Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 66, Hammond, Lake County, 3 September 1908 — Page 4
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Heart to Heart Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA
BUILDING ACTIVITY GREAT. A statement compiled by William
Lee, chief clerk in the city building department, yesterday showed the
building records for July and August to exceed those for the same months last Vear in Imliannnnlls which is
"Nobody wants me. My father has taken as a good Indication of the sren-
SHAME ON YOU!
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gone away long ago, and mother left
me In the street the other day. Mother,
she wants to go back to Europe." Thus said Willie Petersou, cripple.
Taking a hitch In the leather strap
which bound some clumsy braces to
his poor misshapen limbs, the boy told
his story to the secretary of the Hu
mane society at New York. Man, woman, boy, girl, if you have troubles of your own, read the story. Crippled by Ignorance, nearly starred, deserted by his parents.
turned adrift in the streets, the lad was
as lively as a morning robin.
"Willie Peterson fell out of bed when
he was a baby, injuring his legs. Im
properly attended, he was made a life
cripple. This is how he faced his fate.
"I can walk all right," he said, tak
ing hold of the braces with which he
has learned to hold himself up. "It
hurts some, but It doesn't keep me
from walking. I can get upstairs.
BUT I HAVE TO WALK ON MY
HANDS AND KNEES THEN."
Poor battered midget!
And YOU. You can go upstairs in ,
three bounds, yet you whine to your
self about your petty handicaps and at Richmond today the efforts of N. O.
Sniffle over your troubles. Nelson, the St. Louis millionaire phil
Does not the brave and cheery spirit anthropist, to convert the little town
of this maimed, half starved, deserted, of Dublin, this county, into a Utopian
but dauntless cripple shame you Into colony, has met with failure. The peo
ctlenoo') Tn th far nf hia fnrtlrnd Pie of Dublin took little interest In
eral confidence in local real, estate. OHIO SOLDIERS COMING. One regiment of Infantry and a battalion of engineers and one troop of cavalry, Ohio national guard, will reach Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, today. For the next two
days some ten or twelve special trains will enter the reservation bearing the entire Ohio national guard, which comprises about 5,000 men.
TALKS OF DELINQUENTS. John William Hutchinson of New
York, a member of the city park commission and chairman of the Friends
committee on prisons, gave an address
this morning at the Friends' general
conference at Winona Lake on "Care
of Our Defective and Delinquent Fellow Men."
ATTEND CARNIVAL AND FUNERAL.
Eagles from Indiana who come to
Wabash on Eagles' day of the carnival will be invited to attend a funeral as well as the carnival. Frank Mil-
tonberger, an Eagle, died this after
noon. The Eagles decided to attend.
with visitors, in a body when the services are held Thursday afternoon.
IDEALISTS' PLANS FAIL.
According to information given out
Named for Governor of Wwconsm,
"Home-
WHAT ONE DOCTOR ATE FOR DINNER.
either keep still or pay the penalty of
losing your self respect.
Who are you, whole and healthful.
that you should vex the Providence of Willie Peterson with cowardly
cries?
You may be amazed and shocked at
the revelation, of 6e4flshness and cal
lousness In the heart of his pervert tee, died yesterday at St. Vincent's hosmother. How could she bring herself pital, where she was taken a few days
the plans that centered about
croft."
STRICKEN STENOGRAPHER DIES.
Miss Grace Fall, who about a month
ago was employed as a stenographer by the republican state committee at
Indianapolis, and who collapsed one morning while taking dictation from one of the secretaries of the commit-
son crippled and half or-
THEY ARE HAVING QUITE a good deal of amusement with Dr. Wiley, to abandon a brave little son like Willie after her sudden illness
the pure food king, who reigns at Washington. As is well known, Dr. Wiley is Peterson,
continually putting articles of food that have long been considered harm
less on the list of things dangerous to health. Dr. Wiley is the person who recommends extreme moderation in hot weather. He says that our
diet should, be chiefly cooked fruits and vegetables and that alcohol should not be poured down the throat. Now let us see. It seem3 that Dr. Wiley's life is not wholly a bed of American beauties. Whenever he eats and
drinks, save in the privacy of his own Lares and Penates, he is conscious the poor soil of degeneracy.
