Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 167, Hammond, Lake County, 4 January 1909 — Page 4

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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HAMMOND. In the absorption of the Commercial Bank of Hammond by the First National Bank of Hammond, a financial epoch of large caliber is marked In the history of the Calumet region. The Interests rested in the two institutions are bo large that the negotiations In themselves were no simple matter and perhaps by reason of the spirited business rivalry, keen as a razor, which existed between the two leading institutions, the delicate matter of acquiring the Commercial Bank was a business feat of high order. Of course, there will always be a tinge of regret that the Commercial Bank, partly by reason of the fact that it was the oldest bank in tbi Calumet region, was swallowed up by its powerful rival, but it will be quite out-balanced by the fact also that the First National, whose growth has been so remarkable since Mr. A. M. Turner became connected with it, becomes the leading financial institution in this part of the state and has taken a stride forward in its career that will stamp it as a bulwark of finance and aif organization whose deposits are rapidly approaching the two-million dollar mark. The friends of both tho. Commercial and First National Banks will, of course, give their compliments to the victor in the Commercial-First National business race and the fact that the First National Bank will be such a powerful banking house henceforth, the reorganization will bring congratulations from business and manufacturing circles in general. At any rate it will probably be many years before any bank in any city in this part of the state will surpass the First National Bank of Hammond. To the officials, directors and stockholders the TIMES extends its best wishes. EDUCATION FOR SERVICE.

The curriculum of the schools of the present day, advanced as it is, still contains many serious problems with which the leading educators are grappling. It has been pruned down and yet broadened and it is well that it has been, Life, in its complexity and the fierceness of the battle, demands that in preparation for it the young man shall not be hampered by brain-stuffing and brain-burdening. It should not be how much he learns but how well he learns what is needful for him to know and no more than that. President Hadley of Yale university said recently: "Having shut out these unnecessary and unfruitful studies, what remains necessary to prepare the pupil for citizenship? First, he must have a certain breadth of vision. He must know something of the history and thought and ideals of other peoples besides his own. This is what, in a general way, is called culture. Second, he must have the power to work hard for a remote end not to demand hourly pay in the way of either money or amusement, but to be content to build for the future. This is what we call mental discipline. In the third place, he must he ready to regard himself as a part of an organization a member of a tody politic, where he cannot make it his object to get all he can out of it, but must try to put all he can into it. This Is called public spirit. Any education which gives a reasonable amount of culture, mental discipline and public spirit is a good one, no matter what be the specific subjects studied or the specific methods used. Fundamentally speaking, It is not the subject which counts, but the method; not the specific line of knowledge learned, but the specific form of power created." THE REBOUNDING TEMPERANCE WAR. Another southern state has gong dry, but as the traveler goes through the south, he can plainly see that a reaction is setting in against the radical temperance laws, which were passed a year ago in Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and other southern states. The temperance advocates made a great mistake in not being temperate themselves, they did not think in their zeal that it was possible to be intemperate in the matter of legislation. This is something Indiana will have to learn. The saloons in the south were wise and offered no opposition, where it could see the prohibition radicalism sticking out In every community. The saloon men admitted that the situation had gotten beyond their control. For several years they had been advertising the elimination of the low resort in the towns and larger cities, but the people wanted the revenue. After awhile each community rose up and said "Never mind the revenue, the price is too great." Then again the liouor men stepped in and tried to check the trouble, but they soon saw it was useless to waste time and money against such odds in favor of prohibition They consequently withdrew from the field and waited