THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL,
MEYERSDALE, PA.
As Dr. Robert Mathew mounted the
Bteps of the big State hospital that
evening in July a wheeze of lingering
chloroform wafted out on the warm
night air. He swung open the wide
screened door, drew his key from -the
desk in the corridor and proceeded
swiftly down the white enameled hall-
way toward his room. It had been a
hard day on him and the thought alone
of a good night's sleep was refreshing.
As he passed the long row of private
rooms his heart seemed to skip a beat.
For a brief moment he stopped before
room 10 and drew a deep breath. Just
behind that thin little white enameled
door sat his sweetheart, Nurse Annie
Carter.
Wild, jealous imaginings raced
through his brain.
“I'd like to kill him, I would,” he
muttered to himself. “Lying in there
having my little Annie attend him '@
eight long hours a day—and in the
end steal her heart away from me.
I've scen her show more interest in |
that case than—" Doctor Mathew, in
the midst of his musings heard the
light patter of footsteps coming down
the stairway just around the corner
and hastened on his way.
In a second he found himself face
to face with Annie Carter.
“Robert,” she said, an anxious look !
in her big blue eyes. “Doctor Mathew,
1 mean,” she corrected herself, sudden-
ly realizing she was on duty, “Mr.
Morissy is very ill. Doctor Bradley
says he must be operated on at once—
and you—" She looked at him plead-
ingly. /
Doctor Mathew never before realized
her eyes held such a depth of emo-
tion behind them.
“I am to do it, I suppose?” he asked
almost sneeringly.
“Yes,” she answered simply.
The tall young doctor turned as
though to go, but her little detain-
ing hand on his shoulder held him un-
consciously.
“You will, won’t you? I know you've
had a hard day of it, but there's no
one I've confidence in like you. Doc-
tor Bradley has been up two nights
and I fear his hand is a little shaky;
will you?”
i The call in her eyes was so great for
the young doctor in love with this
sweet little girl and so he succumbed
to her wish.
{ “I'll do it, Annie dear—even though
it’s to my own disadvantage,” he an-
swered simply.
One hour later, when the night
nurses had come on duty and the op-
erating room had been prepared under
the personal supervision of Miss An-
ie ti A EE ————— a netm——
nie, as the other nurses called her;
Doctor Mathew’s patient was wheeled
in.
“Won't take but a few minutes,” the
doctor assured him, and with one long,
lingering look of confidence Mr. Craig
Lawrence Morrisy, the popular novel-
shock may do him harm,” he added by
way of convincing her.
Needless to say, Annie slept not a
wink that night. Now at last she
realized what the attraction had been
all along. It had been a sort of sister-
ly feeling she %ad toward this hand-
some young man, and Doctor Mathew
had mistaken her attentions for some-
thing deeper.
He was ashamed of himself, too,
when he realized it.
Early the next morning Doctor Mat-
hew broke the news ever so gently to
Craig. There was a wonderful scehe
between Annie and her long-lost
brother. ;
“Doctor Mathew,” Craig breathed
softly, “how can I ever thank you for
the way you cared for me? I—" but
Doctor Mathew, his customary smile
of good humor spreading across his
tanned face, took Craig’s hand within
his own and smiled. “By being my
best man next month when Annie and
I are married.”
“If shocks could kill,” began Annie !
smilingly, but Craig was looking di-
rectly at Doctor Mathew, and Annie
knew he was waiting to speak.
“Congratulations, old man,” Craig
said, extending his hand, but Doctor
Mathew heard only slightly what he
said further. He was thinking of the
old slogan of his college professor. It |
came back to him more vividly than
ever tonight. “All go« 1 deeds have
their reward somewhere at some time}
all bad ones never climax.”—Anne |
O'Keefe, in Chicago American.
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To Can Pears. |
Pare the fruit, cut in halves, and
remove cores, retaining the stems. !
Make a sirup of one cupful of water, |
one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, and '
the juice of one lemon. Skim, add i
pears, and cook until tender. Sterilize |
jars and covers, and with silver fork
place pears in jar. Fill jar to over-
flowing with hot sirup. Adjust rubber |
and cover and tighten securely at once. |
Bartlet pears are the best for canning. !
To can pears by the cold-pack method, '
blanch the fruit a minute or two,
plunge in cold water, and pack closely
in jars. Cover with hot sirup, place
covers loosely in position, and after |
water in boiler has reached boiling !
point, sterilize 20 minutes.
