Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 59, Hammond, Lake County, 26 August 1908 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Wednesday, 'August 26, 1908.

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FURTHER INDICATIONS OF RETURNING PROSPERITY. THE STORIES PUBLISHED IN THESE columns during the past few days concerning the big business that is being done by the leading department stores of Hammond, give the lie to the calamity howlers and croakers who love to dwell lingeringly upon the "business depression" either for political purposes or their own selffish motives. The business men of the Calumet region In general declare that business is improving every day and that they see no reason why in the very near future it will not resume Its normal condition. The Associated Press dispatch from Bloomington, 111., bearing the glad tidings that the Standard Steel Car company of Hammond has been awarded a million dollar contract adds to the general rejoicing as does

also the dispatches from various parts of the country to the effect that men are being put back to work by the thousand. The news that comes from South Chicago of the improved conditions at the steel mills and the reemployment of hundreds of men, is but another straw which shows the way the wind blows. It would be far better if the croakers would try to get into

the band wagon and lend a little encouragement to business instead of con

tinually throwing cold water on exisitlng conditions. Of course, it is far easier to tear down than it is to build up. It is easier to destroy confidence than it is to inculcate it, but people soon see. through such thinly disguised efforts. The man who goes about the 6treet enveloped in gloom, who preaches the gospel of discontent, isn't the man whose cheery hopefulness

enables him to look on the bright side of things. Be a member of the optimistic club instead of the lugubrious association- It pays in the long run.

MAKE THE FARMER KEEP HIS DAIRY CLEAN.

THE REVELATIONS THAT ARE BEING made in the vicinity of Hammond, Gary and Hobart, regarding the milk traffic, are shocking and demoralizing in the extreme. If the conditions exist, which are reported by state and government health officers, it is extremely hard to fathom how pure milk can be sent out from the farms. The farmer who plays fast and loose with the health of the community in foisting milk upon it by producing milk that is not milk and under such filthy conditions is no less a criminal than the murderer who stalks up and down the street in the night seeking his prey. Indeed the farmer of this sort is far worse, for there may be some protection from the murderer. Pure milk agitation has been going on in the Calumet region, these many years, but instead of ameliorating the conditions, only seems to grow worse as the investigations continue. There is only one way for the health inspectors to do and that is to make a stern example of six or seven farmers who ship milk produced under impure conditions. Make the punishment to fit the crime and then fewer babies will die and less formaldehyde will be bought. Make the farmer, who is dirty, clean up. A LITTLE PIECE OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

GEORGIA'S POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE bids fair to disrupt the solid south- At Denver recently, the Georgia delegation refused to join in the Bryan demonstration. Under the administration of Governor Hoke Smith, Georgia has had some experience with Bryanism and in the recent state election her voters declared that they had had enough. When Governor Johnson visited Georgia some time ago, he was given a hearty welcome on his brief stay there- A large acquaintance would have resulted in a serious defection from Bryan at Denver. The significance of all this Is that the south's interest has nothing in common with Bryan. The south is naturally Imperialistic; it is in no sense populistic; its politics are deep-laid, bedded in principle; its real democracy is badly represented by the shifting weather cock, blowing hot and cold with every wind. Yet it is to be gravely doubted that the southern democrats have the courage to free themselves from the Bryan bondage.

THIS DATE IX HISTORY. , AngORt 241. 1346 English defeated the French at the famous battle of Cressy. 1676 Sir Robert Walpole, the first English prime minister in the full sense, born. Died March 18, 1745. 1763 Riot in Boston on account of the stamp act. 1785 Lord George Germain, the irreconcilable foe of America in the cabinet of Lord North, during the revolution, died. Born Jan. 26, 1716. 1836 Opening of the Buffalo and Niagara railroad. 1858 First treaty signed between Great Britain and Japan. 1891 Decennial census ; placed the population of Canada at 4,823,344. 1W7 General J. P. S. Gobi n .of Pennsylvania, elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. 1907 British house of lords passed the bill legalizing marriages with a deceased wife's sister, thus settling a long pending question. THIS IS MY B7TH BIRTHDAY. II. J. Palmer. H. J. Palmer, attorney general of Prince Edward Island and one of tho

