VOL. XIII. Don’t let anyone tell you what coffee to buy. Connoisseurs and expert cof- fee judges differ in their tastes. The point is to get a coffee that suits your taste. GILLIES COFFEES—'" the finest ob- tainable,” are blended to suit different tastes—all tastes. There are four distinct flavors, characteristic of coffeesfrom dif- ferent parts of the world, con- There’s sequently four different prices. - a ~ These different prices mean blend that some coffees cost more to for _ import than others. - YOU / If your choice is the lowest or the highest priced—you may be sure that you have the very best of its kind. ; + GILLIES’ 35 cent coffee is A mellow, aromatic and very deli- cately flavored, while GILLIES’ 30c coffee is rich, full-bodied and delicious—the 25¢ or 20¢ blend each has a distinctive flavor (which may please you. ottee— A Question of . Taste . Co” For sale by Lick Supp Salisbury, Penn. 0. BBB HBR BB BBBRRG OF SALISBURY. Capital paid in, $50,000. 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The best Powder and Squibs a Specialty. oe A Ps And Eggs. | 1217-1229 F1ILBERT ST., { PHILADELPHIA, PA accommodations at from the two principal railroad stations and in the center of the shopping and theatre dis- American Plan, $2.00 to $3.50 per day. A A RR BERKEY & SHAVER, Attorneys-at-Iuaw, SOMERSET, PA Coffroth & Ruppel Building. ERNEST 0. KOOSER, Attorney-At-Law, SOMERSET, PA. R.E. MEYERS, Attorney-at-Iiaw, SOMERSET, PA. Office in Court House. W. H. KOONTZ. KOONTZ & OGLE Attorneys-At-TL.aw. SOMERSET, PENN’A Office opposite Court House. DISTRICT ATTORNEY J. G. OGLE VIRGIL R. SAYLOR; Attorney-at-Liaw. . SOMERSET, PA. Office in Mammoth Block. DR. PETER L. SWANK, Physician and Surgeon, ELK LICK, PA. Successor to Dr. KE. H. Perry. E.C.SAYLOR, D. D. S,, SALISBURY, PA. Office in Mrs. M. Dively Residence, Grant Street. Special attention given to the preserva- tion of the natural teeth. Artificial sets in- gserted in the best possible manner. THE CHANNELL, KNOWN AS THE NEW BRADY HOUSE, 15 & 17 SOUTH ARKANSAS AVE. OCEAN VIEW. Two minutes walk from Boardwalk and Young’s new million-dollar pier. One-half square from Reading Railroad Station. TERMS REASONABLE. Good table. Capacity of house, two hundred. | for booklet. A.CCCHANNFEILL, Proprietor, Atlantic City, NU J. Write WINDSOR HOTEL, Modern, up-to-date moderate rates. A square each way trict. European Plan, $1.00 to $2.50 per day. RRR ERE raat “Te P.L. LIVENGOOD, Notary Public. Star Office, Salisbury Pa. 2 8 = x »& & bS = & 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. mg & 8 ® ® & Bo & nN Insure 3 WDE { vA Your pR —LRBYS Child’s ) ; Life. NO MORE CROUP. Also for Whooping Cough, Colds, Sore Throat. SOLD UNDER A POSITIVE GUARANTEE Contains no Opiates. Pleasant to take. 50 Doses for 35 cents AT YOUR DRUCCIST. Write to-day for Booklet that tells you all about CROUP. Don’t buy something else claimed to be * just as good.” DERBY’S PURE KIDNEY PILLS for all Kidney, Liver and Bladder Troubles. 60 Pills—10 dave treatment, 25 cents at your druggist. Write to-day for free sample. DERBY MEDICINE CO., Eaton Rapids, =- Michigan. nits Early Risers The famous little pills. for children; safe, sure. No opiates FOLEYS HONEY Cures Golds; Prevents Pneumonia FOLEYSHONEY~~TAR TAR stops the cough and heals lungs aoTAR Jarax should bear in mind that pride goeth before a lambasting. Harpy is the spirit that makes two days of sunshine grow where only one grew before. Mr, HEarsT is the man who does things, and just now he seems to be doing the Democratic party. StaxpARD Oil is now to absorb the turpentine busivess. It evidently is trying to keep up its spirits. A Sourn Dakora man advertises for a wife who is dumb. It were super- fluous to add that he is a widower. Ox of the things that the trolley car is doing for the country. is the saving of the farmers’ wives from the despair of solitude. "Tr may be noticéd that the weather has been getting warmer ever since Uncle Shelby Cullom complained that Harriman was raising hell. Tue Japanese are still clamoring for an apology from Mayor Schmitz. The poor fellow is just now busy apologiz- ing to his own countrymen, A FrexcH dressmaker asserts that paper dresses will soon be in vogue. Then we can expect to see peek-a-boo waist paper on the market. .ScrooLn girls kiss each other into grippe and fever, Dr. Drake says. It must be really dangerous for girls to be kissed by anybody but a man. Because her husband drinks so much she cannot stand his breath, a Milwau- kee woman has applied for divorce. Which will doubtless take his breath away. : “Kine EDWARD is now looked upon as a great peacemaker,” says an ad- miring contemporary. Before he as- cended the throne, he was looked upon as a great pacemaker. Giex. Kuro: repeated his act of dis- tributing $400 in tips to the flunkeys at a Chicago hotel. Yet they say Japan hasn’t got the money to engage in war with the United States. “A~xGgerLs don’t wear whiskers and pants, or at least we never saw any that did,” comments the Nashville American. Has our’ esteemed con- temporary ever seen any that didn’t? “AxorHER way to reduce the cost of living.” says the Indianapolis News, “is by playing golf on the links instead of in the clubhouse.” In other words, by hitting up