' = th 1f AS of as ho 1d 1G in he 11 1S d “she wants to crowd in little pleas for " “World Outlook. ‘ready Irish wit. On one occasion in RE - ree ARE YOU EFFICIENT? Try These Tests, but Do Not Yield to Despair if You Fail. Are you efficient? The awful query refuses to down. The clocks tick iv the flat wheels in the subway thump ix, the ungreased curves of the elevated screech it. If you are an old business fogy the question burns in the eye of every pityins employee. You find your wife measuring the distance from the range to the kitchen cabinet and your son computing the power necessary to propel a football in the lowest arc. The telephone company advises you to give your name instead of saying ‘Hello.’ ” Blessed be the concrete of thought if not of deed. Concreteness enables you to see just what the efficiency masters mean. One of them, William Fretz Kemble, tells in Industrial Manage- ment “How to Test Your Employees.” Of course every man who reads it will first test his most important employee, bis father’s son. Watch and pad and pencil are all that are needed to ac- quaint yourself with your virtue, and faults. In thirty seconds answer as many of these questions ag youc : ‘Give the name of a vegetable, a met- al, an insect. a reptile, a fish, a man, a woman, an ocean, a lake, a town. (If at the end of the half minmute you" have written only ‘beet, gold, flee, ad- @er,” you are pretty rc if have also put down “trout; Tt Mates | Atixntic.'™ you sre -up-to-humaesn-aver- agd of efghit answers. If you feel that you ‘caii go’ beyond ‘ten ‘SRSWers you may escribe the ‘color of water; tea. beer, ivory; the! sky, grass, milk, kK, coal afid skin.’ But men a veyead | f er§ in thirty: ‘seconds © ret Con Re E 5 EB oat tay it apmwer 0 8 “iment ] it. / “the 3 4 pm the i greatest” ving” Ok mir aad i abert nashe that doeng't 4 long time: towlte | Second. — t is the most poy force in the yor d% haps Joxe. | isn’t, Sot 1 areca thon nitiitaiti » Thiel + Wht im the srateot ole $100.1, {They : were. adopted, and. Ming | was carried off on the;shetilders of his | discovery? Quick, man! Radium will de. Fourth What is the greatest asces" sity of commerce? Our secretary of commerce probably i Mould, yot_suawer thet Sh lus 1Ai8, 11,840 words. You perhaps will wri pe ad Sok J What 1s the chéapest food for - human race? Bread, unless you are a fiend fer len. tils_or employed by the makers of fluted oat corn. But you ought te an- swer ‘three of the questions in tweaty seconds, says Mr. Kemble. If you an- swer fewer it indicates “slowness ofr de in thought.” —New York ee Re AGS BE TUNE Fr EeE ew anit The “Lady Reporter” In he Beetle, "but, they 3 One of the newest stunts of . Tap rod w & stiles’ aaa Hy. anese newspaper is to employ the! on Fromit) ¢ a of font and 7 “lady journalist,” which is oo d'| pn mean had beer a remarkable innovation in a country throw where woman is emerging more and more from the seclusion of her: home. “Ig the lady reporter's work satis- factory 1 asked the editor. ; “Yes, in, away, but she is not satis fled with writing personals. I find that woman's rights and equal suffrage. We have to go pretty carefully on that sort of thing in Japan, you under- stand, and keep a pretty close watch on what she writes, because it is like: ly to have a meaning that men do not wholly understand. "Archie Bell in } Bench and Bar. Sir Edward Carson is noted for his court, when the judge, with whom he had had more than one passage of arms, pointed out to him the discrep- ancy between the evidence of two of es, one. a carpenter and the “That's 50. ‘my lord, yet another case of difference between bench and bar.” —London Standard. To Pop Corn. Here is the proper way to pop corn: Put the regular quantity—that is, a very small quantity—into the popper and hold it under the cold water faucet long enough to thoroughly saturate the kernels. Shake the popper and place it on the back of the range to allow the corn to dry, then pop. ‘The kernels will pai very large. and there will be no hard center. ' * The Difference. He—Of course there's a big differ- ence between a botanist and a florist. She—Is there really? He—Yes; a botanist is one who knows all about flowers, and a florist is one who knows all about the price people will pay for them.