Street. ”» er. astime.” too pre- ard run- you can Wilson. ve Ces Ne 1, LE, PA. JAP? itler.”” , send c cake. greatest nds are lechanics, achinis| rinters, ainters, e the best th £/ Bov’s Knee Pants 2 * @ Good Advertising Medium. @% County Star. Fine Specialty. Job Printing a Pra ——— “VOLUME v Y, SALISBURY, Your Attention is called to our large stock of goods in all depart- ments. We have many great bargains. DRY GOODS! mmm, We have a nice line of Dress Goods, Silk, Satin and Velvet Waist Patterns, Calico from 44 to 6 cts. Lancaster Ginghams, Chambrays, Cheviots, Percales, Wrapper Goods, Lining of all kinds, Muslins of all grades. Only a few Outings left. NOTIONS! ome. . We carry a full line of Notions. Fine Table Lin- en and Napkins, Table Damask in red, blue and white, Lace Curtains and poles, Sheets, Pillow Cases, Toweling and Towels, Lace, Embroideries, Braids and Trimming of all kinds, Heavy and Dress Gloves, Umbrellas, Combs, Brushes, Water Bags, Fountain Syringes, Nursing Bottles and Fittings, Toilet Soaps and Perfumery. CLOTHING! sew. A good line of black and blue Worsted Suits, nicely made up ; fancy Check Suits of all patterns; Spring Overcoats in light and black. A few heavy Overcoats and Men’s Suits left that are going at half price. LADIES WRAPS! = We have elegant Royal Blue, Gray, Red and Black Spring Capes, also Ladies tailor- made Suits. We are selling heavy Coats and Capes at special low prices. SHOES! 22mm A full line of Men’s, Women’s, Miss Children’s Heavy and Dress Shoes. Fur Goods at cost. HATS AND CAPS! Elegant styles of Derby, Soft Hats and Dress Caps. Fur and Heavy Caps at cost. DRUGS, QUEENSWARE, GROCERIES! A full line of Patent Medicines and Extracts al- ways on hand. An elegant assortment of Glass and Chinaware. Handsome 100-piece Dinner Sets, Bed Tn. ete. Peycy Groceries, Flour, Feed, Meats, k Lick Supply Co. Winter IS Here —e and we have an immense linc of Clothing, Shoes and Overshoes suitable for the season, which we are sell- ing at Very Low Cash Prices.» Boy’s Suits from 75 cents up. Bovy’s Shoes from $1. Ro up. cents. es’, Boys’ and Felt-lined and We have also received from New York a large line of Men’s Trousers, elegantly tailored and cut up to date, which will be sold very low. Considering the advance in these lines, we con- tinue to sell Dry Goods And Groceries Very Low. All Package Coffee, 10 cents. 7 Cakes Coke Soap, 25 cents. 6 Cakes Water Lily Soap, 25 cts. 5 Pounds Best Rice, 25 cents. Many other bargains too numer- ous to mention. Calicos, 4 and 5 cents. Lancaster Ginghams, 5 cents. Best Unbleached Muslin, 5 cts. Shirt Waists at cost. Piques and all Summer Goods at cost. rF REMEMBER, we are headquarters for Men's, Ladies’ and Children’s Fine Shoes, having the largest stock in town. Barchus & Livengooc If YOU ~ctn Want Good Bread, try a sack of LICHLITER’S soins LINK FLOUR, and you will have it. This Flour gives the Best Satisfaction of any Flour we have ever handled. A Lichliter, Salisbury, Pa. Thousands upon Thousands ol victims to the ravages of the recent plague, famine and earthquake in India. As t there are now over twenty thousand orphans. The various missionaries are ere in need of funds to support them, so we have published a new book, entitled INDIA, the Horror- Stricken Empires and have ohl a Soles to donate a liberal share of our profits on the same to the India relief fund. This k gives an accurate and authentic description of the great calamity, also the. measures taken to bring relief, and is embellished with over 100 half-tone illustrations from actual pEotographs. There is No Other Book Like It ‘The proprietor of one of the largest Totigions papers in the country realized the value of this book and asked for a number ‘ages in it to advertise his medium. The object of this book is not to promote selfish interests but to give ox ue Rae a correct report and create " relief fund. It shaving an enormous sale. ANT ACENTS EVERYWHERE Every purchaser becomes a contributor. Will 2 a us to increase ur donation by increasing the sales of this book? i is now ready. Write at pity for our Liberal Terms to Agents. Mennonite, bublising 50x Elkhart, Ind. W. H. KOONTZ. J. G. OGLE KOONTZ & OGLE, Attorneys=-At-Liaw, SOMERSET, PENN’A. Office opposite Court House. FrAXNCIS J. KOOSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER. KOOSER & KOOSER, Attorneys-At-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. J. A. BERKEY Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office over Post Office. 2. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Attorney-at-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office opposite Cook & Becrits’ Store. A. M. 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Under the nd Li ngement thre will be but four daily rains stopping at Meyersdale. T ne ¥ wiil be due as follows: Ww EST BOUND. No. 4 Daily No. 49, Da No. 48 Daily No. 14, Daily 4:46 P. M. 10:54 A. Mm. The Blanks We Keep. Tne Star has just added a large stock of Deeds, Mortgages, Judgment Bonds, Property Leases, Constable Sale Blanks, Summons Blanks, Commit- ments, Subpenas, Criminal Warrants, Judgment Notes, Receipts and many other blank forms that are useful and save lots of writing. A full line of these goods will always be kept on hand at this office. YES, W EC C AN! — We can A supply cuts suitable for any and all kinds of ad- vertisements and job printing. Call at Tne Star office and see our large as- sortment of specimens. We can show you cuts of nearly everything that ex- ists and many things that do not exist. No matter what kind of a cut you want, we can supply it o a a very lo low price. new EDDING Tovitations at Tie Star office. A nice pew stock just re- geived, tf, ELK LICK POSTOF QUAY CASE STILL HANGS FIRE The Senate Still D Debating, But the Issue Has Been Shifted. GOOD FELLOWSHIP THE PLEA Startling Ballot Frauds Unearthed in Northampton County, State Chairman Reeder's Home—Several Men Under Arrest, With Sensation- al Disclosures—New Candidates For Prison Bars. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, March 6.—It is likely that the Quay case, which has been dragging along in the United States senate, will reach a vote in about ten days or less. There is considerable uncertainty as to the outcome, as the conditions upon which Mr. Quay is now asking admission have changed materially. ‘When he first asked to be admitted on the appointment of Governor Stone Attorney General Elkin presented le- gal and alleged constitutional reasons why be cught to be seated. The flimsi- ness of the argument convinced Mr. Quay and his friends that he could not get in on such a basis, and now his friends are putting his admission on i grounds of his being a “good fel- ne Honstor Turley, of Tennessee, and Senator Recess, of Vermont, who have spoken against Mr. Quay, have shown up the hollowness of Mr. Elkin’s argu- ment that it is right and perfectly con- stitutional to admit Mr. Quay on Gov- ernor Stone's appointment. GOOD FELLOWSHIP. The argument of good fellowship covers a good many things, for in- stance the influence of the corpora- tions. The Standard Oil company and the Sugar trust have been particular- ly a and per iously active in endeavor- ing to secure the seating of Mr. Quay. They are, of course, not interested in him solely on the score of good fellow- ship. “Holding the views I do, I would dis- regard the cath I have taken were I to vote to seat Mr. Quay,” said Senator Ross, of Vermont, in the senate on Saturday last. Senator Ross made a brilliant speech against the seating of Mr. Quay, and he started off, according to Washing- ton dispatches, by saying that very soon after the appointment of Quay by Governor Stone he received two tele- grams inquiring if. he would vote to seat Mr. Quay. He replied to these by stating that it was a question of a proper construction of the constitu- tion. During the summer he had read and studied a great deal on the subject and had considered the majority and minority reports from the committee on privileges and elections, and had ar- rived at the conclusions he presented. In the Pennsylvania case, he said, the vacancy was complete, while the legislature was in session. Whether the governor had the power to fill the vacancy must be determined by the constitution. It was the manifest in- tention of the constitution that sena- torial representation is to be chosen by the legislatures of the states, and it was presumed by the framers of the constitution that legislatures would discharge their duties. The constitu- tion, Mr. Ross said, does not empower a governor to appoint while a legisla- ture is in session, but only to fill va- cancies happening during a recess of the legislature. In his argument Mr. Ross made fre- quent references to the plea of “Mr. Quay’s attorney” before the commit- tee on privileges and elections. These allusions were appreciated by those who knew that it was John P. Elkin, attorney general of Pennsylvania, who argued Mr. Quay’s case beforc the com- mittee. Mr. Ross declared that the conten- tion