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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
VIA HOSFORD PARK
EAST ON NEW ROAD
viii Touch Broadway Where New
Highway Intersects and Will Enter
Town Over City Line-President
Fails to State How Soon His Plans
Will Materialize.

H. W. Seaman, president of the
Crown Point-Gary line, in a letter to
]. H. Cooley, of Gary, impaired the in
formation that the company had come
to an absolute decision as to the course
of their route from the county seat to
the Steel city. Whatever doubt may
have existed as to the course to be
taken by the line will be dispelled by
the following:
Mr.. ]. H. Coolev.
Gary, I'D,
Dear Sir:-Your letter OF the 23d.
written from the Grand Pacific,
Chicago, is here.
We have definitely decided on the
line of the new road from Crown
Point to Gary. It will run from
Crown Point north on the extension
of Main street to Hosford Park,
along the west line of Drexel Park;
thence east to the new road to be
opened there to the intersection
with Broadway; thence north on
Broadway to a connection with the
city line in Gary.
Yours truly
H w. SEAMAN,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
Ola. cur.

Here is the way to quit smoking
recommended by a man who failed
to make it work.: Instead of quitting
off short, quit gradually. Don't smoke
in the morning until you can't stand it
any longer Then smoke a cigar, and
then quit again until you are compelled
to smoke or go crazy. BY degrees,
you will learn to do without smoking.
--Atchison Globe.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
FRUGAL Wife.

A sick peasant motions feebly to his
wife to approach his bedside, and
whispers. painfully: Il think, my dear,
1 could fancy a little broth" MY
dear, what do you want of broth?
Hasn't the doctor just given you up?"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20

'If 1 had worked at the Gary
mills any longer / would have
been dead. 1 did not come here
in the first place because l
wanted to, but my father made
me. / have worked hard, night
and day, for the last year and /
feel that / need the rest which
the trip to Europe will afford.
1 expect to return to Gary after
come from Observation-Disclosures
SHERRY.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20

vacation. Ernest will join her in New
York and they will sail Immediately for
Europe Meanwhile, Ernests wheel
barrow will be turned over to an able
substitute. who doesn't get blisters on
his hands and never had his nails
manicured
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20

An automobile for the blind has
been invented Heretofore the blind
have been running the ordinary makes
of Minneapolis Journal.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
OFFICE WAS A WHITE
ELEPHANT FOR KNOTS
Postmaster Call Now Receives Salary
of $500 Year-Has Four Clerks
and Will Soon Get More-Business
Will Be Facilitated as Soon as Car
riers Are Put On.

The report OF the Gary postoffce for
the year just passed is regarded as one
of the most marvellous records of de-
velopment in that department ever
chronicled. The gain over the receipts
of last year are not quite ten thousand
dollars and the figure being about
eight thousand last year and $17,64o.Se
this year. it will be seen that the bust
ness done at the local office has been
more than doubled
Incidentally. 1t might be said that
when the local office passed the ST.
600 mark the salary of the postmaster
and all of the present employees re-
ceived a notable increase. 1t means
that Postmaster J. w. Call. who took
the white elephant from the should
ers of Mayor Knots and who had kept
the office in operation for months by
virtue of the appropriation Of much
good money of his own, is now re-
ceiving $4,000 per year with many In
creases in view.
Business Is StIlI Growing.
There are but few annual reports Of
postofhces in whic ha decrease In one
of the months is not shown, and in
fact, an office that does not experience
one dull month is rare Gary, how
ever has advanced every month from
the time the office was put in exist
ence and each year has more thar
doubled her income. This is believed
to be the most remarkable record o.
any postoffice In the country. II the
income at the postoffce in the las
quarter can be taken as any criterion
of what the next year will be, there il
no questio nbut what the local receipt!
will run over $4,000 The amount
taken in in the last quarter was s5,165
At the present time there are bu
four clerks employed in the Gary post
/ office, and there is work enough there
/ for four more. All of the clerks are
now overworked and the business Il
still increasing. AS soon as the car
| riers are installed the work at the
| general delivery window will be re
duced to half what it is at present anc
two or three more clerks may be hired
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
Make 1t Effective.

Markham: We have committed the
golden rule to memory; now let us
commit ii to life.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
H. w. SEAMAN,
President.