of the fact that he has been watched. A short time ago the good doctor But there's tie boy,
sat in a Washington restaurant and was observed by a member of the And you are stung into shame of famous Rubberneck family. This is what Dr. Wiley was licking his chops yourself J 8 aauntisss
over: Imperial crabs, beafsteak and trimmings, a "special" salad and J50-8 aiy. street.
of musty ale. Well his advice is none the less val
TO LEASE FAIR GROUNDS. At a special meeting of the business men of Bloomington today, it was decided to lease the Monroe county fair grounds to hold a merchants' and farmers' carnival and county fair from Oct. 5 to 10. BLOOMINGTON BELLE MARRIES. Miss Nellie E. Reinhard of Bloomington, daughter of the late Judge George L. Reinhard, dean of the law school and vice president of Indiana univer
sity, was married at 10 o'clock this morning to Victor II. Reuhl of lloboken, N. J. NINTH FACTORY LOCATES. The contract for the removal of the ninth and last factory guaranteed to Anderson for the raising of a $500,000 factory fund was signed today. This act fulfills the promise made by the factory committee when the 1,200 vacant lots were sold In this city last May to raise the funds. KOKOMO AFTER "SKEETERS." Instructed by the state " board of health, the Kokomo board of health today poured barrels of oil into Wild
cat and Prairie creeks in low places to get rid of the mosquito pest. The fire department also flushed the entire sewer system of the city and a big gravel pump will be set to work to flush the
creeks. Kokomo is suffering with an epidemic of typhoid fever. LEAVES BENEFACTOR INSURANCE. Mrs. Effie Prow of Bedford, former proprietress of the Avenue hotel, a few years ago took into her employ, as clerk, Edward Draper, who had failed to succeed as a book agent. Mr. Draper died at West Baden yesterday and it has developed that in recognition of her kindness In aiding him when he was friendless and without money he had assigned to Mrs. Prow an Insurance policy for $1,000. BURGLAR TRIES NEW GAME. "Good morning, sir, I have been looking for a house to rent," said the burglar who had taken possession of the residence of Rev. Harry Blunt, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, when the preacher unexpectedly walked In on him yesterday.
phaned? Las pitiful lameness ought J maddest bunch of canines
to have made him all the dearer.
And
You may wonder and speculate and
be unable to explain by what myste
rious way the strong and lovely flower of fortitude ever could have grown in
ever seen
here. He ought to see them trying to rub their muzzles off on the ground, against trees and telephone poles.
Caledonia (N. Y.) Advertiser.
He jests at family Jars that never had a mother-in-law come into the house.
drinking "some mugs"
uable because he doesn't follow it, but while the dyspeptics are laughing 1 New York volunteers. He served
at him he has none to blame but Dr. Wiley. SHOCKING CASES OF DEPRAVITY ILLUSTRATED.
throughout the war, rising to the po
sition of chief of staff of the depart
ment of the south. He was elected lieutenant governor of New York In 1S66, and four years later was an un-
THE REVELATIONS THAT HAVE come out in the city court of Ham- successful candidate for governor on
mond lately regarding the actions of certain boys and girls living on the tne republican ticket. In 1S72 he was .m r,o,f0 w, tcVo r,i nf tholr rtiMrnn Tha I sent to congress and from 1377 to 1882
"1"-J" "" he again served as rnited States atgirls in the one case and the boys in another were involved in charges tomey. in 1897-9S he was the United
that are so vile that they could not be put in print If ever Juvenile det- states minister to Spain
pravity was more terribly pictured in a local court than it was in the
criminal actions filed, the authorities are at a loss to known what it could
be. It seems remarkable that men and women could bring children into
the world and so utterly neglect their moral training. And it is Just as
shameful as it is remarkable. There is no criticism too caustic; no castl-
gatlon too severe for fathers and mothers of this type. It has been
charged that in some of the illiterate families on the north side, there are
boys and girls who will stop at nothing in the way of commission of moral
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
The Swede's New Calendar. A Chula man tells this as an original
story. A Swede who had been sent
to do some collecting made this report: "Yim Yonson say he will pay ven he sell his hogs; Yim Olsen, he vill pay ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack say he vill pay in Yanuary." "Well," said the boss, "that's the first time Bill ever set a date to pay. Did he really
say he would pay In January?" "Veil, I tank so," said the clerk. "He say dat
it ban a damn cold day ven you get that money. I tank that ban in Yanuary." Kansas City Star.
