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England is to have her prisoners of
war help with the crops in the fields.
Only $100,000 has been subscribed
for the relief of sufferers from the Lu-
sitania disaster, whereas for the Ti-
tanic relief committee $2,000,000 had
been subscribed.
Since April 150,000 horses have ar-
rived at Newport News, Va., for ship-
ment to the Allies for use in the war.
They represent a value fm purchase
price and cost of transportation of
$17,5000,000. The price secured for
the horses averaged $350 each.
Mites contributed by American Sun-
day School children have provided
thousands of testaments, printed in
Russian, for soldiers in the field. The
first installment of 12,000 or more are
now being printed. They are being
sent out in the name of the young
czarevitch.
To an error in the orders issued by
Edgar H. Bloom, a telegraph operator
at Hagerstown, is ascribed a head-on
collision of two trains near Thurmont
on the Western Maryland railroad on
Thursday night, when six lives were
lost and many persons hurt. The man
according to dispatches from Hagers-
town is prostrated. He did not seek to
escape responsibility, but was on the
verge of distraction as the result ot
his error, which was due , he says to
mixed orders. Those who were killed
about all lived in Baltimore.
Alex, Hager is a Connellsville mer:
chant who believes that advertising
pays; and he is also convinced that
home newspapers constitute the best
possible medium through which to ex-
ploit his wares. In discussing the trad-
ing stamp proposition at a meeting
of the business men he expressed re-
gret that he had not invested the $90
or $100 a month he used to pay for
trading stamps in space in the lo-
cal papers.
That a brighter business outlook
is dawning is the report which more
than 300 officials of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad system brought to
their annual meeting a few days ago,
at Deering Park, Md. from the in-
dustrial and agricultural communi
ties in which they are engaged in
handling traffic over its 5,000 miles
of line.
The anniversary of the assassina-
tion at Sarayevo of Archduke Fran-
cis Ferdinand of Austria, which turn-
ed Europe into an armed camp and
most of it into a battlefield, finds the
struggle between Teutonism and Sla-
vism for racial supremacy nearing,
what is thought to be its high water-!
mark with the Teutonic armies for
st part still outwardly though
out difficulty, dominating the
situation. Though the Russian re-
treat must mean a great retardation
to the prospect of the Russian recov-
ery to a condition of making a coun-
ter offensive possible, it has also rob-
bed the Austro-Germans of the com-
plete victory that might have been
the Russians to fight to a finish and not
of the latter being able to withdraw
their armies intact. In the western
field of the war the French offensive
seems less active than for some time
past, pending consolidation of the
ground already won and a clearer in-
sight into the next move projected by
the Germans. Just one year ago the
act of Prinzip, a poor student, ulti-
mately resulted in eleven nations go-
ing to war. They are on the one
hand Great Britain, France, Russia,
Serbia, Japan, Belgium, Italy and
Montenegro, and on the other, Germ-
ny, Austria and Turkey. The war to
date according to conservative esti-
mates compiled from the best availa-
ble reports, has caused a loss to the
various belligerets of more than six
million men, dead, wounded and pris-
oners and the loss of more than 500
hundred ships.
STATE HIGHWAY ROUTES.
Governor Brumbaugh has approved
the Spencer House Bill, amending the
State Highway routes of 1911, and es-
tablishing some new ones. Among
them are:
No. 50, Somerset to Uniontown—
From Somerset to New Centreville,
Rockwood by spur; thence to New
Lexington, Casselman by spur, King-
wood, Ursina, Humbert by spur; Con-
fluence, Listonburg, by spur to New-
bury on National road, via Summer-
field to Somerset-Fayette line; thence
on the National road via Somerfield
to the Somerset-Fayette line; thence
via Farmington to Friedens, Stoyes-
town, over route 119 to Ferrelton, to
Boswell, Jerome, Holshopple, Hoov-
ersville by spur; Davidsville to the
Somerset-Cambria line, to Johnstown
Vinco and Dearmin to Ebensburg.
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Only a Dad.
Only a dad with a tired face
Coming home from the daily race,
Bringing little of gold or fame
To show how well he has played the
game,
But glad in his heart that his own
rejoice
To see him come and to hear his voice.
Only a dad, of a brood of four,
One of ten million men or more,
Plodding along in the daily strife,
Bearing the whips and scorns of life
With never a whimper of pain or hate
For the sake of those who at home
await.
Only a dad, neither rich nor proud,
Merely one of the surging crowd
Toiling, striving, from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his way;
Silent, whenever the harsh condemn,
And bearing it all for the love of them.
Only a dad, but gives his all,
To smooth the way for the
small,
Doing with courage stern and grin,
The deeds that his father did for him;
This is the line that for him I pen,
Only a dad but the best of men.
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SIGNERS OF HIGH RANK.
Some of the Nation's Fathers Were
Men of Wealth and Distinction.
