a a A RR SR RA, re np Ee en @be Somerset County Star. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Editor and Publisher. Mrs. P. L. LIVENGOOD, Associate Editor. Entered at the postoffice at Elk Lick, Pa., as mail matter of the Second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Tue STAR is published every Thursday, at Elk Lick, Pa., at the following rates: One copy one year ..... $1.50. One copy six months . oui, One copy three months. One copy one month . ‘ e Single copies... .... «i. iia sean aes ciean 05. ADVERTISING. — Transient Locarn No- Ticks, 10 cents a line for firstdinsertion: 5 cents a line for each additional insertion. To regular advertisers, b cents a line straight, except when inserted among local news or editorial matter. No business locals will be mixed in with local news or editorial matter for less than 10 cents a line for each and every insertion. EpiroriaL Purrs, when requested. invariably 10 cents per line. LEGAL ADVERTISE ENTS at legal rates. MARRIAGE, Birt AND DeaTa Notices will be charged for at 5 cents a line, but all such mention as the editor sees fil to make concerning such events, without anyone's request, will be gratis. CARDS oF THANKS will be published free for patrons of this paper, but non-patrons will be charged 10 cents a line. ResoLuTIONS OF Respect will be published for 5 cents a line. RaTrs For DISPLAY ADVERTISEENTS will be made known on application. No free advertising will be given to anything of a money-making character. Nothing will be advertised gratis in this paper, except free lec- tures, free sermons and all such things as are free to the public. All advertisements will be run and charged for until ordered discontinued. No advertisement will be taken for less than 25 cents. LOCAL fiND BENERAIL, Richard Jeffery is on the sick list, this week. A healthy growth—that of our snb- scription list. Accident, Md., is just recoving from a seige of the mumps. Nevin Hay is now Frostburg opera house. manager of the Mrs. M. C. Berkley is again dangerous- ly ill, we are sorry to say. St. Patrick's ball, in the Lowry build: ing, promises to be a big affair. A Polander was struck and killed by a traim. at Rockwood, last week. Nails should be sold at auction. go well ander the hammer. —Ex. They The African Methodists are thinking of erecting a church in Meyersdale. = Twin boys are reported at Simon Lich- ty's, near Tub. Hurrah for Simon! Louis Keim has been suffering daring the past week with a very sore eye. Samuel Philson, the well known Ber- lin banker, was in Salisbury on business, this week. F. L. Otto has returned to New Ger- many and orders THE STAR sent to him at that place. Lou Brown reports a fine new daughter at his home. He seems to be immensely pleased thereat. Thomas Davis, of West Salisbury, has been quite sick for some time, His troub- Je is miners’ asthma. Our genial friend Upton H. White, of the Extract works, was whirling around here on business, this week. Samuel Gipe has moved from Berlin to Meversdale. He has secured a good job with the Electrical Mfg. Co. Major Alex Stutzman is in town this week showing people how to make two pounds of butter out of one. D. I. Hay is closing out his grocery stock. as the room he occupies is to serve as a bar room for Hay’s hotel. Jer. J. Livengood. Miss Nancy Liven- rood and the editor's hetter half. visited Meversdale friends over Sunday. 1t is reported that the Pittsburg divis- ion of the B. & O. will be the main line after the May schedule goes into effect. . The annual panther story is again be- ing circulated. We had been thinking several weeks ago that it was about time for this. The associate editor is again on the sick list, which accounts for THE STAR not being up to its usual standard of ex- cellence, this week. There was a big party at the Hav house. Inst Friday night, which was participated in by a large number of our young folks. A good time is reported. Our job trade is immense, this spring. The people about all seem to he onto the fact that THE STAR takes the lead in job printing as well as in news. The charter of the Tin Plate company has been signed by Judge Hoffman, and 80 soon as some other preliminaries are perfected the stock books will be opened. — Frostburg Journal. Bro. Smith, of the Commercial, reports three new babies in Meyersdale. field before them. Cal Hay killed a turkey last week that dressed 20% pounds. turkey formerly owned by Alf Wagner. More than $40 changed hands on this i license transferred will be made to the | come so poverty-stricken that it can’t | court.