10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established tßst ) PUBLISHED BT TUB TEI.EGRAPH PRINTING 00. ES. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Treas'r. F. R. OYSTER. Secretary. BUS M. STEINMETZ. Manarln* Editor. {published every evening (exoept Bun l day), at the Telegraph Building, 2H / Federal Square. Ixastern Offlca, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Haebrook. Story A Brooks. {Western Office. IZS Weit Madl»on street. Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. W 1 .... . Delivered by carriers at iJ3nX> six cents a weeK. Mailed to subscribers at IS .00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg as second class matter. J The Association of Amor- / f (l/illl ' can Advertisers has ex ) Wjjlf ammed and certified to i* j tha circulation of this pab- < ) Ucatian. The figures of circulation i' S contained in the Association's re> I J port only are guaranteed. I < Association of American Advertisers ' i | No. 2333 WRltehill Bldg. M. r City I on dually avrrane for the month •< August, 1914 Anrs(« for the year 1813—31.8T7 Average for the year 1812—21.17 D Average for the year 1811—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17,405 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 204#. United Business Office, 203. Editorial Room 585. Job Dept. 201. FRIDAY EVENING, SKPT. 4 THAT "WAR TAX" TO-DAY President Wilson ad dressed Congress on the neces sity of raising $100,000,000 "war tax" by assessing the peo ple direct. Had there been a protec- [ tlve tariff for the past year there would be no need for a "war tax" now. Our industries would have been run ning full blast and Imports would have been heavy, as they always are In prosperous seasons, piling up a big surplus In the national treasury. And If the time came, by reason of the length of the war, that additional revenues were necessary, the nation would have been in condition to meet the added expense of direct taxation. As it is, the tax will find many out of work, hundreds with empty pockets and others hardly able to make ends meet as it is, without the addition of new burdens. The "war tax," however, may serve one useful lesson by proving absolute ly the fallacy of the Democratic doc trine of placing high paid American workmen in competition with the cheap labor of Europe. The present situation will illustrate the economic necessity of tariff protection at all times. The principle of protection was forcibly brought home to the Amer ican people during the Napoleonic wars, when American statesmen showed clearly that the American public should not be placed at the mercy of Europe. The great argu ment for protection at that time was to have industries so firmly establish ed in the United States that no Euro pean war could deprive us of manu factured articles. The present crisis points to the same conclusion. It shows that it is absolutely necessary for the United States to be made in dustrially independent of foreign countries and to be brought to the point where it can produce for itself everything needed by Its own people. And the only way this can be done Is under a tariff protecting us from the cheap labor of Europe. It has been a favorite argument with the tariff-for-revenue-only men that If any industry could not compete suc cessfully with the cheap labor pro ducts of Europe such an industry, in line with real economy, should be permitted to die. If such a policy had been followed, as long advanced by the Democrats in the past, it would how mean that the nation would be utterly unable to support itself in the present European crisis. Even now the •war will deprive the United States of many articles such as chemicals used In agriculture and manufacturing, and would likewise deprive the country of many manufactured articles, such as textiles and metals, if such industries had not been well established under the protective tariff policy at home. What do we care if the German sup ply of toys is cut off. Everybody knows that Santa Claus makes his In a big toy shop at the North Pole. FAULTY TRANSPORTATION THE American Society of Thrift draws attention to the great waste In American products, and those of the farm espec ially, resulting from lack of proper transportation facilities. The words "cost of hauling" are closely allied with the trite "high cost of living" phrase. The loss caused by lack of proper hauling facilities is so enor mous that it exceeds in Chicago ahout $50,000,000 dollars a year, while it may reach the $150,000,000 mark In New York. In other cities the loss is in proportion to the size or Import ance of the town. Notwithstanding these facts practi cally nothing Is done to r'form local hauling from the primi ve slngle rnan-affalr and methods into a mod ern industrial enterprise. The railroad as a common carrier Is tied to tracks and has a