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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Firemen's S Picnic

The grand picnic to be given on
Tuesday, July 4, by the members of
No. ? Fire Company at Boucher son
the. Spa, promises TO be great event.
The fremen are spRring no effort to
make the occasion the greatest success
vet held in the beautiful grove across
the Spa. Refreshments will be on sale
all day, and there wilt be muiso and
dancing both afternoon and evening,
as we'll as a prize shoot in the morn
ing. For particulars see ad. in an
other column.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Gone To Centreville

Mr.. Ridgely r. Melvin and Mr..
Alexander Randall left this morning
for trip to Centreyille WITH the in-
tention of remaining until after the
Fourth of July They started before
5 O'Clock on a yacht which they claim
t. be the fastest on the bay and which
was supposed to take them to their des-
tination before they had any desire
for breakfast.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Pastor Going Abroad

The Rev. Karl Buff, pastor of st.
Martins German Lutheran Church,
will sail for Bremen on Wednesday
next, July ,. from Baltimore on the
steamer Breslau. Mr. Buff intends TO
visit his former home at Battenberg
and Griessen. He will take trip on
the Rhine, and expects 10 be absent
two months, returning some time in
September. During the PASTORS alb
sence the Rev. f. Il. CruDtz, Of Bal
timore, and the Rev. Richard JuDgfer,
Of Parkville. Md. will conduct SER
vices at st. Martin German Lutheran
ChnFch
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Gone To New York

Mrs. Seeligman and family, who
have been occupying the house of
Rear Admiral Silas w. Terry, on
Maryland avenue, left today for their
old home in New York. They expect
to return in September or October, and
will occupy one of the new houses of
Mrs. Edward Robb, on East street
and King George streets. near the
Naval Academy gate.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Athletic Meet

An athletic meet is to be held on
July 4 in the Naval Acad smy oval, at Q
a. m, the participants Of which will
be the enlisted men of the Marine Bar
racks. The events Of the meet will
be published later. Sergeant w. p.
Mcleod is track manager.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Change of Residence

Mrs. GALLOWAY ChestOn., who Is
now occupying the house Of Mrs
Brainard, in Randall Court, will on
August !, move into the house on
Maryland avenue owned by Admiral
Terry, near the Naval Academy maiu
gate. Mrs. Cheston and family will
occupy the Terry house permanently.
The former occupants, the Seeligmau
family, moved to New York today.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Examination

The annual examination for the
school teachers of Anne Arundel coun-
ty and applications for teachers GER
tificates will be held in the school
house on Green street on Monday and
Tuesday. July II and is.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
Band at Deer Park

a portion of the Naval Academy
Band, that portion which now has its
months vacation, are at Deer Park
Hotel where they are furnishing
music for portion of the season.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01
At St. Margaret's S

There will be service at st. Marga-
ret S Protestant Episcopal Church to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock. The
Rev. w. L. Twamley will conduct
the services and preach the sermon.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-01

All "honor' pupils must have made
perfeot attendance. excellent deport-
meut aud general average of % per
cent, and at least % per cent in each
subject:
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Kansas

Kansas
Common sense, reason, experience and God are
against prohibition
-Ex.Go0ernor Robinson.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Prohibition DOES NOT Prohibit

MUCH experience has proved that illicit selling
" cannot get large development by the side Of
- license selling, if the police administration
be at all effective. 1T is ONLY IN REGIONS
WHERE PROHIBITION PREVAILS THAT
ILLICIT SELLING ASSUMES LARGE PRO
PORTIONS.
The efforts to enforce prohibitory legislation
during forty years past have had some unlooked-for
effects public respect for courts, judicial pro-
cedure oaths and law in general and for officers Of
the law legislators and public servants The public
has the law defied, whole generation Of habit
ual laW-breakers schooled in evasion and shame
lessness courts ineffective through fluctuations Of
policy delays, peruries, negligence and miscarriage
of JUSTICE officers of the law doube-faced and mer
cenary legislators tirnid and insincere candidates
for office hypocritca1 and trucking, and officehod
unfaithful to pledges and to reasonable public
expectations.
CHARLES w. ELIOT,
Preside HarOord
SETH LOW
Ex-Mayor of JVew York City
JAMES CARTER
Preside of o York City,
of Fifty Investigate the Liquor Problem
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Iowa

