WHEN YOU BUY SALMON
When you buy a can of salmon do |
you know whether it is “red,” “pink”
or “white” and that all the varieties
taste alike and all have about the
same food value? But the patker
sells the “chum” or white salmon for
less than half he gets for the red and
be only gets 50 per cent as much for
pink as for red salmon. So when you
«pay a high price for “red salmon” see
that it is really marked “red.” I learn-
ed these facts while at the dock at
Saldovia looking over the cannery of
yd his associates. The
the cannery depart-
m from the boiler.
wave heen 50,000 cans pil-
they cooled in the > sharp,
an
clear atmospher
light 1 heard a po
12 on thousands «
n out of te water
a day. They go from
le and can be on vour ta-
v York three or four weeks
fey were cs it.” Fresh fish!
Mr. R: tandolph said that one of the
choicest d licacies he ever > 1S a
] oiled hearts of the
nds , While the
Si almon rage only
‘hey taste like sweet-
3,” he adds 3 “It is too had they
are we Aste d.” And so are the fine,
large livers as big as your hand, and
the spawn which if it was sturgeon
eges would command a high price for
cavier. Plans to utilize some of these
products are being studied by Mr.
Randolph and by others. Another
Tidbit is the little chunk of sweet, ten-
der meat lodged in the cheek of the
salmon, just below the gills. The can-
ners reserve such delicacies for them-
gelves and their friends, but the time
will come when they will find special
mention on the menus of the highest |
priced restaurants.
The canners get at wholesale only |
about 13 cents for a one pound can of
the best red salmon and only half the
price for the pink and even less for
the white. The red salmon constitut-
ed only three-sevenths of the pack,
but three fourths in value of the en-
tire product. The public prefers the
red meat and is willing to ray double
price for it. So much for gratifying
a taste—John A. Sleicher in Leslies.
LOGT AND FCUIID.
It is a word of strange happenings.
On the Alrcska steamer from Seattle
was a young lady who bitterly lament-
ed {o a friead aboard the loss of a pin.
I. was an Elk emblem, gold and jew-
eid, a 1 ent from her brother. She
had I it on the street in Seattle
ju re her departure. She related
the circumstances in the presence of
’ » parzenger to whom she had
just Leen introduced by her friend.
Thi v passenger seemed inter-
€
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ads = — ald :
mailed. iu a i Hmic ue returned |
from his statercom and re d the
lost treasure. A happier younz wom-
an than the recipient could not have
been found.—From Leslie’s
BRIEF DECISIONGZ.
The Mother Hubbard just stmply | “¢'°
bad to go out of fashionable literature, |
It wouldn't frou frou.
Isn’t it strange considering how |
fond some men are of attitudes, that
they strike them so freque itly?
Not every man who g=ts a2 good
sendoff can come back.
Some people seem to take zreat de-
fight in looking forward to yesterday.
By and by, every man finds out that
be is a fool—but some woman kuew if
first.
This would be a poor wo ld for crit.
fes if nobody accomplished anything.
The fool never knows ctter next
time till it is too late.
If you want your income to go up
hitch it to an airship.—From Judge.
If honesty were not the best policy
there would be a good deal less of it.
Ti ier it is to reform a man
the less it amounts to.
Wit without wisdom is sauce with-
out meat.
A lazy man is a dead loss to him
elt. a
ed with shiny cans of i
a |
10t be sold a nere-
y to pers i the
As I saw ti viral
son takir cases
via J asked Mr. }
ng the fish then being
VAIN LONGING.
I'd like to be a preacher—but lack |
the grace, I fear — to be a moral
teacher, a famous pulpiteer. Then
every mortal sinner on whom I
chanced to call would make me stay
to dinner, for which, of course, I'd
fall. Methinks I'd never sicken of
grub the pastor eats, the tender fried
spring chicken and jam and other
treats. Beneath my church’s steeple
I'd have the inside track; I’d roast |
and rake the people, and none would
answer back. Whereas, if las men hol
ler warm sentiment of theirs, folks |
take them by the eollar and roll them |
down the stairs.
