Gove a ov a iN y i RE, ur a - re — a ee CER Somerset @ounty Star. VOL. X. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1904. NO. 1. et in the Habit when looking for anything in the line of Dress Goods, Gentlemen's and La- dies’ Furnishings, Umbrellas, Shoes and Slippers, Fancy and Staple Groceries, Patent Medicines and Toilet Articles, Watches and Jewelry, of calling on the Elk Lick Supply Co. ALL STANDARD PATENT MEDICINES 5 AT 20 PER GENT DISCOUNT! —=- We carry the famous “Ball Band” Rubber Boots and Lumbermen’s Gums, Snag-proof and otherwise, high and re low cut, lace or buckle. These are the only guaranteed rubber goods on the market, and the factory stands by every pair made. Prices right. ’ How Old is ANN? The North American's Unsolved Mystery: Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann? Best Mathematicians Acknowledge Defeat. Now don’t be reckless and jump into it head-over-heels. Collect your thouhts and take it calmly. First of all you will note its engaging simplicity It has an easy look, and it starts off with an innocence that is as pleasing as it is decep- tive. It has, during the past week upset the heads of thousands. . If it should cause your “dome of thought” to ache use How Old is Ann? 2 2 Miller's Headache Capsules. SPOONS, FORKS, KNIVES, Etc. have been made for over fifty years, steadily gaining in character of designs, ish and general popu- larity, but best of all, the good old ““Rogers’’ quality has been main- tained. It would be hard indeed to improve upon the wearing qualities first ex- hibited by this brand, and which have made “1847 Rogers Bros." the most famous of all silverware. Do not experiment by trying something that has not stood the test of time. Buy “1847 goods, which have a well-known and well-earned reputation, and you run no risk. There are other ‘‘Rogers.’’ The original and genuine has the prefix—*“1847.”" Sold by leading dealers everywhere. 9 i) Send to the makers for catalogue No.6 containing newest designs. TarzryaTioNAL SiLver Co., Successor to 7, MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, MERIDEN, CONN. the MODEL Gas and Gasoline Engines ARE THE BEST ON THE MARKET Because they are simplest in construction and most economical in fuel consumption re Positively safe Tae Somerset and Merchants Coal companies have given it out that from this time on they will not recognize any labor unions; that they .will run their mines to suit themselves, hiring whom they please and upon such terms as they see fit. The organized men, of course, will keep the mines of those companies tied up if they can. To a man up a tree it looks as though both parties to the controversy are up against a hard proposition. The gen- eral public hopes for an amicable set- tlement of all diffiéulties. Lou SyITH gives it out that J. G. Ogle will be a candidate for Congress against J. A. Berkey, announcing that Mr. Ogle has made a harmony deal with the Sculls and will be their can- didate. When interviewed upon that subject by the editor of Tur Star, Mr. Ogle denied that he could or would be a Scull candidate, saying: “To h—I1 with the Sculls.” It looks a little “spicions,” however, and if “Jack” wants to ride in the hearse instead of the band wagon, we know lots of fel- lows who'll help to put dirt and tin cans on his remains. re A F-i'c Junge Kooser last Monday granted to the Somerset Coal Company an in- Workers Union of America, and es- pecially District President Daniel Young, Vice President Charles L. Walker, Secretary and Treasurer Fran- cis J. Drum, National Board Member and Organizer Mark M. Smith, National Organizers Robert" Salmond, William Morgan, Thomas Haggerty, Barney J. Palmer, James Zelinski, John Blotneck and the officers of locals Nos. 606, 203, 810, 27, 88, 2731, 29 and the local at Grassy Run, this county, and all other persons from interfering with or mo- lesting the men now employed or here- after in the employment of the plain- tiff company in the peaceful pursuit of their labor. The order enjoins the de- fendants and the public generally from the use of opprobrious epithets such as “scab,” “blackleg,” ete., when speaking to employees of the Somerset Coal Company. The injunction is sweeping in its character, and if made permanent will make it very easy for coal com- panies to import all kinds of low trash into a community to run mines at star- vation wages. The editor of this paper is not enough of a lawyer to know whether there was sufficient cause shown by the Somerset Coal Company to make it obligatory or right for the Judge to grant their request, but we all know that the Judge’s order has lost him hundreds of friends among the laboring classes. Government by in- junction is a dangerous and unpopular policy. Tre Star does not approve of the lawless acts of the striking miners at Boswell, and while they should