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THE METERSDALE COMMERC. ~xSRSDALE, PA.
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Tre anti-alien land bills in the leg-
islatures of Idaho and Oregon will not ,
be passed. The determination of this
| country, in every state of the Union, is
| to do nothing which will add to the
PL. oLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
AT MEYERSDALE PA
R. M. SWISHER, Editor.
Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL B: NK
~ "looks as if the Wilson-Underwood law
‘party stands for.
_ tleship Maine was blown up in Havana
Jiberation of Cube, and : adding the
$1.28
$1.50
Wnen paid strictly in advance
“% nen not paid in advance
THE LEGISLATURE
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fer is not to the credit of that body.
One-fourth of the length of the term
has gone and without anything to
show in results. Not a bill yet enact-
ed into a law, not one of the hundreds
of laws that need repealing yet
taken from the statute books. It, so
far has resolved itself into two fac-
tions, one faction favoring an investi-
gation and the other faction deter-
mined to prevent an investigation of
the way money has been spent.
According to the statements, Gov-
ernor Brumbaugh, well-meaning old
man that he is, has been led into an
error of judgement in using money ap
propriated for hg contingent expanses
as a slush fuxd for extravagant ex-
penses. The Auditor General also
seems to have traveled with a retinue
of servants, in pomp like an eastern
monarch, in fact, according to the re-
ports, about the only ones who have
had any sense of decency about the
matter of expense were Hon. Frank
Black and Henry Houck.
A friend suggested a few days since
that the scandal connected with the
state adminstration was the funeral of
the Republican party. If such be true
let the obsequies proceed, and the
people will follow the leadership of
such men as the two just mentioned
in constructing a party in ‘which the
Keystone of the arch shall be Honesty
and Sobriety.
Local option, which was bombasti-
cally promised us by the Governor, is
a dead issue.
The statement of the Attorney Gen.
eral that the contingent expense fund
of the Governor was a fund which he
controlled and that, “He could burn it
if he wished” is net a point well tak-
en. All laws are interpreted by the
intention of the law-makers when the
law was framed. The intention was
not to create a fund of state moneys
for the Governor to burn.
If there was no illegal expenditures
then an investigation will so deter-
mine, hence why should it be opposed?
‘The Republican party will be strength-
ened by an investigation. Only those
who are guilty should fear the expos-
ure.
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HOW CANADA CELEBRATED
Canada celebrated the Democratic
victory in 1916 election by sending us
$27,000,000 worth of her goods dur-
ing November. ' That made a total of
our imports from our northern neign-
bor for the first 11 months of that
year $213,500,000, an increase of $53,
000,000 over the 19% period. nine
-months of which was under the Re:
‘publican protective. tariff law. It
has been good pickings for the Ce-
nucks, but their gratitude will never
reach the point where they will per-
mit the products to enter their mark-
et at anything lower than protective
rates. It is a one sided affair, particu.
larly hurtful to our farmers, who, in
their excitement over war profits, arc
apparently unconscious of the shin-
skinning which Canada is giving them.
“The war cannot last indefinitely, bur
Canada’g sales to us after the war
will, under the present tariff policy, be
limited only by her own desires an:
ability to produce. Are we going to
prepare for competition with Canada
and other countries before this war
jag is over, or postpone tariff revi- |
sion until a war-post depression has
put our industrial liver eut of whack?
PONIDEXTER ALERT
The ‘first real step to test the opin-
ion of the country in the latest Ger-
man crisis rame, appropriately enough
“from a Republican Snator, represent-
ing a ‘Pacific Coast .State and ther-
oughly imbued with the spirit of pro-
gressiveism which the Republican
Senator Poindex-
ter’s proposal for the immediate con-
struction of a hundred additional sun-
marines went direct'y to the heart of
ithe situation and met the issue of the
German in terms of adequate prepar-
edness. The fate of the proposal Tests
of course, with a Democratic majori-
ty; but there is no question that Sena
tor Poindexter vioced the active opin-
ion of the nation in advocating a
speedy increase of our submarina
force in the face of a situation which
brooks no delay.
