T. A. RERKEY
Attorney-at-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PA.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Attormney-at-Law,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
W. H. KOONTZ. J. G. OGLE
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys-At-Law,
SOMERSET, PENN’A
Office opposite Court House.
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
‘ Attormey-at-l.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
E. H. PERRY,
Physician and Surgeon,
(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
daily passenger trains on the Pittsburg Di-
vision, due at Meyersdale as follows:
Fast Bound.
No. 48—Accommodation............ 11:02 A.M
No. 6-Fast Line.................... 11:30 A. M
No. 46—Through train.............. 4:41 P. M
No. 16—Accommodation ............ 5:16 P.M
*No.12—-Duquesne Lamited........... 9:85 P. M
No. 10—Night Express........... 12:57AM
No.208—Johnstown Accommo........8:35 P. M
West Bound.
*No. 9—Night Express...............
No. 1l1—Duquense...........ceoevune.. 0:08 A.M
No. 13—Accommodation............ 8:42 A. XM
No. 47—Throughtrain.............. 10:46 A. M
No. 5—-Fast Line.................... 4:28 P. M
No. 499—Accommodation ............ 4:50pP. M
No.207—Johnstown Accommo....... 6:30 AM
Ask telephone central for time of trains.
£@F-*Do not stop.
W.D.STILWELL, Agent.
Ours, Yours and
Uncle Sam’s Favorite.””
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general debility, sour risings, and catarrh
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This new discov= |
Attracted by Muelc.
Patience—Has she an attractive
voice?
Patrice—She must have. She said
while she was singing a bug flew down
her throat.
Repels the Insinuation.
Miss Sharp—They say you spend all
your money for clothes.
Mr. Gayly—No, I don’t.
have ’em charged.
I always
Perils of Journalism.
Monkey—Where’s that
saw coming this way?
Lion—He’s getting inside informa-
tion for his paper.—Chicago Journal.
reporter I
Anything to Start Him.
Cholly (12 p. m.)—I'm not going un-
til you admit that you love me.
Helen—Why in the world didn’t you
tell me that two hours ago!
Another Fish Story.
vv
So you were out in St. Louis? said
the postmaster. Did you see the big
pike?”
“To be sure,” drawled the village
fabricator; then after a pause, “but
it wasn't one inch bigger than the
pike I caught in Hurly’s mill pond last
summer.”
Had a Taste.
She—Were you ever in one of those
airships?
He—No; in an elevator
but I was
| when it fell once.
A SEA VOYAGE
Tommy Burten walked wunsteadily
into the dining saloon. It was the
Campanlia’s third day out, but since
crossing the English channel Tommy
had felt a strange aversion to food.
An extraordinary fascinatioh for, his
cabin had seired him with the fimst
tossing of the big boat.
The seat to his left at the table was
empty. At his right sat a portly old
party, who, judging from the alacrity
with which he was satisfying a ‘sea-
born appetite, never suffered from
mal de mer.
“Just come to life?’ he asked be-
tween mouthfuls, as Tommy sat down.
“Just,” Tommy ended abruptly.
He had Intended saying mére, but
a sufden lurch of the boat checked
his utterance. He made an heroie
effort to concentrate his thoughts oa
the menu. Conversation was impos-
sible.
The mere thought of the edibles on
the bill of fare made Tommy feel
at once like a merry-go-round and
numerous other combinations unmen-
tionable in the highest social circles.
“Your neighbor on the left was too
strongly lured on deck,” began the old
man again. He chuckled and, Tommy
though, gloried in the indisposition
of his fellow passengers.
“Seasickness is—what? Not going?”
But his remark was not heeded by
Tommy, who had made a hasty, if un-
graceful, bolt for the companionway.
With the first whiff of salt air
Tommy was revived. Here and there,
wrapped in steamer robes, propped up
with pillows and clinging lovingly to
their smelling salts, sat members of
the Campania’s family, looking as if
they cared little what happened to
them or to those about them.
