SET, PA. , G. OGLE . PEKNK'A on, LICK, Pa. nith Ave. preserva- alsets In- Tr. pusness, bad Pr. Shoop's ee: for your- , and cheer Ive ’ 08. NT! sters, lee ete. . 1Js—Beef- age, Hot at All comms. Groceries, rs, ete. 1s, and we re of your "HERS, BURY, PA. nn” otal} - \8 BLACK ng and all ASTIC. er. It will practically ket to-day. nents, Rul Bleed for 8 ou, ac- [ Saino will COMPANY, ——— ¢ ager. ation and Siregl. UP. AY AND UP. ced hotel of a i Somerset County Star. ‘VOL. XIV. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1908. NO. 35. 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 Distriet, ALLEN F. COOPER. COUNTY. Legislature, WM. H. FLOTO, A. W. KNEPPER. Sheriff, CHARLES I. WEIMER. - . Auditor, W. H. H. BAKER, JACOB 8. MILLER. sh 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. S. McMILLEN, JOSIAH SPECHT.” County. Sarveyor, 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. 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. Holicitors—Berkey & Shaver. Jury Commissioners—George J. 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 Political Organizations— -Jonas M. Cook, Republican st Alex B. Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin, Prohibition. tf. Tae number of crimes is on the in- erease, and they can be traced back to homes in which parents were too am- pitious for their children in the direc- tion of social prominence and too neg- lectful of them in the direction of chare acter. “WHAT constitutes a day’s work?” We figure it out that it depends alto- gether on your occupation. If you lay brick, eight hours; if you keep house. sixteen hours ; if you preach the gospel, two hours; if you are a porter in a sleeping car,twenty hours; if you serve the government, one hour, (Fourth Class postmasters, of course, excepted) ; and if you are a newspaper man, twen- ty-four hours. A commuxnIiTY torn by dissentions, rent assunder by strife and contention —the people ready always to fly at each other’s throats on account of riv- alry and petty jealousies—can never hope to succeed. The universal broth- erhood of man is constantly deferred, and the end of time will appear before this great desideratum can be brought about, unless man shall be brought to the realization of this, his dominant weakness. Let him inquire, “Who is my-neighbor?” TaERE is not enough ov in this struggling world. So few people have time for it ; but children, happy chil- dren, who are brought up in sympa- thetic atmosphere, in the infinite leis- are that is theirs, have an immense capacity for joy. How can we deny ourselves that enriching spectacle—a joyous child? The capacity for joy is one of the highest of the human facul- ties, and it is grossly neglected. We walk too much with our feet in graves. Let us laugh with the children, and be young. Ir a newspaper should publish cur- rent street gossip. or even the hints and allusions of the best society in the community, it would be ostracised, and the poor editor horse-whipped or burned at the stake. Think a minute of the mean and low things you say about your townsmen and your near neighbor, and imagine how it would" look in print. Don't criticise the news- papers for what they print, but give them great credit for what they don’t print. A newspaper that would con- tain one-half the nonsense current among even the best citizens, would be considered unfit to read. ma IN the matter of business failures, sheriff, assignee and receivers’ sales, this is proving a banner year for the once proud metropolis of Meyersdale, “where every prospect pleases,” but where somehow local industries and other business concerns have the dis- agreeable habit of going to the wall. In the business graveyard of Meyers- dale we note the Wooden Pin factory, Lock factory, Commercial College, Farmers’ Bank, Meyersdale Iron Works, Dreher System store, Bittner’s restaurant, Meyersdale Register, a meat firm or two, and the Lord only knows how many others. But Meyers- dale should not lose hope, for behold she still runs ‘her brewery and cigar factories to their fullest capacity, and the dude and puke ®factories down there, as well as here in Salisbury and elsewhere, are all working extra time, » BEGIN to save when you begin to earn. There is one sure mark of the coming millionaire. His revenues al- ways exceed his expenditures. He be- gins to save as soon as he begins to earn. Capitalists trust the saving young man. It is not capital your seniors require, it is the man- who has proved he has the business habits which make capital. Begin at once to lay up something. It isthe first bun- dred dollars saved which tells. And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret; concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are en- gaged. Having begun in one line, re- solve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it; adopt ever; improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it. Finally, do not be im- patient, for as Emerson says, “No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.” A PAYING INVESTMENT. Mr. John White, of 38 Highland Ave. Houlton, Maine, says: “Have been troubled with a cough every winter and spring. Last winter I tried many ad- vertised remedies, but the cough con- tinued until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery ; before that was half gone, the cough was all gone. This winter the same happy result has followed ; a few doses once more ban- ished the annual cough. I am now convinced that Dr. King’s New Dis- cevery is the best of all cough and lung remedies.” Sold under guarantee at E. H. Miller's drug store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. 