—Herald. | afford to have a financial statement | printed? Must the officers resort to old- { This was the big | time. back woods customs in this hustling, | bustling age of the world? Is there no | balm in Gilead? We utter this in pity, bird, at the turkey raffles, during the | not in anger. for really, such cheese-par- Holiday season. The Mountain Democrat, of Oakland, Md.. bobs up smiling at our desk, this | ing tactics shonld call out human sym- | pathy by the cartload. A newspaper is a great benefit toa week, and requests us to exchange. The town and does more for the community Democrat, aside from its miserable poli- | i Which it is published, free of charge, ties. is a good paper. our exchange list. There is a fellow down town who doesn’t like the new postage stamps. says he didn’t mind licking Geo. Wash- ington or John Adams, but he'll be durned if he cares about licking Columbus and his whole crew. —Ex. “My old aunt ont in Brown county has sent me a jar of brandied peaches.” said Mr. Lushforth to a row of friends. “Now while I don’t like peaches. still I fully appreciate the spirit in which they were tendered. "—Ex. Some unknown person in Somerset is in the habit of hugging women in the dark, when meeting them alone on the streets, and it is said that some of the women go over town alone as often as possible, for some strange reason. The Kicker, a new paper about the size of a Columbian postage stamp. has fonud its way to our exchange table.. It is lit- It is published in Oak- Long may it live, and may it tle. hut oh my! land, Md. kick everything that deserves kicking. Only one application for liquor license | going as far as Helena, Mont. in this connty was refused. We welcome it to | than any other ten institutions could or would do. Yet there are officers that will try to avoid small jobs of public He printing that wouldn't add one whole cent to any taxable citizen's tax. Such tactics are absurd and ridiculous at this are of the world. Written public state- ments, etc., are sure signs of mossback- ism. The Commercial still imagines that there is a Meyersdale coal region, but the state geological surveys do not show it. They show an Elk Lick coal region, however, and Salisbury is in the heart of it. There are eleven collieries shipping coal from the immediate vicinity of Salis- bury to three at the Meyersdale end of the Elk Lick region. The Commercial has always been noted for looking cross- eved at things and having the cart before the horse. ' Wallace G. Keim, who is probably as intelligent and prosperous a ‘young man as ever left this town to carve out a for- tune in the west, makes the following re- marks in remitting for Tre.StAr: “I am in Wyoming on a business trip. Am Am agree: The one re- | ably surprised at the amount of news fused was the application from Garrett. | one hears from the old home, through Salisbury this year has two licensed | the columns of your paper, and I wish to houses—the Valley house and the Hav house. this vear. compliment you on the high standard Nobody can harp on injustice | you are maintaining.” Between 10 and 11 o'clock. Tharsday In the case of J. M. Hay and Charlotte | hight, fire was discovered in the store Cochrane, concerning a hole that was| room and dwelling house of Mr. J. J. made in one of Mr. Hay’s fields hy a cave- Reitz, of Berkley’s Mills, and in a short in of the old Cochrane mine, a verdict | ime the entire building was a seething was given in favor of the plaintiff for | mass of flames. which illininated the $105. for a new trial. Several meetings have recently been A motion has been made and filed | jeavens for miles around. It is supposed the fire originated in the sitting room. Nothing of any value was saved. The held hy our representative citizens. the [exact loss could not be ascertained. The object being to take steps to secure het- ter passenger service on the Salisbury railroad. We hope to soon be able to announce that a good passenger train will be placed on this prosperous branch. Salisbury and Elk Lick were well rep- resented at court last week, most of those present being called here to testify ina case tried between parties from that neighborhood. It would hustle any oth- er towh and township in the state to turn out a finer looking body of men. —Herald The Democratic party have the whole The laws which have made the Nation prosperous for thirty vearg are all Republican. The Democrats have a big job of tearing down todo. To use their favorite campaign word. “‘smash- ing” things is now in order.—Somerset Herald. The Ed. L. Shumaker who took “French leave” on account of charges perferred againt him by Miss Mosholder, should not be confounded by our friends with Ed. C. Shumaker, the medicine man. Some have made this mistake, and Mr. Shumaker is worried thereat.