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THE SOMERSE COUNTY TAR
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
REWSY [TENS GATHERED HERE AND THERE,
WITH AN OCCASIONAL JOKE ADDED FOR SPICE.
Willis Smith, of Pittsburg, is visiting
Salisbury friends, this week.
John Meager and family went to
Ocean Grove, N. J., this morning, for a
a#plash in the ocean waves.
Howard Meager has our thanks for a
subacription to Tur Star for P. M.
€onnor, of Wilsonecreek, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Beachy, of Mec-
Keesport, Pa., and Miss Lou Hartman,
of Pittsburg, are visiting friends in
Salisbury, this week.
Last month Policeman Thomas made
euough arrests to leave nearly $20 in
thie borough treasury after deducting
fis salary. He is proving himself a
good officer.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Sawhill, of Turtle
€reek, I'a., Miss Emma C. Sawhill, of
Allegheny, and Miss Lulu Miller, of
Claysville, Pa., are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. E. H. Miller, this week.
A little forethought may save you no
end of trouble. Anyone who makes it
a rule to keep Cnamberlain’s Colic,
€holera and Diarrhoea Remedy at hand
knows this to be a fact. For sale by
E. H. Miller. 9-1
Ernest Livengood went to Atlantic
City, N. J., Wednesday evening. Ed-
ward Haselbarth and Miss Alice Beal
will start for the same place this even-
ing. They will be joined by some other
“=——fricnds at Rockwood.
Last week the Meyersdale lock fac-
tory was so badly damaged by fire that
the entire plant will have to be re-
built. The loss was about $5,000, and
about 80 persons will be out of em-
ployment until the works can be re-
built.
“=~= Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Lichty, of
: Wellington, Kan., are visiting friends
‘ia this locality at present. Stewart
took unto himself a wife only a few
months ago, and THE Star wishes the
newly married couple a happy visit
among our people.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the United Evangelical church will
give, a lawn fete. Saturday evening,
- Aug. 13th, at the home of Robt. H.
Johnston. Ice cream, cake and other
refreshments will .be served. Every-
body is cordially invited.
Tne Star office will have a larger
"and more attractive line of calendars
" this year than ever before. Business
men should hold their orders until a
representative calls. We can save you
agents’ and jobbers’ profits, as we buy
direct from the makers and importers.
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Mr. Allison D. Johnson nnd family,
of Uniontown, are the guests of Mrs.
: Johnson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
{ J. Keim, on Ord street. They made
' the trip overland from Uniontown, ar-
i riving here on Wednesday. From
here Mr. Johnson will go to New York
‘ to buy a large stock of goods for his
furniture and undertaking establish-
‘ ment at Uniontown.
: Mrs. Rutk Compton, wife of Henry
: Compton, of Grafton, W. Va., died on
the 4th inst., aged 77 years, 11 months
.and 4 days. The bereaved husband
who survives her is a native of Elk
Lick township, this eounty. Six chil-
dren also survive the deceased. The
family will be remembered by many of
our older citizens, and they will all be
sorry to learn of Mrs. Compton’s death.
Mr. John Stotler, father of our neigh-
bor and fellow townsmar C. W. Stotler,
died at bis home in Meyersdale, early
Wednesday morning, aged nearly 76
years. The deceased was a highly re-
spected citizen, and lived in this locali-
ty ever since 1874.
reared near Cumberland, Md., and his
. remains will be taken to Cumberland
for burial. Mr. Stotler is survived by
He was born and |
his second wife, also by three sons and
threejdaughters, all children of the first
wife
The editor has been very ill all week,
suffering dreadfully with asthma and
. succession
he bas Deen unable to lig down, and all
the sleep he has been able to get in
that time was in a sitting posture and
by the aid of drugs, the effect of which
is almost as disagreeable as the dis-
ease. Under such circumstances it is
hard to edit a paper, and it is hoped
that the readers of THe Star will ex-
cuse the lateness of the paper going to
press, also its shortage of news.
hay r. Six nights in
Encouraging factors predominate,
Little definite increase is seen in the
distribution of merchandise, but de-
velopments of the past week promise
better things in the near future. The
moat influence for good is the brighter
crop prospect, while settlement of some
large labor disputes also improves the
trade situation. The advancing secur-
ity markets should encourage the rail-
ways to resume work on deferred ex-
tensions and the purchase of rolling
stock and other equipment. These
events will increase the demand for
commodities.—Dun’s Review.