for the Inevitable reaction the saloons were closed up, the lawless element ran blind tigers and the police could not cope with them, the liquor people gave the temperance calf all the rope he wanted and as they anticipated, he has tangled himself up badly. The final outcome in the south, is predicted as being the reopeninr of the saloons and the elimination of the low resort. ' SPINNING IT OUT INDEFINITELY. The interminable and sickening wrangle denominated the election fraud contest, begins its fourth week at the county seat today and when the farce will ever end no one seems to know or care, with the exception of the lawyers and stenographers who are reaping a harvest. The alleged contest has resolved itself into simply a war of words, words, words; during which the lawyers pro and con flounder around trying to find a bottom on which the helpless justices of the peace can find a footing. The same questions are asked and re-asked. The same ground Is gone over day aftter day The republicans have not yet begun their side of the case. It is more than probable that they will not finish their testimony for perhaps a month after the democrats conclude. Then there will be the final arguments which will, no doubt, take a week. It is not expected that the election commission will be able to give its decision off-hand and by that time the legislat ure will have adjourned. It is possible, of course, that by the time the next session of the legislature is convened that the contest will be decided and we shall know whether Mr. Wickey or Mr. Simon shall have been elected representative for Lake county In November last year e JUDGE JOHN H. GILLETT, who for years has been on the supreme bench of Indiana, today retires from political life after a career on the judicial bench that could not have been a greater honor to himself He will again resume the practice of law In Hammond, and Lake county will welcome the distinguished jurist again as its own after his career on the state bench

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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye. YOU ARE A GOD! Judge Lindsey of Denver: "Every man found guilty in my court of cruelty to animals must go to Jail. I 'Will have no other sentence in my court for that crime." . O Just Judge! A Jail sentence Is not too severe for the man who maltreats the brutes that serve him. Let that sort of man meditate in his cell the responsibilities of a living soul that has been given dominion over the beasts of the field and tbe fowls of the air. "He is my property I" says the owner. Yea, in a sense, but your defense 13 the defense urged by all the cruel taskmasters of all time. What a noble friend Is the horse! He was man's helper from the earliest times. He has plowed man's fields, carried his burdens and borne him In battle. Civilization would hare dawned more slowly but for him. Often abused, often neglected, he is always the willing, ready slave. What right have you, simply because you have a bit of paper called a bill of sale, to mistreat your horse? YOUR RACE owes HIS RACE more than YOU can ever PAY. And the dog. He was the stanch friend of the stone age man. Always, everywhere, he has been trustworthy helper, constant companion, devoted guardian. His name is a synonym for loyalty. And the cow. Why, that gentle creature has been the foster mother of the race of men for thousands of years. To all these MAN IS GOD. Will you, their deity, to whom they look up with dumb and humble reverencewill you give them for their worshipful fidelity to you and yours Injustice and harshness and cruelty? For shame! As your God rules you, willing subject, with gentleness and compassion, so ought you to rule in kindness. To your dumb servitors you are God. And as you hope by your service and worship of your Master to merit his loving and tender care, so ought you to reward the dumb suppliants w serve and worship you. "The merciful man Is merciful to his heasL" If you are unmerciful, how can yen nope to obtain mercy? TOIS DATE IV HISTORY. January 4. 1689 Colonel Henry Sloughter appointed governor of New York." 1780 Horace Binney, who made a notable fight in congress for the United States bank, born in Philadelphia. Died there August 12, 1875. 1784 Treaty of Paris ratified by American congress. 1843 Steven Thompson 'Mason, exgovernor of Michigan, died. 1854 Albion (Mich.) college partly destroyed by fire. 1861 Alabama troops seized Fort Morgan and the U. S. arsenal at Mobile. 1875 General Sheridan assummed command of the department of the gulf at New Orleans. 1885 Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia Invested -with the pallium. 