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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
Moving Picture Censors.
The national board of review of mo-
tion pictures is made up entirely of
unpaid workers, inciuding a general
committee of thirty-five members, self
Perpetuating, from which is selected
an executive committee, ‘which, in
turn, elects members of the review
committee. This latter committee is
divided into sections, which attend
from twenty-five to thirty picture re-
views weekly. The general committee
is a court of appeal for any pictures
which may be held for further consid-
eration. It was formed in 1909 and
has always bgen gladly recognized by
the manufacturers, exhibitors and pro-
ducers. Last year it caused to be
eliminated 46,990 feet of objectionable
Sims. Among those on the general
committee are: P. F. Jerome, business
bureau of the international committee
of Y. M. C. As; Orlando F.. Lewis,
general secretary of Prison Associa-
tion of New York: Dr. Charles S. Mac-
-farland, general secretary of Federal
Council of Churches of Christ In Amer-
ica.—Film Fun.
Fioating Drydocks.
Our largesi floating dock is the Dew-
ey, at the Clonzapo naval station. in the
Philippine Islands. Floating drydocks i
are 80 arranged as to lift a big battle
hd v
ship bodily from the wae .
‘is desired to dock a vessel the floating
dock Is sunk by admitting water to it,
and the ship is Hoated over it. , When
the ship is in the proper place over the
\ rises, liffing the ship with it. When
“it is desired to refioat the ship the
dock is sunk t.gain by admitting water,
and the ship is hauled off. There are
side walls to the dock which remain
partly above water. In these are lo-
cated the pumping machinery, and on
them the docking gangs work. The
Dewey is in three sections, of which
the two small end sections lift the
large central section and are them-
selves lifted by it.
. Goethals Saw the Point.
Shortly after our war with Germany
was started R. J. McBride of Beau:
mont was awarded a big contract for
the construction of wooden ships for
our government. The fact that Me-
Bride’s firm had never engaged in ship-
building promised to militate against
his getting a contract, and the lack of
practical experience was mentioned
during his conference with General
Goethals. :
“Your firm has never constructed
ships,” said the general. i
“No, sir.” »
“Well?” pressed the government's
representative.
“General, you built the Panama ca:
nal,” replied McBride. EH
“So they say,” was the answer.
“Did you ever bu.id a canal before?’
General Goethals saw the point.—
Dallas News.
Carnations and Rats. ih
Not long ago the basement of a de-
partment store in San Diego, Cal., re-
ceived a sudden influx of rats. Traps.
however baited, tempted but few, and
other methods of riddance tried seem-
ed of little avail. About this time the
janitor noticed that old carnations
thrown into the rubbish disappeared
overnight. He put two and two. to-
gether and began baiting traps with
carnations. Every trap added to the
fatalities in the rodent kingdom.
The city health department then
took it up and has been achieving very
satisfactory results therefrom. The
odor of the* flower seems to attract
rats from some considerable distance.
the variation of color apparently mak-
ing no difference.—American City.
A Storm That Made a Record.
The most violent storm that ever
ravaged England occurred Nov, 26 and
27, 1703. The 16ss in London alone
was $10,000,000, Eight thousand peo-
ple were drowned in the floods. Twelve
warships, with more than 1,800 men
on board, were lost. Trees were up-
rooted—1,700 of them in Kent. Eddy-
stone lighthouse was destroyed, and
Winstanley, its contriver, was killed
with several others.
Matrimonial Amenities.
“The wife and I had a spat this
morning. She remarked that she didn’t
get much of a man when she married
me.” |,
“Whew! And what did you say?’
“Oh, I agreed with her. I said if I'd
been a high class man I wouldn’t have
picked her out.”—Boston Transcript.
Modesty.
Modesty is one of the sweetest and
most desirable qualities one can pos-
sess, and yet too much modesty hinders
advancement. When this quality is
overdeveloped it antagonizes aggres-
siveness, without which no great suc-
cess can be attained.
Sympathetic.
Cabanne—Is he a good doctor?
