CADRE A i ! ae Thy Ja al : THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. WHAT DOES DEATH MEAN? An Artist Called It “the Chance to Ex- plore the Infinite.” A new definition of death is that by a French artist, who has now tested the truth of his own words. “Death,” said he, “is the chance to explore the infinite.” The definition is in the same mood as that of the late Charles I'roh- man as he went down on the Lusita- nia. It is a bit more definite, however, than “Death is life's most beautiful | adventure.” It expresses the nature of the adventure. This French artist, it seems, was en- amored of the space idea. He was ever viewing the world as a vessel voy- figing. He endeavored with artist vi- sion to visualize the world as rushing through infinitude by other worlds or in a stream of comets, planets, aster- fod: suns. And his dream was of flig ts across the gulfs to Mars, to Veius, outside the solar system, to Sirivs and the greater suns. With paint he strove to render what Goethe exp esses in the song of the archan- gels in the opening of “Faust.” Al the kinds of us pass over, willing- ly, roluctantly. We have no choice. and there are no exemptions. bly we Lave no cheice concerning what deat is to be. Whether it means ex- tind tion or confers immortality. wheth- er i is a glorious adventure or ushers us i to another sordid existence bound- ' ed !| 7 another death, we have;no pow: er to determine. We await its coming and its solution, both. tims or its beneficiaries, but we have no power to change its destinv. Th» bold dreamer welcomes it as oppor- tunity. The tired spirit is reconciled to it as rest. Perhaps it will bring to every man his different hope. Let us so trust.—Minneapolis Journal. FIT THE MAN TO THE JOB. Square Pegs Are Not Made to Go Into Round Holes. In the American Magazine is an ar- ticle entitled “Are You a Square Deg In a Round Hole?” by Herman Schnei- der, dean of the school of engineering of the University of Cincinnati. Dean Schneider has devoted his life to mak- ing successes out of failures and to finding the right job for the right man. He believes that failure is seldom more than an indication of the right path to success. Among other things he says: “Every individual has certain gen- eral traits; every kind of work has certain general characteristics. The problem is to interpret the traits of the individual, classify the character- istics of the job and then guide the individual into the job for which he is supremely fitted. This is one real em- ployment problem. “There are very many human char- acteristics, but there are a few broad and general ones which frequently make for success or failure. “There is a type of a man who wants to get on the same car every morning, get off at the same corner, go to the same shop, ring up at the same clock. stow his lunch in the same locker, go to the same machine and do the same class of work day after day. Another type of man would go crazy under this routine. He wants to move about, me t new people, see and do things. The first is settled: the second is roving. ‘The first might make a good man for a shop manufacturing a standard prod- uct; the second might make a good railroad man or a good outdoor car- penter. A failure in one line of work aay prove a big success in another.” United States of America. The assumption of the title “the United States of America” first ap- pears in Jefferson’s draft of the Dec- laration of Independence, and in this particular the first draft was not al- tered by the congress in ordaining the Declaration. The words are found in the final paragraph and thus appear in the official copy on file: “We there- fore, the representatives of the Unit- ed States of America, in general con- gress assembled”— On Sept. 9, 1776, the congress first officially designated | the new nation by the title and style of the United States of America. Sip Hot Water to Relieve Coughing. Persons chronically ill, especially those suffering from have sudden and wearing attacks of coughing. In an emergency, the Medi- | cal Fortnightly says, hot water will often prove very effective. Water is much better than some of the remedies which disorder digestion and spoil the | appetite. Water very hot, almost boil ing, should be sipped when the par-! .., ~OXYySIms come On. A Hemming Tip. In sewing hems of towels or sheets or muslin, in starting them from the end place a piece of paper under the ° needle and sew through it for about ; two inches, then on to the hem. This § will prevent the clogging of the thread and needle. Then after tearing off the paper the threads are there for tying Height of Hopefulness. He—After I am out of college, dar- iing, I may have to wait a few months before 1 can make enough to support you. She—It is so hard to wait. He (bravely)—I know it. But of course you know the world doesn’t know any- thing about me yet.