I'd. like to be a banker and store up
shining coin, the goods for which men
hanker, from Denver to Des Moines
The banker’s job's ench ing he
has his treasure box, and men core
allivanting to leave with him their
The merchant and the miner
rush where he patient stands, and
1a! eine and shiner and leave
hands. The buyer and
the baker and the hore,
and the widcos, all seek
. The gardener and
brakeman who’s in luck
shining gilder, the ko
to the banker kale,
¢ and the kroner, the doub
on an a the tael. The banker’s life
is sunny, he plays a pleasant game
but no one brings me money until I've
earned the same. I see no pe e rush
ing, with frantic, eager zeal, into my
trongbox pushing the long green or
he wheel.
I'd like to be a granger—that’s what
I'm honing for—and fill my horse’s
ranger with rich excelsior. I'd rs
> wooden, the clingin:
h; for farming is a puddin’—a
carnival of cash. The merchants
2 trying to get the farmer’s tr:
n he goes aaelling. the Hs
S ty In pur
ple ar 3 fine Tis nen ve Stokes his fine
and townward he goes sp
easy pickin’, so he can dance and
2: he gets more for a chicken than
any cow should bring.
Dut what’s the use of wishing for
jobs that bring the dimes? I'll have
to sit here dishing my feeble-minded
rhymes.—By Walt Mason from Judge.
HOT SUN MAY BE FATAL TO
BLONDES.
Fight the freckle. Taboo the coat
of tan.
And do these things—especially if
you are a blonde-—out of considera-
tion for your health, and not merely
as a matter of vanity.
That is the warning issued by Dr.
I"rank C. Knowles during a recent dis-
cussion of treatment of skin diseases
before the Philadelphia County Med-
ical Society, according to Marguerite |
Mooers Marshall.
“A great percentage of skin diseases
are cancerous growths,” said Dr.
nowles. “The blonde type of women |
en subjected to the rays of the sun
is very susceptible to the disease. Not
only the blonde woman, but the wom-
an possessing a freckled face, must
void the sun. Such preventive meas-
s will save them from much trou-
And with that last statement Dr.
(Claude L. Wheeler, editor of the New
) lical Journal, entirely agree:,
rather doubtful if the
nally cause eancer in
” he conceeded, “that can
" not always, comes from
Y But this ir
y be develop-
> case of a
a ci
in the case of a woman vh
ecelve 5s a blow on the breast. Th
nere impact of a tennis ball upon t!
>=h fo as been known to result in
cancer.
‘But it doesn’t seem to me that even
ravated sunburn or freckles suf-
eel irritates the skin to c
erous growth. Also it’s a disesse
Hp rarely aprears before the age of
35, and those most likely to expose
themselves to the sun are young men
and women.”
So, if you are a blonde, get under
cover.
Laws should be enacted compelling
young physicians to practice on cats
beeause one life out of nine would-
n't be missed.
Occasionally a girl marries a man
just to keep him from hanging around
the house every evening.
Still, if you find yourself in a rut,
remember that a rut is the smooth-
est part of the road.
As a comfortable seat a good rock
ing-chair beats a throne to a frazzle.
Unreanitied love is one brand of
heart failure. But it’s never fatal.
Lut a her-in-law can lay down
7yer.
‘5 an opportunity, get
one.
:2y season for the farm-
hen,
Many a pe .cnt leather shoe hides an
aching corn.
One liltle dimple has caused many a
fall,
Does your charity cover many sins?
ns sali til
buck. The borrower
a
LOOSENING UP,
I'd like to save up seven bones,
THE TYPEWRITER.
against the rainy day, but kindly folk, which I earn the good long green.
with siren tones, entice my plunks It is the tenth one I have owned;
away. Kind, helpful people, great of ten times by eager agents boned, I've
heart, are evermore abroad, and they loosened up a hundred wheels, too, |
pursue me through the mart, and too responsive to their speils. Each
touch me for my wad.
This morning, when ¥ drew my machine of sterling worth. You'll
wage, and stepped upon the street, break your heart and spoil your biz if |
agent sells the best on earth, the one
there came a girl of chicken age, with buy any one but his.
dazzling smile and sweet. “My friend,” Ten new machines I've bought, at
she said, “across the seas, the wound-
| ed soldiers wail; theirlegs were shot
off at the knees, and they are short
of kale. Dig up the coin you've la-
bored for,” the lovely damsel begs,
‘and buy some hero of the war a brace
of wooden legs.”
When such a human buttercup way-
lays a world-worn gent, that gent can
cnly loosen up, and try to look con
tent.
