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A ROAD TO HEALTH
Eat Less and Walk More if You
Are Losing All Your Vim,
JUST GIVE NATURE A CHANCE.
That Wonderful Old Doctor Is Always
Ready and Willing to Be Your Friend
and Will Produce Magical Results if
His Laws Are Obeyed.
A man on the shady side of forty
thought he was going into a decline.
He went to his physician, submitted to
a thorough examination and waited the
word which was to consign him to the
scrap heap.
This is what the doctor, who happen-
ed to be a modern physician, told him
two or three days later:
“You eat too much, drink too much,
git around too much and walk too lit-
tle. I am going to put you on a rigid
diet, and I want you to walk—walk—
walk.”
The man who thought he was going
into a decline demurred at the doctor's
suggestion of a rigid diet. The diet
prescribed consisted of milk—only milk
—and the man who saw visions of the
scrap heap loved his “vittles,” but he
decided to follow the doctor’s orders. .
He stuck to the rigid diet.
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And he made it a practice to walk |
two miles to the office every morning.
rain or shine. The ease with which he
An “Orderly” Election.
1 was in Puerto Mexico on election
day when General Candido Aguilar was
for governor of Vera Cruz
against General Gavira. You would
have thought he had at least a good
running start by being Carrairza’s can-
didate and engaged to his daughter
but Candido never takes any chances,
| He had two freight trains of decanted
Constitutionalist soldiers, armed be-
youd the teeth, in that town bivouack-
ed around the polls and the telegraph
and cable offices. You had to step over
sleeping arsenals to send a telegram.
The simple job of that soldiery was to
insure a constitutional and orderly elec-
tion by keeping the Gaviristas from
exercising a suffrage called by the new
constitution universal. I don’t know
first hand just how matters stood in
the other towns of the state of Vera
Cruz, but on reaching Mexico City sev-
eral days later I read in the capital pa-
pers that General Aguilar had been
elected governor by substantial ma-
Jjorities after a very “orderly” election.
—George Marvin in" World's Work.
Why People Die Early.
High blood pressure belongs to a
8 dis-
ease, arteriosclerosis, heart failure.
apoplexy and paralysis. People natu-
rally die of them at seventy to eighty
years of age. If they fall victims at an
earlier age there is something wrong.
What is wrong? Why do people die
prematurely? I believe it is because
we fail to search for and find the symp-
toms of these organic diseases. There
. 18 no question at all that if we can dis-
"cover the right agent to fight the toxins !
that live in the colon or large bowel
acquired a scorn for the street car after | 4 average man and woman should
a week or two astonished him.
At the end of a week of dieting and
walking, this. man began fo look upon
life with different eyes. His work,
which had been a burden, began to as-
sume an attractive glow. At the end of
two weeks, with a modified but’ still
skimpy diet, and more walking, he be-
gan to catch himself in the act of run-
ning up the stairs instead’ of; dragging |
himself up by main force, ‘At the. ‘end 1
of four weeks of this treatment, with-
out taking a drop of medicine or a sin-
gle pill, he felt as if ten years had rolled
- off his shoulders,
% The average New York man who
works at desk eats too much if he does
hot drink too much. He sits around
too much and walks altogether too lit-
itle., And what is true of the average
New Yorker is true of the average
American. = Too much food, too much
drink and too much sitting around dre
. the ‘unholy trinity of our mational -de-
bilitation. - We are aed
flabby and mentally drowsy. re qe
beginning to nod in the armcha! RITE
Overindulgence has done it—that sys-
of. gelf pampering which Dr. John
H. Quale of Cleveland calls “twentieth
century habits, »
Most of these “twentieth century hab-
ste" haye to do with the stomach. In
‘some languages a piece of basic philoso-
phy has been crystallized, ike a fly in
‘amber, in the homely phrase, “I have
‘the heartache,” when stomach ache is
meant. That phrase is an unconscious
recognition of the fact that the stomach
is the center of the human system.
The importance of the sto ha
‘been recognized by the ‘earlies st. la
givers and thinkers of the human" race.
The dietary regulations of ‘the Naw! of
Moses were a farsighted attempt to
make the food of a historic nation con-
iform to the laws of nature. 'Tiegislat-
ing for peoples living under condi-
‘tions similar to those under which the
Jews lived, Mohammed, ai6tHer of the
world’s great lawgivers, embodied in
the Koran a good deal that he found
in the Talmud on the subject of ‘eating
and drinking.
