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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
MAINE GOES WET
AFTER DROUGHT OF
F|FTY-FOUR YEARS
Returns Up to 8 O'clock Tues
day Morning Indicate Voters
Have Decided to Remove Re-
strietlon on Liquor Trade
(By Associated Press. J

PORTLAND. Maine Sept 12.-That the
voters of Maine have determined TO re-
move restrictions ON the liquor traffic
from their state constitution seems CON
frmed to a satisfying degree Of GER
tainty by returns received UP to s
o'clock this morning.
At that hour. WIFI IA towns still to be
heard from. the vote on the proposition
to remove the prohibition clause of the
state constitution stood:
For repeal.,.A -. ....eo,721
Against repeai.... -. -. -. .....5s. 75s
Repeal majority. 49,. -. -. 49,. 763
Former Mayor Adam r. Leighton, of
Portland, president of the No-License
league announced this morning steps
would be taken for recount of the
vote unless official returns should ma
terially increase the majority for the re-
peal Of the amendment
OfE1cial returns had been received this
morning from So cities and towns.
Next In interest to, the prohibition
question was that of the adoption or
rejection of a statewide primary act.
Returns thus far received indicate it's
adoption by good margin.
The oficial vote from 20 cities and
towns at hand this morning show %. $50
favorable and 6S62 opposing votes, ma
jority In favor of 17,41S
"DRYS" MAY YET WIN
Ohicial returns from 225 cities, towns
and plantations used In revising the
unofficial figures of last night, have re-
duced the repeal majority. by which pro-
hibition would be stricken from the con-
stitution to 16S votes.
At las p. m. the official returns indi-
Gated that the apparent majority in
favor of repeating the prohibitory law
may be wiped out. 3a
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
BEoUEATHS SKELETON
TO ANATOMY STUDENTS

ST. JOSEPH, No.. Sept 1A-Dr. s. F..
Kessler, for. 20 years professor or an
atomy at Ellsworth Medical college.
here. and a member of the municipal
board of health. announced last night
that he had willed his body to the coll
lege and that after his death the stu
dents may use it as basis for study.
Dr. Kessler's action was taken after
he had read dispatch to the effect that
the late DR.. Thomas +. Dwight had will
ed his body to liarverd university.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
Price of Candy Jumps

ST LOUIS, Sept. l4.-Where the juve-
nile customer of candy shop has been
accustomed to receive ten sticks of can
dy for his nickel, now he will get but
eight. all because of the 2-cent jump in
the price Of sugar recently. While the
candy market has followed the sugar
market upward. il has not advanced so
fast or gone so far, according u local
manufacturer of sweets.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
Nashville Lawyer Dead

FAIRFIELD. Conn, Sept. A-C. De-
wees Berry. a prominent attorney of
Nashville. Tenn. and graduate OF
Yale in the class OF 1865. is dead at the
home OF friends here from apoplexy.
He was g. years old.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15

NORWICH. Conn, Sept. 14.-A
rooster and hen. unwilling but
material witnesses in a chicken
theft case, crowed and cackled to
such an extent. despite threats OF
being punished for contemp. of
court. that Judge Reed was oblig-
ed 10 suspend the session of the
superior court here last night until
the two witnesses were expelled.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. dead
shrimp by the million and fsh by
the thousand are floating about on
the waters Of Lake PontchartIfain
near the bulkheads at the en-
trance of the new basin, as a
result of a diet on molasses which
found its way into the lake from
the city. sewers when 100000 gall
Ions were recently let loose in the
streets when storage tank burst.
The molasses contained about 21-2
per cent potash to the gallon.
Unless the tides carry the dead
fish away it is predicted that the
odor will be so great that the
residents will be forced to move
from West End.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
President Barrett Announces
That French-EngIish Con-
Germ Win Guarantee Loan to
That Amount on Cotton Crop
LOAN WILL BE MADE
AT 8 PER CENT INTEREST
Cotton viii Be Accepted As
CollateraI--C Committee Is Sc
leCted to Arrange Details of
Plan of Union

~ Associated Press.l }

MsNTGOMERY. Ala. Sept IL
The Southern Cotton Growers
conference gives out estimate OF
this years cotton crop approxi-
mately 1850, COO bales.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
WARD IS OFF AGAIN
UPON LONG FLIGHT
TO PACIFIC COAST
Despite the Discouraging Fact
That He Made Only Twenty
Miles on First Day Aviator
Is Cheerful


