6 BARRISBUSG TELEGRAPH Established iSn PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-ia-Ckicf F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building. 21S I Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally areraitr circulation (or tha three months rndlnc June 30, 1015 W 21,231 Average for the Tear 1014—21.55S Average for the year 1813—19.063 Average for the year 1013—10,640 Average for the year 1011—17,.">«3 Average (or the year 1010—1«^61 The above Usurps are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28. The man who does not manifest love now, has no love. —Leo Tolstoi. GAG RULE IN COUNCIL MAYOR JOHN K. ROYAL MADE another exhibition of his petti ness when he attempted yester day at a session of the City Council to g=g Commissioner Bowman when the head of the important Depart ment of Public Safety insisted upon his right to know the exact condition of the municipal finances. The Mayor's manifest purpose was to pub licly create the impression that the Democratic minority in the municipal administration was oppressed by the trio of Republicans who have been do ing their utmost to promote the prog ress of the city in every way. But he failed lamentably and to-day realizes that the little game of, fooling the; people does not always succeed. Both he and Commissioner Gorgas admit that the important improve ment projects now nearlng completion ought to be finished, but the motive back of their opposition to the plans of the majority commissioners is so palpably a play to the galleries for 1 olitical effect that they will doubt less be glad to let go of the hot end of the stick before the controversy shall have ended. With a great civic celebration ap proaching within a few weeks the at titude of the two Democratic commis sioners is reprehensible. They admit that this work must be done and that money must be found to do it, but at a critical juncture are interposing ob jections which may make impossible the completion of the work before the close of September and the cele bration. Commissioner Gorgas suggests that the work should go over until next Spring, but he can hardly be serious in that suggestion. With the contrac tors ready, their equipment on the ground and the necessity apparent to ! . everybody a postponement at this ' time would mean greater expense' without reason or excuse. City Solicitor Seitz has clearly indi- j cated that the balance of the 1910 [ appropriation for the River Front J work is available for the completion ■ of the several undertakings, but the | Democratic majority are endeavoring! in the splitting of hairs to upset the plans of the Department of Public Works. We do not believe the peo ple will approve their course. Har risburg is proud of its splendid pro gram of public improvement and it Is ! outrageous that for political advan- ! tage these two Democrats now seek < to interrupt the work. Mayor Royal, with his pussy-footing, has drawn Commissioner Gorgas into an uncomfortable position, which probably explains his ' silly effort of yesterday to gag Commissioner Bow man when that official sought to ob tain information regarding the munici pal finances. This newspaper believes the people of Harrisburg almost unanimously en dorse the proposition to complete the work at once. We don't believe the | Democratic minority will be permitted to interfere through a vain hope of providing campaign material. ONE YEAR OF WAR THIS day one year ago Austria de clared war upon little Servia, and on the 29th the opening guns in ithe bombardment of Belgrade an nounced to a startled world that what has already proved to be the greatest war in history had begun. It has been a year of surprises for the whole world, and one of bitter dis- j appointments for the nations involved, but it has again proved that no one can tell at the beginning of a war how 'lt is going to end. Students of history .have accepted that as an axiom for many years, but up to the opening of ithis war at least It was impossible to make It penetrate the bullet-iike heads iof the gentlemen who sit upon general staffs and boards of strategy. Perhaps (•when this war is over It will be ad jniitted even In the Inner recesses of war offices that campaign plans, even when they are perfected "down to the last button," are not yet accepted as substitutes for the manifestations of clivlne providence. In Germany the great disappoint ment lies In the fact that while the ( *nny has proved to be the wonderful machine all Germany believed it to be, WEDNESDAY EVENING, its only real achievement, from the standpoint of higher strategy, has been to keep actual fighting largely in enemy territory and to round out the flrsi year with both Austria and Ger many practically free from invading armies. Beyond this the operations have stopped just short of success. Hindenburg and Mackensen now seem on the point of taking Warsaw, the capital of the ancient Polish republic, but this is the fifth drive at this ob jective. On the four earlier attempts the Teutonic armies were driven back with staggering losses. The showing made on land by Britain has been even more disappointing, and as far as the general public is concerned this is the great mystery of the