THE MEYERSDALE
COMMERCIAL.
FUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT MEYERSDALE, PA.
K. Cleaver, Editor
When paid strictly in advance $1.25
When not paid in advance $1.90
LET THE NATIONS PRE-
PARE FOR PEACE.
The dominant cry of our country
from all quarters is to prepare for
war, to increase the size of all the
forces for war in sea on earth and in
the sky.
Since the earliest existence of man
that has been the policy of all na-
tions, tribes and communities}—yea
down to the last individual himself
4n order that each might be protected
against his fellow and it has been a
‘collossal failure. So when the cry goes
forth from our national government
that we must become better equipped
‘to slaughter our brothers of the flesh
4t would seem that we are on the re-
turn graed to barbarism.This eye for
an eye and tooth for a tooth custom
in the affairs of nations ought to be
dead dogma. Nations ought not to
carry weapons any more than indi-
viduals and the latter do not need
them. Those corporations which have
to do with the manufacture of arms
and munitions of war of course are
trying to create a trade for their bus-
iness. Let the nations disarm and af-
ter awhile proper adjustments would
be made.. Force cannot avail to per-
manent peace. There is a more excel-
lent way. The United States ought to
work it out.
“Were half the power
world with terror,
Were half, the wealth
camps and courts,
Given to redeem the
from error,
‘There were no need of arsenals and
forts.”
that fills the
bestowed on
human mind
"TO BREAK UP TRAIN RIDING.
Incident to a campaign against un-
lawful train riding and the trespassing
which the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
is pursuing in an effort to reduce the
number of accidents resulting in death
and injury to persons having no bus-
ess on the property, officers of the
road recently found it necessary to
arrest six men and eight boys in a
day in one of the suburbs of Pittsburg
to remove them from danger of the
tracks in the yard.
The ages of the boys ranged from
12 to 16 years and officials of the
railroad believe by turning these chil-
dren over to the city authorities the
lives of some of them were saved.
The railroad has enlisted the help
of school authorities, pastors and
Sunday School teachérs to caution
children against the danger in tres-
passing upon railroad tracks and
hooking rides on trains.
GOVERNOR’S STATE TOUR
More than 100 persons will accom-
pany Gov. Brumbaugh on his auomo-
bile tour of Pennsylvania during the
first week in October. Plans have
been completed by the State Highway
department which has arranged the
itinerary and two officials of the de-
partment will make a full inspection
of the route in a few days to make
hotel reservations and inspecting
the roads to be traversed
The governor and his party will
leave Harrisburg on October 4 spend-
ing the first night at Bedford, and
second night in Pittsburg; the third
night at Altoona; the fourth at Wil-
liamsport and the fifth at Pocono
Summit. The tour will end at Phila-
delphia on November 9. The miléage
to be covered per the schedule will be
960,
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STATION AGENT IN’
SERIOUS TROUBLE.
W. E. Carter, B. & 0. Station Agent
at Somerset, was found guiity at Som-
erset court, last week, of a serious
charge preferred by Miss Ella Dan
iels, a seamstress of that place and
after a short deliberation by the jury.
The penalty for the offense is five
years in the penitentiary, besides a
heavy fine. 7]
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It is said a breach of promise suit |
will also be brought against Carter |
by Miss Daniels whom it is said he!
has been courting for five years. |
The testimony in the case was so
bad that women and young people |
should have been excluded from the |
court room. To have been seen pres- |
ent should bring a blush to their
faces. |
Carter will take the case to a higher |
court it is said.
BRETHREN CHURCH—Rev. H. L.
Goughnour, Pastor. Preaching servie-
es for Sunday, Sept. 26, both#morn-
ing and evening in the Meyersdale
church. The Women’s League will ©
meet in connection with the Sunday
School at 9:30 a. m. Christian En-
deavor at 6:45 p. m. All are cordial-
ly invited.
| Messrs Chas.
CONFLUENCE
Mrs. J. C. Younkin has returned
from Pittsburg where she had spent
several days visiting friend.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Flanigan of Pitts
burg are spending a few days vita
friends in town.
M. R. Thomas of
a week end visitor here with his
daughter, Mrs. H. P. Meyers.
, Mrs. F. C. Rose of Connellsville
and Mrs. Sherrick of Somerset have
returned to their homes after visit-
ing their brother, John Davis of the
West Side.
James Hanna of near Dumas was
visiting friends in town on Saturday.
Mrs. C. M. Cunningham who has
been quite ill is a little improved at
this writing.
