THE SOMERSET COUNTY STAR
P. L. Livexcoopn, Editor and Publisher.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
NEWSY [TENS GATHERED HERE AND THERE,
WITH AN OCCASIONAL JOKE ADDED FOR SPIGE.
Arthur Emerick has been very ill
for a week or more.
Mr. Bernhard Lerch, of Washington,
D. C., spent Sunday and Monday with
the family of C. R. Haselbarth.
Mrs. E. B. Cardiff, and son Edgar, of
Johnstown, Pa., spent several days
with J. T. Jeffery and family, this week.
Bradstreet says that 84 per cent. of
the merchants who failed in 1903 did
not advertise in the newspapers. Now,
here’s a pointer for the merchants for
1904.
Hon. L. C. Lambert has Tur Srtar’s
thanks for a copy of the last edition of
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book. It is
a very valuable work of reference, and
just what is needed in every print shop.
Jacob and John Nedrow, will sell,
horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, im-
plement, household goods, ete, at their
place of residence, on the Salisbury
and Frostburg road, on Thursday,
March 31st, beginning at 9 a. m.
Iowa is contemplating a law making
it a misdemeaner for any able-bodied
man to refuse a job of work when of-
fered it. The building of new jails
would likely employ a number of such
men, if that law is enforced. —Ex.
The editor and his daughter Florence
are still confined to their beds. The
daughter’s condition is considerbly im-
proved, but not so with the editor, who
is suffering terribly with a sore throat
that so far has baffled the skill of his
physician.
Hon. P. E. Finzel, of Finzel, Md,
and H. C. Farper, of Sand Patch, Pa.,
were in our town, last week, selling
stock in the Piney Run Oil and Gas
Company. We honestly believe our
people should take hold of this, as we
think there is every assurance of suec-
cess.
It is =aid the fever epidemic in But-
ter, now considered about over, wis
the worst ever known in the annals of
that disease. During the last four
months there were 1,277 cases in the
town and 71 cases in the suburbs, a to-
tal of 1,348 cases. The disease visited
826 households, and the total number
of deaths thus far has been about 115.
And all this suffering caused by the
carelessness of a water company!
. No man can ever become great or
wise by accident, says an exchange. A
young man’s prosperity must depend
upon himself. If you are industrious
and frugal and if you set before you a
distinct object in life, you will succeed ;
but if you are indolént and improvident
and changeable, you will come to no
good. A man must have a purpose, he
must make up his mind what he means
to be or do, or he cannot reasonably
hope to succeed in life.
An exchange is rcsponsible for the
following statement: Edwards county,
Illinois, under prohibition, has not had
a saloon for five years. There is not
an almshouse or poor farm in the
county. It has the lowest tax rate of
any county in the state, and has $11,000
cash in the treasury. It has just built
and paid for a new court house. Not a
criminal case has been tried for years,
and the county has not gent a soul to
the penitentiary for thirty years.
Men employed on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad are being served with
notice, not officially, but in an equally
effective manner, that it were better
for those of their number who smoke
cigarettes to promptly discontinue the |
habit. This step has been taken, it is |
said, because of the effect cigarettes |
are said to have on the eyesight. The |
trainmen are being subjected to a very |
rigid examination, and those addicted |
to the cigarette habit must either dis-
continue it or leave the employ of the
road. Most of them are taking the for-
mer alternative.
Thursday the Berwind-White Coal
Company shipped to St. Louis, from
mines, a block of coal
which measures 2l5x2!'5x6 2-12 feet,
weighing 6,100 pounds and being equal
to about 83 bushels of coal. The block
was taken from the D vein, West [
Eureka mines No. 7, and before being
shipped was polished until its ebony-
colored surface reflected like a mirror.
Another equally beautiful specimen,
not so large as the Horatio shaft, how-
ever, which was taken from B vein of
the company’s mines at Windber, will
be shiped to St. Louis, and the two will
form a part of the Berwind- White Coal
Compuny’s exhibit at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition.—Punxsutawney
Spirit.
