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City \\ 1 i loots dally average tor the aaoath •' August, 1914 * 24,039 * * ' i Avtrigt for the year 1515—21.57T Average for the year 1913—31.1T8 Average tor the year 1911—18,85! Average for the year 1010 — 1T ,098 TELEPHON ES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 1944. United Business Office. 201. Xdltorlal Room 686. Job Dogl ti>- FRIDAY EVFNTNG, SEPTEMBER 11 IF LEWIS. WHY N<vr PALMER? i THE esteemed Patriot, the per sonal organ of tho Democratic candidate for Governor, who hopes to be benefited by the withdrawal of his Washington party rival, declared to-day that the sell"- j effacement of Pean Lewis was a most patriotic and high-toned act. Rut not n w'ord is said about the failure of A. Mitchell Palmer, the Democatic candidate for United States Senator. to withdraw In favor of Clifford j j Pinchot, the Washington party candi- j s date for the same office. j ( Tf the whole fusion scheme, as con- : t tended by the McCormick boosters, is , to eliminate what they are pleased to c term Penroseism, why is it that they t do not combine their forces in favor , of Mr. Pinchot? Surely it is as im- t portant to defeat Senator Penrose by j j a combination of the two parties as it i, is to elect the Democrtic candidate for !. Governor by such a combination. It will probably be found that it |j large majority of the members of the j Washington party are quite as intelli gent and able to see quite as far as ' the Democratic bosses who are now j endeavoring to use them for their own j purposes. It was expected in the camp of the reorganized Democrats thag the an- ' nouncement of fusion would stampede ' thousands of voters to McCormick. but : the fact is that the selfishness of the whole proposition is so apparent that ' the Washington party voters are al- 1 ready declaring themselves in favor of ' the Republican ticket. i' A. Mitchell Palmer continues his bean j 1 shooting attack upon Senator Penrose, J among other things calling attention to ' - the Senator's absence from Washington j on his campaign trips. Wonder what j the people think of Palmer with the nerve to criticize Penrose for doing what he is himself doing. PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE Ei VERY merchant and business man, large or small, knows that -A it is not right and does not pay to make sales or gain a tem- < porary advantage at the expense of truth and sincerity. The Democratic i party made promises before election that it either did not contemplate per- , forming or finds Itself incompetent to fulfill. The people were promised that the coat of living would be reduced when the Democratic experimentists knew, as any thoughtful citizen must have known, that the high cost of living was beyond the control of the Demo- ! cratic party or any other political party. Civil service was endorsed and ex tolled only to be flung into the scrap heap, while here in Pennsylvania offices were sold to the highest bid ders. The Panama Canal plank was bod ily thrown overboard, spikes, splinters and all. The tariff, the pet theme of the Democracy, was to be placed on a revenue producing basis, but the fact is that it is drawing $75,000,000 or $100,000,000 short of the govern mental needs. Now the people are to be taxed In order to pay the run ning expenses of the government. Instead of fulfilling their promises to conduct the government along wise and economic lines, these Democratic i theorists are about to pass the most outrageous and extravagant river and harbor steal that any party at any time has had the temerity to even sug gest. Another increasing and extravagant idea is the little matter of paying $25,- 000,800 to the blackmailers of Colom bia as a salve to their wounded feel tnga and because they need the money. If they need it worse than the United States, as a result of the incompetence, extravagance and experimental man agement of Uncle Sam's afTairs during the past eighteen months Colombia must indeed be in sore straits. Imports to the United States under the operation of the Underwood tariff law for ten months Increased $102,- 471,621. according to a table of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce In the same period, as shown by figures from the same aource, du FRIDAY EVENING. . HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 11, 1914 ties paid on Imports decreased S3O,- t 7 70,070, which is more than 30 per s cunt, of the deficiency for which the f Administration is preparing to levy t special taxes attributed to the Euro- i pean war. s Not only is the Democratic Admin- j Ist ration piling on additional taxes , and increasing the burdens of the people, but through its foolish free trade policy it has closed the mills and hit the business of the United States a blow from which it will take some time to recover. i 1 Manifestly, one Vance C. McCormick is not pleased with the Progressives of the Auditing Department of the