be made suffer the full penalty of the law for the riot which they incited on Mon- day, causing a number of men to be shot, we nevertheless hold that the coal companies must be held indirectly re- sponsible for most occurrences of that kind. The riots are usually started by ignorant foreigners who know little or nothing about our laws or usages, but who are imported by the big coal com- panies to run their mines at starvation wages. The “Hunkies,” as they are commonly called, soon become suffici- ently Americanized to demand Ameri- can wages, but being ignorant and vicious in a general way, they are ready to use the gun or stiletto upon the slightest provocation. Then the law must step in and protect property and lives with deputies, all of which must be paid for by the innocent tax-payers who have nothing in the fight. It is a damnable outrage upon the general public that such astate of affairs exists. In general our sympathies are with the labor organizations, but we do not up- hold them in all their acts. They often meddle into things that are none of their business, and they often do things that all fair-minded men condemn. But the fact remains, nevertheless, that labor organizations have become a necessity through the greed, tyranny and importation of cheap foreign labor by the big corporations. If the coal companies would employ only decent American workmen, and pay them fair wages, there would be few strikes, no rioting and no need of deputies. Coal companies should quit importing pau- per labor, and labor unions should junction restraining the United Mine. ers’ convention had “unanimously” de- unwise moye on the part of the miovers’ organization to order the strike at Bos- well, remains to be seen. The strike here is pretty generally regarded as a just one, but there is at least some doubt as to the wisdom of the strike at Boswell, and at all times and under all circumstances we believe it is unwise to employ the kind of people that started the Boswell riot. CROUP. The peculiar cough which indicates croup, is usually well known to the mothers of croupy children. No time should be lost in the treatment of it, and for this purpose no medicine has received more universal approval than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Do not waste valuable time in experiment- ing with untried remedies, no matter how highly they may be recommended, but give this medicine as directed and all symptoms of croup will quickly dis- appear. For sale by E. H. Miller. 2-1 CAN'T SHAKE OFF THE HABIT. The efforts of the Bolter’s Bazoo to create a public sentiment against the building of a new Court-house is quite in harmony with the reputation it has made and cannot shake off. Its per- sistent policy of deliberate misrepre- sentation has scored so many utter and humiliating failures that common sense, if not common decency, ought to suggest a more effective policy. The Bazoo wants an issue for politieal pur- poses. It wants something to snap, and snarl and fight over. It wants something with which it can open the clogged sewer of its venom, and it thinks it sees just what it is looking for in the new Court-house project. But the question in its natural state is not to the Bazoo’s liking. The truth is too tame. It must be twisted and warped to make it fit the Bazoo’s pur- pose. It has good reason to know that the misrepresentation and untruth in which it has wallowed for so many years is not pleasing to the newspaper readers of this county, but it does not seem able to shake off its old habit. The Bazoo planned a coup for the farmers’ institute. It sent a henchman into the institute with a query on the new Court-house project, and sent another to reply to the query. The whole performance was along the line of the Bazoo’s methods for creating political thunder. Buf the strong point of the coup came in a call for a vote on the new Court-house project, and that evening the Bazoo imposed upon the city papers with a report that the farm- clared against a new Court-house. Then came the Bazoo itself, declaring that the sentiment in opposition to a new Court-house was “exhibited in a most startling way at their annual in- stitute,” and that a vote was taken which would have been “unanimously in opposition to the project” had not one hand been raised for the affirma- tive. : Compare this with the facts that at the time the vote was taken there were from 200 to 300 persons in the court- room, and that of all that number there were not more than twenty persons who took enough interest in the ques- tion to vote. This was the extent of Bazoo’s coup. It was a measly vote, certainly, but it served the Bazoo with the germ for its falsehood, and that was all it cared for. The Standard does not know what the sentiment throughout the county is concerning a new Court-house, but it does know that the Bazoo lied about the sentiment as expressed at the farm- ers’ institute. The Bazoo delights in talking about the grievous burden a new Court-house would lay upon the taxpayer. It would picture the taxpayer bending under his load of Court-house taxation. But this is simply one of the bugaboos with which the Bazoo is wont to create pub- lic sentiment. Suppose the county were bonded for $250,000, with whieh to build a new Court-house, at 4 per cent. The in- terest for the first year would be $10.