REST C POSITS. careful at- k Valley. ‘ashier. ndersomn. ppropriate s illustrat- e will be Xperience. w, it will styles for son by the st unlim- have your asured so npossible ; 1 you aver- e the new Ray DALE, PA. 1e and see — hh. ® tc new room ain, will be y. Y, vigr. to obtain the ur town. - $96.00. JGGY GO0., lo. [iddletown,O. m—— UDGE! on receipt of not satisfied st reasonable nd SQUEEZ- » pieces, like o the coarsest ume ease An re’s no doubt ove its merits d, Ohio. ney and Tar is Colds from g the bowels. Le w T°" “Ey gy * » « » OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Below will be found the names of the -various county and district officials. Un- less otherwise indicated, their addresses are, Somerset, Pa. President Judge—Francis J. Kooser, Member of Congress—A. F. Cooper, Union- town, Pa. State Senator— William C. Miller, Bedford, Pa. Members of the Assembly—J. W. Endsley, Somerfield; L. C. Lambert, Lambertsville. Sheriff —William C. Begley. Prothonotary—Charles C. Shafer. Register—Chas. F. Cook. Recorder—John R. Boose. Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike. Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. District Attorney—R. E. Meyers. Coroner—Dr, 8. J. #. Louther. Commissioners—Josiah Specht Kantner; Chas. F. Zimmerman, Stoyestown; Robert Augustine, Somerfleld. Solicitor—Berkey .& Shaver. Jury Commissioners—C, R. McMillan, Lis- tonburg; W. J. R. Hay, Lavansville. Directors of the Poor—Chauncey F. Dick- ey; Aaron F. Swank, Davidsville; William Brant, Somerset, R. F. D. No. 5. Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost; Clerk, C. L. Shav- -@r. Superintendent of Schools—D. W. Seibert. Chairmen Political Organizations—F. M. Forney, Republican; Alex. B. Grof, Demo- cratic; R. M. Walker, Berlin, Prohibition; Meat Market! Take notice that I have opened a new .and up-to-date meat market in Salis- bury, one door south of Lichliter’s store. Everything is new, neat and clean, and it is a model in every respect. I deal in all kinds of Fresh and Salt Meats, Poultry, Fresh Fish, ete. I pay highest cash prices for Fat Cat- tle, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry, Hides, ete. | GUARANTEE 10 PLEASE YOU and want you to call and be con- vinced that I can best supply your wants in the meat line. CASPER WAHL, The Old Reliable Butcher. The Publisher’s Claims Sustained UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS The Publishers of Webster's International Dictionary allege that it * is, in fact,the popu- lar Unabrid thoroughly re-edited in every detail, and vastly enriched in every part, wit the purpose of adapting it to meet the larger 34 severer requirements of another genera- ion," e are of the opinion that this allegation most dearly and accurately describes the work that has been accomplished and the result that hasbeen reached. The Dictionary, as it now stands, has been thoroughly re- edited in every detail, bas been corrected in every part, and is admirably adapted to meet the larger and severer requirements of a generation which demands more of popular philological knowledge than any generation that the world has ever contained. It is perhaps needless to add that we refer to the dictionary in our judicial work as of the highest authority in accuracy of defini- tion: and that in the future as in the past it will be the source of constant reference. CHARLES C. NOTT, Chief Justice. LAWRENCE WELDON, JOHN DAVIS STANTON J. PEELLE, = CHARLES B. HOWRY, 2 ud The above refers to WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY THE GRAND PRIZE (the highest award) was given to the Interna- tional at the World’s Fair, St. Louis. GET THE LATEST AND BEST You will be interested in our specimen pages, sent free. ‘G.& C. MERRIAM CO., PUBLISHERS, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. DR. C. BOUVIER’S combines these purposes. It is just as beneficial to the kidneys and bladder, as it is exhilarating and delightful in its immediate effects.: Better for you than any medicine. DR. ©. BOUVIER'S SPECIALTY CO. INC. LOUISVILLE, KY. On All Bars— Take No Qther ovis Early Risers The famous little pilis. Kodo! Dyspepsia Gure Digests what you eat. THE “HOME RULE?” Oil and Gasoline Can. SAFE-CLEAN-NEAT-CONVENIENT. = SIZE, 5 GALS. e can, a close fitting Hinged Cover over the top and are ran, ana evaporation This is the only Ideal Family Can and is needed in every home