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..ILM Other Newspaper in Calumet Region. io9io foremost men In the public life of that province, was born In Charlottetown. August 26. 1851, a son of the late Hon. Edward Palmer, who was chief Justice of the province. Mr. Palmer received his education in Prince of Wales College and King's college, Windsor, N. S. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He was made a queen's counsel in 1898 and in 1890 was elected to the legislature. He was acting attorney general during the illness of the late Premier Peters and upon the reorganization of the government following the latter's death, Mr. Palmer was appointed attorney general without a seat in the house. WHEELER. Mrs. C. Arnold was a Valparaiso vis itor Tuesday. Workmen have begun to put up a sheet tin ceiling in the schond room of the school house. The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E church will meet this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Covey. Miss Catherine Barnes was home from Valparaiso Tuesday afternoon. The Wheeler and Union township schools wil lstart Monday. .

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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copjrrffbt, 1908. by Edwin A. Nye. A FROWN AND A SMILE. Once upon a time, so the story goes, a man had a vicious thought in bis heart, and It showed in his face. His face was dark with hatred and a low desire. I Other men looked on the forbidding face and passed on. Some there were who answered to the frown and passed it on to others. And the way was weary and dark for some that day. i On the same day a little child, waking from a pleasant dream, looked up into its mother's face and smiled. On the mother's face came an answering smile. , The smile on the mother's face was of the kind that would not come off. And when she said goodby to the father of the child on the morning of that day the smile passed on to the father's face. And the man wore the smile to his work. Like a lighted candle inside a vase, it lightened the face of the man. i On the same day in the heart of a man lay a desperate deed. Tie saw the father's shining face. The man wavered 'twixt the good and evil thought and was saved from his desperation. Another, weary of the strug gle and on the verge of falling, looked at the illumined face, and hope grew again in his soul. A child crying in the streets looked up through its tears to the radiant face of the man and ceased to weep, i A young girl, friendless and torn by a pitiful strife between degradation and starvation, looked on the face of the strong man with the smiling face and somehow found in her inmost soul the strength to resist temptation and lilespalr. And each of these the desperate man, the weary soul, the crying child, the despairing girl knew somehow the power of that smile. Others, more prosperous, less tempted, saw the father's smile and passed it on, and on that day men and wo men and children were saved from sadness and from the snare of the tempter. So the Btory runs. And it is told that on that day the little child who in the morning smiled into the mother's face met pain and sorrow, and the smile was replaced with many tears. And the light on the mother's face faded into fear. And the father had many cares that day. But the smile traveled on. The frown, having done its worst, died out. The smile traveled on. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Do you note that autumnal feeling? Only another week of the old straw lid. Praises be! THERE ARE SOME MEN WHO ARE SO LAZY THAT THEY WOULDN'T MARRY A RICH WIDOW. We get the pleasing Intelligence from Holland that Queen Wilhelmina will scon have something nearer home to spank than Venezuela. When money talks people begin to It up and take notice. A Holyoke man swallowed a feather recently and nearly died. One of our brother editors is of the opinion that the man was tickled to death. Yon often hear it said of a boy: "Oh, he'll come out all right," meaning:, of course, that they are not all right now. A Good Thing to Know. It is always well to say of a singr that he has his voice under perfect control. It gives his audience a feeling of safety that they would not otherwise have if it were feared his voice might get wild and break away from him. Music Note From Atchison Globe. Try massaging; the heart. It may not only bring the dead to life, but make it grow fonder. The New York World is now in a good position to give the people an answer to its own conundrum, "What is a democrat?" The reaaon a woman lets out Everything you tell her la because it is either Not worth keeping Or la too Blamed Good To keep. Some of the eggs they are now bringing to market are not always as Caesar's wife should have been. We Gave Him a Dog Blacuit. A subscriber wants to know how to take ink stains out of white flannel. We have referred the query to the dog

