Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 291, Hammond, Lake County, 29 May 1911 — Page 4

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THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING THE GARY CTEKIXG TIMES EDITION. TUB LAKE) COCJITT TIMES FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES EVENING EDITION AND THE TIMES SPORTING EXTRA, ALL DAILY NEWSPAPERS. AND THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTINO AND PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Lake County Times Evening- Edition (daily except Saturday and Sunday) "Entered aa second class matter February 3. 1)11. at the poatofflce at Hammond, Indiana, under the act of Congress. Maroh 3, 1879." The Gary Evening Times Entered aa second class matter October S. 1909. at the poatofflce at Hammon-1, Indiana, under the act of Congress. March . 1879." The Lake County Times (Saturday and weekly edition) "Entered aa second class matter January 30, 1911, at the postoffice at Hammond, Indiana, under the act of Congress, March 3. 1879."

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POSTMASTER RTTCHCOCKS' MILLION. The announcement is. made today that for the first time in 30 years the United States postoffice department shows a surplus and the $3,000,000 which was appropriated for the purpose of making tip the annual deficit has been turned hack into the treasury. This Is said to be due to the adoption, by Postmaster General Hitchcock, of business methods in the department. There is no question that the United States post offioe was not conducted according to business methods before Hitchcock took hold of it and that the reform, which is now believed to have been carried out, has been needed.

However there is the suggestion "that the department may have gone too far in its policy of economy and retrenchment. For instance applying the theory locally, the cities of Gary, Indiana Harbor, Whiting and Hammond

have demanded an intercity mail service. It now takes a day to send a letter from Hammond to East Chicago, a distance of three miles, for the reason that the antiquated methods of the department require that the mall be sent to Chicago, 20 miles, there to be re-routed and sent to East Chicago, a distance of twenty miles. The Lake Shore suburban service might be used to transport the mall to most of these neighborhood towns, but on account of a little technicality by which a little connecting "Y" between the Nickel Plate and Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad has not been named, the service has never been installed. It is entirely feasible to establish a mail service on this surburban loop and on certain street railway and interurban lines and Postmaster Hitchock will never convince the 100,000 people of the calumet region of the efficiency of his administration until such palpable defects in the service are remedied.

Inspectors have been sent out to investigate the needs of the region but they seem to be bewildered, confused and so bound round with red tape that their investigations have come to naught. Until Postmaster Hitchcock has his men explain why it takes longer to send a letter from Hammond to Whiting, a distance of five miles, than 'it does to Buffalo N. Y., the people of the Calumet region will refuse to accord him the praise that should reard a full measure of success. "THE SOCIAL SIDE OF LIFE." For years the funny men of the ,clty daily papers have fallen back on the old reliable gibes about the country press whenever copy was short. Alleged clippings of how "Bill Jones painted his barn last week," and "Miss . Simpson of Elmyra Sundayed in our midst," and other stock items, calculated to tickle the rislbles of the city readers at the expense of the local papers, have long appeared with unfailing regularity. The local weekly, the home paper, generally referred to as the "country press," has long enjoyed a popularity and an Intimate relation with its readers which the big city dally has never been able to gain. And this Is due in great part to these very personal items that have been the cause of such merriment to the editors, If not the readers of the city daily. At last a great light has burst upon at least one Chicago daily, asserts

the Calumet Record. The editors of ( covered that the people of the city are the suburbs and the country towns. ture is about the same the world over, people. Wherefore the Chicago Record . - trumpets that it is now printing facts and we find each day two full pages

Already the new departure has proven the most attractive feature of the

paper, Just as It will ever remain the

Thus is the "country press" vindicated by pne of those who have scoffed

at It for years. People are always more interested in their Immediate surroundings, in their own friends and neighbors, than in anything else in the world. That Immutable fact will always constitute the stronghold of the local

paper. The city dally paper can never thoroughly fulfill this function for obvious reasons. But the attempt of the Record-Herald to approach it Is

particularly gratifying to publishers of

ognition of the source of their popularity. And it may be well for the others,

who for years have come to scoff, to SIMPLICITY Simplicity of manner is one of sess. If being one's own true self would be as common as a right eye

as habitual as the taking of the morning heal. Exaggeration is a sad man nerism.

