t a RRR i ¥ i ! RR RR ER BRR AR TAT re Tbe Somerset ounty 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. THE STAR is published évery Thursday, at Elk Lick, Pa., at the following rates: One copy one year ..... One copy six months......... One copy threc mouths... One copy one month .... i; Single copies... .... .......cn.. oc. oh Lal LOB. HOW TO REMIT.—Remit by vostoffice money order, registered letter, or bank draft Otherwise remittances will be at sender's risk. Never send: your personal check, if your resi- dence is far away from here. Make all drafts, orders, ete., payable to P. L, Livengood. ADVERTISING. — Transient Loca No- TICES, 10 cents a line for first insertion: 5 cents a line for each additional insertion. To regular advertisers, 5 cents a line straight, except when inserted among local news or editorial matter. 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No advertisement will be taken for less than ce JOB PRINTING.—Ture Star office has first-class job printing equipments, turns out all its work in the best style of the art and at very reasonable prices. THE Star does all kinds of commercial work, poster and bill printing. and in fact nearly every kind of printing belonging to the art. job orders, whether by mail or otherwise, receive prompt attention. LOCAL IND GENERAL. The Berlin Record’s new heading looks neat and natty. Peter 8. Hay has purchased the John Hartline property. Note the change in Frank Petry’s ad. It may be of interest to you. Palm Sunday responsive services in the Luthern church, Sunday evening. When you mail Columbian postage stamps. do not forget to stick your let- ters on them. Many a wise man has picked up some good suggestions where a fool bad drop- ped them.—Ex. John Ross, of New Baltimore, was in this city. this week, in the interest of Topper’s distillery. When vou see a counterfeit coin on the sidewalk, always pick it up. Yon are liable to arrest if you try to bass it. —Ex. Chancy Meese will move to Meyersdale, about April 1st. By his removal this locality loses a good citizen. Our best wishes go with him. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Meneley, of Saline county Kan., are the guests of John Walker and family. Mr. Meneley isa brother-in-law of Mr. Walker's. *“The California Detective,” which was played in the Opera house, Wednesdav night. was very good. It should have heen enjoved by a larger audience. Richard Jeffery has been appointed mine examiner and returns his thanks to the numerous persons who signed the petition requesting his appointment. No flies on our Savage correspondent, who this week joins our able staff of as- sistant editors. His initial communica- tion is a good one. Hope he will write often. ; Genial Frank O. Livengood, of Somer- set. was a pleasant caller at THE STAR office, this week. Call again, Mr. Liven- good, you will always find our latch string out. . Wonder if our Accident correspondent is.dead. We hope not. Our Rockwood correspondent is algo too silent, especial- ly for a resident of a hustling town like Rockwood. This town is getting to be well supplied with public halls. There is the Opera house, Lowry's hall, Hazelbarth’s hall, Statler’s hall and Speicher’'s hall. And there will soon be several more. The highest point attained by a rail- road in the United States is in the Rocky Mountains, 9,027 feet above the sea. But the highest point on the Callao-Oroya. in Pern, is nearly a mile bhigher.—Ex. The large bank barn of B. J. Bowman, a prominent farmer of Brothersvalley township, was consumed by fire, last Fri- day evening. Loss, about $2,500; insur- ance, $1,400. The origin of the fire is unknown. In Dewittsville, N. Y., live Lucinda and Martha Skinner, 74 and 76 vears old. Though in the same house, they haven't spoken to each other for forty-seven years. The original quarrel was about a stewpan.—Ex. Of the 400 applications for patents filed by women, at the patent office, last year. the larger part were for the: increased convenience and comfort of men. Gal- lantry is by no means confined to the sterner sex.—Ex. “How is it with you?” asked the editor of the subscriber who was dying in ar- rears. ‘‘All looks bright before me,” gasped the subscriber. ‘I thought so,” said the editor. ‘‘Fn about ten minutes you'll see it blaze!” To the northeast of Japan the depth of | advertise the institution. the Pacific Ocean has been found to be | 4.6855 fathoms, or 27,930 feet, which is more than five miles from the surface to | the bottom. This is not exceeded in any | other body of water. Frank Farner and Miss Emily Lichliter | were united in wedlock, Wednesday eve- ning, and will move into Mrs. M. Dively’s ‘house. THE STAR congratulates the - | couple and wishes them prosperity and ! happiness all through life. | Jacob D. Miller, an old and respected resident of Somerset township, died last Friday, aged 83 years. Mr. Miller was