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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA. THURSDAY. JULY 16. 1908.
NO. 24:
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT,
Of Ohio.
For Vice President,
JAMES 8S. SHERMAN,
Of New York.
STATE.
Judge of Superior Court,
WILLIAM D. PORTER.
DISTRICT.
Congress, 23rd District,
ALLEN F. COOPER.
COUNTY.
Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A. W. KNEPPER.
Sheriff,
CHARLES II. WEIMER.
Auditor,
W. H. H. BAKER,
JACOB 8. MILLER.
Recorder of Deeds,
NORMAN E. BERKEY.
Clerk of Courts,
F. A. HARAH.
Register of Wills,
BERT F. LANDIS.
Treasurer,
RUSSELL G. WALKER.
2 Prothonotary,
JACOB B. GERHARD.
Poor Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County Commissioner,
.R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
County Surveyor,
IRENIS 8. PYLE.
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.
Sherif—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
Schrock, Joseph B. Miller.
Directors, of the Poor—J. F. Reiman,
William Brant and William W. Baker.
Attorney for Directors, H. F. Yost;
clerk, C. L. Shaver.
Superintendent of Schools—D. ‘W.
Seibert.
Chairmen Politiesl Organizations—
Jonas M. Cook, Republican; Alex B.
Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin,
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THE licensed saloon is the greatest
curse of this or any other age.
Mgr. BryaN has already been beaten
twice by an Ohio man. Now comes the
third bump.
Tae home has all right to shape
young manhood, and the saloon has no
right to debauch it.
re
Avr doubt about the strengthfjof the
Chicago platform has been removed.
Mr. Bryan has denounced it.
|
WHATEVER be our political principles
and party, this subject of temperance
underlies all political policies and par-
tisanships.
THE liquor traffic is a soulless monop-
oly, is the greatest foe to the laboring
class and an ever-present menace to
their homes.
“Wiru Bryan defeated this year, who
will be the Democratic candidate for
President in 1912?” asks the Savannah
News. Bryan, of course!
You might as well try to regulate
the yellow fever as the liquor traffic.
There is only one way to deal with it
—sweep it out of existence.
THE women who buys her goods at
the nearest corner store is just as well
off, and just as happy in life, as the
friend that is ripping, tearing
another in the depariment store.
and |
snorting from one bargain counter to |
Mk. Bryax stated many months ago
that he would take the nomination only
in case it was fairly forced on him, and
then he wentgabout and forced it on.
Tue store-keeper who does not ad-
vertise, and who does not systematize
his business, might as well put up his
shutters. Judicious advertising means
financial success. Never in the history
of the commercial world has advertis-
ing occupied so dominant a place as it
does today.
Mg. BryAN says if he is elected
President he will never run for that of-
fice again. Probably not, but he may
try it. The fact is he never did run
for President. True, he has been
thrice nominated, but if he ever did
any real running, the official count
failed to show it.
THE liquor traffic is a commercial
fraud. Based upon pure selfishness, it
takes a blessing, it returns a curse. It
hurts, it rots, it kills. It ruthlessly
tramples human rights under foot.
Sound reason cannot approve of it.
The traffic is against nature, and na-
ture is against the traffic. It should
never be licensed in any form or for
any price.
THE citizens of any prosperous town
are always public-spirited and united.
Stand together, work for the interests
of the whole town. Always stand
ready to do your part. Don’c grumble
and spend your (ime in prophesying
failures, but help to make every enter-
prise a success, be it great or small.
Be energetic and enterprising, and your
example will be imitated.
SoME boys do not earn $20 a year, yet
they can afford tosmoke cigarettes and
to use tobacco in other forms. Boys
should think it over seriously before
commencing to use tobacco. Boys who
do not use the weed or loaf continuous-
ly on the streets are much better
models to follow. No boy should wish
to pattern after a profane, foul-mouth-
ed, worthless street loafer,
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THERE is a great deal in writing an
attractive advertisement. Do you give
your advertisement your best atten-
tion? If you expect to do a large
business on the fact that you know so
many people, you will get left. The
ones you don’t know are in the great
majority. How are you to reach them
in the most favorable manner at the
least expense? By placing an attrac-
tive advertisement in the newspaper.
AccorpiNg to William E. Curtis,
President Roosevelt’s ambition is to
occupy a seat in the United States Sen-
ate from the state of New York, after
the expiration of his presidential term,
following a trip around the world. He
is said to make no secret of -his desires
in this direetion. Apropos this ‘there
is talk in Washington of making ex-
Presidents members of the Senate as
AN advocate of saloons says that
they are licensed for the public good;
whereupon an exchange puts to him
some hard questions, as follows: What
good have saloon-keepers ever done?
