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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1908.
NO. 15.
TWO HONEST DOCTORS.
Encouragement from Two Medical
Men in Aceord with Our Politi-
cal Platform.
In the political campaign just ended,
one of the prominent planks in the edi-
tor’s platforin was the anti-vaccination
plank, which displeased most of the
doctors of Somerset county, because
most of them are in favor of any out-
rage upon the people that will keep the
doctors’ purses well filled. However,
not all doctors are grafters and bood-
lers, and not all of them defend vac-
cination, which is not only a grotesque
superstition, but a legalized crime as
well. However, most of the physicians
and scientists who condemn vaccina-
tion are men of world-wide fame—men
far above the ordinary country and
village physiciafi==fhen too great and
too true to their fellow men to be
swayed by a few paltry dollars derived
annually from a filthy, dishonest and
criminal medical superstition. It is
not often that a country physician can
be found who is broad-minded enough
to come out boldly and sanction the
righteous crusade against compulsory
vaccination, but nevertheless there are
some of that kind among rural phy-
sicians, and all such deserve to be held
in the highest esteem. There is one
such physician over at Jenners, as is
amply evidenced by the following let-
ter received by the editor on April
"llth:
JENNERS, PA., April 8, 1908.
Peter L. Livengood; Elk Lick, Pa.
My Dear Sir:—I received several
communications from you setting forth
your ideas as a candidate for the As-
sembly. As I believe your views con-
cerning the various issues are pre-
eminently sound, “ational and intelli-
gent, I take this opportunity to assure
you of my support at the primaries on
April 11th, 1908.
With best wishes, I am yours re-
'spectfully, Dr. H. HERTZLER.
All honor to Dr. Hertzler. The world
needs more men of his stamp. And
now we want our readers to read an
interesting letter from John Duke Mec-
Faden, M. D., of Concordia, Kansas.
THE STAR has some readers who are
well acquainted with Dr. McFaden,
and they know him to be a man of
great natural intellect, as well as a
deep thinker and man of fine scholarly
attainments. For a number of years
he was one of the most prominent
clergymen in the Brethren church, but
later entered the medical profession, in
which he is recognized as a man of
great skill, and, we think, at the present
time presides over a sanitarium in
Kansas, which, if we remember rightly,
he is the founder of. Dr. McFaden is
also the author of several books of
wide circulation—books which critics
have declared to possess great merit.
He was a member of the World’s Con-
gress of Religions which assembled in
. Ghieago during the World’s Fair, and
in that body was one of the prominent
and forceful characters. We received
the following letter from Dr. McFaden,
recently :
CARLETON, NEB., April, 1908.
P. L. Livengood, Salisbury, Pa.
- DEAR Sir: —While at Frank Beachy’s
I read your paper and platform, and
take this method of saying I admire
your courage and endorse your prineci-
ples, and trust you yill win out.
Prohibition is only'a matter of time,
Cowpox and syphilis are so near alike
there is no use to spend time discuss-
ing the difference. But creeds based
on superstition are hard to down, and
the fight mnst be kept going. Main-
tain the courage of your convictions,
and keep the plowshare of truth scour-
ing until the new crop ripens. Very
truly, DR. McFADEN,
: Concordia, Kan.
All honor to Dr. McFaden. He is
the kind of physician the world needs
more of. May his tribe increase.
In conclusion we wish to add that in
a recent letter received from Dr. A.
Enfield, of Bedford, Pa., the doctor
took occasion to touch upon our po-
litical platform, and here is what he
said concerning it:
" “T admire your stand allover. Local
option must come, or this notion, like
Russia and China, sink into oblivion
by the drug and liquor habit.” :
A COMMON MISTAKE.
Many women mistake kidney and
bladder troubles for some irregularity
peculiar to the sex. Foley’s Kidney
Remedy corrects irregularities and
makes women well. Miss Carrie Har-
den, Bowling Green, Ky., writes: “I
suffered much pain from kidney and
bladder trouble until I started to use
Foley’s Kidney Remedy. The first bot-
tle gave me great relief, and after tak-
ing the second bottle I
well.”
ler, proprietor. 5-1
was entirely |
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Mil- |
{ E. H. Miller’s drug store.
