6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 1831 PUBLISHED BT THE TKI.EGKAPII PRINTINO CO. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Treas'r. F. R. OYSTER, Secretary. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, 123 West Madison street. Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at aflliilL' six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg as second class matter. / /f tS The Association of Amw< ) S ffl/AlS] ' can Advertisers has ex- 1 S Waif ftmmtd and certified to 1' S tho circulation ef thi» peb- 1' S lieation. Tho figures of circulation 1j N contained in tho Association's re- 1 ) port only arc guaranteed. < Association of American Advertisers \ No. 2333 WtiiUhill I twera dally average (or the month of August, 1914 if 24,039 Average (or the year 1iti5—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21.170 Average tor the year 1011—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17,405 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 208. Editorial Room 586. Job Dept. 203. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 2 A PROPER CONCLUSION THERE will he universal approval of the practical agreement of the City Council to reconsider Its recent action In the matter of the placing of a large water main In the River Front Park. It will be recalled that the proposition to place the main In the park was suggested by Commissioner Bowman, head of the Department of Public Safety, on the ground of economy, but Mr..Bow man made It clear in his brief discus sion of the subject at the weekly meet ing yesterday that his only thought In suggesting the placing of the main in the park Instead of the street was the saving of expense. He had no other motive and had only recom mended the park strip Instead ,of the street on the score of economy. He declared that he was entirely satisfied with any action Council might take with a view to changing the method of construction. Mayor Royal introduced the resolu tion to reconsider the previous action, and stated that he was convinced, upon viewing the great destruction in the River Park after the recent storm, that it would be a serious mistake to further endanger the trees by digging a deep trench for the Installation of the water main. There has been so much opposition to the plan of placing the main in the park that City Council has shown a proper appreciation of public opinion In determining to reconsider its for mer action. It Is now proposed by the statesmen at Washington to place a tax of n or 10 per cent, on railroad tickets and ad mission to theaters, baseball parks and other licensed amusements. It Is also alleged that soft drinks are as much luxuries as wines or beer, and that an equitable distribution of the tax burden among all consumers would be accom plished by placing a tax upon these beverages as upon beers and patent medicines, as is now contemplated by the House ways and means committee, which is preparing an emergency reve nue bill to offset Treasury losses. Thus we pay the freight of the war lords of Europe. THAT BALTIMORE PLATFORM THERE was adopted at Baltimore on the second of July, 1912, by the Democratic national conven tion an alleged declaration of principles, and this party pronounce ment Is of special interest at this time to students of political history and present-day conditions. It is a pecu liar document, especially in view of the things that have transpired dur ing the last two years. One plank, for lrfstance, pledges the candidate of that convention to a sin gle Presidential term and favors the Adoption of an amendment to the Con stitution making the President of the United States Ineligible for re-elec tion. But now comes a more or less authoritative statement from Wash ington that Woodrow Wilson, the can didate of the Baltimore convention, will go before the people in 1916 for a second term. Another plank denounces "the profligate waste of money wrung from the people by taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Re publican Congresses, which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchas ing power of the people's toil." This Wme plank demands "a return to that simplicity and economy which befrts a Democratic government and a re duction in the number of useless of fices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people." But in epite of this high-sounding platform declaration the Democratic Congress and the Administration at Washing ton have been guilty of the ipost profligate expenditure of money in the history of the country and have re stored and created anew offices which were abolished by the last Republican administration in order that Demo cratic bosses might have Jobs for their Clamoring supporters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Still another plank favors the ex omption from tolls of American ships engaged in co&st.wiso trade passing WEDNESDAY EVENING through the Panama Canal. Yet with in a few weeks the clause of the Pan ama Canal act exempting American coastwise shipping from tolls has been repealed by the Democratic Adminis tration. Vet another plank calls attention to the fact "that the Democratic party demand for a return to the rule of the people has now become the ac cepted doctrine of a large majority of the electors." But Pennsylvanlans have not forgotten that President Wil son selected the candidates of the Democratic party in this State for I'nlted States Senator and Governor. This is "the rule of the