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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
DR.. SCOv|LLE TO SPEAK At
CHRISTIAN CHURCH SUNDAY
RECORD OF REVIVAL
MEETINGS TO DATE.

Additions (five days) -.,....s.ss 126
Confessions ......-s.-s... 1Oo
Baptfsms Do
Total attendance 1000
Little half tones from Scovifle's
illustrated sermon;
.sThe child is the hope OF the
church."
ssThe home is the threshold of the
world.v
ssWhat per cent OF the children of
Hammond are in the Sunday,
schoolsf
"Compare the enrolment OF the
public schools and the church rec
ords and 1t Will bring blush of
shame 10 your cheeks"
ssYou can keep the child from the
church hut If yOu do you can't keep
1T from the devil"
ssTbe American government will
never rise above the home, nor the
home above the father or mother In
it,"
81 don't believe that any parent
has the right to stand between his
child and the church,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
auto DlTCHED;;
TWO ARE HURT
Bad Accident on Famous "S'' Curve
g on Cobe Course, When Car is
Ditched on Leaving the Pike

automobile just after crossing the
bridge o nthe last turn straight and
his party had been doing some shop
ping and business in Crown Point and
was returning to the lake when the
accident occurred The machine was
not going at very fast pace and en-
gfne trouble is said to have been re-
sponsible for the mishap, the engine
stopping just as more power was need
ed to negotiate the turn.
BOTH PINNED BENEATH.
The machine overturned pinning
Straight and the woman beneath the
wreckage. The chauffeur anticipating
the accident jumped as the machine left
the road bed and landed over the wire
fence into the adjoining field. Straight
was internally injured quite badly
bruised and the woman had both her
shoes torn OFF and also received quite
severe bruises about the body. The
shock she received rendered her un-
conscious for a time. Assistance was
called and the party was taken to
Cedar Lake to be cared for.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
Clinton to Euild.

r. w. Clinton of East Chicago has
undrtaken the construction of a large
tenement building in the Standard steel
szasar district The building is to be of
41ffranne construction and will be located
*t5n Morton avenue 1t will cost in the
neigh hornood of $1,000
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
Provokes Assault.

On the complaint of Paul Melby Chris
Peters was arrested for provoking an
assault. After spending the night in
Jail Peters was arraigshed in Justice
Prests court, where he was fined $3.50.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
Praises The Times.

J. s Blackburn, a Hammond real es-
tate dealer, stated today that he
thought the building edition that is
being printed once week by THE
TINES would be a great thing for the
city
Martin Finneran, who is interested in
the real estate business in West Ham
mond. had some nice things to saw
about THE TIMES building edition. He
said that it served the purpose of
arousing interest in real estate and
building activity and would be a good
thing for the city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19

ASK THE PEOPLE WHO ADvER.
VIsE IN THE TINES WHETHER TT
PAYS OR NOT. If THEY SAY TT
DOESN'T, DON'T ADVERTISE,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19
Latest News

st. Petersburg Russia, Aug. 1e.-One weeks chol-
record for Russia shows % 944 and 1928
deaths bringing the total number of in Russia
this year to 1895 Of these 5O287 have aiot, o
tality percentage being 44.5
Indianapolis, Ind. aug 19-With the final report of
the committee appointed to investigate questions before
the international convention of the United Mine Work
ers be submitted at 80 o'clock today the work
may be completed and the meeting adjourned before to-
night.
Granite City Aug. 19.-Deputy Sheriff Fred Reske
of Granite City last night shot and killed Samuel Nor
gan whom he had arrested by mistake in attempt to
que disturbance the close of picnic at Horseshoe
lake near here.
New York, Aug 19-Mayor Gaynor awoke today
from refreshing nights rest and seemingly improved IN
spirits and strength He will leave the hospital in Ho-
boken within days, practically cured OF his at
tending physicians said.
Chicago, Aug 19-Representative James I Lloyd of
chairman of the democratic congressional COM
mttee upon opening western headquarters OF that body
in suite 1914 the Congress hotel said he was opening
campaign tha will make the house OF the slxysecond
congress democratic
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19

WHY ARE 7Ou NOT 4 TIMES
READER7
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-08-19

