Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 290, Hammond, Lake County, 26 May 1913 — Page 4

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Monday, May 26, 1013. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS Br The Lake Coast? Prtatla aaa Pnfc. llaalaa Cobiiij. SENATOR'S WIFE HAS HAD A ROMANTIC LIFE; FIRST MET HUSBAND IN ALASKA R i:

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The Lake County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered aa aecond-claaa matter June i. 190"; The Lake County Times, daily except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. I, 1111: The Oary Evening- Times, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 5, 190; re-entry of publication at Gary. Ind.. April 18, 1913; The Lake County Times, Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. 30. 1911; The Tlmea, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. IS. 1911, at the pestofflcs at Hammond, Indiana, all under the act of March 3, 1379.

Entered at the Poatatffloea, Hammend and Gary, Ind., aa aecond-claaa matter. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICE, 912 Rector Building- - - Chicaro PUBLICATION OFFICES, Hammond Building, Hammond. Ind. TELEPHONES, Hammond (private exchange) Ill (Call for department wanted.) Gary Office Tel. 137 Cast Chicago Office. Tel. 540-J Indiana Harbor Tel. 349-M; 150 .Vhltlng Tel. 80-M rrown Point Tel. S3 Hegewisch TeL 13 " Advertlslnc solicitors wJU be sent, or rates given on application. If you have any trouble getting The Tlmea notify the nearest office and have It promptly remedied. LARGER PAID I'P CIRCULATION THAN ANT OTHER TWO NEWSPAPERS IN THE CALtTMET REGION. ANONYMOUS communications will nt be noticed, but others will t printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor, Times, Ham mond. lad. Stated meeting Garfield Lodge, No. 965, F. and A. M. Friday, May 23. S p. m. F. C. degree. Visitors welcome. R. S. Galer, Sec, E. M Shanklln, W M. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M Regular stated meeting Wednesday, May 28. Past Master degree. Visiting companions welcome. Hammond Council Vo. 90 R. and S. Instated Assembly first Tuesday eacn month. Class ot candidates Tuesday, June 3rd. J. W. Morthland. Rec, R. S. Galer. T. L Si. Hammond Commandery. No. 41 K. T. Stated meeting June 2. 8 p. pi. K. T. degree. Visiting Sir Knights welcomu. Political Announcements FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES: Ton may announce In your columns that I a am candidate for the republican nomination for Mayor of Gary subject to the decision ef the republican nominating convention and I ask the support of my friends In this way. CH ARLES E. GREEN W ILD. FOR MAYOR. Gary. Indiana, May 23. 191.1. I desire to annonnce my candidacy as a candidate for Mayor on the Democratic ticket ef the City of Gary. Lake County, Indiann, subject, however, to the result ef the Democratic Primary, June IS. 1013, and be bound by the same, providing there is no police ac tivity connected therewith. Slgnedt MORRIS N. CASTLEMAN. HONORS FOE ALL. The Hammond and the Whiting high schools have again triumphed in the premier inter-scholastic athletic event of the county high schools and the winnig of these two schools as they are named is a matter of of con gratulation to both of them. In oratory and music they carried off the lion's share of the honors which is a most commendable record in itself. Gary is coming to the front rapidly in these contests and is handicapped at present only because of her youth and the lack of school spirit seasoning. A school to win must have age and seasoning and when Gary gets these there will be no fear but what she will win her share of honors in any and all interscholastic contests. GARY'S EXPERIMENT. Because of one of those political disagreements, the details of which do not always seep out to the public, Mayor Knotts took a sudden notion to close Gary's "red light" district. One hundred scarlet women have been driven from the city. For how long we do not know. During the past two days Gary has gotten along pretty well without its "red light district." The Gary underworld is one of the .most imfamous in the country. It has like, those of large cities, been the breeder of crime, disease, suffering, and grafts if we are to accept as true the ugly stories that crop out from time to time. A half, dozen murders have occurred there this year. And, basing this on the statement of a Gary clergyman who pronounced It publicly from his pulpit yesterday, ven school boys have been permitted

THE SKtSONS OF THE HEART. When meiiria are fnfr with green f aprtng. When April's moon la bright. Then hope In like a hluehlrd'a wins It wakes the heart's delight: When hill are crowned with rosy bloom, When fragrant odors cloy. Then lore, like angel from the tomb, Awakens the heart to Joy! When fields are ripe with tawny grain. When sona-s of summer cease. Then Kratltude like golden sain Awakes the heart to pence! When winter silvers every pond.

