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TJTT'RSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
AFTER weeks of coaxing- and
maneuvering the Democratic
spider has caught the Progres
sive fly In Pennsylvania. An
alleged fusion of tho two parties on
the State ticket has been accomplish
«d against the protests of thousands of
honest men in both camps. The
tosses of the Democratic reorganiza
ers and the Washington party have
forced through a deal which not only
discredits all the professions of adher
ence to principle and devotion to a
<ause, but marks the whole transac
tion as an arbitrary exhibition of boss
rule against which these same bosses
have pretended to be fighting for the
last two years.
Such men as Robert K. Young have
been openly against the fusion deal
on the part of the Progressives and
many of the most earnest of Demo
crats have likewise opposed a fusion
ticket, knowing that oil and water
cannot mix. But a coalition of the so
called reform forces has been Inevi
table for some time and there is no
surprise over the announcement.
Dean Lewis, who quits the game
as the Washington party candidate
for Governor, saw inevitable defeat
for himself and was glad to retire. Mc-
Cormiclc, tho Democratic candidate,
who is clutching at straws in every
direction, is doubtless willing to swal
low the Progressive criticism of his
sponsor, the President, and pay the
hills. And ex-Senator William Flinn,
the financial backer of the Progres
sive movement in this State, is more
than ready to permit McCormick to
become the "angel" of the allies. He
•was recently quoted as having declar
ed he would not send good money
after bad in this campaign. Mr. Fllnn
is not a tyro In politics and he can
hardly be censured for escaping the
Impending avalanche.
As to the Democrats, thousands of
them will refuse to support the mule
ticket. We shall not be surprised to
hear from every hamlet the sound of
the clashing axes and reports of flop
ping Democrats deserting the sinking
chip.
It must he evident to any thought
ful person that such a fusion, arranged
through the connivance of the bosses,
cannot be effective in the approaching
•election. The platform of the Wash
ington party is one assault after an
other upon the Wilson Democracy,
represented by McCormick on the
State ticket, and how it is going to bo
possible for any considerable number
of Democrats to go along with such a
■proposition is difficult to understand.
Then, too, the fusion proposition is
based upon the alleged hope of the
bosses that such a combination will
result in the defeat of Senator Pen
rose. Yet Plnchot, the Washington
party candidate for United States
Senator, is to be permitted to run his
own course and thus divide the "forces
of righteousness," which Dean Lewis
thinks should be united for the success
of "the cause."
The getting together of the Demo
cracy and the followers of Lewis Is
the last desperate move of a few am
bitious men to save themselves. If pos
sible, from the most humiliating de
feat that has even overtaken a group
of self-seekers such as Pennsylvania
has never seen in any campaign. But
the very announcement of such a fu
sion deal in the face of the urgent de
mands of these same forces for a
State-wide primary law that was to
overcome boss dictation in the selec
tion of candidates, will result In the
alignment of thousands of Democrats
and honest Progressives with the Re
publican party this year.
President Wilson is going to find it
•xtremeiy difficult to escape the criti
cism of his free trade policies through
an appeal for a larger revenue to meet
the diminishing Income from imports.
Most peoplo have not forgotten that
the war did not start until tile first
of August and that the direful
effects of the Wilson tariff act were
apparent all over the country long be
fore the outbreak In Europe, it is pro
posed now to pile $100,000,no<) more in
ternal taxes upon the country to make
gooi the slumping customs. But it Is
THURSDAY EVENING.
unbelievable that the addition of BO
largo an amount to the Internal taxes
will not he felt, and yet the President
lias not saiil a word about reducing the
nxpenditures Instead of Increasing tho
! taxes.
j
THAT "WAR TAX"
THAT "war tax" which President
WUspn proposes, and which
would have been unnecessary If
the Underwood tariff law had
not been passed, ought to be placed on
luxuries to tbe exclusion of necessi
ties.
The consumer must pay this tax dl
(rect. It is therefore important that
it be levied on those who can best
afford the addition to the high cost of
i living. The wage earner has all he
can do now to make ends meet. He
•lected President Wilson and the
Democratic Congress with the under
standing that they were to lower his
j living expenses. Instead of any de
| crease, prices have gone up, and now
Ja tax is proposed that will still further)
increase expenses.
