feat ime. 2 Market! Yt ve opened a new narket in Salis- Lichliter’s store. neat and clean, ry respect. ? Fresh and Salt ‘ish, ete. ices for Fat Cat- , Poultry, Hides, °* PLEASE YOU | and be con- pply your wants ER WAHL, ble Butcher. S| oats are to 10, 0. s, $6.- Clothing les, and . (anager. BIBER GINAL GH SYRUP The Red pa Ay re Swe {gay 7 Ln ~ LAXATIVE n TAR ORATORY OF HICAGO, U. 8. A. MILLER. ¥ 4% yrup-of Sunshine When the corn is ripe, it’s rich with the golden sweetness which produces the fin- est syrup in the world—Karo Corn Syrup— full of goodness, strength and purity. No syrup is like Karo Corn Syrup for candy, for griddle cakes, for the table, for every home use. The children love it and flourish on it and ask for more. Karo Corn Syrup is put up in airtight, friction-top tins which keep it clean and sweet as the sunshine until every drop is used. All grocers sell it in 10c, 25¢, Soc tins. CORN SYRUP The Syrup of Purity and Wholesomeness) For Sprains and Bruises. Somedody around the house is pretty = sure to get a bump or a knock every day, 8 and quick comfort comes to those who are wise eneugh to have a bot- tle of our Nerve and Bone Liniment handy. There are many sorts of liniments and pain removers on the mark- et, and most of them are really good. We make one of eur own—we » know what is in it—we know it does the work. ) It will help almost any kind of pain, from a plain bruise to a fairly active rheumatic ache. Just rub it in vigorously, and you rub the £8 pain out at the same time. I® Dr. Beachy’s Horse Tonic, for horses and cattle, $ does all and more than we claim. For sale an Lichlit- ) er’s store. City Drug Stores, Paul H. Gross, Deutsche Apotheke, Meyersdale, Pa. A) GS Oe oN BBBBBBBBBBBBBEBBLIBEBEEBBG LAZIER Gas and Gasoline ENGINES Are adapted for every purpose where power Is required. Per- foctly Safe. Strictly High Grade. Horizontal Type 5 to 100 H. P. r and cost less to operate. They are Give more power, last lon known the world over and in Buffalo alone over 500 are in use. As proof of their simplicity, sconomy and durability 1d Medals and First Awards were secured at all large expositons in this coun- try and Europe. We build gas engines 2 to 100 H. P., gasoline engines 2 to 40 H. P. for manufacturing, electric lighting, farm and portable work, Jumping, etc., both horizontal and vertical types. All the lates improvements. Every engin . ‘We operate a ,000 plant and every engine is shipped direct from the factory to you at factory prices. Catalogs and full information sent free. a LAZIER ENGINE CO. Vertical Type 21012 H.P. {92 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. PURE HOME GROUND GHOP That’s what we are making a specialty of. We grind grain that is always pure and fresh—the very best grades of corn and oats that can be obtained. We always keep our chop clean and fresh. One sack will convince you that no Western feed equals our own home-ground feeds. Our prices are cheap, considering the quality of grain that we use. Great Shirt Bargains! We have on hand about 500 nice Dress Shirts that we are offering at sacrifice prices, some for less than cost. One-dollar Shirts, 75¢. Fifty-cent Shirts, 40c. a, | * Purest Groceries! Our Groceries are ofthe purest and best, and we are sole agents for the fa- mous Laurel Flour, ontwhich we have built up a large trade. It isthe flour that best meets the demand of the people. Once tried, always used. We also handle a good line of Every-Day Working Trousers and Gloves. We solicit your patronage and invite you to our store. We have come to stay, and ve solicit a liberal share of your patronage. West Salisbury Feed Co. No. 21 McWhorter Hand Fertilizer Distribuler It distributes the fertilizer in a furrow, beside the growing crop, as a top-dresser or asa broad-~ caster in any way that may be desired, from a narrow stream up to a uniform spread of over two feet, without removing or adding any parts, or loosening a bolt, and in any quantity froma fl very few pounds up to forty or more pounds § the hundred yards of row. . The fertilizer can he instantly divided into twa ¥_ or more streams, and thus be applied beside or on two morerows of plants at the same time. TOP-DRESSING STRAWBERRIES. iT) For this work it 2 8 Sue Meal Suing, Tanking 3 i uniform spread of the fertilizer on any row or of straw es De wide. The distributer is light, yet rigid and strong, and easy and pleasant to use by man or boy. . a B 4 Peanyt We make all sizes of Horse Fertilizer Distributers, also Potato Planters, Bean and Pe: : Planters, and Paris Greer Dusters. Send for Tilustrated Catalog {McWHORTER MFC. COMPANY, Riverton, N. J. £0) RAILROADING IN CHINA. Plans Adopted by Chinese to Render It a Failure. The construction of the first rail- way in China was due to the enter- prise of a few European residents in the Shanghai district, who combined to form a company with the object of constructing a line between Shang- bhai and its outer roadstead at Woo- sung. Opposition to the scheme was manifested by the mandarin class from the outset, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that