a T. A. BERKEY Attorney-at-Liaw, SOMERSET, PA. Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Law, SOMERSET, PA. R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Court House. W. H. KooNTZ. KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys-At-Liaw, J. G. OGLE SOMERSET, PENN’A Office opposite Court House. VIRGIL R. SAYLOR, Attorney-at-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. E. H. PERRY, Physician and Surceon, (Successor to Dr. A. F. Speicher. SALISBURY, PENN’A. Office corner Grant and Union Streets B.& 0. R.R.SCHEDULE. Summer Arrangement.—In Ef- fect Sunday, May 15, 1904. Under the new schedule there will be 14 zr . KING OF Giabrs. The Way an Old African Hunter Points Out the Monarch. In discussing the question, “Which is the king of beasts?’ an old African hunter says: “Come with me tc a desert pool some clear, moonlight night when the shad- ows are deep and sharply cut and the moon herself in the dry, cloudless air looks like a ball. All is nearly as bright as day, only the light is silver, not gold. Sit down on that rock and watch the thirsty animals as they drink—buffalo, rhinoceros, antelope, quagga; occasionally, if the water is large, lions too. But what has fright- ened the antelope and quagga that they throw their heads up for a second and fade away into the shadows? The oth- er beasts, too, are listening and now leave the sides of the pond. Nothing but the inevitable, irrepressible jackal, that gamin among wild things, remains in view. “As yet your dull human ears have caught no sound, but very soon the heavy tread and low, rumbling note of | | | | other creature is to be seen. an oncoming herd of elephants reach you. They are at the water. The jackals have sat down with their tails sraight out behind them, but not an- The king Not a is heard. He drinks. sound squirts the water over his back, makes | the whole pool muddy and retires sc v1 1 | emnly, leaving his subjects, who now 1 t daily passenger trains on the Pittsburg Di- | vision, due at Meyersdale as follows: Fast Bound. No. 8—Accommodation No. 6—Fast Line.................... 11:30 A. M No. 46—Through train.............. 441 P'M No. 16—Accommodation ....... 3:16 P.M *No.12—-Duquesne Limited........... 9:35 Pp. M No. 10—Night EXpress.............. 12:57 A. M No.208—Johnstown Accommo....... 8:35 P M West Bound. *No. 9—Night Express............... No. 1l—-Duguense........ . 5:8 A.M No. 13—Accommodation... No. 47—Through train........ .. 8:42AM . 10:46 A.M No. 5—Fast Line.................... 4:28 Pr. M No. 49—Accommodation ............ 4:50 Pv. M No.207—Johnstown Accommo....... 6:30 A. M Ask telephone central for time of trains. *Do not stop. W.D.STILWELL, Agent, Ours, Yours and Uncle Sam’s Favorite.”’ THE CENTURY Rural Mail Box Approved by the P. O. Dept. The Carriers speak of it in the highest terms. The best, largest, most access- ible and safest Mail Box on the market. The best is always the cheapest. Send for Circulars. MADE BY THE CENTURY POST CO., Tecumseh, Mich. Agents wanted in unoccupied territory. We also munufacture the Tecumseh Rural Mail Box. Run Down. When coffee “goes back on” people, their endurance snaps like a dead twig. CEREAL COFFEE' The food Drink enriches health’s store—builds up splendid powers of existance. “Go back on coffee” before it fails you. Mocon is the perfect substitute. 1% Rich—fragrant—delicious. “I have tried all the substitutes on - the market and I am satisfied shat Mo- I is certainly a vErr pleasant and satisfying food drink.” Name on request. Y Man's best drink.At the grocer. iw em cnmemme. 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MILLER. | gather round, to make the best of wha he has fouled. “This is the king in the opinion of | beasts.” { THE DINNER TABLE, Some Hints on How to Behave When Accidents Happen, Accidents will happen. If one han- | pens to spill something he is unforfu- nate, but a ready, earnest apology to the hostess is all that he can do to rem- edy the difficulty. A careful hostess will acknowledge the apology and im- mediately change the subject. This story is told of a hostess ut whose table a beautiful china cup was broken. ‘Never mind,” she sald pleas. antly. “They break so easily. See!” And she crushed one in her hand. Her method was rather too elabo- rate. It would have been quite as sat- isfactory to the offender and far more genteel had she said: “I hope you have received no injury. The cup doesn’t matter in the least.” If a morsel of food drops from the fork to the tablecloth do not attempt to remove it. If a guest drops a fork or a spoon he should let it lie. The hostess will provide another. If anything distasteful be taken into the mouth it may be removed on the corner of the napkin, when it can be folded away or placed quietly on the plate. If a bit of food falls on the waistcont of a guest he should remove as much of it as he can quietly with the corner of his napkin. Damascus Swords, To the lovers of strange goods the | bazaars of Damascus are far move alluring than those of Cairo or of Con- stantinople. The «<apacious chests of the merchants contain