10-1 A POLITICAL IMPOSTOR. Colonel William Jennings Bryan, the Great Claimant, poses as the real po- litical heir of President Roosevelt, more in sympathy with his policies and better fitted than any other candidate to work them out. z It will be remembered that Bryan once claimed to be an heir of the es- tate of a Connecticat man named Bennet, whose will he wrote, together with an order on the side for the widow to pay him $50.000. : The widow didn’t honor the order, and Bryan sought to enforce his claim in the courts, but was denied, though he carried the matter up to the higher courts and insisted upon his bequest. His presgnt claim to the political estate of President Roosevelt, includ- ing his White House property, will not. we opine, be honored in the Court of Public Opipion, wherein he is suing.— Connellsville Courier. WILL INTEREST MANY. Every person should know that good health is impossible if the kidneys are deranged. Foley’s Kidney’ Remedy will cure kidney and bladder disease in every form, and will build up and strengthen these organs, so they will perform their functions properly. No danger of Bright’s disease or diabetes if Foley’s Kidney Remedy is taken in time. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Mil- ler, Proprietor. 10-1 TAFT AND BRYAN COMPARED. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. From a family of jurists. Graduate of Yale College. - Hardly of age he was called into pub- lic office, where he spent most of his time, always, however, being promoted because of efficiency. First he was Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of ‘Hamilton county, Ohio, and helped drive out the Campbell ring of politicians and corruptionists. In 1881 he became collector of in- ternal revenue for the First Ohio dis- trict, and made a most efficient officer. Resigning from this office td practice his chosen profession, the law, he was making rapid strides, when Governor Foraker, attracted by his great ability. appointed him Judge of the Superior Court, to succeed Tudson Harmon, who had been called to Cleveland’s cabinet. At the close of his appointed term he was triumphantly elected for another term, but inasmuch as he had already attracted attention nationally, Presi- dent Harrison asked him to assume the difficult position of Solicitor-Gen- eral of the United States. In this po- gition the real man was revealed. At that time the position was most diffi- cult, requiring the greatest learning, and tremendous application, together with clear and forceful presentation of argument. He won two great cases of national import; the first, the seal fisheries controversy with Great Britain; the second.- the tariff case where the law had been attacked be- cause Speaker Reed had counted a quorum when the law was passed. He won. Men of international reputation like Joseph H. Choate opposed him, but he was a foe worthy of their steel. It was at this time that Theodore Roosevelt first met Judge Taft. After three years as Solicitor-Gen- eral he was sent back to Ohio as a Federal judge, which position he oc- cupied for seven years. President McKinley asked Judge Taft to go to Manila as Chairman of the Philippine Commission, and pa- triotism to his country caused him to sacrifice his judicial career as he ac- cepted. All know what wonders he worked in the far East during the three years that he was there. Roose- velt offered a Supreme Court judge- ship to Taft, but he refused, claiming that his works were unfinished in the Philippines, and he remained until he had made a nation, and pleased the un- schooled men who were almost savages. . Then, after that glorious work was finished, he was called in as Secretary of War, and in that position the Pan- ama Canal will be his unduring monau- ment. , Then it was Judge Taft, as Secretary of War, who restored order in Cuba, who did all for that country that hu- manity could do, and took all the f tangles from the skein. Then the American people nominated him for President. : That is Judge Taft—what do you think of his works? Honestly, now, of the two men, who WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Graduated in Illinois. Went to Lincoln to practice law. Never practiced. Went to Congress, but did nothing for the people. Edited a daily newspaper, but at- tracted no attention. Sprung some borrowed rhetoric on the Chicago convention in 1898, was nominated for President, and advocat- ed the wild-cat scheme of free silver. Was defeated. Made a cheap play to the galleries by enlisting a company of free-silver Dem- ocrats to fight Spain, got as far as Florida and came back with the title of Colonel. In 1900 ran again for President, and disgusted Democracy so that it re- pudiated him, and, of course, defeated him. Gave no support to the Democratic nominee in 1904, lectured at country fairs at big prices, and invested his money in Government bonds, which gave no employment to any wage worker. Went around the world, wrote a book and syndicated letters for money. And all the time kept on running for President. . Again he is running to be defeated. His lifework could be summed up as follows: - Ran for office. Ran again. Then ran again. Then ran some more. would you choose to represent you as President of this great nation? A man schooled in all its ways, or a man who has gotten perpetual motion down in a mania for running for office? The asswer is Taft in spite of everything.