South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 202, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 18 July 1913 — Page 8

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Entered &a econd cLisa matter at tho Pcstotflce at Fouth Bend. Indiana HY l'KKI) C. K LILLY.

Frederick W. Stockman, a well.iday by the weel:. . .120 known Washington correspondent.

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Sunday, Bln?la copy .So BY MALL. native town down In Missouri. While Dolly and Sunday In advance, per year - 54.00 ! there 11 was Steckman' good fortune Dally, to advance per year 13.00 j tf solve a mystery that had the town If your name appears In th tele phone dlreeto-y you can telephont a5TS fr weks and weeksrotir want "adM to The Newe-T.mei o nice and a. bill will be mailed after It ; 11 waa not a murder mystery, and Insertion. Home phone 1151; Bell phone 2100. j there wjw no hint of crime in connecCOSE. LORESZE.V & WOODMAN ! .V". '. bUt w

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Tiiii nn.ii issut. TC was never so disappointed In my life" IMltor Tribune. Tlio central committee should folImr tho advice of the ma- meeting nntl refu.so v support a repuhlican party ticket. The resolutions were courteous and in no vtbo oftVnsivc." Editorial In Tribune.

Advertising Building. Chlcat ' the hcro of the Place when he pub-

lisneu me solution. The mystery was about nothing more or less than the funny way the electric lights carried on at nght. They would go out all of a suddenfi without warning, then on again, in a second off again and all such strange carrying on as that. '

Despite Its flat failure to wipe out republicanism in Fouth Bend at a singlo stroke at the Wednesday night fiasco at the J. M. .S. building auditorium, our amusing" contemporary is etil? eager to see the central committee turn its back on the party tonight. And Mill hopeful. And it may well happen that freed from the presence of men who are

accustomed to follow their own Judg- j

ment in politic?, the committee or-a majority of its members may do this thing. Committeeman Curri.se says that he and II. I). Warner polled the committee and found 14 out of 11) favoring the merger. Whether the under current of opposition that flared up Wednesday and which kept many staunch republicans avay from the meeting and will keep them away from the polls in November in case f a merger will effect the judgment of the committeemen remains to bo Keen. Hero seems to be the whole situation in a nut shell. A merger is the practicable thing to do to better the anti-democrats chances in November IF all the republicans in the city can be brought to believe that victory is moro Important than principles. There's no question that it is tho expedient thing to do. But tho committee not any one clsj should accept this as any thing cJse than a compromise to try to so-

can't be bunkoed in largo quantities. They are quick nowadays to seo

, through hypocrisy. The committee . nor tho citizens' movement won't get

far by trying to disguise the real issue by calling It a non partisan movement or ono .hat will necessarily secure good government. A non partisan movement must be

. recruited from the citizenship, the

Fame as partisan movements. No one will believe that all truth and all righteousness will reside in any party, or even a non partisan movement.

was passed by the hou?e, but smothered in the senate incidental to the appearance of the stato blue book minus the pledge. This was ono of the pledges on which the republican party was elected to power in tho state. It was unanimously concurred in by the committee on resolutions at the republican state convention, and the governor Insists that its absence from the blue book does not excuse the party from fulfilling it. The treachery Indicated is a part of the struggle between the reactionary and progressive wings of the republican party for tho survival of the Attest. The incident illustrates to what extremes the reactionaries will go to prevent recognition of tho progressives. Apparently the war is as much in progress and the bitterness between the factions as pronounced today as it was a year ago when Roosevelt made his historical exodus from the republican convention in Chicago.

Tin: rmsox this gaixkh. The knowledge that Edward J. Fogarty will remain in charge of Michigan City prison is pleasing not only to his hosts of friends but to all interested in reformatory work. Praise of his work as warden which has emanated from those in a position to know and value Mr. Fogarty's efforts in prison work is evidence of his fitness for tho place. When Mr. Fogarty wen: to the institution the "black hole" or solitary confinement punishment was in vogue and harsh methods had brought about a disposition to sullenness was noticeable among the prisoners. All of this has given way to a spirit of helpfulness and real reform. Mr. Fogarty's splendid administra

tion of tho prison finances is of less importance than his inliuenco toward

better results in treatment of those

within his care. Tho beneficiaries of his humane policies will rejoice

that no change will bo made in the

wardenship.

"Subject to the exigencies of the public service," the rule laid down by Champ Clark in making lecture engagements, seems to cover the case all right. Mr. Bryan appears to be in Washington whenever ho is needed.