—Boston Transcript. . ' He Traveled The clock struck 12. «] wish I had enough money to trav- el,” remarked the young man. “Here's a car ticket.” announced her father, making his appearance at that t 5500 5 IDOSELY. forsliem, TL oe BUR FLOUR ‘RioTS ° When Mob Law Ruled For while In New York City. | SHE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. FASHIONS FIFTY YEARS ATO. When Caps and Aprons Were Worn Even With Evening Gowns. Fifty years or more ago the apren and the breakfast cap were the pride and joy of every matron, for they were her sign and symbol. The cap of that | time was an elaborate and dainty af- | fair. It was worn with the house dress DURING THE PANIC OF 1837. Short Crops and Hi-h Prices Added to the Terrors of the Financial Disaster, and Warehouses Were Wrecked by the Frenzied Populace. The panic of 1837 was one of the most severe this country has ever ex- perienced. Owing to the scarcity of money every sort of business received a sudden and severe check. The price of money rose, and none but those with the best security could get it at any | terms. The financial suffering was still fur- ther aggravated by the scarcity and high price of flour in the eastern cities The Hessian fly had made such rav- ages that the crops along the Atlantic coast ‘states were almost a complete failure. In certain sections if was rec- ominended that the legislature estab- Nish public granaries for the storage of yy (RE in ‘New York were brought to 8 crisis. by. the leaders of the Anti-mo- nopoly, Equal Rights or Locofoco par i Fad red the walls and fences of jadi ‘with a Jauduin callirig ‘a oO of the pec be held fn the City park. | i the ‘appointed afternoon dno tes Se asl eddiised { Conspicuous among. the orators was ! Amsgnder Ming; Jr. many. .times ® candidate for city recorder. rloged * Site Mavangue vr offering & set: end] te th ees Eating Ta rent 1th “circtfation of ‘bank notds, ’ Sing another zroup of listeners apd, carried away by the denunciation Sf the holders of he exclaimed: “Fel- depart from him in peace.” The hint was enough, and his hearers set on in a body for the warehouse of “BM Hert & Co., in Washington street. e 5, on the approach of the , ‘4ned to shut the doors, but “ome Wiis burst in and barrels of Sour Mr, Hart hy Xi a few police, adw s | ful * geriérdlly” bédomnes” ‘lasts for’ & er Turner,” sill 56; “1 admire yolt Oafthige’ so’ much that 1 wast to bay his 3 40 id 0G WL 0 sling See wiry ; Fas wd ‘again’ upon” ar gs women and children. A thousand cry “Meech, Meech!” was raised, and a party went off toward the Bast riv- ‘er to attack the warehouse of Meech'& Co. but stopped on the way pnd sack- ed ithe warehouse. “ot Herdlek & Co.. and’ destroyed thirty barrels. pers Hart & Co. remarked that the im- pression prevailed that they were mo- nopolizing flour. The truth was, all flour in the city was the property of the millers and was held under the control of the owners. It was needless to say that the destruction of an arti- cle could not tend to reduce the price. Nor did it, for flour at once went up’ 50 cents a barrel. At a second meeting in the park a few weeks later the crowd came bear- ing flags inscribéd “No rag money— give us gold or silver,” “Down with chartered monopolies,” “We go for prin- ciple; no monopolies,” “We will enjoy our liberties or die in the last ditch.” A carpenter's bench was used for a platform, and mounted on this Ming urged his hearers not to use rag money, which was the foundation of artistoc- racy and monopoly. Another speaker advised the crowd to go west in a body, buy land at $1.25 an acre, found a new state and let the aristocrats build their own houses. This time the artillery paraded, and no disorder occurred. The panlc of 1837 passed into history as probably the most severe monetary ir the country has ever experienced. Banks all over the country failed, and most of the notes in circulation became valueless. Many large business firms also failed, and mills and factories shut down because their products could not be sold. Rich men became poor, and poor people because there was no work to be had suffered for lack of food. In no place was the panic more keenly felt than in New York, where all the banks suspended May 10, 1837.—Philadelphia Press. A Great Wheel. and the flour eagerly gathered up by kes; but today it's 700.” bushels of..wheat and barrels of | laug “I was only in " he said. four are said to have | destroyed. ty ne intend to sell-the pie at all While thefimob was thus engaged the | It §hall be my Bind Die ‘his ga , where it remained as long" as he Frage io dbahgiiertt ts ihe nation, LE iciearashy. In a card published in the newspa- : and the rest of the family like to ride Laxey, in the Isle of Man, is the | headquarters of the e lead mines of the | point—Louiaville Courier- donpnal His Snarl. “Cone bo, Hi Don’t you want! to see thy © nn?! island. It is i for its | : i great wheel, ¥ ted in 1854. | ! Its diam feet, and so splend LE set .th here is no os cill prac-! | tically € 'and often, much trimmed, throughout | the afternoon and evening. Aprons, | evidently an important feature of ev- ery woman's wardrobe in those days, were decidedly fancy, and usefulness was not a strong point in their con- : struction. According to an old copy of Godey's Lady’s Book, aprons were made of such materials as black silk and satin and were trimmed with lace and vel- vet, with graduated ruffles of the