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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-05-23

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The boy has gone off to war.

The boy has gone of TO war.
It's lonesome without him isn't it2
You got awfully provoked at him some
times. he was so full of life and vitality
and you, growing older. well-some-
times he got on your nerves.
and now he's gone and gee! how you
miss him for your love him so and
he's your boy but we'll let Editor Tom
Bodine tell about it.
The boy here in the office went away
to Fort Riley the other day. and it is
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS even than We
thought it could be.
He was six feet and alive-thor-
oughIy alive and every morning Life,
ebullient. overlooking, contagious, swag-
gered asertively into the office with him.
1t brought laughter with it. and stimu-
lation, and a redundance Of animal
spirits that put WEAKNESS to shame
The commonplace vanished the moment
he entered and grind ceased. Color
came again in old and forgotten com
binations, the day became prismatic,
and experience. was hourly recreatsd.
We reviled him for his crudity and each
hour in the day heaped upon his dolichc-
cephalic blond head an infinity of deri
sion because Of his treatment of comas
as being useless things and his determ-
ination to spell words just as near right
to be wrong as it was possible to do
and remain respectable We used
strange and forbidden adjectives Gall
for his good and our own joy) to con-
vince him that the male man under AZ
is necessarily blank fool but they
battered down on him as harmlessly as
bird shot on the hide of rhinoceros.
He laughed and went his way. That
way led first to suit of kahki and Ft.
Riley, and from there it may trek across
seas-to Lens. Berlin, God knows where.
but always. wherever it leads. there
will be the echo of laughter and a great
indifference. The sunshine on his head
dates back to the retreat of the gla-
ciers and atavism has been whispering
in his ear since cradle time the story of
a great adventure.
And we didn't know until this morn
ing how lonesome it would be without
him, how unfortunately long the hours
or how insufferably dull. All day we
have been expecting him TO enter the
door and at every shuttle of feet behind
us we have turned to exclaim-
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lettuce and two pounds of granulated
sugar.
PRUSSIA says it will fight to
finish
PRUSSIA'S finish?
BE went. don't be a sent.
HOPE the war fever subsidies before
the hay fever sets in.
ENGLAND can't be so dreadfully
stirred after all
THEY are having a neat argument
in the London Times about whether
Sarah Siddons, the great actress. who
died in 1881
WAS knock kneed or not.
THE Cars big diamond the Orlonf
worth ten million dollars, is to be auc-
toned off
GREAT chance for some of the food
spectators.
THAT queer noise you get as you
nut your ear to the ground
is not the noise of cheering as Col
Roosevelt leads his troops
DOWN the gang-plank to the trans
port.
WE'D like to hear good sisters
story
ON the weatherman.
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"The Boy Has Gone
To Join The COIOrS
And You Are Lonesomer Than You Ever Thought
You Could Be and He is But One of Thous
ands Who Have Gone.

Can't make it out? Anybody witt
a grain of gumption ought to be abb
to get that-let's see
But he's not there. This office i
the lonesomest place in these Unite,
States.
And he is but one. our boy. but 4.
type of the thousands who will q
laughing their way into the mouth .
that hell human madness has MAJ
across the sea. They will go laughia
because they are the inheritors of II
vitality of a race unafraid, itself boz
to laughter and without hatred. Laugh
ing, they will batter their way to Beriii
and laughing they will die if need J..
when the time comes 1t is the bloc
that rode behind Shelby. Sheridan az
Stuart and of its rich redness not O..
particle has paled.
Somehow a great envy follows then
as it followed him as the six feet {
him slouched out the door with indolen
grace and disappeared down the stree
where the train waited-envy of tn
firm taut muscles, blood beating [
music born in dim beginnings, envy 3
incarnate youth starting on the eterna
to dare and do. Yesterday you hi
father in the spirit, had them all, bu
nothing ever happened'-we are quotin
the boy in the office-and days an
years passed in pale monotony. sappin
nerve. softening muscles, building u
fat at the waist line and cutting you
wind along with your cruising radius
You tried to smoke it out and now you
heart hammers ava ike a disable
gasoline engine ana YOU couldn't get
the first line of trenches. Hence thes
absurd cautions. these great timidities
Yet yesterday you were the young ma
of the connection looked to with grow
ing Difference, and he was the lates
baby with something vague and indef
mite ahead of him. but of no consider
able moment at the time. 1t doesn
seem fair, and isn't fair. Because moth
ing did happen you envy him, but tina
doesn't make this office any less lone
some. Sorry. yes. miserable slacke
at heart-but glad. He may be blow
to atoms. but that's nothing to dull an
purposeless days and years draggin
into age and uraemic apathies, an oil
man without a tale to tell or thrill
to record. With world freedom at stalk
it is a privilege, great opportunit
to be joyously accepted We delegat
our swearing in the future to Captar
Rivers and the drill masters at For
Riley. trusting that nothing needfu
will be foreborne. 1t is a duty reluct
antly relinquished. but some sacrifice
are essential unless patriotism is lack
ing.
Still, it is lonesome in this offic.
where nothing happens" day in an
day out, to laugh about. fuss about o
swear about Age has its dignities
but also its humiliations.
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UNTIL some bright soul


