aw, MP.RSET, PA. . J. G.0GLE E JAW RSET, PENN’A rgeon, & LK LICK, PA. 1 AW o OMERSET, Pa. AW ERSET, PA. A, d Smith Ave. the preserva- ificial sets in- nner. RAL JCTIONEER. Bales, Live Estate. ‘TION SCHOOL. faction guar- ALE, PA. KE, STEM ting these 1 Guns is New Shot- | two-cent raler ANT! Oysters, Ice s, ete. Teals—Beef- wsage, Hot at All © cD. f Groceries, « yars, ete. ons, and we hare of your OTHERS, LISBURY, PA. RD CI you by your arments. ke good care of them. Your closet or wardrobe may look the same if you 1se the Eu- eka Ward- 4 4 obe Set. he thing vanted is lever visible, a nto a gpuce vhere ordsr yrevails,: ar? vhere you si r it a glance he garment enuired, THINGY. Diiosian Se ig A ——— SEAMLFORLLLLLEIGE TIE SDI RLSM IROL OH DEBE UO ILLS LLE OL OL ISDH L HOOD The Somerset @ounty Star. VOL. XIV. SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1908. NO. 16. 00000000000 50009980000000000008 Mr. William Dollar, (dood Citizen. In a certain western town lives a gentleman whose name is William Dollar. They call him Dollar Bill when they get fuhny. But Mr. Dol- lar is a dignified, enter- prising, good citizen. Not every Dollar Bill is a good citizen. Many of them are prone to ignore the claims of their own comunity and run away to a big city to be spent. Many millions of Dollar Bills have left the smaller towns for the overgrown cities this present year of our Lord. How many Dollar Bills have gone out of THIS TOWN — left home and gone to some big city, never to return { Every time a Dollar to a Mail Order Store. much less trade for him. ing in this community. business stagnation. Bill leaves town it takes a two-cent stamp with it, for it goes That helps the postmaster a little, but it doesn’t help the lécal merchant. Which means just se much less cash circulat- Which means just so much more social and Which means the stunting of the town’s growth just to that extent. ; It means just so ing things along. If you could figure up the Dollar Bills that leave town in this secret manner, like taking French leave—which you can’t—jyou would know just how much the town is stunted by indulgence in this mail order stunt. If these Dollar Bills were really good and enterprising citizens they would stay at home and circulate around, help- How many of YOUR Dollar Bills take the midnight express out of town on the Envelope Route ? © SUELO BHSE SSG GB UBS BUBBEL BU BOEES BOSS GUSS SUBIR OOBE OOD BLHSBBBE VIO GSSIHRVBBHBSHHHOEO TrE teacher who takes the pencil from a child’s hand to work out a problem for him, does that child a grave injustice. The teacher should I | New Coal Company Buys Large Tracts. A deal in Somerset county coal lands | of more than usual magnitude was re- instruct, but the child should do the | cently consummated. The Somerset work. We know and remember how | Tryst Company, trustee, conveyed to todoa thing only by doingit. We Albert C. Ritchie of Baltimore, Md., become strong only, by self-assertion and self-dependence. YouNG man, let us give you the ben- efit of our’ observation. We have noticed that at least nine-tenths of ‘the young men who have been before the courts for misdemeanor are those who take no interest whatever in ed- ucation, seldom read a newspaper, and are always ready, to make fun of other * young men who use correct language and try to be somebody. It comes natural to them to discourage the studious and ambitious young men of their acquaintance. Their minds run toward dirty stories, midnigh: sprees and bad company. This in a short time means trouble, a sheriff’s invi- tation to attend court, and a fine or term in jail. € Ir is a mistake to teach children a little of everything and nothing thor- oughly. About all education can do for a man or boy is to set him to think- ing for himself. The germ of origi- nality in the individual needs culti- vation. The head crammed with other people’s ideas has little room for its own thought. Many a boy is so thoroughly schooled that the com- | mon sense, the will power, the self re- liant manhood, is driven out of him. A load of facts with no education in their use is of little value. The most successful business men in our cities are those whose scanty education em- braced a thorough knowledge of sim- ple rules and studies, but whose ne- cessities have since demanded vigor- ous thought, incessant industry and the best use of every resource of mind and body. The of education enfeebles rather than strengthens. Only a few réquire the classics, astronomy or a knowledge of the dead languages. about a hundred tracts of land situated in Upper Turkeyfoot, Milford, Black and Summit townships and in Cassel- man borough. The