Meyersdale Comme reial. o Licgiciered at the re at Meyersdale, Pa, as Second-C oss boil Matter) : "HE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL A. M. SCHAFFNER, Editor and Proprietor. Pablished Every Tharsday in the Year at 110-112 Center Street Shone No. 55. 21.50 Per Year Cash THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 NEWS OF ; THE COURT q e MONDAY. The regular February term of 4 quarter sessions court convened here this morning at ten o’clock, Judge W.H. Ruppel presiding. E. MM. H. Hayes, of Paint borough, was appointed foreman of the jury. . When the constables made their r quarterly re urns Judge Ruppel called their attention 40 the state laws gov- erning fish and game. He also re- x minded them that all constabies are fire wardens by virtue of their office. The court stated that he has noticed in a number of other counties of the - State there is considerable com plaint that the constables are not prosecuting violators of these statutes, and he read the several laws to them in or- der to avoid the possibility of such complaint in Somerset county, if at all possible. The first case called for trial was that of Alexander Ches and Stiney Ches, of Hooversville, charged with aggravated assault and batteiy by Martin Voisosky. A jury rendered a verdict. Harrison Bittner, Levi Lape, and Noah Pritts, road supervisors of Black township, adjusted the suit in which they were charged with neg- lecting the public roads by Con- stable Adam A. Baker. Raymond 8S. Emerick, Walter G. Brant and Clyde E. Bowser, pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny pre- ferred -against them by Constable Harvey E. Bittner, of Meyersdale, but have not yet been sentenced. Charles Gabor, or Windber, charged with maintaining a gambling house by P liceman Samuel W. McMullen, also entered a plea of quilty, but has not yet been sentenced. The following cases were continued: Stephen Meuhocek, charged with ag- gravated assault and battery, An- drew Tokacs, prosecutor; Wm. B Duncan, assault and battery, Mrs, Agnes Vannear Groner, prosecufrix; § Harvey Dunmeyer. adultery, Edward A. Shaulis, prosecutor; Emma Es- mont, assault and battery, Mrs. W. L. Meyers, prosecutrix. It was announced that Samuel T. Dailey, charged with an offense against morality by Alive Awtey, is i a fugitive from justice. ' Settlements were effected as fol- lows: Harvey Dunmeyer, offense against morality, Bertha Ankeny, prosecutyix; Ralph Redorick, Wins- i low Redoric, Darrell Lingenfield, Willis Speicher and Robert Mitchell, 8. D. Collins, prosecutor; William Gregory, assault and battery, Frank "Pieszewski, prosecutor. There are 57 cases on the trial Hist, he ri wy. or Hammond dairy feed and ‘cotton ¢ seed meal are very good, give them ! a trial, at Habel & Phillips ad INSTALLED PASTOR OF SOMERSET REFORM- ED CHURCH. Rev. E. 8. Hassler with Rey. D. B. Stephan of Berlin, installed the Rey. + E. F. Hoffmeier into his new pas- : torate of the Somerset and Lavans- ville Reformed churches last Sunday evening. i —— pe Bargains in canned goods, soap and tobacco, at Habel & Phidips. ad EE $5.00 Reward. Five dollars will be given for the Gold Elgin Watch of George H. Albright, lost between the Meyers- dale Brewery and the McDeonaldton Mines. Finder will leave the watch at The Commercial office. Staunton’s buckwheat flour, also new maple syrup, at Habel & Phillips ad FOR SALE. 1 will offer at private sale—One bed room suit, dining room furniture, range, and other articles. Mgrs. Mary McKENZIE, 230 High St. mimi ei Just Suits Her. Wombat says she loves to com FRANKING MAIL MATTER. At One Time Soldiers In This Country Enjoyed the Privilege. The postoliice was first established for the principal and in some countries for the exclusive purpose of carrying official correspondence by mail. Late: in Frapce, Great Britain and the United States because of the great es- pansion and commercialization of the postal system the free carriage of mail matter came to be régarded as a priv: lege and this privilege was claiined bj persons in official position. In England the house of common claimed the privilege as early as 1660 It was abolished in Great Britain however, by the passage of Rowland’ cheap postage measure in 1839. In the United States the first appearance o the franking privilege is traceable to the action of the Continental ¢« ngres assuming control of the postoflice i: January. 