Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 61, Hammond, Lake County, 29 August 1910 — Page 4
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THE TTtTEII Monday, August 29, 1910.
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RANDOM THINGS a FLINGS
LASTS call "bumper crop.'
for the expression.
COMMUNICATIONS. THE TIMES Trill print all eornmani cations on anbjecta at general Interest to the people, when each eommaalcatloua arc slffaed y the writer, bat Trill reject all cenunnalcattoas aet signed, matter what their merit. This precaution Is taken te avoid tniarepreaentatleaa. THE TIMES Is pabltahed in tbe boat Interest of tbe people, and Its utterances always intended to promote the general welfare of the public at large,
HEALTH OFFICIALS SHOULD BE CAREFUL. The nucleus of a diphtheria epidemic exists in. this region. Cases have been reported in Hammond and there have been straggling cases elsewhere throughout this section. It is up to the health authorities of every city and rural community in the region to try and nip the epidemic in the bud. The cities of Lake county have just about gotten through with an epidemic ot icarlet fever which was at least due in part to lax methods of various health officials. , . . Where patients were quarantined, they were not under quarantine suf
ficiently long to make the fumigation which followed, effective. In most cases Ihe quarantine lasted only two weeks, and according to the observances of the health departments in Chicago and other large cities, the malady is the most contageous after two weeXs' duration, that it is in any stage. It Is at this time that desquamation Is at its "worst, and the dead skin sloughed off by the patient spreads, the germs far and wide.. In Chicago the most absolute Quarantine is observed for five weeks following the first appearance of the disease. , It may sound a little extreme to hint that the authorities hereabouts in tome of the cities, are not averse to epidemics as they make "trade" good, but where preventive methods are as lax as they have been in some places throughout Lake county, the suspicion is warranted that the Indifference is not wholly without motive. Be this as it may, if the health authorities wish to merit the confidence of the community, it is up to them to exercise vigorous measures to stamp out this new menace, before it reaches the proportions of an epidemic. The schools are about to open and the time seems ripe for the disease to do a great amount of damage unless steps are taken and taken at once, to 'prevent its spread.
WONDER how old Doc Crlppen is bearing up? NOW did . Mr. Sherman . really put the Indian sign on Mr. Roosevelt? WE always feel sorry for a baldheaded man who pretends that he has hair.
- SO far no one has recorded any motion to stock up the little Calumet with bass. .
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NOW that Indiana Harbor got her
building page, we hope she will be
happy for awhile. - " ;
PROBABLY Mr.. Green, of Gary,
thought he was attending a meeting
of the Limekiln club.
THE Columbia avenue bridge has stiff joints from standing still so long and no signs of relief. . IT is a free country. Mr. Corbett has a perfect right to run for joint
senator if he so desires.
PERHAPS John Worth Kern wrote
down the names of those eight bribed legislators and mislaid the paper. a . .
THIS DATE IT HISTORY" August 29. 1779 Battle of Portsmouth. R. L 109 Oliver Wendel Holmes, famous author .born in Cambridge, Mass. Died in Boston, Oct. 7. 1394. 1871 The "Poarls" reached the farth
est point north.
1877-t-Sixteen persons killed and many
injured in an accident on the Rock Island railroad near Des Moines.
1880 Paul Octavo Herbert, twelfth
governor of Louisiana, died In New Orleans. Born Dec 12. 1818.
1883 The Salvation Army commenced
operations in Canada.
1SS5 Edgar Cowan, Tj. S. senator from
Pennsylvania 1881-67, died In Grensburg, Pa. Born Sept. 19, 1815. 1893s Cyclone in Savannah caused grreat loss of life and property. 1904 The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the sermon at Quebec in celebration of the centenary of the first Anglican cathedral erected in Ctnada.
1903 Japanese and Russian envoys, in
conference at Portsmouth, N. II., reached a peace agreement.
