County Star,
VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 20. 1908.
NO. 32.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT,
Of Ohio.
For Vice President,
JAMES 8. SHERMAN,
Of New York.
STATE.
Judge of Superior Court
WILLIAM D. PORTER.
DISTRICT.
Congress, 23rd District,
ALLEN F. 600PER.
COUNTY.
"Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A. W. KNEPPER.
Sheriff,
CHARLES H. 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.
Prothonotary,
JACOB B. GERHARD.
Poor Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County Commissioner,
R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
County Surveyor,
TIRENIS 8. PYLE.
A CREDITABLE POEM.
The Berlin Old Home Week is now a
matter of history, and it was a great
success from start to finish. People
flocked to Berlin by the thousands to
participate in the great event, and the
interesting and creditable features of
the occasion were many indeed. One
of the best things brought forth by the
Berlin Old Home Week is sometking
that deserves to liveand be cherished
by future generations of Bomerset
county people, and we believe it will.
We have reference to an Old Home
Week poem composed for the occasion
by our worthy poetical friend Hugh
W. Denison, of Somerset, whom Gen-
eral Wm. H. Koontz has dubbed “The
Bard of Kimberly Run.” Following
we reproduce it as it appears on a
card that was sold Ly the thousands, at
10 cents per copy, during Old Home
Week:
QLD HOME WEeEK.
Avcust 9-15, 1908.
A1r—Battle Hymn of the Republic.
By THE “BARD oF KiMBERLY RUN.”
You are welcome, welcome, welcome !
To Berlin, our Mountain Queen,
Where the Allegheny eastward
In her majesty is seen;
No-purer air was ever breathed, or
Fairer picture seen,
As we go marching on.
CHORUS:
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory ! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
As we go marching on.
Friends and neighbors, join the chorus,
And we’ll make the welkin ring.
Voice with voice together blending,
As we all together sing ;
With the starry Banner waving,
Tri-colored—glorious thing,
As we go marching on.
CHo.—Glory ! Glory! Hallelujah! ete.
We have left our stores, our workshops,
And our fields of new mown hay,
To honor the occasion of this great
“Old Home Week” day.
Now our eyes behold with rapture
This magnificent display,
As we go marching on.
_ Cmo.—Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! ete.
The old, the yourg, the’ middle-aged,
“Have come from far and near,
And are filled to overflowing
With the joy of being here;
Let us lift our joyful voices
In vibrations of good cheer,
As we go marching on.
Cro.—Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! ete.
Hurrah! for dear old Berlin; :
Up where God’s cool zephyrs blow,
May her sons and daughters prosper
As the years do come and go;
May the “Brothers” of the “Valley”
Naught but comforts ever know
As we go marching on.
Cuo.—Glory |! Glory! Hallelujah! ete,
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Abram L. Williams Meets Death by
Accident on P. & M. Street
Railway. .
It is with much sorrow that THE
STAR this week chronicles the death of
Abram L. Williams, as good a citizen
as Elk Lick township could boast of.
Deceased came to his death by an
accident on the Garrett extension of
the P. & M. street railway, where he
had been engaged at helping to string
wire. He and another workman were
on top of trestle or derrick erected on
a hand car, and while drawing tight a
wire by means of a rope and pulley,
about 5 o'clock, last Saturday evening,
the pulley broke, &nd the two men
were hurled violently to the ground,
falling a distance of about 15 feet. Mr.
Williams struck some crossties when
he landed, and as a result was:badly
injured, both internally and externally.
The other workman, very fortunately,
was but slightly injured.
Mr. Williams was brought to his
home, near Salisbury, as soon as pos-
sible, where everything was done for
him that it was possible to do. But
his injuries were so severe that death
was inevitable, and he passed peace-
fully away about noon, the following
day. Some of the bones of his face had
been broken, and he also had a broken
arm and a broken leg.
