Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 284, Hammond, Lake County, 19 May 1913 — Page 4

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'Mondav, Mav 19, 1913. ARMY MAN'S WIFE FIGHTS TO PRESERVE GOOD NAME; HUSBAND WANTS DIVORCE; CHILD STORM CENTER OF COURT PROCEEDINGS AINDOrVl THirNQS A IND RLIIVC1S i:

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THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS Bjr Th Lake Cmr Prlutln PunHating CaMr The Lake County Timea, daily czcpt Sunday. "entered aa second-clans matter Juna 28, ltOS"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. , ltll; Tha Gary Evening Timea. dally except Sunday, entered Oct. E, 10; re-entry f publication at Gary, Ind., April II. mi; Tha Laka County Timea. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. SO. ltll; Tha Timea, daily except Sunday, entered Jan. IS, 1912. at the poatofnea at Hammond, Indiana, all under tha act of March S, ll?t.

Entered at the Poatofflcea, Hammond and Gary. Ind., aa aacond-claaa matter. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES, lit Reotor Building - - Chicago PUBLICATION OFFICES, Hnjxunond Build inc. Hunmond, Ind. TBUBJPBONKS, Hammond (prlvavto xohajiru) Ill (Call for departmont wanted.) Gary Office Tel. 137 Eaat Chicago Office TeL B40-J Indiana Harbor ..Tel. S49-M; 150 Whiting Tel. 80-M Crown Point Tel. 63 Heejewisch Tel. 13 AOarMoto solicitors will 'ba a ant. or rate rWn on 'application. If ywu tMnr any troubl cin The Thnaa notify he naareat office and haT It promptly remedied. lABGia PAID IP CIRCnTION THAN ANT OTHER TWO HEWS. PAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION. AJONTMOUS communications will not be nwticed, but other will b printed at discretion, and should ba addraaaad to Tha Editor, Tirana, Hamnonrt..Ind. Stated meeting Garfield Lodge, No. 965, F. and A. M. Friday. May 23, 3 p. m. F. C. degree. Visitors welcome. It. S. Galer, Sec. E. M Shanklln, W M. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Special meeting- Wednesday, May 21. Royal Arch degree. Visiting companions welcome. Hammond Council No. 10 R. and S. M. Stated Assembly first Tuesday each month. Class of candidates Tuesday, Juna 3rd. J. W. Morthland. Rec, R. & Galer, T. L M, Hammond Commandery, No 41 K. T. Stated meeting May 19, 8 p. m. Red Cross degree. Visiting Sir Knights welcome. STILL AT OLD GAME. There are some people in the Calumet region particularly in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor who will argue themselves black in the face that the Baldwin Locomotive Works will not build and that "anyway what work is being done there now is done for some other company ftiat is using the Baldwin stuff as a blind." Now what can you do with such people? ' The worst about them la that they are not content to keep their deadly opinions to themselves but they must needs spread with the contagion of malice their microbes of unrest. They have spoiled more real estate transactions, hurt more legitimate business proposition, sowed more seeds of dissension than can be imagined. It was predicted when the Baldwin Company actually began work in East Chicago that these barnacles and community millstones would weary of knocking but such i3 not the case. Some of these chaps are ready to bet even now that the Bald win plant will never be built. Can you beat it? Others will wager their last peso that it isn't the Baldwin plant anyway but some other plant. hat is to be done with " such pests? STUCK TO PRECEDENT. After all the late president of Haiti, in passing away, did not violate national precedent. He wa3 poisoned. "BREECHES" AGAIN? This is the time of year when college students blossom forth in their summer toggery. But those at Yale, instead of arraying themselves in the customary ducks and flannels, havej taken to knickerbockers. Can this be the dawn of new sartorial librety for men? The stovepipe trouser is an abomination even worse than the plug hat and the stiff, white collar. It "draws" on the leg and gets baggy and shiny at the knee and frayed at the bottom. Who can, by the widest stretch of the imagination, consider It beautiful especially the kind that Is turned up on the lower end and bulges at the hip? In the old, bicycling days, men learned what comfort there is in knickerbockers. They got to wear

