The
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VOL. XIII.
GILLIES’ COFFEES—
“the finest obtainable,”
have a reputation that must
bemaintained thesameasit
was earned—Dby the quality
and flavors of their differ-
ent blends. Nothing but
the highest quality of
carefully selected coffees
are ever sold under this
name. Whether you want
a 35¢.—30c.—25¢. or 20c.
coffee, ask for GILLIES’
COFFEE.
The lower priced kinds are
worthy of the same name
as the higher priced ones
The difference is merely
a difference in the kinds
of coffees used to secure
the desired flavor. The
quality of each is the same
—that is, the very best of
its kind.
Four prices—four flavors
—and one to suit your
taste.
For sale by
THE ELK LICK SUPPLY (0.
Gillies’
Coffees
There’s
a
blend
for
You
OF SALISBURY.
WW Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $15,000. ok >
Assets over $300,000.
d PER GENT. INTEREST
J. L. BArcHus, President. H. H. Mausr, Vice President.
ALBERT REITZ, Cashier. ;
DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. @&
L. Beachy. @%
On Time
Deposits.
Recerved A Lage Shipment of ;
PRATT'S STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD af Lichiier's.
You Can Save Money by Buying in Quantity.
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- oreien and Domestic "oons
Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’
~~ Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Ete. The
best Powder and Squibs a Specialty.
| in 5 l [105 bli For Butter
And Eggs.
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BERKEY & SHAVER,
Attorneys-at-l.aw,
SOMERSET, PA,
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Law,
SOMERSET, PA.
R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Atto rney-at-I.aw,
SOM¥YRSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
J. G. OGLE
W. H. KOONTZ.
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys=s-At-T.aw,
SOMERSET. PENN’A
Office opposite Court House.
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
Attorney-at-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
DR.PETER L. SWANK,
Physician and Surgeon,
ELK LICK, PA.
Successor to Dr. E. H. Perry.
E.C. SAYLOR, D. D. S,,
SALISBURY, PA.
Office in Henry DeHaven Residence, Union
Street.
Special attention given to the preserva-
tion of the natural teeth. Artificial sets in-
serted in the best possible manner.
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P.L. LIVENGOOD,
Notary Public.
Star Office, Salisbury Pa.
DEEDS, MORTGAGES, PENSION
VOUCHERS, AGREEMENTS,
WILLS, KTC.,. CAREFULLY
ATTENDED TO.
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Npecial Attendion to Claims, Collections
and Marriage License Applications.
FULL LINE OF LEGAL BLANKS
ALWAYS ON HAND.
BERBER
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WINDSOR HOTEL,
1217-1229 FILBERT ST.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Modern, up-to-date accommodations at
moderate rates. A square each way from
the two principal railroad stations and in
the center of the shopping and theatre dis-
trict. American Plan, $2.00 to $3.50 per day.
European Plan, $1.00 to $2.50 per day.
Don’t let beer get the
best of you.
Get the best of it—
Monastery,
brewed at Latrobe, Pa.,
and recognized by chemists and
judges of a good article as a pure,
wholesome, beverage.
Delicious! Refreshing]
Sold at the West Salisbury
Hotel, West Salisbury, Pa.
CHAS. PASCHKE, Propr.
New Firm!
G. G. De Lozier,
GROGER AND CONFEGTIONER
Having purchased the well known Jeffery
grocery opposite the postoffice, I want the
public to know that [will add greatly to
the stock and improve the store in every
way. It is my aim to conduct a first class
grocery and confectionery store,and to give
Big Value For Cash.
I solicit a fair share of your patronage,
and I promise asquare deal and courteous
treatment to all customers. My line will
consist of Staple and Fancy Groceries
Choice Confectionery, Country Produce,
Cigars, Tobacco, etc.
OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE,
SALISBURY, PA.