Albert Kurt of McKeesport was vis-
iting friends here last week.
Mrs. Chas. Watson has returned to
her home in Connellsville after vis-
iting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Burnworth.
I. L. Hall has returned from Union-
town where he visited friends and
attended the veterans reunion.
Mrs. G. E. Wright returned to her
home in Greensburg after a visit with
friends here and at Markleton.
Miss Florence Goughnour left Sat-
urday for Greensburg where she will
enter the high school.
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Lutheran Church met at the home of
| Mrs. O. G. Kantner on Thursday ev-
ening and after the business was
| transacted refreshments were serv-
ed and a social hour followed.
Robert Little has gone for a visit
with his sister, Mrs. James Kearn
at Chicago Junction, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Benton Murray of W.
Newton visited friends here ‘en
| route to their home from a fishing
trip in West Virginia.
Miss Pauline Murphy has returned
to the Indiana State Normal School
| after spending her vacation with her
parents.
Mrs. Margaret Swan has returned
te her home in Connelsvile after a
| visit of several days here with rela-
| tievs and friends.
ROCKWOOD
Miss Clarissa Snyder who had been
| visiting Mr. and Mrs. Llie in in Mey-
| ersdale, for the past month, has re-
turned to her home in this place.
Mrs. Mildred Dennison and Joseph-
| ine Funckie who have been the guests
{of relatives here for several days
| have returned to their home in Pitts-
| burg.
Miss Jennie Bloom is the guests of
| Pittsburg friends. .
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Enos and son,
Wilbur, of this
Mrs. J. B. Vaughn, of Winston Salem,
N. C. and Mr. and Mrs: D. S. Cupp
of Casselman left on Wednesday for
Gettysburg and for other eastern
' cities in their Ford touring cars.
A. C. Snyder of Black township
will in the near future move his fam-
ily ‘and household goods to Rockwood
where he will occupy his residence on
Leora street.
The Royal Neighbors of Rockwood
will give a corn roast on the John
Critchfield farm Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Keller of Har-
risburg were guests last week of
Mrs. Keller's sister, Mrs. J. D. Sny-
der on Main street. Mr. Keller has
returned to Harrisburg and Mrs. Kel-
ler is visiting relatives in Somerset.
Dr. John Erler delivered an excel-
lent sermon in the U. B. church to
the Odd Fellows on Sunday evening
taking as his subject “A Trip to Jeri-
cho.
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WANTS AN ACCOUNTING.
Daryle R. Heckman, soliciter for
Margaret Morgan, executrix of the es-
tate ofSylvester Morgan, deceased,
has filled a bill in equity with Judge
Ruppel asking the Court to direct R.
T. Pollard and Lee W. Pollard of Gar-
rett to file an agcount of the partner-
ship ffairs of the Pollard & Morgan
Lumber Co. to which Sylvester Mor-
gan, the plaintiff’s hustand, belonged.
The plaintiff alleges that her hus-
band and the Pollards formed a part-
nership in 1910 for the purpose of
buying timber and manufacturing it
into lumber and disposing of the same
{in W. Va. and that she believes that
money is due her from this partner-
| ship.
PARTY FOR MISS SAYLOR.
A farewell party was given at the
home of Miss Margaret Saylor last
Friday evening. Miss Saylor will
spend a few weeks in Roanoke, Ha:
per’s Ferry and Richmond, Va. The
party was given by Miss Mary Hoo-
ver. Those present were: Misses Ida
Lichty, Carrie Saylor, Edna Saylor,
Mary Hoover, Nora Siehl, Jessie
Forespring and Margaret Saylor;
Wellen, Lloyd Clots-
worthy and Lawrence Siehl.
Markleysburg |
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place and Mr. and +
Thirty-cent Jar Chipped Beef for 25
cents or 20 cent Jar for 15 cents at |
Bittner’s Grocery.
i he know his way home?”
Everybody Is talking about the Big ;
Style Show at Miller & Collins
Septemebr 80.
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A Proverb
AL Tele brie ele be ied beleleebl
By Leroy Wallingford
(Copyright by Paget Newspaper Ser)
It was Fernley who undertook the
regeneration of Morrison. Fernley
pursued new breakfast foods and the
simple life, but he carried enough
proverbs to fit any situation that stum-
bling humanity might get into. On
this acocunt Morrison attracted him.
The majority of the proverbs appear
to have been especially coastructed
for people who dig the hard rows in
this life, and it looked as if Morrison
was wrestling with a Panama canal
with only a blunt garden hoe to help
him along.
