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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
TWO INJURED WHEN
MOTORCYCLES COLLIDE
III. ID. Van Blatz, No. Taylor Court
May Be Seriously
Hurt.

Fl. D. Van Blatz. No Taylor ct,
and d. r. Yoder of Goshen were in
jured last night when the two motor
cycles on which they were riding col
lided at Taylor and Division SITS Van
Blatz was taken home and appeared
TO be the most seriously injured. Dr.
+. A Martin. who was called in at
tendance. was unable TO state last
night the seriousness of his injuries
Yoder was said to have sustained
minor bruises and obtained medical
attention from a nearby drug store.
Details OF the accident were lack
ing according to the police who were
called. Members of the Van Blatz
family likewise said they knew little
of the accident other than that the
two men collided head on. Both ma
chimes we're said to be damaged con-
siderably.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
BELL PHONE EMPLOYEES
ENJOY OUTING MONDAY
Manager T.. II. Bonds Acts IA Host for
Telephone Employees at Hud-
son Lake.

Perhaps some people kicked about
their Bell telephone service Yesterday.
Probably il was because the thoughts
of the workers were not on their work
but with their fellow employees who
were enjoying the hospitality of Man
ager r. 4. Bonds at the annual picnic
at Hudson lake.
Most Of the workers, except the few
that had TO stay to take care of tie
calls. piled into a special car at
o'clock and prepared 90 enjoy them
selves.
As soon as the party arrived AT the
grounds the impTovised cook stove was
set up and Pete Welches acting as
chef kept the crowd supplied with hot
weinies While things were getting
straightened around the baseba team
walloped the New Carlisle team by
the score OF 10 I'm eleven innings.
Red" Bolin hurled the phone men To
victory in this fray while Edison did
the receiving.
When everybody had eaten their
fin Of hot weinies dinner was an
nounced. and everybody ate again.
Sixteen OF the girls who worked on
the morning shift, came out and join
ed the picnickers on the ! o'clock car.
The outside workers and the inside
men hooked up in "a battle for the SUI
premaCy OF the departments and the
inning fray with the long end OF
20 ] score. Bolin again hurled a vic
toriOus game and he was opposed by
Hartzer. who was hit rather freely.
Neither pitcher was relieved however.
Al the close OF the bali game every
body returned Co the picnic grounds
and held contests especially for the
women. In a singing contest for quar-
tets picked by chance, prizes went TO
Miss Hazel stephens. Miss Louise
Weiss, Miss Florence Luce. and Miss
Florence Dolph.
Miss Mana Stephens drove naii
into the ground i'm three strokes and
carried off the prize. while Leo Edison
was the best pie eater. although push
ed hard by Joe Hartzer.
Louis Werlich showed best speed
in putting on a tie. collar and coat and
beat the primpers 10y a good margin.
In a ball throwing contest especially
FOR the women. Miss Mildred Poehl-
man. had the best whip" Mrs. Joseph
Hartzer captured second place while
third honOrs went 10 Miss Florence
Luce.
The TeuderfOot band led by Joe
Hartzer was the hit OF the day Ii
serenaded everything and everybody.
while BOlin as an officer OF the law
did his "derndest' 20 preserve the
peace
The return trip was made at $50 20
allow some Of the girls 10 start on the
night shift
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
COMB SAGE TEA IN
L|FELESS GRAY Half
If Mixed With Sulphur it Dark
ems so Naturally Nobody
Can Tell.

Grandmother kept her hair beauti
fully darkened. glossy and abundan,
with brew Of Sage Tea and Sulphur
Whenever her hair fell out or took OF
that duh. faded or streaked appear
ance, this simple mixture was applied
with wonderful effect. BY asking al
any drug store for "Wyeths Sage ana
Sulphur Compound" you will get a
large bottle of this old-time recipe,
ready 10 use, Tor about so cents. This
simple mixture can be depended upon
70 restore natural color and beauty to
the hair and is splendid for dandruff,
dry, itchy scalp and falling hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
says everybody uses Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur, because il darkens so natur-
ally and evenly that nobody can tell
il has been applied-it's so easy 10
use, too. You simply dampen a comb
or soft brush and draw il through
your hair. taking one strand at a time.
BY morning the gray hair disappears;
after another application or two, il is
restored to its natural color and looks
glossy, soft and abundant. Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
IF BACK HURTS USE
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Eat Less Meat if Kidneys Feel
Like Lead or Bladder
BOtherS.