born in Elk Lick township, in 1809. He was the father of J. J, Miller the noted Pittsburg lawyer and orator. The longest single line of railroad op- erated by one company in the United States, and also the longest in the world, is thie line of the Northern Pacific. from Duluth, Minn., to Wallula Junction, Washington, a length of 1,652 miles. N. R. Newman has purchased the Tun- nison Glotfelty property for $2,200 cash. We are glad to see Mr. Newman become a citizen of this hustling borough. Mr. Glotfelty, we are informed, will move to Froztburg. but we can not vouch for this, The Meyersdale Commercial sneers at fire insurance and tries to make it appear that people would be better off if they would not have their property insured. Any editor that will print that kind of mossback stuff ought to take to the woods and live in g cave. The ladies of the Lutheran church will hold a fair in Speicher’s hall, on the eve- nings of March 81st. April 1st and on Easter Monday, April 8d. Ices cream. cakes, candies, nuts, lemonade, ete., will be served, and many articles of ornament and use will be for sale. The mind of the thinker and the stu- dent is driven to admit, though it be awe- struck by apparent injustice, that this in- equality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall all be unequal to- morrow.—Anthony Trollope. Don’t fail to read the advertisement of The World's Fair Visitor's Alliance, which vou will find on 5th page of this paper. Every person who intends to go to the World's fair should have a membership ticket in this alliance. You can be sup- plied for only $1.00, by applying at Tak STAR office. Mrs. John Hartline and family and Milton Hartline and family left here on Monday evening, for Akron, Ohio, where they have decided to make their homes. Tar STAR will visit them every week and keep them posted on things that ocenr in and about their old native town. We wish them prosperity. There are various ways of becoming great. For example, there is Prof. C. B. Cook, who used to teach school in this town, allowing his portrait to he used to boom a catarrh remedy. Some men are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them and some achieve greatness by being cured of catarrh. Miss Annie Smith daughter of M. F. Smith, will leave here Monday morning, Apr. 3d, for Denver, Colorado, She will accompany her uncle, Ike Johnson, who resides in that city and is engaged in mining operations. Miss Smith will like- Iv attend school in Denver. She will be missed by her numerous young friends here. A little lad came from school very much excited and told his father that all human beings were descended from the apes, which made the old man so mad that he replied angrily: ‘“That may be the case with youn, bot it ain’t with me; I can tell vou that now, my son.” And the boy didn’t say anything, but when his mother came home he told her about it. J. T. Hocking has taken initiation in a movement that 17 followed by other coal operators in this region, will solve the car famine question. The company which he represents has had built for its own use fifty coal ears of large capacity. When the cars are all in service the com- pany will in a measure be independent of the raiiroad company. —Register. A good story is told of a country min- ister, who, finding the fire in the grate had gone out, asked his wife to get some- thing dry with which to re-light it. The good woman left the room, and there was a humorous twinkle in her eye when she returned from the garrett a few minutes later with an armful of her husband’s sermons and the remark; “I don’t know of anything dryer than these. dear.” Milk has been found to possess remark- able healing qualities if applied to burns at an early stage. Compresses are soaked in milk and laid on the burn, to be re- newed night and morning. An extensive burn has in this way been reduced in three days to one-quarter of its original size. Another burn, which had been treated for eight days with olive oil and oxide of zine, healed rapidly under a milk dressing. John Isenhood, who for some time had been laid up with inflammatory rheuma- tism, returned to his home in Center county, Monday morning. His father, a very pleasant old gentleman, came here to accompany him on the journey. The elder gentleman made many friends dur- ing his short sojourn in Salisbury. John is also popular here and will return and again work for Billmeyer and Balliet, as soon as he regains his former health. R. M. Beachy, the boss veterinary sur- geon, has established an equine sanitari- { nm, where sick and lame horses can be {left for treatment. We printed a lot of advertising matter for him, this week, to Mr. Beachy is in his profes- have sick animals gaining a great reputation sion, and those who that need treatment can not go amiss by consulting him. Competency, reliabili- ty, excellent equipment and printers’ ink are responsible