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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17.
1908.
NO. 36.
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. COOPER.
COUNTY.
Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A.W. KNEPPER.
: Sheriff,
CHARLES HI. WEIMER.
Auditor,
WwW. 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.
Poot Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County @ommissioner, _-
R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
Couaty Surveyor,
IRENIS 8. PYLE.
WINDY WILLIE LIKINS. -
Poor, windy Willie Likins
Seeks office on his gall,
But windy Willie Likins
Will get an awful fall.
He wants to go to Congress,
But cannot win the race,
For no man ever got there
On such a calflike face.
Quite early in November
He'll get an awful jolt,
But that is all that’s coming
To such a silly dolt.
He'll get it where the chicken
Is sure to get the ax,
And like the mule. lug brether,
The fool will get his whaeks.
80 let him do his braying,
He cannot bray so long,
For soon he'll get his licking,
And get it good and strong.
Poor, windy Willie Likins,
You'll then be feeling sore,
But for poor windy Willie
There's nothing else in store.
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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
IN BRYAN'S STATE.
Judging from the returns from the
state-wide primary held in Nebraska,
last week, there doesn’t appear to be
much enthusiasm there, nor a great
rusi to the Bryan standard. Mayor
Dahlman,of Omaha, posed as the friend
and representative of Bryan, and after
an energetic canvass of the state, re-
ceived 10,202 votes. A. C. Shallen-
berger received 12,304 votes, and Popu-
list Berge, 9,579. That is a total of
32,176 of the combined Democratic and
Populist votes, and = total of 22,696
Democratic votes.
The people out there do not seem to
be much aroused. In 18904 the Demo-
crates polled 52,821 votes, and 22,696
cast at a primary in a year when Mr.
Bryan is running, indicates apathy and
indifference among Mr. Bryan’s home
people. The Republicans polled 138,-
558 votes in Nebraska in the election
of 1904. That is over 22,000 votes more
than the Democratic and populist vote
tombined when they were at flood tide
in 1896. The Nebraska primary is very
discouraging=to Colonel Bryan and his
friends. The farmers of the state have
shown that they are not interested in
its presidential candidate or the party
which he represents.— Uniontown News
Standard.
A SURE-ENOUGH KNOCKER.
J.C. Goodwin, of Reidsville, N." C.,
says: “Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is a
sure-enough knocker for ulcers. A bad
one came on my leg, last summer, but
that wonderful salve knocked it out in
afew rounds. Not even a scar re-
mained.” Guaranteed for piles, sores,
burns, ete. 25¢. at E, H. Miller's drug |
store. 10-1 |
W. M. LIKINS.
It Seems Hard for Him to Tell the
Truth.
In his People’s Tribune, published at
Uniontown, Pa.. the bughouse editor,
W. M. Likins, devotes a large portion
of his issue of Sept. 10th to P. L. Liven-
good, who hit the Tribune man in sev-
eral very sore spots, regently, in an
editorial way. Under glaring and un-
tréthful headlines, Mr. Likins proclaims
that “Pete I. Livengood Grows Very
Angry,” meaning that we became very
angry when we answered a letter re-
cently received from him.
Now, wouldn’t that rattle your slate?
Get angry at Likins, a simpering, sin-
soaked simpleton like he? Well, not
on your tin-type! Why, we never
thunk of sich a thing. To get angry at
a poor weakling, a soft, egotistical, il-
literate lump of Kentucky greenness,
would be too awful to contemplate.
When we administer a rebuke to such
a bundle of ignorance and Hypocrisy,
we do so in pity and in the line’of pub-
lic duty, but in anger never.
We were in such a’happy mood when
we answered the fool letter received
from Mr. Likins, that our face was one
huge smile, and the office devil photo-
graphed it on the spot, and to prove it,
right here is the photograph.
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Of course, our smiling face as it here
appears, may not be proof as convine-
ing of our happy mood as Editor Lik-
ins*would like, but we’ll venture to say
that it’s just as convincing as are the
reasons given by Mr. Liking why people
of this congressional district should be-
come foolish enough to vote for him for
Congressman.s And as for the good
appearance of our portrait as it appears
above, it shows a dinged sight a hand-
somer mug than was ever seen on any
red-headed mutt from Kentucky.
But let us review some of the false
and foolish assertions of Mr. Likins.
He starts out by saying:
“Now, Livengood doesn’t know us;
he has never seen us; he doesn’t even
get our paper and never has gotten n>
Ish dot 80? Well, now maybe per-
haps probably Mr. Likins is just a little
bit off In fact he seems to be a great
deal off, especially in his upper story.
Anyway, we have seen the critter,and
as to knowing him, any man who isn’t
thoroughly acquainted with Mr. Likins,
and can’t see clear through the transe
parent sissy and cheap demagogue af-
ter hearing one ot his egotistical politi-
harangues, or reading a few of his
bughouse editorials, is a yery poor
judge of men and things. And we get
his paper, too. Every week we are
handed a copy of it by a man who re-
ceives it regularly at some other per-
son’s expense, but who has no use for
the slimy thing. ;
After delivering himself of the glar-
ing falsehoods just noted, Mr. Likins
then goes on to call us a cheap machine
politician, thereby delivering himself
of the cheapest kind of a lie; and be-
fore that lie has time to get cold, he
says we received only 748 votes at last
spring's primary election, out of'a total
of 5,648 cast. That statement, like the
one preceeding it, is also absolutely
untrue, gs we received 778 votes at the
primary aforesaid, which was a phe-
romenal vote under the circumstances,
as well posted politicians, both friends
and foes, have freely admitted since.
It will be remembered that at last
spring’s' primary there were sever Re-
publican candidates in Somerset coun-
ty seeking nomination for the Legis-
lature. Two of them were slated by
the saloon-keepers’ organization of
Somerset county, and two of them
were slated by the Anti-Saloon League.
Reel, Duncan and Livengood were not
slated by anybody, hence where run-
ning between two slates, which placed
them under a crossfire during the bat-
tle for votes, thus keeping them at a
decided disadvantage. The three un-
slated candidates all received nearly
the same number of votes, and no mat-
ter who the men in their position would
have been, the result would have been
the same, as the issues were sharply
drawn, and the majority of the voters
supported the slated candidates.on one
slate or the other, believing it to be
the only way to win out on the issue
they were contending for. Personal
friendship was completely set aside in
hundreds of instances in order to be
most sure of defeating the organized
forces of the opposing organization.
Yet, in the face of all this, and being
the only one of the seven candidates in
the field who did not make a personal
canvass of the county at any time, we
received 778 votes, or nearly one-
seventh of the entire vote cast. Be-
sides, Livengood and Knepper were
the only two of the Legislative candi-
dates who did not run a bullseye in a
single voting precinct in the county.
Now, as slated Candidate A. W.
Knepper received the highest vote ca:t
for a legislative candidaté at the last
primary held in Somorset county, let
us see how it compares with his vote
in 1898, when he was a candidate for
the same office, but was not slated by
any organization—when he had to run
on his own merits, or run between two
slates, just as we had to do in the last
campaign. By referring to the official
returns of 1898, we find that there were
cast 5,913 Republican votes, or more
than 200 in excess of the vote cast at the
last primary. Of that number, Mr.
Knepper received just 778, with only
five other candidates in The field, or
exactly the same number of votes cast
for Livengood in 1808, when the total
vote cast was considerably smaller.
and when there was one more candi-
date in the field than in 1898. Further-
more, Mr. Knepper had the advantage
of a” large personal acquaintance all
over the county, as well as the help of
many prominent and influeptial rela-
tives who worked for his nomination
from the beginning of the campaign to
its.close. Those advantages we did not
have in our campaign, yet we made a
better showing than Mr. Knepper did
in his first trial for Legislative honors.
Windy Willie Liking should” now go
away back and sit down, for cold fig-
ures easily disprove his garbled and
unreliable statements.
Likins, in his windy editorial of the
10th inst., next makes the following
deliberately false statement: “Pete
said we left Kentucky, and that we
would not dare go back.” *
Pete didn’t say anything of the kind,
and the only evidence needed to prove
that Likins lied in making that state-
ment is the letter from our own pen,
which he has published to show exactly
what statement we did make concern-
ing his pulling out of Kentucky. Then
he utters another lie in the following
statement: “Pete says that he did not
mean to say that we had ever done
anything bad back there.” The fact is
“Pete” did not say anything of the
kind. The word “bad” was not used in
our statement at all, and our real
statément in the letter addressed to
liking, and by him published, is the
positive proof that gives him the lie
again in that assertion.
The following rediculously construct-
ed sentence also appears in the dirty
~.ikins rag of Sept. 10th: “But when
one assails us and intimates that we
have Leen connected with any crime of
any sort, that man must explain.”
Tue Star did not say or intimate
anything about crime, in calling Mr.