If the Democrats have any respect,
at all for their platform pledges they
I will not tax any of the necessities. Let
the tax fall where It will do the least
harm. The poor man Is paying enough
and more now than he should to keep
his household clear of sebt.
Spokane has just thrown open to the
I public a tine hotel costing $2,250,000,
; the result of a combination of the en
' ergry and public spirit of the bankers
and businessmen of that city. And
still Harrisburg waits—watchfully
waits—for the new hotel hare that
never comes.
THE WHARTON SCHOOL
EVERY man and every woman in
this city interested in the de
velopment of Harrlßburg's edu
cational facilities should go to
the Technical high school auditorium,
where a big booster meeting is sched
uled to be held in the Interest of es
tablishing here a branch of the Whar
ton School of Finance.
The University of Pennsylvania has
been establishing branches of the
Wharton school In various cities of the
State with splendid results. The ex
tension schools have been located
for the purpose of affording advanced
Instruction In financial and commer
cial subjects to men situated in the
larger cities and towns who are pre
pared to pursue university work but
who are prevented from attending the
University of Pennsylvania at Phila
delphia. \
Joseph Wharton, LL. D., Sc. D., was
the first to see the need of a new type
of college training that should meet
the needs of young men preparing for
business, and in 1881 established at
the University of Pennsylvania the
school which bears his name. At the
present time there are enrolled in the
day and evening classes of the Whar
ton school about twelve hundred men.
Evening work was established by the
University of Pennsylvania in 1904.
In the nine years of the existence of
the evening school 2,72 0 men have
been enrolled in Its courses.
The work of the extension school of
accounts and finance will be con
ducted hy the members of the faculty
of the University who give the same
courses in the Wharton and evening
schools. The plan provides that the
University faculty member in charge
of each course shall conduct every
other session of the class. In the in
tervening week the courses will be in
charge of assistants, selected by the
faculty, who will carry, out the same
plan of instruction which has been
followed by the assistants in charge
of the courses in Philadelphia. The
work in the extension school will, in
other words, he of exactly the same
character nnd given in practically the
same manner as the work in Phila
delphia.
Before the University will consent to
establish a branch in Harrisburg, how
ever. a hundred students must be
assaired the directors at Philadelphia.
Whether the advantages of the branch
will he afforded Harrisburg business
men depends on whether this number
will enroll as students.
Efforts are now being made by the
Chamber of Commerce, the Harris
burg University of Pennsylvania
Alumni Association and the Rotary
Club of Harrisburg to get the required
number of men to enroll and accord
ing to present reports success is prac
tically assured.
But everybody who possibly can
should get over to the Technical school
this evening and help boost the project.
It hasn't been so long ago that the
present bosses of the Democratic party
in Pennsylvania were ranting about
the holding up of State employes and
others for campaign contributions, but
they are not sayings word to-day about
the maclng of Democratic officeholders
for the campaign funds of a losing
cause.
JUDGE KUNKEI/S CANDIDACY
PRESIDENT ' JUDGE GEORGE
KUNKEL cannot help being
gratified with the assurances of
support which he. is receiving
from all quarters of the State In his
candidacy for the Supreme Court. His
friends of all parties are laboring for
him in the most effective fashion.
They recognize his eminent fitness for
the higher tribunal and inasmuch as
the campaign is purely nonpartisan his
canvass Is relieved of anything smack
ing of politics in the accepted sense.
Judge Kunkel has demonstrated
superior qualifications for the Judicial
office and all the rant of recent years
concerning the recall of Judicial de
cisions and other fads of the hour has
only served to emphasize the impor
tance of electing to the court of last
resort men of sterling worth and solid
common sense.
His friends In Harrlsburg, who em
brace all parties, are reaching out In
every direction through a campaign of
publicity which will make familiar to
all the voters the special fitness of the
president judge of the local courts for
a seat on the Supreme bench. He
finds little time to devote to anything
like a personal canvass, but where the
opportunity offers he is glad to meet
the people and mingle with them, lie
lias, however, steadfastly set his face
against political speechniaking or par
ticipation In any meeting that might
reflect In the slightest degree upon tho
dignity of the. bench.