the strip of land required was obtained. As most of the district traversed was purely agricultural the differences raised were fewer than would have otherwise been the case. The work was finished and the railway opened on June 30, 1876. Contrary to expec- tation, the attitude assumed by the natives was one of friendly curiosity. They flocked to the railway in greater numbers than could be conveyed. But the management had not reckonsa with the mandarin. A coolie, who had been bribed by the offer of a handsome payment to his family, walked in front of the train and was cut to pieces. Demands were forthwith made by the Chinese offi- cials that the driver of the engine should be given up to them on the life for life principle. A lengthy cor- respondence ensued, and the mandarin, finding no impression could be made on the railway people, worked on the feelings of the native population so as to cause them to remain in a state of incipient revolt against the new mode of progression. It was just when the attitude of the people began to cause uneasiness in on the understanding that the Chi- nese government offered to buy the railway, and acting on the advice of the British Minister at Pekin, the railway company accepted the offer on the understanding that the Cni- nese should continue to work the line, which, despite the organized opposi- tion, was being largely patronized by the natives. The transfer was accord- ingly made, and the mandarin ran the trains for a while, when suddenly, without any reason or formal notice, the rolling stock was put on board a couple of steamers and sent to For- mosa, while the rails were pulled up and thrown into the sea. A few years later, however, the road was recon- structed. Its control was taken over from the Chinese Imperial Railway administration and invested in the Board of Commissioners of the Shang- hai-Nanking Railway in 1905. The United States and China, the two great continental countries lying in the temperate zone, are both ideal lands for gigantic systems of rail- ways, but while the former has one mile of railway for every 360 inhab- itants, China has about a mile for every 130,000 inhabitants. It was stated in 1900 that there were 30,000 miles of railway in Asia, two-thirus of which belonged to British India. The Trans-Caspian and Trans-Sibe- rian Railway accounted then in its un- finished state for 3,200 miles, Japan bad 3,200 miles, French Indo-China, 120 miles; but in Cochin China, An- nam and Tonkin they were soon to have 2,400 miles; Java had 1,000 miles; Turkey, in Asia, 1,500 miles finished and 600 projected or under construc- tion, and Russia was to join Astra- khan to the general Russian railway system, while China at that time had only 300 miles completed and owned by the government, which it was stat- ed were very remunerative, and Eu- ropean syndicates had obtained con- oessions for 3,600 miles of railway in China, the construction of which is already well advanced. These will traverse regions rich in mineral and agricultural products. The splendid waterways afford great facilities for transit, and China is bet- ter supplied with waterways, both nat- ural and artificial, than any other country in the world, except, perhaps, Holland, but away from them carriage by land is often expensive. It some- times costs fifty cents per ton per mile to take coal! by land in China, while in Great Britain the cost is from one to two cents a mile a ton, and in the United States half a cent for the same distance. The coal fields in China have been laid down on a grand scale. To in- stance only one, that of Shansi, with from fifteen to forty seams, has a con- tinuous field 13,500 miles «in area equal to the best Pennsylvania anthra- cite. There is also a rich bituminous deposit in the same province. So that in the mere carriage of coal there should be a fine future for railways outside of passenger traffic, freight trains and market produce. Strange Injuries by Rails. It is well known that the tendency for rails to creep on trestles is fre- quently very strong. A section crew of the Terminal railroad of St. Louis recently had an unfortunate experi- ence in removing a rail from one of the elevated tracks of that company. The rails had been creeping and were under heavy stress. Ome of them had buckled sidewise, and as the spikes were withdrawn it suddenly flew out of place, breaking the limbs of three of the workmen, one of whom had both legs broken just above the ankles. Still two other members of the crew were injured so seriously that they had to be taken to a hospital. A similar accident occurred on the Union Pacific railroad some years ago. In that case the rail sprang out of place, striking the foreman and break- ing his legs. His Objection. De Style—How would you like to be a Mormon and have ten wives? Gunbusta—Wouldn’t like it; think of getting ten pairs of suspenders for Ohristmas. Old Hubby — Sensible women ought to marry, I think. Young Wifey—You’d be a bache- lor if that were the rule. No More Ways Than One. Mrs. Noobryde—Fred is late again to-night. What would you do if your husband never came home until the dinner was stone cold? Mrs. Trongmind—I’d make it hot for him. The Real Things. “Ella says George hasn't pro- posed.” “Oh, well, actions speak louder than words.” “Perhaps so; but Ella wants words.”