@ THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL MEYERSDALE, PA. W. L. DOUGLAS *“ THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE” $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 $7 & $3 ASE ERtn The James G. Noll Offers the remaining $9,600. 00 of its $50,000.00 issue of + 7 Per Cent Cumulative Preferred Stock at $100.00 Per Share and Accrued Dividend APPLICATIONS will be received by Mr. James G. Noll, Treasurer, at the offices of the Company, Suite 925 Gas and Electric Building, Denver, Colorado Descriptive circular on request. Lumber Company The Only One. Mrs. McDuffy—So ye referred to me ~ in spakin’ to Mrs. Cassidy as “that owld, scoldin’ catamaran, Mrs. Mac.” Janitor—You're mistaken, ma’am. It was Mrs, McGilligan next door that I referred to. Mrs. McDuffy-—Don't add loyin’ to yure other insults. Ye well know that Oi'm the ‘only owld, scholdin’ cata- maran in this block. : SWAMP-ROOT FOR f KIDNEY DISEASES * ' There is only one ee madi that really | re-eminent, as for | stands out diseases medy nee ands Japon. thousands of even gi Pie distress ing cases. Swamp-Root, a physician’s pre- scription for special diseases, makes friends quickly because its mild and immediate ef- fect is soon realized in most cases. It is a gentle, healing vegetable compound. Start treatment at. onge. Sold at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes—fifty cents and one dollar. = However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.; for a sample bottle. When writing be sure ‘and mention this paper.—Adv. The Resemblance. “Who is the young fellow over there playing cards?” “He is the club's card champion’s son and a chip of the old block.” “I see—a poker chip.” Undisciplined. Officer— What do you mean by feed- Ing that horse before the cal sounded? Recruit-—I didn’t think as ‘ow ’e’d start eating before the trumpet blew, sir.—Punch. It would discourage the average man If he was able to realize how very im- portant he isn’t! Training Disabled Soldiers. France is teaching some of he? wounded soldiers how to be up-to-date farmers in spite of their disabilities At Cellard, in the department of the Loire, an institution has been opened with a complete equipment of moder: farm machinery for the cultivation and harvesting of crops, including a tracta for plowing and other purposes. The instruction is essentlalyl practical, the staff consisting of a competent agri cultyrist and an‘ expert mechanic versed in farm machinery. ii ; Says Cas Lift out lifted right out with the fingers if you will apply on the corn a few drops 0: | freezone, says a Cincinnati authority At little cost one can get a small bot tle of freezone at any drug store, whict will positively rid one's feet of ever; corn or callus without “pain or sore ness or the danger of infection. This new drug is an ether compound and dries the moment it is dpplied anc does not inflame or even irritate the surrounding skin. Just think! Yor can lift off your corns and calluset now without a bit of pain er soreness If your druggist hasn't freezone he car easily get a small bottle for you from his wholesale drug house.—adv. Good Prospect.: “Some say the authorities are up in the air in the defense preparedness.” “I suppose the aviation department authorities must be.’ The pork packer has a queer. way of doing business. After killing a hog he cures it. Kidney & Co. (BY DR. J. H WATSON) The kidneys and the skin work in harmony. They're companions, the skin being the second partner.” If we are anxious to keep well and preserve the vitality of the kidneys and, also, free the blood from noxious elements, we must pay special attention to a good action of the skin and to see that the kidneys are fiushed so as to elimi- nate the poisons from the blood. « Sweating, by hard work or in a bath, at least once a week, helps to keep the skin and kidneys in good condition. . Flush the kidneys by drinking plenty of pure water with meals and between meals. Occasionally obtain at the drug store Anuric, double strength, which will help flush the kidneys and the in- testines. You will find that Anuric is many times more active than lithia and that it dissolves uric acid as hot water does sugar. You Cannot be Constipated 8 and Happy £ Pill Small Dose Senall Price WHAT NEIGHBORS SAY Clarion, Pa.—*I have been suffering for years from disordered kidneys, backache and headache. I doctored with several doctors and tried several other medicines, but with no avail. I at last began taking Dr. Pierce’s Anu- ric Tablets and they have cured me of my backache and headache, and I have better health now than I have had for 21 years. I had not been able to do my housework. I am now able to do my work, go to church, and do a lot of walking. I have a splendid appetite and sleep well and feel good in the morning.”