Judge Kunkel has worn unsullied
.the ermine of his office and Pennsyl
vania will not make a mistake in pro
moting him to its highest court.
Colonel Roosevelt. In his Now Orleans
speech, advocated Federal control and
development of the Misslssl- ! river In
stead of paying $25,000,000 "blackmail"
to Colombia. %
fIVENING CHAT I
This is the season of the year when
the gladiolus is in Its glory in Harris
burg and vicinity and there are some
people who make a specialty of the
gorgeous African flower that has
reached its stale of rarest beauty by
American methods. Some very flue
specimens of the flower were to be
set n in the markets yesterday, single
flowers almost as large as a rose and.
Indeed, approaching the size of a lily
being on sale. About the city parks
there are some pretty blooms shown,
but the best are naturally in private
gardens and the attention given
throughout the summer is well re
warded by the blooming of long stalks
of the flower. The gladiolus has been
much cultivated In this country and
there are gardens in llarrlsburg where
it has been an annual ornament for
probably a dozen years. Twenty-five
years ago red and white gladioli were
almost the only ones to be seen here
abouts, but now they come in pink
antj yellow and purple and all shades,
the hybred tiger stripe and red and
white stripe being among the choic
est of the late summer visitors.
Insofar as pre-emption of party
names goes this year's campaign has
been strikingly different from that of
1912. Not more than the usual crop
of names has been pre-empted and
most of those have evidently been by
people who wanted to clinch right to
appellation to prevent someone else
from using it or to have a-name at
hand ready for use rather than to
employ themselves. The last state
campaign was notable for the tremen
dous amount of pre-empting that went
on and the amount of fees turned into
the prothonotary's office as a result.
This year pre-empting has been a
slow item of business .
Following out the same ideas that
have made Harrisburg's playground
and Romper Day programs so suc
cessful heretofore, Allentown last week
concluded Its summer city recreation
season with a Romper Day celebration
in which some 4,000 youngsters par
ticipated.
And the man who promulgated the
Romper Day plan and all the details
of the all-day program which made
the day memorable in the history of
the children of the Lehigh county town
was a former Harrisburg playground
instructor—E. L. Manning. He's now
Allentown's supervisor of playgrounds.
' Newspaper clippings and a splendid
program of events with comment upon
the features of the big day were sent
here to V. Grant Forrer, park super
intendent throughout the development
of this city's playground system. Mr.
Manning was under the supervision of
Mr. Forrer and was in charge of the
Tsland playgrounds up until he was
urged to go to Allentown to complete
the organization and development of
that city's recreation work. Here is a,
typical reference to the big day in
Allentown contained in one of the
city's leading newspapers:
Before a crowd of 5.000 fathers,
mothers and friends nearly 4,000
children from the public play
grounds yesterday celebrated their
first Romper Day, an idea brought
to the city by Supervisor E. L.
Manning.
Distribution of political literature
has already commenced in the State
and the postmen say that if it is go
ing to keep ur> the way It has started
there will be plethoric conditions
about the post offices. The other day
the floor of the post office was lit
tered with printed matter bearing on
various phases of the Republican,
Washington, Democratic and Prohibi
tion campaigns, some local option lit
erature and some woman suffrage. So
much for one day.
"People are hard to suit," said a
motorman yesterday afternoon. "This
morning I went out in a closed car
and the people who were kicking
about my open car yesterday were
growling at the closeness of the closed
cars. To-day at noon they were won
dering why the company took off the
open car."
Francis J. Torrance, president of
the State Board of Public Charities,
dresses like a Beau Brummel and has
the manners of a Chesterfield. The
Pittsburgher was here yesterday clad
in the very top notch ol sartorial ele
gance and greeting as of
yore. Mr, Torrance hsis been coming
to Harrisburg on official business for
many years and has watched the prog
ress of Harrisburg with much interest.
He is especially complimentary of the
improvements along the River Front,
which he thinks Harrisburg has used
to great advantage.
