its. ful at- Valley. HIER. ishier. ).0. issued ed. Sli { o - PCC CVC TTT TTY wn ies 4 4 4 eo Lyd al ® "ne is : 4 4 4 of the ifs years ck of 14 €S are te can ) », IAL fail to 3 4 ranted. | co, Teor th. lo Ison ine and I'S er. astime.” 39 too pre- ard run- you can Wilson. Yo Coos ARS’ ENCE patents. 0. receive Can. * ™ py ’ t | . <r - " -~ sha eo |® A, i o- i“ nS @ Good Advertising Medium. @ The Somerset Fine Specialty. Job Printing a VOLUME VL. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1900 NO. 4§. A... “a a Oa Christmas Gift of Ten per cent. <lo= - Every .". Purchaser . » of Clothing, Over- coats, Ladeis™ anc Children’s Wraps From Dec.1, to 31st. Watch for our Chastmas 2d” in next ISSUE. om ri Elk Lick Supply Co. - WHERE? Bares & Livenoood s. = ()F COURSE! An immense stock of Men's, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing. ored, made in New York, and will compare favorably A fine assortment of Trousers, elegantly tail- with those you buy from the best tailors. We guarantee ous! They consist of Men’s Winter Tans, Patent Leather, Patent Enamel, Box Calf, Willow Calf, Vici Kid, ete. them to fit. At the same store is where the best Men’s Working Shoes are bought, also the hest shoes for women. We have them in all tlie best, fanciest and most subtantial makes. Here is where the school children like to have their shoes bought. “They are the real thing,” is what the boys and girls say. : ag SALISBURY, PA. Having decided to locate in Salisbury and establish a first-class Clothing and Gents’ Farnishing Goods store, I beg to call your attention to my Grand Opening, Satur- day, Dec. 1st, 1900. Be sure to attend this opening and learn of the astonishing bargains I have to offer the people of this locality. ing that I can give you greater bargains than you can obtain elsewhere, 1 respect- fully solicit your patronage and will do my best to merit the same, as 1 intend to locate permanently among you. H. FEINBERG, McKinley Buildg. Firmly believ- SALISBURY, PA. W. H. KooNTZ. J. G. OGLE KOONTZ & OGLE, Attorneys-At-T.aw, SOMERSET, PENN’A. Office opposite Court House. FRANCIS J. KOOSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER. KOOSER & KOOSER, Attorneys-At-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. J. A. BERKEY Attorney-at-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office over Post Office. R. E. MEY ERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Attorney-at-T.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office opposite Cook & Beerits’ Store. A. M. LICHTY, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A. Office one door east of P. S. Hay’s store. F F. SPEICHER, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A. Office corner Grant and Union Streets. Spectacles for 50 cts. Have your eyes correctly fitted by a practical optician, : wide experiece. TT. W.GURI.LEY, The Jeweler and Optician. Meyersdale, Pa, Salisbury Hack Lane, SCHRAMM BROS. Proprietors. SCHEDULIE :(—Hack No. bury at 8 a. m., arriving at 930 a. m. Returning leaves p.m. arriving at Salisbu TACK N 1 i 1 leaves Salis- Meyersdale at Meyersdale at 1 riving at Mey ing ledves Mc Salisbury at ile at 2 p. m. Return- ersdale nt 6 p. m., arriving at 30 p.m. P. L. Livengood, Will Clerk Your Sales at reasonable rates and furnish all Notes, Sale Papers, ete. When you come to us for your sale bills, don’t forget that you ean also get a clerk at Tue Star oflice. Ord Street, Salisbury, Pa. ALFRED SPEER, THE ORIGINAL Port Grape Wine Producer in America. The first native wine sold and used in San Francisco and Sacra- mento was from Speers Passaic, . J, vineyards, was shipped around Cape Horn before there was any railroad to California, and arc now being used by physi- cians and first familics there as the richest and best wine to be had The juice of the Wine grape grown in N. J.is thick and rich sameas the juice of pears andother fruits grown here. From California pears you can squeeze water as from a sponge; so with all fruits grown in Califor- nia; while those grown in New Jerseyare solid in substance—less juice but thick and richer. The New Jersey apples, for instance, make a cider that was always popular the world over. If you want a wine for sickness or for entertainments don't take cheap, watery wines but choose a first class old, full bodied, high grade wine from Speer’s Passaic vine- yards, _ Sold by Druggists. Preserver of health. Runs so light. So easy to learn. Sews so fast. Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Rotary Motion and Ball Bearings Purchasers say: “It runs as light as a feather.” “It turns drudgery into a pastime.” “The magic Silent Sewer.” Life istoo shortand healthtoo pre- cious to waste with a slow, hard run- ning, noisy machine, when you can have the New Wheeler & Wilson. MANUFACTURED BY Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co., Bridgeport, Conn. Send for Catalogue. For sale by Rutter & Will, » MEYERSDALE, Pa. CONGRATULATIONS PRON CALIFORNIA. A Few Bouquets Handed Out and a Few Claimed on the Result of the Late Election, Copious Rainfall on the Pacific Slope Pres- ages a Prosperous Year for the Golden State. Los AxcGELES, CAL. Nov. 24, 1900.