1907 Andrew Carnegie gave $750,000 for home for Bureau of American Republics in Washington. THIS IS MY 79TH BIRTHDAY. John S. Kennedy. John S. Kennedy, retired New York banker and philanthropist, was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, Jan. 4, 1S39, and after a common school education he began life as a clerk with a firm in Glasgow. lie displayed marked ability and when 20 years old he was sent by his firm to America on an important mission. He was favorably impressed by his visit to America and in 1S57 he returne dto become a citizen of the United States. In New York he formed a partnership in the banking business with the late Morris Jessup. Ten years later Mr. Kennedy established a banking firm of his own, which immediately became one of the great houses of Wall street, financing during the next fifteen years some of the biggest railroad deals of the time. At the age of 54 Mr. Kennedy retired from the banking business, but continued to be more or less active in the management of some of the vast railroad properties in which he was interested. Of late years he has devoted much time to philanthropic work. His donations to various institutions and missions amount to millions of dollars. RANDOM THINQS AND FLiNGS It will be eminently proper to refer henceforth to Mr. A. M. Turner as the wizard of Lake county finance. He has the goods to show for it. HOW SAD THE POOR OLD WORLD WOUD BE IF AVE HAD ABSOLUTELY XOTHISG TO WISH FOR. We failed to note on Saturday that we had a little New Year's watch party of our own. We were watching how long a vociferous youngster, aged three weeks, could yell and hold his breath at the same time. A peach of a girl la liable to happen on any old family tree. So , far, Hon. Jackibus Johnson has not found any white man who cares to be mopped up with Hon. Johnson. ' Even the glass of fashion

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knoTTs sometimes what it la to be broke. Inquirer: No, no, we did not say United States Rubber Bands. We said United States Rubber Bonds. Certainly a girl can be engaged without a solitaire; some of them prefer It that way, but we never aaw one who did. Old Dr. Wiley, the government chemist, has failed to answer satisfactorily, "What is whisky?" Perhaps this is why so many swore off. We certainly pity the Individual who never sees people on the street It la a terrible thins to cut one's friends so near the JVew Year's. Thanks are returned the woman's page for a seasonable recipe consisting largely of lemons and chilled things, artfully called "Drinks for Feverish Colds." If the average girl will be as charming: In her family circle as she tries to be to stray young men, how altogether adorable she would be. We can't see how Mr. Kipling wrote his "Vampire" without knowing anything about the Hains case. A man never realises how observant he Is till necessity compels him to write an advertisement for a lost article. It was a big session from Thursday night to Monday morning, but not nearly as big as some of the heads participating. DRIVING CLUB AT SOUTH BEND. City to Have Harness Racing Again After a Lapse of Twelve Years. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 4. After a lapse of twelve years South Bend is again to have harness racing, a driving club now being in process of organization with several of the most influential business men of the city as prime movers. Dr. F. R. Carson, president of the Central league, will probably be elected president of the organization. It is the intention to hold the first meeting in September or October. If present plans are carried out, the driving club will within another year extend its proposition to the development of a big amusement park at which early summer and fall racing will be featured. Canght at the Crisis. The secretary of one of the college classes at Princeton, in sending out each year a list of questions to be answered by members of the class, in order that the results may be duly tabulated and set forth in the universityannual, is said always to include in his list this question: "Are you engaged?" It would seem that one of the members was cursed with doubt in this respect, for in the blank space given over to the query mentioned he made his return as follows: "Do not know. Am awaiting letter." Harper's Magazine. An Opinion Ventured. "Do you, believe that ignorance is bliss?" said the erudite girl. "I never studied the question," answered Miss Cayenne. "But I should say that a young person who doesn't know the difference between holly and mistletoe would have a decided advantage of a Christmas party." Washington Star. A True Now as Then. Corruption will never want a tense. Cato. pre-

