azine, but ts a num- intsin ac- > dollars a 1g writers 'T8 of im- ood; it is ubjects in the next d rebates > authori- ldren, but . Its ad- 1€ subscrip- new sub- ribers for 11d like to ish prizes eee rs Tae The Somerset County Star, VOL. XII. PEERRBBBVBBOBY $ “With A Wondrous —|SHOW =} of fresh Spring Goods in every department of this big store, shipments now arriving daily and placed on our shelves and counters as fast as they can be unpacked, Our Advance Display of the 1906 Wash Fabrics is especially good, also the } New Dress Goods, New Waist Goods, Laces, Trimmings, Gloves, Belts, Etc. Come to us for the latest styles, the choicest designs y and most reliable qualities. Blk Lick Supply. To 5 5 C0, OE OTP EP ED EEE) BRR RS OF SALISBURY. Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profiits, $9,000. § DER GENT. INTEREST Gepecr J. L. BarcHus, President. H. H. Mausr, Vice President. Avserr REIrz, Cashier. DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D.Hay, A.M. Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. iL. Beachy. RE RRR RRR: {J Werrml 0, LL. Salisbury, Pa—~§ rR Forejen and Domestic “Goons, Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’ Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Ete." The best Powder and Squibs a Specialty. I \ I For Butter And Ys. TITIES TAPAS IOAN APN ITIP ITT ATES A CHOICE LINE OF STAPLE GROCERIES ALWAYS OF HAND We sell Axa and Minnehaha Flour, the brands to buy if you want good bread. S. A. LICHLITER. S00 AMADA TAA LA SOA DIADIACAO LMM LR ATI ————_ ITIP A TRAPATT NPAT MOAB IIMA Adak v RERKEY & SHAVER, Attorneys-at-l.aw. SOMERSET, Pa, Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Liaaw, SOMERSET, PA. R.E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Attorney-at-Law, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Court House. W.H. KOONTZ. KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys-At-Liaw, J. G. OGLE SOMERSET, PENN’A office opposite Court House. VIRGIL R. SAYLOR, Attorney-at-Liaw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. E. H. PERRY, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A. 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SWANSON RHEUMATIC OURE COMPARY, Dept. 80, 160 Lake Street, Chicago. Tue courts at Denver have a puzzler on their hands in regard to the settle- ment of an estate. Hobart Sheerer, while dangerously ill, made a will in contemplation of the birth of a child, providing that if it were a boy he should inherit two-thirds of the estate, and his wife one-third ; but if it was a | girl, she would receive one-third, and his wife two-thirds. After his death his widow gave birth to twins, one a girl and the other a boy. The question is how will the estate be divided? Tue Pennsylvania railroad’s gross earnings last year were $265,089,607.76, and its net earnings $73,969,219.34. And still it persists in the petty busi- ness of holding its patrons up to the $10 deposit or $20 mileage books. But never mind, the railroads will have to suffer for their greed at the next ses- sion of the Pennsylvania Legislature. We look for some very stringent rail- road legislation then, and while we be- lieve it can be easily overdone, the railroads will have only themselves to blame for the bitter dose of legislation in store for them. Ir is amusing to note the great amount of blowing some of the rural newspapers do about the great amount of so-called news they give their read- ers in the shape of country correspond- ence. The fact is that the poorest newspapers in existence are those which devote about one-half of their space to country correspondence, and the other half to blowing about it. The great bulk of country correspond- ence published in rural newspapers isn’t worth reading. Most of it is neither news, wit, wisdom or common sense. It is largely made up of free advertising and silly neighborhood twaddle that is sickening te persons of intelligence and refinement. We do not mean to convey the idea that the country people are all ignorant or silly, for such is not the case. On the con- trary, there are fewer ignoramuses in the country than in the towns, but the intelligent and substantial country residents are not usually the ones who act as regular correspondents to the county newspapers, unless they have an ax to grind, which they do by ad- vertising some side issue they are en- gaged in. through the news columns of the local paper. Asa prominent edu- cator of this county once remarked : “The country correspondent usually writes much, but says little.” And the reason good country newspaper cor- respondents are so scarce, is the fact that the average country paper isn’t able to pay for correspondence, and without pay, in this busy age, good news gatherers can seldom be secured. There are some few exceptions, of course. but they are very few. And if you will take notice, you will observe that the best country newspapers everywhere are rapidly dropping the country correspondence feature. One reason of this is that many country correspondents insist on giving a name of their own to their respective neigh- borhoods, and it is usually a name that people a few miles out of the neighbor- hood never heard of, hence do not know the actual locality where the news (if news it may be called) ema- nates from. But the chief objection to country correspondence is the fact that it is usually mere rot or commonplace gossip that cannot be called news, and is usually sought after by editors either too lazy or too incompetent to write anything worth reading themselves. WABASH ROUTE SELECTED. { Cumberland, Md., March 9.