Electric lights were still a novelty In the little place, and everything they did caused talk. The fluttering of the light annoyed any one who happened to be reading, but the light itself caused much lea distraction than wondering what made the light do it. Citizens appealed to tho manager of the light company, and he In turn

went to tho plant with experts and tried to ascertain what ailed the dynamos or the rest of the outfit. They could find nothing wrong. The nice, new machinery seemed to be working right up to specifications. Yet every night occurred the funny goings on and off of the lights. Not only the lights in the homes and stores, but on the street corners, were in on the mystery. After a time it was about all thv people talked about. Not that it matter so much, you understand;

they simply struggled against the idea of nurturing a mystery that defied solution. Some advanced the theory that it was due to local meteorological conditions, and others thought the whole town was improperly wired or something like that, and that some day every dwelling house in town would bo set on fire. So the theories and hypotheses grew and multiplied, but the mystery remained. The lights fluttered usually around dinner time or, rather, supper time, as it was still known In those parts and again about 10 o'clock. Frederick Steckman had given a greatdeal of thought to the problem, but with no hope of making headway until one night. He waa standing in the lobby of the little postolfice discussing the mystery with other citizens when he noticed a young woman, the daughter of a leading butcher, walk by and chuckle to herself. Something in the talk about the light mystery had made her chuckle, apparently, and Steckman wendered why. He made inquiries and learned that sh ivas a young woman who "kept company" with the engineer at the light plant.

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a rumrYiXG mom-:. These things are said to be true: That tho National Association of Manufacturers annually raised a fund of JoOO-,000 to 5700,000 to fight labor and infiuenco legislation. That this association was largely instrumental in securing tho nomination of William Howard Taft for tho presidency. That in consideration of its support this association was promised the right tcrfname a member of Mr. Taft's cabinet and a member of the republican campaign committee. That Mr. Tuft adopted the views of the association with respect to anti-

injunction. That the association cooperated

with tho reactionary element of the republican party to defeat Pres. Roosevelt's 'egislative program. That it fought the proposed amend-, ment to the Sherman anti-trust law. This is the testimony of Col. Mulfcall supported by voluminous correspondence with the oi'icials of the association. It Is the evidence of the Invisible government, tho existence of which heretofore could only bo assumed from results. It is pernicious if true It shows how the government has been manipulated for the benefit of the few, and that if the many have prospered it has been only incidentally. The testimony reveals to labor the hopelessness of its fight acainst capital equipped ns the latter ha-s been with nn enormous corruption fund end buttressed by the government itEelf. It doe3 not justify the extremes to which 2abor has resorted, but it Chows what has made labor desp. ate. It reveals a tyranny of oppression from which through this exposure the people may now escape. The opening of this ulcer will have & purifying effect on politics which will restoro the government to the hands of those for whom it was created the people.

Another man of letters gets a diplomatic Job. Dr. Faul S. Reinrcru professor of political science in the University of Wisconsin, goes to China. The new minister to China is a Milwaukee product.

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Evidence that the Friedmann cure for consumption is a failuro are accumulating. Patients treated by the German scientist continue to die with disappointing regularity.

As an example of ingratitude the Tribune's attempt to sell ot:l the party that has fostered and sustained it surpasses anything of tho kind in ancient or modern history.

Is the colonel rehearsing fo "melodrama? He and the boys crossed an SOO-foot gorge in a cage in tho midst of a terrific electrical storm. What a setting for a ten-twent-thirt!

In Chicago the saloon Interests have undertaken the delicate and difficult task of winning women's votes. What is the answer?

The effort of European powers to put Pres. Wilson in a hole on tho Mexican question is sure to fail. It is an old and transparent game.

Tho Tribune's chairman of tho re

publican mass meeting struck a snag his parliamentary forceps couldn't

extract.

The railroads and their employes

have been provided with an equitable

means of settlement. It is up to them

to get busy.

Till: MODERN WAY. Poor little chap! Doomed for a period On his back to lie In the solitary Confinement of his cab. And no piteous cry Can penetrate The walls upbuilt By modern rules of training. Steeled is the heart Of mother love Against the plaint Provoked by pricking pin Or hot discomfort. Self restraint Is the lesson To be impressed At any cost Upon the infant mind. W. B. A CHICAGO dressmaker attacks the elficiency of men by demanding a woman jury to try her suit for the recovery of compensation for making a dress. "Men might not understand all the intricacies of dressmaking," she says. And it's true. It has been enough for him to know the cost and understand the Intricacies of the fastenings. He has had no heart to go deeper. A Close 01?crver. The apex of misery: To attend a week-end party and find you have left your "fUasses" at home. Nothing equals it but a dream that you are barefooted in church. S. FROM one source we learn that 80,000 trainmen are on the verge of striking; from another source that the 75,000 trainmen threatening a strike may arbitrate their claims, and from still another source that the 100,000 trainmen involved in the wage dispute are willing to settle. Why the number of trainmen should vary from day to day we do not understand.

