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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-09
STOLEN BOAT FOUND
IN THE WRONG PLACE

c. G. Keyser reported to the police
yesterday that yellow skiff had been
stolen from him. The skiff was later
located on East Government street,
and an officer was sent out to recover
it, which he did. No arrests were
made.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-09
CATS AND KNOTT
RUNNING CLOSE

Only seventeen votes between
Cats and Knott in Escambia
county. Counting both first and
second choice, Cats received 1913
and Knott 1,301.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-09
DISCUSSION OF PEACE
PLANS IN CONVENTION

Chicago, June "a conference
committee of the republicans and
progressives began a discussion Of
peace plans at 10:4o tonight. Sena-
tor Borah predicted session Of more
than three hours.
The acceptance of the peace confer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-09
Estimates Lead by 1900
Counting Second
Choice Votes.
BRYAN DEFEAT
NOW CONCEDED
Kehoe, Campbell and Nc
Geachey Seem to Be
the Winners.

JdChSOnVIIles June Ss--SenatOr bry-
an tonight comedies the nomination
of Governor Trammell by a large
plurality.
w. V. Knott, who is here tonight.
says the election is very close, but he
is satisfied he is nominated. The re-
turns tonight are highly encouraging
Figures at late hour indicate a lead
of about twelve hundred thus far, for
Knott.
That Knott is winning on the second
choice ballot, as predicted by The
Journal, seems to be borne out more
and more as the returns come in.
With 81 1888 votes accounted for out
of total of 10000, and Cats leading
by only 1000; and with eight more
counties to be heard from, two Of
them known to be strong against
Cats, the election, whichever way it
goes, will be one of the closest on
record.
The following counties have yet to
make returns: Calhoun, DeSoto, La
Fayette, Lee, Levy, Liberty, Washing
| ton, Okaloosa. DeSoto and Lee are
conceded to be Knots by a strong
plurality. In the others, his second
choice vote is expected to be well in
the lead.
Campbell and McGeachy.
The nomination of A. G. Campbell
for circuit Judge, is conceded by both
his opponents; and R. A. McGeachey
has strong lead so far for state at
torney; Okaloosa county is still to be
heard from, but it is generally be-
lieved that it will &C in his favor.
KehOe Leading.
From the best information obtain
able, Kehoe has several hundred votes
ahead of Smithwick, and is not losing
any strength on the second choice bal
lot.
County Commissioner.
The complete vote on the county
commissioners is given out unofficial
ly by Judge Bellinger as follows:
/ First Second
Choice Choice Total
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-09

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New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
OPENING OF SHAD SEASON.

Up to noon today, which marks the opening of the shad season here about, there were more than fifteen hundred Of these fish taken out of the Connecticut river. This presages a plentiful season and those lovers queens taste, should have no fear of the days ahead. It will be remem- bered that earlier in the year the National Association of Fish and Game Commissioners held a conven- ton in San Francisco and at that time the officials who attended from Connecticut and Massa chusetts filed a request that in the Spring, when shad come to the spawning beds, large shipments of roe be made to these states. The number of New Fngland shad had been diminished by the damming of streams and the lack of laws for protecting this class of food fishes. Old time fishermen Of this section, while they are extremely LOT ally IIllIiS tlio'b NllA augment the number of shad in the Connecticut river and other New England streams, cannot help but think how the tables have turned when the East must look to the West for a replenishment of the shad supply. It was thirty-five years ago this season that the original stock of California shad was brought from Connecticut. That Connecticut should now turn to California for aid in this direction merely illustrates the changes that come about through the whirligig of time. It might be a good idea to start out this season on some new methods of shad conserva- ton, otherwise we might be calling on the West again next year
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

not be so. The last days of the cam paign should be run in just as strenu- Ous fashion as the first. The amount contributed within the next few days should be almost as great as the money gathered at the outset. Instead of the mark set, another one should be reached. It would be more in keeping with New Britain if one hun dred thousand dollars were contrib uted rather than the original figures. This can be done if all who take part in the work still retain their first pride, do not give in to little discour- agements on the road. For every miserly heart in this city there is a generous soul to offset it, for every Stingy, mean man there is great and noble one to make up for the loss. Those who can give will give. And the quarters are just as welcome as the dollars, for they all go to the same exchequer and add to the grand total. In the end it will be seen that the pre- ponderance of the population knows the joy ot giving.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