Before I'd gone a hundred feet 1
met another maid, with eyes so bright
and smile so sweet, she made the first
cne fade. She seized me by the bu:-
tonhole, and cried, “Well met, old
scout! I'm sure you have a goodly
| roll this being true, shell out! The
ladies of the Uplift Guild would help
the Eskimo, who is so poor he has to
build his bungalow of snow. We'd
build for them a thousand huts upon
the modern plan, so kindly spring no
‘ifs’ or ‘buts, but cough up like a
man.” .
I do not care a dozen whoops about
far-off jays, nor care in what design
of coops they have to spend their
days. But when a lovely, smiling
peach would help those greasy lads,
a mortal man can only reach down in
his jeans for scads.
In other days the women old went
round and passed the hat, and found
their victims stern and cold—no man
would fall for that. An ancient dame
with grizzled bair, and shapeless
frame and bent, might dog my foot-
steps everywhere—she wouldn't get
a cent. But now the lovely maidens
| take the warpath every day, and even
hardened tightwads quake, and yield
in’ | the right of way. The daughters of
in Te own motor car. His life is
the horseleech rise, and camp upcn
my trail, with pearly teeth and starry
| eyes, and always get the kale.—DBy
Walt Mason, from Judge.
REBUKE TO THOUGHT—LESS
TRAVELERS.
The traveler of today is so accus-
tomed to the comforts and luxuries |
afforded in modern railway and steam-
ship travel that he fails to appreciate |
them at their true value. This fact
is brought to mind by the signs in ev- |
ery railroad train, steamship, state- |
room and frequently in hotels, One of
the largest Pacific coastwise steam-
ers has a placard in every stateroom |
requesting passengers to refrain
from lying down in the berths with
their boots on, and the proprietor of
a western hotel has expressed his re-
quest that the property be respected
by his patrons in this keenly sarcas-
tic manner: “If you are accustomed
to spitting on the floor at home, you
are at liberty to do so here. Make
vourself at home.” Almost daily one
observes newspaper reports of the’
abuses of privileges by campers, tour-
ists and travelers, until finally gov-
ernment action has been necessitated
in many places to insure protection
of public grounds.
It is a sad commentary of human
nature that most of us lack in respect |
for other people’s property. It is |
strange that persons who exercise
the greatest care in conserving their |
own effects will put their feet on plush
sofas in pullman cars and in hotels,
will scatter debris about trains and
hotel lobbies, will drop cigar ashes
anywhere, throw away lighted cigar-
ettes and often through their careless-
ness, cause fires and destruction to
property. The same kind of thought
> | less persons will litter up picnic
{ grounds and defzce property in seek-
ing souvenirs ~nd in writing and cut-
ting their names in public places and
conspicuous spots. With the growth
of travel this terdency has become
more marked. If the vacationist is
to find a second welcore anywhere, it
hehooves him te show his good breed-
ing by his regard for the comforts
and luxuries of travel, and gratitude
toward his fellow citizens who have
mad him gifts of parks, camp sites,
and forst reservations.
A scientist states that fully two-
thirds of a woman’s pleasures in life
are derived from her ability to shed
tears at will.
Keep an eye on the man who says
money will do anything. The chances
are that he will do anything for mon-
EY.
The dachshund has very short legs, !
but his pants are just as long as those
of any other dog.
Sometimes it is a woman’s fondness
for change that keeps her hushand’s
pockets empty.
Some men are so reckless with their
coin that they even use it for pay-
ing debts.
A pessimist is a person who is sea-
pick during the entire voyage of life.
The majority of men are like clocks
—either too fast or too slow.
Tomorrow = the happiest day in
the life of the average man.
It’s a strong friendship that eam
stand a loan.
Prudence is common sense well
trained.
times, with which to perpetrate my
rhymes; and as I punch the lettered
keys and write such locoed Hogghts
as these, I often wonder how the lads
vho in the old time wrote for scads,
hmen as Dickens, Bulwer, Scott,
» managed to produce their rot. 1
y those great gifted men who had
1
gle with a pen, which always
to s
was upon the blink and scratched and
clogged and spattered ink. It must
have made Charles Dickens hot when
he beheld a big green blot upon the
chastely page. I seem to see him in
his rage; I seem to hear the great
man swear and bust the pictures with
a chair and throw the inkstand down
the hall and kick the tomeat through |
the wall.
Oh, I can see poor Charlie sweat |
while doping out his “Edwin Drood,” |
and I can see him throw a fit while |
blotting “Martin Chuzzlewit.” Just |
think of it, all modern men; condole |
with those who used the pen!
