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“VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY,
MAY 21. 1908S.
NO. 19.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Below will be found the names of the
various county and district officials.
Unless otherwise indicated, their ad-
dresses are Somerset, Pa.
President Judge—Francis J. Kooser.
Member ot Congress—A. F. Cooper,
Uniontown, Pa.
State Senator—William C. Miller,
Bedford, Pa.
Members of Assembly—J. W. Ends-
ley, Somerfield; A. W. Knepper.
’ Sheriff —William C. Begley.
Prothonotary—Charles C. Shafer.
Register—Charles F. Cook.
Recorder—John R. Boose.
Clerk ‘of Courts—Milton H. Fike.
Treasurer—Peter Hoffman.
District Attorney—John 8. Miller.
Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friedline, Stoys-
town,
Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant-
ner; Charles F. Zimmerman Stoys-
town, Robert Augustine, Somerfield.
Solicitors—Berkey & Shaver.
Jury Commissioners—George J.
Schrock, Joseph B. Miller.
Directors, of the Poor—J. ¥. Reiman,
William Brant and William W. Baker.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost;
clerk, C. L. Shaver.
Superintendent of Schools—D. W.
Seibert.
Chairmen Political Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican ;% Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
Prohibition. tf.
WINNING an oratorical consest in a
university seldom helps a young wom-
an to win a husband.
A Dr. Dopsox has succeeded in get-
ting into the limelight with the decla-
ration that nations should not “turn
the other cheek.” It might also be a
good idea for some nations not to dis-
play too much cheek.
’
Tre Omaha Bee says a society for
the suppression of unnecessary noise is
being organized in Denver. It will
certainly have its hands full next July,
when the Democratic National con-
vention is held in that city.
lp pee
PisroL carriers without a license are
now to be séverely punished in
Chicago; but a man who is held up and
robbed at the muzzle of a gun would
hardly think to ask the man behind it
whether he had a license.
“Lire can the native American
know,” says Andrew Carnegie. “what it
means to the born Briton to read of a
land where one man’s privilege is
every man’s right, where there are no
' classes, no man born to rank or office,
' but every man born to what he can at-
tain to, and where merit, not birth, not
what your father was, but what you
are, are the only tests. This is the
prime prize every American is borh to.
~ This is the ‘fair deall,” and it lies at the
root of our sturdy independence, and
makes the American boy more of a
man than the British boy can possibly
be, and the American less of a snob
than the Briton. Matthew Arnold once
said to the writer, explaining an inci-
dent, ‘My dear Carnegie, we are all
snobs. Fight hundred years of .snob-
bery in our veins; we can’t help-it.’ ’—
The Outlook." 2
SoME time ago the Sunday cranks,
otherwise known as the Law and Order
League, had 45 foreign laborers" ar-
rested for working on Sunday. The
men had been engaged in putting in a
switch for the B. & O. Railroad Com-
pany, at a place where the~work could
not well have been performed on any
other day of the week, owing to heavy
and important traffic that would have
been impeded. Judge Van Swearingen,
before whom the men were tried, very
properly discharged them, holding that
Sunday labor is often necessary. In
his opinion Judge Van Swearingen
holds that the testimony shows that
Sunday was the only day that the work
of putting in the switch at!Dunbar
could have been performed to safe-
guard life and property, and for that
reason has ruled that the case be dis-
missed against the defindants. He
alse holds that one information should
have been made instead of 45, and costs
be collected in but one case. It never
seems to dawn upon the Sunday cranks
that this is no longer a one-horse com-
monwealth. as was the case in 1794,
when the Blue Laws were passed, and
that there is much labor actually
necessary on Sunday. We do not be-
lieve in useless or senseless work on
Sunday, or in Sabbath desecration in
the generally accepted term ; but of all
brands of Sabbath desecration, none is
more hideous in our estimation than
that indulged in by the Sunday cranks
who delight in sneaking about on that
day and resorting to all manner of de-
ception and playing the spy in order to
have men arrested for committing
Barmnless nfractions against the Blue
JAWS Of 1(94.
