Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 256, Hammond, Lake County, 17 April 1909 — Page 4
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Saturday, April 17. 1909.
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ARGUMENTS ON LABOR'S APPEAL. In the District Court of Appeals at Washington, next Monday, arguments will be heard upon the appeal taken from the decision of Judge Wright, adjudging Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell in contempt for their alleged violation of the injunction granted against them upon the petition of the Bucks Stove and Range Company of St. Louis. This is the case in which Messrs. Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell, as president, secretary and vice president, respectively, of the American Feedration of Labor, were sentenced to jail for Judge Wright for contempt of court
The case originated in November, 1907, when J. W. Van Cleave, president of the Bucks Stove and Range Company and also president of the National Manufacturers' Association, and who is known as one of the most active foes of organized labor, brought an action for $340,000 damages against the American Federation of Labor, and its executive council and at the same time applied for an injunction pending the determination of the original action, to prohibit the federation from in any way advising organized labor and its friends that the company is unfair to its employes. On Dec. 23, 1907, the court made permanent an injunction forbidding the federation and its officers from continuing their campaign against the Buck's Stove and Range Company or publishing the name in the "unfair list." Mr. Gompers and his associated labor leaders determined to make a firm stand against the writ of injunction. The official organ of the American Federation of Labor, technically obeyed the order regarding the publication of the unfair list, but each month Mr. Gompers had vigorous editorials on the subject and also delivered a number of public speeches outlying his position
in the matter. As a result of these proceedings the three principal officers of the Federation were cited before Judge Wright, who found them guilty of contempt of court in their alleged violation of the injunction and sentenced them to jail for one year each. It is the appeal from this decision that will be argued by Alton B. Parker of New York before the District .Court of Appeals, Monday.
A GREAT BATTLE. With all the panoply of justice stern demeanored judges upon the woolsack and grim visaged advocates in solemn array, there comes before the courts soon the one important accomplishment of Indiana's reform governor. In the chair with the prestige of a great constitutional lawyer, he has ordered special council, and momentous consultations have been held. On the governor's side are the powers of the political party that put him into office, and with bated breath its leaders await the determination of the question that engrosses the learned governor and his constitutional advisors. Of equal solemnity is the other side. The second officer of the common
wealth, the august auditor of state, and the equally important attorney general, are preparing briefs, and a small army of counsel and clerks is looking up authorities and precedent to defend their rights. The contest promises to be the greatest display of forensic eloquence ever tried before our state courts. Governor Marshall is hailed everywhere as the apostle of strict constitutional government. His speeches have shown that he has the highest ideals for the state, and no doubt the full effort of his scintillating legal brain will be put forth to decide this most momentous question. It is the one thing outside of official routine on which he has taken a stand, and It must be decided right. Hence it engrosses all his attention. By the way, the question is as to who shall be the official spittoon cleaner, of the state house, says a Indiana exchange.
OUR NATIONAL SONGS. Boards of education in several west trn states are now requiring that every pupil that enters high school must be able to repeat the words of one of our national songs. It la required that pupils should know by heart such songs as "Amer
ica" or "Hail Colombia" or "The Star Spangled Banner." It is a fact that not one In ten of the average American audiences is able to sing all the stanzas of "America." A newspaper tells of a patriotic Sunday school superintendent who was surprised to discover that the national hymn was not In the book used by his school. Whereupon the superintendent asked the children to sing the hymn from memory. They got through the first stanza and then faltered. And the adults who were present were unable to lend them much assistance. Do you suppose any company of Germans would fail to 6ing every line of "Die Wacht am Rhine?" Or can you fancy any popular audience of the French people that would fail to remember the words of "The Marseillaise?" Or a gathering of Englishmen that would sing one stanza of "God Save the King" and forget the rest of it? There are abundant reasons why we should be the most patriotic people on earth. And perhaps we are, but we are a little short in our expression of patriotism.
There are two ways by which we the people may best express our sentimentsdisplay of the flag and songs.