The other clerks in Aaronstein’s pit-
fed Morrison, but they did not bother
to acquaint him of the fact. They had
a dim idea that pity and advice are
poor things to offer to a man who is
wrestling with a heavyweight drink
craving, but Fernley thought different.
He had tremendous faith in his pro-
verbs. He loaded himself with them
each morning, and he became a sort
of human Gatling that fired adages at
Morrison every time that unfortunate
got within hearing range.
“The darkest hour is ‘that before
the dawn,” he would whisper as he
tiptoed up to Morrison’s desk to col-
lect the sales slips. Then, as the
thirsty c¢ne Landed him the bundle he
“It's a long lane that has
ro turning,” and always remember
“that the Lord hel:s those who help |
themseives.” ”
Mecrrison was inclined to think that
his lane ran in a circle, and he had
big doubts whether Providence would
co-operate with him as Fernley sug-
gested, but he allowed the proverb-
pounder to fire away without interrup-
tion.
It was on the days immediately pre-
ceding pay day that Morrison’s condi-
tion became especially noticeable. At
his time of the week the saloon ex-
ercised a greater pullling power than
the restaurants, and as Morrison was
performing financial handsprings in
an endeavor to make cup and lip meet
as often as possible till he received
his pay, his physique suffered as well
as his morals.
Then an idea came to Fernley. He
tried to induce Morrison to buy a com-
muter’s ticket at the restaurant so that
he would be protected against hunger
when the drink craving ransacked the
treasury in the latter part of the week.
It was good of Fernley. He picked
out the weightiest of his proverbs, and
morning and night he flung “The Lord
helps those who help themselves”
argument at the head of the suffering
one. The drink demon within Mor-
rison objected strongly to the prepay-
ment of three dollars for food, but’
Fernley was insistent. He urged Mor-
rison to make a fight; to stand up and
let the Almighty se that he was in the
ring and finally the sufferer consented.
Fernley was delighted. Pay day
came on the following Saturday, and
lest the devil might obtain a jiu-jitsu
grip on the morally weak one, he cor-
ralled his man the moment he was
paid, and he never stopped bolstering
him with the proverb that urged
heavenly co-operation till Morrison
paid over three collars to the Tee-
totaler’s cafe and received in exchange
a red ticket entitling him to twenty-
one meals. Ferndley once more ad-
ministered the proverb in solemn
tones and then satisfied that he had
out-witted the devil he walked gaily
homeward.
On that evening Morrison's drink
demon held high festival. It claimed
the money remaining after his room
and food had been paid for, and Mor-
rison spent it freely, but he kept a
firm grip on his meal ticket.
Monday morning when Fernley
reached the office he saw Morrison sit-
ting with his head bowed in utter de-
jection, and surprised at the other's
attitude he stepped quietly over and
tapped him on the shoulder. Morrison
lifted his head and two bloodshot eyes
started accusingly at «the proverb-
pounder.
“The Lord helps those—"
began
Fernley, but Morrison stopped him
with an angry gesture. Fernley was
astonished.
Morrison tried to speak, but his dry
tongue refused to mold the word, so
he grasped his pen, wrote rapidly and
pushed the sheet across to Fernley,
who read these words:
“The Tee-totaler's cafe burned to
the ground yesterday morning and my
three-dollar commuter’s ticket isn’t
worth a tinker’'s damn!”
As Fernley finished reading Morri-
son gained the use of his tongue.
“If you've got a proverb that I can
swap for a sandwich, trot it out. I
haven't tasted food for twenty-four
hours.”
Fernley—well, for
couldn’t find a proverb.
once Fernley
Knew His Way
A real estate man had been out in
the country to look at a piece of prop-
erty, and the old farmer accompanied
him back to town to close the deal.
After traveling several miles the farm-!
er was much surprised to see his dog
crawl from under the seat, for he had
no idea that it had followed him. As
the train slowed up at a junction the
farmer put the dog off the car and
chased him away.
“That’s too nice a dog to lose,” re |
marked the real estate man. “Does
“Does he?” echoed the old farmer.
“Why, mister, I've sold that dog fous
times.”—Judge. |
| is polite and obliging and pleasing in
Making a Cheerful Home.
Many a person is less well-man-
nered and good natured at home than
almost anywhere else. Many a person
company, and selfish and crabbed and
terrifying at home. Many a person
presents to the world an exterior of
attractive characteristics, and dis-
plays for the every-day experience of
his home folks an inward nature of
meanness and malice.