WAS HE INSANE?
The following account of a horrible
deed committed by a Methodist cler-
gyman has been sent out in the form
of a United Press telegram: ~
Fairmont, W. Va, May 18—Follow-
ing a series of revival meetings which
he had been conducting at his church
near Rossman, near this city, the Rev.
C. 8S. Cossman, aged 50 years, a promi-
nent Methodist minister, slashed his
beautiful young wife’s throat with a
carving knife, early today, causing in-
stant death. The minister declars he
was suffering with a fit of temporary
insanity. and that reason returned to
him when he gazed upon his. wife’s
lifeless body. .
The revival has been an unusually
successful one, and many new mem-
berships have been added to the
church. In discussing the . revival
with his wife, the Kev. Cossman sud-
denly seized a butcher knife from the
table and made for Mrs. Cossman
She escaped into the yard, where she
was overtaken by the minister. The
woman battled desperately for her life,
but Cossman cut her throat from ear
to ear. He then surrendered himself
to the police. Mrs. Cossman was 30
years old, and was a member of a
prominent Fairmont family.
Now, the question arrises, was Coss-
man’s insafiity real or feigned? It is
as liable to have been one as the other.
Many of us who live in the country
have seen so-called religious revivals
that resembled a lunatic asylam turned
loose, more than anything else—preach-
ers and layman, self-styled saints and
self-acknowledged sinners, all jumbled
together in a confusion of shouts,
groans and frenzied screams that
would rival any Indian ghost dance
ever indulged in by the savages of the
Western plains.
When people allow their religious
zeal, or rather their fanaticism and
bigotry to get away with their brains,
they are liable to commit any crime
from fornication to murder, and many
ate the instances when such crimes are
committed, and the perpetrators there-
of set up the plea that they were labor-
ing under the delusion that they were
but doing the will of God.
Revivals of the howling, roaring,
jumping kind are not’ a part of the
Methodist creed. neither does the
Methodist church or any other denom=
ination sanction them. Such carry-
ings-on are indulged in only in certain
localities, and misguided, frenzied,
emotional people, and not the church
are responsible for them. Only preach-
ers of the shallow-brained variety tol-
erate revivals of the Ghost Dance
variety, and we are pleased tonote that
revivals of that kind are rapidly dying
out. 7
Whether the Rev. (?) Cossman com-
mitted wilful murder in order to get
rid of his wife for another that he may
have fallen in love with by coming in
close contact at his revival, or whether
be was really insane at the time he
slew his wife, is an open question.
Whether a dangerous criminal or a
dangerous fool, his awful deed should
be thoroughly investigated, and he
| should be dealt with in such way and
manner as to make others safe from
any further depredations on his part.
SERIOUS RESULTS FEARED.
You may well fear serious results
from a cough or cold, as pneumonia
and consumption start with a cold.
Foley’s Honey and Tar cures the most
obstinate coughs or colds and prevents
serious results. Refuse substitutes.
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, pro-
prietor.’ 6-1
A Delightful Musicale.
A very delightful and creditable mu-
sicale was given in Hay’s opera house:
Tuesday evening, by the pupils of Miss
Della Brown, Salisbury’s able piano
instructor.
The pupils who participated were
Florede Lichliter, Ruth Shaw, Grace
Brown, Helen Shaw and Florence
Maust, all of Salisbury, and Irma Hay
and Louise Seibert, of Berlin. Miss
Ada Livengood was also on the pro-
gram, but could not participate on ac-
count of sickness.
The audience was large, and all who
were present agree that the young
misses showed marked ability for ama-
tears. The skillful manner in which
the various selections were rendered
was very creditable to instructor and
pupils alike, and will undoubtedly
prove to be a good advertisement for
Miss Brown, as it ought to.
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION CURED.