PATERSON, n. J., Sept. thames j.
Ward, the youthful aviator, resumed his
flight at 9:22 o'clock this morning to-
ward the Pacific coast.
The first leg of his journey in his pro-
posed flight from coast to coast was
made yesterday, when he few from Gov
errors Island against buffeting winds to
$4,000 offered by William r. Hearst.
Well out OF the criss-cross Of railroad
tracks that led him astray yesterday IS
soon as he left Jersey City, Ward expect
cd no more trouble today in nnding
his way.
He planned to follow the tracks OF this
Erie railroad and make his first stop &C
Middletown. N. z, about so miles away.
There he viii get more gasoline and
days starting point. before nightfall.
FIRST FLIGHT FAILURE.
Jimmie Ward is disposed to regard his
first days flight SIS failure. because Of
the fact that he was unfortunate enough
to become confused by the network or
railroad tracks leading out Of Jersey
City, and to mistake the line OF the Lee
high Valley road for that OF the Erie,
which would have taken him dine west
AS q result OF his mistake the young
aviator made only 20 miles on the frst
flight He decided late IN the afternoon
that he had lost his bearing compile .ely.
and descended at Ashford. which is about
II or Is miles from Governors Is and. IN
New York harbor. his starting point.
Later on be again assembled into the
air. and facing a strong and gusty wind.
made several wide swings. only to land
again, Esis time at Newark about $50
D. m Again rising into the afr. Ward
landed In the outskirts Of Paterson some
s. minutes later. He remained at Pat
erson throughout the night.
Utterly undlsmayed by his failure to
make an distance yesterday, the air
man said this morning that he fully ex
pected to get well upon his way TO-
ward the western coast before nightfall.
Hundreds OF people who learned last
night that Ward had landed In 4Ssiferson,
hurried out early this morning to wit
ness his start upon the second day or
his flight. He was cheered thunderously
as he rose easily into the air, AMI gath
ering momentum was soon lost TO sight
behind the woodlands
WARD COMES DOWN
Ward descended at s:45 In the town Of
SouthfleId, near Tuxedo and about Is
miles from his starting point
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15
EDUCATION
IS URGED FOR FARMERS
System of Lectures and Lit
erature Is Asked by Cot
ton Growers
Is sELECTnD
FOB NNxT CoNTE@E1xcE

MONTGOMERY. Ala. Sept. a. :
THE Southern Cotton Growefs' I
conference. which adjourned here :
yesterday. selected Atlanta. Ca, (
as the next place for holding the I
: convention.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-15

MIDDLETOWN, n. Z. Sept It.
James Ward. the aviator, landed here IN
hfs flight to the Pacific BOAST at noon
today.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
The Chicago Coliseum.

CHICAGO. April 26.-To the Editor OF
The Bee: Your inquiry is at hand We
charge for the use of the Coliseum for
one day Or night $1,000 but for trade and
Industrial shows we charge So, 500 per week
The one-night rentals are generally for
great public meetings. in which the place
has to be seated and the chairs have to
be fastened to the floor to comply with
city ordinances.
We have, in time past, made concessions
on account OF public purposes and given
the Coliseum rental free. the enterprise
paying for the bare expense and for light
ing and conducting; but such public pur-
poses are generally backed by public
spirited citizens of ample wealth and the
public exhibition buildings. which are not
gold mines as rule. should not be asked
to contribute any more than anyone else.
We have no printed financial report or
any report that we make public; ours being
what you might call a close corporation.
THE COLISEUM COMPANY.
BY STEWART SPALDING, Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
Boston Emulating Hunnewell.

Led by women, some citizens OF Bos-
ton are said to have appealed to Gov
.ernor Foss to give them a woman as
superintendent of police. Evidently
they have heard that Hunnewell, Kan,
has a woman for police chief, which
only adds to the singular curiousness
of the Boston case. When did ever this
center of culture and conservatism find
anything in Kansas worth emulating?
1t affords a new view of the Boston
temperament. The public may hear
next that Boston Common has been
turned into midway, with it's wilder
ness of fantastic fakes.
The New Orleans Picayune pleads
with Governor Foss to deny the re-
quest, but we feel that such q plea is
superfluous. Men and not women are
doing the voting in Massachusetts,, and
anyway, while woman might do for
chief of police in dear old Hunnewell,
she could never be expected to fill the
bill in city as big and bad as Bos-
ton. OF course, it would be only reason
able to assume that il woman were
made chief in short time the whole
force. would be women. Think of a
woman on the beat attempting to in
tercept holdup. or a squad of fair
officers from headquarters sent out on
a riot call. Think of a big, burly foot
pad being dragged into the station at
2 a. m, by a couple of the girls and
searched. Well, there is one place
where the woman's deft and practiced
hand might do a better Job than the
mans. But suppose some culprit de-
clined to talk, think of the fair ones
subjecting him to the third degree. y
oh, 1t is all too much. What is our
dear. effete Boston coming to, any
way? Had such a thing been told OF
Pittsburg, or Denver. or some of the
wild and woolly cities of the land, II
might have seemed more credible, but
of Boston and that, too, after Kan
sas example-neverl
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
Navy Snobbery.