Nineteen years ago today the Bat-
harbor. “An act which brought on a
war with Spain, terminating in the
Philippines and. Poto Rico to the do
gravity of our industrial
That these bills are within our rights
and that they are no more drastic
than the existing statutes of Jaoah,
against whose subjects they are chief.
ly aimed, is not to be questioned. Bat
there are times when to do all the
things which are a nation’s of right
leads to consequences which are un-
thinkable. Thsi is one of those times
Whatever of irritation and of aggres-
sion may come now should come from
the other side.
STOP THE -DILLY-DALLYING
Intimations from Harrisburg are
that the Legislature will be kept ia
session until July. If it soon dues not
get down to busifiess it is hardly to
be expected it will complete its “la-
bors” by that time. But (kere is not
the slightest reason for any such ex-
tended session. The public business
demanding attention can be trans-
acted in much less time than the al-
most five months between now aul
July. The Senate has disposed of the
investigation resolution, ‘which has
been holding the legislative machih-
ery idle; its passage through the
House should be little more than a
formality since the subject nus Lee.
sufficiently threshed over. But, what-
ever its fate, the action should be tak-
en promptly. The pecple are impa-
tient of the delay; the growing bill of
costs for services that are not rende
ed cannot be excused. There is a big
hopperful of bills already introduced,
but the committees have not got down
to work on them, possibly because th»
vast majority of them are worthy of
very little consideration. The fev
bills of imp-rtance that have been iu-
troduced, like the local option bill and
that to repeal the non-parisan law as
it applies to the election of judges,
should be disposed of as promptly as
possible. Under ordinary circum-
stances the public interest would de-
mand there would be no dilly-dally-
ing at Harrisburg; now that the coun-
r is confronted by the possibility or
war it is more than ever important
that purly domestic concerns be han-
dled without delay that every resouce
of the nation may be put at the dis-
posal of the National Adminstration
without interference of any kind.
EQUALITY WILL RE-
MAIN AN ISSUE
If the corrupt practices act is not to
be voted upon at this session of Coa-
gress the QGallinger amendment to
that measure will likewise fail of ac-
tion. But both the bill and the amend-
ment will be in evidence when the
new Congress convenes; and it is
possible’ that the Gtllinger amend-
ment will have a life of its own apart
from any bill. The subject of South-
ern representation in Congress and in
the electorial college ig the most im-
portant question of political interest
in this country today. It has been
made acute by the results of the re-
cent election, wherein t swolln and il-
legitimate electoral vote hag been sc-
cured for the Democratic party in de-
flance of the Constitution. Such con-
ditions cannot endure or be indured.
The Gallinger amendment points the
way to cure them, :
SOMERSET COUNTY’
In Somerset county there were 23
fatal accidents in the indu.trial esta-
blishments during the pust year. Of
this number agreemenrs a¢: awards
have been filed showing - compenso-
tion approximating $45,000, represent-
ing 18 compensable cases.
STIFF, SORE MUSCLES RELIEVED
Cramped muscles er soreness. foll »w-
ing a cold or case of grippe are eased
and relieved by an application of
Sloan’s Liniment. Does not stain tne
skin or clog the pores like mussy
ointment or plasters and penetrates
quickly without rubbing, Limber up
vonr muscles after exercise, drive out
the pains and aches of rheumatism,
neuralgia, lumbago, strains, sprai.is
and’ bruises with Sloan’s Linimeat.
Get a bottle to-day. At all Druggists,
26c¢.
During the past week we- have re-
ceived several letters, asking for free
advertising, which we have consigned
to the usual receptacle. A concern
in Brooklyn is more generous Row-
ever. It is a Railway Educational As.
sassination, and proposes that we. may
advertise this business in .our names
and they will divide the tuition with
us on all students we secure for them.