.ikins down a few weeks ago, except
his detestable, criminal way of assail-
ing the characters of those who are in
every way better than he is, and who
usually consider him beneath their no-
tice. But he acts very much as though
he was being haunted by some secret
crime or crimes which he fears may be
made public, and, as recorded in Holy
Writ. “The wicked flee when no man
pursues.”
. THE STAR is always prepared, and
usually willing to explain any state-
ment it makes, but will not guarantee
that the statement will always please
the one seeking it, for the truth some-
times hurts like sin, and THE STAR'S
statements are noted for being true.
This is devoting a good deal of space
to a sniveling nonentity from the half
civilized state of Kentucky, and this
editorial contains a good many super-
fluous words, and some not found in
dictionaries. But we ‘have made a
portion of it ridiculous for the mere
fun of the thing, and because it is a re-
ply to the rantings of a ridiculous
numbskull on whom it would be out of
order to waste too much good, pure
English and correct rhetoric.
PASSED EXAMINATION SUCCESS-
FULLY.
James Donahue, New Britain, Conn,,
writes: “I tried several kidney reme-
dies, and was treated by our best phy-
sicians for diabetes, but did not im-
prove until I took Foley’s Kidney
Remedy, After the second bottle IT
showed improvement, and five bottles
cured me completely. I have since
passed a rigid examination for life in-
surance.” Foley's Kidney Remedy
cures backache and all forms of kidney
Elk Lick Phar-
and bladder trouble.
macy, E. H. Miller, proprietor. 10-1
SPRINGFIELD, MAss., is trying to find
out the best way to advertise the town.
| Well, Springfield, Ohio, Springfield, Mo.,
| Springfield, 111, have tried “coon”
| lynching, but we do not recommend |
| that kind of an “ad.”
A TOUCHING LETTER.
Pathetic Letter Written on a Re-
union Occasion by One of the
Editor’s Western Friends.
An Insight to the Hardships of
Pioneer Life, by an Unele of
Congressman Cooper.
With thanks we acknowledge receipt
of a marked copy of the Genius of Lib-
erty, published at Uniontown, Pa, in
which is printed an intensely interest-
ing letter from the Rev. David Fetz,
one of the editor’s old-time Nebraska
friends, who is an uncle of our worthy
Congressman, Hon. Allen F. Cooper,
who possesses to a great degree the
sterling good qualities of his grand old
uncle.
Over in Fayette county, recently,
there was held a reunion of the sur-
viving pupils and teachers of the old
Beuna Vista and Agnold schools, where
the Rev. David Fetz served as teacher
a half-century ago. Many of the old-
timers flocked there from all directions,
and some who could not attend wrote
interesting letters which have been
published in the Uniontown papers.
We were delighted to see among these
a letter from the pen of our dear old
friend, the Rev. David Fetz, who re-
sided at Carleton, Neb., when we pub-
lished a newspaper there back in the
“Eighties.”
We would be pleased to reproduce
Mr. Fetz’s entire letter, but as space
will not permit it, we reproduce certain
portions of it, which we believe will be
read with interest by most of our
readers, some of whom are well ac-
quainted with Mr. Fetz. The letter
follows: ;
Lincoln, NEs., Aug. 27, 1908.
To the chairman, secretary and
members of the committee of the
gemi-centenial celebration of the
Beuna Vista school and the reunion of
the old Arnold school, and to old
friends in general:
I received your kind and pressing in-
vitation to attend the aboved named
celebration, for which I return my
sincere and heartfelt thanks, for surely
to be with you and enjoy the associa-
tions of that day would be to me the
greatest red-letter day of my life. But
circumstances are such that it is im-
possible for me to go. Having had two
strokes of apoplexy, one in November,
and another in January last, it has left
me in such feeble condition that if is
unsafe for me to undertake so longa
journey alone. My wife had a para-
lytic stroke three years ago, also, from
which she has only partially recovered.
and is unable to make so long a trip.
and I cannot leave her to go so far
from home.
My prayer is that you may have a
grand and glorious time. I am now in
my seventy-fifth year, and my wife is
in her seventy-fourth year, and outside
of our afflictions, age also is beginning
to tell on us. There will no doubt be
some present at your celebration that
went to school in the old Arnold school
house when I taught there 54 years
ago, but most of them, no doubt, have
crossed over and now dwell in the land
of the spirits.
