FRUIT. LAKATIE
FOR SICK CHILD
“California Syrup of Figs” can’t
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother realizes, after giving
her children “California Syrup of
Figs” that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender |
little stomach, liver and bowels with-
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless “fruit
laxative,” and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow-
els, and you have a well, playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remem-
ber, a good “inside cleaning” should
always be the first treatment given,
Millions of mothers keep “California
Syrup of Figs” handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50-
cent bottle of “California Syrup of
Figs,” which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv. i
Hope is a dream a man has when he
is awake.
GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER
Few persons can be sick who use
Green's August Flower. It has been
used for all ailments that are caused
by a disordered stomach and inactive
liver, such as sick headache, constipa-
tion, sour stomach, nervous indiges-
tion, fermentation of food, palpitation
of the heart from gases created in
the stomach, pains in the stomach, and
many other organic disturbances.
August Flower is a gentle laxative,
regulates digestion, both in the stom-
ach and intestines, cleans and sweet-
ens the stomach and whole alimentary
canal, and stimulates the liver to se-
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Try it. Two doses will relieve
you. Used for fifty years in every
town and hamlet in the United States
and in all civilized countriés.—Adv.
A Day's Wage.
It is interesting to note the defini-
tion of a living wage as formulated by
the court of industrial arbitration of
New South Wales in 1914:
“The living wage is standardized as
the wage which will do neither more
nor less than enable a worker of the
class to which the lowest wage would
- be awarded to maintain himself, his
wife and two children—the average
dependent family—in a house of three
rooms and a kitchen, with food, plain
and inexpensive, but quite sufficient in
quantity and quality to maintain
health and efficiency, and with an al-
lowance for the following other ex-
penses: Fuel, clothes, boots, furni-
ture, utensils, rates, life Insurance,
savings, accident or benefit societies,
loss of employment, union pay, books
and newspapers, train and tram fares,
sewing machine, mangle, school requi-
sities, amusements and holiday intoxi-
cating liquors, tobacco, sickness and
death, domestic help, unusual contin-
gencies, religion, or charity.”—Nation-
al Geographic Magazine.
Found Out.
“Would you like to hear a secret in-
volving Mrs. Nextdoor in a dreadful
scandal?”
“Yes, oh yes; tell it to me.”
“I don’t know any such secret. You
certainly have a mean disposition.”
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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
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(Copyright, 1817, by W. G. Chapman.)
Thoughtless Roger Bellamy roused
up, aflame with the fires of rivalry, as
| he entered the home of his betrothed
| wife. He was too free and welcome a
! visitor to stand on formality and he
| did not ring nor wait for a servant to
: announce him. He was very happy,
| for the wedding day was only a month
| distant. He had won the belle of the
| town, and was proud of it. He loved
| Ruth Trescott with true, deep fervor,
so his heart was singing all the time,
those happy, happy days.
“Good-by, and may heaven bless
you!”
He had entered the front parlor and
the words halted him. It was then,
seeking their source, that his brow
corrugated, his breath came quick. In
the rear room stood Justin Dacre, and
near him Lois. Her face was sym-
pathetic, but sorrowful. She put out
a detaining hand. She drew her de-
| parting visitor nearer to her. She re-
moved a rose from her bosom; she
tendered it to her companion. She
spoke some words to him. Then she
lifted her face to his own and kissed
him tenderly, with tears in her eyes,
and Justin Dacre dashed away and a
sob was wrung from his lips as he
hurried from the home.
Lois had sunk to a chair. Her face
was buried in her handkerchief. Bel-
lamy, on fire with jealousy and re-
sentment, came to her side throbbing
with emotion.
“Lois!” he spoke, and she looked up
startled and shrank slightly at the
harshness of his tone,
“That man kissed you!” continued
Bellamy hoarsely.
“J asked him to and I told him that
he might,” replied Lois frankly. Then
she burst into tears afresh. “Oh,
Roger!” she said, “I feel so sorry for
him, for he loved me.”
“And told you so!” muttered Roger
darkly.
“For the first, the last, the only time.
He had not known of your—of our en-
gagement. He was crushed when I
told him. Then, the noble, manly
fellow that he is, he wished me hap-
—
~
Have You Ever
Suspected
that the cause of various
annoying ills might lie in
the daily cup of teaorcoffee?
