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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-06-14

cast for Hughes; Illinois withdrew
Sherman, Ohio withdrew Burton
Iowa withdrew Cummins, New York
withdrew Root, Massachusetts, with.
drew Weeks. Practically all these
new votes were cast for Hughes
only few remaining in compliment
to the favorite sons who brought
them.
Then one after the other, Senator
Weeks and Senator Lodge took the
platform, pledged loyalty to the
nominee and asked all their support
ers to do likewise. Similar an
'nouncements were made from all the
favorite son delegations. The final
analysis of the nominating ballot
showed that Hughes had drawn his
votes from every State in the union
and every territory; that Roosevelt
had been scattered over twelve
States; that Du Points five had come
from South Carolina; Lodges seven
from North Carolina and the. final
three for Senator Weeks had come
from Massachusetts, and Missouri.
Although the convention, when it
nominated Mr.. Hughes, had no word
that he would accept and no state
ment of his position, one came along
soon afterward, but not until the
convention had adjourned. The for
mer Justice had kept to his deter
mination to utter no word in his
own behalf, to make no new an
nouncement of his position on is
sues. and to say nothing which
might be construed as becoming a
candidate while he wore the robe of
a Justice in the worlds greatest
court.
Letter OF Resignation and Presi-
dents Reply.
Washington, June 10.-Justice
Hughes's letter of resignation, sent
to the White House by messenger,
contained one brief sentence. 1t
said:
June 10, 1916.
"To the President:
81 hereby resign the Office of AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
II am, sir, respectfully yours,
CHARLES E. HUGHES"
The President sent this reply to
Justice Hughes's letter:
Dear Mr.. Justice Hughes:
81 am in receipt OF your letter of
resignation, and feel constrained to
yield to your desire. therefore &C
cept your resignation as Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, to take effect at once.
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON"
The letter was sent to Justice
Hughes by messenger.
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Mr.. Hughes will be notified Off
cially of his nomination at date to
be fixed later by a committee head
ed by Senator Warren G. Harding,
of Ohio, chairman of the convention.
Mr.. Fairbanks will be notified by
committee headed by Senator Will
liam E. Borah, of Idaho.
At 2:01 p. m. the convention ad-
journed. There were expressions of
harmony from all the leaders and
among the delegates. The delega-
tions which on the final ballot had
cast votes for others. than Mr. Hughes
made statements declaring their 10y
atty to the nominees.
HE nomination of Mr.. Hughes
was made possible so soon by an ov-
ernight breakup of all the allied
favorite sons combination, which.
early this morning released its dele
gates. practically all of whom were
known to favor Mr.. Hughes when
freed from their instructions.
When the convention began bust
nesss shortly before noon the with
drawal of the favorite sons was an
nounced from the platform one at
ter another. and the votes, began
Topping, into the Hughes column in
solid blocks so rapidly that the nom-
ination plainly was assured before
the roll-cail had gone five States.
When it got to Colorado the drift
was SO apparent that a roposa. to
make II unanimous or nominate him
by reclamation was made. but Chair
man Harding ruled that the ballot
ing should take its regular course.
~ ch addition to the Hughes col
Umn was greeted by yells Of exults-
tion from the rapidly accumulating
Hughep delegates and steadily. State
b. State. the votes piled up until
New Jersey carried It past the re-
quired 4s4, and the remainder was
only Formally.
In rapid succession as the voting
went on. Du Pont was withdrawn by
Delaware and his solid block was
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Despite the fact that Frank H.
Hitchcock, leader of the Hughes
supporters. let it be known while
the Presidential balloting was in
progress that the Hughes men want
ed Burton for second place, Ohio
withdrew Burton's name, leaving the
field to Mr.. Fairbanks and former
Senator Burkett, of Nebraska.
The ballot for Vice President
showed this count.
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JOHN II. MCLEAN, OWNER
TWO BIG PAPERS, DEAD