fixed lim ited sphere of operation. What com rnarce needs for broad and general u»«, «ays the aociety in a bulletin Just Issued, Is a common carrier not tied to raila- a trackless freight carrier with a wide range and unlimited sphere of activity going wherever re niUred to fill the needs of transport*- FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH' SEPTEMBER 4, 1914. Hon in the cities and extending its op oration Into the heart of the country. Into remote productive but undevel- ! oped districts, bringing the market to •the consumer. This plan has already ! been Inaugurated by the Canadian Pa j rifle Railway for moving the grain ' i-rops of western Canada by motor trucks from the barns of the farmers to the freight stations. G. A. Rankin has estimated the loss ' through Inability of railroads to handle the country's production in ! 1905-6 at a round billion dollars. A well established trackless transporta -1 tlon system would add this billion | dollars regularly to our national wealth. A trackless freight carrier i when once well under operation will : become an important instrument in ! the country's prosperity and will re j due© the dogma that prosperity de- I pends upon the railroad to a half* I truth. I The prosperity of the country de pends upon the entire system of trans portation. which includes, besides rail | roads, all trackless transportation fa 'cilities and marine and air naviga j tion. It is only the gross neglect of track- I less transportation that has put rall- I roads in the limelight as a prosperity producer, and to save the untold mil i lions lost and squandered in hauling it I will be a part of wisdom—a duty of land to the public—to develop trackless I transportation in cities as well as in rural districts, making it a public util ity under control of commerce as a co-operative association on the profit sharing plan. When the public can buy and con tract for transportation service as it now contracts for telephone, electric light and heat service, only with the difference that by a co-operative plan they buy from themselves and pay themselves —the cost of transportation will drop about 70 per cent, on each dollar of transportation charge, or from SI,OOO to S3OO, or still less, ex perts calculate We can almost see that pennant nailed to the Island Park masthead. tiet them put a tax on baseball. What do we care. The season Is almost over. ONLY THE OFFICE FUSION Is to be accomplished about. October 1, it is announced from Democratic headquarters. Why not now, if it is such an excellent thing? Oh, for the reason, comes the reply, that the real Pro gressives object and that bait must be prepared to draw them Into the trap. Fusion, it appears, is the plan of Senator Flinn and Vance C. McCor mick, by which Flinn saves the money he would have had to spend to finance the Lewis campaign and McCormick is given the privilege of opening an other barrel. So hopeless Is the situ ation for the Democrats that they are willing to fuse with the Washington party and ignore the principles that have brought them to ruin and the country to serious depression. The expression has been heard fre quently of late that the European war, to all Intents and purposes, serves the United States in the same manner and degree as a protective tariff. In other words, if the produc ers of Europe are taken from the fields and shops and sent to the front, there will be a serious falling off in imports, leaving Americans in full possession of their own markets. This is the way Mr. Palmer 'sees the situa tion. , Such a view is subject to various qualifications. The essential factor Is to obtain the necessary ships. As an equivalent to the policy of protective tariff a European war Is sadly defi cient in that It lops off millions from the tariff revenues of the government. Whatever gain may accrue to the manufacturers is at the expense of the Treasury. Fusion will not fool anybody, association on one ticket of free tariff advocates and high tariff believers shows clearly that such candidates care only for the office. Principle means nothing to them As between Europe's favorite game and football, give us football. JL_ By the way the French troops are holdir- the Germans in the South, we suspect that Mr. Jack Johnson must have been assigned to that district. Austria, having sown the wind, is now reaping the whirlwind ROMPER DAY THIS is Romper Day and no other day in all the year means so much for thousands of girls and boys of Harrlsburg as this par ticular occasion. Romper Day has grown to mean the grand finale of the fun and recreation and sports of the whole summer. It Is the official fare well to the playgrounds and recrea tion places which have attracted the happy children throughout the hot months. The older folk of the city do not always realize what the playgrounds and the parks and