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Piano, Vo- Instrumental, This college is now open. cul, Stringed Parson’s Musical Kiedergarten System, Elocu- tion nnd Physical culture are taught. Harmony, Theory and Sight Read- ing a specialty. For further informa- tion address Helen Harrie Junhin, Mgr. E. A. Cook, Director. KIDNEY DISEASES are the most fatal of all dis- eases. ’ KIDNEY CURE Is 8 FOLEY’ Guaranteed Remedy or money refunded. Contains remedies recognized by emi: nent physicians as the best for Kidney and Bladder troubles. PRICE 50c. and $3.00, Eugene Field’s Views on Ambition and Dys- pepsia. ‘‘Dyspepsia,’’ wrote Eugene Field, “often incapacitates a man for endeavor and sometimes extinguishes the fire of ambition.”” Though great despite his complaint Field suffered from indiges- tion all his'life. A weak, tired stomach can’t digest your food. It needs rest. You can only rest it by the use of a preparation like Kodol, which re- lieves it of work by digesting your food. Rest soon restores it to its normal tone. Strengthening, Satisfying, Envigorating. Prepared only by E. C. DEWi1TT & CO., Chicago. The $1. bottle contains 2} times the 50c. size. SOLD BY E. H. MILLER. J.B, WILLIAMS CO. FROSTBURG, MD. Cr .apect place to buy IMORUMENTS | HEADSTONES AND oH IRON FENCING EE. .&L. CODER, T a Jewelers. Fine Watch, Clock and Jewelry re. pairing. We guarantee good work and prompt attention. SALISBURY, PA. Sen. for prices <ailixbury mack lane, J SCHRAMM BROS. Proprietors. SCHEDULE :—Hack No. 1 leaves Salis- bury at 8 a. m., arriving at Meyersdale at 9.30 a. m. Returning leaves Meyersdale atl p.m. arriving at Salisbury at 2.30 p. m. HACK No. 2 leaves Salisbury at 1 p. m., ar- riving at Meyersdale at 230 p. m. Return- ing ledves Meyersdale at 6 p. m. arriving at Salisbury at 7.30 p. m. B.& 0. R.R. SCHEDULE. Winter Arrangement.—In Ef- fect Sunday, Nov. 23, 1902. Under the new: schedule there will be § daily passenger trains on the Pittsburg Di- vision, due at Meyersdale as follows: Fast Bound. No. 10x—Night EXpress............. 12:57 A. M | No. I4*— Accommodation ........... 1 .M No. 6-—-Through Mail............... 11:24 A. M No. 46—ThroughTrain............. M West Bound. | No. 9*—Night -EXpress.............. 3:00 A.D No. 4*—Through Train............. | | No. 5—Through Mail.............. ! No. 49—Accommodation .... | Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A. Star office. i | ceived. v0 *Regular stop. xFlag stop. WwW. D. STILWELL, Agent. L& WEDDING Invitations at THE A nice new stock justre- tf 0s0ses0s0s0c0s0se A Superior Barmaid By OSBORNE O'CONNOR % Copyright, 1901, by T. C. McClure 0000000000000 006090 I have lived for forty odd years with- aut being caught in the net of matri- mony, and I think you will agree with me that I am not a sentimental or im- pressionable man. Love, no doubt, is a blissful thing while it lasts, and I do not deny ibat matrimony has its joys and benefits, but it seems that nature intended me to walk in other paths. 1 have tried on various occasions to fall in love, and I have often pictured to myself a happy little home, with a cat purring on the hearth rug. but neither love nor the home nor the cat would come. I had about given up the idea of be- ing anything different from wiict I am when I started on my annual :ishing excursion into the country. I hed been told of a place about seventy miles from London where the fishing was good, the inn all that could be desired and the village free from old maids I found every- 0060000000000 000000000000 and marriageable girls. ili IAAT ee A 7 yy ie fi: f 1 Hi He 71 i Hi : ( i “rs i; Via HE WAS SHORY AND SLIM AND HAD A BUNDLE UNDER HIS ARM. thing as stated, and for three days I was as happy as the fish that escaped my hook. Then came something like a shadow. I had noticed in a general way that the barmaid was a good looking girl, but had given the matter no thought. It is a barmaid’s business to be good looking. It was only after I had got settled that I discovered this barmaid of the Oak and Ivy had small hands, small feet. a graceful form, a refined air, was educated and alto- gether superior to her class. The shad- ow came pecause as soon as I recog- nizod this barmaid’s superiority I some- how felt it my duty to appreciate it and encourage her. The idea of falling in love with a barmaid, either common or superior, was absurd. but the idea cf showing my -appreciation of her mental and physical graces resolved itself into a duty. I began my labors at once.’ It really was an effort on my part to flatter and compliment, but I was somewhat con- roled on realizing that my work was not in vain. Ethel, as the young lady was named. blushed in a delightful way and made no secret of the fact that she was pleased. She ought to have been. I was a good locking man, possessed of a longish purse, stood well with society nd the world and was in every sense a fair catch. Even though { had not the remotest intention of letting the affair drift beyond paternal compliments, it was her duty to be thaniful. There were yokels who stood ready to fall in love with Ethel. but I drove them away. There were two or three counter jumpers in town who were full of compliments, but they fled before me. In a week I had the field all to myself. Please understand me fully when I say that it was purely platopie and paternal on my part. Having found a superior barmaid in that little out of the way village, I felt it my bounden duty to encourage her to better things. I smiled at her across the bar ge I left the inn to work havoc among the fishes. I broadened the smile when 1 returned. We strolled together in the twilight; we sat together in the star- light. Some folks might have -called it a case of love, but we did not. I had been at the Oak and Ivy two weeks when one night, being unable to sleep, I arose, dressed and left the inn for a stroll. Just why I was un- able to sleep I could not say, but I am sure that love had nothing to do with it. I had probably overfished during the day. I was leaning against a shade tree on the commons and won- dering why this superior barmaid had not married a lord or duke long be- fore when a young man passed me and disappeared in the hotel grounds. He was short and slim and had a bun- dle under his arm, and as thre hour | was past midnight I had a momentary curiosity. The next day I learned that the shop of the village jeweler had been looted the previous night, but the news did not interest me. Three nights later I was again seized with insomnia. I think the words of the landlord had something to do with it. He threw out a pretty strong. hint | hat he had employed this superior bar- | i incredse in ‘length: so’ long as the bird’ maid to attract custom to his bar and that my attentions to her had caused a great falling off In receipts. I should have argued the case with him, giving hin to understand my paternal inter- est, but as he was not remarkably in- telligent I passed him over a sovereign to make good his losses and said noth- ing. It was 2 o'clock in the morning when I sat at an open window to smoke my pipe. and I had not been ruminat- ing for more than a quarter of an hour when the young man I had seen three nights before came tiptoeing along the street under my window and made for the rear entrance of the hotel. My cu- riosity was considerably aroused, but there was no way of satisfying it. The next day I learned that a residence had been robbed of quite a large sum in cash and jewelry by a porch climb- er. Officers were scurrying around aft- er a clew, but the matter was of no moment to me. The next evening, as‘l walked with the superior barmaid in the twilight, having flipped the landlord another sovereign to cover prospective loss, I tried to make my position plain to her, and I quite succeeded. Indeed it real- Iy surprised me to see how promptly she grasped the idea of my paternal position. She was willing to take all my geod advice to heart and act on it. and she had not permitted herself to build any castles because of my mark- ed atientions. If I remember aright, I was somewhat disappointed and cha- grined. but a man who will not swal- low his own philosophy has no busi- ness to complain. IF'our days more. passed. I contin- ued to Le paternal und the barmaid coiitinued to be sensible. Then I went out one night to spear fish by torch- light. The landlord had become so rapacious that it was cheaper to go fishing: hy torehiight than to sit with IBthel in the starlight after the bar had been closed. I did not return until aft- er midnight. and once in bed I slept until 8 o'clock the next morning. I might have slept an hour longer had not a constable aroused me and plpced me under arrest. A dapper young man had been seized as he was making off with plunder and after escaping from the aflicer had been trailed to the Oak and Ivy. While the baffled constables were arousing the landlord and tum- bling over each other the fugitive had somehow got clear of the house, but had left surprising clews behind. The barmaid, the superior barmaid, was missing, and her female garments, or at least most of them, had been left be- hind, together with articles of apparel never worn save by the male sex. In fact, after several hours of study and investigation the constables had de- ‘cided that *“ISthel” was a young man in disguise. If not. she had assumed a full suit of male attire at night as she stole forth to plunder. In her haste enough of that plunder had been left behind to convict her. Was it not perfectly natural that my paternal and platonic attitude toward the girl, or boy. should cause me to be suspected of being her pal? Of course it was, and I was in jail for ten days and in the clutches of the law for a month: before I