vB. o
"young man returned and said the tree
+
‘the late Hungarian statesman Tisza,
.to.be within hearing.—Florida Times-
> fore he be fit to govern a family and
* bis family ere be be fit to bear the gov-
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. ~~
43
THT
COURSE GF A RIFLE -BALL.
Just What Happens From the Instant
the Gun Is Fired.
Two sportsmen were disputing. One
claimed that if a rifle’ is sighted on a
dead level the ball commences to fall
the instant it leaves the barrel. The
seeond man claimed that the ball first
rises above the level of the barrel and
then falls. They didn’t settle the ques-
tion, but here is the answer:
Gravity acts upon a moving and un-
supported body instantly, be the body
large or small. In a rifle the line of
sight (that is, the line of aim) is one
thing; the line of the bore is another.
In order that gravity will not cause a
buliet to drop too soon a rifle is always
made so that the line of the bore points
slightly upward as compared with the
line of sight. The result is that, while
the bullet begins to drop away from
the direct line of the bore the moment
it leaves the plece, it rises at first
above the line of sight and then slowly
drops below it.
‘Rifles are usually made so that they
will strike the object aimed at at a cer-
tain distance—say 200 yards from the’
hunter. That is to say, they CRITY
“point blank” at 200 yards. ‘Hf the ob-
Ject is farther away more front sight
must be given. Under any and all cir-
cumstances, however, ‘the bullet ‘drops
away from the line of the bore, owing
to the gravity, the moment. the gun Is
fired.—New: York Tribune.
AGED SOAP. BUBBLES.
Dewar Makes Monster Ores
: Keeps Them Fok 1 |
The transient existepes: Ap SO#p
bubble is proverbial, but Paofesgor J)
Dewar, in a discourse Livi
gred at the Royal Insti
don, explained * Haw’
could be made to last
exhibited several speci
requisite is that thes
the bubble shall be free’ from
‘In Professor Dewar's pro
18 filtered through cotton, wool:
bubbles are blown by opening St0DE
cbck in the air supply tube “F'ér the
soap solution he prefers: ‘thé purest
oleic acid (tested by the fodine num-
ber) and ammonium soap (not potas-
sium or sodium).
‘To make a bubble durable the sac of
liquid must be removed from its bot-
tom by suction through tubes applied
m outside. The lecturer showed bub-
Bles that had enduped for months and
that were: more than half a yard in
diameter, ‘blown in glass vessels con-
taining’ pure air at Atmospheric pres-
sure, ©: :
A little’ water ‘the. Bottom
of the vessel. A uniform temperature
of aboufu50- ‘degrees F. is favorable to
longevity: Some of Professor Dewars
smaller bubbles were Jearly a year old.
~Philadelphia- Press.
Ne EN A Ca >
Jon
DB A .
dinars to an old:
1 back the old man.
ny money deposit:
ed with him, andhg:wes had up before
the cadl “Where. were. you, young
man, when you deliveréd this money?”
“Under a tree.” “Take my seal and.
summon that tree,” said ‘the judge.
“Go, young man, and’ tell ‘the’ tree: to
come hither, and the trée will obey ‘yout |
when you show it my seal.” The young
man went in wonder. After he had
gone ‘some time the cadi said
thé old man: “He is long. Do you
k he has got there yet?' “No,”
seid the old man; “it is at some dis-
tance. He has not got there yet.”
“How knowest thou, old man,” cried
the cadi, ‘where that tree is?’ The
denied having Hag
would not come. “He ‘has been here.
young man, and given hig e¥ldence,
The Mmbney is thine"-Oriantal 3
‘Diphtheria ‘Germs.
Diphtheria germs multiply so capitis
that in the course of’ twenty-four hours
there may be many millions. - Méean-
while they are producing diphtheria
toxin, one of the most powerful poisons
known, which is absorbed by the body
and causes the general symptoms of
the disease.
The germs enter the body through
the mouth or nose. They may be trans-
férred by kissing, coughing or sneez-
ing, or they may be transferred to the
lips by the use of the common drinking
cup or other utensil or by fingers soiled
by touching some object which an in-
fected person has just used.
Had to Swallow Many Things.
