he ' de- ’ Minot enough on lag- l. And vhy he at the here on ome to ning—a ut. At ladder. a press- right in re Lord in the arrow- this is d, board 100d for rom the age, the sturbing I think hood. I the Li- qed wan fig.” ~eatd npous Mr. plaza. He 1t he came alk terms, with pride yme to his “Well, 1 ness would [ must say wn in my paign has any lovely . Say, ny “Lord Har- yest to call Mr. Trim- the victor ny suggest: t I suggest I shall call is hotel. I , also some , In front by must ac- the future brook.” en?’ Minot r. “It's the usiness, my kly, I want f this thing ir shall we . a delay of vised Trim- shed Minot. 11 o'clock? ze HATTOW- imer. They the 1 ar ¥ 3 at 5 yu Or ai reek) smWRQ. will RR CPG 7 © (WE a —— “THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL MEYERSDALE, PA. KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, aged eighty- five, wife of John Riley, was burred to death at Oil City when her cloth- ing ignited at a gas stove in her bed- room. Mr. Riley, hearing his wife's screams, found her in flames and :t- tempted to extinguish the fire by wrapping her in bed clothing. Mrs. Riley was dead and her husband al; most unconscious from burns when help arrived. The .general assembly of Pennsyl- vania has organized for one month. Aside from the election of presiding officers, the appointment of standing committees and the distribution of patronage, nothing has been accom- plished. With one or two exceptions no legislation of importance has been presented and no legislative program outlined. The United States government has taken precautionary measures against plois and plotters in the Pitrs- ‘burgh district in the event of hostili- ‘ties involving this country. It is as- serted that there are between 12.000 ‘and 14,000" reservists of ‘the:two coun- tries still residing in western Fenn- sylvania ‘and northeastern West Vir- Einia, Two young men, With oa collars ~turned up, hats pulled down well over :their faces and. wearing white hand- kerchiefs as masks, entered the gro- cery of William B. Double in: Pitts- burgh, and at the point of a revolver, ordered Double, who was alone in the «8tore, to unlock the cash register. They got $160. The robbers then dis- appeared, .,. he? ERE no i could be hea ‘two? mites, the entire front-was “blown out. of tHe fruit” stéte of "James tf Ja. “Bohigdal 0, “Phe “stor FTWas 3 % na W.S L ot store H “and it as idbught 5 pldced da" boi LEY Bo Magy Teh BIE gino wy gers: forty ys fig¥tbeing in the door way. Soe ouis Que my E 1d i “2 sail dnd; eg RAL fev: greed rt Wp ah workman «: theedlizg suoieosgd who Non (hedhgal withean fron bar, sificLur: Be hayes IB pn iz @ arbres aon asi Rav 23a Ls ald Bi 3 / the contro - si Be od aries, B. years. manager, of cede Dio ws, vill wropably. Tobie. (He! L precy has been in newspaper work in north- © xed’ ; QT, talsiypine gre Lawestern sienasy a Years: BT aad ay 1 3 ; A on "$ i I caren the wih oar a the “seat” ™h g¢on- Co gress from the "Thirty- Seco: ng 2 nn sylvania district, the su affirming the decision of ti cour, which haa ziven SE Campbail the seat in co t over Andfew J. " Barchtcld, Republican. cation. of a falling off carae at Sharon wilh i ‘an ordey for The first ind in war busine the rescindn thie ine building of a: ional open hearth fur- naces at ‘ths’ Shiron works of {h American Sieel Foundries comj The build 2 wi loted and Essington, near Philadelphia, !} been sel d as. the. si {or a plant of ihe Westinghouse Electric and M nufacturing cor mpa ny at a cost of 55,000,000. Fart! Xpansion ci the We stinghonse plant at East Pitts burgh is impossible because of the limited area of al Francisco Magnene, seppi and John Mugngne, were placed in the county jail at Greensburg by state troopers. They are alleged to have been implicated in a plot to obtain money from a New Kensington merchant through threat- | ening letters. i Joseph Gues- Italians Fresh eggs will retail from 70 to 75 cents a dozen in Pittsburgh before the end of the present week, according to predictions made by wholesale dealers and commission agents. These quota- tions will establish a high record here, probably extending back