Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 336, Hammond, Lake County, 25 March 1909 — Page 4

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always -Intended, to promote the general welfare of the public at larse. THE QUESTION OF BOOTLEGGING. LikeIndiana, Ohio Is another state which is -wrestling at. present with the 5 ubiquitous option question. . The liquor question in the sister state on

the east has been in the thrashing out process for a much longer period than it has -within our own borders and its settlement seems just as far distant. as ever. A leading Ohio paper in dealing with the problem says: "The places which have been conducted frankly and openly as saloons close their doors and there springs up in their stead a lesseer number ot boot-legging establishments and blind tigers, winked at by city officers who owe their jobs to a wet electorate. The result in these counties, so far as opinion can be based on a few months' test, seems to promise less drinking of "beer whose bulk makes the illegal handling of it difficult and dangerous, and more drinking of spirits; less promiscuous and careless drinking, undoubtedly less temptation for for the casual drinker, but more drunkenness. "The men who really want liquor continue to purchase it in such quantities as they desire, and in a form and with just enough inconvenience and risk attending the act to tempt to unwonted over-indulgence. "Moreover, in some cities of the type now under consideration, it does i not appear that one of the gravest objections to the open saloon, the easy avenue to loose habits, which it provides for the young and inexperienced, is by any means done away with under the system now on trial. Here i3 an editorial from a recent issue of the Ironton Register, a dry newspaper published In a wet city in a dry county: " 'Some drastic measures should be taken to regulate the soft drink emporiums that are being run contrary to law in this city. These places are nearly all located in former saloon property and with the same fixtures. They sell beer and other drinks to anybody, and it is reported even little boys have gone to frequent these places. The men running them hope thus to raise some good customers when they grow up. " 'But the worst feature of the so-called soft drink experiment is that they are run wide open on Sundays. And, if we are to believe the testimony of some of the eye-witnesses, gambling is also carried on. If the law-abiding citizens of Ironton ever had a civic duty to perform It is facing them now. We have no hesitancy in saying that the way these places are conducted now they do as much real harm toward debauching the community and injuring the rising generation as the real saloons in other days. It is high time for the good citizenship of Ironton to bestir Itself and aid in controlling these places that are run in violation of law, and to the detriment of good morals and good citizenship.' "That editorial fairly reflects conditions in many wet cities which have had dryness forced upon them. The Ohio newspapers are full of dispatches

telling of the arrest of persons for the illegal selling of liquor. Many of these offenders are convicted and punished, but it takes quite a few fines under the county option law to make the saloonist's fixed charges as heavy as they were in the days when he paid the $1,000 tax. Of course, the more

self-respecting publicans, the men cently conducted saloons, have quit

"What has been said about bootlegging and blind tigers does not apply with anything like equal force in every wet city which has been voted dry by the rural population surrounding it. In some such communities an honest effort Is being made to enforce the law to the letter, with the

result that the sale of liquor within the county borders has been much re-

LAWBREAKING

That there is great need of milk inspection is evident by the story which comes from Tolleston to the effect that a milkdealer there actually

confessed that he had been diluting

Not satisfied with the profits he would make if he sold pure milk to his patrons and not content with the fact that even then his milk might not be all that it ought to be, the avaricious milk dealer had the consumate

nerve to water his milk from the pump and render It lacking in nourish ment and deleterious as a sustaining food for babies and children..

Milk prosecutions have been going on In Lake county now for five years, yet there is no cessation in arrests for 'violation of the pure food

law by some milk dealers. It seems as if some of them are

to the law, regardless of public health and heedless of constant warnin Perhaps the punishment does not fit the crime.

WOULD DEATH PENALTY BE WISE ?

The advocacy of capital punishment for kidnapers is being advocated

by many newspapers of high standing. serious problem. The crime always life imprisonment but whether capital

other question. A Pennsylvania paper, where life imprisonment is pro

vided, says:

Certainly it would be unwise to provide capital punishment, as has been suggested within a few days. Undoubtedly miscreants who thus play with life and death and bring the furies to the door of parents of the stolen child deserve no clemency. They should be outlawed and blotted out from

the earth's activities, but a capital ous in preventing kidnaping, and it

kidnaped in case of pursuit and threatened capture of the criminals."

A PRANK OF FATE. Fate is a curious creature and queer are her ways.

A few years ago there was a man

became elected to represent his county in the Indiana legislature.

He became famous for his insistence that the tobacco trust had tried

to bribe him to vote against the anti be an inveterate enemy of cigarettes of consumption, which disease is

smokers. Ananias Baker dying from consumption!

