THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
MEYERSDALE COM MERCIAL
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT MEYERSDALE. PA.
R. M. SWISHER, Editor.
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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
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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}
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HER COSTLY L!NGERIE
CRITICISED CY FRERCH
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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\ 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.
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