Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 164, Hammond, Lake County, 30 December 1908 — Page 5

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Wednesday. Dec. 30. 1908. the mm& JOHN BREflNA.i OF GARY : LEADS l RACE THERE N ARY STEAMER SMOKING ROOM STORY.

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Attorney Clrence Bretsch wai in Hammond today on legal business. Charles Shea, Sldmon McKe Jr. and Russell Smith of Hammond were In Gary yesterday, seelngr the city and visiting friends. The R. & Sz. for largest display of Christmas goods. Fifth avenue. tf It Is rumored that several other unIpcs in Gary are planning to send communication to President Roosevelt in regard to the sentencing of the labor leaders, Gompers, Mitchell and Morrlson. It Is said that at least three of them will consider the action at their next regular meeting, which will be held In a few days. Mike Blnzen made a business trip to Chicago yesterday. The University club of Gary will hold their ladies' night at the Gary hotel thla evening. The regular meeting was scheduled to take place on New Tear's eve, but the members decided to entertain their lady friends tonight. Cut prices on Rubber Ware at the R. & Sz. Co.. Fifth avenue. tf The St. Andrew society will hold their last meeting of the year on the night of Dec. 31. Judge A. C. Huber made ; . .ss trip to Chicago yesterday. A special meeting of the Masonic Social club has been called for next Monday night at the Gary hotel to make arrangements for the next number of the lecture course. Shoe Sale on now. See the TL & Sz. A special meeting of the school board of Gary was held last night In Superintendent Wirt's office. Nothing of importance was transacted save the ordinary routine. NOTICE. Gary Hotel Barber shop open on Sundays from 8 to 12. F. P. DEEM. The Dirtiest Stream. The dirtiest stream in America 13 the Youghioghtny river at McKaesport, Pa., according to a bulletin of the United States geological survey, cays a reviewer in the- Municipal Journal and Engineer. "In the stream, according to the report, the average quantity of dissolred mineral matter is "1.28 pounds per 1,000 gallons, or 619,000 tons a year, and of suspended matter 2.12 pounds per 1,000 gallons, or 1,028,000 tons a year. For each acre of tributary drainage area, therefore, the stream carries past McKeesport every day 7.97 pounds of material, or about 75 per cent, more than any other stream examined. Over two-thirds of this material, however, Is doubtless derived from the mill3 - ind 'factories that line its banks for the last few miles of its course." The British Press. Not a little world wisdom lies in the conduct of the British press. Its managers do not let their instincts for news run away with their appreciation of how things said in heat look in cold print to the world abroad. They do not furnish arrows for the quivers of their foreign critics. Boston Transcript. In Beautiful Sepulcher. The last resting place of the great Norwegian composer, Edward Grieg, is one of the most beautiful in its natural surroundings that could be iraagined. By the side of a lake, at the extremity of a fiord, close to the composer's native town of Bergen, there is a natural grotto formed in the solid rock, which rises precipitously from the water's edge. Here the bones of the famous musician are buried, and as the grotto is only accessible' from the lake, the funeral cortege will have to make the journey by water. A Literary Race. The correspondents of most Welsh newspapers and magazines are tinworkers, colliers, shoemakers, blacksmiths, tailors, farm laborers, and oth ers in similar humble walks of life. And many of the articles which come from the pens of these men are worthy of wider circulation than is possible in the Welsh language, London Western Mail. Justness of Judgment. He alone reads history aright who, observing how powerfully circumstances influence the feelings and opinions of men, how often vices pass Into virtues and paradoxes into axioms learns to distinguish what is accidental and transitory in human nature, from what is essential and immutable. Macaulay's Ese.-.y on Ma.chiavelli. 633BROADWAY Edith Shaw Soubrette Mack & Relgier Comedian BEGINNING FRIDAY MATINEE Beaham Sisters Singers agd Dancers Lew Walsh Comedian Change of Songs and Pictures .each das

