he ' de-
’ Minot
enough
on lag-
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vhy he
at the
here on
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ning—a
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ladder.
a press-
right in
re Lord
in the
arrow-
this is
d, board
100d for
rom the
age, the
sturbing
I think
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the Li-
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fig.” ~eatd
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plaza. He
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alk terms,
with pride
yme to his
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ness would
[ must say
wn in my
paign has
any lovely
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ny
“Lord Har-
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Mr. Trim-
the victor
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t I suggest
I shall call
is hotel. I
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by must ac-
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brook.”
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r. “It's the
usiness, my
kly, I want
f this thing
ir shall we
. a delay of
vised Trim-
shed Minot.
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“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
<i “AWVe seek merdly torstand thus alike
“¥ thought’ ahd in’ action’ to7ths~in-
“Mentolial * principlés * of “our “people, *
which 1
address to ‘the senate off1¥ two! weeks
agotuscek | y
molestéd ite?”
pedee,” nGtUWArS Co gk) tat we
ay ‘not BE clidllengdd (6 ddriha fifo
by” 4 14 of" Swill 5 ort Sr
FY
Ao
air HEE
Fores of; igh Mia
dng
ha
Bx
d
5 48s s00n_as, the, course of he, Unite
‘States toward Ge
last. week prepdrdcions CLE. Git
| New York to, «Coe wii, any Fiore:
j.ency. ;
An battalion Oi Daval tie uk?
charge of the Williams shurg bridge, re
lieving. the police, Sinidar re
were placed on BaOokly slat
Quec Bsworo and Hell Ge br.ages, all
ith Brooklyn, across
hundred n were
ssigned to each bridge, divided. into
three reliefs.
The orders were
and
aiiaily
ng .w
1iVor, ne
“to observe eare-
search, if needful, suspicic
ve or : suspicious: fooi” p
‘E to notity all persons
iLg Lie OFRCges On 100L OF in Cog
aNGES {thoy would
to b wilde on the brid
the bridge
37 a5
not allowed
piers on
Sides ©
river one and three-pound
cannon were posted, accompa: b
mag hie guns.
ive siuanicrs, one flying the Ameri-
can flag, sailed from New York Friday
for poris in or near the’ war zone.
the" Dochra, American,
zona,
or
No. 4, Uruguagan, for
addin, Norwegian, for Gibral-
tar, and Monadnock and Exeter City,
Britain, for Havre and Bristol re-
spectively, all carrying freight.
Genoa; Beg
Crews Are Confined.
Upcn instructions from ‘Washington,
W. H. Berry, collector of the port of |
Philadelphia has ordered the officers
and crews of the German liners Prinz | |
Oskar and Rhaetia and the Austrian |
merchantman Franconia confined to |
their vessels. The guard about the |
ships was materially increased after
The three
crews aggregate about 500 men. |
The Philadelphia navy yard virtu-
precautionary meuwsur :
guard the port's ship
mun:ticn plants and the arsen-
The usual guard was on duty at
Boilers Tampered With.
The crews of five German Steamers |
and one Austrian at Boston were or-
dered confined to their vessels. avout
400 men are affected.
United States Marshal John J. Mit-
: chell ordered a thorough examination |
Alfred Zimmerman, ; of the North German-Lloyd liner Kron- |
{ prinzessin Cecile,
: was found to have boen slightly dam- |
aged after the vessel's seizure last
Despite the fact that every German | Right in a civil proceeding.
Mitchell said the boilers and several |
valves had been ‘tampered with and |
I
whose machinery
Marshal
draw its submarine policy, neverthe-| the electric lighting system put out !
less there were a number of Ameri-
of commission.
were made.
Temporary repairs |
i
was interned shortly after:the war be-
DPermark- and Nearway, expecting tc! or : :
: : .__t gan, She was built at Wilh shaver
leave there for America when ships’ > 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-
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RL DE ET ERR TTY
py Avg) Foz ou DER,
His Joy When He
~that when
poe Ls
TOLY a
athiugs,
. it Ww
intl fae
yanttiy 3 —, trl
ble Xpressoir p
brpiiti was say
vr dd: wis
with. a
You, 0
Hah, pshaw., now!
a farce likeness
e-bheen he.
$#4No. be snidL think it was you.’
"We ail 1 said, ‘see hore, now when !
was this?
“Iie sa'! it was in July.
“] said ‘It. might ‘have been 1 if it
was in July, but of what year?
said 1. that lets. p 1e gue
And 1 ed ‘up with great dalizh
for. as vou cknuive 1 was in Bi
tween you nnd i
hive u 10
same to ¢
wi ‘tt oaiswer w
Iie brought no manus
ply waited to write i 1
He doesn't Ia i
words o£ the ¢onvers C l thy
is known, ke may have been askcd to
submit somethin, although he de-sn’t
say so. Of course. any answer to uch
a vague ard unintroduced application
would have to be of the vacuest. 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
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“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.
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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.