THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. MEYERSDALE COM MERCIAL PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT MEYERSDALE. PA. R. M. SWISHER, Editor. When paid strictly in advance $1.25 When not paid in advance $1.50 etree ert errs Gov. Brumbaugh canceled all en- gagcements for holiday week at the executive mansion because of the death of his father. The governor had planned several ners and a reception in ‘honor of ex President follow- 4 n from M2i. Gen. Clement, commanding Pennsylvania guards- men at El Paso, in rep 1 7 to his greet- ing to the men of the Seventh divis- jon: “Speaking for all the officers and men of the Pennsylvania division 1 sincerely thank you for your warm Christmas greeting which everyone of us reciprocates. All have done their part to the best of each individual ability and we rejoice that the time has come that we may be re- turned to our hcme stations. We wish yeu 2nd yours and all in author- jty in Pennsylvania a Merry Christ- mas and a Happy New Year. (Signed.) “Clement.” Pennsylvania Democracy has lost one of its motable figures through the death of Jeremiah S. Black, of York. He had been in comparative retirement since the great Bryan fight of 1908, but he never ceased to be a force in party affairs. He was a man of rade gifts and in him vere preserved scme of the best qualities of his illustrous grandfath- er. That he should have been called while yet in his very prime is an added factor in the regret that must everywhere be felt in Pennsylvania for the loss which the state has sus- tained. If half what the state insurance department alleges is true there are a number of insurance company swindlers who should shortly be tak- ing a ride ‘at the commonwealth’s expense in the general direction of the penitentiary. The curious fact in connection with the present in- surance mix-up is that the same crowd shéuld have been permitted to wreck so many companies. A bad bunch might get away with one con- cern even though the state examiners were on the job. But how it is pos- sible for a set of: men to wreck one company, tell the state insurance de- partment about it, and partment about it, and get away with exactly the same procedure in an- other company is a mystery. ORANGE BLOSSOM Misg Beatrice Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Truxal of this City was married to Mr. Alexander C. Powell Jr, of Waterview, Virginia in Baltimore Clty Saturday Decemer 23rd. The marriage ceremony was performed by Dr. Peck, Pastor of the First Methodigt Church of that city and was witnegsed by only the parets of the couple. Immediately after the ceremoy they departed for the home of the bride where they will spend the Christmas Holidays. The next number cf the I.ycenm Cours will be given in the Luthern Church on Thurs. Eve. Jan. fourth. The Lecture will be given by Dr- Hop- kins of Chicago, his subject being «The Golden Fleece.” No admission will be charged, but a silver offering will be lifted. The lecture ig held in connection with the union services during the Week of Prayer and the management has kindly consented to have it with- out admission. Dr. Hopking is one of Chicago's greatest preachers. Everybody is invited and urged to be pregent. OUR SECRETARIES OF WAR. Only a Few of Them Had Any Practical Military Experience. The first secretary of war of the United States was Henry Knox, who wae born in Boston July 26, 1750, of Scotch Irish parentage. Knox was the o»ief commander of the artillery throughout the Ra “lution and was secretary of war both oefore and after Washington assumed the presidency. being one of the few soldiers appointed to that position. TIis successor, Timothy Pickering. bad also seen active service, and James McHenry, the third to hold the post, had been a surgeon in the Revo- lution. Samuel Dexter, the next in line. was a lawyer, but Henry Dearborn. Jefferson’s secretary of war, had had much military experience. Wiliiain Eustis, appointed by A.odison. was physician and gave way to a military man, John Armstrong. James Monroe and William H. Crawford were law- yers, and since their time most presi- dents have apparently considered a legal education the best qualification for a head of the war department. U. 8S. Grant, who held the war port- follo for a brief period in 1867, and william T. Sherman. whose tenure of jually short. were the only men to hold t} iy. —S# office was e d neuished inilitar: he la If cont HER COSTLY L!NGERIE CRITICISED CY FRERCH i Photo by American Press Association. MARY GARDEN, American Opera Singer. Mary Garden is on her way to the i United States after an embarrassing | experience in Paris. She shipped $5,000 worth of beautiful lingerie Whereunon the Paris papers de nounced her for thinking so much of | the adornment of her body while | France was undergoing the horrors and sufferings of war. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR The Rumanian army is safe, ac cording to news received in Paris. A paper says the survivors are beyond the Sereth river at Jassy and in Bes- sarabia, where they are being re- grouped and refitted in view of furth- er operations. The entire Rumanian front is stated to be held by the Rus- sians. ; After the Bucharest-Ploechti line was lost, the story says, the Russians sent divisions and forces of cavalry to support the retreat of the Ruman- ian army. King Ferdinand fell back as rapidly as possible, assured of the possibility of reforming behind the shelter of the Russians, and continued the withdrawal without halting until the Sereth was crossed. The Russians offered strong resistance to the Ger- mans in the region of Buzeu so as to permit engineers to construct a de- tensive front between Rimnik Sarat and the Danube marches, on which front, it is stated, the Russians in- tend to stop the advance of the in- vaders. > The Rumanian petrcleum wells in the district occupied by the Germanic troops have been found so little dam- aged, the reports state, that oil al- ready is being produced as fast as it can be transported, with the aid of Rumahians who haye remained on the ground and are willing to work. Army headquarters in Berlin ans nounced on Tuesday the capture of more than 1,000 Russians and Ruman- jans on the Rumanian front. The Rus. sians and Rumanians in Debrudja are zontinuing their retreat and are ap- proaching the lower Danube. While winter weather is causing military operations on most of the fighting fronts to lack features of in- terest, considerable activity in devel- oping in sr~ctors far enough south to admit of energetic campaigning. On the Tigris, the British, after a long period of quiet, have recently pushed forward to Kut-el-Amara on the south and are continuing to attack the Turkish forces in that region, evi- dently in the hope of resuming their long-delayed march toward Bagdad. Now another field of activity is de- manding attention, with a late an- nouncement from London that British forces have capturedi El Arish, in Egypt, on the Mediterranean, ninety miles east of the Suez canal. Little has been heard from the Hgyptian operations for some time, but the British are known to have been making somewhat elaborate prep- arations to protect the canal region from further incursions such as that of last summer and their defensive lines have been pushed far out on the Sinaia peninsula. Apparently there has been a recent effort still further to extend the defensive zene, of which the capture of El Arish constitutes an important development. The taking of El Arish establishes the British front at this point well to. ward the border of Palestine and marks the furthest eastward penetra. tion by Rritish forces in this area since the Turkish raids began. Fl Arish has been the object pre viously of attacks by British aviators and warships, and last May a com- bined naval and air raid on the place was reported to have destroyed the fortifications. On the Franco-Belgian front the an tillery is the only arm of the service that is displaying activity of moment, and even the bombardments, such as those reported in the Somme and Ver- dun regions, are not of pronounced in- | | | i tensity. The admiralty in London ac nounces that two destroyers were sunk in a collisior in the North sea Dec. 21 during v ry bad weenrther Sx officers and {forty-nine men were lost s - Wy ceria 4 trengthen the sys 5 1 a TT i WESTMINSTER DEAN «The dean of Westminster, the Right Rev. Herbert Edward Ryle, preaching in the Abbey on Christmas said: “It is our resolve, God helping us, to overthrow military brigandage in Europe, to rescue the liberties and homes of the desclated countries, to obtain for these people reparation for their wrongs and for humanity lasting securities against a recurrence of aggressive violence and crime. “It is true that the president of the United States, after two years of study of the question and innumer- able notes, seems to believe that the object of the two groups of belliger- ents is the same. 'He knows that Germany refused arbitration, declined a conference and rejected every over- ture to prevent war. He knows that his own countrymen have poured money like water to assist the desti- tute and outraged remnants of the | little Belgian people whose treaty rights were violated and whose fron-- tiers were invaded before war was declared. He knows of the infrac- tions of The Hague conventions, which the American people have stu-- diously promoted. . © “He knows all ‘the details of the organized atrocities reported upon strict inquiries. He knows. of the sinking of unarmed passenger ships, like the Lusitania and Arabia, with- out notice or warning. He knows of the murder of Capt. Fryatt, of the noctural deportations of Belgians and French into slavery. He knows of German connivance at Armenian massacres. And yet he is ‘of the opinion that the nations who are leagugg to disarm this evil demoniac of national militarism have the same aim in view as the perpetrators of these hysteric crimes. “President Wilson has either in a fit of mental aberration sent the wrong note, or he has entirely mis- apprehended the European situa- tion. “These things are black-and vile. The very thought of them on Christ- mas day makes one shudder. Does anyone suppose that peace would be honorable which regarded the assail- ants and the defenders of humanity as having in view the same ends? What kind of unity of aim do you ex- pect between wolves and sheep dogs over the fleeces of torn lambs? “Peace on the basis of such a hy- pothesis would be only an armistice giving an exhausted foe a much need- er interval for recuperation before renewing his instable passion for the hegemony of the world and the de- struction of his rivals with a savage war.” Hunt Tent Caterpillars Now. During the winter or dormant sea- son is an extremely good time to do effective work in checking next sum- mer’s ravages from the tent cater- pillar by collecting the egg masses in the trees and destroying them. The egg masses are about three- eighths of an inch in diameter and half an inch long, and are brown, about the color of the apple and wild cherry twigs upon which they will be {ound most frequently. When the moth lays the eggs she glues them to- gether and covers them over with a brown, viscid, frothy liquid which hardens and protects them from the weather. The whole mass has the appearance of a swollen place in the twig. Each of these egg masses contains from 300 to 400 eggs, and if they are allowed to hatch it will not be long before they will have stripped the branch of all its foliage, thereby ruining the crop on the infested branches. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture suggests to farmers and fruit growers that they enlist the services ofthe children in collect- ing these egg masses during the win- ter. Fruit growers can well afford to pay the children a cent a piece for the egg masses and have them burn- ed. It will give the children an inter- est ir the work and will mean the ving of an immense amount of ruit next season. Read every a’v. in this isane If you want health you can have it, by heeding Nature’s laws. Keep the stomach strong, the liver active, the blood pure, and the bowels regular, and you will seldom be good care of these organs, and at the first sign of anything wrong—ypromptly take Beecham'’s Pills. help and relief of this world-famed remedy, to -ecp the body in health. They quiskl; : sal conditions, so the organs per as Nature intended. No other res em. Stimiiia improve tl Directions of Special Value lo Women are with Every Bex. Sold by druggists throughout the world. ill. Take inly need In boxes, 10c, 25c. PER TT NER RY EAR TIE . KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS Warrants charging manslaughter | have been issued against four men following the death of Charles Otto, sixteen-year-old trapper boy, in the Eclipse mine at Roscoe, who, it is claimed, was hazed to death. Although | Otto died last week, death being due | to meningitis, it is claimed the treat- ment which the boy was forced to en- | dure at the hands of four men em- | ployed in the mine brought about the | fatal ailment. 1 \ John Orb, aged forty-five, of Home-. | stead, was fined $1 and costs by Bur- gess Joseph S. Stewart of Homestead because he selected a snow-covered street of the borough as a place of prayer at an early morning hour. Chief of Police L. T. Simmons en- countered the man on his knees in prayer and the latter raised a disturb- ance when Simmons asked him to seek another place of worship. The Elghteenth Pennsylvania regi- ment, which is made up of Pittsburgh- ers, arrived home on Christmas day from its s;Xx months’ sojourn in Texas. All the men were in fine condition and presented 2 fine martial appearance as they marched through \the down- town streets to their armory. Thou- Sauds ol persons crowded the thoroughfares to welcome the soldiers. Over 4,000 Boy Scouts in Allegheny county are busy feeding the winter birds which are facing starvation be- cause of the recent snow, according to John |M. Phillips, scout commis- sioner of Allegheny county. Suet is being tied to park trees for chick- adees and woodpeckers, and ears of popcorn are tied up for red birds and other grain eating birds. Upward of 500 citizens searched the countryside near Braddock in a hunt for two negroes who shot and prob- ably fatally wounded Policeman Kay- mond Queen of the Braddock police department. The patrolman was shot while trying to arrest the two negroes who were said to have held up and robbed a foreigner a few minutes previously. 7 P. M. Hayes, aged fitty-three, was stabbed to death during a fight at Lis boarding house in Pittsburgh. A man, believed to be an Italian, called at the house and asked for Hayes. The fight soon started and Hayes and the caller were seen stabbing at each other. Hayes soon fell to the floor and the caller escaped. “We find in favor of the plaintiff dict read in common pleas court in Pittsburgh when the sealed ver- dict was opened by Judge John A Evans in the case of Miss Nettie M. Richardson against Henry Deniston for breach of promise to marry. * The University of Pennsylvania football squad left Philadelphia late last week for Pasadena, Cal, where the team will meet the University of Oregon eleven on New Year's day. There are twenty-eight persons in the party, of whom twenty-two are play- ers. The state highway department last week shipped forty tons of automobile and motorcycle license tags by parcel post. The tags are the first of the 1917 series to be shipped. In the lot were 35,000 automobile tags and 8,000 for motorcycles. Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsyl- vania announced that he has nct asked Banking Commissioner Smith to re- his resignation. This followed a con- ference between Smith and the gov- €rnor. The Pennsylvania department of forestry anncunced that 2,000,000 forest tree seedlings will be available for free distribution next spring. The trees are two and three years old and can be obtained upon promise of plant- ing. The merger of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh under the title of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chi- cago and St. Louis Railroad company has been approved by the Pennsyl- vania public service commission. 1 | Loliaren Gry { | FOR FLEYCHER'S TASTOR!IA in the sum of $170,000,” was the ver-- sign nor has the commissioner offered. 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