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FIRE BURNS II All. FENCE. Sparks from a Monon freight engine set fire to the dead grass meadow on the farm of Thomas Murphy, seven miles north of Crawfordsville, this a. m. Owing to the extremely dry weather the grass and other small vegetation was baked dry and after a start the fire raced across the field into a rail fence, destroying thousands of rails. WINOXA ATTRACTS METHODISTS Methodists from all over the t'nited States, in attendance at the Winona Bible Conference, met this afternoon and voted to incorporate the Winona Building Association with a capital of (50,000, divided into shares of (50 each. and to erect a pretentious denomlna-H tional building costing (50,000 nt Wino na Lake next spring. ANGEL TELLS OF DEATH. A vision told Mrs. J. D. Longfellow of Hartford City of the death of her husband at the Marlon Soldiers' Home. She hah had no previous warning of his illness. Sunday at midnight Mrs. Longfellow awoke from a sound sleep and told her daughters that she had seen an angel in white fly across the room. nOY FORGER ARRESTED. Deceiving the oldest .merchants of Kokomo, who cashed checks without suspicion which were the products of the crudest forgery, Guy Merrel Adams, aged 14, and who looks no more than half that age, was arrested this afternoon. The boy confessed to forgeries aggregating (92.85 within the past two weeks, coolly explaining that he needed the money and that he had "fooled" It away. DIDXT KNOW IT WAS LOADED. John Stanley of Logansport, 21 years of age, while cleaning a rifle this morning accidentally shot himself through the heart and will die. He is the son of Walter Stanley, a farmer of Cass county. The young man had loaded the gun a month ago previous to a trip to North Dakota and only returned Sunday. EMBEZZLER KILLS SELF. Herr Geltermann, cashier of the coupon department of the Mitteldeutsche Credit bank of Frankfort, shot himself dead in this city today. He had embezzled (125,000 from the bank. He editor in the absence of the society editor. He says, "Use a pair of scissors." THE TALK OF A GOOD MANY PEOPLE SOUNDS AS IF THEY HAD BEGUN IN THE MIDDLE. A news dispatch says that woodpeck. ers are destroying the telegraph polss in the south. Wish they would conra to Hammond and peck away a few poles on Hohman street. IN POLITICS The official notification of the candidates on the independence party ticket is planned to be held wfthln the next week or ten days. The notification of Thomas L Hisgen, candidate for president, will take place at his home in West Springfield, Mass., and that of John Temple Graves, candidate for vice president, wil ltake place, it is said, in Georgia. Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice president of the United States and candidate on the democratic ticket for governor of Illinois, is 73 years old. Despite his years h is still vigorous and active and his friends expect him to make a winning race against Governor Deneen. Mr. Stevenson declares that whether elected or not it will be the last time he will be a candidate for public offlc. The ninth Virginia district has long been a thorn in the side of the OKI Dominion democracy for the reason that it Is the only district to be represented In congress by a republican. Tho democrats now believe they have found tbe man to remove the thorn, in the person of J. Cloyd Byars, a hustling young attorney of Bristol, who has been named to make the race against C. B. Slemp, the republican incumbent. Huntlngburg A Bryan and Kern club was org-anlzed last night with a charter membership of nearly 250. E. W. Pick'aardt was made president; A. L Gray, vice president; John F. Hoeing secretary, and Hugo C. Bothert, treasurer. Monon The local democratic leaders are making preparations to wage a vlglrous campaign from now on to election time. Several hundred saw Mr. Bryan as he passed through here on his way to Indianapolis. Mr. Bryan told the crowd he hoped the people would carefully and thoughtfully read the democratic platform, for it was a document of vital importance to the people of the country. Columbus John W. McCardle, Lawrence McTurnan, candidate for superintendent of public instruction on the republican ticket, and republican fourth district chairman, A. A. Tripp, wehe here yesterday afternoon for a conference with the county centra! committee, the advisory committee and the county and township candidates.. Shelbyville The republicans of