Nothing More Than Fair. If tho weatherman intends to offer

many repetitions of Monday night's

disturbance he should let us know, so we can cut trapdoors from the living rooms into the cellar. X. WHEN a man by the name of Reaoner commits suicide, a hap pened at Peru, what can be expected of the impulsive and thoughtless? THE name of James J. Pappatheodorokoummountourgeotopoulos does not frequently appear in print. If reduced to Pap it would stand a better show. Life's Victories. The profoundest satisfaction Human mind can e'er attain. Is the Joy that comes from knowing You have not lived quite in vain. Life's victories are not counted By the mightiness of foes. Or the glory of the conquest. But the smallest human woes That awaken those emotions. Buried low in each man's breast, May give birth to noble strivings For the highest and tho best. BEATRICE E. HARMON. IMAGINE the chagrin of some people who did not know of tho big N. A. M. campaign fund at i time when they could have used it to advantage. Broke Up the Game. Friend wife and I were playing a game of backgammon the other evening. I was throwing off at a lively pace before she got ait her men home. Then she commenced to gain on me and won by one man, all four of her last throws being doublets, two of them sixes. That board has gone into permanent retirement. M. ALL complaints about the weather coming to this department are referred to Henry Swaim, who is the only one we know of in this section with any authority to change or continue existing conditions. Don't blame us if the weather doesn't suit you. INCIDENTALLY Mr. Bryan should "h've credit for getting us into the grapo juice habit. C. N. F.

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seventh aswsUat chief cf tht deputy clerk of 4not2ieT department to whlc!

the complaint wa referred by the clerk it anoth er desk who initialed th form naei by the clerk

fc-ho noted the Kirk That John Made,

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This is the secretary of still another bur eawbogot the complaint from the sei-enth is

:t chief fthtdepnty derk cf ajxother depar taent to which It was referred by the clerk at

Brother desk who Initialed the form nsed by the c lerk who nctxi the Eck That JonIIa3

-2T9-sre the wHiakers which grew on t he kick after it had trirsttd around for seyenty.

terra years from one bureau to another and fro m one pigeon ho?4another.and this is tie rsr

Ircere theyjbtriea John, who died at the age of n fsety-AertpOfler waiting from his boyirood for some action from the secretary of ltd another b urea Uj got tha complaint from the -set entfc asHAxDt chief of the deputy clerk cf another depar aenfci to which it was referred by the clerk

Earth rT desk who Initialed the form cse

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Glancing backward one can see in the light of Col. Mulhall's revelations how some thin.r.; happened.

The iceman, like the street car Is usually alent and unaccounted for when most needed.

an miimi:isiBLi: contuct. Who sto'o that party plank? Thus, indignantly ask tho bull moosers of "Wisconsin. The republican platform in tho lait campaign contained a section pledging the pa.sa;;o of a law permitting tho progressives to enter the Held as a reorganized party. Somebody surreptitiously abstracted the plank ar.d the legislature failed to pass th law. The progressives are marooned .'tml unless the legislature comes to their relief vsill have no place in the polities of Ihe state. Gov. Mi Govt-rn has ailed the attention of the legislature to its failure to perfect a bill introduced in pur-

liUiuccc of the stolen pledge. The bill It y.

Before another summer steps should be taken to see that facilities for supplying ice to consumers are adequate.

Get busy with your swatter.

CKIMSTOWN. Mrs. Miggl l:i.M and Ml GLidy Kor-ertson .-pent Saturday at Hudson lake. Harry r.u- h. of Snr.ijtin Prairie, was la the villas1 Saturday evening. lorni 1T1 called at tao Wai. Kiddle fcoir.e Sunday. Lightning struek and killed i young r.'fe f-el nclng to LavrretM-e Ta erski

rue-dar nlglit. The barn was slightly

With that tip to act on Steckman

made short work cf the mystery. Just

how he traced it out is of less interest

than his conclusions. He found that the flitting on and off of the lights

comprised love signals. Just that. The engineer at the light plant did not have enough to occupy his time, and when the machinery was all run

ning nicely, he let his mind dwell on the beautiful young woman on whom

he had centered his affections. At

the twilight hour he flashed a signal

that meant: I'm thinking of you. True it reached not her alone; yet it did, too, for she was the only one who

understood. The engineer was sorry

about the annoyance his signals caused other citizens, and if there had been any way to have a private circuit to tho young woman's home he would gladly have confined himself to that. Late in the evening when he was obliged to stay at the light station instead of calling at her home, he never failed to send a flash that, by there secret code, meant: Wish I were near you. And eo on.

