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“FORT CUMBERLAND”
BLACK ELASTIC
Roof and Meial
' WON'T COMEZ OFF AND'S JUST AS BLACK
A high e Paint for Roofing and all
orks Foy
. BLACK, GLOSSY AND ELASTIO.
not crack, peal or blister. It will
make an old and worthless roof practically
ind 28 new.
. ost Elastic Paint on the market today:
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Made from various Mineral Pigments, Ru
métals.
bers, Oils and Che Guaranteed for
ears. If your Dealer caunot supply you, ac-
i no other, but write us IT same will
receive prompt attention.
FORT CUMBERLAND PAINT MFG. COMPANY,
Cumberland, Md.
Wagner's
LIVERY,
Salisbury, Penna.
Frank Wagner, Propr.
Harvey Wagner, Mgr.
Good horses, and good rigs of
all kinds. Special attention to
the needs of traveling men, and
extra good equipments for pic-
nicking and sleighing parties.
Horses well fed and cared for,
at reasonable rates.
Somerset County telephone:
FOLEY’
KIDNEY GURE
WILL CURE YOU
of any case of Kidney or
Bladder disease that is not
beyond the reach of medi-
tine. Take it at once. Do
not risk having Bright's Dis-
ease or Diabetes. There is
nothing gained by delay.
50c. and $1.00 Bottles.
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES.
SOLD BY ELK LICK PHARMACY.
HHRE INSURANCE <-
Can you afford to have your
dwelling or household goods go
up in smoke without a cent of in-
surance with which to cover your
loss?
Do It Now!
Call on E. H. Miller, at the Elk
Lick drug store, and have him #
show you how small the cost
would be to have a polacy written
insuring you against such losses.
EH. Miler, ~Saishuy,
Agent for
Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAY 17, 1908.
MEYERSDALE.
*Daily. +Daily except Sunday. ¢§Sunday
only.
@ONNELLSVILLE & PITTSBURG. De-
art *5.44 a. m., 6.36 p. m. (local) *2.46 p. m.
Yess p.m. (local). Arrive *10.55a. m. (local)
*]1.24 a. m.,*4.50 p. m., $6.50 p. m. *9.20 p. m.
©€HICAGO, Depart *6.36 p.m. Arrive*11.24 a.
m., *4.50 p. m.
WASH. BALTO., PHILA, & NEW YORK,
Depart *11.24 a. m., *450 p. w., 0.20 p. m.
Arrive *5.44 a. m., *2:46 p. m., 6.36 p. m.
MBERLAND, Depart *10.55 a. m. (local),
i a. m., *4.50 p. m., +6.50 p. m. (local), *0.20
p.m. Arrive *5.44 a. m, 17.52 a. m. (local),
*2.46 p. m., #434 p. m. (local), 6.36 p. m,
JOHNSTOWN and Way Stations, Depart
#6.30 8. m., 17.5628. m.,*4.34 p. m. Arrive 10.55
a. m., +4.50 p. m.,*7.05 p. m.
NOT GUILTY.
LOVE YouR
NEIGHRONS
S. S. Teacher—Johnny, what was
it that so severely tried the patience
of Job?
Johnny—*Yo’ can search me. I
b'n sick wid th’ measules fer tree
weeks an’ ain't bin out wid th’ fel
lers
THE LAST TIME.
“Rose, dear, this is the fifteenth,
and positively the last time; will you
marry me?”
“You are positive it is the last
time, Jack?”
“Positive.”
“Then, dear, of course you know,
I'll have to say ‘yes.””
INCONVENIENT.
Donald McKay (living six miles
out)—to the clerk of whom he
bought matches—There be yer
matches! I'll no have them! They'll
no light!
Clerk (striking one on the seat of
his trousers) —You see how well they
l'ght if you know how. {
D. M. (indignantly)—D’ye think
I'm sick a fule as to travel twelve
miles to strike a match on yer breeks
every time I want a light?