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I It couldn't have rained hard enough last night to dampen your New Tear's resolutions. Sometimes you happen to see two women walking down Broadway stop talking about each other long enough to kiss. May be a search through Gary would reveal some chocolate candy who would be willing to take a chance a&alnst World's Champion Johnson. i It is not thought It will be necessary to equip the water wagon in Gary with straps this year. Among your other New Tear's resolutions don't forget to put in one that you will work for Gary during 1909 for all you are worth. A new kind of a flea has been discovered in California. It has six teeth and is a high Jumper, the Gary flea. No relation to It is most consoling to think that so far there are no black marks on next year's record. During the past two months Gary's I once i. cajra nave ueen very comiortabie, thanks to the warm weather. One nice thing about 1909 is that you won't have to read about Mrs. Gunness being located on the various parts of the earth. Although there has been no earthquakes up to data in Gary there has been many who have been visibly shocked over the conditions of their coal bins of late. Whiting's chief of police was held up and robbed of his star, revolvers, money and billy. We hope the highwaymen left him with at least a clew. Chicago Daily News. They got the clew In their faces, and Mr. Lawlei-s fists put it there. Being as how you had turkey for

ThanlrSfflvlno. nnA ! e t m ( u ! You will note ttat The Times does ' not wait two hours to beat the Chicago , papers. It gets its news two hours be- j fore they do. Important news, if true! Georgia Editor's Mistake. Olive Fremstad, w!jo has just come from Europe, says the women are wearing monocles over the-e. It reminds us that the last time we used the word monocle the printer made it manacle, and we had to hide out for two days. Atlanta Georgian. World's Rice-Growing Country. Japan grows about 40 times as much rice as is produced In the United States. Over seven per cent, of the land 'in the Japanese islands is used for the rice crop. In this country the proportion is one acre out of 2,000. Reducing Weight. Racehorse Owner -"William, aie too heavy. Can't you take somei . . - n)l T . . thing off? Jockey-'Tm wearing my om,., uu Uacu i taaieu iuoa "nuci Aucu, lur gooauess sane, go ana get snaved." Titbus. I Man Always Omnivorous.

hi ToTai. VI. 7 N V 1. man WItn tne g00Be and Jennie Nrbabe hardly fair to expect that you will nac had watched the whole proceeding, have more than pork and beans for j John saw he had been caught in the :New Tears. Bt.f Tr.Hr, ii,. T -

It used to be held that primitive y the attractio"man was a vegetarian: hut tho ' The tremendous popularity and sue

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asked an English tourist contemptu- eon no doubt spent many days upon ously of the general shopkeeper. "Oh h'S' hi? mst popular novel- ,n his enyes, we do!" replied the man "In a ,J ,the helves a story W r v. ithat would Prove luting memory of

0, w v "vlvi DA i Cure for Love's Wounds. Vanity is the collodion of love's wounds. Unless the cut be very deep let a little of the gelatine of self-esteem be smeared over the injured sur face and allowed to harden, and in a few days there is not even a scar to tell the tale of a blighted heart. Rewards Constantly Paid. The rewards of great living are not external tmngs, withheld until the crowning ho"" of success arrives; they come by the way In the consciousness of growing power and worth, of duties nobly met and work thoroughly done. Joy and peace are by the way. Mabie. Possibilities of a Moment. Mnnnt anfiab q Irtx-fil nrril ind ' ' v.v.uv uu

De meanly snent; we cannot Kill and ravel themselves. The production is not kill in the same moment; but a positively one of the handsomest ever moment is room wide enough for the placed upon the stage, not the spectacloyal and mean desire, for the out- ular TarIetv but the solid, massive lash of a murderous thought and the scenic e(iulPment whlch is so pleasing

sharp backward stroke of repentance. George Eliot. A Family Falling. The star pupil arose at the school entertainment to declaim his piece. "I-end me your ears!" he bawled. "Ha," sneered the mother of the opposition, but defeated, pupil, "that's Sarah Jane Doran's boy. He wouldn't be bis mother's son if he didn't want to borrow somethlng.'Vr-Tit-Bits. Truth Kept Busy. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again," says the Philosopher of Folly, "but it seems a pity that she has to speiid her whole time in a continuous performance of . resurrections," Learning Life's Lessons. Alcott: Our bravest lessons are not learned through successes, but disadventure.