A sure and easy way out
of coffee and tea troubles
is to shift to
Instant
Postum
There's no caffeine nor
anything harmful in this
delightful, pure food-drink
— just the nourishing good-
ness of wheat.
Postum has put thou-
sands of former tea and
coffee drinkers on the
Road to wellville.
“There’s a Reason J
He Was Unable to Resist.
piness. He spoke of you, oh! so grand-
ly, so reverently. Roger, he is a good
man, and next to you—but oh! there
is only you. Don’t frown so dreadful-
ly, dear. I never loved anyone but
you, I never can.”
Roger was mollified, but he did not
entirely share the esteem of Lois for
his unfortunate rival. He rather pitied
Dacre when, a day or two: later, he
learned that he had abandoned a law
practice built up slowly and with
painstaking application through the
vears. Then amid the excitement and
preparation due to the coming wed-
ding he forgot all about Dacre. Only
Lois remembered the grave-faced,
earnest suitor, who had told her that
if ever the hour came when the sacri-
fice his very life could avail for the
benefit of herself and those she loved,
he would welcome the test.
“Jt will take me a week to settle
up affairs at the mines at Falcon and
get back here,” Roger told Lois.
He was making an entire change in
| his business interests. For years the
| Falcon mine had been a source of rev-
| enue to him since his father died. It
{ had, however, brought trouble as well
| as revenue. There had been bitterly
contested litigation with Big Barlow, a
ruffian prospector, who had made a
fictitious claim to its ownership.
| Roger had beaten Barlow fairly in
the courts of justice and the latter had
vowed vengeance. Roger had decided
ic remove to the East. He had sold
thie mine for a large sum, and his last
connection with it would be to deliver
possession to & representative of the
syndicate which had purchased it.
Falcon was fifty miles distant across
a barren stretch, where it was not al-
ways safe to travel on account of
iil | times.
outlaw characters who fiufested it at
rude frontier settlement with no mis-
hap, however. He was popular with
the workers at the mine, and made
himself still more so by giving them a
grand farewell spread at the one poor
hotel of the place. Then he made legal
delivery of the property to the syndi-
cate man and was ready to return to
civilization and Lois,
“Give you a tip, gov’'nor,” a friendly
miner told him the last y of his
sojourn at the diggings. ‘The boys tell
me that Big Barlbw was hanging
around Little Louie's joint last eve-
ning.” :
“That doesn’t interest me,” assured
Roger, recognizing the undercurrent of
a subtle warning in the sinister infor-
mation. .
-¢“It should,” persisted the miner, “for
he was ugly with drink and boasted
you.”
“I'll be on the lookout, friend,”
pledged Roger, but lightly. “Hello!
who is that man?” ‘
Roger stared and then started after
a man across the street, but the latter
had disappeared with Roger's compan-
ion having just a brief glance at him.
“Newcomer, don’t know his name.
Looking for work, I understand.”
“It was Dacre,” reflected Roger, as
he went slowly and thoughtfully to-
wards his hotel. “Poor fellow! bent
on burying himself because of his great
disappointment. I wish I had a chance
to be friendly with him.”
That opportunity did not material«
ize, however, and Roger's kindly im-
pulse was obscured in the bustle of
preparations for his leaving the place
that evening. The night promised to
be clear, though slightly chilly, with
a fall moon, and Roger, in high spirits,
anticipated a glorious gallop over the
old mountain trail, with every foot of
which he was familiar.
A dozen humble but loyal friends
waved him a cheery good-by as, his
satchel strapped behind his saddle, his
light overcoat .collar drawn well up to
his eyes, he touched the spur to the
splendid animal he rode.
Roger had proceeded less than five
miles when, on turning a shoulder of
rock, he was confronted by two men.
Both wore masks. So quickly did they
halt him, so speedily did they pull him
from his horse that he was unable to
resist. To his amazement his long en-
veloping overcoat was dragged from
his back. The coat of one of his as-
sailants was substituted. Roger's arms
were secured behind him, he was re-
mounted on one of the horses of his
captors. It’s owner, donning the over-
coat and springing into the saddle of
Roger's horse, put the spurs to the
animal, shouting to his comrade:
“Get him away by the new cut across
the plateau and make no delay.”
