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1 TWO AMERICANS
| Chicago Women Are Victims
| survivors Arriving at Queenstown Re-
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERC:. .YERSDALE, PA.
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS
—————
unless a supply reached the city soen
conditions leading up to food riots,
similar to those in New York, Phila-
delphia and Chicago will prevail. Local
agents of the large western milling
companies frankly admitted that their
supply of flour was exhausted and said
they had no information concerning
the date of pic arrival of shipments
VESSEL WAS NOT WARNED oom ruil Shi ditumenrin
City officials are
of German U-Boat
ee.
from the market.
preparing for any emergency.
port Deaths—Vessel Carried Unit-
ed States Mail. districts are about to be opened
i 2 09 r nar i x ¥ 7
The big 18,090-ton Cunard liner La {Greene county holdings = of "J.
conia, bound from New York for
Liverpool, was sunk off the Irish Jana his associates, will be brought
coast Sunday night. Among the | into the market by a railroad whi
v5 passengers and a crew of 216, 26| will run up Ten-Mile run off the
were Americans, 6 being cabin pas- Monongahela division. Undeveloped
SenEors. . . coal in Westmoreland county also
1500%
sion o©f the artle Cree Vii
road, thus vr 1s he Su Farge on
niles neorer 0 Piticbulszgi Dy 4n
ana ale Sr a adv oe
drowned. —..sives veo SG
Queenstown bat os Tue Tiipeste aft
Signer Lt Bat LU We Way | cuffered a loss of aboul 4,500
were picked up from e€.gii boats. ho .U oF
It is probable that Mrs. Mary BE ushe s through preventable jsen
Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy of Cai according to experts at the s
cago are the passengers referred to. college. :
They were in the first cabin | upon whose records the statemen
The names of the American passin: | pased estimates this loss te be 20
gers and their addresses, as given by
the line, and confirmed in part by
relatives in the United States, follow :
Floyd P. Gibbons of the. Chicago
.. | most direct route.
i
| Farmers
Mrs. F. E. Harris, wife of Lieuten-
ant Colonel Frank HE. Harris, United
States coast artillery corps.
Arthur T. Kirby, Bainbridge, N. Y.
than $13,000,000 worth of tubers
year. :
The National Council of the N
Miss Elizabeth Hoy, Chicago.
| Rey. James Wareing, said to be
from Norfolk, Va. ‘ :
While details of the cargo of .the
Laconia are withheld, under a regent
ruling of customs officials, it was
the principal commodities ‘carried:
bushels of wheat, 2,843 bales of cot- ry
~ PROPER BREATHING.
tes re erp
It Plays a Large Part In the Prome-| Times When Water Tight Bulkheads i
1 tion of Good Health.
Proper breathing is one of the great
| big factors in promoting and retaining : ginkg a particular ‘way.
good health. ainks in 3p y
Are, a Menace to Life.
HOW MODERN SHIPS SINK, |tons of shell castings and other var
supplies, and 9,000 tons of Prove ons. | George Koob of Philadelphia, an in-i
I; positively stated -by officials spector at the Eddystone Munition.
of the line that there were no explo-| sompany, was arrested at the plant at
‘Nearly every class or design of vessel A ¢ Chester. Koob claims he is a native
For in- |21
stance, the ‘old type of single bottom
ton, 1,408 boxes ‘of fresh fruit, 3,000
sives.on board. . «i... oo
n addition to cargo and passengers | of America, but police. sa he
the Laconia, carried 5,000 bags of Unit | porn in at Se sto
It is reported that two great coal
by the Pennsylvania railroad. The
Thompson, former Uniontown banker,
! will be maed- apo esi hle by on ex!
y ros
The depariment of botany,
Suspected of being a German agent
A flour and sugar famine virtually |
1
ON LACONIA |||
ing
up
y.
oa
ai
|
!
| Pennsylvania's potato crop this year!
000 |
ges,
tate
tis,
per |
cent of the normal annua! output. |
planning to plant large
acreage of potatoes this spring are ad-
vised by the college authorities to take
Tribune: A | Doperntive measures to control these
| Giseases which have destroyed more
|
this
aval
| Mrs. Mary E. Hoy, Chicago. ! and Military Order of the Spanish-
American ‘ war, representing fifteen
| state..commanderies, met in quarterly
session in Philadelphia and arranged
for the national convention of the or-
der in Washington May 18. The or-
} der, of officers who served
learned at the office, Of the company | wii ig iB ot a agra
| that the following items were Sons 2 President Wilson ~ expressing. its
: : confidence in the president to uphold
One thousand bars of silver, 40,000 {436 nonor and traditions of the coun-
Why the Angler Dressel in Oilskins
Cleveland, and
York Sun says of him that Lie enjoyed i
angling for the fish that would not'|
bite quite as much as he did for those!
