Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 22, Hammond, Lake County, 14 July 1909 — Page 4
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STOP THE SALE OF EXPLOSIVES. It is with no sense of pride or braggadocio that Hammond records three deaths from tetanus as the result of Fourth of July celebrations. In all the cases the victims were young lads. They were boys of exceptional ability in school; they had been carefully nurtured by their parents; raised through infancy, babyhood, childhood and early boyhood until their relatives saw in them an arrival at an age where they would grow up to be useful citizens. Now they are dead as the result of blank cartridge explosions on the Fourth of July. Three dead so far and fifteen injured, some of the latter maimed for life is the shocking toll. Is the human sacrifice worth it? There have been battles waged that did not result more disastrously. This paper believes that the time is not too early to begin agitation for a perfectly sane Fourth in Hammond next year and THE PREVENTION BY ORDINANCE OF THE SALE OF EXPLOSIVES IN THE CITY NEXT YEAR. Had this been done this year, the lives of these boys and perhaps others who are not yet out of danger, would have been prevented. Think it over fathers and mothers and city authorities.
VICIOUS READING. A New York boy of seventeen years sat in the room of a friend reading aloud from a dime novel, in the company of two younger boys. Suddenly a tragedy was enacted. This is what was afterward told by one of the trio, aged fourteen: "He said Steinberg was reclining in a chair reading aloud from a dime novel when Williams commenced to play with the revolver, a cheap affair he had obtained the previous day by trading a bicycle for it. The weapon did not work properly and at last Williams came to the conclusion that it could not be made to explode the two ball cartridges that were in the cylinder. He pranced around the room as Steinberg read several exciting passages from the dime novel and suddenly pressed the muzzle of the weapon against Steinberg's right arm, according to young Morelli. Then after pointing the revolver at his companions, he raised it above his head. It was while he was lowering his arm that the revolver was discharged." This is the fruit of the dime novel-death. It is being plucked every day by boys whose parents neglect their bringing up by permitting them to read the trash which intoxicates the boy mind as much as whiskey does the adult. Do you watch your boy's reading?
THE LAPSE OF OFFICER MARQUARDT. After killing a rioter and being acquitted on trial, establishing a record for bravery, Officer William Marquardt of the Gary police force has parted with a great deal of the esteem in which he was held by showing that he is not as brave as he has been thought. Bravery is a quality that must be consistent to be admired. Marquardt was given an order by his superior officer which he refused to carry out. In a fit of rage he threw down his star and club because his chief insisted that he carry out the order. In so doing, Mr. Marquardt showed that he was not a brave man. A truly brave man obeys orders given him, and when the ex-officer refused to arrest a friend when ordered to do so by his superior officer, he fell short of the idealy brave man. There are many people in this world who obey orders every day and sometimes they know that these orders are wrong, but they obey orders and show the spirit of courage and faithfulness that is commendable. If men and women refused to obey orders given them from above because they themselves in the absence of an intimate knowledge considered them wrong, it would be a sad old world. It is unfortunate that Gary has lost so good an officer as Marquardt because he refused to show that he was truly a brave man.
ABOUT THE OLD-FASHIONED MELON. One of our editor friends asks plaintively: Why can't we get an oldfashioned melon any more There is much food for thought here, but the e. f. ought to be able to answer the question for himself. Is ho the same chap as he was when he used to get the old-fashioned melon, and does he get it in the old-fashioned way? Let him go out some dark night and raid his neighbor's melon patch, clad in an old shirt and with an old pair of galluses hitched to an old pair of pants. Let him step barefooted on the dewy grass and catch the aforesaid old-fashioned pair of rants on a barb-wire fence and rip out half the seat. Let him hear the ferocious growl of the neighbor's dog and feel its hot breath on the place uncovered by the rip as he is making his getaway. Let him eat the stolen sweets without a fork near faher's woodshed absolutely reckless of discovery and we think he will soon find an answer to his question.
CRUMPACKER AN ARDENT LOWER TARIFF MAN. The. Indiana friends of Congressman E. D. Crumpacker hope that that news is not true that he is to lose his place on the Ways and Means committee in Congress, because he stood and worked hard for revision of the tariff downward. Such is the tenor of Washington dispatches, however, and it has been indicated that Speaker Cannon proposes to eliminate Mr. Crumpacker from the Ways and Means committee. This fact gives the lie to the critics of Judge Crumpacker who have asserted that he worked to revise the tariff upward. His place on the committee would have been in no danger if he had done this. Those who know the truth know that Mr. Crumpacker is as deserving of as much credit for the stand he took as is Senator Beveridge and in fact the Tenth District Congressman was the first member of the Indiana delegation to be enlisted on the side of tariff revision downward.
