is. this YUIS. AILY CARS, EEN- I NS— iptive house d full OAD cern- from days dat ntain Ind. 3aden icago ce to “with y up- days n all ets to d-trip 1d St. with nt of > run Iphia, Park- Louis. e run rand Louis. §,-0b- ining -and - fice, UTH. eable nding unny th. ckets 1 the cipal 'H at rains, cured Bal~ -29 ry The Somerset @ountp Star, our Next New Suit should be bought from us, if you are looking for prop- er fit, latest styles and great- est values. We are agents for two of Chicago's largest made-to- measure clothing houses A. E. Anderson & Co. and Ullman & Co. - Now is the time to fit your- self in a new and nobby suit : for fall and winter. We are displaying the largest line of sam- | © ples we have ever had, and all fits are guar- pn YO Pr HER RNR ET = i Deposits. A.M. Lichty, F. A, Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy. OF SALISBURY. ® J. L. BarcHus, President. H. H. MavusrT, Vice President. E PA A I RE IRE RR RRR LE RRAR RB RD RRR Es Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $9,000. ALBERT RErrz, Cashier. J PER GENT. INTEREST cposte IR SRR SR AR IR IR ONE BOTTLE CURES. ‘Rheumatism in any stage or form can. be cured, not temporially, but permenantly. This is not an ordinary patent medicine that we have to offer you, nor is it one of these fabulous new dis- ou read about in every paper you pick up; but it is the pre- scription of an eminent English Sur- geon, and is a medicine that has been used in different localities for the past 50 years. Call at the Elk Lick Drug Store for further information, and ask for a little booklet entitled “A Treaties on Rheumatism.” coveries that [= | AOE LO BA R SIA DINO HML E £ 3 4 ATR LOOK -:- HERE! "Pianos trom $125.00 up. Organs from $15.00 up. Sewing Kachines from $10.00 up. ‘The asking for a catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock mean the saving of a good many dollars. Agents for the following makes: may PIANOS. ORGANS. . FARRAND SH & GERTS, ’ 2 BUM B ESTEY. SUPERB. KIMBALL. STRICK & ZEIDLER, SEWING MACHINES. VICTOR, DAVIS, HOBERT M. CABLE, ya oe NDA 1, ’ KIMBALL, NEW HOME, SHUBERT, DAYTONIO, OXFORD. GOLDEN STAR, We have engaged the services of C. E. LIVENGOOD, Piano and Organ v Tuner and Repairer, and orders for work in that line left at the music store «will receive prompt attention. : Somerset County Agents for Estey Pipe Organs. : Cecilian Piano Players. REICH & PLOCH, CENTRE STREET, MEYERSDALE, PENNA. BEA present duty: Subscribe for THE STAR. Saved By Neuropathy. The Best Physicians Had Given Him Up, But Neuropathy Cured Him. Mr. Henry A. Groce, one of the pio- neer residents of Elgin, Ill., was saved from a terrible and lingering death from dropsy and heart disease by means of the wonderful discovery Neuropathy, which teaches that derangements of the brain centers are the principal cause of many diseases. He says: “It is about five years since I took Dr. Miles’ Neuropathic Treatment for dropsy and heart disease. My condi- tion was extremely critical. I experi- enced great difficulty in breathing and could not lie down without smothering. My limbs and body were badly swollen and I became very weak. I had been under treatment by the best physicians of Elgin, and was growing worse every day. They could do nothing to relieve me, and, in fact, gave me up to die. As soon as I consulted Dr. Miles he showed me that my doctors had failed to understand my case and said he could help me. It was wonderful how goon relief came. It was almost in- stantaneous. I was soon a well man. The cure was truly wonderful consider- ing my age, which was seventy at that time. I am now seventy-six years old, and able to enjoy life.” Mr. Groce is only one of the many hundreds of remarkable cures effected by Dr. Miles’ discovery regarding the “Brain Centers.” The Doctor’s repu- tation as a specialist is national. His Heart and Dropsy Cure is a marvel Every person afflicted with disease of the heart, stomach, kidneys, nerves or dropsy. which often complicate each case, should send the Doctor a descrip- tion of his case, and he will send vou one thousand testimonials, his Book, and $2.50 Treatment free. Address, Franklin Miles, M. D., LL. B,, Dept. N, Grand Sanitarium, Elkhart, Indiana. “QLE” PETE LIVENGOOD. The Star Accused of Giving Union- ism its First Black Eye—The Ed- itor Both Critictised and Praised. Our old friend Griff Thomas discussed the coal strike with the editor of THE STAR, several days ago, in all its phases. He admitted that the paper has been uttering much truth concerning the strike and strikers, but he says we have been altogether too hard on the union, and he declared that had it not been for the attitude of this paper, the strikers would long ago have won the battle. THE Star has given the union its first awful black eye, says Mr. Thomas, and yet Blatherskite McCul- lough has been declaring in his public speeches that THE STAR has no influ- ence. Who ig right, Mr. Thomas or Blatherskite McCullough? The lop- eared coyote from Michigan, E. 8. Me- Cullough, has been contending all along that TRE STAR isn’t worth notic- ing, and that it couldn’t hurt any cause. Yet. it has been bothering him so much that it has been the burden of many long-winded