State government. He declares that he is the little man to do the auditing if the peo ple will only give him the chance. But what must his fusion associates on the Progressive ticket think of this reflec tion on Auditor General Powell? I/AHOR DAT LESSONS LABOR DAY gave Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, the next Governor of Pennsylvania, and United States Senate Penrose a fine op portunity to talk to the people upon the real issues of the present cam paign. While one traversed the an thracite coal region the other ad dressed an army of industrial workers in the parks around Pittsburgh. Men of all parties are pledging their support to both candidates and the significant feature of the Labor Day demonstrations was the enthusiasm of the working people for the men who are standing jup for the principles that have made this country great. Dr. Brumbaugh laid special em phasis upon the importance of the boy learning to Increase the output of mine and factory rather than acquir ing the form of the dative case or the cube root of an equation. In short, he takes the correct position that the vocational features of our school sys tem must be given more consideration in order to prepare the girls and boys for their life work. He also declared that the man of the school that teaches class distinction or hatred Is an enemy to his country and a traitor to his kind. Out in the west Senator Penrose gave M. Clyde Kelley, the Progressive successor of Congressman John Dal zell, the gerat protectionist, the same sort of a twist that he gave A. Mit | chell Palmer In his Williams Grove I address. Kelley voted for the Under | wood tariff, which has done nothing j for the country except close Its mills and factories and throw thousands of men out of work. When Senator Penrose stopped abruptly in Ills speech to ask "I wonder how many of you men are out of work?" more than half the hands shot up and there was amazement written on the faces ! of the Pittsburghers present. He then continued, referring to Kelley. who was in the audience: "Leaving poll tics out of it, what sane legislator rep resenting a constituency would vote to throw his own people Into Idleness and misery?" It was a hot shot and as deserved as the characterization of Palmer, the "Benedict Arnold of I Pennsylvania prosperity." The worklngmen and the business men of Pennsylvania are sick and tired of the pretense of Interest by the Palmers and McCormlcks and their ilk in the welfare Of the State and its people. They have not forgotten the promises of the Wilson bosses two years ago that the high cost of living was due to the tariff and would be re duced, yet the cost of living has not gone down one cent since the protec tive tariff was abandoned. KelTey and his Progressive asso ciates must largely share the respon sibility with the Democrats for the i present Industrial conditions In this State. While favoring a protective 1 tariff they spilt the Republican party in twain and permitted the free trade Democrats to take control, with the results that are familiar to all the people. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION THOSE who attended the meeting at the Technical High School last evening were deeply im pressed with the purposes of the Wharton school university extension as planned for Harrisburg and with the type of men who are at its head. The interest manifested and the num ber of students already enrolled speaks well for the success of the movement, but as State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery said, there is no reason why the student body should be con fined to Harrisburg. All the surround ing towns as far away as Carlisle and Lebanon should contribute, and they probably will. The State Librarian has generously promised to purchase all of the books required for the reading courses in conjunction with the Wharton school course in quantities sufficient to permit their use by all the students desiring to avail themselves of the privileges extended by the State Library. This in itself will cut down very materially the expenses of a student desiring to enroll but who has been holding back on account of limited funds. There is nothing now in the way of a successful inauguration of a branch of the uni versity here and once established it will never be abandoned. RIVER PARK SAVED THERE will be general approval of the final decision of the City Council to install the new water main from North street to Pax ton in Front street instead of the River Park, as was first proposed. The consideration of economy which was involved in the park line in stallation was overbalanced by the serious menace to the many old trees that would undoubtedly have been de stroyed through the digging of a deep ditch and the placing of a large main among the Intertwined roots of the park trees. City Commissioner Bowman was doubtless actuated by a proper theory of economy In his original suggestion, but the forestry