There are 11,507 children in this
county, according to the returns made
by the assessors, who must attend the
public schools a portion of the term,
says the Somerset Standard. Accord-
ing to the figures Meyersdale must be
recognized as the metropolis, having
857 school children, or 17 more than
Windber. Somerset borough has only
487. The number in the other districts
is given below: Addison, 284; Alle-
gheny, 234; Benson, 81; Berlin, 231;
Black, 227; Brothersvalley, 524; Cassel-
man, 44 ; Conemaugh, 406; Confluence,
228 : Elk Lick, 726; Fair Hope, 141;
Garrett, 187; Greenville, 179; Hoovers-
ville, 130; Jefferson, 198; Jennertown,
21; Larimer, 151; Lincoln, 184; Lower
Turkeyfoot, 226 ; Middlecreek, 149 ; Mil-
ford, 162; New Baltimore, 51; New
Centreville, 34; Northampton, 185;
Ogle. 79; Paint borough, 152; Paint
township, 420; Quemahoning, 259;
Rockwood, 184 ; Salisbury, 224; Shade,
231; Somerfield, 43 ; Somerset township,
545; Southampton, 133; Stonycreek,
451 ; Stoystown, 72; Summit, 763; Up-
per/Turkeyfoot, 242; Ursina, 87; Wel-
lersburg, 40.
their Horatio
WELL AGAIN.
The many friends of John Blount
will be pleased to learn that he has en-
tirely recovered from his attack of
rheumatism. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm
cured him after the best doctors in the
town (Monon, Ind.) had failed to give
relief. The prompt relief from pain
which this liniment affords is alone
worth many times its cost. For sale
by E. H. Miller. 4-1
Important Pension Ruling.
Commissioner of Pension Ware, with
the approval of Secretary Hitchcock,
recently promulgated the most im-
portant pension ruling that has been
issued in a long time. It directs that
beginning April 13 next, if there is no
contrary evidence and all other legal
requirements have been met, claimants
for pension under the general act of
June 27, 1890, who are over 62 years
old, shall be considered as disabled
one-half in ability to perform manual
labor and shall be enptitled to $6 a
month ; over 85 years. to $8; over 68
years, to $10, and over 70 years, to $12.
the usual allowances: at higher rates
continuing for disabilities other than
age.
HAPPY, HEALTHY CHILDREN.
Any child can take Little Early
Risers with perfect safety. They are
harmless, never gripe or sicken, and
yet they are so certain in results that
robust constitutions requiring drastic
means are never disappointed. They
cannot fail to perform their mission
and every one who uses DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers prefers them to all other
pills. They cure biliousness. Sold by
E. H. Miller. 4-1
The Somerset Camp Sit.
The camp site at Somerset is again
being looked over by officers of the
United States Army who have failed to
secure a camp site in New York State
for regular and State troops. The
New York sites near Schenectady and
in Orange county, near the Pennsyl-
yania line, had to be abandoned be-
cause of the high prices asked.
Major John G. D. Knight, Chief of
Staff at Governor’s Island, had inquir-
ed if the Somerset site could be secur-
ed for manuevers this summer, and
has been assured that 30,000 acres of
Iand could be had. It is estimated
that nearly 4,000 regular troops and
from 10,000 to 20,000 National Guards-
men will be present, the maneuvers
being held early in September and
lasting three weeks.
A meeting of property holders was
held at Somerset, recently, when a
committee was appointed to confer
with the officers who are expected to
visit the site soon.
DO YOU WANT STRENGTH?
If you want to increase your strength
you must add to and not take from the
physical. In other words, the food
that you eat must be digested, assimi-
lated and appropriated by the nerves
blood and tissues, before being expelled
from the intestines. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure adds to the physical It gives
strength to and builds up strength in
the human system. It is pleasant to
ste and palatable, and the only
1bination of digestants that will di-
gest the food and enable the system to
appropriate all of its health and
gth-giving qualities. Sold by E.
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MORE RIOTS.