REMEMBER IT pays to keep cool in hot weather. Hot waves are conducive to fatalities and casualties of every kind. Keep out of the heat, out of cold water, out of the hot sun and out of hot places that fluster and worry. Keep from saying hot word3 and eating hot stuff and you will live longer, feel better and look far nicer. Take care of your health and your habits.
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MR. BRYAN is not saying much about the tariff bill. Certainly not. Why spoil his powder now? Give him a chance to use it in his next presidential campaign.
INDIANA IS setting another mark for the captions and zealous critics to write pert paragraphs about this year and that is in the way of crops. You can always leave it to Indiana to be on top, you know.
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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1909. by American Press Association. BE UNAFRAID. Fear is man's deadliest foe. And yet In all the universe of God there Is nothing to be afraid of If only every day is fronted with high courage! Some of us are in bondage to fears all our lives because we forget that divine love rules in every place and watches even the sparrow's fall. Fear Is born of Ignorance. He who knows the ordered ways of nature knows that every tiny leaf that Is swirled by the hapless winds finds at last its safe retreat and destiny In the vast reconstruction of things. Every drop of water does what it is bid to do. The pollen of the fields gladly yields itself to the swift breath of nature and is wafted to distant shores to fructify a fertile, waiting soiL Everything in the world, man excepted, graciously yields Itself to change. Why should man be stubborn? Why should he hesitate to adjust himself to changed conditions, shuddering with fear lest he lose himself In transformation? To do so is a great mistake. Because all things are on the move. Man must move with them. He cannot stop if he would. Willingly or unwillingly, like the drop of water, he must yield himself to the inevitable. Why not, then, willingly submit? If man ia to be happy he most be In accord with his environment Realizing that he is to go on through life's lofty chambers, through the por tals of death, through vast eternity, he should adjust his mind and heart to the great changes. Why not meet that which most needs come fearlessly and gladly? Therefore let us cut the Gordiaa knot of every single thread of fear that is in us. "God's in his heaven, and all's vrelL Stay not shivering in the edge of vain shadows that will flee away when you have disenthralled yourself from foolish fears. Hold up your chin and be unafraid. Naught that la bad can really harm your father's child, "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities. nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come." SHUCKS From the Diary of Si. Lence Sproutln' pertaters; where 'ud he be now ef his father hadn't hustled on earth an' hustled offen It. Livin' on ex pectations is the durnedest poorest pickin' yer Uncle Si knows ur. A dry prohphet is sure without honor in er wet country. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Buttons and piano keys are now made of milk. Seems to us this fs making good use of poor old Bossy. Some of t'B Aw Here. A Hammond lady said tbe other day, "I never saw thin place no dull norialIy. Everybody Hermit to be at of town." When Hammond does have a bad day for accidents no city could ever be afflicted worse than Hammond. If some men we know conld only put n plaster on their conscience when it hurt t hem. All Had 'Em. A Gary man was in great distress one morning not long since by reason of the day in serving his breakfast. "I wish you'd go to the kitchen." said he to his wife, "and see what the trouble is. I've an appointment at 9." The wife complied with his request. When she returned to the dining room the husband observed a stranga melancholy expression on her face. "Well 'asked he, impatiently, "did you tell the cook that I wanted my breakfast immediately?" "I did." "And what did she say?" "She said," responded the wife, "that 'we all have our disappointments.' " Some girls would win ont If they didn't t niggle- agalnat giving In mo often and then finally having; to be an old maid. The water is said to be fine but not in the Calumet river, where treacherous whirlpools abound. Once la a While. Once in a while I am weary, and sick of the harrowing grind; weary of losing the orange, and chewing away at the rind; weary of putting up castles. and calling them castles of hope, only to find they are bubbles, and made of Inferior soap. Once fn a while- I grr,-;.-
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WEGOT1ATIOT19 ARK ETOED. In a meeting of their union lat night the striking Evansvills carmen voted unanimously to discontinue furthem negotiations for a ettlement on any basis suggested yesterday and to return to their original demand for a "closed shop" and increased wages of 19 and 20 cents an hour. KILLS SELF AND CHILD. Mrs. Ralph Bump, 2S years old, living on a farm five miles southeast of Roanoke, Tuesday evening forced a quantity of carbolic acid down the throat of her 4-months-old baby and immediately afterward drank the remainder of the contents of the bottle herself. The child is dead and the mother is not expected to live. DIPED ASD ROBBED. A scheme by which Mrs. Minnie Daniel, a widow, was duped and robbed of $1,800, all the money she had, by a swindler, supposed to be now in Canada was revealed here today. B LATCH LEY'S IRE AROUSED. Differences have aroused between W. S. Blatchley, state geologist, and the State Printing Board over the publication of Mr. Blatchley's