Crown Roast of Pork.
Take four pounds of the rib part of
pork loin cut in one piece, separate all
the ribs without detaching them; roll
the ribs into a crown shape, leaving
the space in the center, skewer up or
tie with a string to keep the meat in
good shape. Then place it in a baking ;
pan with three tablespoonfuls of but-
ter, put the pan in the oven to roast,
during which time add some more
stock as that in the pan reduces, and
take care that the meat is kept basted
well during the cooking. When cooked,
take up the meat and put it on a hot
platter and pour around boiled green
ist, was soon in the land of ether
dreams.
Doctor Mathew worked with utmost
care, but very swiftly. Only once dur-
ing the tedious probing did his
thoughts wander to anything ma-
licious. It was when he had taken the
swab Annie carefully handed him and
had noted a tear perilously near the
edge of her eyelid.
“Just one little slip and then—" But
Doctor Mathew cut the thought short
and forced himself to look upon his
patient as one of the hundred he op-
erated on each week. Not for a mo-
ment again would he allow himself
ever to entertain such a thought.
When the operation was over and
the patient moved to his room below, |
Annie kept silent watch all night long.
Once she thought he had taken a bad
turn and notified the office.
“We'll send for his people,” said
Mary Ryan, the desk clerk, in reply to
Doctor Mathew’s warning.
It was then a new light was thrown
on the situation, and there was a new
subject for the nurses to gossip over
for weeks to follow.
Miss Ryan of the desk had sent a
special messenger to the Hotel La-
monte to ascertain the whereabouts of
Craig Lawrence Morissy’s relatives.
He kept a bachelor suite at that hotel
and had come from “somewhere in the
West.”
Little Jimmy Doonan, the hospital
runner, returned with a message writ-
ten by the hotel clerk.
Doctor Mathew carefully un¥olced
the paper and read:
“Craig Lawrence Morissy only a nom
de plume; his real name is Charles
Carter, from Indizgnapolis. Only living
relative is a sister, whose whereabouts
is unknown, as Mr. Craig left home at
sixteen. He himself has been trying to
find his sister since his return from
London shree years ago. Anything I
can do, please let me know. Faithfully, |
“JEROME MYERS,
“Hotel Lamonte.”
Annie gave a little hysterical scream i
which echoed far down the corridor.
Then in a second, her face as white
as her spotless uniform, she rushed
toward the room where her brother
was lying ill.
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peas. Garnish with parsley and trim
each chop with a paper frill.
Spiced Plums.
Make a sirup, allowing a pound of
sugar to each pound of fruit, and a
scant pint of vinegar to every three
pounds of sugar. To each peck of
plums allow one tablespoonful of
ground cinnarm.n, one tablespoonful of
cioves, one tablespoonful of mace, one
tablespoonful of allspice. Prick each
plum, add the spices to the sirup, and
pour the latter, boiling hot, over the
fruit. Let the whole stand three days,
then skim out the plums, boil down the
sirup until quite thick and pour in
hot oven the plums. Set away in a
stone jar.
Wrap With Newsprint Paper.
Newsprint paper is being used exten-
sively as wrapping paper in South
America, according to the commerce
department, which points out that since
the outbreak of the war there has been
a heavy increase of such exports from
the United States to Peru, Bolivia and
Ecuador. Newsprint is admitted free
:nto these countries, and, with the rise
in price of all ‘other grades of paper,
retailers have found it the cheapest
kind that they can obtain for wrap-
ping purposes.
To Change Tokyo’s System.
A plan is on foot to place the Jap-
anese capital unger direct supervision
of the minister ef home affairs, ac-
cording to the East and West News.
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FISH IS A SPLENDID FUOD
Rich in Protein, Mineral Salt and
Phosphorus—Stale Fish Cause
Ptomaine Foisoning.
Under the heading of sea food come
fish, shellfish, crabs, lobsters, clams
and oysters.
Fish may be divided into two classes
—fresh and salt water. Some well-
known varieties of fresh-water fish are
white fish, black and rock bass, perch,
lake, mountain and brook trout. Cod,
haddock, halibut, flounder, smelts, sal-
mon, bluefish, mackerel and shad are
of the sea.
Tish is rich in protein, mineral salt
and phosphorus. It spoils very quick-
ly and so must be used while in per-
fect condition. It is easy to digest,
especially when boiled. Fish must be
firm, particularly along the backbone.