1T SOON appeared that the drug store was even
harder to regulate than the saloon, and that men
would drink in drug store who would not under a
license system, have drunk at public bar. The
business of selling drugs became in city like Des
Moines more profitable than banking Under the
cloak of pretended medical necessity and in many
cases even this fImsy subterfuge was Iackng-liquor
continued to be bought and sold as beverage, even
where there we're no saloons.
From Reports of Committee of Fifty.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Massachusetts,

MASSACHUSETTS tried prohibition for fifteen
wears from 1855 to 1870, during which she
found the law vain and injurious, and, upon the
testimony of her governors and best citizens, fatally
hurtful to the cause of temperance cAfter fifteen
years of earnest trial. she also repudated the law,
and when, in cApriL 1889, strenuous effort
made to again engraft prohibition upon the Con-
stitution of the state, it failed The farming popu-
lation threw it's weight with that of the cities
against the amendment One town only in the
commonwealth gave it a majority
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Maine

A CCORDING to the special United States tax pay
"A ments the liquor traffic exists in eishty-seven
places in Maine, containing 4O7,o25 of the 66l0S6
inhabitants of the State, or about 81 per cent An
exdeputy collector Of internal revenue states that in
1890, 056 persons paid this tax in Maine, and adds
'but have always figured that there were 500 more
who ought to have paid, but who did not"
From "The Liquor Problem" by the
Committee of Fifty.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Vermont

EXPERIENCE has shown that the law does
not prohibit l, myself have had to deal with
repeated cases of drunkenness some of them ha-
bitual unhindered and to certain extent I be-
Ieve provoked or aggravated by the existing law.
O. Prohibition drives underground the mis-
chief which it seeks to cure making it diff
cult to deal with the evil and impossible to regulate
the trade. "a.. r
g. The present law leads believe, in many
cases to heavier drinking in clubs and at home,
liquor being purchased in larger quantities than
would be the case if it were possible to purchase
glass of wine or beer.
a. Specially, perhaps among the young, pro-
hibiton provokes resistance.
S. The law, as it exists, is connected with
vast amount of hypocrisy
g. It tends to break down the sense of oblga-
ton in all law human or divine.
T. Our existing prohibition law consider fool
ish and mischievous, because it is largely an at
tempt on the part of one set of people to legslate
for another set of people.
cARTHUR G. A. HALL,
Burlington March 49, 1901 Bishop of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Massachusetts,

Prohibition has been enacted in this state, thor
oughly tried and repealed by its sponsors as con-
fessed failure.
-ExsGo0er0nr Russell
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
CARDINAL GIBBONS

long since came to understand that putting aside
the point of principle it was uirtuoLLy impossible to
enforce total dbStn ence Law in large con1n1un'
ity or in a state. D
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Prohibition States

Kansas, for every 479 of population.
Maine, for every 4s5 of population.
New Hampshire, for every 2eo of population
North Dakota, for every 4s2 of population.
Vermont, 1 for every sos of population.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25

1 feel certain that distilled spirits used as
beverage in Iowa under the present law (while
Iowa was still under prohibiton) than ever have
been or would be under license system.
-Ee.GoUernor Boies
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Michigan

You can't talk prohibition in c71ichgan, for we
have tried it and found what failure it is
-EesGo0ernor Giger.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
Maine

I found that, while was driving the liquor out of
the ordinary shops where it had been Sold I was
driving it into the houses and Kitchens where the
children of the family, who up to that time never
saw it, were accustomed to see it dealt out in that
surreptdous manner.
Hon Charles F. Libby, Portland, Me.
Ex-Presdent State Senate ex- Mayor of Portland
and States Attorney.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Prohibition wiu work great injury to the cause of
temperance lis species of intenaperance wittin
itself # prohibition taw strikes btoW at the Dery
principles on which our govern,ent wds founded.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
New Hampshire

We all know it has, as a general thing, been dis
obeyed, disregarded, scoffed at
Justice Ladd, Supreme Court
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-25
North Dakota

Prohibition is flat failure in North Dakota.
Bishop Stanley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
MIHAT JONES MIGHT LEARN.