to Civil war times. An important coal deal has been closed at Waynesburg in which the Pittsburgh Steel company of Pittsburgh purchased a tract of 688 acres in Cum- berland township known as the Tuit Work block. Five hundred thousand dollars are said to have been involved. Smallpox has broken out among the negroes brought to Johnstown by the industries. Two patients are now in the municipal hospital, fourteen are under quarantine in the heart of the city and 100 are quarantined just out- side the city. Six persons, a mother, father and four children, were burned to death when fire swept the home of Max Pomerantz in Philadelphia. The dead are Max Pomerantz, aged forty-seven; his wife and children. Samuel W. Lynn, aged sixty-five, of Smithton, ‘was struck and killed by the Maryland flyer on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Smithton. The jury in Pittsburgh trying Leon Harter, charged with killing his wife, Mrs. Paulin~ Harter, returned a ver- dict of not guilty. Governor. Brumbaugh vania issnad; a sespi thampton ccun i I lery of Mor § to March 12. pa | eans here whe continued to believe P oxidant Seas Notas Asking Them to Break With {aiser CONGRESS READY FOR WAR Senator Simmons Holds Sunday Con- ference With President and $500,- 000,000 Bond Issue Is In Prospect. Buildings In Washington Placed Un- der Guard. President Wilson has sent notes to | all other neutral governments urging | them to join with-the United States in its action on the German announce- nent of unrestricted submarine war- | fare. All agencies of the governmeft turned today to the problems of de- fense = agaimst possible, hostilities, while officials and leaders of many ciasses ‘andr interesis in” this country essed earnest “hope itthat war not grow, oui of the break of ons. ons, chairman of the senate finance*comuz ittee, was sum- mene 2d to the White House on Sunday “and ‘donferréd: with >: esident Wilson Ol Liediis OL 1dir SHE Hild cveuue in cafe’ BEOhdstilities with ‘Germhany. | Senator Simmons ‘assured the presi- dent that .congress. would move pron ily whenever aigney: is needed, and that there would’ be no tion : to any reasonable Tpqyfest | rom : the gcvernment. Whileings > sume "was mentioned Atithe” Bortsgence , Sen-* zauar Sime: lish-Amerigan war ax & 3 460 1,600,000. hs ure BDO pend iuce / Anothip shad | Jc; gu. t Pins ine raise, UE ad: ios oh fey. eX ¥ the i ir wey Pointed! Sut’ tha it i EE social revenmo be a kp ohm arnt] he dn. 314 ili / $70 (80080 from $5.00 60D. : . | Be vt aS | 3 3 17 eoneor sent | ut gov a of col . x : | 1 i Y 1 { | : vr | in 1 - off n ot} H I ‘ d =cu The White Boe : re 1 { closed to nd ¢ tioned at all eafacg A did r i i FA i state; war and navy buildi =; whan ~ i thousands of important pubic docu | 1 s | ments and records are kept, is now b i official pass only, President Wilson, at with Secretary Baker of ¢h° war do partment and Secretary Daniels of the navy, discussed emergency legis- lation. KAISER’S ne conference YECISION FINAL U-Boat Course eravosable, Foreign Secretary Declares. - Foreign secretary Zimmerman speaking for the imperial government in Berlin, declared that “there is to be no backward step” by German; in the submarine situation. The for- eign secretary’s declaration, which is printed in the Tageblatt, follows: “President Wilson’s decision is as- tonishing. The entente’s refusal of‘ our peace overtures left us no other course than to adopt unlimited subize- rine warfare in our fight for exis. c:.u - and in retaliation for England’s viol tions of international law. Americ: denied us help. We made no cond tions—much less promises—to avoid unlimited submarine war. We broek no promises. We hope President Wii son will warn Americans from tha danger zone.. There is to be no back:- ward step.” Ambassador Gerard, with instructions from called upon Dr. the German foreign minister, to ask for his passports. «His plans for do parture are not yet decided. in compliance j Washington, declares the imperial government cer- tainly will not modify, curtail or with- ong rect Hiled th: at gt the out-+ apth ht 2 | They the-order bacame effective. ally was