Chouteau—Oh, yes, a very good doc-
tor.
“Well, I like a sympathetic doctor.”
“Oh, well, he’s sympathetic. He nev-
er makes me pay in advance.”-—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch,
Voice of the Turtle.
. King Solomon in his song says: ‘““The
winter is over and gone; the flowers
appear on the earth; the time of the
singing of birds is come, and the voice
of the turtle is heard in the land.”
Walloons and Flemings.
The term ‘“Walloons” is used to desig-
nate those Belgians who speak French
er a French dialect, while the Flemings
gre those who speak Dutch or a Dutch
dialect. >
Life is too short fas stupid quarrels.
- Philip Gibbs.
When it.
Success as a Singer.
To captivate the world as a singer of
, Songs is as simple as—well, as Yvette
| Guilbert says it is, for Yvette, whose
art is supreme, has just been explain-
ing its secrets. Here is her recipe:
“You must have in your one voice all
voices, all colors; in your one face all
expressions; in your one soul all the
souls of all people. And you must
work, work, work! When you have
worked for ten years, twenty years,
you will find yourself only at the
ginning.” ’
There is a little more. You must
have a long and stern course of vocal
gymnastics for the voice, of plastique
for the harmonious and expressive use
.of the body, of history, literature,
painting, sculpture—all forms of art
and beauty must bring their influence
to bear on the creative imagination of
‘the singer, ‘“‘or you are nothing, noth-
ing!’ i
And that is how it is done.—London
Globe.
Rosebushes. :
Quite frequently we find rosebushes
' not producing as fine lurve roses: as
; they did during other seasons. Some-
"thing is lacking, and if fertilizers have
been applied and these do not seem to
bring out the good qualities something
else is needed.
Perhaps the roses need iron. One
thing 1s certain—a little iron will not
hurt them. Try burying a few cans
beneath the rosebushes. Mash them
flat and bury them a few inches be-
neath the surface of the soil, near
enough to the roots of the roses that
the roots can secure some of the iron
and carry it to the foliage and the
flowers. :
From three to a half dozem cans to
a bush is enough. The tin soon rusts
off, and the thin sheet of iron will be
rapidly gathered up by the action of
the elements, and it is surprising how
soon a can will wholly disappear.
Philadelphia North/American. =
Moving an Army.
Some idea of the adequacy of the
equipment of the railroads of the Unit-
ed States for the movement of troops
may be obtained from a statement pre-
pared by an official of the quartermas-
ter corps, United States army.
men, consisting of three infantry di-
visions, one cavalry division and a
brigade, technically known as a bri-
gade of field army troops—troops aux-
iliary to the infantry and cavalry di-
visions—requires a total of 6,229 cars,
made up inlo 366 trains with as many
locomotives. These 6,229 cars would
be made up of 2,115 passenger, 385
baggage, 1,055 box, 1,899 stock and 775
fiat cars. | ;
This quantity of equipment repre-
| sents 0.7 of 1 per cent of the locomo-
tives owned by. American railroads,
4.2 per cent of their passenger cars and
0.2 of 1 per cent of their freight equip-
ment,—American Industries.
Teeth of the Whale.
Although the whale is a warm blood.
ed, air breathing animal, it can stay
under water half an hour. Usually it
comes to the surface every eight or
ten minutes to blow, spouting a stream
of water from its nostrils and remain-
ing up about two minutes.
The rorqual or finback whale is some-
times more than 100 feet long. The
teeth of the sperm or oil whale often
weigh thirty pounds apiece. They are
used for ivory, but are not as fine as.
elephant tusks. Whalebone, which
comes from the right or whalebone
whale, is not really bone at all, hat ro-
sembles the horns of cattle. It grows
in plates from the roof of the whale’s
mouth and serves the purpose of teeth,
which are lacking in this variety.
Washed Dishes at the Table.