An amusing anecdote is related of
who when one day dining at the Hof-
burg with the Austrian emperor placed
a large pear upon his plate at dessert.
The emperor remarked to his minis-
ter thaticold fruit after a hot dinner
was ‘injurious to the digestion.
Tisza replied, ‘The stomach of a
Hungarian prince, your majesty, is
obliged to be a strong:-one.” : :
After the Dinner. .
“1 ate next to a red headed woman,”
said the fresh young man after the din-
ner party. 5
“And I ate next to nothing.™ epHied
the woman alluded to, who happened
Union.
3d Government. 3
A man must first govern himself be-
ernment in the commonwealth.—Sir
Walter Raleigh.
> Distinction.
“Is that reckless orator an agitator?”
“No. He's merely an irritator.”—
Washington Star.
atin. dp
Civilization is firsf. and foremost a
of the world put together.
2 To iLengthen Their hoif_ hives: Kes
and Thien I 3
‘cannot be heard.~~Capper's: Weekly.
moral thing.—Amfel
ROMANTIC SICILY.
The Men and the Fame of This Won-
der Island of History.
Sicily’s history is as wivid and pic-
turesque, as ferocious and creative and
destructive, as mythical and intensely
practical, as the stories of all the rest
And im
beauty of nature, of climate or man
and of beast the island is a paradise
today, whether or not it was ever the
workless, painless. passionless elysium
where our first ancestors enjoyed all
the good things of life withoyt having
to toil.
Nature itself, now in the guise of the
misunderstood gods of old, now in con-
vulsions or in quiet fertility * that sci-
ence has made plain to us, weaves its
mysterious shuttle through and fhrough
the highly colored fabric,
And men—such meni-tower ators
their fellows 4 i: the. Borah
Pindar, Ae
ides, Archimedes, The two geeal ‘Hie-
rons, Cicero, Verres, Diodorus, Hamil-
car and Hannibal, Roger the Count and
Roger the King, Belisarius, the great
crusaders Richard of the Lion Heart
and Louis the Saint of France; -Charleg i
of Anjou, Frederick IL., the “w der of
the world,” and Garibaldi. Ever this}
partial list reads like a compendium! at
ancient and medieval romance ay !
chivalry.—National spppine Mag fe
zine. 7
MOTORCAR FIRES.
Free Froni Oil and)Gr
gasoline, “grease, .
I garage floors are not kept: jelean |
and tires. ‘stind in a pool of, 411 the |
% |.treads soften and thedtraction “strains F
{ in service stretch the fubber: in a WAVY:
outline. eventually causing’ it ‘to sepa- i
XH rate’ from the fabric body underneath.’
Probably the most damage: is experi- |
enced from grease. im the “differential -
housing, working out “into the brake !
bearings; or too much grease or from
using grease not suitable for diss
tial ’
Grease: and éiLmay “be tory a
moved by using a rag saturated as-"
oline. Gasoline, although a solvent,
small quantities, will not cause‘atry in-
jury when used as a cleaning agent.
Ordinary injuries to, the rupber cover.
do not prevent successful, repairs. but’
not ofteni’can work be well dond wheft’:
materigls have been ‘affected by oil or
grease * Invariably blistering --during '
Lo results. —Popular, Sglence, a Te rT
oloniél * Frank G.
Montifly.
3 Writing on a Moving ER i:
W. iting legibly on a fast moving
me ox it. oe a . agsbey 1
aC quite NL v.. He og
x) to write in a standing postion dnd
holds ‘his right elbow firmly against his
side. The reason for this is that in a
sitting posture. there, is too, much’ lat
eral movement
body, while in a standing position, this
is more easily controted,” "©:
‘When the arm swings freely.
Fg
Vt
ho
as in
body are “affected in the process, each
of which is capable of its own mo ian.
Holding the elbow against one's ibs
breaks those motion tendencies. ex-’
cept that of the wrist, which movement
is necessary in writing, and ‘thns the
pencil ur pen 1s more easily controlled.
Cautious, ~~”
A lawyer-happened to be acquainted
with a juror in a petty civil case. and
he met him ‘during a recess of the court.