area of these tracts aggregates almost 3,000 acres, all of which is underlaid with high veins of coal. The price paid for the property was $70,000. Mr. Ritchie, according to. report, is president of a new company known as the Milford Coal Company, which will begin operations at once. The proper- ty bought comprises the former hold- ings of several coal companies which formerly operated in Somerset county, but which are now defunct. These companies were the Middleereek Coal Company, the Shamrock Coal Com- pany, and the South Side Coal Mining Company. These companies had large holdings, and in addition, a number of large tracts have been purchased by the new corporation from farmers: and other persons. On a number of the tracts formerly owned by coal companies, there are shafts, tipples, mine buildings and machinery, sidings and everything req- uisite for the mining of coal, and it is stated that as soon as certain minor ar- rangements are completed the new Milford Coal Company will commence shipping coal. It is stated that the general oifices of the company will be established at Somerset. A credible report states that the new company will arrange for a small bond issue in a short time. A number of well known capitalists of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing- ton are backing the company. It is likely that at least as many as | 500 men will be employed at once in hotbed system | 4nd about the mines, says the Somer- set Democrat. ——— CARBON PAPER for sale at THE | | STAR office. tf 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. 5 Members of Assembly—J. W. Ends- ley, Somerfield; A. W. Knepper. Sheriff —William C. Begley. Prothonmotary—Charles C. Shafer. Register—Charles F. Cook. Recorder—John R. Boose. Clerk of Courts—Milton H. Fike. Treasurer—Peter Hoffman. District Attorney—John 8. Miller. Coroner—Dr. C. L. Friedline, Stoys- town. Commissioners—Josiah Specht, Kant- ner; Charles F. Zimmerman Stoys- town, Robert Augustine, Somerfield. Solicitors—Berkey & Shaver. Jury Commissioners—George 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; Alex B. Grof, Democratic; Fred Groff, Berlin, Prohibition. tf. HOW IS YOUR DIGESTION? Mrs. Mary Dowling of No. 228 8th Ave., San Francisco, recommends a remedy for stomach trouble. She says: “Gratitude for the wonderful effect of Electric Bitters in a case of acute indi- gestion, prompts this testimonial. 1 am fully convinced that for stomach and liver troubles Electric Bitters is the best remedy on the market to-day.” This great tonic and alterative medi- cine invigorates the system, purifies the blood and is esspecially helpful in all forms of female weakness. 50ec. at E. H. Miller’s drug store. 15-1 WHO PAYS THE COST? Who stands the cash? Who pays the bills? Who feeds the drunkard’s chil- dren? Who provides for the drunk- ard’s broken-hearted wife? Who sup- ports the beggarly tramps, who, hav- ing wasted their money in drink, wan- der about the country? Who repairs the losses caused by the failure of in- temperate merchants and reckless and half intoxicated business men? Who makes good the damages caused by the blunders of drunken workmen and the hindrance of business caused by the sprees of intemperate employes? Who pays for the railroad wrecks caused by drunken conductors and en- gineers? Who builds the asylums where the crazy drunkards are kept? | Who supports the idiotic children of drunken parents? Who pays the at- torneys and juries and judges to try drunken criminals? Who pays the ex- penses of trials and commitments and executions occasioned by the crimes of drunken men? ° Who pays for the property destroyed and burned ‘Ly drunken men? Who builds and sup- ports almshouses, which but for drink might remain unoccupied? Who en- dures the suffering and losses and bru- tality which are due to the reckless- ness and insanity of drunken husbands and fathers? Who pays for the in- quests held on drunkards found dead by the wayside? Who pays for a pau- per’s coffin and digging a drunkard’s grave in the potter’s, field, when the last glass has been drank? Who pays the bills? The drunkard cannot, for he has wasted his substance in the cup. Will the rumseller pay them? The fact is, you and I, the sober, industrious, toiling portions of the community must meet all these bills. The drunken rowdy wounded in the street fight is cared for in the city hospital at our expense; the drunken beggar is fed from . our table; his hungry children come to our door for bread, and we cannot refuse assistance to his suffering wife; and when at last, having wasted his substance in riotous living, he comes to the almshouse, the asylum, the hospital or the prison, honest, sober, temperate men pay the bills for supporting him there. There is no escaping it. We may protest, we may grumble at taxes, and find fault with beggars, but ultimately and in- evitably we must foot the bills. Yet in the face of all these facts, we are told by some people that we must have licensed rum holes add hell holes in order to keep legitimate business alive. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The saloon business is the enemy of all respectable business, the deadly foe of all honorable, legitimate trade. The newspaper that fails to | lift its voice against it, but instead al- lows its advertising columns to carry into the homes of the land the allur- ing, lying advertisements of distillers, brewers and saloon-keepers, is not do- ing its duty toward the betterment of humanity, but is aiding and abetting the greatest evil and curse of modern times. THE STAR used to print booze ad- vertisements, too, but we’ll take no more of them at any price. If we can’t make a living without contaminating our columns with liquor advertise- ments to be carried into the homes of our fellow citizens and neighbors and their children, we'll quit the printing business and try something else. We take this step purely from conscien- tious motives and because it is right, and when we once get our eyes thor- oughly opened to a public duty, we ad- vocate our honest convictions regard- less of bribes, threats or results. RAW LUNGS. When the lungs are sore and in- flamed, the germs of pneumonia and consumption find lodgement and mul- tiply. Foley’s Honey and Tar kills the cough germs, cures the most ob- stinate racking cough, heals the lungs, and prevents serious results. The genuine is in the yellow package. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H, Miller, proprie- tor. 12-1 Mineral Products of the United States. The value of the mineral products of the United States in 1907 reached the enormous total of $2,069,289,196, sur- passing the value of the same products in 1906 by $165,282,162, or 8.68 per cent., that of 1905 by 27.33 per cent., and of 1904 by 58.81 per cent. Both metallic and non-metallic products contributed to the gain. RANK oF THE MINERALS. Two minerals—coal and iron—are credited with approximately 55 per cent. of the total for the country, and three more—copper, clay products, and petroleam—furnish about 22 per cent., the five contributing about 77 per cent. of the whole. The minerals whose output in 1907 was valued at more than $5,000,000 are listed in the following table: Coal. ..:.......o 0... $614,798,898 Tron............. 0. ..... 529,958,000 COPPeL i... oe ae, 173,799,300 Clay products. ............. 158,942,369 Petrolenm ....>........... 120,106,749 Gold... ......-........; 90,435,709 Bone Jc. la 71,105,806 Cement... ................. 55,903.851 Natural gas... .............. 52,866,835 Yond o.oo. hia 38.707,576 Silver. ......... 0. .....0.. 37,299,900 VAN na a el 26,401,910 Sand and gravel, ete...... 13,242,002 Bime aa 12,640,512 Phosphate roek........... 10.653,558 Balt....... 7... 7,439,951 Mineral waters. ........... 7.331,503 Zing white................: 6,490,660 Slate... oo oa iy 6,019,220 Sulphur... ....0 0... 5,142,850 Products whose. output exceeded $1,000,000 in value were gypsum, val- ued at $4,642,164; aluminum, $4,926,- 948 ; mineral paints, $2,979,158 ; asphalt, $2,826,489 ; glass sand, $1,250,067 ; sand- lime brick, $1,215,769; and borax (crude), $1,121,520. RANK OF THE SgaTES, Pennsylvania, reporting mineral pro- ducts valued at $657,783,345, has no close rival for first place among the states, for Ohio, which is second, re- ports products valued at $207,657,339, while the mineral products of Illinois, the state ranking third, were valued in 1907 at $145,768,464. Fourth on the list is West Virginia, with mineral pro- duets, including coal, natural gas, and petroleum, valued at $92,487,960. Col- orado is fifth, with products valued at $71,105.128, gold and coal furnishing more than 50 per cent. of the value, Michigan is sixth, with products valued at $70,073,920, more than 60 per cent. of the value being in copper. New York, the seventh state, reports products valued at $68,762,815, about 48 per cent. of which is for pig iron. Montana is eighth on the list, with products valued at $60,663,511, about 74 per cent. being copper. The ninth is Arizona, with products valued at $56,753,650, more than 90 per cent. of which is for copper. California, with a long list of mineral products, among which gold and petroleum were produced to the greatest value. is the tenth state, the mineral output for the year valued at $56,679,436. eli THIS. Most people past middleage suffer from kidney and bladder which Foley’s Kidney Remedy would cure. Stop the drain on the vitality and restore needed strength and vigor. Commence taking TFoley’s Kidney Remedy today. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor. 12-1 ROBBERIES GALORE. Noah Broadwater’s Safe Blown Open and Store Robbed—Thomas Stanton Runs Down Poultry Thieves —P. & M. Trolley Company’s Tools Stolen. Bloodhounds Used to Trail Thieves —Some Interesting Revelations. Burglaries and thefts have been nu- merous in these parts during the past week, the principal depredations in that line having béen committed at Noah Broadwater’s general store, in Grantsville, Md., Wednesday night of last week, when his safe was blown open and a lot of the contents thereof, together with a lot of store goods, carried away by the thieves. When the safe was cracked, several persons residing near the store heard the: explosion, but being suddenly aroused from their slumbers, they had to have some timo to collect their thoughts and think what it all meant. Some who heard the noise, arose from their beds and looked out, but no in- vestigation was made before morning, when it was soon found out what had happened. Mr. Broadwater is not positive as to what all was in the safe, but it is said that very little, if any, money was in the safe. However, some valuable papers were carried away, also a lot of merchandise. En- trance was gained to the store by means of some tools stolen from a blacksmith stop near by. News of the robbery spread rapidly, and certain persons were at once un- der suspicion. A man with three bloodhounds was speedily summoned from West Virginia, and as soon as he arrived, the dogs were at once taken to the scene of the robbery. They im- mediately found a scent that led them directly to two houses that were sup- posed to shelter persons implicated in the robbery, namely, the residence of “Hpmp” Durst, who lives not far on the Pennsylvania side of the Mason & Dixon line, and to the Wm. Stanton house on the other side of the line, which is now occupied by Wm. Kalb- fliesh, his wife,a grown up son and others. Some arrests were made, but none of the stolen goods could be found about the houses searched. When the dogs were doing the trail- ing, they insisted on going into a small school house near Grantsville, but were not permitted to enter, after which they again took up the trail and followed it to the houses aforesaid. Several days later, a schoolboy chanced to throw or knock a ball into’ the attic window of the school house, and after going to the attic to recover the ball, discovered a lot of merchandise se- creted in the attic. The goods were identified by Mr. Broadwater as his, and represented a value of nearly $40.00. Certain people will have to appear before the next Grand Jury at Oak- land, when a full solution of the rob- bery may be made manifest, The excitement caused by the Broad- water robbery had not yet subsided, when Thomas Stanton,a Garrett county farmer residing near Bittinger, sent for the man with the bloodhounds to come and run down some poultry thieves who had “swiped” some of his tur- keys. The dogs were put on trail about 40 hours after the theft had been com- mitted, and they soon led the pursuing party to where the fowls had been slaughtered. Feathers, skin and all had been removed from the fowls, and from the place where the birds had been slaughtered, the trail led to the home of a man named Speicher, where the dressed fowls were found hidden in the stable. Several arrests were made at the Speicher home, including the mistress of the place. a person known as “Sal Skinner,” who is said to possess more notoriety and reputation than chargeter. The arrested persons were taken to jail at Oakland, and the owner of the hounds, Mr. J. A. Landes, says of all the cursings ever heaped upon him by anyone, the one given him by *Sal Skinner” was the most frightful and awfal. The man with the hounds was again called into service on Tuesday, by the P. & M. Street Railway Company, from whom a lot of tools had been stolen, Sunday night, at Garrett. The dogs took a trail that led to the home of Charles Platter, a more or less suspi- cious character residing at Garrett, but being disorders | the tools searched for could not ‘be found about his premises or anywhere else. Other tools were found which but how they got to his place, deponent sayeth not. Bloodhounds do not always succeed in running down criminals and finding | stolen property, but in most cases they succeed, and every ship in Somerset county ought to own two or three such dogs. Second Conference of Governors in Washington. Washington, Nov. 22.