The Somerset
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County Star.
VOL. XIII.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURSDAY, APRIL 11. 1907.
NO. 13
SPIIng and Summer
DRY CO0DS & NOTIONS
% They are here, and the line is very
, complete in blue, red and gray cali-
coes and percales, dress ginghams,
Nippon silks, Barnaby zephyrs, white
shirtwaistings and suitings at all pri-
ces from 6 to 50c.
Elk Lick Supply Co.
Salisbury, Penn.
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5 Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profiits, $15,000.
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J. L. Barcuus, President. H. H. Mausr, Vice President.
ALsBerr REerrz, Cashier. :
DIRECTORS :—J. L. Barchus, H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay, A. M.
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Seeds. Seeds, Seeds! §
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Before buying your seeds for spring sowing, and
examine our line of fancy, recleaned
Mavyorn CLOVER, MEDIUM CLOVER,
CR1IM30N CLOVER, ALSIKE,
Trimorny, MILLET, BARLEY.
$5
We buy in large quantity, and prices are always in line.
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>. A. Lichliter, Salisbury, Pa.
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SAAS 2 SE
Salisbury, Pa—<§
Foreien and Domestie "too
(GOODS.
Finest of Groceries, Hardware, Miners’
Supplies, Shoes, Clothing, Ete. The
best Powder and Squibs a Specialty.
11217-1229 FILBERT ST.,
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{ moderate rates.
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| European Plan, $L00 to $2.50 per day.
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Hack No. 2 leaves Salisbury at
i el,at reasonable prices.
| *Daily.
BERKEY & SHAVER,
Attorneys-at-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-I.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
R.E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Attorney-at-T.aw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
W. H. KooNTZ.
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attorneys-At-I.aw,
J. G. OGLE
SOMERSET, PENN’A
Office opposite Court House.
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
Attorney-at-I.aww,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
Physician and Surzeon,
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.
WINDSOR HOTEL,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Modern, up-to-date accommodations at
A square’ each way from
the two principal railroad stations and in
Is shopping and theatre dis-
2.00 to $3.50 per day.
American Plan,
STILL OPPOSES PROGRESS.
A Few Questions for the Rockwood
Leader.
The editor of the Rockwood Leader
is still sitting on the tail of progress.
In his issue of lust week he delivered
himself of the following:
“It is edifying to see the Meyersdale
Republican and Salisbury Star jump
instantly to the defense of that grab-
bing trolley company in its desperate
attempts to grab the public highways
and county bridges. However, the fact
remains that for its entire distance
from Salisbury to Somerset that road
is chartered to follow the public roads,
and when it departs from the highways.
it can have no rights nor legal status
at all. It was a grab for the public
roads and bridges at its inception, and
still remains an indefensible grabbing
proposition. Editor Bishop wisely re-
serves his approval of a perversion of
the public property; but he seems to |
overlook the fact that his reservation
destroys his argument.” Si
The Leader is off its center, and its
would-be argument is no argument at
all. When a trolley line is chartered to
follow the public roads, it is not con-
sidered or intended for a moment that
the trolley track is to be laid in the
middle of the highways, which impres-
sion the Leader seems to be trying to
falsely create. Following the high-
ways means to run along side of them
at distances varying to get the best
grades, etc., and using a portion of the
highway here and there, according as
the needs in the case may require.
But let us suppose that under the
charter the trolley company was re-
quired to lay all its track on the public
roads. Could there be any reason ad-
vanced why public roads in the rural
districts should not be given over to
the use of trolley companies as fully
and as freely as public roads or streets
in the towns and cities?
Editor Werner, please answer the
| following questions:
Are you in favor of trolley companies
| using the streets of cities and towns?
P.L. LIVENGOOD,
Notary Public.
Star Office, Salisbury Pa.
DEEDS, MORTGAGES, PENSION
VOUCHERS, AGREEMENTS,
WILLS, ETC.,. CAREFULLY
ATTENDED TO.
Special Attention to Claims, Collections
and Marriage License Applications.
FULL LINE OF LEGAL BLANKS
ALWAYS ON HAND.
BRR
THE SALISBURY HACK LINE
« AND LIVERY.
