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TUESDAY EVENING. SFPT. 22
ECONOMY•
PARTIES ought to bp Judged by
their pledges and the fulfillment
thereof.
Read this from the Demo
cratic platform on which President
Wilson was elected:
The Democratic platform de
nounces appropriations of the last
Republican Congress, which
amounted to as profli
gate waste of the people's money
through lavish appropriations and
promises a return to simplicity
and economy.
Now read this summary from an
authorized source as to how that i
economy pledge Is being kept:
The first annual appropriations
made by a complete Democratic
Congress will be, at least. $105.-
000.000 In excess of the appropria- ;
tions denounced in the Democratic t
platform.
And yet Democrats have the!
temerity to ask for continuance in [
power on the results of their record j
in office.
Plnchot Is believed to have had a part I
In the Harrlsburg deal of last week, and
perhaps he was the one In mind when j
Mr. Fllnn hinted that there might be j
other withdrawals within the next
thirty days. But the voters themselves !
■will look after the retirement of those
candidates who have so little regard j
for the primary law which they in
sisted on.
THE FUSION DEAL
STARTING as a recession, the de
sertion of the Washington party
by the voters of that organization
has turned into a rout. Thou
sands of good men who were induced
to Join Roosevelt in his spectacular
opposition to the Republican party
two years ago have since realized just
■what the third party movement meant
in making possible Democratic su
premacy and they are now back in
the fold or rapidly returning to the
Republican citadel.
Most of these voters were honestly
of the opinion that a change in
methods and policies was desirable,
but they never contemplated the evil
effects of Democratic experiment and
Incompetency. Even Colonel Roose
velt himself must regard with little
satisfaction the evil results of his in
cursion into new fields. So late as
last Saturday in Kansas he declared
In his usual emphatic fashion that
there was no hope In the Democratic
party.
Further emphasizing the situation,
the leader of the third party move
ment in Pennsylvania deliberately and
with a selfish purpose attempted last
■week to turn over to a direct repre
sentative of the Washington adminis
tration on the Democratic ticket in
Pennsylvania the support of the rem
nant of the Bull Moose organization.
But he failed to understand the deep
seated hostility of the honest Wash
ington party voters to the Democratic
heresies that have so nearly wrecked
the prosperity of the United States.
When William Draper Lewis quit
the Washington party ticket in favor
of a free-trade Democrat the final act
1n the dissolution of the third party
movement in this State was enacted.
McCormick. declaring that he knew
of no fusion arrangement, was shown
to have been In correspondence on
the subject of a fusion combination
at least a month before the consum
mation of the deal In this city. And
notwithstanding the protests of the
honest Washington party men against
the flagrant violation of the spirit and
purpose of the primary law the game
■was played to the finish.
Now comes Gifford Plnchot, the
other star performer of the third
party in Pennsylvania, with the state
ment that he will also retire if by so
doing he can defeat Senator Penrose.
Thus the Democratic machine con
tinues Its game of selfish absorption
of Bull Moose bosses.
It is not a wild statement that was
made by one of the Washington party
objectors to the fusion deal when he
charged that McCormick as a Demo
cratic Governor would use the State
patronage In the building up of a low
tariff Democratic machine for the
benefit of Wilson in 1916. He prob
ably voiced the sentiment of most of
the honest Washington party voters
that It waa "better to sink In a hope-
TUESDAY EVENING. BXKRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 22. 1014.
less fight than to tie ourselves to the
tail of the Democratic donkey."
The whole fusion scheme is pal-
I pably an arrangement by which Mr.
Fllnn, the financier of the third party
movement in Pennsylvania, unloads
ihe burden of an expensive campaign
upon the vainglorious hand-picked
candidate of the Washington adminis
tration for Governor.
In his eagerness to win support of
the few remaining Washington party
voters in Pennsylvania the Democratic
i free-trade candidate for Governor
i continues to Insist "that national ia-
I sues do not enter into the contest in
Pennsylvania this year." He doesn't
say a word about the large congres
sional delegation which Pennsylvania
must choose this fall nor does he
have anything to say about endorse
ment of* the free trade heresy at
Washington by the election of Demo
cratic State officials in Pennsylvania, a
State that has been so seriously in
jured by the free trade, experiment.
