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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01
JINKS SETTLES
ON HENRY
TX8GEs BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.

TIbdES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Sept. IA
hoodoo had been on the trail Of Henry
A. Roberts, state statistician. ever since
he entered politics in 1916. according TO
the way he has figured IT all out
Shortly after he was nominated for
state ststistician last year his mother
died. About three months ago an aunt
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01
BACKACHE SOON
DISAPPEARED
Could Not Do Housework
Till Lydia E. Pinkha1n's
Vegetable Compound
Removed Cause.

Fort Fairfield, Maine. 'fFor many
months suffered from hackache caused
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01

aliens who abuse American liberty be-
came. evident yesterday when II was
learned at the federal building that 10
cal officials have just completed a sur
vey of this section Of the state for the
location of a big internment camp.
Orders for the survey, which came
directly from Washington. asked an in
vestigasion of all Jails. hotels, armories.
ball parks and other places suitable for
use as camps and urged a report as to.
how quickly these places could be turn
ed over TO the government.
5000 Now In Chicago.
More than 5000 enemy aliens are now
enjoying their liberty under permit in
Chicago, and many complaints have
been received that the privileges are be-
ing abused. but at present the govern
ment has no space available for deten-
ton of military prisoners and other
enemies.
The county jail is taxed to its capaei-
~ by the so-called "slackers" who are
awaiting action by the grand jury. and
the bridewell is filled with city prisoners
and a few men held on government
charges Less than a dozen enemy
aliens have been interned in the Chi
cago district since the beginning Of the
war.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01

Methodist Episcopal Church.
T. J. Bassett. pastor. ,
500 a. m. Glass meeting
9:45 a. m. Sunday school
10:45 a. m Morning worship
Theme: Debts and Debtors"
$50 p. m. Epworth league.
$50 p. m. Evening worship.
Theme: Rest"
The pastor win preach morning and
evening.
First Baptist Church. 2o7-21s sibley
street. Phone I'll. Floyd H. Adams.
Pastor. Residence, Is williams street
Phone 1911.
1880 Morning worship.
Sermon by the pastor.
Lord, Is 1t Il Communion.
1915 Sunday school.
100 East Hammond Sunday kinder
garten.
100 East Hammond Sunday school
800 West Hammond Sunday school.
2;30 Burnham Sunday school
$50 Evening service
Sermon by the pastor.
Subject: The Dignity of Labor"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01
Associated Bible Students. will ne

Associated Bible Students, will meet
at 3 p. m. sunday at the X. Of p. hall.
All are invited.
The Christian Church, Calumet Ave-
nue. and Summer street. c. J. Sharp.
pastor. Phone 1045J.
Orchestra concert. s:15.
F2ible school. $40 a. m.
Communion and preaching service.
II
Junior eongr&gation and c. E. serv-
fee. II q. m.
Christian Endeavor, $50 ?. m.
Moving pictures. 1880 p. m.
Fr4edens Evangelical Church.
Cor. Sohl st. and Indiana Ave.
Rev Peter We'll. Pastor.
sunday school. $50.
Church service. 1880 a. IA.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01

At her home in Detroit street last
evening Miss Helen Stout was hostess
at a pleasant meeting Of the d. A. 81
Club. The members brought their knit
ting and needle work and during the
evening We're entertained with music
The hostess served her guests with re-
bv,ao+s
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01
&c christlar chureh. calumst

at p. m. Sunday. at the X. Of p. hall
All are invited.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-09-01

The monthly class meeting of Olivet
Circle. Loyal Women was held yester-
day afternoon in the parlcrs of the First
Christian church Following a short
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Virginia Earl BrOOHiuU

