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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-02

Karl Griffin has been making nightly
trips to Chicago where the rehearsals
of the two weddings have been taking
place 1t seemed so peculiar that ar
rangements should have to be made for
two weddings when, except for hat
threatening hoodoo one set of principals
would do However, this is the way
the Misses Perry explain the novel sit
uation from their own point of view.
TT was an old family superstition"
said Miss Bertha Perry land there were
so many people kept coming to US,
telling us stories of the misfortunes
that were sure to come after a double
wedding, that we really lost courage to
do anything of the kind. Some one said
that it would be one of the brides who
would DO sure to die before the year
was over. Then some one else told us
that it would be one of the men,
There are dozen different versions
Of the evils that come to those who are
daring enough to defy fate with a
double wedding. and we heard each one
of them a dozen ways. The ladder,
moon and thirteen hoodoos can't COM
pare with this one. But we wanted to
be married at the same church and on
the same night, and we are going
to arrange 1t just as nearly as we car
without having a double wedding.
Maybe ii is superstition, but when you
get married you want all the omens
right"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-02
STATE MEETING
OF ELKS.

CONTINUED from page H.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-02

LIN 4 A3At 1AA-F n 7 M =
Miss Lillian Porch will entertain
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-02
HAMMOND MAN TAKES
PART IN WEDDING
Fearing Hoodoo, Sisters De-
eide Not to Have a
Double Affair.
NOVEL SITUATION is REVEALED
Ceremonies In Which Hammond Peo-
pie Are Interested Is to Take
Place Tonight.
NOVEL SITUATION IS REVEALED

Two weddings which are attracting a
great deal of attention in social circles
in Chicago are those of the Misses
Sarah Ida and Bertha Andrews Perry
of 319 Bowen avenue. The Misses Perry
have determined, although they are to
be married the same evening" not to
have a double wedding because of their
fear of a hoodoo
The weddings will occur this evening
at the Emanuel Baptist church and are
Interesting to Hammond people for the
reason that the mother of the brides is
a sister of Mrs. Edith Griffin of this
city and the girls are cousins of Karl
Griffin and Mrs. Bomberger. Karl Grf-
fin has been selected as one of the
ushers at the second wedding.
| Miss Bertha Andrews Perry is to be
married to DR.. Dan Pike Scott of Kan
kakee, ILL.,. and Miss Sarah Ida Perry
to Harvey Augustus Bush. The first
wedding will take place in Emanuel
Baptist church at 1880 o'clock, Rev L.
A. Crandan of Minneapolis officiating
The second will take place in the same
church at 7:45 o'clock Rev. r. NJ. Van
Doren performing the ceremony.
Two Separate Weddings.
The wedding parties will be entirely
separate. Harvey A. Bush will serve
DR.. Dan Pike Scott as best man and DR..
Scott. made into benedict, will return
the service for his friends just fifteen
minutes later.
Miss Helen Gardner will be maid of
honor to Miss Bertha Andrew Perry,
while Miss Lomira Alvah Perry, an
other sister of the brides, will be maid
Even the flower girls at the wedding
will not be the same. Little Anna
Elizabeth Perry and Josephine Shedd
will act at the first wedding, while
Ruth Robbins and Anna Merrifeld
ones viii act in the same capacity al
the other.
The ushers of the first wedding viii
be Emory Andrews, Lyman ]. Hubbard
Frank A. futile and Fred Bascombe
The ushers at the wedding of Mis-
Sarah Ida Perry and Mr.. Bish will b.
Carl Griffin, George A. Bush, Harry A
Barber and Isaac n. Davis
The only persons who win participate
, in both weddings. besides the grooms
who serve each other as best men, i
ceremonies Apparently Mr. Barbou
will find plenty to do in his officia
! work for the occasion.
Both the bridal couples will spend tn
summer at Mrs. Perry's country HON
at Kankakee, and will be at home afte
the 1st of November. The brides ex
plain that they have done all in thei
power to avert a double wedding. Will
they will be married on the same even
ing and in the same church. They hav
= Frfr h.- 10 ",
: 'hoodoo."
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-02

party Of friends Thursday evening at
her home in East Sibley street in hon.
or of Miss Janet Blair, whose marriage
to Chester Hamacher will take place
early this summer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
GENERAL woTHERspooN's PLAN.

