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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
LEECHEs AND LEMONS.
The Latter a Cure for the Former
in Ceylon.

Wherever you go, in Ceylon," said
the sailor, you always carry a lemon
with you. For punch? No, sir; not
for punch. For leeches.
They amt merely water leeches in
Ceylon; they're land Ieeches, too.
These blood suckers hang on to
bushes and trees; they Turk in the
grass, waitin' for you. The average
size before dinner is only about half
an inch long and no thicker than a
hair-you might say invisible. They
easily work their way through the
thread of your stockings and under
wear. After dinner they're as fat as
your finger
Wherever you go the leeches prey
on you. was dressed in white one
night, ridin' with a beautiful Ceylon
girl, when 1 saw a red streak on
my white pants below the knee. Elk
cusin' myself hastily. l retired. 1t
was a 1eech, of course, dinin' with me
unlimited.
THE only way to get them of with
out breakin' them and leavin' theiE
AedQ6 lnSfuS you IL 10 squeeze lew
drops of lemon on them, the same as
if they was raw oysters. That par
alyzes them and they fall to the
ground like ripe fruit. Every two
or three minutes you see the Ceylon.
csc stop, take out lemon and anoint
carefully the half dozen leeches stuck
in a black mass to the calf Of the leg
The average Ceylon leech was,
said, half an inch long. Yet there's
some full three inches IONS 49, -
jump, by crinus, that jump on you
from the bushes as you pass by.
Sounds doobious, don't It? But
they have bird-catchin' spiders and
centipedes a foot long?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
BIG STICKS IN LONDON.
Johnnles Carrying Canes of 30 Inches
and Size Is Growing.

The London Johnny has a new
fad This time it concerns his walk.
ing-stick, which has now reached the
extraordinary length Of IS inches, and
is still growing.
OF course 1t is impossible to make
much use Of such a stick as an aid to
walking The London dude carries his
horizontalwise, much to the annoy.
ance of other pedestrians before and
behind. and especially at crowded
crossings.
1t is hardly reasonable to suppose
that the New York Willie Boy is
going to follow in the footsteps of
Iondon's Johnny" in this matter of
walking-sticks Neither New York
nor any other busy American city
would stand for them.
Imagine one of these walking canes,
carried horizontally, attempting to
board a subway or Brooklyn bridge
train or TO turn busy Broadway cor
ner during rush hours. Everybody
who has attempted to board a train
carrying even a small package can
imagine the fate Of the walking-stick.
N. Y World
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
A BARREL OF APPLES.
Bus the Groceryman Would Not Hear
the Tale.

Il wish to speak to you about that
barrel of apples I bought day before
yesterday. said the kind-looking old
gentleman.
You'll have to see the clerk who
sold them to you," the grocer an
swered, very snappishly. q don't
know anything about them"
But I desire to say to you person
ally that"
Now, look here; I can't be both
cred over every pound of sugar OF
pint of cider or barrel of apples that
my clerks sell. Just see the young
man who waited on you. He's around
somewhere"
Yes, l see him there at the back
end of the store; but really felt that
it was my duty to tell you about it.
You see"
IF l stood around listening to every
body who comes into this store to
complain that they've bought some
thing they didn't want, or that they've
been sighted. as they think, by my
clerks, I wouldn't have time for any.
thing else. You'll please excuse me.
The clerk will hear your complaint,
and if there is anything we can do
you may be sure it will be done. But
we cant take back a barrel Of apples
after they have been out of the store
two or three days. You can surely
see that if we did business in such a
way"
My dear sir, don't want you to
take back the apples, and 1 haven
any complaint to make. | merely
wished to tell you that I found the
apples at the bottom of the barrel to
be just as big as the ones at the
top. l believe in the principle of Civ
ing praise wherever it may be fairly
given, and 1 stepped in to order an
other barrel. but 1 see you're too busy
TO bother with such a trif1e this morn
ing, so I will be going. Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
RATE
IS INCREASED
South Chicago Adds It's
Quota to Health Depart
ment's Figures.
MALES PREDOMINANT
Epidemics, Which Have Prevailed
During Period, Responsible for
Abnormal Condition.