In former centuries a cistern for
the washing of dishes at the table was
part of the furniture of a well appoint-
ed dining room in England. The plates
were rinsed in it when necessary dur-
ing the meal. Pepys in his diary tells
of purchasing a pewter cistern as part
of his preparations for a dinner of
state. A magnificent silver cistern is
still preserved in the dining room at
Burghley House, the seat of the Mar-
quis of Exeter.
As She Saw it.
Exe—Resign from the club, sell my
automobile and move into a cheaper
house just because I've been losing a
little money in stocks? I can’t do that,
It would make talk. Mrs. Exe—It
would, William. People would say you
had done a sensible thing for once in
your life.—Boston Transcript.
Pernicious Literature.
“Did you see that stout woman push
that little man off the sidewalk 7’
“Yen.”
“What did she do it for?”
“Why, she’s been reading somewhere
that women are displacing men in all
the walks of life.”
Went the Limit.
“I used to try my hand at writing
when I was in college.”
“Ever write for money?”
“As often as I thought the old man
would send me any.”—Buffalo Express.
the best policy?”
“Because it never lapses, -and you
don’t have to pay premiums on it.”"—
Detroit Free Press.
ee
Reading.
If you Hke th read and have many
books, be careful lest you read too
much and think too little.
The feeble tremble before opinion, the
foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the
skilifu] direct it.—Mme, Roland.
To move one field army of 80,000 !
True.
“Why do they say that honesty is |
Montezuma’s Castle.
In the Verde valley, twenty-six miles
southeast of Clarkdale, Ariz, is a re-
markable ruin known as Montezuma’s
castle. It is one of the finest and best
preserved monuments left by a people
known as the ancient cliff dwellers.
The castle is on the right bank of the
beautiful tree fringed Beaver creek,
three miles from the inland town of
Camp Verde, and occupies a natural
depression in the vertical limestone
cliff 840 feet from the stream . and
eighty feet above it. The castle prop-
er is five stories, each story receding
by several feet, and is substantially
built. The masonry is admirable when
it is considered the rude stone imple-
ments with which the builders had to
work. . The stones are squared and
faced and laid in cement that has stood
h the wedr of centuries, The lintels over
the doors are of hewn cedar. Seen
{rom a distance, it is very striking. In
the perpendicular front of the white
and gray and yellow limestone cliff,
about halfway up, is a huge circular
natural cavity, and therein stands the
noble pile of Montezuma’s castle~~Ex-
change. :
: Qur Wisdom Testh.
The wisdom teeth are the four last
molar teeth to grow. They come one
on each side of each jaw and arrive
somewhere between'the ages of twen-
{ty snd twenty-five years. The name
iis given them because it is supposed
that when a person has developed
' physically- and mentally to the point
| where he has secured these last four
! teeth he has also arrived at the zge of
discretion. It does not necessarily
mean that one who has cut his wisdom
teeth 1s wise, but that, having lived
long enough to grow these, which com-
plete the full set of teeth, the person
has passed sufficient actual years that,
if he has done what he should to fit
himself for life, he should have come
by that time at the age of discretion
or wisdom. As a matter of fact, these
teeti grow at about the same age in
people whether they are wise or not.—
Exchange.
Snake Bites In India.
India’s annual loss of over 80,000
lives from snake bite has forced the
production of an antidote serum. The
i Parel laboratory, Bombay, keeps a sup-
ply of cobras from which venom is ex-
tracted every ten days. The snakes
are forcibly fed with egg flip through a
tube. The venom is dried over lime
and then dissolved in a salt solution.
Increasing doses are injected in a horse
until at the end of two years the ani-
mal can stand a dose 200 times the
original one and is quite immune from
the cobra poison. The serum from the
blood of this particular horse is an
antidote and is absolutely effective if
injected in time. Many lives have
been saved by its use. However, each
bite requires an antidote made from
the venom of the same sort of snake
that inflicted the bite. :
Walking Exercise.
_ In a brisk walk of twenty minutes’
duration a person brings into play. ali
the muscles of the body, the abdominal
organs are shaken into activity, the
lungs are filled with fresh air and are
thus assisted in their natural function
of purifying the blood, the action of
the heart is quickened and strength-
ened, so that the blood, well aerated in
the lungs, flows abundantly to the
brain and washes out all the poison
with which work and worry clog it.
