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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
GEORGIA NOW IN
DRY" COLUMN
NEW PROHIBITION LAW VERY
DEMONSTRATIONS TO THE
NUMBER OF 125 CLOSED IN
ATLANTA -,

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 1.-Geor-
gia is now in the dry" column, side
by side with Maine, North Dakota
and Oklahoma, making four states
in all in which the manufacture or
sale of intoxicating liquor is pro-
hibited. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Neel prohibition law passed by the
Georgia legislature last July became
operative at midnight last night.
The passing from wet to dry was
marked by scenes of revelry in some
of the larger cities and an equal
display of jubilation on the part Of
those who have worked to drive the
saloons from the state.
The new law prohibits the manu-
! facture, sale, barter, giving away to
induce trade or keeping or furnish
ing at public places, or keeping on
hand at places of business of any
alcoholic, spirituous or intoxicating
liquors or intoxicating bitters or
other drinks which, if drunk in eX-
cess, will produce intoXication. The
measure allows the sale of alcohol
for medicinal purposes, or grain al
cohol for bacteriologists who are ac
tually engaged in that class of Worf
for scientific purposes only. The
law also provides stringent rules
covering such sale by druggists
Violations are to be punished a
, misdemeanors.
At Atlanta the enforcing of tn
new law meant the closing of IL
saloons and a large number o
wholesale liquor houses. 1t reduce
y the city revenues 100000 and tn
i revenues of the state $750,00O.
is estimated that between 1900 an
1000 men employed in liquor estat
s. lishments have been thrown out {
9 employment. The anti-prohibitio
y element declares the enforcement
:, the law will be a mockery, wit
II "blind tigers everywhere and still
galore.
u On the other hand, the prohib
ton advocates believe that the ne
l. condition of affairs will be wort
- the cost, no matter how much TIL
may be. They believe it will d
IL crease crime and that it means Il
- betterment of the state and it's pc
~ pie. They declare the prohibitit
le law will be strictly enforced,
re ready steps are being taken in t.
~ larger cities for the formation
We law and order societies to aid
running down violators of the law
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01

Do not forget that everyone must
be "encostume" in order to obtain
skates at the masquerade January !.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
AFTERMATH OF
THAW CASE
WRECKING OF FASHIONABLE
DE MILE SCHOOL TRACED d..
RECTLY TO STORY TOLD BY
EVELYN THAW AT FIRST
TRIAL OF CASE

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The name |
of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw figuratiyely |
is written across the voluntary pc
tition in bankruptcy filed in the
United States circuit court by Mrs.
Mathilda Beatrice DeMille. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, the chief figure Of the
Thaw tragedy, is the blight that has
after two years struggle, forced
Mrs. DeMilleto plead before a court
of law to be released from the obli-
cation of her debts.
For it was the story of Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, as it was heard from
her own lips on the witness stand
during the trial of Harry X. Thaw,
that brought notoriety to the fash
ionable school at Pompton Lake, N.
j., in which Mrs. DeMille, the
woman of brains and breeding,
sought to rehabilitate the fortune
crippled by the unexpected death of
her husband.
Today's action was the climax of
a string of circumstances that have
followed in consequence-the story
by Evelyn of the life of chorus
girl among the tender daughters of
fashionable families, at the Pomp-
ton Lake school; the shock to the
fashionable clientele Of the school
when they learned that theil
daughters had the artists model a!
companion for many months-tht
, vacant school rooms and dormitor
les where before they had beer
, filled.
Three months after the ending o
the first Thaw trial, Mrs. DeMill'
closed her school. She saw that tn
. struggle against the notoriet
gained through the Thaw tria
, would be in vain.
Mrs. DeMille attempted again t
: win back fortune by coming to thi
city and starting in the brokerag
business with offices in the Asto
= theatre building toiling for man
!, months, striving in vain agains
competition and the expected china
came today in the two lines upo
. the court calendar-the petition
\ bankrupt.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
CHESBRO SAYS
mo SPIT BALL"
BALL IS NO GOOD IN 0PINI0N
OF WHIRLER THAT INTRO
DUCED IT-NOW RETURNS TO
0LD-STYLE CURVES v