—Exchange. the end. | Se | | Ambiguous. “How are you, old man? Feeling preity stron #No. only just n 12 to keep out of the grave.” v “Oh, I'm sorry to hewr that Reason, pru 3 ’ race. Justice, co-op i r i ion fire rec sites S10 1 an Proba- : We are its vic- | consumption, | 1 ! | | : | umpire is | | | | 1 1 the Best Tire Service. “Perhaps the greatest and most im- portant thing a motorist should know about a car is its weight with the aver- age load carried,” says an expert. “By knowing the weight of his car when loaded ready to run the motorist is in a position to regulate his tires so that they not only act as the best shock absorber obtainable, but are fit to off- set any injuries which may come from over or under inflation. “With the weight of the car known when preparing for a trip which in- cludes passengers it is very easy for the motorist to regulate his air pres- sure in the tires so that they will run with the least injury to.themselves. This foresight will also prevent a break in the side walls caused by an overload. “With the weight of your car, plus the weight of gasoline, water and extra tires, with the weight of the passengers added, you have the totai running weight of your car. “For a quick way of Zoterminine | what air pressure you will carry in your tires if you have no regular table of inflation the following table is sug- gostod: “or three-inch tires divide the weirlit ofthe load by thirty-two. “For three and one-half-inch tires di- vide the weight by forty. “For four-inch tires divide the ! weight of the load by forty-eight. “Tor four and one-half-inch tires di- vide the weight of the load by fifty-six. “Tor five-inch tires tires divide the | weight of the load by sixty-four, “Tor five and one-haif-inch tires di- vide the weight of the load by seventy- two. “To further illustrate the working out of the above table suppose your car weighed 2,880 pounds and you are using four-inch tires. From the above we find that for four-inch tires the weight of the load should be divided by forty-eight. This will give you sixty pounds air pressure, which should be carried in your tires. The tire mileage will be greatly increased if the motorist will regulate his air pressure by the load he carries.”—New York Sun. CHARM OF FLOWERS. Gardening Is a Hobby That Becomes Akin to a Passion. Barring the equally ancient and al- luring pastime of going a-fishing, no hobby has a stronger grip on its devo- tees than gardening. At 4 o'clock of a summer morning Celia Thaxter could be found at work in her radian! little island plot, a sister in spirit to old Chaucer when on his knees in the grass at dawn to watch a daisy open. And these were not exceptional, not extraordinary, cases of devotion. They were merely typical exponents of the true gardener's passion. Nor is this tense enthusiasm fleeting. Not in the least. ‘It is not more tran- sient than the bibliomaniac’s passion. no more evanescent than the collec- tor’s zeal, which only death can quench. It is no sudden. youthful fervor. Indeed, it is rarely found in youth at the storm and stress period, while it may be observed to be strong- est in those for whom the days of wild enthusiasm are over. The bachelor clergyman or the quietest of spinsters, ! for whom other passion is nonexistent, will yet lavish on their gardens enough { devotion to have won the heart of the i most obdurate of persons, enough ten- | _derness to have sufficed for the moth- ! | ering of a dozen little ones. A garden | is the world of .the recluse, the passion | of the lone man or woman, the diver- | sion of statesinen, the recreation of poets -and artists of all ages, except perhaps musicians, who may be over- careful of their hands.—Frances Dun- can in Scribner's. Plan of the Ball Field. In the Woman's Home Companion C. H. Claudy says: “Whoever did the calculating for a i eld made a fine job of it. It | takes just so long to run from plate to { first, and it takes just about that long, ! a tiny fraction of a second, for basehall the average ball to be fielded by the avornge shortstop and hurled down to the hig niit waiting for it. The least | clin, hesi ion, inzelg or wait, and the going to spread his hands »» { palm down for a ‘safe. : Drained Soils. Feat is the chief essential for plant vith. and one of the principal fac- in makin: soil warm is good ! drainage. The surface soils of well | ! drained lands are almost invariably | { several degrees warmer than those of | poorly drained lands. Drained soils also warm up faster after cold spells and | much earlier in spring. It is certain | that dynamiting heavy soils will pay. | KNOW THE CAR'S LOAD. | i Method by Which a Motorist Can Get | | { of platmum and then gilded. IS SINGING A LOST ART? For the People at Large It Certainly ls, Says This Critic. Singing, as far as most people are ! concerned, is a lost art. Thousands attend operas, recitals and musical comedies; tens of thousands wind up phonographs. But, as for singing them- selves informally at their work or play, they have forgotten how. In times past people of all ranks sang together as as matter of course. Sailors sang at their work; peasants, shepherds, cowboys, ali had their