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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-07-02
DYNAMITE FOR SUICIDE
Man of &C Years Uses Five Sticks of
Giant Powder to Blow Him.
self to Dternity

Deadwood, S. D.. July 2.-After light
ing a fuse twenty feet long Ebert OIL
son, of Roubaix. lay down on the
ground, placed five sticks of giant pow
der on his chest, attached the other
end of the fuse to the powder and
waited for the end. He had driven all
the members of his sons family. with
whom he lived. from the house before
attempting suicide. His body was hor-
ribly mangled. He was 66 years old.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-07-02
A chance for everyone to own a Home
The Hammond Realty Company will help you

WYE putting the market seveny-6ve choice resi-
w dent lots in East Lawn and McEIes Subdivision and
will sell you your choice of any of these lots (now unsod
the unusually moderate price of 5000 EACH and what
will loan every person paying cash for his lot
per of the money required build his home at
per interest. All will be treated alike First
first served Do not neglect this opportu ity. 1t may
never be offered again.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-07-02
Had Hard Luck.

you've spent most of your life in
circus?" asked the reporter.
Yes said the freak Il started out
as the fat man. then | married, and
now I'm the living skeleton Detroit
Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
RELIEVING THE FIEI. FAMINE.

If the reports from Minnesota and
the Dakotas are true-and those sent
out by the Associated Press can be re-
lied on-the car and coal situation IS
far more serious in that part of the
country than it is here in Kansas, and
it is bad enough here. But the north
western railroads have now been
spurred to activity by the investigation
of the interstate commerce commission,
and relief is promised for the fuel fam
inc Kansas railroads, some of them al
least, are also promising special efforts
to supply coal where there is a shortage
in this state.
Winter is just setting in. and if the
conditions of the past two or three
weeks were to continue the situation
might grow extremely serious in those
localities that depend on coal for heat
and that have no other source of sup
ply. There have been coal shortages
heretofore, but they have usually not
come until later in the winter. This
season coal dealers have complained
that they have been unable to get all
their orders filed, owing doubtless to
the general shortage of cars and motive
power, and many dealers have been
unable to lay in a surplus stock against
the cold weather of January and Feb
ruary. Consequently their bins are al
ready empty.
It IS to be hoped that the present ag-
itation will result in an extra effort on
the part of the railroads to keep up
the fuel supply. Other traffic may be
important. but nothing can be more
impo1 tant than to supply to the public
sufficient fuel to keep warm.
Incidentally the coal famine shows to
what tremendous extent the country
is dependent upon the railroads. Should
the railroads stop running, not only
would almost every line of industrial
activity cease. but suffering and death
would very shortly ensue all over the
land.
In the early days each community
provided fer it's own wants almost en-
tirely, but that is not true today. The
large cities could not exist without the
daily Importation of food from long dis
tances. The west could never have
been settled as it is without the rail-
road to haul in supplies and haul out
the products. Transportation enters
into every avenue of human activity.
Consequently the public must see that
the transportation business is not
smothered nor suppressed, for that
would work tremendous injury to the
public as we'll as an injustice to those
Immediately interested; but neither
should transportation be the master Of
tho country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

for yourselves. Supper's waitin'-" Wlts
a quick sidelong movement he was Cd
through the low hawthorn.
Both the man and the girl stood arc
looked at the place where he had ols-
appeared until the last leaf ceased 20
futter, then slowly she turned 20 tns
man before her. Their eyes met a1io
fingered for a long moment fraugn.
wich questioning. What they answered
could not be told in words. so the mar
fell on his knees and began-oh, SO
gentlyi-to rub a spot of the precious
grey skirt. She stood looking down oa
bis broad shoulders. his big blonde head
touched gold by the setting sun. 1Es1
her eyes Wavered to the crude sign. : NO
Trespassing' directly in front. With q
quick movement she reached down ana
ran her slender fingers through his hair
stopped and touched his face caressifes-
she said, in a voice that choked, but
ended in a laugh Copyright, 1906. By
N. NJ. Cunningham.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
STOP WHINING