much that we | would buy were our purses longer. Old embroideries of wonderful colors, deli- cate china, silks of many hues, swords of cunning workmanship, all these lie piled beside us on the floor. It is but seldom that a really good specimen of the Damascus sword can be obtained. for the art of working and engraving steel is dead. These swords were made of alter- nate layers of iron and steel, so finely tempered that the blade would bend to the hilt without breaking, with an edge s0 keen that mo coat of mail could resist it, and a surface so highly pol- ished that when a Moslem wished to rearrange his turban he used his sword for a looking glass. In the Great Western Wheat Belt. One square mile of wheat. Ever see it? Transcontinental trains used to stop in the Smoky Hill valley of Kan- sas to allow passengers a view of such a wonder. It realized all the travel- ers’ dreams of agricultural splendor. Hundreds such vigions now mark the great grain area of the plains, but their beauty is none the less. Six hundred and forty acres of wealth! It shim- mered beneath the perfect opalescent blue of the sky, the tall straws bending with their weight of grain. Standing on the seat of the reaper one might see in the distance a glimmer of green pas- tures and catch glimpses of rustling fields of corn, but here was the heart of summer.—C. M. Harger in Secrib- ner’s. Justifying His Lecture. A lecturer who had a very fine lec- ture on “The Decadence of Pure Eng- lish” gave his address before a wo- man’s club. At the close of the talk a very much overdressed woman of the “fuss and feathers” type came up to him and said: “I did enjoy your talk ever and ever so much, and I agree with you that the English language is decading awfully. Hardly no one talks proper nowadays, and the land only knows what the next generation will talk like if nothing ain’t done about it.” The Boston Maid and the Awthor. Garnish—I see you have my novel I'll bet you had to look at the last page to see how it came out. Miss Quizzer—No, I looked at the name of the publishers on the title page to see how it came out, and even now I can’t understand how it was.—Boston Tran- script. Reformed. Patience—Peggy used to sing all over the house before she married that man. Patrice—So she did, dear, but you know he married her to reform her.— Yonkers Statesman. BOCIET + wi Tid. That Is What Seclety Needs, Accord- fing to a Society Woman. “What we need is society men,” de- clared a weary matron. “Our men are so fagged by their attention to busi- ness that they are next to worthless. They regard the average social func- tion as an awful bore and leave every- thing pertaining to entertaining and to goihg about to their wives. In case the poor wife succumbs to the strain they hunt around for a spinster or widowed sister or sister-in-law or other relative who will consent to take upon her shoulders this social side of the mat- ter. “As for looking after a daughter, their duty is done when they've given carte blanche with a check book. An Englishman of high title often chaper- ons his motherless daughter during an entire season and from his kuowledge of ineligibles is able to keep her well informed. How about the American papa? His only ammunition consists in an occasional rabid, blustery remark about the nincompoop fortune hunt- ers who hover about the daughter of the house. As for sane, thoughtful counsel. he gives not a bit of it. Socie- ty is a game he got into without inten- tion or effort, and he utterly refuses to take any trouble about his fellow play- ers. Even his own daughters have to go it blind. As I said before, what so- ciety nceds is society men.”—Philadei- phia Record. SUSPENSION BRIDGES. They Were Common In Peru In the Days of the Incas. Suspension bridges, some of them of considerable length, were common in Peru in the days of the Incas. They were formed of cables of twisted osiers passed over wooden supports and stretched from bank to bank, then bound together with smaller ropes and covered with bamboos. The road from Cuzco to Quito is still noted for frail bridges of this sort, which are in con- stant use and span deep chasms. The Chinese also, according Kircher, miliar with the “suspension” theory and have constructed chain bridges in which the weight of the roadway is supported by the tension of the chains. The first iron suspension bridge in Europe was built over the Tees, near Middleton, in 1741, for the use of min- ers. Two chains were stretched in a straight line, steadied by ties from the banks below, and the roadway far foot passengers was supported by the chains. The modern suspension system prac- tically dates from 1816, when bridges. both over 100 feet in length, were suc- cessfully completed at Galashiels and Peebles.