NEW YORK, Jan. Jack
Chesbro, father of the spitball, has
decided to give up entirely the freak
delivery that made him great and
famous. CHESHIRE will be back with
the Yankees LeXt spring and he ex-
poets to have very good year with
out the aid of the wet curve. He
believes that the spitball has ruined
his throwing arm, and says that no
pitcher can use it successfully for
more than two or three seasons.
When Chesbro came back to the
team last fall he did not work the
splitter" at all. He devoted his
practice entirely to the old curves
that he relied upon before the adj
vent of the new one. He says that
in a few weeks he began to notice
the difference in his arm. The old
suppleness of the wrist and forearm
returned, and he again began to
throw easily with his old free deliv-
cry. .
Chesbro's manner of delivering
the damp fling" he believes, put
him out of the class of great pitch
ers. 1t is essential in using this
curve that no twist be given the
ball 1t is permitted to slide smooth
ly off the dampened fingers. In or
der to accomplish this perfectly
Chesbro threw the ball with his
wrist and forearm stiff and straight.
He says that the constant strain OF
this set of muscles eventually I'M
. fitted him to throw any kind of a
curve. sts @
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
HIGH PRICE FOR
SOCIAL SWIM
lffiiR Ati','.
PHILADELPHIA BANKER SPENDS
100000 IN BALL THAT MARKS
INTRODUCTION OF DAUGHTER
INTO s0CIETY'S FOUR HUN
npFn 3ST'- ". s~
~ AJP

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Five
hundred brilliant beautiful butter
flies gathered in Peru, Brazil and
even in India were turned loose
Thursday over the heads of half
that many wonderfully dressed
women at the ball given by James
Drexell Paul, in honor of his
daughter, Mary Astor Paul.
The wonderfully gorgeous insects
fluttered about helplessly, rested
upon the bare shoulders of the
women, perched on the flowers and
incidentally fell into the plates.
This was the star feature of an af-
fair which has been looked forward
to as the one real thing of the sea-
son. In it Mr.. Paul. who is a MEM
Der of the famous Drexell banking
firm, eclipsed the famous ball which
he gave to his elder daughter. Mrs.
Paul Dencla Mills, four years ago
and the equally famous Knight ball.
The bill for the flowers alone to-
night was $4,000, one of the feat
ures being a new rose, cross be-
tween the American Beauty and an
other which took nine years to de-
velop. 1t is called the Wyannemore
and 5000 were used in the decora'
ton.
The ball room of Horticultural
hall, which had been transformed
into an exact replica of a French
garden, was the scene of the mag
nificent function. Sixteen magnifi
cent boxes were built on the side b.
the decorators. A waterfall hat
been arranged at. one end AM
splashed down into mass of verd
ure. Silken and jeweled butterflies
exquisitely made, formed part of tn
decorative scheme which the fligh
of the real ones put climax upor
All the members of the Drexe
family were there. Colonel Anti
ony jr., his beautiful wife an
daughter, came here from the Lor
don court especially to attend. M
and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt WEI
among the New Workers invited.
Collectors, it is said, spei
months gathering the butterf1ie
many of which died on their way
this country. Scores dropped to IL
| floor during the dancing and we
| crushed under the dancers fee
l The cost of the ball is said to ha7
| been 100000.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
CLAIMS JEWS
ARE PROSECUTED
DR.. HIRSCH MAKES STATEMENT
THAT IN AMERICAS B0ASTED
CIVILIZATION HIS RACE FEAR
FOR THEIR SAFETY

CHICAGO, Jan. 1. - Declaring
that the persecution of the Jews in
the United States makes their exist
ence far from comfortable, often
burdensome, DR.. Emil Hirsch, in the
strongest terms at his command,
last night arraigned ''the boosted
civilization of today" for it's mis-
treatment of the race.
1t was at the closing session OF
the convention of American Ethical
societies that DR.. Hirsch surprised
his hearers with other strong re-
marks as to the conditions of pres
emit day Jews. He was talking
upon the general topic Of Ethical
Tendencies in the Churches" but he
spoke on the Tack of ethical tend
encies in present day civilization. .
'In Chicago tonight there are
Jews who tremble to go out on the
streets because they may be stoned
by children who believe they do not
/ look like a citizen of Chicago should
look" said DR.. Hirsch.
"Why a Jew is barred from col
lege fraternities. For this, how
ever, he should sing song o.
thanks.
$50 it is plain to be Jew in thu
United States. with all its boastet
democracy and civilization, is no
such a comfortable thing. In Eu
rope the condition of the Jew 4
worse, and in Russia 1t is unbear
able. why is this so? Here is al
ethical problem for the members o
the Ethical societies to answer"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
PRIMROSE WILL
COME FRIDAY

