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WELLERSBURG
* Mrs. Angeline Glessner of Mt. Sav-
gage spent Sunday with friends and re-
Jatives in town.
Mr. F. C. Kennel], traveling sales-
gnan, spent Sunday with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kennell.
Mr. Edgar Everline after spending
several months in Indiana returned to
our burg last Friday.
Miss Susan Shaffer of Frostburg was
@ caller in town Sunday.
Mrs. James Lepley and son Victor
of Kennells Mills spent Saturday and
Sunday with her mother Mrs. Cather-
ine Delbrook.
A number of people from town att-
ended the festival held at Barrelville
Thursday and Friday evening.
Mr. Frank Paul of Mt. Savage was a
caller in town Sunday.
Mr. A. H. Long is confined to his
bed with muscular rheumatism.
Preaching service was held in the
Lutheran church Sunday evening By
Rev. Smith.
VIM
William Felker of Detroit, Mich.
and Misses Bertha and Ruth Faith of
Scottdale spent several days of last
week at the C. W. Thesser home.
Mrs. Belinda Fike moved her house-
hold goods to Meyersdale on Wednes-
day of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Meyers spent
Thanksgiving Day at the home of
Howard Phillips in Meyersdale.
Mrs. Simon Nicholson and daughter
Harriet of Pleasant Hill Spent last
week at Vim.
Mr. C. R. Martens walked on his
crutches down to Nicholson’s store on
Tuesday of last week.
Misses Elizabeth and Edna Tressler
spent last Sunday afternoon at the
home of Swearmans at Summit Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mull of near
Coal Run spent Saturday night at the
hame of Martin Meyer.
Sam Brown of Greenville township
visited his son Henry who is recover-
ing from an attack of typhoid fever,
last Sunday.
THROUGHOUT COUNTY
The Rev. Edward Thomas, pastor
of the Berlin M. E. church, has re
ceived a letter bearing the informa-
tion that a brother, who had been on
the firing line with the Allies for
months, had his right arm torn off
in battle.
John Lochrie, a prominent Windber
coal operator is one of the authori
ties on the coal business who believes
that the present rush of orders is not
merely a flurry, but that it is a good
subgtancial inereage that is going to
last for months to come Mr. Lochrie
has mines that are busy day and
night and his only worry is the short.
age of cars. The Lochrie interests re-
cently took over the McGregor mine
and Mr. Lochrie says that coal is now
being shipped out of that working.
The Lutheran congregation of Bos-
well has purchased a lot adjoining
the one on which the church stands,
and will erect a handsome brick edi
fice there in the early part of next
spring. The church is to be a thor-
oughly a modern one and of brick
construction to cost about $15,000.
The old church is to be removed to
the rear of the lotand will be convert-
ed into a Sunday School building. The
Reformed congregation has also pur-
chased a lot and will probably build
in the near future. At precent the Re-
formed congregation is holding ser-
vices in the auditorium of the munic-
{1 al building.
MARKELTON
Mr. J. W. Brown, of Baltimore and
Miss Emma Merrill, of Garrett, took
dinner at the Colonial Hotel Wednes-
day. :
Mr. C. A. Merril spent the week-end
{on Lancaster, Philadelphia and Fred-
erick, Md.
Miss Lena Long, of Berlin, was a
week-end visitor with Miss Anna
Judy.
Mrs. A. R. Miller spent Tuesday
with her friend Mrs. W. A: Merrill.
Bert Miller was a Garrett visitor
Wednesday.
Quite a number of rabbits were
killed Tuesday, the last day of hunt
ing season.
SE Ge
POISONED BY TATTCCING INK
Woman Freak Slowly Dying of Poison
Which Has Brought on Can-
cerous Attack.
The lights are going out for Irene,
the world’s most famous tattooed
woman. All the blare of music, all the
garishness and excitement of the cir-
cus and the stage have given way to
the colorless interior of a room at the
Philadelphia hospital, where Irene is
slowly dying of cancer of the stomach
A few years ago Irene made money
so rapidly that she never took time to
balance her accounts or to worry
about the future. She spent 20 years |
of her career in Europe, appearing be
fore the crowned heads. She traveled
all the big circus routes of the United
States, drawing a fat salary.
Then the poison of the tattoo marks
she had worn all over her body from
the age of eight years began to put in
its deadly work. Physicians say she
has cancer of the stomach in a stage
so advanced that an operation would
be futile. The only thing the woman
can do now is await death. She is
fifty-seven years old and rapidly weak:
ening.
According to her own story, her fa
ther was an artist. He tattooed her
from head to foot when she was a
child. She married when she was six-
teen years old, and shortly after her
husband secured for her a circus en-
gagement. The woman says her hus-
band is now & prominent inventor,
with an office in Washington. She
and her friends say he has deserted
her.
