‘has placed the remedy where it can ESR rr Tigger TIE i ¥ THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA. ATONED FOR HIS BRUTALITY | Nothing but Suicide Left for lli-Man. nered Russian General Who Had Insulted Grand Duchess. A titled visitor to Philadelphia who has spent many years in Russia tells me a story of his friend, the Grand Duchess Tatiana, one of the four love- ly daughters now sent with the czar into exile. In these hours when all thoughts turn to Russia—especially in this city __the story will bear repetition. Fran- cis B. Reeves has reminded us in his new book of the warm friendship of Russia for Philadelphia, shown when the Russian battleships visited Phila- delphia in 1893 to bring gifts to our commissioners who took the corn to feed the starving population. And Philadelphia locomotives are indispen- gable to Russia’s railways. It seems that the Grand Duchess Ta- tiana in her Red Cross uniform was riding on a tramway in Petrograd with a desperately wounded officer. A “Russian” general with a German pame and German manners boarded the car and demanded his subaltern’s seat. «git still,” said Tatiana to her charge. He obeyed her. After the general's third demand was disregarded, he turned a torrent of abuse upon Tatiana. She handed him her card. The German knelt in the car. She refused his apology. “You saw that man was grievously wounded. And you had no right to speak to any woman as you spoke to me.” Several days later the German officer, ghot himself. Which suggests a cheap and easy way of ending the war.— “3irard” in Philadelphia Ledger. Chemical Wealth in Lakes. There are several lakes in the United States which contain sodium carbo- nate, borax, potash and common table salt. The longer the war continues the more valuable these chemical bod- tes become. Perhaps the best kaown of these is Great Salt Lake, Utah's ocean of salt. Others are Searles Lake, Owens Lake and Mono Lake, all in California. The origin of these lakes is doubtful. In some cases they are | probably due to an arm of the ocean becoming landlocked. The most re- markable feature about them is the fact that they seem to be continuously fed from subterranean sources, since they maintain a uniform amount of galt—Popular Mechanics Monthly. Halt Traffic for Wounded. " On each crossing of the important streets and boulevards of Paris there stands these days a traffic policeman. Whenever he sets a wounded soldier approaching with the evident inten- tion of crossing the street he halts the traffic and assists him over the danger- ous zone. : _ This is au innovation by M. Hudelo, who is in control of the city’s traffic. Understanding that it is impossible to make military chauffeurs more careful in their driving and knowing the futil- tty of trying to teach the civilian taxi’ driver to drive properly in one day he counteract the evil. eee eee PA'S IDEA aid 2 ~ i pd 3 : Pel jo Pre. < [4 RR 1 inns > Comer Doe a “Has the devil any relatives, pa?” «I don’t know, but he ought to nave a mother-in-law.” ee — Littleton Sauce. Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add one teaspoonful of flour mixed with one teaspoonful of mustard, and stir until well blended; then add one-half cupful of boiling water, one table- spoonful of vinegar and the slightly- beaten yolks of three eggs. Cook in double boiler, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Season with salt and black pepper, and just before serv- Ing add one tablespoonful of currant Jelly separated in pieces. eat Pensions for Teachers. Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsyl- vania has signed a bill establishing a state teachers’ retirement system on a basis of the teachers paying one-half and the state and the local district each one-fourth. The law will become operative when organizations are ef- fected. The expression “to get into scrape’ referred at one time to any | one who fell into a deer-run in the | forest. When deer run wild in the forest they frequently cut deep gul- lies among the trees, due to their con- stant running backward and forward over the same ground. The cuts so made in,the forest were known as “deer scrapes,” and it sometimes hap- pened that a woodsman fell into them, to his great danger. “To Get Into a Scrape.” ai Origin of Biscuits. Biscuits are said to have been in- vented by chance in the year 1550 in France. It was the accidental result of an order given by King Henri to produce a cake that could not be se- cured anywhere else. in the kingdom. The little son of a village baker baked the cake for which his father had made the dough, twice instead of once. This is also the origin of the name of “bis cuits,” which translat- ed means baked twice. —————————————— Rouge Shops in Japan. Rouge and toilet powders are So ex- tensively used by Japanese women that there are shops that deal ex- clusively in this stuff, and are indi- cated by a small red flag, signifying the color which the powder will make the cheeks. A shop with a