It Is mighty uncomfortable reading
for the Democratic machine gangsters
when they peruse the registration
figures of September S and 15. There Is
j absolutely no consolation in the re
| turns for the Palmer-McCormick fac
tion.
S
FEWER LAWS
DR. BRUMBAUGH is having a
splendid response throughout
the State to his broad and in
spiring speeches in which he
portrays the splendid achievements of
I Pennsylvania. All who have attended
| the great meetings which he has ad
dressed since the opening of the cam
paign come away full of enthusiasm
for the candidate and resentful of the
attacks of the little men who are now
posing as reformers.
Perhaps no speech of the campaign
has been so full of meat as one deliv
ered by Dr. Brumbaugh at the annl
| versary exercises of the Faoll mas
sacre. A paragraph or two will bear
repetition. In Dr. Brumbaugh's nlea
for fewer laws and the practical In
troduction of the Golden Rule he said:
Countries, like Individuals, can
prosper only as they give gloriously
their gifts to those who need
them. It is because our forefathers
gave so splendidly that we have
prospered so phenomenally. It is
just as necessary to-day that men
should give their lives for the na
tion as it ever was. The man who
loves his country honors it by liv
ing under its laws, a decent, or
derly, Industrial life If any are
l to be denied a part in our civic
procedure, let it be the lazy, the
willingly Idle and the criminal.
Those ,are unpatriotic. They are
not real American citizens The first
test of a good citizen is that he
obeys the laws, not through sin
cere love for the country whose
laws he obeys.
A few laws honestly and Impar
tially applied will make for the
progress of a people. Vague. In
temperate. propulsive and radical
enactments lead inevitably to con
fusion. distrust and disaster. There
should be stability in ordered pro
cedure Just as surely as In Indi
vidual conduct. Legislatures
should. like Individuals, be sure
they are right before they go ahead.
Dr. Brumbaugh has hit the nail
squarely upon the head in his decla
ration against loose and 111-digested
legislation. Those who have lived in
the atmosphere of Capitol Hill know
that the great evil to-day is the re
dundancy of laws. What the State
needs is about one session of the
Legislature the entire time of which
would be devoted to clearing the
sti'tute books of unnecessary laws. |
In this, as in nil other matters which
he has thus far discussed, the eminent
candidate has shown the breadth of
his knowledge and the common sense
which has been so conspicuously ex
hibited in all his public work.
We shall not be surprised to see hun
dreds of former Washington party
voters shouting for Dr. Brumbaugh as
a result of the barter and sale between
Fllnn and McCormick.
COOP BASEBALL
THE defeat of Elmira by Harrls
burg in a series of games for
the championship of the New
York State and Tri-State leagues
brings out one point very clearly—that
the Tri-State managements have given
their patrons better baseball for less
money than have those in charge of
the Ne*v York organization.
Harrlsburg has enjoyed unusually
good ball. Two pennants In three
years deserves ' not only good words
from the fans, hut their patronage in
numbers sufficient to make the game
at least stand on its own feet. Let
us hope that next year the crowds at
Island Park will be larger. •»
BUYING IN THE FALL
ORATORS Imbued with Fourth of
July spirit have long delighted
to tell us that the United States
could shut itself off from the
rest of the world and not only manage
to exist, but could live in compara
tive comfort. The European war has,
to a great degree, forced this condition
upon us, and so far we have not keen
ly felt the loss of the immense quanti
ties of goods we have been accustomed
to import.
Time was, and not so many years
back, either, when each little Amer
ican community was a world unto it
self. The farmer lived off the land.
The town dweller bought of the farm
er, manufactured what was required
locally and the community felt little
discomfort when It was shut off from
the outside world. A little enforced
simplicity of this sort would not hurt
us. Our markets have been too var
ied and our merchants too obliging
for our own good. The temptation to
buy what we could well do without
and to live from hand-to-mouth has
been too strong to be generally resist
ed. We need to get back to essentials.
We ought to think in terms of necessi
ties Instead of luxuries and to learn
to buy economically.
