ed Is ine s for love with intere RESS conser —— CAGO fu as Familiar, but Unseen. Things we see but don’t notice were ander discussion at the club luncheon table. This was the opportuuity of the member who took pride in his su- perlative powers of observation. Tak- ing from his note case a crisp one pound note, he laid it on a plate and offered its equivalent to every mem- Der at the table who could answer correctly the following simple every- day questions: (1) On looking at the face of a penny with the dated side toward you and the date at the bot- fom, does the head of the image on the coin face toward your left hand or ‘toward your right? (2) How many ribs are there in the cover of an um- brella? (3) 'In a pack of cards one of the kings has only one eye visible— that 1s; his profile only is portrayed— which, of the kings is it? (4) Which way do ‘the seeds‘in the core of an ap- ple point, toward the stem or opposite to it? (The ome pound note did not change hands.—London Standard. £ A Once Legal Fiction. In the legal calendar the 24th of Oc- tober~is "worthy ‘of “notice, as on that ‘day, in 1852, two individuals, though (personally Known-t6-110 one ‘#nd enjoy: ing ian extensive repita tion Among iaw- yers, ceased to exist-in. England. These persons were John Doe and Richard “Roe, 4nd no two'persons’ were tore frev quently referredito inilegalrdocuments. In eyery.proceds, of: ejectment, of the real parties to the suit, tnd -~ named, John -Doe; plaintiff, sued Rich ard. Roe; deflendants | Their names) were alsg inserted .in criminal proceedings. This fiction” was introduced into Eng- lish Yegal ‘practice’in the time~ of ‘Hd- ward IIL. in consequence, it was said, required the production of witnesses before every criminal trial, and hence- forth John Doe and Richard Roe were inserted as: the names of the alleged witness, a custom which was carried across the Atlantic to this country.— Indianapolis News. § 3 i A Well Hated Landlord. The most hated landlord in Ireland for the last 100 years, a miger known as “the parsimonious. peer,” was Hu- bert George de Burgh Canning, mar- quis of Clanricarde. He was unmar- | ried, and with his death the marquis- ate became extinct. extended from Athenry, in Galway, to Woodford, twenty miles southeast, and it was said that.anywhere along this route could be obtained a story of trag- edy in the land war. Time and again the aid of the forces of the crown in evicting tenants had been refused. He was never seen in a vehicle. He took daily wall's to Regent's park. There, | on a public seat, not one of the chairs, for which he would have been charged a small fee, would sit this owner of. 60,000 acres watching the squirrels. He was a noted collector of china and pic- tures, of which he was a wise buyer. —- Chicago Journal. According to Degree. Horse breeding is an occupation which requires much learning, and a certain English farmer has a great rep- utation for his skill. A neighbor of his who sought some advice on the cheap, asked the horse breeder’s son one day: “I say, Tommy, when one of your fa- ther’s horses is ill what does he do?” “Do you mean just slightly ill or real bad?” was the lad’s cautious counter- question. : . “Oh, seriously ill.” “Well,” said the boy, only just a little ill, dad gives it some ’ medicine, but if it is seriously ill he: sells it.” Sacrificed Their Hats: Many years-ago the master butchers of Washington market, in New York city, used to kick their hats about the | market at the close of business on Sat- urday night. Under the custom in the market it was considered a slighting of the profession for any butcher not to appear behind his counter with a high hat, and it was thought bad taste if the meat seller at the end of a prosperous week failed to destroy the hat. The apprentice butchers couldn’t afford silk headgear and so used to gather up the broken hats and repair them for their own use. se All Pervasive. The teacher's last question was meant to be a scientific poser. «what is that which pervades all space,” ‘she said, “which no wall or door or other substance can shut out?” No ‘one hadi ‘an answer ready but Freddy Sharpe. “The smell of onions, LEG he said promptly.—New York Times. A Ready Sealer. For traveling carry a candle with you, and ‘when about to make a jump, ; as the theatrical'people ‘say, seal your bottles with it. It takes only a minute to light the candle, turn it upside down and let the tallow drip: around the cork of a bottle, but it insures perfect carriage of the fluid content. . iin ) Told Him Truly. “Johnnie, how do: you spell nickel?” the proud father asked: “N-k-l-e,/~responded Johnnie. «phat is not the way the dictionary spells it,” said the father. “You didn’t ask me that. You asked me how I spelled it.”’