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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
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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 *
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