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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30
Up and Down in
IN d. A II A
SEA -cRAp OR INSECT.

mysterious cross between a sea
crab and an insect probably belonging
to the glacial period. was uncovered by
workmen employed in excavating a
Muncie stone quarry The insect or
animal, about the size of a mous..
found petrifed within rock. His head
resembles greatly that of mouse, but
the remainder of the body seems to be
that of an insect of small bird. as there
are wings There are a number of legs.
too, and the body is not unlike that of
crab. Edward Lynch. the laborer,
who discovered the freak creation when
a rock slit open under the pick. pre-
sented 1t to DIR. G. w. III. Kemper. a
Muncie antiquarian.
DEsPoNDENT HANGS HIMSELF.
Joseph Grimes, of Charlottesville, 65
years old. committed suicide yesterday
by hanging himself in the hay loft of
the barn of Mrs. Alonzo Brown OF
Alamo. near Charlottesville. Grimes
had removed all his clothing. and, after
fastening a rope to a rafter and around
his neck, bent his knees until he chok-
ed to death. II elived with his brother.
Clinton Grimes, and when he did not
! appear for breakfast a search was be-
gun. and his body was found by Ellet
Stonebraker Ill health is believed to
have caused the act. He was unmar-
ried. He is survived by three brothers.
Hamilton, Clinton and George Grimes.
all of Alamo.
DEATH REVEALS HE WAS A NEGRO.
In the death of Theophilus l. Giving
ton of Marion a veteran of the civil
war, at Marion National Military Home
yesterday, an Interesting story OF the
mans life was divulged by officers OF
the Institution. Cuvington was a negro,
but to all appearances was white.
Among his comrades at the home none
knew Cuvington was a negro until aft
Ter his death. the man has passed for
i''white" ever since he became mem
Der of the institution, few years ago
| Cuvington did not serve as a member
lof the United States colored troops in
1.-THE civil war. as most negroes did who
fought for the cause of the Union, but
Instead, enlisted a white man, and
lserved as such throughout the war, I'M
suspected by any of his comrades. He
iserved as a member of the Thirteenth
WISCONSIN light artillery. He had also
Iserved as landsman in the Unitet
Estates navy. One son, Joseph Cuving-
Jton, OF Pittsburgh, Pa. survives.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30
The Day in
HIS r Y
ssTHTS DATE IN HISTORY
Sanforr, her IN

1540-Hernando de Alarcon discovered
the Colorado River.
1770-George Whitefield, one of the
founders of Methodism, died at
Newburyport, Mass. Born in Eng
land. Dect. 81. 1T14.
177-Sixth Continental Congress met at
York Pa. with John Hancock as
president.
1791-.College OF Philadelphia became
the University of Pennsylvania.
INSTRUMENTATION stone laid for the
Nelson monument in Trafalgar
Square, London.
1901-Duke and Duchess of Cornwall
and York visited Vancouver. B. g.
1909-President Taft visited the inter-
national exposition at Seattle.
1910-Democrats of New York nominat-
ed John A. Dix for governor.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30
ssTHIS DATE IN HISTORY
0rfoher

i240-Original St Paurs Cathedral in
London dedicated.
l7f6--Gen. John p. G. Muh1enberg, VIII,
left the pulpit to take up arms
against England. born in Trappe,
Pa. Died in Philadelphia, Oct. 1,
1907
iSo0-Treaty of Ildefonso. by which
Spain ceded Louisiana to France.
Is17-Bank of Montreal issued Its first
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30
K A N Do W
THINGS AND FILINGS

