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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 27. 1908.
NO. 33.
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
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DISTRICT.
Congress, 23rd District,
ALLEN F. COOPER.
COUNTY.
Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A. W. KNEPPER.
Sheriff,
CHARLES I. 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. BEITZ.
County Commissioner,
R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
County Surveyor,
IRENIS 8. PYLE.
BIG MUSTERINGS” AND THEIR
CONCOMITANTS.
BY T. F. LIVENGOOD.
Memory is a function largely of as-
sociation, better -termed correlative.
That its exercise is exhibited to great-
er advantage in tHe concrete than ~in
the abstract, was again demonstrated
to the writer a fortnight ago while
making his annual pilgrimage to the
scenes of his childhood. :
Though commercialism with Hereu-
lean blows has destroyed some, and
marred others of the landmarks of that
once picturesque locality, many of
them :
«Rock-ribhed,and ancient as the sun,”
gtill dafy the hand of that sordid muti-
lator; and as the great Alpine range
recalls the crossing of Napoleon and his
army to the sunny plains of Italy, so
do these selfsame landmarks fill the
"writer's mind with innumerable remi-
niscences. -
When in 1861 the blast of war blew
in our ears, Salisbury was stirred to
: the highest pitch of patriotic enthusi-
© asm, and sent to the front many of her
stalwart sons. Now, another genera-
tionJiving in the lap of luxury, basking
* in the sunshine of peace, and ignorant
for the most part of the terrible ordeal
- their fathers endured more than forty
years ago, are occupying the land,
Over forty years ago! Why, man, are
you mad? Surely, it seems not—more
than ten since Captain Welfley’s
company of sturdy volunteers were
firing their flintlocks in “Thte Long
Field.” And what about that company
of grenadiers or fusileers? Perhaps a
dozen grizzled, battle-scarred veterans
are still living and ready to testify to
the accuracy of what follows, much of
which would otherwise appear as noth-
ing but fairy tales.
Leaving the origin of this doughty
sompany of boys in blue to be told by
the survivors, lest some of the details
of its achievements should be curtailed,
let us say, presto/-and we see one
hundred men in uniform and all the
martial accoutrements then in vougue,
thick upon them, standing on Grant
street, where First Sergeant P. 8. Hay
is calling the roll.
The uniforms of the privates were
navy blue color, roundabout coats
with brass buttons as “plenty as black-
berries,” and the regulation stripe on
the trousers. But what of the head
gear? This abomination of all comfort
and utility was introduced to the U.S.
Army at the beginning, or thereabouts,
of the Mexican War, by no less a per-
son than Jefferson Davis, afterwards
President of the C. 8S. A. Fully twelve
inches high, weighing about three
pounds, and surmounted with a white
cockade, it was responsible for many
stiff necks and sore heads, but it gave
the soldiers an appearance most fe-
rocious.
Some of the smaller men of that
command toiling with “the tar-bucket
cap,” as it was fitly dubbed, reminded
a “schoolmarm” of a picture she had
seen of Atlas, with the world on his
shoulders.
ing a lyric, and the crabapple blossoms
were exhaling the swetest songs in the
just as profound as -
“Where rolls the Oregon,”
so crammed were the brains of the men
and the maids in their teens with ex-
ports and barter that there was no
room or time at all for.. : :
“The poet’s eye in fine frenzy rolling”
to utilize poetic materiale and to “give
to airy nothing a local habitation and
a name.” One thing, however, must
have appealed to one man, and that
man possessed the primitive elements
of poetry to the extent of writing or
reciting a couplet on the white cock-
ade. Thanks to the leniency of time,
reputed to be the destroyer of all
things, and the memory of some of the
patriarchs, this martial couplet is pre-
served. As it would suffer in transla
tion (as might also the readers) we
quote it verbatim:
“Hell schware note und de wice cockade,
Finger in der naus un room gedrayed.”
Weapons for the troops were fur-
| nished by the government. Evolution
at this period had brought the U.S. A.
gun as far as the percussion cap lock;
but those sent to the Salisbury volun-
teers, in appearance at least, might
have done service at Bunker Hill or at
the Cowpens. They were perfect gems
of antiquity, with rust and flint-locks
warlike appearance totally different
from squirrel rifles, and at sight of
them most of the young men fairly
roared with enthusiasm. The bellig-
erent frenzy of the schoolboy was
upon them :
40, were you never a schoolboy,
And did you never train,
And feel that swelling of the heart
You never can feel again?”
Not many days elapsed till those
guns were made to look like mirrors,
The enthusiastic soldiers were not sat-
isfied till the polish would reflect their
own faces.
