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THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING TKE GARY EVEXHG TIMES EDITION, THK UK1I 4DOCWTY TIMKS FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION. THE LIKE COURTT TIMES EVENING EDITION AND THE TIMES SPORTING EXTRA. ALL DAILT NEWSPAPERS. AND THE LAKE COUNTY TIMKS SATURDAY ASD WKKKLY EDITION. PUBLISHED BY THE LAKE COUNT! PRINTING AND PUBLISHINO COMPANY. The Laka County Times Evening: Edition (dally except Saturday and Sunday) 'Entered as second class matter February 3. 1911. at the postofftc at Hammond. Indiana, under the act of Congress, March J, 1879." Tho Gary Kvenlng Times Entered as second class matter October I. 1909, at the postofflce at Hammond, IuJiana. under the act of Congress. March I. 187J. The Lake County Times (Saturdav and weekly edition) "Entered aa econd class matter January 30, 1911, at the postoffice at Hammond, Indiana, under the set of Congress. March 3. 1879." i (Mhw Office New York OfUc PAYNE A TOrSO, PAYNE YOUNG, 747-74S Maroaette Old. 34 West Talrty-Tnfr I fcj
RAN DO M THINGS AND FLINQS
IT i3 a trifle warm for love, but it is great for the corn.
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WELL, how many of the glad young high school graduates aro working? DON'T forget to provide for the cat when you go away on your vacation.
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SURVEYOR IN NAME ONLY. The trial instituted by County Surveyor Ray Seeley in the Lake superiof court will surprise a good many people In Lake county when it gets started. The case will be as full of interesting and remarkable revelations as a hog ia full of fat For instance, it will be shown that Mr. Seeley is surveyor in
name only, and that though he has been in office for a year, he is NOT
surveyor. As our legal friends would put it, he is surveyor de jure, but not surveyor de facto.
A combination has run the surveyor's office in Lake county for many-
years. Mr. Seeley is without the pale. Now he intends to throw the spotlight on the combination. Tt will be quite a spectacle, believe us.
SPEAKING OF INCREASED EFFICIENCY. "
An official of the Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad says that the company with which he is connected is now hauling a low grade of freight at a cost to the consumer of 2-10 of a cent per ton a mile, which means that it would cost only a 2-cent stamp to haul a ton of freight tea
miles on this railroad.
Nothing could better illustrate the triumph of modern invention, the increasing efficiency of railroad employes. Mr. Rrandeis told the railroad officials who appeared before the interstate commerce commission in regard
to the rate increase that they could save a million dollars a day by applyin certain economies.
BRANDEIS MAY BE RIGHT, BUT WE DOUBT IT WHEN IT IS POSSIBLE TO STICK A POSTAGE STAMP ON A TON OF COAL AND SEND IT
TEN MILES. And the marvel of it all is that the New York Central lines, of
which the Chicago, Indiana & Southern is an intregal part, must make its freight business pay the interest on hundreds of millions of dollars that are
being expended for tunnels and passenger terminals.
A Chinese coolie will work all day for 10 cents. The wage of a Chinaman has always been the marvel of this age of high salaries. But even at this
small wago it would cost 10 cents per ton mile, or fifty times as much as the railroad charges to transport freight. So comparing the cheapest human labor with the modern railroad the railroad Is found to be fifty times as efficient. That, by the way,, is why a locomotive engineer is paid $150 a month and more and why an ordinary switchman will receive $100 to $123 a month. With the aid of the rails, the locomotive, the cars, the terminals and an organization built up of the brainiest men in the country, the average employe of a railroad is able to do the work of fifty men. That's increased efficiency.
DIAMOND Bill Frazler's halo has grown appreciably since he was "mugged." S SOUTH Bend is also doing some crabbing because it didn't get a postal savings bank. RECIPROCITY bill is sure to pass. Now if the obstructionists will only pass all will be well. SOME days it Is only one hurt in nn auto accident and then some other days it runs up as high as five. . NOW comes the Baron von Westrum with a hammer in one hand and a bunch of paving men in the other,
HAMMOND is to have a new pro
duce market. This is something that
every city In tho region ought to
have.
ARKANSAS editor has just wed a
wealthy Cincinnati woman. You see it
pays to run a good woman's department
YOUTH stole a water melon from in front of a Hammond grocery store. Evidently he hadn't been In a melon patch for a long time. IF this isn't pert and pat nothing Is:
'"A cynic Is a small man who sees
nothing but himself and gets .sore at
looking at nothing."