war. Parliament has authorized the enlistment of an army of 4,000,000 effectives, yet the British hold less than fifty miles of front in the western theater of the i war, and the English war office ap pears to be an indifferent observer of the distress of the Russian armies. The world expected Britain to make a demonstration of such a character as would relieve the pressure on Russia and Britain will have to give an ex tremely clear and satisfactory ex planation of its conduct at the present j Juncture-if the feeling, once strongly I held, that English armias are ex tremely selfish and unsatisfactory allies j in a war in continental Europe is not ! to be revived In a way that will do j incalculable damage to the moral pres tige of that great empire. On the sea Britain has made a much better showing. There the expected has happened, but the fact that it hire involves another disappointment for the Germans. Britain continues to rule the waves while the fine German high seas fleet, the second naval force in the world. Is in hiding. Much is being made of the German underseas j operations, but for all practical pur poses they are negligible. Vessels en ter and leave British ports by the thousands each day and the loss the hostile submarines have been able to inflict has been trifling in comparison. Yet by some fatuous whim the Ger man government has been willing to risk the standing of Germany as a civilized and law-respecting nation for the sake of maintaining intact the Tirpitz policy of submarine attack. It Is difficult at this time to understand why this is so, but it would not be sur prising if it should develop that the Hohenzollerns. who began this war without fear of God or man in their hearts, have learned to fear German public opinion more than they fear their present enemies or the verdict of posterity. It may be that they are compelled to keep up a pretense that thlf submarine warfare is highly im portant lest the German people sus pect how nonimportant it really is, and I thus another addition be made to the j dissatisfaction and unrest which is j beginning to make itself felt in that country. During the year Germany has lost practically all of the colonial posses sions which were acquired at so much expense and labor and a terrible blow has been struck, at all commerce car ried on by the countries of Europe, but the noncorabatant nations have not made corresponding gains, for the reason that coincident with the begin ning 6f the war there was a commer cial and financial upheaval of un precedented proportions, and from this the world has not yet fully recovered. These disturbances may be expectea to last for a long time after actual hostilities are suspended. As matters stand now, from a mili tary standpoint the Teutonic allies have all the better of it. and if they can hold out long enough in the same relative position they may be able to secure, if not actually impose, terms that are favorable to themselves. But from a financial viewpoint the advan tage is all the other way. Economic pressure has been the determining fac tors in most wars and it is becoming more important each day in this one. Already debts that defy the imagination of man to determine what they mean hp.ve been contracted, and there are signs that the credit situation is being strained to the limit all over the world. But however it ends or when it ends, Germany and Britain will have to pay the bill. France and Belgium have covered thevneslves with imperishable glory and it is safe to predict that there can be no peace terms that in volve penalties of any character for either of them. ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME THIS newspaper is happy to be in enthusiastic agreement with the Patriot in its suggestion for a proper mapping of the automobile routes leading to Harrisburg. This city is an important center and its relation to the State is so all-inclusive that the diversion of the Lincoln High way from the capital of the Common wealth is inexplicable. However, since that highway does not touch Harris burg, it is a comparatively easy matter for the proper authorities of this city, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and the hotel pro prietors, to give publicity through tpur books and otherwise to the at tractiveness of Harrisburg and itp pic turesque environment. As suggested in the Telegrs.ph some time ago. every important highway of Pennsylvania should lead to its capital city and Governor Brumbaugh is known to be in sympathy with this suggestion. Immediate • steps must be taken to put Harrisburg on the map v.ith regard to every decent highway in this part of Pennsylvania- It is inconceivable that the pro moters of the Lincoln Highway would deliberately omit Harrisburg from the national route. However, it should not be difficult to provide such attractive detours east, west, north and south aB will divert all the automobile traffic in this direction. TELEPHONE RATES THE true status of the telephone rate question now being thresh ed out before the State Public Service Commission is not to be de cided by newspaper opinion. When experts differ so widely as to what constitutes an equitable tariff and whether or not it is possible to estab