So far ,the republicans have not been
accused of having any connection with
laxity and crime even itself. Some punishment ought to be devised for the daring holdup in Yellowstone park.
parents who permit their children to run at large and inflict themselves
on a community wnere cnance meetings wun tnem wouia pouute otner
children
After a man dies his name Is soon forgotton unless his name happens to adorn the undertaker's ledger.
HOW IT FEELS TO BE PRESIDENT.
AH, IF PEOPLE COULD ONLY LOVE
WHERE IT IS WISDOM TO LOVE BUT THAT WOULDN'T BE LOVE IT
WOULD BE COMMON SENSE.
Newark woman asked Judge Taft for
a loan of $200 and said that he would
have to take his time getting it back.
Mr. Taf t's reply has not yet been hand
cd out to the press committee.
A Billy Sunday Yarn.
'Keep good company. Nothing does
NOT HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY of becoming president of this great nation, despite the careful admonitions of our fond and loving mothers
in days ago by that, "if you are a good boy you may become president some the young more harm than bad society.
day," the majority of us will have to judge of how it feels to be president, Only yesterday a farmer told me about
second-hand. In a current magazine a writer, acquainted with Grant, Sher- a youngster of six or seven, a little man and other great men, tells of a statement once made by the late Grover country weeker, who had as suspicious
If a man were only as patient in business as he is on a fishing; trip, what a big success he would be.
Cleveland to him:
'"A sensitive man is not happy as president,' said he. 'It i3 fight,
fight, fight all the time. He is the target of every kind of calumny. Every
thing he does is open to misconstruction. His enemies are incessant. It is Impossible for him, if he is conscientious, to keep the affection of his
and mistrustful a heart as some old
miser or crook.
"This boy was sent by a charity so-
siety to spend a week at the farmer's.
The farmer set out to meet him, but
We shall hang on to our straw lid
just as long as we can dodge the coal
dealer, and no longer.
IN POLITICS
friends. I looked forward to the close of my term as a happy release from care, was late.' He ran into ht'm half way
But I am not sure that I wasn't more unhappy out of office than in. A
term in the presidency accustoms a man to great duties. He gets used to handling tremendous enterprises, to organizing forces that may affect at once and directly the welfare of the world. After the long exercise of
power, the ordinary affairs of life seem petty and commonplace. An ex
president practicing law or going into business is like a locomotive hauling a delivery wagon. He has lost his sense of proportion. The concerns of
other people and even his own affairs seem to small to be worth bother
ing about. I thought I was glad when Mr. McKlnley came to Washington
to be inaugurated, and I took a drink of rye whiskey with him in the
white house and shook hands with him and put my hat on my head and Everybody would be more walked out a private citizen. But I miss the strain, the spur of constant prosperous if we were only
thinking, the consciousness of power, the knowledge that I was acting for much inclined to do the
70,000,000 people daily.'"
to the farm, trudging along the wide road, a big burlap bag of luggage on
his bony little shoulder.
"The farmer heid out his hand for
the burlap bag.
"Til carry it, son,' he said. 'It's too
heavy for you."
"'Go on,' said the little boy, fiercely.