The gills should be red and bright, the
eves full and clear. Discard the fish
_ with sunken eyes. Stale or decayed
fish causes ptomaine poison.
Crabs and lobsters are coarse feed-
ers, with flesh that is coarsegin tex-
ture and hard to digest. They spoil
rapidly after death; crabs must be
alive when cooked, and live lobster
is as necessary. Do not use them if
they are dead. FPtomaine poisoning is
sure to follow.—IExchange.
A TEST OF STRENGT
The Plump Mrs. Portly—I hear that
Mrs. Hollowneck’s husband has left
her for a younger woman. I'd like to
pver.
The Meek Mr. Portly—Some cham-
pion weight-lifter might de it; but it
would be a job. :
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Knit Practical Gift
Women waste much time infancy
work which is neither beautiful enough
to make it praiseworthy nor service-
| able to make it practical. The knit-
| ting hysteria which has swept the
country will do more than anything
else to show how much good their
time can be put to in making things
worth while, and so help them to stop
their everlasting time wasting on little
things which amount to nothing, says
an exchange. )
Knit red and yellow and purple
sweaters and labor upon them in your
machine and at your tea parties, and
at the theaters and concert halls—and
work night and day. :
This is the right attitude toward
the war, especially when there are so
many hundreds of thousands of; boys
over in the chill and cold, suffering
for sweaters and helmets and stock-
ings. 5
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Destruction of Verdun.!
A British Red Cross official, ‘refer-
ring to a recent visit to the western
front, says: “Of Verdun itself: it is
almost unnecessary to speak except to
say that all the written accounts one
has seen pale before the actual scene.
The town itself reminds one of Pom-
peii. From the forts above one sees
for miles earth churned into dust, trees
shattered to ribbons, and not even a
whole brick where houses stood. Town
after town is completely destroyed,
thousands of square miles of the rich-
est land in the world are absolutely
sterile and sown with unexploded
shells, which make cultivation impos-
sible. But the greatest tragedy of all
is poor Reims, perhaps one of the fin-
est towns of its size in Europe. It
seems hardly possible that it could
ever be rebuilt, so complete and ap-
palling is its destruction. The lowest
estimate of the cost of the damage
is £40,000,000 in this town alone.”
Thought “Misery” Good Xarie.
Marion had her own ideas about
At present there is divided responsi-
i pility between the governor of Tokyo
prefecture and the home minister. With
! its population of 2,000,600 Tokyo fis
| governed under the same system as
| a town of 30,000 inhabitants. This new
municipal system will be submitted
| to the diet at its next session.
About Jelly Making.
I far auioar
Honey can be substituted for sugar
in making jelly. Either too much sugar
or too long cooking sometimes causes |
the formation of crystals in jelly.’
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proper associates, but so did her sis-
i ter, and they differed. One day Marion,
hearing sounds of laughter in the
back yard of her house, rushed out to
join the fun. She found Margaret
romping with a motley looking assort-
ment of playfellows, and, much dis-
got in, “don’t you think that child
ought to be called ‘Misery’?”’
“Why, Marion, what in the world
es vou say that?’
company, ard that child certainly does
love company.”
, down, intending to plunge over the
i precipice in order to save the colors
from falling into the hands of the
gusted, returned to the house at once. ;
“Mother,” she exclaimed when she :
I. mother, they say misery loves
CARELESS LIVING.
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The Awful Toll It Takes In Needlessly |
Shortened Careers.
There are more than 600.000 prevent-
able deaths in the United States every
vear. There are a million and a half
people lying on sick beds in the United
States any day in the year who should
wot have been there. Such are the dec-
larations made in the University of
California Journal of Agriculture by
the distinguished economist Irving
Fisher, professor of political economy
in Yale university.
“Human life is nexdlessly shortened
at least fifteen years in the United
States,” declares Professor Fisher.
“Moreover preventable diseases, even
when not fatal, cripple the power to
work and mar the joy of living. I ven-
ture the opinion,” he says, “that the
average man or woman in the United
States is not doing half of the work
nor having half of the joy of work of
which the human being is capable.”
While there is now a decreased loss
of life from infection by the germ dis-
eases, there is an increased loss of life
after middle age from the degenerative
diseases, such as hardening of the ar-
teries or Bright's disease. Neglect of
tndividual hygiene is declared by Pro-
fessor Fisher the chief cause of this
degeneration, and he urges every one
to observe absolute cleanliness, to eat
the proper foods, to work hard, but to
play and rest and sleep, too. and to
avoid worry.
