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The Somerset
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- VOL. X.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY,JANUARY 5. 1905.
NO.51.
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Christmas!
Only a few m
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ore days left
for you to decide what
your selections for your friends willbe. 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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Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $9,000.
PER GENT. INTEREQ
J. L. BarcHus, President.
ALsrrT Reitz, Cashier.
DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay,
A.M. Lichty, F. A.
RRS RB IRRRE
Maust,
On Time
Deposits.
H. H. MavusT, Vice President.
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Pianos trom $125.00 up.
Organs from $15.00 up.
Sewing Machines from $10.00 up.
The asking for a catalogue, getting prices and
mean the saving of a good many dollars. Agents
PIANOS.
BUSH & GERTS,
SUPERB,
STRICK & ZEIDLER,
VICTOR,
. HOBERT M. CABLE,
KIMBALL,
SHUBERT,
OXFORD.
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looking over our stock may
for the following makes:
ORGANS.
FARRAND,
ESTEY.
KIMBALL.
SEWING MACHINES.
DAVIS,
WHITE,
STANDARD,
NEW HOME,
DAYTONIO,
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 Salisbury Feed Co.
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LEADERS IN
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 aaa Tar OneMinute CoughGure
cures colds, prevents pneumonias. For Coughs, Colds and Croup.
tle Earl
The famous
Foley’s Kidney Cure
makes kidoeys and bladder righ.
A Happy
New Year!
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With the close of
the fourth year of its
life, and the beginning
of its fifth under con-
ditions . of greater
strength and promise
than ever before in its
history, the
El Lick Dg toe
tenders its grateful
acknowledgements to
its many hundreds of
customers, and its sin-
cere wishes for a hap-
py and prosperous
New Year.
NEUROPATHIC.
TREATMENT WORTH $2.50 POSI-
TIVELY SENT FREE.
Send Your Symptoms to Dr. Franklin Miles,
the Celebrated Specialist, and He Will
Send You a Complete Special Treat-
ment for Your Case Absolutely Free.
Every person who suffers from weak
or diseased lungs, heart, liver,siomach,
kidneys, general debility, weak brain
centers or nerves, short breath, poor
circulation, headache, dizziness ; weak,
tainting, sinking or smothering spells,
pain in head, side. back or bowels, swol-
len ankles or limbs, ete., should try Dr.
Miles’ Neuropathic Treatment. It is
the newest and greatest treatment of
the age.
The Science of Neuropathy—curing
through the brain centers and nerves
—is rapidly revolutionizing the pres-
ent medical treatment. It isthe crown-
ing result of over a quarter of a een-
tury’s'study, research and experience.
1t often cures after from 5 to 20 phys-
icians have failed.
Let me send you free my book on
“Neuropathy.” ~ It will interest and
surprise you. It shows why so many
fail to get cured. It explains how and
why the ancients cured by charms,
amulets and casting out of devils, why
Christian Science is the science of the
unscientific; why Homoeopathic pa-
tients swallow their charms—sugar
pills and infinite dilutions—instead of
hanging them about their necks; it ex-
plaine why allopathic physicians are
constantly treating patients for the
wrong disease.
To prove the truth of these state-
ments I will gladly send you a course
of my Complete Special Treatment ab-
solutely free. All 1 ask is that you
shall send me a complete history of
your case. I will send any sick friend
my book and free offer. Address,
Franklin Miles, M.D, LL. B,, Dept. N,
413 to 423, Main St., Elkhart, Ind. 1-12
THIS
IS
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material and finest
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That's Why
it Sells.
THE SAME
with the
Waldo
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WALD pera. fr, Laplnaw, Mich.
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A beautifully illustrated 32 page booklet
wiil be mailed absolutely free to every read-
er of this paper who is interested in the
problem of mining gold for profit. I am
seoking this means to get acquainted with
you. Just a postal card is all that is neces-
sary. Address,
G. McCLELLAND, 1088 178k 8t., Beaver, Col.
WE believe that the new century has
really introduced a new era in the re-
public. We now have as president. of
the United States a man who typifies a
new statesmanship, based on manli-
ness, frankness, honesty, courage and
the virtues peculiarly resplendent .in
the American home; a man who honors
womanhood and regards the family as
one of the chief concerns of modern
life. The people have elected in Illi-
nois, Towa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Min-
nesota and several other states gover-
nors whose elevation to their offices has
resulted from their identification with
the principles represented in the per-
sonality of Theodore Roosevelt. We
have in Chicago and many other cities
civic organizations which stand boldly
for the redemption of our cities and
states from the reign of vice, greed and
corruption. We have in millions of
American homes men and women who
believe that citizenship is the highest
office in a republic and that they can,
by acting together, restore the republic
to its best traditions and elevate it to a
level of public and private virtue far
ahove any standards ever yet achieved.
DOMESTIC TROUBLES.
It is exceptional to find a family
where there are no domestic ruptures
occasionally, but these can be lessened
by having Dr. King’s New Life Pills
around. Much trouble they save by
their great work in Stomach and Liver
troubles. They not only relieve you,
but cure. 25¢, at E. H. Miller's Drug
Store. 2-1
FALL OF PORT ARTHUR.
The Russian General in command at
Port Arthur surrendered to the Japa-
nese under General Nogi, several days
ago, and now the plucky little Japanese
are in full control of what was con-
sidered by military experts an impreg-
nable system of forts. The taking of
the Russian stronghold was accom-
plished at a fearful cost of life to both
armies, and the fighting. which lasted
for many months, was of the fiercest on
record. The total loss to both armies
is over 100,000 men. Japan is now
practically in full possession of Korea,
and it is hoped that peace will soon be
declared, although Russia declares she
will fight the war to the bitter end
We believe, however, that the clumsy
Russian bear is doing a good deal of
bluffing, and we believe that the Japa-
nese will win the war in spite of Rus-
sin’s great strength, let the war last as
long as it will. Victory is not always
to the strongest nor the race te the
swiftest. We believe the Japanese will
win because they are in the right, and
because despotic old Russia deserves a
good licking on general principles.
SPEEDY RELIEF.
A salve that heals without a scar is
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. No rem-
edy effects such speedy relief. It draws
out inflammation, soothes, cools and
heals all cuts, burns and bruises.. A
sure cure for Piles and skin diseases.
DeWitt’s is - the only genuine Witeh
Hazel Salve. Beware of counterfeits,
they are dangerous. Sold by E. H.
Miller. re 2-1
Do We Owe Our Life to Boaz Trent?
According to reports brought te Tue
STAR office by several different persons,
Boaz Trent, of Boynton, claims to have
saved the editor’s life ; not because he
felt any compassion for the editor, but
because he pitied the large family of
small children dependent on us for
support.
Last week THe STArR made mention
of the fact that a lot of ‘dirty cowards
and criminals in Boynton have lately
been carrying on pretty high in this
town, and the paper denounced them
in unmeasured terms. On that account,
according to what is reported to have
been said by Mr. Trent, forty men (?)
in Boynton speedily assembled and
were about to make a raid on Salisbury
to kill the editor or do him great bodily
harm. Just in the nick of time, how-
ever, gallant old Boaz is reported to
have appeared on the scene and made
such a touching appeal for mercy that
the gang dispersed and decided to let
the editor live a few days longer.
The narrow escape we had, almost
takes our breath away, for be. it re-
membered that our breath never was
as strong, anyway, as that of the Boyn-
ton gang of thugs. But we hardly
know whether to thank Boaz or not,
for we haven’t written an obituary for
some time, and those forty desperate
men would have made excellent vie-
tims for us. Of course, we suppose
they would have killed and scalped the
editor, but we'll guarantee that any
time forty thugs come on a killing
mission there will be no forty of them
go back to Boynton alive, and that our
“gpook” will still keep THE STAR twink-
ling and write the obituaries.