Washington, June 9.-John r.
Mclean, owner of the Washington
Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer
died at his home here at 1850
o'clock this afternoon, after a long
illness.
Mr.. Mclean. who was in his sixty
eighth year, had been suffering from
a complication Of diseases for sew
eral months. He was a native OF
Cincinnati. where he lived until q
few years ago, when he came te
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danced in the spirit" around the
dying woman's bedside. talked and
prayed in unknown tongues and per-
formed other mysterious acts in the
belief that the Lord would save Mrs.
lvey. The preliminary trial was
held before County Judge James NJ.
Long.
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appointment of an intern ational
commission to settle all questions In
dispute between the United States
and Mexico is being considered by
the United States. Authority for
such step is given under the treaty
of 1S4S.
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Groom 90, Bride 10.

Elizabethtown. KY. June To-
Cap Noe. SO years old. and Miss Ida
May Pettinger, Is. were married
here Thursday.
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The States Finances.

The following has been given out
as the condition of the State Treas
ury at the close of business May
Sist:
The balance on hand was $1.0S6,-
914.21, distributed as follows:
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Uneasy rests the aching tooth that
wears q crown.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
Let the People Rule!

From Leslie s.
 At the recent primaries in Pennsyl- vania votes were cast for Billy Sunday and Hans Wagner for President of the United States.
 A man built an altar of wood and stones and burned himself to death on it in Colorado, leaving a Bible marked with the story of Abraham's near sacri- flee of his son Isaac.
 A young man who fatally shot a la borer in the back in a New Jersey town, when arrested declared that his motive was known to himself and to his God and that that was sufficient
 A 7O-year-old Chicago bachelor has just established trust fund of $2, ,9OO,0 900 for the benefit of 10 deserving Illinois insti- tutions. He doesn't want to wait until he dies before he does good.
 Somebody sent a crate of eggs by par ce,s post to an Urbana, O.. merchant and because on one of the eggs an inscrip- tion had been written, the merchant had to pay $57S postage-the first-class rate.
 A. mob of 400 women parishioners of a Slovak church in Connecticut recently at- tackled the rectory with sticks. stones and eggs because they disliked the clergy man who had replaced their favorite.
 The New York Herald says that a large majority of the 5000 patients in the tuber- culosis hospitals in New York city, cost ing the taxpayers a million a year. are not suffering from tuberculosis. but are enjoying a good time at the citys ex- pense.
 Senator Kenyon is denouncing the $44, 000,000 river and harbor bill in the Sen ate declared that $20, ,0000 GOO of it was ''ut terly unjustifia ble." He said to his as- sociates. Your motto is Let the people squeal' Some day a Congress will bt
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of business activity on the following
 day and often for two succeeding days, because of the sprees which attended the holiday celebrations. It is sai1 that the saving to the workingmen in this respect alone runs Into prodigious fig
 ures In one factory in the Tula gov ernment, employing 1000 men, there were 500 lost working days in three months during 1914. For the same months in 1916 these were reduced to 49.
 The earning capacity of the people appear to have outstripped the advance in the cost of living, with the result that savings deposits have mounted up to an almost unbelievable extent, the peasant is living better than he ever did before before. and he Is acquiring a self-respect which he never possessed In the old days of vodka domination,
 Among the benefits observed by an independent investigator. A. I. Firesov, who recently travelled through a num- Der of the central governments are: A noteworthy falling off in the number of domestic rows, a lighter and more hopeful spirit among the people, de- crease in arrears of taxes. fields bet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
FEELING THE VACUUM