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

was done in his cramped hand and with
many interlineations. Copy this out
fair for me tonight. Nicholas" said he.
This is our answer to the Aberdeen
note. You have already learned its
tenor the time we met Mr.. Pakenham
with Mr. Tyler at the White House"
l grinned. Shall We not take it
across direct to Mr.. Blair for publica-
ton i'm his Globe?"
Mr.. Calhoun smiled rather bitterly at
this jest The hostility of Blair to the
Tyler administration was a fact rather
more than well known.
Twill all get into Mr.. Polk's news
paper fast enough" commented he at
last He gets all the news of the
Mexican ministry"
"Ah, you think he cultivatcs the
Dona Lucrczia, rather than adoreS
her.'
Il know it. One-third of Jim Polk
may be human, but the other two
thirds is politician. He will tiatter that
lady into condolences. She is well nigh
distracted at best, these days, what
with the fickleness of her husband and
the vet harder abandonment by her old
admirer. Pakenham: so Polk will ca
jole her into disclosures, never fear.
In return, when the time comes, he Will
send an army of occupation into her
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
CHAPTER XIX.
The Lady From Mexico.
AS soon as women are ours, we are
no longer theirs.-Montaigne.

AS soon as women are ours, we arc
no longer theirs.-Montaiene.
After a time my chief reentercd the
office room and bent over me at my
table | put before him the draft of
the document which he had given me
for clerical care.
So" he said, It's rcady-our decla-
ration. | wonder what may come of
that little paper"
So now, till far towards dawn of the
next day. we sat and talked | put be-
fore him full details of my doings
across the border. He sat silent, his
eye betimes wandering, as though abb
Sorbed, again fixed on me, keen and
glittering.
"So So" he muScd at length, when
| had finished, England has started
land party for Oregon, Can they get
across next fall, think you?"
Hardly possible. sir" said l. They
could not go so swiftly as the special
fur packets Winter would eaten them
this side of the Rockies. 1t will be
year Dtl'l' tiltH Ndii I''''i 'i'6''''
Time for new president and Il new
policy" unused he.
The grass is just beginning to sprout
on the plains, Mr.. Calhoun" | began
eagerly.
Yes" he nodded. God! if I We're
only young"
Il am young, Mr.. Calhoun" said l.
Send mel"
Would YOU so?" he asked suddenly.
Il was going in any case"
"Why. how do you mean" he de-
mandcd
felt the blood come to my face
''Tfs all over between Miss Elisabeth
Churchill and myself" said |. rs calm
ly as | might.
"Tut, tut, child'S quarrel" ne went
ON. "a child's quarrel, Twill al mend
in time
Not by act Of mine. then" said !
hotly
Again abstractcd, he seemed not
wholly t. hear me.
Il will tell you. Nicholas" said h" at
last. wheeling swiftly upon me. start
next week, An army of settlers waits
now for leader along tn" Missouri.
Organize them. lead them out. Give
them enthusiasm, Tell them what ore
gun is, You may serve alik" our party
and our nation. YOu can not measure
the consequences Of prompt action
sometimes. done by Il man who is re-
solved upon the right. y thousand
things may hinge on this. \ great flu
turc may hing" upon it.
"Whil" YOU have been busy, | hav"
not been idle" he continued Il haV"
here another little paper whicn | hav"
roughly Drafted" H." handed IN" TN"
ducumcnt as he spoke.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
Miseellaneous 8eadins.
LABOR IN SOUTHERN MILLS.
The New York Sun Finds Conditions
Here Highly Praisworthy.