When the empty coke cars were
placed for loading on Friday morning
at the works of the Davidson plant of
the H.C. Frick Coke Company, John P.
McCabe, yard boss at that place, dis-
covered on P. R. R. car No. 159024, a
complete and well-built robin’s nest at-
tached to the side of the car, and it
was found to contain three beautiful
blue eggs. Where the little bird is
that built it is 8 question. She must
have felt like Rip Van Winkle when
she found that her home and also the
ground that it was built on had both
disappeared in a night.—Connellsville
News.
Wednesday night some cowardly and
malicious scoundrel or scoundrels went
to the Meager mine and opened the
bottoms of three loaded steel cars, let-
ting the coal run out on the railroad
track. We presume that the strikers
will say that Mr. Meager did it himself,
for no matter what is done in the shape
of crime, the strikers say: “That was
only an operators’ trick to get people
down on ug, knowing that we will get
the blame.” However, the public will
lay the blame where it rightfully be-
longs—to the strikers. The strikers
cannot make the public believe that
the operators ever did or ever will do
anything to inconvenience themselves,
or destroy or damage their own prop-
erty. Every dirty trick the strikers do
adds one more nail to the coffin of their
organization and their lost cause.
Our borough “dads” have decided
that the Cow ordinance must be en-
forced. = Last Saturday night Police-
man Thomas impounded ten cows and
one horse. The owners had to pay
$1.75 a head before they were permit-
ted to take their stock out of the pound,
which was right, as the perambulating
town cow is a nuisance. We need an
ordinance that will keep cows off the
streets at all times, and we also need an
ordinance prohibiting hogs to be kept
within the borough limits. We mean
the four-legged kind, of course, and if
our councilmen will take the trouble
to make a tour of inspection over the
town some night when the airisa little
heavy, they will find that the stench
from hog pens in some quarters of the
town is something frightful. Salisbury
has got to be too large a town to toler-
ate the hog pen nuisance.
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DeWITT 1S THE NAME.
When you go to buy Witeh Hazel
Salve look for the name DEWITT on
every box. The pure. unadulterated
Witch Hazel is used in making De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, which is the
best salve in the world for cuts, burns,
bruises, boils, eczema and piles. The
popularity of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve, due to its many cures, has caus-
ed numerous worthless counterfeits to
be placed on the market. The genuine
bears the name E. C. DeWitt & Co,
Chicago. Sold by E. H. Miller. 9-1
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New Potato Worm.
A new potato worm, which is said to
be in a fair way to annoy the farmers
a8 much as the celebrated Colorado
beetle, has made its appearance in dif-
ferent parts of the State. The worm is
about an inch in length, of brown or
blackish gray, with a hard yellow head,
a dark saddle, and stripes longitudinal-
ly toward the tail. He bores into the
stalk near the ground and works his
way upward, the stalk falling over as
he weakens it by his boring. —Somerset
Herald.
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A SWEET BREATH
is a never failing sign of a healthy
stomach. When the breath is bad the
stomach is out of order. There is no
remedy in the world equal to Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure for curing indigestion,
dyspepsia and all stomach disorders.
Mrs. Mary S. Crick, of White Plains,
Ky., writes: “I have been a dyspeptic
for years; tried all kinds of remedies
but continued to grow worse. By the
use of Kodol I began to improve at
once, and after taking a few bottles am
fully restored in weight, health and
strength and can eat whatever I like.”
Kodol digests what you eat and makes
the stomach sweet. Sold by E. H.
Miller. 9-1
Confederate War Veterans May Ae-
cept Invitation of Fifty-fourth.
