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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.

Now that the presidential cam.
pafgn is about to be started the peo.
people of this community may expect
to have dinned into their ears the
theory that it is the high cost of Hv.
ing that is driving this country to
the demnition bow vows
In this connection the following
item will be of interest:
Boston, July 19.-Accounts have
Just reached this city from Mdrid
of the discovery at Palos, Spain, of
series of old ropal account books
giving details of the outlay made
by Columbus on his expedition TO
the new world. The equipment of
his little fleet cost $4,000 pesetas
and the personal expenses, includ-
ing VICES. OF Columbus and crew
during the eight months VOYAGE.
reached total of $4,000 pesetas.
The grand total spent for the dis
covery ofAmerica. therefore, was
$4,000 pesetas or about 81. Tn
spite of the small amount reouir-
ed. however. Queen Isabella was
forced to pawn her Jewels, II is
related, to provide funds for the
expedition.
According to this A. M. Turner. of
Hammond, John Brown of Crown
Point, Sam Watson of Gary, any one
OF score of Lake county men could
have financed the discovery of
America and without having TO
pawn the crown jewels either.
When the stories of the splendor
OF the old Spanish courts is told II is
rather disappointing to learn that
queen Isabella did not have $500 in
loose change about her.
1t took only $500 to finance the
discovery of America and over s75-
600 to finance the Hammond Conn
try Club Columbus might eastIv
nave arranged with any of the Lake
county bankers for enough of a loan
70 nave provisioned and manned the
Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria for a
trip around the world
The trouble is that the neonla re
this locality do not realize how hisb
their standard of living is. They
10 not stop to think that the bus;-
ness agent of the bod carriers union
rides around in an automobile and
Inat the common laborer get as
much now as the skilled mechanic
lid hundred years ago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
This Weeks News Forecast

washington 70-Na polit both
democratic give indication
.ne hrst Important speeches
uns the week Roosevelt
of
10 the national progressive
OF candidates
the contest for the
long and bitter
sheppard
he court
in
Thursday
court
In the Aneric
81 to
o New York
of Detroit
of
the in
of the week.
der of Good Templars which in Paul
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

ucts. Its olive groves are as pro-
ductive as they are ancient and its
vineyards yield grapes of fine quality
in great abundance. Notwithstand-
Ing the drawback of a sometimes
very deficient and usually scanty
water supply, Syria produces a large
quantity of excellent food.
But 1t is no teasy to think of
Palestine's exports of oranges with
out thinking of the immeasurablv
more important exports of ideas and
Ideals from that little country. BY
comparison with the moral and
spiritual forces which haze gone out
from Syria to enrich the world. all
the products of the soil which can be
shipped from it's ports as long as the
earth shall endure will be of little
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
HOW EDITORS GET RICH.

1t is great business this being a
newspaper publisher. unlimited
chances for accommodating wealth
|are his. For instance.
A fellow out West wants us to
run a lot of advertising Tor him for
nothing and if it brings results he
may become subscriber
A gun firm wants us to run $40
worth of advertising and then send
it $40 in exchange for a shotgun.
Such gun would retail at about Sc.
For running SIT worth of locals we
can get a 81 magazine, telling us
how to do dressmaking at home. BY
running $50 worth of advertising
and sending s25 to an Atlantic City
firm we will be given a deed to a lot.
When the tide is in the lot stands
six feet under water.
real estate firm will give us a
deed to a lot 22x6O feet for $40. We
wrote a fellow who knew of the lots
offered; he replied that they had no
about SIS.
We can have almost any New
York daily paper sent US free. The
subscription rate is only 81, but all
we have to do is to run SAG worth
of locals.
For $40 worth of advertising and
$50 cash we can own a bicycle. The
wheel sells as just s12. About a
dozen firms are anxious to give IFS
snares In gold mines for advertising.
A nursery firm will send us a TWEEN
ty-five cent rosebush for only five
cents worth of advertising. For run
ming a six inch advertisement for
one year we get a gross of pills.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
"THIS Is MY s3RD BIRTHDAY"
Cen Holm H Rrooks