When the great War of the Rebellion
broke out, I went, but after a few
months in the army my lungs became
affected and I came home. I went to
Iowa, where my health improved, and
later I moved to Nebraska. Lest this
message become tedious, I will pass
over by mere mention of a few inci-
dents of our Nebraska life. I have
seen the hot winds and droughfs with
nothing raised for nearly three years.
I have seen the savage Sioux dressed
in his war paint ; I have seen the prairie
dog, the rattlesnake and the owl ap-
parently dwelling together in brotherly
love; I have seen the wild buffalo
roaming over the prairie, and the timid
antelope, feeding in its native haunts;
I have heard the crack of the cowboys’
pistols, and seen men weltering in their
own blood; I have preached the fu-
nerals of men and officerss shot down
while in their official duties, by out-
laws and thieves; I have seen the
grasshopper devour every living green
thing ; I have entered the home of the
early settler and seen him weeping
over a few smouldering buffalo chips,
with a family, and not a thing to eat.
It was joy to see the eye brighten as
they took on a new lease of life when
I gave them food and raiment, thus
satisfying the needs of the physical
man.
‘One of the most sorrowful incidents
of our early pioneer life was the death
of our little girl, Eva. We were 26
miles from any town and had no money
to buy a coffin. Two or three men
took boards from the loft
house and made a
one of her old white skirts, and with
this the men lined the coffin, that when
Lon the frontier, were this message ‘not
form we might not look down upon the
rough, unpainted boards on which she
lay. You mothers only can know how
this would effect a mother’s heart—but
little Eva will come forth on the morn-
ing of the resurrection, just as beauti-
fu), just as lovely, just as sweet, as
those that will rise from jeweled
caskets. :
Shortly after coming to Nebraska I
joined the Nebraska conference and
became an itinerant minister. Many
strange and amusing incidents might
be told in connection with my ministry
already too long. I have seen the last
morsel of food go, with a wife and five
children to feed, but I have said: Oh,
Lord, Thou hast said in Thy Word,
“Trust in the Lord and do good, and
verily thou shalt be fed;” Lord,I am
trusting in Thee, and trying to do good,
feed ug, and we were fed. Before the
next meal, food always came.
As I have said, our frontier experi-
ence is now a thing of the past. This
country has been made to blossom as
the rose, and the solitary place has
been made glad. No longer wild men,
or wild beasts roam the plains, or cow-
boys hold their dreaded orgie. But in-
stead, we have cities, towns and vil-
lages, with their churches, colleges,
universities and seminaries; the
country is dotted everywhere with
school houses, equipped with all
modern appliances. Beautiful, well-
kept homes cover the land, and the
people are prosperous, happy and con-
tented. -
I have just received another letter
from Sparks Bute, which says “Come,
come, come!” and my eyes fill with
tears as I read, because I cannot go.
Most all of my friends and old ac-
quaintances have crossed the Mystic
River, while we still linger waiting,
waiting till the shadows are a little
longer grown, then we, too, shall join
them in the City of the Great King, to
go no more out forever. -
May God bless "you, and make the
5th a great day. Davip Ferz.
WHEN TRIFLES BECOME
TROUBLES,
If any person suspects that their
kidneys are deranged, they should take
Foley’s Kidney Remedy at once, and
not risk having Bright’s disease or dia-
betes. Delay gives the disease a
stronger foothold, and you should nct
delay taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy.
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, pro-
prietor. 10-1
In the matter of guaranteed bank
deposits, a great many people would
prefer a guarantee that they will have
deposits. -
AprpEARANCES indicate that Colonel
Guffey continues to be the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania, and he is will-
ing enough, too. >
pg
Tue supply of harsh things Tom
Watson has to say about Mr. Bryan is
apparently going to last right up to the
end, of the campaign.
a
A Texas man has married a woman
whose pie killed her first husband. We
admire courage in a man, but this
looks like recklessness.
GEORGE CoOOPER,-an English book-
maker, leaves an estate of $2,600,000—
won from the fellows who think they
know all about “playing the ponies.”
Tre Vermont Legislature will have
two Democrats in the Senate, here-
after. They will have a great time de-
ciding who shell be the leader of the
minority.
Tuar Buffalo undertaker who is run-
ning for Congress would no doubt like
to be placed on one of the committees
that make a specialty of burying pro-
posed legislation.
REPRESENTATIVE LONGWORTH’S re-
mark that Taft is running on his record,
and that Bryan is running away from
his record, is equally epigrammatic and
accurate, and well deserves to “stick.”