When frost Is en the streams. 'Tis then that memory's magic wand Awakens the heart to drenms! Edward Wilbur Mason. to go into this district. One or the most promising of Lake county's high school athletes lost an event for his school last Saturday because he patronized the district. Whether it will continue to remain closed is yet to be determined. We, however, believe that it will be reopened at an early date. But if the "lid" could be clamped on Gary's "patch" the city would lose the un enviable reputation that It has ac quired, as a result. An underworld is a breeder of crime, misery, disease and grart. And no underworld is in existence that doesn't have these sinister shadows. ITS QUITE TRUE. Tha Detroit News arises to protest against Collier's Weekly's coupling of the names of O. Henry and Rex Beach in its short-story contest. "Rex Beach," it says,""is the true hook ana-ladder nction outputter. He is the maker of sham heroes and sham heroines. O. Henry was the man who punctured the sham hero and who stripped the 'heroine' of her mock heroism." It is a distinction well drawn and worth drawing. Chicago Post. GREAT KANSAS IDEA. Kansas, onetime home of the jayhawker, populism, the whisker, the blind pig. Carrie Nation and other etrange things, has found itself. Proudly pointing to the fact that it has among other things by statute abolished the common drinking cup and the free-for-all roller towel, it now, through its Governor, George II Hodges, proposes that the Legislature cease meeting for eight or ten years. so the State can catch up with the laws now on the books. It's a great idea, tending to restore peace In the community and prevent clogging the law books with unneces sary matter. Might .try it in Indiana. Honestly you wouldn't know the old state if it were allowed to wiggle along for eight years with a legislature setting it back every two years. IT'S DIFFERENT NOW. We are much edified to read in the Laporte-Argus anent the taking of the postoffice there by an Argus em ploy to the effect that: "The present head of the postoffice department is demanding service from postmasters. The office will cease in a large measure to be the reward for partisanship. Postofflces are to be business propositions, with service to the people the standard to be sought and maintained, and the growing importance of LaPorte will call for the exercise of the best executive ability, and an appreciation of the needs of the city." Tn other words now that the hated republicans are out in the cold and the democrats have the pie there is no partisanship about It any more do we getcha Steve? ARE YOUR STANDARDS HIGH ? What things are important? Are they the trees, the flowers, th birds, the call of spring, the glorious ecstasy of breathing and the firm, strong movement of muscles? Or are they the show of wealth, the bluster of lies "put across," the enslavement of men and women less fortunate than you? Is it the triumph of accomplishment for the general good that counts, for you, or the gloating of a selfish conquest? Does the love of a person charm you, the gratitude of friends, the approval of your life's action by your heart? Or do you feel a. thrill when you have taken some thing away from somebody else? What things are most important? Your answer to this question is your own measure of yourself. Are you a Lincoln or a Lorimer in your politics? In your attitude to ward nature are you a Burroughs or a Guggenheim? Rockefeller always paid high wages; Carnegie, low Which do you? Carnegie earned $1C a week when