Some time ago, perhaps three
weeks, we took occasion to say that
the women and children taken from
the smaller southern farms and en-
plOyed in the cotton mills were vastly
benefited by the transplantation; i'm
proved physically and morally, trans
formed from forlorn and anaemic
conditions into conditions Of health
and activity and vigor, and elevated
to higher planes Of enlightened well
being or course, we did not refer
to the exceptional mills where search
ers after hardship and neglect can
find almost any deplorable circum-
stance they happen to be looking for.
We had in view the normal mill town,
representing six-tenths, II not more,
Of the now progressive industry.
There are mills all over North and
South Carolina where so-called Child
labor" has been most beneficent
where the mill owners build schools
and churches and for the most
part pay the salaries Of the teachers
and the ministers. where they estab-
lish club houses and libraries and
kindergartens for the training and
development of the youth within their
influence, and where the objects Of
these ministrations emerge from the
pallid and unwholesome products OF
the isolated farms into rosy, happy
and perfectly natural children.
Some have established bands and mill
tary companies, Fairgrounds, nails
for light theatrical entertainments,
and behind it all are the sanitary
homes, the cooking schools, the sys-
tenn of picnics and other social re-
unions which illumine life and bring
health and knowledge and light spirits
to the individual.
1t Is very easy for muck-rakers, and
indeed for honest misguided reform
ers inspired by hired agents, to find
here and there a mill where inferior
conditions do actually prevail. They
can photograph mills brilliantly
lighted up to prove that they run all
night, and show little hands that have
lost a finger to prove that the relent-
less myrmidons Of Mammon are
grinding innocent children into the
dust; but the testimony from an over
whelming majority Of the southern
mills is to the contrary, and from most
Of the manufacturing towns and viii
lagos Of the south we hear very diff
ferent story. From Pelzer, S. c., and
from Greenville, in the same state,
from Charlotte, n. c., from Alabama
City, from far and wide, with the
testimony of the Young Women's
Christian association and other or
ganized workers for uplift to sustain
and illustrate the burden Of the proof
we have a tale Of rescue and exalta-
ton that ought to fill every doubling
heart.
We can hardly imagine that any
sincere worker for the toiling classes
would wish, or unless grossly .misin-
formed, attempt to destroy or even
minimize this perfectly complete and
easily accessible evidence; and In that
light of the matter we respectfully
dodge the esteemed Survey and other
ignorant northern oracles and fall
back upon more or less useful testi-
mony.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
SO-CAlLED PEONAGE.
The Alleged Offense For Which Joshua
w. Ashley Was Tried.

w. Ashley Was Tried.
Commenting on the trial and acquit-
tai of Joshua w. Ashley on the charge
of peOnage, the Anderson Mail says
that while everybody knows that he is
guilty it is equally well known that he
is not any more guilty than scores or
perhaps hundreds of other men" Since
jury has declared Mr.. Ashley not
guilty. and the evidence against him
was at best uncOnvincing, we are not
prepared to admit that he was guilty Of
the crime of which he was accused. but
there does not seem to be any doubt
that he had paid the fines of negroes
and allowed-if not compelled-them
to work out the money, and further. it
is quite true that hundreds of others
in this state do the same thing.
As the Mail says, usually here in the
south peOnage comes about in this
way:
"A negro commits an OffenSe against
the law. and is convicted in the courts
and given a sentence on the chaingang
with the alternative of paying a fine.
A white man needs farm hand. and
goes tn the negro and offers to pay the
fine if the negro will work for him for
a given length of time. Or it may hap
pen. and often does, that the negro
will send for the white man and make
the proposition himself. The trade is
made and the negro starts to work. He
is usually an illiterate negro and a
poor hand at remembering dates and
figures. He gets dissatisfied before the
eXpiratiOn of the contract and wants
to leave. Then, too, he has to have
clothes, etc, and he incurs one expense
after another while working out the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
"R. r. D."
Three Billion Letters a Year Now Bear
Those Initials.

nose
The rural free delivery service OF
the United States means the distri-
button of nearly 3,000,000,OOO letters
and parcels annually along the high
ways and byways Of every state and
territory from Maine to Alaska. A
force of 41,O0O carriers daily go over
the routes assigned to them.
Bringing the mail to the farmer
now costs the nation $36,OOO,OOO
year in salaries for the carriers, ex-
pense of examining new routes, main
tanning post offices, payments or IN
spectors, special agents, clerks and
chiefs of bureaus.
To secure information to make
changes in routes and carriers where
deemed necessary, to establish new
routes and to record and tabulate sta
tistics and data for the postmaster
general as well as for the public
force Of only 110 persons Is required
in Washington in spite Of the great
amount Of office work and cores
pondence that must be finished daily.
Over q million letters are received
and answered by the department Oh
rural free delivery in year. Many
of those received are merely address,
ed to the DEF artment. To save time
of opening and reading missives not
properly directed Is a part OF the
work of the mailing section. 1t in
cludes a private post office through
which every letter received or sent
relative to rural delivery must pass.
Every one of the half million and
more letters sent from this depart
ment is copied for record by me-
chanical system which saves the Ia
Dor of a hundred copying clerks even
where the hand copying press or the
carbon method has been employed.
A force Of only seventeen clerks Is
needed in this section, says the
Rookkeeper, yet in addition to hand
ling and copying mail they Keep a
daily record of all the outlay For post
age expenses of the department and
sort ana eXdHlllle liio huhoiSo' -
letters daily received which must he
returned to the post office where they
should have been directed.
What the service does in receiv-
ing applications for new routes, pc
titions for carriers, decisions Of the
department, the payments and re-
ceipts, is told by the post office news
paper. Published every day by the
accounting section, it is record OF
what every one in this postal count
ing house, including the assistant
postmaster general himself, Is doing.
Every important item of statistics Is
tabulated in type.
The esprit de corps Of the rural
free delivery is best shown by the
last annual report. During the year
it states that out of the 4l,OOO In the
service the total dismissals for cause
were only 165, less than the total
number Of deaths.
The reasons for the dismissals
were principally Incompetence and
failure to obey instructions. No dis
missals or other dishonesty were on
the records Considering the differ
ent kinds Of men required, this is in
deed remarkable testimony to their
faithfulness and speaks well for the
organization.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