Mr.. Seaman does not, however, say
when the line Will be built and the
people of the two cities will be in as
much OF a quandary as ever over this
phase OF the question. A little light
on that subject would be appreciated
in hofh cities
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-04-20
GARY MILL
HAND GETS
VACATION

Ernest Sherry, Son of Mil
lionaire Restaurateur, Has
Blisters on His Hands and
Crook in His Back; Must
Have Rest.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-07-22

finds Duplex
I'll do the asking And i see
when 'ii~N -
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-07-22
IT'S DIFFERENT 1
THE NORTH AMERICAN
(PHILADELPHIAl

IT'S DIFFERENT, because IT prints
all the news, and all the news 1t prints
is true.
, 1909-09-16

In al article on the hygiene of smo-
king published in the Munich Medical
Weekly DR.. j. Bamberger says that
the injury which may follow the use
OF tobacco differs with the of
smoking. Those who use a mouth
piece. or If not are careful not to keep
the end of the cigar saturated with
saliva, are much less apt to suffer
from the absorption OF the various
products of the burning tobacco.
Dry smokers" run much less risk
of harming themselves than those
who chew the ends of their cigars. DR..
~Bamberger suggests that a bit of alb
sorbent cotton saturated with chlor.
tide of iron be placed in the holder,
and he claims by doing this some Of
the harmful products of combustion
are rendered innocuous.
, 1909-09-16
Corn Products Entrained.

The president of a western railroad
system vas spending the weekend at
the country house of a friend in New
York. when n evening some refer.
ence vas made by a layman touching
the commercial greatness of the coun-
try as evidenced by railroad opera
tons.
What you say is quite true OBJ
served the head of the big system.
do you know that if the corn prod
ucts in this country for the year just
ended were loaded into one train, the
engine thereof would be entering the
state of New Jersey just as the ca
boose was leaving Los Angeles"
At this remark a woman presen:
could not suppress her establishment
!. and incredulity. SLOW you men do
exaggerated" she exclaimed. You
know very well that even two engines
could not pull such a train!"-The
Sunday Magazine.
, 1909-09-16
Destroying a Color Scheme.

The beach was a picture with its
striped tents and its picturesque peo-
Pile. men, women and children, in their
bathing suits of various colors, their
heads wrapped in bright red kerchiefs.
some incased in brilliant sweaters as
they summed themselves on the sands,
others in white, all artistic and rest,
full to the eye, when all at once there
strobe across the sands lei to the
water a man in a black frock coat,
silk hat and patent leather shoes.
The artist pressed his hands to his
eyes. Then %springing up he turned
iandward and began to run, the wom-
an trying hard to keep up with him.
Whats the matter?" she cried.
Il can't stand it," the artist replied
p%antingly. MY sense Of harmony!
Oh, that man-where did he come
from! And what was he doing there"
, 1909-09-16
THE BOY AND HIS FATHER.
Dad, ostensibly the Teacher, Admits
That He is Learning Much
from His Little Son.

II has read a lot bout angels"
but the only one he ever saw is his
mother" writes Truman A. DeWeese,
In Suburban Life. For some unac-
countable reason" continues Mr.. De-
Weese. my boy selected Chicago to
be born in, and he arrived in the big,
noisy city on a zero winter day-a
proceeding in strange contrast to the
warmth of his sunny nature and the
peaceful serenity OF his temperament.
Having done this, however. he had
the good sense to pick me for his ia
Their and that is the reason ! have
tried to give him some of the things
he lost by not being born on a farm.
I have made him almost my constant
companion since he began to use his
little legs to explore the mysteries OF
his little world. OF course, there is
something of a selfish motive in all
this. | am sure | get more out of the
boy thar he gets out of me. To watch
the leaves of his mind unfold in the
springtime of his life Is a great joy.
He doesn't know how much | am get
ting out of him. He thinks he is learn.
ing a lot from me: but the truth is.
he is both teacher and interpreter"
, 1909-09-16
LOOK WELL TO THE KITCHEN.
Writer In Houston Post Comes For
ward with Variations on Old
Theme of ~"Feeding the Brute"