The lawyer wag just ‘lighting up.” and
der ordinary circumstances he would
ve offered the other a cigar unhesi-
tatingly, but it occurred to him that it
might not look right.
“] suppose,” he said guardedly. “that
a cigar would not influence your ver-
dict?”
‘The juror was equally cautious.
“A good one wouldn't,” he replied.
“but a poor one might prejudice me.
He got a good cigar.— Brooklyn Eagle.
The Study of Books.
We enter our studies and enjoy a go
clety which we alone can bring to-
gether. We raise no jealousy by con- |
versing with one in preference to an-
other; we give no offense to the most,
illustrious by questioning Him as long
as we will and leaving him as ab-
ruptly. Diversity of ‘opinion raises ino"
tumult in our presence. Each interlocu-
tor stands before us, speaks or is silent.
and we adjourn or decide the business. ;
at our: leisure.—Landor.
: ' A-Distinction.
“I'm glad to see tliat you have gone
into partnership with Flubdub. A good
move.”
“Why, 1 have heard, you speak! Lot
him as a thorough scoundrel. ”
“Politically, yes. «Commercially he's.
all right.”-Louiisville: Courier-Journal.
Subganscious, Wishes.
When a girl dreams it is that she is
being married in a ¢hurch crowded with
former suitors’ who are crying so loud
that the strains of the wedding march
3
Merely a Hint.
Kitty—Harry says he loves me for
myself alone. Bertha—I suppose that's’
his way of saying your mother must’
be kept out of the family. Phoered 1
You Can't Beat Them.
He—Before I was married I thought
women were angels. She—Well, finish
it—nmow you know they are.
None are less eager to learn than
they who know nothing.—Suard.
i is pretty gettevully no that ‘tb
il and other fatty. £
x stibstances atessolverits of rubber.
drums’ and then on to the side walls *
‘of the tires. This:may result from loose |
difficult to a person unaccus- ! that’many of the drafted men’ arriving
| KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS
into the: Uniontown speedway and
saw Frank Elliott, driving a Deliaage
car, which was formerly driven by
Barney Oldfield, win the “Army and
Navy sweepstakes 112% ‘mile race,
which carried with it a purse of
$2,500. His time was 1 hour, 14 min-
utes, 26.96 seconds. For the fifth
time in the history of the speed-
way I. P. Fetterman, the Pittsburgh
racer, carried away first honors in the
dealers’ race for a purse of $750. The
time was 39 minutes 24:85 seconds.
Henry Ward Mottern, the Jefferson
county slayer, was respited from next
week until the week of Oct. 22 to al-
low the board of pardons to consider
his petition for ‘anothér hearing of his
~{'Gase, Sept. 25. The death warrant of |:
Ernest L. Haines, also sentenced to
die next: week, was recalled formally.
Haines and ‘Mottern are the Jefferson
county lads. ‘convicted last year. of
killing’ Haines’ father. Last month
al at the order of the su-
,"Haihes was acquitted.
\ ong. woman who says she is
zak Brown; aged twenty-four,
stody in Pittsburgh on a
RON. "She was arrested by detec:
Ss investigating robberies commit
ced.
Tene Onited States
iH. a with refiising te i
© cases’ of fraudulent exemption claims
k brought ‘to: his attgption, John Dwyer,
.Sefretary of +a: local exemption board,
“gaid he ‘had’ writtett to “Washington,
“suggesting the remiaval of the two of-
ficials,” Friends of’: Kane and Walnut
say politics is. behind the , charge,
Dwyer denies this.
ie
3
In conjunction with the movement to
ph the activities of the Industrial
. Workers of the World, deputy United
} States marshals raided: the Radical |
evaporates quickly and,' if applied in |
library in Pittsburgh and seized let-
| ters, papers and other literature.
! The agents then visited every news-
stand in the city and seized all So-
Ji clalist _propag anda. All the matter
‘seized will be presented for" inyesti-
; gation by’ the federal grand Jury: No
. arrested ‘Were made. E+
Sweeney, in
‘charge of ‘Pennsylvania draft office, re-
4 ceiveti‘a-message from the commander
in Camp Lee, Petersburg, Vas, saying |.