—Ally Sloper’s Half-Holi- day. Long Distance Voice. Mrs. Jordan—Did you ever hear my daughter sing, Mr. Johnson? “Oh! yes; I only live five houses away, you know.—Illustrated Bits. Wanted to Retain Em. Ted—You seem to like his atteme dons. Why don’t you marry him? Jennie—Because I like his attesw ions. ola Crude | lA Column Thoughts | HOME |g Slums As They | : to Tired Fall Circle | Mothers From the |. | @s They Editorial | Join the Pen:— Depart- Home pleasant i Cirsle at venin venin Rear os. ment. | Tide. 3 Discontent is the peg in your shoe that hurts. A woman’s smile is the little poem we find in the prose of life. If everyone was as good as they think their neighbors ought to be, what a splendid world this would be! Toward the cheerful home the chil- dren gather “as clouds and as doves to their windows,” while from the home which is the abode of discontent, strife and trouble, they fly forth as vultures to rend their prey. The class of men who disturb and distress the world, are not those born and nurtured amid the hallowed influence of Christian homes, but rather those whose earthly life has been a scene of.trouble and vexation— who have started wrong in the pilgrim- age, and whose course is one of disaster to themselves and trouble to those around them. A single bitter word may disquiet an entire family for a whole day. One surly glance casts a gloom over the household, while a smile, like a gem of sunshine, may light up the darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected flow- ers, which spring up along our path, full of freshness, fragrance and buauty, do kind words and gentle acts and sweet dispositions make glad the home where peace and blessing dwell. No matter how humble the abode, if it be thus garnished with grace and sweet- ened with kindness and smiles, the heart will turn lovingly toward it from all the tumult of the world, and it will be the dearest spot beneath the circuit of the sun. And the influences of home perpetuate themselves. For a good, every-day housshold an- gel, give us the woman who laughs. Her biscuits may not always be just right, and she may occasionally burn ber bread and forget to replace disloe cated buttons, but for solid comfort all day and every day she is a very para- gon. Home is not a battlefield, nor life one long unending row. The trick of always seeing the bright side, of shin- ing up the dark one, is a very import- a faculty, one of the things no wom- an should be without. We are not all born with sunshine in our hearts, but we can cultivate a cheerful sense of humor if we only try. A home that is not a home is a school of vice. Domestic love leads to all noble virtues, but discord or coldness in the home genders selfishness and badness. Despotism in the family is the most common and worst in all the earth. Family government is not pa- rental tyranny. Government is good, loving, cordial, helpful, joyous; its yoke easy and burden light; but parental tyranny is harsh, exacting, cruel, dis- couraging and gendereth meanness. We have fairs toimprove mechanicism, stock, farming and fine arts; measures to improve homes are a thousand times more important. Here is where the right kind of men are made. $ BORROWING TROUBLE. It is uncomfortably true that there is almost as much distress of mind in the anticipation as in the realization. About half of our unhappy days are occas- ioned by our looking forward to the unhappiness of the other half. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” We need never take another jot on credit. In ‘borrowing trouble, natural laws are reversed ; mere mole- hills of annoyance become mountains, when viewed at a distance ahead. Some persons never take actual com- fort. In tranquii times the dread of a coming change is always in the way of their enjoyment. If we take things as they come, we shall usually find that they come much better than we have any right to ex- pect. Our anticipatory flag may have been inviting compassion, and flinging patches of darkness over many a bright scene for months, only to find that we have been guilty of needlessly, we might say criminally, robbing ourselves and others of the happiness rightfully belonging to us and to them. “Borrowing trouble” is sometimes on- ly another name for selfishness ; for the one borrowing trouble is seldom satis- fied, unless all within his or her influ- ence are inveigled into the toils. It is holding a dangerous serpent in our heart, which grows with what it feeds upon. It is sinfull, for it is an abiding distrust of God’s goodness.” STORED SUNSHINE, Some writer has given us thought. In the seasoned firewood put away for winter use is stored our sunshine for the dark days that are coming. When sombre clouds hide the sunlight of heaven from us, and the cold winds