Washington, D. C., May 1-"The in size of the 1 s political divisions of China proper, in modern times has been the center of many of the po- litical activities which have disturbed the Celestial empire, and it is not surprising that it's people should be among the first to declare their inde- pendence from the national govern ment," says a bulletin of the Nation- al Geographtc society of Washington, issued today.
 Tt was in this province" continues the bulletin, "that the Young China movement had it's birth in 1895. Tho secret societies of Canton, the cap ital, practically financed the revolu- ton which followed, resulting IT years later in the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the establish mont of a republic with pr. Sun Ya1- sen as the first president. pr. Sun himself came from Canton and was the first graduate of the College of Medicine at Kong-Eong.
 "Thc Cantonese have been an ir- sDiration to phra e-makers for years. Because of their gift for political or sanitation they have been called the Irish of China,' while their penchanJ for political unrest has caused them to be dubbed the rebellion makers II. ordinary to the Chinese people, His torians see a striking analogy between Canton's relation to the Chinese na- ton in 1912 and that of Paris to provincial France in 17S9.
 Many factors have contributed 10 i,o tJo0 of tung. one of the most important be- ing the struggle for sheer existence in a state which with an area equal to South Dakota has to support a population fifty times as great.
 "Canton itself is a city of seething humanity with streets so narrow that only COOlieS can be employed 'boasts of burden.' A large percent age of the people live in small boats which form a floating floor on the thick waters of the Pearl river. So precious Is space that the shops arc reduced to mere boxes; so close is the margin of profit and so small the purchases that beans and peanuts are sold by individual count.
 "Geogra aphically. the two provinces of Kwang-si and Kwan -tung are cut off from Northern and Central China hv mountain ranges which are moder- ately rich in minerals-iron. gold and cheap grade of coal. The soil is fertile and some of the chief pro ducts are sugar, coCoanuts, and betel- nuts Silk, fireCrackers, mating, ginger and palm-leaf fans arc the chief exports.
 'The Cantonese were among the first Chinese people to come in gen eral contact with the outside world. The Arabs reached the shores of the
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
THE JOY OF GIVING.

New Britain, by the manner in which it's citizens have set about gath ering some eighty-five thousand dol lars for the construction of a suita ble club for boys, has shown that it is a. city thoroughly alive to the progress sive spirit of America. In less than half the time allotted to collect the desired amount, more than one-half of the money has been gathered. Those who are enthusiastically wrap ped up in this work now fear that a relaxation might set in, that interest HliSht be lost, that the people of the cily' realizing how readily the first lap ol 'iie race was run might now slow down to Jog, might draw up and
 amble in under the wire in haphazard fashion. This should not be so. if will
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
Rewards of Authorship.
(New York Tribune)

The snug fortune of a quarter of q million dollars earned by the late Richard Harding Davis with his pen in twenty-five years, in addition to 6 more than comfortable livelihood dur ing that period, brings the question of the rewards of authorship once more to the front Davis case is of partic- ular. interest because it is one of the first proofs of the efficiency where. with a liberal profession has learned to safeguard its pecuniary rights.
 It is no longer considered mira dig for an author to be a good business man. He has come to understand the monetary value of his work, and he has secured the legal means to protect his share of it. International copy right was only the beginning; then followed that complicated system of first and second serial rights, syndi- cate rights and many other indirect sources of further returns, which to- day goes to the swelling of the au- thor's income. And of late there has been added to these the moving pie ture as a source of considerable ulti- mate revenue. It was the late Sir Walter Besant who took the first step. What he began has been developed in-
 