*~Exchange. Heartless. “Why didn’t Rastus marry dat Coo- pah gal?” “Oh, ghe dun flunk at de last minute —wouldn't iend Lim a dollah foh t' git de il wif.” --Boston Transcript. A slanderer and a suake of deadly poison each have two tongues.—Tami} Proverb. Pseaeccd ®His Irish estate: “if a horse is A ss a ——— — Ns ae WASHING THE DISHES. Doing This Jeb Qnly Cnce a Day, it ls Said, Saves Time. “The careful housekeeper will always resent the suggesion that ounce a day is often enough to wash dishes,” writes Dr. H. Barnard in ‘“Table Talk” in the National Food Magazine. “She cannot train herself to allow soiled plates and silverware to stack up from one meal to the next, for she has been taught that such actions are evidence of shift- less, slovenly housekeeping. As a mat- ter of fact, along with many other no- tions which are fixed in the operation of the home, both time and energy are saved by cutting out two of the three daily dishwashing jobs.” : Dr. Barnard'goes on ‘to recite the ex- perience of one housekeeper who actu- ally dared study the homely work of dishwashing. One week she washed dishes tliree times a day; the next week she washed each day’s- dishes. dlto- gether. She used the same number of dishes each day in. both: weeks.. 6 She found that it took her fifty-one minutes a day to wash dishes after seach meal .and forty-one minutes a day to wash them once a day.t > Uf «! This took account-only ‘of time, but thore was-a considerable additional saving in gas or fuélicomsumed by heating” water once {xstédd.of thrice a day, to aay noting of the, saving;in (soap. afer SALT IN THE FOOD. i 8 —— Why Its Flavor at Times ls Too Weak rn .or Too Strpnga-*+ ir vit The average housewife-wonders why + she often over ‘or under salts her of a provision in Magna €harta, which | > dishes; when she "“kmows” that .she salted them just right, as she always did and as the recipes called for. . The reason is just this: The season ing value of different brands of salt varies widely. This is easily proved. equal parts of five makes of salt upon the separate pieces. meation, rapidity and equality of dis- 1 solution and seasoning value are read- | ily detected. | “A table salt should be fine, the crys- tals of equal size, quickly soluble and free from ingredients which absorb moisture from the air. Large ang small crystals will not dissolve uni formly; consequently the full salting effect is not obtained until the large crystals are dissolved. The quick!y soluble salt diffuses itse!f through the feod at once and gives an equality of savor. . Sticky salt is an intrusive nui- sance. Trailures in salting are largely due to | changing from one make of salt to an- other. Get the best grade, grow ac- customed to its ‘use and stick to it.— , San. Francisco Chronicle. > Single File. they seldom walked or rode two or more abreast, but followed one anoth- er in single file. It has been thought by some that this practice resulted from the lack:of roads, which com- pelled them to make their way through woods and around rocks by narrow paths... If this were the real reason for the practice, then we should expect to find that the tribes who lived in open countries traveled in company, as do whites. The true reason for jour- ! neying as the Indians did in single file seems to be a feeling of caste. This feeling was at the bottom of other customs of the Indians. It made their women slaves and rendered the meu 2 Signs and unsociagl. This peculiarity ‘Asiatic. How it has w@rped and : a Hindu life is well known. The women of a Chinese household are seldom seen in the street. The chil- dren, when accompanying their father, follow him at a respectful distance, in single file and in the order of their ages. Poor John! “Hello! Is this you, mother dear?” “Yes, Sue. What is it? Something awful must have happened for you to call me up at.this”— “It’s not so awful. But John, dear. hasn’t been feeling well, and the doe tor gave him pills to take every four hours. I've been sitting up to give them to him, and now it's about time for his medicine, but John has fallen asleep. Should I wake him?” “I wouldn't if I were you. he suffering from?” “Insomnia.” — Pittsburgh Telegraph- Chronicle. What is Smoking In Japan. In Japan woman has smoked ever since tobacco was introduced and in- variably used the pipe of metal with | the tiny bowl holding only sufficient . tobacco to provide half a dozen whiffs which was in universal use until the cigarette entered Japan with other western innovations. His Excuse. “Yeur honor, I frankly «dmit that 1 was: exceeding the speed limit, but I was afraid of being late at court.” “What was your business at court?” “1 had to answer toa charge of ex: ceeding the speed limit.”