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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 6. 1900
NO. 4§.
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of Ten per cent.
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of Clothing, Over-
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From Dec.1, to 31st.
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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,
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bury at 8 a. m., arriving at
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riving at Mey
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ile at 2 p. m. Return-
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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
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. J, vineyards, was shipped
around Cape Horn before there
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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-
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Preserver of health.
Runs so light.
So easy to learn.
Sews so fast.
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» 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.
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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.
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$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.