the bathing beaches mean to the children of Harrisburg. Nor is there always that appreciation which is deserved for the good work of the Department of Parks and those officials who have direct supervision of the outdoor lift* of the young people. The healthful and educational work under the care of experienced In structors on the several playgrounds, the Interesting camp life on McCor mick'B Island, the newest acquisition to our splehdid park system; the pub lic playgrounds at Island Park, and the joy-giving events at Reservoir Park and other places all signalize the splendid efforts of the city of Harrisburg to take care of her coming men and women. City Commissioner Taylor, head of the Park Department, has had his first season's experience in the super vision of the parks and playgrounds, and the many kind things which have been said of him to-day indicate, per haps, better than any public testi monial. the success of his endeavors. But no Romper Day Is ever suc cessful without the feast which Is the big feature at" the Reservoir Park round-up. Hero Samuel Kunkel, a former member of the old Park Com mission and a lover of children, is the patron saint. He It is who acts as the host at the feast and the children of Harrisburg will never cease to remem ber thl« big-hearted and generous citi zen, who believes In scattering the sunshine of life while he Is yet among the living. 1 EVENING CHAT 1 Industrially speaking, there is a good bit in common between smoke and whistling. When there is no smoke there is not much doing in the mills and when the whistling is not heard from the railroads there is not much of the life-giving traffic that makes this city so great in transpor tation affairs. We are all glad to see and smell smoke and to hear whistling, but as a matter of fact the control of smoke is not proceeding as rapidly hero as it is in Philadelphia and Pitts burgh, and there does not seem to be much prospect of any abatement. So we will have to grin, wash and Inhale it. However, the proposition of whis tling is a good bit like blasting. Ordi narily everyone is glad to hear the factory whistles blow—for starting, lunch or quitting—but there is a lot of locomotive whistling that is np more necessary than blasting at 6.58 A. M. when it could have been done at the same hour on the previous even ing. The Pennsylvania Railroad does not permit whistling on certain sec tions of its lines in the eastern part of the state and some western railroads were hauled up short by the state au thorities for the chorus of chime, siren and shriek whistles that used to smite the tympans of residents of some railroad towns. And yet we are sa luted by blasts from the west shore lines of the Peansylvania, by the howl ing of the Western Maryland engines on the lower bridge and by the shrill, prolonged cries of the Reading in the eastern part of the city. The men in the towers are supposed to be alert and on the ,lob. They are In communi ties where whistling is tabood. and yet without a grade crossing within miles there are long, short, drawn-out, chopped-off whistles that scream, yowl, wow and wop-wop, according to the fancy of the frenzied auditor. Studied out and boiled down, much of it is needless, annoying to sick people and wasteful. It's a wonder that something has not been done to cur tail the noises that are not necessary. Congressman Aaron S. Kreider and Karl Steward have considerable re semblance to each other and yesterday when the congressman was in the city on his way to the Grangers a friend stepped up and hit him on the back with a "Hello." The congressman turned around and said "Hello." The man gasped and said, "I thought you were Steward." "Oh. That's all right." replied Mr. Kreider. "I just heard that some fel low had told Steward a tale of woe In tended for me." A couple of Huntingdon county men were talking yesterday at the Grangers' Picnic and one said that lie had known Dr. Brumbaugh since 1889. I met him then standing waist deep in the flood, trying to save some tele graph poles, he had cut down and which were heading down the stream." When it comes down to big corn this section is going some. A travel ing man who gets over the country and who visits western states said that the Cumberland Valley could show a few. I have never seen finer corn. The stalks are high and burdened with ears. The ears are immense. If the ■wheat was anything like the corn and the peaches, you will have a dandy farm balance," said he. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"I —William E. Corey, the former steel corporation head, has given his Paris grounds for a sheep pasture for the nocks of the defenders. u7T D . r ' ,} Va >; n « Babcock. of Philadel phia, is hunting in Alaska. —Wallls J. Tener, brother of the Governor, spent the month of August at the New York Chautauqua, where he had a cottage. —Judge C. Y Audenreid. of Phila delphia, has gone on his annual motor trip to New England. —Dr. H. J. Benz has been appointed , ohar ** of ch, '<i welfare work in Pittsburgh. —Harry Daugherty, former legis lator of Mercer, is seeking to have Colonel Roosevelt sneak in his county. That Harrlshurgr-made engines drive the electric plants ">nd ele vators for some of the country's biggest millrtlngs? AN EVENING THOUGHT The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.—Men clus. 1 POUTICAi. SIDELIGHTS I —Apparently the Republican can didates do not care if fusion is effect ed. —Dr. Brumbaugh Is speaking at Corry this morning. —When it comes down to speaking on agricultural topics Dr. Brumbaugh has a certain Democratic candidate beaten a milllion ways. —Wonder if Bryan will come Into the State to make speeches for the machine ticket this Fall? —Senator Penrose, Dr. Brumbaugh, Congressman Kreider, L. S. Sadler and a few friends were guests of the Gov ernor at dinner last night. —Frank B. McClain has been given leave of absence by the city of Lan caster to make his campaign for lieu tenant-governor. —President Wilson's new tax proposition is not enthusiastically re ceived even In the Central Democratic Club. —Congressman Palmer has man aged to accumulate some good hard knocks In return for some gayetles of statement this week. —Fusion appeare to be favored by everyone but the Bull Moose leaders. —Palmer and McCormlck are on the trail of Plnchot. —Apparently people are pretty sick of the red tape necessary to vote. PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS [From the Wilkes-Barre Record] It Is encouraging to note that Penn sylvania is not lagging behind in the movement to make farm life more at tractive and more profitable. Two bills passed by the Legislature hold great possibilities. One provides for an'ap propriation by the commissioners of each county of $1,500 annually for agricultural extension work In con nection with the State College. This college has received larger appropria tions from the State, and the Fed eral government has promised to co operate with the ultimate object of placing a trained agricultural agent in every county. The other bill em powers the Secretary of Agriculture of the State to appoint ten instructors to give instruction at times and places designated by him. This bill carries an appropriation of $40,000, REGISITU IS Ifflf LIGHT HERE Evidence That Voter# Are Getting Very Tired of the Red Tape of Elections PRELIMINARIES ARE ANNOYING Dean Lewis Told by Bull Moosers Not to Withdraw; Penrose Had a Good Time People who observed the registra tion yesterday and the reports show ing that it had been light all over Harrisburg, in spite of the efforts of committeemen of all parties and the use of yards of paper and gallons of ink are about ready to conclude that voters are getting slclt of the compli cated precautions to "guard" the bal lot. The red tape necessary to cast a vote is rapidly working around in this community to the point that only those who take an enduring interest in politics or who happen to be especial ly concerned In a nomination or elec tion will go to the trouble of getting assessed, enrolled or registered by answering a series of questions that can be made to seem, not only imperti nent but insulting. The result has been In Harrisburg, as elsewhere, that many citizens of the highest type, the kind of men that everyone desires to have participate in primaries and elec tions remain away from the polling places because of the annoyance of the perllminaries. Personal registra tion probably has cut down some padded lists in some parts of Harris burg, but it has not prevented those who play politics and those who are willing to be played with from getting registered. It has kept the other ele ment away from the polls. The returns of the first registration day show that registration was uni formally light all over Harrisburg. Assessors in boroughs and townships say that few people appeared to have their names put down on the two days on which assessors sat at the polls and the same experience Is reported by registrars in the city. The Pa-Mc League was unable to stand for the Bull Moosers' banner being the sole attraction in Market street and yesterday the $162.30 banner Pa-Mc Gets which swung in the Banner on Spring rains and sum- Street Again mer heat was put out again with the faces of McCormick and Palmer freshened up with red paint and a suspicion of an unshaven beard on Palmer's chin. The likenesses of the two candidates still preserve the appearance of having been taken on a day after hearing from the plain peo ple and McCormick wears a scowl such as he ordinarily exhibits after seeing a Telegraph cartoon with the $33,000 kampaign kitty. The Wash ington party banner makes Pinchot look like Edgar Allen Poe and Dean