THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
LEGISLATURE IS
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You start something lively when you produce :
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‘Committees Giving Bills Their
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USUAL “FREAK” LEGISLATION
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Number of Bills Presented to Revo
{utionize Order of Things and Then
There Are Also Plenty of Commend:
able Measures Before Assembly—.
Some of Interest to Farmers.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 20.—With !
Sproul resc jution to investig.te c
tain departments of ‘the state g. ve !
tenance of highways and the remain-
der put into a fund for the use of
cities, boroughs, towns and townships,
the payment to be made on the basis
of ‘licenses paid for by residents of
each municipality.
Lights for All Vehicles.
A bill requiring all vehicles except
agricultural machinery to display
lights from one hour after sunset un:
tin an hour before sunrise is fathered
by Representative W. W. Mearkle, Al
legheny. Under terms of the bill the
act would become effective July 1,
1917. In addition to requiring lights
on vehicles after dark the bill pro
vides that they. must be displayed
when fog makes it impossible to see
200 feet. :
It is further provided that no vehi:
cle may pass a car which is taking
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under is per-
ZT sonal supervision since it: “ncy.
cd ‘Allow no one to deceive ycu 1: this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good ”: are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Childiren—Experience against Experiment.
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ASTORIA
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Drops and Soothing Syrups.
It is pleasant.
It contains
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more than thirty years it has
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sparkle of sprightly spirits. L_. laws. ..» has always been ic) vehicles must Keep as close to the curb : y refusing els, aids
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him quickly.
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Prompt Plumbing Service
The time that good plumbing equip-
ment is most appreciated is usually. when
the equipment is temporarily out of order. —
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When your liver is out of order, your head, stomach,
bile and bowels suffer with it. That is why a bilious
attack is often serious. Ward it off with a {cw doses of
case, Near.y cvery conczivavle pie e
of legislation is proposed ani muc.
of the time of the committees is being
taken up with separating the worthy
bills from the unworthy, the well
meaning and sincere bills from those
of the “freak” variety.
Among the bills classed as freak
legislation, Intréduced in the hous:
are’ the following: Examination of
every male who applies for a marriage
license with a view of learning if he
is absolutely healthy; permitting fish.
ing on Sunday; authorizing cities to
go into the produce business; prohibit:
ing funerals on Sunday and, finally,
giving cities the right to establish
milk routes and to send agents from
door to door peddling milk at whole
sale rates.
Many Good Bills Presented.
But it must not be forgotten that the
legislative hopper also contains plenty
of good bills. Numerous proposed acts
on regulating fishing and hunting tc
the betterment of the industry and
sport have been presented and it fe
thought that some of these will be put
through. In some quarters a move:
ment has started to increase the hunt:
ers license from one dollar to two
dollars, but a majority ‘of the commit
tee is opposed to the scheme and the
fee will remain as at the present time.
What is receiving more encourage:
ment, however, is a plan to exact a
as possible.
fisherman’s license of fifty cents. Tt
will be literally a “fisherman’s license,”
for boys and wognen will be exempt.
The purpose is to use the fund so
raised to propogate and to take over
private fishimg grounds for public use.
Military Training for Children.
Objections to military training fer
school boys, provided for in the Mc.
Nichol bill, are pouring into Harris-
burg, but nevertheless the proposed
law seems to. gain favor each recur-
ring day. In view of the crisis with
Germany and the agitation for prepar-
edness that has been sweeping the
country the past two years, it has not
Officers may arrest on
sight violators of the act who shall
be liable to a fine of $2 to $5 or five
days in prison. >
The effect of the bill would’ put
wagons on the same basis regarding
traffic as motor vehicles.
Adjourn Over Inauguration.
A legislative recess over inaugura
tion week appears to be among the
possibilities of the session of the gen
eral assembly. There have been many
rumors that the legislature would
adopt a resolution to take a week off
and signs of speeding up to prepare
for it have been seen. Some of the
country members have been very out:
spoken against the plan, preferring 0
stay here and work as no one seem
to be able to say when the session
will adjourn.
HON. E. E. BEIDLEMAN.
Senator Beidleman is President Pro
Tem. of the Upper Branch of thé
General Assembly. This Position is
One of the Most Powerful in the
Legislature, as the Holder Appoints
All Senate Committees and Preside”
Over the Deliberations of That Bedy
In the Absence of the Lieutenant!
