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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL,
A. M.-SCHAFFNER, Editor and Proprietor.
Pablished €very Tharsday in the Year at $1.80 Per Year Cash
Phone No. 55. 110-112 Center Street.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1913
Meyersdale’s Contest.
Meyersdale emerges from the battle of ballots, and the bitter
contest which was waged will soon be forgotten and all will be
found working for the greater and better Meyersdale.
To the victors The Commercial extends hearty congratulations,
and to the defeated good will and good wishes.
In a government, constituted as ours, everyone must with good
grace accept the verdict of the people. They spoke on election day,
and the men elected to their various offices, in the faithful per-
formance of ir duties, have a realizing sense of the fact that
they hold their offices by the will of the people. From the hightest
to the lowe: ay their tenure of office be in accordance with the
spirit and letter of the law, agreeable to the cffice holders and
satisfactory tc » people whose servants they are. . May all result
good for Meyersdale.
EIS CS PE
Crisis Near liu Mexico.
The real crisis in Mexico is near at hand. It is announced that!
President Wilson demanded the resignation of Hureta and that no|
one closely allied with him is to carry on the government of Mexico.
What disposition of this demand Hureta will make remains to be
seen. If he rejects the ultimatum of the President, the adminis-
tration will be compelled to enforce its demands, and that will mean
a clash between Mexico and the United States.
At Swarthmore in this state and in Alabama President Wilson
declared that this nation is not seeking new territory and that the
governed have rights and privileges as well as the governing ones
"Phe condition of Mexico is pitiful, and while the administration
apparently has done everything possible to avert a clash there is a
limit to a state of warfare and butchery, and should conditions con-
tinue as they have been, the day may be near at hand when the
leaden heel of America will be felt in the lawless and abused Re-
public of Mexico, :
Bond lous Deleaied.
The fifty million dollar bond issue for good roads has for the
time being received a quietus. A big majority of the people who
voted on the question decided that it would not be fair to burden
the state for years to come with a heavy debt which the next gen-
eration would have to pay.
The slog was ‘‘good roads’ and every effort was made
to confuse the people and fool them as they used to, with
v ‘protection’’ ery and the ‘‘full dinner pail.’”’ Everybody any :
good roads but there are a great many people who believedn the
old fashioned way of paying cash for what you buy and it'#as
been demonstrated to all fair minded men that five million dol} /
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with a $50,000,000 debt, and about $5,000,000, it is believed by many’:
is about all that a state can spend honestly and judiciously in rosd
making in the course of a year. :
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Sulzer Vindicated. :
William Sulzer received one of the © mest tributes at the recent
election in New York that any”. ovo. received. Impeached and
deposed as governor of. pois State, he was nominated and
triumphantly _ eeted to membership of the lawmaking body which
brouc’ « shout his political downfall.
Tammany is corrupt. Sulzer had been playing the game before
he was governor, Murphy wanted him to continue, and Sulzer
wanted to give a good administration. Hence the upheaval.
The public believes that practically all the charges brought
against Sulzer were true, but it resents the feigned honesty of
Murphy. Naturally the public sympathized with Sulzer and felt
that he had not had a square deal. But is it not strange that a
man found guilty of numerous charges, deposed as governor, and a
few weeks later is elected a member of the legislature ? The peo
ple sometimes vote in a mysterious way their wonders to perform
The Elections.
Tammany received a solar plexus on Tuesday. Her candidate
was snowed under b{ many thousand votes. The curtain had been
drawn aside during the Sulzer trial and the people of greater New
York saw Charles F. Murphy very closely and distinctly. Slowly
but surely the free born, clear thinking, independent men of Amer-
ica are impressing upon the minds of men that the day of the political
boss is passing away. Now and then men try to beat the game,
but in this 20th century they usually get hurt. It is contrary to the
spirit of the age to have a political dictator and bruiser carrying
elections with a high hand. Charles F. Murphy was hit hard, and
every time the people assert their manhood against the boss they
rise a step higher in self-government and respectability.
The contest was not so much between McCall, the Tammany
candidate, and Mitchell, the Fusion candidate, as it was against
corrupt Tammany and Boss Murphy on the one hand and the re-
sentment of an outraged people on the other hand.
The people won in New York to their credit. The passing of
the “tariff bill apparently has not weakened the administration.
Massachusetts elected the Democratic candidate by a big majority,
New Jersey elected Wilson’s choice for governor by a safe plural-
Meyersdale Commereial. |
SCIENCE OF CITY BUILDING
Many Cities Desert the Topsy Method
of Expansion and Begin to
Reach Out.
small, that are deserting the Topsy
method of just growing, says Harper's
Weekly. They are being gently and
persistently pushed along toward
greatness. To use an invidious meta-
phor, they are picking factories from
their less wakeful neighbors and
planting them in their own towns;
they are causing the transfer of hun-
dreds of millions of dollars’ worth of
business from the somnolent cities
and, in this time of reforms, are |
boasting of their remarkable progress |
in population. |
The way the thing is done may be
aptly illustrated by the . manner in
which Poughkeepsie obtained an auto- |
mobile factory. The secretary ready
in a newspaper that an Itflian som]
pany was thinking of locating a fac-
tory in, this country. Without waiting | |
for the owners to have a. chance to! §
look the country over and decide for 3
themselves, the secretary pounced |
upon them and talked Poughkeepsie, | d
talked it hard and convincingly He
invited them to come up and see the
place, and when he got them took
them all over the town and showed 4
them the schools and churches, the | g
parks and workingmen’s houses, told |
them about the railroad facilities and |
rates. Then he took them to the very §
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spot that he had picked out in
vance where they could build. He #
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For the next few weeks we are
prepared to offer you-a selection of
COATS, of which we are proud, for
men and women, and we feél sure
you will be pleased to see our
nifty, up-to-date stock, and when you
see our stock, you will agree with us
that we are prepared to furnish Coats
for men and women of the most fas-
tidious tastes. |
pictured the factory fo them, pointed |
to the homes their men would live in, |
told them how low the taxes were and |
how healthful was the air. When
they went away the visitors had ev-|
ery good point about Poughkeepsie
throbbing in their heads in 100 differ-|
ent forms, and consequently they |
straightway came back and built
their factory in Poughkeepsie.
