Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1909, Page 4

e e e WEI WIN BY BIC mmmn'{ Prohibition Defeated in Alabama by About Twenty Thousand. PERSONAL ELEMENT IN FIGHT It Cannot Re Hegardl Anti-Prohibition e n Stratwht Vietory—Gov- or Comer Was an Tanue. DIRMINGHAM, Al Nov. 30.—All indi- cations point to a majority of Atween 15000 and 20000 in Alabama against the prohibition constitutional amendment yes- terddy. Chairman J. Lee Long, who has been In charge of ghe Might against the amendment,” clalma. that the majority against the amendmént wil! be fully 20,000, The early returns indjcated a landslide against the amendment and succeeding bulletins fully bore out the early indi- cations. Jefferson county, in which I8 Birming- ham, the largest city in the state, In spite of the fact that fhe’ fight has been con- centrated here, gave a majority of over 1,000 aghinst the amendment. Moblle, Mont- gomeéry and Cullman counties show the largest maforities on the victorlous side and it appears the amendment has carried but three counties, Tal'adega, Macon and Sumter, with Lee. in. doubt. Not n Stralght Vietory. Today's election cannot be regarded as | a stralght anti-prohibition victory because of the personal-polities-that has been in- jected Into the issde. Its assoclation with: the administration of Governor B. B Comer and his reported ability to ymme’a $pocessor to the gov- ernorship ini Judge 8, D. Weakley, author of the prohibition bills, have figured promi- nently in the result. A significant featufe of the result is the fact that sentiment agalnet the amend- ment 1s so widespread. Rural precincts, | small towns and, éities alike, for the most | part returned substantial majorities on | the winning side. Anterest An Contest. A fact of special Interest in today's elec- tion on a constitutional amendment mak- | ing prohibition ' effective throughout all Alabama was that {t'wae the first time in the history of the state that an expression of the whole eldctbrate vote had been se- cured on'a prohtbitian question. The state- wide prohibition bill was passed by a legis- lature which had been -elected on a local option platform, and while several counties had_declared for prohibition under the local option act, the voters of the entire state h&d mever BELors’ been called upen to pliss on the question direct. The polling places i the country pre- cinets closed at 5 o'clock and in the citles at § o'clock, and the tount was rapld, be- cause thepe was but ome proposition sub- mitted. Many Fights at Polls, In Birmingham the election was the most exciting ever witnessed. Hundreds of peo- ple were crowded around each polling place, women and children. were singing and brass bands, dtetioned by the anti- améndment forpes, were playing patriotic airs, Bach polling place was enlivened by its ‘quota of fist fights, there being so many’ that 4t 'wa Ifigoksible to keep track of them. Feellng was 50 high that a few words were sufficient to bring on a blow. Practically every other voter was chal lenged and required to make affidavit that he was a qualified elector. This delayed the casting of ballots considerably, but in spite of these handicaps the vote was heavy. As an instance of the deep fecling dls- played, & minister went to the polls and a Young womap attempted to pin a white rib bon upon him. The minister declined, tell- ing her that he considered it Jmproper for young women to speak to men on the streets, whom they*did not know. The wo- man began orying and the minister apolo- glzed for hurting her feeling, but he con- sidered the polling places Improper places for the young woman to be, The affalr was takgh up,/all eyer the city and parti- sans commended or denounced the conduct of the minister accordingly as thelr senti- ments on the question dictated. Country Counties Against It. MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov %.—Returns in the Alabama election indicated the pro- posed amendment to put prohibition in the constitution had been defeated by a de- clsive vote. ¥rom the country precincts the reports indicated the farmers' vote was largely against it. The majority In Montgomery county against the amendment may g0 to L50. The Indications are that the amendment lost in a majority of the counties. Most of the large counties went heavily agalnst the ‘measure. While women and children were &t the polls in many Pplaces, thelr presence did not affect the vote to any extent. Oscar Hall, tax ‘commissioner of Bald- win county, fell dead at his home, a few minutes after voting for the amendment. Physiclans say death was due to heart fallure, Induced by exeftement. SENATOR DIETRICH'S WIFE .AND DAUGHTER AT BEDSIDE His Cougition Hecomes More Seri- ou ‘aiid ‘the Women “Are Called. Mrs, Herbért Knox Smith of Washington, daughter, of Senator, Diptrich, has been called to" the ¢ fer father because of his mogt h-%:m‘on. She arrived Monday, and with' Dietrich, s stepping at thé Rome, aithoush they spend most of their img Bt the MethoMst hospital, where Mr. Dietrich ‘wa# taken when brought to Omaha In his present serfous condition. | preceding’ five years by 6.5 per cent. Annual Feast of St. Louis Traffic Club Senator Chamberlain, Judge Dillard and C. W. Post Talk of Rail+ roads and the People. ST. I %0.