A complete and official apology"
the superintendent of the Annapolis
Naval academy, naval officers and
students desire to consider the matter
a closed incident" They may, but
they cannot thereby close the eyes of
the public to some of the absurd So
cial amenities that obtain in what
is called the exclusive circles of army
and navy life. L
Miss Beers is the daughter of one of
the oldest and most prominent MEM
bers of the Yale faculty. She goes to
Annapolis, engaged as the companion
of an army officers wife. She is in
vited to an academy dance. OF sud
den a precocious midshipman awakes
to the horror that she is a domestic
in the family of an officer" and
abroad goes the notice that as Such
she is entirely unfit to mingle in these
august social events. The young woman
communicates with her father, who
takes up the matter with President
Taft, former student under him at
Yale, and the president and the Sec
rotary of the navy, Mr.. Meyer, deal
with the case in proper fashion. The
apology from the academy superin-
tendent is the result.
The apology contains the excuse
that the young woman's status in the
officers family was not understood;
that it was believed she was a nurse.
Suppose, however, she had been a
nurse and was earning her own liveli-
hood by that honorable calling instead
of as the social companion" of the
officers wife, equally honorable, what
then? Where would the harm have
come to the dear midshipmen? Parents
of midshipmen doubtless will hope that
their boys always hold to the Hottest
ideals of social companionship, but
some of them are foreordained to dis
NAL disappointment.
When will such silly snobbery cease
in the official life of this democratic
country? The social status of the army
and navy is not quite impregnable
against criticism, not quite ideal
enough to challenge public attention
in the way 1t has by this absurd dis
play. 1t would be good thing if the
curricula Of West Point and Annapo-
lis included instruction. in the simple
fact that it is all the people who are
making possible the extraordinary ad-
vantages these "freshies'' and mid
dies are enjoying and that common
sense, as well as common decency, cut
a bigger figure in real society than
uniforms and brass buttons,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
w1P1NG OUT A DEFICIT.

Philadelphia Record; II was a noble
achievement to wipe out the largest postal
deficit we have had IN less than two years.
The postmaster general is entitled to plume
himself on Il.
ST. Louis Republic: The seesaw between
revenues and expenditures in the post
office department promises to Keep right
up Just as there is a prospect that the
alleged deficit will be wiped o,t the
proposal for 1-cent postage is renewed.
Springfield, Republican: Postal revenues
so far this fiscal year are almost exactly
equal TO expenditures. such is the an
nouncement coming from Postmaster Gem
eral Hitchcocks office. 1t il the first time
this has happened within the reach Of liv-
Ing memories.
Washington Post: The announcement ls
a sufficient answer to criticisms as to the
way the Postoffice department Is run No
department is so perfect that It cannot
be improved, but the Improvement can best
be accomplished by the quiet businoss-like
efforts of the men in charge, rather than
by wholesale criticisms from the outside
based on transformation.
Washington Herald: According TO Mr.
Hitchcock. the saving has been accom-
plished without decreasing in any degree
the postal facilities, while the compensa-
ton of the employees has been increased.
There has been however, a marked re-
duotion In expenditures due to the intro
ductlon of improved methods, and II the
revenues had shown normal increases the
department would have had substantial
surplus to its credit.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
More RebatinRR

