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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-10

e The march OF progress in America has
been contemporaneous with the develop
mcnt OF our agricultural resources.
What other Incentive should we need to
foster an industry that has played such
an important part In our national vel
fare?5 Yet, strange to say, the teaching
OF agriculture has boon shamefully neg
flected, until we find great areas OF coun-
try but little better than waste Land.
and in many sections abandoned to the
agencies OF nature. Do we fully realize
what has brought about this startling
condition OF affairs? If not, should we
not come to the consideration Of q ques-
ton fraught with such vital import to
tho future welfare of our country? Is not
the condition portrayed, and which may
now he too frequently witnessed through
out the length and breadth OF this great
country the result Of the Ignorant culti-
walton OF the soil, the pursuit Of the
J OF tho wealth and the beauty nnd the
splendor that were garnered into the
bosom Of nature by the physical agencies
OF centuries now remote !? Such are tho
conclusions reached by those who have
given diligent considern ton \. to this im-
portant subject, and IL itSnot high time
that some definite action was taken
looking to the sameliora ton OF an ngri-
cultural practice that has brought about
such dire results? rs 1t pot time that
some effort was made tosIhculcnte moro
rational ideas OF 5culturosinto 1.-THE minds
Of those who are to be the future tillersS
OF the soil and the bulwnrk OF the col,n-S5
try in time OF peace and war a like ~ The.
conditions which we now face, are tho
results Of ilasty and Indifferent practice
due to the cheapness OF land ina co,in n
try SO great as ours, and to the fond be-,
lief, which Is the delusion Of childhood
and old age alike, that ono, can &c Y some
thing for nothing. or take sonnet thing
from nothing and have something left
The condition OF our griculture Is O
; matter therefore that merits the atten-.
tion OF our cational leaders, for there
isSno subject which has been so utterly
neglected in the past nd there Is none
worthy OF greater attention In the fu "a
ture. st 55$ s5{ IS 81 " .
"a griculture at " best. Ss is an is applied t,a
science, and the inculcn ton 4 the truths
i8that govern 4 correct scient iflcs practice,
|Ennding D their foundation as they do on
q number OF fundnmen tai sciences, Will
do moro for the permanent welfare and
advancement of q large per cen t. OF our
population than any other form OF fin-
struction that can be prov ided In our
rural schools But the teaching Of agri-
culture, having to d o as 1t does with tho
growth, development and utility q plants
and animals, with the relation Of the
elements OF the soil to crop production
ana the identifying Of the face of ms
ture, should not be confined to the rural
schools. Agriculture properly taught.
can be made q culture study and used
! TO develop the mind as effectively 9
the study OF sS history mat hematics, or
even the n classics. s The useful man Is
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
CHICAGO LETTER.

Chicago, Oct. 9.-WHEAT-A dull,
sluggish market was the principal
feature in the pit today. The early
trading was at slightly higher prices
and the tone was stronger than Satur-
day The bulk of the news was bullish,
cash demand at both the northwest and
southwest markets reported f1rmer and
better prices obtained for the best quail
ity of wheat. Export trade dull; for
eign markets slightly higher than Sat
urday The market closed strong with
an advance of about three-quarters for
the day,
CORN-Somewhat f1rmer at the open
ing based on the bad weather through
out the corn belt, interfering with the
movement of the new crop. A little
selling appeared for the account of one
of the larger western cash houses.
Later the market turned firm again but
the activity OF Saturday was missing.
The close was barely steady
OATS-Dul and narrow all day, al
though the strength in wheat induced
little sympathetic buying which was
inconsequentiaL The market closed
featureless.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

