THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. Spanish Doubroons. Should ore find a pirate’'s baried treasure he would have to dispose of his Spanish gold at its bullion value, for since Aug. 1, 1908, when the com- mon crier made proclamation from the steps of the Royal Exchange of Lon- don that after that date the doubloon would cease to be legal! render in the West Indies, including British Guiana the doubloon has not been the precious thing it was. In 1730 and for a cen tury after it was worth $8, more or less. It has ceased to be coined in its native country, Spain, and since 1908 it has been unpopular in the West In- dies, where for a long time it figured in a mixed circulation, embracing Brit- ish, United States and Spanish coins. In the interest of romance, however, the name at least must survive. It signifies nothing more than that the coin was double the value of a pistole. but the “doubloon’” W#&8 never such a mouth filling mockéry 4s ‘“‘pleces of eight” which ruggests great riches, but nieans only Spatilsh sliver dollars, pieces equivalent to élght reals.—Roch- ester Post-Express. A Famous New York Street. Few of the thousands ef people wha pass the corner of Nassau and John streets every day know the early his- tory of Nassau strest. And yt right at that corner is a brouze tablet which gives in eoheise forth the following historical informatiof: “Nassau Street, Known Originally as ‘the Street That Runs by the Pye Woman,’ Was Laid Out About 1695 and Was Named In Honot of the House of Nassau, Whose Hedd at That Time Was William the Thikd, Klug of Eng- land and Stadholder of the Dutch Re- public. Nassau Streét Became Identi- fied With the Jewelry Trade More Than Half a Century Ago.” The bronze tablet {8 on the exterior of the building at tHe horthwest cor- ner of Nassau and John streets. It was erected by the MAldén Lane His- torieal society in 216.—Neéw York Sun PRAIRIE TENE William De Morgan. Ia spite of himself Willlsin De Mor gan became famous. He @eliberaisly violated all the ruled made for the guidance of novellstd Who seek to be- come popular. None 0 his dovels was addressed to tte grodtér public that is avid for the latest thilig of the moment in fiction, Lut nevertlioléss they reach: ed that public. Tie was a law unto himself in the noveld that he wrote during his marvelous caréer that span. ned only ten years. It i8 doubtful if in English literature or in any other can be found a writer Whose life and literary career are comparable to his. He was an old man when the world of readers came to know him, and his age was an asset toward celebrity. At seventy he was hailed as eagerly as Kipling was hailed at twenty, and in his way he was no less a prodigy than the younger writer.—Bookman. The Emerald. The emerald has been known since early times both in Europe and in cer- tain parts of the orient, where its at- tractive color and rarity have endowed it with the highest rank and a varied lore. Its name may be traced back to an old Persian word. which appeared in Greek as ‘“smaragdos,” mentioned by Theophrastus over 300 years before the Christian era, and again in Latin as ‘“smaragdus,” seen in the writings of Pliny, who particularized somewhat on its preperties and supposed me- dicinal virtues and was even shrewd enough to suspect its identity with the much more common beryl, eighteen centuries elapsed before this suspicion was verified by scientific proof. His Hard Luck. A small boy whose record for de- portment at school hai always stood at 100 came home one day recently wish his standing reduced to 98. “What have you been doing, son?” asked his doting mother. “Been doling?’ replied the young hopeful. “Been doing just as I have been doing all along, only the teacher caught me this time.” — Philadelphia Inquirer. my Where Is the Profit? #1 understand they sold thelr house for $3,000 more than they paid for it.” “How lucky!” “Lucky nothing! After they'd sold it they discovered that they've got to pay $2,000 more than they received for their house for another home to live in.”—Detroit Free Press. Books In Brazil. In Brazil, as throughout South Amer- ica, French is almost universally read. Bditions of the classics are found in most homes. and bookstores are filled with modern French writers of prose or verse, sometimes in translation and as frequently in the original. Went Further. “Didn’t 1 tell you that when you met a man in hard luck you ought to greet him with a smile?” said the wise and good counselor. “Yes,” replied the flinty souled per- son. “I went even further than that. I gave him the grand laugh.” Best Way of Taking Iron. When anemic persons have to take iron the best form in which to admin- {ster it is spinach, cabbage, green chic- ory, asparagus, lentils, carrots and peas, all of which contain much iron. About the Same Thing. Seribbler—Can you suggest a simile for giving advice? Scrawler—How would pouring water on a duck’s back do?