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GOOSE 10 HIS Oil Bird Is Digested But the Feaster Is Arrested This Morning GARY MAN WENT TO WH1T1N urn Charges Him With. Having Stolen Her Christmas Dinner Caught in Act. Goose stories are coming thick and fast in Gary. Even when things are dead around the police station and when, with a grin. Sergeant Rambo hangs oue the "nothing doing" sign to the lonely reporter who may wander In, there is always a goose story to dish out. The scene of this little comedy was laid in the Standard Oil city of Whiting. It was the day before Christmas and the fatted goose which was to bring Joy to the hearts of the Nrbanacs family was waddling under its weight of corn, in the back yard. Suddenly and without warning a man was seen to creep along the back fence until he got opposite the goose. His arm shot out and he soon had Mr. Goose tucked away in the sack which he carried under his arm. John Bogosh was the . I -t ww".. .uuncu at jcmiiu ana Jennie looked at John, and finally, afttr look inS for some time, ohn decided that even the goose was worth more than Jennie's look, so he made a Jump over ine Dack fence and disappeared, John came to Gary where he lived, but he was followed by some of Jen nle's friends, who put a chalk mark on John's front door so they would know where he lived if they should meet him again. .John "cooked his goose on Christmas" and had forgotten all about Jennie's eyes until this morning, when he saw her again, accompanied by Officer Mil ler of Gary, who read a warrant for his arrest iie was taken in tow and Drought to the police station where he will have to answer the charge of larceny Derore Judge Fltrgerald. AT THE CAfUMET THEATER. An attraction extraordinary is an nounced for the Calumet theater, South Chicago, for three lnursaay, Jan. 7. when "Graustark." the v4, vjtui u ar jxicvjuicneon. the world-renowned catoonist and celemasterpiece of George Bar McCutcheon, Draiea action writer will be presented ui iour perrormances of this great Play will be given in South Chicago inree evenings and a matinee on Sat n . . . i uiua,.,, a.uu me management nas no hesitency about guaranteeing the excelcess . due not only to the weIl wrilten dialogue, the wen c0n ceived Iots and counter Pts and the pretty locale of the story, but further to the clean wholesome atmosphere with which the story is enveloped. It is seldom a romantic drama of the type of graustark 13 as free from melodramatic lealures as tnis piay is. Mr. McCutchhis namp. Natwithstnnriino- thic. jt version from an influence which is very ...,.,..w,,lullltt llllQ - ui' rampant In the drama of today, "Graustark" is still so full of clever dialogue, beautiful love scenes and interesting situations, that there is never a mo ment during the entire action of the play, when it one not always sitting there with that tense, expectant look upon his or her face. To those who are fortunate enough to have read the book, they are looking ahead for the scenes they themselves so well conceived. The others are continually looking forward ror what is to come next. There is al ways that feeling: Will Tetive save the American; will she finally marry him; they aPPrehend the villain who so foully murdered the Prince and thereby clear the name of Greenfall Lorry; will Anguish and Dagmar finally declare admiration for each other?' The dramatization so closely follows the book that all the foregoing meni . iiLfnfu sttucs aim situations nnauy un iu me artistic temperament aeveloped indifferent in all of us, The company presenting the play is one of the best now on tour. All of them have been carefully selected and rehearsed in their different characters by one of the ablest directors now in the dramatic field. Mr. James W. Castle, for many years chief stage adviser for the Whitney forces. A most pleasing and even performance is the result of Mr. Castle's work. The players Include such well known artists as the Misses Stephanie Longfellow, Adele Lane, Marguerite Miller, Elizabeth Brinton, and the Messrs. Burt King, former leading man in the Calumet Stock company, Harry Hyers, J. H. Lewis, John Giles, Raymond Parent. Arthur Finn, Joseph C. Gonyea and others. "Just a Woman's Way," a powerful melodrama, will be the attraction for the week commencing Sunday, Jan. 3. Friendship and Justice. When men are friends there is no aeed ot Justice. AristoU