All preparations having been made,
mustering day was proclaimed. Not
by gaily caparisoned trumpeters, nor
by flaring placards, but by messengers,
those messengers being then the peo-
ple themselves, without telephones,
and with a mail service “slower than
molasses in cold weather”—so slow
that “The Dumb Corner” would rise in
rebellion, were such conditions now
thrust upon them.
In two days the news had reached
three townships, and the people as far
off as Keyser’s Ridge were rejoicing
with the thought of smelling powder,
eating ginger-bread and seeing the
bullies breaking each others. heads.
Auspiciously dawned the day; and
scarcely had “The streakings of the
morning light” tinted the treetops on
the crest of the Alleghenies, scarcely
had the shrill, plaintive. pibroch wail of
the whippoorwill been replaced by the
joyful notes of the silver-tengued rob-
bin, when from all points of the com-
pass people began pouring into town,
“There was Smith from the mountain,
And Smith from the mart,
And Smith from the fountain,
And Smith from tte cart.”
Also the Browns, the Joneses, many
Hutzells and several Gindlespergers.
Men clad in hunting shirts and shilly-
shallies; women in hoop-skirts, Gar-
ribaldis and skyscraper bonnets ; plow-
boys wearing wamuses and coonskin
turbans’; the octogenarian, and the
babe three days old in its mother’s
arms, all were there to swell the chorus
and to eat, drink and be merry.
Peanuts and bananas were unknown,
and lemonade was something rare, but
pop,sassafrilla, spruce-beer, and a drink
dear to the heart and soothing to the
palate of every lime=burner, vinegar-
punch, were abundant. Rye whisky
and applejack were served without
stint to all comers. Ginger cakes,
lepkucha and mintstick were then as
assiduously munched as are now pop-
corn, lollypops and hokeypokey.
Filling the air with “Charley Over
the Water,” “Yankee Doodle,” and
“The Girl I Left Behind Me,” Samuel
Smith’s Drum Corps were more com-
pelling sirens, luring the boys from the
woodpiles and the churns, yea, even
the breakfast tables, than Homer ever
dreamed would try to undo his hero
Ulysses.
Promptly at ten o’clock, “Hail to the
Chief” was played, and Capt. Balthazar
Welfley, six feet some inches tall, erect
brass buttons and huge epaulets, drew
his sword and gave command.
tion, company! Form in single file!
| Music and pioneers in front.
Going most minutely into .details—
for history without details is like a tree
without foliage—in the valley of the
Casselman, poetry has always been
more conspicuously absent than pine
trees. Though every weird crag, every
nodding bemlock and every bubbling
eddy contained a sonnet; though the
silver moon shining through beech and
birch on the rippling waters was speak-
deep solitude of Pine Run, a solitude
galore. Bayonets.gave these relics, a-
as an Indian, glittering with gold braid,
“Atten-
Forward,
march!” Off they started for the parade
ground, followed by two thousand,
more or less of men, women, children,
horses, and, may we add, some scores
of—asses?
Just a word here concerning the uni-
forms of the officers and the pioneers.
In all other respects the caps of the
officers were the same as those already
described, except instead of the white
cockade they had gorgeous flowing
plumes of red, white and blue feathers,
and their coats were Prince Alberts
with plenty of brass buttons on the
tails. Pioneers in the army at that
time were men who would cut roads
through the forests, or clear them
when the enemy had blocked them;
build corduroy roads and bridges, and
in other ways prepare roads for the
passage of the army. The Salisbury
company had two pioneers uniformed
with caps similar to those now used by
the Russian police force, and some of
our most ostentatious auto chauffeurs.
Their trousers were of white duck, and
they carried tin axes large enough to
hew down the Pillars of Hercules or
the Cedars of Lebanon.
At the parade grounds: the company
performed some of the most complex
and difficult evolutions then to be
found in that military classic, Hardee’s
Tactics, much to the delight of the
spectators and the joy of the officers.
Guns to the number of five had been
discharged on New Year’s eve; blast-
ing and anvil firing had been heard,
but when one hundred muskets were
to be volleyed at once, and the Captain
in stentorian tones gave the command,
“Make ready!” “Take aim!” women
and children crawled behind trees, and
men stopped their ears, while not a
few of the cowards thought that the
next minute somebody would be blown
off the earth.- “Fire!” the fatal word
was pronounced—Zip! biff-biff-biff,
bang! trr. rr, rrrr, biff-o-bang! and
when “Present arms!” was ordered,
another fulmination from a private
who had been trying to discharge his
piece for five minutes. Flint locks are
tricky, and these had tantrums. After-
wards, at their own expense, the sol-
diers had them change for percussion
locks, that work being done by the
“Hon. Squire Mier, Esquire.”