experts who were In terviewed on the subject were all of the opinion that while the first cost might have been somewhat less, the eventual loss to the parks was greater than could now be anticipated. Beside, the eventual connection of the lateral pipes across the paved street Into the park would have amounted to more than the savin* In the present contract. At all events, tho Council has done well in recon sidering Its original action and the future will doubtless demonstrate the wisdom of their conclusion. I EVENING CHAT I Just as an Indication of the way the new public library is being used by the people of Harrisburg anil vicinity, it may bo stated that during the month of August, in spite of the warm days, the absence of many people from the city and the general decline in the amount of heading, as compared with winter months, the number of books circulated was 200 more than in July. The August figures, as compiled by Miss Alice R. Eton, the librarian, show that 7.521 books were circulated dur ing the month. When it is considered that the number of books in the avail able shelves is 11,291 this means an exceptional amount of business. Of the books circulated 1,687 were to children, a rather high percentage for vacation time. There were 2.467 read ers at the library during the month, which is also higher than in July. Of the readers 1,842 were children. Ap proximately 400 books have been added to the library in the last month or two and of this number two-thtrds are children's books. The total regis tration of the library is now over 7,700 and it will be 9.000 by the end of the year. The point, is that one in every ten in Harrisburg is enrolled as a patron of the library, showing con clusively the part it is playing in the educational life of the city. . Just for your own information pay attention to the fragments of conver sation in the trolley cars. This may not be a very polite thing to do. but it will be Illuminative. Tou will be sur prised at what you hear. It is not talk about the weather, or the progress of improvements, or the Stough revival, or fusion, or the peach crop, but plain war. Nine out of every ten conver sations are about the war and some of the ideas advanced are fearful and wonderful. People are reading war news to the exclusion of politics, re ligion, court news, fashions and even the personal columns. Look at the pages of the papers people are reading. They are following the war articles and It is a striking comment upon popular attention. The average man knows as much as a high school teacher about the war territory and on some cars people split up the papers so that they can be passed around. Speaking about war, the experience j of the wife of a former Harrisburg • resident who was marooned In Ger- j many is omewhat thrilling and may accpunt for some of the reasons for Americans returning from the conti nent being adherents of the idea of "See America First." Tt happens that this Pennsylvanian and his family were in Germany and when they had managed to get to the vicinity of the border of France the soldiers became insolent and exacting. They not only forced declarations that they had nothing that would prove of value, but one soldier actually ran his hand through the lady's hat and then through her hair to see that no notes were concealed. No apologies were made, either, although German officers were aware of what was being done. Here's another war story, but it comes from nearer home. It happens that a Pennsylvania family was trying to get out of Mexico and was "de tained" by some soldiers on the ground that orders to hold them had I been received, but In reality for a "shakedown" in the form of cash. Finally urgent representations got some attention and the party was allowed to go. But the blankets and | overcoats were all taken. Unlike the officials abroad who took automobiles of Americans and gave receipts for them, the Mexicans gave nothing. In fact, the overcoats just disappeared. But next day soldiers were wearing them. The autumn tang in the air has caused a good many automobile par ties to go abroad in the land. Ordi narily this is a warm period of Sep tember. but the cool days have made riding delightful, except In the early morning, and the number of parties j registering here Is rather surprising. I Some of them come from long dls* < tances and the hotel people say that the rush will keep going for another month. There has been dismay among fish ermen over the continued muddy or cloudy condition of the river, es pecially along the Juniata side. The constant rains throughout the summer were doubtless very fine for crops and pasturage, but they were bad for fish ing. The river has been In good fish ing form only once or twice this sum mer and then very large catches were made. Anglers had looked forward to excellent sport the coming Fall. Very few wall-eyed pike, or Susquehanna salmon, as they are better known, have been caught, but fishermen predict first-class sport if the river clears up toward the end of the month. As the summer wanes there is less and less food in the water and the big fellows snatch hungrily at the bait when in the months of plenty they will not touch tt. Many fishing parties go to Wild wood Park this fine weather, where the condition of the water has no effect on the catches. Carp, catfish and eels are in the lake in large num bers and it is not Infrequent to catch from a half-dozen to a dozen fine fisM in an afternoon. Even carp of the smaller size bite well and It is said that those from six to eight inches in length are much better than older fish, which take on the taste of the muddy bottoms upon which they feed. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —The Rev. Dr. J. Gray Bolton, of Philadelphia, will sail for home in a short time. He has been in England. —J. A. Swearer, of Pittsburgh, has ! been elected president of the Eighty fifth Infantry Association. —Horace A. McClung. former legis lator and chief deputy sheriff of' All egheny county, is critically ill. —Mayor Joseph Cauffiel. of Johns town. has been elected chairman of the Cambria County Home Rule League. —Dr. W. M. Davidson. Pittsburgh school superintendent, says it does not hurt a bit to have children discuss the war. —Francis Fisher Kane. United States district attorney at Philadelphia, un derwent an operation in Philadelphia. —Paul Clayton. Philadelphia busi ness man. has been made head of the Shepperd firm's affairs in Philadel phia. iPoioPMdtffl That Harrisburg engines run the power plants for Cuban sugar plantations? AN EVENING THOUGHT Give, and It shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give Into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again, i —Luke 6; 38. . FUSION DICKER IS 610 SOME MPS Lancaster County Bull Moosers De nounce the Action of Lewis as Abject Surrender To say that tho fusion deal, whereby Vance C. McCormick is to be the nom inee for Governor on a mule ticket, is popular with the Democrats and Washington party men of the State is going far afield. The general Im pression Is that the leaders who brought it about have provided for division of spoils in case It is success ful and tfiat many Washington party men will vote for Brumbaugh as a re buke to the tricksters and that many Democrats will repudiate McCormick because he is willing for his personal advantage to huckster with those whose chief is continually assailing President Wilson. The failure to fuse against Senator Penrose when it is proclaimed by Lewis and McCormick that their deal Is to beat the Senator Is what the people cannot understand. It Is probable that tho omission of this very Important part of sincere fusion will receive somo attention at the meeting of tho Washington party State committee here next Wednes day. and that there may also be some questions asked as to what the Wash ington party is going to get out of fusion in the way of other nomina tions. Congressman Palmer says he is not going to quit, and so does McNair. "Farmer'" Creasy has said he is willing to quit, but no one appears to be even thinking of taking him up. The whole fusion is on McCormick to help him out. And he needs it and more. Tho attitude of the leading news papers of the State on fusion is Inter esting. The Philadelphia North American has not a word to say editori- ally on the subject. Newspapers but does remark that Rather Leary Mr. Pennypacker ap- of Fusion pears to have an swered one of the Palmer statements. The Rhiladelphia Bulletin, the great Independent even ing newspaper of Eastern Pennsy'va nia, says fusion will not work because of the Roosevelt speeches. The Phila delphia Ledger says Lewis' action will help Brumbaugh. In an editorial that pre-eminently independent newspaper hands the Dean a rap. The Phila delphia Inquirer says Lewis turned tail and his action is a confession that the Washington party is without hope. The Philadelphia Record, Democratic organ of the rock-ribbed type, asks why, if the object is to defeat Pen rose. there is no fusion against him, and the Pittsburgh Post, the Kreat Democratic paper of Western Pennsylvani, doesn't say a word edi torially. Neither does the independ ent Pittsburgh Dispatch. In Scran ton. Altoona and other places, the par tisan lines are sharply drawn, but no Democratic paper goes as far in com ! mending the anything-to-win policy las the McCormlck newspaper pub lished in Market Square. Notwithstanding the manifest effort of the Harrisburg Patriot to make it appear that the Dauphin county Washington men are united for fusion, they ; Dauphin's are as divided on that Moosers subject as are the Dem- Divhled ocrats in regard to Mc- Cormick, which is going some. Last night at the Washington party headquarters there was some very outspoken talk about : the failure to fuse on United States Senator, when it is contended that | fusion is being worked to beat Pen ! rose. Others think that