—London Standard. to THE FIRST HENCHMEN. They Were Young Nobles Who Acted ax Pages to the King. Skeat derives the word henchman from hengstman (Anglo-Saxon), horse- man, groom. It is probable that hench- men were in the first instance young nobles who at state ceremonies attend- ed .on the king as mounted pages. History speaks of these henchmen in this capacity, for we read that Henry VI. had three and Edward IV. six of them. We find, too, that they were mentioned in the royal ceremonies ius belonging “to the riding household” and took part in tournaments. The last time “henchman” is men- tioned in connection with the court is in the reign of Henry VII1I., and grad- ually it came to mean an ordinary page. The word is used by Ben Jon- son and Shakespeare in this sense. In an English journal of April 6, 1861, a Mr. W. Henchman claims that hig family took their name from words spoken by Henry VII. to an ancestor in the huntingz field, who had ridden ag his page throughout an arduous day. ‘“‘Crossborough,” cried the king. “thou art a veritable henchman!” Homeopathy, Homeopathy is a theory of medicine promulgated by Dr. Samuel Hahne- mann (1755-1843) of Leipsic in 1810. It asserts that any disease should be treated by medicines in minute doses that would produce in a healthy pa- tient symptoms similar to those mani- fested by the disease requiring treat- ment. This is the principle of “like diseases are cured by like remedies” (Latin, similia similibus -curantur) and is based on the theory that two simi- larly diseased conditions cannot sub sist in the same organ at the same time. ® Irresistible. First Contractor—How did you fel- lows happen to get a job of repairing the pipes in Smug street? They were laid only a few years ago, and there was nothing the matter with them. Second Contractor—I know it, but the sight of that elegant new pavewent on that street was altogether too tempt- ing.—Chicago Tribune. The Country’s Simple Joys. “Gracious! It's an awful muddy walk this evening, isn’t it?” said Mr. Backlotz on the way home from the Lonesomehurst station. “Yes,” replied Subbubs, “but I rather like it. We bought a new door mat the other day, and I wanted to see how it works.”—St. Louis Republic. It Fell. “What's that racket down there?” shouted the old gewtleman from the head of the stairs. “I think,” promptly replied his up to date daughter, “that it was Bob drop- ping his voice when he proposed to me.””—Detroit Free Press. . The only two animals whose brains are heavier than that of a man are the whale and the elephant. have for centuries been fa-- | coat and n small cocked hat. three cor- WEAL TE. fiw aANS. Immence Fortunes Were Not Uncom- men In the 01d Days. When IL. Calpurnius Piso was ap- pointed governor of Macedonia for one year, he drew for his outfit from the public tregsury 18,000,000 sesterces, or £150,000. He did not want the money for that purpose. Everything required by a proconsul was supplied to him by the province. Piso simply took the money for himself and lent it out ip Rome at high interest. C. Verres was charged by Cicero with having robbed Sicily of £350,000 in three years, besides many valuable works of art. He practically admitted lis gullt by retiring from Rome without attempting any defense. Cicero when governor of the poor province of Cilicia found him- self the richer in one year by £20,000, and he was perhaps the only precousul who ever handed over his surplus to the state. There can be no doubt that Cicero and the younger Pliny received large sums from their clients while those clients were still living. Balbus is not likely to have secured the argu- ment “Fro Balbo” for a mere trifle. And the gratitude of Sicily for the prosecution of Verres undoubtedly took a very substantial form. Apart {rom all such honoraria, it is recorded that Cicero and the younger Pliny received legacies from clients to the amount of £170,000. Gibbon tells us, on thie au- thority of Olympiodorus. that several of the richest senators had an inconie of £160,000 a year without computing the stated provision of coin and wine. —London Globe. f ROYAL ASCOT. This Famous English Race Course Was Queen Anne's Idea. Ascot well deserves its proud prefix “royal,” for it may claim to be the child of a queen, and certainly it has been a prime favorite with nearly all her successors on the throne. It was Queen Anne who, when she was riding one day over Ascot com- men, saw what a splendid site it would make for a race course, and she forth- with determined that a course there should be and that she herself would offer a plate to be raced for. Thus it came about that the London Gazette of July 12, 1711, contained this an- nouncement: “Her majesty’'s plate of 100 guineas will be run for round the new heat on Ascot common, near Wind- sor, on Tuesday, Aug. 7 next, by any horse or mare, being no more than six years old the grass before, carrying twelve stone, three heats, to be entered the last day of July at Mr. Hancock's at Fern Hill, near the starting post.” Three times that year Queen Anne traveled in state to see the racing on Ascot common, and on one occasion, we are told, she was accompanied by Miss Forester, a maid of honor. whe was “dressed like a man, with a long white riding coat, a full flapped waist- nered, bound with broad gold lace, the point placed full in front over a wlite powdered, long flowing periwig.”