THANK heavens! We now have lelen Gould, Va. Brooks. Ethel Roose

velt and the Princess Louise married off. PEE that Jack London is going To take up Farming. This Will Improve Literature, but it will be tough on Agriculture. JUDGING from the charges of fraud and other things that come out of the three church conventions in Atlanta, Bill Taft can look over the charges made against him and reason that if the worst is true the Chicago conven tion wasn't so bad after all. SHE POKSX-T PLAY BRIDGE WHIST, Elgin wife has tho title of 'being the mother of 17 babies In 21 years. AND there are indications that Mrs. John Bull can be just as ob stinate as Mr. John Bull. AGED VETERAN A WOMAN." Headline. Which? Of war or married life? READ that the greatest of ocean Hn- , ers. the Imperator, is due In JNew York soon. It is quite noticeable that the steamship press agents don't use the word "unsinkable" any more. CARLOAD of onions has been shipped into Gary to be sold at 3 cents a pound. Now don't blame the poor G. end I. garlic-perfumed ears for everything. MOUNT VESUVIUS is reported to be active again. So ' is Mount Battleaxe Castleman. COL ROOSEVELT has libel suit on against Michigan editor who said that he drank too much. Our special corre spondent. Hennery Coldbottle. hearing that his services might be required as a competent witness, went into hiding last aSturday, but has been ordered to Ishpemiy. he was being paid $3. His unsuc-j cessful office mates did not. What about you? Are the things that count, in your case, the benefits you may confer upon others, or what you may seize from others? These questions are many, but every one of them is worth answer ing, for a man measures himself by the things that he considers roost im portant. FOR MEN ONLY. A newly-married man In New York has been held up and robbed of his money three times in three days. But by the time he has been married a few months he will be used to it, and he will be a great deal more careful about the news getting In the papers than he is now. If every man who was robbed during the night ran to a newspaper reporter about It, it would be necessary for all papers to quintuple their staffs. RUN ACROSS HIM YET? There are other things than auto mobiles to be dodged these bright spring days. For instance, the man using a new-fangled lawn sprinkler for the first time especially if he is one of these chaps who think because they can drive a nail they know all about machinery. WHAT IS A PHILANTHROPIST ? The News, of Caldwell, Kan., admitting that the town needs a philanthropist, describes the rare bird as "a man who Inherited a big wad of money, or gobbled it from the public when the government wasn't looking, or absorbed it in 'unearned increment,' or acqui. id it by other mysterious process and can't spend it in riotous living on account of an impaired digestive apparatus." We never heard of a female phil anthropist. The rich woman has no pet indigestibles, nor shelf worn con stitution, and knows how to spend the money. She is willing to let. the he-bonehead do the philanthropy. FLY APHORISMS. The New York state board of health has published some aphorisms on the anti-fly campaign which are to the point. Some of them are ns follows: Flies follow filth. Fever follows flies. , Swatting saves sickness. . ! It is better to screen the cradle and wear a smile than scoff at the precaution and wear mourning. Flies in the dining room usually precede nurses to the sick room. Screens in the windows prevent crepe on the door. Flies, as well as bad water, spread typhoid. A fly in the milk may mean a member of the family in the grave. A fly has natural enemies; the most persistent and most effective should be man. It costs less to buy a screen door

WHY RENSSELAER HVSBANDS ARE HAITV. (From the Jasper County Democrat.) The North Side Sew club met Wednesday with Mrs. Harry Gilbert. The Sew and Sew club is scheduled for a trip to the farm house of Mrs. Earlo Thompson on Friday of this week.