1776. It is interesting t tearn that it was then girinied to oo! nrivate soldiers actually in serviXe fo all letters they. might write or th night be written to then. In the eariy years of the Uni. tates government the privilece w oranted widely, but it soon lLecan.e necessary to restrict it. An act of March 3. 1845. limited the priviiere t the president, the vice presid- nt. me bers and delegates in conzress. ih third assistant postmaster general an all postmasters. Other offices were df rected to keep quarterly accounts of postage.— Argonaut. CCSMOFOLITAN DAMASCUS. The Oldest City on Earth, It Show All the World's Peoples. At last we dare set down in the midst of Damascus, a city that can claim life without a break from its founding back in the dim dawn of the world's history. When Abram crossed the des- ert from Haran 1.000 years agp this city was standing (Genesis xiv, 15, and xv, 2). She dates back to the time of the Pharaohs in Egypt. In fact, she was old when Greece and Rome were striplings in years. Rome may be termed the Eternal City, but Damas- cus is twice as old, and though her streets have run red with blood of battle and rapine many times, she has not been overthrown. “Babylon is an heap in the desert. ; and Tyre a ruin on the shore,” but Damascus remains. Was there ever such a place to see the nations of the earth parading to- gether? Here in the market pldce are motley crowds of Persians. Moors, Af- ghans, Indians, Egyptians. Sudanese. . Jews, Bedouins, Druses, Turks, Euro peans. The streets—so erooked. so nar- row. so dirty. so full of life. with that strange spell of the desert upon them! The residences as seen from the street are ugly and disappointing enough. vet like old barns and. tumbledown mills at home are fascinating and ple turesque.—Christian Herald. Mystery of a Bridegroom. The mysterious disappearance of bridegroom at a wedding is recalled by T. F. Thiselton Dyer in his “Strange Pages From Family Papers.” The wedding took place in Lincoln- shire about the year 1750. “In this in- stance the wedding party adjourned after the marriage ceremony to the bridegroom's residence and dispersed. gome to ramble in the garden and others to rest in the house till the dinner hour. But the bridegroom was suddenly stimimoned away by a do- mestic who said that a stranger wigh- ed to speak with him, and hencefor- ward he was never Seen again. All kinds of inquiries were made, but to no purpose, and terrible as the dismay was of the poor bride at this inex plicable disappearance of the bride- groom, no trace could be found of him.” A Change of Tune. “Mamma, I'm tired of going to school.” “What's the matter, Willie?” “The teacher”— “Now, don’t you say a word against your teacher, Willie. I've no doubt you annoy her dreadfully, and she seems like a very nice sort of person.” “Well, she said this mornin’ that she didn’t think I had much of a bringin’ up at home, an’ ’— “Wait! Did she say that? Well, of all the coarse impudence! You shan’t go back there another day!” Exit Willie, grinning. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Do You Know the Answer? A teacher was giving to her class an exercise in spelling and defining words. “Thomas,” she said to a curly haired little boy, ell ‘ibex.” “I-b-e-x.” “Correct. Define it.” “An ibex.,” an- |swered Thomas after a prolonged | mental strug “is where you look in book er, aged 55 years, [ pic ED UP IN SYLVANIA | Western Newspaper Union News fervice Harrisburg.—An effort was made tc have the telephone companies allow their operators to call each subscribe: about 9 o'clock Saturday evenings anc tell them to go to church tke mext day. 4 . Lebanon.