Among the men who pledged their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor in support of the principles of
the Declaration of Independence, risk-
ing all in breathing life into the na-
tion, were persons of high rank and
distinction. Some of them possessed
fame which passed the boundaries of
the colonies and was recognized in the
mother country.
Stephen Hopkins, whose tremulous
signature is familiar to every person
who has seen the Declaration, was
chief justice of Rhode Island before
the war, and he was the first abolition-
ist. He introduced a bill in the colo-
nial legislature to prohibit the impor-
tation of slaves and carried out his
| ideas practically by giving freedom to
all the slaves he owned. Besides all
this, he was a great mathematician,
and his name will go down in scien-
tific history as the observer of the
transit of Venus in June, 1761. He
was one of the founders of the Public
library at Providence, a member of
the American Philosophical society and
the founder and patron of the free
schools of Providence.
The trembling of his hand when he
signed the Declaration was not due to
fear—to which he was a stranger—but
to palsy. He was a sufferer from that
malady for many years.
Richard Stockton of New Jersey was
probably the best known lawyer in
America. As early as 1764 he had been
Though I have been trained as a sol-
dier, and participated in many battles,
there never was a time when, in my
opiniou, some way could not be found
to prevent the drawing of the sword.
—General U. S. Grant.
Endorsing Lord Roberts.
The late Lord Roberts once sent
his orderly to the bank to cash a
check and the clerk wanted it en-
dorsed.
..“What for?” demanded the soldier.
“Well, it’s the rule and I can’t pay
you the money until you do endorse
it ,” he was told.
“Oh, all right,” grumbled the mes-
senger, So he took back the check
and bit the end of his pen in deep
meditation for a minute or two. Then
he wrote this:
“I beg to say I have known Lord
Roberts for several years and he has
proved himself times without num-
ter, to be as brave us a lion, hut al-
ways kindly considerate to those who
serve under him, and I have therefore
great pleasure in respectfully indors-
ing his check.”
Try it, but Quickty.
Betty Botter bought some butter.
“But,” she said, “this butter,
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter.
“But a bit of better butter
| will but make my batter better.”
So she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter
{And made her bitter batter better.
| So "twas better Betty Botter
theirs.If they had been able to force |
Bought a bit of better butter.
His Speech.
At the wedding breakfast the bridz-
groom, an exceedingly bashful man,
was called upon to speak, in spite of
the fact that he had pleaded to be ex-
cused. Blushing to the roots of his hair
he rose, intending to say that he was
no speechmaker, but, unfortunately
placing his hand on the bride’s shoul-
der, he stammered these opening and
(closing) words:
“This—er—this thing
thrust upon me.”
has been
Two country darkies listened, awe-
struck, while some planters discussed
the tremendous range of the new
German guns.
“Dar now,” exclaimed one negro,
when his master had finished expati-
ating on the hideous havoc wrought
by a forty-two centimeter shell, ‘“jes’
lak I bin’ tellin’ yo’ niggehs all de
time !
dem roun’ heah! Us niggehs Could
start runnin’ erway—run all day, git
almos’ home free, an’ den git kilt jus’
befo’ suppeh!”
“Dat’s de truf,” assented his com-
panion, “an’ lemme tell yo’ sumpin’
Bo All dem guns needs is jus’ yo’ ad-
ress, dat’s all; jes’ giviem de ad-dress
an’ dey’ll git yo’.”
OLEO FRAUDS ARE
VERY NUMEROUS.
How violators of the oleomarga-
rine law have defrauded the federal
government out of at least $27,000,000
due in stamp and special taxes was
revealed Saturday at Washington by
Secretary McAdoo in a statement
ed
based upon a preliminary report on a
Commissioner Osborne of the inter-
nal revenue bureau.
The announcement shows that
gince 1902 more than 200,000,000
pounds of colored oleomargarine have
“It is believed,” it says, “that a |
consumers-as butter.”
Don’ les’ have no guns lak
Te ro ors
2124p.
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SIGNATURES OF SOME OF THE SIGNERS.
made a sergeant-at-law, in those times
a position of hizh distinction in his pro
fession. In 1766, when he visited Eng
land, he found that his fame had pre
ceded him. and he was received ever)
wheré with the greatest respect. A
Edinburgh he was formally receiv
by the lord provost. anl the cifizen:
by unanin:ous vote conferred the free
dom of the city on him in recegiit
of his great learning. He #iy d
of the king, who made [in ud
court judge of New Jersey.
cast his lot in with the American pa-
triots. saw his great estate seized and
ruined and finally died from the effects
of brutal treatment while he was a
prisoner in the hands of the British.
Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire.
besides being one of the first members
of congress to vote for the Declaration
of Independence. was also the first
American physician to dixcover the vir-
tues of the now universally used drug.
quinine. He was emin: nt for his sur
gical skill long before the war broke
out.’