—New York Friendly. Advice. “We surprised all our friends by get- ting: married” © “Good endugh. Now v surpele ? em by staying: married.”—Exchange. An Ancient Cake. Patience— Would you like to see thc cake I got cn my twenty-eighth birth day? Patrice—Why. yes! Is it we! preserved ?- Yonke:- Statesman. How blessinzs brighten as they tak their flight!— Young. ——— od Take: five slices of ripe tomatoes; apply ! Eat as soon as ! | salted. The difference in flavor, per- When the Indians traveled together oT i <0 THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. gee wg —— Ww Er TE ran —— QUIET” AND "NEAR LONDON. The Lonely Cotswolds Nearly Touch The World’s Biggest City. The Cotswolds are an example of the ! variety of natural scenery that Eng- land succeeds in packing awdy within her narrow sea barred boundaries. Here, within three hours of the largest city in the world, you can walk in | complete loneliness over a grassy road that follows the route laid out by Ro- ‘man engineers, with a tumbled sky line of real mountains on your right and a sweep of empty fields falling away to the left. You can take tea in an old Roman villa, where the tiled courtyard 1s still smooth and tight; you can sleep in an inn that has apparent- ly not changed its habits or its bill of fare since the days of Richarg the Crusader. . : As mountains the nol cannot pretend to any:great eminence or bold- ness. They have no attractions for the man who wishes: to brave steep cliffs or for him who would travel for a week on end through a single pine dark valley. They are well bred little hills compared with the Alps or the Rockies, ; hut they have the true mountain flavor 1 .of loneliness and sturdy <harm. ““The culiar feeling of isolation, for a single human dwelling only \serves'to set, oft loneliness. UV, 215 hand the roads are a perpetual de- light. ~ The King's- highway winds through these ‘hills—=a pnblic:road that would cost ‘the landed proprietor who half his fortune in legal SApenses to .close up.—~Exehange., 2 NEW YORK'S DI DOWNTOWN. Where Those “Tired § (Budiness Men” Earn Their Daily Bread. | There is a region of mystery into jswhich the metropolitan husband and | father vanishes between 7:30 and 8:45 : a. m. six days in the week and from i which he emerges in the la'e after- noon. He is welcomed, after;the man- ner of all returning: warriors, with a tender solicitude. Downtown is the trackless jungle into which father plunges to stalk the family’s living. After 10,000 years of civilization it is still the same. Anx- ious eyes follow him from the wig: wam tili he turns the corner to the railroad station, and fond eyes greet him. as he staggers out of the elevator door in his apartment house home with his prey. =o to speak, on his shoulder. Wives will never be reconciled to | downtown. It swallows up the ean of | the house when he would much rather stay at home and play with the chil- dren—so he pretends—and it sends him home at night too tired to be agreeable —as he asserts. Thus the little game goes on. ‘ The primitive hunter, 1 imagine, made believe that he hated to leave the family and go off 'into the dark forest, and on his return he threw him- Actually, I believe, the primitive hunt. er as soon as he was out of sight of home broke into a cheerful whistle.— Simeon Strunsky in Harper's Maga- zine. \ Primogeniture. The law of primogeniture sends back its. roots to the most ancient times. Away back in the patriarchai ages the firstborn son had a supe: riority over all his brethren and in the absence of his father was in every im- portant sense the head of the house. Upon the death of the. father he be- came by the unwritten law, which could not be questioned, the priest and ‘lord of the family, and naturally to him fell the property as well as-thé | honors of the household: - Primogeni- ture wherever it is found today is the lingering remnant of the ancient cus- tom. Dufferin’s Warning Dream. There -are many stories on record of the warning dream. The late Lord Dufferin when in Paris dreamed that he was in a hearse being conveyed to a cemetery. A few days later as he was { about to enter a hotel elevator hé was startled to observe that the attendant was the living reproduction of the driver of the hearse in his dream. He stepped back, and the lift went np without him. Before it had reached the top of the building some breakage | took place in the mechanism, and the lift crashed down to the bottom. every one in it being killed. Too Much Music. Street singing is an especially Nea- politan institution, and when for the first time one hears beneath his win- | dows the more often than not off key versions of the snappy, lilting. inex- pressibly infectious Neapolitan songs he is enchanted ang throws: pennies freely. After a week or so of it as a steady diet. day and night. he inclines {| much more ‘toward heavy crockery.