THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEVYERSDALE, PA.
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How Mason §r
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(Copyright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.)
“Be sure to let me know when you
run in to New York,” said George Ma-
son to the pretty girl with whom he
had just been dancing.
“Yes, I will,” she answered. “But
I don’t think of going in for a while
yet. It is too warm.”
Just then George wished he might
not have to go to New York fer some
time. It was more to his liking to
spend part of the day on the beach
talking with this same pretty girl,
Grace Parks, and to put in the remain-
der of the time dancing with her in the
evening.
Grace did not live in New York, but
she had a cousin there, at whose home
she gecasionally visited. The prospect
of being given “a good time” by young
Mason had its allurements for the girl,
who had to help out her small income
by teaching music. Besides, she had
begun to want to see as much as possi-
ble of Mason: to put it plainly he had
become rather necessary to her happi-
ness.
“Look here, Grace!” said her friend,
Amy French, the next morning after
the dance, “do you know who that Mr.
Mason is?” :
“TI only know he’s a pretty nice chap,
and I like him. He has just graduated
from Princeton, and—and—well, that’s
all I know.”
“For the amount of time you two
have been together that doesn’t seem
a great deal to be found out. Don't
you know anything about his people?”
“I don’t think we talked about his
people,” said Grace quietly.
“It seems not,” observed Miss Amy
dryly. “Don’t you think you'd bet-
ter?”
“I don’t know,” answered Grace,
drifting off into a kind of blissful
dream in which “people” played no
part whatever.
Just before dinner Amy French burst
into the room bristling with news.
“My dear!” she exploded, “it seems |
you have landed a whale!”
“What do you mean?’ gasped Grace
in utter amazement.
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“Why, Mrs. Dean says Mr. Mason |
must be the son of Daniel Mason—you
Eknow—that millionaire Mason!”
Grace regarded her friend in-a dazed
way without speaking.
“Well what is the matter? Is it
because he is a whale—or you haven't
landed him? Which?”
“A little of both, perhaps,” answered
Grace. “I certainly haven't ‘landed’
him.”
“Well, go ahead! Get busy!”
“No—I wish you hadn’t told me. If
those are his people, they won’t—care
for me. Oh, well, I needn’t worry. I
don’t know as he cares the least bit
for me. And, anyway, that Mrs. Dean
is an awful gossip, and half the time
dcesn’t get things straight.”
“That’s so,” rejoined Amy.
wasn’t sure, anyway.”
A few days after this Mason told
Grace he was obliged to run into town
for a little while, and as she had said
she might also go to New York in a
short time, she must be sure to let
him know if she did, and he gave her
his telephone number, so she could call
him up. Less than two days had
elapsed when Grace received a letter
from her New York cousin, asking her
to come to town for a concert which
she especially wanted to hear.
Grace had an argument with her-
self as to whether she should call up
the telephone number that had been
given her. There seemed to her to be
several reasons why she should not,
and one overpowering one why she
should. She wanted to see him, and
the want held the fort, and conquered.
There was an unmistakably glad note
in the voice at the other end of the
wire which asked where he should call
for her.
The glad look was repeated in his
face when he met her. Mason had told
her at the beach he would give her a
good time, and when they met at about
three o’clock, Grace was quite pre-
pared for it. He signaled a bus, they
climbed to the top and went up River-
side drive, along the banks of the Hud-
son to Grant’s tomb. Here they dis-
mounted, went inside, and viewed the
relics within. Next he suggested a lit-
tle boat ride from the Battery; so they
again boarded the bus, left it at Wash-
ington square, took the elevated, and
landed at the other end of Manhattan.
Here a ferryboat took them to Staten
island and baek. It wouldn't have mat-
tered much to Grace where they went.
She was too blissful to care. At six
she insisted she must return to her
cousin’s, on account of her evening en-
gagement.
“Oh, I thought you might have dined
with me,” said Mason, “but, of course,
if you have promised, I won’t insist.”
Notwithstanding her delight at be-
ing with him, when Grace thought it
all over, a certain convidtion forced
itself upon her. The “good time” he
had given her was not exactly the treat
of a millionaire. He couldn’t be the
son of Daniel Mason. On the whole,
for reasons she had given before, she
was rather glad he was not. She went
back to the beach, and in 48 hours he
followed her.