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MAKE WASTE PLACES BLOOM
Railway Station Garden Is Latest
Move Toward the City
Beautiful.
. During the last few years a new -
kind of garden has come into being in \ 5 \ >
the shape of the railway station gar- LL ETRE
den. It is tended by members of the:
Come in and convince yourself, We
will count it a pleasure and privilege to
show you our stock, whether or not you
wish to buy.
FAIR Dealing
BITTY Demise ~
Lal uy ana
FAIR Treatment
FAIR Prices
FAIR Merchandise
FAIR Selling
#taff, and is usually a picture of neat
ness, and often of beauty as well. The| _
in Lb Sy Pf
small, tidy beds, or long narrow bor:
ders edged with white stones, are
‘often glorious masses of color, with-
out one jarring note. At some country
stations the name of the place is
worked out in flowers or small shrubs,
and should the traveler by chance fall
into conyersation with the presiding
genius of the garden he will find that
a remark on the nattiness and pretty
ness of the scheme of decoration will
be much appreciated. In their season,
roses—usually red or white or yellow
Ramblers—bloom luxuriantly at many
a wayside stopping place and trans-
form the station itself into a ‘thing
of beauty.”—London Globe.
South America’s Worst Brigands.
I made many expeditions from Po:
tosi into the surrounding country,
writes W Hilton-Simpson in the Wide
World. The Indians here are the no-
torious Aimara, likewise descendants
of the Incas, and the worst brigands
in South America. Their principal oc:
cupation is murder and theft, and un:
til quite recently they sacrificed their
prisoners to the gods, and then par
took of their flesh. As regards sav-
agery, they easily excel all other
tribes. The sacrificial victim was not
merely butchered, as happens in most |
similar cases; he was bound, and then |
the flesh was torn off his living body
and eaten by men, women and chil
dren. If, in the process of being tor-
tured, as much as a moan escaped his
lips, the bones of the victim. were
thrown away; but if, on the contrary,
he was stoic enough to be silent, the |
bones were collected and set up on a|
pile of rocks to be worshiped. It .is|
still within the memory of living man |
that human meat was sold among the
Aimara.
Plant Street Trees. |
Plant a tree. The expense is small. |
The subsequent attention is not large. |
Once started, the tree helps itself as
scarcely anything else of moment to
us ever does It grows while we sleep.
It drinks the sunshine and compounds
its own food out of the refuse gases
of the air and the watery solutions of |
the soil. Out of these inert, inattrac-
tive, barely recognizable substances
by a miracle of transformation there
comes forth®that thing of life and beau-
ty, which is also a thing of tangible
money value—a tree.
Improving.
“Bliggins like to hear himself talk.”
“ls that all you have against him?”
ity, in Maryland a Progressive Democrat was named for the United
States Senate.
In Pittsburgh the Penrose forces elected Armstrong over the
Flinn forces Mayor of Pittsburgh, and the indications are that Sen
ator Penrose is gr: lly getting back the power that was so |
ruthlessly y, so cruelly taken away from him a few|
vant Penrose again, ! to serve
years ago. Well
them six years longe
1 the United States Senate.
“Could anything be worse?” |
| “Certainly. Bliggins used to like to |
| hear himself sing.”
Umpire’s Joy.
“So he claims to be she only per-|
fectly impartial umpire in the game? |
On what does he base the claim?”
| Groceries.
November
The Quarterly |
: Winter issue of A
Butterick Butterick
Patterns Fashion
Magazine
now on sale at .
(with coupon
entitling pur-
chaser to a pat-
tern FREE),
can be had at
our pattern
counter for 25¢.
These Corsets are the exquisite creations of expert corset designers .
and artisans They are patterned after such attractive lines that they are
dreams of beauty, yet substantial and practical =~ The materials used in
their construction are carefully selected stock of contils and batistes. The
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the best grade. Every woman who wears a properly fitted American
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Only $1.00 to $3.50 Per Pair. :
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Get a Fashion
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These are distinctly new and stylish outer garments for
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Women’s Novelty Cloth Coats.
finish goods made up in the most approved styles
Women’s Black Plush and Nealette Coats.
nothing excels
Plush and Sealette. The styles are selected for practical service and dress wear. If it
should happen any time we are out of your size we can get it in two days time.
ildren’ Fur Effects and Novelty Cloth. New one just received. Practical
Children’s Coats. 3 Coats. and stylish models suitable for school and St SE; Teche
My lines of Dress Goods and Dry Goods
Dress Goods and Dry Goods. :
are being made more complete day by -
day. The things that are being added are the newest of their kinds,
All the fashionable mate-
rials, fancy and rotigh
In appearance and
wearing qualities
You will find here GROCERY SPECIALS cach week. It will
pay you to buy your dry goods and groceries from me.
ALBERT S. GLESSNER
SUCCESSOR TO APPEL & GLESSNER
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