— Well, brother, how do you feel after the slaughter? That was indeed a great and glorious victory which we won on the 6th of November, was it not? I congratulate you and the good people of Somerset county on’ the ad- mirable manner in which they bore their part in the good fight. But I wonder if we are not entitled to a few bouquets ourselves out here on the far-away Pacific coast, for the way in which we helped to knock the stuffing out of talkative Billy Bryan and addled Adlai Stevenson. 1 guess yes, and if anybody ever again accuses us of hav- ing leanings toward the free silver heresy, we will file a bill for libel. Several weeks prior to the election I had the temerity to risk my reputation as a prophet, by informing you that California would be found in the Me- Kinley column with a plurality of about 20,600 to the good. The only trouble with my guess was that I was entirely too modest in my claims. If I had placed the figures at 40,000 I would just about have hit the mark. That is unprecedented for this state. I also told you that we would in all proba- bility send a solid Republican delega- tion to Congress. ell, we have, and that by the largest majority in each of the districts of the state ever known. I also told you that we would carry the city of Los Angeles by a plurality of about 2,000 as against a plurality of 550 for Bryan four years ago. Well, we did as I predicted and had nearly 1,000 votes to spare, as the plurality in this city was 2,889. McKinley’s plurality in this, Los Angeles county, was 6,040. These phenomenal results were effect- ed with hardly any campaign work be- ing done. The Californians were just naturally Republicans this year. It did not take any coaxing to bring them in line with the party of enlighten- ment and progress. Even the few who did vote the Democratic ticket from force of habit, seem to be ashamed of it now. You don’t hear any of them bragging about it. It certainly is noth- ing to be proud of. I don’t believe that any man who has got any good, red pa- triotic blood in his veins will ever wish his posterity to know that he voted the Populistic-Democratic ticket in the year of grace 1900. What a commentary on the Demo- cratic party that it can carry no state any more in a presidential election, out- side of the solid south where the popu- lation still clings to the traditions of the old slavery days. and a few sparse- ly settled Rocky Mountain states where the free silver heresy still has a slim foothold! I deprecate sectionalism, but it is a mystery to me how enlightened people of the north and the great west can take sides with the unprogressive elements which have been holding the south back from achieving the great- ness which she is capable of. The Re- publican party has been making the south prosperous in spite of herself and her Democracy, and 1 predict that the time will come when a new generation will bring Dixie in line with the more progressive and more enlightened north and west. If I mistake not I also told you in my pre-election prophecy that Bryan would be very lucky if he succeeded®in carrying any states west of the Mis- souri river, except Colorado and a few of the other radical silver states. In this my guess again proved sound, al- though I do not claim any particular credit for hitting the nail on the head. Any one living in the west and observ- ing the great change in western senti- ment during the last few years could | easily see that Bryanism was practic- ally defunct in these parts. It is as- tonishing that the east should have come to his support as much as it did. I can account for if on no theory ex- cept that some people are never satis- fied to let well enough alone. Nothing will prevent them from trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Great as my satisfaction was over the general result of the election, noth- ing pleased me quite as much as the return of Nebraska to the Republican fold. I think the people out there in that erratic state have had about all the Populism they will want to sample for some time. Populism gave Kansas the biggest setback that state ever had, but Kansas saw the error of her way several years ago and got back to a com- mon sense basis of doing business. It took Nebraska several years longer to recover from her populistic spree, but let us hopeshe has sobered up now for good. I think too much Bryanism was what caused Nebraska to gain so little in population in the last ten years. It is strange, indeed, that a fine agricul- tural