cleared myself of the imputation. Fven then there were peo- ple who darkly hinted that I had bribed the judge and bought up the jury and that I ought eto have received a five vears' dose at the very least. As to the superior barmaid, was she a male or female? Do not ask me. I pressed her lips. held her hand and stroked her hair as we sauntered in the dusk of evening, all in a paternal way, and when 1 reflect that she might have been a young man instead the situation is not to my liking. When I was at last through with the case, TI voted myself a fool, and perhaps it is best that I make no change of opinion on that score. Long Tailed Fowls. There is a special breed of fowl in Japan with tails varying from ten to twelve fect in length. The breed is about a century old, and the extraor- dinary development of the tail was due to the action of a Japanese prince. His crest was a feather, and he offered an annual prize to the subject who could bring the longest feather plucked from an ordinary fowl. As a result the peo- ple began to seleet birds and cross breed them. and in time the immense length of twelve feet was attained. The tail feathers grow at the rate of from four to scven inches a month and continue at this rate for two years. After that period they increase very slightly, although there is really an lives, which is usually eight or ten years. The hens sit on a flat perch all day and are not allowed to move about. Once in two days they are taken for a walk for: half an hour, attended by a man who holds up the tail so that the feather shall not be soiled or injured. ‘I'he tail feathers are occasionally washed. the bird being placed on the roof of a hut that the feathers may dry. The hens lay about thirty eggs during the summer and autumn, which are hatched by other birds. Foiled Again. “So!” hissed the villain. The heroine faced him grandly. The calcium light sputtered delightedly over the scene, causing her jewels to glitter like the eye of a press agent. “So!” growled the villain. Here the heroine kicked her train around in front of her, and the hand painted flowers on the back breadth came into full view. Bravely she clutched the will in her lily white fin- gers. “So!” hoarsely muttered the villain. With the air of a queen the heroine | turned upon him. “Why do you say asked. me?” Realizing that he was baffled for the | last time in that act, the villain rolled another cigarette and left the stage | with a tragic stride.—Judge. ‘So!’ so. often?’ she | “Do you think you can cow | | cards all d: “A POOR DEVIL It was at the Central Home of Rest. Joe Rogers was telling his story. “The house I was with failed, and I went to the city for work. I kissed the wife and baby and thought I'd send for them sure in a month or two, but it's been two years now, and here I am.” He loo%ed at the rude tables and the flickering lights that served only to emphasize the darkness. The stalwart man’s face took on a deeper moodiness. The weazened old man opposite him | “And asked in a weak, little voice, didn’t they wait for you, Joe?’ “She didn't,” said the stalwart man. “She wrote me kind letters at first and tried to cheer me when I complained of not finding anything to do, but after six months they changed, and after awhile there were. no nore. I kept on hunting employment and trying to keep out of bad company until a notice that she was going to bring suit for divorce on grounds of desertion and failure to sup- port was served on me. After that I didn’t care and never have sing? very much—at least not about her. But I don’t mind telling you, boys, that I cried for the child. Many a night I've dreamed 1 felt his little arms about my neck, and when I awoke and missed him I've cried like a child. I heard three months ago that my wife had married the man that bad courted her first. I didu't much blume her, but I hated to let him rule my little one. It nearly drove me crazy. “I’ve been in hard luck ever since 1 lost my job in that little town in Ohio. I've tried hard to get on my feet. You know how it is. But here I am. Along about a week before Christmas I couldn't wd it any longer. I felt that! I must see that kid. I couldn’t have | raised $5 to save my life. But I haven't been beating around this country for nothing, and I got over to Ohio on a side door Pullman without much trou- ble. “There wasn't any danger of being recognized in the town where I had spent the happiest year and a half of my life. When I was there, I was well dressed and acted as though the carth and .the fullness thereof were mine. Now I go at a different gait, and I didn’t take the trouble to pull my old hat over my face. The poor clothes would discourage any interest. So they did. I passed some old neighbors on the street, but they didn't give me a glance. You may imagine that I hadn't a light heart that Christmas eve. It wasn’t the sort of a return I had