County Star, SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1907. NO. 11. BA OD SS Spring and Summer FRY COS OTIS They are here, and the line is very complete in blue, red and gray cali- % coes and percales, dress ginghams, 3 Nippon silks, Barnaby zephyrs, white shirtwaistings and suitings at all pri- ces from 6 to 90c. : Elk Lick Supply Co. Salisbury, Penn. I RBBBBBBBHBBRBRBBLHBBRDBRE BHBHBHBLRVBOVRRVBBLHBEBBBOY So & & AY BOI : OF SALISBURY. » Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profiits, $15,000. Assets over $300,000. On Time J PER CENT. INTEREST 26yzerc J. L. BaArcnus, President. H. H. MausT, Vice President. ¢ ALBERT REITz, Cashier. DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M. &® Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L.. Beachy. &% BBRBBRBBRBBBBBRBBHB oS & & a 3efore buying your seeds for spring sowing, call 9 SDeX % PX YS ine o + i 3 2 fe LC. ecle ned ax 2 examine our line of fancy, reclean & GY IS 3 CriMsoNx CLOVER, ALSIKE, go 1 Qn. 2 TimorHny, MILLET, BARLEY. Go & We buy in large quantity, and prices are always in line. © S A Lichliter, Salisbury, P: ¢ > A Lich iter, Salisbury, Pa. LRDBBBVBDBBLBRBRRRDBRBBRHE Seeds, Seeds, Seeds! 9 and Ae And Fags. | W. H. KooNTZ. ! VIRGIL R. SAYLOR, BERKEY & SHAVER, Attorneys-at-Law, SOMERSET, PA. Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Il.aw, SOMERSET, PA. R. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. | Office in Court House. J. G. OGLE KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys=-At-T.aw, SOMERSET, PENN’A | office opposite Court House. Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. DR.PETER L. SWANK, Physician and Suargeon, ELK LICK, PA. Successor to Dr. E. H. Perry. E.C. SAYLOR, D. D. 8S, 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. P.L. LIVENGOOD, Notary Public. i Star Office, Salisbury Pa. E DEEDS, MORTGAGES, PENSION 5 FOUCHERS, AGREEMENTS, : WILLS, ETC, CAREFULLY S ATTENDED TO. & 2 Special Attention to Claims, Collections @& and Marriage License Applications. & FULL LINE OF LEGAL BLANKS ® ALWAYS ON. HAND. we Wagner's RESTAURANT. Ellis Wagner, Prop., Salisbury. (Successor to F. A. Thompson.) OYSTERS. IN EVERY STYLE Also headquarters for Ice Fresh Fish, Lunches, Confectionery, ete A share of your patronage solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Cream, 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 I will add greatly to the stock and improve the in every way. Itismy aim to conduct a first class grocery and confectionery store,and to give Big Value For I solicit a fair share of your patronage, and I promise a square 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. store ash. Notice of Application for Charter. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FOR THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET. Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to the said Court on Saturday, the 13th day of April, A. D. 1907, at 10 o’clock A. M., under the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations,” ap- proved April 20, 1874, and the supplements thereto, for the charter of an intended cor- yoration to be called St. John’s Evangelical sutheran Church. of Saljsbury, Pa., the charter and object whereof is the support of the public worship of AInighey God, ac-’ cording to the faith,doctrine, discipline and usages of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as prescribed by the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Unit- ed Statesof America, and for these purposes to have, possess, and enjoy all the rights, benefits, and privileges of the said Act of Assembly and its supplements. - The proposed charter is now on file in the Prothonotary’s office. 4-4 RuUPPEL & UHL, Solicitors. THE local option bill went down in defeat in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, Monday night, being defeated by eight votes. Both of the Somerset county members voted for the bill, as they should have done. The sale of liquor is something that every community should have the right to settle for itself. It is not likely that the editor of the Rockwood Leader is at heart really op- posed to trolley lines using county bridges and here and there a small portion of a county roadbed. Itis more likely that he feels a little sore at the P. & M. Street Railway Company on | -account of the fact that said’ company | will not extend line to Somerset via Rockwood, but is going via Berlin instead. Anyway, “Urie” needn’t shed any tears over the use of county bridges by the trolley people. That will be a benefit to the bridges and to the tax- payers. for the trolley company must make the bridges strong enough to carry their cars, and the company will also keep the bridges in good repair, at its own expense. Editor Werner is too good and too intelligent a man to mean all he said in his blistering anti-trolley editorial of last week. ———— ARE EXPERTS MERCENARY. its “Experts.” What a complicated and perplexed time the public must be hav- ing over the“e&xpert” testimony sub- mitted in the Thaw trial. It is always the same. No great case is complete without “experts,” and the manner in which they cut each other’s throats never varies. If the prosecution wants an “expert,” it hires him and gets any kind of testimony it desires. If the de- fense wants an “expert,” it opens its wallet, abstracts a sufficient number of gold notes, and the testimony belongs to it and is at its command. What are the people to think? What can they expect to think except that “experts” are mercenary, or else that they really do not know what they are talking about, and do a great deal of guessing? —Philadelphia Inquirer. Tt is said that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has characterized the testimony of so-called expert witnesses as the lowest grade of evidence that is admitted to cases before