COT a lot of fair maids to put on
overalls and come out with rakes
THEN the whole town turned out and
every baId-headed business man in Pom
tiac
LOCKED up his store and raked to
beat the band.
WHAT we like about a freckled,
giggly. roly-poly girl
is that she can enjoy herself so
much for such a little money.
SOMEBODY over the phone told us
how glad she was that we had started
up again but hoped to goodness
WE would be decent" and then rang
off
TO whom are you referring. to whom
AN astute observer says that when
a woman has married twice
THE first time she married for love
BE that as it may
JAMES w. Gerard says American
women
ARE too lazy to take a basket to mar
ket and do their own buying
WELL. we should love to see the
chubby ambassador going home merrily
swinging basket containing
SOUP bone. an onion. head of
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PASS TT ALONG.

reported
properties
inspected. says
That's part
institutions the Welfare OF ne proper s, c and
mine
life Such action
the state might
why
enemies of the people them
1NTERNAfENT needed for Spectator Americans
THE Lord NAV not be with the coal
everybody home rule for Ireland but the people who
I'VE n ~
PULLMAN Company half
O.
GRIFFITH lady writes poem
f they'll only look around for it.
SWITZERLAND reported to be somewhat be
her for sending those yodeiers over here
appropriate gift
Heavens sake don't be sarcastic at wedding
RUSSIA is drunk with freedom says exchange Ring up
YOUNG daughter of mayor proud
older and the first kiss from her beau
THAT we shown by
fact that some
teras
JUST around here Local
plant advses offering 80
hour
GARY man claims kick that gave
him check forge hence
caused 1917 while cranking Ford
WALL street Journal earnings all of the
Complaint
cutting price Of gasoline in two there
srxrEENYrARolD wife of
room has divorce the Juvenile
n
FEDERAL court to protect
social
meet sintom teas?
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THE
PASSING
SHOW
THERE is one consolation left

THERE is one consolation left
WE have had no news whatever OF
the garlic crop for goodness knows how
long.
NEITHER has our picture service
company sent US any mats of w j.
Bryan's enlistment papers
IN our foolish and yet generally good
natured way. our idea of good dress
reformer is a mother who can cut down
A PAIR of fathers old pants
And turn out perfectly corking pair
for a small boy
YET how we always dfd hate 70 wear
EN-
DOWN at Pontiac. ILL.,. it was impos-
sible to get people interested in clean
mn week
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ROBERTSDALE
FOR RENT-Light housekeeping rooms.
1859 Amy Ave.

1853 Amy Ave
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur White of Chicago
were guests Of Mr. and Mrs julius
Zimmerman of Lake avenue. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Eaton of Atchison
avenue entertained Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Duke of Wanatah Ind. over Sunday.
Mrs. Fritz Kasch and daughters. Mrs.
Carl Moore and Mrs Herman Regnier
and Miss Ruth Jewett attended the
funeral Of Mrs. Sullivan at Windsor
Park Tuesday.
Mrs. Wheaton of Chicago is spending
a few days here the guest of Mrs. ].
Ease of Roberts avenue.
The many friends here of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Jewet of Hammond will be
glad to learn they are the proud parents
of a baby girl. born Tuesday.
Mrs Whiting and children of Ham
mond visited her mother, Mrs. Frank
Schultz of Amy avenue. yesterday
Miss Rose Carlton of East Side Wis
tied friends here last evening.
Mrs Andrew Bogovich visited her
mother Mrs. Krouse of South Chicago,
yesterday
Miss Ruth Jewett and Juanita Spears
were guests of the formers aunt, Mrs
Hunt of Hammond. Monday.
Mrs Edward Langohr of Myrtle
avenue visited friends in East Chicago.
Sunday.
The tenth annual convention of the
Pythian Sisters will be held at the
l. o. o. +. hall, Friday afternoon and
evening.
Mrs. Henry Foster and daughter of
East Chicago visited her mother Mrs
Rose of Amy avenue, Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Ehlers returned home
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A POOR REWARD.