a delegatlon OF newspaper men went
20 Washington last week to secure IN
amendment 70 the Hepburn law allow
lng railroads to make an exception in
the anti pass provision Of the law al
lowing them to issue passes to news
paper men If the newspaper men
would bring their influence to bea. in
dissolving the paper trust instead Of
throwing spasm every time they are
refused pass, they would soon be able
10 pay their railroad faISs without whin-
tng--Parsons sun.
Which is an extremely sensible state
ment- The honest and honorable news
paper men of the country ought to lay
no straws in the way of eliminating the
free pass evil. and a continuance of past
methods of handling railroad advertis-
ing and newspaper transportation would
leave loophole through which the priv
ilege might be abused. 1t is. Of course
strictly honest and honorable for the
railroads to exchange transportation
and advertising, dollar for dollar, but If
this is to be done there is no reason. WHY
each should not charge cash and pay
cash to the other. II neither side is
getting the best of the bargain it is diff
cult to see how a cash arrangement will
work hardship or what argument
there can be against it. But If the
newspapers viii do some practical work
that viii remove the duty from paper
or the raw material from which It is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
BAILEY.

While Ex-Governor w. J. Bailey has
been urged repeatedly to become an
open candidate for United States sena-
tor, he has given his friends to under
stand that he is not such a candidate.
This does not mean that Governor
Bailey would not accept the senator
ship if it were offered him. To be the
representative of the people of Kansas
in the greatest legislative body in the
world is an honor of which any man
might be proud. and to have ones fel-
low citizens urge it upon one is indeed
gratifying. But no Office is an honor
to a great man unless he is in a posi-
ton to honor the Office. If the senator
ship came to Governor Bailey with no
complications attached to it he would
reflect credit upon himself and his
state; but If 1t is to be forced into any
situation where he could not be free
to represent Kansas according to his
own ideas w. j. Bailey might not care
for the senatOrship.
At present no man stands higher in
the estimation of the people of Kansas
as a whole than this Baileyville farmer.
Three years ago he refused to accept
the dietation of Thomas T. Kelly and
his crowd but insisted on uprooting
graft and standing for the best inter
ests of Kansas as he saw them. AS
result Kelly and his crowd directed
certain dissatisfied elements against the
governor and the so-called boss buster
movement resulted. The people of Kan
sas row realize their mistake, and as a
result of his firm stand and the injus-
tsce done him. Willis J. Bailey stands
higher in their esteem than ever be-
fore.
If Governor Bailey were sent to Wash
ington free to honor the high Office of
senator he would doubtless be glad of
the commission. but he does not pro-
pose to go there bound by ties and
combinations that would make il inn
possible for him to be the representa-
tive of the people of Kansas. He has
no desire to be the servant of special
interests or politicians There is more
honor in maintaining the esteem of his
fe1low-citizens as the master of that
Baileyville farm than in being a Uni
ted States senator under such condf-
lions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

At the worlds convention of the
Women's Christian Temperance union
in Boston. Sidney Dallas of Melbourne
told a group of reporters in fremont
Temple a temperance story.
My wife, said Mr. Dallas, sis one
of the most earnest temperance work
ers in Australia. In the course of her
missionary work she hears many a
strange tale.
"a Melbourne woman told her last
Christmas time how one night, during
the holidays, her husband stayed out
till about a m. We all know what
that means, especially during the holi-
days, don't we2
We'll, this man, when he got home
thought that he would go boldly to the
bathroom and take a bath. That
would remove from his wife's mind
any suspicious as to his condition. 1t
would show her, in word, that he
was all right.
so he undressed, filed the tub and
plunged in. Hot and enfevered as he
was. he enjoyed the bath. AS he
splashed and scrubbed and pulled, he
heard slight noise, and. looking up,
saw his wife in the doorway.
His wife was regarding him with
an expression of unspeakable con-
tempt He was rather amazed at that.
But he said nothing He lowered his
head and went on scrubbing-
asked.
Can't you see what I'm doing?' he
answered. He rubbed up some more
lather. Tn taking a bath
She shifted and said as she turned
why don't you take off your un-
derclothes. then 2 Exchanges
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
FROM OTHER PENS
NEW YORK.