the golf balls instead of high balls. ea A Georgia woman who swore she “wouldn’t marry a man on the face of the earth,” took one up into the cupola of the State Capitol and married him there. It’s hard to escape from a woman if she is: determined to have you. Tue Baltimore American speaking of the President’s announcement that the best crop of all, is the crop of children, says “he overlooks the sweet girl grad- uate, the June bride and the Delaware peaches—when the frost does not kill them.” Frost may at times affect the sweet girl graduate, but we never heard of a June bride being killed by one. Asour the only bad thing that Gov- ernor Stuart has done since in office was vetoing the new vaccination law, and that wasn’t a very bad thing, either, for the new law had so many fool provisions in it as to make it little, if any more popular than the old tyran- nical law that it was calculated to su- persede. Perhaps that is why the Governor vetoed it. And right here we want to eulogize Governor Stuart on one thing in particular. He vetoed the bill to increase the salaries of the members of the Legislature from $1,500 to $3,000. The services of many of them would be dear at any price, and some of the members, at least, are not worth ordinary hell room. CURED HEMORRHAGES OF THE LUNGS, “Several years since my lungs were so badly affected that I had many hem- orrhages,” writes A. M. Ake, of Wood, Ind. physicians without any benefit. Ithen started to take Foley’s Honey and Tar, and my lungs are now as sound as a bullet. I recommend it in advanced stages of lung trouble.” Foley’s Homey and Tar stops the cough and heals the lungs, and prevents serious results from a cold. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all Druggists. 7-1 { hospitals for the sick and injured, poor to be sure; and some of the veterans “I took treatment with several SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1907. THE VETOED PENSION BILL. Governor Stuart Jast week vetoed the State pension bill, ‘and under the | circumstances he ‘did exactly right, | much as we would like to see the old veterans get more and more pension as | the years go by. The Cochran bill, to ! which we have reference, was not! based on common sense, and as it would be impossible to carry out its provisions without making some of the charitable and edueational institutions of the state suffer, Governor Stuart acted very wisely in vetoing it. and in doing so gave- the following excellent reasons therefor: “I yield to no man in my gratitude, admiration and loyalty to those who so valiantly served the nation in its hour of need, but the appropriations already made by the Legislature ex- ceed the revenues of the state by many millions, and will not permit me to ap- prove this bill without reducing, even more materially tian I have already been obliged to do, the appropriations to the educational institutions; to the consumptives and the indigent insane, and to the various charitable institu- tions of the state ; which appropriations, long before the pension bill was even introduced, I promised the people of Pennsylvania would be made as liber- ally as the revenues of the state would permit.” In discussing this same topic, the Connellsville Courier makes the fol- lowing sensible and truthful remarks: “The State pension bill was conceived by Democrats for the purpose of em- barrassing the Republican adminis- tration and alienating the soldier vote. Governor Stuart has met the issue as a veteran would have met it, honestly, conscientiously, courageously. He supplied the moral courage that the Legislature lacked when they passed an appropriation bill knowing that the state was unable to meet it. “Governor Stuart is not opposed to taking care of the old soldier who needs assistance. He recognizes the debt of gratitude the state owes, and is not only willing, but anxious to repay it. He would have the state assist all indigent veterans to the full extent of their needs, and not pay rich and poor alike, a few paltry dollars as the price of their glorious services. The price is too cheap, the action too degrading. Patriotism that is measured in dollars is poor indeed. “It is a money-mad and sordid age, think they are entitled to their share of the country’s millions, because of their past services. So they are, if they need them. If the Federal Gov- ernment is not generous enough to keep the unfortunate veteran in com- fort, it is the duty of the staté to take care of its own in a proper manner. We are liberal in caring for all our un- fortunates., We would not be back- ward about seeing after the comforts of the old soldier. “Governor Stuart has pointed the way to a rational pension system which the revenues of the state will doubt- less justify, and we have no doubt such a measure will receive the favorable consideration of the next Legislature, when and where the Democrats will probably be found arrayed against it.” EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR. The average man cannot afford to employ a physician for every slight ail- ment or injury that may occur in his family, nor can be afford to neglect them, as so slight an injury as the scratch of a pin has been known to cause the loss of a limb. Hence every. man must from necessity be his own doctor for this class of ailments. Suec- cess often depends upon prompt treat- ment, which can only be had when suitable medicines are kept at hand. Chamberlain’s Remedies have been in the market for many’'years and enjoy a good reputation. They sell for 25 cents a bottle. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di- arrhoea Remedy, for bowel complaints. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, (an anti- septic liniment ),for cuts, bruises, burns, sprains, swellings, lame back and rheu- matic pains. Chamberlain’s’ Stomach and Liver Tablets, for constipation, biliousness and stomach troubles. Chamberlain’s Salve, for diseases of the skin. One bottle of each of these five prep- arations cost but $1.25. For sale at Miller’s Drug Store. 7-1 100 ENGRAVED CARDS and plate (Seript letters) for ouly $1,25. Call on or address | rp ES KICK. Charge Unfairness in the Matter ef Assessments, and-Charges Seem to be Well Founded. Fair and Just Equalization of Taxes Demanded—Figures that Shew Glaring Discrimination. For some time the coal companies «ff Somerset county have been putting ep | a stiff kick against their present zm sessments, and until Tue STAR todk the trouble to have the matter invess- gated, we were of the opinion that they had no just cause tocomplain. However, | since obtaining figures from the records for comparison and calculation, we have completely changed our views wm the matter. ? Under the circumstances, we aw longer blame the coal companies for Kicking. and we feel that they have been greatly imposed upon and dis criminated against in their assess ments. . To prove our assertion, we will quote some figures that our readers: may make a comparison, and if they can ses any justice in them for the coal coms panies, they can see more than we cas Some of the farmers have sold their farms, reserving the minerals. We find that in Somerset township whers farmers have held their minerals, thew are assessed at $18 to $20 per acre, while minerals and farms in othee places are assessed at $12 to $15 per acre, which is not a fair and just equak ization of taxes. In the north of the county the coal men are assessed from $20 to $25 per acre on coal land, and on lots of it st $40 to $60. Charles Zimmerman, one of our County Commissioners, has 27% acres of coal land, for which he aske $200 per acre for the coal and mining right, Itis presumed that he would ask about $25,000 for the surface and farm buildings. He is assessed at the rate of $19 per acre, or about $5,500 far the entire property—a property that is worth about $80,000. There are .Jots of coal and mining rights in the same township (Quemahoning) assessed at $60 to $80 per acre, lying along side or near to Commissioner Zimmerman's land. Is this fair and equal taxation® No, verily no. It is injustice of the rankest and most inexcusable kind Following we give some figures for our own locality : The W. K. Niver Company is assessed with eight acres, at $2,000. The Som- erset Coal Company with four acres of the Big vein, at $200 per acre Salis- bury & Balto. R. R. Co. with 37 acres, and eight acres of it at $200 per acse In Summit township the Yoder farm, 234 acres, is assessed at $12,000, and 38 acres of the C. M. Saylor farm at $200 per acre. There are lots of instances kind, and we find that most of the farms underlaid with. coal are nat taxed anything for the coal, which is neither just nor right. TLooking over the assessments of Ad dison township, where all the landc are underlaid with coal, we find most of the land assessed at $20 to $25 per acre. A careful study of this taxation wil! reveal the fact that there seems to be & conspiracy to make the coal operators pay the bulk of Somerset couatys taxes. What we want is a square deal ali around. Far be it from us to try te help any corporation to get out of pay- ing its just share of the taxes needed to keep the county’s finances in good condition. But we would like to see something a little nearer equality thaw the present assessment. A valuable holding should be sufficiently taxed, ae matter whether held by a corporatioen or by a farmer. We believe that it would be no more than right to ower the highest coal assessments somewhat, and raise the lower ones. We know that it has got to be <uite a fad, these days, to curse the corpora- tions and coal companies, and much of it is unjust and uncalled for. We must all remember that the coal ‘com panies have brought prosperity to Som- erset county. They have enriched the farmers who had coal lands to sell, and the same companies have created market conditions so good as to em- rich all thrifty farmers who have pro- duce to sell. Without the coal com- panies in Somerset county, and the thousands of working men they em- ploy, the farmers’ produce would ge begging for a market. The coal coms- panies should be given a square deal, along with the balance of us. of this COLIC AND DIARRHOEA. Pains in the stomach, colic and diag- rhoea are quickly relieved by the use of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di- arrhoea Remedy. When in need of such a medicine give it a trial. Fer tf THE STAR, Elk Lick, Pa. sale at Miller's Drug Store. 7-1
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