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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

FOR EXCHANGE-Inlaid violin, new
strings, first class condition.; also
trombone. Cash or what? Address M
s., Lake County Times. %
FOR EXCHANGE-Tele instru-
ment with automatic transmitter and
perforated ribbon and Bell outfit. What
have you in exchange? Address Ii l..
Times. %
FOR EXCHANGE-Ga heating stove
for poultry. A. P. Lake County
Times. 21
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

within 60 days Jonas was allowed to go
free.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

WANTED-Experien girl for gen
eral housework, for the 18th of Sept;
three in family; good wages; must give
references. c. kaufman, 644 5. Hoh-
man. 31-6
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

By Charles W. Ames,
Clerk
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Six room COTTAGE $3.50
cash. balance in monthly payments.
Also other good properties; centrally
located ISIS South Holman ST.; phone
1892. 31-1
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

BY ONdrIeS W. Am
Deputy Clerk.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-08-31

LOST-Gold watch and chain, near
Oakley avenue and State St; liberal
reward Leave at Times office. 2S-1
LOST-Bunch of keys with owners
name on ring. Finder please leave
at Times office and receive reward. 3D.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
"Uncle Ike" Objects to Hotel Bills

hole bouquet every day and put on
all the dog there is.
All went we'll until the bills began
to come in, and then "Uncle Ike" went
to one of his colleagues and said:
Senator, got any idea where man
could find a good. modest priced
boarding house?"
where are you living now?" waa
asked.
AT the Willard"
"Well, senator, that's the best board
ing house in Washington"
Il know it is good" answered Uncle
Ike" "but it costs like blazes.'' -'
But you're the richest man in thu
senate, so what's the dif1iculty?"
probably I've got a little more
saved up than some of the boys" was
the Wisconsin senator's reply, but
gosh ding it, want to spend it in my
own way. Why, just before came
east I gave $150,000 to colleges.
expect to give some more, and I'm
blamed if want all of my substance
eaten up by hotel bills"
Uncle Ike" pounded his knee
by way of emphasis and proceeded tc
give further vent to his indignation by
hunting newspaper and looking
through the want ads to see If he
could locate a place where good board
could be had for small section of hill
income per week.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

81" Out of the White House Alphabet

complete list of "we," obtained vii.
vast difficulty from high sources:
President Roosevelt, who holds tn
highest position in the club, that Of
IT," Secretary Taft, who holds the
next highest, that of "me, too:" Her
bert Knox Smith who is first as.
sistant me-" Milton D. Purdy, "chief
trust buster and second assistant
me-" Charles ]. Bonaparte, assistant
to Mr.. Purdy and deputy trust bust
err" James r. Garfield, who holds
the post of almost L." Kenesaw Noun.
tain Lands, Frank B. Kellogg, George
Won L. Meyer, Jonathan Bourne. Her
bert Parsons and Francis ]. Heney, who
serve in the ranks, and are known col.
lectively by the title Of ''us."
George B. Cortelyou. it is learned.
was formerly component part OF
"we," and sometimes even had look.
in at "our policies" He is now q
member of the class whom I'VE" refer
to as them"
There is the highest authority fol
the statement that Edward H. Harri'
man, ]. Pierpont Morgan, William D.
Haywood, Chancellor Day, John D.
Rockefeller, Joseph B. Foraker and
Bellamy Storer do not belong to
"we.' The allegation that they do
from whatever source it may come
may be safely met with the shorte,
and uglier word.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
WAYS OF TELLING TIME.
Some Of the Curious contrjvances
Used for That Purpose.