‘that would. While fishing oue.day, |
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Worm Seed.
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Wentergreen Flavor
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A helpful Remedy BF ©
JE3act Copy of Wrapper.
tind th >Stomachsand Bowelsof |
nd Bears the
| there Promeimeieestion] Siomature
For Infants and Children.
s11 Mothers Know That
Genuine Castoria
Always
of
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
THE CENTAUR GOMPANY, NEW YORK ev,
SE TE A ———_
EXPENSIVE FISHING. © |
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Was Not Hired.
An ardent fisherman was President |
dressed in oilskins and & slouch hat,
he was addressed by an, angler garbed
was | in; the height of piscatorial fashion
this
It is no great number of years since gtoamer, with few or no bulkheads—* ed States and” Canadian’ mail, 1,300 | country shortly. after the outbreak of
gaged not only the attention of physi- perm—almost invariably founders OD |
cians, but trainers of athletes and the \xore, Or’ less of) an even keel, which | The
public : generally, | Recent. authorities means that it sipks-leveland not with
give special emphasis to the efficacy of tg bow or stern up in the air.
deep breathing for asthmatics and for: hig 'is account
children and-young-adults who are pre- __g¢ whatever point the. water may en: marine menace, .
Fo ter it practically finds-its own level, as: the .Ryndam’s passengers. a
Professor Arnold Hiller in the Ber- there are no subdivisions to obstruct it.
News, in the case of a modern ves-
_ disposed to tuberculosis. -
Hin-Clinical (Weekly notes that, it in-
1
ton and excretion of bile; that the ghe founders with her bow or stern
stomach when filled with food may high out of the water, or else she sink”
likewise be favorably influenced be: with a heavy list, or cant, to one side
cause the movement of the stomach or the other. The reason for this *:
contents through the pyloris is tacili- | that the bulkheads prevent the water
At : ist) : en | which ‘enters the vessel from finding
Deep ~breathing,” says the New | jig level. Consequently when one par-
tated. :
i
York Medical Record, “is. the most 8ci- | ticular portion of the ship is full of wa-
entifi¢ resource for the prevention of | ter, white the remainder is practically
uric acid. disease, One must beBin water tight, that part whieh is wate
from the Ameriean liner. St. Louis. | na ie ir Daract
| Laconia, sailing:the day the Hol- Dy ch jt : ,
land-American liner Ryndam peturned :
deliveries. | Many - mills, -have
‘The
tunity was given to make use of the | the public service commission.
defense gun, according to offieials of « i :
the line. ~. -.:
of the Cunard line to be sunk.’ A Miller, nineteen years old,
last October in the Mediterranean. when he fell out of the boat.
with diaphragmatic breathing, which | jaden ‘sinks first, owing to its greater 81
naturally precedes. rib breathing. The | weight.
inspiratory movements are now slowly
increased. un
in rib breathing gradually participate.
fifteen “or twenty minutes each.
position of the breather is Ymmaterial.
He may do hig-forced breathing while | water.—IL.ondon Answers.
standing or walking. ‘
“In some. ‘individuals a very deep
breath appears to arrest the pulse be-
cause of.-the compression of the sub-
..clayian artery;
§ § & Church Theaters.
per minute.”
REAL DOUGHNUTS.
a Hole in it
Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven Pierce, their great master in music.
counties, Conn., and Westchester coun- who, as church almoner, had business $11.50@12.25; roughs, $12@1250;
ty, N. Y., up to 1850. Our mothers at control of these adjacent puildings | stags, $10.50 @10.75. J. J. Baker, aged fifty-one, a con-
Cleveland, Feb. 27. killed
that time are to be regarded as the owned by the church.—London Stand-
best authority on old fashioned Amer- ard.
jcan cookery. .
The doughnut of that period consist-
ed of bread dough raised overnight.
Warding Off Cancer.
ened a little and fried to a rich brown Cer, according to a bulletin of
in leaf lard and were somewhat larger American Society For the Control of
than a goose egg and about the same Cancer. Many patients, especially wo-
shape. These were known among the men, it is pointed out, speak to a nurse
old Dutch New Yorkers and are de- about the danger signals of this dis-
geribed in Barber's “History of New ease, such as lumps, persistent sores,
ulcerations and other irregularities.
