Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 15 December 1908 — Page 4

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A HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR NOW.

It will be extremely interesting to note now in the face of the revelations at Crown Point what some of the democrats have to say. about frauds in naturalization. They probably will not be so keen in their accusations. One of their pet arguments has been that the republicans paid for the naturalization of what the democrats were pleased to call "Hunkies." The evidence introduced at Crown. Point in the Simon-Wiekey contest ehows that some of the democratic leaders were also quite busy paying for naturalization papers for the foreigners whom they inveigled into the democratic fold. Of course this will be an apple of another tree. To get the foreigners to vote the democratic ticket, the pure and unimpeachable democratic ticket, will be quite commendable but when the republicans try to make republican voters of Lake county's newest citizens an awful squawk goes up from the democratic organs all over the state and the republican leaders are charged with devilish fraud and wholesale vote buying. It wasn't so very long ago that some of the local democratic leaders at a city election simply fell all over themselves with laughter when they succeeded in taking away a bunch of foreign railroad men from the republicans, when the latter thought they had them lined up. The whole business of a contest is a farce anyway. Does any sane man think that if the democrats had had the opportunity to vote foreigners at the recent election, they would have voted them by the thousand if they could have done so. Look how they put it over poor Sam Ableman in the Standard Steel district in Hammond. Talk about the kettle calling the frying pan black! Pish! JUSTICE IN EDUCATION. It is quite customary for the laity to criticize teachers and it is often the case that only the teachers' journals are the only publications that give them their modicum of praise. People are all too prone to pick all the flaws they can in the teaching corps and give it no credit for the good It does. Th mistakes magnified and the good things Ignored, Is a too common rule. This often extends to the supervising body in educational Institutions as well. Those in executive positions are often amiss in giving the under pedagogue the praise he or she deserves. There should be soma justice in education, his "School and Class Management" Felix Arnold truthfully says: "In all his dealings with teachers, the principal should show a wida toleration and a beneflcient consistency In word and deed. Social groups of teachers should not be looked upon with suspicion. Slight errors of individual teachers should be overlooked, especially if the work on the average is good. A principal should not take one mistake which may have offended him and hold it over a teachers head all term. Differences of a personal nature should have no influence on official actions.- Justice is a difficult thing to procure, but an approximation to it is possible. Careful study of the official requirements, impartial weighing of the evidence, disregard of any personal feelings or emotion bias is necessary. Teachers should exist for the principal as human co-operative agents of a certain efficiency, and this efficiency should ayways have in view the good of the child." NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

Suffering shoe laces! The man with time to burn has just collected a lot of information touching the antiquity of corsets. If it will not offend some of the old women men we might say that Homer referred to them in describing the toilet of Juno and the corsetiere who is coming this way from abroad with a special brand of stays for well, plump ladies is probably posted on the fact that Terence's enamoured youth ridiculed a woman who had to compress the waist to such an extent so as to resemble a rush. We can now await the glad news of someone digging out a Venus wearing one of those lace collar thingumjigs with clothes props under the ears. But we iust go-no farther or the old women men will be vlrtously indignant again. THE TESTS SHOULD BE SEVERE.

Tha. appearance of tuberculosis in Lake county cattle and the measures that are being taken for its being stamped out are significant of the trend in cattle- breeding these days. The appearance of the disease is justification for strict quarantine against It. The origin of the trouble should be carefully watched, lest it become more than. sporadic. The necessity of drastic action to check the ailment is apparent. Wholesale slaughtering may seem to be a costly method but its wisdom should not be questioned. It will of course be hard on the farmers whose stock Is found to be affected, but it will in the long rcuvba money in their pockets for it will advance the market prices and enable breeders and the dairyman to get better prices for their product. 4 WE BELIEVE THIS .same Billy Blodgett, whose virtuous and undefiled pen wrote about the "most astounding tale of political trickery ever unfolded" In re. naturalizations, is the same Blodgett who . wrote to his paper that Gompers spoke to a crowded house in Gary and was escorted by 600 enthusiastic laboring men from the depot, when Gompers spoke to a score of people from tha top of a flat car. Oh, it is to laugh at Blodge! THOSE GENTLEMEN WHO are fathering the movement for a library course in Hammond have turned us all from our hunt for the illusive dollar to thoughts of better things in seeking to further the city's culture and educational work. The program they propose is a creditable one and will make for better things for Hammond. Congratulations. THE PULLMAN CARS carried 18,600,000 passengers last year, according, to the companies annual report. In the same year the railroads of the country carried 885,000,000 passengers. According to the inter-state commerce commission's report It thus appears that about one passenger In every-fifty used the Pullman accommodations. WE GIVE Tim glad welcome to Joseph Feeley. Gary's new fire chief whom we haveeen led to believe is in his glory when fighting fire. The city needs a real, sure-enough fire fighter and if Mr. Feeley fills the bill he will be "AH h2l a GaryIand- AgaIn her: SOME .WONDER IS expressed? rfnding a man who has paid rent In one home -for forty-nine years. "Nothing strange about that The fact that the tenant has been thera that length r,t . , . fce paid .the peat evidence enough that

