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Macbeth and McKinley.
Long before William McKinley be
came a national and international fig-
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She Was Teco Rxdiant.
The elder Swift, founder of one of
the great Chicago beef concerns. bated
gre I made his acquaintance and won to see women working in bright clothes,
his friendship and good will, which
ended only when he passed to eternal
rest. We often met at his home in
Canton, O., and at the house of a mu-
tual friend, M. Ruhman, the son-in-law |
of Rabbi Levinsky, the editor of the
family and school Bible.
When he was elected a member of
congress this intimacy continued, and
many social and pleasant hours were
passed in my home and in his rooms at
the Ebbit House, where he lived dur-
ing his whole congressional career. He
was at all times genial, and no matter
what he had to do, either for his con-
stituents or for his friends, he was
ever the same patient, courteous and
gelf sacrificing gentleman. In due
course of time he was elected governor
of Ohio. 1 telegraphed him, “Thane
of Cawdor, king that shall be” to
which he promptly replied, “Thanks,
but not yet.”—Simon Wolf in Amerl
can Hebrew.
First Aid For Fainters.
Every member of the Washington po-
lice force carries when on duty in
crowds a pill box full of tiny glass
tubes of aromatic spirits of ammonia.
according to the. Popular Sclence
Monthly. These are for reviving per
sons who faint in the street.
The tubes are about an inch long and
slightly more than an eighth of an inch
in diameter. Each has a wrapping of
absorbent cotton and over this a silk
gauze covering. ; =
Slight pressure between the fingers
ig, sufficient to break the tube. The
ammonia is promptly absorbed by the
cotton about it, which also serves to
prevent the sharp particles of glass
from doing any harm. Held beneath
the nose of the person who has fainted.
the fumes of the ammonia soon revive
her. The tubes are stored in all the
patrol boxes about the city and are
carried in patrol wagons and police
ambulances,
Speculation and Gambling.
it has often been asked if a man can
speculate in the stock market without
any one losing in the event of his mak-
ing a profit.
On the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange I once traced 100 shares of
Steel that passed through the hands
of nineteen speculators in a single day.
Each one of these nineteen bought and
sold them, and each one made monoy
It is idle to say that some of these
may have lost what they might have
made, because that involves us in a
double hypothesis. Actually each one
profited, and actualities are what count
in speculation as in every other form
of legitimate business.
. This incident illustrates one of seven
reasons why speculation is not gam-
bling. — William Van Antwerp in
New. Yao
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The Perilous Abe.
If a man is going to commit a crime
during his’ lifetime the chances are
that he will do it at the age of twenty-
nine, It is a curious fact that statls-
tics have shown that man is more dan-
gerous at this period of his life than at
any other. |
The general supposition is that men
have attained the highest development
of their mental and physical powers at
twenty-nine. and they are supposed to
be able to distinguish between right
and wrong and to realize the conse
quences liable to follow the indulgence
of either.
Next to the age of twenty-nine the
greatest number of criminals have been
aged twenty-one, twenty-seven or for-
ty-five years.— London Answers.
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Death Warning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes recorded his
_ protest against the custom of telling a
person who’ does not actually ask to
know that he cannot recover. As that
loving observer of mankind asserted, so
must every one who knows whereof he
speaks assert that people almost al-
‘ways come to understand that recov-
ery is impossible. It is rarely need-
ful to tell any one that this is the case.
When nature gives the warning death
appears to be as little feared as sleep.
Giving It a Name.
+The doctor treated me for a week
for a cold,” complained the victim bit
terly, “and now he sends me a bill for
$50. Highway robbery. that’s what
it is!”
wprd call it pillage,” suggested his
idiotic friend, with an explosive giggle.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Medical Etiquette.
Medical etiquette, instead of being
kept up, as people so often imagine, in
the interests of the doctors. is main-
tained in the interests of the public.
It is the public, not the doctors, who
would suffer most were it done away
with.—London Spectator.
Established a Record.
«What did mother say when you
proposed to her, daddy?”
