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Cases Set For Hearing.

Washington May 4.-(special 1.-The su- preme court today set for hearing, De- cember l3 the cases of the Louisville and Nashville railroad vs. J. B. Gaston and the Southern railroad vs. 8. E. Greene from the Alabama supreme court.
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-07
WILL
GOVERN WAGES
Charles NJ Schwab Believes That
Prices for Steel Will Show an Up
ward Tendency and That the Vol
ume Of Business Will Increase
Henceforth.

New York, May THE United States |
Steel corporation has outlined its poll
cy as to future prices. and it can be
stated no effort will be made to force |
quotations above their present level for
some time to come. The management
of the corporation realizes that any at
tempt to create a higher price level
would interrupt the substantial prog
ress that has been made since the
change in price policy on Feb. 10 of
this year From present indications,
s115 per hundred pounds for steel bars
and S1.25 for shapes and plates will
prevail for some time to come indie
pendents are inclined to shade these
quotations slightly but there is no
getting around the fact that the cut
throat policy, which has been in evil
dence over the last six weeks, has been
abandoned by the larger companies.
There has been no aggressive buying
of finished steel over the last week. but
orders have been of a character war
ranting the statement that gradual
progress is being made toward a re-
storation to normal conditions. That
the steel mills will not be operating to
their utmost capacity this year is ad-
mitted by many steel manufacturers.
They are firmly convinced, however
that there will be little inactive space
by the middle of next year
Business to Govern Wages.
The business of the next few weeks
will determine the course of the steel
corporation in regard to wages. How
the employees of the independent COM
panies will accept the action of the
steel corporation in mainting wages,
that is if such action is taken, is diff
fcult to determine.
Charles NJ. Schwab. president of the
Bethlehem steel corporation. sailed Tor
Europe Tuesday to be gone about four
weeks. Before sailing Mr.. Schwab
said
Il am sailing to Europe for the pur-
pose of taking a four weeks rest. My
capacity and I now feel that 1 can take
a little vacation.
Il believe that prices for steel from
now on will show an upward tendency
and that the volume of business will
increase. I am always an optimist on
the steel industry of the United States,
and the manner in which the various
steel companies weathered the de-
preston has strengthened, rather than
weakened, my belief that an era of un-
paralleled prosperity is setting in"
The statement of earnings of the
| Southern railway for the month of
March is, in all respects. the best which
the road has made in nearly two years
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coal land, which have daily capacity
of 5000 tons and are now producing
2,10O tons daily
No Consideration Given.
While Mr.. Patterson admitted that
the deal had been consummated today.
he would not state what was the con-
sideration. When asked if he knew Of
any other operations of the steel trust
in the vicinity of Danville by which
they were seeking to secure control of
other mining properties. he stated that
they were very busy securing options
on land and clearing the title to 9TH
er land upon which they had options
When 1t is known that the United
States Steel Corporation located its
plant at Gary with the knowledge that
it could secure coal in southern Indi-
ana and Illinois in large quantities,
this initial purchase of coal properties
IS very important.
1t is understood that the United
Steel Corporation viii not attempt to
enter the coal mining field for CONNER
cial purposes, but merely 10 insure it
self a supply of coal for the future and
to prevent its being forced to pay high
prices to some independent coalation of
mine owners
Colonel L. T. Dickson, the president
of the Little Vermillion Coal company,
was not in his office this morning. but
it is thought that the confirmation of
the news by General Manager Patter-
son is sufficient
The purchase of these coal mines by
the United States Steel Corporation and
the prospect of other purchases being
made in the near future is a matter of
great Importance to the railroads in
this sction, which run in a northerly
and a southerly direction.
AS the Chicago, Indiana & Southern
has a direct connection with Danville.
II is expected that 1t will get the bulk
! of the shipments. 1t is not expected
that the announcement will be made
in the Chicago papers until later.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-07
NOT IN COMMERCIAL
FIELD TO COMPETE
Deal Which Is Consumated Today At
fects the Verlnilion Coal Company
Controlling $50 Acres-C., I. &
S. Railroad Will Get Bulk Of Bust
ness to Transport Fuel.