From our Philippine possessions has
come an account of primitive de.
vice for recording time which de.
serves place among the long list Of
contrivances for that purpose. It ia
used by the natives during certain
sports. They bore a hole in the bot.
tom of a cocoanut shell and let it .fill
with water. At q certain point it sud.
denly drops to the bottom Of the
basin. This calls time"
Many were the devices for recording
the fight of the hours before the com.
ing of the clock. The most famous,
Of course, was the hour-glass, which
was made of various sizes and capable
of recording with tolerable accuracy
almost any given interval Of time, al.
though seldom one greater than an
hour.
The burning of candles was another
favorite device. Lines were drawn at
different elevations for the fractional
divisions Of the period which the can.
die recorded. There was also an in.
genious water-clock, which is even
now occasionally seen in museums.
The sun dial, for marking true astro.
nomical time, was much in use in early
days. In our latitude it would not be
strictly accurate, except on a few days
in the year, and IT. accuracy at other
times would be- OF q varying quantity.
--Harper's Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

IF there is any one thing that is more
l numerous in Washingtonthan states.
men, it is photographers. This fact
is impressed forcibly upon strangers
visiting the city, especially If they:
happen to be with a party on a sight.
seeing expedition. The man with the
camera is met at every turn. He is
audacious and irresistible. He goes
after his victims in business-like
way, there are no stops and delays,
and before the victim hardly has time
to realize what has happened the pho
tographer has his order for picture
to be delivered that evening at his
hotel.
The particular delight of the camera
man is party of excursionists. He
catches them, perhaps. as they emerge
from the handsome new union station,
or as they come out of the capitol, or
some other public building. He holds
up his hands as signal for them to
halt, then he admonishes them to look
pleasant, please. and the next thing
he and his agent are passing through
the crowd taking orders. And they
do take orders, and lots of them. For
what person would not be happy to
take back home photograph Of him
self taken with the White House, or
the treasury, or the congressional II.
brary, or some other government or
historical building as a background?
nj rfovp b Ia m
seeing-Washington automobiles his
speciality He usually catches them
on Executive avenue 1t the, beginning
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

escape and started to climb over the
railing, at the same time announcing
her intention of killing herself.
Susan Claw, her negro maid,
clambered out after her, and managed
to grasp her right arm, just as she
was about to drop. The negress,
braced against the railing hung on
with all her strength, and screamed
at the top of her voice.
Mrs. Charles Viohl, who lives in the
next fiat, which opens upon the same
fire escape, opened her front window,
looked out, and then hastened to assist
the maid. The two women held Mrs.
Graft, who squirmed and twisted and
fought with desperate energy.
The husband, rendered helpless
from fright, ran about aimlessly on
the sidewalk, while others prepared to
catch the struggling woman.
When they dropped Mrs. Graft to
the blankets below, Mrs Viohl dropped
on the fire escape in a dead faint.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
ANTAGONIST A MUTUAL FAULT.
Blind UnwiIIingness to See Things as
They Are Is the Cause.

Antagonism between two persons
usually arises from their not knowing
each other we'll enough. They see GER
tain apparent characteristics in each
other which, on the surface, are un.
favorable; and they stop with that, as
though by knowing the surface they
could know the real person! How
often have we all had the experience
of heartily disliking some one, and
feeling quite sure that he also heartily
dislikes us; and then, through some
trifling circumstance, being thrown
with him in such way that the outer
shell of conventionality is broken
through and each one gets his first
real glimpse of the other! The old
dislike, of course, is replaced by
hearty admiration on both sides. We
are always surprised at this expert
ence; we ought never to be. For there
Is something lovable and attractive in
every soul that lives; it will always
appear when we become we'll enough
acquainted. Let us not dodge the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
WON THE FATHERS GRATITUDE.
Old Doctors Simple Method That
Saved Child from Death.

Il have just passed through an ex.
perience that showed me what ten
der threads the human life hangs on"
said George J. Mattock at the Gilpat-
rick. Il was out in Denver when I
received telegram from my home in
Springfield, ILL.,, telling me that my
little tive-year-old daughter was ex-
pected to die at any minute.
"Of course I rushed home at once.
I found that she had been reaching
for something while on top Of a chair
and IN so doing had strained herself
and became sick day or two after.
wsrd. Several Of the prominent doc
tors of that town were called in, but
all failed to find what was the mat
ter. At last it was determined by the
doctors who met in consultation that
the girl could not live "a hours.
my wife and were heartbroken,
but refused to give up hope. There
was an old doctor in Springfield who
used to. be q favorite Of my mother,
and often she declared he could cure
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
Uncle Sam Tests All Paper He Buys