AN OUTRAGE.
An Abusive Street Salesman Who
Should Have Been Arrested.
Last night a traveling salesman, one
of the kind generally characterized as
a street fakir, set up a stand in front of
Hotel Wagner, where he soon succeed-
ed in drawing a large crowd made up
in part of ready suckers and partly of
those who merely gathered out of
curiosity.
To deny that the siranger had a
ready gift of gab and a goodly supply
of sucker bait would be denying the
truth. He was so full of wind and hot
air that he surely would have explod-
ed, save only for the large holein the
south part of his face that served ad-
mirably as an escape valve. ”
His oily, loose-running tongue reel-
ed off the usual amount of braggadocio
concerning the windy man’s travels,
and he wanted it emphatically under-
stood that he had “been around some.”
He also got off all the old jokes and
“smart things” that have been stale
with age since Adam was a boy, but
that did not ‘matter so long as there
were people on hand to laugh. There
are always some people, you know, who
can’t'tell a modern joke from a last
year’s bird’s nest or from a chestnut
crop of a century ago. And further-
more, the fakir added spice to the
vulgar taste in some men by throwing
in a liberal sprinkling of ribald re-
marks, smutty stories, ete., and as a re-
sult he reaped a rich harvest, while a
home man would have been promptly
run in and fined for indulgihg in vul-
garity on the street.
At one stage of the game he was giv-
ing a demonstration of how quickly
he could sharpen a blade after drawing
the edge of it across a horseshoe, tak-
ing a# the edge off of it, then restoring
the edge with a little sharpening de-
vice he carried with him for sale. At
this juncture Emanuel Statler re-
quested him to draw the blade across
a sandstone, in order to put his sharpen-
ing device to a further test. There
was nothing wrong about Mr. Statleris
request, and it was made in good faith,
and not for the purpose of insulting
the saleman.
But the salesman, either being afraid
of the test Mr. Statler suggested, or
through a desire to show off his “smart-
ness,” immediately delivered himself
of a lot of vile names, coupled with
threats, which he hurled at Mr. Statler,
all of which was uncalled for and
clearly a violation of borough ordi-
nance No. 15. The fakir should have
been arrested at once and promptly
fined for indulging in epithets and
threats calculated to promote a quarrel
or fight. But the borough policeman
stood there like a man of wood and
allowed the fakir to vent his spleen to
his heart’s content. And the fakir
wasn’t satisfied with assailing his vie-
tim once with his vile tongue, but he
reopened his windy attack a time or
two, until Mr. Statler's wrath was
kindled, and he, too, began to make
use of names that wouldn’t look well in
print. But as soon as the home man
began to retaliate and make use of
epithets which the stranger could
make use of with impunity, the police-
man promptly threatened him with ar-
rest.
The affair was another sample of the
policeman’s partiality and incom-
petence, and those who witnessed it
declare it an outrage, which it was, A
street fakir’s license does not give him
the right to vilify and abuse a sober,
industrious and peaceable citizen. If
a fight had resulted, the blame for it
would have been chargeable only to
the stranger, and to the policeman who
stood by and allowed him to vent his
spleen‘'on 8 man who had in no way
merited the abuse he was subjected to.
Many a man has been shot for less
contumely than the street fakir hurled
at Mr. Statler, and if a fight had been
started as a result of it, the fakir
would either be in the repair shop to-
day or in the hands of the undertaker,
en
Some humane darned fools in Balti-
more are planning for an almshouse
for homeless dogs. and the Baltimore
News expresses the hope that it will be
an improvement on the almshouse of
that city for homeless people. The
Frostburg Mining Journal wisely adds
that if only dogless homes had been
provided for in Baltimore, there might
be less need there for almshouses for
both classes of “homeless” residents.
a
A TWENTY YEAR SENTENCE.