one can almost picture the smile that
would rest on the face OF Paul Jones If
the grim old sea-fghter could have wit
messed that scene in Cherbourg harbor
when the four United States warships
arrived to escort his remains to his
adopted country. The respect accorded
the flag which was first raised on a
ship of war by his own hands would
thrill his entire being. And how his
smile would broaden as he beheId the
powerful ships beneath the Stars and
Stripes and recalled the DAYS when he
chased about the seas i'm crazy old tubs
10 make all corners take off their hats
10 that nagt
Then they would tell him things. They
would tell him that the descendants Of
the men who called him pirate now
fan over one another in their efforts to
say nice things TO the men who sail
under that flag They wouI tell hin,
that the ones who came after him have
proved worthy followers by giving the
world new lessons in war and Datriot-
ism. They would tell him something
about Farragut, and Dewey. and
Schley. and the rest. They would tell
him about the Oregon, and expIain IN
him that certain displays of marksmsu-
ship around Manila and Santiago had
helped 70 make the world rather erfu-
sive in paying respect to the flag and
the men beneath il. They would show,
him through the magnificent American
warships, so that he might connara
them with the craft Of his dav. Per
haps they would tow a barrel ou+ 70
the skyline and demoIish it with a sin
gle shot just 10 give him an idea of the
way they do things now. and then tba,-
might tell him that in all it's glorioue
history the American navy has notbing
finer than the story of Paul Jones
They might tell him that his fame has
eCown steadily greater through the
years; that he will always be known
as the father OF the American navy
that the spirit OF Paul Jones stW lives
and is the guaranty Of the perpetutt,,
of The government he did so much 70
build.
Yes, the old admiral would have q
good time i'm Chorbourg-almost as good
a time as when he met tbs. seraDis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
MILLION MARK PASSED.

Immigrants to the number of .062.-
600 landed at Ellis island during the
year ending June 30, thus confirming
the predictions made earlier in the
year that ali records would be broken.
The highest previous record was $751;
046. while the year ending June go.
1904, brought SI2.S70.
The reasons for this unprecedented
influx Of foreigners was recently point
ed out in The Herald. one of the great
contributing causes being the war in
the far east and the distressing inter-
nal conditions of the Russian empire.
These conditions have had a marked
effect on the character of the inIni-
grants. During the past year there
were fewer natives of Great Britain.
Germany and Scandinavia, which have
added to many good citizens to our
population, than in any one of-severaI
previous years when the actual num-
Der Of immigrants was much less than
during the past year Most of those
who have just come in are from south
ern and eastern Europe. chiefly SIavs
and Jews The problem now becomes
recognized that the further crowding
Of the foreign quarters Of the great
cities is attended by much danger to
the country, as well as to the future
of the immigrants themselves, and for
this reason the efforts of various in
Huential citizens OF foreign extraction
notably Jews and Italians who are
striving to lead their coUntrymeu from
the cities to the agricultural sections
Of the United States, are deserving OF
every eucoura cement The immigrants
that have been admitted cannot now
he turned back. More of them will
come, and something must be done to
furnish them With employment and to
place them amid environments where
they viii at least have an opportunity
TO become good citizens.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
WILL
TAKE HIS TIME
Intends to Learn Facts Before Act
ing in College Matter.
IS HOME FROM EUROPE
MEETING OF COLLEGE TRUSTEES
IN LOGAN SATURDAY.

OF course cannot say what 1 win
DO III the Agricultural college matter
until after have investigated the situa-
ton. IL would not be right for me TO
make up my mind in the matter or give
out statement before ascertaining the
facts"
me above brief statement sets forth
the position of President W. s. Nc
Cornick with reference to the trouble
that has broken out in the Agricultural
college at Logan. Mr.. Mccormick
reached home yesterday morning ac-
CoHlpanled by Mrs Mccormick and Miss
SeheVieve Mccormick. who has been in
schooI in Paris for the past two years.
Ihey came to me before I reached
nome, Mr.. Mccormick said in discus
sing ahalrs at the school, with the
charge that President Kerr was maxim g,
a Democratic political machine of the
A Agricultural college 1 told them thar
II that was all the objection there wa 6
10 Kerr IL would cut no figure with me.
never knew q less biased man than
president Kerr. l don't believe he is in
1ecting politics into the Institution. The
talk that the Agricultural college is
gong outside its proper suhere and
conducting lines of education that do
note belong in a school OF that kind is
not new We have heard that before
II hes its origin largely. 1 think. in the
University Of Utah. The fact of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
uEALTHFUL sALT.LAKE.