THE TIMES is able to make an authori-
tative announcement to the effect that
the United States Steel Corporation has
purchased the properties of the Little
Vermillion Coal company of Danville,
Ill. The significance of this an
nouncement lies in the fact that it is
but the beginning of the work of the
steel corporation in securing control of
valuable coal properties in southern
Indiana and Illinois, from which the
mills at Gary and South Chicago will
be supplied.
This information was positively con-
firmed by General Manager W A Pat
terson at the offices of the Little Yer
million Coal company. in room 1875.
Old Colony building. Chicago. The deal
involves the purchase of $50 acres of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-07
The Ace Of the Microhe.

People just now are living in a state
of almost morbid apprehension con
corning what they should eat and
drink. There have been the palace
lithic age and the red sandstone age
The present age would come to be
known as the bacillus. microbe and
tubercle age.-Ribblesdale in the
House of Lords.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-07

It is a hard lesson to learn, but peo-
pie do not care much for your opin-
ions. The next time you begin to talk
and air your opinions notice how soon
you are interrupted those listening to
you do not care what you think
Atchison CKan) Globe.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-05-07
The Silver Linino

The most disastrous times have pro-
duced the greatest minds. The purest
metal comes of the most ardent fur
mace. the most brilliant lightning
comes of the darkest clouds.-Chateau
BRAND.
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Your Opinion.

LION STORE PHARMACY,
15S 6. HOFFMAN ST. HAMMOND. IND.
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The book pretends to picture southern life. The scene is laid in Woodford county, Kentucky in the days of slavery Tempest" Is a shrew and Sunshine" is an angel, and the whole thing is such ridiculous exaggera- tion that 1t does not attain to the dignity of a caricature. The eyes of 60 have not the vision of tho eyes of 12.
 There was another Yankee woman who lived at the south and pictured southern life of the old reg1me-Mrs Caroline Lea Hentz--and for young folks her novels arc simply delight full. There should be . reprint of them in order that our girls of the south, soon to be the mothers of that blessed land,s may have opportunity to read what their moth CTS and grandmothers reveled in-"Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag" Linda, the Young Pilot of the Belle Creole" "Rena, or the Snow Bird" "Eoline, or Magnolia Vale" The plan ters Northern Bride,' Ernest Lin wood" and others
 She was an honest novelist was Mrs. Hentz, and administered poetic justice. All her virtuous characters were duly and all her unvirtuous were correspondingly punished, and that is what novelist Is for. He Is a profes- sional liar, and 1t Is as easy for him to
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SOME OLD WRITERS-By Savoyard

