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Washington
Y Y LETTER.
n. B. WALKER
star STAFF Corresnondent
MINE SNARL PERSUADERS
star Stan Correspondent.
Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, Sept. IL.

t WARRINGTON, sept. IL.
"A great trio Of persuaders in West
Virginia labor troubles seem to be
bluodhounds, gatling guns and ar
mored trains declared Senator Mar
tine, after he had finished cross-exam-
lining witness before the Senate
committee that is investigating the
coal mining disorders in the Paint
Creek and Cabin Creek regions of that
State.
When the Senate committee was in
West Virginia, several weeks ago, the
ccal-Inine owners and operators pro-
tested that they had not been given a
fair hearing, so a few days ago they
were allowed to come to Washington
and bring their lawyers and witnesses
with them The witnesses have in
cluded many of the mine owners
themselves, their superintendent,
ruine guards, railroad employees and
doctors and engineers in the pay of
the mine owners, as well as two or
three of the State mining inspectors.
One of the latter admitted that he had
been told by the State authorities to
visit mining districts in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, since the strike. and at the
request of the mine owners, so that he
might be qualified to testify before the
committee as TO the comparative con-
ditions in West Virginia and other
States.
This inspector insisted that the
methods of coal mining in West Vir-
ginia were better than in other States,
and tried to explain that the accidents
which give West Virginia the largest
mortality of any coal mining State
were all due to the careleSsness of the
individual workmen.
One of the mine owners freely ad-
mitted on the stand that the compa-
MES owned all the land in a valley ten
n lies long and seven wide, in which
there was not public road The
schoolhouses were built on company's
land, nobody but the company was al
lowed to keep store in the section,
and no public meetings of any kind
were permitted. Armed guards were
hired by the mine owners, this man
admitted, to keep strangrs out of the
valley. A guard in the employ of the
owners rode up and down on the rail-
road trains running into the section
and questioned all strangers as to
their business. If they were labor Or
gapizers, Newspaper men, detectives
or "agitators," or if they could not
show reason approved by the com
pe MES for their presence, they were
not allowed to get off the trains. Ten
ants living in the company's houses
were evicted by the guards. at the
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point of guns, without any pretense
or form of law OF court orders. Ten
ants and employees of the company
We're not allowed to have visitors at
their homes, unless the company s
agents approved of the visitors.
I'VE regard the rental of our houses
MS merely incidental to the employ.
ment of our men," SAID this owner.
land we are entirely within our rights
in preventing trespassing on our prop
erty"
several witnesses told at the hear
ing of the shooting of one miner by a
mine guard, all admitting freely that
they knew who did the shooting, but
that the verdict of the coroners jury,
made up of company employees, was
that the man who was shot had died
OF a bullet wound inflicted by an I'M
known person"
A plan for encouraging the deyel-
opment OF water power in the ma
tional forest reserves has been adopt
ed and is being put into execution by
the department of agriculture. Per-
mits are being issued to water power
companies to build plants and de-
velop power, subject to regulation OF
their output and charges. In order
to prevent monopoly the department
requires that these power companies
shall sell at least one-half of the
power they develop as fast as outside
users ask for its delivery. High
prices are to be prevented by tax
ing provision. How this plan of tax
ing and regulation is expected to
work is shown by the details of a
permit recently granted the Inter-
national Power and Manufacturing
Company for the development of the
natural water power on the Pond
D'Oreille river in Idaho. The COM
pany that develops the power will
use O. large part of the power Itself
in the manufacture of nitrates. Its
surplus is to be sold to private users
electric roads, etc. There is 100000
horsepower capable of development
at this point.
Within three years the company is
to build a plant capable Of develop
ing regularly at least 50,000-horse-
power. The government, however
will charge a rental on the full pos
sibilities of 120, 000- horsepower and if
only the 0,000-horsepower is devel-
oped and used, the rental the COM
pany must pay will be four times as
great per horsepower as would be
the tax per horsepower if the full
potential power was developed. The
maximum charge the company is al
lowed to make to private consumer!
for electric power is six cents pei
l-i'"Watt hour. The rental charge
paid by the company to the govern
ment will be reduced in proportion
,.s i,le company reduces it's price to
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beauty of the wood itself, for the
young cabinetmaker, who came up to
London from Worcestershire, had a
passionate love of beauty, and he was
a master workman. From his father,
who had achiveed considerable local
fame, he inherited this love, and he
had learned how to make the wood
carvings that are characteristic of his
designs.
After a fire he converted four ada
cent dwelling houses into a shop,
which was situated on st. Martins
lane, the fashionable section of Lon
don; and because he protested
against the amount of his taxes it
seems probable he was prosperous.
he belonged to the Society
of Arts, with Gibbon the historian,
the novelist, DIR. Johnson
the photographer and Horace Wal
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consumers below six cents per kilo-