SHADES of Hilly Hitt and the Duke d' Abruzzt: Katherine Elkins reported to have a third fiance. If Katrlna doesn't hurry up she'll soon be thirty. COMPLAINT is made that the presidential work is too much for one man. Well, lets have three presidents. Woodrow to do the work, Tom Marshall to do the talking and Bill Bryan to hand out the patronage. OENEUAL board of navy has overruled protest of admiral who doesn't want "right" and "left" for "starboard" and "port." All right, the admiral will now go over to the left side of the ship and sit down. HALYCON DAYS IN 1NDIANNY. (Potato Creek correspondence; Crawfordsville Journal.) The G. T. C. of Potato Creek Sunday seliool .met Wednesday evening. May 1, at the home of their teacher, Mrs. Mahalia Harper. After the business session tho evening was spent in contest game with prizes. Those winning prizes were: Button hole contest, Mrs. Clella Hutehings; needle contest, Thomas Turnlpseed; letter contest. Opal Holloway; best entertainer. Perry Zollars. MAYOR KNOTTS has given Gary another bath. Only trouble is that the chee-ild has the faculty of getting dirty again when hissoner Isn't looking. NOW is the opportunity for the scientist who can develop a mosquito that is as fastidious about biting as a brook trout. than get ill and lay off for a month It's a short haul from the garbage can to the dining table via the fly route. If at first you don't succeed, swat, swat again. MAY BE AT LAST. Looks as if the humble newspaper men have come into a share of their own. The newest senators from Texas and Arkansas are scribes. Pittsburg' new police director is also one and the new governor of Ohio edits two papers. Wilson'? brother is about to break into the senate. Look at Fitch in Illinois and the good Lord only knows wno else. Yep, the newspaper game has a few side doors to it now. Lot of the congressmen are of the clan and twelve of them sit in the United State senate. When Mr. Simon entertained his senators and representatives last Sunday you couldn't turn around without falling over some editor. The Day in HISTORY MAY 2 IX HISTORY 1813 Bombardment of forts George and Niagara. 18S France decreed perpetual banand ishment of Louis Philippe family. 1861 New Orleans blockaded by the federals. 1564 Montana organized as a territory. 1565 Kirby Smith surrendered, ending the confederate organization. 1896 Czar and Czarina crowned Moscow, Russia. 1898 Battleship Oregon arrived at at Key West, Fla. 1905 United States Supreme Court declared Insurance not interstate commerce, therefore not subject to federal control. 1909 William Lorimer elected United States Senator from Illinois after a four-months' deadlock. 1911 Mobile, Ala., celebrated its 200th anniversary. 1912- LUnited states Supreme Court Justice Hughes declared he would not consider presidential nomination. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS. Congressman James M. Gudger, Jr., of North Carolina, is fifty-two. He is a lawyer by profession; was educated at Emory and Henry, Virginia; elected to the State Senate In 1900 and served as solicitor for the fifteenth districts before his election to tho Fiftyninth congress. He has been re-elect ed to every succeeding session. VOICE OF F E O P LE A BOUT COIXS. East Chicago, Ind., May 26. Editor Times, Hammond, Ind.: Dear Sir: Will you kindly inform me through the column of your paper whether or not there is any premium for Columbian half dollar coined in year of 1892 and if any premium, what value? CONSTANT READER. (The Times refers "Constant Reader" to any numismatist as the values of premium coins fluctuates and also depends on condition of coin. Editor.)

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Mrs. Key Pittman. Mr. Key Pittman, the wife of the junior senator from Nevada, has enjoyed a romantic life. A native of California, she visited Alaska in 189ft, and them met Key Pittman, the man whom she afterward married. She traveled 2,500 miles over the icy Yukon in the middle of an arctic winter to consummate at Nome the vows that had been plighted at Dawson. In Alaska and elsewhere, Mrs. Pittman has not only been Senator Pittsman's wife, but his boon eomrmnion an well.

c This Week's New York. May 26. The following events are scheduled to take place during the coming week: MONDAY. Trial of alleged coaster brake trust begins at Buffalo, N. Y. British Parliamentary committee Investigating alleged speculations of Cabinet Ministers resumes sessions. Interstate Commerce Commission gives hearing on regulations governing transportation of explosives, at. Washington. Libel suit ot Colonel Roosevelt against George A. Nowett, begtns at Marquette, Mich. TUESDAY. Confederate veterans meet in annual reunion at Chattanooga. Tenn.i i Peter J. Duffy, Tollce Inspector Sweeney's henchman, goes on trial In New York. President Mellen of the Nw Haven road to be put on trial charged with manslaughter in connection with the Westport wreck, last October, goes on trial at Bridgeport, Conn.

A SOLDIER'S RECOLLECTIONS

HAMMOND SCHOOL BOY WRITES STORY OF DECORATION DAY AND THE HEROES OF CIVIL WAR TLME.