— National Geographic Magazine. His Idea. “Would you say that marriage is a failure?” “Not exactly; ness venture.” “In what way?” “Well, ‘yo can’t blame the business for the failures that get into it.”—De- troit I['ree [’icss. it’s more like a busi: ~Saving Money. occasional farmhouse Shades the pe- owns the ground on either side of it | self before the fire too tired to speak. | = % Mrs. Muggins—Don’t: you ever try to gave any money? Mr. Muggins—Sure. 1 save $4 today. Borrowell struck me for $5. and T only let him have $1.- Philadelphia Record. It Was Possible. Edith—You haven't seen my engage ment ring, have you? Marie—I don't know. Who is the man ?--Boston Tran script. in that! promise suits.” of divorce evils, -a A Rattling Serial Story Full of Humor and Surprises © "Love Insutdnce is the original 1916 "S O S" fer the love stricken, a panacea for all the 999,999 varieties gilt edged guarantee against breach of EAD OUR NEW SERIAL shed Bae Ba whit Fars to Balipate: - Life {surance fire insurance, ‘accident insurance— they’ re all as ‘old as the hills and as substantial. ‘But Love Insurance —there's a possibility time hasn't tarnished! Insuring yourself against the change of heart of your heart's desire — there's a chance for us all OLD’ KASSAN VILLAGE. Curious Aiaskan Landmark In the Ton- gass National Forest. No other locality ts quite like “Old Kassan National Monument,” a unique tract of land held by the United States government. It consists of thirty-eight acres within the Tongass national for- est, Alaska, and the tiact embraces the well known abandoned Haida Indian village of Old 'Kassan; situated on Prince of Wales island; in southeastern Alaska, about thirty miles west of the city of Ketchikan. The village was abandoned by the Indians about ten years ago. Among the relics which remain there are about fifty Indian totem poles, five or six of which are classed as exceedingly good specimens. In the deserted village there are also eight large square build- ings which were originally construct- ed according to the peculiar plan of the Haida Indians and which, it'is stated by those best qualified to know, repre- sent the best specimens of Haida ar- chitecture that now ‘exist. The largest of these buildings is approximately 40 by 60 feet in-size and is made entirely of round and carved timbers. There also remain a number of In- dian graves, with the typical small grave houses erected by the Alaskan Indians. “Kassan’ is said to be the Indian word which means “a pretty town,” and all reports agree that the village was well named. The fact that the village was occupied by the Indians for many years explains the local name, “Old” Kassan,’ by which it is widely known. Since the village was abandoned by -the Indians the buildings have been rapidly falling into a state of dilapidation and decay. —Exchange. . AMERICA VESPUCCI. She Asked Congress For Citizenship and “a Corner of Land.” A decided ‘sensation’ was created at Washington during the Van Buren ad- ministration: by the appearance! there of -a-handsome and well dressed Italian woman. who called herself America Vespucci and claimed descent from the navigator who gave his name to the continent. Dantel “Webster became her especial friends, and she soon was a welcome guest in the best society. In a few weeks after her arrival she presented a petition to congress asking, first; to be admitted to the rights of citizenship and; secondly; to be given ‘a corner of land” out of the public domain of the country which bore the name of her ancestor. An adverse report. which soon was made, is one of the curiosi- ties of congressional literature. It eu- logized the petitioner as “a young, dig nified and graceful lady, with a mind of the highest intellectual culture and a heart beating with all our own en- thusiasm in the cerca of American and | Auman iibercy.” ‘ine reasons why tbe prayer of the petitioner could not. be granted were given, but she was com- mended to the generosity of the Amer- ican people. “The name of America, our country’s name. should be honored, respected and cherished in the interésting exile from whose ancestor we derive the great and glorious title.” : Later