MIRTH.
Timely Talks by Commissioner Dix-
on on Health and Hygiene.
“Frame your mind to mirth and
merriment, Which bar a thousand
harms and lengthens life.” |
Lycurgus decreed that statues of |
the God of Mirth should be set up in
the halls where the citizens of Spar-
ta ate.
Men of all ages have appreciated
the value of a cheerful disposition.
The cultivation of cheerfulness even
in the face of misfortunes and disas-
ter unquestionably helps to prevent
illness. On the other hand those who
always take a somber view of life are
so distressed by misfortunes when
they come that there is often danger | Mary Shockey;
of physcal impairment.
The nervous system in the lraman
body is so delicately adjusted that a
comparatively slight disturbance may
seriously change certain of the bodily
functions. While it might be at times
difficult for the most skilful diagnos- |
tician to trace the exact connection |
| had been for
QUEMAHONING TEACHERS.
Prof. B. F. Lambert, who a few
weeks ago closed a most successful
term of Normal School at Cairn- |
brook has been elected supervising
principal of the nineteen schools of |
Quemahoning township. Mr. Lambert |
a number of years |
a Shade township teacher. Following
are the grade teachers elected: Kant.
‘ner grammar, Prof. J. A. Spangler;
Kantner, primary, Marguerite Miller;
Kimmelton, grammar, Prof. J. W.
Mostoller; Kimmelton primary, Al
ma Barnhart; Ralphton grammar,
Mary Miller; Ralphton primary, Luna
Sleek; Dull, Milton Lohr; Bowman,
| Prof. O. L. Custer; Rogers, Mary Wit-
son; Shaffer, Jennie Miller; Ober,
Walnut Hill, Flor-
ence Custer; Muller, Elmer Lohr;
| California, Prof. J. O. Spangler; City,
Paul Custer; Mostoller, James Smith;
Reading, Irvin Spangler; Pine Grove,
Harry Croyle; Maple Grove, Edith
Millelr.
SOMERSET TEACHERS.
between menial Seprssyen J % Glade City, Advanced, Lillian Sei-
physical fa he aL ° oy ae bert, $50, professional; Glade City,
i intimately related is We py 5;y Margaret Shultz $40.00
known.
| B. Lichty, Lloyd Shumac, $43; Key-
Habits of mind like habits of body stone, Mary Lichty, $40; Peck, Mary
can be cultivated through persistent pire $42; Summit Mills, Ruth Cora-
effort. Cheerfulness is not only one ons, $50, professional; Sandy Hol
which will prove a distinct benefit to i low, E. R. Hay, $50, professional; Lick
its possessor but serve to stimulate Run, Emma Schrock, $40: S. J. Mil
and encourage those with whom he ler. advanced, S. C. Witt, $50, profes-
comes in contact.
Melancholia and
disturbances may
similar
be brought
sional; S. J. Miller, intermediate, Mae
serions moore, $43.25; S. J. Miller, primary,
about Anna Miller, $40; Shaw Mines, Lester
by permitting the mind to brood over gp gipple,$340; Walker, Harry Saylor,
real or fancied troubles and if indul- $41.25; Handwerk, Velma Gnagey,$50;
ged in the line of demarcation be- professional; Gnagey, Mary Gnagey,
tween the two becomes
more indistinct.
more
Therefore, though you do not set Witt, $43.25;
up the statue of the God of Mirth in wovers
and g41 50; Burkholder, D. C. Handwerk,
$50, professional; Sand Springs, Frank
Cross Roads,
$43.25; B. Miller, Sada
vour house bear ever in mind that the Schrock, $41.75.
“light heart lives long.” '
MORE CARS FOR B. & O.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad, it
is understood, is in the market for new
equipment which will represent an ex-
penditure of approximately $2,000,000
Among the items are 2,000 steel hop-
pers. It is probable the order will be
placed at an early date. The ordinary
steel hopper costs in the neighborhood
of $1,000. The shops of the company
are busy repairing cars. The number
in the shps is large and when they
are in condition to be put in service
again the car situation on the Balti-
more & Ohio will be still further im-
proved. .
The company is well supplied with
motive power at this time. Engines
are available to move an increased
tonnage, provided the cars are fur-
nished in which to haul the traffic. In
the fall the Baltimore & Ohio will be-
gin to figure on its rail requirements |
for the new fiscal year.
LUTRERAN COUNTY REUNION.
The annual Lutheran reunion of
Somerset County will be held
at |
Edgewood Park at Somerset Thurs |
and vicinity and there will be a gen- |
erl greeting of old friends and the
making of new acquaintances.
The
music for the occasion, and the com-
mittee announces the biggest Luther-
an reunion ever held. The public is
invited. Meals and refreshments will
be served on the grounds. The admis-
sion pric charged will be ten cents
up until ten o'clock after which the
regular admission will be charged.