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Heart io Heart Talks. - By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyilrht, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye. MISS BROWN'S ADVERTISEMENT. Margaret Brown, a Chicago stenographer, wanted a position. There were other stenographers In Chicago who also wanted, positions. Miss Brown's friends suggested advertising. She looked over the long columns J "Situations Wanted", printed in the newspapers. She read scores of advertisements modeled after the following: Situation Wanted. Young girt of twenty-three, five years' experience, desires position as stenographer; trustworthy and rapid ; references exchanged. Box XIZ. Miss Brown shook her head. To go into the newspapers with that sort of an advertisement would be like going Into a lottery. Doubtless many of those girls were as capable as she. How could she catch the eye and arrest the attention of the manager who was looking for help? After wrinkling her forehead many times Miss Brown finally worked out this unique ad.: Situation Wanted. A brown haired girl of the name of Brown would like a position as stenographer with a firm named Brown, although others would be considered. Address X 673. The result? A great bunch of letters came to tha newspaper office in answer to X 673. From these the girl took her choice. 4 The next day shrewd Miss Brown Bat at her desk taking dictation. She had found her job. And the other girls were still advertising. The lesson of the incident Is plain. This is an age of advertising. The quickest road to publicity la through the dally newspapers. The business world nowadays does not wait Micair-ber-like, for "something to turn up," It turns something up by advertising. But There is advertising and advertising. Originality counts. He or she who can devise a new method of publicity, a new style of advertising, other things being equal, will best succeed In reaching the public. Miss Brown got the Idea. Her advertising was different And this story, retold, will have accomplished its purpose if it shall lead gome girl or boy to thinking along these lines. THIS PATE IX HISTORY. December 15. 1683 Izaak Walton died. Born Aug-, 1593. 9, 1789 The first circulating- library was established in Salem, Mass. 1796 General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, died in Presque Isle, Pa. Born in Easttown, Pa., Jan. 1, 1745. 1835 Patent office and postofflce in Washington burned. 1846 The first regiment to fight against Mexico was organized in Pittsburg-. 1892 Tandall I Gibson, United States senator from Louisiana, died at Hot Springs, Ark. 1893 A provincial plebiscite in Prince Edward Island supported prohibition of the liquor traffic by an overwhelming majority. 1906 The new law separating church and state went into force in France. THIS IS MY 63D BORTHDAY. John E. Flllabury. Captain John E. Pillsbury, chief of the navigation bureau of the navy de partment, was born in Lowell, Mass., Dec. 15, 1845, and was appointed to the naval academy in 1862 by President Lincoln. He was at the academy through all the days of the civil war, although he incidentally saw some active service. Graduating in 1868, he put in his first and practice cruise on the old frigate Mlnesota. His first regular assignment after reaching the old rank of master was to the Boston navy yard. In the years that followed he saw much service on land and sea. He did much valuable work in the coast survey service and was stationed at various times in Asiatic" and Euro pean waters. During1 the Spanish war he comanded the dynamite cruiser Ve suvius, in 1902 he became a member of the general board and later was appointed assistant to the chief of the navigation . bureau. In 1905 he was chief of staff of the North Atlantic fleet. Early In the present year he became chief of the navigation bureau. Throughout the naval service Captain Pillbury is recognized as an expert In hydrographic and geodetic work and much of his service in the navy has been in these lines. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS And how many of us have hung1 on to those New Year's resolutions made the first of January? we A lemon fa a lemon jectlon slip la Juat any other name. nd a reaoor by Black and White and Four-Legged. There is a gang of chicken thieves operating nightly in Tina. Scarcely a night passes without one or more hen houses being raided. These thieves have no fear of constables, but no constable will serve a state warrant on them, and If he did, no justice would allow the thief to be brought into his court. Too much and too loud perfumery. Hale (Mo.) Hustler-Leader. THESE ARE THE DAYS WHEN LITTLE WILLIE BOY FINDS IT AWFULLY HARD TO KEEP FROM

