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.
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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
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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, »
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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.
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45¢ per hour
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parable with ours and your stand-
ard is forever established.
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Impérial
is proud of the product and displays
our name prominently. You
will usually find one
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