- 000. There are in round numbers 20,- 000 taxables in the county. Suppose the interest and $10,000 of the principal were paid the first year, any person ought to be able to see at a glance that the “burden” to the taxpayers would average one dollar the first year, and that that “burden” would be re- duced each year in proportion to the WE GET MAIN LINE. New B. & 0. Cut-Off Places Salis- bury on Main Line. A rumbr is now afloat concerning a new B. & O. cut-off, in which the Cum- berland Daily News says there seems to be some truth. It comes from rail- road circles that in the near future the B. & O. will build a short cut from Sal- isbury Junction. via Salisbury and Frostburg to the cut-off at Pinto. The new route will save many miles and a vast amount of money per annum in the operating expenses of both the Pittsburg division and main line of the B. & O,, says the Daily News. ag An Old Nurse of Forty Years Ex- perience. Well known among the best Fifth Avenue families in New York, among whom she has been their favorite nurse for all these years, says she has never used a wine that had such excellent effect on her patients as the Port Grape Wine made by Mr. Alfred Speer at Passaic, N. J. Where a dry wine is pref- erable she says Speer’s Burgundy is the best dry wine made. 1t Will Test the Libel Law. According to the Philadelphia North American the saloon men in many towns of the state are preparing to in- voke the terrors of the press muzzler on the active workers of the Anti-Sa- loon League. It has been the custom of the league in some places to publish the names of persons signing petitions for licenses, with the result that liquor dealers have been experiencing more and more difficulty each year in induc- ing citizens to affix their signatures to the applications because of the public- ity. Now the saloon men threaten that if the league prints the names this year they will have the signers sue for libel, alleging that “anguish of mind and body” is inflicted upon them. The state officers of the league say they have no fear of the Libel law and promise that the names shall be pub- lished as usual. In Somerset county the opponents of liquor licenses issue a paper called the Prohibition Era, annually. It makes its appearance shortly after all the petitions for licenses are filed and con- tains the names of signers and bonds- men on the petitions for license. The attorneys representing the petitioners, who act only in a professional way, also come in for a “roast.” We would like to see a test case come out of the publication of the names of license petitioners in this county. We do not care who signs or who does not sign the license petitions, but those who sign and are ashamed to have their signature exposed, merely ex- pose their own hypocrisy when they get angry about the exposure. That which a man fears to have exposed, he should let alone. Unfair to Other Contagions. The Frostburg Mining Journal evi- dently is not pleased with the laws governing smallpox outbreaks in Mary- land. Note what Editor Oder has to say in the two following paragraphs: “According to precedents established, the town should treat and board every imported case of typhoid fever or other contagious disease. This thing of let- ting in smallpox only free of duty and putting the board and medical tari¥ on afterward is distinctly inhospitable and unfair to the other contagions.” “Walter W. Wittig did precisely right in entering protest against board bill for smallpox patients. The towndidn’t import the disease and should not be burdened with its costs. Wanted— more protesting citizens!” There is much food for reflection in what the Journal says, and we think that there is much room for improve- ment in our own laws governing small- pox cases. It is pretty tough on a community to be overwhelmed by debt through criminal carelessness such as Frank Newman and “Bill” Segge have made Salisbury suffer by. Such peo- ple deserve no sympathy and no aid, but if justice were done they would be locked up. These remarks, of course, do not include the innocent members of the Newman and Segge families, and those of other families who had to suf- fer so severely through the dastardly actions of two “smart alecks,” one of whom lost a child through his own acts. Those who suffered innocently guard against becoming arrogant and unreasonable. We do wish to be understood that in this instance the 10¢ Absolutely reliable J Easy to run No complicated parts i Always ready for use | Fully guaranteed m 2 H. P. te 100 H. P. Made in sizes fr ners at Boswell were work- striking mi ing at starvation wages, or that they had been imported the Merchants + that purpos The reduction of the principal. If it should | be found necessary to pay 5 per cent. | interest the average “burden” to tax- | payers would be one dollar and twenty- | cents the first Standard. five year—Somerset L& OCR GREATEST BARGA have the sympathy of all. = .