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Largely constructive; tells howto bn RA AB, etc i FOR SALE BY 35,000 NEWS DEALERS Mek yout Jeter to show you & cop! convénient to mews stand, send $1.50 for a yer s om BE TR ATR SR POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE © North Michigan Avenue, Chicage “Popular Mechanics offers no premiums: does not join in ‘‘ clubbing offers,’’ and employs no solicitory to secure subscriotions The Land of the Kurds. , Kurdistan appeals to the archaeol- ogist. It was ruled successively by the Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Sas- panians and Romans; and. is exceeding-: rich in antiquarian remains, most of yo are still unexamined, The Kurds are a wild, pastoral, partly nomadic people, are mostly Mohammedans and are very hostile to Christians, their cruel massacre of the Armenians being only too well known. Kurdistan be- longs to both the Turkish and the Per- sian monarchies, though chiefly to the former Jondon Chronicle. Object of the Vieit. “pid the titled foreigner call on you to ask your consent to his marrige with your daughter?” « don’t think 'so;* replied Mr. Cum- pox. “My impression. is that he came to look me over and decide whether I was sufficiently good form to be invited to the wedding.”—Washington Star. He Got the Job. «1 understand that you told my clerk you were seeking employment?” “Your clerk misinformed you. 1 told him I was looking for work.” “make off your coat.” —Houston Post Children Cry FOR FETCHER'S FAST ORIA Heat at the Persian Gulf. Gee Persian gulf and its coasts are in summer about the hottest place on earth’s surface, a temperature of 120 degrees in the shade being not un- common, whilea black bulb solar ther- mometer has registered 187 degrees in the sun. When one remembers that the hot- test room in a Turkish bath is usually kept at about 160 degrees the appalling nature of this Persian heat will be | better realized. The greatest heat ever known in England was on Aug. 18, 1893, when a shade temperature of 95 degrees was registered. But on this day the sun temperature did not quite equal that of July 28, 1885, when 162 degrees F. was registered in the sun. When you consider facts like these it is difficult to believe that our planet receives only one ‘two-thousand-mil- : Hoss part of the rays flung out by the n.—London ‘Telegraph. Odd Titles of Newspapers. “ In Columbus, says the Dispatch, there is a man whose chief joy is in a collec- ' tion of newspaper titles. There are Headlights, Flashlights, Bees, Eagles, Owls, Mirrors and News- . | Letters, but when it comes to Derricks, Meddlers, Telescopes, Flags and Sun- beams the class 'is ‘limited. In Hot Springs there is published the Arkan- sag Thomas Cat, and other titles just as unusual are the Sledge Hammer, the Irrepressible, the Silent Worker and Gall. Frequently it 18 ps sible to tell from the title of a newspaper the state in which it is pubushed.. For instance, the Chieftain is in Oklahoma, the Rus- tler and the Lariat are in Texas, Big Hole Breezes in Montana and the Roundup in Wyoming. - Attractive Automobiles. “So you are in the market for an automobile 7” “Yes.” answered the man who likes to attract attention. “Any particular make?” “No; I merely want one: that will make people turn round and stare at me when I pass.’ “Oh, you don’t need ¢ a special type for that. Get the ordinary car and exceed the speed limit.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Careful. Hubby. “Does your husband subscribe to the theory that kissing transmits germs?” “Noj he thinks that germs are most- ly transmitted by money and is very careful not to hand me any.”—Kansas City Journal. Woodmen Grow Obsolete. A steam operated sawing machine fells more trees in an eight hour day than thirty woodmen. It works close to the ground and leaves no stumps standing.—Popular Science Monthly. Er ARTI PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Cancer Dangers. It is a well established fact that moles, warts and scars are prone to degenerate if subj.ct- ed to repeated irritation, espe- cially in the evening of life, says the Therapeutic Gazette. These abnormalities ‘should be kept under intelligent observa- ‘tion and if they display any ac- tivity or arouse an unusual sen- sation should be immediately put in the hands of the surgeon for speedy excision. The senile keratoses, so com- mon on the skin of the old; the lite wartlike excrescences and little scurfy patches so frequent on the faces and the hands, of: fer peculiar advantage for the