Lewis like a sufferer from pulmonary tuberculosis in the last stages. The battle of the banners is very enter taining to the passersby and it is well that names are inscribed. According to reports which have drifted into the city to-day, leaders of the Washington party In all parts of the State are object ing to the Bull Moose being made the tail to Lewis Told Vance McCormick's To Stay on kite by effecting fu- the Ticket sion and there is pro nounced sentiment be ing manifested against fusion In Lack awanna, Luzerne, Lehigh. Berks and other counties. In the western end of the State the sentiment is pro nounced for fusion. . Yesterday dur ing a visit to Scranton, William Drap er Lewis was told that it was his duty to stand by his party and make his fight clear through to the election, these remarks being made by men from nine counties in the northeast section. Lewis will consult with friends in Philadelphia about the fusion move ment and make an announcement one way or the other within a fortnight. Gifford Pinchot has told his friends there will be no fusion on senator and that he proposes to fight to a finish. The concern of Palmer at Pinchot'B attitude is shown by the fact that he is trailing him. Senator Penrose, who spent last night in the city, after his re turn from Williams Grove, left this morning for Pitts burgh, where he is to Picnic Was make a number of ad- Pleasing to dresses "I was more Candidates than delighted by the Grangers' Picnic at Williams Grove yes terday and enjoyed my visit." said the Senator. "It was a great gathering of people and they all appeared to be enjoying themselves. I have never had a more attentive audience and I have never been more cordially greeted than I was by the people at the picnic. Dr. Brumbaugh, who left late last night for Corry, said that he had been im pressed by the crowd at the Grangers and had enjoyed meeting them. "That picnic is a great institution and I was glad to see so many young people and to have such an appreciative audi ence,' said he. The doctor said he was coming back to Dauphin county to speak soon and was glad of it. Tho Democratic candidates who spent yes terday trying to patch up fences and throw out the nets for money, went to Pittsburgh late last night. Vice-President Marshall's an nouncement that Wilson will he the candidate in 1916 and that other lightning rods may as well be taken down, has been met. Machine Men by an impressive, Silent on oppressive and ex- Wilson Boom presstve silence at the Dem ocr all c State windmill. One of the things for which the Palmers and McCormicks and their ilk have taken credit for, next to the nomination of Wilson, has been the platform. The platform de clares in favor of the single term. None of the candidates would chirp about the Marshall statement and all were In fear and trembling lest, it would start up old Dr. Bryan, who wrote the plank and who came to make speeches for the machine. How ever, the impression is general that if It comes to a break between Wilson and Bryan, Palmer and McCormick will throw down Bryan as heartlessly as Palmer threw Guffey and Hall. MARIETTA OLD HOME WEEK Special to The i elegraplt Marietta, Pa.. Sept. 4 —-Old Home Week celebration will begin on Sat urday evening with a concert and carnival In the Center Square. The decorating committee, under the lead ership of Samuel L. Frey, are nightly decorating and the electric illumi nation will be a feature. On Sunday there will be special services in the churches and on Monday, Labor Day, there will be several parades, baseball game, band concerts and Illuminations in the evening. , OUR DAILY IK A Sure Sign Foolish What makes "Did you hear you think that that 7 Someone s man has had ex- down there cwi perience with sail- lng for help boats and canoes ''Foolish ..man. He doesn't show Why doesn t he any inclination to advertise in the get into any of 'Help Wanted col them. umns of some live paper." i IN HARRI3BURG FIFTY I 1 YEARS AGO TO-DAY I [From the Telegraph of Sept 4, 1864 1 Soldiers Deny Salute Soldiers stationed at Fort Washing ton desire us to state that they were in no way connected with the firing of the salute in honor of McClelland s nomination, which took place in the fort Wednesday evening. Some of the Copperheads in this city had a cannon taken across the river, and did the firing themselves. Draft Delayed The draft for this district will not take place for several days, until the credits are completed, and all matters squared up in order that delay and trouble may be avoided after the draft. I [From the Telegraph of Sept. 4. ISB4] Indian War Washington. D. C.. Sept. 4. An of ficial dispatch received here to-day re ports murder and depredations on the plains are committed by comparatively few of the Indian tribes. .It is under stood that the Indian Bureau has sent a special messenger with a view to the pacification of the disaffected savages to the plains. Brandrwlne Burned Washington, Sept. 4. The Navy Department last night received word annouuncing the burning of the United States frigate Brandywine, storeship, at Norfolk, Va., with all her stores. Cause of the fire not yet known nor any particulars. [EDITORIAL COMMENT! If the American war correspondents who have rushed to Europe wish to keep right up with the news, they should have their home papers sent to them regularly.