Moses put the children of Israel’ ‘on
a diet. Mohammed put the Aral | on
a diet. nl
Business and professional America
ought to go on a diet and stay there
for awhile. :
Nature is the greatest of all. physi-
clans. Give nature a chance. Don’t
overload your stomach with too much
food. Don’t overwork your liver and
your: kidneys: by too much drink, and
sometimes very little drink is too much.
Nature is the watchman sitting at
the gate. Nature is ready to be up
and at the enemy of your life at the
first sign of danger. Don’t bind and
gag the watchman. Give him a chance
for his life and yours.
Eat less. Walk more. The results
will astonish you—New York Mail.
"Spread the Meat Flavor.
Cold ham, chicken or other meat left
over in quantities too small for use
alone may be used advantageously by
mixture with other foods. Here is a
recipe for one way to use such meat.
Chop the meat fine and season it
well. Mix in enough butter or other
fat to make it “shape” well. Form into
rolls about the size of a finger and
wrap around each a thin piece of short
dough made from a pint of flour, two
tablespoonfuls of baking powder, salt
and milk enough to mix. Bake the rolls
in a hot oven until they are a delicate
brown. Serve hot.—New York World.
Feminine Ability.
Whoever it was that remarked wo-
man is a mystery certainly remarked
a heaping teaspoonful. We doubt if
she herself can explain how it is she
can always get something else in a suit
case after it is so full it won't hold
anything else.—Macon Telegraph.
The Rivals.
“I have just been readin’,” quoth
Hamlet Fatt, ‘some startlin’ statistics
about the earth’s capacity.”
“Why need you worry about the
earth’s capacity?’ responded Yorick
Hamm. “You'll maver play to it.”’—
Pittsburgh Post.
The only thing you can afford not to
pay is a grudge.
inhabitant of that state is not regard-
'and I will get along fine.
What I say is if a man is mad he
live to be at least a hundred. The
American people are going to take
death prevention more seriously than
they do now. Some day when men and’
women die under fifty years of age a
coronetr’s inquest will be called to de-
termine the cause of their untimely, |
demise.—Dr. W. S. Sadler in Collier's
Weekly.
* Military Orders. |
The story goes that a raw battalion’
of rough backwoodsmen, who had “vol-
unteered,” once joined General Grant.
He admired their fine physique, but
distrusted the capacity ‘of their un<
couth commander to handie troops
promptly and efficiently in the field, so
he said: “Colonel, I want to see your !
men at work. Call them to attention .
and order them to march with shoul-
dered arms in close column to the left
flank.” Without a moment’s hesitation '
the colonel yelled to kis fellow ruffians:
“Boys, look wild thar! Make ready to |
thicken and go left endways! Tote |
yer guns! Git!” The maneuver proved
a brilliant success, and the &elf elected
colonel was forthwith efficially com- '
missioned. —Manchester, Guardian. :
Origin of “Hoosier.”
While the derivation of the word In.
diana from Indian is apparent, the ori
gin of the word Hoosier applied to an
ed as entirely clear. The theory which
has gained the greatest acceptance is
that it received its" present form from
the vernacular renderihgrof the query, |
“Who's. yer?" instead ‘of ‘Who are
you?" when a stranger appeared at the
door of a frontier cabin. For a long
time the word Hoosier was regarded
as implying a reflection on the person
to whom it applied. but of; recent years
it has found a recognized place in good
literature.—Breoklyn Standard Union.
Welcoming the Actor.
A well known society performer vol-
unteered to entertain a roomful of pa-
tients of the Colney Hatch Lunatic asy-
lum and made up a very successful.
little monologue show, entirely humor-
ous. The audience in the main gave
symptoms of being slightly bored, but
one highly intelligent maniac saw the
thing in proper light and, clapping the
‘talented actor on the shoulder, said: |
“Glad you've come, old fellow. You
The other |
dippies here are so dashed dignified.
needn't put on airs about it.¥=London
Opinion.
Helping the Coffee.
Some of the coffee sold roasted and
ground causes complaint. Most of it
can be improved a little. Trouble
seems to be that it is not roasted
enough and needs another touch of fire.
