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Or The Iake Count? Printing and Pub. Itshtna; Comaaay. The Times East Chicago-Indian Harbor, dally except Sunday. Entered at the postofflce in East Chicago. November 18, 1913. The Xake County Times Daily exrept Saturday and Sunday. Entered at the postofflce la Hammond. June 18. 106. The Lake County Times Saturday and weekly edition. Entered at the postofflce In Hammond. February 4, 1911. The Oary Evening Times Dally except Sunday. Entered at the postoffice In Gary, April 13, 1913. All under the act of March S. 1879. as seeond-cless matter. roiunoir advertising ofctcbs, 913 Rector Bulldlnr - - Chlearo TELEPSTOKTES, Hamaiuod (private exchange) Ill (Call for department wanted.) Gary Office. . .TeL 1ST Kaat Chicago Off Use TeL M-J Indiana Harbr.. ..TeL II9-M; 1S9 Waiting TeL 10-M Cnwa Point.... ..TeL UecewlM TL 11 Advertising solicitors will be sent, or ratee given on rnHrt.y If you have any trouble getting The . Times notify the nearest office and have it promptly reme-lied. LARGEJt PA. Ill IT CrCULAVIO THAU AMY fmTER TWO kews. PAPERS IS THE CALVMET RJCCIOX. ANONTVlUUfl eommunioatlons wl not be 'tired, but ethtri .will printed at discretion. and sho-ala be addreieed to The Editor, Times, Hmsnead. Ind. Garfield Lodge No. 69 F. & A. M. Stated meeting: Friday Dec. 5. 7:30 p. m. Special meeting Saturday, Dec. 6, 7:30 p. m. Annual Fast Masters night, XI. M. degree. Visitors cordially Invited. R. S. Galer. Sec. E. M. Shanklln. W. M. Hammond Chapter No. 117, It. A. liL Special meeting Wednesday, December 3, Royal Arch degree. Visiting com panions welcome. Refreshments. Hammond Council No. 90 R. & S. M. Stated assembly, first Tuesday each month. J. W Morthland. Recorder. Hammond Commandery No. 41, K. T. Regular stated meeting Monday, December 1, Temple degree. Visiting Sir Knights welcome. JUSTICE 1 A drunken negro who accosted a white woman in a crowded thoroughfare of Gary and who threw his arms around her was given a fine of $5 and costs for his atrocious conduct. It is such pitiful justice that places the law in contempt. Were Gary below the Mason and Dixon line the black would hare oeen strung to the nearest telegraph pole A $5 fine is a sad commentary upon the price which the Gary police court views the attack of a negro upon a white woman. POETIC justice seems to require that the new son-in-law of the White House be fixed up somehow with congressional district. TO the credit of Mrs. Sayre, nee Wilson, it must also be said that no body ever called her the Princess Jessie. SHANK QUITS. The shallow-pated Shank is no longer mayor of Indianapolis. He was a political accident hoist into power as a joke and his career in the municipal executive chair has been a joke ever since. All that can be said for Lew Shank is that he is a good fellow, but it takes more than goodfellowship to be mayor of a city like Indianapolis. Shank didn't even try to weather the storm that is breaking over the capital. .He has quit like a yellow dog and is running away with his tail between his legs. Shank is to go on the vaudeville stage but we predict that he won't last long there. He is just a common ordinary clown. THE cost of living comes down with a rush. It is announced that tennis balls are to be a dollar a dozen cheaper next season. HAVING bought 420,000 pounds of Australian beef at less than the low est American price, the navy is earn Kstly requested to engage in the re tail trade. BOSSISM IN INDIANA. Another feeble effort Is being made to break down the Taggart machine in Indiana. The threat is made an nually, but the effort is generally nair-neartea. raggart naa sucn a. hold on the democrats of the state that he is the personification of H003ier democracy. It would seem that those who believe the machine should be smashed have been deceived by Senator Kern, who was supposed to stand for Wilson democracy and who was expected to lead the fight against