) ere from Pennsylvania are’ ar ving
sre dd without their récord pa-
iden Sweeney immediately [og
Rar to communicate with ‘locdl
| boards and again urged them 'to follow
insinaotions sent them.
Mrs. Helen Parish, Thirty: -five, of Mo-
nessen, was found guilty of _yoluntary |
manslaughter by a jury in Geensburg |
which heard evidence charging aut
' ordinary writing, several. joints;uf-the she killed her husband on Aug. 4 while
he was sleeping. The wife's defense
. was that Parish frequently had threat-
‘ened her life and that she killed aim
‘to prevent carring out the threats.
Mrs. Parish is the mother ¢¢ three
children.
Physiciant at a Pittsburgh hospital
.are- making every effort to diagnose
—..the.case of a man thought to be O. E.
Robinson, a jewelry salesman, aged |
about forty, of Toledo, who was found
unconscious in a Panhandle passenger
train at the Pennsylvania station.
Doctors were unable to revive the
man. The name “0. E, Robinson’’ was
written on letters. found among his
effects.
! Members of the appellate draft board
| of Allegheny county have discovered
that many young men of military age
have suddenly become expert in cer-
. tain industrial lines. That numbers
- of youths are endeavoring to escape.
| service through this contention and
| that corporation officials are deliber-
| ately helping them to escape is the
claim made by the board.
The first desertion of a drafted man
«on -his way to a national army camp
was reported to state draft headquar-.
ters, it, being charged that Robert R.
Frank of Farrell had deserted the
to Camp Lee while in Washington.
The-authorities have been notified to
arrest him. a
Students of the Shamokin high
school petitioned to drop the study
of German from the curriculum. The
decision was left at the students’ op-
Rion as to whether they cared to con-
tinue “the study. .It was announced
‘that the students. decided. to drop :the
Kaiser’s language from their studies.
President, Wilson may ‘decide wheth-
er the state police are under operation
of the draft law. The belief is that the
force will not be disrupted. The ques-
tion ‘has been taken up with Secre-
tary of War Baker, who has informed
persons that -such matters could be
.appealed to President Wilson.
A readjustment and increase of the
hqurly. rate of the wages of men em-
ployed aft the Reading railway shops
in, Reading of 1 to 3 cents an hour
was announced. The new schedule
affects more than 3,000 men.
Paral
Joseph Staffick, aged forty, of Hays,
{ died In the Homestead hospital from
{ injuries ‘suffered an hour earlier when
[8 load of sewer pipe fell on him as
"he was unloading a wagon.
)
Twenty thousand persons crowded |-
{is by
Hou and say. most of it has :
Jewelry, silverware,
pit 5
Mercer county contingent on the way.
The presicent of a L.uk
guish the counterfeit bills
good said, ‘Get familiar with the good
bills and you will recognize the bad
bills at sight.”
Here is a vast volume of general wis-
dom summed up in a single sentence.
This homely advice applies not only to
the detection of counterfeit money, but
with equal force to the detection of
counterfeit in all departments of life.
The man accustomed to handling
only good corn, gzood potatoes, good
diamonds, has no d:fficulty in detecting
“the faulty.” He does it intuitively.
Even without recoguized thought he
fixes upon the fault. The skilled egg
candler passes good eggs before the
light with a rhythmic rapidity that is
amazing, but an imperfect egg instant-
ly breaks his routine and interrupts his
process. . To the trained musician, ac-
~eustomed to bigh grade work, a false
note comes like a stab of pain.
: In any occupation or line of endeavor
“any man fully engaged in doing the
- right thing will have no difficulty in
.recoriizing the wrong. Right, and
.Wwrong are as far apart, as unlike, as
day and night, and he that is most ac-
customed to the light is quickest to
ote the shadows.
There is only one way to knot the
bad, the imperfect, the false, and that
knowing the good, the perfect.
the tine, —Christian Herald. :
OUR “FIRST WAR SONG.
ft Was Witten’: ‘by Billings," = Tanner,
In Revolutionary Days.