— Pearson's Weekly. The Way Jokai Worked. One who knew Jokai, the Hungarian writer, says that the novelist never troubled to work out his plot in detail beforehand. “He trusted to his imagi- nation for guidance as to what his characters were to do at a given mo- ment, and often when he had complet- ed a chapter of feuilleton which half Hungary was waiting to read he would remark to his friends as the printer's devil rushed away with the copy, ‘I should like to know what those people will find to do and say tomorrow.’ Jo- kai started his characters on their ca- reers, eulogizing them if he liked them or caricaturing them if he meant them to excite amusement or derision. and then let them work out their own des- tinies across the pages of his manu- script.” End of the Game. It was his move. He made it, captured a pawn and an- nounced: “Mate!” “I sce.” she pouted. “But you had the advantage of a bishop.” “Some day, Bella,” he whispered. pursuing the advantage, “may I mute you with the assistance of just a com- mon preacher?” After which there was no more chess playing.—Chicago Tribune. Inherited, asx It Were, Professor—Yes, sir, your daughter is pretty well grounded in French, but it will, of course, take some time and trouble for her to acquire fluency. IFa- ther—Well, you know, that’s rather strange to me. I had an idea that the fluency would have come sort of nat- ural to her. How the Engagement Was Broken. “I can’t make you out at all,” he sald angrily. “You're so fickle and changeable. You're jugt a riddle to me.” “Yes?’ replied his fiancee. “Since you're so stupid perhaps you'd better give me up.”—Philadelphia Ledger. What Did She Meant? “If you feel chilly,” said he as they strolled, “remember I have your shawl here on my arm.” “You might put it around me,” she said demurely.—Philadelphia Press. Reason of His Alacrity. “How on earth did you ever get a messenger boy to deliver your note and bring back the answer so quick?” “I took his novel away from him and held it as securify.”—Exchange. I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart—that shows at the | same time pearls and the soul.—Victor Hugo. | GAME AND FISH LAWS. Pennsylvanians Should be Posted and Keep Out of Trouble. Many good citizens have come to grief through a lack of knowledge of the fish and game laws of the state. Respectable persons will not intention- ally violate the laws, and others should not be permitted to do so. During this month there are no fish in this state, excepting young sturgeon, which may not be caught with a hook and line, and although the minimum legal size varies with the kind of fish, the possible number to be caught in a day or season is unlimited for all kinds, excepting the speckled trout or brook trout, of which not more than fifty are to be taken in any one day. There is no law effecting catfish or eels as to either season or size, and the sunfish is the only one of the “game fishes” or those protected during certain seasons, of which the law does not state the size of the smallest that may be kept. The law fixes the minimum sizes of the vari- ous kinds of fishes as follows: Rock bass, white bass, strawberry or grass bass, five inches; black bass, seven inches in the state, and nine inches in Lake Erie and boundry waters; green or Oswego bass, blue pickeral, and mus- calonge, nine inches; trout, six inches. The season for trout closes on the thirty-first of this month. The legal season for all other kinds of fishes con- tinues longer. Do not fish with any other means than a hook and line without learning the law in this regard. The only open season for bullfrogs in this state is from the first of July to the first of November ; and of terrapin from the first of November to the fif- teenth of March. There are no game animals (mam- mals) that may be shot during this month; and the only game birds are plover, from the 15th of July to the first of January (no maximum legal number), and woodcock, to be shot only during July and from the 15th of October to the 15th of December, not more than ten in one day. Woodcock “killed in this Commonwealth” may not be sold at any time. E. H. MILLER asks the readers of this paper who are suffering with indigestion or dyspepsia to call on him at once and get a bottle of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. If you knew the value of this remedy as we know it, you would not suffer another day. Kodol Dispepsial Cure is a thorough digestant and tissue-building tonic as well. It is endorsed personally by hundreds of people whom it has cured of indigestion, dyspepsia, palpitation of the heart and stomach troubles gener- ally. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. It is pleasant, palatable and strengthening. 