Among the girls sly little darkeycd minN named Annie
NJ Taylor pretty to look caught the fancy
and another girl with dark
her lips and cheeks, sedate. piece cut away
from the top of her then fashion
Virginia Earl Brooma The boys consisted
handba corncrba duck davy shndy the girls
lackones and humble We had public exer
cises the Temperance Hall which usually delivered address
French which Indicated the erudon school, very
little good to the audience continued Grovemont
and far progressed that only reemauue
of Fenelon but also French translation Pioneers
much more difficult matter In Latin read Of
Aesops Fables and other materials, Caesars Beo Calico
Aeneid NirgiS Georges and Bucoc Sast, and iyy
The classes were required read and
of the Aeneid daily task lines because in
tceated. Four books expected to compee and
all that demanded Yale lay the garret
all Of the Georgcs and Buocs Greek. reader the
strength and precision of the pleased has never
been forgotten The Greek with its detail and
prousion Of form and dialects TO indicate lack
of force and Greek has little my recognition
of scientific terms. In ancies Virgil
may be unorthodoN but am of the opinion
MATES finished Euclid and Algebra and went
along with philosophy chemistry. history. grammar English
composition.
In 1859 at the Of had finished my education
far schools but the learning
of the world it is contained printed books opened
to me and have permitted it \ college
great opportunity but after all is only the path
the journey ends depends the ending
school days consider that youth period
life where many only beginning had the
responsibility of burden
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The AUTOBIOGRAPHY 0A PENNSYLVANIA
IS nysyss y SaSssf! zssf zsntS2 Mzs>'0cNo" 4 @
'CXCLS
and EaerSeHc Governor
,0OXS


Mont Clare My entering the altogether wise
movement but like most of the unwsdom Of fe had its
ons in added experience and in not always able 10
At this time Rev Joel f.. Bradley preacher OF the Baptist
Church. had opened school for boys and girls in old homc
the house built by Wernwag PhoenXv called the
mont Seminary; Of requirements he aided in the
translation of revised version Of the Scriptures from the Hebrew
and Greek and he had had long teaching
good school in the that those pupils who wanted learn
mad the opportunity presented them the other hand had
kindly disposition and exercised little mpelng
restraint those who idle
Mr. Bradley began preparation the Sophomore Class
Yale College in the school years.
told mother that the pupil he had
his long experience The abest school
Sower descendant of the famous printer lie
the anaycay and consructvey and
had unusual gift Of speech expected for him brilliant
We worked together, and together solved REFUSES and
cngmas and intimate hut day
life without result and closed failure Every
in fact of know what yet
mental of what with he
we're fixed beliefs So many who have stood in in
life have peshed from before three of them
suicide that least able understand why
there faith dread the cv When years
ward friend of both quietly said commenting upon
Of Sowe "e
with YOU it made solemn and Another boy, Single
ton NJ Ashenetcr little the rough, but with vital
and goodhcartcd afterward the United States District Attorney
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Once Jackets mind was fastened upon
any subject, it remained there, and attes
a time he continued:
"Yes, I bet ! don't taste good 10 no
Spaniard Did I told you about that bat
tie of Pine Bravo? Eh?" He turned his
big brown eyes upward to O'Reilly,
"Cristo. / skill morn a dozen men that
day"
"Oh, Jacket" the Americans cried,
You monstrous little liar!' commented
OReilly.
Isl, senors," the boy went ON, COM
placent'- THAT day l skill more'n six
men. 1t was this way; we came on them
from behind and they don't see us. Phui!
We skill plenty, all right"
"It was a hot scrimmage,' Judson at
tested. Some of Luque's niggers, those
tall, lean, hungry fellows from Santiago,
managed to hack their way through
a wire fence and get behind a detachment
of the enemy who had made stand
under a hill. They charged, and for a
wonder they got close enough TO use their
machetes. 1t was bloody work-the kind
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you read about-no quarter. Somehow
Jacket managed to he right in the middle
of the butchory. He's a bravo kid, all
right. Muy malo"'
Jacket Explains
There was moments silence, then
Judson continued: Funny thing hap.
pened afterward, though. Jacket had
TO do his turn at picket duty that night,
and he got scared of the dark. We heard
him squalling aud screaming"
Jacket started To his feet. That's
dam le," he exclaimed, resentfully. Pm
not scared Of no dark"
Didn't you holler till YOU woke the
whole camp?'
81 amt scared of no dark" the boy
repeated; but his pride, his complacency,
had suddenly vanished.
Did you cry?" O'Reilly smiled; and
the lad nodded reluctantly,
Did he cry?" Judson echoed. why
we thought we were attacked He put
the whole camp in an uproar,
What was the trouble, Jacket?"
IL was" The boys smooth
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Thc Young items Literary Union

