Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 28 December 1908 — Page 4
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THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS, LITTLE ONE.
Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908. by Edwin A. Nye.
IIP AND DOW IN INDIANA
Millionaire Broker In Money Crash.
THE CHILDREN OF BELGRADE. Modern history has its "children's crusade" the crusade of the children of Belgrade. The children's crusade of the middle ages was warlike for the recovery of the holy sepulcher; the children's crusade at Belgrade was against war. Recently Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina. The jingo patriots of Servia sent up a howl for war. Such a war meant the ruin of Serbia.
The crown prince, the most dissolute prince In Europe, celebrated the war
spirit by getting drunk and lashing
people in the streets with his whip. A hideous blood demand' filled Bel grade.
The people there have learned they
have little to gain by political changes,
and they are tired of being killed to
please princes
It was the women who acted.
They would not let their husbands
be butchered without protest, but
knew the swashbucklers would not
hesitate to kill them also if they
Christmas has slipped away into the past again with its attendant Joys marched
M. . a 1L. A I T a. L. VI t , t
and nlfcflsures. The annual Question of Santa ciaus nas Deen Drougm up cui me cuuumu;
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rfUrMitoH and a nnmher nf otherwise lovine and adoring parents have eomiers woum not oare siaugmer
j i, - f,i, f h,ir nttifi ntifis In Santa Claus. the children. And so the boys and
uuuo a m v.. ..- organized and drilled- Ran
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A lit-ue gin namea virguus Le llJ ttu cullul """'" ners were made and lines of march
was told there was no Santa. She asked the moulder oi puDiic opinion 11 outlined
it was true. He said: On the very day when the crown
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love prince made his grand stand ultima'
and generosity aiifi. devotion exist and you know that they abound and turn, saying to the minister, "Remem-
eive to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be ber you speak from 300,000 bayonets!"
,0 Tror-o Santa nana! Tt would be as dreary as if 011 hat Tery oay the children of Bel
i. -it,-.,i t, T,ri Y.a T.r rbndnv. faith thpn nr noetrv. grade marc nea
lueitf - --- Th came from al, dlrection3 lnt0 no romance to make tolerable this existence, le should have no en
joyment except in sense ana signt. me eternal iiguL wiui wuu v.ulivw bannera beariDg the legend
fills the world would be extinguished. "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chlmnies on
Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees banta uiaus, when the gTeat palace square was
but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the full the singing ceased, and at a signal
world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see the shrill voices of the children shout-
fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that is no proof that they ed in unison
are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are
unseen and unseeable In the world
PIOXEEK MINISTER DIES. The Rev. George W. Blogette, or An
derson. 83 years old, died of heart failure at hla home In Meridian street af
ter a brief Illness. The death of Mr. Blogette marks the passing of one of the pioneer ministers of the Eastern
Indiana Conference of the church.
ship, has sold his place of business and residence property in Prescott to Martin Zincer, jr., for $2,100. Zinser wns the other saloon.
BANKS ARE BULGING.
REPORT SENT TO HANLY. Tastefully printed and bound, with an attractive dealarn of red and black
Christian on a brown ground, sixty-nine pages (of the annual report of the Indiana
reformatory at' Jeffersonville. have
Deposits at the Fort Wayne banks been forwarded to Governor Hanly for
were heavy last week, reflecting the big his perusal. The report is from Sept. holiday business enjoyed by the re- 30, 1907, to Oct. , 1908. tallers. Although there were two bank j COAL DEALERS TO MEET, holidays In the week the clearances to- m.ltinr f th .T.,fir0
taled 1544,847.82. For the correspond- tee of the Coai Dealers' association of W,ek. f laSt year the clearance3, Michigan and Indiana will be held in were 1506.160.84. Fort Wayne In the near future, to arFARMERS LOSE IN FIRE. j range for the big coal men's convenThe plant of the Milan Milling com-'tion, which will be held here shortly
pany at Milan burned to the ground after the completion of the new Hotel El
Saturday morning. The loss falls upon Anthony.
the owner, John Helmsath of
Miss Mabel Adams of Chicago has been elected superintendent of Hope hospital at Fort Wayne, succeeding Mrs. E. Gertrude Fournler, who tender-
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lean, and a large number of farmers.
who had wheat there. The loss is 810,000, with no Insurance. IMAS ENTERTAINMENTS TABOOED.