forthcoming coal report. The board has reduced the number of reports published annually by the geological department from 8,000 to 4,000. This has aroused Mr. Blatchley's ire. WROTE OBCEXE LETTERS. Fay Porter of Fountaintown Ind., appeared before United States Commissioner Young Tuesday and waived hearing on a charge of sending obscene matter through the mails. He gave $500 bond and was bound over to the grand Jury. MAY DISINTER BODY. A suit to have the body of Mrs. "William Smith disintered from the present burial place in Llndewood Cemetery at Ft. Wayne, and the burial lot turned over to the owner, Mrs. Julia Fay Randall, was started by the latter against Mr. Smith in Superior Court Tuesday. Mrs. Randall alleges that she gave permission' to Smith to bury his wife on the lot temporarily, until he secured a lot, but that he now refuses to remove the body. MARE DYNAMITE THREAT. In bold handwriting, with no attempt at disguise, an unsigned letter was brought to Ralph N. Smith of LaPorte, prosecuter of the Thirty-second District in this afternoon's mall, in which an weary of seeing the other men win, while I am fussing behind them, bewailing the box I am in; all that I do la so futile, and all that I hope is in vain; I seem to be shy of the wisdom to try to get out of tht rain. Once in a while I grow weary of living on soup bones and slaw; th, how I'm longing and yearning to feed a large pie to my jaw! Then I grow morbid and bitter, and savagely gnaw at my pen; why can't I win life's battle, like other more fortunate men? Once in a while I grow lucid, and place a wet towel on my head, and say to these morbid reflections: "Go, roost with the things that are dead! Heaven has treated me better than such a four-flusher deserves; it's me for my highest endeavor, so watch, and get onto my curves!" WALT MASON. Copyright, 1909, by George Matthew Adams. Where the difference la dally duntina-, weekly sweeping and spring cleaning? Another hot weather record is broken. There are more citizens around blushingly announcing that they are not candidates for mayor than were ever known before. There seems to be no woman So careless of n mother's Feeling an she Who is so Sensitive hemelf. And It was only a short time ago that you were wont to shag it through the blozy blizzard. Odd isn't it, how quickly a shower overtakes the mau who has left his umbrella behind. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News President Taft Is facing the double task of securing a satisfactory tariff measure and holding the disagreeing factions of the republicans together, but despite his hopefulness, the conferees are making little progress. Alleged confession of C. C. Johnson, as "John Madson" under sentence as bigamist in California, admits marrying eighteen for their money, but says his wives always kept him poor. Packet of letters in a deposit box of J. B. Slayer, the banker slain at Crescent City, 111., hy Dr. W. R. Miller is expected to show that he was haunted by fear of a violent end. Democratic congressmen will play republican congressmen a game of proceeds to go to the Playgrounds association. Judge Philbrick. presiding in the Snell will case at Clinton, 111., receives Black Hand letter threatening death if the case is not pushed along. That Lieutenant Sutton, the officer who was mysteriously slain at Annapolis, Md., aimed at a foe on his bank and accidentally killed himself is the explanation given by an officer of high rank. Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's testimony :- !:i her husband's favor. Thaw's
unveiled threat was made to dynamite the Smith residence and blow its occupants, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and son, into atoms. Bitter criticism is hurled at Prosecutor Smith, S. E. Grover, Justice, and Constable Walker. LIGHTS IXG STVIfS TWO. Lightning struck and stunned Henry
j Weaver and son Harry, who live south west of Plerceton, near Warsaw. The two men took refuge in a corn crib when a severe storm came up. The crib was struck and the men was severely injured. STORY WAS A FAKE. Mrs. Anna Gimble's story that she was attracted by two burglars in the home of W. S. Widdop, 1101 Central avenue, Indianapolis, Saturday night, and that she was choked Into insensibility by a strap buckled around her throat by the burglars, was a fake pure and simple. Mrs. GImble put the strap there herself. She acknowledged it Tuesday afternoon to the police and exonerated the "burglars." STORM HITS IXDIAtfAPOLIS. A spectacular storm which raged in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon brought terror and fright with its rain, wind, lightning and thunder. Life was endangered and some property loss was suffered in various parts of the city. Lightning struck several places, among them the court house tower and the north steeple of the Meridian Street Methodist shurch, where the damage may reach $1,000. EMPLOYING STRIKE BREAKERS. A number of strike breakers have left the mills of the American Sheet and Tin Plant In Elwood, being unable to All the places of the strikers The management expects to have another shipment of men from the East in a few days. Those expected to arrive today, but failed for some reason to appear. TREE NEARLY WRECKS TRAIN. Train 318 on the State Line division of the Panhandle had a narrow escape from being wrecked near Kenneth, six miles northwest of Logansport this afternoon. As the train was coming down a steep grade toward the city a tree was blown across the track by the storm, but fortunately as it fell the engine of the train struck it, brushing the tree aside so that the body did noc obstruct the track. The top limbs brushed the cars, breaking nearly