“She hung her head and was silent
for several minutes. And that is the
only time I have ever known her to be
gilent for several minutes.” — Detroit
Free Press.
Discouraging.
«pm always first at the office and
have been for a long time.”
“Anybody noticed it vet?"
«Only the janitor. He says that
won’t get me anything.” —Exchange.
Permission.
Fond Mother—My son, did your fa
ther forbid you learning to smoke?
Young America—No. ma. When 1 ask-
ed him if 1 might smoke he said, “Not
much!”
» spirit who is not
He hath a
planted above
Xe
according to a man who once labored
for the Swift concern. There happen-
ed to be a stenographer at the works.
however, who bought all the loud rai-
ment she could and looked like a com-
bination of a merry-go-round and
rainbow when she walked through the
yards. 3
One day the elder Swift caught sight
of her. He called his assistant.
“Who is that?’ he asked.
“* 4y, that's Mr. Blank’s stenogra-
pher.”
“How much does she get?”
“Twenty-five a week.”
“Dock her.”
“I'm afraid she'll leave.”
Swift shot a glance at his assistant
before he answered.
“If she doesn’t,” he said, “dock her
again.”"—Harl Godwin in Washington
Star.
The Long Lived Farmer.
Man armed with a hoe protects him-
self from the agencies of death more
completely than man with any other
life defense weapon. The United States
bureau. of statistics has discovered that
important fact by a study of the rec-
ords of life insurance companies. Then
“the hard life of the farmer” is longer.
not because it simply seems longer,
but because he lives in the midst of
protective agencies. The statistics of
the entire country show that farmers
live longer than all others. fifty-eizht
years being their average span of life
Bookkeepers and office assistants live
the shortest lives, thirty-six years be-
ing their average limit of endurance.
Among the office workers tuberculosis
is the worst enemy of life, 35 per cent
of them having died of that disease.
Among the farmers
causes the most deaths, 16 per cent of
the total.— Worcester Telegram.
Told by the Windmill.
In certain districts of Holland news
of a domestic sort is, frequently an-
‘| nounced by the windmills.
When, for
instance, a miller gets married he stops
bis mill with the arms of the wheel in
an oblique position and with the sails
unfurled. His friends and guests do
likewise with their mills in celebration
of the ceremony. To announce a birth
the wheel is stopped with the arms
in a slanting position, but at a more
acute angle than for a marriage and
with the two upper sails unfurled. In
the event of a miller’s death his fami-
ly causes the sails of his mill to be all
furled, and the mill is turned around
until the arms assume an upright cross,
in which position they are left until
after the funeral has taken place.
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Contrasts and the Eye.
Lecturing on “The Effect on the Eye
of Varying Degrees of Brightness and
.| Contrast? before the Jlluminating En-.
gineer soclety recently, Dr. James
Kerr of the public health department
of the London county council referred
to some effects which may be surpris-
ing. Having to examine long lists of
figures in black type, he tried to facili-
tate his task by drawing vertical and
horizontal lines in red ink, but the dif-
ferent focusing of the black and red
strained his eye and gave him a head-
ache, which did not trouble him when
. all the figures and lines were either
black or red.
One of Them Did.
As good a real kid story as you've
probably noticed for awhile is related
herewith: The four-year-old son was
baving lunch alone with his grand-
mother. At his proposal they agreed
to play “father and mother.” He was
the father, and she was the mother
After the few words of grace he bent
forward In excellent imitation of his
father and said. “Well, mother, and
have the children said anything cute
today ?’—Philadelphia Star.
What They Were Doing.
“Whut wuz Si an’ his wife a-doin’
when you stopped at their farm awhile
ago, Zeke?” #
“Qh, a-hemmin’ an’ a-hawin’.”
“Hemmin' an' hawin?"
“Yep. She was hemmin’ a apron, an’
he was hawin' at the mule.”—Florida
Times-Union. ,
Sufficient Reason.
“Are you an art connoisseur?’