———— DOMESTIC TROUBLES. RIOT AT BOSWELL. Clash Between Striking Miners and Deputy Sheriffs—Seven Men Shot. : On Monday last a pitched battle t place at Boswell between some 4 ing miners and a number of deputy sheriffs placed at Boswell to protect; the Merchants Coal Company's prop- erty at that place Tbe trouble grew out of the arrest cf three Italian wom- en who had been trespassing on the company’s property, and the enraged foreign miners fired first, slightly wounding Deputy Sheriff Begley in the arm and face with a charge of shot. Députy George W. Saylor was shot with a 38-caliber revolver, the ball en- tering his body in the region of the heart. It is feared his wound will prove fatal. : Weighmaster John W. Long was struck in the calf of the leg by a bullet, and four of the strikers were also shot. One of the latter was hit in the stom- ach, and the wound is believed to be fatal. The other three were not wounded seriously. Sheriff Coleman was at once dis- patched to the scene with a large force of additional deputies, and at present order prevails. Many arrests have been made, and much litigation and expense to the county will follow. nt hy ha EVERY BOTTLE OF CHAMBER- LAIN’S COUGH REMEDY WARRANTED. We guarantee every bottle of Cham- berlain’s Cough Remedy and will re- fund the money to anyone who is not satisfied after using two thirds of the contents. This is the best remedy in the world for la grippe, coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough, and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency of a cold to result in pneumonia. E. H. Miller. 2-1 What the Brownlow Bill will do for the Farmer. There is a bill introduced in Congress by the Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, of Tennessee, and the Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, member of the Senate from New Hampshire, appropriating $24- 000,000 on the part of the National Government as National aid in building wagon roads. This money is to be ap- portioned among the States according to their population, except that no State shall receive less than $250,000. Each State receiving National aid from the Government must add a like amount to the sum received. This will, therefore, cause the spending of $48.- 000,000 for roads and will build from 6,000 to 7,000 miles of splendid road and will place in each State from 100 to 500 miles of fine hard road, which will not be affected by frost or spring rains and on which the farmer can haul the year round. It will be a great advantage to those living near it, but it will be a far greater advantage to the whole country because it will be a wonderful object lesson and will prove to everyone that a good, hard road which can be used the year round, no matter what the rains are, is a good and desirable thing; it will make everyone who sees this road and who uses it want more roads just like it, and it will cause more roads just like it to be built. While under the Brownlow Bill the building of 6,000 to 7,000 miles of splen- did road is a great thing, yet it seems to many that the greatest advantage of this bill is the wonderful object lesson which 100 to 500 miles of fine road will produce when built in every State of the Union. Girls, Is This a Faet? “Life” divides your maidenhood into five stages, as follows: At 17 she said: “T want a man who is ardent in all love’s ways and whose passionate devotion may never flag. He must be tall, broad-shouldered and handsome. with dark, flashing, soulful eyes, and, if need be, go to the ends of the world for my sake.” At 20 she said: “I want a man who unites the tender sympathy of a woman with the bravery of a lion. I don’t mind him being a little dissipated, be- cause that always adds a charm. He must be, however, accomplished to the last degree, and capable of any sacrifice for my sake.” At 25 she said: “I want a man who unites with an engaging personality a complete knowledge of the world, and if, of necessity, he happens to have a past he must al have a future; a man whom iO could It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic ruptures | rasior b look up to, and with whom st myself at all times without the test embarrass- c [ I can 1
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