again. His "Gunmar rar of Moscow" Bonner printed at least three times as a serial Then there was Emerson Bennett, William Henry Peck, J. F. Smith-all writers of serial stories, as was Miss Du- puy. Mary Kyle Dallas, Amy Randolph and others wrote complete noVelettes for each issue of the Ledger
 Bonner had this secret of success-he had an eye for the best in it's line. Paul Murphy edited his chess column and when some enterprising manufacturer got out a shoddy thing he called 'Trhe Paul Nor phy Hat wore one of 'em and 1t lasted till the first shower of rain-Bon- ner got out the Ledger hat and it was a dandy, good for a years constant wear under the toughest treatment. At least one company of Kentucky Confed- crates wore Ledger hats to the big war, and I am not so sure that some of them did not wear them back again four years later. They were made of the very best material in the most workmanlike fash ion The color was something between brick dust and dove. The band was of leather festooned with real metal buckle and the shape was delightfully."- ralSish and southern from stem to stern, larboard and starboard. A handsome fellow looked irresistible under Ledger hat. I was good looking about that time and a few years later.
 Mrs Southworth's masterpiece was "The Hidden hand" and that, too, was
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its first issue until old Bonner died and his sons made @ wreck of It.
 There was not a line of advertisement In the Ledger except about stick of rates to subscribers" Edward Everett, in consideration of s100OO Bonner gave to the Mount Vernon fund, wrote series of Mount Vernon Papers," George D. Prentice contributed weekly half column of Wit and Wisdom" Henry Ward Beecher and other eminent men of the clergy wrote for 1t and Bonner was the best advertiser our country had then pro- duced and his genius In that field made him an enormously rich man, for that day, when millionaires were not as plenty as blackberries, as they are now become.
 The Ledger had a splendid staff of writers of fiction, chief among them Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth, another northern woman who loved to put the scenes of her novels at the south. Some years ago at her cottage in Georgetown, D. C., where she wrote volume after volume, I plucked off a black locust tree leaves. I have them in my desk now, withered and ready to fall to snuff at a touch.
 Slyvanus Cobb was another regular con- tributor. He wrote wonderful stories of daring adventure, got his heroes into the jaws of death, and plunged his her oine into the depth of despair, ten thou sand times. and then got 'em all out
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tell an agreeable story as one that saddens tho reader. Some of Sir Wal ter Scotts novels I have read a hun dred times, but never read "St. Romans We'll" but once and "The Bride of Lammermoor" but three or four times. Now would he have tow cred above all other story telers if Balzao had not had the realistic fad, and invented so many disastrous de- nouements. We can get all thu realism we can digest out of history; why put it in romance, in fiction?
 When was small boy just out of Robinson Crusoe, my father subscribed for a literary publication for my benefit the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper-and it was in It's columns that I read my first love story. It was a serial by Mary A Dennison, and the title of 1t was Tho Miller's Daughter" There were two rivals for the girls love-one an actor on the histrfonic stage and the other a clergyman in the pulpit. shame to say was rep rebate enough to be for the actor. As soon as tho mail came every Saturday I hied to the village postoffice and got my paper and went home and devoured 1t. The first half or two-thirds of the story the actor had the preacher beat block. but in the home stretch the preacher passed him and won in a gallop by many lengths. I was not much pleased, for I was to the end loyal to the actor. I've got boy on the stage and I'm for him, too.
 While there are in the Congressional H.
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him who wins the largest measure of ap- plause from contemporaries-dwell In the dearest mansions-contributes most lib- orally to the libraries of the natlon-lives the most respectable life? It looks as if we are making a blind rush for re- spectability, Phiistinism, and all that. We fail to regard those beacons of real worthiness-those disciples of the higher life-those makers of real poems and prose whose companionship is closer and warmer at times than flesh and blood frending Perhaps we are too zealous in demanding tangible compensation for life's cold and bitterness. Let us at in- tervals go a-journeying into the peace country of rhyme and prose, where no currency is nor bills of exchange, nor gossip of the street If 1t must be that we re-emerge Into the stress of things the return shall be with braver heart to the worlds work.
 Written or spoken truths discover us to ourselves-do not so much teach us how to live, as give the inward faith in ourselves which had lain dormant so long, So do these burning word-masters kindle our consciousness to a white-heat perception; the fuel of sense, the blind ness that clamors for vision-all astir when the teacher appears. We awaken to our powers of beiag-no more The natural gestures of being and doing come to us out in the world--at rare times the continuation of book learning, but oftener the result of keen undirected glimpses into things as they are-intutive journeys into the expressions of crowds unreached by the literary sense From Word-makerS
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A N attempt has been made to
 o have Mary Jane Holmes re- 4 A vival, with a view to repopu aarizing Tempest and Sunshine" and 'Lena Rivers" It Is a more or less curious fact that Mrs. Holmes was the daughter of a clergyman of New Eng land and married lawyer by the name of Holmes, who took up his residence, established his citizenship and opened his office in the delicious old town of Versailles, Ky, in the very asparagus bed of the blue grass region that Is the garden of America. There lived Tom Marshall ,and there lives Joe Blackburn.
 I will never forget the first time came across the volume, Tempest and Sunshine" I was a schoolboy Just en- tering my teens, and found the book on a summers eve soon after supper in the home of my uncle, where I then lived and I took 1t to bed with me, and read and cried through 1t from lid to lid. That was nearly 50 years ago. and now for the sequel of 1t. The other day I was passing a stall of secondhand books on the avenue and saw Tempest and Sunshine' which bought for 10 cents, and I brought 1t home, tried to read 1t, and falling, threw the thing into the backyard to be carted off by the old paper man.
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brary many volumes by Mary A. Dem nison. "The Miller's Daughter" Is not among them. Some years ago I got ac- quainted with a Pennsylvania member of Congress of about my age. and he, too, got taste for reading from that same Dollar Newspaper of Philadelphia. We had many conversations about 1t. He was a great big, fat man, Pennsylvania Dutch, a country editor from Western Pennsyl- vania and as thoroughly and complete 1y T. black republican as lever I see," but here was a bond of union. that old paper we had read when boys. Some of these times I am going to take day off. run up to Philadelphia, get file of the ''The Miller's Daughter" If I can read it, and that Is almighty doubtful.
 While was yet subscriber to the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, Bon ners New York Ledger was introduced into Barren county, Kentucky, and at our little postoffice, the hamlet of Gen. ter, there were introduced some score or more copies. was subscriber. The great Jeremiah l. Black. whose superior at the bar never appeared in a legal court of justice in either hemisphere. used to read Bonner's Ledger from beginning to ending every week, and of my personal knowledge John Henry Clay Sandidge, a leading lawyer of Burksville, Cumber- land county, Kentucky, never failed to read a single copy of the Ledger from
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JOHN STUART MILL ON "THElSM"-By J. C. Hiden D. D.