Although there is not much of a
chance to shoot the wild duck now
adays and reedblrds are unknown
hereabouts, there are a number of
hunters who are out with dogs and
guns. They say that they are train
ing their animals for the hunting sea
son and that perhaps they may get a
chance to kill some weasels or other
pests. No one appears to understand
why the duck season is advanced by
national order, but if the ducks come
around the hunters will be glad.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—The Rev. G. Morgan Davis, of
Ellwood City, has been elected to the
moderatorship of the Beaver Valley
Baptist Association.
—Edmund F. Overdorf, prominent
Johnstown man, has been named as
head of the city planning commis
sioners of that city.
—Dr. Edward A. Ryan, of Scranton,
who figured in the Mexican war, has
gone to head a Red Cross squad in
Europe.
—Dr. William J. McKinley. Phila
delphia physician, just home from
Europe, lived on eight cents for fbur
days. No more war visits for him, he
says.
—John G. Johnson, the Philadel
phia lawyer, is home from Europe,
but refuses to talk about it.
—Hubart J. Horan, prominent in
grain trade in Philadelphia, has gone
to England.
—G. F. Gearhart, of Altoona, has
been elected president of the Associa
tion of Master Car Painters.
—County Commissioner S. J. Toole
of Pittsburgh, is about again after an
injury to his knee which kept him
housed up for weeks.
ifwiDgßKarß
That HarrKburg furnishes steel
for liolts used by the builders of
Uncle Sam's battleships?
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Look therefore whether the
light that is in thee be not dark
ness
-—Luke 11:33.
SXKRiSBURG TELEGRAPH
M'CORMICK WILL
TOP MULE TICKET
Dean Lewis Shifts the Burden of
Approaching Defeat to the
Wealthy Harrisburger
PENNYPACKER HITS BACK
Former Governor Says That the
Monroe Congressman Does
Not Tell the Truth
William Draper Lewis. Washington
party candidate for Governor, an
nounced last night in Philadelphia
that he would retire from the party
ticket to enable Vance C. McCormick
to become the nominee of the Wash
iogtonians as well as of the Demo
crats. No fusion will be effected on
United States Senator and William N.
McNalr, the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of Internal Affairs, refused
to quit in favor of any deal to help
McCormick. Nothing seems to have
been done about fusing on Lieutenant-
Governor. It does not matter, any
way.
For months the Democrats have
been working through Western Penn
sylvania adherents of the Washing
ton party to create sentiment in favor
of fusion. Lewis in going about
the State to ascertain feeling found
two things in addition to favor fusion
in order to hide the lamentable
falling off in the so-called Progressive
party strength. They were: A de
mand for funds to keep alive the or
ganization of the • Bull Moosers, with
disinclination on the part of William
Flinn to act as paymaster any longer,
and a tremendous increase in Repub
lican registration, indicating a return
to the party. Incidentally, he found
sentiment in Pennsylvania mightily In
favor of protection. So, under the
guise of fusion to beat Penrose, the
dean shifted the burden to the stur
dier shoulders of the wealthy McCor
mick. Incidentally no fusion has been
effected on United States Senator, al
though fusion is being worked osten
sibly to beat Penrose.
In this city the news of fusion was
hailed by the machine Democrats, be
cause it will enable McCormick to
lighten the burden of
the defeat which is
coming to him, but tho Fusion Not
Bull Moosers took it Popular in
with mixed emotions. Tills Lit}'
Many of them felt as
did State Treasurer R. i
K. Young and other prominent Wash
ington men, who declared that fusion
was a bad move. The reasons they
gave were that the Washington party
would become the mere tail to the
Democratic kite and that the Wash
ington leaders were sacrificing the
party organization, built up on na
tional issues, to help men posing as
upholders of the Administration which
Roosevelt attacks. Bull Moosers said
with emphasis that they were not
going to make contributions to any
McCormick campaign fund and that
they could not understand how fusion
to beat Penrose was helped by fusing
on an office for which Penrose was not
a candidate. They regarded it all as a
selfish move on the part of McCor
mick and of Lewis, tho former to help
I himself regardless of consistency and
the latter to save himself from being
a terribly beaten candidate. The fact
that fusion has not been effected on
any candidate except McCormick has
caused the men advocating fusion on
legislative tickets to slow up.