Of course it Is possible to be patri
otic without knowing or singing the words of our national songs. It also Is possible to be patriotic without the use of the flag.
The dearest traditions of the republic are wrapped in the fclds of the
flag. By some mystery of the mind a
symbol comes to stand for a senti
ment, an object lesson for an idea
The greater the sentiment or Idea the
greater the symbol. And so of the songs.
Not only the words, but the tunes also, are forever wedded to patriotic memories. They symbolize in the
minds and hearts of the masses of the people glorious heroisms and achieve
ments.
The flag should be raised over every
schoolhouse la the land. And the na
tlonal songs should be taught la every
Dublic school.
LABOR LEADER IX INDIANAPOLIS.5 evening at the Anthony hotel. Covers Frank M. Ryan of Chicago, president 1 were laid for 225 and talks were -of the International Association of livered by a number of prominent citiBridge and Structural Iron Workers, Is, zens. The theme of the evening was in Indianapolis having a conference j "The Beautifkatlon of Fort Wayne.-' with J. II. Barry of St. Louis, second J and the principal speaker was Charles vice president of the organization. I N. Brown of Madison. Wis. The menu NEARLY KILLED BY AIR GVX. ! was particularly elaborate. Mrs. John II. Duwall, of Lafayette,' MIDGET IS MARRIED.
wniic iJiajiuK wun ner granuson, agea; a unique marriagv ceremony 5 years, was badlv injured vesterdav ' nerformed at Knox last nio-ht
Beauty Contestant Marries is Climax of Romance
afternoon by the accidental discharge of an air rifle In the youngster's hands. The bullet struck the corner of her left eye and lodged near the brain. Mrs. Duwalt almost bled to death be
fore surgical help arrived. She will
w a when
Che Mahr, a midget, 28 inches in height and said to be the smallest man in the world, was united in marriage to Mis;; Nora T. Cleveland of Kingston. Pa. The groom is CI and the bride, who looks down on her diminutive spouse
recover, but may lose the sight of her from an altitude of 5 feet 6 inches Is 41
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1--. ..... . - . . - V .... J . A bucket and presence of mind of a Agent Seraphis of the Immigration fellow employe saved the life of
Bureau of the Department of Commerce Michael Khrman. a workman on the
nd Labor last night locked up two ; sewer being constructed at East Wash-
Greek shoeshine boys at Evansville, one ' ington street and the Belt, in Indian-
f them under 16 years of age. Heiapolis. yesterday. When Khrman was
ays he will break up the "peonage ; fifteen feet below the surface of the
system" in Indiana. One of the boys' ground the earth caved in upon him. said he was promised $150 a year to j A bucket hastily snatched up and drop-
come here by James Botes, the Greek pened over his head protected it from
hoeshine "king." The boy says he the falling earth and warded off uf-
has never received any pay. ! focation.
TO COMBAT WHITE Pl.iGlK. AN TELL MIST GO TO JAIL Work on the tuberculosis "colony", The all-absorbing topic of conver-
that is being established by the In- sation in Bloomington was the convic-
A NOTABLE THEATRICAL BENEFIT. Theatre goers in Lake County though they will not be able to be present are interested in the Clara Morris benefit today in New York, where one of the greatest aggregations of noted players that New York has had an opportunity to see in a long time appeared on 'the stage of the New York theatre this afternoon at a big testimonial performance given for the benefit of Miss Clara Morris, whom the older playgoers remember as one of the famous actresses of her day. The Twelfth Night Club organized the benefit for Miss Morris, who of late has been ill and pressed with debts. Among the well known actors and actresses who contributed their services to the performance were E. H. Sothern, Wilton Lackaye, Frank Worth
ing, Edwin Arden, Henry Miller, Chauncey Olcott, Lawrence D'Orsay, Virginia Harned, Grace George, Frances Starr, Elsie Janis, Eleanor Moretti and Elita Proctor Otis. Miss Morris herself appeared in a short scene from "Macbeth" and was given an enthusiastic reception. Clara Morris, who is now in her sixtieth year, retired from the stage about ten years ago on account of ill health. She is a native of Toronto, but was educated in Cleveland and made her first stage appearance at the Academy of Music in that city in 1861. She advanced rapidly in the profession and in 1S69 became leading woman at Wood's Theatre in Cincinnati. The following year she joined Augustin Daly's company at the Fifth Avenue Theatre and here she became famous in emotional roles. Probably her most famous portrayal was that of "Camlle," in which she was seen in all of the principal cities of America.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. April 17.
