NEWS IN GENERAL.
A great blizzard in the East caused
a number of deaths and property dam-
age just after Christmas.
“Talked to death by 4,000 visitors,”
was the verdict that Night Warden
at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago,
gave for the 24 deaths at that insti-
tution on Christmas Day.
The British army is to be increas-
ed to four million men, according to
the army bill recently pased by the
, English parliament.
Engene M. Humphrey, a Chicago
lawyer is dead of what physicians
term “petromortis,” or automobile gas
poisoning. The thing is new to science
in some of its aspects. Danger lies in
a failure of certain elements in the
gasoline to oxidize.
Officials of the department of justice
say that the continued rise in the
price of gascline probably would be
made the subject of an inquiry to de-
termine whether there had been any
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
act. No formal complaints have reach-
‘Washington so far, but attorneys con-
nected with anti-trust prosecutions
expressed the view that an investiga-
tion could be begun on the depart-
ment’s own initiative.
Alarming rumors, probably of an
exaggerated nature, are being circul-
ated concerning Emperor William’s
illness, according to the Zurich corres-
pondent of the Exchange Telegraph
Company. The rumors state, says the
correspondent that the Emperor's con-
dition is causing profound anxiety in
Berlin. The trouble seems to be on
the order of cancer of the mouth a
disease fatal to both his father and
grandfather.
W. B. Davis, 49 years old and the
sprightly father of 41 children on
Christmas took his fourth bride, Mrs.
Mary Bacon, 39 years old. The cere-
mony was at her home in Missouri.
Twenty-five of Davis’ children, 100
grandchildren and a fair sprinkling of
his greatgrandchildren saw the blush-
ing bridgroom lead the equally em-
barrassed bride to the altar. They
crowded around the pair and wished
them a long and happy journey through
the vale of matrimonal bliss.
Rhyme, as a means of educating the
public in the prevention of grippe,
now epidemic in some parts of New
York was used by the Health Depart-
ment today by thousands of cards
which it distributed throughout the
city, The couplet of preventative ad-
vic
h and sneeze:
KISSING CAUSES
CASES OF GRIP.
Everybody should quit kissing for a
while, suggests State Health Commis-
sioner Samuel G. Dixon.
“If you have the ‘grip’ and kiss
somebody, he or she (supposedly she)
will contract the malady; and if you
haven’t got the ‘grip’ and kiss some-
one, he or she may load you up with
the ‘grip’ from which you may die,
for the disease is very contagious,” is
a part of the official warning Dr. Dix-
on has sent out.
Dr. Dixon believes about the worst
contagion-spreader he can think of is
kissing. Someone suggested that he
had forgotten that he was once a boy
and probably liked to kiss a pretty
girl as well as any other fellow, and
that this was the time of year when
kisses were to be handed out with
great frequency as part of the Christ.
mas spirit. But Dr. Dixon in his offi-
cia capacity refuses to consider any
extenuating circumstances or excuses
and insists that young and old cease
kissing for awhile.
The death rate from the epidemic
of “grip” now sweeping the state has
been so alarmingly high that Dr. Dix-
on gave out a special warning on the
subject a few days ago. As an in-
stance of the gravity of the situation,
the Philadelphia Bureau of Vi-
tal Statistics of the State Department
of Health has issued 650 burial per-
mits during the first three days of
last week. This is double the ordina-
ry death rate of that city, the majori-
ty of deaths being due directly or in-
directly to la grippe. It is estimated
that nearly 15,000 persons in Phila-
delphia alone are suffering from the
disease.
Attendance at all of the public
schools in Philadelphia has been
greatly reduced and in several sec-
tions of the state, schools and colleg-
es have been forced to close. Factor-
ies, department stores and other Phil-
adelphia business houses have also
been affected by the epidemic and in
many instances the number of employ-
es obliged to remain at home has been
so great as to seriously curtail opera-
tions. Hundreds of Philadelphia fire-
men and policemen are confined to
their homes with the disease while
the Rapid transit company reports
400 of its employes on the sick list.
The epidemic has been particularly
fatal to the very old and the very
young. Commenting on these facts,
Dr. Dixon says: :
To avoid this deadly enemy which
is doubling the death rate in Philadel-
pread disease.”
Bureau of
there is no
and preven-
5 of checking its
Ev essing than parts of
of Belgiun and East Prussia, the |
worst parts, is Poland—a land of |
graves and trenches, of ruin nnd de- i
struction on a scale that has been |
wrought nowhere else by the war. |
The conflict been waged back and
forth across the ancient kingdom so
long that agriculture has had but lit-
tle chance, and except in those sec-
tions where German forces have been
in control for some time, the fields
are barren and untilled, scarred by
miles upon miles of earthworks and
graves.