Most folks forget that the kidneys.
like the bowels, get sluggish and
clogged and need a flushing occasion
ally. else We have backache and dull
misery in the kidney region. severe
headaches. rheumatic twinges, TORPID
liver. acid stomach. sleeplessness and
all sorts of bladder disorders
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean. and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region get about four ounces OF Jad
Salts from any good drug store here.
take a tablespoonful in glass of wa
ter before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys Will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon iunce. COM
bined with lithia, and is harmless to
flush clOgged kidneys and stimulate
them 10 normal activity II also neu-
tralizes the acids in the urine so il
no longer initiates. thus ending blad-
der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless: inexpensive;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which everybody should
take now and then TO keep their kid
neyS clean, thus avoiding serious COM
pliCatiOns
A we'll known local druggist says ne
sells lots OF Jad Salts TO folks who be-
heve IN overcoming kidney trouble
while il Is only trouble AdVt
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
ALDEN D. HACK Is
INJURED IN CHICAGO
Was Waiting for Street Car When
Auto Bears Down on
Crowd.

Alden d. Hack. teller in the First
National bank, was injured Sunday
night in Chicago when he was hit by
a fast moving auto. He suffered
fractured leg and was taken to the
Lake Shore hospital Mrs. Myrt Nj
black Of Chicago was also injured by
the same car. The two were among
a number of victims OF what have
been termed automobile vampires"
defined as autoists who run over peO-
pie and then speed on without picking
them up or giving assistance.
Mr. Hack was waiting for a street
car when the auto suddenly plunged
from the darkness and struck him,
hurting him to the street.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
NILES RESIDENT is
KILLED BY AUTO
Edward Mcdonald Is Thrown From
Buggy and Death Is In
Simultaneous.
Special to The News-Times:

Special to The News-Times:
NILES. Mich, Sept. S.-Edward
Mcdonald. 90 years old, was instantly
killed in front OF his home here Mon
day afternoon when the buggy in
which he was riding was struck by an
automobile. The buggy was thrown
against a telegraph pole, one Of the
wheels catching on the guy wire.
Mr.. Mcdonald was hurled from the
buggy. When neighbors who wit
messed the accident rushed to him he
was dead. He was just starting for
his farm a few miles from the city
when the accident occurred.
He has been a resident of this city
for many years, running the farm ali
of the time. He made daily visits 10
the place Mr.. Mcdonald is sur
vived by his wife and four children.
Thomas of Chicago. Maurice, Edward
and Julia, all of Niles.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08

GRAND RAPIDS.-David Walker.
Go, is dead as a result Of a gas eXplO-
sion on his farm near here
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
COMPLETE PROGRAM
FOR CHARITY MEETING
Northern Indiana to Play Prom
inent Part in Conference at
Madison Oct. 1920.