As the sun was then on the meridian,
orders were given to stack arms and
deploy for rations. This was the signal
for a billicose team, Haas and Schramm
by name. to take the scalp of a Negro
Mountain giant yclept “Yony” Mull
Had “Yony” been born in America
previous to the landing of Columbus,
he probably might have worn the title
by birth of Big Foot, as his pedal ex-
tremities (when he went to a musterin’
or meetin’) were covered with number
fourteen cowhides. One of these erst-
while tanyards, perhaps as a trophy of
his victory, dangled for many moons
from the gable of that very popular
club house, Loechel’s shoe shop. Go-
liah, i. e. “Yony,” was docile as a daf-
fodil, and as void of malice as Mary’s
little lamb. Though all manner of
epithets were hurled upon him, and
horny fists rubbed under his nose, it
required all the urging and threats of
his friends to rouse him to a state of
defense. “Beware of the fury of a
patient man,” saith the proverb, and it
applied in this case. “Yony” slowly
began rising, and kept on getting up
till he towered above his artagonist
like Pike’s Peak above Kettle Hill.
Raising his fist, which in both size and
general appearance might have been
taken for .a ‘“nigger-maul,” he said,
“vell, I guess I petter gif him one,” and
brought it down with the dull thud of
a trip hammer. When the smoke of
the battle had cleared, it was seen
that all of the scalp on one side of
Haas’ head, including his ear, had been
torn clean from the skull, and was
dangling like a havelock on his shoul-
der. Appalled at the sight, the swag-
gering Schramm, shrieking his slogan,
¢ Ich fa. ich micht nicht for der tuyfel,”
incontinently fled to a cellar, and was
no more visible that day.
Shortly after this, “Wildcat” Bit-
tinger was knocked down and his
chest tattooed with the heels of his an-
tagonist. “Shad” Hutzell and one of
the Larew brothers had a stormy mouth
battle. However, their friends were
strong enough to hold them in leash.
. That afternoon another drill was
given on the same grounds, but the
other roustabout< who had come there
to settle old grudges were by that time
under the thumb of old “John Barley-
corn,” dreaming, “Fou and unco
happy.” :
Under the discipline of its officers,
who all were men of intelligence and
good character, a number of them be-
ing among the leading citizens, the
volunteers attained such proficiency
that at the greatest military event ever
seen in Salisbury—The Brigade En-
campment—it was awarded first prize.
Finding that they could not be ac-
cepted as a company by the U. 8. gov-
ernment when the Civil War broke out,
they disbanded, and most of them en-
banis Glotfelty, killed in the Pen-
insular campaign; George
also killed; M. C. Lowry, killed at
Fredericksburg; John Suhrie, died of
wounds received in battle; William
Wagner, Wells Wagner, John, Samuel
and William Hawn, Samuel Miller,
commonly known as “Broad Sam.”
Lieut. Samuel Lowry, John J. Engle,
W. Eppinger, W. Larew, Lieut. John N.
Davis, John J. Livengood, Christ. Liv-
engood, Daniel O'Connell McKinley,
Dan. Wetzell, Zach. Faidley, Samuel
Yutzy, Shakespeare McKinley ~ and
Jacob McCloskey. °°
“Big Musterings” were held previous
to the one described, by militia under
the comand-of Capt. Le¥i Shockey and
Capt. Saml. Folk, during which time
sanguinary battles were fought by
always for bully supremacy ; but Capt.
Welfley’s company closed the era of
bombastic military events in Somerset
county. :
“They heed not, they hear not the loud
cannon’s rattle,
They sleep their.last sleep and have fought
their last battle,
No sound can awake them to glory again.”
While the succeeding generation
may have less of brawn, it has more
urbanity, and sails “The Ship of State”
in waters clearer and more placid. So
mote it be. Selah.
Elizabeth, N. J., Aug. 15, 1908.
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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’sdrug store. 25c. 9-1
ANOTHER WINDBER MURDER.
Son Accused of Slaying His Father
and Shipping Body Away in a
: Trunk. »
Recent developments add one more
murder to Windber’s long and bloody
list of crime.
8. J. Rosenbloom, a Jewish merchant
of Windber, suddenly disappeared on
the 12th day of last November, and he
was never seen since until recently,
when his dead body was found in a
trunk that was discovered by a party
of picnickers in a ravine near Camden,
N. J.
Shortly after the mysterious disap-
pearance of Rosenbloom, the family
disposed of the store and moved to
Baltimore. where Mrs. Rosenbloom
and her daughter were recently ar-
rested by detectives who were em-
ployed to ferret oui the trunk mystery.