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On account of an epidemic of scarlet ; ed her resignation some weeks ago.
Please Bave Our Papas For Their Homes.
fever in Warsaw, municipal authori
ties refused to allow any public Christmas entertainments here. Sunday school sessions also are barred next Sunday.
AGAR CORDIALLY WELCOMED. Henry E. Agar, believed dead for two
years since hla supposed drowning in
the Wabash river, returned to Prnlceton Saturday morning to receive a cor
dial welcome by his former acquaint
ances and friends.
MISSES TARGET) HITS BOY. While shooting at a mark on a
stump at the home of Dan Catt, eight
miles west of Petersburg, Will Catt, 11 years old. son of Piad Catt, shot Lloyd, his cousin, also 11 years old, son of Dan Catt, in the back, mortally wounding
him. The shot was fired from a rifle and penetrated the body.
FEARS OPTION j SELLS OUT. Fearing that the county local option
law or one that be passed covering
ess territory may be felt In Shelby
county within the next few months. John Thompson of Shelbyvllle,' one of
the two saloonkeepers In Shelby town-
Do not
Ci l-infr lot 11a navA n9oT
send our fathers to war!"
T-Tlnn. Pnf AT nrllA 1 ttt3 nfiaia Vmt
"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, mtn.eeltA wlt'h the hot Dassion3 the
but there Is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, war Darty appeared at an upper win-
nor even the united strenght of all the strongest men that ever lived, could aow ana graciously greeted the chil-
tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that dren
curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it The result?
Qii ri Ah Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and w tnat iiour mtu wah &ruui uir
T.;. SERVIA WAS CRUSHED. It has not
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and years from now, Virginia." nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, llltIstrates the Scriptlire that "out of he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.", , ; ne mouths of babes and sucklings is
ordained the strength to still the
HIS NEWSPAPER FAULTS. . . , I avenger.
President Roosevelt's critics continue to spend their time in presenting
; their compliments to him in a way that no other president has ever been fPf rst . "-'"'L TtyS
presented. Mr. Roosevelt is a favorite subject with editorial writers, who offlce ln November. 1867. In President
handle him without gloves. The editor of Harpers Weekly speaks of the Arthur's administration Mr. Chandler president in the following novel way: was secretary of the navy. He was
"It is interesting to notice the close analogy between President Roose- - -
;velt's standard and recognized faults and those of live and able newspapers im and 1895 ' After nla retirement
such as at times he fights. He is rash, inaccurate, belligerent, a great but-j from the senate he served as president
ter-in. and hates to own up when he is beaten. So it is with most of the of tne Spanish treaty claims commis
si o o Vt oo ,o 4e hnt -mrwet tbo-m nro I S-on- M- nauaier i uc -iiuu, !
aoio puu w Uku. . . . a for part he piayej jn the almost if not Quite his equals in verbal accuracy. The reason of the likeness presidential campaign of 1876, when, as
between him and them is very simple, and lies in the similarity between was claimed, he went to Florida and
--tho Ufa thvv load and thei life that he leads. The life of a live newspaper is seized that state from tne democrats,
in us securing me eietuua ui iui. -ciays.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Miss Adams, has been assistant superintendent of. the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago. SHOPLIFTERS ARRESTED. One of the largest thefts of the In
dianapolis Christmas shopping season
has been cleared up In the arrest of two young men giving the names of Ben Akerman and Harold Chase at Lebanon, Ind., on charges of shoplifting. The two, who say they have recently been Northwestern university students,
were brought to Indianapolis and their photographs added to the rogues' gallery here. SEARCH FOR MRS. STONE. The police at Logansport began to search Saturday night for Mrs. Bertha May Stone, wife of W. A. Stone, a millionaire coal operator of Unlontown, Pa. She is believed to be ln Indiana and a woman answering her description applied to local department stores for a position as clerk two days ago. Her manifest unfamiliarity with work and her costly dress and jewels prevented her from obtaining employment.