No Of
hundreds
world should
their commodiytheir
9
Newcastle Times
in the
Without all the free advertising
Every
publ
a of
did
andsh 0
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from FINLEY Park. Ill, after a two
weeks visit with relatives
Mrs. John Eek of Indiana boulevard
visited friends in Chicago yesterday.
Gerald Harper of the Great Lakes
naval station visited at the Cough home
in Roberts avenue, Sunday
Roy Haight of Roberts avenue trans
acted business in Chicago. yesterday.
TIMES ads are personal messages 70
he people of this community from the
merchants
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GRIFFITH lady poem sand dunes Any one can
the dunes if they'll only look around for it,
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SWITZERLAND reported to be somewhat sore at us Cant
than those yodelers here
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PULLMAN Company asleep Has subscribed for mil'
Of Liberty Bonds.
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YOUNG daughter Boston proud because Gen j
Oh lust wait till years older and gets the first kiss
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RUSSIA with freedom, says exchange Ring
Cure and see what's Russia druI
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A. C. H hardly Liberty Bond would be apI
for bridegroom don't sarcastic at
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GARY man claims that horse gave him in head wheI
him check orger today Old stuff but it will change Twent
excuse will be that it injury caused in 1917 while
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THAT we are now really with the Allies in this
fact that munition makers are soaking EN-
The Benson signal., 1917-08-18

Hugginq His Shield, De Spain Threw
His Second Shot Over Sandusky's
Shoulder.
ing his senses tricked him, he felt
again and again for it before he would
believe it was not buckled somewhere
about him. But it was gone, and he
stuck back in his waistband his useless
revolver. One hope remained-flight,
and he spurred his horse cruelty.
Blood running continually into his
eyes from the wound in his head made
him think his eyes were gone, and di-
rection was a thing quite beyond his
power of compass. He made little ef-
fort to guide, and his infuriated horse
flew along as If winged.
A warm, sticky feeling in his right
boot warned him, when he tried to
make some mental inventory of his
condition, Of at least one other wound
He could not see twenty feet ahead or
behind. Even when he hurriedly wiped
the cloud from his eyes his vision
seemed to have failed, and he could
only cling to his horse to put the miles
as fast as possible between himself
and more Of the MOrgans.
A perceptible weakness presently
forced him to realize he must look to
his wounded foot. Before he slackened
speed he tried to look behind to recon
hotter. With relief he perceived his
sight to be trifle better, and in scan
ming the horizon he could discover no
pursuers. Choosing secluded spot,
he dismounted, cut open his boot, and
found that a bullet, passing down
ward, had torn an artery under the
arch of the foot. Making rude tour
niQuet, he succeeded in checking pretty
well the squirting flow that was sap
ping his strength. After he had ad-
justed the bandage he stood up and
looked at 1t.
Then he drew his revolver again and
broke it. He found five empty shells
in the chambers and threw them away.
The last cartridge had not been fired.
He could not even figure out how he
had happened to have six cartridges in
the cylinder, for he rarely loaded more
than five. Indeed, it was his fixed
habit-to avoid accidents-never to
carry a cartridge under the hammer
Of his gun-yet now there had been
one. Without trying to explain the
circumstance, he took fresh stock of
his chances and began to wonder
whether he might yet escape and live.
He climbed again into the saddle.
and, riding to a ridge, looked carefully
over the desert. 1t was with an effort
that he could steady himself, and the
extent of his weakness, surprised him.
What further perplexed him as he
crossed long divide. got another good
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his agile enemy, dropping his revolver,
lodged under the rail to close. De
Spain, struggling to free himself from
the dying man, saw, through a mist,
the greenish eyes and the thirsty knife.
He fired from the floor. The bullet
shook without stopping his enemy, and
DE Spain. partly caught under San
dusky's body, thought, as Sassoon came
on, the game was up. With an effort
born of desperation, he dragged him
self from under the twitching giant,
freed his revolver rolled away, and,
with his sight swimming, swung the
gun at SassOOn's stomach. He meant
to Kill him. The bullet whirled the
white-faced man to one side and he
dropped, but pulled himself, full of
fight. to his knees and, knife in hand.
painted forward. De Spain, rolling has
t1ly from him, staggered to his feet,
and, running in as SassOon tried to
strike, beat him senseless with the
butt of his gun.
His own eyes were streaming blood.
His head was reeling and he was
breathless, but he remembered those
Of the gang waiting outside. He still
could see dimly the window at the
end Of the bar. Dashing his fingers
through the red stream on his fore
head, he ran for the window, smashed
through the sash into the patio and
found Sassoon's horse trembling at the
fusillade. Catching the lines and the
pommel, he stuck his foot up again
and again for the stirrup. 1t was use
less; he could not make it. Then,
summoning all of his fast-ebbing
strength, he threw himself like sack
across the horses back, lashed the
brute through the open gateway,
climbed into the saddle, and spurred
blindly away.
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CHAPTER Ix-continued.