—Meyers- dale Commercial. The public schools of Garrett county are growing very rapidly. There are now 115 schools in the county, which is an increase of ten schools over any prz- vious year. There are 4.000 pupils en- rolled. Secretary and Examiner Hine- baugh has officially visited and examined all of the schools.—Oakland Republican. The Mercantile Appraiser’sreportshows that Salisbury has one more business house than Berlin, also that more mer- cantile tax is paid here than in that town. By next year we will he several notches more ahead of our would-be rival, as an- other store is now nearly ready for oc- cupancy and several more will be addeds during the summer. The Meyersdale Commercial has again been sinffed by somebody. For its en- lightenment, we will state that the rail- road meetings recently held here were held for the purpose of securing better passenger service on the Salisbury rail- road. The electric road was not “‘in it. The people here waste no time on the Commercial’s crazy vaporings. Persons having received statements of their indebtedness to THE Star. will please ‘“‘ante un” with the cash not let us use up a whole year’s subscrip- tion in buving postage stamps to stick (we vour monthly statement, gentle reader. One | gg prompt and pay what you owe us, benefit to the town, at least, that the for it belongs to us and we want it. bachelor editor of the Commercial dare not claim the credit for. of cattle that weighed 8.636 pounds. The largest two weighed 2,860 pounds. find in this neck of the woods. 1 | | | died suddenly at his resident in Celeve- | Jer. J. Folk this week sold seven head | land, Ohio, March 4th. man of good gualities and was an honor | Mr. Barchus, a venerable citizen of Sal- to the community. May he rest in peace Wm. Johns, a brother of R. 8. Johns, | the burglars to get into the safe. It costs piles of monev to run a newspaper. Do building and contents were insured for $2.100. —Meyersdale Register. The Meyersdale Commercial informs ns that it was a March blizzard, also gives week that is fully as important and re: It is safe to predict that Bro. Smith will announce in due time when the 4th of July will arrive. The hoary chestnuts continue to fall a full half column deep, on the Commercial’'s 1st page, with the regularity of clock work. But the Commercial is very progressive— in its way. The same can also be said of a crab. markable. It is stated that this borongh owes A. B. Newman $20, which he paid in excess when he settled his accounts as tax col. lector. The books were audited later on and this error was not discovered at the time, but eame to light a few days sgo. Now, can Mr. Newman get what is due him refunded, since the accounts have heen audited and closed? is the question. We can not sce why he can’t. The $20 is due him and he should have themoney. We believe he can get an order from Court to have the accounts opened and the error coriected, * The Somerset Vedette claims to be the largest and best paper in the county. Well, so far as the best is concerned, al- most all publishers make that kind of a claim. But of what use is it for the Ve- dette to lie about its size? The largest paper in the county—bah! Tar STAR and the Commercial are 6-column gquartos, as is also the Vedette. so it will be readi- lv perceived that the Vedette is not the largest paper in the county. In tact its colums are not quite as long as THE STAR'S neither are they as full of news. But its ears are several feet longer, or it wouldn't make so many bad breaks, The store of J. J. Hoblitzell & Sons, Keystone Junction, was burglarized. Mondav night. A large quantity of goods were carried away. The office of the Savage Fire Brick Company is located in the same building and contains a large safe. An ineffectual effort was made by Thev drilled it and tried to blow the door open with explosives. but only succeeded in destroving the combination lock so that it could not he opened by the gentleman using it when he eame to his office, Tues- day morning. An expert from Pittsburg had to be sent for before the safe could be opened. —Herald. - One of my greatest pleasures is meet- ing men whose brain and brawn have carved out fortunes. It is childish to talk about luck in connection with Americans | who have risen irom poverty to affluence, and in so doing helped to make history. Ah Mr. Johns used | ley have willed their own luck by in- to be an honored citizen of this town, and his numerous friends here will be Better cattle than those are pretty hard to | sorry to learn of his death. He was n | telligent economy. indomitable persever- | ance and far seeing enterprise. Not one of them hut tells his story in his physiog- | nomy; not one but would be a power in any direction he turned his ability; not ishury, who was one of a small army of and awake in a clime where death is an- | 516 but has a prominent nose or a strong teamsters that hauled freight over this | known. road before the days of railroads, was at | the Somerset house this week.