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WEEK'S NEWS
Latest Telegraphic and Cable
Intelligence Epitomized.
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
Bolitical Pot Is Bubbling Furiously—
{ News About Wars That Are Rag-
ing and Rumors About Wars
to Come.
i Washington
Chairman Glass conferred with the
President on the Currency bill and it
was decided to push the measure to
@ vote of the Democratic members of
the committee rather than send it to
eaucus.
George Carroll Todd, of New York,
was nominated Assistant Attorney
General to prosecute Sherman law
violators.
President Wilson nominated L. E.
Pinkham, of Hawaii, to be Governor
of Hawaii.
Voting on separate paragraphs of
the Tariff bill was begun in the Sen-
ate, the progressive republicans unit-
ing with the democrats for reductions,
But opposing increases.
: Personal
King George of England, received
BC members of the Scott Antarctic
expedition and gave medals to the |
survivors. ]
A sack of earth has been taken to
London from Lisbon and will be used
for ex-King Manuel to stand upon
when he is married to Princess Au-
gustus Victoria on September 4.
Director Cooke, of the department
af public works of Philadelphia, ap- |
pointed Mrs. Edith W. Pierce as a
street inspector, as a salary of $1,300
a year.
Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his |
seventy-ninth birthday anniversary
quietly at Union Mills, Md.
A membership in the
Stock Exchange was sold for $38,000,
the lowest price since 1900.
John KEggoero,
Monticello, N. Y., was killed when a
playmate accidentally discharged a |
shotgun.
Attorney General McReynolds filed
a civil action in Portland, Ore., to dis-
solve the so-called Pacific Coast Tele-
phone Trust.
The two months’ old daughter of
Policeman Curls, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y.,
died from suffocation while sleeping
with its mother.
More than 15,000 copper miners
near Houghton, Mich., struck, declar-
ing they were dissatisfied with work-
ing conditions.
L. W. Dutro, former postmaster, of
Memphis, Tenn. was drowned in the
Mississippi while attempting to res-
cue a woman.
The first payment of $250,000 to
Panama for the annual rental of the
canal zone has been made by the
United States.
Members of the Women’s Home-
stead Association of Boston will carry
canes and whistles as a protection
against mashers.
A special investigation committee
in its report to Secretary Houston
urges the complete reorganization eof
the weather bureau.
John Everitt, 35 years old, was
blown to atoms near Rochester, N. Y.,
when dynamite, which he was carry-
ing in a basket exploded.
Ada M. Rocuri and Catherine Mec-
Gowan, of New York, were drowned
and much property damaged in a gale
which swept Clayton, N. Y.
Eleven players of the New York
National League baseball team agreed
to go on a world’s tour with the Chi-
cago White Sox next winter.
The body of Lena Cage, 15 years
old, who was missing from her home
one week was found in Ten Mile
Creek, near Waynesburg, Pa.
Howard Elliott, president of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, was elect-
ed President of the New Haven sys-
| tem, to succeed Charles S. Mellen.
Mrs. Anna L. Gardner, of York, Pa.
bequeathed $400,000 for the erection
and maintenance of a home for aged
unmarried women of Pennsylvania.
Earl Horsely, editor of the Elmwood
(Ill.) Gazette, was killed and his two
| companions injured when their auto-
| mobile overturned near Elmwood.
A herd of 17 mules attacked and
wrecked an automobile near Greens-
burg, Pa. The driver, J. F. Haddock,
| of Wilkinsburg, was seriously injured.
Sporting
English lawn tennis critics are un-
gtinted in their praise of the game
played by M. E. McLoughlin, the
American champion, in the match for
the Davis Cup. They gave the credit
for playing the greatest tennis ever
seen on the Wimbledon courts.
Ban Johnson, president of the
American League, formally dismissed
the protest filed by the New York
elub on the trade by which Hal Chase
went to the Chicago White Sox in ex-
ehange for Rollie Zeider and “Babe” |
Borton.
Both the New York Giants and the
Philadelphia Americans are stronger
than when they met in 1911. McGraw
has better hitters, a stronger infield |
end a formidable pitching department,
but all things considered the Athletics
will be hard to beat in the opinion of
Frank Chance.