A business man in a neighboring
town who has the reputation of pos
sessing a violent temper and sharp wit
was talking over the phone the other
day when he was cut off by a cross
wire. He lost his temper, began to fret
audibly, finally believing so loud that
he could be heard three stories below
Central" he finally concluded, 4
wish you'd take this telephone to the
devil" Then he hung up the receiver
Central Indignantly reported this to
the superintendent Of the company,
who paid a hurried visit to the com
planning patron.
Mr.. Blank" said that parsonage Sc
verely. either you apologize to that
girl. or I'll remove your phone"
Mr.. Blank said nothing, but. going
to the instrument rang up central.
"HeIlo this is Blank he said. Are
you the young lady I requested to take
my telephone to the deviI?"
4 believe I am, sir" coldly came
the response.
Well, you needn't bother, thank
you; your superintendent is here; he's
going to do it
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Straube Piano factory wishes to
announce that it has retail branches
or stores In Hammond or elsewhere.
The company sells direct from the fac
tory only, at factory prices. Do not
be miSIed confused by pianos
with similar names, but when in the
market for an instrument, buy direct
from the factory, thereby saving mid
clemens profits and agents commission.
Terms to suit. Take South Holman
street car, come and see how GOOD
pianos are made. 1026-1wk
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
NEW YORK LETTER.

New York, Oct. 29.-After the over
Sunday buying orders were filled the
stock market lapsed into the same dull
rut that has been so apparent for the
past week. Traders, as a rule. prefer
TO wait until after election before com
hitting themselves very extensively on
either side of the market.
About FIVE stocks comprised the ma
was a trihe firmer, particularly Read
ing Pennsylvania, Union Pacific and
St Paul
Reading rallied from an opening
around IA up to 1929, but on the ad-
vance met liberal selling by profession
ais and room traders.
Pennsylvania also had a very firm
undertone, and the belief seems to be
growing more general that there is an
unwieldy short interest in this issue.
1t opened at 140 and had a gradual,
sneaking rally up to 142A. 1t looked
as if some heavy short was trying to
buy in part of his contracts.
St. Paul sold up from 1713 to 172 on
scattered buying of the smaller sort.
The balance of the list swayed back
and forth between narrow limits.
In the late afternoon, when the di-
rectors of the Pennsylvania company
announced an increase of one-half OF
one per cent. in the dividend, the issue
scored a further advance, selling up to
143A closing near the top price.
Outside of the strength in this issue
the market, generally, closed with a
weak undertone.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1906.
BEGIN NOW, HAMMOND.

Chicago's public spirited citizens are
about to undertake at great expense, to
transform the city by the lake from a
comparative blot on the landscape to
a gem of purest ray serene.
While Chicago as city is not the
ugly spot it is represented BY the en-
vious East there is no question that
there is room for Improvement and a
great deal of room. There is also no
doubt that had the matter of the APP
pearance of the city from an artistic
standpoint been given little thought
before Chicago had taken on it's pres
ent gigantic proportions, it could be
beautihed at far less expense with
better results than will be possible I'M
der present conditions.
Hammond should take warning from
it's big neighbor to the North 1t is in
the formative state right now. when a
little attention to general effect will go
a long way and will obviate the neces-
sity for subsequent action In later
years by public-spirited citizens, such
as has been undertaken by the Mer
chants club of Chicago. Hammond is
destined to progress commercially with
the same tremendous strides that char
acterized Chicagos progress in the
early days, and the people here are
liable to be too busy" to pay any at
tention to the artistic beauty OF their
city. Later on when the town be-
comes unwieldy and past doing any
thing with in the matter of beautify-
ing it, the people viii wake up to the
fact that Hammond is an ugly blotch
upon the map devoid of any attractive
ness and incapable of Improvement ex-
cepting at enormous expense.
Hammond has a park system which
in the rush of business has fallen into
unseemly neglect, but it is a nucleus
for better things. If a little judgment
were exercised with reference to the
laying out of new subdivisions. etc,
there might be hopes of Hammond 5
future if not as a beauty spot, at least
a town which would not get a reputa-
ton for its ugliness. Without this the
outlook is extremely gloomy.
Inattention to beauty in a town is
the natural outcome of too rapid COM
mercial developement but Hammond
might benefit by the experience OF
sister cities who have grown rapidly
and lived to regret their sacrifice OF
beauty to the mad rush of business a
stitch in time saves nine is an old saw
that is not to be scohfed at.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Between Trains
A Long Root.

