Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 54, Hammond, Lake County, 20 August 1909 — Page 4

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A WONDERFUL COUNTRY.

What a miraculous change has come upon the country In the short

space of a year!

An iron and steel Journal says it is doubted whether car-building com

panies can turn out enough equipment to prevent a car shortage by the

first of the year. What amazing prosperity indeed is this new situation.

It is only necessary to point to the great industrial depression which

almost paralyzed the country a few short months ago. Then business was In the doldrums and panic was in the air. Now for the metamorphosis. The car manufactories, working night and day are unable to turn out product enough to supply the demand. Industrial concerns swamped with orders, business booming on all sides, merchants stocking up their shelves. Who says we ive not livirg In a wonderful country, and a wonderful age?

RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

The question Is not "What is whis

ky?" but what la any old thing?

DISAPPOINTMENTS ARE SOME

TIMES BLESSINGS. FOR INSTANCE, WHAT A SWEET RELIEF IT IS ON

SUNDAY TO WAKE UP AND FIND

THAT YOU HAD FORGOTTEN TO

WIND UP THE ALARM CLOCK.

Pick up the scraps along the railroad tracks for Mr. Harriman is coming home.

Hammond lodge No. 4S5 B. P. O. E., picnic promoters extraordinary.

Prof. Starr now says that women are barbarous. What the dear sex will do to the prof, when they get around to him will certainly be a plenty.

And remember that wounds cannot be cured unless they are probed and looked Into.

The wasp waist Is the latest In fern!

nine apparel. Be careful where you

put your arms, boys!

The man who Is always harping; about his troubles Isn't furnishing a very high grade quality of music.

The bee sting that is recommended

for rheumatism could be applied to

some of these lazy loafers and no ap prehension need result.

MR. BRENNAN A STRONG CANDIDATE. It is net only ;:n henor to be a candidate for the mayoralty of a city, but it is an honor to a city to have a clean, level-headed business man as a candidate. If he is not clean and if he is boneheaded. it is no credit to the . city to have such a man for a candidate. Mr. John A. Brennan, the probable nominee for the republican party for mayor of Gary, on its first municipal ticket, is a clean man whose motives have nevor been impugned and who has never been found wanting. Indeed, because he is a clean man and refused to be a party to a scheme that was not clean, he is being opposed by one or two Gary men who found that Mr. Brennan was not to be used. Since the political pot began to boil in Gary, they have sought to get other prominent republicans to run for the nomination and to embarass the party. These men have flatly refused to become stool pigeons for the twofaced and selfish purposes of other men and as a result they have won a great deal while Mr. Brennan has been strengthened in the same ratio. There is little question but what the majority of the republicans in Gary want Mr. Brennan to be their standard bearer in the coming campaign. It i3 true the field is open. No one has any strings tied to the nomination, but it is impossible to ignore the popular foeling that Mr. Brennan Is wanted and wanted badly by the Gary republicans.

A good fisherman will always spend part of the time that he Is fishing, In thinking up some lie to tell when he gets home.

A number of our best people are at the seashore these days, trying to find

out what the sad sea waves are saying about them.

A LOT OF MUSIC WRITTEN NOW ADAYS IS RANK, BUT IT 19 IMPOS

SIB LE FOR THE MELODY OF ANY

POPULAR SONG TO BE AS ABSURD

AS THE WORDS.

"Well, we are glad that Mr. Bryan is

pleased with the income tax anyway

That's something to be thankful for.

PENITENITARY A SAFE PLACE FOR SUCH. There must be something innately devilish and satannic in a man who will maliciously maim an animal. What that trait might be called in a human being who - will maim such an innocent and helpless animal as a cow man's best friend in the animal kingdom. It would be hard to tell. The West Hammond man who hacked off a cow's tail, Just to see "how funny it would look'' has a mighty depraved idea of fun. It was very funny wasn't it? To deprive a useful animal like the cow of about the only protection it has against annoying insects in the summer time, is a real cute trick. It Is sincerely to be hoped that the officers of the law in the village across the line will be able to find the creature Franklin, who is tccused of the heinous act. The penitentiary is the only safe place for a man doing what he is alleged to have done. He might get it into his degenerate mind to chop off a child's leg, just to see "how funny it would look."