And he didn't smoke cigarettes them.

iu iiLULVb it was Henry Ward Beecher who said: "A sad nature

sheds forth twilight. A merry and

A suspicious nature insensibly imparts Its chill to every generous soul

within fts reach. A bold and frank Fineness makes them firm. Firmness ulates and develops taste."

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FOR INSPECTION AT interest of the people and ita utterances who owned or managed the more de the business. MILKDEALERS. hi3 milk with ten per cent, water. absolutely void of principle, indifferent The punishment of kidnapers is a demands drastic measures at least punishment should be used is an penalty would probably be more effaciwould almost assure the death of the by the name of Ananias Baker who - cigarette law. Baker was known to and last week he died in New Mexico said to be the end of many cigarette either and was bitterly opposed to and mirthful nature brings daylight. nature overcomes meanness in men makes them fine. Taste directs, stim

MeariloMeaii Talks. By EDWIN A.NYE.

Copyright. CS. by American' Press Association. DON'T SCOLD YOUR BOY. "Tell the mothers not to scold their boys. Never in my life did I say 'don't to my children. They were ruled by love and never disappointed me." That Is an extract from a grand old woman to the writer. Why scold the boy? To be sure, he is noisy and sometimes very much in the way. lie comes into the house like a whirlwind, throws his cap, maybe, in one corner and his books In another. Possibly he sprawls at his meals and slyly kicks his brother's shins under the table, makes faces at his sister, teases the bouse cat and is everlastingly In evidence save when he is asleep. But the boy is built for noise. He Is bursting with vitality and must have an escape valve, ne is in the process of making himself fit to go up against big obstacles. Out In the world he will need every pound of that surplus vitality. Don't scold him for what he can't help. A noisy, mischievous, forgetful lad 13 not necessarily a bad boy. Indeed, he is likely to be a better boy at heart than your quiet, self centered boy. But if you scold the noisy youth 50U stir up the bad that is in him. It is easy to nag a good natured, hearty boy into sharp retort and rebellion. There's an easier, better way. The boy's heart is as tender inside as nls manner is rougn on tne out side. He does not wear his heart on his sleeve this kind of boy. But he is not callous, nis father, maybe, can not get Into touch with him because his way la the boy's ways rough on the outside. But you may be sure that under the boy's vest is a big love for his mother, The mother has a great advantage And she should be as careful in han dling her boy as she was careful in handling his father in the old court ing days. The boy's mother should be his sweetheart. She should treat him as she treats her lover. The mother forgets. She is tired or has a headache. The boy jangles her nerves. She flares up at him. She rumples him. Ilia quick temper flies up in self defense. It is soon over. The boy loves his mother just the same. But the whole episode is a miserable failure. Punish the boy, of course, when nec essary, but do not make yourself and him miserable by nagging him and scolding him. Remember, he will not be your boy very long. He will soon be a beard ed man. And you will hold out your arms in vain. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March 23. 1621 John Carver, re-elected governor of Plymouth colony. 1634 Lord Baltimore's first colony landed in Maryland. 1655 Battle at Annapolis, Md., between Puritans and Royalists. 1744 Lotteries were authorized by law in Massachusetts. 1825 The University of Virginia was opened for students. 1554 Oakland, Cal., incorporated as a city. 1555 Kansas state constitutional convention met at Mlneola, and adjourned to Leavenworth. 1863 Confederates captured Brentwood, Tenn. 1S65 Fort Steadman, near Petersburg, Va., captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Federals. 1872 First issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean. 1556 Joseph W. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker and philanthropist, died. 1S94 Coxey's "Army of the Commonweal" started from Massillon, O., for Washington, D. C. 190S President Roosevelt sent a message to congress urging corporation and Industrial legislation. THIS IS MY 61ST BIRTHDAY. Isham Randolph. Isham Randolph, one of the noted engineering experts who accompanied President-elect Taft on his inspection tour of the Panama canal, was born in Clarke county, Virginia, March 25, 1S48. Educated only by his mother and by a few months' attendance in the common schools, Mr. Randolph began his scientific career as a farmer boy of twenty, and in the capacity of an axe man in the survey of the Balti more and Ohio. Within four years, by the closest application to his studies he had risen from the stake driving stage to that of engineer in the same service. In 1880 he was called to Chicago as chief engineer of the Chicago and Western Indiana railroad, and In 1891 he was appointed consulting en glneer of the road In whose employ he began his career. Later he served as chief engineer of the sanitary district of Chicago. Mr. Randolph is regarded as one of the foremost American au thorities on excavations and bridges. Contented Loser. "Pat, I hear you lost five dollars in an election bet with McCarty." "I did, sor, an' oim glad av it, begorra." "Glad of It? Why are you glad of it. Pat?" "Becoz oi won twlnty dollars frum Flannlgan In a bet thawt oi'd lose the

foive dollars oi bet wid McCarty."Harper's Weekly. Up To Date. I had heard of tireless cookers. And how the things were run; Judging from how our meals ar served Our new cook must be one. Houston Post.