Something so far a departure as
to bring fresh vitality into the
function of negro minstrelsy has
been accomplished by George H.
Primrose, whose triumphant entry
into a new field of black face COM
edy and pictorial effect ought TO fill
the Temple Theatre, Friday, Janu-
airy 8.
Money, Money, Money, jingles
over everything, even the expensive
kind of voices employed and the
costumes, scenery, huge and sue
cessful attempt in the matter OF
stage production and the fine polish
on everything from Prim's patent
feathers to the touching portraits
of great men and the silk of the
melody in the new tenor's tones.
The feeble attempts in days gone
by to lift minstrelsy out of the
fin-de-siecle dependency it reached
when the old timers began to wane
and disappear, was tolerably ludi-
crous, though well meant, and only
now, after years of fumbling has
one of the survivors and he is about
the fttest, made a stunning base.
for George Primrose and his great
Minstrel Company are this year
credited with about as exceptionally
and brilliant an entertainment as
could possibly be gotten together
with money and brains.
Everything from the rise Of the
curtain on the beautiful first part
until the grand finale in the clos
ing act, are of great magnificenct
and of the costly variety. Money
has been spent in large bundles or
this years production and 1t is saf'
to assume local theatre-goers vii
be treated to a genuine surprise II
both talent and production--in fac
the name OF Primrose has neve'
been identified with anything bu
the best in minstrelsy and in thi
years production far surpasse
himself.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01

Colfax-Born of wealthy Bohe-
hian parents, Isaac onati, conspieu-
Gus on the streets of Colfax for the
past twenty years, is dead and no
one knows where his relatives re-
side. 1t is claimed that onati is Of
the nobility but most intimate
friends assert that his relatives in
the old country are only very
wealthy.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01

Twisp-One thousand head of fat
beef cattle has been shipped from
this station to coast packers during
the past few months and not less
than $4,000 has been paid to the
stockmen of this section by Frye
Bruhn & Co. of Seattle. The pur-
chasing firm has paid fair prices for
all stock secured and stockmen gem
orally are satisfied with the market.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
NO CIGARETTES
IN ARKANSAS

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Jan. IA
stringent anti-cigarette law went
into effect in Arkansas today. 1t
prohibits the sale or giving away of
cigarettes and cigarette papers and
provides a penalty for any one hav-
ing cigarettes or papers in their
possession.
It is probable that the tobacco in
terests will test the CONSTITUTIONAL
ity of the act before the courts.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
CHEAPER COAL.
IN GERMANY

BERLIN, Jan. IA special re-
duction in the freight rates on inn
ported coal was put into effect today
by the Prussian railroads.
The reduction is to last for two
years. The purpose is to counteract
the present high prices of local coal,
which are the highest on record in
many years.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-01
ClarkstOn=L Lewiston
BUS and CAB
LINE

Trunks and Baggage Transferred
SCHEDULE.
Daily Except Sunday. VI
Leave Charleston: a. M. s:1SsEs
M, 10 a. m. ITO .. M, 2:4O p. m, 4:4e
p. m.
Leave Lewiston. 1880 a. M, . q ns
1o:45 a. m, 1850 p. m. s;26 D. m, S!ae
.. m.
Sunday.
Leave Clarkston: Z q. m. 2:3o p. Ma
Leave Lewiston: 1880 a. m. s:2a
p. m.
VIII meet all night trains and boata
on special calls.
Leaves Charleston from Ramsey Haa
tel. Leaves Lewiston from Bollingsz
Hotel
Leave all orders at the Ramsey Hos
tel. Sycamore street. Phone Main 1Ses
II. {. RuNDY, Proprietor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
CHILDREN AT THE TILLER.