“I have just completed
len’s Arnica Salve, which cured me of
bleeding piles just twenty years ago,”
writes O. S. Woolever, of LeRaysville,
N. Y. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
the worst sores, boils, burns, wounds
and cuts in the shortest time. 25c. at
5-1
heals
a twenty |
year health sentence, imposed by Buck- |
Complete "Republican Primary Re-
turns.
This week we have added a supple-
ment to our paper containing the com-
plete returns of the Republican pri-
mary election held on April 11th. ‘An
examination of the figures will prove
interesting.
The highest vote cast for any candi-
date was cast for Jonas M. Cook, the
only candidate for county chairman of
the Republican perty organization,
who received 5.247 votes.
The lowest vote received by any can-
didate was that cast for Edgar Kyle
for Sheriff, he receiving but. 50 votes in
the entire county. There was a time
when Mr. Kyle was a power in Somer-
set county politics, and he filled the
office of Sheriff about 30 years ago, and
filled it, too, as creditably as any man
who ever held it. The reason of his
political oblivion can all be summed
up in one word, and it is needless to
mention the word.
In the Legislative race, the editor of
this paper ran 12 votes ahead of Dun-
can, who resides in Windber, the lar-
gest town in the Somerset county, and
who has twice been a candidate for
Legislative honors. Duncan ran the
lowest vote of all the candidates for
Assembly, and Knepper the highest.
‘THE SrAR man ran a very good vote,
considering that he was the only one
of the seven candidates for Assembly
who did not make a canvass of the
county, and the further fact that he
had to go up against two political
slates. Furthermore, he didn’t run a
“bull eye” in a single voting precinct
in the county, and Knepper is the only
other candidate for Assembly who was
saved that humiliation.
Two years hence we expect to make
“another try for a seat in the Legislative
halls, being well satisfied with the run
we made in the first heat, and duly
thankful to those who voted for us on
April 11th.
Congressman Cooper’s majority ever
Chrs. F. Hood, for the Congressional
nomination in this district, is about
5000, and all this in the face of the fact
that Mr. Cooper is one of those awful
Penrose men and was not supported by
Roscoe Welfiey.
CURED OF RHEUMATISM.
Mr. Wm. Henry, of Chattanooga,
Tennp., had rheumatism in his left arm,
“The strength seemed to have gone out
of the muscles so that it was useless
for work,” he says. “I applied Cham-
berlain’s Pain Balm and wrapped the
arm in flannel at night, and to my re-
lief I found that the pain gradually left,
me, and the strength returned. In
three weeks the rheumatism had dis-
appeared, and has not since returned.”
If troubled with rheumatism, try a few
applications of Pein Balm. You are
certain to be pleased with the relief
which it affords. For sale ai Miller's
drug store. 5-1
ee
Democratic Primary Returns.
Following we give the official county
vote cast for the Democratic condidates
for County Commissioner and County
Auditor, at the primary election held
on the 11th inst.:
For COMMISSIONER.
Geo. Donges...................... 227
Hirav P. Hay. .......; 2. Pataeee ts 870
Charlies Landman................. 229
Thomas BE. Null................... 239
For AuDITOR.
Geo. W, Baush...:............ ... 263
Samuel A. Kreichman............. 592
W.EUbhl........................ 306
For the other offices little interest
was manifested, and in Boswell borough
and Paint No.1 and 2, not a single Dem-
ocratic vote was cast.
AN INSIDIOUS DANGER.
One of the worst features of kidney
trouble is that it is insidious disease,
and before the victim realizes his
danger he may have a fatal malady.
Take Foley’s Kidney Remedy at the
first sign of trouble, as it corrects ir-
regularities and prevents Bright's dis-
ease and diabetes. Elk Lick Pharmacy,
E. H. Miller, proprietor. 5-1
The Shoe On The Other Foot.
A manufacturer, who is said to be
very disagreeable with his employes,
tells a good story about himself,
A Quaker, who had just arrived from
England, called on him to ask for work.
“Have you any recommendations?”
asked the merchant.
“No,” replied the man, “but I have
friends who will give me one.”