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"THIS IS MY 4STH BIRTHDAY" ' 1ST
Andrew Fisher. J s -
Andrew Fisher, who has recently be- f:
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come premier oi Australia tor in sec-
ond time, was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, August 29, 1862. At the age
nf 93 h emlaratoH ' iiv Queensland
wKava Via nr nrr f n- niimh.P of v
years as a gold digger and prospector
In 1893 he entered the Queensland par
liament, and six years later became
minister of railways in the Dawson ministry. In 1901 he was elected to the first Commonwealth parliament, and with the formation of the first labor ministry, in 1904, became for a second time minister, taking the portfolio of trade and customs. Tbe ministry was of short duration, and on its resigna
tion in 190? Mr. Fisher was elected to
succeed Mr. "Watson as leader of the
Labor party. Following the defeat of
the Deakin Government in 1908 Mr Fisher became premier. - A short time later his ministry was defeated, but
MR, Taggart is keeping the lid pretty last April the victory of the Labor par
WHY INDIANA LOST THE DISHWASHING CHAMPIONSHIP.
hot and Governor Marshall feels that
It is hard to sit still much longer. . -
THEY may have given Secretary
Ballinger his hat, but we haven't noticed him coming out of the door yet.
. .
ABE Martin asks sententlously:
"What is the use of voting for a dem
ocrat when things are bad enough now.
WONDER if it isn't possible to have a few Lake county political speakers
talk on Esperanto? It would be some
relief. ; e
ihii;kJ are two kinds of women
that the cynic usually tries to avoid. These are the blondes and the bru
nettes.
ty In the Federal him to power.
elections restored
eart to Heart
Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.
Recently, without interference by the police, John Vogel of Chicago met and defeated Mrs. Mary Nelson of Clark Station, Ind., In one of the most Interesting dishwashing contests of years. The result gives the championship belt to this city. ' . " - -.-.wv'---.-Mr. JVogel's . victory seems to have been partly due to his celebrated "Clark street twist," a rapid way of washing and wiping invented by the contestant himself, and one bearing about the same relation to dishwashing that Mr. Gotch's celebrated "toe-hold" bears to wrestling. Mrs. Nelson employed only the well known and effective "housewife's delight movement." It is unnecessary to repeat the details of this exciting contest In this article. The reader is no doubt familiar with them. We shall venture only few pertinent comments on the result. - . " For some time It has been notorious that Indiana talent has been going more and more into poetry, fiction and politics and less and less Into dishwashing. Friendly outsiders have frequently pointed out the danger of dishwashing, to Bay nothing of the peril to poetry, fiction and politics, which lay In this plain tendency. But no effort was made to check it. Such being the case, there is no ground for surprise in the defeat of Mrs. Nelson and in Indiana's consequent loss of the championship belt to Illinois.
it is the old story of neglect and over-confidence. People begin to believe that they have a patent on some peculiar style of excellence and relax their efforts to maintain it. Then comes the awakening. Broadly speaking, Indiana failed to "come back" just as. the late Mr. Jeffries failed. It thought that at any moment it could get in shape to derend its prestige in the dishwashing line, in spite Its notable neglect of that art fo rother pursuits. It now knows that constant training is the price of victory that ex-dishwashing states can no more "come back" than can ex-fighting prize fighters. It Is to be hoped that the lesson, bitter as it was, will not be wholly lost on the Hoosier commonwealth. It may not yet be too late to reduce the poet and novelist crop, to arrest the movement which is carrying the state further and further away from the dishwashing championship, from the traditions it once held glorious, and which promises nothing but literary tinsel in return. An interesting question remains: "Will Indiana, stung to the qlck by the result, refuse to allow the exhibition of the moving pictures?" We trust not. . The contest was fair and there was nothing in it to offend any one's iense of propriety. It is believed that even Chief Steward could have witnessed it without finding anything "against the law of the state of Illinois." In point of fact, the spectacle of two people washing and wiping 200 Jishes each without breaking a single one is as edifying as it is remarkable. It would convey a valuable lesson to thousands in every state of the Union. For this reason house owners even In Indiana should particularly favor the picture exhibition. Chicago Inter Ocean. j . -
DID TOM KNOW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT? This life is a gay one but a short time and perhaps we were a trifle too aasty the other day when we chided, in these columns. Mayor Knotts and ihe aldermen for their apparent failure In not advertising Gary at the convention of the American League or " Municipalities held in St. Paul last week. Gary's Bill Taft came home with a few honors, Inasmuch as the ;onvention made him first vice president of the league, which. If not a responsible job, has a good many showy trappings attached to it and one that gives the holder the right to have his name embossed on the league's Brother Jonathan bond letter heads. We take off our hats to the mayor. There is; however, one thing that we do not understand, and while Mr. Castleman, Mr. Simiasko and Mr. Szymanski are explaining to their uncomprehending constituents the latest psychological aspects of municipal finances, we will endeavor to set our reasoning faculties Into motion. At the convention Mayor Knotts Introduced a bill which was adopted, making all former presidents of the league permanent members of the board
5f directors. The chances are that the mayor either forgot himself in fathering4 this bill and did not know what he was about or he was requested to
introduce It by some supporter who demanded it as a mark of reciprocity.