We have many patriotic Songs in ‘this
great country of ‘ours, but no great na-
‘tional war song. Who will be the one
in America was really a hymn and was
Revolutionary war. It was composed
-and written by a tanner named Wil-
Ham Billings, who- lived in. Beston;
‘This hymn, the first evidence of dis-
tinetly American music, has a ring
which not alittle sets eut the spirit,of
1917. The first verse of the war song
will indicate its general character:
iLet tyrants shake their iron rod 1 i
And slav'ry clank her galling chains,
We fear them not; we trust in God,
. New England's God forevermore.
When Billings wrote his war song he
evidently thought that the most impor.
‘tant part of the country was New KEng-
‘in (God. This war song’ has been
brouzht to public attention: ‘by Dr. M.
‘L. Bartlett of Des Moines, ¥a,, who in.
Forms us that, Billings worked out his
‘Warmenic'prohiems ‘on’ a plece of leath:
br, Just in the same way that: Lincoln
sred’on the: back of a shovel. New
& York World: -
a.
Lang sartd Bei Sigil Awoy 5
8. BlackbuiKs Extra Four ean 1
x0) yisitors to the menagérie were
= opening on the face of an Indian
telope or blackbuck halfway between
‘the eye and nose. One visitor sald it
was due to an injury; the’ other opined
it let! to the (¢ar Guct.
you are both w rong. said the Keep:
er. “That is an eXtra ‘nostril for the
fastest rindi? membre of the ante:
lope or deer family. He runs so fast
that his ordinary nostrils cannot suppl
‘ehou: zh air to ms limgs, and nature
gave him this extra air channel
No other animal at I know of is so
well provided. The blackbuck is the
fastest thing on hoofs. On favorable
grouiid and spurred Liv fear the black
buck could make sixty niles an hour.”
—New Yore Sun ’
Cedar Log 1,380 3 Years Old. :
The durability of cedar is well known.
over by the wind, was found by wood-
choppers in Washington state without
arly marks of decay in it. although a
log had 1,380 annual rings. The woods-
men found the log so sound that they
determined to cut it up into shingles
for the market. What a story that log
procession of people that came upon
the stage and departed during its life
of between 1.000 and 2.000 years!—Los
Angeles Times.
Sound Logic.
“Mamma,” said a five-year-old boy
the other day, ‘‘aren’t there any other
senses ’'cept hearing, seeing. feeling.
tasting and smelling?"
“No, my child,” answered the mother.
“It is usually considered that these five
are enough.”
“Well.” said the little one, with an
air of deep conviction, “I s’pose talking
would be called a sense if there wasn’t
so much nonsense about it.”—Pear-
son’s.
Aunty’s Criticism:
First Painter—I’ve just been showing
my aunt around. Most arhusing: “In-
variably picks out the wrong pictures
ones. Second Paintér—Did’ ‘whé say any-
she likes yours.” ~London PH-Bits.
The Diagnosis.
Doctor—Yeur daughter, madam, is
suffering from constitutional inertia.
Fond Mother—There! Poor thing! And
her pa declared she was simply lazy.—
Baltimore Americon.
A Matter of Policy.
“There's only one thing T ever do for
policy's sake.”
“What's that?”
“Pay my Demin: So
Love and a Canalboat.
Why is love like a canalboat? - Be-
cause it is an inter
don Mail
THE GOOD 24D THE BAD.
A Baker's Advice About Bills That |
Applies ia Li. o: Le
wien asked |
by a young cierk low lie could distin- |
from the !
to write it? The first war song written |
sung by the colonial troops during the |
‘iAnd; otherwise he might have included |
e Wwholé land among those who trust |
dj scussing the why and wherefore of |
A large cedar tree, probably thrown }
tree which twas standing astride the |
could tel} if it could speak—of the long |
to admire and denounces the ‘good
thing about mine? First* Painter—Oh.
‘nal transport.—Lon- |
Cash and due from Banks
Capital § Stock Paid in ........
Surplas Fund and Profits . on»:
Devons :
JULY 15, 1908 -
JUNE 20, 1°17
CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
The Second National Bank
~~ ,MEYERSDALE, PA,
JUNE TWENTIETH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN
RESOURCES
Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures
Total Resources
LIABILITIES
caress 8 1uess 8 65,000.00
Cireulation a eae raed Re
rowth as Shown in Following Statements
Made to Comptroller of Currency.