If, according to the plan of General
wotherspoon, president of the Wal
College, the United States army could
be put on an instant warlfooting with
800, 900 or 40O,O 900 men with the $500, 900
he asks Congress for, he would not
have to expend much eloquence or the
House committee on military affairs
to get his appropriation.
1t is true, as he says, hat to place
the country on a war footing at short
notice one great desideratum is that
provision be made for supplies and
depots for their distribution, and the
emphasis he places on the necessity
for army wagons is none too great,
doubtless, at the II, 900 he fixes as the
need. And he strengthens the argu-
ment by referring to the unprepared-
ness that stared us in the face when
the Spanish-American War broke out.
Nevertheless, the furnishing of sup
plies does not furnish that big army
to use them. We can muster those
men for the supplies in an emergency,
but the mere supplies win not put the
army of 300, 900 or 400, 900 men in the
field on a war footing" General
Wotherspoon's plan Is admirable as
far as 1t goes. But it is fully as i'm
portant that the men with good mill
tary training should be ready for the
supplies as that the supplies should be
ready for the men. Unless these neces.
saries go together the War College
promise for instant war footing is
lacking in a vital particular.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
PENSIONS FOR OUR JUDGES.

Whatever tends to elevate the jul
ciary and make it's members indie
isndent is of benefit to the State and
the cause of justice. The United
ates Supreme Court judges are APP
Dinted for life and they constitute the
est august tribunal in the world.
hey can be retired on full pay. Our
ate judges are appointed for certain
rms and a judge cannot know wheth-
he will be reappointed. He is also
lbject to the ills of the flesh and may
any time be incapacitated for ju-
cial duty. If he remains on the
inch until old & impairs his facul-
os he has only what he may have
wed from his salary. AS a judge of
10 courts must necessarily sustain a
)cial position, his expenses are large
ad he cannot save much for his main
enance in old age.
THE State should have the services of
he best legal talent in it's judiciary,
1T under the circumstances it is handi-
appel in that respect. The large cor
aratlons fully recognize the value OF
his talent and pay high for it, much
igher than the State can afford to
.n<. We can get a first-class attorney
,eneral only by permitting him to en-
age in private practise. Judges are
Inhibited from so doing, but there is nc
improvisation for the deprivation
When they go out OF office the salary
.nds. and it is too late in life to build
p a legal business. Not long ago JUS
ice Gilbert Collins resigned from the
iupreme Court and frankly stated the
sason 10 be that the rewards were in.
dequate. He could earn more, five
mes over. in his private law office.
Governor Fort has been on the Su.
ieme bench and he keenly realizes tbs
isadvantage that our judicial system
abors under in the lack of attraction
or the highest order of legal talent
lie recommends that under certain pre-.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
HectOgrapb.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Please tell me how to make a h~ectograph.
READER.
I'VE have the following on the subject
clipped from an exchange: The heeto-
graph Is constructed as follows; Soak an
ounce of Cooper's ~gelatine over night IN
enough cold water to cover 1t well, taxing
care that all the ~gelatine is dissolved. IRE
pare a salt water bath by dissolving W
ounces Of common salt in / pint OF water.
Heat 6 or ounces Of pure glycerine over
the salt water bath to a temperature OF 2O
degrees Fair. Pour off from the gelatine
all the water remaining unabsorbed ana
add the ~gelatine to the hot giyceflne.
Continue the heating for an hour, carefully
stirring the mixture occasionally, avoiding
as much as possible the formation of bub-
bles or froth. Finally add 20 drops of oil OF
cloves to avoid decomposition. The COM
position is now ready for pouring into the
vessel designed t hold 1t while in use. This
vessel may be made especially for this
purpose, or a shallow cake tin may be used.
After the tin is filled with the composition
It must be placed in q level position in a
cool place, free from dust, and allowed to
remain for at least five hours. To prepare
the pad for use it is necessary to pass a
wet sponge lightly over the face of the
g~elatine and allow 1t to nearly dry before
taking the first copy. If this precaution is
neglected, the face of the pad will : be
ruined by the first transfer. The writing or
drawing material must be made with hec-
tograph ink, using a new steel pen.-Ed.I
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
MORE CONGRESSIONAL MEDDI1NG.

