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LEGISLATURE ON ‘=
ITS LAST LAP
mets
House Sets Date For Final
Adjourament.
PS
Familiar, but Unseen.
Things we see but don’t notice were
#mder discussion at the clab luncheon
sable. This was the opportunity of
the member who took pride in his su-
perlative powers of observation. Tak-
ing from his note case a crisp one
pound note, he laid it on a plate and
offered its equivalent to every mem-
ber at the table who could answer
correctly the following simple every-
day questions: (1) On looking at the
face of a penny with the dated side
, toward you and the date at the bot-
. tom, does the head of the image om
mm——
APPROPRIATION BILLS OUT
. the coin face toward your left hand or
toward your right? (2) How many
ribs are there in the cover of an um-
brellaz (3) In a pack of cards one of
; the kings has only one eye visible—
Measures Carrying Many Millions
Reported to House and Chairman
Woodward Tells Why Sums Are Not
Larger—Adjournment Resolution Not |
Yet Acted on by Senate.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 22.—With a'
resolution through the hcuse fixing ad-
journment day on June 14 and the
first batch of appropriation bills re-
ported out of house committee, it may
be said that the legislature is now on
its last lap. The appropriation bills
now on the calendar touch ins.tutions
in all sections of the state and carry
- appropriations of many millions.
REPRESENTATIVE WM. J. BRADY.
A First Term Member Whose Activity
Ie Attracting Favorabie Attention.
Chairman James Woodward, of the
appropriation committee, 1s not speci-
ally optimistic over the suecess of
revenue legislation, the passage of
which would mean increased sums to
deserving hospitals and homes.
“We are using the greatest caution
in the matter of recommending appro-
priations,” said Mr. Woodward a few
days ago, “lest revenue legislation will
not be forthcoming to meet increases
that the committee might b= “isposed
to grant. Every member of the c m-
mittee is heartily in favor of lib-rali.
ty towards hospitals, both state and
semi-state. But, as already stated by
me many times this session, it w-u'd
be not only unbusinesslik~ but a fo 1-
hardy act for the
which I preside to report out for pas=-
age bills carrying a larger tot~l than
the state will have to spend. If we
should do this, it will become the ob-
vious duty of the governor to use his
veto power, and this the committee is
anxious to make unnecessary.
Not Loose With Appropriations.
“In connection with appropriatirns
to hospitals, I desire to call attenti-n
to one thing we have found out during
our investigation the past four
months,” continued Mr. Woodwar1. “Tt
fs this: hospitals receiving stat. aid
are being conducted in a careful and
Dusinesslike manner. Of cour:e, here
and there we have found loose me'h-
ods in vogue, but speaking genera'ly,
but little criticism can justly be di-
rected at Pennsylvania hospitals.
Criticizing hospitals and the m-nner
In which they are run is a favorite
pastime with many persons, but the
members of this committee are not
among this number. In votine for
appropriations legiglators may safely
feel that nearly every dollar that goes
to homes and hospitals will be expeni-
ed legitimately.”
As to the adjournment resolution
there is no assurance that the senate
will give the June 14 date favorable
consideration. The resolution is now
fn the senate committee on executive
nominations with no prospects of be
ing reported out in the immediate fu-
ture. Many of the senators are discus-
sing June 21 as the proper day to
close the legislature, while a few in-
sist that the work cannot be done be-
fore one week later, or June 28. There
fs another element in the upper branch
which favors a recess for six weeks
from June 21, and advance as a reascn
for such action the war crisis and the
possible” necessity for the legislature
to be in session to meet emergencies.
Quorum Was Present.
One day last week Speaker Baldwin
order=d a call of the house when the
question of a lack of quorum was rais-
ed on a motion to adjourn until 9.30 in.
etead of 11.30 the following morning. Tt
was the first call of the house since
the 1913 session, which precipitated
some fistic clashes.
