOMAN INVADES LODGE. A social session of the Eagles lodge was broken up at Montpelier Saturday night by a woman in black. The night being warm the doors were partly open when a stranee wom.-in walked i'l and took a sent near the lodge altar. The ceremonies were stepped and the woman was ejected. She was taken to a hotel, where she was kept until her identity was established. She proved to be Mrs. Charles Herald of Mt. Zion, Wells county. KISSING III KG I. AH ARRIVES. The ' kissing burglar" has made his appearance in Indianapolis, according to the reports made to the police department. Early tills morning he broke into the home of Ludwic Stieple, 130 Murphy street, and was searching about the house when he came across the room occupied by Stieple's four children, one of them an 11-year-old girl. The burglar stooped and kissed the girl and she awakened with a scream. FIRES IN.llKE TOMBSTONES. John Martin, Solomon Holben and Milton Proudfit, trustees of the cemetery at Osceola, have been made defendants in a state case alleging trespass, inasmuch as they were respon-

for damage to tombstones after starting a grass fire which got beyond their control. Twenty-five lot owners will be witnesses for the state. STOE DHI ISE PROVES FATA I.. Charles Flattich, aged 12 years. Is dead at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gottlob Flattich of Lafayette, an ordinary stone bruise having proved fatal. The lad stepped on a stone last Monday while walking barefoot and a stone bruise formed on the sole of his right foot. The next day he ran a splinter into the wound. An abscess formed and then blood poisoning set in. WAXTS f-lO.COO DAMAGES. Newton M. Wilson of Scottsburg, employed as a tax ferret by the county commissioners, has brought suit for $10,000 damages against Walter Galbralth, of the Democrat, for words affecting his integrity, spoken during an exciting meeting of the county council in March last. IN POLITICS Socialists will send a special train twice across the continent in their presidential campaign. This step wis decided yesterday by the national ex ecutive committee. Eugene V. Debs, candidate for president, will be the star speaker. A. M. Simmons of Chicago will be one of the spellbinders. The trains will carry a brass band and a baggage car loaded with socialist literature. It will be known as the "Red Special" and the red flag will flat with the national colors from the front and rear of the train. New York, Aug. 17. Contributions to the campaign fund from corporations or from officers of corporations acting as such are not being accepted at republican national headquarters, according to a statement made today by Treasurer George R. Sheldon of the national committee. Mr. Sheldon said he had returned several such contributions, In compliance with the federal law of 1907 governing the matter. The law, however, does not prohibit contributions from individuals connected with corporations provided such contributions are personal donations. Mr. Sheldon refused to give the names f any of the contributors whose offerings were returned. Hot Springs, Ta., Aug. 17. Discussing today the character of speeches he is to make during the campaign. Judge Teft said he believed he had placed himself on record in the speeches he hps already made on every question likely to become Important in the campaign. "But," he added, "that will not, I take it, preclude me from taking up any subject and enlarging on it in the speeches I shall make to the various delegations which may come to Cincinnati during the campaign. My subjects will be chosen with particular reference to the interest and character of the particular delegation to which I shall speak. In this way it is possible that I shall review many of the important and minor issues." There was a conference today between John Hays Hammond and Herbert M. Myers, a Columbus, Ohio, attorney, who is president of the Ohio Republican College La-ague, which Is affiliated with the National Republican College League. The conference resulted in an agreement that the College League and the Lague of Republican clubs should co operate. The National League headquarters will be in New York. The western headquarters of the College League probably will be in Cincinnati Shelby county democrats will hold their county primary August 25 and at the same time will select a candidate for prosecuting attorney for Rush and Shelby county. The nominee will come from Shelby county. John C.

Heads Of Traveling Men's Prosperity Congress, New York.

This cut shows Herman A. Metz, president, and the various officers of the Traveling Men's Prosperity congress, which began its session in New York Friday afternoon. Plans of various bodies of unemployed men to attend the convention and be heard caused the police to be on the alert to quell any attempt at rioting.

ANOTHER BLOW FOR BRYAN.