The moral nature and the moral
common sense of this town are per-
haps none too sensitive. They are
very much the same as those of any
other big and overgrown community
in any part of the world. In fact, we
can stand almost anything that any
other town can stand. But what we
cannot stand and Will not put up with
is the furtive and criminal compact
between vice and authority. We can
tolerate and we can be Indifferent to
an immense amount Of the various
evils that infest society (and we ought
no doubt, to be deeply ashamed of it,,
but we never get really stirred to re-
sentiment, never get heated to real
passion, until we unearth depravity in
the relation Of vice with the law
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

How'd you like to be the mail carrier
next week?
~
Speaking Of aEgravating things, think
Of being a coal man during fuel fam
Inc, when people are willing to pay any
old price for coal but you can't get any
to sell.
-
This was printed in the Lawrence
World but it actually happened in a
Topeka church last Sunday Funny
things happen at church as we'll as in
other places. Sunday a minister who
had preached a very long sermon be-
gan his conclusion with these words:
I have not said half I wanted to say;
I would like to go on for another hour
But I must stop At which an erratic
old brother who had heard only part
of the remark set the congregation in
a litter by shouting fervently 'Amen!' ="
People are not much afraid of the
octopus any more. When you see an
octopus nowadays it is generally scoot-
ing down the road with its tail between
its legs.
&C.,
The children in the George Gould
family have the whooping cough this
week We judge the George Goulds
are the Frank Jarrells of New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
HUMOR OF THE DHY

And what was the coloners speech
liks?" "Oh. fluent and all that. Obvi-
ously pleased I call it very bad form
in soldier.''-Punch.
What made your husbands hair
turn so gray? He's still a young man.
Was it. the result Of some terrible
house buflt.'-Judge.
Tom Cproudly)-"Miss Pinkleigh has
Poainely1-"Oh. don't let that worry
you. Women frequently break their
promises. Chicago Daily News.
night, and he dropped his wife while
swings What did she do?'' sued
him for nonsupport."
Did you ever speculate?" "Oh, yes;
once / built a handsome house on tips
l got from a friend of mine" What be-
came of it," Our hotel waiter bought
it on tips he got from me. baltimore
American.
Her Husband Cangrily)-"I was fool
when l married you" His WIFE
Aren't you fool still2" Her Husband
NO. I am not" His Whether
you should congratulate me upon my
success as a reformer. Chicago Daily
News.
very shy youth sat on the sofa
with his lady love. Too difident to pop
the question, he gradually slipped his
arm around her waist. and after a long
silence blurted out, despairingly, Il
don seem to be making much prog
ress- Perhaps not" replied the lady.
But, anyh ow, you are holding your
own st. James Gazette.
The Days of Youth.-A1rs. House.
keep-"Go away You're nothing but
lazy old tramp, and you were never
anything else Don't tell me-
Ragson Tatters-''Yer mistaken, lady
an! dey Wuz a time" Mrs House
None of your lies, now!" Rag
son Tatters-'I wuz goin' ter say
ma am dey wuz time Wen / wuz
lazy young tramp. "-Philadelp
self-Help.-The Wears Wife-'I'n
sorry to see you're not paying into our
coal club this year, Goodenough."
Go COO nc. Oh mum. you see
be ind the coal yard nowr'-Punch
You keep a cook, of course. mad
am, said the polite agent, who was
trying to sell a new kitchen utensfi.
NO. L DON'T snaoDed the v-o,,1sn
The best I can do 1t to give one en-
ployment -"-CleveIand Press.
First Boy-"Expect to get much for
l expect 1 won't get nothing like wot
expect'-Judge
Rangtington-''F rohman wanted to
present me, this season" Manager
lFrostville Opera House)-"Goshf
Couldn't you make yerself present.
able 2"-Puck.
Professional Humorist-''Wit should
never seem forced. Now. 1 never try
to be funny" His Vis="Oh but
you should. Mr.. Woodshinei One
never knows what one can do TIL one
tries. Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l

