—————— es i The Limousine Look. ‘} Perhaps it is hypercritical of us ding in a limousine is a magnificent and awful thing, and how should any «Plain mortal be expected to endure it without amendment to his soul? 8till, from our sidewalk, we do observe and Protest. an no human being, even though to the limousine born, learn to tide in a closed car and avoid the clos- ed face, that blank, top lofty aloofness «of expression so alien to normal Amer- fecan worry and cheerfulness? The limousine look attacks any hap- py, laughing.debutante or bank presi- dent the jastant the door slams and they sink back in what is technically own ip motorear literature as “mila- oe drpwing room on wheels.” It fomes on or off the face very much as flo the detachable tops that convert an ordinary touring car of commerce Into a miniature palace fit to stand before the blazing glory of an opera house with uniformed attendant handing in a very charming and expensive wife.— New York Tribune. , . A Japanese Composing Room. The most interesting department of & -Japanese printing plant. is the, compos- 4ng room. Great cases of type of all #izes extend the whole length -of the mammoth room. As the Chinese and Japanese characters used in a printing office run far into the tens of ‘thou- sands, the life of the compositor must _be u continual search for the letter he «desires Lo usd. The compos ‘tors were scuffling around the aisles of the room hunting for these <haracters and all singiag at the tops of their voices, which apparently caus- ed them to forget the terrors of their work. There seemed to be hundreds of them, and the din was deafening. After the proof is.finally corrected the forms are made un, quite as they are in an American newspaper office, stereotyped and sent down to big cylin- der presses,—Archie Bell in World Out- look, : Harriman Told Him. Harriman had an almost supernat- ural instinet for knowinz what was going on and who was doing it in the mysteries ¢ £ stock manipu.aiion. Once when Southern Pacific had been going up fast, Harriman and various bank- ing houses buying in concert, he called up on the telephone one of his private brokers. “Somebody is selling.” he said. “Yess sir, was the answer. “Well, hand the market.25,000 for me.” TIm- mediately he called up the head of a banking firm much interested in the market. “Who's seliing Southern Pa- cific?" he asked. “1 don’t know. We haven't been able to find out,” was the answer. “I'll teil you,” snapped Ilar- riman; “it’s your house.” And he cut off the connection before any reply to him could be made.—Exchange. Somewhat Different. Fred—There are times when 1 care nothing for riches, when 1 would not so much as put forth a hand to receive millions. p Kittie—Indeed! That must be when you are tired of the world and its struggles and vanities, when your soul yearns for higher and nobler things. Is it not? “N-no; you are wrong.” I" “Then when is it?” “When I'm sleeping.”—London Mail. : Senha soo ol) : Success or Failure. “How's that young doctor gettin along in your neighborhood ?” “It depends.” “On what?” “If that crowd that visits his office daily are patients he’s doing very well; if they're bill collectors he's having a hard time of it.”—Detroit Free Press. An Easy Task. Lover (mournfully)—Have you learn- ed to love another? Flirt (who had ust broken off her engagement with him)—Oh, no, George. I didn’t have to learn. The man is very, very wealthy, and the love came spontane- ously. Raised the Ante. Small Blmer—Papa, give me a nickel. Papa—Why, Elmer, you are most teco old to be begging for a nickel. Small Elm&—I guess you're right, papa. Make it a dime.—Chicago News. 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De- lay will cause destruction of tis- sue or bone, deformity of a part or systematic infection. which re- sults in loss of life. EET LEER PR SEE RRL EER EE RX . ‘a fede bh kb bb hhh hbk hhh bd ddd bbb bb v. & te oles doole obo BoB ob Xa " 9. ote ole ote la ole ole ole ole ofe ofe ofe ofe ofe HNN TN . i.e %% %0 *§ Flick: A swar:a on Feb. lui. . ie, time as Fei; bua: deat Sa dk the great C.itaiie i was LL earth's at:no-phore £, secu in Saskatchewun, western Canada, ‘and seemed to be traveling southeasterly. as it was also reported from Bermuda. From the additional records supplied by seamen W. I. Denning, the English authority on meteors, has concluded that it continued in view during at least 5,500 miles. of its flight Ax the visible stream could at no time have been ‘more than about 100 miles high, it must have followed the earth's -eurvature, and the curious idea has Been advanced by Garvin J.’Burns that it was really. captured by the edrth'ds a group of infinitestimal satellites.’ The meteors may thus have passed around othe globe several times before. reach- ing the surface. It is supposed that the orbit of the stream nearly coincid- ed with that of the earth and that con- sequently the velocity of fall’ through our atmosphere was small. a Ww Land of Borrowed Delights. A large part. of the beauty of the verdure and forest, of Italy that at- tracts the visitor's attention was un- properly Italian at all, but imported. The favored groves of orange and lein- on, with thelr golden fruit giinting ! among - the rich: ‘and sappy foliage, | skinned Saracenic. invaders from: the east. The cactus, with its prickly pear i fruit, called the “Indian fig,” and the aloe came straight from Mexico on the heels of the Spanish adventurincs into the unknown in the sixteenth ceutury. ! So did the American corn or maize. Even the eucalyptus is an importation, | a modern one, and the great groves of | chestnuts that clothe the shaggy moun- | tainsides so verdantly and give occu- | pation to sg many venders of the hot | and pasty boiled nut are believed not to be native.—National Geographic Magazine. . | =aeetemrr———— Ecoks on a Shelf. Books are frequently ruined through! carelessness. This is less in the han- | dling often than upon the shelves. Books should not be packed tightly on! a shelf. It ruins the back and causes them to tear loose with the strain of getting in and out. Often it forces the leaves to sag to the sheif when pushed | unduly. It is just as bad for books to be too loose on a shelf, as they warp, and the spreading leaves entourage dust. A bookcase with the contents at every angie. is not a p.eas.ui sight. There are some housekeepers who think a yearly dusting of the books at housecleaning time sufficient. This is bald enough when they are kept under glass. When on open it means ruin to valuable it Likes a little longer to dust ul tops of books on each prem dar. Use a soft cheese- _ Jnrter and shake it ‘fre- . and Animals’. Asi A ..... oc monkey, man. is the only aninu *.z what we call binoc- ular saigic jo. -tuat is, he can tell: not only «eetioa of an object, but hé can “timate Sulrly accurately its distance. © J": i hoeattaiboch ‘of his eves (ol © ho mame object at the same time, Uke vio range finders. Oth- er animals do not concentrate their gaze in tals way. Their eyes are set more neal; at the mules of the head, so that they see not vuiy forward, but backward for a ®iort distance. Man, on the contrary, sees clearly “ouly the object at which he locks directly.— Popular Science Monthly. Dauntless. «He cleared the sill at a bound and vanished in the darkness,” related Ro- mance breathlessly. “But,” scoffed Realism, “only a mo- ment ago he was riveted to the spot. Did he file the rivets?” “Oh, no!” rejoined Romance, nothing daunted. “Fortunately it was only a small spot, so that by a superhuman effort he wrenched it loose and carried it along with him.”—Puck. Great Expectations. “1 really believe, Will Atwood, that you married me because I have money,” she announced, with a fine display of feeling. “No, you're wrong,” returned her husband candidly. “I married you be- cause I thought you'd let me have some of it.’—Exchange. Expectations Realized. “Look’ee. Garge, didn’ I tell'ee all th’ time my boy would make th’ folks snt up an’ open their mouths when ’e sot to Lunnon?”’ /n you did. And has ’e done it?” Aye. 'E've started business as a dentist!” London Passing Show. Naval Salutes. * Originally a town 6ria warship fired off its guns on the approach of friend- ly “strangers to show . that they had such faith in the visitors’ peaceful in- tentions they didn't think it necessary to keep their guns loaded; hence the naval salute. Word From Br'er Williams. Lightning don’t hit ‘twice in de same place, an’ right dar is a lesson fer you —wid de fust lick it ’tends ter all de business it went after.