—J. E. Grumbein of this city, operating under the name of J. E. Grumbein Co., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Miss Elizabeth Grumbein, a sister, is named as the assignee. The assets are given as $20,000, with liabilities almost equal to that amount. New Castle.—With nearly half the surface of her body burned, when her clothing caught fire at an open gas stove, Cogstantine, 2-year-old daughter of Jerome McFail, died. Kittanning.—On seeing Constable Thomas Woods and Detective Charles Be.t going toward his boarding house in West Kittanning, John Portich, a laborer, jumped from the second story without hat, coat or shoes and ran a mile in his bare feet in the snow pur sued by the two policemen. Sharon.—Doctors at Buhl. hospital said all of the seven persons hurt in the Pennsylvania railroad wreck were out of danger and will recover. Mrs. Martha Wilson of Freedom, Pa., and Mrs. Mary Kreps, Greenville, Pa. were the worst hurt. Scores of other passengers escaped with slight bruises when the train, bound from Erie to Pittsburg, was ditched eight miles from here. The locomotive kept to the track, but six coaches were over- turned, going down a slight embank- ment. Uniontewn.—All records for simul- taneous suits against one company were broken when 1,884 were filed against the Sunshine Coal & Coke Co. for wage assignments. Newcastle.—Rev. John T. L. Will iams, former pastor of the First Con- gregational church here, who was ar rested ‘at Toronto, Canada, under an assumed name with a Newcastle wom- an, is to be brought back here to face criminal charges. Pittsburg.—Nearly 1,000 persons in Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo and other cities of the country have been victims of a new swindling game which came to an end when August Pajonk, alias August Miller, was ar rested by postal authorities. He is charged with using the mails to de- fraud. Pajonk advertised that he would sell geraniums at $2 a thou- sand. He received hundreds of or- ders but the flowers were never sent. More than $1,200 in bills were found wrapped around his leg. Seranton.—The “deal” English syndicate was to take over the New River Coal Co., involving $50, 000,000, has fallen through, according to advices. Beaver Falls.—Injuries reseived in a fall two years ago when two ribs ‘were fractured caused the death of Mrs. Christ Johnke, aged 63. Carlisle.—“Spanking” of an Indian girl is alleged to have been the real cause back of the suspension of Moses Friedman as superintendent of Car- lisle Indian school. Lehighton.—While taking a took train out of the Lehigh Valley rail road yards here, Engineer David Gar- ver was found unconscious in his cab with a hole in his head. His condi- tion is critical, Coatesville.—David M. Rellenbors: an engineer em- ployed on the Penngylvania railroad, was struck by a locomotive on a grade crossing at Atglan., He died in the Coatesville hospital. Blain.—The schoolhouse located in Henry's Valley, which was vacated last spring, was sold at public sale at - the Jackson township election | house in this place by order of the township school board. The buyer was Frank P. Sunday, state ranger, who resides in Henry’s Valley on the state reservation. The price paid was $32. Clearfield. —When John Wilkinson, & coal operator of Amesville, who broke in the door of the school there two weeks ago, knocked the pretty teach- er, Miss May Pooler, to the floor and then beat her into insensibility, was placed on trial the attorneys discussed a settlement. Miss Pooler was not dis- posed to insist upon a penitentiary sen- tence. Wilkinson pleaded guilty to the first count in the indictment, that of assault and battery, and Judge Zarle sentenced him to pay a $1 fine and undergo 70 days’ imprisonment in jail Under the terms of the agreement, which were satisfactory to Miss Pool er, Wilkinson pays her $1,050, besides physician’s fees and pays the cost of prosecution. The coal operator agrees to keep the peace in the vicinity of Madera and especially with regard to Miss Pooler. He has agreed not to vigit the school in which