Comes now the governments report
that four large iron ore carrying rail-
roads have been granting rebates to
favored shippers in violation of the
federal anti-rebate law, which bears
the name OF the late Senator Elkins,
himself a railroad president and
owner. Indictments have been returned
against accused parties, and prosecu-
ltions are to follow.
This is rather discouraging to the
public which must have begun to be-
lieve that rebating had been stopped.
1t is a most pernicious form of dis
elimination and the government had
flattered itself on the good results &C
complished toward its extinction. The
law enacted by congress was made Sc
we're enough to abolish the evil and
supposedly it had done so. II is fact,
however, that strong as this law is,
its most potent provisions have never
yet been invoked. The prosecutions
have been conducted under the civil
NAauoths AAOt lud NlAAAAhdAs anu lihCn
imposed, not prison sentences.
II rebating is still being practiced,
1t might be well, then, to turn the
criminal side of the law to the Of
fender, only as an experiment. No one
can tell but the effect might prove
thoroughly satisfactory. Men might
shun to do an unlawful thing
if they : felt that its commission
meant a prison sentence quicker
than If they knew It meant only
what to them and the interest
they represented, would be a nominal
fine. The law prescribes fines from
81 900 to $4,000, but even the maxi
mum is small to a corporation doing
millions of dollars of business a year.
1t also prescribes prison terms ranging
as high as two years; even the mini
mum sentence in that case would in
sure against repetition.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
A legislative summary

For. clear, concise and unbiased
summary of our late Nebraska legis-
lature the following, which has been
published over the name of State SEN
ator Cordial, is the best we have seen:
The accomplishments OF the recent ses-
sion OF the legislature seem rather of a
negative than Of a positive character On
the last days of the session, especially.
legislation OF a pernicious sort slipped
through, but for the most part the bills
that became laws, aside from those OF local
interest. are rather harmless than bene-
fetal II is doubtful whether the initiative
and referendum measure is satisfactory 10
anyone. OF the four nonpartisAn board OF
control bills that were introduced. IL is GER
tainly not the best that passed. and II was
nothing more nor less than politics that
defeated the Seiieck bill which is gener-
ally conceded to have been the best. All
good citizens now maintain that the pub
lilo service corporations must be regulated
and they must be subjected to even morn
rigid control than they now are-and that
many corporations which are now free to
do their will without hindrance must be
subjugated. With the exception of the
stock yards bill, which, in the form IN
which It finally passed is of doubtful eff
ficacy, practically no regulatory legislation
was enacted. The commission form OF gov
eminent bill is good. The law providing
for the exemption OF real estate mortgages
from taxation. and that authorizing the
creation OF trust companies, viii be prac-
tieally beneficial. The law prohibiting the
conveying OF voters to the polls should tend
to civic righteousness, as In a different
way. will the law abolishing bucket shops
the law penallzing the white slave traffic.
the law permitting the granting of injune-
lions to restrain houses OF prostitution.
and the law inhibiting the use of trading
stamps. The features OF the new primary
election law that provide for the closed
primary are good. The law granting state
aid for the building Of bridges is nefarious
as bridges are improvements of purely
local character, and many sections OF the
state that will receive none OF the ad-
vantages will be taxed for the construction
OF bridges IN other sections that will re-
ceive the exclusive benefits OF the law. The
university was entitled 10 better treatment
at the hands OF the legislature. The build
inss on the city campus are overcrowded
and one OF them. at least. which shelters
hundreds OF students every day, is In q
dangerously decrepit condition. Should
some terrible catastrophe similar 10 sew
eral that have recently Mortified the nation
occur, the legislature would receive ths
condemnation Il deserves for It's parsimon-
ious attitude toward one OF the great An.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
Hot Fight in Dry Town.

From the vantage point of this dis
lance from Lincoln the hot political
fight in progress in that dry town
offers almost as good entertainment
to a spectator as a seat on the bleach
ers overlooking the Rio Grande did a
few weeks ago.
In that city of brotherly love and
neighborly communion the people
seem to be ranged in hostile camps
with sharpshooters on sentry duty
blazing away at each candidate when
ever he shows his head. We remem-
Der at various times having been Sc
verely lectured by Lincoln newspapers
for permitting personalities to be in
jected into Omaha municipal conflicts,
but Lincoln is just now engaged in
washing large accumulation of dirty
linen right out in public in the most
unladylike manner. Reading the full
limitations from one camp an ignorant
stranger might conclude that Lincoln
was, indeed a holy city, with pearly
gates and spotless garments and spot
less streets, to which Saint Peter will
soon remove his capital from on high,
while perusal of the counter proclama-
tions leaves no room to doubt that
Lincoln is a nest of besotted Pharisees
and hypocrites pretending to. be better
than their neighbors, when in fact
ranking several degrees below them.
Fortunately, the city election in
Lincoln takes place next week, for if
the campaign were much more pro-
tracted we would not want to be re-
sponsible for the consequences.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
Auditorium Mt st. Paul.