state with such vast undeveloped resources should increase so little in population. Take the city of Lincoln for instance. In 1890 Lincoln and Los Angeles were just about on a par in size, each having in round numbers 50,- 000 inhabitants. The census of 1900 gives Lincoln only forty odd thousand, while Los Angeles has climbed up to nearly 103,000, which is about all that Omaha is credited with now, while in 1890 Omaha had a population of about 140,000, according to the federal census. Strange that Bryan’s immediate neigh- borhood should be the only place in the country where such remarkable decreases are shown by the census fig- ures! 1 was greatly pleased to see the'reg- ular ticket in old Somerset county pull through so handsomely, in spite of the determined and treasonable opposition made by the Quayites. Consistency certainly is a jewel unknown to the Herald and Commercial, judging Dy their conduct in the late campaign. I was amazed to see the charge made in one of those organs that the “Insur- gents” were taking refuge behind a court decision in justification of their contention that the nomination of Koontz and Kendall was regular. Shades of Marshall and all the other great jurists! What are court deeis- ions for if not to take refuge behind or to make things regular? It was such contempt of courts that made the cause of Bryan so weak in the last two presidential campaigns. The Ameri- can people have great respect’ for their courts, and when a faction of Republi- cans can not abide by a decision that is against them, it is about time for them to go over into the ranks of the an- archists, which appears to be very near what some of them did in your county, judging by their actions as viewed from this distance. Their influence, however, seems to have amounted to very little when they were able to re- duce the majorities of the anti-Quay candidates a matter of only about a thousand votes. Messrs. Koontz and Kendall both deserve to be congratu- lated on their splendid victory. I am sorry, however, that the knockout of Boss Quay in the state does not appear to have been more complete. The peo- ple of California as a whole do not have much use for Quay or Quayism. We downed our Matt Quay (Dan Burns) in the Legislature last year and succeeded in electing an honest man (Thomas R. Bard) to the United States Senate af- ter a long and tedious struggle. I hope Pennsylvania may be so fortunate as to do likewise at the forthcoming session of her Legislature, but I fear she will fail. Dropping polities, I will conclude by telling you that we have just had the most thorough drenching this state has had in three years. There has practic- ally been a drought in the southern part of the state during that period, but within the last week we have had as much rain as in any one of the en- tire preceding years. I never saw it rain harder anywhere than it did here during a few days this week. Consid- erable damage was done to streets, roads, bridges and railways, in the na- ture of washouts, but the good accom- plished by the storm is many times in value the amount of the damage. Street car and railroad traffic was at a standstill for a little while, but every- thing is moving all right again. The total rainfall in this county so far this winter ranges from seven to twenty-one inches. In the higher mountains there was a heavy fall of snow, which insures plenty of water for irrigation next sum- mer. Everybody is looking forward to one of the most prosperous years Cali- fornia has ever had. Yours fraternally, W. 8. LivENGOOD. ea COLLEGE PRESIDENT SUED. Cora A. Keim, of this Borough, Sues Professor Brumbaugh for Breach of Promise. Quite a sensation was created in this borough when on Monday the Pitts- burg daily papers contained a dispatch stating that Miss Cora A. Keim had sued Professor Brumbaugh, President of Juniata College, for breach of promise. The sensation became still greater when the Philadelphia North American arrived on the next mail containing a double-column portrait ot Miss Keim and the following particu- lars concerning the suit: Special Dispatch to the North American. Huxringpoy, Pa., December 2. BruMBAvUGH — Jonson — At Cam- bridge, Mass.,, April 26, 1900, Amelia Henrietta Johnson to Professor I. Har- vey Brumbaugh. Miss Cora A. Keim, young, pretty, and an acknowledged leader in the fashionable life of Elk Lick, Somerset county, read in these simple words, she says, a life’s unhappiness. Forher loss, as well as for her distress of mind which has been hers, she wants $25,000. She wants it co badly that she has ap- pealed to the law. Hence a sensation in the social and literary circles of Somerset county, for the influence of Professor Brumbaugh touches both. He is acting president of Juniate College. That he, therefore, should be accused of breach of faith rouses