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RANDOM ' the h HAVE received appeal from Egg Boycott league urging that we quit using eggs. Merciful heavens! No eggs on our table for seven weeks. WHAT'S become of all of the democratic editors who, during the summer of 1912, told us that the "election of a democratic administration would lower the high cost of livingf. SPEAKING of an ear, perhaps wifie would prefer ono instead of a diamond for Christmas. KANSAS corn crop is 18,420,052 bush els. This should be cheering news for the Kentucky natives. GOVERNOK-elect of Massachusetts says that he won't attend any dances. Probably knows that sooner or later he would run Into the Insidious tango. ASPHALT graft probe on in New York. Sticky stuff to be meddling with. AT this writing John D. Rockefeller continues to afford to have one egg every other clay, but It is not knoyn how long thc-y will continue to be so pltneiful on his tabl.. "HOW much do you suppose that the earth weighs?" Inter-Ocean. Without doubt it weighed much heavier than usual after the Thanksgiving dinner. TWAS THE MGI1T BEFORE CHRISTMAS. (A Revised Version By Alice Jaynea In the Lad !' Home Joarnal.) Tn the alght before Christmas, when all la the ahop. Not R aaleagirl nor wrapper but thought abe would tlropi The cash children rushed with the money with care, With wan faces, strained hither, thither . they fleil. While vialona or reprimands flashed through each head, At an hour when rich children were tied In nlgihtrapa. And settling thrmaelveM for their long winter nap. From tablea and countera arose auch a clatter Some terrible tragedy must be the matter! The lights from the whining bulbs, white la their glow. Gave luater of midday to objects below, A aaleaelrl waa selling; email srifta. Like a flash She tore open boxes and counted out cash. When what frt my wondering eara should resound. But a nhrrndUh abuse yon could hear alslee around. From a woman, well gowned, who came just to kick. I knew In a minute she waa "the Old Mck." She waa dresoed all In for from her feet to ker head, And a comfortable feeling of opulence nhed. More rapid than reindeer, reproaches they came. As she acolded and called the poor girl il harsh name. "How stupid! You vixen! Don't dare Answer hack! 111 report you at once for being so slack. My gift never came. Now where can they bef How uch things can happen I really can't seer" And giving a nod, up the store aisle she sailed Full of wrath that her own "Merry Christmas" had failed. The salesgirl no pale went straight to her work. For dosenn of buyers forbade her to ahlrk. . Hours and hours played the drama, long after abed gone Delivery boya, women, cash girls strug gled on. la hundreds of stores. In many a city, This spells "Merry Christmas." un good people, pity! the Taggart organization. That Kern is now a lieutenant of the Taggart army ia evident. There is an attempt being made at present, to stir up a little opposition to the re-election of Senator Shively. But there i3 no rea son for expecting that any good will come of it. If the organization wants Shively sent back to the senate he will go back. The truth of the whole matter is that Indiana democracy likes to be bossed. Some day the state will free itself of Taggartlsm and Boss rule, but the achievement will not be due to efforts of democrats who count themselves regular. It is going to take a general uprising to purify the politics of the state and free the people from the machine that now is in control. Lafayette 'Journal. THE bloodiest battle of the Mexi can revolution is getting to be almost as monotonous as the hardest-fought game of the season. THE silver service given by the senate to the White House bride consists of fifteen pieces, thereby discreetly avoiding the famous ratio of 16 to 1.

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ASTRONOMER Maya that the aver ,ite e.vr- can aee 7,000 stara. May be mo, ( ttut t hone who happen to llp on waxed parlor floora know that there mast be at leaat 20.000 of then visible. FRISCO mtn stole a loaf of bread on Thanksgiving day and went to jail. Then he got turkey, and cranberry sauce. CHICAGO newspaper refers to ExMayor Shank of Indianapolis, as a novelty mayor. But in this case as well as others folks tire of novelties. TANGO is prohibited in Chicago saloons. Windy city evidently thinks more of its saloons than it does of its ball rooms. ALTHOUGH Indianapolis loses Mayor Shank vaudeville gains him. What with Shank, Evelyn Thaw, and the Hon. Hill Sulzer on the stage much can be said of its advancement during 1913. WORST barnstorming tour the provinces now fear of being egged. troupe without can any i "DARK, WET GLOOM SETTLES OVER GARY." Times Headline. Especially marked around the city hall. WAY President Wilson is stretching the congressional sessions ought to help make his currency bill as elastic as he wants it. POOR MR. JOHNSON. Mayor-elect Johnson of Gary seems to be obliged to put in his evenings attending various banquets. If his honor doesn't watch his digestion he will go out of office won dering what become of it. And In re spect to dinners the lord mayor- of Gary seems to be in as much demand at them as the lord mayor of London. It seems as if the same fate might befall Mr. Johnson as did friend Bill Nesbit. Bill is the champion long-distance dinner Marathoner in and about Chicago. He speaks during the open season for banquets at from 4 to 6 banquets per week. He was packing his dinner duds in a suit case one morning at his home in Evanston just before going down town when Mrs. Nesbit asked what was on that night. "Oh I got to speak at a little din ner," said Mr. Nesbit. "Sure I might have known it," quoth friend wife. "Why whenever you get up In the morning that suit case of yours just comes running out of the closet barking like a dog it's so happy." DR. Eliot says that wages must give way to profit-sharing. JuBt the same most of us will prefer the wages until the profits are guaranteed. OH COME NOW JESS! The convicts both. In Michigan City prison and the Jeftersonville reformatory were given big turkey dinners yesterday, and later regaled with vaudeville. Possibly this munificence might be contemplated with more equanimity If all the hard working, honest, and sober citizens of Indiana had been able to afford similar luxuries. Under prevailing conditions, however, It eppears that about the only way or some folks to connect with celebrations of this sort Is to commit murder, rape, or burglary and be sent up. Fort Wayne News. With all due respect to the esteem ed News we feel that this criticism is just a little bit harsh. Granted that the poor sinners in the state prison have spoiled their lives and the lives of others by their lapses, at the same time it wouldn't hurt them to know that the outside world is celebrating a holiday by having their lot eased 3 little. Prison life is a dreadful thing Perhaps Brother Green ate too much turkey. WE are relieved to hear that Hu erta gets intoxicated on champagne The rumor had spread that it was petroleum. HISTORY. The most conspicuous failure in our schools next to the laughable worship of the Ancient Languages, ia in the teaching of history. The date when Caesar crossed tha Rubicon is not important or interest lag, outside of an encyclopedia, and the details of wholesale murders of men should not be told in text books for children, but by the weird grate fire when tales of horror are recited with grief and tears. The names of kings who did nothing are worse than dead; but the deeds that represent the progress of the world should never be forgotten. The date of the battle of Pharsalia Is insignificant, but when the soldiercitizen of Rome lost his land and the nobility got it when the Caesars found It more profitable to raise sheep than to raise men, Rome fell. When the king of France paid $400,000, for a necklace for DuBarry,