de- velopment of epithelioma. ' They have . been called “halfway houses” on the road to malig- nancy. They should be subject- ,ed to no avoidable irritation and, above all, should not be “treat- ed” with the meddlesome notion of cleaning them up. They should be handled with gloves, as it were, and gently carried along to a quiescent end. The pressure of nose glasses has been sufficient to excite such a skin (of the old) to perverse activity. The pressure of a tight hatband has served to arouse the latent fury of an old and disregarded birthmark. Bear this in mind, particularly old persons, and guard against any irritation of the skin. > * LJ * * * % * » * * 4 * +» * * 3 * * £3 &* L * * LJ * + + * + * * * #4 + & * o& 6 LS # * % Shoppe deified bhp Bohbob bbb kdb bokbdd ERLE SEE rare emma: Leaves of the Peisen Ivy. No ‘doubt just a picture ‘of poisen fvy is enough to cause ‘some’ folks to shudder and remember the time ‘their face and body became scarlet and swollen from contact with the leaves: How jit itched! and burned! Yet to rub it was only to make matters worse. A curious fact is that some persons are immune from this poison; while others: must not even breathe the pol- len of the plant. It is often confound- ed with the Virginia creeper, although the difference between this is distinct. The leaves of the latter. are divided into five leaflets, while ‘those of the former have but three, a fact well worth remembering. . Strange enough, the witch hazel plant the poison ivy. is one of the -best remedies for ivy poisoning it would seem uature was holding oi disease in one hand and a remedy in a. other. True giory consists in so living as to make the world happier and better fox our living.-—Pliny. | the gift. i I took saved the bank . Deafness and Lameness an THE ROAD TQ SUCCESS. Fill Whatever Job You Hold te the Best of Your Ability. “In climbing the ladder of success what have you learned that you could pass on as aid to other struggling young men?” I asked H. P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. “Did you conceive any shining geal and bend everything to getting there?” “No,” he replied emphatically, “What ever job I had was to me always the sery best job in the world, and I tried to fill it. I wade no elaborate plans for the future. If I had any system in my labor it was first to do my own work; second, to teach the fellow be- low me how to take my place; third, to learn how to fill the position ahead of - me, “Boys and young men should not im- agine that thelr work is so unimpor- tant that noliody takes note of how they do it. It does not take long to find out whether a boy is on his toes watching how he can best be of help in a situation or whether he merely sits | down and waits to be told what to do. | The simple virtues of willingness, read- | iness, alertness and courtesy will carry a boy farther than mere smartness. “Perhaps it will not be out of place | for me to describe an incident which Patronize the Meyersdale Commer- may carry a lesson for the young. men you are anxious to help. One day when I was teller 2a customer offered me a very fine gold pen. I went right into the office and asked if this man had any loan from the bank. I ex- plained that he had asked me to accept The bank promptly acted. and it was not long before the fellow was in bankruptcy. The simple course a good deal of morey.”—B. C. Forbes in Leslie’s. EQUINE ARTFUL DODGERS. That Were Just Pure Bluff. We all know, nag who pretends to be deaf. tell him to “get up,” and he getteth not up; you cluck to him, and he accel erateth not his pace. Is he deaf? Not he. You know, by a certain rolling of his eye and wiggling of his ears, that he hears you perfectly well. is pure bluff. You It is like the lameness THE BUDLONG PAPERS They Contained Valuable Documents By ETHEL HOLMES esfertesfoferfofeofotefedeteiototofolololoiololoil Tok | Mary Hartwell was twenty years old when her mother died. Her father kad died several years before; leaving a business much tangled. It had not been settled, and Mrs. Hartwell had not received any regular income from it since her husband’s death, though she had been paid from time to time small sums to keep her from absolute want. After her mother's death Mary pro- posed to accept the situation of a woman doomed to work for her living . and began by closing out the remnants of former times. She and her mother had remained in their home. Now Mary proposed to leave it, and the first thing to be done in preparation was to clear out family belongings that had accumulated for years. Mary