A newspaper found in the trunk
with the decomposed remains of Rosen-
bloom, served to fix the date of about
the time he disappeared. The trunk
has been identified by a former clerk
in the Rosenbloom store, as one of a
kind carried in stock. Furthermore,
the trunk has been traced from Wind-
ber to Broad Street station in Phila-
delphia, thence to Chestnut Street
ferry, and thence to Mt. Ephraim sta-
tion, N. J., about a mile from the place
where it was found.
After the arrest of Mrs. Rosenbloom
women broke down
committed the crime.
killing his father.
covered.
body.
Warrants are out for
disposing of his father’s dead*body.
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FOR SORE FEET.
“I have found Bucklemds
sore feet, as well as for healing burns
Poland, Maine. It is the proper thing
.antee at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 25c¢
9-1
Weimer
warring clans, such as the Hutzells,
the Heinbaughs and the MecClintocks,
and her daughter, they were put
through a severe “sweating” process by
the detectives, and, as a result, the
and made the
statement that Alexander Rosenbloom,
a 20-year-old son of the murdered man,
The elder
Rosenbloom was known to have been
very brutal and abusive to his family,
and the wife and daughter state that
the son gave that as his reason for
The women have been brought to
Somerset, but the whereabouts of the
accused son have not yet been dis-
The women declare that
they did not see the crime committed,
and also aver that they never knew
what disposition the son made of the
the arrest of
Alexander Rosenbloom and Triss and
Joseph Agler, the two last named being
nephews of the murdered man who are
supposed to have assisted the son in
too, for piles. Try it! Sold under guar- | the old saying is.
DunBaRr creek evinces a disposition
to wander from the true path. Tis a
costly habit. See, for example, how
listed in the U. 8. Army. Some of | much it has cost the once great Dem-
these were Dennis Durst, killed on the | ocratic party.—Connellsville Courier.
banks of the Chicahominy; Ur- -——
“Ong vital, dominating fact confronts
the Democratic party which no oratory,
which no eloquence, which no rhetoric
can obscure: Bryans nomination
means Taft’s election.”—New York
World, Democratic.
- THE progress of cities is measured
by the public spirit of their inhabi-
tants. Men whose only interest is in
the success of their individual business,
may make money for themselves, but
they cannot build successful cities any
more than a pile of stones can furnish
| sustenance for growing plants.
THERE are two little words, simple
enough in themselves, that introduce
untold trouble ifi the world and are re-
sponsible for more gossip, scandal and
harm than #ny other two words in the
English language. These two words
are nothing more than, “they say.”
They have done more to ruin repu-
tations than all other things. If you
never quote what “they say,” you may
be quite certain you are not a gossip.
Tue greatest problem that confronts
our people at the present time is that
of dogs. In the language of our fore-
fathers, there are dogs, more dogs and
lots of dogs; in fact, a stranger visiting
our village, and unacquainted with the
color of our population, would declare
without hesitation that he had got off
at an Indian village, where there are
always ten dogs to every Indian. What
is to be done to rid cur village of dogs,
is something that the present council
should busy itself with.
5 AN experienced teacher says that
pupils who have access to newspapers
at home, when compared with those
who do not, are better readers, better
spellers, better grammarians, better
punctuators, and read more under-
standingly, and obtain a practical
knowledge of geography in almost half
the time it requires others. The news-
paper is decidedly an important factor
in modern life. This will not be dis-
puted by anyone who has taken the
trouble to investigate the matter for
himself.
al gam
IN a small city like this the vice of
rash judgment is altogether too com-
mon. Where people know nearly all
their fellow citizens, there are some
who are so ungraciousand so un-Chris-
tian as to attribute an evil motive
when the actions are prompted by the
best of motives, and they are rather
disposed to relish a rumor that reflects
against a neighbor. Everybody com-
mits indiseretions, either wilfully or
through ignorance or weakness; but
harsh criticism and rash judgments do
not help the offender, but shove him
down. The Golden Rule should be ap-
plied in such cases.
el eT
SoME folks say it is my duty, for the
Peerless One to vote; if he isn’t chosen
captain, our ship won't stay afloat ; but
a chap gets tired of voting for the man
without a peer; I can always vote for
Bryan, so I'll vote for Taft, this year.
Change is sometimes necessary, if this
life we would enjoy, and, although our
sweetest boon is voting for the Peerless
Boy, yet some little variation makes
the landscape seem less drear; I can
always vote for Bryan, so I'll vote for
Taft, this year. Even though our
children’s children hang their heads in
deepest shame, blushing for their rude
forefathers who at one time jumped
the game—who in gloomy desperation
voted down the Peerless dear; we can
vote for Bryan always, so we'll vote for
Taft, this year.—Emporia (Kan.) Ga-
zette.