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m&r. W 4 i vO" ' tti ... j-' ; THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Refugees from Reggio in hordes line coasts, begging alms and menacing those they approach. Much of suffering shown to have been unnecessary if right stepa had been taken Immediately after the disaster. Collections in Chicago churches and at meetings of Italian societies add about J21.500 to the relief fund for earthquake victims. American battleships reach Suez and send two smaller ships on to aid the quake sufferers at Messina, whither the whole fleet may follow. Congress will probably vote a relief fund of at least half a million dollars today for the sufferers from the Italian earthquake. Leaders of progressives, after conference in Governor Deneen's office in Springfield, announce that the speakership lies .apparently between Hamilton of Watseka and King of Galesburg, with a Shurtleff bolt a remote possibility. Arwin E. Price, mayor of Elgin and member of the Illinois legislature, announces that he is a perpetual passenger on the water wagon. Improved methods of administration in the department of the interior are declared to have worked great good, according to the annual report of Secretary Garfield. Pensions, guarding of public domain, oil leases and many topics are discussed. Labor plans nation-wide protest on Lincoln's birthday against infringement of rights by courts, as a result of Gompers and leaders being sentenced. Girl who was brutally attacked by a man in the street Saturday night and vainly called for the police is rebuffed when, with her father, she appeals for redress at the Chicago avenue police station , in Chicago. Trusted mail clerk, employed sixteen years in the Chicago postoffice, detected through a decoy letter, confesses to having robbed the mails for ten years. Foreign ministers in Peking meet and agree that peace is endangered by the present trend of affairs in China, in which Yuan Shi Kai has been dismissed and Na Tung appointed to succeed him. Leading owners of wheat see no place to unload property or profit in marking values radically higher. Corn is under speculative pressure. Final results of the closing week of the year in Wall street are highly satisfactory to investors, and great strides toward returning prosperity are made. New Orleans turfmen plan to revive racing by a system of wiring bets out of the state in near future. PREPARES BILL TO BAR TRAMPS FROM INDIANA. Mayor Darrow of Laporte Would Follow Example of Ohio in Imprisoning Train Riders, Laporte, Ind., Jan. 4. With a view to eradicating the tramp evil. Mayor Lemuel Darrow is preparing a bill which will be presented at the coming session of the legislature and sponsored by the Municipal League of Indiana. The provisions of this bill are similar to that which recently passed the Ohio legislature. In the Buckeye state stealing a ride on a freight train is a felony with a penalty of six months' service in the workhouse attached. Only a few years ago Ohio was as popular a retreat for the "gentlemen of the road" as any state in the country. Today the chief of the special police of the Pennsylvania railroad writes that Ohio is in great disfavor among the vagrants, whereas Indiana is the most tramp ridden state of any state in which the Pennsylvania system has connections.

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1 AX - V s, St f x 4 T t ' 4Sif ?ry. n't t 4 :-: y v.-. .-:.,; " i A X i GETS BIGGEST PEXSIOX. Russel D. Warner of Danville, less than 40 years old and a soldier in the Spanish-American war, has been allowed a pension of 100 a month with back pay. So far as is known this is the largest pension drawn by any soldier in Henricks county and possibly in the state. While in the service he was stricken with locomotor ataxia and after his return home became, totally blind. ELECTION CONTEST ENDED. The evidence in the Madden-Williams contest has been completed, certified and sent to be filed with the secretary of state. He will file with the speaker of the house and he in turn will refer it to the committee on election returns and decide whether W. E. Williams, republican, or Joseph H. Madden, democrat, was elected representative from Warrick county. BAD FAMILY MIX-VP. Because Henry Kruse of Columbus had John Ault arrested for paying too much attention to his wife, Retta Kruse, Ault filed an affidavit charging Kruse with insantity.' The affidavit is also signed by Mrs. Kruse and the inquest will be held in Justice E. H. Kinney's office Tuesday. Ault gave bond for his appearance. JEALOUSY CAUSES TROUBLE. Jealous because his sweetheart had gone to a dance with another man, Ed Strickland of Boonville, shot and killed the girl, fatally wounded her escort and then committed suicide. The girl was Miss Oda Williamson. 