—Chief Engineer J. Q. Barlow has fully de- cided upon the route of the Western extension of the Western Maryland railroad between Cumberland and Un- jontown, Pa., and is making profiles of the proposed route. The right of way has been secured, except in one or two justances. Low grades, easy curves and shortftunnels have been secured. The minimum curve will be eight de- grees, and the grades will be easier than those of any road crossing the Alleghenies. The heaviest and most difficult work between Cumberland and Wheeling will be that which extends for 20 miles west of this city. There will be four tunnels, one at Kreigshaum, the second ander the Cumberland and Pennsyl- vania, at Allegheny, the third at the Borden tramway, and the fourth through Savage mountain, a distance of about 3,700 feet. The other three tunnels aggregate about 2,200 feet. While the fills will be large and the cuts deep, they will pot compare with the work on the Cherry Run extension. Itis estimated that the work for 20 miles west of Cumberland will cost $2,500,000, or $125,000 a mile. It was stated yesterday that the work will begin within three months. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1906. : A VACCINATION LIAR. Last week there appeared in one of our exchanges a strong plea in favor of compulsory vaccination, and of all the jackassical statements we have seen in public print in a long time, the article we refer to contained the most ridicu- lous and damnably false statements. Among other fool assertions, the writer said: “The unvaccinated person runs 125 chances of taking the smallpox to a vaccinated person’s one. It costs on an average $350 to take care of a small- pox patient, to say nothing of all the suffering. It costs on an average 29 cents to have a person vaccinated. There is quite a difference. Before vaccination was introduced, smallpox was a very common disease. It is‘now comparitively rare, and people who have been vaccinated, if they get the disease, usually take it in a light form. It may not be generally known that a president of .the anti-vaccination league himself refused to be vaccinated and died of the disease.” Ye gods, what logic! Ye gods, what lies! The statements quoted are on a par with all the rot published in favor of vaccination. As to the chances of taking smallpox being 125 to one, any person making such a fool statement is either an infernal liar, a disgusting ignoramus or an easy dupe of doctor- craftwho is afraid to think and investi- gate for himself, fearing that he might discover that he had been holding onto some erroneous opinions. Most doctors will tell you that vae- cination isn’t a preventative of small- pox at all, but put great stress on the statement that it modifies the disease and renders it much less dangerous. The fact is that it does neither, and well do the doctors know it. They used to tell people that vaccination was a preventative, but the frequent out- breaks of the disease in well vaccinated strongholds (and that’s where the most smallpox is usually found) caused them to abandon that lie and take up anoth- er one not so easy to detect. Now, when two persons have smallpox, one a vaccinated person and the other un- vaccinated, the doctor attending them will put out the statement that the un- vaccinated person has the disease in the worst form, while the other patient has only a mild attack. The facts may be directly the opposite, but lots of people will swallow the doctor’s state- ment, regardless of its truth or its falsity. In as many cases death carries away the vaccinated patient as the unvaccinated patient, thus giving the lie to the medical profession. Then what does the doctor do to allay the doubts arrising in the minds of the people familiar with such cases? Why, be just tells them that while the patient had been vaccinated, he had not been successfully vaccinated, and as proof he cites the fact that the patient died. The easy dupes are then satisfied, and the medical grafter who compiles the lying vaccination statis- tics in the interest of his profession, NO. 9. son contracted the direase. Neither of them had been vaccinated, either. How does that tally with old Doe. Dixon’s positive proof picture? Rev. Alfred Turner, lase pastor of the Salisbury M. E. church, has person- ally informed the editor of this paper that he saw and was among many cases of smallpox in Philadelphia, some years ago, and that he found the dis- ease to be no respecter of persons, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated, neither in severity nor in the number of cases among each class. Improved sanitary conditions and improved methods of nursing have done much toward stamping out the disease in late years, but vaccination has ac- complished nothing but harm for its victims, and much revenue for the doc- tors. The statement that the president of an anti-vaccination society refused to be vaccinated, took smallpox and died, may be considered a great argument by the exchange we have quoted from; but as people always have died from various causes, and always will die, there is nothing out of the ordinary in the case referred to. Thousands of vaccinated people die of smallpox every year, but of course when they die, the doctors say their vaccination was not successful, no matter how sore their arms were as a result of it. Great is vaccination—for the purses of the doe- tors. THE RIGHT IDEA. One would think the Laxative idea in a cough syrup should have been ad- vanced long before it was. It seems the only rational remedy for Coughs and Colds would be to move the bowels and clean the mucous membranes of the throat and lungs at the same time. Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar does this. It isthe Original Laxative Cough Syrup, the best known remedy for Coughs, Colds, Croup, Whooping Cough, etc. Tastes good and harmless. Sold by E. H. Miller. «4.1 TRUTH IN LARGE CHUNKS. This is the Age of Grafters Posing - as Reformers. The following from the Connellsville Courier has THE STAR’s most hearty ap- proval in all details: “The magazine fulminations of the Tarbells, the Steffenses, the Phillipses and the Crosbys exposing the crimes of wealth and the crooked paths of those who walk in public life are not to be implicitly accepted as words of truth and soberness. They are for the most part only poorly disguised sensa- tionalism. Most of the cheap maga- zines that have in the past few years multiplied and grown fat, thanks to the patronage of an undiscriminating and complaisant public, are distinctly and undeniably ‘yellow.’ We want sensational matter, and the Exposers, Revealers and Enlighteners classes the dead patient with those not successfully vaccinated. How - easy! That word “successful” covers a multi- tude of lies to the entire satisfaction of the easy dupes. Then think of the lying statement that vaccination has made smallpox a comparitively rare disease! Nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact is the disease has got to be so com- mon that it no longer creates much excitement. A recent statement is- sued by Dr. Dixon, the State Health Cammissioner of Pennsylvania, shows that smallpox has been alarmingly prevalent in this country in recent years, and he quotes figures to show that Pennsylvania had far more cases of it than any other state. And all this in spite of the fact that Penusyl- vania has had on its statute books, for a number of years, and still has, a stringent vaccination law that has been, and is still being enforced with | brutal energy. But Dixon keeps howl- ing for more vaccination, and recently he has been sending out pictures of three children, two of them clean and healthy looking, the other horribly af- flicted with smallpox. The statement goes with the picture that the children are all members of the same family, and that the afflicted one was not vac- cinated, while the other two were, and that the two vaccinated children that did not takethe disease were constant- ly exposed to the one that did take it. The case is‘ referred to as conclusive proof of the benefits of vaccination. Bah! It is no proof at all, for many cases just the reverse can be cited. | Joshua Messersmith, the trusty engin- eer on the Jennings railroad, informs us that his wife and several of his chil- dren had been successfully vaccinated in a town in Eastern Pennsylvania, some years ago, but not long afterward they contracted smallpox in its most virulen’ form, and every one of them died. Mr. Messersmith .and his eldest son nursed the patients during their illness, and neither the father nor the have furnished it, needless to say, for a consideration. There is one Tnotable exception to this rule, however. Tommy Lawson, of Boston, pays to have his matter printed, but as he is an ac- knowledged part of the system he pur- sues with wordy warfare, and is only working the other side of the street, his contributions very properly come under the classification of advertising, and are paid for accordingly. Magazine publishers, however, print none of this matter in a spirit of lofty publicism. They are not life-savers of the nation, but wreckers of private character. Pelf, not patriotism, is their object. Some of the stuff published is wholly imaginative, and much is highly exag- gerated. The chief crime of the vie- tims of the Evil Busters is that they are either rich or successful, or both, conditions which must inevitably ob- tain so long as society shall endure without evolution into absolute and ideal §Socialism, a state of beatitude utterly Impossible this side of heaven. There are millionaires and multo- millionaires in America, but it is also a gratifying fact that prosperity is more widely diffused today than it ever was in the nation’s history. It is not a case of ths rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, but of a great country growing richer by reason of its wonderful resources and the un- flagging enterprise of its intelligent people. Neither in politics nor in business is this country so wholly corrupt or de- spairingly degenerated as these pessi- mistic penny-a-liners would have the public believe.” pp YES, WE CAN |—We can supply cuts suitable for any and all kinds of ad- vertisements and job printing. 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