—The Yellow Jacket, Moravian Falls, N. C. Meyersdale Fair and Races. Never before in the history of the Meyersdale Fair and Races has there been so much attention paid to detail in arranging for the event, that promi- ses this year to far eclipse all other fairs. Since early spring the officers and the several committees have been planning and arranging for the great event to be held September 22, 23, 24 and 25, and no detail, however small or insignificant, has been slighted to make this the most interesting and enjoyable affair held in the county this year. Since the introduction of the trolley road in this section by the Pennsyl- vania & Maryland Street Railway Company. transportation to and from the grounds has been greatly improved, and cheapened. The electric cars will land all passengers at the main en- trance to the fair grounds. ———————. Going to California. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Fisher leave Sunday next for an extended tour of the far west. They will be gone six weeks, and the trip will take in Colo- rado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico. Mr. Fisher went west in the early days before the rail- roads were builded across the conti- nent, bullwhacked across the Plains, drove a 6-yoke of oxen to a prairie schooner haaling 80 hundred pounds of provisions to the Rocky Mountain gold mines. These were the days of millions of buffalo and hordes of hostile Indians roving over the region. These were the days of the rough and strenuous mining camps, when all the states west of Kansas were territories, except Cal- ifornia. Mr. Fisher saw it all, and now goes back specially to revisit the scenes of his early manhood. To penetrate | into the old haunts, up the old canons, | through the gulches and rough sec- HOW TO GET STRONG. P. J. Daily, of 1247 W. Congress St., | Chicago, tells of a way to become | strong: He savs: “My mother, who | is old and was very feeble, is deriving | so much benefit from Electric Bitters, | that I feel it’s my duty to tell those | who need a tonic and strengthening | medieine about it. In my mother’s case a marked gain in flesh has result- | ed, insomnia has been overcome, and | she is steadily growing stronger.” | Electric Bitters quickly remedy stom- ach, liver and kidney complaints. Sold under guarantee at BE. H. Miller's drug | store. b50c. 16-1 1 | tions where he was wont to wield the pick, shovel and pan in the strenuous quest for gold. Mr. Fisher says be knows the conditions have been chang- ed wonderfully, but the face of the rough “Old Rockies,” and the gorges, gulches and ravines will be there as of old. This trip will also include a sea voyage of 400 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The large stationery and school book and supply business | will be in charge of the junior partner, | in 1900 to 1.510 in 1904 ; 1904. Presidential vote | | cast in 1900 of 13,525,259, the saintly Mr. Chan. M., Fisher.—Somerset Demo- crat. SCOUNDRELISH. Some Interesting Facts and Figures Concerning the Prohibition Party and Those Who Make Merechan- dise of it. The Uniontown Morning Herald re- cently published some interesting facts and figures concerning the Prohibition party and a set of hangers-on and dis- reputable scoundrels who have been making merchandise of it for their own personal gain, while the cause of tem- perance is hindered far more than it is helped by such as they. Following we reproduce some of the Morning Herald’s remarks, which will be found very interesting reading, and the statements are backed by official figures and true assertions which can- not be overcome by anything that may be said or printed to the contrary: The Herald has already directed at- tention to the extent and the means by which the Prohibition movement has degenerated in Pennsylvania through the machinations of its unscrupulous office-seeking leaders. Some of these men were kicked out of the churches in which they had risen to eminence; some of them have been brought into the courts charged with banking frauds; some of them are known to be devotees of the grossest personal im- moralities—yet these outcasts of the church and society have been embraced by the Prohibition party, aided by the contributions of the sincere gen who did not know they were being hood- winked, until they had gained sufficient control of the machinery of the party to enable them to dicker with the un- scrupulous leaders of other parties, to their personal enrichment and the de- moralization of Prohibition. These are the men who have placed personal pelf above temperance by Prohibition and who have placed their party on such a disreputable basis that it has been shunned the country over by real ad- vocates of temperance. The country has marveled at the strides of temperance in the South in recent years, but it can be said to the everlasting discredit of the Prohibition movement that not only has it refused to work hand in hand with local option, but in many cases, and particularly here in Pennsylvania, has local option been fought by those in control of Prohibition machinery, for the good and sufficient reason that an honest movement for temperance would mean the elimination of the parasites who have been fattening at the trough of the Prohibition party for years, and their future inability to traffic in the votes and influence of the party. How the Prohibition party has de- creased in votes and influence while temperance has increased in strength is evidenced by a few figures furnished below. They are taken from the re- turns of the temperance South in the last two Presidential elections. While the total vote is given in round num- bers, the Prohibition vote is given ex- actly. Alabama, with a total vote of 155,000, in 1900°cast 1,407 votes for Woolley. It cagt less than half of this number, or 812, for Swallow in 1904. This was one of the first states in the South to go dry in the recent movement. It was accomplished in the face of the de- clining influence and the opposition of the Prohibition leaders. Florida, with a total vote of 38,000, cast 2,234 votés for Woolley in 1900, and not a single vote for Swallow in 1904. Georgia, known as a