He put his bundle on the floor and
left. In the course of an hour he re-
turned, took up his bundle, and was
leaving the office without a word.
“Didn’t you get your
asked the merchant.
Without halting a moment
or raising
his eyes, tl
ter,butI g
character?” |
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MURDER IN JENNER.
One More Killing Chargeable to
Booze.
As the outcome of a drinking bout
near the Somerset'Coal Company’s No.
2 Jenner mine, John Shultz, a foreigner
who had been employed at the said
mine. is dead, and Antonio Molocas is
in jail charged with murder.
The two men mentioned, in company
with several others, had been drinking
heavily at their boarding house, last
Sunday afternoon, when a free-for-all
fight ensued. Shultz wasstruck with a
heavy beer glass, dying from the ef-
feets of the blow, Monday night.
oe oil eto
RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS,
You will soon receive the congratu-
lations of your friends upon your im-
proved appearance if you will take
Foley’s Kidney Remedy, as it tones up
the system and imparts new life and
vigor. Foley’s Kidney Remedy cures
backache, nervous exhaustion and gall
forms of kidney and bladder troubles.
Commence taking it today. Elk Lick
Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor. 5-1
Drastic New Marriage Rules of
Catholic Chureh.
Catholic sweethearts must make
their engagements in writing, hereaf-
ter. Catholic marriages by Protestant
clergymen or magistrates will be in-
valid. Such marriages have always
been punishable, but the church con-
sidered them binding. They are not
even that under the new Catholic law.
The revised betrothal and marriage
rules were read from every Catholic
pulpit in the world, on Easter, and be-
came effective at noon. Speaking of
engagements, they say:
“Only those are considered valid
which have been contracted in writing,
signed by both parties and by either
the parties’ priest or two witrfesses.”
“Only those marriages are valid,” says
the papal mandate, “which are con-
tracted before the parish priest or by
the ordinary of the place or by priest
designated by either of these and at
least two witnesses.”
In spite of the papal mandate, how-
ever, the laws of our land will continue
to recognize marriages as binding when
made by Protestant clergymen and
duly qualified officers of the law as
when made by Catholic priests.
In THE STAR’s opinion, the proper of-
ficers of the law should always be given
the preference in performing niarriage
ceremonies. We regard marriage
merely as a civil contract between man
and woman, and as such we consider it
should invariably be transacted before
a duly qualified officer of the law. As
for us and our house, we would prefer
to have neither priests nor preachers
mixed up in the marriage ceremonies,
but we are very willing for other
households to be governed by such
rules as they deem proper.
Some people will always view mar-
riage as a holy ordinance, but we do
not. When man and wife are not
properly mated, when their tempera-
ments do not harmonize, when their
marriage produces only hell on earth,
as is often the case, no matter who has
performed the ceremony, we do not be-
lieve that God had a thing to do with
joining people so unsuited to each
other together. On the other hand,
when a man and wife are thoroughly
adapted to one another, their marriage
will be richly blessed, no matter
whether they were joined together by
a Catholic priest, Protestant preacher
or an officer of the law. Provided, of
course, thet the man and wife are good
physical specimens and possessed of
good principles.
In our opinion there can be nothing
sacred or holy about a marriage unless
the marriage is agreeable to the God
of nature, which merely means that the
contracting parties must be by nature
adapted to one another, and when that
is the case, the marriage will be bless-
ed with good results, and a civil con-
tract is all that is necessary to make it
binding.
The Lord Will Provide.
The recent death of Sam Jones, the
great revivalist of Georgia, recalls a
story told as to his attitude with refer-
ence to insurance. Once when preach-
ing a stirring sermon he incidentally
touched on the benefits of insurance.
After the sermon, one of his hearers
approached him and said: “Mr. Jones,
I have always admired you, I have fol-
lowed your words and tried to live up
to your teachings, but here you and I
have to part company.” I am Sorry to
hear you say that,” replied Sam Jones;
“why is it?” “Well,” was the reply,
“you spoke of the benefits of life in-
surance. I do not like that. The
scriptures teach us that the Lord will
: a
| provide.” As quick as a flash was the
| response, “That is true, the Lord will
provide poorhouses for you and your
| kind.”