/ Governor. Senator Beidleman Re:
sides in Harrisburg and Represents
the Dauphin County District.
been hard to make converts for this
new order of things and 2dvorates of
the measure feel confident of gettine
it through both branches of ‘the leg's
lature. Vp
Rills similar to the present one hve
appeared in post sessions, huf ron»
has ever gotten even a resnac' “ble
hearine in a committee. In fa-t they
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The latest <oc=sip is thet the legie
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lature will adjourn about February 28
probably on that day and meet again
the second week in March, which
which would give a recess throug:
inauguration week. Many of th-
legislators plan to attend the cere:
monies at Washington on March 5
scheme to rush through the defeat of
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the bill. The law and order commi*-|
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and aatural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
3ENUINE CASTORIA ALwAYs
In Use For Over 30 Years
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
3 Coming In Out of the Wet.
‘There is an amusing story by Athe-
naeus which suggests the possible ori-
gin of the phrase “He does not know
enough to come in out of the wet.” Ac-
cording to the entertaining grammarian
referred to, a town in Greece under
stress of evil circumstances borrowed
money from a rich man, who took as
security for the loan a mortgage on the
handsome portico which surrounded
the market place. He was not an un-
generous creditor, for when it rained
he caused the town criers to announce
that ‘the citizens had permission to
take refuge under the colonnade.
Strangers visiting the town who fail-
ed to have the matter properly explain-
ed to them were so impressed by the
extraordinary circumstances that they
spread abroad the report that the peo-
ple were so stupid that they had to be
told when to come in out of the wet.
Early Insurance.
william Gibbons of London is said
to have been the first man to have his
life insured. On June 18, 1853, he
signed a contract with eight men by
the terms of which he was to have his
life insured for £283 for one year for 8
per cent of this amount. In 1858
a resident of a Connecticut city was
traveling in England and became in-
terested in the workings of accident
insurance for travelers. So he came
home and promoted the first accident
insurance company in this country.
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When Pattens Were Worn.
Americans find it more difficult than
the English to understand what Dick-
ens means when he says in- “David
Copperfield,” ‘Women went clicking
along the pavements in pattens.” Pat.
tens were an abbreviated form of stilts,
| Tre word is also used by builders as
the name of the base of a column or
‘ pillar, and so architecturally the pat-
| ten is the support used by a woman to
| keep her out of the water and mud,
| From this architectural use has come
the secondary ‘application of the word,
meaning an arrangement attached to
| the shoe so that the walker is raised
| three or four inches above the solid
| earth, says Popular Science Monthly,
| If the mud and water did not exceed
| that depth the shoes were thus kept
| fairly dry.
It appears that pattens were not
worn solely by the rich, but were lux-
uries indulged in by the very poor,
In speaking of a person who was not
especially speedy Ben Jonson uses the
comparison, ‘You make no more haste
than a beggar upon pattens.”
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| Wrecked by a Knife Blade.
A ship was once wrecked on the
Irish coast. The captain was a care-
ful one. Nor had the weather been of
so severe a kind as to explain the wide
distance which the vessel had swerved
from her proper course. The ship went
down, but so much interest attached
to the disaster that a diving bell was
die? a'mont A+ thain eoneanticn Tat including most of the Democrats. His first client was a resident of Hart- gunk. Among other portions of the
; Ar think hava ptapaad and ga bong Fair Play for Local Option. ford, whom he insured for $5,000 vessel that were examined was the §r
‘® . ® thi vine 20 hg Taoiel-thre Wh~t w = Next in interest to the pendine| against injury in his stroll from the gompass that was swung on the deck, Sg
Re jeve our ivey palais et Sha aig pwnd Ph resolution for the probe is the loca’ postoffice to his home: Marine insur- and inside the compass box was de- pi
Fasats # ~ nA miHEaraon 1 TRavig option situation, and it looks as though ance goes back to the early part of the tected a bit of steel, which appeared gh!