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There Is no fear that the three year
old emp. of China will do too much
talking. But he may do considerable crying, however.
THE WEST SEEMS TO BE JUST AS
POOR A PLACE FOR THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO WISHES TO WED AS
IT IS FOR THE ONE WHO WANTS
TO GET A DIVORCE.
A Chicago burglar broke Into a hos
pital and took everything he could lay
his hands on. He failed to take the patients' temperatures, however. .
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
The only henpecked man whose Home aeema to be happy Is the chap who can't Keep away when Hla wife la Talking.
We have just run across a story entitled the "Folly of Extravagant Giving." but have decided to pack it up nicely in the morgue for use next year.
Some men'a Idea of a happy riage la to pick oat the rieheat girl they ran get and let It go at that.
My Word, what a chance for "grape
vine" specials when those aerograms
begin to come to Hammond.
ALL A MAN HAS TO DO TO MAKE
HIS CONVERSATION INTERESTING
TO A WOMAN IS TO TALK LOVE TO
HER ALL THE TIME.
a tremendous rush. So is his. The newspaper usually has more events and
facts to handle and serve hot than it can more than imperfectly attend to before it goes to press. An honest newspaper does its best to handle them
honestly, and often does wonders at it. So with the president. He goes to
pres3 nearly every night after a day packed lid-full of decisions, discourses
.and deliverances. What he puts out is out for better or worse and he can't
get it back. A newspaper's life is like a football game. It follows the ball
with all its energy until time is called. Sometimes it plays clean; sometimes
not. It makes rapid decisions in the heat of conflict, and then stands by
them the best it can. That is very like the president's life, too. He follows
the ball for all he is worth, and when another player gets ln his way there
is a bouncing concussion. When he fights a team of newspapers, as he is
doing just now, there ought to be a squad of umpires and referees to see fair
play and impose fines when the rules are broken. RflT.TlTTP MF.Ti TN THE CALUMET REGTOTT.
jvir. nooseveit wouia mane mmseii
That lusty champion of justice and order, that good right arm of the I stronger in the hearts of a great many
law in "Whiting, Chief Patrick Lawler, is responsible for strange tidings people if he would extend executive
which come from the Standard Oil city. The gist of them is that Mr. Lawler clemency to Messrs. Gompers and
was rudely approached by. bold highwaymen on Saturday night and held up. Mitchell, but whether it would be prop-
He waged spectacular battle with a trio of bandits, who fled after encounter- er or nt is another thing,
ing his good right arm and now he knows that the stories of midnight rob
beries In Whiting, that have been appearing in these columns of late, are AU tbe wwd is ready to admire
no myth. One citizen who saw the tussle between the chief and his assail- the ma wo fell la
ants, did not exactly redound to Whiting's glory, by fleeing ignominously lov wlth a tubk woman and
without coing to Chief Lawler's assistance. The Whiting holdups In themselves are of course inconsequential, but they point out the fact that this is the time of the year when the Chicago toughs and vagabonds are driven out of the city and infest the Calumet region. The cities of Gary, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Hamnaond should be prepared for an invasion. It may come any night. It will be well to get out the old shot gun and the revolver and be ready for the midnight thug. A good dose of lead is the thing for what ails him. CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION blames hard times for wife desertions. Nonsense, wives are necessities not luxuries.
President Castro seems to have done all his shopping early.
Yo, heave, ho! water wagon.