From the Philadelphia Record
Dead dogs wac no tails
At any rate the gas office clerk can
always be depended on to fill the bill
Wigg-''W What a red face Skinnum
has He looks like beet" Wagg-
HE is
A rich mans son is generally more
successful than his father in keeping
money in circulation.
The Philosopher-'tA fool is born
everv minute The Confidence Man
(fervently)- THANK heaven!"
First Poet-''I received check this
morning. Second Poet-"Ah, for a
poem % First Poet-'No, for my
breakfast. The waiter brought It."
Neli-''See how attentive he is to
her. OF course. they are husband and
wife" Belief dare say. but I'll bet
he isn't her husband or she isn't his
wife"
Mr.. saphedde-''I often think I
ought to marry. but really can't
make up my mind, don't you know"
Miss Pert-''Y es. I should think that
would be a difficult operation.
Rollingstone Nomoss-''Can you
obiige me with a little help. LADY,"
Mrs. subbubs-"Im afraid not. All
nv help left this morning. It's very
hard to get help in the suburbs"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

A magazine editor was talking about
w. W. Jacobs, the famous humorist.
II went abroad this summer" he
said, ito try to get Mr.. Jacobs to write
for me; but I found that he had all
he could do for six or seven years to
come.
He is quiet. modest chap When
praised his wonderful skill in the
writing of short stories, he said that
it was only their surprises that made
his stories take.
Then. to illustrate what he meant
he told me a story wherein the sur
prises came fast and furious.
He said that a lawyer defending a
man accused of housebreaking spoke
like this:
Your honor, I submit that my
client did not break into the house al
all. He found the parlor window open
and merely inserted his right arm and
removed a few trifiing articles Now,
gentlemen. my clients arm is not him
self, and 1 fail to see how you can
punish the whole individual for an of
tense committed only by one of his
limbs
That argument said the Judge, SIS
very well put. Following it logically.
I sentence the defendants arm to one
years imprisonment He can accom-
pany II or not. as he chooses
1.-The defendant smiled and with his
lawyers assistance unscrewed his
cork arm, and, leaving it in the dock,
walked out."=Exchang
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison GIobe.l
ows. Why?
We all think we have a lot more
coming to us than we ever get.
Some people are like mules. thew
have to be watched or cussed all the
time.
No word in the English language is
quite SO badly abused as the word
attention is by telling how they lost
their money.
A boy is the foundation on which a
man IS built, and a good foundation
is everything.
1t too often happens that the only
flowers mother gets are those strewn
on her grave.
So far. the children are not paying
as much attention to Christmas as
they pay to circus day
If you get along with people you do
not like, your friends think you have
being smooth"
Travelling around is a good educa-
ton; man picks up a good deal when
travelling. and has a good deal Of nom
sense Knocked out OF him. a travelling
salesman is nearly always smart
When a man is sick in bed. this il
the only difference between day and
night: In the day his friends crowd in
ana wear MIN out with attention. and
at night every one goes away and
leaves him to suffer alone.
The Fudge Girls are very indignant.
At a meeting of the club recentlv q
box was received, of the size and shane
in which flowers are sent. But it con
tanned only soup bone with n note
attached to the effect that the girls
had better devote their time to SCUM
instead of fudge.
Here's what we have been laughing
about today: Several years ago a
quiet, pretty and modest girl lived in
Atchison. She married an out Of town
man. and yesterday we heard she had
twins. Every time we think of thai
pretty little woman having twins. we
burst out laughing.
At Atchison man went east to live
and a friend said to him: "RemembeT
that wine, women and song are very
dangerous" A year later, the man
returned on a visit. an his friend
asked If he had followed his advice. n
he had cut out wine, women and song.
Yes, to this eextent,'' he answered, II
have quit singing"
1t is always folish to take your but1-
headed notions into court with the fdas
that the judge and jury will agree vvffo
you Remember that the LAWYER or
the other side can kick lot of holes
IN your claims Arbitration Is The
thing. If you have disagreement with
a neighbor. settle It, In nine cases ouf
of ten. he will throw Off" A row
with a neighbor is disturbing as Tralf
as expensive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
The Best Christmas Gift.