 organization, the American Authors league.
 As we look around us, the prosperity of the modern author through the or ganization of the business side of his work leaps to the eye. Kipling was the first to draw the full benefit of tho modern safeguards thrown around lit- erary property and of the by-products so to speak which long had been neg leCted. There is Arnold Bennett. who. if rumor do not err, has for several years past been earning with his in- defatigable pen the comfortable sum of fifty thousand dollars annually. Then there is Hall Caine, master ad- vertiser and thorough business man. Here at home the evidence of the re- wards of successful authorship under modern conditions is sufficiently famil- far to all who take an interest in such matters.
 Withal, the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Both are to him who achieves popular of merit. Fortune may pass by Joseph Conrad and heap it's favors on a Marie Corelli or a Mrs. Barclay. A "Charley's Aunt" is likely to prove more profitable than Gals Wollhy JuSIlCS' AHu yet popular taste does not always neglect genius. it rewarded royalty long ago. If it enriched Martin Tupper in Victorian days, it was no less gener- ous to Tennyson and Dickens. The latters fortune of half a million dol lars long was considered a record u~s the rewards of authorship.
 Nor let us forget those giants, Scott and Mark Twain, who lifted a crush ing burden of debt from their honor able shoulders with their pens alone. And France was fully as generous to Victor Hugo as it has been to that ap- pallingly bourgeois best-seller. Georges. Ohnet To the. coffers of both the whole world contributed with truly popular indifference as to whether what it likes is gold or only dross.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
MAY DAY.

sor one brief moment, at the noon Sr today, the sun went behind a ain of clouds and a few white les of snow were precipitated in immediate region. It looked as his May 1 was to go down in his as a sorry day for New England. no! As quickly as the clouds A cred and the snow fell, the sun Ae out and put an end to it all, a May Day was saved from an aminious debut. Probably it was Slone with a reason, to show by of contrast the difference between chilly, snowy, rainy, stormy Hher of a departing April and the Ntiful. fowery, soothing, dreamy S that are attendant upon an ar Hg May.
 # with the wonderful days that No come, after the sorry days that #EdSC dSAu6 OIlCS dllu lOI dll, IL #t be we'll if the children of New
 in, the little boys and girls who
 Ia me schools here, become inter # in a movement that is rapidly #ding over the entire nation, and
 h has to do with setting up home
 Ems. Once outside the four walls 8e class-rooms the boys and girls 8her cities plan to go home and 8 for an hour or so in the garden
 eir own making, to plant some 8 necessaries of life, and to watch
 ee these things grow. Too much
 t be said in praise of such an # It is good that the boys and of the city have decided to take
 s work. For the past decade
 the people of the city have been e&ly too negligent of the soil, and 8ome set on a plot of ground of Mize should not allow so much M to go to waste. And the ch1l-
 who propose to take up such ' who are getting ready to set out
 gardens, will be in the long run F and better children than those
 onfine all their hours of study
 classroom. It Is in the garden,
 open that the little ones can
 many things not included be- ~ the covers of school books. Fl is a chance to study Mother E to see the laws of nature
 d out, to watch the growth and
 pment of the things that sus-
 fe If for this alone, the chill
 bf New Britain should be en- ed on this May Day to go and
 their gardens.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
"The Irish 0f China" H0ld Forth M Kwanq- 2nng

maritime province in the tenth cen- tury and soon these hardy sailors were acting as captains of Chinese junks sailing to Manila, Java, Borneo and Siam. The first Europeans to reach Canton by sea were the Por- tuguese. Two years before Cortez landed in Mexico, Emmanuel, King of Portugal, sent an ambassador with eight ships around the Cape of Good Hope to induce the Emperor of China to sanction t"adc relations with the nation of navigators. The mission was successful and the visitors were allowed to enter the harbor of Can ton.
 More than a hundred years later the English arrived and met with 8 hostile reception on account of a re- cent rupture in the friendly relations between the Portuguese and the na- lives. It was not until 1885 that the emperor finally sanctioned trade re- lations with Great Britain, naming Canton as the only port of entry.
 "Of Canton's population, variousIy estimated at from 9O0,000 to 1,500,- 900, only about 40 are foreigners, most of whom reside in the Sha- mien settlement. an artificial island reclaimed by the British from an eX- tensive mud flat.
 Although characterized by Cauca- sian observers as sullen in their DO litical antiquities, the Cantonese are cheerful, industrious and intelligent people in their daily lives. They ac- cept philsophically their many hard ships and receive with stoical forti- tude the visitations of pestilence, which from time to time removes much of the surplus population.
 Perhaps 1t was the scarcity of food which caused the Cantonese to include In their menus many 'delica- cies' not so classed by Western peo- pie. For example, there is a breed of dog which is fattened in this great city and much prized by those who can afford more than a rice diet. Cats, hawks and birds nests are also re- garded as appetizing viands."
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
TO BE WISHED.