South Chicago. Aug 6-The health
departments bulletin issued last Sat
urday evening for the past seven
months shows an increase in the
death rate over the corresponding
period of last year of percentages
varying from 9.S to 10.
South Chicago has added its quota
to the increased death rate. AS well
as calling attention to this condition,
the department points out the fact
that the increase of male deaths over
female deaths during this time
amounts to twenty per cent. The
past July death rate, however, was
lower this year than last year as was
also the number of deaths caused by
tetanus. The bulletin says:
The causes of death showing i'm
portant increases are whooping cough
126 more, or 10 per cent increase;
measles, 119 more, or 1874 per cent in
crease; scarlet fever, 1872 more, or 602
per cent increase; pneumonia, 875
more or 32.1 per cent increase; heart
disease, 297 more, or 24.3 per cent in
crease bronchitis, 1O3 more, or 227
per cent increase; diphtheria, 43 more
or 16 per cent increase; pulmonary
tuberculosis, Isl more, or 14.4 pei
cent increase; nervous diseases, 10l
more, or 144 per cent increase; sui
| eide 80 more. or 142 per cent increase
Bright's disease II more, or 9.S pei
cent increase.
One noteworthy feature of the sew
en- months mortality is the usual ex-
cess of deaths of males over females
During the seven months there
were recorded 1900 deaths of males
and $3.50 deaths of females-an excess
of 2S.2 per cent of males and an in
crease of 2S.4 per cent over the aver
age excess of the previous twenty
years"
slight whooping cough epidemic
is being noticed at the present time
by the doctors of South Chicago. No
fatalities have resulted as yet, and
doctors are hopeful that the epidemic
can be checked before it progresses
any farther. Whooping cough has
shown a dangerous increase during the
past seven months in Chicago and the
epidemic now being felt here is part
of the force that has raised the num-
Der of deaths by whoopfng cough l7C
per cent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
The LINCOLN"
IS COMPLETED
South Chicago's New Of
fee Building Fills Long
Felt Want.
EVERY ROOM IS TAKEN
Suites and Stores Rented Months in
Advance of Structures
Completion.


South Chicago, Aug 6.-South Chi
Cages new office building, The Lincoln,
corner Ninety first and Commercial
avenue, has been added to the city 5
most modern and desirable office build
ings and another few days viii see the
finishing touches of the decorator
hand.
Every store, office and apartment in
it has already been rented through the
agency Of Lykke & Morrell and with
the exception of one or two places
every section of space is occupied. As
soon as S. Lederer, the proprietor of
The Lincoln, announced his plans for
the building he had applicants. who
foresaw the desirabiIity of being To-
Gated in modern office building with
in the heart of the business district OF
South Chicago.
Doctors especially seem to have
chosen The Lincoln for their business
place and as many as six have managed
to get space in it.
The agents of the building had far
more applications than they could place
and having their choice they gave the
space to the more progressive and de-
sirable tenants.
from the basement up the building
is occupied as follows Gus Steele
billiards and pool. in the basement; the
Kelley Brewing company by Otto Fra
bel, a buffet, on the ground floor. No
9101s Kendall Steiner, ice cream, No
9105; Becker & Born, delicatessen store
Nos 9107; Columbia Photograph com
pany, No. gill; James P. Johnson. den
list, room 1O2; c. E. Thomas, doctor
room 103; G. w. Laur, doctor room
104; c. ]. Hartung, doctor, room los
Mrs Ida Hughes, hair dresser, room
10Y; G. Rasch, dentist, los; Poynton &
Poynton, and Squire Burke, attorneyes
and real es tate agents. rooms 109 and
10; Doctor Hughes. rooms 112 and ia
The third floor has ben equipped as
a lodge hall and has ben leased to the
Non Pariel Lodge knights and Pythias
The Non Pariel lodge has subIeased the
hall to other lodges, among them, Mac.
cabees, Calumet Tent, No 81; soutl
Chicago Odd Fellows, No. 696; Chart,
Rebekahs. No. S62 On Sundays the Rev
e. M. Halle uses the hall for Christian
church services purposes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
GIBSON AGITATED OVER
W0MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE

The relatives and friends of Mrs.
Pauline Schermer of Gibson are ex-
tremely agitated over her sudden dis
appearance last evening and the aid of
the police has been sought in the eff
forts to locate her. Mrs. Schermer left
her home last evening to take a short
walk and that was the last seen of
her
When the hour grew late her rela-
tives and the neighbors started an in
vestigation.. but found no trace of her.
The hunt was kept up all night but re-
suited in nothing. The woman is
thought TO have either hidden herself
in the woods or else 10 have taken TO
some other section. She was not very
we'll clad and Is described as being
about "a years of age OF stout build,
with dark red hair. She was formerly
an inamte OF an asylum for the insane.
but was discharged as cured
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
TWO LEASE HOLDERS
FOR ONE HOUSE
Owner Rents to One Ten
ant; Agent to Another;
Starts Trouble.

