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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
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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
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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