Clear out now, or I'll call a cop.' "
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 2. At a recep
tion given to Eugene F .Chafln, a pro
hibition candidate for president, a com
mittee of negroes, headed by Ed Clay
ton, editor of a negro weekly, thanked him for saving the life of a negro state
employe in the Springfield, 111., riot.
In his speech Mr. Chafin said that local
option in the country districts is driving the disorderly element of Illinois
into the cities.
THIS DATE IN" HISTORY. September 3. 1651 Cromwell defeated Charles II. at Worcester. 1724 Sir Guy Carleton, who was commander-in-chief of the British forces in America, born in Ireland. Died in England, Nov. 10, 180. 17S3 Peace made between Great Britain and the United States by the treaty of Versailles. 1804 American squadron under Commodore Preble made its sixth attack on Tripoli. 1847 Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry, commonding the Atlantic battleship fleet, on Its cruise around the world, born In Brooklyn. 1855 U. S. troops under General Harvey defeated the Sioux Indians in battle of Sand Hills, 186S The Georgia house declared negroes ineligible to seats. 1879 Massacre of the British resi
dents at Cabul.
1SS5 William M. Gwin, one of the first
senators from California, died In
New York. Born in Sumner coun
ty, Tennessee. Oct. 9, 1805.
1894 Labor day observed for the first time as a legal holiday throughout
the United States.
1907 Seven persons killed and many Injured in a Canadian Pacific rail
way accident, near Caledon, Ont.
things we should as we are to do the things we should
net.
Our old friend. Judge H. B. Tuthill,
has bought a new Rambler and yet his
honor thinks hia nightie is a luxury.
THIS IS MY 73D BIRTHDAY. Stewart L. Woodford.
General Stewart L. Woodford, soldier, lawyer and diplomat, who led the
fight to have Governor Hughes nominated for the presidency at the Chicago convention last June, was born In New York City, Sept. 3, 1833, and received
his education at Columbia college. In 1861 he was United States attorney at New York, which position he resigned
to go to the front with the One Hun
dred and Twenty-seventh regiment of
SOME MEN SPEND A FEW HUN
DRED DOLLARS IN FITTING UP A
HOME AND THEN RAISE A BIG
RUMPUS BECAUSE IT ISN'T AS COM
FORTABLE AS A 2,00O SALOON.
Where Dogs Do Bite. An old fellow named Fellows of Hor-
nell, 70 years old, advertises that he is willing to let any mad dog bite him.
He don't believe in rabies and says a steam bath will cure any person who has been bitten! The old sport is invited to come to Caledonia If he don't
believe in mad dogs. We have the
Sheboygan, Wis., Sept. 2. A breakup
of the socialist party, which has con
trolled the city election here for ten
years, Is shown by the primaries yes
terday. Barely fifty votes were cas
for the socialist ticket in the city.
BRYAN WALKS STREETS OF ST. PAUL A STRANGER. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2. For three hours today William J. Bryan paced the Union depot platform and strolled through St. Paul, to all intents and purposes, an utter stranger. Only two days ago the "Commoner" received the acclaims of the best, hosts In the Twin Cities. Today not one welcoming hand was extended to him and perhaps not one person in. ten thousand recognized him. Mr. Bryan, who was returning from his brief speaking dash la North Dakota, reached St. Paul at 7:10 this morning from Fargo, over the Great Northern railroad, and nt 10 o'clock left for Sioux City via the Northwestern.
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many congratulations on what was re
garded by the republicans as an aus
picious augery of Taft's success. On
the other hand, Chairman Mack was delighted to know that the democrats
had more than held their own In the
Vermont legislature. Right up until
election day there was undeniable anxiety and nervousness around the Taft headquarters. For the last fifty years, with two exceptions, the normal republican majority in Vermont has been
about 25,000. On those two exceptional occasions, when the republicans won by only about 20,000 or less, the democrats won in the national election.