“Yes,” replied Mr. Sumrox, “although
1 should never speak of myself as
such.”
“Why not?"
. “Because I'm not absolutely sure I
know how to pronounce the word.” —
Exchange.
Mean Revenge.
«Brown sent me a brick®by parcel
post, but 1 got even with him.”
“What did you do?”
ing out more life insurance.” —Detroit
Free Press.
Waste of Cash.
“My wife is afflicted with a wasting
disease.” ,
“Wasting disease,”
«Yes. She has a bad case of shop-
ping habit.” —Boston Transcript.
Travel.
All travel has its advantages. If the
passenger visits better countries be
may learn to improve his own, and if
fortune carries him to worse he may
learn to enjoy his own.—Johnson.
Sensitive.
that tooth. Patient—Then 1 will go out
of the room. I'm too tender hearted to
| treasure la
petty wrongs.— Feltham | doer’s need.——Calderor
witness it.
is never lost. It is a
} guarded for the
heart disease ,
«Passed the word along to a number |
of agents that he was figuring on tak- ’
Dentist— We must kill the nerve of
BURSTS WITH THE HEAT.
8ad Fate of the Terrashot When It
Enters Death Valley.
That most frightful of deserts, Death
valley, in California, lies between two
lofty ranges, one of which is called the
Funeral mountains.
The higher levels of these mountains
are rather densely forested, with here
and there little meadows and “parks”
(natural clearings), in which dwells a
| strange animal known as the terrashot.
. So inaccessible are these inhospitable
heights, however, that the creature.
rarely seen, has remained almost un-
known.
Respecting its habits little can be
said. There is no reason for supposing
that it is dangerous to man. Nobody
knows even whether it is carnivorous
or a plant feeder. It has a coffin shap
ed ‘body, six or seven feet long, with 8
gort of shell running the whole length
of its back.
Having, it is presumed, few: natural
enemies, the terrashot increases in
numbers until it is seized with an im-
pulse to migrate, pessibly because its
food supply no longer suffices. The
animals then form long processions.
marching down ‘into the desert in sn-
gle file. with the evident intention of
crossing the valley to the mountains on
the other side.
But none of them ever gets across.
As they encounter the hot sands they
rapidly distend with the heat, and’ one
after another they blow up with loud
reports, the places where this happens
being marked by deep, grave shaped
holes.—Philadelphia Record.
SLIPS OF THE PEN.
Even the Best of Writers at Times
Nod While They Work.
Many it not most writers have had to
bewail the occasional freakishness of
the pen in putting down on paper some.
! thing very different from that intended
by its author. 8
Readers of Sir George Trevelyan’s
“Life of Macaulay” will recall the his.
torian’s horror when too late he dis
covered that he had written in the
Edinburgh Review that “it would be
unjust to estimate Goldsmith by ‘The
Vicar of Wakefield’ or Scott by ‘The
Life of Napoleon’ when he really in-
tended to say that it would be unjust
to estimate Goldsmith by his ‘History
of Greece.” There was, too, an amus
ing slip of the pen perpetrated by the
, grave Sir Archibald Alison in includ
~ ing®Sir Peregrine Pickle instead of Sir
i Peregrine Maitland among the pall
bearers at the Duke of Wellington's
| funeral. =
| Another striking instance of the pen
mechanically writing something not in-
| tended came under notice the otheriday
on the title page of a reprint of a once
~ famous book, Jane Porter’s. “Scottish
'. Chiefs.” ~This edition, published som
years ago by a well known London
house, describes Miss Porter as “au
thor of ‘Pride and Prejudice, ‘Sense
and Sensibility,’ ” ete. Doubtless: the
Christian name of “Jane” induced the
slip. All remember and nearly all—
Charlotte Bronte was one notable ex-
ception—love Jarie Austen; not so many
remember Jane Porter.— Westminster
Gazette.
