or RRR Be RT THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA. “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, 4 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 You Where You Live i “Hello, Henry! Chautauqua ticket #”’ “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 a 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 2 Bought your cays 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 ‘or your wife. The children can get in all week for $1 each.” “That hoy 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 fhe big tent.” Featured In Title Role of Light Opera “Dorothy” at Chautauqua HELEN GUENTHE ISS GUENTHER went to New York from college halls. the Shubegts and they immedia “The Beautiful Unknown." R AS “DOROTHY.” She sang for tely placed her in a new production, From Philadelphia and Doston, cities where the play was introduced, her company was taken to New Yoik. Two days after her return she signed a contract for the opera “Dorothy” this summer on the Chautauqua circuit. She is very enthusiastic over her new work and wil be heard here in a part that is strikingly adapted to her pe.csonal chain sid talent. Careful About His Grave. Galilei and ths Swinging Lamp. A Pittsburgh man’s will recently re- The boy Galilei, sitting with hun- | ferred to a “flowerless burial plot” and dreds of others in the Cathedral of | gave directions for a brick and cement Pisa on a Sunday morning, saw an at- } grave where no flowers or plants are tendant draw aside the heavy hanging lamp to light it and then let it swing. Many other eyes saw the same thing. but there was only that pair in Galilei’s head which really observed what hap- pened. He alone noticed that as the swings of the huge lamp became small- er and smaller they always took the same time. He proved it by counting them with his pulse. He had made a great discovery, out of which grew the pendulum clock and the accurate meas- urement of time. Poetry. “Do you enjoy modern poetry?” “Very much. It's such good fun try- ing to figure out what it means.” —De- troit Free Press. The less heart a more labor man pats into it requires A Get our prices on Job Work. a task the ever to be grown. He made provi- sion for $7 a year for watering grass. which is to be allowed on the grave, and directed that the fence about the plot be painted with a certain kind of aluminum paint, applied with a camel's hair brush.— Exchange. “Key” Not a Spanish Word. The word “key” as used in Key West, the island and city of Florida, is not. as supposed, entirely a Spanish word. Key is a Spanish corruption of an American Indian word meaning an is- land, a sand bank or a rock in the sea. —Exchange. Honest Graft. Stella—I wish I knew where 1 could steal some money in a law abiding and respectful way. Bess—Dear me! What do you want with so much money as that?—Life. Naval Captains. The saying runs that as soon as a lieutenant is made a commander he be- gins to carry a stick, and as soon as a commander becomes a captain he “turns religious.” For justification of the latter part of this assertion there exists the undoubted fact that naval captains are mostly serious minded men who give some thought to the greater things of life. Possibly their hours of lonelinéss may conduce to this frame of mind, though for. the most part their leisure hours are given up to study of matters connected with their calling. One well known captain there was who used to hold prayer meetings, which any member of the ship's company could attend. “Re- member, there are no rates to be pick- ed up here,” the captain would warn them before the meetings started. meaning that any one who came there hoping to curry favor and thus get pro- motion would be disappointed. And in this the captain was always as good as his word.—London Mail. The First Fly Fisher Doubtless the reason why artificial flies were originally invented was be- cause it was impossible to use the smaller and more delicate natural flies as baits on the hook. The first fly fish- er cast his eyes about him in search of something that would answer as imi- tating the flies upon which the trout were feeding. Feathers were naturally the first materials thought of, and the old red cock’s hackle was the first of all the artificial insects, the old, old Adam of them all. The breed has been increasing several hundred years and numbers 2,000 or more at the present day. Of salmon flies alone there are several hundred patterns. These be- long to the lure order mostly, as do many of the large flies used for bass and trout. The little old red hackle remains a good fly to this day and is put upon bodies of many colors, pea- cock harl being perhaps as well liked as anything. Red wool is favored by many.—Forest and Stream. Blunders by Novelists. Novelists, even of eminence, are prone to make blunders. Sir Walter Besant in “For Faith and Freedom” wrote after the Eykins had settled in Providence, “Barnaby soon grew tired of this quiet life and went on board a steamer bound for England, promising that we should hear from him.” This was in 1686 or 1687, and the first steamer from America to England did not reach Liverpool till July, 1819. Wilkie Collins also made numerous amazing blunders. In “The Duel In Herne Wood” he makes the story ‘open with the receipt-of a telegram, and the period is 1517. when twenty years had to elapse before .the first telegraphic wire was laid. Three of the characters also talk of “taking the express:train to London” in defiance of the fact