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BACK YARDS AND CHARACTER
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene
By Dr Samuel G. Dixon.
Bret Hart once wrote a story in
which he ponted out that for an in-
sight into the occupants true charac-
ter one must look at the back and net
at the front of a man’s house. Here |
was knowledge of human nature. {id
we want to estimate character accur-
ately we must have an all around
view and not accept face values.
This brings us again to the question
«of back yards. Is yours as clean and
well kept as you can make it or is it
littered with trash, cans, kindling and
rubbish? Is the garbage and
properly covered and free from
Is the stable and out-house a
seding center for the neighbor-
pood? You have work ahead of you
for your health’s sake and for the
sake of decency if any of these con-
ditions exist.
It is a privilege to have a back
yard even a small one. There are
thousands of dwellers in cities where
fand is sold by the square foot, who
yearn for a little space to call their
own. Those who are so fortunate as
to have back yards should care for
them and make use of them.
if there are children in the family
the back yard should be their play-
ground. A doll house, turning pole, 2
swing or a tent will provide almost
unlimited entertanment and help" to
keep children off the streets.
If there are no children in the fam-
fly, a shovel, a rake, a hoe and a mod-
erate sized back garden should afford
a reasonable amount of healthful ex-
ercise combined with pleasure and
profit.
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CONFLUENCE
Dr. and M s. H, P, Meyer sand son
Paul are in Philadelphia.
The Confluence Concert Band re-
cently organized “with 12 yung men
and held a parcel post sale in the |
park Saturday evening.
Miss Pearl Oliver who several days .
ago was operated on at Frantz Hos- |
nital for throat trouble, has been ta-
xen to her home. .
H. L. Meese, formerly of this place
put now of Baltimore, was greeting
friends here recently. }
Mrs. Charles Watson of Connells-
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Alvan Burnworth. : :
Mrs. W, E: Dull has returned from ,
a severa. days’ visit with friends in
Ohiopyle.
Mrs. Orville Fike and daughter,
Nina, who have been visiting friends
in York, Harrisburg and Mechanices-
burg for several days, are home.
Miss Thereza Fike, a student at
Irving College, Mechanicsburg, is
here to spend the summer vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Or-
ville fike. j
Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Dixon of Con-
nellsville have arrived here and will
occupy the McClure residence dur-
ing th summer.
W. J Brumbaugh has returned to
Jome in Harrisburg after a visit '
few days with M, and Mrs. Or-
Fike.
B. Coughenour of McKeesport
way greeting friends in town recent-
ly.
'v S. Bower is visiting friends in
Pitsburg at present.
Mrs. G. C. Baker and baby of Cum- |
pberland, who have been visiting her
mother, Mrs. J. C. Newcomer here,
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have gone to Connellsville.
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MEYERSDALE AND VICINITY. ;
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Engle left re- |
cently for a trip to Michigan and |
some other of the western states
Mrs, Jerry Yost of near Grants-
ville spent over Sunday at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. WM,
Saylor of near Meyersdale.
Joseph Yoder intends to build !
one of the largest silog in this com-
mynity. :
Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Briskey |
spent Sunday at the home of Jerry
-Stevanus.
Mrs. H. M. Schrock, Sada Schrock,
and Velma Beals have gone to Wina- |
ona Lake to attend the annual meet-
‘ing.
Some thieves stole E. M. Berkley's
;meat on Saturday night.
S. M. Gnagey is having his house
repainted, Freeman Fike doing the
work.
AN ADEQUATE REASON
| The moon was casting flickering
ghadows over a pair of lovers as they
sat side by side in Battery Park.
glancéd out across the water and
the statue of Liberty in the
gloom.
o1 wonder why they have its Hght
#0 small?” he broke in on the bliss-
ful silence.
sperhaps,” afiswered she in a scorn-
fal tone, as she coquettishly tried to
sip from his arm, “the smaller the
fight the greater the liberty.”
EVENING MATTERS |
36 m—+*Oh, Jacob, littte
A Galley o’ Fun!
