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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
THE sINEWs OF WAR. ],

One of the most significant and sat
isfactory aspects Of the situation in
Mexico Is the comparative case with
which the Madero government has
been able to obtain q heavy loan to be
used for putting down the Orozco in
surrection. The fact that Madero
could borrow 100000 on the
strength of Mexico's credit indicates
that the financial world has conf
dence that he will restore order in his
country
If Madero can obtain all the money
he needs to pay the government s
soldiers and purchase arms and am
munition there can be no doubt of the
outcome of the present rebellion. In
war, the side which has the biggest
treasure chest usually wins in the
end. That is what made the resist
ance of the Beers to England hopeless
from the first. That, in large meas
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
HOUSE MOVING TROUBLES.

in certain sections of Chicago the
moving of buildings IS not tolerated
and when building is to be moved
1t is torn down. That is because
traffic is so heavy that the city will
not stand for blocking the streets.
In those sections of most any city oil
any size where the moving of build
ings is permitted the moving must be
done at night as well as in the day
time so that there will be the mini
mum inconvenience to the genera
public.
A large two story house is being
moved on South Holman street in
Hammond. 1t is being moved only q
few blocks and yet it has blocked the
street for two whole days ,necessitat.
ing the suspension of street car serv.
ice and the abandonment OF the street
by traffic
All last night the building was un
touched by the movers who shoulc
have been required by the street com
missioner to keep moving SO tina
traffic on the street could be restored
this morning.
1t is about time that the city begaI
to appreciate the fact that 1t is ;
metropolitan community and that
house mover should not be permitte,
to inconvenience the whole communi
ty for the purpose of saving a $50
to 1000 frame building.
The council should instruct tn
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
SENTIMENT CHANGING.

Former Governor E. W. Hoch. of
Kansas, in a public statement made
last week, says:
Americans are fair people. The
more they study the administration of
President Taft the more they will like
it. Between now and November they
will give consideration to questions
involved in this campaign l look for
an increasing tide of public opinion
favorable to Mr.. Taft During my
travels as a lecturer l have found this
tide already setting in.
Taft has never had a square deal,
especially from the one who talks the
most about this great virtue. | be-
lieve the American people viii prac-
tice what the alleged champion of this
doctrine so vociferously preached and
they will indorse Mr.. Taft's admins
tration as it deserves to be.
This campaign will be a repetition
of the one in 1896. If the election
that year had occurred thirty or sixty
days after the convention Mr.. Bryan
would have been elected. But the
people got down to thinking then, az
they will this time
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
I'll e A X ID
BY
r u b E.

GRIFFITH has at last attained fame.
Man down there has a testimonial in
an Indianapolis paper telling how
remedy cured his mother-in-law.
PHILADELPHIA society women are
getting so fastidious that they refuse
TO be operated on for appendicitis any
more for fear those new low cut gowns
will reveal the scars
READ that the black hand is after
John d. Chances are that these mya-
FERROUS gentlemen probably figure they
might as well get in on the piclxings as
the u. s. senators are getting theirs.
FOLLOWING the advice of his physi-
clan Hennery Coldbottle. our special
| correspondent, will spend the next few
| days in a cool place to cure his hay
fever. Hennery will be at home to his
friends in the refrigerating rooms of
Fred Carriers Hammond brewery.
| COME to think of it that new Porter
| race track was to start on Labor day.
No doubt Brother A. F. Knots was too
busy floating the Armageddon county
ticket to pay much attention to the
! derby arrangements.
EVERY time that a circus comes to
town the chief of police of Lafayette
notifies the good people to keep in
doors and see that the windows are
| locked.
| ALMOST time for new graft expose.
Now keep your eyes on a school board
one very shortly.
| EVER notice that nearly every
dentist has an auto nowadays? They
are evidently in a money pulling bust
ness.
| WANT to start something? Well
! just suggest to an Indiana Harbof
couple that they had better look Vi
this eugenics question before they get
| spliced.
1T would appear that the sane Fourth
also has in its wake the sane Labor
day. Many titewads long ago went in
for the sane Christmas
EDUCATIONAL director of the Gary
Y. NJ. c. A. says that he will have a
course in real estate. Move that Prof
Tim Englehart be made dean of the
department.
IF there Is nothing else to remind
you about it you will know that this is
presidential year by the mere fact that
Mr. Taft has started out 10 kiss the
babies
/ WITH four murders rolled up against
her since July 10 1t would look as il
Gary might import few more Bibles
and mineral water and cut down or
| the supply of Kentucky whiskey and
! Connecticut revo1vers
AND now the bills for the school
books.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
HOW TO USE BOOKS.