lish uniform rates for the whole State that shall be fair to all, it is not for | an outsider, unacquainted with all the facts, to arrive at a decision. But this much may be said for the oompanies, that no other form of public service has improved so much in the past twenty years and there is none in which the rates have been lowered so regularly. The gas companies have cut rates repeatedly and the service is better than it used to be. but the mechani cal development of the telephone and its radious of operation have far out run anything in this line that the gas companies can offer. In the 'phone service has been steadily improving and the charges have been Just as steadily de creasing. In some localities the rates may be higher than they should be and the public is everywhere entitled to the lowest tariff commensurate with a proper return on the money invested in the telephone enterprise, but we should go slow in attempting to enforce a rate which would in any way endanger the high- order of ser vice which the companies have set as their standard and which the peo ple have come to expect. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —A Chicago' firm announces an automobile especially constructed for the use of children. If this thing keeps up they'll soon be putting motors on baby carriages. —"Carrots are good for the com plexion." says a beauty writer. But who wants good looks at such a price? —"The underdog gets all the sympathy," says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. True, but that's about all worth while. —"Sunburn is one of the pennies of the seashore." says an Atlantic City correspondent. Be that as It may, most of us have a hankering to prove it for ourselves. —lf it were not for an Occasional mosquito, boating on the Susquehanna by moonlight would have life in the Elysian Fields backed into a far off corner and blushing for shame. —This mobilization of brains is all very well, but it isn't going to accom plish much until Congress mobilizes about $200,000,000. EDITORIAL COMMENT . German submarine activity is rapidly bringing the war to a close, averaging nve victims a day, at which it will take only about twenty-three years to wipe out the entire British merchant marine. —Boston Transcript Henry Ford has started a campaign to discourage gluttony, by which mil lions a year may be saved. The more money saved on foolish luxuries like groceries the more one has to expend on necessities like gasoline —New York Morning Telegraph. Whatdye mean, "Merrie England?"— Columbia State. Yuan Shi Kai seems to be a major league pitcher with a bush-league team.—Charleston News and Courier. i„JL? er Vl?L Ny ™ks man- more ships loaded with mules she may have to go to war with Missouri.—Oklahoma City Oklahoman. * ANY REPUBLICAN THAT'S DECENT" [From the Public Ledger.] Colonel Roosevelt is reported to have declared his willingness to sup port in 1916 "any Republican that's decent." He has not "gone back to the Republican party," nor has he specifically retracted his definite pro nunciamentoes of 1912 that he was done with the old party for all time, but has assumed an attitude of "watchful waiting" with respect to na tional political developments. The deep significance of this change of mind and attitude on the part of the erstwhile leader of the Progressives can hardly be overestimated. He has doubtless realized long since that the movement which he led three years ago has spent its force as a perma nent factor In American "party" poli tics. His own personality, potent as it has proved to be, is not sufficient to create an Irreparable and perma nent breach in the ranks of the Re publican organization, especially in view of the fact that the principles for which he and his four million support ers stood in 1912 were by no means the exclusive possession of the Pro gressive party, but were upheld in all sincerity by many thousands who ad hered to the old party but differed with Colonel Roosevelt as to the best means of having them put into prac tice. The net result of the struggle of 1912 was to put the Democratic party into complete control of the National Government, and all Republicans are beginning to appreciate that the pres tige of position will give the Demo crats a great advantage in 1916, espe cially if they make, as there is every likelihood that they will do, President Wilson their standard bearer. Now it appears that Colonel Roosevelt is beginning to look upon the re-election of Wilson and the perpetuation of his economic and diplomatic policies the "greater evil" to be confronted next year. Hence his notice that he is pre pared to abandon the third partv and support the right kind of Republican candidate. SALT MONEY [Prom the Sunbury Dally 1 Tour salary i S your "salt money." Soldiers once received salt as part of 'heir pay. When the salt waS com' muted for_ cash the latter was called salerium. salt money, or "salary." Our Daily Laugh OLD HABITS I'm sure that Duke must have been a waiter. U \ fla \ Watch him at dinner- sometime. He has his napkin over his arm half ° ]l >-_ N ° T ™ E ONL,T Aren't you go- TO ■ I; I No, my wife haa Bv P Jjl uS' decided she can JV get all tired out more comfortably '-"j I by staying