THE DIFFERENCE,
He loved his fellow-men with a deep,
abiding,” self-sacrificing affection, and
wore off his excess adiposity, ruined
his eyesight, and at last caused him-
self to be inserted into an untimely
grave, by digging deeply into the whys
and wherefores of life, seeking ways
and means whereby he might make
those around him better and happier;
bis-name, laughed merrily at his
quaint, absent-minded eccentricities,
and rudely opined that his intellectual
belfry was infected with bats almost
as large as condors, the while they re-
spectfully designated as !‘Professor” a
low-browed, wedged shaped man who
made a business of smiling indifferent-
iy while a 50-pound rock was smashed
on his constitution with a sledge-ham-
mer. Thus runneth the average mind,
my children.
NOT AN EXTREMIST.
“Dis hyah new minister ought ter be
popular. He seems ter hab lib'ral
views on the chicking queschun.”
“He do, eh?”
“Yes. He says he’s knowed some
purty good men what done lubbed
dere nejghbor’s’ chickings as dere
own.” 3
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FULLY OCCUPIED.
You must wake and call me early,
call me early, Lizzie dear;
For tomorrow’ll be the busiest day of
all this busy year.
Of all my busy days, Lizzie—and,
goodness knows circumstances have
kept me going at a pretty larruping
lively lick most ‘ of my life—the
busiest up to date,
For, I must: hustle, Lizzie, to keep my
grin on straight.
| Pve worked so blamed hard at it i other
know I'll never wake
Unless you call me loudly when the
day begins to break.
They are coming on the mOrrow—
Niece Luella, who eloped, last weelt
with a chap who has never done
anything more meritorioys than to
dance divinely—and a giddy, glade
some bunch;
I must greet them with the placid
smile of Grimalkin @fter lunch.
Luella writes real sweetly; to forgive
she’s now inclined
All my opposition—I didn’t know my
mind!
She’ll arrive here in the morning
and the fellow she married actually
puts dp his blond front hair in
curl papers!—of tomorrows’ fateful
day,
And bring the bridegroom with her
for a nice, long, joyous day.
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80 be sure to wake me early; wake
. me early, Lizzie dear.
‘Break up my matin slumbers though
you drag me by the ear.
For our kinfolks and relations—in-
cluding Cousin Ezra Differdaffer
who scoffs at my views on the Ini-
tiative and Referendum, and his wife
who is interested in psychic mat-
ters, and their children, all of whom
have elocutionary talemt—have an-
nounced that they will come
To help me greet the happy pair and
bid them welcome home.
And the Glee Club’s coming over, with
the poet of our town,
To entértain the prodigals and do the
thing up brown.
Tomorrow I must wear a smile—in
spite of all I have hereinbefore set
forth, together with the fact that I
have a note coming due and a touch
of the rheumatism already here—
the whole enduring day,
And begm like a gosh-darned Perl, al
like a Queen o’ the May}
air
AS TO THE ANCIENT MARINER.
“Queer old salt, isn’t he?”
“How 1”
vy, he never says ‘shiver my
i o that—gwedls
and everybody called him Old What’s-| Put
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS
Believed to have been murdered,
and with a jagged cut extending
across his throat immediately be-
neath his chin and the lower section
of his body badly mutilated, the re-
mains of Chong Wai, aged forty-two,
a tea merchant of Pittsburgh, was
found in a deep ditch surrounding the
new Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail
road freight station in Carson street,
Pittsburgh.
Two, thousand employees of the
Standard Tinplate company at Can-
onsburg are on strike. The men em-
ployed by the company a few weeks
in operation imaugurated the
strike. It is said the men have been
getting paid every three weeks and
the new men objected, demanding 2a
pay every two weeks. !
When John Lasut of Manifold was
initiated into the mysteries of the Or-
by the degree tggm was to spank
Lasut’ with barrel staves, between
which a dynamite cap had been
placed. Lasut was badly injured when
the explosion occurred. He filed a
suit for damages and the jury award-
ed him $100.
In their haste to answer an alarm
when fire broke out at the residence
of Jerdy Brady at Dunbar, Pa., mem-
bers of the Furnace fire company for-
got their fire-fighting apparatus and
arrived without even a bucket. John
Dorley, a stable bess, and his as-
gistant, Kerr McManus, came to the
rescue with a bucket and the fire was
extinguished. 5)
Mrs. Marian E. Wilson of Latrobe
celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday
at the home of her granddaughter,
Mrs. W. S. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson was
i born in Ligonier valley, and was a
| daughter of the late J. H. Andrews.