Sensible people everywhere are be-
ginning to advocate the plan of teach
ing the students how to use books in
stead of making a strenuous attempt
to teach them to memorize what books
contain.
How many thousands of hours the
average educated man has spent in
trying to rnemorize dates, names OF
battlefelds and similar useless in
formation given in the average his
tory, geography and literary guide.
And to what purpose? The real les.
sons of history are a study of the
causes and results OF actions; the i'm
portant facts about far away people:
are the racial and commercial differ
ences and similarities that tinguist
them.
This is the day of adding machines
information bureaus and library in
dexes. Children should be taught
and in many cases are being taught
not how to remember facts, but how
to understand principles. The all-im
portant thing is to learn how to us,
books, not to remember the dates anC
figures they contain.
To remember the date of Magni
Charts is not useful; but to hav,
burned upon the could the results o
the mighty struggle that eliminate,
then, is wonderful and inspiring
In the days when the Bible, the Ma
sonic Ritual. and all glorious poem
and stories could only be preserve,
and vitalized by the ear and tn
cultivation of the memory meant tn
progress of the world; but afte
| Gutenberg, the chief reason 70
memorizing dates, nmaes and place
passed away. A librarian can dis
cover in half an hour more than tn
most brilliant memories can retain 4
a lifetime.
The first thing to know about book
is how to use them.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
3. & 0. STARTS
LABOR BUREAU

labor bureau. in charge of H. r.
Rricker. has been established by the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Balti-
more. Mr. Bricker will have charge of
employing both skilled and unskilled
labor for all grades of railroad work
Branch Offices have been established
in Philadelphia. Washington, Cleve-
lands and Chicago. statement issued
by the company reads:
Railroads have been confronted
frequently with scarcity of labor at
certain points on the line, notwith-
standing statistics often presented
concerning the armies of unemployed
In many American cities. 1t Is be-
lieved that a bureau which under
takes to bring the Job to the man may
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
"THfS Is MY 42ND BIRTHDAY"
c. Bascom SIemp.


C. Bascom Slemp, who for some years
has had the distinction of being the
only Republican among the Virginia
members OF the national house of rep
resentatives, was born in Lee County,
Virginia, September 4. 1870. He gradu-
ated from the Virginia Military Insti-
tute in 1891 and afterward studied law
at the University OF Virginia. After
serving one year as a professor at the
Virginia Military Institute he began the
practice of law in his home town of Big
Stone Gap. In 1905 he became chair
man of the Republican State Committee
OF Virginia and two years later he was
elected to Congress from the Ninth vir-
GINA district to fiji the unexpired term
of his father. Mr. Slemp was twice re-
elected but this year he declined to ac-
cept denomination because OF his de-
sire to devote his entire attention to
his law practice and business interests.
Congratulations to:
Rear Admiral Corwin P Rees, u S.
N, retired. 81 years old today.
Bishop David H. Moore, of the Meth
odst Episcopal Church. IA years old to-
day.
Henry Lefavour, president of Sim
mons College, SO years old today
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
Heart toHeart
| Talks.
SEEN FROM A CAR WINDOW.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