John A. Johnson is a candidate for
governor of Minnesota ana in im neighboring state of North Dakota C. A. Johnson is a candidate for the gubernatorial chair. Johnson of Minne
sota, as is well known, is a democrat, while the North Dakota Johnson is a candidate on the republican ticket-
According to the understanding
among politicians the speech of Gov
ernor Hughes of New York, to be delievered next week at the opening of the Ohio campaign at Youngstown, will practically mark the opening of the republican campaign for the entire
country, and Governor Hughes, it Is nald, is writing his speech with that
end in view.
Detroit, Sept. 2. With returns in from a large majority of the election
districts of the state. Dr. James E
Bradley of Eaton Rapids, state auditor general, has, it is conceded, defeated Governor Fred M. Warner by about 2,600 votes for the republican nomination for governor. Horatio S. Earle, state roads commissioner, polled only about one-quarter of the vote received by the two leading candidates.
New York, Sept. 2. That Vermont's republican plurality did not fall below the 25,000 mark was the cause of mush satisfaction and relief at national republican headquarters today. Acting Chairman Mason was the recipient of
The announcement that Judge S. F. Prouty Is considering making the raca
for congress from the seventh Iowa dis
trict on an Independent ticket against
Captain J. A. T. Hull, has stirred np
the politicians in the Hawkeye state.
Captain Hull, who has served for six
teen years, defeated Judge Prouty in
the recent primary by about forty votes, after a sensational fight and re
count. C. O. Holly, the democratic
nominee, has been Importuned to with
draw, in which case It Is said the race
between Hull and Prouty would be de
cidedly close.
The fourteen cases brought in the
circuit court at Jefferson City, Mo., last spring against the Missouri Pacific railway by J. C Slate, prosecuting at
torney, for violation of the eight hours telegraphers' law, were dismissed by the prosecutors because the supreme court had recently declared the law
unconstltutlonaL
Editor of Thb Times,
Dear Sir: Grafting in East Chicago city coun
cil is still booming, and we are sorry
to say the only thing that is booming here at present.
First, it was tweedledee experiment
ing with Westrumite upon our streets to the cost of $4,392.22; then it was twedledum, buying furniture for our new city hall, at a cost of $9,000.00; now it is tweedledumdee, buying three second-class horses at $700.00, with idle horses in the city barns doing nothing. These are slang phrases, but like the slang phrase-skidaddle fifty years ago,
tweedledumdee will find its way into Webster's dictionary if it is used to
designate a certain thing. Our mayor says he cannot stop grafting, he has nothing to say, or nothing to do in the premises. It is in our opinion a very humiliating acknowledgement for a mayor of the city to make, it Is cowardice, It Is effeminate, It will not suffice in our present diffulty. He must stop' it, and stop It immediately. Or be held responsible by the citizens generally, and by the Citizens' Improvement association particularly, and be compelled to answer some disagreeable questions In court, as a party of the conspiracy that Is now plundering the city treasury and robbing the people. The legislature not to blame. When the state legislature enacted the law governing cities of the fifth class, and fixed the counsels compensation at
$100.00 per year each. It never Intended that they should handle the practical part of the work at all outside of their counsel chamber. And It did provide
ways and means for them to have- the
work done.
iounseiers or nrtn class cities are
the only officers that the legislature
was afraid to trust, and consequently limited them .to $100.00 per year, and
made it a criminal offence If they took more money for their services during
the year. The very thing the legis
lature Intended to stop Is the thing that our city council is practicing now;
buying everything themselves, without advertising for bids, hence the graft
and rake-off. The legislature did not think it possible that cities of 12,000 to
14,000 population would select young
inexperienced men, . saloon-keepers, painters and paper hangers to repre
sent them, and do their public business,
and spend hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Such men are right In their
sphere, but their sphere is not in leg
islative halls, only so far as decora
tions and furnishing of refreshments la
concerned. The legislature did not
think it possible that the people would
elect a majority of their counselers from that class of their citizens. The legislature when enacting laws, ex
pect that the people will select and
elect sensible, honorable, honest, moral
and capable men to represent them, and
handle their money as the law provides.
doing at all times that which is best
for the people without being com
pelled to do it by force of law.