In the death of Abram Williams,
Elk Lick township has lost one of her
best citizens, and his wife and children
have lost a kind and devoted husband
and father, The editor. of this paper
feels especially grieved over the death
of Mr. Williams, owing to the fact that
he worked on the old Williams mine
dump with him for two years or more,
and never did he work with a more
agreeable companion. He was kind
and agreeable to all, honest, indus-
trious and in every way a man. in the
true sense of the word.
The funeral service was held at the
home of the deceased, conducted by
Rev. 8. M. Cousins, of the United
Evangelical church, and it was one of
the most largely attended funerals
ever witnessed in this vicinity.
Deceased was the youngest.son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 8. Wil-
liams, who were the pioneer coal oper-
ators in this end of the Elk Lick coal
region. He was aged 37 years, 11
months and 17 days, and is survived by
his wife, two sons and two daughters.
He is also survived by two brothers,
William and Morgan Williams, of
Johnstown, Pa., and by one sister, Mrs.
Benjamin Jones, of Elk Lick.
CURED HAY FEVER AND SUM-
MER COLD.
A. 8S. Nusbaum, Batesville, Indiana,
writes: “Last year I suffered for three
months with a summer cold so distress-
ing that it interfered with my business.
I had many of the symptoms of hay
fever, and a doctor’s prescription did
not reach my chse, and I took several
medicines which seemed only to aggra-
vate it. Fortunately I insisted upon
having Foley’s Honey and Tar. It
quickly cured me. My wife has since
used Foley’s Honey and Tar with the
same success.” Sold by Elk Lick Phar-
macy, E. H. Miller proprietor. 9-1
Garrett’s Baltimore Bible
Comes Out Strong for Taft.
The Baltimore Sun, one of the best
and most reliable newspapers in the
United States, even though’ Democrat-
ic in politics, has come out strongly in
favor of the Republican candidate for
President. So true and reliable is the
Sun, that our staunch and whole-
souled Democratic friend Mr. R. 8.
Garrett, superintendent of the Mer-
chants Coal Company, frequently refers
to it as the Baltimore Bible. We trust
that Mr. Garrett will vote according
to his Baltimore Bible on Nov. 3rd,
and thereby help to eleet the next
President. He is too good a man to be
a ‘Democrat, anyhow, and besides, he
never was a Bryanite.
The following, which is reproduced
from the columns of the Sun, gives
that great paper’s reasons for coming
out for Taft:
“It is the judgment of The Sun that
the material welfare of the people of
the ' United States—industrial and
Mr.
financial—would be promoted to a
greater degree by the election of Mr.
Taft than by the election of Mr. Bryan,
that their rights would be safeguarded
as carefully by Mr. Taft as by Mr.
Bryan.
“It is our deliberate judgment that
for the next four years the material in-
terests of the people of this country
would be safer with Mr. Taft at the
head of the National government than
with Mr. Bryan. We further believe
that while lawbreakers would be
brought to account by Mr. Taft with as
little fear or favor as Mr. Bryan could
display, the methods employed by Mr.
| man’s
| witnessed in the last few years.
Taft would not- curtail the working-
opportunities for employment
by disturbing the business of law-abid-
ing men and corporations, as has been
Mr.
Taft’s experience in important admin-
istrative posts. his judicial tempera-
ment, his patience and thoroughness
in investigation, justify the belief that
as President he would execute the law
faithfully and well, but not spectacu-
larly. And while his type of man
ought to be in the White House all the
time, he seems especially needed now,
when the country is emerging from an
industrial and financial depression
which brought distress and suffering
into many homes.
“Fine phrases do not multiply the
avenues of employment. Epigrams
butter no bread and start no factories.
Repartee and ready debate do not
raise the scale of wages. The pro-
ducts of the farm are not marketed by
eloquence or fine dictation. We do
not question Mr. Bryan’s sincerity in
his devotion to the interests of the
people. But we believe that the ma-
terial welfare of the nation would be
safer in the hands of a President of Mr.