The old-fashioned practice of pur
chasing quantities of vegetables,
fruits, etc., in the autumn for winter
use is a thrifty custom and ought to
be- revived. Really large sums may
be saved to any household by the pur
chase of provisions In large quanti
ties. The difference between the price
of potatoes bought by the bushel and
bought by the quarter peck la really
amazing, frequently as much as forty
p,er cent. Other fruits and vegetables
vary in proportion. Beaide, the Fall
prices for all staple farm products
are much lower than those of mid
winter and early Spring.
If the war In , Europe drives us hack
to some of the simplicities and econo
mies of our fathers, it will have ac
complished some good.
EVENING CHAT I
The split log road drag and Its
brother, the patented road drag of
iron and wood did more than anything
else to pull Pennsylvania out of the
mud this summer, and when the work
of the State Highway Department in
repairing the nine thousand miles
of State highways, after the end
of the financial hold-up conies to
be written, it will be found that the
humble road drag was the big factor.
The department was retarded in its
repair work for months and it was
summer and in a period of hard rains
before it could commence to put the
highways into the shape that the pub
lic, especially the automobile owners
who paid over a million dollars in
licenses under the belief that it was
to he put into roads, demanded from
the State. When the hold-up by the
fiscal officials was ended by. the courts
and the repair forces were organized
hundreds of road drags were put to
work dragging the roads and the
change in a week was one of the
things that attracted attention. Fully
1,000 road drags were In use by the
State's men at one time or another
and no appliance brought better re
sults. On many of the roads but lit
tle more tharf dragging was necessary
to get them back into passable condi
tion. The steam roller and the stone
pile played a hig part in the repair
of the roads, but the road drag came
next to muscle In making repairs.
Farmers' organizations in many
parts of the State are to be asked to
assist in the working out of a plan
for more co-operation in bringing pro
duce to markets as a result of a visit
paid to this city a few days ago by
David Lubin, who is taking an active
part in the national marketing system
campaign and who has spent many
months in Rome at the International
Agricultural Institute. The State
Grange has been asked to arouse In
terest and it is likely that some steps
to hold a conference for development
of a State-wide plan will be taken.
The greatest need of the farmer, the
men interested say, is a system to
reach the best paying markets and to
avoid the middleman.
"Foreign manufacturers who have
a good American trade are not going
to lose it as a result of the war and
the cry for American-made goods that
has resulted." said a traveling sales
man on Saturday night at one of the
hotels. "I have just come from New
York and I find that two German
firms have established factories near
New York for the making of things
they have heretofore made only in the
empire. They have American labor
and are using American material. All
that there is German is the method."
The rather warm weather of • the
last week has caused a good many
youths to go back to baseball Instead
of playing football which generally
claims their attention at this period of
the year. On Saturday almost every
diamond about the city was occupied
by a game and at the island and up
town playgrounds nines contested al
most all day.
Abolition of the privilege of using
eel baskets is causing a big Increase in
the number of eels in the Susquehanna
river, according to fishermen who have
been fooled upon a number of occa
sions by the big wriggling fish. Eels
hav< been found In many places this
year and the lower stages of the wai
ter this Fall has resulted In many
being noted close to the city.
Interest in golf in the city is greater
than ever this Fall and it is striking
the number of players as compared
I with ten years ago. At that time
1 playing was rather desultory on the
I links at Lucknow where less than a
dozen kept alive the traditions of the
game, while the Reservoir links were
just commencing to attract those de
votees of the game who have made
the course one of the best in this sec
tion and who have furnished such fine
players to city matches. The Colo
nial course came later and in the next
year there will be some three-cornered
matches that will add much to the In
terest in the game In the city.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I
—William G. Bauer, burgess of St.
Mary's, is noted as a tennis player.
—Bishop McCort has dedicated a
church or laid a cornerstone every
Sunday for two months.
—Arthur Brisbane is to address the
State Editorial Association at its
meeting in Pittsburgh next week.
—The Rev. John Knox McClurkin
has completed twenty-three years as
pastor of a Pittsburgh church.
—L. W. Jones, Johnstown's health
officer, is overhauling that city's milk
supply to see if It Is to blame for
typhoid.
—Dr. H. A. H&re, the Philadelphia
medical professor, has returned from
Rhode Island.