Disturbances of strikers are not
nearly as grave as an indiyidual disor-
der of the system. Overwork, loss of
sleep, nervous tension will be followed
by utter collapse. unless a reliable
remedy is immediately employed. —
There’s nothing so efficient to cure dis-
orders of the Liver ar Kidneys as Elee-
tric Bitters. It's a wonderful tonie,
and effective nervine and the greatest
all around medicine for run down sys-
tems. It dispels Nervousness, Rbeu-
matism and Neuralgia and expels Ma-
laria germs. Only 50e, and satisfaction
guaranteed by E. H, Miller, Druggist.
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Teachers’ Institute.
Following is the program for the
teachers’ institute to be held in West
Salisbury, April 8th, 1904. =
Song.
Opening Address—Miss MeKinley.
Recitation—Miss Gaunt.
Essay—Miss Kimmel.
Drawing in Our Sehools—Mr. Leply.
Comments on the work of the past
term by directors.
Technical Grammar—H. 8S. Darr.
The Benefit of Visiting parents after
school hours—J. C. Poorbaugh.
The Teachers’ Work During the Sum-
mer—Miss Kutz, Miss Moser.
Farewell Address—Mr Johnson.
Progrom to be interspersed with
queries. COMMITTEE.
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TRAGEDY AVERTED.
“Just in the nick of time our little
boy was saved,” writes Mrs. W. Wat-
kins of Pleasant City, Ohio. “Pneu-
monia had played sad havoc with him
and a terrible cough set in besides.
Doctors treated him, but he grew
worse every day. At length we tried
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump-
tion, and our darling was saved. He’s
now sound, and well” Everybody
ought to know, it’s the only sure cure
for Coughs, Colds and all Luug dis-
eases. Guaranteed by E. H. Miller, the
Druggist. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial
bottles free. 4-1
The Wily Quaker.
A Quaker had his house broken into
by a burglar and several valuables
stolen. He did not inform the police,
however, but kept the affair to him-
self.
The following evening a neighbor re-
marked to him: “I am sorry to hear
of your house being robbed, Mr. Fry.
I hope your loss is not heavy?”
“Friend,” said the Quaker, “thou
must know the extent of my loss as
well as I can do since thou art the
burglar. I spoke not to a soul of what
had happened, and thou art the first to
mention it to me; hence I know thou
art the burglar and” will trouble thee
for my property.” He got it.
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COLDS CAUSE PNEUMONIA.
One of the most remarkable cases of
a cold, deep-seated on the lungs, caus-
ing pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Gertrude
E. Fenner, Marion, Ind., who was en-
tirely cured by the use of One Minute
Cough Cure. She says: “The cough-
ing and straining so weakened me that
I randown in weight from 148 to 92
pounds. I tried a number of remedies
to no avail until I used One Minute
Cough Cure. Four bottles of this won-
derful remedy cured me entirely of the
cough, strengthened my lungs and re-
stored me to my normal weight, health
and streagth.” Sold by E. H. Miller.
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Didn’t Like Changes.
“I’m a man,” said the old farmer to
the druggist after having purchased a
quantity of strychnine to kill off rats
—*“I’m a man who don’t like changes.
When I git home I shall say to the old
woman:
“‘Martha, here’s the strychnine to
kill off the rats, and you want to be
careful of it.’
*‘Where shall I put it?’ she will say.
“‘In the same old place—right along-
side the bakin’ powder. We've bin
keein’ it there for thirty years, and
you’ve never put it in the pie crust or
biscuit by mistake, but if we hide it
away upstairs or down cellar or out to
the barn, one of us will be sartin to
take it for epsom salts before the week
is out and git a heavenly hustle on
us.’ »
READ IT THROUGH.