PREMATURE QUESTION.
Bully—*‘Feller’s fell off the Aerial
Building! Cim’ on!”
Fritz—‘“Cracky! Kilt yit?”
Blly—!Dunno; ain’t lit yit.’>
DEEP.
May—I bet I know how deep ihe
lake is!
Jessie—How deep is the lake,
smartie?
Smartie—A stone’s throw!
Spoils of Austrian Court.
Court etiquette in Austria is more
stringent than in other European
courts.
The attendents come in for large
perquisities as comestible articles
are never allowed to appear twice
on the royal tables. It must be a
good thing to be one of these atten-
dants, as to one man falls all the
wine left in the glasses, and the
game, fish and sweets are equally
divided in the same way.
Each morning a market is held
tn the basement of the palace, where
the Vinnese come to purchase the
remains of the banquet.
This custom is a revival of one
that obtained great favor in the Mid-
dle Ages. Then the great lords of
the land were not above accepting
the remains of a feast and the Lord
Chancellor was entitled to the ends
of one large candle and forty small
ones each day.
He in turn made capital of this
perquisite and undoubtedly his ex-
chequer was greatly increased by fit
at the end of the year.
World of the Solid.
We live amid matter in three
characteristic states—solid, liquid
and gaseous. But since hydrogen
has been both liquefied and solidified,
the investigator is introduced into
a world of solid bodies. With the
aid of the cold furnished by liquid
hydrogen, every gaseous substance
at present definitely known to the
chemist, with the single exception
of helium can be solidified. Even hel-
ium, Professor Dewar hopes, may
yield to the processes now being em-
ployed by scientists throughout the:
world.
Liquid hydrogen is so light that
the only solid substance that will
float upon it is pith. Solid hydro-
gen has a temperature 436 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero. When ex-
posed to the cold vapor arising from
liquid hydrogen, air is instantly turn-
ed solid, falls like a miniature snow
storm into the vessel containing the
hydrogen, and sinks to the bottom.
Selected His Prize.
A husband was offered as a prize
in a cooking school competition of
recent date in a Kansas town. A
young merchant offered himself for
the prize. Thirty or forty fair com-
petitors entered the race, but the
judges who rendered the decision de-
cided in favor of a widow, whose
cooking seemed to deserve the re-
ward because of its superior quality.
The widow did not meet with appro-
val in the eyes of the young mer-
chant, however, and he reversed the
decision of the judges by eloping
with the youngest and prettiest of
the competitors.
The Jewish Population.
A statistical report recently pub-
lished by the British Government
shows that there are 20,000 Jews in
Cape Colony, 18,000 in India, 17,-
000 in Australia, 16,000 in Canada
and 4000 in Ireland. A Yiddish
paver commenting on the report
says: ‘‘These figures look large, but
they become small when compared
with New York, where there are in
two wards more American Jews than
there are British Jews all over the
world.
Prohibiting Smoking.
In the Italian public service smok-
ing is prohibited during business by
off cials whose duties bring them into
contact with the public. For those
whose duties do not, it is left to the
discretion of heads of departments
to allow or forbid smoking. But
their discretion is limited to the cig-
ar and cigarette. The pipe may not,
under any circumstances be permit-
ted.
Typhoid Vanquished.
Professor Chantemesse, the emin-
ent French bacteriologist, to whom
wn owe the serum against typhoid
fever, has laid the world under an-
other obligation by a second im-
portant discovery in the same field,
whereby the disease may be detect-
ed from {its first symptoms. This is
done by means of a typhic applica-
tion under the eyelid.
Improving on Standard Rail.
The recognized standard rall now
in use has been discarded for a heav-
ier one and one made of better ma-
terial. This improved standard re-
quires that a very large percentage
of the ingot shall be rejected so as
tc obtain a purer metal. Two rail-
roads have recently ordered 40,000
tons of these rails.
Nets Used in Fishing.