square piece of wood on which are painted ‘va- rious round dots of different colors, tells the passer-by of a paint shop. —————————————————— Roots Must Have Room. The yield of cotton i8 dependent upon the number of flowers we are able to induce the plant to form, and root space is’ necessary to flowering. The cotton plant's normal rooting may occupy two square yards of, earth, which is several times more than given it in practice, and the yield may often be reduced by this fact as the roots must interlap. ———————————————————— Pride a Strange Thing. Pride is a strange thing. For in- stance, a man would much rather be seen by the younger and prettier set of neighbor women filling up the gaso- line tank than emptying the garbage, though the latter act is really much more commendable in that he just does it to help his poor, hardworking wife that much.—Columbus (Q.) Jour- nal. ! CR ————————————— Had Won the Right. A ‘mother of my acquaintance sug- gested to her five-year-old daughter that she pray for a baby sister or brother. Time passed and the five- year-old was rewarded for her prayers, and when the question of a name arose, the little miss<demanded the right to name the baby, saying: “I'll name that baby; I did the praying.” ————————————— Three Classes of Soap. While there are many kinds of soaps, it is said that those commonly used may be divided into three classes. The frst class comprises fine white soaps and scented soaps, the second class. the coarse household soaps, and the third class the soft soaps. ee ——————————————————— Earliest American White Settlement. The most ancient white settlement in ‘the United States, while once thought to be St. Augustine in Flor- ida, which was founded in 1565, is now thought to be Tucson, . Ariz., which is said to have received a char- ter in the year 1552. —————————————————— Explanation Needed. She—They refused to cash a check for me this morning because they said the account was overdrawn. Now I'd really like to know what is the good of having a federal reserve board, agnyway.—Life. er —————————————— A Rare Exception. There are exceptions to all rules. The fellow who says he knows what he is talking about isn’t always mis- taken.—Clande Callan in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. eee, Lamb Production. Grazing experts of the forest serv- ice estimate that the cost of producing lambs in the Northwestern states is $1.82 per head. ———————————————————— May Be a Pacifist. «Don’t find too much fault wif de man dat argues,” said Uncle Eben; «de chances are dat he’s tryin’ to settle somethin’ wifout a fight.” ee ee —— Not a Convert. «What bekum ur Sam Bailey since he entah’d de church?’ “Wha, he ain't got out yit—he done got two yeahs, yo’ recollec’, fo’ dat job.” eee What Really Counts. Nothing that anyone else does really matters; it is what you do that will ers. call buxom, but I soon learned that count. rite Must Be. Nogwood must be the kind with the hark iatact. LS ER TE Strange. Isn’t it queer? The head of the fam- iiy has to foot the bills. Rosalie’s Rest The very pale girl made straight for the hammock couch and relaxed into a spineless attitude of fatigue. “Good gracious, Rosalie!” remarked the aquatic enthusiast, whose hair was still damp from her third swim that day. “I can’t say that the country did much for you. You look limper than you did after the Red Cross course. What happened—typhoid, oi some- thing?” Rosalie sighed and shook her head sadly. “No,” she said, “not just typhoid, not merely typhoid ; it was typhoid and heart failure and scarlet fever and chronic rheumatism and jaundice and old age and sunstroke and paralysis and cholera. infantum and—" “Stop!” cried the pink-rufiled young woman who was embroidering napkins. “You were gone exactly one month. It would take a lifetime for all that to happen to you.” «I never said it happened to me,” re« torted Rosalie. “If it had happened to me I shouldn't have had to hear So much about it, and there would have been some satisfaction in that. You've no idea how perfectly killing second- hand illnesses can become. You see—" “Rosalie,” interrupted the aquatic enthusiast, “begin nearer the front. Where were you?” “Certainly! Be systematic in giving the horrid details,” urged the flat- heeled girl, who was polishing her bone-rimmed spectacles. “We are strong and can endure them. Besides, it sounds like a plot for a movie.” “If you'll make a movie scenario out of it I'll tell you.” The very pale girl sat up and grew unexpectedly ani- mated. “You know, Weedport is miles from a railroad. You reach it by stage from Clester. I entered in the stage along with some country women whose rosy cheeks made me awfully envious. 