contract. Negroes of this class are no.
toriously imprOvident. and not infre-
quently the longer a negro of this class
works for his employer the deper he
gets into debt. The white man is usu-
ally very careful in keeping accounts.
The negro finally gets disheartened and
decides to leave. The white man does
not want to lose money on him. and
when the negro leaves the trouble be-
gins.
In trying to make the negro stay on
and work out his debt the white man
commits the crime Of peonage. as 1t Is
defined in the Federal laws. 1t is true
that the negro should carry out his
contract, and there is of course no
sympathy for him when he breaks It,.
but the effort to make him carry out
his contract leads to abuses of many
kinds. The whole practice Is wrong,
and the sooner 1t Is completely broken
up the better 1t will be, not only for
the negroes but for the white people
themselves. In fact, the crime Of peon-
age Is more an offense against the
white people as a whole than it is
against the negroes, for 1t is to be ad-
mtted that in most cases the negroes
involved do not get any more than they
deserve"
This practice was at one time very
common in Anderson county. 1t will
be recalled that seven or eight years
ago the abuse of this practice was
taken up by the state courts and sew
eral Of the most influential and wealthy
farmers of that county were tried in
the circuit court on a similar charge,
involving this practice. The result was
that for a while thereafter little or
nothing was heard of the plan. but II
appears to have come into use
again. 1t is practiced in Richland
county, we are sure: negroes have been
paid out Of the Richland Jail within the
last two years and gone to work for
the white men who paid them out
Perhaps the negroes are better off
when so employed and perhaps with
the constant. threat Of the chainsang
hanging over them they work more
steadily and keep out Of other trouble.
But the practice is just one Of those
things that is bound to be abused SOON
er or later, and therefore should not be
tolerated at all.
There has been a lot of hysteria eX
uded about peonage: about the oppres-
sion of the negro under this practice.
and it has not done the state any good
or helped the negro race or improved
labor conditions. AS the Anderson
Mail says, the chief harm done Is to
the white man, in his employment Of
labor that in the long run Is costly and
inefficient and is degrading his sense Of
commercial responsibility. Tine most
effective remedy Is to convince the
white land owner that the practice Is
harmful to his own interests in every
way-which it is.-Columbia Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

country! And all the while, on the one
side and the other. he will appear to
the public as a moral and lofty minded
man."
IF we temporarily lack the Baroness
Won Ritz to add Zest to our game" l
hazarded, I'VE still have the Dona Lu-
creZia and her little jcalousies."
Calhoun turned quickly upon me with
sharp glance, as though seized by
some sudden thought. by the Lord
Harry, boy. you give me an idea.
Wait, now, for a moment. Do you go
on with your copying there. and excuse
me for time"
An instant later he passed from the
room, his tall figure bent, his hands
clasped behind his back, and mis- face
wrinkled in a frown. as was his wont
when occupied with some problem.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
To be Continued.
Chinaman's Grim Humor.