—The much talked-of inventory of the Nation’s re- sources is now practically completed. To consider the material it has brought together, the National Conservation Commission has just announced its first full meeting for Tuesday, Decem- ber 1, in Washington. At that meet- ing the first steps will be taken toward putting into tangible shape the results’ of the six months’ hard work on taking stock of the country’s waters, forests, lands, and minerals. One week later, after the Commis- sion has gone over the inventory, it will hold a joint meeting in Washing- ton with the Governors of the States and Territories, or their representa- tives. At this meeting the inventory will be further discussed, and the re- port which the President has requested the Commission to make to him by January 1, will be formulated. With less than six months in which to make the inventory, the four branches into which the Commission is divided, aided by the cooperation of Government departments, have brought together what is probably the most useful collection of facts about the material things on which national industry and progress are based that has ever been assembled at one time. Reports presenting these facts and pointing out their significance have been prepared. These reports, sum- marized and indexed, will be submit- ted to the Commission at its coming meeting. All through the summer, general in- terest in the work and object of the Conservation Commission has been growing. The public is now well post- ed on a subject of which only a few specialists had knowledge at the time of the Conference of Governors and experts at the White House, in May. The Governors carried the spirit of the conference home with them to their own people, and have kept things moving ever since by appointing State Commissions to study local problems, by writing and speaking upon the sub- ject of conservation, and by keeping in close and helpful touch with the Na- tional Commission. They are ready to take part in the approaching joint meeting. The bare announcement that it had been set for December 8 resulted in a number of acceptances before the formal invitation of the Commission had even got into the mails. When the conservation movement was started, specific information about the actual state of our resources was partly wanting, partly inaccessible. Certain facts were broadly known. It was at least unquestionable that our resources had been wastefully used, and that some of them, notably the mines, were sure in time to be com- pletely exhausted, while others, for example the forests, could still be kept perpetually useful by right manage- ment. The first work was to get the facts, to show exactly what the situa- tion was and how it could be improved by measures that would work. With- out an’ inventory of the resources which should show the present con- dition of the resources and the way to develop them to the best advantage, conservation was in danger of staying up in the air. But the work is now practically done. The facts are there, in dollars and cents, tons of coal, board feet of tim- ber, acre-feet and horse-power of wa- ter, acres of land. And the possible reform measures have been weighed. The final report to the President will be the necessary supplement to the ad- dresses at the White House Confer- ence. The note of these addresses was a note of warning. The report is ex- pected to show that the warning must be heeded if the exhaustion of natural resources is not, one day, to impoveish the nation, and it will also undoubt- edly bring out how the country’s re- sources can be developed so as to last the longest possible time and serve the greatest good of the people. ——eee HEXAMETHYLENETETRAMINE. The above is the name of a German chemical, which is one of the many valuable ingredients of Foley’s Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenetetramine is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley’s Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice > | malady. IF YOU ARE OVER FIFTY, READ | are not believed to belong to Platter, | y borough and town- | any irregularities, and avoid a serious Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. I. Miller, proprietor. 12-1 ew WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does not pay to advertise, he is simply ad- mitting that he is conducting a busi- ness that is not worth advertising, a business conducted byta man unfit to do business, and a business which | should be advertised for sale. tf cmos TER
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