There is a great deal in the old say
ing that the way to a mans heart Is
through his stomach. II he isn't well
fed he is going to give trouble. Feed
the old brute well and let him smoke
in the house and he will be as tame
as the family horse. but be careless
about his feed and he is apt to swear
and cut up like a balky mule. There
fore, it is wise for every girl to look
well to her kitchen education. 1t is
true that man is hooked in the par
Tor. but 1t is the kitchen that enables
you to hold him.
A kitchen is to the home what the
~engine-room is to a power plant or a
locomotive to a train. II things go
wrong in the engine-room, there's the
devil to pay. If the locomotive is out
of fix. the train must be switched to
the siding. If the kitchen is not com
petently and efficiently conducted the
old man will fly off at a tangent and
possibly swear where the children can
near him. Moreover, he is apt to find
excuses to eat down town where pref
ty girls with white, fiuffy-fringed
aprons, dimples, ribbons and things
do the Observation-Disclosures Post.
, 1909-09-16

81 suppose said the matchmaker to
a friend who had just handed him his
watch for repair, you do not know
that watches, like human beings,
sometimes don't go for the very rea-
Sol that they are tired out and need
resting.
Sometimes a watch is brought to
me which is all right. Nothing about
it out of order. and it is fairly clean.
When they become sulky and refuse
to run, except by fits and starts, the
best thing to do is to lay them aside
for a good rest. The mechanism in
a tired watch seems to be in per-
feet condition, but it just won't work.
The TACT is that long and faithful
service has thrown 1t slightly out Of
adjustment in perhaps a dozen differ
ent places. Scraping and cleaning and
readjusting a fine watch are the
worst things that could be lone to II.
A months rest will, instead. cause
the works slowly to readjust them
selves. and u the end of that time.
after ,.retul 6iling, the watch will go
as cheerfully as ever"
, 1909-09-16
CAN'T BE TRAINED TO THINK.
Experiment Proved That Monkey Can
Initiate, But He Is incapable
Of Thought.

This difference between the animal
and the human idea of what consti.
tutes knowing one out nicely in a
piece of work lone al Clark univer-
sity. A. j. Kinnman's study of rhesus
monkeys. the Bandar-log of the Jun.
gle Book The monkey. following
the usual procedure. learned to get
his food from a box, the lid Of which
fastened with a key. The key, how
ever. could not be withdrawn from the
lock. After the monkey had become
familiar with the device, and could
operate 1t as readily as a man could
do. the eXperimenter took the key
out of the lock and laid 1t on the floor
in front of the box. The monkey
picked up the key. played with it, but
made no attempt to use it. Then the
experimenter took up the key, and
so times in succession. with the mon
key two feet away. watching every
motion, he unlocked the box. The
monkey would have starved before
he initiated that simple act. He had
learned to open the box by making
certain movements; he had no idea
of the key as an instrument in the
process. We-sometimes-think in
struments and means and causes; the
animal thinks largely motions.-E. T.
Brewster, in McClure's.
, 1909-09-16
JOKE COST HUMoRIST SIS HAT
Intended Victim Got "Wise" to Trick
and Thereby Saved His Priced
Panama Head Covering.

James Mullin. an office holder at the
Philadelphia navy yard, joined the
b~areheaded walking pedestrian club
a few nights ago-not as a matter
of choice. however.
In supervising the assortment of
some old material in the yard during
the day referred to. there was under
his supervision a big colored fellow.
who seemed to be shy a good hat.
Taking this occasion to get a joke
off on his superior officer, he ad.
dressed his workman:
Sam, you seem to be in need of a
good hat. | have one I'll give you.
Go over to building No. "a and enter
the private office. where O will see
a panama hat, which l have discard
ed. Use that. | would rather let you
have it thai throw it away"
Sam went, but instead of finding
the office unoccupied. as Mullin
thought, the man on whom the trick
was to be played was present, and
when Sam told his mission he at once
saw the plot, and r%etaliated.
Well, SAM he said, 81 have de-
cided to ask Mullin for that hat my.
self. but | will give you a good derby
of mine that does not fit me-
Handing the hat to Sam. he left for
the gate, as it was time to quit for the
day. The derby was the property of
Mullin. who took the joke very well.
but is suffering the loss of a s. hat
Philadelphia Times.
, 1909-09-16
The Flow Of Solids.

