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Gounty Star,
VOL. X.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1904.
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NO. 49.
Merry—
Only a few more days left for you to decide what
your selections for your friends will be. Come and
look over our line of Ties, Handkerchiefs, Table-
cloths, Towels, Pillows and Collars.
In the Jewelry Department we have Watches,
Rings, Hat and Stock Pins, Bracelets, Watch and
Neck Chains.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year to all.
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Corner of Grant and Ord Sts., Salisbury, Pa.,
Headquarters For Holiday Goods,
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We would suggest that you come and make your se-
lections now, and secure the choicest pieces at your lei-
sure. We mention a few items of interest :—
" Rugs, Cushions, Blankets, Comforts, Bed Spreads,
Shawls, Fascinators, Aprons, Table, Lunch and Tray
Cloths, Towels, Napkins, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Muff-
lers, Silk and Satine Petticoats, Fur Scarfs, Children’s
Fur Sets, Umbrellas, Suit Cases, Toilet Cases, Albums,
Perfumes, Dolls, Silverware. ete.
A Matchless Selection of Fancy
==(hina and Glassware!
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Of Nightly Used and Second-Hand High-rade
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$425.00 Mahogany Ellington Upright Piano.............. $275.00.
375.00 Mahogany Kimball Upright Piano.................. 250.00.
375.00 Walnut Shubert Upright Piano....................... 250.00.
340.00 Walnut Howard Upright Piano....................... 215.00.
350.00 Mahogany Foster Upright Piano................... 200.00.
350.00 Mahogany Wesser Bros. Upright Piano............ 200.00.
325.00 Mahogany Howard Upright Piano...... Sat 215.00.
Number of Square Pianos from $15.00 up.
Organs And Pianos!
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OF SALISBURY.
: Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profirts, $9,000. :
On Time
: ] . Deposits.
: J. L. BARCHUS, President. H. H. Mavusr, Vice President. :
3 ALBERT REITZ, Cashier.
. 2 DIRECTORS:—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, £
: A.M. Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy.
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Pianos trom $125.00 up. Organs from $15.00 up.
: Sewing Machines from $10.00 up.
» T king f catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock may
ot fore Food EE othr Agents for the following makes:
PIANOS. ORGANS.
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FARRAND,
BUSH & GERTS, ESTEY,
SUPERB. KIMBALL.
STRICK & ZEIDLER, SEWING MACHINES.
* VICTOR, DAVIS,
HOBERT M. CABLE, WHITE.
KIMBALL STANDARD,
! NEW HOME,
SHUBKRY, DAYTONIO.
OXFORD. GOLDEN STAR.
We have engaged the services of C. E. LIVENGOOD, Piano and Organ
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.
West Nalishury Feed Co,
¢ LEADERS IN
Wlour, feed And Fine Groceries.
Our goods are bought as low as money can buy them, and they are kept
right, clean and fresh, and are sold at a small margin of profit.
Highest Market Prices Paid For Country Produce.
By generous and honest dealing we hope to be given a fair share of your
patronage. Give us a trial.
West Salisbury Feed Co., West Salisbury, Pa
. Foley’s Honey ana Tar OneMinute Gough Cure
cures colds, prevents pneumonis.
+ Os Early Risers
The famous littie pills.
For Coughs, Colds and Croup.
Foley’s Kidney Cure
150.00 Farrand Piano Case Organ............................. 100.00
125.00 Kimball Piano Case Organ............................ . 65.00
30.00 Bridgeport Walnut Organ.............................. 50.00
75.00 Chicago Cottage Walnut Organ..................... 45.00
100.00 Peerless Chapel Organ, Oak.....................i.... 45.00.
175.00 Shultz Chapel Organ, Oak............................ 50.00.
. We also have the following used and second-hand Sewing
Machines: White, Vib. and Rot., box and drop head. Standard,
Vib. and Rot., box and drop head.
Datonia Superb, Domestic, etc.
REICH & PLOCK, MEYERSDALE, PA.
Wheeler & Wilson. Davis,
makes kidaeys sad bladder right.
Christmas
FOR THE—
Boys & Girls.
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Toys and Games and
Books galore.
Nicknacks,
ties, too
Novel-
numerous to
mention.
Something for every
child, whether studious
or mischievous, sedate
or wild,
Something to make
a heart leap for joy this
merry Christmas time.
EI Lick Drug Store.
Weak Kidneys
Treated Free.
|A Celebrated Specialist Will Send
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Treatment Absolutely Free.
I make this offer for the benefit of
thousands all over the country who can-
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To prove to you, what I already
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and scientific method of treatment, I
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$2.50, specially adapted to your case,
upon request. If you desire I will also
send you my Book and many remark-
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Send me your name and complete ad-
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Address: Franklin Miles, M. D., LL.
B., Dept. KX 418 to 428, Main St., Elk-
“TF”
If it Were Not for This or for That,
Things Might be Different.
Once in a while we hear some striker
or strike sympathizer remark: “If it
hadn't been for some of the county
newspapers declaring the strike a fail-
ure, the business men of the region
selling goods to strike-hreakers, others
renting them houses, furnishing board,
ete., the union would have won the
strike long ago.” But that “if” has al-
ways been a bothersome thing, and
nine times out of ten 1t is well that it
is. To THE Srar it looks about as fol-
lows:
If merchants who have goods to sell
would have preferred to keep the goods
or sell to strikers on time, instead of
selling them to working men for cash,
it would have helped the strikers for a
tithe, but the merchafit would have
teen the Sheriff sell the remainder of
his stock in due time. Besides, the
coal companies can supply their men
with all the merchandise they need, if
they see fit to do so.
If people who have houses to rent
would have preferred to see their
houses empty to being occupied and
bringing in good interest on the own-
ers’ investment, it might have helped
the strikers for a time, until the com-
panies built scores of houses of their
own, all over the region, just as they
did down at the old Shaw mine. But
sensible people do not build houses to
have them stand unoccupied, or to
have the renting thereof subjeet to the
wishes or orders of the miners’ union
or any other union.
If our preachers would have refused
to visit the families of strike-breakers,
or to allow them to come to church, as
many of the strikers have tried to in-
duce them to do, it might have pleased
the strikers very much, but it would
not have pleased God, who has com-
manded the seriptures to be preached
to all mankind. Besides, such a course
would have been more detrimental
than helpful to the strikers.
If all the newspapers of the county
would have joined the Meyersdale
Commercial in publishing silly lies in-
stead of the truth pertaining to the
strike, they could have added to their
subscription lists a whole lot of names
that are not worth the space it would
require to write them on. Nearly all
the bad accounts on our books now are
against strikers whose battles THE
8rAr fought to vietory during the
strike of 1898-9, men who applauded us
vigorously at that time, promising us
their loyal support, etc. We have the
patronage of most of them yet, but the
saloon-keepers have been getting their
money, and but few of them have ever
paid us a cent.
There are a whole lot of other “ifs”
that could be mentioned, but it is not
necessary. The truth of the matter is
simply this: If all the men and wom-
en composing the general public would
have made the kind of fools, monkeys
and idiots of themselves that the
migers’ union, or rather a lot of its
members demanded, the fool-killer
would have annihilated the whole com-
munity long ago, and that would have
settled the striké and left no one to
“chaw the rag” over it.
But the fates have decreed other-
wise, and the coal companies have long
ago won the strike without the assist-
ance of the fool-killer. The public was
in sympathy with the strike until bull-
dozing, intimidation, incendiarism and
attempted murder were resorted to,
and then respectable newspapers and
the general public turned the other
way.
The defeated and their sympathizers,
instead of chewing over the “ifs” al-
ready enumerated, should think over
how things might have turned out if
murder had not been attempted; if
company property had not been de-
stroyed ; if intimidation and bulldozing
had not been resorted to by the strik-
ers; if the actions of union men had
not been so despotic and arbitrary be-
fore the strike came; if the strikers
would have accepted 60 cents per ton
when Mr. Meager offered it to them.
These and more of the same kind of
“ifs” are the things that have been re-
sponsible for the undoing of the union,
and many of its own members know it
and freely admit it.
