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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL,
MEYERSDALE, PA.
SAVING THE TIRES.
Some Advice on How to Treat Them
to Make Them Last.
“Practical tests prove that a car is
not stopped as quickly when the wheels
are locked as when the brakes are ap-
plied gently, but firmly,” said a tire ex-
pert in a talk about tires.
“By locking the wheel and skidding
the tire the rubber is scraped and torn
off and the canvas laid bare. Goodby
tire. A tube must be placed inside a
casing, and every crease must be elim-
inated. A carelessly fitted tube will
be subjected to abnarmal tension in
several places and will be sure to burst
in inflating.
“Many drivers still run on deflated
tires. There is nothing will ruin a shoe
quicker than this. When you get a
puncture, stop immediately and make
repairs or change shoes. When rubber
comes in contact with oily or fatty sub-
stances it blisters and disintegrates.
See that your tires do not come in
contact with any kind of grease.
“We have known brand new tires to
wear out in only 150 miles of driving,
simply because the front wheels were
not properly aligned. If your wheels
are not parallel and true, have them '
tested at once and the trouble cor-
rected.
“Vulecanizing by an incompetent per-
son is dangerous and costly, resulting
usually in rubber losing its elasticity.”
—New York Post.
PUT THE RUBBISH TO USE.
Old Clothes and Furniture May Be
Needed by Others.
If there is a piece of furniture about
the house that is not actually in use
give it away. Get rid of it; clean up
the rubbish: clear out the attic; don’t
allow useless articles to accumulate,
The habit of hoarding was formed in
the jungle away back when the race
was bard pressed, Our ancestors later
on found that it was a part of wisdom
to hang on to everything they could get
hold of, on the theory that it would
some day be of use, and generally it
was of use. So we have clung to the
habit of hoarding until at this time
there are many articles about every
home which are absolutely useless and
which will never be used by the house-
hold. Get rid of them.
The conservation of resources—the
economy about which we hear so much
—does not contemplate the withholding
from use of anything that may be of
mse. Indeed, conservation means using
to the utmost that which is usable in a
rational way. So you are actually con-
.serving the wealth of the worid by dis-
posing of that which is of no use to
you, but which may Le of use to some
ne else.—Columbus Dispatch,
Courage and Cruelty.
At is one of the mean and morbid lies
that physical courage is ¢onnected with
cruelty. Tolstoyan and Kiplingite are
nowhere more at one than in maintain
ing this. They have, I believe. some
small sectarian quarrel with each
other, the small one saying that cour-
age must be abandoned because it is
connected with cruelty and’ the other
maintaining that cruelty is charming
because it is a part of courage. But it
is all, thank God, a lie. An energy and
boldness of body may make a man
stupid or reckless or dull or drunk or
hungry, but it does not make him
spiteful.—Gilbert K. Chesterton.
Royal Tennis Champion.
King Gustav of Sweden is one of
the best tennis players in Europe. One
room in the royal palace at Stockholm
is devoted to his trophies as such, many '
of them won against all comers. and
the court which he has constructed in
the most salubrious neighborhood of
the capital is the most perfect covered
one in Europe. When the king is in
the courts there is no ceremony, noth-
ing to suggest that a royal exponent is
matching his skill against a commoner.
Not even a ball boy is engaged to pick
up the balls, a fixed attribute of every
English tournament.
Warmouth Bass.
The Warmouth bass, called by some
the google eye, redeye and bream, is
really a sunfish shaped very much like
the rock bass. It grows to ten inches
and prefers shallow ponds and low-
land, sluggish streams. It is not a very
game fish and generally carries the fia-
vor of the mud bottoms when used as
a food.—“Lake and Stream Game Fish-
ing,” by Dixie Carroll
A Remarkable Development.
“My husband is better to me now
than he was even before we were mar-
ried.”
“How remarkable!
changed him so?”
“No; I have changed him. He fis
actually afraid to be otherwise.” —Ex-
change.
Have the years
The Reason.
“Darling, I could be satisfied in a
but with you.”
“I believe you would. That’s the
reason I'm going to marry Charles.
He won’t.”"—Kansas City Star.
The Good Time Coming.