magic influence part of the soup
turned pink.
"Ha," sighed the professor: about
10 per cent. of spruce. Once more"
A third drop was applied with a
third glass tube, and the soup began
to show several points of bright yell
low.
rags" said the professor. about
five per cent
The glass slide was slipped under
the end of microscope, and the pro-
fessor took a good look and jotted
down the areas occupied by the diff.
ferent colors.
"That jobber," said he, "either does
not know what is in the paper he 10
selling or he is q liar. But the eye
of the bureau of standards sees 1t
ALL"
And so, indeed, it does. Even after
the wood, rags, and other ingredients
have been ground up into pulp and
then made into paper, the hand Of
science resolves them again into
their original ingredients and the eye
of science sees the relative proportion
of each as certainly as If the pro.
fessor had stood beside the pulp mill
when the paper Was made.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

W ASHINGTON.-The question that
w has been agitating the public
mind in Washington for some days has
been:
who are we?'
No, it is not a college yell; it 10
the demand for information concern
ing the presidents meaning when he
abandoned his old friend 'I' and
studded his message with refer
ences to "we," "us," and "our policies"
The idea that the president meant
himself by I'VE" and was merely
adopting royal fashion is secuted by
those who know the president and
are aware Of his distaste for getting
into the low and vulgar class to which
mere kings belong. It is generally &C.
cepted that Mr.. Roosevelt was talking
In the plural
Consequently there is much curios.
ity to learn the identity of the men,
bers of the 1--WE club" Careful in
quiry results in establishing the fact
that there are more of them than had
been believed. Here is q practically
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

tII1NCLE IKE" Stephenson, the new
~ 71-year-old millionaire United
States senator from Wisconsin, is hav-
ing an awful hard time trying to have
money and be senator at the rate of
$500 per annum.
Uncle Ike is brother of Samuel
M. Stephenson, former representative
from Michigan, who entered congress
during the Fifty-first session just after
Isaac had retired. When the new
senator came to town in December he
brought with him his whole family,
even to the third generation, and the
daughters-in-law and the sons-in-
law.
Scholarships don't happen every
day, quoth Uncle Ike" and what's
the use of being stingy about spend
ing few extra simoleons while one
is getting $500 a year for running
department errands and sitting in the
senate and looking wise. So he took
fine suite of rooms at the New viii.
lard and prepared to wear button
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

guided along in any direction desired
by the operator and propelled by the
motor-driven propeller blades behind.
This method of getting start, it has
been suggested, may be improved up
on by following out the idea of Prof.
Langley. His plan was to provide q
launching platform several feet above
ground to be reached by an inclined
plane. The Langley idea was to haul
or propel the aeroplane up the in.
clined plane at good speed and then
to project it from the platform out in.
to open space, where the aeroplane
was to take care of itself by skimming
along through the air. instead of fall
ing. And while Farman and Dumont
and other aeronauts of Europe are
busy working on the problem of air
navigation, American inventors are
not idle. Mr.. Arthur Feron, New
York architect, is the latest expert
menter in aeronautics to command at
tention. He claims to have solved the
problem of aerial flight by means of
machine that is heavier than air,
yet not a dead weight in the atmos-
phere. He has invented an airship,
circular in the main points of its
structure, which, like huge pinwheel,
spins it's way from earth to the high
err levels.
Feron is the first man to give prac.
tical expression to an idea which has
CT rfC ~ thu 0orioo
navigation problem-the idea that alu
minum might be substituted for silk
or other textile as strong gas tank
Although oxygen gas is used by Mr.
Feron as an agent of buoyancy, his
device is not dirigible balloon. L:
is a flying machine in as full sense
of the word as the aeroplanes of the
Wright brothers or of Farman, bus
it is made of finest aluminium.
The significance of this departure
attended as it has been by success, is
more apparent to experts in aero
nautics than to the lay mind. But the
Feron filter has one quality which all
can appreciated flies. This has been
proven by experiments made with
models constructed on varying scales
Mr.. Feron does not depend entirely
upon the gas to keep his machine in
the air. 1t is intended only to tighten
the task of the rising screw, which is
the soul of this flyer. The airship is
composed of two distinct parts, which
may be described as the upper and
the lower works. In the upper works
is the cylindrical aluminium bag, re-
sembling a huge crown. 1t has a di.
ameter of SO feet. It has 90 air tight
compartments.
The lower works consist of the bas-
ket or car, ten feet square and five
feet deep; the rising screw, the pro.
pellers and steering gear and motor
There are two decks to the car. On
the lower one, or the bottom, rests
the motor and all machinery for work
ing the rising and propelling screws
The rising screw is set upon the
! end of an upright shaft which passes
from the machine compartment
through the main deck to point Is
| feet above the rim of the car. The
rising screw has two blades shaped
like the blades of steamship pro.
peller. Its motion, however, is hori-
zontal. 1t pushes the air beneath it
and makes the airship mount, where
the WATERSHEDS propeller pushes the
water behind it and makes the vessel
go forward.
! The rising screw blades are each
20 feet long and when revolving span
| a diameter of 40 feet.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