The rumble of the
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. December 29. 1734 Robert MacGregor Campbell ("Rob Roy"), a famous Scottish outlaw, died. Born March 6, 1671. 1817 American colonization society, which aimed to return free negroes to Africa, formed In Washington, D. C. 1829 Georgia refused to permit the Indians to set up an independent government in that state. 1835 Patent for revolving firearm issued to Samuel Colt. 1837 Steamer "Caroline" captured and destroyed at Niagara Falls. 1862 Federal force captured Fort Van Buren, Ark. 1871 Great fire In Little Rock, Ark.
Portugal. 1907 Alexander J. Cassatt, president of Pennsylvania Railroad company, died In Philadelphia. Born ln Pittsburg, Dec, 8, 1839.
married her because ahe thanked him when he gave her hla aeat and when ahe turned around there waa no "gap ln her plaque."
congress is setting, declares a country contemporary. Setting sun or
setting eggs or just sitting?
Always Let your wife Have her own way. She la aure to be mort amiable When ahe don't have To take it.
LABOR NEWS
THIS IS MY 7SD BIRTHDAY. William E. Chandler. William E. Chandler of New Hampshire, for many years one of the most Important members of the United States senate, was born In Concord, N. H-, Dec. 28, 1835, and was graduated from the Harvard law school and admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1862 to 1S64, and ln the following year be
came solicitor and Judge advocate of
1S89 Charles L proclaimed kind of the navy. In the same year he
Frank Parentheala. Frank long often gazes wistfully toward Jasper, and his sighs are really pitiful. Hope she will be good to Frank for, besides being a first class machinist, he Is a real good boy. (When he is asleep.) Marble Hill Cor. Pickens County (Ga.) Progress.
New York has the greatest number of wage-earners of any state In the
Union. Pennsylvania is second.
The Union Labor Advocate will be published ln Greater New York some
time about the first of the new year.
Scottish coal masters have intimated a claim for further reduction to the
extent of 6'A per cent in the miners'1
wages. A considerable improvement is re
ported in the manufacturing department of the linen trade of Lurgan, one of the chief centers of the Irish linen
trade.
Minneapolis Typographical union will make an effort to get the annual con
vention of the International Typo
graphical union to be held in August,
1910.
The movement to establish a retreat for aged, sick and infirm members of
the painters, decorators and paper
hangers of America is receiving the
hearty Indorsement of the craft.
The appeal court of Great Britain
handed down a decision that a trades union cannot levy compulsorily on Its
members to maintain the labor rere sentatlon in parliament.
Considering all the important strikes
of record in this country of those for
increase or wages alone, 49.9a per
cent were successful, 18.69 per cent partially successful, and 21.36 per cent failed. The Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs will attempt to have passed at the coming legislature a bill fixing the minimum wage which department stores and factories shall be allowed to pay their girl employes. In 1901 the sum of $27,608,000 was expended by employers in Germany for the direct aid of their employes. More than two-thirds of this was given as voluntary contributions by private firms and individuals.
Tumultuous throng, crying "Down with the czar!" hears prominent Chicagoans plead Christian Rudovitz's claim to the right of asylum In America. ' United States will resume packers inquiry today with double plan of attack. , Seven thousand poor Chicagoans are given Christmas dinners by Volunteers of America.
Reports from Nyack, N. are that
the world did not come to end but that the career of Lee J. Spangler as " a
prophet did and that he fled town,' '."
Washington, Pa., produces a family
so mixed up that its members cannot
tell what kin they are to each other.
Confirmation of the appointment of
Bishop D. J. O'Donnell, rector of the Catholic University at Washington, as
auxiliary bishop of San Francisco is re
received from Rome.
Governor Deneen will come to Chi
cago today and is expected to urge his
friends ln the legislature to stand for a joint republican caucus on the United
States senatorshlp.
Great pressure is being exerted upon
the members of congress for the pas
sage of a postal savings bank law.