great many people think that be-
cause they are not able to give Christ
mas gifts, because they cannot give
money or what it will buy, they can
give nothing. How little we realize
that the best thing anybody can ever
give in this world Is not money, not
clothing, fuel, or provisions. but him
self.
know lady who is very poor. She
has no money to give to the poor at
Christmas. But she goes around for
days before Christmas. visiting every
person she hears of being sick or Grip
pied or unfortunate, every one who
has any trouble, whether she knows
him or not. And she gives out such a
wealth of love, of sympathy of en-
enlargement, good cheer, and sunshine
that these people feel enriched for a
whole year. The material things they
receive are cold and unsympathetic in
comparison with what this poor wo-
man gives them. On the other hand,
know a man, wealthy but selfish whose
conscience begins to trouble him just
before Christmas. and he sends out
checks, coal, clothing, provisions to
the poor people. Then he feels a sort
of relief: he has eased his conscience,
which prodded him. But he rarely, If
ever, goes to see these poor people
never give them anything of himself
his encouragement, or good cheer
This is not the spirit of Christmas
The spirit of Christmas is the Christ
spirit, the helpful spirit. 1t is the Civ
ing of what Christ gave. He had no
money to give-He was the poorest of
the poor-but did ever any Croesus
have so much to give? Did any mill
ionaire ever radiate so much power
and hope to the discouraged. so much
good cheer to the disheartened. or SO
much comfort to the sick and the sor-
rowing 20. S. Marden in Success
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

tenseiy patriotic. he entered the Union
army as a chaplain. and as Chaplain
McCabe his name in after years be-
came household word. and he was
beloved by thousands. Always genial
and kind, but always enthusiastic. he
was tremendous power for good in
the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
A Give-ANvax.

Rear-Admiral F. W. Dickins told in
Philadelphia the other day good
story about very rich and very eco
nomical financier-
1.-The old gentleman-let us call him
Gobsa Golde''-he said, twas making
preparations for a Christmas ball some
years ago, and at his wine merchants
discovered cheap brand Of cham
payne.
g This he said. is a good brand of
champagne. 1t is quite good enough
for those young people who will come
to my Christmas ball. They couldn't
tell the difference, anyway.
And accordingly he ordered a dozen
cases of the cheap wine.
"A day or two before Christmas.
picking up his newspaper, he noticed
that his wine merchant had a half
page advertisement He ran his eye
over it, and saw in big black letters
the paragraph:
:" Try our celebrated champagne at
S1.25 a quart, as ordered by the emf
nent hnanc!er, Gobsa Code, Es., for
his Forthcoming Christmas BALL -
Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
DECREASE ROTH

An exchange referring to the effort
now being made to reduce the number
of rich men in the country. thinks
proposition to reduce the number of
poor men would be more popular Has
our brother ever considered the fact
that it will be a pretty difficult matter
to reduce the number of poor men as
long as a few billionaires are allowed
to appropriate all the wealth and are
assisted in doing so by government
laws discriminating in their interests?
-Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
a CHRISTMAS FANTAsY.

Softly agleam was the mistletoe,
Where we stood from the rest apart
And chung together in mad embrace,
Regardless of people or time or place.
And vowed that we never would part.
All. the mad. glad riot that through US
ran
Defed the restraining art
Of comb and brush, for we were the pair
That stood for the last Of an old beau's
hair
We would have been hard to part!
Harvey Peake in the Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20
TEE CONNIE SESSION

The political storm center of Kansas
is in Topeka and Will be until the close
of the coming legislative session, in
March. We attended the first session
of the state legislature. which was
held in 1851. and have been attending,
off and on, about every session since.
If the coming session does It's duty as
it has promised. all Will be we'll If
there is a fau down or a failure, 1t Will
be sorry day for the Republican
party two years hence. But it will do
its duty. Leastwise. we hope it will
FL Dorado Republican
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

Here is some good reasoning by the
Osborne Farmer; The Topeka Capt.
tai claims that the square deal move
nnent has big working majority in
Abe corning legislature. That being the
case. We can't see what earthly chance
Curtis has Of becoming United States
senator The square deal affair was
gotten IN to annihilate the railroads,
and Curtis IS the avowed railroad can
didafe, ;.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

A primary nomination for United
States senator might not always hold
good For instance, Senator Bailey was
nominated by the Democrats in di-
rect primary for United States senator.
and there are only two Republican
votes in the Texas legislature, yet Sen
ator Bailey is staying close by Texas
TO see that nothing happens; but some
thing may happen in spite of his precau-
f5ors