The sun dawned bright and fair on warm May day. It was the last day of May. Why were everybody hanging p flags in front or tneir nouses ana stores? Why were people carrying large bouquets of flowers? Ah, it is Decoration day, trie day wnen tne people go to the cemeteries, and decorate the graves of the soldiers who fell while fighting in the great civil war. Towards noon, on Fifth avenue, in New York City, a great parade was marching. Thousands of soldiers passed through the gauntlet of people that stood on both sides of the street. Who are those young boys dressed in khaki clad uniforms that come marching up the street? Ah, to be sure, they are the American scouts; liow they are cheered! They pass on, soon followed by a band of music, and then come the old civil war veterans. How old they look with their grey hair and wrinkled faces. The spirit of true patriotism smiles fr,om them. Everv one of them wears a medal or more in token of his bravery during the war. How the crowd cheers! Carriages pass with flowers for the decorating of the soldiers' graves. Towards the end of the parade a tall man can be seen marching along carrying a large American flag. What a funr.v looking man he is: He wears a high hat that looks more like a stove pipe. His suit is made of stars and of long thick stripes of red. white and blue. On his chin is a Ions, white beard. How the children shout with delight and clap their hands as he passes by! , "Mamma, who is he?" asked a small boy of about six years of age. "That is dear, old Uncle Sam, replied his mother with a smile. "Is he my uncle also?" queried Jack, for that was his name. "I never knew that I had two uncles. Uncle George and lTncle Sam." "He is everybody's uncle," laughed Jack's mother. "Mamma," said Jack a little later, "let us go with the soldiers that Just marched by. I do love to see how they decorate the graves." His mother consented, and in a little while they were at the large cemetery. People were going to and fro among the graves, old people could be seen by a grave, silently weeping over their lost ones. One old veteran lay on his knees before a small grave silently weeping and moaning. "Mamma," whispered Jack. may 1 ask the soldier why he is crying. ' His mother nodded. lowlv un to the old man. and laying his hand on his stooping shoulder, he asked, "why are you crying sir?" The old man slowly raised his face, almost washed with tears.. A look of surprise spread over his face: His eyes glared wildly. He stretched out his hoarv hands toward Jack and in a trembling voice cried. "Tom. my boy; oh. Tom, Is it really you?" and he clasped the frightened Jack to his breast and kissed him.

east anu icu mm. j. j , , ; , Jack's mother now come up and J "V hy did you not obey your mothick, with a tremendous effort, wrlg-. er?" asked his father, sternly, ed himself out of t&e old man's 1 "Father." replied the son. "I loved

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British Parliament reaseemblea. WEDNESDAY. George-Florida Pecan Growers' Asso ciation meets at Thomasville, Ga. THURSDAY, Bernhardt, after a successful Amerl can tour in vaudeville, sails for France from New York. Famous old Astor House, New York City, closes door to public forever. North Atlantic fleet arrives In New York to participate in unveiling of Maine monument following day. FRIDAY, Monument to heroes who perished on battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, to be unveiled In New York. Monument to Major Archibald W. Butt, military aid to President Taft, who perished on the Titanic will be un veiled in Arlington National cemetery, Washington. SATURDAY. Baltimore branches out with monster woman suffrage parade. Famous Morris Park Race Track, York, goes under the hammer, to be cut into lots for real estate speculation. grasp. His "mother was on the point of reproaching the old man for his conduct, but when she saw the old wrinkled, tear-stained race look up Into hers, she felt a change come over ner oi sympatny. "Tom, my boy," still cried the old man. He threw himself on the little grave by which he had knelt, and his heart-rending sobs shook his old. frail ooay. ivinauy Jack asked timidly, "Is your xom goner "Yes," answered the man -weakly, "he is gone, gone forever. The only boy I had. Ah, how you remind me oi mm. mat round, chubbv face. those clear, blue, sparkling eyes, tha orown cuny nair. As he continued to tell them the story of his life, the cemetery seemed to fade away. The old man was again a young, daring soldier. The story led on into the beginning of the civil war. When the civil war broke out Tom enlisted as a drummer boy. He had learned it aiMl was quite capable o his position. He was then about 1 years old. Daniel, for that was th name of Tom's father, also enlisted a a soldier. Tom was usually a good uoy, dui ior once in nis me he dis obeyed his mother, who did not wan him to Joirt the army. Tom loved th war: nothing could stop him unless aeatti itseir. .uaniei Knew nothing about this, as he was away tilth the army. A great uauie was Deing iougnt. Mullets whist led on either side. Cannon balls fell killing many soldiers on both sides, Hi luck was with the Union army ith shouts of victory the southern army ran Over the intrenchments and followed ttie retreating Union army, capturing many soldiers As Daniel was running he slipped fell and struck his head heavil against a large bar of iron that had come off of a cannon. Everything be came mack before him and when h came to his sense he found himsel lying in a small tent on the enemy ground. He knew he was a prisoner, w ith a great errori ne managed t stagger out of the tent. The fresh ai somewhat revived him. Sentinels were going back avjl forth with large gun on their shouPiers. He watndered on among his fellow breathren that had also been captured suddenly ne stopped ana gazed ahea in amaiement. A few feet away, ly ing on the ground he could see th form of a boy. It looked familiar to him. AS'ith all his strength he ran towards the form on the ground. A childish face looked up into his. "Tom, my boy," cried out the horrorstricken man, "what are you doing here?" "Father." ws all the boy could say. as he buried his head into his father's arms, sobbing wildly. After his father had managed to calm his son a little, Tom managed to tell his father the whole story, how he had enlisted as a drummer boy. and was captured. He wan captured at the smne time his father had been.