widespread discussion. Already each party to the suit has scores of supporters. Miss Keim, who was 23 years old on March 28 last, says in her complaint that an acquaintance of several years between herself and Professor Brum- baugh ripened into friendship early in 1897. Perfect confidence, she claims, seemed established between them, their tastes being similar and their mental attitude on all things in sympathy. Miss Keim says that this communion ripened into love, and that on or about June 1, 1897, they entered into a formal engagement to marry. For two years, or until June 12, 1899, to be exact, a steady correspondence, it is stated, was maintained between the Professor and the young lady in Elk Lick, and she declares that in all the communications she received there was evidence that the affection she had in- spired still burned with a steady flame. But in the midsummer of 1899, Miss Keim states, a chill descended upon the warm regard of Mr. Brumbaugh. For this regretable change, she says, she holds herself quite blameless, protest- ing that she remained ever faithful, ever ready to make binding the tie of sentiment which united them. The unhappy condition described, Miss Keim says, continued until the an- nouncement of Professor Brumbaugh’s n:arriage to Miss Johnson, which ren- dered hope futile. Miss Keim says she was prostrated by the news, and though now she has regained her health, she says she has quite lost her peace of mind. The only charge she brings against Mr. Brum- baugh is that he has broker. his promise. But this is sufficient cause, in her opin- ion, upon which to base a claim for $25,000 damages. She has engaged H. 1. Waite, of Huntingdon, and J. A. Berkey, of Somerset, to press her suit. To the foregoing from the North American Tur Star will add that Miss Keim has many sympathizers here where she was born and reared. She is a member of one of the best families of this county, and no one in this entire community can say anything else of her than that she is a quiet, sensible rud refined young woman. There is nothing fickle, giddy or frivolous in her make-up. She has never heen known to intentionally wound the feelings of others or to trifle with their affections, and the great majority of the people here give her credit for refusing to quietly submit to the great in- justice done her by one who ap- pears to have been trifling with her affections. Of course there are a few insignificant nobodies about here, principally of the female sex, who are censuring Miss Keim for bringing suit against Professor Brumbaugh, but sensible people pay little attention to them. Some people are never satisfied unless they are venting their venomous spleens over the personal affairs of some one else, trying to add insult to injury. and making the general public weary by the wagging of tongues that are too long to find room enough even in the capacious mouths of these gos- sipers. A wise man once said: “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,” and he might truth- fully have added that woman’s inhu- manity to woman sometimes can’t be borne. In conclusion Tue Star will add that no man has a moral right to trifle with the affections of a confiding and pure- minded woman, but there is a great deal of it done—entirely too much. If Prof. Brumbaugh has so far departed from the principles of true manhood as to degrade his position and himself by trifling with the affections of one who loved him because he encouraged and fostered that love by declaring love to her, he should be compelled to pay heavily for the peace of mind he has destroyed and the heart he has wound- ed. Of course people who have no higher conception of true love, woman- ly devotion and manly principle than the gossipers of eountry towns have, will not agree with us. We believe Miss Keim is in the right, and for that reason we want to see her win the suit. re A Yellow Journal. From the Meyersdale Republican. The Somerset Herald [The Bolters’ Bazoo] unqualifiedly stands pre-emi- nently as the “Yellow Journal” of Som- erset county. That paper knows no such thing as fairness in its make-up. We should judge as a new comer that its editor prides himself upon his apti- tude as a falsifier of things and events. It is lost to all the things that any hon- est journalist takes pride in, and it knows no bounds when it once makes up its mind to do dirt against any per- son who refuses to act as a puppet, and dance when it pulls the string. Like all cowards it will not come out in the open, but by the use of its hirelings, like u cowardly assassin it creeps upon its unsuspecting victim in the dark,and gives him a stab in the back. Its atti- tude before the late election was so plain that every honest man knows that everything we say is true. It has no respect for the laws of our State, neither has it for learned