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MAY NOT ELEVATB TRACKS. At the present time the Fort Wayne track elevation situation la very much up in the air. South Side property owners yesterday morning appeared before the board of public works and presented objections to the plans for the Improvement as now prepared. CLAYPOOL WANTS THE JOB. In declaring- that he Is willing to be republican candidate for mayor of Indianapolis Jefferson II. Claypool makes a rather unique proposition. He is willing to give a bond of $10,000 as a "guarantee of good faith," and to convince the votetrs that he will conduct the office properly. SALOONS RESPECT LAW. The seventeen saloons In Goshen yes terday morning locked their doors and will keep them closed until after the option election today. This action was decided upon at a meeting of saloonlsts In the belief that a sample of a "dry" town would influence voters In behalf of the "wets." GAS PRESSURE STRONG. The big gas well struck by Queen Bros., drilling on Will Lams farm, two miles southwest of Petersburg. in southwest quarter, section 28, Wash ing township, has been increasing in pressure all day, and at 6 o'clock Tuesday when the drillers attempted to cap the well the force of the gas was so great that the six-Inch string of casing 110 feet long would have been lifted out of the well had the effort been continued. AVOMEN TO CLEAN CITY. Ono hundred of the leading women of Frankfort met at the home of Mrs. John Q. Baylesa and perfected an organization having as its purpose a cleaner and more beautiful Frankfort. The organization proposes to bring about the cleaning up of all rubbish and filth and the city has promised to haul it away free of charge. The plan also carries with it a general beautifying of the lawns and streets. TO EXTEND THE LINE. Rumors and indications of the early building of the Amo extension of the Indianapolis & Danville traction line come thick and fast. The Big Four company has just completed a switch from its line to the traction company's track at Amo for the purpose. It Is said, of transporting tho bridge and building materials from the railroad to the trolley people to be used at Danville. COMPROMISE SUITS. Two damage suit sagainst the Pan handle Railroad company, aggregating $11,000, were compromised at Logansport yesterday for $4,250. One was the case in which $10,000 damages was asked for the death of Panhandle RAN DO M THINGS AND FUNGS The only way we see for Jeffries and Johnson to get together is to let Con Moor hook 'em both for West Ham mond. IT IS JUST A HIT MORE SPORTS MAN-LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING GOOD OF A MAN ONCE IX A WHILE INSTEAD OF HAMMERING AWAY AT HIM ALL THE TIME. This winter is a joke. It belongs in the funny column; not in the weather reports. Has she given you any ultimatum re garding the new Piaster bonnet. THE AVERAGE MAN THINKS A COOKBOOK IS ABOUT AS STRONG MENTAL FOOD AS THE AVERAGE WOMAN CAN DIGEST. We wonder how Dairyman Heine of Tolleston can either look a pump or a cow in the face after pleading guilty. Nothing we fflve Is ever wasted. It is only when we grasp tight that which we have that our hands stow empty. They are getting ready to hold a "wet-dry" election in Jasper county. My, won't there be some terrible times night Thayer, Hanging Grove and Milroy. It is a wise daughter who doesn't underrate her mother-in-law's eh arms. A Minstrel In Bondage. There was a party at Jim Stallcup's Saturday night, and the whole county was there, old and young. They say they had the stavenest time ever had in this neck of the woods. They ought to have had us there to teach them how to play "Yonder Comes My True Love" and "How Do You Do?" Chimney Sweeper," "Lost My True Love," "Spik-them-a-lew," "Marching Down to Old Quebec,"' "Weavely Wheat," "Killy-my-cranky." and a whole lot of other plays that Doc Allen and usetaoin plays us and Doc Allen used to play back In Old Kaintuck. We used to be a boss hand at those old-time gatherings and would act the fool yet sometimes if our wife would let us. Rich Hill (Mo.) Review. THE BASEBALL FAN IS BUSY STOCKING UP WITH A NEW SET OF JIBES AND JEERS. On dit that the redoubtable Tom Swanton Is preparing to storm the bastile for the republican nomination for mayor of Hammond. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is a mint julep to a pro-