They live without work. Is that a
public good? They consume a sub-
stance of the people and produce noth-
ing. Is that a public good? They live
on the money that rightfully belongs
to wives and children of drinking men.
Is that a public good? They cause
eighty per cent. of all the crime that is
committed. Is that a public good?
“In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth and all things
therein. He then created man and
woman and left the loafers on the
corners, and in due time they multi-
plied and then spread into postoffices
and depots and the stores. In these
places they sit and explain state and
national problems that have vexed
great minds, While he is thus en-
gaged, his wife is out washing for her
neighbors, and the poor, helpless chil-
dren are left at home taking care of
themselves as best they can. There is
nothing more noticeable than a loafer.”
TrerE should be no “faction” in any
city. The property of one individual,
and every improvement made,enhances
the value of all property in the corpor-
ation. Our city is simply one big
family. When this is discorded there
is little progress. When there is a
united pull for anything, its accom-
plishment is made easy. Envy, jeal-
ousy and hatred are things to be de-
spised. Envy is a canker that gnaws
at the heart and makes folks sour, dis-
gruntled and unhappy ; jealousy warps
the intellect and makes us nufair in
passing judgment. Hatred doesn’t pay |
even from a sordid point of view.
|
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Tae man who edits the average
| country newspaper cannot well avoid |
| some of the “Demmies”
treading on somebody’s toes contin-
ually ; must expect to be censured of-
ten for unintentional failures; must
expect hard work and little thanks;
must expect to be called a coward be-
cause he does mot “pitch into” every-
thing that somebody thinks is wrong,
and a fool if he speaks out too plainly
on public evils; he must expect to
grind other people’s axes—and turn the
grindstone himself. Still we think it is
one of the noblest professions on earth;
the one in which the earnest man can
do the most good to his fellow man,
and in which an honorable man can
wield much power for good.
MeN who contribute money to buy
votes and to bribe the people’s repre-
sentatives, as well as those who dis-
burse it, are deadly enemies of the re-
public. Their greed and love of power
are greater than their love of country.
They impair popular respect for law,
which is the only safeguard for life and
property ; and it will be an evil day for
the nation when its preservation de-
pends upon their patriotism and cour-
age. They may masquerade in the
gurb of righteousness, and address the
people in the language of patriotism,
but their virtues are assumed; they
are hypocrites and assassins of liberty,
and would welcome a dynasty rather
than shed their blood in defense of
popular government.
THERE are too many boys and girls in
the country and city, more in the latter
than in the former, who are prone to
look upon work as beneath them.
There are thousands of them on the
threshold of maturity who retain the
same views and habits which found en-
couragement in their earlier, years.
What becomes of this class of people?
Some of them awaken, and after a
desperate struggle overcome the habit
and learn to work, to save, and to pre-
pare for the™inevitable “rainy day.”
Many of them, however, drift and drift
until they become acceptable recruits
in the hobo army. Then they speedily
reach the conclusion that things are
mighty unequal in this world ; that the
advantages are all with the rich, and
that a poor man has no show.
AFTER all, there is a good deal in
talk. Let a man talk dull times and
it is infectious—everybody will talk
dull times. Instead of hustling around
to take care of what business there is,
they all sit down and mope over dull
times. If a customer does happen to
drop into one of these “dull times”
stores he actually gets frightened out
of one-half as much as he expects to
buy. because things look so blue. He
catches the spirit of the store and re-
solves to hang on to all his money
with a death grip, even if his business
goes to pieces on account of running
short of goods to fill up the empty
shelves. The bugbear of hard times
should be sat down upon. It is doing
more to kill business than anything
else. Tell a man he is sick, keep it up,
and you will eventually hound him to
death.
Dox’r laugh at a boy who magnifies
his place. You may see him coming
from the postoffice with a big bundle
of his employer's letters, which he dis-
plays with ag much _ pride. as though
they were his own. He feels import-
ant, and looks it, but he4s proud of his
place. He is attending to business.
He likes to have the world know that
he is at work for a busy concern. The
bay who says “we” identifies himself
with the concern ; its interests are his.
He sticks up for its credit and reputa-
tion. He takes pleasure in his work
and hopes to say we are in earnest.
The boy will reap what he sows if he
keeps his grit and sticks to his job.
You may take off your hat to him as
one of the future solid men of the town.