ONE of our Somerset exchanges an-
nounces that according to expert opin-
ion, the maple sugar season will be a
very good one, this year. The expert
opinion that we read so much about in
connection with a great many things,
is generally opinion that amounts to
nothing, and is based on anything but
common sense. Like the so-called ex-
pert testimony sometimes given in law-
suits, it is usually of the most unreli-
able source. No matter what “expert
opinion” over about Somerset may put
out concerning the maple sugar outlook
for this year, observing persons who
have lived in the maple sugar belt of
Somerset county all their lives, can see
nothing on which to base hope for an
unusually good sugar season, this year.
The season may be good enough while
it lasts, but it can’t last long at best, as
it is very unusual for much maple
sugar to be made in April, and March
is rapidly slipping away without any
sugar weather. Therefore, the outlook
is very much in favor of a short, poor
season for maple sweets. Over at Som-
erset, however, where half of the people
never saw a real sugar camp, they
could be made believe that maple sugar
can be made at any season of the year,
regardless of weather conditions.
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SAVED HER SON’S LIFE.
The happiest ‘mother in the little
town of Ava, Mo., is Mrs. S. Ruppee.
She writes: “One year ago my son
was down with such serious lung
trouble that our physician was unable
to help him; when, by our druggist’s
advice I began giving him Dr. King’s
New Discovery, and I soon noticed im-
provement. I kept this treatment up
for a few weeks when he was perfectly
well. He has worked steadily since at
carpenter work. Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery saved his life” Guaranteed
best cough and cold cure by E. H. Mil-
ler, Druggist. 50c. and $1.00. Trial
bottle free. 4-1
A UNJUST LAW.
There isn’t a more unjust law on the | line would be a scheme in proportion !
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 7.1907.
A BIG BLUFF.
An Amusing Desperate Dodge of the
Old M. & S. Street Railway
Company.
Station Agent Riley received notice
yesterday that two second-hand street
cars have been billed to West Salisbury
for the Meyersdale & Salisbury Street
Railway Company, and he is requested
to notify said company of the arrival of
the cars as soon as they are received
here. The prompt notification is doubt-
less necessary to give the old, defunct |
company a chance to provide a place |
to store the old, delapidated cars they
are having sent here for the apparent
purpose of bluffing the court. next
Tuesday. when the injunction pro-
ceedings against the P. & M.. company |
are to be heard.
People here who are in a position to |
know the facts, and who know that the
old M. & 8. company has practically
nothing in this locality but expired
franchises, unpaid debts, fictitious
rights of way and other hot-air assets
that are usually the only belongings of
a wildcat company, view the shipment
of the old, second-hand cars as the last
desperate game of the old M. & S.
company in its attempt to “pull the
leg” of somebody good and hard.
But if some of the clever swearers of
the M. & S. company will get up before
the court and swear that they have
cars here and are about ready to start
running them, no one can tell what the
effect will be.
The P. & M. company, the real com-
pany, which has its road graded, the
power house erected and a portion of
the track laid, ought to feel real un-
easy, for who knows that the M. & =,
the bubble company, may not be wait-
ing to see the last rail of the P. & M.
road spiked down, then quickly put
their old, second-hand cars on it, steal
the road bodily and operate it them-
selves. To want something for nothing
seems to be the only aim of the M. & 8. |
wildeatters, and to bodily steal a car
statute books today than the law regu- | to the size of their cheek.
lating the sale of oleomargarine. It is
a rascally piece of class legislation of
the most outrageous kind, as.it puts
money into the pockets of the wealthy
farmers for a product that is often
greatly inferior to oleomargarine, and
at the same time adds to the poor
working man’s table expenses.
Under the present law the farmer
colors his butter with coloring matter
that is often poisonous and dangerous,
but the manufacturer of oleomargarine
is not permitted to add coloring matter
to his product in order that it may
look the more palatable. What could
be more unfair or unjust?