C. WW. STATLER, - - Proprietor.
@F-Two hacks daily, except Sunday, be-
tween Salisbury and Meyersdale, connect-
ing with trains east and west.
Schedule:
BALM
1 P.M
Returning, No 1 leaves Meyersdale at 1 P.M
No.2leaves Meyersdaleat............. 6 P.M
@F First class rigs for all kinds of trav-
Hack No.1 leaves Salisbury at......
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Baltimore & Ohio R. R
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOY. 25, 1906.
MEYERSDALE.
+Daily except Sunday. §Sunday
only.
CONNELLSVILLE & PITTSBURG. De-
part *5.48 a. m., 7.52 a. m. (local), *L38 p. m.
+430 p. m. (local). Arrive *10.55 a. m. (local)
*11.30 a m., *4.50 p. m., 6.30 p. m.. *9.39 p.m
CHICAGO, Depart *1L33 p.m. Arrive *11L30 a.
m., *450 p. m.
CLEVELAND, Depart *1.38 p. m.
*11L.30 a. m.
WASH. BALTO., PHILA. & NEW YORK,
Depart *11.30 a. m., *£50 p. m., *9.39 p. m.
Arrive *5.48 a. m.
CUMBERLAND, Depart *10.55 a. m. (local),
*11.30 a. m., *£.50 p. m., +6. p. m. (local), *9.39
p- Mm. Arrive *548 a. m, 7.52 a. m. (local),
*1.38 p. m., *4.30 p. m. (local).
JOHNSTOWN and Way Stations, Depart
*6.30 a. m., +138 p. M.,AM4.30 p.m. Arrive $11.30
a. m., +450 p. m., 7.15 p. m.
Arrive
LET US GIVE YOU
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A price on Yard Fence. Don't think of
putting up any kind of fence before you
fot our 48 page free Catalogue and the
owest prices ever named on Ornamant-
al Fence and Gates. We can sell you
A FENCE
Like above cut,38inches high, at 12 ets.
pes running foot. Made of extra heavy
alvanized Steel Wire and will last for
years. Costs lessthan wood and is far
prettier. Many styles; Lowest Whole-
sale Prices. ave no agents but sell
direct to user. Write today.
KITSELMAN BROS!
Box 514 MUNCIE, INDIANA.
And Eggs.
S| Na ( if or Butter
If so, why do you object to country
roads being used for the same purposes?
Is or is not wagon traffic much more
heavy on city streets than on country
roads?
Please state explicitly just why you
object to troliey cars running on
country roads.
Do you not know that in many lo-
calities in the United States the trolley
car and the farmer's wagon use the
same highway?
Do you not know that in those locali-
ties the farmer’s real estate has ad-
vanced greatly in price, that the trolley
has given him better markets, better
mail service and cheaper and more
comfortable travel than his own horses
could possibly give him?
What are you whining about, any-
way?
Please state fully all your objections
to trolley companies using public roads
in the rural districts, giving your rea-
sons therefor, so that people may know
whether your objections are just or
unjust. To simply sit back and croak
does not become an editor in this hust-
ling age.
THE PRICE OF HEALTH.
“The price of health in a malarious
district is just 25 cents; the cost of a
box of Dr.
writes Ella Slayton, of Noland, Ark.
New Life Pills cleanse gently and im-
part new life and vigor to the system.
25¢:
King’s New Life Pills.”
Satisfaction guaranteed by E. H.
Miller, druggist. 5-1
FREE SEEDS. -=™*
By special arrangement of Congress-
man Cooper, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture has forwarded to Tue
Stir a large mail bag filled with veg-
etable seeds for free distribution.
As long as they last, these seeds will
be handed out in packages to all who
apply for them, except to children.
Therefore, don’t send your child for
geeds, but come yourself or send some
adult friend. We positively refuse to
be annoyed by children in this seed
distribution, as we have been in the
past, for the youngsters used to come
in droves, the same ones frequently
coming several times a day, and often
the packages were torn open and the
seeds thrown at people on the streets.
For that reason we will no longer hand
seeds to children, no matter whose
children they are. a
All grown people, however, are wel-
come to the seeds, and each and all are
requested to call and get a ‘package,
together with the compliments of
“Uncle Sam,” Congressman Cooper and
THE STAR.