is right, and at the same time I be- lieve in miracles. MT. Mills definition of miracle seems to make the miracu- lous simply the impossible. Now, in de- batting the question whether miracles are historical, what logical right had he to rule them out by his def1nition7 It would be as logical to discuss the question whether any such thing as square cir cle ever existed.
 Of the evidence for miracles our author says: Take 1t at the best, it Is the un- cross-examined testimony of extremely ignorant people," On what ground does MT. Mill call the Apostle Paul "extremely ignorant? In another place (note, at page 239) he admits that Paul was not ignorant And did MT. Mill really believe that an extremely ignorant man wrote the Fourth Gospel?
 At page 237 we are told that when the disciples do exceptionally name any of the persons who were the subjects or spectators of the miracles, they doubt less drew from tradition" On the con- trary, John emphasizes the fact that he was an eyewitness; Peter says that he saw the Transfguration, and Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, records divers miracles which he saw Paul perform. Really, MT. Mill lat the best,' states his facts very loosely.
 Again, on pages 240-241, we are informed that Christ '1s never said to have de- clared any evidence of his mission (un- less His own interpretation of the proph- 'ecies be so considered except internal conviction" On the contrary Christ dis tinctly and emphatically rests His claims upon those very miracles which MT. Mill treats so lightly. He continually appeals to his works-works such as no othsr
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friends judgment don't get mad when he gives it.
 What Is your life?
 Is 1t not time you should know7
 Distance leands enchantment to the view.
 Through the haze of distance the hills lose their rugged aspects.
 Time puts halos about the brows of men and women that are dead
 Recently there has been a renaissance of the fame of Joan of Arc. She has been made a saint-and deservedly so. But Joan of Arc lived so long ago that her virtues have been exalted above that of living maidens.
 Are these girls as heroic and as pa- triotic today7
 Certainly.
 Isaura villanuveo. a Spanish woman wno melted the Yaqui Indians In their Justified revolt against the Mexican gov ernment, was a modern Joan of Arc Humiliated, but heroic. she committed suicide few weeks ago by stabbing her self nine times.
 Isaura Villanuveo may not be canon ized a saint in the years to come, but her devotion and heroism was as great as that of the Maid of Orleans.
 Nearly 200o years ago lived a philan-
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. RowNTNG's witty rejoinder to the query of a friend as to his
 meaning of "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" that "at the time wrote 1t God and I alone knew, and now God only knows" has known perhaps It's thousandth telling. Yet it is still H. whose knowledge of Browning goes no further than that he was a saver of ob- seure things, a concept6r of intellectual hieroglyphs beyond the ken of hum drum flesh-and- blood folk This is part iy true with reference to many of his poems.
 As a matter of fact, it is truth that folk as a rule, humdrum or otherwise, are doers of things and not savers or thinkers. It Is better so, insuring as 1t does the material progress of the world. We can more easily dispense with gram marians than with gardeners; if we must choose between logicians and laborers there can be no long hesitation. Essen- tially most of us are workers. There can be no doubt that in doing things our gestures are freer, fuller, more natural than if our minds are bent on travelling rim seas of rhetoric, or lost in the mazes of abstract things. It is not for all to explore. not even the noblest things for all to do. The noblest thing a man or woman can do in this world is to be en- tirely honest with him or herself, and to
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ROBERT BROWNING OPTIMST-By A. B. Beale