that a governor had power to fill a vacancy which the legislature neg- lected to fill tended to elevate parti- sanship and put support of a caucus nominee above duty to state and na- tion. Washington and his associates had no such intention. Not for a moment did they let party spirit dominate their action. The contention of the minori- ty was anomalous and startling. There had never been an occasion where a legislature failed to elect a senator that the cause of the failure had not been a determination of a faction to elect a particular, partisan candidate. MORE ELECTICN FRAUDS. It would seem that as soon as elec- tion fraud workers are detected and punished in one part of the state the machine manages to bring a fresh crop to the surface in another part. The latest sensational arrests come from Northampton county, the home of Gen- eral Frank Reeder, the Republican ma- chine’s state chairman. Reeder’s prin- cipal lieutenant in Northampton coun- ty, and in his home city of Easton, Henry G. Seip, census supervisor for the Northampton district, is under ar- rest for fraudulent vouching at last week's election, together with a col- ored preacher and several others, charged with the most flagrant ballot frauds ever known in that section of the state. The Philadelphia North American, which ha iven unusual prominence to these cas sted in their ex- posure, says in an interview with James F. Woodring, district attorney: “There is no possible doubt that the men arrested in the Itirst ward of Easton are all guilty as charged,” re- marked the district attorney. “That the work was done for Reeder is a mat- ter of common knowledge. They have tried to get me to let up on these cases, but I have refused positively to make any compromise. George Coffin came to see me, and I also saw Harry Seip, who is a friend of mine. I told Harry he ought to have thought of his friend- ship for me before he perjured himself on vouchers for illegal voters.” All of the guilty parties have been arrested and are under bail, and the prosecuting authorities declare that the next batch of men to go to prison for ballot crime will be from North- ampton county. - ~~ feoil Tre announcement of Hon. Jos. E. Thropp, for Congress, will be found under the proper head. Mr. Thropp is high up in Republican circles; he is a recognized authority on some of the important issues of the day; he is in touch with the powers that be; and is altogether fitted for a very successful second term in the House of Repre- sentatives at Washington. His first term, together with an unusually large fund of general informaticn gathered during many years of - active industrial life, qualifies him for an excellent representative in the Fifty-seventh Cangress.— Tyrone Times, : "FICE, P PA. THU RS il SHORTAG Star” ments” Auditors Last week Tne tion of its readers to the shortage of littie over two months ago, owing the county $2,482.01. At this writing the amount due the county from the afore- said Scull Ring treasurer is still unpaid, and you can rely upon it that the Scull ting will beat the county out of the whole amount if it can be done. But Te Star will assure the ringsters that they are not going to be given a chance to plead the statute of limitation, as their commander-in-chief, Mr. Quay, did when he was hauled up before court on the charge of using public money in | his own private business affairs. Oh, no, ye political buzzards, Tae Star will bring action cgainst you long before the time comes when you ean get out! of the hole you are in by pleading the statute of limitations, and don’t you | forget it. You can squirm all you please, but Tne Star will make you come to time, just the same. No doubt the Scull ring could now digest a book of George Kimmel’s due bills, which single due bill in 1898, dur- ing the Republican primary campaign, was displayed in fac simile on the loeal page of the Scull paper. “Timmie,” why are you not displaying the due bill now? It would make a nice contrast along side of that $2,482.01 shortage. Upon examination of the auditors’ report, our readers will find that the udvertising of the treasurer’s blunder, cost the county $64.58. linm Winters is only the scape goat of his attorney, whose business it was to advise the freasarer, The attorney of Mr. Winters was red W. Biesecker, Esq. and it looks very much as though “Ireddie” was only after a fat job of printing for the two Scull ring organs, regardless of | the legality of the sale, which was ad- vertised and held at a time when it was not lawful to