The queer hitch in the whole proceedings Is that the heavy weight mayor 3f Gary unwittingly aided his bitterest political rival. We refer to William
2. Croliu3, formerly president of the national league. By virtue of Mr. Knotts' resolution Mr Crolius will advance from life membership to the permanent
lirectorate and Gary will thus have two names on the league's letterheads
Without becoming too facetious, those of the faithful who like to keep
a sober mien might still maintain it it they ask one another, in a low whisper.
1 Mr. Knotts knew what he was doing when he introduced the resolution and
whether he has fathomed the identity of its creator.
SOUTH Bend is botnered with obstructionists in its city council. Well, not mentlonng any names,' but you
know how. 4
EVERY mother thinks her boy may
have some one named after him when
he gets to be president, so she wants
him to have a nice name. -
mi, now Dusy tne political car
penters are with the platforms and
every once in a while some one gets
a wallop on the thumb.
WHENEVER a man figures out how
a woman should earn her own living,
he always thinks of her as trimming
hats ox waiting on tho table.
WISH the department stores would
stop advertising pants one-third to
one-half off. Weather Is getting too
blamed cold for that kind of thing.
SUNNY Jim Sherman, our genial vice president, says he has nothing to
Bay. Sensible man. No use trying to
talk when Teddy is after his ecalp. A
THE Valparaiso Mesenger says that
the Rensselaer woman who drowned herself in a stock tank, had poor
health. Probably meant poor judg
ment.
riiLKfcj is one day in every year
when it Is a fine thing to be a repub
lican editor and that Is the day when
Dick Schaaf Invites them to eat chick
en with him. 4
YOLNG woman sevi on our streets
I In a hobble Bkirt nearly broke her leg
the other day. And a number of our
best bald headed citizens nearly broke
their necks rubbering at her.
YOU'VE got to give a bit of sym
pathy to the lad who goes wrong because he has no mother, but It is hard
to shed any tears for the boy who
goes bad when he has a good mother.
GIRL pickets in a recent strike were
fined for throwing bad eggs. Still at
a time of this sort we think it is hardly fair to expect a girl to hunt up fresh
eggs and be absolutely sure they are fresh before she pegs them.
WHEN a man says his wife has a nice disposition, all he gets for the compliment is the opinion, expressed behind his back, that she must have, or she couldn't get along with a man like him, says a keen contemporary. THE man who is always howling at home that he believes in the good oldfashioned home-cooking, is just the first to start a row that calls out the police reserves when his wife puts corn beef and cabbage on the table.
HIS LIFE FOR. A SMILE. Chicago, July 1. For the smile of a hap
py little child Stephen KKW, nrty years old, went to his death. He died from a fracture of the skull received in a fall as he stepped backward into an open stairway after handing a tiny tot i cents for
candy.
The account goes on to sayWhile in front of a candy store Steve
Kldd stopped to play for a moment
with a child on tbe sidewalk. He
handed tbe tot a coin and then stepped back to avoid interference with the
baby game in which the child was en
gaged. 5 S:"
Kldd neglected to turn as he backed
away and fell Into a stairway leading from the sidewalk tot the basement.
His skull was fractured, and he never regained consciousness.
Literally, be gave bis life for the
smile of a little child.
WellHow better could Stephen Kldd have
died? What finer deed to plead for
him than the last one of his life?
After all. was it not better thus to
die, basking in the smile of the innocent child than decorously in his bed
with attendant friends to weep over him and candles burning?