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left a letter of confession addressed to the management. Geltermann had speculated on the London exchange. LAPOItTH WOMAN DISAPPEARS. Hunter & Hatch, New York attorneys, are making an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the tsrange disappearance of Mrs. Tlllie Arnold of lAporte, who has been missing since 1902, when she left New York City to coma west. The marriage of Frederick Arnold and Miss Tillle Greenbepg took place In this city In 1890, the couple leaving for New York City. ROMANCE ENDS I M 1SHI (E. Miss Edith Cllne, daughter of W. W. Cllne of Hartford City, Is to be married Wednesday at the home of her father to Prof. Harlan H. York, of the University of Texas. Both are graduates of le Fauw university and the romance that culminates In their marriage was begun when they were classmatvs at Greencastle. RICHMOND WANTS K. OF P.'S Richmond will make an effort to secure the 1909 encampment of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias of Indiana. The matter was tonight placed in the hands of the Young Men's Business club. HELD FOR MURDER. Frederick Wilson Sr., of Jeffersonville, 'charged with his son, Frederick Wilson Jr., with the murder of William A. Bower at Bethlehem on July 27, last, was today denied his liberty in habeas corpus proceedings before Judge R. C. Montgomery. THIEF SPOILS LAWN PARTY. While a party of Daughters of Rebekah sat and chatted in Mrs. Belle Aumann's front yard at 317 North California street, Indianapolis, yesterday afternoon, a thief sneaked into the house from the rear and stole all the money that the women had brought with them. In all,, the intruder, who ransacked every purse belonging to the guests, obtained more than (21. KEYNOTE SPEECH READY. James E. Watson of Rushville, republican nominee for governor, finished the preparation of his keynote speech at noon today. Mr. Watson has spent the greater part of the last two weeks here in preparing the keynote address. which will be delivered at Fort Wayne Y ednesday. union township have selected Henry Kuhn as their candidate for township trustee, and Chester Phares for as sessor. The socialists have put the following county ticket in the field: Representative, Robert Smith; sheriff, Everett Van Arsdall; treasurer, Amose Phares; commissioner. Porter Strawl; coroner, Edward Dill; surveyor, Samuel Young; joint senator. Elijah Towns; prosecutor, Thomas H. Crosby. Rushville For the first time in the history of Rush county a republican trustee holds office In Walker township, a strong democratic center. County Auditor A. L Winship has appointed George W. Reeves to fill tho unexpired term of M. C. Inlow, who died last week. Goshen Republican workers and leaders of Elkhart county met in Goshen, Monday afternoon, and in Elkhart, Monday night, and discussad plans for the coming campaign. Addresses were made by Archie Graham, district chairman; Wilson, Roose, coun ty chairman; Charles W. Miller, candidate for congress; Dr. Foster of Knox, and "Baron" Rothschild of Indianapolis.

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Kern is Notified, William Jennings Bryan Speaks, Fireworks Are Exploded and the Democrats Are Very Happy Today.

Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 25. Kern notification dav. for which all of In - uianapolis and the democratic party ! of Indiana have been decorating and preparing for weeks, passed into his tory tonight something as a Roman candle ball breaks into starry beauty against the black evening sky. There I was much brilliant rhetorical fire and there is no telling where it landed. John Worth Kern "good citizen and good neighbor" no more doubts about the action of the democratic national convention nominating him for the vice presidency. That all passed off smoothly enough. It took Theodore E. Bell of California 1.500 words to tell Mr. Kern, and It took Mr. Kern 3,000 words more to accept. All this furnished an opportunity of more laying down of battle lines and key-noting and plucking at the eagle's tail feathers. But this was expected and appreciated with great cordiality and cheerfulness. Real Opening of Campaign. The real significance of the day, however, did not He In Mr. Kern's notification. The day marks the real opening of the national campaign. The last candidate has been notified and. the last "keynote" speech has been delivered. The party lines are marked and the personal strength and weakness of the leaders now Is known. William Jennings Bryan for the third time the standard bearer of his party, appeared to realise this and showed a