One who suffers from chronic con-
stipation is in danger of many serious
ailments. Foley’s Orino Laxative
cures chronic constipation, as it aids
digestion and stimulates the liver and
bowels, restoring the natural action of
these organs.
day, and you will feel better at once.
ate or gripe, and is pleasant to take.
Refuse substitutes. Elk Lick Phar-
macy, E. H, Miller, proprietor. 6-1
= : | there.
Commence taking it to- |
Foley’s Orino Laxative does not nause- | €
to get into, the sweeter
THE STANDARD’S POOR LOGIC.
+ On Friday afternoon, a large traction
engine was run over the paved streets
from the Somerset House to the ‘depot,
| chipping the bricks in the course of its
path. There should be an orginance
against such use of the paved "streets,
with'a heavy fine penalty. Owners of
traction engines do not contribute to
the cost of paved streets, and they
should not be permitted to use them,
especially when destinations can be
reached otherwise.—Somerset Stand-
ard.
The above from our esteemed con-
temporary, which appeared under the
caption of “Improper Use of Paved
Streets,” strikes us as containing very
poor logic. It would be a piece of rank
injustice to the owners of steam
threshers to be forbidden to use the
streets of Somerset, simply because the
streets are paved, and because the
owners of the traction engines did not
help to pay for the paving. If che pav-
ing is not sufficiently substantial to
withstand the weight of traction en-
gines, then it is not as substantial as it
ought to be, and that is no fault of the
men who own traction engines. The
people residing in Somerset borough
help to wear out the township roads
without coptributing a cent towards
the building and repairing of the same,
but the Standard would strenuously
object to the town people being de-
barred from using them for reasons as
flimsy as it seeks to debar the traction
engines from the paved streets of Som-
erset. /
, Since the people of our county-seat
are getting enough moss off of them-
selves to indulge in a few public 1m-
provements that they should have had
a quarter of a century ago, they should
see to it that the improvements are of
a sufficiently substantial character for
all needed and legitimate. purposes.
Furthermore, they should not be so
nasty nice with their improvements as
to threaten the honest yeomaury of
the county with heavy fines for using
them. The average man with the
traction engine is not as big a nuisance
on the paved streets of a town, as is the
average town automobilist with his ma-
chine on the country roads.
Partly Wrong Again, as Usual.
Young America is progressive. Mr.
“Juck” Beachy, of Elk Lick township,
aged about 18, and Miss Huldah Im-
hoff, aged 16, went to Cumberland,
Saturday, and procured a marriage li-
cense. They were married Sunday af-
ternoon, at Grantsville. The bride-
groom is one of the graduating class of
the Salisbury High School.—Meyers-
dale Commercial.
The Commercial is partly wrong
again, as usual. The bridegroom above
mentioned is not a graduate of the Sal-
isbury High School, or of any other
school. Our high school seldom turns
out a graduate from the ranks of the
young men, as most of them prefer to
neglect their education and bitterly
regret it afterward. The youthful
bridegroom in this case is the second
son of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Beachy, and
the bride is a Meyersdale girl. Of
course, it was a marriage without the
consent of the fathers and mothers,
their best friends and safest advisers,
and there isn’t a particle of doubt that
the young couple would have acted far
more wisely by putting in at least a
few more years at diligent study, in
school, before being joined in wed-
lock.
- Marriages of this kind sometimes
turn out all right, but in most cases
they do not. However, we hope that
in this case everything will work to-
gether for good, and the young couple
has THE STAR’S best wishes.
Advice to a Young Man.
Remember, my son, you have to
work. Whether you handle a pick or a
pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books,
dig ditches or edit a paper, ring an
auction bell or write funny things, you
must work. If you look around, you
will see the men who are the most able
to live the rest of their days without
work are the men who work the
hardest. Don’t be afraid of killing
yourself with overwork. It is beyond
your power to do that on the sunny
side of thirty. They die sometimes,
but it is because they quit work at six
p- m., and don’t get home till two a. m.