—Senator George F. Chamberlain of Oregon, former Judge Dil- land ‘of Chicago, and George A. Post of New York were speakers at the annual banquet of the Traffic club of St. Louls tonight, Senator Chamberiain discussed “Conservation, and The Rallroads.”” Mr. Post's subject was “Rallway Business Ag. soclations,” and Judge Dilland talked on “The Relation Between Corporate Enter- prises and the Public,” Senator Chamberlain pledged himself to support the waterway legislation proposed by the assoclations Interested in that sub- Ject, and predicted that the Miselssippt val- ley will become the manufacturing as well as the producing center of the country. Mr. Post told his hearers of a conference at Washington last Tuesday between repre- sentatives of the Rallway Business asso- efation, of which he 1s president, and President Taft and Attorney General Wick- ersham. He pleaded with the rallroad ex- ecutives present to treat the people as ous- tomers and asserted that this relation of $eeller and purchaser is vital to a solution of the railroad problem. “Let the rallroads go to Washington and help construct, rather than obstruct,” he urged. CORN IS UNCHALLENGED KING (Continued from First Page) $56,000,000; flaxseed, $36,000,0000, and 1,000,-000,- 000 pounds of rice, $25,000,000. Comparisons with Former Years. The production ‘of all cereals combined 18 4,711,000,000 bushels, an amount consider- ably greater than that for any other year except 1006. It exceeds the average of the The value of all cereals in 1809 has never been equaled In a previous year. It Is almost exactly' 300,000,000, or 34 per cent above the five-year average Compared with the average of the previ- ous five years, all principal crops are greater in quantity this year except cot- ton, flaxseed, hops and cane sugar; but without _exception every crop is worth more to the farmer than’ the five-year average. This 18 the year -of highest production for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar, all sugar and rice; next to the highest production for corn, oigs and all cereals. Compared with 1008, gains in value are found all along the line, the exceptions being bar- ley, buekwheat, rye and milk. The increase in the, value of farm products this year over 1908, $569,000,000, Is enough to buy a new equipment of farm machinery for over 6,000,00 farms. The value of the cercal crops to the farmer would pay for all of the machinery, tools and fmplements of the entire maufacturing Industry. The value of all crops, $,700,- 000,00 would make a half payment on the value of all steam rallroads, according to the valuation of ‘1904, Meat Price Investigation. Retall Meat Prices—Secretary Wilson has Just finished a unique Investigation made for the ,purpose of this report relating to the increase of wholesale prices of beef when s0ld at retall. Through employes of the Bureau of Animal Industry inqulries were ‘made in fifty clties—large, medium, and small—in all parts of the country. For the fifty cities the total retall cost charged to customers above the wholesale cost paid by the retallers Is 38 per cent. In five cities the raté of increase is 20 per cent or under; in ten cities, 21 to 30 per cent; In 12 cities, 31 to 40 per cent; in twelve cities, 41 to 60 per cent; and in eleven cities, over 50 per cent. The lower the grade of beef the greater the percentage of gross profit. In Boston, for illustration, the rate of gross profit 1s nearly twice as great for beef costing § cents at wholesale as for beef costing 11 and 1% cents. Low-priced beef is marked up nearly twice as much relatively as high- priced beef. In other words, perhaps it Is @ safe Inference that the poor people pay nearly twice as much profit as the well-to- do people pay. Hog Situation More Fair, The farmer's situation with regard to hogs {s more fair to the farmer than the cattle situation is, but still it Is apparent that during the last three years the price of corn has been too high for the price of hogs. The relative price of hogs on the farm January 1, 1909, was 147.3 as compared with 100 for the mean price of 1896-190), and the average cost of all hogs slaughtered at principal markets in the year before was 148.1, or about the same as the farm price. The price of dressed hogs of 160 pounds in New York in 1908 stands at 157, and the carcasses of market pigs at Chicago at 1484, which s approximately the number representing the relative retall price of tresh pork. There has been a tendency of the animals and orops of the farm to-increase-in value per upit at the farm at a fagter rate than all commodities have increased at whole- sale. Within the wholesale trade, also, farm products exceed all other claéses of cem- modities in relative Increasq of prices singe 169, and food is exceeded only by farm products and by lumber and bullding ma- terlals. The only largg exception to the leading place taken by farm products in rise of prices Is unfed beef cattle, the THE DELICIOU economical