The victim of profuse mystification,
Roger was released at the outskirts of
Oreville, four hours later. Not.a word
had his conductor spoken during the
swift dash, but two days later Roger
knew the truth.
Justin Dacre had given his life to
save him. He knew of the trap set by
Big Barlow. He impersonated Roger
in a decoy dash past the ambush of
the desperadoes. He led them a ten
mile chase, at last receiving a fusils
lade that ended his life.
They brought the hero to Oreville
and buried him with honors, and tears,
and love. And into the souls of Lois
and Roger there came a solemn influ-
ence, a sacred memory that kept alive
undying reverence for the noble wan-
derer who had made their happiness
possible.
FRAUDS STERNLY PUT DOWN
Drastic Laws Against Those Who
Tampered With the People’s Food
in Force in Olid London.
An amusing sidelight on the manner
in which fraudulent venders of the
people’s necessities were punished in
the good old days is to be found in
Maitland’s “History of London.” Dur-
ing the reign of King Edward I dras-
tic laws were framed against “En-
grossers, Forestallers, and all sorts
of Frauds and Impositions in the sale
of Provisions, especially against
Bakers, who had got into a way of
making bread under the standard
weight, and against Millers who
dealed in bad measure.”
For the first offense the baker had
his light bread confiscated, a second
offense was punished by imprisonment,
while for a third he was pilloried. For
the “thievish miller” a sterner punish-
ment was meted out. He was put
on a tumbril, i. e., carried in a dung
cart through certain streets exposed to
the derision of the people.
The engrossers were the gentlemen
who attempted to make a corner in
commodities, and against these
profiteers the king advised his sub-
jects of London “to devise proper
laws for regulating the prices of poul-
try and fish, which sort of provisions
had been engrossed by a few rapacious
Hucksters.” Accordingly, it was or-
dained by the magistrate of the city
“that no Huckster of fowl (or Poul-
terer) go out of the city to meet them
that bring poultry into the 'city, to
make any buying from them; but buy
in the city, after the buyers of the
Lord the King, of the Barons and the
citizens have bought and had that
which shall be needful for them, name-
ly, after three o'clock and not before.”
And then came a list of the standard
prices at which they must buy.
Father's Wish.
Mrs. Quiverfull—There’s one good
always self-possessed.
| Quiverfull (grimly)—Yes; they're
jee self-possessed. I wish they'd get
someone else to possess them.
Roger made the journey to the
that he was going to get even with
| thing about our girls, John; they are |
{ FACTORS INCIDENT TO PLANTING CHERRIES
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
Cherry trees do not thrive well as
a rule where the summers are particu-
lariy long and hot. For this reason
more than any other they are
grown but little in the South, and to
the limited extent they are planted in
that pért of the country the best suc-
cess is attained at the higher alti-
tudes.
In tifeir endurance of low tempera-
tures the widely grown sour cherry
vari@ties approach the apple varieties
which are grown commonly in the
northern commercial apple-producing
districts.
The leading varieties of sweet cher-
ries are less hardy than the best-
sour sorts. Their endurance of
cold corresponds more nearly to that
of the peach. It may be doubted
whether sweet cherries as a group
enduredong, hot summers any better
n the sour sorts, possibly not so
tions for Cherry Growing.
In Selecting a location for cherry
growdig—that is, the general region or
commuhity in which the enterprise is to
be dyyeloped—fruit growers should
realize hat as the fruit is very perish-
able, quitk transportation to market is
essential, and also refrigerator sérvice
if the fruif is to be shipped long dis-
tances; and, further, a relatively large
crew is required to handle the fruit
properly. Large orchards therefore
should not be located where it is
practically or economically impossible
to assemble and care for the requisite
labor to handle the fruit properly.
Sites for Orchards.
The “site” is the exact piece of land
occupied by the trees. The same gen-
eral factors which require considera-
tion in selecting a site for an apple or
peach orchard need to be taken into
account in choosing sites for cherries.
The most important of these factors
are soil and local climatic conditions.
Cherry trees thrive on a wide range
of soil types, provided the soils are
well drained. There is, perhaps, no
fruit tree more sensitive to the ill-
effects of a poorly drained soil than
the cherry. In many important cherry-
growing regions the prevailing types of
soil are rather light—sandy, sandy
loams, and other light loams—com-
monly underlain with a more or less
clayey subsoil. Such soils character-
ize the areas bordering the great lakes,
where the most important commercial
interests east of the Rocky mountains
are located. .