’TWOULD SPOIL THIS STORY TO TELL IT IN
THE HEADLINES,
To use an eighteenth century phrase,
this is an “o’er true tale” Having
happened in a small Virginia town in
the winter of 1902, it is a story very
much of the present. Up to a short
time ago Mrs. John E. Harmon, of Mel-
fa Station, Va., had no personal knowl-
edge of the rare curative properties of
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. “Last
January,” she says, “my baby took a
dreadful cold and at one time I feared
she would have pneumonia, but one of
my neighbors told me how this remedy
had cured her little boy, and I began
giving it to my baby at once and it soon
cured her.
facturers of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy for placing so great a cure
within my reach. Icannot recommend
it too highly
favor. I hope all who read this will
try it and be convinced as I was.” F
sale by E. H. Miller. 4-1
or say too much in its!
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| the oats all right, but he had let the
| dynamite strictly alone.”
I heartily thank the manu- |
RYANT'S LOADED
HORSE
How is things?” said the storekeep-
er as the man from Job Hill saunter-
ed up to the counter and leaned ome
elbow on the showcase.
“Can't complain,” replied the Job
Hill man as he lit his cigar. “One day,
is jest about like another. Nothing
to feel very good about, nothing to
feel very bad about. Accounts jest
about balance, I reckon.”
“Anything startling out in
rural districts!”
man.
“Nothin’s fur as I know. Every-
thing’s purty quiet.” Then the man
from Joe Hill smiled as if he had sud-
denly remembered something pleas-
ant.
“Ever have anything to do with a
loaded horse?’ he asked the store
man after a pause.
“What's a loaded horse?”
“l can tell you about ome better
than I can tell you what it is,’ ex-
plained the Job Hill man. “You know
Contractor Ryan? Well, he is exca-
vating for the new electric road cross-
ing over at the Corners, and some-
times when I get to wishing I was a
millionaire and work seems a sort
imsult to one 0’ my peculiar make-up
I like to go out there with Billy and
draw inspiration from the spectacle
of patient toil. It soothes me to
see the ‘Eyetalian’ jerk loose the red
Jersey clay and fling it hither and
yon. But specially I like to hear Bil-
ly Ryan swear, not for the profanity
that's in it, mind you, but because
nobody can do it like Billy can. Ever
hear Billy swear? He's a wonder.
*Tain’t cussin’ with him. He don’t
mean anything bad, not a word of it.
It’s jest a work o’ art and shows what
Billy might ’a’ done if he had had the
advantages some have.
“I rode out to the Corners with
Billy the other day, and as we drove
up we saw the cart horse, Mike,
munching at something in the fence
corner.
“ ‘What's Mike eating? Billy shout-
ed to the gang in the trench. Those
fureigners gave one glance at Mike
and then, quick as scat, every one 0’
them ducked his head. Billy gave a
little verbal exhibition of about thir-
ty-seven redhot words and demanded
to know what was up, and then the
foreman called out that Mike was into
the oats, and that two sticks of dyna-
mite were also in the oats, where
they had been put for safe keeping.
Then it dawned upon Billy and me
that Mike was slowly filling his sys-
tem with oats and destruction, and
we took to the woods.
“I never see a horse become such
a feature of the landscape as Mike
did in the next minute or two. But
it didn’t worry him any, and he went
right on munching the oats jest as if
nothing was about to happen there
any instant at about the rate of a
mile a minute. !
“Billy and I watched him from be-
hind trees, while the gang crouched
in the trench and waited for the con-
cussion, We had never seen a horse
concuss, and we didn’t know jest how
to time the thing, and, say, you'd
ought to jest heard Billy pay his re-
spects to that horse! Billy yelled at
him and tried to attract his attention
and lure him away from his fate, but
Mike only looked at us and smiled
horselike, and went on with the oats.
Then we tried to frighten him away
by throwing our hats and coats up
in the air and whooping like Indians.
But we didn’t want to frighten Mike
s0 he would do anything rash. If he
had not got to the powder yet, we did
not want him to jump and set his
hoof on it. If he had eaten it, we
didn’t want him to jar himself in any
way. What that animal needed was
rest and perfect quiet.
“Billy was for throwing a shovel at
Mike, but I said no, you don’t want to
hit him with anything hard; it
wouldn’t be fair to him. I wanted
Billy to go and lead Mike over to the
next place they were going to exca-
vate and then coax him to lay dowm
and take a roll. I said he would ex-
plode anyway, and they might as well
turn that enormous power to some
useful end as to let it go to waste.