where Oll or Gasoline is g from Cans, and the an- that leak and waste contents. Thisis y the HOUSEKEEPER’S A FRIEND. BY) my HOUSEWIFE SHOULD READ The Joy of Home Making.” Send to us for a freé copy at once. THE WINFIELD MANFG. €0., Warren, 0. DO NOT ACCEPT SUBSTITUTES. THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE GOUGH SYRUP Cures all Coughs and She eg assists in expelling and Colds from the . ney System by gently moving the bowels. A certain cure for croup and ; \ whooping-cough. wy (Trade Mark Registered.) KENNEDY'S vaxamve HONEY TAR PREPARED AT THE LABORATORY OF E. O. DeWITT & ©O., OHICAGO, U. 8. A. SOLD BY E. H. MILLER. Baltimore & Ohio K. R. POPULAR EXCURSIONS TO WASHINGTON, April 2 and May 3. ONLY $5.70 "ego FROM MEYERSDALE, PA. TICKETS GOOD 10 DAYS. For Tickets and additional informa- tion call on or address Ticket Arent, 3-29 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. PANY) Pp” 4 aet acquainted with SMITH'S gIf SMITHS MAGAZINE and you are strangers we will send you the magazine three months free that you may get acquainted. q SMITH'S is the biggest illus- trated magazine in the world— 170 pages of reading matter and pic- tuses, the same sizé page as the big standard magazines like Harper's and Century. : q SMITH'S is made up of the est of everything—best stories that can be obtained, best illustra- tions that clever artists can draw, and the best special articles, written by writers who know their subject thoroughly and write as entertain- ingly as they are instructive. q SMITH'S also prints every month a score or more pretty portraits, in colors, of beautiful women. Taken all in all, there is no better magazine than SMITH'S— in fact, none nearly as good, no matter what the cost. rr q Write to-day. A postal will do. Address Dept. F, Smith’s Magazine, 85 Seventh Avenue, New York City A Conscientious Judge. Justice Wills, who has just retired from the British High Court of Jus- tice, once made a decision which he afterward concluded was not fair. He sent to the unsuccessful litigant his personal check for the amount involved in the decision. : TORTURE BY SAVAGES. “Speaking of the torture to which some of the savage tribes in the Philip- pines subject their captives, reminds me of the intense suffering I endured for three months from inflammation of the Kidneys,” says W. M. Sherman, of Cushing, Me., “Nothing helped me un- til I tried Electric Bitters, three hot- tles of which completely cured me.” Cures Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Blood disorders and Malaria; and re- stores the weak and nervous to robust health. Guaranteed by E. H. Miller, druggist. Price 50c, 4-1 A Present Need. Frost Cream for Chapped Hands, Face and Lips; 15 and 25c. bottles at the Elk Lick Drug Store. tf FOR SALE!—Two nice Building Lots in Beachy Addition No. 2 to Salis- bury borough, together with about 2000 feet of lumber and a small one-story building erected on one of the lots. For terms apply to Harvey Tedrow, Elk Lick, Pa. 3-8 Ask for Free Calendars and Alma- naes at the Elk Lick Drug Store. tf DRESS SHIRTS !—The finest line that ever came to town, at Hay’s Depart- ment Store. Prices, 50c., 75¢. and $1.00. tf C. T. Hay, Manager. Headley’s Choice Chocalates and Bon Bons in 14, % and 1-1b. boxes, always on hand, and fresh, at the Elk Lick; Drug Store. ? tf Mr. Hiram C. White, the well- known fashionable tailor, of Chambersburg, will come to Salisbury about March 8th, with a choice line of new Spring Suitings. Satisfaction rendered at reasonable prices. 1t Hot Water Bottles of all kinds, from $1.00 up, at the Elk Lick Drug Store. tf SHOE BARGAINS!—We have the biggest and best stock of Men’s, Wom- en’s and Children’s Shoes in town, and we are offering special bargains in Shoes at this time. Call and save money. Hay’s DEPARTMENT STORE. tf Chest Protectors from 25c. up to $2.00, at the Elk Lick Drug Store. tf WANTED AT ONCE !