The first chanc
together alone, s
and the “good ti
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e” he hed given her.
She saw a shade of embarrassment,
even a heightened color mounting in
his face.
“Will you please not be sarcastic,”
he said.
“What do you mean? Didn't you
have a good time?” she asked in some
surprise.
“T would have had a good time in the
Sahara desert if you were there.”
His look and tone brought the color
in turn to her face.
“Well, why—"
“Why?” he broke in, “to take a girl
bus riding up and down Manhattan
and—"
“Now, please,” she interrupted. “I
did enjoy it so! And let me tell you
a little secret. Someone here said you
were the son of a very rich man, and
I'm so glad you're not. Just too glad
to tell it all” }
+ “Glad?” he echoed blankly.
should you be glad?”
“Because,” she said, looking down
and digging her hand into the sand,
“if—if you like me as much as you
said, I should want your people to like
me, too, and you see I am not in the
fashionable set, so I'm glad you're not
so awfully rich.”
“But I'm not quite so impecunious
as that ‘treat’ of mine might indicate.
It seems to be up to me to explain a
little. When I got home I found moth-
er had taken a little trip to Lakewood,
and just before you telephoned I lent
| a fellow some money. On the way
down to meet you, I discovered I had
just about one dollar and ten cents in
my pocket. I had something of a chill,
for I thought I had more.
had closed, and I only had just enough
time to meet you. I felt smaller than
a pinhead, but I determined to make
the best of it. I think now I'm glad it
happened. It has told me something
about you—I thought I knew—now I
am sure that you're just one girl out
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of a million, And I've got to make
another explanation. If you don’t for-
give me for what I've got to tell you—
well, my life is in your hands.”
Grace looked at him with a wonder-
ing fear. He went on:
“I'm not the son of Daniel Mason,
but I'm his nephew, and own about
one-third of the business. So, you see,
I can’t help it if I am rich. Now can
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“And- I've got the dandiest mother.
She'll love you to death!”
It was a most obliging umbrella
which. hid for about a moment the sub-
sequent proceedings.
The English Tea.
The growth of “tea” into the elabo-
rate meal which some food economists
wish to see abolished can be traced in
the pages of our novelists. Thus, in
“Cranford” tea consisted of nothing but
the beverage and very thin bread and
butter, Miss Baker being “thought vul-
gar because she gave seed cake as
well,” In “Pickwick,” too, tea was ac-
in “Bleak House” the high tea which
Mrs. Snagsby provided for Mr. and
Mrs. Chadband included ‘dainty new
bread, crusty twists, thin slices of ham,
tongue and German sausage, delicate
little rows of anchovies nestling in
parsley, new-laid eggs brought up
warm in a napkin and hot buttered
toast.””—London Chronicle.
Early Use of Elevators.
The earliest mention of a device in
any way resembling the modern eleva-
tor or “lift” may be read in Vitruvius,
who describes a hoisting machine
which was invented by Archimedes.
This elevator of the second century
B. C. was worked by ropes which were
coiled upon a winding drum by a cap-
stan and levers. The same writer
refers to another similar machine
which was made to rotate by a man
who walked inside the capstan. Such
lift passengers and freight from the
first to the second story of a convent
on Mt. Sinai.
Diminishing Returns.
I spent Christmas day with my sis-
ter who has two boys that were on the
sick list with chickenpox, When din-
ner was announced the boys were told
that they could have only their broth,
but nothing solid to eat.
meal had been well under way, Vin-
cent, seven, remarked to his father!
“Daddy, don’t things taste good when
you can’t have
Leader.
them ?"—Cleveland
The bank |
Grace had to admit that he couldn't.
companied only by buttered toast, but
a primitive elevator is still in use to |
KEYSTONE BRIEFS.
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owns a 30-year-old hen.
Pennsylvania had 21,839 employes
injured in January.
At Dillsbury several roofs were
crushed by the recent heavy snow.
Work at the new Millersburg elec-'
| tric light plant is steadily progressing.
Deer have become quite plentiful on
and near the State reservation in Per-
ry county.
The Reading Railway Company is
planning the enlargement of its shops
at St. Clair.
