SALISBURY; ELK LICK POSTORFICE Fa. THURSPAY DEC.,
10, 1891.
NUMBER 1.
SE
¢ hoice assortment oft fresh |
Meyer hand.
meat of By kind, got to Ba ad-
ter. a :
_ Brandler guarantees to
lease the mast. fastic
1s the best on eure the:
X, PA. have always on hand all
‘Burial Cases, Robes, Shrouds and all
Belonging to the business. Also |
| the cars needed here to transnort eopl dn
fer our entire stock, con-
sisting of Men’ Ss. Boys’
li
[A an BELOW cost:
| business.
{of our stock, the sooner the
3s better, and in order to do so
| we are not going to look at the
| ures, and if you need anything
{en up.
: Main St,
On accord of doing out
of business, we hereby of-
Chi
Caps, Gomis” Pur}
nishing Goods, Trunks.
: nd Valises, Pen
3
Thisis roadvertising scheme |
to ‘make | money, but we mean
We wantto dispose
value of the goods, but ‘any
kind of a reasonable offer will
be accepted.
Now Is Your Opportunity
to. buy goods at your own fig-
in our line, come and see us;
it will save you a good deal of
money. Come and get ‘bar-
gains before our stock is broks|
‘We have a full line of
goods on hand now, and would
Better take’ advantage of it.
Yous fespentlully,
Cloth |
00,
Below Jones House,
EE Meyers,
| many democrats are lable to do.
a
1 er was the child was ina languishing condition
n | Placing very large orders for new rails, new care
| and new locomotives. Well: we hope the Ek |
| poses the subtreasury scheme, an additional nail
: for the party using them.
| ‘soma tall ranting about Sunday newspapers.
't They want them suppressed, but their reasons
8 preachers can rant hbout Bunday newspapers
| Honairés because of thelr money, and yet, deep
|{ down in the heart of every man is the feeling
: sald: LN
Pram
Som pans,
CoNarEss is in session, Now lot ns wait and
see what we shall see, It is hard: to tell what so
teria? ;
Ruciehoeiry ‘must be a mighty good thing, or
‘there wonld not be so many men desirous of he-
ing known as its father. No matter who ils fath-
‘until Dr, Blaine took charge of its treatments he
has made a man outof it.
Iris said that the railroads of the country are
Lick conl ‘region will soon be able to secute all
ivy
‘réirlon has been greatly suffering, on account of
Scarcity of cars.
Byaay time a misguided member of te Farm:
ers’ Alliance refers to another member ‘of that
organization as 2 Judas Iscariot, beeause he op-
is put ini the. coffin of hat idea. Tt is always well
| to remember that abuse and blackguardism is
not argument, and neither ever made a friend
EE
Soxz of the Pittsburgh clgrgymen are do
for their suppression are rather flimsy, They
| should devote more. attention to suppressing |
J] games of chance at: chiroh fairs, The public
pruss is’ the lever that moves the world, and
till the cows come home; but the Sunday papers
will be printed Jom the same,
“Tels popular these days to blackguard the mil
which Ex-Senator Ingalls expressed when he |
nly resson ‘why I am not
to make the
© | seen. It is light as wood, strong
foommunity’s interests ‘to be
BUppor
rather dispose of them Si ior
cost than to: remove: them;
Ais
1 The Shatios os Lifetime, i
At
4 million. ;
raise any serions “hjestion to being the owner
of a million dollars,
THz editor recently received from The Michi:
gan Stove Company, manufacturers of the fam-
ous “Garland” stoves, a neat little souvenir, that
hie highly prises for its rarity and novelty. Ids |
# pocket match-box made of ‘aluminnm,’ the
most plentifol metal in the world, yet: one
as silver, and non corrosive as gold.
cheaply separate’ “aluminum’’ from its clay.
eyer devised it will revolutionize the m ica
arts of the world. The Michigan Stove ¢ pany
uses “aluminum’’ in “Garland”! stove castings,
5 adding greatly to their smoothness and strength,
and prevents cracking, We understand that no |
other stove company makes such use of this won:
derful metal. ;
SALUTATORY. PENG
dotibtiess in order for us to make ki
SU EResTions as we think will be LL
{mutual benefit and advantage.