Taft’s temperament, and for this reason
we favor his election to the Presidency.
“We believe that the election of Mr.
Taft would tend to hasten the restora-
tion of prosperous busines conditions.
We believe that his administration will
be prudent. Therefore we support him
from a sense of public duty.”
SHE LIKES GOOD THINGS.
Mrs. Chas. E. Smith, of West Frank-
lin, Maine, says: “I like good things
and have adopted Dr. King’s New Life
Pills as our family laxative medicine,
because they are good and do their
work without making a fuss about it.”
These painless purifiers sold at E. H.
Miller’s drug store. 25¢. 9-1
The ‘Most Expensive Mile of
Railway.
Oil City, Pa., August 15.—what is
probably the most expensive piece of
railroad engineering work in the
country has just been completed on
the new Franklin & Clearfield railroad,
in Clarion county.
In one mile there are two tunnels,
one 2,160 feet long, and the other 1,721,
a mammoth concrete arch and a long
concrete bridge. The mile of cone
struction cost $2,500,000.
The line is being built as a cut-off on
the Lake Shore system between New
York and Chicago.’ It extends from
Polk, tnis county, through Clarion and
Jefferson counties to Clearfield, con-
necting with the Beech Creek line at
that place.
ATTENTION, ASTHMA SUF-
FERERS!
Foley’s Honey and Tar will give im-
mediate relief to asthma sufferers and
has cured many cases that had refused
to yield to other treatment. Foley's
Honey and Tar is the best remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat and lung
trouble. Contains no harmful drugs.
Sold by Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Mil-
ler proprietor. e891
Tarr will make no immediate reply
to Bryan’s speech. Taft is judicially
deliberative ; Bryan is always™ready to
talk. Taft doesr’t have to revise his
opinions ;Bryan has an atticful of his
discredited political propositions. Taft
is a rock ; Bryan is a whirlwind. The
rock is safer to build upon and tie to;
the whirlwind is very active and head-
strong, but very destructive to prop-
erty and -prosperity.—Connellsville
Courier.
A BOON TO ELDERLY PEOPLE.
Most elderly people have some kid-
ney or bladder disorder that is both
painful and dangerous. Foley’s Kid-
ney Remedy has proven a boon to
many elderly people, as it stimulates
the urinary organs, corrects irregu-
larities and tones up the whole system.
Commence , taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy at once and be vigorous. Sold
by Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller,
proprietor. 9-1
“What is meant by the term, the law
of diminishing returns?” asks a reader,
Ask Mr. Bryan.
Gov. HugHEs disappoints his enemies
by shutting his mouth when he has
said all that he considers necessary.
IT is now asserted that Mrs. Gunuess,
the Indiana murderess, is living in
Texas. ‘In that case she is being pun-
ished sufficiently.
PROSPERITY is certainly returuing. A
dispatch brings the cheerful informa-
tion that Mr. John D. Rockefeller is
having his barn painted.
Ir will be a great convenience for
Mr. Hearst to be chairman of his own
party. He can control the expendi-
ture of his own money.
es
Tue Milwaukee Journal says Bryan
may carry Wisconsin. Yes, Debs may
carry it, Watson may carry it, Chafin
may carry it, but Taft will carry it.
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A LixcoLx correspondent says the |
Bryan home is full of framed mottoes.
The place of honor should ‘be given to |
| Mr. Bryan’s favorite motto: ‘“Any-
| thing to win.”
= Forry counties in Oklahoma are pre-
paring to spend $4,000,000 for public
school buildings. Oklahoma must be
getting ready to drop out of the Demo-
cratic column.
Tom WarsoN says, “Mr. Bryan has
just as much chance of being elected
as I have.” And then he proceeds to
hammer him as if determined to quar-
rel over a trifle.