ONE QUARTER MILLION
; OVER THREE QUARTER MILLION
NE GAIN BETWEEN +B OVE § STATEMENTS,
$590,483: 5
OVER ONE-HALF MILLION—
$ 592,905.60
70,179.37
64,075.20
125,338.50
$ 852,498.67
65,621.83
64,400.00
657,476.84
$ 852,498.67
TH Liabilities
$262,014.92
$852,498.67
from freshened cows.
tical separator.
. The NEW
machine
ciency,
TT Yoder
” JOHNSTOWN _
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
—mE NEW DE LAVAL
LMOST any separator will do feing
brand new, perfectly adjusted an
‘But a separator can’t always be new, cows can’t always be
fresh, nor can you always separate your milk while it is at 85
or 90 degrees. : In other words, your Jeparsting is done under
practical conditions, and the sensible hig to do
NEW De Yavali is the most
- practical separator you can buy
_ because it is os arator that you can
clean under the { aif tA
a deliver cream of
conditions of milk
thickn
88.
Te you want to own a separator that will do
its work better she aay other, and do it
without censtant
then the NEW bee Laval
buy
While this statement has slways been true
of De Laval machines, it is true today to am
even greater degree than ever before because
. $n the many improvements in the NEW De
val.
The new self-centering bowl which gives the
which alone one be worth many dollars a
year to a
matic is system and the many other im-
provements found
machine, make the
most satisfactory separator to operate and
the most gg to own
ou can buy a
liberal terms.
machine and talk
good work when it is
skimming warm
is to get a prac-
depend upon to skin
temperature, and
ag ae adjustment;
the machine t
roaster capacity and skimming efii-
De Laval bell Re iy
ow owner, the improved auto-
in no other make of
NEW De Laval by far the
FW De Laval from us on
ay in and examine the
it over,
i
VIM VAPORINGS
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Saylor, of
Meyersdale, passed last Sunday af-
ternoon at the home of Eugene Wel-
len.
Mrs. Sadie Mull and Mrs.
Leora
the home of Martin Meyers.
Samuel, son of Fremont Fike, came
home from Akron, Ohio, last Satur-
day evening.
Harvey Arnold and familey, of
Moorefield, W. Va., spent several
days at the" home of M. A. Fike.
Mahlon Fike went to Johnstown
one day last week and bought an
automobile.
Our schools opened on Monday
with a good attendance the first day.
The P.-& M. Ry. Co. should build
a platform at this station, at Vim,
for: the convenience - of passengers
instead of broken pieces of plank.
Mrs. Catherine Gumbert
Mrs. Catharine (Brant) Gumbert,
widow of the late Peter Gumbert,
passed to her reward at her home,
near Pine Hill last Saturday after
an illness of about two weeks, her
death being caused by a paralytic
stroke, aged 80 years, 2 months and
5 days.
Deceased was a daughter of the
late Jacob and Elizabeth: Brant, and
was born and spent her entire life in
this section of Somerset county. She
was a member of the Reformed
Christian woman, loved and esteemed
by all who knew her. She was a
| faithful wife, a loving mother and a
church all her life and was a _devoted |
A A AI dN AAI lf Il NINN NSN SNS Nd
Engle, of Coal: Run, spent Monday at |.:
|
Driving It Home!
Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwo-
man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
that in which the work is
t 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.
Sm FTIR ACR (0% AAA NT
I is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyersdale Steam Laundry
kind neighbor, and will ever be re-
membered for her good works. Her
husband preceded her to the spirit
world about six years ago.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Joseph Hoyle, Mrs.
Emma Schlosnagle, George and
William Gumbert, all of Brothers-
valley, and one sister, Mrs. Eliza
Cober. Two sons, Henry and Peter
met accidental deaths some years
ago. ¢ § ; =
The funeral was held Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2 o’clock, the services: be-
ing conduced by her pastor, the Rev.
D. S. Stephan, of Trinity Reformed
‘church Berlin, and the Rev. W. H.
B. Carney, pastor of the Pine Hill
Lutheran church. Interment was
made in the Pine Hill cemetery.