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. S.-The pro-
gram for the twenty-third annual SEES
sion OF the Indiana state conference
az charities and correctiOls was is
sued today by the board OF state char
tiles. The session is 90 be held At
Madison. Ind. oct 1870. Among the
speakers on the program will be
Ernest p BickneU. national director
or the Red Cross. of Washington, -.
C.. Coy. Samuel A. RalstOn. Alexander
johnson. director of the extension de-
paTtment Of the training school for
feeble minded children. Nineland. y.
J.. Rep. Henry A. Barnhart OF Roch-
ester, Ind, and representatives OF sew
eral Indiana universities and colleges.
At the same time the announcement
of the program the list OF committees
for the conference was made public
through the executive committee OF
the conference. OF which r. r. Fitz-
gibbon OF Columbus is chairman.
The Commercial club at Madison ~
leading the other organizations at
Madison which Will have charge Of
the arrangements for and entertain
ment OF the conference. Elmer p.
Scott is president OF the Commercial
club.
VIII Exhibit Work.
An exhibit Of the work OF charit-
able and correctional institutions and
social agencies will be displayed in
Elks hall at Madison. The Jefferson
hotel there will be headquarters.
Those who desire 10 participate in the
exhibit are communicating with Frank
D. LOomis OF the Baldwin block. In
dianapolis.
Round table discussions OF social
charitable and institutional problems
Will be held. ". G. Ball. secretary OF
the new board of trustees of the new
Indiana state farm at Putnamville VIII
address the conference sunday after
noon. oct. is. Gov. RalstOn's address
viii be given the same day. The con-
ference goes 10 southern Indiana for
the first time in several years.
List OF Committeeman.
In the list OF members Of the va
riOus big committees are many rep
resenting northern Indiana counties
AS follows: Committee on courts and
prisons. Edward ]. Fogarty Michigan
city: g. Frank Leader. Goshen. Com
mittee on medical charities. DIR. +. W.
Terhinger. LOganspOrt. John e. Stoll,
South Bend. Dr. J. ". Milligan. Mich
igan city; DR.. Paul +. Bowers, Michi-
gan CITY Committee on rural life.
Henry A. BaTnhart. Rochester Com
mittee on development OF local chart
ties. Mrs Gertrude Fulton. Portland;
Miss Rnoda NJ. Welding. Gary; Mrs.
Ebert Shirk, Peru. the Rev. .. l..
Niplinger, Michigan City. Committee
on child welfare. Judge w. g. Nc
Nahon. Crown Point: Mrs. w. +. But
terworth. Mishawaka; Mrs. Julia +.
Work, Plymouth; l.. r. Kelley, Mont
pelier: Judge James $ Drake. Elkhart.
Many state officials are members Of
the committees.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
FEDERAL LAWS WILL
CONTROL ELECTIONS
Any Attempts at Crooked Reg
iStration or illegal Voting
Extra Dangerous.

INDIANAPOLIS. Sept s.-A dis
.inct note OF warning has been sound
ed here by leaders in all parties anent
attempts that might be made TO pad
registration lists either here or else
where In the state.
Several counties in the state held
registrations last Friday at the behest
Of leaders OF various parties. The note
of warning that was sounded here
called TO mind the fact that the reg
istration this year is directly within
the purview OF federal laws and fed
eral laws are not respectors Of per-
sons
The United States election laws
cover registrations primary elections
and other elections in which federal
offices are involved. This year the
voters in Indiana will vote for a
United States senator and for various
members OF congress. Thus the reg
istratiOn--as the following election
IS directly under the guns Of the fed
eral courts
IL was declared here that federal
grand juries would have the right to
investigate any crooked work by any
party or any clique OF politicians, who
might operate in the registrations for
the purpose OF padding lists or other
wise aiding their own or their party's
interests.
To all such the leaders of the par
ties here sent the warning that any
irregularities would not be tolerated
and that the viOlators of law not only
would be amenable 10 Local laws. but
10 federal statutes as we'll II is be-
lieved that because OF this warning
the registration Friday and that of
october and the November elections
will be unusually free from the faint
Of corruption that has been charged
so openly and freely against practi-
cally all parties in some parts Of the
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
of The Daily Times.

Lewellyn Warner was nominated
for congress by the democrats to sue
coed G. G.. Conn.
J. e. Neff
Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Rhawn of Phil
adelphia are visiting NJ and Mrs.
CleBent Studebaker, jr.
Two deaths from smallpox at Wal
kerton.
A son was born TO Mr. and Mrs.
Alonzo Butler.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08

SNEGON--Miss Anna Haug. 80
years old. stepped In front Of an auto
driven by Dr. =. " Feehey OF FIRE.
mont and received injuries which ply
sicians say viii result ia her death
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
WILL RAISE FUND HERE
Garments OF All Kinds Wanted for
Needy Ina France.

WASHINGTON. sept S.-Madame
Jules J. Jusserand. wife OF the French
ambassador and doyenne of the dip
Tomato corps. has undertaken the di-
TectiOn % the French relief fund in
America.
Madame Jusserand has sent out "A
call for sewing materials and gar
ments OF all kinds. She says that all
donations. either OF money OF clothes
viii 40 forward 10 the destitute in
France as rapidly as possible
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08

INDIANAPOLIS.-In the pint Of
attendance Monday, Labor day. was
the biggest first day in the history OF
the Indiana state fair Delegations
OF several hundred people came from
Lafayette and other places in Tippe-
canoe county, LED by the Otterbein
band
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-08
BARGAIN COAL.