ST. PAUL, MINI, April 26.--To the Ed
itor of The Bee: Replying to yours of 18th
inst. relative to rental charges for the
Auditorium, would say: The Auditorium
board has a schedule for rentals which is
based on securing sufficient money to
maintain and operate the building.
For convention purposes or gatherings
where no admission fee is charged the
rental is $50 per day.
For local organizations when an admis-
sion fee is charged the rate is $500, with
all help extra. BY extra help is meant
ushers, ticket sellers, doorkeepers, carriage
callers, maids, etc
Outside attractions are charged higher
rentals, based in a way on the admission
fee charged. The Chicago Grand Opera
company pays $500 for each evening per
Torrance and $500 for each matinee when
the afternoon performance is on the same
day as the evening one. The New York
Hippodrome was charged this winter $1,000
for week, which Figure included ushers
ticket sellers, etc.
Concessions are frequently made for con-
ventions where the benefits are supposed
to be advantageous to the city. For In
stance, the National Conservation con-
gress was given a special rate of SIS per
day. Enclosed please find copy of report
for the year, 1909
A. F. MORTON. Superintendent.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28

Jimmie, old hoy" as his intimates sa-
Lutte him, is a shining light in eastern
theatrical circles. He divides his time be-
tween Philadelphia and New York, but he
is we'll known in theatrical circles through
out the country.
Miss Mary Unger. who has bought the
state quarries and factory at slattington
Pa, owned by her father, the late John
f. Unger. Is said TO be the first woman
&c enter the slate business in the United
States.
John w. Thomas, said to be the original
hot dog man Of Calais. Me, has just been
elected an alderman OF that city. Mr..
Thomas claims the honor OF being the
first TO introduce the quick lunch idea and
hot frankfurt in eastern Maine.
E. NJ. Arvin OF walla walla. Wash, a
telephone linenan. who has but three fin.
gers on each band. has just completed a
violin. He began making the violin two
months ago and the only tools he used
were a pOeketknife and a fiat piece OF
steel which he used for scraping. This Il
the second violin he has made and, though
he has never taken a lesson, he Is said &C
be really proficient player.
Patrolman George Malone Of the Denve,
police department, Is a firm believer IN tn,
efficiency of prayer. One day last weel
he was called to make an arrest followins
a neighborhood quarrel After listening q
the stories Of the women involved, MaIon,
lifted his helmet. laid his club on the Zoo,
and knelt In prayer. The prayer was brief
/ but 20 the point When he arose III,
women were silent cut out this SQUAD
bling" he said and pray mora"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-28
TONGUE TWISTING NAMES.
Tips on Words Appearing I'm Mexican
War News.

Tips on Words Appearing I'm Mexican
War News.
Pittsburg Gazette.
Some of the words frequently used. in the
dispatches from Mexico are pronounced, as
nearly as can be indicated by letters. as
follows:
Aqua Prieta (Blackish water)-"Ahgwah
Pree-a-tah:" both accented on the next to
last syllable
Ciudad (City)-Pronounced "swedah," &C
cented on last syllable.
Juarez-''Whah-race," accent on first syl-
liable.
a-"wah-choo-ka," accent on
second syllable. ~.
"che-wah-wah," accent on
second syllable.
Rio Grande Great River)-"Ree-o GRAIN
de, both words accented on first syllable
Guadalupe - "Gwad- dah-loo-pe," accent
on next to last syllable
Ell Paso CThe Crossing)-"Ali Pah-so."
Paso del Norte (The North Crossing, OF
Pass)-"Pah- dali Nor-te," all accented
on first syllable.
Blahnko," both accented on second to last
syllable.
Guadalajara 'Gwah-dah-lah- hah-rah.' -
accent on next to last syllable.
Ojinaga-"O-heen-ah-g ah," accent on next
to last syllable.
CuchilIo Parade (The Ready Knife)-
'Coo-chee-yo Pah-rah- do" both accented
on next to last syllable.
Rurales (Countrymen)-"Roo -rah-lace "
accent on next TO last syllable.
Lopez-''Lo-pace."
Garcia-'Garshah."
Madino-''Mah-de
Rinaldo Diaz-" Ree-nahl-do Dee-ahs."
-"Gon-sah-lais," accent on Sec
ond syllable.
Guerrero ayr-ra-ro." accent on second
syllable.
The general rule in pronunciation OF
Spanish words is to accent the last sylla-
BILE II it ends in a consonant, but If 1t ends
in vowel, the next to the last syllable il
accented.