THINGS AND FILINGS |
NEITHER was the question settled
as to who killed cock robin?
NOW If it was as easy to train a
hired girl as it is a husband, we'll
ali, etc.
THAT Governor Marshall has
"sea of troubles is certainly putting
it mildly.
ABOUT noon today they applied a
little cracked ice to few heads down
at Crown Point
THE baseball grand stand may have
| it just now, but the pinochle table is
coming into its own
%
F.-BECAUSE We don't think Taft
is doing the right thing is no sign that
We think Lafollette is.
| BRO. A. F. is going pot-hunting
down in Texas when it is all over.
oh very well, Armanis,
| -
| THIS barrel factory that Hammond
is going to have has an ominous sound
and election coming on.
e.
THE Marshall boom may be doing
nicely, but we have not seen it in
any overtime lately in these parts.
MORSE contends that he is in the
wrong prison. Well, put him in an,
other What do the people care?
TAFT had a picture taken in Kan
sas City and remarkable to say Mayor
Archibald Butt wasn't in it.
skA-
WE are pleased to note another sigr
of hard winter Pennsylvania il
J boasting of her apple jack crop.
GIRL swimmer on the Atlantic
DSdSn SdNSQ TWO Eucn lEOlI uTOWnluS
Too bad she can't marry them both
-SA
AYE verify There be parlous day,
a man may go to bed on the roof an,
when he wakes up find himself in tn,
cellar.
| THAT rasping raucous noise tina
you can hear by putting your ear t,
the ground is the on-coming rah-ral
of the football boys.
UNDERSTAND that Sec. Knox j
working on a seal skin treaty To
hot to deal in seal skins now. VIII
not put it off till January?
+ SEE that a noble father was save
t from going to Jail by breaking u
child's bank to pay for the fine Teac
your child to save. 1t is great stuff
t NEW York is to have an aviatio
i. meet as also is ST. Louis. They a
i make fun of Chicago, but we motto
that large number of them are gla
to trail.
J. -
/. NOTICE a picture in a contem]
tentitled Children On the Beach &
Long Branch" The children certainl
have fat legs and look to us to be full
20 years old.
VALPARAISO paper notes wit
much interest that covey of qua
flew into town the other day. Nothin
strange! 1t was noisy in the countr
IL and the frightened birds flew into Va
y pc where it is always quiet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30

souls, is proclaimed as the center of
virtue 1t is the heart of dry terri
tory and there has not been an ar
rest there in five years. Pleased to
meet you DeGraff, how dye do it?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30

VALPARAISO paper notes with
much interest that a covey of quail
flew into town the other day. Nothing
strange! 1t was noisy in the country
and the frightened birds flew into Val
pc where it is always quiet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30

GoBs OF gloom the Post
these pulling puppets jump
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-30
NEITHER was the question settled
as to who killed cock robin?

NOTICE picture in a contemp
entitled Children On the Beach al
Long Branch" The children certainly
have fat legs and look to us to be fully
20 years old.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atehison Globe. J


If your appetite needs an assistant
eat less and walk more
Too many act on the theory that
one must learn to like beer.
A chaperon seldom has control
enough to land in the big league.
When a mystery ceases to be a mys-
terry, it isn't often much of anything.
No man is henpecked if he can con-
vince his wife as easily as an agent
can.
AS long as girl tells her secrets
to her mother they don't amount to
much.
Speaking of the rapid deterioration
of property, there is the boys school
books.
In going Back to Nature. don't go
so far that there won't be a bathtub
available.
A cheap CRATER may not be quite
the cheapest commodity, but he is
marked pretty low.
Some people who get in the public
eye are too small to be painful if they
didn't kick so much.
AS long as the windows admit
enough light to read by, few men can
find time to wash them.
A number of people who are too
stingy to divide anything else, occa-
sionally split an infinitive.
The rumOf also travels TOO Iasr
without being pinched frequently for
violating the speed limits.
We are willing to admit that the
skunk is a useful animal, but does it
need to advertise so much?
After the circus has been to town
every boy is confident he was cut out
for an acrobat or a bareback rider.
This is also the season when the
boy who had his hair clipped in the
spring has to begin combing it again.
Although a number Of dead ones
deal with the mail order houses, they
don't arrange their funerals that way.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
JAYHAWKER .JOTS

AS the Pratt Union says: Living OF
hope has never put flour in the ches
or coal in the bin.
It's been noticed by the Barber Coun
ty Index that when a fellow wants {
| free article printed in the cOuntrl
newspaper, it's your valuable paper.
When something that ruffies the same
fellows feelings, it's your dirty, lying
little sheet"
Old Aunt Betty-everybody's Aunt
| young and was counted a fine hired
girl. She married and raised three
daughters, When old enough. they be-
! gan to work out but none of them could
| hold a Job longer than a week. Fin
| ally her patience exhausted. Aunt Bet
| ty berated them thus: "You are the
| triflin'est, nO-accountest gals I ever
! heard tell of! Why, when I was a gal
I used to work two and three years at
a place-and I'd swear on stack of
Bibles that I've worked at nlore'n a
hundred-and-fifty different placesf'-
Toronto Republican
The other day. says Tom Thompson
in his Howard Courant. met man
hadn't seen in nearly thirty years. He
had grown fat and gray and bald, but
he was Jolly and companionabie as ever
and I told him he hadn't changed II
thirty years. It manifestly pleased
him for he swelled up, threw out his
chest and strutted around a little Il
I'd have told him the truth, that he
wasn't the neat. trim. dandy young
buck I used to know, but in 30 years
had grown fat red faced. gray haired
and short winded, it would have spoiled
our visit There are times when a lie
beats the truth all to thunder
No young lady ever lost Her Hero be-
cause her hands happened to be little
calloused from welding the broom or
stained from dipping them in dish va
ter, writes Bert Walker in his Osborne
Farmer. No girl ever fell down an iota
in the estimation of Her Hero because
she stayed at home all afternoon and
helped mother with the work instead of
coming down town and putting on 4
parade of eight miles. No girl ever lost
Her Hero because she made life more
pleasant for dad and smoothed the
wrinkles from his brow and caused him
to look forward to the evening at home
with pleasure. No girl ever lost Her
Hero because she wasn't an adept at
using all the latest and most popular
slang of the day. No girl ever lost Her
Hero because she was a rafting good
cook. a swell housekeeper and a stem
Hero because of any of those things she
should thank her lucky stars. He was
in disguise. Instead of Her Hero he
was common cheap old tinhorn sport
and she had better be a kitchen queen
for dad and mother all her life than a
broken hearted drudge of a slave for
such a brainless bat a single day. Just
because a girl arrives at gray hairs and
faded cheeks in gleblessedness is no
sign she didn't have "a chance" Mora
likely it is because she kept posted on
market values and refused to sell her
heart and happiness for a mess of pot
tage.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
PEssIMrsM or OF PLACE.

| In his weekly financial review Henry
| CleWs, the New York banker, points
out that the prevailing tone of pes
simism in the business and financial
world is far more acute in Wall street
than in any other part of the country.
How deep and how far this financial
cistemper will go remains to be seen, :"
writes Mr.. Clews. land 1t remains to be
seen whether or not it has not been
cverdone. 1t mist not be overlooked
that there are counteracting influences
at work which in due season, and per-
haps sooner than expected. must modify
the present tone of discoura cement
First among these is the crop outlook.
7 his is distinctly not so bad as at first
feared The wheat crop will not be
large vet it win be sufficient for all
PRACTICAL purposes and will leave mod
crate surplus for export. The corn crop,
the largest single factor in our national
prosperity, will certainly be a satisfac
tory enc. 1t is perfectly UNREASONABLE
to take on Encouragement because we
fail to reach last years bumper crop
Of over 3,125, 900. 900 bushels. Since the
last government report there has beer
decided Improvement in condition,
which, supplemented by the fact that
the government estimates are usually
below the mark, suggests that we shall
have a crop Of a least 2.Soc. 100000, if not
800, 100000 bushels. The latter may be
an outside figure, but the first named
estimate is practically a certainty at
this time Another important crop
| C tton-aIso promises q large yield. not
withstanding persistent reports of great
damage Since the government re-
port was collated rain has fallen
throughout the cotton belt. doing vastly
more good than harm. 50 that the yield
will probably be larger than indicated
by Thursdays report. So far as the
crops are concerned. there is nothing
to warrant present pessimistic coEdi-
tions; on the contrary. we are sure of
good average national harvest.
Another favorable factor is that
relatively easy money will prevail dur
ing the remainder Of the year, although
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05

all the time, and yet he was not the
kind to be amused oevr her situation
Your Uncle Jacob was to meet you
at Red Elm ?'' he finally asked.
Yes. Of course. Who else was to
With the oxen and wagon?"
don't think he has flying ma
likely be there until the O'Clock train,
but you don't want to wait here
nave railroad velocipede and can run
you over to Red Elm. Then you can
walk the three miles. It's a plain
road"
but won't your great trunk line of a
road run away while you are gomez"
He uttered a half laugh and got the
machine out of shed and on the track.
It was a two-seated affair, and as Miss
Bessie stood beside it he said:
It's down grade most of the way
and you'll have to hang on tight"
me-"
Perhaps that velocipede started off at
the rate of a hundred miles an hour
and chased that up to a thousand with
IN a mile. ANY how, the girl was scream
ing within ten minutes and showing
signs OF wanting to jump out. An arm
Went around her and held her fast and
a voice ordered her to keep quiet. and
When she was finally landed in Red
Elm and in the arms of Uncle Jacob,
who intended to wait there a week, if
necessary, she was as limp as a rag.
The oxen had plodded a full mile
through the sand before she said:
He did it for revenge, and I wish l
could get even with him some wayr
You kin, dearie,v replied Uncle
Jacob. Hes Tom Blake. Been to col =
lege-got a rich dad-is learning the
railroad business-bound to be some
pumpkins. 1 invited him to come over
SUNDAY. Git nT1 him frxyf fnIlinf
in love and marryin' him"
Uncle Jake is watching things and
smiling to himself.-(C copyrighted, 1911,
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
CORALs, ON THE ..NfAINE.n

CORALS, ON THE ssNIAINE."
The warrior ship had moored beneath the
waves.
Its tangled depths were crowded thick
with graves:
Each jewelied sword had bent a shattered
knee
Before the rusting sabres of the sea.
True patriots could not let their heroes
Without one glance of pity from the sky;
80 delYed among those caverns of despair,
And all the ghosts of ruin slumb' ring
there.
No cleaning triumph of the builders toll,
but one deTnoniac moment served to spoil;
And hearts long loved and cherished night
Were in a midnight tempest swept away.
t was a lesson to our minds-alas!
That warning: how or when IL comes to
This world must heed the universal touch,
And fall in Ruins ever-waiting clutch.
But lo,-amid that sad and silent place,
Were tiny craftsmen of the coral race!
Those unobtrusive "toilers of the sea-
Those builders of the islands yet to be.
With placid thrift. they piled their wiz
ard-trade.
close-clinging to the fragments War had
made,
As if those had been summoned to their
call:
They knew not that the wrecks were
wrecks at all.
II was a lesson to our heartsi-with joy
We felt that Ruin Is in Gods employ;
And there are builders that we cannot see,
Erecting grander worlds for you and me.
II was lesson to our souls!-above
The gloomy graves of those we loved and
love,
The joys they sought, our martyred lads
may know,
On spirit islands, fashioned long ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05

tFrom the Chicago News.l
Women can make I'D without quar-
reling.
Sooner or later most Of us get what
We deserve.
Some men really look upon public Of
flee as private trust.
A mule seldom kicks without cause.
but man is different.
He who never stole kiss doesn't
know what he has missed.
Some men never reach the ton be-
cause the elevator isn't running.
Anyway. when a girl has red hair It's
safe bet that Ii is natural
Too many officeholders who pretend
to be working for their country are
merely working II.
Being a vice president is almost as
unimportant as being the BRIDEGROOM
at a church wedding.
You may have noticed how different
men are from hogs. The latter nevol.
want to do things that are not good for
them.
Sometimes a girl gets confidential
and tells man that a lot OF other roer
have tried TO kiss her. but he Is tho
only one who succeeded
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
QUAKER AfEDITATIONs.

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record
None are so blind as those who arc
visionary.
Lots of people with sharp features
are really dull.
Some bachelor quarters really look
like 30 cents.
There is no reason why a mans wife
shouldn't be assister to him.
A contract for a filtration plant
doesn't always insure clear con
science.
No. Maude, dear; crumbs of comfort
can scarcely be acquired from eating
crackers in bed
Even the most successful surgeon
might be a failure in operating on the
stock exchange.
It causes the average young girl less
inconvenience to lose her heart than to
lose her appetite
Honesty is the best policy" said the
reformer. Yes. even in buying votes"
added the practical politician.
Marriage is a. tie says the Cynical
Bachelor, but then, so are the rela-
tions between a tin can and a dogs
tail"
Shea woman, you know, is as
young as she looks" He-"Yes. but
unfortunately she isn't always as young
as she thinks she looks"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
HUMOR or TIE DAY

Observation-Disclosures worked for a mo-
toriously stingy boss and lost no chance
to let the fact be known. once "a wag-
gish friend, wishing to twit Pat, remark
ed: pat, 1 hear your boss just gave you
a brand new suit Of clothes. NO, said
Pat, only a par-rt OF a SUIT " nat
part2'' 1.-The sleeves iv the vest!'-New
York Tribune.
True Saying suppose you find
that a baby brightens up the house, said
the bachelor to a friend who was showing
off the first baby. YES. was the semi
sad reply. I'VE burn twice the gas we
used to!'-Coiumbian-
His status-He Creiected)-Then you
regard me merely as "a summer lover, a
convenient escort to excursions and pic
MICS? She-That's about the case, George.
have looked upon you as lover In the
picnickian sense only.-Boston Traveller.
A case in point.-Gibbs-wh an agEra-
waiting habit Jones has OF answering a
question by asking another. Dibbs-Yes.
I've noticed that. Last night asked him
If he'd loan me IS and he replied by ask
ing me IL 1 took him for a darned fool
Exchange.
Needed More Flavor or.-Customer-Looig
here. waiter, is that the stun you've got
the cheek 10 call oxtail soup7 Walter
That's II, sir. Customer-We you'd bet
ter take II out and let the OK dip his tail
in 1t two or three times more.-London
Opinion
A man having fallen into the water was
suddenly given considerable concern by
his past life flashing upon him IN a series
of pictures. BLESS me. must have sunk
for the third timeH he exclaimed. The
gift Of ready conjecture is often OF great
service in an emergency.-Puck-
Expectations.-LodEer (to his landladv
in the country)-I am bound to confess
that after the glowing description you
gave me Of the neighborhood and the
view, I find II rather different from what
I expected. Landlady-Wen. you're DIFF
ferent from what expected. too
Lustige Blaetter
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
Monks as Boy Scouts.

According to the RusskOe Invalid,
the semiofficial organ of the war Of
flee, monks are to be trained as "IsOy
Scouts" so as to replace the Sisters of
Mercy, who generally accompany the
Russian armies to the front. During
the Russo-Japanese war there was a
general complaint that the Sisters CT
Mercy proved far too attractive to the
officers and the medical staff. Indeed,
flirtatiOns and cOurtship took up too
much time in the field hospitals, and
duels were not infrequent. So the min
lister of war, General Sookomlikon Is
strongly in favor of replacing them by
monks from the various monasteries.
And. as the monks are essentially
peaceful, and might fight shy of the
troubles of war unless they are drilled
beforehand, the minister has decided
to form them into "monasterial BAT
talions' and train them betimes to
bear arms if need be. The RusslSoe
invalid believes that the movement
will succeed just as well as the scout
battalions recently formed in the
synodal schools.
General Sookomlikoff has warmly
supported the Boy Scout movement;
his many military officials are decrying
it as dangerous one. They fear that
in a few years the lads who are now
loyal will become revolutionaries as
soon as they go to the universities, and
will use their military knowledge
against the state. They point out tina.
the barricades of Moscow were only de-
stroyed in 1906 because the students
did not know how to use the cannon
which fell into their hands; and that at
the next revolution they will, thanks to
the scouts, know as much about them
as the regular army.-St Petersburg
correspondence New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
swordhsh Whips Whale.

Battle to the death between a calf
right whale, thresher whale, and a
sWord-fish was witnessed by Capt. P.
j. Fraser, of the steamship Bermudian,
of the Quebec Steamship company,
when that vessel was 400 miles from
Sandy Hook. The conflict, according to
Capt. Fraser, took place about a mile
off the port bow, and went to what he
called six rounds.
There were only two or three passen-
gers on deck at the time Capt. Fraser
sighted a disturbance in the water.
With his glasses he could see the three
cornered fight, which ended disastrously
for the larger whale
When / first saw them,' said Capt.
Fraser, the whale was tearing along
at a fast clip in the direction of the
Bermudian. The calf must have been
about so feet long. while the thresher
was less than 20 feet from tip to tip.
The sword-fish was large, about IS feet
long, with a sword of extra large size.
1.-The thresher led the attack by swim
ing up close to the calf, when it spout
ed, and hit it with his heavy tail. Then
the swordfish about 100 yards away,
dived out of sight. In a moment the
whale half leaped out of the water. and
l knew that the smaller antagonist had
struck. For the next few minutes the
fighting was furious. the whale having
only one resource, diving. Six times it
went down, but just as soon as it would
come up to breathe they would go at
it again.
gave one final leap and sank, the vic
tors diving quickly after it,
One of the passengers on board the
Bermudian was Louis L. Mobray, the
curator at the Bermudian aquarium.
who brought up a collection of sea life
sisting of more than 800 specimens
New York Herald
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05

it is quite probable that firmer rates
will be seen as the crop demands be-
gin to assert themselves. Our exports
have been large and have materially
strengthened our credit abroad. Be-
fore long we shall be better able TO
command the gold of Europe. If needed;
and should Canada find it necessary to
borrow more freely for handling her
unusually large crops, we shall be in a
position to afford such assistance with
cut inconvenience TO ourselves The
financial situation in New York can be
regarded as exceptionally sound
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05

self in jail long before the campaign
came to a climax Under the alleged
more liberal conditions which prevail
in Mexico today, General Reyes, who
has the temerity to oppose Madero
for the presidency, is stoned by mobs
whenever he appears in public. Reyes
probably wishes for a return to the
old times and conditions. A presiden-
tiaI candidate in jail runs no risk of
being put out Of business by q we'll
aimed rock