The trials of a landlord, a tenant and
a wouldbe tenant We're all brought to
light in case that came up before
Justice Jordan this morning, but which
was dropped for lack of prosecution.
Steve Salts owns a house and lot in
Broadway The house being vacant.
Salts appointed Walter Nowak as
agent for the property. AS there are
not many vacant houses in Hammond?
both the agent and the owner were
swarmed on by persons DESTROYS of Sc
curing a lease of tue premises. Salts,
apparently did not consider it necessary
to inform the agent when he rented
the house to John Jasovich, giving his
prospective tenant a lease for one year.
In the meantime Nowak had been
busy. He too had drawn up papers for
a tenant in the person of one Sam
Newman.
Neither of the prospective tenants
knew that anyone else had a claim on
the property and both packed up their
belongings preparatory TO moving into
the house. But Newman beat Jasovitch
to it and when the latter appeared upon
the scene to take possession of the
house, he found Newman snugly en-
sconced therein and all settled.
Salts thought Newman had his nerve
and said SO. Newman defied the owner
OF the property and fiourished his lease
Salts started legal proceedings against
his tenant. The matter came up before
Justice Jordan, but when the case was
called, there was no one to prosecute
so the suit was dismissed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
MENGES SAYS ITS
A GOOD AD.
Auto Uninjured by Bath in
Calumet Sassy as
You Please.

South Chicago, Aug. Ga. c. Menges
OF Grand Rapids, whose elegant auto
mobile fell in the Calumet river at
Ninety-second street last Saturday
night is congratulating himself to-
day upon his good fortune in having
secured a great business advantage
through the accident. namely a good
advertising possibility.
Mr. Menges bases his claim on the
fact that he was able to run the ma
chine away from the scene of the &C
cident today after he and his two
friends who were with him in the car.
had done their own tinkering to repair
it. In Mr.. Menges' opinion, the fact
that they were able to repair the dam
ages in so short time is proof positive
of the cars substantiability. He took
the car to Chicago this morning in
order to make arrangements for his
advertising campaign. He will return
to South Chicago this afternoon to
gather up few Of the belongings OF
the machine and proceed to his home
at Grand Rapids. Mich.
Mr.. Menges is still missing the
tracings for patents that he had with
him in the machine, and is afraid that
they are permanently lost. Although
a satchel was found Saturday night,
said TO contain blue prints and other
valuable papers, he says that the trac-
ings of the most important of all of
them were not in the satchel and that
they must be in the river where they
are surely spoiled by this time.
In the excitement of the accident last
Saturday. vandals got away with the
automobile lights and the search lights
and Mr.. Menges has notified the police
10 be on the look out for any person
trying TO sell the same.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
strenoth hal strunnIe-

We grow most under burdens. We
get strength in struggle. We learn
our best lessons in suffering. The lit
tie money we are paid for our toll
is not the best part of the reward
the best is what the toll does in us in
new experience. in wisdom. in pa
thence in self-cnnquest
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
Reward for Bravery.

A Carthage man has just applied
for a pension. He alleges that while
serving in the hospital corps in Cuba,
where the dead and dying were all
about him, he valorously slipped on a
wet floor and sprained his wrist
Kansas City Journal
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

A Dublin policeman whose wife pre-
sented him with triplets has been
made a sergeant stripe for each
baby.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
Glasses.