Harvard’s track and field athletes
will be coached during the next two
years by William F. (Pooch) Dono- |
van and J. Fred Powers, and the
Crimson cross country runners will |
work under the direction of Alfred |
J. Shrubb. |
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i General
Anna Mannagan, of Chicago, while
wearing a slit skirt, was bitten in the
¥eg by a bull dog.
Edward Horner, a steeplejack of |
The New York State Legislature
has taken a recess until August 11.
Governor Sulzer announced that he
| considered the Legislature to have ad-
journed.
The Senate directed the Interstate-
Commerce Commission to inquire into
the reasons for the proposed bond iz-
ste of $167,000,000 by the New York
| Central Railroad.
Alexander Barris, a Brooklyn youth,
was fined $27.50 for forcibly kissing
Miss Bessie Searle, of Nutley, N. J,
and his friend, “Jay Goold,” who got
no kiss, was fined $12.50.
Balie P.. Wagener, a millionaire
railroad man, footed all the bills for
a picnic to Atchison, Kan. to 20,000
children from various points in the
State. Governor Hodges attended.
A jury of Webster Springs, W. Va.,
! convicted Dr. H. F. Asbury, a member
of the West Virginia Legislature, of
having accepted a bribe for his vote
| in the contest for a United States
Senator.
Items aggregating $5,803,724 in the
the general appropriation bill were
| vetoed by Governor Tener of Penn-
sylvania. He must lop $22,000,000
from bills still before him to keep
within the State’s income.
Mrs. Mary Hubson, 97 years old,
was burned to death when her daugh-
| ter’s home at Halls, N. Y., was de-
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Huson lived with
her daughter and granddaughter. The
two younger women escaped in their:
night clothes.
$£t. Louis, fell 110 feet and landed on
a steel roof uninjured.
To mark the graves of 40 confeder-
ate soldiers who died at Mingo, a
ghaft was unveiled at Elkins, W. Va.
The Wisconsin Senate passed the
Bill, prohibiting monopolies, restraint
of trade and unfair business prac-
tices.
The last of the Paterson silk mill
workers who went on strike five |
months ago decided to go back to
work. {
A public funeral was held for the |
twenty-one unidentified victims of the
Binghamton (N. Y.) Clothing Com-
pany’s factory fire.
Frederick A. Whelan, vice president
of the United States Cigar Stores
Company, died. A boil caused com-
plications that were fatal.
Infantile paralysis was declared by
@ doctor in St. Louis, who had closely
studied the disease to be largely due
to the spreading of the germs by
files.
There were indications that the Re-
publicans were weakening in their
tariff opposition and that a final vote
would be reached earlier than ex-
pected.
The government has secured 100
acres of land in Fairfield, Ohio, for
use as an aerial testing ground.
The American Agricultural Chemi-
eal Co.’s plant at Weymouth, Mass.
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $500,000.
" Secretary Daniels will direct that
€he battleship Oregon lead the fleet
through the Panama Canal.
Donald A. Kenney, a chauffeur, and
Christopher Gustin, an iron molder,
were shocked to death by an electric
current received in an initiation at
Birmingham, Ala.
Sixty ringleaders of the riotous |
convicts in Sing Sing were transferred
to Auburn, N. Y., Prison. They broke |
some windows of the train. Sing Sing
Prison quieted down. :
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Foreign
Mulai Hafid, ex-Sultan of Morocco,
visited the Vatican.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria,
of Spain, arrived in London.
Chinese rebels were repulsed with
loss in a night attack on Shanghai.
Greece and Servia rejected the Rou-
manian proposal for a provisional
armistice.
Two cancer patients at Berlin paid
$65,000 for two half gram mesotherium
treatments.
Hurricanes swept the Italian lake
district near Milan, deyasiaiing prop-
erty and crops.
The Italian authorities have made
arrangements to straighten the lean-
ing tower of Pisa.
The Imperial troops repulsed an at-
tack made by the rebels on the gov-
ernment arsenal at Shanghai.
A crowded train with emigrants for
America, was wrecked at Esbjerb,
Denmark, killing 20 persons.
Charles B. Dixon, United States im-
migrant inspector, was shot by Mexi-
can federal soldiers at Juarez.
All the Balkan belligerents have
agreed to send representatives to the
peace conference at Bucharest.
A army of non-militant suffragettes
marched into London.
The Mexican rebels captured Ter-
reon after three days’ fighting.