Senator Boies Penrose made terse
comment upon the fusion deal when
told of it at the Byberry fair yesterday.
The senator was the
guest on Textile Day
Peiiro&e Says and 15,000 people
Flinn Wearied gathered at the fair
Ol' Giving Up grounds cheered him,
many of the Philadel
phia factories shut
ting down to enable their operatives to
enjoy the day. The senator made, a
speech which was heartily cheered for
Its protection sentiments. When asked
for his opinion on the fusion deal the
senator said:
"It is a pure machine deal without
absolutely any regard for the primary
election system, which the independ
ents have advocated with a view to the
elimination of bossism.
"Thert could be ho more flagrant or
unwarranted exhibition of bossistn
than is shown in this elimination of
the expression of choice of the voters
at the primaries for the selected favor
ite of a boss as the result, of a deal
with the bosses of an opposition party.
"Mr. Flinn, who has been bossing
the Bull Moose convention, hqs evi
dently not been disposed to open his
barrel again and indulge in the lavish
and extravagant expenditure of money
that characterized Ills last campaign.
"Being without a paymaster, the
Bull Moosers were obliged to fall back
upon a plutocrat who is engaged in a
deliberate attempt, to purchase the
governorship of Pennsylvania."
Samuel W. Pennypacker, former
Governor of Pennsylvania, In a letter
sent to a Philadelphia newspaper last
night said that Con
gressman A. Mitchell
Palmer did not have Pennypacker
a high regard for Polls J'almer
truth in making a a Prevaricator
statement In which
he referred to the
former Governor. In fact, he not only
said that he was unveracious, but
lacked the instincts of a gentleman.
The former Governor's letter said:
"The nineteenth accusation of the
Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer against the
Hon. Boies Penrose is as follows: 'He
compelled his Governor, Pennypacker,
to veto labor legislation earnestly ad
vocated by the United Mine Workers
of America after he, Penrose, had
given his solemn promise that such
legislation would be passed.'
"This statement is a plain, unvar
nished, concocted untruth. My inter
views while Governor with Senator
Penrose were comparatively few, and
he never, in the whole course of his
life, either by letter or verbally, said
one word to me on the subject of labor
legislation. All of my vetoes were
written by myself, the reasons were
given at the time, and they are in
print and accessible. It Is to be hoped
that the people of Pennsylvania have
too much self-respect to send to the
United States Senate a man without
regard for veracity and who appears
to be lacking in the instincts of a gen
tleman."
AD EDIT PAGE —POT
Much interest Is being manifested
in the appearance of Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh, the Republican candidate
for Governor in Pitts
burgh during the week
Brumbaugh end. Dr. Brumbaugh
In Demand is to speak at the
In West Somerset county fair
to-day and to-night
goes to Pittsburgh.
There is a big demand for reserva-'
tions at thp Pittsburgh luncheon,
since it became known that Dr. Brum
baugh would speak. Because of his
fine record as superintendent of tho
Philadelphia public school?", together
with his work in organizing tho
schools in Porto Rico and his activity
in other lines. Dr. Brumbaugh is well
known, lie is considered one of the
most widely informed men of the
country. The reception is Intended to
give the voters a chance to become
acquainted with the candidate. It
is expected to be one of the largest
receptions ever held in Pittsburgh to
Judge from the requests received. On
Saturday Dr. Brumbaugh will go to
Beaver county and will likely return
to Pittsburgh that evening. The Moth
ers' Pension League of Allegheny
county desires him to visit its booth
at tho exposition, where the straw vote
on the necessity for mothers' pen
sions is being held. Sunday Dr.
Brumbaugh will rest and Monday he
will speak before the Foreign Service
Men at the convention.
I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS 1
Within a few days Vance O.
McCormlck will be officially the head
of a mule ticket. ....
—McCormick. having bolted the
Democratic ticket, in 1910, is now able
to head a ticket that is not wholly
Democratic in 1914.