for Mr. Beachy’s great and growing success. There is a good joke out on Matthew Jones, of West Salisbury. Matthew went to C. L. Walker's sale, on Wednesday, and bought what he supposed to be a fine beifer calf. Of course it was a fine stock and Matthew wanted to raise it for a cow. Naturally, fond visions of rich milk, golden cream and gilt-edged butter fioated through Matthew's imagination, but im- agine his chagrin when he discovered that it wasn’t that kind of a calf. Make veal of him, Matthew; in fact we believe you will make veal of him—minced veal. Now and then a citizen of this town wants to have some fun, and this is how he gets it: He goes to Lou Smith and tells him that an electric road meeting was held in this town. Of course he doesn’t mean a word of it; but Lou doesn’t know it (for he is more easily stuffed that he can stuff the people) and he at once rushes to his great fake em- porium, falls over a cuspidor, upsets the editorial paste pot, grabs his pen, writes an electric road editorial and makes a great impression on the public—to the ef- fect that he is a dupe. At Lowry's hall, last Friday night, just as the ball given in honor of Si. Patrick was in good running order, two fights took place which broke up the merriment. Blood flowed freely, and two of the fighters fought dog fashion, bighting each other shamefully. The band boys were determined to make the fellows who did the fighting pay for breaking up their ball, consequently they nad four would-be pigilists arraigned bhe- fore Burgess Livengood and fined. We understand the fines ranged from $2.50 to $8.00. An old almanac for 1813 gives the fol- lowing as the rate of postage prevailing at the time: “For every single letter hy land for 40 miles, 8 cents; 90 miles, 10 cents; 150 miles, 12% cents; 300 miles, 17 cents; 500 miles, 20 cents, and for more than 500 miles, 25 cents. No allowance made for intermediate miles. Every ship letter originally received at an office for delivery, 6 cents. Magazines and pamph- lets, not over 50 miles, 1 cent per sheet; over 50 miles and not exceeding 100 do., 13 cents per sheet; over 100 miles, 2 cents per sheet. The Somerset Democrat states that the citizens of Salisbury are agitating better railroal accommodations for the town, and that at a recent meeting they favored Lou Smit" 's electric road. The Demo- crat will do this community a favor by stating that it was misinformed; for the citizens of this town never mentioned electric road at their ‘railroad meetings. What they want is better passenger ser- vice on the Salisbury branch. Lou Smith was either stuffed by somebody, or else is an infamous liar. Many peopie think a little of both is responsible for much of the rot that he publishes. The County Commissioners are wind- ing up the most disagreeable job of the year, the work of reviewing all the pink- colored State tax blanks. Every man’s blank is examined and the amounts com- pared with the figures in the assessment books. Taxables who do not swear to their returns will find that the Commis- sioners have added 50 per cent to the amount returned by the assessors. The method of collecting the State taxes is probably the most cumbersome and least efficient that could be devised by the legislative mind. The system should be revolutionized out of existence.—Somer- set Standard. A stronger effort than ever is to be made by the Democratic party to capture the county clerkship. Mr. Wm. R. Get- ty is talked of as the Democratic candi- date for this position. Dr. E. H. Bart- lett is the prominent Democratic candidate for County Treasurer, and Mr. John O. Getty, of Grantsville, is spoken of for the same position. It is understood that Mr. G. 8. Hamill announces himself as a candidate for the State Senate, and Col. G. Sturgiss is mentioned for the Re- publican nomination. Clerk E. Z. Tow- er is said to he certain of a re-nomination, and ex-Sheriff E. E. Sollars is named as the Republican nominee for County Treasurer.—Cumb. News. most Mr. 8 .P. Sweitzer, former proprietor of the American house, has just finished the erection of a handsome new building on Mill street, in which he will carry on a wholesale and retail liquor business and restaurant. The entire first floor consist- ing of one store room will be used for the sale of lignor, the front being the whole- sale department. and the rearthe bar. A ladies’ dining room, to be handsomely furnished, is in the front portion of the second floor, and in the rear a gentlemen’s dining room with a well ventilated kitch- en between. A private entrance for la- dies leads in off of Mill street. Men were at work last night putting on the finish- ing touches in the bar in order to have the place ready for opening on Saturday. —Cumberiand Daily News. The Meyersdale Commercial gives it out that Messrs. Livengood and Ehlen are preparing to sink a shaft in the North- ern end of the Elk