Still regarding De Spain with the
most businesslike expression, the griz-
zled outlaw took a guarded step for
ward, his companions following suit.
De Spain. always with Jealous regard
for the relative distance between him
and his self-appointed executiOners,
moved backward. In crossing the room,
Sandusky,, without objection from his
companions, moved across their front,
and when the four lined up at the bar;
their positions had changed. De Spain
stood at the extreme left, Sandusky
next. Logan beside him. and Gale Nor
gan, at the other end Of the line, pre-
tended to pound the bar for service.
DE Spain. following mountain etiquette
In the circumstances, spread his open
hands. palms down. on the bar.s San
dusky's great palms slid in the same
fashion over the checked slab In un-
spoken recognition of the brief armiS-
tice. LOgan's hands came up in turn,
and Morgan still pounded for someone
to serve.
DE Spain in the new disposition
weighed his chances as being both bet
ter and worse. They had put Sandus-
ky's first shot ut no more than an
arms length from his prey, with Lo-
gan next, TO cover the possibility Of
the big fellows failing to paralyze De
Spain the first instant On the other
hand, De Spain. trained in the tactics
of Whispering Smith and Medicine
Bend gunmen, welcomed shOrt-arm
struggle with the worst of his assail-
ants closest at hand. Their maneuver-
ing caused no disQuiet to their slen-
der, compactly built victim. 'Youl!
wait long time, if you wait for serv-
Ing with composure on Morgan's i'm
patience. Logan looked again at his
two companions and laughed.
Every hope De Spain had of possible
help from the back room died with
that laugh. Then the door behind the
bar slowly opened, and the scar-fea-
tured face of Sassoon peered cautious
ly from the gloom. The horsethief,
STOPPING, walked in with leer directed
triulnphantly at the railroad man.
If it were possible to deepen 1t, the
sinister spot on De Spain's face dark
ened. Something in his blood ragged
at the sight of the malevolent face. He
glanced at Logan. ''This," he smiled
family, nodding toward Sassoon as he
himself took a short step farther to
the left, "is your drink, Harvey, is it?"
"No," retorted Logan loudly, this
Is your drink"
"Pll take SassoOn," assented De
Spain, good-natured again and shifting
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CHAPTER X.
After the Storm.