—Atlanta Con- stitution. She Married One. «Ig there an old maid in your fam- iy? #Yes: my husband.”—Detroit Free Press. The best manners should be used ali day and ever” da They are noue i good for courant use. of! attempts have been made; for in- acts 0! “Standard. “4notwn in the olden times and is mot jini. a. = breathe of the Levant and the dark |'Jofer summing up ! glasses and. looking sarcastically at: THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. Real Treasure islands. ~ °° There are quite a number of islands scattered about the globe whereen buried treasure exists. And people are always trying to find it. Quite a score stance, to unearth the treasure alleged to be buried on Cocos island. Yet so far thgadventurers have reaped no re- ward tor their toil. Fully £50,000 has been wasted, again, in futile attempts to recover the “pirates’ hoard” report- 2d to be hidden near the lip of the crater of an active—very active—vdl- ¢ano on Pagan island, in the Ladrone group. x pee Still, as a set off against many fail- ures, there have been some few suc- cesses. , There is. no doubt, for in- stance, that-a Liverpool - sailor named John Adams unearthed treasure to the value of between £150,000 and £200,000 on Auckland island some years back: nor that William Watson, a shepherd. ‘recovered iv 1°63 nearly a ton of gold that hai been hidden on one of the Queen Chariotte islands. Likewise two runaway seamen named Handley and Cross successfully - located: ;and dng up a valuable hoard on Oak island, of the coast of Nova Scotia, And this after many others had failed.—Londou sim , {The Judge Hit Back, A late police magistrate was a most painstaking judge in all his cases, and fn ‘important ones it was his custom to until the next sit- ting of the court. On one ‘occastort ‘he gave an exhaustive decision on aease, after svhich the lawyer for the plain- tiff rcse and questioned tic ove cePardon me,” suid hls: worship. “1 cannot allow. youu to reopen the case after 1 have given my final decision. 1 may be wrong, but that is my opin- fon.” i The lawyer quickly replied: “Then, your worship, I know it is no use knocking my head against a brick wall. 1 suppose I must sit down.” The magistrate adjusged his eye- the lawyer, said: : “Sir, 1 know it is no use you knock- ing your Load against a brick wall, but 1 may acd tuat I know of no one who could perform such an operation with less injury to himself than you."—Case and Comivan?, 2 -gnd hé- announced that in the morning rly eit Old Lord lMayors' Tanduets. | There used to be a good deal of sav- agery abont London's lord mayors’ banquets, even in times comparatively recent. The huinbler guests at least struggled with each other for food aud had to bring their own table cutlery if they wished to eat decently and in comfort. - For instance, Samuel Pepys tells us how, at the banquet served up two years after the restoration, there J were many tables, “but none-in the | ball but the mayors and the lords of | i the privy council that had napkins or | knives, which was very strangel. Still more strange to such a lover of female beauty as Pepys was the plain- ness of feature of the city dames. _ Of the ladies’ room he says: “I could not discern one handsome face. * * * Being wearied with looking upon a company of ugly women, I went away and took coach and through Cheapside and there saw the pageants, which were very silly,” Old Time Theater Rowdies. Rowdyism in London theaters was a common occurrence in the old days, as' is shown by the following from the London Post of Oct. 27, 1798: “Two men in the pit at Drury Lane theater last night were so turbulent and riotous during the last act of ‘Henry V.' that the performance was interrupted upward of a quarter of an hour. The audience at last asserted’ their power and turned them disgrace- fully out of the theater. This should always be done to crush the race of disgusting puppies that are a con- stant nuisance at the playhouse every night.” A “Friendly Match.” 