McCormick is the very antithesis of the Roosevelt ' propaganda and consider that a can • didate whose sole claim to recognition ; is the favor of Woodrow Wilson is not ' a very good man for Bull Moosers to ! follow. As a matter of fact, the ■ Washington county men of Dauphin county are not any more united on ; the mule nominee than are the Demo crats. If fusion is effected on legisla tive candidates, it is because the Washington men see that they have ' no chance themselves and can get somewhere with a liberal allowance from the plethoric McCormick cam paign fund. Here are some expressions of opin ion on the mule ticket that the Har risburg Patriot did not print to-day. M. P. Miller, chair man of the Bull Bull Moosers Moose party of Lan- Opposc the caster county, says Fusion Deal Lewis' withdrawal is "abject surrender, pure and simple." Orvil Snively, Blair county, said that there would be no favorable comment unless Palmer got off the ticket. John N. Hetrlck, Bull Moose nominee for Congress in Lancaster, does not see how fusion on McCormick will help beat Penrose. Patriot says this morning that all congressmen but Moore approve the act. As a matter of fact it quotes but five congress men. three of them Bull Moosers .in cluding Art Rupley, and one Demo crat. The Washington chairman at Williamsport says he cannot speak for other Washington party men, but only for himself. B. Gordon Bromley, the Demo cratic chairman of Philadelphia, says fusion has never helped the Demo cratic party, but that he will go along. I POLITICAL. SIDELIGHTS 1 —Do you suppose that If William FUnn had seen a ghost of a show of defeating Brumbaugh that he would have permitted McCormick to head the fusion ticket'.' —Reports that the Democratic State committee will publish Roose velt's speech assailing the Wilson Ad ministration as a fusion document are incorrect. —MeCormick's remarks assailing the auditing department of the State government, which is controlled by Bull Moosers, are still being talked about. —One of the most enthusiastic sup porters of the fusion plan was ex- Congressman E. F. Acheson, who has been sore ever since Governor Tener beat him for Congress. —The Public LecAger appears to have made a very cold analysis of the whole fusion matter. —Bull Moosers desiring jobs are requested to file them at the McCor mick headquarters before the Demo cratic rush begins. —lt is to be hoped that the likeness of McCormick that will be put on the Washington party banner will be an ! improvement on that shown on the Palmer-McCormlek League's $162 af ! fair. —The enthusiastic support given to fusion in Lancaster county Bull Moose circles is impressive. —Palmer says only death can take him out of the race for Senator. He's mistaken; the people will throw him out. —Bradford county used to be called the enemy's country by Republican.--, But things are different now. Same . with Somerset. , OUR DAILY LAUGH ] Clothra Obnerv- Novr-a-Doyo E>»o. "Doesn't she "Women are dress in the latest not deep think- style?" ers." "She did up to "No. but they yesterday after are clothes ob- noon." servers." I EDITORIAL COMMENT! The Czar's promises to treat the Jews Just as he treats other subjects are calculated to send a shiver of ap prehension throughout Israel.—Bos ton Transcript. As a result of the war, fifty papers In Great Britain devoted to trades or to sports have suspended publication. Evidently there Is something worse in war-time than a censorship.—New York World. We deem it our duty to warn visi tors from the country against sharpers who will endeavor to sell them stock In the North Sea mines.—New Orleans States. If this war doesn't quit throwing Americans out of employment we will have to attack some nation in order to give our people something to do.— Jacksonville Florida Times Union. Germany, It is reasonably safe to say, has no designs on this country save those of peaceful competition and negotiation. Least of all need we look for hostility from her from now on for many years, whether she win or lose In her present tremen dous struggle.—New York Sun. Chinese philosophers, looking at the European spectacle, must be confirm ed in their belief that the western worship of brute force is a stupid thing.