people" flouted by the candidate of the Bal timore convention and those who modestly claim to have been his chief boomers. "The law pertaining to the civil service should be honestly and rigidly enforced to the end that merit and ability should be the standard of ap pointment and promotion rather than service rendered to a political party," Is the substance of another plank In this remarkable platform. Yet Penn sylvania has seen one after another of the most competent and efficient men in the employ of the government dismissed and those without any expe rience whatever appointed to their places solely and only for "service ren dered to a political party." There Is much more In this party declaration of principles of the same sort, but notwithstanding It says "our pledges are made to be kept when In office as well as to be relied upon during the campaign." We submit that the people of the United States will judge the Demo cratic party upon Its broken pledges and its utter failure to make good. PRIMARY PRETENSE IT appears that the flagrant dis regard of the spirit of the primary law by the leaders and political parties most Insistent In urging the change in the system of nominations is not going to be overlooked by in fluential newspapers representing these offenders against consistency. For In stance, the New York World thus severely characterizes the actton taken by the Progressives at Utlca In recom mending candidates for nomination for State office: If Barnes' machine or Murphy's machine had undertaken to tear up the direct primary law and appoint a candidate for Governor, that would have been boss rule. When Roosevelt's machine does it, that Is the emancipation of the people from machine government. Here In Pennsylvania the same sort of thing has been going on without blush or hindrance on the part of those who have been urging the direct primary as the only salvation from the alleged evils of "bossism." 1£ is a matter of common knowledge that both the Democratic and Progressive parties openly defied the primary law in the outset this year and now that the voters have declared a plague on both their houses the "bosses" of these parties are engaged in open intrigue for the purpose of "saving their faces" in a fusion arrangement contrary to every principle of the direct primary. As In New York, according to the Sun, which shines for all, the "ma chine" further declares that among all who might effectively translate Into action its ambitions there are indi viduals of peculiar availability, and these It names, urging all men to unite in their behalf at the polls. In brief, the direct primary, the law that was to rid the country of de testable bosses and machines, is torn up and used as a doormat by the very same political marplots who demanded Its enactment as a panacea for all the ills of the people. A TREE-PLANTING DAY ONE of the most hopeful sisns of the growing interest in tree planting In this city is the an nouncement of the Department of Parks that several thousand trees will be set out in the parks of Har risburg this Fall. This is a most wise conclusion, inasmuch as the storms and the years and the indiscriminate damage to existing trees have made necessary some general movement to replace those that have been destroyed or damaged beyond repair. It would be a good thing for the school authorities and the CiVic Club and the Municipal League and the Chamber of Commerce and all the Im provement associations of the city to combine on some general tree-planting program for this Fall. If we had a Shade Tree Commission, as we should have had before now, such a body would be the proper source of inspiration and help in a move ment like the one here suggested. But, commission or no commission, we be lieve that the people of Harrisburg are sufficiently responsive to the need now so apparent since the. destruction in the River Front parks that they will rally to a movement of this kind. Some expert advice on the kind of trees that should he planted In this city for permanent growth ought to be ob tained so that in the general planting in the Fall we shall not have a hodge podge planting of everything without much regard to either size or quality. We can think of no better way to encourage the interest of the boys and girls of the city in forestry than through same such plan as is pro posed. WAR STYLES IF a little war in the Balkans brought us the Bulgarian hat and sash, what will be the effect on fashions of the conflict now going on in Europe? We may expect to see girls with British sympathies togged out in Tommy Atkins caps or Scottish plaids. No doutet the Russian bonnet will mark the lady with leanings toward the Czar, while her French ally may wear a red fez. It is less easy to design something for the German maid. We can hardly think of her in a war helmet; but then the masculine mind never would have suspected the lengths to which feminine fashions would go in the way of slit skirts and transparent gowns, so the helmet is not impossible. f EVENING CHTI Study of the votes cast at the last three gubernatorial elections affords some Interesting Information for people who find time between reading war news to discuss politics In these days of getting assessed and regis tered for the coming struggle at the polls. The average man does not know that the total of the votes cast at the gubernatorial elections has been declining and that the votes at tho primary elections have been falling off as mire and more