. We will say in the outstart
Brar will be published for the gene
Welture and advancement of Salish
former, for if the. publishers ben
neglected; it v € DOSK e
rly
looked ufter. There are tog many peo-
ple ili the world who do not realize thie.
fact that it requires u great deni of money
and hard menial and ph ysical labor to
publish a creditable newspaper. Many.
of them seen tor look. upon a ewspaper ||
[8s 8 sort of charitable institution that
ought at all times to battle early and Inte.
for the | prosperity of the community, 10
boom. ‘all ils business inskitations and
business prospects, [to right
very dis-
“gruntled citizen’ s wrongs, and all that sort
of thing, | no matter ‘whetlior there is any
remuneration in it or not for the publish
er. his class of Mdividuis can Away :
obligations to’ the adi Dut entirely
Jose sight of the > fact : :
newspaper; i
newspaper | that 'is run on n business prin:
ciples—it is hut going to waste, much am:
munition on fossils and kickers. or rather |
tor their gratification and selfish ends,
but will always do all in its power for
the benefit of a town when its. citizens
‘are’ principally composed of the right
kind of material and suterprive,
Therefore, let it be uiderstood right
: here in the start that Tog STAR
run strietly on buriness pris
will inchile the publisher's
along with the benefit and advan
of the town, Balishury oun hay
lnrge and as gnod a paper. as it
rather As it is willing to pay fo
Now then, kuowing the objeet
whieh THE STAR is Boing to pul blished,
we will tell you what any town. must do
to support sa a newspaper. In the
‘first place, its citizens ‘must ‘aubscribe
liberally fur the paper, thereby showing
that they are willing to lielp ulong all
new, legitimate and honorable _enterpris-
es that come to their town, also showing
that they believe in giving their homes
the benefit of all the enlightening ‘and
educating influences thant they ean secure.
We have often been told by teachers that
those of their pupils’ who are the bright:
eat and make the hos st vapid advancement |
in their studies, nre invariably those who
axe access to papers in their homes,
5 revtubie: newspaper is
a ot ine & home, but the home
paper: is the most valuable of them all,
Why? Because it is ensier to get your
children interested in the home paper
than any other to be had. It notonly |
° hews’ of your town,
but nearly all conntry newspapers. in
these dayR contain a large amount of city.
state and nations! news, also well selected
religious matter; scientific matter, histor:
ical matter ald news from nearly sil parts
of the globe, And no. an, st
$1. 50 per enum,
week. Who ‘can’
that price?
bacco or —— and
But ome 1 ne j
= time—men.
1m making our bow to the publi, it is | 8
. | believe it give us a trial order;
oie ‘their c own vitality and prowperinf)
_ But the most essential thing of all
‘make & Newspaper. a success is a liberal
advertising patronage. Without this no
newspaper of any conseqiience can exist
very long and do justice to itself. It will
soon have to yield up; the ghost, if the
; bhsiness men. of its town are 100 niggard-
Iy or too slow. in business. to advertise.
| Does it pay to advertise? The answer is
easy. Go into any enterprising town
: has a newspaper, secure a cony of
thai Baper and look Tt vver. Who fills
advertising ‘columns of that, paper?
are the biggest advertisers in that
per? The biggest business men, every
Wha. are, neted for their
in such ways as will a thom
dh returns, The man ‘who argues
: can’t afford to ‘advertise, simply
t kno that he can’t afford to do
8 too poor to be in business,
believe the business men. of Salis:
will do the right thing, by us in the:
: ising line, for there are enough of
o give us a good patronage, nud as
tly all of them promised some months
vr “black and white” to give usa
liberal patronage, we take them at their
‘word and trust to their ‘honor, which we
lave No reason to ‘mistrust or doubt.
‘Another thing a country newspaper
must have to make it a success financinl-
4 good job printing patronage. In
: days of close competition for trade,
‘ho business man ean afford to make him:
self sppear old fogyish. by using blank
ifationery or fooling away time with an
dauby rubber stamp. We don’t know
gther any of Salishury’s business men
ve Leen guilty of such things or not,
if they live they couldn't very well
oh it, owing to having no printing of-
¢ in the town. Bat how these things
re changed, for. The Brag office has as
Le Jobbing outfit as’ there fs in the
‘conpty and cantar out nearly all kinds
work: {oa queens tuste. - If youn don’t
our prices as low as good: printing
be done for. quality "of stock used
good wor aricmanship considered. Rey
heen! asked # good many times since com:
ing here. “Friends, Romans and conntry-
men; Tae STAR'S politics will be repabli-
{oun but we will promise our friends who
differ with us politically that we will be
ensy on them, We may from time to
time try to show them the errors of their
way. but we are not guingi to abuse any
of them. Neither are we going to con:
duct any mnd-glinging campaigns, Life
ia too short to quarrel over polities, yet
a man can ‘be a bitter partisan without
being a blued fool. We will edit a
“tepublican paper because we believe i in
the principles of the republican party,
: and being Americans, the freest people
earth, we will not hesitate to speak
Lpolitical views whenever oceasion
may reqitire it. God hates a coward and
this paper lintes a cowurd. Bat Tue
will uot, strictly speaking, be a po:
ei eal paper. Its chief object will be to
print thie local and ‘current news, but
whenever we can give you a few repub-
fica. truths that will in no way abuse
anyone, why, of course. we'll print ‘em.