you can buy Apollinaris Water COMBINED WITH ITS PERSISTENT mvwfl And Valuable Digestive Qualities L Accounts for its Ever Increasing Popularity Sunkist Flour is the most s FLAVOR OF Sunkist farther than most flours—each sack makes loutl:;'-h loaves more bread. Sunkist Flour is made from selected high grade wheat- ed very carefully under conditions of absolute Sunkist is richer in gluten—the nutritive and bread- making element—gives you more and better bread. ' Sunkist Flour always gives good results farm price of which has barely begun to rise above the price level of 1806-1900 for beef cattle. The Inspection of meat was conducted at 87 estublishments located In 0 cities and towns, an Increase of elghty-nine establish- ments and twenty-nine citles and towns There wero Inspected at and after slaugh ter,55,671,97 animals, of which 7,336,587 were cattle, 2,046,713 calves, 3,427,321 hogs, 10,82, 803 sheep and 69,193 goats. Of these 141,08 carcasses and 809,628 parts of carcasses were condemned. Tuberculosis seems to have been the principal cause of the con- demnation. In addition there were con- demned’ for sdnltary reasons on relnspec- tlon more than 11,000,000 pounds of meat products, Owing to better observation of the law governing transportation of live stock In| cars, only 28 cases of violation were re- ported during the year, or less than one- third the number in the year previous. Only 6 per cent of the cases resulted adversely to the government. Fines of §73,400 were collectéd and costd of $11,58. Through the vigorous work .of its law officer the de- partment 18 exercising a powerful influence for the observition of tne several laws In the enforcement of which it is specially Interested. Bofls of forty-five different areas in twenty different states were mapped during the year, at a cost of about $145,000, in- cluding field and office expenses, the area mapped aggregating 100616 square miles Since the beginning of the year 189, 27,60 square miles have been surveyed and map- ped. With reference to soll fertility the Teport states that so far as can be observed at the present time cases of failure on the farm are due to Individual negleet or mis- judgment, not fundamental to the sofl it- self. With regard to abandoned farms in the eastern states, it Is stated that the idea that the solls have become exhausted is a mistaken one and the suggestion is made that an increasing production ~can be brought back through a change in farfm management and the Infusion of new and active blood in rural communities, Pure Food and Drugs. The department made a great forward movement in enforcing the food and drugs act. It now has branch laboratories for the examination of samples at twenty-one of the leading commerclal centers, about one-half of these being seaport cities. The department solicitor has prepared and re- ported to the attorney general for prose- cution 494 cases, and of those tried but two were lost. Convictions and fines ag- gregating over $3,00 “were secured fIn elghty-five cases; and In ninety-elght cases dec of condemnation and forfeiture were issued covering many tons of food and drugs. As a result of these opera- tions, misbranded and adulterated prod- ucts are rapidly disappearing from inter- state commerce. The use of preservatives Which may be injurious to health is one of the largest and most perplexing ques- tions arlsing under the food and drugs act. So far only one experlment has been completed, that with sodium benzoate. The decision which has been published de- clares this preservative to be noninjurious, and it may be used without violation of law, provided the percentage used appears on the labels attached to the packages. Rise of “Prescription Scheme,” Since the passage of the food and drugs act the “prescription scheme! has arisen. Under this plan of selling proprietary a prescription is sent through . The prescription will contain several well known medicinal agents, but also a colned name of some unknown product. To fill the prescription the re- clplent must purchase the agent sold under the coined name. Analyses of these prod- ucts have shown that they usually consist of the cheapest and commonest of in- gredlents, though advertised as panaceas for varlous diseases. Such remedies are plainly fraudulent, since trey have no curative properties for the diseases for which they are recommended. Our National Forests. The forest service manages a great producing property; all to'd the proclaimed boundaries of the national forests now in- clude nearly 195,000,000 acres of land. Of the three principal resources of the for- ests, water, forage and timber, the timber is for the time being the least developed. Vigllant protection is now glven the for- ests and this will mean the steady im- provement of water conditions in the west. Not only the users of water throughout the west, but all who In turn derive a benefit from the prosperity of these users share In the distribution of profits. The forage vield of the forests which suf- ticed for nearly 7,700,000 sheep, 1,500,000 cat- tie, $0,000 horse and 150,000 cows, was utfl- ized by more