—Vedette. | 5uu))'s finances, is one of the kind that | ceptions only prove the rule. Grassy Run has been granted a post- office. Shadrack Hare has been sworn in as postmaster. Postoffices are getting to he very numerous in Elk Lick. You ean almost throw a stone from one to the other. Peter A. Johns, of Uniontown, has se- cured a lease of the Merchants’ hotel, 1oekwood, and will take possession about April 1st, when application to have the | come to this that our borough has be- tered and the life of the animal saved. | Liberia....... .... | | | mouth. The executive brain is general- That financial statement of the bor-|ly indicated in both these features. mBx- | does not state anything. The citizens | can demand something that comes near er being a statement who is to blame for the kind of a thing Kate Field. well he was pleased with the treatment | Germany .... lo "T khow | : ire: ritain.... We don’t know | ,f 4 horse of his by R. M. Beachy, the| Oe ib 3iatn j Greece .....:. y veterinary surgeon. Mr. us much other information from week to: Mr. Beachy has spent much time and over a thousand dollars in money to be of benefit to farmers and stockmen. He is very successful, too. His address is Elk Lick, but we learn, if the proper in- ducements are held out, he will open an office here.—Commercial. Hairs vary greatly on the different parts of the body, both as to length and size, from the finest lanugo, or stort downy hair on the face, to the long hair of woman. Wilson mentions a lady whose longest hairs measured seventy-five inch- es, she standing five feet five inches in height. her hair being then nearly a foot longer than her height. A story is told, on good authority, of a carpenter whose beard measured nine feet in length, he carrying it in a bag when at work; also of another individual, a burgomaster in Holland, whose beard was so long that he was obliged to fold it ap when mov- ing about, and having failed to do so on one occasion, he trod on it while ascend- | ing a staircase, and was thereby thrown | down and killed.—Scientific Cyclopedia. Simon Lichty, of Tub postoffice, had a | very unpleasant experience in town on While driving along Cover & | Tuesday. Son’s store, on Clay street, his horse be- came restive, kicking through the dash board of the vehicle; he then started on a run, the buck hoard being overturned and Mr. Lichty hurled to the pavement at intersection of Center and Clay streets. Mr. Lichty was at once carried into the hardware store and Dr. McKinley sum- moned, who made a careful examination, He did not find any ribs broken, but there was a great deal of soreness there. After he was pretty well restored he was taken ty Mr. M. Holzshu’s, who are relatives of his. The buck hoard was badly wrecked and the horse secured before he inflicted damage upon himself. Mr. Lichty will be a very sore man, bodily, fora week or more, but we do not think he is internal- ly injnred.—Meyersdale Commercial. One of our patrons got angry this week and stopped his paper, becange we sent him a statement of his subscription ae- count. He took the statement as an in- sult. We pity the poor mortal. indeed— pity him because he is so ignorant of business principles, It is no reflection upon any man’s character or integrity to dend him a statement. Only ignoramuses look at it in that way. Our patrons are no better than we are, and we receive statements from wholesale paper houses as fast as our bills fall due. Other busi- ness men receive statements from the honses they buy of, and all who are in business expect to receive them. When- ever anvihing is due a man it is his, and certainly he has a right to ask for his own. Whenever a man gets angry on account of receiving a statement of his indebtedness, he is either dishonest or most wofully ignorant of business princi- ples. As Others See Our Town. _ Our enterprising merchant, Paul G, Nowag, has recently been appointed Deputy Supreme Commander of the Mac- cabees, and at the solicitation of several of the prominent men of Salisbury, took a flying trip to that hustling city to or- ganize