The temperature factor in its in-
fluence on the geographic distribution
of cherry growing has been mentioned,
but in its relation to local conditions
this factor also requires consideration.
Cherries blossom comparatively early,
the sweet sorts earlier in most cases
than the sour varieties; therefore,
sites that are subject to spring frosts
during the usual blossoming period
should be avoided.
Propagating Cherry Trees.
The details of propagating cherry
trees are of little direct importance to
the average grower, as he will usually
find it to his advantage to buy trees
from & reputable nurseryman. Trees
are propagated by budding on seedling
stocks in the nursery row, and are
commonly sold for planting either as
one or two year old trees..
Though the average cherry grower
rarely has occasion to propagate cher-
ry trees himself, the kind of stock on
which his trees are propagated is a
matter of importance to him.
Two kinds of stocks, the mahaleb
and mazzard, are in common use.
These are two distinct types of cher-
ries, which are of value for stocks but
unimportant for their fruit.
The mabaleb is used much more ex-
tensively than the mazzard, and for
the sour varieties it generally gives
fairly good satisfaction. While the
mahaleb is much used in propagating
sweet cherries, growers who have
studied the matter carefully are close-
ly in accord in their conviction that
the sweet sorts give much better re-
| sults when grown on mazzard than on
{ mahaleb stocks. The mazzard stock
appears to Increase the vigor and
length of life of trees propagated on. it
FOUR DIFFERENT GRADES OF NURSERY STOCK.
in comparison with the mahaleb stock.
The common wild “bird” or “pin”
cherry has been used to a limited ex-
tent in some sections for stock pur-
poses, but it is unimportant in com-
parison with the others mentioned.
Trees for Planting.
The selection of trees suitable for
planting is fundamental to the success
of an orchard. To plant a poor tree
is to start with a handicap that may
continue throughout the life of the
orchard. The purchase price of a poor
tree may be a few cents less than that
of one of high grade, but the economy
of the transaction ends with its pur-
chase. Everything else costs substan-
tially the same as for a high-grade
tree. Real economy consists in pay-
ing reasonable prices for high-grade
trees. If only a definite amount can
be expended for trees, it is better .to
secure a small number of good, strong,
well-rooted, well-formed trees than to
buy a larger number at the expense of
quality. An altogether desirable tree
is difficult to describe, especially as
different planters have different ideals.
The desirability of a tree is not meas-
ured by size alone. While a small, in-
ferior tree should be avoided because
it is not likely to grow well even when
planted under favorable conditions, a
very large, overgrown tree is scarcely
better. Unless handled with extreme
care, the largest grades do not endure
the check incident to transplanting as
well as thrifty medium-sized trees.
In the past, two-year-old trees have
been planted, as a rule, by cherry
growers, but there is evidently a grow-
ing preference for trees that have
made only one season’s growth in the
nursery. :
Season for Planting Trees.
In regions where the winters are
severe and trying, spring planting is
advisable. Such conditions occur in
the North, where the temperature drops
very low, and the Great Plains area,
where, in addition to low tempera-
tures, the winters are very trying be-
cause of the limited supply of moisture
both in the soil and in the atmos-
phere. In the middle latitudes and
wherever the winters are comparative-
ly mild fall planting generally is pref-
erable.
One factor in spring planting needs
to be observed with special care. The
buds of cherry trees swell and start
into growth very early. If they start
to any considerable extent before the
trees are planted, a high percentage of
failure is likely to occur. Therefore,
particular pains should be taken to
hold the trees in a perfectly dormant
condition until they are set out, very
early planting usually being the wisest
plan.
Handling Nursery Trees.
The trees should be unpacked im-
mediately after delivery and every pos-
sible precaution taken to prevent the
roots from becoming dry. Unless the
number of trees is so limited that im-
mediate planting is possible and the
time for doing it is at hand, they
should be heeled in. For this purpose
a thoroughly well-drained place
where the soil is mellow and deep is
required. A trench sufficiently wide
and deep to receive the roots is made,
and the trees are placed in it.