Tne girl who thinks everything "perfectly maddening," is never so

adjective tnat rings true, people are not "bored to death." Neither do they go "crazy" about things- We heard a lady say the other, day that she was "wild" about bridge and in reality she thinks It stupid and can't play

It well enough to keep up an Interest

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the Chicago Record-Herald have disvery much the same as the people of It has been discovered that human na and that people like to read about - Herald announces with ' a blare of about people (refreshing intelligence) devoted to "The Social Side of Life." mainstay of the local weekly. local papers. It is an Important rec remain to lmftate. 4THE CHARM. the greatest charms a woman can pos were as easy as it sounds, simplicity or a left hand, and the practice of it Is "Just too sweet," "adorably lovely," convincing as her sister who uses an in the game.

RANDOM THINGS AND FLINQS

ENGLISHMAN says there is no hustle In the United States. He should have spent more of his time outside of Valparaiso. IT must convince the English cy this time that a good deal of Ameri can money is interested In George's coronation. - WE venture this prediction now, that there will be a lot of people at the polls in 1912 who were not there in 1910. WHEN it comes to utter disregard of speed laws, the motorcyclist has It on the railroad train and the auto at every stage of the game. AND Teddy Roosevelt said "When ever I see a man wearing that little bronze button. I feel as though I ought to take my hat off to him." GREAT fuss made over a Philadel phia society woman who appeared in a hotel in green tights. What's the matter with the color green? LAFOLLETTE says he has found anotner Dig Steal in Alaska. Why 1 does Lafollette go outside of his own state? Let him hunt a little at home. d. THERE Is a fellow who is driving . . . . a team of goats across the country, uu wneu u .imru, U5n t-ene ine two can engineer a nice little swap. GARY is delighted that Knotta from now on is eoinsr to neraonallv sunerviao m,fo,iai K W1L" JUUDthe haste? CONTEMPORARY points out that perhaps the best way to fight the fir would be to educate the pests to wipe their feet on the door mat, before en tering the house THE motto of the doctors in this I day and generation seems to be "When in case of doubt, explore with the knife." Rather be on the outside look ing in, anyway. . "TriE devil is one person who will ! get all that is coming to him," says an exchange.- Well, fair exchange is no robbery. He has given everybody else all that is coming to themWE see by the Gary Tribune that the mayor Is charged with "malconduct and misfeasance in office." Chicago Tribune- If no one becomes deranged from the. effect of the beat. Gary will have come out fairly well, Gary Tribune. MAN in Ontario has had a damaged nostril repaired by grafting his finger to it. vlt "took," and" a contemporary nnlnta out that, the nrtpratlon will hn ..I an entire success as soon as the pa tient gets used to have his nose man icured at intervals. Times Pattern Department DAILY rASHION HINT. LADIES' COMBINATION. This combination of corset cover and open drawers gives Us another of the dainty garments which may be made ol flouncing with ao little labor for tbe results obtained. The corset cover has a seam In the back which removes all fulness. A deep yoke around the hips tits the upper part of the drawers, and the leg sections are laid In pleats and attached to tbe Jower edge of this yoke. Flouncing la very eflerClve for such a garment, but plain materials may also be used. These, however, entail much more labor, as all edrea must be finished in soma manner, and if any trimming at all be used the expense is about tJie same. The pattern. 4.D14, is cut In sizes 32 to 44 Inches bust measure. Medium size requires 5H yards of 17 Inch flouncinsr, 1 vard of plain 3tS inch goods. "4 of a yard of Heading. The above pa tern can be obtained by .--ending ten cent to the office of this paper.

eart to Heart Talks. Bjr E1TWTN A.NYE.

GOING TO FATHER An agea cuurenman who passed ftwaT not long ago while dyinj; said: "I want to go to God, the Father." Tired, worn, weary of his days, the good man was like a child who at evening time calls for Its father and reaches for his hand. And we allin our better moments, as at the last of life, we all come to that simple kinship God's fatherhood and our chlldrenhood. 'Like as a father pltieth his chil dren so does the Lord pity them that far him." We are his children "children cry ing In the night." to be sure, yet chil dren "crying Abba Father." In our callow wisdom we think to know many things we do not know, and finally, having boxed the compass of our religious thinking, we come back to the simple faith we got at mother's knee. Children, all of us. Like children, w play at the game of life, and. like tbem. we tire of our earthly playthings. And then, leaving the broken toys strewn on the grouod. we lift beseeching dyes for some one wlo will lift ns in his powerful bold. Children all. Llke them- w mr P1"" co,ore3 vessels toy ships tbat come to anchor ' ' .w . ... , with the poor stuff tbat tre call gain or go down onder tt stress of mlsadventure. Bet. whether or ships come In or no, there comes a day when we no more take pleasure In their sailings. are but children. m children going to their holiday, E Joyously on onr way. mixing I much of happiness with a few meager tears, and. like them, when the gala Ljay i we return with laggard steps, and at eventide we long for the Father who can rock ns safe to sleep. I it not so? As the Weary Child lifts Its little arms with beseeching eyes and cries, I am tired, father; take me np," so When the nlrhrttme comes we reach up the arms of our feeble faith with 1 a baby's trust la the eternal love and care. And so of that aged man who so many times bad nestled his mortal Ufa In the everlasting arms. What more natural than tbat he should say: "I want to go to my Father." The Day in HISTORY "THIS DATE IK HISTORY" May St. 1609 Hudson In the "Halt Moon