have the sale or to adver- tise it. bill, which of course the Scull ring sane- tioned, although the sale was illegal, the court setting it aside 1t is the opinion of able attorneys that the present treasurer, Peter Dum- | bauld. can sell unseated lands only for Ix all candor and the kindest t toaling we ask Mr. Reynolds if he does not think, on a little reflection, that it is! pretty presumptuous for him to ask the Republicans to send him to Congress. — Everett Press. —-— Wien Mr. Reynolds first considered himself a Republican a little over a year ago. it was charged by Democrats and Republicans that he only turned for office, we did not believe it then. Jut things are different now.—FEverett Press. -. i Tue election in Everett, where the potent influence of the new Republi- can convert and attempted boss, has not much power, as well as in the neighboring townships, went solidly Republican by their old-time majori- ties. Mr. Thropp’s friends are true Re- publieans and stick to the ticket.—FEe¢- erelt I’ress. —- “Wierever our flag is raised, there is the spirit of 1776, which is that a man has rights because he is a man. The question of ‘expansion is simple. We are not at any parting of the ways. If the extension of our principle tended too far.”—Father Stafford at the meeting of the Loyal Legion, Wash- ington, D. C., February 22nd. It must have been a deep mortifica- tion to Col. Bryan, although it may have opened his eyes,swhen the South Carolina House of Representatives, af- ter listening intently to his eloquent address, voted down, by a heavy ma- jority, resolutions of sympathy for the Filipinos. On the expansion question, Mr. Bryan finds the South an “enemies’ country,” says an exchange. . ee . Tune pomp arfd boom with which Mr. Reynold’s candidacy was launched—on paper—was formidable enough to have downed all opposition. But what has become of it? In the language of Mr. Reynolds’ former plum dispenser, it has suddenly gone into “innocuous des- uetude,” and it requires a mighty sight of whistling for the few promoters to keep up their fast waning courage.— Saxton Herald, : : DAY, Ex-Treasurer Winters, the creature of | the Scull ring, who went out of office a | sales of | unseated lands in 1898, which was a! In this | unseated land matter, however, Wil- | But the tax-payers footed the | means | right and justice, they cannot be ex- Hi —_—— WINTERS STILL OWES THE COUNTY 82,482.01 NEITHER HE NOR HIS BONDSMEN HAVE YET PAID ThE DEBT. The Debt § AN Never Be Pa Paid if the Scull | Ring Can Beat the County, But “The Will See About It. GULL RING RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLEGAL TAK SALES WHICH CAUSE A LOGS OF ABOUT 84,000 10 THE COUNTY. sea A Few More Important Things Not Mentioned in Those “Drastic Com- That the Mush-B ained Borrowed From the Scull Ring. Star called the atten- | 1898 and 1899 taxes, and that the taxes And this for 1896 and 1897 are lost. loss will amount to about $4,000. Just about the time this bogus sale of unseated lands was being advertised by the two Scull papers, the old Herald nearly wore its press out criticising the County Commissioners on the triennial assessment. “Timmie” and “Freddie” would have saved the county money by minding their own business and let- ting the Commissioners alone, Ex-Treasurer Winters is not only $2,- 482.01 short in his accounts, which neither he nor his bondsmen have yet paid, but his blunder in advertising a bogus unseated land sale, upon the ad- vice of Fred W. Biesecker, in 1898, cost this county about $4,000. Isn’t this a glorious record for the Scull Ring? Do the people of Somerset county want any more Scull Ring man- agement of the public cash box? If they do, they will pay dearly for it by means of increased taxation. Scull | ring treasurers and begus unseated land sales are no doubt profitable to the Somerset Herald and its Meyers- ale organette, but they are expensive luxuries to the farmers, laborers, me- chanics and business men of Somerset county who pay the freight in the shape of unjust taxation. Peter Dumbauld, the present anti-Ring treasurer, was elected none to soon, but he can be re- lied upon to save the county from further outrage in the oflice of Treas- urer. The bondsmen of Ex-Treasurer Win- ters are Noah Biesecker, Ex-Associate Judge; Wendell Winters, father of Wm. Winters; Wm. H. Miller,ex-mem- ber of the Legislature, and John H. Zimmerman, deceased. The bond is $15,000, and it is entered in the Record- er’s oftice in “Bond and Commission Record” Vol. 7, page, 