The result of the call showed 111
members in their seats and this num-
ber béing seven more than a quorum,
$t was not necessary to send sergeants-
fs throughout the state to arrest
ing to Harrisburg shsent re
demativee, CT re
comm’ttee over |
i that is, his profile only is portrayed—
which of the kings is it? (4) Which
way do the seeds in the core of an ap-
ple point, toward the stem or opposite
to it? The one pound note did not
change hands.—London Standard.
A Once Legal Fiction.
In the legal calendar the 24th of Oc-
tober is worthy of notice, as on that
day, in 1552 *wo individuals, though
personally known to no one and enjoy-
ing an extensive reputation among law
yers, ceased to exist in England. These
persons were John Doe and Richard
Roe, and no two persons were more fre- |
quently referred to in legal documents.
In every process of ejectment, instead
of the real parties to the suit being
named, John Doe, plaintiff, sued Rich
ard Boe, defendant. Their names were
also inserted in criminal proceedings.
This fiction was introduced into Eng-
lish legal practice in the time of E§-
«ard IIL, in consequence, it was said,
of a provision in Magna Charta which
required the production of witnesses
before every criminal trial, and hence-
forth John Doe and Richard Roe were
inserte¢ as the names of the alleged
: witness, a custom which was carrieé
across the Atlantic to this country.—~
Indianapolis News.
A Well Hated Landlord.
The most hated landlord in Irelasd
for the last 100 years, a miser known
as “the parsimenious peer,” was Hu
bert George de Burgh Canning, mar
quis of Clanricarde. He was unmar-
ried, and with his death the marquis-
ate became extinct. His Irish estate
extended from Athenry, in Galway, to
Woodford, twenty miles southeast, and
it was said that anywhere along this
route could be obtained a story of trag-
edy in the land war. Time and again
the aid of the forces of the crown in
evicting tenants had been refused. He
was never seen in a vehicle. He took
daily walls to Regent's park. There,
on a public seat, not one of the chairs,
for which he would have been charged
a small fee, would sit this owner of
60,000 acres watching the squirrels. He
was a noted collector of china and pic
tures, of which he was a wise buyer.—
Chicago Journal.
According to Degree. .
Horse breeding is an occupation
which requires much learning, and a
certain Finglish farmer has a great rep
utation for his skill.
A neighbor of his who sought some
advice on the cheap, asked the herse
breeder’s son ona day: :
“I say, Tommy, when one of your fa-
ther’s horses is ill what does he do?”
“Do you mean just slightly ill or real
bad?’ was the lad’s cautious counter-
question.
“Oh, seriously ill.”
“Well,” said the boy, “if a horse is
only just a little ill, dad gives it some
medicine, but if it is seriously ill he
sells it.”
Sacrificed Their Hats
Many years ago the master butchers
of Washington market, in New York
city, used to kick their hats about the
market at the close of business on Sat
urday night. Under the custom in the
market it was considered a slighting of
the profession for any butcher not to
appear behind his counter with a high
hat, and it was thought bad taste if the
meat seller at the end of a prosperous
week failed to destroy the hat. The
apprentice butchers couldn’t afford silk
headgear and so used to gather up the
broken hats and repair them for their
own use.
All Pervasive.
The teacher's last question was
meant to be a scientific poser.
“What Is that which pervades all
space,” she said, “which no wall or
door or other substance can shut out?”
No one had an answer ready but
Freddy Sharpe.
“The smell of onions, miss,” he said
promptly.— New York Times.
A Ready Sealer.
For traveling carry a candle with
you, and when about to make a jump,
&s the theatrical people say, seal your
bottles with it. It takes only a minute
to light the candle, turn it upside down
and let the tallow drip around the
cork of a bottle, but it insures perfect
carriage of the fluid content.
Told Him Truly.
“Johnnie, how do you spell nickel?’
the proud father asked.
“N-i-k-l-e,” responded Johnnie.
“Phat is not the way the dictionary
spells it,” said the father.
«You didn’t ask me that. You asked
mo how I spelled it.”—Hxchange.
Heartless.
“Why didn’t Rastus marry dat Coo
pah gal?”
“Oh, she dun flunk at de last minute
—wouldn’t lend him a dollah foh t’ gi!
de license wif.”—Boston Transcript.