| Major General Jonn r. Brooke, the
former governor of Cuba, was born
in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
July 81, 1898. He enlisted in a Penn
sylvania volunteer regiment at tae be-
ginning of the civil war and was ele-
vted to the rink of brigadier general
before the close of the conflict. When
the army was reorganize1 Gen. Brooke
was commissioned lieutenant colonel
in the regulr service. He was promi-
nent in the war with Spain and after
the war was head of the military COM
mission and governor general of Porto
Rico. Later he served as governor
general of Cuba. Prior to his retire
ment for age in 1902 he was COM
mander of the Department of the East.
Since his retirement Gen. Brooks has
made his home at Rosemon, Pa.
Congratulations to:
Maria Christina. dowager queen of
Spain, 81 yers old today.
Fred NJ Warner. former governor of
Michigan, AZ years old today
DR.. Cheesman A. Herrick, president
of Girard College. As years old today
Chauneey Olcott. the well known
American actor, So years old today
DR.. Edwin Grant Dexter, chancellor
of the University or Porto Rico. "A
years old today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
HARDER TO WIN NEXT OLYMPIC.

In some respects the most import
ant phase of the Olympic games this
year is the evidence furnished of a
great widening of popular interest
in athletic sports. Nations have
plunged heartily into the world COM
petition for honors won by strength,
skill, courage and endurance which,
until very recently, paid little or no
attention to such tests of physical
prowess
This change is going on with in
crossing rapidity, it is progress which
gathers momentum as the years go
by. In 1916, when the athletes of
the world gather in the capital of
Germany, the number of men hard
for champions to beat will be greater
than ever before and more nations
will be well represented than have
yet taken part in any Olympics.
The countries which have led the
world, hitherto, in these fine tourna-
ments are going to have their work
cut out for them next time as they
never have had 1t in the past. Ger
mny, for instance, will certainly be
much harder for the United States
and Great Britain to overcome than
that nation has been in any Olym-
pics yet held. What Sweden and
Finland have done at Stockholm is
sufficient to encourage all countries.
even the smallest, to pit their best
athletes against the Drawn, stamina
and skill of the world.
Well, the more the merrier. The
wider the competition the greater
the glory of victory However vast
the army of athletes may be four
years from now in the splendid
metropolis of Germany, the Ameri-
can team will certainly keep we'll to
the front.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
WHAT MAKES A GOOD MAN.

II man could walk by opportuni-
ties for gain and for pleasure and
turn neither to the right nor the left
until his feet led him to some dis
tant marsh or field where a bird
with broken wing lay waiting for
a gentle hand to lift it into it's king
dom of the air he would indeed be a
good man. Goodness is the vision
which sees where help may be be-
slowed and takes no rest until the
aid is given. This sort of vision in
cludes opportunities for se!f-hep, but
does not specify them above the
chance of doing good to others.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

Were patrolmen when Rosentnai was
a boy and lodging cops" One of his
boyhood friends. according to Rosen-
thai. was big Tim" Sullivan, the well
known democratic politician.
Owing to the indifference of the po-
lice 1t is doubtful if the siayers of
Rosenthal will be apprehended. The
assassins might have been caught at
the time their deed was accomplished
had the police wished to do so. Louis
Libby. chauffeur of the auto in which
the murderers escaped, declares that
he knew nothing of the plans of the
men who did the killing. Libby's at
torneys assert that he will surely be-
released
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
LOTS LIKE HIM.

The Marion Chronicle relates an
incident connected with the talk of
nominating Bryan again for Presi-
dent. Two Irishmen were discussing
him over their dinner pals One of
them said he hoped to be able to vote
for Bryan again this fall His com
panion asked him what he was going
to do that for.
On, well, was the reply, 81 vot-
ed for him sixteen years ago. and
twelve years ago, and eight years
ago, and we've had good times ever
since"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
FRUITS OF SOIL AND SPIRIT.

Palestine is fast becoming one OF
the great orange-growing countries
Of the world. Much fruit of excel
lent quality is being shipped every
year to London and other markets in
Northern Europe, and this year the
crop OF the district near Jaffa, the
port OF Jerusalem, is estimated at
100000 boxes. Farther up the
Syrian coast Tyre and Sidon are ex-
petced to reach total of 400. 900
cases of oranges exported and 20o.-
600 cases of lemons.
For small country Palestine has
many interesting and valuable prod
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
THE DAY IN
CO N Ct z E S S
The senate.

Resumed consideration of sundry
civil appropriation bill
Senator Overman introduced resoiu-
ton for an exhaustive investigation of
expenditures in the forest service by a
special committee.
Chairman Clapp of the campaign
fund investigating committee an /.
nounced Herman Ridder would testify
Saturday
Impeachment case of Judge Robert
w. Archibald was called and Archibald
ordered to answer the charges July
20. the House to present it's -ebuttal
answer Aug and supplene ntaary
answers to be in by Aug 9. when the
case is required to be complete.
The House.
Considered bill to prevent intersta re
shipment of prize fight picture films.
Bill for George Washington memoir
ial on site of old depot where Garfield
was shot favorably reported.
Elections committee voted to declare
Representative Cat1in's election Illegal
and seat Patrick F. Gill, the contest
ant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
WOULDN'T HE THOUGHT

we note that tailor says men
might dress just as coolly as women
If they had the nerve.
Yes but the man with this self.
same nerve and a bunch of WHISPERS
who started out to his office in q
morning wearing a picture hat. 9
Mother Hubbard. a pair of white
shoes and a dab of powder on end 81
MS nose would have to step pretty
lively to keep from falling in the
hands of Chief Austgen's lusty
hobbies and being hauled off to the
dog house
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
..THIS is MY GRID BIRTHDAY
TaIcOff williams

Talcott Williams. director of the
new School of Journalism at Column
bia University endowed by the late
Joseph Pulitzer, was born July 20,
1919, in Abeih. Turkey where his
father was stationed a missionary.
He prepared for college at Phillips
Andover. and was graduted from Am
herst College in 1873. He began his
newspaper career soon after his
graduation from college on the New
York World and continued with that
paper until 1877. when he became the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Sun For two years he was an
editorial writer on the Springfield Re-
publican, and in 1s1 became one OF of
the editors of the Philadelphia Press,
in which position he continued until
his recent appointment as director of
the School of journalism.
Congratulations to:
Rt Rev. Thomas f. Davies, p e
bishop of Western Massachusetts,. 40
years old today.
Rt. Rev. Clarendon L. worrell.
Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia, So
years old today
Duke of Sutherland. owner of a
great domain in western Canada. 81
years old today.
Joseph W. Byrns. congressman from
sixth district of Tennessee. 43 years
old today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
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THE OPTIsIIsT.

There was once a man who smiled,
Because the day was bright,
| Because he slept at night,
Because God gave him sight
To game upon his child;
Because his little one.
Because the distant sun
Smiled on the earth, he smiled.
He smiled because the sky
Was high above his head,
Because the rose was red.
Because the past was dead!
He never wondered why
The Lord had bIuader~d no
That all things have to go
The wrong way here below
The overarching sky.
He tof1cd and still was glad
Because the mir was free.
Because he loved. and she
That claimed his love and he
Ehared all the joys they had!
because the grasses grew
Becausesthe sweet wiads blew.
Because that he could hew
And hammer. he WINS glad.
because he lived he smiled,
And did not look ahead
With bitterness or dread
But nightly sought his bed
As calmly as a child.
And people called him mad
For being always glad
With such things as he Ind,
And shook their heads and smiled.
Exchange.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
III f A r Id
BY
II u b r.

HOBART correspondent writes m
ask whether we use a revolving holder
when we eat off the cob. Inasmuch as
the corn has yet to appear at the ia
Die wed be glad to seat it in the old
fashioned way.
WHY suppers are late in Bat Nell
sons town:
Mrs. Frank Book charmingly enter
tanned the Pedro club Thursday after
noon Mrs. H Box received first prize
and Mrs. A. kuss second. A dainty
luncheon was served at 4:30."-Hese-
wlsch correspondence to THE TINES
c. o. S.-You are mistaken about
tnat snapshot you sent US. 1t isn't an
arctic view and the icy gent in the
distance isn't old Doc Cook. It's
merely view of hizzoner, Tom Knotts
he will support Tom Marshalrs vice
presidency claims.
SEE by the Paris cables that they
now have canes there with swans
heads that carry a pint of schnapps
Hennnery Coidbottie's rheumatism has
been bothering him lately he needs
supporter. so he has sent over to Paree
for one of the new-fangled walking
sticks.
ST LOUIS girls are wearing mems
fancy sox for GOODNESS during the hot
spell. But with all of those sand f1eas
about the Gary girls wouldn't dare to
go In for the new fed.
TEE HEE! The Bull Moose party in
Georgia has got a scrapping and the
two factions held separate conventions.
Look as If we'll have to call the bolt
ers the Bull Con party.
WITH all of that cement dust fiying
about it is hardly probable that the
Indiana Harbor banks will adopt the
finger print system of Identification
The cement and the pressing would
simply ball up the records awfully.
NEWSPAPERS had the italians sink
three Turk warships of the Trfpoli
beaches yesterday. This shows you
that news must be pretty scarce.
COME" she begged. Her ripe lips
came closer and closer to his and their
breaths mingled" - From the July
Pearson's- oh. onions.
Now dear reader the above isn't as
you imagine. Maybe it refers to a
glad meeting between uncle and his q
year-old niece.
CONCERT INSTEAD OR SERMON"
TINES headline. May the good work
continue.
SEEING that old Pop Castleman is
about to incorporate Merrillville you'll
pardon our inquisitiveness If we ven
ture to ask whether Battle Axe or the
pe-pull are to rule.
THAT expansive smile on the facial
continent of old Elb. Gary is no doubt
is due to the fact that before long
he'll be able to give away a few more
Y. NJ. C. AS just as soon as Uncle
Sam dissolves his little trust.
AND can 1t be that ex-Alderman
Castleman is going to be like a trust?
Dissolved only to come back more
than ever.
THE dailies in the big cities will
soon forget the Gary council, for there |
Is no news in business administra-
Tribune.
You forgot that his royal nibs, Col |
Tim Englehart, Is now in the council |
iidnt you brother? AS long as Tim is |
so long will there be telegraph dis |
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

and collectors of dirty money
But he never hesitated to have deal
ings with them. to pay the price de-
manded or to do their bidding when
ne thought he was getting an even
break with the rest OF his ifk. He
said he had not hesitated to take Po-
lice Lieutenant Becker into partner
snip with him, as he alleged in an
aIndavit. because he believed that as
an individual Becker was ION the
square,
He never forgot names and faces.
That was part of his business when
ne became a gambler He knew DO
Hcemen, hundreds of them and the
higher officers of the department who
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

New York. July 20.-The tragic
death of Herman ResenthaI. the New
York gambler. shot to death because
knew concerning the sinister relation
between the gamblers and police of
this city, rang down the curtain on a
life like that of a character in a melo-
drama The police were his enemies
almost from birth. and while he was
constantly in touch with them and
claimed to have turned over thousands
OF dollars in protection money" he
cherished a deep hatred for the whole
tribe. He looked upon them merely
as the tools of politicians, oppressors
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

tional poet, died. Born Jan. 20.
1853.
1861-Confederates victorious at the
battle of Bull Run.
1sS3-Martfn Mflmore, noted sculptor
died in Roxbury. Mass. Born in
Ireland. Sept. H. 1874.
1S91-Statue of General ''StonewalI'
Jackson unveiled at Lexington
Va.
1S92-William r. Harrity of PennsyI-
vania elected chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
1911-Unfted States senate passed the
Canadian reciprocity bill.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
The Day in
HIS r Y
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY.

July 20.
1661-Pierre Lemoine d'Tberville faith
er of the colony of Louisiana, borr
in Montreal. Died in Havana
July 9, 1906.
17S7-James Whitaker, the frs,
Shaker preacher. died in Enfield
Conn.
1s34-Rev. Guy / Chabrat consecrated
bishop coadjutor of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Bardstown. KY
lS11-British Columbia entered the
Canadian federation
1SS0-Gen. Manuel Gonzales elected
president of Mexico.
1S97-Jean Ingelow, noted English
poetess. died. Born in 1920.
19o3-Pope Leo XIII. died. Born
March 2, 1910.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
SURVIVES THREE STORY LEAP.

Ollie Skinner of Newcastle leaped
from a third story window yesterday
afternoon at his home in and escaped
without injury while an officer, who
had accompanied him there to secure
cash bond, stood close by. Skinner had
been arrested for keeping a gaming
house, and. having on a previous ap-
pearance for the same offense been
promised a jail sentence by the mayor.
took desperate chance to escape.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

THE name of the chairman of the
bull moose party chairman in the
Tenth district is Coffin. Now, all to-
gether-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

JACK Johnson thinks there are
four colored fighters who are better
than any of the white hopes" Well.
some white men would not care if
there were four hundred.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

The greatest joke of the year in
hammond is the bursting of garden
nose caused by the new pressure
at the pumping station. 1t makes
Homewood people giggle.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

HIGH school student has patented
a machine to cut peaches. but tba
dispatches do not say whether they
are the sixteen year old peaches. We
trow not however.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

TOMORROW is fatefully awaited
by the entire population of t,other
end of the Gary & Southern. A
double-barreled wallop at Hammond
would cause the ringing of the fire.
bell at Crown Point.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

II is much more of a cinch that
you Will get over grade crossing
with both legs and arms if Won wait
till the train gets over the street in
stead OF Tipping" the cars.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

LADY advertises for "a rathe~
small COW, nice looking and young >
Must be a mistake. Probably wants
a bull moose.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

THIS year promises to be noted in
politics for the number of candidates
lighting hopeless battles as if thew
thought they could win.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

As has been so aptiy said: ct is
the cost of high living nd not the
high cost of living tht hits the
pocketbook.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

ALL the world loves a lover I'M
til he tries to borrow a little money
Then the world just hates him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

BLOWING in the band is great
for the lungs" says a tuba PLAYER
Yes blowing anywhere is not so bad.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

SOMETHING is going to happen
surely Lillian Russell has stayed
married nearly three weeks.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
MASONIC CALENDAR.

Hammond Chapter. No. lit. meets
second and forth Wednesday of each
month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

BY the way what's become of our
old friend the East Side Improve
-aent Association?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

Hammond Commandery, No. Al, Reg
{ ular meeting first and third Monday of
each month
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

A quick way to bake sweet potatoes
is to put them in hot water for fifteen
minutes before placing them in tho
oven.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20

You will say that Lavender cigar
cannot be beat, If you try one
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-20
~THIs DATE IN HISTORY.

l7ss-Robert Burns. seotlands ma
Imperial Valley press., 1912-08-13
GERMANS TO CORNER COTTON

SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 13.-An'
nouncement has been made by George
Dole Wadley, president of the South
ern States Cotton corporation, that
following an all day conference of di.
rectors from Texas, Mississippi
Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia, he
will leave for Germany Wednesday
to close a deal looking to the financing
of the entire cotton crop of the south,
up to $3OO.OOO,O ,OO0
A special representative of big
German firm of cotton factories and
bankers has investigated thoroughly,
by special emissary. the condition of
the crop in this country, and as re-
suit of his report Wadley has been
requested to come to Germany at once.
The conference was Immediately
called to determine the stand to be
taken when he gets there
The directors of the corporation
further announce that when their pro-
iect is financed - cent cotton will be
guaranteed. The corporation proposes
to take the entire crop direct from
the planter to the spinner.