Excursion tickets will be sold over
the B. &. O,
THE ELECTRIC IRON.
In an eastern city more than 15,000
lectric are now in service
in private families. Not only do these
r electric irons save an enormous
flatirons
ount of labor but they have rele-
gated 135 tons of old flatirons to the
junk heap. Every electric iron dis-
places at least three old fashioned
irons, because two irons had to be
kept on the fire heating while one was
being used.
day, July 29th. A fine, varied literary
musical and sports program is an-
nounced.
James A. Burns, president of Onei-
da College, Kentucky, will be the
principal speaker of the day. He will
give his famous lecture on “The Re-
deeming of My People.” In the mor-
ning addresses will be given by
prominent Lutherans of the county
Meyersdale band will furnish
Forty-five thousand dis-!
placed sad-irons would weigh 210,000 |
pounds. An engineer has figured out
that substitution of an electric laun-
dry iron for three “sad” irons saves
for the woman, who has made the |
change, 200 miles in a year walking |
to and fro in a beaten path between |
the ironing board and the range.
Pennsylvania cold storage ware- |
houses hold the gigantic quantity of
18,800,169 dozens of eggs, according
to the reports filed with Dairy and |
Food Commissioner James Foust at |
the close of the conference they will |
ger than one year ago. Butter in
storage is reported at 4,964,877.
pounds.
L nv TRS 2 |
¥OLF VF HTLY Wi Ty mY |
|
| SOMERSET TOWNSHIP TEACHERS
| Will’'s—Nina Peck; Cupp’s—George
Dickey; Friedens, Grammar,—Jacob
| Spangler; Friedens, Primary—Anna
G. Walker; Somerset, No. 1—Roy
Saylor; Somerset No. 2—Mary Cole-
man; Somerset No. 3—Nelle Albright
Somerset No. 4—Lottie Sipe; Cole-
man—Mabel Meyers; Ankeny—Nelle
Dickey; Brum, Marie Fike; Pine Hill
— Oscar Mosgrave; Wills Creek—Em
| ma Seibert; Hunter—Alma Walker;
Pine Grove—Bessie Suter; Baer--
Rachel Coleman; Listie No. 1—Geo.
Orpha |
Menser; Listie No. 2—Sadie Sechler;
| Listie No. 3 —Mabel Brubaker; Lis-
'tie, No. 4 Lydia Pile; Walker Grove—
| Milton Baker; Shaulis—Lulu Frazier;
P. W. & S.—Besse Shaulis; Husband
— Olive Adams; Zimemrman—Minnie
| Lavansville—Florence Pile; Union—
Earle Schrock; Plank Road—Clayton
Rhoads; Gladehurst, Minnie Riding-
Samuel’s— Besse Schrock.
BOSWELL TEACHERS.
The followng teachers for the
1915—16 term have been elected by
the Boswell Board of School direc-
tors:Grammar grade, M. L. Trexal;
sixth grade, Miss Matilda Temke;
fifth grade, Miss Grace Wright;
fourth grade, Miss Mildred Crossland
third grade, Miss Irene Phillippi; sec
ond and a half grade, Miss Ethel
Schramm; second grade, Miss Jennie
Gonder; first grade, Miss Jeannette
Lansey. The principalship was filled
sometime ago by the election of Prof.
iJ. C. Beam.
| er;
BLACK TOWNSHIP TEACHERS.
Wable, Prof. Calvin Newman; Lau-
rel Run, Ross Younkin; Humbert—
Prof. 1. P. Wilt; Blackfield— Harry
Altmiller; Wilson Creek advanced—
Prof. H. H. Newman; Wilson Creek,
Primary—Iva Shober; Markleton—
Elinore Kretchman; Weimer Grove—
Mary McVicker; Rhoads—Henry
Marker Advanced—Charles Weimer
Marker Primary—Louise Sterner. The
schools will open on Monday Septem-
ber 6.
HOOVERSVILLE TEACHERS.
Hooversville First Primary— Bess
E. Saylor; second primary—June E.
Ringler; Third Primary—Bernice
Dull; The First Intermediate—Della
Schrock; Second Intermediate—Mr.
Beabes; Grammar—Vernon D. Nau-
gle; Principal—Prof. Rodgers, the
last named having been elected at a
previous meeting of the board.
At a recent meeting of the Chau-
tauqua Association here, President
E. C. Kyle, Secretary H. M. Cook and
TreasurerChas. Q. Griffith were unan-
mously re-elected. W. H. Deeter was
elected First Vice President; W. H.
Stotler, Second Vice President and
{ Clarence Moore, Assistant Secretary.
| The report of the secretary showed
total receipts from admissions to the
Chautauqua of $1731.50 and local ex-
penditures of $1571.61, leaving a bal-
ance of $159.89 in the treasury ,after
deducting last year’s deficit of $45.