—Dr. J. B. Caroett, who is making
pleas for better hospital conditions
in Philadelphia, used to be a big foot
ball player.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That the Pennsylvania ste«l
works turns out steel ingots weigh
ing tons, wlilc-h are worked up
into the manufacture of needles
and pins?
A WORTHY CANDIDATE
[From the Newcastle News.]
In the person of Judge George Kun
kel, of Harrlsburg. the people of Penn
svlvania have a splendid candidate for
the Supreme Court, and it will be re
grettable Indeed If the voters fail to
give him enthusiastic suport, This Is
harrtlv a possibility, however, for Judge
Kunkel Is so well known und Ills quali
fications so generally recognized that
there is every reason to believe that he
will be easily elected.
It was Judge Kunkel before whom
the Capitol graft cases were tried. His
record in them Is a part of the history
of our Commonwealth. The trials lasted
more than seventeen weeks and when
appeals were taken his rulings in every
case were affirmed by the higher
courts.
lie is beloved by the people of Har
rlsburg, his native city, and he has
the highest esteem and respect of the
legal fraternity of the State at large.
Judge Kunkel consented to become a
candidate at the request of his many
friends, and his campaign has been
conducted along strictly nonpartisan
lines. He is the candidate of no man
or clique of men, but Is supported by
men of all shades of political belief
who feel that his efficient service de
mands his promotion to the highest
court of the State. At the May pri
maries he carried forty-eight out of
sixty-seven counties of the State over
the other candidate now upon the of
ficial ballot. v
The justice of the Supreme Court
to be elects! this year will hold that
office for the next twenty-one years.
E#ry citizen is Interested In having
selected for that office the man hest
qualified for the place, who will not
he under the influence of any combina
tion of interests or influence*. Judge
Kunkel is admirably qualified and The
News hopes that Lawrence county
votars will give him their support.
PMJIIIER DEFIANCE
GETS HOT ANSWER
Detrich Says That Pinchot Will Not
Retire From the Senatorial
Ticket, Either
THINGS GETTING MIXED UP
McCormick's Position on Fusion
Ticket Causing Many to Re
nounce Him Utterly
"Mr. Palmer is in the contest to
the finish," Roland S. Morris,
chairman of the Democratic State
committee.
"Mr. Plnchot will never with
draw," A. Nevln Detrich. chairman
of the Washington State commit
tee.
II ■ ll■
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmpr's
defiant assertion that he will not sur
render his place on the Democratic
ticket so that the senatorial nomina
tion can be turned over to Gifford
Pinchot. the Washington party candi
date. has been promptly met by a
statement by A. Nevln Detrich, the
Washington chairman, to the effect
that Plnchot will not withdraw. Thus
the situation is thrown up In the air
again. Bull Moosers in Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia are rearing and
plunging and asserting that they will
not stand for Vance C. McCormick
unless the Democrats give something
to the Progressives and part of the
Progressive organization is asserting
that it will not vote for McCofmick
anyhow, because he is one of the Dem
ocrats whom Colonel Roosevelt says
cannot be depended upon to do any
good for the people.
The Philadelphia Press to-day says
that J. Benjamin Dimmick has repu
diated the use of his name by the so
called Anti-Penrose League. "I have
not yet made any declaration in behalf
of candidates In this present cam
paign," he Is quoted as sa.ying.
While Dr. Brumbaugh was up in
Lycoming . county with his coat off
and meeting the voters in a way that
made the McCormick tours look like
juvenile excursions, prominent men
all over the State were sending word
to his headquarters in Philadelphia
that they could be depended upon
to help him. Among the men who
entered his campaign yesterday were
Isaac H. Clothier, ex-Senator Bayard
Henry and Theodore C. Search, lead
ers in reform movements for many
years in Philadelphia.
Seeing the handwriting on the wall,
H. B. Sassaman and D. W. Shaffner.
Democratic candidates for the House
in the Second Dauphin
legislative district, quit
last night and Herr Fainthearts
Moesleln will proceed Among the
to start the machin- Dem<X'rats
ery so that Lenker and
Martin, members of
the iollowing of Colonel Roosevelt,
who denounces Democrats, will he put
on the Democratic ticket. It is hoped
the fusion will aid in getting votes
for McCormick. Sassaman, who is
In Harrlsburg most of the time, but
who votes up the county, has been a
conspicuous Democratic gangster ever
since the McCormick machine began
doing business in the present cam
paign. However, since Brumbaugh's
tour of the upper end he has conclud
ed that it is not worth while running.