We seem to be growing healthier all
the time. You who have been com
planning of the hot days and forgetting
the cool nights. look at the report OF
the city board of health for June and
be comforied. IL shows that the death
rate for Salt Lake City is as low as the
lowest. No city in the United states
stands higher I'm this regard and few
are so free from infectious and con-
taSious diseases.
The report indicates that the health
department. is doing some vigiIaut. eff
fective work. But the health depart
ment is aided materially BY this giori-
Gus climate of ours. Where else is
there such good old summer time? II
is warm. yes, i'm the middle OF the after
noon but we can always find soIace in
the thought that when the sun dfps into
the waters of the lake the night viii b..
deliciously cool the air more refresh
ing than wine.
This is the great reason Why. our. old
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
SENATOR MITCHELL CONVICTED

The verdict in the case against SEN
ator Mitchell Of oregon was hardly a
surprise. The prosecution had made
out a very strong case and the only
reason for wonder is that the Jurors
were SO long in making up their minds
20 return a verdict of guilty. The re-
commentator for mercy shows the re-
Iuctance of the jury. even ian the face
OF the evidence, TO fasten Senator
AIitcheIIs crime upon him. However,
the recommendation will probably be
approved by a large majority of the
public.
There is a pitiful tragedy in this
Mitchell case. For few miserable doll
lars a man who for years honorabiy
filed a position that is considered as
second only TO the presidency, has
blasted his career almost at its close.
The gray hairs Of John Nipple Mitchell
viii go disgraced to the grave. 1t is
difficult to withhold sympathy from
Senator Mitchell. convicted felon
though he IS.
1t would have been better for him
had he died ten years ago in the full
enjoyment Of the respect and esteem Of
his fellow citizens. Then his memory
would have been an honored one. But
IL is idle TO speculate on the might have
beens- As Senator Mitchell stands fac
ing the doors of a prison his story
looms large on the history of the coun-
try, it stands high as a warning and
an example for all men, young and old
There is a trite old proverb that many,
OF US, in the rush and the hurry Of the
strenuous life have forgotten. 1t is:
Honesty is the best policy"
1t is too late for Senator Mitchell now
TO appreciate the full truth of the
proverb. but it is not too late for 9TH
crs to read the lesson. Sooner or later.
as surely as the sun rises in the east
and sinks i'm the west, the man who is
dishonest VIII come to grief. For a
time ne may bask in the sunlight of
prosperity, or, what is dearer TO some
of us. in the approval of his fellow men
But the cloud viii spread from the
breadth OF mans hand until the
heavens are overcast and the storm
breaks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
TIE FIGHTING GAME.

IL you read your morning paper
thoroughly yesterday you must have
acquired some. information regarding
the more or less manly art Of self de-
Tense as practfced by gentlemen in the
prize ring. Here in Salt Lake several
thousand people saw Mr.. Schreck and
Mr.. Barry settle difference of opinion
as TO which could hit the harder or take
the most punishment without becoming
unconscious. over in Nevada Mr.. Hart
OF Kentucky and Mr.. Root of Chicago
adJudicated a similar difference, also
before a large audience
In the Salt Lake audience. and we
presume in the Nevada audience as well,
were men from every walk in life. The
sober merchant sat elbow to elbow with
the Ioud-hued sporting man, the gam
bier exchanged comments on fisticufrs
with the doctor and the lawyer. When
the defeated men were beaten into in
sensibility the audiences went home
thoroughly pleased. They had seen
what every man had gone hoping to see.
though for many it was the wrong man
who was knocked out.
We like to talk about the great strides
civilization has made: v-e. read with
Nlrtuous shudders Of the blood that
dyed the sands in the Roman amphi-
Theatre. But does anybody seriously
doubt that If fight with battle. axes
between two athletes should be an
nounced there would be any difficulty
III securing vast audience to witness
~ Degrading? Yes. Brutalizing?
Yes But the crowd would go. il is al
ways possible to draw an audience when
there is a possibility of seeing. some
body hurt
There isn't 1.-THE of the danger in
boxing contests that there is in the gen.
ue' refined game Of looping the loop.
The bicycle riders who whirl twice
every week around the saucer at the
salt Palace take more chances than
The average professional pugiiist The
trouble about pugilism is that its ex-
hIbitons and its principals are nearly
always managed and handled by very
undesirable citizens. They draw to the
city in which they are conducted men
that the city would be very much better
off without
That is, after ali, the worst feature Of
the boxing game.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
FROM THE EDITOR
He Forgot That He Had = stom;