—MRS, CLARA E. HAN- OLD, 48 Payne St. Simply ask your druggist for Dr. Pierce’s Anuric Tablets. You will find the signature on the package, just as you do on Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription, the ever-famous friend to y Medical Discovery for the blood. 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' AY aSasauaNAuiavEANLLL NE Ors ers eens 7 Hayden Lee knew that the face upon which his hand rested was that of a woman, for it was soft and delicately profiled. ‘He knew that she must be} young, for though she was utterly un- conscious, her slight bresthing was{ quick and even. There he was, in total | darkness, and had nearly stumbled over the recumbent form at the bot- tom of the stairs, She had fainted or fallen, and had not been long in her present position, | for the snow and damp still clung to! her garments. “Heaven help her! A wild, wintry pight like this!” he murmured, “and she must be poor and wretched, in-’ deed, to have wandered to this poor | neighborhood and driven to. seek shel ter in this forlorn old rookery!” 4 For such his habitation for the past six months was, in fact and verity. The remaining wing of a dilapidated old building, it had presented the wel- come feature of the merest nominal rent in the world to his sister Prue and himself. He had lost his position. as draughtsman at a critical time, Ili- ness had ensued, then spasmodic plece- work done at home. They had bright ened up the smoke-stained rooms as best they might and had secured some second-hand furniture at a nominal price. As for the rest, Prue's aitigence had brought what comfort “he. ‘poer outfit could yield. DE Lee lifted the limp form in Bis arms and called up the dark Siait@ey 1} ‘- “Prue—a lamp, quick I” A door opened, light flooded the scene and his sister stared in a star- tled way down the stairs. “What has happened?’ she votced flutteringly. “A woman?” “Yes, I found her here. Fainted, or overcome with the cold. She. ‘needs in- stant attention.” His tones were vibrant, for the flick- ering lamplight had revealed the fair- est face he had ever seen. He was a lover of beauty and the lovely features presented to his vision stirred all of sympathy and interest in his readily impressed nature. He bore his burden up the stairs and into the little sitting room and laid it on the couch. His sister stood holding the lamp aloft and peering, fascinated, with parted lips and marveling eyes, The stranger could not have been, more than twenty years of age. Her garments were bedraggled, but were of the richest material. On one hand was a brilliant diamond circlet and a wed- ding ring. Then she was a wife? A widow? Lee was ashamed at the sub- tle disappointment the discovery had caused him. Prue roused to her normal, precio! bustling self. She had their involun- tary guest removed to her own room. Then Prue began expert ministrations. After the lapse of an hour she came “| out into the room where her brother was pacing the’ floor, quite stirred up by the strange happening of the hour. “Our guest has a fever, but is con- scious,” she spoke in her grave, thoughtful way. “What did she say?” inquired Hay- den eagerly. “She asked where she was. I told her, even to our reduced condition: I told her, too, she must think of noth- ing but rest and that she would be wel- come here until she was stronger. She .| roused a little and, as her eyes rested on her hand, she suddenly tore off the rings and violently flung them into the farthest corner of the room. ‘All ended—that!” she cried out; ‘and the little one safe, safe, safe! I am con- tent” For three weeks the strange guest hovered between life and death. Twice 8 of a physician were evening L.ee came lady seated in one of » place wearir gO seraphic as she held out a thin, wasted hand to welcome him. “What do I owe you dear people,” she said, and bent her head, sobbing from emotion. An extra mouth to feed meant a good deal to the Lees, but manfully, $ | gladly, Hayden devoted himself to ex- tra work. If got to be elysium com- plete to Hayden to sit for an hour in the company of Mrs. Lind, as she re- quested them to call her, and his sis- ter. ~ One evening Lee was in the kitchen, as was his wont assisting Prue in dis- posing of the supper dishes, when there was a sharp scream. BotH rushed, startled, into the sitting room. .4rs. Lind lay prone on the floor. The evening paper was crushed in her: ‘clenched hand. They carried her in- to Prue’s room. In the meantime Lee had inspected the paper, wondering if something it contained had caused the collapse of their guest. Mrs. Lind soon revived, but made no explanation as to the cause of her recent emotion. What was the astonishment and de- {pression of Lee when he came home t next day to find Prue half in tears and looking dreadfully woebegone. “She has left us,” she announced. “You don’t mean that Mrs. Lind is gone!” gasped Hayden. “Yes, brother. As soon as you were gone she asked me for a heavy veil, dressed herself and went out, saying she would soon return, which she did. I went to the store to