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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01
PRESIDENT TAFT is
PLEASED WITH TRIP

Special 6y United Press Wire.
On board the Presidents train, en-
route from Akron to Washington at
Pittsburgh, Feb. 1-Tired and worn
with three days, of campaigning in
Ohio, but expressing confidence that
the ghosts and clouds on politics
In his native state are passing away"
President Taft travelled homeward
today.
VI have been much gratffled by
the cordiaiity of the reception" he
said today. The visit seems to
have aroused a strong Republican
sentiment and to have dispeiled err
roneous impressions that had gone
abroad
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01
A. F. OF [. LEADERS
IN THE INVESTIGATION

Special b. Uaised Press Wire.
indianapolis, FEB. With Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, and Henry FL.
FIather. cashier Of the Riggs Nation
al Bank In Washington, where the
funds of the federation are kept on
deposit, as the chief witnesses, the
federal grand jury today began It's
inquiry Into Ghe relation between
the federation end the MeNsnsera
defense.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01
W. j. LANSLEY
is APPOINTED
Consulting Engineer at hud-
son, N. Y. on Lighting.

William J. Lansley. OF Rector street,
has been appointed consulting engineer
for the city of Hudson, New York, to
install a system Of lighting. The new
system win cost the city about $4,000
and Nj. LansIey has prepared plans for
the work. He has decided to change
the system from arc Light to q deeoras
tive tungsten system.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01

greGEU9 % U3fFtd4 FTes9 Fea
Boston, Feb. 1.-Fire which did
$40, 900 damages destToyedStwo old
buildings In the hsArt OF the down
town congested district today and
Tor 4 time thrsatenea the business
secfson of Boston.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01
Fire Destroys Old Convent.

specldl by United Press Wire.
Binghampton, N. r., Feb. Fire
today destroyed St. Joseph's con-
vent, one of the Oldest in the United
States. Twenty-Five sisters were
carried down ladders by firemen.
Several pupils were overcome by
smoke but were rescued. The loss
liz S1nn ono
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01
PEDDLER HELD
UP And ROBBED



According to a report made 10 the
police. Frank Pfair, a peddfer dealing
in CLAIMS and other foods, who lives in
Oak street, was held up and robbed on
8 lonely road in Iseiin near Metuchen
the early part Of this week. Pfair
claims that his horse was stopped and
tso men held him up, taking sixty-hve
cents, all the cash they could And in
his clothes. They overlooked a wad OF
paper money which Pfair claims he had
hidden in a part Of his clothes whore
the robbers failed to search. An effort
is being made to apprehend the hold
up men.
Endeayor Society to Meet.
The regular monthly business
meeting OF the Presbyterian Chris
tfan Endeavor Society will be held
In the chapel this evening.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01

Baden-Powel1 Welcomed IN Boston.
Special bu United Press Wfre-
Boston, Feb. las the breakfast
guest of the Boston City Club, Ldeu-
tenant General Sir Robert Baden
Powell. founder OF the Boy Scout
Movement, was given his first formal
welcome in Boston today.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01

The EVENING NEWS nas S
largest circulation g cpa1A%
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-01

/ died. Please give John a good
funeral for my sake.
WILLIAM BELCHER.
Ear Eau n aGarr1nna and Idhn a u.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
DO THEY MEAN ANYTHING I?

Yesterday a lot of people made a
lot of things that will be broken very
shortly. Most resolutions made on a
New Years day are soon forgotten.
They break while January is vet in the
flush of youth In fact, all New Years
resolutions are artificial. A resolI-
tion to be of effect must be of the now
|or never kind. For instance. the gen
tleman who in the middle of Decem-
with lager and book draft and Battle
Axe and Cremos and Duke of Yorks on
a certain date-New Years days in
variably back in the same company by
the middle of January
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
BY DOROTHY DIX.

