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CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP.
Timely Advice Every Body
Should Heed.
The early adventurous birds, the
position of the sun and a thousand
less obvious but quite as certain
signs of spring are at hand. Spring
means, or should mean house clean-
ing and not only house cleaning, but
yard - cleaning, street and alley
cleaning, painting, furnishing; it
should mean order and harmony and
beauty. So clean up and paint up.
“Qh, yes, whose havin’ ye to adver-
tise some ‘feller’'s paint?” sneers our
omnipresent knocker ¥ friend. We |
might answer that it 1s nonz of his
business but we: don’t have to do
that. We're advertising everybody’s
paint, just as we advertise every
body’s soap and underwear and
cleanly and decent outer garments.
People ought to keep themselves |
clean. Health demands that we do !
that; and we ean’t keep ourselves
clean without soap and water and
towels and the ordinary toilet con
veniences. We can't keep our yards
and lawns clean unless we use mow-
ers, and rakes and shovels. We can’
keeps our streets and alleys clean un-
less we have the men and the tools
and the inclination to keep them as
they should be kept.
Clean up and paint up. This is a
civic prescription that is worth
while. Cleanliness is akin to godli-
mess. You have heard that enough
to convince you,of its truth by rea-
son of its sheer familiarity, or at
least fail to profit by it as we should.
Clean houses, clean lawns, clean
streets, clean alleys, clean out build-
ings—that condition means health
and comfort and aesthetic pleasure.
Dirt and tawdry negligence indicate
decay and shiftlessness; they invite
disease; they are ugly, offensive, un-
natural.
Get busy and inaugurate an early
clean-up,week for a starter, then
keep up the practice at intervals as
may seem necessary.
With the coming of the bluebirds
every yard should be thoroughly
cleaned: all rubbish should be carted
away and destroyed. Pick up and
dispose of things. Be clean outside
the house and inside the house.
When you have done that, begin
to paint up. Never mind, we don’t
Some
care whose paint you use, but use |
paint. Paint makes old things ap-,
pear as new. Paint is not a luxury |
but a necessity.
down of weeds, it means clean cellars
and attics; it means a fair chance to
greatly reduce all kinds of disease
germs which thrive under conditions
of filth and neglect; it means looking
after the water, and the rats, vermin
and malaria. :
We've had our Everybody go to
church Sunday and we are moving
grandly along in the matter of moral
housecleaning. Of, course we all wish
to be as healthy’ as possible and we
could enjoy better health if we would
permit ourselves to welcome it. Clean
hogs are healthier than dirty ones.
The majority of animals are healthy,
unless made sick through ignorance
and carelessness of their owners. Civ-
ilization in its proper sense means
harmony. We have learned to love
the true, the beautiful and the good.
We are able to appreciate a good pic-
ture or a beautiful anthem. That is
why we want our homes and our
cities bright clean and comfortable.
Mr. Knocker, clean up, paint up,
shut up, if you can’t do anything else
but growl. There is a passage of
scripture that fits your case if you
want to continue dirty and rusty—-
“He that is filthy, let him be filthy
still.”. That was all right for the man
who would heed no admonitions to-
wards cleanliness, but in these days
for the public good we try to make
them clean up.—Exchange.
PRESIDENT’S WILSON’S
History of Our Country, Priceless Ed-
ucational Feature. Free to All.
Beginning, Monday, April 19, The
Pittsburg Dispatch will publish ex-
clusively President Wilson’s “History
of the American People” in continu-
ous installments. It is a consecutive
story, intensely dramatic from the
time of the discovery and settlements
on up to very recent years.
At the expenditure of from ten to
fifteen minutes per day this series
will familiarize you with the history
of America. And by the time it is end-
ed you will know as much about the
growth, development and government
of our country as a college graduate. |
The younger members of the family
will find this daily history an aid in
their school and college studies. They |
will read it as they would a story and !
look out for it each day. The older |
members of the family will be able
to refresh their memory by devoting
only a few minutes each day. |
Every member should grasp this
opportunity to study the history of
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Doesn’t it make something in you
ache when you pass a building, resi-
dence or business property, that
looks like it had weathered the
blasts and reflected the suns of fifty
er more fleeting seasons? There are
splotches and blotches all over it;
th shingles or pieces of the roofing
often curl up at the ends like a crank
reformer’s hair; neglect seems to
have covered it with a frayed and tat-
tered mantle; the doors sag and the
the windows wink at you with bleary
indifference. And people live in and
try to do business in such structures!
No one can live in them; it is not
Hving ; it is existing and a very poor
sort of existence at that. No one can
do business in such a place. Such a
building reminds of one of a ragged
beggar seeking for a job.A little work
a little energy, a little paint will
transform one of these places into a
habitation fit for a human dwelling,"
“or make the former decrepitude give
way to brightness in the case of a
business room.