favorite and ap- propriate songs. The songs of children at games, the lullabies of mothers, are in the collected ballads and folklore of many peoples. “The pastimes and labors of the hus- bandman and the shepherd,” says An- drew Lang, “were long ago a kind of natural opera. Each task had its own song; plowing, seeding, harvest, burial, all had their appropriate ballads or dirges. The whole soul of the peasant class breathes in its burdens as the great sea resounds in the shell cast up on the shore.” Nowadays the whirl of machinery makes all the noise. The workers in miils might find it unsatisfying to sing at their work, but it is doubtful if they would sing even if their voices could be heard, while singing in an office or store would pretty surely be stopped by the “boss” or the police. Thousands congregate every night in the silence of moving picture theaters, and even in the churches where singing by the congregation used to be customary the attendants now usually listen in silence to a paid singer. Singing in this age is largely confined to the professional performer, drunken men and phonographs. — Indianapolis News. BAD HABITS OF POSTURE. They Lead to Deformity and Chronic ! Disease if Not Corrected. The significance of the postures habi- tually assumed by individuals is the subject of serious consideration by physicians at present. Exhaustive in- vestigations seem to iadicate pretty conclusively that bad postures, such as stooping shoulders, contracted chests or protruded abdomens, are not merely the result of careless habits in the individual, but are due to some slight physical deformity which should be corrected. Generally speaking, persons who have bad posture habits are not very robust. 7 Every one has observed that persons who are fatigued drop into bad pos- tures temporarily, and there are many examples of unusually robust I ) ons with ‘whom bad posture is chronic. Nevertheless, tendency to bad posture undoubtedly adds to the trend tg weakness and chronic disease, ‘partic- ularly in individuals who are not nat- urally rugged. : The robust child or the adult who takes an adequate amount of recrea- tion from work does not usually fall into bad habits in sitting or standing; in fact, he is able to combat the condi- tion of study and w «k which make for bad posture. The less robust child and the overworked or too sedentary adult, on the other hand, are obliged to make persistent efforts to avoid bad posture habits. And, although these habits may have no very detrimental! effect upon the general health during childhood, they are likely to result in chronic diseases later in life as a result of the anatomical deformities ' pro- duced.-—Exchange. v Platinum In Coins. The only instance in which platinum has been used for coins was by the Russian government between the ! years 1828 and 1845, when they made pieces of 3, 6 and 12 rubles. Coins and medals have been struck in this metal by other governments simply for commemorative or experimental pur- poses, but never for circulation, like the case of the Russian government. Up to within fairly recent years coun- terfeits of gold coins have been made That was only when the price of platinum was about half that of gold. Nervous Systems. In man and all of the higher animals the nervous system centers in the brain, and life is dependent upon:the condition of the brain. so that. the slightest injury te it means death: or derangement of faculties. But in the case of the worm and other creatures of the lower kind the nervous tissues are distributed over the body and do not center in the head. so that a worm | may be cut in half and still live. Speak to the Horse. : The human voice has more or less marked influence on all animals.’ 'In managing horses especially the voice is of the greatest use. It should be quiet and, though confident and mas- i terful, not loud and boisterous. No Moss Bread. A kind of bread is made along the Columbia river by the Indians from a moss that grows on the spruce fir tree. This moss is prepared by placing it in heaps, sprinkling it with water and permitting it to ferment. Then it is rolled into balis as big as a man’s head, and these are baked in pits. Doesn't He, Though? Bach—Ceonfess, now, Henry, yoy don’t pay as much attention to your wife as you did before you were mar- ried? H. Peck—Lord, yes! I mind twice as quick: now. Not Necessarily. “The “face as the index of the mind, it Is said = “Oh, § don’t k one should ever touch a horse without at the same time speaking to it. Love and Strife. Of a truth love -and strife were aforetime and shall be, nor ever, me- thinks. will boundless time be emptied of that pair. And tiey prevail in turn as the circle comes round and pass away before one another and increase in their appointed time.—Empedocles. His Little Task. *“Very suspicious man, they say.” “Very. h lictionary last week i » words to se Et as the publishers claim.” John Adams. John Adams. who died in his ninety t year, 3 tl st of our ex -~ ——— A Es] : cording to the mode. o RN £7