Home ought to be, for the child
and the youth, the best training
school for the future, and for the man
the chief incentive to labor. It ought
to be comfortable in every possible
way. It ought to be furnished with
every reasonable convenience. It
ought to boast of everything of cul-
ture and education and refinement
that consecrated love and labor can
secure. Each home ought to be such
a one as to inspire its members with
high ideals of affection, justice and
industry. It should pour into the
heart of every inmate full streams of
devotion, courtesy and peace. It
should radiate truth, hospitality and
good will. It should be a city of sef-
uge as long as it lasts, and to its scat-
tered members a holy memory when
it is broken forever.
Home ought to be a cheerful place.
There is a great deal of sunshine in
the world. Large quantities should
be stored up about the home. There
is almost nothing better to lay by for
a rainy day than pure sunshine. It
is refreshing when one is feeling out-
of-sorts to come across a tot that he
has put away and forgotten about.
Who has not had the experience,
when ill humored and miserable, of
stumbling into somebody’s home so
full of sunshine that it has seemed
like another world? |
If there is one thing more deplora-
ble than another it is a cheerless
home. There are going to be a good
many vain regrets after a while, on
the part of people who today are not
trying very hard to make home hap-
py.
Shrinking Cloth.
Wash goods may be shrunk hy put-
ting them in enough water to cover
and letting remain over night, or by
dipping in boiling water and hanging
out at once. Dipping in boiling wat-
er, unless very carefully done, is lia-
ble to streak colored goods unless the
colors are set. The goods should be
ironed while yet damp, but net much
ironing will be necessary unless the
goods have been wrinkled by wring-
ing. If the advantages of shrinking
cloth were properly appreciated there
would b few unsightly, ill-fitting gar-
ments. It is enough to have to let
out and lengthen for the growing
child without the burden of the shrink-
ing cloth after the garment is male.
Test for Jelly of Fruit Cake.
Chemists of the department recom-
mend the following test as a simple
one to determine when fruit sirup has
reached the “jell point”: “Make a
thin, flat stick or a small paddle,
about an inch broad, and whittle this
down to a straight edge. Dip the pada
dle or stick into the jelly mixture and
remove it. Hold the end down, and
if the mixture has reached the jell-
ing point, it will be noticed that the
liquid will not drip off in drops but
will flake off—that is, a strip of jelly
will fall off from the paddle in one
mass.”
Shears in the Kitchen.
Keep an old pair of shears in your
kitchen; you can always find use for
them; trim the rind from slices of
bacon and clip the edge so it will
not curl while frying. Cut your vege-
tables for sélads with your shears.
Dried beef and cold boiled ham can
be trimmed into shapely pieces for
serving. Trim the edges of steak and
cut out the bone before broiling. They
are unexcelled for removing specks
from dried apples before cooking;
this is so hard to do with a knife,
but easy with the shears.
For the Silence Cloth.
Cover your huck dinner table cloth
with two squares of white oilcloth of
the requisite size, binding the edges
firmly with white tape. This will save
constant washing of the cloth and
keep it thick. Besides, there is not
the danger of bruning the polish on
your table should a hot dish inad-
vertently slip and go over.
A Substitute for Soap.
Boiled potatoes make an excellent
substitute for soap if your hands have
become blackened with contact with
pots and pans. Take a little of the
potato and rub well into the skin,
then rinse it off with warm water.
Cleaning Decanters.
A handful of coarse salt and a cup
ful of vinegar shaken up well in =2
cloudy decanter will clean it like
magic.
Rinse well with very hot water sev
eral times to remove all taste of salt
While painting woodwork near the
window pane place a sheet of paper
or cardboard on the glass. This will
prevent the brush smearing the glass
with paint.
Add a few evergreens to the home
grounds each gj g. There is really
nothing else like them for winte:
cheer.
“It takes an artist to fry salt pork
and make milk gravy,” and there are
plenty such artists—mighty gooa
ones, too!
A. SR WR i pa
find at our store.
suits and overcoats.
THIS IS FAIR AND RACE TIME
GOOD FOR THE HUMAN RACE
A better time to get in the’ Good Clothes
Race at HARTLEY & BALDWIN'’S.
Everything that is good to wear you will
When you are attending the fair.
this store your headquarters, while waiting
for trains and street cars.
pleasure to us to show our new fall line of
Make
It would be a
The place is
HARTLEY & BALDWIN,
MEYERSDALE,
PENN’A.