Ii the early days great gathering OF
mules about 10000 of them. the commissary
mcnt at Pcrryyc Nd and having believe that could
exert influence Colonel Charles c. Sawtele command
there asked for position with the
handling Of those mules Happily all these ended
eneht Twice during each week daylight trudged
bridge the
back IN large basket perhaps twenty-five pounds of beef
mother Connected with the house garden which
abor therein old grandmother
had of goosebey bushes bushsred black
whiteand planted holyhoks and dahas delight dug
the garden all with spade and cultivated raising radshe peas
beans asparagus, cabbage urnips, bee and
In PhoenXvile the Young Mems Literary Union had
the store Reeves Cornett the Bridge and
Main streets and there subscribed the daily
Philadelphia and New York and the for the
London Punch and Times and the London Art Journal arper
Weekly, Vanity Fair and the Scientific Monthly
fair library of history and
of the day discussed formal The
societies of my youth certainly helped much gain self
possession and develop the capacity public speech which
bers the lawyers then the townWiam
had studied both medicine and
of the regiments during the fluent
mens and perhaps for this looked with dfavo
Charles Armitagc souchy Ltraned
who always fvore and later killed while fighting the
battles Of his Among the other members Ashenfeer
before referred to- Horace Lloyd upright and methodca
clerk in the bank Josiah White White
Ashenfeter annoyed him White empied
the light of his Lloyd occupied chairs with
his heels absorbing the Tribune which he had held the
Of the White interrupted this
setting fire the lieutenant in Company G, of the First
Pennsylvania Reserves he killed
the Wilderness became president of the Literary Union
CONTINUED
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CHAPTER IN
Que Faire.'

THOUGH entirely prepared for the sophomore at Yale and
in fact having progressed much further in studies
requirements the proposition had be abandoned
prosac reason that the could be
Most persons look back to their youth of
free from the of responsibility With
hood period filled with
five feet ten inches height, slim and
27 pounds The mental attitude those
depress rather than encourage. 4
Whitaker told somebody that would probably
eighteen years of and in the diagnosis prophecy
had to He did not stand alone; others my relatives
blunt than discreet had indicated by
what similar opinion and had such result
able hoped to be able TO last until hryfve that might
the whether
life Remembering these moods they were
entirely unreal because they always
mnaton to take hold somewhere that would
This is the feeling of mObund weakng.
must have approached condition not then recognized but which
have since to know pTosraOn
with mother to the railroad station
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for New Mexico became closest The principal had
two sons in the school, JOEL whom everybody liked killed
the Wilderness. wounded
Joel went back and shot while standing him holding
caneen he drank The other William Bradley
medicine became the editor of in Wilkes in
huental and then for employed
department Of the Weekly Press in Philadelphia Quarreg with
Cooke the general he charged with
and convicted always doubted result
of first cousins Benjamin r. and Andrew Whitaker
also among the pupils Benjamin dead served throughout
the in the l0ih Pennsylvania Regiment studying
medicine surgeon to the Inflated Collins expedition Brazil
Andrew has been only relative but
Fish Commission.
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The Preferable Death