IITHERE," sighed the professor, as
/ he placed drop of what looked
like soup, but was really dis
solved paper, on glass slide, three
waves of my wand and we will see
what this rascally jobber has been
selling to the government"
It was in the paper-testing division
of the United States bureau Of stand
ards that this monologue took place.
The government printing Office had
sent some samples of paper to be
tested. The samples were warranted
to be pure poplar pulp paper"
That's the poplar" murmured the
professor, as he dropped some liquid
from a glass tube upon the small glo-
bule Of soup, and watched it turn
purple. "Now for the spruce"
1t required but a moment to pick
up another glass tube and apply anoth-
er drop of colorless liquid. Under its
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
WOMAN 'VVEDS 4
MEN IN 45 YEARS
MRS. TOWNSEND OF DODGE, NEB.,
GETS HELPMEETs CONFUSED
WHEN TALKING o. THEM.
LOSES BUT FIVE BY DEATH
Two Spouses Were Colorado Men and
One Now Lives in Cripple Creek
Advertised for Last
One

Omaha, Neb. = Joseph Zoover,
Charles E. Ewing, John j. Suits, o. H.
Scott, Philip Moomaw, Charles Hitch
cock, D. c. Bigford, George w. Smith,
Henry Straw, Jesse Luman, Thomas
Birchell, Edgar Fenton, Charles Hen
shy, A. w. Townsend. Mrs. A. W..
Townsend of Dodge, Neb., has been
married to IA men within the last As
years. Above is a complete list of
their names in the order in which she
married them. Her marriage to
Townsend, a wealthy retired farmer,
has just been celebrated.
Mrs. Townsend became the wife of
Joseph Zoover, Colorado miner,
when she was Is years old, and before
she was IA she was a mother and a
widow. Before she was Is she was
married to Ewing, and before she was
of age she had had several husbands
and was the mother of a number of
children.
She is now So years old, and is a
well-preserved and by no means un-
attractive woman.
All but five of her IA husbands are
living. All but two of the II served in
the civil war.
Zoover, Suits, Scott, Bigford and
Smith are dead. Ewing lives in Cripple
Creek, COL; Moomaw in Salt Lake
City, Hitchcock in Oakland, Cal. !;
Straw, Luman and Birchell in Council
Bluffs. Fenton in Seattle, and Henshy
in Dayton, o.
Mrs. Townsend has had so many
husbands that she sometimes expert.
ences difficulty in recalling the names
of some of them. When she talks OF
them she occasionally gets them con
fused and has to stop and think to get
them straight in her mind Their faces
she cannot always recall, either, nor
can she always recall clearly just what
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
HOLDS MAD WOMAN BY
ARM At DIZZY HEIGHT
MAID cLlNGs TO MISTRESS UNTIL
MEN IN STREET BELOW GET
NET TO CATCH HER.