sweep a landscape. that is drear and naked, itis to our firesides that we turn for warmth and light. During the glorious summer time we should not forget the dark days that] are coming, nor neglect to provide for} use “stored sunshine” in dry and seasoned fire wood. When our lives are bright and pros- perous, let us sometimes think of th: dark days that must come, and in the storehouse of memory treasure some o* the sunshine that now surrounds us t« cheer the days that are without its warmth. Thoughts of the happy past. with its love and pleasure, will drive the gloom from hours that otherwiss will be dark, for, “The memory o things precious keepeth warm the heart that once did hold them. Whe: “The melacnholy days are come, The saddest of the year,” and all is gray and dismal out-of-doors. let the home sunshine be brightest, ane the contrast between the inner and th: outer world as pleasing as possible Let the “stored sunshine” of our fire wood that leaps cheerfully up the chimney be augmented out of the su- perabundance that has been given u: in the summertime of life. Thougl the days may be dark, either fron leaden clouds or the shadow of sorrow. we may dispel the gloom by storec sunshine, if we are as wise as nature. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. PEPSIKOLA MUST CURE INDIGESTION O1 IT IS FREE. E. H. Miller, Elk Lick, continues te sell people with the understanding i: must positively cure dyspepsia and in- digestion or it will not cost a penny. Experience has proven that Pepsikols Tablets cure dyspepsia in forty-nin cases out of fifty. That is a remarkabl statement, but the facts in the case ca: easily be verified. There is every reason to have confi dence, for Mr. Miller will hand bac} your 25 cents without hesitation shoulc you fail of being cured. All kinds of food can be eaten freel: —it is more easily digested, there is n« fullness or distress after eating, and b: aiding the stomack to assimilate anc digest, Papen) Tablets make more rich, red blood to strengthen the body. They are just the thing if you fee: run down, nervous, tired and debilitat- ed and need something togive you nev life and new energy. Don’t hesitate a minute, but go right to Mr. Miller and try Pepsikola Tablet: with the understanding that you muss be decidedly benefited or the cost i. nothing. 12-1 Mere Man’s Inconsistencies. Men are queer. Wouldn’t there be » roar when they went home to their meals if they had to climb up on » high stool in front of a table on whicl there was no cloth, and eat their meal- in that fashion? Yet a majority o men when they go to a restaurant te eat will pick out the high stool and the feed board with no cloth on it in pref erence to a comfortable chair and : cloth-covered table. A man will bor row a chew of tobacco, and most o them will set their teeth into the plu; right over where some other man hac gnawed out a chew. Offer him a piec of pie, at home, from which his wife o one of the children had taken a bite. and he would yell his head off. A: home he will not drink out of a glass or cup from which some one of the famil; has been drinking. Call him into the back stall of a livery barn, put out : bottle, and he will stick the neck of the bottle half way down his throat i: order to get a swig after a half-doze: other fellows have had the neck of th- bottle in their mouths, says an ex change. THE BLANKS WE KEEP. The following blanks can be obtaine: at all times at THE STAR office: Leases Mortgages, Deeds, Judgment Bond:. Common Bonds, Judgment Notes, Re ceipt Books, Landlord 8 Notice to Ter ants, Constable Sale Blanks, Summon Execution for Debt, Notice of Claim- for Collection, Commitments, Subpoe nas, Criminal Warrants, etc. tf Railroad Values. Poor’s Manual for 1908 states that = the close of 1905 the mileage of com: pleted railways in the United State was 217,341. The capitalization of 212. 624 miles $14,563,199,931, or $68,433 mile, stock being $6,741,956,826 an. bonds $7,425,261,901. The average ir- terest rate on bonds was 3.79 per cen: or less than ever before; the averag dividend rate, 3.27, or more than fc- many years. The average freight rat per ton per mile was 784 thousgndth of a cent; the average passenger rat: 2.028 cents per mile. The passenger expenses in 1905 were 67.49 per cent. « gross earnings. He Mixed Drinks. In a West Virginia town where pr hibition prevails, a man was arrestt three times in one day, charged wi: being drunk on the streets. “Where did you get the whisky" asked the Mayor. “I didn’t drink no whiskey,” was tl~ reply. “Well, then, what did you drink?” “Nuthin’ in the worl’ Yer Hono ‘cept cane juice, liver regulator, ha‘ tonic, an’ red ink!” THE CHARM OF A CLEAR COM- PLEXION. Nothing lends more to personal a: tractiveness than the clear skin an fresh rosy complexion that comes 1 those who use Laxakola tablets. <=. cents, a guaranteed cure for sallo\ ness and constipation. E. H. Mille 12-1 All kinds of Legal and Commerci Blanks, Judgment Notes, ete., for sa -- | at THE STAR Office. tt
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