SEEN FROM A CAR WINDOW.
The interurban stopped at the Poor
Farm station" and the car window
framed this picture:
Sitting in front of the main building
in the evening sun were the old men
and women-tnfirm. done for. twisted.
Expressionless they sat Down and
out, they were without hope in the
world With nothing to look forward
to but the slim dole of niggard charity,
they are without ambition save for
food and a bed. For them the path
has aruptly ended. They can no far
Their go, and they seek to go no far
Their.
The men read no newspapers. and
the women have no knitting.
The train slides on into the suburbs
where live the well to do. On the
porches and lawns, here and there, are
the old men and women. and as the
low July sun gilds the tops OF the trees
they, too. sit in the sunshine
But how difrerenti
These old men smoke their cigars,
and the old women chat with others
over embroidery frames. Some read
the evening papers. All have in their
aged cheeks the tint of the good blood
that comes from plenty of good food
Their rooftrees are secure. They SLEEP
in soft beds and keep some money In
the bank.
The train glides on into the tene
ment district near by to the business
section. and here also are sitters in the
sun.
Here and there they sit, old men and
women that have been tossed aside liz
the industrial world as things fore
done. They sit listless. silent, the bat
tered old men smoking their clay pipes
and the poor old women holding theil
hands. Their aged eyes must be din
from the salt tears they have shed ovel
what might have been.
Aged sitters in the sun.
All of them have done their share Il
the worlds big work, and some hav,
done more than a share. Some have
prospered and look toward a long. sc
rene day ere the shadows of eternit,
shall close in; others have failed ant
look to children or eharity-regretful
hopeless. dependent.
Is that fair deal?
Maybe so.
And yet it would seem these aget
folk. whether prosperous or failed
when limbs are stifened and the bloo'
runs slow, have earned the right to ST
IN thu sun free from worry. hale ant
respected
1T seems so-from car window.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
GOVERNMENT SERVICE A JOKE.

Zero IN efficiency is our idea or the
public health and marine hospita.
service" bureau OF the federal gov
eminent, with headquarters at
Washington, D. c.
An official of this department is
quoted in the Record-Herald as adj
hitting the danger from sewage
dumped into the lake by steamers
near Chicago's cribs, and also the
danger from Racine and Milwaukee
sewage, hundred miles away.
Not a word about the sewage OF
100000 people and the factory
wastes that enter the lake via the
Calumet river, within two miles of
the 68th street crib. No mention of
the endless oil pollution at Whiting
and the sewage OF the Indiana towns
clustered around the south end of
the lake.
This beats straining at gnats and
swallowing camels.
The government bureau evidently
knows less about sanitary conditions
at this end of Lake Michigan-even
less than the city health department
The official. one DIR. w. c. Rucker
says: 81 would not say, however, that
the situation at Chicago is going to
develop into an acute problem. The
situation must be met as son as pos
| sible and corrected so far as the fed
| eral government can contribute to
that end
This is very ignorant ignorance
The agencies contributing to the
total destruction of fish In the south
end of Lake Michigan, as an evi-
dence of gross and disgusting pollu,
ton, contamination of the best water
supply on earth, crime and a dis
grace to civilization are: The Stand
ard Oil Company, at Whiting: the
cities of Chicago, Hammond, Whit
ing, East Chicago and Gary; the iii
nois Steel Company and the Iroquoi.
Iron Company, at South Chicago
These latter dump filthy Stag anC
other refuse into open water, unpro
tected by tight breakwaters, as re
quired by law. This filth can be seer
ofating on the surface of the lax,
near the shore any day the winds ar,
in that direction.
There Is a fertile field here for tn,
city health department now busy try
ing to jam through an ordinance 70
mentioned federal body and for any
one else who wants to do something
to stop the pollution of our drinkin,
water. rather important NATTER
lCalumet Record.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
WANTON SLAUGHTER.

Two men in a grey car joyriding in
Gary struck a man at Twenty-third
avenue and Broadway late Saturday
night. Without stopping to offer the
least assistance the car swept on its
way at high rate of speed. a little
while later the unfortunate victim
passed away. So far the police have
been able to locate the guilty parties
Automobile accidents will continue
to happen. Yet the least that the
cause of them can do is to assist their
victims and in joyriding cases there
should be a greater disposition to rs
sist. 1t is bad enough to have autolsts
flee when they are not to blame but
in the case of joyriders their action in
flying by and leaving their victims tc
die in the streets shows nothing more
than brutal cowardice.
This affair is wanton murder The
police ought to exert every effort
possible to track down the guilty per.
sons and bring them to justice.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
stricken manner slashed at the dog. His
first blow slashed the dogs nose.
COMPLETES SECOND LEG.