—Boston Transcript. A moratorium, we take it, means that a country needn't settle up until it settles down.—Columbia State. Lots of New Torkers will never get over their astonishment at the coun try's moving along smoothly with the Stock Exchange closed.—Rockford (111.) Republic. It will take centuries to recover from this blow to civilization, but doubtless our prominent optimists are reflecting in their cheery way that there will be plenty of centuries.—Ohio State Jour nal. How Implicitly Belgium trusted that guaranty of neutrality is shown by the fact that she always maintained a supply of impregnable fortresses on her frontiers. —New York American. The Germans may be very fond of Paris, but the Russians are attracted more by Berlin. —Scranton Tribune. When revenues under a miserable pretense of a Democratic tariff are falling fast, how handy it is to resort to an internal revenue tax and lay it to a European war. Hagerstown herald. Harrisburg s mayor hopes to mini mize the noise nuisance through an appeal to thoughtful motorists to aid the police In compelling the thought less ones to exercise moderation. An excellent Idea. By making unneces sary noises unpopular, those who make unnecessary noises must be come unpopular also.—Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin. The European method of attracting American tourists is to create some more battlefields for them to visit—St. Louis Meddler. It looks more and more as if the war were going to be pulled off in execu tive session.—lndianapolis News. PROGRESS The cave men fought with their knotty fists. And Clubs that were tipped with stone: With heads held high, and with fear less eye. They guarded their rights alone. They hacked at beasts that were huge and fierce. That prowlurt where their stores were piled, And they died at last, and their spirits passed. While the War God looked—and smiled. Long ages passed, and the archers came, With arrows and pliant bows; They crouched in lines 'neath the moun tain pines. And slew as the reaper mow? And all the spears of the armored knights Flashed bright as a shining sea; And people died and their spirits cried, While the War God laughed In glee. They fight to-day, and the bullets new Are shaped like a needle fine: And cannons roar on the ocean shore, While blood flows red like wine. The all-ships flutter against the sun. To shoot at the frightened earth. And blrdmen dl» In the heavy sky, While the War God shouts In his mirth. —Margaret E. Sangster. Jr.. in Chris tian Herald. MFKSEY'S FRANK CONFESSION Perhaps no confession of failure has ever been more frank than Frank A. Munsev's explanation of his suspension of the Philadelphia Evening Times. He says: "Every undertaking Is an experi ment until it orystallzes into success. The Evening Times has never passed out of the experimental stage, and there Is no evidence in sight looking toward Its doing so in the near future. If It were nearing the clearing, if success were within the sweep of a telescope. I would continue its publication and back It generously. "On the surface, Philadelphia was the most alluring town in the world for an evening newspaper venture—a city of vast population, a city of homes, snd with fewer evening newspapers than many cities of half Or even one third its size. It was this extraordl narv condition that led me to bring out an evenings newspaper In Philadel phia. "Considered on the basis of popula tion in Philadelphia, and the population of the newspaper circuit outside Phila delphia, and the few evening news papers in the field, there wasn't an other opening on earth In Its class. "Hut the Evening Times hasn't work ed out. snd that's all there Is to It. Tt shares the fate of these other evening newsnaper ventures In Philadelphia— the Evening Star, the Fvenlng News and th" Evening Item. There may be others " HEADQUARTERS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES —_____ LAST CALL! HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Suits $13.50 S2O, $25 AND CLOTH CRAFT Suits SIO.OO sls, $lB AND S2O VALUES H. MARKS & SON Fourth and Market Street BOOKS and m i|| "The Letter of the Contract," Basil King's new novel, is announced for publication this week by the Harper s A wife whose married life has been of the happiest learns that her husband had broken their marriage contract. The shock of this