A slanderer and a snake of deadly
fous each have two tongues.
verb.
ment tM Ren
ML ARE URGED
10 PARTICIPATE
Make War Loan the Chief Sub-
ject ef Discussion in
Your Home
Fourth Federal Bank District
Has High Hopes on Selling
iberty Bonds
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President Wilson, the cabinet and
congress are keenly awaiting news |
of the subscriptions for Liberty bonds,
which the government has issued to
belp win the war.
The sale has been arranged through 4
the federal reserve banks and accord-
ing to theiy distrigts. Our district, the,
fourth, Incvetos Pittsburgh and west-
er. Pennsylvania, Wheeling and part
of West Virginia, Lexington and east-
ern Kentucky, and the entire state of
Ohio. The capital of the reserve
banks in this district is the third larg-
est in America, being exceeded only
by the New York and Chicago districts.
The fourth district is, therefore, one
of the richest and most prosperous in
America, which means in the world.
ft has many splendid and prosperous:
cities, great centers of marvelqus ins
dustries, and wide fields of special
ized successes, such as tebacco, oil,
and coal. Cleveland bank deposits in-:
creased nearly $100,000,000 in the last
12 months. The people of Ohio alone: -
drive nearly a quarter of a million au-
tomobiles. Throughout the entire dis-
trict the people are prosperous and
happy.
Accordingly Washington will be
greatly disappointed unless the great
district west of the Alleghenies and
east of Indiana ranks at least third in
the volume of #ts purchases of Liberty
bonds. Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cleve-
land, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo,
Lexington, Dayton and Springfield
bankers have even higher hepes. They
would not be surprised if the fourth
district ranked second only to the
New York district.
However, the Boston and Philadel
phia districts are showing great activ-
ity, and they are putting forth great
claims. They declare that the people
of our district do not begin to imag,
ine how serious a war really is; that
we of western Pennsylvania and ad-
joining territory are so far from the
seaboard that we do not have the re-
motest idea how easily war might be
brought to our shores. They doubt
that we are awake to the gravity of
the situation that our nation faces.
And they may be right. Perhaps we
are not awake. If so, then we need to
get busy. This marvelously prosperous
district has a past record to. uphold.
In the Uivil war, no part of the coun-
try was more alive, more helpful, more
earnest. In men and meney, its
strength was quickly and cheerfully
put into the government's hands.
And that the old-time spirit of Amer
fcanism still lives where the sun
peeps over the Allephenies will: be
proved abundantly if the Liberty loan
gubscrintions in the ‘fourth distriet
are at all in proportion to the wealth
and population of the territory. g
Dut every man, wozan and child
mu=t participate. Bonds sell as low
&s £90 and as high as $100,000.
Make the war loan the chief subject
of d'=cussion in your home. Make sure
that each member of your family
sees his or her duty and. opportunity
e¢learly. In beth England and France,
il per cent of the total population has
individually participated in.the financ-
ing of its country’s needs. If our peo-
ple participate only in this proportion,
there will, be 11,000,000 individual sub-
gcribers to the wor loan, but the
United States is now a far richer
country in the aggregate and per cap-
ita than either England er France,
and there should be not less than 20,-
000,000 individual American subscrib-
ers. The financial institetons through:
out the United States have already
their natriotic duty and are
to assist in tke distributica
pusuiaed
sCRar
ef this great national financing. It
wiil take the combi I efforts of the
1.0'= popuiation, yorrs included, 10
e bonds, and every in-
dictribnte th
anal eitizen, thorefore, whether
ns be littie or great, must now
y this- loan a prom nent place in
his thoughts and plans und, as an im-
prrative @uty, must contribute . his
share.
Make up your mind today. Don't
let it be said that you withheld your
help in time of your ceuniry’s needs.
Don’t let your boy go to school with-
out a United States Liberty Bond but-
ton on his breast. Let him be proud
of his country—and of his father.
How about mother? Wouldu't
she be rproud if you were to
bring home a United Stistes
Liberty Bond in her mame?
Money makes the war go.
Have you bought your
bond?