the attack was made. Washington—Mrs. Tressy Carbon of VanVoorhis must pay $10 and $75 for having put a bullet through the one good leg of James Cass of costs when you | that’s printed in | t the same place. he went to the C ) arby. i from a spring opened fife upon h William McCoy state Mrs. tered the recently. Five whereby” amj GLOOMY CARLYLE. His Pessimism and His Wonder at the Optimism of Emerson. Thomas Carlyle’s friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson is a matter o. history. but Charles Eliot Norton tells | in his published marveled at the optimism of the Auer ican philosopher. Writing Norton says: “As we were sitting to gether just after my afternoon, Carlyle spoke of Emerson. There's a great contrast between Emerson and myself. He seems verra content with life and takes much sat- isfaction in the world, especially in your country. One would suppose to hear him that ye had no troubles there and no share in the darkness that hangs over these old lands. It's a verra strikin'® and curious spectacle to behold a man so. confidently cheerful as Emerson in these days. “ ‘I agree with ye in thinkin’ that the times that are comin’ will be warse than ours, and ‘that by and by men may through long pain and distress ‘learn to obey the law eternal of order. without which there can be neithe: justice nor real happiness in this warid or in any other. The last man in En; land who had real faith in it wa Oliver Cromwell. “*Well. it may be as you say. I'n not such a verra bloody minded ol villain after all there a cordial lauzh. not quite so horrid an ogre as som: good people imagine. But the warkd is verra black to me. and I see nothin’ to be content with in this brand new. patent society of ours. There’s nothin’ to hope for from it but confusion.” ” A Scoop. John IL. Toole, the famous Enclish comedian and practical joker. and Mr. Justice Hawkins, who was afterward Lord Brampton, were great friends. They were at supper together one evening discussing the events of the day. The judge incidentally mention- ed that he intended on the morrow giving the man he had been trying fifteen years because he deserved it. As Toole was leaving he blandly in- quired: “Oh, would you mind calling at the newspaper offices and telling them about that fifteen years? It will be a tip for them—exclusive information. you know—and will do me no end o” good with the press.” “Good gracious! “No, sir!" exclaimed the judge. who took the precaution o. accompanyinz Toole to bis hotel an seéing him safely to bed. FOLEY FAMILY WORM CANDY Always Successful - Children Like It ATE FeRpEAE wits in 1873, | coming in this | with | | t letters that Carlyle | | { | REFUSES TO PROBATE WILL. Register of Wills Bert F. Landis, lon Monday, filled a decree in the | Orphans’ Court refusing to probate the willof the late Charles 8S. Van- near, the former well-known 1 ot:l- man and capitalist who died January 17th, in his room in the Hotel Arling- ton. In the decree Register Landis says he is of the ‘opinion that undue in- fluence was exercised onthe testator by Mrs. Agnes Groner, hisdaugfiter.”’ He does not find that Mr. Vannear was mentally incapacitated when he made his will. Mrs. Groner will appeal to the court from Register Landis’ decision and make a determined fight to have the will sustained. In his will Vannear left a fifth of his estate to Mrs. Groner, who he states is one of his flve children. His widow and the four other children objected to the will being probated on the ground that the testator was not of testamentary “apachy nd was unduly influenced. An interesting fight is sxpeiod ; when Mrs. Groner’s appeal is heard in court. v All the heirs with the eseontion of Mrs. Groner have petitioned the court to appoint Attorney Charles H. Ealy administrator of the Vannear estate, pending the disposition of her appeal. Several days ago an effort was made to compromise the dispute but Mrs. Groner spurned all offers of an amicable settlement, insisting that she shall have her full share as her father provided in his will. i ———————— Pure spring wheat Graham flour 30¢ per ten pound bag, at ad Habel & Phillips. ge For Sale. A four berse power, gasoline engine in good repair—for sale, cheap, for cash. Also a ten gallon gasolene tank, Apply, at The Commercial office. ad renee nnn For Sale. A 5H. P. Engine, also an 18 H. P. “Qadilac’” Automobile. -Apply, at eb.26.2f. ad The Commercial. are More— Worth Most PARENTS’ DAY AT THE SCHOOLS (CONTINUED FROM.PAGE 1.) rm. Pupils enrolled 37 Pupils present... . 