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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.
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“Has the devil any relatives, pa?”
«I don’t know, but he ought to nave
a mother-in-law.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. !
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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!”
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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,
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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. .
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SINS NS A A Nl AN uA lO ST
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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,
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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,
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