Because
While the generous impulse was the last of his life it was not the first. That much it is safe to say. No doubt his last act was characteristic of his life. No man Is noble by accident. When men die people say. "How much property did he leave?" But the angels say. "What good deed
did he bring with blm?" Measured by the heavenly query, Stephen Kldd died a felicitous death. Seldom does the grim, reaper. come to mortals nt a time so opportune. And that 5 cents? ' Why. that little coin given to make one of these little ones glad In the mathematics of heaven counts for more than a million. Was it not good for Stephen Kldd after fifty years of mortal life to go as he did? And If. as we safely may assume, his last conscious act was but a single blossom In the flowering of a gracious life, may we not fnncy that tbe kind Rngels were swifter than their wont la bearing his ransomed soul into tbe Inner circle of the Unseen Holy?
Winner ot the Elgin National Trophy i. i . .i... St. m m,, iijs.u, .... Ill i in MP II I .).,' ' ' t
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Uulord, who drove a Lozier car to victory in the 305. 03 miles race. His mechanician is Joe H erne. . ilulford's wife is standing at the side of the car. , '
Delaware county superior court judgeship, it is apparent today that former. Congressman George V. Cromer will have twenty votes from Delaware county in the convention, to fifteen for Frederick W. McClelland. In one precinct a tie vote was cast, but if this tie be determined by the central committee, the Cromer delegate will be seated, as the committee is friendly to the former congressman.
Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher
Columbus The news of the death of the Rev. Alexander Parker, age eighty-
one, has Just been received here. He 1 died at the home of his son, James Parker, at Georgetown, O. The Rev. , Mr. Parker had been a minister of the Presbyterian church for over sixty years and came to this city from North
Madison In 1871. He remained as pas-,
POLITICS. The whole sad game seems cheap and sordid, and ail its tricks are jpoor and vain; and all that's coarse In life is hoarded for noisy use in each campaign. One statesman bores me, to my sorrow, with platitudes he thinks are wise; and then another comes tomorrow and says the first one simply lies. I went one day to see a "rally," where statesmen were as thick as fleas; they spent the time in quib and sally, and theories spavined in the knees. They talked for weary hours, perspiring, and not one pregnant thing was said;
tor of the Presbyterian church here for(and tnen a" tnelr racket tiring, I went back home and soaked my head, thirteen and a half years. j A dozen Idle statesmen thundered, Idle loafers heard; and as I soaked my head ' ' " 1 wondered why this fool world is so absurd. The farmers in their fields were ""7 tre"! ' calling for help to save the wasting grain; and in a tent those freaks were. Cleveland, receives the letter of post- bawling, and tolling hugely, ali in vain. A man who binds a sneaf of barley
master o. E. Adams, of this city, he does more to helD the human race fhan any loud and tireless Charlie who
will be a greatly surprised man. He do. hi. toilina with his face.
wrote to Postmaster Adams that he be- L, , ,A . . .
hrnti,., living w t opyrignt, j.tu, Dy ueorge iuaiuiew Auamn,
whom he had never seen, the family j
naving separated many years ago, wnen '
Up and down in I-N-D-I-A-N-A
Connersville held an election Satur
day to vote toward the settlement of
the water works question, which has
been a live issue for many years. The city's water supply heretofore has come from the river, seven miles above the
city, through what was once a part of the White Water canal. There was strenuous objection to this method and
the question got into politics.
New Albany In a collision Saturday
at Fifteenth and Spring streets be
tween south-bound Monon passenger train, running two hours late, and a fire department truck the latter was demolished and one of the horses was killed. Driver William Moss and Philip Reilly and Harry Lowry, firemen, were hurled to the ground. They escaped
serious injury.
Muncle Although there are contests
In two of the precincts in Delaware county growing out of the Republican
primary election Friday and Friday night, when delegates were chosen to
nominate a candidate for the Grant and
WALT MASON.
the mothe died. White was the young- j
est of the children and had no recollection of tho others.