The vacuum left in the lives of for mer vodka consumers is gradually be- ing filled through the establishment in towns and rural districts of "norodny doms" (peoples houses). where stere- opticon and moving picture productions are becoming popular forms of amuse- ment. Lecturers are also being sent out by associations which are work ing for the betterment of the people. The Duma has voted 1.000,000 rubles ($500,000) to promote temperance work by city councils. the church and other organizations. Card playing is report ed to be on the increase.
 There has been much speculation as to whether the prohibition now in effect will be continued after the war P. L.. Bark. minister of finance. whose de- partment of the government was most seriously affected by the stoppage of revenue formerly derived from the sale of vodka. has definitely expressed him. ton in behalf of the government which he made recently to critics of the gov ernment's policies, he said: q find it important to categorically announce that all suspicious that the government intends to renew the sale of vodka are unfounded. I categorically announce that the government will support pro- hibition and that there will be no re- turn to the former state of affairs. I can state with authority that the sale Of vodka will be prohibited forever" A measure is at present under conSid- eration in the Duma to make the vodka prohibition perpetual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
Bonnie May, Laughing Expert

From Bonnie May" by Louis Dodge, in
 the July Scribner.
 I'm teaching her how to laugh"
 Baron stared. Teaching her how te laugh!" he echoed.
 She was immediately on the defensive
 q certainly am. You must have seen
 that she doesn't know howl"
 Nonsense! You're talking just plain nonsense!'
 You might think so A good many people would. But I wish you would tell
 me how many people you know who really laugh right" Right! There's no question of laughing right. People laugh when there's an oc- casion for laughing" don't know how. And very few people
 know anything about the right occasion to laugh"
 Meaning!
 q can make it quite plain. You see it's a custom to teach children how to talk, and some are taught how to sing I say nothing about the silly things that are taught to speak pieces,' heaven helI them. They are taught these things be- cause they wouldn't know how to do them right if they were left to themselves
 They try to talk and they try to sing
 and they get it all wrong. And then they are taught
 That's an entirely different natter Mot at all. When they try to laugf they get it all wrong, too, but nobody thinks it's necessary to teach they any better. You can see I'm perfectly right T think what you say is quite absurd. ,. Its just new to you. that's all You know perfectly well that when most peo- pie try to laugh what they really do is to cackle, giggle, or shriek, or make horrible noises until they nearly choke Women try not to cry because it makes | them look ugly. But just think how some people look when they laugh! All they need is a few lessons at the right time
 Then they know how to laugh naturally
 and freely. You have to think how you
 are doing it at first. Afterward vol laugh the right way without thinking al
 all''
 <" Ladies and gentlemen, I take pleas ure in introducing Mile. Bonnie May laughing expert'' said Baron derisively
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
The Day We Celebrate

From Cartoons Magazine.
 The glorious Fourth isn't what IT. once was. Do you remember when you tied string to your great toe, con- meeting with the corresponding toe of your chum across the street? There was no chance of sleeping late that morn ing. At dawn the fusillade began. The family cat took refuge underneath the porch and didn't venture out for days Even your best friend, your dog, seemed to suspect something, and was glad when all the noise was over.
 There were kings and "queens" in the punches of firecrackers. then. The Kings" if we remember right, were green, and the "qeens," yellow. They were supposed to explode with 8 some what louder bang than the mere pri- yates. which were red. But there were disappointments in every pack, and for days afterward the burnt marks on the porch and sidewalk testified to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
PROHIBITION WORKS WONDERS IN RUSSIA Intoxicated Person Now a
 Novelty in Russia
THE ECONOMIC ASPECT
People Are More Thrifty and Earn ing Capacity Shows Marked h. crease-PrOhibition of Sale of
 Vodka Will Be Made Perpetual

Petrograd, June Correspond ence of the Associated Press)--After 8 year and half of prohibition Russia may be said to have successfully aboI- ished the liquor traffic. The sale of in . toxicants since Emperor Nicholas put his signature to the ukase forbidin 2 the traffic at the very outset If the var, has fallen from nearly 10000 ; 900 rubles (S500 000) yearly 10 ap- proximately per cent of that sum. This per cent largely consists of the
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Away With Worthless
 Makeshifts