STUPID TO BE UGLY. The N'ew York Telephone company is of the opinion that it is stupid for a woman to be ugly, and it does not, through its department heads, hesitate to make the fact known. "It is stupid for a woman to be ugly. "Therefore the ugly woman is undesirable in the business world. "Any woman is pretty who is bright, healthy and neat. "Therefore, it is the pretty woman who succeeds in the business world." In substance, the comments of an elderly Englishman, who has studied human nature in the English law court9 and in society for half a century, were borne out by the American company, employing 5,000 women. "Pretty women, like bad boys, get all the help in life," says the learned lawyer of England. "The plain woman has to look out for herself." "In the first place, a woman with a charming face and neat figure has an infinitely greater chance of obtaining her ends than her plain and unprepossessing sister. The 'blue-stocking,' with a supreme disregard for her personal appearance, is not always clever; in fact, I think she is very seldom so."

TINKERING WITH BUSINESS.

The business interests of this country should no longer be made the

puff-ball of American politics. Constant tinkering with the laws that effect commerce as quickly and positively as does a powerful drug affect the physical body of the individual is a constant menance to steady, healthy general growth. Favored industries, made so by liberal contributions to party campaign funds are largely responsible for this condition and when members of congress are swayed in their action by the petty needs, real or imaginary, of their districts, the damage done to the industry in its broadest sense is almost beyond comprehension. Pittsburg Post.

When some men get n job they Get It into their "nuts" thnt They can hang onto It like a chicken Does a perch And go to sleep at it. Tough Luck, Forsooth. My next door neighbor has a goat

It has whiskers on its throat, and It's built upon the comic weekly plan; but

my neighbor's feeling sore, and he oft

en makes a roar, for it never tries to

eat an old tin can. And he also has

cat; Its a tortoiseshell, and fat, and from all other toms It stays aloof; and my neighbor says he'll break all It3 bones, for It's a fake, as it never tries to sing upon the roof. And he also has

a muie that has broken every rule

which should govern such a hvbrid

animile; it lias never, from its stall.

kicked its owner through the wall, and It doesn't seem to have a speck of guile.

When the mince pio time is ripe then

my neighbor ruts up pipe, and he

wrestles with the stove a half a day;

and it adds to his despair that he never

thinks to swear, till the work has all he clone and put away. Now and then his mother'n-law comes to visit with his squaw, and she's apt to hang around a month or more; and it's nnly when she's gone that he cries: "So help me John! 'Twas my duty to have shown her to the door"' WALT MASON.

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By EDWIN A. NYE.

BANISH THE HOUSEFLY. Do you remember the pathetic poem 'The Spider and the Fly" contained

in the old school readers?

You will, then, remember how your

childish sympathies were aroused in behalf of the poor little fly that came by cordial invitation Into the parlor of the spider and was killed.

That poem was written in a day

when the fly was populurly regarded

as an annoying but harmless insect.

It was not then generally known that

the common housefly is the filthiest of all vermin.

By comparison the spider is a bene

factor, lie eats flies.

The fly is born in filth, and his whole

history and habit are (he slums. Before he was a fly he was a maggot. He hatches where filth germs hide.

lie is not a pleasant object of con

templation, but he is such an enemy of humans that his true character ought to be known.

The fly is liable to infect you with

tuberculosis, typhoid or scarlet fever, diphtheria and other Infectious diseases. He is a common carrier of disease germs.

The mosquito is an Infection carrying insect, but the mosquito family is not numerous, as is the fly tribe.' The mosquito breeds in swamps and is

common to certain localities only. Tho

fly Is everywhere. That is the trouble.