It’s the interval that kills, my son. The
work gives you an appetite for your
meals ; it lends solidity to your slum-
bers; it gives you a perfect and grateful
appreciation of a holiday. There are
young men who do not work, but the
world is not proud of them. It does
not know their names even; it simply
speaks of them as “old So-and-So’s
boys.” Nobody likes them ; the great,
busy world doesn’t know that they are
So find out what you want to
be and do, and take off your coat and
make a dust in the world. The busier
you are the less harm you will be apt
will be your
sleep, the brighter and happier your
| holidays, and the better satisfied the
| world will be with you.—Bob Burdette.
|
FINE SHOWING.
Bl ei
Such is the Last Statement of the
First National Bank of Frost-
burg, Md.
The report of the condition of the
First National Bank of Frostburg, Md..
at the close of business on May 14th,
1908, is, as usual, highly creditable to
that institution, as well as most satis-
factory to its many depositors, many of
whom reside in Somerset county. Pa.
The First National of Frostburg is a
top-notcher in every sense of the word,
and ranks high among the many safe
and conservative national banks in the
United States. Few banks have en-
joyed so phenomenal a growth in. busi-
ness, and none are managed by a more
courteous, yet safe and conservative
set of business men. They are good
advisers, and have the most up-to-date
banking equipments to be found any-
where. No element of safety is lacking,
either in the equipment or the man-
agement of the bank, and with its re-
sources of over a million aud a quarter
of dollars, the First National has a dis-
tinction seldom attained by banks lo-
cated in towns the size of Frostbnrg.
The bank aforesaid is a United States
depository, pays interest on time de-
posits, and welcomes accounts, whether
large or small. It is one of the strong-
est banks in Maryland, and offers every
accomidation consistent with good
banking.
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE
ROAD.
mere eres
(He was a friend to: man, and lived in a
house by the side of the road.—Homer.)
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their
paths
Where the highways never ran;
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side of the
road,
‘Where the race of men go by—
The men who are good and the men who
are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner’s seat,
Or hurl the cynic’s ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the
road
And be a friend to man.
I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor cf hope,
The men who faint with strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor
their tears—
Bothare parts of an infinite plan;
Let me live in a house by the side of the
road
And be a friend to man.
I know there are brook-gladdened meadows
ahead, ;
And mountains of wearisome height;
That the road passes on through the long
afternoon, $
And stretches away to night.
But still I rejoice when the travelers re-
joice, |
And weep with the strangers that moan,
,Norlive in my house by the side or the road
Like a man who dwells alone.
Let me live in my house by the side of the
road,
“Where the race of men go by—
They are good, they are bad, they are weak,
they are strong,
Wise, foolish—so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner’s seat
Or hurl the cynic’s ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the
road
And be a friend to man.
—Sam Walter Foss.
Heywoop declines to become a can-
didate for President. He wys very re-
cently a candidate for something de-
cidedly more unpleasant, says the
Connellsville Courier. The fact is he
was a candidate for the gallows, having
been charged with complicity in the
murder of Ex-Governor Stunenberg, of
Idaho. Many people think it a great
pity that Heywood was not elected
when a candidate for the gallows, and
even THE STAR is of the opinion that
he was justly entitled to an election of
that kind. A little good hemp properly
applied to Eugene V. Debs would also
be a fine thing for the country, for his
blood-thirsty, insane vaporings have
made assassins and other criminals by
the score. :
May Have Fusion in County.
On Friday, several prominent busi
ness men from other seciions of the
county came to Somerset to confer
with parties at the County-Seat, rela-
tive to effecting fusion in the county,
next fall, on candidates for the Legis-
laturd. It is proposed to endorse one
of the men on the Democratic ticket,
and select some Republican as his run-
ning mate. A meeting will be held at
Somerset in June, at which representa-
tives from the various districts will be
present, when the matter will be fully
discussed
{ Fusion has been attempted repeated-
| ly in Somerset county, but it has met
| with very little success.—Somerset
| on the back seat arose,
| the following:
EVERYBODY HAPPY.