reached Faro Island on his western deputy game warden, who is Investlvovaee I gating violations of the fish and game

1749 Frederick -William I. of Prusaia died. Born In 1(88. hjis Walt Whitman, famous poet,! I born near New Tork city. Died I March 2, 1892. 1855 Charlotte Bronta. famous Engllah novelist, died. Born April 21, 1816. 1882 Union troops forced to retreat In the battle or Fair Oaks, Va.

1880 The League of American Wheel-ling

men was organised at Newport R. 1. 18S9 Flood at Johnstown, Pa., caused by the breaking of a dam, resulted In the loss of 2,295 lives. 1902 Peace of Pretoria, ending the Boer war. 1910 The royal proclamation of the Union of South Africa was read at Pretoria, THIS 19 MY BIST BIRTHDAY George William Brewn. George William Brown, lieutenantgovernor of the Province of SaskatcheI wan, was born in Holwstein Ontario, May 31, I860, of Irish parents. He attended college in Brantford and soon after completing his education he eml - grated to the west. Upon hla arrival In the new country he took up a homestead near what Is now the flourishing city of Regina, but which at that time had not yet been laid out. By 1889, however, Reglna has secured Its place on the map, and Mr. Brown left the farm and added on to the population of the new city. He Studied law and within a short time became prominent In the legal profession. For nearly twelve years he. held a seat In the old North-West Assembly. He remained a member of the assembly almost continuously utitll that body passed out of existence upon the formation of the province In 1905. He then retired temporarily from public life and spent several years in European travel. He was called to the office of lieutenantgovernor last October. Despite his public duties and his large legal practice Mr. Brown has continued to tako an active interest in agricultural operations and has several times held the presidency of th Reglna Agricultural Asociatlon. RISKS LIFE TO PLAY JOKE. In order to play a trick on high school boys and girls somebody cut a high tension wire of the Central Indiana Lighting Company leading into the Central school building at Columbus. The wire carries' 2,800 volts of electricity to a transformer on a pole near the school building. While the Junior reception in honor of the senior class was in progress the wire wag cut near the transformer and the building was left in darkness until gas could be lighted. Manager F. D. Potter, of the Central Indiana Lighting Company, says It is almost a mliaele that nobody was killed- - when the wire was cut.

PRINCETON AND CORNELL HAVE GREAT ROWING CREWS THIS YEAR BOTH ARE ENTERED IN INTERCOLLEGIATE EVENTS pURINC JUNE

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Princeton and Cornel this year are keeping np the great reputations built up by rowers of former years. Cornell's crew Is comprised of the men shown above. Reading from the bow: Olcott, Bates, Lum. Kruse, Wakely, Dlstler, Ferguso, Bowen. KImbalL Princeton's men, reading from the bow, are: Gray, Roche, Ransome, Wlnanta, Hlgglns. Cross, Ranch, Smith and Lewis.