THE INTERURBAN CENTER. Marion county, now Indiana's big interurban center, the radiating point of lines from the west and north and Ohio and Kentucky, will, within five years, take second place for Lake county will be the center by that time. Three years ago but one street car system, one of the Chicago lines, touching Hammond. East Chicago and Whiting, was the sign of electric transportation In northern Indiana, Today the South Shore line, linking Chicago and South Beni, crosses the county, the Gary & Interurban connects Gary and Hammond, the Gary & Southern has started to build from Gary to Crown Point the New YorkChicago Air line is building from Laporte to Gary and is within a few miles of its goal, the Calumet United railways has franchise rights from Gary to Chesterton, yesterday the Chicago, IndianapoliB & Meridian Electric railway asked for a franchise in Gary, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Joliet Interurban railway is already' incorporated, the Gary, Hobart and Valparaiso line was incorported last week and a couple of down-state lines have already selected Hammond as their gateway into Illinois. There are three or four other paper lines. All this means but one thing. Interurban development in Lake county is going to be so fast in the next half decade that the region will assume first place in the central states as a traction center.
IF the Atlantic steamers continue
to be increased in length all that will
be necessary soon will be to build a
bridge instead of a boat.
LOOKS as if people were trying to rack their brains around these parts
to find new and terrible ways to ruf
fle off earth's mortal coll.
WOMAN who tipped a porter to watch her auto while she lunched and then had it stolen, should have bought
the poor porter a lunch also. -
CROWN Point Is now a city and she
has a new postal savings bank, but Mr. Seaman is still swiging idly in
the hammock these hot summer days.
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UNDERSTAND that the U. S. is to prosecute every man who Is foolish
enough to have over 10 or 15 cents in
his jeans. Give your money to your
wife.
NO question about it. The state
convention put the padlock on Senator Kern's mouth about the mysterious eight when It gavehim that nom
ination.
TOLEDO Blade says "there are peo
ple who would rather be kicked than do anything for posterity." You've said it, brother, and if you want any
names we can send you a hat full. : THE beer trust is to be investigated
Our famous correspondent Hennery
Coldbottle, who has been investigating beer for twenty-nine years, says it is
all right and is starting a crusade to
call off the government.
JUDGE Landis denounced as "cheap
virtue" men who boast that they do not use tobacc6 or Intoxicating liquors
but who have other habits less con
ducive to morality, and there is much
truth In what he said.
A USE FOR AMBASSADORS. Judge Gary, testifying in the steel investigation, was trying to recall the name of a town in Minnesota.
Learing toward the stenographer, he asked: "What was the name of that
fellow who was Ambassador in Germany a few years ago?" "Charlemagne Tower," replied the stenographer. "Tower! That's the name of the town," gaid Judge Gary.
Thus we see that there Is a use for ambassadors, even while marveling
at the stenographer's memory. Chicago Examiner.
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The Day in HISTORY
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" June 27.
1682 Charles XII of Sweden born.
Killed at Frederikshald, Doc. 11, 171.
1759 Gen. Wolfe landed an army of
about 8.00 men a few miles below Quebec.
17C0 -English defeated the Indians at
Crow s Creek. Tennessee.
1801 Cairo surrendered to the British. 1808 Erltls troops in Ceylon treacher
ously massacred by the Adigar of Candy.
1835 Tho Boston and Lowell Railroad
opened to traffic.
1S43 Great celebration in Charlestown,
Mass., to make the completion of the Bunker Hill monument.
1844 The Mormon leader Joseph Smith,
while in prison on a charg-e of treason, murdered by a mob. Born Dec. 23, 1S05.
1863 Gen. Meade superseded Gen.
Hooker In command of the Army of tho Potomac.
1864 Winnie Davis, daughter of ths
President of the Confederate States of America, born. Died Sept. IS, 189S.
187C Harriet Martlneau, noted histor
ian, died In Westmoreland. England. Born In Norwich, England,
June 12. 180J.
1S94 K. Caslmir-Perier elected Presi
dent of France. . "THIS 19 MY S3 HO BIRTHDAY. Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams. Fir Hamilton Goold-Adams, who has
been appointed High Commissioner for Cyrus, was born June 27. 1858. He en
tered the army In 1378, since which time his owrk. both as a military officer and as an administrator, has been almost wholly In connection with the British possessions In Africa. In 1884
he served with the Bechuanaland expedition under Sir Charles Warren and
some years later he commanded tlie
field force against the Matabele. From
1899 to 1901 he nerved as President
Commissioner of of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, His last official position was that of Governor of the Orange River Colony. He occupied this posi
tion from the treaty of Vereenlglng in
1901 until the establishment of tho
Srvuth African Union about a year ago.
Times Pattern Department
DAILY FASHION HINTS.