I have a car of genuine Black
Hawk fourth vein coal that I will dis
pose of at a bargain. whole. half or
part Take a look at it, Bell phone
PIP. NJ. ID. Manson. AdVt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

1 day a funny little old man went to him 1 to get employment, but instead of lowing down and worshipping and cringing before the disagreeable man, he went bravely before him and stated his case briefly The 'disagreeable man sat up and took notice. He gave the funny little cid man the position he wanted and as he worked away at his new job, the lls- agreeable man would often hang around him and chat with him about his prede- cessors and why they left. The funny little old man had wonderful insight into character, and he quickly perceived that beneath the austerity and severity of ,he 'disagreeable man there beat a kind and gentle heart; so he took courage and one day said to him:
 I can see that the fault must have been theirs. A man 10 just as yourself, couldn't have been unkind to them
 For the first time it his life' the spinster went on with her story, ''the 'disagreeable man was hearing somc- thing kind and complimentary of hin,- self, for the funny little old man. wno found some good in everyone of God $ creatures because he was looking for it, had found something good in hi,n, and the next. thing people knew, the dis agreeable man was endowing hospitals and schools, and then his charities crept nearer home, and he began to give money to playgrounds and gyrinasiums and swimming pools. and orphans homes and all sorts of things. When somebody taxed the funny little oId man with bringing about this reform he said: I have done nothing. I only tried to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

reflectively. Perhaps that is what have to render thanks to. for my un- shaken belief in things and in people, I'm rather glad l haven't made flu neral procession of life, though I am in deed! l really think that the good Lord intended that we should take it all as d joke anyway rather than to meet it as seriously as some l know do"
 But l don't sec unused Miss Eight cen, with unusual depth, TOT one of nsr years, what you mean. l go to all the parties, receptions, tango teas, pink teas, 1uncheons, weddings and club fights that I'm asked to; I'm interested in suf- frage and near-suffrage. until I'm all most converted, and I do all sorts of charitable things and church work, and all that and yet for the very life of me l don't what there is about people-the majority of them, I mean to make you such a dear old enthusia st on the subject Most of them bore me literally to death. 1 get so tired seeing the same ones, and hearing them puff and blow about their particular hobbies, that l want to stab every last one of them"
 q don't go to many pArties," Miss Forty-nine answered. "aIthough I am invited to many functions Perhaps that 5 one reason my mind is a clearer film than yours and takes better impressions, be- cause 1t is not exposed to as many people and as many things. You see in this way l get perspective that you couldn't be expected to get.''
 I'm afraid-deathly afraid, my dear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

friend" said Miss Eighteen with the young wisdom of ninety-"that I'm a ter rible cynic-a most atrocious one-for I'm not interested in people-No, not little bit and I'm not interested in the things that lot of them are interested in. Much of my cynicism and indifference per haps comes not so much from contact with people themselves, but from the plays and the books and the things that ! read and. see of life. And I'm not the cnly one who thinks like that either. Why ! was at a luncheon the day before Ash Wednesday, and more than half of the dozen women present declared they were insufferably bored md that love and omance and all that sort of thing was delusion and a snare.
 Miss Forty-nine lifted her eyebrows to contradictory angle and said:
 My dear child, when all is told, there is nothing so cheap in life as-cynicism and it is just as well for you to learn that right now-early in the game. When we don't believe in the world, it spells one of two things; either that we haven taken the trouble to find out the real worth of people about us, or that we are not worth it ourselves"
 Do you think that the world responds quickly to a faith in it?" asked Miss Eighteen, becoming mere interested in the subject.
 "A man or woman can grow to any measure we set for them in our estima- tion," was the quick reply. "A man may be low in the scale of humanity as far as he is held in the esteem of his com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
Some Lenen Reflections About This Nice Old World We Live