I'm getting about fed up on Leslie
he declared. Hes the worlds champion
crepe hanger, and he's painted the whole
world such a deep, despondent blue that
I'm completely dismal. You've got to take
him off my hands"
hudson Grunted. What ails him.
We'll. he wears wreath of immorteles
day and night. Haven't you guessed why
he runs such desperate chances? He's
slck-thinks he's going to die, anyhow,
and wants to finish the job quick. I'm
the one who has to endure him
"Suicide?"
1T amounts to that
"The devilm Judson pondered for a
moment. Cant you cheer him up?
"I?" O'Reilly lifted his hands in
gesture of helplessness. When ! try he
gets sore at my heartless indifference
when | sympathize he declares I'm nudGl
ing him closer to his grave-says I'm
kicking the crutches out from under him.
He's lust plain vitriol. I'D rather live
with an adder"
O'Reillys youthful asistente, who at
the moment was painstakingly mahuiac-
turing a huge black cigar for himself out
OF some purloined tobacco, pricked up his
ears at the mention of Branch's name
and now edged closer exclaiming:
"Caramba! There's a hero for you.
Neester Branch is the bravest man ever
seen. Our people call him Eel DemonioF'
o'Reily jerked his head toward the
Cuban. you see? He's made the hit Of
his life and yet he resents it. The Cubans
are beginning to think he carries a rab'
bits foot"
"No rabbits foot about it," the captain
asserted. Hes just so blamed thin the
Spaniards can't hit him; it's like shoot
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brown cheeks palcd, and his moist eyes
dilated at the memory. Il amt scared
OF any --- Spanard when he's
alive, butts different when he's dead.
| could see dead ones everywhere He
shuddered involuntarly. "They fetched
me to General Gomez and Caramba! he's
mad. But after | tell him what I see in
the dark he say | don't have to 20 back
there no more. lie let me go to sleep
'lonEside of his hammock, and bimeby
quit cryin'. ] amt never stood no picket
duty since that night, won't do it,"
NOrne Under Discussion ~
II was plain that discussion of this
unhappy subject was deeply distastefui
to the youthful hero Of Pine Bravo, for
he edged away, and IA moment later dis
appeared,
There's no end Of yellow-jack among
the Spaniards," said Judson, Speaking
of that, what do you think of Miss
Evanss work in the field hospitals?"
81 don't think much of it," O'Reilly con.
fcssed.
O'Reilly smiled, understanding now the
reason for his companions reckless, al
most frenzied use OF soap and water that
morning, and his cheerful stoicism ia
the hands of volunteer barber more
accustomed TO the uses of machets
than a razor.
Evidently Judson had fallen, too-along
with Major Ramos and Colonel Lopez
and Leslie Branch and all the rest.
Well, it was' to be expected. Before he
had been a week in Cuba O'Reilly had
noticed that Miss Evans was a mystery
and "a delight TO nearly every man she
met.
so you've got it, eh?" he inquired.
Got what?" Judson did not turn his
eyes,
at"
at? II you can't talk English, talk
Spanish
O'Reilly was not perturbed by this
grufIness II think her presence here il
the siliest. the most scandalous thing I
ever heard Of" said he. The idea 0f =
girl of her accomplishments. her msas8
alone in Cuba. Why, It's crimih6l." "
tcoNTINUEp To,koR1Qp
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O'Reilly'S MajOr-Domo

O'Reilly'S Ma ajor-DOmo
This Camagu"yan boy was "A character.
tie was perhaps siNteen, and small for his
ne was a seasoned veteran. and his Amer.
can camp-mates had grown exceedingly
fond of linn. He was a pretty, graceful
youngster his eyes We're large and soft
and dark, his face was as sensitive ana
mobile as that Of a girl; and yet, despite
his youth. he had won "A reputation for
daring and fcrocity quite as notable in
its way as was the rcnown Of Leslie
Branch.
There were many of these immature
soldiers among the Insurrectos, and most
of them We're in some way distinguished
for yalor.
Jacket was one of these, and he was
perhaps the truest patriot of any soldier
i'm Miguel Lopez's band; for liberty, to
him, was not n mere abstraction or
principle, but something real, tangible,
alive-something worthy Of the highest
sacrifice. In his person all the wrongs ot
Cuba burned perpetually. 1t mattered
not that he himself had never suffered
MS SlJIllI was lut Spliit VI MS COUNTY,
pure, exalted, undefiled lie stood for
what the others fought for.
In order to expand his knowledge of
English-of which, by the way, he was
nordinately proud-Jacket had volun-
teered to serve as O'Reilly's striker, and
the result had been fast friendship.
IL was ORelly who had given the boy
his nckname-a name prompted by a
marked eccentricity, for although Jacket
possessed the two garments which con.
stituted the ordinary lnsurrecto uniform
he made "A practice Of wearing only one.
On chilly nights, or on formal occa sions.
he wore both waistcoat and trousers, but
at other times he is,eIlsed entirely with
the latter, and his legs went naked. They
were naked now, as, with the modesty
Of complete Inconsistencies, he squatted
in the shade, putting thoughtfully at his
giant cheroot.
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Copyright. 1917 Harper G. Bros.
CHAPTER XVIII (COntinued)