If the old gang gets desperate again,
Boaz, just “egg them on” a little, and
don’t try to stop the yellow-spleened
hyenas. We were not born-in the
woods to be scared by such slimy rep-
tiles, and whenever forty such things
talk of going in a body to “do up” one
man, it is a plain case that every one of
the forty is a white-livered, yellow-
spleened coward and afraid to act
alone. Yes, lot them come; we won't
even ask for the protection of Laus
Thomas and his mace, and after it’s all
over, you will see a narrative in THE
STAR that will lay in the shade the
story of ‘‘Alababa and the Forty
Thieves.” ;
Anyway, we don’t think it is neces-
sary for Boaz Trent to intereede for
mercy for us, for we believe we have as
many friends in Boynton as he has.
Besides, we don’t believe that there
are forty fools and cowards in that
village, although we will admit that
there are some of that stripe, and, they
are well known and despised by every
decent person in this entire locality, in-
cluding Boynton,
8o, gallant Boaz,
Keep on your clothes,
Intercede not for the “Ed.”
We fear no foes,
Nor cowards’ blows
While our blood is warm and red.
COUGHS AND COLDS.
All coughs, colds and pulmonary
complaints that are curable are quickly
cured by One Minute Cough Cure.
Clears the phlegm, draws out inflam-
mation and heals and soothes the af-
fected parts, strengthens the lungs,
wards off pneumonia. Harmless and
pleasant to take. Sold by E. H. Mil-
ler. 2-1
Somé People are Ungrateful and
Have Short Memories.
Several disgruntled subscribers had
their subscriptions discontinued last
week, and by so doing they made
about as big a hole in our business as a
man could make by sticking his finger
in a bucketful of water and withdraw-
ing it. We are glad to say that the
loss has been more than made up by
new subscribers, and the old luminary
will continue to twinkle in the same
old way. But it is wonderful how nar-
row-minded some people are, and the
fellows who got their backs up last
week at some truths that were printed,
ought rather to be thankful for some
things that we didn’t print. One of
them has evidently forgotten how the
editor alone saved him from a criminal
slander suit that would have landed
him behind the bars. He has forgotten
how he had the editor intercede for
him with a respectable woman he had
slaudered and lied about. And you
just ought to see the letter that he
wrote to that woman, begging her not
to prosecute him, etc. It is mot too
late to give the publie the contents of
that letter yet, for it will prove rich
and juicy reading at any time. Just
keep your eye on THE STAR and your
ear to the ground, gentle reader, and
you will have lots of amusement in due
time. Then, too, we can “a tale unfold”
concerning a certain keg of wine that
was not “swiped” for communion pur-
poses, although the “swiper” was and
still isa hypocrite and liar in good
standing in a Christian church. We
know just where the wine went, and
how it went, and the particulars will
surprise people when they learn all the
facts.
One of the soreheads laid the blame
all to his wife for discontinuing his
subscription, just as all weaklings do
when they do a thing they are about
half ashamed of and feel a little weak-
ness in the spinal column. We think
the real trouble is the fact that the
fellow failed in a little political game
he tried cn last spring to rob the editor
of a little political honor that was
thrust upon us, and which we did not
seek.
Anather fellow got angry and quit
us because he hasn’t been doing his
duty as a police officer, and THE 8TAR
had the nerve to mention the fact.
We will give him more attention when
we have more time.
Now, we don’t care a rabbitskin for
the small amount of patronage that
these fellows have taken from us, but
we do object to the way some of them
are shooting off their mouths about us
to other people, and they will get just
the kinds of medicine they are making
necessary for themselves. If the sore-
heads insist on kicking and knifing us
in the back, they will all soon have
dents in their hats that they would
give anything to have removed.
WONDERFUL NERVE.
Is displayed by many a man endur-
ing pains of accidental Cuts, Wounds,
Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sore fest or
stiff joints. But there’s no need for it.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve will kill the
ain and cure the trouble. It’s the
est Salve on earth for Piles, too. 25¢,
at E. H. Miller's Drug Store. 2-1
A Trip to Pittsburg and Harrisburg.