harangues he has been in- flicting upon a long suffering public, and the paper has been a thorn in his flesh for many moons. Mr. Thomas discussed the subject with us in a gentlemanly way, and we believe he was honest in his criticism of the course we have taken. In fact we believe Mr. Thomas to be an honest man, as we have always found him that way in all the dealings we ever had with him. We are in no way offended at what he said, but we believe he ig in error in many things pertaining to the strike. With Mr. McCullough. how- ever. it is a far different case. He has been deceiving the strikers, mismanag- ing the strike, catering to all that is low and beastly in men, telling them one thing while he was believing another, etc, ete. In fact he has been working a graft in his own interest, to the detriment of the poor strikers, their wives and their children. He has been fostering desolation, want and business stagnation in thie region, and in our opinion Le deserves deportation by foreible means. Many of the strik- ers believe just as we do, but they hate to admit it. But THE STAR is in no sense an oper- ators’ paper, and neither is it a foe to organized labor. We have no fault to find with a miners’ union that lives up to principles of honor, decency and re- spect for lw, order, fairness and com- mon sense. There i= but one brand of unionism that we have assailed, and that brand we will fight as long as we are able to hold a pen or utter a word. We have reference to the brand of unionism that applies the torch; that tries to murder men and horses; that tries to win by dynamite, threats, in- timidation and criminal utterances; that deadbeats newspapers that were always friendly to the miners; that makes use of the boycott ; dictates with whom men must speak or refuse to speak ; the kind that wishes dire things to employers; gloats over accidents that befall non-union miners ; the kind that blacklegs men in other occapa- tions at wages from $1.50 to $1.75 per day, and at the same time hoots “scab” and “blackleg” at the men who make from $3.00 to $10.00 per day at mining 55-cent coal. We do not believe that the constitu- tion and by-laws of the United Mine Workers of America teach or uphold the kind of unioniem we have just out- lined, but we do know that it is the kind that has been dominating affairs in this region, and the kind that is be- ing upheld and defended by =a lot of unprincipled leaders. We have been after the spurious or eut-throat brand of unionism, and if we have given ita black eye. we are proud and pleased quer the fact. As we have often said before, some of the union men of this region have always acquitted them- gelves as men of decency and honesty, and we are sometimes accused of fight- ing their interests, too, because they belong to the same organization that the other element belongs to. We cannot see it that way. but we will ad- mit that the innocent must often suffer with the guilty, and if decent strikers suffer in this region, the sin cannot be laid at Tue StTar’s door, but at the door of the bad element in the organi- zation, the element that has brought about such a condition of affairs as to make it the duty of the decent news- papers of the region to assail it. Many a union miner in this region sorely regrets that he did not take THE StAr’s advice and go to work long ago, for many have been trying to get their old places back only after it was too late, when the places were filled by other men. Many candidly admit their mistake, giving Tre Star due credit for the sensible course it has taken, while others waste their breath from morning till night, these days, cursing “Ole” Pete Livengood. The fact is, unionism has proven a failure and a detriment in this region. It is not the fault of unionism, in the true sense of the word, but of misman- aged and outraged unionism by a large element of its own members. It has been demonstrated that the lawless, senseless. ignorant element has been dominating the union in this region, and when such is the case, all honest, (God-fearing, law-abiding citizens should abandon it. And, after all, it is a question, too, whether the man who steers clear of all unions, save the union of himself and his family, is not in the long run following the safest, wisest and best paying policy. After all, does not unionism have a tendency to obliterate individuality? We some- times think it does, and without indi- viduality a man is a mere animal, a flunky, a nonentity. Of course, THE BrArR and ite editor will be cursed by some people when they read this article, but we will lose no sleep on that account, as we are sometimes praised, too, as will be seen by a letter which some unknown friend wrote in a very neat hand and shoved under the door into our office hallway. If the author will disclose his identity. we will consider it a favor, and promise to say nothing. Following is the com- plimentary and anonymous screed. for which we feel duly thankful: To “OLE” PETE LIVENGOOD. 