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THIS MAY INTEREST YOU.
No one is immune from Kidney
trouble, so just remember that Foley’s
Kidney Cure will stop the irregulari-
ties and cure any case of kidney and
bladder trouble that is not beyond the
reach of medicine. Sold by all Drug-
gists. 5-1
TWO-CENT PASSENGER RATE.
Governor Stuart has’ signed the
Dunsmore bill, which was passed by
both branches of our Legislature, re-
cently, and the same is now a law to go
into effect after the 30th of nextSeptem-
ber. The chief provisions of the bill
are as follows:
No railroad company can charge a
passenger more than 2 cents a mile.
Passengers paying on the train will
be charged the usual 10 cents excess
fare, and receive a refund check.
act is subject to a fine of $1.000 for each
offense.
The railroad companies contend that |
the new law is unconstitutional, and
they threaten to contest it, but the
of a contest. A two-cent rate has been
established by law in a great many of
the states during the past year,
the chances are that the said rate will
be general within the next few years,
all over the United States.
and
The people are now clamoring, every- |
where, for the right of eminent domain
to be extended to trolley companies,
and that said companies also be given
the right to carry freight and express
goods. That is another reform that is
bound to come, and the combined
powers of the railroads cannot stay it.
“The voice of the people is the voice of
God,” and when the people go after a
reform in earnest, it is bound to come.
DOING BUSINESS AGAIN.
“When my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of indigestion, nervousness
and general debility,” writes A. A. Chis-
holm, Treadwell, N. Y., “and when it
looked as if there was no hope left, I |
was persuaded to try Electric Bitters, |
| and T rejoice to say that they are cur-
me. I am now doing business
ing
again as of old, and am still gaining |
daily.” on earth.
Guaranteed by E. H.
50c.
Best tonic medicine
Miller, druggisi.
H-1
Hare
TROLLEY NEWS.
The Pennsylvania & Maryland Street
Railway Company is busy, these days,
laying track. The rails will be down
all the way between the Meyersdale
borough line and Huntsrick hill by the
last of the week, and it is a foregone
conclusion that cars will be running
between Salisbury and Meyersdale at
an early date.
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BITTEN BY A SPIDER.
Through blood poisoning caused by a
spider bite, John Washington, of Bos-
queville, Tex., would have lost his leg,
which became a mass of running sores,
had he not been persuaded to try Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve. He writes: “The
first application relieved, and four box-
es healed all the sores.” Heals every
sore. 2bc. at E. H. Miller’s drug store.
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BOUNDARIES IN THE UNITED
STATES AND SOME OF THEIR
PECULIARITIES.
The most famous boundary line in
the United States is that dividing Penn-
gsylvania and Maryland. It was sur-
veyed in 1763-67 by Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon, and they are credited
with running the whole line with the
exception of twenty-two miles. It was
called for them “Mason and Dixon’s
Line,” and received its political promi-
nence at the time of the great “Mis-
souri Compromise,” in 1820, when John
Randolph, in a famous speech, referred
to it as the boundary line between the
growing factions of the North and
South. Since then it has been an in-
tegral part of history. The boundary
line between Massachusetts and Con-
necticut has never been accurately de-
termined, a strip of the Merrimac Val-
ley being in dispute.
Vermont has no claim on the Con-
necticut River, because the old grant
of the colony of New York defined its
boundary as reaching “to” the Con-
necticut, and Vermont was carved from
the eastern part of New York. Virginia
is in the same fix where the Potomac
is concerned, the commission appointed
to establish her boundary line fixing it
on the southern bank of the river, leav-
ing Maryland’s dominion to extend
over all the stream.
In the great basin between the Rock-
ies and the Sierra Nevada lie the ghosts
of many dead lakes. Rivers still flow
down to the dry edges of these one-
time great reservoirs, and are licked
up by evaporation and the Chinook
winds. Of all the lakes that once lay
there, only Great Salt Lake, Lake
Tahoe and Deer Lake are left. The
Southern Pacific rolls for 185 miles
across the bed of what was once Lake
Lahontan, and passengers gazing idly
from the windows may see the terraces
and wrinkles in the crust of the fossil
lake which nature robbed and defraaf-
ed of its crystal treasures ages ago.