In the current issue of the Motor Age
appears an interesting story of the ex-
perience. of an eight-year- girl in
driving a two-cylinder motor car
through city streets and over a four
mile stretch of country highway, being
the only occupant of the runabout,
after the first few experimental trips.
1t is conceivable that an intelligent
child of eight years, whose father, as
in this case, is a manufacturer of
motor cars, could be readily taught to
manipulate the levers and tiller and
operate a two-cylinder automobile. In
fact. children not greatly exceeding
that age are sometimes seen manipu-
lating larger machines on the streets
of Topeka, occasionally with no other
person in the car. The mechanism is
not complex nor is it's operation greatly
involved under normal conditions.
Ordinarily young people master the de-
tails of machinery more quickly than
their elders. and they are not handi-
capped with strained or disordered
nerves.
In like manner a child of eight years
might be taught to drive a team OF
horses, and locomotive could be so
contrived as to facility of movement Of
levers that a child of the age of this
| ambitious young automobilist could
| drive it at a speed of sixty miles an
hour. At the same time it would be
sheer lunacy to place the control of
fractions horses in the hands of a child
of tender years, or allow her to manip-
| ulate the locomotive of a fast express
/ train.
1t is no less an evidence of lack of
normal reasoning powers to permit a
child of eight -ears, or even several
years older, to operate an automobile
under conditions which may at any
moment become critical if not danger
GUS. For the modern automobile,
whether running on the crowded
streets of a city or the not less dan
gerous country highways, demands
ripe experience. good judgment and the
trained presence of mind which comes
only with adult years, to meet the
| emergencies of the road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
.HYHlWKER JOTS

Salina must be going to the dogs. At
least this would seem so from the fact
that there are now 399 licensed CANNES
in that city.
Twenty-three persons were baptized
in the Solomon river at Glasco on Sun
day. The ministers of the Methodist
and Advent churches participated in
the services.
Good for little, old Chanute. She
spent $4,000 during the last year In
macadamizing and paving her streets.
Is there another town in the state Of
the same size that can say as much?
Probably not.
Wichita stopped it's ceaseless activity
for an instance a day or so ago to smile
at a woman, CARRIED in swell white
duck suit, who unconsciously and I'M
tremendously sat on a, juicy black
berry pie that was Nesting in a cor
ner of street car seat
Don't whine the Fredonia Herald
quotes a woman as advising her sis
tiers. For the love of heaven, don't
whine! There is nothing that SO COM
pletely upsets a man whining, and
makes him wish he had bought dog
instead of marriage license"
Sheriff Bollinger of lola arrested a
man who was believed to be deserter
from the army. He kept the man for
some time, but being unable to hear
VI ASiiCSJ oAO"V0 SAAO PAAoOANA
to go. The man had not been released
two hours before word was received
that the sheriff had the right man and
was requested to hold him. AS there is
a reward of $50 for the capture of de-
serters the sheriff is mentally kicking
himself. za-
Elizabeth Haviland, the S-year-old
daughter of DR.. A. o. HaviIand of
Horton, can now lord it over all the
misses Of her age. She has two gold
they last but a few years at
the longest. But this young lady S
father is dentist. One day she asked
him to fix her teeth. He took it as a
joke, but began operations to see if
she would squirm. Finding her game
he fixed one tooth and then she de-
manded that another be remedied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
THE FALL OF A HUMoR1sT.

Probably everybody, who is at all
interested in politics, has noticed what
a thankless constituency did to ].
Adam Bede up in Minnesota the other
day. They deprived this humorist and
end man OF the congressional min
strels of his seat simply because he
was too funny for any good use
There is distinct place in this world
for the humorist, but that place is not
in the marble hall of the national leg
islature. Nobody with a sense of hu-
NOR has any business going to con-
gress because. not only is he liable to
laugh himself to death at what he
sees and hears, but he is also liable to
violate the ethics of the house by
springing a story occasionally that has
never been heard and thereby grow
exceedingly unpopular with tho old
boys on the job. Traditions must be
respected.
]. Adam is a genuine funny man
and instead of applying for a job as
editor of a patent medicine almanac,
where he might allow his peculiar tai
ent full play, he applied for seat in
congress. He went about the district
in Minnesota and made a great hit
with his dry humor. especially in the
local option counties. But ]. Adam
had no sooner got into congress than
he got the dollar political dinner hab-
it. Invitations were numerous and to
localities where it was necessary to
make the voters forget about the tar
if and trusts ]. Adam was sent While
other congressman with no sense of
humor, but with n large sense of pol
itics, were getting new federal build
ings and securing the appointment OF
fourth class postmasters. ]. Adam was
miles and miles away tickling the ris-
Utilities of the sordid popuIace in dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
UNCLE SAM 10 THE FORE.