Everybody’s happy as far as I kin see,
Though when it comes to reasons we
are bound to disagree.
Folks thai talk prosperity are happy for
the cheer
That comes when crops are loomin’ up
in plenty far an’ near.
Happy ’cause the country’s got mater-
ials an’ men
‘To take whatever starts out wrong an’
set it right again;
Happy for the present, which is silenc-
in’ regret,
An’ happy for the future which is look-
in’ better yet.
Of course, we don’t pretend that life is
all a grand, sweet song;
But folks can’t sing forever; they are
bound to tire fore long.
But there’s room for everybody in this
big old world of ours,
An’ those that like the briars, they kin
easy dodge the flowers. 5
There is always some one comin’ out
stirrin’ up a row
That will bring a passin’ wrinkle to the
most contented brow—
An’ some of us is happy ’cause the
blessin’s fall so thick,
An’ some of us is happy ‘cause we've
got a chance to kick.
—Exchange.
Chasing the Wild Elephant.
From Forest and Stream.
Long before the elephant camp is
made, the trackers understand pretty
thoroughly where the wild ‘elephants
are to be found, and when they have
learned of this they keep constantly in
touch with the herd. The hills which
the wild animals range are rough and
broken, covered with forests, and full
of ravines and underbrush. Down to-
ward the lower ground are flat river
valleys and parks where but few trees
grow, and again there may be great
beds of reeds or high grass over which
a man on an elephant can hardly see.
To follow the wild elephants at top
speed over rough ground and through
tangled forests is difficult and dis-
couraging for man and beast alike, and
it is the business of the man- who man-
ages the hunt to so use his domestic
animals and his beaters as to drive the
wild ones out of the rough ground and
down on the flats.
They do not willingly start off in a
race of this kind ; they much prefer to
hide. to move silently among the trees
and vanish into a thicket. or among the
scrub of some nullah, or they may get
into some patch of high grass, or reeds,
where it is impossible to see them, and
where the domestic elephants some-
times quite lose themselves. Some-
times they meet the wild ones, and
fight with them, and if a tame elephant
can hold a wild one, until another tame
one comes up, the wild one’s capture is
quite certain. Then the driver of one
of the tame elephants throws his noose
over the wild one’s head. It is a large
noose, and while a part of it rests on
the back of the neck, another part falls
down in front and touches the ele-
phant’s sensitive trunk which he at
once curls up out of harm’s way under
his chin, so that the lower part of the
loop falls under his neck, and the men
who hold the end of the rope can draw
it tight.
Now comes an effort to tire out and
discourage the captive. His enemies
of his own race butt into him, knock
him on the sides, and two of them get-
ting on his right and left lean up
against him and squeeze him. At last
he gives up and ceases to resist, and
presently his legs are tied by men who
slip under the bellies of the domestic
elephants and put ropes around the
feet of the wild ones, and then the
tame elephants push the captive along
te some point where he can be tied to
a stout tree. This may be the elephant
camp, or some other place nearer to
the point of capture. Here he may
struggle and fight for a long time, or he
may give up soon. There is as much
difference in the temperaments of ele-
phants as of people.
Once the captive has reached the
camp, he sees men about him all the
time, he is constantly guarded by the
tame elephants, and if he attempts to
resist instruction he is punished. After
a few months’ training he can be
mounted, and within a year he is prob-
ably as learned as most of his tame fel-
lows.
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———
A Wonderful Institution.
A school teacher, after spending 45
strenuous moments explaining the
mysteries of physiology to the primary
class, sounded their intelligence at-
tention by asking the dofinition of
“vertebrae.”
| Standard.
“The vertebrae is a long, wavy bone.
My head sits on one end of it, and I sit |
on the other.”—Philadelplia Public
Ledger.