The French Chamber of Deputies
approved the 1913 budget providing
for expenditures of $1,000,000,000.
Of the 10,291 passengers carried on
the regular passenger service dirigi-
bles in Germany during 1912, not one
was killed or injured.
The committee of the American
announced that ex-
President Taft will address the com-
ference of judges at the Bar Associ |
| at all Drug Stores. ad
ation meeting in Montreal.
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New York
five years old, of |
Cold Storage Law.
Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust
iss ed the following statement:
On August 14th, an act important
food consumers goes into effect—the
Cold Storage Act of 1913. Here are
some of the more important provisions
of the law and the corresponding reg-
ulations.
Every person operating a cold stor-
age warehouse must do so under a
State license.
Every artificially cooled place where
any food is held at 40 degrees faren-
heit or under for 30 days or more is a
cold storage warehouse.
Fresh meats, fresh products there-
from, fresh poultry, fresh food fish,
eggs and butter are the articles of
food affected by the act.
Any such food entered in a cold
storage warehouse thereby becomes at
once cold storage food.
Each warehouse must officially ex-
amined before a license to operate it
shall be issued; and no license can be
be issued; if the warehouse is unfit in
sanitary condition or equipment.
No food that is unwholesome may
be placed in a cold storage ware-
house.
The owner of the unwholesome food
is held primarily responsible for such
entry; but the warehouseman is not
absolved from the exercise of reason-
able precautions in accepting food
enteries.
All cold storage foods, or their con-
tainers, must bear the date of their
entry into and their withdrawal from
cold storage.
Cold storage foods sold at wholesale
must bear the label “Wholesale Cold
Storage Food’’ printed in large type,
and the date of original entry of the
food in cold storage.
Such foods exposed for sale at retail
must be accompanied by a .similar
label, and when sold, must be deliv-
ered in a wrapper bearing a similar
statement in large type.
Addition to or the changing or ob-
literation of any legally required mark
is made a penal offence.
Foods withdrawn from cold storage
for sale may not be returned to a cold
storage warehouse.
Foods in cold storage fonnd unwhole-
some upon official examination, will
be tagged with a red tag ‘‘Unwhole-
some Food, Unfit for Use as Food.”
Foods cold-stored beyond certain
limits of time thereby cease to be leg-
ally saleable for food purposes. The
time limits are: veal 3 months; beef,4
months; pork, sheep and lamb, 6 mos.
dressed fowl, drawn, 5 months; un-
drawn, 10 months; eggs, 8 months;
butter and fish, 9 months.
Cold storage warehousemen must
keep records of all food enteries and
withdrawals, and report them peri-
odically to the Dairy and Food Com.
missioner.
Agents of the Commissioner will
maintain an inspection of the sanitary
conditions, the accounting and mark-
ing of foods in cold storage warehouses,
as well as examinations as to the
wholesomeness of the foods offered for
and kept in cold storage.
The Dairy and Food Commissioner
is authorized to close werehouses not
complying with the sanitary regula-
tions.
The penaltics are, for first offence,a
fine of $500 maximum; for a second
offence, a fine of $1,000 maximum, or
a jail sentence of 30 to 90 days, or
boehs
The commissioner suggests that the
adoption by wholesalers of cold stor-
age foods, of a system of supplying to
retail dealers the required large labels
would do much to protect the retailers
and prevent needless injury to them
and to the cold storage business in
general.
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Philosophical Facts.
During the conversion of ice into
water one hundred and forty degrees
of heat are absorbed.
The human car is so extremely
sensitive that it can hear a sound
| that lasts only the twenty-four thous-
anth part of a second. Deaf persons
have sometimes conversed together
through rods of wood held between
their teeth, or held to their throat or
breast.
At a depth of forty-five feet under
ground, the temperature of the earth
is uniform throughout the year.
Lightning can be seen by reflection
at the distance of two hundred miles.
We want live and intelligent solici-
tors in every city, borough as well as
townships to get subscribers for The
Commercial.
Sunday—Is so call, because it was
anciently dedicated to the worship of
the sun.
Monday—Means literally the day of
the moon.
Tuesday—Was dedicated to Tuisco,
the Mars of our Saxon ancestors, the
deity that presided over combats,
strife, and litigation. Hence in Eng-
land Tuesday is assize day; the day
for combat, or commencing litigation.