Shortly after her marriage she moved
: to Pittsburgh, living in the East End
‘ more than seventy-five years.
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Radicals among Monongahela valley
miners oppose returning te work ac-
‘ cording to instructions of intermation-
j al officers so much that they have
under contemplation the formation of
gn entirely mew organization. They
propose in the extreme. to break away
from the present head, the United
Mine Workers of America.
James F. Dillon, who with Thomas
H. Talbot is alleged to have robbed
the First National bank of Houston,
Washington county, Pa., April 6, and
carried away nearly $17,000, has been
arrested at Montreal, Canada, by the
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operatives of the Pinkerton National
Detective agency.
ental a logs of $6,000, and fifty
wellings were threatened by
fire in Arden,.g small mining town
near Washingt The blaze was
caused by an. gyverheated coal stove.
To check the blaze one dwelling was
dynamited. i
Sam Lisovich, aged twenty-six, a
track laborer employed by the Penn-
sylvania Railroad company, was 4n-
stantly killed when he grasped an
electric light wire in the Radebaugh
tunnel near Greensburg. His body was
tiyrled into a ditch at the side of the
tracks.
The fund that is being collected in
Pittsburgh under the auspices of the
German-American Natipnal Alliance
for the benefit of the war sufferers in
Germany and Austria-Hungary now
amounts to $103,472.37.
Washington has selected an official
flower. The campaign was started a
year ago. The aster has been chosen,
and it will predominate in all decora
tions. Datlias were second choice
and peonies third.
Twenty first aid teams from Indiana
and surrounding counties will take
part in the first aid demonstration
to be held in comnection with the
town’s centennial celebration Friday,
June 23.
Friends of Nelson Peters of Green-
tree, who is missing, are searching
for him. His wife is very ill from a
nervous breakdown, due to his disap
pearance. Mr. Pefers is a miner.
Porch climbers forced an entrance
to a second story window from the
rear poreh of the home of J. W. Stew-
art, Braddock, and stole $50 from a
handbag of Mrs. Stewart.
Mrs. Ameda Burton, twenty-one, of
East Bridgeville, was struck and in
stantly killed by a passenger train on
the Washington branch of the Pan:
handle railroad, near Bridgeville.
Michael Banko of Braddock fel]
sixty feet from the top of a furnace
and was killed at the Edgar Thomson
Steel works, Braddock. He was
twenty-eight years old.
Protestant organizations of western
Pennsylvania arg planning a gigantic
parade in Pittsburgh for Saturday aft
ernoon of this week.
Struck and carried fifty feet on
the fender of a street car, Vargo Bavio,
aged five, of Braddock, was found un-
injured.
The First Presbyterian church of
Washington is celebrating its one-
hundredth anniversary this week.
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bas been cor
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ago when twelve new hot mills were .
der of Owls one of the stunts put on
Ten frame houses were destroys, |
HUGHES AND
FAIRBANKS NAMED
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yielded to Massachusetts a.'d . = ator
Lodge took the platform to pxesenl
John W. Weeks.
In two mirutes the Wo-"3' 2 “aon
stration subsided, the gave! { ‘ll, the
roll call was resumed and Delaware
being reached, Representative T. W.
Miller took the platform to nominate
T. Coleman Dupont.
Colonel W. J. Calhcun of Illinois
placed Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman
in nomination.
After twenty-four minutes of shout
ing for Sherman order waa restored
and Congressman Wood of Indiana
presented the same of C. W. Fair
banks. The Fairbanks’ demonstration
lasted thirty-two minutes.
‘While the floor still was in con-
fusion Chairman Harding ordered” the
roll call to go on and Former Repre-
sentative M. E. Kendall téok the plat-
form to nominate Senator A. B. Cum-
mins.
Senator Fall Nominates Roosevelt.
When Senator A. B. Fall of New
Mexico arose to present the name of
Theodore Roosevelt excitement was on
tap. When the senator declared that
along the border “they were looking
for one American ahd one only,” a
storm of hisses and groans swept over
the convention.
‘“That’s pretty strong, Senator,” one
delegate yelled. Finally Chairman
Harding sternly reminded the conven:
tion that it was a shameful thing for
a Republican speaker to be hissed
by Republicans in a Republican con:
vention and threatened to clear the
galleries if they couldn't show more
politeness. Quiet came and Senator
Fall was able to finish. The instant
Roosevelt's name was flung out the
fun started.