Lick coal region, and that they will also lay out a town site of 200 lots and have from 50 to 80 houses erected thereon before next winter’s snow flies. The Commercial thinks this will enterprise for all it is worth. But to talk about an electric road now, is to talk through your hat. The trouble with the Commercial is just this: Itis always get- ting off a lot of silly twaddle that is hatched up in its own imagination, and then gives it to the public for facts. If you believe half of what you usually read in the Commercial, you will believe a great deal of stuff, even then, that is all idle gush, Business Reviving in the “Moonshine” Country. Ever since the murder of old “‘Yony” Hochstetler, rumors have heen afloat as to the hiding place of “Bill” Pritts, one of his murderers. Some of the rumors have had a semblance of iruth and a number of ineffectual attempts have heen made to capture the erafty ‘‘moonshin- er.” Recently Sheriff Good received trustworthy information which led him t+ believe that he could find Pritts shel- tered in a house in the mountain above Trent postoffice, and he accordingly ar- ranged for his capture. Wednesday eve- ning the Sheriff, accompanied by Con- stables Gilbert and Dupont and a livery- man from Rockwood, set ont from that place for the “moonshine” country. Four or five houses were searched before dav- break, but no trace of Pritts was found. It is generally believed that Pritts has never heen far away from his home in the mountain and that he has resumed his old occupation of distilling ‘‘moon- shine.” At one of the houses searched by the Sheriff's poses about twenty-five bushels of rye chop was discovered con cealed on an upper floor. This was tak- en as a pretty good indication that the distillation of “moonshine” is not a lost art among the natives of that wild re- gion.—Herald. Two Mine Accidents. A horrible accident occurred in Tub Mill Run colliery, Tuesday, to Jesse Jeffery. He was caught by a fall of slate and was bruised and mangled in a horrible manner. His right leg was brok- en below the knee and the bones pro- traded through the the flesh. He was al- so cut about the head and bruised severe- ly about the body, but ‘the leg has been set and every possible thing done to make him as comfortable as he can be made. The mistortune is bad enongh, but might have been a great deal worse. He is resting as well as can be expected and will doubtless recover in due time. Youth and vigor are in his favor, and he has a large circle of friends that will do all in their power to get him on his feet as soon as possible. His brothers in the various secret societies of which he is a member will leave nothing undone that will add to his comfort, and our beloved brother will now realize, more than ever, what a grand thing it is fo be a member of such noble orders as the Jr. Order United American Mechanics and Knights of Pythias. Jesse, keep up your cour- age. for yon have a host of hrethren that will stand by you and spare no pains, no matter at what sacrifice, that will be of benefit to you. Our love and care for a brother in misfortune is great, and may a kind Providence bless our efforts to speedily restore you. ANOTHER. Last week. while engaged in mining in the old Williams mine, genial and kind-hearted Ben Jones also met with a painful accident. He had his foot bad- ly crushed, and it is reported that several of his toes were mashed to a jelly. Poor Ben, too, will have the best of care, and we hope to see him out again at an early date. New Advertisements. Geo, W. Grose & Co., Hyndman mar- ble dealers, reading notice on 4th page. Prof. Samuel 8. Little, optician. reading notice on 4th page. Folding Bath Tab Co., display ad. on 4th page. World's Fair Visitors’ Alliance, display ad. on The Wright Universal Elee tric Co., display ad. on 5th page. R. M. Beachy, veterinary surgeon, professional card on 1st page. 5th page. " Ntore Robbery. On Monday night the store of 8S. A. Kretchman, of Keim, Pa., was entered by burglars. who carried away avout $75 worth of goods, principally boots, and shoes and flannels. As we go press we have not yet learned of any clue to the crime. Coming to the Point. “Papa, what is a conflagration?” “*A great fire, my boy.” : ‘And what name would vou give to a small fire then?” “A small fire? I cannot think just now of any special word. You might call it an incipient fire or a fire of little moment.” “Well, papa, I have just noticed that your top coat was burning at the back, and I was wondering whether it was a conflagration or an incipient fire!” Flareup and explosion. The Koran, sura LXXXI, has this to say concerning the general ‘‘Judgment day,” which nearly all religions teach in common: ‘When the sun shall be folded up; and when the stars shall fall; and when the mountain shall be made to pass away; and when the wild beasts shall be gathered together; and when the seas