every window on the train. bodyguard says that prisoner did not appear to be Irrational at asylum. George Benedict, a farmer, admits he made bomb two months ago. Detective repeats story of Attorney O'Donnell, relative to attempt to sell Ella Gingles Into white slavery, at the lacemaker's trial. Rev. John Myers says he intends to write a book exposing Professor Foster and other University of Chicago professors. Mrs. Zaidee E. Hunt, Rogers Park church worker, says detectives forced her to sign confession that she stole. Local industries committee of the city as guests of the association - of commerce. Stocks in Wail street decline In sympathy with United States Steel common, which sells off 1 from a new high price record of 70. Chicago bankers adopt resolutions asking that banks be exempted from the proposed tax on corporations. Demand for cash wheat more than offsets the effect on values of the clearing weather; corn also firmer; oats lower; cattle unchanged; hogs higher. IN POLITICS Leaders of the temperance reform movement in Nebraska c!aim to have assurances of most positive kind that William J. Bryan will come out definitely and unreservedly for county option in the near future, soon enough to be of great value to them in their plans for the approaching campaign. P.ack of the murmurs heard concerning the approaching municipal campaign in New York there is great curiosity concerning the successor of Chauncey M. Depew in the United States senate. It is already known that Herbert Tarsons and Timothy U Woodruff are both aspirants for the place of Senator Depew, whose term expires March 3, 1911. Representative John K. Tener of Pennsylvania is the tallest memebr of congress. Mr. Tener is a sedate banker and among the many visitors to the house gallery only a few old-time baseball enthusiasts recognize in him the former diamond star, Jack Tener, who was once one of the bestknown pitchers in the National League. Failure of congress to provide in advance for the organization of the force required to take the next census will result In many of the appointments being made during the recess of congress. In making the list the supervisors ami special agents in the south will largely be chosen upon the recommendation of the republican referees in those states. Just what the proportion will be in the distribution between adherents of the two parties will not be known in ad vance of the completion of the lists. William F. Baker, the successor of General Theodore A. Bingham as police commissioner of New York, has had more experience in of ficeholding than in police matters, though he has been connected with the force for a long while. The prevailing opinion seems to be that Mr. Baker's appointment was dictated by politics, and that it means a renewal of frendshp between Mayor McClellan and "Boss" Murphy of Tammany hall, and harmony between McCarren, the Brooklyn democrat'c leader, and Murphy, the combination havii.g in mind the coming fall election for mayor and other officials of nv-w ynru
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Higher Courts' RecordSupreme Court Minutes. 21442. William C. Smith et al. vs. Wm. H. Stephens, county treasurer. Warren C. C. Appellant's brief. 21479. Terre Haute Tranctlon andLJght company vs. Lola Maxwell. Greene C. C. Appellant's brief. 21456. William Smith vs. Antoni Elesiada et al. Allen S. C. Appellant's substituted brief on motion to dismiss appeal. Xew Supreme Court Suits. 21500. Charles E. Johnson vs. City of Indianapolis et al. Marlon S. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Praecipe. Notice. 21499. John B. Coles vs. Orpheus A. Woods et al. Ohio C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Notices (2) below. 21501. Joseph I. Gordon vs. Lucian F. Corning et al. Daviess C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. THE LATEST FRONT CLOSING DRESS. The design is suitable for any material. The skirt has eleven gores and is sewed to the lower edge of a straight belt. The. waist is without tucks and is a good design to embroider or trim with a lace collar. The chemisette is in one piece and has a collar pointed at the back. If made as shown in the back view with the three-quarter sleeve the dress can be worn with a long sleeved guimpe. This pattern is cut in five sires, 33 to 40 bust measure. Size 3 requires 11 yards of ?7-inch material. Price of Pattern 475 is 10 cents. No. 475. Name Address
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'V - Jh 4 .O. L,i wX L ' . , 21502. Edward Malon vs. Caroline Scholler. Hancock C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. 21503. Edward Morris et al. vs. City of Indianapolis et al. Marion S. C. Rec ord. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. 7198. Clarence L. Spades vs. State of Indiana. Elkhart J. C. Appellee's brief. 6463. Catherine Lehman et al. State ex rel. Charles W. Miller, attorney general. Marion S. C. Appellants petition for rehearing and brief. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES You are authorized to announce my name an a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor of Hammond before the republican nominating convention, whose date is to be decided upon at a later date. ROBERT KIDNEY. IN FASHIONS MISSES' WASHABLE DRESS. Pink wash suiting is the material in this dress, and the collar and sleeves are trimmed with a floral design in white braid and embroidery. The buttons are covered with white crocheted linen floss. This pattern is cut in three si.-s, 12, 14 and 1(3 years. Size 16 requires 9Vi yards of 27-inch material. Price of Pattern 456 is 10 cents. No. 456. Name Add Size Fill out Hunk end send to Pattern Department of this newspaper.