Leaning over the railing in the
stern stood a woman. The ocean
breezes freed her curls from impris-
onment and Tommy watched them ex-
plore the regions of the red tam
o'shanter from under which they had
escaped. He studied the symmetrical
lines of her figure and wondered if her
face was as perfect,
With every breath of the invigorat-
ing air he fel! more himself. He evén
thought he could eat if—well, if that
person with the red cap should sit
on his left. Perhaps she did.
Each time he paced the deck he
drew nearer the stern railing. Each
time he formed an introductory
speech, and each time took one more
round of the deck.
Shipboard introduction did not need
a third party, but he did wish she
would turn her head, if ever so slight-
ly. It would help so much.
Finally, as if draws by a hypnotie
power, she moved. Tommy stopped
short as suddenly as a small boy wha
finds a nail in the cellar door.
on the railing. “Helen,”
without removing his glaze. “I—" he
faltered and passed his hand across
his eyes. Surely there were cobwebs
in the sea air.
Tommy grasped the railing. “May
I?—a minute?” nec asked. She did not
reply, so he continued to attend by
her side.
A long silence ensued, during which
the woman turned again to the sea.
Was she afraid her eyes might betray
the emotion that stirred her?
“Helen,” Tommy ventured finally,
“Il did not know it; this was not ine
tentional, believe me.”
Slowly the sun was sinking into
the space between the sky and sea.
The woman's eyes followed it, and Her
thoughts? Where were they? The
two stood side by side silent, thought-
ful.
A large, white ses =zull fiuttered past
them in its {irregular flight. “The
wings of the past” she said at last,
watching the bird disappear.
“They are white.’ he said, “but they
bear much that is?dark—much that
is dreary—to reflect upon. ”
Her face changed, softened, yet he
could not interpret her expression;
the play of her emotion had always
been a mystery to him.
“Helen,” he said, stepping closer to
her, “can we not clip five years—the
last five—from those wings?”
“Call me back again, call me back
again,” came from the cabin below in
a resonant soprano voice. It was the
old song with which she used to sing
away his frowns when she had teased
him.
“Ah, when your love has conquered
pride and anger, I know that you will
call me back again,” came the voice.
“Yes, it had been both pride and
anger—pride on her part, anger on
his. But that was five years ago when
they were—Oh, so young!
“ ‘Pride and anger,”” he repeated
softly. “Wasn’t it both, Helen!
Weren't you too proud to admit you
were wrong and I too angry to make
you? If I were to talk forever I could
not tell of my regret, dear, after I
had lost you. Have I lost you for-
ever?”
She laid her.hand on his arm, and
together they looked down into the
phosphorescent waters beneath them.
“Call me back again: call nfe back
again.” The words were wafted over
and over again to them.
“Will you?” he asked softly.
The red tam o’shanter was laid on
Tommy's breast, and Tommy forgot
his mal de mer in his new ailment—
or his returned ailment—of that more
vital organ, the heart.
Harden Tools with Sealing Wax.
Engravers in Germany harden their
tools in sealing wax. The tool is
heated to whiteness and plunged into
the wax, withdrawn in an instant and
plunged in again, the process being
repeated until the steel is too cold to
enter the wax. The steel is said to
become, after this process, almost as
hard as the diamond and when touch-
ed with a little oil or turpentine the
tools are excellent.
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THE LONELY PRAIRIE. '
A Trackless Waste Without Water
or Human Wabitation.
“I had almost as soon be set adrift
in a small boat in midocean as to be
dropped down on the vast prairie near
the Kansas-Colorado state line,” said
a man who is familiar with the west.
“One cannot realize the loneliness of
the western plains until he has crossed
them. There are very few human hab-
itations, comparatively little of the
land is under cultivation, and water is
a scarce and precious commodity. In
every direction nothing meets the gaze
of the eye except a tracklers, treeless
waste which Is bounded only by the
lowering sky. Prairie dogs’ are the
chief denizens of this regicn, and as
the rain whirls past they perch them-
selves on their hind legs and sit bolt
upright as motionless a8 a statue,
There are a few houses, but they are
at wide intervals. The one single ad-
vantage that a lonely pedestrian has
in that region is that by following the
railroad track sufficiently far he will
reach a town some day.