TO A CHILD. Nor bloom of hawthorn la the verdant Spring. Nor blHxh of roseii when the year la Krowa. Nor nhfi the heavenward lark doth bravely alng. Nor ncurlet woods when Autumn claims ber own. So fair a greeting aa thy happy eyea. By flood and field I passed, and by the ara, Aad where the seafowl rest beaeath the palm. Left many a eoral Isle upon the lee. Like jeweled eaakets la the summer

calm Of Oeean's twtliarht with Its star-brown skies. Then, by fair chance, fair child, I won thy smile By tale and Jest your heart came out to me For one sweet hour, and we two laughed a while. I sco my way, and others rare for thee; But In ray soul a fragrant memory lira. Alleyae Ireland, In May Alnslee's. ing them in office and shop. But they were timid about it and as soon as the bicycling craze died out, tamely gave them up. Knickerbockers the "breeches" of our forefathers are artistic as well as comfortable. They have the dignity of chivalric lineage and present, courtly usage. As to natural deficiencies which might be revealed below them, few Americans have cause to worry on that account, be sides which that is a matter easily remedied with a little stuffing. If all the other colleges but follow Yale and their sons remain true to the cause, the nation will soon be freed from the thralldom of long "pants." WHERE DID HE GET IT? ' It is the time of the great thirst these early spring days, and speaking of drought notice a suggestion that the unfermented grape juice men ought to send Colonel Bryan a few bottles with their compliments. The thirst is widespread. Out in Kansas the Caldwell News tells of a man who bought a wagon-load of dirt to fertilize his front yard, and while raking it about found a pint bottlefull of whiskey. Now all his neigh bors are demanding to know where he got that dirt. A KICK FROM CLARK STATION. This item is clipped from the Clark Station correspondence to THE TIMES: "About seven out of ten times the 7:36 o'clock morning car on the South Shore goes through Clark station without stopping. There has been three or four people from Clark Stataion waiting there, but the conductor and motorman are just trying to make fools out of them. One conductor remarked to one of the pasengers that he could be glad they stopped at Clark road at all. It has been reported to the officials of the line, but on investigation the motorman and conductor get away with it by saying that the people do not flag the car. There have been witnesses at all times to prove that the car was flagged and was flagged in good time. This delays our worklngmen and is getting to be a habit, especially with the motorman on this car." From time to time the Clark Sta tion people have had just cause to complain of the contrary ways of the South Shore trainmen. Protests to the company seem to be of no avail, But there is a remedy for the Clark Station people now. Without a doubt their complaint comes under the jurisdiction of the new utilities com mission of the state. THE TARIFF AND POLITICS. The cost of living is a vexed ques tion of the day. Yet few of us would be absurd enough to fall in behind a handful of politicians who purposed fixing unalterably the pr!ces you should pay for chops, cabbages, rent and parlor furniture. There might be need of an increase in the traffic squad in order that the walking public may be properly protected. Still, you wouldn't look to politics to pro vide that protection. There has been considerable talk throughout the country about the advisability of es tablishing, by political action, a gen eral system of minimum wages. But the people most opposed to that are the labor unions, consisting of wage earners says the Toledo Blade. The tariff, as we deal with it in this country, is wholly a matter cf prices, protection and rates for labor. But instead of treating it as we would the price of beef, the problem of safety and the earning power of hand and head, we let the tariff be handled about as a ranting point for spell-binders, as a rallying banner for partisans, as a struggle between

HAZEL Ni;TTt our Staff poetess, Is Laid up with a broken arm Hazel tried to Crank her new Victrola music box And It "Backed'' on her.

READ that 120.000 pounds of tobacco have been sent from Californny to the east. Well if it's the same brand that Hi Johnson and the rest of the native sons of the Golden state have been smoking it ought to be confiscated. YES. THIS ISA FISH STORY. Complaint has been made to Humane society that live fish shipped on boat from Milwaukee to Chicago got awfully seasick on the way down. WHY do they print a girl's name on her wedding invitation in such a way that her own mother will hardy recognize it? SEE that the Standard Oil is to cut another melon. Chief business of the merrie Standard OH these days is the cutting of melons and the boosting of the price of the festive gasoline. "PAYS DEBTS 112 YEARS OLD." Headline. This leaves some hope that the Gary board of health will pay some of its b. bills by 2,025. ANSWERS FOR THE ANXIOUS. DEAR MISS NUTT: I AM TO BE MARRIED IN JUNE AND AM WONDERING HOW MUCH A TROUSSEAU SHOULD COST? ETHYLE SHANK. I CAN ONLY ANSWER ETHYLE. BY ASKING YOU HOW MUCH HAVE YOU? HAZEL NUTT. THEY CALL In the previous genIT A eration father and BUNGALOW mother went houseNOW. keeping in a cottage. GERMAN scientists says that a drop of water remains in the ocean 3,640 years before it comes out again. When Gary gets those three new breweries in operation we fear that some of the W. C. T. U. PROTESTS and doesn't want novelists to write that tneir heroes smoke. Why the lack of solicitation for the poor villains? Don't they care whether they smoke the festive geographical sections, as a game in which you endeavor to buy lower and sell higher than your neighbor, as a measure to support to the last ditch because the fellow politicians support it, or to fight to the last barrier be cause we have made certain extrava gant statements in an election campaign. The tariff is in its mildest form merely a taxation expedient; in its highest development, a complex economic principle. We should re fuse to let the tariff be muddled up with politics just as the Aemrlcan Federation of Labor fights shy of every movement tending to confuse Its economic affairs in the fog of politics. Some day, and that- perhaps not far away, we shall do with the tariff as the Germans have done sit down and study it calmly and thoroughly, even if it takes years ,and build a tariff system upon a foundation that no political emotionalism and politi cal snap-judgment can shake. DON'T OVERLOOK IT BOYS. A Louisiana town celebrated the recovery of a lost child by taking a half holiday. Which Is a pointer the small boys of that town are not likely to overlook. DISCOVERY IN SCHOLARSHIP. A note under the head of "Gleanings and Gossip" in the Springfield Republican reports an important discovery in scholarship: A commencement essay delivered in Glenwood. Mo., was entitled "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy." The employment of this motto to designate commencement sentiments is not used here for the first, it i" believed. Very true, and conservatively stated. The use of this striking apothegm at Glenwood, Mo., is not the first one recorded in history. We believe the records will show that it was used by a boy orator in his commencement address at the Englewood High School on June 9, 1898. Are there any earlier records? What do the archaeologists say? Chicago Evening Post. Earlier records? Well we dis tinctly remember one young lady graduating from the Crown Point II S. who used the subject long before 1898. In fact it was so far back of 1898 that we hesitate to give the year for fear of betraying her age. WANTS TO HOMESTEAD. A subscriber from Hobart township who complains about the climato in this lake region writes for information as to government homesteads. We hate to see anyone leave Lake county for we believe it is the j garden spot and hub of the universe

cigarette? If the W. C. T. U. can't Induce the novelists to make their heroes quit smoking they might prevail upon "cm to have the heroes not to smoke ir. the presence of youth, thereby giving no bad example.

littl drops in Lake Michigan will remain therein for 40,000 years and then some. 'TIS too bad. Col. George Harvey announces the sale of Harper 's Weekly. He probably flKures that from the way Woodrow treated him there'll never be another chance to say, "Let George do it." Brla-ht fellows some of those Hammond restaurant keepers. They supply without extra post Milm sonp silencers to patrons upon request -of some of the other patrons. WASHINGTON dispatches have it that the pie counter patriots are sore at the great exponent of grape juice because he doesn't stay at home and dish out the Jobs. He ought to be chastised. What does a cabinet official think that his functions are anyway? MARRIED couple over at Chesterton observed their golden wedding anniversary and renewed their vows after fifty years. Well, it wouldn't hurt any if some married couples renewed their vows every year. GARY LAND CO. official complains because there's no room for garbage boxes at the end of the lots. Can't be appreciate that the poor worklngman has to use the space for his garage? KANSAS man stole a three-dollar watch and served twenty-seven years. Ought to have no complaint. He wanted time and he got it. THANK goodness our suffragettes do not use dynamite, about all they do is to steal each others hired girls. JUDGING from the reception that Frank Chance got from the Chicago fans you would think that Chi. was Madrid and that some old bull fighter had come back to town. but if subscriber wishes Information he can get it from the Reclamation Service Agent Federal Building in Chicago. It takes means to homestead but there are still opportunities left to work out paying farms. The U. S. Reclamation Service has homestead availabilities in the shape of irrigat ed farms for instance in the well known Shoshone irrigation project near the Yellowstone Park in Wyoming and in the Huntley and Belle Fourche projects in Montana and South Dakota. Water is now ready for delivery to these farms, and un der the new three-year homestead law a liberal inducement Is accorded settlers in that they are permitted five months leave of absence, 'each year. The cost of the water right is repayable in ten annual installments without interest. WHERE WILL IT END ? The attempts by the London suff ragettes to destroy property, their wholesale methods of destruction show that nothing can stop woman when she gets started. These acts of vandalism follow im mediately after one simply fiendish in conception, nothing less than the poisoning of valuable animals. A woman whose famous Pekinese was killed received a postal card say lng, in part: We are resolved to stop at nothing now. Every valuable prize winning dog or race horse will bemaimed or destroyed when the chance presents itself until we get votes for women. It is not easy to advise what should be done in the matter, but it occurs that whatever penalties there are covering such offences should be en forced to the limit, hunger strikes notwithstanding. The Day in HISTORY MAV 1 IN HISTOHV. 1S64 Nathaniel Hawthorne, the poet, died at riymouth, N. H., aged 60 years. 1879 Switzerland restored capital punishment. 1898 Spanish fleet under Capt. Cevera reported at Santiago, Cuba. 1898 Wm. Kvarts Gladstone died. 1905 Teamsters' strike at Chicago practically settled at midnight. 1912 Rev. C. T. V. Richardson executed in Massachusetts for murdering Avis Linnell by poison. TODAY'S BIHTHDAV HOOHS. Former Congressman George P. I Lawrence, who represented the first Massachusetts district in the lowqp branch of the United State House of representatives for eight consecutive terms, was born in Adams, Mass.. May ID, 1S59. 11c was educated at Lrury

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San Francisco, May 19. Mrs. Bessie C. Merriam, fighting for the preservation of her good name, which has been banded about in several eastern and southern forts, has gone upon the witness stand before Judge Graham to repudiate the charges of cruelty madii against her by Captain Henry C. Merriam, In charge of roine planting at the Presidio of San Francisco, in his suit for divorce and the custody of his child. With Charlotte Merriam, pretty,

PEEVED AT SHIVELY OVER THE PATRONAGE QUEST!

TIMES' Dl'REAU AT THK STATE CAPITA I Indianapolis, Ind.. May 11, Somehow, after Senator Benjamin F. Shively was in town the other day the impression seemed to prevail that he had strengthened himself in the fight for re-election as United States senator next year. As is well known, the successor to Senator Shively will be elected by popular vote at the election of 1914, this being the first time that the new law will be in operation in this state. There has been an Impression that because Shively and the rest of the Indiana democratic machine has not yet been able to land any federal appointments for Indiana democrats. The few Indiana appointments that have been made by the Wilson administration hove been made- on recommendations other than those by Indiana machine democrats. This, of course. gave Shively a black eye along with the others, for Indiana hungry democrats have about come to the conclusion that Shively has no more pull with the Wilson administration than Taggart. This Impression has been working against Shively as a candidate to succeed himself in the senate. The democrats have been figuring that if Shively cannot deliver the goods to them and bring home at least a little slice of the patronage bacon they had better gef somebody for senator that can get it. The same impression has been applied to Taggart, for he is the recognized head of the old-line faction in the party which is being so eloquently ig nored by President Wilson in the distribution of jobs. But Shively came to town and soon there was a change in the talk about him. It is now being pointed out that he is a progressive democrat instead of one of the old-line reactionaries. They are saying that at the Baltimore convention Shively was the chairman of the Indiana delegation and that he was one of the strongest men in holding things in line so the nomination for president could be delivered to a progressive democrat. He was for Marshall through through thick and thin, but when the time came that Marshall no longer was a possibility Shively deftly handled things so as to land Indiana in the Wilson column. That is the way they are talking about him Academy, AmherstCollege and Columbia Law School. Was admitted to the bar in 1SS3 and has received honorary degrees from Amherst and Williams colleges; he served as judge of the district court of Massachusetts and a a member Of the Stat Senate before going to Congress, from which he retired last March.

Captain Merriam. his wife and daughter.

fair haired and nine years old, as the innocent storm center of the court proceedings, the attorneys for Captain Merriam and his wife have uncovered an army scandal that is alleged to have begun in 1911 at Jackson barracks, near New Orleans.- Mrs. Merriam's name Mas linked with that of "Major" Clarence Murphy, a civilian who obtained . his title through . service on the staff of the governor of Louisiana, a man introduced to Mrs. Merriam by her husband. now, and the talk appears to be making something of a hit. There was some talk a little while back to the effect that Shively might not be & candidate for re-election next year. . This report, which came first from Washington, gained wide circulation, and many democrats accepted it as the truth. But Shively says there is nothing in the report, and that he will be a candidate for re-election when the time comes. He appears to beptimlstic, also, as to the outcome. The Impression, on the other hand. Is now gaining ground that Taggart will riot be a cnadidate for the place against Shively, though this is not yet determined. The reason for this talk is that many of the democrats cannot see how Taggart could do them any good at Washington in the way of landing appointments when he does not stand in with the president. Another thing that Shively did while here was to express the opinoin that the United States congress will pass some kind of law that will make It unnecessary for Governor Ralston to appoint a successor to Shively, in case it Is found that there is no Indiana law under which candidates for United States senator can get on the ballots at the election next year. He says he does not think there will be any trouble slong that line. But the most important impression left behind when Shively left was. that Shively Is more of a progressive than people have commonly given him credit for, and that it will not be long until he will be able to cdnvlnce the administration of this fact. Of course, if he ac complishes this task it will put him in line for things, and it might even mean that he wll be able to nut Peter J. Kruyer across for collector of inter nal revenue fdr the Indianapolis district. However, this is still up in the air, for while Kruyer has the active support of Shively for that position, Kruyer is at the same time regarded as more of an Indiana machine man than is Shively;' If it turns out that Shively gets in the good graces of the administration sufficiently to enable him to handle Indiana patronage it will give him more strength as a candidate for re-election, because the Indiana democrats surely do want some man that can help them to land some jobs. Tomorrow (Tuesday) night, there will be a republican banquet at Terre Haute, under the auspices of Jake Finkelstein. Uncle Joe Cannon and James E. Watson are to be the principal speakers, and this gives rise to the bflief that it will be a gathering of the old-line republicans at which none others will bewelcomed.

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ASK PARDON FOR OSBORNE. Petitions for the parole or pardon of Jesse "Worley Osborne, serving life for the murder of Fairy McClaln Miller in Kokomo In April, 1908, were received today by Harry B. Darling, secretary of the board of pardons, to be present ed at the June meeting. The night of the tragedy Osborne went intoxicated to a house at which Miss Miller was staying. She repelled his advances, and in a fit of passion he drew a revolver and shot and killed her. He fled to Northern lumber camps, but subsequently surrendered, and entered a plea of guilty. RECEIVES HIS FIRST ORDERS. Chaplain William R. Arnold who has been assistant to the Very Rev. John H. Guendling of St. Charles Catholic, at Feru, has been ordered to report at Washington, D. C, June 15. From there he Is to go to Fort Adams, It. I., to receive lnstrucmtions regarding his new duties as chaplain in the govern ment Infantry service as Porto Rico. MAKES 3,000 COMPROMISE. Talbert B. Kerpper of Kokomo, who was suing the estate of his aunt, Mrs. Martha Foster, deceased, of Indianapolis for ?,800, in Circuit Court, accepted $3,000 in a compromise at noon Saturday in full of all claims he may have against the estate, except that he does not relinquish his right to share in the estate as one of the helra at law of his aunt. AVILLi ADJOIRST THIS WEEK. Delegates to the annual convention of the iron, stel and tin workers today declared that the meeting will un doubtedly end by Thursday. Discussion of the new scale was continued by the convention in executive session. A sum equal to .forty per cent of the wages of the heater will be asked for heater helpers when they become competent to fully care for their work, while beginners are to receive a wage equal to 25 per cent of the heater salary. TELLS WIFE OF INTE.M1ED ACT. "Just hang around here a few minutes and you will see me breathe my last," remarked Alexander S. Cullens. 68 years old, a.Deleware county farmer near Muncle, when he and his wife went to the buggy shed to do some work early yesterday morning. The wife, fearing her husband meant to take his life, ran to the house and called her niece. When they returned to the shed they found Cullen's body dangling from a rope, one end of which was tied to a rafter. It is said that excessive drinking caused the man to become mentally weak. The widow, one son and one daughter survive. The Grand Trunk Railway reports an order placed with the Montreal Locomotive works for fifty Mikado engines, for use on its Canadian lines. Orders have also been placed with the Baldwin Locomotive works for twenty-five Mikado engines for Its lines in the United States. IT'S WISE To know Union Scout Scran. Country Club Long Cut. Fores (XXXX) Pln Cut, and Sweet I.nma Flue Cut. All anion aande, with ticket Is every package. Manufactured by McHIeSeoteu Tobacco Co. ARE l'OU A TIMES READEBt