—ln all probability the new fusion
ticket will be known as a Donko-
Moose by its friends, but as plain mule
by the voters.
—One Wiliam Fllnn probably sighs
with relief to-day.
—Accumulation of coin to swing
counties into line will now occupy
McCormick's machine. g
—Wonder what Palmer and Pinchot
think of fusion. McCormick seems to
have gotten all there was to it. And
that's scanty. . , .
—Dean Lewis will now be able to sit
down and watch the retreat of Na
poleon McCormick from Waterloo.
—Rather funny that. Lewis retires
in favor of McCormick in order to
heat Penrose, and yet there Is no fu
sion on the office for which Penrose
Is running.
—The news from Illinois comes In
rather neatly for the fuslonists to
will be recalled that Secretary
Bryan has steadily fought Roger Sul
livan in Illinois.
Wonder how McCormick accepts
the Washington party platform rap-,
ping the national Administration.
—lt's anything to win these days.
McCormick lauds Wilson in the Dem
ocratic. platform and yet accepts tlje
Washington party nomination when
its party platform soaks Wilson. Great
is V. C. consistency.
-—Well, the Progressives still have
Judge Brumm to vote for.
f OUR DAILY LAUGH )
, , , Something Coming
Indelible oflf
He I suppose Cholly—What's
you 11 forget all ycr hurrv? «
about me when Johnnie—When
you get back p 0 p you com
• XT inff ter call on Sis,
, 'in he P ut 011 h* B
deed, a face like thick hoots and
yours could never told me to i lurry
be for gotten. fur 3, doctor.
We've Noticed \l so Grit
That. Too Isn't that fel-
I like to hear a ] ow C ver going to
a man say what propose?
he thinks. j guess not;
But people who | le - s an hour
say what they Rlass.
think generally How's that?
think such dis- The more time
agreeable things. he gets, the less
sand he has.
GETTING ALONG WITHOUT IM
PORTS
[Literary Digest 1
The signs of "panic" among our
manufacturers in the steel trade, the
textile and other industries, resulting
from tho fact, that certain "raw ma
terials" are wholly supplied by some
of the countries at war, promptly
dwindle, says a writer in the New
York Evening Post, on the discovery
that we can produce all these necessi
ties ourselves. He infers consequently
that "the extraordinary eommerelail
incidents of the war will teach our
business community more lessons than
one," and among others hopes that
they will learn "how to utilize their
own home products and the Ingenuity
of their own home experts, to provide
the small materials of manufacture
whose production they have been sur
rendering to Europe."
CANADA TO THE COLORS
[From the Literary Digest.]
"There was neither Liberal nor Con
servative In tho House at Ottawa, says
the Toronto GlolTe, when the Duke of
Connaught opened Parliament wearing
a general's field uniform of khaki, and
reminded the legislators that England
was asking for their help. The leader
of the opposition. Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
presented a motion proposing that the
Dominion be prepared to carrv out the
Duke's suggestion. "Our answer is
'Ready, ay. ready,'" were his words
and they were seconded by the Conser
vative Premier, Sir Robert Borden, who
l oncluded the debate in the following
terms:
"Canada speaks with one voice. The
voice of a united Parliament Is the
voice of a united people. As to our
duty, all are agreed. We stand shoul
der to shoulder with the mother coun
try. With firm hearts we abide the
issue."
The general press of Canada are in
accord with this decision. Thus we find
the Toronto Globe repeating the inci
dent of British Ambassador Goschen's
final colloquy with the German Chan
cellor:
" 'Why should you make war on us.'
said the successor of the great Bis
marck, 'for a scrap of paper?'
" 'Because.' replied Amhasador Gosch
en. the nephew of the old Gladstonian
Liberal, 'because that scrap of paper
hears the signature not of Germany
alone, but of Britain as well.' "
On which this powerful Canadian
journal comments as follows:
"The die was cast. For that 'scrap
of paper' all the nations of Europe, all
the dominions of the British Kmpire.