Last Sunday morning we took the
“Duquesne” for Pittsburg, where we
met our friend 8, A. Kimmel, who went
with us to visit our little daughter at
the Edgwood Park school. ‘We found
‘the little girl well and hearty, snd we
took her to Highland Park, where we
spent a very pleasant afternoen.
While at the school we alo ‘met Wil-
liam Short, a very bright son of J. B.
Short, of West Salisbury. We found
William well and Lappy, and enjoyed a
long conversation with him.
From Pittsburg we went to Harris-
burg on Monday, where we met our
Senator Miller, Representatives Lam-
bert and Endsley, and many other po-
litical friends, Rome of whom we had
business with. We are under special
obligations to some of our friends down
‘there for courtesies extended. They
showed us a nice time, and we accom-
‘panied some of them to the Capitol
building, Monday evening, where the
Republican Senatorial caucus met in
session and nominated Hon. P. C. Knox
for United States Senator. The caucus
was very harmonious, and Mr. Knox
was nominated by acclamation. We
left Harrisburg early on Tuesday morn-
ing, as we did not have time to remain
for the opening of the Legislature.
While in Pittsburg we also met Miss
Lizzie Livengood, with whom we great-
ly enjoyed a half-hour’s conversation.
Our friend Kimmel expected to leave
there some day this week for Nevada,
and as his partner. J. E. Reitz, went
down to the city to join him on Tues
day, we suppose they have taken their
departure ere this.
Being absent from home several days
during the week, accounts for the late
hour of our going to press with this is-
sue of Tur Star.
CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REMEDY
ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS.
The fault of giving children medicine
containing injurious substances, is
sometimes more disastrous than the
disease from which they are suffering.
Every mother should know that Cham-
berlain’s Cough Remedy is perfectly
safe for children to take. If contains
nothing harmful, and for eoughs, colds
and croup is unsurpassed. For sale by
E. H. Miller. 2-1
Italian Miner’s Life Saved by
Stumbling.
[special to THE STAR.] St
Somerset, Pa., Dec. 31.—Stumbling
saved the life of John Montreno, an
Italian miner, yesterday. Montreno
had lighted the squib of a dynamite
charge, and was on the point of getting
his coat before running to safety, when .
he discovered that his coat was on fire,
presumably from a lighted pipe left in
his pocket.
He realized that three charges he
had in his coat were about to explode.
He started back toward the face of the
coal, when the sputtering squib re-
minded him that he was between two
fires. He stood for a moment horrified,
then decided to rush past the burning
coat. As he started to run he stum-
bled. Before he could regain his feet
all four charges of dynamite exploded.
Had he been standing he would have
keen killed.
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Hickory Timber.
Recently over 200 Chicago manufac-
turers met to consider the! question of
a supply of hickory timber for future
use. Hickory is an almost indispens-
able material in the manufacture of
buggies, carriages and many agricul-
tural implements, and for certain parts
of shop machinery. In fact, for a num-
ber of uses nothing has yet been found
which will fully take its place, so that
the question of a future supply is an
important one.
At this Chicago meeting three points
were prominently brought out. The
first is that the supply of hickory tim-
ber is being fast exhausted; second,
that it is being destroyed by an insect;
third, that there are but three states
from which manufacturers can now
draw supplies.
1t is the part of wisdom for land
owners to preserve what will soon be
one of the best paying products of their
farms.
Hospital Rumor Corrected.
[Special to THE STAR.]
Somerset, Pa., Dec. 31.—The report
that the Somerset Coal Company had
practically closed a deal for the pur-
chase of the Somerset residence of the
late Abner McKinley for useas a hos-
pital for employes of the Somerset and
Fairmont Coneolidated Coal Com-
panies was officially denied.
A charter has been taken out for a
general hospital to be located here, but
it will not be exclusively for employes
of the coal companies. Coroner S. J.
H. Louther, of the hospital company.
says a general hospital will be opened
in about a month, but the McKinley
residence was not considered.