“The electric griddie makes toast in-
stantly; the fireless cooker” —
“l know. A few more inventions
and we can get along without cooks.” —
Pittsburgh Post.
So Be Cheerful.
“It pays to be cheerful.”
“You bet. As long as you look as if
you had money your creditors will
have confidence in you.”—Boston Tran-
NEW YORKERS JUST FOLKS.
A Visitor
Finds Them Precisely Like
Any Other People.
The first thing that strikes one about
New York is that people are just peo-
ple there, the same as anywhere else.
The man who wears a straight collar
with his tie climbing round his neck;
the woman with the bottomless purse
where she loses her car tickets; the lit-
tle man with the hard hat; the big man
with the soft hat, and the medium size
man with no hat at all; the gum chew-
ing stenographer; her clove chewing
employer; the “I says to him, I says”
folk—you find them in New York just
like anywhere else. Only they travel
around in subways and on elevated
railways and things, and sometimes
they move a little faster than we do in
Montreal. But they're just folks—a
certain percentage of water, carbohy-
drates, glucophosphates, etc, same as
here.
New Yorkers do not live in dress
suits and drive around in taxicabs un-
til 7 in the morning, whatever Mr.
Cobb may say. At 7 in the morning
the New Yorker is bolting his teast and
. coffee in nis little home in the. Bronx
or the Jersey shore and reading his
morning paper. At noon Mr. New
Yorker trots out to a one-arm lunch
room and lines up for his “drop the
egg, two in” just like a Montrealer,
unless he goes to the help yourself res-
taurants, which have many tiers of
boxes like those at the postoffice whera
you fetch your own mail, with glass
fronts so vou can see what's inside.—
Montreal Star.
THE FIRST SERGEANT.
He Is the Bank In Which the Private
Deposits All His Woes.
It has been handed down from gen-
eration to zenerition that Solomon was
the wisest of men. He may bave been
in his time. but alongside a first ser-
geant in the army he couldn't hold a
candle.
Solomon may have solved a lot of
knotty problems in his day. but men
were made differently then. Solomon
in a first sergeant’s job would have
lasted probably from reveille to re-
treat, and then he would have either
jumped in the river or shot himself.
More foolish questions are asked of
one each day than any information
man in the Union station ever dreamed
of, and some sergeants answer ques-
tions two at a time all day long. No
matter what happens to a soldier, he
goes to the first sergeant. And particu-
larly is this true of recruits during
their first few months in the army. It
takes a sense of humor to be a first
sergeant, and unless a man can do two
or three things at a time, have a knowl-
edge of the world and what is in it.
even more general than an almanac,
and can understand human nature he
won't make a good first sergeant. Por
a first sergeant can either make or
break a company.—Kansas City Star.
Is the Derby Hat Doomed?
Where are all the derby hats of yes-
terday? Why do only a few men wear
them any more?
Blame it on the seductive soft hat.
Blame it on motorcars, which do pot
agree with derbies or high hats. A
man under a derby in a motorcar go-
ine more than three miles an hour
lcoks as incongruous as a derby wear-
er. coat off and a cigar between his
teeth. paddling a canoe.
“The soft hat has passed through
many freak styles and experiments,”
said a haberdasher. ‘Its comfort is its
first quality. It conforms easily to the
head. is light in weight and isn’t badly
hurt if it happens to be stepped or sat
on or run over in the street.” —Provi-
dence Journal,
For Walls or Roofs.
A cleanable waterproof misture for
wails or roofs which will adhere to ma
sonry, slate, glass or metal is made by
dissolving one pound of glue in three
and a half pints of water. To this is
added three ounces of bichromate of
potash dissolved in half a pint or hor
water. When these ingredients have
been thoronvily mixed sufficient whit
ing is added to insure the right con
sistency - London Mail,
The Woman's Excuse.
*One woman.” sitvs a police commis
sioner, “crossing the street at the
wrong time can block up two street
cars, a half dozen motors and a whole
procession of wagons, besides giving
every one who sees her heart failure.’
“Well.” replies the woman, “what
business have all these vehicles on the
street just when | want to go across?’
—Kansas City Star.
An Exception.
“An emergency always brings for-
ward a man to meet it.”