For two years old friends of theatri-
cal circuits have been supporting her.
She became too weak to travel with a |
circus or appear on the stage. All the
half-million dollars she and her hus-
band made in Europe and this country
has been spent. She says her husband
disposed of most of the money.
Now Irene spends her time telling
absorbing tales of circus life to the
nurses in a voice that every day grows
a little weaker. As her strength ebbs
her memory seems to grow stronger.
Little incidents of the past stand out
vividly and lose nothing in her recital.
Irene, still an actress, is making the
supreme effort of her career before
her last audience.—Philadelphia Ledg-
er.
Cupid on Trial.
Two souls with but a single thought,
two hearts that beat in concert, were
united in the more or less holy bonds
of matrimony, according to the point
of view, says the New York Times.
The minister who performed the cere-
mony is pastor of the Church of the
Social Revolution, and the couple were |
of his flock. Not for the contracting ;
parties nor for the minister the con-
ventional ritual of church and state;
not for them the old-fashioned notion
that marriage is a step that must be
backward. The pair made responses
to a formula provided by the pastor
of the Social Revolution and frankly
declare they will consider their union
binding only so long as they ‘love
each other.” Divorces are sometimes
justifiable, but it is not believed that
this aspiring couple or their pastor
have improved upon the liberal and
usually wholesome laws of a majority
of the states. :
Pienty of Room Outside.
He made the acquaintance of the
young woman at the home of a friend
and was severely smitten.
“May I call on you?” he found the
courage to ask her.
The girl looked troubled.
“I—I'm afraid not,” she replied.
Then she noticed his look of deep
disappointment and hastily added:
“We live in a flat, you see, and
mamma and sister always sit in the
parlor, and papa and the boys play
checkers in the dining room, and the
kitchen is so awfully small and hot.
Would—would you mind sitting on the
fire escape?’ :
Ot course he hurriedly told her he
wouldn't mind it at all, and the course
of true love ran smooth again.—Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Love for an Hour.
What is it that makes people so
much better company at a masquer-
ade than under any other eircum-
stance?
In the eircle of the black mask and
the domino we have no name, no past,
no future, no self to live up to or down
to, and the mood that is uppermost
need never impose itself upon a later
mood.
We can be spontaneous and genuine.
No wonder we are good company!
For on the whole our spontaneous
impulses are kindly and gay.
We are almost ready to love our
fellow men for an hour, if we are not
thereby committing ourselves to lov-
ing them for a lifetime.
A Shortage of Eclipses.
This year has been a famine so far
as eclipse phenomena are concerned.
Usually there are four eclipses each
year, two of the sun and two of the
moon; but both bedies have managed
nular solar eclipses, confined mainly
to the Pacific ocean, not once has the
moon encountered the obscuring
shadow of the earth.
MRS. KIERNAN SUFF-
RAGE VICE PRESIDENT.
Mrs. George B. Orlady was elected
president of the State Suffrage asso-
ciation at Philadelphia on Tuesday. :
Among the vice presidents are Mrs.
E. BE. Kiernan and Mrs. Jas. P. Rogers
of Somerset.
Regular Bonanza.
Howells—Did they ever succeed in
extracting gold from the ocean?
Growelle~Not in paying quantities.
Yet salt water is rich in gold.
Howells—Why do you think so?
Growells—Because women’s tears
have extracted millions from the op-
posite sex.
RETR
‘have the right idea? They have already
be
taken with with no thought of turning |
to avoid total obscuration this year,.
and though there have beem two an:
MEYERSDALE
HIGH SCHOOL
BRIEFS
Class News. i
Another victim from the draught |
of cold coming in that rear door of!
Room 10, is Mary Evans. She has
complicated intricacy of the vocal of-
gans.
Anyone who wants a new whis-
tle, but which cannot be patented, ap-
ply to Elizabeth Irwin for lessons.
Who says the class of '17 does not
purchased their winter hats, which
have two winning qualities-—style and
comfort.
One brilliant student of the class of
'19, gave as a definition for “Whig,” a
covering for the head. We did not
think that such young children knew
there were such things in existence,
but now we assume that they are not
as unsophisticated as they seem.
Again several students have present-
ed the petition that they be given an
FERRORAARCECH
opportunity to see the new addition
to our school. We are sure that one
and all would enjoy the privelege of
looking over the Household Arts
Department.
Wonder why William Leckemby
waited so patiently for 9:13 on Sun-
day night? Couldn’t that talk wait un-
til the next morning? Anyhow one
week IS a long time for one to be a-
way.
Seven more years for Mr. Arnold!
He fell up the steps the other day.
Dave Noel seems educationally in-
clined for Tuesday afternoon in the
cours of study he knocked Miss Liven-
good’s Webster over and broke him.