8-1 lp = THE CAT. I like the simple dignity That hedges round the cat. You never see her showing off ; She lets the dog do that. You never catch her leaping hoops, Nor prancing on the floor Upon two legs, when generous Dame Nature gave her four. We train the dog to hunt the birds And beat him when he fails. He works all day, and never gets 'A single taste of quails. The cat is wiser far than he, She hunts for birds to eat, She does not run her legs off just To give some man a treat. The hunting dog, when told to charge, Will stick to that one spot Until he starves. Is there a cat So foolish? There is not. The dog may emulate the boy Upon the burning deck ; The cat has sense instead of sen- Timent. She saves her neck. The cat can fight, but nobody Has ever known her yet To fight, as do the bulldog kind, To win a man a bet. She never flatters any man By tagging at his heels When he goes out to ride about On horseback, or on wheels. Talk not to me about your dog, It is but idle chat. Give me that calm philosopher * Of hearth and home, the cat. —Ruth Kimball Gardiner, in Life. E. H. MILLER WILL BUY IT BACK. You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy. E. H. Miller will re- fund your money if you are not satis- fied after using it. It is everywhere admitted to be the most successful remedy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. 8-1 YES, WE CAN !'—We can supply cuts suitable for any and all kinds of ad- vertisements and job printing. Call at THE STAR office and see our large as- sortment of specimens. We can show you cuts of nearly everything that ex- ists and many things that do not exist No matter what kind of a cut you want we can supply it at a very low price. | Foley’s Honey and Tar | cures colds, prevents pneumonia. | THE . Cyclone PULVERIZE and ROLLER Combined Simple - Durable = Strong and Light-running. a Acknowledged to be the Best. Especially adapted for Crushing Lumps and pulverizing the soil. Rolling wheat ground after sowing. Rollin, ts after co! Packing the soil in a solid bed. Rolling corn ground after planting. Rolling meadows in spring of year. Rolling between corn rows by removing one roll. ong of breaking large weeds before the ow. > Breaking cornstalks in spring before plow- ng. g cial price where we have no agents. a hustling agents wanted. Send for circular and price list. THE FULTON MACHINE CO., Canal Fulton, Ohio. THE SALISBURY HACK LINE nn AND LIVERY. » C. W. Statler, - - - Proprietor. HGF-Two hacks daily, except Sunday, be- tween Salisbury and Meyersdale, connect- ing with trains east and west.’ Schedule: Hack No. 1 leaves Salisbury at........8 Hack No. 2 leaves Salisbury at........ 1p. Returning, No 1 leaves Meyersdale at 1 P.M No.2leaves Meyersdaleat............. 6 P.M M&F TVirst class rigs for all kinds of trav- el, at reasonable prices. Letter From Elaine Roze—The Land of Evangeline—Dress for Travel. After years of traveling back and forth over “the briny” I have come to the conclusion that no more delightful trip can be taken than a short sea voy- age to Nova Scotia, and one could travel for months through remote foreign lands without finding a hundredth part of the charm and beauty of this land of Longfellow’s Evangeline. Last week, with a view to making a study of the travelling American wom- an, I took this trip, which is the latest fad of the fashionable woman, who re- alizes the importance of a complete rest as a beauty builder after an ar- duous social season. It is the exceptional American wom- an who overdresses for travelling to- day, so I happily saw little to criticise in the way of unsuitable costuming, but rather much to admire in the trig and simple walking length gowns, with their accompanying neat and stylish shirt waists, and on no transatlantic steamer have I sees-more correct dress- ing than on the broad promenade decks of the luxurious Prince Arthur, of the Munson Line. Through the beautiful Long Island Sound by daylight, one of New York’s most fashionable women wore a brown raw silk gown, which neither soils nor shows dust easily, and which was made in a seven-gored skirt, the tucked bottom of which just escaped the deck. The jaunty little jacket had the fash- ionable short flowing sleeve, which fell over the dainty sleeve of white raw ‘silk shirt waist. The hat was a brown rough straw with strappings of eeru straw and an ecru coq plume drooped gracefully over the left side. Another charming gown for the first steamer day, and for wear on landing was of porcelain blue linen, box plaited all around. and adorned at the bottom with two wide tucks, which are repeat- ed just above the knees. The shirt waist is tucked and trimmed with nar- row embroidery. A white roll-brimmed sailor, with blue leather binding and white straw bow, completes this cos- tume, And while on the subject of dress for your outing, remember that unrestrict- ed lungs are of paramount importance, and fortunately in the matter of a proper corset to accomplish this result, health and fashion are not at a vari- ance, so by choosing a correctly built and fashionable corset, such as the | C-B a la Spirite, which holds the abdo- men in and the hips back, you will find | yourself taking full, long breaths of health-giving air, and come back from | your recreation trip with renewed ca- | pacity for work or play. EvLAINE Rozk. GE BE —® tll dla St N Lj =] | | & = Pi The mean the BUSH & CHICKE STRICK VICTOR HOBER KIMBAL SHUBEE OXFORI We h Tuner an will recei S RE we STAR
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