Congress feels called upon too often
to neglect the general affairs of the
country to NEEDLE with purely admin
istrative affairs that should be left to
the executive, Last year the Senate
spent days and weeks and wasted time
and effort in an inquiry about the
Brownsville shooting affair, and all for
the sake of making political capital
for Senator Foraker. If Congress had
devoted the same time to the con
sideration and enactment of a good
currency bill the country would have
been spared the panic that happened.
Senator Hale has = introduced d
bill which mixes Congress up in the
dispute in the>navy over the command
of a hospital ship by a line or staff
officer.
Senator Hale's measure prohibits
staff officers. that is to say, surgeons,
from having command of a floating
hospital the same as an army surgeon
has command of a hospital on shore.
The Senator artfully sweetens his bill
by making an increase of 20 per cent.
in the pay OF officers and 40 per cent.
in the pay of enlisted men. The pay
feature of the bill is all right and,
with the meddling by Congress elm
mated, the bin may well be passed.
With Congress as commander-in-chief
of the army and navy, we would have
an army and navy to %convulse the
world with laughter.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
phrenolosy No Science.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Is phrenology an actual science to be re-
lied Upon, inc at what age is 1t most ad-
visable to consult 1t? JOS. STEINER.
II. Mark Baldwin, professor of expert
mental psychology at Princeton Univer-
sity, wrote on this subject in Appleton's
Cyclopedia as follows: CAS- a method by
which the external examination of the
bumps and hollows' of the skull Is made
to reveal the Intellectual and emotional
gifts of particular men-so considered, the
whole scheme is now known to be worth
less. The only semblance of justification
it has is found in the facts of brain locale
cation; but this extends only to the senses
and movement, and shows all men to be
in their oscillations. 1T gives no
ground whatever to the elaborate pretense
OF the 'phrenologists' to describe charac-
ter. 1t is possible that morphology may
some day show that certain ratios in skull
measurements may, In the process OF
evolution, have come to have some Sgnih-
canoe for mental faculty in great averages
but even that is forbidden to- us in the
present state of anthropometric research.
-Ed.1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
PROPER WORK oF zee SESSION.

The first and by far the most impor-
tant duty of the Legislature is to
carry out the recommendations by
Governor Stokes and Governor Fort in
respect to the reorganization of the
state commissions and departments
and to reforms in their administration.
In the main the two political parties in
the Legislature are practically in har-
mony on these matters. The Repub-
lican and Democratic platforms both
declared for administrative reform, and
ali political candidates gave pledges
to the people. The messages of the
two Governors are alike in spirit. Both
plead for State reforms in somewhat
different ways.
The constructive work of the Stokes
administration speaks for itself. Gov
ernor Fort marks out new lines. Those
censors who say he is radical may be
State control of water supply, State
ownership of lakes and other innoya-
lions for comparison. The Legislature
should take up at once the constructive
work mapped III by the new Governor
and not neglect to carry out early the
reform program he recommends. A
complete reorganization and r~eadjust-
ment of the commission system of the
State government is a paramount duty.
If the Legislature shall accomplish
all this and accede to the Governors
request for a short session and for
having all bills placed in his hands
prior to adjournment. it will have lone
credit to itself and to the State. There
are matters involving great and heated
controversy that can await another
session. If the Legislature gets into a
wrangle over questions on which there
Is a wide variance of opinion in the
State, the weeks of the session will be
wasted and probably little or nothing
will be accomplished in the end.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
GIRLS CLUB HOLDS CATNIP
TEAS FOR STRAY FELINES