“It is positively tiresome to the eye
to ride across the prairies in a comfort-
able Pullman car surrounded by «ll the
luxuries of life. This being true, it
must be next to appalling to have to
tranip over this region without food or
water except what one begs at the few
way stations along the route. 1 have
never been able to see anything pictur-
esque or inviting about the wide
stretching plains.” —Birmingham News,
WINDSTORMS.
The Distinction Between a Cyclone
and nn Hurricane.
The term cyclone is applied to a tor-
nado of limited diameter and destruc-
tive violence. All storms, therefore, in
which the wind has a circulating move-
ment about a central area of low bar,
ometric pressure may properly be
termed cyclones. Cyclones occur most
frequently in those parts of the world
which are subject to monsoons and
take place at those seasons when the
monsoons are changing. They some-
times extend over many thousands of
square miles.
Tropical storms are known in the
West Indies as hurricanes. These vio-
lent windstorms are of a diameter of
from fifty to a thousand miles, where-
in the air moves with a velocity of
from SO to 139 miles an hour round the
central calm. Hence this term is up-
plied to any storm or tempest in whicli
the wind blows with terrific violence.
In the Philippine Islands and on the
southeastern coast of Asia such trop-
ical storms are known as typhoons.
The general disturbances of the middle
latitudes are usually referred to ns sim-
ply storms or areas of low barometric
| pressure.—London Answers.
The woman turned to him, her hand
he gasred, |
SCOTLAND'S KILT.
The Origin of This Ancient
Picturesque Dress.
Some say that the kilt was the out-
come of sumptuary laws enacted dur-
ing the reigns of Mary and of her sou.
James VI. of Scotland and I. of Eug-
land. These laws more or less directly
suppressed the ancient tunic. which
fell from: the shoulders to below the
knees, and had in the remoter parts of
Great Britain and Ireland formed the
outer dress of men from Roman times.
When this was condemned, the wearers
evaded the law by dividing the tunic
at the waist, the upper part becoming
a doublet and the lower the kilt.
The kilt, however, must have been
of earlier date, for it is shown as a
separate garment, neatly quilted from
waist to knee, on many mediaeval
crosses and memorial slabs, including
those at Kilkerran and Kilmorie, which
date from before 1500.
It is from this plaiting, or “quilting.
that it takes its name, and no doubt
the sumptuary regulations promoted
its general adoption.
and
’”
Reugh on the Doctor.
In the middle of the night not long
ago there came a terrific ringing at a
London doctor’s bell. “Who's there?”
he called down his speaking tube. In
response a voice came back asking him
to go at once to a house a mile and a
half distant. The doctor got up, dress-
ed and went out with the man whom
he found waiting for him at the door.
Together they walked over to the call-
er's residence. The disturber of his
slumbers told the doctor that he had
illness in his house and would like him
to have a look at the case. When they
entered the sickroom he said, “Now,
be good enough to tell me if the case is
serious enough for me to send at ounce
for my own doctor or if it will de if I
wait until morning.”
Not Timid.
“They say capital is very timid,” re-
marked the young man with the gola
headed cane.
“Well, I guess you wouldn't think
80,” answered the young man with the
cigarette, “if you’d have seen the way
Mazie Goldrox’s father treated me
when I asked for her hand.” —Yonkers
Statesman.
The Open Door.
“I—I would k-kiss you,” stammered
the diffident young man, “if I d-dared.”
“Oh, don’t be afraid!” rejoined the
girl in the parlor scene. “I wouldn't
strike a defenseless man.” —Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
Conclusive,
Little Dot—Folks say there is people
on the planet Mars. Liitle Dick—
There isn’t. Little Dot—Why isn’t
there? Little Dick (triumphantly)—
How could they get up there?
When you meet a friend who is not
looking well, what point do you hope
to make by telling him so?—Atchison
GJobe.
Negroes to Colonize in Somerset
County.
Johnstown, Pa., July 31.—Prominent
1 negroes of this place, at a meeting held
in Mt. Olive Baptist church, organized
the “Agricultural Exchange and Busi-
ness Company,” and application will be
filed in Washington at once for a na-
tional charter.
The object is the colonization of the
race.