The idea of flow is generally asso-
ciated with the movement of liquids
and gases, and indeed the term fluid
is usually restricted to these two
states of matter.
Nevertheless it is beginning to be
understood that nearly every sub
stance is capable OF a movement cor
responding to the idea of flow, and
that such a thing is absolute rigidity
does not exist. .
The flow of solids occurs in such
mechanical operations AZ the drawing
of wire, the manufacture of drawn
tubing, the production of various
shapes in the forming press and in
the spinning lathe, and all these are
well known to the engineer. To the
general observer 1t Is apparent that
we have in the mountain glacier an
example of continuous flow of an ap.
%parently solid mass. and that. too.
without rupture or disintegration.-
Casters Magazine.
, 1909-09-16
COMPANY MUST PAY POLICY
Court Holds That Legal Execution
Does Not invaiidats insurance.
of Culprit.

Careful, !:ta insurance companies
VIII 40 wei to include in their queries
to applicants for insurance a fen as
to what heredity has done for them
in giving them a taste for murder.
Have you had any murderers in your
ianlIly? might answer the purpose.
and If the applicant knew of any such
nearer than Cain it would be in order
lor the company to turn the applica-
ion down, lest the applicant initiate
his ancestor by doing something per-
fectly killing. thus costing the com
pany good money.
A final decision has been issued by
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals, Judges Pritchard, Waddell and
Dayton rejecting a petition from
tho Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Milwaukee for a re-
hearing in h case of the heirs of j.
Samuel McCue, former mayor of
Charlottesville, Va, which means thai
the Northw sstern Mutual will be
forced to pay the death claim of 500
oO1 on the life of McCue, hanged at
charlottesville. Va, for wife murder.
h case was tried in the United
states circuit court for the Western
district of Virginia at L%ynchburg
where an opinion was handed down
favorable to the insurance company.
The case was taken to the United
States circuit court of appeals. where
it was brought to trial at the Novem-
Der term. 1908, at which time the de
cree of the lower tribunal was re-
versed. On December Il, 1908. the
Northwestern Mutual. through its law
yers filed a petition with the appeal
late court, begging for a %rehearing of
the case. This is the petition which
Is refused. Judge Pritchard presided
when the petition for a rehearing was
submitted.
The decision is significant in that
1t means that life insurance com
panies hereafter will be required to
pay policies in cases where the policy
holders nave been legally executed.
, 1909-09-16

A man employed in a hay and feed
Store at st. Louis has been taken TO
the city hospital suffering from straw
disease" which is said to be a new
conner among the ills that flesh is heir
to. As its name may be taken to in.
dicate, straw disease" is connected
With straw. 1t is. in fact, caused by
handling or sleeping upon straw, AID
i. is a thoroughly unpleasant but not
very serious eruptive skin disease.
The first known cases of it were found
recently by doctors at the Marine hos.
pital at Philadelphia.
, 1909-09-16

The pastor and his wife had called
upon a member of the congregation, a
widow with a small but exceedingly
lively boy and were on their way
home. well" said the preacher. she
seems to be a very intelligent woman,
anyhow"
Yes"
And very positive in expressing her
opinions"
"On the contrary" said his wife,
she struck me as being strongly
negative
Negative? How?"
Everything she said to her little
boy began with a Don't. JOHNNY
Youths Companion.
, 1909-09-16

The result of hard times. the sta
tisticians nave determined. is the sale
of fewer diamonds and the record OF
fewer marriages. There are said to
be llO.O 900 persons in New York who
should have married last ear if hard
tines had not happened to prevent
The statistics fail to hazard a predic
ton as to the possibility OF the same
uersons marrying this year.
, 1909-09-16
pisappointments That soothe.

Sometimes our disappointments
|come to be recognized as blessings"
bald the ready-made philosopher.
That's a fact" answered the flip
punt person. Its always a sweet
relief to me to discover in the morn.
ing that forgot to wind the alarm
clock
, 1909-09-16

OF the revenue accruing from the
national forests in Colorado 20 per
cent. OF 100000 Is yearly turned over
to the state by the federal authorities
fer use OF the public roads an"
achools.-Outing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
IT'S MEN WHO GO MAD.
Rev. Anna Shaw Defends Women
Against Charge of Being Emotional.