The total estimated value of cattle,
other than milch cows, in the State is
$19,960,900.
Columbia council authorized the
public safety director to install a new
fire alarm system.
Bethlehem mills report business
booked sufficient to keep them run-
ning for over a year. -
Work resumed at the Big Soldier
mines of the Rochester and Pittsburgh
Coal and Iron Company.
W. E. Wolfram, long head of the
projectile department of the Bethle-
hem works, has resigned. x
A postoffice has been established at
Slovan, Washington county, with Jo-
seph Rostan as postmaster.
A dog got into the coop of Lewis
Peck at Lewistown and killed thirty
prize chickens, valued at $40. !
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Thomas Manion, of Mount be
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posted in public school and on <»
the exterior of churches.
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Bishop Courtlandt Whitehead of the
Episcopal church was chosen chaplain
of the Society of Colonial Wars.
The State Treasurer has been re-
ceiving from $300,000 to $400,000 a
i lay in State taxes. March payments
y will run very large.
| Jacob Herbst, of McKees Rocks,
‘and for many years a councilman of
| that borough, died after a week's ill-
| ness of pneumonia. dB
| The average price of swine increas-
| 3@ from $11.80 per head in 1915 to
| 512.90 per head in January, 1916, and
is still on the increase. i
Orders for Pennsylvania and Read-
| Ing railroad equipment to cost about
$4,500,000 were placed with Peunsyl-
vania manufacturing plants.
Fire destroyed the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Campany
power pla¥} at East Pittsburgh.” The
loss will total many thousands of dol-
lars.
John Wick, Jr., of Kittanning, a
State bank examiner, says that he
could raise a company of soldiers who
were willing to enlist in the event of
war.
Mrs. Marie Wilson, 607 pounds, said
to be the largest woman in the world,
lied at New Kensington. She was
only five feet and three inches in
height. :
The war department announced that
schedules of departure have been sc
arranged that the last National Guard
organization will leave the border
March 25.
Residents of Mercer and Venango
counties are leaving no stone unturn-
ad to boost the proposed Perry memor-
ial highway movement, although there
iis much discussion.
| The damage done to garden crops
| by the recent widespread freeze has
‘ made it necessary for many owners
| 2ither to replant gardens or to delay
| planting beyond the usual time.
Windows were broken, steam radia- |
tors torn apart and walls and eeilings
damaged in the old college building at
Dickinson during a fight between
sophomore and freshman classes.
The State Water Supply Commission
has sent word to all of its flood re-
porters and observers to make fre-
juent observation of the condition of
streams in their district and make.
prompt reports. ? :
| A large shipping contract has been
‘obtained by the Bethlehem Steel Com-
pany, for cargo carrying vessels of
| 6,500 tons and over, involving an ex: |
penditure of $13,000,000. It is under- |
| stood they are to be built for the
{ Cunard Steamship Company.
Drilling of a community water well
in New Castle, where there are few
wells and no springs to relieve the
condition resulting from the poor
water supply, has been ordered by
council. The city will bear the entire
sxpense in an effort to supply pure
irinking water.
A conservative estimate of the loss |
to the Pennsylvania potato crop.
through diseases, based upon records -
tept by the department of botany at!
the Pennsylvania State College is 20
ser cent. Figured on the average an- |
anual crop, this loss amounts to about
i 4,500,000 bushels annually. Such losses
are largely preventable.
| Sportsmen in Tioga county have un-!
{ ier consideration a plan whereby that :
;ounty may be closed to deer hunting. |
| The damage done to garden crops |
| by the recent widespread freeze has'
| made it necessary for many owners |
{ sither to replant gardens or to delay |
planting beyond the usual time,
Four flat steel cars were required to |
| zarry a huge steel girder from Steel- |
|
t
After the’jton to Chicago. This girder, which |
i was for use in a railroad bridge, meas- |
| 1red 131 feet nine ‘inches in length, |
{and ten feet six inches in height and
| weiched 89 tons. i
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FEEDING CHICKENS
(From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
"Poultry owners who wish to obtain a
satisfactory production of eggs dur-
ing the fall and early winter should
arrange to hatch pullets in March or
April. Birds hatched at this time will
be well matured in the fall. Further-
more, a greater proportion of them
will go broody early in the spring,
thus completing the circle necessary
for production in the fall.
