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WINTER ARRANGEMENT, IN EFFECT
SUNDAY, NOV. 19, 1899.
Under the new Ingontont there will
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WEST BOUND.
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No. 49, Daily.
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| No. 48 Daily
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MORE TROUBLE
FOR THE MACHINE
Philadelphia Machine Men at
Odds and the Anti-Quay
Vole Still Grows.
MRT 15 URGED FO GED FOR GONGRESS.
The Nesulis of the Primaries in the
Various Counties Show Great Anti-
Quay Guins—Fraud Practiced by
the Mpc in Close Counties—A
Red Het Fight in Franklin County.
(From Our Own Corrs
Harri 2, March "1
prephe of political friends Mr. Quay
senate again last week by the
pr: of more important matters, and
it is probable that it will drag its
length along for several weeks to come,
unless it comes to a vote this week
purely through the regular channels.
The trusts and corporations of the
country are still conducting the war-
fare in favor of Quay against the pre-
cedents of the senate and the law of
the country. Senators find their mail
filled every day with beseeching and
threatening letters from men connected
with the
the adm
is recegn A
The primary electio * the nomi-
nation of state senators, members of
the leg ture and delegates to the
state convention were held in a num-
ber of counties since my last letter was
written. In only one instance was
there a weakness in the anti-Quay line
shown.
usual with the m 1ine. Nobody ex-
pected it to go any other way, for the
anti-Quay people made no fight in the
county.
ida nominated by the nar-
row m { 71 votes, and these are
openly ed to have been fraudu-
lent. A nde: ful gain made in
Union ccunt ; shown by this result. |
It is ssible that the vote may be |
contested in the county.
In Law
jority. Here also open fraud is charged,
and a contest svhich will show up the
whole iniquity of the machine work
will be ir tuted.
In Armstrong county, with all its
machine pat 2, the home of United
St 5 istrie Attorney Heiner, the |
mac 3 were routed and an an- |
and an anti- |
ti-Que
Qn Y yer of Nef I¢ ture, Craw-
ford, were chosen. In every county
but Mercer and Lancaster, where no
fight was made, the anti-Quay voters
manfested their strength as they have
never done hefore.
In every
controls they are using the
to force anti-Qucy Republicans out of |
the field. The machine for
oftea Quay or how frequently his ;
ers in Philadelphia, like ex-Sh
Crow, have openly belted conventions
and allied themselves with Democrats.
A sample of the so-called
Republicans” can be found in Wash-
ington ccunty, where men who have
been Republicans all their lives, and
t ublicans, are being de-
£ Republican because they
refuse to follow the leadership of Quay.
D/ AVID MART FOR CONGRESS.
ith of Congressman Harmer,
C in Philadel
phia last w { many changes
in the polit « t y. State Sen-
ator *David Martin will likely be re-
turned to cc ss from this distric
He can go to c ress from the dis
if he desires, for he controls the dis-
trict. If he does not go to W :
1 at name Mr. |
r. Mayor Ashbridge is in per-
roony with Senator Martin, and
is urging that the Philadelphia anti-
Quay leader step into the late Mr.
Harmer’s seat.
All is not harmony in the Philadel-
phia Quay camp by any i Within
ks di 1sions have
that aten to wreck the Quay
ae Kindred, who is the
agent of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad, arbor Master C
Theodore
falling with Tasurance
sioner Durham and Ward onto
James P. McNichol. It is said that
the differences are of such a character
that they cannot be harmonized, and
that a split in the Quay Republican
ranks in Ph 1phia is inevitable.
Great interest attaches to the legis-
lative fight in F lin county, where
W. C. Kreps, who chairman of the
bribery investi ing committee, ard
one of the mc subservient of the
machine's follo g 1» candidate for
re-election. A teleeor to the Phila-
delphia Press concerning Kreps’ candi-
dacy 7
FIGHT AGAINST KREPS.
“Representative William C. Kreps
will pay the penalty of loyalt
Quay machine 1
constituents, which in F in county
has come to mean Si thing, by
being defeated for 1ination at
the Republican convention
which meets at 1ambers burg on
March 20... Not a Rep: iblican leader of
either facticn in the cot is for him.