For week the search continued day
and night, but each day, even each
succeeding hour, reduced the expec-
tation Of ever seeing De Spain alive.
Spies working at Calabasas, others
sent in by Jeffries to Music noun
tain among the Morgans, and men
from Medicine Bend haunting Sleepy
Cat could get no word of De Spain.
Deaf Sandusky and Logan had been
found dead at the Inn by Lefever on
the night after the fight. Fairly accu-
rate reports accounted for Gale Nor
gan, nursing a wound at home, and
for Sassoon, badly wounded and under
cover somewhere in the gap. Beyond
this, information halted.
Toward the end of the week a Mexi-
can sheepherder brought word in to
Lefever that he had seen in Duke
MOrgan's stable Sassoon's horse-the
one on which De Spain had escaped.
He averred he had seen the blood
stained Santa Fe saddle that had been
taken off the horse when the horse was
found at daybreak of the day follow
ing the fight, waiting at Sassoon's cor
raj to be cared for. There could be,
it was fairly well ascertained, no mis-
take about the horse-the man knew
the animal; but his information threw
no light on the fate of it's missing
rider
Though Scott had known first of
De Spain's helpless condition in his
desperate flight, as regarded self-de-
fense, the Indian was the last to aban-
don hope of seeing him alive again.
One night, in the midst of q gloomy
council at Jeffries' Office, he was
pressed for an explanation of his con-
fidence. 1t was always difficult for
Scott to explain his reasons for think
ing anything. Men with the surest in
stinct are usually poorest at reason
ing conviction out. But Bob, cross
examined and harried, managed to give
some explanation of the faith that was
in him. 'In the first place." he said,
'Pve ridden a good deal with that
man-pretty much all over the coun-
try north of Medicine Bend. He is as
full Of tricks as nuts full of meat.
Henry de Spain can hide out like an
Indian, and doctor himself. Then,
again, l know something about the
way he fights; up here they don't. If
those four fellows had ever seen him
in action. they never would hive ex-
pected to get out Of room aliva after
showdown with Henry de Spain. AS
near as I can make out from all the
talk that's floating around, what fooled
them was seeing him shoot at mark
here one day in Sleepy Cat"
Jeffries didn't interrupt, but he
slapped his knee sharply.
"You might just as we'll try to stand
on box Of dynamite, and shoot into
it, and expect to live to tell it." con-
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SUueIChed.

A family tree is unQdestionably Of
equal value to some persons as Is real
estate of a more material nature. But
it all depends upon whether or not the
branches of the tree are clean limbed.
This was the decision reached by the
two men discussing ancestry and he
redity and such philosophy.
II had my own family pedigree
traced by a genealogical authority last
week." said the taller Of the two men.
Indeed! What did it cost your"
''Fifty dollars hush money"
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KiIauea's Lava Lake.

Early reports indicate that the
alarms of war will not prevent many
Americans from visiting their new
national park in Hawaii. Three cele-
brated volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna
Loa and Haleakala are in the new
reservation. The lava lake at
Kilauea a spectacle which has drawn
thousands of visitors in past years
from every part of the world, will
be, it is predicted, unusually spectacu-
lar this season because of the recent
increased volcanic activity in the re-
gion.
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still another step to the left. what
do you fellows want now?"
eve want to punch hole through
that strawberry" said Logan, that
beauty-mark. Where did you get it,
De Spain?"
II might as well ask where you get
your gall, Harvey" returned De Spain,
watching Logan hunch Sandusky
toward the left that both might crowd
him closer. II was born with my
beauty-mark-just as you were born
with your ID lad manners" he
added composedly, for in hugging up
to him his enemies were playing his
game. You can't help 1t, neither can
he went ON. Somebody is bound
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tinued Scott mildly, 'as to shoot into
that fellow in a room with closed doors
and expect to get away with 1t. The
only way the bunch can ever kill that
man, without getting killed themselves,
is to get him from behind; and at that,
John, the man that fires the gun," MUIR
INJURED the scout, "ought to be behind a
tree.
'You say he is hit. l grant it," he
concluded. But l knew him once,
when he was hit, to lie out in the bush
for week. He got cut off once from
Whispering Smith and Kennedy after
a scrimmage outside Williams Cache
two years ago.
''You don't believe, then, he's dead.
BOb?" demanded Jeffries impatiently.
mot till I see him dead" persisted
Scott unmoved.
De Spain, when he climbed into Sas-
soOn's saddle, was losing sight and
consciousness. He knew he could no
longer defend himself, and was so
faint that only the determination of
putting distance between him and any
pursuers held him to the horse after
he spurred away. With the instinct of
the hunted, he fumbled with his right
hand for his means of defense, and
was relieved to find his revolver, after
his panicky dash for safety, safe in its
place. He put his hand to his belt for
fresh cartridges. The belt was gone.
The discovery sent shock through
his falling faculties. He could not
recollect why he had no belt. Believ-
The Benson signal., 1917-08-18
Work Like Lightning.

GAS a borrower he's a wise guy"
"Whataya mean?"
"He never asks a man the second
time for a loan"
"That's what a fellow meant when
he said he worked like lightning. He
never strikes in the same place twice."
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No Promotion,
"What business did you say

"What business did you say the boss
was in?" asked the clerk.
"Why, he's promoter" replied the
superintendent.
"Well, there must be some mistake,
He's never promoted me. I've held
the same insignificant job ever since
I've been here"