Last fall the veterans of the Fifty-
fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, held their annual reunion at
Winchester, Va, and one of the great
features of the oceasion was the nieet-
ing on friendly terms with the mem-
bers of Turner Ashby Camp, Confed-
erate \War Veterans, whom the boys of
the Fifty-fourth had opposed on the
battletield forty years before. In re-
turn for the courteous treatment then
accorded, the Fifty-fourth boys extend-
ed an invitation to the erstwhile “John-
nies” to come to Johnstown and attend
the reunion the coming fall as their
guests. Turner Ashby Camp has had
the matter of the invitation up at a
couple of meetings, the last time last
evening, and probably it wiil be ac-
cepted. definite action now depending
upon what arrangements can be made
for excursion rates, as the Confederate
veterans are not exactly running over
with cash. If the Confederates come,
they will appear clad in the famous
gray of Civil War days, and will pre-
sent a sight unusual north of Mason's
and Dixon’s Line.—Johnstown Tribune
A WARNING TO MOTHERS.
Too much care cannot be used with
small children during the hot weather
of the summer months to guard against
bowel troubles As a rule it is only
necessary to give the child a dose of
castor oil to correct any disorder of the
bowels. Do not use any substitute, but
give the old-fashioned castor oil, and
.gee that it is fresh, as rancid oil nau-
seates and has a tendency to gripe. If
this does not check the bowels give
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy and then a dose of cas-
tor oil, and the disease may be checked
inits incipiency and all danger avoided.
The castor oil and this remedy should
be procured at once and kept ready for
instant use as soon as the first indica-
tion of any bowel trouble appears.
This is the most successful treatment
known and may be relied upon with
implicit confidence ‘even in cases of
cholera infantum. For sale by E. H.
Miller. 9-1
Drunks Will be Heavily Fined.
At a recent meeting of the Somerset
Town Council a new ordinance for the
goyernment of the borough was enact-
ed, increasing very materially the max-
imum penalty of fines that can be im-
posed on violators. The ordinance im-
poses a maximum penalty of fifty dol-
Jars on persons who shall appear or be
found on any of the streets of the
borough in an intoxicated condition; a
like penalty can be imposed on persons
who shall engage in or promote any
quarrel or fight, or interfere with an
officer in the discharge of his duties.
Persons making Joud or boisterous
noise will be liable to a fine of thirty
dollars. Any person convicted under
any of the sections of the ordinance
who shall refuse to pay the fine impos-
ed, shall be liable to imprisonment in
the borough lockup not exceeding five
days, or in the county jail for a period
not exceeding thirty days.—Somerset
Democrat.
Salisbury needs an ordinance exactly
like the one Somerset has enacted, and
it should be rigidly enforced. Profane,
quarrelsome, drunken and impudent
rascals haye too much liberty in this
town, and their fines have been too low
all along.
PUTS AX END TO IT ALL.
"A grievous wail oftitnes comes as a
result of unbearable pain from over-
taxed organs. Dizziness, Backache,
Liver complaint and Constipation.
But thanks to Dr. King’s New Life
‘Pills they put an end to it all. They
are gentle but thorough. Try them.
Guaranteed by E. H. Miller,
9-1
Only 25c.
Druggist.
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Hoover Family Reunion.
The annual reunion of the Hoover
family will take place at Chestnut Hill
Park, Philadelphia, Pa., on Wednesday,
August 17,1904. The business session
will convene at 10:30 a. m., at the call
of the President, Hon. Hiram C. Hooy-
er, of Hooverton. Pa. Election of of-
ficers and the transaction of the gen-
eral business of the Association will
occupy the time until noon.
Atter dinner at 3:30 p. m., the regu-
lar afternoon session will be held. The
result of the year’s researches in gen-
ealogical lore will be rehearsed. In-
teresting family history as told in the
year’s correspondence with new-found
members will be read ; recent discover
ies have been made of distant conneec-
tions with new branches of the family
which will be of much interest to the
association.
The scope of the Hoover reunion has
broadened continuously during its
eight years’ existence. It has repre-
sentatives in almost every state of the
Union, and is receiving numerous ad-
ditions to its membership each year.