stricken manner slashed at the dog. His
first blow slashed the dogs nose.
COMPLETES SECOND LEG.
Battery A, Indiana National Guard is
camping near Noblesville on Its 1e0-
mile hike from Indianapolis through
Marion, Hamilton, Upton. Madison and
Delaware Counties. The battery, with
100 men and horses, in command of
Capt. Robert Tyndall, reached Mobiles
vile shortly afternoon, having made
the trip from Allisonville. where they
were In camp last night. Capt. Null of
the Fifth United States Field Artillery
and Gen. Sergt. Fitzgerald of the Sixth
United States Field Artillery are with
the battery. Tomorrow the battery ex-
poets to reach Upton.
FAISs IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT.
Mrs. Stella Sayera. "A years old. 624
BarnhiIl street. indianapolis. made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide
early last night. Mrs. Sayera lives with
her brother and sister-in-law. Mr.. and
Mrs. Virgil Colt. The brother and his
wife were in the front yard at their
home and Mrs. Sayera was in a rear
room talking to a man, whose name the
police did not obtain. She sent him
, turned he found her lying on couch
holding up an almost empty poison bot
tie. Bicyclemen Trimpe and Kitzmillor
answered the call sent In front the Gott
home. No motive for the attempt il
known. The man who was with Mrs
Sayera declares they had not Quarreled
FINDS JOY PARTY IN HOME.
Mrs. David Arthur is dead and her
husband Is in jail at Linton charged
with her murder. The shooting occur
red at their home. two miles south OF
Linton, shortly after midnight this
morning, and was the result of the hus-
bands anger at seeing his wife a mem
Der of 10Y party" which was being
held in his home. Arthur had been In
Linton, and on returning about mid
night found his wife with another
woman three men. joking. laughing and
drinking. Drawing a revolver he be.
gan firing. The crowd all escaped cx-
cept his wife. who pleaded for mercy
His reply was a bullet that caused hel
| instant death.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

ure, was what gave the northern
states the victory in the civil war.
Perhaps the owners of the great
amount of foreign capital invested in
Mexico perceive this fact. If they
will see to it that Madero is amply
provided with money there is prac-
tically no doubt that in a short time
he will subjugate the insurrectos and
to a large extent restore security for
the business and industries OF the
country.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
The Day in
HI r Y
"THIs DATE IN HISTORY
September 4.

lS04-United States ship Intrepid"
blown up in Tripo1i harbor.
1S12--Captain Zachary Taylor success
fully defended Fort Harrison, on
the Wabash. against an attack by
Indians.
ls37-Congress convened in extra ses-
sion to devise measures to relieve
the financial endorsements Of the
country.
1S62-General Lee crossed the Potomac
and invaded Maryland.
1S70-French Republic proclaimed.
1s94-Twelve thousand tailors struck In
New York city against the task
work system.
1911-Hundreds of lives lost in floods
along the Yang tse- Kiang river in
China.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
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SUNSET WINGS.

SUNSET WINGS.
Tonight this sunset spreads two golden
wings.
CIeavfng the western sky;
Winged, too, with wind 1t In, and win
nowfngs
OF birds. ms IL the days last hour I'm
of strenuous flight must die.
sun stecped I'm Are, the homewnrd PIN
ions sway
Above the dovecote's tops;
And clouds of stnrlings. ere they rest
with day,
sink cIamorous like mill waters, mt wild
play.
by turns I'm every copse.
Each tree, heart deep the wranglfna
rout receives
Save for the whirr within,
You could not tell the starlfngs from
the leaves;
Then one great puff of wings and the
swarm heaves
Away with all its din.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04
UP and Down in
IN d. A n A
FAoEz ARSON CHARGE.