“] don’t know about that. Many’s
the time 1 have seen my hat blow down
the street while strong men stood by
and simply laughed.” — Washington
Star. .
Differentiation.
“The wan who runs this store has got
the right idea, all right.”
“How so?” .
“He advertises ‘bagpipes and musical
instruments.’ "—Houston Post.
‘ The Lugubrious.
Hokus— Why do women cry at wed--
dings and funerals? Pokus—I suppose
the uncertainty of the future has
gomething to do with it.—Town Topics
One Emergency.
script.
Give Her Time.
Teacher—Do yo 7 t
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Moad , {WO Vears.—
“I'll never say die.’
“Wait until your hair begins to turr
gray. "-—Baltimore Ar ican.
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CARE OF THE REEL.
A Few Words of Expert Advice For the
Man Behind the Rod.
The life of any reel will be mighty
short if it is not given care and atten-
tion. The finest machine in the world
will not run without oil, yet many fel-
lows will use a reel week after week
and not think of feeding it a little
soothing sirup until it begins to serape
and rattle like the 5:15. When this
stage is reached they will drop a little
oil in the cups, but the damage is done
through overheated bearings and .pin-
ions, and the reel will never again run
with freedom from friction and as
smoothly as before the rough grind was
handed it, vl
A reel should be cleaned and oiled
after each day’s fishing. The ordinary
thin oil is not sufficient, as no thin oil
will last through the different tempera-.
.tures to which a reel is subjected dur-
ing a day’s casting. Heated by the hot
sun and chilled by the night air, as well
as drenched with water during the day,
make a combination that would elimi-
nate any thin oil. On the other hand,
the thick oils soon churn into 'a creamy
paste and hamper and clog thé reel'so
that you think you are losing your speed
at the game when your casts slow.up.
You make no mistake when you invest
in a bottle of “real” reel oil,’ and:the,
best comes from the jawbones and blub-
ber of the porpoise. This oil is refined
up in the arctic circle and will stand
the gaff of any temperature. After you
buy the oil, use it. Don’t stand it away
in the tackle cabinét and forget it.
Oiling the reel is not all that is neces-
sary to keep the little old pleasure pro-
ducer in good shape. Like the line, the
reel should be entirely dried after each
day’s fishing. Although German silver
does not rust, it will corrode, and the
main cause for corroding is dampness.
Be fair to the reel and dry it thorough-
ly in the open air or sunlight and drop
a little oil in each cup before you tuck
it away for the night.
As a final tip on the reel, old man,
‘here’s hoping you won't take it apart
every once in awhile to see what makes
it go. The smooth running qualities of
many a fine reel bave been ruihed by
the “inquisitive cuss with the itching
palm and a screwdriver. Of course you
would never think of taking your watch
apart and assembling it again. If any-
thing goes bad with the reél, take it
down to a reel doctor and let him feel
its pulse. This will save you time and
money, and for practice at mechanics
you can have as much fun tinkering
with an old alarm clock as a victim, —
From “Lake and Stream Game Fish-
ing.” by Dixie Carroll.
RUSSIA'S ICY MARSHES.
The Vast Frozen Desert of the Region
of the Tundras. ' x
In the extreme north of Russia, from
the White sea to Bering strait, there
les the region of the tundras—waste
frozen marshes stretching inland from
the sea for from 300 to 1,000 miles. It,
is often difficult to determine the point
separating the land from the sea, for
the surface of the ground is frozen
some forty feet deep. Even the heat
of summer cai thaw only about two
feet of top =oil.
The only possible vegetation consists
of moss and a few berry bushes—scant
food for tue millions of birds and
beasts of all kinds that flock northward
in July and August te escape their en-
emy, the hunter. By the end of Au-
gust, however, the heavy frosts set in.
and the tundra® become a barren, life-
less desert, covered with snow for hun-
dreds of miles, with never a living
speck of any kind on which to rest
one's eyes.
To the south of the tundras is the
great coniferous forest belt, which
stretches from Finland to the Sea Of.
Okhotsk. At its western end, where
it is more settled, this is perhaps Bic
most beautiful part of the great Rus-
sian plain. .