at HXRRISBUR TELEGRAPH "PoCcttca- uv By the Ei-Committee man The great increase in the Repub lican enrollment and the correspond ing slump in the showing of the Washington party people in Cumber land county has had such a depress ing effect upon the Democrats that al ready they are canvassing the possi bilities of making a deal which will relieve them of the necessity of mak ing a costly general tight at the elec tions this Fall and at the same time will secure for them one or two of the less Important county offices. It is felt by all who are familiar with polit ical conditions in Cumberland, Demo crats and Washington party men as well as Republicans, that the contests of this Fall are as good as settled now and the Democrats do not take kindly to the idea of spending money on what they realize will be a losing fight. The only thing that is prevent ing actual negotiations for a deal is the difficulty of putting such a thing across with the election machinery that exists in this State In full plat. Unlike in the days when a few leaders could arrange such a matter and be reasonably sure that It would be car ried out to the letter the whole elec torate must be taken into the scheme now. This makes it absolutely im possible, of course, but there can be no denying that some at least of the influential Democrats in old Mother Cumberland dwell fondly upon the prospect in their mind's eye. The gain in the Republican enroll ment In Cumberland was almost 2,000, while the Democratic enrollment in creased 270. The Republican increase came largely from the Washington party ranks and thus bears out the prediction that the Republican party ■would be united in the cross river section of the State this Fall. Of the 3,500 votes polled by Roose velt only 225 in the entire county re main. the number having fallen from 700 last year. The Republican enroll ment last year was • approximately 5,100. This year it is 6,890, a gain of 1,790. The Democratic was last year 6,200 in round numbers. This year it is 6,470. There is a small scattered enrollment: Prohibitionists 12 9, So cialists 147 and unenrolled 1,730. Dr. P. H. Erobst, head of the Tax payers' League of Reading, who has acquired some reputation as a munici pal reformer, now seems to be going after honors as a joker. At all events he has told Reading people who have urged him to become a candidate for mayor that he will, if the salary of the place is reduced to $1 per year. It now pays $3,500. As that would make him a boss instead of a public servant, the hard-headed citizens of the Berks metropolis have turned their attention elsewhere. A call has gone forth for a meet ing of the Democratic county com mittee of Lancaster county, to be held next Tuesday. There is nothing for the committee, to do but according to the Lancaster newspapers someone suggested that the committee was not called together often enough, and that was enough for Battling Ben Davis, collector of internal revenue for the Ninth district and Democratic county chairman of Lancaster county, and he "socked" in a call. If the committeemen when they turn up do not have some thing of weight to consider the chair man will tell them some stories and supply them with choice Lancaster county cigars. J. Henry Williams, a well-known member of the Philadelphia bar, is beginning to be prominently mentioned as a possible successor to Charles E. Rice, president judge of the Superior Court, who has declined to be a candi date for re-election. It is understood that Mr. Williams is entirely accept able to the Republican organization, which has already endorsed Judges Orlady and Head, of the Superior bench, whose terms have expired and who will come up for re-election next Fall. It is among the possibilities that Philadelphia will join Chicago in hav ing a woman for city superintendent ■of schools. Among those mentioned as possible successors to the late Dr. William C. Jacobs, who followed Governor Brumbaugh in that position, are Dr. Lucy L. L. Wilson, a teacher in the girls' high school; Miss Kath erine E. Puncheon, head of the Phila delphia high school for girls, and Miss Margaret T. Maguire, principal of the George Washington public school. Dr. John P. Garber has been appointed acting superintendent until the Sep tember meeting of the board. Friends of William T. Tiljien. three times president of the Union League of Philadelphia and prominent in the political, business and social life of that city, are beginning to feel real alarm over the state of his health. He is suffering from a general breakdown and has been removed from his apart ments at the league to the German Hospital. A. Nevin Detrlch, of Chambersburg, and State chairman of the Washington P£irty, has oualified for a place in the Optimists' Hall of Fame. In response to a telegram from a Philadelphia newspaper calling his attention to the decision of the New York State Pro gressives to maintain their State or ganization he wired that "the Wash ington party State organization is all right and will be heard from in no un certain terms when the time comes." MIGHT WEED THEM [From the Kansas City Star ! "After de sermint, t'mor' night. Brud der Simmons," said old Deacon Whang, "we'all is f?wine to have