Shaffner is officially physician to the
county home, which job he apparent
ly thinks more of than running for the
Legislature hecause it would be in
conceivable for any follower of Mc-
Cormick to hold a public job and be
busy playing politics.
Determined efforts to overcome the
frightful slump in the registration and
the stampede of Bull Moosers to re
turn to the Republican
party, the Washington
Colonel party ringmasters have
to Boost arranged to have Colo
n While nel Roosevelt make a
speech in Philadelphia
next week or a few days
in advance of the last registration day.
Boss McCormick and Faintheart Lewis
will arrange to be there at the same
time to get the reflected glory. The
Colonel's plans, as announced in Phil
adelphia, but subject to change, call
for a three day tour of the State, in
cluding Harrisburg. October 2B to 28.
Other States are demanding his pres
ence and the Colonel is demanding to
know what about the rest of the fu
sion here.
A York county friend writing about
the Penrose .visit to .Dallastown and
vicinity says: "This strong Demo
cratic borough gave a
reception to United
States Senator Pen- York Will
rose, and others on Help the
the Republican ticket Republicans
that was without ex
ception the most en
thusiastic for years. It was held on
the portico of the Commercial Hotel,
where the senator and party, with al
most a hundred representative citi
zens, took dinner, prior to the meet
ing. The hotel was gaily decorated.
John C. Heckert, a leading cigar
manufacturer, presided. Addresses
were madit by the Senato" and Mayor
Frank B. McClaln, of Lancaster, can
didate for lieutenant-governor, which
were received at times with great ap
plause. The Dallastown Band fur
nished the music. A delegation from
Red Lion, which comprised twenty
filled automobiles and a band on a
large truck, met the party here and
escorted it to that borough, where a
like reception, If possible, still more
enthusiastic, the large opera house be
ing packed almost to suffocation.
"Both these receptions were awak
enings compared with the cold recep
tions to McCormick and other mem
bers on the Democratic ticket who
have been In this section at various
times. Appearances would surely in
dicate that business men are being
aroused to the necessity of a return
of the Republicans to power."
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh and his
campaign party are up in Clinton
county to-day meeting the voters and
finding that the recent
Democratic tour of
Brumbaugh that district and Pin-
Aotlve l*p chot's invasion have
the River been more occasions
for mirth than any
thing else. T o-d a y
Dr. Brumbaugh will be in Renovo and
adjoining towns and to-night will
speak in Lock Haven. To-morrow
the candidates will come down .the
river and will be at Watsontown, Mil
ton and Sunbury, winding up with a
meeting in the latter town lYi the
evening. Thursday Northumberland.
[Union and Snyder counties will he
!visited, including a visit to *he Union
county fair and to Mlddleburg.
Many Washingrtonlars are now writ
ing the Brumbaugh Citizens' Commit- i
tee that they will now support Dr.
Brumbaugh. And the Indorsement of
McCormick by a number of antl
llquor delegates at Harrlsburg on
Thursday last, temperance men say.
no more Indicates the real feelings of
the vast army of local 1 optlonists In
the State than does the Indorsement
by those delegates of Gifford Plnchot,
rather than Palmer.
State Chairman Roland S. Morris
last night issued a call for the Dem
ocratic State committee to meet here
and see how 'the fu
sion scheme ''took
among the home Morris
folks." Folks at the Battled
windmill are a bit Nowadays
nervous about the way
the dyed in the wool
Democrats regard this flirting with a
party whose chief abuses Wilson at
every opportunity. The meeting Is
to see about tilling vacancies and fu
sion. ostensibly, but as the State com
mittee has nothing lo do with local
or district nominations it is a mere
blind. The whole scheme is one to
stiffen up some of the fellows who
have declined to go along and to try
and smooth out the kickers. The
Democratic campaign changes every
week and changes for the worse.
Albert E. Turner, a leading inde
■ pendent of Philadelphia, says of Dr.
j Brumbaugh's position on local option:
1 "He Is not a man who
| uttered Insincere words
I when he said what h* did Rumps
regarding local option." For the
Mr. Turner wrote the "Cause"
foregoing In a letter to
John D". Strain, secretary
of the Independent Republican Com
mittee of Harrlsburg. who had asked
Mr. Turner to vote for' McCormick.