Canada and Mexico are Invited by
President Roosevelt to take part In a
conference on the conservation of the natural resources of North America, to
be held in the White House on Feb. 18,
W. I. Buchanan, United States com
missioner, is off the coast of Venezuela, according to wireless dispatches re
ceived in Curacao.
Wheat market receles attention of
Influential speculators who hold radically different views. Corn trade Is
disappointing, but receipts limited.
Week in Wail street opens with a big
decline in prices, but ends with a sharp
rally.
Promotor H. D. Mcintosh will ask
Jim Jeffries to re-enter ring and box
Jack Johnson.
Turfmen in California -fear adverse
legislation on racing question.
HENRY W. POOR. New York, Dec 28: It was the general Impression among both bankers
and brokers here today that the assignment of Henry W. Poor would have no
ffect on . the financial world. It was stated; however, that for the last six
months and possibly a year, an assignment or some such action on Poor's part
waa to be expected and that any effect it might have had, had long ago been discounted. It was also the generally expressed opinion that the creditors, for th most part, were tradesmen and others in the commercial world. That Poor had. borrowed in ..the Street was of course likely, it was- admitted, but It was argued that those who loaned the banker money had done so with full knowledge of the condition of his affairs and that none of his creditors was likely
to push Poor, but probably would accord him all the time he, desired to settle his affairs. Most of those seen today were of the opinion that, with time. Poor undoubtedly would be able to straighten out his affairs and get on his feet again. Much of Poor's trouble is attributed to his widespread, connections with houses out of New York, where It is thought that Poor had to shoulder tho
financing of others in the past year and had in that manner crippled his owa
resources.
DR. HLUSCH IN SERMON
PRAISES THE NEWSPAPERS
Commends Exposure of Evil and Saya
World Is Growing Better. Dr. Emll G. Hirsch, of Chicago, ln
sermon at Sinai congregation yester day praised the newspapers for expos
ing crime, vice, divorces, and putting
the people on their guard.
"The continued cry that conditions
are getting worse leads one to be
lieve that men in the early ages were perfect," he said. "We know that Is not so. The Jewish religion teaches that
the best times are to come. The people are developing better, morally, spiritually and are getting stronger all the while. The newspapers prove It. They print notices of murders, vices, divorces and such and in the next columns make a fight for better air, for
a tuberculosis cure. iney strive tor
better schools, praise firemen and policemen who risk their lives to save those of others."
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LOOKING ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
A Running Broad Jump. "One day," related Denny to his
friend Jerry, "when OI had wandered
too far inland on me shore leave, Oi
suddenly found thot there was a great big haythen, tin feet tall, chasln me
wid a knife as long as yer ar-rm. Oi took to me heels an' for fifty miles along the road we had it nip an' tuck.
j tone of one who had been misjudged.
the boy added:
I ain't as poor aa you
think. I'm only working here. I don't own this place." Everybody's Magazine.
Free Advice. A man sat for some time in a restaurant lookinsr thouehtfullv at ii
Thin Oi turned into the woods an' we saucer of melting ice cream. ' At last run for one hundred an' twenty miles he ieft hls chalr and mad. hta tn
or more, wid him gainin' on me steadily, the proprietor.
owin- to nis Knowledge or tne countnry. -t see vou advert! that mir.
Finally, just as Oi could feel his hot your own Ice cream " he said in a n-
breath burnln' on the back of me neck, ' fidentlal manner
we came to a big lake. Wid one great
leap OI landed safe on the opposite shore, leavln' me pursuer confounded and impotent wid rage."
"Faith an' thot was no great jump,"
commented Jerry, "considerin' the running sthart ye had." Everybody's Magazine.
A Domestic Dellmma. A Philadelphia woman, whose given
name is Mary, as is also the name of her daughter, had recently engaged a domestic, when, to her embarrassment, she discovered that the servant's name.
too, was Mary. Whereupon there ensud a struggle to induce the applicant to relinquish her Idea that she must be addressed by her Christian name. For some time she was rigidly uncompromising. "Under the circumstances," said the lady of the house, "there is nothing to do but to follow the English custom
and call you by your last name. By'
the way, what is It?" "Well, mum," answered the girl, dubiously, "It's Darling." Harper's Weekly.