a rounsin' hozanner meetin'. and burn up yo' para graphs. bless de Lawd!" "Rurn up which, sah?" returned Goat Simmons, the recently converted gambling man, in considerable aston ishment. "Yo' gamblin' paragraphs, sah. When a sno'tin' man gits converted and washed whiter dan snow dey alius burns up his kyahds and dice and sich scan'lous stuff as dat "midst loud shouts o' praise. De Lawd is wid 'em. and do gamblln' brudder steps fo'th and flings his paragraphs on- de flah and stands with bowed heads whilst—" "Not me, sah! I ain't gwine to do no sich-uh thing!" "But. muh goodness, brudder, yo' am converted. Isn't you, and—" "Yassahr! T's sho' converted, but dat don't make me a blame' fool! I mought backslide an' need dat stuff!" * \ Your "Pocket" Compass Would you go Into the woods or attempt to sail the seas with out a compass? You would hardly trust to your sense of direction, would you? Then why let your "pock.it book" sail the uncharterej sens? Why let It run the risks of shoals and rocks? Why not chart It straight to the harbor of safe, sane and' economical buying. How? By making use of the lnfor- I matlon in the advertising of the Telegraph. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY • NOISY BUT HARMLESS —From the New York World, I Hot-Weather Helps For Horses L ANIMALS like men feel the heat and murk of the Dog Days; un like their masters they cannot growl about it while cooling off with relaxation, elecrlc fans and soda foun tains; the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, arguing that under such conditions horse owners have added responsibil ity, has just issued a circular teach ing consideration of horses that should be daily reading for every driver and stableman. From profit, if not for humaneness, here are some of the things to be done if your horse is to keep fit during the next weeks': For the working hours, a light load, a slow drive and a shady stop will conserve horse health and happiness. This is better business than overload ing and the good of a whip; as sta tistics of the number of horses dying in August prove. Watch the first symptoms of sun stroke. If your horse stops sweat ing suddenly, breathes short and fast, or stands with legs braced sideways and ears dropping—get busy at once. Remove harness and bridle, take the horse to the shade, wash his mouth, sponge him all over, shower his legs and, if possible, give "two oujaces of aromatic spirits of ammonia, or two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre in a pint of water." A pint of warm cof fee will serve the same purpose. Cool his head with water or chopped ice. If the animal seems weak when re turned to the stable call in a veter inary. A horse in good condition is less likely to succumb to the heat Aim to keep him well by care in feeding, housing and extra consideration. Instead of a hot stall on very hot IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS [ AGO TO-DAY ] [From the Telegraph of July 28, 1865.J Soldiers Robbed Two soldiers had their pockets picked to-day on the streets, on© losing a gold watch valued at ?60 .and the other S2OO in cash. Citizens to Meet Citizens of Harrisburg will meet to morrow evening in the Courthouse to consider a method to be used in re moving obstructions in the Susque hanna river at this point. Delivers Farewell Address General Thomas J. Jordan yesterday dtlivered his farewell address to the Lochiel Cavalry. He advised the men to return to their homes at once. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND YOUNG MEN [Kansas City Star.] Several gentlemen, writing tor peri odicals, are a good deal distressed lest the doctrine of social justice be made to interfere somehow with the self-reli ance of young men,. Society, they insist, must not coddle young men. They can work out just as great a degree of success as they are entitled to. The reason they fail is that they are lazy ana 'shiftless. The whole argument is familiar. It is a valid argument in many cases. It is valid, perhaps, in most cases with which these writers are familiar. They see sons from well-to do families making a failure in college or In business and they assume if these young men would simply get down to business they would succeed. They are right. Society isn't to be blamed for such failures. The responsibility is pretty much wholly personal, with parental training doubtless sharing to some extent. The thing to do with these laggards is to use a club and wake them up. For there are multitudes of boys going to work every year who do not present quite this problem. Some of them have been underfed, undercloth ed, underhoused, all their short lives. Their growth has been stunted. Other 3 have been reared in the streets with the gang. They have been sent to work when they ought to have been in school. They have had no chance to be trained for their part in modern life. They are incompetent because they have had no opportunity to be competent. They get into "blind alley" occupations in which there is no future. Very soon they have a family to support, and by the time they are certain they can make no progress where they are they simply can't afford to finance any change of occupation. The family would go hungry If they did. It is the duty of society, so the ad vocates of social justice insist, to see to it that opportunity is kept open, and that boys do not start life under a hopeless handicap. The gentlemen may still properly go on railing at the indolent young fellows who have thrown away their opportunities. But they must not be permitted to interfere with the move ment to majce sure that other young men are not wholly deprived of op portunities. SHOULD WAKE UP Huerta's telegram to Chief Justice White implies that the ex-dictator thought he was back in Mexico City issuing orders in his Supreme Court. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. JULY 28, 1915. nights a horse may be tied outside with bedding beneath him. This is especially necessary in, stables without modern ventilation. While the horse is working, fre quent waterings In small quantities will not harm. If he is to stand still only give a few swallows. The best watering time is at. night after the hay is eaten. When your horse is "off his feed" from heat he may be given two quarts of oats mixed with bran and a little water with salt and sugar added. Oat meal gruel or barley water are good and every Saturday night give a luke warm bran mash to which is added a tablespoonful of salt peter. For coolness wipe with a sponge dipped in vinegar water, on hot nights when the therihometer soars above seventy-five. Never turn a hose on a hot horse. Each day when the horse is brought in from work sponge off harness marks and sweat and thoroughly wash mouth, eyes and nose. Wash his legs but not his feet. Be careful in your horse millinery. Veterinarians say the ordinary bell shaped horse-hat is harmful unless it is of the airy canopy type. A wet sponge on the horse's head will be comforting only so long as it is moist. A summing of which contains the crux of all considerate hot weather treatment of horses is, use your imag ination plus commonsense and intel ligence. A horse is highly strung and sensitive; any hot weather dread of the master may be equally dreaded for his faithful horse who must uncom plainingly bear burdefis no matter whether the thermometer stands at zero or a hundred in the shade. Has Twenty Detectives Guarding Her Children V \ ;\v - ) >- y''l MRS. ALFRED G. VANDERBILT Lenox, Mass., July 28. Twenty guards are to-day on duty at the gates of Shadow Brook, where Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose husband was lost on the Lusitania, and her two sons are spending the summer. No one is allowed to enter unlfess known or armed with a permit. In addition to these guards who are on duty day and night, servants watch the door by which all trades men enter. Recently ord.ers were given that tradesmen should enter the park in which the house stands through the north gate, involving a long climb up the hill. No one is %llowed to approach the lawn where the two little sons, Alfred G., and George, play with their at tendants. It is said that Mrs. Vanderbilt fears that some one may kidnap her sons and that the precautions against entry «-o the grounds and the guards are for this reason. MIXED VOICES A lanky youth entered the cross roads general store to order some groceries. He was 17 years old and was passing through that stage of adolescence during which a boy seems all hands and feet, and his vocal organs, rapidly developing, are voluntary changes from high treble to low bass. In an authoritative, rumbling bass voice he demanded of the busy clerk, "Give me a can of corrt" (then, his voice suddenly changing to a shrill falsetto, he continued) "and a sack of flour." "Well, don't be in a hurry. I can't wait on both of you at once," snap ped the clerk.—Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. i iEimtutg (Eljat The time of the year has come when the city churches cannot boast of the attendance at their evening services. The heat and the natural biological laziness of mankind, good and bad, lead many a devout worshiper to seek the coolness of some shady porch of a Sunday evening and the empty pews in every edifice show how many such there are. Most of the churches, however, have been making efforts to make the church pews as comfortable as possible and with good results. In some ♦" churches the preachers themselves set the men folks a cheery example by peeling off their coats and rolling up their sleeves when the mercury soars to near the ninety mark. In still others services are held on the lawn.