Your premises may be eanitary, but

the fly may breed in the stable of your

next door neighbor. He is a com

munity pest. Your neighbor's scavenger gets into your food. The fly should be kept out of the house by screens until frost comes to sill him. Food should be protected from the flies at all hazard. Babies and the sick need special protection. Some housekeepers feel they are dis

graced by the presence of bedbugs or lice. But these pests are harmless compared with the germ bearing

housefly.

Use fly poisons, sticky paper, traps anything by which he can be exter

minated.

It is perhaps impossible to eliminate the breeding places of the insect.

Wherever there is filth there will be flies. But one can keep the things out

of one's house.

detlc survey. In 1S74 he wajs assistant astronomer to the transit of Venus ex

pedition to Japan and since that time he has engaged in numerous surveying expeditions on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. He was sent to Paris in 1890 to bring to the United States the national standard metre and to Inspect the weights and masures offices In London, Paris and other capitals of Kurope. Prof. Tittman also represented the United States at the international geodetic conference held In Berlin in 1895, and four years later he represented the United States in the demarkation of the boundary between Alaska and Canada. In 1900 he was appointed superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey office.

SHUCKS

From the Diary of Si. Lence

THE CREAM OF THE Morning News

FOREIGN.

Crete In de-

Greek flag hoisted

fiance of powers. Suffragist scores Danish statesmen, calling them hirelings and traitors to Denmark.

Zeb Petrol's jlst returned from Shecago. Sez it ain't near so hard ter get on the perlice force as it Is ter git "onto" it. Yer never hear a "blind pig" sgjieal.

THE LAKE COUNTY Fair is drawing nigh. Help to make it the biggest ever. The officers of the association are doing their share and say that the prospects are splendid. Now do your share. Make it a fair that Lake County can be proud of. Your help counts.

JUDGING FROM the universal commendation bestowed upon the course pursued by Mr. Crumpacker in the recent tariff tangles, the estimable representative from the "Matchless Tenth" was not even powder-burned by the Cannon explosion. Lafayette Courier. No, but a lot of the Bryanites were powder-burned.

IT IS BAD enough for Michigan City saloon men to be fined at all, of course, but to have to be fined at Laporte doesn't your heart go out to Sfcem-ia their humiliation? Yes, otcourse. our hearts do go out to them not.

THIS D.VTK IX HISTORY. A u gunt 20. 1672 Cornelius De Witt, patriot of the Netherlands, assassinated at The Hague. Born in 1823. 1776 Fight in the Hudson river between American fireships and British men-of-war. IS 13 Fort Minims, in Alabama, captured by the Indians. 1S29 The Russians took Adrianople. 1833 Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third president of the United States, born at North Bend, Ohio. Died at Indianapolis March 13, 1901. 1S47 United States troops defeated the Mexicans in battle of Cherubusco. 1S63 Lawrence, Kan., burned and sacked by Quantrell's band. 1SS6 Eight of the Haymarket anarchists sentenced to death in Chicago. 190S The Belgian chamber of deputies passed the Congo annexation treaty.

IS IS MY 49TII BIRTH DAY".

Otto II. Tlttiunn. Otto II. Tittman. the famous geodesist who is the United States representative on the International commission to resurvey the boundary line between the United States and Canada,

was born in Belleville, 111., August 20, 1850, and received his education in the public schools of St. Louis. In 1867 he joined the United States coast and geo-

Glcn H. Curtlss, American aviator, averts collision between aeroplanes at

P.hoims. nojinsTic. Two racing autolsts killed at Indianapolis. President Taft aflrms order expelling seven West Point cadets for hazing Kolando Sutton. Admirers of President Taft write and beg him to avoid auto accidents at summer capltol.

Grand Jury indicts two more In

Hetnze loan scandal.

Oscar Hammerstein says he will sue

Metropolitan Opera company for $25.-

000 for the loan of Zenatello.

Southwest asks aid from Trans-Mis

sissippi congress on regulation of caost-wise traffic.

CHICAGO. Pawnbrokers say new If, if enforced, will drive most of them out of business.