It has been suggested to us by a few
persons that the paper had perhaps
better be nentral in politics. With all
due respect for the opinions of those per-
sons, we beg leave to differ with them.
Tlie straight out and ont neutral paper
does not exist; it is only the so-called
neutral paper. The neutral paper is like
some straight men-—they are so straight
thot ‘they lean backward, and parallel
casei @re numerous among neutral news-
papers. They are so nentral that their!
publishers’ political feelings invariably
¢rop oul, _about election time, and if they
don’t they want to so awful bad that it
gives aman 8 pain away down in his
very feet. No, we want no political neu.
trality in ours, but as we have ‘said be:
fore, we shall leap no aljuse upon those
who differ with us in politics. for we
liave long aXo found out that neither all
the good men nor all the dirty rascale dre
confined to anyone party. We got along
very nicely with our political opponents
r | inthe west, and we believe we can do so
here. Out there ‘many of our most sub-
stantial patrons were democrats, although 1
our paper published thers was a very
radical republican sheet, much more rad-
ical than it will be here. The day is
about past for men to dislike on boycott:
‘each other ‘om aceoun of politics. ‘The
man in these days who so far’ forgets
| himself as to get “on his ear” about poli.
cs, is 100 ted upon. as a pretty shallow
Touvk after the duties of an office.
You will’
office, or for any other office that has
nothing whatever to do with the law-
making power of the country. In voting
for state or national officers, it is seldom
that many of us are personally requainted
with any of the candidates, hence we
vote for the men wlio represent the prin-
ciples we believe in. But when it comes
to voting and working for the election of
town or county officers, offices that have
nothing to do with law-making, then
politica should be Iaid uside and the best
men put in office; regardless vf their po:
litical afiliations. “Of course. if you think
your party ticket for the offices aforesaid
a good one, then we think itis the proper
thing todo to vote the ticket of your
party, even for the smaller offices. But
we wish to say right here that this paper
‘will never support a candidate for a town.
or county office whom we know to be
dishonest, © intemperate, or In any way
unfit to serve the people and properly
We
. | believe every honest man and (rue Amer-
1 fda citizen will admit away down deép
in’ his heart, i he does not do so opetily,
that we are right in this.
The future of our town is the most im-
portant thing for us all wr think about.
How can’ we improve it and mike it het:
ter? That is the question that should in-
terest us all, What is to hinder Salisbury
from becoming the best business town in
the county? 1s it not located in the rieh:
est part of the county? Has not Salis:
bury territory almost made Meyersdale?
18 ‘there not nore money paid out each
month for labor in the immediate vicinity
of Salisbury than in all the rest oof the’
county combined? Can not the great’
bulk of all this money be kept at homey
If it isn’t mostly spent at home. in the
future, it will show that there is some-
thing wrong somewhere. The business
‘men of Salisbury have as much eapital
to do business with as the business men
of most any other town, snd thers is no
reason why Salisbury. stores should not
become. more; and more popular all the
time. = Everything should be; kept for |
sale in Salisbury hat can be’ secured i in
any other’ country town, andif i Inu
Kept here, the people will go whére is is: ks
Rept. Bat Salisbury is rapidly getting to
the front, and she’s getting there: with
both feel and to stay. there. She is Ret,
indir there, “B11.”