Akin to these ghost-lakes are the lest
rivers of the Southwest, rivers that fiamsr
with all the swiftness and clearness «ff
other streams near by, then disappear
into the earth as mysteriously as &
they were spirit streams. In the ve-
ley of the Rio Grande there are "IN mF
little rivers of this kind. Just south <
{ Santa Fe is the River Hondo, whidk
| flows broad and deep for many miles,
Any railroad company violating the |
then suddenly spreads out over a sandp
plain and disappears. A few hundred
feet from where it goes out of sige
there is only sand as dry as dust itself,
Some of these streams end in timy
| brackish lakes, but most of them dis
chances are that they will lose in case |
appear im the sand beds. On the coast
, of Mexico there are clearwater streaow
| that discharge into the Gulf from us
derground channels, many feet beles
the level of the sea, and these ame
thought to be the same waters that dis
appear further up in the states.
In the valley between the Pecos ané
the Rio Grande, beginning near Sandis.
Mountain, is the bed of an old river
with all .its tributaries, its falls, ite
shallows, and its fascinating bends.
is 300 miles long, and many feet wide,
but it is only the ghost of a river, fer
there is no water there. It passes bg
the ruins of Gran Quivira, its bed’ ig
strewn with broken lava, and it termim-
ates in a salt marsh. The Indians hawe
a legend that long ago the waters were
deep and swift there, until one day =
great fire swept down the valley, lap
ping up the waters, leaving the beé
empty, the backsibarren, and the wat
ley desolate forever more.
Crater Lake, Oregon, is said to have
the greatest depth of any freshwatee
lake in this country, its maximum depth
being 1,996 feet. Lake Tahoe is pos
sibly next in the enterprising effort ta
{ send water down to quench the fires ir
| the center of the earth, for the meas
uring lead shows 1,645 feet there
[Lake Erie enjoys the distinction of
being the only one of the chain of
Great Lakes that has a current, thie
being due to its shallowness
The total number of navigable miles
of the Mississippi River is estimatad at
2,161 miles for average steamers, and
2,227 miles for small steamers. All the
tributaries of this river . combined
would make a stream 13,150 miles long,
and a steamer to traverse this would
go a distance slightly greater than from
New York to Bangkok, by way ef
London. If it were a pretty lively
steamer it could make such a trip ‘in
about fifty days. The Mississipp:
River discharges into the Gulf 675,000
cubic feet of water every second, and ig
the only river in the United States
flowing into the ocean (the Gulf being
reckoned here as a part of the ocean)
that has no tide. Tidal rivers never
have deltas, nor more than one mouth
—UF. J. Haskins in Washington Herald
A CARD.
This is to certify that all druggists
are authorized to refund your money if
Foley’s Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough orecold. It stopsthe cough,
heals the lungs and prevents serious
results from a cold. Cures la grippe
coughs, and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Contains no opiates. The
genuine is in a yellow package. Re-
fuse substitutes. Sold by all Drug
gists. 5-4
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MARYLAND COKE.
Experiments Being Made With Gar
rett County Coal.
Experiments are being made witk
coal taken from along White’s ereek,
on the northern border of Garrett
county, with a view to testing its value .
for coke. A plant of 32 ovens is in con-
templation.
Garrett, with its thousands of .acree
of untouched coal, is believed to be the
coming coal county in Maryland. Mapy
mines in Allegany county have tbeem
worked out. If ovens are erectefl vin
the White's Creek district, they will he
the first to be used to coke Marylané
coal.
Cen uR
“PNEUMONIA’S DEADLY WORK
has so seriously affected my right
lung,” writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of
Rural Route 1, Georgetown. Tenn,
“that I coughed continuously night and
day and the neighbors’ prediction—
consumption—seemed inevitable, untif
my husband brought home a bottle of
Dr. King’s New Discovery, which in my
case proved to be the only REAL cough
cure and restorer of weak, sore lungs™
“When all other remedies utterly fed
you may still win in the battle against
lung and throat troubles with New
Discovery, the REAL cure. Guaranteed
by E..H. Miller, druggist. 50c. amd
$1.00. Trial bottle free. 54