Clean up and paint up. Paint de-
stroys millions of germs that infest
wood. Paint is one of the enemies
with which the doctor has to contend.
Paint is the doctor’s rival.
A tramp goes by, he is dirty and
rusty, and the fact makes him slink.
Most people hate to give him a cup of
coffee and a bite to eat. It isn’t be-
cause he seems to be down and out
but because he is dirty and rusty. He
mars our sense of the fitness of things
and jars the harmony of life. It is
very difficult for such a man to find a
job. But give him a clean shave, put
clean linen on him, shine up his shoes
clothe him in decent garments and
he looks and is another man. His
chances for employment have increas-
ed two hundred and ten per cent.
The same thing is true of property.
Paint the house, the barn and the gar-
age. Paint everything inside and out.
Paint the pump and the arbor trellis,
paint everything but the dog and the
cat and the baby, for them use soap
and water and plenty of it, being care-
ful to wash the baby first. No charge
for this advice.
Cleaning up and painting up con-
tributes to our civic pride and civic
pride is a fine thing; it’s the next fin-
est thing to personal pride and is kin
to it.
Keeping painted up and clean means
means a lot of things. It means the a-
bolishment of c
the remov-
If dange
against the
flies and mosquitoes, the keeping
their country. Remember your teach-
er will be the president of the United
States and that it will not cost you a
penny. Don’t miss the first lesson,
Monday, April 19, in the Pittsburg
Dispatch. Order the paper now so
you will be sure of getting the entire
series.
MARRIED.
Miss Clara Statler, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Statler, af Paint Town-
ship, and Charles Horner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Horner of Windber,
were married at the residence of the
officiating clergyman, the Rev. A. G.
Faust.
Miss Bertha Mae Beck, daughter of
Mr. and Mr Hiram Beck, of Barron-
vale, and John Walter Herring, son
of Mr, and Mrs. Albert Herring, of
Summit Township, were married at
Barronvale by the Rev. P. B. Fasold,
pastor of the New Centreville Luth-
eran church.
Miss Charlotte G. Walker, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Walker, of Som-
erset Township, and Charles R. Boyd,
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Boyd, of
Berlin, were married at the home of
the bride’s parents by the Rev. S. A.
Meyers.
Miss Rebecca Thomas, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs .Jacob Thomas, and
Clayton G. Keim, both of Jenner
Township, were married at Johns-
town, by the Rev. Albert Berkey.
Miss Elizabeth May Shumaker,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin S. Shu-
maker, of Summit Township, and
James R. Whitford, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard H. Whitford, of Meyers-
dale, were married at Meyersdale by
the Rev. J.A.Hopkins.
Miss Sadie P. Lephart, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Lephart, and
John R. Meyers, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James P. Meyers, both of Upper Tur-
keyfoot Township, were married at
the home of the bride’s parents by
the Rev. E. F. House.
| Miss Fannie E. Lenhart, daughter
i of Mr- and Mrs. Nelson H. Lenhart,
| of Garrett, and Irvin G. Christner,
!son of Mr. and Mrs. George Christ-
ner, of Greensburg, were married at
| Blackfield by the Rev. O. G. Fye.
Miss Tessie P. Meyers, daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Meyers, of Jen-
| cells in the basement
MIFFLIN COUNTY'S
FIVE DRY YEARS
The following appeared in the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger recently:
| Mifflin county is a conspicuous ex-
ample of what it means to be without
license to sell intoxicating liquors.
It has had no license for five years,
giving ample time to judge by
results. The facts are here set down
with out bias or prejudice.
License were refused by the court
five years ago in February. The de-
cree explained the action of the court
on weighing the number and charac-
ter of the petitions for and remons-
trants against the licenses, the lat
ter being in a majority. Judge J. M.
Woods, a Presbyterian elder, is the
President Judge, and five years ago
the temperance element elected a no
license Associated Judge, and the
two decided against all license.
Two Associate Judges have been
elected since, but the conditions
have not changed. The same condition
was brought about later in the coun-
ties of Judge Woods’ district,
Huntingdon and Bedford. and they
are both without license.
Conditions have improved each year
here since the bars were closed.
For a time considerable amounts of
beer and whisky were shipped in by
wholesalers in other places and the
drinking element would also secure
a supply at Mifflintown, in Juniata
county. Juniata has since been added
to the “dry” list, and there has been
a decided falling off in the amount of
intoxicants received here.
Drinking Almost Ceasing.
Some of the county officers have
been vigilant in arresting those who
tried to handle “booze” and every
agent of the whoelsale firms fell vie-
tims when their zeal to dispose of
their stuff led them to venture too
far. To- day the consumption of beer
and other strong drink is confined
largely to the four fraternal orders
with its sideboards.