“EveLyN Taaw has gone into retire-
ment,” says a headline. The congre-
gation will please rise and join us in
singing that beautiful old ballad en-
titled, “I Don’t Care If you Never Come
Back.”
Davip B. Hiuw is deterred from tak-
ing an ective part in the campaign on
account of his poor health. Weare be-
ginning to be suspicious of Dave’s De-
mocracy, for the real Democrat puts off
of the scd |
rough coffin, and |
| having nothing to line it, my wife gave
getting sick till the morning after |
election. |
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THE man who makes money in a|
community has a duty to perform to |
| that community. It may be that he
| has made his money by his superior
| we bade a final farewell to that little | business ability, and that he would |
| evenings in
| other clubs in
| strictly prohibited.
have done as well anywhere. That
does not alter the case. If his gifts are
great, his responsibility is equally great.
No man was placed on earth for the
sole purpose of making money, and the
man who has this as his ideal had bet-
ter never been born. It is not an
act of charity, but the performance of
a simple duty for the man who has
made money to pass a little of it on for
the benefit of the community, even
though he never expects to see a dol-
lar of his contribation back.
IN every city there are movements:
which call for the expenditure of mon-
ey. Some of these are of a distinctly
public character, and are paid for
through taxation. Others are of a
semi-public character, and for them the
funds must be raised by voluntary con-
tributions, These must come from the
men who are doing the business of the
place, and who have the money. There
is no other way. The man who has
the money is the man who must pay
the bills, if they are to be paid. Most
enterprises of a public nature which
have for their object the bettering of
conditions, business and otherwise, in a
city, will directly or indirectly return
more than the money expended to
those who pay it.
THE latest advice from China to the
Government at Washington indicates
that the Chinese Government earnestly
desires a strong treaty with the United
States. The Chinese have observed
with much interest the manner in
which Japan has swallowed Corea,
horse, wagon and dragoon. While
China is too big a mouthful to be swal-
lowed in a lump, they realize that
Japan is endeavoring to occupy their
territory, step by step, until they shall
have served China as they served
Corea. So China desires the continued
friendship of “Uncle Sam,” as she
knows “Uncle Sam” will hold Japan in
check. This treaty will be beneficial
in the greatest degree to both China
and this country, and will be a great
triumph for President Roosevelt.
THE death of Lord Sackville West,
which occurred in England, recently,
recalls an item of the campaign of
1888. During that campaign, when Mr.
Cleveland was running against Mr.
Harrison the first time, a Republican
by the name of Murchison, in Utah,
who having been a subject of Great
Britain, wrote to Sackville West, the
British Minister, and asked which
candidate he thought would prove the
best friend of England. The British
Minister replied that the re-election of
Mr. Cleveland would be to the best in-
terest of Great Britain. At that time
the feeling in this country was not
very kindly toward Great Britain, and
the publication of that letter, which
was broadcast, had a tremendous
weight in aiding the election of Mr.
Harrison.
THE Democrats of this borough, with
a zeal worthy of a much better cause,
have gone down into their jeans and
raised a fund of $50 as their share of
the National Democratic campaign
fund. It is indeed fortunate for them,
as well as for the balance of us, that
we have had twelve years of Republi-
can presperity since the great Demo-
cratic Cleveland panic. Otherwise the
faithful, but benighted followers of the
Nebraska windmill would not have:
been able to raise the money. But
after all, what a waste of money it is to-
contribute to such a cause! The man
who would thrust his money into a rat
hole, would be a wise man compared to-
the one contributing to a national
Democratic campaign fund, and when:
men fool away their money like that, it
is about time to have another severe:
panic to bring them back to their-
sober senses.
Oh, Billy, Billy, Billy B,,
Their faith in you is strong;
But yet, what fools these mortals be
To spend their money wrong!
We Recommend This Kind of a
Club.
A club like the one described in the
following lines from the Berlin Reeord.
is one we heartily recommend :
“The Crescent Club of Berlin” is the
name of an organization formed om
September 2 by the young men of the
town. The club already numbers:
about thirty-five members, who have a
suit of rooms nicely furnished on the
second floor of the Mercantile building.
The object of the organization is to
provide a place where young men of
the town can pass their spare hours in
reading, or while away the long winter
social games of various
In striking contrast with many
various parts of the
country, the “Crescent” will not per-
mit liquor of any kind to be brought
into their rooms, and gambling will be
The club is prov-
ing quite popular with the young men
of the town.
kinds.
Sree e