Let his employer do the right thing by
him; check him kindly if he shows
signs of being too big for his place,
counsel him as to his habits and asso-
ciates, and occasionally show him a
pleasant prospect of advancement. A
little pride does an honest boy a heap
of good. Good luck to the boy who
says “we.”
SHORTLY before the Democratic Na-
tional Convention assembled at Den-
ver, some practical joker put out a re-
port that President Roosevelt would
likely be nominated for Vice President
on the Democratic ticket, and that he
would accept the nomination. Ridicu-
lous as the report was, it is neverthe-
less a fact that many Democrats be-
lieved it, and they were nearly tickled
to death over the prospect of seeing
such a thing come to pass. They
| figured that Roosevelt on their ticket
would make Bryan’s election sure, but
not quite so
sanguine of success as others, thought.
it would be safer and more appropriate
to give “Teddy” first place, and Bryan |
second on the ticket. That would have
been placing the best man at the head
of the ticket, of course, but even such
an arrangement could but prove
futile. President Roosevelt had a hard
time to keep the Republican nomina-
tion from being thrust upon him—a
nomination almost as good as an elec-
tion, and for him to decline that and
then accept an empty honor at the
hands of a defunct and degenerate po-
litical organization like the Democratic
party, would have caused at least nine-
tenths of the American people to point
the finger of scorn at him and say:
“Behold the man is crazy!” The Re-
publican party has statesmen in abun-
dance for all needed purposes, but has
none to lend to the Democratic party
to pull that discredited and defunct
organization out of the mire of defeat,
the only place it is fit to occupy.
Tae editor of today has to get his
nose down to the grindstone and keep
it there sixteen hours per day, and 365
days in the year, or he falls by the way-
side. There are men who quit work
Saturday night and rest until Monday
morning. They lay aside business
cares at five or six o’clock every even-
ing, and do not resume them until
seven or eight the next morning. Not
so with your editor. He has no elegant
leisure. He knows no hours, no Sun-
day, no night. When he goes to a
party, or to church, or on an alleged
pleasure trip, it is all in the line of
duty. Withal, your editor man is a
cheerful, long-suffering soul, going
about doing good in his humble way.
He returns good for evil. He writes
long puffs of church sociables, and in
return therefor accepts a chunk of
cake that would sink an ironclad, if it
is offered to him, which is seldom. He
notes the arrival of all the babies in his
neighborhood, and tells how pretty
they are. He rejoices with the gay
and mourns with those who are sad.
He booms every enterprise which
makes his community rich, and goes
about himself clothed in gunny sack
coats and one suspender. He glories
over the fortune of his neighbor, and
meekly eats his own repast of boiled
corn cobs and colored labels off tomato
cans. He can write a sermon, an ac-
count of a prize fight, a political speech
an obituary notice, poetry, split wood,
pitch hay, wash dishes, preside at a
camp meeting, curry horses, quote law
or gospel, or anything else on a mo-
ments notice.
BRYAN AND KERN.
At the Democratic National Conven-
tion held in Denver, last week, William
Jennings Brvan, of Nebraska, was nom-
inated for President of the United
States, and John Worth Kern, of In-
diana, for Vice President.
Mr. Bryan’s nomination was a fore-
gone conclusion, but Mr. Kern was a
“dark horse” candidate scarcely dream-
ed of before the convention.
Mr. Bryan needs no introduction to
the people of the United States, for
aside from one Alton B. Parker, he has
twice been the most thoroughly licked
man that ever entered the Presidential
race, and the indications are that the
third licking, which he is sure to get
next November, will also be a most
thorough one.
John Worth Kern will be John not
worth a durn after the November
election, speaking in a political sense.
He is scarcely known outside of Indi-
ana, and after the election he will sink
back into his former obscurity and be
forgotten before Christmas. Not so
with “Billy” Bryan, however. The
Nebraska “windmill” will be a bigger
man after his next defeat than he
would ever be if elected, for your uncle
“Billy,” remember, is the man who has
made a plaything of the Democratic
party and a laughing stock of all his
rivals who have been posing as its
leaders and perpetuators.
Such a man will not soon be forgot-
ten, for in making a plaything of the
Democratic donkey for his own finan-
cial gain, Mr. Bryan has put the old
knock-kneed, ringboned, spavined,
wind-broken thing to the only use it is
fit for. The Democratic party has long
ago ceased to be fit or competent to
manage the affairs of this great and
progressive nation.
ln
Heat prostrates the nerves. In the
summer one needs a tonic to off-set the
customary hot weather Nerve and
Strength depression. You will feel
better within 48 hours after beginning
to take such a remedy as Dr. Shoop’s
Restorative. Its prompt action in re-
storing weakened nerves is surprising.