A drunken man is rarely seen here
and is looked on as a derelict. Each
fall a fireman’s field day is held, when
the firemen of this and adjoining
counties meet to celebrate and large |
crowds gather. These meetings have |
been singularly free from drunken-
ness and during the last meeting not
a single arrest was made.
Lewistown’s lockup is a cluster ot
of the town
hall and has been used principally for
drunks or tramps. The absence of ar
rests for drunkenness is noteworthy.
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| The lockup figures are not so very re-
| liable with different officers with dif-
ferene degrees of vigilance. But dur-
ing three months of the/present year
there have been just eight arrests for
a town of 9,000 with 6,000 more inhab’
tants’ nearby with trolley convenien-
ces.
Drunkenness Noticeably Absent.’
The community has had marked in-
dustrial depression for more than a
year, the leading industry manufac-
turing railroad products almost ex-
clusively. Idleness usually leads to
drunkenness and crime, but it is not
so here. Men no longer think it nec
essary to take drinks as they go to
and from their work, or to meet in
barrooms and treat each other in the
evenings. Usually they take their
familes to the moving picture shows
It is believed that the demand upon
charity would have been much great-
er under license during the past win-
ter. It is noticable particularly by
persons who have ben away from the
town for some years that the school
children are much better clother
than formerly.
Bank deposits at first showed an
increase of almost 50 per cent, but
ownng to the depresson there has
been a falling off.Bank deposits in the
three banks here increased from
$885,000 to $1,122,000 under the dry
regime. In addition the Russell Na-
tional bank which five years ago was
a private institution and did not pub-
lish statements, has $360,000 on dépos-
it. Two fine new bank bulidings have
been erected during the five years.
Dry Conditions Aid Business
Businss is about up to that of five
years ago, notwithstandings the indus-
trial depression. No business man at-
tributes any dullness to the absence
of license. Seventy-five per cent of the
merchants wuld say truly that mno-
licnse has been beneficial to business
and the other 25 per cent would base
their opinion mainly on the fact they
are opposed to sumptuary legislation.
The sentiment among the people
generally is stronger against license
to-day than ever before.
During the last five years four
streets have been paved and more
paving is under contemplation during
the present year. Other substantial
|
! nertown, and William H. Shaulis, son
! of Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Shaulis, of
| Lincoln Township, were married at
the Rev. T.
Elmer
Jennertown by
| Rice.
yf Mr. and Mrs iam ( an,
1t the
the
married
le’s parents, by
D. McBride.
both of Acosta, were
home f
| Rey. John
the br
| improvements have been made. The
| Civic Club is becoming more active.
| The churches have grown wonderful-
drunkenness. This showing occurrs in |
votes.
How Long will it Take You to Earn
$600.00
At Your Present Nalary?
We doubt very much if there is one of the contes
tants in the Piano Contest earning more than $600.00 per
year working from from eight to ten hour per day.
Yet here is an opportunity that we are offering to
these same contestants, or to any person who desires to
take advantage of it, an opportunity to earn the equivalent
of $600.00 in six months working only one or two hours
per day at the very most.
You cannot hope to win the Piano
or many of the Grand Prizes
unless
You are active in the sale of
Trade Books.
Remember that the sale of each book brings to the
club that sells it 75,000 votes before it is ever used, and
5.000 additional when the back is turned in.
would net you 760,000 votes. this would certainly give
your standing a boost thar -f
Then what about the special sales?
The purchase of one dollar’s worth
of sale merchandise on Wednes-
day gives the purchaser 11,000
Next Wednesday's Nale
April 28th
lL.aces and Embroideries
Ten books
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Delicately Put.
Two sisters while visiling in Ire.
land in Victoria's time got into con-
versation one day with a tenant of
their hostess. One of the girls, who
1s quite stout, asked the old woman if
she would have known them for sis-
ters. “Well,” was the answer, “ye
look alike, but yer sister’s slender,
while you, miss—well, you favor the
quane.”
Made From Sunflower Seeds.
Seeds of sunflowers are found to
make excellen. food for live stock; its
oil is equal to the best linseed oil,
and its stalks are as good as coal for
producing heat. And yet only a few
years ago Kansas regarded the sun-
flower as a pest for all purposes ex-
cept as an emblem.
Name in Trunk. :
It is a good plan when traveling to
have one’s name and address printed
or written on the’ inside cover of a
trunk. Then in case of loss of check,
or any mistake, it can be identified by
the owner to the satisfaction of the
railway officials by simply opening are
trunk.—Good Housekeeping.
Good Basement a Necessity.
No farm home should be without
a large, roomy, dry and cool base
ment; of the kind in which you can
stow away a furnace, as well as serv-
ing a comfortable workroom. Be
sides, any other kind is not sanitary,
to say the least.