1784 Universal religious equality cre
ated by law in New York.
1816 Samuel A. Allibone, author, born
in Philadelphia. Died Sept. 2, 1889
1S30 Navigation of the Black Sea
opened to American vessels. 1819 The steamer "General Pike'
burned on the Mississippi. 1856 Quebec made the capital of Up per and Lower Canada.
1861 Virginia seceded from the Union.
1865 Federals took possession of Wes
Point, Miss.
1875 Boston celebrated the centennia
of Paul Revere's ride.
1S79 Over 200 persons perished in col
liery explosion m iuons, lieigtum.
1893 Treaty of peace between Japan
and China signed at Shlmonoseki
1907 William J. Bryan declared In
favor of the Initiative and refer
endum.
THIS IS MY 7TH BIRTHDAY. Charles II. Farkhurst.
Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, th
noted Presbyterian clergyman and re
former, was born in Framingham
Mass., April 17, 1812. He graduated from
Amherst college in 1SG6, and after
ward studied theology at the Universit
of Lelpsie. He entered the Presby terian ministry in 1870 and for one yea
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nary. In 1874 he became pastor of
church at Lenox, Mass.. where he re
mained until 1880. In that year h
was called to the pulpit of the Madiso
Square church in New York City. I
1S91 he became president of the Society
for the Prevention of Crime, and soo
thereafter achieved prominence by hi
assertion that a partnership existed be
tween the police and lawbreakers
Parkhurst and hos society led to th Parkhurst and hos society led to th
famous Lexow investigation, which re
suited in a temporary reform at leas
in the police department of New York.
THE VERSATILE CROWN POINTER. Our Washington dispatches tell us that Senator Shively, among a number of other petitions has received one from Crown Point, asking him to do all he can to get the tariff taken off hides and the product placed on the free list. Senator Shively's attitude on the hide proposition will evidently interest a number of county-seat people and if he doesn't do the right thing they will no doubt "go after his hide." We cannot help feeling some admiration for the good people of the county-seat, which is only natural, however. Here they have a series of international automobile races coming off down there, which 200,000 people are expected to attend; and yet notwithstanding this fact, they find ample time to get busy on the hide question.
dianapolls city board of health on the Hospital grounds is progressing in a manner that Is gratifying the members of the board. The physicians who are
interested in the construction of the cottages that will make up the little colony say that there will be no dif
ficulty In filling all the cottages that are soon to be completed, and that it is possible that very soon other buildings will have to be added.
NIGHT RIDERS TERRORIZE. Night riders continue their lawless
destruction of property In the south-: ern part of Daviess county and the northern part of Pike, and last night
they caused damage to the amount of several hundred dollar and set the neighborhood of Big White river bot
tom farms In a reign of terror. KILLED MAKING NITROGLYCERIN.
Charles Deweese and Moses Lantz
were instantly Kiueo in lerre nauia at 12:45 o'clock today by the explosion
of nitrogylcerin, which they were en
gaged in making at the factory of the Independent Torpedo company near Itobinson, 111. The factory was blown away and nothing was found of the bodies but some fragments of bone and
flesh.