—Two good girls, either white or color- ed, for kitchen work, at Hay’s Hotel. Address D. I. Hay, Elk Lick, Pa. tf Crude A Column Thoughts Home Dedicated As They 2 to Tired Fall Circle | Mothers From the As They Editorial Join the Pen: — Depa rt- Home Plecsant | Circle at vening | vening Rood ment. Tide. A MODERN FAMILY. Grace is in her study, Modeling in clay. Maude is getting ready For the matinee, Jane is writing verses, In the lower hall, Where Genevieve rehearses, Plays at basket ball. O’er a love tale sighing Edith hides her face, While Antoinette is trying, To decorate a vase. . Brother’s at the casement, Bawling for his lunch, And ma is in the basement, Cooking for the bunch. It is of no consequence how good a man is abroad if he is really mean at home. Don’t teach your children that itis a shame to wear worn, and patched clothes if you are not able to afford bet- ter, but that it is no honor in wearing new ones that are not paid for. A poet said, “Remember, that rags may cover a boy who will some day be the great world’s joy.” FEBRUARY 22, Excepting only Christmas, no birth- day is as universally observed in Amer- ica as February 22. Such men as George Washington, like new stars, ap- pear only once in a century. Atatime when we most needed a leader, Wash- ington appeared like a pole-star in a clear sky to direct our statesman. His administration will ever hold a high place in the political region. Like the milky way, it will ever whiten its por- tion of the political hemisphere. They who are the last to inhabit the globe will see through the telescope of history the virtues of George Washington, the ¢ Father of his Country.” It is an old but true saying that “he was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” While his military fame excites the wonder of mankind, it is his civil magistracy that leaves an example for the instruction of mankind. Great generals have arisen in every age of the world. In times of war they rise by the force of the whirl- wind, high enough to ride in it and Like meteors they shove off with a splendor on the black Heroes multiply in every long war, and their ranks have so thickened that they are becoming as undistinguished as the brave men who But not so with George Washington. Men of ell par- ties, creeds and religions will ever re- His remains were deposited in a family vault on his own direct the storm. war clouds. fought under them. vere his memory. estate, on the banks of the Potomac where they still lie entombed. As we have just recently celebrated the birth- day of this greatest of great men, if seems a fitting time for mothers to in- still into the lives and characters of their sons the noble traits that endear- ed Washington to every American. “80 TIRED.” A woman 51 years old took her own life in Chicago, recently, leaving to her sorrowing family this only explanation: “I am so tired, so tired—there is so much to do.” She had finished her task before she sought death. Her home had been made clean and neat. A heavy washing had been dried, iron- ed and laid out in neat orderly piles. Then she had gone to the attic of the little home, and with her own tired hands had welcomed death. This is a sad lesson to the living who may still have a tired mother in the household, bearing the heavy burdens uncom- plainingly, and should be dear to those whom she cares for so faithfully. She should be given every help possible, from the stronge sons and daughters who are neglecting the home duties that they might perform, leaving them r the tired mother to do. “I am so tired, so tired—there is 80 much to do.” Too many a good mother feels it as she goes on and on bearing the burdens. Too many well grown children forget it as they seek pleasure and pastime and constantly add to the burdens of the mother, which should be lightened as the years go by. The above appeared in a recent issue of the Chicago Drover’s Journal. We ‘can but wonder if there are any moth- ers in the homes this paper visits, who are saying, “I am so tired, so tired.” Young lady, cut this out and paste it in front of your mirror, so you may see it many times each day. If there isa tired mother in the home, each mem- ber of the family circle is knowing to the fact. Too many of our young peo- ple fail in showing considerate atten- tion, and too often do not fully appre- ciate the self-sacrificing love and be- nign presence of mother. Like the air and the sunlight, she and her tender ministries are received and looked upon as a matter of fact. When she is at rest in the home of the soul, this thoughtless négligence will cost them many a tear. The time will come when the consciousness of having done our duty to those who bore and cher- ished us, will be of more value than fame or gold. This department is con- ducted in the hope that it may awaken on the part of the husband and the child a deeper appreciation