Soho gl
Any skin itching is a temper tester.
The more you scratch the worse ib
itches. Doan’s Ointment is for piles,
eczema—any skin itching. 50 cents
1 For Good Roads.
| The action of Governor Tener in
cutting the State Highway Depart-
ment appropriation from $8,067,708.92
to $4,667,708.92, for the next two
years, means that the reconstruction
of the highways of Pennsylvania will
be continued on virtually the same
restricted basis as in the past.
Advocates of the proposed amend-
ment to the Constitution to permit
the State to borrow money for road
building are pointing to this incident
as constituting one of the strongest
arguments in behalf of the approval
of the bond issue plan by the veters
at the polls in November. Officers of
the Pennsylvania Motor Federation
have been contending all along that
there could never be anything like a
comprehensive road improvement
program so long as the highway build-
ers must depend on money available
from the ordinary revenues of the
State. From the beginning of the
discussion of the bond amendment
they have insisted that no Legisla-
ture could be expected to resist the
demands for State money for hospi-
tals and other local institutions to
such an extent as to allow sufficient
funds for the building of State roads.
This condition has been illustrated in
all the legislative sessions in recent
years, and it is only emphasized by
the latest experience.
Under the bond issue plan such dis-
appointing situations could not come
about. An assured, steady and con-
tinuous supply of money would be
obtained through the sale of State
bonds, and the road building cam-
paign could be pushed along in a prac-
tical and effective manner. The Leg-
islature, having authorized the var-
ious issues of bonds, backed by the
good faith of the Commonwealth,
would be required to provide for the
carrying cst. This would be much
less than i) - amounts now appropriat-
ed direct 10r road work, which latter
amounts, inadequate though they be,
are obtain..ble only at the sacrifice of
appropriations to charities and other
worthy o! j-cts.
The bouu issue plan,in a nutshell,
is that suflficient money shall be bor-
rowed to do real highway building,
and that the burden of cost shall be
spread ligntly over periods of 30 years
if need be, so as never to tax heavily
the revenues of any particular years.
Under the restricted appropriation
for the next two years, much of the
road builair g that had been planned
will have to be deferred until the
Legislature of 1915 has passed the
necessary enabling act .to carry out
the provisions of the bond issue
amendment, in case the voters ap-
prove the latter in the coming elec-
tion. The Suute Highway Depart-
ment has the whole care and main-
tenance of 8,000 miles of State road
on its hands, and this will require so
much money that the great majority
of the comniunities that have been
petitioning for the reconstruction of |
their important highways cannot be |
accommodated.
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CORACBORATION
Of interest to Meyersdale Readers.
For months Meyersdale citizens
have seen in these columns enthusi-
astic praise of Doan’s Kidney Pills
by Meyersdale residents. Would
these prominent people recommend
a remedy that had not proyen re-
liable? Would they confirm their
statements after years had. elapsed
if* personal experience had not
shown the remedy to be worthy of
endorsement? The following state-
ment should carry conviction to the
mind of every Meyersdale reader.
Mrs. W. C. Burket, 315 High St.,
Meyersdale, Pa., says: ‘I gladly
confirm the pubile statement I gave
praising Doan’s Kidney Pills two
yeass ago. This remedy was used
in my family in a case of kidney
trouble and the relief it brought
has been permanent. I have often
recommended Doan’s Kidney Pills
to other kidney sufferer and I know
of cases where they have been used
with just as great benefit.”’
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and
take no others. ad
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For dyspepsia, our national ailment,
use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recom-
mended for strengthening digestion,
purifying the blood. At all drug
stores. $1.00 a bottle. ad
VERSAILLES CUSTARD.
Cook a cup of granulated sugar
over a hot fire until it becomes car-
amel. Turn quickly into your baking
dish, moving it so as to coat the sides
and bottom with the mixture. This
must be done quickly as the cara-
mel hardens rapidly. Make a custard
as usual, turn into your well-coated
dish and bake until firm in he cen-
ter. Chill thoroughly. To serve,
turn out on a g:ass dish. The caramel
gives a delicious flavor and makes
a splendid sauce.
ORRIN
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 80 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his pers
ZZ me sonal supervision since its infancye
. Allow no one to deceive youin this,
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ¢ Just-as-good’’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiments
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and allays Feverishness. lt cures Diarrhcea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. ,
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