THERE had been, at first, some doubt
L Of Branch's fitness to take the field at
all-he had suffered q severe hemorrhage
shortly after his arrival at Cubitas-and
It was only after a hysterical demonstra-
tOn on his part that he had been ac-
cepted as a soldier. He simply would
not be left behind. At first the Cubans
regarded him with mingled contempt and
pity, for certainly no less promising vol
unteer had ever taken service with them.
The Bullet Eater"
His conduct in the face of this general
admiration was no less unexpected thah
his behavior under fire: Branch grufiiy
refused to accept any tribute whatever
he snarled he fairly barked at those or
his comrades who tried to express their
appreciation of his conduct-a demeanor
which, of course, awakened even greater
admiration among the Cubans He was
uniformly surly and sour; he sneered'
he scoffed, he found fault, He mad the
tongue Of a common scold, and he USED
It with malevolent abandon.
O'Reilly alone understood the reason
for the fellows morbid irrtability, his
suicidal recklessness; but when he pri
vately demonstrated he was gruihy told
to mind his own business. Branch hatly
! refused to modify his conducts he seemed
really bent upon cheating the disease
shat made his life misery.
But, as usual. Fate was perverse; she
refused to humor the sick mans nope
When, after blindly inviting death, Leslie
. had emerged from several engagements
unscathed, his surprise--and perhaps a
natural relief at finding himself whole
became tinged with a certain apprehension
lest he survive those deliberately courted
dangers. only to succumb to the ills and
privations of camp life.
The fellows tongue grew ever sharper;
his society became intolerable, his gloom
oppressive and irresistibly contagious
When, after several weeks of campaign
ing. the column went into camp for
short rest. O'Reilly decided that he would
try to throw off the burden OF Leslies $
\ eFsrwhelming detection, and, If possible
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CHAPTER II Continued

whom he had read medicine and with mine had read
medicine had recently purchased drug at the southwest
Frankford road and Wood
dephia wanted a boy to him upon an agreement
that should receive board with first year and $50
second My services began the 1857
His wife, also somewhat related me- though more saptv
of his leaving his drug
and she displayed her dapprova by refusing up the house
my basin and pitcher stood washand there were
and chairs, but other furniture Garnet
opened o'clock in the morning swept out and
NV ended haafter night. was
closed Saturday night when they half
after We sold glass well drugs cutting it to the
required with diamond and mixed paints varnshcs
learned the business. to putting the prescriptions
doctors Hydrarg. chor nit is firmly in and
there acquired has he through
Who'll life.
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Experiences as a Drug CIerI

Quinine ounce: arsenic bought at the rate of ten
cents pound sold by the 81 per ounce
cleaned the bottles furnished the the
plies secured at the wholesale Smith, at the
Second and Green Collins Fifth
street Market and often home twenty pounds of
putty. Generally rode with the driver of the omnibus,
affair with horses and with leading
fastened the leg of the gave
signal stop About this time the first railway
started Fifth and Sixth regarded
as wonderful.
mix paint for customer and while busy my
the lamp exploded and the flame
danger The cellar full Of paint varnsh which
around the glass pulled the fragments of the lamp away
them behind and succeeded in putting
burning hands considerably Then
found that had thrown the lamp into pile of hay and the fire
spreading the cellar That disturbed called
help The kitchen girl the top of the stairs and seeing
the trouble concluded it safer where she stood 1t
closed cellar with of exit by stairway
succeeded in fighting the fire. finally stamped and
saved the house.
door opened the rear the store into the
another door from the dnngroom into the kitchen One
afternoon tending the the girl in the dining
cleaning off the table while the baby lay ii,
the cradle beside her. and the the kitchen the
trying dubious experiment boiling varnsh
from the dnngroom and rushing through the holding
hand napkin and in the other knife and fork followed
by volume of black smoke In her she Wood
and took refuge behind long box which there the
red hair and beard backened and sched Suddenly the thought
of the baby abandoned by the girl occurred him and turning
back he rescued it from its dangerous berth The vansh had
taken fire. Everything the kitchen burned but the fire
engines coming upon the alarm the fire
before harm had been done For weeks the doctor
remained unable business and had charge
and responsibility for the At the end the his wife
had her and he sold the named Rex remained
with him weeks enable him the locations
drugs and introduce him the and then having
taken of myself for and earned $780, returned to
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END X 81

shift portion OF it upon the shoulders
Of Captain Judson.
On the day after their arrival OReilly
and the big artillcryman took advantage
Of a pleasant stream to bathe and wash
their clothes; then, while they lay in their
hammoclis, enjoying the luxury of tat
tered olcloth shelter and waiting for the
sun TO dry their garments, OReilly spoke
what was in his mind.