Sunday, May ', will be the Anniversary of the sinking of Fer Lusitania, and as yet there len no settlement on that case n this country and Germany. sches from Washington state @nofficially it is suggested that |he seventh may be set as the Emit for an answer from Ger Esn the latest submarine episode, liking of the Sussex, and that Ehnswer is not forthcoming by Ate diplomatic relations will be @torily broken off. In the same Ethere comes from Berlin news Eeffect that the American Am z#r, Gerard, has been on a visit Front where at Great Headquar- \ was entertained by the Kaiser Ee entire situation talked over. *hothing definite of this visit N learned, 1t is hinted that the told MT. Gerard he wanted war nor a diplomatic break Rerica, but earnestly and sin esired that the friendly rela- isuhg between the two coun- Rce the days of Frederick the hould not be broken" There
 TYP for optimism in such news K be so that the Kaiser does
 t a break with this country 3ere shall be no break. IT is 24p to him. Washington seepos a receptive mood, what if if
 some impatience at Ber- Fay, and all the Kaiser has to H3 order his submarine com ## to conform to the recognized 4 5international law.
 #A Emperor of Germany does 1t war, and the President of
 led States does not want war, ! be reasonably assumed that A E e
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
ThC Time Is COminW
(J. A. Sleicher, in Leslie's.

Ao. A. tOlelCIl5l, III IoSllG s.
 We have seldom seen a clearer forecast and more timely warning than are embraced in these few lines in our wide awake contemporary, the New York Herald. It says: ",The time is speedily coming when tho labor leaders must decide on a new and more sagacious course or involve this country in disturbance which may be equivalent to civil war. And the time is coming when the govern ment must face this issue also ir- stead of going along nagging at pr- vate investment and batting on the back labor agitators who make de- mands without leaving any way of settlement except to comply. A force has been unleashed which will be difficulty to control. The trend is unmistakably in the direction of submission by all invested capital to the workingman or an industrial up- heaval many times more extensive and disastrous than the great railroad and other strikes in 1s77."
 If every newspaper in the United States would realize the great import of these words and devote it's col umns to protests against the reign of unreason and the gospel of unrest which are proving so destructive to the welfare of the people, there would be hope for tho future. The coward ice of our legislators in dealing with tho grave problems of the ray is only matched by the singular failure of the press to recognize it's power for good. Perhaps one is the corollary of the other.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

the people of Germany do not want war with the people of the United States, nor do the people of the United States want war with the people of Germany. Then, there should be no war There should be ences that have come between the two governments, and there will be @ way if the Kaiser and his advisors have their minds open to logic, which, from all reports, is the case. The United States is not asking that the German people be humiliated, that they be crippled in their struggle against their enemies, that they total ly abandon their method of subma- rine warfare. This government mere ly demands that the submarine com- craft in such a manner as to recog- nize the rights of neutrals on the high seas, so that the lives of innocent men, women and children shall not be ruth
 