went to the attic and looked about her at the confusion and profu- slon of miscellaneous articles. There were discarded furniture, pictures. empty picture frames, rugs, fenders and irons—indecd. every conceivable article. There were boxes and trunks, i some empty, some half filled, some full. . resolutely of course, the livery ! i. when, His deafness | which some shrewd old nags sometimes | put on. Will a horse pretend to be lame when he is not? Some horses certainly will. Two or three years ago the Nomad was driving a livery nag on a road in Vermont, when the animal suddenly began to limp terribly ; couldn’t go off a slow walk. It was pretty serious, | for a journey of about twenty miles | had just been begun. Knowing a man on the road who was a practical horse- man, the Nomad drove up to his door and submitted the animal to the ex- pert’s examination. The man looked at the “horse’s feet, examined his legs— looked him over thoroughly. “Did the horse go all right when you started out?” he asked. Yes; the horse had gone all right for three or four miles. “Well,” said the expert, “this horse is shamming; there is nothing the matter with him.” Then he addressed some plain lan- guage to Dobbin, advising him with some sharpness to cut it all out and go along ‘as he ought to. The Nomad touched the horse with the whip, and he trotted on to the end of the journey without the slightest limp.—Nomad in Boston Transcript. Swearing on the Bible. The method of swearing by the Bible came into use at a very early period, practically ‘with the establishment of courts of law in Christian countries. It was the ordinary method of swear- ing when America was settled by Eu- ropeans and was naturally adopted bere. Oaths were common before the Christian era, and any form may be used that conforms to the religious be- lef of the person to be sworn.” He- brews are often sworn on the Penta- teuch, keeping on. their hats, and their oath ends with the words, “So help me, Jehovah.” A Mohammedan is sworn on the Koran.—Philadelphia Press. He Made the Sale. “Yes, the’ property Is cheap enough. Why do you want to sell it?” “You won't give me away?” “No. “Well, sir, it's because I'm the only man in this neighborhood that doesn’t move In high soclety, and I'm lone- gsome.””—Chicago Tribune Sample. “George didn’t keep his engagement with me last night,” said the girl who was betrothed to him. “Y'd give him a piece of my mind,” said her mother. “Just a little sample of married life suggested father.—Cleveland Leader. A ‘Biting Sentiment. You have to be:careful even about paying compliments, Bill Mixer, who used to write ads. for a tobacco house; got himself in bad when he. started writing copy for a butter concern and wrote “Guaranteed not to bite the tongue.”—Boston Globe. A Real Autocrat. “Here's the photograph of a famous maitre d’hotel. He has a stern and haughty look.” “Hasn't he, though? I dare say that fellow wouldn’t unbend for any tip less than a $100 bill.”—Birmingham Age- is sometimes found growing close to Herald. As witch hazel extract | Car on the Brain. “Do you know how to handle an emergency ?”’ “Is that going to be one of the new makes?’ —Baltimore American. The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses and bleat with the sheep.—Roland. | not only n The signt was discouraging, but Mary weit to to separate the whole into groups to be disposed of in diferent ways. In cne of the boxes she found some old bedding, consisting of blankets and pillows, She removed them and was thinking that she had emptied the box feeling in the bottom. her hand touched a bundle wrapped in paper. Taking it out, she shook off the dust and revealed written on the wrapper. “Budlong Papers.” She had never heard of any one by the name of Budlong, nor had she seen a handwriting like that in which the indorsement was written. She ubn- wrapped the cover and revealed a num- ber of yellow papers. She opened and glanced at several of them, which turned out to be receipted bills. There was also that part of checkbooks which comprised the stubs of checks, a lot of accounts current and some legal documents. Mary concluded that the papers per tained to the affairs of some one by the name of Budlong and that their value had long since passed away. Re- wrapping them, she tossed the bundle on to a pile of papers meant for burn: ing. That night before going tu sleep she fell to thinking of these papers. They Temindéd her of the ongoing of all things. There had been some one of the name of Budlong whose existence and dally doings were