a tent of Maccabees. We con- gratulate Salisbury on the flattering pros- pect of soon having a prosperous branch of this heneficial order. Mr. Nowag is one of the best posted men on life insur- ance in the connty and talks ‘‘Maceabee” like a book. He spoke very flatteringly of Salisbury as a lively. hustling business town; says their stores compare favora- bly with any in the county and pays “mine host” Cal. Hay, proprietor of Hay’s hotel, the flattering compliment of keeping the best tabled hole in the county. Mr. Hay is now heating his entire hotel by steam and will put in an electrical plant aad light his hotel by electricity. We congratulate Salisbury on this evi- dence of her future prospects.—Berlin Record. Jolumbian Exposition Appropriations. The display to be made by Germany at the exposition will he very large. The appropriation of the German government for Fair purposes is larger than that of any other foreign country, and the list of German exhibitors now contains 5.077 names. Represented in it are 230 cities and towns of the empire. and of these 40 cities send more than 10 exhibits each. Berlin leads with 283 exhibitors; Munich follows with 186; Leipsic with 149; Frank- fort, 55; Hamburg, 57; and Chemnitz, 41. Nearly $6,000,000 has been appropriated by foreign governments and about 3,000,- 000 by the several states of this country for appropriate representation at the Fair, as follows: FOREIGN APPROPRIATIONS. Argentine . ool ali ads $100,000 AUuSHIIB Ll di ss alee ean 102.300 Belgiom ..... oie vec aii sa ia 57,060 Bolivia... 30,000 Brazil ........... British Guiana. British Honduras...................c.c00t..ne 7.500 Barbadoes. ... J... ul ds diss ited Columbia....... . Canada ..... ee Cape Colony....... CeVION. - i. ie ri ean a TLE Denmark ...... Danish West India Dutch West India 2 2 | Equador ....... Mr. William Fike was in to say how | France Fike’s horse Dutch Guiana.............. i Hawaii ............ that has been posted up, but one thing is | (rod on a nail and lock-jaw was threat | Honduras .............. sure—the citizens have a right to have a oj ,0q the animal. which was a valuable | Hayti statement and they shonld demand some thing that is a statement. Jerusalem, my happy home! has i the case a critical one. t | that proved very efficient were adminis- one. Mr. Beachy was brought and found | 1nd oo... Prompt remedies Japan.... Jamaica...... . .e Leeward Islands. ......... The Genuine Illustrated Unabridged The full set is now It is a Torr, in last (9th) English pages, including m Th the 20.00. 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Size of volumes, 834 by 10 inches, by 814 inches thick; weight, about cloth; price of $80.77 the Encyclopedia especially treating Crosby, D.D.,LL.D., and Index to entire work, 579 $ price $6,003 half Russia, $7. 0. once with the editor | | | Copland’s 19-cent Condition Powder is eq ally adopted for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. A teaspoonful night and morning toa Horse will give him an appetiie and a smooth coat. A tea- spoonful night and morning to a Cow will make her give more and richer milk, A teaspoonful in soft food, to each ten Fowls, will prevent sickness and produce ‘eggs. This excellent powder is composed only of Flaxceed Meal, Capsicum, Folnugreek. Soda, Gentian Root, Copperas, Saltpetre, Aatimony, Sulphur, Epsom Salts, Licorice and Alum. Prepared fresh, every week, by . CoPLAND, "I'he Druggist, Meyersdale, Pa. MEXICO... ceverrenasnsssiesesnnnasncessns a of Morocco. Netherlands Nicaragua... NOTWRY ....cons sas sen New South Wales... . 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Sai 17,000 Washington. ..... ........0. 100,000 West Virginia. ....... fue. eid 40,000 Wisconsin. :...i i uobioaia vie .65,000 Wyoming... cheer ooana stn. .vn 80,000 Bvery hur y sold Ly agents Las ecveral dellars waded to ti ul ter pace We are manufacturers, and ave fi agents. Tior tucnty years line deat witht the consumer. We ship anvwinre, with privilege of examining bejore baying. We pay freight charges both ways, if not sut- isfactory. Warrant cverybuis g for two years. Anyone who cal Write c nordera buggy or harness frou us as wi 1i as pay from $10 to $50 for some middie mau to order it for them. We give no credit, and have one price only. Why do you pay two profits on vour carriages and harness? Why do you pay some one $10 to 50 for ordering these things. when yon can do it and save this money? You run po risk. We let you see the goods before you ac- cept them. We pay ail the freight if we iil to suit. 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