Of course, you won’t get entirely strong
in a few days, but each day you can
actually feel the improvement. That
tired, lifeless, spiritless, feeling will
quickly depart when using the Restor-
ative. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative will
sharpen a failing appetite; it aids di-
geston ; it will strengthen the weaken-
Kidneys and Heart by simply rebuild- |
ing the worn-out nerves that these or- |
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and be convinced. Sold by all dealers. |
THE BRYAN IDOL.
Fiery Remarks by the Democratic
New York Sun.
The political situation is summed up
in a rather unusual, somewhat lurid,
but distinetly forcible manner by the
picturesque New York Sun, as follows:
“At Chicago in 1896 a mob drunk on
the borrowed rhetoric of Mr. Bryan
snatched him from seedy obscurity and
set him on the road to fortune. At
Denver now another mob, carefully
trained and commanded, forces his
‘nomination.
“The chaste ballad, yelled so agree-
able in the ears of the ladies at the
convention, ‘What the Hell Do We
Care?’ expresses exactly the Bryanic
feelings. The Eastern States are
thrown away; the election is lost in
advance; a little maniac colony like
Oklahoma makes more noise and has
more influence in the Convention than
States whose electoral votes are indis-
pensable to a candidate who is to have
any chance to win.
“What the hell do we care?
“In the name of Democracy Demo-
cratic principles are violated, What
the hell do we care? Mr. Bryan is
rich and must be richer. His weekly
newspaper must be boomed. His nom-
ination and his platform are good
things for him. As for the party,
What the hell do we care?
“There are lovelier refrains, but this
one speaks exactly the mind of Bry-
anite and anti-Bryanite. The Bryanite
has performed his obligation to his god.
The anti-Bryanite has no use for poli-
tics until that idol is broken and fired
out.”
To all this the Connellsville Courier
adds the following:
“If the agricultural signs do not ut-
terly fail, we will have excellent crops,
and if the political signs do not utterly
fail, the Republican ticket will be
elected by a bigger landslide than that
of 1904. The Peerless One will be
buried under the Avalanche, and a
great sigh of relief will go up from
both Bryanics and Benevolent Assim-
ilators as in the chorus they will ex-
claim: .
“What the hell do we gare?”
THE REMEDY THAT DOES.
“Dr. King’s New Discovery is the
remedy that does the healing others
promise, but fail to perform,” says Mrs.
E. R. Rierson, of Auburn Centre, Pa.
“It is curing me of throat and lung
trouble of long standing, that other
treatments relieved only temporarily.
New Discovery is doing me so much
good that I feel confident its continued
use for a reasonable length of time will
restore me to perfect health.” This re-
nowned cough and cold remedy and
throat and lung healer is sold at E. H:
Miller's drug store. 50c. and $1.00.
Trial bottle free. 8-1
Electric Railway Chartered.
The Oakland, Swallow Falls &
Uniontown Electric Railway was char-
tered here last week with a number of
local people as incorporators. The
charter for this electric railway secures
a route from Oakland to the- hydro-
electric plant two miles below the
Swallow Falls. From George D.
Browning's mill, the main line will pass
up Tolliver Run and Muddy Creek to
Cranesville, and from there to the
Pennsylvania state line by the most di-
rect route to Uniontown. J.B. Hogg,
consulting engineer for Youghiogheny
Light & Power Co., and several other
prominent Pennsylvania gentlemen,
will at once secure a Pennsylvania
charter to complete the road from the
state line to Uniontown. It is quite
likely that the New York city bankers
who are now arranging to finance the
hydro-electric plant will also finance
this important railroad.
During this week the route for the
double track electric railway from
Swallow Falls to Oakland will be sur-
veyed and located. Papers will be
signed by all land owners who have
conceded free rights of way.—Oakland
Journal.
Get my “Book No. 4 For Women.”
It will give weak women many valuable
suggestions of relief—and with strictly
confidential medical advice is entirely
free. Simply write Dr. Shoop, Racine,
Wis. The book No. 4 tells all about
Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure and how these
soothing, healing, antiseptic supposi-
tories can be successfully applied to
correct these weaknesses. Write for
the book. The Night Cure is sold by
all dealers. 8-1
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Marriage Licenses.