* The Rev. Dr. Daugherty, now in one of the larger Shamokin churches, but for merly pastor of Ridge Avenue Meth odist Episcopal Church, has installed electric fans in his auditorium and the newspapers say the place is crowded at every service. Nearly all the pastors, however, have the wisdom and goodness of heart to cut their sermons short when the heat waves begin to wilt stiff collars. The day of the hour sermon is fast passing anyway and most theologians are be ginning to agree that nearly every thing worth while saying can be said in fifteen minutes or thereabouts. Harrisburg as a member of the League of Third Class Cities of Penn sylvania has officially been invited to attend the annual convention for 1915. The league will meet in Reading this year and the invitation to the commissioners of the Capital City was foimally extended yesterday afternoon when Council met in its weekly session. The convention will be held August 31. September 1 and 2. Whether or not Council will attend in a body has not been decided. The invitation was extended by Mayor Ira W. Stratton, one of the third class city mayors of the State, who enjoys a wide circle of friends in Harrisburg officialdom. He has fre quently been a visitor here and only a few weeks ago spent a part of the aft ernoon at a Council session as the guest of Mayor Royal. Have you been bothered very exten sively by mosquitoes thus far this summer? No? Well, there's a reason: In years gone by the choicest breed ing places in town were the stagnant pods at the mouths of the old sewer outlets in the river. As a. rule in low water the mosquitoes held regular parties there. Now the big interceptor has done away with all that. The mosquitoes that still prefer to take a chance at raising families in Harris burg hope for the best and breed in the big silt basins of the interceptor. And, as everyone knows, they can't get out of those darksome holes. So that is why you're not slapping at yourself every evening with monotonous regu larity. Take it from the druggists who used to do much business in citronella, punk and so on, Harrisburg is freer of mosquitoes this year than ever before !n its history. Seeing Harrisburg First" is becom ing a slogan for many residents. Not a few are taking street car and jitney rides over the city two and three times each week. The other day one woman told a driver that she had lived in Har risburg for thirty years and had. not seen the Capitol grounds except along Fourth street until recently. • "I have made two and three trips to Philadelphia each week," said the w.oman, "but I go early in the morning and return after dark. It is seldom It* get below Verbeke street except when I go out of town." Middletown has a woman who has never seen the subway in that town. She seldom walks three squares from her home and when she does it is into the country and away from the busi ness section of the town. Over in New Cumberland, it is said, resides a woman who has never ridden in a trol ley car to Harrisburg. She uses the steam cars. Sometimes this woman visits relatives in Steelton, taking the steamboat to and from New Cumber land. and comes to Harrisburg by trol ley, but has never ridden on the trac tion lines between here and her home town. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"" Considerable discussion has already been aroused by "The Old Woman's Money," published in The Century, in which James Stephens, the Irish novelist and poet, arraigns American literature for appealing to the middle aged sentimentalists. Most Americans therefore will be interested in the re tort published in "Current Comment" in a succeeding number under the title "Literature and Life." Admirers of Timothy Cole's wood engravings will be delighted to hear that he is to contribute to The Cen tury again, and that Reynold's "Mrs. Carnac" will be his subject. Under the guidance of Armand Dayot, a series of sketches of the French army actually done in the trenches by French artists is in prep aration for The Century. Arthur Bullard ( "Albert Edwards") author of "Comrade Yetta" and "A Man's World," is in Europe for the magazine to study and report on the social causes and consequences of the war. NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS TFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Champ Clark uttered an eternal truth in the course of his letter, which was read at the Americanization Day cele bration in St. Louis. He applied it aptly and reverently to conditions in the United States at the present time. In his message he said: "None of us for one moment should forget that waving flags, brass bands, enthusiastic processions, patriotic ora tory, soul-stirring songs do not consti tute the whole duty of the American citizen. A man to be worthy of that proud name must be a good, industrious, honest and patriotic man every day or the three hundred and sixty-ftve. "Remember that no man can bear al legiance to two countries at the same time." We may differ honestly about many things: we may have conflicting views upon the tariff, the money question and a thousand and one other things, but we cannot waver or be divided upon the question of our allegiance to our country. This vitally concerns Ameri cans of foreign birth. The new citi zen explicitly renounces allegiance to any other Government. It is all quite simple, and Speaker Clark and others are performing a patriotic duty in plac ing the matter so clearly that It cannot Mm possibly be misunderstood by all of the W people. That It has been necessary to do this proves that there was danger of Just such a misunderstanding. STEALING HIS THUNDER [From the Boston Transcript.] Mr. Daniels can never forgive a pre. decessor who "lowered the standard" of the Naval Academy, that being an encroachment on his own prerogative. CIVIC CLUB * Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 B Cents a Pint Prises of (5, $2.50 and several 91.00 ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Stronse