COMMERCIAL CLUB BANQUETS. The annual banquet of the Fort
Wayne Commercial club was held this
tion by the jury of Harry A. Axtell for embezzlement and the probability that within the next few days Axtel will be serving a sentence at Michigan Cit of from two to fourteen years. Axtell has not entirely lost hope of obtaining a new trial, although It seems to be the general opinion In the city that the motion for a few trial will be overruled by Judge Wilson. DEAD; II AC LED THROIUJI STREET. As his horses were speeding unguided down one. of Warsaw's streets yesterday afternoon Eli Hull, aged 68 i lay In the bed of his wagon dng. Hull managed a farm for Mrs. Zephora Klst, near Scue Lake, and had driven into Warsaw to sell corn. He had unloaded the corn at a mill and turned his horses Into the street. They embled along and presently began to run. FEELING OVER ELECTION. The directors of the Law and Order league met yesterday afternoon and discussed plans for conducting the cam
paign against the "drys" in this county. Considerable feeling has been aroused by the linking of the names of prominent citizens as being Identified with the movement, against their knowledge or consent. The "drys" have held no meeting and will not do so until the organization of the county is completed.
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His early education by private tutors
was followed by a course at Amherst college. In 1881 he entered the law department of Columbia university and three years later he was admitted to the New York bar. In 18S8 Mr. Jerome was appointed assistant district attorney. After leaving the district at
torney's office he appeared as counsel In the celebrated Carlyle W. Harris case, and a short time later he achieved prominence by assisting in the famous
Lexow investigation of the ew lorK police department. In 1895 Mayor Strong appointed Mr. Jerome a judge of the oourt of special sessions and in that position he again distinguished himself by personally conducting a cru
sade against policy shops in the metrop
olis. He was elected district attorney in 1901 and re-elected on an independent ticket In 1905.
RANDOM THINGS AND FUNGS
We have yet to meet a more bashful thing than young spring, by jittg!
. .The jojThat enter a Woman' ho ul dora Not cause her half so mueh Discomfort as that f Will eh conies on In freckles On her Nose. Foursome Tries the Links.
St. Thomas had a double wedding last
week. Bismarck (N. D.) Tribune.
HAS SOME EYE FOR THE COLOR OF
THE BOOKS.
' enough to think that he didn't in e a n It If he tld her she had lovely eyes.
In trading one ball player f O'
er, it looks to us as though U
be only a square deal to throw
water boy or a bat carrier once In a while.
Should In a
Man is a contradictory brute, lust us soon as a woman succeeds in inaklnic herself adorable for him, she finds him floating off with the kind of a woman he has always said that he had detested. Wouldn't it be queer to be an in
habitant of Jupiter and go home late
some night and see sixteen moons.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
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Beloit, Wis., April 17. The marriage in the municipal court here late yes
terday afternoon of Miss Florence Southack of Chicago and C C. laylor or New York was the culmination of a pretty romance. Miss Southack was honorably mentioned for the beauty of her profile in the beauty contest conducted
by the Chicago Tribune several months ago, and her picture attracted the
attention of Mr. Taylor, who is a piano expert and travels extensively. He
sought the young woman's acquaintance, being introduced by her brother, who is in the piano business in Chicago. At the time she lived at 6425 Vernort avenue. They became engaged and the wedding date was set, but owing to Miss Southack's Illness was postponed. Business brought Mr. Taylor to Beloit yesterday and rather than be left behind Miss Southaeh accompanied him, It being decided that they would be married immediately upon their arrival. They secured a special permit, waiving the Wisconsin five day law, and were married by Judge C. D. Rosa. Mr. Taylor is a thirtysecond degree Mason and a noble In Mecca Shrine, New York City. The couple will live In New York. , -
SHUCKS
From the Diary of Si. Lence
Old Hiram Xewweds' son, W. Jasper, married one o' these new wimmin sum time ergo, an' his friends guv him a vveddin' present o' a complete outfit o' wearin' apparrel Infant's size. W. Jasper wus tickled ter death at the time and sed he hed plenty o fingers an' thumbs ter count the months when they'd be a-needin' the baby-rags. Now it 'ud take the entire genealogy o' the Newwed family tree ter furnish enough fingers an' thumbs ter count the months, an' the druggist at Squdgeville sez as how W. Jasper spends a good deal o' his salary a-buying' moth balls ter preserve the baby duds.
ain't, ain't goin' ter hurt you," sed the mouse to the lion, as he scampered oft the latter's spinal column. au';,uinrli hrdlut hrdlutu u hrdltuauta
"Why these tears?" sed he. "Too much onions," sed she. An' they dug Romance's gave sixty feet horizantal an' sixty feet perpendicular an no flowers.