Ex-Gover~Nor Davip R. FraNcis, so
it is reported, is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President
in 1912. Bryan will only be fighting
his fourth battle then. Francis is too
soon.
De STL
A PHITADELPHIA motorman has in-
herited $150.000, but refuses to give up
his job. The pleasure of occasionally
putting an automobile on the junk
heap is worth mgre than mere filthy
lucre.
Mg. Tarr urges quicker justice for
the poor, but as a rule they get theirs
much quicker than the folks who' can
afford to hire lawyers, depending, of
course, upon the kind of justice re-
quired.
AxDp now W. J. Bryan has been elect-
ed an honorary member of the Typo-
graphical Union. It is becoming as easy
for a politician to get into a labor
union as it is for a millionaire to get a
college degree.
Tre Guffey and anti-Guffey factions
of the Pennsylvania Democracy are
fighting each other so bitterly, that by
election day the Democratic party in
the Keystone State may be too maimed
and mutilated to walk to the polls.
JupGe PARKER opened the campaign
in Los Angeles with a speech, and dur-
ing his remarks one prominent Demo-
crat dropped dead. If he has any more
luck like this, the judge is likely to be
invited to come home and keep quiet.
THE slums are always down on the
local paper. They scan its every item
to see if any of their evil doings are
given publicity. The only work some
of them ever do is in hustling ,around
after the paper is published to borrow
a copy to see if anything is said about
them. They are well aware that the
newspaper man of ‘the present day is
“onto” all their doings, and they only
feel relief when they read the paper
and see nothing derogatory to them.
AN excellent ruling has recently
been made by the postal authorities at
Washington for which they are enti-
tled to the united thanks of the mail
carriers. It has been ruled that where
a man keeps a vicious dog about his
premises that makes it dangerous for a
carrier to deliver mail, such delivery
may be [omitted. Unless the carrier
is willing to risk danger of the dog, the
owner of the vicious brute will have to
depend upon himself in getting his mail
at the postoffice.
ARE we going to be a race of stoop-
shouldered men? One would natural-
ly think so to look over almost any
large crowd, walk down any crowded
street, or glance at the average male
human being he meets. The man who
walks with his head erect, his shoul-
ders thrown back and his chest extend-
ed as nature intended he should, is a
rarity, and is remarked about wherever
he goes. The average man, and more’s
the pity, the average young man, walks
as if he were very tired.
A at
THERE are two kinds of girls in the
world, the girl who works and the girl
who gads. Commend us to the former.
Work lends dignity to a pretty girl, is
an added charm to her. The igirl who
works combines the useful and the
ornamental. She might gad about,
roll on sofas, gossip and read story
books, but she prefers to be of some ac-
count in the world, and goes out sten-
ographer, teacher, saleslady or house-
keeper, bravely makes her own way.
Such are the salt of the earth, and of
such is the kingdom of heaven.
A janitor in a neighboring school
threw up his job, the other day. When
asked what was the trouble, he said,
“I’m honest, and I won’t stand being
slurred. If I find a pencil or a hand-
kerchief ’bout the school I hang it up.
Every little while the teacher or some
one that is too cowardly to face me,
gives me a slur” “In what way?’
asked the offieer. “Why, a little while
ago I saw written on the board, ‘find
the common multiple” Well, I looked
from cellar to garret, and I wouldn’t
know the thing if I met it on the street.
What made me quit my job? Last
| night in big writin’ on the blackboard,
it said, ‘find the greatest common
divisor” Well, I says to myself, both
of them darn-things are lost now, and
T’ll be blamed for swipin’ ’em, so I'll
1 nit?
{ quit,
Tue United States is the only coun-
try in which the son of the poorest
mechanic or laboring man may become
its ruler, and where the daughter of a
farmer may become the wife of a Pres-
ident and the mother of Senators. It
is the only country where all earthly
honors are within the reach of every
citizen, and where it depends upon the
individual himself whether he will be
a Senator or a street-sweeper, a rail-
road president or a raiiroad section
band, a millionaire or a pauper, a gen-
eral or a policeman, a banker or a
bankrupt.