About 100,000 rots are in use
during the herring searon by the
800 fishing smacks of the Nether-
lands. A net lasts about three sea-
sons but owing to loses from storms
and other causes between 40,000
and 50,000 new nets are purchased
annually.
The Ambidextrous Craze.
A learned man of London, in
attacking the recurring ambidexter-
ity eraze, says that this accomplish-
- ment is quite common among idiots
and that it 1s quite natural that well-
belanced persons should use one
limb more than the other.
Artificial Leg for Horse.
Amputating a horse’s leg at the
fetlock joint, Professor Udriski of
the veterinary school at Bucharest
has replaced the lost portion with
a leather artificial leg that e: ables
the animal to walk about and take
exercise.
BACK ACTION CURE.
. Henpecque—The doctor ..
me I must go away to the country
Cid he say anything to you about it Nviolet.
Mr. Henpectque—Yes, my dear, hq
said I needed a rest.
THE TORRID NORTH.
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“I hear you are leaving soon fot
the North.”
“Yes; my doctor advises me to
go to a warmer climate for my
heaith.
RUNS IN THE FAMILY.
Fitz—How did you learn to two-
step?
Startz—Well, you see I have two
step-sisters.
A SHADY REP,
“I understand you and Buzzo-
graph had some words.”
“We did; he accused me of hav-
ing a black record.”
THE GUARDIAN OF THE GODS.
White for Mourning.
Black mourning has had its day.
We are henceforth, comme les reines
blanches of the early Renaissance,
to wear white mourning. This is
not so much a reversion as a further
imitation of the victorious Japanese.
A black hat, feathers and gloves,
with a white dress, are to pass for
le dernier cri de Fame en deuil. It
will do well to be entirely in white,
or perhaps better; unbroken white-
ness is so blank, so fade as to be al-
most penitential. The widow of
royal line 400 years ago was in
white from top to toe. La Marguer-
ite des Marguerites, who had iost
her husband at the battle of Pavia,
went to Madrid to visit her captive
brother habited in white—wimple,
riding habit and all #n white, in |
sign of widowhood. Black mourn-
ing came in from Florence with Cath-
erine de Medici. Violet mourning
for the head of the State went out
with the Revolution. M. Felix Fau-
re thought the black that replaced
is more suitable to the croque-mort,
and wished for reversion to regal
Smallest of Vertebrates.
Hitherto the United States has
had the distinction of possessing both
the remains of the largest land ‘ver-
tebrates ever known’ to have ex-
isted and giant dinosaurs of the West
and the smallest living vertebrates
of either land or sea, certain cyprin-
odont fishes of the Florida and South
Carolina coasts.
But the United States Fish Com-
mission has recently received from
the Philippine Islands specimens of
a new species of fish, belonging to
the goby family, which are smaller
than any other vetrebrate animals
yet known. They vary from less
than 10 up to about 15 millimetres
in length.
Their numbers are so enormous
that they form an important article
of diet for some of the natives, who
catch them in close-woven nets. It
is proposed to call this new fish my-
stichtys, from twe Greek words mean-
ing smallest fish.
Gem Detectives.
According to Dr. Chaymet, of the
French Academy of Seiences, who
has been experimenting on the sub-
ject for some years past, the violet
rays of the spectrum are of great
practical value in the jewelry trade
because they easily distinguish the
qualities of various gems. The
fluoresence that they impart to dia-
monds offers a trustworthy diagnosis
of the excellence of the stones. They
are equally effective with rubies. The
rubies of Burma have a higher value
than those of Siam, but experts are
sometimes deceived in judging them
by the ordinary methods. With the
ald of the violet rays, however, the
Burmese gems can always be diff-
erentiated from the less precious
varieties. 2
Flower Colors and Odor.
One of Uncle Sam’s botanists at
Washington is said to have discover-
ed that out of 4300 species of flow-
ers cultivated in this country and
in Europe only 420 possess an agree-
able perfume.