we get grace and ease, better knowledge Of ourselves, a surer analytic sense. pow CT of Interpretation. What we are-what we have to interpret--is the large matter whether said in words of one syllable or clothed in the most ornate rhetoric.
 The obscurity of Browning at times cannot be denied: nor need we attempt 10 find meanings for these word flights Why need we conjure meanings for fan ces that were meant to be no more than fancies? No doubt the groping .sh for lasting truth and beauty must needs have led him through labyrinths where dwelt
 ''Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and
 escaped;'
 May we not be glad for mere rhetoric even for itself's sake, so it leads us presently to pinnacles of truth? Truth cannot harm us; sweetness and light makes for truth, and therein lies Brown ing's message for the world. All serves. Rabbi Ben Ezra" says in part:
 ''Then welcome each rebuff
 That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand,
 but go
 Be our joy three parts pain
 Strive, and hold cheap the strain: Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never
 grudge the throel
 For thenee-a paradox
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useless to any one that needed your help. if you have drowned on your task. com plained of your ills, refused to look on the bright side. neglected to speak the word that would have cheered or to do the turn that would have helped-put that down also.
 And
 If one days record contains but little that is good or bad, useful or useless, take a weeks record, or a fortnight's.
 When you have finished read 1t over.
 You will discover perhaps. on careful reading that you have omitted some thing.
 Put 1t in and read the record over again carefully. Let us sink into your mind.
 Will you be ashamed7 Perhaps. Will you be proud? Maybe.
 Anyway. you will have tested the cur rent of your life, its drift and tendency, and from this showing you will be able to read your own character much better than any palmist or fortune teller.
 Or
 If you cannot make up your own judg- ment as to what your life really Is. take the record to a friend and let Jim judge.
 Whatf You shrink from that?
 Well, should you conclude to get tho
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man had done-miracles. And as to His interpretations of the prophecies" which MT. Mill hides away in a parenthess, they were counted as absolutely decisive by Christ Himself
 On page 251, in scathing criticism upon Johns Gospel, MT. Mill complains of matter imported from Philo and the Alexandrian Platonists." But what did Ian extremely ignorant" man know about Philo and the Alexandrian Platonists? Mir. Mill seems to have forgotten how "extremely ignorant John was.
 On page 255 MT. Mill insists that Christ never made the smallest pretensions to the character of God, and that he would probably have thought such a pretension as blasphemus as 1t seemed to the men who condemned Him." And this, in the face of the fact that Christ incurred the charge. of blasphemy by claiming and exercising the power to forgive sins and of the further fact that he allowed one of His disciples to call Him My Lord and my God" and distinctly approved of that disciples confession.
 But the curious reader will naturally ask, What has MT Mill thought of as a substitute for Christianity?' In reply I must sadly say that for the thinking man he offers nothing but blank skepti- cism. On page 255 he does. however, admit that it would not even now 'be easy. even for an unbeliever to find better translation of the Rule of Virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life" O that this able and learned man had given to such trans lation" the time, thought and labor which he bestowed upon these ingenious but pernicious essaysl