He may have 60 votes in the conven-
tion if his name is presented. He re- | i
bs : ages on the ground of libel,
alizes that there 10 hope for his sue-
cess and is verv bitter against those |
whom he expected to support him,
“The legislative can tes likely to
be successful at the rimaries which
are to be held next
A. Nevin Pomeroy,
and B. F. Welty,
this, his h
terly opposed
H. Lig
have gone carefully over
say Kreps will be coverw Ye
beaten if he s his name to go be-
>
ne shoo.
s being bit-
Attorney
The increase in the anti-Quay vote
over the state, together with the fact
that machine leaders are being thrown
out and new men have been taken in
their place evidence that the feeling
of the Re lions of the state is
against I Al
have se rnly
carded ¢ * they Het oh eyed its bid-
ding in everything are Senators Mer-
idith of Armstrong, and McCarroll, of
Dauphin, and Repre=entative Kreps
score of others. Their fate
will long serve as an example to others
——
Wy 5 it that every vi: cagabond in
Pennsylvania who is arrested for ballot-
box stufling, vote buying and general
election corruption is always found
guilty of practicing his fraud in the in-
terest of the Quay machine? How can
any honest man uphold the Quay dy-
nasty when every man sent to peniten-
tiary for election frauds is a Quay heel-
er? The Philadelphia North American
has another gang of Quay heelers head-
ed toward the penitentiary,and as they
cannot plead the statute of limitations,
the servants must suffer alone, It’s a
pity the masters gan’t be made to suf-
fer with them
Lancaster county went as;
In Union county the machine |
county where the machine |
:aucus club |
“irregular |
The Milford Election.
Old Mother Milford held a prima
But to the result there was an obje
Jecause it was not of the right complexion;
So the “Straights” determined to make a
correction.
They caucused up in the old log stable;
Th caucused down with John Knable;
They caucused with “ Branty” over the
table;
They caueused from celler clear up to gable.
They caucused with Jake, the old wagon-
maker;
They caucused with Hiram, the old under-
They caucused with Abbie, the sly census-
taker,
And with Archibald, too, the ex-officio faker.
In order the inspector to clear undermine
They induced Archibald, the Judge, to re-
Signs
To the law their course they didn’t confine,
For they wanted a Judge who'd fall in line
In Hauger they found the man they could
use,
And made him the Judge by above men-
tioned ruse.
Thus equipped they were all right to
abuse,
And they never once thought the township
they'd lose.
So eager were they the township to run,
No matter what crookedness had to be done,
That they hunted up Democrats, one by
one,
And determined to go the thing whole
Haug er none.
The weather was fine—a sunshiny day;
The “Insurgents” were out, light-hearted
and gay;
And the“:
flay
Till the verdict was easily anti-Quay.
nights” they did unmercifully
The “Straights” or “Regs,” whichever you
please,
Thought they had planned to win with ease,
Jut the votes that came in on the anti
brecze
Brought the ring roustabouts down on their
knees.
The “Straights” they did with Democrats
dicker,
{ And all through the day grew thicker and
thicker;
But toward the night they got sicker and
sicker,
While the antis stood by witha wink and a
snicker.
|
. The fight was on for school director,
ce county the Quay candi- |
dates escaped by th same narrow ma- |
Though some thought it was on tax col-
lector;
| But the “Straights” and Dems with their
vote rejector
| Only saved from the wreck their one in-
speetor.
| And when the votes had been counted out,
The “ Regulars” twisted and squirmed
about,
And like old rounders afflicted with gout,
Sneaked off by themselves to cuss and pout,
The “Regulars” now have opened the hall,
| With an exibition of supremest gall,
But this will surely enc ompass their fall,
And hereafter we shall have a'free-for-all
Now there is one “Branty,” the Milford
‘Squire,
Who plays right well on the old ring lyre;
| But hel never, no never, set the world afire,
Though that may be his greatest desire.
| Thendown the Pike does anothers shit”
lurk;
ITe wants to be smart, and wise as a Turk;
jut though he ¢ ies a political dirk,
its cutting wouldn’t make him the town-
ship elerk.
Then there's one who used to old Milford
rule;
For Timmie and the gang he’s been a great
tool;
But now he no longer the people can fool,
For they’ve placed him upon the “has
been” stool.
He once used to peddle a book well bound,
With which he was always a nosing around,
But lately he placed his “ear to the ground,”
And the people’s opinion he thus has fonnd,
Say, boys, we're onto you, Just as of yore,
And the tricks you've played so often be-
fore;
And you can’t win out with them anymore,
Though you have boodle and hand-books
galore.
You're always
“Straight,”
When you know you're crooked as the fig-
ure eight;
But you're goin’ to the dogs ata pretty fast
a-talkin’ about bein’
gait,
With the corrupt machine in County and
State.
Oh, you needn’t put up that ugly frown.
For from your high perch you must come
down;
You might as well quit your acting the
clown
On election day at Gebhart town.
You might just as well make up your mind
That the people of Milford are not stone
blind;
That they've taken the measure of you and
your kind,
And the votes, when counted, will show you
behind.
—AN EYE-WITNESS.
————.——
IN the decision pondered by Judge
Mestrezat of the Supreme Court, re-
cently, the eminent jurist declared
| that a combination of wholesale mer-
| chants formed for the purpose of pre-
| venting retail dealers who may be in
debt to one of the combination from
| securing goods on credit from others
| is unlawful, and that the object of this
blacklisting scheme can secure dam-
Griy old winter is about at an end,
| and yet that great smallpox epidemic
that a few quack doctors and shyster
newspapers predicted would come with
cold weather failed to make its appear-
ance. Of course there was wholesale
vaceination among the school children,
which caused the death of a great many
of them throughout the country, but
the people are not to blame for that,
for they were obliged to comply with
some fool laws or keep their children
out of school. Very few grown people
were vaccinated, and if any fool wants
to believe that the torture of the inno-
cents averted a smallpox epidemie, he
can believe it, and may the Lord have
merey upon his dumb, insignificant
soul.
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Tue Mosarsdolo wind organ of the
Scull machine is sore afraid that some
of the members of the Republican
county committee will not vote to suit
the people who elected them, when the
next county convention is called. The
purchase of committeemen, however, is
the only thing that kept the party or-
ranization in the hands of the Scull
ring for so many years. But now,since
the organization is in the hands of {he
anti-ring Republicans, the Scull organ-
ette in Meyersdale is afraid that the
people who are now running the Re-
publican boat may resort to Scull ring
tacties to keep in charge of it. Lucifer,
you should not judge others by the
tactics of your own gang, and which
tactics you always approved of when
your crowd successfully practiced them,
and which tactics they will resort to
whenever necessary.
THAT TREASURY SHORTAGE.
A Few Things for Honest Men to
Think About.
It seems to worry the Scull organette
in Meyersdale very much that Tue
Star “is whacking it into the shortage”
of Ex-Treasurer Winters. “Of course
the county does not lose a dollar by it,”
says Lucifer. That may all be, but if
the county does not lose a dollar by it
the fault will not be the Scull ring’s
No, we hardly think the county will
lose a dollar by it, because THE Star
will not let the shortage rest until the
money due the county from Mr. Win-
ters is paid over. We are not going to
keep mum like the Herald and Com-
mercial are doing when so grave a con-
dition confronts the tax-payers of Som-
erset county. The plea that “the mon-
ey will be paid” won’t go with the peo-
ple. Wm. Winters has no business with |
any of the county’s money in his pos-
session.
He is no longer the custodian of the
county’s money. Every cent due the
county should have been in the county’s
possession on the day that Wm. Win-
ters stepped out of office. The plea
that the money is safe goes for naught.
The money may be so infernally safe
that the county will never get a cent of
it. That’s what the tax-payers are
kicking on. The Commercial and other
Scull ring defenders may try to smooth
over the Treasury outrage all they
please, but the fact still remains that
when a treasurer goes out of office
short in his accounts there is something
infernally “rotten in Denmark.” Like
Janquo’s ghost this outrage will not
down, and so long as the money due
the county is not paid over, just solong
will the county be out of its just dues.
If Somerset county loaned Wm. Win-
ters no money, which it did not nor
could not, how did he get the county’s
money, and what business has he with
it? He has no more right to hold it
than he weuld have to hold the money
of an individual citizen without the
owner having loaned it to him.
Nothing to Crow About.
It has been a trick of the machine to
hold early primaries in counties where
it had been ueccustomed to “sweeping
things,” and then wave the result as a
sort of stimulator for its “workers” in
other counties, and flaunt it like a red
flag to the opposition. Primaries were
held last Saturday in the counties of
Armstrong, Lawrence, Mercer and Un-
ion, and, as was expected, the machine
organs are in high feather over the re-
sult ; but what is the truth concerning
it?
In Armstrong, where the machine
has always ruled, the anti-Quayites
rose in suflicient numbers to nominate
one of their candidates for the Legisla-
ture, thus breaking the machine slate
for the first time in years.
In Lawrence, one of the machine
strongholds, the Quayites nominated
two candidates for Assembly, but by
majorities of less than 200, which is an
anti-Quay gain of 1,000.
The machine made its only gain on
Saturday in Mercer county, where the
Quayites nominated two Assemblymen.
Divided delegations have been nomi-
nated there for years.
In Union county the Quayites nom-
inated their candidate for Assembly,
but by a greatly reduced majority.
In these four counties, where (he ma-
chine expected so much, and about
which it has been blowing so lustily,
the fact is that it gained one Assembly-
man, while the returns show a very
healthy growth of the anti-machine
sentiment.—Somerset Standard.
-— -
Thropp as a Friond to the Soldier.
Mr. Thropp as the representative
from this district has been in the active
duties of his office since the first Mon-
day of December, 1899, a little more
than three months. Ie is trying to do
and is doing his whole duty in an hon-
orable way by worthy veterans and
their families. In his mail their com-
munications are the first given atten-
tion, and he has now over four hundred
cases for pensions under consideration
from Bedford county alone.
He has the reputation at home and
abroad of being the most prompt and
active representative that this district
has ever had in Congress.
He has always been the true and
earnest {riend of the soldier. He had
three brothers who served in different
branches of the service in the Union
army in the war of the Rebellion, one
of them was for three years a member
of the famous “Pennsylvania Reserves,”
another was one of the youngest com-
missioned officers in the service, but
was discharged after being severely
wounded. He had five first cousins
who served in the ranks of our army.
Though too young to enter the army
himself, his heart was in the cause.
For any man to say that Mr. Thropp,
with a family record like this,is or could
be anything but a friend to thesoldiers,
shows that that man is talking from
prejudice and is not to be trusted. —Be:d-
ford Hawkeye.
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Strike Still on.
The strike in the Elk Lick region,
which was caused by the 5-cent differ-
ential between this and the George's
Creek region, is stillon. Thomas Rees
and Mr. Duncombe promptly paid the
advance, but after working a few days
the car supply was shut off, these oper-
ators claiming that the railroad com-
pany is against paying the same wages
here for mining as in the Creek region.
What interest the railroad company
has in the Elk Lick coal, if any, we do
not know.
Things are in a bad tangle, and what
the outcome will be is hard to tell. No
one wants the strike to continue if it
can be helped. It is to be hoped that
the operators and miners will soon
come to a salisfactory agreement. It
is believed that mueh will depend on
the outcome of the miners’ convention
in session at Altoona, this week,
Somerset ‘“Herald’s” So-Called Di- | about four hours after the accident oc-
rectory.
Nearly a year ago the Somerset Her-
ald had a stranger traveling up and
down the county soliciting advertise-
ments among the business men for a
business directory. The said directory
was to be an elaborate affair, accord-
ingto the representations of the smooth
stranger, and business men were
charged $2.00 each for advertisements
in the said directory, which the smooth
stranger said would be printed and
circulated by the Somerset Herald.
Of course advertisers were required
to pay in advance, for the publishers of
the Herald and the smooth stranger all
knew that very few sane business men
would pay a cent if first allowed to see
the kind of directory they proposed to
print. Tt was therefore important for
the smooth stranger to collect in ad-
vance, which he did, but for many
months of anxious waiting the great
directory failed to make its appearance.
Last week, however, the
made its appearance, and oh Lord,what
a directory! It is only an old sheet of
cheap cardboard with a lot of very fine
print on it. Each business man’s ad-
vertisement is crowded into a few lines
of very small type, while at the top of
the card, in large, bold-faced letters,
are the words, “Somerset Herald,” and
the whole thing appears like a supple-
ment to that paper, as the name of the
paper is the only line on the card that
is in prominent type. It is plain,there-
fore, that the Ierald was more anxious
to advertise itself than to advertise the
other business houses of the county,
but of course the other business houses
“paid the freight.” The Herald made
about $500 clear money out of its so-
called directory, and it also made a
large crop of enemies, judging from the
comment we hear from those who were
roped in.
Some of the advertisers have cast the
old thing aside, others have torn it up,
some are kicking themselves, while
others just grin and bear it, saying,
however, that when they invest in a
directory again they shall insist on first
seeing the directory. Not one of the
directory
advertisers will reap 10 cents worth of
benefit from the Herald’s so-called di-
rectory, and we believe every ome of
them know it by this time.
“Timmie,” we will here give you a
recipe for a directory of the right kind :
First, give your patrons a definite idea
just what your directory is to be like.
Second, tell them to pay when the di-
rectory is printed and delivered. Third,
in printing the directory use good 6-ply
cardboard and leave sufficient margin
for framing. Fourth, give your direc-
tory a suitable heading, something like
this, in large, bold-faced type: “Busi-
ness Directory of Somerset County.”
The words “Somerset Herald” do not
make a suitable heading for a business
directory.
We offer these remarks and sugges-
tions at the solicitation of some of your
directory victims, “Timmie,” and we
trust that the business men of the coun-
ty will profit thereby. As for yourself,
“Timmie,” you have profited enough by
the job you and the smooth stranger
have just completed, and the adver-
tisers have paid fre Drofit
FROM THE SUCKER STATE.
Letter from M. P. Lichty, Who Once
Lived Here and Still Loves
Old Elk Lick.
Mr. Morris, Try, March 6, 1900.
Eprror Star: —Before I take my.an-
nual flight northwest. I thought IT would
give your readers a short letter through
your columns,
Our groundhog winter is on in full
blast. We have about 8 inches of snow
and very badly drifted roads. Yester-
day a heavy granulated snow fell, dur-
ing the night it rained and sleeted, and
this morning the snow is crusted, beax--
ing ones weight.
There are a great many public sales
these days. Many changes are taking
place in and about Mt. Morris.
This town has improved very mater-
ially during the past few years. Larger
and finer residences are being built.
The old College buildings have been
replaced with much larger and better
edifices, with all the modern conven-
iences. But, not only here, but all
through this vast M ssippi valley the
spirit of progressiveness is manifested
to a higher degree. The early pioneers
were beset with many doubts and fears,
but the few survivors see these all van-
ishing as the years come and go. The
next quarter of a century, no doubt,
will bring about still more phenomenal
changes.
Talking about the “Great West,” in
North Dakota the people speak of Illi-
nois as being “down east.” But blessed
is the man in old Elk Lick township
that has his own home. I know of no
spot that I have ever lived in where it
seems to me the natural advantages
are better diversified, nor more abund-
ant. The gurgling springs, the rip-
pling rills, the silvery streams, the rug-
ged hills, the little dells, the beautiful
groves of maple, birch, beech and a
thousand other things that many of
your native fellows don’t see, nor ever
learned to appreciate. If we had but
half of the superabundance of your
profusion of blessings lying around
loose, would not we have a delightful
time in North Dakota? If we could
just swap every other township of our
fertile prairie land for your rugged
mountain land, then it might be better
for us all around.
But I must cut this short. I appreci-
ate the communications of the dear boys
of the various states. Thope many more
will let us hear from them through Tur
Star. M. P. Licury.
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Crush _d in the Mines.
Albert Caton, a young man employ-
ed in the Niverton mines, was killed
by a fall of breast coal on Monday
night. He had one leg badly erushed
and was also injured about the head
and body. Death was not instantan-
eous, but the unfortunate young man
died without regaining consciousness, | Bedford
|
{ about 19 or 20 years, and came origin-
| eurred.
The deceased was a single man, aged
ally from the vicinity of Keyser’s Ridge,
Garrett county, Md. The funeral took
place yesterday, Rev. W. A. Gaunt, of
the German Baptist chureh, officiating.
Rockwood Man Killed by Boiler
Explosion.
The boiler in J. P. Growall’s plaining
will, at Rockwood, exploded on Mon-
day morning, completely wrecking the
building. The owner was badly injur-
ed, but will recover. His son, Frank
was fatally injured, however, and died
in the evening at 11 o'clock. He was
blown through the roof into a field
about 35 yards away, where he was
found badly bruised and mangled.
A Good Woman Dead.
It is with deep regret that we this
week announce the death of Mrs. A.
W. Knepper, of Somerset. Mrs. Knep-
per was County President of the Wom-
an’s Christian Temperance Union, and
for many years was a zealous worker
for the suppression of the liquor traffic.
She was a most estimable Christian
lady, and she was greatly beloved by
her neighbors and the members of the
W.C.T. U,, who held her in high es-
teem.
The deceased was in poor Lealth for
a long time, and at times she suffered
intensely, but she bore her afflictions
bravely until the angel of death sum-
moned her to her rest and reward.
The funeral took place yesterday,and
a number of the W. C. T. U. ladies of
Salisbury and other places in the coun-
ty went to the funeral, which was large-
ly attended. Thus has another useful
person been called from life’s fitful
scenes forever, and many are the ach-
ing hearts who mourn her departure.
May she rest in peace, and may a mer-
ciful Providence heal the bleeding,
lacerated hearts of the bereaved hus-
band and son, whom we are informed
are the only surviving members of the
family.
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Salisbury ‘Raitrona td be Extended.
The suryey for the proposed railroad
up Casselman river from the Salisbury
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio will be
completed to-day as for as the Mana-
dier lands, a distance of eight miles
south of Grantsville and twelve miles
from the starting point. This road will
open large {racts of coal and timber
and. The projectors are Jennings
Bros. a firm of Pennsylvania capitalists
who have purchased large bodies of
timber and mineral lands in the vicin-
ity of Bittinger and Grantsville and
expect to have mills in operation as
soon as the road is completed, which
will be some time in Augnst. A report
to this office from Grantsville this
morning states that two hundred men
will be put to work at an early day to
grade and make the road bed ready for
the ties and rails. The road will follow
the east bank of the Casselman river
almost the entire distance, crossing the
old National road at a point near Stan-
ton’s mill, one-half mile east of Grants-
ville.—0Oakland Republican.
Just how much truth is in the above
is hard to tell. One thing is sure, how-
ever, and that is the fact that the afore-
said railroad extension will not be com-
pleted as far south as the Oakland Re-
publican states, in August. It is true
that some surveying has been done and
some rights of way secured, but as to
when work on the proposed railroad
extension will begin, nothing definitely
is known at this end of the line.
—-—
OUR DEAR GIRLS.
The Berlin ‘‘ Record ’’ Describes
How Son] of Them Kiss.
The Salisbury girl, the pride of the state,
In her cling oulful way
Absorbs 1t all with a yearning yearn
As big ms a ton of hay.
The Addison a Fane i maze
When you ask for hi Ds Ar 14 crave,
And runs from the gate far into". we will 3
To sce if her ma might care. .
The Rockwood girl gets sassy and mad,
And bitterly calls 1 a plug,
Then to build up you eelings and heart
She squarely kisses yourdirty old mug.
The Brothersvalley girl who lives ona farm
Can break you up completely.
She knows just how to work her cards,
And her sweetness gives discreetly,
The Somerset girl never sighs or pines,
Nor acts in a manner rude,
But she goes on kissing in a businesslike
way
That catches the average dude.
The Garrett girl gets a grip on herself
As she earefully takes off her hat,
And she grabs up the prize ina frightened
way
Like a terrior shaking a rat.
The Meyersdale girl bows her stately head,
As she fixes her stylish lips
In a firm, hard way, and lets them go
In spasmodic little snips.
The Shanksville girl never waits to bo
coaxed
With generous lips and a heart that is
light,
And she puckers her mouth and tries to
look sweet,
And smacks with all her might.
The Roxbury girl's the sweetest of all
You will everywhere meet in our town,
Has no heartless, snippy, measly way,
But just do he thing up brown,
The Windber girl, with the soulful eye
And lip like Dan Cupid’s how,
Would k from now till the sweet bye ang
hye
And that’s why we love her so.
The Berlin girl, like an ocean pe
Is a beauty, 2 gem and a tre
She uses both lips, takes;
Aud is tickled all over wi
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German Baptists’ Annual Meeting,
The annual meeting of the German
Baptist Brethren of the Western Dis-
trict of Pennsylvania will be held in
May, at Markleysburg, Fayette county,
at which time a delegate to the Gener-
al Conference will be chosen to repre-
sent the district on the Executive Com
mittee of the Conference, which is ‘to
be held in June, at North Manchester,
Wabash county, Ind. The Western
District of Pennsylvania is composed
of the churches in Cambria, Somerset,
Armstrong, Indiana, ore
and Fayette countie