But Bill said he didn’t care to lead
Mike, His idea was jest to let him
browse around and fellow his own in-
clinations and go off when he got
ready.
“Suddenly Mike appeared to feel
gay. He cavorted, threw up his heels
a couple of times, and trotted over to
the trench. He came right up and
gazed down upon us. I tell you it was
a scary minute round there for us,
and don’t you forget it. Mike seemed
to be considering whether he would
throw himself into the work, as it
were, and scoop out that trench or
trot off into town and blow up the
main street. Then he decided on the
latter. 2
“It was a great day for Job Hill
when Mike entered town. Everybody,
turned out. Wherever Mike went the
people turned out and went in the
other direction. Then we got into
town and Mike's glory came to a sud-
den end. Billy collared him and led
him away to the music of what you
might call the most adequate, satis-
fying. and thrilling cussing you ever
heard. Nobody could ’a’ done the
subject up so completely and covered
all the points of it in detail like Billy
did. The fact is that when we came
to look into that bag Mike had eaten
the
continued the store
PERKIN WARBECK.
The density of population in Berlin
is about the same as in Rome. Mum-
ich affords five times as much room
for each inhabitant as those two
cities, and Cologne twice as much as
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Snvings Department...
«Three Per Cent. Interest Paid on Deposits.»
Drafts on all parts of the world.
Accounts of individuals and firms invited. :
Deposits sent by mail and all correspondence given prompt and carefisl at-
tention.
This bank is the only United States depository in the George’s Creek Valley.
Bank open Saturday nights from 7 to 10 o’elock.
OFFICERS:
Marx Wineland, President. Roberdeau Annan, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
Marx Wineland, Duncan Sinclair, Robert R. Henderson.
Timothy Griffith, Roberdeau Annan.
Men's Shoes!
Spring Styles now on sale. We are sole
agents, in Salisbury, for the celebrated
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Investigation will satisfy. Come in and
see for yourself. All the new styles in
HATS AND CAPS
for Spring are here. .
BARCHUS & LIVENGOOD.
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Yes, but that is “done gone” now, but my stock of Holiday
and Winter Goods is not all gone yet. Now, lookout, for these
prices will make them go, you bet :
Men’s 25-cent Fleece-lined Undershirts, while they last, at
19 cents.
Men’s 50-cent Flece-lined Overshirts, while they last, at 39c.
Men’s 50-cent Winter Caps (good values) now "39c.
Men's 25-cent all wool Socks, now 19¢c.
Men’s $1.69 and $1.48 Wool Sweaters, good quality, now 1.53
and 1.34.
Boys’ 89c. Wool Sweaters, good quality, now 79c.
: Boys’ 25¢. Cotton Sweaters, little beauties, now 19c.
Men's colored Cotton Work Shirts, former price 25, 35 and
45c., now 19, 29 and 39c.
Boys’ colored Cotton Every-day Shirts, price 25c¢.,fnow 19c.
Children’s fancy Headwear, reduced 10 per cent.
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Knit Goods, reduced 10 per
cent.
Iron and Wood Toys reduced 10 per cent.
All other lines kept up to the standard and lowest cash prices.
My lines of Glass and Queensware are complete, and prices
defy competition.
I have a lot of Men’s best quality Duck Coats reduced 20 per
cent. Also a lot of Canvas and leather Leggins at a bargain.
I am not going to carry goods over from one season to anoth-
er. They must get out to make room for seasonable goods. This
is why I am
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It will pay you to buy now, even if you don’t need the goods
until next winter. .
My immense 40-foot china and dish counter will, after Jan
1st, 1904, be run as a bargain counter, and you will always find
it loaded with bargains in useful and ornamental goods from one
cent to one dollar in price, but double that in value.
Thanking my many friends and patrons for their liberal
patronage in the year just past, I solicit acontinuance of the same
for the new year, wishing one and all a happy and prosperous
b. AHI
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