judges. In its issue of last week it again parades the name of James M. Cover before the public, as county chairman, when it knows it has no claim upon that office, showing that the Herald [The Bolters’ Bazoo] proposes to carry on a warfare on a subject which was decid- ed by the Dauphin county court last summer. The venom it emits last week in the following is worthy only of a dis- eased mind. We give place to the ar- ticle to which we have reference: “The effort on the part of Messrs. Koontz, Kooser and others to reduce the majority for Alvin Evans in this county was on a par with their effort to defraud him of a nomination. They frequently asserted that Mr. Evans nomination was illegal, that the body which placed him in nomination was an illegal body, ete., and Mr.. Koontz’s personal organ refused to put the name of the congressional candidate in the ticket carried at the head of its col- umns till the week previous to the election. With all their efforts, they succeeded in keeping the vote for Mr. Evans just 316 below that of McKinley in the county. The majority given Mr. Evans in the county is 4,210, while in the district it is over 13,000. A very handsome mojority for a candidate whom such able attorneys as Koontz and Kooser declared to be illegally nominated.” To prove that we are not making any false assertions we will make a few comparisons from the “official returns” of the county. William McKinley for president received 6,677 votes. E. B. Hardenburg for auditor general re- ceived 6,481 votes, or 198 less than Mec- Kinley. Robert H. Foerderer candi- date for congressman-at-large received 6,477 votes or 200 votes less than Me- Kinley. S.J. Bowser the candidate for poor house director received 6,129 votes, or 548 votes less than McKinley, with all the Republicans of the county supporting him. That there were 200 Democrats in Somerset county that voted for McKinley, for President, and then voted the balance of their ticket, no sane man will question. Alvin Evans received 6,365 votes, or 152 votes less than did the ccngressman-at-large, or 236 more votes than did Mr. Bowser for poor house director. That paper knew that it was making false assertions when it published the above, and did it out of pure meanness. The Independent wing of the Republi- can party in Somerset county gave Mr. Evans that support that was due him by the decree of the Dauphin county court, and the vote in this county proves every word we say and brands the Herald [The Bolters’ Bazoo] as a falsifier. This is plain language, but only plain language is forcible enough to show our contempt for such. “Yel- low Journalism,” and the newspaper business is no different from any other business; when you have a dirty job upon yours hands you must dress and use such things as are needed for the occasion. The Herald [The Bolters’ Bazoo] has maligned and cowardly abused the proprietor of this paper,and it would be beneath the dignity of the Republican to reply to that. This ar- ticle is given to our readers that they may see for themselves to what extent | that paper will carry things. Unjust Treatment. This is ideed an ungrateful and un- appreciative world. There is no other agency that does so much gratis for the best interests and up-building of a com- munity as the local newspaper, yet every town has within it some people who do not appreciate this. The editor labors with untiring zeal from one end of the year tothe other for the town’s good, for the improve- ment of its morals, its enlightenment and its commercial and business ad- vancement. He spends his money with home business men and loses no op- portunity to say a good word to others in the interests of their business. He does all this and much more in the in- terests of the community in which his paper is published, and as a general thing he is the poorest peid laborer in the vineyard, for some of these same business men who are directly and in- directly benefited by the local paper and its editor are always ready to give their job printing to the first faker from abroad who comes along and asks them for it. Others will send their or- ders to the city, and in either event they are patromzing those who never spend a cent with them or in any way help the country towns. And this is not the worst of it, for these same busi- ness men always rush to the local pa- per whenever they have a free notice to publish in the interests of their own business or the church to which they adhere. The same is done when they have a free card of thanks they waat to see in print, They also desire free personal mention of all their business enterprises and the social events of their families. At such times the local editor is all right, but they never think of how unjustly they treat him when they have a little printing to do. We have a case of this kind in mind right now, for