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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.
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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-
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Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, for
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Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, (an anti-
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Chamberlain’s’ Stomach and Liver
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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-
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of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di-
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tf THE STAR, Elk Lick, Pa.
sale at Miller's Drug Store. 7-1