It Is love that makes the world Ko round, but it tnkes diorce to slve you that restful feeling afterwards.
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ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC MAGAZINE. Norman Mack is another leading democrat who doesn't believe that the sun rises and sets in Mr. Bryan's "Commoner." Mr. Mack is to start a magazine devoted to the furthering democratic principles. In other words, Mr. Bryan's "Commoner"' is to have competition and Mr. Mack believes that if it is a good thing for Mr. Bryan, a like magazine would be a good thing for him. As the Buffalo man has had much experience as a publisher, long before Mr. Bryan became a public character, the contest between the two magazines for democratic supremacy, will excite a good deal of interest. Now is the time to subscribe.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. April IS. ' Ride of Paul Revere from Boston
to Lexington. 1781 British evacuated Camden. S. C, after setting fire to the town. 17 S3 The assembly of Pennsylvania granted a charter for ten years to the Bank of North America. ISIS Congress authorized the territory of Illinois to form a state constitution. 1S30 Destructive fire in Charleston, S. C. 1847 Americans defeated the Mexicans in battle of Cerro Gordo. 1861 Harper's Ferry seized by the Confederates. 1S64 Isaac Murphy became provisional governor of Arkansas. ' 1S76 President Grant vetoed a bill to reduce the president's salary to $25,000. 1SS2 Frederick Maclean sentenced to prison in England for attempting to shoot Queen Victoria. 1906 Earthquake and fire destroyed a large section of San Francisco.
Don't ever get it into your head, either, that the saloonmen are simply going to lay right down and let you trample all over them.
Before a man is married he Is always raving over simplicity
In the woman after he has suggests that
he lot cm, but paid , for it he she net some
thing showy and less expensive. A Game Loser. There is a game of solitaire so hard to win that it is said H. M. Jackson has played for ten years and never won a game. Atchison Globe.
THIS IS MY 50TH BIRTHDAY. William T. Jerome. William Travers Jerome, district attorney of New York county and who is credited with an ambition to become the next mayor of Greater New York, was born in New York, April 18, 1S5"
Alfred Austin's latest poem has just been published. The poem is not remarkable, but the fact that it wan published at all is remarkable. A homely woman may be skeptical If a man admires her mouth or nose, but no feminine creature was ever hideons
THE CYNIC WHO CLAIMED THAT A ' WOMAN CHOSE THE BOOKS OF HER LIBRARY BECAISE THEY FITTED THE HEIGHT OF HER SHELVES T!D HER A RANK INJUSTICE. SHE
May wheat drops half a cent. Chi
oago sealer starts campaign to learn
the weight of bread loaves. J. F. Smejkal, defeated aldermanic candidate in the Thirty-fourth ward, charges fraud at the election and asks a recount of the votes. Chicago Woman's club favors a commission to investigate the public library situation. Secretary Dickinson's neighbors think he will be the first man called to presidency from south. Rev. Dr. Harvey G. Furbay, once a noted clergyman, but for years a tramp, will be restored to the ministry by the New York presbytery.