Ninety mine out of every hundred dollars spent for elastic and spring trusses might about as well be thrown
 Close to ten million dollars a year-in this country alone-is practically wasted on such contraptions.,
 lferers out of every ten trust to mere ltry-on or hasty examination instead of first making thorough test.
 A Mere Try-On Is Snare \ You can't possibly tell anything about a truss or anything else for rupture merely by trying it. on.
 A truss or so-cslled s;t "apglianse" may lprove utterly worthless.
 The only way in the world you can make sure of. exactly what you're get test without having to risk any money
 The Only Thing Good Enough to Stand a 6O-Day Test There Is only one thing of any kind Tor rupture that you can get on sixty Only one thing good enough to stand such long and thorough test.
 s IS our | make 1t to your measure-and let you We'li practically lend 1t to you that long-without asking you to risk If it doesn't keep your rupture from coming out or bothering you in any we make-then you can send it back and 1t won't cost you a single cent Made On New Principle famous Cluthe-is so utterly different from everything else for rupture that 1t has received eighteen separate patents. IS absaes 5ar meTs than 5rSt truss Made
 Unlike everything else it is seIf-rex- alnting. .lself-adjusting--instan and
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"cat and dog fights" which had been

"cat and dog fights" which had been made by the "sizzers.'
 Then, at night there were real fire works on the green-Roman candles showering cancellations of colored fire, skyrockets that painted the heav- ems, and pinwheels that were fiery glories.
 Possibly you can also remember the hose-coupling contests. the potato races, and the reading of the Declara- tion of Independence by the local con- gressman. As Briggs would put it, those were the days of real sport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
Going Back

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal
 Flows things in Plunkville?" "Quet."
 'How's your piano fund coming on?'' Well, every time we give an enter tainment to raise money we get deeper
 into debt.'
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here which will not consider that the greatest statesman is the man who can get the greatest amount of money out of the federal treasury"
 And yet the people rule!
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TYPICAL EXAMPLE

A typical example of the reconstruc- tion in progress is to be found among the Ostyaks, a large population in east ern Siberia in the governments of Tomsk and Tobolsk. whose chief indus try is trapping and fishing. Formerly they fell easy prey to traders who filled them with vodka and drove sharp bargains for their products. Many branches of this people were gradually becoming extinct from excessive use of alcohol. Today they are said to be completely revolutionized. Instead of easy victims they are becoming clever bargainers themselves. who know how to get full value for their furs and fish.
 That drunk kenness still exists and that many substitutes for vodka are em- ployed, cannot be denied. By compari- son, however. the evasion of the pro- hibition decree are negligible. Co., lognes, cosmetics. and even varnishes are submitted to processes whereby the alcohol in their composition is extract ed for consumption; but the extent of this practice is barely comparable with the blind pig and drug store abuses practiced in American prohibition com munities. Illicit manufacturers are constantly bounded by the police so that the practice has failed to assume proportions.
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ter titled and a growing demand for agricultural machinery q decrease in alcoholic in the charity hospitals and other institutions; and decrease in crimes and In the number of beggars. According to this investigation, the peasant instead of feeling that he has suffered an injury by the abolition of vodka, is grateful for having had a temptation removed which he knew he himself was powerless to resist. The Emperor Is reverently referred to as Nicholas the Temperate" A peasant Is quoted as saying: We have now one common enemy-the Germans: former ly every man was his own enemy" A director of a glass factory in Moscow said that 50 years more of drunkenness would have lost to the Russian people all capacity for resistance and the na- tion would have fallen an easy prey to Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-02
All Business
From Puck