You know the less it is roasted the
more it weighs. Put a couple of table-
spoonfuls in a seamless agate quart
stewpan or cup and set it on the stove,
gas or blue flame and shake it while it
gets another scant parching, never let-
ting it get hot enough to smoke or
scorch. Set it aside till it gets cold and
then pour on the water and finish up in
the regular way.
Saving Time.
Mrs. Styles—I read today that hats
are being made of banana skins.
Mr. Styles—Why don’t you get one,
dear?
“What's the idea?”
“It would save a lot of time. It could
be slipped on so easily.”—Yonkers
Statesman.
A Reason For Forgiving.
«The Joneses are very forgiving.
When their son wrote them he had.
eloped with the cook they wrote him
to bring his bride home at once.”
«But you don’t understand how hard
it is to keep a cook in this place.”—
Baltimore American.
His Attraction,
He—You used to say there was some-
thing about me you liked. She—So 1
did. But you've spent it all —Minne-
haha.
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
It’s An Old, Old Story and Was Told
2,000 Years Ago.,
A wife's letter 2,000 years old was
unearthed recently in the ruins of the
Sérapoum, the temple of Memphis, the
great city of ancient Egypt. The let-
ter was written by Isias to her hus-
band Hephaestion, who had deserted
her. There were two letters, in fact,
the first bearing a date eguivalent to
July 24, 186 B. C. Ia them the wife
reproaches her husbard for neglect of
his family, and, what is particularly
interesting at the present time, she
complains of the high cost of living.
Here are some extracts from the first
letter: “Isias to Hephaestion, her hus-
‘ band. Greetings—If you are well and
other things are turning out with you
according to your wishes it would be
as I perpetually pray the gods. 1 my-
self am in good health, and the child
and all in the house make mention of
you continually. When I received your
letter from Horus, in which you ex-
plained that you were In retreat in the
Serapoum at Memphis, I immediately
gave thanks to the gods that you were
well. But that you do not return dis-
tresses me, for having piloted myself
and your child through such a crisis
and having come to the last extremity
because of the high cost of corn, and
thinking that your return would bring
me relief, you have never even thought
of returning or spared a look for my
helpless state.”—New York World.
THINNEST SOAP BUBBLES.
They Almost Give Us a Sight of the
Invisible Molecules.
What is a soap bubble? Nothing but
a film of water molecules held together
by *he cohesive power of soap in solu-
tion. A soap bubble's size and strength
depend upon the right composition of
the mixture that furnishes its mate-
rial. The colors in a soap bubble are
due to what is known in physics as the
{ interference of light, and depend upon
the varying thickness of the film of
water.
Jt is a singular fact. that the ast
color to appear on a soap bubble just
before it breaks is a gray tint.
~thickness of the film when this tint
‘appears upon it is less than the one
hundred and Bity-sinthousandth of an
inch, i
Were a soap bubble to be magnified
to the size of the earth and the mole-
cules magnified in proportion, then the
whole structure would’ be as coarse
grained as a globe of small lead shot
touching one another at their surfaces.
In the blowing of a soap biibble there
is presented the spectacle of the
stretching of a liguid- to the extreme
. limit of its capacity. In this way we
come nearer to a ‘sight of the invisible |
molecules of matter than-could be got |
in any other way no matter how elab-
orate the experiment —Exchange.
* me my
Passport to the North Pole.
A passport to the north pole was is-
! sued some years ago by the governor.
of the province of Tobolsk, which
stretches along the Russian shores of
the Arctic ocean. The official was ap-
proached by two men who had been
engaged to proceed to the north with
an English expedition then fitting out.
Their petition was for a passport to
the pole itself, but the governor point.
ed out that the pole was as likely to
be in their home province as in any
other, that it was extremely unlikely
they would reach it and that if they
did there were no police there to ex-:
amine their:credentials. “At last, how
ever, to satisfy. them he ordered the
issue of 4 document allowing them to
pass without Tet or Hie to the
north pole. 2
Tower of London.
A royal palace, consisting of no more
that what is now: known as the “White
Tower,” appears to have been the be-
ginning of the. Tower of London. It
was commenced in 1078 by William
the Conqueror and finished by Wil-
liam’s son, William Rufus, who, in
1098, surrounded it with walls and a
“broad ditch. Several succeeding kings
made additions to it, and King Edward
II1. erected the church. In 1638 the
old White Tower was rebuilt, and in
the reign of Charles II. a great number
of additions were made to it. The
new buildings in the Tower were com-
‘pleted in 1850.