the courts. And to prove that such is really the case, all that is necessary to convince one is to note how these experts, (?) who are usually physicians, disagree with each other and give any old kind of expert (?) testimony they are hired to give. The average “expert” witness is almost invariably a hired knave, in many cases a numbskull, and frequent- ly a perjurer who should be sent to penitentiary for a long term. There is much food for reflection in the Phila- delphia Inquirer's remarks, and much truthful and timely comment could yet be added. — -— SALOON “REVENUE.” The saloons of West Virginia ,will pay $600,000 a year into the state treasury. That is forty per cent. of the entire state revenue. It is. right that the liquor traflic should help pay the state’s expenses, for it is a traffic wholly non-productive. - It digs no coal. It raises no corn or cattle. It drills no oil or gas wells. It builds no houses, shops, factories or railroads. It plants no orchards, runs no sawmills, prints no papers or books, erects churches, constructs no bridges. It does nothing except to take the labor- ing man’s money, rob the children of shoes that they need, take the bread and meat from the poor family’s table, fill the jails, send men, women and chil- dren to the poor house, destroy the moral sentiment, undermine honor, wreck integrity, sap manhood, debauch womankind, starve and brutalize chil- dren, and drag down, destroy, condemn and damn as much of the human race "as it can reach with its devilfish claws. In return for all of this damage, the liquor traffic pays the state $600,000. That is not one per cent. of the damage it does. It is blood money, the price exacted by the state for protecting the traffic in its infernal business. A mil- lion dollars a year would be a light tax tolay. That would make it possible for the state to ease to some extent the burden laid on the producer and the builders, the men who furnish the strength, bone, blood and manhood of the commonwealth—Morgantown Chronicle. no WORKED LIKE A CHARM. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Ya. says: “I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. No inflammation fol- lowed ; the salve simply healed the wound.” Heals every sore, burn and skin disease. Guaranteed at E. H. Miller’s Drug Store. 4-1 AMUSING. Rockwood Leader Cries ‘‘Wolf”’ When There is no Wolf. Our Contemporary Ought to Post Itself Before Slopping Over. issue of the Rockwood Leader: According to the evidence adduced at the equity hearing, last week, alo 1 d | displeased. fecting the trolley railroads between Meyersdale and Salisbury, it would be ! road | a public misfortune if the new should succeed, because along whole chartered line the new road is projected to follow the publie highway. An electric railroad that aims to occupy the public highways is a public menace, =a i And what is more, its the new company purposes to have its road occupy the | c : ng ] { guessed at are not of much importance view of these facts it is highly perti- | county bridges along its route. In nent to inquire—" What has become of the wit and judgment of the road su- pervisors and county who have given their permission to such a glaring misuse of the public's | highways and bridges?” It still lies within the power of the land-owners along the contemplated line to put a stop to this high-handed grab after public property, unless the present Legislature confers the right of emi- nent domain upon the -eleetrie “lines. The old trolley company is guilty of some remissness toward the public in delaying construction; but, compared with the attitude of its more recent competitor, the old eorporation is a public benefactor. If the new concern wins out in court, the individual land- owners whose farms abut upon its line will of necessity be compelled to go in- to court and put a check upon its pred- atory progress, and, incidentally, the too easily consenting road supervisors should be hanged by the heels as an object lesson to their successors who. in future years, may be tempted to sell out the public highways to the high- waymen of the corporations. Somerset county wants the trolley roads, but our people are not ready to abandon their highways and bridges to get them. WHAT THE FACTS ARE. The Leader’s editorial not only con- tains false statements, but it savors of mossbackism from one end tothe other: in that it creates the belief that the electric road complained of will have its track in or immediately along side of the county road the entire distance between Salisbury and Meyersdale, which is far from being the case. Most of the distance the trolley road is from fifty to several hundred yards away from the county road, and there isn’t a place along the entire line where the cars will in the least interfere with wagon traffic. It is true that in a couple of places, for very short dis- tances, the trolley road will utilize a small portion of the original county road bed, but at those points the trol- ley company will widen the county road at its own expense and build suitable fences for safety. : The 8. & O. railroad crowds the pub- lic highways in many places in this county, builds no fences whatever, and trainmen pay not the least attention to passing teams. Yet accidents on that account have been extremely rare, although the B. & O. has been running trains through this county for nearly forty years. Automobiles traction engines cause more accidents to and teams in one year than the steam and electric railways do in ten. Besides, why should country roads be held any more free from generai traffic than city and village streets? The editor of the Rockwood ‘l.eader ought to know by common -instinet, if nothing else, that trolley lines would not push their way out into the country if they had to take to the woods and keep away from the public roads. Trolley