205. Our article of last week gave I'red Biesecker as one of the bondsmen, but that wv a typographical error. Noah Biesecker was the man meant. Why is the shortage not made good? Are the bondsmen trying to get their business affairs in such shape that noth- | ing can be made by suing them? The | Commissioners should demand im- mediate payment. ger in delay. There may be dan- “PENNSYLVANIA,” says a Republicar contemporary, “has decided to restore 100,000 acres of forest at the headwa- ters of its rivers. One intelliger:t poli- tician interested in forestry is worth | more than all the mouthing dema- gogues in the country.” In other words, one intelligent politician interested in forest trees is worth more than all the Hoy interested in plum trees.—Louis- ville Courier Journal. —— ——-— No more sensible words than these of Ex-Secretary of War Alger have been uttered regarding this country’s atti- tude in the British-Boer war: “The war in South Africa is none of our con- cern, and we should keep our hands off. When we had trouble with Spain, Great Britain had no pro or anti-Span- ish meetings. She attended to her own business, and if she did anything be- yond that, it was to give notice to other nations by implication to let us alone.” The Bryans and the Masons should re- strain their impetuosity. gy Lvcrrer Syirin is becoming greatly exercised over the coming Repub- lican primary. He is evidently afraid that our county chairman will make out a slate and deny the Republicans of Somerset county the right to express their preference at the polls, as was done a few years ago | by a Scullion who was at that time chairman of the county organization. Don’t be alarmed, Lucifer, for Chair- man Berkey is a fair-minded, upright official, and there will be a primary in due time. Butall the bellowing an old steer calf like you ean do will not hur- ry Mr. Berkey in the least. ————— Ix to-day’s Herald is the announce- ment of Hon. Jos. E. Thropp for Con- gress. Mr. Thropp at present repre- sents the Twentieth Pennsylvania con- gressional district. He is admitted to be a man of more than ordinary force and ability, and having large business interests is especially fitted for the work of a member of a national econ- gress, In addition to his acknowledged qualifications for the place, he has the advantage of the custom that has here- tofore prevailed conceding at least a second term to members of Congress | i teaser : | from this district, all of which mak him a very formidable candidate.— | That Were | the gang . tation with three companies over a contemplated inno- These roads—the Atchison, MARCH 8, 1900. Tyrone Herald. —— o Ix the town of Bedford, where John M. Reynolds resides, and where the normal Republican majority is about 20, the Democrats captured nearly ev- erything in sight by large majorities, at the last borough election. In Hynd- man, the home of the Bulletin, an out and out Reynolds paper, the Democrats elected seven out of twelve candidates for borough offices. The normal Repub- lican majority in Hyndman is about 50. The returns of Bedford and Hyndman do not show up well for Reynolds and his howlers. If they have any influ- ence as Republicans, the two towns aforesaid should have gone Republican. Even Miller, one of the Bulletin’s pets, was one of the defeated Republican | | 3 = { Company, which controls 5000 acres of candidates in Hyndman. Miller is a Reynolds-Quay heeler, and he wants to be a Legislative candidate, but the way the people of Hyndman sat down upon him at the borough election, seems to indicate that Reynoldsism does not pass for Republicanism in Hyndman, and neither should it. ee a Hox. Josernt E. Tnrore, now repre- senting this district in the House of Representatives, in Washington, D. C., announces himself in this week’s paper as a candidate for re-nomination. Tt is the general feeling among the Repub- licans of this county that he should have the endorsement of the Republi- | cans of the district for a second term. | It has been the custom, from time im- memorial, to give a second nomination | to a Representative who has proven | faithful and useful. tend that Mr. Thropp has not made a | No one will con- model Congressman. He is active energetic and intelligent, always ready and prompt to perform any service for his constituents, no matter how much inconvenience he may be put to, while his votes have always been for clean legislation. He has already become popular in Washington, where his dig- nified bearing and agreeable manners have won him hosts of friends amcog the leading men of the land. We may well be proud of our member and we predict that he will make a name for himself in Congress. He should be en- dorsed by the party in this county.