Some miners seem to be of the opin-
ion that every man and his business
ought to be subject to the commands
and demands of the miners’ union in
times of strike. They have no right to
such tyranny, and we resent such im-
pudence, such insolence and such in-
famy with every drop of our blood, for
it is blood that came from the land of
William Tell. We shall take orders
from no man as to how our private
business shall be conducted.
We have ked in the mines, too,
wor
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te know that when the miners are get-
ting their price, they care not a straw
what wages people in other lines are
making. When things are moving
smoothly with them, they sre not lay-
ing down their tools and helping farm-
ers, mechanice, merchants, printers,
farm hands and others to get better
prices. Should they be asked to do 80,
they would laugh long and loud. But
note the difference when they are on
strike. Then everybody is supposed to
take orders from them and do their
bidding. If the business men and
other artisans and laborers would obey
their commands, the entire business of
whole communities would be wrecked
and the miners would not be benefited:
in the least.
If the striking miners had not gobs
bled up about all the work that had
heretofore been done by the general
day-laborer, and gobbled it up at re-
duced prices in many cases, the strikers:
would have more sympathy and have a
better claim to consistency and the ex-
elusive use of the word “scab.” That
is another “if” that must not be for—
gotten. But if—
AN EMERGENCY MEDICINE.
For sprains, bruises, burns, scalds:
and similar injuries, there is nothing so-
good as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It
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 treatment.
Sold by E. H. Miller. 1-1
“THe strike is not broken, nor have
any of the men in the vicinity of Coal}
Run as yet gone to work,” announces
the Coal Run local union through the
Meyersdale Commercial. Partly true
and partly false. The strike is broken
long ago and the companies have al}
the men they need. Many applicants
for work are being turned away, and
among the refused applicants are a
good many strikers. That many
miners are still striking is a fact, and
we regret to say that many of them
will have to keep on striking, for other
men have taken their places and are
filling all requirements. To publish
“Stay Away” notices will do the strik-
ers no good, for that game was worked
to the limit all through last spring and
summer. That only helped to bring
more men into the region in quest of
work. Men out of work elsewhere
would read the notices, and then they
knew that they could get work here,.
which they did, and they declare that
they have been making bigger wages
here than they ever made anywhere
else. Some of them have worked in
regions that are contributing to the
strike in this region, and they have
learned that the contributors in most
regions are unable to make half as
much money as can be made here at
55 cents per ton.
Col Geo. A. Pearre to Contest Mary-
land’s Vote in the Electoral Col-
lege—Declares Republieans
Carried State.
Colonel George A. Pearre will enter
protest in Congress to giving Mary-
land’s vote to Parker.
In a ststement given out by Colonel
Pehrre, Monday last, in Washington, he:
"Nas this to'say:
“It is my intention when the elector-
al votes of the states are canvassed in
Congress next February to arise and
protest against the acceptance of the
electoral vote of Maryland,” said Rep-
resentative Pearre to-day.
“I think the program of our party to
abandon the contest against the action:
of the state canvassers in giving the
certificates to seven Democratic elee-
tors is a grave error. We ought to-
have made the fight, and I propose to
do what I can to bring about an inves-
tigation of the counting of the returns.
I am convinced that the state went Re-
publican, and I intend to see if we
can’t prove it. When the vote of
Maryland is called I shall challenge it
and give my reasons, and I shall ask
that Congress appoint a committee to-
investigate the matter.
“Ithink the leaders of our party
ought not to have laid down. We owe-
it to every Republican in the state who-
voted the Republican ticket on election
day to at least try to get justice for
him. A man has a right to cast his
vote as he pleases, and he hag an equal
right to have that vote counted as he
cast it. What a pretty spectacle it is
to claim that we Republicans carried
the state, and then tamely submit to-
have it stolen from us! I for one won't
submit. If there is any way of having
the election investigated I shall try to
bring about an investigation, and if it
accomplishes nothing more, it will at
least prove to the Democratie machine
in Maryland that there are some Rew
publicans in Maryland who will not
permit themselves to be cheated with
and we have w i there long enough
impunity.”
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