And I sit here in ease and peace
and all things go as slick as grease
I work my fingers and my head and
grind out rhymes, as I have said. 1 |
do not fool with cheap goose quills;
no ink upon the paper spills. My new
machine is smooth as lard and makes
things pleasant for a bard.
But now the blamed thing will not |
work! In vain, in vain the keys I
jerk! The dog-gone carriage will not
slide—there’s something busted, sure,
inside. The patent rintums’ out of
whack, the mainspring’s split all up
the back. I place the ‘writer” on a
bench and toil with pick and monkey
wrench, and loosen up some burs and
nuts and tinker with the metal guts
and fus with lever, cam and crank,
and say, “Blink blank, blink blank,
| blink blank!”
| The agent comes with sack and kit,
| and in an hour he fixes it and says, in
| soft and siren tones, “My bill for that
is seven bones.”
{ And now I sort o’ seem to think that
men who wrote with pen and ink were
| not such an unlucky lot. Hooray for
Dickens, Bulwer, Scoit!—By Walt
Mason, from Judge.
THOUGHTS.
Intelligence is the mother of good
luck.—Benjamin Franklin,
No one but yourself can make your
life beautiful, no one can be pure,
honorable and loving for you—J. R.
| Miller.
Life without endeavor is like enter-
ing a jewel mine and coming out with
empty hands.—Japanese proverbs.
Our greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising every time we
fall—Confucius.
Many men owe the grandeur of their
| lives to their tremendous difficulties,
-—Spurgeon.
His heart was as great as the world
but there was no room in it to hold
the memory of a wrong.—(Said of
Lincoln by Emerson.)
Beware of little expenses; a small
leak will sink a great ship.—Ben
| Franklin.
“Don’t nurse opDortunity too long—
take it into active rartnership with
you at onge, lest it leave y you for other
company.’
I a man can write a better boo’,
preach a better sermon or make a
befter mousetrap than his ncizhbor,
though he builds his house in tha
weeds, the world wil! ke a Leaten
path to his door.— iubbard.
~ Success in life is a m
much of tale:i o* opwvortunity as of
concentration and rp ecgeveran
There is someih! 7 wrong with the
s1.2:1 boy who isn’t looking for some-
thing to eat within ihirty seconds aft-
er he arrives honie from school.
The man at the bot om of the lad-
der has cne adviontage over the min
at the top. He doesn’t have so far to
fall,
A bully is a man who is always
vaniing to ficht some other man
half his size.
It is so much easier and-less expen-
sive to get married than it is to get
unmarried.
When it comes to manual labor, the
average man is a tramp at heart.
Consider the bald-headed man; he
combs not, neither does he brush.
While the little dog is barking the
big one absconds with the bone.
A little learning is almost as dan.
gerous as some little widows.
You can’t hurt some men unless you
hit them on the pocketbook.
No girl wants a secret marriage
still it is better than none.
A man runs into debt, but he either
walks out or stays in.
No argument can discount genuine
happiness.
Never hit a man when he’s got you
down,
Some men are too honest to take a
hint.
It is a wonderful machine with |
Christmas
Christmas will soon be here,
see the nice Christmas presents you can buy
In nice boxes
50c to $8.00
This will make a
very nice present for
Stop at my store and
CIGARS BOX CANDIES
30c to $5.00
Johnstons and Reymers
KODACK Perfume and Toilet Articles
25c to $15.00
any one. a bottle,
Columbia Grafonolas
Stop and look at a real
talking machine, the
Grafonola, and hear the
world’s greatest singers,
Lazaro, tenor, and Marie
Barientos, soprano.
MEYERSDALE,
AN
F. B. THOMAS
LEADING DRUGGIST
PENNA.
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F you want to make a
Christmas present to
your friends that will be
long remembered and give
the best satisfaction come
to our store.
We have a full line of
a Boys Sleds, Wagons,
BY v — Skates," Tool Boxes, etc.
Safty. Razors,
Keen Kutter Knives and F-rks Aluminum Ware,
American Model Builders, and many other useful articles
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Slogan this year,
What gift more useful than a Savings
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ness on the part of the giver or more flatter-
ingly demonstrates the faith in the recipient’s
possibilities and character?
Make it a happy Yuletide, for the young-
sters—helpful, instructive, and habit-forming.
ONE DOLLAR DOES IT.
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