‘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