gn Lidonc len aakaly neRigieh Speaker Baldwin had “flagged” the | fourteenth century and comes from a’ 1
to be the small point of a pocketknife
‘blade. It was'learned that the day be-
fore the wreck:a sailor who had been
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tide i= stemmed ths McNi~hnl bil tee will meet in a few days and Chair Curious Death Custom In Fiji. ! set cleaning the compass had used his :
a stands better than an even chance of | Tman Wagner is on record as opposine| The Fijians believe that in case a pocketknife in the process and had 5d
§ becoming a law. a hearing, saying it can all be said marriageable youth or maiden dies unceremoniously broken off the point He
The opposition is not asleep. Those on the floor. without having gone through with the and left it remaining in the box. That. a8
E opposed to the McNichol bill are do- Speaker Baldwin, however, has a elaborate nuptial knot tying ceremony bit of knife blade exerted its influence. fer
ax ing everything possible to block its| Very pronounced intention to get fair| of the islands his or her soul is doom- | on the compass and to a degree that. vi
which gently arouse a sluggish liver, and renew the activities so passage and pamphlets and letters | Play. “My position in this matter is ed to wander about forever in an in- = deflected the needle from its propep gr
necessary to good health. They never produce any disagreeable from prominent Americans, who are that the local option bill shall have termediate region between heaven and | bent and vitiated it as an index of the ¥
after-effects. Their prompt use is beneficial to the system, and will interested in this subject, are being | the fairest possible treatment,” sald! hell. ship's direction. That bit of knife 7%
aig ote : received by the men who make the he, “I shall use my efforts in urging| When any one dies—man, woman Or blade wrecked the vessel. 3
Pr ev ent Bilious Attacks laws. Mr. Wagner's committee to report the | chili—a whale’s tooth is placed in the pe - i
Schaeffer's Views. Wlasale 10 ioe house mith a favorahle hand of the corpse, the missile to. be Far ed
eg x Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, state sup- on on—in other words as| thrown at the tree which stands as a SREP REPOS DS ed a
s Directions of Special Value, io JY sen be or gE te or conint of public instruction, a] comtiiited ana shall see that it gets fguidepost to point out the road that | ® : 4 vil
old by drugg® L< » one of the most bitter opponents of a fair show when it comes to a vote leads to heaven and the one that leads | ® PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. # 5
— military training in the schools. As in the house. Moreover, if the local to hell.—London Mail * — %
- head of the public school system, he Spjisslsty wish “ pusie tg at @® Sense In the Sickroom. @ Yi
x is in position to put up a strong battle s session such as they have had : & Every one who goes into a sick Ww i
He had Be neva. Clouted, BE IT Fools from what he be | In the past, I shall lend my best efforts giiimciit Was Qeing § to? . | @ person's room should be bright & u
“very well,” he said coldly; “there SHUTTING UP THE SHOP. Heves to be an.attack upon its very lowards obtaining it and if the use ofl yj; _ rm going downtown to the | ® and cheerful. Sick people are ex- &
will -come a time when: your- treatment - . x : foundation. Here is what Dr. Schaef @ hall of Ue house i Qoire) WM jeweler’s. © tremely sensitive to the manner &
of me will be regretted.” No Brightly Lighted Show Windows at [fer thinks of military taining for; See to it that it 1s placed at the dis-{" «yhat for?” # of those around them, and any &
«J ghall never regret it,” she replied. Night In South America. Schon boys? posat of the committee for the hear | .g have my watch fixed” & depressing influence has a most & i 4
«Ob, I'don't Mean you,” he returne 3 -It1s rather surprising to the foreigner The study of war, the military drill e «Isn't your watch going?” # injurious effect. Hope is the best # ¥E
«1 refer to the man whom you will visiting South American countries for during the most impressionable perl i t is learned that Chairman Wagnel| ugyre; I'm taking it along with # medicine. Unfortunately the sick 4 \
finally-accept. »_New York Times the first time to find most of the best ods of adolescent life, leaves in the| is DOW disposed to hold the bill in me.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch $ person’s relatives often take the #
> ; : : and prettiest shops almost hermetically subconscious depths of the soul the committee a while so that the local] = : . ® worst view of the case, and their & :
: : = ‘spaled ‘st might. ‘If the building is of material for war and the worst that option advocates can arrange for their : ® anxiety is unmistakably mani- $ d=
; Nothing Like. the older style of construction the human nature is capable of. If we hearing. Liquor men, who hold a ma: Preparing For Patches. @® fested by their looks, voice and % .