consumers below six cents per kilo-
watt
A shipment of several tons of beef
from Argentina was received IN
Washington recently, the first TO
come from South America. 1t paid
the duty provided under the present
law, and even at that was sold to
retailers at two aad q half cents
a pound less than beef trust prices.
Experts say that a difference of two
and a half cents in the price of a
carcass of beef should make differ
ence of from eight to ten cents a
pound in the price charged consum-
ers for steaks and rib roasts.
j. B. Thomas, of Bath Beach, N. Y,
writes to Congressman KinlSead, who
led the fight for putting meats and
cattle on the free list, that when
hindquarters of Chicago dressed beer
were selling in New York at four
teen cents q pound. six weeks ago,
the same grade of Chicago beef was
sold in Cardiff, Wales, for seven
cents q pound.
In the last six months more than
3O0,O00,000 pounds of meat has been
exported from the United States to
other parts of the world. OF this
go, 900 900 pounds has gone to Great
Britain alone, and the American beer
sent to England has been sold there
at lower prices than the beef trust
has been charging in this country.
Mr.. Thomas proposes that an export
tax on meat would reduce domestic
prices and put stop to the trusts
high prices based on the excuse of q
cattle shortage.
Now the agricultural department
has destroyed another pet supersti-
ton. We used to believe that bats,
the little winged mice that fly around
at night, would suck the blood of chill
dren, and there is hardly woman
who does not believe that the particu-
lar ambition of every bat is to get into
her hair and tangle it up. The ex-
perts of the agricultural department
have been studying bats, and they re-
port while there is a species of bat in
the South, known as the vampire bat,
which does suck the blood of animals
and might suck a child's blood, Ii 1t
had the chance, the bats of the. North
are entirely harmless, couldn't suck
blood if they tried don't like to get
into anybody's hair and live on noth-
ing but insects.
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WITH THE Democratic candidates. for Governor confined
TO Acting Governor Frank Katzenbach the Demo-
cratic voters of the State straight choice between
Two distinguished widely known representatives OF the
Marty and their should be entirely uninhueneed In any
uarter fair the primaries what either
candidate wish and what the party voters desire and look
for Whichever shall be nominated will have loyal
party support beyond question: but any inter-
one or the influence coerce
e VOTERS will resented Whatever difference or
opinion may regard the Geran law there only one
nnop as the candidates and the voters in the
direct primaries Absolute liberty of choice is demanded
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land to a local bricklayer. A large
part of his reputation is attributed
to this book, which was not so much
a guide to his finished productions
as an outline of the designs he would
like to make. And these designs
have served as guide to furniture
makers ever since.
Every day a different human
interest story will appear in the
Evening Star. You can get a
beautiful intaglio reproduction of
the above picture, with five 9TH
ers. equally attractive, 7x9h
inches in size. with this weeks
Mentor" In The Mentor we'll
known authority covers the sub
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ExPEDrrING THE CURRENCY BILL.