restrictions are placed upon the right to vote. In fact, if figures are studied it will be found that the male population has been In creasing, but that the vote has been decreasing, and that, too, in the face of a decline in the number of for eigners imported Into Pennsylvania. Twelve years ago there were 1,094.771 votes cast In the election which placed Samuel W. Pennypacker In the guber natorial chair. Four years later there were cast 1,006,577, and, too, in a campaign In which Stuart and Emery contested with the best organizations known in years to get out the votes. Some of the rural counties where per sonal registration was not required showed a falling off In the vote. In 1910, when the greatest struggle in many years occurred over the gov ernorship, the total vote cast was 998,448. At the recent primary, which was preceded by the longest primary campaign known in a gen eration. the number of votes cast was away below what everyone expected after all the strenuous efforts put forth by the various parties combined with the general political excitement left over from 1912 and kept alive during last year by local contests and the ambitions of various men. The total of the primary vote was 583,806. Of this number the Republicans polled 320,097 and the Democrats 200,854, the Washington party running a bad third with but 48.386. Other candi dates got 14,469. No party came near getting anything like the vote It ex pected. The Republicans got over 70,000 more than the Democrats and Washingtonians combined and 54,000 more than all the other parties com bined. It will be interesting to see if the vote In November goes over the million mark. In view of this decline in tlie vote at the State elections it is doubly in teresting- to note the way the vote at presidential elections has fluctuated. For instance, in 1896, memorable as the first Bryan campaign, the total vote cast was 1,194,355, Bryan get ting 427,000 votes. In 1300 the total of the vote was 1,173,210: in 1004 It wns 1,238,738: in 1908, 1,267.450, and in 1912, 1,217,736. Last time Bryan ran he got 448,782, while Wilson got 395,637 In 1912. The vote on the proposed consti tutional amendments has never ranged anything like the vote on the head of a ticket, the 1909 vote being marked by a big slump as compared with the head of the ticket and by a pro nounced difference between the vote on the first amendment and that on the last. W. C. Fownes. the Pittsburgh golfer, who has been winning championships this week, is a nephew of W. C. Fownes, of Pittsburgh, who is a fre quent visitor to this city. Mr. Fownes is a member of the Country Club of Harrisburg and hag played in many matches here. His nephew has also visited here. "The national government's plan for the protection of the wild ducks is in teresting to many of us sportsmen," said a hunter yesterday. "It shows how scientists and not sportsmen can work out things. The Pennsylvania law for reedbirds, for instance, Is a good example. We used to have three weeks of hunting for 'reedies' and then they went South. The govern ment has kindly allowed us eight weeks, or five weeks more than the season when birds are in the state. As for ducks, they have extended the sea son until the middle of January, when our streams are frozen. As a matter of fact, the duck season now Is con fined to a few weeks in the fall, but the government officially extends it to midwinter, and then cuts out the spring shooting entirely." This morning's market was a "peach" market. The markethouses were tilled with baskets of the luscious fruit and the predictions made last spring that this would be a phe nomenal year for peaches are more than Justified. The sales to-day were brisk and people went, home laden with baskets of splendid fruit, and it was evident that a good many people were going to take the advice of Dr. Surface and "put up" fruit for use tills winter when Europe will be after American fruit and prices will be going up. Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh is a de voted disciple of Isaak Walton and spends an occasional day or two everv Spring among the hills of his beloved Juniata Valley. A friend asked the little Porto Rican who was brought from the Island by Dr. Brumbaugh and given an education by him whether the Doctor was popular In Porto Rico. His eyes brightened with enthusiasm as he replied that he was the most popular man on the whole island; that not only streets and highwavs, but school buildings have been named In his honor. Those who meet Dr. Brumbaugh at Williams Grove to-mor row will understand his great per sonal popularity. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Lloyd B. Smith, Pittsburgh en gineer, has sailed for South America to look after oil fields, especially in Colombia. —E. W. Pargny, president of the American Steel and Wire Company, is in Canada to meet his wife, who is returning from Europe. —George T. Fonda, the Bethlehem Steel's safety expert, reports that eve accidents have fallen off 75 per cent, as a result of safety devices. —W. F. Ashe, superintendent of Pittsburgh playgrounds, has been tak ing the mayor and councilmen around the parks daily to show their needs. —W. R. Mcllvalne, prominent Washington county man, Is home from Europe after some adventures In Ger many. —Walter G. Stringer. Philadelphia manufacturer, says the war is helping the pencil lead business. POIOO VSBJf That the .Japanese government uses Harrisburg book type writers for Its official records at Toklo? WHEIf THE GAME IS DONE By Grantland Rice Who shall say when the Game is done What man lost and what man won? Who shall say that the victim fought With smaller courage for his part? Who shall say that the victor wrought With braver soul and finer heart? Who shall say that the gleaming stars, Badlant on the winner's scroll, Will shine more brightly than the scars Of him who fought to a hopless goal? Who shall say when the Game Is done What man lost and what man won? •—Colliers. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BULL MOOSERS GO IIILONE 111 CITY Lewis and Pinchot Did Not Meet Democratic Bosses or Talk About Fusion Deals LEWIS GETS VERY HUFFY Declines to Talk When Asked if He Will Get Off Ticket; Palmer's Man Bumped William Draper Lewis. Washington party candldats for Governor, and i Glfford Pinchot. candidate for United States senator, spent several hours in Harrisburg last night and went their own way. They made speeches indicating that they were the people to elect and did not refer to the scheme to effect fusion for the sake of boosting Vance C. McCormick's vote and did not meet any Democratic bosses. Both Lewis and Pinchot de clined point blank to discuss fusion, the dean becoming ruffled when some one asked him if he tntended to retire from the ticket in the interest of the Little Boss of Dauphin county's Dem ocracy. The visit of the two Progressive standard bearers was made the occa sion of some ardent campaign work by the brave little band that follows County Chairman Ira J. Mosey. In the afternoon thev candidates had spoken at Williams (tove and thumped Penrose and Brumbaugh with vigor, but carefully refrained from Indi cating anything but an intention to ' continue their campaign. Last night when they arrived in the city a band 1 met them. After supper the candi ! dates went down Market street to see the new Washington party banner ' swung to the breeze and if they had any pain because of the onricatures of their likenesses they did not show it. The meeting was held on the north side of Market Square, close enough to the door of the Democratic State | windmill to emphasize the going-alone campaign of ' Outdoor the Bull Moosers. but the Meetinjj audience was not hefty. iSleniler There were some zealous Bull Moosers, some Demo crats hungry for some ; words of comfort for the sorely-tried McCormick, some Republicans who wanted to hear the speeches and some of those people whom the Patriot calls [ independents when it Is trying to get their votes and whom it styles as hopeless when it fails. The horse ' attached to the wagon whereon the orators stood kicked up his heels and ' frisked so that he had to be taken out when Pinchot began to speak, but the rest of the meeting was marked by respectful, but undemonstrative, listen ing to speeches. Dean Lewis severely ; arraigned Republicans, but even prox imity to the Democratic windmill did not cause him to suggest fusion. There j were also remarks by Chairman Mosey and Dunlap and the candidates. All that was missing was a comedy touch and State Chairman Detrich was not there. Dauphin county Republicans will unite with the Republicans of Cum berland to-morrow and escort Brum baugh and Penrose and their colleagues on the State ticket to Williams Republicans Grove for the big day. Will Throng The candidates will ar- the picnic rive here during the morning and leave at once for the grove. Informal recep tions will be given to them. This morning Democratic machinists were making tremendous efforts to get a crowd to accompany Palmer and McCormick to the grove, but did not succeed to any extent. Neither was the reception accorded to the machine ticket very cordial at the grove. Democratic committeemen and pros pective officeholders got their orders to turn out and while they showed up in numbers they did not turn loose enthusiasm. The fact that the Bull Moose candidates did not get into touch with the Democratic candidates and pull through fusion appeared to have disconcerted some of the work ers, who see a hopeless fight with mighty little money ahead. Addressing a big meeting of colored voters in the Union Labor Temple last night In Pittsburgh, United States Sen ator Penrose formajly opened his campaign In Penrose Is Western Pennsylvania. Speaking At the meeting, which in the West was held under the aus pices of the General Baptist Association of Pittsburgh and Allegheny. Senator Penrose was enthusiastically received, and his speech of peculiar interest to colored people was heartily applauded. In Ills speech the senator dwelt on the progress made by the colored men since their emancipation. He paid tri bute to them because of their stalwart Republicanism and declared that they were one of the few classes which had never shown Ingratitude to the party which had befriended them. The speaker declared that the Progressive party has deliberately decided to In augurate a policy looking toward the establishment of a "lily white" Pro gressive party in the Southern States, which shall result In the complete disfranchisement of the colored elec tor. To defeat this effort Senator Penrose advised every colored man to vote the straight Republican ticket. Once more there is opposition to a Palmer selection. Now there are pro tests against the confirmation of John A. Hughes as postmas ter at Lyndora, Butter county. Mr. Hughes Was Palmer's appointed by President Selection Wilson June 25 to sue- Bumped ceed the Republican in cumbent, and immedU