The countryside is dark with "the
shadows of the fir trees, but frequent-
ly shot with the light, lithe trunks of
silver birches, says the Geographical
Review. The aspect of the land, too,
is slightly rolling in parts, and cradled
between these slight elevations there
are-thousands of charming little lakes
fringed around with reeds.
Chinese Sausages.
In China sausages are made of meat
from the hind thighs of hogs, which
are chopped fine, mixed with four
drams of sugar, rice wine and table
salt, eight drams of soy and a pinch of
pepper to every one and one-third
pounds and dried in the sun yntil
ready for tinning. Dried oysters and
ducks’ Hvers are added to some Varie-
ties. iL
it Woald Help.
“My dear, we can’t afford to pay $50
a month rent.” :
“Of course we can’t, my dear. T've
thought of that. But there's a lovely
garage on the back of the lot which
we can surely rent for $5 a month,
which will help a good deal.—Detroit
Free Press.
Presumption Resented.
“Be good,” said the philosopher, “afd
you will be happy.”
“Not necessarily,” replied the man of
sensitive conscience. “If you under-
fake to be good some envious people
are likely to think you are trying to
put on airs.” —Washington Star.
Classified.
“Mrs. Flubdub wants to borrow some
sugar, some eggs and some flour. ‘Bvi-
dently is going to make some
sponge
“Sponge
s right. But why does
she ely on us?’— Louisville
Courier-Journa
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tobaccos — Blended
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spot, they
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Chesterfield
“They please the taste
great! But also—"’
If a cigarette simply Flessod
smokers use
at. But not now.
Because Chesterficlds give
smokers not only a taste that
they like, but also a new
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Chesterfields hit the smoke-
let you know .you
are smoking—they “Satisfy”!
Yet, they're MILD!
The new blend of pure, natu-
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And the blend can’t be copied
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BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ LIVE-
STOCK JUDGING CONTEST
Following a custom instituted by
the Somerset County Agricultural
Society, two years ago, a livestock
judging conest for boys and girls
‘will be conducted at the Somerset
Fair on Wednesday, September 26,
at 1:00 p. m. and at Meyersda.. on
Wednesday, September 19, at 10:00
a. m. Boys and girls between the
ages of 10 and 18 are eligible in
either contest BUT NOT IN BOTH.
The contest will be in charge of an
instructor from The Pennsylvania
State College. Dairy cattle, beef
cattle, horses and sheep will be
judged. A bulletin on HOW TO
JUDGE LIVESTOCK and which will
give you valuable information in
preparation for the contest will be
sent you upon request, to the Farm
Bureau Office, Somerset, Pa. The
judge will also give you further in-
structions on the day of the contest,
just before the work begins.
All contestants will be given free
admission to the fair on the day of
the contest. Besides this, several
cash prizes will be given. If you are
to enter this contest, please notify the
Farm Bureau at once.
We want you to feel that this con-
test will be of great falue to you in
the fact that you will be able to pick
out the good points and the bad
points of any individual animal.
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Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business June 20th, 1917
RESOURCES
loans and Investments... ................ ..... .»s.. .
B, 8. Bonds voice iris a ag i 6
Banking House. cz. .......... Sieve civ ila 30,200.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... . ..... 308,099.70
Cash... i es daca is inn ... 106,728.53
Total.... $1,354,329.80
LIABILITIES
Capital Stoek. ...........o 0. ees. Lal, ou
Surplusand Profits....... ..................... YT
CIPeUlatIOn «is fobs. ole. asim 64,400.00
Deposits CROLL Sa
Total... $1,354,329.80
OUR GROWTH THE PAST YEAR.
June 30th, 1916. ...................... . $1,02 :
December 27th, 1916 ............ .... : Hany
June 20th, 1917 .... li 1,354.329.80
SHOWS GAIN OF —
$120,000.00 June to Gecember, 1916
211,000.00 December, 1916, to June, 1917
331,000.90 Gain in the past 12 months.
The Citizens National Bank
¢¢The Bank With The Clock With The Million"
in the Stocks.
The term ‘‘stocks’™ as an instrument
of punishment is applied in the author
ized version of the Bible to two differ-
ent articles, one of which answers rath-
er to the pillory. The other answers
to the stocks. the feet alone being con
fined in it
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