Nine-tenths of all the crime and
sin and misery of the world can be
laid right at the door of the wrong
doer's parents, and. for myself, | con-
TESS that when | hear about the pa
'thetic old father or the heart-broken
old mother of the murderer or the
thief, of the girl, who has gone
astray, | haven't got many tears to
shed. | feel like saying to the par
,ents: You are the real sinner. It's
your fault that this crimiAal stands
before the bar of justice. II you had
done your duty this man or woman
would be living a good, useul life, a
blessing instead of a curse to human
Iity."
This sounds hard, but every word
of it is true, for, except in the case of
the insane, congenitive idiots, there is
not crime committed in which the
parents are not the aiders and abet-
tors of it, there is not crime commit
ed that they could not have prevented
had they done their duty their chill
dren
When you let your little boy fly in
TO blind RACES, in which he beats the
furniture and bites and kicks every
| body about him, you are raising up 4
potential murderer. When you let
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
HOW TO BEGIN DAYS WORK.

The preachers say with prayer
out of bed.
The physical culturists say with cal
|isthenics and plenty of twe-cylinder
lung exercise.
The baby begins it with yen and
vigorous use of hands and feet.
The hot sports recommend some
body's pure rye.
The boss says with a crowbar and
a jimmy and a club.
The general meaning in each is the
same. The thing that's wanted is
something that will invigorate inspire
and enthuse. The largest percentage
of failures in all kinds of work take
lplace at in the morning.
The old-fashioned habit of sweeping
out in the morning had great virtue
in showing the keen-eyed clerk what
was wrong about the place and giving
him time to evolve a days program.
| To plan exactly what ought to be
done during the day is the first def
mite step toward getting something
accomplished; and pencil and pad
used promptly at s ante-merdian is a
better safeguard against the sheriff
than Spring army rifle.
| The best way to bag flock of ducks
is to aim specifically at one of them
every time.
| The man with a daily program is in
a position to aim definitely at one
| thing; and with a list before him ii
is two to one that he will aim at the
most important thing first.
/ Il forgot" is the motto slogan and
war cry of failures and men without
programs; but the man who writes
things down does not waste his fore
Moons or scatter dragons teeth while
he ought to be mending fences.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
AN EDISoNIAN EXPERIMENT

The newspapers of few days ago
carried the news that some of the
concrete houses which the American
Sheet & Tin Plate company is build
ing for it's Gary employees have been
completed
This intelligence carries with it
more than ordinary significance
These houses were built on ideas SIM
liar to those of Edison's. He pre-
dicted that the day is near at hand
when poured concrete homes would
be built for workers at cost less than
a thousand dollars. Edison stated
that special steel forms would permit
of their erection in a day
The Gary houses are essentially of
the Edison type but they weren't built
in a day. This is the first time that
three hundred concrete homes were
built in one batch and there was a lot
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
THE PRINTING PRESS.

| am the printing press, born of
mother earth. My heart is of steel. my
limbs are of iron, and my fingers are
of brass
/ sing the songs of the world, the
oratorios of history, the symphonies
of all time. i am the voice of today,
the herald of tomorrow. | weave into
the warp of the past the wool of the
future. l tell the stories of peace and
war alike.
| make the human heart beat with
passion or tenderness. | stir the
pulse of nations and make brave men
do Drawer deeds and soldiers die
| inspire the midnight toiler weary
|of his loom. to lift his head again and
gaze with fearlessness into the vast
beyond, seeking the consolation of a
hope eternal.
When | speak myriad people lister
to my voice. The Ango- Saxon, the
CeIt, the Hun, the Slav, the Hindu, all
comprehend me.
l am the tireless clarion of the news
| cry your joys and sorrows ever,
hour | fill the billiards mind Will
thoughts uplifting. l am light, knowl
edge and power. | epitomize the con
quests of mind over matter, | am tn,
record of all things man kind hal
achieved. Ny offspring comes to yol
in the candles glow amid the din
lamps OF poverty, the splendor o
riches: at sunrise, at high noon an,
| in the waning evening.
| / am the laughter and tears of al
the world, and | shall never die unit
dust.
| am the printing press.
! Anonymous
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS

your little boy have another piece of
pie because he cries for it, although
you know that it will make him sick,
you have stated him on the way to be-
ing drunkard and indulging his ap-
petite at any cost. When you let your
little boy give up every hard task be-
cause it's hard, and because he wants
to play instead of work, you foredoom
him right then and there to being one
of the failures in life.
Given normal child and it's flu
ture lies in the parents hands. The
boy that is taught obedience and self
control, respect for authority and re-
gard for the rights of others never
grows up to be a drunken hoodium.
The boy that is brought up in the
knowledge of the dignity of labor, and
who is held responsible for the per-
formance of certain duties, and who
is taught that there is no shame
greater than that of man not being
able to stand on his own feet. does not
degenerate into an idler and loafer
The girl who is taught modesty of be-
havior. and has high ideas of sweet
ness and purity held unwaveringly
wrong She has that in her own
heart that beats all the chaperons in
the world
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02

mond ceased to exist In its place
there grew up the Hammond Business
Mems association which was organized
for the purpose of warning on the de-
partment stores: institutions which
are now regarded as one of the great
est assets of the city.
No organization conceived for such
narrow purposes could long exist and
the result is that the Hammond Bust
ness Mems association has all but end
ed It's career
Now the City of Hammond faces a
new era. An era of city building. an
era of expansion, an era when public
improvements must be substantially
built with the idea of their suitability
for city of 100000 inhabitants.
These changed conditions demand
the organization Of commercial club
that will be composed of the live wires
of the city-the men who think big
thoughts and do big things.
The city demands that its civic af-
fairs be guided by men who are big
enough to anticipate the growth of
the city and lay its foundations to suit
it's future needs.
Such an organization would be sup
ported by the best men of the com
munity and would be given the credit,
in later years for doing things that
will epoch making in their significance
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
nLIvE WIRE CLUB" WANTED.

A new commercial club is an abso-
lutte necessity in Hammond. The city
has grown to its present size mainly
through the activities of few public
spirited real estate men who faced
the crisis in the city's history and
made it what it is.
Hammond once had a real CONNER
ciaI club. That was away back in the
ninetiess when the G. II. Hammond
company was absorbed by the beef
trust and left the city to locate in the
stock yards district in Chicago.
1t was at once seen that if Hammond
was to continue to grow that ether in
dustries would have to be secured to
take the place of the old packing
plant.
William H. Gostlin Fred Mott and
a score of others were equal to the &C
casion and real commercial club was
formed which in one summer located
a doben large industries in Hammond
The Simplex Railway Appliance com
pany, the W. B. Conkey company, and
the F. S. Betz company were among
these.
In the neighborhood of 100000 in
bonuses were paid out to the owners
Of these industries in consideration oil
their coming. The city was placed or
a solid industrial foundation and its
dependency on one industry was for
ever ended.
Then after having accomplished this
purpose the Commercial Club of Ham
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
DoFF THE GLooMs.

Whiting starts the ball rolling for
the new year in the Calumet region
with splendid new factory to employ
500 people.
Now who will be the next?
The cities of the Calumet region
can stand lot more factories and
there is aslot more coming.
In the meantime the pessimist and
the barnacle should go hide their
heads. The croakers could take stry-
chinine and no one would utter pro-
test
Nineteen hundred and twelve is go
ing to be the grandest year in the his
tory of Lake county
Get aboard the prosperity wagon.
Doff the glooms.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02

MFRS. PHILANDEz c. KNOX.
IVA wife of the secretary of state,
probably cares less for the social side
of life in Washington than any other
woman whose husbands Official po-
sition entities her TO SO high a sta
ton.
Both Mrs. Knox and her f1usba nd
have a pronounced dislike for social
functions. They love the quiet OF
their own home and spend as much
time as they can on whst they call
their farm at Valley Forge. Both
love this place dearly ard take ar
active interest in the farm and its
stock. Mrs Knox Is especially fond
of the dairy. over which she exercises
a kind Of general supervision
She is a lover Of horses. and few
years ago was the owner OF TWEEN
t. thousand dollar pair of road trot
tiers which held the pole trotting rec
ord. They we're purchased for he
by her husband. but proved too spir
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
The Evening Chit Chat
Ry RUTH CAMERON