—Philadelphia Record Let us tes ] as much as we can T the <Q |a newly established household. although . { range of its compass. e~r | mother; on. | Boston Transcript. THE GIRL ON THE FARM. Why Not Give Her Some Attention as Well as the Boy? In recent years the problem of keep- ing the bey on the farm has been thought serlous enough to arouse con- siderable discussion, The farmer has been told that he ought to provide the most modern agri- cultural machinery in order to obviate the hard labor of farming and keep the boys interested; that he should send his boys to a good school of sci- entific agriculture; that he should set aside a certain portion of the farm for the boy and permit him to keep the profit from his operation, and he has been told many other things, in all of which the importance of the boy to the farm was emphasized and plans sug- gested to make his lot a little easier and more promising. The county agent bas interested himself in the problem by organizing boys’ corn growing and other agricultural contests, But how about keeping the girl on the farm? The girl does not ordinarily do the heavy field work, but her sery- ices in homekeeping, cooking and mend- ing as well as in buttermaking, milk- ing, caring for garden and chickens, which tasks usually fall to her lot, are surely valuable enough to warrant the eroatest consideration. And yet dis- cussion, of the problem of keeping the girl on the farm is Infrequent.—Indian. ‘ apolis News, OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS. Unless You Have Real Tact Dent Try to Be the Third Party. Have you a reputation of being & third party where two persons &i% vainly trying to manage their own af- fairs? It is only the most tactful sort of persons who can successfully play the role of third party without doing more harm than good. ; Don’t try to fix things up re Lips quarreling lovers unless you are a lutely sure that you can ti spire and intuition to do the righ only thing. Don't intervene in i affairs of t the young people work things out for thems selves. Don’t try to bfing up other people’s children. They won't thank you. Nobody thanks the meddler, no matter how well intentioned she may be. Now, to the humane soul who hates to see things go wrong when a word or two will apparently set them right, this withholding of interest seems most selfish. But it really isn’t. It is the most considerate thing you can do sometimes to shut your eyes and let things take their natural course. They will right themselves in time, and you will. not jeopardize your friendship by good natured meddling. It is better to stand aside than to get mixed up as a third party in other people’s troubles. Nobody loves a med- dler.—Pittsburgh Press. Animals Attack the Lungs. Watch any flesh eating animal when it is attacking its prey or watch two animals having a fight to the death. You will notice one remarkable fact, and that is that they strike for the lungs. Most people, of course, are well aware where their own lungs are, but they haven't the slightest idea aout any other luugs. . Animals in- soinctively know, however, the position of the lungs of almost every other ani- mal. When a tiger or a lion attacks a man it does its best to get just below the shoulder blades. If it strikes with- out warning you will always find that its powerful paws have torn right through to the lungs. A cat has just the same instinct. Watch it stalk a spar- row and you will see how cleverly it maneuvers so as to get behind the un- fortunate bird and pounce on its back, where the lungs are.—London Graphie. Russian Folk Songs. Concerning the folk songs: of Russia, Cesar Cui wrote in his “La Musique en Russie:” “Russian folk songs are usual- ly written within a very restricted compass and only rarely move beyond the interval of a fifth or a sixth. The older the song the narrower is the The theme al- ways is short, sometimes extending no farther than two measures, but these two are repeated as often as the exi- gencies of the text demand, The folk songs are sung either by a single voice or by a chorus. In the latter case a single voice leads off with the subject. and then the chorus takes it up.” Care of Birds. In an English treatise on the “Hy- giene of Bird Keeping” attention is called to the thoughtless practice of hanging birds in cages just above the level of the sashes of windows and to the mistaken kindness of hanging a cage in a corner of a sitting room or a kitchen near the ceiling. In the one case the bird is subjected to drafts and will in all probability develop catarrh and bronchitis, and in the other it lives in a vitiated atmosphere. Not Fussy. “There’s one thing I'll say for them, they're not a nervous family.” “How do you know?” “Every picture on their walls is tilt- ed off the straight line, and they don’t seem to mind it a bit.”