A s MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL $UBLISHED EVERY YHURSDAY AT MEYERSDALE, PA. K. Cleaver, Editor. When paid strictly in advance $1.00 When not paid in advance $1.50 NOTICE—is hereby given to those Subscribers who are ignoring repeat- ed bills sent to them from this office that we will be compelled to place their accounts in the hands of collec- tors.. THE COUNTRY WANTS THE MAN On Tuesday of this week Colonel Rosevelt was attending court in Washington as a character witness in the Riggs Bank case, and the Even- ing Star news paper bitterly antagon- istic to Roosevelt declared that the demonstration for the colonel was one of the most remarkable that ever oc- curred in and about a court of justice, including in its sweeping assertion, of all courts of justice and all time. The correspondent of the New York Sun, a paper which has long been hos- tile to the colonel, but which lately came out for him, sent this message from Washington to his paper. “Theodore Roosevelt had every thing his own. way here today. The robust combination of the colonels personality and the trend of the la- test political events fired the Roose- velt supporters in congress with en- thusiasm and the most straight laced Republicans with cordiality. The Colonel's visit to testfy as a character wtness couldnt have ar oused more enthusiasm if it had been a triumphal entry. “The Union station, at the court house and was voted unanimously by throngs that bulged from Justice Skiddons’ court room, overflowing the street for blocks around, as a. great personal’- ty—one that vibrates. “Democrats were as much intesr- ested as Republicans and Progress- ives.” The colonel’s recent speech in Chicago, before the Bar Association of Illinois, changed many to his doctrine of Patriotism and Pr-pared- ness and his more recent speech in Detroit, the home of the pcace-at- any-price candidate for the presiden- cy has opened the eyes of many to the pos-‘ble danger that lies before us if we are unprepared to ‘defend our country. Let the good work go on until the sentiment ig nnauimous. . EGOTISM Fach human being knows pretty nearly what is the content of his own mind, but much of which escapes the attention of others. The ten- dency of human nature is one to disparage the merits of another. One pugilist thinks he can knock out his opponent, one base ball team thinks its members can win the pennant; one speaker that he can win in de- their kind warning but we also wish bate and even one nation that it can to tell them to conquer the rest of the word. How | preach, " = silly it is for any one to imagine that he possesses such superior merit that he knows so much while his fel lows are to be pitied or patronizingly dealt with by him. The truly great are known because of their humility and many brilliant men are curtailed in their efforts tc bencit their iel- low men by theirs overweening con-