Humanity and who'shumanity, these
De the two classes into which man
kind now chiefly taIl-Life
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
SeIfconnuest.

selfconquest is the greatest vic
sory.-Plato.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

According to HoyI, 10000 subscrib
ers means $4,000 readers every day
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06
@A

Miss Ada Mcknight, who has been
the guest OF her aunt. Miss Gertrude
Stamp of Carroll street. for several
days, viii return to her home in At
tica, Ind, tomorrow. Miss Mcknight
attended the summer normal course at
Valparaiso.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

Miss Florence Russell OF Valparaiso
was in Hammond yesterday on her way
70 Chicago from where she will go to
Dubuque, Ia, where she is attending
school Miss Russell has visited in
Hammond several times.
Mrs. Charles Albert Smith is enter
tanning number of young ladies this
afternoon at her home in Rimbach
avenue in honor of Miss Epstein, who
is visiting here from the east Mrs.
Sharer viii entertain her tomorrow.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

Mrs. Otto Morbeck and daughter,
Anna. formerly of Englewood. who
have been here for the past few days
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Rimbach of Sib-
ley street, left this noon for their new
home In indianapolis
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

the First NJ E. church met in the
church parlors this afternoon.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

Miss Mable Wells of New York City,
who has been visiting in Kouts, Ind.
is expected within the next few days
to be the guest of her sister. Mrs A.
W. Sprague of Carroll street for sew
eraI days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Goldmitz Of De-
troit. Mich. are here to attend the
funeral Of AR. Goldmitzs sister.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-17
TALK OF THE TOWN.


Auction tonight.
Black Cat hose at Abbott's.
Dix 4 Coleman give red stamps.
Ladies' white dress shirts at Perry's.
J. G. Barney il cIerfing in S. J. segel
& company's store.
Only reliable pianos sold at Bailey's
Music Rooms, Barre.
Fernando Perras visited friends in
Richmond over Sunday
j. S. Whitcomb visited at his home
~ Randolph over Sunday,
Ice cream, all Aayors. with the true
fruit juice at A. Giachino's.
G. i. Bigelow Of Washington was in
the city today On business,
Al i. Dashnar went To Burlington
Saturday for 4 few days visit.
Or. D. c. Watt and q. L. Woodwork
spent Sunday at Joe's pond in Danville.
The No Mother to Guide Her, COM
pany left this morning for Woodsyille,
n. II.
Silver dip that cleans your silver as
fast as You can wipe it. No acid. See
how it works at Fits
Rev n II. Mitchell, who has been
visiting friends in the city, returned to
his home in Toronto today.
Miss Winifred Mann, who has been
Visiting friends III the city, vent to her
home in Randolph Saturday.
Ray Worthen, Arthur Ayerill and
Howard Reid left for two weeks visit
at the jamestown exposition,
Sheriff Tracy rewarded fifteen prison
ers IN the county iaii who have been
doing good work thelpast week BY tax
ing them to Saturdays league ball
game. The men made the trip iii a
bunch and without chaperons.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-17
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Embroidered belts, %, at Abbotts.

Embroidered belts, %, at Abbotts.
A special line OF white parasols at Alb
bolts.
Auction sale Of lawn mowers and fur.
niture tonight.
Diamond solitaire engagement and
plain wedding rings speciality at L. o
Holmes, Gordon block.
Bring in your silver or gold Monday
and let us clean it for you without
charge at Fits.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-17
Card Of Thanks.

We wish to thank the neighbors and
friends, especially Mrs, Charles Ander
son, who have been ID kind to Ia dur
ing the illness and death Of our loving
wife and sister.
Mr.. Henry Patnaud and family.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-17
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
MONDAY, JUNE IL, 1907.
Weather Prediction.

Fair tonight and Tuesdays; light
westerly winds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-17

Popular Prices: tOc. zoe, 3Oc.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-10