This Week's News Forecast
South Eend In attempting to con
nect an electric light of their own
manufacture with a highly charged
pole, three boys,, ranging in age from
Washington, D. C. Aug. 29. Former President Roosevelt, whose speak-
i ing tour in the West has aroused the keenest sort of interest among polli ticians throughout the country, will start the week in Denver, where he will
four tn eleven, narrowly escaned death 8',eaK uuiiuy i mo opening ut me uiuuuoi convention oi apamsu war
ast night. The boys were
Rice and Lawrence Koenig. All were j severely and perhaps fatally burned. j
Richard, I veterans. From Denver he will proceed to Osawatomle, Kas. stopping there
w eanesaay 10 auena ine aeaicauon or a state park on tne site or tne oia Osawatomle battlefield. Kansas City will entertain him Thursday and during the remainder of the week he will be the guest of Omaha, delivering public speeches in both cities. Ho will remain over Sunday in Sioux Falls. ,
What promises to be one of the greatest commercial battles in the history
Columbus Meryl Truitt age four.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Truitt, who live id L'nion street, this citv. was
struck by an automobile, driven by commerce commission oeguis its inquiry into tne propriety oi tne general Lucas Lincoln, age twenty, last evening ' advances in freight rates recently announced by the Western transportation and almost instantly killed. Lincoln ' 'lines. was held unti lthe arrival of the police n Wednesday a statue of the late Thomas B, Reed, Speaker of the na
and was then allowed to go pending tionai nouse or representatives, wm De unvenea in nis nome city oi I'ortiana, the coroner's inquest. j Me., with an oration by Congressman McCall of Massachusetts.
A magnincent public welcome is Deing preparea lor uaramai anuteui.
of the United States will be opened In Chicago Monday, when the Interstate
jjuncie The body of John J. Hartley, the papal legate to the Eucharistic Congress in Montreal, who is due to reach
the wealthy Muncie business man, who tnal city riaay accompanied Dy numerous otner delegates to tne congresj drowned in Carp Lake, Michigan, near! from all over Europe. Petoskcy, arrived in Muncle Saturday. At Nelson, British Columbia, Sir Wilfrid Laurler will hold a conference with Mrs Hartley preceded the body. No , representatives of the Portland and Spokane chambers of commerce to dis-
detalls of the drowning will ever be cuss an international project for deepening the Columbia River, making it known, as there were no witnesses. 1 navigable from the sea to West Robson. B. C. Hartley's boat, when found, contained' The special session of the Porto RIcan legislature, which Gov. Colton hai some ater, but it was evident that it called to meet Tuesday, will consider measures to lease the Government telehad not capsized, so that Hartley must phone and telegraph lines to a privata corporation, to safeguard the interhave fallen out of it, probably while ests of the islan din the importation of seeds and tree cuttings, and to ced trying to make shore during a heavy! lands for the erection of a million-dollar hotel in San Juan, storm. I On Saturday a notable celebration of the 200th anniversary of th I Church of England in Canada will begin in Halifax. Eminent churchmen from Evansville Ewlng Allen, of Provl-lall parts of Canada and from England wll take part, dence, 'Ky., was arrested here today and The American group of delegates to the conference of the Interparllaa charge of dealing in the white slave mentary Cnlon, which is to begin its sessions in Brussels Monday, will pretraffic will be placed against him. ' sent several resolutions looking toward the establishment of permanent peace
of Indl- between tne nations or tne worm.
Mayme Walger, age twenty, anapolis, was the complainant.
Columbus Some of the policemen of ; War Veterans at Denver, which will have this citv are inclined to believe that guest; the opening of the Ohio Valley Ex
Included among other events and meetings which will contribute to the news of the week will be the national encampment of the United Spanish
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at its
Ixposition at Cincinnati, the annual
women have been picking pockets of meeting of the American Bar Association in Chattanooga, the convention of people who attended the Bartholomew the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association in Providence, the Pacific saencounty fair. They say they have sev- ' gerfest in San Francisco, the "fourth international conference of State and loeral women under surveillance who cal taxation in Milwaukee, the opening of the Dominion exhibition at St, have been acting suspiciously and they John, N. B., the conference of the International Union for co-operation in
expect to make a number of arrests soiar itesearcn ai wuuv, ujoii, tut., ana tne opening oi a tnree nays avia-
unaer tne auspices of the aeronautic society of liar
Research at
soon, other oacers believe tnat nrores- nuu mcci ovoiwn
sion "dips" are doing the work.
vard University.