1 hear you “cussed” fregnently and fiercely, but I have never yet heard you “cussed” by a man who ameunts to a “cuss.” As. was said of good old Grover Cleveland, I love you for the enemies you have made and the fear- lessness you show in expressing “your. opinions, which, according to my care- ful observation, I nearly always find to be correct. I am neither a poet nor the son of a poet, but I. cannot refrain from submitting ‘the following lines, which you are at liberty to publish or consign to the waste basket, as you see fit: : ; There are some folks in Salisbur-ee, Whom their true duties never see. They never do the things they should. But “cuss” that “Ole” Pete Livengood. They “cuss” and rave at him, forsooth, Because he always prints the truth. For that they’d kill him if they could, That sturdy “Ole” Pete Livengood. But “Ole” Pete never gets desmayed, The truth to print he’s not afraid. He keeps right on a-sawin’ wood, While fools “cuss” “Ole” Pete Liven- good “QOle” Pete sometimes is pretty gruff, And uses language rather rough, But be fairer, no man ever could, Than that same “Ola” Pete Livengood. He’s fearless, truthful, up-to-date, He hustles early, hustles late, And aims to do the things he should, The much abused Pete Livengood. His paper's sprightly, full of vim, And our old town owes much to him. True men respect him as they should, That sturdy “Ole” Pete Livengood. “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,” Was written by great Bryant's pen, And on that plank Ter Star has stood Since founded by Pete Livengood. The truth sometimes, of course, does hurt, And makes men howl who're doing dirt ; But if men act as act they should, They need not fear Pete Livengood. SALISBURY. FLK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1904. Tnn enforced resignation of Burgess Michael Lowry, owing to failing health, is a matter much to be regretted by his many friends. Burgess Lowry, like all other office-holders, had his friends ‘and his enemied, and while Tar STAR did not always agree with the views and decisions of the Burgess, yet the editor has ever been one of his staunch personal friends. We give him credit for being a conscientious man, and we believe that he performed all his of- ficial duties without prejudice or malice toward anyone. His official record, too, is rather above the average, and Tun Star heartily concurs in the reso- lutions passed by the Town Council upon his resignation, which will be found elsewhere in this paper. ONE of the finest tributes to the eouniry newspaper that has ever been rendered, was contained in a recent ad- dress by Senator Chancey M. Depew before the New York Press Association. Mr. Depew said: “I pay my respects to and express my admiration for the country newspaper and the country editor. His lines are not cast in the places of the great and profitable or- gans of the metropolis, whose profits are reckoned often by the hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. But the country editor lives in and is a part of his community. His virtue is not so much in what he prints as in what he refuses to print. He could easily destroy the peace of the eom- munity by admitting to his paper the seandals and gossip of the neighbors, but he stands a censor and & guardian of public morale, and I know of no eonditions under which the public is appealed to in a certain measure where the utterance isso free from egriticisin as the general tone of the country newspaper.” ArTER you have been married a little while, you are going to find that there are two kinds of happiness you can have—home happiness and fashionable happiness, says a knowing writer, You can buy a lot of home happiness with a mighty small salary, but fashionable happiness always costs just a little more than you are making. You ean’t keep down expenses when you’ve got to keep up appearances of being some- thing you are not. You’re in the fix of the dog chasing his tail—you can’t make both ends meet, and if you do, it will give you such a crick in the neck that you won’t get any. real satisfaction out of your gymnastics. You have to live on a rump steak basis when you're rlone, go that you can appearto be on 3 quail-on-toaet basis when you have company. And while they are eating your quail and betting that they are eold storage birds, they’ll be whisper- ing to each other that the butcher told their cook that you lived all last week on a soup bone and two pounds of ham- burger steak. Then when you've sweated along at it a dozen years or so, you will wake up some morning and discover that your appearances have degeived no one but yourself. A man who tries the game is a good deal like the fellow who puts a fancy vest over a dirty shirt—he is the only person who can't see the egg spots under his chin. Ler us give thanks and rejoice with exceeding great joy, for surely the mile lennium ig coming. Six months ago every man who dared to dig coal, even in a country mine, was called a “scab” by the strikers, and men who bought eoal at the country mines, or hauled coal therefrom, or supplied mine tim- bers thereto, were called the same. But now things are different, for rome moons ago our old friend and college chum, Her Von Frederick Diehl, start- ed to dig coal for J. C. Balliet—not that he needed the work, but perhaps in or- der to keep some non-union man from “geabbing.” And now we can spring another