get some 'gro- ceries. When I came back she was gone, Her rings were missing and there lay a fifty-dollar bill and a note. She must have sold or pawned her jewelry. The note said simply that we should hear from her soon, that her whole future was changed and blessed you as the good genius of her life. It was then that Hayden Lee knew how much this mysterious guest had heen to him. He tried to hide it from his sister, but Prue grieved, for she read the truth in his troubled face. A week went by—two, three, a month, and then there was a visitor to the cheerless little home one eve- ning. ‘The caller, according to his card, was James Page, lawyer. “I come from the lady you have known as Mrs. Lind,” he told Hayden Lee. “She has made me aware of what you two ‘great-hearted people have been to her. I have instructions to reveal sufficient of my client's situ- ation to give you an understanding of a remarkabe change in her affairs.” And then the story of a broken life was told. A sordid, worthless spend- | ‘thrift had won Norma Dale, His name w aS Walton Bruce. A liffle child was but the father went on his selfish, reckless gambling way. Norma had wedded: without the consent of her fa- ther. Bruce had tried to induce her to appeal to him for money. She re- fused, for she knew that if would be wasted, and would only lead to re- | newed exactions. Norma Bruce went through a ter- rible year of neglect and abuse. Final ly, her cruel ‘husband threatened to re- move and hide her babe unless she as- sisted him in plundering her father. She fled from her home, placed her child in safe hands, and fainted away ‘on the Lee doorstep the night Hayden discovered her. : “Her husband was shot dead in a gambling house brawl,” narrated the | lawyer. “Mrs. Bruce is reconciled with I her father and her child is with them. She says you must come and share her bounty.” “Her gratitude is all we ask to cher- L ish,” murmured Hayden. All the same, time and a woman's 1 will brought matters to where she wished them. Mr. Dale’s influence se- cured Hayden a lucrative position. Prue became a visitor, then a neigh- bor, then the dearest friend of Norma. As for Hayden, at the end of the year ‘between himself and Norma, there had expanded a mutual love that insured no later parting. Have Peculiar Accent. In a recent interview with a French woman in Paris who has taught French to Americans and other foreigners for many years, she said in response to a question concerning the difficulty of teaching the right pronunciation of the language: - “They all have the same trouble; they make the same mistakes. One of my pupils wrote me some time ago that her daughter was coming to me in Paris, having spent a year in a French school in Switzerland. The mother called upon me and remarked that her daughter would doubtless have a bet- ter accent than most of my young American pupils. ‘Oh, no, I replied, ‘she will talk easily, doubtless, but her accent will be exaetly like that of every other American, You see I know, I have been teaching Americans too long net to know. It is a problem of the ear. Americans do not hear the French sounds correctly.” The Man of Fifty-four. There are a good many of them— men of fifty-four, hale, sturdy, uever more fit in their lives, doing their twd or three rounds of the 18-hole courses in a day, utterly refusing to confess themselves beyond the very opening hours of middle age, looking on life with the old boy's wise and tolerant eye. It is the best year of manhood, when mau has accumulated experience enough to know really all the things he thought he knew at twenty-one, and can order hig thoughts and his days in accordance with his accumulated wis- dom.—New York Sun. Diplomatic. She—Here's some wretch gays wom- y honest. 7° be. when they of their peace heir hearts? la Zl ll 2 PERFEC 2B TY Tor bons 4 CHEWING SUMP ERE L2SRE SPALL 100 P17 PLY WRIGLEYS If pleasure made price Its Lil LL be thrice’ REY WRAPPED IN Whole Truth of Buddhism. Dcin Zenshi, a ‘great Buddhist priest, once lived on top of a tree in a mountain; so peopie nicknamed him “owl priest.” Someone interrupted his meditations one day with the fol- lowing question : “What, in a nutshell, is the truth of Buddha's religion > “Bschew ail sins and practice all virtues,” replied the priest without opening his eyes. “Oh, is that all?” said the man sar- castically. “Even a child of three years ean say that.” “Yes, even a child of three years can say that’ rejoined the priest, “but an old man of eighty years caunot put it into practice.”—Tokyo Advertiser. SAYS PILE REMEDY WORTH $100.00 A BOX I have had itching piles ever since my earliest recollection. 1 am 53 years old and have suffered terribly. I have tried many remedies and doctors, but no cure. About 8 weeks ago I saw your ad for Pe- terson’s Ointment. The first application stopped all itching, and in three days all soreness. 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