“Wonder cakes” were similar, with a | when they would hesitate to call a doc-
Attention to these apparently
was rolled about threec- trivial conditions, says the bulletin,
quarters of an inch thick, cut into often means the actual prevention of
squares of three inches. with three cancer, or at least its discovery in the
hen a cure is possible.
York,” published about 1840.
little more shortening and sweetening. tor.
The dough
slits. which were pressed apart into early stages, W
a fantastic shape, and were the idol- it
ized Sabbath day lunch, eaten under
the maple tree or the horse shed be-
tween the morning and afternoon serv-
ices.
I first remember crullers twisted and
with holes when 1 came to New York
in 1854. The very name of dough. | how you would go about it if
nut is suggestive of a round or oval | wanted to borrow $10 from me.’
shaped article.—C. P. Benedict in New | change. :
Deserved to Get It.
vice,” said the insinuating man.
“What is it?”
It is for this reason that such terri-
all the muscles involved | ple loss of life frequently occurs in while usd
Sarah pe modern shipwrecks. Owing to the un- :
One begins vith three ddily periods of | even sinking it is often found imposs’
The .|.ple to lower the majority of the lif
“boats, as they would fall to reach the
Few people know that plays in Eng-
: Fo jand, Germany, Italy and France were
hence inspiration fostered for religlous purposes by the
should be limited to a certain number | church centuries before they were tak
en up as a separate secular business.
| Moreover, few visitors tq. St. Paul's | rs $40@85.
cathedral, in London, realize that the
Nurses, particularly those engaged in
with hop meal cakes, or “emptins.” public health work, can do much to
sweetened with brown sugar, short- prevent unnecessary deaths from can-
«] want to ask you for a bit of ad-
«7 want vou to put yourself in m)
plate and me in yours and tell me
the British admiralty soon after the ! gank.
war began ond the Laconia .was for a
as a transport. : i
LIVE STOCK ND GR"IN
Pittsburgh, Feb. 27.
Nixon theater, Pittsburgh, was
| @46%c. Eggs—Fresh, 49¢c. °°
Cattle—Prime, = $10.50@11; good, | was crushed under the car.
$9.76@10.36; tidy butchers, $9@9.50; . b TTT
fair, $8@8.75; common, $7@7.76; heif-| The coal . business in the
ers, $6@9.75; common to good fat Greensburg field is almost at a
and common, $56@6.60; heavy owes, $6 |
©9; spring lambs, $11@14.50; veal
Hogs—Prime heavy, $13.55@13.60; found by her son, Archie M
RR §1275Q18.16: pigs, | in connection with the death.
, 0, wa
Cottle Choice: (ot, poner HIN ar OS A a
fat steers, 1,000 pounds and upward, i n a scaffold
$9.50@9.75; good to choice butcher ro Xe Sar feet, br
steers, $9@9.25; fair to good butcher | yo neck,
steers, $8.50@8.75; common {to light
the | Steers, $6.50@7.25;
; $7.26@8.50; light heifers, $7.26@8; | suffocated at his home in Pitt
* good to choice butcher bulls, $7.50@8; | when a piece of steak he was
"bologna bulls, $6.76@7.50; good to | lodged in his throat. Despite
choice cows, $7@8; fair to good cows, | forts of members of the family
Prim in ego? 8111250; heavy and lyodged.
~~ 9 i
te port after being turned back from Plants of ‘the Shenango valley are
ed for by the fact that her voyage to Rotterdam by the sub- “facing a serious ‘coal shortage as a
had on board nine Of result of inability of railroads to make
nia, when she left here, forced to shut down. Railroads are
; HGH ‘Weekly note was armed with one defense gun, !gsaid to have promised relief with ‘the
"greases -the ‘passage-ofi blood through ‘ge, which is built with numerous sub. | mounted aft. The report that. the | closing of navigation on the lakes.