Collecting Antiques.
The little town was highly excited
over the announced engagement of the
nineteen-year-old widow to Mr. Hoary.
“Why, Daisy.” he best friend said to
the young widow, “you’re not going to
tle yourself to that old man? Why.
he’s three times your age! What are
you doing it for?”
“Oh, I can’t resist having him!” said
the young widow. ‘He does harmonize
so beautifully with my antique furni-
ture!” —Pearson’s Weekly.
Where He Was Weak.
“That boy of mine knows a lot of
Latin,” said Mr. Cobbles.
“Yes?”
“He kin translate them Latin words
on a silver dollar just like a flash, but
not unless somebody lends him th’
dollar.”’--Birmingham Age-Herald.
Two Causes.
Of course unhappiness is the cause
of divorce, and much of the unhappi-
ness is due to the circumstance that
the wife has nothing to do at*home in
the daytime and the husband has en-
tirely too much to do downtown at
night.—Houston Post.
Counting a Billion.
An expert money counter of the Unit-
ed States treasury can count 4,000 sil-
Oh, what men dare do, what men
may do, what men daily do, not know-
ing what they do!—Shakespeare.
yer dollars an hour, or 32,000 a day. At
‘that rate it is figured that it would
| take him 102 years to count a billion.
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FIGHT OFF WORRY.
Do Not Waste Nervous Strength and
Energy In Uscless Fret'ing.
The immediate cause of neuralgia
is pv.son in tie blood. Therefore our
object is to keep the ulood pure and
healthy, as it is only when the blood
is poor that the neuralgia poisons de-
velop in it. Poor blood is caused by
lack of sleep, lac k of fresh air, improp-
er food and overfatizgue, by too little
exercise and by mental worry. !
Nothing is easier to say than ‘Don’t
worry” and few things so difficult to
carry out. But by “don’t worry” the
doctors mean do not waste valuable
nervous strength and energy in fret-
ting over things beyond your control.
Make a point of putting all anxiety
from you during meals and, above all,
when you go to bed. Train yourself to
think of something cheerful as you try
lo go to sleep. Otherwise your sleep
will be harassed and fitful and will do
you very little good.
He was a wise man who made it a
rule to think of nothing disagreeable
after 10 o'clock at night. He at any
rate could never have been a victim to
neuralgia.
Kcep up the general tone of the nerv-
ous system and you will have little dif-
ficulty in keeping off nervous ailments.
notahly neuralgia.—London Mail
MADE MALTA A GARDEN.
The island Was Once Merely a Rock
In the Mediterranean.
What Malta was like “before the
Maltese found it one cannot imagine,
saye the Manchester Guardian. Pre-
sum:bly there was some soil some-
where, hidden among the little valleys
that scar the golden rock. But there
was very little soil. Most of the island
must have been just plain rock;' with
nothing in particular’'to recommend it.
But somewhere in the dawn of his:
tory there came an industrious, in-
genious race and’ proceeded to make
the best of it. They have Leen doing
that all down-the centuries, till row
they have reduced it to a finéart, and
the barren rock is a garden; from end
to end. -
They realized, those leven Maltese;
that: although they might: ‘not ‘have
earth enough to grow their food, there
were: plenty of people who had enough
and: ito spare. So they sent their ships
abrdad, and the ships came back load:
ed with just plain earth. This earth
they took and spread on the ledges of
their rocks and sowed their seed und
reaped their harvests and prospered ex-
ceedingly, till now fruits and. lowers
might be a fitting name for the island.
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& Study the. Words. :
Nouh Webster -started' - with : 70,000
words. ‘That "was. iii 1828, when the
first: edition of bis dictionary was pub-
listed. In the next edition,” that of
1864e. the list “had: grown ‘to 314,000.
Noah had died in the meéantinie; but his
heirs and assigns continued his work.
In 1890 a total eof 175,000 words were
listed. Since . then the number “has
more than goubled; It is now about
400,600.
. Of ;course nobody could be. expected
to learn all those words, nor. is it nec-
essay. Whenever in your.reading you
come: across i word ‘the ‘meaning of
‘which is not entirely cle to you drop
your: book or uesvspaner,
maybe, and cousuit the dictionary.