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MOUNTING A CHAIR AND SEEING WHETHER THERE IS ANYTHING ON THE TOP SHELF FOR HIM FOR CHRISTMAS. Educational Note, The superintendent of tfce schools has moved into the house south of jus and the Akers kid has removed his play grounds to the north side of our house for an indefinite period. Stafford (Kan.) Republican. How many ( ua there are who like to atay with the crowd, Bd bow few ( us love to stand alone. Germany is experimenting with beer bottles looking for a color that best protects the contents from the light. Why not do all the drinking- in the cellar? Th people who save on the little thlnga are the one who have money to spend on the larger thlnga. An actress for a coming production advertised recently for a perfect man. Mother says sne refuses to let us go on the stage. There are many Waya of being generous, And any one can get money out Of aome men except Their wlrea. Pittsburg minister says the city is one of fragile morality, and bridge whist. Seems as if some ministers try to see how far they can go. The Joys of Christmas last about a week, for with the new year the bills begin to come In. Mr. Roosevelt is hardly the "setting an,' as he has been referred. He is more like the "passing storm." The only consolation for the rejected man la to have the girl who refnaed him grow Into an ' old maid. Lead' pipe has advanced 53 per cent In price in 11 years. It costs more to have a cinch now than it used to do. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Capitalists, attorneys and promoters continue mysterious conference at the Auditorium Annex. Edward Swift and others scoff at reported scheme to fight packers. How Mrs. James A. Patten fell a victim to ' the fairy tales of a book agent is told in court. ; "Mlgnon" will be presented this afternoon under the auspices of the Chicago English Opera society In order to show the worth of local operatic singers. , ; Rey. Johnston Myers pleads with pastors to sanction more fun in "melancholy Chicago," and defends theater, dance and church courtship. State's Attorney Wayman promises thorough investigation of auto accident in which Phelps B. Hoyt was killed. Mandatory ordinance introduced In Chicago council compels Oak Park Elevated company to elevate Its tracks west of Fifty-second avenue. United States supreme court decides that E. II. Harriman cannot be compelled to answer questions by the interstate commerce commission relative to private transactions, reversing lower court. Six Jurors are selected to try T. Jenkins Halns on charges of being accessory in the killing of William E. Annis on Long Island last summer. Otto Kelsey, superintendent of insurance, whom Governor Hughes twice tried to remove from office, will resign Jan. 1 and become deputy to the New York state comptroller. Rear Admiral Evans in answering critics of the American navy declares that the new ships are vastly superior to the British DreadnoughtRelations between employers and the workers are discussed at the annual meetin gof the National Civic Federation in New York City, many prominent men giving their views on the subject. Congressman McGavin. when his term expires next March, will take charge of the development department of the Dupont Powder company. Secretary Straus plans big conference of labor leaders and employers to consider industrial problems. " Seizure of Venezuelan vessel by Holland ealls forth decree from Acting President Gomez putting the nation in a state of defense. Judging from the tone of the Wall street market by the action of leading stocks, It is very weak, but there are notable exceptions. Forced Draught Realism. "How Is it that Scribbler's novels thrill with such vital, gripping, realistic portrayal of human passions V asked Danks. "Well." said Hanks, "when he gets ready to write a novel, he orders a general housecleaning, sends for the plumber to fix the gas jets, and for the tinner to fix the stove pipes, bids his little daughter to stay at home to practice five-finger exercises, hires a street piano to play German, Irish and Italian national airs in front of the house, and tells his wife that her family Is not as good as his own. Then he sits and takes notes of what happens." Brooklyn Life. In the Doctor's Family. On her sixth birthday Ethelberat's father gave her a little ring with a tiny pearl in it. Not very long after that she appeared In her father's office, looking very woebegone. "Oh daddy." she said, "I've lost the little pill out of my ring!" Philadelphia Ledger.