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' SIMPLE TUCKED FROCK. It Is the cut of this dress that a-ives It
style of its own. The peasant effect Is retained with the seamless shoulder, and across both front and back the waist Is tucked to O depth of several inche. It Is gathered at The waist and a band at
taches it to the plain Kaitxrea sKirt.
The ornamental feature of the waist Is the larse collar, and this may he made detachable and several different ones may
be provided for each dres. Such materials as chains, cashmere, per
ral. tr.trtT rt1 mil liWt t and i m 11 1 T WSSh
Roocis mak very pretty dresei in this style, nor in dimity to be forgotten. The p:tern. No. o.47i. Is put in -ires 6 ta
12 years, .ieniu-n pile requires ' jarus of 38 Inch material, with yard of ls-inch
Hover and IX varcls or eficin.
Tim shnvi! pattern can be obtained by
ending ten cents to the office of thle
Psper.
Up and Down in INDIANA
RACE IN THE AIR FROM PARIS TO TURIN WAS OVER SOME OF MOST PICTURESQUE AND BEAUTIFUL SCENERY IN THE WORLD
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The upper picture shows Andre Beaumont, participant u t& Paris to Turin aeroplane flight, speeding over tie wireless station in the old lighthouse In the harbor of Genoa, The lower show Garren careering along the Italian coast near Nervl.
INJCRED IN Al'TO ACCIDENT. j Mont Leakey, cashier of the New Lis bon National bank at New Castle, and Mrs. Leakey were seriously injured when a buggy in which they were riding was struck by an automobile driven by Howard Payne near "this city today. The horse was killed. The 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leakey es
caped "uninjured. HEM AT. IIS $10,000 DAMAGES. On account of an accident which caused the death of her husband June 26, 1909. Mrs. Amerfca Finn of Bloomlngton has filed suit against the Indianapolis Southern ltallroad company
demanding $10,000 damages. It is al
leged that Finn's death was caused by the carelessness of the railroad employes; that he did not receive proper medicaj attention after the accident, and that if it had not been for a large loss of blood through a lack of proper medical attention he would not have diet!. Finn was a cut stone contractor and was on his way to Linton when he was killed at the station. COXSriHHC R FIND STARTED. The local office of the Indiana Light
ing company ofFort Wayne inaugu- j
raiuu a conscience i una tooay. -Manager Mullholland received S10 in an envelope from Bluffton, with this anonymous note "This money belongs to the old gas eompany that built the
The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON
Gov. Richard E. Sloan, of Arizona, never lets up in his effort to secure statehood for his territory, and is always In the forefront In securing better conditions for his peopl.
MUHr. IS Ml?SIC$ NOT NOISE. Music Is music, and not a noise, ruled Mayor Zimmerman of Richmond In the city court today, when Prof. Aurele Borrls wiv, arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace by his singing. The affidavit against the Earlham college music acher was quashed. Prof. Borrls was represented by attorneys who declared that this was not the first time In the history of law that a music teacher had been arrestod for giving music lessons. They held that courts could not stop musicians from singing any more than they could stop trains from running because they made a noise. BOV IS DROWNED IN RIVER.
Earl Frederick Merkle. 9-year-old son of Mrs. Dollie Hanson, was drowned while swimming in White river this afternoon at the High street bridge at Muncle. The Merkle lad, with a number of other small boys, none of whoa knew how to swim, was playing along the banks of the river In shallow water. Young Merkle ventured out too far and the wate rpassed over his head. Workmen near by ran to the rescue, but the lad had gone down before anybody could reach hla side. The body was recovered.
gas line years ago." The gas line referred to was constructed about twenty years ago. AST1LL COMPROMISES CASE. The payment of 89,000 by Ilarry A.