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built and then after other months of delay the paving of the center of Broadway, where the street car tracks were laid, was accomplished. A thing that will probably be in favor of the democrats, and yet which will lose them the vote of a certain element, Is the fact that the city has been wide open ever since Thomas Knotts has been in control. What Is known as the "Patch" was allowed to flourish during the first administration of the city, and the city authorities winked at the dens of Iniquity which were allowed to flourish there. Some Like It That Way. There will be a certain element of the population of the city which favors such an administration and there are others who favor a more strict regulation of this district. . Brennan is known to be a liberal man, but It is not known definitely what he will do, and Knotts is a known quantity to the denizens of the "Patch." These are the elements which will make the fight for the control of the j Gary city administration an interesting one. xne next municipal fight in Gary will be a warm one, and the eyes of the whole state are likely to be focused on tho city before the contest Is over. The Gary democrats fell down miserably to win the city over to Marshall and Bryan, but they say that there will be new Issues raised in the municipal campaign and that they do not fear the result Incidentally, Tom Knotts' nolltical head is at stake. The down-state democrats are already at work in their efforts to build up a machine which will be able to withstand the assaults of a reorganized republican party. Mast Recognise Lake County. If Tom Knotts can deliver the troods In Gary, and Mayor Lawrence Becker can be re-elected or force the election of one of his henchmen in Hammond, they will be the big politicians of northern Indiana and will nrobablv be able to demand substantial favors from the Indiana democracy. Republican County Chairman F. Richard Schaaf was the man who made the down-state politicians see the light and recognise the importance of Lake county as a factor in state politics. Knotts and Becker will take advantage of what he nas done, and Simon's defeat eliml nates nim irom the consideration. It Is Knotts and Becker who are the men or the hour now, and Knotts Is the man that John Brennan of Gary must aeieat to save the republican party mere. But, if John Brennan seems to have the inside track in Gary, there are other republicans whom their friends are grooming for the face for the nom inatlon. Another Prospective Candidate. " lurao is j. tjienn Harris, a member of tne law firm of Harris and Bretsch. Both of the members or this firm are well known all over Gai and have many friends. They are also said to be influential in the "Patch" and will be a factor in the campaign that win have to be recognized. Another man who is likely to become a candidate for the nomination is John McFadden of the Gary Coal company. McFadden is one of the earliest pioneers of Gary and has many friends. George Manlove, recently the president of the Gary republican club, and the man to whom a large amount of the credit for rolling up a republican majority of BOO must be given, may be a candidate, although he has not announced himself. Gary politics and Gary politicians are still in an embryo stage. It will be practically as hard to get a line on the mayoralty election as it was re cently to tell how the national election was going. CIiARK STATION. Mr. Joseph Keckeisen of Chicago is spending a few days with Walter Behn here. M. J. Meyer of Chicago Is visiting a few days here. Mr. H. Taegy was a Gary visitor yesterday evening. Mrs. Horkey of Clarke was a shopper at Chicago yesterday. MAY SUE BAN JOHNSON Member of Baseball Com mission Says He Is Ready. Something threatens to come out of the ticket scandal after all. Secretary Charles Thomas of the Cubs is jroinir I to sue t$. a, jonnson, president of the American league and the man who secured most of the evidence in the scalping case, for defamation of character. Thomas said yesterday he had consulted a lawyer and the attorney had advised him to go to law and seek re dress for the damage done his name and reputation by connecting him with the ticket mess. Thomas thinks well of the law think, and they'll ge off in the legal grind in Just a few hours. President Johnson, before leaving for St Louis last night, regarded the damage suit with which he Is threatened as something of a jest JEM DRISCOLL WHIPS BALDWIN Boston, Mass.. Dec 30 Jem Drlscoll. the English lightweight, kept up his wonderful winning career by scor ing his second victory over Matty Baldwin of Charlestown in their bout at the Armory A. A. last night getting the decision at the end of twelve rounds. The Briton was altogether too clever for Baldwin and had a good edge on the Charlestown boy at the f.nlsh. OTTO BESTS SIEGER New York. Dec. 30. Toung Otto, the young man with the terrible haymaker In each hand, met Joe Sleeer of Denver In the six round star bout last night at the Dry Dock club, and' though he beat the Denver lad from start to finish, he was nnable to out him in the land of Nod.