The Phlladelphian favors Dr. Brum
baugh for Governor and Mr. Palmer
for United States senator.
I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I
—Fusion on Legislature does not
seem to be as easy a proposition in
the city as In the county.
—Traveling men coming here say
that McCormick stock is slumping as
a result of fhe fusion dicker.
| —Judge Brumm must he convinced
now of the accuracy of his statement
I of last Wednesday that the Progress-
I ives art being made "The tools of
' ambitious politicians."
—Palmer may also wonder if he is
to be made a doormat for McCor
mick's ambition.
•—lra J. Mosey promising support
to McCormick. as announced by the
Patriot to-day, means one vote.
Some little difference of opinion
obout the senatorial fusion.
—Doc Shaffner will not h'ave to give
up the poorhouse Job now.
—City Democrats do not seem to
lll<e the surrender of the county legis
lative nominees.
—Lebanon Bull Moosers are to put
up a . fusion banner. The Pa-Mc
League can give points on banners
that fade and fall down: also prices.
—-Some one must be putting up a lot
of money for all of these Democratic
meetings around the city and county.
Democratic workers are certainly not.
—Bands cost money, too. Demo
crats who financed other campaigns
can testify.
—The Washington party committee
of the Twenty-fifth Ward in Philadel
phia repudiated McCormick last night.
—The advocacy of Pinchot by Con
gressman Parsons, of New York, is
sign'ficant, in view of questions about
residence.
—D. M. Hertzog will be led to the
daughter against Senator Crow In
Fayette, fusionists having built the
platform.
—Many prominent Phlladelphtans
are voicing their confidence in Brum
baugh and the esteem in which a
man is held at home counts.
—Bruce Sterling's law partner, one
Higbee. thought he was on the Demo
cratic Fayette senatorial ticket for a
while. He knows better now.
—Philadelphia Bull Moosers say
that if Plnchot withdraws Roosevelt
will not come into the State.
—Tyson Kratz has sent an open let
ter to Fllnn. Lewis and the rest and
calls Detrich a "Lilllput chairman."
' OUR DAILY LAUGH I
v f
I NOT MUCH DIS-
Lb TINCTION.
W ivni You've never
AB| been sorry you
married me, have
'' y ° U hub b V?
V ' ' 1 sometimes been
1 ll»' ' sorry I didn't
&{?■ marry someone
CUTTING DOWN COST
By Wing; Dinger
They're busy down in Washington
Now with a "war tax" bill,
With which they hope to raise some
funds
The Treasury to fill.
I've tried to figure out just why
A "war tax" there must be
When we're at peace, and I confess
It Is too much for me.
The party that's in power pledged
Itself to bring down cost
Of living, but just how, twould seem
Is where they all get lost.
It's costing more to run things now
That ever heretofore.
And In the meantime prices don't
Come down a bit—they soar.
Instead of hewing down expense
With the retrenchment ax,
The party now in power aims
To spring another tax.
And in the end the people must
This new tax likewise pay,
But when election day comes 'round
They'll have something to say.
j IN HARRISBURG "FIFTY
I YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of Sept. 22, 1864.]
Killed On Itnilrond
John Mulllson, of Columbia, a con
ductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was killed this morning when a pas
senger train ran into a fast freight
train at Thompsontown. near here. One
of the cars caught fire anil several per
sons were burned to death.
Daring Robbery
Three thousand dollars worth of
goods was stolen last night between 12
and 2 o'clock, from the store of Daniel
Eppley and Company, 'ln Market
Square. The thieves gained their en
trance by breaklnr- the back door. The
toots used by the robbers were taken
from a blacksmith shop owned by
George Corl.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
SHIRTS j
SIDES & SIDES
I I^l^^
One Safe Home Match
will light all four burners
Try to light a gas stove is large and strong. The
with a short-stipk flame "takes hold."
match.
We do not exaggerate when
If the stick does not we say that you can get as
break, or you don't burn much real service from
your fingers, the three Safe Home Matches as
chances are about three from" five ordinary matches,
in five that the rush of
Ras from the burner They are ion-poisonous,
will blow the match ,o °' For that reason alone
out they should be in every
home in America.