“The secret of life and of happiness,”
says Professor Fisher, “seems to be in
taking one’s life and work cheerfully.
Almost any one can assume this atti-
tude if the proper desire is present.”
Concensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Pusiness June 20th, 1917
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments.. .......ccoocceeennneeces $829,301.57
U.S. Bonds .........en00aeens ins ues B0,000.0(8
Ranking House... .. .......... 24h enue oon 30,20000
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... a0 808,009.40
Cash..... es eae ia ats ... 106,728.53
Total.... $1,354,329.80
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ...... Le a $6000.08
Surplus and Profits....... ...... saan 143.741.41
CHEBIaHOR .. irre Sussssints suslssy es 184 .00
Deposits. ... ....... iia in RL AER NY
Total.... $1.354,329.80
OUR GROWTH THE PAST YEAR.
June 30th, 1916 ..... . .. $1,023,623.01
December 27th, 1916 .................. 1,143,436.97
JUDE 20tD. 1017 vervrrivesss nenense+ 1,834.329.80
SHOWS GAIN OF—
$120,000.00 June to Gecember, 1916 h
911.000.00 December, 1916, to June, 1917
* 331,000.90 Gain in the past 12 months.
The Citizens National Bank
«The Bans With The Clock With The Mdiion"”
CADETS OF CHAPULTEPEC.
Heroism ‘of Gallant Little Band of
Mexican Schoolboys.
The defense of Chapultepec during
the war between the United States and
Mexico in 1847 was almost as gallant
as was the attack. In this attack forty-
eight Mexican cadets, among others.
lost their lives. The story is a stirring
one.
For many years the celebrated castle
of Chapultepec, where Montezuma held
his barbaric court in the surrounding
groves of cypress, where during nearly
three centuries lived the Successive
viceroys of Spain and where Maximil-
jan made his imperial home, has been
the West Point of Mexico.
When General Scott had taken the
place by storm and General Bravo had
surrendered, a Mexican cadet only fif-
teen years old. seeing the flag of his
country in peril, most of his comrades
being already slain, climbed the flag-
staff, tore the banner from its place,
wound it around his body and slid
enemy.
That act of heroism being frustrated,
the brave boy. with the banner still
wrapped about him, fought until he
was cut to pieces. Forty-eight of these
schoolboys, ranging in age from four- of
teen to twenty years, lie buried in one
grave at the foot of the hill. Year after
year the cadets of Chapultepec strew
flowers upon the grave.—Los Angeles
Times.
Finger and Toe Nails.
Finger nails and tcenails are only
another phase of the development of
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man from the animal that originally
walked on four feet. Animals that
walk on all fours use the finger and
toe coverings, which in man is the nail.
to scratch in the ground, to attack ene-
mies and to climb with, and our nails
of the present day are what the devel-
opment of man into a civilized being
has changed them to. At that there
are still uses for finger nails and toe-
nails, or man in his changing to a
higher plane would have found a way
to develop away from them, says the
“Book of Wonders.” They are useful
today in making our fingers and toes
firm at the end and enable us to pick
up things more easily. The time may
come when man will have neither fin
ger nails nor toenails.
Livingstone’s House Preserved.
Measures have been taken by the
British government to preserve the re-
mains of Dr. David Livingstone’s house
at Koloben, or Kolobeng, Bechuana-
land. and the graves in its vicinity.
Here Dr. Livingstone lived as a mis-
sionary among the Bechuanas before
setting out upon his great journeys of
exploration. With the aid of the native
chief, 'Sechele, the ruins of the house
have been fenced and protected by a
shed, and the site is to be kept clear of
jungle and placed under the care of the
headman of a neighboring village.—
Scientific American.
Quick Returns.
At a Princeton reception a young
sophomore said to the English poet
Alfred Noyes:
«After I graduate 1 want to go into
some business that promises quick re
turns.” ~
“Trr magazine writing, my boy,” he
said.—Detroit Free Press.
; Tomatoes and Grapes.
© An Italian grape grower accidentally
discovered that the presence of tomato
plants in his vineyard made short work
of the phylloxera, with which his vines
were infested, This insect destroys
both the root and the stem of the!
grapevine. |
Never Fails.
Bob (looking at the menu)—What is’
gn omelet surprise? Roo—The sur-
prise comes when you get your check. |
—Town Topics. :
Duty puts a clear sky over every
man, into which the skylark of bappi-
mess always goes singing. — Prentice
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