Every business man with a sedentary
occupation ought to walk to and from
his office if it is possible, as he would
derive great benefit from the practice.
Curious Beehives.
In the village of Hoel, Silesia, there
are a number of beehives in the shape
of life size figures cleverly carved in
wood and painfed in colors. The fig-
ures were carved more than a century
ago by monks of the Naumburg mon-
astery, who were at that time in pos-
session of a large farm in the district.
The beehives represent different char-
acters, ranging from Moses to a mili-
tary officer, a country girl und a nigh
watchman with a spear. 3
Chance Visitors.
“Is there such a thing as a mew
thought?”
“Maybe there is and maybe there
isn’t,” replied the cynical man. “Some
people entertain a thought so seldom
that whenever one strikes them they
get the idea that it’s new.”—Birming-
ham Age-Herald. 7
Cause For Worry.
, “You must take exercise,” said the
physician, “and by all means worry
less, Play golf.”
“Doctor,” repled the patient, “you
mean well, but a man who plays my
kind of golf game can’t help worry-
ing.” a y
Too Bad.
Jinks—Couldn’t you borrow a thou-
sand at the bank on your character?
Binks—Impossible! I keep hens, and
the banker lives next door to me!—-St,
Louis Republic.
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Optimistic.
Cheerful Undertaker—Beautiful day
for the funeral, sir; just enough breeze
to stir the plumes. Now jump in, sir,
please.—London Tatler.
She Did.
“Jack proposed to me while turning |
the music for me at the piano.” i
“Ah, I see! You played right into his
hands.”—London Answers,
Literal Explanation.
“How did the dog come to bite you?”
“Because he could run faster than I
egpuld.”—Baltimore American.
Fidelity purchased with money,
money can destroy.— Seneca.
Dispelling an lliusion.
When you think you can see a ghost,
bow can you tell whether it really is
a ghost or not? A writer gives the
following scientific method: “We as-
sume that a person sees an apparition.
It may be objective—i. e., having ex-
istence outside the observer's mind—or
merely a creature of a disordered
brain, subjective. The seer, while look-
ing at'the vision with both his eyes,
gently depresses. one eyeball with his
forefinger from outside the top eyelid,
80 causing a squint. If objective,
whether bogus or not, two outlines of
the ‘ghost’ will be seen, but one, of
course, if it be subjective. One may
prove this by trial any time with any
object, near or far. I mention this be-
cause of the many nervous and brain
wearied people who see spooks and to
whom it would be better that they
should know that the trouble is with-
they believe, by the supernatural.”
a A Pat of Butter.
One pat or serving of butter is a lit-
tle thing. There are about sixty-four
of them in a pound, says the depart-
ment of agriculture. :
In many households the butter left
on the plates probably would equal one
pat, or one-quarter of an ounce daily,
scraped off into the garbage pail.
But if every one of our 20,000,000
households should waste one-quarter
of an ounce of butter daily on the av-
erage it would mean 312,500 pounds
a day—114,062,500 pounds a year.
To make this butter would take 285,-
261,560 gallons of milk, or the product
| of over half a million cows.
The United States department of ag-
riculture, Washington, or your state
agriculture college will tell you how
to use every bit of butter in cookery.—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Died For His Mates.
There is a tablet in the sailors’ home
at Melbourne to James Marr. He was
a sailor before the mast on the Rip.
On July 15, 1873, the Rip was caught
in a squall. Marr sat astride of the
gaff when a great wave broke over the
boat and brought down the mainmast.
There was only one chance to save the
Rip. That was to cut away the litter.
But Marr clung to the broken spar,
and to cut away meant to send him
overboard to his death. So, looking at
him doubtfully, the men hesitated,
their axes in their hands. Marr, help-
less, pondered. He saw that his death
would be the boat's salvation, and he
shouted:
“Cut away, mates! Goodby!”
Then he let himself fall into the cold,
wild sea.