ait is most interesting to see how
the United States is quoted now in
Spain by all kinds of papers,
Professionals and Roman Catholic,
Republican and Conservative. They
seem to think more of US than before
the war" So writes one of the
American board Of missionaries to
Spain, who sends a translation of an
editorial comment, in a Madrid news
paper, on Secretary Taft's address be-
fore the Laymen's missionary move
ment in Carnegie hall. New York.
With the fervor belonging to the
Latin race the editor pictures. the
by saying: "But the important fea-
ture of the reunion was the discourse
of Mr.. Taft, secretary of war in that
country, and candidate for the
presidency of the republic. What a
wonderful thing! The secretary of
war of one of the most powerful and
richest nations speaking of Christ
and of missions! But nevertheless it
was so; his language could not have
been improved by the most fervent
minister of the church."
Such recognition by foreign news
papers of the place which the United
States holds as a teacher of Christ
ianity is pretty good evidence that as
Mr.. Taft said on that occasion, 'We
have got to wake up. You cannot
study the nations but you will
realize that Christianity is the hope
Of modern civilization" There is no
doubt that other countries are look
ing to the United States as never be-
fore for moral and spiritual leader
ship in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22

should have been Colonel John Tenn
pie Graves-has devoted his attentions
to the excoriation OF Mr.. Bryan and
other of Mr.. Hearst's former Demo-
cratic pals and principles. But lately
he has switched and is hurting his
javelins at the Republicans. He has
probably arrived at the conclusion
that II his campaign is to be success
full he must wean voters from each
of the parties. But he'll have to con-
tinue on the stump for many years to
come before he gets enough to put
his party into power. And he'll have
to be a little more particular in adher-
ing to facts. No man ever made much
of political success by a continued
Misrepresentation of all things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.
No man can keep his happiness to
himself.
A skinflint and a WORKOUT deck of
cards are equally hard to deal with.
man and his wife may be one, but
they are generally tied for first place.
Wigg-"I have noiseless type
writer" Wagg-"Is she a deaf mute 2"
girl is naturally backward in her
reading when she reads the last chap
ter first.
1t is now permissible to shoot reed
birds, but the Welsh rabbit season is
never closed.
'This fairly makes my blood BOIL"
remarked the cook when she found
that the water wouldn't.
Hook-"Gotrox is living like a
lord" Nye-"Ohi hardly like a lord
He sometimes pays his bills
Blobbs-"The moon affects the tide,
doesn't it?" Slobbs-"Yes; and il fire.
quently affects a young couple even
before they are tied"
Nell-Mrs. Buggins says she hates
to have her husband out of her sight"
Belle-"He must be a very good hus-
band or very bad one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.I

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
The man to whom you owe money
never rests.
There is no one so hard to discour-
age as the poor sinner.
Every widow believes that every
man is trying to cheat her.
The dullest person in the world be-
comes wonderfully sharp when he be-
comes suspicious.
Every man longs to get rich, and
then puts off until next month his de-
termination to save more money.
Don't kick too easy. Many kicks
are foolish, and give the kickers a
reputation for being foolish and un-
fair.
If people would be true to them
selves, and to each other, instead of
to superstition, what a blessing it
would be.
If a woman didn't occasionally go
wrong, the good ones would be so
proud that there would be no living
with them.
All the people will not love you.
no matter what you do. Might as well
quit expecting them to, and become
content to be misrepresented, and
talked about unjustly
When you let pretty girl sell you
ticket you do not need, you are
simply contributing a dollar to your
vanity. If the fools will quit buying
tickets, the pretty gil is will quit SELL
ing them. We nave been bothered so
much by pretty girls offering tickets
1--WE never buy) that we are afraid of
pretty girl, and dislike TO Sc. one
man who is good neighbor and
friend, and pays his debts from the
proceeds of simple labor, is worth a
thousand theosophists who are always
expecting occult things 20 happen, and
invent them when they do not. We
have never heard of an inmate of a
lunatic asylum who was not forever
raving about the unnatural. No crazy
man longs to get back to his home.
and resume the simple habits of use
full life. crazy Jnana talks with
spirits, and hears strange roises. and
knows of wonderful things that are
not happening.