Charles st. John of Let's, Decatur
County, arrested in Anderson. was
brought to Grensburg to answer a
charge of arson. ST. John is charged
with attempting to burn a drug store at
Let's owned by him and DR.. Ezra Pleak.
The building and stock were heavily
insured
OLDEST SETTLER is ORATOR.
Strawtown, in the northeastern part
of Hamilton county. surrounded by his
toric ground and which came within
one vote of being the capital of the
state instead of Indianapolis, held its
first homecoming Monday A crowd
. estimated at 1000 people attended the
Exercises held in grove near the home
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

A novel and yet practical apron design
Ia here given. 1t is featured with shoulder
pieces and has cross strap belt at the
front 1t Is quite dainty. made of lawn.
eatiste or dotted Swiss with the trimming
of insertion. The model IL very simple
to carry out and Its differentness win APP
peal to the woman who tires Of the old
ideas and seeks diversion.
The pattern. No. $3.50. IL cut IN one
size and requires IL yards OF 86-inch
material, 1% yards of 6-inch wide edging
and one yard of insertion.
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending ten cents to the Office Of this
-aEer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

i HAVE never done anything
wrong" says the third termer. That
man for modesty is so far ahead of any
body else that he has met himself
coming back patting himself on the
back.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

PROBABLY there are members of
the Chicago Board of Trade who don
know that wheat is a dry indehiscenr
inilocular caryopsis. but it is safe to
say that all of them known what a
wheat corner is.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

Us the whale disappearing" asks
a contemporary. Don't know. Ten
pound pickerel was the best we ever
caught and we think those above that
size are disappearing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

street commissioner that 1t is his duty
prosecuted in the night time as well
as in the daytime. In other words
the streets should be occupied the
smallest possible time in the moving
of old shacks.
Somebody must have a pull
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

ANDREW Carnegie is to be made a
count by the King of Italy. But
what's the use, since he is already
married and has plenty of money?
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

of Uncle John Coy. the oldest settler
in the place and the orator of the oo-
CASTOR. Thirteen states were repre-
gate in Hamilton county was establish
ed near Strawtown and many of the
persons who paid toll thereat fifty
years ago were present at the home
coming Monday. It was deci1ed to hold
these events annually.
HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
A wreck on the e. & l. railroad was
narrowly averted ct Massey, seven
miles south of Petersburg yesterday.
The trucks under the tender left the
rails just as the passenger train was
crossing the bridge over the Fatoka
river. The trucks were dragged across
the bridge, but the ears remained on
the rails.
CUT OF RITTTDoGS NOSE.
Moses -Houch. 455 Minerva street. In
dianapolis was arafgned in police
court yesterday on a charge of cutting
off the end of a brindle bulldogs noise
last Friday. The case was continued
The charge against Houch is cruelty TO
animals
According to the story told by the in
spector the brindle dog is a neighbour
hood pet and everybody's dog. Lille
Betz. $40 Pettijohn street, was with the
dog Friday evening when Houch and
his wife approached the two. The dog
playfuliy dashed toward Houch and he
suddenly drew knife and in a panic
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

THERE are 11,463 practicing At
torneys in New York. But probably
that is cheaper than enlarging the po-
lice stations and the Tonbs.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

aid in solving this question of unem-
ployment for both parties.
This labor bureau is in no way
Identified with a contract labor sys-
tenn, being operated solely by and for
the Baltimore and Ohio service"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

THAT rasping sound setting our
teeth on edge is the British govern
ment fling its protest about the
Panama canal.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

THE year has reached its climax
in light and beauty. Heat and the
fruits of the earth are another story.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

GET all the fun out of them you
can, the time is coming to put the
canvass shoes in the discard
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

SOME of the seasons skirts are said
to be only a yard around at the bot
tom. AS for the top, that depends.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

FORTUNATELY, the clouds ct
Oyster Bay do not cut off the sunshine
which the crops grow on.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

WHAT should be done to get after
some of these Sunday street car
rowdies with the big stick.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

MUNSTER is just ashamed of the
way her sister Lansing is actin.
these rainy days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

EMPEROR William is better. Good.
let alone be sick IN this restless world
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-09-04

Hammond Commandery. No. IL. Reg
ular meeting hrst and third Monday Of
each month.
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MASONIC CALENDAR.

Hammond Chapter. No. lit. meets
second and forth Wednesday OF each
month