than 27,000 individuals and concerns, besides furnishing free grazing for milch cows and work horses of settlers, prospegtors and travelers, The timber cut of last year was small because of general business conditions. In making sales of national forest timber not revenue but the best Interests of the consumer furnish the gulding principles. The administration and protection of the national forests cost last year less than $3,000,000, with an ad- ditiona! $500,000 spent on Improvements. The cost of national forest administration and protection was less than 3 cents per acre for all purposes, including improvements. Work of W, Bure: An Instance of the practical value of the service of the weather bureau is found in Its advance warnings of storms, llke the Key West hurricane of October 11, 1909. From ‘the first definite location of the storm over the south central Carib- bean sea on October 6, until it proceeded to the southern extremity of Florida and passed Into the ocedn on the 1ith and 12th of October, the bureau gave out dally ad- vices regarding its intensity and direetion in every stage of its progress, with the tesult that protective measures follow- ing the recelpt of the warnings reduced the loes of both lite and property to a minimum. Two new river districts were established, ope at Bismarck, N. D, and the other at Wichita, Kan., for the purpose of fore- casting flood stages. Sclentific investigations have been con- tinued at the Mount Weather Research observatory, and additional knowledge of conditions in the upper atmosphere has been galned by means of kites and captive balloons. The observations are resulting in knowledge which 18 of practical value in weather forecasting. Dry Land Farming. Investigations In the great plains area are now under way at thirteen stations. The subjects of crop sequence, green manuring, time and depth of plowing, ef- feot of tillage before and after seeding, and practically all the combiunations of crop sequence and tillage methods for the conservatioh of molsture are being studied. Durum wheat has become firmly estab- lished in the middle great p'ains region and is being rapldly extended to the in- ter-mountain dry-land section, The total production of durum - wheat for 1909 will probably be not less than 50,000,000 bushels. The spread of this type of wheat has been 80 great that the care necessary to maintain the highest stand- ard of quality has not been given. Prog- ress was made with barley, and rice by the improvement of varieties, the Introduc- tion of new varieties, the improvement of cultural methods, etc. Grester interest was shown in all phases of corn. work than In any previous year. THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, i |~ AN A > N — . e 8 ¢ A recent ruling of the Post Office Department prohibits our awarding in accordance with our advertised premise the prizes in our Golden Anniversary Contest. Our two former contests conducted with such marked success to all concerned set high our hopes for this the third contest. No one regrets more than we our utter inability to comply with the original advertised conditions of this contest.. Our plans for months past have been laid with the object of meeting the heavy demands that we ex- pected would be made upon our stocks of high grade Pianos at this season of the year and as an immediate result of this con- brated: Studies are being made of the methods and practices on the most successful farms Steinway, Weber, Of Interest Contestants Stegero to All test. We have bought from a score of manufacturers. We have bought heavier than ordinary conditions would warrant. Now with the contest falling short of our original plans we find every foot of floor space on our five floors crowded and crammed to overflowing with the highest bled in the West. Something must be done. grade line of Pianos ever assem- Ordinary selling conditions will not help us. Extraordinary measures alone will relieve our di- lemma, our over-crowded salesrooms. We have decided to inaug- urate a Hartman, Golden Anniversary { Piano Sale Commenjorating our half century of business existence and to make PRICES and TERMS that will not be passed by. Remem- ber when considering this sale that here we show 25 different makes of high grade, world renowned Pianos, including the cele- Emerson, Mehlin, McPhail, A. B. Chase, Wheelock, Stuyvesant, Steck and the Well Known - Hand-made Schmoller @ Mueller Pianos. High grade makes that are not to be found elsewhere. Pur- chased in such great numbers to insure rock bottom prices. -‘We guarantee a saving of from $100.00 to $200.00 on any Piano pur- chased during this Golden Anniversary Piano Sale. But we go still further than the furnishing of the highest quality and the No Money Down. giving of the lowest prices. Money is not our immediate object. ‘We must move our stock and would rather that music lovers in Omaha, in Nebraska and throughout the West should have the advantages of this sale and the opportunity to secure the long desired Piano under terms that may not be approached or granted elsewhere. From now until December 25th these