1 speak of a ‘friendly match,” not at all forgetting that dictum of the old Scot to whom his opponent, break- ing some trivial rule, said, “I suppose you won't claim that in a friendly match?” “Friendly match!” was the reply. ““Phere’'s no such thing at golf!”"—Lon- don Telegraph. Morbidly Suspicious. “If you want to fight I'll hold your coat,” said the bystander to the quar- - relsome man. “Great Scott! Can't a man even stand in the street without having a cheek boy try to work a tip out’ of him ?’— Washington Star. Couldn't Fool Her. The Mother—Do you think he has matrimonial intentions, dear? The Mafid-J certainly do, mother. He tried hi§ very best to convince me last night that 1 appeared to better advantage in that twelve dollar hat than in the fifty dollar one.—Puck. Foxy Jack. HEdith—Oh, ‘Jack told a dozen girls he 10ved them before he proposed to you. Ethel—Well, that’s “all right: When T ‘spoke of it he’ told me’ they merely represented: steps in his pro: gression to his present ideal. — Ex- change. Cynical. Slane—So you believe in signs, eh? Well, when a man is always making new friends what is that a sign of? Blane—It’s most likely a sign that his nese. * Fooling the Enemy. Long Ben, a stage driver in the southwest with a seft voice'and a gen- tle disposition, but with several notch- es on the handle of his revolver, is not given to seeking trouble. “77 ¥ Not very long ago he brought in a 200 pound salesman and, the roads being unusually rough, landed both him and his trunk in rather bad repair. The more the traveling’ man thought of it the madder he got, and that night, when he discovered how his trunk had been wrecked, his wrath boiled over, he would beat that stage driver into unconscious ugliness, - He got'up early and paced the office of the hotel, await- ing the arrival of Long Ben. ‘“One of the stage driver's friends slip- ped over to the office of the livery sta- ble, where the latter slept, and tipped him off. ¢ Yirag pdt deny |} ..“Say, Ben, that fire eating pickle salesman you brought in last night: is over there laying for you and.is going to knock your alleged head off as soon as you go to breakfast.” i : Rubbing his cheek speculatively, he said in his peculiarly mild drawl: “I'll just fool: that guy. I /wen’t go to breakfast! —Saturday Evening Post. 1 i Scania ‘ Futility of Arguments. BATITOT £ guments, if induiged, in, must be car- ried on either with superior persons or inferior persons. Viewed in this way, the utter futility of all arguments be- ¢omes ‘@pparent at ouce. I iFirst, it's futile, of course, to carry ' on an argument ‘with a’ superior per- | gon, shecause,’ being r superior, =he will have such complete contempt for your opinions that he either will not listen to you at all ot else he will listen with a patroniging smile and immediately ! dismiss from his mind what you have to say as not worth consideration. , It is easily futile to argue with an inferior person, for if you have any- thing to argue about worth the time of a man of your standing and mental capacity, then it is absurd to waste | talk upon an inferior being who will not be able to appreciate it. Thus are disputatious people isolated from the world, and ‘there is no help for it.— Life. Japanese Homes. thing I should like to men- the Jopane tor, “and {s our so (allied pride. 1 « } ceive you here at this ciub as man te man, aud woe can talk freely. but the ordinary Japanese houie is not fitted | {or intercourse with foreigners. Our | kitchens cannot prepare foreign food. Our mattinzs are marred by the use of tables and chairs. Our wives are not | accustomed to meeting strangers and | do not speak foreign languages. Vis- itors are compelled to take off their shoes, and, if they have holes in their socks, that is embarrassing for them. Under such conditions intercourse has i been in~the past rather difficult. We * do not like to accept hospitality with out being able to reciprocate. Rect procity is a national trait of the Japa- We respond very quickly to friendship or suspicion.” — Maynard Owen Williams in Christian Herald. > last 1 11 re Pride of a Musician. Viotti, the famous French musician of the eighteenth century, had an equal contempt for royalty and an exagger- ated opinion of himself, as the follow- ing story shows: One day he was sum- moned to Versailles to play before Ma- rie Antoinette and the court. The per- formance Had begun, the opening bars of his favorite solo commanded breath- ‘less attention, when a cry was heard— “Place for Mgr. the Comte d’Artois!” At the sonnd Viotti immediately ceased playing, cast an indignant glance at his audience, placed his vio- lin under his arm and walked out of the place. Harmless Humbugs. “Do you really think the public likes to be humbugged?’ asked the man of many anxieties. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “when the humbug is pretty and harm- less. But they resent the kind that buzzes around waiting for a chance to sting 'em.”—Washington Star. The Plain People. “I put my faith in the wisdom of the plain people,” said the statesman. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The wisdom of the plain people is all right. The only thing I fear is that some of them are getting so that they know too much.”—Washington Star. Kind Mother. Mrs. O'Brien—An' I see yez takin’ in washin’ ag’in, Mrs. O’Flannigan? Mrs. O'Flannigan—Sure ‘tis only to amuse the childer I'm doin’ it. They loike the windies covered wi’ steam so, that they cail make pictures on thim!— Pearson’s Weekly. 8 Quite a Difference. “Pa, what's the difference between a patriot and a jingo?” “A patrict. my son, is one whose boSOm: sweirs wn pitav ol his coub- try, while in a jingo the swelling ap- pears’ in’ his head.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch. The Reason. “You never laugh at my jokes.” “1 wouldn’t dare to.” “Why not?” “«] have always been taught to re spect old age.”—Baltimore American. Vulgarity. “Why do you say be is vulgar?’ old friends have found him out. 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Be pitifn' + Fiery === = Bp@kS: 2 Bard hartiic 1a MEciares. { as mma same — BEGGARS, BEAUTY AND FLEAS | Naples Is a. Seaport Crowded With | Naples, aside from its anfazing local beauty, is a dirty south Italian sea- port, full of fleas and beggars, noisy as | pandemonium day and night, without a really distinguished edifice, and peo- pled by a conglomerate mass as strik- ingly beautiful physically as they are notoriously untrustworthy. Bey \ storied heights that sweep in a magni- b ; BY 24 ’ ficent amphitheater I guy liant bay the old city straggles down- £ 2 WEBSTERS ward in a picturesque huddle of dense: | ly packed houses and other buildings. tortuous streets full of color and bub- | bling with the nervous activity of the south, black canyons of stone stair: | slippery with damp and dirt, across which its teeming houses gossip and | quarrel in neighborly wise. Nowhere are fisher folk more pictur- esque in habit and costume. is there so salty a dialect, spiced with such myriad quaint and startling phrases and exclamations. brown of leg, dressed in ragged, parti- colored motley, a stout canvas band about each sinewy body for hauling in the net without cutting the hands to pieces, - they ‘bring ashore their shim- mering silver quarry right along the widest, finest promenade in the city— the handsome Via Caracciolo. Al¢éross that broad street the charm- ing Villa Nazionale—not a house, but a public park, wholely conventional ifi design—contains an aquarium which J may fairly be considered the most re- | markable in the world for both the variety and ‘interest’ of its finny and monstrous -exhibits and the thorough- ness ofits scientifie work. of the great universities contribute an- nually for the privilege of sending special investigators in ‘zoology. The commercial activity of this lar- gest. city and second. seaport of Italy clings closely about the skirts of the enormous royal palace—800 feet long on the bay side and ninety-five feet high—and the naval basin and dock- yard. thriving seaport may be smelled and heard, multiplied generously, flag seen on the ships at anchor near the stone wharves.—A. 8. Riggs in Na- tional Geographic Magazine. ~ Amazing Contrasts. From the around the bril- ” Ct pa rT Nowhere Bare and To it many Every smell and sound of a every Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S | study easy and effective? 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