THE DEATH PENALTY.
A little thing sometimes results in
death. Thus a mere scratch, insignif-
icant cuts or puny boils have paid the
death penalty. © It is wise to have
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve ever handy.
It’s the best Salve on earth and will
| prevent fatality, when Burns, Sores,
Ulcers and Piles threaten. Only 25c,
at E. H. Miller’s Drug Store. 9-1
\Foley’s Honey ana Tar
for children,safe,sure. No opiates.
The Man Who Whittles.
Every community knows the man
who sits on a storebox and whittles,.
finding fault with his neighbor and
bragging how much better he could do
it than his neighbor. yet who never
goes out and does anything right him-
self? We have all seen that fellow.
He is the prototype of the Democrat-
ic party in polities. It has been so for
forty years, hand running, and now is
starting on n new lap. The platform of
the Democratic party, adopted at St.
Louis, shows conclusively that the
party is not ready to do anything; it is
sitting on the storebox abusing the
other fellows and bragging about what
it would do if it had a chance.
The Republican party began “doing |
things” in 1861. Every step of prog- |
ress this country has made since then
has been under Republican administra-
tion and Republican laws. The party
in 1897 had to go back and do them |
over again, after a brief Democratic |
administration had undone the labor of
years.
The Republican party in its platform
tells in plain language what it intends
todo. The Democratic party is not
specific, but intimates that it will work
wonders.
Now, if you had a job of important
work you wanted attended to, would
you give it to the fellow who has been
sitting on the storebox for forty years,
whittling, bragging and fault-finding,
or would you entrust it to. the other
fellow who has been “doing things,”
and doing them right, notwithstanding
the fault-finding and nagging of the
chap on the storebox?
The American people demand re-
sults, not talk. They like the man who
delivers_the goods. .The Republican
party is the party of action; it delivers
the goods. >
The bill-of-lading of the Republican
National convention specifies the kind
and quality of goods proposed to be de-
livered. They will be delivered in
good order and without shortage or
breakage.
And the man on the storebox will sit
and whittle and scold and brag for
another spell.—Ex.
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FALL TERM of the Mountain State
Business College, Cumberland, Md.
begins Sept. 5,6 and 7. 9-1
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AS RUSS SEES JAP.
Russia contains some of the most re-
fined and best educated people in the
world. It also contains some of the
most ignorant. and superstitious, this
class predominating, not for lack of
capacity, but for want of opportunity.
The depth of their ignorance and the
extent of their superstition, especially
as it relates to the present war, is tes-
tified to by a Russian himself, the edi-
tor of the Odessa News, who desiring
to find out the idea of the Russian
peasant concerning the Eastern con-
flict, made a tour of investigation
throughout a number of Russian “gov-
ernments,” among them those of Kursk,
Moscow, and Podolia. Among many
thousands of muzhiks with. whom he
spoke about the war, not one knew
what was going on ih the far East,
where Japan is, nor the cause of the
hostilities. “The reason we are fight-
ing,” said one peasant, “is because the
Chinese have revolted and we have to
put them down.” *You are mistaken,”
said this editor, “we are not fighting
the Chinese, but the Japanese.”
The muzhik laid his finger on the
side of his nose and thought. After a
moment of reflection, he observed, “To
tell the truth, I do not understand it.
The good God has willed it that we are
orthodox, but the Japanese are of
another persuasion. Have you, my
good sir, ever seen a Japanese?” When
the writer had assured him that he had
seen many, the good fellow grew angry.
“That is not possible,” he said; “one
cannot see a Japanese.” “Why not?”
“Because the Japanese is alittle insect,
which only lives in the night. Go and
look for them, and you will find them
hidden in the prickly thickets. It is
for this reason that the Japanese have
made such trouble for our poor sol-
diers. They crawl into their boots,
suck their blood, and when they have
filled themselves, the poor soldier's
soul has fled. Now, how can you fight
with such little pests as these?”
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Knowing that every enterprising, up-
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low a price that no farmer ®can afford
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The price of The New-York Tribune
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