The engineer would have been less persistent at his signalling if she had given him more encouragement in his suit for her hand. As it was he felt that he must do something to prove his love. She had twitted him when the signals became town talk, and said that he would probably get scared and cease to flash the messages. So he dared not stop. In fact, ho fell into the habit thtm, when he felt completely carried away by his love, of tooting a sharp blast or two on the whistle. It was this whistling that helped Steckman to dispose of the mysteryHaving solved the thing to hi3 own satisfaction, Steckman printed his findings in the paper. To him it was

all simply a good joke. And that waal . t . 1 1 n . Anl.r'l

ail 11 was to anyooay eist Mt- uuijr the engineer at the electric light station. He declared that he would either kill or cripple Steckman for exposing his little scheme and making him the laughing stock of the community. Two things helped to save Steckman from violence at the hands of the engineer. One was that the young woman in'the case relented and agreed to marry the brave engineer who had risked so much taunting for her sake. This pacified the engineer somewhat, and he took the view that except for Stockman's publication of the case, he might have courted her on for many a month all in vain. Furthermore, a St. Louis editor heard of Steckman's ingenuity in sifting down the light mystery, and he wired to offer the young man a Job. That removed Steckman from the dying embers of the engineer's wrath and everything ended happily. Irvln S. Cobb, the magazine comedian, once wrote a page of newspaper stuff about Mr. Jack Johnson, in which ho spoke rather flippantly about Johnson's appearance. In a

KDWAItnsnUKG. Margaret Smith has returned from a week's visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Cramlall, at NUes. Mrs. Amelia Manchow spent Sunday at Elkhart, the guest of Mrs. M. It. G-arvin. Mrs. Hiram Shankweiler and son spent Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Meyers, near Klkhart. Miss Helen JSurran, of Kalamazoo came Saturday for a vls-; with her sister Mrs.

m. Crawford.

Marguerite Myers of Elkhart came Thursday for a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Illram Shankweller. La Verne Sampson, of South Bend is here visiting at the home of Kthel llaynn. Lmma Shankewller has returned home from Kitthart where she has been for the past veek helping care for his sister Mrs. Kate Meyers. Mrs. .aTah Irott, of Dalley, came Wednesday for a visit with her daughter Mrs. Amelia Manchow.

Mvn. John Maliek of Casopolis spent

Kody Cook has returned! to Cassonolis Wednesday here wit- friends.

after a visit with Mrs. Henry Lyons. Florence Richardson of Marcellus came

homo Tuesday for a visit with her mother Mrs. F. Jay. Viola and Fred Hopworth of Burlingame, Kanus., came Wednesday for a visit with Mrs. U. S. Carlis.c and ether relatives. Larl Dibble spent a couple of days this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Dibhle at Niles. Mesdames iisk, Claire, Qulraby, IlU'ks. Van Antwerp, Wiekinou, Carpenter and the Misses Ruth Rogers and Pearl flail, went to Mlshawaka Thursday and sjriit tho day with Mrs. Lewis Walters. Mrs. Arch Smith has returned from n visit with Mr.s. Carrie Clark, at South Rend. Virgil Fisher, of Fort Huron is hero spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones.

fOTTAC.n HILL. Mrs. R. Shobaek of Three Oaks. Mich, is a guest of Mrs. John House.

Mrs. Myers ami s n flo-rrg1 of Hamilton were Sunday guests f Mr. ;:r:d Mrs. S. P. Redding. Mr. and Mrs. Fdgar Rs were gaiosM nt dinner Sunday of j,e;nn Martde and family. Master fjeorgo I I;j -! i n crer of Three Oak, Mich., is a guest of his cousin, Ken Marble. The g-leaner-j will hold th-ir regulnr meeting Friday night. July IS at the home of Mr. ai.d Mr. ra Jones. The ladies will serve ico- reum and eake. Mr. and Mrs. James i:;mhle and ehlldr-l were guests Sunday of Mrs. flamWe' parents Mr. ami Mrs. J. Deditch of Rrandyw i tio. Several from here attended servl'-e Sunday at the Poitage Prairie Fvangrlieal chureh. Misses Blanch Jackson and Fona Redding were guMs Sunday o. M!-s Mam!1? P.orst.

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Hlvfrvd" by tie l-lt but n other damage day or two he got a letter from a wns dor.e. j man who slsrned himself "an educated Mr. C. F. Nvl.arr and grandn. Merton 'negro", and who wound up by saying: N.irris .f s.,-it. Tt..a tr..i v.i. "I've never seen you. but I ve seen

lie-. lav and Ihur-dav with Mrs. Nyhart S your picture in me paper, ana i j .! iue'iiu r, Mrs. F. F." Riddle, of this viola- to say to you with all due respect that V

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