Magic of a Siphon.
| ~ When a pipe shaped like the inverted
letter U, in which the arms are of
equal length. is filled with water and
each end of the pipe is put into a sepa-
rate vessel full of water “the down-
ward pull” or weight of the liquid in
each of the two arms will balance the
other, and if the water is at the same |
level in the two vessels it will remain
at that level in both vessels. But if the
level of the water in one vessel is lower
than in the other, since the two vessel
are connected with a pipe full of wa:
ter, the water will run down from the
higher level to the lower. This consti-
tutes what is called a siphon. A siphon
itself has no more magic about it than
a pencil has when it falls or than any |
other similar phenomenon in. nature,
yet some of the siphon’s manifestations
seem to be not only magical, but al-
most incredible.—St. Nicholas.
“Most Perfect Ode.”
One hundred years ago appeared what
Byron called “the most perfect ode in
the language.” “The Burial of Sir John
Moore.” It was the Newry Telegraph
which gave to the world this anony-
mous poem of Rev, Charles Wolfe.
which won for its author but a posthu-
mous fame, for not until his death in
1823 was its real authorship made
known, though various had been the
guesses as to the writer. That obscure
curate of Ballyclog must have felt
proud indeed to find among its putative
authors such poets as Campbell and
Byron.—London Chronicle.
Light of the Firefly.
A scientist says that a temperature
approaching 2,000 degrees F. would be
necessary to make a light equivalent to
| that emitted by an ordinary firefly. The
| enormous waste of energy in all indus-
! trial methods of producing light is a
| matter of common knowledge, and the
example of the firefly remains unimi-
tated by man.
Fountain Pen Tests.
Fountain pens are tested by an in-
strument called a micrometer. If one
piece of the mechanism is out even a
| six-hundredth part of an inch the mi-
crometer rejects it as faulty.
i Tactful.
| “Do you think that the lady who is
moving in above you is nice?”
“Oh, dear, yes. Why, she noticed
that baby had two teeth before she had
been in the house two hours.”
The minutes saved by hurry are as
1s the pennies saved by parsi-
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DIRT AND DISEASE.
Man Alone Has Typhoid Fever, and
: He Get: it From Fill ’
To be the coun-ort of a queen and yet
to die of a disease that is caused by
filth!
That was the fate of Prince Albert,
‘consort of Queen Vict. ria, who died at
the' prime age of fort: two from ty-
phbid fever. a disease that is wholly
preventable. :
uuTyphoid fever is found only in man.
‘It #§ caused by a short rod shaped mi-
crostopic vegetable which enters the
body through the mouth and leaves it
in human discharges to enter another
human mouth, to which it is carried by
fingers, flies, fluids and food.
Jt is essentially a disease of young
adult life. Older people are less apt to
have it, probably because they have
suffered from an attack of the disease
in their youth. CSE
Typhoid fever fs known by various
names—*slow fever,” “low fever”—but,
whatever name it is called by, it kills
-about 8 per cent of those whom it at-
tacks.
A certain percentage of those who
reecver become carriers—that is, per
sgons: who, though well, secrete the or
gdni. ms in their discharges:
‘=iCarriers are largely responsible for
‘the perpetuation of typhoid fever, but
‘the ‘instalation of proper sewer S¥s-
‘tems. the abolition of flies, cockroaches
gent care of the victim of the disease
are the measures which if rigidly en-
forced will rid the country of the dis-
ease.—New York Mail.
LIKE INVERTED RAIN.
Luckily
For the Aviator, He Was Out
of Range of the Drops.
It will be easily understood, writes
C, G. Grey in “Tales of the Flying
Service,” that before a bullet that has
been shot straight upward begins to
fall there must be a point where it
Stands dead still and that for the last
: part of its upward flight it travels very
8) owly. One officer of my acquaintance
‘told me, after some months of war,
that his ymost curious experience was
when once, and once only, he discov-
ered the exact extreme range point.
“He was flying along quite peacefully
on a bright, sunny morning at an alti-
tude of a little over 8,000 feet, without
worrying about anything, when sud-
denly he saw something bright dart
gan to look about him and saw, a
side. a whole stream of little bright
things glittering in the sun.