Pullets hatched in the spring can
be induced to lay more abundantly in
the winter if they are properly fed,
housed, and handled. On the average
general farm, very few eggs are se-
cured at the time when eggs bring
the highest prices. It will pay the poul-
try owner, therefore, to devote a lit-
tle trouble to providing his birds with
the most favorable surroundings for
the winter.
The house should be thoroughly
cleaned, disinfected, and made tight
before the cold weather sets in. If the
house has a dirt floor, it is well to re-
move three or four inches of dirt from
the top and to replace this material
with dry gravel or sand. On cement
or wooden floors four or five inches
of fresh straw or litter may be thrown
down after the fleor has been cleaned.
Ventilation Is Important.
Ventilation is another important fac-
tor to consider. The house should be
tight on three sides, but for the fourth
muslin curtains may be used for from
one-third to one half its extent. In
any case, there should be some ven-
tilation in the house, even on the cold-
est nights. Fowls will stand consider-
able cold air, provided it is dry, and
ventilation will keep the air thorough-
ly dry in the house. On the other
PROPER SOIL FOR POTATOES
Value of Crop Is Generally Greater
Than Any Other—Practice of Ro-
tation Favored.
The best soil you have on your farm
should be given to the potato, both be-
cause it is more exacting in its de-
mands on the soil than any of the
other staple crops and also because
the value of the crop per acre is gen-
erally greater.
The crop that precedes the potato
is also important. A clover, alfalfa,
peas or cowpeas—any legume—is a
first rate preparation for a good crop
of spuds. Rye or buckwheat plowed
under is good. If you had sod on
your farm plant corn first and then
potatoes; this is a first rate rotation.
Oats, then peas, then potatoes is an-
| other.
Another good rotation is fall wheat,
in which clover is seeded in the
spring; second year, clover, plowed
under in the fall or early winter; the
third year potatoes. However, if you
have plenty of land it is best to grow
potatoes only one or two years in suc-
cession on any ground ; thus you avoid
diseases.
"PLAN FOR BREAKING A HORSE
Most Successful Method for Preventing
Animal From Pulling at Hal-
ter Is Outlined.
The most successful method of
breaking a horse from pulling at the
halter is as follows: Secure a new
half-inch rope about 15 feet long;
make a loop in one end. In tying,
throw looped end over animal around
the chest or flanks and run other end
of rope through the loop, between the
fore legs, through a neck strap or the
nose piece of the halter and tie se-
curely to a strong manger or other ob-
ject. When the horse pulls back the
rope runs through the loop and tight-
ens up on the body, and after a few
trials the animal soon gives up the
habit of pulling. Tie in this manner
at all times until the animal has been
broken thoroughly of the habit. Then
use a good strong halter or neck strap
that will not break under ordinary
strains.
TO INCREASE FLOW OF MILK
Cow With Chapped or Cracked Teats
Cannot Do Her Best—Carbolated
Vaseline Will Help.
A cow with chapped or cracked teats
is not likely to do her best. Very
often a little carbolated vaseline, or
something that is equally as cheap,
| will correct these things and increase |
the milk-flow.
ON AVERAGE FARM.
hand, drafts are likely to cause roup
and other trouble.
Many farmers, in feeding their
birds, overlook the fact that beef scrap
or some similar feed is very essential |
during the winter months if a good |
supply of eggs is to be obtained. A |
convenient method of feeding beef |
scrap is in a mash made of three !
parts cornmeal and one part each ofa
wheat bran, wheat middlings, and beef |
scrap. Skim milk or buttermilk
may be used in place of the beef
scrap,
Feeding Beef Scrap.
In experiments conducted by the de-
partment it was found that for the
first four months pullets fed a ration. |
containing beef scrap produced, on any
average, 41.5 eggs, while those fed, |
the same ration without the scrap pro- i
duced only 18.7. The cost of feeding |
the latter birds was 2.2 cents higher
for every dozen eggs produced than
in the case of the pullets fed beef
scrap. :
The birds should have plenty to eat,
but they also should always be eager
for each meal. If one-third of the
scratch grain furnished them is fed,
in the morning and two-thirds at
night, the birds will take more exer-
cise than if they received all the grain
they desire in the morning. Good
scratch mixtures may be made. of
equal parts by weight of cracked corn,
wheat, and oats, or of two parts of
cracked corn and one part each of
wheat and oats. 2
Other directions for the winter care
of birds are contained in a new pub-
lication of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture, Circular 71, Office
of the Secretary, Winter Egg Produc-
tion. 4
DETERMINE ACIDITY OF CORN
Improved Apparatus Developed by
Members of Staff of Plant Bureau;
Time Is Lessened.