1 couldn’t help admiring them as much as I did the view. But presently they fell to talking. The older one said she had some mysterious disease that might mow her down at any time and I really became nervous for fear she'd fall against me and jab me with the stiff quill on her hat. “Then the young one refused to be outdone, so she explained how ‘she’d been doctorin’ with Old Doc Ellis for months now and he couldn't tell whether she had kidney or a perios- teum, Next they got discussing vari- ous other invalids in ‘Weedport—how Mr, Murphy would probably lose his mind, and Mis’ Hopkins looked as if she was going into a decline. “I began to think that I'd made a i mistake in coming to Weedport, as evi- dently it was not a healthy community. However, they presently. brightened the conversation a little by talking about the minister's wife's funeral, and how nobody could ever know who'd be taken next— «When I arrived at the farm where I was to board my hostess met me at the gate. She was what the story writ- she was very poorly. That woman actually boasted of consuming two large bottles of Doctor Gougem’s Goul- ash every month, She advised me to: try it, but I haven't yet. «The country air was stimulating and I should have developed an appe- tite. But it didn't seem to be the thing to do. The spirit of the place discour- aged it. All the other boarders had something the matter with them and they used to tell me about it when we sat on the veranda. Naturally, I felt sensitive about being the only healthy one, and, besides—" “Yes?” prodded the girl with the pink ruffles. ! «I cultivated the habit of looking for symptoms, It's a Weeraport pastime, the most popular sport, one might say —symptom searching. You do it in or- der to have something to occupy your mind with and in order to get some- thing to talk about afterward. It's great fun. I became so expert that I counted my pulse every morning, and I almost learn:d to faint at all the proper times If I'd stayed long enough I could have done it with ab- solute efficiency.” «But didn’t you walk?” asked the flat-heeled girl. “And swim?” . “Or talk to any men?” added the girl with the pink rufiles. Rosalie shook her head. “Jt isn’t done,” she declared. “Not in Weedport. Youd die before opeily. admitting that you were healthy enough to take walks for pleasure. The healthier you look the worse you have to say you feel—" “Why didn’t you come home?” snort- ed the aquatic enthusiast. The very pale girl turned almost pink. “I did!” she retorted. “I’m home! aware of the derivation of diligence I came back to the city for rest and ; recuperation. And I'm getting the most awful appetite—please pass the | fudge!” | in London. { He—It is hard to ask for bread and | get a stone. She—It is worse to ask for a stone ind get paste—London Answers. Worse and Worse. ! There is a story in connection with a ! certain paper which tells how it re-: ferred to two learned gentlemen as “pibulous old flies” instead of ‘“biblo- philes.” Next morning the editor re- ceived a very wrathful protest. In his correction and apology, however, he said something about “the learned gen-: tlemen are too fastidious.” To the | ‘editor's horror the printer again dis-| tinguished himself, and the statement ! ,appeared “the learned gentlemen are two fast idiots.” The First American Indians. According to Keith, the American Indian in all his varieties, is a descend- ant from the primitiy e Mongolian type. There is a theory advanced by Payne that in some remote period the progen- itor of the Indian came to this conti- nent from Asia over a bridge of land that existed in prehistoric times where the Behring sea now is. Another theory, championed by Dawkins and Brinton, assumes that the originals of our native stocks came from Europe, probably by way of Iceland. Drier for Photographers. Chloride of calcium is sometimes used to absorb moisture and keep cer- tain photographic products dry, such as platinum paper or carbon paper; but a photographer has discovered CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION The Second National Bank MEYERSDALE, PA. SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN RESOU RCES Loans and Investments ...... .... .......-. $ 632,801.99 U. S. Bonds and Premium ..... fa ae 75,179.37 Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures .............- 64,075.20 Cash and due from Banks ......... Ci IongERA Total Resources LIABILITIES ’ Capital ‘Stock Paid in ......... $ 901,945.50 ean Ciiveess 3 65,000.00 Surplus Fund and Profits ..................0000 65,934.93 Cirenlation .... ...... 0c dessin iinvinsascnesa 65,000.00 Deposits ........ccvvnsrereens Cl eo. 706,010.57 Total Liabilities $ 901,945.50 [ eA Growth as Shown in Following Statements Made to Comptroller of Currency. that cardboard of the heavy.kind will act as a good drier. The card is used in rough sheets, it being well dried by heat and then wrapped in waxed paper so as to leave only the edge| ‘of the board free and thus not absorb moisture too quickly. wa A ————————————— Loyalty. 2 The little girl looked in dazed si- lence at Niagara falls; and. then, in answer to her mother’s question, “Well, what do you think of it, dear?’ an- swered, with a disdainful shrug of her shoulders: “Oh, our brook could do that, if it had a chance.”