knowledge destroys her love for him—she believes —for- ever. She divorces him In spite of his pleading for forgiveness. Later, urged by loneliness, each marries again. A chance meeting brings them together and they realize that o Judge's decision could not kill their love for each other. Through spiritual struggle they learn what the spirit, not the letter, of mar riage means. H. G. Wells In his recently published book, "Social Forces in England and America," made a prophecy which seems to be proved true, at least in part, at the present moment. "Modern weapons and modern contrivance are continually decreasing the number of men who can be employed efficiently upon a length of front. I doubt if there is any use for more than 400,00 men upon the whole Franco-Belgian fron tier at the present time. Such an army, properly supplied, could, so far as ter restrial forces are concerned, hold that frontier against tny number of assail ants. The bigger the forces brought against, the sooner the exhaustion of the attacking power. It must have been a prophetic in spiration that led Atnslee's to print •Winged Victory," by I. A. R. Wylie. as the complete novelette In its September number. Just as the warring nations of Europe so absorb public interest, this story appears, thrilling with ad venture, its plot and counterplot large ly concerned with the armies of Eng land and Germany. The hero and the villain are officers in the English army. The Invention of an aeroplane that is to be of great value In military ma neuvers is the leading motif of the story. Germany is determined to ob tain possession of it, while the Inventor Is equally determined that it shall only be used by his own country. A power ful love Interest is woven through it all. The action is rapid fire from start to finish, when the story sweeps to a breath-taking climax as both hero and villain make their first test of the com pleted machine. "The Woman at the Spring," Con stance Skinner, is a powerful story of unusual character with the Northwest and the desert for a setting. F. Berkeley Smith writes a story of rare charm and color, entitled "The Gypsy." It con tains fascinating descriptions of the gypsy folk about Budapest. "The Job He Was Made For" Is a story of criminal life in New York, by Henry Oyen, in which a pessimist final ly sees a great light. Bonnie R. Ging er's "Filling a Vacancy," is written In this author's usual humorous, sympa thetic vein. "The Fire Lady," by Katha rine Baker, a writer new to Ainslee's, Is an adventurous, clever story, with a very brave heroine. Nimon de Lenclos. "Premiere Siren of Two Centuries." that wonderful wo man who won the hearts of the grand sons of the lovers Of her early youth with apparently as much ease as she had those of their grandfathers, is the alluring subject of this month's sketch in Albert Payson Terhune's "Super-wo men" series. "The Anti-Tansroist," by Caroline Duer; "The Man Who Wouldn't Do," by Eleanor Ferris: "The Courtship of Prince Max." by Mrs. Balllie eynolds. and "The Episodes of Betty." by Elmer Brown Mason, also add much to the ex cellence of the September issue of Ainslee's BRITAIN'S PROMPT RESPONSE [Edinburgh Scotsman.] A stirring call has been heard and answered by the manhood of the na tion. At the clash of arms the mili tary ardour of the race has been roused to action. Mindful of the great (Jeeds of their forefathers, of the heri tage which has been won. and which it is their duty to keep, the youth of the nation have responded whole heartedly to their country's need. "When Duty whispers low,' Thou must,' The Youth replies, 'I can'." Every day sees a steady augmen tation in the number of recruits for one or other branch of the military service. The pace is not slackening. Yes, men actually wonder why the quality of King Oscar Cigars never varies. It seems most un usual for a cigar to be regularly good for 23 years when, so many brands come and go (emphasis on go) in half the time and less. Well— King Oscar 5c Cigars are unusual—the longer you smoke them the more you will appreciate their superior quality for the money. Standard Nickel Quality For 23 Years it is increasing; and the daily addition to the military forces of the crown is limited not so much by the number of those anxious to serve as by the abilitv of the recruiting offices to overtake the work of examination, inspection and registration. V" ' ■■■ V Uneeda Biscuit Tempt the please the taste and nourish the body. Crisp, clean and fresh. 5 cents. Baronet Biscuit Round, thin, tender— with a delightful flavor —appropriate for lunch eon, tea and dinner. 10 cents. GRAHAM CRACKERS Made of the finest ingredients. Baked to perfection. The national strength food. 10 cents. Buy biscuit baked by NATIONAL BIS£JJET COMPANY . Always look for that Name.
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