—Detroit Free Press. True. “Charity begins at home.” “That’s true, and it would be a hap- pier world if extravagance began there, too, instead of downtown with the good fellows in a barroom.”—Detroit Free Press. Preparedness. Mother. Pom, dear, Fou'd better mot nigk Your Summer Monday, July 2 Children under 14 years of age not admitted A Warning to Young Girls Beautiful VIOLA DANA as the WHITE SLAVE What Every Girl Should Know With the Famous Lecturer and Social Worker, ALEXANDER PARKE Member New York Probation Astociation 5 Regular Program with the Above Added Attraction Admission: Evening 10c and 15¢ aR Garden Matinee and Night Special Matinee for Women Only Monday Afternoon at 2:30 At this Matinee Mr. Parke will Lecture on Actualities of the Underworld. Admission 15¢ Everybody Admitted to Night Performance ETE, SS Continued from page 4. 748— Herbert Butler, Elk Lick, Pa. 749—Iddo Bender, » 750—John F. Bahn, 751—Jerry F. Beachy, . 752—Jonas Butler, Grantsyille, Md. 753—John H. Beals, Meyersdale, Pa. 754—J. S. Beachy, W. Salisbury, Pa. 755—Jonas R. Beacy, Elk Lick, Pa. 756—John M. Bodes, 23 757—M. F. Bowman, Boynton, Pa. 758—Milton P. Bowman, Elk Lick, Pa 759—Olen R. Bender, Springs, Pa. 760— Robert C. Baum, Elk Lick, Pa. 761—Washington Bockes, Meyersdale 762—William G. Blough, Boynten, Pa 763—W. G. Baker, . i 764-—Allen Compton, Elk Lick, Pa. 765—Allen W. Cochrane, Boynton, Pa 766—Clyde E. Christner, "Ei 767—Geo. W. Clites, » 768—Hubert W. Christner, 7” 769—Benj. F. Deist, na 770—Chas. W. Davis, Eik Lick, Pa. 771—Daniel E. Durst, ne 772—Ernest G. Durst, ” 773—Fred L. Diehl, W. Salisbury, Pa 774—Henry C. Diehl, ” 775—L. D. Durst, Elk Lick, Pa. 776—Roy F. Deniker, Boynton, Pa. 777—Samuel B. Duncan, Elk Lick, Pa 778—Virginia Doriguxzi, Meyeérsdale 779—Victor Durst, Elk Lick, Pa. 780—Wm. J. Diehl, W. Salisbury, Pa. 781—William Deniker, Boynton, Pa. 782—Walter O. Deniker, 2” 783—Ear]l Engle, Meyersdale, Pa. 784—Frank L. Engle, Elk Lick, Pa. 785—Geo. C. Engle, ” 786—Irwin Eichorn, W. Salisbury, 787—Lester Fry Engle, Boynton, Pa. 788—Oburlin Engle, Meyersdale, Pa. 789—Ray E. Engle, Elk Lick, Pa. 790—Ray E. Engle, Meyersdale, Pa. 791—Robert E. Engle, ” 792—Geo. C. Folk, ” 793—Harold Folk, Springs, Pa. 794—James A. Foy, Grantsviille, Md. 795—Lester E. Folk, Elk Lick, Pa. 796—Lloyd H. Fuller, W. Salisbury, 797—W. H. Failinger, Fort Hill, Pa. 798—Clarence A. Gray, Meyersdale, 799—Edward J. Gray, 800—Geo. H. Greer, » » ” Investigation Will prove the attractive- ness of a conservative enter- . prise financed and being well equipped, well managed by men of the highest standing. Indications are that returns, will be quick and enormous. Information regarding this excellent investment furnished | upon written request. . A. Kummer FINAL WEEK OF RED LETTER SALE DRY-GOODS CLOSING- OUT SALE The special Clearance Sale this season has far surpassed any Sale we have ever-held—the extraordinary values that we are offering are appre- ciated by the women of this c >mmunity during this Period of abnormal high prices in all lines, -- =: . This week will close our Red Letter Salé—there are still lots of par- gains ‘in all lines of merchandise -.- We especially call attention to the Special Values we are offering in— SUMMER DRESSES CHILDREN’S DRESS Sale Closes Saturday, July 28, 1917 HARTLEY, CLUTTON CO., HARTLEY BLOCK, of I RN RE - WASH SKIRTS Ke and SERGE DRESSES DRY GOODS “The Women’s Store” MEYERSDALE, PA. $1.00 ROUND TRIP POPULAR EXCURSION ~TO — Cumberland ‘““The Queen City.”’ Sunday, July 22 SPECIAL TRAIN REGULAR TRAIN Special Train leaves Meyersdale 10.25 a. m.; Regular Train 12:21 noon. Returning leaves Cumber- land at 6.15 p. m Western Maryland Ry. See Flyers. Consult Agent. 28 DU SUC Wanted Carpenters on construc- tion of power plant 45¢ per hour Apply The Foundation Co. Rockwood, Pa. Rr f Ls == LE Your Search for Perfect Ice Cream ends at the store where Hoar Dart The Crean: of Ail Ice 1d is sold. Thereafter, all Ice Cream is merely com- parable with ours and your stand- ard is forever established. Incidentally the dealer who sells Impérial is proud of the product and displays our name prominently. You will usually find one close by. The far-rez With 1 the S others, and 1 people countr lions c large been si perish: + ‘But, have s Armer Asiatic atrocit heart distan and co so larg becom Since especi; the Aa most b murde blood; of mo killed womel robbec destro them parts perish eXpost two 1 scatte sse: livelih roof C tirely ed for the co tain. Dama Egyp thous: dire «the A ~egrap the re ro ——————— 2 Z o Qo 8 t=
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