surprise by announcing that another dear old friend and college chum, “Mistah Edgah Showaltah,” is also digging coal for Mr. Balliet. Now, wouldn’t that grab you? Why, feller citizens, it’s enough to draw tears from an Egyptian mummy and cause the stars in heaven to bump together for joy to behold such a grand old eaptain of industry as “Mistah Edgah” going to work. Another hopeful sign of peace and good will among men is the fact that our old friend and college chum, Bill Kyle, is again speaking to the people whose hearts he almost broke for months by passing by in silent contempt. Things are again getting back to their normal eondition, and it is indeed pleasant to know that umion men ean’t “scab,” no matter at what price they work, nor what jobs they snatch away from the men who have never interfered with the work claimed by the ynion miners at the company mines. That is one nice thing about belonging to the miners’ union, for a union man can do any old thing with impunity, while a non-union man can NO. 46. hardly breathe without being calleda “seab.” if, while breathing, he is looking" in the direction of a company mine. Consistency, iz as much of a jewel asi ever was, but let us be thankful thet the millennium is dawning. AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE. For sprains, bruises, burns, scalds and similar injuries, there is nothing se good as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. EB soothes the wound and not only gives instant relief from pain, but causes the parts to heal in about one third the time required by the usual treatmest Sold by E. H. Miller. 1-L Court House Corner Stone Laying.. Last Wednesday was a great day im: Somerset, for it was the day on which: the Corner Stone of the new court house was laid with appropriate cere- monies. The following program wes carried out: : Prayer—Rev. Hiram King, D. D. Anthem—'‘Praise Ye the Father” Church Choirs. Address—Hon. A. H. Coffrath, Pres.. Somerset Co. Bar Association. Music—Somerset Concert Band. Address—Hon. W. J. Baer, Ex-Pres. Judge 16th Judicial District. Anthem—"Ye Shall Dwell ia Land”—Church Choirs. Address—Hon. W. H. Koontz. Addresse—Hon. Francis J. Kooser,. President Judge. Reading list of articles deposited im Corner Stone—A. L. G. Hay, Esq. Placing box and laying Corner Stone—W. F. Wood, Supt. for contract ors, W. 8, Anderson, Supt. stone woek.. Hymn—*“America”—Church Choire. Benediction—Rev. Geo. W. Knepper... The addresses were very impressive, and the music was fine. The weather was ideal and the attendance very large. 1t was a fine program well car- ried out, and we only regret that we are- unable to publish the addresses. Some of the newspapers of the county were not treated right in this respeet. The manuscripts should all have beea sent to the American Press Associatiom, with instructions to make and supply to each of the county newspapers a se€ of stereotyped plates, containing the speeches in full, also a picture and plans of the new court house. And the county should have paid the expenea thereof, too, although the publishes would not have objected to paying for the service themselves. PLACED IN THE STONE. Among the articles and historical data placed in the corner stone were the following: History and directory of county, rules of court, roster of pub- lic school teachers, newspaper seconnts of county centennial celebratiom, names of members of bar, names of as- sessors and collectors, list of voters:and gchool children, election returns, roster of Somerset churches and secret so- cieties, copies of county papers, meme— script of prayer and addresses af corner stone laying, roll of company YT, Fifth. Regiment, Pa., Vols., photographs of court house officials and lawyers, pho~- tographs of Somerset Coal Company’s Elk Lick mine, roster of Somerset band and church choirs, official and bank forms, county order for one dollar, ete. While the Corner Stone was beiag lowered to its place by means of a large crane, the Somerset Concert Band played national airs, and the big crowd cheered lustily. On the stone were: appropriately and artistically engraved the names of Hon. Francie J. Kooser, President Judge; Samuel Poorbaugh, Joseph Horner and Joseph B. Miller, County Commissioners; John C. Ful- ton, Architect; Caldwell & Drake, Contractors; W. F. Wood, Supt. for Contractors; A. F. Dickey, Supt. for County. the: Cumberland Docter Says The Star is Right on Vaccination. Several days ago we reeeived a letter- from a doctor in Cumberland, Md. who writes as follows: Ep1tor SOMERSET COUNTY STAR :— Some time ago I read an articlein am» exchange—an article copied from youe- paper—on vaccination in Illinois. Ek: suppose the article came frem youe- pen, and I heartily endorsé it. Too much cannot be said against that filthy practice—vaceination. In Utah itis a crime for any doetor to vaccinate: ws child, either with or without the coe sent of the child or its parents, on the plea that the child cannot defend itself against the poisoning process, and @m later life may have to suffer the conse- quences of the poisoning of its little body. Respeetfully Yours, Dr. C. Frise. 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