This is a nice old world we live in ism [ prettiest debutante of the season came in to make Lenten call. It's nice, romantic old world, tool.
 T don't think so at all," replied Miss Eighteen. That is, if we are to believe the people who are writing books and plays and talking about us so.
 Who's been saying anything about you. dear?" asked Miss Forty-nine, ind,g- nantly.
 Miss Eighteen corrected quickly;
 Perhaps l should have said talking around about us. There isn't day thal 1 don't hear older people regretting the the days of romance have faded awsy and that the fairies come no more. You are an exception. I guess, however many of them must be right though, fer here we all are bored to a frazzle-every debutante know, and Lent has only just begun
 Miss Forty-nine smiled her inscrutahle smile.
 "A debutante and blase?" she ques- toned. And here I am spinster of 49. and if I do say it myself you couldn { tell that one of my illusions had ever been worn a second time.'
 You talk as if illusions were filmy, diaphanous ball gowns, or else perish- able Parisienne bonnets,' said the de- butante intolerantly. T believe you be- long to that abnormal class of bachelor maids, who have never taken life se- riously or grudgingly. Isn't that so?'
 Perhaps the older woman answered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

'1N SEARCH OF A HUSBAND" By Corra Harris, illustrated. Doubleday
 Page & company, publishers, Garden
 City, New York.
 Cora Harris is a southern woman of whom every southerner is proud Sine has done some of the most original and delightful literary work of any writer of the present day and whenever a new book is announced from her clever pen, her clientele is the alert to se- cure a copy of it at once.
 Nothing that she has ever written is more deliciously unique than "in Searcn of Husbands''
 Abounding in epigrams that "stay with you'' as it were-resounding with humor and fun from the start to the finish. Mrs. Harris has completely captvated the reading public with ner lnimitahle style and her new novel is joy and delight to everybody
 Tn Eearch of a Hushand
 Is there any thing more 10 be added to this title by way of description? Ano after all, who can possibly describe Cora Harris novels?
 Mrs. Harris lifts the curtain in this story on charming southern town where the preoccupation of the young women is to lay traps for as many male hearts possible Joy lives with her father and brother in an old-fa hioneo southern home with a rose-grown garden, and enOftly alter the opening or the story she and her brother make a bargain of unique character, he with designs upon a certain lady, she with an eye to handsome newcomer. It is the queer twists which fate gives to this compact that makes the background of Mrs. Harris story if.R fr
 It is a very charming romance done with all the brilliance that runs so easily from Mrs. Harris pen. She seems to have special pull with providence in letting you behind the scenes of the southern life she knows so we'll
 And the heroine-Joy Marr? She is well named "Joy,' so well that even her clothes are a joy to the feminine reader as well as the girl herself.
 Sometimes a book can set 8 fashion in literature and sometimes it can set a fashion fin mode of speech; but Mrs. Harriss book, Tn search of a hus- band" has reached a high water mark in setting fashion in women's apparel.
 The popularity of the book has been such that it might be called 'the rage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

panions, and yet high, when measured by the Great Tribunal We are given to shriIing responsibility, by declaring that we have our own lives to lead. so let others lead theirs as they please-but nothing could be farther from the real truth. than just that attitude. It is only when we help others to lead their lives, that we are leading a fife that is worth while ourselves"
 This is real Lenten sermon that you are preaching observed Miss Eighteen rather nervously. I'm sorry 1 brought up the subject'
 You needn't be-, came the quick, sym pathetic answer, "but before we shelve the subject let me tell you little story that nlSy help you to restore your faith in people and incidentally it also suggests a clever way of handling them. May I?"
 I'm always open to conviction" said the debutante sweetly.
 T knew a man once" Miss Forty mine began. .'wlfo was so dlsagreeable that everybody called him the disagl eeabe man. Do you understand" eS
 "Yes-like Beatrice Harredens 'disagree- able man.. in Ships That Pass in the Nights that it?" suggested the debut ante. But he was so disagreeable he was interesting"
 Perhaps, said Miss Forty mine laconi- cally. At any rate, everybody consid- cred this man I'm telling you about ex- tremely disagreeable. He was a great financier and handled a tremendous busi- ness. Every body kotowed and salamed to him and stood in mortal tenor of everything he did and said.- Finally one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

Brothers, publishers, New York.
 THE ESCAPE OF MIR. TRIMM' By Irwin s. Cobb, George H. Doran com pany, publishers, New York
 THE FORRESTER'S DAUGHTER" Harper Brothers, publishers, New York.
 The Return Courteous From the Chicago Record Herald T can't understand how you have the presumption to think would permit my daughter to become your wife, 'It does seem rather surprising, I sup pose, but, cheer up. You're not half as badly upset as I was when she suggested it to me-"