We are selling space, not other veo-
ple’s goods. But to clap the climax
the State Department of Labor and
Commerce, sends us some copy for
which they ask free insertion, and =3
it was overweight we had to pay the
overdue postage. Think of the gall of
that, will you. The waste baskets get
that stuff sure,
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
main.of Uncle Sam.
relations, |
OF MEYER
At Close of Eusiness
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: RESOURCES i: a= 0 &
Loans and Investments.......................... $771,422.01
U. 8. BoD@S.... Mc veereter.ocrerenecdinenss
Banking House.....................
Due from Banks and Reserve, Agents....,........ 220,205.37
LIABILITIES -
Capital SE00K...... cvveeesssstssreeees ane » «on $65,000.00
SUrPIUB ....0 vivireais ied geese ens 100000
Undivided Profits. .... ..ooleeiviouannres venus
Circulation... ..... cee i osuigiovntssos senecenel ing
Deposits .................c;ei toc viciiiiaii ds
SDALE, PA.
December 27, 1917
70,000.00
csiesneeenss 20 500.00
£2 208.69
Total.... $1,143,436.97
36.415 34
65, 000.00
877.021 63 ;
Total.... $1,145,436.97
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THE COMMON EVERY-DAY PIN
(By Sam’l. G: Dixon M. D.)
The pin is born with millions of
brothers and gisters, who leave home
to travel all parts of the world. "On
their journey they come in contact
with us human beings and it might be |
interesting to take up, what some-
times happen when they do so.
Suppose a pin found its way into |
the laundry of a shirt manufacturer.
We would be likely to hear of it, first
in the mouth of one of those folding
the shirt and preparing it for ship-
ment. This pin, as well ss oiners
might perhaps be making its first in-
timate acquaintance with the germ
that produces sore throat. The shirt
gets to the consumer who starts to
make it ready for use. For the sec-
ond time, the poor pin finds that hu-'
man mouth again, its abiding place.
Possibly this time, it gets into an ul-
cerated mouth, thence it gets into the
pin cushion or some other receptacie.
The persons who handle these, can-
not recognize disease germs by the
naked eye, and therefore the pin with
its cargo of germs is ready for new
service. This time, perhaps, by a
dressmaker, if she has the bad habit
alreadyglluded to, she fills her mouth
with these pins while she cuts with
her paterng and fits various pieces to-
gether, This. time for variation, the
pin maj; have found dodgment -in a
healthy woouth. Nevertheless it 8
net a pleasant fault, whesi' you know
anyone making such use of them,
Many a Mother who uses pins in
fastening a child’s dress together,
does the sage ithing. By this time, in
the pin’s life history, it ig quite well
armed with spores of germs and real-
ly ig accounittable for much harm
along its path of travel. And now as
it is getting old and about ready to
close its life, a little child may be
stricken with tonsilitis or diptheria or
even scarlet fever, because some of
these diseases are easily communica-
ble from throats so recently affected
by ithe disease that the danger is n
recognized. . The presence of the
germs that have been deferred to on
the pin, is a real danger, as the phy-
sician or ithe laboratory worker knows
he ‘can plant them in food stuffs that
will make them grow and multiply in
great numbers, colonies can be seen by
the naked eye and they = can be in
jected into other living beingg and
produce disease.
The habit of putting pins into the
mouth would not continue for a mo-
ent if everyone knew this.
The Moral of this little story fis,
never hold pins in the mouth as they
srread disease, even fatal disease.
Spanish Meat Balls. :
Spanish meat balls are as palatable
as they are rare and made thus: One
can of tomatoes. one onioy chopped
fine. garlic or cayenne to taste. This
forms the “Spanish.” One and a half
pounds of hamburg steak. Soak half
a loaf of stale bread; drain off all wa-
ter. Take one egg. pepper and salt to
taste. mix together. roll into balls the
size of an egz and cook in the “Span
ish” three-quarters of an hour
Posset.