of her who is the central figure of home; that it may strengthen the family bonds, mak- ing them more beautiful and tender; that it may encourage charity and breathe hope for that future where language is music, thought is light, and love is law. If you still have your mother with you, see that she never has cause to say, “I am so tired,” if in your power to prevent it. Let the above sad lesson be kept fresh in mem- ory’s casket, never to be lost or forgot- ten. DOCTORS ARE PUZZLED. The remarkable recovery of Kenneth Meclver, of Vanceboro, Me., is the sub- ject of much interest to the medical fraternity and a wide circle of friends. He says of his case: “Owing to severe inflammation of the Throat and con- gestion of the Lungs, three doctors gave me up to die, when, as a last resort, I was induced to try Dr. King’s New Dis- covery and I am happy to say, it saved my life.” Cures the worst Coughs and Colds, Bronchitis, Tonsilitis, Weak Lungs, Hoarseness and LaGrippe. Guaranteed at E. H. Miller's drug store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. 4-1 Says it Goes Very Hard to Get Along Without The Star. In remitting for his old home paper, Ellet Baumgardner, of Wilmerding, Pa., has the following to say: “Enclosed you will find check of $1.25, for which please send to my ad- dress for one year THE SOMERSET County Star. It goes very hard with me to get along without THE STAR since I left home on the first day of last December. I came to Wilmerding on December 2, 1905, and started to work on the eighteenth day of the same month for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which position I am at present holding. I like my work very much, and also the people with whom I work. I am glad to hear that you have got- ten electric lights at last, a thing which has long been needed in Salisbury. I suppose when you get the street car line completed old Salisbury will think she is ‘IT. ” We thank you very much, Ellet, and we congratulate you on your good position. We know you will succeed in life, for you have not neglected your education asso many boys of our town are doing. The old town is getting there with both feet, and before anoth- er summer rolls round we think you can ride to Salisbury in a trolley car. A SCIENTIFIC WONDER. The cures that stand to its credit make Bucklen’s Arnica Salve a scien- tific wonder. It cured E. R. Mulford, lecturer for the Patrons of Husbandry, Waynesboro, Pa , of a distressing case of Piles. It heals the worst Burns, Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Cuts, Wounds, Chilblains and Salt Rheum. Only 25c. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 4-1 IF YOUR BUSINESS will not stand advertising, advertise it for sale. You eannot afford to follow a business that will nat stand advertising. FROM THE COUNTY SEAT. Mrs. Simpson Eseapes the Rope— Peter Mindeck Found Guilty of Murder in Second Degree— Ray and Dively Found Giulty of Horse- Stealing. Somerset, Pa., March 2—The Boswell murder case has been settled at last, and Mrs. Carrie Simpson, the murder- ess, will escape the rope. She was ar- rested for the murder of Miss Minnie Friedline, the postmistress at Boswell, February 7,1904. She has since been confined in jail. When the case reached trial she was found guilty of murder in the first de- gree. Counsel for the defense prompt- ly made a motion for a new trial, which was granted. In December last she came into court and withdrew her plea of not guilty, substituting therefor the plea of guilty, allowing the court to fix the degree of murder. She had pre- viously agreed to plead guilty of mur- der in the second degree, but the pros- ecutor, Isaac Friedline, father of the murdered girl, would not accept such a Plea. This afternoon Judge Kooser handed down his decree, finding the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. She was sentenced to pay the costs of the prosecution, a fine of ten dollars, and undergo imprisonment at separste and solitary confinement at labor in the Western Penitentiary for a term of ten years. At the announcement of the verdict, Mrs. Simpson gave way to an irrepressible flood of grief. Mrs. Simpson is a negro woman. Peter Mindeck today entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second de- gree in the case of the killing of John Kogood, a Polander, at Windber, Au- gust 19,1905. This plea was accepted by counsel for the commonwealth, and Mindeck was sentenced to pay the costs of prosecution, a fine of ten dol- lars, and undergo imprisonment at separate and solitary confinement in the Western Penitentiary for a period of ten years. Mike Elgin, who, with Mindeck, was accused of the same crime, entered a plea of not guilty, which was duly ac- cepted by counsel for the common- wealth, there being no evidence ob- tainable to implicate him either as a participant or -an accessory to the crime. 