in this very issue of THE Star we publish a notice by request that was handed to us written on a letter head that was printed by a black- leg printer from abroad. The notice is all right, as it contains something cal- culated to benefit the community. We are glad to publish it, but we will let the writer of the said notice decide with his own conscience whether he has been dealing justly with the home print shop when placing his orders for job printing with strangers who never spend a cent with him. All the people of this community,and especially those who from time to time call on the paper for free publication of things they are interested in, or those who are in business in this community, should not only be paying subscribers to the paper, but they should also give all their orders for job printing to the local paper. True, we may at times make mis- takes in regard to what should and what should not be published in these columns, but you would do the same if you were in this business. We do our duty as we understand it, and that’s all you could do. An editor is at least part human, and while we do not expect to pass through this world “on flowery beds of ease,” we would like at least to be treated as good as & faith- ful, hard-working horse or mule should be treated. re $1000 Worth of Good. A. H. Thurness, of Wills Creek Coal Co., Buffalo, O., writes: “I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trou- ble for years, passing gravel or stones, with excruciating pain. Other medi- cines only gave relief. After taking Forevy’s Kipyey Cure the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust, like fine stones, etc.., and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. FoLey’s Kip~xey Cure has done me $1000 worth of good. Take no substitute. Miller & Shaler. Candidates for Penitentiary. Last week several boys in this town stole some loaded shot shells and other goods from Zimmerman and Company’s racket store, and like most crimes that are committed, the theft came to light. The parents of the boys who committed the theft had the good sense to give the boys a severe lashing, and if the young offenders are wise they will profit by their painful experience and steal no more, for they were extremely lucky in keeping out of jail. In justice to the lads who committed the theft, we will add that some other lads who are considerably older did the planning and used some of the stolen goods. In other words, the younger lads merely carried out the orders of some older thieves—young fellows who have a reputation for thieving of sev- eral years’ standing. We believe there is some hope for the younger lads who figured in this case, but those who did the planning are getting to be harden- ed criminals, owing to the fact that their fathers have in the past been in the habit of trying to shield the boys and refusing to punish them for thefts they have been committing from time to time. There are too many fathers in this town who allow their boys to loaf about town, smoke cigaretts and be insolent and impudent to older people. They are rearing candidates for the peniten- tiary, and if the young candidatesdo not reform before it is too late they will surely be elected, for which their fath- ers will be largely to blame. Show us a boy who is permitted to loaf about town until a late hour every night, smoke cigarettes and be impudent and saucy to older people, while his father knows these things and makes no attempt to And the Same Can be Done at any Pennsylvania Grocery. The Frostburg Gleaner is authority for the statement that a Maryland gro- cer recently received a letter worded as follows: “Dear Sir:—Having been accustom- ed to spending twenty cents 2 day for whisky, I find by saving it I can order from you during one year 2 barrels of flour, 75 pounds of granulated sugar.25 pounds of corn starch, 125 pounds of macaroni, 60 pounds of white beans, 6 pounds of ground pepper, 1 dozen scrub brushes, 50 pounds of sal soda, 20 pounds of roasted coffee, 25 cans of tomatoes, 24 cans of mackerel, 50 pounds best raisins, 1 dozen packages of herbs, 40 pounds of codfish, 110 pounds of buckwheat flour, 100 pounds of oatmeal, 20 pounds of rice, 1 barrel of crackers, 75 pounds of hominy, 18 pounds of mincemeat, 1 dozen brooms, 12 bottles of machine oil, 20 pounds of Oolong tea, 24 cans of green peas, pounds of dried apples, 25 pounds of prunes, 40 pounds of laundry starch, 28 pounds of table salt, 20 pounds of lard, 10 bottles of maple syrup, 75 bars of soap, 2 gallons of chow chow, 1 ream of note paper, 500 envelopes and 2 news- papers for a year. I had no idea my drinking had been costing me so much, and believe now I can live better and buy more for my family.” To the foregoing THE Star just wishes to add that anyone who spends 20 cents a day for liquor (and that is much less