shall boil; and when souls shall be joined to their bodies, and when the girl who hath been buried alive shall ask for what crime she was put to death; and when bring the electric road into existence on short order. Well, all we need to make | the road a certainty is a sufficient num- | | ber of people to support it, and when | that time comes THE STAR wil boom the | the books shall be laid open; and when the heavens shall be removed; and when 11] shall burn fiercely; and when Para shall be brought near, then shall every soul know what it hath wrought.” dise Genuine Tllustrated Unabridged last (9th) English The 24 volumes are strong] the set, $20.00. The same volume, if ‘wan Membership in Britannica Magnificently of the Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica. The full set is now ready for delivery. It is a reprint, in large type, of the pages, including more than 10,000 illus- trations and 200 maps. bound in 12 volumes, cloth; price of of volumes, 5% by 10 ches, by 936 inches : ; weight, about 5 Cents a Day Cooperative Club costs only $1.00 extra, and secures the en- cyclopedia on payments of only 5 cents a day or $1.00 every twenty days. American Supplement. 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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 A tea- CoprLAND, The Druggist, Meyersdale, Pa. The First Ring. The father of jewelry is said to have been Prometheus, who was chained to a rock by Jupiter as a punishment for tenching mankind how to use fire. When released by Hercules he made a ring out of one of the links of his fetters, and in the bazel of it he fixed a portion of the rock. According to Pliny that was the first ring and the first stone. This is fic- tion; in fact, jewelry was the outcome of the desire for adornment affected by all barbaric nations. Possessing gold, silver and gems, they were linked together in primitive fashion and worn around arms and necks, at first for convenience in carrying and subsequently because the habit had grown into a custom. Misled by the Name. % “Who is dat man Talmage we hear so much about?” asked Flatfoot Jones, the other day. “Why, don’t vou know?” said Brother Snow. ‘He am de great Brooklyn preacher. * “Preacher!” exclaimed Jones. 1 thonght he war a comic lecturer.” “Why, Bradder Flatfoot?” “Kase day ealls him de wit, Talmage.” —Texas Siftings. The Harder Part. “I'm very tired,” said the lady ar the head of the supper table 6ne Sunday éve- ning. “You should not be,” said her minister, who had been asked in to the evening meal. “You haven't preached two ser- mons today.” , “No,” said the lady absentmindedly, “but I listened to them.”—Exchange. Tempora Mutantur, Ete. The Kentucky mountaineer. as a rnle, is not the most indusfrious man in the world, but there are exceptions. On one occasion I came across a strapping young fellow who, despite the pnor fare of the mountains, was a type of brawn and flesh, and I asked him how he’d like to go down into the Blue Grass region as a farm hand. He snapped up the offer at once. “But will you work?” I inquired. “Work, mister?” he explained. “Why I'd rather work nor eat. Ax anybody ‘round here and they’ll tell you the same.” After a little inquiry I engaged him. and he went to a place where there was a liberal household and a cook. a not un- usual condition among Blue Grass farm- ers. About a month later his employer complained to me of his being lazy, and I called him up. “How'’s this, Sam? say you are lazy.” ‘““Mebbe I ain’t so peart ez I wus,” he admitted. sheepishly. “Didn’t you tell me up in the moun- { tains that you would rather work than eat?” t: “Yes, sir.” “Well?” 1 inquired. Tbey “Well, an’ so I would up in the moun- tains, but this yer eatin’ down yer, colonel, beats workin’ all to pieces, an’ that’s no use in tryin’ ter conceal my real feelin’s.” Conference of Kvangelical Association. The Pittsburg conference of the Evan- gelical Association (majority side) which convened in Pittsburg, March 16, 1898, stationed its preachers as follows: y Salisbury, Meyersdale and Rockwood, Presiding Elder 8. M. Baumgardner. Fayette, J. Bower. Preston, J. L. Kennell. Berlin, Hyndman and Morgan, C. Mankamyer. : Bedford, Juniatta and Stoystown, E. C. Martin. Somerset, J. I.. W, Scibert. Johnstown, W. F. Horn. P. W. Plots. y South Fork, Morreliville, Fairview and Mechanicsburg, D. L. Bigler. : Pittsburg and Lickingville, C. F. Har- tung. ’ Mi. Pleasant, J. Woodhull. Indian Creck and Ligonier, Moody, All other charges under the Presiding Elder. . What is known as the Dubbite faction of the above named church, had a con- ference at Johnstown, last week, and made the following appointments for this county: Berlin and Stoyestown, E. C. McCau- ley; Jennertown, H. M. Cook; Salisbury and Rockwood, 8. Milliron: Somerset, J.D. Domer. Wm. How to Get “The Star” Without Money. 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