— Holidaysbu: 9 Register. a Brprorp borough elected Democrats to the two principal offices—those of tax collector and chief burgess. The other offices were about evenly divided between the two parties. The borough on a party vote is Republican, taking the inspectors as a test—by 20 majority. Yet they lost the chief burgess by 98 and the tax collector by 79—in both instances excellent men were on the Republican ticket. Mr. Reynolds should not have permitted such a slaughter of good Republicans. If he is of any ad- vantage to the party he ought to have shown it by holding the vote in his own borcugh. And yet with this new lead- er, Bedford Republicans suffer a disas- trous defeat. The truth is, Mr. Rey- nolds has not brought any strength to the party, only weakness. Ile did not bring one recruit in all Bedford county. He came as a lone fisherman. Think of it, a man who was a leading Demo- erat for thirty years and most of that period the leader and boss—leaves the party, and with a blowing of trumpets and beating of gongs, announces his change of beart,and yet it does not bring with him one convert. What good did Reynolds coming into the party do it? Will anyone answer? The harm he has done everjone knows.— Everett Press. a io Tuere are some soft-pated would- be Republicans down in Bedford 2ounty that have some very « ad a = - +] PL much shouting for renegade Democrat, who wants the Republicans of this district to send him to Congress. These party wreck- ers think Thropp has no right fo be a candidate. Why? Because when Mr. Thropp was the regular Republican nominee, two years ago, the Bedford county bolters voted for Walters, the Democratic candidate. Because they were traitors in the Republican party, they now think they ought to be re- warded for their treachery. They think a life-long, honorable Republican like Mr. Thropp ought to stand back for Reynolds, a renegade Democrat, and let such a man and his fool friends run the party. But we hardly think the true Republicans of Bedford county will allow the bolters to rule them. The Reynolds shouters should be kicked out of the Republican ranks for disloy- alty to the party. Men who vote for Democrats for the important oflice of Congress have no right to expect to run the Republican party, forsuch men are not Republicans, and they should not be allowed to vote at Republican primaries. — ee Tur Division of Forestry is in consul- important railway vation in American railway methods. Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Zanesville & Ohio— are considering raising tie ‘and pole timber on a large scale on their now non-utilized right-of-way lands. Oth- er large western roads are also inter- ested. This action is due chiefly to the failing of the natural supply of this material in all but the newer portions of the United States. About one mil- lion acres of timber are consumed an- nually by railroads in building and re- pairing, and, at the present rate of tim- ber depletion, the increased cost of such material will soon be a serious factor in railroad economy. The Santa Fe line has already done some experi- | 1 mental planting, and the results have | prised and done much to stimulate interest. This road planted 1,280 acres in catalpas fif- teen years ago. The total expense was $128,000; but it is estimated by the 3:1 aging Reynolds, J 10 0 Satzor. = NO. ¢. railroad officials that in ten years more the tract will have produced $2,560.000 worth of poles, ties, and posts. Having | become convinced of the necessity of | growing their own timber, the railroads naturally wish to take advantage of | the assistance offered by the Govern- ment to tree planters—which consists of expert advice, and of the working plans for planting, based on personal examination. The object of the Gov- ernment is to demonstrate the value of tree plantations to land owners, espec- ially those in the treeless regions of the West. - - Tue famous Johnstown flood of May 31, 1889, will probably soon be recalled to the public by an attempt to reforest a large portion of the Conemaugh wa- tershed to prevent further damage from freshets. The Johnstown Water mountain land, has asked the Division of Forestry to devise a plan by which the area can be re-covered with timber and the too rapid run-off of the rainfall prevented. The reg peculiarly liable