Philip Livingston of New York was a
man of great wealth and distinguished
ancestry. a direct descendant of a re-
gent of Scotland, a king of the Hebh-
rides and the Earl of Livingston. in
Scotland. His father was the founder
of Livingston Manor, on the Hudson.
Philip himself was the most prominent
merchant of New York city. He was
the friend and correspondent of Ed-
mund Burke, and Burke's friendship
for America and defense of her cause
were due to Livingston’s lucid explana-
tions.
STATE GUARDS AGAINST
DREADED LOCKJAW.
Pennsylvania for the past four
years has had a larger toll of acci-
dents resulting from Fourth of July
celebrations than any other State.
In 1914 more than twtney-five per
cent of all the accidents which occur-
red on the Fourth of July, were in
: this state. It is hoped that this unnec-
essary toll of deaths and accidents
will be reduced this year by the grow-
ing sentiment for a safe and sane cele-
bration.
Restrictive measures relative to the
use of fireworks and fire arms is the
"only way in which this can be accom-
plished.
In order that such accidents as oc-
cur may not be followed by deaths
from tetanus or lockjaw, as it is com-
monly known, Dr. Samuel G. Dixon,
| Commissioner of Health, has made ar-
rangements for the State-wide distrib-
, ution of tetanus antitoxin. This will
| be furnished without cost to the poor.
It is essential that tetanus antitox-
in be administered within twenty-four
hours after the wound has been rs-
| ceived. Any physician can secure im-
| Bweeping investigation conducted by | munizing doses of 1500 units upon ap
| plication if he will certi®y same is for
the treatmene of persons too poor to
pay.
| Dr. Dixon urges the prompt use of
| antitoxin to prevent lockjaw following
been manufactured and fraudulently | explosive or other wounds. He says: —
sold as uncolored oleo.
“Do not consider any such wounds
trivial, but send for the physician at
great proportion of the product reach- once. If it is impossible to promptly
secure his attendance wash out . the
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THE JULY 4
CHURCH
Historic Building In Which
Many Signers Worshiped. :
Tr RI A Rr Rr OTR WIT WY
LD Christ church, the historic
and sacred edifice in Philadel-
phia where three-fourths of
the signers of the Declaration
of Independence worshiped, commem-
orates the nation’s birthday every year
with impressive patriotic and religious
services. Representatives of the Lu-
theran, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
churches, the religious bodies that were
active in the life of Philadelphia when
independence was declared, generally
participate in the services.
Last year the services took the form
of a prayer and thanksgiving to Al-
mighty God for the blessing of civil and
religious liberty. Addresses were made
by Bishop Garland, representing the
Episcopal church; the Rey. Dr. William
H. Roberts of the Presbyterian general
assembly and the Rev. Dr. Edwin Heyl
Delk of the Lutheran church. The
services were conducted by the Rev.
Christ church.
The order of service was the one
adopted in 1785 by the church to be
used every year on the Fourth of July.
The service was attended by repre-
gentatives of President Wilson, Mayor
Blankenburg, the Colonial Dames, the
Sons of the Revolution and of the Pine
Street Presbyterian church, whose pas-
tor, Dr. Duffield, like Dr. White, rector
of Old Christ church, was a chaplain
of the First Continental congress. The
clergy of the diocese in their vest-
ments, with the other guests, met in
the Neighborhood House and proceed
ed into the church while the historic
CHRIST CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA.
bells of Old Christ church were ring
ing as they did in 1776.
The entire church was filled with
persons who worshiped in the same
pews where knelt the churchmen and
patriots of the Continental congress.
Bishop Garland, at the conclusion of
his address. read the following poem
written by him for the occasion:
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Lord, in thy house this sacred day
‘We kneel where patriots knelt to pray;
They pledged anew their faith in thee
Then took up arms for liberty.
Not in their strength, but in thy might,
They trusted to defend the right,
And thou didst guide them by thy hand
And ’stablished firm our fatherland.
God of the patriots, be our guide;
Protect this land for which they died;
Give us our fathers’ faith in thee
To live for truth and liberty.
wound thoroughly with boiled water,
using it as hot as can be borne; re-
move every particle of foreign mat-
ter and until the Doctor arrives ap-
py wet cloths saturated with a solu-
tion made by adding a teaspoonfull
of salt to a pint of boiled water.”
The anti-toxin stations in this vie-
inity will be: Somerset, J. S. Picking;
Johnstown, J. Ringold and Bedford,
F. W. Jordan.
PURCHASED COAL LAND.
By the return of J. N. Kauffman, a
missionary of the Mennonite church
in India, the Cambria Steel Company
was enable to have a deal consumma-
ted at Holsopple by which the latter
company acquired title to about 208
acres of coal land which belonged to
the Christian C. Blough estate. The
purchase price was $25,000. The Cam-
bria Company had held options on
this land for some time and this land
was needed by the company to fill out
its holdings in Conemaugh township.
It is understood that no plans have
been made for coal operations on the
land in the near future.
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May 17th.
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