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Brakeman John D. Delarber, which occurred Dec. 23, 1908, near Converse. The damage suit was filed yesterday morning. A compromise for $4,000 was awarded. BIRD BLINDS FARMER. While Rex Strawn, a Loogootee farmer, was carrying a lantern near his home last night he was the victim of peculiar accident in which the sight of one eye was destroyed. The light attracted and blinded a large bird .which flew into Strawn's face, the bird's bill striking the man's eye. Physicians say the eyeball probably will have to be removed. Strawn does not known what kind of a bird struck him. SEAL DENIES REPORT. Elam Neal, international revenue collector for the Sixth Indiana District, with headquarters at Indianapolis, while In Marion yesterday afternoon emphatically denied the report printed in a local newspaper to the effect that President Taft would appoint him United States commissioner of revenue. He said the place had not been tendered him and that he had no thought of being appointed. John G. Capers of South Carolina is the present internal revenue commissioner. BOARD MAKES ADJUSTMENT. The arbitration board of which G. W. Stldger was chairman, filed . Its finding in the controversy between John M. Leach and L. B. Hodgln, of Kokomo, finding that Hodgin was entitled to $24,405.35. This is the amount of Interest Mr. Hodgln is Judicially found to hold In a partnership busi ness dissolved betwen them some months ago. DEFENSE CLOSES CASE. Testimony In the Agar forgery case on trial at Princeton, came to a close at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the defense announced they had no further evidence. Immediately following the closing of the testimony Prosecutor Trlppett moved that all the alleged forged notes of the Princeton Elevator company, aggregating about $50,000, be admitted as evidence In the case. To this the defense objected, but the objection was overruled and the notes were read to the jury. TO TRY AEROPLANE. J. F. Scott of Chicago, experimenting for the signal service of the war department arrived at Lawrenceburg yesterday morning with a large aeroplane. He will spend three weeks experimenting on the level land between this city and Aurora. The aeroplane Is equipped with a forty-flve-horse power engine. Scott expects to make his first trip today. He has located on the Henry Bobrlnk farm, two miles from this city. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News Washington scientific men praise Shackleton's achievement In the Ant arctic, especially as proving the existence of a continent surrounding the south pole. Bride of Vincennes man is believed fatally injured by carbolic acid she was forced to drink by another woman, said to have been prompted by Jealousy. New York teacher is shot dead by her father as she hurries to school. Police Commissioner Bingham of New York declares he spurned a million in graft. Lions maul thirteen men during the season in Mombasa, where Roosevelt will hunt. Minority Leader Clark in the house of representatives attacks the Payne bill with ridicule In a five-hour speech and Speaker Cannon twice interrupts. Marshall l- li;ld & lo. start war on proposed increase of tariff on gloves and hosiery. Nomination of Illinois federal of ficers may be sent to the senate today by President Taft. Delegation from South Chicago pleads before. a senate committee at Spring field for the Illinois Steel company bill and meets much opposition. Mayor Busse has stormy interview with Wlllard A. Smith, but is said to admit Alderman Foreman is permitted to grant favors to saloonkeepers. Policeman Alexander Scott, who killed Joseph Finn, an innocent workman, admits before a coroner's jury w'hich held him to the grand jury that he had been drinking prior to the shooting. Veteran cook at county jail defends Sheriff Strassheim's methods and declares he feeds prisoners much better than did any of his predecessor. Powers still hope for settlement of Austria's trouble with Servia, according to London officials, despite the Vienna government's new demands. Higher European wheat values supplementing war talk makes shorts uneasy and advances local prices; milling demands poor; receipts large; live stock lower. Leading stocks on the Chicago exchange are higher. Stocks in Wall street show strength, and rumor of a combine of the New York Central and Union Pacific develops circumstantial details. liibition candidate bis own county. astride of Heard on Broadway. Isn't it annoying when you are hurruying along the sidewalk to get somewhere in a hurry to find a lot of other people doing the samething and falling all over you? Great is our dlsa-ust in life the KOnl thnt we cannot kick. Lawnmowera and baby carriages have one thins; In common the man who Dunnes them.