overcome its inertia and escape from
the cook and the tureen.
In the report compiled by Miss Chase
the following figures are given, yer
ing the work of a year. including the
rescue from death by suffering of these
animals: Fowls, AZ; horses, A; cats,
81; dogs, 16; pigs. 2; crab. l; turtle, /;
indefinite number of birds.
Miss Chase, who, with her sister,
started the society about four years
ago as a sub-organization of the Each
and AL" is very enthusiastic about
her work. and anxious to have 1t
spread and bring new members into
the Animals Aid.
we are a very small but energetic
band OF animal lovers. and we want ali
the girls and young women who care
to to join US In ~ameliorating the con-
dition of the vagrant cat, placing
drinking pans on the street for stray
animals, blanketing horses and joining
in the anti-vivisection fight.
Yes we really have a Cats sunday
Morning Breakfast Association. why
shouldn't the poor, starved Things be
given one square meal a week? Girls
who belong to the society. always try
to provide a Sunday treat for the strny
cats of their neighborhood. Not only
that, hu we give them catnip teas,
and they invite all their feline friends
and have regular s%oirees.
rescue all the stray ours we can
from mischievous boys and try to In
duce the youngsters not to stone spar
rows, throw things at cats or tie tin
cans to dogs tails. The object of the
society is to make people alive to the
suffering carelessly inflicted on ami
mails"
Asked about the nature of the kind
ness displayed by members to two pigs
mentioned in the report, Miss Chase
said that porker had been rescued
from under a barb-wire fence by a girl,
and the other, the mother of which
died when it la of a tender age, was
brought up on a bottle by another
humane member.
The crab was rescued at the s%eashore
from some youngsters who were
~smothering it in the sand.
Just as a last example of the tender
ness of these first aids to the dumb
brutes, Miss Chase cited the case OF a
member who put a sick gosling be-
tween hot-water bags and got up three
times during the night to refill them.
And now" she said with a humorous
twinkle in her eye, "the gosling is a
large and prosperous goose"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25

scribed conditions the judges shall be
pensioned to the amount of one-half
their salaries after a service Of twenty
one years. That is a moderate PROPOSE
ton, but if it shall be adopted in con-
nection with a new judicial system as
proposed by the amendments prepared
by the special commission of 1906, it
will help to exalt our State courts and
make u judiciary a model one.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25

The Thaw trial is drawing to a close
IT has not beer as morally offensive as
the first trial and yellow Journalism
has no dished it up as salaciously, but
neople will be glad when it is over
even IL Thaw's highly paid counsel n
costly ~alienists and immensely costly
array of witnesses, domestic and I'M
ported, succeed in getting Thaw out OIL
Jail and keeping him out of the lunatic
asylum.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.-To save
a turtles life when it is on the brink
of the sour tureen, to rescue a poor
crab from its tormentors, to pun a pig
from under a barb-wire fence and to
sit up at night with a sick goslingT
these may seem trivial things. but they
alleviate the sufferings of dumb crea-
tures-and that is what the seventeen
girls who are banded together under
liz title of the Animals Aid Society"
are e%ndeavoring to do.
No living thing is beneath the notice
of members of this society, which has
headquarters here and branches over
the country. The horse and it's tor
mentor, the fly; the harmless. neces-
sary at" and it's prey, the mouse; the
minutest insect and the biggest animal
by this devoted band
What do you think of the humane
instinct which prompts pretty girls to
start a Cats Sunday Morning Breakfast
Association give a series of weekly
"catnip teas to the forlorn fellnes who
yowl on back fences? That is only
III ilStaAl1G VI AAAO AAAi00 1NAC NA~
Animals Aid Society has of giving re-
lief TO the starved n vagrant, manned
and abused animals which are its spe-
cial care.
The annual report of these first aids
to the dumb beast, just issued by the
president, Miss Agnes Follensbee
Chase, 3742 Powelton avenue is full of
interesting reading matter, with in
stances of humane treatment which
would melt the heart of every culprit
who has baited a mouse trap or laid
snares-for flies with sticky paper.
AS the only ues paid by the branch
organizations, scattered from Maine to
California, are kind deeds, it is in
cumbent on every circle to send in a
monthly report of humane acts, speci-
flying the animals aided.
One girl reported recently that she
came upon a turtle tied to a tree in
front of a hotel, while an unfeeling
cook boiled> the water for the poor
things final plunge, which meant
death TO it and soul to the guests.
The girl quietly cut the cord that held
the doomed turtle and helped it to
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25

Those inveterate gamblers of New
York whose occupation is likely to be
seriously affected if Governor Hughes's
anti-race track gambling proposition
Is put through. might turn their at
tention to the subject of international
marriages. In a little while another
Vanderbilt heiress win be wearing a
title, and there ought to beFa fair bet
possible on the length of time that will
elapse before divorce proceedings en-
sue Probably those who wager would
not have to wait a great while for set
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
Fort,a onportnnitx.