conversation would have said il they
could have heard the second. i have
quoted the two at such length. be-
cause 1t seems to me that they ex-
pose with singular clearness one OF
the most common of all the misjudg-
ments of our fellow creatures of which
we are guiity--nameIy. the misinter-
probation of diffidence and shyness and
Inconsistencies as snobbishness and
disagreeable pride.
Now. think almost everyone has
diffident moods-Inoods when he sud-
denly finds himself out of tune with
the universe and unable to enter into
natural converse with those he ordin-
arily treasures and enjoys.
Surely you have had this experience
You wanted to get back to your natural
self and yet you were helpless. There
you were rnarooned on a cold little ISL
/ and OF self, ignorant how you came on
or even of signaling your unhappy
state to the mainland.
BY and by the overtired condition.
the pre-occupation or the anxiety that
cast YOU on that island. was relieved
and you found yourself once more on
the pleasant mainland of happy. human
| intercourse
Surely, then, you paused and thought
moment of the unfortune people with
whom the condition of shyness. diff
dence and lack OF harmony with the
universe the rule and anything
| else the exception.
| If you didn't you will next time
| won't you?
/ And thus turn your painful expert
ence to good. by letting it teach You
not to misinterpret shvness and diff
fdence as arrogance or unamiability.
4
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portant contracts with the city. Luther
is brother OF j. N Luther, county
commissioner.
BANDITS KILL TO ROB.
Two young bandits entered the store
of Wade Robinson. at Landessville.
eight miles northeast of Marion at
o'clock in the evening, fired on Rob-
inson. fatally wounding him. and then
ransacked the store. They obtained
$40 from James Yarger, a customer who
was in the store. The bandits fled. go
ing west from Landessville. and were
last seen in Hanfield. one miles west of
Robinson's store. Robinson died at
noon. He was taken to his home i'm
mediately after the shooting. but one
of the bullets had penetrated his lungs
and physicians were unable to save his
Il life Though guards were stationed at
all roads for miles surrounding the
scene of the holdup and robbery. the
men had not been taken. B1oodhounds
| from Kokomo were put on their trail.
| CAN'T FIND SWEETEST GIRL.
| Postmaster Charles Sihler of Evans
willie is puzzled. package addressed
to "The Sweetest Girl in the World,
with no other name or no address was
dropped into the postofice. The pack
age is still in the hands of Postmaster
Sihler. He says there are so many
sweet girls in Evansville that he can
not make a decision as to the rightful
owner.
/ ANDERSON Is SHAKEN.
The people of the north side of And
erson were startled by a heavy report
at 1910 O'Clock In the morning
Huses were shaken and windows and
glassware were broken. Inquiry among
the factories failed TO reveal the cause
of the report
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
SMALL BEGINNINGS.

traveller thru dusty road streNea
scorns the lea.
And ono took root and sprouted UP, and
grew into n tree.
Love sought it's shade, mt evening time.
to breathe its early vows;
And age was pleased, in heats OF noon,
to bask beneath its boughs;
The dormcuse loved it's dangling twiss.
the birds sweet music bore;
1t stood n glory in its place, blessing
evermore.
A little spring had lost Its way amid
the grass and fern.
\ passing stranger scooped well.
where weary men might turn;
He walled 1t In and hung with care "a
ladic at the brink,
He thought mot or the deed he did. but
judged that toll might drink,
He passed again, and 10. the well, by
summers never dried.
Had cooled ten Thousand parchfne
tongues and saved n life beside.
A dreamer dropped a random thought;
twas old and yet twas new;
A simple fancy of the brain, hut strong
In being true.
VI ssone upon a genial mind. and 10: Its
light became
A lamp of life, beacon ray, monitory
hnnie.
The thought was small; Its Issue great;
watch-f1re on the hill,
II sheds Its radiance far adown, and
ehecrr the valley still
narseIess man. amid crowd that
throDeed the Oily mart,
Let fall q word Of Hope and Love, un-
studied, from the heart;
whisper the fumuIt thrown--a
fransitory breath
IT raised n brother from the dust; II
saved n soul from death.
o germ. fount! word of love. q
thought mt random cast!
Sc were but little at the first, but
mighty at the last.
Charles Maekay.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02
TAKE A WALLOP AT HIM.