(From Success Magazine.")
An Irishman, with one jaw very
much swollen from a tooth that he
wished to have pulled, entered the Of
fee of a Washington dentist.
When the suffering Celt was put into
the chair and saw the cleaning forceps
approaching his face, he positively re-
fused to open his mouth. Being a man
of resource, the dentist quietly in
structed his assistant to push a pin
into the patients leg, so that when
the Irishman opened his mouth to yell
the dentist could get at the refractory
molar.
When all was over the dentist smil-
ingly asked:
1T didn't hurt as much as you ex-
pected, did it?"
Well. no." reluctantly admitted the
patient But" he added, as he ran his
hand over the place into which the
assistant had inserted the pin, little
did | think them roots whit that far
down."
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
NAL DE CAR.

new disease has been discovered
in Hammond, and it is now running
good second to realestatis. 1t is called
Z" NAL de car" because the symptoms
and development are similar to those
of NAL de mer. otherwise known as sea
sickness. 1t is Of a sporadic nature,
and the focus of infection is confined
TO the Hammond street cars.
ride over the undulating right-of-
way of the Hammond street railway
partakes of all the features and sensa-
lions of trip across the lake in an
overloaded excursion steamer in
choppy sea.
The street-ear people claim that they
are not to blame for running their
teeter- totter hen-coops over floating :"
rails, which are sometimes in the street
and sometimes on the sidewalk. They
mean to put down good rails-some
time. They would like to re-track with
standard groove rails. but the steel
companies cannot insure delivery of
the same within year In the mean
time they are willing to furnish tempo
rary relief by laying 81 new set of rails
of the kind now in use, but the city
council viii not permit it.
Probably the city council knows the
street-car people better than we do 1t
may be figured that If the street-car
people were permitted 10 re-equip with
material similar to that now in use
they would wait until the track was
as full of low joints as the present
one is before they would think of
making another change When that
time arrived the steel mills might be
as slow in deliveries as they are now
Meanwhile, the best way to prevent
the contraction OF NAL de car is to
do all your intramural riding on foot.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

Probably there is no community in
the country that is more interested in
the problem Of transportation than the
collection Of scattered settlements
which are rapidly growing together at
this end of Lake Michigan. The de-
plorable disaster at Atlantic City yes
terday has brought UP again the mat
ter of construction of cars. Possibly
the cars in which the passengers were
trapped, with no means OF escape, We're
devised as the result of an agitation
on the part of the people for more
comfortable and convenient vehicles.
A few of the same cars are now being
used in the interurban service in this
vicinity
1t is said Of them. that when inside.
the passengers are positively helpless
unless the motorman is quick enough
to release the catches on the rear doors
when an accident is impending. This
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Comm rnial New Zealand.

The boys and girls of New Zealand
must have singularly commercial
minds, If a letter written by one
young New Zealander, and quoted in
an English paper. is typical. This
boy writes enthusiastically Of the
achievements of a certain football
team, the All Blacks, and thsn OBJ
serves seriously that the premier is
very proud of the victories, which
ARE a splendid advertisement for
New Zealand mutton and butter"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

There is more catarrh in this section Of the
country than al other diseases put together and
unit the last few Years was supposed to he in
durable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it g local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to cure with
locsl treatment. pronounced it incurable Sci
ence has proven catarTh to he a constitutional
disease and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo. Ohio. is the only
constitutional cure on the market It is taken
internally in doses from ten drops to a teaspoon
full. II acts directly on the blood and muco 8
surfaces Of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to crxe. send for
circulars and testimonials.
Address: T. ]. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. Ohie.
Sold by Druggists, SC.
Take HALLS Family Pills for constipation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
SOUTH WATER STREET MARKET