:
i
| A Perplexing Alternative.
| In Prince Georges county, Tuesday,
prohibition of the liquor traffic was de-
feated by a big majority, a result
achieved by ‘‘the almost solid voting
strength of the negroes.”
It is further stated that the liquor
people won so largely by “promising to
return the favor in a combined effort to
defeat the disfranchising amendment,
which will be voted on in the fall of
1909.”
Which raises the question—what will
the temperance voter of Allegany—re-
publican, democrat, or prohibitionist,
who believes disfranchisement as well
as the liquor traffic is a erime—what
will he do at next year’s election?
Will he vote against disfranchise-
ment and save the liquor traffic?
Or for disfranchisement and thus
secure prohibition?
In briefer terms, which “crime” will
be vote for?
For nothing is surer than this—that
a fusion between pro-liquor and anti-
disfranchisement in Maryland will
wipe out prohibition for years and
years to come.
And if fusion be necessary to mutual
success, the saloon man and the darkey
will fuse.—Frostburg Mining Journal.
Looked After He Leaped.
“Prof. Helbach, T presume?” said he.
“Yes, sir.”
“Are you alone?”
“Yes, sir.”
“May I lock the door?”
And he did so; then, having satisfied
himself that no one was in, he placed a
large bundle done up in a yellow hand-
kerchief on the table and opened it. It
contained a yellow mineral substance.
“There, look at that.”
“Well,” said the professor, “I see it.”
“What do you call that, professor?”
“I call it iron pyrites.”
“What!” said the man; “isn’t that
gold?”
“No,” said the professor; “it’s good
for nothing—it’s pyrites.”
And putting some in a shovel over
the fire it soon evaporated up the
chimney.
“Well, said the visitor, with a woebe-
gone look, “there’s a widow in our
town has a whole hill full of that, and
I’ve married her.”—Detroit News Tri-
bune.
Unionized Hennery Rules.
No hen shall lay more than one egg
a day, unless by unanimous consent of
the Amalgamated Federation of Barn-
yard Animals.
Pullets shall not lay more than one
egg in two days, and only under the
direction of a union hen.
Apprentice pullets shall only cackle,.
hut shall not lay at all.
Fryers, broilers and roasters shall
neither cackle nor lay, except by
special dispensation.
Wherever possible, hens that have’
been admitted to full membership shall
lay in out-of-the-way places, such as
beneath old barns and corncribs; in
haystacks and other places as shall be
difficult to find. ‘
Cackling within fifty feet of a new-
laid egg is positively prohibited.
Hens that lay storage eggs are ex-
empted from the operation of all these
rules, save Rule 5.—Ex.
Another Kicker.
Uncle Abraham was fishing in the
mill pond. Forthe fifth time he had
baited his hook, only to find that some
wary denizen of the sluggish pond had
gotten away with the worms.
“Land sake, Marcus,” drawled the
old man as he raked about in the can,
“I don’t blame Marsy Roosevelt for
doin’ so much kickin’.”
“What about, pap?” asked his small
son
“Why, dis heah re-batin’ system. It
am a perfect nuisance.”—Trade.
————————
A Great Convenience.
“But don’t you sell suits on instal-
ments?”
“Yes, but we charge more that way.”
“How much more?”
“Twice as much, and you pay half
down.”—Boston Transcript.
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does
not pay to advertise, he is simply ad-
mitting that he is conducting a busi-
ness that is not worth advertising, a
business conducted by a man unfit to
do business, and a business which
should be advertised for sale. tf
BUY A TYPEWRITER !—See the
Pittsburg Visible, at Tae Star office.
None better, no other quite so simple
in construction, Holds world’s record
A small and anxious boy |
and delivered |
for speed. Veryeasy tooperate. Price
very reasonable.
tf P. L. L1vENGoOD, Agent
San
All kinds of Legal and Commercial
Blanks, Judgment Notes, ete., for sale
| at TEE STAR office. tf
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