silk. Often these ruffles were scalloped. They were also cut in strange shapes, and a final touch was added by sewing . on lace pockets and a few bows. The same old fashioned book in “Chitchat on the Fashions For Noyember” says: “Aprons, or simulated aprons, are the folly of the day. They are likely to have as popular a reign as in the time of Queen ‘Charlotte, when Beau Brum: ! mel depésed them from their high'es- : tate by deliberately before all the peo. ple assembled taking off the apron ofa duchess and flinging it behind one, of the settees at a ball given’ at’ the as- sembly rooms at Bath. Aprons were made then, as now, of costliest lsce. and’ enormous sums were spent upom | this article of dress. The latest novelty | 1 a depth of silk not more than twelve inches, to ‘Which is added a. flounce of | ®Beray, equally wide, but , pasrowed ot the post iy to 1aTRe Ty What is tse. | considerable Hig7. guitE" tian Sctence Monitor! win or AM ARTSY, or wha 6 in. PRETs0nG Boob 6T0D FF. 8 he ae pu please,” said - Trner, as you plea i 5 yoy due ABL oniis | ee ok hat th t 18 8 very oxtrgordizary thing | for y » r price, Lshall be proud fo be be , and I am prepared to ¢ aaa nl Sa SN “Ah!” sald Turner. “It was 600 guln- a Robert grew angry, and Turmer For_years he kept it in his cellar. Then it vas brought up, and hung in The teacher had instructed the chil- dren to write their autobiographies. The following was one of the autobi- ographies turned in: “I can remember when you got into the back seat of an autp through a lit- tle back door instead of side doors. When I was ten I was knocked down by a seven passenger machine, but it, did not get over me. Mother has an automobile, and my dog Teddy and I in it. Some of these days I am going to own an auto. That is all I know about autobiography.”—Indianapolis News. Musical Feat. One of the fastest composers that ever lived was Trotere, the writer of songs. Some of the composer's feats verge on the marvelous. It is said, for example, that he actually wrote the score of “In Old Madrid” and had dropped it into the letter box within eight minutes of the time he had taken up Lis pen. This would be remarkable merely as showing his dexterity and agility, to say nothing of the labor of the composition itself. : The Cuckoo. In the middle ages the cuckoo was thought to be a god who took the form of a bird, and it was a sacrilege to kill him. The Romans were less supersti- tious and more practical. They caught him, killed him and ate him and held no bird could be compared with him for sweetness of flesh. The Next Thing. “This is the sunset gun. The com- manding officer has to hear its report every night.” “And suppose it should fail to make | a report?” “Then I have to make a report.”— | Louisville Courier-Janrnal. | 3 LT a ay He Was Soured. T LAA Tue tain vy tad | of radium, | stroy him and his ! bach in Ele POWER OF RADIUM It May Be the Force Destined to | | Destroy the World. TO DIE IN A BURST OF FLAME. | This Wonderful Element, It Is Claimed, | Will First Emancipate Man and Then | Later on Put an End to Him and All His Works In a Sea of Fire. If we place a thermometer into a phial containing a minute quantity of radium bromide it will indicate a tem- perature 2.7 degrees hotter than the temperature outside of the phial. What the temperature would be if we substituted radium for radium bromide we have no means of knowing, for sci- ence has not as yet produced pure ra- dium, although the lay world prefers to think so. Our closest approach to radium so far hag been radium’ bro- mide, which if pure consists roughly ef three-fifths by weight of the element radium and two-fifths of the elemeat bromine. Turning back to our thermometer, We also make the discovery that the heat radiated’ from our speck of radium | bromide does not grow less as the days and months-nay, years and centuries— oll by. The mysterious elément com- tinues to furnish. LL pri meray. ith neyer a or at not uatll it hee worked for 25% | years, io being the present carcaiatnd | ase of radium. “In order ‘to ‘bétter edthprebend’ what | | this iéans let Ug Compare it with ‘ess {This is what we find: ov. da Acorting oor. BON, 8 of puny na. I 188 _.- will*be cent gram af o esa! whem burned .evelves: 3,900; nat oalaries, of hegt. i Konsaquinity. Rie Fr Shar formed. tram Fheniis i “bo: Rn 3 Py } regarding the ra ory View the fa mony Swiss-Itallhn "Sim: ploy tunnel was n circumstances oP, totally he 5 ‘the work most atm-|" cult ARbogsh this tunnel is far above. astounding, ery that, the roc = the Simplp ng ayes ho hj. 3 accounted for the unexpected hig perature within the mountain.’ _ From ‘this Joly has bullt up a new theory of evolution, and, while revolu- tionary in xtreme, it is most plau- sible and gi more adherents each ti Lora Kélvin already deduced that if the earth contained only two. parts of radium per million million—and a great deal more is actually found in the rocks and crust of our globe—this min- ute quantity would raise -the tempera- ture of the earth’s core 1,800 degrees C. in 100,000,000 years. There being no escape for the imprisoned heat—the earth’s crust being an exceedingly bad heat eonductor—Professor Joly ' con- vinces us that as the ages roil by the interior of the earth must become hot- ter and hotter. Finally, after the end of millions of millions of years the crust must give way to this tremen- dous heat from swithin and the burst- ing earth must go up in flames, becom- ing a burning gas ball, just as we see our sun today. This will be the “incandescent age.” a litle suzzested by Professor Soddy. After another ten million years the in-andescent eafth will have expended all of its heat into space by radiation and it gradually will cool. A new crust then begins to form anew. This is what we see at present on the planets Jupiter and Saturn, worlds just begin- ning to cool after emerging from their incandescent age. Thus we find that worlds do not die. They slowly pass from one stage to another, in a long and interminable cycle. It is more than probable from the above that the earth must have passed many times through this eycle. Probably every time the world went up in flames man was at his highest point of civilization, infinitely further advanced than we are today. In an fnstant every living soul had perished, and for millions of years his like was! not to tread again on the hardened earth crust. This is the new and greater gospel the element which will; emancipatr man and which will de- later.—H. Gerns. rimenter. Fears |'® GRAFT RULES CHINA. Yo Refuse to Accept It Would Create a Big Sensation. Why can’t China build her own rail- roads, dredge her own canals? She has engineers who are no slouches; she has limitless material and the cheap- est of labor. | There are two reasons, sloth, and ! graft, the outgrowth of sloth. | Try to take one of the little steamers | that ply from point to point along the | coast of China. “Will the boat leave today at the schedule time?” you ask the agents at the pier. Well, no, prob- ably not till tomorrow, the courteous Chinese tell you. Tomorrow again there is some delay, and you may hang about | for a week before you get off in that steamer. How could such methods build a trunk line from Peking to Can- ton, even if the government could float all the bonds in the world? { Graft, which permeates all China, from the highest official to the poorest coolle, would make it very difficult for ! a corporation fo live. So many would take bites from the melon! A missionary éver here on a visit tells & story of a Chinese boy, educat- ed in a mission school, who nearly up- set a whole province by refusing graft. Sent on: some expedition for the local government, he was given what in our money would be $300 for expenses. When he returned handed in $30. “What is this for?” they, asked. “1 spent only $250," Be he Thete was a reat goveriior of thie p: thts Jad, So RW ss i his’ ever been known. to. do. before. ' But: he was solemaly sspured. that he ' must not return that $50 because, it | would mortify others who kept all they . could get; Figpmer. Booth im sons in | Wortd Outlook. A” MAN" WE' HAVE FORGOTTEN. you Perales Wao ow whe Wai a Roally ‘Gredt I : the charts of ‘the “north Atlantic Pe bich Maury made years ago are ve Td the basis upon which that ocean 1s save gated ‘by all nations, 4 On I am A aformed that though be wes decorated by “many foreign 'govern- ments, he was never given so much as a cheap little medal by. that of the United States, and that his name has net been kept alive by/any memorial or er token of his country’s gratitude. —Julian Street in Collier's Weekly. The Cruel Wolf Spider. One of the most unnatural things in nature, if the expression is allowable, is the manner in which the young of the common wolf spider treat their mother. After the little creature has laid her eggs she envelops them in a silken covering, so as to make a ball about the size of a pea, and this she carries about with her wherever she goes and will defend it with her life. When the young are hatched they climb on her back, giving her a mon- strous appearance, and ride about until nearly half grown, and as soon as they discover their strength they fall to and devour their mother. A Bamboo Forest. There are fow spots imaginable more beautiful than a Japanese bamboo for- est. It is the most lovely in color, the most aristocratic and the best behaved forest in the world. It whispers pleas- antly and gently, and the severest winds cannot make it angry. The long, slim bodies of its trees are useful long after death. for they are made into: water pipes, canes, fences, picture; frames, vases; fishing rods, roofings, ! flutes, fans, furniture and poles. Following the Styles. “The average woman spends most of her time thinking about what to wear.” “J fear you are mistaken.” “Why so?” “She spends most of her time think- ing about what to wear next.”—Bir- : mingham Age-Herald. His Time to Talk Judge—Have you anything to say be-' fore I pronounce sentence upon you? | Prisoner—Yes, judge, I certainly have. | But it’s dinner time. Let's walt until| | after we've had it. I have quite a 1 an after dinner speaker. by ce —————— TITLES IN RUSSIA Where There Are Only Two Classes, Nobles and Peasants. Contrary to the laws existing in Eng~ land and Sweden, in Russia W hen & lady belonging to a titled family mar- ries a Russian gentleman without & title she takes her husband's name en- tirely, and the only right left to her of her former title is to write on her visit- ing cards and official papers “Mrs. So- and-so, born Princess, Countess or Bar- oness So-and-so.’ Her children are called by their father’s name. There are only a few exceptions to this rule. In Russia no middle class or gentry are known. There are only nobles and peasants. The czar, however, grants sometimes for special merit the, right to be styled a nobleman and also for the same reason the titles of count and baron and occasionally that of prince. All those merchants who have kept their firms always flourishing for ® hundred years have the right to receive the foreign title of baron. This law wag made by Peter the Great over 200 years ago, but the merchants very sel dom accept this title and generally fee cline the privilege. In former days when the peasants were still ‘slaves they had no family names, but were called by their fa- ther's Christian name. Peter's gon was called son.of Peter—in Russian Petrovz so Smirnov—S8imon’s son; Ivanov —Ivan's (John) son, and so on. When slavery was abolished and the emanci- pation preclaimed by the Emperor Al- exander II, they all kept these names. Since then many of them have received the right to belong to the class of ne- bles. The Russian clergy, belonging to the class of peasants, for it very seldom w that nobles become priests, have special family names. Thelr names mean always a feast day or & stone or something connected ' with the church. In former days the clergy was a class apart, and a sen of a clergyman was bound to be a clergy- man, and when they first entered the ' ehureh they chose a name for them- seives.—Lendon Answers. ROCK" OF GIBRALTAR. The “Koy of the Mediterrancan” Hes Had a Stormy Mistery, 4 has been in possession of the rocky promontory of Gibraitar since 1764. From that time to this it bas been & crown colony under the admin- fatration of itd bm valhl Goenka Sp ‘story! betbey. In te the pe gg shen i EES by the Castilian, only to be recaptured. .|..by the Moars in 1838.. -It-Wes-heldDy. the) 2, until 1462. Following the tak the |; ing and Becking of Gibraltar in 1848 : , extensive military built there by order of In: 1704 promonotory Was cap. tured by a combined force under Sir George Rooke a j¢ Pinte of Hesse: Dagmetadt, Sah \ i Archduke rig. moment it fell Pa 4 tish admiral Es trians and took complete possession of the works. British possession since that time has been unbroken, although it was under a Spanish siege for nearly three years and eight months, beginning in 1779. Twice the garrison was on the point of falling because of the starvation of its defenders. . Line and Staff Officers. Broadly speaking, the distinction be-. tween a line officer and a staff officer is’ that between the fighter and the nonfighter. The staff officer has nom- military duties. He may, for example, be a member of the medical corps, an instructor at a military institute or have charge of some administrative department of the army or navy. The word is also used for those men at: tached to the staff of the commander in chief. A line officer is literally that! he is the man in the field or on a bat. tleship to do the actual fighting.—New York Sun. TORTURE IN TRIALS. “This Barbarous atom Was Used in Europe For Centuries. : The use of torture in order to elicit information from persons accused of crime, barbarous as it is, was little practiced before mediaeval times. Une der Greek and Roman law torture was only allowed upon slaves, though in the latter days of the empire it was em- ployed against free citizens if they had been accused of treason to the emperor. It seems to have become part of the law in Europe about the thirteenth cen tury. From the fourteenth century downward torture was a part of the legal system of most European coun- tries. The Italian municipalities used it to a very large extent. In Germany .elaborate apparatus existed for its in. ; fliction in the dungecns of the feudal castles and in the town halls of the cities. It was used in the pi is many when the phil ms 03 Gor. hem in 1770. In France it was