‘And now, in our closing. remarks, we
mn Wh | with spank of some things thut this paper:
‘ What ‘are the polit ics af your ‘paper
Foing to be? 18a question that we have
will do and of some that it will not do,
80 that we will thoroughly understand
each other ip the start
where we formerly published i # paper we
were sometimes criticised by fault-find-
ors because we wotld pot give some snide’
entertainment several dollars worth of
advertising in consideration of a 10-cent
complimentary ticket; or because we
would not advertise’ church festivals,
fairs, oyster suppers, ete., fres of charge,
also numerous other money-making de-
vices of a similar nature. We hardly
think we will be annoyed in that way
here. but it may be well enpugh to speak
about these things. = We will therefore
say that we will never advertise anything
of a money-making character free of
charge, for there is no reason why we
should. We aré in this business to make
aliving out of it, und will advertise noth:
ing free, only such things as are free to}
‘the public, If there is an entertainment
Or concert that wants to be ‘advertised,
let it pay for its advertising and. wo ‘will |
take pleasure in paying for our tickets to |
the concert. And if there is a church
fair, festival or supper for the purpose off
making money for the church, let it also
pay for its advertising, if it wants any,
and we will take pleasure in patronizing
all such things and paying good hard
money. for’ everything we wish to buy
there. That's fair. isn’t it? In that way
we will be. under no obligations to each
other for “anything. Of course when
courtesies ot any kind are extended to us;
we will take pleasure in returning cour:
In the town |
Nebraska to this place, and as we were
worth somewhat less thun Juy Gould b
fore we started to inke our move of over
1,800 miles, you can easily guess that by
this time we are about down to bed rack. :
Therefore, we request our patrons, ‘both
real and prospective, to please pay their
first year's subscription in advance,
thereby, furnishing us a working eapital
Give us a liberal patrovage and we will
do all in our power to give you a firsi-
class newspuper. But as editors have 80
many things to write about, itis
sible’ for (hém to please every bi
everything at all times. ;
promise yout to do the best we know
sll times, and when we make mistake
for none of us are perfect, don’t bece
tuo bitter against us, but let your het
nature rule youu. : :
Hoping that our business
relations may ever remain please
profitable, ‘we are sincerely,
P. L. Livexeoop, Edi
Mgrs. P. L. Livenaoop, Associate Ed.
rita :
mms te
BEATTY'S PIANOS AND ORGA
Hon. Daniel F. Beatty, the great Orga
Piano manufacturer, is building and sbi;
more Organs. and Pianos than ever, Ty
Beatty left home a penniless plow-boy;
bis indomitable will he has worked his
80 as to sell so far, nearly 100,000 of Beat
rans and Pianos since 1870. Nothing:
‘dishearten him; “obstacles laid in his wa!
‘would have wrecked any ordinary m
‘he turns to an advertisement and eomes
brighter than ever. Lis instruments,”
known, are very popular and are to be
all parts of the world.’ We are infor
during ‘the next ten years he intends
200.000 more of his make. that means
of $20,000,000 iF: we average them ab $100
1t is already the Iargest busine
existence—Send ‘to Daniel F' Beatty, ;
ton, New Jersey, for Catalogue -
it was a young cyclone ak di
deal of damuge, the following }
of the freaks it performed: |
Richard Housel's new houde, 1
ville township, was Tifted f;
ation. :
ambéring business. The
| age to the extent of about §
building wete Blown ¢
of fine; large SUZAT tree
Mr. ‘Beachy, Tema
Part of Frank Wagner's barn root w was
blowa off. :
Henry Loschel's
turned: over.
J.D; HLivengood's » culita 1
the north side ‘of his" residence To
blown down. 3
Several buildings were How
Frostburg, :
‘Hyndman was well shaken up Hi
great deal of damage done to some of
her buildings.
The mail carrier of the Granta
says he had to climb over lots of
rooted trees before be reached Bally
on that day. we
ree ne as
Tre SPAR lias bad a hard tine of \
ing nshered into existence, as th
‘has heen unwell and seareely abl
this town,
its, Appearance long ago, had it
on account. of the ‘editor's pos
Aftér being unavoidably delayed
after time, ‘we did finally get things |
shape to go to press on Thanksgi
day, but was! we were suddenly ta
ill and confined to our bed. f
week. “That, of course, again
our plans ‘and caused’ anothi
Road portion of tie contents of
tesies to the same extent ; that, § we © retnive : :
Ancilies evil that editors sometimes |
have to contend with is this: A preach-
er will get $5 or $10 for saying a few
Words and pronouncing some fellow and
his best girl married. Those few words
that the preacher uttered scarcely cost
him an ‘effort, but the newly married nian
gladly pays him $5 or $10, which is all
right and proper, especially if he got a
good wife, But it is too frequently the
case after paying the preacher to expect
the editor 10 pay his compositors for set-
ting up a half or whole column list of
wedding presents and have the same pul):
lished in his paper, withont asking a cent
of pav. Well, when it comes to that
kind of foolishness, THE STAR won't he
“in it,” that's all. We will always be
glad to make respectable mention of all
‘weddings, as a matter of news, but for |.
lists of presents, etc. advertising rates
will be charged. There are also several
hii i
stances, and hat “will be stale. news
some of out rei ders here will still ben
to many of our western readers. So
will have to “let ‘er go Gallagher” fo
this tine, even if the paper isn't what
we'd like to have it.
‘Admitting that some of the news in
this issue is a little stale, on account,
earlier date, and then being unab) :
to press when we wanted to, on account.
of sickness, yet we want you 1u ‘examine
this paper closely and see. if we haven’ t