OriginaXl In the smoking room of an ocean liner they were telling stories of disappearances at sea. This Is one of them by an elderly American gentleman: "I was crossing from Southampton to New York. We had among the passengers a Jolly devil may care young Englishman named Trevor, who was the life of the ship. He was especially a favorite with the ladles, though he seemed to prefer the society of men, pending a lot of time in the smoking room. "There was a middle aged passenger aboard, with a wife twenty years his junior. We hadn't been out three days before the young wife was daft about Trevor and the husband green with

Jealousy. Then there was an old maid who would sit moping on deck till Trevor appeared, when she would lan guish till he joined her and look inex pressibly happy If he did so for even a few minutes. And so I could go on mentioning various women, all of whom were more or less affected. Trevor singled me out for his principal companion, and we used to sit in his stateroom by the hour chatting and smoking. On one occasion I rallied him on the preference shown him by me young married woman. "One morning after the breakfast hour we missed Trevor in the smok ing room. At noon a steward came to me as Trevor's most intimate associate and told me that my friend's room was locked and no amount of knocking could elicit a reply. The ship's carpenter was called. I went .with him, and he forced the door. The room was empty. "There could have been no means of egress for the occupant except the portholes. It seemed to me that he would have had difficulty in getting through one of them, but there is no knowing what one may accomplish In crawling through small space, especially If given abnormal strength by insanity, though some thought Trevor had crawled out in his sleep. "We were a dull company for the rest of the voyage. The young wife aidn t attempt to conceal her emotion, and her husband looked as if he would have liked to help Trevor make way with himself. Some of the men even hinted that the husband had something to ao with Trevor's disappearance, but this supposition did not gain favor with the rest. Indeed, It was absurd on its face. "We reached New York without the reappearance of the favorite or a sola tion of the problem. The purser broke open Trevor's trunk in the hope of learning more of his identity than his mere name, but the Information was not forthcoming. So the case was set down as one of those mysterious dlsapijcamura mat are never to De ex plained. "Now comes one of the strangest happenings of all my life. Talk of co incidences, I never have heard or read of anything to beat what I'm going to ten you. Three years later I went from my home in Connecticut to the Pacific coast partly on business and partly to attend the wedding of a niece of mine. I reached her home several days before the wedding and when introduced to the groom expectant stood paralyzed with astonishment s"He was Trevor. "He turned red and white and was evidently at first bent on denying his identity. Then he laughed and said: "Yes; we've met before. There's an explanation not much to my credit I confess, but it might have been more to my discredit if I hadn't done what I did, though to tell the truth I chose a method that was rather acceptable to a young scapegrace than an older man. Do you remember the young married woman who" "'Set her husband wild by going wild herself about you? Yes; go on. " She was wild true enough so wild I couldn't control her. She was bent on ruining three persons, her husband, herself and me. I made a confidant of the captain and proposed to make a stowaway of myself for the rest of the voyage to get out of her way. He offered to stow me in his cabin Instead, and I accepted the offer. Mighty good man, the captain, and msi. ciass at Keeping a secret- I arranged the disappearance and, to prevent the news reaching home before I could cable, removed anything that would point to my address. But, heavens, how did I come to get engaged to your niece?' " 'Why didn't yon confide in mer I asked. " 'Captain said confide in no one or he would have nothing to do with the matter.' "To all this the bride expectant listened with eyes and ears wide open. Well, I declarer she said at the finish. 'If I had heard that story without the name or the principal, I would have known it was you. Uncle, do you think I'm safe In marrying such a man? Then to her fiance, 'Why haven't you confessed this to me with other things V "'How would It look for me to tell you that I had to disappear to get away from a woman?' " 'Right you are,' said I. 'No truly modest man could have done it' "I found that my niece's father (my sister's husband) had been furnished all the evidence required to prove that Trevor wag a younger son of a British nobleman. He had been a ranchman since coming to America and would not go back to England on any acwnnt NeXtr cried one of the listeners. That was a good one If it was made vat at whola cloth." EDGEN'B HOLMES BUILT.

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