The first step taken will be the pur-
chase of at least 100 acres of land in
Somerset county, ten miles from Johns-
town, and on this the entire company
will reside and engage in farming and
manufacturing.
From time to time branch companies
will be organized throughout the Unit-
ed States, all the branches to operate
under the direction of the Johnstown
company.
All profits are to go into a general
fund, which will be used for education-
nl purposes, somewhat after the
Booker T. Washington Industrial
School plan.
The officers of the Johnstown com-
pany arg: James A. Moore, president ;
Phielding Bundy, vice president; Wm.
Roberts, secretary, and George W.
Bowles, treasurer.
The Hen Was Cn.
It was in the morning hours of “bake
day” in the little out of the way village.
The mingled odors of fresh bread, pies
and cookies floated out of the kitchen
windows.
From one of the smaller cottages at
the end of the street came a barefooted
«bhild in a colorless calico dress and
sunbonnet. With the important air of
a heavy buyer she entered the village
store and handed across the counter a
blue teacup, The proprietor took the
cup and said in brisk tones:
“Well, Emmy, what does your ma
want to-day?”
“Please, sir, ma wants and egg’s
worth of molasses, and she carefully
placed a large white egg on the: count-
er.
From a stone jug =a little molasses
was poured and the cup set before the
customer.
“Mr Smif,” she said, as she took her
purchase, “I’ll be back in a little while
for some ginger. Ma said to tell you
that the black hen was on.”
“A good many people have not stop-
ped to think that in order to win the
next Presidential election the Demo-
crats will have to get one more vote
than thetRepublicans,” said Judge W.
B. Alexander, of Chicago.
“How do you make that out, Judge?”
“Well, it’s easy enough. The total
vote of the electoral college is 476. If
it should by anyj rare chance happen
that each party got one-half the total
—in other words, if the election result-
ed in a tie, the Demcecrats getting 238
and the Republicans the same number
—the contest would then be thrown
into the House of Representatives.
The Republicans in that body, having
a large predominance in the number of
States under their control, would pro-
ceed, of course, to the election of their
candidate.
“So you will observe that in order to
win, the Democrats will have to secure
239 votes, or just one more than half
the college, while the other side can
make out on 238.”—Washington Post.
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Seriptural Reason.
A Sunday school superintendent in
talking to his pupils about cruelty to
animals said: “Only a coward would
abuse a creature that has no way of
protectiug itself. Why, children, I
once knew a little boy who cut off a
calf’s tail! Think of it—took a knife
and cut the tail right off! Can any
one tell me a verse in the Bible that
would have taught this cruel boy thai
he should not have cut off the calf’s
tail?
After a moment’s silence a small boy
held up his hand, and when asked to
quote his verse. ventured—"“What God
has joined together let no man put
asunder.
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State Bred Frogs Just for the
Asking.
The department of fisheries is anxious
to encourage frog culture in Pennsyl-
vania. It is believed that farmers who
have swampy ground can by a little
attention derive quite a revenue from
this industry.
The department has propagated sev-
eral million frogs, known as the Great
Western frog, the best species for
market purposes. They are now ready
for shipment, and any persons desiring
to experiment in frog culture may
have a supply on application to the
Department ofifFisheries, the County
Fish Protective Associations, or their
representative injthellegislature.
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Largest Tree;in World.
The biggest tree in the world so far
discovered has justigbeen locatedigin
Eshom Valley, Tuler county, Califor-
nia, by W. T. Hart, a mill man in that}
section.
Mr. Hart says that four feet from the
ground, fand in spite of a burned spot
that decreasesjthe size, the tree is 113
feet in circumference, or a distance
through of 36 feet, and that it towers to
the amazing heigths of 400 feet.
As an expert mill man, Hart says be
beleives the tree contains more lumber
than any other tree in the world.
Jteet.
‘from parties experienced in this class of
work, and who have proper facilities and
-financizl standing to properly execute the
THE SALISBURY HACK LINE
«_ AND LIVERY. _»
C. W. Statler, - - - Proprietor.
ME=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 A. M
Hack No. 2 leaves Salisbury at........ 1P.M
Returning, No 1 leaves Meyersdaleat 1 P.M
No.2 leaves Meyersdaleat............. 6P.M
HF@=First class rigs for all kinds of trav-
el, at reasonable prices.