Flowers with white or cream-col-
ored petals are more frequently
odoriferous than others, Next in
order come the yellow flowers, then
the red, after them the blue and
finally the violet, of’ which only 13
varieties out of 308 give off a
pleasing perfume. In the whole list
3880 varieties are offensive in odor
and 2300 have no perceptible smell,
either good or bad.
The Ostrich in Madagascar.
Ralsing ostriches is a growing in-
dustry in various parts of the world,
so that there appears to be no dan-
ger of a famine in the ostrich plume
market. In 1902 the ostrich was
introduced into the French colony
of Madagascar, and during last win-
ter a public sale of plumes was held
in order to awaken interest in the
new industry. The feathers were of
fine quality, and the huge birds are
said to flourish well in their island
home.
Wasn't Asking Much.
A florist of Philadelphia was one
day making the rounds of his pro-
perties near that city, when he was
approached by a young man, who
applied to him for work.
“1 am sorry,” said the florist, “but
have all the help I need, I have noth-
ing for you to de.”
“Sir,” said the young man, with
a polite bow, “if you only knew how
very little work it would take to ooc-
cupy me!’’-——Success Magazine.
Traits of the Laconians.
Laconians, whose chief city was
Sparta, were famous in ancient
Greece not only for their success in
war, but for their scorn of luxuries
and their brevity of speech. When
King Philip of Macedonia, father of
Alexander the Great, threatened
them, saying, “If I enter Laconia I
will level your city to the dust,”
they sent back the reply, “If!” Their
short answers give to the English
language the word “laconic.”
Promoting Raflway Building.
The representative of a British
gyndicate is in Peking offering to lend
to the Yuchuan-Pei a large sum of
money to build railways. Beyond
demanding the sole right to contract
for the construction materials and
to provide the engineers to build
them, the syndicate will not inter-
fere in any way with the control and
policy of the railways.
R.E.MEYERS,
Attorney-at-Law,
SOM®RSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
W. H. KOONTZ.
{ KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys-At-Law,
J. G.0GLE
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SOMERSET, PENN’A
Office opposite Court House.
DR.PETER L. SWANK,
Physician and Surgeon,
‘ELK LICK,.Pa.
Successor to Dr. E. H. Perry.
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RERKEY & SHAVER, | ©
Attorneys-at-Liaw.
SOMERSET, PA.
dbfroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Law,
SOMERSET, PA.
E.C.SAYLOR, D. D. S.,
SALISBURY, PA.
Office Corner Union St. and Smith Ave. :
Special attention given to the preserva-
tion of the natural teeth. Artificial sets in-
serted in the best possible manner.
W. 8. WELLER, C7 FAL unnn,
Makes a specialty of Farm Bales, Live
Stock, Merchandise and Real Estate.
GRADUATE OF MISSOURI AUCTION SCHOOL.
Terms reasonable and satisfaction guar-
anteed.
R. F.D. No.2, MEYERSDALE, PA.
W. A. CLARKE,
FOR—
UndertakinG,
MEYERSDALE, PENNA.
STEVENS
ARMS
are for sale by all progressive.
Hardware and Sporting.
Goods Merchants :
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will be mailed postpaid to any
applicant by J, STEVENS ARMS
& Toor Company, Chicopee
Falls, Mass., upon
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J. STEVENS:
ARMS & TOOL CO.
P. 0. Box 4099
Chicopee Falls, Mass.
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‘Murphy Bros.
RESTAURANT!
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Headquarters for best Oysters, Ice
Cream, Lunches, Soft Drinks, ete.
Try our Short-Order Meals—Beef-
steak, Ham and Eggs, Sausage, Hot
Coffee, ete.
Meals to Order at All
Ae. Hours! sm
We also handle a line of Groeeries,
Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, ete.
We try to please our patrons, and we
would thank you for a share of your
buying.
MURPHY BROTHERS,
Joy BUILDING, SALISBURY, Pa.
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