BY DRASTIC action in the House the currency Dill Is 10
be forced through the Senate by Saturday OF next
week which will time for the Senate to act on the DILL IN
its more deliberate This looks like precpate eglso
on subject of highest Importance TO the country ana II II
hos tho assent m the public it for nearly sixteen
wears evadd the duty of giving to the country
reformed currency system and have let the great business
remain exposed to the chances OF pans WIN all %
dire consequences Preliminary discussion of currency egsa
lion has served to eliminate certain Objectionable or dangerous
of the bill originally prepared and the Senate there
sure other changes in the direction OF greater sey
Probably bill finally passed will so far comply
Will; all reasonable requirements that safely be adopted
and will have support Republicans well as Democrats
in Congress.
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Gossip of the Toilers

International Miners Congress de-
clared for an eight-hour day.
Belgium Stone Workers Union has
a membership of $4,000.
In England the wages of the miners
had been forced upward about 3715
per cent. in from six to eight months.
Union carpenters in Holland have
doubled their membership in five
years, the total is in excess of 5000.
Last year there were 1,S52,2H
workers employed in factories in
Great Britain, ,S34 of whom We're
engaged in the textile trades.
A law has come into force in Italy
making industrial instruction for
children of 10 to IA years of age, who
are engaged in factories, compulsory.
Mcnicipal employees in Paris to the
number of more than $4,000 will re-
ceive an increase In their pensions.
The Luxembourg parliament has es-
tablished a benefit society for the
workers in public service.
Bradford (Eng) city council has
decided to build 200 workmen's houses
to be let at SLIP a week, clear of
taxes.
In Austria a new law exists under
which the miners are to be paid every
fourteen days.
Tailors in the ready-made clothing
industry in Hungary have been locked
| out for some weeks. They demanded
the nine hour day and an increase in
wages of 10 cents per day.
Berlin Germany metal workers
have built a labor temple at a cost
| of $450,000.
An initiative measure in Oregon
provides for an eight-hour day or a
i48-hour week for all workers.
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A Poor oron Outlook.

From the Wall Street Journal.
Without any idea of creating need
less alarm, it may be pointed out
that the crop situation is the most
serious we have faced in many years.
Allowing that wheat makes a remark
ably good showing, and that hay
would give fair return for average
years, supplemented by what was
carried over from the last crop, the
outlook is grave. Corn will not come
up to the most conservative estimates
OF even a fortnight ago. Tobacco is
seriously injured. The potato crop
will be short Cotton, which is taken
we sell it to the foreigner, is facing a
crisis through the continued drought,
and the consequent shedding.
Here is an actual loss of potential
wealth upon which the country's
trade had counted TO finance it's obli-
cations. With the destruction of feed
the price of beef, pork, butter and
eggs must necessarily advance. With
the advance in the price of cotton,
cotton goods must increase in price,
tariff or no tariff, with q smaller pur-
chasing capacity due to the element
ary fact that we are becoming a ma
tion of consumers rather than pro-
d1cers. What follows is contraction
of trade, due to the depletion of cap
ital. and cheap money would be no
evidence of increased purchasing
mower. Money was never cheaper
than during the depressed years
which followed the panic of 1893.
ii il as we'll to look these facts in
the face. They are facts, and no sem
siblc business man can afford to ig-
more them. They are at the base OF
All national prosperity. The country
is doubtless big enough to meet such
adversely without commercial de-
moral.zation. but it should be wise
enough not to deluge itself in fools
] paradise of higher prices.
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FURNITURE AND ITS MAKERS
Iearn One Thing Every Day:
NO. 4-THOMAS cHlPPENDALE
Copyright, 1913. by The Mentor Association, Inc)

A YOUNG art student came to a fur
IA niture shop In London, and the
talk was of beauty of line, the dignity
of proportion, and the introduction
of mahogany in the manufacture of
furniture. The art student afterward
became Sir Joshua Reynolds. the
wor1d-famed painter. The furniture
maker was Thomas Chippendale
known as King of the Eighteenth
Century Furniture Designers And
10 these early frieIraly talks and argu-
ments Chippen0ale attributes his
reputation as o master of line and
genius of porportion.
Before the time of Chippendale most
of the furniture was made of the
heavier native woods, such as walnut
or oak, Mahogany made a powerful
appeal to him, because of its highly
polished surface and the exquisite
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-11
a MARVEL THAT HAS BECOME COMMONPLACE