Up and Down in INDIANA riJfD CAT'S BODY PETRIFIED. Workmen who were raising the house occupied by William Ballard of Shelbyvllle. f?und a petrified cat. The body, even to the whlskera. was perfect and weighed twenty-flve pounds. Tho freak resembled a figure carved from limestone by a sculptor. Mr. Ballard will keep it. foirteex toes on chick-s foot. Mrs. D. d. Humphreys, who lives west f Logansport. has a chicken which has fourteen toes on one foot. The other foot Is normal. The chicken was born couple of weeks ago and la strong and healthy. EXPLOSION PROVES FATAL Mrs. William McClure. of Decatur, age twenty, died last night from the effects of burns received from pouring coal oil Into a cook atove where there was a bed of llv coals. She leaves a babe seven months old and her hus band. FIXED FOR SHOOTTXG BASS. O. R. Russell, a merchant, of Cicero, paid a fine of $32.60, in Justice Mathew's court, for shooting bass in Cicero creek. The warrant was Issued on camplaint of A. W. Henderson iaws ,n ln,s P .or ui aiate. I MAJT SHOOTS 3 RELATIVES. Harvey Moon, of Clayton, age fortyI one. Saturday shot and killed Oliver jwilholt. about forty-nine years old, a constable rrom uanvuie. ana then went I&crosa fields .about a quarter of-a mile I away, to the home of George Buldock land shot Mrs. Buldock, who was standIn the kitchen with her lltle flve-rear-old daughter. The bullet passed I through'the heart, killing her instantly. Mrs. Buldock 'was Moon's cousin. I Wilhoit had a writ of ejectment for Moon and was at the latter's home removing the furniture when he attacked I the constable. Moon obtained possession of Wilholfs revolver during the scuffle and turned on Its owner, firing three shots. All took effect, and the constable died without a word. I VACCINATE ALL STUDENTS. I All students In the Fairmount I Academy, at Marion, who had not been I vaccinated were compelled to undergo the ordeal Saturday because of the development of a case of smallpox in the school. Several physicians were kept busy scratching the exposed arms of the studenta. starts FIRE and gives alarm. After setting his parents' house afire n playing with matches, Edward Dc hand, of South Bend, age six. ran three blocks to the nearest fire station and gave the alarm. The house was par tially burned. The child is a son of Mf. and Mrs. Albert Deland. " STARTS O.V LONELY JOURNEY. After drawing his quarterly pension money at the Marion National Military Home Saturday, Thomas WThtttaker, of Marion started on one of the most remarkable trips ever attempted by a veteran of his age. Although he is 70 plore tne' ohJo an4 Mi88,sslppi Rlvers. making his way to the Gulf of Mexico. From here he went to Louisville, where he will purchase, a boat and set sail, taking his time in making: the trip to the gulf, and will do mucr. fishing and hunting while en route. After reaching the grulf, the veteran will camp on an island near the border. He will sell his boat and supplies at New Orleans and will return by rail to Marion. The trip will be the third of the kind Mr. Whlttaker has made. S CHILDREN DIK IN MONTH. The infant twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Lott, of Lawreneeburg, in dead at their home near Napoleon. This is the third death in the family this month. A twin died a few days ago and an older child three weeks ago. COST OF CONVICTS' CARE. The entire coat to the state of caring for more 'than one thousand young men at the Indiana reformatory at Jefersonvllle. is less than ten cents a day for each. Forty cents a day is the cost of feeding Inmates of the county Jail. The cost of feeding re-

The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON

"Well," sighed the little stenographer lady, as she passed me a newspaper indicating three tiny lines which set forth the portentous fact that Theodoaia So-and-So's parents were announcing her engagement to Roderick Bingham Such-and-Such tiny as it looks to us, I've no doubt that agate type stands out like seventy-point head lines done in scarlet to Roderick and Theodosia "I hope this will teach tne a lesson." "About whatT" we naturally inquired. "That it's time persons of your advanced age were thinking about their futures," suggested the wants-to-be cynlo. Molly apparently didn't even hear this interpolation. "Well, ray dears, she answered ui "Theodosla, as you know, is an old chum of mine and last time she came to visit me she - told me all about her love affairs and asked my adviee. There were two men and she said she wanted my honest opinion of them. And what do you think 1 did? I actually gave it. 1 told her I didn't see how she could have a moment's doubt. I said that one of them was a nice, clean looking, clean minded, whole aouled, honest young chap that any girl would be proud to have love her and that the other was a perfect pill. I said he was the most totally and thoroughly uninteresting man I ever talked to, that his looks made me think of an undertaker, that I knew he was the kind of man that would never expect her to stray from hVr own hearth once she was married, and that 1 heard he was terribly close." "Well, what of It," we Queried. "Are you sorry she took your advice?" "But she didn't." walled Molly. formatory inmates was 11.64 cents a J day for each in the fiscal year ending ( last September 30. The gross cost, including al the running expenses of thi Institution, was 49.19 cents a day, and the earnings of the Inmates cut this 39.49 cents, leaving a net coat cf 9.70 i cents. These figures were erought out from inquiry on account of the impression that the modern method of handling convicts is expensive to the taxpayer. To this coat might be added a gross charge of $30,769.67 for repairs and permanent improvements at the institution during the fiscal year, but with this addition the cost per capita per diem for the average of 1.108 inmates was increased to 17.3S cents a little over a dollar for six days. The actual gross cost of feeding the Inmates of the Indiana Institution is even less than 13 or 13 cents, considered an achievement in the District of Columbia workhouse under the management of Will H. Whitaker, former superintendent of the Indiana reformatory. OBJECTS TO FEEDING- SON. Charging that his brawny son per-