If you are exception
ally fortunate, you may
light one burner —
possibly even two. To
light the others, you \\
have to go through the
Match you can light all /
four burners. The stick
sc. All grocers. Ask for them by name,
"7TICLWtcmdL- dsomjjcxrxy
THE RECORD OF WASTE
TNew Tork Sun.]
The subjoined table, giving the amounts appropriated by Congress foi
the support of the Government for the years 1913-14 and 1914-15, is com
iled from the chronological history of appropriation bills, second session of
the Sixty-third Congress, prepared by the clerks to the committees on ap
propriations of the House and Senate; cents being disregarded:
Title. Law 1914-15 Law 1913-14
Agriculture $19,865,832 $17,986,945
Army 101.019,212 94,266,145
Diplomatic 4.309,856 3,730,642
District of Columbia 12,172,539 11,383,739
Fortmcation 6.627,700 5,218.250
Indian 9,771,902 9.486,819
Legislative 37,630,229 35,172,434
Military Academy ; 997,899 1,099,302
Navy k 144,868,716 140,800,643
Pension 169,150,000 180,300,000
Post Office 313,364,667 285,376,271
River and Harbor 7 41,073,094
Sundry Civil 110,070,227 116,795,327
Total $928,848,783 $901,616,520
Deficiencies 23,363,587 28,074,912
Total $952,212,370 $929,691,433
Miscellaneous 6,000,000 388,597
Annual Total $958,212,370 $930,080,030
Permanent 131,196,407 127,525,664
Grand Total ' $1,089,408,777 $1,057,605,694
No river and harbor bill has been tax measure to maintain the revenues
passed for this year, and therefore this of the government, while in the Senate
appropriation for both years is ex- it struggles to enact a river and har
cluded from the grand totals for pur- bor bill bloated with useless and in
poscs of comparison. The pension ap- defensible projects which would ap
propriation. for obvious reasons, is de- propriate at once $53,000,000 or $12,-
creased by $11,000,000; the Military 000,000 more than was carried by the
Academy bill is SIOO,OOO less than was same measure last year, and would
allowed for last year; tne sundry civil entail future appropriations of sums
bill is down by $6,725,000. But gen- that no man can estimate,
erally there are increases, and the Neither denunciation nor protest
comparison of total appropriations, need be added to this record. It car
excluding the river and harbor appro- ries with it a lesson no thoughtfui
priations. for a. series of years shows man can escape,
this disturbing record:
i9n ar . S9IM2i n .087 NEWS DISPATCHES
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1 q 1 9 "
1014 1 057 605 694 "f From the Telegraph of Sept. 22, 1864.]
Jo,- !'««« HejolcitiK Over Victory
1® ■•• •• • 1,089,408,ii7 New York, Sept. 21. Flags aro
The appropriations which are given hoisted all over the city and there is
in detail above were made by a party » general rejoicing over Sheridan's vlc
in full control of the legislative and tory.
executive departments which won „ . , „ ~1 ~ .
power on a platform denouncing Re- Fortress gem 2"®'- The
publican extia\aßance and pledging schooner .lames K. Durfef, E. G. Davis,
its candidates to frugal admlnistra- master, was raptured, Saturday even
tion. The laws carrying them were ln K'. at 11 o'clock, while at anchor in
passed by a majority which in the '^ e Warwick river, near the James
House to-day is framing an emergency the*navy OV6 0V 6 re belong-
SEPTEMBER
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1914, The Star Co.
SEPTEMBER comes along the great green way
That Spring and Summer fashioned for her feet,
And though her face is beautiful and sweet.
Though gracious smiles about her ripe mouth play,
Yet subtle recollections of each day •
Of idleness in her large look I meet,
All things achieved show small and incomplete
Beside the boastful promises of May;
Now I berate fair June who tempted me
With fragrant beds of roses, and as well
Her siren sisters who were followed near,
But most of all I do accuse the sea; -*•
Reach me thine hand and help me break the spell,
September, matron mentor of the year |
V ,
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even consumption, and lower coal bills. Dust and dirt Is removed be- '
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