Governor Franklin Fort now occupies
the executive chair Of New Jersey. hav-
ing delivered his inaugural yesterday. IN
which progress and reform We're fore
Swallowed. Large expectations of his adj
ministration have been formed. He is re-
membered by middle-aged citizens as a
barefoot boy of Pemberton in that State
and among his youthful distinctions was
that of being the fastest skater on the
Rancocas. His opportunity at this time
of more or less transition in New Jersey
politics is large and already he is be-
ginning to be talked OF as a national hg-
ire. An old preacher OF his family. many
years ago. predicted that from the old
farm would come a President Of the United
States. To fulfil that prophecy he must
come in the present generation, because
the old farm after being in the family for
a hundred and fifty years has now passed
into other hands. But it will be time
enough to talk about that In 1912.-Boston
Transcript.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
-Ingenious IndIEency.

my boy" SAYS the first %wayfarer, i've
nit on a scheme that guarantees me a
square metal and possibly some clothes at
any house | care to strike"
"What do you dor" asks the second way
larer, YEARLY biting into a cold-meat sand
Wich.
II throw away my hat. run through a
couple Of bushes to get my clothes mussed
up, then go up to the front door and tell
the lady of the house I'm a racing balloon
list that has just descended in the woods.
Success.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
Mason and Dixon Line.

70 the Editor of the Evening Star:
Where is the Mason n Dixon line and
how is it marked? c. b.
Mason and Dixon's line marks the
boundary between Maryland and Della
ware and Maryland and Pennsylvania. The
latitude of the line between Maryland and
Pennsylvania is 80 degrees, 4S minutes 26.a
seconds north and the original survey was
made between the years 1894 and l76S BY
two Englishmen, Mason and Dixon. The
milestones used in marking the line were
brought from England and they have on
one side the letter "P'' and on the other
M" every fifth milestone, called crown
~stone.p exhibits the coat-of-arms OF the
Penns and the Calvertss on corresponding
sides. The line has long been recognized
as the boundary between the North and
Sonth-Ed1
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25

"a crime against public morality" is
q proper and truthful characterization
by Governor Fort of the act of the
Arbitration Commission, who, while
doing absolutely nothing in the way of
service to the State. regularly draws
a salary from the State treasury. Now
this crime would have been stopped
three years ago but for the pernicious
activity of one man in the Legislature,
Senator Wakelee, of Bergen. In the
last three years $3.50 in %unearned
salaries has been taken out of the
treasury. This graft is due principally
to Wakelee, who prevented the
abolition of the State Board of Arbi-
tration. One of Wakelee's henchmen
in Bergen is a member of the board.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25


The personality of General Lee Is al
ways n profitable study and an inspira-
ton. But a broad view is necessary to a
complete understanding and a full APP
probation Of his character. 1t was no
single virtue, trait or characteristic that
made General Lee great. Many men have
eaualled him and some have excelled him
in one direction or another. But no
American citizen has combined in his per-
sonality so many qualities of mind and
heart in such perfect proportions as
Robert E.. Lee. His development In all
directions was normal and his mental,
moral and spiritual forces were so thor
oughly developed and so evenly balanced
as to form an organism that was as nearly
perfect as human limitations permit.
We honor him not because he was a
great soldier, but because he was a great
man in all his parts, and in every rela-
ton Of life a model and an exemplar.-
Richmond Times dispatch.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-25
deficit of 500, 900, 900 for the mex

A deficit OF 500, 00O, 900 for the next
fiscal year is predicted by Chairman
Tawney of the appropriations commit
tee Of the House of Representatives,
unless there shall be r~etrenchment'
And vet how can there be retrench-
ment when the nation has a canal sys-
tenn to construct and a navy to build
and swamp lands to redeem, in ad-
dition to the ordinary expenses of the
government?