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i. m - ,m "' ' , 1 Tt-li1 J ' J( aj STHE CREAM OF THE Morning News Chicago state's attorney's office declares no more arrests will be made in (173,000 subtreasury robbery case. Marshall Field & Co. submits without protest to (800,000 Increase in assessment of Its wholesale department. Police eyes are opened to gambling dena by disclosures in (6,000 theft and various methods decided on. Fatalities on lines of Chicago City Railway company for six months show large decrease. John Worth Kern is notified formal ly at Indianapolis of his nomination for vice president by the democratic national convention and replies outlining the issues. W. J. Bryan makes a speech, discussing trusts and analyz ing Taft's speech of acceptance. Eugene W. Chafin, prohibition can didate for president, says that it is not imperative that a man be a total abstainer to belong to the party. Rev. Albert H. Trick, retired Pres byterian church, writes a letter condemning the modern church and kills himself. . Ferdinand P. Earle is in jail at Goshen, N. Y.t to await grand jury action on his plea of guilty to beating his "soul mate," former Miss Julia Kuttner, for whom he discarded his wife. John N. Hutcherson is stopped in the midst of an exhortation addressed to sinners in a St. Louis mission when a girl mother presents him with a baby as his burden of sin. Clifford Savage, a married and legless newsboy, 23 years old, of New York, ends his life after quarrel with mother. Note received by government of Holland from Venezuelan foreign minister demands satisfaction for alleged insults and brings war nearer. Chicago and Alton railroad reports loss of 6 per cent in earnings during one year's operation of 2 cent fare laws; passengers increase 12 per cent.

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.wish to emphasize it. He had come .once more from the Nebraska plains Ito meet the crowds that are as the breath of life to his nostrils. Bryan was the predominant feature of the day, and what happened to him may be taken as an incident of national moment. When he arose in the Coliseum on the state fair grounds, where the ceremony was held, and started to take up the hatchet against the republican bulwarks he received a demonstration that cheered his soul to the depths. He stood before 12.000 people. To judge from the uproar, which lasted five minutes, every one there, man or woman, was yelling at the top of his or her lungs. Mr. Bryan lifted a hand to stop the noise, but it broke out in louder shouts. A mist of tears came to the candidate's eyes and something clutched at his throat as he tried to articulate. Stands Ready for Fight. When the noise died away Mr. Bryan beamed with radiant optimism. He prefaced his set speech on "trusts" by says: "I know what is before me now and I am ready for the fight. The American people are awakened as never before. Your candidate for governor struck the right chord when he said the great thing in the shaping of human affairs is the human heart No man Is worthy to be the leader of a great cause whose heart is not in his work."

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. The Cunard line turbine steamship Lusltania, Captain Watt, has again lowered the transatlantic record for a a westbound voyage by making the trip from Daunts Rock to Sandy Hook in four days and fifteen hours. Her beet 'our d; Previoi she made 650 knots, the best recr twenty-four hours. Her best ifitruuuo nine iui uie uj asc was lour days, eighteen hours and forty minutes. .... . 1 , . . . . U M which was itself a world's record. Sherman Sisters. Who Inherit $40,00'?,000. Through guardianship proceedings far Mrs. Sophia Augusta Brown of NewIport, the aged mother of Mrs. William Watts Sherman, it has been announced that Mrs. Brown's two granddaughters, the Misses Irene and Mildred Sherman, will inherit by her will the bulk of her fortune of (40,000,000. The Sherman amlly are already very wealthy, and he two young granddaughters will be among the richest young women in the world when they come Into their grandmother's fortune. LABOR NEWS A new union of carpenters has been formed at Vlrgues, Porto Rico. Scottish blacksmiths are taking a vote of the members as to affiliation with the English Labor party. On Sept. 7, at Denver, Colo., the International Association of Machinists will hold its annual convention. The governor of Porto Rico has recommended to the legislature a law creating a labor bureau on the island. The memberships of the British Provincial Association of Cotton Spinners is 18,143, an Increase of 1,641 on the year. The German ironmasters threaten to close down all Iron works because of skilled labor's refusal to accept reductions In wages. The Marine, 'Longshoremen and Transport Workers' association has decided to Increase its per capita tax from 5 to 15 cents. San Francisco (Cal.) Iron Tradei Council will vote on a proposition to join the recently formed International Metal Trades association. The recent Scottish Trade Union Congress passed resolutions In favor of old age pensions and In favor of compulsory Intervention In labor disputes. The Scotch Shipbuilding Employers' federation and the men's union are arranging for a Joint agreement and the men's union has appointed seven well known representatives to draft a constitution. During June the average number employed dally at the docks and prln ctpal wharves In London was 12,049, a decrease of 3.1 per cent, as compared with a month ago, and of 0.2 per cent as compared with June, 1907.

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