one of the funniest stories about
Cinnamon is not really Chinese. 1t
WAS told by a British consul at one of
the treaty ports. He arrested nine de-
linquent Chinese, intending To turn
them over to the tender mercieS of
Meanwhile he gave them into the GUS
tody of a Chinese policeman, telling
him to lock them up, though there was
no Jail at the consulate. But the po-
liceman was equal to the emergency.
He solemnly saluted, saying. Il obey"
and marched his men off. Soon he re-
turned and announced that they were
safely Gagged.
The consul was curious to see how
and where. He followed his policeman
to the yard There he saw the nine
prisoners dancing round the consulate
flagstaff, lugubriously chanting the
Chinese equivalent Of Ring
rosy" Whenever the dance showed
signs of tagging the policeman STIR
red them up with long pole. They
seemed ut first sight to be holding each
Others hands. but looking closer. the
consul saw that they We're handcuffed
together.
"Wcll." said the consul, "if they are
chained in a ring around the flagstaff
they can certainly not get away! But
why do you make them Dance
"Ah!" answered the Chinese police
man. with infinite cunning, $50 that
they cannot climb up the pole and get
away"
The consul broke out into 4 loud
British laugh and tried Ia explain to
the Chinaman that the nine prisoners
could certainly not all climb up the
pole at once: but the Chinaman had his
idea and held to it. So the dance went
-Iiarper'S Weekly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

1T might not come to that" said
Polk shifting in his seat. Il was think
ing of it only as a rallying cry for the
campaign. Dash mel beg pardon"
he looked around to see if there were
any Methodists present-"but / believe
1 could go into the convention with
that war cry behind me and sweep the
boards of all opposition"
And afterwards"
But England may back down." ar
gued Mr.. Polk. "a strong showing in
the southwest and northwest might do
wonders for u.s.
But what would be behind that
strong showing, Mr.. POlk?" demanded
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

John Calhoun. We would win the
combat with Mexico, of course, if that
iniquitous measure should take the
form of war But not Oregon-we
might as we'll or better fight in Africa
than Oregon. 1t is not yet time. In
Gods name, Jim Polk, be careful of
what you do, Cease this cry of taking
all of Oregon. You will plunge this
country not into one war, but two.
Wait, Only wait, and we will own all
this continent to the Saskatchewan-or
even farther north"
Well" said the other, have you not
said there is God of Battles"
The Lord God of Hosts, yes."
half screamed old John Calhoun; yes,
the God of Battles for nations. for prin-
ciplcs-but not for parties! For the
principle of democracy, Jim Polk, yes,
yes; but for the Democratic party, or
the Whig party, or for any demagogue
who tries to lead either, no, no."
The florid face of Polk went livid.
Sir" said he. reaching for his nat, ';t
least | have learned what | came to
learn. l know how you will appear on
the floor of the convention. Sir. you
will divide this party hopelcsSly. You
are a traitor to the Democratic party;
| charge it to your face, here and now.
| came to ask of you your support, and
find you only talking of principles. Sir,
tell me, what have principles to do with
elections"
John Calhoun looked at MIN for one
long instant. He looked down then at
his own thin. bloodlpsS hands. his vast
ed limbs. Then he turned slowly and
rested his arms on the table, his face
resting in his hands. My Cod"
heard him grOan.
To see my chief abused was thing
not in my nature to endure. forgot
myself. | committed an act whose re-
suits pursued me for many year.
Mr.. Polk. sir" said |. rising and
facing him. damn YOU. sir YOU are
not fit To unite Mr.. Calh"un's shoe! |
will not see You offer him on" word of
n.,., ,,.;,t ,, e ,.,, rl;n,
,,.;u I,,;,, ~. ,..,.,.. b.,. r,,,. in ,nv
c,.o tbot is sure,"
I-tt.rIv bnrrified at this Mr.. Polk
frn,hIed with his hat and cane. and.
very red i'm the face. bowed himself
out, still mumbling. Mr. Calhoun rising
and bowling his adieuX.
NV chief dropued into his chair
again For moment he looked at me
dir.ctIv Mick" said he at length
sI,vIv "vou have divided the Demo-
cratic marty You split that party. right
then and there"
"Ncver," I protested: but if | did
twas ready enough for the division
Let il split then. or any party lik" it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10

The following letter from Josephus
Daniels editor Of the Raleigh News
and Observer, and member of the ma
tional democratic committee from
North Carolina, is one of the best
things that have appeared in print in
a long time. 1t is copied here from
the National Monthly, Norman f.
Macks paper.