Extremes in Mourning.
When Arabian women go inte
mourning they stain their hands and
feet with indigo Tor eight days, and
during that tima%ghey will drink nc
milk, on the ground that its white
gloom.
Land Lost Through Erosion.
this world is something astonishing
The Mississippi has stolen by erosion
from the different states
of itself a small state.
The cunty commissioners have just
i ly in membership and especially in at-
| tendance.
! yusiness, but ho-
Three hotels quit 1
g are better today
in the history of
intained in the
1, one in day
withb ut little
the town. Order is
town by two police
| time the other at night
to do.
mak-
| Miffin county people are thrifty
ing the best of the unfa €
iness conditions. They ¢
contented and would not
turn to license. If th
bil is not adopted, the 1
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| will figure largely in the election
'a president judge this year.
does not harmonize with the mental | the Executive Committee,
The amo f erosi ing on in
alount of erosion, gone | back of the Pennsylvania Railroad |
| menu card a figure of
through |
which it runs enough territory to make |
2 y | the cost.
‘Hartley, Clutton Co.,
. Meyersdale,
ASSEMBLYMAN:
GETS ANSWER
Rallroad Sizfoments in Fal
Grew Campaign Square
With Truth,
Philadelphia, March 17.
Railroad men who have checked uj
on the argument made by Francis P
Boland, Assemblyman in the New Jer
sey Legislz. ure, in the joint debate
held last 1 riday evening at Jersey
City with Hart J. Facventhall find
that Mr. Boland juggled with facts.
For instance, he called upon the
Pennsylvania Railroad to explain why
in statement No. 1 issued by the Ex
ecutive Committee of Associated Rail
roads it was stated that in the first
half of 1914 two passengers were Kill
ed on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
while in the bulletin previously issued
by the Publicity Department of the
Company it was stated that 189,167,
326 passengers were carried on the
Pennsylvania System without any be
ing killed.
The two passengers killed last yea®
lost their lives falling from trains, a
fact given in No. 1 statement. With
equal clearness it was stated in the
Publicity Department Bulletin that no
passenger was killed in a “train acci
dent.” Such is the conclusive answer
to question No. 1, which Mr. Boland
so vehemently hurled at his opponent,
Engineer Fackenthall.
Mr. Boland also demanded answer
to a statement in statement No. 1 of |
that last
the Full Crew—“HExcess Man |
year
| Orew”"—Laws forced a waste of $2,
000,000 on the railroads in Pennsyl-!
vania and New Jersey, when on the
$1,702,407 was |
| glven. The answer is that $2,000,000 |
| mormal conditions.
paid $165,000 of the county debt, re-|
ducing it to $38,000. A further reduc- |
tion is promised next fall. All n alt |
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was merely a general statement of |
It also is a fair average
amount for such expenditures under
Business is now |
greatly depressed and traffic reduced. |
There are now employed on eighteen
roads in the two states 2299 excess
brakemen, whereas these same rail
roads when the laws took effect were
eompelled to add 2819 men to traiv
erews.
| cury, and is taken internally,
| surfaces of the system.
Penn’a.
FINALLY LEARNED THE TRUTH
Queen. of Roumania. Had to Go Ine
oognito to Ascertain Real Werth
of Her Voice.
In: her youth, Queen Hlizabeth of
Roumania spent much time on’ the
training of her voice, and, encouraged :
by flatterers, came to believe herself:
to be a singer .of unusual talent. At.
length, says Bibliothek der Unter
haltung und des Wissens, she decided
toc have her voice tried by some great
teacher. So she went one day, dressed
very simply, and }without the usual
retinue of servants, to see Professor
Dumanois of Bucharest, and urged him
to give his frank opinion on the quality
of her voice, and her future prospects.
He tested her voice with great care,
first with the simple scales, then with
a song, and lastly with an operatic
aria.
When the trial was over, the profes-
sor said: “I cannot say that you have
a wonderful voice. You sing fairly
well, and with not a little feeling. I
might undertake to train you to sing
in operetta; but to speak quite frank-
ly, you haven’t the looks for it.”
Up to this time the teacher had not
known that the rank of the aspirant
was any higher than that of scores of
other young ladies, equally ambitious,
who constantly came to him. But his
surprise was great when the lady
handed him the visiting card of the
gueen, and he found that he had be-
fore him no less a personage than
royalty itself. The queen thanked him
heartily for the frank way in which
he had judged her musical ability, and
went home with her ambition in that
direction decidedly diminished.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrah
that Contain Mercury.
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completelr derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucuous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable phy-
sicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, Ohio., contains no mer-
acting
directly upon the blood and mucuous
In buying
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, be sure you get
the genuine. It is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.
| Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
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| Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti
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