on a war footing today. while t extraordinary were taken ping, als. the mint. ONE OF PRESIDENTS CLOSEST COUNSELLORS WILSON BREAKS ’ Photo. by Aanilegn Press: Associadion, COLONEL HE. M. HOUSE. “# take the liberty of coming again be- fore ‘congress be given me to use any means that . may be necessary for: thesproteetion of our seamen and our péepidin: the prosecution of their ‘peaceful cand legitimate errands ‘onthe high seas I can do nothing less. I takenitésfor granted that all ‘Neutral poverdiients ‘will‘take the same eourse, © 7 1894 lhelmshaven : 1 oJR. are available. to ask: thady authority g have sought to exp¥es§ in my T Thess ae fie “Bases of di En a Riot both | the methods | this sudden and i punciation of { this government at one of the most | obvious dict OFF RELATIONS ‘WITH GERMANY Passports For Von Bernstorff; Gerard Cail2d Home HOPES WILL GO NO FURTHER Wilson Appears Before Congress, Where He Tells of His Decision to Sever Diplomatic Negotiations With Germany Because of Kaiser's De- termination to Sink Neutral Vessels. » President Wilson on Saturday went before a joint session of the sendte and house and explained that because of .Germany’s determination to con- ;duct a campaign of submarine wan , fare - passports had been handed io { Count von Bernstorff and that Am- Lassador Gerard with all his staff and [all American consuls have been or- | dered cut of Germany. | Briefly the president reviewed how last April the, , Bai ited States warned Germany, aster the destruction of tae un 11288 [he imperial gov- dared and “eifected an ab ndonment of that sort of subma- artare they “Faitdd States ‘would oice DUE tH ‘ever diplomatic i Jation: al toggthet, "Theil he -‘quioted Fem he German Fanlv"wHi¢h gave as- surac cs that no ships would be dui without warning *and’” provision for sHtety’ of passengers’ ahd crew: Hy the" provisos “fhe drm; iF 5 qudted ‘from the +6 ply of" a Soften renitEd t6ieon itional rags” ha . ‘GH Hoar wa Fi ing = crs oF Ro fe Sia situation {mug os GO TBIRD by “the- enients 2 Methods: of war smd by, their. determin- ation. to desimoy.- the. scbnirals Lpgwers, tr andthe: ‘govarnment, iof:thé "U ~d SSfates awill:farther i realize that the ‘now spenly disclosed intention: of the 1 bakit Germaly ? which she Peery ad in der note’ Fo sed to the aovern- meRntof the United States on May ; 4, ‘1918. ; ‘Under these circumstances Ger: *the ills many will +of her ent gal’ fedsures o = forcibly preventing after Feb. 1,:1517, in ‘a Zone.arcund. Great -Briia.n, ¥ , aly and in the 1 all na Sl ym and to met within the rée WwW ith nie rtion, which » intimadien ely ithdraw given in: the im- te of the 4th of government has no consistent with the dignity of the United States but to and horas take the course which, in its note of the 18th of April, 1916, it announced | that it wouid take in the event that | the German government did not de- clare and eifect an abandonment of of submarine warfare | which it was then employing and to i which it now purposes again to resort. | “I have, therefore, directed the sec- | retary of state go anncunce {> his cx- cellency, the German ambassador, that all diplomatic relations between the ! United States and the German empire are severed and that the American ambassador at Berlin will immediate- ly be withdrawn; and, in accordance with this decision, to hand to his ex- cellency his passports. “Notwithstanding this unexpected action of the German government, dcerly deplorable re- its assurances, grven critical moments of tension in the re- lations of the two governments, I re- fuse to believe that it is the intentica of the German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do. “I cannot bring myself to believe that they will indeed pay no regard te the ancient friendship between their people and our own, or to the solemn obligations which have been ex- changed between them, and destroy American ships and take the lives of | | American citizens in the wilful prose- cution of the ruthless naval program they have announced their intention to adopt. “Only actual overt acts on their part make me b: 'ieve it even now. “If this iuveterate confidence on my y evel | part in the sobricty and prudent :re- that war will not follow Ameriea’s | Crew Fires Ship. sight of th purpose should unhap- ey of thease sxrvoct to stay in Gor The oe of the interned German pay Profs un fousted) : American many, relvrg on the Prussian tres ty J gefabibat See vel the ogee) Biire) ac. . v an ih hs Shonda | to permit them ( nge their owl cording to th» authorities"in Honolulu. 