India, Japan, the ends of the earth and
the islands of the sea —Knglish-speak-
ing civilization everywhere is plunged
Into the welter of carnage and waste
and poverty. The price of it is beyond
all reckoning. The cost of it Is not in
fabulous money, but in rivers of blood.
The pain of it will run through the
months to a million hearts. But that
price for the words of 'a scrap of
paper' Britain will pay to the utter
most farthing. That word was the
pledge of Britain's honor."
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• HEADQUARTERS FOR
SHIRTS
SIDES & SIDES
SEPTEMBER 10, 1914.
BANK STATEMENT BANK STATEMENT
|! COMMONWEALTH TRUST COMPANY jj
222. Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Condensed Statement, August 27,1914. ;!
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ij; M^uaneouß-*:::::: 'So. So MlßoeUjuieoua i |
i j! 92,534,020 09 $2,5.14,020 00 <
111 Trust Funds Invested . J $4,490,201 88 !'
!,| Trust Funds Uninvested, Including advances .. .. 121,318 16 |!
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'! President. Trust Officer. W. Grant Rauuh,
;< 1 Asst. Sec'y & Trcas. i
i DIRECTORS ( !
1! Charles E. Covert, W. O. Hickok, 111 T. W. SmaUwood I !
Henderson Gilbert, C. W. Lynch, John Fox Weiss.
I I W. M. Hain, R. H. Moffitt, Wm Jennings, ! i
!> B. c. llaldeman, H.C.Ross, W. M. Ogelsby.
]; Francis J. Hall, A. Carson Stamm, W. H. Metzger.
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[From the Telegraph of Sept. 10, 18«4.J
Killed On Itnllroncl
K,arly yesterday morning the body of
a man named John W. Wilson, a brake
man, employed by the Northern Cen
tral Railway Company, was found dead
on the track near Parkton. Both legs
were cut oIT and other portions of the
P o< i* '."jangled. It is supposed that he
had fallen from a coal train the pre
ceding night and had been run over by
several other cars that followed. The
body was taken to Baltimore anil burled
at the expense of the railroad com
pany.
Physician Dies
Di\ Joseph N. Smith, a well-known
and highly respected physician for more
than thirty years, died at his home, in
Adams county, neat- this city. Heart
trouble was the cause of his death.
Patriotism is of many kinds. Per
haps as notable as any Is that of the
prisoners of Melun jail in France,
who "night and day are baking bread
and making shoes for their country
men, but have unanimously refused
to accept the money ordinarily allow
ed them for their work.—New York
World.
/SAVINGS CLUBX
M Monday September 14th Y
Join and Have Money for
Your Outing Next Year
ft Pay in SI.OO weekly, and get $40.00 m
1 Pay in 50c. weekly, and get 20.00 A
« Pay in 25c. weekly, and get 10.00 Mm
% WITH INTEREST MM
Double or Treble theso Amount* if you wish JE&M
I AV^keup^business! -—if
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The B£ll Telephone is the Big Ben of business. |j
Ring up on the Bell.
You may talk about the dull times 'til you're
blue in the face; but don't waste your breath. Savo
. it to talk into your Bell Telephone.
■ Ring up all the old customers, then start on a
fresh list of prospects. There's no quicker way—
none that saves more time or expense.
And if you haven't a Bell Telephone, get on*
i now. Call the Business Office for rates.
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[From the Telegraph of Sept, 10, 1864.1
Most Knlht For Two Yearn
Washington, Sept. 10. The Navy
Department to-day Issued orders that
after the JO Inst, no person shall be en
listed in the naval service for a less
period than two years.
Ocenpj-ing Clinton
New York. Sept. 10. According to
word received here to-day the blue
coats occupied Clinton onlv two days
and two nights. The rebels had made a
demonstration on Berwick City, but
accomplished nothing. Thev are re
ported to be preparing a formidable ex
pedition to attack Brashear City, or
some other point.
ROOSEVELT ON THE <CASUALTY
I/IST
[New York Herald.]
Woefully ignorant of how deeply the
American people are thinking of the
underlying issues of this titanic con
flict in Europe must be the man who
does not realize that one of its vic
tims—one man whose name is already
enrolled upon the casualty list—is
Theodore Roosevelt.