Big milk dealers signing contracts' with independent producers. Lak'i orest women give day's outing to residents of Home for Destitute Crippled Children. State's attorney replies K grand jury critics and plunges into new graft investigations. Clouds lifted from Mrs. Michael Aurkowak's evicted family by donations of

$101. Mayor Bussee appoints ten members of Merriam expenditures commission. Sunday school committee votes to change "Mothers' day" to "Parents' day."

night on a charge of housebreaking.

being taken into custody while trying

to pry open a door of the Samuel

Trainer residence. After being locked

in a cell he was released on bond and will be given a hearing Thursday.

V.MOX IS DISORGANIZED. Arrangements were completed yes

terday by the Kvansville & Southern

Indiana Traction company to give regular employment to a large number of the recent strikers, who up to nw have been employed as substitutes. Interest In the carmen's union Is dying, and some of the members say the union

will be abandoned.

GAMBLING DEVICES III' HNF.I). A prolem which lias been bothering

Indiana officials for three years was finally disposed of yesterday when gambling devices of all sorts, captured

In the raid in July, 1008, at French

Lick and "West Baden casinos, were demolished and burned in a large pile in this city.

ELIDE IRATE FATHER. Successfully eluding an irate father

and the police of two cities who were behind bending every energy to capture them and prevent a wedding. Miss Emma Huellsman, the 19-year-old daughter of a Tell City banker, and Clifford Dietrich, said to be a waiter in a Chicago restaurant, were married

today In St. Louis. TROLLY FALLS ON HEAD. Alleging that he has been unable to

work for more than a year because of

Injuries sustained by a trolley wire breaking and falling across his head while a passenger on an interurban car between here and Marlon, 'William Madren of Anderson has filed a suit against the Indiana Union Traction company in the superior court demanding $1,995 damages. BLACK HAND AT WORK.

The Brazil police have Just made public a Black Hand attempt to extort money, from Mrs. James M. Hosklns,

wife of Councilman James M. Hoskins

of North Meridian street, in which the police were unsuccessful in an attempt to catch the offender. FOItT.XEK LEGALLY' DEAD. The proceedings to have Lee Fortner, a Kokomo contractor, declared legally dead, which were to have been headed by his wife, will end. Fortner disappeared from this city six years ago, and until now not a trace of him had been obtainable. TRICKED IXTO MARRIAGE. Suit was filed in the Circuit Court yesterday by Mrs. Ethel Cook for a divorce from Frederick Ray Cook. This suit recalls the mock marriage of Mrs. Cook at Indianapolis some time ago, which caused quite a sensation when Mrs. Cook, formerly Miss Ethel McClellan of Oolitic, found out she had been duped. She later had Cook arrested and he was compelled to right the wrong he had Imposed on the woman by having a legal marriage performed. He afterward mistreated and left her penniless. She now sues for a divorce and alimony. TO PI RCHASE BATTLE GROUND. The Commercial club of Peru has

taken steps toward furthering the movement recently started for the purchase of the Mlssissinewa battle ground near Jalapa, Grant county. Arthur L. Bodurtha, editor of the Peru Evening Journal, is chairman of the Miami County organization, which is worklny

in connection with the organizations of

Grant and Wabash counties. LEGLESS MAN HIT BY CAR, John France, who has no legs, guided his three-wheel cart, which he propels with his hands, too close to a Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction car at Senate avenue and Georgia street, Indianapolis Wednesday

night and one whee lwas knocked off the cart. France waa not hurt, but his cart was damaged so he could not

use It. SCHOOLS ARE GROW ING. According to the report of County Superintendent of Schools Frazier, complied last night, Madison county has 2S4 more pupils enrolled than last year's report showed, while the average attendance has dropped off 381. Anderson shows an Increase in enrollment, while Alexandria and Elwood show a decided decrease. BARNARD IS LANDED. The work that H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, is doing in Indiana received a high compliment last night from Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, who is in Indianapolis to address the International Stewards' association.

LINCOLN-JEFFERSON COLLEG

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