“the liver; that it increases the secre- givisions, it invariably happens that ship was. torpedoed at night and with- | Threats are being made by manu-
out warning indieates that mo ODDOr- | facturers to take the matter before
oh mrad . | While fishing in the Penn Central
The Laconia is the second ship 6f Light and Power company’s .dam at
the former Boston-Liverpool service Warrior Ridge, near Altoona, Charles
while in thn Briti~h gover~ment serv: | could ot be located in the darkness
jce. Both vessels were taken over by “and, as he wads ‘unable to swim, he
: Mrs. Isabelle B. Kirk, daughter of
Fy Thomas F, Kirk, Jr., manager of the
in the crash of an automobile, which
was being driven by her brother, and
Butter—Prints, 46@46%¢c; tubs, 45 {a street car. Miss Kirk is said to
have’ jumped from the auto and
bulls, $6@8.50; common to good. fat still on account of the car shortage
cows; $4@8; fresh cows and spring and the inability of the railroads to
move empties to the mines and start
‘Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers, loaded cars to their destination. The
‘8 1 3 0.5 1 output of 25000 tons daily has
church . during Elizabeth's reign and $11.50@11.76; good mixed, $10.50@ | norma
The Genuine Old Time Cake Never {iad | the first years of the reign of James I. 11.25; fair mixed; $9.26@10.25; culls | been reduced to 10,000 tons.
"get aside one of its adjacent buildings
Why will some persons persist in for use as a secular theater, Its little end robbed of $70 in
speaking of the holes in doughnuts? stage was famous, and the dompany of | calves, :$12.60@18; heavy and thin | W88 murdere 3
The real, genuine article never had a choir boys as actors presented many of | calves, $6@9. ;
hole in it. My memory goes back to the great plays of Shakespeare's time. : :
+4 and earlier, and my boyhood ex- They acted from about 1598 to 1608 | heavy mixed, $13.50@18.65; mediums Armiel Dantinne, aged twentyitwo, of
perience extended over a good part of under the management of Edward and heavy Yorkers, $13.36@13.50;
Mrs. Louise Delaere, aged sixty-five,
her home in Jeannette. 1. .r body was
| Jeannette, and his brother, John B.1}
j Dantinne, twenty-eight, were arrested *
: while constructing an oil tank for the
pounds and upward, $10@10.75; choice River View Oil company at Coraopolis.
choice heifers.| Lawrence Staley, aged seven, Was
the subject of deep breathing has en- hat is, in the modern sense of the sacks of which had Been: transferred | ihe war. He had in his possession
it is
been
was
He
killed
Irwin-
stand-
allard.
with:
“Hello, boatman! You've certainly’
got a good catch. What will you take
for the fish?” =r 14
,o%IPm not: selling them,” replied the.
maniin oilskins;
gler, “what do you want to take me out
fishing tomorrow ?” e
, Mr. Cleveland, who was plainly en-
Joying the Joke, replied: “I can’t make
any engagement except by the season.
Will you give me as much as I made
last year?’ ooo"
which
eaking
sburgh
eating
i
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the ef-¢
and a;
$4@5. physician, who lives a short distance
Calvas—Qood t~ choles, $1313.50; | away, the steak could not be dis-
Automobile license fees for 1917, as
received by the Pennsylvania state
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> The solan geese are SO fond of col-
? p Mead totaled lecting materials. for their nests tha{
14 1 ! av ( r ¢ iced :
10.75 u $11.60 s, $11. highway department Monday, totaled | they do not desist from the habit even
4 Se oais $1,677,000, or $447,000 oy os On | when they are about to abandon their
Hege—ilu2@ 821 Aulicaov, §. .C; the same day ast youn n gy i nests for the winter migration. Off
| @13; © 304 Jom are that ihe gh or the year Will b€ | the coast of Scotland one day patches
heavs; . oy ont, $12.3%0 close to $3,000,000. i of straw bedding were seen floating.
12.90; pico. 38 TC@11 M40 —_— fe althoucl = hrds wer
Cattle Reaves, $7.200@12.15; cows Indian Commissioner Cato Sells ap- | and, although the birds were on the
snd itor 3 stockers awd pointed John Francis, Jr. of Wash- eve of departure, they gathered up
$6 ans, $8 7o@ ington to be super itendent. of Car-
: e 7 5 y ’ : hd lisle In ian school vice 0. H. Lipps, i
you ' ¥ cal - 19. : : es A
Ton. ! Wheat—May, $1.T7%. Suis who will become a supervisor of In-
———lCA . di, He . x ' . 2 og ~ TY 3 :
' $1005. Oute—ilay, GS%e. dian affairs on April 1.
angler, “but a good fisherman, and Irn
accept your terms.
malse last year?”
a thousand dollars a week!
president of the United States.”
sister ship, the Franconia, was sunk drowned. He was hauling in’ a net |
“Well,” continued ‘the persistent an-
“You're a sharp fellow,” replied the
“Oh,” replied Mr. Cleveland, “about
I was
Strength of the Condor.
The enormous strength of the con-
dor is equaled by his voracity and
boldness.
pounces upon small animals, but from
the shape and bluntness of his claws
it is unable to carry anything very
heavy, so he contents himself with fix-
ing it against the ground with one of
his elaws, while with the other and
his ‘powerful beak he rends it to pieces.
Gorged with. food, the bird then be-
comes. incapable of flight and may be
approached, but any attempt at cap-
This immense bird often
ture is furiously resisted. An Ameri-
can traveler in the Andes encountered
two. im ortant si
a writer in the New | in a modern nav
occupations rare fraught with. danger
to those engaged in them.
What did y=)
|
|
|
a large condor just after it had fin-
ished: a hearty banquet om a young
sheep and foolishly attempted to seize
thes bird, with. the result. that he re-
ceived a gash from its claw. Then he
called up his two guides, and the three
men maneuvered to take the bird alive.
But every attempt was frustrated, and
in the end one of the men killed it by
a blow with a hatchet.
We're All Like Her.
Terence V. Powderly of labor fame
was talking about compulsory arbitra-
tion.
“Phe trouble with the world in gen-
eral,” he said thoughtfully, “is that we
all know just what the other fellow
ought to do, but we take ttle account
of what we ought to do ourselves.
«1 found a young bride one day bend-
ing, with a stern and severe air, over a
dry looking volume. :
« «What are you reading? I asked.
«can excellent work, she replied,
‘called “Happiness In Marriage.” ’
« cywhat advice, I said, ‘does it give
to wives?
“<1 don’t know,’ she.answered. ‘T'm
399
reading the advice to husbands.
Thrifty Geese.
every wisp, as though they had theii
they were seen
every day
| nests to build, and in the same place
collecting seaweed
SOWING MILEY I TUE SEA.
| How These Ship Desiru ers Are Laid
and Anci.ored.
Mine laying avd 1abae sweepiug are
reicate funciions
ad bod of Lucu
+A mine is really a metal globe con-
taining auything from 200 pounds to
290 pounds . of trinitrotolueng, or
T. N.'T.. an extremely powerful high-
explosive, ‘calculated to! make things
‘very unpleasant for any ship that runs
agdinst one of the little horns on top
ofthe. mine. [rvs ) !
, Before the mine is put into, the sea
the globe squats, as one might say,
| between. four. metal uprights upon a
round, flat weight, to which it is at-
‘tached by a short length of wire rope,
the greater part of ‘which is coiled
4
round a drum inside the weight.
“When the mine! is:put into the water
the “whole contrivance sinks;at once
to the bottom, :As soom as it touches
ground the bump releases a little
catch, which sets all sorts of wheelg
revolving, with the result that the four
uprights’ fail outward. They grip the
sea bed, and the contrivance is an-
chored. Then the globe begins to rise,
while the rope unwinds until it has
reached a fixed length.
Thereafter woe betide the unfortu-
nate ship that runs upon it.—Londowr
Chronicle. .
. ., The Servant Question.
“Beg pard-n, ma'am,” said the but-
ler, “but your son has just eloped with
the cook.”
“Yes, I put him up to it,” replied
Mrs. Uppson. “She's the best COOk We
ever had, and 1 don’t want to lose her.”
—Indianapolis Star. *
7 An ‘Expensive Luxury.
_ “Yes,” said the literary man, with a
sigh, “style is a fine thing for a writer
to have, but when his wife's got it toa
ft takes all the profit away.”—Hare
per’s. }
Call “Girls!” and those.of sixty look
up just as quickly as those of sixteen.
—New York Sun,
Regrets, Inevitable.
He, bad proposed and been rejected.
_ “Very weil,” he said coldly; “there
will come a time when your treatment
of me will be regretted.”
«1 ghall never regret it,” she replied.
“0h, I don’t mean you,” he returned.
«] pefer to the man whom you will
finally accept.””—New York Times.
Nothing Like.
«Is your physician a homeopath er
an allopath, Mrs. Snooks?”
«] don’t think he is either ome of
those. At any rate, those names do
pot sound in the least like what my
husband called him when the bill came
in.” —HExchange.
An Ancient Clock.
The Tour de I'Horloge, a square tow-
er which forms part of the Palais de
Justice in Paris, the ancient palace of
the French kings, has the oldest pub-
le clock in France. It dates from 1370.
Corrected His Veracity.
James—Papa, I ain’t got no sirup.
Father—John, correct your brother.
John (leaning over and peering into
James’ plate)—Yes, you is.
Revenge is a kind of wild Justice
which the more man's nature runs to
the more ought law to weed it out.—
Bacon.