New York.-The young and beauti.
full wife of James Graft swung from
the fire escape at their apartments
the other afternoon in mad effort
to commit suicide. She was caught
by a negro maid, who held the insane
woman far above the heads of an ex-
cited crowd that assembled in the
street below. until men could snatch
the blankets from horses standing
near by, and catch the woman in the
improvised jumping net.
Mrs. Graft developed signs of tenn.
porary insanity and drove her husband
from the apartment. He was standing
on the sidewalk in front of the house
when Mrs. Graft appeared on the fire
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

any disease in existence. i never had
much faith in him, however, but at
this period I thought of the old doc
tor. And as last resort 1 called
him in. ~ 80
When he came he asked about the
cause OF the accident. When we told
him, he at once went to work and
with such good results as to bring
around the absolute recovery of nv
daughter. And the cure consisted of
a simple pounding upon her back. the
old doctor succeeded in loosening the
blood clot and thus eliminating the
whole trouble.
Needless to say, the old doctor has
obtained one client who will patronize
him until death. milwaukee Sen.
tinel.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26

sort OF men some Of them were men.
tally, morally and spiritually.
"Of course. know the names of all
my husbands when stop to think"
said Mrs. Townsend. 1T is true, how
ever, that I do get them confused in
my mind occasionally. Within short
time I was married to and separated
from good many men. With some of
them I lived but a few months. It is
those with whomm l lived so short a
time that sometimes cannot recall
readily. Some of my husbands I re-
member very, very distinctly, and can
tell you all about them"
For more than 40 years this remark.
able woman made her home in Council
Bluffs, where she is well known. Most
Of her numerous marriages were cele.
brated there. Her old neighbors in
Council Bluffs have a good word to
say for her in despite of her peculiar
views on marriage and the extraor.
binary matrimonial record she has
established.
The men living in Council Bluffs
who were formerly her husbands
speak not unkindly of her, either.
Her children have opposed her mar.
rying so frequently, but they say she
is woman of good heart and she has
always been good to them.
AS for Mrs. Townsend herself, she
says the explanation of her IA mar.
riages lies in the fact that she has a
very affectionate nature and cannot
live happily alone, and to the further
fact that every woman needs a hus
band to support her.
She advertised for a husband afte,
her separation from her thirteenth
husband, and in this way became &C
quainted with and finally the wife OF
Townsend.
Townsend is 65 years old, hale and
hearty, progressing in appearance
and address, and is held in the warm
est regard by all who know him. He
has lived in and near Dodge for many
years, and no man in the community
is more respected and honored than he
Mrs. Townsend says it is easy
enough for any woman to capture the
husband she sets her heart upon If she
but manage right.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-02-26
STRUCK A HORNETS NEST.
This Hobo Will Visit Lincoln Park, N,
J. No More.

Lincoln Park, N. J.-Stung by
hornets, chewed up by farm dog and
then horsewhipped, tramp was
triply punished for stealing peaches
and chasing two young women through
the Snyder orchard. They don't like
tramps here. This one did NOT even
have chance to shake the dust of the
place from his person. 1t was shaken
from him by young farmer, William
Jackson, who said asterward that he
greatly enjoyed the task
Miss Carlotta Snyder, daughter and
heiress of the snug Snyder fortune,
was the first to discover the tramp.
She was wandering through her ia.
theirs orchard with her friend, Miss
Esther Burridge,of Brooklyn, when
they espied the man in one of the
finest peach trees filling a bag with
the fruit.
"That fellow is stealing my fathers
peaches!" cried Miss Snyder, and
then she sternly ordered the tramp to
leave the place.
"I'll steal you, too, for you are the
finest peach in the orchard" declared
the tramp, as he descended from the
tree and ran toward the girls.
They screamed and fed, with the
tramp in hot pursuit. In their flight
the girls ran past tree, on a lower
limb of which was a large hornets
nest, and Miss Snyder, with a sudden
inspiration, shook the limb vigorously
and then ran on faster than ever.
The angry insects swarmed or+
just as the tramp reached the tree
His chase of the girls ended right
there, and while he was fleeing from
the hornets and fighting them off,
''Tige,". the Snyder dog, arrived and
gave battle. He would have killed the
tramp, who had been bitten in a
dozen places and stung in something
less than thousand more, when
young Jackson arrived and pulled the
dog off.
Then he led the tramp none too
gently to railroad siding, and lean.
ing him against a freight car, soundly
horsewhipped him. Mr.. Tramp was
forced to board train, from which a
brakeman promised to kick him 40
| miles farther on.