Tre Democratic party seems to be as
unsound on the currency question as
it ever has been. In 18968 their hope
was free silver, which, if triumphant,
would have meant the demoralization of
the business of the country and the
destruction of many enterprises. The
Republican party has shown how es-
sential sound money is to the success
and prosperity of all business under-
takings. Mr. Bryan comes forward
and wants all deposits of all banks
guaranteed. The money required to
do this is so stupendous that Mr. Bryan
cannot comprehend it. When a panic
comes on, the fact that so many people
take their money out of banks and
Arnica | lock it up, thus taking it out of circule- |
Salve to be the proper thing to use for | tion, is what causes the resumption of |
, | prosperity to move so slowly.
sores, cuts, and all manner of abra- | reason why these timid people take
sions,” writes Mr. W. Stone, of East | their money out of the banks, is that
, | they are afraid the “bank will bust,” as
Now, the Republican
. | policy is for the government to organ-
| ize postal saving banks, and to estab-
lish them all over the country. This
will enable the people to depo~ii their
money with the government, wi.ich in-
sures its safety, much more th: n being
in their own possession, and »t the
same time they can draw a small in-
terest from the government. Th gov-
ernment can then lend the money out
on safe securities, and thus re "ore “it
to circulation. This plan hL.< been
tried in European countries, nnd has
been wonderfully successful. Mr.
Taft promises to establish the. hunke
as soon as he is elected, and .nyone
can see it will be a wise act of -tates-
manship. It is not generally known
to Americans, but itis a faet that rhe
European countries never have - pinie.
Whoever heard of a panic, such ns we
had last fall, occurring in Knziand,
Germany, France, Belgium or any of
those countries? In all of them these
postal saving banks are in uiiverssl
operation, and they thus keep ull the
timid money circulating, which is se
necessary to prosperity, esp: ci.lly in
Europe, where wages are :0 .much
lower than here.
ATTENTION, ASTHMA SUF-
FERERS!
Foley’s Honey and Tar will give im-
mediate relief to asthma sufferers and
has cured many cases that hud refused
to yield to other treatment. Foley’s
Honey and Tar is the best remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat «nd lung
trouble. Contains no harmul drugs.
Sold by Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Mil-
ler proprietor. : 9-1
TO YOUNG VOTERS. |
A Matter That Should Not Be For
gotten.
Young men who voted on nage, last
fall, must be registered, or they can
not vote under any circumstances at
the coming November election. Others
who have paid a State or County tax
within two years, will be ab'e to swear
in their votes, if they are not upon the
Registry, but the voter who cast his
first ballot in 1907, has no possible
chance to do this. He is not upon any
duplicate, has no tax assessed against
him, and consequently cannot qualify
to having paid a tax, as i= necessary
where voters are left off the Registry.
By failing to register, he practically
and effectively disfranchi-es himself-
There is no way by which he can vote,
and Republicans should see that every
young Republican who voted on age
in 1907, is upon the poling list of 1908.
And this must be seen to before the
evening of September 2nd. Don’t For-
get it. .
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 te
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
Baseball News.
During the past week the Salisbury
baseball team again covered itself with
glory. Two games were played, last
Saturday, on the home grounds, with a
strong team from Frostburg, Md.
Both games were won by the Salisbury
club, one by a score of 10 to 0,and the
other by a score of 14 to 3.
On Monday two return games were
played at Frostburg, Salisbury win-
ning the first by a score of 6 to 4, while
Frostburg took the second by a score
of 11. to 5. :
On Saturday next our home team
will play the Meyersdale team in Mey-
ersdale, and on Monday will play the
same team on the Salishury grounds.’
EXCELLENT HEALTH ADVICE.
Mrs. M. M. Davison, of No. 379 Git-
ford Ave., San Jose, Cal., says: ® “The
worth of Electric Bitters as a general
family remedy, for headache, bilious-
ness and torpor of the liver and bowels
is so pronounced that I am prompted
to say a word in its favor, for the bene-
fit of those seeking relief from such
afflictions. There is more health for
the digestive organs in a bottle of Elec-
tric Bitters than in any other remedy I
know of.” Sold under guarantee at E.
The |
H. Miller’s drug store. 50c. 9-1
FALL TER) BEGINS
September 1,2 & 3. Send for catalogue
Tue Tri-State Business COLLEGE,
Cumberland, Md.
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mitting that he is conducting a busi-
ness that is not worth advertising,
business conducted by a man unfit te
do business, and a business whieh
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