I'he proper meaning of the word
“posset,” frequently used in Lan
cashire. England. is a drink taken be-
fore going to bed. Originally it was
milk curdled with wine and comes
from the Latin posea, meaning a drink
made with vinegar and water.
Highly Necessary. i
“Why is the official spelling of gov-
ernment with a big G?
“Beeause they could hardly begin
government without a capital.”—Baits.
i: zens National
W. th The Clock With The Million"
Par tL an
the pin’g history thus far, to think sf |
© In what are called
i rages” distant objects show an appar
‘| nomenon as being the work of evi,
‘a complete set.”
Bank
SAVED HIS OWN FACL.
Why He Balked at Being a Witness on
the Side of Truth.
Colonel E. M. House—'Silent” House,
| as he is often called—told at a dinner
in Washington a significant parable:
“They who expect the men in author-
‘ity to do a great deal for them—thoy
who expect the impossible—should re
member the grizzly bear story.
“A famous grizzly bear hunter gave a
dinner, and one of the guests told of a
bear hunt that he had once shared iu
with his hot. It had been a remar!
able hunt. The bear had been kilici
under almost incredible difficulties
Although hi, auditors looked skeptical
the narrator did not spare them any ¢
those, difficulties. He counted on the
host, you see, for corroboration.
“Then, when he had finished hi
strange but perfectly true tale. he sai
“There, that's the story, and, ge
tlemen, our host will corroborate ever,
‘word I say.
“‘No, George, he said, 'L don’t re-
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member anything of the sort at all.’
“Tableau!
“Maddened’ by this tableau, the guest
! at the end of the dinner took his host
aside and hissed:
“ ‘Why didn’t you back me up in that
‘bear story? You know every word of
it was true.’
Yes. suid the fmmous hunter—'yes.
it was all true, but I saw that every-
"body round the table thought you were
lying. If. then, I had supported y
the only result would have been th:
Har too." ”—" ‘ashington Star.
Looming Mirages.
“looming mi-
LEADING DRUGGIST
MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
they would have set me down for & 8
‘ent extravagant increase in height
- without alteration of breadth. Distant
pinnacles of ice are thus magnified
into immense towers or tall, jagged
mountains. and a ship thus reflected
from far out at sea may appear to be
long. Rocks and trees are also show:
in abnormal shapes and positions
while houses, animal and human be-
ings appear in like exaggerated shapes
Before-the sandy plains of our south-
western states and territories were
converted into verdant fields by the
ingenuity and tireless energy of man
mirages were very common in those
regions, the Indians regarding the phe-
spirits.
A Russian National Dish.
One of the national dishes of Rus-
sia is known as the pashka. ‘It is a
sort of cake that stands one and a half
feet high and is always put on a tall
base. It is usually surmounted by a
sugar cross and is placed in the center
of the table when the Russians hold
their great feast at Easter when thé
fast is broken. It.takes about sixty
eggs to make the pashka, but none but
natives’ can succeed in producing the
rare taste
Comprehensive.
*I understand you have bought a ser
of Shakespeare's works.”
“Yes.” replied Mr. ‘Dubwaite loftily.
“And a glossary. too. I presume?”
“Oh, res. yes! In fact, everything
Shakespeare wrote.” — Birmingham
Age-Herald.
Higher Authority.
Willis—The Highfliers are going to
give up their big house this year. Mrs
twelve or fifteen times as tall as it is ,
THE BEST SEPARATOR MADE,
‘aie 223 Livergood St.
J. F, YOD¢r K. *JUHNSTUWN, PA.
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EYE ‘TROUBLES, : I khow I
can help you to see better. and to
feel better.
Bad vision is very
common in these days of reading
and studying.
most
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CUT YOUR BUTTER BILL
Save ‘about half your butter bill
and get better results by using
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Butterine
Willis—You must be mistaken. | was |
talking with Mrs. Highflier only yes- |
terday. i
with the mortgagee only this morn
ing.—Puck.
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First Centipedo— What's the matter?
8econd Centipede—I need a traffic cop;
New York Sun.
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