—Harper’s Magazine. ——————————— Work and Play. It has been said that we never really know persons, even although we work with them, until we have played with them. This is true, because work may be performed according to somebody _else’s ideas, but our play life expresses our own ideals in regard to amuse- ment and enjoyment. ———————————————— Nursing Sickly Plants. Sickly plants, like sickly people, can- not stand extremes. Sickly pot plants may often be more quickly brought back to health by watering with very warm water only. Low vitality will not be raised through the use of chilly W Or less than 110 degrees of tem- perature. : Rat ARUN Secret of True Industry. “How profitable is it for every one of us to be reminded, as we are re- minded: when we make ourselves from ‘diligo,’ to love, that the only coeret of true industry is love of that work.”—R. C. Trench, . eee ee it Sounds Rcasonable. “\Vhat ig a furrier, Willard?” asked {he teacher of a pupil in the juvenile class. “A man who deals in furs,” an- swered Willard. © “That's right,” said the teacher. “Now, Ralph, you may tell me what a currier is” “A man who | deals in curs,” was the reply. re eee ————— No Surprise to Him. Little Jack came home and an- nounced to his mother that Willyum had -chicken pox. “But, gee, mam,” he added solemnly. “It’s no wonder. You jest ought to see the chickens that live in his yard.” ———————————————————— Some Compensation. The weather may oftentimes be ex- ceedingly warm in summer, but that is one season of the year that is immune from elections, political, social or any other kind.—Milwaukee Sentinel. ————————————————— Substitute for Radium. Thorite, a mineral found principally fn Norway, has been found to possess some of the therapeutic powers of radium and to serve as a less expen- sive substitute for it. —————————————————— Reasonable Grounds. «My client appeals. for a new trial.” «On what grounds?’ “On the grounds, your honor; that he is not apt to do worse and might fare a great deal bet- ter.” ———————————————— Place to Work. If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere, ————————————— A Pessimist. JUNE 20, 1917 - - - $852,498.67 SEPTEMBER 11, 1917 - - $901,945.50 NET GAIN BETWEEN ABOVE STATEMENTS $49,446.93 : APPROXIMATELY SIX PER CENT a PANS IANA dt A A Sd AN ANS 1 Help Win the War aS Union Patriotic Mass Meeting Amity Hall, Meyersdale Thursday, November 8th 8:00 p. m. CLINTON N. HOWARD Will deliver his famous war lecture “The World on Fire” The call to all patriotic citizens will win the war Hear what it means and what it will cost Everybody Welcome Admission Free Billy Sunday says: “Howard is the one man I could listen to by the hour and never grow tired.” : Dr. Gordon, Washington, D. C., where Jecture was dalivered three times, says: ‘Eloquent, patriotic, logical, masterful.” W. J. Bryan says: “Howard is one of our greatest speakers.” Rev. I. S. Monn says: “I consider Mr. Howard one of the best orators on the platform today.” ¥ The pessimist is a man who wants more of the things of which he has little, and less of the things of which he has much. . mm SINS NS A A Nl AN uA lO ST oR J. T. Yoder JOHNSTOWN Sells the Champion Cream Saver THE NEW DE LAVAL LMOST any separator will do fairly good work when it is. brand new, perfectly adjusted and skimming warm from freshened cows. . 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 separating is done under practical conditions, and the sensible thing to do is to get a prac- tical separator. The NEW De Laval is the most practical separator you can buy because it is the oly separator that you can depend upon to skim clean under any an all conditions of milk and temperature, and to deliver cream of uniform thickness. 3 If you want to own a separator that will do its work better than any other, and do it without censtant tinkering and adjustment, then the NEW De Laval is the machine to uy. While this statement has always been true of De Laval machines, it is true today to am even greater degree than ever before because ot lis many improvements in the NEW De aval. The new self-centering bowl which gives the machine greater capacity and skimming effi- ciency, the De Laval bell speed-indicater, which alone would be worth many dollars a year to a cow owner, the improved auto- matic oiling system and the many other im- provements found in mo other make of machine, make the NEW De Laval by far the A Real Anguish Producer. The bill that hurts worst each month | 1s the one you had forgowen about.— Claude Callan in Fort Worth Star- Telegram, 1 arr r—— Queer. Isnt it. If you go out ou the street and whis- tle for your dog, every Inan within. | nearing will turn around. | A eerntS NOG WREST TPT » most satisfactory separator to operate and the most profitable to own. You can buy a NEW De Laval from us on liberal terms. Come in and examine the machine and talk it over, Advertise it All the Time
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