to be in the army. When the call for volunteers came I gladly enlisted. But now. oh how I long to see mother once more, to feel her loving and caressing hand upon me again, oh, futher, won't you please forgive me? And he burst out again in tears. "Tm," said his father, weakly, "1 forgive you, but what will mothet say?" And Tom, with tears streaming down his cheeks, kissed his father affectionately. A week passed and on day, aftei Daniel and Tom had eaten a scanty breakfast, Tom came up to his fathet and whispered to him to follow him. Wondering what was the matter, hi father-followed. His son ld him away from where anyone would hear, "Kather," began Tom, "1 have some good news. While I was walking along the great fence that surrounds this place, when X noticed a hole large enough to let a man crowl through. The hole, which is at the botom of the fence. Is covered with thick bushes. We" "You mean that we are going to try to escape from here?" Daniel whispered excitedly. "That's it," replied Tom. "and I've got something else to tell you. 1 overheard a conversation between General Crandon and General Simford, and I obtained some valuable information concerning our army. They plan to attack Gilsborough within three days. If we succeed in getting back to our army, this Information will be of great value to them." "When are we going to try to esescape?" asked Daniel. Tonight," replied Tom. That night Tom and his father silently senaked out of their tent and

.made their way on hands and knees towaras the noie in the lence. it was moonless night, and this gave them great satisfaction, Bs it enabled them o escape without being teen. In the dark Daniel stepped on a twig. It Droke with a loud snap. Instantly the cry of the sentinel rang out in crisp words, "Halt! Who goes there?" Receiving no reply, he called again. Then, seeing that noth ing was the matter, he was satisfied and resumed his position. Tom and his father crawled on, and they soon came to the fence where Daniel, with a great effort, pulled himself through. lorn crawled easily through. Tney were free: lo ono knows how dear freedom is to him after he has been shut uo for so long, with scanty food. The night air was invigorating. Tom and his father had put away their dinners ana suppers tnat tney naa gotten and this they now brought along, with two large canteens of water. Through swamps and marshes they ran. Often they were up to their waists in the muddy water. The day dawned, and Daniel began to notice that Tom was getting weaker and weaker. "Cheer ud. Tom. he would say to him cheerfully. "We will soon be In the union camp. Their rood and water was entirely given out. and already the jaws of hunger were fastening tneir teeth into the two empty stomachs. Towards evening they saw some smoke in tha distance. This gave them hope. Tom was nearly exhausted from walking. His father lifted him bodily In his arms azid carried him on. Sudrienlv thev wr rhallensred mv a sentinel. Daniel gave the countersign and in a few minutes they staggered into the Union camp. Poor Tom! Ha raved terribly with a deathly fever and called continually for the general. The general came up and Tom gavo mm tne vaiuaDie information tnat n had kept. The general thanked Tom, for it had saved his army. Daniel begged the general that he and Torn be allowed to go to their home for a few days. Tom was placed on a stretcher and taken dick to his home. Words cannot describe what took place between mother and son. He was placed In a bed, where ha lay still, as if he had died. Tom sat slowly up In bed. H smiled to his weeping parents that stood beside him. "Father," he managed to say, "you'll forgive me, won't you?" Ah. can you