18 years old. Her escort was Almond Timmons, 21, son of a minister at Chandler. ORGANIZED LABOR STRONG. Statistics on the strength of organized labor in Indiana, compiled by the state bureau of statistics, for its report for the year 1908, to be issued within the nevt few weeks, show that Indiana I sone of the leading states, now having seventy-seven international unions, with 1,043 locals and a total membership of 66,152. KOSCINSKO COUNTY DRY. The filing of a remonstrance against saloons in the Third Ward of Warsaw places Kosciusko county in the "dry" list. During the last six months twenty liquor houses in the county have suspended. HOOSIER DEMOCRATS GATHER. Democrats from all parts of Indiana will visit Lafayette Thursday, Jan. 7, to attend the annual Jackson club feast in honor of the memory of Andrew Jackson, the patron saint of democracy. The banquet will be held at the Hotel Lahr and covers will be laid for 500. GUSHER ACTS QUEERLY. A charge ct 120 quarts of nitroglycerin was placed in the oil well recently drilled in by the Cox & Gibson company at Oakland City, Thursday afternoon, but on account of some fault of the firing apparatus the shot failed to go. Yesterday the drillers succeeded in discharging it, and the greatest phenomena of the oil development here was the result. For five minutes after the shot was fired nothing came from the well. Then the oil came In great volume. The column ascended 120 feet, which was sixty, feet above the drilling rig, and continued flowing to this height for twenty minutes. LID IS ON LAFAYETTE. After allowing an open town for months. Lafayette police authorities clamped down the lid tight Saturday and not only were tlie liauor disneniser affected, but the cigar dealers as well. Every slot machine disappeared as if by magic. TO END SALOON AGITATION. Investigation made by Senator Mr. Cullough of Anderson on the question of liquor legislation at the coming ses-

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4 -fc. I - 4 1 i. X - hi Z ALAS FOR HOOSIERDOM! Jefferaonvllle, Ind., Jan. 4. If a bill which Dr." J. X. Hurty of the Indiana state board of health proposes to introduce at the session of the legtslatnre, which begins next week, became a law, it will be unlawful to bite a plus . of tobacco. Dr. Unrty Is said to oppose the practice of "borrowing a chew," on the ground that the weed thereby becomes a means of transmission for disease germs. C' J! ijc sion of the legislature has led him to believe that there is strong sentiment for the passage of a bill that will forever eliminate the temperance question from politics and he said yesterday a bill with that end in view, carrying with it the repeal of the county local option law, will be introduced. WOULD END TRAMP EVIL. Witbra view to eradicating the tramp evil, Mayor Lemuel Darrow of Laporte, is preparing a bill which will be presented at the coming session of the legislature and sponsored by the Municipal league of Indiana. The provisions of this .bill are similar to that which recently passed the Ohio legislature. In the Buckeye State dealing a ride on a freight train is a felony with a penalty of six months' service in the workhouse attached. ONCE WEALTHY j DIES POOR. Once a well-known and wealthy banker of Philadelphia, and later of Painesville, O., Thomas L. Loomis, 75. died in the LaPorte County asylum. Seven years ago he went to the poorhouse after dissipating a large fortune in drink, and with nerves shattered by a divorce which his wife had obtained on grounds of habitual drunkenness. In a Strange Land. Two belated disciples of Bacchus staggered arm in arm up Walnut street about 3 o'clock the other morning. The street was dark except for a s single round glass globe that blazed in front of an apartment house. One of the inebriates, spying this lone light, observed: "Oh, look zhe moonsh." The other seriously contradicted him, saying: "That ain't no moonsh, zash sun." This started an argument, which lasted for several minutes, as to whether the globe was the moon or the sun. Finally. they decided to leave it to the first passerby, who happened to be another "happ" gentleman. They stepped him, and. pointing to the globe, asked: "Settle an argument, old pal; is that the moon or the sun?" The third partystared knowingly at the globe for several minutes before he shook his head and replied: "Gentlemen. I really couldn't telr you. I'm a stranger in this town." Philadelphia Record. His Musical Training. Terrible Child Will you please play something for me on the violin. Mr. Jones. Jones But I don't know how, Bobby. T. C. Oh. yes, you do, Mr. Jones, I heard mamma say you played second fiddle to Mrs. Jones. St. Louis Republic. A Musical Education. "Why do you keep your daughter practicing so incessantly on that piano piece?" "I want to be sure she can play something when our friends ask to hear her." "But suppose they want to hear her play something more?" "Oh, there's no danger of that." Bos. ton Record.

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