sists in faung at ms taoie in spue, oi parker are slated to deliver the leadh!s protests and that he eats more than j lDg addresses at the big Northwestern three ordinary men, Patrick Keough. Democratic banquet to be held at St. of Logansport, has filed an affidavit ' pauj --,n june 1 against John Keough for trespass. j R b,lca 'of Kentucky will hoi Ha won't work and he eats me out ' . .. . T , ,,, ,

of house and home," faid the father In telling his troubles to the court "He is more able to work than I. am. He is strong as an ox. but I guess he is infected with that insect they call the

hookworm. . I have a hard enough i , ,, , , . , . .the special election to be held in Texas time providing for my wife and myself.' . , K ... . . In July, when tn people will vote on

wouldn't set the table he'd go to the An. Vila All irln . .. - t.v, ' ' 1 "- "6 " none. PRAYER BOOK COSTS BOY'S L1FK. Willie Bilskl, the eleven-year-old son of John Bilskl, of Michigan City, was drowned yesterday by falling from one of the piers near the harbor entrance. After attending a church service he and another boy went fishing. While seated on the pier young Bilski felt that his prayer book was about to drop from his pocket and ho grabbed at it, he lost his balance and fell. His body was recovered twenty minutes afterward by life-savers.

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aroused by her own graphic recital of her advice to the full horror of her offense. "She didn't; Roderick Is the pill. How ahall I ever face her again? She'll never forgive me and "once we promised each other that whoever waa married first would have the other for a bridesmaid, and I never was a bridesmaid, and now I don't suppose I'll ever be one." "Oh. cheer up," urged the lady-who-always-knows-somehow. "She'll forget it. "Sure," said the cynic. "Anyhow she probably Just think you said all that because you were Jealous and wanted to go in for Roderick what's-his-name, yourself." This time Molly heard the cynic sufficiently to cast a , Withering glance In his idirectlon. ; -1 U u "Maybe she will forget it," she accepted the lady's comfort, "but anyhow I'll never give any one advice about love affairs again. I think people just ask it so they can have the pleasure Of not taking it. I won't express an honest opinion of any man to a girl even if he's only called on her once, because it's Just my luck that if I do the next thing I know she'll be marrying him and hating me because I said he was a pill. "Hereafter when any one Insists on my telling them what I think 111 always say, 'He seems like a very nice . young man, but I don't feel that I know him well enough to Judge'." "Ruth," said the want-to-be-cynlc, "tell Molly you have discovered a tender feeling in your heart for me and you'd like to know her honest opinion of me." "Ruth," said the little stenographer lady, "you wouldn't force me to break my good resolutions so soon?" IN POLITICS Republican organizations of Chicago have already started an active camjpalgn to secure the Republican national convention of 1913 for their city. Judge J. E. Dodge of Milwaukee, for many years a justice of ''the State supreme court, may be the next Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin. According to a statement issued from the headquarters of the Socialist party, thirty-six cities of the United States have elected Socialist mayors since January 1. College students in Ohio will no longer be permitted to vote in college towns unless they make oath that they expect to make their permanent residence in those towns. Two avowed candldatea are In the field to succeed Governor Donaghey of Arkansas. They are Congressman Joe T. Robinson and Attorney General Hal Norwood of Mens William J. 2ryan and Alton B. ; 11 to name candidates for governor and other State officers to be voted for ; in November. I Both the prohibitionists and anti-pro-the question of State-wide prohibition. I Governor Harmon of Ohi.i. row widei ff , n.m.n. i j lj Dfwvii aa.-va v vinvi iifj ajicast dential nomination in 1911, during hli recent visit to Washington was pronounced by statesmen to be a striking "double" for ex-Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island. The Jackson Democratic Association of the District of ColumbU, which recently celebrated the eighty-third anniversary of its formation, la the oldest political organization In the United States, with the single exception of Tammany Hall. THE TIMES CAN GET YOU A ClRLt