21 which was refunded to the guar-
antors who had advanced the money
|to balance the accounts of last year.
FOLEY 1IDNEY PILL |
OR RHEUMAl.ciH
Was McClellan a Traitor?
In Harper's Mazazine there are
printed for the first time extracts from
John Hay’'s diary, written when he
was Lincoln’s secretary. Writing in
1864, he recounts a story told him by
Lincoln which reveals McClellan in a
new light.
“On September 25, 1864, Hay re-
cords that a letter had just come from
Nicolay, who was in New York, stating
that Thurlow Weed, the dominant Re-
publican leader in New York State,
with whom Nicolay was to confer, had
gone to Conada. When Hay showed
the President the letter he said: ‘I
think I know where Mr. Weed has
gone. I think he has gone to Vermont,
not Canada. I will tell you what he
is trying to do. I have not as yet told
anybody.’
i
“And then Lincoln proceeded to un-
fold the following story of a remark-
able intrigue:
“‘Some time ago the Governor of
Vermont came to me on “business of
importance,” he said. I fixed an hour
and he came. His name is Smith. He
is, though you would not think it, a
cousin of Baldy Smith. Baldy is large,
blond, florid. The Governor is a little,
dark sort of man. This is the story
he told me, giving General Baldy
Smith as his authority:
“ “When Gen. McClellan was here at
Washington (in 1862) B. Smith was
very intimate with him. They had
been toegther at West Point and
friends. McClellan had asked for pro-
motion for Baldy from the President
and got it. They were close and con-
fidential friends.
down to the Peninsula their same inti-
mate relations continued, the General
talking freely with Smith about all his
plans and prospects, until one day
Fernando Wood and one other (Demo-
cratic) politician from New York ap-
peared in camp and passed some days |
with McClellan.
“prom the day this took place
Smith saw, or thought he saw, that
McClellan was treating him with un-
usual coolnes sand reserve. After a
little while he mentioned this to Mec-
Clellan, who, after some talk, told
Baldy he had something to show him.
He told him that these people who
had recently visited him had been urg-
ing him to stand as an opposition can-
didate for President; that he had
thought the thing over and had con-
cluded to accept their proposition, and
had written them a letter (which he
had not yet sent) giving his idea of
the proper way of conducting the war,
so as to conciliate and impress the
people of the South with the idea that
our armies were intended merely to
execute the laws and protect their
property, etc. and pledging himself to
conduct the war in that inefficient,
conciliatory style.
« «This letter he read to Baldy, who,
after the reading, was finished, said
earnestly: “General, do you not see
that looks like treason, and that it will
ruin you and all of us?” After some
further talk the General destroyed the
letter in Baldy’s presence; and thapked
him heartily for his frank and friendly
counsel. After this he was again tak-
en into the intimate confidence of Mc-
Clellan.
« qmmediately after the battle of
Antietam, Wood and his familiar came
again and saw the General and again
Baldy saw an immediate estrangement
on the part of McClellan. He seemed
to be anxious to get his intimate
friends out of the way and to avoid
opportunities of private conversation
with them. Baldy he particularly kept
employed on reconnoisance and such
work. One night Smith was return-
ing from some duty he had been per-
forming, and, seeing a light in McClel-
lan’s tent, he went in to report. He
reported and was about to withdraw
when the General requested him to
remain. After every one was gone he
told him those men had been there
again and had renewed their proposi-
tion about the Presidency; that this
time he had agreed to their proposition
and had written them a letter acceding
to their terms and pledging himself to
carry on the war in the sense already
indicated. This letter he read then
and there to Baldy Smith.
« qmmediately thereafter B. Smith
applied to be transferred from that
army. At very nearly the same time
other prominent men asked the same
—Franklin, Burnside and others.
«Now that letter must be in the
possession of F. Wood, and it will not
be impossible to get it. Mr. Weed has,
I think, gone to Vermont to see the
Smiths about it.’
“Hay continues:
“« was very much surprised at the
story and presed my surprise. I
said I had always thought that Me-
lellan’s fault was a constitutional
weakness and idity, which pre-
vented him from active and timely
exertion, instead of any such deep-laid
scheme of tr hery and ambition.
“ «The President replied: “After the
battle of Antietam I went up to the
field to try to get him to move, and
came back thinking he would move at
once. But when I got home he began
to argue why he ought not to move.
I peremptorily ordered him to advance.
It was nineteen days before he put a
man over the river. It was nine days
longer before he got his army across,
and then he stopped again, delaying
on little pretexts of wanting this’ and
that. I began to fear he was playing
false—that he did not want to hurt
the enemy. I saw how he could in-
tercept the enemy on the way to Rich-
mond. I determined to make that the
test. If he let them get away I would
remove him. He did so, and I re-
lieved him.'”
exp
tl
Quite a Philosopher
*PDon’t you wish you had
enough to make a million?”