represented by these accumulating records. Budlong, whoever he was, doubtless in due time passed away, the evidences of his ex- {stence were transferred from a desk in use and finally found a resting place in the bottom of a box in a garret and covered with woynout bedclothing. Truly a tombstone is not the only re- minder of one. who has lived and moved, earned and spent money on the face of the earth. ‘The next’ day Mary turned over the contents of the garret to a dealer In secondhand furniture and carried the old papers down to the furnace for burning. i She was about to throw the Budlong papers into the roaring flames when she paused. Somehow. she had not the heart to incinerate the remains of the individual's busy existence. Laying the bundle aside, she threw in the other papers, then took it upstairs and put it on a shelf in a closet among articles the disposition of which she had not decided upon. ‘Mary had a second cousin, Horace Drummond, . who had manifested a fancy for her. Indeed, he had sound- ed her on the possibility of their join- ing the current of their lives and fight- ing the battle of life together. But Drummond had nothing but a meager salary and Mary had already experi enced a foretaste of poverty, and, re membering that marriage means a multiplication of articles necessary to comfortable existence, she blocked her relative’s way to a proposal. There was another reason why such a union would not be advisable. Ed- gar Drummond, Horace’s father, was a broken down man ef business over whose record hung a «loud. What that cloud was Mary did not know. though she did know that the elder Drum mond had been charged by his busi ness partner with having defrauded him. had been put out of the firm and had never since been sufficiently trust ed to enable him to gain a fresh start. Horace had been given to understand work ‘ that the swindle had been on the other side—that the partner had ruined his father in order to secure the whole in- stead of half the profit on a very valu able purchase the firm had made. Horace Drummond, having a father to support, was certainly not in a po- sftion to marry. He did not know. however, what a deprivation his being unable to do so was to Mary. He wa- aptable to her personally not take kindly to living a single life and earning her dail bread. Horace was willing to accep! the responsibilities that would accrue to him, but Mary gave him to unde: stand that so long as his father wa: an incumbrance on him it would be un wise for him to take a wife. Mary, who had been well educated but she did | saries required, | not encouraging. | and seemed very much aggrieved. . forward. | what : was withdrawn secured “a position as a teacker and | settled down to the work of instruct. Ing children. Horace visited her occa- , sionally, When two persons desire to | marry and are prevented by obstacles i in most cases either the obstacles are | removed or they marry in spite of | them. Naturally both Mary | ace looked forward to a day and Hor- when they would be able to marry with a fair prospect of providing the neces- but the prospect was One evening Ilorace called on Mary He said that the transaction on account of which father had been unjustly disgraced was turning out to be im- mensely profitable, Mr. Drummond was entitled to one-half of the pro- ceeds, but there was no prospect of his ever being vindicated, to say noth- ing of reaping his legitimate profits. “Just think,” said’ Horace ruefully, “had it not been for the rascality of old Haskins you and I could now be married and living in clover.” . “What was the nature of the trans- action?” Mary asked. “It was a patent right. The patent was offered to the firm of Drummond & Haskins by the inventor. My fa- ther approved of it, but Haskins de- -lared that ne would never put money into a patent right. Father was in- formed by the inventor that another party had agreed to furnish the money needed for introduction and develop- ment. Haskins was away at the time, Father assumed the responsibility of buying the right for the firm. When Haskins returned he claimed that fa- ther had used the firm's money for his own individual purposes, which was embezzlement. Father had taken the preliminary steps in his own name, but had made the contract in the name of the firm in duplicate, one copy for the firm, the other for the inventor. Haskins got hold of the preliminary agreement and the contract. He with- held the latter and produced the for- mer, which alone laid father liable criminally.” “What became of the contract