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