 and nothing more. It should be a very easy matter, and the German govern ment has shown that these methods can be enforced The entire campaign ranean has been conducted according to law and order, and there has been no complaint against Germany. Aus tria- Hungary over-stepped the bounds once. But in the war zone" drawn around the British Isles the submarine campaign has not been conducted in accordance with international law, and the German government knows it. The German people, too, are beginning to realize that the demands made by the American government on the Imperial government are right and just. And, if public opinion is allowed to chrys- talize throughout the empire, sthere shall be no fear of war because the German people want it. The same holds true in this country. Public opinion is against war.
 All these things being true, IL IS then the duty of each and every Amer ican citizen to preserve all display of temper and allow the men in com mand at Washington to determine what shall be the course of this gov ernment in the event Germany refuses to accede to all the demands made. Display of temper and hotheadedness at this time may spread like wild fire until remembering the anniver- sary of one of the greatest sea trag- edies of all time, the entire nation might stand up and demand action for which later it would be sorry. All the great German publicists who are now gathered in Berlin are advocat- ing an amicable settlement of differ ences between the two countries, and May may yet see the end of all diff hculties between Germany and the United States, consummation de- 1 voutly to be wished.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
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Daring Baseball Prediction.
F7TF II1H IStfSVUEIT ITt<tIIN'IIUTl, (Iugh $. Fullerton in the America,
 MaGazine.)

\IlQSl lillcllCI III iIlS AIncf1CcaIl
 MaGazine.)
 I have just telegraphed Amos Whip reserve for mo a room with bath fHr the week of October 6 to 13, and have asked Joe Lannin and Percy Haughton to hold for me seats in the press boxes during the Worlds Cham pionship series between the Bostoo Braves and the Boston Red SOx.
 The dope" declares that, for the first time since the civil war in Chi cago resulting from the White SoX and Cubs playing for the Worlds Cham pionship, the big series will be played in one city. The Red Sox will win after a strenuous fight with the De- troit Tigers and the Chicago White SoX. New York's Yankees, after be- ing in the race up to the last month, will drop back and fight it out with St. Louis which will be a contender during tWo-thirds of the seaSon. In the National League the Braves will win rather handily, with Cincinnati others in a close bunch, and Pitt.,- burgh trailing.
 The first year I attempted this ey- pertinent I placed five of the eight clubs of the National League in the positions in which they finished Next year, I placed Chicago second instead of third-oth erwise the teams finished as l had figured them to do.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
In essence, the rules guiding the

Tn essence, the rules guiding the the character of armed merchant ves- sels as disclosed last week may be stated in two sentences: A vessel us- ing her armament solely for self-de- fense is entitled under the doctrine therein set forth to treatment accord ed to an unarmed ship. A vessel us- ing her armament in aggression against enemy ships loses her peaceful status, and lays herself open to at tack on the same terms as warship. It is possible that the points made clear hA the administrations state mont indicate tho way toward settle ment of the points at issue between Germany and'the United States,-New York Sun. ..#.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
COMMUNICATT'D.
Urges Voters of This City to Read
 Roosevelts Chicago Speech.

Editor of the Herald:
 Let me urge that every voter of the city of New Britain read, in his own language if he does not understand English, the address of Theodore Roosevelt at the meeting of the Bar Association of Chicago, last Saturday.
 I have not been, up to this time, in favor of the nomination of Theo = dore Roosevelt for President, but I wish every voter in the nation might have an opportunity to. read this ad- dress of his in full.
 "A REPUBLICAN,"
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

If Congress won't hurry for the safety of the country, the House at least might speed up a little just to please the impatient Speaker Clark Boston Journal
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

While Villa may not be dead, this is the first time in years he has been so long without getting into some deviltry.-Utica Observer.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

OUR COUNTRY: IN HER IN- WITH FOREIGN
 AATIONS MAY SHE ALWAYS zE IN THE RIGHT; BUT OUR COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. STEPHEN DECATUR.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

Promotion ought to come easily to the clerk in the office of Secretary Daniels who so thoroughly lost Ad- m1ral Fiske's letter.-Rochester Dem ocrat and ChrOnic1e
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01

There may be some consolation in the fact that the German money used to pay for the telegraphic bomhard- ment of Congress was not employed in purchasing strikes or hiring dynamit- CTS and bomb b-throwers.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Oyster Bay has mobilized.--Syra- cuse Post-Standard
New Britain herald., 1916-05-01
WASHABLE SPORT STRIPES

For Suits, Skirts, Blouses, Tunic and Oversllirts, 35c yard. 27 inche wide.