My Idea of a Teacher.
If only we were given a chance, how
differently women would run all sorts
of things! Recently, two girls I know
passed the ordeal of a teachers’ exami-
nation. One of them we think the
dearest girl in the world. Women love
her ; as for children, she wins their de-
votion in two minutes. They realize
she is still, as much as they, a child at
heart. She can tell such stories as no
fairy-book holds, her memory is a store-
house of the most wonderful poetry,
and the way she can play games, why,
nobody would dream she was twenty-
one! Sheis pretty and plump, and
has such comfortable arms that if they
cuddled the loneliest little tad, on his
first day at school, he would forget
such a thing as homesickness ever ex-
isted. When the girl told me she was
going to be a .school-teacher, I .said.
“Thank God for it ; you will bring hap-
piness into a thousand little hearts!”
To-day she came in with tears rolling
down her cheeks, tosay she could not
teach for a year, anyway, and I was
red-hot. It is all because she failed on
some silly mathematical problem, got
jumbled on Revolutionary War dates,
and forgot where Mozambique Chan-
nel lay. Perhaps my sympathy was
unusually profound, because I should
have failed dismally on such subjects
myself.
The other girl came off with flying
colors. You could not “phase” her on
Mozambique Channel or anything
else ; her head is full of just the stuff
you find in encyclopedias, only it is so
much pleasanter to have a nice, quiet,
unassuming encyclopedia around the
house than this future schoolma’am.
Although only twenty-one, she is as old
as the centuries. She is one of those
little, dried-up prunes-and-prisms, self-
satisfied, heartless, hidebound, old-
maid schoolma’ams you find by the
thousand all over the country,—all
over every country. There can be
only one reason for her existence as a
schoolma’am. Her pecular make-up
seems to be allied to that of a student,
she’s a born “digger,” yet all of her
studies result in no real benefit to any-
body. Itis not much different from
gathering apples and storing them
away in the cellar. Such a nature as
this girl’s has no love or understanding
of children in it. She gets saturated
with the wonderful science of peda-
gogy, and benchfuls of children, to her,
are not children. They are specimens
of the genus, the young human animal,
to be studied and crammed full of
knowledge. The sweet, bubbling exu-
berance of childhood is something to be
quelled, and mischievous little wretches
are incipient criminals. Do the chil-
dren love her? Who can love anything
without a soul? If merciless intuition
exists, it is in the mind of a child.
It seems to me, if I had a voice in
choosing a teacher for my child, I
would look for much outside the dry
bones of scholarship. First of all, I
would want the God-given boon of
personal magnetism, then cheerful-
ness, unselfishness, love, and under-
standing of children, the gift of humor,
if it were possible, a tender heart, and
abounding youthfulness. Of course,
these qualities could not be bracketed
off in examination and given percent-
ages, but they are of greater importe
ance than high standing in the re-
markable array of learning today. It
simply means getting the best possible
work out of a child, to say nothing of
building his character. Look back on
your childhood, as I do, and remember
how enthusiastically you worked for a
teacher you loved, and how differently
for a teacher you didn’t love. It is the
same with us today; we are nothing
but grown-up children, and labor is not
labor when it is done for those we love.
—Mrs. Curtis in Success.
PLENTY OF TROUBLE
is caused by stagnation of the liver
and bowels. To get rid of it and head-
ache and biliousness and the poison
that brings jaundice, take Dr. King’s
New Life Pills, the reliable purifiers
that do the work without grinding or
griping, 25c. at E. H. Miller’s drug
store. 5-1
—— eas.
Not What They Think.
This is one of Ely Perkin’s favorite
stories: “I was on a train going east,
one summer night,” he says, “when
there was a wreck. The train was de-
railed, and all the passengers were
more or less shaken up. Everybody in
the sleeping-car tried to get out as
hurriedly as possible, and in the con-
fusion our clothing got considerably
mixed. I had worn a pair of white
Finally I did find a pair of trousers. I
{ put them on
| leave the
quickly, but I couldn’t
car! You see, they were not
men’s trousers—"’
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ter, a
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were boy's
Fish Story.