Since our last report:
| David B.
and Mary N.
V Pa,
Andrew Widrick, of Ashtola, Pa., and
Frances Lesar, of same place.
Holsopple, of Rummel,
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Shaffer, of Rummel, Pa., | gles, Reasnor, Towa, writes:
Levitt, of Stoyestown, Pa.,
2 Pearl Lint, of Jennerstown, |
Percy S. Walter, of Morgantown, W,
Va. and Sarah G. Snyder, of Rock-
wood, Pa.
Jacob H. Eash, of Paint township
and Sadie M. Roudabush, of same place,
David Brainerd Bayless, Jr., of Cov-
ington, Kentucky, and Sarah Theresa
Hocking, of Meyersdale, Pa.
Norman Kinsinger, of Elk Lick, Pa.,
and Nora Ellen Brown, of Summit
township, Pa.
Jacob Roscoe Shanks, of Casselman,
Pa., and Daisy Growall, of Black town-
ship. :
Daniel Shultz, of Greenville town-
ship, and Mabel H. Schrock, of Somer-
set township.
Alonzo Younker and Grace Hinish,
of Windber.
Wm. H. Miller and Gertie F. Pifer,
of Somerset township.
Josiah R. Weyand and Maggie May
Weighley, of Somerset township.
Jerome Deeds and Annie E. Thomas
of Jenner township.
Geo. C. Pebley, of Shade township,
and Rosa Bell Grawden, of St. Clairs-
ville, Bedford county, Pa.
Hiram Shank and Ida B. Holder, both
of Somerset, Pa.
Harry Willoughby, of Perrysville,
Pa., and Dorothy Maude Robinson, of
Meyersdale, Pa.
Martin J. Tiger, of Rochester Mills,
Indiana Co., Pa., and Minta A. Reitz
of Kuhn, Somerset Co., Pa. °
John F. Uphouse, of Milford town-
ship, and Susan Peck, of Middlecreek
township.
John Sheridan Sheeser, of Roston,
Pa., and Ida Catharine Ringer, of
Unamis, Pa.
WAR AGAINST CONSUMPTION.
All nations are endeavoring to check
the ravages of consumption, the “white
plague” that claims so many victims.
each year. TFoley’s Honey and Tar
cures coughs and colds perfectly, and
you are in no danger of consumption.
Do not risk your health by taking some
unknown preparation when Foley’s
Honey and Tar is safe and certain in
results. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H.
Miller, proprietor. 8&1
climes
DON'T.
Don’t ask the editor to publish a list
of wedding gifts, unless you want to
pay for it.
Don’t add to the terrors of death by
tacking several stanzas of doggerel to a
death notice. About the only place
they do that is in the Georges Creek
mining region, and they don’t know
any better there. Don’t crowd the
mourners.
Don’t lug old clippings into a news-
paper office and tell the editor that you
have brought him “something to fill up
with,” Take him a cabbage; he can
fill up with that.
Sitting in the end of a church pew,
don’t get up to admit others. Move
along.
Don’t put lard on a man’s shoes
when you see him “going down hill.”
They are already greased for the oc-
casion.
Don’t pray with the hungry man un-
til you have given him something to
eat.
GOODBYE.
It is a hard word to speak. Some
may laugh that it should be, but let
them. Icy hearts are never kind. It
is a word that has choked many an ut-
terance, and started many a tear. The
hand is clasped, the word is spoken, we
part, and are out on the ocean of time
—we go to meet again, where? God
only knows. It may be soon, it may be
never. Take care that your goodbye
be not a cold one—it may be the last
one you can give. Ere you meet again
death’s cold hand may have closed his
eyes and chained his lips forever. Aye,
he may have died thinking you loved
him not. Again it may be a long sepa-
ration. Friends crowd on and give you
their hands. How do you detect in
each goodbye the love that lingers
there ; and how may you bear with you
the memory of these parting words
many days? We must separate. Tear
not yourself away with a careless bold-
ness that defies all love, but make your
words linger—give your heart full ut-
terance—and if tears fall, what of it?
Tears are not unmanly.
A REVELATION,
It is a revelation to people, the se-
vere cases of lung trouble that have
been cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar.
It vot only stops the cough, but heals
and strengthens the lungs. L.M. Rug-
“The doe-
| tors said I had consumption, and I got
| no better until I took Foley’s Honey
| and Tar. It stopped the hemorrhages
and pain in my lungs and they are now
| as sound as a bullet.” Elk Lick
nacy, E. H, Miller, proprietor, Sel