“Is your physician a homeopath or ‘hesivy shutters are closed and lock ed would avoid plunging the land of the|jority, are sald to have realized that When making kitchen aprons leave @ general manner. They even talk # ,
an allopath, Mrs. Snooks? by fron bars; if a more modern building Stars “and ‘Stripes into another hel, [it would be bad ‘business to refuse a the strings longer and wider than is | § despairingly in the room, think- 4 3
“I don't think he is either ome of | BY Non PACK Lo BAO ond windows | Bt us keep military drill out of ov | hearing, ‘and’ 1t can be expected next] necessary, then when a patel is needed | § ing that because the patient is & n
those. At any rate, those names do | 0 SE ks dwn, and'the puider /public ‘schools.” ‘month. cut off a plece of the apron string for | @ quiet and dull he does not un- 4 ¥
a mot -sound “in ‘the ‘least ‘Hike what my | | Coo nothing cv vag e 2 The president of Haverford College, On the final day the legislature met! this purpose. This is better than using | @ derstand. But his perception of # {
: husband called him when the bill came AT fs farkueny save the a i {saac Sharpless, says that military last week another anti-liguor bill ap-’ & DEW plece, as the string has faded | @ everything relating to his illness # 1
fn."—Exchange. street. Tamir, No ne hte tratning in schools would be an inter: | peared in the house, the author being] With the apron.—Mothers’ Magazine. |'@ is markedly acute. Note the good & -
windows Leip to add cheer and bright- ruption to the =eneral work of .the Representative Showalter, of Union = @ effects of the visit of a cheery # 3
: An Ancient Clock. ness to the = root : fatsnt mei fers ryart hnosinen*’s] county. This bill would forbid hold- A Bit Heavy. # doctor. For hours after the pa- % t
- The Tour de 'Horloge. a square tow- 1 vole 3 and Americal cities th e tniaienioac| ers of Honor licenses to maintain gri't Barbour — You seem warm. Have | tient seems better and is better. 44
2 er which forms part of the Palais de aVeinie or hiant is willin iti Lai Bear + rooms, wine rooms or cahare‘s “where.| you been exercising? Waterman—VYes, | # Of course it does not do to be % A :
; Justice in Paris, the ancient palace of oy cols for Pigatiy ih » i re ' a in persons of both sexes may =ssemble indeed. 1 went to the mutes’ dance # flippant, but if relatives would #% oe
; the French kings. has the oldest pub- wares and Yoerehacdise. - He ye of n-nve | for the drinking of liquors, other than and swung dumb belles around all # force themselves to take a hope- # :
> He clock in France. It dates from 1370. and appreciates the publicity hel ‘ ~ i= 'n t hotel dining rooms, where meals ars evening.—Michigan Gargoyle. # ful view and show it in their # i
5 - 3 evening crowds upon our stroots atel. 3 : * rr £1 2 thot served.” The penalty for a violation —_—— # manner they would in many #% 4
Corrected: His Veracity. highly entertained and even instructed it jz ~~" ia he-t + alitiors of] is fixed at a fine of not more thar; Just What He Meant. #% cases actually save the sick per- :
. James—Papa, 1 ain't got Mo sirup. by window displays of the busy streets our Ame’ a ahaa tons $500, or three months imprisonment Editor—What do you mean by writ- # son's life. & i
4 Father—John, correct your brother. Herein lies the. difference, for, as 5 Tan~~-~pe’ Salaries. There is an anti-treating bill in tho | ing such a phrase as “The house burnt & ®
y John (leaning over and peering into | .yje the South American Stroote. busy Two amendments have been present- house. Once upon 2 time this sort of| up?’ We always say houses burn | eB Ro de of ke ob fe de fe Pe Reh oP
? James’ plate)—Yes, you is. and attractive during the auv are ed to the school code by Mr. Milliron, | proposed legislation was put into the! down. Reporter — Yes, but this one ~
ee y me ta oy © | Armstrong, chairman of the commit- | “freak” class, but nowadays it has too caught fire in the cellar.
: : : quite the reverse at night. Even in : ha : ras : :
Revenge is a kind of wild sustice tee on education. One fixes minimum j many advocates to be so designate’.
which the more man's nature runs to
the more ough
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law to weed it out.— | night prevails.—Baltimore American.
some of the larger cities the old cus- !
tom of hermetically sealing the shop at
galaries for provisional certificate
: teachers at $45, for profe sional cer-}
| tificates, $50, and permanent certifi-
The impression grows that treating is
more responsible for
than any:hing else
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Better to be despised for too. anxious
drunkenness ! apprehensions than reined by too comn-
fident security.—Burke.
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