banner tem- perance state, with a total of 120,000, cast 1,394 votes for Woolley in 1900, but it cast less than half this number, or 684, for Swallow in 1904. Tennessee, with a total vote of 271,- 000, cast 3,882 votes for Woolley in 1900, but this vote dropped to 1,906 for Swallow in 1904. North Carolina, with a total vote of 290,000, gave Woolley 990 votes in 1900, but cut that number down to just one- third for Swallow in 1804, or 361. South Carolina, which for the past 12 years bas been in the public eye from a temperance standpoint, and which treats liquor from the dispensary, did not cast a single Prohibition vote either in 1900 or 1904. The only two Southern states which showed Prohibition gains were Texas, with a total vote of 420,000, which in- creased its Prohibition vote from 2.644 in 1900 to 4,292 in 1904, and Kentucky, with a total vote of 464,000, which in- ~ creased from 2814 in 1900 to 6,609 in | 1904, immediately after a few ‘hell- raisers” from that state found an asy- | lum in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Maine is afd has for years been the | leading temperance state in the Union. Yet out of a total vote of 113,000, its Prohibition vote decreased from 2,585 Out of the total Swallow, who proclaimed his intention to raise enough hades to hoist him into the Presidency of the United States, got a meagly 259,042, or less than 2 per cent. Out of a total vote in Pennsyl- vania in that year of 1,236,688, Swallow: in his own state, got a miserable 33,717, or less than 3 per cent. Why, Roose- velt’s plurality in Pennsylvania alone in that year was 505,519, or just about twice as much as Swallow’s vote in the whole country. And if any more odius comparison to that of the Prohibition element can be made than that with the vote cast for Debs for President on the Socialist ticket—a total vote of 402,757 for Debs to a total of 259.043 for Swallow—we would like to know what it is. For Debs, despised by society, and leading a forlorn hope that appeals pre-eminently to the Alexander Berk- man and the Emma Goldman type, polled 143,715 more votes for his de- structive theories in 1904 than did Swallow for the sacred cause of tem- perance! These figures are certainly illuminat- ing. They not only show the declining vote and influence of Prohibition in inverse ratio to the growth of temper- ance in the South, but they show the utter insignificance of the Prahibition vote compared with the total vote of the states mentioned. In nearly every casé this decline has been brought about by men akin to those into whose hands the party machinery has fallen in the county of Fayette and the state of Pennsylvania. These men show a lust for office, for power, for wealth, entirely transcendant to their efforts in behalf of virtue, temperance or prin- ciple. Presuming upon the teachings of the pulpit in the cause of temper- ance, they have sought the indorse- ment of the churches, and to the credit of the churches in this county it can be stated that with one or two insignificant exceptions the vipers doing business under the banner of Prohibition have been roundly repudiated. The Herald has no derision for Pro- hibition or the sincere men who vote that ticket. But this paper, with so- ciety and the rank and file of the peo- ple, has a profound contempt for the scoundrels and crooks in the party here and elsewhere who have brought it to its present demoralization through the prostitution of its principles for their self-aggrandizement. Some of these men have come here unknown and unheralded as weary exiles, and in the guise of reformers have heaped their villainous villfication and abuse on the heads of Republicans and Dem- ocrats—on the heads of men born in this county of honest and respected parentage; men who were educated in this county ; men who taught school in this county; men who have been members of the bar in this county for 20 years and its undisputed leaders for half of that time ; men who have been honored by their elevotion to the bench and their repeated return to the halls of Congress ; men who, while neither Prohibitionists nor voting that ticket, have neither touched, tasted nor hand- led intoxicating liquors in their lives, but who refuse to make political or any other kind of capital out of the fact; men who are respected in society and honered in the church. It will be the unpleasant duty of The Herald some of these days to lay bare the villainous conspiracy that has called forth these torrents of abuse; to name the men who write most of it (for in addition to the Prohibition bell wether, a mugwump Democrat and a sorehead Republican contribute a large share); to tell why they write it; to name those in whose interest this abuse is manufactured and dissemi- nated ; to give the names of a few bank- ers, lawyers and manufacturers who have financially aided and abetted this scoundrelism, and why; and to show how even the saloon has been made by these wretches to stand and deliver when it came to a question of saloon existence. epee ne QUICK RELIEF FOR ASTHMA SUFFERERS. Foley’s Honey and Tar affords im- _ mediate relief to asthma sufferers in the worst stages, and if taken in time will effect a cure. Elk Lick Pharmacy E. H. Miller, proprietor. 10.1’ — —— WANTED, MEN AND WOMEN TO SWEAR and affirm before the under- signed, when they have documents to i . : a 7 3 | which lawful affidavits are required. I also draw up all manner of deeds; | leases, mortgages, etc., neatly and ac- curately, according to the require- | ments of the law. Typewritten work a | specialty. | A fall line of legal blanks always on hand. P. L.. LIvENGOOD Notary Public and Conveyancer. | StAR OFFICE, Elk Lick, Pa. tf
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