He Forgot That He Had a Stomach.
Talking of food, there is probably no
professional man subjected to a
greater, more wearing mental strain
than the responsible editor of d modern
newspaper.
To keep his mental faculties constant
~ in good working order the editor
must keep his physical powers up to
the highest rate OF efficiency. Nothing
viii SO quickly upset the whole system
as badly selected food and a disordered
stomach. 1t therefore follows that he
should have right food which can be
readily aSSimilated, and which fur
nishes true brain nourishment.
My personal experience in the use
OF GraDe-Nuts and Postum Food COT
Zee writes q Philadelphia editor. $50
exactly agrees with your advertised
claim as to their merits that any fur
Inef exposition in that direction would
seem to be superfiuous. They have
benefited me so much, however. during
the five years that I have used them
that l do not feel justified in withhold
ing my testimony.
General high living With all thar
the expression implies as to a generous
table, brought about Indigestion i'm
my case, with restlessness at night. and
laSsitude in the morning. accompanied
by various pains and distressing sensa-
tiOnS during working hours The doc
Of the stomach and prescribed various
medicines, which did me no good I fiu-
ally threw physics TO the dogs gave
up tea and coffee and heavy meat
dishes. and adopted Grape Nuts and
Postum Food Coffee as the chief arti-
cieS of my diet
L can conscientiouSiy say, and
wish TO say il with all the emphasis
possible TO the English language, that
they have benefited me as medicines
never did, and more than any other
food that ever came on my table. Ny
experience is that the Grape Nuts food
has Steadied and strengthened both
brain and nerves to "A most positive
degree. How IT does il. / cannot say
but / know that after breakfasting on
Grape-Nuts food one actually forgets
he has a stomach, let alone stomach
trouble, II is. in my opinion, the most
beneficial as we'll as the most econon-
zeal food on the market. and has abso-
luteiy 10 rival" Name given by Pos
tum Co. Battle Creek, Mich
There's reason.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05
HOW A PLAIN JACK RABBIT MADE
STAKE HORSES LOOK LIKE CHEAP PLATERS

Much has been said and printed about
the running ability of an able bodied
JACK rabbit. The Iong-eaFned animal
mas been the butt of all kinds of stories
relating to anuihiiating distance. but
a real demonstration OF just how fast
western jack rabbit whose running
gears are well fabricated and i'm proper
repair can go under forced conditions
was witnessed yesterday by the crowd
that attended the horse races at the
state fair grounds. A well trained
morse can travel some. everybody will
ddlpit, but the above mentioned crowd
VIII bet its last cent that when il comes
TO getting over the ground Mr.. EQUINE
VIII have TO back uD for the time
hocOreG Jack.
IN the second heat Of the second
race yesterday, Il jack rabbit suddenly
DurSt into view coming around the
lower turn i'm front OF the field. which
was then putting in its best strides.
me odd sight caused. The crowd TO
stand erect and witness the strange
race fhe spectators saw Br'er Rab-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-05

bit take TO the middle of the track,
lay back his long ears and-just run.
The drivers OF the horses saw the same
thing and urged their PAGERS to their
utmost S&eed.
As the rabbit passed the judges stand
he wriggled one long ear and glanced
at the timers out of the corner of his
eye as much as to ask If they had
snapped the watch on him as ne passed
the eighth pole. A cry went up from
the betting ring Offering all kinds OF
ODDS on the rabbit and as the jack
heard the shout he reGoubled his eff
forts and kicked bigger clouds of dust
in the horses faces.
Leading the field. Br'er Rabbit dis
appeared around the upper turn at d
record clip, and then the rabbit was
lost 10 view. He did not show no
again. and probably returned TO his
happy family TO tell them of the SEN
sations in bea ting a field of trained
horses on regular race course in
the presence Of thousands of people,
All Of which Br'er Rabbit did.