WHEN HARRY THAW stepped into the kitchen of
Hampshire farmhouse telephone to Montreal the
of civilization within generation of
illustrated isolated dwelling in a New England
backwood where the wayfarer could ask leave TO talk to
city hundreds of miles and thought
visitor the farmers wife than if Thaw
had for drink of buttermlk The telephone has
time and space put the remote bacwoods village
conversational communication with the city and
made the world very coy little place to live in.
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A NEEDLESS MEDICATION.

FORMER GOVERNOR STOKES dgnifes anonymous,
him by vindicatory statement that
of fair play and contempt
the delivers his shaft from conceament
characteristic American voter, who classes such
guerrilla the furve placer of bombs In
paions for been severely
demned intended influence 1t is much
campaign nomination. when the cowardly shaft
within party not only against the candidate but
also the party itself.
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A CHANGE OF SCENE FOR THAW.

THE THAW comedy is staged in Colebrook, N H.
of the country folk to whom the pres
Whites murderer and the escaped paranolac
from Maeawan unwoned novelty their quiet humdrum
brings into the town. too 1t was
The sudden the Canadian town of Coat
cook due o Thaw that the enthusiastic
sympatby which had remarkable manifestations New
Hampshire village may thrifty but hardly the point
champonng murderer because of the meal ticket his pres
brings them
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SMITHS COLLECTION OF BOGUS STOCKS

THE ASSETS of Raymond E. Smith, the wrecker of the
Company include interesting of
the shape of worthless stock mostly of fake mining
companies organized only victimize the investing public
these fraudulent securities into his possession
unknown rogue clever Smith would not buy them
at junk prices Unfortunately there thousands
people who do buy stocks of this character for the
swindng by the sale bogus mining other
stocks amounts to many millions annually.
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pole the politician. If you add to this
that he married in 174S and died in
1873 there is summed up practically
al there is known of Thomas Chippen-
pendale himself.
Chippendale not only made beauti-
full furniture, but he made it the
fashion. He was recognized by both
the nobility and gentry not only as
an authority on the subject, but as
an artist He was probably better
known as a designer of chairs than
of any other form of furniture.
Chippendale was familiar with ar
tistic designs in Japan, Italy and
Spain. and was ready always to take
ideas from the humble as well as the
great, as is shown from the fact that
subscribers to his book. 1.-THE Gentle
man and Cabinet Makers Director"
range from the Duke of Northumber-
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Gusts Customs Collector

WASHINGTON. Sept 11.-Collector
of Customs Pendleton at Los Angeles,
Cal. was dismissed yesterday by Sec
rotary McAdoo because he refused to
resign. John h. Elliott, of Los
Angeles, will be nominated to succeed
him. Pendleton said he had been APP
pointed for a definite term which he
should be permitted to serve.
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ENORMOUS LOSS OF CORN WEALTH.

WHAT ENORMOUS loss may be inflicted upon mankind
by variation from the orderly
shown by 621 100000 bushels the crop
of the The outlook is thus
2350000O00 bushels instead of nearly three billions first
estimated There compensation, however, the wheat
prospect for the total product of that grain is likely reach
600 900 bushels record the shortage
higher prices The
Western drought.
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Advertises to Let Highwaymen Know
He's Ready to Meet Them.