and hi courtiers, in the chase, rode over the fields of the farmers and destroyed their crops, the French Revolution came. But the date of Louis' death is unimportant. .When Gutenberg invented printing education was revolutionized, but the place where the royal family put up

for the winter In sixteen eighty-three is not a matter of great interest. When history shall drop its dates nd places, describe its wars with horror, and replace the names of worthless, sapheaded kings with those of the real men who have promoted the progress of the world, we shall have ttxt-books thai children will plead for the privilege of reading. The weary, heart-breaking struggles with memory will be replaced by a few in structions as to how to use an encyclopedia, and all will be well. SPEAKER Clark's daughter should be awarded a prize for purchasing a wedding gift for the president's daughter which pleased both the macrity and the minority in the house. WHAT NEXT INDEED! A dispatch from Paris says: "Thi decollete limb has Just been introduced by several ultra-fashionable women. Women have appeared at the theaters this week wearing gowns daringly slashed, which reveal that the accustomed silk stockings are lacking. Some have dainty Arabesques painted on their nether limbs and wear a string of diamonds caught below the knee." Great gosh girls, what next? WOULD SUIT THE SQUIRE. New law in force in France pro vides that the unmarried must pay an increase of 20 per cent in their income taxes and many weddings have resulted. introduction of such a law into congress no doubt would have the unanimous support of the hon. Jus tice Harry B. Nicholson of Crown Point. EVEN' if President Wilson should send him a steamship ticket to Europe, it would be just, like Huerta to go to a pawn shop and hock it. . f THE CHAUTAUQUA REGIME. There is more or less cumulative evidence to the effect that all has not been plain sailing under the Chautauquan regime in - diplomacy. Washington despatches indicate that several co;;s hav5' slipped in spite of copious lubrication with grape juice. Aside from the actions of that arch tempter the Hon. Jim Ham Lewis. who took Pindell of Peoria up on the mountain and showed him the bargain counter, it has come to light that there was also some slight confusion as to the Greekmisslon. A despatch stated that the trifling error had been made in sending telegrams apparently on the same day to both Professor Droppers of Williams College and the Hon. George Fred Williams of Dedham, asking each If he would take the post at Athens. As there was a dual kingship at ancient Sparta doubtless It was argued that with such a precedent there could certainly be two American Ministers to Greece. And if the Bryan-Pindell one-year-only installment plan was to be similarly applied to Greece that would have meant eight Ministers in four years, running capacfry of two Ministers per fear simu;tneouslv. Perhaps the idea was that '.he day and night shift should be introduced into diplomacy. Who knows? But the dilemma in regard to Athens seems to be mild compared with the vexatious Dredicament wherein Colonel Thomas H. Birch of Burlingtcn, N. J., appears to have found himself. Let us append one detail of hist unfortunate quandary. We quote from a Washington despatch: j "Colonel Thomas H. Birch of Burlington, N. J., who was nominated and confirmed as United States Minister to Portugal more than a nonth ago and has not yet started for his post, apparently only learned this week that the diplomatic honor he has achieved is not of ambassadorial rank, but that he Is only a Minister. He has ordered richly embossed stationery with th letterhead 'American Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal, Ignoring the fact that Lisbon has an American legation and not of an embassy." Will not the Hon. Jim Ham Lewis be good enough to suggest to the perturbed New Jersey Colonel that he lay aside that stationary de luxe as a memento for his children's children? By the third generation we may have an embassy in Lisbon and the little ones might never guess their grandsire's misunderstanding. New York Sun. WHAT IS IT, SEC. ? Speaking at a banquet in Kansas City, Mr. Josephu3 Daniels said he tary will now oblige by putting on that naval cap and telling us what he sees ahead at Vera Cruz. TCiASSIiriED ADVERTIS1.M1 Co a. rains mosit of the newa of work tm be