it was discovered tbat the wo- man was an impostor. “Perley s Rem- iniscences.” : Sonite and Hair. Charles Kassal has carefully review- ‘ed the biographies of most of the emi- ‘nent men ‘of thé world and bas tabulat- ed the results of ‘his work, so far as the color of the hair is concerned. Dark brown to black is the prevailing hue on ! the heads of great men, A list of fifty names has been compiled in which the color of the hair is given by -biogra- phers, and 90 per cent are dark brown or-black. The structure of the hair— whether straight or curly—is given on twénty-six of Mr. Kassel’'s list of ge- niuses, and of these all but four pos- It is ex- | «tremely notable that, of the remaining ! nothing but blank sessed curly or wavy hair.” four, Napoleon and President Jackson were the two remarkable for. “wiry hair,” and that James Russell. Lowell and Grieg were those having lank, straight hair, Why He Got “Licked.” “I understand you were punished in school yesterday, Thomas,” said Mr. Bacon to his twelve-year-old bey. “Yes, sir,” promptly replied the truth- ful Thomas. “It was for telling the truth, sir.” “Your teacher said it was for some reflection on her age.” “That's the way she took it, father. ' You see, she drew a picture of a basket Ex-President ‘Adams and of eggs on the blackboard, and while she was out of the rcom 1 just wrote under them. ‘The hen that made these eggs [isn’t any chicken.’ "—Pittsburgh ChrepiclerTelegtaph Only Wa Way to Know Dogs. The only. true and thorough straight way to know, the deg is to own one. A common residence under the same roof- tree, be it animals or humans, ‘is the sure test of personality. To own the dog: is to comprehend him in his faults aad virtues, te protect his weaknesses, be anxious at his vagrancies, to catch the contagion of his love and to agonize if it so be that he die.—Our Dum .’ imals: Not Becoming. “You used to say that girl was an angel.” “Yes. And I'm sorry I said it. Sh | got interested in flying, and, after see | ing her in her aviation costume, I must say she doesn’t look the part.””—Wash- ington Star. i —-— BEN BUTLER'S BLUFF. It Was Well Worked and Completely Fooled General Bingham. General John A. Bingham was a member of the military tribunal that tried Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln as- sassination conspirators. After the trial'in the subsequent de- bates in the house General B. F. But- ler frequently charged that the com- mission Had arrived at an unjust ver- dict and had convicted an innocent woman. In a memorable debate he boldly proclaimed that if the contents of a diary which had been found on the dead body of J. Wilkes Booth were ever made public it would disclose the fact that it contained the proof of Mrs. Surratt’s innocence, which proof had been infamously suppressed by tke commission. When General Bingham made a move- ment as though he would repel such an accusation Butler dramatically drew a memorandum book from his breast pocket and held it aloft, but did not utter a word. Bingham naturally sup- posed that Butler had a copy sf a diary such as He had spoken of. As a matter of fact the book contained leaves. General Butler was just bluffing. The diary was in possession of Sec- retary Stanton, but President Johnson finally demanded it. It was an inter- esting book, but it threw no light upon the great conspiracy. Squeaky Soles In Tune. Manufacturers of shoes who make a specialty of the squeaky variety should pay more attention to pairing them up in harmonious. duets. The squeak, squeak of the hired girl’s high heeled bronzed number tens would drive a saint to cuss words. But we must not ’ heap our displeasure upon the poor | girl. She is not the author. She is! only the reproducer. She merely acts the part that the wax cylinder per- forms for the phonograph. There is just as great a necessity for a musical | director in an up to date shoe factory ; as there is in grand opera, and no | workman should be permitted to build a pair of squeaky shoes unless he can pass a severe test in barmony.—Car- toons Magazine. Horses In Trousers. When the horses in Nice, France, are hitched to tar spreading carts they wear trousers to protect their jeg from the hot tar. A further pro- ection for them consists cf a curtain Ns ooadu between the cart and the ' ijorse. The trousers are what lend distinction to the horse, however. The knees are a bit baggy, but the horse doesn’t seem to ecare.—Popular Science Monthly. Lloyd (Serubby) McCreight of In- diana, Pa, star fullback, was elected captain of the W. & J. football team for 19117.
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