Some one wanted to know what Re-
came of the Girl Hikers. We navel
noticed them lately. ;
Mr. Weaver is thinking seriously of
putting typewriters in the cloakroom
for the benefit of Marion Dickey and
Mary Darrow.
Class News.
It has been necessary for Kenneth
Brant to carry two watches. We can-
not account for this unless it is be-
cause he cannot keep up to the times
or else he is so far ahead of the times
that he needs two watches toregu-
‘late himself. If this is not the case,
it must be that one time piece alone
can’t keep up to him. |
get a set of “non-skids” or she is go-
ing to slip, one of these days and in-
jure herself.
Someone said, “The more you are
interested in a thing the more inter-
est you put into it. I don’t think tha
H. S. students have very much invest-
ed ...... ’19. (If the class of ’19 would
take a little more interest in the
school paper they would have a right
to say this, but since their reporter
is the only one we hear from, I think
that the saying, “People who live,
ete.” fits this topic pretty well—Ed)
Teacher—Who has
hoe?
Fresh Freshie—I haven't Smith's;
I have Scott’s. (Laughter).
Smith’s Ivan-
Teacher (In physics.)
vacuum?
Senior (Absently “Well, I have it
in. my head, but I can’t just think of
: 1 dd
“What is a
Prof. Weaver is going to give a free
exhibition. Charles Fike and Joe
Shultz were caught chasing each oth-
er around the room. He is going to
have them entertain the whole
school.
WARREN—WEIMER.
At the home of Frank Weimer of
near Somerset at 2 p. m. on Thanks-
giving Day, his daughter, Miss Julia,
was ®nited in wedlock with Lewis S.
Warren, of Irwin, Pa. The ring cer-
emony was observed, Rev. I. Hess
‘Wagner officiating. Only a few of the
immediate relatives were present.
The happy couple left on the 2:49
train for Pittsburg. The groom is a
‘teacher at Greensburg where they ex-
pect to go at once to housekeeping.
BRETHREN CHURCH—Rev. H. L.
Goughnour, Pastor. On Sunday, Dec.
5, there will be church services at
10:30 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. in the
Meyersdale church. Sunday School
add Christian Endeavor at the usual
hours. All are cordially invited.
' SCHQOL APPROPRIATION PAID.
. A> million dollars in school appro-
priation was paid out by the state
treagirer on Tuesday. These pay-
‘ments ‘were due last summer but were
fiot made on account of the low state
of the treasury.
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WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR POV-
ERTY?
So long as the belief prevailed that
poverty was merely a symptom of in-
herent viciousness and a thing for
which the pauper was directly and
solely responsible, the public took
though of Adam’s sin, shrugged its
shoulders, and resignedly left the indi-
vidual to face his penalty, tempering
the rigor of sin’s discipline the while
with the mercy of penitentiaries, re-
formatories, jails, poor-houses, charity
and training-school hospitals. But one
scientific investigation after another
conclusively showed that children
born in poverty are peculiarly subject
to early death or to incurable defects
of mind and body, that a large propor-
tion of all apprehended criminals are
boys and girls whose criminality is
directly traceable to their adverse eco-
jority of the unemployed are idle be-
cause there is no work for them to
do, then public opinion began to per-
ceive that to penalize the poor for
their poverty was to impair the pro-
ductive power of the nation and thus
to transfer the penalty to the nation
itself. Poverty came to be regarded
not so much as an indictment of the !
individual, but rather as prima facie |
evidence that as a people we are not
making the most intelligent use of our
resources, that there was something
wrong with the management of both
public and private business.—Har-
per’s Magazine.
FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW.
The opal is the only gem not suc-
cessfully counterfeited.
.One dollar to get married, 10 cents
to go to college and 50 cents to gradu- |
ate are some of the items in the new
regulation “governing the affixing of
stamps on certificates concerning hu-
man affairs,” which were recently pro-
mulgated in China.
The population of French Indo-China
is about 20,000,000, of whom 20,000
are Europeans, chiefly’ French.
The human family 1s subjected to
about 1,200 different kinds of disease
and ailment.
Motion pictures of insects in flight
show that they regulate their speed
by changing the inclination of their
wings rather than by altering the ra-
pidity of their motion.
All telephone operators in Egypt are
required to be able to speak English, !
French, Italian, Greek and Arabic.
The American mountain sheep are
the greatest leapers in the world.
Auction sales originated in ancient
Rome, and were introduced to enable
soldiers to dispose of spoils of war.
Military training is compulsory on ull
male citizens between the ages of 12
and 25 in New Zealand.
Teachers of elocution ean’t do any-
thing for the voice of conscience in |
most of us.
Appearances ars often deceptive.
Luxurious whiskers hide many an ug-
ly mug.