In covering, the soil should be
worked among the roots sufficiently
to fill all the spaces between them. If
a large number of trees are to be
heeled in, they are usually placed in
closely adjacent rows. Where this is
done, the trees/in one row may be
covered with the soil which is removed
in opening the adjacent trench.
Trees that are tied in bundles when
received must be separated before they
are heeled in.
Preparing the Land.
The ideal preparation of the soil for
chérry trees consists of deep plowing
and thorough pulverizing with a har-
row or cultivator. The preparation
should be hardly less thorough than
for corn, potatoes, or other hoe crops.
Though various compromises on this
ideal may be possible without defeat-
ing the ends in view, any temporary
gain through a course that falls short
of a thorough and deep working and
fining of the soil will usually be more
than offset by the results that follow,
FOR 160
ACRES OF LAND
From the Crop of Wheat on 53
Acres in Western Canada.
ms
This story of paying for your land
out of one year's crop is fully authen-
ticated by a great many farmers in
Western Canada.
And now, all that the farmer makes
is velvet and you find him going more
extensively into stock raising, for all
authorities agree that in a short time
there will be a demand for live stock,
such as even will tax the vast ree
sources of Western Canada’ They
will go into stock raising because of
the adaptability of the country to pro-
vide food and fodder without feeding:
grain if necessary. They will go into
stock and improve their places. They
will install steam and heating plants—
in fact, many are now doing it. They
will have automobiles, in fact in many
districts there is not a farmer but has
one. They will beautify their homes
and erect fine barns until the whole
country will be as attractive as many
of the counties in the best states in
the Union. But we started out to tell
you of the farmer who paid for 160
acres of land from the crop of wheat
off of 53 acres. The Holden district
on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific
does not appear to the ordinary ob-
server to be any better than many
other districts along that line, and
probably isn’t. It was in this district
that John Larcome, a settler, pure
chased in 1915 160 acres of raw praie
rie land. He broke and seeded 53
acres. His crop turned out well, and
he sold the greater portion of it for
$2,070. His land cost him $16.50 per
| acre, or $2,640. So that the crop from
! the 53 acres paid for the land and left
| a balance of over $300, which with
| part of the crop left over would just
| pay for the cost of operation. This
| is not really an unusual case, hundreds
| of other farmers in Alberta and Sase
katchewan having been able to do the
same.
Sales of land are being reported
from many districts in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta at good prices,
And values are yet low, but with the
flow of any value that will take place
after the war, no doubt they will be
considerably increased. , The home-
steads in the Park sections which are
to be had actually free are having
the attention of a good class of sete
tlers, who want to go into mixed farms
Ing.—Advertisement.
Song Birds in South Africa.
The assertion that the birds of South
disproved.
ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
"DOESN'T HURT A BIT!
No foolishness! Lift your corns
and calluses off with fingers—
It’s like magic!
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the corn a few drops of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
For little cost one can get a small
bottle of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid one’s feet of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
it is applied and does’ not even firrie
tate the surrounding skin while ape
plying it or afterwards.
This announcement will {interest
many of our readers. If your druggist
hasn’t any freezone tell him to surely
get a small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.—adv.
Found Her Out. ¢
“I found Mrs. Smith in when her
maid said she was not at home.” “So
you found her out!” :
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While You Sleep With Cuticura Soap
ang Ointment—Trial Free.
with Cuticura Ointment, wash off in
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Free sample each by mail with Book,
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Boston. Sold everywhere—~—Adv.
Her Penalty.
He—Does your father object to my
staying so late?
She—No; pa says it serves me right
for being in when you call.
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These
There's no 1 vor ves.
0 longer the sii
feeling ashamed of Ter eee a
prescription othine — double strength —
guaranteed to remove these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine—double
strength—from your druggist, and apply a
night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear, while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely.
It §
that more than one ounce is needed. oom
pletely clear the skin an
ges Y Sear he d gain a beautiful
e sure to ask for the double |
othime, as this is sold aunts [haenshl
money back if it fails to remove freckles.—
Vv.
At the Farm.
“Aren’t you on good terms with your
relations, Mr. Hayseed ?”’
“Sure, but since I took ’em as board-
ers they are not on good relations with
my terms.”
On retiring, gently: smear the face
hot water, and continue bathing a few .
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