ately protests reached the Senate post office committee. A few days ago a certified petition was received by the committee from a patron of the Lyndora office in which It was de clared that Mr. Hughes was not a resident of tho town and that not until he had bee* appointed to the post mastership did he receive his mail at the Lyndora office. According to the petition Mr. Hughes resldtd five miles from Lyndora and received his mall by rural delivery route No. 9 from the post office at Butlor. Following his appointment, it was declared, M% Hughes' mall was forwarded from Butler to Lyndora. The committee has set no time for hearing the pro tests, but it is understood that both the protcstants and the appointee will be asked to appear before the commit tee. Mr. Hughes was recommended for the position by National Commit teeman Palmer, who, to date, seems to have rewarded only reorganisation Democrats in the distribution of pa tronage In Western Pennsylvania. SWISS CHEESE, THEY MEAN [From the South Bethlehem Globe.l Like the holey cheese, shoes are said to be "going up," despite the fact that the Bummer styles had been very low. FRriT FOB THE JESTER [From the Chester Times.] The cantaloupe trust has been indict- I ed. Now let most of the cantaloupes be .Indicted, and we will cut a waterrrtelon I I OUR DAILY LAUGH | v -/ Cnnvht' With (hp Iter SarMMrtle Sftfe j fioodn Did your father | Fiancee How complain about did you guess mv staying so late there were a lot last night? of nice young men On the contrary, | where I spent my he asked me how vacation? X could be so rude Fiance You've as to let you go learned to kiss so away without nicely. your breakfast. ! POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS ' —Register to-morrow. —Democratic machinists who lis tened for some words of praise for the Palmer-McCormick ticket from the Progressives last night listened in vain. -—Dean Lew-is shows very little in tention of getting off the ticket thus far. —Up to date the Bull Moosers con tinue to lambaste the national admin istration and decline to admit that McCormick and Palmer have any vir tues. —To-morrow will be the big day at Williams Grove. To-day is merely a sideshow. —Allegheny county Republicans have the strongest organization they have had in years. —The letter of the Cramp ship builders to Penrose is not a popular theme of conversation at the Demo cratic State windmill. —The Pa-Mc League did not pil grimage to Williams Grove to-day. The cash will be used for work, not Junkets. —Penrose speaks in Crawford coun ty to-day. —lt must be nice keeping the peace among quarreling Democrats in Phil adelphia. Montgomery, Blair, Hunt ingdon and other counties. —The wise man will register to morrow and save himself trouble. .lUST TRIRITE TO LABOR LEADER [Editor and Publisher.] In honoring its former president, James M. Lynch, with laudatory speeches and with the vers - practical gift of SIO,OOO in cash, the Inter national Typographical Union honored itself In its recent convention at Provi dence, R. I. We need more such labor leaders as James M. Lynch, who are for peace rather than for war between capital and labor; who do not tolerate extor tionate demands by either side of a labor controversy; who recognize the splendid manhood and the rights of the great body of men upon whose skilled hands and brains capital must depend; who fight at all times for the dignity and proper reward of labor and oppose the loud-voiced, trouble niHking ngltators who merely seek per sonal aggrandizement and notoriety in labor's name without true labor's sym pathy or sanction. The great Empire State saw Mr. Lynch's value ' and claimed his services for a time; but it is certain that when those services have ended he will again be found in the ranks and doing yeoman's work for the benefit of millions. The German Socialists have quit shouting against war and are falling over themselves to get into the armv. Theories are all right on print paper and street corners. Philadelphia North American. ( Out ft 1 I They Go ftp | Regardless of cost 11 1 and profits, but they i \n 1 won't hold out much long- •\\ 1 1 \ er under the pressure of I such low prices. Thus do ill «4 W" we pay the penalty—while I'M liimi forehanded men reap the bene- \ W ijt H fit—-of our Complete Clearance n "Jt h I $10.75 $15.00 and SIB.OO Suits I I $20.00 $25.00 I Suits Suits B sl4.7S\ $18.75 I I 304 MARKET STREET HARRISBURG, PA. ■ SEPTEMBER 2, 1914. Two Soldiers Killed [From the Telegraph, Sept. 2. 1864] Papers found on two soldiers who were killed near Marysville, by being struck by the fast line westward, on the Pennsylvania railroad, while standing on the track, show them to be J. K. Ayres, belonging to Company H, 136 th regiment, Ohio Volunteers, from Paulding county, Ohio, and W. C. Clark, of Captain Thompson's inde pendent battery from Crawford coun ty, Ohio. Fiinernl of Lieutenant Hoy or Funeral services for Lieutenant J. S. Hoyer, of the First United States cavalry, were held here yesterday. I lITTERSTOMEDITOR I LOGICAL. COMPARISONS To th* Editor of the Telegraph: Hav'ng been almost a constant reader of jvur paper for a number of years,' and a thorough believer of the doctrine that you so thoroughly maintain, I though* that the following might find a 6p„c, in your paper: Tht creaking out of the war demon strator, in an unanswerable manner the fohy of previous legislation in re gard to the merchant marine. W> discovered all of a sudden that we had no ships to send