Chicago, Oct. 29.-Trade in produce
circles was featureless and good many
dealers did not do enough business TO
agreeable weather had a tendency to
Keep most buyers away and only those
whose needs made it imperative for
them 10 come out were in evidence.
quotations on round lots ranged:
Butter-Receipts, 5,033 tubs. Extra
aers c? o PFints ee r Ptioe2 "a re-
seconds, 19m 21c; ladies'. lie; renovated.
ZO021 diaries, Cooleys. 23c; firsts, p
q &c; packing stock. 16 y q lie.
Eggs-Recelpts, 4,01S cases. Fresh
stock at mark, new cases included or
cases returned, 2oq22c; firsts. 2Sc;
prime nrsts packed in whitewood cases
grazing 90 per cent fresh stock, "a y c;
extra, go per cent fresh, packed for city
Potatoes-Receipts, so cars Early
Ohlo. Minnesota. 43 a 5c per blu; white
stock, Wisconsin, free from frost, 40 q
43c per blu; containing field frozen, so
q Soc bu; red, fair to good, 3S q 40c per
Du; mixed red and white, 3S Il Acc per
bu common, small, unripe, red or white,
$2.S2 @ 500 per brl; Virginia, $3.50 q Ice
yeal-Quotations for calves in good
order were as follows: SO to S5-lb
weight, 6Q7c: so to IS lbs. ~ q sc; s.
TO ITO lbs fancy 8 II q 10c; $50 to 175 lbs,
good. meqty, 49 &c;
loins, II 12e; No. l round. ING; No.
1--we POultry-Turkeys per Id, lac;
chickens, fowls. SC; springs, 10c; roost-
eTs, eye; geese, $4,000 800; ducks, 8
Fruits-Apples, s15OQ8.25 per bril-;
bananas, Jumbo, per bunch, $1.40Q1.50;
straight $1.10Q 1.25; lemons. California,
$1,000 500; oranges, California, $4,000
| 300; grapes, log 21c per S-lb basket.
Beans-Han dpicked choice, $1.44;
screened and depending on quality s1.00
q l.30; red kidney per blu, $20002.30;
$L00q 10; limas, California, per 100
lbs, $4.500475.
Cranberries-Ca Cod, early, black
| box.
Green Vegetable at soc
per crate carrots. s10o@L25 per loo
caulifiower, 50cQ$1.5o per box; horse
radish, $500 per brl; lettuce, head, SOC
| @S1-50 per tub; leaf 25c per case
onions, soc q $1.35 per sack; pumpkins
! 75c per brl; parsnfps, 6006 Csc per tub
| turnips, 750S5c per sack.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
The following are the average prices
HEARD ON THE BOURSE.

New York, October 20. 19O6.-The
stock market in the language of the
old timers is a case Of nothing doing"
not enough outside business to help
out. There is hardly any commission
business at all worth speaking about
and the prospects are that there will
not be enough money to speculate with
as the bank reserve is less than half
what it was last year and is lower than
it has been in the past six years.
Spectators will remember that even
with the bank reserves of last year
money went to 125 per cent in Novem-
Der, and they are net in favor of dose
like that again this year.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Corollary Of a Child.

During the course Of little sermon
on morals at a Sunday school the
instructor said AN excellent way,
children, when you are in doubt as to
whether a thing is right or wrong is
to follow the rule never TO do any
thing which you would be ashamed tc
have the whole world see." Home
from the school rushed one small
pupil in high glee Mamma" be
said, as soon as he found his moth
er: I'm never to take any more colo
baths in chilly weather. Teacher
says it's wrong"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

In addition to all of this the election
is only a. week away and it is just as
well to wait and see what will happen
It really looks as if Hearst was gain
ing in strength on account of the large
crowds he is able to get together, but
still circus draws a big crowd. One
well posted man who has handled large
speculative accounts says no matter
who is elected the market will not go
up; If it happens to be Hearst, the timid
will sell out their stocks at once for
fear the country will go to the bow
vows. And If Hughes is elected the
big fellows will sell their stocks be-
cause the market will be heavy and
market And no matter if dividends
are raised on Steel common and the
Pennsylvania road the market will sell
off on account of money. The mere
fact that the Bank of England has to
take such drastic action as to raise its
rate to per cent is a killer on the
stock market. The market may be mar
row and refuse to go down but you can
not get up any bullish booming market
without you can borrow money freely:
No matter what the interest rate is you
can AFFORD to pay high rates if you can
only get the money, but this action by
the Bank of England says you cannot
get money from US any longer no mat
ter what you pay for it and we will
keep on raising the rate so high that
the rest of the world will make money
| scarce for you, too
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Growth Of St. Lawrence Valley.