The test to determine the acidity
of corn, which previously required 16
to 18 hours, can be made in less than
one hour by the use of improved ap-
paratus developed by H. J. Besley and
G. H. Baston of the officer of grain
standardization, bureau of plant indus-
try. Under the new method an elec-
tric mechanism, similar to those seen
on soda fountains, is used to mix
finely graund corn and alcohol. Thirty
minutes of mixing it is found will ex-
tract from the corn an amount of acid-
reacting substances comparable to the
amount extracted through digestion in
80 per cent alcohol at room tempera-
ture for 18 hours.
The methods for making acidity de-
terminations of corn with this ap-
paratus are described in detail in
Circular 68, office of the secretary
recently published by the United
States department of agriculture.
WINTER HINTS OF CHICKENS
Repository Diseases Result From
Drafts—Fowls Should Not Be
Crowded—Use Straw Litter.
Colds, roup and similar repository
diseases largely result from drafts in
the poultry house. It will pay the
poultry keeper, therefore, to make
draft-proof any cracks in the back, side
and roef of the houses.
The fowls should not-be crowded in
the house and from two to five square
feet of floor space is needed per bird.
The exact ratio depends upon the breed
and the extent of the yarding. As a
rule, it will be found advisable to allow
four square feet and floor space for the
lighter breeds such as the Leghorn.
About five or six inches of straw lit-
ter should be placed on the floor. Grain
which is fed in this will make
the birds exercise continually. Clean
nesting material is needed in the nest
boxes.
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MANY SHEEP KILLED YEARLY
Estimated That in Thirty-Six Farm
States 100,000 Are Killed An-
nually by Dogs.
le
The number of sheep killed annu- |
ally by dogs cannot be stated exactly, |
since there are many cases which are |
not reported at all. |
Judging from the figures in those |
counties and states in which reason- |
| ably complete reports are obtainable, |
however, it may be said that in the 36 |
farm stdtes more than 100,000 sheep
jare killed each year by dogs.
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SPRING-HATCHED PULLETS LAY IN WINTER
WOMAN GOULD
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Don't let this winter be a series of
coughs, colds and sore throats.
Use RED CROSS COUGH
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Save Your Night Thoughts.
A memorandum book or tablet, which.
Is at hand during the day for the re-
ception of the ideas of literary people:
and other brilliant folk, is not general—
ly available at the bedside, and many
good thoughts are lost by the failure
of the author to get eut and make @&
note of it. An electrically-lighted
memorandum pad is for this man. One:
end is equipped with a hood, under
which is a tiny electric lamp and the:
battery to supply the current. Con-
tact is made by pressing a slide at the
end of the cylinder, and the hood
shields the eyes from the light and
throws the rays down upon the paper
sheet.
India’s Hoarded Treasure.
The “hoarded treasure” of India is
estimated by the Financial Review at
over £400,000,000. Most of this is be-
lieved to be hidden in comparatively
small sums. It is a financial axioms
In London that all the gold and silver
which is sent to India annually by the
British government is immediately ab-
sorbed and passes quickly out of cir
culation. In India, however, the ex-
istence of any really important hid-
den wealth is declared a myth.
Sky Splitter.
Marcy, the highest mountain in the-
Empire state, was named in honor of
Gov. William L. Marcy. Its Indian
name is “Tahawas” (he splits the
sky).
Foods Are
Increasing :
In Price ||
But you can still buy 1
Grape-Nuts
at the same price.
This staple cereal in
its ‘air-tight, wax-pro-
tected package will
keep indefinitely, yet
is ready to eat at a
moment's notice.
Grape-Nuts is full of
compact nourishment
with a delightful
wheat and barley
flavor.
The Most Economical of
Prepared Cereals
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