our goods abroad. What would have heen the conditions of this country if the Democratic policy of free trade had obtained dur ing the last forty years, instead of the protective policy of the Republican I party, which has enabled this country I to build up great manufacturing inter ests, until now to-day we are ready to furnish everything that we may re- ] quire and all that may be demanded I of us from outlying countries, such as I South America, etc. Wonder if there Is 1 sense enough left In the Democratic party to -ecognize the fact that we would have been a helpless nation without anywhere to turn for aid. as the foreign mills could not supply us and we would have had none of our own. What stronger argument can we find for the benefit of a protective tariff in the situation now exisittng. which en ables us in this respect to be indepen dent of the whole world? W. H. W. ONLY TWO REAL PARTIES (Philadelphia Inquirer) When we come right down to plain facts, the contest In Pennsylvania, as: it is elsewhere, is between the policies of the Democratic Party and those of the Republican. Either Democratic or Republican candidates must win. So well recognized is this that every where the return of the 1012 Progres sives to the Republican Party has be come almost a stampede. There is no object whatever to be gained by cast ing a. vote for Mr. Flinn's Washington Party candidates—none whatever. The Washington Party voter Is es sentially an assistant Democrat. Besides, there is no longer any con vicing reason why there should be a third party ticket this year. The Re publican Party is no longer open to the charge of hossism. Conventions are things of the past. The Republi can voter is his own boss and makes his own selections of candidates at the State-wide primaries. In precisely the same manner he will choose his own candidate for President two years hence. Add to this reform the fact that the platform adopted last night, and upon i which the candidates will stand. Is so j broad and so progressive that it ought to satisfy every reasonable ln ' dependent. It would seem as If the split in the Republican Party should I be healed in order that an end may be put to experimental and danger ous legislation. We have been running the country on theory. It is high time that we got back to the practical. 1 [From the Telegraph, Sept. 2. 1864] Guerrilla Warfare Louisville, Sept. 2.—Yesterday Lieu tenant Colonel Graham, of the Eleventh Kentucky cavalry, was cap tured by Captain Foreman's guerril las, \vhen returning from his home to this city. He was paroled and allowed to go to Exeterville, to procure the release of two of Foreman's gang confined to jail at that place. Three men accompanying Graham were also captured. One of them, Samuel A. White, they threatened to shoot. Nashville Blown t'p New York, Sept. 2.—Reports re ceived here, state that the rebel ram, Nashville, was blown up near Mobile. She was 360 feet long and was mount ed with twelve guns. 'WAR ANDNEWSPAP "A big European war will be a fine thing for the newspapers." said the Philadelphia manager of a large elec trical company, says a writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. "In what way?" I inquired. "Help you to sell papers," was his reply. "Alas! Others may see your oint ment, but you alone can observe the fly swimming around in it. The Ink Is scarcely dry upon the printed testi mony of one newspaper manager to the effect that the Spanish-American War had cost his publication a tidy three-quarters of a million net. "The editor of the London Post told me his paper had twenty correspond ents in the Boer war, and cable rates were then $1.20 a word from Cape Town. That African conquest was the biggest menace to newspaper divi dends which London has experienced in a generation. "I saw dispatches come from Ma nila during our insurrection there which cost $3,000 a column. That included the price paid the special correspondent for sending one article. "Yes. A convention of newspaper proprietors would as quickly indorse | a great war for their own money making purposes as a farmers' grange would vote to employ a pack of wolves to guard their sheep." Your Chance to Go to the Pacific Coast at Reduced Rates and in Comfort I Your chance to see the Interesting j sit" of the Panama-Pacific Interna tional Exposition nt. San Francisco, now i nearing completion, also Los Angeles, l San Diego, etc.. with a marvelous i scenic journey through the wonderful j Royal Gorge, the Rockies and the Sier , ras, all at less than the ordinary fare. I And you may also visit the interest | ing cities of Denver, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City on the way. Think of it, you can piratically see I everything of interest in the west and i middle west! And in comfortable i trains and in congenial company! Let )me tell you all about It. I can save you money. I am paid to help you make the trip in comfort and my ser vice costs you nothing. It's Just a part lof the Burlington Route (C.. B. Sr Q. R. R.) way of treating their patrons. Please call or write and let me tell you about these extra low fares—give you maps and pictures about the trip —no charge—and let me help make your arrangements and save you a lot of trouble. Wm. Austin. Gen. Agent Pass. Dept., C. B. Q. R. R. Co., 836 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. r ■KAD«EAiiTir.i rom SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES
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