Mrs. S. K. Davis, the good looking
young woman who touched off the
forty-nine minute demonstration four
years ago, suddenly appeared in the
topmost west gallery with a red pen-
nant pinned to her right shoulder.
She wore a suit of black and white
checks and a broad brimmed sailor
hat. She appealed to the delegates
to rise for Roosevelt. She begged and
pleaded, flashed her most alluring
smiles. No use, the delegates sat cold
and as damp as the roof. Their hides
were too tough to pierce. Delegates,
it is true, were on their feet and
wildly cheering, but they seemed to be
a small company. It was the galleries|
that made the noise.
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The Roosevelt demonstration ended.
H. B. Olbrick was recognized to nom-
inate La Follette. There was no|
demonstration.
‘The roll call went on and for Penn
sylvahia. Emerson Collins presented
tHe name of Governor Brumbaugh, the;
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last: presented.
"DREAM LOCATES WEALTH
John Beliman's Fortune Found In Hay-
mow at Lancaster.
When John Bellman, a farmer
of near Brickerville, Pa., died six
months ago, only a very little money
was found, though the widow knew
he had considerable. In April Wil
liam Heil took possession of the farm
and he, too, made many fruitless
searches for Bellmau’s money. Tues.
day night he dreamed that Bellman
came to his bedside and told him the
money was buried in the haymow.
He and his wife searched in that
place and found a box deeply hidden
in the+hay, and upon opening it found
thousands of dollars in five, ten and
twenty-dollar gold pieces.
Mrs. Bellman was notified and took
ession of the wealth. Those in-
terested will not tell the amount, but
reports have it from five to fifteen
thousand dollars.
MERCHANT SUICIDES
Charleston Man Despondent Over Fail-
ure to Collect Bills.
James A. Rush, aged fifty, merchant
of Charleston, W. Va., committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head. His body was found near
his home. For several days he had
acted strangely, due to worry over his
failure to collect large grocery bills,
it is said. Several days ago he tried
to cellect money due him from people
whose accounts had reached many
hundreds of dollars.
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NOAH KEEFER.
Noah Keefer, aged 77 years, died
at his home in Somerset. at an early
hour Thursday morning after being
afflicted for several months with pa-
ralysis. Mr. Keefer was a veteran of
the Civil War, having served in Com-
pany H, 171st Regiment, Pennsylva-
nia Volunteers. He was born in Sto-
nycreek Township and was a son of
the late Peter Keefer. He removed lo
Somerset in 1900, residing since that
time. :
Mr. Keefer was marred twice, He
is survived by his second. wife, who
wag Jennie Moser, and by the follow-
ing children to his first wife, who was
Mary Kann: Ida, wife of J. S. Mos-
holder; Jennie, wife of J, J, Swauger,
and Walter Keefer of Johnstown,
and George H. Keefer, of Shanksville.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Keefer residence at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning by the Rev. G. A,
Collins, pastor of the United Evan-
gelical Church. Interment at Shanks-
ville at 1 o,clock in the afternoon in
charge of the R.. .P. Cumming’ Post,
No. 210, G. A, R, and James S: Hinch-
man Camp, No. 122, of Veterans.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
NEARBY COUNTIES.
The Fort Bedford Inn was opened
for the season on June 8, under the
seventy-five five rooms, cost $100,000
and is located on the site of the old
Corle House, opposite the Catholic
church in Bedford.
J. R. Fulton of Everett has four
teen young pheasants which were
hatched under a chicken hen. He re-
ceived fifteen eggs from the State
Game Commission, all but one of
which hatched. The young pheasants
will be released in thea woods whea
about half grown.
One of the latest achievements of
the Johnstown branch of the State
Employment Bureau was to find a job
for a one-legged man, who is a first.
class boiler fireman. This man is the
only cripple that has so far beea
placed by the Johnstown employment
bureau. 3 :
Nearly all of the coal and coke cor
porations in Fayette County, have
joined in a petition to the Court te
direct dismissal of all booze agents
in that county. With plenty of work
for all of the operators, the business
has been hampered by excessive
drinking, and the danger of accidents
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