—Springfield Republican. PATRIOTIC ACT *TO SAVE RAIL ROADS [Philadelphia Public Ledger! The situation is so grave that the question of whether many companies ' can financially survive or njust perish depends solely upon the attitude of the President and the Interstate Com merce Commission. The crisis is extreme. Nearly $600,- 000,000 of railroad securities are in default of interest, which greatly ex ceeds the amount for any other year in almost two decades. In addition to the defaults of interest, hundreds of millions' worth of railroad stocks that recently paid dividends are paying none to-day. Europe's war has driven European Investors to the necessity of selling billions of American railroad securi ties, provided our exchanges open and give them the opportunity to do so. This means that for years to come It will be impossible for American rail ; roads to procure one dollar of capital anywhere in Europe. With the cost of needed capital steadily rising; with the taxation im posed upon railroads 100 per cent, greater in the last dozen years than ; taxation upon other properties: with [ cost of operation steadily increasing, ! the failure of the Interstate Com ' merce Commission to permit an ln ' crease in freight rates can only lead straight to disaster. Now the railroads will make one ; more appeal for higher rates, but very ; properly they go lirst to the President. i It is a condition which demands the co-operation of all the great agencies . —political, administrative and finan cial. It Is a condition which involves ' the future of every other industry as t well as the railroads. The hour has come in this war [ troubled day when the Interstate Coni -1 merce Commission should face about j and advance freight rates without ar , gument. Nothing that the President , could do, nothing\that Congress could , do. nothing that all our bankers and . trades bodies combined could do, . would so instantly lift every business 2 to a higher plane of prosperity than » a quick rise in rates. t It would be notice to the whole > world that the United States means in . this crisis to preserve its institutions intact, and to permit them to live In prosperity. Such notice would do . what nothing else will be able to do . toward persuading Europe to keep . our securities. The Interstate Commerce Commis -1 slon can now deliver a fatal blow to - American trade, or it can by an act of 3 patriotic duty in one day start a thou s sand Industries to humming and send , back to work many thousand idle ' men. t ANOTHER \ All. IN THK COFFIN OF A DYING PARTY (From the Philadelphia Press.] William Draper Lewis' withdrawal from the Washington party ticket Is another nail in the coffin of the rapidly dying third-party movement In this State. Its position has long been hope less. Its former supporters refuse to enroll with it, Its workers have drop ped off until only a mere handful re main and its candidate for Governor now gives up in despair. Mr. Lewis is a clean man with a glib tongue, but with a narrow vision and very limited experience in the political field in which he lias so unsuccessfully essayed leadership. He found himself ; in bad company which the people never trusted and have now abandoned. No greater Bham ever existed than the party which Mr. Flinn formed in this State for his own advancement. Colo nel Roosevelt gave a certain glamour and transient success to it. but his in terest in it has seemingly evaporated and its disintegration has proceeded so ■ rapidly that now even Its candidate i for Governor seeks safety in retire ment. 1 What are left, of the Washington party can with entire consistency vote : directly for the Democratic party. The whole career of that party as well as of the Progressive party has been that ' of assistant to the Democrats. To ! place the Democratic party In power is all they have ever done and now that ; they are too feeble to do that any ; longer they had better accept with . what gra«o they can the inevitable end ■ of a political movement that started In folly and greed and ended in im potence and failure. TOO MUCH TINKERING i [New York Sun.] An expedient of very doubtful wis dom was resorted to when the emer > gency currency act was amended sp as C to enable Southern cotton growers to obtain cash for a part of their crop > and at the same time hold it for high . er prices than are likely to be afford . Ed for a long time to come, as a result of the European war's destruction of ) the export market for cotton. The • amendment opened the door to a vast I variety of crazy schemes for the con . version of property Into forms of * money by the aid of the government. HCADOt'IRTERi FOB SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES 1 i ""awraa'i.n [From the Telegraph of Sept. 11, 1864.] Killed On Railroad William Ullery, brakeman on the emmisrant train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was Instantly killed Wednes day. It Is believed that he was stand ing on top of the cars as the train ap proached Petersburg, and not observing tne bridge which crosses the track at that point, hi* head was struck by the tl Es£l , .' w \ th BUoh force as to cause his almost instant death. Robs Cellar The cellar of Mr. Cotterel, on the cor ner Of newberry alley and Third street, was entered and robbed of a large amount of butter, bread and other ar ticles. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by some hungry per- YEAGER VS. THE ENGLISH MEW Ex-United States Marshall J. M. \ eager, of Yeagerstown, who is well known in Harrisburg, has written a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger In which he plainly indicates that it la the earnest hope of England that the American merchant marine may not be revived. He says: "I want to thank you for your efforts 1n attempt ing to disabuse the American mind of erroneous ideas many of them have imbibed from the statements as pre sented by the envious enemies of the dear old 'Fatherland.' regarding the moat enlightened, the most honorable, the most energetic, enthusiastic and progressive nation on the face of the earth, the Germans. The American nation (by that I mean the United Statea of America) dfces not owe Great Britain one penny. This one particu lar nation, "Great" in name only, as far as America Is concerned, has caus ed the United States more trouble, more uneasiness and more solicitude with her entangling alliances and ac tions than all the other nations com bined. "We have not forgotten her unpleas ant interference In our domestic rela tions. when we were endeavoring to preserve the Integrity and ldentltv of our grand old Union in '6l and "65; neither have we forgotten how she cleared the seas of our merchant ma rine. Yet she appeals to the citizens of the United States for sympathy in her unfriendly and ungodly conflict against the greatest nation on the face of this mundane sphere. In civil and religious liberty, science, music and Good Manufacturing! If you know where facturing? Or doesn't it? to look, you will find We refer to it, not in a on the outside of spirit of boastfulness, but every case of Safe to give you an idea of the Home matches cer- extraordinary care that tain numbers, letters marks every step in the or symbols. To you making of Safe Home these mean nothing. matches. To us they mean a The experiments and tests very great deal. which we have made, in" They tell us many an honest effort to pro things, and enable duce a perfect match, us to determine: have cost us about a (I) When the matches quarter of a million dol were made—year, lars. Why did we do all month, day and hour. this research work ? Be (a) Where they were cause it is good business made—in which of five —because, in the long run, factories and on which .. of several hundred tl WIU machines ! We do not ask you to pay (3) The temperature more money for matches and humidity in the air than you have been pay at the time of manu- j n g —merely to see that facture!! y OU g et better matches (4) The names of the men and for what yOU do pay. women who made them HI ThJs yQU can do [{ yQU ask Does this impress for Safe Home matches you as good manu- by name. All grocers. Five cents a box. (CLtMfmc£- WAR will not affect the quality of King Oscar 5c Cigars. To bacco for this famous smoke is never scarce because it is bought in such a way that there cannot be any short age. Year after year, when the crops are inspected, whenever the tobacco proves up to standard, sufficient leaf is bought to last several years. This plan followed out systematically, guarantees an ample supply regard less of world disturbances. And one big reason why King Oscar 5c Cigars have been regularly good for 23 years. i i [Krom the Telegraph of Sept. 11, 1884.] IfHNßtrell Captured Cincinnati, Sept. 11. A dispatch from Indianapolis to the Gazette an nounces the capture of Guantr*U, the Missouri guerilla. He WHS recognized in the street by a refugee. Rebels at Winchester Baltimore. Sept. 11. The American's correspondent at Berrysville. Va.. says that reconnolssances show the rebels to he In force at Winchester. . Concentrate at Atlanta Washington, Sept. 10. The depart ment has received dispatches from General Sherman, saying that his armv is concentrated at Atlanta. His troops are In position and well. He says Wil son and Steadman arc stirring. art: the pathfinders of the world in medicine, law and discipline. • • » "England has taken exception to the establishment of a United States mer chant marine by the purchase of ves sels of a belligerent nation, on the ground that it might Increase their exchequer and thus work to the detri ment of English. Japanese and Rus rlan dominion over the commerce of the world. "There are to-day. according to the report of the United States Commis sion of Navlgntion, only Ave American ships regularly Jn the trans-Paeiflo trade, and this is the competition they are compelled to meet: "Toyo Kisen Kaisha. $1,340,000 gold per year, subsidized by Japanese gov ernment. "Osaka Shosen Kaisha, $605,000 gold per year, subsidized by Japanese government. "Nippon Yusen Kaisha. $238,000 gold per year, subsidized by Japanese government. "Canadian Pacific Steamship Com pany. $218,000 gold per year, sub sidized by British and Canadian gov ernments. "The five American steamers re ceive not one penny subsidiary or any other government aid. Hence, the average intelligent American mind can readily grasp the situation as far as England's protest is concerned against the establishment of any service that would interfere with British-Japanese dominion over commerce on the high i seas."
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