The St. Lawrence valley has passed
the Hudson and Mississippi river val
legs in growth. In 1860 the opening Of
the Victoria bridge to Montreal, over
5000 feet long, at a cost of s6,3O0,000,
was also the beginning of the opulence
Of newspapers, the most efficient Of
which then sent for the first tina spe-
cial correspondents to report the
prince of Wales, who arrived in Can
ada to open the bridge.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

The moment that a young crocodile
breaks its shell it is to all intents and
purposes as active as it is at any time
during its life. 1t will make straight
for the water, even if it be out of
sight and a good distance off, and it
will pursue it's prey with eagerness
and agility during the first hour of
it's free existence.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
WITH THE EDITORS.

Almost every town has a character
who sprained his back in 1853, or there
abouts. He is physically unable to
work but he can sit all day on hard
box in livery stable plying checkers.
while his wife chases underbreeches
up and down the washboard to keep him
in smoking tobacco and grub. Amt it
the truth ?-The Reflector.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
uniuue Bible.

The most costly book in the royal
library at Stockholm is a Bible, and
there is not another just like it in
the world. In weight and size alone
it is unique. 1t is said that $50 asses
skins were used for it's parchment
leaves. Each page falls but an inch
short of yard in length. The width
of the leaves is 20 inches. The covers
are solid planks four inches thick.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Flower That Has No Root.

There is a plant in Chilli and sim
liar one in Japan called the flower OF
the air" 1t is so called because II
appears to have no root, and is never
fixed to the earth. 1t twines round
dry tree or a sterile rock. Each shoot
produces two or three flowers like a
lily-white, transparent and 'odorifer-
GUS. 1t is capable of being transport
ed 500 to 700 miles and vegetables as 1t
travels suspended on a twig.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Money TO Loan

In any amount on short notice, e.
real estate or personal property, -
Stinson Bros. Attorneys at Law.
Stenographer and notary in office. All
inquiries strictly confidential. Suite
lO6, First National Bank Building,
Hammond Ipd.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Statue Found Husband.

A Chicago woman prayed for Is
years before the plaster image of the
saint interested in such matters for a
husband. Her faith finally failed and
she threw the image out Of her win
dow. That did the business. When
the man with the broken head opened
his eyes it was to gaze into those of
the unwilling spinster. She nursed
him back to life, married life.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
sIaaest Baby and the Iosman.

Recently there was an addition to
the family Of well-known Bartles-
vile couple and the young parents
first thought was to weigh the baby
A search revealed the fact that there
was no scales in the house, but at the
psychological moment the ice man
hove in sight That settled it. They
borrowed his scales and to their
amazement the baby weighed As
2ounds.-Exchange.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

The foreign money market has sent
American stocks into the market for
sale and there has been a good deal Of
liquidation. Large operators are out
of the market and the big bankers are
adverse to big speculative activity.
When prices go up they offer stocks too
freely TO allow Of any rise to amount
to anything. They also put in fine
support on any marked decline. This
by itself keeps the speculation quiet.
They have the market well in hand
and will use every effort to keep ii
quiet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29

Euphagists are ! dietetic sect who
refuse to take eating seriously. They
purpose to eat, drink and be merry
especially, be merry. 1t is the royal
road to health and long life. The
London News suggests that "if a care
less attendant spills hot soup down
the back of his neck, the euphagist
temporarily stops euphaging, that is
all"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
Low RATES TO NORTH AND SOUTH
DAKOTA.
Via Chicago, Milwaukee s. st. Paul
Railway.

Harvester secon-class tickets, from
Chicago to all points on Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Ry. in North Dakota
and South Dakota. Rates s14.50 for
each person, when five or more persons
travel on one ticket Tickets on sale
daily until August l. Low rates re-
turning November 80.
E. @. HAYDEN
Travelling Passenger Agent
426 Superior Ave, n. w. Cleveland, O.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-29
1int for pramatio critios.

It appears that some of the Tokyo
dramatic critics have been for some
time in the habit of performing in
comedies and taking the most cele-
brated roles. The japanese critics
think. in fact, that before judging the
play of the actors they should them
selves experience the difficulties OF
dramatic art.