MANY PEOPLE who
these gritty, sandy,
examination imagine that there is some
foreign substance in their eyes.
hard to convince them, sometimes, that
tating conditions are symptoms and
effects due to refractive errors which
can usually be corrected by the use of
properly fitted glasses.
Let Us Take the GRIT Out of Your EYES.
EXAMINATIONS FREE.
Anything in Your Eye? |
come “to us for eye
It is
scratching and irri-
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VISIT THE—
$2.25
= GETTYSBURG :-
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 26th:
Stately Monuments
Equestrian Statues
Lincoln Highway
Cyclorama, National Cemetery, Jennie Wade
House, Historic Churches and Headquarcers
of Northern and Southern Generals.
Special Train Leaves Meyersdale 2:01a. m; Leaves Gettysburg 7:00 p. m.
ROUND TRIP
WESTERN MARYLAND RAILWAY
EXCURSION TO
$2.25
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Unpolished and Uncoated Rice
An investigation by the department
shows a widespread popular misunder-
standing of the various kinds of rice
on the market. The true Sishincuen
between the polishing and coating pro-
cesses and the corresponding polished
and coated rices does not seem to be
clearly appreciated.
Rice from the threshers, culled in
the Philippine Islands palay, is hulled
in many places by pounding by hand,
but usually in a machine designed to
remove the outer coat without injuring
the seed. This product is almost al-
ways polished in order to please the
fancies and conform to the established
requirements of the consumers.
The polishing process, as understood
in the Orient and by the best author-
ities in this country, refers to the rub-
bing or seouring of the grains in var-
ious machines by which most of the
bran ooat or pericarp is removed. This
product is often coated to improve its
appearance. The coating process re-
fers to the addition of glucose, talc, or
other foreign material to the surface
of the already polished grain. The
peoples of Asia use some true unpolish-
ed rice; that is, rice from which the
hulls have been removed but on which
the bran coat remains nearly intact.
Such an article is very seldom furnish- |
ed in the United States where the |
market supply is composed principally
of polished rice, most of which has also
been coated. Polishing removes a con-
siderable portion of the fat, fiber and
inorganic salts as well as flavor from
the grain and some substances vital
to nutrition.
The whole question has aroused con-
siderable interest in this country be-
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outer hull, leaving the bran 1}
cayse it has been shown that the dis-
ease known as beriberi, which is com-
mon in the Orient, is due to the con- |
sumption, as the main article of diet,
of rice that has had the bran coat re-
moved. This bran layer, in the case
of the people who live largely on rice,
is the only source of certain com-
pounds necessary to the processes of
nutrition. The absence of these com-
pounds in the ration results in beri-
beri. Those who eat a varied diet get
these elements in other foods.
Formerly in the Orient rice was mill-
ed to a great extent by hand or by in-
adequate machinery, so that little more |
was done than to pound off the coarse |
of
the rice nearly intect. With the in-
troduction of modern machinery into
the Orient the extensive machine mill
ing of rice has developed. Much rice
in the Orient is now very highly milled,
80 that all the bran coat i8 removed.
It is believed by the health authorities
of the Philippine Islands that highly.
polished rice tends to produce beriberd
among the natives. For this reason
the Philippine Government permits its
hospitals, jails and public institutions
to use only rics that has not been high-,
ly polished. The elimination of beri
beri from these institutions has re
sulted.
This fact has been made use of by
certain manufacturers and food fade
dists in this country to frighten the
public, and by so doing to gain a mare
ket for their product. They have called
their rice “unpolished,” when as a
matter of fact in many cases the rice
they were selling would not be per-
mitted in the institutions controlled
by the Philippine Government. All the
circumstances in the case should be
considered. Since it has been pro.esn
that Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese and
other Asiatics and Malaysians contract
beriberi by eating highly milled, pol-
sihed rice, it does not follow that eat.
[ ing such rice in the ‘United States is
dangerous. If the American people
lived almost wholly on rice, as do many
Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese and other
peoples, it would certainly be danger-
ous. However, in America rice con.
stitutes only a small proportion of the
diet, and with the variety of foods
usually consumed no danger whatever
of contracting beriberi or similar
diseases is likely to come from eating
polished rice.
It is estimated that the govern.
ment’s Grand Canyon game refuge, in
Arizona, now contains about ten thou
sand deer,
Virgfnia uses more wood for boxes
and crates than any other state, fol-
lowed by New York, Illinois, Massa
cuusetts and California, in the order
named.
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pay the principal.
interest if it cannot
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