Axtell, former secretary of the Real Estate Building and Loan association Of Bloomlngton to the association wag made the basis of a settlement of the suits against Axtell In the circuit court I today. Axtell paid over the money up- ' on an agreement that the charges against him of embezzlement of the funds of the society should be dis-, missed, and this was done. Axtell Is yet defendant in a civil suit brought by the city of Bloomington in which It is alleged that he owes the. city $7,- J 000. i STANDS ON TR ACK j KILLED. j An unidentified man was killed last ' night by a street car on Macksville grade between Terre Haute and West Terre Haute. According to the traction officials, the man deliberately stood on the track as the car approach
ed. r FANCY HAMS NO SHOVI.DERS. Disguised as a farmer and saying that his home was but six miles from the city, a stranger did a thriving business at Wabash selling shoulders at 15 cents a pound, which he represented to be fancy hames, "hickory" : cured. After he had worked the resldence districts for two days the police
investigated and learned that the stranger was from Chicago and that the meat he sold was ahlpped from that point., BEFRIENDS RABID DOG VICTIM. George Schoepple. the 16 year old boy of Columbus, who recently was bitten by a rabid dog and who was refused treatment at the Indianapolis Pasteur Institute because of a lack of funds, Is to be treated, and his treatment is to be provided by an Indianapolis philanthropist. City Health Officer Kamman has received a number of telephone
Imagine a big power of electricity stored up somewhere. Imagine a lot of pulleys and motors ready to be moved by that electricity. And then imagine a transmitter that will not work at all sometimes, and sometimes only feebly, so that most of the time the electricity Is useless and the pulleys and rotors are Idle, or eUe moved by other store of electricity. That's a description of some people. The electricity ts their store of personality. The motor and pulley are other minds ready to be moved by the electricity. And the transmitter that doesn't work right Is a confused and unattractive manner and way ,Sf speaking. Everyone must know such people who suffer dally from the handicap of a bad transmitter. t Just recently my attention has been drawn to a particularly unfortunate case. She ia a young girl of education and refinement. She has. I think, a very good mlrd. The electricity of personality, you see. Is far from lacking. But the transmitter Is very, very bad. In the nrst place her manner of speech Is so hurried and nervous and confused that people often do not understand her. Naturally that prejudices them against her. People who talk with her sometimes have to guess at half she says, and consequently make mistakes which make them appear and feel awkward. And no one
likes to appear awkward. One Is prejudiced against the person who makes one appear awkward, just as one likes the person who helps one to appear Interesting and c lever. Furthermore, the contusion which this girl causes apparently reacts to
confuse her, and she repeats herself and breaks the thread of her story by hanging a great weight of Irrelevant detail upon It. She is a victim of that unfortunate habit of which I have spoken of stopping in the middle of a would-have-been-interesting account to decide "was it Tuesday or Wednesday. No, that was Thursday. I guess it was Wednesday, after all," or some similarly unimportant anl uninteresting detail. Sometimes when I go about with this girl and hear her bore and repel people when the might so easily interest and attract them if only the transmitter were better, I could almost weep. Partly for that wasted store of personality and partly for the suffering she endures because of her unpopularity. And there are so many like her. If the parents of this girl would only take her habit of rapid speech In hand, and do all they can to correct It. even employing an elocution teacher to give her proper exercises; If someone who knows her well enough would only talk to her frankly about her waj- of making Interesting things uninteresting the whole aspect of her life might be changed. As it happens this girl does not have to make her way In the world, but what a tremendous handicap a poor transmitter is to a man or woman who does have to make a living. It divides their efficiency and their chance of success by at least two and probably four. , How much unhapplness and Inefficiency, how many failures, how many tears and how many bruised hearts might be avoided If only families and close friends, Instead of'letting things drift, would frankly point out their faults to people this handicapped and help them to overcome them.
messages from a resident of Indianapolis, who refused to divulge his name, and who said tliat he had been unable to sleep for thinking of the unfortuhate lad. and that he wanted to help to. procure the treatment for him.
CAPITAL BRIEFS. Washington, June 27. Senator Kern will Introduce an amendment to the corporation tax law which Is eagerly sought by Indiana corporations. Under the existing law they are obliged to submit reports of their Income for the calendar year, although it often happens that the business year of a corporation is different from the calendar year. This creates confusion and hardships and the Kern amendment will permit corporations to disregard the calendar year and submit reports for their last business year, regardless of when It ends. Representative Korbly has changed hi vacation plans. Intsead of returning to Indianapolis, he left today for Norfolk and will spend two weeks camping In the vicinity of tidewater.
Mrs. Gray, wife of Representative Gray, and Miss Mabel Gray, his sister, left today for Indiana. Charles Coffin of Marion was a guest today of Carl Houston, Representative Rauch's secretary. Senator Phively Introduced today a bill permitting the Chlcatfo, Lake Shore & CSouth Eastern SHRDLVetaoinLU Eastern railway to build a bridge over the Calumet river. Theodore De Vllblss of Fort Wayne is registered at the Raleigh hotel. Examinations for fourth class postmasters In Indiana will be held as follows on June 22: At Chapel Hill for Todd; at Batson, O., for Baldwin, Ind. Pensions were granted today as follows: Thomas Benbow, $20; Ollie Davis, $12; George Dobson, $1:0; Jessie Ashton Jenkins, $12; Lewis II. Jerman, $12; Henry Kaufman. $15; Alailra Perry, $12; Susan Richagdson. $12; Ell Spencer, $12; John D. Swift, $20, and Harrison White, $30.