TWICE TOLD TALES.
Meyersdale People Are Doing All
They Can Do for Fellow Suffrers.
Meyersdale testimony has been pub-
lished to prove the merit of Doan’s
Kindney Pills to others in Meyers-
dale who suffer from bad backs and
kidney ills. Lest any sufferer doubt
this evldence of merit, we produce
confifmed proof -—statements from
Myersdale people who again endorse
Doan’s Kindney Pills—confirm their
former testimony. Here's a Meyers-
220 Large Street,
“I had nearly all
kldney trouble:
spells and |
spells s..ne ! the
{
ae and 1 got |
My arms
something
Kidney Pills
mended that I |;
The pains |
y health im- |
‘all T used Doavn’s |
i y helped |
nt given iu |
| to the birds” I can
LATER
Mrs. |
s Kidney | 1,0,
and I |
the |
ouse all the time
the confidence in
. . : ’ {
| received a benefit in return for the
remedy—get | money invested in
ply ask for a kidney
idney Pills—the same
Mrs. Merrill had. Foster-Milburn Co.
Props.
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Nicholas Pelass, aged 9 years, son |
i out of ci
| mouth or
that / in
fund, so that st
phia, we must > sacrifices. Keep
Ww erever poss
g hands issi ting too
the mouthpiece of elephones.
unwashed hands in the
on foodstuffs, may all be
ng the
vestigated she would have found that
in 1913 and 1914, could have in any
manner have been used before the
14th of May, 1915, when an appropri-
ation to the use of the Game Commis-
sion was made, and it is hardly fair
‘to ask why game has not been suppli-
| ed during the season when both birds
and animals were raising their young,
and when the removal of the parent
would surely result in. death to the
young. !
Again, if the writer had cared to
investigate she would have discov-
ered while according to her own fig.
ures, during the years 1913 and 1914,
$9,153.00 were paid to the Treasurer
of Somerset county for hunting li
censes; the treasurer was entitled,
for services rendered during the same
time, to 10 per cent of that amount,
or $915.30 which amount was deduct-
ed by him and but $8,237.70 return-
ed to the state treasurer at Harris-
burg; she would also have discovered
that the county commissioners of
Somerset County had filed with the
auditor general a claim for $9,161.
paid as bounties in that county, dur-
ing 1913 and 1914, for the killing of
vermin, that if not killed, must have
lived to a great extent on birds and
game and the farmer's poultry. A
comparison of these figures would
have shown that the amount claimed
for bounties exceeds by $923.30 the
total amount received by the State
from Somerset County for Hunters’
licenses. A little thought upon this
matter would lead one to believe that
if the sportsmen had not paid this
money through hunters’ licenses, the
ordinary citizen of that county would
have been compelled to pay it through
taxation, and that perhaps the farm-
ers, who have received bounties,
might have been compelled to pay a
part of their own claims or to leave
them unpaid. ’
We believe that Somerset County
has, through the value of the lifework
of birds preserved in this way re-
ceived value in full for every dollar
paid honestly for the killingof ver-
min, but, in addition to this, the game
commission has caused the release
‘of the deer and imported game, and
are expecting to release this winter
more game of various kinds and to
feed the game and winter wild birds
in that county during the coming se-
‘vere winter. The laws relative to song
and insectivorous birds and to a clos-
edseason have been enforced to the
benefit of all of the people and espe-
cially to the benefit of the farmers, |
through the lifework of the birds and
the eliminatio:
| jority of the year
f hunting far 1
| If the lady who had written
| ter had fu
she would ha written
{ incenti is it for us to have foreign
| birds put upon our lands, which afte:
we feed and care for them through a |
means of transmitting the infection. |
Always place the handkerchief over
the face when sneezing. Carry a little
bag to put the handkerchief in, wheth-
er it be paper or linen.
Disinfect these handkerchiefs be-
fore sending them to a public laun-
dry. Restaurants should lay off those
among their help suffering from aec-
tive grip.
Keep out in the open air or keep
the outdoor air in your houses.
Don’t doctor yourself with painkill-
ing medicines as they depress the
heart and make one an easy victim.
DR. KALBFUS TALKS ON
THE GAME LAWS
Continued from last week.
In Wyoming, the last winter and
for several winters past, the utmost
effort of the United States Govern-
ment has been put forth to save the
lives of thousands of elk dying from
starvation, because settlers had ta-
ken thew inter feeding grouds for
farms. Elk were plentiful there, for
no man knows how long, and none
starved; to-day, they must die be-
their winter feeding grounds
have been appropriated to the use of
men, just as the homes of our wild
creatures of various kinds have been
ken here,
cause
and still we wonder why
birds have decreased.