Then he realized that he had just
‘struck a level that happened to be the
extreme vertical range of a machine
gun that was making uncommonly
good
¥ifles and other machine guns also’
"fished into view as he flew along, and
when his eyes caught the right focus he.
coulil follow the slow, topmost part of
| their movement for a considerable dis-
tdnce. “It looked,” he said, “just as if
it were raining upward,” and the phe-
nomenon was so novel that he quite
forgot for a time that the ‘raindrops’
indicated that he was unpopular with
séme one Lelyw.
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Bomb Drorning iL.allcons.
The first Lomb dropping balloous
were humble cuough and equally fu-
tile. Balloons had heen used in war as
‘early as the sicze of Maubeuge by the
Ausirvians for observation purposes.
The first talk of bomb dropping was ii
1812. when the Russians were said to
have a huge balloon for that purpose.
but nothing was dene with it. In i347
however, the Austrians, when attack-
ing Venice, sent up paper fire balloons,
town. But they forgot to allow for con-
trary air currents. The balloons got
into such a current and, drifting back
over the Austrian lines, bombed them
ingtead of Venice.
Webster's Portrait.
Daniel Webster once sat for his por-
trait to G. P. Healy, and the senator's
remark when he surveyed the complet-
ed picture became one of the artist's
favorite anecdotes, in after years. “I
think,” said Webster as he looked at
his counterfeit presentment, “that is a
face 1 have often shaved.”
Healy found Andrew Jackson a dis-
agreeable and unwilling “subject,” and
he compensated himself by painting
01d Hickory with absolute fidelity to
nature, not glossing a single defect.
The portrait gives Jackson an ugly.
savage and pallid face.
The Ship of State.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier once took a fall
out of Sir Charles Tupper, for years
leader of the opposition, and Sir John
Macdonald. Bantering them on their
self praise for their own political serv-
jces to Canada. he admitted that they
had sailed the ship of state fairly suc-
cessfully, adding: “Sir John was at the
helm and supplied the brains, while Sir
Charles supplied the wind. His blow-
ing filled the sails.” —Toronto Globe.
Embarrassing.
“Do you ever see the president?”
asked Willie of his uncle, who lived in
Washington.
“Yes, nearly every day.” was the re-
y.
“And does he ever see you?” queried
the little felow.—Chicago News.
Size of It.
«Send me a ton of coal”
“What size?” A
“Vell. a 2.000 pound ton would suit
me, if that’s not asking too much.”—
Life.
Sympathy.
The drying up of
more of honest
seas of gore.
a single tear
fame
vron
past the side of the machine. He be- |
shade below him and a trifle to one |
shooting. Other bullets from |
and other filth insects, the maintenance |
of a pure food supply and the intelli-
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SEPTEMBER ELEVENTT
Loans and Investments
U. S. Bonds and Premium
Cash and due from Banks
Surplus Fund and Profits .....
Circulation ....
Deposits
Growth as Shown in
JUNE 20, 1917 -
SEPTEMBER 11, 1917
NET GAIN BETWEEN
CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
‘The Second National Bank
MEYERSDALE, PA.
RESOURCES
Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures
Total Resources
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in ...............
Total Liabilities
. Made to Comptroller of Currency.
$49,446.93
APPROXIMATELY SIX PER CENT
NINETEEN SEVENTEEN
$ 632,801.99
75,179.37
64,075.20
129,888.94
$ 901,945.50
$ 65,000.00
65,934.93
65,000.00
706 010.57
$ 901,945.50
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BEECHAM'S
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Love.
Obedience, we must remember, is a
ment of peace. but love. which includes
obedience, is the whole.
has |
shedding |
First Literary Club.
Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds
founded the first literary club. It was
| in 1764.
t, trust the future
us now.—Towne.
Largest Sele of Any Medicine in the World, Meyersdale,
Sold everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25¢c.
part of religion and therefore an ele- |
+ Driving It Home]
Let us drive home to you
! the fact that no washwo-
! man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
I! 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.
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