Don’t delay. (tf you do probably you
will ever look the vod un, It is sar
prisisrg how many words one may add
to -eae’s vocabulary by this simple
meilod: —New Yorg Times.:
An Egyptian Delicacy.
Every country has its own little deli-
‘cacies, and Egypt is famous for its
‘kabobs. The kabob ‘is’ broiled meat,
but it'is broiled in so ridiculous a fash-
ion as to be really funny.’ The peddler
uses a little charcoal furnace some-
thing like that in use by our plumbers.
In it. he keeps up a small but hot fire.
Attached to the side of the furnace are
a lot of iron skewers. When a custom-
er approaches the hawker takes a small
piece of meat, mutton or goat, the lat-
ter being the most popular, cuts it with
a sharp knife into a long ribbon, winds
it around the skewer and places it
upon the charcoal fire. Some of the
drippings are collected and, with a lit-
tle salt and spice, make a pleasant
sauce for the kabob when it is done.
The Pepper Vine.
The pepper vine grows best in a
wooded valley where there is plenty of
moisture and abundant foliage to pro-
tect it from the heat of the sun.. It is
given a rude sort of cultivation. The
growers plant it, keeping the grass
from its roots, and when the tree near
which it is planted has no lower
branches strings or poles are placed in
proper position to enable the vine to
climb the tree. It needs no further at-
tention.
Bringing the Paradox Home.
“Pa, what’s a paradox?”
“It is when the impossible happens.”
‘“Then ‘we ‘had a,paradox here this
evenin’. Ma said you couldn’t possi-
bly be expected home before midnight
because you had an excuse for stayin’
downtown.”
Wrecked.
“You refused me ten years ago.”
“I remember,” said the heiress. “You
said it would wreck your life.”
“Jt did. I have had to work for a
living ever since.” —Life.
Feminine Reasoning.
Stella—Her gown is just like yours.
Bella—I don’t care if hers is a dupli-
cate of mine, but I don’t want mine a
duplicate of hers.—Puck.
How many could be made happy
with the blessings which are reckless- |
ly thrown away!
as the case:
CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
The Second National Bank
-MEYERSDALE, PA.
JUNE TWENTIETH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments _..... an a .... $592,905.60
U. S. Bonds and Premium .............. a 70,179.37
Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures .............. 64,075.20
Cash and due from Banks ......... ......... 125,338.50
Total Resources $ 852,498.67
: LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in ............... Be $ 65,000.00
Surplus Fund and Profits ...... .... es aayens 65,621.83
Circulation .... ...........0 00 aden ee. 64,400.00
Deposits see enh RL a ey B5T, 476.84
Total Liaoilities 3 852,498.67
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—
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Sells the Champion Cream Saver
Tx is no machine made in which proper lubrication i
vitally important than it is in a cream separator. oy
that is not. properly oiled will turn hard and soon wear out.
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Talk About Value!
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From ror i standpoint of educational entertains
ment, getting a Chautauqua season ticket for $2 is
like going to market with a two dollar bill and com-
ing home with enough flour, potatoes, sugar and
other physical necessities to last through a hard win-
ter. The head must be fed as well as the stomach.
On the world’s counters of worth while entertainment it would
cost you a handful of dollars to see and hear all of the stars of
the 1917 Chautauqua, but for the price of a single night reserva-
tion in a city theater you may hear right at home:
The Killarney Girls, in Irish costumes.
Edwin M. Whitney, in “Turn to the Right!”
The Regniers, music and impersonations.
Ida C. B. Alleh, household efficiency expert.
Dr. Ng Poon Chew, “the Chinese Mark Twain.”
Montague Company, sketches from familiar operas.
Opie Read, novelist, in humorous philosophy.
Metropolitan Artists, well known Chicago musicians.
Dr. Charles E. Barker, physical adviser to President Taft.
Light Opera “Dorothy,” by the Murray-Lane Company.
Christine Giles Company, flute, violin, voice and piano.
Dr. E. T. Hagerman, on “The Man With One Window.”
Ralph Bingham, America’s chief funmaker.
Walton Pyre, presenting “The Spinner In the Sun.”
White Hussars, Ralph Dunbar’s Singing Band.
Morning hour and children’s features as usual.
How's That For a Big Two Dollars’
Worth?
SEASON TICKETS ARE ON SALE
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