It is well to say that actions speak
tarv-
Tami
about to die of
ind I mav well
they are starvation,
lieve that Mrs. Blac]
ted in
but I h y th that she has 1
quite fair to herself when she ask
whet] » y < OF County has
hunters’ licen
that co y.- In the A
I take it, that neither this lady nor
in Somerset
ributed one
cent to this |
is not interested in |
|
nav
{ louder than words, that is just the | weeks
| po I am driviz a i ¢
ly may py law, H
m than do all [1915 Each
v. be uttered |
ple in the country where |
ask “Who is neighbor |
not but help pe- | Tn se
|
county | the penalty their off
| season any hunter can disperse and
| cripple and kill for a dollar,” for this |
is unfair and misleading. Had she car-
ed to have investigated, she would
have known that the license law au-
thorizes the holder of a license io
take game only under the provisions
of existing law, and does not attempt
to grant permission to any one to
hunt on lands contrary to the wishes
of the owner of that land, or in viola-
tion of the rights of any owner. The
badge on the arm is the mark
through which hunters who violated
the Trespass, or any other Law of the
‘State, may be identified and punished, i
and carries an insurance to farmers
for nothing, that he cannot secure in
any other way, for any amount of
money. For instance, I have license
4272, for 1915; I am from Dauphin
County, and that County is numbered
alphabetically, 22: Adams County, 1,
and York County, 67. I go into a farm
in Somerset County and commit a
wrong of any kind, the farmer or anv
other person looks at the badge on my
arm 22, with 4272 below it, and writes
these numbers to the office, and within
a day or so at the outside, the name
of the party to whom the License was
issued is forwarded and the Game
Commission, or the farmer, as the
may be, is in a position to pun-
according to the
case
ish the wrong doer,
offenses committed.
7 bore
S 0 each
. One had Lic 693, another
5154 and 7364.
ch the Ii
had
v, Philadelnhi
nd a ref ce to lic
this office, as report
h license | the farme
not or
value
in wor
, if not | that all
> men paid
1s fixed
by law in A. the license
tag it wiuld
Without
have be
Something More than Advice
It’s a Practical, Proved Plan
Worked Out for You
“Hire the man with a plan,” ordered the president
of a large American manufacturing concern He wanted
men around him who had more than advice and theory
There are loads of advice in this world telling you to
save, but it is seldom somebody gives you a definite plan
for carriing out the savings idea
Here is the plan provided for you by the Second
National Bank. ‘‘The Bank on the Corner.” Itis a test-
ed, practical savings plan adopted by men and women.
boys and girls of Meyersdale It is especially for those
wishing money for Christmas.
The Ghristmas Money Glub Jomed hy
Hundreds in Meyersdale.
There are several divisions in the club
you join will petermine the amount you save
Divisions 1, 2 and 5, provide $12.50, $25.50 and $63.75
respectively. You may begin weekly deposits with 1c, 2¢, 5¢,
25¢ and 50c.
The bank gives you a check about December 15th for the
correct sum. It is your Christmas money.
—JOIN TODAY——
Call at the Bank for Descriptive Circular.
SECOND NATIONAL BANK
MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
The division
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Reach Down in that Old
Bottom Drawer
and get out a fresh pipeful of FIVE
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A sweet, juicy chew or rich,
fragrant smoke of ripe Southern
Kentucky tobacco, aged forthree to
five years to bring out all the mel
lowness and smoothness—that’s
FIVE BROTHERS
Pipe Smoking Tobacco
FIVE. BROTHERS is an honest,
healthful, pure tobacco for men who
like their chewing or smoking to
have a solid satisfaction to it. You get tobacco hungry lots of times, and
no insipid “hash” will come anywhere near suiting you.
You must have your FIVE
BROTHERS, It’s as satisfying
as a square meal--the stand-
by of the he-boys with vigor
and vim in them.
Those rich, juicy strands
of pure FIVE BROTHERS
have a flavor and mouth-fill-
ing quality you can get no
other way.
.
A week’strial willp
FIVE, BROTHERS can keep
you, day
you will
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Our Job Work
HAVE You TRIED THE
JOB WORK oF
THE COMMERCIAL?
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Tell him:
fore twel
OUR WORK I8 OF THE i8T AND
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
GIVE Us A TRIAL
of Joseph Delassi of Windber and | this matter fr the hunter’s stand- | impossib to have
his little body horribly mangled a nd 3 question looks 263
few days ago when he was run over | though she we king something for county we
| 1d
by a trolley car when coasting. | nothing. Had she cared to have in-|taught throug
f these | I am sat
1 Somerset | le,, especially our farmers, are not ac
at the lesson | quainted 83 true value of the OSEPH K
ofthis Resident Hunter's Act, or
isfied that many of our p
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