From PUCK.
 Then I can be one of your pupils?'
 "Assuredly, sir, for $1O lesson" said the great artist. And a favorite pupil for $2 extra" n stl8SIf
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sale of liquors for medicinal purposes, although in 1t Is included also a linn ited traffic in wines for which there is a restricted permission in certain parts of the empire.
 Vodka, formerly the most easily ob- tainable commodity in Russia, has be- come as rare as whisky in the most strictly prohibition community in the United States. Wines are still to be had, surreptitiously for the most part, but also in some cases and under pre- scribed conditions. with the knowledge of the authorities, but at prices which limit their sale to people of wealth or woeful extravaganza. It is possible in Petrograd and Moscow, for instance, where the ban. even on wines. is strict. to purchase wines in certain hotels. but they may be served only in private dining rooms, and the privileges en- joyed by these institutions are ire quently interrupted by the police Tor some infraction of the restrictive rules
 NO DRUNKS ON STREETS
 One of the most noticeable res its Of the almost complete suppression of vodka naturally is the disappearance from the streets and other public places of intoxicated persons They have become so rare al to be more or less a novelty. People observe such in a spirit of curious surprise, doubt less the impulse among the majority being to wonder how he managed it. This state of affairs offers a remarkable contrast to the ante-bellum condition when drunkenness among the lower classes of society presented a most se- rious problem. II is a well established fact that each one of the 60-odd holi
 days, irrespective of Sundays, when business houses and factories close their doors. used to mean a crppling
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-06

He Called the Meal Their After Theater
 Party.
 of that widely advertised enterprise in stead he asked:
 Your mother has invested heavily, has she not?"
 s'Not in the railroad. Her fortune, and mine, too, is all in the coal mines"
 O'Neil smothered an exclamation.
 What is it?'' she demanded.
 Nothing onIy-are you sure?'
 "Oh, quite sure! The mines are rich, aren't they?''
 s'There are no mines,'' he informed her, thanks to our misguided law makers at Washington. There are vast deposits of fine coal which would make mines if we were allowed ito work them, but we are not allowed"
 "'We?' Are you>-a- coalAperson, like us?''y
 ''Yes. I was one of the first men in the Kyak fields, and I invested heav7 fly. I know MT. Gordon's group of claims well. I have spent more than a hundred thousand dollars trying to perfect my titles, and I'm no nearer patent now than I was to begin with not so near, in fact. I fancy Gordon has spent as much and is in the same fix. It is a-coal matter which brings me to Alaska now.3
 ''I hardly understand.
 Of course not, and you probably won't after I explain. You see, the government gave us-gave everybody who owns coal locations in Alaska three years in which to. do certain things; then it extended that time an other three years. But recently, a new secretary of the interior has come into office and he has just rescinded that later ruling without warning, which gives us barely time to comply with the law as it first stood. For my part, I'll have to hustle or lose everything have put in. You see? That's why 1 hated to see those horses drown, for intended to use them in reaching the coal fields Now I'll have to hire men to carry their loads. No doubt MT. Gordon has arranged to protect your holdings, but there are hundreds of claimants who will be ruined"
 q suppose the government protected it's subjects said the girl vaguely.
 "Ohe of the illusions taught in the elementary schools laughed O'Neil eve >Alaskans have found that it does exactly the opposite. We have found it a harsh and unreasonable landlord. But I'm afraid I'm boring you" He wrapped her more snugly in her GOV erings, for a chill had .descended with | the darkness, then strove to enliyen ] her with stories garnered from his rich | experience-stories which gave her fas- cinating glimpses of great undertak- l ings and made her feel personally ac- | quainted with people of unfamiliar type, whose words and deeds, mirthful 1 or pathetic. were always refreshingly original. Of certain individuals he spoke repeatedly until their names be 1 came familiar to his nearer. He called | them his boys and his voice was 1 tender as he told of their doings.
 "These men are your staff?'' she ven 1 tured.
 CTo Be Continued.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-06

round mahogany table and leather settee." 5
 "Rea1yI'' A
 '"That's where I'm to be found at least four months out of every twelve" ,"
 'EThey told me you built railroads" ''I do-when I'm lucky enough to underbid my competitors. But that isn't always, and railroads aren't built every day.''
 E'ENIr. Gordon is building one."
 ''So I'm to1d.' O'NeiI marveled at the trick of fortune which had entan- gled this girl and her mother in the web of that brilliant and unscrupulous adVenturer.
 "Perhaps it will be a great success like your famous North Pass and Yu- kon railway
 "Let us hope so." He was tempted to inquire what use Gordon had made