3 The affair was the result of a drunken brawl at Windber at the time above stated. It was a contest between the Slavs and the Polanders, and it appears that neither Mindeck nor Elgin had ever seen Kogood until the time of the trouble. Mindeck grabbed a heavy bar of iron and hit Kogood a serious blow on the head. He was rendered unconscious, removed to the Memorial Hospital at Johnstown, where he died several days later. Mike Strineczky was also implicated in the trouble, but he fled from the toils of the law and is still breathing the air fo liberty. D. W. Ray, alias D. W. Trainer, who entered a plea of guilty to the charge of horse-stealing, burglary and house- breaking, the charge having been made by E. S. Brant, of Allegheny township, was sentenced to pay the costs of pros- ecution, a fine of ten dollars, and un- dergo imprisonment at seprarte and solitary labor in the Western Peniten- tiary for a period of five years. Ray was charged with stealing a team of horses from Mr. Brant’s stable, October 30,1905. He forthwith entered a plea of guilty, and in his confession serious- ly implicated Henry Dively, a neighbor of Brant’s. Dively stood trial and was ‘convicted. A motion for a new trial in his case is now pending. Public Should be Protected. The agitation for a law compelling makers of patent medicines to print the formula of their stuff upon the package or bottle is perfectly reason- able. When a man takes medicine he is entitled to know what it is. The logic of the opposition to such a law is that people would not buy the prep- aration if they knew what it contains, Doubtless they wouldn’t in many cases, for a large number of the medicinal preparations are made up of narcotics, poisons and alcohol. To indulge in some of them to any great extent would be to contract an incurable drug habit. When a man knowingly swal- lows dangerous drugs he is responsible for the after effects, but when they come in disguised form he may work injury to himself unwittingly. Not all patent medicines are humbugs or dangerous, but the practice of dosing one’s self indiscriminately is not to be commended.—Tunkhannock Republi- can and New Age. Very good, brother, so far as you have gone, but when you take medi- cine from your family doctor, how often do you know what you are taking? If the patent medicine manufacturer should be compelled to give a formula with each bottle or package of medi- cine, then the doetors should be com- pelled to do the same thing. In many cases the sons of Esculapius give stuff to their patients that the patients wouldn’t swallow at all if they knew what they were taking, and in many cases the patients would be well aware that they are being offered stuff not in the least beneficial to them, much of which they could procure themselves at one-fourth the price charged by the doctors. Besides, some doctors are liberal buyers of patent medicines themselves, take the stuff out of the original bottles, put it into bottles of their own, then give it to their patients . at a greatly increased price. When a man buys a bottle of patent medicine fer a certain ailment, and it fails to cure or benefit him, he has not learned what will help him, but he has at least learned of one medicine that will not help him, and he will buy no more of the medicine that has failed. But not so with the man who goes toa doctor for medicine. The doctor treats the case with medicine the patient knows nothing about, and if it fails to benefit or cure, the patient goes to another doctor after he has spent a good, round sum of money with the first doctor. In many cases the second doctor will diagnose the case the same as the first doecter, give the same rem- edy, (perhaps in different form) and the patient, who has neither learned from the first doctor what will help him, nor what will not help him, wastes a second wad of money with doctor No.2. He may do the same thing with a dozen