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He said he was rather surprised at gettin: in, even, as he had no letter of intro- duction.” Later friend: “Never mind! Mrs. Stevenson tells me that if 1 had seen Louis I would have turned him out. She says he looked the part. and every one did turn him out! Was it a dig or a compliment when she said likewise that I remind- ed her of him!'—*Letters of Richard Watson Gilder.” eee Mr. Gilder wrote to another Power of the President. In time of war the president of the | United States is actually a dictator. There is nothing theoretical about his place or his powers. He is commander in chief of the army and navy. The members of his cabinet are responsible to him personally, not to congress. None of them may be removed without his consent except by impeachment. Moreover, he can suspend the writ of habeas corpus and perform all the oth- er functions of a dictator except order grants of money. That is the only real check upon his powers, and it is a check that can be exercised only at the peril of the nation.—New York World. The Sailors’ Psalm. How many people—landsmen, at all events—are aware that one of the Psalms is often called the sailors’ psalm? It is, of course, Psalm evil, where Leuaty done george | | | | Ly | occur the veautiful and familiar words, | “They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters— his wonders in the deep.” The psalm is usually read as part of the simple services which take place on Sundays on ships at sea. For that rea- son it is known as the sailors’ psalm.— London Chronicle. | | 1 | | | | | | make out? \Willis—Fine. RE FP TOA NE TR Sure. WirTavs Taper dwn on.paper vinibn ere- te onelitile ivi only pe i64 heican- ines, Gave ‘Him a Pointer. “I'd like to see My Jones. said‘the lady calor . HE Mr, de is engaged, ma‘am.” re- plied tho new y “Enea ged exclaimed the lady. mai and I'm his wife.” ladianapolis 8 , This World of Ours Seen) Av, the inst A: 1 1a racaonai, is the present wall The Staite Acquired a fiegro Hero and Treated Him Generously. The st: the owns any ite uf Geo + of a slave. 1 Was at cne time Whether or not other state ever owned a slave or slaves is not known. but certainly it is bizhly™ probable that no other state ever owned a slave and a railroad at the same time aud worked them to- gether, as was the case with the slave owned by Georgia. The negro’s nume was Ransom, later called Ransom Montgumery by reason of the fact that before he was acquired by the state he was owned by a man named H. B. Y. Montgomery. He was purchased outright by the state through an act of the legislature of 1849 for having saved the Western and Atlan- tic railroad bridge over the Chatta- hoochee river from destruction by fire and later was placed Upon a salary under the supervision of the “principal engineer” of the Western and Atlantic railroad. Subseq ut ort Y. when over. Ranson. new a again remembered by though the state was practically bank- rupt., an act of the general assembly, approved Aug. 3. 1868, authorized the superintendent of the state road to pay to Ransom from the treasury of the road the sum of $562.50 and also to provide him with a home during the rest of his life.—Atlanta Constitution ee ier Cold Calculation. “Quality is more to be desired thax quantity,” said the man of artistic in- clinations. “Not alw the war was free man, was the state. Al- replied the practical person. “1 diamend is pure carbon but you can't get the action from it that you can from a ton of coal”— | Washington & Star these see the works of the Lord and | Made a Hoe Run. Wini2--1 plaved golf yesterday for the first me. @Gillis—How did you Made a home I hit the first run right at the start.