Societies for the advancement Of
womanhood could>ind abundant work
in Belgium.
To-day the land of King Leopold
is perhaps further behind the times
in its treatment OF the gentler sex
than any other country in Europe.
Here woman still does the manual
labor of the land as she once did it
all over the world The voice Of
progress, whose modern note is spell
Ing emancipation everywhere else,
has not yet sounded for the woman of
the little strip of land 173 miles by
LIP that rejoices in the name of king
dom.
The Belgium woman is the nations
farmer, miner, laborer and mechanic.
She tolls from dawn till sunset at the
heaviest kind Of work, and none pities
Or makes an appeal for her.
The little country of whose exis
tence she is the corner stone, is one
of the most densely populated in the
world, and every square mile Of ter
ritory must support 4S5 persons. That
it is able to do so is only because of
the industry, the slavish willingness
of the women of the country to do the
kind Of work from which other ma
tons have freed her.
The. soil of Belgium is we'll adapted
to agriculture. The once impassab BILE
morasses of the Morini and the
Menapii have been drained and con-
verified into fertile fields, surrounded
by dense plantations. A system of
canals helps the Scheldt and the
Mas in their work of irrigating the
land, and the variations Of climate
cold winters give advantages for the
production Of varied farm stuffs that
are denied to the neighboring country
Of Holland.
But the seed sown by nature would
never be repeated if the work of doing
it were left to man.
The population of the country,
some 100000, is divided into the pro-
portion Of three rural jewellers to one
who lives in the city, and probably
the same proportion, three to one,
would show the number of women and
children as against men who toll in
the fields.
Centuries Of habit have made man
regard the Belgian woman as a natur-
al wage Garner If he is industrious
he works in the factory, while she
goes out and raises the farm produce
that is eaten.
Young women and old think nothing
of working a twelve-hour day in the
fields
In the hundreds Of acres devoted to
vineyards, where is produced a fair,
but not famous wine, it is women who
do the bulk of the work, and the
gourmand who drinks bottle of wine
with a Belgian label has woman to
thank for his enjoyment
But it is not alone at farming that
the women of Leopold's realm toll for
their keep.
Incredible as it may seem, they are
actually miners, and no small part of
the valuable mineral output of the
country results from their efforts.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-10
BELGIUM is ONLY COUNTRY
WHERE WOMEN DO BULK
OF THE MANUAL LABOR

In the United States it has always
been a matter of concern with human
itarians that in order that the world
might be supplied with coal, men must
do all the dangerous work incident to
mining and getting it to the market.
In this country the miners, subject
of so much solicitude, are men, but in
Belgium the same dangers, privations
and exhausting work are the portion
of woman.
In all the Belgian mines women
work at the surface, handle coal, push
wagons and do the work that breaker
boys accomplish in the United States.
In some of the mines they are not per-
mitted to go below the surface, but
in others they actually compete with
the male miners
So in all the centers Of the various
minerals, at Liege, where copper is
wrought; at the black marble quarries
of Diant, the slate quarries of Herbe-
mount and calimine mines at Liege,
there will be found women working,
and in most cases very grateful for
the opportunity.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-10

I went away, without thinking any
thing about it,
The couple decided to make the
best of the situation, and the young
lady prepared luncheon which was
a merry feast indeed.
Dorothy Crusoe and Man Friday be-
came wonderfully well acquainted,
and somehow the acquaintance ripen-
ed into fast friendship.
After luncheon two merry and light
hearted young people went for walk,
and went for row, and somehow or
other their friendship lost it's imper-
sonal character and they became Deep
individuals.
Although it was five o'clock, the
Glenns had not yet returned.
II wish they would come" said the
girl, with sudden feeling of embar-
rassment, which she couldn't exact.
ly explain herself.
dorothy" said Hugh, taking her
hand in his, and speaking rather
gravely, ''the situation is growing a
little bit serious. I have thought so
for an hour or more, but l hated to
alarm you. You see, the Glenns' all.
tomobile has an incurable habit of
breaking down, and should it do so
to-day, they will not know the abso-
lutte necessity of hurrying home, and
may delay their return till-till-late. -
"You don't mean and Dorothy's
brown eyes grew troubled-"you don't
mean they mightn't come back till
till tomorrow"
"That's about the size of it," said
Masterson, with an attempt at gay
ETY..
Perhaps the tears that came into
the brown eyes at these words precip.
itated >Masterson's next move, but I'm.
repulsed, he took Dorothy in his arms
and softly whispered:
won't you leave it all to me, dear?
Won't you trust me to take care OF
you now-and always?"
And Dorothy said she would.
After time-and, as the time was
nearly eight o'clock-they concluded
that they might give up all hope OF
seeing the Glenns that night.
"And so,' said Masterson, MAN Fri
day will find a horse and trap, and
will manage some, way to harness
them together and take Dorothy Cru
soc to the village. There there is
a comfortable if not very elaborate
inn, where you shall stay: over night
and, indeed, until the Glenns do re
turn, and I'll come back ?. here and
keep the house safely against the
Homecoming ~ 49,.
Dorothy agreed to these most prac
teal plans, and they would have been
speedily carried out, but just, as Mas
terson started for the stables to act
as his own groom, an automo bile came
1 3chugging$ up the. driveway, and the
Glenns. had returned. 81. 400 =. {