“No. I wish I had sense enough ta
make a quarter of a million and stop
with that and enjoy it.”
sense
When they went |
ad
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Fred W. Stickel’'s to C. S. Kifer,
in Larimer township, $1,500.
Jno. H. Speicher to Penn Smoke-
less Coal Company, Conemaugh
township, $210.
H. C. Benford
to H. H. Tipton,
Meyersdale $1,500. .
G. E. Conrad’s hersishrdlu dlu hr
G. E. Conrad’s heirs to W. A. Mer-
rill, Somerset County, $7,000.
Catherine A. Miller to Bessie M.
Caton, Brothersvalley, $200
George P. Brubaker to Maude
Flickinger, Brothersvalley, $800.
Milton J. Pritts to W. D. Lambert,
Somerset $10.
Leah Ackerman to George Acker-
man, Northampton, $1,600.
C. W. Large to J. W. Lohr, Shade
$150.
Philip Meyers to Mahlon Meyers,
Conemaugh $3,000.
W. W. Porch to W. A. Merrill, Som
erset county.
J. M. Griffith to Vincenzo D. 'Ami-
co, Jenner township, $150.
Adam Parnell to Arville Burnworth
Addison township, $1,175. |
Salvator Guida to Maggie J. Snab-
ly, Conemaugh township, $100.
Reuben Zimmerman to Norman
Blough, Conemaugh, $1,000. |
Jennie L. Scott to: Rufus P. Au-!
gustine, Confluence $270.
Rose B. Schell’s heirs to Arrow
Mining Company, Shade $5,000.
David Sheeler to Catherine Laffer- |
ty , Milford $400. |
°
Don’t Be a Kitchen Slave
Any Longer
Mis. Housewife, if you're working yourself to death with
one of those kill-joys of the kitchen—a cranky, time-con-
suming, labor-creating coal or wood stove—you can write
your Declaration of Labor Independence today by going to
your dealer and buying a
OIL COOK
NEW PERFECTION °%5%2
It frees you from the moil and toil of carrying coal, shovel-
ing up ashes, splitting wood, raking, waiting for the fire to
come up, making a new fire, an overheated and dusty kitchen
and a lot of other things that help make your life miserable.
New Perfection Oil Cook Stoves offer a safe, sane, satis-
fying and saving way to do your cooking. With the separate
Robert . Zimmerman io Shade oven and fireless cooker they will do anything any other
OIo0k Coil Comma ghsde soe ol stove will do—bake, broil, roast, boil, fry, heat water for
om g 0 . same, 2de, | wash day and irons for ironing day. Sure they're economical.
$23,000. You turn. them off when not in use—save fuel and money.
C. B. Schry to F. P. Martin, Alle-|
| You can regulate the flame. Youre not bothered with
| gheny township, $250.
smoke and smell because the combustion chimneys prevent
|
Masonic Outing Club to Johns- | that. The improved wick outlasts the ordinary kind. In
town Traction Company, $150. fact, the New Perfection is just full of features that make a
Jacob H. Roudabush to Arville| woman's work easy.
Roudabush, Painttownship, $450.
Make today your Independence Day by getting a New
Perfection. Your local dealer can fix you up. Get busy
now and you won’t be so busy later on.
THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO.
Philadelphia Pittsburgh
East res
3 %s ave ~hiuined by using Rayeli=ht Cil
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By Your Lathe
You need skill of hand, a keen
eye and steady nerves, and when
you get a crackerjack chew or
smoke you know how it helps all
three. Nothing like tucking good
old FIVE BROTHERS into your
pipe or taking a man’s size chew,
to hold you steady and put gimp
into the job.
A ms
is a substantial, satisfying, healthful tobacco—
made for real men who like the honest taste of
real tobacco.
Jno. E. Weaver to Abraham Blough
Conemaugh, $3,400.
A marriage license was issued
Thursday at Cumberland to William
Hiram Nedrow and Jennie Grace Mil-
ler, both of Rockwood.
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Manly men cannot get satisfaction out of insipid mixtures,
any more than they can make a meal off of marshmallows. You go to FIVE
BROTHERS to satisfy your tobacco hunger, just as you go to a beefsteak
to satisfy stomach hunger.
We make FIVE BROTHERS out of pure Southern Kentucky leaf. We
age it three to five years—so as to make it rich, ripe and mellow — sweet
juicy and pleasing. It’s got the snap and taste to it.
It's the big, two-
fisted kind of men, the
country’s "finest" who
use FIVE BROTHERS
because it is the one to-
bacco that always satis-
fies them.
You try FIVE BRO-
THERS for a week, and
you'll always keep it on
the job.
FIVE BROTHERS is
sold everywhere —get a
package today.
THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY
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