Cincinnati, O., Aug. 18. The Cincinnati Enquirer in an editorial Saturday declared Bryan has small chance of election against the reunited party. The editorial says: "News from the west, from all the country west of the Ohio river, gives ample evidence that in every state of the vast region the republican party has divorced Itself from the element in its ranks that opposed or failed heartily to approve of the policies of President Roosevelt. "What has been termed radicalism Is now now the orthodox faith in each of the states in that section, and the national convention endorsement of that administration and Its policies Is rapidly being ratified by the party In county, district and state primaries. "The anti-Iioosevelt forces of the country today In no state of the union have any political standing or hold upon the voters of the party. "With Biistew's Interpretation of republican , doctrlnes; In Kansas; Cummins standing for: Roosevelt policies in Jowa;, LaFolJefte'rf teeing Upheld as party faith in Wisconsin; the Lincoln-Roosevelt league active in California; the personal staff of Mr. Tart standing solidly for the same policies Cheney and Herbert Jones are the candidates. Thomas R. Marshall, democratic nominee for governor, addressed the democratic county convention at Portland Saturday and after he was through the ticket was nominated. John M. Smith was nominated for representative. The republicans of Adams county will hold their convention August 29 and on the same day will nominate W. J. Veasey of Fort Wayne for senator against Steve Fleming. Charles Wintrode of Huntington, who has been sick for a long time, has resigned as county chairman and turned the work over to Harry L. Bendel, the district chairman, who will fill botn positions. The republicans of Huntington will organize as soon as possible. Mr. Bendel proposes to give all of his time to the work. Evansville, Ind. ,Aug. 17. Congressman John H. Foster of this city, who is a candidate for re-election, has started out to make a house to house canvass of the first district. He Is accompanied by his private secretary, Curtis T. Mushlitz of this city. Congressman Foster is taking in all the county fairs of the district, and it is his hope to beet all the voters of the district personally. Congressman Foster is regarded as a good handshaker. Chicago, August 17. The Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday placed Its seal of approval on the political policy of President Gompers and the executive council of the national labor body. Fierce onslaughts against the Gompers program were made by the socialist delegates, who, up to that time had kept strictly aloof from participation In the federation's political affairs. Other delegates also spoke against following Gompers' political plans, notably John Flora, of the carpenters' union, who was instructed by his local urion to vote against Indorsing the democratic ticket. The question was brought before the federation by the reading of the political appeal to trade unionists of the country, recently sent out by President Gompers and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. A lively debate followed a motion to "receive the appeal and concur in its recommendations.

Tuesday, August 18. 1908.

and teachings in Ohio, there certainly seems to be no reason for any radical republican to leave the party and there is no sanctuary open for conservative republicans that offers better protection than the reconstructed old home. "It Is difficult for an onlooker to see how the democrats can gain republican votes in the west under these conditions. Their chance was there three months ago, but the republican new alignment surely is now a barrier. "Mr. Bryan can offer no greater inducements than are now offered upon the bargain counter of the republican party in the west." THE CREAM OF THE Morning News New rioting starts in Springfield and combats between troops and mobs are reported at thirteen places at once. Governor Deneen offers a reward of $200 for evidence leading to conviction of rioters In each case where death resulted. Display of state of Illinois' ability to maintain order will be given today when the two negroes whose removal started the riot and lawlessness will be returned to Springfield. Another victim of the outbreak dies and still another is in a critical condition. Coroner's jury at Kankakee orders the arrest of Joseph Klein, the Chicago militiaman, who killed an 18-year-old boy while the troop train was passing through. Special grand jury will assemble at Springfield today to take up the riot and State's Attorney Hatch has 115 cases ready for presentation, expecting many true bills to result. Preliminary hearing of "Steve" Sumner and other labor officials, held as accessories to the assault on Wiert B. Speyer, by a wrecking crew is continued. City collector plans crusade against all delinquents in payment of wheel tax; $50,000 still due in licenses. Detectives lie in wait at the rendezvous fixed in a "Black Hand" letter to a wealthy grocer and arrest a suspect who appears at the place. State's Attorney Healy will contest the election of John E. W. Wayman, and special grand jury may be convened to probe the primary election scandal. Governor Deneen will open his speaking campaign in Chicago early next month under the auspices of the Hamilton club, and a vigorous state and national campaign is to be made. Eugene W. Chann will be notified tonight of nomination for president by prohibitionists and will accept in speech of only 1,700 words. One woman is killed and many persons are injured, some seriously, by the explosion of the boiler on a small passenger steamer near Iceland. Mich. Woman's Christian Temperance Union In New York Is indignant at General Grant's statement that no canteen makes the army unhealthy. New York musician plays a Polish national hymn on his violin as he falls from the roof of a tenement to death. Wheat owners fear early marketings of spring grain and unload; corn easier; oats firmer; cattle and hogs are higher; sheep are strong. LABOR NEWS At New Orleans, La., a permanent arbitration board for labor disputes has been completed. The annual convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will be held at Halifax in September. On September 2, at Milwaukee, Wis.. American Brotherhood of Cement Workers will meet In convention. There is a movement under way to organize a building trades section of the the American Federation of Labor In Fargo. N. D.