THERE never was a preacher or pres-
ident, poet or politician who could
please everybody. There never was a
tinker or-tailor, soldier or sailor who
could suit us all. Show us a doctor or
lawyer, a merchant or sawyer who
pleases the whole multitude. The
Lord himself and all the angels in
heaven have never half succeeded in
comforting the human race. There is
not a thing on earth or anywhere else
that meets the approval of all man-
kind. Then it would be nonsense for
editors or correspondents to fret when
their honest efforts fail to please a
certain few. Write with sound judg-
ment, an honest purpose and a decent
pen, and the majority of sensible peo-
ple will rise up and call you blessed.
EE A
Firry years ago there was some ex-
cuse for bad roads, for our country was
poor. Now if is rich, and there is no
excuse. A good road is always to be
desired, and is a source of comfort and
convenience to every traveler. Good
roads attract population, as well as
good schools and churches. Good
roads improve the value of property.
A farm lying five miles from market,
connected by a bad road, is of less
value than an equally good farm con-
nected by a good road. A larger load
can be drawn by one horse over a good
road than by two over a bad one. Good
roads encourage the greater exchange
of products and commodities between
one section and another. Good roads
are of great value to railroads as feed-
ers.
THE man who pays his debts and his
taxes may be a blessing or a curse to
the community. It depends on what
else he does. In making this state-
ment it is to be understood that by the
word “debt” is meant the ordinary cash
obligation which a man incurs in the
transaction of his business. There are
men who appear to believe that so long
as they are not indebted to their neigh-
bors for goods purchased, or the mu-
nicipality or the state for the last tax
levy, they have discharged their whole
duty, and that nothing can be asked of
them. But in reality a man’s duty to
his neighbor is limited only by his
power to do his neighbor good, and his
duty to the community by his ability
to be of service to it. The community
in which the prevailing statement is
“What do I get out of it?” is one which
does not and cannot prosper.
THERE are times when purse strings
are tightened, when there is a proposi-
tion of a public nature calling for con-
tributions. Men will talk of their past
contributions, of the failure of this and
the other project, and will refuse to
pay money for further plans which
they say will not bring money to their
pockets. There are some of these men
to be found in every community, just
as there are small potatoes in every
hill. But when this condition becomes
general, when men to whom the com-
munity has a right to look for a slight
return for the benefit and the pros-
perity which they enjoy, refuse thus
to discharge one of their plainest
duties, and when the number of such
men becomes so great as to threaten
the success of movements in the public
interest, that condition is an evidence
of a species of dry rot, which, if not
speedily removed, will land the com-
munity in the commercial graveyard.
SAy, do you know the kind of fellow
who's just to the world’s mind? The
kind the world can’t lose? The kind
that folks enthuse over and take off
their hats to? Why, it’s the man who
does. He's the fellow! Not the fellow
whose grandpa got there; not the fel-
low who would if he could; not the
gentleman who's going to some day;
but the man who does, now, today.
No sitting around waiting about him;
no expecting something to happen; no
looking for something to turn up. No,
sir! He calls the turn and turns ’em;
he takes off his coat and doesn’t care
if he starts a little sweat; he doesn’t
cession humping to keep up with him;
he is hustle from his feet up and from
his head down; he is not only in the
push, but he is the push—the whole
thing; and say, the way he makes
things come’ and business hum is a
caution ; the way the world takes that
fellow up and is good to him makes
your heart glad ; he’s all right, he is;
he greases the wheels of progress and
keeps the world spinning round.
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THERE are three great rocks ahesd
of the practical young man who has
bis feet upon the ladder and is begin-
ning to rise. First, drunkenness,
which, of course, is fatal. There is ne
use wasting any time on the young
man who drinks liquor, no matter how
exceptional his talent. Second, specu-
lation. The business of a speculator
and that of a manufacturer or man of
affairs are not only distinct, but in-
compatible. The manufacturer should
go forward steadily, meeting the
market prices. When there are godds
to sell, sell them; when supplies are
needed, purchase them, without regard,
to the market priee in either case. We
have never known a speculative manu-
facturer or business man who scored =
permanent success ; he is rich one day,
bankrupt the next. The third rock is
akin to speculation—endorsing. There
are emergencies, no doubt, in which
men should help their friends, but
there is a rule that will keep one safe:
no man should place his name on- the
obligation of another if he has not suf-
ficient to meet it without detriment te
his business.
WHEN one finds he is out of sym-
pathy with his town, and can only say
a good word for it coupled with am
apology, he ought to get out. Many
people fall into a_sort of unconscious
habit of growling. But it’s a miserable
habit. Such people make of them-
selves a dead weight, while, of course,
they imagine themselves particularly
independent. The individual has
about all he can do to get along under
his own loads, and he wants help ahd
encouragement from those going his
way, and who are identified with him
in interest. So with the town. It hes
its interest to care for, and it needs all
the pluck, all the energy, all the eco-
operation and helpfulness its citizens
can provide and bring to bear. Every
man is a part of his town. The towa
embraces the fortunes, and in some
measures at least takes on the charac-
ter of the man. So loyalty to one’s
town is no more than loyalty to one's
self ; and this loyalty is in the line of
all well shaped human nature. There-
fore, it is right to say that the man whe
does not stand up for his town is ‘ia
some way dwarfed. There is some-
thing wrong about him. His fellows
will pass this judgment upon him, and
the chances are that while he may add
to the discomfort of others, he will not
escape making himself unhappy.
OxeE W. M. Likins, known as the red-
headed roarer and holy howler -of
Uniontown, Pa., last week had his
portrait printed in the Meyersdale
Commercial, together with nearly
three columns of disgusting and ege-
tistical slobber concerning his candi-
dacy for Congress on the Prohibition
ticket. Of all the inane rot we have
read for some years, the reasons giver
by Likins why he should be sent te
Congress, easily takes the cake. His
plea is made up principally of the mos¢
silly and sickening self praise we have
ever seen in print, and the balance of
it is made up of mud-throwing at other
people, the latchets of whose shoes he
is utterly unworthy to unloose. As he
would like to have the Hon. A. FE.
Cooper’s seat in Congress, he naturally
devotes considerable space to tradue-
ing our very worthy and efficient
Congressman, but we think Mr, Cooper
will be able to stand it, for his honor
able and efficient record in Congress is
able to withstand all the venomous
shafts that blackguards and egotists.af
the Likins stripe can hurl at him.
Likins came to Pennsylvania from
Kentucky. a few years ago, and af all
reports are true, he is likely to remain
away from Kentucky for reasons which
need not be stated here. The people
of Somerset county have already takea
his correct measure, as have the people
in the other counties of this congress-
ional district, and they regard him
only as a cheap, insignificant dema-
gogue with a constipation of ideas and
a violent diarrhoea of slanderous
words. A couple of years ago he ae-
cused Congressman Cooper, through
the paper he (Liking) edits, of doing
too much for the old soldiers. Now,
however, the red-headed roarer would
like very much to receive the votes of
the soldiers he accused Mr. Cooper of
doing too much for,but he will net
get them, nor the votes of many othes
people, either. The people of this dige
trict are not yet ready to exchange =
need a big, brass-buttoned copper to |
tell him to move on; he keeps the pro- |
tried and true public servent for sa
cheap, windy, slanderous demagogue
from Kentucky, who is not taken se-
riously by anybody but himself, and
whose candidacy is regarded as merely
a joke. A newspaper must indeed be
pretty hard up for something
| when it will publish the rank,
rottenness from tlic pen ol
i even for a price,