Letters To Santa Claus

Ths Little Ones Write To Tell Santj What They Want Hammond, Ind., Dec. 12, 1908. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a flute, a train and a magic lantern. My little brother Everett wants some building blocks and a Are engine and a blackboard. I am nine years old and my brother is seven years old. Don't forget a Christmas tree. We will have lunch on the table for you. Lots of love for you. ADELBERT AUSTIN. 544 Torrence avenue. Dear Santa Claus: I would like to tell you what I would like to have for Christmas. I would like to have a pair of mittens and a piano and a set of brown .furs and an A B C book and lots of nuts and candy. And I wish you would bring me all these things. MISS FREDA LOHMEYER. 26 Gostlin street, Hammond, Ind. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl ten years old, and as Christmas is very near and as I am going to write a little letter to you so as not to forget me and sister. I want a stocking full of nuts and candy and some hair ribbons and a couple of boxes of crayons, and a box of paints, and a ring and two story books! Sister wants a Christmas tree and a stocking full of nuts and candy, and a pair of shoes, size 7, and a drawing box of paints and a couple of tablets, and some hair ribbons. Well, goodby, dear old Santa, goodby. From your loving little glrL MAUDE MEYER. 217 Indiana boulevard. Robertsdale. East Chicago, Ind., Dec. 13, 1908. Dear Santa Claus; I am a little girl, eight years old, and I am so glad that Christmas is near.' I wish you would bring me a story book that I could read about Jesus' birth, and a set of dishes and a cradle for my doll That will be all for this tin. I wish you never to forget me. Your friend, JENNIE JENSEN. UP AIJD DOWN IUEIDIAIJA STEAL STAGE MONEY. After cutting out a pane of glass, picking locks on two doors and opening a showcase containing a collection of old coins, burglars escaped with what appeared to be several thousand dollars in currency. The robbery was In Alford & Co.'s cigar factory at Logansport. The roll was made up of "stage money" and Confederate currency. ACID ENDS HER LIFE. After swalloglng two ounces of carbolic acid. Mrs. Pearl Embic. 24 years old. threw herself upon her husband, who was sleeping on a counch in their apartments in the Brooklyn flats, Massachusetts avenue and Liberty street, Indianapolis, yesterday, and died thirty minutes later, despite the efforts of four physicians. CLOTHES ALL ABLAZE. While running through the house with her clothes a mass of flames, Mrs. Florence Jeffries, 33 years old, was seriously burned yesterday at her home, 513 North Capitol avenue. Indianapolis, before friends smothered the fire beneath comforts and quilts. Judge Baldwin Dlea. Judge Daniel P. Baldwin of Logansport, former attorney general of Indiana, distinguished as a financier, lecturer and traveler, trustee of Wabash college and prominent as a politician, dropped dead today at his home. HEN RABBITS' MOTHER. A leghorn hen, the property of the Rev. George Hartley, at Fountain City, has a queer brood. It consists of twelve little leghorn chickens and four Belgian hares, Just weaned. The Rev. Mr Hartley found the rabbits, and placed them in a box with the hen and her young. WILL NOT REPEAL OPTION. In an address at the men's Big Meeting at English's Opera house, Indianapolis, yesterday afternoon, President P. A. Baker of the anti-Saloon League of America sounded the doom of the liquor traffic in the United States and declared that county local option would be a permanent fixture in Indiana. BOY BREAKS THROUGH iCE. Orville Stevens of Marlon, 17 years old, was drowned this morning while skating on the thin Ice coating the Mlsslsslnewa river. His body was recovered thirty minutes later in the middle of the river at the foot of Adams street. SHIP BOOZE TO DRY TOWN. "Consigned to Mr. , Newcastle, Ind., four barrels of sugar, extra fine." This inscription appears on the heads of numerous barrels shipped into this city last week. With the first week as a dry city over temperance people are learning that large quantities of liquor are being shipped in by private parties. BUSINESS IS INCREASING. Business Increases of from 20 tn 3n per cent over last year, crowded stores and nustllng holiday shoppers announce the comlnar of Santa CI Merchants of the principal Indiana tit les agree the holiday trade so far this year shows a great gain over twelve months ago. The cry for early shopping, too. Is having Its effect. INDIANA DRY IN 1012. In his address at the West Washington Street Presbyterian church. Jndlanapolis, last nisrht. on temDeranre hlems in Indiana, the Rev. E. R Sh. maker, state superintendent of the anti-saloon league, predicted th "flrv. ing up" of Indiana by Jan. 1, 1912. SHOT IX CARD GAME. In a dispute over a card tram t Hope tonight, Frank Dietrich. 45 years oia, snot and probably fatally wounded Arthur Miller. 30 years old. The hnn. ing occurred in Dietrich's barber shop. wnere Dietrich and Miller and two other men were playing poker.

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Trade Business Startling Metal Companies Have Been Boosting Prices Too Fast

Chicago, Dec. 24. The tape, in fact, is not a barometer of trade week by week or even month by month. At the very time share quotations are showmg'slgns of fatigue following their prolonged run business elsewhere is improving. A representative of Marshall Field & Co. surely a representative commercial institution says that the retail sales in the past wwk were In an unprecedented amount. Put bluntly, the holiday trade in the west has startled tradesmen by its suddenness and magnitude. And while it must be emphaisized that it is holiday patronage, the increase over the same period in 1906 (for obvious reasons 1907 is not drawn in comparison) should be . comforting to the business community. At the same time undue elation is perilous in a period of recuperation, however rapid and apparently substantial. There are many things to be adjusted, commercially and legislatively. For one thing, the metal companies have been premature in rushing up their prices. They have been too eager to anticipate the demand, have ignored the immutable and always effectual law of supply and demand. A genuine boom cannot be evoked by charging boom prices, especially after undoubtedly after a depression. IN POLITICS Mrs. Alma V. Lafferty, the only woman member of the Colorado legislature, is being talked of as a possible candidate for speaker of the house. Announcement has been made by Congressman Charles E. Townsend of Michigan that he will be a candidate for United States senator two years hence. Organization for a state-wide campaign is to be effected by the anti-prohibitionists of Texas .according to decision of the Texas Anti-Prohibition Executive committee. The upper branch of the Vermont legislature has defeated a bill introduced early in the session granting municipal suffrage to taxpaying women. The retirement of James P. Goodrich from the chairmanship of the republican state committee in Indiana marks the passing of the old Fairbanks republican machine In tnat state. A rumor is current in Washington to the effect that David C. Owen, postmaster of Milwaukee, is likely to be apointed frst assistant postmaster general, under Frank H. Hitchcock. Mr. Owen and Mr. Hitchcock are intimate f i ienrfs. Four candidates are now in the field for governor of Virginia, to be settled at the election next year. They are Congressman Carter Glass of Lynchburg, Judge William H. Mann, Henry C. Stuart, and Harry St. George Tucker. Some astute politicians are of the opinion that Representative Theodore E. Burton is seriously handicapped in his race for the senatorshlp In Ohio by the fact that he lives in tht; ncrthern part of the state. They point out that Ohio republicans are more or less handicapped by geographical lines and as Senator Dick comn from the northern part of the state It is likely that the successor of Senator Foraker will be chosen from the southern half of the commonwealth.

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I'So , and Mrs. Ogden Mills of New York, Granard of county Longford, Ireland. The same difficulty, in a larger way, confronts some other lines of industry. The Steel corporation, following a con cessional mood of several months, has regained its sang frold, and in recovering has reinstated its prepanic schedules that is, the panic was not a panic at all, it was a nightmore, a figment of the imagination, superinduced by jangled nerves and a bid digestion. Therefore on awakening we must proceed as heretofore. The experiment is interesting. Formerly industry gently conformed with the various stages of convalescences. As the patient improved, prices were gradually raised prices followed, they did not lead. This time, it is assumed by chief industrialists, there was no real sickness. It was simply a case of un malade imaginalre. Hence charge him what he paid before he went to bed. In that respect the captains of industry and the captains of the stock market are alike. They are in a hurry to rush quotations. The nation is young and very vigorous. Possibly its vitality and constitution will be equal to the hurry-up orders of the commanders. .. These the commanders will do their part, too. Even in the stock market their resources have not been exhausted. There still are some things in reserve, some things that will be available later on. Rival Detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once had an amusing experience with a cabman in Paris. The author had Just arrived at the French capital and, to his great surprise, the cabman who had drove him from the depot to his hotel addressed him by name. Sir Arthur asked the man how he knew who he was. "Oh," replied the cabman, "I read in the newspapers that the famous Conan Doyle would come to Paris from Marseilles and Lyons, and directly I saw you I observed that your hair had been cut by a Marseilles barber, and that on the heel of your left shoe there is mud from Lyons. " Sir Arthur waa hlghely flattered and gratified to think that an ordinary cabman was so intimate with his famous detective stories that he could apply the methods of their central character to the facts of every day life. "Are those the only signs by which you recognized who I am?" asked Sir Arthur. "Oh, no," replied the Jehu, as he flicked up his horse, "you see, your full name is painted on your trunk!" M. A. P. A Ponsible Reason. Magistrate (to clergyman, summoned Tor exceeding 3peed limit) Well, you say your were only going at eighteen miles an hour, and the constable still declares you were travelling at thirty. Now, I don't like to doubt either of you. Can you think why he declares you were going at that rate? Is there any grudge he ows you? Clergyman No, I can't think of anything unless, perhaps, it is that I married him three years ago. London Opinion. The Tactful Huftband. "How did you cure your wife of chattering so much?" "I told her that when her lips were closed they formed a perfect Cupid's bow." Cleveland Leader. Dusty Rhoades Gee. Weary, you look all spruced up. What's the matter? Weary Walker I oughfer, hadn't I? I slept in a lumber yard last night Cornell Widow.

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