New York, Jan. 3O.-The Rev. Anna
shaw, IN an address before the Equal
franchise society, at the home of Mrs.
Clarence H. Mackay, stoutly defended
woman suffrage. She said:
L have seen men hug and kiss each
other in an election aftermath. 1 have
seen them smash another fellows hat
or slap him on the back until his
breath was gone. and yet they say
women are too emotional to vote. 1
never saw a woman, no matter how
great her excitement, take off her bon
net and wave or crush in the bonnet
of some other woman or slap another
till she gasped. Women don't know
anything about emotion. 1t is men
who go mad.
They say women should stay at
home and control their husband s
vote she continued. 'No woman
controls her husbands vote. If she
could, she would be too ashamed of
having married such a man to let any
body know she controlled him.
wyoming has had equal franchise
for forty years, yet there has only been
one case of fraudulent voting on the
part of women.
'Depraved women will not be. made
saints by the ballot; they will sell that
as they sell their souls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
H. b. HOWARD BRANCHES OUT
incorporates and Will Enter the
Wholesale Field.

The H. b. Howard Electric & Athletic
Supply company has been chartered
with a capital of $4,000 all paid in,
with H. B. Howard as president and
H. NJ. Starr, secretary and treasurer.
The retail departments will be greatly
enlarged and they will also do an ex-
tensive wholesale business. Mr.. Starr
will have charge of the athletic supply
department. both wholesale and retail,
which will enable Mr.. Howard to give
the electrical contracting more of his
personal attention. Out of town con-
tracts will be handled as well as local
Jobs.
Mr. Howard opened up business
just out of his teens, fresh from his
machinist's apprenticeship and with
only 500 and his trade to begin on.
By hard word and close attention to all
details he has developed business of
which he has a right to be proud, but
it has grown to such proportions he
finds 1t best to incorporate in order to
properly handle the steadily increasing
trade.
H. NJ. Starr has been with the Con-
tinental Creamery company for the
past six years and resigns his position
there as chief clerk in the sales de-
partment to become secretary and
treasurer of the new company. With
his experience in handling accounts
and out of town trade this departme
will be in expert hands.
With this com bination Topeka can
now boast of a first class up to date
wholesale house in athletic supplies
and gymnasium apparatus. Men will be
put on the road at once to cover Kan
sas and Oklahoma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
TO CURE CONSUMPTION.
Chicago Tuberculosis Institute Wants
an Open Air School.

Chicago, Jan. 30.-Children in
fected with tuberculosis will go to
school in the open air if a request to
be made by the Chicago Tuberculosis
institute is granted by the board of
education. The suggestion is made in
a report to Superintendent Frank
Ewing. So
The plan is-tot have open air
camps. In the stormiest weather the
children will wear heavy ulsters to
protect them from the cold.
The council also will be asked for
an appropriation to establish a
municipal open air hospital for con-
sumptives. The-institute hopes to es-
tablish one to accommodate one thou
sand patients who are unable to pay
for treatment. -
The deaths in Chicago from tuber-
culosis last year numbered four thou
sand, according to superintendent
Wing. He says that in every two
hours and fifteen minutes some one
in the city dies of the White Plague.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-30
STEAMERS GRAND FIGHT
Getty of Marquette Has Powerful
Battle for Existence.

chicago, Jan. 3O.-Probably the
most thrilling Incident of the wide
spread storm in this section was the
Dattle or the steamer City of Mar
quette against raging Lake Michigan
as IL fought its way in a sinking con-
dition along the Illinois shore from
Chicago to Waukegan
With the firemen standing in water
up TO their waists and shoveling coal
into feeble fire, the boat ''1imped"
into Waukegan eleven hours after 1t
LETT chicago. Before it reached its
dock the water rose over the fires and
the aid of tug had to be secured
me Whole upper works of the boat
We're shattered by the waves that
broke over it, and it was only by
great exertions that it was kept af1oat.
The City of Marquette is a wooden
boat, drawing fourteen feet of water.
The bows, however, are reinforced
with steel for breaking the ice, and it
has made daily trips for years
Its crew of IL men had gone
through many stormy voyages, but af-
ter they set foot in Waukegan with
their clothing frozen on them, they
vowed they never again would tempt
fate on Lake Michigan in winter. Capt
Arthur Hill was the only one I'M
daunted. He declared that he would
have the City" in shape in week or
two and continue in spite of ice and
northeaster
A grewsome result of the disturb
ance of Lake Michigan was the yield
ing up by the waters of the body of
the former lighthouse keeper of the
port, F. w. Raether. which was taken
by them in similar storm fourteen
months ago. The body was identified
by its gold teeth and a wedding ring.