thought about all day and dreamed about at night, but I braced up, for I had made up my mind that I would see the baby. They couldn’t deny me that. “I made straight for the house of the man my wife had married. It was a cottage set back from the street a lit- tle, among evergreen trees. It was a better home than I ever could have provided for them. My heart softened a little toward my wife as I opened the gate. One could not blame her, after all. She was a good woman, but a light one, one of those who never get beneath the surface of things. She may have believed that I wasn’t doing my level best to get something together for the baby and her, though God knows I did. My hunger was not for her, but the baby. * “A light shone from one of the side windows. I made my way around to the tree that cast its shadow on the window. A terrible thought came to me as I put out my hand to lean against the tree. It had never seemed to me that the baby could be dead. What if it were? I felt as though some one had struck me a fearful blow. It was so sudden and so strong that I staggered and gripped the tree harder. Then I got courage to look at the win- dow. “A hoy stood with his back to me. He was watching the woman, once my wife. who was clearing the table. She spoke to him, and as she leaned over him I caught sight of her face, changed very little since I met her first, three years ago. Women like that get few lincs on their faces. They can’t suffer much. The boy still stood with his curly, yellow poll toward the window. I remember thinking in a stunned kind of way that all the sunshine of my life was imprisoned in that little head. I prayed for the first tinre in my life, and God answered my prayer. The little fellow turned around and pressed his rosy face to the window. It was my boy, bigger and stronger and older than when I kissed him goodby two years ago. It was the same sweet baby face, and he was smiling. “He must have discerned some shape in the darkness, for he puckered his little lips into a suppressed ‘Oh!” His mother came to the window down the shade. It was the time she had shut out all {lic I'» my life. That was all. '~ a minute that I world . - uy and let them find my le step for a Christmas came to me that I ou:... .; cone to this place. A man has provisod me work as soon as the winter i: over. 1 thought I would wait for it. for, fel- lows, I don’t want that boy to be any more ashamed of his father than I can help when he grows up. Good uight.! He climbed the rough board stairs to his bunlk, the hopeless, battered wrecks looking after him. The weazened old man sighed. “Poor devil!” he said. and drew second tf Tfrem Sleeves and Cards. “Do you think it polite,” said the fool- ish stranger in Crimson Gulch, “for a ALIRTD SPEER, THE ORIGINAL Port Grape Wine Producer In America. The first native wise sold and :sed in Sza Francisco and Saera- mento was from Speer’s Passaic, N J. vineyards, was shipped around Cape Horn before there was any railroad to California, and are now being uscd by physi- cians and first families there’ as the richest and best wine to be had | | | The juice of the Portugal Port | Wine grape grownin N. J. is thick | and rich sameas the juice of pears and other fruits grown here. From California pears you can squeeze water as from ‘a sponge; sO with all fruits grown in “Califor- nia; while those grown in New Jersey are solid in substance— less juice but thick and richer. The ew Jersey apples, for instance, make a cider that was always popular the world over. If you want a wine for sickness or for entertainments don’t take chewp, watery wines but choose a fii. class old, full bodied, high grade wine from Speer’'s Passaic vine yards. _ Sold by Druggists. | { Will grind Ear Corn and all kirfds of small grain into a first-class Chop-Feed. By its use the farmer saves his grain, toll, hauling his grain to the mill; improves his stock and lines his pocket-book. : Write us for book on Ground Feed and Feed-Grinders. Agents Wanted STAR MANUFACTURING CO. 72 Broad St:, NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO yg 0 0 WHEATLET - Is Easily Digested. Delicate, Delicious, Nourishing. i] The Aged, The Sick, and The Well. Sold in 2-lh. packages by all leading Grocers. Franklin Mills Co., Lockport, N.Y. ZN T= 7.) A FINE BABY. Never frets even when teething. “VICTOR Touts Rel man to sit in his shirt sleeves and play | L9 “Yes, sir,” answered Three Finger Sam, “and maybe it ’ll he for your own | | good to remind you that the sleeves a man has on when he plays cards around here the icss liable he iz to fall under suspicion.”’-—-Washington Avening Star. fewer | The Babe's Digestive Tonic. An absolute cure for Slimy Bowels, Diarrhea, Griping, Colic, Cholera Infan- tum, and all bowel troubles common to Infants. The Mother’s Friend. Pleasant to take. 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