Your neighbor has bought United
States Liberty Bonds. Have Pou
For every $100 a Germgn earns, an
American earns $280. Puyt some of
that $260 in Kaiser-stopping United
8tates Liberty bonds.
Help your friend win the automobile,
[A Stitch in Time]
Meyersdale Auto Co., |
A Full Line of
Accessories, Oils and Supplies,
Godyear United States and Kelly-Springfield Tires
We expect to open our Steam Vulcanizing Plant on or about May rst.
account of the vast increase in the price of tires, it will pay you to take goad
care of your tires and havé all cuts and bruises Vulcanized at once --You know
All Work Guaranteed.
On
TUESDAY
2 OW the old range does love to heat things up, espe-
cially when it’s sizzling hot outside!
always the coal or wood to carry, always that constant
raking and poking, pulling this and pushing that, to keep
- the fire going.
But the ironing must be done.
do it, is there? No, not unless you have a New Perfection
Oil Cook Stove in your kitchen.
-have made thousands of women happy—freed them from the iron-
ing day and the everyday drudgery and overwork you have now.
A Perfection will heat the irons on Tuesdays.
ready to bake, fry, boil or roast at the strike of a match. You'll be
particularly interested in the separate oven and the fireless cooker.
Your dealer will explain about them. f
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY “i
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
One of the many good
points about a Perfection is
that it burns the most eco-
nomical fuel—kerosene. And
the best keroseneisRayolight.
It’s so highly refined that it
burns without smoking, sput-
tering, smelling or charring
the wicks. Look for this sign:
Ask him.
There’s no other way to
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The Constitution.
The constitution is either a superior
nary means, or it is on a level with
ordinary legislative acts and, Hke oth-
er acts, is alterable- when the legisla-
ture shall be pleased to alter it. * * *
Certainly all those who have framed
written constitutions contemplate them
as forming the fundamental and par-
amount law of the nation, and conse-
quently the theory of every such gov-
ernment must be that an act of the
legislature repugnant to the constitu-
tion is vold.—Chief Justice John Mar-
shall, :
Judging a Potato. 5
A good potato should be firm and
crisp when cut, and a thin cross sec-
tion when held between the eyes and
the light should show a relatively uni-
form distribution of starch throughout
its whole area, as opposed to a large,
translucent, watery central area, which
denotes a lack of starch in this portion
of the tuber. The even distribution of
starch insures greater uniformity in
cooking and in texture of the flesh
when cooked.
Useful Curtain Suggestion.
The small metal office clips so handy
for keeping papers pinned together will
be found exceedingly useful for clip-
ping up the curtains at night. The
advantage over pins in preventing cur-
tains from blowing out the screenless
windows at night is that the clips leave
no telltale holes.
The National Hymn.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is hon-
ored as the national air not by act of
congress, but by regulations of the
military services, which prescribe that
it shall be played at colors and retreat.
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JOHNSTOWN
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
construction.
The “warning signal”
+ that insures operatiom
at proper speed.
HE NEW DE LAVAL
ID you know that while other manufacturers are raising their
prices to meet the soaring cost of materials, The De Laval
. Separator Company is putting out at no increase in price a
bigger and better cream separator than ever before—a separator with a
self-centering bowl, a bell speed-indicator
that insures operation at the proper speed,
and many other important improvements ?
The NEW De Laval embodies the greatest
improvements in cream separator cone
struction in the last 30 years.
The NEW De Laval has greater capacity.
The NEW De Laval skims even closer.
The NEW De Laval is even simpler in
> 4The NEW De Laval is even more sanitary.
without one cent increase in the price.
Epes
Vea
The first time
you come to town
drop in and see
one of these new machines. We know you will
be interested in the new self-centering bowl,
the new milk-distributing device, the improved
discs, the bell speed-indicator, and the im-
proved automatic oiling system—all fea-
tures that are found only in the NEW
De Laval, :
You can'buy a De Laval from us on such
terms that it will pay for itself while
you are using it. But even if you are not
ready to buy yet, come in and look the
machine over. It will be worth your while.
Cross-section of New Bowl