Notice To Contractors.
Senled proposals will be received by the
County Commissioners of Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, until i -
12 O'CLOCK NOON, TUESDAY, AUGUST
16th, 1904,
for the erection and completion of the new
Court House building to be erected at Some-
erset, Pennsylvania, according to plans and
specifications of J. C. Fulton, Architect,
Uniontown, Pa. Bids to be addressed to
County Commissioners, Somerset, Pa.
All proposals must be made upon blanks
furnished by the Commissioners or Archi-
No bids will be considered, except
contract.
Each bid must be accompanied by a certi-
fied check on a National Bank of Pennsyl-
vania, for $5,000, as a guarrantee for the bid,
and the successful bidder will be required
to give bond in the sum of $125,000, condi=-
tioned for the faithful performance of con=
tract.
Plans and specifications can be seen at
the Commissioners’ office.
Extra copies of plans and specifications
can be obtained at the office of the Archi-
tect, upon depositing a certified check in
the sum of $100, payable to the Architect,
said sum to be refunded upon return of the
plan and specifications.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
ids. 8S. W. POORBAUGH,
JoseErH HORNER,
Jos. B. MILLER,
Commissioners of Somerset Co., Pa.
Attest—JoHN R. Boosk. Clerk. -
$500 REWARD)!
The above amount will be
paid to any person who will fur-
nish information that will lead
to the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons who set
fire to our large tenement build-
ing at Merchants Mine No. 3,
on the night of July 12th, 1904,
in Elk Lick township, Somerset
county, Pa.
« MERCHANTS COAL CO.,
tf Elk Lick, Pa.
Valuable Farms and Mineral For
Sale!
Two Farms of 800 acres each, one of
110 acres and two of 400 acres each in
Southampton township, Somerset
county, Pa. Also 1000 acres of land
underlaid by three seams of coal from
4 to 5 feet thick. For further particu-
lars call on or address John R. Fain,
West Salisbury, Pa. tf
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HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
Agents of either sex should to-day
write Marsh Manufacturing Co., 538
Lake Street, Chicago, for cuts and pan-
ticulars of their handsome Aluminum
Card Case with your name engraved on.
it and filled with 100 Calling or Busi~
ness Cards. Everybody orders them.
Sample Case and 100 Cards. postpaid,
50c. This Case and 100 Cards retail at
75 cents. You have only to shew
sample to secure an order. Send 50¢
at once for case and 100 cards. or send
30c. for 100 cards without case. $10
prize for every agent.
Mention this paper. 8-11
MEN WHO HAVE MADE THEIR
MARK.
An Appropriate and Effective Book-
let on the Savings Habit.
The above is the title of a very in-
teresting booklet just issued by the
Pittsburgh Bank for Savings, of Pitts-
burgh, Pa. The booklet is one of the
best ever published for the purpose.
It contains a brief but surprisingly
complete biography of great American
statesmen and kings of finance. It is
admirably illustrated with half-tone
portraits of characteristic scenes illus-
trating striking episodes in the lives of
various characters among whom are
Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln,
Andrew Carnegie, Stephen Girard,
John Wanamaker, James A. Garfield,
John D. Rockefeller and others. Fol-
lowing each biography is an apt quota-
tion appropriate to the matter preced-
ing. Typographically it is one of the
handsomest little booklets we have
seen for some time, and it will repay
our readers to send for a copy of the
same, which will be furnished free of
charge by the Pittsburgh Bank for
Savings. provided you mention this pa-
per. but not otherwise.
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CHEAP EXCURSIONS
——TO THE
ST. LOUIS WORLD’S FAIR EVERY
WEDNESDAY IN AUGUST, SEP-
TEMBER AND OCTOBER.
$15.00
ONLY ROUND . TROP FROM
BURY JUNCTION.
SALIS-
Tickets will be good going in coaches
only on Specified Trains.
Returning, tickets will be good in
coaches only on all regular trains, leav-
ing St. Louis not later than ten days,
including date of sale.
Call on Ticket Agent for time of
train and full information. 10-27
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