It is all right to compel the manu-
facturers of oleo to sell their product
for just what it is, but the manufac-
turers of butter should be compelled
to do the same thing. However, the
unjust license restrictions and all forms
of taxation with which oleo dealers and
manufacturers are hedged in, should
be removed without delay. The foi-
lowing letter, which recently appeared
in the Pittsburg Gazette Times, is full
of good sense from beginning to end,
and we quite agree with the writer:
To the Editor of The Gazette Times.
Sir:—I am a merchant and have had
experience with country butter for the
last 20 years. I can truthfully say
without prejudice that not more than
one-half of the so-called butter will
come up to the standard of oleomar-
garine. At the present time country
butter can not be had. What little we
can get the poor, hard-working man
has to pay 30 cents a pound for; cream-
ery, 40 cents. How can a workingman
pay such prices for butter? The oleo-
margarine law ag it is I consider un-
just. The workingman should have as
much protection as the farmer. Live
and let live should be remembered by
all. I admit that we should be com-
pelled to sell oleomargarine as oleo-
margarine. It should be stamped, as
then the consumer will not be deceived.
If I sell a can of axle grease. the pur-
chaser should have the privilege of
using it in whatever way he wishes, but
it should be sold as axle grease. But-
ter and oleomargarine should be sold
on the same basis. I would be strongly
in favor of all grocers having the power
to sell oleomargarine as they do any
other food. SamueL D. MAJOR.
Avella, Pa., March 1.
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FOUND AT LAST.
J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West
Va. says: “Atlast I have found the
perfect pill that never disappoints me;
and for the benefit of others afflicted
with torpid liver and chronic constipa-
tion, will say: take Dr. King’s New
Life Pills.” Guaranteed satisfactory.
25c. at E, H. Miller’s Drug store. 4-1
TRY 1T !1—Our Bonne Et Belle Type-
writer Paper. We furnish it blank, in
full letter sheets, 84x11 inches, for
only $1.10 per ream. We also furnish
it printed, when desired, at customary
prices. We also have many other
grades and brands of typewriter paper,
and it’s all good.
tf SoMERSET COUNTY STAR.
The opinion here seems to be pretty
general that when the second-hand
cars arrive they should be run over a
precipice many feet high, with all the
hot-air promoters of the M. & S: bubble
company aboard.
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ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY.
Much has been said and written in
favor of the abolition of capital pun-
ishment, but according to our way of
viewing the question, capital punish-
ment should never be abolished by any
state or country. Not only should cap-
ital punishment not be abolished, but
the death penalty should be inflicted
upon a wider range of criminals than
it is now confined to. To the list of
capital offenses should be added such
crimes as rape, premeditated bank
wrecking, sodomy, incest, arson and a
few other crimes that we could men-
tion. The Pittsburg Gazette Times
voices our sentiments exactly in the |
following:
“Brant Whitlock, who is the apos-
tolic successor of ‘Golden Rule’ Jones
as mayor of Toledo, takes up 10 pages
of the Reader magazine to prove that
‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ ought to mean
the abolition of capital punishment.
Mr. Whitlock’s argument is the thread-
bare appeal to sentiment, which, while
it does great credit to his heart, might
lead those who do not know him to
suspect a similar softness about the
head. It is true, he does not advance
that most maudlin plea of all, based
upon instances of innocent men being
hangéd—as if no innocent men were
killed in mines, on railroads, and other-
wise—as if the administration of justice
were the only department of human
affairs in which no accidents may be
expected. But he harps upon the idea
that in taking the murderer’s life the
state is exercising the savage spirit of
revenge and setting its citizens a bad
example. And he puts forward that
most illogical of all theories, that as
the death penalty is restricted or abro-
gated, murders decrease. :
“This is the only argument worthy of
consideration that has ever been ad-
vanced by the opponents of capital
punishment. It is worthy of censider-
ation because it seems to be supported
by specious statistics, in spite of its in-
herent absurdity. Figures are adduced
to show that murders are fewest in
those states and countries where the
death penalty has been abolished. It
is assumed that removing the death
penalty has stopped the murderers. It
would be just as reasonable to suppose
that by abolishing prisons we can dis-
suade burglars and firebugs from their
crimes. : :
“The fact is that protection, detec-
tion and punishment are the three ef-
ficient deterrents of crime, with edu-
cation and prosperity as powerful ad-
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juncts. Where these agencies are in
good working order, crime will de-
crease ; public sentiment, being lulled
by cessation of outrage, is easily sway-~
| ed to favor a more humane code; and
| then the sentimentalist proclaims that
the result was the cause, and that the
teart should everywhere be put before
the horse.