Mysterious woman. handsome andj
wen supplied witn money, who came as a cabin passenger on a liner, is de-: tained at Kilts island, accused of de-i serting her husband in Hungary. Astute diplomatic maneauvering for1 votes is employed in the struggle in Washington for the highest office of th Daughters of the American Revolution, and Mrs. Scott and Mrs. McLean decide to stay away from Mrs. James S. Sherman's tea. Chiefs of American Federation of Labor call on President Taft and discuss question of. vital interest to labor. Adolphtis Busch, in a signed statement issued at St. Louis, warns Missouri that his brewery will be forced to leave the state if prohibition is adopted. Disregard of the Poet Swinburne's wish that there be no religious services at his funeral causes outburst of indignation at the graveside. Rumors in Pris say that Frederick MacMonniee. the American sculptor, whose divorce has only recently become known, will wed one of his wealthy pupils, Miss Jones of California. Bears in Wall street have a good day beating down the prices of the leading stocks. Chicago stocks reflect the weakness shown in New York. Eureopean markets fail to reflect Thursday's break in wheat here; corn and oats active and higher.
Not every man as smells o' gasoline is the owner o' an automobile. Thet hardware apprentice, thet blackens stoves at Squdgeville, hez all the credentials o' a high-class smell-boat owner. Smells o' gasoline, lies dirty hands, an' the same kind o' manners, but he an' his wife have been savin' up fer years ter pay the first installment on a baby go-cart.
Good thing the 'little blind God" Is that-a-way. By jing! Don't think he'd sptnd much time with sum o' the specimens yer Uncle Si knows, ef he hed enny sight at all. "Silence is golden." Jest so, but did yer ever hear what a big noise few 120-gold pieces make in more ways then one.
Sum times the greatest difference between a wife an' an affinity is thet the wife knows the dtirned cuss, an the affinity don't.
The jokes o' sum hearse shed tears.
men 'ud make a
Ef take ual.
yer have ter take 'em off. Why 'em off? But do it durned grad-
Noticed thet the only piece o' furniture thet sum o' there modern housekeepers kwp well dusted and shined, is the card table.
Sum o' these men thet go around
with their head away up in the ain't got much excuse fer doin' it
cept the high collars they're a-wearin'.
Voice of the People
ABOUT THE BOYISH PKOFANITY.
Ilev known menny a "good thet couldn't find his way hum.
scout"
Complexion Something that nearly every woman keeps in a little cut glass box on the top o' the dresser.
Alius been in favor o' the happy medium, but hv noticed in lots o' life's seances thet the condition is few an' far between. It's all right ter be a leedle bit chesty, but yer don't want ter carry it ter the point ' not bein" able ter see yer feet, an' where they're a-takin" ye.
The nearest broken heart butcher-shop, kind there is.
I ever kum ter s wus nil the platt Guess thet's th
em r in
Sum fellers get so durned lonesome at times thet even the sound o' the) barber's voice is Jike sweet music to!
their ears. Sum folks want ter know who "Si Lence" is- Silence,
"Spring has come," but it's safest ter insert the "may-be." LOUIE'S LATEST. Little drops o" water. Little drops o' rain. Butter in the celler. Comes swimmin up again.
Sum little mw act like this
A mother lias sent us the following clipping which we are asked to publish. We gladly do so for it deals with a
a'r j i.eglected subject and one that Is ex- ..,... , . ., . ...
vmiiiij ui anemi"!!, me article reads: It is a regrettable fact that profanity ha.s be one- oinirion among the boys. It is not in the least out of the "-.Mnary, here a group of boys of ten and fifteen years is together upon the .streets or in any open space to piay a game of bail to hear them using oaths that might suit the tongues of the proverbial llshwife or cistermor.ger, but which are shocking falling from the tongues of children of tender years. Of all stupid and silly vices, profanity is one of the worst and most abominable. A simple statement of fact is much stronger than any statement embellished with swearwords, and no lie is made any tiie more believable by being framed in profanity. . In fart, both truth anri falsehood are weakened by swearii g and taking the Lord's name in vain. Foul epithets and comparisons are not convincing, but are almost invariable disgusting, except to those making use of them. Profanity among men seems to be growing less and less, at least in public places and among those who may lay claim to decency and some education. But the habit seems to have firmly fixed ed itself upon a great, many of the boys, who may imagine it mannish to use profanity and smoke cigar-ette-
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