picture to yourseir nis thin, pale face; his thin, outstretched hands, and his Imolorlnr eves? Bit ter tears ran down the cheeks of Dan iel and his wife. Daniel tenderly lilted Tom anT In a shaking; voice he said, "Yes, Tom, I forgive you." Tom fixed his deathly glance on nis mother, and in a rasping voice he ask ed. "Mother, you ll lorgive me aiso. won't you?" For a moment there rang silence through the room, save for the weep ing or xom s mother. Yes, Tom. i readily lorgive yon. she said weakly. Tom put his hand up to his throat, and made wild gestures with the other. as if trying to say sometning. ne tnen rlasped his thin hands around his mother' and father's neck and held them to him. May the Almighty God bless you. father and mother, and may He forgive me for all my wrong doing," whispered the exhausted Tom. Deatn naa aone its auty. siowiy. lowlv. the hold around Daniel and his wife relaxed itself. The head slowly fell backwards and with a lingering smile, Tom died. Who could describe the grief and sorrow of Daniel and his wife? They mourned incessantly. Tom's body was enwrapped In an American flag and burled. Daniels wire grew delirious. une grew worse and worse. Finally the, too, aiea ana was Duriea Desiae 10m. Daniel was left alone In the world. How he lived through It all and through the civil war 1 cannot tell, but when the war was over he came to New York, where he lived all by himself. The dead bodies of the soldiers who had been buried were dug up and brought to the large New York cemetery and there reburled. Tom was also brought here. At least Daniel could go and visit the grave every day. Every year, on Decoration day. he would go with the old soldiers and decorate the graves, and of his son. As the years fley by Daniel became very old, but he still continued to go to his son's grave. It always brought back the scene of the little bedroom of Tom's, and the last dying words, "You'll forgive m father, won't you?" Jack stood looking at the old man with a look of intense sympathy. His mother was softly crying. The old veteran tried to rise, but could not. He was ill. Jack's mother helped him up and managed to signal for a carriage and drive homo with the old man. A doctor was called, who. upon examining the old man said that he needed a quiet rest. Jack's home was a rich mansion on the west side where It was quiet. Weeks passed, and In the meantime quite an attachment had sprung up between Jack and the old man. When the old man was well again he thanked Jack and his mother for their kind hospitality and for curing him. and started to leave. Jack loved the old man and did not want to let him go a'Let me be your Tom," begged Jack of the old man. "You will stay here with me always, won't he, mamma?" His mother nodded her assent. For a moment the old man stood still. Thoughts were psssing through his mind. Should he do It. A voice within him seemed to say, "Yes, do It for Tom's sake." Tears stood out In the old man's eyes as he lifted Jack and kissed him tenderlv. "Yes. I will stay with you, alwavs," he said. "Hoo-ray," shouted Jack. A little later, while Jack was sitting on the old man's knee, talking away with him, he asked, "What shall I call you ?' "Call me 'Uncle Pan."' replied the old man. "Daniel's my name." "Well, well," said Jack in surprise, "now I've got three uncles. They are undo Oeorge, and good old Uncle Sam. and the best or an uncie inn. nr WOLFE GUEENHERG. Hammond. Indiana. LAPORTE, VALPO, 0. Laporte. Ind., May 28. Brown bested Tadgett In a pitchers' duel and Laporte defeated Valparaiso yesterdas', 2 to 0. Cummings of Iporte secured two doubles and a single in four times at bat. Score: WHY ARB READER? tOU NOT A TIMES