“Take the case of Pittsburgh. Mur-
{ders have been committed here in
I shocking frequency and atrocity, not
I because punishment was certain (it is
most uncertain, even if the criminals
are captured), but because the agen-
| cies of protection and detection were
inefficient. Make it sure that the mar-
{ derer will be caught: make it certain
that he will be ‘abolished’ by the sher-
iff, and crime will decrease. Simply
remove the penalty and crime will in-
crease. May not the startling spread
of crime which our moralists deplore
be due to the well-meant but misguide
ed efforts of humanitarian folks who
are making our penitentiaries so at-
tractive to those who don’t like to
work?
“To assume that punishment is not a
deterrent of crime is to assume that
man has no reasoning faculties. Every
police officer of any experience knows
that the professional burglar will not
shoot unless he is shot at—he avoids
murder because he knows the penalty.
Make that penalty only a few years
longer in jail, ond he’ll run the risk.
Even if we assume that man has no
reasoning faculties, that is no valid
argument for abolishing the death pen-
alty. The murderer.is the mad dog of
society; useless and dangerous, he
should be removed in the most effee-
tual and economical way. Kind-heart-
ed dog-fanciers may wish to make a
collection of rabid canines, but sensible
people will not wish to run the risk of
their escape. Even so, while hundreds
and thousands of useful and good men
are being killed in and by our indus-
tries. society need not waste its sym-
n condemned murderers.”
ANOTHER B. & 0. WRECK.
Engineer Killed and a Number of
Passengers Injured.
While trying to make up time, the
Camberland and Pittsburg accommo-
dation jumped the track on a curve
two miles west of Indian Creek, last
Thursday evening. The entire train
was burned. The engineer, Wylie
Irvine, was killed, the fireman, T. D.
Frederick, probably fatally injured,
and the baggage master, express mes-
senger, conductor, and nearly forty
others more or less injured. The train
was about a half-hour late, and was
running at the rate of forty miles an
hour, when the engine jumped the
track, and after running two hundred
feet along the ties,'plunged into a ditch.
The cars were piled on top of the loco-
motive, and the gas tanks igniting, in a
short time the train was consumed by
fire,
Opportunity’s Reply.
They do me wrong who say I come no
more,
When once I knock and fail to find
youiin;
For every day 1
door,
And bid you wake and rise to fight
and win.
stand outside your
Wail not for precious chances passed
away;
Weep not for golden ages on: the
wane;
Each night I burn the records of the
day ;
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like a boy at splendors that have
sped :
To vanished joys be blind, and deaf
and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with
its dead,
But never bind a moment yet to.
+ come.
—Waltar Malone.
“The beginning of strife is like the
letting out of water,” says the wise-
king, and in nq case is this truer than
in the case of family quarrels. The
little breach, no larger at first than a
child’s finger could stop, but through
which comes the continual dropping, if
not attended to in time, will widen
and stretch, till one fine day there is a
waking up to find the angry waters
surging around, sweeping in and over-
whelming all the sweet peace and love
and harmony of home. There is no
greater fallacy than to suppose that
because people are relatives, there is
less necessity for the common courtesy
that is willingly extended to a stran-
ger.
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EVERY TIME you hire a rig at the
Williams Livery, Salisbury, Pa., you
will get the worth of your money.
Somerset County telephone.