T do, sir," said the proprietor. "Well." said the man, "would you permit me to give you a little pointer?. I won't charge you a cent, and it'll be money in your pocket." "Glad to hear it, I'm sure," said the proprietor. "Get somebody else to make it," said the man in a horse whisper. Youth's Companion.
Family Dtaclpllne. "So you are going to send your youngest boy to college?" "Yes,' 'answered Farmer Corntossel. "He's too big for me to handle in the woodshed, and I guess I'll have to have him hazed." Washington Star.
Overtaken. A wizened little man charged his wife with cruel and abusive treatment. His better half, or ln this case, better twothirds, was a big, square-Jawed woman with a determined eye. The judge listened to the plaintiffs recital of wrongs with interest. "Where did you meet this woman, who, according to your story, has treated you so dreadfully ?' his honor asked. "Well, judge,- replied the little manj making a brave attempt to glare defiantly at his wife, "I never did meet her. She Just kind of overtook me," Everybody's Magazine.
The Poetic Temperament. Goodart You didn't actually tell him that didn't think him much of a poet? Wiseman Sure. Goodart Oh! I wouldn't have had you do that for the world. Wiseman Nonsense! That doesn't hurt him. It only makes him "pity you. Catholic Standard and Times.
Women will give up wearing birds on their hata just aa aa aoon as the atorea begin
FAIR MANAGERS WILL MEET.
If yon eaa truthfully any that THS
TIMES la a stood newapaper, please aa? isure
to to Mend and get hint to aafcoertfc conflict of meetings,
Northern Indians A asocial ions to Avoid Conflict ln Racing. LaPorte. Ind., Dec. 28. A meeting of the representatives of fair associations in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, Huntington, Fulton, Kosclsko LaGrange, DeKalb and Whitley counties will be held at Kendallsearly in January to organize the Northern Indiana Short-Ship circuit to In-
continuous racing and to avoid
Diplomacy. It was at a well known sanitarium. A number of frivolously disposed young women convalescents were taking their
A Time Limit.
A New England man tells of an elderly citizen ln a New Hampshire town
who long bore the reputation of being
the meanest man in the country. This , '
old chap was proprietor of a, hotel, the j ease on couches on one of the cornrules whereof provided that every- j modious sun-balconies of the estabthing should be kept under lock and , Hshment, and, despite the rules enjoinkey. the result of which was that no I ins perfect silence upon all, were en-hanger-on could get his hands on a joying a lively conversation, mixed in newspaper, a bit of hotel stationary, a j witn much giggling. Suddenly from free wash, or, in fact, anything free at j t"e darkened depths of a room, the all. To cap the climax, the old man windows of which looked out upon" their
one day came in and posted the following notice above the only clock in the place: "This clock is for the use of hotel guests only." Harper's Weekly.
Misplaced Sympathy. A traveler passing through a mountain district in northern Pennsylvania last summer came across a lad of sixteen cultivating a patch of miserable potatoes. He remarked upon their unpromising apearance, and expressed pity for any one that had to dig a living out of such soil. "I don't need no pity," said the boy, resentfully. Tho traveler hastened to soothe his wounded pride. But in the offended
balcony, there came a plaintive voice:
"Will you young ladies be good enough to stop talking so loud?" it said. "I was trying to wake up, and your lovely voices lull me to sleep again every time I get my eyes open." Harper's Weekly.
The Latest Hit. The celebrated soprano was in the middle of her solo when little Johnny said to his mother, referring to tbe conductor of the orchestra: "Why does that man hit at the woman with his stick?" "Ho is not hitting at her." replied his mother. "Keep quiet." "Well, then, what Is she hollerin so for?" Success Magazine.