The legislature asks the city coun
cil to meet twice every month twen
ty-four times a year and pass on bills
due, hear the reports read by the city
clerk, hear what the city treasurer has
to say in his report, that he must sub
mit monthly, show the amount of mon
ey collected, and from whom, the
amount paid out, to whom and balance
on hand in each department.
The mayor Is city judge. See if he Is making his proper returns to the city treasurer. The city has about one day of eight hours per day work to perform, in the council chamber , each
month, and they can take four hours of that day as a recess, and still do their work. The council ought to be
sober, intelligent, moral men; hence the
name "City Fathers." The greates
trouble is our city officers, always try to do too much. It Is not in what they
do not do, but In what they do, the
harm lies.
THE CITIZENS IMPROVEMENT AS
SOCIATION.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
Public meeting of Taft and Foraker and the formal burying of all differences between the Ohio factions in the republican party is the overwhelming feature attending the Grand Army parade and encampment at Toledo. Republicans find good cheer In the Vermont election, but think some shrewd leaders feel over-confidence. Friends of progressive legislation in Washington see the "Cannon blight" in the defeat of Congressman John J. Perkins in the Wisconsin primaries. Illinois political interest now centers upon the state conventions of the four
parties to be held next week.
Complete returns on the Vermont
election give Prouty, republican, a plurality of 29,376.
Alderman McCoid accuses Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad ot
grabbing" public land.
Judge Going to be criticised for h,Ut
grotesque advice by his bench, associates at their next meeting.
Mysterious killing of a prominent
Omaha physician on threshold of home after meeting woman furnishes matd
to Atlantic City tragedy.
New York Jews score Police Com
missioner Bingham for charge that nven
is responsible for half of crimes committed in New York, quote court records In rebuttal and call on official to substantiate assertion or retract.
Railroads, with return of prosperity.
return hundreds of employes to work In shops and put many idle -cars Into use. i
Western Union Insurance company
establishes publicity bureau to distribute literature, clear up misunderstandings and furnish information la case of proposed legislation.
Grain list has substantial advance.
which induces general selling for profits; shorts scour west for cprn; provision list strong; cattle, hogs and sheep lower.
New York stock market is again
strictly a Harrfman affair.
LABOR MEWS
The Duchess' Philosophy.
The old duchess of Cleveland in vited a relative to her husband's fu
neral and told him to bring his gun,
adding: "We are old, we must die;
but the pheasants must be shot."
The officials of the International
Brass Molders' union, which was or
ganized in October, 1904, report that
their membership has now reached 10,-
000 In this country. The union has established a sick benefit fund and also a death and burial fund.
The first annual report and balance
sheet of the National Union of Journalists shows that the union, whlcn twelve months ago had not one formally constituted branch, has now a large
number in England and Wales, which
embrace a membership of over 1,000.
State Coal Mine Inspector Young of
Wyoming has recommended to the gov
ernor of that state, that the Hanna
mine at Cheyenne be sealed forever as a tomb for the forty-one miners
buried there In an accident last May. The inspector says the management violated the laws governing the protection of underground workmen. Cooks, pastry cooks and chefs of Greater New York, to the number of 300 and upward, have recently formed a local union of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes' International alliance. The 5,00 or more cooks of Greater New York work from fourteen to sixteen hours a day in the fall and winter time, but during the summer there is little or no employment for them. Charles W. Merker, organizer for the American Federation of Labor, recently visited an overall factory at the progessive little city of Somerville, Tenn., and reports it as the finest example of the benefits of organization he has seen. Not a child is employed in any capacity, every worker is a union man, and not a particle of dirt or speck of dust was visible from engine room to office. He considers it a safe prediction that no case of consumption will be developed in such environments. The example is decidedly worthy of emulation.