Somebody went to the Garrett-coun-
ty fisheries and came back fishless.
*Couldn’t catch any,” he said.
Two gentlemen impeached his talent
for fishing and announced that they
would go up, and, returning, show him
what artists could do.
They came back in gay mood with
about 100 trout.
Shertly after a Garrett-county farmer
came to town and informed the artists
that they were trespassers upon a pri-
vate pond of his, arid in the succeeding
diplomatic negotiations, conducted in
the national language of “Fisherman’s
Luck,” it was determined that the
small assessment of 5 cents per would
amount to only $5, which was paid, and
another incident was closed so tight
that it it were a clock one couldn’t
hear it tick, or if a violin it would seem
out of arms and asleep.—Frostburg
Mining Journal.
HE GOT WHAT HE NEEDED.
“Nine years ago it looked as if my
time had come,” says Mr. C. Farthing,
of Mill Creek, Ind. Ter. “I was so run
down that life hung on a very slender
thread. It was then my druggist rec-
ommended Electric Bitters. JT bought
a bottle and I got what I needed—
strength. I had one foot in the grave,
but Electric Bitters put it back on the
turf again, and I've been well ever
since.” Sold under guarantee at E. H.
Miller’s drug store. 50c. 5-1
Every Day Philanthropy.
A sad and seedy individual found his
way into a Baltimore office building,
gained admission to the offices of one
of the city’s best known legal firms,
and, at last, somehow penetrated to
the sanctum of the senior partner.
“Well,” asked the lawyer, “what do
you want?”
The visitor was nothing if not frank.
“A dollar bill,” he said, “although,”
he added, “if you don’t happen to have
the bill, silver will do.”
The man’s unusual manner caught
the lawyer’s curiosity.
“There you are,” he said, handing
out the money. “And now I should
like to have you tell me how you came
to fall so low in the world.”
The visitor sighed. “All my youth,”
he explained, “I had counted on in-
beriting something from my uncle, but,
when he died, he left all he had to am
orphan asylum.”
“A philanthropist,” commented the
lawyer. “What did his estate consist
of?”
“Ten children,” said the visitor—and
vanished.
CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REM-
EDY AIDS NATURE.
Medicines that aid nature are always
most effectual. Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy acts on this plan. It allays
the cough, relieves the lungs, aids ex-
pectoration, opens the secretions, and
aids nature in restoring the system to
a healthy condition. Thousands have
testified to its superior excellence. For
sale at Miller’s drug store. 5-1
Looked Like It to the Child.
A lady and her little daughter were
walking through a fashionable street
when they came to a portion of the
street strewn with straw, so as te
deaden the noise of vehicles passing =
certain house.
“What’s that for, ma?” said the child,
to which the mother replied: “The
lady who lives in that house, my dear,
has had a little baby girl sent to her.”
The child thought a moment, looked at
the quantity of straw, and said: “Aw-
fully well packed, wasn’t she, ma?”
IMPORTANT DECISION,
It is important that you should de-
cide to take only Foley’s Honey and
Tar when you have a cough or cold, as
it will cure the most .obstinate racking
cough and expel the cold from your
system. Foley's Honey and Tar con-
tains no harmful drugs. Insist upon
having it. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H.
Miller, proprietor. 5-1
TO LAND OWNERS:—We have
printed and keep in stock a supply of
trespass notices containing extracts
from the far-reaching trespass law pass-
ed at the 1905 session of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature. The notices are
printed on good cardboard with blank
line for signature, and they will last
for years in all kinds of weather. Every
duck trousers, but I couldn’t find them. |
and owner should buy some of them,
| as the law requires land owners to post
| their lands if they want the protection
of the latest and best trespass law ever
passed. Send all orders to Tur Sraxr,
| Elk Lick, Pa. tf
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IT IS BAD BUSINESS to allow peo-
le to look in vain th