lines are built to reach and carry people, and most people in the country live along the principally trav- eled roads, not out in the woods, where Editor Werner seems to have drawn the inspiration from that caused him to write his silly, mossy editorial. " No, no, “Urie,”” the supervisors and commissioners are not going to be hanged by the heels, and your tirade against them is as unjust as it is sense- less. They are men of progress and 20th century ideas, and not in as much danger of hanging as you are. We re- gret exceedingly that you, being up to date and abreast with the times in most matters, are sitting on the tail of progress and setting up such a ridicu- lous how] against the P. & M. Street Railway Company and the progressive officers who have granted the said company only reasonable and sensible rights and franchises. Get off of that tail, young man, before it lashes you off, wraps around your neck and strangles you to death—hangs you, as it were. Also scrape the anti-trolley moss off yourself, look pleasant and watch out for the cars. Don’t be a pessimist when there is no occasion for it, and remember that trolley lines are constructed to haul people, not wood and hay. For that reason they must go where the people are, which makes it necessary to keep close to the public roads, and frequently use .them for short distances. and wagons electric | : : : contains much interesting and valuable { historical matter. nuisance per se. | commissioners | “A DISAPPOINTMENT. The New History of Somerset Coun- ty a Disgusting Piece of Boteh Work. Wm. Welfley’s H. new history of : ! : | Somerset county is bei i i She lat Maly oe hl) y is being delivered ir silly twaddle appeared in last week’s | this vicinity, this week. mental piece of botech work if there ever was one, and many of the sub- scribers are sadly disappointed and It is a monu- We are not finding much fault with the historian, for part fairly well performed, and been book has the his In a few places we notice where the historian has guessed at information where there was no oc casion for guessing. but the things and should be charitably passed by.: However, where a just kick is due from those subseribed for the work, is the careless or incompetent manner in which the final proofs were read and corrected, the poor quality of binding, the cheap ink and paper used, and the dauby manner in which the printing is done. On an extra leaf added to Vol. II of the work a long list of errors are aec- knowledged and noted, and in the lit- tle time we have spent examining the work we have found fully as many more errors that are not noted on the leaf bearing the heading “Errata.” Whoever read the final proofs be- fore the manuscript was sent to the printers was either very careless, naturally incompetent or not in proper condition to read proof at that time. - The portion of the work that relates to Bedford county, shows much better editing and proof reading than the portions devoted to Somerset county. The printing of the volumes is noth- ing but a wretched piece of blacksmith work, to say the least. On some of the pages the cheap ink used has badly off set, in other places the quads used who in spacing out lines have worked up and made ugly blurs, ete, ete. With all due respect for the historian, to whom much credit and praise is due we regret exceedingly that his other- wise valuable work was so badly botch- ed in the editing, proof-reading, print: ing and binding. HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG. To continue young in health and strength, do as Mrs. N. F. Rowan, Mec- Donough, Ga., did. She says: “Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of chronic liver and stomach trouble, complicated with such an unhealthy condition of the blood that my skin turned red as flannel. I am now prae- tically 20 years younger than before 1 took Electric Bitters. I can now do all my work with ease and assist in my husband’s store.” Guaranteed at E. H Miller's Drug Store. 4-1 NEW RULES FOR POSTCARDS. Price 50c¢. An order has been issued by the postmaster general providing new reg- ulations governing the size, form and weight of private postcards entering the mails. Such posteards must be made of an unfolded of card- board, not exceeding three and nine- sixteenths inches, nor than and three-fourths by four inches. They must in form and quality and weight of paper be substantially like the government postcards. They must be of form and color not interfer- ing with a legible address and postmark. Very thin sheets of paper may be at- tached to them on the condition that they completely adhere to the card. Cards bearing particles of glass, metal, mica, sand, tinsel or other similar sub- stance will not be accepted for mailing except when enclosed in envelopes. The new ruling is a very sensible one, and all postoftice employes will be heartily glad that the cards bearing particles of glass, metal, mica, sand tinsel, etc., are to be barred out.. We know by experience what a nuisance such cards are. In stamping and hand- ling them, a fine dust arises from the substances named, filling the lungs and nostrils of the mail distribution and assorting clerks, thus endangering their health. a A eam Pointer for Horsemen. Some horses haye a very ugly and annoying habit of gnawing their feed boxes, mangers, and in fact - every piece of wood in reach of them when tied in the stable, to a rack, fence or gate. A very simple and effectual pre- ventive is coal oil. Apply it with a brush or rag, so as to saturate the wood, and they will not touch it as long as the smell or taste of the oil re- mains. Coal oil is quite offensive to all kinds of animals. When oiling har- ness, add a little kerosene .to the har- nes oil, and it will prevent rats and: mice or anything else from guswin : and chewing the leather.—Oakland* Journal. piece two less in