Whenever this paper takes the skin
off of any person it always sends a
marked copy to such person. Now,
newspaper gives this paper any unfa-
vorable notice and does not send me
a copy thereof it were better, meta
phorically speaking, for such editor
that milestone were hanged about
his neck ana that he were sunk off
Highland Light. Do not be a coward,
Cape Cod Wave
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tied for Mrs. Knox. She refused to
drive them, and finally practically
declined to ride as fast as they In
sisted upon going. This pair is now
at Valley F)rHe. She owns a hand
some riding mare, which she occa-
sienai1y uses
Mrs. Knox and her husband are
rather small. ind the two make a
dlminutive couple. Che IL pretty
and always we.l-gowned woman.
having a Partially for brown shades.
Fond of walking. Mrs. Knox very
often dispenses with tho use of her
carriage and goes shopping or into
| the suburbs alone. A walk Is her
cure for all troubles. and she takes
one for a headache when others
| would go to bed
| Mr.. and Mrs Knox are very de-
voted to each other and spend as
much time az possible together She
/ was Miss Lillian Smith of Pitts
burg. and they have four children.
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money be divided between her father.
Ephrain Hickman. and John d. Mathes.
his former partner in the milling bust .
ness There is no clew to the writer
of the letter.
KILLS is POUND RABBIT.
The largest rabbit killed in Fayette
county, this season, was bagged by
David Chrisman on the Spilman farm,
south of Connersville It was thirty
one inches in length and weighed eigh-
, teen pounds. Mr. Chrisman. who was
once employed in a menagerie. said ne
thought for a moment that II was a
stray kangaroo.
GET Is POUNDS FROM BEE TREE
Ivan Eekert and Ephraim Stonecipher
tainedof Corydon, cut bee" tree near
this place and obtained seventy five
pounds of honey which the bees had
stored away for their winter supply.
PRISONERS GET ~Joy WATER,
| Seven prisoners in the Jefferson coun-
| ty jail at Madison, were found dead
drunk in the lobby. They had heated
| a poker opened a cell containing con.
lfiscated whiskey, bored a hole through
! a barrel and caught the liquid in d
ldishpaR
! CONTRACTOR is KILLED.
| Thomas Bauer, a cement contractor
of South Bend died in a hospital from
wounds received when ne attempted to
take his wife from the home of JohT
Luther at the point Of a shotgun. She
lhad fled there for protection following
a quarrel and Bauer followed. Wher
The entered the house some one STRUCK
him. Several persons We're in the room
lat the time and all will be examined
by the policu-in au--effort to find whs
made the attack. Bauer had held i'm
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-02

of experimenting to do. AS it is,
these houses are concrete from founda-
ton to the ceilings in the upper floors
The staircases are of concrete and sc
are the mentel pieces in many in
stances even the floors.
Not very far distant Edison's pre-
diction will be verified. The Gary
concrete experts have introduced al
short time, and before long this will
be included also.
When all of these necessaries are
obtained nearly every family will have
within their power to own their owr
home.
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Up and Down in
IN d. A II A
HARD LUCK PURsUEs WALKER.


Clarence Stanley 16 years old, a boy
scout who departed Oct. &c from his
home in Portland. Me, a walking
trip to San Francisco, arrived in In
dianapolis last evening tired. He is at
the Y. NJ. c. A. and will remain until
Wednesday. Stanley started with two
Indians and two scout companions. two
dogs. and a packhorse and says that
the Indians quit after the third day.
that the dogs deserted him at Pfaila-
that the horse broke it's leg
at Harrisburg, Pa. and that the other
scouts deserted hin, to return to their
homes for Christmas. In addition. he
says he has just received a telegram
from his father that his mother is dy-
ing but that he is unable to return
and will continue his journey. He Is
travelling under the direction of the
scout headquarters in New York and is
representing the Boys Life Magazine.
He says he expects TO reach the coast
by May Is.
MORE CONSCIENCE MONEY.
Miss Addie Hickman, of Covington
has received a letter signed by a Con
science Stricken Friend containing
SIS, together with request that the