than many poor working men of this vicinity spend for that pur- pose) can buy the same amount of pro- duce at almost any grocery in Penn- sylvania or elsewhere. There is no use denying that entirely too much of the average poor man’s earnings goes over the beer counter. The truth of this statement is self-evident, and close observers can see it every day, It is a sad truth that many poor men in this vicinity spend more for beer and whiskey than they do for provis- ons to feed. and clothe their wives and innocent little children. How often have the good people of this town been called upon by men with subscription papers, and asked to contribute money and food to families in distress—fam- ilies that would have needed no publie charity bestowed upon them, had it not been for the fact that the husband and father squandered most of his earnings for drink when he was well and able to work? Answer for yourselves. It is too common a thing in this community to see big, able-bodied men earn good wages and spend the greater portion of it for liquor. Then, when sickness or accident befalls them, they and their families become the objects of publie charity, and the very men to whom these good customers of the drinking bar owe bills for provisions, newspa- pers and other legitimate purposes are usually the first to be called upon for assistance. Of course we do not pretend to say all drinking men fail to provide for their families, or that they become subjects for public charity, but such is the case with a great many of them, and we have from time to time seen many examples of that kind right here in this community. In other words: there a whole lot of easy-going fellows around here that should make the same use of their 20 ¢:nts that the man does who wrote the foregoing letter to the Maryland grocer. _— JOSEPH J. STUTZMAN. Resolutions on His Death by the School Teachers of Somer- set County. Whereas, since it has pleased God in His infinite wisdom to remove from our midst Prof. Joseph J. Stutzman, who was the first Superintendent of the Somerset county schools, the or- ganizer of our public school system, and for many years an honored and revered member of our teachers’ corps, be it resolved: That he was a man of pure motives, noble aspiraticas and good Christian character; #4 7 TR worker for the advancement of Frey ufyoulture, and a staunch supporter of invedutual train« ing. eee. That he won for himself the esteem and admiration of his fellow-citizens™, Sen by the resolution and determination he manifested in dispelling the awful darkness of ignorance for the light of knowledge, at a time when opposition to intellectual development was most antagonistic, and that the tribute of a friend—"“He found the people illiter- ate; he left them educated”—receive our hearty endorsement. That we chrish the memory of this venerable man who spent his years un- reservedly in espousing the cause of education, for which he gave the last full measure of devotion, and that we commend his life as an inspiration to all those who seek to advance the standard of mental culture and adorn- ment. That we express our deepest sympa- thy to the members of the bereaved family in having the hand of affliction laid upon them, with the consolation that the loss which we sustain with them is his eternal gain. That these resolutions be placed on a page in our record inscribed to his memory; that a copy thereof be sent to the members of the bereaved fami- ly, and that they be published in the county papers. COMMITTEE, A Warning to Church Door Loafers, Ep1ror STAR: —For some time a num- ber of boys and young men have been in the habit of congregating about the church doors.on the pavements, engag- prohibit them, and we will show you a boy in every instance that is not worth the price it would require to tan his worthless hide and hang it on a picket fence to dry. Boys, we are not going to reveal your names this time, but if we hear of a few more of your thefts, we are going to publish your names and let the world know just who and what you are. Brace up and do better before you find out how hard, how extremely hard is the way of the transgressor. | Foley's Honey and Tar for children,safe,sure. No opigtss. ing in loud conversation to the annoy- ance of worshipers within. Some of these young people are thoughtless, some are ill bred, and some are malic-~ ious. Will you permit me to say to these young gentry that this nuisance must be abated? A hint to the thought- less and ill bred will likely be sufficient ; the law will surely be invoked against the malicious if they persist. A CHURCHMAN. The person who disturbed the con- gregation last Sunday by coughing, is requested to call on Miller & Shaler and get a bottle of FoLeY’s HoNEY ANE Tar. It always gives relief.
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