YORK, Pa, Sept IA unique mo-
tice to highwaymen'' has been in
serted as an advertisement in local
papers by r. w. Wilhelm, who es-
capped q hold-up recently in the early
morning by lashing his horses into a
runaway which resulted in smash
UP. Wilhelm's advertisement reads:
"In view of my recent experience
with a highwayman while driving
upon a public road in North Codorus
township, 1, T. w. Wilhelm, wish to
notify those interested that I will
be fully prepared for any such oc-
casions in the future
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Dog and Two Wee Lassies Break Up
G. o. 4. Meeting

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 11.-Teddy,
q red cocker spaniel belonging to
Representative Stephen G. Porter,
Progressive candidate for mayor
broke up a meeting which the sup
porters of his opponent, ]. G. Arm
strong, Republican candidate, tried to
hold in front of Mr.. Porter's house
last night.
Apparently angered by the yells
and the blaring of a bugle by the
Armstrong supporters, Teddy started
for the crowd. Mr.. Porter's daughter
Lucy, years of age, also took a
hand. and with a girl chum they
routed the meeting in less than a
minute.
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Brokaw AIimony $4,000

NEW YORK. Sept. u.-Supreme
Court Justice Kelly, of Brooklyn,
yesterday confirmed the report OF
William II. Wadhams, referee, and
granted an interlocutory decree OF
divorce with $4,000 year alimony
to Mrs Mary Blair Brokaw, In her
suit against William Gould Brokaw.
from whom she obtained decree
of separation in February, 1910.
Justice Kelly's decision confirms the
finding of Mr.. Wadhams that Mr..
Brokaw was guilty of misconducct
with Miss Luciene Cumand. MI.
Brokaw's countercharges of infidelity
against his. wife were dismissed.
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Robbers Scorn to Take Aught Except
the Two WatehdOgs.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE Misses
Blanche Farnsworth and Priscilla
Maxwell. of 146 East Forty-fourth
street, who are away from their fat
in the day time. sewing, have de-
pended upon Sapho, a Yorkshire ter
rier, weighing two pounds and worth
SIS. and Beauty, a pure white poodle,
weight eight pounds, value 500, 20
guard their worldly possessions.
When they returned from their toll
last evening there were no barks 10
greet them. Instead they found the
door had been kicked open and their
abode ransacked from end to end.
Nothing had been taken-nothing
but Sapho and Beauty, faithless
dogs,
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DEAD HEROES NEGLECTED A CENTURY.

WHEN HALF a hundred sailors famous United
States frigate killed historic battle with
warshps in Valparaiso harbor 1914 their bodies
ground and they lain there
is patriotism after the lapse century that sug
Congress appropriation that the dust of these
may be brought home their native
soil
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This Romeo with Caveman Emotions
Has Zine" Time.

CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-John Wad-
jinskis method of love making goes
back to the days when anthropoid
Romeos used to perch on branches
and carol love songs all night long.
He nut his theories into practise and
was fined s. and costs.
Miss Sohpia Emmerling had retired
for the night Wadjinski strobe
through the night with caveman
emotions stirring in his breast. He
entered the Emmerling yard and
straddled a branch opposite Sohpia's
window and began to meow like
a cat. To the girl thus rudely
awakened he made love in a voice
that could be heard for a block. Her
mother caused his arrest.
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Have Locomotives or People Prior Right
to Drink in DrOught2

ALBANY, Sept. 11.-Whether the
railroad locomotives or the people
are to go thirsty is the question
which is now agitating the village Of
Sidney, Delaware county.
The long continued drought has
practically emptied the water of the
company's reservoirs. The commits
sion announced that it believes the
people have the first right, but is
compelled to advise the village au-
thorities that under the statutes it
Is powerless to help them"
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Oddities in Today's News

congressional district; John Fitzgib-
bons, president of an iron company,
and Harry w. Long lawyer and twice
prosecuting attorney of Delaware
county. Despite much laughter that
greets them when they tell the
stories Of their recovery from indi-
gestion, dyspepsia and other stomach
troubles, they are spreading the gos-
pei of sand
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Family Moves. Husband ForgetS TO Tell
Wife Address. Now He's Lost Her.

BOSTON, Sept. 11.-Mrs. Annie
Wallace cannot find her husband.
This is the climax to a series of I'M
usual adventures that befell Mrs.
Wallace, formerly of Wilson street,
Somerville when she decided to move
to Roxbury. Here is what happened:
Mr.. Wallace forgot to tell his wife
to what address they were moving.
While on the way Wallace became
separated from his wife and Agar
old son, who got lost.