to freshets, owing to its geologie- al character and the removal of its tim- ber. The now historic catastrophe, which swept away $10,000,650 in proper- ty and half as many lives as the battle of Gettysburg, was but an exaggerated instance of many similar floods. This tendency has been increased by logging off the timber and clearing numercus farms, so that the rainfall flows quic from the surface, causing high water at e and the drying up of springs later. The Johnstown Water Company has bought up many of these farms and torn down their buildings, and now wishes to expedite their return to the forest. The tract is in a sandstone re- gion, much broken, with valleys aver- 50 feet in depth. The timber consists of hemlock, oak, locust, and ash, with some beech and poplar. The openings are from 20 to 50 acres. As soon as the weather permits, J. W. Toumey, Superintendent of Tree Plant- ing. and another working-plan expert of the Division of Forestry, will ex- amine the region and decide on a plan of reforestation. In the clearings, tree planting will be required. An attempt will probably be made to increase the stand over the whole area by skillfully assisting natural reproduction. Pro- tection from fire and cattle will also be required. The expense will be shared by the Government and the Water Company, the former furnishing the ex- pert work and, possibly, some of the material for planting. one 1 re a Wages in the Mines. Announcement has been made of a coming advance in wages to 8,000 min- ers in the Clearfield and (tambria dis- tricts, to take effect April 1. Of late the advances to the miners in the up- per and central districts of the State have been numerous, until what was once the most deplorable trade in Penn- sylvania will rank again with the profit- able occupations. When the hard times were on, and the mines could put out in two days more coal than could be used in a week, the plight of the coal miners was distressing. Some of the unfortunates were but a little removed from starvation, and it is not likely that any other craft ever s in the United States more trying day But with the return of prosperity the condition of the miner has improved, and with better wages comes steadier work, until there is not much left to complain of. With the needs of the do- mestic markets and the demand that is springing up for export coal, the miner has occasion to look forward to a fairly long term of fatness. And should the foreign trade be built up until it assumes the same proportions that iron and manufactured products have taken in the markets of the old % there is hope that the miner rain see the hardships that B..the panic that follow- burg Times. To the as Tire Ni eles to add thatthe advance in miners’ ! g been too long coming. The miners al over the country should have had an inerease in wages long ago. The wages of iron workers and other trades that are kindred to the coal trade have been advanced many moons ago, but the miner has been kept in the background, waiting and suffering, wanting and in some instances almost starving. But a brighter era seems at last to be dawn- ing for the men who delve in the bow- els of the earth. We predict that they will see very prosperous times for the next few years at least, and if they do, they should make the best of their ad- vantge. Less money should pass over the beer counter, and more should be invested in town lots and in homes. We can point out a number of men in thistyicinity who have done nothing but mine coal for a number of years, but who nevertheless of n comfortable homes and have bank “accounts. How did it all come about? It eame about by taking advantage of gocd times when good times were here—by econo- my and proper living, by sobriety and absence at the beer saloons, e te., ete. Fortune knocks at every man’s door at some time or other, but there are so many men at the beer saloon tune knocks that they neve d it out. “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, if taken at its flood, leads on to fortune,” while the beer glass, if taken at its flood, leads “over the hills to the poor house,” or to a state of affairs even worse. when for- 17 ~~ Meyersdale Items. March 6th.—The Shaw miners went out on a strike, March 5th. They are striking for an advance of 5 cents en due them ofte r mines which they claim ha for over five crowd, ople were ited wit The VOrs O ing, and at work to st of next month, v ! i the carpenters are now hs complete it by the fir
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