36 Second Grade, Miss Fter Auchin Directors present........ ...... Parents of pupils in the room... Other visitors.. Ciedriee nadia Total number of Visitors. v isessmmranans Pupils enrolled............... v “a Pupils present..... ...................... Second Grade, Miss Violet Clark— Directors present Parents of pupils in the room .. Other visitors cen mle Total number of visitors........... tories: 86 Pupils enrolled... sos iduneisnense vontes 23 Pupils present. *.....................ccc0nei- 42 First and Second Cradle, Miss Frieda Daberko— i Directors present .......... eheucsssne Parents of pupils in the room Other visitors........................ ws Total number of yisitors.............. . 212 Pupils enrolled............ ......... inreneredB |; Pupils present....................... La 40 : First Grade, Miss Eleanor Lepisy-~ Directors present.......................... 4 Parents of pupils in the room... .% Other visitors..... .................. l Total number of visitors. Pupilsenrolled......... ........... .... on 7 Pupils present................. ili 43 First Grade, Miss Mary Eicher— Directors present............... ......oes 3 Parents of pupils in the room........ . 23 Other visitors... i virberiio Total number of visitors... weno, Pupils enrolled............... ...... ...00 Pupils present...............;.....c..... o Total number of visits by directors 68. 2 Total number of visits by parents of pupils in the rooms 482, Total number of visits by others 3291. Total number of visits by all 3841. Respectfully submitted, W. H. KRETCHMAN, Sup. Prin. of Sehools. remem sense ene For Rent AfFour Room House or Roni—aps ply to. Mrs. Charles Askey, or H. K. Aurandf, near the B. & O. Station. feb, 12-68 : ad GTI Oils and CELT Gasolines—Illuminants=— Lubricants —Wax- Waverly. Oil: Works oH —Specialties Pittsburgh not look here ? ing manufacturers at $2.00 each for a glass | Mrs. | im through about it. C= You are going to buy Carpets, Rugs, Oilcloth or Linoleum hig Spry, You will find a well selected line of choice values from America’s lead- Some of the richest and most exclusive, patterns, the mills produce. : Priced. so low they are sure to be popular with every body. Here Are a Few Among These Splendid Offerings: Hy Granite Ingrains at 15c yard and 25c yard. Cotton Ingrains at 35c Rag Carpets at 35c and 4oc yard. Imperial Ingrains at 25¢ yard. Quarter Wool Ingrains, 37%c yard. All Wool Face Ingrains, 6oc yard. Beautiful All W ool Face Brussels, gx12 Japanese Matting Rugs, $2.50. 9x12 Art Square, $5.00. ox12 Crex Rug, $10 oo. ox12 Tap Brussels Rug, $12.00. 9x12 Body Brussel Pattern Rug. $12. 50. 9x12 Velvet Rug, $15.00. ox12 Axminster Rug. $22 oo. oxi2 Wilton Kug, $27.50. ox12 Body Brussel Rug, $30.00. Also a number of gx12 Rugs at intervening prices. Hall Runners in Velvets and in Crex and smaller Rugs in all sizes and at all prices. Floor Oilcloth and Linoleum. Floor Oilcloth, 2 yards wide, at 75¢ yard, Patters & Nairn's Linoleums, 2 yards wide, at $1.00 yard. a Inlaid Linoleum, 2 yards wide, at $1 65 yard. { Fancy Table Oilcloth, best grade, full 12 yards to roll, 114 yards wide, by rall, 75¢ yard. Window Shades at 25¢ and upward, Window Curtains per pair, 25¢ and upward. ALL NEW STOCK. If you buy anything from me that turns out badly tell me I'll make it right. W hy Toi DALE, _GLESSNER, Iter Miss berland Capt. ill ath Misse Lynch friends. F. 1 ‘Md., friends. Miss spent a with fri * Postr busines days th Mark spent I busines M. J was a atives ¢ Miss home friends . 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