terms: 30 Days Free Trial. Free Stool, Free Scarf, Free Delivery, Then $1 a Week Will bring to any home a Beautiful, Fully Guaranteed, Sweet Toned, High Grade Piano. This sale comes at the best time of the year to secure your Piano, just before Christmas. But act immediately. Note the following list which are only a few of actually hundreds of Piano bargains to be found on each and every floor of our salesrooms. Come tomorrow. Make your selection. If you dan’t want the Piano delivered immediately we will set it aside, holding it, delivering it a day or two if you desire, before Christmas. The important thing is to secure your instrument before our stocks have been reduced. They will be sold quickly, Music lovers everywhere know that a sale at Schmoller & Mueller’s is a genuine sale. A sale which includes the furnishing of the highest quality, the best Piano. Which means the saving of the most money. And as we have shown, the giving of the most liberal, the most unheard-of terms. Note the various instruments here offered. Then come, or if you can't come, write for all particulars. We guarantee as great satisfaction in filling your order by mail as if you were here and per- sonally selected the Piano. $250 Story & Camp, Cottage Upright, $65 $600 Steinway, Grand Square ........$75 $225 Norwood, Oak case .. .. $300 Kimball, Ebony case ...........$85 | $350 New Sample Piano .. ... $350 Sterling, Walnut case ..........$95 | $375 Cramer, Walnut case. . . $150 Columbus, nearly new ........$105 $300 Singer, Mahogany case .......$115 $360 Ivers & Pond .. ... $250 Stetson, Flemish Oak . $350 Steger . . $285 Milton, Mahogany case...$145 $375 Mueller, Concert Grand. . .$190 $325 Merrifield ... $700 Chickering & Son .$155 .$168 .$185 ......$225 oenn... 8235 ........ $255 $450 Chase, Walnut case $450 Emerson, S8an Domingo Mahog. $285 $600 Hardman, Art style $650 Steinway, Mahogany .........$450 $700 Angelus, Player Piano . $750 Steger, Player Piano $750 Electric Player, big bargain. .. $460 $1,500 Steinway, Concert Grand....$450 e $265 ceern..$410 ....... $450 ........ .$400 Organs—Mason & Hamlin, Kimball, Estey, Packard and a score of others—$10.00, $15.00, $20.00, $25.00 and Up. Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co. 1311-13 Farnam Street. Phones Douglas 1625; Ind. A1625 I Established 1859 ! | | Omaha, Neb. I Gentlemen:— FILL OUT COUPON / ND MAIL TODAY SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO CO., I am interested in your Golden Anniversary Piano Sale, and if 1 can save money, secure a high grade instrument at the terms | which you name, 1 shall selection for me. Please Name . . Address be pleased to have all informaton tha¥ wlll enable me to decide whether to authorize you to make L send catalogues, your complete list of bargains and all other information. and the results used by way of demon- strations and 'experiments. The use of leguminous crops In suitable rotations in the south has been encouraged and im- proved methods of saving the seed by the use of machinery have been established in various localities, Demonstration Work., Rapld strides have been made In this work throughout the south. It is an effort to help the farmer to help himself. It reaches and ccnvinces all classes and ap- parently is the only means by which rapig and radical changes of methods long es- tablished can be secured. From one field | tural clubs now have a membership of agent six years ago the number has in-|150.000. The department proposes to supply creased 362, and from one farm under | literature to puplls even more freely in the J supervision to more than 60,000 farms, in- cluding those classed as e)-operating. State agricultural colleges enrolled more students than in any preceding yedr. The biennial appropriations of several of them bave now reached the halt-million mark; elght completed expensive bulldings dur- ing the year, New agricultyral colleges were established In Hawall and Porto Rico, Additional agricultural high schools were founded In four states, and five states pro- vided for teaching agriculture in general high schoola Boys' and girls' agricul- future than in the past Regular farmers’ lnstitute meetings num- bered 4,926, with 15,210 half-day sessions and a total attendance of 2,190,668 State appropriations for Institutes were $338,000. There were elght normal Institutes for the training of institute teachers. Twenty-one states held Institutes especially for women. Fourteen states ran raflroad specials in connection with farmers’ Institutes, the expense being often borne by the raliroads Movable schools of agrigultare registered 2,00 students. Bee Want Ads Are the Best Business Boosters. ——— EE-XPHESS TRAIN GOES IN DITCH A Jured in Wreck the Penunsylvania Rullrosd. PITTSBURG, Noy. dozen persons were injured, a number serfously, when the Unlontown and Pitts- burg express train, No. 104, on:the Penn- sylvania rallroad left the track at ] today at Manor, Pa., nesr here, and ran into a diteh, The train consisted of a baggage ony, mall car, three cosches and & parior can The cause of the wreck Is not known, } Dosen Pers | on 0.-More thamw &