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Willie Whitls - WASHINGTON GOSSIP OF INTEREST TO H00SIERS. Washington, March 25. Owing to the fact that there will be no meetings of the senate committee on judiciary before next Monday the nomination of Charles W. Miller as district attorney cannot be confirmed until next week. The committee probably will act on the nomination Monday. F.ormer Senator Hemenway is preparing a speech which he will deliver to the Tariff club of Pittsburg Friday night. Representatives of many of the largest industrial concerns in the country will attend the banquet. . The postofftce department has sent an inspector to South Bend and Gary, Ind., to ascertain tho need of additional clerks at the South Bend postoffice and to report on claims of Gary for the establishment of city mail delivery. Charles T. Riddell of Brazil was a congressional visitor yesterday. After Senator Beveridge leaves the hospital at Baltimore he probably will go to Atlantic City to spend a week or two. The postoffice department announces the appointment of James A. McMath as city carrier at Indianapolis. Herman E. Tiler will be appointed on the city carrier force at Huntington effective April 1. Former Representative Watson will return to Indiana in a few days. He called on Charles W. Miller, who has been nominated for district attorney, to extend congratulations and to wish him success in that office. Watson says he has definitely made up his mind that he does not want any kind of an appointment that would take him away from Indiana. William M. Witham was yesterday appointed rural carrier at Parr, Ind. M. V. B. Haas of Indianapolis Tues day received an appointment at $1,500 a year as a draftsman on the Isthmus of Panama. The city of Decatur, Ind., was Tuesday granted an additional city letter carrier, effective April 1. Rpprcsentative Cline Tuesday introduced a bill providing for a survey of the proposed ship canal to connect Lake Erie and Lake Michigan, via Fort Wayne. Former Senator Hemenway returned l from Indiana Tuesday afternoon. He will remain here indefinitely. He saya that comment he heard on the Payne tariff bill in Indiana was highly favorable. j PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Alice Fisher is to appear in vaudeville In a condensed version of "Captain Jack." "Paid in Full' is to be given a production In Holland during the month of May. Charles Frohman has engaged Leo Mars for the role of the French Marquis in "The Dollar Princess." Mi.s Florence Roberts is ill in Kansas City. She is said to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Henry 15. Harris has accepted a new comedy written by Kellc-t Chambers. It is described as dealing with American life. Miss Grace ElliPton, leading lady of the George Ariiss company, playing in "The Devil" was compelled to retire from the cast while the coming was on

aiid His Mother The Day In Congress(Washington, D. C, March 24, 1909-X House. Declaring, among other things, that a mistake was made in the Payne tariff bill In not arranging the revision on the basis of raising revenue only on every item, Mr. Clark of Missouri, the minority leader, today held the attention of the house for more than five hours in discussing the measure. Incidentally, he pointed out that much time would have been saved In tha consideration of the bill had the democratic members of the committee been consulted about the varioua'provlfliona of the proposed law. Mr. Clark spoke in characteristio style, and frequently moved the house to applause and laughter. At the conclusion of his remarks he received an ovation from his democratic colleagues. He was followed by Messrs. Washburn of Massachusetts and Adamson of Georgia, the former attacking the Inheritance tax provision of the bill, while Mr. Adamson opposed the erection of a tariff wall so high as to prevent the people of the United States buying in all the markets of the world as well as disposing of their surplus products. At 5:13 p. m. the house adjourned. the road, being threatened with nervous prostration. Her place was taken by Miss Anne Sutherland, an actress well known In the west through her excellent work in stock companies In that city and throughout the west. Le Bargy, the French actor, is to play tho leading part In Rostand'a "Chanticleer," which was originally designed for the late Coquelin. Flora Zabolle has been engaged for Bettina and Estelle Wenworth will sing Fiametta in the revival of "The Mascot" in New York, next month. Miss Percy Haswell, now playing with Otis Skinner, is to have the leading part In a new play by Booth Tarkington, entitled "Foreign Exchange." The Shuberts have recently acquired through Sanger and Jordon the American rights to "The Belle of Brittany," which is now running In Ixndon with great success. Miss Henrietta Crossman will fill an engagement in Chicago in April, presenting a new play, entitled "Sham." It is described us a witty satire on New York's smart set. When Rose Stahl sails to London to test the Britisli sense of human with "The Chorus Lady," Margaret Rohe will be a member rf the company. Miss Rohe has not appeared upon the stage for several years. Klaw & Erlanger have recently obtained from Cl.anning Pollock the rights of a new play, which Is to be completed for an early production next season. It is understood that the titled of the play will be "The Way of Happiness." Thomas Thome has beet, engaged by Harrison Grey Fisko for the part of Dopey McKnight in "The Gay Life." the new comedy written by Roy McCardell, which will have its metropolitan premiere some time during the coming month. It is reported that Charles Frohman has accepted a i;ew play by John Galsworthy, entitled "Thrift," which is in the nature of a sequel to Mr. Galsworthy's play 'Strife." which has met with great succ-ss. The new play will be produced later in the season. James H. Haekett has a new play by Charles T. Dazey, entitled "A Son of the South."' which wi"! be given Its first production at Tittsburg tonight. Mr. Haekett who has been rather unfortunate in thf selection of his plays lately, expects to make this play hla chief offering next season