The Newfoundland fishing fleet con-
sists of fourteen boats and 3,047 men.
A foolish woman grows old about
as gracefully as she climbs a fence.
Talk is cheap, yet some people have
a mania for trying to monopolize it.
If the wolf camps on your doormat,
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mouth than any other
wagon. Look at the points marked **A’).
yourself where the biggest strain comes. It’s at the mouth of
the skeins.
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point marked *B”’.,
all the way through—axles, wheels, etc. Don’t you want that
added margin of safety?
3—The skeins are oval, not round.
they take in the full strength of the axles—just where the
strength is needed most.
4—TROY axles are strictly clear,
timber has the same carrying strength or resiliency.
This is just an axle and skein talk. These things count—but they
: We want you to know the TROY all over—from
aren’t all.
tongue to tail-board. Come
TROY is the one best from every angle. You will like the
price too—it’s right.
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HOW TO KEEP YOUNG. |
To keep young is to keep healthy,
and to keep healthy is to keep from
being poisoned. Our waste products
poison us, and drink and drugs and
improper food add to it. Perhaps
| never before was there so much. con-
' melous effort to counteract the process,
says the Medical Times. An earlier
generation did it by simpler food and
more constant work in the open air,
with less thought to any of it. But
we have grown in invention of every-
| thing, and with greater wealth has
come greater indulgence and with it
greater danger from the poisons that
make against health. The defense
against all the poisons that thus beset
ws is the liver, and the purpose of
right Hving is to keep it in good eon-
dition. The other thing of prime im-
postance is the circulatory apparatus.
~ Our bodies must be fed with oxy-
gen and relieved of waste which is
‘cast into the blood and carried
through the circulation by a central
pump and tubes to be cast out. So
another needed thing is to keep spry
if you would keep young. With bod-
‘ily activity must be mental activity.
The mind can grow permaturely old
as well as the physical system. The
brain must be properly fed. Mental
sloth invite mental decay. Youth is
| buoyant, age is easily depressed. To
| restore buoyancy is part of the pro- |
cess of keeping young and hence of
keeping in health.
Muscles unused, atrophy and de-
cay, and this is true of the minds as
of the body. Worry is baneful to the
mind and helps to disturb physical
fanctions, bringing on the “old” look.
Youthfulness in appearance which is
based on fact depends on digestion,
sleep, work, play, and these rest
largely on food and conduct. The
mind must not be allowed to rust
any more than the body. It must
work and play. If nothing better can
be done get a hobby. And, above all,’
be cheerful and l.eep occupied.
And many a man finds it difficult to
make a living because he is practical-
ly a dead one.
Even after a man sees where he
made a mistake he keeps right on
making more.
When some men fail to make a hit
they try to fix the responsibility on
the hammer.
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HERE LIES.
The waste basket is a symbol of ob-
livion. To it are consigned the fail-
ures and the “has-beens,” old love let-
ters, appeals that met no response,
things emptied of their significance by
Time. It is the grave of dead
thoughts. What a mass of human ef-
fort, and emotion its contents repre-
sent! The merest printed circular,
flung there with hardly a glance,
stands for long hours of eager plan-
ning by somebody and the skilled la-
bor of many hands. Men have striven
with the utmost of their ability, te
win your interest—and have failed.
The waste basket records their fail-
ure. :
Those little ink-inscribed bits of par
per that lie submerged in its depths
of human documents: letters of friend-
ghip, full of cordiality and harking
back to pleasant experiences; family
letters, expressing loyal affection and
giving word of those at home; letters
that once made the heart beat quick.
At first joy, they become an accumu-
lation and are now a riddance.
There is day-before-yesterday’s
newspaper. The events it describes
are already remote. The issues her
alded in its fervent editorials are by
this time either settled or relegated
to the background. It is as out of date
as Rip Van Winkle.
With the newspaper is a popular
magazine of last January. How utter
lv flat and stale it seems! The he
roes and heroines that stalk, chatter
and pose through its pages are now
forgotten. The great man eulogized
in a glowing article has since fallen
into disfavor. The big ngmes flaunt-
ed on the cover have a look of mock-
ery. The “most gripping story ever
written” has been superseded by a
score of others. The “brilliant com-
edy success” pufied by the dramatie
critic has left the boards forever.
In among these “has-beens” are a
host of “might-have-beens”: inchoate
ideas, jotted down but never consum-
mated; letters that were written but
never sent; plans for homes that were
never built; dazzling schemes aban-
i doned out of fear that they were vi
sionary. Aspirations, gropings—how
they might have changed the world
for some of us!
Few escape you long, old Jugger-
naut! One after another, they lose
their hold and fall into you. And yom
are always waiting.
Te morituri salutemus! — From
Judge.
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