A Divided. City.
Lying on either side of the Danube,
just at that point where 'it definitely
sets south, Pest spreads itself out over
‘| the flat sandy plain on the left bank, |
while Buda rambles over the series of
laid out and presents a splendid front-
age to the river. Buda, ancient and
capricious, wanders in and out among
the hills, finally shouldering its way
up to the Blocksberg, nearly 400 feet
above the river. Behind it all are the
mountains, rising in great terraces, one
behind the other.
Constituents of Soot.
Soot consists chiefly of carbon, tar
and mineral matter, with smaller pro-
portions of sulphur and nitrogenous
compounds, and frequently has an acid
reaction. The proportion of the wvari-
ous constituents varies greatly with
different factors, such as the nature of
the coal, the completeness of combus-
tion and the distance from the fire at
which the soot was deposited.
Identification.
“I shall try to leave footprints on
the sands of time,” said the man who
is earnest, but not original.
“Very good,” replied the absent-
minded criminologist, “but thumb
prints are now consider~! more relia-
ble.”—Exchange.
i An Obstructed Order.
Owens—How do you do, Mr. Shears?
What can you show me in the way of
a new suit today? His Tailor—Your
bill, sir. That is decidedly in the way
of a new suit.
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CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
The Second National Bank
‘MEYERSDALE, PA.
JUNE TWENTIETH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments trerecvrragananns.ba.va. 8 592 905.60
U. S. Bonds and Premium Na Sek 70,179.37
Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures
adsense as 64,075.20
Cash and due from Banks sreeanaes ives. 125.338 50
Total Resources $ 852,498.67
LIABILITIES
- Capital Stock Paid in SR Guny Baal a $ 65,000.00
Surplus Fund and Profits
dart ieduviiens ys. 0elll 165,691.88
Cireulation ................................. 0 ‘sd.400:00
Deposits. '......00.. 1. ihe adhe iet 657,476.84
Total Liabilities $ 852,498.67
Growth as Shown in Following Statements
Made to Comptroller of Currency.
JULY 15, 1908 - - - $262,014.92
ONE QUARTER MILLION
JUNE 20, 1917 - - - $852,498.67
OVER THREE QUARTER MILLION
- NET GAIN BETWEEN ABOVE STATEMENTS
$590,483.75
—OVER ONE-HALF MILLION—
We have a supply of the followin g:
2 Paris Green
London Purple
White Helebore
Arsenate Lead Blue Vitriol
Conkey’s Lice Liquid and Powder.
COLUMBIA RECORDS
For July Now on Sale.
F. B. THOMAS
LEADING DRUGGIST .
MEYERSDALE, PENNA
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J. T. Yoder
JOHNSTOWN
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
—"=NEW DE LAVAL
UTTER made from De Laval-separated All Highest Prize Butter
cream has won first prize at every De Laval Made
convention of the National Creamery Three ifportant
Buttermakers’ Association for the last buiter take ce at
twenty-five years, as well as in every other the Annual Convention
important contest, and you must admit that of the National Butter-
this fact can mean but one thing—
makers’ Association.
The De Laval user
The first prize winners
‘at every convention of
gets not only more
cream, but better cream
the Association since
its organization in 1893
have been as follows—
all De Laval users.
De Laval-separated cream is better simply be-
cause the construction of the De Laval bowl
makes close skimming possible at 2 speed so low
that the butter-fat globules are delivered from
the cream spout unbroken.
If you make butter yourself, or if you ship to a
creamery and want the highest rating for your
cream, you cannot afford to use any separator
but the De Laval.
Have you seen the
s NEW De Laval? The
i new self-centering bowl
with its patented milk
distributor is the great-
est improvement that
bas been made in
cream separator com-
struction in the last
ty years and we'd
like to have a chance
also contains
many other important
improvements that we
know will interest you.
Pittsburgh Excursion.
$1.50 Round Trip—Sunday, July 15
via Western Maryland Ry. Special
train leaves Meyersdsle 8.85 a. m.
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