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TIMES BVItEAlT AT STATE CAPITAL. incnanapoiis, Dec. 1. Congressman ' Adair, of the Eighth district, has ! sounded the war cry and announces j that he will be a candidate for the j democratic nomination for governor, whether anyone wants him or not. This is supposed to be music tc the j democratic state machine, for if there I is anything the machine likes It is a fight. While W. If. O'Brien, auditor of ! state, has not made any formal announcement that he will be a candidate for the nomination for governor. is Is pretty well known that he will be in the race when the times comes, and this means that the machine will have to choose between O'Brien and Adair, and the choice will fall on O'Brien, because he is closer to the machine than Adair. Adair says he will be a candidate for reno-nination for congress in the Eighth district next year, and that as soon as he is re-elected he will begin his campaing for the nomination for governor. He wants to serve ten full years as congressman, and he is now serving his fourth term of two years. Then he wants to round out his political career with four years as governor of Indiana. "If there Is a machine in this state I want it to be with me," said Adair, In discussing his plans. "But if there Is a machine and it does not want to support me I will be a candidate anyway. If It wants a fight it can have it. . I will not be the candidate of a machine or any set of men. But I am not afraid of a political machine. The people do things to suit themselves, and I go to the people." Adair has never been obnoxious to the democratic machine, however, and if he were nominated for governor the machine would not be angry about it. But the machine would prefer O'Brien for numerous reaons. The positive announcement of Adair that 'he will be a candidate for gov ernor adds interest to the talk about '. W. E. Kunkle of Bluffton, for chair man of the democratic state committee. Adair and Kunkle are both from the ; same district, and it might be a nice thing for Adair to have a friendly state chairman. A dispatch from Washington says that unless Senators Kern and Shively hurry along with their recommend ations for internal revenue coilectos Secretary McAdoo Is liable to make se lections of his own for the places. The dispatch said McAdoo had made this plain to Senator Kern and that the latter had been trying to get in telegraphic communication with Shively to deliver the message to him and urge hltn to hurry back to Washington, but he had failed to locate him. Secretary McAdoo says it is necessary to make the appointments at once In order that the new collectors may appoint their deputies to enforce the income tax law. There is a well defined movement among republicans and progressives over the state to come together oh some basis of compromise that would reunite them in one party, but up to this time no progress has meen made in the direction of compromise. Both sides appear to be asking too much of each other, and each side Is unwilling to give in as far as the other is demanding. One of the plans that has been suggested and which is under consideration by. some Is the holding of general primaries at which every man that wishes to support the republican party shall have an equal chance to express

his preference, regardless of his for mer party affiliations or political conduet. Some of the politicians take the position that in this way the real views of all voters could be registered. This plan contemplates the reorganization of the party. If the progressive element was able to cast a majority of the votes the state organization would be placed on a progressive basis, which ought to be satisfactory to that element. Those who favor this plan take the point on that a majority of the republicans are progressive In their views, anyway. They says that the party as at present constituted is not responsible for what has happened In the past and that the majority would support the

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lishel along this line remains" to b seen. The Muncie Press, published by George B. Lockwood, ad which is supposed to speak for the present republican leaders, has devoted a good deal of space to a discussion of the pri-' mary plan, which it believes would be good.

PAIR KILLED ON HONEYMOON Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 1. Mrs. Wilber Toungman of Champaign, 111., was almost instantly killed and her husband was fatally injured at Fairfield, south, of here at noon yt-sterday when a Lake Erie & Western train struck thi closed buggy In which they were riding. They were married at Champaign Thanksgiving day and were on their honeymoon trip. Edward Grishawfc a cousin of Toungman, was also killed. THE CALUMET INDEX TO CHANGE HANDS The Calumet Index, established seven years ago by the late Charles H. Oallion, was sold this week to Carl P. Morgan, who will take possession today. Mr. Morgan is a well-known writer, a whole-souled genial fellow, with a great capacity for making friends. Success to the new editor. Calumet Record. " ADER ICTED OF IMMORALITY