other doctors, and all the time he is as ignorant as a clam as to the name of the drugs he has been swal- lowing. Not all doctors are humbugs or dangerous, but a great many of them are, and the practice of dosing one’s self indiscriminately with their medi- cines is not to be commended. Fur- thermore, a great many of them are no better than highway robbers, and the profession generally has too much leg- islation in its favor. Christian Science, which is nothing but a craze and a superstition, has at least one good feature. It teaches that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that nearly all dis- ease is caused by sin—sin against na- ture, which the Christian Scientists also designate as sin against God. If people would only live right, most of the sickness of the world would disap- pear, and it is a prominent fact that the mortality rate is not a particle higher among the Christian Scientfsts than it is among the people who pat- ronize the doctors and swallow their dope. Official Organ Discovering Weak Spots in Miners’ Organization. The Mine Workers have to suffer from unworthy hangers-on. Men who will not pay their debts, who prefer to loaf about saloons, gamble and waste their money upon bad whiskey and let their families and their creditors suf- fer, too often make the union a cloak for their crimes. Men who, left alone, are decent enough, but whose brains are not strong enough, or whose reso- lution is too pliable, are often led by men of this vile stamp into weak, fool- ish, or positively evil deeds, and then their doings are blamed upon the union, which is as innocent of their wickedness as any outsider. Too often. kowever, after one belonging to the union is guilty of such law-breaking, the union, misled by mistaken sym- pathy for their members, is induced to attempt protection, wher? they should join the forces of law ana right in con- demning the traitor to the union’s best interests, and let him take the punish- ment due him. This is a hard rule to lay down, but if it were enforced, even though with bleeding hearts, by the leaders of the union, it would be but a short while until the union’s power would be much greater, and the union’s enemies correspondingly confounded. —George’s Creek Press. The above appeared some time ago in the paper to which it is credited, and it shows that Editor Clayton is rapidly coming around to THE StTaAR’s way of thinking. He is conscious of the fact that the miners’ organization is rapidly breaking to pieces under the weight of its own rottenness. The principles of the organization are all right, but the principles are not lived up to by the bulk of the membership, and no organ- ization can rise above, or be better than the majority of its members, for the members make the organization what it is, and by its members must it be judged. No matter how true a local newspaper may be to the kind of unionism that has been having its ups and downs in the Elk Lick and George's Creek mining regions, it will not take its editor many years to find out that he has been wasting loyalty and aid on an organization that is largely made up of ingrates and deadbeats—an or- ganization that is a detriment to every decent man in it as well as outside of it. The U. M. W. of A.is a fraud and a humbug. It has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Away with it, away with it! No decent, patriotic miner should squander a cent of his earnings in paying tribute to’ an organization that is a benefit only to the organizers and professional rascals who enjoy soft snaps at the expense of striking miners, ragged women and starving children. Mr. Miner, take care of yourself and your own house- hold, and let the corrupt union go to the “demnition bow-wows.” Daring the late strike in this region, the union would promptly come to the rescue with money whenever any of its members were arrested for trouble that they got into through getting drunk ; but it hag never been known to come to the rescue by paying some of the store bills due to merchants who were kind enough to keep some of its members and their families from suf- fering the pangs of hunger during the said strike, That is a different matter, and the merchants who gave their goods awaygare supposed to stand their losses cheerfully or be told that they are not friends of the working man.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers