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LOW BLOOD PRESSURE.
First Aid to Those Suffering From
Hemorrhage or Shock.
One hears a great deal about the
danger of high blood pressure, hut not
much about the danger of too low a
pressure. Yet the latter may be very
swiftly fatal. It results often from
shock, as well as from severe loss of
blood. But there is a very simple
means of giving temporary relief,
which every one should know, since
such knowledge might often be the
means of saving life.
A diastolic pressure of fifty millime-
ters is critical, for the blood tends to
accumulate in the abdomen, but death
quay be avoided if immediate means be
faken to raise the arterial pressure. A
fate number of La Revue gives the
€ollowing directions:
“The wounded person in whom ar-
terial pressure is low should be placed
founediately on an operating table
heated by electricity, with his feet ele-
vated for an hour or more some thirty
millimeters (about one and one-quarter
fnches) higher than his head. If the
diastolic pressure remains below eighty
millimeters an injection of isotonic
serum should be made and if necessary
veneated. If the pressure does not re-
main sufficiently high after the second
injection another injection is made of
adrenalin into a vein, preferably a
vein near the heel.”
It will be noted that the first part of
these directions can be carried out by
any oneé—namely, the application of
warmth and the raising of the patient's
heeld higher than his head. This is so
important and so efficacious that the
famous French physician and research
scientist, Dr. Charles Richet, has made
it a practice in his lectures to students
to give them the striking object lesson
of a dog which had been bled almost
to the point of exhaustion, so that
death was imminent, being instantly
revived by this simple expedient .of
changing its position. When he was
apparently dead while the head re-
mained higher than the extremities, as
soon as the head was lowered the wan-
{ng life returned.
First aid to the injured, therefore,
suffering from hemorrhage or shock is
to place the victim on a mattress or
bench and raise the feet slightly high-
er than the head.—Review of Reviews.
Stepping Stones to Success.
Picture what you want.
Visualize it.
Dramatize it,
Rehearse it.
Make your mental picture clear.
Focus your attention on it.
See it over and over a thousand
times.
Improve it; empower it.
Put your inspiration into it.
Have dynamic interest in it.
Awaken your sleeping genius.
Expect success; laugh at failure.
Be confident and poised.
Rest in accomplishing.—Nautilus.
Sovereigns In Bolivia.
Bolivia has a strange connection with
Great Britain in the fact that the Eng-
lish sovereign is the standard gold coin,
This is minted from local gold at the
capital of the country, La Paz, along
with the Peruvian half sovereign,
which also is legal’ tender. Although
Bolivia is as yet quite a ‘“‘new” coun-
try and has not had time to adopt a
coinage of her ewn, she has found an
opportunity of establishing state mo-
nopolies on alcohol, spirituous liqudrs
and tobacco, rendering the prohibition
of them at any time an easy matter.—
London Chronicle,
What Can Be Done In One Day.
“Every day is such a usual occur-
rence that its true significance does not
cone home wo us,” says a writer in the i
Woman’s Home Companion. “We get
so used to our days that we are blind
to their universal possibilities.
“In the beginning one-sixth of the
whole world was made in a day, yet
how many of us feel that we can do
one-sixth, or even one-hundredth, of all
the things we ought to do in one day?
“Within one day the battle of Water-
loo and the battle of the Marne were
won. How about all the days between?
A man can change the fortune of Lis
entire life in a day.”
Loafing on the Job.
Mrs. Woman, are you married? If
you are we wish you all of the bappi-
ness and the best of blessings a gen-
erous world can give you. But let us
ask a bold question and probably of-
fend you. We do not mean to be im-
polite. It is just the perversity of
human nature to want to know if you
married a lazy man—a man who talks
in a loud voice about his back yard
garden and lets his wife do all the
work.— Memphis Commercial Appeal
Didn’t Do It.
Flatbush—He’s always knocking the
married men.
Bensonhurst—Yes, I know it.
“Only a few years ago he told me he
was just crazy to get married.”
“That’s right, but it seems he wasn’t
guite crazy enough.”—Yonkers States- {
man.
Caught In His Trap.
“I am in an embarrassing situation,”
declared Judge Flubdub, former mem-
ber of congress.
“How is that, judge?”
“Here I am called upon to try to
make sense out of a law that I framed
myself.”—Louisville Courier- Journal.
Musical Note.
Mrs. Jones—IDdoes my daughter's
piano practicing annoy your hushand?
Neighbor—Oh, not at all; Jack can’t
tell one note from another.—Life.
The employee who has a horror of
working overtime will never own the
Husiness.— Newkirk. |
FIRST AMERICAN TRAITOR. |
Benjamin Church Played That Role
During the Revolution.
Benjamin Church, a graduate of Har-
vard and a member of a distinguished
New England family, was the first
American traitor. Church became em-
inent as a surgeon and as a writer of
verse and was one of the leading
Whigs in the years just preceding the
Revolution. At one time he was a
member of the Massachusetts provin-
cial congress and became a member of
the famous Boston committee of
safety.
The committee's plans were consis-
tently revealed to General Gage, gov-
ernor of the province, but the source
of the leak was not discovered until
after the Revolution was fairly under
way. At the time of the actual break
between the colonies and England
Church was assigned to an important
colonial hospital, In September, 1775,
a letter from Church to a British army
officer, containing secrets of the colo-
nist army, was intercepted. Church
had intrusted the letter, written in
code, to a woman, to be conveyed to
one of General Gage's staff officers.
The woman confessed her share in the
treasonable move and implicated
Church.
The traitor was taken before a coun-
cil presided over by Washington, and
he there practically admitted his guilt.
Congress, acting on the suggestion of
in close confinement. in the Cambridge
jail, “without the use of pen or paper,
and that no person be allowed to con-
verse with him except in the presence
and hearing of colonial officers until
further orders from this or a future
congress.”
Church’s health failed rapidly, and
he was permitted to undergo banish-
ment to the West Indies. He sailed in
a merchant vessel in May, 1776, and
neither the ship nor Church ever was
heard of again.—IXansas City Star.
PACKING GOLD IN KEGS.
Care Taken In Preparing the Money
Metal For Shipment.
When a gold shipment is to be made
by ship the necessary number of kegs
are taken in a truck to the assay office,
where they are received at a door in
the rear. The gold bars are then
placed on a hand truck and rolled to
the kegs. In the presence of the agents
of the shippers and of the officials of
the assay office the bars are packed in
the kegs, and sawdust is placed around
them to prevent abrasion. When the
heads of the keus have been placed
over the packed bars a piece of red
tape is stretched across and fastened
between the chine and the edge of the
head. The seal of the shipping house
is then attached to the head and the
bottom of each keg.
After sealing the kegs are rolled to
the wagon and lifted on. It takes two
men to handle each keg, as there are
ten bars to a keg, with a total gold
weight of about 190 pounds. It may
be mentioned that $100,000 weighs in
gold about 380 pounds, and $1,000,000
weighs 3,800 pounds. Some time ago
one of the officials of an assay office
compiled figures showing how much
gold a man could actually handle. It
is a singular thing that great difficulty
is experienced in carrying gold for any
distance. The weight seems to be
more “dead” than that of other metals,
although that may be an illusion.
For instance, the average man could
carry 100 pounds of gold one mile with-
out much discomfort. Its value would
be about $26,000. A strong man could
earry, say, 150 pounds a mile, reaching
the end of ais journey with just under
$40,000. A very powerful man might
carry 200 pounds, or nearly $53,000, a
mile without exhaustion. Carrying
gold is almost as difficult as getting it.
—Los Angeles Times.
Courage In Elephants.
An elephant with a good mahout gives
perhaps the best instance of disciplined
courage—courage, that is, which per-
sists in the face of knowledge and dis-
inclination—to be seen in the animal
world. They will submit day after day
to have painful wounds dressed in obe-
dience to their keeper and meet danger
in obedience to orders, though their in-
telligence is sufficient to understand
the peril and far too great for man to
trick them into a belief that it is non-
existent. No animal will face danger
more readily at man’s bidding—Iondon
Spectator,
. True to His Promise.
“William, when we were married you
promised to stop smoxing.”
“So I did, my dear. You will remem.
ber that I said to you, holding up three
cigars I had in my pocket, ‘As soon as
I smoke these I'll quit.” ”’
“Well, you haven't kept your prom-
ise.”
“Oh, yes, I have. You see those three
identical cigars are still unsmoked. I
have them in my desk.”—Boston Tran-
script.
A Curious Case.
Some years ago a woman in Brussels
was aroused by church bells ringing in
consequence of a fire. She had been
asleep for nearly seventeen years.
When she awoke she was in perfect
health and remembered in detail events
that had taken place before she fell
off into her long nap.
Lengthening the Life of a Chain.
By twisting a hemp rope in and out
of the links of a chain that runs over
a pulley not only is the noise suppress-
ed, but the life of the chain is length-
ened 70 per cent.
A Cent a Day.
If a man saves a cent each day he
will not need to risk the less of a
fr veal’ by trying
t the exdd of the
w a doi'ar.—New York Globe.
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“Aw, I've seen all that kind of
“You’ve seen all of it? Why,
Bingham, Opie Read, White
Hussars, light opera with twenty
people, China’s ‘Mark Twain,’ a
bunch of singing Irish girls and
a whole pile of other features.”
“Nothing doing! Haven't been
feeling right lately. Stomach’s
all out of fix. Dyspepsia, I
guess.”
“Then take my word for it,
Henry, you want a whole family
of Chautauqua tickets. There's
going to be a woman here on
the second day of the Chautau-
qua who tells your wife how to
feed you, and then a couple of
tells you how to live 100 years to
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Chautauqua Gets You Where You Live
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“Hello, Henry!
Chautauqua ticket 2”
“Nope! Guess I won’t go.”
“What's the matter? Didn’t
you get your money’s worth last
year ¥”’
“Ye-ah; I got my money's
worth, all right!”
“Well, if your season ticket
was & good investment last sum-
mer you want to be sure to be on
deck this time, for it’s a great
program.”
stuff! Guess I won’t go.”
man, look at this lineup: Ralph
Bought your
days later a man comes along and
enjoy that good eating.”
“Zat so? How much are those
tickets you've got there?”
“Two dollars .for you and $2
for your wife. The children can
get in all week for $1 each.”
“That boy and girl of mine are
still talking about the stunts they
had at Chautauqua last year, so
you can just fix me up with $6
‘worth of tickets. Then we can
all go.”
“All right, Henry. We'll see
you at the big tent.”
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Salisbury, September 2 - 8, 1917
Featured In Title
Role of Light
Opera “Dorothy” at Chautauqua
“The Beautiful Unknown.”
the Chautauqua circuit.
talent.
HELEN GUENTHER AS
ISS GUENTHER went to New York from college halls.
the Shuberts and they immediately placed her in a
From Philadelphia and Boston,
the play was introduced, her company was taken to New
after her return she signed a contract for the opera “Dorothy” this summer on
She is very enthusiastic over her new work and will
be heard here in a part that is strikingly adapted to her personal charin and
“DOROTHY.”
She sang for
new production,
ties where
York. Two days
Sincerity is the basis of all true
friendship. Without sincerity it is like
a ship without ballast.
Mrs. Michael Yaiest of Pottsville
drowned her seven-year-o'” on inthe
bathtub of her home a; n com-
mitted suicide by cutting her throat.
She had been melancholy.
Three persons were killed and five
others were seriously injured when
two large boilers in the Leckrone
Coke works at Leckrone, near Union-
town, Pa., exploded.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
postponed the September meeting un-
til Sept. 26. The regular date would
have been Sept. 19, primary elect )n
day.
A Beginning.
Two college freshmen of the male
persuasion were looking at a counter
of magazines which had the usual
pretty girl covers.
“There's a rather good one,” remark-
ed one.
His companion cast an appraising
eye upon the golden haired, blue eyed
little thing on the cover.
“Yes,” he drawled, “but she has an
Incipient face.”—New York Post.
Value Trebled.
Stockson — You say your mining
stocks are worth three times what
they were when you bought them.
That's astonishing. How do you ac-
count for it? Bonds—Waste paper has
trebled in value since I made the pur-
chase.— Exchange.
U. 8S.
Banking House..........
Cash.........
Circulation .. ............
SHOWS GAIN OF—
Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business June 20th, 1917
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments... .........coceeeneeeoe.. $829,
Bonde... .... Si ican 2D
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents. res
LIABILITIES
Capital Stok. oc... ....... 0h vases ie Wal 8
Sorplusand@Profits....... ......0. 0 eeu del
es ese sree
DEPOBItE .. et i pat 0ST 188.5
OUR GROWTH THE PAST YEAR.
June 30th, 1916 .\.... .................. $1,023.623.01
December 27th, 1916 ............ ceeov. 1,143,436.97
June 20th, 1917 ....... Econ cle... .. 1,354,329.80
$120,000.00 June to Gecember, 1916 :
211,000.00 December, 1916, to June, 1917
331,000.90 Gain in the past 12 months.
2
23289
g
2
0,
308,099.
ctsnnamesrs cnn. 106,798.
Total.... $1,354,329.80
sec ecsssavces .
2
65,000.00
143.741.41
ian des 64,400.00
Total.... $1,354,329.80
The Citizens National Bank
*The Bank With The Clack With The Nidiion"
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Don’t Take Risks
If your stomach is strong, your liver active, and bow-
els regular, take care to keep them so. These organs
are important to your health. Keep them in order with
Beecham’s Pills
and avoid any risk of serious illness. A dose or two
as needed, will help the digestion, stimulate the bile,
and regulate the habits. Their timely use will save
much needless suffering, fortify the system and
Insure Good Health
Sold by druggists throughout the world. In boxes, 10c., 25¢.
Directions of Special Value to Women are with Every Box.
Of Covrse
She Likes
Ice Cream
Everybody does. It’s
the one dainty sure
of welcome in any
company.
When you offer her
I TEA Lp Co 1
The of All kee Creams:
you indicate in a
nice way that you
possess good taste in
such matters.
One of the first men examined in
Greensburg claimed exemption on the
ground that his “sense of hearing was
so good that he: feared the noise of
heavy cannonading might impair it,
if not cause total deafness.”
Slater L. Gump, aged forty-five, of
Washington, was killed and his chauf-
feur, Clyde Messer, was bruised about
the head and body when their automo-
bile overturned on the National pike
near Washington.
William Moore, aged twenty-seven,
was killed and John McCormick and
Michael Bogdon were hurt when Bog-
don’s automobile was driven into a
telephone pole at New Castle.
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Economy Phone.
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Both Phones.
Driving It Home]
Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwe-
man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
that in which the work is
done at’our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many
more times, use purer and
more costly soap, and keep
all the clothes in constant
motion during the entire
process.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyersdale Steam Laundry
Get enw prices sn Sob Work,
magazines, ’
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calves, $7
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